Looking back on my friendship with Tulsa’s enigmatic party legend, Magic Mark: thepickup.com/my-memories-...

Sure, Bruce Goff was a phenomenal architect and designer. But what was he like in the classroom? thepickup.com/teaching-the...

Salvation by synth with Reznor & Co. at the BOK Center: thepickup.com/is-nine-inch...

The Polish Boarte Trio put on a breathtaking show of a little-known composer after some lackluster Haydn and Debussy. Our review: thepickup.com/if-i-had-mis...

One of Oklahoma’s great mysteries, either unknown to or ignored by most of its populace, is what became of a collection of nine murals created for Riverside Music Studio in Tulsa. The designer of those murals, Olinka Hrdy, is another mystery altogether. thepickup.com/lost-olinka

Remembering the Down Beat Ballroom, Tulsa’s long-forgotten jazz club: thepickup.com/this-greenwo...

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The Boston Irish hardcore punk band Dropkick Murphys celebrated its 30th anniversary with a tour stop at our city’s founding Klansman’s former garage, and there were “FUCK ICE” and “PUNCH NAZIS” shirts on view from the dance floor to the iconic rafters. thepickup.com/after-thirty...

Photography, painting, weaving, immersive sound, and more: Here's the best new art happening in Tulsa this month. thepickup.com/heres-your-g...

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How Tulsa preservationists turned a house, thousands of bicycles, and countless pieces of art into the city’s best new coffee shop: thepickup.com/pony-coffee-...

Irish punk veterans Dropkick Murphys sold out Cain’s for a massive, Guinness-soaked celebration of class solidarity. Mitch Gilliam has the review: thepickup.com/after-thirty...

Hot Spots, Bites, Bevs & More: 69 Things To Do In Tulsa This Spring. Read The Pickup's Spring Guide here: thepickup.com/hot-spots-bi...

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St. Paddy's Day, Hot Wheels Live, new theatre & music, plus a kung fu triple ripper: Here's Tulsa Picks, our weekly list of the best events in Tulsa. thepickup.com/tulsa-picks-...

The Polish Boarte Trio put on a breathtaking show of a little-known composer after some lackluster Haydn and Debussy. Our review: thepickup.com/if-i-had-mis...

Is Nine Inch Nails the greatest American rock band? thepickup.com/is-nine-inch...

Inside the archives of an “architect’s architect," Bruce Goff: thepickup.com/lets-dig-thr...

Meet the composer turning the Spotlight Theater into a living soundscape: thepickup.com/meet-the-com...

Your weekend plans are right here. St. Paddy's Day, Hot Wheels Live, new theatre & music, a kung fu triple ripper, and way more in our weekly round-up of Tulsa's best events: thepickup.com/tulsa-picks-...

At 108|Contemporary, Alicia Kelly’s show "Roughly Right" brings a carpenter’s materials and an artist’s mentality together. Our review: thepickup.com/roughly-righ...

Nine Inch Nails might be the Greatest American rock band, says Mitch Gilliam. They turned synthesizers, vulnerability, gender fluidity, and dance music into the true machines that kill fascists. Here's his review: thepickup.com/is-nine-inch...

'One of my favorite replies to people who say things like, “I don’t know if Islam is compatible with democracy” is, “well, I’m not sure Christianity has always been compatible with democracy.”' thepickup.com/is-christian...

Bruce Goff's historic Spotlight Theater hosted a night of rappers and DJs, put together by ThunderWof. and dj noname. Our review: thepickup.com/at-the-spotl...

In “Architectural Counterpoint,” Bruce Goff and Olinka Hrdy's designs for Spotlight Theater become part of a musical composition. thepickup.com/meet-the-com...

Wanna Buy A Midcentury Modded-Out Bruce Goff Original In Vinita For $475,000? thepickup.com/wanna-buy-a-...

Here's your guide to all the new art in Tulsa this month, featuring photography, painting, weaving, immersive sound, and more: thepickup.com/heres-your-g...

Spoken word meets song and movement in World Stage Theatre Company’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf”. It made our reviewer weep three minutes in. Read the review: thepickup.com/the-90-minut...

ICYMI: Alicia Kelly’s show at 108|Contemporary brings a carpenter’s materials and an artist’s mentality together. Our review: thepickup.com/roughly-righ...

In a long-overdue retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bruce Goff shines. Our review: thepickup.com/in-chicago-b...

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Let's dig through Tulsa Foundation for Architecture's trove of Bruce Goff material: thepickup.com/lets-dig-thr...

TFA docent and Bruce Goff obsessive Tom McCarthy knows what makes Tulsa Club a Goff building. We asked him about it. Read here: thepickup.com/tom-mccarthy...

At 108|Contemporary, Alicia Kelly's "Roughly Right' brings a carpenter’s materials and an artist’s mentality together. Our review: thepickup.com/roughly-righ...

GO LOOK AT MORE ART! Okay, I'm done yelling. Here's your guide to all the best art happening in Tulsa this month: thepickup.com/heres-your-g...

Genius, madness, greed, and arson: From historian Russ Cobb, this is the story of Bruce Goff’s iconic Bavinger House, “one of the building marvels of our own postwar period.” thepickup.com/continuous-p...

The Art Institute’s “Bruce Goff: Material Worlds” shows Tulsa's Goff as he was meant to be shown. Our review from Chicago: thepickup.com/in-chicago-b...

She captured Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff’s attention. Why do we still know so little about Olinka Hrdy? A search for the enigmatic Oklahoma artist and her missing Riverside Studio murals: thepickup.com/lost-olinka

At Bruce Goff's Spotlight Theater, a night of rappers and DJs put together by ThunderWof. and dj noname. proved how much one can accomplish in a 20-minute set. Our review: thepickup.com/at-the-spotl...

Who wants to do something financially irresponsible for Goff Week? Let's buy a Bruce Goff original in Vinita for $475,000. thepickup.com/wanna-buy-a-...

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Mixed-Use Space Tulsa hosted Deadly Prey Gallery's surreal cinematic gold from Ghana, and Tulsans flocked to see it. Our review: thepickup.com/the-impossib...

One of the great historians of the Tulsa Race Massacre has some lessons for this moment: thepickup.com/theres-no-be...

This Greenwood jazz club hosted Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Then it disappeared. Remembering the Down Beat Ballroom, Tulsa’s long-forgotten jazz club: thepickup.com/this-greenwo...

J. B. Stradford was one of the most successful men in Greenwood. His commitment to his community and defense of his ventures led him to indictments for instigating a riot in the aftermath of 1921. It would take years for his family to clear his name. thepickup.com/first-charge...

ThunderWof and his horse have arrived. Ryan Anderson visited the comedian at his family ranch ahead of last year's historic screening at Circle Cinema: thepickup.com/thunderwof-a...

Black History Month may be coming to a close, but Black history is still being written, and this play is a chapter Tulsa needs to read, says Alicia Chesser of Theatre North's “Nat Turner in Jerusalem.” Read the review here: thepickup.com/theatre-nort...

It's hard to describe the impossibly strange beauty of Ghanaian movie posters, with their phantasmagorically rendered tableaus and their hilariously gory absurdities. But Mitch Gilliam is going to do it anyway. Read about his encounter with Deadly Prey Gallery here: thepickup.com/the-impossib...

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