(523,1,'2010-03-28 21:25:00','2010-03-28 21:25:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613070/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2801/4470613070_edc40b5946.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Well I was south of Detroit City</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>I pulled in this country kitchen</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>To try their brand of barbecue</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>The sign said finger-lickin\'</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Well I paid the tab and the lady asked me</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>How\'d I like my biscuit</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>I\'ll be honest with you ma\'am</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>It ain\'t like mama fixed it.</i></div></div><div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>-Alan Jackson, \"Where I Come From\"</i></div><br />The Irish have a saying. It goes, \"Boxty in the griddle, boxty in the pan, if you can\'t make boxty, you\'ll never get your man.\"<br /><br />We here in Oklahoma are fine and good with boxty, a traditional Irish potato pancake, but if we had a poem about how to win a man through his stomach, I\'m pretty sure buttermilk biscuits would be a central theme.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613296/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4470613296_c9ce1c0b52.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />There are probably as many variations of the recipe for buttermilk biscuits as there are Oklahomans baking them for breakfast every Sunday morning before church. Some folks like bread-like, lofty biscuits. Others like \'em as flaky as Britney Spears,&nbsp;post-K Fed. Still more like biscuits that are low-to-the-ground, the perfect canvas for homemade sausage gravy.<br /><br />Like most Okie wives who cook, I keep several biscuit recipes in my kitchen. But only two are from fellow sooner state chicks. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470612498/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4470612498_a4aa586471.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><a href=\"http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/\">Ree Drummond, a.k.a. The Pioneer Woman</a>, is now who instantly comes to mind when any Web-roaming person worth his or her salt thinks of Oklahoma. <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/my_cookbook/\">The Pawhuska-based uber-blogger published a cookbook last year full of tried-and-true, home cookin\' classics</a>, with hundreds of self-shot how-to photos to illustrate. Ree threw in a collection of stories about her transition from living beneath the city lights to life as a ranch wife, as well as her trials, tribulations and triumphs as she, as Ree puts it, \"plows through life in the country, one calf nut at a time.\"<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Georgia-Cooking-Oklahoma-Kitchen-Recipes/dp/0307381374/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269810503&amp;sr=8-1\">Trisha Yearwood has a cookbook, too</a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=trisha+yearwood+cookbook&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">two, actually</a>), and like Ree\'s, Trisha\'s <i>Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen</i> is a celebration of traditional southern dishes, the know-how for which has been passed down through families for generations. Trisha is a Georgia native, but when her hubby Garth Brooks brought her home to meet the folks (read: every single last Oklahoman, because we all like to count our connections to our Tulsa-born superstar), we gladly accepted her into the family. <br /><br />There\'s a recipe for buttermilk biscuits in <i>The Pioneer Woman Cooks</i>. Trisha has a recipe for buttermilk biscuits, too. <br /><br />This can mean only one thing. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833507/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4469833507_3bbe1f723c.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />A match. A duel. A battle fought in the heart of our homes, in the place where the routines of family life are forged. <br /><br />I\'m talking about an Oklahoma biscuit bake-off. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470611900/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4470611900_0160882e63.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />This here is Ree\'s cookbook. If you don\'t already have it, buy it, because it\'s sure to become one of the most useful set of recipes and tips in your arsenal. Her buttermilk biscuits recipe starts on page 44. Start flippin\' - if you run into Egg-In-The-Hole or Edna Mae\'s Sour Cream Pancakes, you\'ve gone too far.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833075/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4469833075_0c7e352801.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Well, would you look at that. It seems I have an autographed copy of Ree\'s cookbook. <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4057450032/\">I wonder how in the world that got there</a>?<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470611768/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4470611768_fd0dac48fd.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />Ree\'s recipe calls for all of the basic tenets of buttermilk biscuits: Flour, fat, a rising agent and salt.<br /><br />True to form, Ree uses to two varieties of fat in her recipe. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833373/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4469833373_842d003ed2.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />I really just need to know why she doesn\'t weigh 347 pounds. Wait - scratch that. Maybe I\'m more interested in knowing how she manages to sustain her trademark, enthusiastic use of butter and dairy and red meat and stay tiny at the same time. <br /><br />Because I want to try it, whatever it is. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833507/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4469833507_3bbe1f723c.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />I like that Ree\'s recipe calls for butter in addition to shortening, though. It\'s like adding butter to what before was a shortening-only pie crust - butter just can\'t be beat when it comes to flavor. <br /><br />Wanna see my biscuit cutter? I\'ll show you mine if you show me yours.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470612746/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2789/4470612746_4a938e62c5.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />Because the trappings of toddlerhood are inescapable when one shares a house with a two-year-old. Also, because I don\'t have a proper biscuit cutter. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470612938/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4470612938_e95896dc6e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Mmm. Someone had better go ring the dinner bell. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613070/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2801/4470613070_edc40b5946.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469834567/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4469834567_84aeb56e98.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />See how flaky Ree\'s biscuits are? I\'m a big fan of flakiness.<br /><br />But only when it comes to baked goods. In people, not so much. Unless it\'s me being flaky. Then, of course, it\'s totally acceptable.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833179/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4469833179_4b7e803a62.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />Anyone else singing \"She\'s in Love With a Boy\" under her breath right now? <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833263/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4469833263_00c94aa2eb.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />If I ever write a cookbook, I want it to look like this. If someone could put a late spring, backyard picnic in cookbook form, it\'d be Trisha\'s <i>Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen</i>. <br /><br />For reals.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833963/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/4469833963_0ca6173735.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833753/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4469833753_b19f063f8b.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613000/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4470613000_46ab7c327e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Trisha\'s biscuit recipe requires less than half of the ingredients called for in Ree\'s recipe, but part of that is because Trisha uses self-rising flour in her biscuits and Ree uses all-purpose, baking soda and baking powder. Plus, Trisha doesn\'t add butter. For her, it\'s shortening all the way. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613344/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4470613344_2385ed510e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Hello, darlin\'. <br /><br />See how Trisha\'s biscuits are taller, more bread-like?<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469834365/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2789/4469834365_3bfd188da1.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />And more homicidal-looking? <br /><br />Rawr.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469834567/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4469834567_84aeb56e98.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />There\'s one of Ree\'s biscuits again. It\'s flakier, crispier than Trisha\'s pillow-like biscuit. <br /><br />Compare. Contrast. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469834269/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2753/4469834269_fd6131cd1f.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613296/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4470613296_c9ce1c0b52.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Ree\'s biscuit is on the left. Trisha\'s is on the right. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470612498/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4470612498_a4aa586471.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Here at my in-home taste-test of the two recipes, my husband and I couldn\'t come to an agreement on which biscuit beats out the other.<br /><br />He\'s a devoted fan of the lofty, bready biscuits. He has no use for crispy biscuits. He could care less if they fell off the face of the planet, never to be torn and tossed with gravy again. <br /><br />I, on the other hand, see the benefits of both. When there\'s gravy that needs soppin\', I want to reach for crispy biscuits. When I have honey from the farmers\' market in the pantry and good butter in the fridge, I want a biscuit as tall and lofty as the Sears Tower. <br /><br />Know what I mean? <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613296/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4470613296_c9ce1c0b52.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />This was no Okie recipe throw-down. Instead it felt like proof that when I make biscuits, I should make both types, and enough of both to freeze for breakfast and snacking purposes later on. <br /><br />I know. I\'m suffering some disappointment, too. I always get excited about a bit of homestyle bedlam. I can\'t help it, I\'m an Oklahoman. It\'s in my blood.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4470613070/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2801/4470613070_edc40b5946.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />But you know what? With two killer biscuit recipes in my cookbook archives, I think I\'ll recover soon enough.','Biscuit Bedlam: Ree Drummond Versus Trisha Yearwood','','publish','open','open','','biscuit-bedlam','','','2010-03-28 21:25:00','2010-03-28 21:25:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=523',0,'post','',5),(524,1,'2010-03-29 21:57:00','2010-03-29 21:57:00','<strong>PSST: <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/event_tags/easter\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for things to do in Tulsa for Easter 2012? Get the list here</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC04199 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4473939925/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4473939925_25b3e07a2c.jpg\" alt=\"DSC04199\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nEaster is gaining fast, Tulsa, and you know what that means.\r\n\r\nYeah, it does mean that my dad will be performing his annual suit-and-tie showcase at his church this Sunday, but it also means that it\'s time to hunt Easter eggs.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>While there are scads of hunts going on in the Tulsa area, don\'t forget to get your photo taken with the Easter Bunny. He\'ll be at Promenade Mall at 41st and Yale until this Saturday, April 3. For EB\'s photo sitting schedule, <a href=\"http://www.tulsapromenade.com/go/Poolb.cfm?MallID=787&amp;FPURLID=2129970087\">click here</a>.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC04219 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4474717736/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4474717736_23bc49d73b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC04219\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>Thursday, April 1</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Bunny Craft</strong>\r\nWhen: 10-11am\r\nWhere: Hicks Park, 3443 S. Mingo Road\r\nThe Easter Bunny will be on hand to help kids make a holiday craft. Photos will be taken with the EB, too. Cost is $10.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: 6:30-7pm\r\nWhere: Lacy Park, 2134 N. Madison Place\r\nKids are invited to hunt for eggs filled with candy and toys. Bring a canned food item to be donated to a local food bank, and bring a container for your eggs, too. Keep an eye out for the special, prize-containing eggs. Ages 1-12 are welcome. Cost is free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Keg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday-Sunday\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">McNellie\'s Public House</a>, 409 E. First Street\r\nOrder one of the 60 draft beers available at McNellies, drink the beer, keep the tab. If the beer you selected was from the Easter Keg, you\'ll pay just $1 for that pint. So, your best strategy here is to bring a bunch of friends down to First and Elgin and order an array of beers until you figure out which is the Easter Keg. Happy hunting!\r\n\r\n<strong>Friday, April 2</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A Hoppy Easter at Bounce U</strong>\r\nWhen: 10am, 3pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://bounceu.com/\">Bounce U</a>, 8922 S. Memorial Drive\r\nBring the whole family for a day of bouncing, with a new twist on the traditional egg hunt. Includes an Easter bag craft and snacks. Session 1 is for kids aged 5 and under and starts at 10am; Session 2 is for all ages and starts at 3pm. Cost is $9.95 per child.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Choice: A Dramatic Musical for Easter</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7:30pm; Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 10am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rhemabiblechurch.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=191:the-choice-easter-musical&amp;catid=49:newsevents&amp;Itemid=1\">Rhema Bible Church</a>,\r\n“The Choice” is a musical production with full lighting, costumes, live animals, and a cast of 120. The 90-minute program includes a presentation of the Gospel. Admission is free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Keg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday-Sunday\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">McNellie\'s Public House</a>, 409 E. First Street\r\nOrder one of the 60 draft beers available at McNellies, drink the beer, keep the tab. If the beer you selected was from the Easter Keg, you\'ll pay just $1 for that pint. So, your best strategy here is to bring a bunch of friends down to First and Elgin and order an array of beers until you figure out which is the Easter Keg. Happy hunting!\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC04203 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4474717122/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4474717122_7bcaecc8c0.jpg\" alt=\"DSC04203\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>Saturday, April 3</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Zoobilee at Tulsa Zoo</strong>\r\nWhen: 8am-5pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/\">Tulsa Zoo</a>, 5701 E. 36th Street North\r\nHey, Zoo Friends members. Bring your holiday basket and join the folks at Tulsa Zoo for the largest-ever “penguin egg” hunt with over 15,000 eggs. Other zoo-per activities include interactive docent stations, keeper chats, arts and crafts, costume characters, pictures with Peter Cottontail and a Jupiter Jump along with other inflatables. And don’t forget to enjoy FREE train ride and carousel rides. This event is exclusive to Zoo Friends Members. Advance tickets are $5 per person. Visit Tulsa Zoo on the web or purchase for $6 on-site. Call (918) 669-6608 for more details. If you would like to become a Zoo Friend Member, call the membership office at (918)-669-6603.\r\n\r\n<strong>Doggone Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: 10-11am\r\nWhere: Owen Park, 560 N. Maybelle Street\r\nNow your family pet can enjoy the holiday a dog\'s way. All dogs must be on a leash. Pre-register by calling (918) 596-1485. Ages 2 and older are welcome. Cost is $2.\r\n\r\n<strong>Jenks Community Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: 10am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.jenkschamber.com/\">Hunter-Dwelley Stadium</a>, 205 E. B Street\r\nLooking for thousands of pre-filled eggs and lots and lots of other hunters? South of Southtown is the place to be.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt at Woolaroc</strong>\r\nWhen: 11am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.woolaroc.org/category.php?cat=1010\">Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Reserve</a>, 1925 Woolaroc Ranch Road in Bartlesville\r\nUnleash the kids to search for over 10,000 eggs hidden around the main campus. Be sure to wave at the buffalo. Admission is $8 for adults; children 11 and younger get in free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Doggie Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Registration at 1pm; Hunt is 2-4pm; Adoption party is 2:30-5:30pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">The Canebrake</a>, 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nAfter the hunt, look for the adoption party and the special dogs-only after-hunt menu on the pooch-friendly patio at The Canebrake. Get free nail trimming and win prizes courtesy of Petco. One lucky dog will win a night in a King Suite with Sunday Brunch for two at this hunt, so make sure everyone\'s wearing their lucky collars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Community Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: 10am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.shbctulsa.org/events/coming-events.html\">Heller Park</a>, 55th and S. Wheeling Avenue\r\nEnjoy egg-gathering times for preschool kids through grade 6, inflatable and carnival games, door prizes, refreshments and more.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Incredible Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: 10am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=347901798405\">Red Fork Church of God West Campus</a>, 4900 W. 41st Street\r\nExperience one of the largest egg hunts in west Tulsa and enjoy a day of friends, fun and festivities, all at the same time. Kids of all ages are welcome to participate in the hunt.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Festival at Memorial Baptist Church</strong>\r\nWhen: 11am-1pm\r\nWhere: Memorial Baptist Church, 2800 S. Yale Ave.\r\nSee all the photos of Easter egg hunts and inflatables on this post? Those were all taken at last year\'s Easter festival at Memorial Baptist, and this year\'s event promises to be just as Easter-tastic. Plus, if you go, you get to meet my dad, which would be cool.\r\n\r\n<strong>Owasso Egg Drop</strong>\r\nWhen: 11:30am (registration begins, inflatables open)-3pm\r\nWhere: Centennial Park in Owasso, 15301 E. 86th Street North\r\n<a href=\"http://www.lifepointowasso.com/egg-drop\">The Owasso Egg Drop is ike an Easter Egg hunt, only way cooler</a>. In addition to tons of eggs on the field, we\'ll drop thousands of eggs from a helicopter. Your kids will have a blast collecting eggs, jumping on inflatables, and watching a magic show. More than 2,000 people attended this event last year, and more than 10,000 eggs were available for the finding. This year look for more than 20,000 eggs, prize eggs and giveaways included. There will be separate drops for each age group. <a href=\"http://www.lifepointowasso.com/schedule\">Click here for a complete event schedule</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: 12-1:30pm\r\nWhere: Chamberlain Park, 4940 N. Frankfort Avenue\r\nKiddos hunt for eggs, candy and prizes. I hear the Easter Bunny will make an appearance, too. Ages 2-12 are welcome. Cost is free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Festival with Trinity United Methodist Church</strong>\r\nWhen: 2-5pm\r\nWhere: Trinity United Methodist Church, 3737 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nLooking for a way to party it up Easter-style on Brookside? Your order is up.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Choice: A Dramatic Musical for Easter</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7:30pm; Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 10am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rhemabiblechurch.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=191:the-choice-easter-musical&amp;catid=49:newsevents&amp;Itemid=1\">Rhema Bible Church</a>,\r\n“The Choice” is a musical production with full lighting, costumes, live animals, and a cast of 120. The 90-minute program includes a presentation of the Gospel. Admission is free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Keg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday-Sunday\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">McNellie\'s Public House</a>, 409 E. First Street\r\nOrder one of the 60 draft beers available at McNellies, drink the beer, keep the tab. If the beer you selected was from the Easter Keg, you\'ll pay just $1 for that pint. So, your best strategy here is to bring a bunch of friends down to First and Elgin and order an array of beers until you figure out which is the Easter Keg. Happy hunting!\r\n\r\n<strong>Sunday</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: After 10:30am Mass\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.churchofsaintmary.com/\">Church of Saint Mary</a>, 1347 E. 49th Place\r\nBring one dozen treat-filled, plastic eggs per child participating in the hunt and go nuts.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Choice: A Dramatic Musical for Easter</strong>\r\nWhen: Friday, 7:30pm; Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 10am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.rhemabiblechurch.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=191:the-choice-easter-musical&amp;catid=49:newsevents&amp;Itemid=1\">Rhema Bible Church</a>,\r\n“The Choice” is a musical production with full lighting, costumes, live animals, and a cast of 120. The 90-minute program includes a presentation of the Gospel. Admission is free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Brunch and Egg Hunt at Stone Bluff Winery</strong>\r\nWhen: 11am\r\nWhere: Stone Bluff Winery, 24145 E. 191st St. South in Haskell\r\nJoin the folks at Stone Bluff Winery for hand-carved prime rib, made-to-order omelets and pancakes, a chocolate fountain and an assortment of other food choices. The egg hunt is slated to start at 2pm, and I hear the Easter bunny will make an appearance. Call Stone Bluff Winery for reservations, (918) 482-5655.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Brunch and Egg Hunt at All Souls</strong>\r\nWhen: 11am\r\nWhere: All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nThink you\'ve got what it takes to find more than 1,000 candy-filled eggs? And eat brunch in the same sitting? Get thee and thine Easter baskets to All Souls on Peoria. Adults tickets are $15, kids are $10. <a href=\"mailto:genny_w1@hotmail.com\">Reserve here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Kaleidoscope EGGstravaganza</strong>\r\nWhen: 1pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.kaleidoscopecm.com/New_Events.html\">Kaleidoscope Children\'s Museum</a>, 6202 S. Sheridan Road\r\nPut your detective skills to the test as you scour the museum for eggs, eggs, and more eggs. If you are a true Sherlock Holmes, you may be the first one to follow the clues leading to cash-filled eggs. Admission is $6 which includes pizza, and any age is welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Safari\'s Annual Easter Egg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: 2pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.safarissanctuary.org/\">Safari\'s Animal Sanctuary</a>, 26881 E. 58th Street in Broken Arrow\r\nLooking for a free Easter egg hunt for the kids? Head to Broken Arrow for this wild hunt for candies and surprises. After, grab the fam and get a tour of Safari\'s at a discounted price.\r\n\r\n<strong>Easter Keg Hunt</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursday-Sunday\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/\">McNellie\'s Public House</a>, 409 E. First Street\r\nOrder one of the 60 draft beers available at McNellies, drink the beer, keep the tab. If the beer you selected was from the Easter Keg, you\'ll pay just $1 for that pint. So, your best strategy here is to bring a bunch of friends down to First and Elgin and order an array of beers until you figure out which is the Easter Keg. Happy hunting!\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t see your favorite hunt on this list, <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">e-mail me the info</a> or leave it in the comments section on this post.\r\n\r\nFor the rest of you, that means to check back with this list for updates. I\'ll be posting them all week long.','Easter Egg Hunts and Events in Tulsa, 2010 Edition','','publish','open','open','','easter-egg-hunts-and-events-in-tulsa','','\nhttp://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/easter-egg-hunts-easter-bunny-tulsa-2011/','2012-03-27 14:26:56','2012-03-27 20:26:56','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=524',0,'post','',4),(10902,1,'2010-04-03 20:58:00','2010-04-03 20:58:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487088703/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4487088703_d492da5483.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />This was the state of things this morning at <a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/\">Zoobilee, the annual kids\' Easter celebration at Tulsa Zoo</a>.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089053/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4487089053_aa4cecea86.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Part of the Zoobilee festival were two Easter egg hunts - one for kids aged three and under and one for the older kids. <br /><br />We went to the one for the ankle biters. From go-time until all the eggs had been picked up, the hunt lasted not more than 20 seconds. <br /><br />Preschoolers don\'t take this Easter egg hunting thing lightly. I mean, I can\'t even use the restroom in 20 seconds (yes, I\'ve tried and, yes, I\'ve timed myself and, no, don\'t try to act like you haven\'t done the same thing), let alone snag a couple thousand pastel-colored eggs.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089169/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4487089169_a59226a45f.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />My preschooler. Fresh from the battlefield.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487739886/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2726/4487739886_17a3c7e0a0.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />This was his first year to really understand what the Easter egg hunt is all about. Instead of watching with a blank stare as all the other children flooded the field chock full of plastic, candy-filled eggs, this kid ran out there and pushed and shoved and snatched eggs from other children like an old pro. <br /><br />Plus, he found a stick. A true prize, indeed. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487739972/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4487739972_67697e98c8.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />\"Hey, Meme? If you want to keep your arm, don\'t touch my candy.\"<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487740084/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4487740084_9d999e5dbb.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487092519/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2761/4487092519_5623fc9471.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">Great. My son has a bright future in the mob. Alternatively, he could be a pirate. At least if he chose pirating as a profession, he\'d get to wear a gold earring and an eye patch. Mobsters have to wear three-piece suits to work, and I imagine that just wouldn\'t be as comfortable.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">This coming from a mother who regularly wears mismatched pajama pants and t-shirts my dad buys me at his favorite airports to work.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487090791/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2708/4487090791_27cd302a4d.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />There was lots going on at the Zoo this morning besides the two Easter egg hunts. The Zoo folks had an inflatable play ground set up, for one. And there was an elephant on the loose, too. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487741366/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4487741366_5e9fc87708.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />We saw a few craft tables. At one were wooden eggs and markers with which to decorate them on one side and crayons and coloring sheets on the other. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487741648/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4487741648_e035d5bbb5.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />Whatever you do this weekend, people, don\'t, for the love of all that is good and covered in a chocolate candy shell, forget to wear your Easter head gear. <br /><br />It\'s very important, as was evident this morning at the Zoo. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487092671/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2741/4487092671_1ac72d3ee3.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />In addition to the holiday activities, all of the regular stuff to do at the Zoo was in full swing this morning, too.  <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487741090/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4487741090_3d425a9dc8.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487743018/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4487743018_bc52b81103.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487743198/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/4487743198_93549b8d98.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Of course, there was lots of candy to test. And the only way to properly and thoroughly test candy to, you know, make sure it\'s safe for consumption, is to take a few bites. <br /><br />Duh, as my son would say. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089733/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2576/4487089733_9afaf4a24d.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089911/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4487089911_f6ae3f0337.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487740658/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4487740658_a67f832510.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Once the candy has been deemed safe, it\'s incumbent upon the candy tester to share his findings with others.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487740186/\" title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2551/4487740186_f41e7a5c0d.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br /><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/easter-egg-hunts-and-events-in-tulsa.html\">There are still lots of ways to get your Easter on in Tulsa today and tomorrow</a>. Have lots of fun, but don\'t get so carried away that you forget to leave carrots for the Easter bunny tonight. <br /><br />Becasue, I mean, have you seen Donnie Darko?<br /><br />That\'s why. </div>','20 Seconds: The Lifespan of a Preschool Easter Egg Hunt','','inherit','open','open','','533-revision','','','2010-04-03 20:58:00','2010-04-03 20:58:00','',533,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/533-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(525,1,'2010-03-30 14:31:00','2010-03-30 14:31:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476535834/\" title=\"Downtown Tulsa by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Downtown Tulsa\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4476535834_c9395f85ec.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />There\'s only one type of clothing appropriate for <a href=\"http://www.newson6.com/Global/category.asp?C=112040&amp;nav=menu682_3\">the kind of weather we\'re having in Tulsa this week</a>.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476535542/\" title=\"Downtown Tulsa by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Downtown Tulsa\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/4476535542_1e3a28ca22.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476535900/\" title=\"Downtown Tulsa by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Downtown Tulsa\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4476535900_577b6271d5.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476535664/\" title=\"Downtown Tulsa by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Downtown Tulsa\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4476535664_de79130199.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">The Hawaiian shirt.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">As my son would say, duh.&nbsp;</div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4475758637/\" title=\"Downtown Tulsa by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Downtown Tulsa\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4475758637_c36f79de1c.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div>','Hawaiian Shirt Weather','','publish','open','open','','hawaiian-shirt-weather','','','2010-03-30 14:31:00','2010-03-30 14:31:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=525',0,'post','',0),(526,1,'2010-03-30 19:50:00','2010-03-30 19:50:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://www.booksmarttulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/orangette.jpg\" /></div><br />Most everyone in the local bibliophile world knows <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=350480897338&amp;ref=ts\">Molly Wizenburg is coming to Tulsa this week</a>. She\'ll be at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, at 1304 N. Kenosha (<a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/documents/directions.pdf\">click here for a map</a>), this Thursday to talk about her book, A Homemade Life. <br /><br />Thanks to the folks at <a href=\"http://booksmarttulsa.com/\">BookSmart Tulsa</a>, I got to host a contest last week to give away two copies of Molly\'s book. All contestants had to do was tell me their favorite food memory.<br /><br />And make me laugh and cry and...hungry.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>With the help of the evil geniuses at <a href=\"http://www.random.org/\">Random.org</a>, I\'m going to give these books away now.<br /><br /><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J1A4aMu1I/AAAAAAAABto/w14dfK0v5FM/s1600/Picture+1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J1A4aMu1I/AAAAAAAABto/w14dfK0v5FM/s320/Picture+1.png\" /></a></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">The holder of the fifth entry is...</div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J0rQR7OqI/AAAAAAAABtQ/-FF6aPzSwKU/s1600/Picture+3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"207\" src=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J0rQR7OqI/AAAAAAAABtQ/-FF6aPzSwKU/s400/Picture+3.png\" width=\"400\" /></a></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">Carrisa! Congrats, Carrisa, on conquering this contest.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">I love when congratulating contest winners allows me to play with alliteration.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">Now for winner No. 2.</div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J0wWzOGiI/AAAAAAAABtY/2HxbWbeMJng/s1600/Picture+2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J0wWzOGiI/AAAAAAAABtY/2HxbWbeMJng/s200/Picture+2.png\" width=\"173\" /></a></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The holder of the 10th entry is...</div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J0iTrl7vI/AAAAAAAABtI/mlhf3pQsV4w/s1600/Picture+4.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"215\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7J0iTrl7vI/AAAAAAAABtI/mlhf3pQsV4w/s400/Picture+4.png\" width=\"400\" /></a></div><br />Jessica! Congrats, Jessica.<br /><br />Winners, <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">e-mail me ASAP to claim your prize</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to all for playing.','A Homemade Life Winners: Announced!','','publish','open','open','','homemade-life-winners-announced','','','2010-03-30 19:50:00','2010-03-30 19:50:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=526',0,'post','',0),(527,1,'2010-03-30 20:30:00','2010-03-30 20:30:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476429169/\" title=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman\" height=\"283\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4476429169_649ff2afa2.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Turn out the lights, hang the clothesline and scrub those recycling bins until they sparkle, Tulsa. Earth Day, on April 22, is fast approaching, and you don\'t want to be caught with your insulation made of old denim pants down.<br /><br />A lot goes on in Tulsa for Earth Day, but I, blogger geek that I am, am excited about one in particular: <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/eb10.html\">Empty Bowls 2010</a>.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>\"Bountiful Earth...Empty Bowls\" is the theme of this year\'s hunger awareness dinner and fundraiser at <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/\">the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a>, a Tulsa nonprofit that, by <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/homemade-life-two-free-copies-here-at.html\">bringing booksignings with famous bloggers</a> and contributing generously to <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=208614&amp;id=403568208507&amp;ref=ss\">the monthly Tulsa Blogger Meetup</a>, has been a great friend to the local blogging community.<br /><br />The event kicks off at 5:30 p.m. on Earth Day at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center, in south Tulsa at 6808 S. 107th E. Ave. (on the east side of US 169 at 71st Street).<br /><br />Empty Bowls will include a simple meal of soup, salad and dessert. It\'ll also play host to both a silent and a live auction.<br /><br />This is where things for the blog addicted get rather interesting.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476429169/\" title=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman\" height=\"283\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4476429169_649ff2afa2.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Up for grabs in this year\'s auction is <b>a two-night stay for up to four couples in The Lodge</b>.<br /><br />And fans of <a href=\"http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/\">The Pioneer Woman</a> know exactly what I mean when I talk about <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeandgarden/category/lodge/\">capital T, capital L, The Lodge</a>.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476429289/\" title=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman\" height=\"333\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4476429289_c262ac77ed.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />For the uninitiated, The Lodge is on Drummond Ranch near Pawhuska. While Ladd Drummond, a kazillionth-generation Oklahoma cattle rancher, tends to the herd, his wife <a href=\"http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/\">Ree, a.k.a. The Pioneer Woman, blogs like the dickens at ThePioneerWoman.com</a>. <br /><br />For her trouble, Ree\'s blog gets 22 million page views each month. And it\'s landed her on <a href=\"http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/02/web-celebrities-internet-thought-leaders-2010.html\">Forbes\' 2010 Web Celeb 25</a> list. And a few Weblog of the Year nods (among others) at <a href=\"http://2010.bloggies.com/\">the Bloggie Awards</a>. And a <a href=\"http://www.blogger.com/goog_1697885376\">cookbook that topped the </a><i><a href=\"http://www.blogger.com/goog_1697885376\">New York Times</a></i><a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/my_cookbook/\"> bestseller list</a>.<br /><br />Yeah. We Web crawlers, we like her a little, apparently. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4477333420/\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4477333420_9726affa3f.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476557021/\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4476557021_d2495ab494.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4469833075/\" title=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Oklahoma Biscuit Standoff\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4469833075_0c7e352801.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Me included.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4057450032/\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2445/4057450032_015ce23e19.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Um, yeah.<br /><br /><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4477333028/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" title=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pioneer Woman Booksigning\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2797/4477333028_53b08e2e63.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Woah. Hold it down there, Tash.<br /><br />Last year\'s Empty Bowls event raised more than $120,000 for the Food Bank.<br /><br />I suspect that with auction items like a two-night stay at The Lodge, as well as:<br /><br />-a private cooking class for 10 at the Lobeck-Taylor home with former Tulsa mayor Kathy Taylor and Chef Timothy Sean Fitzgerald;<br />-a Napa Valley vineyard retreat that includes six bottles from Oklahoma-bred winery Far Niente (this is swanky stuff, let me tell you);<br />-University of Tulsa football package that includes sideline passes and a behind-the-scenes tour;<br />-and dozens more...<br /><br />...that Empty Bowls 2010 attendees are going to blow last year\'s pot out of the water. <br /><br />To check out and bid on these items, including the  stay at The Lodge, grab your tickets right away to Empty Bowls 2010. Tickets are $35 and include dinner and a souvenir handmade pottery bowl (get it? Empty Bowls?). Reserve by calling Frances Bevel at (918) 585-2800, ext. 109. Or, <a href=\"mailto:fbevel@cfbeo.org\">e-mail her</a>.<br /><br />Happy bidding! <br /><br /><i>All photos of Ree at The Lodge are by Tulsa-based photographer Shane Bevel. </i><a href=\"http://shanebevel.com/\"><i>Visit him on the Web</i></a><i> and </i><a href=\"http://twitter.com/shanebevel\"><i>follow him on Twitter</i></a><i>. </i>','The Pioneer Woman\'s Lodge. It\'s Waiting For You. With Love and Longing.','','publish','open','open','','pioneer-womans-lodge-its-waiting-for','','','2010-03-30 20:30:00','2010-03-30 20:30:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=527',0,'post','',19),(528,1,'2010-03-31 16:58:00','2010-03-31 16:58:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4478836895/\" title=\"Springtime by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Springtime\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4478836895_5a0a5ac7ee.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Spring has officially sprung here at the Ball house. <br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>Actually, it blew in on strong winds (try to go for a jog in this weather, girls, and you\'ll have thighs harder than your kids\' resolve to avoid after-dinner dish duty) and sudden 80-degree midday high temperatures. But, tomato, tomahto, you know what I mean.<br /><br />When I titled this post \"The Situation,\" this is what I meant: <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4478836289/\" title=\"Springtime by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Springtime\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4478836289_d77f95eb30.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Our beautiful, tiny little peach tree. Right around the end of March, it explodes. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479463028/\" title=\"Springtime by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Springtime\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2738/4479463028_7474510398.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />These blossoms don\'t stick around for long. My guess is that they\'ll be gone before the weekend is over. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4478836895/\" title=\"Springtime by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Springtime\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4478836895_5a0a5ac7ee.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />After all, they were just shy, tiny buds two days ago. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479463272/\" title=\"Springtime by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Springtime\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4479463272_8a873c7281.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Wow. Jim, can we get a close-up of that one? <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479463334/\" title=\"Springtime by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Springtime\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4479463334_844d9fa851.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />If a bunch of pastel pink, blue and green photos don\'t put you in the mood for <a href=\"http://tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/easter-egg-hunts-and-events-in-tulsa.html\">an Easter egg hunt</a>, I don\'t know what will. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4478837089/\" title=\"Our dog, Daphne by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Our dog, Daphne\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4478837089_03dc08dd55.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />This here is Daphne, the Ball family dog. Daphne is a Jack Russell terrier. We love Daphne, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/job-creation.html\">especially when she\'s covered in ashes from our fireplace</a>. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4478837185/\" title=\"Our dog, Daphne by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Our dog, Daphne\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4478837185_39425892b4.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />In case you can\'t tell, Daphne is kind of a spaz. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479463600/\" title=\"Our dog, Daphne by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Our dog, Daphne\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4479463600_567801aa65.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Aw, Daphne, don\'t be such a wuss. I\'m just telling the nice folks out there about how silly you can be. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479463832/\" title=\"Our dog, Daphne by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Our dog, Daphne\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4479463832_3791166377.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />\"Yeah, whatever...humanoid.\" <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4478837807/\" title=\"Our dog, Daphne by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Our dog, Daphne\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4478837807_2a5cb783bd.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Daphne\'s doggie senses go a little nuts during springtime. I often catch her in the back yard just standing there like this, sniffing the wind. <br /><br />The wind is full of interesting smells at this time of year. Or, so I\'d imagine. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479464198/\" title=\"Not Weeds by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Not Weeds\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4479464198_bc8b4a195b.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />And I don\'t care what you suburban gardeners say, these just can\'t be weeds. They\'re so pretty and dainty and purple, like a newborn baby girl\'s brand-new pair of booties. <br /><br />Besides, we have more of them than we have grass. I need to believe they\'re <i>wildflowers</i>, not weeds. <br /><br />Plus, they\'re tasty. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479464304/\" title=\"Our dog, Daphne by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Our dog, Daphne\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4479464304_b00854d49d.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />At least, that\'s what Daphne tells me. But that\'s only until she goes inside and lies in the sun for a few minutes. Then she pukes them up all over my living room floor. <br /><br />I don\'t use the term \"spaz\" for just anybody.','The Situation','','publish','open','open','','situation','','','2010-03-31 16:58:00','2010-03-31 16:58:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=528',0,'post','',5),(529,1,'2010-03-31 18:59:00','2010-03-31 18:59:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"rgv_tul_091205_04 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479780990/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4479780990_14deea4781.jpg\" alt=\"rgv_tul_091205_04\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a></div>\r\n<em>Guess who has a post for us today, TDT readers. </em><em>Ed Sharrer</em><em>, the most frequently seen individual in all of downtown Tulsa. Why is he the most frequently seen individual in downtown Tulsa? Because he loves it there, that\'s why, and he\'s one of the most resourceful guys around if you\'re looking for something to do in the area. He\'d also like you to know that he\'s an international man of mystery.</em>\r\n<em>\r\n</em>\r\n<em>Take it away, Ed!</em>\r\n\r\nSo let’s get this out of the way right up front: any event that involves a ball and keeping score, I’m there. Four out-of-shape, middle-aged guys playing doubles tennis at the neighborhood park? Sure, I’ll lean on the chain link fence for a few minutes.\r\n\r\nHaving said that, I’ve been to enough sporting events in my life to have my gameday expectations firmly set on “Realistic,” if not outright “Jaded.” So when I received an email from <a href=\"http://www.tulsa66ers.com/\">the Tulsa 66ers</a> pro basketball front office touting a package that seemed too good to be true, I figured it was just that.\r\n\r\nHere was the sweetheart deal: four premium seats, four hot dogs, four sodas, two popcorns… for $44.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>Suffering from an acute case of March Madness and looming Tax Day Sadness, I decided to take management up on the offer. So on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, two good friends of mine, their adorable two-year-old son, and yours truly headed to the Convention Center to get our hoop on.\r\n\r\nFirst, a few words about parking downtown. I’m cheap. So are my friends. The two-year-old? He’s not sayin’, but he doesn’t get an allowance yet. You do the math. Suffice to say, we’re bargain shoppers when it comes to parking. And guess what we paid to park this particular gameday?\r\n\r\nNada. Zip. Zilch.\r\n\r\nSee, here’s the trick: all those cursed parking meters lining the streets of downtown? Totally free after 5:00pm and all day on the weekends. No, really… read the fine print.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"03312010077 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479775934/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4479775934_bda31d8f24.jpg\" alt=\"03312010077\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"meter fine print by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479776078/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4479776078_5a8afd056e.jpg\" alt=\"meter fine print\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" /></a></div>\r\nKeep that in mind for your next downtown event.\r\n\r\nAfter an easy three-block stroll, we entered the arena and were greeted by the 66ers Dance Team. Guys, there are worse ways to be greeted. Just ask my two-year-old buddy. He was ooohed and aaahed, given high-fives AND a game program, and fawned over like the VIP he is. More on this later.\r\n\r\nTickets for “premium” seats claimed from Will Call, I set the dial firmly to “Jaded” as we went in search of our section. You know the drill – great deal, too good to be true… lovely view of the loading dock, right?\r\n\r\nUm, how about mid-court, 12 rows from the floor? Stunned disbelief. (blink, blink)\r\n\r\nDuring pre-game warm-ups, I glanced around the arena. I have fond memories of the place from watching countless TU basketball games there over the years. The memories aren’t so fond where the arena itself is concerned, mind you. The product on the court was always far better than the arena experience, even during the lean years of TU hoops. But on this day, the place looked better than I remembered it. Fresh paint, three new video boards, Kid’s Zone set up behind one of the baskets… it was pleasant.\r\n\r\nI’ll skip the play-by-play and color commentary of the game, except to say that it’s a good thing the arena invested in top-quality rims. The 66ers threw down ferocious dunks with regularity. Watching elite athletes defy gravity never gets old.\r\n\r\nFast forward to chowtime, I mean… halftime. The highlight of any trip to the ballpark/stadium/arena, am I right? We exchanged food coupons for our promised hot dogs and sodas in no time flat. And Mr. Jaded, here, wasn’t expecting this… the hot dogs were hot. I mean, HOT. The fans mingling on the concourse probably thought I was part of the halftime entertainment as I juggled the franks all the way back to the seats.\r\n\r\nI don’t know if you like hot dogs. I do. These were quite worthy. Ask my friend here.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"hotdog happiness by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479140095/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2199/4479140095_213777d671.jpg\" alt=\"hotdog happiness\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nLittle Man is the perfect segue back to the Dance Team. First, the word “dance” in the squad’s name is appropriate. The girls have talent. And yes, they are an attractive group of young ladies (duh). But Job Number #1 for the Dance Team: being friendly ambassadors for the franchise, especially with the kiddos. They pose for pictures with the kids. They hand out schwag to the kids. They high-five every kid within arm’s length. They wave and smile at the kids. Mr. Two-Year-Old Stud Muffin played coy, but he loved the attention from all his new friends.\r\n\r\nAnyways, we munched on bags of popcorn almost as big as pillow cases throughout the second half of a 66ers victory. Three pointers rained down. Dunks rattled the rafters. Opponents’ shots were not only blocked, but sent into the laps of fans in the third row. No, you can’t keep the ball… but that’s the only way the 66ers could’ve made the gameday experience any better. It was family fun at family-friendly prices.\r\n\r\nBy now, you might be thinking, “Great, Sharrer. You got a sweet deal. Thanks for rubbing it in. But what good does that do me?”\r\n\r\nWell, this is your lucky weekend. The 66ers are playing their final two home games of the season at <a href=\"http://www.tulsaconvention.com/\">the Tulsa Convention Center</a> this Friday and Saturday, April 2-3. Tip-off is 7:00pm. BOTH NIGHTS have been tabbed Fan Appreciation Nights, featuring the same $44 package goodness that made our foursome smile.\r\n\r\nWant to feel Appreciated? Willing to risk becoming a Fan? Grab three friends and call the 66ers at 918-585-8444 or <a href=\"http://tulsa66ers.com/\">visit the Tulsa 66ers on the Web</a>. I bet you’ll leave the arena saying, “Dunk you very much.”\r\n\r\n<em>Tulsa 66ers photo from <a href=\"http://www.nba.com/dleague/gallery/rgv_tul_091205_9.html\">the Web site for the NBA Development League</a>. All other photos courtesy of Ed Sharrer. </em>','A Downtown Deal for Sports Fans This Weekend','','publish','open','open','','downtown-deal-for-sports-fans-this','','','2010-08-15 22:06:19','2010-08-16 03:06:19','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=529',0,'post','',1),(1241,1,'2010-02-22 18:53:00','2010-02-22 18:53:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3958218147/\" title=\"Me, Downtown by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Me, Downtown\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2520/3958218147_359906463b.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br />Below are the highlights for the Tulsa side of the Turnpike on the big news at <a href=\"http://oklahomablogawards.blogspot.com/2010/02/2009-okie-blog-award-winners.html\">the Oklahoma Blog Awards Web site</a>.<br /><br /><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Congrats to all the winners, runners-up and nominees. Blogging is so important these days to how people learn about Oklahoma and what we can learn about ourselves. To anyone out there thinking that blogging sounds like fun, I say this: Do it. It\'s hard work (more than a lot of folks think, but that\'s true about darn near everything, isn\'t it?) and it\'s demanding of one\'s time, but it\'s worth it.<br /><br />So worth it.