So, hey? What is Detroit pizza? One might ask. Back in the day they used to build a lot of cars in Detroit and had a lot of steel 10 x 14-inch oil pans laying around. At some point, someone decided to make a pizza in one—and thus, a style was born. Essentially, it is […]
Arab Film Festival held at Circle Cinema in October
Circle Cinema hosted the Arab Film Festival from Oct. 21-24. The festival was presented by Circle Cinema, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and the award-winning Arab American arts organization known as Mizna. Six films were screened over the four-day festival that represented the unique Arab and Arab American experience through the art of film. The festival kicked […]
Reporter’s Notebook: Russian Non-Alcoholic drinks will keep you cool in summer
In Kazakhstan and other republic of the former Soviet Union, there are popular non-alcoholic drinks, which can greatly satisfy someone’s thirst in the hot summer. These are kvas, lemonade, and kompot. A variety of kvases and lemonades are sold at every supermarket or small shop in the former USSR. They have sweet and sour tastes. […]
Restaurant Review: Piehole Pizzeria
A Tulsa institution on the tail end of Cherry Street, for roughly 20-years, Piehole Pizzeria continues to craft some great, comforting New York-style pies. Originally founded by bar and restaurant entrepreneur Zachary Matthews, before being sold to current owner Andy Park in 2014, it was always a place that (as an expat New Yorker myself) […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Traveling during the pandemic is complicated, or how to book a flight
(Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a series.) To find the best deal on a flight, someone should search multiple booking websites and compare the prices. For example, I was searching a round-trip flight from Tulsa, Okla., to Kazakhstan (the republic of the former Soviet Union) in July 2021. The cheapest price was […]
Film Review: “Malignant”
I was first impressed by director James Wan’s brand of eerie horror with 2013’s “The Conjuring” (since I never was much of a “Saw” fan). It was a hat tip to an older style of horror, one that relies on atmosphere and a creepy story to build anxiety, as opposed to gory shock—reminding me, in […]
Review: Reminiscence
Have you ever seen “Brainstorm” or “Memento”? How about “Total Recall,” “Dreamscape,” “Minority Report” or, perhaps, “Strange Days”? No? Watch those instead. Because writer/director Lisa Joy’s feature film debut, “Reminiscence,” lifts many of its influences from those films, and probably a half-dozen others I am forgetting, without doing anything interesting with any of them. Set […]
Eureka Springs shop keeps business hopping
In Eureka Springs, Ark. there is a shop nestled in the downtown district called, “East By West.” This shop sells “Eureka Springs Working Bunnies” working bunnies t-shirts, cookware, stainless steel jewelry. The items are local to the area. The draw and appeal are not the merchandise, it is the staff. What makes East By West […]
Review: Highly anticipated Doom Eternal released in March 2020
Avid gamers anxiously awaited Doom Eternal’s release for three years, but only one month from the game’s release date id Software and Bethesda Softworks announced that the highly anticipated game’s release would be delayed by four months, becoming available in March 2020 instead of November 2019. Doom Eternal is more fast paced and chaotic than […]
Review: The Tulsa Punk Rock Flea Market celebrated seven years in December 2019
The Tulsa Punk Rock Flea Market, organized by Tony and Michelle Cozzaglio, began in 2013. The Cozzaglio duo are also responsible for the punk street festival FYWROK, but the two have a mission to accomplish in Tulsa. Their mission is to bring the people of Tulsa’s punk rock community together and give an outlet to […]