The Pickup (Tulsa, OK)

Real Ones Vintage 1613 E. 3rd St., Suite D Nick Jordan is 35 years old—old enough to remember a time before being habitually online was a pathological condition. His shop, Real Ones Vintage, might have started as an online business, launched while touring with his former band, but it’s recently landed in the offline world as the newest arrival in the Studio Row district. The interior of the store is bright, colorful, and carpeted with the same astroturf you might encounter on a mini golf course.

When Pembroke Players announced last January that their whole 2025-2026 season would be variations of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, my first question was: why? It’s not unusual for a theatre company to choose a theme for their seasons, but this was a programming move I’d never seen before, promising three different versions of the same story. Pembroke Players’ promotional material pitched it as an opportunity to explore what it’s like to fall in love at all stages of life.

In the wake of modern psychology you’ll find thousands of strange experiments, each serving to make its researchers slightly less ignorant than the one that preceded it. One such experiment, designed by a Turkish OU professor who escaped the violence of World War I, took on a particularly Okie character when it pitted two groups of boys against each other at Robbers Cave State Park in the 1950s.

Pick of the Week Kalyn Fay + Labrys Wednesday, July 8 8pm at Mercury Lounge If you missed the release show for Kalyn Fay’s dreamy bilingual alt-country record ᎠᏫᏒᏅ (“Garden”), you’ve got an opportunity to make up for it Thursday night at Mercury Lounge. Fay sings in both Cherokee and English, and her rich lyricism blends the two languages beautifully into something you can only experience here in Tulsa, where three tribal nations’ boundaries meet.

Keyland: "Knuckle Sandwich" Album Release Show Welltown Brewing June 20, 2026 Tulsa has upped its game in rooftop hangouts with impressive views, from Riverside’s Soma to the Mayo Hotel and In the Raw Downtown. The scene atop Welltown Brewing is a bit more of an everyday people hang, where you can nosh on chicken nugs surrounded by teardrop trailers. So naturally it was the perfect spot for the Americana band Keyland’s release show for their latest album, Knuckle Sandwich.

Having moved away from Tulsa I have become accustomed to getting questions when I disclose where I was born and grew up. Sometimes I’ll mess with people and talk about riding a horse to school, but my unremarkable physical frame and lack of any twang in my speech usually make the ruse hard to sustain for long. And thus I quickly clarify that my life in Tulsa was mostly indistinguishable from the lives of many of my peers in the professional-managerial class.

We’re talking all things housing, transit and the power to remake a space. From western and kitschy to spooky and gothic, this year’s murals are doing placemaking work in a place that’s still in the making Searching For Simón Bolívar At Tulsa’s Plaza Of The Americas A look back on a rare visit from the president of Venezuela in 1991 underscores how much American politics, oil and Tulsa have all changed since.

We regret interrupting Urbanism Week to bring you some unfortunate news: Steve Pisonero has made himself Tulsa’s main character once again. “We are growing the PisosTulsa community with another group that focuses on the rising homeless epidemic in Tulsa,” Pisonero rather halfheartedly posted this week in the other Facebook page in which he’s an admin, Piso’sTulsa Food Review.

Little Shop of Productions: "Feathered, the Musical" Theatre Tulsa Studios June 25, 2026 This past weekend, Little Shop of Productions closed out its ambitious first season, as well as the larger Tulsa community theatre season, with an even more ambitious endeavor: staging their first musical.

Parker Millsap: "The Very Last Day" 10-Year Anniversary Tour The Vanguard June 17, 2026 The day after yet another disappointing primary election in Oklahoma, Parker Millsap rolled through Tulsa to play a type of concert that has become truly polarizing: an album anniversary show.