</div><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>Last week, Oklahoma bloggers voted for their favorite Oklahoma blogs in the annual peer-selection competition. Winners and runners-up include:<br /><br /><b>Lifetime Achievement</b><br /><a href=\"http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/\">The Pioneer Woman</a><br /><br /><b>Best Overall Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://theartofmanliness.com/\">The Art of Manliness</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://www.thelostogle.com/\">The Lost Ogle</a><br /><br /><b>Best Audio/Podcast Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://blogoklahoma.com/\">Blog Oklahoma</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://goodbyetulsa.com/\">Goodbye Tulsa</a><br /><br /><b>Best Culture Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://tashadoestulsa.com/\">Tasha Does Tulsa</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://oklahomarock.com/\">Oklahoma Rock</a><br /><br /><b>Best Blog Design</b><br /><a href=\"http://erinconrad.blogspot.com/\">Erin Conrad Photography</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://adbrad.com/blog/\">Ad Brad</a><br /><br /><b>Best Family Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://www.918couponqueen.com/\">918 Coupon Queen</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://www.rocksinmydryer.typepad.com/\">Rocks in My Dryer</a><br /><br /><b>Best Food Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://tulsafoodblog.com/\">Tulsa Food Blog</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://blog.newsok.com/fooddude/\">FoodDude</a><br /><br /><b>Most Humorous Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://thelostogle.com/\">The Lost Ogle</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://irritatedtulsan.wordpress.com/\">Irritated Tulsan</a><br /><br /><b>Most Inspirational Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://blog.newsok.com/lifeisreal-jim/\">Life is Real</a> (posthumous)<br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://www.napkindad.com/\">Napkin Dad</a><br /><br /><b>Best New Blog of 2009</b><br /><a href=\"http://okiecreative.com/typography/oklablog/\">Okie Creative</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://carlessintulsa.blogspot.com/\">Carless in Tulsa</a><br /><br /><b>Best Political Blog (Conservative)</b><br /><a href=\"http://batesline.com/\">BatesLine</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/\">McCarville Report</a><br /><br /><b>Best Political Blog (Liberal)</b><br /><a href=\"http://www.okiefunk.com/\">Okie Funk</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://alternativetulsa.blogspot.com/\">Alternative Tulsa</a><br /><br /><b>Best Rural Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://www.theredneckdiva.com/\">The Redneck Diva</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://www.britgalusa.com/\">Brit Gal in the USA</a><br /><br /><b>Best Tech Blog </b><br /><a href=\"http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/\">Blogging Basics 101</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://www.stfpr.com/newmedia/index.cfm?categoryid=2\">STF PR New Media Now</a><br /><br /><b>Best Tulsa Blog</b><br /><a href=\"http://tashadoestulsa.com/\">Tasha Does Tulsa</a><br />Runner Up: <a href=\"http://irritatedtulsan.wordpress.com/\">Irritated Tulsan</a><br /><br />This year marks the first time an Oklahoma blogger has been honored with a lifetime achievement award. Based on her enormous success as a blogger, and the positive image of Oklahoma she presents to the rest of the world, the final determination panel decided to honor <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/\">Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman</a>, with the award.<br /><br />In addition, this year is the first time a blogger has been recognized posthumously. <a href=\"http://blog.newsok.com/lifeisreal-jim/\">Jim Chastain, whose blog, Life is Real via newsok.com</a>, inspired hundreds of Oklahomans with his fight against cancer. Although he lost that battle just two short months ago, his words live on.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.okiedoke.com/\">Mike Hermes, a newspaper editor from Little Axe, is the founder of the Okie Blog Awards</a>. This year’s awards were coordinated by <a href=\"http://www.jenx67.com/\">Jennifer James, an Oklahoma City public relations practitioner and writer who blogs about Generation X</a>. <br /><br />Members of the panel that counted the votes and determined the winners included Mike Hermes; <a href=\"http://www.oklahomatoday.com/\">Louisa McCune-Elmore, editor, Oklahoma Today</a>; <a href=\"http://www.stfpr.com/index.cfm\">Mike Koehler, new media director, Schnake Turnbo Frank PR</a> and <a href=\"http://www.acogok.org/\">John G. Johnson, J.D., executive director, Association of Central Oklahoma Governments</a>.<br /><br />Winners will be formally recognized this spring at an organized gathering of Oklahoma’s Twitter community. Information about the tweetup will be made available on <a href=\"http://okctweetup.com/\">okctweetup.com</a>.','2009 Okie Blog Award Winners Announced','','inherit','open','open','','472-revision','','','2010-02-22 18:53:00','2010-02-22 18:53:00','',472,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/02/472-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(530,1,'2010-03-31 23:26:00','2010-03-31 23:26:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479697085/\" title=\"DSC_0076 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0076\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4479697085_5e468205bb.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Have you seen what\'s been going on at North Elgin and Archer?<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479696925/\" title=\"DSC_0065 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0065\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2753/4479696925_1d16406c31.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4480345272/\" title=\"DSC_0061 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0061\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4480345272_74f608e396.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Yeah. <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">There\'s a huge, beautiful, brand-spankin\' new, $60 million ballpark there now</a>. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479696457/\" title=\"DSC_0051 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0051\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4479696457_abf0481f04.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Kiddo and I checked it out today. Just to, you know, check the acoustics and such. <br /><br />We want to make sure this ballpark is up to snuff, after all, don\'t we? <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4480344756/\" title=\"DSC_0042 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0042\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4480344756_99364e10ec.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4480344246/\" title=\"DSC_0031 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0031\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4480344246_0124ea42a1.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />Between my son and I, we\'re always good for an acoustics check.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4480340478/\" title=\"DSC_0021 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0021\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2680/4480340478_0cc26ceb6a.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479695823/\" title=\"DSC_0033 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0033\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2683/4479695823_5caebbfb28.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4480344512/\" title=\"DSC_0039 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0039\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4480344512_01931e696e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Look at that view from third base. So choice.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4480344588/\" title=\"DSC_0037 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0037\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4480344588_abd5f25681.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />I want this dude\'s job. <br /><br />I think. <br /><br />You can come downtown to see the new ballpark yourself, you know. For free, even. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4480344180/\" title=\"DSC_0030 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0030\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2761/4480344180_c53e86b71c.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br /><a href=\"http://tulsa.drillers.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100326&amp;content_id=8955872&amp;vkey=news_t260&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;sid=t260\">Your opportunity is this Saturday</a>. The Drillers are hosting an open house, DrillersFest, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the ballpark. You\'ll have the opportunity to snag some tickets to upcoming games, some sweet Drillers gear and a first taste of what will be available at the the new concession stands.<br /><br />Yum, yum. <br /><br /><a href=\"http://td1.glitnirticketing.com/tdticket/web/ev_list.php\">Opening night is coming up on April 8</a>, following by a Friday Fireworks game the very next night. Picking up some tickets to both of those games while you\'re at DrillersFest on Saturday would be wise. My guess is that they\'ll be tough to come by at around this time next week. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479697165/\" title=\"DSC_0079 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"DSC_0079\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4479697165_30cdfe4762.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Because ONEOK Field in Tulsa\'s historic Greenwood District is about to become the new place to see and be seen in Tulsa, Oklahoma this summer.','One Boy, ONEOK Field. Plus, DrillersFest This Saturday.','','publish','open','open','','one-boy-oneok-field-plus-drillersfest','','','2010-03-31 23:26:00','2010-03-31 23:26:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=530',0,'post','',6),(532,1,'2010-04-02 21:59:00','2010-04-02 21:59:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Me, Downtown by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3958218147/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2520/3958218147_359906463b.jpg\" alt=\"Me, Downtown\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThere are quite a few things about this city that the daily and weekend rundown of local events found on this site don\'t quite get at. I mean, a list of stuff to do isn\'t of much use if you have no idea how to get to the events, let alone where the hell you are as you read this.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the deal: You\'re in Tulsa (or some other town about which you know next to nothing). Now what?\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>I\'ve published two lists of ways to get to know your town, including the one that kicked off this zany little blog in the first place. I\'ve updated and combined them for easy reading in this post, and I have a few more to add at the end, too.\r\n\r\n<strong>Swear off highways.</strong> Avoiding highways is the best way to see more of your city. Think about it: When you\'re traveling on the highway, you can’t see much of what you’re passing. You\'re traveling at such a high rate of speed. Second, you’re probably not all that interested in what’s passing you by if you’ve chosen to take the highway in the first place. You’re in a hurry, duh. And, that’s the intended purpose of highways: the rapid transport of automobiles. But folks, a lot has been going on in Tulsa as of late. Our town is growing, and with growth comes change. Check out what’s coming to a neighborhood near you simply by driving around – you\'ll immediately feel like a part of the community. Feeling like you’re a part is where the fun begins.\r\n\r\n<strong>Pick some form of community service. Next, get moving.</strong> My father impressed upon me that serving the community as a volunteer is very important if I want to continue to enjoy or grow my city. Volunteer work also connects you to vast networks of people. If you tried volunteer work for just two months in Tulsa, your first comment when you report back to me would be, “Tulsa is such a small town – everyone knows everyone!” It’s true. And, you don\'t have to volunteer for a million different organizations. You don\'t have to sign onto a board where you\'re expected to contribute a quarter of your salary, either. Determine your pet cause, find an organization that offers that service and go. You\'ll be amazed at the people you\'ll meet and the places you\'ll see.\r\n\r\n<strong>Read your town\'s free publications; subscribe to (and yes, read) the newspaper; put your town\'s blogs on RSS feed.</strong> \"I don\'t really read.\" Huh? Since you\'re reading this, I know you\'re not one of those people. You fine folks should tell your “friends” to pick up some lit every once in a while – it would make them easier to be around. Argh. Anyway. Tulsa boasts several free and paid publications, including Urban Tulsa Weekly, Tulsa World, Oklahoma Magazine, Tulsa People and Tulsa Business Journal. And much more. These are the ones I lug to the coffee shops, and they\'re what I would call tolerable reading. And don\'t forget to read Tulsa- and Oklahoma-based blogs. <a href=\"http://oklahomablogawards.blogspot.com/\">Check out this year\'s Oklahoma Blog Awards to see the best of the best</a>. Local blogs are great because most of them are free to cover local news without the advertising-dollar hang-ups. Point being, reading is the best way to gain information about your town without having to actually cover and report what happens. If you\'re not willing to read, you\'re not allowed to complain about how bored you are in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<strong>Young professionals of Tulsa, join a relevant professional organization. Then, go to the meetings.</strong> Tulsa\'s local young professionals are all fired-up. They’re well-connected, and they know the newest, cool things to do in Tulsa. Know why? Because they\'re the ones at the helm of those cool, happening things. Most times, they\'re the ones making these cool, happening things cool and happening in the first place. If there is a professional organization in town specifically for those of your profession, pay the dues and join. Not only will your membership benefit your career, but the fun you have in this city is directly related to the size of your network of people who know the places to see and be seen. You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again: Size matters.\r\n\r\n<strong>Send yourself on a hunt for the best _______ in Tulsa.</strong> For years I’ve been hunting for Tulsa\'s ultimate chile relleno. Considering the number of Mexican restaurants there probably are in Tulsa, I’d say my search has just begun. What are you passionate about? Old books, vintage records, clothes, cheeseburgers? Start looking for Tulsa\'s best whatever-that-is. Not only will your search make great date fodder, but it will also add to your life a distinct sense of place.\r\n\r\n<strong>Gird your loins before watching the evening news.</strong> Not that I have anything against the news stations here in town. Seriously - I see fantastic local stories on every station, and often. It\'s just that, I\'m pretty sure the evening news is tailored to shock and/or scare you out of doing anything, ever. It’s not that they get their thrills from scaring you. If the evening news couldn’t tell you anything shocking or scary about your city, how would you convince advertisers to buy into those broadcasts instead of The Simpson’s and Seinfeld re-runs? Downtown is not a heathen hide-away. Innocent people are not getting shot all over the place every day, and cops aren’t hiding out in the construction zones and neighborhoods just so they can pull you over on camera. Tulsa is a peaceful place. There are lots of fun things to do in safe places. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend.html\">Consult the weekend rundown</a>. Live a little.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try something you\'ve never done before. Keep it local.</strong> My husband and I woke up one Saturday not long after I started this blog and decided to take Tulsa Transit to the downtown library. What a pleasant experience! Neither of us had utilized public transportation in Tulsa before. We were nervous about our trip, but our bus drivers helped us to find our departure and arrival times, and we made it back home alive and all in one piece. Even our fellow passengers were pleasant. As it turned out, the stigma MTTA suffers is for nothing. If Tulsans who insist on driving solo to downtown for work everyday would try the bus just once, I bet hundreds of them would opt for the bus at least every now and then. Perhaps then MTTA could flesh out its bus schedule, which would provide transit users an increased frequency on each route. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Tulsans didn’t have to have to wait 30 minutes for the next bus? In the midwest, use of the public transportation system begets a better, more efficient public transportation system. My husband doesn’t cultivate a beaten path. Trying new stuff is his thing. This approach keeps him very in-the-know and connected to goings-on in Tulsa. He tries new, interesting restaurants; he shops at obscure grocery stores; and, he always has a local adventure in the works. My husband tells me stuff I don\'t know about Tulsa all the time. Take it from me: people like people who teach and tell them things they don\'t know. People don\'t generally like people who are complacent and boring. Don\'t be that guy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Talk to people in line at the grocery store.</strong> As my stepmother can attest, my dad reads Cosmopolitan magazine to people in line at the grocery store. This approach works really well for him – sometimes I could swear my dad knows everyone. I can’t go anywhere with him without bumping into someone he knows. Dad is the other person who tells me stuff I don\'t know about Tulsa all the time. He\'s also the only other person besides the people I\'ve worked with at the local papers and magazines who can connect me to just about anybody in town. If he doesn\'t know someone, he knows someone who knows them. I\'m pretty sure this is thanks to a) his extensive volunteer work, and b) talking freely to people in line at the grocery store.\r\n\r\n<strong>Go to church.</strong> Good churches boast community initiatives. Bypass the churches with other priorities, find a good one and get involved. You\'ll get to know local people and places in ways you wouldn\'t otherwise have had the opportunity. I can only guess that it would be tough to be active in church and not meet someone knowledgeable about the community. Even if just that one person could get you plugged into cool stuff to do and cool people to do cool stuff with in Tulsa, imagine the increase in your quality of life. Good churches are movers and shakers in this community. They bring different types of people and their resources together and deploy them into the community for its betterment - and for the glory of God. So, don\'t let sermons and hymns be all you get out of going to church (not that that\'s what was getting you out of bed early on Sunday morning anyway). Use it also as a tool to get to know your community. Helping others in your community and getting to know what there is to do in your city feeds back into the God stuff. I promise.\r\n\r\n<strong>Shop local.</strong> If you love hole-in-the-wall restaurants, you\'ll love hole-in-the-wall boutiques. Get started with Dwelling Spaces downtown, my favorite local place to shop. Then head to Cherry Street, Utica Square and Brookside. Don\'t forget Southtown - there\'s plenty of indie shops to plunder on Main Street Broken Arrow, Jenks and Bixby. Don\'t forget about the thrift stores and resale shops in the Tulsa area, too - just be warned that an entire weekend can go by as you\'re doing this without your even realizing it.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get on the bike.</strong> <a href=\"http://www.bikeleague.org/media/press/bfc_bfs_press09.pdf\">Tulsa wasn\'t named a bike friendly city by the League of American Bicyclists for nothing</a>. For one, <a href=\"http://www.incog.org/transportation/trails/trailsmap.pdf\">check out our 180-mile trail system</a>. For two, o<a href=\"http://www.tulsawheelmen.com/\">ur bicycling community doesn\'t exactly feel the need to compensate for any shortcomings where size is concerned</a>. For three, Tulsa is home to more indie bike shops per capita than that other major Sooner city. So, not only will you join the extensive club of drivers who\'d rather sport bike racks than spoilers, but you\'ll also have the technical support needed when your bike is busted from traversing Tulsa\'s bike thoroughfares - Brookside, Riverside, Downtown and Avery Drive, just to name a few.\r\n\r\n<strong>Take the bus.</strong> Did you know you could ride your bike and the bus at the same time? Well, you can, sorta. Ride to a stop on your bike and when the bus pulls up, load your bike to the front of the bus and hop on (the bus, not the bike - otherwise, you might be in for a windy ride). For as low as $0.65 per day, you can text in transit to your heart\'s content without the worry of rear-ending someone mid-LOL. Or, you could make new friends and see Tulsa from a whole new perspective, your choice.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hop on Twitter.</strong> Think what you will about what I\'m about to say, but I think it\'s time that it be known: My No. 1 source of news, both local and national, is Twitter. Yikes, right? Feels a little funny to say, but it\'s true. Not only does any network news outlet worth its salt use Twitter to plug its most recent articles and gather resources, but the smart phone owners on the ground where the news is actually happening do, too. Now I find out about what\'s happening in Tulsa without the middleman, sometimes long before it hits the news sites and often complete with photos and video. Don\'t believe me? <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/tashadoestulsa\">Steal my followees</a>. I have about 2,800 T-Towners feeding me all that\'s moving and shaking in Tulsa, all the time. Go ahead, borrow them. I\'m sure they won\'t mind.\r\n\r\n<strong>Have a baby.</strong> Before our son came along, my husband had been to the Tulsa Zoo &amp; Living Museum just one time, and that was to drop me off for volunteer duty. He\'d been to just one show at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, and I couldn\'t remember the last time I\'d been to a park for reasons other than exercise or loitering a la high school days. Since our son burst onto the scene, we\'ve re-visited landmarks that had, for us, faded into the backdrop. If it weren\'t for that little blond busybody, we wouldn\'t know the pure and simple joy that is a splash park. We wouldn\'t go to half as many shows at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center or BOK Center, either, but thanks to the likes of Elmo and Tulsa Children\'s Museum concerts and our son\'s love of dancing in the aisles, we see plenty of live entertainment in some of Tulsa premier venues.\r\n\r\n<strong>Be a bargain hunter.</strong> Ever since I started following <a href=\"http://www.918couponqueen.com/\">Sarah Roe, the coupon master supreme who writes 918CouponQueen.com</a>, I\'ve hit roads less traveled - even to a sushi bar inside a the Jenks Reasor\'s location - to find the deals she posts on her site. My coupon goggles thus activated, I started to notice coupons good at independent Tulsa businesses printed in local publications, not to mention the local coupons that appear from time to time on Roe\'s site. It\'s easy to do the uniquely Tulsa stuff when good deals put you right in the arms of our homespun businesses.\r\n\r\n<strong>Shoot it.</strong> When I was in architecture school I noticed that by sketching a thing, one comes to know it rather well. Most people don\'t draw, though, so grabbing a camera, wandering wherever your eye takes you and snapping a few shots is, in my opinion, the next best thing. Once you have a pack of shots to upload, be sure to add them to <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/groups/tashadoestulsa\">the Tasha Does Tulsa group on Flickr</a>. There are hundreds of photos there already, and dozens on photographers. Wait - see what I did there? I just came up with yet another way for you to meet other Tulsans. Woot!\r\n\r\n<strong>Go to scary restaurants.</strong> El Rio Verde on North Trenton. Halim and Mimi\'s on 11th Street. The Brasserie on Brookside (hey, escargot is something to reckon with it you\'ve never had it before and you know exactly what it is). Each of these restaurants intimidated me before I dined there. Either I didn\'t know the food or I didn\'t know the language spoken behind the counter or both. At any rate, these locally owned restaurants, especially the hole-in-the-wall types, tell the stories not just of this city, but especially of the neighborhood and district in which they operate. Plus, 9 times out of 10, the food is going to be much better than anything you could get at a mass-produced chain establishment based 1,000 miles away.\r\n\r\n<strong>Shop at your local farmers\' market.</strong> When you\'re looking for local flavor, there\'s no place to make friends and find good and unique foods and handmade products like the farmers\' market. <a href=\"http://www.sustainabletulsa.org/green_directory?area=67\">Click here for the list of farmers\' markets that appear in Sustainable Tulsa\'s Green Directory</a>. Look for new farmers\' markets to crop up in the area this spring - we\'ve seen at least one new one every year for the past several - <a href=\"http://krmg.com/localnews/2010/03/new-farmers-market-opens-in-no.html\">namely the new market in north Tulsa at the northeast campus of Tulsa Community College</a>. Don\'t hesitate to talk with the farmers and vendors at these markets. They\'re interesting, colorful, funny and caring people who really give a crap about food and how it\'s grown, brought to market and, as you\'ll find out, how it\'s prepared. Yum, yum.\r\n\r\n<strong>Use FourSquare.</strong> This latest social media application gives users the opportunity to use their smart phones to check in at locales just about anywhere, Tulsa included. By checking in you get to connect with other Tulsans, learn insider tips on things to do and try at specific places and connect with your friends on Facebook and Twitter on where you\'re going and what you\'re doing there. <a href=\"http://foursquare.com/\">Download the app here</a>, and <a href=\"http://foursquare.com/user/tashadoestulsa\">be sure to add me as a friend</a>. I\'ve left tips all over town, and I hope you\'ll leave some for me, too.\r\n\r\nIf I missed a great way to get to know this town, please leave your tip in the comments. We\'d all love to hear about it.\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t forget to <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">send me your own questions about Tulsa and its quirks and crannies</a> for next week\'s edition of TDT Friday Advice Column.','19 Ways to Get to Know Your Town (Whether it\'s Tulsa or not)','You\'re in Tulsa (or some other town about which you know next to nothing). Now what?','publish','open','open','','19-ways-to-get-to-know-your-town','','','2010-08-15 22:05:09','2010-08-16 03:05:09','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=532',0,'post','',6),(1240,1,'2010-03-31 18:59:00','2010-03-31 18:59:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479780990/\" title=\"rgv_tul_091205_04 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"rgv_tul_091205_04\" height=\"333\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4479780990_14deea4781.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><i>Guess who has a post for us today, TDT readers.&nbsp;</i><i>Ed Sharrer</i><i>, the most frequently seen individual in all of downtown Tulsa. Why is he the most frequently seen individual in downtown Tulsa? Because he loves it there, that\'s why, and he\'s one of the most resourceful guys around if you\'re looking for something to do in the area. He\'d also like you to know that he\'s an international man of mystery.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>Take it away, Ed!</i><br /><br />So let’s get this out of the way right up front: any event that involves a ball and keeping score, I’m there. Four out-of-shape, middle-aged guys playing doubles tennis at the neighborhood park? Sure, I’ll lean on the chain link fence for a few minutes.<br /><br />Having said that, I’ve been to enough sporting events in my life to have my gameday expectations firmly set on “Realistic,” if not outright “Jaded.” So when I received an email from <a href=\"http://www.tulsa66ers.com/\">the Tulsa 66ers</a> pro basketball front office touting a package that seemed too good to be true, I figured it was just that.<br /><br />Here was the sweetheart deal: four premium seats, four hot dogs, four sodas, two popcorns… for $44.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>Suffering from an acute case of March Madness and looming Tax Day Sadness, I decided to take management up on the offer. So on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, two good friends of mine, their adorable two-year-old son, and yours truly headed to the Convention Center to get our hoop on.<br /><br />First, a few words about parking downtown. I’m cheap. So are my friends. The two-year-old? He’s not sayin’, but he doesn’t get an allowance yet. You do the math. Suffice to say, we’re bargain shoppers when it comes to parking. And guess what we paid to park this particular gameday?<br /><br />Nada. Zip. Zilch.<br /><br />See, here’s the trick: all those cursed parking meters lining the streets of downtown? Totally free after 5:00pm and all day on the weekends. No, really… read the fine print.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479775934/\" title=\"03312010077 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"03312010077\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4479775934_bda31d8f24.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479776078/\" title=\"meter fine print by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"meter fine print\" height=\"336\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4479776078_5a8afd056e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Keep that in mind for your next downtown event.<br /><br />After an easy three-block stroll, we entered the arena and were greeted by the 66ers Dance Team. Guys, there are worse ways to be greeted. Just ask my two-year-old buddy. He was ooohed and aaahed, given high-fives AND a game program, and fawned over like the VIP he is. More on this later.<br /><br />Tickets for “premium” seats claimed from Will Call, I set the dial firmly to “Jaded” as we went in search of our section. You know the drill – great deal, too good to be true… lovely view of the loading dock, right?<br /><br />Um, how about mid-court, 12 rows from the floor? Stunned disbelief. (blink, blink)<br /><br />During pre-game warm-ups, I glanced around the arena. I have fond memories of the place from watching countless TU basketball games there over the years. The memories aren’t so fond where the arena itself is concerned, mind you. The product on the court was always far better than the arena experience, even during the lean years of TU hoops. But on this day, the place looked better than I remembered it. Fresh paint, three new video boards, Kid’s Zone set up behind one of the baskets… it was pleasant.<br /><br />I’ll skip the play-by-play and color commentary of the game, except to say that it’s a good thing the arena invested in top-quality rims. The 66ers threw down ferocious dunks with regularity. Watching elite athletes defy gravity never gets old.<br /><br />Fast forward to chowtime, I mean… halftime. The highlight of any trip to the ballpark/stadium/arena, am I right? We exchanged food coupons for our promised hot dogs and sodas in no time flat. And Mr. Jaded, here, wasn’t expecting this… the hot dogs were hot. I mean, HOT. The fans mingling on the concourse probably thought I was part of the halftime entertainment as I juggled the franks all the way back to the seats.<br /><br />I don’t know if you like hot dogs. I do. These were quite worthy. Ask my friend here.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479140095/\" title=\"hotdog happiness by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"hotdog happiness\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2199/4479140095_213777d671.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Little Man is the perfect segue back to the Dance Team. First, the word “dance” in the squad’s name is appropriate. The girls have talent. And yes, they are an attractive group of young ladies (duh). But Job Number #1 for the Dance Team: being friendly ambassadors for the franchise, especially with the kiddos. They pose for pictures with the kids. They hand out schwag to the kids. They high-five every kid within arm’s length. They wave and smile at the kids. Mr. Two-Year-Old Stud Muffin played coy, but he loved the attention from all his new friends.<br /><br />Anyways, we munched on bags of popcorn almost as big as pillow cases throughout the second half of a 66ers victory. Three pointers rained down. Dunks rattled the rafters. Opponents’ shots were not only blocked, but sent into the laps of fans in the third row. No, you can’t keep the ball… but that’s the only way the 66ers could’ve made the gameday experience any better. It was family fun at family-friendly prices.<br /><br />By now, you might be thinking, “Great, Sharrer. You got a sweet deal. Thanks for rubbing it in. But what good does that do me?”<br /><br />Well, this is your lucky weekend. The 66ers are playing their final two home games of the season at <a href=\"http://www.tulsaconvention.com/\">the Tulsa Convention Center</a> this Friday and Saturday, April 2-3. Tip-off is 7:00pm. BOTH NIGHTS have been tabbed Fan Appreciation Nights, featuring the same $44 package goodness that made our foursome smile.<br /><br />Want to feel Appreciated? Willing to risk becoming a Fan? Grab three friends and call the 66ers at 918-585-8444 or <a href=\"http://tulsa66ers.com/\">visit the Tulsa 66ers on the Web</a>. I bet you’ll leave the arena saying, “Dunk you very much.”<br /><br /><i>Tulsa 66ers photo from <a href=\"http://www.nba.com/dleague/gallery/rgv_tul_091205_9.html\">the Web site for the NBA Development League</a>. All other photos courtesy of Ed Sharrer.&nbsp;</i>','A Downtown Deal for Sports Fans This Weekend','','inherit','open','open','','529-revision','','','2010-03-31 18:59:00','2010-03-31 18:59:00','',529,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/529-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(533,1,'2010-04-03 20:58:00','2010-04-03 20:58:00','<strong>PSST: <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/event_tags/easter\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for things to do in Tulsa for Easter 2012? Get the list here</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487088703/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4487088703_d492da5483.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nThis was the state of things this morning at <a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/\">Zoobilee, the annual kids\' Easter celebration at Tulsa Zoo</a>.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089053/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4487089053_aa4cecea86.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nPart of the Zoobilee festival were two Easter egg hunts - one for kids aged three and under and one for the older kids.\r\n\r\nWe went to the one for the ankle biters. From go-time until all the eggs had been picked up, the hunt lasted not more than 20 seconds.\r\n\r\nPreschoolers don\'t take this Easter egg hunting thing lightly. I mean, I can\'t even use the restroom in 20 seconds (yes, I\'ve tried and, yes, I\'ve timed myself and, no, don\'t try to act like you haven\'t done the same thing), let alone snag a couple thousand pastel-colored eggs.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089169/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4487089169_a59226a45f.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nMy preschooler. Fresh from the battlefield.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487739886/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2726/4487739886_17a3c7e0a0.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThis was his first year to really understand what the Easter egg hunt is all about. Instead of watching with a blank stare as all the other children flooded the field chock full of plastic, candy-filled eggs, this kid ran out there and pushed and shoved and snatched eggs from other children like an old pro.\r\n\r\nPlus, he found a stick. A true prize, indeed.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487739972/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4487739972_67697e98c8.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n\"Hey, Meme? If you want to keep your arm, don\'t touch my candy.\"\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487740084/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4487740084_9d999e5dbb.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487092519/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2761/4487092519_5623fc9471.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Great. My son has a bright future in the mob. Alternatively, he could be a pirate. At least if he chose pirating as a profession, he\'d get to wear a gold earring and an eye patch. Mobsters have to wear three-piece suits to work, and I imagine that just wouldn\'t be as comfortable.</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">This coming from a mother who regularly wears mismatched pajama pants and t-shirts my dad buys me at his favorite airports to work.</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487090791/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2708/4487090791_27cd302a4d.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nThere was lots going on at the Zoo this morning besides the two Easter egg hunts. The Zoo folks had an inflatable play ground set up, for one. And there was an elephant on the loose, too.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487741366/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4487741366_5e9fc87708.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nWe saw a few craft tables. At one were wooden eggs and markers with which to decorate them on one side and crayons and coloring sheets on the other.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487741648/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4487741648_e035d5bbb5.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nWhatever you do this weekend, people, don\'t, for the love of all that is good and covered in a chocolate candy shell, forget to wear your Easter head gear.\r\n\r\nIt\'s very important, as was evident this morning at the Zoo.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487092671/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2741/4487092671_1ac72d3ee3.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nIn addition to the holiday activities, all of the regular stuff to do at the Zoo was in full swing this morning, too.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487741090/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4487741090_3d425a9dc8.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487743018/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4487743018_bc52b81103.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487743198/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/4487743198_93549b8d98.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nOf course, there was lots of candy to test. And the only way to properly and thoroughly test candy to, you know, make sure it\'s safe for consumption, is to take a few bites.\r\n\r\nDuh, as my son would say.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089733/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2576/4487089733_9afaf4a24d.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487089911/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4487089911_f6ae3f0337.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487740658/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4487740658_a67f832510.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nOnce the candy has been deemed safe, it\'s incumbent upon the candy tester to share his findings with others.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Zoobilee 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4487740186/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2551/4487740186_f41e7a5c0d.jpg\" alt=\"Zoobilee 2010\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/easter-egg-hunts-and-events-in-tulsa.html\">There are still lots of ways to get your Easter on in Tulsa today and tomorrow</a>. Have lots of fun, but don\'t get so carried away that you forget to leave carrots for the Easter bunny tonight.\r\n\r\nBecasue, I mean, have you seen Donnie Darko?\r\n\r\nThat\'s why.\r\n\r\n</div>','20 Seconds: The Lifespan of a Preschool Easter Egg Hunt','','publish','open','open','','20-seconds-lifespan-of-preschool-easter','','','2012-03-27 14:27:26','2012-03-27 20:27:26','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=533',0,'post','',1),(10903,1,'2010-04-04 13:10:00','2010-04-04 13:10:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4489703204/\" title=\"Easter 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4489703204_39846eb08f.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy Easter from the TDT family!&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">By the way, if you\'re still looking for egg hunts for this afternoon, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/easter-egg-hunts-and-events-in-tulsa.html\">TDT\'s got you covered</a>. If you\'re looking for a way to sneak out the back at your family gathering today, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend.html\">TDT\'s got you covered there</a>, too.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a great day, everyone, and remember, the proper way to eat a chocolate bunny is to start with the ears first.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div style=\"text-align: left;\">As for peeps, the head\'s gotta go. Just make it quick. It\'s a holiday, after all.&nbsp;</div>','As I eat a chocolate bunny for breakfast...','','inherit','open','open','','534-revision','','','2010-04-04 13:10:00','2010-04-04 13:10:00','',534,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/534-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(534,1,'2010-04-04 13:10:00','2010-04-04 13:10:00','<strong>PSST: <a href=\"http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/event_tags/easter\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for things to do in Tulsa for Easter 2012? Get the list here</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Easter 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4489703204/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4489703204_39846eb08f.jpg\" alt=\"Easter 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy Easter from the TDT family!</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">By the way, if you\'re still looking for egg hunts for this afternoon, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/easter-egg-hunts-and-events-in-tulsa.html\">TDT\'s got you covered</a>. If you\'re looking for a way to sneak out the back at your family gathering today, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/what-to-do-in-tulsa-this-weekend.html\">TDT\'s got you covered there</a>, too.</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a great day, everyone, and remember, the proper way to eat a chocolate bunny is to start with the ears first.</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">As for peeps, the head\'s gotta go. Just make it quick. It\'s a holiday, after all.</div>','As I eat a chocolate bunny for breakfast...','','publish','open','open','','as-i-eat-chocolate-bunny-for-breakfast','','','2012-03-27 14:28:49','2012-03-27 20:28:49','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=534',0,'post','',0),(535,1,'2010-04-05 01:57:00','2010-04-05 01:57:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491176929/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4491176929_b0c7c89f6e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />It\'s said that Tulsa is part of the buckle of the Bible Belt, the part of the U. S. of A. known for its people\'s enthusiasm about church-going and the cultural proclivities that seem to go along with that.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>While the Bible Belt term tends to pack a negative connotation, loaded with assumptions about the prejudices and crusades of folks who\'ve got religion, we\'re not a region made up exclusively of Bible thumpers.<br /><br />Not even close. Though we certainly do have them. But you know what? Most of them are nice people anyway.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491176797/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4491176797_8639d2b3b2.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />My husband and I have been looking for a church to call our own since we got married about five and a half years ago. After a several Sunday mornings spent shifting uncomfortably in pews all over town, an awkward house visitation or two and, yeah, even a little hearbreak, we think we\'ve finally found a place to call home. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491816988/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4491816988_5c4e4a821d.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />There are lots of reasons we\'ve chosen to go to church where we do.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491816750/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2772/4491816750_879d91fa5a.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />The food, which is outstanding, sealed the deal.<br /><br />Of course, there are lots of other things that I particularly like about the church, too - more important things, you might say.<br /><br />But to me, good food is pretty darned important. Spiritual, even, for me.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491177269/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4491177269_afae0fc153.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />The food at our new church is prepared by our very own chef. He puts together everything from the sweet breads for coffee to the small plates for special events to full-on suppers, and it\'s all fabulous. The food at this church has was even featured in a local magazine not long ago.<br /><br />It\'s not about the food simply tasting good. It\'s not even about the food itself, however much I\'ve been impressed by it. For me, it\'s about listening. It\'s about attention to detail, too. It\'s reflective of the other things we like about this church - the careful observance of history and tradition, and the thoughtful and decidedly not intrusive gestures that have been made by the members of the parish to welcome us and inform us about why this church does the things it does and how we can be part of it all.<br /><br />These kinds of things, they work for us.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491177059/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4491177059_48cef22a5c.jpg\" width=\"332\" /></a></div><br />I really enjoyed boasting to my friends and family that I\'d been attending this new church for about eight months and had yet to see a casserole at a church function. I\'d seen a lot else - bacon-wrapped water chestnuts, dark chocolate-covered apricots, mesclun mix - but not a single mushy, overcooked, over-seasoned casserole.<br /><br />See, when I think about church food, I think of three things: Jello and fruit salad, boxed mashed potatoes and green bean casserole. All three are morasses of processed ingredients, the last of which is soggy and sopping with canned cream of mushroom soup.<br /><br />Ugh.<br /><br />After this morning I can\'t tout a casserole-free church anymore, but at least I can be sure that no Campbell\'s was used in the making of the brunch casseroles we had before Easter service.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491817112/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4491817112_f612122ffc.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Here\'s what happens when you care enough to make a casserole out of fresh ingredients and not cook the living hell out of it.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491817206/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4491817206_cd29e90851.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Yeah. I went back for thirds. And I am not ashamed.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491177709/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4491177709_6af91660ed.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />There\'s a reason I\'ve left the name of the church out of this post. I figure that if you\'re interested in learning more than what I\'ve mentioned in this post, you\'ll contact me so we can have a conversation about it, person to person. I\'m not interested in fielding complaints that I\'ve used my blog to proselytize. <br /><br />At least, not to proselytize about religion.  <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491177709/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4491177709_6af91660ed.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />About food, now, that\'s a different story. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491817466/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2769/4491817466_d636f9923a.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />If I find good food made by people who care about it, whether it\'s in a Tulsa diner, a bistro or a church, you can bet I\'m gonna do what I can to spread the word. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4491817620/\" title=\"Easter Brunch 2010 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Easter Brunch 2010\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4491817620_f803451da8.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />For I am a soldier fighting a good fight, even if it is only against slimy green bean casserole.','On Church and Food and Good Church Food','','publish','open','open','','on-church-and-food-and-good-church-food','','','2010-04-05 01:57:00','2010-04-05 01:57:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=535',0,'post','',5),(536,1,'2010-04-05 12:50:00','2010-04-05 12:50:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4494198718/\" title=\"The People of Topeca Coffee, by Jeremy Charles by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"The People of Topeca Coffee, by Jeremy Charles\" height=\"333\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4494198718_7e4bbf7bfb.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><i><a href=\"http://www.jeremycharles.com/\">Jeremy Charles is a name one hears often in the movers-and-shakers circles here in Tulsa</a>. He\'s a photographer known for his work with Tulsa\'s musicians and bands, as well as his photos that regularly serve as the cover of local publications like Urban Tulsa Weekly. But, he\'s most passionate about editorial portraiture. Lucky for us, Jeremy has a show of exactly this sort hanging in <a href=\"http://www.tulsapac.com/\">the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Gallery</a> now through April 27.&nbsp;</i><br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><i>&nbsp;I asked Jeremy to blog for TDT about the show, and he was nice enough to give us a few sneak peaks of what\'s in the gallery at the PAC, too. Take it away, Jeremy. </i><br /><br />I got to know John \'Chip\' Gaberino III and Margarita Lopez Gaberino, owners of <a href=\"http://www.topecacoffee.com/\">Topeca Coffee</a>, by way of my former job, a place where we drank a heck of a lot of Topeca coffee. I was familiar with the rich history of the company, a family-owned and operated coffee business dating back to the 1850s. So when they invited me to visit Las Fincas Ayutepeque and Manzano in El Salvador, I was naturally ecstatic.<br /><br />Once I settled into the farm and saw firsthand the intricacies of coffee agriculture, I felt a tinge of shame knowing I had too often taken for granted  this substance I consumed daily. The complexities of coffee cultivation were substantial, the process arduous, but I got a sense of something larger happening. After witnessing the driving passion Emilio Lopez had for his family\'s legacy, for his farm, for his dedication to growing excellent coffee…it was then that I truly recognized it as Art. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4493523563/\" title=\"The People of Topeca Coffee, by Jeremy Charles by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"The People of Topeca Coffee, by Jeremy Charles\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4493523563_64616ceebc.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br />Topeca isn\'t just another coffee farm. They practice a \"Seed-to-Cup\" approach, a term they coined to describe their business model. Topeca coffee starts as a seed, grows in rich volcanic soil, is processed, roasted, and packaged for sale all in the same spot in the valley of the Santa Ana volcano. The same hands that planted the seed are involved throughout the entire process. Those were the hands that interested me. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4494178732/\" title=\"The People of Topeca Coffee, by Jeremy Charles by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"The People of Topeca Coffee, by Jeremy Charles\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4494178732_f2105f6655.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br />And so, I decided to focus on the characters of the farm - the people whose lives where intertwined with the very coffee I drank every day. I wanted simply an honest, straightforward look at the folks who make it all happen. And they were good folks, gracious and graceful, always at ease, without pretension. Many of them have worked for Topeca for decades, and their families before them. When they looked into the camera, it was a real moment. And that\'s all it needed to be.<br /><br /><i>To meet Jeremy and learn more about his work, be sure to attend </i><b><i>the opening reception of the Topeca exhibit tonight at the gallery from 5:30-8:30pm</i></b><i>. </i>','The People of Topeca Coffee: A photo exhibit by Jeremy Charles.','','publish','open','open','','people-of-topeca-coffee-photo-exhibit','','','2010-04-05 12:50:00','2010-04-05 12:50:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=536',0,'post','',1),(537,1,'2010-04-05 16:00:00','2010-04-05 16:00:00','UPDATE: We have a winner! <br /><br />As of 10 a.m. last Friday morning, the TDT Fan Page on Facebook had 2,074 fans (it has 2,194 as of this writing - that\'s more than 100 new fans in four days - you guys rule at doing Tulsa).<br /><br /><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8TMOeEAmpI/AAAAAAAABuQ/u7rzcNMv0js/s1600/Picture+11.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8TMOeEAmpI/AAAAAAAABuQ/u7rzcNMv0js/s320/Picture+11.png\" /></a></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I rubbed the belly of the Buddha that is Random.org and it pleased him to say...</div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"></div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8TNAcOEpsI/AAAAAAAABuY/PW25_rV2zEY/s1600/Picture+14.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8TNAcOEpsI/AAAAAAAABuY/PW25_rV2zEY/s320/Picture+14.png\" /></a></div><br /><br />The 1,115th fan to hit that Become a Fan button at the top of the TDT Fan Page was Heather O\'Daniel. Thanks for being a TDT fan on Facebook, Heather! I know you\'ll have a blast at the BOK Center tonight groovin\' out to Mr. Bon Jovi and pals.<br /><br />For those of you who weren\'t so lucky this time, there are still tickets available to the show. <a href=\"http://aeglive.com/showdetail.php?id=24992&amp;detail_type=event\">Check \'em out and buy \'em here</a>.<br /><br />Stay tuned, y\'all, for more Facebook fan contests over at <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">the TDT Fan Page on Facebook</a>. There\'s one coming up within the next couple of days, so stay tuned. Spread the love and <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">suggest to your Tulsa-lovin\' friends and family on FB that they fan it up, too</a>.<br /><br />TDT, over and out.<br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><a href=\"http://aeglive.com/showdetail.php?id=24992&amp;detail_type=event\">Bon Jovi is coming to Tulsa\'s BOK Center next week</a>.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7oGcbGRKMI/AAAAAAAABtw/a94bZTWXrcc/s1600/Natkin+Stage+Shot.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"336\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7oGcbGRKMI/AAAAAAAABtw/a94bZTWXrcc/s640/Natkin+Stage+Shot.JPG\" width=\"504\" /></a></div><br />Wanna go? Because, if you\'re feeling lucky, that can be arranged.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>I\'m sure frontman Jon will be all smiles while he\'s rocking out in T-Town next week, <a href=\"http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/kecks-exclusives/bon-jovi-rocks-30-rock-3844.html\">considering his last gig as artist for hire at NBC</a>.<br /><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><br /></div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">\"I hate it here.\" Ha! Great line.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><br /></div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7oIL4t-1CI/AAAAAAAABt4/VSJ3x1R4UYU/s1600/Natkin+finale2.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"336\" src=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7oIL4t-1CI/AAAAAAAABt4/VSJ3x1R4UYU/s640/Natkin+finale2.JPG\" width=\"504\" /></a></div><br />Anyway. If you want to see Bon Jovi and the gang - which has sold 120 million albums and performed more than 2,600 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans, in case you didn\'t know - and <a href=\"http://bokcenter.com/events.asp?id=11&amp;pid=261&amp;task=display\">their performance at the BOK Center April 13</a>, which is sure to include both classic hits as well as tunes from their Nov. 2009 album The Circle, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">get thee to the Tasha Does Tulsa fan page on Facebook</a>. Or, look at the top-left of this screen for the TDT Facebook badge.</div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><br /></div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Then, click the fan button. Ta-da! You\'re now eligible to win <b>two tickets to the April 13 Bon Jovi concert at the BOK Center</b>.