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Feb. 3 – 16, 2016 // vol. 3 no. 4

Victoria McArtor, MUSED. co-founder | GREG BOLLINGER

N E W S & C O M M EN TA RY

Arts and commerce Oklahoma’s revenue failure puts the squeeze on the arts LIZ BLO OD // 16 12 // To the Manor Boren

Mitch Gilliam, danseur

Dan Boren and the imaginary middle

One Billion Rising seeks to end violence against women

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FOOD & DRINK

MAURIE TRAYLOR // 22

ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY WITH COCKTAILS AND BUKOWSKI 24 // C elebrate everything!

Roll with the change A look at the Blue Dome District’s ever-evolving culinary landscape

LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL BY N ICCI AT CH LEY

18 // D ancing for change

Barry Friedman, arbiter

A RT & M U S I C

28 // F un, cheap, heartfelt

Liz Blood, hedonist

Megan Shepherd, sweetheart

A brief guide to Mardi Gras in Tulsa

Show your love without breaking the bank

Folkin’ Okies

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va l e n t i n e s d ay

Oklahoma musicians set for international showcase

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32 // T he adolescent surrealist

‘Where to Invade Next’ traverses the world

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43 // L ove yourself first Claire Edwards, rock of love

‘The Bachelor’ is here for the wrong reasons l a dy pa rt s

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editor’sletter

n Monday, February 1, as Gov. Mary Fallin gave her State of the State address in which she addressed Oklahoma’s budget shortfall and announced across-the-board funding cuts to state agencies, the newly formed Arts Alliance Tulsa announced its first fundraising campaign. In this time of belt-tightening, an organization like AAT is more important than ever. For years, myopic state legislators have been trying to defund the arts, and this year’s fiscal crisis offers more ammo for such a move. AAT receives funds from individuals, corporations and charitable foundations and redistributes them to its 39 member organizations, effectively mitigating some of the damage decreased state funding might otherwise inflict on struggling nonprofits. Still, while AAT’s formation is an exciting development for Tulsa’s arts community, it’s not a

definitive solution. The crisis is statewide, and for smaller rural areas with already-limited arts funding, further cuts could be devastating. On page 1, TTV assistant editor Liz Blood examines the potential consequences of these looming cuts. February is Black History month, and Ray Pearcey marks the occasion by paying tribute to the late historian and civil rights activist John Hope Franklin, a homegrown visionary whose work reshaped our country’s understanding of U.S. history and the black experience. On page 32, Alicia Chesser interviews wunderkind Jack Allen, an 18 year-old Tulsa playwright whose first production, the surrealist comedy “Cowboy,” premieres this month at the Nightingale Theater. Valentine’s Day is on the horizon. If you’re panicking at the thought of dropping a week’s pay on an arbitrary show of devotion,

Megan Shepherd offers thoughtful, affordable alternatives to the typical flowers/chocolate/dinner triumvirate (page 26). If, like me, you balk at the idea of a commercialized holiday that reduces love to a series of strategic spends, consider attending MUSED.’s Anti-Valentine’s Day event at Mixco, which will feature poetry writing contests, cocktails, and a reading of Charles Bukowski’s “Love is a Dog From Hell.” On page 28, Nicci Atchley previews the event and introduces readers to MUSED.’s larger mission of bringing poetry to the people. For a different kind of V-Day event, Mitch Gilliam looks at One Billion Rising, a global protest movement that utilizes dance to fight the epidemic of violence against women (page 18). Mia Leighty and Rebekah Logan have once again organized a Tulsa contingent of OBR, which will gather at Guthrie Green on February 14.

On page 43, Claire Edwards takes on the gaggle of swooning contestants vying for the heart of ABC’s “The Bachelor,” and determines they’re all here for the wrong reasons. All this, plus a recounting of Donald Trump’s recent visit to Tulsa (page 10), an interview with rap legend Scarface (page 36), a preview of The Colony’s send-off party for The Oklahoma Room at Folk Alliance International (page 38), and new columns by Barry Friedman and Joe O’Shansky. Lastly, don’t forget to sound off online at thetulsavoice.com/ bot for our second annual Best of Tulsa awards. Nominations close February 7; party announcement coming soon. a

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‘NEWSFLASH: Nobody gives a flying f**k about your politics!’

t noon today I exercised my option for the first time. I walked out of the Royal Dragon, 51st and Memorial, at the start of a regular Wednesday lunch with friends. One of the friends did likewise. When open carry became the law, I promised myself I would not place my safety in jeopardy by remaining in any establishment where someone not in law enforcement was carrying a gun. And one man with a pistol on his hip had just walked in. I had started a cup of soup from the buffet, and I paid for this while I explained to the cashier why I was leaving. A few days earlier I had a reasoned and civil conversation with a person who said he was “just waiting” for the day when an intended mass murderer is con-

fronted by someone else carrying a weapon. I disagree. The odds of that happening would require armed people at virtually every gathering because there is no way to predict where and when a deranged person will choose to strike. And there is no way for me and other patrons to know whether all those armed people are “good guys” or bad guys. Also, numerous shootings testify that even “good guys” have tempers that can be provoked. Tempers and guns do not go well together. Now, here’s the coincidence. As I left the Royal Dragon I picked up the January 20 issue of The Voice. While I enjoyed completing lunch at Delta Café with no guns present, I also enjoyed reading Barry Friedman’s excellent (as always) piece on

“Oklahoma’s gun apologentsia.” And I learned through a phone call that the armed person at the Royal Dragon was a marshall. If he had worn either a uniform or a badge I would have finished my lunch there. Bradley C. Byers, Tulsa

find it amusing that The Voice would feature an article about a handful of Syrian refugee freedom fighters (who by the way, are using AK-47s to defend themselves against the whims of a mad dictator’s regime), and in the same breath, subject us to yet another gun control diatribe from Barry Friedman. The reason that there are one million Syrians being forced to flee their homeland is

because only the Syrian government, military and police forces have firearms. Mr. Friedman, with his Jewish heritage, should recognize this fact more than anyone, in light of recent twentieth century atrocities. The problem with Friedman and his leftist colleagues is that they fancy themselves as having the market cornered on sympathy and concern over gun violence in America. “Never again,” right, Barry? Well sir, it’s happening again as we write! NEWSFLASH: Nobody gives a flying fuck about your politics! Keep The Voice as an arts and entertainment rag, or otherwise you’ll alienate half of your audience and merely go the way of the Urban Tulsa. Sincerely, Joe Robertson

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The prayer of Trump The Donald comes to town by JOSHUA KLINE

“B

omb the shit out of ISIS, folks!” This is not a directive, but a sales pitch. The smiling man with a deep rural drawl holds up homemade buttons with the colloquial declaration of war adorned across them. “Five dollars!” he yells. It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, the temperature is well below freezing and my feet are numb. The entrepreneur peddles right-wing talking points out of the back of his truck as I and a few thousand others stand in line, waiting to get inside the Mabee Center to see and hear Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. He stands between his pickup and a makeshift kiosk full of conservative swag: Trump t-shirts, red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps, and buttons galore: “Trump 2016” (in which a reddish-blonde wig sits atop the signature Republican elephant), “Armed Infidel” (a skull-and-cross-AK-47s featured on camouflage) and “Hot Chicks for Trump” (designed to look like an ad for a gentleman’s club, with the silhouette of a naked woman against hot pink), among others. The hawker has staked out a spot in a corner of the Mabee’s parking lot off Lewis Avenue, a few hundred feet north of the Christian event arena’s electronic marquee and right alongside the never-ending line of bodies snaking through the parking lot, winding toward the Praying Hands, that Oral Roberts-funded monument to evangelical health and wealth. His merch is selling fast, especially the ISIS buttons. A teenager trots past the line in a red-white-and-blue t-shirt. He moves fast, pausing just long enough for three well-groomed 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

Buttons for sale outside Trump rally | LIZ BLOOD

older women standing in front of me to mistake his “Hillary for Prison 2016” shirt for legitimate Clinton campaign threads. The women, thinking they just spotted a rogue Democrat disrupter, look at each other in horror. “Unbelievable,” mumbles one of them. Another huffs and puffs and shakes her head, deeply offended. “I’m going to have to watch what I say today.” Spurred by the women’s hostility toward an alleged Hillary supporter and determined to blend in, I step out of line and purchase a “Make America Great Again” hat for $20. I peel the inside label, finding the hat’s origin: “Made in China.” For the next two hours, the line slowly shuffles across the lot toward the arena’s main entrance. A handful of protestors stand on the side of the road facing oncoming

traffic with signs objecting to the rally: “No hate in the 918,” “Hatefree Tulsa,” “KKK Trump Rally Here ”. At Noon, I finally make it inside and through the security checkpoint. I empty my pockets and walk through the metal detector. A police officer confiscates my lighter. A bluegrass rendition of U2’s “Pride (In the Name of Love)” echoes through the arena as people find their seats. I find a spot right in time for the opening prayer, Pledge of Allegiance and “Star-Spangled Banner” singalong. The woman leading the prayer introduces Trump as a “Man of faith,” a “Friend of Israel,” and a “Defender of Christians.” “Just think,” she says. “We’ll be able to shout ‘Merry Christmas’

everywhere when Trump gets to the Oval Office!” The hyped crowd screams with approval. She recites a paraphrased version of 1 Chronicles 4:10, commonly known as The Prayer of Jabez: “Bless him indeed and enlarge his territory.” The Prayer of Jabez is a favorite scripture of word-of-faith Christians, many of whom believe the endgame for seeking God is the acquisition of physical health, wealth, and influence. For these believers, Donald Trump is a paragon of Christian virtue. But the Donald’s spiritual beliefs are a matter of political convenience, as amorphous and ever-changing as the bacteria and yeast floating at the top of a Kombucha bottle. His demagoguery is obvious to those of us who haven’t drank the phlegmy Kool-Aid, but, to his supporters, his word is his bond, and any perceived flipflop on an issue, whether spiritual or political, is simply a misunderstanding, a malicious distortion by a hostile news media. After the introduction, an apparently pre-recorded voice booms through the arena instructing supporters on how to handle the inevitable protestors. “Mr. Trump supports the first amendment as much as he supports the second”—pause for cheers—“But some people choose to take advantage of Mr. Trump’s generosity and disrupt these events through protesting.” Boos fill the arena. “Mr. Trump’s generosity.” It’s a telling phrase that brings to mind a dictator’s cult of personality. A democratically elected leader follows the mandate of the constitution and the people who elected February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

him to office. Only an authoritarian with no accountability is “generous” in this context. It’s ironic, then, in the most obvious way, that many of these people were driven to support Trump in part based on their perception that Obama is a lawless rogue, a wannabe dictator shoving his socialist agenda down America’s gagging throat through gross abuse of executive privilege. (That Obama has issued fewer executive orders than 15 of our last 18 presidents, including George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, is a non-starter.) At 1 p.m., “Hey Jude” plays for the third time and the crowd jeers. Trump is an hour late and his fans are getting restless. When he finally takes the stage, the room explodes. He introduces his “great friend who makes things great,” Sarah Palin, and the cheers hit peak fervor. The former Alaska governor’s endorsement speech is an adlibbed buzzword salad, a free association game of rhymes and alliteration and dubious accusations, including the head-scratcher that her son Track’s arrest for assaulting his girlfriend the day before is somehow Obama’s fault. The crowd loves it. “They’re stomping on our necks and they want us to chill?!” she yells, apropos of nothing, never specifying who “they” are or why they’re stomping on our necks. “Well, we’re not going to chill! In fact, I say, ‘drill, baby, drill!’” Later, during Trump’s speech, as isolated dissidents pop up throughout the arena to have their moment of protest, the crowd of goose-steppers, like good Germans playing whack-amole, follow earlier instructions to surround each freshly sprouted protestor, wave their Trump signs maniacally and scream “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” until police reach the group and escort the disrupter out. With each new protestor, Trump encourages the mob. “Get ‘em outta here! We have fun at Trump rallies, don’t we?” It’s grotesque, watching grown adults go apeshit on these far-outnumbered rebels—most of them teenagers or young 20somethings—as Trump goads them on. It’s more grotesque that these people (my father, a staunch evanTHE TULSA VOICE // February 3 – 16, 2016

gelical conservative still in possession of his critical faculties, calls them the “fetal alcohol vote”) are deluded enough to fall in line with Trump, to swallow his pandering, to actually believe that this man, this godless caricature of a capitalist pig, is sincere about anything other than his self-serving desire to win at all costs. As Trump winds down, one more protestor emerges. A swarm of Donald defenders surround him, screaming for the attention of the cops. Trump offers a half-hearted “get him outta here” before continuing his outro, but the cops take longer than usual and the crowd stops paying attention. As the arena cheers Trump’s final words, the forgotten confrontation between protestor and Trumper turns physical. A paunchy, goateed redneck shoves the protestor, a diminutive kid who looks college-age. The kid recovers from the push, stands his ground. More Trumpers descend on him. A hulking cowboy, even larger than the paunchy redneck, storms down the stairs, lunges at the kid, puts him in a headlock and attempts to drag him out by the neck. The kid escapes the grip, spins and knocks the cowboy hat off the guy’s head just as TPD officers finally arrive to escort him away from the angry mob. A few days after the rally, Trump goes on national television and brags about the unwavering loyalty of his support base. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” he said. As I exit the Mabee Center and begin the long trek to my car, a wild-eyed man, Trump sign in one hand and Bible in the other, holds court on the sidewalk with a broadcast reporter. I catch isolated words and phrases—“Jesus” and “killing babies” and “government”—as he barks into the camera like a street preacher. His voice recedes as I make my way through the parking lot. An impatient woman in a red Jeep almost hits me. She slams on her brakes and glares at me as she passes. I spot a Jesus fish on the back of her vehicle. Behind me, the street preacher yells “Repent!” at the reporter. a

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To the Manor Boren Dan Boren and the imaginary middle by BARRY FRIEDMAN

ot counting former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman and present West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (the top two seeds), no Democratic politician in recent memory has been as big a pain in the party’s ass than Dan Boren, who represented Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district from 2004-2012. The main difference between him and his successor, Republican Markwayne Mullin, is that Boren doesn’t own a plumbing company. Now president of corporate development with the Chickasaw Nation, Boren announced1 last month he’s thinking of returning to public life in Oklahoma, specifically with a run for governor in 2018. And a grateful state shrugged. “Obviousl y we have a one-party state right now, and I think it’s important in the future that we look at having a balanced, bipartisan approach to government.”

