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 makes and teaches contemporary dance and messes around with creative nonfiction.
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The Collage of Memory
Zach Litwack's mixed media show reflects on living (and not living) with nostalgia.
Meet Your Local DJs: Inside Tulsa’s Dance Party Renaissance
What defines a good DJ? We're still not sure. But we are sure that Tulsa's dance music scene is alive and well (and a little sweaty).
“A Complete Catastrophe”: A Conversation with Cry Baby Hill’s Andy Wheeler
An oral history of Tulsa's most unhinged community gathering
Baseball For All With The Tulsa Rumblers & Tulsa Breeze
Sandlot Sundays is bringing a new tradition to Tulsa's historic baseball fields.
Years Before He Opened Noche, Marco Herrera Was Perfecting The Tulsa Tortilla
Nothing dumb about Tacos Don Mamon. We talked to Herrera back in 2021 just as he started cooking full-time in Tulsa.
Tuareg Guitars And A Saharan Acid Western
A conversation with Tulsa Noise and Foxy Digitalis, as they deliver a cross-cultural double feature—a Tuareg homage to "Purple Rain" and a Saharan desert fantasy—at the Admiral Twin
Four Questions: Skip Hill
"What I'm saying is all the things that you're denying are the things that could make this place awesome."










