Floral imprints: flower pounding, from garden to jar: canning, picnic & pedal boats, and more. 
Happy Tuesday, Tulsa. You know the drill – grab your coffee (or whatever you sip in the morning), kick back, and let Tulsa Brief serve up everything you need to know for the week ahead.
📰 In the news
Local happenings: Mortgage rates fall to a ten-month low, Taco Bell Foundation boosts three Tulsa nonprofits, and Blue Whale Comedy Festival marks its tenth anniversary — catch up here.
State-level stories: Teen filmmaker’s camera road trip launch indie dreams, state moves to bar sweets on food stamps, and lawmakers plan electric aircraft for Oklahoma skies — see what else is brewing.
National headlines: New SSA tech offers more reliable service, national recalls, and a housing market update — peruse the best of the rest.
Highlights this week
- Speak up at Creative Exchange Town Hall
- Stock your kitchen midweek with fresh produce
- Book your adult OKEQ clinic appointment Wednesday
- Learn to garden by joining this informational meeting
- Get $400 off Windows with Renewal By Andersen
🫶 We got your back
Home: You don’t need a degree in design to score magazine-worthy pieces. These 12 shops in Tulsa are full of statement-making finds and cozy accents to refresh your home.
Business: Think profit per employee peaks in California? Oklahoma’s revenue champs haul in over $60 billion a year while barely making a ripple.
Chores: Tackling the whole-house clean can feel like climbing Everest in flip-flops. This cleaning checklist breaks the job into manageable bites so you can crush it room by room.
Furniture: Need décor with a backstory deeper than your latest streaming binge? L&J Treasures is the gallery that’ll turn your living room into a time capsule… just bring a sharp eye and an appreciation for pieces that only improve with every chapter of history.
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📆 Around town this week
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This week
🌸 Floral Imprints: Flower Pounding @ Tulsa Garden Center | Tuesday (8/12) at 5:30pm – Ready to swap your paintbrush for a petal press? Turn roadside blooms and secret garden finds into botanical masterpieces on fabric or paper. It’s a low-key, family-friendly workout for your creative side, with all supplies on deck, just bring your curiosity and some muscle.
💃 Dance Back in Time @ Tulsa Historical Society and Museum | Tuesday (8/12) at 6:00pm – Dust off your dancing shoes for a pay-what-you-can summer series where we’ll polka like it’s 1880, glide through quadrilles, and wrap up with playful folk dances. No partner, no experience, just local tunes, fresh air, and guaranteed laughs.
🌸 Florigami Summer Nights: Botanic Con @ Tulsa Botanic Garden | Thursday (8/14) at 5:00pm – Think the garden’s only good for quiet reflection? Don your favorite cosplay for a stroll among giant origami sculptures, then chow down on cheese-drenched pretzels or sip an ice-cold mocktail. Summer’s evening glow turns the blooms into a sneaky science, sustainability, and pop-culture mashup.
😂 Okie Homies Showcase @ Chimera | Friday (8/15) at 5:30pm – Patio weather might be calling, but skip the lawn and snag a $5 ticket to watch Oklahoma’s top ten comics test their chops on the Blue Whale stage, with festival buzz, industry scouts, and local diehards. It’s part proving ground, part block party.
🎷 George Owens & Friends: Late Night Bonus @ Chimera | Friday (8/15) at 11:30pm – Think your local dive bar’s open mic is unpredictable? Blue Whale Comedy Festival’s late-night bonus show takes one audience suggestion, and for a full hour Henrik Blix, Maria Randazzo, and Alan Linic dive headfirst into gloriously unhinged improv after Molly Renze’s warm-up.
This weekend
🥫 From Garden to Jar: Canning @ Tulsa Garden Center | Saturday (8/16) at 9:00am – Skip the grocery aisle monotony and try proper pickling with the Tulsa Herb Society. Elam Blank, ex-Amish Kitchen owner, leads you through water-bath wizardry to craft bread-and-butter and dill pickles. You’ll swagger home with jars, pride, and and a few crunchy jars worth bragging about.
🎷 Randy Wimer @ Jones Coffee | Saturday (8/16) at 10:30am – Ease into your Saturday with a smooth cup of coffee and even smoother jazz. Randy Wimer and Dean Demerritt are bringing the duo vibes to the patio—expect laid-back grooves, mellow rhythms, and just the right amount of swing to start your weekend right.
🏐 Co-Ed Doubles Sand Volleyball Tournament | Saturday (8/16) at 4:00pm – Grab a teammate of the opposite sex, channel your inner Serena and hope you remembered sunscreen, hit the sand for a co-ed doubles volleyball tourney that guarantees at least three pool-play sets before bracket elimination. Sign up by August 16 to dodge that late fee.
🌍 Dine Around the World @ Gathering Place | Saturday (8/16) at 7:00pm – If your taste buds are begging for a passport stamp, snag a seat at Vista at the Boathouse for a seven-course, globe-trotting feast with panoramic lake views. Expect everything from Italian saltimbocca to Jamaican oxtail, plus a tres leches finale that feels like a sweet mic drop.
🧺 Picnic & Pedal Boats @ Gathering Place | Sunday (8/17) at 11:30am – Clear your schedule for a juice cleanse disguised as a party: free pedal boats, picnic snacks, and sober vibes at the Gathering Place with Sober Girls Tulsa. It’s a sun-soaked, booze-free escape where the only thing tipsy is your sense of adventure.
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🎶 Live music & entertainment
- 8/12 Red Dirt Rangers @ The Church Studio – 12 pm
- 8/13 The Ivy and more @ Brut – 5 pm
- 8/14 Seth Lee Jones @ The Hunt Club – 5:30 pm
- 8/14 The Levi Platero Band @ The Shrine – 6 pm
- 8/14 George Owens & Friends @ LowDown – 6 pm
- 8/14 Levi Platero @ The Shrine – 8 pm
- 8/14 Tommy Brennan @ LowDown – 9 pm
- 8/15 Brent Weinbach @ Cain’s Side Stage – 6 pm
🏠️ This house is wild
Listed by: Brittany McCoy (Chinowth & Cohen)
French-inspired grandeur meets Tulsa flair in this 11,579-square-foot showpiece, where a sweeping wrought iron staircase and a 20-foot chandelier set the stage for serious drama. The chef’s kitchen is primed for culinary adventures, while the primary suite comes with its own gym, indoor exercise pool, and dry sauna. Book lovers will appreciate the study’s wall-to-wall shelves and marble fireplace, and movie nights get an upgrade in the dedicated theater room.
Upstairs, four bedrooms (two with balcony views) join a game room and lounge, plus a full in-law suite with its own kitchen. Outside, a stone fireplace, built-in grill, and surround sound make the patio party-ready, all tucked behind a privacy wall in gated Rockhurst, just minutes from Jenks Southeast schools.
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