40 Things You Should Do in Oklahoma in 2014
If you’re the resolution-making sort, you may be looking for a big goal for 2014. Lucky for you, we’ve got 40 of
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If you’re the resolution-making sort, you may be looking for a big goal for 2014. Lucky for you, we’ve got 40 of
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Editor's note: This list has been updated to reflect 2014/2015 events. Some people prefer to spend New Year's Eve
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Christmas is around the corner, but before it comes, why not take in a living nativity? Or celebrate the Winter
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Christmas cannons. An audiophile's paradise, a living nativity, and an eagle watch. Here's your guide to the best
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Cities around Oklahoma have taken cues from Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, constructing outdoor ice rinks that
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Biblical satire. Film festivals and art openings. Radio plays, live nativities, and Christmas events galore. Here's
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An aquatic Christmas. A mash-up of Charles Dickens and the Oklahoma Land Run. The coolest craft fair in Oklahoma City.
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Parks across the state are aglow with holiday lights. Here are some of Oklahoma's best displays. Rhema Christmas
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A turkey trot. A feaste fit for a king. A quest of fictional proportions. Plus, Christmas comes early. This Land
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A poetry circus. Turnip cars and turnip guns. Food trucks. A day to be surreal. This Land Events editor Natasha Ball
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Poetry doesn’t belong on a shelf. When taken down and passed around, poetry repels dust—from the page, the soul,
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We make readers here. Oklahoma has played muse to playwrights, poets, and authors in traditions as rich and various as
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When This Land published Lee Roy Chapman's "The Nightmare of Dreamland: Tate Brady and the Battle for Greenwood" in
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Below is a list of substances Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to have used. He submitted this list to the court of Kansas
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Song and lyrics of compiled lyrics inspired and by Woody Guthrie, by Erin O'Dowd. I dream of a day when there
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Woody turns 101 on the final day of this festival, a celebration of Guthrie's influence on American folk and roots
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Blackberry pie. Arm wrestling. Watermelon seed-spitting, a boot tossing, a raffle decided by a turkey. In other words,
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Water. Once, it was oil; now H2O is said to be king in Oklahoma. Last summer, streams and rivers in the state ran dry
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Editor's note: This list has been updated to reflect 2015. Summer in Oklahoma isn't for the faint of heart.
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Editor's note: The following news analysis article represents a deeper level of commitment to community news coverage.
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Wanna get fresh? Use our list of Oklahoma farmers markets to find the best and freshest produce—along with some
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Festivals are stories we tell about ourselves. When you attend a festival in Oklahoma, though your fingers might be
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Our newsletter subscribers are the first to know about new This Land projects and deals. Now, they are also eligible to
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Get ready, Oklahoma. A bumper crop of Cinco de Mayo festivals is about to fill your weekend with live music and plenty
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Oklahoma is home to an abundant community of odd and spectacular collections. Here, we highlight a few for
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The time has finally come: A portion of the archives of legendary folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie—including the
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Most of the time, she is the lone figure in the photograph. There’s Michelle lounging in her bathing suit;
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The redbuds are popping. Patios are packed. The winter-white plains give way to waving green grasses as the clouds
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Whether or not you deem yourself charmed, you're going to want to get in on these St. Patrick's Day things to do around
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Consider what follows as fuel for a week's worth of fun in our state. From roadtrip ideas and activities the kids will
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Don’t bore your children to death with the same Easter egg hunts, activities, and events that you took them to last
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The Bassmaster Classic—they say it's the largest outdoor event to ever to come Oklahoma—lands in Tulsa this week.
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ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD: Check out this track from Oklahoma singer-songwriter John Fullbright's "From the Ground
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Just because Valentine's Day is over, doesn't mean that lovin' feeling has to fade with the sunset. For those who
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Every month we serve up a new batch of the best things to do around our state. Here's the latest list of entertainment
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We are mere days away from when every significant other publicly declares undying love and devotion, mostly through
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Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday. Carnival. Party under marquess.Whatever you choose to call it, there are a
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As the GRAMMY hype reaches fever pitch, several musicians who call Oklahoma home are headed back to stages in the
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Did your plans Tuesday night keep you from joining us for the launch of our new book, My Mother is a Chicken? Good
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A photograph of the 1929 Creekehoma High School yearbook from when Woody Guthrie was a junior. Woody is seen at bottom
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We're excited to announce that This Land Press devotees can now pick up the latest copies of This Land at Whole Foods
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As the self-proclaimed "video ninja" for This Land, Sterlin Harjo shares his vision for telling Oklahoma-centric
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In this ongoing feature, our social media editor Vicki May Thorne meets and greets the staff and contributors of
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The wide cracks in the hydraulic fracturing debate are growing as environmental groups, state regulators, and industry
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In this feature, our social media editor Vicki May Thorne meets and greets the staff and contributors of This
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Jazz quartet Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey performs "Lost in the Battle for Greenwood" live in the middle of the Greenwood
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In this edition of the Relief Office, we introduce Jose Antonio Pantoja Hernandez (Pantoja), a premiere Cuban artist
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This Land video and photo crews were in full effect at the Free Tulsa 2011 music festival--check out the amazing
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The Free Tulsa 2011 music festival was a hopping success! Photographer Michael Cooper offers up these impromptu images
