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Diary of a eulogist When you speak for the dead, sometimes you’re led to sing by TAMARA LEBAK

cattered on the table in the middle of a circle of chairs are several photographs. One is a sepia picture of a little boy held by his mother, a woman who could be Joan Crawford’s twin. Another is a large portrait of a young man, barely 18, in a military uniform. There is a wedding photo of a young couple feeding each other cake, and a family photo, their infant swaddled in pink. These images are some of the detritus of life; lives that are now over. When you die, it’s my job to collect stories, to bring you back to life one last time. No single story can completely describe who you are. What I seek is the eternal in the subjective, fragments of your life that also suggest the whole of who you were. Crafting a memorial service is one of the most difficult and beautiful parts of my job. Usually, I try to disappear, extending my hand only to dot an I or cross a T. Sometimes I’m up all night, wrestling with the deceased. Often it feels like words come to me — through me — in a way I can't explain. Recently I lead a service for a woman who committed suicide. I took a risk and sang as part of the eulogy some lyrics that I couldn’t shake. Turns out, the deceased used to sing that very song to her best friend. I was not told this in advance. I just listened deeply. I was moved to sing. The woman who committed suicide after years of struggling with mental illness would not have wanted to be defined only by the way she died. She was also diligent, a hard worker, blunt, loving, and 6 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

compassionate. As I listened to her family, one story stood out to me that seemed to slip past the family and under the door. Once, the deceased and her sister found a bird a cat had tortured. Its wings were broken. Its feathers were missing, ripped out in chunks. It was barely alive. Seeing this once-beautiful bird struggling for life broke their hearts. It was the deceased’s sister who told me this story. She couldn’t look at the bird—she had to turn away. Her sister — the hero of my eulogy — asked for a bucket of water. In an act of compassion of which very few of us are capable, the deceased dipped the bird beneath the surface of the water and held it there until it drowned. This story created an opportunity for forgiveness. It held the suffering and the strength. A single story from her life offered healing in a way that scripture could not. The joy of our lives is richer when the pain is not neglected. We all walk away renewed, reminded that this life is worth living. Your family, your friends, your colleagues and caregivers bring me the artifacts of your life. Sitting together in a house of worship or in someone’s home, I ask the questions and try to shape the conversation. We sift through the details of you, your life. I want to discover how and what you loved. We don’t focus on the why of your death; we gather to discuss how your life was lived. Death is the ending of your physical life among those whom you love and love you. It’s also the beginning of a new story: the meaning of these lives without you in it. It’s your life, your death, and

the question of what happens next that unites us, albeit for a short time.

Crafting a memorial service is one of the most difficult and beautiful parts of my job. Usually, I try to disappear, extending my hand only to dot an I or cross a T. Sometimes I’m up all night, wrestling with the deceased. From memory and documents, through dates and stories, we sit and sculpt a version of you. The questions that drive these meetings are often chronological. Lives are hung on facts: dates of birth and graduation, of marriage and divorce, of enlistment and discharge. We concern ourselves with location and position: of schools, homes, hospitals, of degrees earned, jobs and memberships held, religious institutions attended. Facts add scenery and setting, props and opportunity. Somewhere between is the story of a life. “What stories were important to her?” I’ll ask. “Did she have a favorite author, poet, or film? What stories did she tell over and over — about herself, about others?” Because you are gone, your story becomes how they tell it. And because each life lived is an example of how we make sense of the human condition, your story becomes ours. Writing a eulogy for someone I have never met is not as difficult as it may seem. First, I fall in love with humanity. Then, I fall in love

with those who loved the deceased. Finally, I have to fall in love with the one who is gone. After my heart is cracked open for those involved, I then have an opportunity to meet the dead in the thick of that love, even though our earthly paths did not cross. Knowing the deceased really only adds one more story to the mix, the personal impact of their earthly life on mine. Death is an opportunity for the truth. People feel free to tell stories once a loved one is gone, that they did not have the courage or insight to tell when a loved one was alive. Sometimes I’m told that the deceased was an alcoholic, was abusive, or simply said things that hurt. I hold those truths along with the happy stories, from the people you impacted the most. When I speak at the memorial, I hope to craft my words from the tension and the harmony between. I paint with the stories of the living to hold up a picture of the dead. A eulogy is meant to praise. It is a final act of gratitude. That gratitude expressed in the context of a life’s struggle allows us to learn about our own lives by hearing about someone else’s. In hearing your stories, they become ours. Tamara Lebak works as a minister at All Souls Unitarian Church. As part of her ministry, she creates eulogies for funeral services—weaving together stories of the lives of Tulsans when they die. Sometimes she is the first person to tell these stories in public. Often, she is also the last. Always, they offer a glimpse of the unique perspective of those who speak for dead. Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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A helmsman at City Hall Build a vision and they will come? Not on these sales-tax revenues by RAY PEARCEY

icrosoft recently replaced its CEO, trading veteran Steve Ballmer for Satya Nadella. The replacement was overdue, coming after stakeholders saw little movement in a space filled with innovation and tumult. Microsoft is a captive of its office suite and its operating systems, so dependent on revenues from these cash cows that there’s little room or psychic energy for making its way in a vastly transformed realm. Microsoft’s strategy — to mirror Apple’s iPod, iPhone, and tablet gambits — is not only not working, but it’s also incredibly boring. Excluding its success with Xbox, the Seattle giant’s attempts to reclaim its former glory and gain a toehold in mobile computing, telecommunications, and cloud storage have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Tulsa, I’d say, is in a similar fix. In the first one-fifth of the 21st-century, cities that have compelling identities and that are committed to openness and taking risks have an advantage over communities that do not. Where is the energy, the imagination needed to secure a breakout, arguably revolutionary rail route to OKC? How come we didn’t make Google’s list of 34 cities to get hyperspeed Internet? Why can’t we have a championship pro-ball team like the Thunder? Why are we experiencing a flash crisis in the machinery at City Hall? 8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

It’s not a people problem. A range of national media and surveys say Tulsa is one of the most entrepreneurial communities in America. It’s in our DNA. And, our city is home to a driving, energized philanthropic community that is not only helping to revitalize downtown but has reanimated Tulsa’s spaces for arts, culture, and recreation. But with the tremendous exception of our resurgent downtown, we seem to have lost our pluck. We can’t deliver an exciting response when asked, “What is Tulsa all about, and why would anyone want to entertain the place as a venue for transforming an entire industry, launching an audacious athletic team, or reinventing the film or music industries?” I was recently in a private-project development meeting in T-Town, in a room packed with some of Tulsa’s top civic-minded, entrepreneurial, and media talents. In one voice, the group opined that our town is in a bad stall, especially when compared to our rival down the street, OKC—we even call it “The City.” The benefits of its repeated success with MAPS, OKC’s ongoing, multifaceted capital project initiative, and the progress of Bricktown and the Thunder are palpable. OKC’s confidence is electric. To get on a new trajectory, Tulsa needs a real strategy for replacing dying sales-tax revenues. And we need some indication of how com-

prehensive planning and the work done by thousands of citizens in the PlaniTulsa process will be honored at City Hall. Tulsa needs to hear how new jobs will come to Tulsa, and how we plan to compete in the face of emerging opportunities in aviation, advanced services, next-gen medical practices, artificial intelligence, and other technology. And we need to hear it soon.

Cities that have compelling identities and that are committed to openness and taking risks have an advantage over communities that do not. As we look at replacing salestax revenues, we should scope out prospects for dramatically altering certain aspects of how basic city services are provided. How many fire stations do we actually need in the 21st century? Are there operations that our police and fire departments could provide jointly? Revisiting the wage-driving, college-degree requirements for police applicants is another track, since much evidence, from Chicago and New York, from recent military tasking studies and U.S. Army community development work in Afghanistan and Iraq, suggests degrees are not synonymous with quality candidates. Tulsa could look

at a two-tier system that would allow the city to recruit highly experienced, non-degreed military veterans, who would bring diversity and a wide range of relevant experience to cop work in Tulsa. Too, high-school students and early-stage college students could do some policing and fire work while they continue their educations. Another, complementary avenue: simply raise sales-tax rates. Then there’s the service tax, which could be applied to the most rapidly growing facets of our economy: legal, advertising, personal care, and other such offerings. Of course, the legislature would have to approve such a move, and so would the people. The emerging, downright-scary situation: It’s not evident that the mayor and his senior crew have given anybody, including some very capable people who work in the building, a mandate to find the road ahead or to work with the Tulsa City Council, area economists, or any others on new revenue strategies for the city. Current efforts to raise money by selling off part of our fabulous new City Hall are opportunistic. Those dollars aren’t sustainable. We need a path to new revenue sources that can support the city in 2050, or at least through the next decade. We need a core city service rethink that is defensible, imaginative, promotes diversity, and quashes inequality. This is easier said than done. Many of the revenue options Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

that might be available to the City can come only through authorizations from the state legislature, a body which is no sensible person’s idea of an actual utility for any city that needs real solutions, as opposed to a medieval rhetoric or reactionary nonsense. We need to know how we will build a city that’s competitive for jobs and as a prime spot for startups and already-in-place, high-yeild firms. We need to look at how incubators like the new supercomputing facility in One Technology Center and co-working spaces can be used to augment the capacity of enterprising academics, engineers, technology pros, entrepreneurs, and area musicians and filmmakers. Making advanced computing, 3-D production methods and other approaches available to small or early-stage players and to spark more startups could, if Austin, Silicon Valley, and other spots are any indication, make a huge difference in Tulsa. We already have Fab Lab Tulsa, the Helmerick Advanced Materials Center at the downtown

campus of OSU, and some of the co-op music, dance, and performance spaces in the Brady District as spaces and models that can be put to work. Zoning systems are rules, guidance models, and map overlays that determine what functions can go where and how intense development can be in any physical space within the city. An out-ofstate law and zoning company has been at work on a re-look for months, and we are supposedly at the tail end of a sweeping review of the city’s zoning regime. The work on the re-look, overseen by the Mayor’s office and a (very conservative, at least in my view) citizens oversight panel, should soon release a passel of draft recommendations that ought to more tightly align Tulsa’s zoning code with the new machinery and myriad aspirations outlined during the PlaniTulsa process. But it’s been well over a year. Why it has the work taken so long, and will the consulting firm produce anything worth reading?

We have the launch of a set of small-area plans — detailed planning exercises that call for accelerated change in specific neighborhoods — including a development corridor near the new Union/Tulsa Hills commercial district, as well as a rework of the hospital/medical corridor between 11th and 21st Streets. Then there’s the sparking of the old Northland shopping center enclave, a rollout aided by a several-million-dollar site improvement and infrastructure plan approved as a part of Tulsa’s voter-sanctioned capital-improvement process late last year. Will the mayor commit to finding ways to continue and execute these projects? A round of righteous congratulations to area officials, including Mayor Bartlett, the regional chamber, INCOG, and a host of area mayors and local councils, for the role they played in securing the giant Macy transshipment facility, an Owasso-area project that could add as many as 1,000 jobs that are full-time equivalent to the

metro economy and spark retail and commercial growth in parts of north Tulsa. Macy’s was no small feat. Competition between large-city governments, state governments, tribal organizations, chambers of commerce, and other organizations for such a facility is intense. Perhaps a half-dozen of such opportunities come our way every 5 years. The regional chamber and some city officials are aware of this reality. But knowing about it and refocusing the dollars available for workforce upscaling, economic development, and stoking the city’s competitive position for start-ups and to retain promising maturing firms is a different matter altogether. Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.

