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Ryan Anderson
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May 5, 2024 3:41 pm
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Akasha Landry at Mi Tea R&B
Mi Tea + R&B Mi Tea Lounge April 24, 2024
Hip-hop’s dominance on Tulsa’s airwaves and stages has inadvertently created a void for R&B lovers. And where there’s a void, there’s opportunity. This is exactly what artists GOLDIELXCS and Emani saw when they created Mi Tea + R&B, a bimonthly women-focused open mic night held at the Mi Tea lounge in downtown Tulsa, owned and operated by vocalist Tea Rush.
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Becky Carman
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May 3, 2024 1:49 pm
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Cheeky pizza
LoFi Pizza & Wine Bar 1301 E 15th St Tulsa
It’s been only seven months since a fire destroyed our beloved Hodges Bend and Lowood. The loss of those East Village anchor businesses, both owned by Tulsa-based restaurant group GB Provisions, left two very specific holes in the neighborhood and the city at large, each its own unreplicable thing—jazz nights with craft coffee, grilled branzino garden parties under the district’s signature filament string lights.
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Alicia Chesser
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Apr 28, 2024 11:45 am
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An Okie food party for the books
Big Bite Food Festival Gateway Event Center April 20, 2024
I’m only a little bit embarrassed about the noise I made in public when I put Antoinette Bakery’s creme fraiche macaron topped with caviar and lemon zest into my mouth on Saturday night at Big Bite. And here’s why I don’t feel that bad about it: I wasn’t the only one. Other folks at other tables were making the same ecstatic noises I’d just been making, eating other things. “That’s the sound we like to hear,” said the baker behind the table, adorably pumping her fist.
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Alicia Chesser
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Apr 26, 2024 11:40 am
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Water Is The Sun at Noise Town
ONEAUX: A Night Of Ambience Noise Town April 17, 2024
If you’ve never spent a Wednesday night sitting on a floor in West Tulsa listening to experimental ambient soundscapes with trippy projections in a music venue the size of a New York City railroad apartment across from the Tulsa Stove Hospital (est. 1921), have you even Tulsa’d?
Carlo Rotella at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
“Knockout Punches and Barroom Weepers: Writing About Sports and Music“ 101 Archer April 18, 2024
What do music and sports have in common? They defy words, for starters — an irony not lost on Carlo Rotella, a New York Times Magazine writer, Boston College professor, and award-winning author of books about cities, boxing, and blues.
Last Thursday was a windy night downtown. As Nicole Bauer, associate director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, introduced Rotella, a gust hit the courtyard of 101 Archer, coming in just powerful enough to rustle even the most stalwart, perfectly manicured hedge. That strong current of air seemed like an appropriate welcome into his talk: this year’s theme at the OCH, after all, is “movement.”
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Z.B. Reeves
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Apr 19, 2024 6:05 pm
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This was no "Weekend at Herbie's"
Herbie Hancock Tulsa Performing Arts Center April 7, 2024
It was a privilege to watch Herbie Hancock cavort around a stage with a keytar. I hope you got to see it too. His show at the PAC was a powerhouse example of the genre-defining and ‑breaking prowess he’s wielded over jazz for decades. The man still has more energy than some 30-year-olds I know, and he’s 83.
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Lindsey Claire Smith
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Apr 19, 2024 6:04 pm
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Forays into darkness
Noir Nights With Josh Fadem Circle Cinema April 15, 2024
Considering what he does for a living, it’s no surprise that actor and comedian Josh Fadem (Better Call Saul, Twin Peaks, Reservation Dogs) is fascinated by film history. During COVID lockdowns, like many of us, Fadem passed the time watching movies, drawn especially to the Criterion Channel’s film noir series and the TCM app’s “Noir Alley” nights. (“Noir Alley” is hosted by Eddie Muller, author of the essential Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir.) Fadem’s period of late-night isolation eventually led to one of Tulsa’s most beloved new community gatherings: Noir Nights at Circle Cinema.
Sovereign Futures Various locations April 4 – 7, 2024
Sovereign Futures, a multi-day program from the University of Tulsa, brought artists, academics, and others together for performances, exhibits, communal meals, chartered bus tours to Boley and Pawhuska, panel discussions and more around the stories of sovereignty that meet in Indian Territory. Curated by TU’s Allison Glenn, this felt like something new: not an academic conference, nor a lecture series, nor an art festival, but a series of generative, clear-eyed, community-focused encounters with Oklahoma’s Black and Indigenous histories and possibilities.
