John Wooley

[dropcap]With[/dropcap] all thanks to Vida and Dan Schuman, respectively publisher/founder and president/editorial director of Oklahoma Magazine, I wrote my first two entries for what would...

[dropcap]Thirty[/dropcap] years ago, give or take a few months, a new double-record album appeared on the shelves of Oklahoma music stores. Featuring a trippy line-drawing...

[dropcap]According[/dropcap] to Dr. Tommy Poole, noted saxophonist and former director of jazz studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, a new NSU Jazz’Tet disc called...

[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...

[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,...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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...