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Solidarity with Rojava

WINTER & SPRING PERFORMING ARTS GUIDE

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Local non-profit offers support to revolutionary movement MITCH GILLIAM // 10 12 // N o piece, no peace!

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Barry Friedman, flintlock

Ray Pearcey, baller

Oklahoma’s gun apologentsia

The conclusion of Building Football 3.0

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P34 FULL TILT BO O G IE TO THE WIND Jennie Lloyd, proud mom

Sons and mothers, drag fab and “Kinky Boots” f e at u r e d

C O V E R I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y J E R E M Y L U T H E R

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Beau Adams, java lush

The life and death of a neighborhood steakhouse

Day drinking with Iron Gate director Connie Cronley

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ulsa has no shortage of stage talent, as evidenced in this issue of The Tulsa Voice. Our winter/spring performing arts guide by Alicia Chesser and John Langdon offers a map to navigating the hundred-plus shows coming our way between now and summer, including Tulsa Opera’s performance of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Tulsa Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” and Playhouse Tulsa’s modern approach to Harper Lee’s classic novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” See page 24 for details on these shows and dozens of others.

“Kinky Boots,” opening in Tulsa February 2, tells the story of Charlie Price, a shoe factory owner, and Lola, the drag queen recruited to save the factory. For writer Jennie Lloyd, the Tony Award-winning musical is deeply personal (page 34). In addition

to interviewing lead performer J. Harrison Ghee (who plays Lola), Lloyd introduces us to her teenage son, a budding drag queen in his own right who’s found the courage to be himself in the face of bullying, thanks in part to pop culture touchstones like “Boots.”

Courage in farther reaches of the globe is found in Rojava, a libertarian socialist stronghold in Northern Syria working to establish a progressive utopia as it fights ISIS. Two Tulsans recently founded Rojava Solidarity Oklahoma, a non-profit group meant to raise awareness and bring practical support to the region. Mitch Gilliam interviews the co-founders on page 10.

Closer to home, Mark Brown offers a post-mortem tribute to the recently-closed Doe’s Eat Place (page 18), the inimitable little steakhouse that occupied a

corner of Cherry Street for over a decade, and Megan Shepherd gives us the skinny on Tulsa’s new clean-eating oasis, Evolve Paleo Chef (page 16).

In Views from the Plains, an exasperated Barry Friedman (is he ever not exasperated?) unpacks Oklahoma’s fear of losing its firearms in light of President Obama’s recent executive actions (page 12). Spoiler alert: No one is taking your guns.

On page 20, Day Drinking returns after a three-month absence.

Beau Adams shares a thermos of coffee under the Maybelle bridge with Iron Gate executive director Connie Cronley.

Finally, we preview upcoming music shows from Count Tutu and The New Tulsa Meters (page 38), Joe O’Shansky reviews films “Carol” and “Youth” (page 42), and Ray Pearcey concludes his

three-part series on head trauma in football (page 14).

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Solidarity with Rojava Local non-profit offers support to revolutionary movement in Northern Syrian

by MITCH GILLIAM

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n Northern Syria, there is a place called Rojava, and its people are building a heaven while fighting ISIS. Two Tulsans— Peter Von Gotcher and Dean Franklin Grove II—have recently formed a local non-profit to raise awareness of this unique region whose people are resisting violent religious extremism in favor of a Western-influenced vision of pluralistic harmony.

“In order to combat [radical Islam] you have to have an alternative ideology,” Grove told me. “[What Rojava is doing] is a meshing of Eastern and Western thought in all ways.”

What Rojava is doing is, in a word, revolutionary.

The story of Rojava is a complex, decades-long affair. The area is under the control of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which serve as the armed forces of the Kurdish Supreme Committee (PYD). When the Syrian Civil War created a power vacuum in the region, Syrian Kurds, an ethnicity long persecuted by both Syria and their Northern neighbor of Turkey, established Rojava as a Western Kurdistan. Shirking the Assad regime’s conservativism, they adopted a model of Democratic Confederalism. This political concept was extolled by jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and developed during his prison correspondence with American Anarchist author Murray Bookchin.

Von Gotcher and Grove, longtime activists in Oklahoma, began paying attention to Rojava during the Arab Spring. Now, taking a cue from other groups in New York and Toronto, they’ve formed Rojava Solidarity Oklahoma to draw local attention to the far-flung 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

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region, and to recruit other activists who can provide tech support, construction work, education, medical assistance and even defense support. Although Grove and Von Gotcher hope to travel to Rojava, they plan to stay where they can have the biggest impact, which, for now, is Oklahoma.

Likened by some to Libertarian Socialism, the Rojavan model places a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability, feminism, and ethnic equality—apart from the Kurds, Rojava is occupied

by Arabs, Chechens, Armenians, Turkmen, and Assyrians, along with the varied ethnicities of its visitors and fighters. This progressive philosophy has attracted global media coverage to the region. Oklahoma congressman Steve Russell, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who recently

spoke out in favor of welcoming refugees to the U.S., was photographed in 2014 alongside the YPG flag with Joshua Bell, an Oklahoman who fought against ISIS with the YPG. Not only is it mandatory that every male official have a female counterpart; the women of Rojava have their own armed forces in the Women’s Protections Units (YPJ).

The YPJ were instrumental in the Siege of Kobanî, which reclaimed the city from ISIS, a group whose recruitment tactics include sex slavery. The symbolism wasn’t lost on Rojava’s leaders, who issued this statement: “The battle for Kobanî was not only a fight between the YPG and [ISIS]… it was a battle between all human values and the enemies of humanity.”

ISIS and other forces in the area have wreaked havoc on Roja-

va’s medical infrastructure. Grove sees connections to cheap medical supplies in India as a way to help. “The plan so far is to ship [medical supplies] to groups in Germany,” he said. “Once there, they will transfer the supplies to the Kobane Reconstruction Board or the Kurdish Red Crescent, the two main groups they are working with to build mobile clinics.” The mobile clinics are indispensable assets in a place where untreated spider bites can be as deadly as IEDs. Apart from logistical support, Von Gotcher and Grove say simple displays of solidarity mean worlds to the Rojavan fighters, who monitor worldwide press on their efforts.

Rojava Solidarity Oklahoma has one such display planned for January 22nd at the Yeti, billed “Refugees Welcome Here,” with performances from the Danner Party and local rappers Surron The Seventh and Verse. Tulsa women’s self-defense school, Warrior Sisters, will have an information table at the show.

According to Von Gotcher, the show is a display of solidarity for both Rojava and refugees in general, as well as an attempt to raise political awareness and support for the YPG. The balderdash nature of the Syrian Civil War, along with Turkey’s racially charged negative view of Rojava, has cast an odd light over the U.S.’s position on the egalitarian stronghold. Turkey is warning the U.S. and Russia (who share a common enemy in ISIS) not to arm YPG fighters, as they fear the YPG will cross the Euphrates and establish a Kurdish state. The U.S. has armed (Continued on page 13)

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Oklahoma’s gun apologentsia

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he Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies - the militia - would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.

— Retired Chief Justice Warren Burger, “The Right to Bear Arms,” Parade Magazine, January 14, 1990

Let’s begin.

This, then, from the president of the United States: “I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense,” he said.

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AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”

It’s how these things get started, it’s the slippery slope, it’s what dictators do, it’s … not Obama.

Ronald Reagan, in fact, wrote these words in 1991, in an editorial in the New York Times1, after leaving the White House. Nobody in the GOP came down with apoplexy. Nobody questioned Reagan’s patriotism.

Let’s fast forward 25 years, to the GOP reaction—especially our representatives here in Oklahoma—to President Obama’s announced 23 executive actions last month, designed to tighten background checks and enforce existing gun legislation2. To hear their harping, you’d think an inalienable right to firearms was on the tablets Moses handed to the Founding Fathers during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

The president’s initiative—and this is the maddening part about the GOP meltdown—will simply

enforce laws already on the books, something Republicans demanded he do in the weeks following the Sandy Hook massacre3. Sure, it closes some gun show loopholes, strengthens some internal measures, and funds mental health and safe gun technology, but for the love of Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson themselves, Obama is not coming for your guns. If he were—and he’s been in office almost eight years—he’d have them by now.

“If a child can’t open a bottle of aspirin,” Obama said, “we should make sure that they can’t pull a trigger on a gun.”

To Oklahoma’s elected representatives, though, it’s that kind of logic that gets you to martial law4.

They were equal parts hysterical and hyperbolic, unfocused and unbelievable, more concerned with tossing red meat to a base that exists on the fringe of constitutional reality than offering anything meaningful to the majority of

Americans who are tired of seeing dead first graders and bullet holes in break rooms—and who also understand that all amendments, including and maybe especially the 2nd, have limits5.

And who wouldn’t want to close loopholes, fund mental health and safe gun technology, and keep firearms away from crazy people?

Don’t answer that.

First District Congressman Jim Bridenstine apparently doesn’t know the federal government already has our social security numbers.

“The president plans to prohibit certain Social Security recipients from legall y owning firearms,” Bridenstine said in a release. “In response, I will cosponsor legislation to prohibit the Social Security commissioner from turning over Social Security numbers to the Justice Department-run gun background check system.”

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Second District Congressman Markwayne Mullin needed two cans of Pledge to dust off this discredited trope.

Second District Congressman Markwayne Mullin said “more gun control will not deter criminals from perpetrating evil acts.”

Senator Jim Inhofe, well, who the hell knows what’s going on here?

“For months [Obama] has had his staff working night and day to find ways for him to push his gun control agenda unilaterall y while we’ve been waiting years for any leadership or a clear strategy for the Middle East, ISIL and Syria.”

Senator James Lankford managed to blame gun violence on everything except, you know, guns.

Lankford said Americans are “broken-hearted by senseless acts of violence” and should “evaluate the root causes that lead to violence, like broken families, mental health, drug use and a culture that glorifies violence.” Lankford said Obama “generall y misses those root causes.”

Tough to read those comments without wanting to repeatedly stab a ballpoint pen into your palm.

Sabine Brown, Oklahoma Chapter Leader for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, has Lankford’s root causes right here.