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For which it stands The politics and pablum of the pledge of allegiance by BARRY FRIEDMAN

hen you write a political column in Oklahoma, deciding which legislative chazerai (Yiddish: ‘loathsome trash’) to cover is like choosing which dessert to snag at the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars in Vegas. So, as tempting as it was, this column will not be about the law 1 that would increase the penalty for cursing, will not be about the law 2 that would allow guns inside the state capitol, and will not be about the unwillingness of legislators to allocate funds3 so pieces of that state capitol won’t come crashing down on their heads during their daily prayers inside their tax-supported meditation rooms, which this column will also not be about. This installment, rather, will be about a bill that would require Oklahoma students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools — bills that have passed the Senate Education Committee and will soon get a hearing before the full Senate. That sound you just heard is the Founding Fathers doing the tarantella in their graves. 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

Thank God — the one whom the pledge tells us we’re “under” (well, at least since 19544 )— that State Senator Rob Standridge, R-Norman, knows what’s right for America5. “One bill would force elementary students to recite the pledge each day, while it would be optional for other public schools in the district. A second bill would require the pledge be recited once each day in all public schools.” Wonderful. Nothing says freedom like ordering 6- and 7-year-olds to publicly proclaim their loyalty on a daily basis and to direct it to a piece of fabric often sewn together in China.6 (Ninety-four percent, or $3.6 million’s worth, of flags imported into the U.S. last year came from China, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.) There goes the field trips to the flag factory. Still, bill supporters say the time has come to return the ritual to the public-school classroom. I must have missed all the protests from angry parents who tied up traffic with their chants and signs of “No Pledge, No Peace.”

Look, this is a creepy and cynical attempt by legislators to wrap themselves in one of those aforementioned Chinese-made flags rather than actually doing something about the problems of education in this state. For starters, kids can opt out; for another, there's no penalty if they don’t recite it. Is there a volume requirement? Or will teachers be walking around like Sergeant Carter from the old Gomer Pyle, USMC sitcom, yelling, “I can’t hear you”?

Nothing says freedom like ordering 6- and 7-year-olds to publicly proclaim their loyalty on a daily basis and to direct it to a piece of fabric often sewn together in China. For yet another, it’s probably unconstitutional. In 1943, The Supreme Court8 pretty much closed the book on such things anyway when Justice

Jackson wrote for the majority in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.” So why even go through the exercise 9? Short answer: It’s Oklahoma, dude, and we got the disingenuousness to prove it. Standridge said making the pledge a structured part of the day “is the least we can do” to honor those who founded the country and the sacrifices of those who fought and died for it since. With the tone in the nation and the way things are going, it should be up to the parents to decide – not teachers and schools – to decide whether [children] say the pledge or not.” Hold it, Hoss. You’re worried about the “tone in the nation”? Would that be the tone of GOP-favorite Ted Nugent calling the President of the United States Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

a “subhuman mongrel” (a tone you haven’t denounced, which is the least you could do)? Or maybe it was the tone that U.S. Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-Tulsa) used when he kibitzed with the woman who talked of her desire to hang the president (a tone you haven’t denounced, which is the least you could do)? Or maybe it was the tone your colleague Mike Reynolds (R-OKC) used when he said, “It is not our job to see that anyone gets an education10. It is not the responsibility of me, you, or any constituent in my district to pay for his or any other persons [sic] education. Their potential to benefit society is irrelevant” (a tone you haven’t denounced, which is the least you could do, being so concerned about the youth of this state as you are). That is why things in America are going “the way they are.” Your Pledge bill is not going to change the douchebaggery that produced such vitriolic tones. It will just give them a place to hide. By the way, how come bills like yours are never introduced when a Republican is in the White House? While we’re on the subject of flags, what in the name of wasted legislative time is this all about? An Act relating to the state flag; directing that the state flag be folded in a certain manner; providing for codification; and providing an effective date. Really, a flag-folding bill? Is this a problem? Apparently so. In a House Committee on States Rights, as reported by Kellie Reidlinger, Journal Legislative Report, State Representative Mike Ritze (R-Broken Arrow) said that government officials had passed away in his district and no one knew how to fold a flag. That’s equal parts sad and hysterical. (Oh, and not for nothing, Francis Bellamy, the Pledge’s author, also wrote something called Jesus the Socialist.) We continue. The bill, which will be headed to the full senate for a vote soon (and, as our favorite fictional political adviser, Toby Ziegler, would say, "I’ll bet all the money in my pocket against all the money in your pockets," it becomes law), came about, Standridge says, when a grassroots11 effort by a RepubTHE TULSA VOICE // Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014

lican women’s group decided the state’s school curricula wasn’t patriotic enough. What could possibly go wrong there? The bill also requires an American flag be displayed either inside or outside every public school, as well as instruction in the history of the American flag.

Forcing kids to say the pledge every morning and strategically placing flags through the school like hand sanitizers on a cruise ship has as much to do with patriotism as does the red, white, and blue bandana wrapped around Phil Robertson’s forehead.

In an editorial a few weeks back in Tulsa World, OU President David Boren wrote: We will continue to invest less in education13 per student than any of the states that surround us: Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri and New Mexico. In the 1970s, about 50 percent of OU's budget came from the state … By the time I left the U.S. Senate to come home to OU, the state was contributing only 32 percent of the budget. It fell to about 17 percent last year, and it will be about 15 percent if this current budget proposal is not changed. But I bet we’ll have more flags per cafeteria than any school in Albuquerque. Forcing kids to say the pledge every morning and strategically placing flags through the school like hand sanitizers on a cruise ship has as much to do with patriotism as does the red, white, and blue bandana wrapped around Phil Robertson’s forehead. Worse, the Oklahoma legislators who proposed this measure are the same ones who allowed the state to rank first in the nation in education cuts14, who sat by while math scores fell below the national average, and who pushed for the teaching of fairytales15 over real science. Students in Oklahoma deserve more than political posturing.

They need more teachers, textbooks, music and art education, and food. Yes, food. One in five children in Oklahoma suffers from “food insecurity,” a condition where healthy food isn’t “readily available and accessible.16 ” So, yeah, feel good: Oklahoma children, with their right hands over their hearts, will soon be saying the pledge and feeling a connection to something larger than themselves — America. But many of them will also have their left hands over their stomachs, feeling a hunger — their own. And in that moment, during that 31-word recitation, they will experience both a country’s promise and its shame. “News from the Plains” appears each issue and covers Oklahoma politics and culture—the disastrous, the unseemly, the incomprehensible … you know, the day to day stuff. Barry Friedman is a touring stand-up comedian, author and general rabble-rouser.

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Banding together Tulsa Film + Music wants to help, but first it’s asking for some help of its own by JOHN LANGDON

ulsa Film + Music was created last August to prove to the world — and to Tulsa itself — that film and music are two important industries to the city. TF+M’s success in that endeavor will require participation from those involved in those industries. In this early stage, TF+M is the Tom Cruise to our local musicians’ and filmmakers’ collective Cuba Gooding Jr., saying, “Help me help you.” Last year, Abby Kurin was hired as the director of TF+M, a division of the city’s Communications Department, after working as Development Coordinator at the Oklahoma Film & Music Office. There, she was part of the team that created the Oklahoma showcase at SXSW, The Buffalo Lounge, and helped bring the film productions of “August: Osage County” and “To the Wonder” to Oklahoma. Now she wants to take what she learned and focus it on her hometown. “I’m extremely passionate about these industries,” Kurin said. “How can the city help these industries? And how can we grow these industries? We know that they’re making an impact on the economy, and we want to continue that.” How, indeed. To help figure that out, TF+M has created a pair of questionnaires — one for music, one for film — it calls the Cultural Audit. “The idea behind this is we really want to hear from these people. What would they love to see out of their city? What are ideas that they may have? We’re at a stage where we’re really wanting to hear from everybody so we can make it what they want,” Kurin said. Another goal of the Cultural Audit is to gather data that shows the economic impact of the film and music industries and to “take that information and put it on our website to showcase who’s working in these industries both to people in Tulsa and outside of Tulsa looking 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

Tulsa Film + Music Dire ctor Abby Kurin

in. … But it’s only as strong as how many people fill it out. It’s really short,” Kurin insisted. So far, the Cultural Audit has been made available to those on TF+M’s email list, but will soon be available to all who wish to participate via TF+M’s website. The Cultural Audit — the sound of it couldn’t feel more like city government — was named before Kurin was hired, she said. It’s not a particularly inviting name. It’s hard to imagine a hardcore punk band volunteering for any “audit.” The questions range from broad (“Why Tulsa, Oklahoma?”; “What would you like to see the City of Tulsa do in support of the film/video industry?”) to very specific (“How much did you earn playing music in FY13?”) “[The questions] seemed more like a dating profile than anything else,” said local filmmaker Charles Elmore. “None of them were bad. It’s a step in the right direction, but I’m not sure what to think.” “I’m thrilled that film and the art and industry of filmmaking is being recognized as a legit endeavor by Tulsa’s government,”

Elmore said. “On the other hand, my feelings are like, ‘Fuck that, what can the Film and Music Office do for me to help me make better films?’ If I want to get a film made, I’m going to go ahead and push that rock up the mountain, help or no help.”

“ [It is] our first mission to take care of people working and living in Tulsa. We want Tulsa to be not only a destination, but a place where people can live and work and want to be here. And that’s why I’m hoping to hear from everybody.” That’s not to say he doesn’t see the benefit of uniting those working toward similar goals. “Ideally what I’d like is that all of our disparate equipment vendors, filmmakers, directors, writers, col-

orists, editors, etc., were at least all on the same page as far as awareness of each other and our shared desires or intentions. Filmmaking is a collaborative art, and the more collaborators you’re aware of, the better it reflects on everyone and the city.” Collaboration is key, and Kurin and TF+M know that. One of their main goals is to help filmmakers and musicians alike get to know each other and get to know local production companies, movie theaters, venues, and labels. “The Office wants to serve as a place where these industries are no longer fragmented,” Kurin said. “That’s what I want to do: connect the dots. I get phone calls for locations, or requests for access to an office space or the airport, or to work with the Tulsa Police Department and the Fire Department. We can make that happen.” TF+M is also connecting those dots by holding mixers and other events, corralling Tulsans who work in film and music into one room. The most recent was late last month, when local musicians gathered at The Vanguard for a panel of representatives from local publications, including The Tulsa Voice Associate Publisher Matt Cauthron. The event was a good example of what TF+M can do to forge new connections, and there’s now a sizeable group of local musicians who have a much better idea of how get their names in print. (Hint: reach out to us.) TF+M is still in its infancy, and much of what it is capable of doing remains to be seen. But as Elmore said, it’s great to see the local government take a stake in music and film. “[It is] our first mission to take care of people working and living in Tulsa,” Kurin said. “We want Tulsa to be not only a destination, but a place where people can live and work and want to be here. And that’s why I’m hoping to hear from everybody.” Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

If fabulous dining & atmosphere right across the street from the big downtown concerts & events is your thing, enjoy a visit to Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar and you’ll Be OK. OSSO BUCCO

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Salads • Pastas • Desserts • Catering • Beer • Wine Extensive Gluten Free Options In Tulsa: Late Night Slices Th, F, Sa 10p to 1a Full Bar • Award-Winning Cocktails more than 75 Beers • Wines On Cherry Street in Tulsa • Original in Owasso • Food Truck andopizza.com | facebook.com/andopizza | @andopizza Yes, our menu is both legendary and award winning. But now, we’ve added yet another tasty addition. Location. Roughly 100 feet or so from Tulsa’s fabulous BOK Center, Naples Flatbread & Wine bar combines the incredible tastes of our famous flatbreads, pastas, pizzas, sandwiches, wines, beers and desserts with the convenience of being right next door to where you’re heading next. So, where’s the best place to dine that’s music to your ears before and/or after the concert (we even play music from the event performer pre and post)? It’s Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar. In a walk.