He’s calling for a bipartisanship and a balanced approach to government … in Oklahoma? With whom? Sally Kearn, Mike Reynolds, Josh Cockroft, Mike Ritze, John Bennett, Nathan Dahm, Randy Brogdon, Mike Christian, and Al Gerhart? Have we missed their common-sense solutions on issues relating to guns, environmental regulations, abortion, science education, nullification, homosexuality, respect for the president, and healthcare? Have we missed their calls to work with moderate Democrats? Have we missed their love of good governance? And are these really the people we want hammering out deals with our new governor? Looking at his body of work in Washington, though, Dan Boren is 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

Boren did everything for the GOP but wave pompoms and work the merch table. “I’m approaching this race, not based on whether or not other people in the race or whatever the political winds are, this is whether or not it’s the right thing to do and also whether I could successfull y govern,” Boren said.

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to bipartisanship what the French were to the 4th Panzer Division. Here are just some of the highlights2: • Boren is on the National Rifle Association Board of Directors (along with Oliver North, Grover Norquist, and everyone’s favorite racist Ted Nugent)3. • He is only one of two Democratic representatives who voted against the Affordable Care Act. (He also joined Republicans the 4,843 times they voted to repeal it). • The National Journal named Boren the most conservative Democrat in congress during his time in the U.S. House of Representatives4. • He voted to prohibit federal funds from even indirectly being used for any health benefits coverage that included abortion services—there

already was a federal ban on funds being used to directly pay for them—even when the insurance would be used for life-saving measures. • He voted against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. • He called the American Clean Energy and Security Act “the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen since I’ve been there.” • He voted to block the EPA from using federal law to control greenhouse gases from power plants, refineries and other industrial facilities. • He was the only Democrat to vote against an amendment making the FBI’s check of library records more difficult. • He voted to support an amendment to a bill reauthorizing Head Start that would allow faith based education programs to hire people based on their religion5.

Every major officeholder in Oklahoma is Republican, we’re nearly first in all the bad categories (female incarceration, earthquakes, obesity and nutrition rates), nearly last in all the good categories (education funding, health, open government), a billion dollars in debt, a daily national punchline6, and Boren is not interested in the political winds blowing through the state or worried that Scott Pruitt or Jim Bridenstine may be our next governor? Why run, then? Now, the story might have ended there—Boren said he hasn’t even made up his mind if he’ll run—but then Boren’s father, former Governor, Senator and now President of the University of Oklahoma David Boren, was asked what he thought about the prospect and, well, the paternity hit the fan7. “I learned from media reports today that Dan Boren is considering a race for governor in 2018. I will advise against it,” the elder Boren, 74, said, in a statement first reported by the AP. “In my opinion, it is not a good idea. I have had a policy of never endorsing or campaigning for any candidate for governor. I February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

will continue that policy regardless of who the candidates may be.”

As Paul Newman said in “Road to Perdition,” “sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers,” but carumba! You call your son by his full name, hear from the media he’s running for your old job, and then rationalize your lack of support for him because you never endorse anyone? Henry Plantagenet, Freud, Dr. Phil, someone, anyone, line one. David Boren eventually said he’d support his son, but there was enough wiggle room in the endorsement to drive the OU Schooner through it.8 “I’m very proud of him, of course,” David Boren said in response to a high school student’s question at a Tulsa Town Hall event Friday morning. “I think he rendered excellent service in Congress. But the governor’s race is three years off. A lot could happen between now and then. … There’s plenty of time between now and 2018 for him to make up his mind.”

Dad! And when Dan Boren isn’t being the Rudy Giuliani of Blue Dog Democrats—Subject-verb-bipartisanship—he can also be a disingenuous little wheedler.9 “I’ve got to reflect my district,” Boren said. “No one means more to me than the people who elected me. I have to listen them.”

Oh, for the love of diabetes, hold the meringue. No one means more to you? In your district, 21% of people are uninsured10— it is for them ACA was designed. You hated Obamacare, fine, so where was your alternative? Where was the GOP alternative? But why worry about policy and solutions, when you can just posture and channel your inner Charlton Heston.11 “They’ll have to walk across my dead body if they want my vote on this issue. They can break my arms. They can do whatever they want to. They’ll never get my vote — ever.” THE TULSA VOICE // February 3 – 16, 2016

This, let me remind you, was against the leadership … of his own party. If only he had been so butch when Republicans were shutting down the government, refusing to confirm qualified Democratic appointees, and demonstrating they hated Obama more than they loved America. If only he had gotten in the face of John Boehner as often as he did Nancy Pelosi. In 2018, if Boren runs, nobody is expecting him to channel Elizabeth Warren, but would it kill him to stop taking a 2 x 4 to that “D-Oklahoma” in the parenthesis after his name? If he runs as a Republican-lite candidate, as he probably will, his support from Democrats will be as tepid as his father’s. Nobody is impressed, least of all Democratic voters (who tend to stay home on election day and grouse and kick the dog), when a candidate sells his or her soul in the name of—wait for it—bipartisanship. As our second favorite political consultant, Bruno Gianelli (Toby Ziegler, of course, being, our first), said12, “I’m tired of working for candidates who make me think that I should be embarrassed to believe what I believe. I’m tired of getting them elected! Let’s have two parties, huh, what do you say?” Dan, huh, what do you say? a

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A homegrown visionary Remembering the legacy of John Hope Franklin by RAY PEARCEY

t’s a new year, and another opportunity has arisen to convey a piece of Black History in the month we mark to commemorate the same. While February being an “honors” month is wildly artificial, it is an occasion to raise up the convulsive, triumphant, sometimes sad, but always electrifying story of the African American sojourn, which informs every page of America's tangled, pan-tribal history, one told through many people. I'm no fan of the so-called “Great Man theory” of history. I believe our country's journey is crafted one step at a time by thousands, sometimes millions, of individuals. The so-called War of Brothers, or Civil War, was driven by Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, but feverishly carried out by 179,000 black and 2.6 million white Union troops and an estimated 750,000 Confederate combatants. The American Civil Rights Movement was engineered by a handful of iconic political, intellectual, artistic, and religious leaders like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Ella Baker, William Sloan Coffin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Pete Seeger and others. But this ongoing struggle was (and still is) fueled in the day-to-day frisson experienced by thousands of courageous, largely unknown folks who successfully integrated swimming pools, cafés, bus terminals, schools, universities, and governments. But it is easier to make tangible the contributions of a people and their partisans by highlighting the individuals Martin Luther King, Jr. called “majorettes,” or march leaders: standouts who made stellar contributions in these grand, tumultuous processions. Once, one of them lived among us here in Tulsa. 14 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

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John Hope Franklin, a former Oklahoman who was one of the most compelling historians in many a generation, would have been 101 this past month. Dr. Franklin, who passed away in 2009, was an epic scholar, historian, celebrated professor, ground-breaking researcher, prolific writer, and sometimes a powerhouse activist. Keen observers like Harvard president and historian Drew Gilpin Faust believe Franklin's work revolutionized American historical studies by looking unblinkingly at the monstrous tapestry of oppression, savage social engineering, and economic deprivation that defined the plantation/slave owner society and the every day lives of enchained workers and their families. According to Franklin, economists Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, and contemporary thinkers like writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, slaves contributed hugely to the still-humongous competitive advantage that allowed America to leapfrog our world peers in the race to industrial superiority. “Free labor” put the U.S. on an epic trajectory that still defines us today. Franklin was the first American historian to forcefully place the lives, struggles, and tumult of black people at the hot core of the

scholarly discipline of studying American history. Franklin, who is honored by name at Tulsa's John Hope Franklin Center For Reconciliation, was also president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. His seminal work, From Slavery to Freedom (originally published in 1947), is a classroom classic and has been continually updated with over three million volumes in circulation. In 1995, Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Clinton, who cited Franklin’s writing, critical research for the case of Brown v. Board of Education, and his profound scholarship. I asked former Tulsa businessman and state legislator Don McCorkell, who is also an amateur historian, to write one of several pieces that the Oklahoma Eagle commissioned for Franklin's 100th birthday. Here is how McCorkell framed Franklin's link to Green Country: “Franklin was born in Rentiesville in eastern Oklahoma and grew up there and in Tulsa where he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. His father, Buck, grew up in Indian

Territory, starting as a rancher and then turning to law, moving his law practice from Rentiesville to Tulsa in the early years of the twentieth century. Franklin and his mother and sisters remained in Rentiesville waiting for the time they could move to Tulsa, which to them sounded like the promised land. They did get to make that move, but only after the horrendous Tulsa race riot in which the black community was devastated and Buck’s law office burned to the ground. The city doubled down on its racist acts by passing an ordinance to prevent blacks from rebuilding. Franklin’s father was among those who challenged this act successfully in a lawsuit finally resolved in the Oklahoma Supreme Court...” Drew Gilpin Faust wrote movingly of Franklin's major role in reshaping the understanding of US history this past December in the New York Review of Books: “...Many Americans in 2015 seem to be undertaking an unprecedentedly clear-eyed look at the nation’s past, at the legacy of slavery and race that has made us anything but a colorblind society. There could be no more fitting tribute to Franklin’s one hundredth birthday than this collective stock-taking, for no one has done more to delineate the contours of that shameful legacy and to insist upon its importance to America’s present and future. And in that effort he has also done something more for history itself: insisting not just upon its relevance, but indeed its preeminence as the indispensable instrument of change and even salvation from legacies that left unexamined will destroy us....” “Good history,” Franklin remarked in 1989, “is a good foundation for a better present and future.” a February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Oklahoma’s revenue failure puts the squeeze on arts funding by LIZ BLOOD

n Monday, as Oklahoma’s 55th Legislature reconvened for its second regular session, Gov. Mary Fallin gave her State of the State address, announcing plans to grapple with the state’s $900 million budget shortfall in part by reducing appropriations to most state agencies by six percent, with smaller cuts for core, critical agencies. As legislators figure out what the state will and won’t spend money on, Oklahomans for the Arts, an arts advocacy nonprofit, is asking Oklahomans to call legislators in support of public funding for the arts and the Oklahoma Arts Council (OAC). Since the OAC receives state appropriations, they therefore received the 3 percent mid-year 16 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

cuts, which brought their overall FY16 budget reduction to 10.25 percent. Besides consistent reductions to their appropriation, there were two bills introduced in the last three years to eliminate or defund the OAC. In 2013, House Bill 1895, authored by Rep. Josh Cockroft (R-Tecumseh), called for a 25 percent reduction in funding per year to the OAC, which would cause the appropriation to end in 2017. A year later, in 2014, House Bill 2850 was introduced, which also set out to defund the agency, because author Dan Fisher (R-Yukon), believes that arts funding is not a core function of the government. Fortunately, there was opposition from both lawmakers and

their constituents. According to Julia Kirt, executive director of Oklahomans for the Arts, the public ensured those bills did not go through. “There was such a resounding outcry from across the state that the legislators heard and knew people cared.” In Kirt’s opinion, individuals calling legislators is key. “There’s no question that when those elimination bills came up, they would've gone a lot farther if advocates hadn’t spoken out.” Kirt said these advocates were everyone from artists to business leaders to residents of rural communities. “The environment has been ripe for elimination and consolidation and the fact it hasn’t happened says a lot about people speaking up.”

