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FEB. 5 - FEB. 18, 2014 // VOL. 1 NO. 4 PUBLISHER Jim Langdon ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Matt Cauthron

Whew. That was close. Blown back by the onslaught of technology and digitization, the mixtape teetered on the edge of the abyss, the place where all analog art goes to be forgotten.

With this issue, we perform a heroic rescue. Within these pages we treat the mixtape to an uproarious revival— even the issue itself is a compilation wrought from the noise, a handmade memento forever of its time.

EDITOR Natasha Ball ASSISTANT EDITOR John Langdon NEWS EDITOR Jennie Lloyd

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CONTRIBUTORS Greg Bollinger Mark Brown Angela Evans Barry Friedman Mitch Gilliam Britt Greenwood Hannibal B. Johnson Joshua Kline Jeff Martin Adam Murphy Joe O’Shansky Ray Pearcey Michelle Pollard Brandon Scott ART DIRECTOR Madeline Crawford

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The Sweet Hereafter Okie Grown Goes Upscale voices’choices dining listings take a dive: Touchdown Club 28 boozeclues

Love Wins: A Tulsa couple claims victory

10 news from the plains 12 The case for (and against) Black History Month 14 bottomline

ARTS & CULTURE 36 Brady Arts District guide

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“Fly-world” next

Will T-Town belly up to aviation’s coming transformation?

by RAY PEARCEY

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his piece is part two of Pearcey’s essay on the future of aviation in Tulsa.

In December, in the debut issue of The Tulsa Voice, I wrote about the path ahead for Tulsa’s job-rich but problematic aviation sector. Its workforce is skilled, but vulnerable.

Readers will recall that the U.S. Justice Department briefly forestalled a critical merger that, had it been stopped altogether, would've left thousands of local American Airlines workers and hundreds of contractors in the lurch.

Even with the apparent stability spawned by the now-approved American Airlines/US Airways join-up, middle-run turbulence and some employment spindowns are expected to be part of the local and national commercial airline landscape.

But Tulsa business mavens, our political leadership, our engineering and aviation technology community, and our academics are hardly helpless in the face of these impending changes. The question is one of will, intentionality, and energy. Can—will—our leadership and Tulsa’s aviation union respond in imaginative ways to build a future for its aviation sector? Innovation is needed on the following fronts: No pilot. Pilotless airliners – yeah, I know, it sounds crazy. But then, largely automated prostate or heart surgery sounded crazy, too, but it’s

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already in play. Evidence suggests that when supervised by exceptional physician teams, the results exceed typical outcomes. And don’t forget that commercial flights are already hugely automated.

Drone city. Envision an almost fully automated package delivery system, managed by giant servers and “driven” to final destinations by flying drones and automated ground trucks. The Federal Aviation Administration intends to inaugurate sweeping new rules that will allow for extensive commercial use of drones and other remotely controlled flying bots next year. Drone technology has seen a feverish, accelerated rollout as a consequence of its ubiquitous use by our military.

Jeff Bezos showed up on “60 Minutes” recently, barely able to contain himself as he talked about his plans to use fleets of small drones to reinvent delivery and logistics, mostly to benefit his own company, Amazon. In the days that followed, a passel of tech thinkers decided that Bezos might be off the mark. Some can’t see the broad, domestic adoption of these aerobots happening anytime within the next five years.

But tech mavens imagine that the developing world—isolated places without passable roads, adequate communications systems, or seaports—might offer the best early test sites for advanced drone

delivery. Seeds for planting, cell phones, light pharmaceuticals, and other medical gear could finally be transported to tiny villages and map dots.

The Obama administration recently decided not to designate Oklahoma as one of six new test sites for a highly visible national drone seedbed/demonstration project. But we already have a federally certified corridor, managed

by Oklahoma State University and a semiprivate consortium, that can be used for purposes ranging from defense and next-stage commercial to prototype drone test and early fly-off. So there is still a real chance that OSU/Oklahoma and a tiny cadre of automated flyer/ drone ventures can help the state capture some of the early riches that will follow the 2015 release of commercial drones, announced some time ago by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Flying cars. A line of inexpensive personal air vehicles—think Jetson cars—used for short/ medium length trips and powered by an advanced automated pilot could be as familiar to most Americans as early as 15 years from now.

Sparking the path. All these projects need local start-ups to produce key pieces and support pan-disciplinary development and prototyping efforts. This world will require logistics expertise and

armies of trained engineering and material specialists—things Tulsa already has, in some measure, as a consequence of our long involvement in the aerospace sector. And we have the Helmerich Research Center at the OSU campus in downtown Tulsa, still not utilized fully. It’s an asset—a $43-million, taxpayer-supported shop—that could help with the headwork.

One day, America will return to space, likely by way of private projects. Tulsa’s entrepreneurs need to find the track. We could join up with one or more of the private commercial space ventures, or spark a new one. Imagine, as Haden Planetarium chief and science celebrity Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson does, a Tulsa that takes full advantage of its deep aerospace legacy, its stout entrepreneurial heritage, and its broad, early participation in the American shuttle program. In late 2010, on a visit to Tulsa, Tyson suggested that it’s not only good sense that Green Country should try to find its way into the private-space industry, but likely to happen.

Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.

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Riding home the sea A love story

by JENNIE LLOYD

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hen they arrived in Alligator Point, Fla., it was raining. They scratched their seaside ceremony, and instead, Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin exchanged handwritten vows and gold wedding rings in their rented beach house.

Fourteen years ago, the samesex couple who made national news last month began planning a Florida vacation. “Somehow or another, it became a wedding,” Sharon said.

“It was a wedding – it just wasn’t sanctioned by any government entity,” Mary said.

The couple planned the whole thing from 1,500 miles away.

They were a little worried about how the wedding vendors would react. “You would think that two lesbians saying, ‘Hey, we need matching wedding bouquets,’ there might be some flak,” Sharon said. But “when we got there, [the florist] was opening the stargazer lilies just perfectly.”

The pair, along with another same-sex couple, Sue Barton and Gay Phillips, won their case, Bishop v. Oklahoma, which overturned Oklahoma’s ban on gay-marriage.

The couples filed their lawsuit on Nov. 3, 2004, the day after 75 percent of Oklahoma voters approved the ban. Nearly a decade later, the case changed the civil rights landscape in our state, and the nation. By the time U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Kern issued his ruling, their case had

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become the longest pending marriage equality case in the country.

Mary and Sharon met at the copy desk at the Tulsa World.

Sharon hadn’t dated much before.

“I was fairly new to being gay,” she said of coming out in the early ’90s. Sparks didn’t immediately fly between them. They don’t remem-

ber officially coming out to one another. “We just got to know each other,” Sharon said.

Nearly 20 years later, Sharon and Mary still leave for their Tulsa World editing positions from the same house, in the same navy blue Acura, just one cell phone between them. “We shower separate-

ly though,” Sharon said.

“Maybe if we had a bigger shower,” Mary laughed. “She’s the other half of me.”

“The thing we most disagree about is the thermostat,” Sharon said.

When the pair met nearly 20 years ago, Mary wasn’t sure their newfound happiness would last.

“Young love is always exciting,” Mary said. “You’re way up high all the time and I was afraid.” But Sharon had a “deepdown feeling,” and she made Mary a promise. “I’ll still bring you coffee in bed,” she said.

“We’re not going to stop being us. And we haven’t stopped being us.”

Since they won their case last month, the couple looks forward to the day the vows they took on March 26, 2000, will be recognized by the state and the nation.

On that rainy day, Mary read to Sharon, “Wear this ring as a symbol of my love and commitment to you, as powerful and as endless as the sea.”

Sharon read to Mary, “Wear this ring as a symbol of my love and commitment to you, as immeasurable as the grains of sand on the shore.”

Now the couple awaits the appeals process on their case. On April 17, oral arguments will be heard by the U.S. Tenth District Court of Appeals in Denver. In the meantime, the couple plans another ceremony, closer to home this time.

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Now with our second location in Tulsa on the west side of downtown (the other at 71st and Yale), it’s the perfect spot for enjoying our fine selection of over 30 wines, craft beers, lunch, dinner and appetizers.

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Oklahoma State Capitol

Hoc est parodia

The 2014 Oklahoma legislative session: Truth is stranger than fiction

by BARRY FRIEDMAN

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he 55th session of the Oklahoma Legislature, recently convened, will consider approximately 2,173 bills before its May 24 adjournment, including amendments to the state constitution, joint resolutions, and legislation left over from the 2013 session.

Among (or at least close to) them: STATE QUESTIONS These measures amend the State Constitution:

1. SQ 1776 (Secession) Whereas … the United States has been a chief decider of international discord, Whereas … the Federal government introduced secular humanism and environment controls and free abortion drugs, 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

Whereas … The United States is litigious and filled with debauchery and foreigners without proper identification, Whereas … there resides in the land a general sense of being adrift in a sea of uncertain malaise and irritation, Whereas … Participation in the United States of America is not mandatory, It is hereby resolved that Oklahoma secedes from the union by the same procedures by which it originally joined, retaining all federal installations, highways, and structures in its possession.

2. SQ 72 (Koran/Hijab Ban) (A) To forbid the proselytizing of the Koran (sometimes spelled with a Q and a U) within 500 feet of a school, airport, sporting event, an American/Oklahoma flag, or

legitimate place of worship.

(B) To forbid the wearing of hijabs, yarmulkes, miters, and Trailer War Bonnets inside state office buildings.

3. SQ 712 (Oklahoma Defense of Marriage Act, II) (a) Specifically defines marriage as the union between 1 (one) man and 1 (one) woman … bearing 1 (one) male reproductive organ (i.e. penis) and 1 (one) reproductive female organ (i.e. vagina), respectively. Further, these organs must have been part of said anatomy at birth and not surgically implanted/ affixed/created during sexual re-identification surgeries (i.e. transsexuals, a.k.a. trannies), (b) Specifically forbids the legal joining in matrimony of persons with animals or fowl,

persons with inanimate objects, or persons with the deceased, and (c) A marriage ceremony performed in another state between persons with animals or fowl, persons with inanimate objects, or persons with the deceased shall not be recognized as valid and binding in Oklahoma.

4. SQ 1111 (Unemployed Voting Prohibition) A ‘Human Being’ in Oklahoma as referred to in Article 2, section 2 of this constitution shall now be defined as any gainfully employed (by private or public institution) man or woman.

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be forbidden from casting ballots in city, county, and statewide elections.

5. SQ 666 (Non-Christian Monument Ban) Directing appropriate state agencies to reject applications from non-Christian entities wishing to erect structures, edifices or religious symbols (including A/V presentations, skits) on state lands that do not confirm the inerrancy of the dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over Oklahoma.

LEGISLATIVE AGENDA SB 6969 Crimes against Nature.

An addition to the AntiSodomy (Crimes Against Nature) Law O.S. 21-886, which presently states, "any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime against nature," to now include the language, “any sexual rubbing or petting or arousing, including, digital, oral, verbal, virtual (by text of tweet), not specifically employed as a precursor to procreation.”

HB 19 Health Vouchers.

A system of healthcare vouchers will replace the direct state reimbursements to hospitals, doctors, and providers. This change will be instituted via a rechargeable state health card distributed directly to recipients.

The total of these payments (before service and usage fees) will not exceed more than 2.8% of federal and state aid (or, a maximum of $392) received by each recipient.

SB 412 Marijuana Recriminalizing.

Declares that the use of marijuana, specifically the dank kush, is a scourge upon our state and should be reclassified to a seconddegree felony, punishable by 8-12 years in jail for those caught with more than 1.5 ounces. Garden THE TULSA VOICE // Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014

variety ganja will be punishable by 4-6 years behind bars.

or Godlessness, at the same level as public institutions.

HB 286 Anita Bryant Museum.

Appropriates $1.6 million for a feasibility study on the construction of an Anita Bryant museum, hotel, 300-foot bronze statue of the former star, and theme park in her hometown of Barnsdall.

HB 22/44/357 Gun Proximity.

Allows Oklahoma publicschool teachers, all grades, to conceal and/or carry firearms either on their person or within reach, be that, “ … closet, desk, shelf, cubby hole, tote, or held by assigned student(s) (who will receive no less than 90 minutes of training in the handling of firearms).” Parents who so desire may enroll their children in ‘non-armed’ classrooms. Such classrooms will be clearly labeled as such.

HB 100 Tax Independence.

Eliminates all corporate, capital gains, property, sales, franchise, and other related taxes from companies with more than two (2) employees who do business in Oklahoma at least 45 days during a fiscal year.

SB 3 Term Limits.

Oklahoma officials elected statewide will be limited to three terms and those elected nationally to two terms, unless the incumbent has a 60-percent job approval rating and/or can demonstrate an “insurmountable state predicament” if denied another term.

SB 1907 Oklahoma History.

A change to Chapter 1 Oklahoma School Code, Chapter 1, Article X Curriculum will prohibit: a) The teaching of white-onNative American hostility, b) The efficacy and benefits of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, Homestead Act, Pacific Railroad Act, Social Security Act, and GI Bill on Oklahoma, and c) The anti-governmentthemed works of John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie.

SB 1765 School Freedom Act. A change to the education code mandating state funding of private and parochial schools, with the exception of Islamic Madrassas and other institutions directly or indirectly related to terrorism and/

SB 10001 Life.

A bill stating life begins at fertilization.

HB 69 Life II. A bill stating life begins at ejaculation.

SCR 7 Hobby Lobby Day. A resolution designating April 14, 2014, Good Friday, as Hobby Lobby Day in Oklahoma.

HB 10002 Save the Wales.

Overturning the ban on whale hunting in the state (O.S. §29-2-135).

HB 10002a Promote the Wales. $150,000-thousand grant to promote Oklahoma as a whalehunting destination.

HB 21 US, Out. To withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations, NATO, UNESCO, the World Bank, International Court of Justice, and, considering its association with socialist European nations and third world despots, FIFA. SB 6 Tattoos and Piercings.

The prohibition of state employees from wearing tattoos on visible body parts, including the upper bosom and lower back (a.k.a., ‘Tramp Stamp’).

Further, no body part, other than the ears, shall be adorned with piercings, including the eyes, nose, or, if visible through clothing, the nipples, areola, or labia.

SB 1907 Redskins.

Officially rename “Native American Heritage Day,” now celebrated nationally on November 28, 2014, as “Redskin Day” in Oklahoma.

OTHER BILLS –A bill to adopt the American Staffordshire Terrier (American Pit Bull) as the state animal.

–A bill to rename the USS Batfish, a Balao-class submarine in dry dock in Muskogee, the USS Batfish/Coburn, upon the good Senator’s retirement and/or death.

