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Weekend Roundup

‘Baby you’ll freeze out there.’ It’s a great weekend to cozy up inside. Here are some ideas for weekend family fun.

• 🥶 Meet Me By the Fire: Just in time for freezing temps, we put together a guide for Kid Activities Around Tulsa where they can get their wiggles out indoors.

• 🛍 Put Your Money Away: Tulsa’s Really Really Free Market is happening Saturday where you can trade up or choose something you need without swiping a card.

• 🎤 See You On Stage: Cain’s Ballroom has the heater cranked for the Ali Siddiq “I Got a Story to Tell” show Friday night and The School of Rock Winter Concert Saturday.

• 🍹 Pass the Mocktail: WEL Bar is having its first ever Sober Sips NA Festival on the very well heated patio at Mother Road Market Saturday at 5p.

• 🏒 Ice Ice Baby: The Tulsa Oilers have games happening tonight and Saturday. The puck drop is at 7:05p with doors opening at 6p.

• 🍿 Movie and Chill: The Tulsa City-County Library is putting on its free Monthly Movie Matinee featuring ‘Casablanca’ Saturday afternoon.

• 🐒 Monkey Around: The Tulsa Zoo is hosting Winter Camp for kiddos out of school for MLK Day with a look into a mysterious world where ancient ruins of the jungle have been rediscovered!

• 🇺🇸 Parade Postponed: Tulsa’s 45th annual MLK Day Parade that was supposed to happen Monday will be postponed to President’s Day.

Have a great weekend and see you Monday!

Arts

The Tulsa Opera Celebrates 75 Years

The Tulsa Opera has been dazzling us with polished performances for 75 years and the show will go on.

• Something to Sing About: Tulsa Opera turned 75 in December and leaders want you to join in on the birthday celebration! The 75 for 75 Campaign is happening now through June 30th. If you attend at least 10 of the more than 300 events during the campaign you’ll get special perks and prizes.

• Fine Tuning: The Opera just closed three sold out performances by its youth opera and the line-up for 2024 performances will be big. Rehearsals for "I love you, You're perfect, Now change” are underway for the February 9th start. The Raise Your Voice Tour is going out to dozens of elementary schools in March.

See the full interview with the opera director on all events HERE.

Sports

The Big 12 Wrestling Tournament Will Return to the BOK Center For 8th Year

Wrangle the whole family for wrestling like no other at the BOK Center in March!

• See You on the Mat: The Big 12 Wrestling Match happens on March 9th and 10th. The competitors are hoping to wrestle their way in to the NCAA Wrestling Championship. That happens in Kansas City March 21-23. We will naturally roll out the red carpet or ‘mat’ in this case!

• Wrestle Me Wonderful: BOK Center officials say they want to make the experience extra special for wrestling super fans this year. They are offering a new club space for fans who need a close-up view of the action. The 250-person, open-air, premium hospitality space is located mat-side and is available to add-on to all ticket buyers.

Tickets go on sale today at 10a. Get them HERE.

Development

City of Tulsa Considers Converting Downtown Buildings to Apartments

With so many people working from home these days, office buildings are getting quieter. Downtown Tulsa could be the new destination for living.

• Move-In Ready: Tulsa’s got a bit of a housing shortage and Partner Tulsa wants to help with that. Its looking at empty office space in downtown. An estimated 1,300 units could be created out of empty office space which would help with roughly 10% of the 13,000 units needed by 2033.

• Talk About a View: Downtown Tulsa has transformed over the last 20 years with so much excitement. Residents could walk to find just about anything they need when it comes to food, entertainment and downright fun. Tulsa voters approved $75M for a first-ever housing incentive program in the City in August.

Read the full Public Radio Tulsa story HERE.

In other news

• 🍳 Hungry Much? It’s no secret that we are all about food here at Tulsa Daily but it turns out, we aren’t the only ones. Check out this list of soul warming comfort food just in time for the weekend freeze.

• 🎬 Quiet on Set: The Tulsa City-County Library is providing filmmaking for teens with a weekend course happening Fridays.

• 🔥 Big Merge: What happens when and two natural gas companies from Oklahoma and Texas merge? We get a natural gas giant with stock worth $7.4B!

• 🎨 Calling all Artists: Applicants interested in the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Program could receive up to $150K over 3 years. The process opens January 18th.

• 👑 The Generals Crown: The second season of Tulsa King is back and Stallone is still just as cool.

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