I think this list speaks for itself. Thank you for this year Nano community and see you in 2021 for even more fun! We are only getting started 🚀
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• Introducing Nano P2PoW - Decentralized proof of work
• Stress testing of the main network with a new record of 235 CPS
• Nano Game made with Unreal Engine
• Announcing NanoDevList - Financial support for devs working on the Nano protocol and projects
• Anonymity research update
• The Nano Xmas Tree - it's back!
• NANO is now available for free in nearly every country in the world via WeNano App
• Nano added to CoinEmbed - A new payment processor service
• Gonano, a command-line tool written in Go for creating and managing Nano wallets
• WeNano SpotChat Update: 17 Nov, 2020
• Earn Nano from playing Just Cause 2 Multiplayer
• NanoGift for YouTube has been approved for Chrome, Brave, etc.
• Introducing Nanomart!
• Unreal Nano: A 3D transaction visualizer with VR and multiplayer support built with Unreal Engine
• [Released] Unreal Engine Nano Plugin v1
• An exchange has been released to trade Reddit Moons/Nano
• Introducing NanoGift for YouTube
• Nano based patent granted to RoboCash / FynCom!
• Disaster Nano Node - my backup survival principal representative for this uncertain world
• Bitcoin vs Nano - Solving the Double Spend Problem
• WeNano Community Update: 01 Oct, 2020
• September Nano Community Project Award: Srayman
• The Nano Foundation announces Deepa Mardolkar as Chair of the Advisory Board
• Introducing Nano Arcade — fusing Nano with Space Invaders
• Update from the Charity Project in Sierra Leone
• Athena V21.2 Release Now Available
• A proof of concept implementation of atomic swaps between Bitcoin and Nano has been released
• RoboCash app now pays you for every blocked call
• 2000+ Games and DLCs, from Steam, Playstation, Xbox, and all main platforms, now available at PlayNANO
• Nano demolished its previous beta stress test record today. 1465+ CPS
• DegenTrader.com allows you to get Nano currency with fiat in just a few clicks
• Introducing Nendly, the Notion-Friendly Forum
• August Nano Community Project Award: SonderDev
• Introducing MoonPay to WeNano
• Announcing WeNano Business for iOS and Android
• New onion faucet
• BrainBlocks Announces Sunset
• Nalli, the SMS supported wallet is now on the App Store
• New Nano record last night! 161 peak CPS on the mainnet
• Nano as the backbone of Financial Communications
• Nanowallet.io says bye
• Experimental ledger pruning - V22
• PlayNANO now allows users to top-up their mobile phones
• NanoKe - Play on NANO Blockchain
• Nano is now available on the Guarda Wallet Mobile App
• Article: The security of using Nano
• Optimizations bring back to 0.3 seconds per PoW
• The Nano Foundation has joined FITSPA Uganda to help amplify Nano as the go-to digital money solution for the people of Uganda
• July Nano Community Project Award: Nault
• Nault wallet redesign
• Development update: Increased work difficulty upgrade status
• RoboCash app in Google Play - Try the Nano-powered phone spam blocker today!
• Say hello to the new ultra-secure remote/offline signing feature in Nault!
• Introducing PhraseFile: A file-based 2FA method for Nano seeds
• NANO Founder Colin Lemahieu LIVE with Barely Sociable
• V21.1 Athena release now available
• NanoFusion - Project Update and Next Steps
• Announcing the winners of the $75,000 Nano Build-Off
• June Nano Community Project Award: Nano Tip Bot
• The re-birth of NanoVault: Nault
• Nano now available on GuardaWallet
• Interview with Colin LeMahieu - Hosted by Keyword: Crypto
• RoboCash Beta + NanoCenter Update
• Notes from Nano Foundation Dev AMA on Discord
• You can now buy NANO instantly or recurring using Buy Crypto on Binance.US
• Nano Repeat - Subscription Bot for Discord
• New version of CSGO - Nano tournament released
• NanoTicker upgraded for v21 with new features and improved data accuracy
• V21 Athena is live on the Nano network!
• Competition to come up with the best marketing ideas to increase Nano adoption
• Community-made marketing video: 10 reasons to use NANO instead of the Dollar
• The Nano Faucet Distribution: Visualized and Analyzed
• V21 Athena RC1 Released
• Nalli, the new mobile wallet with SMS support is now available for iOS in TestFlight
• NanoAuth - Authentication service (Build-off submission)
• NanoWire - Sell/Buy unused bandwidth (Build-off submission)
• Nano Profile - IPFS hosted profile picture network for Nano (Build-off submission)
• NANO Connect Messenger - Message app with Nano transactions (Build-off submission)
• Nanoom - Service for pulling Nano payments (Build-off submission)
• Bloesem - App with nano rewards to stay focused (Build-off submission)
• Nanowall.link - Content monetizer (Build-off submission)
• Nalli - Mobile wallet with sms support (Build-off submission)
• Upstart - Digital content hosting and sale platform (Build-off submission)
• Natricon Update - Natricons are changeable now
• Introducing TIX Wallet - Simple web wallet
• Nano on Tap - Docker backend (Build-off submission)
• Natricon - Icon identifier for accounts (Build-off submission)
• Nano-it-all Live Trivia Competition (Build-off submission)
• NanoSpider - Block explorer (Build-off submission)
• NANO Espresso NFC - Coffee machine acceping NANO payments (Build-off submission)
• FlappyNano - Flappy Bird against friends (Build-off submission)
• Linuxserver.io Nano Stack (Build-off submission)
• Sendr.space - Social media platform using Nano (Build-off submission)
• InstantCash - Point of sale for Android (Build-off submission)
• May NCPA Community Award Winner: Natrium
• NanoBlog - Decentralized blogging using IPFS (Build-off submission)
• NanoRequest - Payment link generator (Build-off submission)
• CoinChores - Teach your kids about Nano (Build-off submission)
• Polyrun - Workout rewards (Build-off submission)
• KojoSlayer - Battle RPG (Build-off submission)
• Rock Paper Scissors Online (Build-off submission)
• Nanotify - API and web callback platform (Build-off submission)
• Nano Connect - Free distributed RPC proxy (Build-off submission)
• Buy NANO with USD in Trust Wallet
• PlayNANO - Games (Build-off submission)
• Vola Wallet - iOS (Build-off submission)
• NanoRPCProxy - Now with a secure websocket layer, including free public subscriptions for block confirmations
• BlockHunters - Augmented Reality Game (Build-off submission)
• Nano Repeat - Subscription Management for Vendors (Build-off submission)
• Alexa Nano Bot is now live on the Alexa skill store (Build-off submission)
• 'How to use crypto' article (featuring Nano, because it's so easy)
• Nano now accepted at TravelbyBit after merging with Travala
• Nanolytics - Network stats (Build-off submission)
• NanoGift - Browser extension for site donations (Build-off submission)
• nPass - Web content payments (Build-off submission)
• FakeFork - Nano dashboard for tabletop gamers (Build-off submission)
• Play with Nano - (Nano Build-off submission)
• TheNanoBot (Build-off submission)
• Nano RPC Proxy - A fully customizable and secure backend for node calls (Nano Build-Off Project)
• NanoFusion (Nano Build-Off Project)
• NanoPaint (Nano Build-Off Project)
• Natrium v2.2 Released on iOS and Android
• Nanoce.net - Nano powered gaming tournaments
• Millions of Brave browser users can now seamlessly purchase, deposit, and convert NANO
• Happy Birthday Nano! Nano turns six today
• New Nano Center Bounty: Unity3D Plugin
• RoboCash alpha APK - stop spam calls with Nano
• myNanoEmbedded - Lightweight C library for IoT
• April NCPA Community Award Winner: Json
• Nano ecosystem april 2020
• Alexa Nano bot
• WeNano light for Android is out
• NanoPvP is Back better than ever!
• Nano Charts V1.13 - More Accurate Pie Chart Data, Binance True Holdings and Help Boxes
• Nodes CLI obersever: new CLI tool in php4nano repository
• Nano Foundation - CryptoFriendly AMA Recap
• Nano available on the new Binance Widget
• Great beta results for v21
• A new faucet has launched - TetraLoom
• Privacy research project update - Funded
• Nano RUM dispenser
• Announcing the Nano Build-Off - A $75,000 competition to incentivize nano developers
• March NCPA Community Award Winner: MyNano.ninja
• Nanocurrency on Reddit reaches 50,000 members
• Nano Foundation AmA with Atomic Wallet - Summary
• Counter Strike: Go Nano
• Announcing Earn-Nano.com - Collection of places to earn Nano
• Nanoquake JS Season 2
• LuckyNano 2.0 Released
• DeMixor, music vocal remover, integrates Nano
• Announcing EarnAcademy.cc — Earn money by learning and answering questions
• Bidali enables gift cards and phone top-ups with Nano
• Announcing the Nano Community Project Award
• Raesonic browser-based racing game with Nano microtransactions
• Announcing WeNano for iOS
• Binance rolls out credit card purchases of Nano, one of 12 coins supported
• Nano is now in the list of cryptocurrencies on Wikipedia
• Nix/NixOS integration
• NanoGhana Meetup
• Nano work cache available (golang)
• A Simple Nano Block Lattice Explorer on Tor
• Nano is now available on Simplex platform!
• Binance adds BUSD trading pair for Nano!
• Nano on Wikipedia!
• V21 Athena - Feature Review
• Release: New Nano wallet sweep tool
• NANORoll - Multiplayer Roulette Casino Game
• A New site that lists NANO merchants (among other crypto) - Weacceptcryptocurrency.com
• You can now update your representative in Exodus Wallet
• NOWPayments is supporting Nano now!
• Nanowallets.guide - A brand new feature guide to all Nano wallets
• Magnum wallet is now open beta on iOS
• RoboCash NanoCenter project, funding complete!
• Visualizing Nano Beta Network at 750 CPS - 20k tx in 28sec
• Results of recent Nano Display Ads Marketing project
• The Nano Center for Community Funding: NanoGhana Meet-up - Funded!
• NanoArcade - New Game Released
• Nano-PvP - Player vs Player Coinflip Matches
• NanoArcade Released
• New Swap Service: Godex Lists Nano!
• Guide: How to securely transact using an offline device + Ledger recovery methods
• An Introduction to the Manta Protocol presented by Appia
• Nano Batcoif Ad
• Development Update: Research for a new PoW algorithm
• Canoe End of Road
• The New Nano Africa Website Released
• Proposal for Nano Node Network Optimizations
• Presenting KeyTools - A brand new set of secure high-performance Nano web tools