–A bill to prohibit funding for state Earth Day celebrations.

–A bill which would add “THE” to the state’s “Native America” slogan and replacing the Indian figure on the Oklahoma license plate with a cowboy.

–A bill which would create a $25,000 state grant to study the feasibility of the construction of The Jim Inhofe Religion and Science Institute.

–A bill proclaiming July 4, 2014, as ‘Militia Day’ in Oklahoma.

–A bill denying the President of the United States entrance to Oklahoma (exp. January 19, 2017). *Any resemblance to real bills actually being debated before the Oklahoma legislature in its 55th session is purely coincidental.

“News from the Plains: All this RED can make you BLUE” appears each issue and covers Oklahoma politics and culture—the disastrous, the unseemly, the incomprehensible … you know, the day to day stuff. Barry Friedman is a touring stand-up comedian, author and general rabble-rouser.

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We love Black History Month Now let’s get rid of it

by HANNIBAL B. JOHNSON

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lack History Month, the brainchild of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the second African American to graduate from Harvard University with a Ph.D. (1912), has become fully ensconced in American culture.

Begun in 1926 as Negro History Week and expanded to Black History Month in 1976, Black History Month celebrates the contributions and legacy of Africans in America beyond the superficial, sanitized treatments of slavery and Jim Crow so common in mainstream discourse.

Dr. Woodson chose February for the initial commemorative period, Negro History Week, because it corresponded with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809) and Frederick Douglass (February 1818). Backers of the lengthened celebratory period likewise found February appropriate.

Black History Month is a time set aside to explore the central role of black people in the social, economic, and political framework of the nation; a period of remembrance and reflection.

Dr. Woodson realized the importance of creating substantive

content with which to infuse this new celebratory period. He created the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 (now, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History). That group crafted groundbreaking scholarly publications dedicated to filling the void in standard historical texts and literature.

Textbooks too often advance prettified fantasies masquerading as history, skimming over the difficult, painful episodes from which we have yet to recover.

I salute Dr. Woodson and others whose visionary, heroic leadership helped elevate the dialogue on black history. Still, if I had my druthers, there would be no Black History Month.

Surprised? As an author devoted primarily to narratives of the African American experience, one might suppose that I would relish a whole month devoted, at least

nominally, to the history in which I am so willingly immersed. Why, then, this seeming contradiction?

My chief concern lies in continuing to isolate African American history, setting it apart from American history. The “Black History” we celebrate is, after all, part and parcel of American history, relevant not just for those of African descent, but for all of us. One cannot fully grasp the American experience without reference to African Americans. To appreciate the Constitution, to understand the Civil War, and to make sense of present-day political realities, requires some knowledge of the history shaped through the interactions of African Americans with the dominant culture and with others. Tortuous and painful though it may be, it is, in the end, our history.

Black History Month survives in large part because of neglect and obstinacy. Standard curricula overlook and shortchange the pivotal contributions of African Americans and other “minorities” and, by design or default, dilute history for all learners. Textbooks too often advance prettified fantasies masquerading as history, skim-

ming over the difficult, painful episodes from which we have yet to recover. They marginalize the contributions of African Americans and other people of color.

Though this has begun to change, the change has been incremental and, some would assert, glacial.

When we begin to teach the peoples’ history—that is, the history of all the people—in an integrated and balanced way, we will no longer need Black History Month. That day has not yet arrived, but it is a day whose arrival I hope to hasten.

Hannibal B. Johnson, a Harvard Law School graduate, is an author, attorney, and consultant specializing in diversity issues, human relations, and non-profit leadership. He also teaches at Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma. His books include Apartheid in Indian Country?; Black Wall Street; and Acres of Aspiration, works chronicling the African American experience in Oklahoma and its indelible impact on American history. Johnson has received numerous awards and honors for his work and community service.

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You love your cat… but not the allergy Cat allergy symptoms such as itchy and watery eyes, sneezing and stuffy nose can make you feel miserable. If you have tried different treatments with little or no relief, there may be another option for you.

Local doctors are conducting a research study of an investigational treatment to see if it helps reduce the symptoms associated with cat allergy. If you are between the ages of 12 and 65 and have experienced cat allergy symptoms for at least two years you may qualify.

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Closing in on someday In his 68-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Kern, like the Utah judge before him, invoked United States v. Windsor, making him the third federal judge to strike down a state ban on gay marriage, behind Utah and California.

“Equal protection is at the very heart of our legal system and central to our consent to be governed,” wrote in the ruling. “It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions. Therefore, the majority view in Oklahoma must give way to individual constitutional rights.”

Two of the plaintiffs, Tulsans Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin, weren’t expecting a ruling, or the whirlwind of media attention that followed in its wake. “We’re jubilant, we’re over the moon,” Baldwin told The New York Times.

Bishop cried when the ruling came down. “It’s overwhelming to think that we finally won,” she told The Associated Press on Jan. 14.

“This is something that when I was young, I thought I’d never see in my lifetime.”

In the swoop of a single June day, the Supreme Court kicked the door open for same-sex rights in America – but no one was sure just how far open. “The Supreme Court’s landmark gayrights decision in United States v.

Windsor, last June, has become even more evident in the past month, thanks to a series of important lower-court decisions that have interpreted it broadly,” pronounced The New Yorker in a Jan. 27 analysis.

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by JENNIE LLOYD

allow same-sex marriage. This time last year, that number was nine.

Just before Christmas, Utah’s federal court invoked Windsor when it ruled the Constitution allowed for the right to same-sex marriage, turning up the heat on the longlanguishing case in Oklahoma.

Kern’s ruling made headlines in major news outlets across the nation. The New York Times’ Jan. 14 story led with this: “A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Tuesday that the state’s constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage violated the federal Constitution, the latest in a string of legal victories for gay rights and one that occurred in the heart of the Bible Belt.”

After a spate of stories announcing Kern’s decision, outraged statements poured in from dissenting conservative politicians. Said Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City: “Homosexuality is not a civil right, it’s a human wrong.”

The cover of Tulsa Beacon, a conservative Christian newspaper, ran the headline, “Judge rules in favor of Tulsa World lesbians: Christians react to overturning marriage act,” in its Jan. 23 edition.

The article quoted Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Turner, R-Edmond, who filed a bill calling for a second vote to ban gay marriage in the state, via constitutional amendment.

He called his bill “an arrow in the quiver” for House leadership who aim to overturn Kern’s ruling and reinstate the ban.

Turner also filed a shell bill, The Preservation of Marriage Act, which could prevent all marriage in Oklahoma.

“My constituents are willing to have that discussion about whether marriage needs to be regulated by the state at all,” Turner told News 9, Oklahoma City, on Jan. 24.

Three days after Kern’s ruling, Tulsa County Court Clerk Sally Howe Smith, the primary defendant in the case, filed an appeal. Smith’s defense team is Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian nonprofit based in Arizona. ADF was

founded in 1994 by a ring of prominent Religious-Right preachers, including James Dobson, Larry Burkett, and Bill Bright. The group is headed by Alan Sears, who is co-author of ,“The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today,” among others.

The “family values” nonprofit targets high-profile, controversial cases. It represented proponents of Prop 8 and had a hand in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, the landmark case that ruled in favor of BSA after the organization fired a gay Scoutmaster.

Bottom Line: In November 2004, the resolution to institute a gay marriage ban in Oklahoma passed in a landslide: 75 percent of the vote.

But the times, they are a’changin’.

There’s been a shift in our politics and culture in the nine years since the ban took effect. According to a July 2013 Gallup poll, 54 percent of Americans supported same-sex marriage. There is an unscientific reader poll on the Tulsa World website, which asks, “Does Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban violate the U.S. Constitution?” As of Jan. 31, 90.5 percent of readers responded that it does.

History, demolished River Parks-goers were surprised as they watched demolition crews tear down one of Tulsa’s most notable homes on Saturday, Feb. 1. The B.B. Blair Mansion, a white plantation-style mansion on 33 sprawling acres along Riverside Drive, could not be saved, its former owner said.

In 1952, B.B. and Priscilla Blair began designing their dream home.

They broke ground in 1958 with the help of architect John Duncan

Forsyth. The inspiration for the expansive homestead with white columns and elevated front porch was Jefferson Davis’s Biloxi, Miss., plantation, Beauvoir. Davis’s name is vaguely familiar for a reason—he was the one and only president of the Confederate States of America.

The George Kaiser Family Foundation purchased the mansion and surrounding acreage for the multimillion-dollar project dubbed A Gathering Place for Tulsa.

The sale agreement with former homeowner, Dan Buford, allowed him to dismantle the house and move it to a new location, but the logistics of such a move proved too difficult. Buford wrote an open letter addressed to his fellow Tulsans, dated Jan. 31: “This has been a very difficult decision for me,” he wrote.

Burford hired a local company to try to figure out where to move the home how to make the move without damaging the structure, overpasses, or streets, he wrote.

“They wouldn’t say that it couldn’t be moved, but they didn’t see how it was worthy or feasible,” he told Tulsa World.

The mansion was never part of GKFF’s plan for A Gathering Place for Tulsa, a 60-plus-acre park and recreation area planned for the area along Riverside Drive between 24th and 31st Streets.

Construction on the project will break ground sometime this year, with a completion date slated for 2016-2017.

Bottom Line: Despite a dubious connection to the past, the Blair Mansion was a cherished piece of Tulsa’s riverfront for six decades.

We bid a fond farewell to the old and welcome a new chapter in Tulsa’s history.

+ Blair Mansion Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

9th Annual

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THE TULSA VOICE // Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014

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“Nostalgia is such a distorting force.”

–Zadie Smith

The sweet hereafter Bringing back the bakery

by MARK BROWN

T

he Bakery on Cherry Street opened in something like 1974. Carl Brune is the brother of Caroline Brune, of the Enid Brunes, who opened the sweet shop with Cheryl Dobbins.

At first, it was at Seventh and Main, relocated as The Bakery on Cherry Street when the building was slated for demolition. “Downtown,” said Carl, “it was simply known as The Bakery. The Alvin Plaza Hotel was across the street to the east and the famed nightspot, the Taj Mahal, was to the south,” he said. “All of it came down about the same time.”

“It was more like a doughnut

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shop,” said Susanne Barnard, who worked at the Bakery from 1987 to ’94, when it closed. “They started making croissants one day a week. And the line went out the door.”

The bakers of The Bakery on Cherry Street filled some of its croissants with fruit jams and others with Belgian chocolates. With any leftover dough, they made morning buns, what cinnamon toast would be if it had wings and could fly. Over the years, many have begged Barnard for the morning bun recipe, hoping to go home and stir up a batch.

“It’d be like physics,” she said,

“how many times they rolled that belly of dough in one day. Then they’d do it again the next day.

They had a sheeter, an automatic machine that would roll it and fold it, roll it and fold it. Even automated, it was still a pain in the ass.”

Carl kept the recipes after Caroline died in 2006—those, and the crates of the signature striped coffee cups, white with thin stripes, red or blue, like one of the blouses Picasso favored. Last year, Brune decided to hand the recipes over to Molly Martin and Andrea Mohn of Antoinette Baking Company. “Two women, in business,

making a go of it?” said Barnard.

“Caroline would have been well pleased with that. I think I can speak for her.”

“None of her croissant recipes have directions on them,” said Martin, “and all she has on the card (for morning buns) are the dimensions of the sheeter. Nothing more.”

***

Thanks to the Bakery on Cherry Street, my life, if ever it flashes before my eyes, will do so on a cloud of baker’s yeast, roasted coffee and second-hand smoke.

Until the Bakery, I was only a regular at Furr’s, where my parents Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

would haul us for Sunday lunch.

But the Bakery bred regulars. A few of us grew up there, and a few more grew old. One regular had his funeral procession roll by the Bakery, to pay homage or, perhaps, for a last unconscious whiff. Another, Woody Naifeh, held court there most days. In his signature gray cowboy hat—curled and worn at the edges, like Woody himself—he could have held down any diner from Alva to Vian.

I could kill an hour in the Bakery, reading Henry Mark’s column in Uptown News, nursing a morning bun and a cappuccino. Often, I killed housefuls. Sometimes I had money for either coffee or croissant but not both. I would take a book and a position. “You sat in the corner,” Susanne Barnard reminded me. I did, same as church, keeping everybody and everything in front of me.

Certain weekdays (too many to comfortably recount), I would leave only when the first of the lunch crowd began to appear. Most of my friends at least pretended to have jobs, and so I usually left the Bakery alone. On weekends, we’d regroup and fight for space at too few tables, huddle tightly, shout loudly to be heard, and smell like teen spirit on the way out the door.

Cafés beget revolutions, and we should probably have been protesting the shit going down in Bosnia, but, in those days before Kickstarter, the Serbs felt like a United Nations fight.

As with any addiction, there was withdrawal. The day the Bakery on Cherry Street announced it would bake no more, it did so with a one-paragraph “So long” slipped beneath the glass tabletops.

“What’s this?” said Bret, one of my Bakery brothers, walking in as I was walking out. What could I say? I left with a friend of mine, a Bakery barista that I’d fallen for. Later, sensing my losses, she brought me a souvenir: one of those coffee cups. It’s chipped. I still use it.

Bret moved to Seattle, land of cafes. More Bakery habitués left in that great Seattle migration—Louis, Jenny, Doug, Cynthia, Henry, Brannon, Jenny. I stayed, lost the girl, kept the mug.

That first Saturday when Antoinette rolled out the Bakery goods that did come with how-tos—sausage rolls, brownies, cinnamon rolls, a couple of cakes—I took my kids, promising them jam-filled croissants and cinnamon-sugared morning buns. But I’d jumped the gun. Of the Bakery recipes, there was an Italian cream cake left, and a “black and white” cheesecake, plus some bread loaves and several brownies. I ordered and took two or three bites of a very delicious

cream cake that I don’t recall ever sampling in its Cherry Street incarnation.

We claimed a table near the front door. Antoinette was hopping, its windows sweating. Molly told me later they’d had a good day—twice the usual Saturday volume. “Almost all new customers,” she said. “They were excited but quick to add, ‘Well, that’s not what it used to look like. You got it wrong.’ ” But there must have been some-

thing in the air. Susanne Barnard’s daughter, Camille, recently started working at Antoinette. Miraculously, maybe, she was on hand for the resurrection of the Bakery recipes, at least the ones written down, cracking whip and riding herd over what the French call levain sauvage—the “wild yeasts”— the fermenting spores inside the living dough so fruitful through time and trial that they infiltrate a café space and, unlike a café, never leave.