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><br /></div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">This contest is the first of many I\'ll host exclusively for TDT Facebook fans. &nbsp;If you\'ve never been to the Tasha Does Tulsa fan page on Facebook and you like winning extra-awesome super happy fun stuff, it would behoove you to fan that sucker and fan it good.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><br /></div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><b>At 10 a.m. on Friday morning (April 9) I\'ll plug the number of fans on the TDT Facebook fan page into Random.org</b>. I\'ll announce the winner soon after.&nbsp;</div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\"><br /></div><div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">TDT over and out. Good luck!&nbsp;</div>','Got Bon Jovi Tickets? There\'s an contest for that.','','publish','open','open','','got-bon-jovi-tickets-theres-contest-for','','','2010-04-05 16:00:00','2010-04-05 16:00:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=537',0,'post','',1),(538,1,'2010-04-06 14:00:00','2010-04-06 14:00:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3520538827/\" title=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3520538827_164738c765.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />It\'s almost here.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3431944700/\" title=\"Opening Day 2009 at Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Opening Day 2009 at Cherry Street Farmers Market\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3431944700_e9e933c094.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />I\'m talking about <a href=\"http://www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com/\">the flagship Cherry Street Farmers Market</a>, and it opens at 7 a.m. this Saturday morning, April 10, for its 13th season. <br /><br />But, it won\'t look like this. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3794191328/\" title=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3794191328_ffe71d0cba.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />The market outgrew its fishbowl in the parking lot at 15th and Quaker. This year it hits the street - Cherry Street, to be exact - and will spread from Quaker to Rockford Avenue. The road will be closed, there will be plenty of parking near the market, and we lovers of local food and the rhythm of weekly trips to this historic part of town to stock up can feel whole again. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3794145690/\" title=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/3794145690_e84808c177.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />This year there will be more vendors, plying wares ranging from produce and breads to beef and baked goods to bat houses. The folks with <a href=\"http://www.kerrcenter.com/buy-fresh.htm\">the Buy Fresh, Buy Local Oklahoma campaign</a> will be on hand this Saturday to discuss with patrons farmers\' markets, buying locally and reducing our carbon footprints. Plant vendors will share about how to select and care for plant material.<br /><br />It\'s all good stuff. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3793327153/\" title=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/3793327153_f544b42200.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Look next Saturday, April 17th, for a new kid-friendly booth. Elizabeth Martin, former CSFMA vendor, teaches art at Lee Elementary and will organize an art booth with kids in mind.<br /><br />Plus, it\'ll be a great way for parents to relax and unwind and watch the kids play. Tax season will finally over, people.<br /><br />Oy. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3793328145/\" title=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Brookside Farmers\' Market\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3793328145_28f698683d.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />On April 24th everyone at CSFM will celebrate Earth Day with <a href=\"http://www.upwithtrees.org/\">Up With Trees</a>. They\'ll give away free trees and discuss the greening of Tulsa and surrounding communities.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3431947064/\" title=\"The Best Hummus In Town by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"The Best Hummus In Town\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3431947064_f077c92283.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />Now that you know what events to look forward to as the market gets going for the 2010 season, what are you anticipating from vendors?<br /><br />I\'m pretty sure I couldn\'t live another weekend without <a href=\"http://www.palacetulsa.com/\">Chef James Shrader\'s breakfast burritos</a> - a girl can only survive so long without such deliciousness. And I can\'t wait to see my friends from <a href=\"http://www.threespringsfarm.com/\">Three Springs Farm</a> and <a href=\"http://bootstrapfarm.blogspot.com/\">Bootstrap Farm</a>. And I\'m out of <a href=\"http://www.hilltophoney.com/\">Hilltop Honey</a> (have been for a month now - save me!), as well as my favorite Hilltop Honey lotion (patchouli, and no, I\'m not a hippie...not every day, anyway).<br /><br />And I love seeing the Midtowners\' dogs on parade. And all the ladies in sun hats with produce peeking out from their fabric shopping bags. <br /><br />And the samples. I love to try new yums. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3431134199/\" title=\"Opening Day 2009 at Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Opening Day 2009 at Cherry Street Farmers Market\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3431134199_e67d6b4669.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />I\'ve got a fever, people. And the only prescription is some CSFM.<br /><br />What will you be thinking about this week as you wait for the market to open?','This Saturday. It\'s coming. The new, the improved, Cherry Street Farmers Market.','','publish','open','open','','this-saturday-its-coming-new-improved','','','2010-04-06 14:00:00','2010-04-06 14:00:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=538',0,'post','',6),(539,1,'2010-04-06 16:00:00','2010-04-06 16:00:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7qwmvhUL5I/AAAAAAAABuA/1qj8OXVd9AI/s1600/IMG_0387.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"512\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S7qwmvhUL5I/AAAAAAAABuA/1qj8OXVd9AI/s640/IMG_0387.JPG\" width=\"384\" /></a></div><br />Here’s a tidbit for your next cocktail party: The most often shopped aisle in the grocery store is the one where paper products are shelved.<br /><br />“That’s why we in <a href=\"http://www.miocoalition.com/\">the Made in Oklahoma Coalition</a> chose paper towels to help with our fundraising initiative,” said David Brooks, regional sales manager at Shawnee Mills, an Oklahoma-based baking products manufacturer.<br /><br />To celebrate Made in Oklahoma Month, which kicks off April 1, the MIO Coalition is raising money for the Food 4 Kids backpack program at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma.<br /><br />To raise the money, the 35 members of the MIO Coalition combined their marketing funds to put images of their products, along with the big, red logo of the Coalition, on two-pack rolls of paper towels.<br /><br />Read the rest of this story on <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&amp;aID=67221992.5006198.660686.1889786.2405406.173&amp;aID2=50813\">the food page in this week\'s edition of the Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Buy Local, Feed Hungry Kids','','publish','open','open','','buy-local-feed-hungry-kids','','','2010-04-06 16:00:00','2010-04-06 16:00:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=539',0,'post','',1),(540,1,'2010-04-06 20:35:00','2010-04-06 20:35:00','I know I write often about ways to get to know your town, and I know I keep adding to the list, but I have yet another city discovery tool to share with you.\r\n\r\nA great way to get to know your town is to establish and grow a business there.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Jazz Hall of Fame by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4342986457/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4342986457_483b7b291e.jpg\" alt=\"OK Jazz Hall of Fame\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nTonight marks the kick-off <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">the SpiritBank/Tulsa Community College Entrepreneurial Spirit Award</a>. The event, which will be bursting at the seams with Tulsa businesspeople and influencers, will get started at 5:30 p.m. at <a href=\"http://www.okjazz.org/\">Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, 111 E. First Street</a>.\r\n\r\nIf you\'re looking to start or grow your business in Tulsa, this event would be an ideal place to stop making excuses and start living your dream.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>Never heard of the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award? It\'s a reality TV-style, multi-round competition for the folks in town whose idea files of business concepts are full to bursting. Tons of free cash, prizes and services are at stake. The grand prize? Thirty thousand smackaroos.\r\n\r\nThe kick-off event will provide entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs with opportunities to discover the success factors for winning the Spirit Award. Who better to ask than past winners, right? Good thing some of them are going to be there tonight.\r\n\r\nDoes this Entrepreneurial Spirit Award thing sound like something you might like to tackle? Entrepreneurs can <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/\">submit their executive summaries to the Spirit Award Web site starting today</a>. The deadline is May 13. The competition is open to anyone who owns a business that has been in operation for up to ﬁve years, or simply an idea for a new business in the city of Tulsa. Entrants need not be based in Tulsa, but they must agree to establish or expand in Tulsa if they win.\r\n\r\nBecause why would anyone want to do business anywhere else?\r\n\r\nTo learn more about the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, <a href=\"http://www.tulsaspiritaward.com/2009/rules/\">check out the official rules</a>.','Your Ideas, Unleashed: The SpiritBank/TCC Entrepreneurial Spirit Award launches tonight.','If you\'re looking to start or grow your business in Tulsa, this event would be an ideal place to stop making excuses and start living your dream.','publish','open','open','','your-ideas-unleashed-spiritbanktcc','','','2010-10-11 09:06:33','2010-10-11 14:06:33','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=540',0,'post','',1),(541,1,'2010-04-06 23:25:00','2010-04-06 23:25:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Elote by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4497644101/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4497644101_5136f488db.jpg\" alt=\"Elote\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Tulsa-conscious folks behind the tasty vittles <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">at Elote Cafe and Catering at 514 S. Boston</a> have a knack for food, that\'s for sure.\r\n\r\nThey\'re also great at painting a picture. Check it out:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Elote by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4498280886/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4498280886_e058023523_o.jpg\" alt=\"Elote\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" /></a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4497727663/sizes/l/\">Get the full-sized schematic here</a>.\r\n\r\nOr, here\'s a text version of what\'s going on up there:\r\n\r\nYou are going to a baby shower and need to buy a gift. <strong>CHOOSE SCENARIO A</strong> or <strong>B</strong>.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCENARIO A.</strong> Chain or online shopping. The result? Your money leaves Oklahoma.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCENARIO B.</strong> Shop at <span style=\"color: red;\">Lundeby\'s Eco Baby</span>.\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\"> </span>\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\">The Lundeby\'s owner Tiffany Bjorlie</span> spends some of the money she makes at her shop dining at <span style=\"color: orange;\">Elote</span>.<span style=\"color: orange;\">\r\n</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: orange;\">Libby Auld, chef-owner at Elote</span>, uses the money she makes slinging puffy tacos to patronize <span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">local vendors for the food she needs to run her restaurant</span>.\r\n<span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\"> </span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">Local vendor Natural Farms</span> uses that money to support <span style=\"color: #3d85c6;\">local farmers</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3d85c6;\">The folks at 3 Peas in a Pod</span> uses the money they make with Natural Farms to buy a t-shirt from a local boutique - let\'s say, at <span style=\"color: purple;\">Dwelling Spaces</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">Mary Beth Babcock, owner at Dwelling Spaces</span>, does so much business she plum wears out her register counter. She uses money from her t-shirt sales to order a new counter from <span style=\"color: magenta;\">C2 Design</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: magenta;\">Jack Sampson at C2 Design</span> uses some of the money he made whipping up Mary Beth\'s new counter to gas up at <span style=\"color: cyan;\">QuikTrip</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: cyan;\">Quiktrip</span> is known for <span style=\"color: #45818e;\">it\'s higher-than-industry-standard salaries</span> - that\'s one of the reasons it\'s been judged one of the best places to work in the U.S. several times over.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #45818e;\">Well-paid employees</span> do what well-paid employees do - they use their incomes to buy houses. Many choose to procreate.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\">Guess who\'s gonna need a baby shower?</span>\r\n\r\nAh, how money makes the world go \'round.\r\n\r\nI especially love what\'s going on in the bottom left corner of this schematic, the Food for Thought section:\r\n\r\n<strong>8.517 percent (sales tax) of all $ spent locally go to our city and state. If we all made efforts to support local businesses rather than chains and online stores, maybe we could keep our police officers and firefighters. </strong>\r\n\r\nYeah. About that.\r\n\r\nAs long as we here in Tulsa are gonna stick to the sales tax method of funding what needs to get done via City Hall, it\'s incumbent on us to consider long and hard the consequences of what we perceive to be the convenience and low prices available at mega-marts, online shops and chain restaurants based outside our city. When sales levels in our tax base decrease, so do the sales taxes from which city services, including public safety, are funded.\r\n\r\nThe resulting question seems to be, are you willing to trade low prices and convenience for shopping locally?\r\n\r\nBut here\'s what I\'ve found: In most cases, there\'s no need to trade.\r\n\r\nFirst we have to talk about what low price really means. Say a local shirt shop carries a t-shirt and posts its price as $20. Then, a mega-chain comes into town. It carries the same shirt and, to attract more customers so the store can sell them an array of other products besides just the shirt, and thanks to the leverage enjoyed by entities able to buy more product to obtain lower, wholesale prices, the store posts the price of the shirt as $18.\r\n\r\nBecause of the array of products available at the mega-chain, its level of foot traffic is higher than anything the specialty t-shirt shop has ever seen. Surround sound-style marketing and advertising aimed to convince the consumer all of the prices at the mega-chain are lower than the prices anywhere else (and besides, even when not all of the prices are indeed the lowest, it\'s easier to do all of one\'s shopping at just one store rather than going to the trouble to visit several stores hunting for deals, so a lot of folks\' logic goes) only increases the allure.\r\n\r\nSoon, as customer exposure to the $18 shirt increases and exposure to the $20 shirt decreases, the perception on the market of the cost of that shirt becomes $18.\r\n\r\nAnd we all know what they say about perception.\r\n\r\nNow the local guy looks like a racketeer, and the price of the shirt, one of only a couple dozen items the shirt store owner carries, is changed, maybe permanently, to the detriment of his business and, as a result, all of the other local businesses he patronizes.\r\n\r\nPlus, the city collects less sales tax on $18 than it does on $20.\r\n\r\nPrice is a tricky thing, especially when we try to put it on a sliding scale with value. Convenience is weird, too. What I wonder is, how is it less convenient to park, walk into a store, do a little shopping, get great customer service, maybe a little free gift wrapping, and a heartfelt thank-you than to click through page after page of listings of merchandise saturated with advertising, spend an inordinate amount of time making a selection from thousands of choices, enter all of your identification and payment information, click submit and then watch the UPS tracker for five days until your item arrives at your door, seemingly the victim of the opening scene of the first Ace Ventura, Pet Detective movie?\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/dRZdHO8UCvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/dRZdHO8UCvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nWithout ever interacting with another human being. I mean, besides the delivery guy.\r\n\r\nWhat do you think? Is it, in your opinion, worth it to shop and eat local, or isn\'t it?','Shopping/Eating Local: A Diagram','As long as we here in Tulsa are gonna stick to the sales tax method of funding what needs to get done via City Hall, it\'s incumbent on us to consider long and hard the consequences of what we perceive to be the convenience and low prices available at mega-marts, online shops and chain restaurants based outside our city.','publish','open','open','','shop-eat-local-diagram','','','2010-10-11 09:02:36','2010-10-11 14:02:36','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=541',0,'post','',10),(2866,1,'2010-10-11 08:57:46','2010-10-11 13:57:46','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Elote by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4497644101/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4497644101_5136f488db.jpg\" alt=\"Elote\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Tulsa-conscious folks behind the tasty vittles <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">at Elote Cafe and Catering at 514 S. Boston</a> have a knack for food, that\'s for sure.\r\n\r\nThey\'re also great at painting a picture. Check it out:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Elote by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4498280886/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4498280886_e058023523_o.jpg\" alt=\"Elote\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" /></a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4497727663/sizes/l/\">Get the full-sized schematic here</a>.\r\n\r\nOr, here\'s a text version of what\'s going on up there:\r\n\r\nYou are going to a baby shower and need to buy a gift. <strong>CHOOSE SCENARIO A</strong> or <strong>B</strong>.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCENARIO A.</strong> Chain or online shopping. The result? Your money leaves Oklahoma.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCENARIO B.</strong> Shop at <span style=\"color: red;\">Lundeby\'s Eco Baby</span>.\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\"> </span>\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\">The Lundeby\'s owner Tiffany Bjorlie</span> spends some of the money she makes at her shop dining at <span style=\"color: orange;\">Elote</span>.<span style=\"color: orange;\">\r\n</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: orange;\">Libby Auld, chef-owner at Elote</span>, uses the money she makes slinging puffy tacos to patronize <span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">local vendors for the food she needs to run her restaurant</span>.\r\n<span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\"> </span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">Local vendor Natural Farms</span> uses that money to support <span style=\"color: #3d85c6;\">local farmers</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3d85c6;\">The folks at 3 Peas in a Pod</span> uses the money they make with Natural Farms to buy a t-shirt from a local boutique - let\'s say, at <span style=\"color: purple;\">Dwelling Spaces</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">Mary Beth Babcock, owner at Dwelling Spaces</span>, does so much business she plum wears out her register counter. She uses money from her t-shirt sales to order a new counter from <span style=\"color: magenta;\">C2 Design</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: magenta;\">Jack Sampson at C2 Design</span> uses some of the money he made whipping up Mary Beth\'s new counter to gas up at <span style=\"color: cyan;\">QuikTrip</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: cyan;\">Quiktrip</span> is known for <span style=\"color: #45818e;\">it\'s higher-than-industry-standard salaries</span> - that\'s one of the reasons it\'s been judged one of the best places to work in the U.S. several times over.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #45818e;\">Well-paid employees</span> do what well-paid employees do - they use their incomes to buy houses. Many choose to procreate.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\">Guess who\'s gonna need a baby shower?</span>\r\n\r\nAh, how money makes the world go \'round.\r\n\r\nI especially love what\'s going on in the bottom left corner of this schematic, the Food for Thought section:\r\n\r\n<strong>8.517 percent (sales tax) of all $ spent locally go to our city and state. If we all made efforts to support local businesses rather than chains and online stores, maybe we could keep our police officers and firefighters. </strong>\r\n\r\nYeah. About that.\r\n\r\nAs long as we here in Tulsa are gonna stick to the sales tax method of funding what needs to get done via City Hall, it\'s incumbent on us to consider long and hard the consequences of what we perceive to be the convenience and low prices available at mega-marts, online shops and chain restaurants based outside our city. When sales levels in our tax base decrease, so do the sales taxes from which city services, including public safety, are funded.\r\n\r\nThe resulting question seems to be, are you willing to trade low prices and convenience for shopping locally?\r\n\r\nBut here\'s what I\'ve found: In most cases, there\'s no need to trade.\r\n\r\nFirst we have to talk about what low price really means. Say a local shirt shop carries a t-shirt and posts its price as $20. Then, a mega-chain comes into town. It carries the same shirt and, to attract more customers so the store can sell them an array of other products besides just the shirt, and thanks to the leverage enjoyed by entities able to buy more product to obtain lower, wholesale prices, the store posts the price of the shirt as $18.\r\n\r\nBecause of the array of products available at the mega-chain, its level of foot traffic is higher than anything the specialty t-shirt shop has ever seen. Surround sound-style marketing and advertising aimed to convince the consumer all of the prices at the mega-chain are lower than the prices anywhere else (and besides, even when not all of the prices are indeed the lowest, it\'s easier to do all of one\'s shopping at just one store rather than going to the trouble to visit several stores hunting for deals, so a lot of folks\' logic goes) only increases the allure.\r\n\r\nSoon, as customer exposure to the $18 shirt increases and exposure to the $20 shirt decreases, the perception on the market of the cost of that shirt becomes $18.\r\n\r\nAnd we all know what they say about perception.\r\n\r\nNow the local guy looks like a racketeer, and the price of the shirt, one of only a couple dozen items the shirt store owner carries, is changed, maybe permanently, to the detriment of his business and, as a result, all of the other local businesses he patronizes.\r\n\r\nPlus, the city collects less sales tax on $18 than it does on $20.\r\n\r\nPrice is a tricky thing, especially when we try to put it on a sliding scale with value. Convenience is weird, too. What I wonder is, how is it less convenient to park, walk into a store, do a little shopping, get great customer service, maybe a little free gift wrapping, and a heartfelt thank-you than to click through page after page of listings of merchandise saturated with advertising, spend an inordinate amount of time making a selection from thousands of choices, enter all of your identification and payment information, click submit and then watch the UPS tracker for five days until your item arrives at your door, seemingly the victim of the opening scene of the first Ace Ventura, Pet Detective movie?\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/dRZdHO8UCvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/dRZdHO8UCvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nWithout ever interacting with another human being.\r\n\r\nWhat do you think? Is it, in your opinion, worth it to shop and eat local, or isn\'t it?','Shopping/Eating Local: A Diagram','As long as we here in Tulsa are gonna stick to the sales tax method of funding what needs to get done via City Hall, it\'s incumbent on us to consider long and hard the consequences of what we perceive to be the convenience and low prices available at mega-marts, online shops and chain restaurants based outside our city.','inherit','open','open','','541-revision-3','','','2010-10-11 08:57:46','2010-10-11 13:57:46','',541,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/541-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2865,1,'2010-10-11 08:52:46','2010-10-11 13:52:46','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Elote by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4497644101/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4497644101_5136f488db.jpg\" alt=\"Elote\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Tulsa-conscious folks behind the tasty vittles <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">at Elote Cafe and Catering at 514 S. Boston</a> have a knack for food, that\'s for sure.\r\n\r\nThey\'re also great at painting a picture. Check it out:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Elote by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4498280886/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4498280886_e058023523_o.jpg\" alt=\"Elote\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" /></a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4497727663/sizes/l/\">Get the full-sized schematic here</a>.\r\n\r\nOr, here\'s a text version of what\'s going on up there:\r\n\r\nYou are going to a baby shower and need to buy a gift. <strong>CHOOSE SCENARIO A</strong> or <strong>B</strong>.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCENARIO A.</strong> Chain or online shopping. The result? Your money leaves Oklahoma.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCENARIO B.</strong> Shop at <span style=\"color: red;\">Lundeby\'s Eco Baby</span>.\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\"> </span>\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\">The Lundeby\'s owner Tiffany Bjorlie</span> spends some of the money she makes at her shop dining at <span style=\"color: orange;\">Elote</span>.<span style=\"color: orange;\">\r\n</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: orange;\">Libby Auld, chef-owner at Elote</span>, uses the money she makes slinging puffy tacos to patronize <span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">local vendors for the food she needs to run her restaurant</span>.\r\n<span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\"> </span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">Local vendor Natural Farms</span> uses that money to support <span style=\"color: #3d85c6;\">local farmers</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3d85c6;\">The folks at 3 Peas in a Pod</span> uses the money they make with Natural Farms to buy a t-shirt from a local boutique - let\'s say, at <span style=\"color: purple;\">Dwelling Spaces</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">Mary Beth Babcock, owner at Dwelling Spaces</span>, does so much business she plum wears out her register counter. She uses money from her t-shirt sales to order a new counter from <span style=\"color: magenta;\">C2 Design</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: magenta;\">Jack Sampson at C2 Design</span> uses some of the money he made whipping up Mary Beth\'s new counter to gas up at <span style=\"color: cyan;\">QuikTrip</span>.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: cyan;\">Quiktrip</span> is known for <span style=\"color: #45818e;\">it\'s higher-than-industry-standard salaries</span> - that\'s one of the reasons it\'s been judged one of the best places to work in the U.S. several times over.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #45818e;\">Well-paid employees</span> do what well-paid employees do - they use their incomes to buy houses. Many choose to procreate.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: red;\">Guess who\'s gonna need a baby shower?</span>\r\n\r\nAh, how money makes the world go \'round.\r\n\r\nI especially love what\'s going on in the bottom left corner of this schematic, the Food for Thought section:\r\n\r\n<strong>8.517 percent (sales tax) of all $ spent locally go to our city and state. If we all made efforts to support local businesses rather than chains and online stores, maybe we could keep our police officers and firefighters. </strong>\r\n\r\nYeah. About that.\r\n\r\nAs long as we here in Tulsa are gonna stick to the sales tax method of funding what needs to get done via City Hall, it\'s incumbent on us to consider long and hard the consequences of what we perceive to be the convenience and low prices available at mega-marts, online shops and chain restaurants based outside our city. When sales levels in our tax base decrease, so do the sales taxes from which city services, including public safety, are funded.\r\n\r\nThe resulting question seems to be, are you willing to trade low prices and convenience for shopping locally?\r\n\r\nBut here\'s what I\'ve found: In most cases, there\'s no need to trade.\r\n\r\nFirst we have to talk about what low price really means. Say a local shirt shop carries a t-shirt and posts its price as $20. Then, a mega-chain comes into town. It carries the same shirt and, to attract more customers so the store can sell them an array of other products besides just the shirt, and thanks to the leverage enjoyed by entities able to buy more product to obtain lower, wholesale prices, the store posts the price of the shirt as $18.\r\n\r\nBecause of the array of products available at the mega-chain, its level of foot traffic is higher than anything the specialty t-shirt shop has ever seen. Surround sound-style marketing and advertising aimed to convince the consumer all of the prices at the mega-chain are lower than the prices anywhere else (and besides, even when not all of the prices are indeed the lowest, it\'s easier to do all of one\'s shopping at just one store rather than going to the trouble to visit several stores hunting for deals, so a lot of folks\' logic goes) only increases the allure.\r\n\r\nSoon, as customer exposure to the $18 shirt increases and exposure to the $20 shirt decreases, the perception on the market of the cost of that shirt becomes $18.\r\n\r\nAnd we all know what they say about perception.\r\n\r\nNow the local guy looks like a racketeer, and the price of the shirt, one of only a couple dozen items the shirt store owner carries, is changed, maybe permanently, to the detriment of his business and, as a result, all of the other local businesses he patronizes.\r\n\r\nPlus, the city collects less sales tax on $18 than it does on $20.\r\n\r\nPrice is a tricky thing, especially when we try to put it on a sliding scale with value. Convenience is weird, too. What I wonder is, how is it less convenient to park, walk into a store, do a little shopping, get great customer service, maybe a little free gift wrapping, and a heartfelt thank-you than to click through page after page of listings of merchandise saturated with advertising, spend an inordinate amount of time making a selection from thousands of choices, enter all of your identification and payment information, click submit and then watch the UPS tracker for five days until your item arrives at your door, seemingly the victim of the opening scene of the first Ace Ventura, Pet Detective movie?\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/dRZdHO8UCvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/dRZdHO8UCvk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nWithout ever interacting with another human being.\r\n\r\nWhat do you think? Is it, in your opinion, worth it to shop and eat local, or isn\'t it?','Shopping/Eating Local: An Elote schematic with a side of TDT rant.','As long as we here in Tulsa are gonna stick to the sales tax method of funding what needs to get done via City Hall, it\'s incumbent on us to consider long and hard the consequences of what we perceive to be the convenience and low prices available at mega-marts, online shops and chain restaurants based outside our city.','inherit','open','open','','541-revision-2','','','2010-10-11 08:52:46','2010-10-11 13:52:46','',541,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/541-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(543,1,'2010-04-07 15:20:00','2010-04-07 15:20:00','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/tulsa-area-farmers-markets/cherrystreetfarmersmarket/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7331\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/CherryStreetFarmersMarket.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market Tulsa Oklahoma\" title=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market Tulsa Oklahoma\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7331\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nI\'ve gone farmers\' market crazy, people. I just can\'t stop thinking about produce fresh from the farm and all the sights and sounds that go along with open-air markets.\r\n\r\nMy goal this year is to try Tulsa-area farmers markets to which I\'ve never been. He\'s my list, which includes every market in the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_Metropolitan_Area\">Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area</a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nFeel free to adopt it as your own, and be sure to thank the folks with <a href=\"http://www.kerrcenter.com/buy-fresh.htm\">the Buy Fresh Buy Local Oklahoma campaign</a> for compiling such useful (and delicious) information.\r\n\r\n<h3>Tulsa County Farmers\' Markets</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Downtown Tulsa Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesdays, 10:30am-2pm, May-October\r\nWhere: Williams Green, 3rd Street and Boston Avenue\r\n\r\n<strong>Broken Arrow Market on Main</strong>\r\nWhen: Tuesdays, 4:30-8pm; and Saturdays, 8am-1pm, April 17-October 9\r\nWhere: 418 S. Main Street in Broken Arrow\r\n\r\n<strong>Brookside Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesdays, 8am-12pm, May 5-October 20\r\nWhere: Food Pyramid parking lot at 39th and Peoria\r\n\r\n<strong>Collinsville Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesday and Saturday, 8-11am, June-October\r\nWhere: Downtown Collinsville, 12th STreet and Main\r\n\r\n<strong>North Tulsa Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesdays, 2-6pm, May-October; and Saturdays, 8:30am-12:30pm, June-October\r\nWhere: On Wednesdays, Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus; On Saturdays, Newsome Community Farm, 2620 E. 56th Street North\r\n\r\n<strong>Owasso Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesdays, 7-11am, May 5-October 13; and Saturdays, 8am-12pm, May 1-October 16\r\nWhere: YMCA parking lot, on the service road just west of U.S.169.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sperry Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesdays, 5-7pm; and Saturdays, 8-11am\r\nWhere: North of Sperry on HWY 11\r\n\r\n<strong>Pearl Farmers\' Markets</strong>\r\nWhen: Thursdays, 4-7pm, April 15-September 30\r\nWhere: Centennial Park, on the southwest corner of 6th STreet and Peoria Ave.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cherry Street Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturdays, 7-11am, April 10-October 2\r\nWhere: 15th Street, just east of Peoria\r\n\r\n<strong>Jenks Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturdays, 7am-12pm, May-October\r\nWhere: To be announced\r\n\r\n<strong>Osage Hills Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturdays, 8am-12pm, June-September\r\nWhere: 202 E. Rogers in Skiatook\r\n\r\n<h3>Okmulgee County Farmers\' Markets</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Okmulgee Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Fridays, 10am-2pm, April-October\r\nWhere: Creek Council House on town square, 100 E. Sixth Street\r\n\r\n<h3>Pawnee County Farmers\' Markets</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Cleveland Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturdays, 8am-12pm, June-October\r\nWhere: Downtown Cleveland\r\n\r\n<h3>Rogers County Farmers\' Markets</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>Claremore Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Wednesdays, 3-6pm; and Saturdays, 7am-sell out, May-October\r\nWhere: Expo Center, northeast corner of the parking lot, 400 Veterans Parkway\r\n\r\n<strong>Clesea, Vinita, Adair Farmers\' Market</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturdays\r\nWhere: TBA. Contact Mike Krukoski for more information, (918) 789-2484.\r\n\r\n<h3>Wagoner County Farmers\' Markets</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Market at Blake Park</strong>\r\nWhen: Saturdays, 8am-12pm, May-mid-October\r\nWhere: Blake Park, at the intersection of US 69 and HWY 51\r\n\r\nHappy shopping!','Where to Find Tulsa-Area Farmers Markets','My goal this year is to try Tulsa-area farmers markets to which I\'ve never been. He\'s my list, which includes every market in the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area.','private','open','open','','tulsa-area-farmers-markets','','','2015-08-10 17:03:10','2015-08-10 23:03:10','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=543',0,'post','',15),(544,1,'2010-04-07 21:25:00','2010-04-07 21:25:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"garypainting4 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4500440263/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4500440263_f5c7f624ab.jpg\" alt=\"garypainting4\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/\">The Tulsa Zoo</a> made a splash in the art world last year with its art exhibition Art: UNTAMED, a collection of art pieces created by the animals of Tulsa Zoo, whether with paw, trunk or paintbrush.\r\n\r\nThe notion of a Penguin Picasso or a Meerkat Monet may seem bold and unusual, but art is actually a big part of many Tulsa Zoo animals\' routines. Painting provides enrichment and activity that keeps animals nimble and amused, from the Elephant Yard to Chimp Connection.\r\n\r\n<strong>The latest collection of these animal avant-garde creations will be revealed at Joe Momma’s downtown this month</strong>. Don\'t miss your chance to see the stunning masterpieces from such artsy animals as Sooky the elephant, Gary the Guinea Hog and the poignant final impression of the Tulsa Zoo\'s polar bear, Kavek.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Art:UNTAMED by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4500437493/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4500437493_b6e1aafb36_b.jpg\" alt=\"Art:UNTAMED\" width=\"633\" height=\"819\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>Tonight, from 6-9 p.m., the art enthusiasts behind the counter at Joe Momma’s are helping present this latest collection in style</strong>. Look for live music by Ali Harter and a wine tasting - you know, really swanky stuff, but with pizza.\r\n\r\nJust the way I like my charitable social functions.\r\n\r\nAs you plan your weekend, take note that <strong>this Saturday\'s Momma\'s book club, an event that brings kids and parents together through books, pizza and crafts at Joe Momma\'s each and every week, will feature the Tulsa Zoo</strong>, including a special offer on Tulsa Zoo Friend memberships. Get there before 11:30 to ensure you\'ll have a table - this event packs out both dining rooms at JM pretty much every week.\r\n\r\nThe first installation of Art: UNTAMED nearly sold out. Art and animal lovers snapping up these pieces that inspire wonder, conversation and, most importantly, the chance to educate others about these fascinating animals. Having one of these paintings hanging in your home or at your business not only adds pizzazz, but it also represents a commitment to building a better zoo.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Art:UNTAMED by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4500432419/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4500432419_29d75051ea_b.jpg\" alt=\"Art:UNTAMED\" width=\"633\" height=\"819\" /></a></div>\r\nI don\'t know about y\'all, but I think Nacho has to be pretty much the best name for an alligator, ever.\r\n\r\nIn case you didn\'t know, the Tulsa Zoo is located in Mohawk Park on 36th Street North, just east of Sheridan. The zoo is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Admission is $8.00 for adults, $6.00 for seniors age 65 and older and $4.00 for children age 3-11; children 2 and under and Zoo Friends members are free. Zoo Friends memberships, which come with free zoo admission, can pay for themselves after just a few visits - call (918) 669-6600 or <a href=\"http://www.tulsazoo.org/\">visit The Zoo</a> on the Web to find out more or to become a membership.','Art:UNTAMED 2010 Opens at Joe Momma\'s Downtown Tonight','The Tulsa Zoo made a splash in the art world last year with its art exhibition Art: UNTAMED, a collection of art pieces created by the animals of Tulsa Zoo, whether with paw, trunk or paintbrush.','publish','open','open','','artuntamed-2010-opens-at-joe-mommas','','','2010-10-11 08:43:36','2010-10-11 13:43:36','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=544',0,'post','',0),(545,1,'2010-04-07 23:25:00','2010-04-07 23:25:00','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Cu7G8GD6e_c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Cu7G8GD6e_c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.onedaywithoutshoes.com/\">Coming up tomorrow is the One Day Without Shoes event</a>, a day spent in awareness about the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child\'s life. All day you\'ll see folks all over town walking around without a thing protecting their feet from the sidewalk, street or grass below, all in an effort to experience life without shoes first hand, and to inspire others and increase awareness at the same time.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>Through everyday encounters with domestic poverty, we are reminded to appreciate having food and shelter, but most of us all but forget about our feet. Food, shelter, AND shoes facilitate life’s fundamentals. Imagine a life without shoes; constantly aware of the ground in front of you, suffering regular cuts and scrapes, tending to infection after each walk, and enduring not only terrain, but heat and cold.\r\n\r\nOf course, there\'s a product for sale at the bottom of this awareness campaign, and it\'s <a href=\"http://www.toms.com/\">TOMS shoes</a>. While TOMS isn\'t based in Tulsa (not that you couldn\'t move here, TOMS - there\'s still time!), it\'s still on the shortlist of companies I admire enough to write about here on this crazy blog. Their message and their mission goes over well with this native Tulsan, raised in one of the most giving and philanthropic cities in the U.S. - with every pair of TOMS shoes purchased, the company gives a pair of new shoes to a child in need.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113651045313988&amp;ref=ts\"><strong>Brookside boutique Ida Red is hosting its own One Day Without Shoes barefoot walk</strong></a>. You can take part by showing up at 3346 S. Peoria tomorrow (Thursday) night at 5:30 p.m. The walk will get started at 6. Bring your banners, t-shirts, support and, of course, your bare tootsies.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs448.snc3/25674_1289770798113_1045525445_30778668_5230930_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\nAnd also, your best, loudest, most Hanson-worthy squee.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/jFmi0Hdj964&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/jFmi0Hdj964&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThat\'s right. Not only do you get to take a stand (a barefoot stand, but a stand nonetheless) against the forces of poverty, but you also get to scope out three of Tulsa\'s homegrown superstars. Cool, right?\r\n\r\nSo, after hearing about this event, I couldn\'t help but think about the places in Tulsa I wouldn\'t want to be caught without shoes. The irony is, the places to where I might consider bringing an extra pair of shoes in case I lost of first one because the prospect of going barefoot is just that unnerving are the same parts of town where our kids are less likely to be able to afford them in the first place.\r\n\r\nThis barefoot problem, it\'s not an issue that\'s relegated to some foreign country thousands of miles away, on the other side of a vast ocean. If supporting the effort to raise awareness about the lack of access to shoes in the world\'s impoverished countries seems abstract to you, head to Ida Red tomorrow night with a banner calling attention to the fact that organizations like <a href=\"http://www.catholiccharitiestulsa.org/\">Catholic Charities</a>, <a href=\"http://www.projectelf.org/\">Project Elf</a> and scores of others work every day to find shoes for Tulsa\'s children.\r\n\r\nBefore you head out to the walk at Ida Red, be sure to RSVP on <a href=\"http://my.toms.com/node/217\">the TOMS site</a>. Doing this will enter you into a drawing for an all-expense paid shoe drop. How cool would that be? Plus, sending in your RSVP helps the folks at <a href=\"http://www.idaredboutique.com/\">Ida Red, an independent, local business</a>, with future TOMS events.\r\n\r\nEven if you can\'t make the walk, spent at least a few minutes barefoot tomorrow. Contemplate what life would be life if you didn\'t have the choice to put those shoes back on, a choice that\'s out of reach not only for kids on the other side of the world, but also for children right here in our own community.','Hanson Leads One Day Without Shoes Walk in Tulsa','Coming up tomorrow is the One Day Without Shoes event, a day spent in awareness about the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child\'s life.','publish','open','open','','hanson-leads-one-day-without-shoes-walk','','','2010-10-11 08:42:51','2010-10-11 13:42:51','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=545',0,'post','',3),(546,1,'2010-04-08 14:27:00','2010-04-08 14:27:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gatsby\'s by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4502847672/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2760/4502847672_26ba22862b.jpg\" alt=\"Gatsby\'s\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nGot a case of the morning rumblies?\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>I\'m sorry. I\'m the parent of a two-year-old, and I say things like \"morning rumblies.\" One day I will re-assimilate into normal society and speak a language that doesn\'t give everyone the heebies.\r\n\r\nMaybe.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gatsby\'s by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4502847490/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4502847490_a1ac2152e2.jpg\" alt=\"Gatsby\'s\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nThis was my breakfast yesterday morning. I had some time to kill between dropping my son off at school and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/fun-with-periodontist.html\">yet another periodontist appointment</a>. Plus, I had a case of those morning rumblies.\r\n\r\nSo, I hit <a href=\"http://www.gardnersbooks.com/index_files/Page527.htm\">Gatsby\'s, the cafe just north of Gardner\'s Books at 44th and Memorial</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/12/study-in-burgers.html\">I\'ve already told you about the amazing burgers at Gatsby\'s</a>. Today, I\'m going to tell you about this breakfast sandwich.\r\n\r\nEgg, your choice of a giant slice of ham, bacon or sausage, tomato, onion and cheese is served on a house-made bun with a side of these rustic, thick-cut hash browns.\r\n\r\nSee all of that food on that plate up there? Guess how much it cost. If I were to just look at the photo, I\'d venture a guess of about $12. But, no. It\'s not $10, either. It\'s not even $7. Or $5.\r\n\r\nIt\'s three freaking dollars ($3!), plus a bit of the change jingling around in your pocket.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gatsby\'s by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4502847490/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4502847490_a1ac2152e2.jpg\" alt=\"Gatsby\'s\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd while you\'re chowing down on your huge, delicious breakfast sandwich and sipping your coffee, either at a large, comfy booth or at a bistro table, you can use the free wifi at Gardner\'s. It\'s great for generating a quick blog post before you gas your periodontist with your onion-and-coffee breath.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nGatsby\'s offers a variety of breakfast plates, ranging from omelets to a couple of eggs with bacon to a full-blown chicken fried steak breakfast. Whichever way you decide to go, the most you could possibly spend at Gatsby\'s on breakfast is $7.50.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gatsby\'s by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4502212815/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4502212815_8e32b3871c.jpg\" alt=\"Gatsby\'s\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nAs you can tell from the photo of my impromptu workspace above (look behind the sandwich), I can\'t walk by a beautiful display case full of baked items without snagging something. See that M&amp;M cookie back there? Behind the breakfast sandwich?\r\n\r\nYeah. I had plans for that cookie. And come mid-afternoon, they were executed.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gatsby\'s by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4502846984/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4502846984_c68e95cf98.jpg\" alt=\"Gatsby\'s\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nThe display case weakness worked in my favor yesterday, actually. Not only did I get a huge, inexpensive breakfast, free wifi and great service from the folks at Gatsby\'s, but I also had a cookie to share with my son when I picked him up from school yesterday.\r\n\r\nThanks for the good karma, Gatsby\'s. I think I\'m gonna need it with this kid.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Coffeehouse on Cherry Street by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4502264151/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4502264151_56dd29fc16.jpg\" alt=\"Coffeehouse on Cherry Street\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nIf you\'d like to call ahead for breakfast, lunch or dinner at Gatsby\'s, just give \'em a ring at (918) 764-9532. And keep in mind that when you order dinner from now until April 17 you can take your receipt to the bookstore next door and get a paperback for free.\r\n\r\nYeah. Good food AND free books.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gatsby\'s by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4502847672/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2760/4502847672_26ba22862b.jpg\" alt=\"Gatsby\'s\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nNow you know why I write about this place all the stinkin\' time.','Hungry? Check out Gatsby\'s for breakfast.','Got a case of the morning rumblies?','publish','open','open','','hungry-check-out-gatsbys-for-breakfast','','','2010-10-11 08:41:12','2010-10-11 13:41:12','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=546',0,'post','',3),(2857,1,'2010-10-11 08:40:14','2010-10-11 13:40:14','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4504549988_7170aaa65d.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nOpening night at ONEOK Field was was killer, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549002/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4504549002_b1e35b8fcb.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503916711/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4503916711_1dc09c9008.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503916831/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/4503916831_995cd489a9.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549324/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4504549324_8b6c375833.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549626/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4504549626_6a1c6ae034.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503917331/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4503917331_72360db553.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503917423/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4503917423_64fce7e468.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549824/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4504549824_9e8f335a0f.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4504549988_7170aaa65d.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503918363/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/4503918363_e271f2fd59.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503918435/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/4503918435_19f2d4dc2f.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nSo, yeah, I had a gnarly time tonight at <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">the Drillers game at ONEOK Field</a>, dudes (yes, I can say gnarly - I grew up in the \'80s, so I\'ve earned it). And I have a feeling Fireworks Friday might be even better, not to mention Family Day Sunday.\r\n\r\nAre you going to hit up a Drillers game this weekend?','Not bad for a historic ballpark opening in my favorite part of town.','Opening night at ONEOK Field was was killer, y\'all.','inherit','open','open','','549-revision-2','','','2010-10-11 08:40:14','2010-10-11 13:40:14','',549,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/549-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(3613,1,'2010-11-11 08:19:29','2010-11-11 13:19:29','','Veterans Day Memorial Park Cemetery','','inherit','open','open','','dsc_1639-4','','','2010-11-11 08:19:29','2010-11-11 13:19:29','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_16391.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(549,1,'2010-04-09 03:58:00','2010-04-09 03:58:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4504549988_7170aaa65d.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nOpening night at ONEOK Field was was killer, y\'all.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549002/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4504549002_b1e35b8fcb.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503916711/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4503916711_1dc09c9008.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503916831/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/4503916831_995cd489a9.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549324/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4504549324_8b6c375833.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549626/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4504549626_6a1c6ae034.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503917331/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4503917331_72360db553.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503917423/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4503917423_64fce7e468.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549824/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4504549824_9e8f335a0f.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4504549988_7170aaa65d.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503918363/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2746/4503918363_e271f2fd59.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4503918435/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/4503918435_19f2d4dc2f.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nAnd I have a feeling <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">Fireworks Friday</a> is going to be even better, not to mention <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">Family Day Sunday</a>.\r\n\r\nAre you going to hit up a Drillers game this weekend?','ONEOK Field: Opening Night [PHOTOS]','On Thursday, April 9, 2010, Tulsa\'s ONEOK Field opened to with the first Drillers home game of the season. ','publish','open','open','','oneok-field-tulsa-drillers-opening-night-photos','','','2011-04-06 12:04:38','2011-04-06 18:04:38','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=549',0,'post','',3),(550,1,'2010-04-09 16:53:00','2010-04-09 16:53:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3521348008/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3521348008_7c255868c1.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nA trip to the farmers\' market is not only an opportunity to stock up on homegrown produce and handmade goodies, but it\'s also a teaching tool, especially for parents of young children.\r\n\r\nThere\'s no reason any parent should spend a trip to the farmers\' market barking at their kids not to touch anything, or to be still and quiet the entire time. Kiddos don\'t need to be confined to a stroller, either. Know why? There\'s very little a child can hurt or break at a farmers\' market, and no one at the farmers\' market cares if your young\'un feels like squealing like a banshee or dancing around like a possessed weirdo. Really, s/he will seem like just a member of the club.\r\n\r\nWhat I\'m trying to say here is, the farmers\' market is one of the most kid-friendly places in town. As long as you\'re aware of your children\'s whereabouts at all times and as long as they\'re not trying to sneak heirloom tomatoes home in their diaper covers, feel free to cut loose.