“Nearl y 600,000 unique gun ads were posted last year by unlicensed sellers on a single site, Armslist.com, where in 32 states, including Oklahoma, it’s easy for felons, domestic abusers, and the dangerousl y mentall y ill to buy a gun with no background check, no questions asked.”

So, look, senator, we’re not broken-hearted, senator, we’re alternately numb and furious at being played. So much sanctimony, so little sympathy. Theatergoers get murdered, you say they should have been packing; 14 get killed

in San Bernardino, you send your thoughts and prayers; kids get shot in an elementary school, you advocate arming teachers. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, you tell us, is a good guy with a gun, but sometimes the “good” guy shoots the victim in the head6, the 3-year-old shoots the 2-yearold7, the wannabe hero shoots the actual hero8. We have 300 million guns in this country and 30,000 gun-related deaths a year but, apparently, that’s the cost of freedom9. We cannot inconvenience terrorists on a watch list who want to buy a glock from a guy behind a card table at Expo Square, we cannot study the effects of gun violence, we cannot force gun owners to carry insurance, we cannot limit the number of clips in automatic weapons, we cannot have one nationwide system for background checks, we cannot register guns the way we register cars, we cannot impede people’s right to firearms, we cannot implement research that proves gun control works10.

And why? Because John Wayne and Westerns and because Charlton Heston and his “cold dead hands” and because Benghazi and because Obama did something sometime about something else and because we’re the greatest country in the world and because God watches over us. Let those European socialists outlaw guns and protect their children from lunatics who buy thousands of rounds on the Internet. This is America! And let’s not quibble over a comma. You say militia, I say four guys with assault rifles in the snack aisle of Target, let’s call the whole thing off.

We now head to our WTF folder for this: Sen. Josh Brecheen, R-Coalgate, has a measure that would reduce the handgun license renewal and application fee to $25 from $85.

Back in the winter of 2008— and this was before he was president, when we loved our insurance companies, celebrated our great victory in Iraq, marveled at the masters of the economy and their expert handling of the housing situation (presumably the very greatness to which Donald Trump will return us), Candidate Barack

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Obama said this about a country’s frustration12: So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

He was called an elitist, remember, un-American, uppity? Thing was, he was called that by anti-trade, anti-immigrant, gun-clinging representatives like ours.

And he wasn’t wrong.

“I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons,” the president said, “I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharpl y restricted and onl y under licenses.”

You don’t remember Obama saying that? Well, you shouldn’t, because he didn’t13. It came from Karl T. Frederick. Who’s Karl T. Frederick? Past President of the National Rifle Association. a

1) New York Times: Why I’m for the Brady Bill 2) vox.com: President Obama’s boldest action on guns yet, explained 3) thehill.com: GOP lawmakers call on Obama, Holder to enforce gun laws 4) Tulsa World: Congressional delegation slams Obama’s initiatives on guns 5) people-press.org: Growing Public Support for Gun Rights 6) rawstory.com: Texas ‘good guy with a gun’ shoots carjacking victim in head — then runs away 7) CBS News: Utah boy, 2, shot and killed by 3-year-old sister 8) NBC News: Armed Giffords hero nearly shot wrong man 9) USA Today: Death rates from guns, traffic accidents converging 10) harvard.edu: New Statistics Indicate Gun Control Works 11) Tulsa World: Lawmakers’ bills include fines for students who misbehave, electromagnetic pulse attacks 12) politico.com: Obama on small-town Pa.: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia 13) Addictinginfo.org: Before Wayne LaPierre There Was Karl Frederick – An NRA Leader Who Seldom Carried A Gun

(Continued from page 10) the YPG, overtly and through front groups like the Syrian Arab Coalition. It was U.S. airstrikes that paved the way for the YPG’s Siege of Kobanî, but U.S. officials have said they will not recognize any separate state in Syria set up by the Kurds.

Part of Turkey’s animosity towards the YPG stems from their perceived association with Abdullah Öcalan’s PKK. “It’s not a perfect revolution,” Grove said, referencing the “cult of personality” surrounding Öcalan. Both Turkey and the U.S. list the PKK, which Öcalan governs through his lawyers from prison, as a terrorist organization. Before his incarceration (and behind-bars conversion from Marxist-Leninism to Democratic Confederalism), Öcalan led his forces against Turkey in hopes of establishing a separate Kurdish state.

“I think that by nature many of the PKK have an affinity for the YPG and their cause, and will fight there,” Grove said. “But at the end of the day the YPG doesn't see itself as fighting for Kurdish nationalism. Öcalan is the ideological leader of the PKK and his ideas guided the YPG, but the YPG is simply the people's protection forces.”

The YPG has also recently come under fire from Amnesty International for alleged forced displacement of Arabs in Northern Syria. The YPG issued a statement claiming the authors of the Amnesty report were informed by “political parties hostile to the YPG and the Self-Administration in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava).”

But according to Grove, “the increasing amount of Sunni Arabs and other groups [in the YPG] pretty much negates the claims made by Amnesty International.”

Regardless of international criticisms, and the U.S.’s murky associations with the YPG, Rojava Solidarity Oklahoma will continue to raise awareness. Whether in Oklahoma or in Northern Syria, they hope through logistical support, donations, or actual combat, they can help Rojava bring the fight to ISIS. a NEWS & COMMENTARY // 13

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Fans speak The conclusion of ‘Building Football 3.0’

by RAY PEARCEY

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his is the third and final installment in a series on head trauma and the future of football. In part one, we looked at the new science of football-related concussions and injuries. Last issue, we scoped technologies, rule changes and tracking systems that might foster a safer gridiron.

We conclude by interviewing local fans about the game’s future and their notions of what might lie ahead.

opposite of the hallway. He asked briskly if I “liked to hit.”

It was a bizarre question, but I quickly discerned that the big guy was trying to recruit me for the Kangaroos, my junior high football team. He was of course, a coach, and I told him that I had a debate team commitment that ruled football out.

While this was true, there was a tentpole event, earlier in my life, burnished in memory.

The kid who crashed My second big encounter with football was in junior high. I was walking down a school corridor in Killeen, Texas in the late sixties. A giant man crossed over from the

My dad, an Army guy, wanted me to play flag football in elementary school while we were stationed in Germany. During my second game, a kid I didn’t know got hit,

went down badly and was carted off field; this was in the early ‘60s.

My little peers and I never knew where the kid went—he was never again seen in my school.

One day, while I was eavesdropping on my mom’s exchange with a neighbor, I heard that the kid and his family had been shipped back to the U.S. because of head injuries. I’ll never forget the neighbor saying that the kid “couldn’t talk.” The neighbor also said the Army hoped that stateside doctors could bring him “back.”

The whole episode, rare as it must have been then—and now—made a permanent impression on me. a

Local fans on football futures

“Can you imagine any business or industry (apart from the military) where it is assumed that one third or more of the workers are going to have injuries for life?

You know the most common effects of injury, from what I've read about brain injury, is anger—spontaneous anger.

I still have some having been in a car accident. I often think about the off-field football incidents, where a player beats up a girlfriend on an elevator, or the Adrian Peterson case, where a player aggressively hits his kid. You know, it's not just about looking at behaviors that come from a big brain injury, it may be more about a series of small bumps that build up. The game needs to be reworked to liberate players from this trauma.”

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“Whatever solution is proposed will be technological and made up of rule changes ... I read somewhere that kick-offs and punt returns are the most dangerous plays in the game. Maybe we'll target them for a change. I went to school out of state so I don't have the OU/OSU obsession, and I rarely watch pro ball. I have been watching Sam Bradford and the Eagles for the past two years, but it's been a waste of time.

I purposely watch the Cincinnati/Pittsburgh games because of the ill will between the teams. It's sort of like watching demolition derby car races.”

Dick Lieser, RETIRED COMPUTER SCIENCE EXPERT

“ What should we think about a venture in which 97% of the performers suffer temporary disabilities, 65% suffer permanent disability and a half dozen or more players are killed during a typical season? A good football game is simple: no one gets hurt. I think we'll see more of an effort to stop ‘targeting’—we saw it during the Cincinnati Bengals game earlier this month. And players are going to see more penalties, but I don't see that the rule changes are going to diminish the popularity of the sport for spectators or participants in my lifetime.

We have a sports culture that is truly engrained in our time; it may be in our DNA. I'll keep showing up as long as there are games to attend.”

Bill Salwaechter, FORMER SUPERINTENDENT OF CLAREMORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

“I was raised on OU football. In part it was a fascination with the Owens family, Stephen and Tinker Owens. And there was small-town world; we had high school football—a pretty big deal.

I always looked forward to Friday nights during the fall and as I got older, the guys, my fellow high school classmates who played the game, were people I admired. And these guys were doing something I couldn't have done even though I was very competitive, very athletic. Then it was off to OSU and a lot of football defeats while there. After that, I got to go to a pro game featuring Earl Campbell (Houston Oilers/New Orleans Saints), the biggest person I'd ever seen. His thigh was bigger around than my entire body.

I didn't want my boys playing football. They played soccer. The weird thing about pro football is it's gotten so technical because of the rules. I've lost interest in it.”

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Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant Mr. Taco Oklahoma Style BBQ Philly Alley 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

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Clean eating Evolve Paleo Chef offers natural eating for the health-conscious

by MEGAN SHEPHERD

U

pon hearing of Tulsa’s newest clean-eating restaurant, Evolve Paleo Chef, I couldn’t help but shake my head at what I imagined would be another over-priced, unimpressive (and inevitably boring) trendy diet restaurant serving ready-to-zap meals out of airtight containers. After sampling a salad, two entrees, and eight juices (all dairy, gluten, and refined sugar-free) from Evolve, I am happy—and stunned—to admit I was wrong.

It bears mentioning that the Paleo diet has become somewhat of a four-letter word recently. The Paleolithic Period-inspired lifestyle is often associated with over-eager, egg-guzzling cross-fitters, and is known for its intense, hard to sustain parameters: no gluten, dairy, alcohol, added sugar or processed foods, and lots and lots of veggies and fruits, eggs, fish and meat.

But for folks looking to take on an eating plan comprised primarily of natural, unprocessed foods, the Paleo diet is a solid bet.

Most people go Paleo in an attempt to become leaner, lose weight, and decrease inflammation. More do so at the recommendation of a doctor to combat things like Diabetes, Celiac, Fibromyalgia, and autoimmune disease.