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Tallgrass Prairie Table 313 E. Second Street Fare: Farm-to-table/ Nose-to-tail Price: $ $ $ $ SoundB ite: Then there’s the roasted bone marrow, served still in the bone. You can add a house-infused bourbon shooter, which you drink by using the bone as a luge.

Okie-grown goes upscale New Blue Dome restaurant highlights Oklahoma farmers with a bold menu

by ANGELA EVANS

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s you read this, pigs, lambs, goats, and chickens are grazing on a farm about an hour from here. The fowl belong to Hope Egan, owner of the new Tallgrass Prairie Table, and to Michelle Donaldson, her executive chef—the one with the knife and the tattoo that says “femme de fromage.”

Several Tulsa restaurants are touting a “farm-to-table” philosophy, sourcing local ingredients and supporting local food producers.

Tallgrass, in downtown Tulsa in the space formerly occupied by the Blue Dome Diner, is the latest.

Both women have been influential in the Tulsa restaurant scene for years, and rarely has a new restaurant received so much buzz in its opening month as Tallgrass Prarie Table has. I arrived a bit before a weekend dinner rush, and the air was electric. Inside, no traces of the diner remain. Gone is the dank,

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black ceiling. The dingy drywall is gone, revealing the original rustyred bricks beneath. Chandeliers dangle from bases of metal pipe and the rims of wine glasses shine from behind the lustrous bar. A local critic had raved, and a big show packed the Performing Arts Center across the street. Egan reviewed final touches with the staff while Donaldson prepped her crew.

This night was exactly what owner Egan has been dreaming about for a decade. But the real stars of Tallgrass are a few miles away, working the Oklahoma soil.

“It’s time consuming and takes a lot of thought to source direct from local farmers,” Donaldson said, “but it transforms what happens on a plate. It smells different. It tastes different.”

Donaldson has always had a “carnivorous heart.” Her restaurant is equipped with a rotisserie spit large enough to accommodate

an entire animal. “I really want to bring idea of using the whole animal to Tulsa,” she said. “It’s really cost effective, whether you are taking the innards and making pate, or making sausages.”

“And it helps the farmers, because most restaurants want only the prime part of the animal, leaving the farmers with the rest.

We are farm-to-table at base, but are steering toward tail-to-snout,” says Donaldson.

For the January menu, Donaldson focused on rib-stickin’ dishes for cold nights: Short ribs braised in masala, scallops with pork belly, bone-in pork chops and duck.

Then there’s the roasted bone marrow, served still in the bone. You can add a house-infused bourbon shooter, which you drink by using the bone as a luge.

Other favorites have been the kale salad, served with a sassy anchovy vinaigrette and topped

with crispy chicken skin rather than overplayed croutons. The shrimp and grits, based on the southern staple, are a revelation. The “meat of the day” taco, featuring meats like smoked lamb or pork belly, redefine haute cuisine.

“We joke about our “gourmet tacos,” says Donaldson, “but I love that a simple taco can be elevated to a piece of art.”

The Tallgrass menu will change every five to six weeks, an attempt to represent the soul of the season.

The spring menu will showcase vegetables grown by The Living Kitchen, a farm about 40 minutes southwest of Tulsa. Donaldson told me she sat down recently to leaf through a catalog, hunting for heirloom seeds and daydreaming about the harvest with which she’ll be working this spring and summer—much of which will be unlike anything anyone in Tulsa has had before, she said.

Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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voice’schoices where to find the best dishes in Tulsa

Café Savannah’s

7501 E. Kenosha, Broken Arrow • 918.357.2719 Located in the main clubhouse of Forest Ridge Golf Club (but open daily to the public), Café Savannah’s Tilapia de la Casa is seasoned and grilled, topped with pico de gallo and served with steamed rice and seasonal vegetables.

SUN – TUES, 7 A.M. – 3 P.M. WED – SAT, 7 A.M. – 9 P.M.

Celebrity Restaurant 3109 S. Yale Ave. • 918.743.1800

A renowned specialty at this longtime Tulsa hot spot, the skillet-fried chicken is tossed in a special blend of spices, cooked in a seasoned cast iron skillet and served with fluffy biscuits and homemade gravy.

MON – THURS, 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. // 5 – 9 P.M. FRI – SAT, 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. // 5 – 10 P.M.

Andolini’s Pizzeria 1552 E.15th St. • 918.728.6111

Definitely not for vegetarians, the midtown pizza joint’s top-shelf take on the meat-lover’s dream features a pie topped with pepperoni, canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage.

SUN – THURS, 11 A.M. – 10 P.M. FRI – SAT, 11 A.M. – “Late” (midnight-1 A.M.)

Ridge Grill

9999 S. Mingo Rd. • 918.994.4888 A relative newcomer to the south Tulsa scene, Ridge Grill’s extensive seafood selection is highlighted by the lobster macaroni and cheese — fresh Maine lobster and large macaroni baked in a decadent smoked gouda and gruyere cheese sauce.

MON – THURS, 4 – 9 P.M. FRI – SAT, 4 – 10 P.M. SUN, 11 A.M. – 9 P.M. 20 // FOOD & DRINK

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dininglistings BROOKSIDE Antoinette Baking Co. Biga Billy Sims BBQ Blue Moon Bakery and Café The Brook Brookside By Day Café Ole Café Samana Charleston’s Claud’s Hamburgers Cosmo Café & Bar Crow Creek Tavern Doc’s Wine and Food Egg Roll Express Elmer’s BBQ Fuji La Hacienda The Hen Bistro Hibiscus Caribbean Bar and Grill In the Raw Keo Lambrusco’Z To Go

Leon’s Brookside Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Mondo’s Ristorante Italiano Old School Bagel Café Pei Wei Asian Diner R Bar & Grill Rons Hamburgers & Chili Señor Tequila Shades of Brown Sonoma Bistro & Wine Bar Starbucks Sumatra Coffee Shop Super Wok The Warehouse Bar & Grill Weber’s Root Beer Whole Foods Market Yolotti Frozen Yogurt Zoës Kitchen

DOWNTOWN Baxter’s Interurban Grill The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch The Greens on Boulder Heavy Metal Pizza Lou’s Deli MADE Market in the DoubleTree by Hilton Mazzio’s Italian Eatery

Mexicali Border Cafe Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Oneok Café Oklahoma Spud on the Mall Seven West Café Sheena’s Cookies & Deli Steakfinger House The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Bistro at Atlas Life Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Trula The Vault Williams Center Café

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I-44/BA INTERCHANGE Big Anthony’s BBQ Bill & Ruth’s Subs Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Chop House BBQ D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s In & Out Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Monterey’s Little Mexico

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Abear’s Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Draper’s Bar-B-Cue Fat Guy’s Gypsy Coffee House Hey Mambo The Hunt Club Laffa Lucky’s on the Green

Mexicali Border Café Oklahoma Joe’s Prhyme Downtown Steakhouse The Rusty Crane Spaghetti Warehouse The Tavern Zin Wine, Beer & Dessert Bar

TU/KENDALL WHITTIER Big Al’s Health Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s BBQ Brothers Houligan Burn Co. BBQ Capp’s BBQ Corner Café Duffy’s Diner El Rancho Grande Freddie’s Hamburgers Guang Zhou Dim Sum Jim’s Coney Island Las Americas Super Mercado & Restaurant Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant

Moonsky’s Chees esteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Nelson’s Ranch House Oklahoma Style BBQ The Phoenix Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza

EAST TULSA Al Sultan Grill & Bakery Big Daddy’s All American Bar-B-Q Birrieria Felipe Bogey’s Brothers Houligan Casa San Marcos Casanova’s Restau rant Charlie’s Chicken Cherokee Deli Darby’s Restaurant El Centenario El Gallo Loco El 7 Marez El Refugio Azteca Super Taqueria Fiesta Del Mar Flame Broiler Frank’s Café Fu-Thai Garibaldi’s The Gnarley Dawg Hatfield’s

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UTICA SQUARE Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Goldie’s Patio Grill McGill’s Olive Garden P.F. Chang’s China Bistro

Pepper’s Grill Polo Grill Queenie’s Café and Bakery Starbucks Stone Horse Café Wild Fork

NORTH TULSA Admiral Grill Bill & Ruth’s Christy’s BBQ Evelyn’s Golden Saddle BBQ Steakhouse Hank’s Hamburgers Harden’s Hamburgers

Hero’s Subs & Burgers Ike’s Chili Los Primos The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market

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Felini’s Cookies & Deli Golden Gate Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Steve’s Sundries Trenchers Delicatessen

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take a dive

Destiny’s choice Lunchboxes at the Touchdown Club

by JOSHUA KLINE

W

e were deep into a Monday night of drinking at Touchdown Club, blasting 90s rap from the jukebox and chasing whiskey shots and dollar Rattlesnakes with Busch. When Destiny arrived to relieve the previous bartender, she approached us and, without hesitation, extended her hand. “Hi, I’m Destiny,” she said with a smile.

“And you are?”

We challenged her to choose our drinks.

“Destiny will choose our shots!” my friend exclaimed, nudging me with drunken wordplay, a foggy reminder that I was there for a story. “DESTINY WILL CHOOSE OUR SHOTS!” I yelled, as if sheer volume would transfer ownership of the turnof-phrase. I typed it in my phone’s notepad, misspelling a few of the words.

Another shot was probably a bad idea. It was time to tab out and go home, but it was 17 degrees outside and no one was itching to leave.

***

Hours earlier, the unassuming dive at Admiral and Yale beckoned us with one of those unwieldy stand-alone marquees, the kind usually found at used-car lots.

It blocked the sidewalk and was nearly flush with the building’s exterior, its big, light bulb-laden yellow arrow pointing straight at the front door as if to say “GO HERE. NOW.” The bar was smaller than it

glares, but no one batted an eye.

***

Touchdown Club 5033 E. Admiral Place Tulsa, OK 74133 Touchdow n Club, at Admiral and Yale.

looked from the outside. Two pool tables and a handful of high tops competed for the limited floor space. Several digital gambling machines occupied the corners.

A microwave and coffee pot sat under a dry-erase board filled with handwritten specials. The space felt hard and lived-in, but the staff was friendly and the regulars tolerated us. A handful of weathered bikers sat at the bar, eating Pizza Hut and drinking low-point beer.

It was silent inside, save for some chatter and the low drone of

the television. We surreptitiously overtook the Internet jukebox through an app that allowed me to anonymously pick the music from my phone. My buddy mischievously suggested Radiohead’s morose, electronic “Everything In Its Right Place.” I bought the track and pressed play. The first note, though relatively soft, hit my eardrums like a freight train.

The building practically shook from the volume. I winced and forced myself to gauge the room’s reaction. I expected at least a few

Destiny chose Lunchboxes.

The concept of the Lunchbox is ridiculous: it’s beer, orange juice, and amaretto, piled into a pint glass. It’s like an alcoholic eight-year-old’s answer to an Irish Car Bomb, one of those festive, embarrassing things you do only if you’re already sauced.

She prepared a round while I quietly, pathetically attempted to rap with Ice Cube.

“No barking from the smog – I mean dogs – no smog –breakfast with no hog… Finally got a call from –shit. I forget.” Thankfully, no one paid attention.

We cheers’d and chugged.

It was refreshing—if nothing else, a welcome reprieve from the whiskey. The guy next to me watched us, then ordered his own. He took a sip and eyed it suspiciously. “It’s okay, I guess,” he told me.

Destiny reclaimed the jukebox and asked another customer to play her favorite Kacey Musgraves song. We tabbed out, thanked her and made our exit.

The hangover was brutal.

My head pounding, I made myself morning promises: no more Lunchboxes, no more Rattlesnakes, no more rapping.

This is not a review, nor is it meant to promote already-popular midtown establishments. For suggestions on his next drink, email joshua.s.kline@gmail.com.

TAKE A DIVE is a running column in which Joshua Kline explores the fringes of drinking culture in Tulsa County by visiting the dives, holes, beer bars and neighborhood pubs that keep Green Country drunk and happy.

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E E V SA DAT e h t March 1-2, 2014

32nd Annual

Art Show & Sale Tulsa Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center

• Over 50 nationally-renowned artists • More than 1,000 pieces of amazing nature and western art • Proceeds benefiting regional wildlife conservation projects

Featured Artist Paul Rhymer

Encore Artist Matthew Higginbotham

Guest Artist Harold T. Holden

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lethal Leprechaun

boozeclues (

tips on drinking well in Tulsa )

Jameson’s Pub 8921 S. Yale the bartenders: the cocktail: the ingredients:

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Danyail Cantrell & Ashley Gilbert Lethal Leprechaun One shot of Jameson Irish Whiskey + one shot of pickle juice Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Four Tulsa couples together in life and in song on the best tunes for love (and for war)

LOV E N O T E S 30 // FEATURED

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Fiawna Forté and Phillip Hanewinkel, rockers married on Oct. 10, 2010, were bandmates before they were roommates. Now, he cooks, he cleans, he draws her in her bare feet; she writes, she growls, and bets it all on the power of 10.

r at t S aw ye ph oto by M

Phillip & Fiawna Where did you fall in love?

Phillip: Under the Mooch, February 10, 2008. From her first note, I couldn’t get her off of my mind. Where did she come from? Was she from here? How was I not aware of this? I had to get the answer to these questions.

Fiawna: The Blend in Broken Arrow, June 6, 2008. After years of lugging around all the heavy equipment myself, this guy, who had just recently become my bass player, ran up and grabbed a 100-pound speaker out of my hand and said, “I’ll get the heavy stuff. Don’t worry about it.” He looked a lot different to me during and after that set.

Admittedly (to each other):

An undisclosed parking lot in Tulsa, August 10, 2008.

First concert together: Feist at Cain’s Ballroom, April 14th, 2008 First album you bought as a kid:

First album you bought as a couple:

Phillip: Rubber Soul, The Beatles.

Fiawna: Blue, Joni Mitchell.

Middle Cyclone, Neko Case.

Last fight you had about music: “Always On My Mind” - Elvis or Willie?

But you can both agree that… It’s a dang good song no matter who sings it. (But Elvis is better.) (Phillip, stop hijacking the interview.)

Song that reminds you of him/her.

Phillip: “Working On A Dream,” Bruce Springsteen, and “Brand New Start,” Little Joy. Fiawna: “You Inspire Me,” Nick Lowe.

Star Wars or Star Trek?

Ideal superpower?

Phillip: Batman.

Fiawna: Wonder Woman.

Phillip: “I’m Batman.”

Fiawna: The power to make anyone feel at peace at any given moment.

Apologize or ask permission? Communication.

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First album you bought as a kid.

