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This Land Press
This Land Press is a media and merchandising company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that produces and sells Oklahoma-themed apparel and gifts, produces a quarterly print magazine, publishes books, and operates a retail store. It was founded by Michael Mason, an Oklahoma-born author, journalist, and editor. In March 2011, Tulsa businessman Vincent LoVoi partnered with Mason and became the publisher of This Land Press. In January 2017, the company announced it would suspend production of the quarterly magazine. Magazine This Land Press began publishing ''This Land'', a semi-monthly broadsheet, in May 2010. This place-based publication primarily features longform, in-depth, narrative journalism focusing on life and culture in the middle of America. The first issue of ''This Land'' magazine featured the cover story "Something Good is Going to Happen to You: Growing up Gay in the Oral Roberts Family," by Randy Roberts Potts. Five thousand copies of the magazine were distributed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Paul Mason
Michael Paul Mason (born May 29, 1971, in Tulsa, Oklahoma), sometimes credited as Michael Mason, is an American writer, author, editor, and journalist. Literary work Mason's first book of non-fiction, ''Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath'', chronicles the years he spent as a brain-injury case manager and tells the stories of twelve individuals who survived brain injury. While a contributing editor for ''Discover'' magazine, Mason wrote the article, "Dead Men Walking", which triggered a national debate about the treatment of brain-injured veterans of the Iraq War. As an independent radio producer, Mason has created works that have appeared on several public radio stations. Mason is the founding editor of This Land Press, a publication based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bibliography Books *''Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) Articles *"Dead Men Walking", ''Discover'' (2007) *"Iraq's Medical Meltdown", ''Discove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. ''Great Balls of Fire'', Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Early life and education Padgett’s father was a bootlegger in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He influenced many of Padgett's works, particularly in the writer's taste for independence and a willingness to deviate from rules, even his own. This would later be described as a stubborn streak of boyishness, allowing a wry innocence in his poetry. Padgett started writing poetry at the age of 13. In an interview, the poet said that he was inspired to write when a girl he had a big crush on did not return his affection. In high school, Padgett became interested in visual arts while continuing to write poetry. He befriended Joe Brainard, the visual artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Smith (winemaker)
Charles or Charlie Smith may refer to: Academics * C. Alphonso Smith (1864–1924), American professor, college dean, philologist, and folklorist *Charles Emrys Smith aka Dr.Charles Smith Brocca, British economist, educator, Swansea Metropolitan University / University of Wales *Charles Roach Smith (1806–1890), founding member of the British Archaeological Association *Charles Saumarez Smith (born 1954), British art historian * Charles Smith (topographer) (1715–1763), Irish topographer and writer *Charles Sprague Smith (1853–1910), founder and director of the People's Institute *Charles Piper Smith (1877–1955), American botanist * Charles Smith (mathematician) (1844–1916), British academic * Charles Forster Smith, American classical philologist Arts and entertainment *Bubba Smith (Charles Aaron Smith, 1945–2011), American actor and football player * Charles A. Smith (architect) (1866–1948), American architect * Charles Alexander Smith (1864–1915), Canadian painter f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wes Studi
Wesley Studi ( chr, ᏪᏌ ᏍᏚᏗ; born December 17, 1947) is a Native American (Cherokee Nation) actor and film producer. He has garnered critical acclaim and awards throughout his career, particularly for his portrayal of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as ''Dances with Wolves'' (1990) and ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated films '' Geronimo: An American Legend'' (1993) and ''The New World'' (2005). He is also known for portraying Sagat in ''Street Fighter'' (1994). Other films he has appeared in are '' Hostiles'', ''Heat'', ''Mystery Men'', ''Avatar'', ''A Million Ways to Die in the West'', and the television series ''Penny Dreadful''. In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American and the second Indigenous person from North America to be honored by the Academy (the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie). In December 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked him #19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cox Channel
