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OK Sweetheart Bows Debut Record at The Church

Michael Cooper — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:59:25 +0000

Tulsa based band OK Sweetheart will celebrate the release of their debut record, titled “Home”, next Friday (October 8th) at The Church Studio. The event will be held in the historic recording room and kick off their tour with two separate performances featuring Oklahoma musicians Ben Kilgore and Sherree Chamberlain. The performances (one at 7PM, followed by another at 10PM) will be recorded for a future supplemental album. In addition to the release of the album and kick-off of the band’s national tour, OK Sweetheart will release a new single, “All We Have”, on iTunes on October 5th will the record at large will be available on October 8th.

OK Sweetheart is Erin Austin and Rob Gungor and features a wide array of regular and guest musicians, including Tulsa’s Clay Welch on guitar and bass and Dylan Aycock on drums.

This Launch is Your Launch

This Land — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:00:02 +0000

We’ve had a big month, and we’re hoping you’ll celebrate with us! Join us on Thursday evening, May 27th, from 8pm to 10pm, at Dwelling Spaces in Downtown Tulsa.

You’ll get to meet many of the contributors who made This Land possible, hear wondrous songs sung by local musicians, eat foods prepared by local peoples, and the drinks–well, they might not be so local. But still, you should come because we also want you to become a part of This Land as well.

This Land First Edition Now Available

Michael Mason — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:14:03 +0000

Our first edition is now available in Tulsa! You can pick up a copy for $2.00 at Dwelling Spaces in Downtown Tulsa.

Appearing in glorious full-color, large-scale newsprint and weighing in at 16 pages, the first issue of This Land includes over 20,000 words of fine literature and many images offered by writers, photographers, and artists with ties to Oklahoma. Highlights include:

–Our feature story, Something Good is Going to Happen to You: Growing up Gay in the Oral Roberts Family, by Randy Roberts Potts

–New humor from Brian Byrne, Van Eden and Nathan Gunter

–Mind-blowing illustrations by Peter Bedgood and Dennis Leech

–Okie-centric reporting from Matthew Crouch, Kristi Eaton, Joshua Kline, and Joe O’Shansky

–An amazing infographic, “Who Owns Downtown Tulsa?” created by Michael Bates and Carlos Knight

–Works from established authors Sarah Brown, Rivka Galchen, Hannibal Johnson, Jeff Martin and Michael Mason

–Photography from Michael Cooper, Rebekah Greiman, and Dennis Leech

If you’d like to offer copies of This Land at your place of business, or your favorite hangout, please contact us with your suggestions. Happy reading!