\r\n\r\nThere\'s a saddening and growing amount of evidence out there that tells us our children\'s generation is losing touch with real, whole foods. This is dangerous because it\'s these types of foods that keep us healthy and grow young bodies, not the processed junk they find on their trays at school or at the drive-thru. The more familiar your child is with actual food, not composite chicken nuggets, frozen french fries or boxed mashed potatoes, and the earlier you make the effort to get the message about good foods across, the more like s/he will lead a long, healthy, flavor-rich life.\r\n\r\nBut that still leaves the question of how exactly to get small kids actively participating in a trip to the farmers\' market. I have a few ideas on this, and I like to base them on our five senses for easy recall: Sight, hearing, touch, smell and, most exciting, taste.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.ttownmoms.com/?page=blogs/view&amp;BLID=8107\">Reel in the tips over at my blog on Ttownmoms.com</a>.','How to Explore Farmers\' Markets with Your Kids','A trip to the farmers\' market is not only an opportunity to stock up on homegrown produce and handmade goodies, but it\'s also a teaching tool, especially for parents of young children.','publish','open','open','','how-to-explore-farmers-markets-with','','','2010-10-11 08:36:12','2010-10-11 13:36:12','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=550',0,'post','',1),(551,1,'2010-04-10 21:36:00','2010-04-10 21:36:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508954656/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/4508954656_65aae66f44.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nI see you, baby.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508313615/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4508313615_4a3a38e7b2.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nShakin\' that thing.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508954502/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/4508954502_3181f56026.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI\'ve been hearing whispers about <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fat-Guys-Burger-Bar/107269035966212\">Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar</a> - the Greenwood District\'s newest restaurant, right next door to the east entrance of the new ONEOK Field - for a couple of months now. Word was that it would be awesome. The fries, they would be stellar. The burgers, ground-breaking. The beer, ice cold.\r\n\r\nThe location, positively choice.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508954656/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/4508954656_65aae66f44.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nFat Guy\'s opened its doors just a few days before opening night at the baseball field, and <a href=\"http://www.tulsabusiness.com/search.asp?keyword=&amp;author=holly+wall&amp;date1=&amp;date2=&amp;category=All\">my buddy Holly Wall</a> and I managed to squeeze in for lunch. And let me tell you, folks, the fries, they were indeed stellar. The beer, it was cold AND local (thanks for the tap of <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall</a>, Fat Guy\'s - that\'s the way to be).\r\n\r\nThe burgers were good enough to stand up alongside the best of the best burger stands in Tulsa - we\'re talking the upper echelon of burger royalty in Tulsa, comprised of the likes of Claud\'s, Hank\'s and Brownie\'s. Yes, really.\r\n\r\nDon\'t believe me? Ask downtown restaurateur Blake Ewing. He\'s the guy behind <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">all the deliciousness happening at Joe Momma\'s pizza</a>, and if you\'ve eaten at Joe Momma\'s, you know that Blake is a source to be trusted when it comes to great food.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508313763/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2127/4508313763_0252cd8053.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nHolly and I found him at Fat Guy\'s with his brother Tony \"on a man date.\" His words, not mine.\r\n\r\nSo, Blake, how\'s the burger? Is it better than, say, Claud\'s?\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508954818/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2085/4508954818_9f8bb7b167.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\"It\'s pretty damn good.\"\r\n\r\nA raving compliment, I assure you. Just look at the man\'s face.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508955140/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/4508955140_cfd25207c1.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI couldn\'t tell you how relieved I was to find good food at Fat Guy\'s. When there\'s a ton of buzz about a new restaurant, things could still go either way. But, when they go south, it\'s not pretty. Disappointed people love to talk, and it\'s hard for any restaurant to recover from that, even if the place gets its crap together.\r\n\r\nThen there\'s the fact that Fat Guy\'s is ONEOK Field\'s next-door neighbor. This little place has been slammed since opening day on Thursday, and from what I\'ve heard, they\'ve managed to do more than hold everything together - they\'ve gone and impressed the hell out of everyone I know who\'s been there.\r\n\r\nPlus, I love the Greenwood District, and I can\'t tell you how it makes me feel to see such incredible, new and exciting things developing there. And now, between <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?aID=75887604.1384851.646737.8127362.20721503.209&amp;aID2=49740\">Abear\'s (here\'s my review in Tulsa Business Journal</a>) and Fat Guy\'s, I can say that not only do I love the Greenwood District, but that I love to eat in the Greenwood District.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508955140/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/4508955140_cfd25207c1.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nNot all parts of town have earned this distinction from me, if you know what I mean. If there\'s nothing but gaudy chain restaurants in a neighborhood, odds are you\'ll find me dining elsewhere.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508955022/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4508955022_6a9166a59a.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nEven if you aren\'t into baseball, or if bright, shiny, beautiful, new ballparks aren\'t your thing, head to Fat Guy\'s for dinner tonight. It\'s an easy way to be part of the action without joining the ranks of sports spectators, and you\'ll get an impressive meal out of it besides.\r\n\r\nThen, there\'s this patio.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508313903/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/4508313903_5cbf8ba90f.jpg\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar in Greenwood\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nListen. It\'s calling your name. Do as the patio tells you and all of your wildest dreams will come true.\r\n\r\nBefore I go I want to share with you a few other resources I found on Fat Guy\'s that made me smile.\r\n\r\nThere\'s this new local food blog, <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodguy.com/\">Tulsa Food Guy</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodguy.com/blog/2010/04/americas-pastime-baseball-beer-burgers-oneok-field/\">he wrote about the unconventional burger fixin\'s available at Fat Guy\'s. Check it</a>, along with his photo of the menu board.\r\n\r\nThen there\'s <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=376392167446\">this video from Western Doughty, the photog behind Haftone Photography, in which this dude Ben takes on the house burger challenge at Fat Guy\'s</a>. Involved were two pounds of beef, 15 slices of bacon, 16 slices of cheese and two butterflied hot dogs and, yes, many an animal was harmed in the making of this video.\r\n\r\nWhen you try Fat Guy\'s, be sure to report back here with your findings. I\'d love to hear from someone who\'s had the peanut butter burger.\r\n\r\nNow go forth and masticate.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1518433/restaurant/Blue-Dome-District/Fat-Guys-Burger-Bar-Tulsa\"><img style=\"border: none; height: 146px; width: 200px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/1518433/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar: Everything You\'ve Heard Is True.','I\'ve been hearing whispers about Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar - the Greenwood District\'s newest restaurant, right next door to the Greenwood entrance of the new ONEOK Field - for a couple of months now.','publish','open','open','','fat-guys-burger-bar-everything-youve','','\nhttp://www.tulsafoodguy.com/blog/2010/04/americas-pastime-baseball-beer-burgers-oneok-field/','2011-02-23 13:10:29','2011-02-23 18:10:29','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=551',0,'post','',14),(552,1,'2010-04-10 23:32:00','2010-04-10 23:32:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508270333/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2133/4508270333_abce8c4a7f.jpg\" alt=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nHey, hot mammas. Look what I found this week.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508910968/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/4508910968_90b3effbc4.jpg\" alt=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nI don\'t know about you other Tulsa moms out there, but if I try to take my son to a restaurant, a museum, a bathroom or down a cold, dark alley without something for him to do, I can pretty much count on him to completely freak out about 15 minutes into any of the above said adventures.\r\n\r\nConsidering that I rarely do Tulsa alone - my two-year-old son is recognized around town more often than I am, and pretty much always before me, because we do darn near everything together and, well, someone old and less cute has to man the camera - I have a plentiful stock of toddler diversions on hand at any given time, ranging from broken cell phones to those mini Tonka trucks to interview notes (never a good choice, but almost always better than a major meltdown in public).\r\n\r\nBut ever since my latest trip to <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces, downtown at 119 S. Detroit</a>, I think I\'ll start leaving that junk at home. Because I found something better. Something really, really smart.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508270627/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/4508270627_5bdfe5561d.jpg\" alt=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nIt\'s a fold-up crayon and tablet pouch, complete with velcro fastener. My son enjoys opening and closing it as much as he likes to scribble and rearrange the \"coy-lers.\" Plus, it\'s made well, I don\'t have to button or unclasp anything for my son to be able to play with it and, hello, it\'s as cute as all get out.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508270799/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2702/4508270799_52da45f3be.jpg\" alt=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nSo, I bought two - one to keep, one to give away.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508911076/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/4508911076_9827e992fd.jpg\" alt=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/shoppingeating-local-elote-schematic.html\">If you all think I get fired up about shopping local</a>, just wait until you hear me wax poetic about buying handmade. As a crafter myself (if I had more time for any one thing, it\'d be for knitting), I understand the time and effort and skill required to make something that will please and be useful to someone else, not to mention something that won\'t cost me an arm, a leg and 67 hours to make.\r\n\r\nWhen you can, buy handmade either directly from the craftsperson or from a local vendor. It\'s the absolute best way to get your retail therapy on, especially in terms of supporting the local economy and receiving something original and thoughtfully made in exchange.\r\n\r\nThese crayon pouches are made right here in Tulsa by <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/explodingmary\">Tex Montana, which is the coolest name ever, under the banner explodingmary designs</a>. Tex makes beautiful quilts, too. Ask Mary Beth at Dwelling Spaces if you can see them next time you\'re in. You all will freak out, dudes included. They\'re hip, modern and funky, but they\'re still cuddly, handmade quilts, and that\'s a combo I can get on board with.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a baby quilt from <a href=\"http://www.etsy.com/shop/explodingmary\">the explodingmary Etsy page</a>:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.117363013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.117363091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></div>\r\n<blockquote>\"Please don\'t cover your cute baby with an ugly quilt!\r\n\r\nUse this one instead. 100% cotton fabric featuring Denyse Schmidt fabrics from her Katie Jump Rope line. Batting 80/20 cotton.Measures approximately 45\" X 60\". Original design, completely handmade while whistling happy tunes. Ok, I may have cussed a little, too. But mostly just the happy whistling. Machine pieced and quilted, hand bound. And I wouldn\'t dream of selling you a baby quilt that wasn\'t machine washable. No way!\r\n\r\nMind-numbingly boring: This is an original design. That means don\'t make one like this and try to sell it. I will send goons to your house. You will not like these goons. (Design Copy Right 2010 by explodingmary designs by Tex Montana)\"</blockquote>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">So, do you all think Tex would be friends with me? No? I\'m not good enough, you say? I\'m not smart enough? And by the way, no one likes me?</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Yeah. You\'re probably right. If Tex ever decided to hang out with me, I\'d be too busy apologizing the entire time for my lameness for us to do anything cool.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4508270627/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/4508270627_5bdfe5561d.jpg\" alt=\"Crayon Pouch, ExplodingMary Designs by Tex Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nSo, these uber-cute crayon pouches. They\'re $12. As in, you could go crazy in the $1 aisle at a big-box store, snag a bunch of crap that breaks the second time it\'s used and feel really dirty and guilty afterward, or you could purchase a bit of handcrafted insanity insurance from a store that continues to be an integral part of the revitalization of the heart of our city.\r\n\r\nChoose wisely, my fellow mothers. Our control of the purse strings in the households of this country, it\'s a force with which to be reckoned. Wield it with care and for stuff that doesn\'t suck.','Tulsa moms, buy this if you want to live.','I don\'t know about you other Tulsa moms out there, but if I try to take my son to a restaurant, a museum, a bathroom or down a cold, dark alley without something for him to do, I can pretty much count on him to completely freak out about 15 minutes into any of the above said adventures.','publish','open','open','','art-wallets-tex-montana','','','2010-10-04 20:57:47','2010-10-05 01:57:47','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=552',0,'post','',7),(553,1,'2010-04-11 14:00:00','2010-04-11 14:00:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fireworks Friday at ONEOK Field by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4509401069/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2291/4509401069_169ca34814.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks Friday at ONEOK Field\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nAfter spending a good part of the weekend there, I can attest that <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">ONEOK Field, the new home of our Tulsa Drillers</a>, is one of the most family-friendly destinations in Tulsa. Part of why is the packed schedule of promotions available there.\r\n\r\nLearn about what\'s going on for kids and their caregivers at ONEOK Field, <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/?page=blogs/view&amp;BLID=8118\">including what\'s going on today (yep, baseball players work even on Sundays), on my blog at Ttownmoms.com</a>.','ONEOK Field: A Home Run for Tulsa Families','After spending a good part of the weekend there, I can attest that ONEOK Field, the new home of our Tulsa Drillers, is one of the most family-friendly destinations in Tulsa.','publish','open','open','','oneok-field-home-run-for-tulsa-families','','','2010-10-04 20:55:31','2010-10-05 01:55:31','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=553',0,'post','',0),(554,1,'2010-04-12 19:53:00','2010-04-12 19:53:00','<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515103434/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4515103434_5f14cecd1a.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe Cherry Street Farmers\' Market, the largest farmers\' market in Tulsa and one of the largest in the region, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/this-saturday-its-coming-new-improved.html\">kicked off its 2010 season Saturday morning with a ribbon cutting to celebrate its new home on 15th Street</a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\nAs in, literally, on 15th Street. This ain\'t no parking lot operation confined to the corner of 15th and Quaker anymore, folks. It\'s a full-fledged open-air street market, complete with live music and the Cherry Street stores and cafes jumping into the fun by serving breakfast and opening their doors to the street, all rolled up in a festival atmosphere.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515103302/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/4515103302_9bb3aa800a.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTo say that the market was well-attended would be an understatement. Here\'s what I mean.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515104516/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4515104516_31aa6c520f.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nPictured above is the state of things at the <a href=\"http://www.threespringsfarm.com/\">Three Springs Farm</a> booth by the time my little family got around and rolled in to the market, about an hour after it opened. Word on the street was that produce at this stand, along with that at many others, was either picked over or completely gone by 7:30, just a half-hour after opening.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what Emily and Mike at Three Springs showed up with Saturday morning (photo from the CSFM Facebook page):\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs422.snc3/24396_108020122567932_100000798342941_65694_1225299_n.jpg\" width=\"400\" />\r\n\r\nAnd thirty minutes later...\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515104388/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/4515104388_3a20b179a5.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nNadda. Zip. Zilch. Except, of course, Mike\'s friendly, smiling face and the sound Emily\'s chipper voice as she carried on with customers - customers who, by the way, weren\'t pissed off that they\'d missed out on Three Springs\' produce. In fact, they were overjoyed. They were ecstatic to see their favorite farmers doing so well.\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s Way in Which a Trip to the Farmers\' Market is Different From a Trip to a Big-box Grocery Store No. 852.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515103846/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4515103846_9f62e5afda.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe saw several old friends Saturday morning, and we made some new ones, too.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515106952/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4515106952_5fd0141c6d.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEver had cheese from a local dairy?\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514471153/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4514471153_bb7dd1e5e3.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt can be a religious experience. Just be advised that it\'s okay to do your happy dance after that first taste.\r\n\r\nThese dairy farmers, they get that a lot. They don\'t expect it, but at the same time, they\'re ready for you and your happy dance, no matter how arrhythmic and sad and lonely. Another nibble of a little somethin\' smooth and creamy and everyone will feel all better.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514470703/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4514470703_1b51ddfc05.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515106534/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4515106534_9b92c8c836.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514470023/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4514470023_a449b50b3f.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515105942/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2293/4515105942_5a0651e5e8.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n\r\nBoy, do I love me some man soap. And I don\'t mean Axe or Irish Spring. I like my man to smell like scents that actually occur in nature, not like some strong cologne or weird, artificial mystery scents.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514468955/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/4514468955_aaf65d684e.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nHeh. Pork and Greens. Get it? Pork and Greens? Love the name, love the people.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515105168/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/4515105168_3541abda6c.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat there is Wes Downing of Downing Family Farm out in Grove, just less than 100 miles from Tulsa. He\'s a super-nice guy, he knows his product and he\'s committed to what he calls clean food. In fact, he started a co-op last winter, the Tulsa Clean Food Market. It\'s an easy way to pre-order everything from grass-fed, free-range eggs to locally-made apple pie for guaranteed pick up at the Cherry Street Farmers\' Market.\r\n\r\nPlus, TCFM is nice to have around during the winter months when there aren\'t any farmers\' markets in Tulsa. Once you get used to having grass-fed eggs, it\'s hard to go back to the grocery store stuff come October.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514469279/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/4514469279_7e286345de.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515105502/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/4515105502_3e8a103c0a.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nOn Saturday we snagged a dozen eggs and a pound and a half of bacon from Downing.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Downing Family Farm by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515034953/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4515034953_6957fbed70.jpg\" alt=\"Downing Family Farm\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe had an Oklahoma-grown breakfast before church yesterday.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Downing Family Farm by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515672148/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4515672148_3bc9bf064c.jpg\" alt=\"Downing Family Farm\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI\'m sorry, but look at the thickness of that bacon. This should be certified bacon p0rn, people. It\'s obscene, really.\r\n\r\nAnd yet, we can\'t look away.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Downing Family Farm by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515672220/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4515672220_3cb28904e1.jpg\" alt=\"Downing Family Farm\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Downing Family Farm by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515034839/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2162/4515034839_3c87b8f81e.jpg\" alt=\"Downing Family Farm\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nEven though the hubs overcooked my egg (a travesty, I know!), it was still delish. There\'s a subtle difference in taste between store-bought and farm-fresh eggs - the real significant difference is in the texture and body of the egg. Store-bought eggs just can\'t compete.\r\n\r\nAnd do I need to say anything further about the bacon? Except that it will make you want to curl up and cry for your mommy? And move out to the country to start a farm so you\'ll never have to eat anything else?\r\n\r\nTrust me, this bacon, it\'s worth the 4:30 a.m. rooster wake-up calls. And the poop shoveling.\r\n\r\nI wouldn\'t lie to you. Not about anything. But especially not about bacon.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514471349/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2054/4514471349_b0b082cc04.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515107298/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2775/4515107298_839acf948e.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515107770/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4515107770_fa6d1d024a.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515107438/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/4515107438_fb6f229231.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDid you know that you can sample and buy Oklahoma wine at CSFM? It\'s true.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515109280/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/4515109280_2ee7affab9.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" />\r\n\r\nMmm - Tidal School. Delish.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514472895/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/4514472895_9754dbb2ba.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSomething else momentous happened on Saturday. I got my CSFM breakfast burrito fix from the folks at Palace Cafe/Pare Catering. And all will be right with the world until next Saturday, when I eat another one.\r\n\r\nAll bets are off from October to April. Without those breakfast burritos, what happens in this crazy world, it\'s out of my hands.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514472975/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2695/4514472975_b8a4d4a51a.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMy friend from Miami showed up to the market for her burrito fix, too.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514472631/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4514472631_932ddb7b86.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nShe also loves the Kosher salt from The Spice Hunter. She\'s been without it all winter.\r\n\r\nThis salt, it makes my friend frisky and ornery. Get a load of this burrito streaking episode for which she claimed full responsibility post-salt purchase.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514473113/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/4514473113_6c3bdd5587.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThe product of a Kosher salt-deprived mind.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514472305/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2120/4514472305_56789e7541.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nCheck out the band. They played Celtic music. And you can bet that every last red hair on my head was resonating with joy.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514468691/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2007/4514468691_b8d334e063.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514468529/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4514468529_6bc7e1cc2e.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnd I loved how the Cherry Street stores and restaurants got in there and made the most out of the market. CSFM in its street market incarnation is sure to be a boon to all of the businesses in the area.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515103094/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4515103094_ea3308cda8.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515109498/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4515109498_a8cfd76b0d.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514470327/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4514470327_c750c3fa7b.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515108286/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2344/4515108286_35cc7f2f05.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIf you didn\'t make it out for the opening of the CSFM last weekend, be sure to grab your favorite basket and/or tote bag and head out there next Saturday. Get around early and be on 15th Street by 7 a.m. if you want produce, and be sure to pick up a promo poster while you\'re there - trust me, you\'re going to want to shout about this thing from the rooftops.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514468193/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2293/4514468193_8d3fff8060.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514472175/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4514472175_1416351256.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAll of them. In the entire Tulsa metro.','Cherry Street Farmers\' Market Opening 2010: A Recap [PHOTOS]','The Cherry Street Farmers\' Market, the largest farmers\' market in Tulsa and one of the largest in the region, kicked off its 2010 season Saturday morning with a ribbon cutting to celebrate its new home on 15th Street.','publish','open','open','','cherry-street-farmers-market-photos-2010','','','2011-04-07 12:13:46','2011-04-07 18:13:46','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=554',0,'post','',6);
INSERT INTO `wptdt_posts` VALUES (2585,1,'2010-04-11 14:00:00','2010-04-11 14:00:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4509401069/\" title=\"Fireworks Friday at ONEOK Field by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Fireworks Friday at ONEOK Field\" height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2291/4509401069_169ca34814.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />After spending a good part of the weekend there, I can attest that <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">ONEOK Field, the new home of our Tulsa Drillers</a>, is one of the most family-friendly destinations in Tulsa. Part of why is the packed schedule of promotions available there. <br /><br />Learn about what\'s going on for kids and their caregivers at ONEOK Field, <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/?page=blogs/view&amp;BLID=8118\">including what\'s going on today (yep, baseball players work even on Sundays), on my blog at Ttownmoms.com</a>.','ONEOK Field: A Home Run for Tulsa Families','','inherit','open','open','','553-revision','','','2010-04-11 14:00:00','2010-04-11 14:00:00','',553,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/553-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(555,1,'2010-04-13 14:43:00','2010-04-13 14:43:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sushi Train by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515900273/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4515900273_8a15b4a4f7.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi Train\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nIt doesn\'t seem to matter if sushi looks like this Crunchy Philly Roll:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sushi Train by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515900021/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4515900021_5508a051ff.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi Train\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nOr this California Roll (on the left):\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sushi Train by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515900517/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/4515900517_bfce37ff53.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi Train\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nOr this Lisa Roll:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sushi Train by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515900273/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4515900273_8a15b4a4f7.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi Train\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nMy son just isn\'t enthusiastic about sushi.\r\n\r\nSee?\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sushi Train by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4516536060/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4516536060_b5fbb61d3e.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi Train\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThough it doesn\'t always end well, I do have a process for trying to coerce my son into trying foods that are foreign to him (though as much as this family eats sushi, especially from <a href=\"http://www.sushitraintulsaok.com/\">Sushi Train at 51st and Harvard</a>, I don\'t quite see how we can classify it as a \"foreign food\"). For what it\'s worth, here\'s how it goes.\r\n\r\nGet <a href=\"http://ttownmoms.com/?page=blogs/view&amp;BLID=8132\">my 1-2-3 method for introducing new foods to toddlers on my blog at Ttownmoms.com</a>.','How to Feed Sushi to a Toddler','My son just isn\'t enthusiastic about sushi. See?','publish','open','open','','how-to-feed-sushi-to-toddler','','','2010-10-04 20:51:19','2010-10-05 01:51:19','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=555',0,'post','',7),(556,1,'2010-04-13 22:48:00','2010-04-13 22:48:00','<b>UPDATE</b>: We have a winner! <br /><br /><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ZyVmhKkjI/AAAAAAAABuo/WlsDI7XNRqk/s1600/Picture+16.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ZyVmhKkjI/AAAAAAAABuo/WlsDI7XNRqk/s320/Picture+16.png\" /></a></div><br />The holder of the 12th entry was...<br /><br /><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ZylI2msNI/AAAAAAAABuw/CRk2o5ItdHU/s1600/Picture+17.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"87\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ZylI2msNI/AAAAAAAABuw/CRk2o5ItdHU/s400/Picture+17.png\" width=\"400\" /></a></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br /></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Congrats, Ashley! E-mail me ASAP to claim your prize.&nbsp;</div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Thanks to all for playing. I really enjoyed trying to imagine ballet dancing to the tune of the songs you suggested. And I may or may not have tried a few myself. Even though I have no business ballet dancing, especially not alone in the dark to My Endless Love. Wait - that\'s ice skating and Adam Sandler isn\'t it? My bad.&nbsp;</div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><br /></div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Thanks again!</div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4518642787/\" title=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet\" height=\"333\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2690/4518642787_261d78e882.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Something visitors and long-time Tulsans alike sometimes don\'t realize about Tulsa is that the city is home to a world-class ballet company, <a href=\"http://www.tulsaballet.org/\">Tulsa Ballet</a>. <br /><br />This weekend our very own Tulsa Ballet will premier <a href=\"http://www.tulsaballet.org/events.asp?id=11&amp;pid=52&amp;task=display&amp;pcatid=53\">its newest production, Pop Culture in Studio K</a>. Forget about your typical ballet set to classical music - this ballet is a mix of contemporary dance with popular music, and it all takes place in the heart of <a href=\"http://brooksidetheplacetobe.com/\">Tulsa’s Brookside district</a>.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4518642951/\" title=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet\" height=\"324\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2726/4518642951_5616669cce.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />I mean, even if you\'re a card-carrying ballet lover, how often do you get to see three brand-new ballets set to the music of Rufus Wainwright, contemporary world rhythms and The Beatles?<br /><br />Not often, I\'d say. Check out this rehearsal footage:<br /><br /><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/B17JeN_9vhc&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/B17JeN_9vhc&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"></embed></object><br /><br />Slick, baby. Slick. <br /><br />Here\'s the rundown on what you\'ll see in Pop Culture: <br /><br />-Choreographer Young Soon Hue uses the music of the Beatles to offer a humorous and moving journey through life’s ups and downs;<br />-Edwaard Liang uses the music of Rufus Wainwright to explore human relationships, love and emotions; <br />-Tulsa Ballet Resident Choreographer, Ma Cong, incorporates an eclectic mix of world music to accompany his unique, contemporary style that has made him an audience favorite in Tulsa and across the country. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4518643079/\" title=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4518643079_e1126d4c8c.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br />Speaking of Tulsa Ballet’s Studio K, it truly is one of Tulsa’s most special performance venues. With only 295 seats and a full-sized stage, Studio K provides the opportunity for Tulsans to witness the power and athleticism of professional dancers up close. A state-of-the-art sound system and comfy stadium seating add to the entire, intimate experience. <br /><br />Here\'s something else cool about Studio K: It helps put Tulsa on the map as an international leader in the world of professional dance. Tulsa Ballet enlists the talents of both rising and established choreographers to create three new works that will see their world premiers right here in T-Town. They\'re then acquired by other ballet companies all over the globe, putting Tulsa in a power position to shape the future of ballet as an art form. <br /><br />That\'s big-time stuff, y\'all. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4519278810/\" title=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4519278810_41bcb4f8f2.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br />“Our Studio K series is quickly becoming the buzz of the town,\" said Tulsa Ballet Artistic Director (and certified hottie [<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniela-Buson/584551688\">who married another certified hottie/my most favorite ballerina ever and raised two handsome twin boys</a>]), Marcello Angelini. <br /><br />Ahem. Pardon my emoting. I get carried away where an Angelini is involved.<br /><br />\"These performances complete my vision for Tulsa Ballet as a company that will dazzle our audience with the great classics of the 19th century, a company that will engage our community with the works of the masters of the 20th century while creating edgy, contemporary works to project dance into the 21st century,\" Angelini said. \"We are not, and will never be, a single layer organization. Our way to perceive dance and to present this wonderful art is as tridimensional as life itself.”<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4518643209/\" title=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4518643209_17d44d534a.jpg\" width=\"333\" /></a></div><br />Pop Culture in Studio K will be performed April 16th-17th and April 21st-24th at 7pm; and April 17th-18th and 24th-25th at 2pm. Arrive early because when world-class ballet is happening, there\'s no late seating.<br /><br />Adult tickets are $35, and discounts are available for seniors, students and groups of 15 or more. <a href=\"http://www.tulsaballet.org/\">Tickets can be purchased online</a>, by calling (918) 749-6006 or visiting the Studio K Box Office at 1212 East 45th Place. <br /><br />Or, you can win a pair of tickets right here on TDT. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4519278404/\" title=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Pop Culture in Studio K, Tulsa Ballet\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4519278404_ab6e745d77.jpg\" width=\"334\" /></a></div><br /><b>I have two tickets to give away to the Pop Culture in Studio K performance of the winner\'s choice.</b> To be eligible to win them, head to the comments section on this post and answer this question:<br /><b><br /></b><br /><b>If you could set a ballet to any song, any song at all, what would it be? </b><br /><b><br /></b><br />I\'m thinking \"I\'m Believe in a Thing Called Love\" by The Darkness. Or, \"Total Eclipse of the Heart.\" Or, anything by Lady Gaga. But, that\'s me. What song would you like a choreographer to pair with some ballet dancing?<br /><br /><b>Enter by Wednesday evening at 8 p.m.</b> to be eligible to win. <b>Please enter only if you yourself will be able to attend a performance of Pop Culture in Studio K - tickets are not transferable.</b> I\'ll announce the winner of the tickets shortly after the end of the contest. <br /><br />Now I\'m gonna sit back and watch hilarity ensue. Over and out.','Pop Culture in Studio K: Ballet for the Rest of Us. Plus, a giveaway.','','publish','open','open','','pop-culture-in-studio-k-ballet-for-rest','','','2010-04-13 22:48:00','2010-04-13 22:48:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=556',0,'post','',13),(557,1,'2010-04-14 14:12:00','2010-04-14 14:12:00','<div><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549626/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4504549626_6a1c6ae034.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nPeanuts, Cracker Jack, hot dogs and cold beer — these are the consumables we expect to see on a menu board above a ballpark concession stand. Of course, all of these noshes are available at Oneok Field, which celebrated its grand opening April 8.\r\n\r\nBut shrimp, kabobs, bistro-style carving stations with prime rib and pork loin and a specialty dessert cart, on which many of the items are made by Tulsa’s own Merritt’s Bakery — these are more on the unexpected side.\r\n\r\nThis upscale, gourmet menu will be available to sports fans in the 23 suites at Oneok Field. Suite and club seat holders also have access to the private restaurant and bar at the park, Tycoon’s, which features an outdoor balcony and seating for 80.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&amp;aID=97579346.6153376.661739.4290539.76289702.600&amp;aID2=50894\">Read the rest of this story on the Food page in this week\'s edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Concession stand staples go gourmet at Oneok Field','Peanuts, Cracker Jack, hot dogs and cold beer — these are the consumables we expect to see on a menu board above a ballpark concession stand. Of course, all of these noshes are available at Oneok Field, which celebrated its grand opening. But shrimp, kabobs, bistro-style carving stations with prime rib and pork loin and a specialty dessert cart, on which many of the items are made by Tulsa’s own Merritt’s Bakery — these are more on the unexpected side.','publish','open','open','','concession-stand-staples-go-gourmet-at-oneok-field','','','2010-10-04 20:40:39','2010-10-05 01:40:39','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=557',0,'post','',2),(558,1,'2010-04-14 14:16:00','2010-04-14 19:16:00','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://missjacksons.com/PressRelease/DSC_9613.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></p>\r\nLast week, the east end of <a href=\"http://www.uticasquare.com/\">Utica Square</a> was the site of a weekend-long birthday party, complete with an invitation-only gala, celebrity appearances, spa showcases and high-end trunk shows.\r\n\r\nBoth the host and guest of honor was <a href=\"http://www.missjacksons.com/\">Miss Jackson’s, Tulsa’s upscale department store</a>, which celebrates the100-year anniversary of its founding this month.\r\n\r\n“Everyone is so excited,” said Judy White, president of Miss Jackson’s. “How many businesses have survived 100 years?”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=j&amp;aID=32421534.1473002.661713.1293086.2784372.983&amp;aID2=50892\">Read the rest of this story on the High Life page in Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Tulsa tradition celebrates 100 years','“Everyone is so excited,” said Judy White, president of Miss Jackson’s. “How many businesses have survived 100 years?”','publish','open','open','','tulsa-tradition-celebrates-100-years','','','2010-10-04 20:43:52','2010-10-05 01:43:52','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=558',0,'post','',0),(559,1,'2010-04-14 16:26:00','2010-04-14 16:26:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8XsLn_Cu1I/AAAAAAAABug/Wc4G19lLOec/s1600/Picture+15.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"544\" src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8XsLn_Cu1I/AAAAAAAABug/Wc4G19lLOec/s640/Picture+15.png\" width=\"576\" /></a></div><br />Looking for something artsy-fartsy to do tonight? <a href=\"http://www.aiaeok.org/\">The Young Architects Forum at American Institute of Architects of Eastern Oklahoma</a> and <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s downtown</a> have the perfect thing. <br /><br />CHiT|CHaT is a multi-disciplinary event that brings individuals from across the design community together to share creative works and ideas. Presenters will be showing 20 images of their work for 20 seconds each. Each artist will speak about the images, and you can bet that they\'re going to get all creative up in there.  <br /><br />Here are the deets: <br />When: Tonight, April 14, 7pm<br />Where: <a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s downtown</a>, 112 S. Elgin Ave. <br /><br />Presenters include: printmaker- Denny Schmickle, architect- Lanny McIntosh, illustrator- Bryan Cooper, interdisciplinary artist- Glenn Herbert Davis, design firm- Tepera/Hood, photographer- Joshua Meier, painter/sculptor- Grace Grothaus, musician/video- Daniel Sutliff, artist/designer- Darshan Phillips. <br /><br />CHiT|CHaT:1 was a resounding success, and it was good opportunity for exposure for Tulsa artists. It also proved to be a source of inspiration for fellow individuals in creative fields.  <br /><br />Go get inspired.','9 Artists, 20 Slides, 20 Seconds: CHiT|CHaT:2','','publish','open','open','','9-artists-20-slides-20-seconds','','','2010-04-14 16:26:00','2010-04-14 16:26:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=559',0,'post','',0),(561,1,'2010-04-15 21:09:00','2010-04-15 21:09:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8d_gwDuuWI/AAAAAAAABu4/E4sTnmfJUe8/s1600/Picture+1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8d_gwDuuWI/AAAAAAAABu4/E4sTnmfJUe8/s400/Picture+1.png\" width=\"326\" /></a></div><br />Are you <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">a fan of TashaDoesTulsa.com on Facebook</a>?<br /><br />If not, go ahead and <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">get happy with that Become a Fan button</a>. If so, get your hiney over to <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">the TDT fan page on Facebook</a> and enter for your chance to win a pair of tickets to <b>the latest production from Tulsa Opera, Don Quichotte</b>.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>From <a href=\"http://tulsaopera.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/don-quichotte-its-french-for-don-quixote/\">the Tulsa Opera blog</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>On April 17, 2010, Tulsa Opera presents the Oklahoma premiere of Don Quichotte, a “heroic comedy”, based on the classic novel “Don Quixote” by Cervantes.  Written in 1910 by Jules Massenet, the opera will be presented in an original production, conceived and directed by stage director Michael Ehrman and built here in Tulsa. This will be the first time in over 10 years that Tulsa Opera has created a new production.<br /><br />“We felt that the story of Don Quixote is best told simply.  Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte combines Spanish folkloric elements with some very intimate scenes, and is very different from the ballet Don Quixote which relies a lot more on grand spectacle and pageantry,” said Kostis Protopapas, artistic director of Tulsa Opera.  “Sometimes opera companies overplay the similarities between Don Quichotte and Carmen. They overproduce the show, overpowering the intimacy of the music and the simplicity of the story.  Our production of Don Quichotte, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opera’s premiere, turns the financial challenges of the current environment into a growth opportunity by exploring a new direction in production style and creating a new, cost-effective production that hopefully we can share with other opera companies in the future.”<br /><br />“Don Quixote is a man who lives in his imagination, and his view of the world is anything but realistic” said Michael Ehrman, stage director.  “Similarly, our production engages the audience’s imagination in creating Quixote’s world.  The story is presented by a troupe of strolling actors, much like the one of which Cervantes himself was a member.  A combination of shifting panels, rustic props and lighting effects by Broadway designer Charlie Morrison creates a non-literal, evocative backdrop against which the characters come to life.”<br /><br />Don Quichotte has been a showcase for renowned bassos since its first performance in 1910.  Alfred Walker, a Tulsa Opera favorite artist, most recently seen as Méphistophélès in TO’s 2005 Faust, returns in the title role.  Dana Beth Miller also returns to Tulsa Opera to sing the role of Dulcinée following her performance as Mother in last season’s Hansel and Gretel and as the mezzo-soprano soloist for the Verdi Requiem with the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus.  Argentine bass-baritone Eduardo Chama, last seen in Tulsa in 1999, returns in one of his signature roles as Sancho Panza.<br /><br />Don Quichotte will feature the Tulsa Opera Orchestra and Chorus and will be conducted by Tulsa Opera Artistic Director Kostis Protopapas.  The opera will be performed in the original French with English language supertitles projected above the stage at every performance.<br /><br />Performances of Don Quichotte will be held in the Chapman Music Hall of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center on Saturday, April 17, and Friday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. and a matinée on Sunday, April 25 at 2:30 p.m.</blockquote><br />The best part is, all you have to do to enter for your chance to win is to make a comment on the post about Don Quichotte. It can be any reply, any reply at all - you can even tell me about what color socks your wearing, what you had for dinner or whether or not your toenails are clean. It\'s whatev - the point is to get your butt in a seat at a performance <a href=\"http://tulsaopera.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/don-quichotte-its-french-for-don-quixote/\">of Don Quichotte by Tulsa Opera</a>.<br /><br />Fun, right? Good luck!','Contest for Don Quichotte Tix: For TDT Facebook Fans Only','','publish','open','open','','contest-for-don-quichotte-tix-for-tdt','','','2010-04-15 21:09:00','2010-04-15 21:09:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=561',0,'post','',1),(563,1,'2010-04-16 21:40:00','2010-04-16 21:40:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Stonehorse Cafe by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3374851924/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3374851924_18573c01a7.jpg\" alt=\"Stonehorse Cafe\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>Q. The weather in Tulsa has been amazing lately. Where is the best patio in Tulsa?</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A. When you\'re looking for a place in Tulsa to eat a good meal (or drink a cold beer) outside, it\'s tough to pick just one favorite.</strong> Some aren\'t even comparable to the others, for one. For two, I know that sometimes I want a quiet, secluded patio - other times I want to be in the middle of the action at a bustling, street-side patio.\r\n\r\nBut, thanks to the help of <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">TDT fans and followers on Facebook</a> and <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\">Twitter</a>, here\'s a list of the best of the best patio restaurants in the area, categorized by region. Be sure to weigh in on which you think are the best in the comments section of this post.\r\n\r\n<strong>Downtown</strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Boston Avenue, Northbound by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3319905147/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3537/3319905147_af81b4c5e4.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Avenue, Northbound\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.elguaposcantina.net/\">El Guapo</a>, 332 E. First Street</strong>\r\nThe rooftop patio at El Guapo, the three-story Mexican restaurant in Tulsa\'s Blue Dome District, was by far the restaurant patio about which T-Town\'s social media world is most excited now that outdoor dining weather has officially arrived.\r\n\r\n\"Great food, good view, no traffic and the servers have the best tattoos in Tulsa!\" was how <a href=\"http://martycoleman.com/\">local photographer and artist Marty Coleman</a> described the rooftop patio at El Guapo.\r\n\r\n\"Forget patios, rooftops are where it\'s at,\" said <a href=\"http://www.tulsaproject.com/\">Michael Champlin, creator of The Tulsa Project</a>, a local online magazine. \"I double dog dare you to beat that view.\"\r\n\r\nWhen a patio is as sought-after as the one at El Guapo is, to make reservations would be wise. Either that or be ready to wait.\r\n\r\n\"I love Tucci\'s and El Guapo, but we have a hard time getting to sit up there\" on the rooftop patio, Susan Vineyard said on Facebook.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.bluerosecafetulsa.com/elwoods.html\">Elwood\'s Restaurant (f.k.a. River\'s Edge)</a>, 19th and Riverside Drive</strong>\r\nEveryone\'s got springtime twitterpation over Elwood\'s Restaurant, the reincarnation of The River\'s Edge, T-Town\'s lamented former riverfront cafe. Now that Elwood\'s is open, everyone from downtown\'s lunch crowd to the thousands of walkers, runners and bikers who use RiverParks each day can stop in for a sandwich, a hot dog and/or a cold beer.\r\n\r\n\"My dog asked me to vote for River\'s Edge,\" Brian Elliott said on Facebook. \"He\'s happy it\'s back.\"\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.arniesbar.com/\">Arnie\'s</a>, 318 E. Second Street</strong>\r\n\"Arnie\'s has the best patio downtown,\" said <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/search.asp?keyword=holly+wall&amp;searchSite.x=0&amp;searchSite.y=0\">Holly Wall, senior editor at Tulsa Business Journal and arts writer with Urban Tulsa Weekly</a>. \"No contest. End of story. It\'s quaint, and the trees and brush offer nice shade. Scratch that. It\'s the best patio in town.\"\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.thehuntclubtulsa.com/\">The Hunt Club</a>, 224 N. Main Street</strong>\r\n\"The Hunt Club\'s new second-story patio is super-cool,\" said Jonathan Bolzle on Facebook. \"The vibe is urban and cosmopolitan.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>Lola\'s at the Bowery, 5 East Brady. </strong>\r\n\"Lola\'s at the Bowery,\" said <a href=\"http://www.atmos.tv/is/kristen-bergman/\">Kristen Bergman, president of Atmos Strategic Communications</a>. \"She burns pinion wood and it smells yum.\"\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://dillydelitulsa.com/\">Dilly Deli</a>, 402 E. Second Street</strong>.\r\nBocce ball and a little something called a Jon Michael, a sandwich packed with a pound and a half of pastrami and swiss cheese, served on rye.\r\n\r\n\"You can\'t go wrong with Dilly Deli,\" said Kevin Pyle on Twitter.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, 112 S. Elgin</strong>\r\nNow that Oneok Field is open downtown, this patio, right on the thoroughfare between parking and the ballpark, is right in the middle of the action. Plus, there\'s cheeseburger pizza to be had. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/06/not-your-mothers-pizza.html\">It\'ll make you cry in a good way</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>, 514 S. Boston Ave</strong>.\r\nIf you\'re looking for a big city feel the next time you feel like dining alfresco, Elote and its sidewalk patio on Boston is the place to be.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://thebouldergrill.com/\">The Boulder Grill</a>, 17 W. Seventh Street</strong>\r\nHomemade tater tots. Also, a fire pit. It also helps that this restaurant is all the rage amongst downtown movers and shakers these days.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.cazschowhouse.com/\">Caz\'s Chowhouse</a>, 18 E. Brady Street</strong>\r\nGet chicken fried steak and other Oklahoma classics on a patio in the middle of Tulsa\'s arts district. Mmm, mmm, good.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tulsa-OK/Fat-Guys-Burger-Bar/107269035966212\">Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar</a>,</strong> <strong>140 N. Greenwood</strong>\r\nImagine: Eating a big, fat double burger, drinking a big, fat Marshall IPA and then taking about 20 paces to the west to enjoy a Drillers game at Oneok Field. It\'s all possible from the patio at Fat Guy\'s.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cherry Street</strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"White Owl Pub by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4084627232/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/4084627232_2f5a82627d.jpg\" alt=\"White Owl Pub\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.eatfullmoon.com/\">Full Moon Cafe</a>, 1525 E. 15th Street </strong>\r\nGet covered, pergola-style alfresco dining at this cafe that serves American classics and really, really cold beer - even colder than that on Friday nights closest to the full moon.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tucci\'s, 1344 East 15th Street</strong>\r\nDine Cherry Street-side on some seriously yummy pizza and pasta.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.camillescafe.com/\">Camille\'s Sidewalk Cafe</a>, 1342 E. 15th Street</strong>\r\nThe name says it all. This patio goes especially well with the downtown backdrop and a giant slice of Camille\'s carrot cake. Or, a glass of white wine.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://whiteowloncherry.com/\">White Owl</a>, 1325 E. 15th Street</strong>\r\nDine outside without being exposed to the elements. Order the loaded fries and a few rounds of Marshall IPA.