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Every weekday evening at around 9pm, in the Daily Mail’s headquarters in Kensington, west London, the slightly stooping, six-foot three-inch figure of Paul Dacre emerges into the main open-plan office where editors, sub-editors and designers are in the final stages of preparing pages for the next day’s paper. The atmosphere changes instantly; everyone becomes tense, as though waiting for a thunderstorm. Dacre begins with a low growl, like an angry tiger. His voice rises as several pages are denounced, along with those responsible. Imprecations reverberate across the office, sometimes punctuated by the strangely anomalous command to a senior colleague, “Don’t resist me, darling.” Pages must be replaced or redesigned, their order changed, headlines altered. New pictures are required with new captions. Dacre waves his long arms, hammers the air with his hands, shouts even louder and, if particularly agita­ted, scratches himself.
Nobody tries to argue. For all the fear and exasperation – “He never thinks of logistics and he has no idea of what’s an unreasonable request,” says one former sub-editor – there is also admiration. Dacre, Fleet Street’s best-paid editor, who earned almost £1.8m in 2012, has been in charge of the Mail since 1992 and, by general consent, is the most successful editor of his generation. The paper sells an average of 1.5 million copies on weekdays, 2.4 million on Saturdays. Only the Sun sells more but, on Saturdays, the Mail has just moved ahead. Its 4.3 million daily readers include more from the top three social classes (A, B and C1) than the Times, Guardian, Independent and Financial Times combined. Its long-standing middle-market rival, the Daily Express, slightly ahead when Dacre took over, now sells less than a third as many copies.
Under Dacre, the Mail has won Newspaper of the Year six times in the annual British Press Awards – twice as many prizes as any other paper. If anything, its authority and clout have grown in the past two years as Rupert Murdoch’s Sun has struggled with the fallout from the hacking scandal. Politicians no longer fear Murdoch as they once did. They still fear Dacre. The opposition from Murdoch’s papers to the government’s proposals that a royal charter should regulate the press is muted. Dacre’s Mail is loud and clear about the threat to “our free press”. Summoned twice before the Leveson inquiry – the second time because he had accused the actor Hugh Grant of lying in his evidence – he didn’t give an inch.
Everyone who has ever worked for Dacre, who has just passed his 65th birthday, praises his almost uncanny instinct for the issues and stories that will hold the attention of “Middle England”. No other editor so deftly balances the mix of subjects and moods that holds readers’ attention: serious and frivolous, celebrities and ordinary people, urban, suburban and rural, some stories provoking anger, others tears. No other editor chooses, with such unerring and lethal precision, the issues, often half forgotten, that will create panic and fear among politicians. “He’s the most consummate newspaperman I’ve ever met,” says Charles Burgess, a former features editor who also occupied high-level roles at the Guardian and Independent. “He balances the flow of each day’s paper in his head.”
“He articulates the dreams, fears and hopes of socially insecure members of the suburban middle class,” says Peter Oborne, the Mail’s former political columnist now at the Daily Telegraph. “It’s a daily performance of genius.”
But Murdoch’s decline leaves the Mail under more scrutiny than ever. Is Dacre at last running out of road? Rumours circulate in the national newspaper industry that members of the Rothermere family, owners of the Daily Mail, are increasingly nervous of the controversy that Dacre stirs up, notably this year with its attack on Ralph Miliband, father of the Labour leader, as “the man who hated Britain”. More than any other editor since Kelvin MacKenzie ruled at the Sun – and, among other outrages, alleged that drunkenness among Liverpool football fans led to the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 – Dacre attracts visceral loathing. His enemies see the Mail, to quote the Huffington Post writer and NS columnist Mehdi Hasan (who was duly monstered in the Mail’s pages), as “immigrant-bashing, woman-hating, Muslim-smearing, NHS-undermining, gay-baiting”.
The loathing is returned, with interest. In Dacre’s mind, the country is run, in effect, by affluent metropolitan liberals who dominate Whitehall, the leadership of the main political parties, the universities, the BBC and most public-sector professions. As he once said, “. . . no day is too busy or too short not to find time to tweak the noses of the liberal­ocracy”. The Mail, in his view, speaks for ordinary people, working hard and struggling with their bills, conventional in their views, ambitious for their children, loyal to their country, proud of owning their home, determined to stand on their own feet. These people, Dacre believes, are not given a fair hearing in the national media and the Mail alone fights for them. It is incomprehensible to him – a gross category error – that critics should be obsessed by the Mail’s power and influence when the BBC, funded by a compulsory poll tax, dominates the news market. It uses this position, he argues, to push a dogmatically liberal agenda, hidden behind supposed neutrality. Scarcely an issue of the Mail passes without a snipe and sometimes a full barrage in the news pages, leaders or signed opinion columns at BBC “bias”.
To its critics, however, the Mail is as biased as it’s possible to be, and none too fussy about the facts. In the files of the Press Complaints Commission, you will find records of 687 complaints against the Mail which led either to a PCC adjudication or to a resolution negotiated, at least partially, after the PCC’s intervention. The number far exceeds that for any other British newspaper: the files show 394 complaints against the Sun, 221 against the Daily Telegraph, 115 against the Guardian. The complaints will serve as a charge sheet against the Mail and its editor.
This year, the Mail reported that disabled people are exempt from the bedroom tax; that asylum-seekers had “targeted” Scotland; that disabled babies were being euthanised under the Liverpool Care Pathway; that a Kenyan asylum-seeker had committed murders in his home country; that 878,000 recipients of Employment Support Allowance had stopped claiming “rather than face a fresh medical”; that a Portsmouth primary school had denied pupils water on the hottest day of the year because it was Ramadan; that wolves would soon return to Britain; that nearly half the electricity produced by windfarms was discarded. All these reports were false.
Mail executives argue that it gets more complaints than its rivals because it reaches more readers (particularly online, where the paper’s stories are repeated and others originate), prints more pages and tackles more serious and politically challenging issues. They point out that only six complaints were upheld after going through all the PCC’s stages and that the Sun and Telegraph, despite fewer complaints, had more upheld. But the PCC list, though it contains some of the Mail’s favourite targets such as asylum-seekers and “scroungers”, merely scratches the surface. Other complainants turned to the law. In the past ten years, the Mail has reported that the dean of RAF College Cranwell showed undue favouritism to Muslim students (false); the film producer Steve Bing hired a private investigator to destroy the reputation of his former lover Liz Hurley (false); the actress Sharon Stone left her four-year-old child alone in a car while she dined at a restaurant (false); the actor Rowan Atkinson needed five weeks’ treatment at a clinic for depression (false); a Tamil refugee, on hunger strike in Parliament Square, was secretly eating McDonald’s burgers (false); the actor Kate Winslet lied over her exercise regime (false); the singer Elton John ordered guests at his Aids charity ball to speak to him only if spoken to (false); Amama Mbabazi, the prime minister of Uganda, benefited personally from the theft of £10m in foreign aid (false). In all these cases, the Mail paid damages.
Then there are the subjects that the Mail and other right-wing papers will never drop. One is the EU, which, the Mail reported last year, proposed to ban books such as Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series that portray “traditional” families. Another is local authorities, forever plotting to expel Christmas from public life and replace it with the secular festival of Winterval. It does not matter how often these reports are denied and their flimsy provenance exposed; the Mail keeps on running them and its columnists cite them as though they were accepted wisdom.
The paper gets away with publishing libels and falsehoods and with invasions of privacy because the penalties are insignificant. Often the victims can’t afford to sue and, if they can, the Mail group, with £282m annual profits even in these straitened times, can live with the costs. The PCC, even when its rules allow it to admit a complaint, has no powers to impose fines or to stipulate the prominence of corrections.
Besides, many victims don’t pursue complaints because they fear the stress of going to war with a powerful newspaper. They included the late writer Siân Busby who, the paper wrote in 2008, had received “the all-clear from lung cancer” after “a gruelling year”. In fact, the diagnosis had come less than six months earlier and she hadn’t received the “all-clear”. More important, as her husband, the BBC journalist Robert Peston, explained in the James Cameron Memorial Lecture in November this year, she wanted to keep the news out of the public domain to protect her children.
“The Mail got away with it,” Peston said. “As it often does.” (The Mail, in a statement after the lecture, said the information had been obtained from Busby herself and that the reporter had identified himself as a Mail writer.) In his 2008 book Flat Earth News, the Guardian journalist Nick Davies compared the paper to a footballer who, to protect his goal, will deliberately bring down an opponent. “Brilliant and corrupt,” Davies wrote, “the Daily Mail is the professional foul of contemporary Fleet Street.”
Even a list of official complaints and court cases doesn’t quite capture why the Mail attracts such fear and loathing. It has a unique capacity for targeting individuals and twisting the knife day after day, without necessarily lapsing into inaccuracies that could lead either to libel writs or censure by the PCC. For instance, as publication of the Leveson report on press regulation approached, the Mail devoted 12 pages of one issue – and several more pages of subsequent issues – to an “exposure” of Sir David Bell, a name then almost entirely unknown even to well-informed members of the public. A Leveson assessor and former Financial Times chairman, Bell was allegedly at the centre of a “quasi-masonic” network of “elitist liberals”, bent on gagging the press and preventing freedom of expression. This network, based on the “leadership” training organisation Common Purpose, had spawned the Media Standards Trust, of which Bell was a co-founder, which in turn had spawned the lobby group Hacked Off, an important influence on Leveson. To the Mail, this was a perfect illustration of how well-connected liberals, through networks of apparently innocuous organisations, conspire to undermine national traditions and values.
The paper also targets groups, often the weak and vulnerable. The Federation of Poles in Great Britain complained to the PCC that the Mail ran 80 headlines between 2006 and 2008 linking Poles to problems in the NHS and schools, unemployment among Britons, drug smuggling, rape and so on. Most of the stories, as the federation acknowledged, were newsworthy and largely accurate. The objection was to the way they were presented and to the drip, drip effect of continually highlighting the Polish connection so that, as the federation’s spokesman put it, the average reader’s heart “skips a beat . . . with either indignation or alarm”. The PCC eventually brokered a settlement that led to publication of a letter from the federation.