Sixty Tulsa organizations and programs, including Tulsa Ballet, Philbrook Museum of Art, American Theatre Company, Chamber Music Tulsa, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa Opera, Pocket Full of Hope, Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust, and the Woody Guthrie Center, receive grant funding from the Oklahoma Arts Council. Many of these organizations also receive funding from faithful corporate sponsors and the new United Arts Fund, Arts Alliance Tulsa. In that sense, the arts in Tulsa are fortunate. But having support elsewhere does not mean allocations from the state are unnecessary. Grants give organizations leverage for raising private dollars and they guarantee funding. February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

Chad Oliverson, marketing director at Arts Alliance Tulsa (AAT), said his organization works in tandem with the OAC. “We have a good relationship with OAC, we believe in them, and we believe the arts need all forms of support. Arts Alliance Tulsa is meant to fill in the gaps where we’re falling short.” He went on to say that defunding the OAC would only be detrimental. “Defunding any source of revenue to arts organization simply hurts cities. It hurts education, health, quality of life, and the ability to attract new growth.” Oliverson also cited the work the City of Tulsa and Tulsa City Council accomplished in putting $2.25 million for the Tulsa Arts Commission into the Vision 2025 package. “On the local level, government-wise, we took a step forward for Tulsa.” The Oklahoma Arts Council has seen a 34 percent reduction in state appropriations since 2008. Those funds make up 85 percent of the money given to OAC grantees. “Our goal has been to cushion the impact of the cuts on our grantees by absorbing as much internally as possible,” OAC executive director Amber Sharples said. “We’ve managed to only reduce our grants budget by 26 percent. However, because grants are about 80 percent of our expenditures, finding other areas to trim is becoming increasingly difficult.” For Chamber Music Tulsa, funding from the OAC over the last five years has gone from over $45,000 a year to, as of this month, below $35,000. “We certainly have been seeing a slide downward,” CMT executive director Bruce Sorrell said. “The OAC has done a great job of trying to keep funding levels stable, but we have seen a reduction in our grant of a little over 23 percent.” At the Philbrook Museum of Art, director of communications Tricia Milford-Hoyt said cuts to funding from the OAC directly impacts one of the museum’s most popular programs. “The ‘My Museum’ program provides free art supplies and access to arts for children ages 4-12 and their families,” she said. Kids receive an art kit, art supplies, and a card that THE TULSA VOICE // February 3 – 16, 2016

Philbrook’s ‘My Museum’ program | COURTESY PHILBROOK

the caregiver can use to talk to the child about the art they are seeing. “‘My Museum’ creates the opportunity for all children regardless of status to see and make art.” Tulsa Ballet is also affected by cuts to the OAC. “Any time anticipated revenues decrease, it’s our responsibility to adjust our expenses, or go out and find that money elsewhere,” TB executive director Scott Black said. A sudden reduction in funding might effectively mean cancelling contracts with performers (the same goes for Chamber Music Tulsa) and their corresponding programs. Fundraising during an oil downturn in Oklahoma is no easy feat. Of course, the state budget is directly related to oil revenue, and everyone here feels the squeeze. But as the OAC budget makes up less than .05 percent of the state budget, cuts to the agency won’t close any hole.

Public dollars spent funding the arts have shown a good return on investment. The OAC’s FY14 Impact Report, available on their website, shows that $1 in OAC grant funds seeds $13 in private funds and returns $8-plus in local and state tax revenue. The arts and culture industry also supports 10,000 full-time equivalent jobs. “As state leaders consider strategies for building a diversified economy, equipping students to be creative thinkers, addressing health and mental health issues, fostering a quality of life that draws businesses, young professionals, and families to Oklahoma, the arts must be part of the plan,” Sharples said. “It’s important for the state to realize the arts are an important part of the economy,” Black continued. “[The Tulsa Ballet] is an economic engine. Over 10,000 people come to see ‘The Nut-

cracker.’ They are paying for parking, hotels, and dinner. It’s important for the state to realize they are investing in their own economy by investing in the arts.” For Oklahomans who wish our state to keep doing so, advocacy is crucial. “Sometimes we imagine there are many people talking to lawmakers about issues we care about, but that might not be,” Kirt said. “If [lawmakers] hear from five people in their district, they think it’s a whole movement.” In short, one phone call from one person can go a long way. In rural Oklahoma communities without strong financial support from the community or organizations like AAT, funding from the OAC is essential. In Sapulpa, just west of Tulsa, director of Sapulpa Arts Sheri Ishmael-Waldrop said the OAC is “vital” to their existence. “Without their support…we would be unable to provide free classes to senior citizens and Alzheimer's patients, one third of the students in summer arts programs wouldn’t be able to attend, and we couldn’t offer our summer concert series, which is open to everyone.” Ishmael-Waldrop said that, in the past, Sapulpa has had to choose which programs to fund over others due to OAC cuts. “How do you choose to cut programs for senior citizens or children? It is very hard,” she said. “We were lucky to have supporters who were able to step up, but in a small town with many United Way organizations and non-profits, those purses dry up quickly.” For now, smaller arts organizations will continue through FY16 with the money they’ve been promised. “Our approach to addressing the three percent midyear cut, which will impact larger arts organizations, was to review where we have strategically cut our grants since fiscal year 2008 while being mindful that another budget cut is looming in fiscal year 2017,” Sharples said. “Arts education fuels creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills in all citizens,” Milford-Hoyt said. “Whether you’re an engineer or a politician or a communicator, you need those skills.” a NEWS & COMMENTARY // 17

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Dancing for change One Billion Rising seeks to end violence against women by MITCH GILLIAM

ast month, former OKC police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty of multiple sex crimes against black women. He was handed a 263-year sentence. Though longtime activist and social worker Mia Pearl Leighty was overjoyed at the verdict and sentence, she recognized this as a rare win in a world where justice for women is often scarce. This Valentine’s Day, Leighty and her friend Rebekah Logan hope to draw attention to global female oppression. Eschewing force, the duo believes the key to female liberation lays in dance. Started by Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues,” One Billion Rising (OBR) is a global dance movement aimed at ending violence towards women. Leighty and Logan are organizing this year’s OBR Tulsa event, which will take place on Valentine’s day at Guthrie Green. In recent years, 207 countries have participated in this day of dance, poetry, music, and education. This year, “One Billion Rising: Rise for Revolution,” will escalate the previous year’s demands for action. Central to the movement is the statistic that one out

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of every three women, or roughly one billion, will be violated in their lifetime. “One billion women violated is an atrocity,” Leighty told me. “One billion women dancing is a revolution.” Though the horrors that women face worldwide—including rape, sex trafficking, domestic violence, child marriage, and female castration—are indeed horrific, Leighty stresses that this is a positive movement. “There is a lot of darkness around the issue,” Leighty said, “but the idea is to celebrate the power of women and girls.” Leighty sees dance as a way to transform pain into power. The growing number of Tulsans who participate in OBR each year agree. When Leighty first started the event, it was a small affair with friends and participants from Family and Children’s Services’ Women In Recovery group. Each year has seen an exponential growth of attendees. Leighty says this growth in interest mirrors global trends, though countries like Saudi Arabia could draw, “just five women…who are brave enough to dance in the streets.” In addition to ending sexual violence, OBR hopes to empower

women and cast a light on unequal representation in government. OBR was started, in part, as a response to former Missouri representative Todd Akin’s infamous assertion that pregnancy is rare in cases of “legitimate rape.” For many, Akin’s remarks were the smoking gun at the heart of an electorate out of touch with women’s issues. Where race and sexual assault on women intersect, Daniel Holtzclaw’s all-white jury is itself—regardless of its clear-eyed decision to convict—indicative of unequal representation. Another area of focus for OBR is the incarceration of women. Oklahoma imprisons more women than any other state. All of the proceeds from OBR Tulsa will go to Women In Recovery, an outpatient alternative to incarceration for non-violent, female drug offenders. Their programs are aimed at rehabilitation and ending the cycle of incarceration. Leighty told me that current participants and alumni of Women In Recovery will be present to dance and share their stories. Though based around issues affecting women, OBR Tulsa stresses that this event is for wom-

en, girls, and the men that love them. “Women cannot dismantle the patriarchal system [alone],” Leighty told me, “we can only do that when men stand up against racism, sexism and misogyny.” With one out of every seven men being violated in their lifetime, sexual assault is a concern for both sexes. At this year’s OBR, Oklahoma advocacy group Sally’s List will be present to discuss their desire to promote progressive female public leaders. Leighty encourages OBR attendees to wear red or pink, bring instruments to play, and come ready to dance and learn. Those wishing to join in the choreographed dance can learn the dance ahead of time at the Fly Loft (117 N. Main.) Rehearsals will be held on February 9th at 6:15 pm, and February 13th at 11:00 am. a

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Roll with the change A quick look at the Blue Dome District’s ever-evolving culinary landscape by MAURIE TRAYLOR

t takes courage to change. It’s a mark of mature leadership to successfully evaluate what is working and what is not, and to create an environment that embraces change, no matter how difficult the process might be. In that spirit, we examine a few of the game-changers within Tulsa’s ever-evolving Blue Dome District restaurant community. Right or wrong in their final decisions, they have been willing to do the soul-searching within themselves and their organizations, taking an honest, fresh look at their concept and determining the next move. At the intersection of good times, people and food is the ever-evolving true Tulsa, whose heart and soul is exhibited in the doers and dreamers that make change happen. Cheers to this group of innovators and risk takers in the Blue Dome District. Jesse Ramirez is a young, familiar and ambitious face in the Tulsa food scene. He’s partnered with Bill Parkey to bring a new menu and fresh vibe to S & J Oyster Bar, one of Tulsa’s oldest and most beloved concepts. In a location within walking distance from the BOK center, they seem poised to draw in everyone looking for the freshest seafood and steak dining experience in the area. “The difference between a BOK late night audience and a PAC symphony performance are significant, and we want to meet those audiences with class and style,” Parkey said. Like any

er emerged a respected player in the downtown market. “We also focused on updated aesthetics with a more mature look, and of course, our renowned commitment to care and dedication for our guests,” Tack said.

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conceptual shift, there have been fumbles and a few lost scores in the process. Yet, Parkey and Ramirez welcome the opportunity to learn from these occurrences. “Knowing what we can do better to serve our guests is a challenge we welcome,” Ramirez said. Such revamps are familiar territory for chef Michelle Donaldson and her talented, visionary team at Bramble Breakfast & Bar and Tallgrass Prairie Table. Though Bramble first developed a unique specialty drink menu similar to Tallgrass, Donaldson realized the importance of distinguishing the two spaces. Last year, Donaldson and her team rebranded Bramble as a craft breakfast bar. Not only did this utilize their a shared kitchen

with Tallgrass, it also expanded their commitment to the farm-totable concept. “We butcher our own animals and we partner with local farmers, making a commitment to small farm economies,” Donaldson said. Within a few months, she and her team successfully implemented the change in concept, creating another win for sustainable restaurant fare. No stranger to new challenges, chef Trevor Tack suited up for McNellie’s Group and tackled the overhaul of Dilly Deli to create Dilly Diner. Tack’s vision for an all-day, on-site bakery and breakfast breathed new life into a stodgy brand. Featuring seasonal options and a late-night menu (it’s open until 1 a.m.), Dilly Din-

The White Flag space on Elgin between 1st and 2nd Streets began as Back Alley BBQ & Blues, but retreated (hence the name “White Flag”) when downtown became overrun with similar concepts. White Flag was first a craft burger concept that featured consistent live music, and later existed exclusively as a special event and music venue that still offered guests their unique, delicious burgers. Then, last year, a fire destroyed White Flag’s Blue Ox Dining Group sister, Joe Momma’s. Determined to keep his team working, owner Blake Ewing reopened White Flag with a menu representing the best of what Blue Ox restaurants offer. Always a destination for special occasion diners and top-shelf business lunches, Juniper Restaurant further upped its game to focus more on French cuisine and mixology, utilizing infused vodkas, gins and flavored bitters. Gourmet lunches, handmade cocktails and a European-inspired menu now take guests on an entirely new journey, showing once again that Justin Thompson Restaurant Group knows how to evolve and improve. a

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Elote’s 2014 Mardi Gras event ROBERT BILLINGS

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Celebrate everything! A brief guide to Mardi Gras in Tulsa by LIZ BLOOD year ago I visited New Orleans, just a few weeks before Mardi Gras. The city was awash in party prep. Warehouses blacked out windows to conceal secret float designs, krewes (NOLA-speak for parade organizers) scrambled to put finishing touches on elaborate costumes, and ordinary citizens tried to get enough sleep, hoping to store up the energy required to make it from party to party to party for the two weeks leading to Fat Tuesday. In the Marigny district, I saw a painted sign: Until Further Notice, Celebrate Everything! Few places in the country celebrate as fully, enthusiastically, or for as long as the Big Easy. While the NOLA experience is unrivaled, Tulsa knows how to party, too, and we’ve lined out the food, booze, and street celebrations to help you make the most of Fat Tuesday.

