In case you haven’t heard (or been!), Winterfest is back downtown and bigger than ever. Now featuring a larger ice-rink, a heated hospitality tent, and Oklahoma’s largest Christmas Tree (44 feet!). If you want proof that downtown Tulsa is on the upswing, go sip a hot apple cider and watch the skaters on the jam-packed ice rink. It’s a beautiful thing.

Besides, I think we can all agree that having more family-friendly events downtown is awesome. I attended the event this past Friday with TTP staff photographer Connor Wingfield and a great time was had by all. I strongly recommend it.

Winterfest runs daily and nightly til January 4th, and by popular demand, on Christmas Day from 5-10pm. For a complete schedule and all the awesome info, check out the BOK Center’s Winterfest page.

If you’ve read the “Introduction” article from last month’s issue (you should) you already know that I specifically said there that The Tulsa Project is not a blog. And you’d be right to point that out. The Tulsa Project is a monthly online magazine.

Having said that, we realize there are certain stories, events, and updates that are a little more…timely than that. If we find out about some fantastic event we think you should attend next week, we obviously can’t wait another month to tell you about it. This space will also give us a place to let you know what we’ve been working on, and more importantly, what you think about it. All posts in this area are open for comments, and we encourage you to do so. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: The Tulsa Project is all about you.

So, along with the launch of our second issue we’ve rolled out some major improvements on the tulsaproject.com homepage. We wanted to integrate more dynamic content without sacrificing our magazine feel — so along with our monthly issues, watch the homepage for new content throughout the month.

Thanks for reading, and we look forward to hearing from you!