Yet there is something magnificent about the Mail’s confidence and single-mindedness. Other papers, trimming to focus groups, muffle their message, but the Mail projects its world-view relentlessly, with supreme technical skill, from almost every page. It is a paper led by its opinions, not by news. It is not noted for big exclusives, nor even for rapid reaction. “We were often known as the day-late paper,” a former reporter recalls. “Dacre wouldn’t really be interested in a story until he’d seen it somewhere else. We would sometimes give our exclusives to other journalists. Dacre surveys all the other papers, selects the right lines for the next day and follows them.”
Although Dacre has little enthusiasm for new technology – he still doesn’t have a computer on his desk – his paper is perfectly primed for the age of instant 24-hour news, when the challenge is not so much to find and report news as to select, interpret and elaborate on it. Long before other papers recognised the merits of a features-led or views-led approach, the Mail under Dacre was doing it.
The Mail gives its readers a sense of belonging in an increasingly complex and unsettling world. Part of the trick is to make the world seem more threatening than it is: crime is rising, migrants flooding the country, benefit scroungers swindling the taxpayer, standards of education falling, wind turbines taking over the countryside. Almost anything you eat or drink could give you cancer. Above all, the family – “the greatest institution on God’s green earth”, Dacre told a writer for the New Yorker last year – is under continuous assault. The Mail assures readers they are not alone in their anxieties about this changing world. It is a paper to be read, not on trains or buses or in offices, but in the peace and quiet of your home, preferably with an old-fashioned coal fire blazing in the hearth.
“Readers like certainty,” says a former Mail reporter. “Newspapers that have a wavering grip on their ideology are the ones that struggle. The Mail is like Coke. It’s consistent, reliable. Dacre is one of the best brand managers in the business. He lives the brand.”
Dacre lives mostly in the shadows. His two appearances before the Leveson inquiry gave the wider public a rare glimpse; apart from Desert Island Discs in 2004, he never appears on television or speaks on radio. If the Mail needs to defend itself (and it deigns to do so only in the most desperate circumstances), the job is assigned to an underling. Requests for on-the-record interviews are invariably refused, as they were for this article. A rare exception was made for the British Journalism Review, whose then editor, Bill Hagerty (a former editor of the People), in­terviewed Dacre in the tenth year of his editorship. There was also that audience with the New Yorker last year. Public lectures are equally unusual for him, though he gave the Cudlipp Lecture (in memory of Hugh Cudlipp, a Daily Mirror editor who was an early hero of his) in 2007, and addressed the Society of Editors in 2008.
Even former staff members mostly prefer not to be quoted when talking about Dacre. If they agree to be quoted, they wish the quotations to be checked with them before publication. BBC Radio 4 used actors for several contributions to a recent profile. The journalists’ fear is not only that they may be cut off from future employment or freelance work – “The Mail pays far better than anybody else and you don’t want to jeopardise the £2,000 cheque that might drop through the letter box,” said one writer – but also that the Mail may hit back. These concerns are shared by many politicians, who are equally reluctant to be quoted.
Dacre has few social graces and even less small talk. His body language is awkward, his manner prickly. He seldom smiles and, according to one ex-columnist, “He doesn’t laugh, he just says, ‘That’s a funny remark.’” He treats women with old-fashioned courtliness, opening doors and helping them with coats, but is otherwise uncomfortable with them, perhaps because he was one of five brothers, went to an all-male school and has no daughters. He speaks gruffly, with a slight north London accent and an even fainter trace of his father’s native Yorkshire. He sometimes buries his rather florid face deep in his hands, as though exasperated with the world’s inability to share his simple, common-sense values. He became notorious for the ripeness of his language – so frequent was his use of the C-word, almost entirely directed at men, that his staff referred to “the vagina monologues” – but when Charles Burgess told him women didn’t like hearing it he was profusely apologetic. On Desert Island Discs, he confessed to shouting at staff. “Shouting creates energy,” he said. “Energy creates great headlines.”
He still shouts, but in recent years, as an insider reported, “He’s no longer the expletive volcano he once was; his barbs these days tend to concern the brainpower of his target and their supposed laziness.”
He owns three properties: a home with a mile-long drive in West Sussex (known to Mail staff as Dacre Towers), a more modest weekday residence in the central London district of Belgravia and a seven-bedroom house in Scotland with a 17,000-acre shooting estate. He is a member of the Garrick Club, and sometimes takes columnists to lunch at Mark’s Club in Mayfair, which one recipient of his hospitality described as “very decorous, the sort of place you could have gone to in the 19th century”. He sent both of his sons to Eton.
There are no stories of past or present indiscretions involving women, alcohol or drugs. Jon Holmes, a contemporary at Leeds University who is now a sports agent, recalls him as “a very cold fish; he never, ever, seemed to go out in a group for a drink or a meal or anything”. A former Mail reporter says: “We’d all be in the Harrow [a Fleet Street pub, heavily frequented by Mail journalists], and he would come in, buy a half-pint, take it to the opposite end of the bar, drink alone, and leave without speaking.”
He has an apparently stable and successful marriage to a woman he met at university, which has lasted 37 years. He frequently attends Church of England services, but is not a believer. He likes and sometimes goes out to rugby union matches, the opera and theatre – the last partly because his wife, Kathleen Dacre, is a professor of theatre studies and partly because he has a son who is a successful director and producer with surprisingly avant-garde leanings. Asked what television he watched, he once mentioned Midsomer Murders and nothing else.
He mostly eschews the trappings and opportunities of wealth and power. It is impossible to imagine him as a member of the Chipping Norton set or anything like it. He rarely dines or lunches with the powerful or fashionable, nor does he attend glitzy parties and social events. Frequently, he lunches in his office on meat and two veg. Sometimes he will lunch with politicians, but he has little respect or liking for them as a class and thinks it wise to keep his distance; Oborne recalls how, one evening, he ignored at least five increasingly urgent requests to take a call from a senior Tory minister. He declines nearly all invitations to sit on committees; his chairmanship of an official inquiry into the “30-year rule” (under which Whitehall records were kept secret for three decades) was unusual. “Editorship is not for him a route to something else,” says a former employee.