THE FOOD

Start your day with an order of beignets (6 for $4.75) from Wild Fork. The Utica Square restaurant serves breakfast from 7-11 a.m. and accepts to-go orders. Beignets should be eaten hot, so make sure to have a strong cup of coffee or a café au lait already in hand. Hebert’s and Cajun Ed’s owner Ed Richard says he’s been taking orders for Mardi Gras for weeks. 24 // FEATURED

Sazerac cocktail Ingredients 1/2 oz. absinthe (try Lucid) 2 oz. rye 1/4 oz. simple syrup Peychaud’s bitters Angostura bitters Lemon twist

Not to worry: “If you have to make a decision the day before, you can,” he says. Richard suggests some Louisiana mainstays: crawfish étouffée ($69, 8 servings) chicken and sausage gumbo ($85, 8 servings); or red beans and rice ($68.50, 8 servings). If you’re not planning a big shindig, get a few Cajun Ed’s entrees and sides to go. Bodean Restaurant sous chef Tim Swetson, who lived in New Orleans for sixteen years, suggests having a shrimp boil. “Shrimps are always a crowd pleaser. I like to throw Brussels sprouts in mine, and potatoes, Andouille sausage, hot dogs if you’ve got kids, and pineapple, which soaks up the liquid and it’s a wonderful flavor.” Swetston makes Andouille sausage for Bodean Market ($8.99/ lb), where they also sell large Gulf shrimp ($9.99/lb), perfect for Mardi Gras. “I use Zataran’s Pro Boil – the dry package and a little

Instructions: Pour absinthe into a rocks glass and swirl to coat inside. Discard absinthe; fill glass with ice to chill. Put rye, simple syrup, 3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters, and 1 dash Angostura bitters in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Discard ice in rocks glass; rub the rim with a lemon twist and drop twist into glass; strain cocktail into glass. If you want to get really fancy, add a champagne topper. Pour a healthy slug of bubbly into the cocktail.

bit of the concentrate. You don’t want it to be bland,” he says. Antoinette Baking Co. is taking orders for King Cakes ($30 each) until Friday, February 5. The purple, green, and gold ten-inch round cakes are a Mardi Gras must-have, and come in two flavors—chocolate filling or creamcheese pecan filling, each with the tiny plastic baby inside.

THE BOOZE

There’s no Mardi Gras party without at least a little booze. For that, we recommend the Sazerac, the official cocktail of New Orleans as well as the first American cocktail. It’s bitter, sweet, spicy, herbal, and hard to have only one.

THE PARTY

While downtown is skipping the proper parade this year, the Blue

Dome District has organized a family-friendly Mardi Gras crawl with street performers, king cakes, music, floats, beads, beads and more beads, from 4-11 p.m. Grab a punch card, hitch a ride on the free trolley, and see if you can make it to all 23 participating Blue Dome businesses, which will have specials and all you need to celebrate. Meanwhile, at Elote, another Fat Tuesday celebration: “Because there’s no Mardi Gras parade this year, we’ll have our own parade,” Elote owner Libby Billings said. “We’ll walk to the Blue Dome and then come back and have a party.” The Elote krewe will leave the restaurant at 8 p.m., march, play music, and wind through the Blue Dome and back by 9 p.m., when 11-piece Afrobeat collective Count Tutu will take the stage and play ‘til midnight. “Anyone who is disappointed there isn’t a Mardi Gras parade is welcome to get dressed up crazy and walk with us,” Billings said. If you tipple too many Sazeracs at home or want to stay in for the evening, tune in online to NOLA’s WWOZ, a jazz and New Orleans music heritage radio station operated out of the French Quarter. (www.wwoz.org) Finally, as they say in NOLA, laissez les bons temps rouler! a February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Tues., Feb. 9, 4 to 11 p.m., Blue Dome District This is the big one. Street performers, king cakes, music, colorful floats, beads, beads, and more beads. Grab a punchcard, hitch a ride on the free trolley, and see if you can make it to all 23 participating Blue Dome businesses, which will have specials and all you need to laissez les bon temps rouler.

Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience Fri., Feb. 5, 7 p.m., $60 John L. Rucker Warehouse, choragus.org

We can't wait either. Start Mardi Gras early at this concert and Creole feast presented by Choregus Productions. Simien is a native of Mallet, LA, has spent his life playing Zydeco music around the world, and has performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival every year for the last 29 years.

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Sat., Feb. 6, $8-$10, Tues., Feb. 9, $5 The Venue Shrine, tulsashrine.com The Shrine is spreading it’s Fat Tuesday celebrations over two days. First, the Masquerade on 2/6 will feature music ranging from Dixieland to house, burlesque and fire performances, food provided by Stella Reaux, specials on Hurricanes and Abita beers and more. On Mardi Gras Day, 2/9, the Shrine hosts the 1st Annual Oklahoma Mardi Straw, a rootsy celebration with Wink Burcham, Jacob Tovar, Cody Brewer, Steve Liddell, Dylan Stewart, Brandon Clark, and The Science Project.

Mardi Gras Party/Fat Tuesday Masquerade Ball Sat., Feb. 6 (free), Tues., Feb. 9, $60-$100 Inner Circle Vodka Bar, icvodkabar.com

Inner Circle also couldn’t contain their good times to just one day. They’ll have DJs, Hurricanes, drink specials and beads on 2/6. On 2/9, Inner Circle fancies it up with a Ball featuring FuZed playing jazz and hits, an open bar, and a Creole buffet. Tickets are $60 per person or $100 per couple.

Body: Art + Mixology

Tues., Feb. 9, 7 p.m., $30-$40 Mix Co, facebook.com/iamyogafestival A celebration of the human body, art, and cocktails, Mardi Gras style. Artists Alexa Gresham, Bryan Crump, Gabrielle Howell and Kristin Walters will create works of art using the bodies of models as their canvases. The evening will also include a people’s choice mixology contest. Presented by I Am Yoga Festival. THE TULSA VOICE // February 3 – 16, 2016

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Love is a dog from hell Anti-Valentine’s Day with cocktails and Bukowski by NICCI ATCHLEY

“It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them to o well.” –Charles Bukowski Victoria McArtor, MUSED. co-founder | GREG BOLLINGER // Charles Bukowski, 1981 | MARK HANAUER (inset)

harles Bukowski was known for being vulgar, raw, cynical, and, like many writers, ultimately lonely. His writing is often filthy, frequently misogynistic, and always obsessed with the banality of existence. Decades after his death, it still pisses people off. Poet Victoria McArtor, co-founder—along with John Regur—of the nonprofit MUSED., has selected Bukowski as the featured poet whose work will be read at an Anti-Valentine’s Day celebration at Mixed Company as part of the organization’s POP (Poetry on Poetry) series. McArtor’s criteria for selecting the featured poet? “Someone who speaks their raw id through short, punchy narratives; who honestly portrays the drudgery of work, relationships, and our own vices; who makes writing poetry seem easy but knows the muse will turn you down at the end of the night, making you try harder the next time to impress her,” she said. Hence, Bukowski. “Have you seen ‘The Big Short?’” McArtor asked me when we met recently. “There’s a quote

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in the beginning: ‘The truth is like poetry and nobody gives a fuck about poetry.’” McArtor wants people to care about both. Over happy hour drinks, McArtor and I talked about Bukowski, writing, love and loss, and the role words play in survival. Words, not romance, kept the notoriously alcoholic Bukowski alive and breathing for 74 years. Romance damn near killed him; his rocky relationships with various women are well documented throughout his work. “Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell,” he said. The plain-speaking, gutter-dwelling “poet laureate of the down-and-out” was heralded for telling the gritty, scummy, darkest-parts-of-your-soul truth as he saw it, regardless of the personal consequences. Telling your truth takes courage. The secret is that anybody can do it. Everyone has ideas and stories within them. Everyone has a truth to tell. McArtor and Regur started MUSED., last summer to help people do exactly that. The organization’s raison d’etre is straightfor-

ward: “Putting poetry back into the affairs of the people. Period.” Essentially, MUSED., hopes to remove the esotericism, elitism, and intimidation so often associated with poetry. The organization is working to develop workshops and poetry writing programs in Tulsa public schools, starting with their fourto-six-week program, Reverse Selfie. Reverse Selfie is a series of workshops that will teach high school students to think extrinsically about the world and those around them with the intention of increasing empathy. Last year, MUSED., was involved with the Bullying Prevention Rally here in Tulsa and handed out poems to the less fortunate over the holiday season in December. As it expands, the organization plans to provide workshops and events for LIFE Senior Services, Head Start students, Mental Health Oklahoma, and Camp Fire. For the general public, MUSED.’s POP series will offer opportunities to hear and share poetry around town. McArtor hopes that through the organization and its events, she can

help others find their voice and purpose. “If everyone were writing and reading poetry more often, if they were thinking in metaphor and connecting disassociated ideas and sharing their thoughts as often as they share images of things that affect feeling, then I think our overall mental health would improve,” she said. “I’m not advocating for everyone to be poets. But I do think we can find our passions faster when we engage our subconscious in conversation.” Therein lies the reason for the POP Series and Anti-Valentine’s Day: it’s for those who are “hungry for poetry, thirsty for empathy, and lusting for truth.” Maybe you’ll take somebody home at the end of the night or, better still, maybe you’ll leave with a poem you’ve composed, or a newfound appreciation for Bukowski. a ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY February 14th, 4-6pm Mixed Company 3rd and Denver Poetry reading and cocktails Poetry writing contest for prizes February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Fun, cheap, heartfelt Show your love without breaking the bank by MEGAN SHEPHERD

h, the scent of commercialized love is wafting through the air, and the red and pink-adorned aisles at CVS can only mean one thing: Valentine’s Day is upon us. If the idea of dropping a wad of cash on flowers, prix-fixe dinners, chocolate, and spa treatments makes you want to jump off a bridge, consider these ideas instead. They’re fun, cheap, heartfelt, and way more interesting than a stuffed bear proclaiming everlasting love.

Trivial pursuit

Whether you head for a pub or download your own game to play at home, trivia is an awesome way to test your partner’s internal library of useless knowledge. Remember: half the fun of trivia is seeing who can rack up the most inconsequential points, so raise the stakes a bit with a prize for the winner. (Hopefully, it’ll be lucky for everyone involved.) 28 // FEATURED

Embrace your true nature …Then speak it An awesome disc golf course, plenty of room to toss a football or frisbee, prime picnicking spots, hiking trails, wide open spaces for hand-in-hand frolicking, and killer rock climbing routes make Chandler Park an oasis for outdoorsy folks. If your date is kind of granola, pack up the car and head to Chandler for an afternoon outside.

If your partner’s Love Language is acts of service, show them you’re listening by picking up an extra chore around the house, changing their oil, or making them that craft project they’ve been eyeing. If your partner sits squarely in the “Quality Time” camp, block out the entire day and brainstorm an adventure together.

Learn their Language…

Suds it up

Ever wondered why the “little things” matter so much to your partner? It might be because they speak a different Love Language than you. Dr. Gary Chapman suggests that everyone speaks one of five main love languages: physical touch, small gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, or quality time. If you really want to make sure your beloved knows you love them, take the online test together at 5lovelanguages.com and gain insight into how you can better communicate.

Instead of sending your partner to a spa (and a stranger), deliver that primo treatment yourself. Pick up a fizzy bath bomb or two, light some smell-good candles, chill a bottle of champagne, Google a recipe for chocolate-covered strawberries, and do the damn thing. Bonus points if you throw in a back, neck, or foot rub.

Get in tune

Whether you’re dating someone new or trying to keep the flame

burning in a long-term relationship, you can learn a lot about a person from his or her musical taste. Spend a night in with your partner talking tunes. Take turns sharing favorite albums or songs. After each, talk about why you love them, where you first heard them, and why you chose to play them for V-day. Don’t have a record player? We’re breaking up.

Love and basketball

Playing basketball still rules. Even if you aren’t any good at it, there are several reasons why you should hit the court with your babe and break a sweat: 1) Knock Out wasn’t just fun in 5th grade—it’s still fun in adulthood. 2) Games stimulate our minds and our desire to perform. Translation: you’re bound to do something awesome and impress your partner. 3) Even if that doesn’t happen, acting like a goof with the one you love is freeing. 4) All that full-court action is a great way to burn some energy. (Here’s hoping you look good sweaty.) February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

Give a little

Love can feel hard to come by these days, but in the words of my favorite Christmas movie, "love actually is all around.” Remind others by foregoing gifts or lavishness this year and focus instead on spreading love to someone in need. Check out current volunteer opportunities at places like the Boys and Girls Club, Food on the Move, Hospitality House, The Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges, or Seasons Hospice. Or, send a note to your favorite barista, co-worker, neighbor, or doctor, thanking them for their care.

Chelsea Does… Do you?

