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Tulsa Lore

Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age

Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

March 19, 2025

Pony Coffee Has Always Felt Like Home

How Tulsa preservationists turned a house, thousands of bicycles, and countless pieces of art into the city’s best new coffee shop

February 12, 2025

The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood

January 23, 2025

Selling ‘Tulsa’ To Tulsans

What can a 1949 film about the city's oil industry tell us about self-mythology?

December 12, 2024

The Gospel of John Lennon

In search of John Lennon's lost letter to Oral Roberts

December 12, 2024

Tulsa Revealed

Investigating the people in Larry Clark's "Tulsa," including the man on the cover: my father.

December 9, 2024

Tulsa’s Temple of the Three Jewels

A dispatch from Chùa Tam Bào, Tulsa's only Buddhist temple.

December 9, 2024

The Genesis of Vagabond

Examining the life behind some of Tulsa's most canny, striking photographs.

December 9, 2024

A Stiller Ground

A father's lamentation.

December 5, 2024

The Strange Love of Dr. Billy James Hargis

How an Oklahoma preacher and a Texas general forged a new brand of politics that centered Oklahoma as a hotbed for the religious right.

November 25, 2024