Dacre was born and spent much of his childhood in Enfield, an unremarkable middle-class suburb of north London whose inhabitants, he told the New Yorker, “were frugal, reticent, utterly self-reliant and immensely aspirational . . . suspicious of progressive values, vulgarity of any kind, self-indulgence, pretentiousness and people who know best”. Though his parents divorced late in life, his family was then (at least in his eyes) stable, happy and secure.
But the more important clue to him and his relationship with the Mail’s Middle England readership is the Sunday Express of the 1950s and 1960s under the editorship of John Gordon and then John Junor. “That paper,” Dacre told the Society of Editors, “was my journalistic primer . . . [It] was warm, aspirational, unashamedly traditional, dedicated to decency, middlebrow, beautifully written and subbed, accessible, and, above all, utterly relevant to the lives of its readers.” Talking to Hagerty, he described Junor’s Sunday Express as “one of the great papers of all time”.
After leaving school in Yorkshire at 16, his father, Peter Dacre, joined the Sunday Express at 21 and stayed there for the rest of his working life – mainly as a show-business writer but also, for short periods, as New York correspondent and foreign editor. Each Sunday that week’s paper was discussed and analysed over the Dacre family dinner table.
It was then in its heyday, selling five million copies a week, and it didn’t go into severe decline (it now sells under 440,000) until the 1980s. It was a formulaic paper, which placed the same types of stories and features in exactly the same spots week after week. As Roy Greenslade observes in Press Gang, his post-1944 history of national newspapers, it was “virtually devoid of genuine news”; what it presented as news stories were really quirky mini-features, starting, as Greenslade put it, “with lengthy scene-setting descriptions or homilies”. Its staple subjects were animals, motor cars and wartime heroes. Its biggest target was “filth”, in the theatre, the cinema, books, magazines and TV programmes.
It particularly deplored any assault on the delicate sensibilities of children. Dacre’s father criticised the BBC in 1965 for the unsuitable content of its Sunday teatime serials. Lorna Doone, he wrote, ended “gruesomely”, with a man drowning in a bog, and in the first episode of a spy serial the actors used such expressions as “damn”, “hell” and “silly bitch” at a time supposedly reserved for “family viewing”. “Have the men responsible for these programmes,” asked the elder Dacre, “forgotten that there can be no family without children? What kind of men are they? Do they have families of their own?” Another piece denounced the BBC’s Sunday evening play for “an overdose of twisted social conscience”.
The young Dacre was hooked by newspapers. He only ever wanted to be a journalist and he always had his eyes on editing: “I’m a good writer, but not a great writer,” he told Hagerty. As a child in New York, during his father’s posting there, he would wake to the clattering of the ticker-tape telex machine outside his bedroom. In school holidays, he worked as a messenger for Junor’s Sunday Express and then spent a gap year before university as a trainee on the Daily Express. At the fee-charging University College School in Hampstead, north London, he edited the school magazine, and once ran, he told the Society of Editors, “a ponderous, prolix and achingly dull” special issue about the evangelist Billy Graham. It “went down like a sodden hot cross bus”, teaching him the essential lesson, which the Mail remembers every day on every page, that the worst sin in journalism is to be boring.
To his disappointment, his application to Oxford University failed. He went instead to Leeds, where he read English and edited Union News, taking it sharply downmarket from, in his own description, “a product that looked like the then Times on Prozac” to one that ran “Leeds Lovelies” on page three. It won an award for student newspaper of the year. The paper supported a sit-in (led by the union president, Jack Straw, later a Labour cabinet minister), interviewed a student about “the delights of getting stoned”, wrote sympathetically about gay people, immigrants and homeless families, and called on students to help in “breaking down the barriers between the coloured and white communities of this town”. At the time, he subsequently claimed, he was left-wing, though Jon Holmes, who worked on Dacre’s Union News, says: “I never heard him express a political view except in favour of planned economies for third-world, though not first-world, countries.”
His left-wing period, as he calls it, continued until the Daily Express, which he joined as soon as he left Leeds, sent him to America in 1976. He stayed there for six years, latterly working for the Mail. “America,” Dacre told Hagerty, “taught me the power of the free market . . . to improve the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people.”
The Mail brought him back to London in the early 1980s and made him news editor. According to various accounts, he would “rampage through the newsroom with arms flailing like a windmill”, shouting “Go, paras, go” as he despatched reporters on stories. He climbed the hierarchy until in 1991 he became the editor of the London Evening Standard, then owned, like the Mail, by the Rothermeres’ Associated Newspapers. Circulation rose by 25 per cent in 16 months and Rupert Murdoch sounded him out about the Times editorship. To stop him leaving, the Mail editor David English resigned his chair, recommended that Dacre should replace him, and moved “upstairs” as editor-in-chief, another title that Dacre eventually inherited after English died in 1998.
Dacre’s editorship has been more successful than his mentor’s but most staff do not love him as they did English. English, though capable of great coldness to those who fell into disfavour and no less likely to fly off the handle, had charm and charisma. “He would be delighted when you rang,” a former foreign correspondent says, “and he’d want to gossip and know about everything that was going on. Sometimes we’d talk for an hour. But Paul doesn’t give good phone.”
He will invite writers into his office, push a glass of champagne into their hands and start saying their latest story is rubbish even as he does so. “And you hardly got time to finish the bloody drink,” a former reporter complains. A former executive says: “His track record for creating columnists is nil. He buys them up from elsewhere. He doesn’t home-grow talent because he doesn’t nurture and praise it. That’s where he’s unlike English.”
Dacre is a passionate and emotional man. Though the story that he sometimes sheds tears as he dictates leaders is probably apocryphal, nobody who has worked with him doubts that he is sincere in the views he and the Mail express. “He’s not an editor who wakes up in the morning and wonders what he should be thinking today,” says Simon Heffer, a Mail columnist. Another columnist, Amanda Platell, a former editor of the Sunday Mirror and press secretary to William Hague during his leadership of the Conservative Party, says: “When I was an editor, I had to second-guess my readership because they weren’t my natural constituency. Paul never has to do that.”
But while his views are mostly right-wing, he is not a reliable ally for the Conservative Party, or for anyone else. This aspect of his way of working is little understood. More than most editors, it can be said of him that he is in nobody’s pocket, not even his proprietor’s. He inherited from English a paper that was slavishly pro-Tory (“David was always in and out of No 10,” said a long-serving Mail editor), firmly pro-Europe and read mainly by people in London and the south-east. Dacre changed the politics of the paper and the demographics of its audience. Today, it is resolutely – some would say hysterically – Euro­sceptic and a far higher proportion of its readership is from Scotland and the English north and midlands. The Mail has ceased to take its line from Tory headquarters or to act as a mouthpiece for Conservative leaders. Indeed, every Tory leader since Margaret That­cher has fallen short of Dacre’s exacting standards. That applies particularly to John Major and David Cameron. According to a former columnist, Dacre regards the latter as “brash, shallow, unthinking and self-advancing” and he takes an equally jaundiced view of Boris Johnson. Twice he backed Kenneth Clarke for the party leadership, despite Clarke’s enthusiasm for the EU.
Clarke is a model for the politicians Dacre generally favours even if he disagrees with most of what they say: earthy, authentic, unpretentious, consistent in their values. Jack Straw and David Blunkett – both, like Clarke, from humble backgrounds – are other examples. For a time, Dacre took a relatively kindly view of Tony Blair, having been impressed by the future prime minister’s “tough on crime” approach as shadow home secretary. But he was always suspicious of Blair’s socially liberal views on marriage, gays and drugs and he told Hagerty that once Labour attained power, he saw the new government as “manipulative, dictatorial and slightly corrupt”. He wished, he added, that Blair had “done as much for the family as he’s done for gay rights”.
Gordon Brown, however, was smiled upon as no other politician had ever been. The two men developed a strange friendship, involving meals together and walks in the park, which one Mail columnist described to me as “the attraction of the two weirdest boys in the playground”. Brown, Dacre told Hagerty, was “touched by the mantle of greatness . . . he is a genuinely good man . . . a compassionate man . . . an original thinker . . . of enormous willpower and courage”. At a Savoy Hotel event to celebrate Dacre’s first ten years as editor, Brown was almost equally effusive, describing the Mail editor as showing “great personal warmth and kindness . . . as well as great journalistic skill”. “We tried to tell Dacre,” says a former Mail political reporter, “that Brown was not a very good chancellor and the economy would implode eventually. But frankly, Dacre has poor political judgement. They were united by a mutual hatred of Blair. Both are social conservatives; they’re both suspicious of foreigners; they both have a kind of Presbyterian morality. Dacre would say that Brown believes in work. It’s typical of him that he seizes on a single word as the key to his understanding of someone else.”
It is inconceivable that the Mail would ever back a party other than the Conservatives in a general election, but Dacre’s support can be cool, as it was in 1997 and 2010. Although he described himself to Hagerty as “a Thatcher­ite politically” and though self-made entrepreneurs are among the few people who can expect favourable coverage in the Mail, Dacre is, to most neoliberals, a tepid and inconsistent supporter of free enterprise. Nor is he a neocon. The Mail opposed overseas military interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria. It has denounced Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition and torture. It may be hard on immigrants and benefit scroungers, but it is often equally hard on the rich and famous, pursuing overpaid bosses of public-service utilities to their luxurious homes, exposing “depravity” among the well-heeled and high-born, and rarely treating TV and film celebrities with the deference that is the staple fare of other tabloids.
Many Mail campaigns have centred on liberal or environmental causes: lead in petrol, plastic bags, secret justice, the extradition to the United States of the hacker Gary McKinnon, and so on. For a time, the Mail furiously campaigned to stop Labour deporting failed (black) asylum-seekers to Zimbabwe, even though, almost simultaneously, it was berating ministers for allowing too many illegal immigrants to stay. Other campaigns, such as those against internet porn and super-casinos (both of which influenced government action), though reflecting the Mail’s conservative social agenda, highlighted issues that concern many on the left.
Dacre’s most celebrated campaign, which even some of his enemies regard as his finest hour, was to bring the killers of Stephen Lawrence to justice. In 1997, over the five photographs of those he believed were responsible, he ran the headline “MURDERERS” and, beneath it, asserted: “The Mail accuses these men of killing. If we are wrong, let them sue us”.
It was hugely courageous, but did it exonerate the Mail from accusations of racism? Critics point out that the paper rarely features black people except as criminals, though this is not exceptional for the nationals. The “soft” features on women, fashion, style and health are illustrated almost entirely by white faces and bodies.

