What’s the future of the Tulsa World?
After Florida billionaire David Hoffmann took over Lee Enterprises (the World’s parent company), Matt Carney asked: Who is this Hoffmann guy, anyway? https://t.co/Wh1Fo6nQF8
Was the Micky Dolenz show at Tulsa Theater full of nostalgia? Sure. But after 60 years, the last surviving member of The Monkees proved this is still really great music. Our review:
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On May 8, 1986, a tornado passed through Edmond, Oklahoma, causing $15 million in damage and injuring 15 residents—no one was killed.
The same week, 30 miles east of Edmond, American underground filmmaker George Kuchar checked in at the Motel Reno. https://t.co/sOXYOyfewJ
In the inaugural issue of This Land, Rivka Galchen published "Severe Storm Watch," a short essay about her childhood negotiating the fraught---and sometimes anti-climactic---world of Oklahoma storms. Read here:
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From 2002 to 2006, Brian Byrne delivered the daily weather report on KWGS, the University of Tulsa's public radio station; his deadpan delivery earned him a cult following of listeners. Here he is, in his own words: https://t.co/bfjLnDkSEX
Forgot to make plans this weekend? We got you. Here's TULSA PICKS, our weekly roundup of the best events happening in Tulsa. Get it here:
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Today’s severe weather forecasts are thriving on hype. But do they help?
Alicia Chesser on the new YouTube storm trackers and AI bots racking up influence and views: https://t.co/4KzJyAMrcv
Micky Dolenz, the last surviving Monkee at 81, walked onstage in a fedora, purple-tinted glasses, a gray suit over a pale blue teeshirt, and a fuchsia scarf. He looked like Elton John playing a dapper private eye. He proceeded to rock the Tulsa Theater.
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The Asian American Night Market is this Friday; there's also Barbie on the Philbrook lawn, The Tempest by Theatre North, the Southwood Hydrangea Festival, and much more in our weekly event roundup!
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