This Sunday, Tulsa’s Jazz Depot will feature renowned local trumpeter Mike Bennett with the NSU Jazz Ensemble.
As director of jazz studies at Tahlequah’s Northeastern State University and a noted professional jazz saxophonist, Dr. Tommy Poole has been able to bring in guest artists from all over the country to perform with and instruct the students in his NSU Jazz Ensemble. With trumpeter Mike Bennett, however, he gets something the out-of-towners can’t give.
The signature California sound of the Beach Boys will be rockin’ the Event Center at River Spirit Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18.
The Beach Boys are regarded by many as an important catalyst in the evolution of popular music. The band is known for their vocal harmonies and for creating a signature sound which celebrated the Southern California culture of surfing, cars and romance.
Over the weekend, it was announced both nations will enable direct convertibility.
As a result of Australia’s unprecedented reliance on China as a target export market, accounting for nearly 30% of all Australian exports (with the flipside being just as true, as Australia now is the fifth-biggest source of Chinese imports), the two countries may as well be joined at the hip.
Governor Mary Fallin Friday signed House Bill 1999 ending the prohibition on horse meat processing for export in Oklahoma. Forty-six states, not including Oklahoma, currently allow horsemeat processing.
“In Oklahoma – as in other states – abuse is tragically common among horses that are reaching the end of their natural lives. Many horses are abandoned or left to starve to death. Others are shipped out of the country, many to Mexico, where they are processed in potentially inhumane conditions that are not regulated by the U.S. government.
Sources in the Syrian opposition said on Saturday that a ship carrying Iranian arms sailing under a Tanzanian flag was in the Red Sea on its way to deliver weapons to forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Saudi media outlet Al-Arabiya reported.