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Q & A with Bryant Oden
Oklahoma native and Rocky Mountain transplant Bryant Oden has made a career of writing goofy songs for
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Queen’s Gambit Declined
May 21, 2008. Radisson Hotel, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Frank K. Berry U.S. Chess Championship. Two International
Matthew Crouch
Queer as Folk
& then gay marriage was legal in Oklahoma & it was renamed “Oklahomo” & cowboys went broke
Nick Weaver
Rabbi Marc Boone Fitzerman
In this installment of True Tulsa, Michael Cooper presents a black and white portrait of the beloved Rabbi Marc
Michael Cooper
Radio Revival
Somewhere in between the mindless banter of sports talk radio, the bubblegum lyrics of top 40 hits, and the NPR
Gail Banzet-Ellis
Ralph Bendel Jr.
As Ralph Bendel gave me a tour of the gardens at the Philbrook Museum of Art, I came to see the space with a new set of
Michael Cooper
Ramblin’ Jack
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott strutted on stage. Not like a pimp, or someone with a chip on his shoulder, but as a man
Sarah Graalman
Randall Gabrel
Randall Gabrel moved his oil and gas firm to Woodward, Oklahoma, four years ago to be closer to his mother after his
Shane Brown
Rare Earth
Woody Guthrie’s first book, the autobiographical Bound for Glory, was originally published in 1943. Like any
Thomas Conner
Ray and Jaruwan
Jaruwan Slovacek had to cross an ocean to find love, but Ray Slovacek took on the tougher journey of crossing over to
Rebekah Greiman
Reader, Meet Author
Not that it happens very often, but when asked who my favorite contemporary writer is, I always split it down the
Robert Dumont
Red Sauce and Pulitzers: The Career of Joe Marquette
“Once I was on Air Force One,” says Joe Marquette. It’s a typical beginning to one of his many anecdotes. The
Joshua Kline
Redbirds on Greenwood
As many seek knowledge of what happened in Tulsa during its formative years, I am in search of the history of my
J. Kavin Ross
Redefining the Liberal Arts
On that fateful night in 1935 when God first promised to heal Dad of tuberculosis, God also spoke to him, albeit
Roberta Roberts Potts
Redemption Denied
Jorge “George” Aguilar doesn’t seem different than I remembered from a year ago. His tan face is fuzzy on my
Jimmy Carter
Religion of Silence
A curving road led me from the expressway into a neighborhood where American flags adorned brown, brick houses and
Molly Evans
Reminiscences of an Early Dental Practitioner in Western Oklahoma
It was a wide open range country, featured by boundless rolling hills carpeted by green grass and acres of many hued
Dr. F. C. Holmes
Renegade Golf
Cheyenne Golf Course, in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, is more reminiscent of Tom Joad than Tom Watson. It consists of nine
Tyler Palmateer
Resolution on the Irish Situation
In 1919, at the end of the First World War and two years before the devastation of the race riot at home, Tulsa city
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Return to Kornfield Kounty: Why Hee Haw Still Matters
THE COUNTER-COUNTERCULTURE It’s been nearly two decades since the world said goodbye to Hee Haw. The show ran
Jeff Martin
Rev. G. Calvin McCutchen Sr.
Reverend G. Calvin McCutchen Sr. is pastor emeritus of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Tulsa. After the church was
Jeremy Charles
Rev. Robert Pickett (1924-2011)
“There was an issue in Alabama where dogs were released on non-violent protesters,” nephew John Dowdell explained.
Shawna Lewis
Rhyme & Punishment
I come to David L. Moss every week to teach poetry to incarcerated women. It’s become so routine that all of the
Beth Niestemski
Rich Hewitt (1948-2011)
Most know Rich Hewitt as “The Mushroom Man”—the guy who started a Tulsa-based mushroom business in his garage,
Shawna Lewis
Rideshare vs. Car Ownership
Rideshare services like Uber or Lyft are most often seen as a substitute for a taxicab—a safe ride home after a night
Michael D. Bates
Rilla Askew
Rilla Askew was born in the San Bois Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, a place she's noted for its harshness and
Shane Brown
Ripping Up Phonebooks for Jesus
TO THE FIRST ‘POWER’ I remember the tension, the edge-of-the-seat nervousness. I remember wondering which
Jeff Martin
Ripples in a Lake
Tales of the Dust Bowl years recall an era punctuated by the absence of water. In reality, it was a combination of
Amy Hardberger
Robbers Cave Revisited
My first sight on entering Camp Tom Hale—three hours southeast of Tulsa, off County Road 249—was a white pickup
Gene Perry
Robert Hedgecoke
R.L. Hedgecoke, a Cherokee/Scots-Irish/Metis-Canadian/English World War II veteran, lives in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He grew
Shane Brown
Robert Littlejohn(1936-2011)
“He was our most excellent historian,” North Tulsa Historical Society President Charlotte Bates said at
Shawna Lewis
Rocket to the Moon
Jim Bridenstine leaned back in a swivel desk chair, a green flight jacket zipped over his dress shirt and tie, the wall
Holly Wall
Rocking China
In retrospect, I do wonder how I made a rock and roll record in China in such adverse conditions. I had lived in
Tyson Meade
Rodeo Daze
It's the manure that gets to you. Saturday, August 7. It's the final night of the 25th Annual Pawnee Bill Memorial
Barry Friedman
Rogers & Hammerstein and the Two Sids
The following is written by Barry Friedman and Ken Rogerson. On October 14, 1941, Richard
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Rooftop Raccoons
A triumvirate of sad-eyed raccoons lounging on the roof of an apartment building in Stillwater benignly
T. Allen Culpepper
routine
every evening after the six o’clock i ate dinner, something fast, sitting at the desk. eight tv screens, three
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Rules? There Are No Rules.
Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Dan’s War on Poverty: A Grassroots Crusade for Social Justice, by Ann
Ann Patton
Running
Running is without a doubt a great way to achieve your fitness goals. Millions of people, both young and old, engage
Jessica Puckett
Running Tulsa
I set out in the summer of 2009 to become a runner—motivated, and shamed, by the marathon that my mother ran in honor
Jessica Baxter
Rusty and Colleen
After a month of being turned down, Rusty got the green light on a date with Colleen. “I picked her up in my junky
Rebekah Greiman
Ryan LaCroix
Ryan LaCroix is the operations manager at KOSU Radio and co-hosts the weekly radio program The Oklahoma Rock Show. He
Nathan Poppe
S.E. Hinton’s Staircase Cameo
Located on the northwest southwest corner of Greenwood and (then) Brady Street, this staircase is the spot where an
Lee Roy Chapman
Sam Gillaspy
Sam Gillaspy has lived in Arcadia, Oklahoma, for 88 years. He's devoted the last eight of those to giving tours at the
Brooks Nickell
Saucers over Oklahoma
Saturday morning, July 31, 1965, at 1:05 a.m., Officer Lewis Sikes of the Wynnewood Police Department reported sighting
David A. Farris
Scalpel
Almost every patient mentions how it’s cold in the operating room. We keep the room around 60 degrees, in part to
David Schneider
Scenes from Muslim Day at the Oklahoma State Capitol
Muslims in Oklahoma, like other minority communities in the state, haven’t always felt secure in their homes and
Randy R Potts
School Spirits
Thep Phongparnich slinks into the conference room on Maejo University in the northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai, and
Kristi Eaton
Sci-Fi’s Tough Guy
Descending by car into the flaccid Florida peninsula on I-95 can make a bull rider reach for a Valium. Cars, trucks,
Grant McClintock
Scott Raffe (1964-2011)
The day Raffe died, rockets exploded in the skies over Tulsa and beyond— festive bursts of red, white, and blue,
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Searching for John Joseph Mathews
He showed his anger in fantastic play of lightning, and thunder that crashed and rolled among the hills; in the wind
Richard Higgs
Secrets of the Dust Bowl Digs
Years ago, buried beneath the University of Oklahoma football stadium, there was once an underground concrete cave,
Holly Wall
Selling ‘Tulsa’ to Tulsans
There’s Tulsa the city, and there’s Tulsa the movie. For a brief spell in the spring of 1949, when the movie
Charles Morrow
September Events
RUMBLE FISH SCREENING--Public Secrets #13 Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film Rumble Fish, based on the novel by SE
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Serving Kagame
On April 30, 2010, a team of lawyers and process servers arrived at the campus of Oklahoma Christian University (OCU)
Collin Hinds
Severe Storm Watch
We all thought the weather was god, didn’t we? Whether it was the golf-ball hailstorm that ruined the business plan
Rivka Galchen
Sex in the City
How well do any of us know our grandmothers? They are worthy of in-depth investigation, because behind the gentle,
Clara Nipper
Sh*tty Mom
The following is an excerpt from Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us, by Laurie Kilmartin, Karen Moline,
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Shalom, Ardmore
I went down to Ardmore looking for the last Jews in a town that could—if it were so inclined—lay claim to the title
Russell Cobb
Shaun Perkins
Shaun Perkins forged the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry out of her father’s old machine shop as a tiny monument to
Natasha Ball
She Was the Punk of My Life
Kelli Mayo snarls into the microphone. The girl with fire-pink hair, turquoise leggings, a black skirt, and white tee
Joshua Kline
Shoes Without Laces
Eldon Dykes’ father arrived on Sunday nonstop Greyhound bus from Oklahoma for a visit Next morning after
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Shop
Rusted valves and pipes, sleeping gas lines, tables with saw blades rising to railway, vintage dust taking in streams
Bill Turley
Signs of Forgotten Times
In a small meeting room in a Unitarian Universalist church a few miles north of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, people of
Adrian Margaret Brune
Silence of the Goats
You have to push pretty hard to puncture animal skin. The goat was dead, but its lungs still had breath. I thought I
Spring Houghton
Silkwood
When Richard Rashke’s The Killing of Karen Silkwood was published in 1981, it was a groundbreaking, whistle-blowing
Sarah Denton
Skilly Forsman(1922-2011)
In the Tulsa dance and etiquette scene, Skilly Forsman was it. For 68 years, she taught kids of all ages to move with
Shawna Lewis
Small Town, Big Top
It’s not every day that the average Oklahoman gets to see an elephant raise a circus tent. Even photographer Kenneth
Rosie LoVoi
Snake Ball
Joey Rigoletto is a spazz. We know this. What a dickhead, we said as he went by, tipped over practically, calling out,
Bayard Godsave
Snakes on a Plain
I stood shaking in the center of a wooden 9-by-12-foot pit, surrounded on all sides by about 250 western diamondback
Holly Wall
So Long, Joe Coleman (1922-2011)
“Oh, I met Joe probably a dozen years ago,” said Lee Anne Zeigler, executive director and CEO of Tulsa Foundation
Shawna Lewis
So Long, Tom Skinner
The door to room 1451 at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa was practically revolving. Tom Skinner’s hospital room was
Lindsay Kline
Something Good is Going to Happen to You
I was twelve years old when it happened, in the 7th grade, attending Victory Christian School on 71st Street in South
Randy R Potts
South by Midwest: Or, Where is Oklahoma?
