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Alicia Chesser

Alicia Chesser, a nearly lifelong Tulsan, is the co-founder and culture editor of The Pickup. Her writing about art and life has appeared in the Village Voice, The Dance Insider, The Tulsa Voice, Urban Tulsa Weekly, LUXIERE, Menagerie, Okie Modern, Pokeweed, and other publications. When she’s not out seeing someone else’s show, she makes, performs, and teaches contemporary dance and enjoys the fact that her three grown children think Tulsa is interesting enough to stick around in. 

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Reviews

ASL Sensor Gloves As Musical Instrument And Other Observations From David Alan Broome’s ‘Musical Science Theater’

An overflow crowd gets out to get weird

March 12, 2024
Culture

Jazz Millions And Beyond

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

March 10, 2024
Culture

Oklahoma Fashion Alliance Wants To Hear (And See) Your Story

March 10, 2024
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Theatre North Brings The Heat, The Light & All The Right Questions

Every win comes with a hidden loss in Suzan Lori-Parks' "Topdog/Underdog"

February 29, 2024
Culture

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
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Tulsa Opera’s Valentine’s Musical Theatre Adventure Hits The Big Notes

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

February 16, 2024
Culture

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
Culture

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
Culture

A Master Class In The Art Of Craft 

The State of Craft took me from paper, clay and thread to questions like: How does the world hold together?

January 7, 2024
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A Slower Kind Of Knowing

Ephemera and millennia coexist in Darren Dirksen's paintings

December 6, 2023
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