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Norwegian folk musicians Adjágas will be passing through Oklahoma and are holding a special backyard concert at This
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It’s been a longstanding Tulsa truism for artists: if you want to be successful, leave. At This Land Press, we’re
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While most Tulsans I know have soft-hearted stories about their first experience at the Tulsa State Fair, I can't say I
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Tulsa based band OK Sweetheart will celebrate the release of their debut record, titled "Home", next Friday (October
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Beginning with Woody Guthrie, Oklahomans have a long and storied tradition of challenging authoritarianism. Guthrie
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Hearing Green Country hospitals describe their legions of satisfied customers, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a
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In 1928, the city of Galveston, TX hosted the Third International Pageant of Pulchritude and Ninth Annual Bathing Girl
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Last night, the audience crowded the synagogue of B'nai Emunah for Book Smart Tulsa's evening with Jonathan Safran
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Oklahoma's labor history is rich, complicated, and dramatic. During the Oklahoma statehood convention of 1907, people
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Here's a great gift idea for the Okie in your life: Woody Guthrie pencils, guaranteed to kill fascism if used
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The Tulsa Air and Space Museum is hoping to obtain one of NASA's retired space shuttles for display in Tulsa. While
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With a new book of gritty, Okie-based fiction from none other than Black Sparrow Press, native Oklahoman author Eddie
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You have to hand it to Marc Matheos, Jeff Richardson, and Rob Robertson: they have a big idea. That idea is the Free
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Local actor (and This Land contributor) Peter Bedgood makes a double-debut this weekend at the Tulsa United Film
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Our state's official global-warming denier, Senator James Inhofe, received a roasting in a recent post by New York
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Gay, Oklahoma is pretty far from Straight, Oklahoma--a 487-mile drive, to be precise. Interestingly, Oklahoma state
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An explosive new article from Washington Post offers an in-depth look at the intelligence industry in America--which
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Tulsa musician Jesse Aycock performed to a packed crowd this weekend at The Church Studio, which marked the debut of
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Last night, Book Smart Tulsa hosted a special reading from bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger at Philbrook Museum.
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The last thing I remembered about downtown's new ONEOK Field, before it opened, is that a lot of people seemed to be
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Here's your chance to tell about the Tulsa you know. Who is a True Tulsan? Is there a person or place that epitomizes
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Today, Tulsa World announces their new partnership with the online auction company, Boocoo. Instead of simply listing
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Forbes Magazine has a fascinating migration map of the US. You can click on any county in the country, and instantly
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Holy Sweet Lord Baby Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ: Oklahoma's first openly transgender candidate will face Kern in
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Mike Whitten, owner of Brookside’s One Billiards gameroom design store, doesn't dress like this every day, but he
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Yesterday the New York Times broke the news that the New Yorker was announcing its list of the 20 best writers under
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When he was young, Sterlin Harjo wanted to be a painter. "I had no idea that I could be a filmmaker," Harjo said.
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Every day or two, I run past the house where Vince Gill grew up, past the high school where Color Me Badd's members
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James Hewgley, Tulsa's 30th Mayor, is known for mostly for his work in providing for Tulsa's low-income and minority
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Spring is siren season in Oklahoma. I’ve lived here for more than two decades but have never witnessed a tornado
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It's a running joke in my family: if you want to know what Nathan's brother is like, just picture his exact opposite.
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He spent the whole afternoon sitting there on the old wicker chair, smoking donated cigarettes and watching Brookside
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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
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Though the weather forecast for this year's spring art festivals was enough to keep most spectators away from Downtown
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Atlas Obscura, a "compendium of the world's wonders," has a nice write-up of Downtown Tulsa's most famous landmark, the
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Peter Bedgood (left) and Dennis Leech (not left) at the Stonehorse Cafe in April of 2010. Bedgood is the creator of
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Our first edition is now available in Tulsa! You can pick up a copy for $2.00 at Dwelling Spaces in Downtown
Michael Mason
I know a few Roger Greenbergs. Like Ben Stiller’s titular character in Greenberg, they are rarely pleasant to be
Joshua Kline
It's difficult to appreciate the surface area affected by the Gulf's BP Oil Spill--but it's shocking once you actually
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At Garden Deva Sculpture Studio last week, writer Reif Larsen captivated the audience with a curious presentation about
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Joyce Harbolt: veteran drama teacher at Jenks High School. Or, Joyce Harbolt: mentor and surrogate mother to
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This story from the Oklahoman wins the award for Best Headline and generalized Best Thing That's Happened
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Many Tulsans know him as "G. Oscar," the name that resides over his bike shop in downtown Tulsa. Hell, I embarrassingly
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Photo: The Tulsa Fab Lab Team. From left to right; front row seated: Anne Pollard, Diama Norris; back row: Micah
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One a.m. this morning found me tired and irritable. The end of another long day of work. My stomach asked me why I
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Jordan rushed into the kitchen and said, "Dad! Come quick!" Every parent hears that urgent plea from time to
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Midtown Tulsa has a fairly diverse group of coffee shops--one for nearly each district. One favorite of mine is Shades
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Of course the Oklahoma Tea Party should form a militia! Of course they should. This is a capital idea. It's been
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Last Saturday night, Dwelling Spaces hosted the one-year anniversary party for Booksmart Tulsa. Dozens of people came
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I wasn’t the only one to live out a childhood dream recently when the Hanson brothers filmed the music video for
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This Saturday is the one year anniversary party for Booksmart Tulsa. Last April we started with an idea and not a clue
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