Depression-Era Color Photos of Oklahoma
During the Great Depression, photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information began
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Denise Bell
It was a road trip to the Taos Wool Festival that inspired Tulsa native Denise Bell to hand-dye her own yarn. That was
Chris Dykes
Death’s Yellow Door
"We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a
Kelly Kurt
Death Under the Strawberry Moon
By 1794, the Cherokees were settling in the West in growing numbers, and conflict with the Osage over hunting rights
James Murray
Dear Uncle Ronnie
My uncle, Ronald David Roberts, was born in 1945, the oldest son of the late televangelist, Oral Roberts, my
Randy R Potts
Dealing With Brady’s Legacy
Editor's note: The following news analysis article represents a deeper level of commitment to community news coverage.
Holly Wall
Dark Fantasy
During the height of radio drama broadcasts, shows originated from urban areas where technology, actors, writers,
Bret Jones
Danielle and Wilson
The curtains parted and the crowds applauded as Wilson Lema and Danielle Cap-Lema danced across the stage. In
Rebekah Greiman
Dancing the Fright Away
We walked into the smoky bar, and there wasn’t a man in sight. Country music played through the speakers, and a
Kerry Cohen
Dana LeMoine (1960-2011)
“He loved tornadoes,” wife Lynne LeMoine remembers. “When a bad storm was coming, he would be up on the roof with
Shawna Lewis
Curtis Beckwith
Curtis Beckwith is an artist, political activist, and rare record dealer. You can typically spot him on Saturday
Michael Cooper
Curriculum Counts
Despite its significance as the worst so-called race riot in American history, even some Tulsans remain oblivious to
Hannibal B. Johnson
Cultivating This Land
It’s been a longstanding Tulsa truism for artists: if you want to be successful, leave. At This Land Press, we’re
Michael Mason
Cry Baby
You are the cat most like I was as a girl with a soft coat, fine reflexes, fresh eyes. I sat on many porches,
Jane Vincent Taylor
Crosbie Heights is Growing
Pictured above: Scott Smith, Blue Jackalope Groceries & Coffee. Photo by Michael Cooper At the corner of Third and
Van Eden
Critical Mass
Lifted their bikes up- side down above their thousand heads and cheered locked the grid blocked the
John Brehm
Critical Mass
Lifted their bikes up- side down above their thousand heads and cheered locked the grid blocked the
John Brehm
Crispin and I on the Fourth of July
On June 1, 2011, I received an email from occasional actor and full-time eccentric, Crispin Glover. At the time it
Jeff Martin
Creative Intention
It was a nitrate negative that marshaled an august tribute for its 2012 re-release—and a movie poster of the finest
Adrian Margaret Brune
Create, Control, Destroy
There’s a field, straddling an invisible property line several miles east of the Hard Rock Casino, somewhere in the
Joshua Kline
Countdown to Christmas Giveaway
Congratulations to Warren Vieth from Oklahoma City! You've won our Christmas Giveaway that includes: From now until
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Cornel Williams and Keith Reed
These men know how to roll with the punches. A decade ago, Cornel Williams (right) created Tulsa Crime Monthly — the
Brooks Nickell
Continuous Present
“Not much is not enough.” -Bruce Goff Long before I found myself down the Bruce Goff rabbit hole, I lived in a
Russell Cobb
Confronting Male Aggression
During the early 1990s in Oklahoma, Catholic prep schools didn’t exactly impress punk music, rebellion, or third-wave
Adrian Margaret Brune
Confidence in Culture
The Oklahoma legislature first approved the construction of the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in 1994 to
James McGirk
Confessions of a Designated Hitter
At first glance, the photos appear to tell the whole story. Here is Drake halfback/quarterback Johnny Bright,the first
Russell Cobb
Conduct Unbecoming Part 2
Yesterday, This Land Press revealed that Tulsa Police Captain Shawn King had engaged in sexual behavior while on duty.
