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Mark Brown

Mark Brown was a professional journalist for 17 years before moving to a fine-art museum and, then, a coffeeshop located in a reconstructed Amish dairy barn older than the Battle of Bull Run. He is the author of My Mother is a Chicken (2012, This Land Press).

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Tulsa Lore

Tulsa’s Weird Basketball Venues That I Have Known

A lifetime of TU basketball means rare underdog runs, fiery coaches and courts that doubled for rodeo competitions.

April 6, 2026
Food

All Things Change—Except ‘Garlic Cheese,’ Which Must Not Change 

My Christmas tradition is debating with my cousin over our grandfather’s infamous recipe

December 9, 2025
Culture

We Saw the Palisades Fire From the Tarmac 

A Tulsan’s Los Angeles travelogue, one week before the fire

January 28, 2025
Food

The Hawk Is Howling

Mark Brown tucks into the origin story of El Rancho Grande, the legendary 11th Street institution widely considered Tulsa's first Mexican restaurant.

November 19, 2024
Food

Of Spice & Men

A century of Ike's Chili.

November 18, 2024