Still, preparing food without the additives we’ve become so used to (grains, butter, milk, sugar, oils, etc.) is a real challenge for many.

Evolve co-owner Jason Fechter says one of the hardest adjustments for people new to eating Paleo is understanding that natural food can taste good, too.

“A lot of it is training the mind back to the way things used to be,” he explained. “But a lot of people miss that social interaction of going out to eat at a restaurant.”

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Evolve’s juice fleet | MICHELLE POLLARD

Evolve’s general manager Amy Forsythe said first-timers are often surprised by how simple it can be.

Evolve makes it easy for diners to stay on track, offering quick, “natural” meals and juices—all without sacrificing the flavor and satisfaction of a chef-prepared dish. Substitutes like honey, olive and coconut oils, and ghee (clarified butter) give entrees the same flavor, seasoning, and consistency that non-Paleo eaters are used to (well, almost the same).

Walk into Evolve and you’ll see Technicolor fridges filled with local produce, stacks of refrigerated grab ‘n go entrees off to the side, plenty of comfortable seating space and no shortage of natural light (an intentional addition by the owners, who felt the space was “a little dungeony” when they moved in).

Browse the shelves for entrees, salads, snacks, Paleo condiments, and fresh cold-pressed juices offering an array of benefits and

protections (the Anti is great for fighting pain and inflammation, while the Beat It offers a great pre-work out energy boost).

Evolve’s team is happy to mix up personalized juices for whatever ails you as well.

Evolve Tulsa marks the sixth location in the Kansas City-based Evolve Paleo Chef family. Owners Caleb Summers, a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef, and Fechter, a licensed chiropractor, started the business out of their home kitchen as a side hobby after jumping into the lifestyle.

“We’re chefs first who just happen to be Paleo,” Summers said.

Fifteen clients in Kansas City soon became a full-fledged business with locations in Wichita, Lowell, and Tulsa. But the owners insist the expansion hasn’t affected their commitment to quality dishes with flavor.

This commitment is a product of intentional balance. While Fechter plants himself firmly in

the ‘eat to live’ camp and swears he “could do grilled chicken, broccoli, and carrots for three or four meals in a row,” Summers’ food philosophy is far more rooted in taste, quality, and experience.

“I like good food. I love eating, and I love tasting food,” he said.

“And I like when people eat my food and enjoy it.”

Together, they’re able to brainstorm ideas for nutritious dishes they’re both excited about. Then Caleb hits the kitchen to see how he can make them work with a Paleo spin.

“I would say 98% percent of it is food I actually like to eat, and the rest is just preference,” Fechter said. “It’s trial and error.”

The result is dishes like Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie, a BBQ Meat Plate, Roasted Turkey, Blackened Chicken, and the fan-favorite, Chili Mac. With such a heavy traffic flow, folks looking to pick up pre-made entrees like these should shop earlier in the day and week for the best selection. Menus change weekly and cycle through a two month rotation to ensure variety.

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Doe’s Eat Place bar | MICHELLE POLLARD

Skip town The life and death of a neighborhood steakhouse

by MARK BROWN

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ditor’s note: After 11 years in business, Doe’s Eat Place on Cherry Street recently closed its doors.

Months before the new millennium, I rode with a colleague in a rented van to Anniston, Alabama, home of David F. Friedman, longtime president of the Adult Film Association of America. My friend was a fan boy. I was only along for the ride.

We hit Little Rock around lunchtime. I quelled my fear of eating in chain restaurants by suggesting we try Doe’s Eat Place. I’d read somewhere that Bill Clinton cut his chops there.

It’s on Markham Street, otherwise known as the Arkansas River Trail. But it was Sunday and Doe’s was closed.

Glumly, I climbed back in the van, resigned to my fate. Out on 18 // FOOD & DRINK

the edge of town, we pulled over at a truck-stop Subway. I’d never been to a Subway before and my pal had to help me navigate the build-your-own assembly line of bread, meat and cheese. We took a table near the window and ate our sandwiches. Out on I-40, the caravan of American commerce rolled sleepily along.

The Tulsa Doe’s, at Cherry and Quincy, didn’t do lunch. I found out one day trying to open the front door. Doe’s had recently moved into the space vacated by Ihloff Salon.

Council Oak Books once had offices on the top floor. Doe’s took that, too—big wooden tables and views of the downtown. “(My husband) Greg said it’s as good a steak as he ever had in his life,” said Marilyn Ihloff. “They lost me on the presentation. You

know those little three-cornered sour cream containers?”

Doe’s was known for tamales and steaks, a weird tradition of the original Doe’s Eat Place in Greenville, Mississippi. There are Doe’s in Paducah, Bentonville, Baton Rouge and Monroe and Fort Smith, on 3rd Street, four blocks from the Arkansas. Doe’s follows the river, and Tulsa was its westernmost outpost, a watering hole of hundred-year-old wood known for mammoth cuts of beef and “extended hours on game days.”

Was. “It’s been a great 11-year run,” proprietor Skip Long said, in a message on the Doe’s answering machine. “Thank you, Tulsa.”

I partook once—an arugula salad studded with cool slices of smoked tenderloin. We ate bathed in a blue light thrown by television screens. We were short on time, that’s my excuse, but I

hate not going with a place’s best pitch. I’ve fantasized about eating the $70 Porterhouse and walking across the street for a steam at Aquarian Age. I emailed John, my man in Cambodia, to give him the news.

“There’s an Arkansas arrogance to the place that I can see would put Tulsans off,” he wrote back.

John Phillips, who launched The Chalkboard in the mid-Seventies and again in the late-Nineties, “ate about 100 times at Doe’s in Little Rock. It’s down by the Capitol and that’s where I met Bill Clinton back in early ’90. My best buddy was a regular there.

He had a big ad agency in downtown LR. Senators and bigshots all quaffing monster plastic glasses of sweet tea and gorging on saltines and plastic bowls of pathetically plain salsa.

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“Tamales and enormous cuts of beef—brings tears to my eyes.

Reminds me how I’ve screwed my life up.”

Dominick “Doe” Signa and his wife Mamie opened Doe’s Eat Place in 1941. Doe’s father opened a grocery store in Greenville in 1903 where he made tamales by the sack full and fed black people out front and white people out the back door, for a change. It’s a tale told in mom-and-pop restaurants throughout the kettle of America: Italian immigrants, house back behind the store, bootlegging on the side, groceries spilling over into makeshift menus.

“The Little Rock Doe’s is decrepit and falling apart,” Phillips said, “which is part of its charm.

The top table is a round one left of the front door. There’s a back room but few want to eat there, as you can’t be seen. It’s a very cliquey place. That’s why Clinton was a regular.”

“Jerry Jones owner of the Dallas Cowboys dropped by for a steak the other night. Great guy!” That

Doe’s Eat Place board room | MICHELLE POLLARD

from the Greenville Doe’s Facebook page. Jerry dropped in on December 2 … 2012.

A Doe’s page on the website of the Southern Foodways Alliance includes photos of Doe’s sons. Charles poses officially in a button-down blue shirt. Down the page, Doe’s other son, “Little Doe,” smiles over a cooking kettle, looking like Peter Clemenza from The Godfather.

I called and asked for Charles

but he wasn’t in. I left a message with a sweet-sounding woman but I could feel it sinking into the Mississippi mud even before I signed off.

Tulsa seems to have two brands of steakhouses, Lebanese ones and uppity ones. More a carnivorous cantina, Doe’s Eat Place occupied a red-meat no-man’s land, led by a no-man named Skip Long.

“He lived in the Savoy, with a great Golden Retriever,” Michael Wallis, Tulsa historian and longtime Doe’s patron, said. “I know other guys who got divorced who moved in there. Kind of a bachelor’s pad.”

Wallis had a table in the bar, where Long would prop him to provide customers a view of the local celebrity with the Diamond Jim appetite.

“We’d start with a dozen tamales,” Wallis said. “You could get lobster, shrimp, surf-and-turf. But it was all about meat. He never made a lot of the so-called ‘lists,’ but I thought it was just great. And I’ve eaten a lot of steak in my life.”

I’d left a message on Skip’s answering machine, hoping for a call. When a guy does a place like Doe’s Eat Place for a decade, what does he do next?

“Skip was kind of a dreamer,” Wallis said. “I always had this feeling—he never said this—that he was the type of guy whose dream was to get on a boat and sail up the inlets of Puget Sound.

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WHERE: Maybelle Bridge WHAT: A thermos full of coffee — no cups Beau Adams, Iron Gate executive director Connie Cronley, and director of operations Matt Mitchell | GREG BOLLINGER

A saint in the city Day Drinking with Iron Gate director Connie Cronley

by BEAU ADAMS

I

ron Gate executive director Connie Cronley speaks directly, sometimes excitedly. We meet downtown at her office in the back of Trinity Episcopal Church, where Iron Gate still remains after “Pearlgate,” last year’s controversial effort to relocate the soup kitchen and food pantry to 3rd and Peoria in the Pearl District.

Cronley tells me she’s been given a map to an underpass by one of her guests, a frequenter of the shelter it provides. We head to the Maybelle Bridge north of Cain’s.

The Tulsa Voice: How long have you been with Iron Gate now?

Connie Cronley: About ten years, not always as hired help. At first as a volunteer, then as a board member and now at my current position.

TTV: So, you’ve worked your way— CC: Down. [Laughs] TTV: You made the mistake of showing yourself as competent?

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CC: Well, I said when I started that I would raise money, but I did not want to be part of the day-to-day operations–now look at me!

TTV: Why did you think that?

Because you didn’t have the time?

CC: No, more because I didn’t have the training or background.

Years back I got involved with an animal rescue group and now I have six cats and a big dog. I thought, “I’m going to have all of these people living with me.”

But at some point and time our director left and I was telling people, “Look, we have to have someone who can raise money, someone who can get us exposure, publicity, etc…” And then I thought, “Wait a minute. I can do that.” I had already done it for the Tulsa Ballet.

TTV: Let’s address your facility. I think we all know the battle your organization had to fight last year when you had a place to move to. It met such strong opposition from local government and The Pearl District that it was shut down. Where are you now?