Joshua Kline
Commute
A famous architect just passed me. He wore a ponytail and turned the steering wheel with one hand. Maybe he was
Chad Reynolds
Coming Home
On Interstate 35 north of Guthrie, driving through evening shadows I pass a rusting, stale green Chevy bouncing
Ken Hada
Clea Alsip
Clea Alsip was born and raised in Tulsa and went to Booker T. Washington High School. She received her bachelor's
Deborah Lopez
CJ Wells
If you ask CJ Wells what brought him to Tulsa, he'll say, “An ‘87 Toyota pick-up truck." He'd been throwing mud at
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City With a Cause: Tulsa Proclaims James Dean Week
WHEREAS, the late James Dean, during his all-too-brief career as a motion picture star, exerted a powerful and
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City of Hope
Kerry Noble was one of the founders of the Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord, a cult paramilitary group with
Kerry Noble
Circling Back and Forth
It is the first Saturday evening of November as I turn left into 11th Street. I am going to the movies where I will
Jacqueline Van Fleet
Christy Sanders and Kimmie Michie
“I have zero ‘gay-dar’,“ Kimmie Michie laughs. ”I can’t tell when people are interested. I’m usually the
Rebekah Greiman
Christopher Mantle
Christopher Mantle's visual work has defined him to most patrons, but his art isn't limited to visual forms. Depending
Michael Cooper
Christmas 1987
Christmas 1987 was our first Christmas in the new house. The new house is still the new house, even though my parents
Sarah Brown
Chris Fellure and Sara Bowersock-Fellure
Chris and Sara began a 13-year “on again, off again” relationship as teenagers. They’d break up, get back
Rebekah Greiman
Chris and Hannah Middlebrook
“As a child I was a little afraid of clowns,” Steven Cater admitted while awaiting Clonky’s arrival at his son
Anna Kathleen Casey
Choctalking on Other Realities
It was so hot in the kitchen of the Oklahoma City airport café that the plastic clock melted. Time oozed down the wall
LeAnne Howe
Children Behaving Badly
The woman behind me would not stop huffing. Well, I’m not certain she was a woman. She certainly huffed like a
Joshua Kline
Chicken Fat
Everybody at Alice Robertson Junior High in Muskogee, Oklahoma, was wondering why we, of all the students in the entire
Janis Cramer
Cherokee Nation’s Constitutional Crisis
Cherokee Nation has what seems to be an unusual fixation with lawyers and writing—at least for an outsider looking
James McGirk
Charlesetta Walker (1935-2011)
“A lot of black kids are not exposed to folk dancing,” son Charles Walker said. “Especially the poorer
Shawna Lewis
Chad, Jim, and Hunter Rodgers
Pictured left-to-right: Chad, Jim, and Hunter Rodgers are the three men behind Cain's Ballroom. Jim, a local
Michael Cooper
Chad Cagle
Chad Cagle is a husband, father of two, pilot, vice president at SemGroup, and one of the top Category 1 racers in the
Jeremy Charles
Center of the Universe
Something goes on here, the echo magic. We step over the spot and echoes bounce from our voices. The warehouse,
Ann Zoller
Centennial Celebrations: Allan Houser Exhibits
On June 30 of this year, the world celebrates the centennial anniversary of Allan Houser's birth. In Oklahoma, nearly
Tony Beaulieu
Cedar Street: Tulsa’s Proudest Thoroughfare
In the early 1970s, a twenty-two year-old Lebanese immigrant trekked down the sidewalks of Sixth Street from his West
Steve Gerkin
Carlos Knight
In this feature, our social media editor Vicki May Thorne meets and greets the staff and contributors of
Vicki May Thorne
Cargo
What is on the train rolling through my city so important the conductor sounds the whistle every other second from
Chad Reynolds
Cardiology
One. Heart melts into ink. Burns in the Arctic eternal night. Melts snow to drips. One. Drip drips down
Nicklaus Faith
Capitol Coercion
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s recent indictment by a grand jury in Travis County, Texas, might seem familiar to the
Brian Ted Jones
Café
Luckily, She was there to take his order. Or he wouldn’t have gotten any coffee. Luckily, There was that
Eli Wright
C. Rabon Martin (1944-2010)
A true Midwestern man, Rabon Martin was a wild hobbyist, a tough man of the law and a sweet admirer of his people and
Shawna Lewis
Buster Keaton Was Not an Okie
Several months ago, I was in New York City for a few days, traveling alone and on a tight schedule. But there was one
Jeff Martin
Burgers with Burkhard Bilger
Burkhard Bilger suffers from an incipient case of wanderlust. After nearly 14 years writing features for the New
Sarah Graalman
Building a Frog
Guide the scalpel with milk-wrinkled hands fine-honed point tracing delicate veins. Gently peel back transparent
John Wooley
Brook Tarbel (1924-2011)
Brook Tarbel was born in the heart of Hollywood, where his mother made her dough as a talent agent for big movie stars
Shawna Lewis
Broadway’s Forgotten Man
It’s 1945, and our setting is a Christmas party in Manhattan. The celebrants are show-business professionals
Charles Morrow
Bridging the Ozarks to the Art World
After an impromptu drive around the neighborhoods of Bentonville—where Americana is in full swing and scenes from
Ariana Jakub
Brian Hearn
Brian Hearn is the film curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, which screens more than 300 films a year. In 2006,
Nathan Poppe
Brett McKay
Brett Mckay is the creator of The Art of Manliness, a Tulsa-based blog that proves to more than 2 million readers each
Paul McEntire
Breakfast of Champion
