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The critiqued, not the critic, should feel embarrassed 26 Aug 2013 | 03:03 am
An anecdote from an obituary of art and music critic Hilton Kramer, founder of The New Criterion: It did not please Hilton Kramer to make enemies. But he knew that the job of a cultural critic was to...
How integrated is Tulsa? A 2010 update 19 Aug 2013 | 03:03 am
An interactive demographic map -- called the "Racial Dot Map" -- is making the rounds. The map is by Dustin A. Cable, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Each dot on...
Oklahomans called to pressure Coburn on Obamacare defunding 19 Aug 2013 | 02:03 am
FreedomWorks is calling on Oklahomans to attend Sen. Tom Coburn's August townhall meetings to ask him to join conservative Senate Republicans in their fight to defund implementation of the Unaffordabl...
Rename Sheridan Road? 17 Aug 2013 | 01:56 pm
Oklahoman urban reporter Steve Lackmeyer may have unintentionally sparked another street-naming controversy up the turnpike in Tulsa. Lackmeyer recounted the 1961 renaming of Oklahoma City's Grand Av...
Bridenstine to speak to Tulsa Area Republican Assembly 16 Aug 2013 | 01:56 pm
Oklahoma First District Congressman Jim Bridenstine will be the featured speaker at the August meeting of the Tulsa Area Republican Assembly (TARA) on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. TARA meets at the Gold...
Special elections in Tulsa County District 3, Rogers County 13 Aug 2013 | 01:56 pm
Today, August 13, 2013, the polls will be open in southern Tulsa County, including the southern part of midtown Tulsa, for the special general election to replace retiring Tulsa County District 3 Comm...
Purging Tulsa's map of doers and enablers of evil 12 Aug 2013 | 12:39 pm
The problem with the proposal to eradicate the name Brady from Tulsa's map is that it doesn't go far enough. Tate Brady was a founder of the City of Tulsa and a booster of its early growth, but he was...
Riverside Drive protection major amendment on Tulsa Council agenda 9 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
An ordinance to amend the "Bartlett Amendment," which requires Riverside Drive improvements to be a separate item on the ballot at capital improvements elections, is on the agenda for tonight's (Augus...
25th and Yale DHS group home neighborhood meeting tonight 9 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
A neighborhood meeting tonight (August 8, 2013) at 7 p.m. will discuss plans to convert the former Philadelphia Assembly church building at 2545 S. Yale Ave. in Tulsa to a group home for teens in DHS ...
Tulsan wins Texas Cowboy Reunion fiddle contest 4 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
On July 6, 2013, Tulsa violinist Joseph Bates won first place in the youth division of the Texas Cowboy Reunion Old Time Fiddlers' Contest. This was Bates's third time to compete at the Stamford, Texa...