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.myspace.com/coffeehouseoncherrystreet\"><strong>Coffeehouse on Cherry Street</strong></a>, 1502 E. 15th Street\r\nThat patio at Coffeehouse on Cherry Street (known by locals as CHOCS) is my favorite place to spend a weekend morning. <a href=\"http://www.topecacoffee.com/\">Topeca coffee</a> and pastries and quiches, many of which are vegan or vegetarian, are what\'s for breakfast. The chiminea and incredible customer service top off the CHOCS patio experience.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cafe Cubana</strong>, 1340 East 15th Street\r\nNow that Cafe Cubana has moved out from behind Jason\'s and directly onto Cherry Street it\'s not only one of the best coffee and cigar shops and cafes in Tulsa, but it\'s also a great place to stop in for a patio.\r\n\r\n<strong>Utica Square</strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"More Queenies by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3374040833/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3435/3374040833_87e6fa3de5.jpg\" alt=\"More Queenies\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.uticasquare.com/restaurants/restaurants_detail.asp?rID=9\">Stonehorse Cafe</a>, 1748 Utica Square</strong>\r\n\"Stonehorse Saturday brunches are THE BEST,\" said Jessica Judd on Facebook. Indeed, Jessica - check out the prettiest and some of the best-tasting quiche in town. Have only with champagne.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.wildfork.com/\">The Wild Fork</a>, 1820 Utica Square</strong>\r\nThe Wild Fork is the place to see and be seen and get your outdoor dining on at the same time. Adjacent to the main courtyard in Tulsa\'s first upscale shopping center, it\'s like dining in a fancy garden, too.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.uticasquare.com/restaurants/restaurants_detail.asp?rID=6\">Queenie\'s</a>, 1834 Utica Square</strong>\r\nYou could dine inside at bustling Queenie\'s, or you could spend your lunch on a Utica Square sidewalk, people watching. Which can get pretty fancy in that part of town.\r\n\r\n<strong>Brookside</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Cafe Ole, 3509 S. Peoria Ave.</strong>\r\nThe patio at Cafe Ole is in the heart of Brookside, Tulsa\'s original cruising strip-turned-upscale shopping and dining district.\r\n\r\n\"Great food, terrific atmosphere and the best margaritas,\" said Melanie Biskup of this Tulsa patio.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a tip on what to order: \"I live for Cafe Ole queso,\" said Kate Spencer on Twitter. Believe me when I say, believe Kate Spencer.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.brookrestaurant.com/\">The Brook</a>, 3401 S. Peoria Ave.</strong>\r\nThe Brook offers yet another kid-friendly, street-side patio - it\'s completel enclosed, but when all the windows are open, you could be said to be approximately 72 percent outside. At least, that\'s what my figures tell me. Order the buffalo chicken sandwich with macaroni and cheese as your side.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.crowcreektavern.com/\">Crow Creek Tavern</a>, 3534 S. Peoria Ave.</strong>\r\nGot a bike? As in, the kind of a motor in it. If so, you\'ll fit right in at Crow Creek. With nightly live entertainment and a spot right alongside Brookside, this patio is choice for anyone looking for a post-dinner drink.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo\'s Cafe and Bar</a>, 3334 S. Peoria Ave.</strong>\r\nIf you\'re a cosmo girl (or a cosmo guy - the folks at Cosmo are more than willing to serve their signature drinks in dude-friendly glassware), this enclosed patio is the place for you.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.thebrasserietulsa.com/\">The Brasserie</a>, 3509 S. Peoria Ave.</strong>\r\nThe Brasserie is one of my very favorite places in Tulsa to have brunch. Choose from the likes of a Belgian Waffle with Apple Pear Chutney and warm maple syrup, traditional eggs benedict and the breakfast tarte (with egg, bacon, gruyere, roasted tomato and creme fraiche) , and don\'t forget to order a Bloody Mary or a Mimosa.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://bluemoonbakerycafe.com/\">Blue Moon Bakery</a>, 3807 S. Peoria Ave.</strong>\r\nIt gets boisterous inside at Blue Moon Bakery, and seating can be hard to come by - the food there is just that good. Where better to go if you\'re looking for a somewhat quieter setting and extra seats than the Blue Moon patio? \"Plus, it opens early for breakfast,\" said Gary Black, owner of another Center 1 shop, Black Optical.\r\n\r\n<strong>Southtown and Beyond</strong>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"RiverWalk Crossing, Jenks by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3320840553/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3550/3320840553_35383337ec.jpg\" alt=\"RiverWalk Crossing, Jenks\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.calistogagrill.com/\">Calistoga Bar and Grill</a>, 500 Riverwalk Terrace  at RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks</strong>\r\nFor riverside dining and some choice people watching opportunities, not to mention a great wine list and even better food, head to this California-reminiscent reprieve of a cabana patio and bar.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.myspace.com/elmstpub\">Elm Street Pub</a>, 329 S. Elm Street in Jenks</strong>\r\nSouthtowners can\'t stop talking about this Jenks pub and grill.\r\n\r\n<strong>Louie\'s Grill and Bar, 6310 East 101st Street in Jenks</strong>\r\nThe mommy bloggers of south Tulsa can\'t get enough of this place. Let me tell you, if anyone can gauge the worthiness of a patio at a bar, it\'s a mom.\r\n\r\n<strong>Red Rock Canyon Grill, 9916 Riverside Parkway in south Tulsa</strong>\r\nThe south Tulsa iteration of this Oklahoma City-based small chain of upscale restaurants - thinks surf and turf, excellent steaks and a good wine list - comes complete with one of the best patios in town, right by the Arkansas River. There\'s even a couple\'s swing.\r\n\"Red Rock is great when they open the doors and have live music,\" said Sandy Martin on Facebook.\r\n\r\n<strong>2 Brothers Bistro, 13330 South Memorial Drive in Bixby</strong>\r\nGet breakfast or lunch on this Bixby patio throughout the week. If it\'s dinnertime on Friday or Saturday night, 2 Brothers Bistro is ready to seat you outside.\r\n\"Covered patio surrounded by blooming trees and an awesome meal,\" said Robert Founds, noting also that he digs that 2 Brothers is right by the river.\r\n\r\nWant to be quoted in a future TDT survey? Fan TashaDoesTulsa.com on Facebook and follow on Twitter.','Best Patios in Tulsa','The weather in Tulsa has been amazing lately. Where are the best patios in Tulsa?','private','open','open','','best-patios-tulsa','','\nhttp://www.atmos.tv/is/kristen-bergman/','2011-02-19 15:32:46','2011-02-19 20:32:46','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=563',0,'post','',9),(564,1,'2010-04-17 22:56:00','2010-04-17 22:56:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4529541204/\" title=\"Tulsa Blogger Meetup: The Third\"><img alt=\"Tulsa Blogger Meetup: The Third\" height=\"396\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4529541204_e98a55aba6_o.jpg\" width=\"612\" /></a></div><br /><a href=\"http://tulsabloggermeetup.eventbrite.com/\">The third monthly Tulsa Blogger Meetup is on the horizon</a>, folks - the show gets on the road the evening of Thursday, April 22 at 6:30pm. <br /><br />Since the last two occasions were downtown, I thought we\'d mix it up a bit and send some love to the southtownies at the same time. <br /><br />Guess where we\'re going.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008482/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4526008482_7070bc893e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Guess again. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526007780/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/4526007780_7e2be32faa.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />You\'re getting warmer...<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526009596/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4526009596_8d0840ced2.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Even warmer...<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526009528/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4526009528_ecf837675b.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />German potato salad. Sauerkraut. A menu full of different types of house-made sausage, the taste of which brings back memories - Oktoberfest-like memories.<br /><br />We can only be talking about one place.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4525377869/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4525377869_b5ef39cc14.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />Yep. It\'s <a href=\"http://www.siegis.com/\">Siegi\'s Sausage Factory</a>. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526007546/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4526007546_abe51774f9.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />We went the other night to give the new location, open since St. Patrick\'s Day, a trial run. I\'d had plenty of Siegi\'s at the annual Oktoberfest event at River West Festival Park, but I\'d never been to the restaurant, new or former. <br /><br />And I wouldn\'t dare invite my fellow bloggers to a place I wasn\'t assured was was absolutely, totally, incredibly awesome. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526009388/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4526009388_485f3d115e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Look at their faces. My kid is about to pass out due to overwhelming deliciosity and my hubby is ticked because he\'s too busy holding our kid to take a second bite of sausage. All he got was a taste - one trip to the top of the mountain.<br /><br />So, yeah, I\'m assured. I officially declare the all-clear. Siegi\'s is certifiably awesome.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526007692/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4526007692_f5ecc945ee.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />By the way, there\'s more to Siegi\'s Sausage Factory than just a restaurant. It\'s also a German market. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008166/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4526008166_dde57a1537.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4525378899/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4525378899_c62c63afaa.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />Mmm, vinegar. Vinegar is pretty important in German cuisine. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008894/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4526008894_9c97ae57c6.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/02/interview-sindy-does-tulsa.html\">I can just hear my friend Sindy now</a> - \"That is so Bavarian.\" <br /><br />See, Sindy\'s German. As in, she was born and raised there. But not in Bavaria.<br /><br />NOT in Bavaria. Okay? Okay.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008776/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4526008776_d430c81aff.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Guess what. Wieners! <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008586/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4526008586_6980cb3b57.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Lots and lots of wieners. <br /><br />Ahem. Cough. Sniff. <br /><br />I\'m sorry. I\'m stuck in the eighth grade, apparently. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008482/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4526008482_7070bc893e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />And...<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4525378755/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4525378755_05084d1f4f.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Nutella. My love. My life. My hope in this world. <br /><br />Here\'s our room for the Meetup: <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4525378401/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4525378401_71a35e755a.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Look! Technology! See it? It\'s on the wall. <br /><br />*In my best <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=kip+dynamite&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Kip Dynamite</a> sing-song voice* I love technology...<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008008/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4526008008_6917b6a711.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />I love Spaten beer...<br /><br />Always and forever.<br /><br />See what I did there? I just wrote the best song ever. You\'re welcome. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4525377933/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"500\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4525377933_2ca7316e75.jpg\" width=\"375\" /></a></div><br />The folks at Siegi\'s will set up a buffet-style dinner for the Meetup group. Here\'s the menu for the evening:<br /><br />Siegi\'s Grilled Sausages (Bratwurst and Smoked Bratwurst)<br />Bavarian Sauerkraut<br />German Potato Salad<br />Siegi\'s Pretzel Rolls (they are awesome)<br />Iced Tea and Water to drink<br /><br />The cost of this meal? Ten measly bucks. No, seriously. Local, house-made sausage, three sides and a drink for $10. Gratuity and tax puts that at about $13, which is a damn good deal, if you ask me. And if you\'re not asking me, I\'ll tell you anyway: That\'s a good damn deal. <br /><br />There are only 50 total spots for this meetup and about half have been sold already, so if you know you\'re available and you\'d like to join us, <a href=\"http://tulsabloggermeetup.eventbrite.com/\">secure your tickets now</a>. <br /><br />Keep in mind that you can opt to pay cash at the door and still reserve your ticket. I\'m not going to bring much change with me, though, so if you could bring a 10 spot straight up, I\'d greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness. <br /><br />By the way, <b>a</b><b>n \"attending\" reply on Facebook will not guarantee you a seat at Tulsa Blogger Meetup: The Third. </b>Like I said, if you\'re available Thursday and you\'d like to join us, <a href=\"http://tulsabloggermeetup.eventbrite.com/\">secure and pay for your tickets now</a>, or at least secure your tickets and plan to pay at the door.<br /><br />As always, we\'ll have a speaker, door prizes and general horsing around. Also, beer - as in, German beer on tap. And pretzel rolls. And beer. And wieners. And beer. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4525378755/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4525378755_05084d1f4f.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />And there may or may not be a secret stash of Nutella. But you\'ll have to know the password in order to gain access. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008988/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4526008988_3f39cd36d8.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Hope to see you all there.','Tulsa Blogger Meetup: The Third','','publish','open','open','','tulsa-blogger-meetup-third','','','2010-04-17 22:56:00','2010-04-17 22:56:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=564',0,'post','',0),(565,1,'2010-04-18 21:23:00','2010-04-18 21:23:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530993413/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4530993413_39258459c3.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nSometimes it feels like my son and I go to the same parks day after day, week in and week out. We tend to wimp out and frequent the ones nearest our house, even though there are literally hundreds of parks in the area to explore.\r\n\r\nSo, late last week, we hit Sonic for milkshakes and then hit the trail for Owen Park, Tulsa\'s first and oldest.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531625092/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/4531625092_6c37a342f0.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nOwen Park is situated right in the shadow of downtown Tulsa, just north of I-244, just east of the Owen Park neighborhood, at 560 N. Maybelle. The Owen Park neighborhood, by the way, is where any Tulsa young professional who is any Tulsa young professional is trying to buy a house right now. It\'s where the cool kids want to be.\r\n\r\nOwen Park is also home to Tulsa\'s oldest house still in existence. See?\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531624278/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4531624278_bb001c887a.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nCool, right?\r\n\r\nBack in its day, which was in the teens and twenties, Owen Park was to the middle and upper class what Woodward Park has been for those same socioeconomic slices of society since suburban living caught on in the midwest. It was where the moneyed went to promenade, and it was the place to see and be seen enjoying the outdoors - which to rich people meant, fountains and cultivated gardens.\r\n\r\nWhile Woodward Park has definitely cornered the market on the cultivated garden front, Owen Park still has the fountain. Plus, there\'s more to do for kids at Owen Park than there is at Woodward.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530991945/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4530991945_bbb94cb4bc.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAll you\'ll find for the kiddos at Woodward is a swing set or two and lots of azalea plants to bludgeon with sticks (<a href=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3613/3520548563_ce3c097b1c.jpg\">not that I know any children who would do this</a>). At Owen, there\'s a big toy, a huge duck pond and a grotto that\'s perfect for climbing. I hear that soon there will be a splash pad at Owen Park, too.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531624796/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/4531624796_d605d5564f.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThat\'s great news for us. We love a good splash pad.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531625228/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4531625228_d246880298.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nWe love a good bridge, too.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530992711/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4530992711_13dd3a3d2c.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nOf course, duck ponds are fascinating, too.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530994039/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2421/4530994039_5f444816c3.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nNot for me, though. Personally, I\'m afraid of ducks and geese. They\'re waddling, slightly evolved, blood-thirsty velociraptors, as far as I\'m concerned. A goose tried to bite my finger off once. After that, it hissed at me.\r\n\r\nIt was a bad, evil goose.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531627404/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/4531627404_b51d942362.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nLook at them. Plotting. Planning. Conniving.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531627894/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4531627894_2d8a8fcba7.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nLook at its beady eyes. It\'s beady, evil eyes.\r\n\r\nMy son, on the other hand, feels goodwill toward waterfowl.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531628068/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2486/4531628068_5caea6baaa.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThat is, if trying to feed them sticks could be considered evidence of feelings of goodwill.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531628200/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2042/4531628200_780e95121e.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nHere\'s how my son is rewarded by these degenerate beings for his peaceable attitude:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531626344/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4531626344_8d62943d67.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nI\'m sorry you all had to see that...that depraved scene of...depravity. But you must know the truth. Plus, if I had to pretend to ignore it for 20 minutes while my son pointed and laughed and screamed with wonder and joy as the white duck took liberties with the black duck <em>five freaking times</em>, then the least you all could do is share my pain.\r\n\r\nAnd then I came home and told my husband what we had seen, only to enter into an education on how male ducks often take female ducks against their wills, and that \"the dude ducks rape other dude ducks\' wife ducks, like, all the time. It\'s just something they do.\"\r\n\r\nAnd now you know why I love my husband. Because he says things like \"wife ducks\" when he has to explain something biological or scientific to his wife, the one who boasts an antique typewriter collection and can poach an egg real purdy-like.\r\n\r\nThank goodness for all of that, because I don\'t think I could have handled the jargon behind what we saw that the duck pond that day.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531626612/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4531626612_74a9030806.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nYes, baby. We can still play by the water, but do come away from those nasty, naughty dude ducks.\r\n\r\nNasty.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531627136/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2514/4531627136_3a6de22abb.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531628744/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4531628744_60890dd11a.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530995791/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/4530995791_0607a4ffd0.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nLook! A romantic grotto-ish.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530996217/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2361/4530996217_3fb3e55d41.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531629792/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4531629792_3062dd68b8.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nOh, son. We\'ve really got to get you into some longer pants. If you\'d gain some weight around your middle, we could do that, no problem.\r\n\r\nThis kid, he takes after his dad in this way. I\'ve certainly never had a problem filling out a pair of jeans, not even in my Osh Kosh days.\r\n\r\nLe sigh.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530997095/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4530997095_551e91a998.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531630368/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/4531630368_3dc1818f26.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nWanna see what my son looks like when he serenades his mommy, whom he loves so very, very much that he can\'t help but express it with an original song?\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531630090/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4531630090_72975ace52.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530997329/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/4530997329_5b48bb1de4.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nJust kidding. He\'s not singing to me. He\'s trying to put a dead, crusty leaf in my hair.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530997769/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4530997769_81f0fb1244.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nLook what else we found at Owen Park.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531630896/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4531630896_f8bde82708.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAnother one of my favorite Tulsa school buildings, right up there with Will Rogers High School, an art deco relic, and East Central High, a Route 66 gem. It\'s Roosevelt Elementary School.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530998139/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2755/4530998139_22abafee41.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nRoosevelt is what I imagine when I picture what an urban school should look like. Not that I would know anything about what an urban school should look like - I graduated with about 80 other kids from a small country school (at least, it was when I went there) out in west Tulsa. But I always wanted to go to a school that had more than one floor. I had dreams about flirting with boys passing in the stairwell and staring out of a second-story window at the playground below during math class.\r\n\r\nMaybe in the next life.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530998349/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4530998349_d27c2cd1d6.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531631640/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2530/4531631640_953716482c.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nIf you\'ve been following the local news you might have heard that the City of Tulsa closed several of its community centers recently. Owen Park Recreation Center was one of those.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531631762/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2717/4531631762_05e2f8ec98.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nWhat really sucks about that is that Owen Park\'s community center reopened just 18 months before it was shut down again. It\'s calendar was chock full of family-friendly activities, ranging from pumpkin decorating parties during Halloween to run-around-like-crazy activities for the family dog during the summer.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531632156/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2106/4531632156_17e6d81b83.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI\'ve heard whispers that there\'s an effort to convince the city that, for the health of the surrounding community, especially for the kids who live there whose families face economic difficulty, Owen Park\'s community center <em>needs</em> to reopen.\r\n\r\nI\'m really crossing my fingers on this one.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4530998581/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2797/4530998581_6ac972e7c6.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI\'m convinced that the continued development of downtown depends on convincing families, especially those that live in Tulsa\'s moneyed far south and far north areas, that there are caboodles of ways for kids and their caregivers to have a great time there.\r\n\r\nYou can build only so many bars and restaurants and clubs that cater to young professionals downtown. Something I hear all the time is that the reason Tulsa is so great is because it\'s a fantastic place to raise a family. But, from what I can tell, when people say this, they\'re not really talking about Tulsa proper. What they mean is Broken Arrow, Bixby and Owasso - you know, those suburban towns with growth rates that have trumped Tulsa\'s since we were all wearing Hammer pants.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Owen Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4531626966/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/4531626966_7feb26b928.jpg\" alt=\"Owen Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nBut, don\'t wait for someone to build it before you come. Veer off your beaten path every once in awhile and try something new. For Tulsa families, Owen Park would be an easy place to start.\r\n\r\nIf Owen Park had a vibrant, busy community center with a calendar full of family-friendly activities, it\'d not only attract families from other parts of the city who might eat or see a show while they\'re downtown, but it\'d also contribute to the community just beyond the IDL a boatload of safe things for the kids that live there to do after school and on the weekends.\r\n\r\nBecause the best way to improve what Tulsa has to offer tomorrow is to use the heck out of what\'s available to do here today.','Owen Park: Tulsa\'s Oldest','Late last week, we hit Sonic for milkshakes and then hit the trail for Owen Park, Tulsa\'s first and oldest.','publish','open','open','','owen-park-tulsas-oldest','','','2010-10-04 20:35:45','2010-10-05 01:35:45','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=565',0,'post','',19),(2574,1,'2010-10-04 20:43:36','2010-10-05 01:43:36','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://missjacksons.com/PressRelease/DSC_9613.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" />\n\nLast week, the east end of <a href=\"http://www.uticasquare.com/\">Utica Square</a> was the site of a weekend-long birthday party, complete with an invitation-only gala, celebrity appearances, spa showcases and high-end trunk shows.</p>\nBoth the host and guest of honor was <a href=\"http://www.missjacksons.com/\">Miss Jackson’s, Tulsa’s upscale department store</a>, which celebrates the100-year anniversary of its founding this month.\n\n“Everyone is so excited,” said Judy White, president of Miss Jackson’s. “How many businesses have survived 100 years?”\n\n<a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=j&amp;aID=32421534.1473002.661713.1293086.2784372.983&amp;aID2=50892\">Read the rest of this story on the High Life page in Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Tulsa tradition celebrates 100 years','“Everyone is so excited,” said Judy White, president of Miss Jackson’s. “How many businesses have survived 100 years?”','inherit','open','open','','558-autosave','','','2010-10-04 20:43:36','2010-10-05 01:43:36','',558,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/558-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(566,1,'2010-04-19 18:21:00','2010-04-19 18:21:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ya_d16-eI/AAAAAAAABvE/wlKGA_fvrLo/s1600/Lamar.jpg\"><img src=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ya_d16-eI/AAAAAAAABvE/wlKGA_fvrLo/s400/Lamar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"600\" /></a></div>\r\nYes, that is right, Ben Jones.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ya_d16-eI/AAAAAAAABvE/wlKGA_fvrLo/s1600/Lamar.jpg\"><img src=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S8ya_d16-eI/AAAAAAAABvE/wlKGA_fvrLo/s400/Lamar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"600\" /></a></div>\r\nYes, this is a still from the late \'70s when <a href=\"http://www.quiktrip.com/\">Broken Arrow-based QuikTrip</a> was running ads on its QT-branded line of products, which included QT Beer and QT Lite. And yes, it\'s autographed by Ben Jones. And yes, that\'s Lamar the dog.\r\n\r\n\"QT\" stood for Quittin\' Time in this campaign, by the way. Which is the perfect name for a beer, if you ask me. I would have had a six pack or two in my fridge had I been born. I wasn\'t even a twinkle in my parents\' eyes in the late \'70s.\r\n\r\nIf you\'d like to take a trip down memory lane and relive the excitement that were these QuikTrip commercials, grab a copy of <a href=\"http://www.tulsafilms.com/\">Jack Frank\'s Tulsa A-Z show</a>. It\'s in the extra features part of the DVD, available at <a href=\"http://www.dwellingspaces.net/\">Dwelling Spaces</a>.\r\n\r\nWhich was your favorite QT commercial starring Lamar? Would you like to see Lamar make a come back in a new QT commercial?\r\n\r\n<em>Thanks to </em><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000195283062\"><em>Jason Taylor</em></a><em> for sending this photo. It made me laugh. Really hard.</em>','Ain\'t That Right, Lamar?','Yes, this is a still from the late \'70s when Broken Arrow-based QuikTrip was running ads on its QT-branded line of products, which included QT Beer and QT Lite. And yes, it\'s autographed by Ben Jones. And yes, that\'s Lamar the dog.','publish','open','open','','aint-that-right-lamar','','','2010-10-04 20:25:45','2010-10-05 01:25:45','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=566',0,'post','',17),(567,1,'2010-04-20 13:13:00','2010-04-20 13:13:00','<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S82jxuLArcI/AAAAAAAABvM/YkHDUK1J-sE/s1600/Picture+10.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"428\" src=\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S82jxuLArcI/AAAAAAAABvM/YkHDUK1J-sE/s640/Picture+10.png\" width=\"640\" /></a></div><br />I don\'t know about you all, but something that continues to intrigue me since the first day I started blogging is good blog design. I\'ve also been known to appreciate great blog photography.<br /><br />In this month\'s <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/tulsa-blogger-meetup-third.html\">Tulsa Blogger Meetup</a> speaker, we get someone who has been recognized for excelling in both.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/4523784189_d54335a44b_o.jpg\" width=\"500/\" /></div><br /><a href=\"http://oklahomablogawards.blogspot.com/2010/02/2009-okie-blog-award-winners.html\">Erin Conrad was the winner of the Best Blog Design category in the 2009 Oklahoma Blog Awards</a>. From what I could tell, it was one of the toughest categories in which to compete this year. Coming out on top is huge.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2740/4520714809_373b8e32fc_o.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></div><br />When she\'s not workin\' it as an award-winning blog designer, Erin gets these creative, super-Tulsa-centric ideas for portraits.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4520714597_1284d7858f_o.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></div><br />And then follows them through. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4477195494_84dfccba67_o.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></div><br />In places like a new ballpark, or a locally-owned grocery store. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4476419849_3de419e315_o.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></div><br />I don\'t know about you all, but many of my best love stories have had important scenes in grocery stores. Maybe it shows how domesticated I really am, but I don\'t know - there\'s just something about a grocery store to me. Apparently, at least three other people would agree. <br /><br />By the way, the dude in the grocery store photos is none other than <a href=\"http://www.contemplativetulsan.com/\">Mr. Trait Thompson, author of The Contemplative Tulsan</a>. He\'s a thoughtful blog writer, and his blog, mostly about political stuff but also about Trait and his own life as part of a small family in Tulsa, is a good read. <a href=\"http://www.contemplativetulsan.com/\">See for yourselves</a>.<br /><br />And then from Erin there\'s this: <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2741/4480140394_9c6565e897_o.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></div><br />It\'s a vintage camera photo album from Anthropologie, a postcard of one of Erin\'s most favorite images, what Erin calls the best lip gloss ever from Bath and Body Works, a state fair polaroid Erin took last fall, a mixed \"tape\" made by Erin, and Dr. Pepper freeze pops. All on a beautiful, vintage patchwork quilt. It was a giveaway Erin hosted on <a href=\"http://erinconrad.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-04-12T07%3A38%3A00-05%3A00&amp;max-results=7\">her site, Erin Conrad Photography</a>.<br /><br />That image just pleases the pickles out of me. It takes a certain kind of person to put together that particular collection of trinkets - a person I\'d like to hear from. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"332\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2725/4470290819_2ca6f3e387_o.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></div><br />My bet is that you all feel the same way. <br /><br />There are still a few tickets left to Tulsa Blogger Meetup: The Third, this Thursday evening at Siegi\'s Sausage Factory at 81st and Sheridan, starting at 6:30 p.m. Get the details on the menu and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/tulsa-blogger-meetup-third.html\">more about the event here</a>. Come join us for good food, even better company and a star for a speaker.<br /><br /><i>All photos by Erin Conrad from <a href=\"http://erinconrad.blogspot.com/\">Erin Conrad Photography</a>. </i><a href=\"http://erinconrad.blogspot.com/\"><i>Subscribe to her blog</i></a><i>, </i><a href=\"http://twitter.com/econ\"><i>follow her on Twitter</i></a><i>. &nbsp;</i>','Tulsa Blogger Meetup III Speaker Announced','','publish','open','open','','tulsa-blogger-meetup-iii-speaker','','','2010-04-20 13:13:00','2010-04-20 13:13:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=567',0,'post','',13),(569,1,'2010-04-21 15:53:00','2010-04-21 15:53:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4526008482/\" title=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Siegi\'s Sausage Factory\" height=\"375\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4526008482_7070bc893e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Tomorrow\'s the big day for the Tulsa Blogger Meetup III event. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/tulsa-blogger-meetup-iii-speaker.html\">Yesterday I announced our guest speaker, Erin Conrad</a>, Tulsa-based photographer and winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Blog Awards in the Best Blog Design category.<br /><br />It\'s okay. You can squee. You can bet everyone else reading this is.<br /><br />Post-squee, be advised that <b>today is the last day to secure your tickets to this event</b>. If you plan to join us but don\'t yet have your tickets, <a href=\"http://tulsabloggermeetup.eventbrite.com/\">head to the Tulsa Blogger Meetup site right now</a>. There are only a hand full of tickets left, and they\'re available only until 2pm this afternoon. <br /><br />Can I say that again? <b>Ticket sales for Tulsa Blogger Meetup III end at 2pm this afternoon</b>.<br /><br />I released just 50 spots to this month\'s meetup, which is why without a ticket I can\'t guarantee you a seat.&nbsp;And no, a reply on Facebook doesn\'t secure your ticket to this event. Sorry, but you\'ve gotta go through the Tulsa Blogger Meetup site. I want to make sure we don\'t overwhelm the nice folks at Siegi\'s with unexpected guests. Sausage might come out of their ears, which wouldn\'t be pleasant for anyone, I\'m pretty sure.<br /><br />If you want to come and you\'d rather pay at the door, you can do that. <a href=\"http://tulsabloggermeetup.eventbrite.com/\">Just make sure to tick that option when you\'re going through the check-out at the Tulsa Blogger Meetup site</a>. <br /><br />Here again are the event details:<br /><br /><b><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105558016152152&amp;ref=ts\">Tulsa Blogger Meetup: The Third</a></b><br />When: 6:30pm<br />Where: <a href=\"http://www.siegis.com/\">Siegi\'s Sausage Factory</a>, 8104 S. Sheridan Road<br />Included in the $12 ticket price: A buffet of house-made sausage with three sides and your choice of water and/or tea, plus a state-wide renowned blogger as our speaker and door prizes. Beer and wine are extra and are on you. <br /><br />Hope to see you all there!','Tulsa Blogger Meetup III Ticket Sales End TODAY','','publish','open','open','','tulsa-blogger-meetup-iii-ticket-sales','','','2010-04-21 15:53:00','2010-04-21 15:53:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=569',0,'post','',1),(570,1,'2010-04-21 22:52:00','2010-04-21 22:52:00','<strong>Pssst. Hey you.</strong> <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/04/earth-day-events-activities-go-green-in-tulsa/\">Click here if you\'re here because you\'re looking for the 2011 round-up of Earth Day events and activities in Tulsa</a> - it\'s been updated right here on TDT. Bon voyage!\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476429289/\" title=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman\" height=\"333\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4476429289_c262ac77ed.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Tomorrow is Earth Day, Tulsa, and you know what that means - it\'s time for&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/eb10.html\">the Empty Bowls event at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a>.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S899AFIVAUI/AAAAAAAABvU/CUBRVD63VtA/s1600/Picture+11.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S899AFIVAUI/AAAAAAAABvU/CUBRVD63VtA/s320/Picture+11.png\" /></a></div><br /><br />Former Tulsa mayor Kathy Taylor will serve as the honorary chair at this year\'s hunger awareness dinner and fundraiser event. Last year\'s event raised more than $120,000 for the Food Bank.<br /><br />Woah. I don\'t know about y\'all, but I could do some serious damage at a retail grocery store with $120,000 - just imagine what the experts at the Food Bank are able to do with it. With this support and others, the Food Bank and its partner programs are able to feed 60,000 people each week, the equivalent of 621,000 meals per month. Or, 9.5 million pounds of food. <br /><br />The folks at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, they do important work. <br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/pioneer-womans-lodge-its-waiting-for.html\">As I wrote in this post</a>, one of the truly unique items in this year\'s silent auction is a two-night stay for up to four couples in The Lodge. For you <a href=\"http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/\">Pioneer Woman</a> fans out there, you know exactly what I mean when I say The Lodge. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4476429169/\" title=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman\" height=\"283\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4476429169_649ff2afa2.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Yeah. <i>That</i> Lodge. <br /><br />For the uninitiated, The Lodge is on the property of Ladd and Ree Drummond out on the Drummond cattle ranch near Pawhuska. Ree Drummond is also known as The Pioneer Woman, the persona behind <a href=\"http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/\">ThePioneerWoman.com</a>, one of the most popular blogs in the country. <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeandgarden/category/lodge/\">Here - educate yourself</a>. <br /><br />Other luxury items up for grabs at Empty Bowls include a private cooking class for 10 at the Lobeck-Taylor home (you know, Mayor Taylor\'s house), where guests will learn to create an international meal paired with wine at the direction of <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeandgarden/category/lodge/\">Chef Timothy Sean Fitzgerald, one of the best chefs in Tulsa</a>. <br /><br />Look also for a Napa Valley vineyard retreat, complete with six bottles of ultra-premium Napa Valley wine from <a href=\"http://www.farniente.com/\">Far Niente</a> partner <a href=\"http://www.nickelandnickel.com/\">Jeremy Nickel\'s private collection</a>; a private, seven-course tasting dinner, cooking demo and wine pairing for 10 guests by Executive Chef Jeff Marlow of The Oaks Country Club; a <a href=\"http://www.utulsa.edu/\">University of Tulsa</a> football package, including sideline passes, a behind-the-scenes tour of the locker room (anyone else imagining that scene in Steel Magnolias with Shirley MacLaine in that football locker room?); and a $1,000 credit at Israel Diamond Supply. <br /><br />Celebrity-autographed items include memorabilia from Reba McEntire (Reba!), Peter Facinelli of <i>Twilight</i> (I could hear you squeal from here), Julie Powell of <i>Julie and Julia</i>, Tulsa\'s own Hanson, Amber Valletta, Tiger Woods, Chris Chamberlain and Brett Favre. <br /><br />It\'s all good, fun stuff, and it all benefits the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma.<br /><br />Over the past 14 years, WaterWorks Art Center has donated more than 5,400 artist-created bowls for this event. Each guest gets to take one home as a reminder that thousands of Oklahomans go to bed hungry each night.<br /><br />Individual tickets to Empty Bowls are $35 and include a light dinner of soup, salad and dessert. To buy tickets, <a href=\"mailto:fsocha@cfbeo.org\">e-mail my friend Fran at the Food Bank</a>, or call her at (918) 585-2800. <br /><br />After you grab your tickets, here are the event details to cut and paste into your calendar: <br /><br /><b>Empty Bowls</b><br />When: Thursday, April 22 (Earth Day!) 5:30-9pm (dinner from 5:30-7pm; live auction at 7:45pm)<br />Where: Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center, 6808 S. 107th E. Ave. <br /><br />Even if you can\'t go, <a href=\"http://www.cfbeo.org/dfunds.html\">consider making a donation to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma</a>. Especially during these times when the economy still hasn\'t managed to right itself, your gifts are particularly important and needed by this organization. Just $1 can provide seven meals to the hungry in Eastern Oklahoma, so no amount you can give is too small - everyone can help.<br /><br /><i>Awesome Pioneer Woman pics by <a href=\"http://www.shanebevel.com/\">Tulsa photographer Shane Bevel</a>.</i>','Earth Day: Bountiful Earth, Empty Bowls','','publish','open','open','','earth-day-bountiful-earth-empty-bowls','','','2011-04-13 16:28:44','2011-04-13 22:28:44','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=570',0,'post','',0),(572,1,'2010-04-25 00:49:00','2010-04-25 00:49:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cupcake Massacre by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4549625060/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4549625060_c120b0904d.jpg\" alt=\"Cupcake Massacre\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAs someone who blogs about things to do in Tulsa, I field lots of questions about the city and all the stuff there is to do within its borders.\r\n\r\nWhile I\'m cool with answering these questions on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">Facebook</a>, <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/tashadoestulsa\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">by e-mail</a>, I also highlight an FAQ every week with a post here at TDT. I\'m sure the folks who pose the questions aren\'t the only ones who would benefit from their answers.\r\n\r\nThe following question is one I get via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, in person, ESP and smoke signals at least 727 times each week. Just kidding. I don\'t have ESP. But I really do get this question often, so read on - odds are, you\'ve either asked me about it or you\'ve wondered it to yourself.\r\n\r\n<strong>Q. Help! I need a list of family-friendly restaurants in Tulsa. </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A. You\'ve come to the right place.</strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->I love to dine out. In fact, it\'s my favorite pasttime. But, I have a a two-year-old son, which tends to stymie my fine dining efforts. Not that there isn\'t great food to be had outside of the fine dining sphere, because there most certainly is, especially here in Tulsa.\r\n\r\nSo, Tulsa parents, grandparents and anyone else who gets to hang out with kids every now and again: Print it, put in on your fridge, keep it in your purse, keep it in your car - here\'s a list of locally owned, kid-friendly restaurants in Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<strong>Downtown</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Dome Diner, 311 E. Second Street</strong>. Kids eat free on Thursdays, and if that\'s not enough of a reason to visit to Blue Dome Diner, it\'s also home to some of the most delicious, approachable-yet-gourmet food in Tulsa. Find something for the whole family, even the picky eaters, at this downtown diner.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>, 514 S. Boston Ave.</strong> Owner Libby Auld is always quick to bring my son robot and dinosaur toys when he gets unmanageable - she has a whole supply of the things at Elote. Plus, the choices on the kids\' menu aren\'t just yummy, they\'re healthful and eco-conscious, too.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, 112 S. Elgin Ave.</strong> With everything from old-school video games to a cabinet full of toddler toys to Saturday morning kids\' book club events, Joe Momma\'s is always an easy place to take the kids. Plus, there\'s an enclosed patio, which is nice when you have a little one who hates to sit still.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.dillydelitulsa.com/\">Dilly Deli</a>, 402 E. Second Street.</strong> The patio is choice, and Dru, who heads things up at what I like to call The Dilly, packs tons of board games that\'ll keep the kids occupied while Mom and Dad have a sandwich and, if they want (and who wouldn\'t?) some Marshall beer.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.cazschowhouse.com/\">Caz\'s Chowhouse</a>, 18 E. Brady Street.</strong> Did you know that each Wednesday kids eat free at Caz\'s? It\'s true. Dine in Tulsa\'s art district and get free food for your kiddos - and some of the best comfort food in town for caretakers - at the same time.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.mexicalibordercafe.com/\">Mexicali Border Cafe</a>, 14 W. Brady Street.</strong> Kids are always welcome at this easy-going, reasonably priced, long-standing haven of Tex-Mex cuisine.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.tallyscafe.com/cafe.html\">Tally\'s</a>, 1102 S. Yale Ave.</strong> With the flashy, Route 66-reminiscent decor and a menu full of kid-friendly, affordable comfort food items, Mom and Dad can\'t go wrong packing the kids in the minivan and heading to Tally\'s, especially for breakfast on the weekends.\r\n\r\n<strong>Brookside</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo Cafe</a>, 3334 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> With a shelf full of board games and other goodies to distract the younger set, plus a patio that welcomes both canines and the pint-sized and a kid\'s menu offering choices above and beyond the usual composite chicken nuggets, Cosmo Cafe is a win for any family outing.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.brookrestaurant.com/\">The Brook</a><a href=\"http://www.brookrestaurant.com/\"></a>, 3401 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> Who can argue with that macaroni and cheese? My son loves it, and I\'m sure your little one will, too. The enclosed patio offers the best seating for families.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.senortequilaok.com/\">Senor Tequila\'s</a>, 3348 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> The booth seating is roomy and the cheese enchiladas will please any kiddo. Plus, it looks like a party in there.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.webersoftulsa.com/\">Weber\'s Root Beer and Hamburgers</a>, 3817 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> I don\'t know about your kid, but my kid will do just about anything, including rolling around on the floor screaming like a banshee, for a frosty class of Weber\'s (caffeine free!) root beer. Plus, it\'s hard to beat those burgers. If your little one isn\'t old enough to sit on a barstool, take some root beer and burgers to go and head to Woodward Park for a picnic.\r\n\r\n<strong>Brookside By Day, 3313 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> Got a screamer? No one will notice at the ever-busy Brookside By Day. Yes, Mom and Dad, thanks to BBD, you really do live in a world where doing weekend brunch is still possible.\r\n\r\n<strong>West</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.olliesstation.com/\">Ollie\'s Station Restaurant</a>, 4070 Southwest Boulevard.</strong> In two words: Toy trains. In more words: Toy trains running tracks along the ceiling, plus one of the best breakfasts in town. Plus, there\'s a kids\' lunch buffet on Sundays where the really little ones (those under age 3) eat free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Arnold\'s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers, 1722 W. 51st Street.</strong> If your little girl has a poodle skirt and your son does a perfect greaser impression, Arnold\'s is calling you. Don\'t leave without trying the milkshakes and the onion rings. If y\'all can\'t stay for dinner, there\'s always the drive-thru window.\r\n\r\n<strong>Midtown</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.hideawaypizza.com/\">Hideaway Pizza</a>, 1419 E. 15th Street.</strong> With a menu full of kid-friendly foodstuffs, Hideaway\'s always up for a family night out.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.merrittsbakery.com/\">Merritt\'s Bakery</a>, 3202 E. 15th Street</strong>. Did you know that Merritt\'s offers a lunch menu? It\'s true, and it\'s one of the best sandwiches available \'round these parts. Plus, there\'s always that house-made cookie or brownie or chocolate cupcake with sprinkles for an end-of-the-meal treat for the kiddos (and for Mom, too, duh).\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.lambruscoz.com/index.html\">Lambrusco\'z To Go</a>, 1344 E. 41st Street.</strong> While there\'s lots of stuff in the retail area for toddlers\' grabby hands, the sandwiches are not only choice and delicious, but they\'re also kid-friendly. We\'ve always had good luck both dining in and taking out at Lambrusco\'z.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.pieholepizzeria.com/\">Pie Hole Pizzeria</a>, 2708 E. 15th Street.</strong> The dining area is tiny, but the golden part about this place for families is the take-and-bake crust. Imagine, Pie Hole pizza from your very own oven. Solid, Jackson.\r\n\r\n<strong>South Tulsa and Beyond</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.gardnersbooks.com/\">Gatsby\'s Grill</a>, 4421 S. Mingo Road.</strong> Gatsby\'s is where the kids\' meals are traditional, and parents can feel good about feeding their children breakfast, lunch or dinner made by hand. Plus, there\'s a 2-million-volume bookstore, complete with a huge children\'s and toys section, right next door.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.sushitraintulsaok.com/\">Sushi Train</a>, 3302 E. 51st Street.</strong> Not only is there a kids\' menu with choices friendly even for the extremely sushi averse, but there\'s also a toy train that circles the sushi bar, each car topped with a sushi creation. Our son loves it, and I bet your kiddos will, too.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.siegis.com/\">Siegi\'s Sausage Factory</a>, 8104 S. Sheridan Road.</strong> Don\'t feed your kid just any hot dog - reach for the hand-crafted, house made hot dogs at Siegi\'s. Booth seating is oversized, which makes dining with kids easier.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.hideawaypizza.com/\">Hideaway Pizza</a>, at 8204 S. Harvard Ave; 7877 E. 51st Street and 103rd and Memorial.</strong> With a menu full of kid-friendly foodstuffs, Hideaway\'s always up for a family night out.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://brewburgertulsa.com/\">Brewburger</a>, 6577 E. 71st Street.</strong> A variety of great burgers for Mom and Dad, plus a kids-eat-free night each Monday. Score! Plus, there are coloring books galore for the kiddos.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.compadresgrill.com/\">Compadres Mexican Grill</a>, at 2200 W. New Orleans Street in Broken Arrow; at 12551 E. 86th Street North in Owasso; at 7104 S. Sheridan Road in Tulsa.</strong> Kids eat free every Tuesday with the purchase of an adult dinner. Plus, with three Tulsa-area locations, odds are you won\'t have to drive far to the dinner table. P.S. - Parents, margaritas at Compadres are $2.99 every day. It\'s okay, you can squee.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">Andolini\'s</a>, at 12140 E. 96th Street North in Owasso.</strong> Check out this family friendly restaurant with all of the Italian offerings a family wishes for - namely, pizza and pasta. Mmm.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.brookrestaurant.com/\">The Brook South</a>, 7727 E. 91st Street.</strong> Who can argue with that macaroni and cheese? My son loves it, and I\'m sure your little one will, too.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.merrittsbakery.com/\">Merritt\'s Bakery</a>, 2832 E. 101st Street.</strong> Did you know that Merritt\'s offers a lunch menu? It\'s true, and it\'s one of the best sandwiches available \'round these parts. Plus, there\'s always that house-made cookie or brownie or chocolate cupcake with sprinkles for an end-of-the-meal treat for the kiddos (and for Mom, too, duh).\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.camillescafe.com/\">Camille\'s Sidewalk Cafe</a>, 6030 S. Yale Ave.</strong> in KingsPointe Village. A patio with a fantastic view of downtown and a wine and beer list for Mom and Dad, a kid-friendly atmosphere and menu for the ankle biters of the human variety.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.loscabosok.com/\">Los Cabos</a>, at 151 E. Bass Pro Drive in Broken Arrow and 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Ste. 100 in Jenks</strong>. You won\'t have to bust up your kid\'s piggy bank for a night out in BA or on the Riverwalk as long as you dine at Los Cabos. Plus, look for live music and some of the best people watching opportunities, especially at the Riverwalk location. P.S. - There\'s gelato on the Riverwalk at Kaffe Bona, kids. Beg and cry until Mommy and Daddy cave. It\'s that good.\r\n\r\n<strong>Uncle Vinny\'s, 6565 E. 71st Street.</strong> With a relaxed, NYC Italian-esque atmosphere and a dining room TV - plus, some of the best, most affordable thin crust pizza in town - Uncle Vinny\'s is a sure bet on family night.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.reasors.com/\">Reasor\'s</a>, 220 S. Elm in Jenks</strong>. Get everything from chef-created sushi to burritos at this restaurant that\'s right on your way home - and you\'ve gotta grab a few things at the grocery store anyway, right?\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">Primetime Pizza</a>, 109 N. Elm in Jenks.</strong> Not only does Primetime serve up pizza raved about by the top movers and shakers in one of Tulsa\'s fastest growing \'burbs (one of whom is charged with the task of feeding three children every night), but they also deliver. Getcha some.\r\n\r\n<strong>Steak Stuffers USA, 7846 E. 51st Street.</strong> It might be in an old Captain D\'s location, but yes, this place is as local as it gets. The kids\' menu is straight-forward, and grown-ups of all walks will love the cheesesteak-style sandwiches at this dine-in or drive-thru diner.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.shilohsrestaurant.com/\">Shiloh\'s Restaurant</a>, 12521 E. 52nd Street.</strong> If you can\'t make it to Granny\'s for dinner, Shiloh\'s is your next best bet. Get some of the best rolls in town, plus slices of pie as tall as your three-year-old. If you\'re trolling for breakfast, look no further for incredible cinnamon rolls.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.tulsabistro.com/\">The Bistro at Seville</a>, 10021 S. Yale Ave.