Hangin’ Tough” by New Kids on the Block A: “Hangin’ The Muppet Christmas Carol” R: “Th

Where did you fall in love?

We met each other while rehearsing for a SummerStage show. We started talking to each other and hanging out and love just happened. It wasn’t a specific place or time it was the little things that the other did for or with the other and one day we were just in love. song that reminds you of him. “ A: “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “ e Seraph” from “35MM” R: “Th

Star Wars or Star Trek?

A: Star Wars R: Star Trek Apologize or ask permission?

A: Ask permission.

R: Apologize.

First concert together.

Tulsa Symphony Presents “The Wizard of Oz” Last fight you had about music.

The volume of the music in the car.

Roderick likes to turn it up. Aaron likes to drive with it in the background.

But you can both agree that…

Bernadette Peters and Audra McDonald can do no wrong.

Ideal superpower?

A: Telepathy R: Telekinesis

AARON & RODERICK Roderick Hudson and Aaron Hawkins sing their songs on Tulsa’s stages.

In the car, Roderick Hudson turns it up, Aaron Hawkins turns it down. But when they sing together— usually it’s to Don Juan about how his money’s gone—there’s no in-between.

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um you Firs t alb a kid? bought as

” “Suck On This Jay – Primus’s ecause I was on cassette (b afford a CD n’t poor and could e 80’s). player in th er Abdul’s “Forev la u a P – t le io V h cassette (whic Your Girl” on cousin when I y I stole from m ve no regrets). a h ll was six. I sti

Jay Hancock has been involved in the Tulsa music scene through show booking, record store working, or dj’ing under the name Sweet Baby Jaysus since ‘94. Violet Rush has worked on several zines (“She God” and “Prophecy Factory”) and is prepping the debut of her new band: BITCH CRAFT. *bir thda y

card vio let d rew for jay in 2013

*portrait of jay & violet as pizza

music?

Last fight you had about

Cross When she was right about Christopher singing “Ride Like the Wind.”

Where did you fall in love?

On the couch watching black-metal documentaries.

Specifically, Until The Light Takes Us and Once Upon A Time In Norway: The History Of Mayhem.

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andlemass, an “Crystal Ball,” C sic,” Wikan. u “Illegal Grave M

Beatles or Stones?

Dressing ening nor like a punk from 1977 is neither threat original. You just look like a jackass.

t...

But you can both agree tha

Stones.

The song that rem inds you of her.

“Still

born,” Bu “Funky Mech rning Witch, and anic,” Quadra nt Six.

Star Wars or Star Trek?

The Conjuring

Ideal superpower?

Violet – Ending Capitalism.

Jay – China in 30 years.

Apologize or ask permission?

It depends. Is pizza involved?

First concer t together?

by Boris/Thrones/Pinkish Black followed r. late hts Acid Mothers Temple two nig

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Sco tt & Ma rgee

Scott and Margee Ay cock, treasures to folk mu sic in a place that’d be unre if not for the radicals cognizable of the genre, have ma de music together fo decades—even grow r more than three ing a few new music makers along the wa y.

W h er e di d y ou fa ll in

I saw a mysterious,

lo ve ?

cute guy wearing a long, dark coat walki ng across the campus ORU. He didn’t seem of to fit the mold of ORU an d th at intrigued me, as neith I fell a little harder aft er did I. er our first kiss. We were best friends fo r a couple of years an decided to join his pa d rents and other frien ds of ours at Mount ain View Folk Festi Arkansas. There wa val in s both music and lov e in the air, and the rest is history.

T h e so n g th a t rem in

MARGEE: Well of co

ds y ou of h im / h er.

urse, Tom Waites’

“The Man in the Lo ng Black Coat.”

Crosby, Stills, Nas h & Young.

SCOTT: Besides the songs I have written for her, Rod Stewar t’s “Maggie May.” But really, any early

T h e la st fi g h t y ou h

MARGEE: We don’t

a d a bo ut m us ic.

fight about music.

He is the boss of th e music.

The only disagreem ent we ever have is how loud to play it.

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Bea tles or S to n es ?

Beatles

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me host of the Scott Aycock is the longti lk Salad with radio music program Fo In honor of co-host Richard Higgs. will invite their Valentine’s Day, the pair and Louise Higgs, wives, Margee Aycock th love-themed to guest DJ the show wi . on KWGS selections. Feb. 9 at 7 p.m . on KOSU 107.5.

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Let’s make a mixtape...

Our four couples offer tracks for all your listening needs.

Phillip & Fiawna Apology song

Rainy-afternoon song

Apology song “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word,” Elton John

Dance-party song

Rainy-afternoon song “A Case of You,” James Blake

“Framed,” The Coasters “Werewolf,” Cat Power

“Further Complications,” Jarvis Cocker

Margee & Scott

RODERICK & AARON

Dance-party song “Jump On It,” Sir Mix-A-Lot

Apology song “Go Fuck Yourself,” Born Against Rainy-afternoon song “Good Day To Hide,” Pygmy Lush

S ing-in-the-shower song

Sing-in-the-shower song “Let it Be Me,” Ray LaMontagne

Angry song

Whiskey & Wine Song:

Angry song “Kiss With A Fist,” Florence + The Machine

Angry song “Pure Fucking Armagedon,” Mayhem

cooking song

Beer-drinking song “American Pie,” Don McLean

Getting-ready song

Cooking song “Hit the Road Jack,” Ray Charles

First-dance song

Getting-ready song “You See Me,” Childish Gambino

Best seduction song

“Folsom Prison Blues,” Johnny Cash “Sioux City Sue,” Bing Crosby “(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea,” Elvis Costello “Starlings,” Elbow

“This Mess We’re In,” Thom Yorke/PJ Harvey

song you sing together

“All I Have to Do is Dream,” The Everly Brothers

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“Blue,” Joni Mitchell

Dance-party song

“Do You Love Me Now,” The Breeders

“Lipstick Vogue,” Elvis Costello

Rainy-af ternoon song

Dance-party song “Do Re Mi,” Millie Small Sing-in-the-shower song “Don’t Say Nothing Bad (about my baby),” The Cookies

Sing-in-the-shower song

Apology song

“You Make My Heart Beat Too Fast,” Buddy and Julie Miller

Beer-drinking song “Dopesmoker,” Sleep Cooking song “I Like Food,” Descendents Getting-ready song “Goodbye Horses,” Q. Lazarus

“Tighter and Tighter,” Alive and Kickin

“Summertime,” jazz standard

Angry song

“Another Piece of my Heart,” Janis Joplin

Beer-drinking song

“Wild Rover,” Irish traditional

Cooking song

“I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” Marvin Gaye

Getting-ready song Anything by The Beatles.

First-dance song “At Last,” Etta James

First-dance song “Ghetto Ass Witch,” Ritualz feat. Gucci Hucci

Too embarrassing. All ’70s disco.

Seduction song “Thinkin Bout You,” Frank Ocean

Seduction song “Planet Caravan,” Black Sabbath

“Light my Fire,” The Doors

Song you sing together “Don Juan,” LaVern Baker

Song you sing together “Food For The Hungry,” Ya Ho Wa 13

First-dance song Seduction song

Song you sing together “You Send Me,” Sam Cooke

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BEAUTY UNSEEN // A way to get an 8-year-old boy to an art gallery: Oklahoma State UniverAmanda Zimmerman and Sale en Eschelman use shaving cream and tempura paint to create custom Valent ine cards.

I am an artist

sity Entomology Professor Bob Sober and Professor Jennifer Angus from the University of Wisconsin collaborated on a new exhibition that explores the form

An afternoon at the Tulsa Girls Art School

and function of insects. Angus arranges six-legged creatures in patterns resembling textiles while Sober provides an up-close view

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r. Matt! Mr. Matt!

Mr. Matt!” boomed the chorus of girls.

Many of them had returned to this room every Monday and Wednesday night for years—some of them half their lives. Matt Moffett, director of Tulsa Girls Art School, walked the room in wireframed spectacles. The girls were busy drawing in their sketchbooks.

One worked on a Tulsa cityscape, a hummingbird zooming through the foreground. Another girl penciled a cartoon—a girl holding a heart balloon by a string.

Later, while Moffett lectured, the girls snacked on Doritos and peeled clementines. The girls are in Moffett’s advanced class at TGAS and are free to work independently. The day I visited, the girls created Valentines for their upcoming Valentine-art show. I watched these mementos of love take form through printmaking, photography, painting, and access to the rows of supplies along the west wall and the fully stocked basement.

“I didn’t even like art until I discovered there are a lot of different

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things you can do,” said Yamya Jackson. She didn’t think her public-school art teacher wanted to teach, she told me. The studio that night was a world away from her public-school experience of art education.

A TGAS-student piece hangs in the Zarrow Art Center. It’s “Saleeid,” a large-scale oil painting

by Amanda Zimmerman. In it Zimmerman combined the forms of her two friends and fellow TGAS students, Adalid Ciriaco and Saleen Eshelman, into one.

Magazine clippings take the place of the figures’ faces. Zimmerman explained, like a seasoned artist, “It represents how society wants them to look.”

Ciriaco, the model for half of “Saleeid,” has a few months left at the school. She worked on her senior show the day I visited.

She mentioned her interest in cosmetology school. “It’s an art in itself,” she said. TGAS encourages continued education.

Tulsa Community College stops by during the students’ junior year to tell the girls how to attend tuition-free. Also, the girls

visit art schools as part of their yearly trip.

This year, with a grant from the Schusterman Family Foundation, the advanced class is headed to San Francisco. There, students will study Henri Matisse at a traveling exhibit and visit museums, an art college, and the Redwoods. Most students have never been on an airplane, Moffett told me. “It will make their world a little bigger,” he said, stepping away to help one student sew a button on her Valentine.

I asked another student, Yori Jones, if she was an artist. “I have shows and come up with plans to make art. If it weren’t for the school, I don’t think I would do that alone,” she said. “I do stuff that artists do.”

“Mr. Matt tells us we’re artists,” she added.

The public is invited to Tulsa Girls Art School Feb. 11, 6 – 8 p.m., to peruse and buy students’ day-of-love creations, $10 each.

Canned art—tiny painted canvases rolled into candy-filled tin cans— will also be for sale.

of Angus’ work through photography. // 2/7 through 3/23; 108 Contemporary, 108 E. Brady St.; 918-895-6302

TULSA GRIDIRON // Rebecca Ungerman directs this 80-year tradition of song, dance, and hilarity at the expense of politicians and headline makers. The title, “Government Ain’t Twerking: I’ll See Your Shutdown and Raise You the Debt Limit,” is itself a punch line. // 2/7 through 2/8, 8 p.m.; Tulsa PAC, Liddy Doenges Theatre, 110 E. 2nd St.; 918-596-7111

OPENING ABSTRACTION // Lovers of abstract art, here’s your chance to see the masters: Philbrook Downtown’s new exhibition offers works by O’Keeffe, de Kooning, Glasco, Rauschenberg, and more, grouped in themes like The Organic, The Psyche and The Built Environment. // Through 6/29; Philbrook Downtown, 116 E. Brady St.; 918-749-7941 Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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oklahomacool Moving beyond Woody & Will in search of the new Oklahoma canon

Louis Jenkins reads for “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Fish and the water Louis Jenkins blurs the lines between poetry and prose

by JEFF MARTIN

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seem to never discover things directly. Music, movies, books, writers, we find each other at random, moments without obvious serendipity.

I watched the Tony awards a few years ago. Mark Rylance, the English stage actor, considered by many to be the greatest of his generation, won an award for his performance in the Broadway revival of “Boeing, Boeing.” Rather than thank a list of family, friends, and collaborators, Rylance began to speak, seeming to tell a story.

The audience was thoroughly confused. It became apparent, at least to me, that he was speaking someone else’s words. But whose?

Thanks to Google, I learned that these words belonged to the Minnesota-based, Oklahoma-born poet Louis Jenkins (b. 1942, Enid).

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The name meant nothing to me.

But the words just wouldn’t leave my mind.

The poem in question, “The Back Country,” is a paragraph-long meditation written like advice. “If you’re in the woods, the back country, some place far from any human habitation, it is a good idea to wear orange…”

Yeats this is not, but the simplicity stuck with me.

A few years later, while picking up yet another Tony, Rylance struck again, treating the audience to Jenkins’ “Walking Through a Wall.” Between those awards, I immersed myself in Jenkins’ work, following his new projects, catching him from time to time in his own voice on A Prairie Home Companion, a show for which I usually have little patience. I’ve

yet to read a work by Jenkins that didn’t make me laugh or think about something in a new light. Some people with whom I’ve shared his work don’t agree that it’s poetry, even, comparing it instead to very short stories.

Somewhere in the space between is the prose poem which, according to your local dictionary, is a piece of writing in prose having obvious poetic qualities, including intensity, compactness, prominent rhythms, and imagery. National Book Award-winning poet Robert Bly once said, “Most people writing prose poems now agree that Louis Jenkins is the contemporary master.”

A poem isn’t a story, it’s an idea.

And few working poets have as many ideas as Louis Jenkins. It’s nothing new for poets to write

about the seemingly mundane details and objects of everyday life. Billy Collins made a career of it. The late Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda wrote dozens of “Odes to Common Things.”

Few obsessions from my adolescence still blow my mind the way they did at the time. One that still does is T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” I’ve read it hundreds of times, each with a new appreciation. It’s the work by which I judge (perhaps unfairly) other poems and poets.

Jenkins hasn’t written anything on par with “Prufrock.” But many of my favorite musicians won’t ever reach the heights of “Sgt. Pepper.” Most of the time, it’s unfair to compare. But if J. Alfred Prufrock read poetry, he would read Louis Jenkins.

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eventlistings 2/14-16

Vintage Tulsa Show Over 50,000 square feet of antique and vintage merchandise from some of the country’s finest dealers. 2/14-16 – Exchange Center at Expo Square, 4145 E 21st St., vintagetulsashow.com

Events Sustainable Tulsa’s 1st Thursday: Edible Landscaping // For this month’s 1st Thursday, Sustainable Tulsa will show that growing your own organic food can be cheaper and easier than buying from the store. Guest speaker Carla Grogg, co-owner of Grogg’s Green Barn will discuss edible plants, backyard chickens, gardening in the urban backyard, and how everyone can be more sustainable. 2/6, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. – Foolish Things Coffee Company, 1001 S Main, (918) 808-6575, sustainabletulsa.org Crappie Madness! // Bass Pro Shops host this inaugural celebration of all things crappie.

