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Swingin’ for a Good Cause

[dropcap]In[/dropcap] her years as a leading light on the Tulsa music scene, vocalist and songwriter Cindy Cain has never called attention to the fact that...

The Life & Times of Chester Gould

[dropcap]On[/dropcap] May 18, the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum Facebook page shared the image of a telegram that had been sent to Chester Gould, Tracy’s creator,...

The Breeze Blows In White’s Direction

[dropcap]Exactly[/dropcap] one year ago, this space was devoted to a report on veteran Tulsa-based singer-songwriter Don White, who, after decades of performing, touring, recording and...

Still Rumbling

I thought I was using myths to write a story. Turned out that I used a story to write a myth. – S.E. Hinton, from her...

Mutilations Ruminations

In the course of her job as an accounting analyst at a Tulsa-area oil and gas company, it’s very unlikely that Shelly Reynolds comes in...

Full Circle

If you’re an active writer and/or reader from this part of the world, you probably have an idea of how much we all owe Teresa...

A Guide To Yesteryear

If you grew up around Tulsa anytime from the mid-‘50s through the early part of the ‘70s and you were at all aware of the...

The Guitar Guy

One of the things I’ve learned in my decades of writing about Oklahoma’s great rock ‘n’ roll-era musicians is that they are, with a couple...

The Big Stink

This month marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of an Oklahoma actress who may not be one of our state’s best-remembered film stars, but...

Works In Progress

Tragedy catalyzed Cecil Cloud’s photographic quest. Technology – and his own drive – kept it going. The result is Oklahoma Stations: Work in Progress, an...