</strong> If you love French and European cuisine, don\'t think that just because you have kiddos means you can\'t get this food on a family night out ever again. Check out this patio and laid-back service at The Bistro to see what I mean.\r\n\r\n<strong>Casa Bonita, 2120 S. Sheridan Road.</strong> The cave, the cave, the cave - raise the flag, baby, because I\'m talking about Casa Bonita, one of my personal favorite old-school hangouts. Get ski ball and other arcade-style kids\' games that Mom and Dad won\'t look too creepy when they can\'t resist playing, too.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.savastanospizzeria.com/\">Savastano\'s Pizzeria</a>, 8211 E. Regal Place, Ste. 109.</strong> Double-dare your kids to eat an entire slice of the Chicago-style deep-dish pizza and they\'ll be fast asleep in the backseat before you even get home. Bonus!\r\n\r\nSo. Where are your favorite places to take the fam when it\'s time to get some grub?','Family Friendly Restaurants in Tulsa: TDT Friday Advice Column','Print it, put in on your fridge, keep it in your purse, keep it in your car - here\'s a list of locally owned, kid-friendly restaurants in Tulsa.','publish','open','open','','family-friendly-restaurants-in-tulsa','','','2010-10-07 15:31:18','2010-10-07 20:31:18','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=572',0,'post','',15),(573,1,'2010-04-26 20:36:00','2010-04-26 20:36:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555689988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4555689988_aa99943fa8_o.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"498\" height=\"750\" /></a></div>\r\nLots of photographers, even beginning amateurs like me, go into convulsions when we drive by <a href=\"http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=ZdV&amp;rlz=1R1RNFA_en___US365&amp;q=woodward+park+tulsa,+OK&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=univ&amp;ei=JvnVS_HRHZnMNKfl0M8D&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=5&amp;ved=0CDEQsAQwBA\">Woodward Park, in Tulsa at 21st and Peoria</a>, and see dozens of photographers posing their subjects against backdrops of azalea bushes in full bloom, reflecting ponds and beds of tulips and roses.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>The reason why is that everyone, and I mean everyone, wants to have their photos taken at Woodward Park. I mean, at this time of year when the flowers have yet to be fried into oblivion by the Oklahoma summer sun and those having their photo taken don\'t have to worry about the sweat rings under their arm pits showing up in the photos, it\'s positively idyllic.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also positively in every single springtime photo album of any and every Tulsan, from dewy teenagers in prom wear to families of five all wearing the same white, button-down collared shirt.\r\n\r\nBut the fact remains: You can\'t be a Tulsan and not have photos taken of yourself at Woodward Park. It\'s a given. It\'s a must. And it needs to happen if it hasn\'t already, just because.\r\n\r\nBeing a fifth-generation Tulsan, I\'ve had my share of photos taken at Woodward through the years. But today, as someone who likes to think she takes a decent, original photo from time to time, I\'d like to share with you some shots buried deep in my humiliation files - from eight and nine years ago, my junior and senior proms.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555689988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4555689988_905ec813af.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nYes, we went to Woodward for photos before not one, but both of the proms I attended. At the west Tulsa high school I attended, you weren\'t cool unless you showed up before dinner at Woodward Park for photos with the other kids in your class.\r\n\r\nI wasn\'t one of the cool kids, but I went to Woodward Park anyway.\r\n\r\nThe photo above, that\'s The Azalea Shot (capital T, capital A, capital S). It comes in a number of varieties, as such:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555704804/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/4555704804_fe48e13293.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Group Shot.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555446650/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/4555446650_e395385668.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Prom Date Shot.\r\n\r\nAs you\'ve certainly noticed, I\'ve used a variety of implements to ensure the protection of the identity of those with whom I attended prom. Because they might be mad if I didn\'t. Being seen with me, even if it\'s only on the Internet, can be kind of a drag, so I\'m told.\r\n\r\nAnd now for more of our regularly scheduled programming.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555467930/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3442/4555467930_73a51bb711_o.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"498\" height=\"750\" /></a></div>\r\nThat there is a Bridge Shot. This bridge is famous, let me tell you. I can only imagine in how many bridal photos this thing serves as a prop.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555074239/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/4555074239_3d773fa727.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" /></a></div>\r\nIn case anyone is miffed about the beards thing:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555066623/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/4555066623_3525380f2c.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI\'ll wear the one with the bird in it. No, it\'s okay - I insist. Even though we all know I am not a huge fan of birds, especially birds mere millimeters from my face, it\'s all good. I\'ll take one for the team this time, considering.\r\n\r\nHere are a few other types of Woodward shots:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555668024/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3474/4555668024_dc6637a5e6.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"314\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Grotto.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4554824553/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/4554824553_d14462851a.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Pond.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555499228/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/4555499228_103521f2a0.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Prissy High School Malcontent and her Eager-to-Please, Uberly Sweet Date.\r\n\r\nSigh.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555485868/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/4555485868_b73d27f5d7.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Peek-a-Boo.\r\n\r\nHold on a sec. I think the back of my neck just imploded into my sinus cavity. SHIVER.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4554797077/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/4554797077_0eccda4791.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Look Out.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4554813015/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/4554813015_8071b55eb4_o.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"498\" height=\"750\" /></a></div>\r\nThe Look at How Tiny My Waist Used to Be Oh Dear Lord Where Are My Running Sneakers pose.\r\n\r\nUgh. Even my neck was skinnier back then. Nine years ago. The night of junior prom.\r\n\r\n<em>Nine years ago</em>. The days before I even knew what the heck Spanx were for.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555059229/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3425/4555059229_e03e82a64e.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nYou know you\'ve got \'em - at least, the people you went to high school with have already posted them on Facebook, tagging the heck out of them with the names of the innocent, including yours. Why not display them proudly, even if you have to use a black box here and there?\r\n\r\nPlus, I have a prize for my favorite.\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve got \'em, and if you want a totally awesome prize, post your links to those cliche Woodward Park shots in the comments.\r\n\r\nAs they say in the old country, \"Come on, baby - show us your pics!\"','From the humiliation files: My Cliche Woodward Park Prom Photos','I\'d like to share with you some shots buried deep in my humiliation files - from eight and nine years ago, my junior and senior proms.','publish','open','open','','woodward-park-humiliation-files','','','2010-10-04 20:14:21','2010-10-05 01:14:21','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=573',0,'post','',21),(2565,1,'2010-10-04 20:21:55','2010-10-05 01:21:55','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cupcake Massacre by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4549625060/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4549625060_c120b0904d.jpg\" alt=\"Cupcake Massacre\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nAs someone who blogs about things to do in Tulsa, I field lots of questions about the city and all the stuff there is to do within its borders.\n\nWhile I\'m cool with answering these questions on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">Facebook</a>, <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/tashadoestulsa\">Twitter</a> and <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">by e-mail</a>, I also highlight an FAQ every week with a post here at TDT. I\'m sure the folks who pose the questions aren\'t the only ones who would benefit from their answers.\n\nThe following question is one I get via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, in person, ESP and smoke signals at least 727 times each week. Just kidding. I don\'t have ESP. But I really do get this question often, so read on - odds are, you\'ve either asked me about it or you\'ve wondered it to yourself.\n\n<strong>Q. Help! I need a list of family-friendly restaurants in Tulsa. </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>A. You\'ve come to the right place.</strong>\n\n<!--more-->I love to dine out. In fact, it\'s my favorite pasttime. But, I have a a two-year-old son, which tends to stymie my fine dining efforts. Not that there isn\'t great food to be had outside of the fine dining sphere, because there most certainly is, especially here in Tulsa.\n\nSo, Tulsa parents, grandparents and anyone else who gets to hang out with kids every now and again: Print it, put in on your fridge, keep it in your purse, keep it in your car - here\'s a list of locally owned, kid-friendly restaurants in Tulsa.\n\n<strong>Downtown</strong>\n\nBlue Dome Diner, \n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe</a>, 514 S. Boston Ave.</strong> Owner Libby Auld is always quick to bring my son robot and dinosaur toys when he gets unmanageable - she has a whole supply of the things at Elote. Plus, the choices on the kids\' menu aren\'t just yummy, they\'re healthful and eco-conscious, too.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.joemommas.com/\">Joe Momma\'s</a>, 112 S. Elgin Ave.</strong> With everything from old-school video games to a cabinet full of toddler toys to Saturday morning kids\' book club events, Joe Momma\'s is always an easy place to take the kids. Plus, there\'s an enclosed patio, which is nice when you have a little one who hates to sit still.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.dillydelitulsa.com/\">Dilly Deli</a>, 402 E. Second Street.</strong> The patio is choice, and Dru, who heads things up at what I like to call The Dilly, packs tons of board games that\'ll keep the kids occupied while Mom and Dad have a sandwich and, if they want (and who wouldn\'t?) some Marshall beer.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.cazschowhouse.com/\">Caz\'s Chowhouse</a>, 18 E. Brady Street.</strong> Did you know that each Wednesday kids eat free at Caz\'s? It\'s true. Dine in Tulsa\'s art district and get free food for your kiddos - and some of the best comfort food in town for caretakers - at the same time.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.mexicalibordercafe.com/\">Mexicali Border Cafe</a>, 14 W. Brady Street.</strong> Kids are always welcome at this easy-going, reasonably priced, long-standing haven of Tex-Mex cuisine.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.tallyscafe.com/cafe.html\">Tally\'s</a>, 1102 S. Yale Ave.</strong> With the flashy, Route 66-reminiscent decor and a menu full of kid-friendly, affordable comfort food items, Mom and Dad can\'t go wrong packing the kids in the minivan and heading to Tally\'s, especially for breakfast on the weekends.\n\n<strong>Brookside</strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo Cafe</a>, 3334 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> With a shelf full of board games and other goodies to distract the younger set, plus a patio that welcomes both canines and the pint-sized and a kid\'s menu offering choices above and beyond the usual composite chicken nuggets, Cosmo Cafe is a win for any family outing.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.brookrestaurant.com/\">The Brook</a><a href=\"http://www.brookrestaurant.com/\"></a>, 3401 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> Who can argue with that macaroni and cheese? My son loves it, and I\'m sure your little one will, too. The enclosed patio offers the best seating for families.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.senortequilaok.com/\">Senor Tequila\'s</a>, 3348 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> The booth seating is roomy and the cheese enchiladas will please any kiddo. Plus, it looks like a party in there.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.webersoftulsa.com/\">Weber\'s Root Beer and Hamburgers</a>, 3817 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> I don\'t know about your kid, but my kid will do just about anything, including rolling around on the floor screaming like a banshee, for a frosty class of Weber\'s (caffeine free!) root beer. Plus, it\'s hard to beat those burgers. If your little one isn\'t old enough to sit on a barstool, take some root beer and burgers to go and head to Woodward Park for a picnic.\n\n<strong>Brookside By Day, 3313 S. Peoria Ave.</strong> Got a screamer? No one will notice at the ever-busy Brookside By Day. Yes, Mom and Dad, thanks to BBD, you really do live in a world where doing weekend brunch is still possible.\n\n<strong>West</strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.olliesstation.com/\">Ollie\'s Station Restaurant</a>, 4070 Southwest Boulevard.</strong> In two words: Toy trains. In more words: Toy trains running tracks along the ceiling, plus one of the best breakfasts in town. Plus, there\'s a kids\' lunch buffet on Sundays where the really little ones (those under age 3) eat free.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.knottypinetulsa.com/\">Knotty Pine BBQ</a>, 3301 W. Fifth Street.</strong> Because both grandpa and baby can eat the barbeque at this Tulsa tradition, operable chompers or no.\n\n<strong>Arnold\'s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers, 1722 W. 51st Street.</strong> If your little girl has a poodle skirt and your son does a perfect greaser impression, Arnold\'s is calling you. Don\'t leave without trying the milkshakes and the onion rings. If y\'all can\'t stay for dinner, there\'s always the drive-thru window.\n\n<strong>Midtown</strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.hideawaypizza.com/\">Hideaway Pizza</a>, 1419 E. 15th Street.</strong> With a menu full of kid-friendly foodstuffs, Hideaway\'s always up for a family night out.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.camillescafe.com/\">Camille\'s Sidewalk Cafe</a>, 1342 E. 15th Street.</strong> A patio with a fantastic view of downtown and a wine and beer list for Mom and Dad, a kid-friendly atmosphere and menu for the ankle biters of the human variety.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.merrittsbakery.com/\">Merritt\'s Bakery</a>, 3202 E. 15th Street</strong>. Did you know that Merritt\'s offers a lunch menu? It\'s true, and it\'s one of the best sandwiches available \'round these parts. Plus, there\'s always that house-made cookie or brownie or chocolate cupcake with sprinkles for an end-of-the-meal treat for the kiddos (and for Mom, too, duh).\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.lambruscoz.com/index.html\">Lambrusco\'z To Go</a>, 1344 E. 41st Street.</strong> While there\'s lots of stuff in the retail area for toddlers\' grabby hands, the sandwiches are not only choice and delicious, but they\'re also kid-friendly. We\'ve always had good luck both dining in and taking out at Lambrusco\'z.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.pieholepizzeria.com/\">Pie Hole Pizzeria</a>, 2708 E. 15th Street.</strong> The dining area is tiny, but the golden part about this place for families is the take-and-bake crust. Imagine, Pie Hole pizza from your very own oven. Solid, Jackson.\n\n<strong>South Tulsa and Beyond</strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.gardnersbooks.com/\">Gatsby\'s Grill</a>, 4421 S. Mingo Road.</strong> Gatsby\'s is where the kids\' meals are traditional, and parents can feel good about feeding their children breakfast, lunch or dinner made by hand. Plus, there\'s a 2-million-volume bookstore, complete with a huge children\'s and toys section, right next door.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.sushitraintulsaok.com/\">Sushi Train</a>, 3302 E. 51st Street.</strong> Not only is there a kids\' menu with choices friendly even for the extremely sushi averse, but there\'s also a toy train that circles the sushi bar, each car topped with a sushi creation. Our son loves it, and I bet your kiddos will, too.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.siegis.com/\">Siegi\'s Sausage Factory</a>, 8104 S. Sheridan Road.</strong> Don\'t feed your kid just any hot dog - reach for the hand-crafted, house made hot dogs at Siegi\'s. Booth seating is oversized, which makes dining with kids easier.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.hideawaypizza.com/\">Hideaway Pizza</a>, at 8204 S. Harvard Ave; 7877 E. 51st Street and 103rd and Memorial.</strong> With a menu full of kid-friendly foodstuffs, Hideaway\'s always up for a family night out.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://brewburgertulsa.com/\">Brewburger</a>, 6577 E. 71st Street.</strong> A variety of great burgers for Mom and Dad, plus a kids-eat-free night each Monday. Score! Plus, there are coloring books galore for the kiddos.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.compadresgrill.com/\">Compadres Mexican Grill</a>, at 2200 W. New Orleans Street in Broken Arrow; at 12551 E. 86th Street North in Owasso; at 7104 S. Sheridan Road in Tulsa.</strong> Kids eat free every Tuesday with the purchase of an adult dinner. Plus, with three Tulsa-area locations, odds are you won\'t have to drive far to the dinner table. P.S. - Parents, margaritas at Compadres are $2.99 every day. It\'s okay, you can squee.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">Andolini\'s</a>, at 12140 E. 96th Street North in Owasso.</strong> Check out this family friendly restaurant with all of the Italian offerings a family wishes for - namely, pizza and pasta. Mmm.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.brookrestaurant.com/\">The Brook South</a>, 7727 E. 91st Street.</strong> Who can argue with that macaroni and cheese? My son loves it, and I\'m sure your little one will, too.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.merrittsbakery.com/\">Merritt\'s Bakery</a>, 2832 E. 101st Street.</strong> Did you know that Merritt\'s offers a lunch menu? It\'s true, and it\'s one of the best sandwiches available \'round these parts. Plus, there\'s always that house-made cookie or brownie or chocolate cupcake with sprinkles for an end-of-the-meal treat for the kiddos (and for Mom, too, duh).\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.camillescafe.com/\">Camille\'s Sidewalk Cafe</a>, 6030 S. Yale Ave.</strong> in KingsPointe Village. A patio with a fantastic view of downtown and a wine and beer list for Mom and Dad, a kid-friendly atmosphere and menu for the ankle biters of the human variety.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.loscabosok.com/\">Los Cabos</a>, at 151 E. Bass Pro Drive in Broken Arrow and 300 Riverwalk Terrace, Ste. 100 in Jenks</strong>. You won\'t have to bust up your kid\'s piggy bank for a night out in BA or on the Riverwalk as long as you dine at Los Cabos. Plus, look for live music and some of the best people watching opportunities, especially at the Riverwalk location. P.S. - There\'s gelato on the Riverwalk at Kaffe Bona, kids. Beg and cry until Mommy and Daddy cave. It\'s that good.\n\n<strong>Uncle Vinny\'s, 6565 E. 71st Street.</strong> With a relaxed, NYC Italian-esque atmosphere and a dining room TV - plus, some of the best, most affordable thin crust pizza in town - Uncle Vinny\'s is a sure bet on family night.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.reasors.com/\">Reasor\'s</a>, 220 S. Elm in Jenks</strong>. Get everything from chef-created sushi to burritos at this restaurant that\'s right on your way home - and you\'ve gotta grab a few things at the grocery store anyway, right?\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.primetimepizza.info/\">Primetime Pizza</a>, 109 N. Elm in Jenks.</strong> Not only does Primetime serve up pizza raved about by the top movers and shakers in one of Tulsa\'s fastest growing \'burbs (one of whom is charged with the task of feeding three children every night), but they also deliver. Getcha some.\n\n<strong>Steak Stuffers USA, 7846 E. 51st Street.</strong> It might be in an old Captain D\'s location, but yes, this place is as local as it gets. The kids\' menu is straight-forward, and grown-ups of all walks will love the cheesesteak-style sandwiches at this dine-in or drive-thru diner.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.shilohsrestaurant.com/\">Shiloh\'s Restaurant</a>, 12521 E. 52nd Street.</strong> If you can\'t make it to Granny\'s for dinner, Shiloh\'s is your next best bet. Get some of the best rolls in town, plus slices of pie as tall as your three-year-old. If you\'re trolling for breakfast, look no further for incredible cinnamon rolls.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.tulsabistro.com/\">The Bistro at Seville</a>, 10021 S. Yale Ave.</strong> If you love French and European cuisine, don\'t think that just because you have kiddos means you can\'t get this food on a family night out ever again. Check out this patio and laid-back service at The Bistro to see what I mean.\n\n<strong>Casa Bonita, 2120 S. Sheridan Road.</strong> The cave, the cave, the cave - raise the flag, baby, because I\'m talking about Casa Bonita, one of my personal favorite old-school hangouts. Get ski ball and other arcade-style kids\' games that Mom and Dad won\'t look too creepy when they can\'t resist playing, too.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.savastanospizzeria.com/\">Savastano\'s Pizzeria</a>, 8211 E. Regal Place, Ste. 109.</strong> Double-dare your kids to eat an entire slice of the Chicago-style deep-dish pizza and they\'ll be fast asleep in the backseat before you even get home. Bonus!\n\nSo. Where are your favorite places to take the fam when it\'s time to get some grub?','Family Friendly Restaurants in Tulsa: TDT Friday Advice Column','Print it, put in on your fridge, keep it in your purse, keep it in your car - here\'s a list of locally owned, kid-friendly restaurants in Tulsa.','inherit','open','open','','572-autosave','','','2010-10-04 20:21:55','2010-10-05 01:21:55','',572,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/572-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(574,1,'2010-04-26 23:29:00','2010-04-26 23:29:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4556263008/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4556263008_0a941e8016.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nThere\'s a phenomenon happening in south Tulsa.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4556262566/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/4556262566_d39d6c7648.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd it\'s called <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/07/my-newest-find.html\">Josh\'s Sno Shack</a>.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555629553/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3351/4555629553_a3859d8b44.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI wrote about it last summer, and while the long lines to get what seemed like a simple cup of syrup-sweetened shaved ice confounded me then, they totally impress me now.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4556259024/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/4556259024_e4d11bcde0.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nLast Friday the Josh\'s Sno Shack location at 91st and Memorial opened its door-ish for the first time this season with the promise of a free Josh\'s t-shirt for the first 50 customers.\r\n\r\nHolly Wall and I were like, whatever, we\'re totally going to get a Josh\'s shirt. So we took our sweet time getting there, and we rolled up at about 15 minutes past 12.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4556263424/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/4556263424_85ffff256a.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nNeedless to say, we didn\'t get t-shirts. We heard kids had been lined up at Josh\'s since 9:30 that morning. But we did get to see News on Six anchor LeeAnn Taylor.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555634067/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4555634067_0c0e4aefa5.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nOr at least someone who looks like her. A lot.\r\n\r\nAlso, I got to fall down in the wet grass, drop my kid and nearly ruin my favorite pair of jeans in front of this line of obviously hip teenagers, all because of this giant, gaping, grass-disguised hole in the ground. I had flashbacks from the time I fell down the stairs at Discoveryland - you know, that place out past Sand Springs where Oklahoma! plays during the summer each year. At least this time I was carrying a kid who knows a thing or two about how to land properly. At Discoveryland, it was three bowls of ice cream. With chocolate syrup. Of course, I was there with a girl from school, and she didn\'t let me live it down until she transferred to another school and I never saw her again.\r\n\r\nBut I\'m over it. Really.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4556262566/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/4556262566_d39d6c7648.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nHey, Spring? I know all the weatherdudes said you started March 20, but they didn\'t know what they were talking about. We all know you don\'t officially get started until Josh\'s Sno Shack opens.\r\n\r\nApparently.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4556263210/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/4556263210_865a834f39.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nNever mind that these kids, none of whom looked a day over 16, weren\'t in school. Because there was school last Friday, right? Yeah. I\'m pretty sure school was totally in session.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555633701/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3592/4555633701_3ca4d49dcb.jpg\" alt=\"Josh\'s Sno Shack\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\nBut whatever. When Josh\'s opens, it\'s practically a city-wide holiday. Everyone should get the day off.\r\n\r\nBy that I mean, everyone should get the day off but not go to Josh\'s until Holly and I get our dag nabbed t-shirts.\r\n\r\nWe\'re still sad about it. Never mind that we\'re well within our rights to buy a Josh\'s t-shirt. We wanted a <em>free</em> one. It\'d be like snagging pre-release tickets to our favorite concert or, even better for girls like Holly and me, a pre-release hardback copy of the newest book from our favorite authors, autographed with a warm, thoughtful message.\r\n\r\n*shiver*\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC06014 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555664351/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3621/4555664351_0bfd7114cf.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06014\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nYou\'d better watch out, Josh\'s, because next year, it\'s gonna happen for us. Just go ahead and get those t-shirts ready. If you could sign them, I might fall down and skin my knee in front of your sno shack and all of your hip sno shack customers again.\r\n\r\nFree entertainment for you, bragging rights for me. It\'s a win-win, really.','Josh\'s Sno Shack: Okay, Spring. You can officially begin now.','There\'s a phenomenon happening in south Tulsa, and it\'s called Josh\'s Sno Shack.','publish','open','open','','joshs-sno-shack-spring','','','2010-10-04 20:11:46','2010-10-05 01:11:46','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=574',0,'post','',6),(2563,1,'2010-10-04 20:13:24','2010-10-05 01:13:24','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555689988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4555689988_aa99943fa8_o.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"498\" height=\"750\" /></a></div>\nLots of photographers, even beginning amateurs like me, go into convulsions when we drive by <a href=\"http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=ZdV&amp;rlz=1R1RNFA_en___US365&amp;q=woodward+park+tulsa,+OK&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=univ&amp;ei=JvnVS_HRHZnMNKfl0M8D&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=5&amp;ved=0CDEQsAQwBA\">Woodward Park, in Tulsa at 21st and Peoria</a>, and see dozens of photographers posing their subjects against backdrops of azalea bushes in full bloom, reflecting ponds and beds of tulips and roses.\n\n<a name=\"more\"></a>The reason why is that everyone, and I mean everyone, wants to have their photos taken at Woodward Park. I mean, at this time of year when the flowers have yet to be fried into oblivion by the Oklahoma summer sun and those having their photo taken don\'t have to worry about the sweat rings under their arm pits showing up in the photos, it\'s positively idyllic.\n\nIt\'s also positively in every single springtime photo album of any and every Tulsan, from dewy teenagers in prom wear to families of five all wearing the same white, button-down collared shirt.\n\nBut the fact remains: You can\'t be a Tulsan and not have photos taken of yourself at Woodward Park. It\'s a given. It\'s a must. And it needs to happen if it hasn\'t already, just because.\n\nBeing a fifth-generation Tulsan, I\'ve had my share of photos taken at Woodward through the years. But today, as someone who likes to think she takes a decent, original photo from time to time, I\'d like to share with you some shots buried deep in my humiliation files - from eight and nine years ago, my junior and senior proms.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555689988/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4555689988_905ec813af.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nYes, we went to Woodward for photos before not one, but both of the proms I attended. At the west Tulsa high school I attended, you weren\'t cool unless you showed up before dinner at Woodward Park for photos with the other kids in your class.\n\nI wasn\'t one of the cool kids, but I went to Woodward Park anyway.\n\nThe photo above, that\'s The Azalea Shot (capital T, capital A, capital S). It comes in a number of varieties, as such:\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555704804/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/4555704804_fe48e13293.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" /></a></div>\nThe Group Shot.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555446650/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/4555446650_e395385668.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nThe Prom Date Shot.\n\nAs you\'ve certainly noticed, I\'ve used a variety of implements to ensure the protection of the identity of those with whom I attended prom. Because they might be mad if I didn\'t. Being seen with me, even if it\'s only on the Internet, can be kind of a drag, so I\'m told.\n\nAnd now for more of our regularly scheduled programming.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555467930/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3442/4555467930_73a51bb711_o.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"498\" height=\"750\" /></a></div>\nThat there is a Bridge Shot. This bridge is famous, let me tell you. I can only imagine in how many bridal photos this thing serves as a prop.\n\nHeh.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555074239/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/4555074239_3d773fa727.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" /></a></div>\nIn case anyone is miffed about the beards thing:\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555066623/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/4555066623_3525380f2c.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nI\'ll wear the one with the bird in it. No, it\'s okay - I insist. Even though we all know I am not a huge fan of birds, especially birds mere millimeters from my face, it\'s all good. I\'ll take one for the team this time, considering.\n\nHere are a few other types of Woodward shots:\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555668024/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3474/4555668024_dc6637a5e6.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"314\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nThe Grotto.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4554824553/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/4554824553_d14462851a.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nThe Pond.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555499228/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/4555499228_103521f2a0.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nThe Prissy High School Malcontent and her Eager-to-Please, Uberly Sweet Date.\n\nSigh.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555485868/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/4555485868_b73d27f5d7.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nThe Peek-a-Boo.\n\nHold on a sec. I think the back of my neck just imploded into my sinus cavity. SHIVER.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4554797077/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/4554797077_0eccda4791.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nThe Look Out.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4554813015/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/4554813015_8071b55eb4_o.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"498\" height=\"750\" /></a></div>\nThe Look at How Tiny My Waist Used to Be Oh Dear Lord Where Are My Running Sneakers pose.\n\nUgh. Even my neck was skinnier back then. Nine years ago. The night of junior prom.\n\n<em>Nine years ago</em>. The days before I even knew what the heck Spanx were for.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4555059229/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3425/4555059229_e03e82a64e.jpg\" alt=\"Cliche Prom Pics at Woodward Park\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\nYou know you\'ve got \'em - at least, the people you went to high school with have already posted them on Facebook, tagging the heck out of them with the names of the innocent, including yours. Why not display them proudly, even if you have to use a black box here and there?\n\nPlus, I have a prize for my favorite.\n\nIf you\'ve got \'em, and if you want a totally awesome prize, post your links to those cliche Woodward Park shots in the comments.\n\nAs they say in the old country, \"Come on, baby - show us your pics!\"','From the humiliation files: My Cliche Woodward Park Prom Photos','','inherit','open','open','','573-autosave','','','2010-10-04 20:13:24','2010-10-05 01:13:24','',573,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/573-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(575,1,'2010-04-27 14:21:00','2010-04-27 14:21:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Carrie_Underwood.jpg/454px-Carrie_Underwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\nImagine, moms: Your child - the same child who needed a kiss to heal a scrape, the same one you rocked to sleep at night - grows up to become an internationally successful recording artist.\r\n\r\nChecotah resident Carole Underwood doesn\'t have to imagine; for her, it\'s reality.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://okmag.com/currentissue/index.cfm?\">Read the rest of this story in the Women\'s Issue (May 2010) of Oklahoma Magazine</a>.','Off the Stage: How Carole Underwood avoided becoming a stage mom','Imagine, moms: Your child - the same child who needed a kiss to heal a scrape, the same one you rocked to sleep at night - grows up to become an internationally successful recording artist.','publish','open','open','','carole-underwood-stage-mom','','','2010-10-04 20:10:25','2010-10-05 01:10:25','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=575',0,'post','',0),(576,1,'2010-04-27 15:42:00','2010-04-27 15:42:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9cFuNpz3RI/AAAAAAAABvk/GY8w7tjAp-8/s1600/DSC00691.jpg\"><img src=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9cFuNpz3RI/AAAAAAAABvk/GY8w7tjAp-8/s640/DSC00691.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\nFat Guy’s Burger Bar, which opened seven days before Oneok Field kicked off the Tulsa Drillers’ 2010 baseball season on April 9, and just paces from the east gate of the ballpark on Greenwood Avenue, rocks. It just rocks.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&amp;aID=34220819.4129345.662753.6661459.4167045.071&amp;aID2=50972\">Read the rest of this review on the Food page of this week\'s edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Power Lunch: Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar','Fat Guy’s Burger Bar, which opened seven days before Oneok Field kicked off the Tulsa Drillers’ 2010 baseball season on April 9, and just paces from the east gate of the ballpark on Greenwood Avenue, rocks. It just rocks.','publish','open','open','','fat-guys-burger-bar-power-lunch','','','2010-10-04 20:07:02','2010-10-05 01:07:02','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=576',0,'post','',5),(577,1,'2010-04-28 14:15:00','2010-04-28 14:15:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Dilly Deli, 2nd and Elgin by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3374848984/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3374848984_4b014e4bc8.jpg\" alt=\"Dilly Deli, 2nd and Elgin\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nLooking for a way to have fun, get a great meal and make a difference in your community Thursday night?\r\n\r\nThere\'s a way, and that way is <a href=\"http://www.diningoutforlife.com/tulsa/\">Dining out for Life</a>.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Dilly Deli, 2nd and Elgin by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3374032945/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3644/3374032945_ff38d9f5e7.jpg\" alt=\"Dilly Deli, 2nd and Elgin\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nParticipating restaurants will donate a portion of your bill to pay <a href=\"http://www.hopetesting.org/\">for local HIV services provided by H.O.P.E.</a> Their generosity coupled with your donation will make a very real difference in the lives of thousands of men, women, and children throughout the Tulsa community.\r\n\r\nAs in, contrary to weirdos and lore, AIDS isn\'t a problem just for the gay community. Hello, it affects everyone, from the old to the young, from gay to straight. H.O.P.E. provides testing and information services about this life-changing disease, and it needs your support to ensure that no one faces HIV alone.\r\n\r\nPlenty of Tulsa restaurants decided that raising money for this cause would be a really, really good thing - 15 of them, in fact, and each of them is donating at least 25 percent of their proceeds to H.O.P.E.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://wholefoodsmarket.com/storesbeta/tulsa/\">Whole Foods Market</a> (H.O.P.E. is the Bag Refund Recipient April 12-May 9, so don\'t forget your reusable bags when you grocery shop!)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.shadesofbrowncoffee.com/\">Shades of Brown</a> (donating 50 percent all day long - go, Shades!)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.baxtersgrill.com/\">Baxter\'s Interurban Grill</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cazschowhouse.com/\">Caz\'s Chowhouse</a> (lunch)\r\n<a href=\"http://cosmo-cafe.com/\">Cosmo Cafe</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.dalesandros.com/\">Dalesandro\'s</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.elguaposcantina.net/\">El Guapo\'s Cantina</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe and Catering</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.indiapalacetulsa.com/\">India Palace</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.keorestaurant.com/\">KEO</a> (lunch)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.kokoachocolatier.com/\">KoKoa Chocolatier</a> (all day - woot!)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.lambruscoz.com/index.html\">Lambrusco\'z To Go</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.mcnellies.com/site/sections/1\">McNellie\'s Public House</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.whitelion.com/\">White Lion Pub</a> (dinner)\r\n<a href=\"http://www.yokozunatulsa.com/\">Yokozuna</a> (dinner)\r\n\r\nThe only one that matters to you right now, though, is <a href=\"http://dillydelitulsa.com/\">Dilly Deli</a>, at 2nd and Elgin. Because that\'s where I\'m gonna be, along with <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/katespencer1\">the hilarious and snarky Kate Huggins of Fox 23</a>.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Dilly Deli, 2nd and Elgin by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3374850390/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3611/3374850390_eb4b0725a3.jpg\" alt=\"Dilly Deli, 2nd and Elgin\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nDining Out for Life features several local celebrities (why they asked me, I don\'t know) dining at the participating restaurants, but there\'s a friendly competition going on between <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/nnascenzi\">Nicole Nascenzi</a> and <a href=\"http://kvoo.com/pages/2831899.php\">Sunny Leigh from KVOO</a>, who will be the celebrity diners at <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe and Catering</a>, and Kate Huggins and I at Dilly Deli. While Elote rocks and is one of my favorite restaurants ever, you can eat there Friday night. Or tonight. Or, heck, even Saturday night. Just make sure that you dine at Dilly Deli with Dine Out for Life with Kate and me Thursday night.\r\n\r\nWhat I\'m trying to say is, I\'ll make it worth your while.\r\n\r\n<strong>The person to bring the most diners with him/her to Dilly Deli for Dine Out for Life gets from me a $50 gift certificate to the Dining Out for Life participating restaurant of his or her choice</strong>. To enter, simply say hi to Kate and me at Dilly Deli and let us know how many folks you brought to dinner. If you\'re the party animal of the evening, I\'ll crown you with some cold, hard, local Tulsa restaurant cash.\r\n\r\nIf you\'re unable to dine out Thursday night but would still like to help with the cause, <a href=\"http://www.diningoutforlife.com/tulsa\">forward your name to Dining Out for Life</a> and they\'ll call to chat with you about how you\'d like to do that.\r\n\r\nSee you all Thursday night!','Dining Out For Life: We Want You','','publish','open','open','','dining-out-for-life-we-want-you','','','2010-10-04 20:05:08','2010-10-05 01:05:08','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=577',0,'post','',1),(2556,1,'2010-10-04 20:06:35','2010-10-05 01:06:35','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9cFuNpz3RI/AAAAAAAABvk/GY8w7tjAp-8/s1600/DSC00691.jpg\"><img src=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9cFuNpz3RI/AAAAAAAABvk/GY8w7tjAp-8/s640/DSC00691.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\nFat Guy’s Burger Bar, which opened seven days before Oneok Field kicked off the Tulsa Drillers’ 2010 baseball season on April 9, and just paces from the east gate of the ballpark on Greenwood Avenue, rocks. It just rocks.\n\n<a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/industry_article.asp?cID=i&amp;aID=34220819.4129345.662753.6661459.4167045.071&amp;aID2=50972\">Read the rest of this review on the Food page of this week\'s edition of Tulsa Business Journal</a>.','Power Lunch: Fat Guy\'s Burger Bar','','inherit','open','open','','576-autosave','','','2010-10-04 20:06:35','2010-10-05 01:06:35','',576,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/576-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(578,1,'2010-04-29 16:13:00','2010-04-29 16:13:00','I\'ve been keeping something from you, my dear, intellectually superior, inordinately attractive readers. Something very, very exciting - not just for me, but for a boatload of people.\r\n\r\nAnd not a little boatload of people. I\'m talking about one of those big party barge things where there\'s room not only for all of your friends, but also for bocce ball, a cartwheel contest and beer pong.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"THS/TDT Photo Show by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4563481832/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4563481832_c43e012336_o.png\" alt=\"THS/TDT Photo Show\" width=\"486\" height=\"483\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nThat\'s how I feel about what I\'m about to tell you: Like bocce ball, a cartwheel contest and beer pong all wrapped up into one glorious bit of great news.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->Late last year a representative from <a href=\"http://www.tulsahistory.org/\">Tulsa Historical Society</a> contacted me about <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/tulsa-photos-galore.html\">this post, the one in which I highlighted photos from the Tasha Does Tulsa group on Flickr</a>. The folks at THS loved the photos so much that they asked if I was interested in helping them host a show there of the best of the best photos in the pool.\r\n\r\nTo which I responded, yeah, I don\'t know, give me awhile to think about it.\r\n\r\nJust kidding! I was all, HECK YES! I was <a href=\"http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs132.snc1/5654_1107091034659_1148295116_30280912_2987428_n.jpg\">more excited than a t-shirt mannequin on puffy taco night</a>, I tell you what.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"tiedie by amandarosev, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/16440756@N04/3538084114/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/3538084114_5631931703.jpg\" alt=\"tiedie\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" /></a></div>\r\nGoing about the process of choosing the photos for this show wasn\'t easy. I mean, there were 1,000 photos from nearly 100 photographers to choose from, and all of them were interesting and worthy. But, over the course of a few months, I managed to whittle it down to my favorite 50 photos.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC_0883 by DozerGuy, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel_parker/3658618752/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3546/3658618752_b4ef68d3fb.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0883\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nCurious about which ones made the cut? I\'ve been giving you a preview here in this post, but if you want the full treatment, you\'re just going to have to come see <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&amp;eid=119074314785752\">the show at Tulsa Historical Society. It starts May 8, and it runs until July 10</a>. That\'s two solid months of TDT photo group goodness.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Downtown Tulsa at Night by lefturn99, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/lefturn99/4419247969/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4419247969_759dfe19f3.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Tulsa at Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Untitled by ~munson~, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/munsonshots/3512071122/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3350/3512071122_cb89953d7f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nWhen you visit the show, feel free to choose favorites. Once you have, let me know by leaving their names (they\'ll be next to or below the photos) at THS. Closer to July we\'ll host a reception for the photographers, their friends and family and anyone who\'s just plain ol\' interested, and we\'ll have a people\'s choice awards presentation, too.\r\n\r\nCool, huh?\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Untitled by bouldinshots, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/luckyspicturessuck/3785226796/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3785226796_8d5cf076f4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nI certainly think so. I\'m so proud of these photographers and what this online pool of Tulsa photos has become. These folks are adventurous, they\'re creative and they have a knack for capturing Tulsa\'s beauty as well as its quirks.\r\n\r\nI like that in a photographer. Heck, I like that in everybody.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"CDS-3317-WM by chrisdscott, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisdscott/4434366256/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4434366256_1a8f443364.jpg\" alt=\"CDS-3317-WM\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nIf you enjoy exploring Tulsa via your photography habit, <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/groups/tashadoestulsa\">I invite you to become part of the Tasha Does Tulsa group on Flickr</a>. We\'re a dynamic, diverse group, and we\'d love to have you. Who knows, maybe one of your photos will be part of another photo show someday.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Philbrook Gardens Tiltshift by BrettMorrison, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettmorrison/3493810325/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3328/3493810325_f13e15a128.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Gardens Tiltshift\" width=\"463\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nSee you at THS!','I\'ve been keeping something from you. See, it\'s about these photos...','I\'ve been keeping something from you, my dear, intellectually superior, inordinately attractive readers. Something very, very exciting - not just for me, but for a boatload of people.','publish','open','open','','tasha-does-tulsa-photo-show-tulsa-historical-society-2010','','','2010-10-04 20:03:50','2010-10-05 01:03:50','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=578',0,'post','',8),(579,1,'2010-04-30 17:30:00','2010-04-30 17:30:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"How to Eat a Cupcake at Merritt\'s Bakery by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4565949769/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/4565949769_ac68b53af3.jpg\" alt=\"How to Eat a Cupcake at Merritt\'s Bakery\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nHey there. It\'s TDT\'s kid. Every once in a great while TDT lets me out of my cage and asks me to guest post on her blog. I figure that, for me, it\'s just another step on the ladder to world domination.\r\n\r\nWhich is my ultimate goal. And why shouldn\'t it be? I mean, look at these eyes. And this hair. And my chubby cheeks.\r\n\r\nAnd this hair.\r\n\r\nAnyway. I\'m here today to tell you that the eating of the cupcakes, it is a learned skill. Using a cupcake from <a href=\"http://www.merrittsbakery.com/\">Tulsa\'s own Merritt\'s Bakery</a> as an example, imma gonna show you how to do it.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<strong>1. Start with the icing (duh).</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2534\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00828/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2534\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00828.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></strong>\r\n\r\nBecause, when it comes to cupcakes, what else <em>is</em> there?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2535\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00831/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2535\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00831.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2536\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00825/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2536\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00825.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIt\'s really important to make sure all of the icing is consumed. So, get in there and get \'er done.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2537\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00832/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2537\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00832.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2538\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00836/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2538\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00836.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nDon\'t be afraid to get a bit messy. That\'s what those wet wipes my mom is always carrying in her purse are for.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2539\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00830/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2539\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00830.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2540\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00829/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2540\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00829.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhat are you looking at? I\'m just doing my job here, demonstrating how you can acquire a valuable new skill. If I were you, I wouldn\'t judge me. I have your ISP address, and I know how to use it.\r\n\r\nAt least, if it\'s not any more difficult to operate than the DVD player, I know how to use it.\r\n\r\n<strong>2. Once you get down to the cupcake part of the cake, abandon ship and steal your mom\'s brownie</strong>.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2541\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00841/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2541\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00841.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2542\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00851/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2542\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00851.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThat\'s me, double fisting the brownie consumption.\r\n\r\nYou gotta own it, baby.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2543\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00848/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2543\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00848.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2544\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00847/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2544\" title=\"Merritt\'s Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00847.jpg\" alt=\"Merritt\'s Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nUh-oh. I\'m suddenly not feeling very well.\r\n\r\nI can\'t imagine why.\r\n\r\n<strong>3. Clean yourself up</strong>. It\'s always prudent to look like a gentleman.\r\n\r\nAnd real gentlemen lick their fingers after a cupcake-and-brownie throw down at Merritt\'s Bakery.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2545\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00834/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2545\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00834.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2539\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/merritts-bakery-cupcake/dsc00830/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2539\" title=\"Merritts Bakery\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/DSC00830.jpg\" alt=\"Merritts Bakery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThen, wait patiently for the attack of the wet wipes. They always come, people. It\'s best to just be prepared for the onslaught.\r\n\r\nIn cupcake obliteration unity,\r\n\r\nTDT\'s Kid','How to Obliterate a Cupcake from Merritt\'s Bakery','Hey there. It\'s TDT\'s kid. I\'m here today to tell you the eating of cupcakes, it is a learned skill. Imma gonna show you how to do it.','publish','open','open','','merritts-bakery-cupcake','','','2010-10-04 16:18:56','2010-10-04 21:18:56','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=579',0,'post','',2),(580,1,'2010-04-30 18:20:00','2010-04-30 18:20:00','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/brunch-in-tulsa/dsc_0610/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1234\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DSC_0610-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" title=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1234\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs someone who blogs about Tulsa\'s attractions, things to do in Tulsa and where the best places are to eat around town, I field lots of questions about the city and all the stuff there is to do within its borders.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>I\'ll take my cue from the location-based social networking site <a href=\"http://foursquare.com/user/tashadoestulsa\">FourSquare</a>, where every use can build his or her own list of top 12 best city attractions as part of their public profile. \r\n\r\nI figure 12 spots isn\'t too many to visit in the space of a couple of days, even for the most slow-paced of travelers. So, here goes - the 12 Tulsa places I\'d take a visitor to my city, in no particular order.\r\n\r\n<strong>1. A Tulsa-area vineyard and/or winery.</strong> Forget Napa Valley - this is Green Country, baby.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514473519/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/4514473519_f8bcc774ff_o.