Guests will enjoy Crappie Pro Seminars with Mike Taylor, a catch and release pond, fried fish sampling, giveaways, a chance to win a Crappie Rigged 2013 Tracker Pro Team 175 TF fishing boat, and more. 2/7, 8, 14, 15 Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, 101 Bass Pro Dr, Broken Arrow, basspro.com 24 Hour Video Race // Starting at midnight on 2/9, teams of up to eight have 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a video no longer than five minutes, to be turned in by midnight the next night. All videos must relate to a surprise theme, which will be revealed at the kickoff party, and must incorporate a short piece of found footage. Teams can compete on the standard or student level. All entries will be screened on 3/20 at Philbrook, and a panel of judges will select three winners. Kickoff party: 2/8, 11 p.m. – Living Arts, 307 M.B. Brady St., livingarts.org Dustbowl Blues and Pete Seeger: The Power of Song // Woody Guthrie researcher Dr. Mark Fernandez will speak in a program entitled “Dustbowl Blues: African American Music and Musicians in the Life and Art of Woody Guthrie” on the influence of African American music on Guthrie’s songwriting, and his thoughts on racial equality. 2/8-9, 2 p.m. The Woody Guthrie Center will also pay tribute to the late Pete Seeger, legendary and influential folk singer and activist by playing the American Masters film Pete Seeger: The Power of Song on a loop both before and after Dr. Fernandez’s presentation on the 9th. – Woody Guthrie Center, 102 E M.B. Brady St., (918) 574-2710, woodyguthriecenter.org Everything You Wanted to Know About Small Aperture Telescopes But Were Afraid to Ask // BA Sidewalk Astronomer wants to teach you everything you need to know to capture the brilliance of the night sky from your own home. Learn how to choose the proper telescope, or bring your own for hands-on instruction. Guest speaker Bill Steen, an engineer and amateur astronomer will speak on the features of small aperture telescopes, and how to maximize their potential. 2/9, 2-4 p.m. – Martin Regional Library, 2601 S Garnett Rd., (918) 960-0076, basidewalkastro.com OK, So…Tulsa Story Slam // On the second Wednesday of every month, Tulsa Story Slam convenes to share true stories based

on a given theme. The stories range from hilarious to harrowing to heartbreaking, and anyone is welcome to sign up to speak.

This month’s theme is LOVE STRUCK. 2/12, 8-10 p.m. – Enso Bar and Lounge, 104 S Detroit, facebook.com/oksotulsa Dentistry From the Heart // Dr. Mark Davis and a team of dentists and volunteers will provide up to 100 people with a free extraction, filling or cleaning. 2/14 - 5301 S. Lewis Ave. dentistryfromtheheart.org Darryl Starbird’s 50th Annual Rod & Custom Car Show // Over 1,000 hot rods, custom cars and performance machines come to Expo Square, including the largest showing of bubble top cars ever assembled.

2/14-16 – River Spirit Expo at Expo Square, 4145 E 21st St., darrylstarbird.com

Visual Art For the Love of Minis // Head to the Rose District in Broken Arrow for this art show featuring paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, jewelry, and carvings all 6”x6” or smaller. The pieces are from a variety of local artists and styles. The opening reception will include refreshments and live entertainment. 2/6-3/21 – Your Design, 211 S Main St., Broken Arrow, (918) 994-4473, facebook.com/YourDesign.BA Thoughts on a Winter’s Journey // Through her painting, sculpture and installation work, Michelle Reid expresses her interest in the fate and transition of thoughts. 2/6-3/2, PAC Gallery, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., tulsapac.com Beauty Unseen // Jennifer Angus, a design studies professor at the University of Wisconsin, constructs large insect installations. Pinning the insects to the wall, she creates repeating patterns mimicking textiles or wallpaper. Bob Sober, an Entomology professor at Oklahoma State University, depicts Angus’s insects and patterns through photography. Using up-close images of the specific insects in Jennifer’s installations and referencing her specific patterns, Bob’s work completes the duality of this one of a kind show. 2/7-3/23, Artist Talk: 2/8, 11 a.m. – 108 Contemporary, 108 E. M.B. Brady St., 108contemporary.org Beyond the Powwow: Native Dancers of the American West // Writer and photographer M.J. Alexander presents a collection of photographs that captures the rhythm and magic of Native American dance. Opening reception: 2/7, 6-9 p.m. – Exhibition continues through 2/22 – TAC Gallery, 9 E M.B. Brady St, tacgallery.org In Between // Photographer Jamie Alsabrook examines fear and reactions to perceived emotional distress in this series, exploring the fight-or-flight response at the subconscious level. The images depict a young girl as she

dreams of wandering through an eerie forest and an abandoned farmhouse. Opening reception: 2/7, 6-9 p.m. – Exhibition continues through 2/27 – Living Arts; 307 E M.B. Brady St., livingarts.org A Very Long Night // Inspired by Juan Velasco’s book The Massacre of the Dreamers, Maria Velasco uses graphite drawings, large-scale digital prints and experimental animation to tell the nonlinear story of two small children as they dream of Westerns and folk heroes to escape the traumatic events of their real lives. Soon though, their dreams become nightmares. Strong content; may not be suitable for children. Opening reception 2/7, 6-9 p.m. – Through 3/27 – Living Arts; 307 E M.B. Brady St., livingarts.org Art 21: Glenn Ligon // On the second Thursday of each month, Living Arts screens an episode of the PBS series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century. This month, the subject featured is artist Glenn Ligon, whose paintings and sculptures explore cultural identity through found sources including literature, coloring books, and photography.

Ligon’s work incorporates text from Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, and Richard Pryor, among many others. 2/13, 4:30 – Living Arts, 307 E M.B. Brady St., (918)5851234, livingarts.org

Performing Arts A Streetcar Named Desire // Tennessee Williams fans have the opportunity to see the playwright’s classic Southern Gothic tale of Blanche DuBois’s delusions and Stanley Kowalski’s brute animalistic nature, as two local companies present the play this month. Muskogee Little Theatre presents the play on 2/7-15, at 325 E Cincinnati Ave, Muskogee, (918) 683-5332, muskogeelittletheatre.com.

Playhouse Tulsa performs its production on 2/14-22 in John H. Williams Theatre in the Tulsa PAC, 110 E 2nd St., (918) 596-7111, playhousetheatretulsa.com To Kill a Mockingbird // Broken Arrow Community Playhouse presents Christopher Sergel’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s masterpiece on race relations in small town America. Directed by Martha Cherbini.

2/7-16, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. - Broken Arrow Community Playhouse, 1800 S Main St., Broken Arrow, (918) 258-0077, bacptheatre.com Tulsa Gridiron // For over 80 years, Tulsa Gridiron has been poking fun at the high and mighty through word and song. This year’s show, “Government Ain’t Twerking: I’ll See Your Shutdown and Raise You the Debt Limit,” includes send-ups of our local, state and national leadership and newsmakers. Directed by Rebecca Ungerman and hosted by Julie Chin and Kathy Taylor, and featuring some of Tulsa’s best musical and comedic talent. 2/7-8, 8 p.m. – Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., (918) 596-7122, tulsapac.com

Louder Than a Bomb-Tulsa Finals // Teen slam poets compete in this (first and only) offshoot of the world’s largest teen poetry festival. Started in Chicago in 1985, Louder Than a Bomb is internationally recognized, and the subject of an award-winning 2011 documentary of the same name. 2/8, 1 p.m.

– Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main St., ahct.org/ programs/ltab Cirque de la Symphonie // World-class acrobats, jugglers, balancers, contortionists, and strongmen perform incredible feats choreographed to classical masterpieces and contemporary music, played by Tulsa’s own Signature Symphony. 2/7-8, 9 p.m. – VanTrease PACE, 10300 E 81st St., (918)5957777, tulsacc.edu/pace Saint-Saëns and Mozart: Christina and Michelle Naughton, pianists // Tulsa Symphony performs Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals and Symphony No. 3, and Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos featuring twin concert pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton, and guest conductor Sarah Ioanides. 2/8, 7:30 p.m. – Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., (918) 596-7122, tulsasymphony.org The Addams Family // Catch up with Gomez, Morticia, Fester, and the whole spooky family as Broadway in Bartlesville presents this national touring production of The Addams Family. 2/13, 7:30 p.m. – Bartlesville Community Center, 200 SE Adams Rd, Bartlesville, (918) 336-2787, bartlesvillecommunitycenter.com Cinderella // Tulsa Ballet presents this fairy tale favorite, choreographed by Ben Stevenson, and set to music by Prokofiev.

2/14-15, Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 100 E 2nd St., (918) 258-0077, tulsapac.com Love and Lust: Erotic Love Poetry // An evening of spoken word poetry and dance celebrating love in its many forms. Sure to warm your heart (among other things). 2/15 Living Arts, 307 M.B. Brady St., livingarts.org ETHEL with Robert Mirabal // Contemporary string quartet ETHEL perform with two-time Native American Artist of the Year, Grammy-winning composer Robert Mirabal. The group will perform Mirabal’s compositions, arrangements of ancient Native American music (including a collaboration with a 30 voice choir of local children), and works by contemporary composers. 2/15, 8 p.m. – Helmerich Theatre, Cascia Hall Performing Arts Center, 2520 S Yorktown Ave, choregus.org Bring It On: The Musical // Based on the 2000 film “Bring It On”, this Tony Awardnominated musical about friendship, forgiveness, determination, and yes, cheerleading makes its Oklahoma debut.

Packed with gravity-defying aerial stunts, this will be an evening full of thrills and fun. 2/18, 7:30 p.m. – Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center, 701 S Main St., Broken Arrow, brokenarrowpac.com (continued on page 43)

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Let them dance Tulsa finds its anthem mid-climb, and it’s played by Guardant

by MITCH GILLIAM

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here’s this picture I have of Greg Hulett, the closest thing Tulsa group Guardant has to a front man. It was taken at Tulsa Tough, at the apex of Crybaby Hill, that symbol of our city’s struggle for critical mass and radness. Cyclists screamed up the unholy hill, with no barricade to protect them from our city’s erupting id. Everyone was raging their damnedest, drowning all notions of the race in booze and costume. People yelled, hugged, and danced; it was Guardant that dance-rocked the whole bacchanalia. Shirtless, sunglassed, and smiling triumphant, Greg was in the middle of it all, holding a beer and a flag.

Greg described Guardant’s sound in a recent text: “errrr dancey new wave?” Just like the crowds at their shows, none of their instruments sit still. You know how some bass just follows the rhythm guitar? The bass doesn’t do that in Guardant. Near funk and Latin-ish, it serpentines and pops beneath the band’s gloss. It’s played by a man named Milo, who once drank human ashes in his beer.* Every other instrument is just as individual and integral to the band’s sound.

There’s this quality some Tulsa bands have right now that strikes me as totally, completely Tulsa— not “post genre,” but just left of what’s expected. Dull Drums and Gogo Plumbay come to mind.

It’s a carefree shirking of easy labels—it may come from being

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a small city where talent intermingles—and Guardant is Tulsa to a “T” in this sense. Their core sound is every great trend in EDM, but played by New Order with help from John Carpenter.

Though Greg is the pseudo frontman, nearly every member shares vocal duties—that’s except Toad, Greg’s brother and the group’s synth-smith. Lead guitarist, Fry, would be considered one of Tulsa’s top players if his humility didn’t mask the fact. His angular runs and Van Halen taps mesh fluidly with Toad’s saw-lead bombast. Live percussion, from Mason

Remel, often counters Greg’s programmed beats, and Guardant turns solid songs into crowd-tested ragers. The overall effect is something more than the average, by-the-numbers dancerock—it’s a whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts.

A typical Guardant show is a throw-down. Dance music can be a refuge for the crossed-arm “hip,” but Guardant approaches it with all the grace of a pro wrestler. The “dance” in Dance-Rock manifests in crowd response, but the “rock” part comes from the group’s arena posturing. I’ve seen Toad rip a key solo from atop his

amp at Soundpony and Greg, Fry, and Milo shred united in that metal, parallel-guitar stance. They may play more than 50 times a year, but it never fails to be an event.

It’s easy for the group to have fun in Tulsa. It’s also just as easy to watch them not worry about having fun anywhere else. Tulsa is finally back on the map, a destination for groups instead of just a blip en route to Austin. It’s a breeding ground and a source of excitement for singular acts like Guardant.

But these dudes could take over the globe if they wanted.

Two nights before Guardant’s show at Tulsa Tough I booked a show for an Austin band. I asked Guardant to open. While the group played, an Austin dude yelled at me: “Who the hell are these guys? This is amazing.” It’s a common response. I asked Greg why the group isn’t on every fest in America right now. He told me they just want to focus on writing new stuff. He added, “None of us are really comfortable getting out there and calling for that degree of attention.” Meanwhile, the group lights sparklers at a basement show, woos cougars at the VFW, and makes a habit of turning Soundpony inside out.

And then there was the day Tulsa faced once again its Crybaby Hill, when Guardant sound-tracked an apocalypse, breaking only so Greg could drunk-dive through some hula-hoops. *(or so he said in front of a crowd out back of Soundpony).

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Dust Bowl and Beyond: Lessons for the Future From Past Hard Times Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Timothy Egan, author of The Worst Hard Times: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl tells stories of the Dust Bowl in vivid clarity, bringing black and white photographs into color. Part of Tulsa Town Hall’s speakers series. 2/7 - Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., (918) 596-7122, tulsapac.com

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2/5 Loony Bin – Todd Rexx, C.R. Parsons – 8 p.m. - $7

2/6 Mabee Center – ORU Women’s Basketball vs. New Orleans – 5 p.m. - $7 Mabee Center – ORU Men’s Basketball vs.

New Orleans – 7:30 p.m. – $7-$15

2/6 Comedy Parlor – Rumble-Ish: The Improv Competition – 7:30 p.m. - $5 Loony Bin – Todd Rexx, C.R. Parsons – 8 p.m. - $2 2/7 Loony Bin – Todd Rexx, C.R. Parsons – 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. - $10 2/8 Loony Bin – Todd Rexx, C.R. Parsons – 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. - $10 2/10 The Shrine – TGIM! Comedy Night w/ Hilton Price, Luther Nelson Perkinson III, Austin Bryant, Ben Voss, Cian Baker, Justin McKean, Terre Cossey, Sheila Naifeh 2/12 Loony Bin – Jose Sarduy, Dan Fritschie, C.R. Parsons – 8 p.m. - $6 2/13 Comedy Parlor – Rumble-Ish: The Improv Competition – 7:30 p.m. - $5 Loony Bin – Steve McGrew, Jose Sarduy – 8 p.m. - $9 Undercurrent – Billy Bazar 2/14 Comedy Parlor – Crayons Improv – 7:30 p.m. - $10 Loony Bin - Steve McGrew, Jose Sarduy – 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. - $12 2/15 Loony Bin - Steve McGrew, Jose Sarduy – 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. - $12 Comedy Parlor – The Cheril Vendetti Experience – 9 p.m., 10:30 p.m. - $12

2/7 Ford Truck Arena, Expo Square – Liquid Nitro Arenacross – 5 p.m. - $12-$22 BOK Center – Harlem Globetrotters – 6 p.m.

