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It’s been nearly two decades since the world said goodbye to Hee Haw. The show ran from 1969 to 1992. At the height of its popularity, the show was a fixture in over 15 million homes. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Hee Haw was to American television…

TO THE FIRST ‘POWER’

I remember the tension, the edge-of-the-seat nervousness. I remember wondering which would explode first—the lungs of the pumped-up, corn-fed man before me, or the hot water bottle containing his gale force exhalations? But I don’t remember anything about Jesus.

I must have been in the fourth…

Yevgeny Yevtushenko teaches English at the University of Tulsa. His poetry has been translated into 72 languages.

Little more than ten years ago, in late September 2001, Yevgeny Yevtushenko published an article in The Nation called “Babi Yar in Manhattan.”  In the piece, the famed Russian poet speaks of…

Several months ago, I was in New York City for a few days, traveling alone and on a tight schedule. But there was one thing I promised myself not to miss. The Jewish Museum, located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was hosting an exhibition focusing on the work and life…

At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, awards were given out for the seventh annual Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards, and cultural diversity was at the forefront. It always is. The mission of the program is to “cultivate relationships between filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities and film industry executives”. Among…

Rumors are swirling that reclusive filmmaker Terrence Malick will be shooting his next film in Bartlesville. Stars including Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams and Christian Bale have been visiting in recent months and it’s probably safe to say that they’re not just visiting for the Price Tower and OK Mozart. Malick…

Last night, Book Smart Tulsa hosted a special reading from bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger at Philbrook Museum. After the reading, she delighted the standing-room audience with details about the graveyard research she conducted for her most recent book, Her Fearful Symmetry.

Click here to learn about the other authors lined…

There’s a starkness to Joe Andoe’s Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed. This starkness, and that is really the only way to describe it, runs through every part of the book. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the cover of the hardback edition, released by William Morrow in…

Yesterday the New York Times broke the news that the New Yorker was announcing its list of the 20 best writers under 40.

We were thrilled to see that out of the 20 listed authors, 3 have already been to Tulsa and one is coming this September. One of…

At Garden Deva Sculpture Studio last week, writer Reif Larsen captivated the audience with a curious presentation about mapmaking and other wonders.

Larson is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet. The debut novel is a heavily annotated and illustrated story about a…