Dacre’s somewhat belated support for the Lawrence campaign was prompted by a personal connection: Neville Lawrence, Stephen’s father, had worked as a decorator on Dacre’s London house of the time, in Islington. The Mail’s campaign, critics argue, was based on substituting one frame of prejudice for another. Young Stephen eschewed gangs and drugs, did his homework and wanted to go to university. His parents were married, aspirational and home-owning. In everything except skin colour, the Law­rence family represented Middle England, while his white alleged killers were low-class yobs who threatened the safety of all res­pectable folk.
In that, as in much else, Dacre’s Mail recalls 1950s Britain, which rather patronisingly welcomed migrants from Asia and the Caribbean as long as they behaved as though they and their ancestors were English. “If you’re in twinset and pearls, your colour is irrelevant,” says a former Mail journalist. “And Dacre’s attitude to gays changed when he realised it’s possible to be an extremely boring gay person.”
The Mail’s attitudes to drugs are also redolent of the 1950s. Writing about the disgraced Co-operative Bank chairman Paul Flowers, Stephen Glover – the Mail columnist whose views, according to insiders, track Dacre’s most closely – criticised commentators who “concentrated on his financial unsuitability”, placing “relatively little emphasis” on his “moral turpitude”.
Most of all, the Mail seems determined to uphold the 1950s ideal of womanhood: the stay-at-home mother who dedicates herself to homemaking and prepares a cooked dinner for her husband on his return home every night. That, the paper’s defenders say, is something of a caricature of the Mail’s position. It objects not so much to working mothers as to middle-class feminists who insist that women can “have it all”. English aimed at turning the Mail into “the women’s paper”, and succeeded: it became the only national newspaper where women accounted for more than half the readership. That remains true, and yet Dacre sometimes seems determined to drive them away. The paper subjects women’s bodies, clothes and deportment to relentless and detailed scrutiny, and often finds them wanting, particularly in the thigh and bottom department. It gives prominent coverage to research that warns of the negative effects of working mothers on children’s lives.
The Mail’s poster girl is Liz Jones, the columnist and fashion editor celebrated for her self-hatred and misery. “She has so much,” says another Mail journalist, “lots of money, expensive houses, the newest clothes. But she’s never had a child, she hasn’t kept hold of a man, and she’s unhappy. The message is: it’s what happens to you, girls, if you pursue worldly success. You can succeed but, oh boy, you will suffer for it.”
The Mail’s punishing hours, requiring news and features executives to stay at the office until late into the evening (not uncommon in national newspapers), and its largely unsympathetic attitude to part-time employment make it an unfriendly environment for working mothers. When Dacre took over at the Mail, he immediately appointed a female deputy, which, said another woman who then had a senior role in the group, “was quite a statement”. But the paper now has few women in its most senior positions, other than the editor of Femail (though sometimes even that post is occupied by a man), and few staff have young children.
Yet in some respects, the Mail, even though it does not recognise the National Union of Journalists, is a good employer. Unlike the Mirror, it is not under a company ruled by accountants who single-mindedly seek “efficiencies”. Unlike the Times and the Sun, it does not have a proprietor who touts his papers’ support to the highest bidder. Unlike the Guardian and Independent, it is not beset by financial problems. The pro­prietor, Viscount (Jonathan) Rothermere, whose great-grandfather Harold Harms­worth founded the paper with his brother Alfred in 1896, allows his editors wide freedom, as did his father, Vere Rothermere, who appointed Dacre. The Mail, alone among national newspapers, has had no significant rounds of editorial redundancies in recent years and its staffing levels (it employs about 400 journalists) are comparable to what they were a decade ago.
Dacre’s paper is his sole domain; MailOnline is run separately (though Dacre, as editor-in-chief, has oversight) and although the website carries all daily and Sunday paper stories, much of its content is self-generated and the editorial flavour is distinct. Dacre demands, and mostly gets, a generous budget, paying high salaries for established editorial staff and columnists and high fees for freelance contributors. Journalists are driven hard but, at senior levels in particular, they rarely leave, not least because Dacre is as loyal to them as they mostly are to him. Outright sackings are rare and nearly always accompanied by large payoffs.
Those who do leave often reach the top elsewhere. The current editors of both Telegraph papers – Tony Gallagher at the daily and Ian MacGregor at the Sunday – are former Mail executives.
Despite more than two decades at the helm, Dacre shows few signs of slowing down. After heart trouble some years ago – which caused an absence of several months from the office – his holidays, which he usually takes in the British Virgin Islands, have become slightly longer and more frequent. But he still routinely puts in 14-hour days.
Nevertheless, speculation about his future has grown among journalists on the Mail and other papers. At the end of November, Dacre sold his last remaining shares in the Daily Mail and General Trust, the Mail’s parent company, for £347,564; he disposed of the majority in 2012. His latest contract, signed on his 65th birthday, is for one year only. Geordie Greig, the 53-year-old editor of the Mail on Sunday, is widely regarded as the most likely successor, though Martin Clarke, the abrasive publisher of the phenomenally successful MailOnline, now the most visited newspaper website in the world, is also tipped and Jon Steafel, Dacre’s deputy, is favoured by most staff. The surprising announcement in November that Richard Kay, the paper’s diarist and a long-standing friend of Dacre’s, is to leave his position looks like another straw in the wind, particularly given that his almost certain replacement is Sebastian Shakespeare, previously the diary editor at the London Evening Standard, where Greig was editor before he moved to the Mail on Sunday.
Fleet Street rumour has it that Kay is being moved because he upset friends of Lady Rothermere, the proprietor’s wife, and that she is also behind the abrupt departure of the columnist Melanie Phillips, apparently on the grounds that her style – particularly during a June appearance on BBC1’s Question Time – is too shrill. Lady Rothermere, it is said, is desperately keen to oust Dacre in favour of Greig. Senior Mail sources pooh-pooh such tales, but they stop short of outright denials that Dacre is nearing the end of his days on the paper.