- $23-$118 Cox Business Center – Tulsa Revolution vs.

Wichita B-52s – 6 p.m. - $10-$35 SpiritBank Event Center – Tulsa 66ers vs.

Delaware 87ers – 7 p.m. - $14-$34 2/8 The Club at Indian Springs – ORU Men’s Tennis vs. Seminole State – 3 p.m.

Ford Truck Arena, Expo Square – Liquid Nitro Arenacross – 3 p.m. - $12-$22 Mabee Center – ORU Women’s Basketball vs. Southeaster Louisiana – 4 p.m. - $7 Mabee Center – ORU Men’s Basketball vs.

Southeastern Louisiana – 7 p.m. - $7-$15 BOK Center – Tulsa Oilers vs. Wichita Thunder – 7:35 p.m. - $15-$45 SpiritBank Event Center – Tulsa 66ers vs.

Delaware 87ers – 7 p.m. - $14-$34 2/14 J.L. Johnson Stadium – ORU Baseball vs.

Southeast Missouri State – 3 p.m. - $5-$12 BOK Center – Tulsa Oilers vs. Arizona Sundogs – 6:35 p.m. - $15-$45 SpiritBank Event Center – Mid-South Tackle, Hunting & Boat Show - $5-$10 – 2/14-16 2/15 J.L. Johnson Stadium – ORU Baseball vs.

Southeast Missouri State – 2 p.m. - $5-$12 BOK Center – Tulsa Oilers vs. Arizona Sundongs – 6:35 p.m. - $15-$45 2/16 J.L. Johnson Stadium – ORU Baseball vs.

Southeast Missouri State – 1 p.m. - $5-$12 2/18 SpiritBank Event Center – Tulsa 66ers vs.

Sioux Falls Skyforce – 7 p.m. - $14-$34

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musiclistings Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Ricky Fugitt – 9 p.m.

2/13

Cimarron Bar – Reverse Reaction CJ Moloney’s – Mikey B The Colony – The Dirtboxwailers Crow Creek Tavern – Taylor Thompson & Friends Fassler Hall – Folk Alliance Fundraiser w/ Red Dirt Rangers, Jared Tyler, Travis Linville, Ali Harter, Paul Benjaman, Wink Burcham & more – 7 p.m., $10 Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Eli Howard Fishbonz – Infinity The Fur Shop – Brandon Clark Gypsy Coffee House – Super Darren 65 – 9 p.m.

The Hunt Club – Randy Crouch Magoo’s – Octane Blue

Tulsa <3 Tex

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Tex Montana, founder of Exploding Mary Design and longtime member of the local music community has cancer. To help her in her fight, Dwelling Spaces and IDL Ballroom are hosting a fundraising event in which all proceeds go to Tex. The event includes a silent auction, food from Yokozuna, Dilly Deli, Elote, The Vault, Joe Momma’s and Laurie Meyers, and performances

by We The Ghose, Difuser, Flash Bangs, Steve Liddell, Illfated, Rebecca Ungerman, Travis Kidd, and Brandon Clark, as well as poetry and performances by several of Tulsa’s best comedians.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $25 day-of-show, and VIP tables of eight are available for $200. 2/13, 8 p.m.-midnight, IDL Ballroom.

Pre-Party and Silent Auction: 6-8 p.m. at Dwelling Spaces.

Mercury Lounge – Honeyshine – 8 p.m.

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Smilin’ Vic – 9 p.m.

Pickles – Dan Crossland Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – T3, Time Machine – 7 p.m.

Rooster’s – T3 Shades of Brown – Gwen’s Kids – 7-9 p.m.

The Shrine – Montu - $7 ADV, $10 DOS Soundpony – GoGo Plumbay

Fri. // Feb. 7

Cain’s Ballroom – PENTATONIX – 7:30 p.m.

- $24-$39

C-Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 9 p.m.

Cellar Dweller – Live Jazz w/ Michael Cameron – 9 p.m.

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – The Tiptons – 9 p.m.

Cimarron Bar – Dane Trout’s 420 Project

Cain’s Ballroom – Dustin Lynch, Adam Sanders – 8 p.m. - $20-$35

The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project, Rachel LaVonne Creative Room – Reaping Asmodeia, DeadAlive, For What We Are, Sun Sought $6 ADV, $7-$8 DOS Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin

Cimarron Bar – Under the Gun CJ Moloney’s - Amper The Colony – Jacob Tovar & The Saddle Tramps, Kyle Reid, Victor & Penny

Sun. // Feb. 9 The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Fassler Hall – Boomclap – 10 p.m.

Woody’s Corner Bar – Tulsa Writer’s Round Singer/Songwriter Night – 7 p.m.

CJ Moloney’s – Matt Lip The Colony – Jared Tyler, Arthur Thompson, Matt Hayes, Travis Fite

Lucky’s on the Green – Rachel La Vonne – 6-8 p.m.

Magoo’s – Johnny Duke

Tues. // Feb. 11 Bounty Lounge – Rick Berry Crow Creek Tavern – Open Mic w/ Rusty Swan The Fur Shop – Desi and Cody’s Fur Jam Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 8 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward – 8 p.m.

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jams – 5:30 p.m.

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Smilin’ Vic – 9 p.m.

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer and Chicken – 7 p.m.

Pickles - LUXTONES

Magoo’s – DJ TIMM-A

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – T3, Time Machine – 7 p.m.

The Vanguard – Z104.5 The Edge Low Dough Show feat. The Airborne Toxic Event, KONGOS, All About a Bubble, Summit – 8 p.m. - $10.45-$30

Market Pub – DJ Cory B

Rooster’s – Mikey B

The Yeti – Cucumber & the Suntans

Mercury Lounge – Barnyard Stompers – 8 p.m.

Soundpony – Lessons in Fresh

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – T3 – 8 p.m.

The Undercurrent – Brandon Clark

Crow Creek Tavern – Melissa Hembree The Hunt Club – Nick Whitaker The Joint – Willie Nelson & Family – 8 p.m.

- $50-$60 Legends – Outlaw Son

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 3 p.m.

– Time Machine – 7 p.m.

The Shrine – Steve Pryor

Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin The Yeti - JBrown ZIN Wine Bar – Kristen Hemphill

Soundpony - Pontiak The Undercurrent – Framing the Red, Kicktree, The Last of Us

Sat. // Feb. 8

Woody’s Corner Bar – Brandon Jackson

C-Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 9 p.m.

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Crow Creek Tavern – The Rustlers The Hunt Club – Ego Culture IDL Ballrom – Tulsa <3 Tex Fundraiser w/ We The Ghost, Difuser, Flash Bangs, ILLFATED, Steve Liddell, Rebecca Ungerman, Live Comedy – 8 p.m.-midnight - $15 ADV, $25 DOS, $200 VIP Table for eight The Joint – Heart – 8 p.m. - $55-$65 Legends – Mike Barham Magoo’s – DJ TIMM-A Market Pub – DJ Cory B

2/8

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Spotlight Brass – 5 p.m. - $10-$20

The Undercurrent – Elisium, Dryver

The Hunt Club – Deacon

The Colony – Cody Brewer, John Calvin

Pickles – Open Mic Night

Elephant Run - Stars

Cain’s Ballroom – Gungor, Kye Kye – 7:30 p.m.

- $18-$35

CJ Moloney’s – Matt Lip

Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark – 8 p.m.

The Colony – Open Mic Night

Gypsy Coffee House – Marilyn McCulloch, Scotty Peterson – 6 p.m.

Cain’s Ballroom – Reckless Kelly, William Clark Green – 8 p.m. - $15-$25

Fishbonz – Cory B

Downtown Lounge – The Breton Sound

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Darrel Cole – 8 p.m.

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Brian Capps – 8 p.m.

Crow Creek Tavern – Jacob Dement

Mercury Lounge – Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps – 8 p.m.

The Fur Shop – Green Corn Rebellion

Thurs. // Feb. 13

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd, Members Only – 7 p.m.

Mon. // Feb. 10

Thurs. // Feb. 6

Rooster’s – DJ Cory B

Woody’s Corner Bar – All In Gents – 9 p.m.

Crow Creek Tavern – De Elegance

Fishbonz – Steve & Sheldon

Pickles – Billy Snow

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – The Sellouts – 8 p.m.

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Matt Breitzke

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Kinky Friedman – 7 p.m. - $16-$70

The Vanguard – Red City Radio, Emma, At Long Last – 8 p.m. - $8-$10

Creative Room – Lizard Police, Streetlight Fight, Ellewood

Rooster’s – DJ Cory B

Mercury Lounge – Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps – 8 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy, Jayke Orvis and the Broken Band – 8 p.m.

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Clark

Pickles – Billy Snow

Market Pub – Rick Berry

The Undercurrent – Anti-Cupid’s Ball Burlesque Show

The Yeti – The Danner Party

Wed. // Feb. 5

The Hunt Club – Pullman Standard

Wed. // Feb. 12 Cellar Dweller – Live Jazz w/ Michael Cameron – 9 p.m.

Cimarron Bar - Creeler The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project, Rachel LaVonne Crow Creek Tavern – Susan Herndon

Red Dirt Rangers photo by Kelly Kurr

Folk Alliance Fundraiser, Round 3

Help send some of Oklahoma’s best folk artists to the Folk Alliance International in Kansas City. After two fantastic intimate shows at the Woody Guthrie Center, this third concert is going to be a barnstormer. With performances from Red Dirt Rangers, Jared Tyler, Travis Linville, Ali Harter, Paul Benjaman, Wink Burcham, and many more, this will be an incredible showcase of the folk talent from our area. 2/8, 7 p.m.-2 a.m., $10, Fassler Hall

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Clark Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

THE TULSA VOICE // Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014

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Texas Agriculture Gets Kinky

One of only two stops outside of Texas on his “Seeds of Change” tour, singer, songwriter, humorist, novelist, political figure, and tequila maker Kinky Friedman will appear at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame to benefit the Hall’s educational programming. On top of touring, Kinky is currently making a run for Agricultural Commissioner of Texas, on a platform that advocates the legalization of cannabis in the state. He’ll be singing, performing, speaking, and probably drinking Tequila. GA tickets are $16, Reserved Table Seating is $30, and VIP Seating is $70. 2/12, 7 p.m.

- Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, okjazz.org

Thurs. // Feb. 13 (cont’d)

Sat. // Feb. 15

Sun. // Feb. 16

Soundpony – I Said Stop!

727 Club – Glam R Us – 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Woody’s Corner Bar – Cale & Time (from All In Gents) Acoustic – 10 p.m.

C-Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Uncrowned Kings – 9 p.m.

Cain’s Ballroom – SMOG City Tour feat. 12th Planet, Protohype, heRobust, Antiserum, Steady – 8 p.m. - $10-$25

The Yeti – Alan Doyle

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – JP Kross – 9 p.m.

Fri. // Feb. 14 2/16

C-Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Uncrowned Kings – 9 p.m.

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Bobby D Band – 8 p.m.

Cain’s Ballroom – Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power – 8 p.m. - $33-$48

Happy Bloody Valentine Nightingale Theater is hosting an evening of passion celebrate Valentine’s Day. Crimes of passion, that is.

At Valentine Massacre: An Unromantic Evening of Murder Ballads, some of Tulsa’s best singers will play tragic songs of revenge and gruesome murders.

Including performances by Steve Beard, Cody Brewer, The Calamities, Annie Ellicott, John Finnerty, Fiawna Forte, Chris Foster, Adrienne Gilley, Jessica Holloway, Kat Morrison, Dan Riffe, Dave Les Smith, Eric Von Strauss, and Pete Tomshany. $10, 2/16, 7 p.m., Nightingale Theater, 1416 E 4th St, nightingaletheater.com

Cain’s Ballroom – Five Iron Frenzy, House of Heroes – 8 p.m. - $20-$40 Cimarron Bar – Jamin’s Necessary Evil CJ Moloney’s – Mikey B The Colony – Josh Yarbrough and the Boogie Rhythm Boys Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover Fassler Hall – Lesbian Summer, Guardant

SUNDAY Club 209 Club Majestic Club Renegade Double RR Saloon Dusty Dog No Place Lounge Undercurrent MONDAY Carousel Lounge Dirty Knuckle Tavern Double RR Saloon Jameson’s Pub

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Just One More Lot No. 6 Roadside Pub Utopia Bar TUESDAY 727 Club Area 18 Bar & Ultra Lounge Baker Street Pub Bounty Lounge Buffalo Wild Wings The Colony Cronies Double RR Saloon Elephant Run

Cox Business Center – Steven Curtis Chapman, Josh Wilson, The Afters – 7 p.m. - $20-$57 Crow Creek Tavern – Jacob Dement Fishbonz – Cory B The Hunt Club – Annie Rue Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark – 8 p.m.

Nightingale Theater – Valentine Massacre: An Unromantic Evening of Murder Ballads – 7 p.m. - $10

Cimarron Bar – Rock Show

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Laron Simpson

CJ Moloney’s - OMG

Fishbonz – Octane Blue

The Colony – Desi and Cody

The Fur Shop – Electric Rag Band

Crow Creek Tavern – T3

Gypsy Coffee House – Terry Aziere – 9 p.m.

Fassler Hall – Obama’s Millions ft. Verse

The Hunt Club – David Castro Band

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Brandon Clark

Magoo’s – 4Going Gravity

The Vanguard – Parker Milsap CD Release Party w/ John Moreland – 8 p.m. - $15-$30

Fishbonz – Lost on Utica

Market Pub – Rick Berry

The Yeti - Nutter

The Fur Shop – Propaganda, Robbo, Lynn K

Mercury Lounge – The Barrelhouse Revelers, Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps – 8 p.m.

Gypsy Coffee House – Earth to Troy – 10 p.m.

Hillman’s Garage – The Daddyo’s, Cucumber & the Suntans, Hey Judy, Dead Tooth The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks IDL Ballroom – Assimilation’s Valentine’s Day Masquerade Ball – 9 p.m. - $8 ADV, $10 DOS, $25 VIP Mabee Center – Sandi Patty Magoo’s – David Dover Mercury Lounge – Adam Lopez & His Rhythm Review, The Bellfuries – 8 p.m.

