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Goodbye, Gilcrease
You have five more days (Wednesday, June 30, 2021, to Sunday, July 4, 2021) to visit Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum, before the museum, as you've known it for the last 57 years, goes away forever.
Gilcrease Museum demolition
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone, Thomas Moran, 1893 Remember when we voted on the Vision Tulsa package in 2016? Did you know you were voting to demolish Gilcrease Museum and build a smaller one in its place? Me, neither. But it was announced last month that demolition is what we're...
Bob Gregory: A tribute from his son
After I posted my tribute in memory of Bob Gregory, I received an email from his son, Jason Pitcock, who included a copy of the eulogy he wrote for his dad and delivered at his service. What an amazing life he led! Like Bob Gregory's work, Jason's tribute to his...
Jim Halsey open house Friday, July 12, 2019
Legendary impresario Jim Halsey is giving Tulsans a chance to see his collection of awards, photos, and memorabilia collected over seven decades in the music business, this Friday afternoon, July 12, 2019. From Halsey's Facebook account: Open for selected viewing, Friday, July 12, our Country Music Museum/Office at 3225 S....
Jerry Lewis in Tulsa at the Roy Clark Celebrity Golf Classic
Tulsa native and newsman Loren Cosby shared with me a couple of interesting anecdotes involving Jerry Lewis's appearance at a Tulsa golf tournament, and he gave me permission to share them with you. The Roy Clark Celebrity Golf Classic had a nine-year run at Cedar Ridge Country Club from 1975...
Lee Roy Chapman, RIP: "To force it on eyes that don't want to see it"
A memorial service for Lee Roy Chapman will be held Wednesday, October 14, 2015, at 4:00 p.m. at Cain's Ballroom. All are welcome. A fund for the benefit of his five-year-old son, Kasper, has been set up at GoFundMe. Friends are sharing memories on the "Remembering Lee Roy Chapman" page...
Lee Roy Chapman <em>curriculum vitae</em>
What follows is mainly from Lee Roy Chapman's LinkedIn profile. I thought that his list of accomplishments and the tributes from the people who worked with him needed a more permanent location. (You can read my tribute to Lee Roy Chapman here.) I will be adding to the list and...
Roy Clark, Jana Jae, Tulsa Playboys to perform at Gilcrease Museum Helmerich Center opening weekend
This coming weekend, September 6 and 7, 2014, is the opening weekend of the Helmerich Center for American Research, a unit of the City of Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum. The new facility is adjacent to the museum on Gilcrease Museum Road. A weekend full of free events is planned, including Native...
Happy 80th birthday, Roy Clark!
And thanks for making your home in Tulsa for nearly half that time. If you only think of Roy Clark cracking jokes on Hee Haw, here's a bit of his guitar wizardry -- "Caravan" -- to broaden your perspective. I love how you can see his finger work on this...
Campaign help wanted: Next-to-last weekend, House 71
It's the next to last weekend for the election, and there are plenty of opportunities to help good candidates in close races. Oklahoma Republican chairman Matt Pinnell's call to the troops from a couple of weeks ago is even more urgent now: Our nominees' need your help, and in one...
House District 71 primary Tuesday; UPDATE: Candidate confused about 1st Amendment?
CORRECTION 2012/02/12: I had erroneously listed Evelyn Rogers as a librarian at ORU. According to her response to the House 71 League of Women Voters candidate questionnaire, she is a librarian at TCC, and I have corrected the text below accordingly.) UPDATE 2012/02/12: See below regarding an odd complaint about...
<em>Bob Wills Ain't Dead</em>; Carolyn Wills visits Tulsa
In case you missed it, there's a new documentary out about the musical legacy of western swing legend Bob Wills. The film, Bob Wills Ain't Dead was featured in a story by Joshua Blevins Peck in the September 22, 2010, issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly. Filmmaker Drew Wilson went around...
Democrats in key congressional races, part 1
Travis Childers Dina Titus Carol Shea-Porter Ann Kuster Harry Teague John Hall Michael Arcuri Larry Kissell Earl Pomeroy Steve Driehaus Mary Jo Kilroy Zack Space Kathy Dahlkemper Bryan Lentz Patrick Murphy Chris Carney Paul Kanjorski John Spratt Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Roy Herron Chet Edwards Ciro Rodriguez Glenn Nye Tom Perriello...
Oklahoma roundup, 2010/08/29
Some links around the Oklahoma blogosphere: Brit Gal in the USA is now an American gal in the USA. Congratulations, Sarah! In an earlier blog entry, she writes about her emotions in the days leading up to the citizenship ceremony. And despite living in western Oklahoma for nearly five years,...
Roy Clark: "The Great Pretender"
A bit of Saturday serendipity: If you know and love the music of The Platters, you'll love this send-up by country artist Roy Clark, who attempts, almost single-voicedly, to recreate the full sound of the doo-wop group's hit "The Great Pretender." It's fun to hear what Clark does with the...
Tulsa Election 2009: Pre-primary Republican campaign contribution reports
Here is a summary of the pre-primary Form C-1 ethics reports filed with the Tulsa City Clerk's office by 5 p.m. today by Republican candidates, the deadline for the pre-primary filing for next Tuesday's Tulsa City Council races. I have listed all contributors $1,000 and over for the mayoral and...
Tulsa Election 2009: Filing closed
The three-day filing period for Tulsa's city elections is over. First of all, congratulations to two of my favorite city councilors. Jack Henderson and John Eagleton were re-elected without opposition. Of the three councilors unopposed yesterday, Rick Westcott and Bill Christiansen will have a primary, while GT Bynum will face...
Tulsa Election 2009: Filings, day 2
The second day of the three day filing period for Tulsa's city elections is over. Four more Republicans and a Democrat filed for Mayor, we'll have a Republican primary for Auditor, and all nine City Councilors have filed for re-election. Five of the nine councilors -- Henderson, Westcott, Eagleton, Christiansen,...
Tulsa Election 2009: First day filings
The first day of the three-day filing period for the City of Tulsa's municipal elections is over, and we have eight candidates for mayor (four Democrats and four Republicans), two candidates for auditor, and competitive races in only two council districts so far, with only five of the nine incumbent...
Fifties Facebook Faux Pas
This instructional film from the 1950s explains the mistakes young people make in dealing with relationships via Facebook. Dig the steampunk computer and camera: (Via Christian Clark on -- what else? -- Facebook.)...
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