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Jennie The Lloyd
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Apr 12, 2024 4:39 pm
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Tulsa comics Lacee Rains and Thunderwof, and Butterslutz the Sex-Ed Clown
Lacee Rains Comedy Special: “Face/On” LowDown April 5, 2024
Tulsan Lacee Rains is a former slam poet turned self-described clown — ”the president of idiotville!!!!!” as her Threads profile puts it. In “Face/On,” her first comedy special, filmed live at LowDown, she took a sold-out audience on a fascinating journey that proves she is also a triumphant comedian.
Monumental and ephemeral: Ashanti Chaplin at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Ashanti Chaplin: “The Hidden Gospels Of Dust“ Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship April 5, 2024
It’s spring in Tulsa and a lot of people are suffering. Often ranked as one of the worst locations for allergies, the city is beautiful but terrible right now for people sensitive to dust, dirt, and particles in the air. But stepping into the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship space for Ashanti Chaplin’s solo exhibition The Hidden Gospels of Dust will transport you into a space adrift and grounded with the beauty of dust — without the need for an antihistamine.
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Mitch Gilliam
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Apr 7, 2024 9:20 am
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The global metal family united in Tulsa on Easter weekend
2 Minutes to Tulsa The Vanguard & Cain’s Ballroom March 29 – 31, 2024
A few years back, Swedish old-school metallers Screamer popped into Tulsa, and my band, Blind Oath, took them to Olive Garden. Yes, they wanted and asked for this, and as heavy metal family, we obliged. Bread (in the form of sticks) was broken, laughs were had, and Italian margaritas were slammed. Screamer’s nine-foot-tall drummer, Henrick, vomited immediately after, but he knew he “was family.”
And that story is a micro to heavy metal’s familial macrocosm. Metal is a global family affair, and at 2024’s 2 Minutes To Tulsa Festival, this was beyond apparent.
England’s Ben Jones and Ireland’s Andrea Magee make up Beat Root Revival, an acoustic duo that combines the best of hey-ho stomp rock, country songwriting and traditional Irish and English melody-making. They rocked the hell out of Mercury Lounge last Thursday to a small, attentive crowd of 25 or 30, but they could have held the attention of a stadium. With a well-crafted and meticulously practiced set, the two used their powerhouse voices to demonstrate the very best of what a country duo can be.
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Jennie The Lloyd
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Apr 1, 2024 11:05 am
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Trueson Daugherty on the soapbox, Jordan Hehl on deck
The Salón atThe Parlour Tulsa March 23, 2024
The Salón at the Parlour drew a crowd of musicians, painters, writers, yoga instructors and creatives interested in seeing what might happen when art and community come together for a few hours on a Saturday morning. There was an air of playful unpredictability.
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Alicia Chesser
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Mar 31, 2024 12:46 pm
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Bradford Lovett, "Gaythering at the Fam Farm"
Bradford Lovett: “Myths & Hymns” The Parlour Tulsa March 21, 2024
In Bradford Lovett’s Gaythering at the Fam Farm, a disembodied hand reaches down from the sky with a pink donut in its fingers, almost making contact with jubilant penises rising from little floating Mario clouds. A dude with gold-plated pecs sits next to a man in white shirtsleeves who’s groaning over a cauldron full of bones, with two apocalyptic creatures in shiny red boots poised nearby and a slain Goliath in the foreground. A pair of cows holds space with a ballerina and a giant frosted cupcake as a witch-hatted Boy Scout rolls by on a recumbent wooden bike and a dragon carries a bound figure away over the peak of a falling-down barn.
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Becky Carman
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Mar 29, 2024 2:04 pm
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Noche's totopos and salsa trio
Noche Woodfire Grill & Agave Bar 110 N Elgin Ave., Suite 140 Tulsa
Fun but focused, Noche Woodfire Grill & Agave Bar feels happening. Each side of the divided dining room is awash in red and blue jewel tones with cheeky neon signage. FLOURPOWER, reads one. ¡SALUD! reads another. The visual impact makes what the restaurant is trying to be immediately clear: vibrant, approachable but with a few signature twists. The menu, a medium-deep dive into the cuisine of Mexico, doubles down on that intent.
