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The City of Tulsa hosted a dedication Friday for new public art at the Cox Business Convention Center.
Andrew Ramiro Tirado’s Highlight stretches across the steps of the new plaza on the building’s east entrance.
It consists of a two-prong plug that looks a lot like the Blue Dome building and symbolizes Tulsa’s past; an electrical cord fashioned from bent, blue metal that symbolizes the present as the link from past to future; and a yellow light bulb that can be illuminated.
Tulsa Arts Commission Chair Holbrook Lawson tied Highlight into Tirado’s other works.
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People charged with misdemeanors in Tulsa County who have had their cases delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic could soon get their day in court, but not actually in a courtroom.
The county has reached an agreement with ASM Global to have court dates at the Cox Business Convention Center. The first one will be Jan. 29. Initial appearances cases where the defendant is not in custody will be on the dockets. Many of those have been postponed because the courthouse lacks space. So, the advantage of the Cox Center is, is that we have enough room over there where we can socially distance quite a few people. And so, we’ll be running multiple dockets per day, and we think we could probably take care of 300 or 400 or 500 say 300 or 400 each day, said Tulsa County District Court Judge Doug Drummond.
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Once upon a time, Tulsa Ballet decided not to present âThe Nutcrackerâ during the holiday season.
It was 1971, when members of the balletâs board of directors decided that audiences had grown tired of âThe Nutcrackerâ and that something new â or, at least, different â should be staged in the days before Christmas.
Moscelyne Larkin, one of Oklahomaâs five Native American ballerinas who founded Tulsa Ballet with her husband, Roman Jasinski, recalled that moment during a 2002 interview with the Tulsa World.
âI remember Jascha (her pet name for Jasinski) telling them it would be a mistake,â Larkin said at the time. âBut they insisted and instead we did âCoppeliaâ during the holidays. Now, I love âCoppelia,â but it just didnât work the way âNutcrackerâ works.â