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Restaurant

New Year, New Restaurant: Isla’s Kitchen Grand Opening Tomorrow

Isla’s Southern Kitchen is having a grand opening Thursday and you are invited! The cutest little corner store inside is already up and running.

• About The Restaurant: Isla’s Kitchen will have some of ‘the best pies in the state’ at the restaurant located near ONEOK Field in downtown Tulsa. Some menu favorites are the chicken fried steak, blackened redfish, biscuits and gravy and the shrimp and grits.

• Test Run: Connor’s Corner Store is already open. It features meals ready to heat and serve from Isla’s Kitchen like soups, sauces, dressings, and other southern snacks. They also have wine, beer and cocktails to go. Connor’s features made in Oklahoma products like Dale & Daughter and Knight Pecan Farms and lots of swag.

See the grand opening details HERE.

Event

Shows You Can See at Tulsa Performing Arts Center in 2024

The lineup of shows at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center in 2024 is exquisite and tickets are on sale now.

• What’s Up Next: Ring in the new year with ‘the nicest kids in town’ as Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray dances into Tulsa. The comedy that inspired the blockbuster film runs through January 7th. Amahl and the Night Visitors, Annie, and Choir Boy are just a few musical performances that also kick off in January.

• Fall in Love With February: Rosanne Cash weaves stories of her life, music career, and traveling with her father, Johnny in a single performance February 2nd. Cat Kid Comic Club takes the stage February 8th and Mean Girls the Musical wrangles the ‘cool moms’ February 24th and 25th. Don’t forget a sprinkling of Tulsa Symphony Orchestra performances and you’ll be singing a Tulsa tune in no time.

See all showtimes and get tickets HERE.

Event

World Axe and Knife Throwing Championship Tosses Itself Into Tulsa

The best axe and knife throwers in the world will compete this spring in Tulsa for a piece of a $60,000 prize.

• Sharp and Steady: The April 18-21 event will be among the first at the brand new WeStreet Ice Center. Tulsa will be in front of a global audience on ESPN as we host 128 knife throwers, 256 hatchet throwers, 128 big axe throwers and 128 duals teams from around the world.

• Ice Slice Baby: WeStreet Ice Center is a 140,000 sq ft venue located near the former Promenade Mall. It will be home to the Tulsa Oilers hockey team and will have a full-service restaurant, sports bar, and virtual reality arcade. The World Axe and Knife Throwing League is excited to bring many from its membership of nearly 20,000 people to T-town. 

Learn more about the event HERE.

Business

Tulsa Based Construction Company Wins Two Excellence in Construction Awards

If you live in Tulsa, you might drive by a Manhattan Construction Group project without even knowing it. It’s no surprise the Oklahoma company received some awards for being top notch.

• ABC Easy as 123: The Associated Builders & Contractors of Oklahoma honored Manhattan Construction Group with two Excellence in Construction awards and the ABC Safety Training and Evaluation Process Diamond Award. This is Manhattan’s 25th year to be recognized by ABC’s STEP Awards program, a world-class safety management system that measures safety processes and policies.

• Nice Digs: Muskogee Public Schools high school football stadium and field house and Santa Fe Square in Tulsa are two of the newly finished projects built by Manhattan that dazzled the construction community and resulted in the awards.

See the full list of award recipients HERE.

Highlight

Seahawks Football Player Sends Tulsa Students to Seattle to Job Shadow

Tyler Lockett, the talented NFL Player who grew up in Tulsa, is scoring big by gifting Tulsa students with a trip to Seattle.

• Seattle Shadowing: Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett announced the wheels are going up again. Locketts Light it Foundation will complete its $650,000 Tulsa Public Schools job shadowing program in the 2024/25 school year. It sends 12 students from 6 high schools to Seattle giving them job shadowing opportunities and scholarships.

• Touchdown for Tulsa: Lockett's Light It Up Foundation chooses students based on their participation in essays. The 5 year program allows 60 students to be exposed to different professions receive a scholarship ranging from $5K to $10K to start college. Congratulations Tyler. You scored Tulsa’s heart.

Read more about the Light it Up Foundation HERE.

In other news

• 📈 Open for Business: Since Tulsa has become a hub for innovation, it’s being celebrated with the very first MidAmerica Cup.

• ✈️ Flying With Family: Two brothers from Tulsa took flight together and it wouldn’t be a big deal unless they were ‘United’ as pilots in the cockpit!

• 🥁 Fine Tuning: Check out this video of the Jenks Trojan Pride Band warming up for their big debut at the recent Tournament of Roses Parade.

• 💪🏻 Breaking Free: A Tulsa woman shares her comeback story in hopes to inspire others.

• 🐘 Construction for Caring: Take an inside peek at the Tulsa Zoo’s new elephant preserve barn where the trunks will be treasured for years to come.

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