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bottomline by JENNIE LLOYD

Gov. Mary Fallin

Questioning the executioner Ever wonder where the drugs for executions come from? Ever wonder who makes sure they work? A recent lawsuit filed by attorneys for two Oklahoma death-row inmates alleges a “cloak of secrecy makes it impossible to know for sure.” The answer is, you probably don’t want to know. Capital punishment — as any form of death — is not predictable. Attorneys for the Oklahoma inmates have requested that a judge invalidate a 2011 state law that gave the DOC more control — and confidentiality — with regard to how executions are handled. With a nationwide shortage of pentobarbital, an anesthetic used in a trio of lethal-injection drugs, inmates and their advocates are asking DOC officials: where are you getting your drugs now, and what’s in them exactly? They may be procuring pentobarbital from compounding pharmacies, a source less regulated than local or chain pharmacies. A Missouri inmate’s attorneys alleged Tulsa-based The Apothecary Shoppe was to supply pentobarbital for executions in that state, though it is not legally permitted to do so. The suit was dismissed after The Apothecary Shoppe agreed it would not provide the drug for Taylor’s execution. His execution was carried out as planned. Though Americans have generally favored and supported the death penalty in certain 14 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

cases, state-sponsored execution has changed along with our attitudes about death. Deaths by electric chair tapered off in the late 1970s. Around that time, Oklahoma became the first to employ lethal injection. The antiseptic, medical-injection style of execution has grown in popularity, more suited to our current cultural ideas about justice and death. In the late 1800s, as Americans began to lose their temperament for the public hanging, electricity came into vogue and, with it, electrocution. A New York electric chair was the first to kill an inmate in 1890. Firing squads never got much play, while hanging remained in routine use throughout the early 1900s. Around 1920, gas chambers — industrial-age, airtight containers with submarine windows with vents for the fatal chemical clouds — were considered more humane than the electric chair. The gas chamber, and every other kind of state-sponsored execution, left a wake of botched executions and horror stories. Bottomline: Lethal injection is a better bullet than the gas chamber, the electric chair, or the firing squad, we generally agree. But it’s not a perfect one. The executioner will always wear a hood. Our current state law keeps that hood firmly in place. But a human deserves to know how they’re going to die.

Fallin plays hidethe-document

Last March, after numerous requests from news media, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin released 50,000 documents related to her handling of “Obamacare” implementation in the state. She withheld 31 documents, a total of 100 papers, to be made available only after she leaves office, according to her spokesman. “Jan Davis, administrative archivist, said she knew of no similar restrictions set by previous governors,” according to a March 1 Oklahoma Watch report. “Papers from former governors usually are made public as soon as they are processed.” Fallin decided not to create a state healthcare exchange or to expand the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. Bottomline: The governor withheld 100 papers citing executive privilege. Her office claims they were private deliberations and attorney-client communications. Fallin’s game of hide-and-seek may be innocent. The docs may be emails containing private deliberations and attorney-client communiqué, as her office suggests. But, with no previous governor ever hiding archived materials, Fallin’s withholding of docs right before a re-election year comes off as shady at best.

Terri White // Photo by Warren Vieth/Oklahoma Watch

State’s mentalhealth crisis

Oklahoma ranks as second worst in the nation for overall mental health, according to a new Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) report. One in four Oklahomans, or more than 630,000, struggle with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder. Only West Virginia has more residents with a mental-health issue. Oklahoma’s figure for adults with mental illness is 22 percent, almost four points higher than the national average of 18.2. These numbers do not include those younger than 18. Bottomline: An Okie’s brain is not, on average, sicker than anyone else’s. The real crisis isn’t in our heads — it’s in our resources. More than 70 percent of adult Oklahomans with mental illness do not receive treatment. After years of budget cutbacks, the state’s mental-health system has lost psychiatric beds and now maneuvers through a chronic shortage. Resources are stretched so thin that Terri White, Oklahoma Mental Health and Substance Abuse Commissioner, called the state of mental health here a “crisis.” Oklahoma spends about $53 per capita on mental-health treatment; the nation’s average is $120, White told The Oklahoman on March 2. Time to expand our safety net for the mentally ill, accept our invisible diseases, get right in the head. Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Norman Reedus

Daryl points his bow at Tulsa

Five, count ‘em five, “Walking Dead” stars will be in Tulsa this November. If you’ve been dying to talk zombie-survival strategy or apocalyptic ennui with the stars of television’s No.-1 show for adults age 18-49, squee! You’re in luck. Wizard World is bringing Comic Con to Tulsa Nov. 7-9. Five WD stars have signed on to appear so far: Daryl, Shane, Carl, Herschel, and Merle (actors Norman Reedus, Jon Bernthal, Chandler Riggs, Scott Wilson, and Michael Rooker, respectively). For three days, the Cox Business Center will be packed with all manner of nerdcetera: graphic novels, comic books, movie geekery, and awkward, dressed-up tweens, not to mention an Incredible Hulk (Lou Ferrigno), Superman (Dean Cain), and a Power Ranger (Jason David Frank), among others. Bottomline: How much is your nerdy obsession gonna cost you? A general-admission ticket is $35, while “VIP experience” packages are retailing for up to $400. Comic Cons are a geek spectacle, sure to delight hordes of dweebs and those who love them, here in Green Country.

“Everyone can pretend to be Irish one day of the year.”

You and your dog(s) are invited to our annual

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Cheroke e White Eagle Cor n se eds, cour tesy

Planting the past Cherokee Nation preserves its cultural roots with seed distribution program by ANGELA EVANS

at Gwin, Director of the Cherokee Nation Natural Resources Department and organismic biologist, set out on a seed scavenger hunt. He spoke to “corn scholars” across the nation to locate seeds that have been planted and harvested by the Cherokee for centuries. He found a genetic specimen of corn in the panhandle of Oklahoma, the ceremonial tobacco from an institution in Minneapolis. Corn, bean, tobacco, and squash seeds were sown on the land of the Cherokee tribal government complex in Tahlequah. Gwin’s team scrutinized each plant, making sure that the genetic profiles fit the traditional descriptions. “A lot of different sources added to what we thought would be a well-rounded group of crops,” Gwin said. “We work very hard to ensure that the seeds we produce are genetically pure.” The Cherokee seeds are considered heirloom seeds, or open-pollinated. That means no bioengineering, no hybridization — just a pure genetic specimen of the seeds planted by humankind for generations. Now Cherokee gardeners can connect with their agricultural heritage by growing 16 // FOOD & DRINK

crops planted from the tribe’s heirloom seed bank. “In more archaic Cherokee culture, one would not have separated their daily lives with interaction with the environment,” Gwin said. “Everybody grew their own food because that is the way society operated. It’s an extension to being a Cherokee.” The program distributes thousands of seed packets to tribe members interested in growing traditional Cherokee crops. Cultivation of these rare plants assures genetic preservation and maintains a vital component of Cherokee history. The seed bank is more than a storehouse; it is a bastion for the past, literally rooted in the present. Crops like rattlesnake pole beans, turkey gizzard beans, and buffalo gourds have poetic names for otherwise humble plants. The Trail of Tears beads, a type of corn also known as "Job's tears," grow along the 1838 trail for which they are named. As loved ones died, the tribal women cried. Everywhere the tears dropped corn bead plants are said to have grown. Teardrop seeds sprout from the top of each stalk and are sometimes fashioned into jewelry.

The modern term for the Cherokee method of agriculture is “companion gardening,” but the Cherokee are more descriptive. The Three Sisters reside in a traditional Cherokee corn patch — squash, beans, and corn. Corn is the focal point, planted first in spring. After the corn is old enough, beans are planted. Squash encircles the garden as a protective barrier along the ground, keeping weeds at bay.

The seed bank is more than a storehouse; it is a bastion for the past, literally rooted in the present. “When you use the Cherokee names for these crops, you aren’t naming them, you are describing them — describing what they do, describing their life story, and describing their role in nature,” Gwin said. The Cherokee Seed Bank distribution dovetails with Cherokee Nation initiatives to help tribe members get active and regain a relationship with the land. Growing healthy food is part of that, but these heirloom crops do

not have the same flavor profiles of their modern counterparts. Today’s fruits and vegetables have been engineered to taste a certain way, to look a certain way, and to last longer. It’s not how the harvest was traditionally used. “Crops were not grown so you could have really nice, tasty corn on cob. Corn was grown to keep you alive in the wintertime when nothing else was available to eat,” Gwin said. “Beans were not grown to be snapped green and put in a big pot of ham. Beans were grown to be dried and eaten when things got lean.” The Georgia Candy Roaster is one of the most popular and tasty heirloom crops, which can be prepared as squash, sweet potatoes, or pumpkin and, according to Gwin, makes for “excellent table fare.” Cherokees have been planting these seeds in gardens all over the country and as far away as Nigeria since the bank started distributing six years ago. Many schools with community gardens use the Cherokee heritage plants as an opportunity to learn about the tradition of the tribe, to look beyond the seed and the science. If there is availability, the Cherokee Nation will offer seeds to schools this month. Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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voice’schoices

the best food items in Tulsa under $5

NATASHA BALL

MATT CAUTHRON

JOHN LANGDON

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Farmers Market

India Palace

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Cherry Street/Brookside

6963 S. Lewis Ave.

Mod’s Coffee and Crepes

The Cherry Street Farmers Market isn’t until next month — the winter market, every other weekend (next one is Mar. 15), has kept us sated — but I’m already dreaming of these Owasso figs. Blushing by late summer, each is as sweet as port from a lover’s lips. The packaging — they come 6-8 in a snack-sized Ziplock bag, a couple bucks per parcel — belies the danger within.

My favorite restaurant in Tulsa has plenty of delectable dishes to choose from — the chicken tikka masala and the saag paneer make me want to throw away my fork and simply pour food into my face — but the unassuming Madras soup, a seemingly simple tomato soup that stuns with its depth of flavor, steals the show every time.

On top of serving some of the best burgers in town, Claud’s is a time machine. At the tiny bar facing out toward the Restless Ribbon, you’ll expect to see a fight break out between Greasers and Socs. Get a double cheeseburger. Onions fried into the patties is an option, and if you don’t get them, you will regret it forever, or at least until you inevitably come back.

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Though Mod’s has an impressive selection of gelato flavors and savory as well as sweet crepes, I always come back to same dish: the chocolate covered strawberry and cream crepe. Fruity and chocolate-stuffed, it is filling for a small price. Extra treat, watching them create the crepe right in front of you. MON, 7 A.M.–2 P.M. TUES – FRI, 7 A.M.–10 P.M. SAT, 10 A.M.–10 P.M.

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A decade downtown The Blue Dome District was a pretty lonely place when Elliot Nelson opened McNellie’s Public House in March of 2004. Ten years later, downtown has transformed into a thriving hotspot for dining, entertainment and nightlife—in other words, it’s what a city’s downtown should be. Many people, rightly so, give a hearty chunk of credit to McNellie’s (and the many Nelson-owned establishments that followed its success) for igniting downtown’s renaissance. To celebrate the flagship’s tenth anniversary, McNellie’s will host a series of special events the week of March 10. Note: All events take place at the downtown McNellie’s location, 409 E. 1st St.

MARCH 10 Elliot Nelson hosts a Beer University featuring his favorite beers in the McNellie’s Sidebar.

MARCH 10 Pint Night. From 5 p.m. to close, purchase any pint and get a 10th anniversary McNellie’s pint glass.

Email janna@mcnellies. com to reserve a spot.

Limit one pint glass per customer.

MARCH 11 Customer Appreciation Day. Dine with us and let the McNellie’s crew appreciate your ten years of patronage.

MARCH 12 Wednesday’s Burger Night will feature throwback prices. From 5 p.m. to close, burgers are just $3.

MARCH 14 Traditional Irish Folk band Larkin will play a free show upstairs at 10 p.m.

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

boozeclues

(tips on drinking well in Tulsa)

McNellie’s Public House 409 E. First St the bartender: Tony Collins the drink: Guinness (McNellie’s, celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, empties an average of a keg, or 100 pints, of the stuff each day) the ingredients: water, barley, hops, and yeast (lucky) seven steps to the proper pour, according to Tony: 1: For a proper pour, one needs to clean and dry a good, proper glass. Preferably a 20-ounce tulip. 2: Place the glass under the tap at a 45-degree angle. 3: Pull the tap. Fill the glass three-quarters full. 4: Let the pour settle. Relax, give it a couple minutes. What’s forming on the surface is the beginning of that trademark, creamy head. 5: Top it off. Fill the last quarter of the pint, glass held straight up. Push back on the tap to optimize the level of gas in the line. Stop when the head just peeks over the edge of the glass. 6: Behold. 7: Imbibe. (Editor’s note: According to the folks who make it, it should take 119 seconds to pour a Guinness.)

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MONDAY, March 17 ST. PATRICK’S DAY McNellie’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Street Party is on Monday, March 17, 2014. Why a Monday? Because that’s St. Patrick’s Day. Do you wait to celebrate Christmas on the weekend? What about New Year’s Eve, or the Fourth of July? Didn’t think so. Mark your calendar now, and let’s make this the best St. Pat’s yet!

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

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

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

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

ROSE DISTRICT BruHouse Daylight Donuts Family Back Creek Deli & Gifts Fiesta Mambo!

