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Brian Schwartz
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The Next Great Adventure
Three o’clock on a bright, late autumn afternoon and all the shops on Sand Springs’ Main Street are deserted – except for one. The narrow...

Going
Full Throttle
Stroll any evening into Local Bison in downtown Tulsa, through the crowds at the bar, and head for the kitchen. There, you’ll find Nick Andoe,...

For Dorothy
Daniel Auffenberg grew up in that glorious Tulsa neighborhood that stretches east from the Philbrook. He has many fond memories of his childhood, but his...

A Dream Realized
Aragua de Barcelona is a remote and tranquil town on the eastern edge of Venezuela’s vast central prairie. If you’d been there some years back,...

An Okie Restaurant Rundown
Tulsa by Brian Schwartz • OKC by Amanda Jane Simcoe Fine Dining Summit Club, TulsaExtensive renovations in harmony with the club’s hallmark of quiet, understated...

Veldy’s Artisan Cheese and Wine
Stealthily leaving her house long before dawn, the rural Texas grass still wet with dew, 17-year old Erica would meet her boyfriend (and future husband)...

Caring Through Cuisine
One afternoon in early June 2019, Wyatt Rogers’ plane landed in Tulsa. He didn’t go to his newly rented apartment, nor did he stop anywhere...

Channeling Hemingway
Towards the end of 1921, Ernest Hemingway, having survived a war and a pandemic, arrived in Paris. During the next few years, he chatted with...

All Roads Lead to Tulsa
Bobby Benjamin slipped into Tulsa quietly and unknown. And yet, he’s the man about whom the Louisville Courier-Journal, a leading Kentucky newspaper, wrote: “He has...