CC: We call that experience “Pearlgate.” I think we all knew that we weren’t going to be able to move our organization without some opposition, but I think we were all surprised by both the volume and the volume of the opposition, most surprisingly by a number of people who identified themselves as Episcopalians. I suppose they felt some ownership for the fact that Iron Gate started in the Episcopalian church, but I’m unsure.

I know that Trinity [Episcopal Church] is anxious for us to move on. We are anxious to move on because you can see how small our space is to work in and serve the community, but places are tight and costly because all of the sudden downtown is booming.

One of the reasons we are anxious to move is so that we can get everybody inside when they come to eat, because the perception is that only people who are homeless come to eat at Iron Gate. These are our guests who line up for food outside, or go to smoke a cigarette after - these are the people that downtowners see and say, “Those are the bums that associate with Iron Gate.” Actually, only

about one-fourth of the people we serve are homeless. They don’t see the families that come. They don’t see the children who come to us to get groceries. So, that’s why we say whenever we find a new facility we want everyone to be able to come inside - so that they may stand in line with dignity.

TTV: What is the main issue facing the people who use Iron Gate’s services? Is it poverty, mental health, addiction?

CC: Well, I think the homeless people that come and see us have mental health issues and addiction issues to a certain extent - and obviously this has played into the fact that they are also poor. But the other people we serve, either at the soup kitchen or the grocery pantry - their issue is poverty.

TTV: The working poor.

CC: Yes. Even if they have two or three jobs, they are having trouble making ends meet, and then they have one crisis, like a car that breaks down or a child falls ill, and their food budget is

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gone. So, they can come to us and we can help make the ends meet.

In that way, Iron Gate prevents homelessness. We are their safety net until they can get back on their feet.

TTV: Is the largest misconception about your organization the idea that all you do is feed and enable homeless people?

TTV: You could have let somebody else do this and just sat on the board or something. Why didn’t you?

CC: Well, you know, it’s hard to find someone foolish enough to do this job! [laughs] TTV: Yeah, that’s funny, but I don’t buy it. You beam when you

talk about your job. You’re happy doing this work.

CC: I really do care about it. I went from wearing little black dresses at the Ballet to having my fashion critiqued on a daily basis by the homeless—and let me tell you something, they are not bashful when it comes to criticizing me. This has been the

best learning experience for me, the compassion experience. To see a population that I certainly wouldn’t have seen at the ballet…

I think that maybe one thing I bring to this is being a bridge between those two societies. I’m not afraid to be there, and perhaps people will think, “If this little white girl isn’t afraid to be there, maybe it’s not a scary place.” a

CC: Yes. I think that is something we work every day to change, that perception. Many people who live on the street can’t work. It’s not about wanting to work. They have disabilities, unaddressed mental health and addiction issues—we all know about them and we need something bigger than a soup kitchen to make a change in their lives. However, what we want to point out is that we are seeing so many seniors who are using our pantry for food to offset the costs of their medication, students with little or no income, families with one or both parents who still live below the poverty line - these are the people we serve where it can really make a difference between whether they can afford to keep living or they become homeless.

TTV: I get very offended when I hear or read someone say that they don’t want “those people” hanging around their neighborhood.

CC: “Those people.” Yes. That chasm of misunderstanding.

TTV: When the “Pearlgate” episode was going on last year, I was hopeful that some wealthy, good-hearted person would step up and say, “You know what? I got this. I can help this organization find a place and I’ll fund it.”

That hasn’t happened has it?

CC: That has not happened. What has happened is this: The groundswell of support from people, especially young, creative, professional people in this community have come forward to donate their time and resources because they refuse to live in a place that chooses profit over people.

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The Drunkard and The Olio Spotlight Theatre Tulsa Spotlighters 21-24

Marvel Universe Live!

BOK Center SMG 22

The Gospel According to Luke Spotlight Theatre 22-23

OkMEA Music Festival Chapman Music Hall, PAC Oklahoma Music Educators Association

CURTAIN CALL WINTER & SPRING PERFORMING ARTS GUIDE

BY A LIC IA CHE S S E R A ND JOHN L AN G D O N

22-4/17

Oklahoma Dance Film Festival Hardesty Arts Center The Bell House 23

Signature Classics: Barber, Bernstein and Boyer – The Dream of America Van Trease PACE Signature Symphony 23-24

Children’s Oliovations Spotlight Theatre Tulsa Spotlighters 26

The first half of 2016 promises to be nothing if not entertaining. Music and theater-lovers alike will find performances to choose from nearly every week from now through June, ranging from opera to improv, jazz to ballet, and wind ensembles to Broadway musicals. For your theatergoing convenience, we’ve listed the stage happenings of note in and around Tulsa and highlighted some of what we expect to be the most exciting shows of the year. Now, without further ado…

Marine Corps Jazz Quintet Lorton Performance Center University of Tulsa School of Music 28-31

I Hate Hamlet Chapman Theatre, Kendall Hall University of Tulsa Dept. of Theatre 29

Jazz on the River Spotlight Theatre Tulsa Spotlighters 30

Haydn Mass in Time of War, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Cascia Hall Performing Arts Center Tulsa Oratorio Chorus 31

Dance on the River Spotlight Theatre Tulsa Spotlighters 24 // FEATURED

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FEBRU Godspell | COURTESY TULSA PROJECT THEATRE

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19-28

Ron Radford Flamenco Guitar Concert

Fauré Piano Quartet

Don’t Dress for Dinner

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC

Chamber Music Tulsa

Theatre Tulsa

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TU Symphony Orchestra

Lorton Performance Center

University of Tulsa School of Music

Leona Mitchell

Lorton Performance Center

TSO Classics: Spirit and Awakenings

Lorton Performance Center

University of Tulsa School of Music

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

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Tulsa Symphony

University of Tulsa School of Music 11

Kinky Boots

Concerts with Commentary: The Sacred Harp

Bela Rozsa Memorial Concert

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

Lorton Performance Center

Lorton Performance Center

Celebrity Attractions

University of Tulsa School of Music

University of Tulsa School of Music

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Tulsa Opera Big Sing

Mission IMPROVible

The Lion in Winter

Kathleen Westby Pavilion, PAC

Tulsa Little Theatre

Van Trease PACE

PAC Trust

Encore!

TCC Theatre Dept.

4

12-14

27

Gabriel Iglesias

Romeo and Juliet

The Joint

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

Signature Classics: Victoria Luperi – A Red Rose for Music

Fuse

Tulsa Ballet

2-8

25

Van Trease PACE Signature Symphony

5

12-21

Million Dollar Quartet

To Kill A Mockingbird

28

Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

OK Mozart Launch Party

The Playhouse Tulsa

Bartlesville Community Center

12-21

29

5-6

Signature Pops: Chris Mann Van Trease PACE

Pride and Prejudice

Signature Symphony

Broken Arrow Community Playhouse

6-7

16

48 Hour Play Festival

Bela Rozsa Composition Competition

Spotlight Theatre Spotlight Children’s Theater

TU Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds Lorton Performance Center University of Tulsa School of Music

29

Lorton Performance Center

ORU Wind Ensemble

University of Tulsa School of Music

Timko Barton Lobby

6-13

ORU School of Music

Woman from the Town

16

Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC

Magic Men Live

Theatre North

Cox Business Center SMG

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THURS., FEB. 4,

The Show Must Go On! Tulsa Project Theatre fundraiser, The Campbell Hotel

Last November, a fire at the Tulsa Project Theatre storage unit destroyed most of TPT's costumes and props (est. value $60,000).

This was donated space, insurance will only cover a fraction of what was lost, and the fire has left the company with unbudgeted additional costs this season.

They will need to rent and/or purchase replacement costumes and props to successfully mount these productions in the professional manner audiences have come to expect from them.

This fundraiser is the brainchild of actors Seth Paden and Cristen Burdell (who recently played Brad and Janet in “Rocky Horror”). Equity Actors and cast members from this season’s shows will perform songs from past, current and future productions. Tickets are $20 per person or $30 a couple, and the cost includes food and wine in addition to the performance. There will also be a cash bar, along with silent and live auctions. Auction items include Seinfeld DVDs signed by Jason Alexander and an exclusive dinner for four at the dress rehearsal for “Billy Elliot.” Tickets can be purchased online at tulsaprojecttheatre.com or by calling 918.770.6679 FEATURED // 25

Romeo and Juliet | COURTESY TULSA BALLET

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10

12

TCC Concert Choir, Orchestra, Concert Band

Concerts with Commentary: A Winter’s Journey

Peppa Pig’s Big Splash

Van Trease PACE

Lorton Performance Center

TCC Music Dept.

University of Tulsa School of Music

1-2

11

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

Chang Mu Dance

Benjamin Zander: Experiencing The Art of Possibility

Tulsa Ballet

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Choregus Productions

Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Town Hall

Kathleen Westby Pavilion, PAC PAC Trust

Rodney Carrington

Romeo and Juliet Tulsa PAC Tulsa Ballet

It’s not every day a local arts organization commissions a huge new work from an emerging international star. But Tulsa Ballet did just that when it asked Edwaard Liang, former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, to create a new “Romeo and Juliet” in 2012. The production was a rousing success, praised by the editor of Dance Magazine as “a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to last.”

“It’s one of those stories that every person in the audience can identify with,” Tulsa Ballet artistic director Marcello Angelini said. “The two protagonists are not fairies or sorcerers, evil magicians or beautiful princesses. And they certainly don’t wake up after 100 years without a single wrinkle or bag under their eyes! Romeo and Juliet are as human as humanly possible, with all the virtues and vices inherent to human beings. They are pure and kind, able to love each other without any reservations, and yet they disrespect their parents, they rage, they kill. There is some Romeo and Juliet in each of us, and as such we are able to emotionally ‘live’ this story when watching the ballet.”

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Van Trease PACE TCC Music Dept.

Timko Barton Lobby 11

ORU School of Music

Tyler Perry’s Madea on the Run

22

TCC Community Band & Orchestra

Brady Theater AEG Live

Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Opera 4-6

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Van Trease PACE 11-12

TCC Music Dept.

Signature Pops: Blockbuster Broadway

24-27

Van Trease PACE Signature Symphony

Cirque du Soleil: Toruk – The First Flight BOK Center SMG

11-19

Tulsa Little Theatre

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story

Encore!