Main Street Tavern McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro Romeo’s Espresso Cafe

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

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

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

Jay’s Coneys Josie’s Tamales Kimmy’s Diner Korean Garden Lot a Burger Maria’s Mexican Grill Mariscos Costa Azul Mariscos El Centenario Mekong Vietnamese Pizza Depot Porky’s Kitchen Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili RoseRock Cafe Señor Fajita Seoul Restaurant Shiloh’s of Tulsa Shish-Kabob & Grill Stone Mill BBQ & Steakhouse Tacos San Pedro Taqueria la Cabana Timmy’s Diner

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

Nelson’s Buffeteria Pho Da Cao Pickle’s Pub Rice Bowl Cafe Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Royal Dragon Sezchuan Express Shawkat’s Deli & Grill Speedy Gonzalez Grill Spudder Steak Stuffers USA Tacos Don Francisco Thai Siam Tokyo Garden The Tropical Restaurant & Bar Viet Huong Villa Ravenna Watts Barbecue

Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken Go West Restaurant & Saloon Jumpin J’s Knotty Pine BBQ Linda Mar

Lot a Burger Monterey’s Little Mexico Ollie’s Station Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Sandwiches & More Union Street Café Westside Grill & Delivery

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

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

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

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

TERWILLIGER HEIGHTS Bill & Ruth’s Blue Rose Café The Chalkboard Dalesandro’s Elwoods

Mansion House Café Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili La Villa at Philbrook

MIDTOWN Albert G’s The Alley Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse 22 // FOOD & DRINK

Felini’s Cookies & Deli Golden Gate Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Steve’s Sundries Trenchers Delicatessen Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

dininglistings BLUE D OME Albert G’s Bar & Q Dilly Deli El Guapo’s Cantina Fassler Hall Joe Bots Coffee Joe Momma’s Pizza

Juniper McNellie’s S&J Oyster Company Tallgrass Prairie Table White Flag Yokozuna

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

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

BBD II Baja Jack’s Burrito Shack Bamboo Thai Bistro Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders Bodean’s Seafood Restaurant The Brook Camille’s Sidewalk Café Cardigan’s Charleston’s Cimarron Meat Company Dona Tina Cocina Mexicana El Samborsito Elements Steakhouse & Grille The Fig Café and Bakery First Watch Five Guys Gencies Chicken Shack Gyros by Ali Hebert’s Specialty Meats

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THE WEEKEND BEFORE. . . t. Patrick’s Day 5K 1 S RunnersWorld Tulsa presents the 32nd Annual St. Patrick’s Day 5K Run, benefitting Special Olympics Oklahoma and Tulsa Running Club. Runners will compete for prizes, and there will also be door prizes, prize money for participating schools, and even a costume contest. As well as the 5K, there will also be a 1-mile fun run. 8 a.m., 3920 S Peoria Ave. runnersworld.com 2 S t. Patrick’s Day Brady Block Party Glacier Confection’s Guinness truffles, green cigars at

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Classic Cigars, free corned beef and cabbage at Caz’s bar, and an insect petting zoo at AHHA are among the many specials and events happening in the Brady Arts District. The Hunt Club, Mason’s and Majestic will all have live music and/or DJs, and... Oysterfest Guthrie Green hosts the first ever Oysterfest, in which several Tulsa restaurants, food trucks, and chefs will prepare oysters in a variety of ways, with live music from Tennessee Jet, Good Graeff, and Clear Plastic Masks. S&J Oyster will sponsor a “Shuck & Suck” eating competition.

Brave souls (including The Tulsa Voice’s own Josh Kampf) will eat as many oysters as humanly possible in hopes of winning a custom Fab Lab trophy— and eternal bragging rights. 3 S hamRock the Rose Broken Arrow’s Rose District hosts its first St. Patrick’s Day celebration, and they’re pulling out all the stops. This outdoor street festival will have live music, food trucks, food and art vendors, prizes and several beer stations. Rose District businesses will be open and offering sales and discounts. Main Street, Broken Arrow rosedistrict.com

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t. Paddy’s Biker Bash 4 S Route 66 Harley-Davidson hosts this celebration with food, $1 beers, a burnout contest, hourly prizes, a bike wash by Harley Angels, and live music by Travis Kidd and Octane Blue. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 3637 S Memorial Route66h-d.com THE DAY OF. . . 5 Kilkenny’s St. Patty’s Day Who better to host a celebration of all things Ireland than Cherry Street’s favorite throwback Irish pub? Kilkenny’s hosts a street party on St. Patrick’s Day proper with food, beer and spirits, and live music. 4 p.m.-midnight 1413 E. 15th St. tulsairishpub.com 6 B lue Dome Festivites Four celebrations within one block combine for the biggest St. Patty’s celebration in town. Streets will be closed, McNellie’s will have a beer tent, Fassler Hall will host GreenHouse Clothing’s anniversary party during the day with music from Alan Doyle and Taddy Porter, and music from Pilgrim and Yawpers later that night. Arnie’s and Woody’s will also host live music, including Melissa Hembree and Whiskey Union, The 66, Radio Junkies, and the Eliminator Band.

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Steve Pryor on rambling, roaming, and the red Stratocaster in the window by LINDSEY NEAL KUYKENDALL

was working on a feature about Tulsa musicians when I first met Steve Pryor. Steve’s reputation preceded him. I was told I wouldn’t be able to get the interview for one reason or another, that Steve might be difficult to nail down. Like so many other artists, Steve has been haunted by gossip about drug abuse and career mishaps. I wanted to find out direct from the source. I drew my own conclusions; I already knew that seeing Steve play his Stratocaster and sing live in that flawless rasp could be a transcendental experience. I suspected his past was rich if not torrid. Steve has been inducted into both the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. He plays live in Tulsa every Monday at The Dusty Dog Pub, 5107 South Harvard, at 6:30 p.m. “They’ve got the air conditioner on about 40 degrees.” he said, “The drinks are really strong, and the club is really dark.” Pryor also teaches a workshop for children called “Kids Got the Blues.” I took my two nieces and nephew, between the ages of 2 and 6 years old at the time. Pryor let them play his signature black electric guitar. THE TULSA VOICE // Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014

I interviewed Steve by phone. From my sofa, I dialed his cell at the scheduled time, and he answered warmly. It was dusk on a mild July Tuesday, the week after Independence Day. In half an hour, he introduced the plot of his life. “Are you ready to talk to me for a little bit?” I asked. “Yeah, I have a cup of coffee. You’re working after hours today, huh?” he said. “Like a musician or something,” I replied. I am a musician, a music writer, and a record label co-owner. “I guess we work whenever we can,” Steve laughed. The piece I was writing at the time was to be quite short. As I talked with Steve, I let the tape recorder roll, the conversation flow. It turned out that I captured an endearing essence of Steve, and I’m glad I saved it. I let him keep talking, even though I knew I wouldn’t be able to publish most of it. At least, not right then. Began Steve: “I was born here in Tulsa, I grew up here in Tulsa. I’m 57. If I’d known I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. We were driving past a pawn shop in Fort Smith when I was a

little kid and I saw a red Stratocaster hanging in the window. This is 1963, before the Beatles came out and stuff. I told my Mom I wanted to play guitar. She ended up getting me one of those toy guitars, you know, with a little crank on it, you’d have to turn the crank to make it play a little tune. I got real mad, threw it in the fireplace, told her I wanted a real guitar. So I ended up getting a guitar in 1963 for Christmas. Took a couple informal lessons, you know, found some guys playing around in school a bunch, talent shows and stuff. Those were the real formative years. When I was real young, what really got me interested in playing guitar was my Dad had Buck Owens records and my Mom had Ray Charles and B.B. King records. My Mom liked to turn up the black radio stations from New Orleans when she was growing up in Arkansas and my Dad was more of a redneck from Arkansas, so I had those two polarized influences. I was always wanting to play blues since I was a little kid. I was always trying to look at it in a practical way; I always saw the

music business as the flavor of the month and you gotta be careful because it’s kinda embarrassing to have your hair standing on end or have a Mohawk that is out of style in a couple years. I always thought the blues would be around and the music moved me. So that’s kinda how I ended up that way. It was right after high school that I found Mike Bruce. He’s deceased now but he was a great teacher and great player. He played with B.B. King and Bobby Bland. He really set me in the right direction. The first guys I ever played with were at the Colony Club, around 1973, I think it was. Went over there and jammed with Jamie Oldaker and Carl Radle and Taco Ryan cause my guitar teacher Mike Bruce was over there and he gave me the guitar. That was something else. I was, like, 17 years old and it just opened my eyes. I’m sitting there playing with the guy from Derek and the Dominoes, Carl Radle. You know? Found out he was living in Claremore and all those guys were from around here. I was playing with all the guys that were playing with Leon and the guys that were playing with (continued on page 28) FEATURED // 27

(continued from page 27) Clapton. Dick Sims. You know, they’d come play with me when they weren’t out playing with Eric Clapton. I played in different bands around town. Jim Sweeny and Jimmy Markham. I’d always go out and see them and Bill Davis. Then we all moved to California in ’77. I was with the Old Dog Band. My friend David Busey was in a band with us, playing keyboards. His brother was Gary Busey. Gary had just starred in the Buddy Holly Story, and he told us to come out there and play some gigs with him. So we went out there and did that. The “Buddy Holly on Acid” gig is the only way I can describe that deal. That was real wild. But did that a couple years, then that wasn’t fun no more. So I came back to Tulsa. That’s when I played a couple years with Jim Sweeny and Jimmy Markham, those guys. I used to go watch Tommy Tripplehorn play guitar with Bill Davis and he let me sit in a bunch. Then I just got that wanderlust again. When I moved to New York City in 1983, that’s when I hooked up with my first big-name gig. By chance, happened to go in the Lone Star Café and there was Paul Butterfield, the Chicago blues harp player. He needed a bass player and a guitar player, and there we were, and we landed that gig. A friend of mine was living up there, Randy Vanson, this bass player, and he said, “Come on up to New York City.” So we lived up there in Brooklyn a while. Did that for a year or so. I even lived with him in little Italy. That was a real education. I just learned to be real careful with those old blues guys because they’re into some strange stuff. Lots of drugs and alcohol and it got kinda scary, so I came back to town. After that was over I thought I would have my own band. I started Steve Pryor and the Mighty Kingsnakes in ’84. Did that a while, made my first record as an artist. My first record was an actual record, 33 1/3. Then we moved out to California again and got a real record deal 28 // FEATURED

with Zoo Entertainment, part of Sony. Got that in 1990. Did that a couple years and toured with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, did some shows with Joe Cocker. We did a little California tour playing with him. That’s how I got picked up by Alex Hodges and Stryke Force Management. He was managing the Allman Brothers. He managed Stevie Ray Vaughn up until the helicopter crash [that killed Vaughn], and he picked me up a year later. The Fabulous Thunderbirds were from Austin, Texas. That band was started by Kim Wilson and Jimmy Vaughn, Stevie Ray’s big brother. So that was when I [Steve Pryor Band] got my own record deal, and they hooked us up with opening for them. That was when we first got a tour bus and all that stuff. We did a couple tours with them between 1989 to 1992. Just all over the United States. From Los Angeles to New York. It was great. It was really great. We got to play Tipitina’s in New Orleans, Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, Greek Theater in Los Angeles, Wiltern Theater in LA, Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. That was a good time right there, as far as seeing how things really work and seeing how real blues players play. Applying their craft. Being around those guys every night. We got dropped by our label because we were, like, the last of the blues bands to be on the radio, ’91, ’92. That was a rough time. Pearl Jam and all that stuff was getting real big and I just left the Los Angeles music scene behind and came back to town. Been making my own records since then. In the heyday of the Cain’s Ballroom, when it was a real nasty old joint, we were the guys that opened up for everybody that came through town when we had the Old Dog Band together. If I was gonna mention any, I would say Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters. It’s amazing, I made so much more money doing our own CDs

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was the first time I actually went to see Steve Pryor. I went to see him down at Arnie’s. And it just totally blew my mind. I was going back to college, working on jazz and finishing a music degree. I thought about it, and it was getting to a point where to finish the degree I was going to have to drive to Tahlequah every day. I thought, well, you can do one of two things: You can drive to Tahlequah every day, get your little music degree, or you can not do that, and just follow and try to steal licks off this guy. And I chose option B (laughs). And so for the past six or seven years, he has graciously— because I know he’s aware of what I’m up to, and a lot of guys wouldn’t be cool with that—he’s been very gracious in letting me rip off his licks. He kind of redefined what guitar can do. You listen to him, and there’s no doubt that every note is coming straight from the heart. And he can play fast, but it’s never technical fast. Everything in his timing is so right on, and he communicates to you in a way that takes me back to a time in my life when all I listened to was Jimi Hendrix. I can see this lineage of what Hendrix was doing and what Steve was doing. The way he plays music, the way he interprets music, is something very different than what I see from almost any other player out there. And that’s kind of the reason I stayed in Tulsa. If I felt like I really had stuff to learn from some LA guys, I’d go out to LA. Or if I felt like the knowledge center was in Nashville, I’d go to Nashville. But man, my heart was here, in Tulsa, with that guy.”