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Another Alibi – 9 p.m.

Pickles – G-Force Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray, Members Only – 7 p.m.

Rooster’s – DJ Cory B Soundpony – Vince Carbone – The Love Actually Show

The Colony – Open Mic Night

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray, Members Only – 7 p.m.

Soundpony – Lance Canales and the Flood

River Spirit Event Center – The Fab Four – 7 p.m. - $20-$40 Shades of Brown – Gwen’s Kids – 7-9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Double RR Saloon Ed’s Hurricane Lounge Fishbonz

THURSDAY 71st Street Depot Buckaneer Bar Club Renegade Dirty Knuckle Tavern

Woody’s Corner Bar – Tulsa Writer’s Round Singer/Songwriter Night – 7 p.m.

Tues. // Feb. 18 Bounty Lounge – Rick Berry

The Vanguard – Tulsa Next Gen Music and Art Showcase II feat. Knic Knac, Cole Patterson, La Lune, Bruce Flea, The Capital Whys, and more artists TBA – 6 p.m. - $10-$15

Crow Creek Tavern – Open Mic w/ Rusty Swan

Woody Guthrie Center – Joel Rafael – 7 p.m.

- $12 ADV, $15 DOS

Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic

The Fur Shop – Desi and Cody’s Fur Jam

Woody Guthrie Center – Red Dirt Rangers Kids’ Show – 2 p.m. – Free w/ admission

Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham

The Yeti – Bass Tribe

Riffs – Hard Rock Casino – James Muns – 7 p.m.

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jams Sand Springs Espresso – Less Than 10 Band – 6:30-8:30 p.m.

The Shrine – Gangstagrass - $5 ADV, $10 DOS

The Yeti – We Make Shapes

Fox and Hound Hall of Fame Kenosha Station Magoo’s Market Pub Roadside Pub Utopia Bar Westbound Woody’s Corner Bar The Yeti

Soundpony – Soleb Theory, Move Trio

Mon. // Feb. 17

The Undercurrent – Enslaved by Fear

Full Moon Café Joe Momma’s Lennie’s Club Mr. Lucky’s Pub and Grille Osage Casino Red Dirt Dance Hall TGI Fridays (61st & Memorial) Tulsa Eagle

Pickles – Open Mic

Pickles - Willyecho

Soundpony – Happy Hour Show w/ Short Walk, Lizard Police, Cheap Art

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – 22nd Annual Keyboard Concert – 5 p.m. - $10-$20, $5 for students

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Another Alibi – 9 p.m.

The Yeti – Legalize It!

ZIN Wine Bar – Chloe Johns

Karaoke

The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Dixie Tavern Double RR Saloon Elephant Run Enso Four Aces Lounge Gold Mine Lounge Hall of Fame Hunt Club Lennie’s Club No Place Lounge Rooster’s Cocktails Twisted Lizard Westbound

FRIDAY Casual Cocktail Dirty Knuckle Tavern Dixie Tavern Double RR Saloon Elote Kenosha Station Market Pub Martinis Mi Tierra Mr. Lucky’s Pub and Grille No Place Lounge Remington’s The Bar Western Horseman

SATURDAY 71st Street Depot Buffalo Wild Wings Casual Cocktail Dirty Knuckle Tavern Double RR Saloon Market Pub No Place Lounge Remington’s The Depot

Trivia MONDAY Utopia Bar & Lounge

TUESDAY The Colony Marley’s Chicago Style Pizza Soundpony The Warehouse Bar & Grill Woody’s Corner Bar WEDNESDAY Baker St. Pub The Max – Retro Trivia THURSDAY Joe Momma’s

Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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2/24 Rev. Peyton Big Damn Band THURS. 2/6 Steve Pryor

2/26 Rehab Farewell Tour

FRI. 2/21 Cecada w/ Mexican Cartel & Erin O’Dowd

TULSASHRINE.COM SAT. 2/22 Bungalouski w/ Movie Trio

Crossroads Clubhouse 3rd Annual Golden Gala A Mardi Gras inspired evening of Jazz Featuring Grady Nichols February 28th, 2014 6pm-10pm At The Renaissance Hotel Individual Tickets: $50 Corporate Sponsorships Available Please contact Tiffany Adamson, 918-749-2141, for more information.

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filmreview

What’s old is new again

Louis C.K.’s online release of ‘Tomorrow Night’ is an anthropological find

by JOE O’SHANSKY

I

t’s hard to overstate my love of Louis C.K. The comedian, writer and filmmaker is the funniest stand-up act walking the planet; with the success of his hit FX series, “Louie,” we saw his talents behind the camera. A mélange of avant-garde comedy and gallows pathos, everything about the show seems channeled straight from C.K.’s off-kilter imagination. He writes, directs, and (often beautifully) shoots and edits most of the show himself; he’s a jack of all trades and, moreover, a self-taught one. He redefined what television comedy can be.

“Louie,” the show, is essentially a refined version of what we see in C.K.’s “lost” feature-film debut, “Tomorrow Night.”

Made in 1998 (but released for the first time last weekend via C.K.’s website; more on that later), “Tomorrow Night” tells the story of Charles (Chuck Sklar), a camera-store owner with a severe case of OCD and a curmudgeonly aversion to society. Charles is wound tight, as his mailman, Mel (J.B. Smoove), points out. But when the opportunity to get laid presents itself (the offer comes from a married nymphomaniac named Lola Vagina, played by a freakish Heather Morgan), he bolts home instead to get off in his more customary fashion: by sitting in a bowl full of Neopolitan ice cream while listening to ragtime songs.

When enough envelopes of developed film pile up and go unclaimed, the flustered Charles closes his shop and methodically calls his customers, demanding they pick up their pictures. That’s 48 // FILM & TV

Louis C.K., Rober t Smigel and Steve Carell

how he meets Florence (Martha Greenhouse), a geriatric woman married to the insane, psychologically abusive Lester (Joseph Dolphin). When Chuck sees the pristine orderliness of Florence’s apartment, he figures he’s found his soul mate and a real shot at love. Florence wants Chuck to “get rid” of Lester, but that takes care of itself when Lester’s eaten alive by a pack of wild dogs after winning big at the track. Wedding bells ensue.

And lest you think I’ve given it all away, I assure you I haven’t.

To say “Tomorrow Night” is weird would be an understatement (there’s some truly bizarre, free-form shit going on), but that would also sell the film short. C.K. is drawing some clear influences from Woody Allen and John Cassavetes, though they are unevenly filtered through his own nascent, auteur sensibilities.

While reasonably well-directed, only some of “Tomorrow

Night” works. The film takes time to acclimatize to, buoyed by episodic rhythms that start out feeling slapdash, only to coalesce into laughs as the narrative (such as it is) eventually reveals itself. Eventually, we get used to the characters. A cruelly funny subplot involving Florence’s idiot son (Gregg Hahn)—who doesn’t realize after 20 years in the Army that his “friends” in the mailroom (a pre-fame Robert Smigel and Steve Carrell) have been throwing his letters to his mom in the trash—comes off like a “M*A*S*H*” homage, if Hawkeye and Trapper were being even bigger dicks to Frank Burns than usual. C.K. is going for the uncomfortable jokes, and he succeeds as much as he fails, though even the material that falls flat is still unique, to say the least.

Filmed by C.K. on 16mm with varying degrees of skill, the look of “Tomorrow Night” is charming on the whole. It feels

like a handcrafted labor of love rather than a product. Some shots look lovely, others overexposed.

The same level of imperfection applies to the performances. Sklar (recalling John Turturro) is an unfathomable character, though his insularity is weirdly convincing. Meanwhile, J.B. Smoove is trying too hard, laughing it up at his own lines like a bad morning DJ. No one was going for an Oscar, but some of the players work out better than others, particularly among the many young stand-up comics. Todd Barry, Nick DiPaolo, Wanda Sykes, and Conan O’Brien (as himself; he helped get the film finished when C.K. ran out of money) cameo and are more at ease with the camera than their less-nuanced colleagues. The only consistent element is the adept score by composer Neal Sugarman.

But if the anthropology of these performers, and of Louis C.K. in particular, is your thing (and if so, you are my people), then “Tomorrow Night” is something you’ll want to see. It will certainly add to your enjoyment knowing how far these stars have come.

As mentioned, this film is available only at louisck.com as a $5 download. I struggled with whether or not to review it here, since your means of watching “Tomorrow Night” may vary. I’d recommend streaming it to your television from a laptop or tablet, if possible. The fact is, digital distribution is a significant slice of the cinematic landscape now, particularly for small indies. That’s something everyone should get used to.

Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

This is not a Larry Clark show Showing of new film featuring creator of “Tulsa” slated for AHHA this month

by JOE O’SHANSKY

M

ore than ten years ago Lee Roy Chapman finally scored a copy of Larry Clark’s “Tulsa,” the seminal, controversial, and influential book of photographs that chronicled the seedier side of life here during the mid-‘60s. The austerely immediate black-and-white images and their often lurid subject matter made a permanent impression on the self-dubbed History Recovery Specialist.

“Larry’s art reflects the truth, and certainly ‘Tulsa,’ the book, is an eponymous document and that scares some people,” Chapman said.

Photographed by Clark during a three-year jag of shooting film and amphetamines with his friends, “Tulsa,” first published in 1971, divided both critics and the public. Some praised the dark beauty found in Clark’s unflinching eye for the underbelly, hidden beneath the scrubbed Formica surface Tulsa presented to the world. Others criticized the focus on sex, drugs, and death as mere

THE TULSA VOICE // Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014

exploitive prurience.

“People have different perspectives,” Chapman said. “For some it’s exploitive, for others it’s revealing. I think it can be both…not something that has to be either accepted or rejected.”

Surprisingly (or perhaps not), the collection has never been given a proper exhibition in Clark’s birthplace. In 2011, 40 years after its publication, Chapman had an idea to rectify that.

With the help of friends, including filmmakers James Payne and Jeremy Lamberton, along with photographer Nick Haymes (all of whom documented the construction), Chapman created large reproductions of the book’s 59 photographs, papering them onto the walls of the derelict Big Ten Ballroom on Tulsa’s north side—a sort of blighted meta-installation built in admiration of a hometown black sheep.

“I felt that they should be shown while Larry’s alive and that it was almost even more poetic to do it

on the North Side where I know some of those guys hung out,” Chapman said. “Do it guerilla-style.

Not worry about all the bureaucrats and the politics, just go out and do something as artists. Like I say in the film, it was a temporary monument to Larry’s work.”

Adding another meta-layer, the resulting short film by Payne and Lamberton, as well as Haymes’ documentary photographs (along with other archival materials from Clark’s life and works), are the subjects of the upcoming “This Is Not a Larry Clark Show,” a onenight-only exhibition slated for Thursday, Feb. 13, at the Hardesty Arts Center.

Chapman hopes that the show draws the attention of admirers and detractors alike, but he’d like most to see Clark get the recognition he deserves from those who would ignore his cultural influence.

“According to the Chamber of Commerce, we’re just this straightlaced, great, cheap place to live.

Raise a family, corporations should

move here…that’s kinda their message,” Chapman said. “Whereas, I see Tulsa as an incubator for serious cultural giants. We know who they are…why do we have to wait until they’re brain dead or six feet under [to pay them respect]?”

For more information on “This Is Not a Larry Clark Show,” visit the Arts and Humanities Council’s website, ahct.org/ programs/ahha-films.

Tulsa’s independent and non-profit art-house theatre, showing independent, foreign, and documentary films.

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tvreview

C reator and star Lena Dunham in “Girls,” now in its third season, airs Sunday nights on HBO.

If you give an audience a cookie Lena Dunham’s HBO series continues to divide critics, prod viewers

by JOSHUA KLINE

N

ow in its third season, “Girls” is still the most divisive show on television, a lightning rod for a host of criticisms ranging from thoughtful to boorish.

On its face, the premise sounds as safe and phony as “Friends” or “Sex and the City”: a group of 20-something girlfriends and their various male counterparts struggle to succeed in life and love while living in Brooklyn. But the show aspires to an emotional realism that often manifests itself in characters who are selfish, immature and unlikable. The legitimate complaints question creator/star Lena Dunham’s self-awareness and ask why anyone would want to spend time with such spoiled, self-involved people. Meanwhile, the ad hominem attacks tend to focus on the personality and physicality of Dunham herself.

The show also has a fiercely loyal fan base, myself included. It’s sometimes unpleasant to watch, but Dunham’s writing is earnest and graceful. She clearly loves her characters, even as they behave in despicable ways. And that’s the problem for many viewers.

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This season’s fourth episode, “Dead Inside,” co-written by Dunham and Judd Apatow, the show’s producer, provided the closest thing to authorial judgment Dunham is likely ever to pass down.

When Hannah (played by Dunham) learns that her editor has died, she responds by fretting over the uncertain future of her e-book rather than mourning the loss of a colleague.

“Hannah, why don’t you put one crumb of basic human compassion on your fat-free muffin of sociopathic detachment?” scolds her boss at her coffee-shop day job. “See how it tastes.”

Most of the other characters, including her boyfriend Adam (Adam Driver), express similar concern and disgust over her apparent callousness. By the end of the episode, after she is harangued repeatedly over her lack of sensitivity, Hannah reassures Adam of her humanity by conjuring tears and delivering a contrived speech about how, as a teenager, she watched a friend slowly die.

The friend never existed. The same speech was delivered first to Hannah by Adam’s sister, Carolyn,

in an attempt to gauge Hannah’s level of unfeeling.

It’s a chilling way to end the episode, and on first glance it appears as if Dunham is actually confirming what some detractors of the show have said since the first episode: Hannah isn’t just selfish and immature. She’s a fullblown sociopath.

Ambiguities remain, though.

As Hannah herself points out, her editor wasn’t really her friend, and there’s no one right way to react to death. With each season, in ways both clumsy and clever, Dunham has shown a knack for toying with the expectations of the show’s hate-watchers, and I suspect this moment of revelation is no different. With season one, viewers complained about the overwhelming whiteness of the show.

Dunham’s response was to give Hannah a black boyfriend, only to have him break up with her two episodes later when she questions how, as a black man, he could possibly vote Republican. Internet trolls attacked her for daring to do nude scenes when she’s overweight; now she’s topless at some point in nearly every episode. The

snark-bloggers at Gawker, while occasionally complimentary, have attacked her from all angles. In “Dead Inside,” Hannah and Adam debate the value of the site. Adam, who hates it, seems to win the argument, but Dunham subverts accusations of pettiness by casting Hannah as Gawker’s impassioned defender.