If you’re both V-Day cynics, check out the first episode of Chelsea Handler’s new docu-series, "Chelsea Does...” In episode one, Handler grapples with questions like, “Why do people get married?” “Can people be committed?” and “How does BDSM really work?” She consults with happily married couples of all ages, orientations, and lifestyles, along with exes, family members, and even the founder of Ashley Madison (you know, the website designed to help you cheat on your spouse). And, it’s $free.99 on Netflix.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

For a meaningful (and cheap, cheesy, and easy!) gift, grab a stack of Post-Its and jot down something you appreciate or admire about your partner on each one. To make a date out of it, grab two pads of stickies and read the love notes to one another over a bottle of wine.

To the moon and back

With so much space at our fingertips here in Tulsa, we’d be crazy not to take advantage of it by getting handsy under the stars. Tulsa’s rife with spots perfect for taking in a primo sunset (or moonrise), and some even offer reprieve from light pollution, too. Fill a thermos full of bubbly, brown, or vino, head to Maple Park for a killer view of the Tulsa skyline, lay out a blanket and get cozy.

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S ’ E N I T N E L VA S N I G N E P P A H Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Thurs., Feb. 11 through Sun., Feb. 14, tickets start at $15 IDL Ballroom, theatrepops.org

Theatre Pops has teamed up with Tallgrass Prairie Table for four evenings of wining, dining, and Billie Holiday. The event features a four-course dinner from Chef Michelle Donaldson and a full bar selection, including wine pairings. During dessert, the show begins: a 90-minute one-woman musical play based on the life and music of Billie Holiday, set just a few months before her death in 1959 and performed by jazz singer and Chicago native Kelli McLoud-Schingen. Songs like “God Bless the Child,” “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” and “Strange Fruit” interweave with Billie’s thoughts about her sometimes dark, always scintillating life. // Dinner and show packages include admission to the show, dinner, and reserved table seating up front. General admission performance-only tickets are also available.

Harwelden Cabaret - Tulsa: Your Love is Here to Stay Thurs., Feb. 11 through Sun., Feb. 14, $75-$100 Harwelden Mansion, ahhatulsa.org/cabaret

An evening of songs of the American Songbook in an iconic Tulsa mansion. The Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa hosts the first Harwelden Cabaret, an evening of the music of George and Ira Gershwin. The program, produced by Echo Theatre Company, features some of the Gershwin's most loved songs woven together into a multimedia performance with Patrick Hobbs, Machele Miller Dill, Elizabeth Curtis and John Orsulak, accompanied by Carl Curtis on piano. The evening also includes dinner and beverages. Proceeds benefit the Council’s arts and cultural programming.

Romeo and Juliet Fri., Feb. 12 through Sun., Feb. 14, $25-$115, Chapman Music Hall, PAC, tulsapac.com

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.”

Love & Lust Sat., Feb. 13, 8 p.m., $12-$15, Living Arts, livingarts.org

This annual celebration of all that is love and lust is Living Arts' Valentine's gift to us all. Artists come together for sensuous performances in spoken word and various styles and genres of music and dance.

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The adolescent surrealist Playwright Jack Allen debuts “Cowboy” by ALICIA CHESSER

he night after I talked with playwright Jack Allen about “Cowboy,” I dreamed about it. It was a weird, multilevel world of flickering Super 8 slides and the lonely sighs of tumbleweeds. Of course, I hadn’t seen the play yet. I hadn’t even seen publicity photos. Whether or not that’s what it looks like, the gloriously absurd world Allen described to me lodged in my subconscious—a suitably surreal testament to the power of his enthusiasm. Allen, 18, is a poet, comic, actor, and writer. He’s the definition of a “lanky teen,” with dark eyes and long dark hair and the air of someone who has found his life’s… well, life. Educated at home until college, he’s now an engineering student at Tulsa Community College, a member of local improv group the Pop-Up Players, and one of Oklahoma Literary Arts Alliance’s poetry ambassadors. He’s also performed many times with Clark Youth Theatre. (It strikes me that there aren’t many young men like him. But, without those local organizations, there might be exactly none. What was that again about how arts funding is a frivolity?) A couple of Allen’s one-act plays have been produced around town before, but this is his first full-length show. “Cowboy,” a dark comedy, features nine actors in a surreal desert landscape, where they follow a lonely kid and his ten-gallon hat, which turns out to be a notorious criminal mastermind. Allen is fully aware that it’s an unlikely concept. “I started work on this weird play about an orphaned cowboy in late 2013. Then I got distracted by other stuff, like I do, and put it away. In early 2015 I took a look back at it and 32 // ARTS & CULTURE

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thought, ‘this is actually a decent start. Maybe I should finish this.’” Allen took his unfinished script to John Cruncleton, co-owner of the Nightingale Theater (Cruncleton would eventually be cast as the character of Hat). “I showed him part of the unfinished script and he liked a lot of what he saw. This was exciting for me, because I was under the assumption that my play was un-produceable, but if there’s any venue in Tulsa that doesn’t give a fuck about that, it’s the Nightingale. So here we are.” Writing is a sometimes sweet, sometimes messy balance be-

tween private work and public exposure. Allen’s process in creating “Cowboy” has been all that and more. “I’m really more of a solitary writer,” he explained. “Once I get done with a scene, I might show it to one or two peeps in my inner circle to get a little feedback and so they can question me on my sanity, but sometimes not even that.” “Cowboy’s” nine characters, Allen said, developed a mind of their own once they made it to paper. “The Cowboy is wide-eyed and innocent and optimistic, with a narrow worldview,” he continued.

“But this is a coming-of-age story, so the audience gets to watch him be driven ever closer to madness as he continues to learn what a twisted world we live in—a world full of murder, sex, and mega-corporations—and grow from the experience. His Hat, who has come to life, is a stylish and persuasive villain whose smooth trickery gives him a sneaky advantage over these humans with limbs.” The surrealists, such as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and their counterparts in literature– Franz Kafka and Edward Albee and others—believed there was freedom in absurdity, that bypassing rationality allowed them to tap into a deeper reality, comfort and conventional assumptions be damned. It’s a fine lineage for a young playwright to step into, especially one as gifted in dark humor and poetic sleight-ofhand as Allen. But he’s not your stereotypical jaded teen, as he made clear when I asked if his creative style falls more into the “gleeful-absurdist” camp or the “existentialist-absurdist” one. “This play is coming from an honest, human place,” Allen said. “It’s the story of a kid who is handed a ridiculously tragic situation, and in the face of adversity still tries to find fulfillment. As far as the flavor of absurdism you’re dining on, ‘Cowboy’ is more on the gleeful side, but not entirely. It’s full of wordplay, warped logic, strange wisdom, and surreal settings, but I hope that the audience finds it, first and foremost, entertaining and stimulating.” He’s 18 years old, Tulsa. This creativity engine is part of your new reality. Hold on tight. a “C OW B OY ” Nightingale Theatre Fe b r u a r y 1 2 - 1 3 , 2 0 1 6 February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction Sun., Feb. 14 through Sun., May 1 Philbrook Museum of Art, philbrook.org Explore iconic works from companies like Apple, Braun, IKEA, LEGO and Swatch. Featured designers include Charles and Ray Eames, Frank Gehry, Phillipe Stark, Dieter Rams, Jonathan Ive, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

The Show Must Go On! Thurs., Feb. 4, 7 p.m., $20-$30 The Campbell Hotel, tulsaprojecttheatre.com Last November, a fire at the Tulsa Project Theatre storage unit destroyed most of TPT’s costumes and props. This fundraiser will help the company rent and/or purchase replacement costumes and props for its upcoming productions, “Rent,” “Billy Elliot: The Musical,” and “Shrek.” Equity Actors and cast members from this season’s shows will perform songs from past, current and future productions. The evening will feature live and silent auctions and the announcement of TPT’s next season of shows. Tickets are $20 per person or $30 a couple, and include food and wine.

The Crumbling World Fri., Feb. 5 through Thurs., Feb. 25 Living Arts, livingarts.org Jave Yoshimoto creates socially conscious works that are influenced by his multi-cultural background. In his artist statement, Yoshimoto said, “My work takes on the ephermerality of news and information and how the emotions we bring to each tragedy in the news cycle are swept away by the wave of information that floods the media. I address this social amnesia through my art with the work acting as a social memory for tragic events so quickly forgotten in our information age.” Recently, Yoshimoto was selected to receive a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painter’s and Sculptor’s Grant to travel and research the earthquake-damaged area in Nepal to interview humanitarian aid workers, and the Greek Island of Lesbos to interview Syrian refugees about their journey. 34 // ARTS & CULTURE

Joy on the Spiritual Path: 5 Dhyani Buddha Buddies and their Friends Fri., Feb. 5 through Thurs., Feb. 25 Living Arts, livingarts.org This ceramics installation represents the culmination of four years of artist Bob Schultz expressing his study of Buddhist Dharma through his unique aesthetic filter. The foundation of the exhibition is five large-scale street art-style ceramic teddy bears based on the Five Dhyani Buddhas, characters who represent different aspects of Buddha’s life and teachings. “Spirituality and religious imagery always come with a seriousness that can sometimes make it distant or esoteric,” Schultz said. “So, with this show and series of sculptures I wanted to make imagery that I can relate to.”

Troubadours of Folk Sat. Feb. 13, 2 p.m., Woody Guthrie Center, woodyguthriecenter.org, free with museum admission On an early June weekend in 1993, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and Rhino Records held a two day concert at UCLA’s Drake Stadium. The line-up included Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Janis Ian, John Prine, Odetta, Jefferson Starship unplugged, BeauSoleil and Joni Mitchell’s fist solo appearance in 21 years. Each artist delivered an unforgettable performance. The concert was filmed for a PBS fundraiser. The film has rarely been seen since, as a limited number of copies were made. Woody Guthrie Center and Cbub Media Archives present a special screening. February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

EVENTS Works by Bruce Docker // The Oklahoman’s for Equality showcase of local artists for February will feature works by Bruce Docker. Coming from a long line of artists, Docker combines his family’s talents into a cohesively rambling style. “While I am always learning and trying new approaches,” said Docker, “I paint for the joy of creating art that I feel is beautiful. My hope is that when you view my paintings, you will fell, see, and agree that I have accomplished what I set out to do.” // 2/42/29, Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, okeq.org Inosculated Topologies - Rosalynn and Adam Rothstein // Rosalynn is influenced by Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. Adam writes about politics, media and technology. Together, the Rothsteins create intriguing forms and immersive installations out of familiar re-purposed materials. // 2/6-2/25, Living Arts

Squeaky Clean Stand Up // 2/6/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Let There Be Laughs w/ Gary Thompson, Merrideth Ferris, Sophia Star, Matthew Spruill, The Great Bradini // 2/6/16, 4 p.m., Loony Bin, $7, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

Xtreme Fight Night XXVII // 2/5/16, 8 p.m., River Spirit Casino - Event Center, $40-$102, riverspirittulsa.com Harlem Globetrotters // 2/5/16, BOK Center, $25.50-$120.50, bokcenter.com Tulsa Oilers vs Utah Grizzlies // 2/6/16, 7:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, bokcenter.com 4th Annual Tulsa Heritage Rodeo // 2/6/16, 7 p.m., Expo Square Ford Truck Arena, $10-$16, exposquare.com TU Men’s Basketball vs Houston // 2/7/16, 2 p.m., Reynolds Center, $15-$44,

Sunday Night Stand Up // 2/7/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

Tulsa Oilers vs South Carolina Stingrays // 2/10/16, 7:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, bokcenter.com

New Blood w/ Cian Baker, Evan Hughes, Derek Rose // Bazar Entertainment presents local comedians Cian Baker, Evan Hughes and Derek Rose, as well as new talent from Tulsa, OKC and Joplin, including Gary Thompson, Kyle Wright, Lauren Turner, Becca Wollmann, Deric Davis, Partick Hoskins, Anthony Monteloeone, Mike Denny, MacKenzie Bryan, Josh Willis, Jan Cmiel-Wright and Julie Drake. // 2/8/16, The Venue Shrine, tulsashrine.com

TU Women’s Basketball vs Houston // 2/10/16, 7 p.m., Reynolds Center, $5

No Mic Open Mic w/ Hilton Price, Rick Shaw, Dave Short, Kyle Wright, Zach Amon, Kyle Pendleton, Andrew Deacon, Joan Wright, Quinn Brown-Clark // 2/9/16, 9 p.m., Lot No. 6,

ORU Men’s Basketball vs IUPUI // 2/11/16, 7 p.m., Mabee Center, $12-$40, mabeecenter.com Tulsa Oilers vs Quad City Mallards // 2/12/16, 7:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, bokcenter.com The Engine Room Fight Night 3 // 2/12/16, 7 p.m., Greenwood Cultural Center, $25, engineroomboxing.com Tulsa Oilers vs Quad City Mallards // 2/13/16, 7:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, bokcenter.com