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

29

American Theatre Company

Dual Pianos Ragtime: Ezequiel Palleja and Bryan Wright

4-13

Rent

Duo Amal

ORU Jazz Ensemble

4-6

A Streetcar Named Desire

22

22

BOK Center SMG

TCC Show Choir and Jazz Concert

Masters of Dance

Choregus Productions

11

3 FRI., FEB. 12 THROUGH SUN., FEB. 14

18-20

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

2

Tulsa Camerata

Brady Theater

11-20

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

Charles E. Norman Theatre, PAC

The Flick

Ragtime for Tulsa

Tulsa Project Theatre

Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC 29

Theatre Tulsa

ORU Guitar Ensemble

5

Bernadette Peters Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center 7

ORU Orchestra Timko Barton Performance Hall ORU School of Music

12

Timko Barton Lobby

TSO Classics: Beneath the Score - Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

ORU School of Music

Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Symphony

29-4/3

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella Chapman Music Hall, PAC Celebrity Attractions

8

Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical

31-4/3

Sondheim on Sondheim

Chapman Music Hall

Lorton Performance Center

Celebrity Attractions

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To Kill a Mockingbird | COURTESY PLAYHOUSE TULSA

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Sesame Street Live: Make a New Friend

FRI., FEB. 12 THROUGH SUN., FEB. 21

To Kill a Mockingbird The Playhouse Tulsa

Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Williams Theater

The Playhouse is a relative newcomer to Tulsa’s theater scene, but in its five short seasons it has brought impressive depth to the field, with productions ranging from “Charlotte’s Web” to “Othello,” and rich original work by playwright-in-residence Cody Daigle.

The company’s commitment to contemporary relevance led Playhouse founder and director Courtneay Sanders to approach a stage production of Harper Lee’s classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” not as a period play, but as an urgently topical story for our post-Tamir Rice, post-Ferguson reality.

“The scenic design represents Maycomb, Alabama, in the play,” Sanders explained. “But is nondescript enough that it could easily be any town. We have infused the piece with music, some of which is sung a cappella by a black female chorus, allowing the audience to observe the juxtaposition of cultures within this small community. The ensemble actors remain on stage throughout the play, and several actors play multiple roles, which they change before the audience’s eyes. The actors, like the audience, are constant witnesses to every event taking place within their community — events that will dictate their future. It is left to them to either take action against injustice, or accept the consequences. Our goal is to further reveal the emotional depth and genuine heart of this poignant story.”

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21

BOK Center

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

Concerts with Commentary: American Originals

SMG

Choregus Productions

University of Tulsa School of Music

1-10

12

21

Steel Magnolias

ORU Jazz Combos

Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC

Timko Barton Performance Hall

The Playhouse Tulsa

ORU School of Music

2

14

Dreams World

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Oklahoma Performing Arts 3

Jerusalem Quartet

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Chamber Music Tulsa 6

Barron Ryan

Kathleen Westby Pavilion, PAC PAC Trust 6

Gen. Keith Alexander

Chapman Music Hall, PAC OSU Tulsa Business Forum 8

TU Opera: Highlights from Mozart’s The Magic Flute Lorton Performance Center

University of Tulsa Opera Theatre 8

Peter Rabbit Tales

TCC Music Dept.

TU Jazz Band Lorton Performance Center University of Tulsa School of Music

22

Timko Barton Lobby

Lily Tomlin

ORU School of Music

Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center

15

Capella Chamber Singers Lorton Performance Center

University of Tulsa School of Music

8-17

The Beauty Queen of Leenane Broken Arrow Community Playhouse 8-17

Rumplestiltksin Spotlight Theatre

Spotlight Children’s Theater 9

TSO Pops: Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Movies

22

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership Lessons from the White House Chapman Music Hall, PAC

15-24

Tulsa Town Hall

Aida

Van Trease PACE

22

TCC Theatre Dept.

Tony Bennett in Concert Chapman Music Hall, PAC

15-30

Fiddler on the Roof

35 Concerts

Theatre Tulsa

TBII Emerging Choreographers

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

22-24

Studio K

16

Signature Symphony

ORU School of Music

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them Theatre Pops

ORU Orchestra & Wind Ensemble

8

Timko Barton Lobby

21-24

Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC

14

PAC Trust

ORU Chamber Singers & University Chorale

TCC Concert Band, Choir & Orchestra Van Trease PACE

Signature Classics: Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

Lorton Performance Center

Van Trease PACE

Tulsa Ballet 24

Judy Collins in Concert Chapman Music Hall Woody Guthrie Center

17

TU Chamber Players

25

Lorton Performance Center University of Tulsa School of Music

TU Symphony Orchestra President’s Concert

Lorton Performance Center

18

TU Wind Ensembles

University of Tulsa School of Music

University of Tulsa School of Music

Die Laughing Improv Troupe

Lorton Performance Center

19

Van Trease PACE

TCC Woodwind, Guitar, Jazz, Cello, Choir & Brass Van Trease PACE TCC Music Dept.

25

TCC Theatre Dept.

29-5/7

Billy Elliot: The Musical

Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC Tulsa Project Theatre

Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Symphony

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A Streetcar Named Desire | COURTESY TULSA OPERA

FRI. AND SUN., MARCH 4 AND 6

A Streetcar Named Desire Tulsa PAC, Tulsa Opera

MAY

André Previn is a musical giant who got his start as a jazz pianist, wrote the Academy Award-winning scores for the movie musicals “Gigi” and “Porgy and Bess,” conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for 11 years, and composed dozens of pieces of classical music. One of those is “A Streetcar Named Desire,” an opera based on Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play, the film version of which made Marlon Brando a household name. Jazzy and vernacular, “Streetcar” is bursting with the smoldering intensity that marks both play and film. Previn’s opera comes to Tulsa complete with up-and-coming soprano Caroline Worra in her Tulsa Opera debut as Blanche DuBois, along with acclaimed director David Schweizer as stage director. The always-innovating Kostis Protopapas will conduct the orchestra.

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13-22

Patti LuPone: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda…played that part

Tulsa Ballet: Signature Series

Really Rosie

Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center

Lorton Performance Center

Spotlight Theatre Spotlight Children’s Theater

Tulsa Ballet 14

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Dalí Quartet with Ricardo Morales

TSO Classics: American Fanfare

10

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

Alton Brown: Eat Your Science

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

Chamber Music Tulsa

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

Tulsa Symphony

35 Concerts 20

4

Susie Brown & Friends

Kathleen Westby Pavilion, PAC PAC Trust 6

Jeff Dunham

Kyle Abraham/Abraham in Motion

10

TCC Community Band & Orchestra

Chapman Music Hall, PAC Choregus Productions

Van Trease PACE TCC Music Dept.

24-29

Jersey Boys

BOK Center

13-21

SMG

Mothers and Sons

Chapman Music Hall, PAC

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

Celebrity Attractions

6-8

Samson & Delilah

Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Opera

American Theatre Company 29

Dual Ragtime Concert

13-21

Bye Bye Birdie

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC

Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC

Ragtime for Tulsa

Theatre Tulsa Famil y

SAT., MARCH 5

Bernadette Peters Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center

Bernadette Peters | COURTESY

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I was smitten with Bernadette Peters from the first time I saw her on TV back in the ‘90s, performing with Mandy Patinkin in Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Sunday in the Park with George.” Her face impossibly girlish with its halo of red curls, her voice a torrent of husky longing and sweet desire, Peters simply has no peer in musical theater in range or in skill. Over the course of five decades on stage and screen, she’s brought exquisite clarity and depth to the toughest and most diverse roles, including “Into the Woods,” “Gypsy,” “Annie,” “Pennies from Heaven” and “The Jerk” (where she played a role her co-star Steve Martin wrote for her). For us, far as we are from the Great White Way, this solo concert is a rare chance to see a legend in real life.

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FEBRUARY 2-7 KINKY BOOTS

Celebrity Attractions

2-29 WALKING TALL

Tulsa Girls Art School PAC Gallery

3 TULSA OPERA BIG SING

19-28 DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER

Theatre Tulsa

20 SPIRIT AND

AWAKENINGS

Tulsa Symphony

Brown Bag It, PAC Trust

6-13 WOMAN FROM THE TOWN

Theatre North

7 FAURÉ QUARTET Chamber Music Tulsa

12-14 ROMEO AND JULIET Tulsa Ballet

12-21 TO KILL A

MOCKINGBIRD

The Playhouse Tulsa

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3-11

JUN

The Tempest On the Lawn at Philbrook American Theatre Company

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago | COURTESY CHOREGUS

TUES., APRIL 12

3-12

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Tulsa PAC, Choregus

Shrek: The Musical

John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Tulsa Project Theatre

“Hubbard Street has been on the Choregus radar since we started,” said Ken Tracy, whose Choregus Productions has delivered some of the most mind-blowing national and international dance Tulsa has ever seen, including Complexions Contemporary Ballet, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Wendy Whelan’s “Restless Creature,” and Kidd Pivot’s “The Tempest Replica.”

“For almost 40 years,” he continued, “the company has commissioned new work and acquired repertoire hits by master and notable choreographers including Jirí Kylián, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, Ohad Naharin, Victor Quijada, Aszure Barton. The Hubbard Street dancers are each phenomenal artists in their [own] right, but when doing ensemble work the company is as good as it gets in the field of contemporary dance.

They have appeared in 44 states and we think it is about time Hubbard Street comes to Oklahoma.”

This truly cutting-edge company’s appearance will include a one-night-only performance, a master class for advanced local dancers and, as usual with Choregus, a rousing educational performance for several hundred public school students.

11-12

Mamma Mia!

