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Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  My guest on this episode is Johnna Hayes of 3 Sirens Restaurant Group. She first appeared on the podcast a couple years ago to talk about her growing restaurant operation that would soon span three cities. That was our first conversation. A few months later we started dating. A few months after that COVID-19 rea...

On this mini episode, About Town Editor Blayklee Freed gives a rundown of on-stage premieres in Tulsa, City Editor Morgan Phillips tells a story from the set of Stillwater and the conductor of a community orchestra shares his vision on how music can unify Tulsa. 

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. My guest on this episode has been providing the soundtrack for fun Sunday nights at the Colony for a decade. He’s also played just about every stage in Tulsa during his nearly 30-year career.  If there was a Mount Rushmore for modern Tulsa musicians Paul Benjaman’s sunglassed smiling face would be there represent...

On the first Tulsa Talks mini episode, About Town, editors Morgan Phillips and Blayklee Freed discuss their favorite stories from the August magazine. Plus, Kristin Dotson of Celebrity Attractions shares her pandemic hobby, the best meal in Tulsa and the musical that still makes her cry.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  My guest on this episode is Gitzel Puente, who used to report the news at KJRH and now helps provide information as a communications staffer for the City of Tulsa. In her new role, she uses her bilingual expertise to share information with the Spanish-speaking media and constituents.  Gitzel is a first generatio...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  My guest on this episode is one of the busiest people in the Tulsa music scene. Rapper Steph Simon didn’t even let the COVID-19 pandemic slow him down.  In the last two months he’s been involved in two album releases. First there’s Fire In Little Africa, which features 60 artists on 21 tracks, most the artists a...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  My guest on this episode is a household name in northeast Oklahoma for two reasons: her work as a journalist and for her many successes in fishing and hunting. Tess Maune is a veteran journalist for News on 6 and she  just might be our state’s most famous noodler.  When she’s not sharing news, her social media f...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   My guest on this episode has what I believe is one of the coolest jobs in the city. Lindsay Hutchison is Tulsa Zoo’s president and CEO. It’s a position she’s held for just under a year, but she’s worked for the zoo since 2005, and been hanging around the place her whole life.   Before being the leader of Tulsa’...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   The saying goes if you can’t beat them, join them, but for the Chamber it was if you can’t beat them, recruit them to come here to ensure you get the big wins down the road.  My guest on this episode is Arthur Jackson, who is fairly new to Tulsa having moved here from Austin a few months ago to become the new s...

Welcome to a bonus episode of Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   On May 18, Scott Ellsworth published “The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice.” That American city is Tulsa, which is Ellsworth’s hometown.   In 1982 he published “Death in a Promised Land,” which brought the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to national attention...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   At the end of May and early June, all eyes will be on Tulsa as the city commemorates the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. There will be a nationally televised event at ONEOK Field featuring Stacey Abrams and John Legend, plus more. There will be a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of one of t...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes and I’m addicted to Mexican food.  I could eat Mexican food for every meal, every day and not once complain. There are so many different options and then different takes on the dishes. The more I learn about it the more I want to explore and try everything.   So you can imagine how excited I was that we feature a...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. We are about one month out from the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. It was one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in US history, and we’re still learning about it a century later as we work on reconciliation. Often the stories are bleak. Hundreds of dead. 35 city blocks destroyed. Businesses lost...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   It’s been 100 years since All Souls Unitarian Church was founded by Richard Lloyd Jones, publisher of the Tulsa Tribune, and William R. Holway, a civil engineer behind the Spavinaw water project that provided drinking water to Tulsa.  Jones name may sound familiar. His writings in his afternoon paper helped fue...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  Has anybody else noticed we’re going through a sort of modern age renaissance period in Tulsa? Some may hear Renaissance and only think legendary artists, but it was also a period of social change. Hear me out.  The arts are alive and thriving like never before in Tulsa, and with that comes messages of resilienc...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   Annie Ellicott, my guest on this episode, has been singing most of her life. In elementary school she was a member of the Tulsa Youth Opera. Her first solo performance came at 15 as a Central High School student when she performed “Orange Colored Sky” made famous by Nat King Cole. By 16 she was doing paid gigs...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   If you’ve gone out to listen to live music at The Colony, Fassler Hall or elsewhere and then bought a Tulsa musician’s album in the last 15 years, there’s a good chance it’s a Horton Records release. Brian Horton, founder of Horton Records is my guest on this episode.   Horton discusses the history of his nonpr...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   On the first day of January, YWCA Tulsa CEO Julie Davis stood at the podium of the Centennial Year Launch program for the upcoming 100th commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre.   She was there to announce the launch of the nonprofit organization’s Tulsa Triumphs initiative, which is a commitment to eliminate...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I'm your host Tim Landes. My guest on this episode had a very busy and productive 2020, and for that we recognized her as one of our Tulsans of the Year in our January issue.  Dr. Tiffany Crutcher helped launch three weeks of protests in response to police brutality, she helped put together a Juneteenth celebration that brought lots...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  2020 was a doozy of a year. In our January issue we recognize the efforts of many Tulsans in many sectors, who did important and great work. Those are just the representatives for all of you, so thank you.  Last summer, Tulsans re-elected G.T. Bynum to lead the City and its residents for a second term. He too is...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I'm your host Tim Landes.  Anybody who loves going to the movies has a story about the first time they sat in front of the big screen and enjoyed a show. That buttery popcorn. The sticky floor. First come first serve on seating.  Maggie Brown, director of exhibits at Tulsa Historical Society and Museum, is my guest on this episode. S...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. We are now in the giving season. It’s the time of year when we give local businesses money in exchange for gifts that we then give to someone else… or we enjoy ourselves. Sasha Malchi, my guest on this episode, has been in the retail business for nearly a decade. She like every other small business owner in Tulsa...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  My guest on this episode is Branjae Jackson, commonly referred to as Branjae or the Count Tutu singer who has a lot of energy and has a lot of fun.  She’s a force to be reckoned with on the stage and is growing into being one in the activism world.  Earlier this year, the Minneapolis police killing of George Flo...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  When many people think of Native Americans in the movies and television, they think of savages who are the sworn enemy of the white hat cowboy. Or maybe they take in a lost white man and show them their ways. There’s always face paint and teepees. If it deals with modern issues, it’s often the FBI or the governm...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  In a normal year, we would have recently celebrated Oktoberfest. We also would have enthusiastically taken part in Tulsa Tough weekend, and watched as super humans competed in the Iron Man competition. There would have been sold out shows at concert venues and the hotels would have been at capacity many nights. ...