I'm not much of a Facebook person. Most of the time, I passively scroll through status updates while avoiding doing
Russell Cobb
special you’s
you’re too much waist in time. you’ve been renting a room in the wrong house and your bill was late. you’re
Mia Wright
Sports Illustration: A New Dawn for OSU
In this episode: Out of the shadows, over the hump, at last — the monkey off the back. A steep and grueling peak has
Jeremy Luther
Sports Illustration: Sad Day for Basketball
It's the same old struggle between players and team owners in this monetary
Jeremy Luther
Sports Illustration: Slain Longhorn
In this episode: the eyes of Texas are fixed and
Jeremy Luther
Sports Illustration: Weekend Warrior
Our first Sports Illustration by Jeremy Luther depicts the downtrodden--but not despairing--TU football
Jeremy Luther
Sports Illustration: What to Wear?
Jeremy Luther presents the fashion dilemmas of two Oklahoma state college football
Jeremy Luther
SPORTS ILLUSTRATION:Betting in Texas Hold ‘Em
The stakes are high, so why is nobody blinking? Texas is holding, with a fancy new TV network and deep stack of chips.
Jeremy Luther
Stalking the Smoking Gun
Every so often, perhaps once a week, the Oklahoma State Senate closes its doors, posts aging sentries outside in the
David Fritze
Starlight
To fans of classic films the name Jennifer Jones evokes images of a brunette beauty with distinctive high cheekbones,
Les Howell
Steak, Eggs, and a Submachine Gun
“You want me to tell you a story?” asked Marilee Macias, a native of Perry, Oklahoma, with kind eyes and perfectly
Ryan Daly
Stephen and Esther
Esther and Stephen Hill started off as many newlyweds do, with nervousness and hope, but their plans stumbled when
Rebekah Greiman
Steps to Nowhere
Just north of downtown Tulsa there is a vast empty area, about a half-mile long by a third of a mile wide. This
Michael D. Bates
Steve Adams
There's hardly anything about McAlester, Oklahoma, that Steve Adams doesn’t know. For 35 years, he’s been the local
Brooks Nickell
Stick a Fork in it
The wind came sweeping down the plain and shot me in the face with a load of dust and gravel. It blew pejsebrænde
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Store No. 27 and the Making of QuikTrip
Autumn. 2010. 1946 South Harvard. Tulsa, Oklahoma. I’m slouched in my car in the parking lot of QuikTrip counting
Van Eden
Stories Carved in Stone
Painter, illustrator, sculptor, husband, father, innovator, teacher: Oklahoman Allan Houser was all of these things and
Christina Burke
Stormchasing 101: Learning to See Red
At the front of Meeting Room A at the Case Community Center in Sand Springs sat a projector on a metal stand, humming
Natasha Ball
Struggle of the Three
Native Americans within the uprooted “Five Civilized Tribes” found a new home in “Indian Territory”—
Hannibal B. Johnson
Strung Out, Locked Up
In 2010, Tamra Schmidkunz sat in a dark car outside the Rib Crib on 51st Street and Sheridan Avenue in Tulsa. She was
James A. Pearson
Subterranean Psychonaut
He stood naked by the roadside with a blanket draped around his hips, feebly reaching out for the glimmering cars as
Michael Mason, Chris Sandel and Lee Roy Chapman
Summons to Tulsa
Edwin spotted them the moment he stepped off the train. There were dozens of folks here to meet the Atlantic and
Louise Farmer Smith
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Wednesday, June 9, 1982 In the news in Tulsa, Oklahoma: “Rotarians change laws to allow black members.” “She
Randy R Potts
Sundown on the Blue River
White sun hangs just above the falls. You look upstream at cascading water immersed in sound, frozen by its
Ken Hada
Surrey with the Fringe on Top
A black bear has come out of the hills to the highway. He lumbers along the shoulder and throws a great paw out. A
Karin C. Davidson
Surviving and Sustaining at Gosney Farms
One night in 1997, a concerned neighbor called John and Kris (Ratzlaff) Gosney of Cheyenne Valley, Oklahoma, with a
R.E. Graalman Jr.