Chapman Music Hall, PAC Celebrity Attractions

11-18

OK Mozart International MUSIC Festival Bartlesville

17-26

Gypsy

Broken Arrow Community Playhouse

BOK CENTER

COX BUSINESS CENTER

SPOTLIGHT THEATRE

200 S Denver Ave | bokcenter.com

100 Civic Center | coxcentertulsa.com

1381 Riverside Dr | spotlighttheatre.org

BRADY THEATER

HARDESTY ARTS CENTER

STUDIO K

105 W M.B. Brady St | bradytheater.com

101 E Archer St | ahhatulsa.org

1212 E 45th Pl | tulsaballet.org

THE JOINT

TIMKO BARTON PERFORMANCE HALL HARVARD AUDITORIUM

BROKEN ARROW COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE 1800 S Main St, Broken Arrow bacptheatre7471.wix.com/bacp

777 W Cherokee St, Catoosa hardrockcasinotulsa.com

7777 S Lewis Ave | oru.edu

BROKEN ARROW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

KENDALL HALL

TULSA LITTLE THEATRE

601 College Ave | utulsa.edu

1511 S Delaware Ave | tulsalittletheatre.com

701 S Main St, Broken Arrow brokenarrowpac.com

LORTON PERFORMANCE CENTER

TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

550 S Gary Pl | utulsa.edu

110 E 2nd St | tulsapac.com

PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART

VAN TREASE PACE

2727 S Rockford Ave | philbrook.org

10300 E 81st St | tulsacc.edu

CASCIA HALL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 2520 S Yorktown Ave | casciahall.org

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HearTheUnexpected CLASSICS

SERIES

Spirit and Awakenings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Three Chorale Preludes, J.S. Bach Symphony No. 5, Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 6, Ludwig van Beethoven

BENEATH THE SCORE:

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony MARCH 12, 2016 Symphony No. 2, Gustav Mahler

American Fanfare

MAY 14, 2016

Musica Celestis, Aaron Jay Kernis Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin Symphony No. 3, Aaron Copland

POPS SERIES

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S

at the movies APRIL 9, 2016 For Tickets Call 918.596.7111 or www.tulsasymphony.org THE TULSA VOICE // January 20 – February 2, 2016

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J. Harrison Ghee in “Kinky Boots” | COURTESY

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FULL TILT BOOGIE TO THE WIND Sons and mothers, drag fab and ‘Kinky Boots’

BY JENNIE LLOYD

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his story begins with a young boy in a pair of heels.

This story is shared by Lola, the drag queen star of smash-hit Broadway musical “Kinky Boots”

by J. Harrison Ghee, the man cast as Lola in its touring production sashaying to Tulsa Feb. 2-7, and by my 15 year-old son.

All three sneaked into their mother’s closet to strut in pumps when no one was around. All three are gay. All three are drag queens.

In the Tony Award-winning “Kinky Boots,” with the original book by Harvey Fierstein and songs by Cyndi Lauper, we first see Lola as a little boy. He dances, ecstatic, in high-heeled boots.

Until his father sees him. “Take those things off your feet and get inside here, stupid boy!”

From shame to celebration, “Kinky Boots” takes us on a warm-hearted romp from a failing gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton, England to the glamorous catwalks of Milan.

Charlie Price, heir to his father’s failing business, searches for a way to keep the factory alive.

He finds his answer in Lola, fabulous despite her flimsy women’s boots not built for a man’s weight. Charlie concocts a plan to save the family business by delving into a niche market his father never imagined. Together, Charlie and Lola create sturdy stilettos made for transgender women and drag queens.

Shoes Make the Woman Ghee is inspired by powerhouse Billy Porter, the actor who originated Lola on Broadway. “He’s been a big inspiration for my career in general,” Ghee says. Other stars who hold his heart include Whitney Houston, Patti LaBelle, Felicia Rashad, and “of course, like most drag queens, my mother,” he says.

Ghee sees himself in Lola. “My story is very similar to Lola’s in a lot of ways,” he says. “It’s uncanny how similar the stories are.”

Growing up in North Carolina, Ghee made sure his parents were out of the house when he raided mom’s closet. “I was young Lola in my mom’s closet, wearing her January 20 – February 2, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

heels,” he says. They “just made me happy.”

My son sneaked into my closet when he was younger, too, he admits now. “I think I was about eight,” he says, when he first dug through my shoes and slipped into simple black pumps.

“I felt feminine,” he says, “And fierce. I would pose with them on in front of your full-body mirror.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?” I ask.

“Well, I wasn’t out. I didn’t want to disappoint everyone. All of you were married and liked the opposite sex,” he says.

Ghee came out to his parents at 21, but only his mother knew about Crystal Demure, his drag queen alter ego. “Until I got this show, the rest of my family didn’t know I was doing drag,” he says.

Like Charlie Price, he yearned for his father’s acceptance. Ghee’s father, a southern pastor, was thrilled when his son landed a big-deal gig in a touring Broadway production, but he warned Ghee, “Don’t bring any wigs home!”

To which Ghee confessed, “Well, actually …”

So began a conversation where Ghee opened up to his father about his successful five-year drag career. The musical allowed him to reveal himself in a way his father could understand and accept.

“He sees our story in the show and now you can’t shut him up,” Ghee says.

When fans approached Ghee and his family after the “Kinky Boots” premiere in Ghee’s hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, his father shouted, “I’m Lola’s proud father!”

Blazing Kilowatt Realness According to the musical and my son, shoes are the most beautiful thing in the world. My son is a huge fan of the boots. “I would wear them everywhere,” he says.

“Like where?” I ask.

“You know, like, family gatherings. School, of course. Drag shows. Panera. Barnes & Noble,” he says. “And obviously to a gig, even though I haven’t done any.

Yet.” My son and Ghee discovered drag the same way: through “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” The reality

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TV phenomenon, formerly on VH1 and now at home as the highest-rated show on Logo, features talented drag queens as whole people, in and out of drag.

My son began watching the show a few months after coming out. “After I watched ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ it helped me realize that I’m here, I’m queer and get used to it,” he says.

Ghee watched the first season as a study in “being more feminine and owning it,” he says. Though he had fun posing in his mom’s heels, he never imagined doing drag, he says. Until he saw the show and learned more about drag as an artistic, creative outlet.

“And then,” Ghee says, “I went full tilt boogie to the wind.”

Enter Crystal Demure. Finding her has “very much affected my life as J., as a boy,” he says. “I’ve gotten back to a childhood innocence, to who I am innately, and what I like to give: my boldness.”

“Drag Race” and “Kinky Boots” work the same kind of magic on audiences. In each, they

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give LGBT kids – and any weird kid, no matter the “kink” – a playful, confident language to express and explore complex gender issues.

“The message [of ‘Kinky Boots’] is to just be who you wanna be,” Ghee says. “Because you really do change the world when you change your mind.”

Whatever makes you different, unusual, whatever that thing is that makes you afraid to tell others: “Be that and own it,” Ghee says.

“No one can dim your light.”

Out and Proud My son is serving blazing kilowatt realness these days. No longer a frightened 11-year-old, he talks freely about his experiences as a gay teen, about gender fluidity, about the difference between drag and trans women.

Still, he is bullied daily in high school. There is the boy in first period who sneers a gay slur in his direction after roll call every morning; the girl in second period who rallies the kids around her to laugh while she insults him.

He can’t wait to get home from school to re-watch episodes of “Drag Race;” he is ecstatic about “Kinky Boots” coming to town.

For my son and for Ghee, these shows are an oasis of acceptance in an unkind world.

Buoyed by these shows, a weekly LGBT group, and his family’s encouragement, my son is unafraid to wear eyeliner, light powder and pale pink lipstick to school every day. Despite the bullying and the misunderstandings among his peers, he is out and proud.

Now, I am too: I am the proud mother of a gay son and aspiring drag queen. As my son would say, “Get used to it.”

He borrows my heels openly nowadays, and stomps around the house like a pony. He lives for a pair of shiny pink and black fiveinch platform pumps I spent too much on and wore only once.

Last summer, he dug them out from the back of my closet and tried them on. As I watched him pose in front of the full-length mirror in my most glamorous pumps, well, how do I put this? I gagged at his eleganza: He rocks those pumps harder than I ever could.

The heels are his now, until he out grows them. Then we’ll be on the hunt for properly made shoes for fully-grown queens.

From the back of a closet to center stage, shoes make the woman.

This story ends with a young man in a pair of sickening heels for all to see. “Sickening,” in drag patois, is a high compliment meaning fabulous, on-point fierceness.

To my son: You raise me up, live wire. You are my hero, sickening and brave. I can’t wait to see you on stage someday. Until then, I’ve got our tickets to “Kinky Boots.” a

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Islamic Society of Tulsa, typros.org Learn more about the local Muslim community as The Islamic Society of Tulsa hosts a tour of Masjid Al-Salam Mosque followed by an open discussion. Participants should be prepared to remove their shoes as they enter, and women are asked to wear modest clothing (a long skirt or loose slacks) with a head covering such as a hat or headscarf. Presented by TYPros Diversity Crew.

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Rojava Solidarity Oklahoma hosts this concert to raise awareness of the plight of Syrian refugees. Learn about the people of Rojava’s fight against ISIS and hear music from Verse, The Danner Party and Surron the Seventh. For more on the Rojava Movement’s Tulsa connection, read Mitch Gilliam’s story on page 10.

Arbor Day Sustainability Seder

Sun., Jan. 24, 6 p.m., $25 Congregation B’nai Emunah, tulsagogue.com Tu Be-Shevat, Jewish Arbor Day, a key spiritual practice for environmentalists, focuses attention on sustainability, environmental wholeness, our place in the natural world, and the interconnectedness of all life. With those ideas in mind, Congregation B’nai Emunah hosts this interfaith Seder. The program will feature folk and liturgical music from different traditions, readings from many different religious communities, landscape photography by Karen Kantor and a holiday feast

by James Shrader, chef and owner of The Palace Cafe.

Green Country Home & Garden Show

Fri., Jan. 29 through Sun., Jan. 31 Exchange Center, Expo Square exposquare.com Get a jump on your spring project and find inspiration at the largest free home-and-garden show in the area. 150 vendors will be present, offering a broad range of products, services and ideas.

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Walking Tall

Tues., Feb. 2 through Mon., Feb. 29 PAC Gallery tulsagirlsartschool.org Inspired by the musical “Kinky Boots,” the students of Tulsa Girls Art School have transformed ordinary walking boots into unique, wearable works of art and a collection of “Kinky Boots”-inspired paintings.

Kinky Boots

Tues., Feb. 2 through Sun., Feb. 7, $20-$55 Chapman Music Hall, PAC, celebrityattractions.com An unlikely partnership between the owner of a Northampton gentleman’s shoe factory and a fabulous drag queen is at the center of this Tony Award-winning musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and book

by Harvey Fierstein. For the whole story, see Jennie Lloyd’s feature on “Kinky Boots” on page 34.