YurView Oklahoma (formerly known as The Cox Channel from 2004 to 2017 and as Cox Channel 3 from 1999 to 2004) is a local origination cable television channel based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, owned by Cox Communications. The channel is available throughout Cox's Oklahoma City and Tulsa-area cable television systems on channel 3. Background The channel originated on cable channel 67 in Oklahoma City in 1995, and in its early days had only carried a bulletin board for local events and for the system itself, as well as occasional free preview weekends of premium channels and some sports programming. After acquiring TCI's cable system in Tulsa in 2000, Cox Communications added similar programming to the local origination channel on cable channel 9. Cox adopted a uniform branding for its local origination channel in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa service areas as The Cox Channel in 2004; two years later in 2006, the channel was moved to channel 7 in the Oklahoma City ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sterlin Harjo
Sterlin Harjo (born November 14, 1979)Sam Lewin ''Native Times News'', reprinted in ''Canku Ota'', May 24, 2004 (article gives his age as 24 in 2004). is an American filmmaker. He has directed three feature films, a feature documentary, and the FX comedy series ''Reservation Dogs'', all of them set in his home state of Oklahoma and concerned primarily with Native American people and content. Early life and education Harjo, a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma who also has Muscogee heritage, was born and raised in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he studied art and film."Sterlin Harjo honored by Oklahoma Film Critics: The Okla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism. He has inspired several generations both politically and musically with songs such as "This Land Is Your Land", written in response to the American exceptionalist song "God Bless America". Guthrie wrote hundreds of country, folk, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works. '' Dust Bowl Ballads'', Guthrie's album of songs about the Dust Bowl period, was included on '' Mojo'' magazine's list of 100 Records That Changed The World, and many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Songwriters who have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence on their work include Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocle (UK Magazine)
''Monocle'' is a global affairs and lifestyle magazine, 24-hour radio station, website, retailer and media brand, produced by Winkreative Ltd. It was founded by Tyler Brûlé, a Canadian entrepreneur, ''Financial Times'' columnist, and founder of ''Wallpaper*'' magazine. The magazine was founded and based in London on 15 February 2007. In September 2014, Brûlé sold a minority stake in ''Monocle'' magazine to Japanese publisher Nikkei Inc. The deal valued ''Monocle'' at about U.S. $115 million, although the size of Nikkei's investment was undisclosed. In December 2014, ''Monocle'' launched a new annual publication called ''The Forecast'', intended to fill the gap between the Dec./Jan. and February issues of ''Monocle''. ''The Escapist'', a travel-minded annual magazine, was introduced in July 2015 and focuses on in-depth reportage of 10 cities around the world. Concept Along with a small group of private investors, Brûlé created and financed ''Monocle'', a 10-times-a-year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations such as the Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress. Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio List of NPR stations, stations in the United States. , NPR employed 840 people. NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. The organization's flagship shows are two drive time, drive-time news broadcasts: ''Morning Edition'' and the afternoon ''All Things Considered'', both carried by most NPR member stations, and among the List of most-listened-to radio programs, most popular radio p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWGS
KWGS 89.5 FM is the flagship National Public Radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station was Oklahoma's first FM radio station and is one of two stations operated by the University of Tulsa. The station was established in 1947 through the initiative of TU speech professor Ben Graf Henneke, later president of the university. The call letters are the initials of Tulsa oil man and philanthropist William G. Skelly, who provided the funding. TU's other radio station is a classical music station, KWTU. KWGS is licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdictio ... to broadcast in the HD (hybrid) format.http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=64 HD Radio Guide for Tulsa References External links Voices of Oklahoma interv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford American
The ''Oxford American'' is a quarterly magazine that focuses on the American South. First publication The magazine was begun in late 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi, by Marc Smirnoff (born July 11, 1963). The name "Oxford American" is a play on ''The American Mercury'', H. L. Mencken's general interest magazine which Smirnoff long admired. The magazine's debut issue was published on Saturday, March 14, 1992. The cover of the first issue featured a fire-engine red background with white text and a "photo-realistic" painting by Oxford painter Glennray Tutor of an abandoned gasoline pump. Three more issues were published, including one featuring previously unpublished photographs by Eudora Welty. The magazine then ceased publication in mid-1994 for lack of funding. Second and third publication In April 1995, author and Oxford resident John Grisham secured financing to bring the magazine back into publication. The magazine had a new look and was printed on coated paper stock with a highe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
