Grab your family, friends or partner and visit a variety of community events this month.
Kick your month off at the German American Society-Tulsa’s Germanfest, May 3-5. Then, walk over to River West Festival park for the annual Tour de Tulsa, a cycling event that's been truckin' for more than 30 years. One of the city’s most anticipated events, Tulsa...
May has arrived and with it, a variety of films to enjoy. There are a panoply of genres this month, so grab some overpriced – but entirely necessary – popcorn and head into the theater.
Start the month off with a bang and check out The Fall Guy. Based on a 1980s television series of the same name, the film...
Tapped as Gilcrease Museum’s newest executive director, Brian Lee Whisenhunt began his tenure on April 15. Most previously, Whisenhunt was the executive director at New York’s Rockwell Museum, serving on the board of directors of the Museum Association of New York and as a peer reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums Accreditation Commission.
A Tulsa native, Whisenhunt received both...
The Swiss alpine village that pretty much invented winter tourism is still at it – and still doing it better than anybody else. When it comes to this splash of posh high in the Alps, superlatives reign: St. Moritz is the most storied, most picturesque, sunniest, glitziest, most like a fairytale, the crème-est de la crème.
Lucky explorers first stumbled...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 36 children in the United States have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – an increase from the previous rate of one in 44 – and boys are nearly four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. A complex condition with no definitive cause, autism is known...
Like a lot of other nostalgic adults, Tom Biolchini – a Tulsa-based banking executive and immediate past president of the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce – made the happy discovery some time ago that he could pick up lost pieces of his childhood via the vendors on eBay. During his youth, for instance, he’d had a nice collection of...
Missing large amounts of school is a problem for students. And being chronically absent – defined as missing 10% or more of instruction in an academic year – can have serious ramifications for students in a variety of ways.
Tulsa Public Schools, the state’s largest public school district, has a student population in which 40% are categorized as chronically absent....
As warmer weather approaches, seasonal recreation begins anew. A popular activity in Oklahoma that offers generally low stress and low buy-in is fishing. There are over 200 different bodies of water to cast your line, all of which are documented on the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) website.
“ are able to filter their location according to region, or...
By Sofia Thornblad
Almost three-quarters of a century have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of World War II. Some 245,000 Holocaust survivors are still alive, but the few who can speak with the force of first-hand perception will soon be gone. How will Holocaust remembrance and education change once those who were alive to witness it...
Professor of civil and environmental engineering – and self-proclaimed “concrete freak” – Tyler Ley, Ph.D., is on a mission to solve construction’s most pressing issues. Concrete, the second most used material in the world, has inspired Ley to lead ground-breaking research in making it more durable, sustainable and economical.
Ley has also amassed a following of over 100,000 subscribers on...
