Music
You Can’t Have Tenacity Without Triangles or Timpani
Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s first performance of the year was a fist-pumper
The Boys Really Were Back In Town
Two of Tulsa's finest paired up for a night of songs at the Merc, with a genuine country music superstar in the crowd.
The Myth of Saint Woody
A Woody Guthrie biographer set out to understand the man who wrote "This Land Is Your Land." What he found left him conflicted.
Lee Makes The Flowers Grow
Digging up the roots of Lee Hazlewood, the star that Mannford forgot.
As A Dream Gets Reimagined, The Dreamland Festival Levels Up
The festival felt like a Summer Jam or a SXSW, with panel discussions and multi-venue community activations that celebrated hip-hop through art, music and film.
The Filth and the Fury
A firsthand account of the night in 1978 when the Sex Pistols came to town.
Tulsa Is Not-So-Secretly Fond Of Orville Peck
What do you call a gay cowboy? Until recently, your uncle might have said “a jolly rancher,” but the collective pop culture mind now turns immediately to THE gay cowboy: Orville Peck.
The Perks Of Being The Wallflowers
I don’t think “ordinary” is pejorative. Without at least some artists finding contentment as part of a greater tradition, what would happen to jazz or ballet or opera?
And the Charlotte Bumgarner Quiet Audience Award Goes to…
Where "broken love songs to feed your misery" feel nice, actually.