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Wednesday, Apr 6th

• ♪ Brown Bag It: Barron Ryan (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Start Time: 12:10pm Apr. 6 at 12:10 p.m. :: Kathleen Westby Pavilion Piano... FREE
• 🍴 Food Truck Wednesday (Guthrie Green) Start Time: 11:30am
• 🎭 Gen. Keith Alexander (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Start Time: 10:00am Apr. 6 at 10 a.m. :: Chapman Music Hall Alexander is a retired four-star general of the United States Army who served as Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command. His talk is titled �A Road Map to Fr... AVAILABLE BY SUBSCRIPTION
• 😂 John Wesley Austin (Loony Bin) Thru Sat, Apr 9th
• 🎨 Keystone Blue Heron (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Thru Fri, Apr 8th Start Time: 10:00am Apr. 1-30 10 am-5:30 pm, M-F, and during Chapman Music Hall events :: PAC Gallery April's exhibit in the PAC Gallery features the work of Sand Springs, Oklahoma artist Joey Frisillo. Joey grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and pursued her early love of drawing as a Fine Arts major at Miami University of Ohio. Her journey into the w... FREE
• ♪ Mumford & Sons (BOK Center) A delivery delay will be in place while orders are checked for purchases over the ticket limit. Delviery delayed until March 23, 2016.
• 🎭 Open Auditions for Cast (Tulsa Spotlight Theatre) Start Time: 6:30pm Open Auditions first Wednesday of every month. 6:30pm
• Tulsa Workshop (Expo Square: Exchange Center) Thru Sat, Apr 9th

Thursday, Apr 7th

• 🎨 Green Art, Red Wine (Your Design - Broken Arrow) Head to Broken Arrow for a spring Green Art, Red Wine art show hosted by the Broken Arrow Arts Council. Stop by and…
• ♪ Hillbilly Casino (Mercury Lounge) Start Time: 10:00pm Thu Apr 07 10:00 PM
  

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• ♪ Justin Bieber (BOK Center) is bringing his PURPOSE WORLD TOUR to #Tulsa to #rocktheBOK on April 7! Tickets will go on sale Friday, November 20 at 10am.
  
• Kenny Rogers (Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa - Catoosa)
  
• 🎨 Keystone Blue Heron (Tulsa Performing Art Center) 1 day left Start Time: 10:00am Apr. 1-30 10 am-5:30 pm, M-F, and during Chapman Music Hall events :: PAC Gallery April's exhibit in the PAC Gallery features the work of Sand Springs, Oklahoma artist Joey Frisillo. Joey grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and pursued her early love of drawing as a Fine Arts major at Miami University of Ohio. Her journey into the w... FREE
  
• 🎓 Oil & Gas in the 21st Century Conference (The Gilcrease Museum) Day 1 of 2 Start Time: 7:00pm A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the question of whether production and consumption of oil and gas will peak during the 21st century because of diminishing oil and gas resources or competition from energy efficiency and other energy sources. The conference is free and open to the public. All events are hosted at Gilcrease Museum…
  
• ♪ Parker Millsap (The Vanguard)
  
• 🎭 Steel Magnolias (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Thru Sun, Apr 10th Apr. 1-2, 7-9 at 7:30 p.m.; Apr. 3 and 10 at 2 p.m. :: Liddy Doenges Theatre Step into 1987 Louisiana and enjoy an evening that will tickle your funny bone and pull your heartstrings. Set in Truvy's Beauty Salon, where the love-tinged quips and barbs never stop coming, the play is a window into the lives of six women who let ... NOT CURRENTLY ON…
  
• Tulsa Workshop (Expo Square: Exchange Center) Thru Sat, Apr 9th
  

Friday, Apr 8th

• An Evening of all original music with John Ratliff (Gypsy Coffee House & Cyber Cafe) Start Time: 9:00pm
• Blank Canvas (Cox Business Center) Start Time: 6:30pm Apr 8 | 6:30pm - 11pm Blank Canvas
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• 🎡 Chillin & Grillin BBQ Festival (River City Park - Sand Springs) Day 1 of 2 The Chillin' & Grillin' BBQ Festival is a prime opportunity to sample some delicious barbecue. This fun Sand Springs event is much more than a cook off. It features live music and even a Kids Zone with plenty of fun children's activities. Of course, the star of the show is the barbecue, and guests will have the chance to savor plenty made by…
  
