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Events

Weekend Roundup

From the Native American Art Market to delectable deco tours and booming book stores, we’ve got you covered for weekend action.

• 🛍 Native Newbies: The Native American Art Market and Fashion Show is happening at Mother Road Market on Saturday and the Indian Tacos are extra hot at the heated patio.

• 📚 Punk Pages: The Punk and Post-Punk Book Club wants you to get your nose in a book and meet to talk about it Sunday.

• 🎵 Deco Dance: Strictly Gershwin dances onto the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Stage with shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

• 💔 Relationship Status: Indie-pop and soul artist Casii Stephan is releasing a new album all about love or lack of it, and wants you to come to the pre-release party.

• 🖼 Support and Shop: Downtown Tulsa Partnership knows you’ll be shopping, dining, sipping, reading and taking in some art this weekend. Do that at Black owned businesses this Black History Month.

• 💃 It’s a Love Story: Magic City Books will look more like the theater today with Spicy Shakespeare, a romantic round of performances by a new Tulsa theatre company.

• 🕵🏻‍♀️ Tunnel Tours: Take a tour of T-town with the pros at Tulsa Tours and see why the former oil capitol of the world is booming with mystery.

• 🎵 Stage and Song: The Commodores are playing a sweet tune tonight at the Osage Skyline Event Center.

• 📅 When in Doubt: Check the calendar out! Downtown Tulsa Partnership has February events locked in on its nonstop calendar of events powered by Root Tulsa.

Community

Greenwood Chamber of Commerce Launches New Website for Black Owned Businesses

What a great way to celebrate Black History Month with the kick off of a new website aimed at convenience for shoppers and support for Black owned businesses.

• Shop and Support: The Greenwood Chamber of Commerce wants everyone to know about the incredible black owned businesses in Tulsa so it launched an online marketplace to go along with the vendors you often see at events in person. The online shopping site for Black Wall Street Merchant Marketplace is live!

• Add To Cart: Easily shop from home for healing body butters, soulful seasonings, personalized domino sets and more at the marketplace site. You can see the goods in person at the new marketplace that will be set up at the chamber every Saturday starting in June.

Visit the site and get your 10% off coupon HERE.

Real Estate

Tulsa Ranks High for Most Affordable Rent

There’s plenty of reason to call Tulsa home with our thriving downtown, great cost of living, and central location for travel. Now, we’ve made the top 5 for most space for your cost of rent.

• Room to Grow: Whether you prefer a downtown loft or a midtown bungalow, Tulsa has options, but how do we get the most for our dollar? RentCafe broke it down by using the national rent average of $1700 per month and studied 1600 cities.

• Show Me the Square Footage: Oklahoma City is 2nd on the list for most living space for your dollar and Tulsa comes in at 5th. Some on the list offer sprawling spaces near 1,900 sq ft for this budget, while others squeeze you into only 200 sq ft. On average, a $1,700 budget will get you 944 sq ft in the US.

See the entire list HERE.

Highlight

Architectural Digest Calls Tulsa the Place for Massive Cultural Renaissance

Tulsa may not be known for the razzle dazzle of the Big Apple or the City of Angels, but it sure is home to some incredible architecture.

• If You Build It: Architectural Digest says that through years of growth and initiatives like Black Tech Street and Build in Tulsa, the city is welcoming and fostering a new generation of Black entrepreneurs.

• Structure Soundboard: The big article feature is the re-development of downtown Tulsa and the brilliant buildings that go along with it. The Bob Dylan Center is a highlight and he told Vanity Fair he liked the “casual hum of the heartland” for his museum highlighting America’s most influential artists.

See other big Tulsa architectural stops featured in the article HERE.

In other news

• 🕯 Isn’t it Romantic: Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a local candle company is helping couples, singles or groups make your own candle.

• 🍪 Eat More Cookies: Crumbl Cookies is opening in Tulsa and you won’t want to miss the crumbs of a free chocolate chip cookie to celebrate.

• 🖼 Going Home: The Gilcrease Museum is returning ancestral remains to tribes as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

• 🏙 Home for Now: The City of Tulsa is flipping the switch on help for the homeless by choosing City of Lights to operate a new shelter.

• 🏠 Home Sweet Home: Tulsa ranked 48th out of 100 where a special group of people might find it easier to buy a home.

• 🧼 Dump the Depot: Forget the big box store. The City of Tulsa says you can shop for gently used household cleaning items for free at the Swap Shop.

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