January 15, 2012

This issue suits up to battle the mundane and ordinary. For a very special cover,  in-house illustrator Jeremy Luther assembled donated fabrics and tailoring supplies to construct a textural homage to Tulsa tailor and holocaust survivor Sherman Ray. In this issue: SO LONG: Architect Joe Coleman dedicated his life to preserving Tulsa’s neglected and forgotten buildings. Shawna Lewis has the story. TOGETHER: Australian Mick Gower rescued Gayla three times before ditching his feral lifestyle to be with her. Rebekah Greiman dishes the down-under dirt. IMAGINARY OKLAHOMA: In John Brandon’s “The Migration,” a sheriff brings a psychic in to light a fire under his lackluster police department. IN THE COMPANY OF GIN: Mark Brown takes aim on a San Francisco “martini safari.” MR. RAY FITS A SUIT: Michael Berglund weaves a narrative of Holocaust survival in the form of Tulsa tailor Sherman Ray, a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. ANARCHY IN THE OK: Lee Roy Chapman’s latest “Public Secret” revisits the Sex Pistols only US (and Tulsa) tour. THE ARTIST AT WORK: Erin Turner writes of snakes and diamonds in her letter from Argentina. POETRY: Caleb Puckett muses over a small town in his prose-poem “Karma, Oklahoma.” NO TRAIN, NO GAIN: Natasha Ball climbs aboard the Dry Gulch Christmas Train, for cakes, lights and new old-time religion. RIPPING UP PHONEBOOKS FOR JESUS: Jeff Martin remembers the feats of strength and witness of the Power Team. TRUE TULSA: Lead singer of the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, graces us with his grimace.