• $ Green Country Hamfest (Claremore Expo Center - Claremore) Day 1 of 2 The Green Country Hamfest in Claremore will showcase the latest technology in radio operations. The largest ham radio festival in Oklahoma, this trade show offers visitors on-site FCC amateur radio license exams, as well as a chance to win terrific prizes. At the Green Country Hamfest, browse through commercial booths filled with the latest…
  
• Greyhounds (The Colony)
  
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• 🎨 Keystone Blue Heron (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Last Day Start Time: 10:00am Apr. 1-30 10 am-5:30 pm, M-F, and during Chapman Music Hall events :: PAC Gallery April's exhibit in the PAC Gallery features the work of Sand Springs, Oklahoma artist Joey Frisillo. Joey grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and pursued her early love of drawing as a Fine Arts major at Miami University of Ohio. Her journey into the w... FREE
  
• Leland Dialtion Lubrication (Soundpony Lounge) Start Time: 9:30pm
  
• ♪ Milestone Shabbat Dinner (The Synagogue) Start Time: 6:00pm
  
• 🎓 Oil & Gas in the 21st Century Conference (The Gilcrease Museum) Day 2 of 2 Start Time: 7:00pm A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the question of whether production and consumption of oil and gas will peak during the 21st century because of diminishing oil and gas resources or competition from energy efficiency and other energy sources. The conference is free and open to the public. All events are hosted at Gilcrease Museum…
  
• 🎭 Peter Rabbit Tales (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Start Time: 7:00pm Apr. 8 at 7 p.m. :: John H. Williams Theatre Enchantment Theatre brings Beatrix Potter's captivating stories to the stage using fantastic masks, whimsical puppets, gorgeous scenery and original music. Benjamin Bunny, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other creatures in Mr. McGregor's gard... GET TICKETS
  
• ♪ Sandi Patty (ORU Aerobics Center) Join Christian Contemporary Music legend Sandi Patty as she takes the stage to celebrate a life of inspiration and…
  
• 🎡 Second Fridays: Lindy in the Park (Guthrie Green) Start Time: 6:30pm
  
• ♪ Slum Village, Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat, Black Milk (The Vanguard) Start Time: 10:00pm Verse & The Vapors, MR. BURNS aka Earl Hazard
  
• SpringFest 2016 (Tulsa Garden Center) Day 1 of 2 Start Time: 9:00am Mark your calendar now! Our annual SpringFest Garden Market & Festival will be held on Friday, April 8th, and Saturday, April 9th, from 9:00am to 6:00pm. It will be everything you've come to expect and more! Find fantastic plants and garden accessories, unique treasures for yourself and your home, an intriguing kids zone with educational and…
  
• SpringFest Garden Market & Festival (Tulsa Garden Center) Day 1 of 2 in Tulsa is a celebration of gardening. This event, held annually at the Tulsa Garden Center, will have experts on hand to help you create a great garden that will be the envy of your neighbors and friends. A wide selection of plants and flowers will be available for purchase at SpringFest Garden Market & Festival, as well as gardening tools and…
  
• 🎭 Steel Magnolias (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Thru Sun, Apr 10th Apr. 1-2, 7-9 at 7:30 p.m.; Apr. 3 and 10 at 2 p.m. :: Liddy Doenges Theatre Step into 1987 Louisiana and enjoy an evening that will tickle your funny bone and pull your heartstrings. Set in Truvy's Beauty Salon, where the love-tinged quips and barbs never stop coming, the play is a window into the lives of six women who let ... NOT CURRENTLY ON…
  
• ♪ Stephen Fulton (Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame) Start Time: 7:30pm
  
• Swan Lake Gentleman's Society (The Shrine) Start Time: 9:00pm
  
• Tulsa Workshop (Expo Square: Exchange Center) 1 day left
  
• ⚾ Xtreme Fight Night 28 (River Spirit Casino) Head to River Spirit Casino in Tulsa for a night brimming with world championship kickboxing and world class MMA…
  

Saturday, Apr 9th

• An evening of Smooth Acoustic Music w/ Terry Aziere Live (Gypsy Coffee House & Cyber Cafe) Start Time: 9:00pm
• 🎨 Tulsa Art Studio Tour (Various Tulsa Studios) Day 1 of 2 The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC) invites the public to witness the creative process of local artists during the upcoming Tulsa Art Studio Tour. Sixteen artists in ten studios open their studios, allowing visitors exclusive behind-the-scenes access to artists from noon until 5pm. For the art curious, the Tulsa Art Studio Tour is a unique…
• ♪ Ben Kilgore (The Vanguard) Start Time: 8:00pm LOCAL TBA, LOCAL TBA
• Bixby Garden Club Plant Sale (Hyatt Regency Hotel) Start Time: 9:00am This annual fundraiser helps beautify the Bixby area with flowers and plants. Peggy Ward (918) 299-3535
• 🎓 Bixby Plastic Model Show (Hyatt Regency Hotel) Start Time: 9:00am Sponsored by the Tulsa Modelers Forum. This is a display of scale models of all subject types. To enter your model, please contact Greg. No admission fee. Greg Kittinger (918) 260-8349
• 🎡 Chillin & Grillin BBQ Festival (River City Park - Sand Springs) Day 2 of 2 The Chillin' & Grillin' BBQ Festival is a prime opportunity to sample some delicious barbecue. This fun Sand Springs event is much more than a cook off. It features live music and even a Kids Zone with plenty of fun children's activities. Of course, the star of the show is the barbecue, and guests will have the chance to savor plenty made by…
• 🏃 Color Run (Veterans Park) The Color Run™ 5K will take place once again in Tulsa, Oklahoma! The only question is “Are you ready for the craziest, colorful, 5k of your life?” You bet you are. Race it solo or form a “color team” of 4+ members. Check out the race details below & we’ll see you all squeaky clean at the start line.
• ♪ DVIS Monarch Ball (Cox Business Center) Start Time: 6:00pm Apr 9 | 6pm - 11pm DVIS Monarch Ball
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• Tulsa Flea Market (Expo Square)
  
• $ Green Country Hamfest (Claremore Expo Center - Claremore) Day 2 of 2 The Green Country Hamfest in Claremore will showcase the latest technology in radio operations. The largest ham radio festival in Oklahoma, this trade show offers visitors on-site FCC amateur radio license exams, as well as a chance to win terrific prizes. At the Green Country Hamfest, browse through commercial booths filled with the latest…
  
• 🎡 Herb Day in Brookside Travel to the popular Brookside district in Tulsa for the annual Herb Day in Brookside celebration. Come to view or…
  
• 🍴 Herb Day in Brookside (41st & S Peoria) Start Time: 9:00am Travel to the popular Brookside district in Tulsa for the annual Herb Day in Brookside celebration. Come to view or purchase herbs, heirloom flowers, pottery, Oklahoma wines, birdhouses and more from Oklahoma growers. Spring has arrived and it's time to start planting in gardens and tidying up the flower beds, so head to Herb Day in Brookside,…
  
• ♪ Jeff Austin Band (The Shrine) Start Time: 9:00pm
  
• 😂 John Wesley Austin (Loony Bin) Last Day
  
• Oilhouse (Soundpony Lounge) Start Time: 9:30pm
  
• ♪ Paul Benjamin Band (Mercury Lounge) Start Time: 10:00pm Sat Apr 09 10:00 PM
  

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• ♪ Rogers & Hammerstein's At the Movies (Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center - Broken Arrow) As part of the Tulsa Symphony's Pops concert series, the works of two of the best American composers in history are…
  