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nThink young vine wine, along with wine made from nuts and Oklahoma fruit like elderberries, peaches and chokeberries, all expertly and creatively blended and enjoyed in the company of some of the most hospitable, down-home folks you\'ll ever meet, sometimes in their own homes. Here are a few of my favorites: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">Stone Bluff Cellars</a>, <a href=\"http://www.whisperingvines.net/\">Whispering Vines Vineyard</a>, <a href=\"http://www.nuyakacreek.com/\">Nuyaka Creek Winery</a> and <a href=\"http://www.graperanch.com/\">The Grape Ranch</a>. \r\n\r\nMost tastings are free and bottles are rarely more than $30. The wineries often hold special events - check <a href=\"http://www.OklahomaWines.org/\">OklahomaWines.org</a> for details.\r\n\r\n<strong>2. Brookside.</strong> <a href=\"http://brooksidetheplacetobe.com/\">There\'s nothing you can\'t do on Brookside</a> - eat, drink, shop, play, take a yoga class or even get a new tattoo.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/blue-moon-cafe-from-the-breakfast-files/dsc_1694-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3056\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16941-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Moon Cafe Brookside Tulsa\" title=\"Blue Moon Cafe Brookside Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3056\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProbably Tulsa\'s most diverse entertainment district, Brookside packs a variety of shopping and locally owned stores and restaurants, along with national brands. Be sure to pick up a Tulsa-brewed root beer at <a href=\"http://www.webersoftulsa.com/\">Weber\'s Old Fashioned Hamburgers</a>, where the owners\' claim to fame is that they invented the hamburger. Hey, we\'ll take it.\r\n\r\n<strong>3. River Parks</strong>, followed by lunch at <a href=\"http://www.bluerosecafetulsa.com/\">Blue Rose Cafe</a> or <a href=\"http://www.bluerosecafetulsa.com/elwoods.html\">Elwood\'s on the River</a>. Who doesn\'t enjoy a nice run or bike ride when visiting another city? And who\'d prefer to get that workout in the basement of a hotel when there\'s <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/\">a world-class trail system along one of the mightiest rivers in the U.S. just a few minutes\' drive, ride or walk away</a>?\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"41st Street Plaza at River Parks by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3579724212/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/3579724212_c09f3b7983.jpg\" alt=\"41st Street Plaza at River Parks\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nAfter, make some of those calories back with a beer and a quick bite at Elwood\'s on the River or the new Blue Rose Cafe, both of which offer fabulous patios to go with our amazing spring and summer days. And/or, swing the kids by the 41st Street Plaza, where there\'s a brand-new splash pad, playground and plenty of sno cones.\r\n\r\n<strong>4. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.</strong> There\'s so much to do at this place - eat, play, dance, hear live music, have a few drinks, stay the night - it\'s just incredible.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9sbhuNUhRI/AAAAAAAABvs/d8Djkqq53Ew/s1600/McGills+on+19+-+long+bone+ribeye.jpg\"><img src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9sbhuNUhRI/AAAAAAAABvs/d8Djkqq53Ew/s400/McGills+on+19+-+long+bone+ribeye.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com/Pages/default.aspx\">You could spend a full 24 hours at Hard Rock and still not have done everything</a>. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is also a departure point for a variety of Cherokee cultural tourism tours, which explore the culture and history one of the Tulsa area\'s largest Indian tribes.\r\n\r\n<strong>5. Cherry Street Farmers\' Market.</strong> It\'s huge, it\'s bustling, <a href=\"http://www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com/\">it\'s like a show on Food Network or the Travel Channel</a>.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515103434/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4515103434_5c136732a9_o.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nGet live music, kids\' activities, a glass or two of wine and literally tons of new foods to try, all with Tulsa\'s famous skyline as a backdrop and in one of Tulsa\'s most beloved and beautiful historic districts.\r\n\r\n<strong>6. Oral Roberts University.</strong> I\'ve tried to describe the look and feel of Oral Roberts University and what it means to this community to folks who plan to visit Tulsa, and you know what? It\'s tough. <a href=\"http://www.oru.edu/\">That is, until they see it. Then, boom</a>. I\'ve heard it called everything from a compelling collection of modern architecture to a space city-shaped shrine to Jesus. Both are pretty much true, but a person has to see it to believe it. Tip: Don\'t miss the giant praying hands.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC09455 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4566255930/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/4566255930_33e2cde261.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09455\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nYes, really - giant praying hands.\r\n\r\n<strong>7. A concert at the BOK Center.</strong> Some of the biggest acts around come right through Tulsa, and one of the places they stop is <a href=\"http://www.bokcenter.com/\">the huge BOK Center</a>.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"In Its Shadow by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3431957726/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3582/3431957726_c71c362a35.jpg\" alt=\"In Its Shadow\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nWhile you\'re downtown, why not point out the contrast between the architecture of the BOK Center with <a href=\"http://www.tulsaarchitecture.com/\">the art deco architecture for which downtown Tulsa\'s buildings are so famous</a>? Tulsa is home to one of the largest concentrations of art deco architecture in the world. The BOK Center isn\'t an example of art deco architecture, but its follows the same ethos of the art deco architects - the aspiration to produce the most cutting edge, avant-garde and grand built environments for their times.\r\n\r\n<strong>8. The Golden Driller.</strong> This friendly giant at the site of Tulsa\'s County Fairgrounds on 21st Street between Yale and Harvard is a sight to behold. \r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Golden Driller by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4358787509/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4358787509_6a96e0177a.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Driller\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nA holdover from the Oil Expos of our oil boom days, this guy has turned all sorts of heads, including those who voted him into the Top Ten Quirkiest Destinations list in the U.S. back in 2006.\r\n\r\n<strong>9. ONEOK Field.</strong> Traveling with the kids? <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">Catch a Tulsa Drillers game at our brand-spanking-new ONEOK Field</a>, the prettiest boutique ballpark around.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549324/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4504549324_8b6c375833.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC_0076 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479697085/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4479697085_5e468205bb.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0076\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nNot only is there a playground, two grassy lawns and two picnic areas in this stadium, but there\'s plenty of kid-friendly food and good, clean family fun in the form of America\'s favorite past time. Parents, <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">grab a pint of Marshall beer, expertly brewed just up the street from ONEOK Field</a> - don\'t forget to order it in the souvenir cup. The Hornsby Burger, named for the Drillers mascot, ain\'t bad, either.\r\n\r\n<strong>10. Philbrook Museum</strong>. Got an art lover coming to town? There\'s no better place to whisk that person than to <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum, truly one of the finest art museums in the U.S</a>.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Philbrook Museum Gardens by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4109884404/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4109884404_291e7acc9c.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gardens\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nThere\'s something going on every day at Philbrook, whether it\'s for kids and families, the wine lover or the gardening aficionado. That it\'s housed in the former home of oilman Waite Phillips, who played an integral role in building Tulsa during its boom days, gives the museum an even greater sense of history and place.\r\n\r\n<strong>11. Cain\'s Ballroom.</strong> Any music buff will flip over Cain\'s Ballroom - <a href=\"http://www.cainsballroom.com/\">The Cain\'s as it\'s called by locals</a> - and not just because it\'s the birthplace of Western Swing.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs170.snc1/6369_117624526800_32208996800_2218676_2724636_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n\r\nIt\'s also the venue of choice for a huge variety of acts, from our own local bands to nationally touring artists. Really, it doesn\'t get more Tulsa than Cain\'s Ballroom.\r\n\r\n<strong>12. Downtown nightlife.</strong> There\'s nothing like getting down with one\'s bad self after a  long day of sight-seeing, and downtown Tulsa\'s nightlife scene can surely handle that inclination.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tulsa Bloggers Meetup by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4344431680/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4344431680_27791fcc65_o.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Bloggers Meetup\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nBetween the Brady, Blue Dome, Arena, South Boston and Deco Districts, there\'s no shortage of things to eat and people to see in our city\'s Central Business District. \r\n\r\nSo. What\'s your Tulsa Top 12?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2218676&amp;id=32208996800#!/photo.php?pid=2218676&amp;id=32208996800&amp;fbid=117624526800\">Cain\'s photo from the Cain\'s page on Facebook</a>.','Top 12 Tulsa Attractions: Things To Do In Tulsa','Like a top 10 list, only better - my list of Tulsa\'s top 12 attractions. ','publish','open','open','','tulsa-top-12-attractions','','','2011-03-16 16:46:34','2011-03-16 22:46:34','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=580',0,'post','',1),(7079,1,'2011-03-16 16:46:33','2011-03-16 22:46:33','<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/brunch-in-tulsa/dsc_0610/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1234\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DSC_0610-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" title=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1234\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs someone who blogs about Tulsa\'s attractions, things to do in Tulsa and where the best places are to eat around town, I field lots of questions about the city and all the stuff there is to do within its borders.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>I\'ll take my cue from the location-based social networking site <a href=\"http://foursquare.com/user/tashadoestulsa\">FourSquare</a>, where every use can build his or her own list of top 12 best city attractions as part of their public profile. \r\n\r\nI figure 12 spots isn\'t too many to visit in the space of a couple of days, even for the most slow-paced of travelers. So, here goes - the 12 Tulsa places I\'d take a visitor to my city, in no particular order.\r\n\r\n<strong>1. A Tulsa-area vineyard and/or winery.</strong> Forget Napa Valley - this is Green Country, baby.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4514473519/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2341/4514473519_f8bcc774ff_o.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nThink young vine wine, along with wine made from nuts and Oklahoma fruit like elderberries, peaches and chokeberries, all expertly and creatively blended and enjoyed in the company of some of the most hospitable, down-home folks you\'ll ever meet, sometimes in their own homes. Here are a few of my favorites: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">Stone Bluff Cellars</a>, <a href=\"http://www.whisperingvines.net/\">Whispering Vines Vineyard</a>, <a href=\"http://www.nuyakacreek.com/\">Nuyaka Creek Winery</a> and <a href=\"http://www.graperanch.com/\">The Grape Ranch</a>. \r\n\r\nMost tastings are free and bottles are rarely more than $30. The wineries often hold special events - check <a href=\"http://www.OklahomaWines.org/\">OklahomaWines.org</a> for details.\r\n\r\n<strong>2. Brookside.</strong> <a href=\"http://brooksidetheplacetobe.com/\">There\'s nothing you can\'t do on Brookside</a> - eat, drink, shop, play, take a yoga class or even get a new tattoo.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/blue-moon-cafe-from-the-breakfast-files/dsc_1694-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3056\"><img src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_16941-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Moon Cafe Brookside Tulsa\" title=\"Blue Moon Cafe Brookside Tulsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3056\" /></a>\r\n\r\nProbably Tulsa\'s most diverse entertainment district, Brookside packs a variety of shopping and locally owned stores and restaurants, along with national brands. Be sure to pick up a Tulsa-brewed root beer at <a href=\"http://www.webersoftulsa.com/\">Weber\'s Old Fashioned Hamburgers</a>, where the owners\' claim to fame is that they invented the hamburger. Hey, we\'ll take it.\r\n\r\n<strong>3. River Parks</strong>, followed by lunch at <a href=\"http://www.bluerosecafetulsa.com/\">Blue Rose Cafe</a> or <a href=\"http://www.bluerosecafetulsa.com/elwoods.html\">Elwood\'s on the River</a>. Who doesn\'t enjoy a nice run or bike ride when visiting another city? And who\'d prefer to get that workout in the basement of a hotel when there\'s <a href=\"http://www.riverparks.org/\">a world-class trail system along one of the mightiest rivers in the U.S. just a few minutes\' drive, ride or walk away</a>?\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"41st Street Plaza at River Parks by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3579724212/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/3579724212_c09f3b7983.jpg\" alt=\"41st Street Plaza at River Parks\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nAfter, make some of those calories back with a beer and a quick bite at Elwood\'s on the River or the new Blue Rose Cafe, both of which offer fabulous patios to go with our amazing spring and summer days. And/or, swing the kids by the 41st Street Plaza, where there\'s a brand-new splash pad, playground and plenty of sno cones.\r\n\r\n<strong>4. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.</strong> There\'s so much to do at this place - eat, play, dance, hear live music, have a few drinks, stay the night - it\'s just incredible.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9sbhuNUhRI/AAAAAAAABvs/d8Djkqq53Ew/s1600/McGills+on+19+-+long+bone+ribeye.jpg\"><img src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S9sbhuNUhRI/AAAAAAAABvs/d8Djkqq53Ew/s400/McGills+on+19+-+long+bone+ribeye.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com/Pages/default.aspx\">You could spend a full 24 hours at Hard Rock and still not have done everything</a>. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is also a departure point for a variety of Cherokee cultural tourism tours, which explore the culture and history one of the Tulsa area\'s largest Indian tribes.\r\n\r\n<strong>5. Cherry Street Farmers\' Market.</strong> It\'s huge, it\'s bustling, <a href=\"http://www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com/\">it\'s like a show on Food Network or the Travel Channel</a>.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4515103434/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4515103434_5c136732a9_o.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Day 2010 of Cherry Street Farmers Market\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nGet live music, kids\' activities, a glass or two of wine and literally tons of new foods to try, all with Tulsa\'s famous skyline as a backdrop and in one of Tulsa\'s most beloved and beautiful historic districts.\r\n\r\n<strong>6. Oral Roberts University.</strong> I\'ve tried to describe the look and feel of Oral Roberts University and what it means to this community to folks who plan to visit Tulsa, and you know what? It\'s tough. <a href=\"http://www.oru.edu/\">That is, until they see it. Then, boom</a>. I\'ve heard it called everything from a compelling collection of modern architecture to a space city-shaped shrine to Jesus. Both are pretty much true, but a person has to see it to believe it. Tip: Don\'t miss the giant praying hands.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC09455 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4566255930/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/4566255930_33e2cde261.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09455\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nYes, really - giant praying hands.\r\n\r\n<strong>7. A concert at the BOK Center.</strong> Some of the biggest acts around come right through Tulsa, and one of the places they stop is <a href=\"http://www.bokcenter.com/\">the huge BOK Center</a>.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"In Its Shadow by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3431957726/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3582/3431957726_c71c362a35.jpg\" alt=\"In Its Shadow\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nWhile you\'re downtown, why not point out the contrast between the architecture of the BOK Center with <a href=\"http://www.tulsaarchitecture.com/\">the art deco architecture for which downtown Tulsa\'s buildings are so famous</a>? Tulsa is home to one of the largest concentrations of art deco architecture in the world. The BOK Center isn\'t an example of art deco architecture, but its follows the same ethos of the art deco architects - the aspiration to produce the most cutting edge, avant-garde and grand built environments for their times.\r\n\r\n<strong>8. The Golden Driller.</strong> This friendly giant at the site of Tulsa\'s County Fairgrounds on 21st Street between Yale and Harvard is a sight to behold. \r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Golden Driller by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4358787509/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4358787509_6a96e0177a.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Driller\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nA holdover from the Oil Expos of our oil boom days, this guy has turned all sorts of heads, including those who voted him into the Top Ten Quirkiest Destinations list in the U.S. back in 2006.\r\n\r\n<strong>9. ONEOK Field.</strong> Traveling with the kids? <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">Catch a Tulsa Drillers game at our brand-spanking-new ONEOK Field</a>, the prettiest boutique ballpark around.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4504549324/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4504549324_8b6c375833.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Field, Opening Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC_0076 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4479697085/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4479697085_5e468205bb.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0076\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nNot only is there a playground, two grassy lawns and two picnic areas in this stadium, but there\'s plenty of kid-friendly food and good, clean family fun in the form of America\'s favorite past time. Parents, <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">grab a pint of Marshall beer, expertly brewed just up the street from ONEOK Field</a> - don\'t forget to order it in the souvenir cup. The Hornsby Burger, named for the Drillers mascot, ain\'t bad, either.\r\n\r\n<strong>10. Philbrook Museum</strong>. Got an art lover coming to town? There\'s no better place to whisk that person than to <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">Philbrook Museum, truly one of the finest art museums in the U.S</a>.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Philbrook Museum Gardens by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4109884404/\"><img src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4109884404_291e7acc9c.jpg\" alt=\"Philbrook Museum Gardens\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nThere\'s something going on every day at Philbrook, whether it\'s for kids and families, the wine lover or the gardening aficionado. That it\'s housed in the former home of oilman Waite Phillips, who played an integral role in building Tulsa during its boom days, gives the museum an even greater sense of history and place.\r\n\r\n<strong>11. Cain\'s Ballroom.</strong> Any music buff will flip over Cain\'s Ballroom - <a href=\"http://www.cainsballroom.com/\">The Cain\'s as it\'s called by locals</a> - and not just because it\'s the birthplace of Western Swing.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs170.snc1/6369_117624526800_32208996800_2218676_2724636_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\n\r\nIt\'s also the venue of choice for a huge variety of acts, from our own local bands to nationally touring artists. Really, it doesn\'t get more Tulsa than Cain\'s Ballroom.\r\n\r\n<strong>12. Downtown nightlife.</strong> There\'s nothing like getting down with one\'s bad self after a  long day of sight-seeing, and downtown Tulsa\'s nightlife scene can surely handle that inclination.\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tulsa Bloggers Meetup by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4344431680/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4344431680_27791fcc65_o.jpg\" alt=\"Tulsa Bloggers Meetup\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nBetween the Brady, Blue Dome, Arena, South Boston and Deco Districts, there\'s no shortage of things to eat and people to see in our city\'s Central Business District. \r\n\r\nSo. What\'s your Tulsa Top 12?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2218676&amp;id=32208996800#!/photo.php?pid=2218676&amp;id=32208996800&amp;fbid=117624526800\">Cain\'s photo from the Cain\'s page on Facebook</a>.','Top 12 Tulsa Attractions: Things To Do In Tulsa','Like a top 10 list, only better - my list of Tulsa\'s top 12 attractions. ','inherit','open','open','','580-revision-3','','','2011-03-16 16:46:33','2011-03-16 22:46:33','',580,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/580-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(581,1,'2010-05-01 20:56:00','2010-05-01 20:56:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4568819728/\" title=\"My Secret Life by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"My Secret Life\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4568819728_28be9413be.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />There\'s something you might not know about me.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4568182573/\" title=\"My Secret Life by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"My Secret Life\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4568182573_f9b031ba06.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />No, not that <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/from-humiliation-files-my-cliche.html\">I had my prom photos taken not once, but twice at Woodward Park</a>. And no, not that <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2009/11/wet-burrito.html\">I can eat an entire Wet Burrito at El Rio Verde</a>. And no, not that <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/owen-park-tulsas-oldest.html\">I\'m afraid of geese</a>. <br /><br />Because I\'ve already told you all that stuff. All of that, you already know.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4568183529/\" title=\"My Secret Life by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"My Secret Life\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4568183529_a6d0a84aeb.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Nope. It\'s something else. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4568182383/\" title=\"My Secret Life by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"My Secret Life\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4568182383_c378a7722c.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Okay, I\'ll tell you: I\'m a knitter. See that baby blanket? I knitted that. It took awhile - as in, several months of diligent, continued stitching - but I did it. I got a ton of strange looks when I\'d work on it in public, and dozens of loads of laundry and dishes went undone because of it, but I did it.<br /><br />Knitting is my weird little way of rebelling against the blogger/electronics/modern conveniences-using side of me.&nbsp;Because it\'s nice to know that in case one day everything we take for granted suddenly goes away, at least I\'ll know how to spin all that dryer lint I\'ve been saving for the past few years (not out of preparedness but out of something more like laziness) into something that will guard me from the infamous Oklahoma winter wind.<br /><br />It\'ll be ugly as sin, but it\'ll be warm. Also, it\'ll be ugly. <br /><br />Did I mention that it\'ll be ugly? <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4568183699/\" title=\"My Secret Life by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"My Secret Life\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4568183699_45253b9b33.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Thank goodness for t<a href=\"http://www.maketulsa.com/fiberfest/\">he first-ever Spring FiberFest here in Tulsa, kicking off tomorrow</a>. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img height=\"640\" src=\"http://www.maketulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/FiberFestMakeTulsaSiteFlyer-725x1023.jpg\" width=\"429\" /></div><br />*shiver* Woah. My knees are shaking at the thought of all that fibery goodness. I can\'t wait to stock up on something to knit with besides dryer lint. <br /><br />Here\'s the rundown of what\'ll take place at the event:<br /><br /><b>11am-5pm</b>: Shop from local fiber vendors<br /><b>12pm-5pm</b>: Demos of yarn spinning, knitting machine, loom weaving, and more<br /><b>11am-5pm</b>: Stitch Pavilion open – take a break from shopping and classes to have a seat and enjoy a treat from our food and drink vendors, or just sit and knit/crochet for a while in the lovely retreat atmosphere of “The Barn’s” pavilion.  Sit overlooking rolling hills and a picturesque pond – what a great location to relax with friends and do some stitching.<br /><br />So, there\'s all that fun stuff to do, but for the less initiated in the fiber world, or even for those who have been working with yarn and fiber for a long time but could use a refresher course, the Spring FiberFest offers a set of classes. <br /><br /><b>12pm</b> – Beginning Crochet<br /><b>2pm</b> – Beginning Knitting<br /><b>3:30pm</b> – Nifty Knitter (kid friendly!)<br /><b>3:30pm</b> – Intro to Fair Isle (big-time stuff)<br /><br />Classes will be free to attend. The supply kits required for the classes are available for purchase at FiberFest from&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.loopsknitting.com/default.htm\">Loops</a>, my favorite yarn store ever, ever, ever.<br /><br />Or, you could win one of those supply kits right here.<br /><br />Up for grabs is <b>a supply kit for any of the classes at FiberFest</b>. Each includes goodies like dreamy yarn from <a href=\"http://www.blueskyalpacas.com/\">Blue Sky Alpacas</a> (the maker of the yarn that stars in the baby blanket shown above), needles/the hook needed to complete the project and whatever else is needed to kick butt and take names in your fiber class. <br /><br />Here\'s what you do to win: Head to the comments, <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tasha-Does-Tulsa/403568208507\">the TDT Facebook fan page</a> or <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/tashadoestulsa\">@-reply TDT on Twitter</a> and <b>tell me about the ugliest knitted thing you\'ve ever seen</b>.<br /><br />Maybe it was handmade, maybe it was store-bought. Maybe it was a gift, maybe you bought it all on your own...in 1982. Maybe it was a passable garment before you washed it in hot water and stuck it in the dryer on the scorch setting. <br /><br />Whatever the case, <b>tell me about it by 9pm tonight</b>. My favorite response gets the prize, so <b>be creative</b>. <br /><br />Good luck, and happy knitting/hooking/spinning/felting/general yarn playing!','Spring FiberFest. Plus, a Giveaway.','','publish','open','open','','spring-fiberfest-plus-giveaway','','','2010-05-01 20:56:00','2010-05-01 20:56:00','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=581',0,'post','',4),(582,1,'2010-05-02 17:10:00','2010-05-02 17:10:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Living Arts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4571737132/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4571737132_24a0af1bb1_o.jpg\" alt=\"Living Arts\" width=\"288\" height=\"435\" /></a></div>\r\n<em>Regular TDT contributor, <a href=\"http://www.tulsabusiness.com/\">Tulsa Business Journal Senior Editor</a> and <a href=\"http://www.urbantulsa.com/\">Urban Tulsa Weeky Arts Writer</a> Holly Wall has a post for us today that\'s a must-read for all Tulsa parents with young kids. Newsflash: There\'s no need to relinquish one\'s pre-baby life for day after day at at the local Gymboree. Holly doesn\'t just tell us why, but how. Take it away, Holly!</em>\r\n\r\nBeing both a gal about town and the mother of a very active toddler, I’m frequently asked about kid-friendly activities in Tulsa. And when I am, I kind of chuckle. Not because it isn’t a relevant question — it is, for sure — but because I’ve never thought to ask it myself.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nI tend to take my kid everywhere I go, with the exception of bars and liquor stores.\r\n\r\nActually, I did take my kid to a liquor store once. He was about five months old and asleep in his carrier and I just needed to grab a bottle of wine to take to dinner at a friend’s. I was told promptly to leave. Who knew babies aren’t allowed inside liquor stores in Oklahoma? (Or, probably, any state?)\r\n\r\nAnyway, there are lots of places you can take your kids. Lots more than you think, actually.\r\n\r\nBeing the former visual arts writer for <a href=\"http://www.urbantulsa.com/\">Urban Tulsa Weekly</a> (I still write for the paper, but about performance art. Libby Williams has come on board to cover visual arts), I attend a lot of gallery openings. Or I did, before my son was born. I spent the first few months of his life barely leaving the house — both because to do so was something of a feat and because I wasn’t sure what places would be welcoming to my sweet, adorable baby boy.\r\n\r\nI finally, decided, though, I was tired of missing out on stuff just because I had a baby. Also, I wanted to teach Isaac early on to value the things I value — art, theatre, even sports. I take Isaac to local art galleries as often as I take him to Drillers baseball games.\r\n\r\nWhen Isaac was a baby, it was really easy to put him in the sling and hop between as many galleries as I wanted. He was quiet, compliant and we stayed out until it was time for dinner or bed.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Living Arts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4571103689/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4571103689_0dd09098f3_o.jpg\" alt=\"Living Arts\" width=\"288\" height=\"435\" /></a></div>\r\nNow that he’s a very vocal, very mobile 2-year-old, gallery hopping is slightly more difficult, but not impossible. Before we leave the house, I make sure he’s in the mood for an outing. If he’s cranky or fussy, we skip it. But if he’s agreeable and in a good mood, we load up and go.\r\n\r\nWhen we arrive, we hit the snack table first, loading a small plate with cheese, crackers, veggies and fruits. I let him carry this around the gallery, keeping an eye out that he doesn’t dump it all over the floor, and it keeps him occupied while I peruse the art.\r\n\r\nWhen he’s not eating, I spend a lot of time holding Isaac. I point to the paintings and we talk about colors, shapes and the like. We count, we match colors in the painting to what he’s wearing, we talk about big versus little. Sometimes he’ll point to something he wants to look at, so I’ll let him lead me across the gallery to another painting or object.\r\n\r\nI keep a close eye on him to make sure he doesn’t touch anything, and when he begins to get antsy, we leave. I’ve only had to drag him screaming from a gallery once, and I learned my lesson. At the first sign he’s ready, we go.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Living Arts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4571103353/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4571103353_b45185f45b_o.jpg\" alt=\"Living Arts\" width=\"288\" height=\"435\" /></a></div>\r\nIf we have multiple galleries to visit, as we often do — galleries tend to hold their openings on the same Thursday of each month, and every first Friday of the month, the Brady Arts District hosts a gallery walk — I split up our visits with outdoor playtime. I find a grassy area — downtown, I like the west wall of the Mathews Building, soon to be the Visual Arts Center — where he can freely run around. Then, we hit the next gallery.\r\n\r\nAs parents, we give up a lot for our kids. But we don’t have to give up everything. By bringing your children with you wherever you go (provided they’re legally allowed, of course), you not only get to keep living your life, but you get to expose them to your interests and passions, and that can have a lasting effect on their development, even into adulthood.','How to Take Your Kids to An Art Gallery (and Beyond)','Newsflash: There\'s no need to relinquish one\'s pre-baby life for day after day at at the local Gymboree.','publish','open','open','','kids-art-gallery','','','2010-10-04 14:41:39','2010-10-04 19:41:39','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=582',0,'post','',6),(584,1,'2010-05-03 17:16:00','2010-05-03 23:16:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4575517494/\" title=\"Dilly Deli by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Dilly Deli\" height=\"640\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4575517494_414d807a1e_o.jpg\" width=\"425\" /></a></div><br />It\'s the \"or may not\" part of that post title that I\'m concerned about. <br /><br />Because friends who only read TDT via feed or who visit the front page every day and haven\'t had the nerve to try out those crazy tabs that have appeared under the masthead may not know that I\'ve added a new feature to this blog: A daily, weekday version of my weekend lists of Tulsa events. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/p/things-to-do-in-tulsa-tonight.html\">Take a second and check out today\'s version</a>.<br /><br />That little dose of daily doing Tulsa awesomeness will be under the Do Tulsa Today tab, right there under the masthead.<br /><br />If you\'re a regular listener of <a href=\"http://www.krmg.com/krmgmorningnews\">the KRMG Morning News with Joe Kelley</a>, you might have noticed last week that you\'ll be hearing from me there more often than just on Friday mornings. Which is totally rad for me because I think doing radio stuff is just about the most fun there\'s been since the first kid ran through the first sprinkler on the first 100-degree July afternoon. I hope you all enjoy my on-air antics, too.<br /><br />Your Tulsa to-do list is about to grow so long that you\'ll not be able to help but to laugh hysterically the next time some bozo complains that there\'s nothing to do in Tulsa. You might even snort a little. But it\'ll be warranted, because given how much there is going on in this town right now, that\'s just a plain dumb thing to say. <br /><br />Please also notice that the weekly What to Do in Tulsa This Weekend posts are no longer, well, posts. To cut down on confusion experienced by those looking for things to do in Tulsa via the search engines, I elected to create a page just for that content. For those of you reading by feed, don\'t worry - you\'ll still be alerted with a post when the weekend events page is available.<br /><br /><a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">I\'d be interested to know how all of this is working for you</a>. I\'d like to assume that since no one has complained or sent me slugs in the mail during the past couple of weeks that I\'ve been testing this new format that everyone loves it and wouldn\'t want it any other way, but you know what they say about assuming.<br /><br />And, as with all things event-oriented here at TDT, <a href=\"mailto:tasha@tashadoestulsa.com\">you are more than welcome to submit info on your event to me by e-mail</a>.<br /><br />Happy Monday, everyone!','Changes You May (Or May Not) Have Noticed at TDT','','private','open','open','','changes-you-may-or-may-not-have-noticed','','','2011-04-15 06:05:32','2011-04-15 12:05:32','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=584',0,'post','',3),(585,1,'2010-05-03 18:34:00','2010-05-03 18:34:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Country Donuts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4575589366/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4575589366_ecd3c64af1.jpg\" alt=\"OK Country Donuts\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nNormally not a person who goes easily into combat. Most times I find I don\'t need to fight to get my way - there are other, more peaceful methods that seem to work better for me when I want to get things done.\r\n\r\nUnless you\'ve overcooked my steak and you have the nerve to serve it to me at a restaurant. Then momma\'s gonna throw down.\r\n\r\nOf all places, though, I thought I\'d always be safe from a duel in a donut shop. They seem like such safe places. The air smells sweet, and they\'re always full of smiling faces.\r\n\r\nThat was, until Saturday morning.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more-->\r\n[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Country Donuts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4575589018/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3402/4575589018_76a9f0225f.jpg\" alt=\"OK Country Donuts\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nThat\'s when I learned how to get into not just one, but TWO fights at a donut shop.\r\n\r\n<strong>1. Show up at OK Country Donuts with a camera. Be very open and visual about the fact that you\'re snapping photos.\r\n</strong>\r\n<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\nEven in my five short years of working in journalism I\'ve dealt with my share of folks who don\'t want their photos taken (or their stuff being the subject of photos). But I don\'t think I\'ve ever been told not to take photos in a restaurant before. Most food people are proud of their work and are excited by the opportunity to break through the noise of competition and tell lots of people about what they can do by way of a photo and a write-up.\r\n\r\nThe folks at OK Country Donuts, however, don\'t feel this way.\r\n\r\nOK Country Donuts isn\'t your ordinary donut shop. They have this line of donuts that are tailored to kids and the young-at-heart. OK Country sells donuts in the shape of everything from the letter M (and the other 25 letters of the alphabet, too, by the way, making it fun to spell stuff in the best font ever - donut!) to a flip flop shoe to puppies to palm trees. And they\'re all expertly and colorfully iced. They\'re gorgeous.\r\n\r\nAnd, they\'re delicious. These are the reasons there was a line out the door when we showed up at 10:30 on Saturday morning, a time by which most donut shops are packing it up for the day.\r\n\r\nI\'d heard so much about this place from all over - Facebook, Twitter and IRL, too. I\'ve been itching to try them for some time now and couldn\'t wait to snap photos of all those cute and unique deep-fried pastries.\r\n\r\nAbout five shots in, though, an employee approached and notified me that I wasn\'t to take photos inside the store.\r\n\r\nAfter she explained why not - there were people who had stopped in the store, took photos and tried to replicate OK Country\'s specialty, according to the employee - and after I told her exactly what I was up to (read: researching for a blog post, not stealing business ideas), she decided it was cool if I took photos after all.\r\n\r\nBut when I finally made it up to the counter - you know, where the display case sat full of absolutely adorable donuts - the woman who I assume owns the place spoke up: \"Stop! No photos!\" Her voice was raised, her arms were waving and she stalked off to scold the employee with whom I just spoke in a language I couldn\'t understand.\r\n\r\nAnd even still, I can\'t figure this out. I didn\'t want to press the issue about the photos because I\'m not about to try to dictate to people what\'s going to happen in their places of business, but folks, if you own a business that creates a product that\'s unique and that\'s creating a buzz, you\'re not going to gain much from trying to hide it from people who you\'re afraid might steal it.\r\n\r\nBecause you\'re hiding it from potential customers, too, especially when you\'re talking about being featured on a blog with a proven goal of getting Tulsans off their duffs to try (and buy) the best of what this city has to offer.\r\n\r\nBesides, if anyone tries to steal your idea off a blog post, newspaper write-up or magazine feature, those people are going to look like total dirt bags. You\'re the original. Own it, baby.\r\n\r\nWhile I didn\'t get to shoot the display case, I did take a few photos the donut I used my own hard-earned money to purchase:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Country Donuts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4574956055/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3307/4574956055_bf0474c77a.jpg\" alt=\"OK Country Donuts\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nAn elephant! My son\'s No. 1 favorite animal. His room is decorated in elephants - actually, someone in my family got the idea that I collect elephant stuff, so the things have cropped up all over my house. But we love elephants.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Country Donuts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4575589672/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4575589672_85affc22fe.jpg\" alt=\"OK Country Donuts\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nWhen my son saw he could have a donut shaped like an elephant, he pretty much freaked out.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Country Donuts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4574956455/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4574956455_93af37140f.jpg\" alt=\"OK Country Donuts\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd bit its foot off.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Country Donuts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4575589780/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4575589780_da4027603f.jpg\" alt=\"OK Country Donuts\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd suffered somewhat of a sugar rush.\r\n\r\nKarma, baby. Karma.\r\n\r\n<strong>Way No. 2 to start a fight in a donut shop: Be the guy who orders every single last puppy, flip flop, palm tree and piglet donut in the house</strong>. In other words, order all the cute donuts in shapes other than the traditional O.\r\n\r\nDude had every right to buy up all the cutesy donuts. I mean, he was next in line. Any of us in that position would have had the same option.\r\n\r\nBut I just had to have a puppy-shaped donut for my kid, <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/1-2-3puppies.html\">the kid who loves anything and everything puppy</a>.\r\n\r\nSo, I edged toward the guy, put my sweet voice on and asked if he\'d mind leaving just one puppy donut so that I could buy it for my son, who\'s just over there (of course, I turned and waved - hey, if my kid can work those blond curls, then so can I, especially when a donut is involved).\r\n\r\nHe refused. He had a slumber party of girls to feed, he said.\r\n\r\nSo, as an employee notified this guy that even more cute donuts were about to come fresh out of the frier, and as he totally ignored the fact that the display case was full of traditionally shaped donuts and that none of his slumber party guests were around to throw fits in the event they didn\'t get a puppy-shaped breakfast, I asked again.\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t refuse that time. He just pretended not to hear me, staring straight ahead and smiling.\r\n\r\nSchmuck.\r\n\r\nSo, I leaned over to the next-nearest employee and stealthily ordered this:\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"OK Country Donuts by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4575589942/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4575589942_3fd700b0f8.jpg\" alt=\"OK Country Donuts\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a></div>\r\nRight out from under ol\' Captain Meanie Pants.\r\n\r\nAt which point he was out a piglet instead of a puppy. Karma, dude.\r\n\r\nKarma!','How to Get Into a Fight at a Donut Shop: Two Ways','Of all places, though, I thought I\'d always be safe from a duel in a donut shop.','publish','open','open','','fight-at-donut-shop','','','2010-10-04 13:45:45','2010-10-04 18:45:45','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=585',0,'post','',41),(2508,1,'2010-10-04 13:43:24','2010-10-04 18:43:24','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0168 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579041321/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4579041321_983e131a8d_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0168\" width=\"386\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\n<em>I have some exciting news. I\'d like to introduce TDT\'s first-ever columnist, Kelly Kinkaid. <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/\">Kelly writes Kellyology.net</a>, a blog about life in Oklahoma, motherhood and the general stuff of life, and she\'s a founding member of <a href=\"http://www.therhok.com/\">The Real Housewives of Oklahoma</a>. She\'ll join us here at TDT as The Southie. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>What\'s a Southie, you ask? Here\'s the technical definition: <strong>Southie</strong>, n. A Tulsan who lives, works and plays south of Interstate 44.</em>\r\n\r\n<em> </em>\r\n\r\n<em>What folks from every other part of this town of very geographically and culturally (and otherwise) distinct districts actually mean when they use the term: <strong>Southie</strong>, n. A suburbanite-esque, SUV-driving Tulsan who spends Saturday mornings at his/her kids\' soccer games, Saturday afternoons shopping at strip malls and Saturday nights at big-box movieplexes. The Southie avoids driving north of Interstate 44 like the plague from the seventh circle of you-know-where. But when they do, they drive the wrong way down one-way streets and complain about \"the lack of parking space.\" It\'s hilarious. </em><em>\r\n</em>\r\n<em>But we love them anyway. They\'re Tulsans with quirks, just like me - just like the rest of us.</em>\r\n<em>\r\nKelly will write here about the culture of this geographic part of Tulsa, as well as the growing amount of hip, unique and exciting stuff to do in Southtown, as it\'s been called. Welcome, Kelly!</em>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0142 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670870/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4579670870_fd45f57899_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0142\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nFor a while now Tasha and I have been debating on where the line between midtown Tulsa and south Tulsa exists. Tasha likes to play it old school and says that the line is I-44. But, as someone who lives out south and sees the tremendous growth that is happening there, I believe that the old established line of 51st Street has recently and clearly moved to 71st Street.\r\n\r\nClearly.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>However, I’m betting there are many readers out there who strongly disagree with both of us. You see, for some Tulsa natives, there are two types of people: Midtowners and Southies. None of the members of these groups want to be categorized as members of the other, and the members of each group have their own reasons for thinking that their way of life is superior.\r\n\r\nFor as deliberately as some people pick their spouses, some Tulsans pick their homes according to their estimation of where the imaginary boundary line lies that separates midtown from southtown.\r\n\r\nTasha, technically a Southie by geography (just barely!) but a general Tulsan at heart, asked me, her token Southie friend, to help by occasionally writing about south Tulsa happenings. I am more than happy to oblige.\r\n\r\nWanting to do south Tulsa and the \'burbs justice, I thought long and hard about what fun Southie happening I wanted to showcase first.\r\n\r\nI finally decided to head to Jenks to visit <a href=\"http://www.louiesgrillandbar.com/\">an Oklahoma-based restaurant chain, Louie’s Grill and Bar</a>.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0142 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670870/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4579670870_fd45f57899_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0142\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nThere, <a href=\"http://www.liveeventtrivia.com/Welcome.html\">one of Tulsa’s own, Josh Ritchey, creator of Live Event Trivia</a>, puts on a fun evening of trivia every Wednesday night at 8pm.\r\n\r\nThe Wednesday evening I went, I sat with a a few of the members of <a href=\"http://www.therhok.com/\">The Real Housewives of Oklahoma</a>, and we had a fantastic time. We ordered drinks and food (the margaritas were quite tasty), and settled in to destroy the packed house of trivia players that had come to play the great game of trivia that only Josh could put together.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0166 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670782/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4579670782_b70808a57f_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0166\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nUnfortunately, we had a small issue with saying our answers out loud - too loudly.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0157 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670812/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4579670812_0e2d8ffe3b_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0157\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" /></a></div>\r\nNeedless to say, we ended up losing to the group next to us. They were obviously cheating, riding on our lack of discretion. But, we had a good time anyway, laughing, taxing our brains with questions like \"Name the names of the members of the following bands:  N-Sync, New Kids on the Block, The Beatles and The Monkees,\" and enjoying the discussions that only well-made drinks, good company, and good trivia can bring.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0171 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670728/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4579670728_4a864f79c7_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0171\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0161 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670848/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4579670848_b4e41dab7b_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0161\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" /></a></div>\r\nFrom this Southie to the rest of Tulsa, I hope to see you there next time.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0168 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579041321/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4579041321_983e131a8d_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0168\" width=\"386\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nThough then, I\'ll bring a muzzle for the louder singers in our group.\r\n\r\n<strong>Live Events Trivia at Louie\'s in Jenks</strong>\r\nWhen: Every Wednesday at 8pm\r\nWhere: Louie\'s in Jenks, 813 East A Street (96th Street Bridge, across the river)','Live Event Trivia at Louie\'s in Jenks: The Southie','One of Tulsa’s own, Josh Ritchey, creator of Live Event Trivia, puts on a fun evening of trivia every Wednesday night at 8pm.','inherit','open','open','','587-revision-3','','','2010-10-04 13:43:24','2010-10-04 18:43:24','',587,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/587-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(587,1,'2010-05-04 23:22:00','2010-05-04 23:22:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0168 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579041321/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4579041321_983e131a8d_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0168\" width=\"386\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\n<em>I have some exciting news. I\'d like to introduce TDT\'s first-ever columnist, Kelly Kinkaid. <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/\">Kelly writes Kellyology.net</a>, a blog about life in Oklahoma, motherhood and the general stuff of life, and she\'s a founding member of <a href=\"http://www.therhok.com/\">The Real Housewives of Oklahoma</a>. She\'ll join us here at TDT as The Southie. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>What\'s a Southie, you ask? Here\'s the technical definition: <strong>Southie</strong>, n. A Tulsan who lives, works and plays south of Interstate 44.</em>\r\n\r\n<em> </em>\r\n\r\n<em>What folks from every other part of this town of very geographically and culturally (and otherwise) distinct districts actually mean when they use the term: <strong>Southie</strong>, n. A suburbanite-esque, SUV-driving Tulsan who spends Saturday mornings at his/her kids\' soccer games, Saturday afternoons shopping at strip malls and Saturday nights at big-box movieplexes. The Southie avoids driving north of Interstate 44 like the plague from the seventh circle of you-know-where. But when they do, they drive the wrong way down one-way streets and complain about \"the lack of parking space.\" It\'s hilarious. </em><em>\r\n</em>\r\n<em>But we love them anyway. They\'re Tulsans with quirks, just like me - just like the rest of us.</em>\r\n<em>\r\nKelly will write here about the culture of this geographic part of Tulsa, as well as the growing amount of hip, unique and exciting stuff to do in Southtown, as it\'s been called. Welcome, Kelly!</em>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0142 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670870/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4579670870_fd45f57899_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0142\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nFor a while now Tasha and I have been debating on where the line between midtown Tulsa and south Tulsa exists. Tasha likes to play it old school and says that the line is I-44. But, as someone who lives out south and sees the tremendous growth that is happening there, I believe that the old established line of 51st Street has recently and clearly moved to 71st Street.\r\n\r\nClearly.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\nHowever, I’m betting there are many readers out there who strongly disagree with both of us. You see, for some Tulsa natives, there are two types of people: Midtowners and Southies. None of the members of these groups want to be categorized as members of the other, and the members of each group have their own reasons for thinking that their way of life is superior.\r\n\r\nFor as deliberately as some people pick their spouses, some Tulsans pick their homes according to their estimation of where the imaginary boundary line lies that separates midtown from southtown.\r\n\r\nTasha, technically a Southie by geography (just barely!) but a general Tulsan at heart, asked me, her token Southie friend, to help by occasionally writing about south Tulsa happenings. I am more than happy to oblige.\r\n\r\nWanting to do south Tulsa and the \'burbs justice, I thought long and hard about what fun Southie happening I wanted to showcase first.\r\n\r\nI finally decided to head to Jenks to visit <a href=\"http://www.louiesgrillandbar.com/\">an Oklahoma-based restaurant chain, Louie’s Grill and Bar</a>.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0142 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670870/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4579670870_fd45f57899_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0142\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nThere, <a href=\"http://www.liveeventtrivia.com/Welcome.html\">one of Tulsa’s own, Josh Ritchey, creator of Live Event Trivia</a>, puts on a fun evening of trivia every Wednesday night at 8pm.\r\n\r\nThe Wednesday evening I went, I sat with a a few of the members of <a href=\"http://www.therhok.com/\">The Real Housewives of Oklahoma</a>, and we had a fantastic time. We ordered drinks and food (the margaritas were quite tasty), and settled in to destroy the packed house of trivia players that had come to play the great game of trivia that only Josh could put together.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0166 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670782/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4579670782_b70808a57f_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0166\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nUnfortunately, we had a small issue with saying our answers out loud - too loudly.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0157 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670812/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4579670812_0e2d8ffe3b_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0157\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" /></a></div>\r\nNeedless to say, we ended up losing to the group next to us. They were obviously cheating, riding on our lack of discretion. But, we had a good time anyway, laughing, taxing our brains with questions like \"Name the names of the members of the following bands:  N-Sync, New Kids on the Block, The Beatles and The Monkees,\" and enjoying the discussions that only well-made drinks, good company, and good trivia can bring.