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Alicia Chesser

Alicia Chesser is the managing editor of The Pickup. She's been writing about the arts in Tulsa for two decades. When she's not at someone else's show, she experiments with performance and creative nonfiction.

Big Bite Returns (With A Side Of Ranch)

Oklahoma’s chefs, brewers, and mixologists came through with offerings that ranged from sexy to hearty to refreshing.

April 28, 2024

Slipstreaming Through Oklahoma’s Black And Indigenous Multiverse

"Let’s take off this jacket of the past and put on a new one. We’re growing. We can’t fit it anymore.”

April 14, 2024

Jazz Millions And Beyond

Thirty years in, Jacob Fred is still rolling in the funk.

March 10, 2024

Tulsa Opera Is Hitting The Big Notes

Did we just witness the first in-character artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?

February 18, 2024

Amy Sanders de Melo Is Translating Tulsans’ Stories Into A Universal Language

Her new exhibition at Positive Space invites contributions from Tulsans living on the margins of society.

January 14, 2024

Amy Sanders De Melo Is Translating Tulsans’ Stories Into A Universal Language

An artist with vision and hearing loss sculpts the spectrum of belonging felt by those whose experience is so often untranslatable in an ableist society. 

January 14, 2024