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Weekend Roundup

Become a bookworm, teach the kids how to cook or get your glow on! There’s lots of family fun planned in Tulsa this weekend and we’ve got the line-up.

• 🍛 Hungry Hen: Sunday will be the perfect evening for a winter dinner at French Hen with a four course meal paired with wine and a gorgeous painting auction. 

• 🍾  Discover Fun: Join the Discovery lab for some grown up fun tonight! Discovery After Dark features science demos, balloon splatter painting, tie-dye, cotton candy, 21+ sips and more!

• 🏢 If You Build It: Build In Tulsa has new digs to show off and you’re invited to the tour tonight complete with local food and drinks.

• 🎨 First Friday Fans: The First Friday Art Crawl happens tonight in the Brady Arts District with live art, food, drinks, music!

• ☀️ The Sun Will Come Out: The line-up of talent set to take the Performing Arts Center stage is legit this weekend with shows like ‘Annie’ and ‘Fantastique’ Symphonic Women.

• 💓 Love You, Mean It: There’s love and hops in the air at the Made With Love Market by the Dead Armadillo Brewery where you can behold many brews including the release of a new red velvet stout.

• 👩🏻‍🍳 Kids Who Kook: Join Planet 1st for a Saturday morning cooking class for little chefs ages 6 to 12 at Mother Road Market!

• 🤓 Be a Bookworm: Join the Broken Arrow Neighbors Community for a book sale Friday and Saturday where the best books for your budget can be bought.

• 🎉 Vibrant Vendors: Afrofest happens at the Greenwood Cultural Center on Saturday and it will be the best place to celebrate and support Black owned businesses.

• 📚 Top Shelf: Saturday is national ‘Take Your Child to the Library Day’ and local libraries are stacked with activities.

Restaurant

Prism Cafe’ Celebrates First Year of Serving Tulsa Heights Neighborhood

There’s a new-ish restaurant in The Heights neighborhood and it offers a full spectrum of sun powered nourishment.

• Modern Menu: Prism Cafe is a quaint little Heights restaurant that serves up brunch, lunch and dinner with hyper-local garden-sourced food, natural wine. They have a little area to shop apothecary goods while you are there.

• Destination for Delectable Dining: Chef Aimee Hunter has been a personal chef for 14 years. She’s cooked everywhere from New York City to rural Maine and was thrilled to open up her own hot spot in Tulsa. She specializes in sandwiches and you won’t want to miss the Italian Melt, The Brisket, or The Melted Brie Apple complete with avocado and a brilliant balsamic reduction.

See the hours and full menu HERE.

Education

Tulsa Community College Awarded $3.7M Research Grant

Tulsa Community College is thankful for the Feds as it counts on a big grant award for students who need a hand.

• Look it Up Dear: New this week, TCC officials announced $3.7M is on the way as part of the U.S. Department of Education's Postsecondary Student Success Grant. It is the largest federal grant in TCC's history and it will be aimed at research. About 500 students who declare a social science major will be chosen for additional assistance, such as laptops.

• Stop Drop-out: The research grant will be used to study how to better assist first-year, low-income students, and curb dropout rates. TCC officials said they want to help students reach their goals and this money will help in a big way. 7 more faculty members will also be hired with the additional cash flow.

Read more about the total $93M grant allocations HERE.

Music

Justin Timberlake to Perform at Tulsa’s BOK Center

J.T. is turning up the heat this summer as he takes the BOK Center Stage.

• Suit and Tie: For the first time in 5 years, Justin Timberlake is touring! He’s ‘gonna show us a good thing’ on Thursday, June 6th. The announcement was made during an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.

• Sunshine in My Pocket: The ‘Forget Tomorrow World Tour‘ will include 22 cities. Justin Timberlake fans can plan to ‘dance dance dance dance’ to songs from his upcoming album ‘Everything I Thought It Was’ which releases March 15th.

Get Timberlake tickets starting today at 2p HERE.

In other news

• 💧 Water Fall: The City of Tulsa says ‘it’s about dam time’ as it prepares to open the Zink Lake Dam to the public and perform water tests.

• 🏬 Tall Drink: Move over NYC! OKC is coming in hot with plans to build the next tallest building in the country.

• 👩🏻‍⚕️ Mental Move: The City of Tulsa has hired its first Mental Health Officer in an effort to support the growing need for response to mental heath crisis in our community.

• 🚧 Curb the Cones: Tulsa Drivers can expect another road improvement project to pop up. This one will be on 11th Street between Lewis and Harvard.

• 💔 Love on the Rocks: There’s a new docu-series on ROKU and a Tulsa couple is staring in it and letting cameras highlight their first year of marriage.

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