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0171 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670728/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4579670728_4a864f79c7_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0171\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0161 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670848/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4579670848_b4e41dab7b_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0161\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" /></a></div>\r\nFrom this Southie to the rest of Tulsa, I hope to see you there next time.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0168 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579041321/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4579041321_983e131a8d_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0168\" width=\"386\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\nThough then, I\'ll bring a muzzle for the louder singers in our group.\r\n\r\n<strong>Live Events Trivia at Louie\'s in Jenks</strong>\r\nWhen: Every Wednesday at 8pm\r\nWhere: Louie\'s in Jenks, 813 East A Street (96th Street Bridge, across the river)','Live Event Trivia at Louie\'s in Jenks: The Southie','One of Tulsa’s own, Josh Ritchey, creator of Live Event Trivia, puts on a fun evening of trivia every Wednesday night at 8pm.','publish','open','open','','live-event-trivia-louies-jenks','','','2010-10-04 13:46:38','2010-10-04 18:46:38','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=587',0,'post','',5),(588,1,'2010-05-05 05:01:00','2010-05-05 05:01:00','<strong>Pssst...hey, you. <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/05/cinco-de-mayo-in-tulsa-2011/\">Click here if you\'re looking for info on Tulsa\'s 2011 Cinco de Mayo parties</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Elote by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4497644101/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4497644101_5136f488db.jpg\" alt=\"Elote\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Cinco de Mayo in Tulsa: Yeah, it\'s kind of a big deal. Here\'s your itinerary for partying the day - and I do mean the whole, entire day - away.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate group=\"2\" banner=\"8\"]</p>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brookside Farmers\' Market</span>\r\nWhen: 8am-noon\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.cherrystreetfarmersmarket.com/\">Northeast corner of the Food Pyramid parking lot at 41st Street and Peoria Ave.</a>\r\nCheck out Elote Cafe chef/owner Libby Auld as she whips up a cooking demo at the opening day of this midtown farmers\' market. Ole!\r\n\r\n<strong>Tulsa Drillers vs. Arkansas Travelers</strong>\r\nWhen: 10:05am\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.tulsadrillers.com/\">ONEOK Field</a>, 201 N. Elgin Ave.\r\nA daytime game at ONEOK Field, and the weather\'s supposed to be fabulous. Can you think of anything better than playing hooky from work, heading to a downtown ball game and then walking to a giant margarita tent (see below?). Yeah, me neither. I\'m trying to contain myself, but it\'s not working very well.\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\r\n</span></strong>\r\n<strong>Cinco de Mayo Downtown Street Party</strong>\r\nWhen: noon-until you\'ve had enough (varies)\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.elguaposcantina.net/\">First Street and Elgin Ave. by El Guapo</a>\r\nCheck out this 3rd annual downtown Cinco de Mayo street party. The folks from El Guapo Cantina close down the street, put up a tent, and serve margaritas all day long. Local band Hosty Duo will take the stage at 8:00pm. And, if you\'re planning to go to the Drillers game tonight or Wednesday morning, keep your ticket stub and redeem it for a free Tecate. (!) The tweets from everyone getting back to work after hitting up the margarita tent tomorrow should be interesting...can\'t wait!\r\n\r\n<strong>Shopping and Skinny Girl Margaritas</strong>\r\nWhen: 3-7pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118923008127196\">Little Black Dress</a> on Cherry Street\r\nMargaritas <em>and</em> some of the best local shopping Tulsa has to offer the ladies among us? Say no more.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cinco Ocho</strong>\r\nWhen: 5pm\r\nWhere: Just east of In the Raw on Brookside\r\nGet margaritas, beer, sangria, food and an ice luge. Yes, an ice luge. Plus, hear the awesome Eric and the Adams, along with DJ Rook.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cinco de Bando</strong>\r\nWhen: 5-9pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112582902108768\">The Octagon (Fresh Roast Coffee House)</a>, 81st and Harvard\r\nCheck out this annual fundraiser for Blood Water:Mission for Africa, a concert/festival featuring five local bands and a grand ol\' time. The bands: The By-Products, The T-Town Theory, The Fiascos, The Twenties and Red Wood Rising. Admission is $5, shirts are $15 and henna tattoos are a mere $1. Plus, Chick-Fil-A will be show up with a cow (!) and food, so bring a little extra scrill for som grub.\r\n\r\n<strong>5X5</strong>\r\nWhen: 5:55pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://tacgallery.org/\">Tulsa Artists\' Coalition Gallery</a>, 9 E. Brady Street\r\nWhat happens when you give hundreds of artists 5\"X5\" canvases? The biggest Tulsa Artists\' Coalition fundraising event of the year, that\'s what, not to mention a veritible Tulsa tradition. Each work is $55 and represent a range of creative variety of subjects in painting, ceramic, photography, paper, metal, wood, cloth and other mediums. Get in there quickly, folks, because this event will be packed and those little pieces of art don\'t last long.\r\n\r\n<strong>Qdoba\'s 1st Annual Cinco de Mayo Block Party</strong>\r\nWhen: 6pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112381035468623\">Qdoba on Cherry Street</a>, 1520 E. 15th Street\r\nGet live music from local band Remedy, plus prizes, \'ritas, a burrito eating contest (!), and more.\r\n\r\n<strong>Los Cabos Cinco de Mayo and Birthday Bash</strong>\r\nWhen: 6pm, BA and Jenks locations\r\nWhere: Broken Arrow on Bass Pro Drive and in Jenks at RiverWalk Crossing\r\nIt\'s just just Cinco de Mayo at Los Cabos - it\'s their birthday, too. Grab your sombrero and prepare to hat dance to The Usual Suspects at Jenks and Sextion 8 at BA.\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">\r\n</span>\r\n<strong>Mariachi Tulsa</strong>\r\nWhen: 7pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">The Canebrake</a>, 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nCome help Lisa the Yoga Queen celebrate her birthday and Cinco de Mayo with Mariachi Tulsa, a Mexican quartet. They’ll play 7-10pm, no cover. Plus, you\'ll get to hang out at The Canebrake. Como se dice BONUS en Espanol?\r\n\r\n<strong>The Local Table Cinco de Mayo Dinner</strong>\r\nWhen: 8pm\r\nWhere: The Local Table, 4329 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nThe folks at The Local Table are coming up with some new tequila drinks to have with four courses\' worth of guaranteed kick-ass authentic Mexican food. Check out the tongue tacos and the pozole - they were a big hit last year. Cost is $30 (which is <em>nothing</em> for a four-course meal with drinks, by the way). Call (918) 794-8013 for reservations.\r\n\r\n<strong>Live Event Trivia at Louie\'s</strong>\r\nWhen: 8pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118717284814336\">Louie\'s in Jenks</a>, west of the 96th Street Bridge\r\nHaven\'t taken part in the trivia phenomenon that\'s sweeping the city? What better time to get a team of smarties together and head out to a Live Event Trivia event with my friend Josh than on Cinco de Mayo? Plus, Boulevard pints will be $2.\r\n\r\n<strong>Elote Bar Grand Opening</strong>\r\nWhen: 9pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.elotetulsa.com/\">Elote Cafe and Catering</a>, 514 S. Boston Ave.\r\nCheck out Elote\'s new eco-friendly bar, complete with a Mexican wrestling ring and Luchador tourneys, and hear some live music from Apowao and DJ Jezi, too. If you think you might want to try your hand at being a luchador yourself, <a href=\"mailto:eloteluchadors@gmail.com\">apply</a> - Elote will host Luchador fighting for glory each Thursday night. Beginning May 5, the bar will be open until 2am Wednesday-Saturday night, with live entertainment Friday and Saturday.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cinco de Mayo Beer Pong</strong>\r\nWhen: 9pm\r\nWhere: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118555558171390\">Joe Momma\'s Express</a>, 61st Street and U.S. 169\r\nGet $2 Tecates and a pizza special including a large, one-topping pizza and two pitchers of High Life for $15.\r\n\r\n<strong>Brookside Cinco de Mayo with Captain Obvious</strong>\r\nWhen: 9:30pm\r\nWhere: Sharky\'s, 3415 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nCinco de Mayo on Brookside is always a huge celebration, and this year it gets even better with Laron Simpson\'s new band, Captain Obvious, at the helm. Check out the tons of drinks, beer and shot specials. The live music kicks in at 9:30pm and Captain Obvious will continue giving eargasms until closing time.','Cinco de Mayo in Tulsa 2010','Cinco de Mayo in Tulsa: Yeah, it\'s kind of a big deal. Here\'s your itinerary for partying the day - and I do mean the whole, entire day - away.','publish','open','open','','cinco-de-mayo-in-tulsa-2010','','','2011-05-04 07:41:18','2011-05-04 13:41:18','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=588',0,'post','',5),(2503,1,'2010-10-04 13:42:42','2010-10-04 18:42:42','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0168 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579041321/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4579041321_983e131a8d_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0168\" width=\"386\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\n<em>I have some exciting news. I\'d like to introduce TDT\'s first-ever columnist, Kelly Kinkaid. <a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/\">Kelly writes Kellyology.net</a>, a blog about life in Oklahoma, motherhood and the general stuff of life, and she\'s a founding member of <a href=\"http://www.therhok.com/\">The Real Housewives of Oklahoma</a>. She\'ll join us here at TDT as The Southie. </em>\n\n<em>What\'s a Southie, you ask? Here\'s the technical definition: <strong>Southie</strong>, n. A Tulsan who lives, works and plays south of Interstate 44.\n\n</em>\n\n<em>What folks from every other part of this town of very geographically and culturally (and otherwise) distinct districts actually mean when they use the term: <strong>Southie</strong>, n. A suburbanite-esque, SUV-driving Tulsan who spends Saturday mornings at his/her kids\' soccer games, Saturday afternoons shopping at strip malls and Saturday nights at big-box movieplexes. The Southie avoids driving north of Interstate 44 like the plague from the seventh circle of you-know-where. But when they do, they drive the wrong way down one-way streets and complain about \"the lack of parking space.\" It\'s hilarious. </em><em>\n</em>\n<em>But we love them anyway. They\'re Tulsans with quirks, just like me - just like the rest of us.</em>\n<em>\nKelly will write here about the culture of this geographic part of Tulsa, as well as the growing amount of hip, unique and exciting stuff to do in Southtown, as it\'s been called. Welcome, Kelly!</em>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0142 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670870/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4579670870_fd45f57899_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0142\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\nFor a while now Tasha and I have been debating on where the line between midtown Tulsa and south Tulsa exists. Tasha likes to play it old school and says that the line is I-44. But, as someone who lives out south and sees the tremendous growth that is happening there, I believe that the old established line of 51st Street has recently and clearly moved to 71st Street.\n\nClearly.\n\n<a name=\"more\"></a>However, I’m betting there are many readers out there who strongly disagree with both of us. You see, for some Tulsa natives, there are two types of people: Midtowners and Southies. None of the members of these groups want to be categorized as members of the other, and the members of each group have their own reasons for thinking that their way of life is superior.\n\nFor as deliberately as some people pick their spouses, some Tulsans pick their homes according to their estimation of where the imaginary boundary line lies that separates midtown from southtown.\n\nTasha, technically a Southie by geography (just barely!) but a general Tulsan at heart, asked me, her token Southie friend, to help by occasionally writing about south Tulsa happenings. I am more than happy to oblige.\n\nWanting to do south Tulsa and the \'burbs justice, I thought long and hard about what fun Southie happening I wanted to showcase first.\n\nI finally decided to head to Jenks to visit <a href=\"http://www.louiesgrillandbar.com/\">an Oklahoma-based restaurant chain, Louie’s Grill and Bar</a>.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0142 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670870/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4579670870_fd45f57899_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0142\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\nThere, <a href=\"http://www.liveeventtrivia.com/Welcome.html\">one of Tulsa’s own, Josh Ritchey, creator of Live Event Trivia</a>, puts on a fun evening of trivia every Wednesday night at 8pm.\n\nThe Wednesday evening I went, I sat with a a few of the members of <a href=\"http://www.therhok.com/\">The Real Housewives of Oklahoma</a>, and we had a fantastic time. We ordered drinks and food (the margaritas were quite tasty), and settled in to destroy the packed house of trivia players that had come to play the great game of trivia that only Josh could put together.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0166 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670782/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4579670782_b70808a57f_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0166\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\nUnfortunately, we had a small issue with saying our answers out loud - too loudly.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0157 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670812/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4579670812_0e2d8ffe3b_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0157\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" /></a></div>\nNeedless to say, we ended up losing to the group next to us. They were obviously cheating, riding on our lack of discretion. But, we had a good time anyway, laughing, taxing our brains with questions like \"Name the names of the members of the following bands:  N-Sync, New Kids on the Block, The Beatles and The Monkees,\" and enjoying the discussions that only well-made drinks, good company, and good trivia can bring.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0171 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670728/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4579670728_4a864f79c7_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0171\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0161 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579670848/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4579670848_b4e41dab7b_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0161\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" /></a></div>\nFrom this Southie to the rest of Tulsa, I hope to see you there next time.\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSCN0168 by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4579041321/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4579041321_983e131a8d_o.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0168\" width=\"386\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\nThough then, I\'ll bring a muzzle for the louder singers in our group.\n\n<strong>Live Events Trivia at Louie\'s in Jenks</strong>\nWhen: Every Wednesday at 8pm\nWhere: Louie\'s in Jenks, 813 East A Street (96th Street Bridge, across the river)','Live Event Trivia at Louie\'s in Jenks: The Southie','','inherit','open','open','','587-autosave','','','2010-10-04 13:42:42','2010-10-04 18:42:42','',587,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/587-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(589,1,'2010-05-06 17:32:00','2010-05-06 17:32:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Brunch at White Owl by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4584014199/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4584014199_77799bea50_o.jpg\" alt=\"Brunch at White Owl\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\nA work week ahead, a work week behind and a late morning with nothing on the agenda. There\'s only one thing to do: Grab your buds and catch one of these top Tulsa brunches.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Brunch at White Owl by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4584014199/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4584014199_2c9e7374aa.jpg\" alt=\"Brunch at White Owl\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<strong>White Owl</strong>\r\nWhere: 1325 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 933-5050\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.whiteowloncherry.com/\">whiteowloncherry.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/white-owl-tulsa-ok-pub\">A review of the brunch at White Owl on Tulsa Food Blog</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1453880/restaurant/Cherry-Street/White-Owl-Tulsa\">White Owl on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Brady Tavern</strong>\r\nWhere: 201 N. Main Street\r\nCall: (918) 949-9801\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.bradytavern.com/\">BradyTavern.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/brady-tavern-burger-love/\">Burger Love at Brady Tavern on TDT</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Palace Cafe</strong>\r\nWhere: 1301 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 582-4321\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.palacetulsa.com/\">palacetulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631038/restaurant/Cherry-Street/Palace-Cafe-Tulsa\">Palace Cafe on Urbanspoon</a>\r\nThe Tulsa Food Blog on brunch at Palace Cafe (among other places)\r\n\r\n<strong>Lucky\'s</strong>\r\nWhere: 1536 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 592-5825\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.luckysrestauranttulsa.com/\">luckysrestauranttulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/luckys-cherry-street/\">Lucky\'s: Brunch That\'s Down-home Chic</a> on TDT\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630853/restaurant/Cherry-Street/Luckys-Restaurant-Tulsa\">Lucky\'s on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Chalkboard</strong>\r\nWhere: 1324 S. Main Street\r\nCall: (918) 582-1964\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thechalkboard-tulsa.com/\">thechalboard-tulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630269/restaurant/Downtown/Chalkboard-Catering-Tulsa\">The Chalkboard (a Tulsa tradition, by the way) on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Moon Cafe and Bakery</strong>\r\nWhere: 3512 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 749-7800\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.bluemoonbakerycafe.com/\">bluemoonbakerycafe.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/blue-moon-cafe-from-the-breakfast-files/\">Blue Moon Cafe: From the Breakfast Files</a> on TDT\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/lunch/blue-moon-bakery-cafe-tulsa\">The Tulsa Food Blog on Blue Moon Bakery</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630146/restaurant/Brookside/Blue-Moon-Bakery-Cafe-Tulsa\">Blue Moon Bakery on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Brasserie</strong>\r\nWhere: 3509 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 779-7070\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thebrasserietulsa.com/\">thebrasserietulsa.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/best-patios-in-tulsa-tdt-friday-advice.html\">The Brasserie in the TDT post on the best patios in Tulsa</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630164/restaurant/Brookside/Brasserie-Tulsa\">The Brasserie on Urbanspoon.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1234\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/brunch-in-tulsa/dsc_0610/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1234\" title=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DSC_0610-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a><strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>La Villa at Philbrook</strong>\r\nWhere: Inside Philbrook Museum, 2727 S. Rockford Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 748-5367\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">philbrook.org</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/06/power-lunch-la-villa-at-philbrook/\">Power Lunch: La Villa at Philbrook</a> in Tulsa Business Journal/TDT\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-tulsa-restaurants\">The Tulsa Food Blog on brunch at La Villa (among other places)</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-tulsa-restaurants\"> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Local Table by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3321709696/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3555/3321709696_90aa36ef20.jpg\" alt=\"The Local Table\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>The Local Table</strong>\r\nWhere: 4329 E. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 794-8013\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tulsa-OK/The-Local-Table/52591123818\">The Local Table on Facebook</a>\r\nMore: The Local Table offers a daily three-course menu for $20 - a pittance, if you ask me.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630823/restaurant/Brookside/Local-Table-Tulsa\">The Local Table on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\r\nWhere: 300 RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\r\nCall: (918) 299-8000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/\">TheMeltingPot.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\">The Melting Pot on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Bistro at Seville</strong>\r\nWhere: 101st and Yale\r\nCall: (918) 296-3000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tulsabistro.com/\">tulsabistro.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630139/restaurant/Woodland-Hills-71st-Street-Corridor/Bistro-at-Seville-Tulsa\">The Bistro on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Stone Bluff Cellars</strong>\r\nWhere: 24145 E. 191st St. South in Haskell\r\nCall: (918) 482-5655\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">stonebluffcellars.com</a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Canebrake by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4454637139/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4454637139_f374f17770.jpg\" alt=\"The Canebrake\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nCall: (918) 485-1810\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">thecanebrake.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/canebrake-plus-win-some-brunch.html\">About The Canebrake on TDT</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/canebrake-plus-win-some-brunch.html\"><em>Note: This post has been updated from the original version, published May 6, 2010. </em>\r\n\r\n</a>','Brunch in Tulsa','A work week ahead, a work week behind and a late morning with nothing on the agenda. There\'s only one thing to do: Grab your buds and catch one of these top Tulsa brunches.','publish','open','open','','brunch-in-tulsa','','http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/white-owl-tulsa-ok-pub\nhttp://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/fire-rock-grill-bar-sunday-brunch\nhttp://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-tulsa-restaurants\nhttp://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/luckys-cherry-street/\nhttp://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/06/power-lunch-la-villa-at-philbrook/\nhttp://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/02/brady-tavern-burger-love/','2011-05-03 10:50:26','2011-05-03 16:50:26','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=589',0,'post','',8),(4638,1,'2010-12-19 10:40:13','2010-12-19 15:40:13','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Brunch at White Owl by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4584014199/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4584014199_77799bea50_o.jpg\" alt=\"Brunch at White Owl\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\nA work week ahead, a work week behind and a late morning with nothing on the agenda. There\'s only one thing to do: Grab your buds and catch one of these top Tulsa brunches.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Brunch at White Owl by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4584014199/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4584014199_2c9e7374aa.jpg\" alt=\"Brunch at White Owl\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<strong>White Owl</strong>\r\nWhere: 1325 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 933-5050\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.whiteowloncherry.com/\">whiteowloncherry.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/white-owl-tulsa-ok-pub\">A review of the brunch at White Owl on Tulsa Food Blog</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1453880/restaurant/Cherry-Street/White-Owl-Tulsa\">White Owl on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Palace Cafe</strong>\r\nWhere: 1301 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 582-4321\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.palacetulsa.com/\">palacetulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631038/restaurant/Cherry-Street/Palace-Cafe-Tulsa\">Palace Cafe on Urbanspoon</a>\r\nThe Tulsa Food Blog on brunch at Palace Cafe (among other places)\r\n\r\n<strong>Lucky\'s</strong>\r\nWhere: 1536 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 592-5825\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.luckysrestauranttulsa.com/\">luckysrestauranttulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/luckys-cherry-street/\">Lucky\'s: Brunch That\'s Down-home Chic</a> on TDT\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630853/restaurant/Cherry-Street/Luckys-Restaurant-Tulsa\">Lucky\'s on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Chalkboard</strong>\r\nWhere: 1324 S. Main Street\r\nCall: (918) 582-1964\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thechalkboard-tulsa.com/\">thechalboard-tulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630269/restaurant/Downtown/Chalkboard-Catering-Tulsa\">The Chalkboard (a Tulsa tradition, by the way) on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Moon Cafe and Bakery</strong>\r\nWhere: 3512 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 749-7800\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.bluemoonbakerycafe.com/\">bluemoonbakerycafe.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/blue-moon-cafe-from-the-breakfast-files/\">Blue Moon Cafe: From the Breakfast Files</a> on TDT\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/lunch/blue-moon-bakery-cafe-tulsa\">The Tulsa Food Blog on Blue Moon Bakery</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630146/restaurant/Brookside/Blue-Moon-Bakery-Cafe-Tulsa\">Blue Moon Bakery on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Brasserie</strong>\r\nWhere: 3509 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 779-7070\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thebrasserietulsa.com/\">thebrasserietulsa.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/best-patios-in-tulsa-tdt-friday-advice.html\">The Brasserie in the TDT post on the best patios in Tulsa</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630164/restaurant/Brookside/Brasserie-Tulsa\">The Brasserie on Urbanspoon.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1234\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/mothers-day-brunch-in-tulsa/dsc_0610/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1234\" title=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DSC_0610-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a><strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>La Villa at Philbrook</strong>\r\nWhere: Inside Philbrook Museum, 2727 S. Rockford Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 748-5367\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">philbrook.org</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/06/power-lunch-la-villa-at-philbrook/\">Power Lunch: La Villa at Philbrook</a> in Tulsa Business Journal/TDT\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-tulsa-restaurants\">The Tulsa Food Blog on brunch at La Villa (among other places)\r\n\r\n</a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Local Table by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3321709696/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3555/3321709696_90aa36ef20.jpg\" alt=\"The Local Table\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Local Table</strong>\r\nWhere: 4329 E. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 794-8013\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tulsa-OK/The-Local-Table/52591123818\">The Local Table on Facebook</a>\r\nMore: The Local Table offers a daily three-course menu for $20 - a pittance, if you ask me.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630823/restaurant/Brookside/Local-Table-Tulsa\">The Local Table on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\r\nWhere: 300 RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\r\nCall: (918) 299-8000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/\">TheMeltingPot.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\">The Melting Pot on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Bistro at Seville</strong>\r\nWhere: 101st and Yale\r\nCall: (918) 296-3000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tulsabistro.com/\">tulsabistro.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630139/restaurant/Woodland-Hills-71st-Street-Corridor/Bistro-at-Seville-Tulsa\">The Bistro on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Stone Bluff Cellars</strong>\r\nWhere: 24145 E. 191st St. South in Haskell\r\nCall: (918) 482-5655\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">stonebluffcellars.com</a>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Canebrake by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4454637139/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4454637139_f374f17770.jpg\" alt=\"The Canebrake\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nCall: (918) 485-1810\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">thecanebrake.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/canebrake-plus-win-some-brunch.html\">About The Canebrake on TDT\r\n\r\n<em>Note: This post has been updated from the original version, published May 6, 2010. </em>','Brunch in Tulsa','A work week ahead, a work week behind and a late morning with nothing on the agenda. There\'s only one thing to do: Grab your buds and catch one of these top Tulsa brunches.','inherit','open','open','','589-revision-4','','','2010-12-19 10:40:13','2010-12-19 15:40:13','',589,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/12/589-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(1236,1,'2010-08-15 21:48:54','2010-08-16 02:48:54','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Brunch at White Owl by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4584014199/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4584014199_77799bea50_o.jpg\" alt=\"Brunch at White Owl\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></div>\r\nA work week ahead, a work week behind and a late morning with nothing on the agenda. There\'s only one thing to do: Grab your buds and catch one of these top Tulsa brunches.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Brunch at White Owl by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4584014199/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4584014199_2c9e7374aa.jpg\" alt=\"Brunch at White Owl\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>White Owl</strong>\r\nWhere: 1325 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 933-5050\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.whiteowloncherry.com/\">whiteowloncherry.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/white-owl-tulsa-ok-pub\">A review of the brunch at White Owl on Tulsa Food Blog</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1453880/restaurant/Cherry-Street/White-Owl-Tulsa\">White Owl on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Palace Cafe</strong>\r\nWhere: 1301 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 582-4321\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.palacetulsa.com/\">palacetulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/631038/restaurant/Cherry-Street/Palace-Cafe-Tulsa\">Palace Cafe on Urbanspoon</a>\r\nThe kids at Tulsa Food Blog on brunch at Palace Cafe (among other places)\r\n\r\n<strong>Lucky\'s</strong>\r\nWhere: 1536 E. 15th Street\r\nCall: (918) 592-5825\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.luckysrestauranttulsa.com/\">luckysrestauranttulsa.com</a>\r\nMore: My review in Tulsa Business Journal of Lucky\'s\r\nThe Tulsa Food Blog kids on Lucky\'s\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630853/restaurant/Cherry-Street/Luckys-Restaurant-Tulsa\">Lucky\'s on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Chalkboard</strong>\r\nWhere: 1324 S. Main Street\r\nCall: (918) 582-1964\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thechalkboard-tulsa.com/\">thechalboard-tulsa.com</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630269/restaurant/Downtown/Chalkboard-Catering-Tulsa\">The Chalkboard (a Tulsa tradition, by the way) on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Blue Moon Bakery</strong>\r\nWhere: 3512 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 749-7800\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.bluemoonbakerycafe.com/\">bluemoonbakerycafe.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/lunch/blue-moon-bakery-cafe-tulsa\">The kids at Tulsa Food Blog on Blue Moon Bakery</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630146/restaurant/Brookside/Blue-Moon-Bakery-Cafe-Tulsa\">Blue Moon Bakery on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Brasserie</strong>\r\nWhere: 3509 S. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 779-7070\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thebrasserietulsa.com/\">thebrasserietulsa.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/04/best-patios-in-tulsa-tdt-friday-advice.html\">The Brasserie in my post about the best patios in Tulsa</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630164/restaurant/Brookside/Brasserie-Tulsa\">The Brasserie on Urbanspoon.com</a>\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1234\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/mothers-day-brunch-in-tulsa/dsc_0610/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1234\" title=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/DSC_0610-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"La Villa at Philbrook Museum of Art\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a><strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>La Villa at Philbrook</strong>\r\nWhere: Inside Philbrook Museum, 2727 S. Rockford Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 748-5367\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.philbrook.org/\">philbrook.org</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/brunch-tulsa-restaurants\">The kids at Tulsa Food Blog on brunch at La Villa (among other places)</a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Local Table by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3321709696/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3555/3321709696_90aa36ef20.jpg\" alt=\"The Local Table\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>The Local Table</strong>\r\nWhere: 4329 E. Peoria Ave.\r\nCall: (918) 794-8013\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tulsa-OK/The-Local-Table/52591123818\">The Local Table on Facebook</a>\r\nMore: The Local Table offers a daily three-course menu for $20 - a pittance, if you ask me.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630823/restaurant/Brookside/Local-Table-Tulsa\">The Local Table on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"FireRock Grill &amp; Bar by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4584028339/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4584028339_c470d10d10.jpg\" alt=\"FireRock Grill &amp; Bar\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>Fire Rock Grill</strong>\r\nWhere: 7020 S. Memorial Drive\r\nCall: (918) 252-0422\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.firerockrestaurant.com/\">firerockrestaurant.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tulsafoodblog.com/brunch/fire-rock-grill-bar-sunday-brunch\">The kids at Tulsa Food Blog on Sunday Brunch at Fire Rock Grill</a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1478028/restaurant/Woodland-Hills-71st-Street-Corridor/Fire-Rock-Grill-Bar-Tulsa\">Fire Rock Grill on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Melting Pot</strong>\r\nWhere: 300 RiverWalk Crossing in Jenks\r\nCall: (918) 299-8000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.meltingpot.com/\">meltingpot.com</a>\r\nMore: The Melting Pot will offer a four-course, set menu at $40 for adults and $20 for children ages 7-12, plus tax and gratuity. Kids 6 and under eat free. Check out Loaded Baked Potato Cheddar Cheese Fondue, Strawberry Almond Salad (optional for kids), an entrée selection of shrimp, chicken, pork, teriyaki sirloin and two kinds of pasta, and Chocolate Cream Pie Fondue for dessert. Drink specials include $8 “Mom-osas.” All Mother’s Day guests will receive a complimentary family photo to commemorate the day. For an additional cost, The Melting Pot can surprise Mom with a spring mix of flowers in a delicate bud vase or a photo album with “mom-friendly” coupons.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630934/restaurant/Tulsa/Southern-Hills/Melting-Pot-Jenks\">The Melting Pot on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Bistro at Seville</strong>\r\nWhere: 101st and Yale\r\nCall: (918) 296-3000\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.tulsabistro.com/\">tulsabistro.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630139/restaurant/Woodland-Hills-71st-Street-Corridor/Bistro-at-Seville-Tulsa\">The Bistro on Urbanspoon</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Stone Bluff Cellars</strong>\r\nWhere: 24145 E. 191st St. South in Haskell\r\nCall: (918) 482-5655\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.stonebluffcellars.com/\">stonebluffcellars.com</a>\r\nMore: Get hand-carved prime rib, herb-crusted pork loin, made-to-order eggs, omelets and Pancakes, coffeecakes, danishes, muffins and more at two different brunch services. Choose between 11am, noon and 2pm. Cost is $20 for adults, $10 for kids 12 and under. RSVP (soon!) to Stone Bluff at (918) 482-5655. If you\'d prefer a Mother\'s Day dinner, Stone Bluff offers seatings at 5pm and 6:30pm. Call for details.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Canebrake by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4454637139/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4454637139_f374f17770.jpg\" alt=\"The Canebrake\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\n<strong>The Canebrake</strong>\r\nWhere: 33241 E. 732nd Road in Wagoner\r\nCall: (918) 485-1810\r\nWeb: <a href=\"http://www.thecanebrake.com/\">thecanebrake.com</a>\r\nMore: <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/03/canebrake-plus-win-some-brunch.html\">My post all about The Canebrake, including what you can expect from a meal there.</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Note: This post was updated from the original version, published May 6, 2010. </em>','Brunch in Tulsa','','inherit','open','open','','589-revision-2','','','2010-08-15 21:48:54','2010-08-16 02:48:54','',589,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/08/589-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(590,1,'2010-05-06 23:34:00','2010-05-06 23:34:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S-NQoXgJDmI/AAAAAAAABv8/A4ahgpaoKCQ/s1600/145763897_4efc4d9661.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S-NQoXgJDmI/AAAAAAAABv8/A4ahgpaoKCQ/s400/145763897_4efc4d9661.jpg\" width=\"300\" /></a></div><br />Yesterday with my new role as Southie Extraordinaire at TDT in mind,  I e-mailed a friend of mine who is a member of the Rotary Club of Bixby asking him if I could have back stage access to the judging of the barbecue at the <a href=\"http://www.bixbyrotarybbq.info/\">Bixby BBQ ‘n Music\' Festival</a>&nbsp;this weekend.<br /><br />He passed me on to the people in charge of the judges for the festival, and a few hours later I found out that not only did I get access, but I get to be one of the judges.<br /><br />Booya!<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>Needless to say I’m very excited to be be part of this festival. In past years, the Rotary Club of Bixby has been very generous to the community of Bixby, not to mention that I get to spend an entire Saturday eating delicious barbecue.<br /><br />For me, a day doesn’t get much better than that.<br /><br />Now, before you start to feel envious of my exciting new role, Barbecue Judge Extraordinaire, let me tell you that you may also get to taste the delicious barbecue that up to 100 teams will be cooking for the event.<br /><br />From 11am to 1:30pm <b>Saturday only</b> BBQ Competitors’ Taster Kits may be purchased for $5.00 each.  Don’t worry if that time doesn’t fit your schedule as both Friday and Saturday there will be wide variety of BBQ and food vendors that will be selling a variety of foods.<br /><br />There will also be a Kids Zone  with <b>free</b> carnival games, face painting, a magic show and inflatable jumpers for $12 (a $2-off coupon is available on <a href=\"http://www.bixbyrotarybbq.info/\">the festival’s website</a>)<br /><br />Also, there will be live music throughout the event, including tunes from Jenny Labow,  Mary Cogan and Mid Life Crisis. All of this for an entry fee of only $5 per vehicle.<br /><br />So head out this weekend to Washington Irving Memorial Park at 137th and South Memorial for the 9th Annual Bixby BBQ ‘n\' Music Festival.  If you see me there covered in barbecue sauce,  say, “Hi!” but don’t offer me a wet wipe.  It’s against the Kansas City Barbecue Society\'s rules for judges,  yo.<br /><br /><b>9th Annual Bixby BBQ ‘n Music Festival</b><br />When:  Friday, May 7, 5pm - 11pm;&nbsp;Saturday, May 8, 10am - 11pm<br />Where: Washington Irving Memorial Park,&nbsp;137th and S. Memorial<br />Website: <a href=\"http://www.bixbyrotarybbq.info/\">http://www.bixbyrotarybbq.info/</a><br /><br />(BBQ Competitors’ Taster Kits sold from 11am to 1:30pm Saturday only.)<br /><br /><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;\"><a href=\"http://www.kellyology.net/\" style=\"color: #999999; text-decoration: none;\">Kelly writes Kellyology.net</a>, a blog about life in Oklahoma, motherhood and the general stuff of life, and she\'s a founding member of&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.therhok.com/\" style=\"color: #999999; text-decoration: none;\">The Real Housewives of Oklahoma</a>. She joins us here at TDT as The Southie, covering all the event news that\'s fit to blog from south of 71st Street.</span><br /><br /><i>Photo from <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/49566621@N00/\">helemax</a> on Flickr</i>','Bixby BBQ \'n\' Music Festival: The Southie','I e-mailed a friend of mine, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Bixby, asking him if I could have back stage access to the judging of the barbecue at the Bixby BBQ ‘n Music\' Festival this weekend.','publish','open','open','','bixby-bbq-n-music-festival-southie','','','2010-09-28 13:49:09','2010-09-28 18:49:09','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=590',0,'post','',1),(591,1,'2010-05-07 03:00:00','2010-05-07 03:00:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S-QCs7CKjDI/AAAAAAAABwU/xO2iDj0-4CU/s1600/Working+Mom%27s+Quiche.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tZVufRlMtzM/S-QCs7CKjDI/AAAAAAAABwU/xO2iDj0-4CU/s640/Working+Mom%27s+Quiche.jpg\" width=\"416\" /></a></div><a href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/pressroom/pressrelease/?ID=1944\">Mother\'s Day is the busiest day of the year for restaurants</a>, trumping even the biggest date night of the year, Valentine\'s Day.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/05/mothers-day-brunch-in-tulsa.html\">Some years it\'s fun to grab Mom, get out there and get in on the action</a>.&nbsp;Other years it\'s nice to avoid the rush and eat in instead.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>To ensure that Mom gets as good a meal at your house as she would in a nice restaurant, try this recipe for Working Mom\'s Quiche. This how-to comes from <a href=\"http://www.miocoalition.com/\">the Made in Oklahoma coalition</a> courtesy of one of Oklahoma\'s top chefs, <a href=\"http://www.thecoachhouseokc.com/chef.html\">Kurt Fleischfresser of The Coach House in Oklahoma City</a>.<br /><br /><b>Working Mom\'s Quiche</b><br />Serves 8 <br /><br />Ingredients<br />-1 pound of J.C. Potter spicy sausage<br />-1 bunch of green onions, sliced including some of the green<br />-1 (8 ounce) package of J-M Farms mushrooms, sliced<br />-1 red pepper, roasted, peeled and diced<br />-1 pound of Monterey Jack cheese, grated<br />-2 cups of Hiland whipped cream<br />-3 eggs<br />-1 teaspoon of dried parsley<br />-Salt and pepper to taste<br />-1 (15 ounce) package of refrigerated pie crust<br /><br />Directions<br />1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.<br />2. Brown sausage and drain. In the same skillet, sauté mushrooms and green onions until tender.<br />3. In large bowl, mix together sausage, mushrooms, onions, roasted peppers and cheese.<br />4. In a separate bowl, lightly whip together cream, eggs, parsley, salt and pepper.<br />5. Arrange the sausage mixture in the bottom of the pie crust that has been prepared according to the manufacturer’s instructions, and pour the cream and egg mixture over the top.<br />6. Bake for about an hour or until the custard has set. Let the quiche cool on a rack and serve warm.<br /><br />I\'m a fan of the Made in Oklahoma Coalition because its mission is to promote brand awareness and consumer loyalty for Oklahoma food products. MIO is all about local, local, local, and <a href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/p/why-you-should-eat-fresh-buy-local.html\">Lord knows just exactly how much I dig that</a>.&nbsp;MIO represents more than 30 Oklahoma food manufacturers that employ nearly 20,000 statewide.<br /><br />That\'s a lot of jobs, right there. That it\'s not hard to find Oklahoma-made products at most grocery stores makes choosing them over products that will take our dollars hundreds if not thousands of miles away from our state makes it even easier to get the best food while also supporting the local economy. <br /><br />Plus, <a href=\"http://www.blogger.com/goog_857027580\">the MIO cookbook, </a><i><a href=\"http://www.miocoalition.com/mio-cookbook.html\">Tastefully Oklahoma</a></i>, would make a quick-and-easy and much-appreciated Mother\'s Day gift in itself. It\'s available at both of Tulsa\'s Barnes and Noble locations (one on 41st Street, the other on 71st Street). <br /><br />Got a favorite Mother\'s Day brunch or dinner recipe? Leave it in the comments.','An Oklahoma-Made Mother\'s Day','To ensure that Mom gets as good a meal at your house as she would in a nice restaurant, try this recipe for Working Mom\'s Quiche.','publish','open','open','','oklahoma-made-mothers-day','','','2010-09-28 13:46:03','2010-09-28 18:46:03','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=591',0,'post','',3),(592,1,'2010-05-09 03:05:00','2010-05-09 03:05:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590843334/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4590843334_576b910f62.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><a href=\"http://daveshort.tumblr.com/post/579066618/fridays-faves-of-daves-ride-the-froyo-wave\"><i>Guest blogger Dave joins us from his blog, Accidentally Albino, with his review of Tulsa\'s new location of Edmond-based Peachwave Self Serve Frozen Yogurt</i></a><i>, at 7388 Olympia Ave. in Tulsa Hills. Take it away, Dave! </i><br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590840012/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4590840012_ca7dacbc2e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Amid the Hills of Tulsa, ‘neath the Sooner sky, nestled between a GameStop and Tulsa’s best Smashburger is one of Tulsa’s best kept secrets.<br /><br />Up till a few weeks ago, the closest you could get to having a frozen treat this delicious was to pray that the older gentleman at Braums would slip you an extra dip of Birthday Cake Ice Cream on the house.<br /><br /><a name=\'more\'></a>But, not any more.  <a href=\"http://www.peachwaveyogurt.com/\">Peachwave Self Serve Frozen Yogurt</a> is revolutionizing the way Tulsans enjoy icy delectables.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590841962/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4590841962_868f8558fc.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590220231/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4590220231_31d9b8bf7e.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />If you’re ADD like I am, when you hear the words “self serve” you immediately think of a chaotic nightmare. You can literally see the building crumbling down around you. Children are crying, and you’re running away. While Peachwave is definitely as self-serve as it can get, there are some rules to be followed. This keeps us all safe and happy.  <br /><br /><blockquote>1. Grab a cup. </blockquote><br />Cups are available in 3 standard sizes, Large (White), Huge (Green), and OMG-BECKY! (Orange).  They’ve even added a few cups lined with soft-waffle cone (which is my pick).<br /><br /><blockquote>2. Dispense frozen yogurt.</blockquote><br />This is the difficult part. But with more options than a fully loaded Cadillac, you’re bound to find your favorite combination. Peanut Butter, Coffee, White Chocolate, Standard Chocolate, Cheesecake, Tiramisu, Strawberry, Raspberry, and Classic White Tart are just a few of the amazing flavors of frozen yogurt to choose from.<br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590223827/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4590223827_60e3e8c401.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />The machines work just like you’d expect them to. Two flavors are loaded on each machine, and the center mechanism twists the two together into one delicious creation. The people behind Peachwave were brilliant in their pairings. Some of the greatest flavor combinations in the history of tastebuds can be found on this magical wall of Froyo Pump Heaven: Cheesecake/Tiramisu, White Chocolate/Coffee, White Tart/Peach and Classic Chocolate/Peanut Butter. If you’re extraordinarily particular about your flavor combos, you can single pump your own combination. The beauty of it all is that it’s entirely up to you.<br /><br /><blockquote>3. Pick Your Favorite Toppings</blockquote><br />After settling on a yogurt combination, the options multiply at the Toppings Bar. It’s loaded with everything from Fruity Pebbles to SnickerChunks, diced pineapple to fresh kiwi. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590843334/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4590843334_576b910f62.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />If you’re a nutty person, Peachwave offers crushed peanuts, whole cashews, roasted pecans, macadamia and almonds. If you’re a cereal fan there\'s Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles, Capt’n Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Rice Krispies, and Corn Flakes. If you’re crazy about candy there\'s a mountain of it. And, if you’re more of a natural flavor enthusiast there\'s cherries, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, banana, kiwi and shredded coconut.  <br /><br />Needless to say, if you can’t find what you’re looking for with such a vast array of possibilities, it’s the opinion of this pale blogger that you never will.<br /><br /><blockquote>4. Weigh and pay</blockquote><br />This is where the novelty of making your own loaded dessert hits you in the pocketbook. <br /><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590222093/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4590222093_f2cfe27d20.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div><br />Actually, your wallet won’t be any lighter than if you were to visit any of the other frozen eateries in town. At 33 cents per ounce, my family spent $10 for three cups. And, when you spend $20, Peachwave gives you a voucher for $2 off your next visit. <br /><br />How’s that for thrifty treats?<br /><br /><blockquote><b>Dave\'s Favorite Blend</b><br /><br />Cup: Green w/ Cone<br /><br />Yogurts: White Chocolate, Cheesecake and Coffee<br /><br />Toppings: Cashews, Cherries, PB Cups, Cheesecake Bits and Cocoa Pebbles<br /><br />Syrup: Top with Reese\'s Shell or opt for lightly drizzled Cherry<br /><br />Gear: Bright Green Spoon (matches the cup)</blockquote><br /><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4590841246/\" title=\"Peachwave by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\"><img alt=\"Peachwave\" height=\"374\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4590841246_bcb9e66c08.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></a></div>','Peachwave Self Serve Frozen Yogurt: Dave Rides the FroYo Wave','Up till a few weeks ago, the closest you could get to having a frozen treat this delicious was to pray that the older gentleman at Braums would slip you an extra dip of Birthday Cake Ice Cream on the house.','publish','open','open','','peachwave-self-serve-frozen-yogurt-dave','','','2010-09-28 13:44:30','2010-09-28 18:44:30','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=592',0,'post','',8),(593,1,'2010-05-09 17:19:00','2010-05-09 17:19:00','<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crazy Little Bird by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4592448854/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4592448854_9c9403d0c3.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Little Bird\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nOne of my grandmothers has a nickname for me.\r\n\r\n<a name=\"more\"></a>She calls me Little Bird. Now, this isn\'t one of those just-for-no-reason, cutesy type of nicknames that everyone makes fun of each other about on the playground.\r\n\r\nIt\'s because, over the course of my short life, I\'ve preferred to stick close to the nest.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crazy Little Bird by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4592448854/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4592448854_9c9403d0c3.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Little Bird\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nLike a baby bird.\r\n\r\nThat\'s why when I saw this little guy (at least, I think it\'s a guy) on my back porch last spring, too little to fly very well on its own and looking lost and scared and not sure about what to do next, my heart ached.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crazy Little Bird by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4592449016/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4592449016_0a7e2f748c.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Little Bird\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nSometimes, when I\'m in a situation that\'s outside of my comfort zone but is necessary for my growth, I feel like this little bird.\r\n\r\nI mean, look at this thing. Who hasn\'t felt like this at some point?\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crazy Little Bird by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4591829959/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4591829959_802429cdcb.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Little Bird\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAll alone. Far from home. Small and scared. And all I want to do is turn tail and head back to the nest.\r\n\r\nMy grandmother, she knows this about me. And while I think she would have been perfectly happy letting me stay a little girl forever (what parent doesn\'t entertain that thought?), she has always pushed me toward the edge of the nest anyway, even when it made both of us ache.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crazy Little Bird by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4592449342/\"><img src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/4592449342_b9c76cf8e2.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Little Bird\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nAnd even when I\'d yell at her for pushing.\r\n\r\nThis is how I look in the morning, by the way. A little lost, a little pissed off, but mostly just fluffy.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crazy Little Bird by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4591830159/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4591830159_aa865f501f.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Little Bird\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nOn this Mother\'s Day I\'d like to thank the mothers in my life who continually push me, not just for the sake of being better at something, but to achieve my potential, even when I\'d rather snuggle into what was comfortable at the time, as I\'m wont to do.\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Crazy Little Bird by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/4592449554/\"><img src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4592449554_ab6c364cca.jpg\" alt=\"Crazy Little Bird\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" /></a></div>\r\nBecause when the nest is safe and warm, there\'s nothing like a mother to know just how to tell you to locate your socks, grab a coat and move your ass.\r\n\r\nHappy Mother\'s Day, all.','Mother\'s Day Post','One of my grandmothers has a nickname for me.','publish','open','open','','mothers-day-post','','','2010-09-27 14:53:39','2010-09-27 19:53:39','',0,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?p=593',0,'post','',5),