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COMEDY The Roast of Matthew Spruill // 1/20, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Laughing Matter // 1/21, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Baked Beans and Improv // 1/22, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com T-Town Famous // 1/22, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Hammered! A Drunk Improv Show // 1/23, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Hot Mic Comedy! // 1/23, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 1/24, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

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Toussaint’s suit

Count Tutu | PHIL CLARKIN

Heart, soul and funk At Fassler, Count Tutu plays for charity, The New Tulsa Meters pay tribute to Allen Toussaint

by MITCH GILLIAM

A

lthough they played their first show a mere six months ago, Tulsa afrobeat revivalists Count Tutu are already packing houses. Featuring Branjae (of Branjae and the Filthy Animals) on vocals and an ensemble cast of Tulsa soul players, the 11-piece band has been burning down dance floors. They’ve also been bringing in donations for charity.

Every show Count Tutu plays is a drive of sorts. For its January 23 show at Fassler Hall, the band is partnering with Night Light Tulsa and asking for winter wear donations for the homeless. Tutu’s mastermind, Nathan Wright, told me the group’s mission is inspired by former Tulsa-turned-Chicago musician, Ryan Tedder. “I’ve got a good, privileged life,” Tedder told Wright, “and every day I don’t spend a little bit of time helping people with less privilege than me, I just feel like an asshole.”

Incidentally, it was also Tedder who turned Wright onto the music of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian godfather of afrobeat, which inspired Count Tutu’s formation.

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Afrobeat shares many rhythmic similarities to American funk, but with a more dense approach to auxiliary percussion beats, eschewing the crutch of the two/ four snare back beat. It’s incorporation of horns, jazz inflections and traditional African chants cement it as a sound unto itself.

The sounds of Fela Kuti (and even his political views, “excluding the polygamy part,” according to Wright) inspired the Tulsa guitarist to form his own approximation of afrobeat.

There have been grunts of disapproval in the music scene from some who see the group’s music and performance as more an appropriation of African culture than a celebration of it.

“If it was a group of African Americans [objecting], of course we’d take it serious,” Wright reasoned. “But so far it’s just been white people making remarks here and there.” He said he believes Tutu celebrates African music in an atmosphere of revelation— and respect. He added that Tutu recently performed a raucous

show with two Nigerian musicians in their ranks, who enjoyed every second of it.

“Music transcends color and race. Tutu performs all types of music, from funk to afrobeat to reggae,” Branjae said. “I do agree there is a fine line that seems to offend people from time to time.

I don’t believe Tutu is crossing any of those lines because we play music from a place of love, not separation. Now, is it more received and accepted if I sing African songs because I’m black than it is for Nathan to sing the same songs because he’s white? Some may answer that differently … it’s clear none of us are African or Jamaican, but it doesn’t mean we haven’t dug in to learn about the cultures and share its love through our own interpretation.” a

COUNT TUTU 10 p.m., Jan. 23 Fassler Hall, 304 S. Elgin $5 at the door Winter wear donat ions for Night Light Tulsa encouraged

The New Tulsa Meters: A tribute to Allen Toussaint 10 p.m., Jan. 29 Fassler Hall, 304 S. Elgin $7 at the door 15 years ago Tulsa musician Chris Foster (Green Corn Rebellion) received a cassette of Allen Toussaint’s music from his friend, Jonathan Taylor. According to Foster, the tape changed his life.

When Toussaint—a legendary New Orleans producer central to the Delta R&B and funk scenes—died late last year, Foster immediately called Taylor, who lives in St. Louis, and suggested they get a band together. The two enlisted a mean collection of Tulsa players, including Chris Combs of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, and The New Tulsa Meters were born.

Foster grew up in NOLA in the 70s, when Toussaint was making his music there. He wonders if he has “some sort of cosmic connection” to Toussaint’s work. “Southern music is lavish, but for normal folks,” Foster said. “Southern folks put so much into a pot of etouffee, or a record, and say ‘we’re gonna deck this out and put a suit on it.’”

Foster hopes to “put a suit on it” when The New Tulsa Meters perform a set of Toussaint’s music at Fassler Hall on January 29. He’s planning to drag a piano on stage for the evening’s show.

“It won’t be no digital keyboard,” he said proudly.

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Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in “Carol” | COURTESY

Dueling duets

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by JOE O’SHANSKY

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015 was a good year for women—in mainstream cinema, at least. It was the continuation of an encouraging trend, a welcome pushback to the very real perception that films historically favor men, their stories, and their hegemony over the industry. It was a good year for the Bechdel Test.

Charlize Theron enraged men’s rights activists (a pointless form of life), becoming an instant action star in “Mad Max: Fury

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Road.” Daisy Ridley was crowned a hero to millions of girls thanks to “Star Wars.” Mila Kunis gave the action-hero thing a shot, too, with the awful “Jupiter Ascending.” Jennifer Lawrence brought a fierce echo of Norma Rae to the otherwise middling “Joy.” Amy Schumer wrote and starred in the hit comedy “Trainwreck.”

Alas, progress is incremental, and all of the aforementioned films are directed by men (with the exception of Lana Wachowski, who co-directed “Jupiter Ascending” with her brother).

A man helms “Carol,” too, but it’s something of a different animal due to the predilections and sensitivity of its director, Todd Haynes.

Like Haynes’ Oscar-nominated “Far From Heaven” (2002), “Carol” is a period melodrama whose DNA is made up of the director’s 21st-century concerns with identity politics. The Douglas Sirk-inspired “Heaven” focused on a taboo interracial relationship in 1950s Connecticut.

His newest focuses on a taboo lesbian relationship in 1950s New

York. In the year of legalized gay marriage, “Carol’s” story of two closeted women finding love amidst the patriarchal purity of midcentury America achieves a fulfilling poignancy.

Carol (Cate Blanchett) is a beautiful, well-to-do wife and mother who falls in love at first sight with Therese (Rooney Mara), a department store clerk and aspiring photographer. Carol is in a custody battle with her husband, Harge (Kyle Chandler), while Therese is diffident to the marriage advances of her beau, Richard (Jake Lacy). Their forbidden orbits threaten to destroy both of their comfortable yet discontented worlds.

“Carol” is an elegant, sensual film. Haynes captures expert performances against a period setting vividly rendered by a flawless production design. He exhibits an eye for composition that’s as exacting as David Fincher’s, while infusing every shot with stately warmth, his characters tangible in the context of their time. It’s something of a parlor drama, and your mileage for such may vary.

But “Carol” has the feel of a particularly comfortable, mink-lined leather glove, scented by tobacco and Chanel No. 5.

That would have little meaning if it weren’t for the performances, and the relevance of the story Haynes tells. Shifting mores, or even laws, can’t predicate how people treat each other.

Personifying the erupting desires of a kept woman, Blanchett is typically unforgettable. She’s offered a Faustian choice: ignore who you are, be the woman that’s expected, and all is forgiven. Or be yourself and lose everything.

Kyle Chandler, who every second looks like the Eisenhower-era programmed, nuclear-family conformist, is sympathetically great as Harge. Rooney Mara is the Audrey Hepburn of the trifecta, a youthful contrast to Carol who has yet to become stuck in the quagmire of her compulsions. They transport us into their lives and worlds through the lens of their own—and Haynes’—unerring excellence.

All of that to say: “Carol” is among the best films of 2015.

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Michael Caine and Mick Boyle in “Youth” | COURTESY

Youth “Youth,” the second English-language film from Italian writer/ director Paolo Sorrentino (“This Must Be the Place”), had me at Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.

I could watch those two talk about going to a yarn festival (those actually exist) for two hours and be entertained.

That “Youth” is beautifully acted, written, directed, and boasts a sumptuous, sophisticated visual palate is also helpful.

Fred Ballinger (Caine) is the lifelong best friend of Mick Boyle (Keitel). Fred is a retired conductor of great renown, while Mick is a filmmaker writing a movie for a long-time collaborator (Jane Fonda), but whose best work is behind him. Frank and Mick are on a week-long vacation at an ultra-swanky spa in the Swiss Alps, reminiscing about their lives and comparing notes on the physical indignities that come with old age.

The spa is inhabited by some unusual patrons, including a typecast actor, Jimmy Tree (Paul Dano) who becomes fascinated by Fred; a catastrophically overweight footballer who always seems on the verge of death by exercise (Roly Serrano); a young masseuse (Luna Mijovic), and a cadre of nerdy screenwriters who hang on Mick’s every word (Tom Lipinski, Chloe Pirrie, Alex Beckett, Nate Dern, and Mark Gessner). And also, Miss Universe (Madalina Ghenea). Because, Europe.

Fred and his daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz, who is Fred’s personal assistant and also married to Mick’s philandering son) are fending off the advances of the Queen as the royal family’s emissary (Alex Macqueen) attempts to coax Fred out of retirement to conduct his masterpiece, “Simple Songs.” Fred steadfastly—and somewhat mysteriously (considering his utter Britishness would

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seem to demand it)—refuses the offer.

Sorrentino instills almost every scene with multiple layers of meaning. The relationship between Frank and Mick is unerringly genuine, as if these two really have known each other for 40 years.

They commiserate over long lost women (and who stole whose), their failing facilities (“Maybe we’ll take a piss tomorrow?”), and the significance of the evermore-fleeting time they’ve spent together.

Like a tesseract, the wistfully humane script melds mirth, sexiness, and heartbreak into concentric layers of emotion and profundity.

Sorrentino executes his script with the confidence of a master, finding visual and narrative juxtapositions around every corner that contrast the natures of youth, beauty, life, death, and time. His artful visual polish (helped by some gorgeous scenery, Miss Universe notwithstanding) wraps the whole affair with an expertly knotted bow.

Rachel Weisz is typically adept and lovely, while Dano brings an easy charm that negates the goofy fake mustache and proto-hipster affectations of his existentialist Jimmy Tree. Jane Fonda drops the hammer on the proceedings, somewhat channeling her role from “The Newsroom” during a come-to-Jesus moment about the realities of the modern film industry.