– Tulsa guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Paul Benjaman

than I ever did in the ‘real music world.’ First of all, we never had a hit. But it’s good to always have a product in hand when you’re playing shows. I’ll sit there for an hour after we play, signing CDs and getting them to people, one by one. It’s just been a lot more rewarding being in my own hometown. I finally met Leon Russell. I jammed with him over in Fayetteville. He called me over and said, “You know, you’d think that Leon Russell would have met Steve Pryor in all these years. I’m glad to meet ya and I think you ought to play with us tonight.” So that was like a childhood dream come true. I saw that Mad Dogs & Englishmen when I was a kid and that was the thing

that told me you could be from Tulsa and go see the world playing music. That really opened my eyes up. So that was really great finally meeting him. I never met Clapton. I think we’d get along fabulously. [Laughs] I like the simplicity of going out and playing my songs by myself. But I’ll always have a band. That’s when I do really good, with the electric guitar.” Condensed and edited from the recorded interview with Lindsey Neal Kuykendall and Steve Pryor, July 9, 2013. Pryor’s next “Kids Got the Blues” workshop is slated for April 19 at Woody Guthrie Center. Contact WGC for pricing and registration. Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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View from the top Theatre North boldly portrays a nuanced, conflicted King by KELSEY DUVALL

stage door opened onto a motel-room scene. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped through the door, shouting to his entourage to fetch him some Pall Malls. He slipped off his jacket, kicked off his shoes, and searched for his missing toothbrush. So began Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop,” the latest production performed by Tulsa’s Theatre North, which opened Feb. 28 and continues Mar. 7-8 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Unlike the usual, reverent portrayal of Dr. King’s challenges and triumphs, this play considers his humanity. The candid perspective was bound to unsettle the audience, but that’s not a new challenge for Theatre North. Theatre North was founded in 1977. At the time, African American actors were subject to type casting, a practice the new company set out to change. “Some young [African Americans] decided they would like to form their own company. They wanted to have leading roles,” said Maybelle Wallace, Executive Director of Theatre North. Part of the company from the beginning, Wallace has seen that goal become a reality. Evolving and interacting with other theatre companies, both locally and nationally, the company has stayed devoted to a vision. “Our mission is to produce and present the black-theatre experience. During February, other theatres might produce a black play. We do black theatre all the time,” Wallace said. “The Mountaintop” continues Theatre North’s traditions. Actors Justin Daniels and Whitney 32 // ARTS & CULTURE

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Davis were unwavering in their commitment to the characters and the message. The enactment was a challenge for all, but Daniels delivered on his promise to illuminate this dimension of a legend’s persona. “It’s really a play about a man… he just happens to be one of the biggest icons of the 20th century. That’s the element I hope to bring,” said Daniels. As Camae, the maid who both torments and comforts King, Davis exudes both charm and force. “He’s this man of God — he doesn’t do wrong. She is the total opposite of that, she’s this free being. He’s definitely intrigued, more than you would think an idol would be by a person like that,” said Davis. As the play progresses, light-hearted banter shifts to soul

searching and a revelation that carries King to the other side. This unorthodox approach to the portrayal of King achieves just what the company wants — a challenging theatre experience.

Unlike the usual, reverent portrayal of Dr. King’s challenges and triumphs, this play considers his humanity. The candid perspective was bound to unsettle the audience, but that’s not a new challenge for Theatre North. Rodney Clark, director of “The Mountaintop,” joined Theatre

North in the early 80s in “Sty of the Blind Pig.” Joining after college offered him opportunities as a professional actor, director, and playwright. “When I came up as an actor in the 80s and late 70s, those were all the roles you could find — the maid and the butler. While I was in college, they had a separate wing at the University of Washington of what we called the Black Theatre Company. All we did were the black plays. It was great to be a part of that experience, and it’s exciting that Theatre North is giving people the [same] opportunity,” said Clark. The company’s mission reaches beyond the stage. Its plays are dedicated to presenting the African American cultural experience. Whether bringing in talent to collaborate or touring with original productions, the group has sought to create a holistic cultural picture. “There was a young man that worked with Rodney doing “Sty of the Blind Pig” named Tyrone Wilkerson with the Black Liberated Arts Center in Oklahoma City. Tyrone did a play called “And All You Thought We Could Do Was Sing and Dance,” which has a lot to say about our culture. We do other things,” said Wallace. Wallace won’t admit it, but she’s a local legend. She landed a role in a film, earning the company a place in the Screen Actors Guild. She might smile shyly and downplay her contribution, but it’s a significant chapter in the company’s history. “They did “Rumblefish” here, and I got a little bitty part!” said Wallace. Similar auditions still draw actors from local casting calls and other production companies. Clark said Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

shows per year from four. Potential state-budget cuts worry her. “We’re a nonprofit. That would be devastating for us. There wouldn’t be a Theatre North and probably some other companies if it wasn’t for the [Oklahoma] Arts Council and the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) and the Tulsa Performing Arts Trust,” said Wallace. Despite those worries, Wallace and company persevere in their efforts, continuing rehearsals at Tulsa’s Rudisill Regional Library. “We would appreciate if people would come check us out. We’d love for them to come and have the opportunity. Hopefully one of these days we’ll have our own theatre,” said Wallace. A pensive mood prevailed as the audience filed out after opening night of “The Mountaintop.” Members of the audience stopped to praise the actors and for the chance to shake Wallace’s hand. She stood smiling on the second riser, in a spotlight’s halo. It was a scene deserving a stage to call its own.

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he meets many artists now performing regionally and nationally who started with Theatre North. “That foundation is very important to our city and to our community. You’ll ask, where’d you get your start? ‘Theatre North.’ Or have you ever worked with Theatre North? ‘Oh, yeah, I know Theatre North — Miss Maybelle!” Clark said. Clark’s original play, “Reverend, I’m Available,” caught the eye of promoters and put him on the national circuit as well. “They worked with us and we got ready for the road. We did shows, then came back here and sold out the Chapman. We toured all over the country. About 30 actors quit their jobs and did this production for about seven years, eight shows per week,” said Clark. Outside the performance hall, Theatre North still influences the community. Recently a local church, Sanctuary Evangelistic Church, revived “Reverend, I’m Available” after 20 years. Wallace wants to resume student outreach programs, but funds are limited, and she has had to cut production to two

6-27: Dwelling Spaces Linda Stilley, PAC Gallery

7-15: [title of show] American Theatre Company

7-8: Acts of Absence New Genre Festival

12,19, 26: Brown Bag It Noontime Concerts PAC Trust

14: Mia Farrow Tulsa Town Hall

16: Flipside: The Patti Page Story PAC Trust

21-30: A Few Good Men Theatre Tulsa

23: Elias String Quartet Chamber Music Tulsa

25: Dual Ragtime Piano Bryan Wright & Dalton Ridenhour Ragtime for Tulsa

27: An Evening with Kathryn Stockett Center for Poets & Writers/ OSU-Tulsa

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

Photo cour tesy of the Chester Gould Dick Trac y Museum

Hope in a yellow hat When America needed a hero, Okie-born cartoonist delivered by JEFF MARTIN

hen my parents think of Warren Beatty, they hear the gunshots ringing out at the end of “Bonnie and Clyde.” For me, Warren Beatty will always be Dick Tracy. The yellow trench coat, that walkie-talkie wristwatch, the whole package. Dick Tracy sauntered into my life just as I was about to turn 10 — double digits, a big summer for me. In the wake of Tim Burton’s re-envisioned Batman the summer prior, the world was ready for another over-the-top, cartoonish, colorful comic-book world. Though new to me, I had no idea that this square-jawed private eye was nearly 60 years old. I’d never heard of Chester Gould. Truly a 20th-century Man, Gould was born in Pawnee on Nov. 20, 1900, nearly a decade to the day before statehood. For college he headed to Stillwater and enrolled at Oklahoma A&M, now Oklahoma State University. He packed up and moved to Chicago not long after the start of Prohibition. My grandfather was a police officer in Chicago during this turbu34 // ARTS & CULTURE

lent time. He passed away before I was born, but my father passed on some of the stories, including my grandfather’s arrest of Al Capone. Don’t be too impressed. During this time almost every cop in Chicago arrested Capone at one time or another. It was a standing order of sorts. This was the world that Pawnee’s own Chester Gould entered into. He stayed in the Windy City and was hired by William Randolph Hearst’s Chicago Evening American in 1931. Later that year, after soaking up the bullet-riddled, moonshine-soaked world of Chicago crime, a hardboiled detective named Dick Tracy debuted in the Detroit Mirror. With the Great Depression in full swing and hope in short supply, America needed a hero. Superman wouldn’t be introduced until 1938. (Have you ever noticed

that Dick Tracy and Superman look similar? I’m not saying it was intentional, nor is there any proof of direct influence, but it’s interesting nonetheless.) Gould continued the strip until 1977. The following year, Gould was honored with a career-retrospective exhibition at the now-defunct Museum of Cartoon Art in Port Chester, New York. It was nearly 30 years before Gould was recognized in his home state. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley in 2005. It’s an hour’s drive east from Tulsa on Highway 412 to Pawnee, home of “Dick Tracy Headquarters,” inside the Pawnee County Historical Society. Stop into Kacie’s Diner for a piece of pie and a cup of black coffee. It’s what Dick would’ve done.

Gould at a Glance “Big Boy” Caprice’s colorfully-named henchmen, Flattop and Larceny Lou, were, like their boss, inspired by real-life thugs. A large mural in downtown Pawnee honors Gould and Tracy. One more reason to visit. Warren Beatty spent well over a decade trying to secure the rights to make a Dick Tracy film. One of the roadblocks was Gould himself and his need to oversee and control the process. Before Beatty came on to direct and star, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and other prominent filmmakers considered taking on the project.

