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Mother Road Market Named Best Food Hall by USA Today for 2nd Year in a Row

Mother Road Market joins Philbrook, Gathering Place and Woody Guthrie Center as USA Today’s Best!

• Ket Your Kicks: Where else can you find cold drinks, great gifts, a covered, temperature controlled patio, and the best fried chicken sandwich in town? The Mother Road Market! It’s USA Today’s Readers’ Choice Best Food Hall for 2024 and 2023.

• Life is a Highway: USA Today’s Best says the Market was chosen for perks like offering up more than 15 vendors serving up everything from sushi to Cajun cuisine to Brazilian fare. It also lists the Kitchen 66 Takeover Cafe which offers a rotating opportunity for budding food entrepreneurs to strut their stuff.

See the full list of Top 10 Best Food Halls HERE.

Arts

Tulsa’s Kids on Broadway Has Successful Season of Offering Free Youth Training

You’ve got one last chance to see the hard work of these future stars on Sunday May 5th. One curtain closes, another opens!

• Practice Makes Performers: If you’ve got a little back seat singer who’s got some potential pipes, you’ll want to tune into this. Kids on Broadway started offering free musical theatre training to kids ages 6 to 16 back in January. It all happens at the Tulsa Elks Lodge on Sunday Afternoons. Each child is given a lead role! 

• Shine the Spotlight: Kids on Broadway is a year-round performing arts organization serving the greater Tulsa community for children. Its mission is to offer young people the opportunity to learn about and participate in quality professional theatre in a supportive environment.

Don’t get upstaged and stay up to speed on all things Kids on Broadway HERE.

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Community

Elote’s Cinco De Mayo Two Day Street Festival Taking Shape for the Weekend

Where else can you find luchador wrestling, corn on the cob races and the best Puffy Tacos in town? The Elote Cinco De Mayo Street Festival!

• Street Eats: Close the streets, it’s time for eats! Elote has been throwing Downtown Tulsa's biggest and most entertaining Cinco de Mayo party for 15 years. This year the celebration continues on Saturday, May 4th and Sunday, May 5th!

• May the 4th Be With You: Head downtown to the 6th and Boston area for tacos, margaritas, live music, luchador wrestling every hour and lots of kids activities on Saturday. Parachute tacos fall from the sky at 8pm. The same fun continues Sunday with corn on the cob races starting at 3pm.

Entry to the event is free but you can grab your own front row VIP table HERE.

Business

Tulsa Chocolate and Candy Store Born out of Pandemic Going Strong

Kilwins Tulsa is celebrating 1.5 years in the chocolate biz.

• Covered in Chocolate : Situated in the Blue Dome District, across the street from some big developments, is Kilwins. It’s the cutest little chocolate shop currently decked out for Mother’s Day. Owner Cynthia Marshal found herself looking for a change after pandemic. She left her desk job and tied on her apron to serve up fine chocolates, fudge and the best caramel nut covered apples we’ve tried!

• One Scoop or Two?: Kilwins offers up dozens of ice cream flavors, hand-crafted Caramel Corn & Brittle, Caramel and Fudge are all made in traditional copper kettles, in the in-store kitchen. Stop by and watch them dip and drizzle at the window or grab a sample of handmade treats.

See the full list of sweet treats and plan your visit HERE.

In other news

• 🌪 Storm Clean-up: Sirens sounded all over our great state over the weekend and the damage is deep. Want to help? Start HERE.

• 🌮 It’s a Bird: It’s a Plane! It’s a flying taco? Check out this video of Elote’s parachute tacos to get you in the mood for Cinco De Mayo fun.

• 👮🏾‍♀️ Targeting Tulsa Safety: Make Tulsa Safe event planned after thousands of guns are stolen in Tulsa.

• ⚡️ Feel the Thunder: OKC Thunder Coach is named Coach of the Year after leading OKC to #1 Seed in the West.

• ⭐️ Seeing Stars: Circle Cinema held a special event with actor Ethan Hawke and filmmaker Sterlin Harjo.

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