But like I said, Caine and Keitel. I have no idea how long these two have known each other, and obviously it doesn’t matter since they are both consummate thespians, but with their chemistry, it feels like they’re barely acting. We feel all the import of their influential lives and what they bring to their friendship, and what they offer to the ephemeral souls around them. They aren’t irrelevant. Yet. “Youth” reminds us that time and emotion are all we ever really have. a FILM & TV // 43

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She alleges that her late husband Michael displayed multiple signs of life (breathing, eyes open, legs kicking, attempted hugs, struggles against the tube in his throat) for nearly two hours, but with two doctors all the while assuring her that he was gone. (The coroner came and went twice, concluding that calling him had been premature.)

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news of the weird

by Chuck Shepherd

Weird science The most promising current concussion-prevention research comes from a study of ... woodpeckers (according to a December Business Week report). Scientists hypothesize that the birds’ apparent immunity from the dangers of constant headslamming is because their neck veins naturally compress, forcing more blood into their craniums, thus limiting the dangerous “jiggle room” in which brains bang against the skull. A team led by a real-life doctor portrayed in the movie “Concussion” is working on a neck collar to slightly pinch the human jugular vein to create a similar effect.

The new grade inflation They are simply “’spas’ designed to attract teenagers,” according to one university official—plush, state-of-the-art “training” complexes built by universities in the richest athletic conferences to entice elite 17-year-old athletes to come play for (and, perhaps, study at?) their schools. The athletes-only mini-campuses include private housing and entertainment (theaters, laser tag, miniature golf)— but, actually, the schools are in a $772-million-plus “arms’ race” (according to a December Washington Post investigation) because soon after one school’s sumptuous, groundbreaking facility opens, some other school’s more-innovative facility renders it basically second-rate. And of course, as one university official put it, the “shiny objects” have “nothing whatsoever to do with the mission of a university.” (Donors and alumni provide much of the funding, but most schools by now also tap students’ “athletic fees.”)

Redneck chronicles Police in Monticello, Kentucky, charged Rodney Brown, 25, with stealing farm animals and equipment from a home in December—but offering to return everything if the victim (a man) had sex with him. Brown allegedly took 25 roosters, a goat and some rooster pens and other rooster-care

equipment. (Because Brown also supposedly said he’d beat the man up if he called police, a “terroristic threatening” count was added to “promoting prostitution.”)

Made in Heaven William Cornelius, 25, and his fiancee, Sheri Moore, 20, were arrested at the Bay City (Michigan) Mall in January, charged with theft.

Police found a pair of earrings and a necklace swiped from Spencer Gifts on her, but she refused to “snitch” on Cornelius, who had minutes earlier proposed to her via a Wal-mart loudspeaker and given her a ring, to applause from onlooking shoppers as she accepted.

Cornelius, holding $80.93 worth of goods (a watch, an edible thong, a vibrator and “BJ Blast” oral-sex candy), was apprehended at the mall food court, having apparently (according to the police report) “fallen asleep at a table while tying his shoe.”

Wait, what?

NPR’s “Morning Edition,” reporting on the violent tornadoes that hit North Texas on the night after Christmas, interviewed one woman who said she was luckier than her neighbors because of her faith. She was entertaining 10 relatives when she heard the “train-like” sound of the winds approaching and took everyone outside to confront the storm:

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“We ... started commanding the winds because God had given us authority over ... airways. And we just began to command this storm not to hit our area. We spoke to the storm and said, go to unpopulated places. It did exactly what we said to do because God gave us the authority to do that.”

National pride Factory worker Thanakorn Siripaiboon was arrested in December in a Bangkok suburb after he wrote a “sarcastic” comment on social media about the dog that belongs to Thailand’s king. For the crime of “insulting the monarch,” Thanakorn faces 37 years in prison.

Michael McFeat, a Scottish man working on contract for a mining company in Kyrgyzstan, was arrested in January after he (on Facebook) jokingly called the country’s national dish “horse penis.” (“Chuchuk” is indeed a sausage made from horsemeat.)

The crime he was charged with carries a five-year prison term.

was less than $10 in the jar at the time—but also that the man had paid his $14.90 tab for food, yet hurried off without eating it.

A News of the Weird classic (October 2011) London Fashion Week usually brings forth a shock or two from cutting-edge designers, but a September (2011) creation by Rachel Freire might have raised the bar: a floor-length dress made from 3,000 cow nipples (designed to resemble roses). Initial disgust for the garment centered on implied animal abuse, but Freire deflected that issue by pointing out that the nipples had been discarded by a tannery and that her use amounted to “recycling.” Freire, 32, distracted by the animal-abuse angle, was spared having to explain the other issue—why anyone would want to wear a dress made with cow nipples. a 1/6 SOLUTION: UNIVERSAL SUNDAY

Least competent criminals The manager of the Nandos Riccarton restaurant in Christchurch, New Zealand, is pretty sure that he knows who swiped the contents of the store’s tip jar that December evening (based on surveillance video), but the man denied the theft and walked out.

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18):

Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form—maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers.

Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You love autonomy. You specialize in getting the freedom and sovereignty you require. You are naturally skilled at securing your independence from influences that might constrain your imagination and limit your self-expression. But here’s a sticking point: If you want the power to help shape group processes, you must give up some of your autonomy. In order to motivate allies to work toward shared goals, you need to practice the art of interdependence.

The next test of your ability to do this is coming right up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Taurus writer James M. Barrie (1860-1937), who created the Peter Pan stories.

Your challenge and invitation in the coming months is to increase the amount of time you spend that does not qualify as work. In fact, why don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract grace and generate good fortune.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness. And don’t tell me you have no madness. We all do. But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy, or out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experimental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark.

Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot. Not the nights you called god names and cursed your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch, chewing your nails.” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment.

Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine. I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch

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a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being unegotistical and non-narcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 percent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others. But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use. One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. “If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing.

I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body.

You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra.

The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet slippery sensual tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet slippery sensual tender emotions and sweet slippery sensual tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.)

MASTER

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do you want more money, Sagittarius? Are there treasures you wish you could have, but you can’t afford them?

Do any exciting experiences and life-enhancing adventures remain off-limits because of limited resources? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent time to formulate plans and take action to gather increased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will be higher than usual. Cosmic tendencies are leaning in the direction of you getting richer quicker, and if you collaborate with those tendencies, financial magic could materialize.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on. We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals. On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled. If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice.

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ACROSS 1 Insect feelers 6 Elevated land 10 Throat-culture finding 15 Brown shade 19 Genetic factor 20 Give off 21 All riled up 22 They’re paid to play 23 Toddler’s meal, perhaps 25 Warhol subject 27 Chicken’s dinner 28 Does simple arithmetic 29 Does penance 30 Inscribed stone pillar 32 Bingo cousin 35 Attacks a la “Ghostbusters” 36 Controversial spray 37 Teeth, in slang 41 Get on toward evening 43 Stir up or agitate 44 Poked (around) 45 Call companion 49 Prefix meaning “extremely” 50 “20/20” airer 51 Mont Blanc, e.g.

52 Native Indian in the British army 53 Sound from a cow 54 “Apollo 13” grp.

56 Coast 59 Sand, essentially 60 Dirty air 62 Lacking distinct form 64 Brandy flavoring 65 End ___ (ultimate customer) 67 Racket, to a landlord 68 Bailiff’s order 69 Fruity Woody Allen film 72 Application-blank datum

74 End of the night 78 Donahue of “Father Knows Best” 79 Bivouac shelters 80 Drive-___ 82 Bronx attraction 83 Subtly illuminated 84 Bleat of a sheep 85 Baby word 86 One of 150 in the Bible 88 Church service 89 Model wood 91 Cotton seed pod 92 Regional forest trees 93 Crusty dessert 96 Went the right way?

97 How some fire 100 Desert garden 101 Turkish titles of honor 103 Difficult, as a battle 104 Pirate’s booty 106 Pesty insect 107 Purple sandwich-filler 109 Crush or Sunkist, e.g.

115 Star or Ranger leader 116 Nautical command 117 Pervasive quality 118 Some jeans 119 Marker fillers 120 Indian queen (var.)

121 Was cognizant of 122 Fashion lines DOWN 1 Bake sale org.

2 Pioneering Dadaist 3 Drink like a cat 4 Sneaky thief 5 Bessemer product 6 Alcoholic drink of fermented honey 7 Cassowary’s cousin 8 “___ ’em, Fido!”

9 Had dinner 10 Take a seat 11 Did not step lightly 12 St. Louis football team 13 Airport stat.

14 Like a flower 15 ___ salts (bath additive) 16 Witchlike old woman 17 Dissolute men 18 Mail carrier’s grp.

24 Leak slowly 26 Name on elevators 28 “___ port in a storm” 30 Zigzag skiing course 31 Arm art 32 African tree 33 Idle of “Monty Python” 34 “That’s ___, folks!”

35 A twelfth of the AA program 36 Coll. fund-raising targets 38 Whiteboard necessities 39 Cause huskiness in, as a voice 40 Speck in the ocean 42 A Bobbsey twin 45 Showed to be false 46 Of grand proportions 47 Fashion designer Chanel 48 Myanmar currency unit 52 Knights’ titles 55 Has ___ to the ground 56 “McSorley’s Bar” painter John 57 Use a block and tackle 58 Succeeds in a coup

59 Secret observer 61 Bat cave collections 63 Release, as a dog 64 T-shirt opening 66 Chilly powder?

69 More than grin 70 Pond floater 71 E Street Band guitarist Lofgren 73 Coral creations 75 Rhododendron relative 76 Pack animals 77 Desert wanderer 79 Baby powder 81 Delivery service 84 False god mentioned in Judges 85 Desert in Mongolia 87 Visit tourist spots 89 Sylvia Plath novel (with “The”) 90 Altar attendant 91 Not-so-big shot?

93 Rug feature 94 Clumsy clod 95 “You ___?” (butler’s question) 97 Cook’s cover-up 98 Express appreciation to 99 Uses a dishrag 102 Isle of Man residents 103 Homely fruit?

104 Leave nothing to chance 105 “So what ___ is new?”

106 Be an eager beaver 108 “2 Fast 2 Furious” actress Mendes 109 Acorn maker 110 Compete in a dash 111 “Blessed ___ the meek ...”

112 Eggs, to a biologist 113 Headlight setting 114 Hinny’s relative

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