Improv Club // 2/11/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

ORU Men’s Basketball vs Western Illinois // 2/13/16, 7 p.m., Mabee Center, $12-$40, mabeecenter.com

Crayons // 2/12/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

TU Women’s Basketball vs UCF // 2/13/16, 2 p.m., Reynolds Center, $5

The Mic Drop // 2/12/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Tulsa Oilers vs Wichita Thunder // 2/14/16, 4:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, bokcenter.com

This Show Will Impress Your Date // 2/13/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $12, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 2/14/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

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Comfort Creatures // 2/6/16, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

ORU Women’s Basketball vs North Dakota State // 2/4/16, Mabee Center, $8, mabeecenter.com

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Playdate // Playdate, Heller Theatre Company’s first fundraiser since acquiring nonprofit status, is an evening of fun and creation. Guests can create with fingerpaints and screenprints, or observe the process as local artists create new works which

Blue Dome Social Club // 2/5/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Tulsa Oilers vs Utah Grizzlies // 2/4/16, 7:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, bokcenter.com

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Magic Men Live // Ladies night, anyone? // 2/16/16, 8 p.m., Cox Business Center, $22-$77, coxcentertulsa.com

Army of Stand Ups // 2/5/16, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Tulsa Oilers vs Missouri Mavericks // 2/3/16, 7:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, bokcenter.com

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Fauré Quartet // The Romantic German quartet will play Mahler’s Quartettsatz, Strauss’s Quartet in C Minor, Op. 13 and their namesake FaurÃ©’s Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15. // 2/7/16, 3 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - John H. Williams Theatre, $5-$25, tulsapac.com

Gabriel Iglesias - Fluffy Breaks Even // 2/4/16, Hard Rock Casino - The Joint, $60-$65, hardrockcasinotulsa.com

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Woman from the Town // 27 years ago, Lila Wilson, pregnant and unmarried, was run out of her rural North Carolina hometown under a cloud of moral indignation. Now a successful NYC real estate developer, she returns to home during a rough economy for vengeance against those who mistreated her, and starts buying up local homes and farms. For mature audiences. // 2/6-2/13, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Liddy Doenges Theatre, $10, tulsapac.com

Dave Short, Rick Shaw, Evan Hughes, Joan Cmiel-Wright, Lauren Turner, Quinn Brown-Clark, Ally Graham, Rachel Lindley-Keeley, Jake Ledgerwood // 2/4/16, Downtown Lounge, $5, downtownloungetulsa.com

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Pop Up Players // 2/4/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

Tamer Kattan, Mike Brody // 2/3-2/6, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

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Great Train Show // Model train paradise. Over 200 tables of trains for sale, over 30 exhibitors from around the country with some seriously massive displays, including a few over 1000 sq ft., a riding train for kids of all ages and more. // 2/13-2/14, Expo Square - Central Park Hall, $9, free for kids, trainshow.com/tulsa

COMEDY

Marvin Todd, Jay Whitecotton // 2/10-2/13, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

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Leather & Rhinestones Fashion Show // Rose Rock girls of Leather present an evening of fashion shows, live performances, auctions, raffle, vendors and more. Proceeds benefit the Trevor Project and Be The Change. // 2/13/16, 8 p.m., The Venue Shrine, $5, tulsashrine.com

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Interview with a madman On the heels of a new album and memoir, Scarface comes to Tulsa by MARY NOBLE

carface’s gritty drawl prowls through meticulously crafted beats, lingering on lyrics that teeter between the murderous and sentimental. Ludacris called him “hip hop’s best storyteller.” Chuck D says he’s “Thelonious Monk reincarnated in spit.” The icon of southern hip hop (he hails from Houston) has had a career rare for its longevity (27 years) and consistent quality output, bolstered by a raw honesty regarding his lifelong struggle with depression and suicide. 2015 was a significant mile marker for Scarface. He released his first independent album, Deeply Rooted, this past September, and a memoir, “Diary of a Madman,” earlier in April. On February 11, Scarface will sing through Tulsa as part of his “Icon” tour, performing at The Shrine along with openers Hakeem Eli’juwon, Steph Simon, Oilhouse, and the MuGen Music Crew. The Tulsa Voice: Deeply Rooted is your first album in seven years and your first independent album. How does that feel?

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Scarface: I feel emancipated, I feel free. Period. I don’t feel like I’m doin’ this to give it away. You make music for these record labels and give it to them so they can own it. It’s your blood, sweat, tears, and years, and you get none of it. They keep it all. Sometimes you be lucky to get your money from it.

mental health part of your book because I felt that the mental health system failed you.

TTV: How do you think hip-hop has evolved since you started?

SF: Shit. You mean you’re over there talking to kids?

SF: It hasn’t evolved, not a chance. If anything, at first it was a machine for the community and now it’s a fuckin’ comedy show. It’s who can make the most stupid sounding shit in the world. I’m totally opposed to it, but it is what it is.

TTV: Every day.

TTV: Did you find that the process of writing your memoir contributed to the making of Deeply Rooted? SF: No, not at all. I was the one that created that album with or without the memoir. TTV: As a social worker, I had a hard time getting through the

SF: Hold on, wait, you a social worker? Like for Child Protective Services? TTV: Yep. I’m housed in a high school.

SF: I could come by there and talk to them. TTV: They’d love that. A lot of my job is finding kids therapists and, when I read about your experience, I couldn’t help asking myself, “Why didn’t they encourage him to write? Why didn’t they focus on the things that you loved and made you happy?” If they had, do you think your experience would have been a little different? SF: Nah. I don’t. They could’ve encouraged me to write but I wrote anyways, you know? You

feel how you feel. You wake up in the morning feeling one way and you go to bed feeling another. It is what it is. If it works out then it does and if it doesn’t at least you get to start over tomorrow. TTV: It seems you always stay true to yourself. SF: That’s the only way to be. You turn around and you stray away from who you are, then you can’t find yourself. There comes a time when you are lookin’ in the freakin’ mirror and you don’t know who you lookin’ at. But nah, I’d rather just stay me and suffer the consequences of bein’ myself. You are yourself so you just have to pay that debt. I don’t mind bein’ me at all. TTV: You describe your performance at Madison Square Garden in ’92 as the moment you realized your music was accepted at the birthplace of hip-hop. Can you elaborate on that moment or that feeling? SF: In ‘87 or ‘88 we got booed in NYC, but in ‘92 we came back February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

and the crowd went crazy, so that’s why I say that. You know, that’s how I knew they accepted us, because at first no one wanted to hear us. Nobody wanted to hear people talkin’ about sellin’ dope and doin’ what they do. Now everybody sellin’ dope and doin’ what they do. So we were onto somethin’ way back then. Shout out to the Geto Boys. TTV: You talk about there being a huge amount of tension between the south side and north side of Houston; do you think Geto Boys having members from both sides helped decrease that tension in any way? Or Houston rap in general? SF: I mean, it’s still north side and south side. Either you from the north side or you from the south side. It may be a little different to some people today, but for others no. I don’t even go on the Northside and I got a key to the city. It ain’t cuz I’m scared, but if you a gang banger or an ex-gang banger you still don’t affiliate with a rival street. I mean I ain’t trippin.’ I’m fucking 45 years old. I ain’t got nothin’ against nobody, but I still don’t go to the north side. TTV: In your book you talk about standing up to the police and rioting as a good thing, yet in an interview with the Huffington Post you backtracked a little, emphasizing the importance of being careful of what you say—that words have an impact on people. Have you gotten backlash from these statements? SF: I don’t give a fuck about backlash. If I said something, I meant it. I take full responsibility. But, I’m cautious about what I say because I know that my words carry a lot of weight. I don’t want nobody to do something stupid and go out and get themselves killed and it be on my conscious that I got a motherfucker killed. But I’m not gonna be out there talking shit and expect someone to handle my dirty work for me. I’ll deal with what I gotta deal with THE TULSA VOICE // February 3 – 16, 2016

myself, by myself. I don’t need no army around. I’ll go handle it and that’ll be the end of it. TTV: You mention how that mentality is why Suge Knight had a lot of respect for you and your crew. SF: I’m sure. I mean none of that shit scares me. I just stay relaxed. Only one of two things can happen: either we’re gonna die, or we’re gonna go home to our families tonight. I like going home but if it’s a night that I have to miss going home, then fuck it, it is what it is. TTV: And by “not going home,” you mean die? SF: Yep. TTV: There’s a lot of great hip hop talent in Tulsa and many of them look up to you as the artist responsible for putting the Midwest on the map. What advice can you give to the artists who feel that being from Tulsa is a hurdle to success? SF: Everything is what you make of it. Hell, Michael Jackson was from Gary, Indiana. We can’t blame it on being from a certain place. Now, can you make it from where you’re at? I don’t know about that. I know Mike had to go see Berry Gordy and Diana Ross and all that, but he was still from Gary, Indiana, you know? I’m from Houston and that ain’t no music town either.

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Folkin’ Okies

Oklahoma musicians set for international showcase

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he Folk Alliance International Conference, a gathering of musicians and industry professionals from across the world, will convene for its 28th edition this month in Kansas City, MO. And, once again, the Sooner State will be well represented. For the third straight year the conference will house the Oklahoma Room, a private showcase featuring a selection of the best folk and roots musicians from across the state, including established favorites and fresh-faced up-and-comers. “It’s a chance to shine a spotlight on the great individual talent from all over the Oklahoma music scene,” said Brian Horton, president of Tulsa nonprofit Horton Records. Horton spearheads the Oklahoma Room planning committee along with Scott Aycock, co-host of the “Folk Salad” radio show; Deana McCloud, executive director of the Woody Guthrie Center; and music industry veteran and talent manager Larry White. 38 // MUSIC

“In addition to celebrating great Oklahoma music, one of our goals was to shorten the distance between cities on the turnpike,” Horton said. “One of the greatest benefits that we’ve seen through this effort is the relationships and collaborations that occur as the musicians meet one another and hang out for three or four days. “That sense of community is one of the things that makes the Oklahoma Room stand out. It really does feel like one big family of artists. That’s not by design— that’s just how things happen around these parts all the time.” Currently scheduled to perform at the showcase are Travis Linville, Jesse Aycock, Wink Burcham, Jacob Tovar, Paul Benjaman, Kyle Reid, Beau Roberson, Chris Lee Becker, Scott Aycock, Levi Parham, John Calvin Abney, Cody Brewer, George Barton, Desi and Cody, Steve Liddell, Kalyn Fay, Annie Oakley, Andy Adams, Don Morris, Carter Sampson, Dan Martin and Susan Herndon.

Horton Records also put together a compilation album to support fundraising efforts for the musicians traveling to the conference, which features new or unreleased tracks from the likes of Paul Benjaman, Travis Linville, Wink Burcham and more, along with previously released cuts from other performers set to appear at the showcase. Scott Aycock and his “Folk Salad” co-host Richard Higgs have invited many of the musicians to record live performances and interviews in-studio for a show to air Sunday, Feb.14 on KWGS 89.5 FM. Fundraiser shows for the Oklahoma Room have been held across the state in recent weeks, a run that will culminate with a grand send off celebration and performance Saturday, Feb.13, at The Colony in Tulsa. The show is for ages 21 and over and will feature three separate sessions of music for just $10 at the door. Since the Folk Alliance International Conference is intended

for musicians and music industry professionals, the Colony show will serve as a special chance for the rest of us to see what it’s like when this diverse selection of musicians get in the same room together, and the unique collaborations that will inevitably occur. “We hope to have 80 percent or more of the artists perform at The Colony,” Horton said. “It should be a lot of fun and will give everyone a taste of what happens at the Oklahoma Room every year in Kansas City.” a

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musiclistings THANKSGIVING ON VALENTINE’S DAY Sun., Feb. 14, 8 p.m., $39.50-$79.50 // Brady Theater, bradytheater.com Arlo Guthrie will play a concert at the Brady to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of his classic album, Alice’s Restaurant. The album’s eponymous track, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” a nearly 20-minute Vietnam-era counterculture epic (which was made into a movie in 1969), recounts a true story in which Guthrie receives a citation for littering on Thanksgiving Day '65, and is later rejected by the Army draft board over the ticket. Guthrie notes the irony of the situation, saying, “I’m sittin’ here on the Group W bench ‘cause you want to know if I’m moral enough to join the Army—burn women, kids, houses and villages—after bein’ a litterbug."