• 🎨 Rogers & Hammerstein's At the Movies (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Start Time: 7:30pm As part of the Tulsa Symphony's Pops concert series, the works of two of the best American composers in history are performed by the symphony. Rogers and Hammerstein's At the Movies happens for one night only, so get your tickets before they're gone. All Tulsa Symphony performances are located in the Tulsa Performing Arts Center's beautiful…
  
• ⚾ Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Real Monarchs SLC (ONEOK Field) Start Time: 8:00pm
  
• ⚾ Route 66 Gurney Tourney (Mabee Center) Sign your team up now to compete in an intense gurney race. Reserve your pre-made racing gurney to decorate on game day,…
  
• 🏃 Run to the Well Kibo 5k and fun run (Riverwalk - Jenks) Run a 5K or 1 Mile Fun Run to help people in Uganda have access to clean water! The race is Saturday, April 9 at the Jenks Riverwalk in Jenks Oklahoma.
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• SpringFest 2016 (Tulsa Garden Center) Day 2 of 2 Start Time: 9:00am Mark your calendar now! Our annual SpringFest Garden Market & Festival will be held on Friday, April 8th, and Saturday, April 9th, from 9:00am to 6:00pm. It will be everything you've come to expect and more! Find fantastic plants and garden accessories, unique treasures for yourself and your home, an intriguing kids zone with educational and…
  
• SpringFest Garden Market & Festival (Tulsa Garden Center) Day 2 of 2 in Tulsa is a celebration of gardening. This event, held annually at the Tulsa Garden Center, will have experts on hand to help you create a great garden that will be the envy of your neighbors and friends. A wide selection of plants and flowers will be available for purchase at SpringFest Garden Market & Festival, as well as gardening tools and…
  
• 🎭 Steel Magnolias (Tulsa Performing Art Center) 1 day left Apr. 1-2, 7-9 at 7:30 p.m.; Apr. 3 and 10 at 2 p.m. :: Liddy Doenges Theatre Step into 1987 Louisiana and enjoy an evening that will tickle your funny bone and pull your heartstrings. Set in Truvy's Beauty Salon, where the love-tinged quips and barbs never stop coming, the play is a window into the lives of six women who let ... NOT CURRENTLY ON…
  
• ♪ Tulsa Symphony (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Start Time: 7:30pm
  
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• 🎓 Usborne Books and More National Convention (Cox Business Center) Start Time: 9:00am Jun 9 – 11 | 9am - 10pm Usborne Books and More National Convention
  
• ⚾ Wichita Thunder at Tulsa Oilers (BOK Center) Start Time: 7:05pm Tulsa Oilers vs. Wichita Thunder
  
• ⚾ Will Rogers Memorial Race (Will Rogers Memorial Museum - Claremore) Come to the Will Rogers Memorial Race for a 5K run or 1K fun run. This race is USATF certified and sanctioned. Awards…
  
• Tulsa Workshop (Expo Square: Exchange Center) Last Day
  

Sunday, Apr 10th

• 🎨 Tulsa Art Studio Tour (Various Tulsa Studios) Day 2 of 2 The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC) invites the public to witness the creative process of local artists during the upcoming Tulsa Art Studio Tour. Sixteen artists in ten studios open their studios, allowing visitors exclusive behind-the-scenes access to artists from noon until 5pm. For the art curious, the Tulsa Art Studio Tour is a unique…
• 😂 Clean All ages show (Loony Bin)
• 😂 Comedy's Best Kept Secret (The Shrine) Start Time: 7:00pm Come see what happens when three Nationally touring Comedians embark on a road trip from Los Angeles to New York City and perform on 25 shows in 28 days all to raise money for the Humane Society. Dan Frigolette @danfrigolette (Boardwalk Empire, Totally Biased, Artie Lange Show) Andrew Frank (Trial By Laughter, Make Me Laugh St. Louis) Sonya Vai…
• Foxtails brigade (Soundpony Lounge) http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/01/01-we-are-not-ourselveswav.html
• Happy Hour Show!! La Panther Happens (Soundpony Lounge) Start Time: 5:30pm
• 🏃 Run Tulsa Pink 5K (Mabee Center) Sunday, April 10, RunnersWorld Tulsa will be hosting the “Run Tulsa Pink 5K and Fun Run!” Please help us with this event by registering today to be a part of Turning Tulsa Pink!
  Join us on Sunday April 10 for the "Pinkest" race on the Planet!!!
  Run Tulsa Pink 5K is an event to support local charities that assist those affected by…
  
• 🎭 Steel Magnolias (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Last Day Apr. 1-2, 7-9 at 7:30 p.m.; Apr. 3 and 10 at 2 p.m. :: Liddy Doenges Theatre Step into 1987 Louisiana and enjoy an evening that will tickle your funny bone and pull your heartstrings. Set in Truvy's Beauty Salon, where the love-tinged quips and barbs never stop coming, the play is a window into the lives of six women who let ... NOT CURRENTLY ON…
  
• TULSA'S MOST JUMPIN' KARAOKE! w. the charming RON HAMMOND (Mainline) Start Time: 8:00pm
  

Monday, Apr 11th

• ♪ Bryan Adams (The Joint - Catoosa) Musician and activist Bryan Adams performs at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Tulsa for one night only. Come hear classic songs such as "I Do It for You," "Summer of '69," "Heaven" and "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" as well as some of his newest material. This show is sure to be a dose of nostalgia and a great evening of music.
• Bryan Adams (Hyatt Regency Hotel)
• 😂 Carlos Mencia (Loony Bin)
• 🎨 Keystone Blue Heron (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Thru Wed, Apr 13th Start Time: 10:00am Apr. 1-30 10 am-5:30 pm, M-F, and during Chapman Music Hall events :: PAC Gallery April's exhibit in the PAC Gallery features the work of Sand Springs, Oklahoma artist Joey Frisillo. Joey grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and pursued her early love of drawing as a Fine Arts major at Miami University of Ohio. Her journey into the w... FREE
• ♪ Possessed by Paul James (The Vanguard) Start Time: 8:00pm

Tuesday, Apr 12th

• ♪ HALESTORM (Brady Theater) Tue - Apr 12 Brady Theater 105 W. Brady St. Tulsa, OK with Special Guests: Lita Ford Dorothy Tickets On Sale FRI 2/5 at 10am Reasor's and Starship Records in Tulsa Buy For Less Locations in OKC Charge by phone @ 866.977.6849 online @ ProTix.com GA Advance: $29 Doors open at 6:30pm All Ages Welcome
• 🎭 Jessica Lang Dance (Tulsa Performing Art Center) Start Time: 7:00pm Apr. 12 at 8 p.m. :: Chapman Music Hall Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is among the most original forces in contemporary dance. The company draws from a repertoire that highlights the world's most innovative choreographers, including Nacho Duato, Jiř� Kyli�n and Alejandro Cerrudo. The ... GET TICKETS
• 🎨 Keystone Blue Heron (Tulsa Performing Art Center) 1 day left Start Time: 10:00am Apr. 1-30 10 am-5:30 pm, M-F, and during Chapman Music Hall events :: PAC Gallery April's exhibit in the PAC Gallery features the work of Sand Springs, Oklahoma artist Joey Frisillo. Joey grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and pursued her early love of drawing as a Fine Arts major at Miami University of Ohio. Her journey into the w... FREE
• 🍴 Kurt Vile (Cain's Ballroom) Advance $20 | Day of Show $22 | Door $22 | Mezzanine (21+) $35 There is a $2 fee that applies to each ticket purchased at the Cain's Box Office. No re-entry! No smoking! No refunds! Oklahoma Joe's will be serving their delicious BBQ from 7pm - 9pm.
• Tulsa's Longest Running All Original Works Open Mic !!!! (Gypsy Coffee House & Cyber Cafe) Start Time: 7:00pm
• ❓ trivia with jack (Soundpony Lounge) Start Time: 8:30pm

See Also

• Tulsa Meetup Groups
• Tulsa Library Events