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eventlistings An Evening with B.J. Novak Booksmart Tulsa celebrates its fifth anniversary with a hilarious evening with writer/actor B.J. Novak (“The Office,” “Inglorious Basterds,” “Saving Mr. Banks.”) Novak will be reading from his critically lauded collection of 64(!) short stories, “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories.” Novak’s stories are funny, insightful, provocative, and moving, often simultaneously. 3/13, 7 p.m., Congregation B’Nai Emunah, 1719 S Owasso Ave bookssmarttulsa.com

Events

Multicultural Diversity Festival // A celebration of the diverse cultural heritage present in our area, Multicultural Diversity Festival breaks down cultural barriers and promotes awareness of the many cultures represented in Green Country. Over 30 countries will be represented, offering food, displaying art and clothing, and entertaining with traditional performances throughout the night. 3/6, 6-9 p.m., Central Park Community Center, 1500 S Main St., Broken Arrow. Cherokee Nation Moccasin Workshop // Learn to make your own unique pair of traditional pucker-toe moccasins from Cherokee Nation officials. All materials will be provided, but space is limited to 25 participants. Send registration requests to Cherokee.Tourism@cnent.com. 3/6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., John Ross Museum, 22366 S 530 Rd., Park Hill – 877-779-6977, cherokeetourismok.com Revival Red Launch // Tulsa’s own Marshall Brewing Company celebrates the 4th annual release of its popular spring seasonal beer, Revival Red, which pays homage to our great state of Oklahoma. Brewmaster Eric Marshall will tap the first keg of Revival Red, and a limited amount of special caskconditioned Revival Red infused with blood oranges will be available. Lone Wolf Bahn Mi will be there, selling Tulsa’s favorite Vietnamese sandwiches and kimchi fries to pair with the beer. 3/6, 5 p.m., Bar 46, 107 N Boulder – marshallbrewing.com

T. Works 2014 // Experience the unique and innovative shared working style known as CoWorking in this all day event. Many people, usually not employed by the same organization, gather together in a common space working independently, but sharing ideas and networking in a synergistic environment. Enjoy free Wi-Fi and coffee, networking and a speech by Brian Howe, CEO of ImpactHUB Seattle, a CoWorking space. Guests are invited to stop by for a quick tour, or settle in and work all day. From 6-10 p.m. there will be cocktails, a DJ, and an art gallery to enjoy. 3/7, 9 a.m.10p.m., Ford Building, 223 N Main St. Green Country Hamfest // No, it’s not a celebration of pork products. It’s a festival for amateur radio equipment presented by the American Radio Relay League West Gulf Division. Ham radio operators from throughout the region will be there, talking shop, selling equipment, holding forums and testing sessions, and giving away prizes! 3/7, 4-9 p.m., 3/8, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 at the door, Claremore Expo Center, 400 Veterans Parkway, Claremore – greencountryhamfest.org Die, Vampire, Die Creativity & Writing Workshop // Based on the song “Die Vampire Die,” from [title of show]’s original score, a vampire is defined as ‘any person, thought, or feeling that stands between you and your creative self expression.’ Led by Tony Award Nominee and Obie Award winner Hunter Bell, this -workshop invites participants to unlock the stories in our heads and move closer to being our true selves in our- art. The workshop fee is $30. For those bearing their ticket or receipt from [title of show], the fee is $20. 3/8, 2-4 p.m., American Theatre Company, 308 S Lansing, 918-747-9494, americantheatrecompany.org Native Comic-Book Workshop // Join members of the Indigenous Narrative Collective, Roy Boney (Cherokee), Lee Francis IV (Laguna Pueblo), Michael Sheyahshe (Caddo) and Arigon Star (Kickapoo), as they discuss ways in which comics and sequential art are redefining American Indian stories for the next generation. Learn from their collective experience about the joys and pitfalls of creating successful comic-book projects either online or in print. Part of the month-long American Indian Festival of Words celebration, honoring the achievements and accomplishments of Native Americans. 3/8, 12:30-3:30 p.m., Martin Regional Library, 2601 S Garnett Rd.

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Revenge of the Zines 2014! // Learn everything you need to know about making your own publication! Zines are about artistic experimentation, self-expression, and the DIY sensibility. Maggie Lyn Young and Violet Rush of the Tulsa-based “SHE GOD” Zine will instruct attendees in this hands-on workshop. 3/8, 1-4 p.m., AHHA, 101 E Archer St. – shegodzine.tumblr.com Delicious Mysteries with Joanne Fluke // Booksmart Tulsa hosts this evening of sweet treats and mysterious deeds. Joanne Fluke is the New York Times best-selling author of the Hannah Swenson Mysteries, all of which are named for a delicious desert. 3/11, 7 p.m., Harwelden Mansion, 2210 S Main St. – murdershebaked.com

Visual Art

Album // There are many steps in the process of design. For many designers, drawing is important to quickly get ideas from their heads into the physical world. Album is a collection of drawings by French design team, and brothers, Ronan & Erwan Bouroulec. The exhibition shows that these drawings are works of art on their own, as well as being an early step in something bigger. 3/2-5/11, Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S Rockford Rd., 918-749-7941, philbrook.org Dwelling Spaces // Formerly an art teacher in Tulsa and Japan, Linda Stilley’s work is influenced by her extensive travels to Australia, New Zealand, South and Central America, South Africa, Jordan, Dubai, Egypt, and Croatia. Her most recent trip to northern Spain and southern France with National Geographic included exploring caves where she was inspired by the art of primitive man. That influence is seen in the texture, layers, and colors of her most recent work. 3/6-27, PAC Gallery, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., 918596-7122, tulsapac.com

Chasm // Liz Roth’s large, complex paintings emphasize the dizzying sense of depth of the view from the rim of the Grand Canyon. Roth’s paintings and sketchbooks will be on display. 3/14, AHHA, 101 E Archer St., 918-584-3333

Performing Arts

The Mountaintop // The scene opens on the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. as he returns to room 306 at the Lorraine Motel after delivering one of his most memorable speeches on April 3, 1968 in this dramatization of King’s last night on earth by Katori Hall. Presented by Theatre North, this is the first time the play has been performed in Oklahoma. 3/7-8, 8 p.m., $15-$20, Charles E. Norman Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., 918-596-7122, tulsapac.com An Evening with Kristin Chenoweth – Master Class & Concert Event // Broken Arrow native, and Tony and Emmy award winner Kristin Chenoweth will teach and assist young performers as they perform in front of a live audience in the theater named for Chenoweth at the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center. She will also be performing a few songs herself. Earlier in the day, at 1 p.m., the 1986 graduate of Broken Arrow High School will be the keynote speaker at the ribbon cutting of the newly renovated façade of BAHS. 3/13, 7:30 p.m., $20-$40, Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center, 701 S Main St., Broken Arrow, 918-2595778 – brokenarrowpac.com

Escape from FatCity (Am I Still Here?) // The works of Joe Staskal. Opens 3/6, Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, 621 E 4th St., 918743-4297, okeq.org Art in Mosaic // Jacqueline Iskander of Tulsa and Brooks Tower of Oklahoma City both rely on natural materials in their mosaic work. Their strongly contrasting styles and techniques offer a glimpse into the versatility of contemporary fine art mosaic. 3/14, AHHA, 101 E Archer St., 918584-3333, ahct.org

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artspotting

Body art Infestation at downtown gallery reimagines life and death by BRITT GREENWOOD

rom a distance, different shades of green and brown sweep the walls at 108 Contemporary. Closer, a graveyard for thousands of insects unfolds, cicadas, beetles and myriad crawlers and flyers pinned kaleidoscopic to hundreds of square feet of white wall. The exhibit, titled “Unseen Beauty,” explores the apprehension some feel toward insects. The artist — Jennifer Angus, a design-studies professor at University of Wisconsin — tries to display them in such a way that, she hopes, makes them seem beautiful. The forms reference both textiles and wallpaper, she said. They look life-like, ready to jump, crawl, or fly away. Angus’ goal is “to create a world, a room of wonder and magic.” Angus said she moistens the specimens to brighten them. The insects were put into a jar. It’s called a killing jar, Angus told me. Inside, they’re poisoned — gassed, really. Some who have visited Angus’ exhibits are offended by the mass of insects sacrificed for her installation, she said. “Insects are a renewable resource. What isn’t renewable is their habitat … Insects have an important role to play in our society,” she said. It sounds gruesome, she added, but insects don’t feel pain like humans do. She compared what she does to euthanizing a cat. When considering insects for such an exhibit, Angus decides based on four factors: size needed to fill the space, durability, inventory, and her desire to choose insects not typically considered attractive. Angus doesn’t waste any part of an insect. When an insect’s body crumbles, the artist uses the parts to create hybrid creatures. She displays them in a circular shadow box. Angus’ pinned friends are actually tiny world travelers. Many 36 // ARTS & CULTURE

The exhibit runs through March 23 at 108 Contemporary, 108 E. Brady St. 918-895-6302. See 108Contemporary.org for more. MORE ART HAPPENINGS

“Unse en Beaut y” is on display at 108 Contemporar y, at 108 E. M.B. Brady Stre et, through March 23

originate in southern Asia. Some are farmed. Many are caught and sold for entomological purposes. Angus reuses the bodies; some are older than the students who were visiting the gallery the day I visited the exhibit. Due to their fragility, Angus personally delivers them to galleries across the U.S. They are shipped securely oversees.

Angus’ goal is “to create a world, a room of wonder and magic.” Angus said she moistens the specimens to brighten them. At the foundation of Angus’ exhibit is a Victorian theme. Bordering the floor of the exhibit space is a storyboard of Victorian-era illustrations from the book “Episodes of Insect Life.” The pictures are reminiscent of the children’s story “Frog and Toad,”

but instead of amphibians on adventures it’s insects — they’re flying in a hot air balloon or paddling in a leaf canoe. Angus enlarged the black-and-white illustrations for the exhibit and added color using Photoshop. Two-dozen sixth graders from McKinley Middle School swarmed the gallery, buzzing from one group of insects to the next. Temptation to touch seemed nearly irresistible. A pre-teen brunette in a pink bow nearly nudged the creatures’ skeletal shells with her nose. One boy breathed on the back of a four-inch Malaysian Heteropteryx dilatata — commonly called a Thorny Stick — and asked what “the pokey things” are for. “How did the bugs die?” another child asked. The curator didn’t know, but the kids pestered. One boy, with messy hair and a red hoodie, said the insects are probably poisoned, suffocated within a container. “That’s what I do,” he said.

EVOLVE… // Gabrielle Howell presents new and old paintings which divulge into the human form through shapes and line. The show shares the evolution of her artistic career from painting for herself to displaying at professional galleries // through 3/8; SELFgallery; 2012 E. 11th Street PEARL DISTRICT MAKERS MARKET // A farmers-like market for handmade goods and entertainment. A mixed variety of artists and crafters will have works for sale; various performances coincide with the event // 3/8; Creative Room; 1317 E. 6th; 918-779-6875 2X2 @ 2022 // Artwork created specifically for this show from a spectrum of styles and media will be on display, all measuring two feet by two feet // through 3/8; Meme Gallery; 2022 E. 11th; 918-906-7128 VISUAL FICTION // Libby Williams’ Masters of Fine Art thesis show at the University of Tulsa features abstract landscapes in paintings and drawings of vibrant color // through 3/20; Alexandre Hogue Gallery; 2935 E 5th; 918-631-2739 Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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New Genre XXI – Week 2

Dream/Reality A great deal of contrast is shown in this exhibition by two photographers, and not just within the photographs themselves, but between them as well. The dream-like, surreal imagery of S. Brooke Golightly’s work is juxtaposed against the harsh, textured reality of Western Doughty’s. Even the subjects of each of the artists’ pieces are contrasting, as Golightly’s are mostly selfportraits, while Doughty’s are portraits of the many characters he met while living in a Route 66 motel. 3/7-29, TAC Gallery, 9 E M.B. Brady St., 918-720-0456, tacgallery.org

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Comedy

[title of show] // No, that’s not a misprint, dear reader. This meta-play chronicles its own creation as an entry in the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival and follows the struggles of its author, Hunter Bell, and composer/lyricist, Jeff Bowen, and their two actress friends during the events leading up the show’s production. A ticket or receipt for [title of show] will get you $10 off admission to “Die, Vampire, Die”, a creative writing workshop with Bell, listed above. 3/7-8, 13-15, 8 p.m., 3/9, 2 p.m., John H. Williams Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., 918-586-7122, tulsapac.com

3/7 The Comedy Parlor – Snap! Improv – 7:30 p.m. - $10 The Comedy Parlor – You’re Welcome Improv– 9 p.m. - $10 The Comedy Parlor – Comfort Creatures Improv – 10:30 p.m. - $10 The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Gabriel Iglesias – 8 p.m. – $45-$65

Nurture // Johnna Adams’s play Nurture follows Doug and Cheryl, horrible single parents drawn together by their equally horrible daughters. The starcrossed parental units journey from first meeting to first date, to first time, to first joint parent-teacher meeting, to proposal and more. They attempt to form a modern nuclear family while living in perpetual fear of the fruit of their loins and someone abducting young girls in their town. 3/13-15, 3/20-22, 8 p.m., $10, Nightingale Theater, 1416 E Fourth St. – nightingaletheater.com

3/13 Undercurrent – Randall Lopez, Sophia Starr, Hilton Price, G.K. Palmer, Billy Bazar, Nathan McCoy, Cian Baker, Sheila Naifeh, Chris Rhodes, ChuckReal

Flipside: The Patti Page Story // Written by University of Central Oklahoma professor Greg White, this is the story of Claremore native Clara Ann Fowler, who became Patti Page, the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, who died last year. The musical is based on interviews with Page, and includes 28 of her songs, including “Tennessee Waltz” and “Mocking Bird Hill”. 3/16, 7 p.m., Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St., 918-596-7122, tulsapac.com