Waffle Champion surfaced on the Oklahoma City corner of the Facebook universe last summer, posting a series of photos
Natasha Ball
Brave New Park
It’s one of those steam baths of a late August night. Cicadas are revving up their engines in the post oaks and
Russell Cobb
Boys Will Be Boys
Mr. Smith was an old-fashioned cowboy. He wore tight Wranglers with a circle burned into the back pocket where he kept
John Paul Brammer
Bottled Up Inside
So, you want to be a milk maid, eh?” Elmer, the eldest in the 80-and-over club, says to me from his window seat at
Samantha Joelle Honey Lamb
Borrowed Traditions
This past June, the Japanese fiddler Okano Susumu1 celebrated his 59th birthday by taking time out from a work trip to
Denis Gainty
Borrowed Notes
In 1939, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath became a best-seller and turned the nation’s attention to the plight
Cortney Stone
Bookstores of the Big Middle
I take vacations based around bookstores. Other attractions (museums, concerts, culinary destinations) certainly factor
Jeff Martin
Books, Movies & Rock ‘n Roll: A Conversation with Dana Spiotta
If only Dana Spiotta had an Oklahoma connection, I thought. I had just been invited to guest edit This Land’s
Constance Squires
Books About Tulsa: A Tour
1. Oklahoma by Harlow, Victor E. This is my mother’s favorite Oklahoma history textbook. It smells like
Ben Lytal
Bombed-Out Boise City
It was about half past midnight on July 5, 1943. The heat of the day had given way to the usual cooling that occurs
David Dary
Bob Waldrop
Bob Waldrop, a fourth-generation Oklahoman from Frederick, is a purveyor of peace, plants, and pianos. He is
Travis Marak
Bob Bartholic
Quiet and introverted, Bob Bartholic was remarkably daring in his art and lifestyle. Often challenging traditional
Shawna Lewis
Bluford Johnson (1934-2011)
Rachel Robinson remembers a lot of her father’s quirks—the way he’d shout “Judas Priest” when something upset
Shawna Lewis
BlueJacket, Inside Out
Part 4, Section 1 — Bobby BlueJacket and Bobby Wilson strolled across the Stone Brothers Buick car lot under lines
Michael P. Daley
Blue Jackalope Runs This Land Special
The customers gather for singalongs on Sunday mornings. Musicians straggle in and strum along. Kids swarm in and out of
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Blood Cult
Bill Blair was a visionary. A longtime film collector and fan, he spent his early adult years primarily as an appliance
John Wooley
Blindfolded by the Klan
It was an hour before dusk when we pulled into Idabel. The late summer heat yellowed the rim of the southern Oklahoma
J. Don Cook
Blind Spot
“I’ve been arrested!” Gasko croaked over the cell phone as the FBI agents watched his every move. Seconds
Laurence J. Yadon
Bionic Ankles, Jay Martin, and the Myth of Expertise
Jay Martin had no experts. As a designer of prosthetic limbs, he received a research grant for $300,000 in 2002 and
David Burkus
Bill Rabon
Tulsa-based artist Bill Rabon is an abstract painter, latter-day bohemian, and Vagabond muse. He is represented in
Grant McClintock
Bill Crawford
Bill Crawford, aged 90, photographed in Cardin, Oklahoma, in the vacant lot where his home of 66 years once stood. A
Travis Marak
Bigger and Better
This Land gets bigger today. And this land gets better, too. I mean that in every possible sense: we’ve expanded
Vincent LoVoi
Big Time Pawn
Big Time Pawn is a family-owned pawn shop located on Route 66 at 11th and Pittsburg in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over the years
Lee Roy Chapman
Big Time Pawn
Big Time Pawn is a family-owned pawn shop located on Route 66 at 11th and Pittsburg in
Lee Roy Chapman
Bible Student Humor
About 20 years ago, a group of students at Rhema Bible Training Center met in secret, somewhere under that spinning
Natasha Ball
Beyond the Archives
Woody Guthrie wrote songs, poems, essays, newspaper columns, letters, diaries, you name it. Writing was a compulsion
Thomas Conner
Beyond Barnard
After the backhoes and bulldozers had left, all that was standing were the trees. But if the trees could talk, they’d
Jeremy Bailey
Between the Truth and the World
People said it to me as an aside, as if they didn’t want anyone else to hear. Like they were attending the funeral of
Jeff Kauffman
Betty Voie(1924-2011)
In the early chapters of an unfinished memoir, Betty Voie wrote that growing up in Kentucky was like “living in a
Shawna Lewis
Beno Hall: Tulsa’s Den of Terror
The monstrous, three-story, steel reinforced, stucco building towered along the western edge of Greenwood. It dominated
Steve Gerkin
Behold the Sky
The first time was arbitrary. I was the only early-morning visitor in the art gallery, and a security guard beckoned to
Michael Mason
Begetting Bats
A single bat represents one out of every four or five mammals on earth. The Mexican free-tailed bat is the speedster of
Natasha Ball
Before There Was Color
I grew up wanting to be a dramatic actress—emphasis on dramatic—because I spent my formative years in front of the
Teresa Miller
Beauty, Purpose, and Preservation
Kinky hair is usually defined by 4a-4c hair type and is tightly coiled with a zig zag
James McGirk
Beau and Stefanie Leland
Beau and Stefanie Leland made a connection before they ever met. Stefanie was an extra in a feature-length film Beau
Holly Wall
Beau and Chrissie
Beau Rotramel drives musicians across the country; his job keeps him on the road for months at a time. The man needs
Rebekah Greiman
Bearden Unbound
“I wonder if Dave Bearden still dislikes me.” —Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets LXXVI David Omer Bearden was born in
Robert Dumont