Tulsa

How an Ex-Marine's Elaborate Hit Man Fantasies Came True

Brooke Phillips: The Life and Death of an HBO Hooker

100 Things a Teen Age Girl Wants to Know, According to a 1960s Faith-Healing Preacher Man

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. 100 Things a Teen Age Girl Wants to Know Author: W. V. Grant, Sr. Date: Early 1960s Publisher: W.V. Grant Discovered at: Gardner's Used Books, Tulsa, OK The Cov ... More >>

Oral Fixation: This Week's Book Events Give New Meaning to "Reader's Digest"

Jami Attenberg and Teddy Wayne Pete's Candy Store Thursday, 7:30 p.m., free But speaking of eating yourself to death, the central character of Jami Attenberg's most recent novel The Middlesteins (Grand Central Publishing) struggles with just that very prospect. The morbidly obese Edie loses her job ... More >>

Remembering Stan Musial

It's a truism that American men are first conscious of their own mortality when their fathers die, but I would argue that such consciousness is a process for the average American male that usually begins earlier, the men pictured on his baseball cards start dying. When I was a kid in 1963, Stan Mus ... More >>

Picnic Is Back On Broadway: My Review

Everyone in William Inge's Pulitzer winning 1953 play Picnic seems to be yearning, striving, or regretting (which is really just another form of yearning). No-nonsense Flo Owens is still wounded by lost love; her husband--who wasn't all he was cracked up to be--left years ago. Meanwhile, her comely ... More >>

Russian Red

Rock of Ages Posits Hair Metal as Something Un-awful

Corporate rock still sucks

Racist with an Explanation: Rightbloggers Defend John Derbyshire

Last week John Derbyshire, a now-former writer for National Review, published elsewhere an article that was plainly racist -- by which we mean, its racism was not veiled or masked in the manner that has become common among rightbloggers, but overt; it asserted that black people were less intelligent ... More >>

NYPD Officers Injured In Brooklyn Shootout; Two Arrested in Tulsa; Easter Parade Comes To Fifth Avenue

Four police officers were injured in Sheepshead Bay early this morning in a shootout with a man who had shut himself after a dispute with moving company employees. The officers -- two of whom were shot in the calf, one who was shot in the thigh and ankle and another whose face was grazed -- were not ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 28-April 3, 2012

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Falling Satellite Probably Won't Hit You Today

​Although we weren't sure about this earlier this week, NASA has said that UARS, a 6-ton bus-sized satellite expected to break into more than a hundred pieces, issuing forth a 500-mile debris footprint as it falls (which it is expected to do sometime Friday afternoon), will NOT be passing over ... More >>

NYPD Joins Rest of Nation in Cutting Back on Horses, Because It's 2011

"It seems like horses are always among the first to go when it comes to budget cuts," an expert source tells the New York Times today about the decrease in mounted police units across the country, from San Diego and Tulsa to Boston and New York City, where we're down to 79 police officers and 60 hor ... More >>

JUST KIDS

Larry Clark goes back to Tulsa

Earthquake Strikes Oklahoma, Moves Man in La-Z-Boy

​A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck Oklahoma southeast of Oklahoma City, near Norman, at about 9 a.m. this morning. Aftershocks were apparently felt in Texas and Kansas. Midwesterners are all abuzz on Twitter, not least because earthquakes are somewhat rare in the Midwest. Tulsa World has the b ... More >>

Leaves of Grass, Up in Smoke

Self-Made Man, Self-Made Anger: Biker Fox in Biker Fox

Leaves of Grass Goes Up in Smoke

Former Texas Cop Indicted in New York for Moving 200 Tons of Cocaine

​A leader of a major Mexican drug cartel and former Texas police officer was sentenced in Manhattan federal court yesterday for importing at least 200 tons of cocaine into the United States during a five year period. Between 1994 and 1999, Gilberto Salinas Doria -- formerly Officer Dora of th ... More >>

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey & the Moodswing Orchestra

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

God Bless the USA Is a Monster

A fantastic prog-noise institution goes out on top

THE GIVING TRIO

Hanson walks to the wise side

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Sex and the Pueblo

Don't judge a Mexican by his mustache, ladies

Don't Call Her Rosa Parks

What part of 'illegal' doesn't Elvira Arellano understand?

Rufus Wainwright's Release the Stars

An unsubtle symphony of diminishing returns

Politics, Provocations, Eulogies

Accepting the things we cannot change and raising hell about the rest

My Last Normal Day in New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina? Throw a BBQ—at least we won't lose the meat in the freezer

Urban Outfitter

Talking with Julia Solis, creative preservationist of abandoned environments

Trouble Twins

Both Arbus and Clark pursued an intensely personal vision with little concern for its popular reception.

Shelf Lives

The best and brightest photography books for the holidays

Letters

Okies From MMMBopee Remain Brothers for the Long Haul

Rap, Rage, REDvolution

As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

24-Hour Spots and Services

City of Night

Tropes of the Times

When Did Inside and Outside Get So Chummy?

The Long Road Home

The World’s Biggest Country Duo Risk Backlash With a Great Rock Album

A Long Wait for Justice

A Reparations Suit for a 1921 Race Riot

Theater

Retooling Tradition

Horses, Brides, and a Goddess's Offspring

In the Line of Fire

Nation

Beyond McVeigh

What the Feds Won’t Tell You About Oklahoma City

Horoscope

Picture Perfect

Nation

Madness!

The College Basketball Real-Life Top 25

Chilly Scenes

A Winter Movie Preview
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