3/8 The Comedy Parlor – Snap! Improv – 7:30 p.m. - $10 The Comedy Parlor – Homegrown Variety Hour – 9 p.m., 10:30 p.m. - $10

3/14 The Comedy Parlor – Crayons Improv – 7:30 p.m. - $10 The Comedy Parlor – Max Bruno – 9 p.m., 10:30 p.m. - $10 3/15 The Comedy Parlor – Take One Productions Improv – 7:30 p.m. - $10 The Comedy Parlor – Kelly’s Treehouse Improv – 9 p.m. - $10 The Comedy Parlor – Wrecking Balls: Comfort Creatures – 10:30 p.m. - $10 3/17 The Yeti // Comedy Night

Sports

3/5 SpiritBank Event Center – Tulsa 66ers vs. Erie BayHawks – 11 a.m. – $14-$34 Reynolds Center – TU Women’s Basketball vs. UNC Charlotte – 7 p.m. - $5

Case Tennis Center – TU Women’s Tennis vs. University of Kansas – 12 p.m. SpiritBank Event Center – Tulsa 66ers vs. Texas Legends – 7 p.m. – $14-$34 BOK Center – Tulsa Oilers vs. Rapid City Rush – 7:35 p.m. – $15-$45 – Military Night & Jersey Auction 3/9 Case Tennis Center – ORU Women’s Tennis vs. Stephen F. Austin State University – 10 a.m. 3/12 Case Tennis Center – TU Women’s Tennis vs. University of Oklahoma – 5 p.m. 3/13 SpiritBank Event Center – Tulsa 66ers vs. Sioux Falls Skyforce – 7 p.m. – $14-$34 3/14 LaFortune Park – ORU Men’s Tennis vs. University of Nebraska Omaha – 11 a.m. J.L. Johnson Stadium – ORU Baseball vs. Northwestern State University – 6:30 p.m. – $5-$12 3/15 J.L. Johnson Stadium – ORU Baseball vs. Northwestern State University – 2 p.m. – $5-$12 3/16 J.L. Johnson Stadium – ORU Baseball vs. Northwestern State University – 1 p.m. – $5-$12 Cox Business Center Arena – Oklahoma Defenders vs. Wichita Wild – 2 p.m. $6-$40 SpiritBank Event Center – Tulsa 66ers vs. Bakersfield Jam – 4 p.m. – $14-$34 BOK Center – Tulsa Oilers vs. Wichita Thunder – 4:05 p.m. – $15-$45 – Family Funday: Post-game skate, and family packs 4 tickets and a large one-topping Papa John’s pizza for $49

3/6 LaFortune Park – ORU Men’s Tennis vs. University of New Orleans – 2 p.m. 3/7 BOK Center – Tulsa Oilers vs. Rapid City Rush – 7:35 p.m. – $15-$45 – Blanket giveaway night for first 500 fans

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3/8 Case Tennis Center – ORU Women’s Tennis vs. Northwestern State University – 8:30 a.m.

Acts of Absense

generate.degenerate & Self Portrait // A life is simultaneously told and erased in generate.degenerate. The light, media, and sound (including a score of vintage country and western music) are powered entirely by the physical actions of the performers. A Living sculpture, Self Portrait combines live animation, video, still imagery, and demanding physicality. Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s paintings and diary, Miller Rothlein creates a performance tapestry out of a single dancing body. The dancer becomes a canvas as color, light, and text are projected and hand-drawn upon her moving body. 3/6, 8 p.m., 3/7, 10 p.m., Nightingale Theater, 1416 E 4th St – millerrothlein.org Acts of Absence // Sarah Gamblin and Big Rig Dance Collective present an evening of dance, music, and digital media performance that explores the notions of absence, remote connections, and vast space. The Work flows in the manner of movement on the prairie: quiet enough for minute details of the landscape to show up, and unpredictable enough for surprising shifts of physicality and psychological location to emerge. The cluster of dance works will explore a wide range of physicality, from sparse and subtle to overwhelmingly athletic. The awardwinning Hentai Improvising Orchestra will provide accompaniment. 3/7-8, 8 p.m., Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St – bigrigdance.org Voyeur & Under the Skin // Bridgman|Packer Dance’s Voyeur uses the paintings of Edward Hopper as its point of departure. Through the company’s signature integration of live performance and video technology, Bridgman and Packer enter and expand on Hopper’s world of color, light, form, perspective, isolation, and voyeurism. In Under the Skin, the duet form explodes into a magically populated stage as the duo interchange with their ever-multiplying virtual selves. The performers’ bodies and costumes become projection screens, creating a morphing and redefinition of identities and revealing psychological depths. 3/7-8, 8 p.m., Liggett Studio, 314 S Kenosha – bridgmanpacker.org Dual Wielding // Artist Leticia Bajuyo laments the now obsolete compact disc by connecting hundreds together to form the shape of two gigantic victrola horns, another outdated piece of musiclistening technology. The piece reminds us that today’s “next big thing” will be in tomorrow’s dustbin. The opening reception will include a performance on the Theremin by Mark Kuykendall. 3/7-4/24, Living Arts, 307 E M.B. Brady St. leticiabjuayo.com Musica Mundana: Astronomy for the Ears // The Hentai Improvising Orchestra is three musicians from Texas who create improvised experimental music using tape recorders, turn tables, percussion and various electronic and homemade instruments. 3/8, 10 p.m. Living Arts West End Gallery, 307 E M.B. Brady St. thehentaiimprovisingorchestra. bandcamp.com Beauty Unseen // Jennifer Angus, a design studies professor at the University of Wisconsin, constructs large insect installations. Pinning the insects to the wall, she creates repeating patterns mimicking textiles or wallpaper. Bob Sober, an Entomology professor at Oklahoma State University, depicts Angus’s insects and patterns through photography. Using up-close images of the specific insects in Angus’s installations and referencing her specific patterns, Sober’s work completes the duality of this one of a kind show. Continuing through 3/23. New Genre reception on 3/7, 6-9 p.m., 108 Contemporary, 108 E M.B. Brady St. jenniferangus.com ARTS & CULTURE // 37

Tex and Pablo Picatso, around 1983. Cour tesy Neil Dirickson

Adiós, Tex Montana Remembering Tulsa’s rippin’, rockin’ wreckin’ ball by THOMAS CONNER

he ones who embraced the countryish side of the ’80s, they’re special. Beyond the synth-pop and college rock, the New Wave and New Romantics, even the Paisley Underground, there were the cowpunks. They were refreshingly less self-righteous than most of the pearlsnapped, No Depression-quoting blowhards the following decade. Centered in Los Angeles (hilariously), all those crisp but gritty backbeat bands — Lone Justice, the Blasters, Blood on the Saddle, Screamin’ Sirens, the Long Ryders, Tex & the Horseheads, Beat Farmers; Wall of Voodoo probably counts, as does Green on Red — in the center of which was X. When I arrived in Tulsa, Okla., in the early ’90s as a reporter and, eventually, pop-music critic at Tulsa World, the city was its own cowpunk (OK, by then, alt-country) outpost — the twisted rootsabilly snarl of Billy Joe Winghead, Brian Parton and his Rebels, the Boondogs, the Red Dirt Rangers (in their rockin’ moments), Bob Collum, Mudville, Phil Zoellner’s bands, whoever was booked at the Deadtown Tavern and whoever drifted over from Stillwater (Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland, 38 // ARTS & CULTURE

etc.) and, hell, anyone else remember Lasso? — in the center of which was Tex.

I hardly saw a Tex show that didn’t knock the air outta me. “Whoo-boy!” she hollered after one scorcher. “That song alone separates me from all the waifs in the Lilith Fair lobby, don’t cha think?” Tex Montana, alone or with her Fireball Four, was a Crystal Pistol-packin’ mama. I missed the beer-heady days in that hole, but Tex ruled during my Tulsa time, and apparently continued doing so until her cancer diagnosis in December. Hearing news of her death last month was a punch in the gut — typical of her to barrel outta here in some kind of damn hurry — but just one in a long series. I hardly saw a Tex show that didn’t knock the air outta me. “Whooboy!” she hollered after one scorcher. “That song alone separates me from all the waifs in the Lilith Fair lobby, don’t cha think?”

She was a helluva woman on those stages, and off. A hoot to have a beer with. I remember fondly more than a few bull sessions. Chrissie Hynde was cussed and discussed (my fault). When not rocking, she made rockin’ chairs. When not cookin’, she was cooking for two cool boys. One of them invited her to career day, where she totally frakked the competition, a petroleum geologist. Heck, being a mom strengthened her songwriting. “Me, America and apple pie, right?” Tex told me in a 2000 Tulsa World interview. “It’s not like I’m writing my songs about my kids’ first day at school, though. I mean, ‘Love Turns to Hate,’ ‘Stupid Girl,’ pretty much all these songs on the CD are about fucked-up relationships and bad decisions. … I feel like I’m a very sane person, you know? But I see people around me and have to say, ‘Why are you doing that?’ Maybe it’s part of being a mom — you want to run everyone’s life. That’s where the songs come from, and I think you have to grow up a little bit to write some good songs.” X, of course, marked the spot. Those California cowpunk

records had lasting effects in the heartland. In LA, those bands were cityfolk playing at country. In Oklahoma, though, hearing the bloozy barroom blast of “Johnny Hit and Run Paulene” or the skipping dance-band guitar of “Adult Books” for the first time was less revelatory than vindicating. Silly notions became viable projects. In my first interview with Tex Montana, in 1997, she remembered the epiphany: “A friend of mine, in Food Chain” — (that’s gotta be Sarah Wagner, yes?) — “brought over an X album one day and said, ‘You’ll probably like this.’ At that time, I was listening to Depeche Mode and New Order” — (that in itself is pretty amusing) — “I listened to the X album and thought it was super fantastic. I thought, ‘Nuts! If she’s in a band, I can do this.’” She did it, all right, and thanks to her we had a goddamn blast.

Thomas Conner is a former pop-music critic at Tulsa World and Chicago Sun-Times. He still writes, but now it’s mostly research papers at the University of California-San Diego. Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

perspective

Best-selling musical instr uct ion author Jon Gindick offers a harmonica seminar as par t of the fifth-annual Tulsa Harmonica Summit 2014; John Long, with Lit tle Jo e McLer ran, open the Harmonica Big Show & Dance in the Concer t Hall at the Jazz Depot; Jimmy “Junior” Markham & Friends with some of the final notes of the summit (photos by Natasha Ball)

Music for the (mother) road by NATASHA BALL

n the first Tuesday of every month the members of the Route 66 Harmonica Club gather at the Western Country Diner at 19th and Sheridan to learn a few licks and share a meal. Every now and then, the group convenes at The Dusty Dog Pub, where R66HC founding member and Tulsa music legend Jimmy “Junior” Markham — he’s shared the stage with Leon Russell and J.J. Cale, just to name a few — supplies all the fixin’s for an open jam. Here lately, the group has been busy with a little new business. Over the first weekend of March, the group, along with

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the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, hosted the fifth-annual Tulsa Harmonica Summit, a day’s worth of jam sessions, teach-ins, and workshops. Kids were invited free of charge — the event kicked off with a workshop just for them, on playing the blues — and the first 100 attendees went home with a new mouth harp courtesy of Hohner. The summit wrapped with a big concert and dance, where the likes of Johnny Long, Little Joe McLerran, Jon Gindick, RJ Mischo, Levee Town, and Markham himself played the blue notes while winter, so aggrieved, dug in her heels for one last show. ARTS & CULTURE // 39

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Paul D. Knight

FDR meets trip-hop Experimental improv record forges a sonic path between past and present by JOHN LANGDON

or the past nine years, Paul D. Knight has been the director of Riverfield Rocks, teaching students at Riverfield Country Day School about playing music and forming bands. Over the last couple years, Knight has created trip-hop/post-rock tracks in his spare time, playing every instrument and improvising each part in one take. The resulting album, “progressions/colors,” is now finished and will be released March 11. Below, in his own words, Knight discusses “Fireside Chat,” a track on the album that incorporates audio from the first of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s iconic addresses in 1933, and Knight’s communications with the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. *** Getting in contact with the [FDR] archives was really kind of surreal. I did not know what to expect, but they were incredibly knowledge-