Wed // Feb 3 Dusty Dog Pub – Scott Ellison Hunt Club – Open Mic w/ Swampfox Mix Co – Mike Cameron Collective Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Wednesday Night Spotlight w/ Shelby Eicher On the Rocks – Don White Sandite Billiards & Grill – Bryce Dicus The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Kathleen Westby Pavilion – Tulsa Opera Big Sing)

Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Cucumber Mike’s Yeti Happy Hour Yeti – Zach Short Group

Sat // Feb 6

Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Excision, Figure, Bear Grillz – 8 p.m. – ($32-$47) Crow Creek Tavern – Jake Flint, Zachariah Red Enso – Lindsay Rae Band Fur Shop – *Songwriter Night w/ Travis Linville Mercury Lounge – Scott H Biram, Strahan & The Good Neighbors River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Mike Barham & The Honky Tonk Prophets – 7 p.m. Roosters Cocktails – Daniel Jordan The Colony – Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ Jacob Tovar VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Gypsy Cold Cuts Woody’s Corner Bar – Born In November

Billy and Renee’s – Abstract Entity, OLDMAN, Pittersplatter, Contagion 237 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Bull & Bear Tavern – *Red Dirt Jazz Tribe w/ Shelby Eicher, Dean DeMerritt, Mike Cameron, Sean AlJibouri, Scott McQuade Cain’s Ballroom – Stoney LaRue, Mike Ryan Band – 8:30 p.m. – ($20-$35) Cimarron Bar – Seven Day Crash CJ Maloney’s – The Chad Todd Band Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Heather Buckley Band Fassler Hall – Nuns ($5) Fur Shop – Hannah Wolff, The Happily Entitled Hunt Club – Scissortails Mercury Lounge – Cowgirl Train Set Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – SeXtion 8 River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Stars Sandite Billiards & Grill – Strangetowne Soul City – Randy Brumley – 8 p.m. Soul City – Randy Brumley Soundpony – Soul Night The Colony – Paul Benjaman & Jason Weinheiner VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Damon Daniels Woody’s Corner Bar – Wayne Garner

Fri // Feb 5

Sun // Feb 7

American Legion Post 308 – Round Up Boys Amsterdam Bar and Gril – Mizznekol Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa Playboys – 8 p.m. – ($7-$8) Cimarron Bar – South of Vertical CJ Maloney’s – David Wayne Broyles Fur Shop – The Captain Ledge Band Hunt Club – Taylor Machine John L. Rucker Warehouse – Terrence Simien & The Zydeco Experience – 7 p.m. – ($60) Mainline Art and Cocktails – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe Mercury Lounge – K Phillips & The Concho Pearls Nitro Lounge – Difuser, Ill Fated Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – *The Tulsa All-City Jam’bassadors Benefit Concert – 7 p.m. – ($10-$25) Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – SeXtion 8 Pepper’s Grill - South – The Zigs River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Stars Soul City – *Songbook Poets: Green Corn Rebellion – 8 p.m. Soundpony – Lessons in Fresh The Colony – Kierston White, The Carson McHone Band The Venue Shrine – Dustin Pittsley Band, The Scissortails ($5) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Chunky Monkey

East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective IDL Ballroom – Wick-It the Instigator, Manic Focus ($15) Soundpony – *John Calvin, Penny Hill, Dead Shakes The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

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Mon // Feb 8 Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Juniper Restaurant & Martini Lounge – Cindy Cain, Dean DeMerritt and Frank Brown The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Yeti – Cypher 120

Tues // Feb 9 Cain’s Ballroom – BRILLZ, Party Favor, Infuze – 8 p.m. – ($17-$23) Nitro Lounge – Caboose, The Calamities, Cosmosis Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams The Colony – Mike Cameron Collective The Venue Shrine – *Mardi Straw w/ Wink Burcham, Jacob Tovar, Dylan Stewart, Cody Brewer, Steve Liddell, Brandon Clark, The Science Project – 7 p.m. – ($5) Yeti – Writer’s Night w/ Damion Shade

Wed // Feb 10 Amsterdam Bar and Gril – Bryce Dicus Mix Co – Mike Cameron Collective Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Wednesday Night Spotlight w/ Shelby Eicher On the Rocks – Don White Soundpony – Occasional Caucasians The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project

Thurs // Feb 11 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – *Martin Sexton, Brothers McCann – 8 p.m. – ($23-$25) Elephant Run – Soul Shine Enso – Saganomics Hunt Club – Zach Short Band Mercury Lounge – Dallas Moore and Tyler Childers River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Hi-Fidelics Roosters Cocktails – Daniel Jordan Soundpony – Relaxation Congregation The Colony – Wink Burcham The Venue Shrine – *Scarface ($20-$25) Vanguard – *Juno What?! (feat. Joey Porter of The Motet), Branjae & The Filthy Animals, Chris Combs Trio ($10-$15) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Bryce Dicus

Fri // Feb 12 American Legion Post 308 – Joe Harries Baker St. Pub – Deuces Wild Barkingham Palace – *Constant Peril, Bluntsplitter, Joe Myside & The Sorrow, Merlin Mason, Skeleton Farm Bishline Banjos – *Quebe Sisters – 7:30 p.m. – ($25-$30) Elephant Run – David Dover Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks Lennie’s Club – The Heather Buckley Band Mercury Lounge – Dan Tedesco, Cole Porter Band Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Another Alibi Pepper’s Grill - South – The Wanda Watson Band River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Imzadi Soundpony – *Pagiins The Colony – *Oklahoma Room Folk Alliance Show The Venue Shrine – Denny Ghetto (438), Curtesy, G Sharp, T.M.O., The Artist, Yung Tek and more ($12-$15) Vanguard – *Austyn King album release w/ iamDES, Cooki Turner, TMase ($10) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Megawatt Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Mikey Bee Yeti – Cucumber Mike’s Yeti Happy Hour

Hunt Club – Vox Squadron Lennie’s Club – David Dover Mercury Lounge – Cash O’Riley, Nathan Kalish and the Lastcallers Nitro Lounge – Illusions 4 – Valentine’s Underwear Party w/ Darku J, KREWX, Nomad, Hoks, Ject&Svenchen Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Another Alibi River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Imzadi Soul City – Jesse Aycock Soundpony – Afistaface The Colony – Levi Parham Band, Dagmar The Shady Tree – RPM Vanguard – New Politics, Panic: Tribute to The Smiths and Morrissey, Finish Ticket ($15-$50) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Muskogee Wild Card Band Woody’s Corner Bar – Funk Frequency

Sun // Feb 14 Brady Theater – *Arlo Guthrie - Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary – 8 p.m. – ($39.50-$79.50) East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Soundpony – *Vince Carbone The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing VFW Post 577 – VFW Post 577 Valentine’s Dance w/ Mark Chamberlain & The Whiskey Poet Society ($10)

Mon // Feb 15 Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night The Venue Shrine – Hudson Falcons ($5-$8) Yeti – Cypher 120

Tues // Feb 16 Elephant Run – Tyler Brant Hunt Club – Preslar Music Showcase Nitro Lounge – Caboose, The Calamities, Cosmosis Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams The Colony – Mike Cameron Collective Will Rogers High School - Historic Will Rogers High School Auditorium – The Kingston Trio: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie – 7 p.m. – ($30-$75) Yeti – Writer’s Night w/ Damion Shade

Sat // Feb 13 Billy and Renee’s – Not in Public, Anamal, Toten, Mucah Giles, Chris Ray, Deformati Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Bull & Bear Tavern – Janet Rutland w/ Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Fitter, happier

‘Where to Invade Next’ traverses the world in search of solutions by JOE O’SHANSKY

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merica is a country where competition rather than co-operation is praised, where it’s thought that so ciety will b enefit from people b eing set against each other.” — Harvey Pekar, American Splendor

“Where to Invade Next” is something of a satirical road-trip film. It finds Michael Moore visiting several European countries at the behest of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have conscripted Moore to see how European-style social democracies have adapted and successfully built upon ideas of governance, both corporate and legislative, that once were American ideals. His mission is to bring them back to the homeland. In Italy they have more sex, in part because they have more vacation time: paid leave of seven weeks, plus holidays, honeymoon pay, generous maternity leave, and a bonus salary in December because, “What good is a vacation if you can’t afford to go on it?” They’re healthier and live longer

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Michael Moore in ‘Where to Invade Next’ | COURTESY

as a result, which winds up costing their employers, and society, less. Beyond good business, part of that philosophy is just about doing the right thing. Motorcycle manufacturer Ducati, for example, offers these benefits and is strongly unionized. The management couldn’t be happier. They simply can’t compute the advantage of being slightly richer at the expense of their employee’s well-being. In France, school lunches are a multi-course gourmet affair deserving of a Frank Bruni review. Caprese salad. Farm fresh fruit. Scallops and curry and Lebanese lamb kebabs with couscous. Lunch is considered a class on how to eat well and prepare for a healthy life. Water, not soda. Real food, grown locally. Ironically, they spend less per lunch in public school than the U.S., and it’s not just the rich schools that enjoy this treatment. All schools eat this way.

Finland is renowned as the most educated country in the world (earlier I heard Donald Trump assert the same thing at a rally, to the approval of a group of Iowa Republicans seemingly bereft of the concept of cognitive dissonance). This is largely because they shortened the school week, abandoned standardized tests, and don’t assign homework because after school is the time for family, friends, exploring, and creating— you know, time for becoming a well-rounded person. They made tuition illegal, so all public schools have to be the best. Children from different backgrounds can learn to be civil to each other. The list goes on. The matter-of-factness about Sex Ed leads to fewer teen pregnancies and lowered STD rates, everywhere. Drug decriminalization in Portugal lowered usage, incarceration, and crime rates, costing society less money. The 36-hour work week in

Germany results in higher productivity and a more robust economy (and no one can accuse them of being lazy). Iceland prosecuted the bankers behind the 2008 meltdown, instituted strong regulations, and put more women in charge (they being more risk averse). Their economy is thriving as a result. In Norway, prison recidivism rates are amongst the lowest in the world because incarceration is considered rehabilitation, not punishment. The conditions of their prisons are closer to clinics, like the proverbial “Club Fed.” Turns out there’s a societal value in not treating people like animals—an idea that wouldn’t survive the status quo bug zapper of the conservative mindset, where if something isn’t working then the answer is to do more of it. Harder. Are these places utopian? Nope. Every place has its problems. As Moore says, “My mission is to pick the flowers, not the weeds.” That’s the point of “Where to Invade Next.” This isn’t an incendiary polemic suffering from selective amnesia to prove a point. This is a wry nudge in the ribs. Moore has been guilty of being misleading in his approach in the past, but facts can speak for themselves (and you really don’t need to be a part of Moore’s choir to find these things out). His point is a sincerely delivered truth: societies that work together as opposed to dividing themselves along partisan, religious or economic lines are happier and more successful. Even here, we can make those advancements, and with sometimes surprising speed. a “Where to Invade Next” opens at Circle Cinema February 12. February 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Love yourself ﬁrst ‘The Bachelor’ is here for the wrong reasons by CLAIRE EDWARDS

hen it originally aired, the concept of “The Bachelor” must have seemed as novel as it was simple. A handsome, successful stud takes on a stable of beautiful young women who are eager to win his heart. The girls would be wined and dined, all while dating the same man and living together. It would create situations ripe for catfights, tears, and nervous breakdowns. It was a real-life soap opera, and America had a frontrow seat. Now, the concept of “The Bachelor” has transcended its novelty status and become a veritable boilerplate for reality television. Its well-worn concept has spurred imitators (“Are You the One?”), parodies (“Burning Love”), and, most recently, a damn fine scripted series, “UnReal”(on Lifetime, of all places). So it’s perhaps shocking, given my love of all things schlock, that I hadn’t seen a single episode of the show until last Saturday. Me! Who tuned into every episode of VH1’s “Flavor of Love” and “Rock of Love” with reverent, rabid devotion. And still, I’d not yet dug into the ur-dating-show. At first blush, “Flavor/Rock of Love” might seem more exploitative and salacious than “The Bachelor,” with their washed-up stars and a contestant pool disproportionately populated by current/former strippers. But there is something much more insidious and sinister about the lies being propagated by “The Bachelor.” Shows like “Flavor” and “Rock” seem to eschew any pretense of sincerity, and hardly bother with suspending audience disbelief. After all, how can you really believe that Public Enemy’s THE TULSA VOICE // February 3 – 16, 2016

Chris Soules in season 19 of ‘The Bachelor’ | COURTESY

former hype man Flavor Flav will live happily ever after with a woman he nicknamed “Thing 2”? (Spoiler alert?) By contrast, on “The Bachelor,” sincerity and honesty are king. In talking head interviews, the bachelor and contestants alike insist, with tear-stained cheeks, the gravity and import of every decision they make on the show. The women constantly accuse each other of being there “for the wrong reasons.” The men and women on the show are suspended in a state of hyper-reality—every date amazing, every emotion heightened, and every minor slight unforgivable. This is understandable, given the conditions in which the contestants live: under the same roof with their competition, unable to escape each others’ company, and not allowed access to phones or other media. The environment is a pressure cooker in which even some of the most mentally sound people would crack, forget about the bundles of insecurities disguised as grown women who populate the show.

