James Bond may be the Man with the Golden Gun, but Ralph Terry is the Man with the Golden Pitches. Ralph, in fact, can lay claim to having more Golden Pitches than anyone else — five more than his closest competitors, Christy Mathewson and Jose… Read More »Ralph Terry the Man with the Golden Pitches
This month in OKLAHOMA Magazine, you can, if you’re so inclined, catch a John Wooley twofer. My regular column tells about my experiences as an over-70 softball player, and the cover story pairs me with writer Henry Dolive (whom I haven’t had the pleasure of… Read More »A John Wooley Twofer
For many years now, musicians Walt Richmond and Casey Van Beek have represented the best of what the classic Tulsa Sound was, and is. Now, Richmond has produced and engineered a new Van Beek disc — his first solo effort — that brings that sound… Read More »THE TULSA SOUND’S ETERNAL INSPIRATION
Stoney LaRue has long been one of the leading lights of the Stillwater-brewed musical concoction known to the world as Red Dirt. Recently, he and I visited about the current state of the Red Dirt scene as well as his new disc, which includes a… Read More »SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR THE COSMOS
My friend Jimmie Tramel, a fine writer and big-time comic-book fan, puts on a great comics-related event in what to some may seem an unlikely place: Pryor, Oklahoma. It may indeed be held in a small town, but, over the past few years, the Pryor… Read More »Pryor Obsessions
I’m happy to say that I’ve got a couple of pieces in the December OKLAHOMA Magazine that both deal with very talented friends of mine. NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author and longtime Tulsan P.C. Cast tells us about some big developments with her wildly successful… Read More »TWO OKLAHOMA MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Millions of baby boomers, myself included, grew up with the rock ’n’ roll hits of Gary Lewis and the Playboys rolling out of our car speakers and transistor radios. Such enduring oldies as “This Diamond Ring,” “Save Your Heart for Me,” and “She’s Just My… Read More »A ‘Playboy’ Prescription
Hayden Rorke is undoubtedly best known for his role as the blustery Dr. Bellows in the baby-boomer favorite TV show I DREAM OF JEANNIE. He was, however, a fine character actor who did a lot more than that — including a turn as a ghostly… Read More »Getting to Know a Monster
If you can indeed measure a person’s wealth by the number of friends he has, then the longtime Oklahoma music figure Ray Bingham is an exceedingly rich man. In my latest column for OKLAHOMA Magazine, Ray talks about how friendship has informed his life as… Read More »Nice People for Friends
I have no idea how many stories I’ve written about the Red Dirt Rangers, the trailblazing band that continues to show the world what Red Dirt music is all about. I do know my first Rangerspiece came out in the TULSA WORLD in 1991, when they first brought their act from Stillwater… Read More »A Black Hole… in a Good Way’