It’s not often that a writer or filmmaker can successfully address criticism in such a meta way without it coming across as ugly, oversensitive, or extraneous to the story being told. Dunham is the exception, I believe, because she’s not seriously vexed by the attacks.

Her responses are confident and playful, rather than vindictive; she’s clearly taking immense pleasure from fucking with the viewers.

So, does Dunham see Hannah as a sociopath? Maybe.

But the false speech works as a metaphor for the relationship between Dunham and much of her audience. “Why don’t you show us nice feelings, like they do in ‘Friends’?” we ask her. And she responds by giving us exactly what we want: sentimentality predicated on a lie.

Feb. 5 – Feb. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Back in 2002, three young men launched Youtube, in part motivated by a banal desire. They were frustrated because they couldn’t find online videos of the notorious incident that occurred during the Superbowl halftime show, when Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction exposed her breast.

In response, they created the now-famous website that allows people to share videos. I foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence for you, Aquarius. A seemingly superficial wish or trivial interest could inspire you to come up with a fine new addition to your world. Pay attention to your whimsical notions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” That’s what 20th-century author Truman Capote said about his own writing process.

Back in that primitive pre-computer era, he scrawled his words on paper with a pencil and later edited out the extraneous stuff by applying scissors to the manuscript. Judging from your current astrological omens, Pisces, I surmise you’re in a phase that needs the power of the scissors more than the power of the pencil. What you cut away will markedly enhance the longterm beauty and value of the creation you’re working on.

enough alike to mimic a rhyme. An example occurs in “The Bad Touch,” a tune by the Bloodhound Gang: “You and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals / So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.”

Technically, “mammals” doesn’t rhyme with “channel.” I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have experiences with metaphorical resemblances to slant rhymes. But as long you don’t fuss and fret about the inexactness you encounter, as long as you don’t demand that everything be precise and cleaned-up, you will be entertained and ecuated. Vow to see the so-called imperfections as soulful.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “You know it’s Saturday when you are wiping off vodka stains from your face with a marshmallow,” testifies the woman who writes the Tumblr blog “French Fries Absinthe Milkshakes.”

I really hope you don’t even come close to having an experience like that anytime soon, Aries. But I’m worried that you will. I sense that you’re becoming allergic to caution. You may be subconsciously wishing to shed all decorum and renounce self-control.

To be clear, there’s nothing inherently wrong with relaxing your guard. I hope you will indeed give up some of your high-stress vigilance and surrender a bit to life’s sweet chaos.

Just please try to find a playful and safe and not-too-insane way to do so.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Almost,” writes novelist Joan Bauer.

“It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.”

I’m sure you know about that feeing yourself, Cancerian. Sometimes it has seemed like your entire life is composed of thousands of small almosts that add up to one gigantic almost. But I have good news: There is an excellent chance that in the next 14 to 16 weeks you will graduate from the endless and omnipresent almost; you will rise up and snatch a bold measure of completeness from out of the ever-shifting flow. And it all kicks into high gear now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What is the single best thing you could do to fulfill your number one desire? Is there a skill you should attain? A subject you should study?

A special kind of experience you should seek or a shift in perspective you should initiate? This is a big opportunity, Taurus. You have an excellent chance to identify the specific action you could take that will lead you to the next stage of your evolution. And if you do manage to figure out exactly what needs to be done, start doing it!

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of the chapter titles in my most recent book is this: “Ever since I learned to see three sides to every story, I’m finding much better stories.” I’m recommending that you find a way to use this perspective as your own in the coming weeks, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s crucial that you not get stuck in an oppositional mode. It would be both wrong and debilitating to believe that you must choose between one of two conflicting options. With that in mind, I will introduce you to a word you may not know: “trilemma.” It transcends a mere dilemma because it contains a third alternative.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1984, Don Henley’s song “The

Boys of Summer” reached the top of the Billboard charts. “Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac,” Henley sings wistfully near the end of the tune. He’s dismayed by the sight of the Grateful Dead’s logo, an ultimate hippie symbol, displayed on a luxury car driven by snooty rich kids. Almost 20 years later, the band The Ataris covered “The Boys of Summer,” but changed the lyric to “Out on the road today / I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.”

It conveyed the same mournful contempt, but this time invoking the iconic punk band Black Flag. I offer this tale to you, Virgo, as an encouragement to update the way you think about your life’s mythic quest . . . to modernize your old storylines . . . to refresh and refurbish the references you invoke to tell people about who you are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Food aficionado Michael Pollan says that Americans “worry more about food and derive less pleasure from eating” than people in other countries.

If you ask them what their association is with “chocolate cake,” they typically say “guilt.” By contrast, the French are likely to respond to the same question with “celebration.” From an astrological perspective, I think it’s appropriate for you to be more like the French than the Americans in the coming weeks -- not just in your attitude toward delicious desserts, but in regards to every opportunity for pleasure. This is one of those times when you have a license to guiltlessly explore the heights and depths of bliss.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the Inuktitut language spoken among the Eastern Canadian Inuit, the word for “simplicity” is katujjiqatigiittiarnirlu. This amusing fact reminds me of a certain situation in your life. Your quest to get back to basics and reconnect with your core sources is turning out to be rather complicated. If you hope to invoke

all of the pure, humble clarity you need, you will have to call on some sophisticated and ingenious magic.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree?” asked environmentalist Edward Abbey. His answer: “The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.”

I suggest you meditate on all the ways you can apply that wisdom as a metaphor to your own issues. For example: What monumental part of your own life might be of service to a small, fragile part? What major accomplishment of yours can provide strength and protection to a ripening potential that’s underappreciated by others?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves,” wrote the poet Federico García Lorca. I urge you to make sure you are not inflicting that abuse on yourself in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’s always dangerous to be out of touch with or secretive about your holy passions, but it’s especially risky these days.

I’m not necessarily saying you should rent a megaphone and shout news of your yearnings in the crowded streets. In fact, it’s better if you are discriminating about whom you tell.

The most important thing is to not be hiding anything from yourself about what moves you the most.

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Rock and Roll Crossword ACROSS

Puzzle, What Are You Doing Here? by Todd Santos

1 “Ratfinks, Suicide ___ and Cannibal Girls” White Zombie 6 Type of metal 10 Graham of The Hollies 14 Linkin Park “___ step closer to the edge” 15 Kate and ___ McGarrigle 16 “Only a Fool” jazz singer 17 Line in song 18 Def Leppard producer Robert “___” Lange 19 Sublime “___ I Got” 20 RHPS song “Sweet ___” 23 Mother Mother “___ Days” 26 Blind Melon “___ of Home” 27 Roger Waters “The Pros and Cons ___” 32 Neil Young’s 12th album 33 Like crowd before big show 34 Billy Joel might have one in the “Attic”?

35 “Bright Idea” #1ers 36 Billy Joel “___ Is the Time” 40 “Wishing Well” Terence ___ D’Arby 41 Trey Anastasio band 42 ’80 Rush classic “The ___” 45 Journey’s Neal 47 Warrant “Greatest & ___” 48 “The Whole of the Moon” band 53 MGMT “Your Life is ___” 54 Eagles “Hell Freezes ___” 55 Blink-182 “___ of the State” 59 What REO Speedwagon will do “With the Changes” 60 “Diamond Life” singer 61 ’80s “I Want to Be Your Man” Troutman 62 He got a “Kiss From a Rose”?

63 Kings of Leon “Velvet ___” 64 What unoriginal musician did

11 Stevie Wonder “Don’t You Worry ’Bout ___” 12 “Empire ___ of Mind” 13 Big Boi “She ___ Me” 21 Curvy Pearl Jam song?

22 Johnny Nash “___ It Up” 23 Loads of CDs 24 Hairdo of LMFAO’s Redfoo 25 U2 “Even Better ___ the Real Thing” 28 Whitesnake “___ Go Again” 29 Eric Hutchinson “It ___ Been Long Enough” 30 Billy Joel “___ Extremes” 31 Block of Sister Hazel 35 Cars “Let’s Go” singer Benjamin 36 Billy Joel “___ Her Style” 37 Kiss “___ Your Heart” 38 Bob Dylan song about Egyptian goddess?

39 Billy Joel “Big ___” 40 Tom Tom Club’s Weymouth 41 Garth Brooks “Unanswered ___” 42 Morphine song about a girl in Australia?

43 Drummed w/Emerson & Lake 44 “Low” ___ Rida 45 Successful rockers 46 Mother Love Bone’s “Dancer” 49 What you do to bad album 50 “Stop My Head” Dando 51 Completely make over in the studio 52 Cream “Strange ___” 56 It may be bruised, post-flop 57 Old-schooler Tillis 58 “I love you just the way you ___”

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1 Keith Urban “___ Summer Comes Around” 2 Christian singer Grant 3 Billy Bragg “Rule ___ Reason” 4 What you take up after “Undone - The Sweater Song”?

5 Babyface “Never Keeping ___” 6 Katy Perry’s song about an angry outburst?

7 David Soul “Don’t Give Up ___” 8 A-ha “The Sun Always Shines ___” 9 Fellow member, slang 10 Las Vegas’ Wayne 2/16

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by CHUCK SHEPHERD

Above Average Ask Americans how they stand compared to their fellow countrymen, and in survey after survey, the vast majority rank themselves "above average" in such areas as driving skill, sexual prowess, and general honesty. A recent study of English prisoners, published in the British Journal of Social Psychology, revealed that those miscreants think they, too, are in the upper half. They rate themselves above average (whether compared to Britons in prison or in society at large) in compassion, generosity, dependability, trustworthiness and honesty. In fact, the only trait on the University of Southampton survey on which the criminals failed to rank themselves as better than the typical Brit was "lawabidingness." On that trait, the inmates rated themselves merely as "average."

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Love the One

For nearly 30 years, until 2007, the U.S. national symbol, the bald eagle, was endangered and protected, but officially they (along with golden eagles) are now so insignificant that the government is willing to endure dozens of them being chopped to death annually in the blades of "clean energy" wind turbines.

An Associated Press investigation in December revealed that the

Lydell Coleman, 36, was charged with felony indecent exposure in Seattle in December. He had allegedly dropped his pants outside the Sub Shop at Westwood Village and begun "humping" the front window. Edwin Tobergta, 34, was sentenced to 11 months in prison in November after his earlier guilty plea in Hamilton, Ohio, to "having sex," naked, with a rubber pool float, in front of children. An inebriated Andrew Davidson, 25, was arrested in July on a train between Aberdeen, Scotland, and Glasgow after foisting himself on a beverage cart and "humping" it, shouting "I want to kiss you, I want to (have sex with) you."

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federal government is purposely ignoring the eagles' attrition out of fear that outraged conservationists' campaigns will hinder development of wind power as an alternative to coalproduced electricity. (Another recent AP investigation revealed a similar painful choice in the continued commitment to ethanol as a cleaner alternative fuel even though that cleanliness is being increasingly questioned, and even though ethanol production requires the massive diversion of corn that could inexpensively feed millions of hungry people worldwide.)

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ACROSS 1 It goes up in smoke 8 Sign on the ___ line 14 Spanish army hero El ___ 17 How many like their beer 18 Producing a deep, rich sound 20 Retro boot 21 Fight for a big man or woman?

23 “Clair de ___” (Debussy) 24 Gershwin or Levin 25 Loiter 26 It’s in it for the long haul 27 Hot dog (var.)

29 Exemplar of lightness 30 Zeno’s portico 31 Baby food 33 Opposite of frumpish 34 Impediment to smooth sailing 36 Blind official, in stereotypes 38 Small songbirds 40 Host at a roast 41 Nursemaid 43 Ocean 44 Yonder female 45 Medium’s claim 47 Put two and two together 48 Chinchilla’s coat 50 Sheer cotton fabric 52 Up to the time that 54 Indication of trouble 58 Small winning margin 59 “Without further ___ ...”

60 Activity for 65-Across 63 MacGraw of “Love Story”

64 Fourth mo.

65 Drunk tank regular 66 Needing a refill 67 Essential point 68 Christmas carol 70 Spain’s Costa del ___ 72 Crafty 74 A third of ninety?

75 Give employment to 76 As many as 77 Color property 78 Common Market letters 80 Hearty laugh sound 82 Always, with an apostrophe 83 Eat like a bird 84 Last word in movies?

85 Victim of the Bolsheviks 86 Fixed attitude 88 No longer squeaky 90 Beginning 92 ___ chi 93 Bristle of barley 95 Suffix of ordinal numbers 96 ET’s craft 97 Things on a list 99 Wet thud 102 Electric car maker 104 Flowing, at the bar 106 Take your pick 107 Lie in wait 109 Like some shoes and drinks 110 Congeal 111 “Fantastic Mr. Fox” author Roald 114 Golfer’s mound 115 Lyrical song style 117 Decorated with gold

120 Wander around leisurely 121 Grazing land 122 Broadway lights type 123 Ali, more than once 127 Like Annie Oakley’s aim 128 Kind of witness 129 Turkey is part of it 130 Equine critter 131 Be bitter about 132 Engaged in a petty argument DOWN 1 Some leg bones 2 Oval-shaped wind instrument 3 Radiation particle 4 Do something 5 Indianapolis team 6 Gridiron gripper 7 Redolent 8 Cry from Homer Simpson 9 Change from a cashier, often 10 Beginning of Hamlet’s soliloquy 11 Nonsense 12 Borne by the wind 13 Made a hole 14 Follow a losing plan?

15 Struck a match 16 Like Zooey Deschanel 18 Pig’s place 19 Leave in stitches?

20 Hint of light 22 Prepared for hanging 28 All thumbs 32 Fictitious name 35 Iron fishing hook 37 Aches and ___ 38 Insignificant train station

39 Neural network 42 Dance done in grass skirts 46 Winter attire 49 Listing of priors 51 Dairy farm sounds 53 Something to scratch 54 Accumulated, as a tab 55 Dispense with nuptials 56 Watching one’s weight 57 Weather prophet of Feb. 2 59 Pint contents 61 Blender button 62 Use, as influence 69 Mischief-making Norse god 71 Stayed in front 73 Positive votes 79 Belief 81 Start for sack 85 Porous limestone 87 Type of pickle 89 They’re often the best parts 90 Exists longer than 91 Head honcho 93 Falcons’ home 94 Donners, as of clothing 98 Squirrels away 100 Endure longer than 101 Early delivery 103 Africa’s Sierra ___ 105 Countermand 108 Telephone panel 112 Distressed 113 Swimsuit synthetic 116 Physicist with a law 118 Greek harp 119 Kind of bed 120 1,000 G’s 124 Corny piece?

125 Have a little lamb 126 Item sometimes worn backward

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