I began my research with season 19, in which former “Bachelorette” contestant Chris Soules takes on the solemn, weighty mantle of “The Bachelor.” Nicknamed Prince Farming because he is a hot farmer, Chris is mostly a ruggedly handsome, good-hearted dud who bumbled his way from one clumsy, platitude-riddled attempt at courtship to another. What I found most perplexing is the notion that the women will find the titular Bachelor irresistible. His desirability is taken for granted, so the onus of proving one’s worth is entirely on the contestants. The girls and the audience go into the competition already equipped with the understanding that the man is a bonafide catch. This is a dangerous lesson in one-sided romance. The overall structure of the program frames romantic relationships as games in which there are necessary winners and losers, and in a rigid, binary system like that, there’s no room for the nuances of compatibility, or love. In the end, our bachelor Chris chooses a woman to propose to,

leaving a slew of rejected, emotionally distraught women in his wake. It’s in the moments where Chris publicly rejects a girl who has developed “real” feelings for him that the show begins to show its true colors. This is a show that hides behind a noble search for true love as an excuse to put women through an emotional meat grinder, and ultimately teaches men and women that you can be as irresponsible as you want as long as you do it in the name of romantic love. Ultimately, the show perpetuates the damaging myth that the greatest happiness a woman can achieve comes only through beating other women for the hand of a suitor. After all, as young girls, we are generally fed fairy tales that teach us romance should be our ultimate end goal, and other women are the only obstacles that stand between us and success. Why engage with a show like this? As feminists, it’s our duty to step outside of the Internet echo chambers we’ve built for ourselves and engage with popular media. This is the world we live in; we can’t just reel in outrage, sound off on Jezebel and then shut it out. “The Bachelor” commands over six million viewers a week, most of them women. Regardless of how much it offends our sensibilities, we can’t change the paradigm if we dismiss or ignore such a vital pop culture phenomenon. In the end, I find myself wanting to take all the women on “The Bachelor,” wrap them up in a blanket, and tell them, in the immortal words of season 20 contestant Lace: “It’s like my tattoo says, you can’t love someone else until you learn to love yourself.” a FILM & TV // 43

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SERGIO loves to play fetch and tug-a-war. In his down time, this oneyear-old Australian Cattle Dog Mix hangs out on the couch or on his bed. He enjoys long walks and outside playtime. He isn’t much of a talker unless there are other critters around. He is very smart and knows basic commands, and he’s excited to learn more.

OCTAVIA lives for her big red ball. Every morning she races to her dog yard to greet her toy, and she loves company. This four year-old brindle Terrier mix is strong and strong-willed, but she is loyal to her people and listens well. She knows how to sit and heel, and she calms down quickly when she gets excited.

The Tulsa SPCA has been helping animals in our area since 1913. The shelter never euthanizes for space and happily rescues animals from high-kill shelters. They also accept owner surrenders, rescues from cruelty investigations, hoarding, and puppy mill situations. Animals live on-site or with fosters until they’re adopted. All SPCA animals are micro-chipped, vaccinated, spayed/neutered, and treated with preventatives. Learn about volunteering, fostering, upcoming events, adoptions, and their low-cost vaccination clinic at tulsaspca.org.

RITA is a strong, energetic, eight-month-old Australian Cattle Dog. You can’t pass her without noticing her unusual half brown/half ice-blue eyes and her beautiful coloring. She’s very smart in spite of her active demeanor. She gets along well with other dogs, people, and children.

KAHLUA, a one-yearold Manx, enjoys all the attention she can get. She’s relaxed, playful and enjoys bonding slowly. When she finds a home and a human (or two!) to claim as her own, she will absolutely blossom –she just needs someone she can trust!

EDEN is a curious little girl. This two-year-old white-and-gray Tabby loves attention from humans and enjoys being held and petted. When inside, she’ll explore every inch of the room. Every now and then she gets a burst of energy to play with a new toy or kitty, but mostly she enjoys watching everyone else play.

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news of the weird by Chuck Shepherd

Think your commute was bad? In October at the end of China’s traditional, annual week-long getaway, new trafﬁc checkpoints for the notorious G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway reduced the previous 50 REUTERS/CHINA DAILY

lanes of traffic (yes, that’s “fifty”) to 20. Videos from a TV network’s drone showed a breathtaking traffic jam-cumparking lot that quickly inspired delight, or compassion, all around the Internet. Newest fashionistas In January, the upscale Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana introduced stylish hijabs and abayas aimed at Muslim women unafraid to call attention to themselves as they exercise their obliged modesty. D&G’s marketing effort even accessorized models’ headscarves and cloaks with stilettos and oversized, gaudily framed sunglasses. It was clear from the suggested retail prices that D&G would be pitching the line mainly in the wealthy Persian Gulf countries like United Arab Emirates. Unclear on the concept The government watchdog MuckRock requested records on the cause of death of a dolphin in New Jersey’s South River last year (to investigate larger dangers to the animal), but in January 2016 the state’s Department of Agriculture initially declined to release them — citing “medical privacy” (usually requested, for autopsies, by “the deceased’s family”). At the same time, Maria Vaccarella is facing a $500 fine in Howell, New Jersey, for violating a state law because she illegally rendered “care” to two apparently orphaned baby squirrels when their mother abandoned them. She was due in court as News of the Weird went to press. THE TULSA VOICE // February 3 – 16, 2016

Questionable judgments The director of senior services for Cranston, Rhode Island, resigned in January after a mayor’s press-conference went badly. To publicize a snow-removal program that would benefit seniors unable to shovel for themselves, the director (needing a proper example of a beneficiary of the program) instructed a middle-aged male subordinate to (unconvincingly) don a wig and dress and stand beside the mayor during the announcement. Cultural diversity Among the sites Japan has submitted for 2017 United Nations World Heritage status is the island of Okinoshima, home of a sacred shrine with which Shinto gods have been “protecting” fishermen as long ago as the fourth century. (The island is so sacred that females have never been allowed on it — judged either too delicate to make the trip or menstrually unclean). A current Tokyo craze, reported an Australian Broadcasting correspondent, involves “stressed out” professionals and office workers publicly outfitted in colorful, full-body lycra suits (“zentai”) in a rebellion against the nation’s stultifying conformity. Said one, “I’m a different person wearing this. I can be friendly to anyone.”

Suspicions conﬁrmed Crescent City, California, drug dealer James Banuelos pleaded guilty in January in exchange for a lighter sentence (three years in prison), thus avoiding for police the airing of an embarrassing hidden-camera video of the raid showing arresting officers stealing the dealer’s money and valuables. “Multiple” officers were shown laughing and helping themselves, and a gold chain belonging to Banuelos wound up for sale a few days later on Craigslist. As part of the plea agreement, the prosecutor agreed to give all Banuelos’ stuff back to him. The United Nations announced at year-end that the book most often checked out last year at its in-house Dag Hammarskjold Library in New York was the nearly 500-page “Immunity of Heads of State and State Officials for International Crimes.” The list of borrowers was not revealed. (In general, the book concludes, current heads of state have immunity but not past ones.)

life. In a delicate seven-hour procedure, using an iPhone app and $20 Google Cardboard box virtual-reality viewers, doctors guided themselves through Teegan’s chest based on two-dimensional body scans that the app had converted to 3-D. (Old-style 3-D images, they said, were too grainy for precision surgery.) Wait, what? Police chiefs of six small Ohio towns recently demanded an investigation of Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer after, comparing notes, they learned that Overmyer had approached each one claiming to be helpfully “collecting” for “disposal” their departments’ confiscated drugs — on behalf of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. (DEA, reportedly, knew nothing of this.) The Ohio attorney general is investigating. a 1/20 SOLUTION: UNIVERSAL SUNDAY

New Age medical care Surgeons treating 4-month-old Teegan Lexcen (born with only one lung and a critically deformed heart) had given up on her, but doctors at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami jury-rigged a surgical tool that saved the infant’s ETC. // 45

free will astrology by ROB BREZSNY

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18):

“It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you’re doing. You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It’s time to gorge. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you know Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights? At one point, the heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar, a man she’s interested in. “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,” Catherine says, “and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” If you’re a typical Aries, you’re more aligned with Catherine than with Edgar. But I’m hoping you might consider making a temporary compromise in the coming weeks. “At last, we agreed to try both,” Catherine concluded, “and then we kissed each other and were friends.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People turn to you Tauruses for help in staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism. They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to provide them with the stability they see in you. You should be proud of this service you offer! It’s a key part of your appeal. Now and then, though, you need to demonstrate that your stalwart dependability is not static and stagnant — that it’s strong exactly because it’s flexible and adaptable. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your superpower. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When winter comes, pine trees that grow near mountaintops may not be able to draw water and minerals from the ground through their roots. The sustenance they require is frozen. Luckily, their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds and fog, and drink in minerals that float on the wind. Metaphorically speaking, Gemini, this will be your preferred method for getting nourished in the coming weeks. For the time being, look UP to obtain what you need. Be fed primarily by noble ideals, big visions, divine inspiration, and high-minded people. CANCER (June 21-July 22): We all go through phases when we are at odds with people we love. Maybe we’re mad at them, or feel hurt by them, or can’t comprehend what they’re going through. The test of our commitment is how we act when we are in these moods. That’s why I agree with author Steve Hall when he says, “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The coming weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle with extra devotion — not just for the sake of the people you care about, but also for your own physical, mental, and spiritual health. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): After fighting and killing each other for years on end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 A.D. The treaty was optimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I’m happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter. If you work diligent-

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ly to negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I’m offering it to you, just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating your allies — and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.” This milestone occurred just six months after Japan’s devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I’m in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you’ll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during the last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said. Articulate what you’re burning to reveal. Speak the truths that will send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment with your pure intentions. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to some traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression. This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s only part of the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your clout with unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself for later; you’ll engage in no strategic self-suppression. Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do whatever’s required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done.

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ACROSS 1 Eats greedily (with “down”) 7 Gets possession of 14 It rolls on a rollaway 20 Corrida celebrity 21 Nightgown material 22 Woolly beast 23 Together, as a married couple 24 Lake Ontario city 25 Big hammer 26 Big name in tractors 27 Mortise companion 28 Characteristic of a prophet 30 Spot on a schedule 31 Runs out 32 Loon kin 34 Charged particles 38 Fancy flapjacks 40 It takes off a lot 41 Food-wrap brand 42 Losing lawyer, sometimes 45 Apprehensive before a game 46 “King of the Hill” beer 47 Pancake cooking surface 48 Illogical fear 49 Water mover on a house 50 Hindu queens (var.) 51 Deprived of a rind 52 Neatest possible 53 Former capital of Japan 54 Actor Richard of “The Godfather” 55 Show to be false 56 Forever, so to speak 58 Road material, sometimes

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Took in solid food Echidna’s snack Picket line pariah Lift mechanically Declares to be true 70 Metal-in-the-raw 71 Corrupt morally 74 Devices used on apples 76 Taxi signaler 79 Emulates an active volcano 80 Economizing 81 Legendary soul singer Otis 82 Kind of tube or ear 83 Breathing stoppages while sleeping 84 Turns into wine 85 Move like a crab 86 Not fit to be an NBA center 87 Deceptively coax 88 Dispense (with “out”) 89 Piece of music? 90 “A ___ formality” 91 Goblet support 94 Half man, half goat 96 Swiss canton 97 Grain-storage sites 99 Down Under dweller 102 Slanted letters 105 Rogue or scoundrel 106 Tristan’s companion 107 Macaroon flavoring 108 Sci-fi blockbuster of 2009 109 Courtroom figure 110 Small sofas 111 Yield, as to pressure DOWN 1 Wall board

2 Ice cream holders 3 The Little Mermaid’s name 4 Go back 5 International business mantra 6 Cover with turf 7 With greater frequency 8 Fair-haired ones 9 Roots used in poi 10 Unknown writer (Abbr.) 11 Lodge 12 Butterfly catcher’s need 13 Nation once part of Yugoslavia 14 Hindu social group 15 “___ want for Christmas ...” 16 Neurology, cardiology, etc. 17 Small child 18 Ticker tape? (Abbr.) 19 “Norma ___” (Sally Field film) 27 Hide-bound home 29 All tucked in 32 English church land 33 Lightning-quick 35 Speak pompously 36 What Rudolph used to be called 37 Sound like a bull 39 Wings on buildings 40 Industrial workers, as a group 41 Mecca native 42 See eye to eye 43 Madrid museum 44 Attach, as a corsage 45 Fraternity letter 48 Popular White House souvenir

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A lily’s cover? Rich wine They split a 20 Bills and coins Gold units In a formless manner Nervous twitches ___ the score (gets revenge) General Powell “___ you ashamed?” Arctic sightings Bizarre Small bit of work Reason-based faith “Sesame Street” regular Ring-shaped cake Camper carrier Quite obvious Roll-call word Receptive or open Like clones Branch of geometry Rebuff Like volcanic fallout Woodlands Throw a lifeline to Have the helm Stephen King’s home state Put on cloud nine Notorious Bugs Campaign worker Inky mess Divide into piles Be off one’s feet “Made in the ___” Barnyard female Podiatrist’s concern Play a role Golf scoring standard

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