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able about the work of FDR, and were seemingly very interested in someone taking an interest in this material in an artistic endeavor. I contacted Bob Clark, supervisory archivist, primarily to make sure I was legally acknowledging the content from the historical speeches as not my own, claiming no ownership, so that there were no legal issues. Upon telling them what I was doing, not only were they helpful with the information I needed, they asked if they could have a copy of it. I promptly told them yes, and I hope they like what I did with those speeches. When I was a kid, "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour was all over the airwaves and featured some famous lines from FDR, JFK, and others. I thought that was cool then, and still do today. The reason I chose the Fireside Chat #1, “On the Banking Crisis,” as the focus of my piece is that there are many words that strongly

echo today’s political and fiscal climate, especially after the recent banking collapse. I used another speech that spoke about national unity in times of crisis that really spoke to me and how I feel about bi-partisan bickering and petty politics while more important things are going on that need our togetherness to help us address them. Musically speaking, I chose a melody on the celesta I improvised that had a floating feel that I felt would work well against the speech and FDR’s unique speaking style. I began the composition with a time signature I have never played in, 17/8, and went from there. I recorded his speech through a Kaoss pad and manipulated the track in real time, affecting his voice and timing, and then improvised drum, Rhodes, and the other parts on top of it afterward. The entire song and album was recorded and mixed in my classroom studio at Riverfield Coun-

try Day School. Being a teacher, husband, and father of two young children, time to record and mix the album was certainly at a premium. At times I would even use passing periods during the school day to lay down a guitar improvisation here and there. Making the album was, in a way, like a concurrent sabbatical. I am very happy with the way it turned out and I can’t wait to get it out there for people to listen to, relax to, and maybe even find a use for it in the background in their lives.” progressions/colors will be available March 11 online at iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby, as well as at local outlets. The Vanguard will host an album listening party March 10 at 7 p.m. followed by performances by We Make Shapes and Foster Pace. Entry is $7.

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’ve heard plenty of people call Taylor Clark “Tulsa’s best DJ,” but he’s never tried to make anyone dance. He doesn’t spin at Electric Circus, Legends, or any dance floor. He rarely spins at all, really. Instead, he bartends at Soundpony, on nights when there’s no band. Tall, thin, and baseball-capped, Clark’s hands float between pint glasses and his iPod behind the bar. He plays what those who drink to it call “good music.” His playlists are full of the kind of stuff that scratches you behind the ears — good music — subjective, yes, but nah, not really. From cumbia to harsh noise, and all manner of punk from proto through post, Clark’s sets betray an affection for the otherly. It’s that love of the hard-to-find, but rewarding once you do, that defines his Soundpony playlists. “I was on a fifth-grade field trip when a friend showed me ‘Jimi Plays Monterey,’” he told me. “I had never heard guitar that noisy or chaotic and was instantly hooked on odd music.” Filing through thrift stores, those pre-internet record troves, Clark found Morricone soundtracks among his first crate grabs. Cassette trading was just as important to his development. A Butthole Surfers comp burned a hole in his tape deck. In his pre-shift hours he’ll put his archives on shuffle, slowly sculpting what will make it to the 42 // MUSIC

bar that night. “Sometimes there’s a theme and sequence to a mix of mine, but other times it just ends up as total chaos,” he said. Cavernous black metal will bump against forgotten French-pop while patrons drink along, feathers unruffled. Clark has a knack for deep-end weirdness, but he has a DJ’s ear and avoids agitation. “I know I have a responsibility to keep the bar cool,” he said, then added, “but sometimes I’ve gotta play that 16-minute Circle song.”

In his pre-shift hours he’ll put his archives on shuffle, slowly sculpting what will make it to the bar that night. One night, when Clark’s playlist had my Shazam in overtime, I hit a song the database didn’t recognize. I asked him about it, and he bashfully responded, “Ah, you caught me red-handed. It’s Lava Children.” The psych-pop band is Clark and his longtime girlfriend, Sherri West. Psych-pop is a fair label, but their sound reflects every aspect of Clark and West’s tastes, which Clark says have complemented and mirrored each other for their 18 years together. As otherly as the music is that Clark picks for Pony, Lava Children finds a home between sweet dream and night terror. Exotica rhythms from Clark and

West’s record collections buttress stained-glass guitar work and West’s amoebic vocal approach. Her voice, in a state of perpetual melt, oscillates between aloof and high-priestess serious. “Psychedelic” as a buzzword may be losing meaning, but Lava Children embodies what real psych is. “Some people call anything with a wah-pedal ‘psychedlic,’”said Clark, but real psych “changes mindspace” and has a “trance-inducing, physical effect.” Clark loves to play real psych and weirdo music as loud as he can for strangers at Pony, almost as much as he loves writing and recording it with Lava Children. “You can see it affecting people while they listen to it,” he told me. Lava Children’s self-titled album, released on Graveface Records in 2012, was praised on prominent music blogs and noted by NPR. Graveface, owned by Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Ryan Graveface, found Lava Children through its Myspace page before befriending and, ultimately, signing the band. Clark and West are writing songs as a duo now, he told me. The pair is approaching new material with acts like TFUL 282 and Sun Ra as specific influences and hope to record a 7-inch soon. For now, it’s enough for Clark to write songs and make mixes for friends and strangers at Pony — so long as no one pushes too hard for requests.

A Clark Sound Cocktail: 1. “ Mind Your Own Business,” Delta 5 2. “ Tamborine,” Prince & The Revolution 3. “ Festival De Las Luces,” Mueran Humanos 4. “ Shake the Shackles,” Crystal Stilts 5. “ Not Great Men,” Gang Of Four 6. “Gates of Steel,” Devo 7. “ Nice Mover,” Gina X Performance 8. “Pendulum,” Broadcast 9. “ Fire In The Western World,” Dead Moon 10. “ Riders Of Death,” Steel Mammoth 11. “Yeah, Yeah,” Blackrock 12. “Qaina,” Northern Haze 13. “Dragonaut,” Sleep 14. “ Status People,” The Groundhogs 15. “Iron Man,” Soreng Santi 16. “ Baby Let’s Dance Together,” R.D. Burman 17. “ Love Performance,” Total Control 18. “Shikako Maru Ten,” Can 19. “ What Did He Say,” Nite Jewel 20. “Congestion,” Devastation Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Jazz discordians Gogo Plumbay join rap collective Oilhouse for a night of originals, hip-hop classics, freestyles, and Gospel Truth. Mar. 8, Fassler Hall, 10 p.m. Oilhouse continues to do the Lord’s work with the fifth installment of its “Drummer Show:” just two drummers shredding beats on the spot while Tulsa’s best emcees rip rhymes from the dome. Totally freestyle, and one of the coolest things to happen to Tulsa yet. Mar. 14, Soundpony Lounge, 10 p.m. Free. Fayetteville burnouts SW/MM/NG will psych-pop their way through town while Tulsa garagers Lesbian Summer continues to make new fans. Mar. 7, Soundpony Lounge, 10 p.m. Free. RVA Doom Lords Windhand will bring the way-heavies en route to SXSW. Joining them are the Tulsa sludge titans in Senior Fellows and OKC’s We The Undead. Mar. 9, Downtown Lounge, 10 p.m. $5.

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Wed. // Mar. 5 Baker St. Pub & Grill – Travis Kidd Cellar Dweller – Jazz w/ Michael Cameron – 9 p.m.

Soundpony – SW/MM/NG, AAN, Lesbian Summer

Soundpony – Tape AMstah Steph (Stones Throw), DJ Somar

Lanna Thai – Scott Musick

Undercurrent – Sever the Feeling, Vacant Mind, Sovereign Dame – 8 p.m.

Undercurrent – StarCrows, Dirty Crush, DRYVR The Vanguard – An Effigy of Me, Torches for the Blind, Rise and Revolt, Enslaved by Fear, Sun Sought, Time and Distance – 6:30 p.m. - $7

The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Billy Currington, Brett Eldredge, Chase Rice – 8 p.m. – $55-$65 Magoo’s – DJ TIMM-A

Westbound Club – Chris Lowther – 9:30 p.m.

The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project

Market Pub – DJ Cory B

Woody’s Corner Bar – DJSpiN

Crow Creek Tavern – Tulsa Writer’s Round – 8:30 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – The Blind Pets, The Dull Drums – 9 p.m.

The Yeti – They Stay Dead

Downtown Lounge – The Joint Effect, Emperors and Elephants – 8 p.m.

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – T3 Trio – 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Westbound Club – Chris Lowther

Dusty Dog Pub – Scott Ellison – 6:30 p.m.

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Taria – 3 p.m. – He Wears Black – 7 p.m.

The Yeti – Axis, Kali Ra, Razorwire Halo

Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Annie Ellicott w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 7 p.m. Market Pub – Rick Berry Mercury Lounge – Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps – 8 p.m. On the Rocks – Don White – 7 p.m. Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Roosters – DJ Cory B Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7 p.m. Soundpony – Cystic Fibrosis Benefit w/ DJ Foxxy, DJ Dilation, DJ Spencer The Vanguard – Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, DJ Soulfingaz, DJ Sweet Baby Jaysus – 8 p.m. - $8-$20 White Flag – ECID – 8 p.m.

Woody’s Corner Bar – The 66 – 10 p.m.

Rum Runnerz – Framing the Red

Sun. // Mar. 9

The Shrine – Steve Pryor – 9 p.m. Soundpony – Sons of Hippies, No Water, Animal Eyes

Brady Theater – Emblem3, MKTO, Jackson Guthy – 7 p.m. - $29-$34

Tallgrass Prairie Table – Olivia Duhon – 8 p.m.

Centennial Lounge – Tommy Crook, Steve Pryor, Rocky Frisco, Matt Breitzke – 4-7 p.m.

Undercurrent – Serafem, Skytown The Vanguard – Merauder, Eighty Six

Chimera – The Vinyl Brunch w/ Mark Kuykendall – 12-4 p.m.

Woody’s Corner Bar – Jimmy Blythe, Glen Hash – 9:30 p.m.

Cimarron Bar – Open Jam w/ Kevin Phariss Band

The Yeti – Turnt Up

Sat. // Mar. 8

Fri. // Mar. 7

Baker St. Pub & Grill – The Sellouts Brady Theater – Turnpike Troubadors, Chris Knight, John Fulbright – 8 p.m. - $19

Action Lounge – James Lambert Band Baker St. Pub & Grill – The Jumpshots

Cimarron Bar – Forgotten Friday

Brady Theater – Switchfoot, Kopecky Family Band – 8 p.m. - $20 ADV, $24 DOS Cain’s Ballroom – Paper Diamond, LOUDPVCK, Branchez, Raw Russ – 8 – $15-$30 Cimarron Bar - Amped The Colony – Green Corn Rebellion, The Calamities – 8 p.m.

Fassler Hall – Jesse Aycock CD Release Party

Fur Shop – Earph, The Daddyo’s – 10 p.m.

Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover – 9:30 p.m.

The Hunt Club – Marina City

Full Moon Cafe (Both Locations) – Dueling Pianos – 9 p.m.The Hunt Club – JT and the Dirtboxwailers

Fishbonz - Infinity Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Banda

The Colony – The Moai Broadcast

The Fur Shop – Bandalier, Robert Hoefling – 9:30 p.m.

Dust Bowl – DJ Kylie – 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Full Moon Cafe (Both Locations) – Dueling Pianos – 9 p.m.The Hunt Club – Phillip Zoellner Band

Downtown Lounge – Windhand, Senior Fellows, We the Undead – 7 p.m. Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 p.m.

Fassler Hall – Gogo Plumbay and Oilhouse – 10 p.m.

Crow Creek Tavern – Curt Hill - 9:30 p.m.

Crow Creek Tavern – Jacob Dement – 8 p.m.

CJ Moloney’s – DJ Mikey Bee

Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3 p.m.

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The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Mercury Lounge – J.D. Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers – 8 p.m. Pickles Pub – Open Mic Soundpony – Wise Eyes The Vanguard – Clairaudients, Dinner and a Suit, Bears and Company, Valaska, Carnegie – 7:30 - $8 The Yeti – Off With Their Heads, The Dirty Mugs, Streetlight Fight

Laura Dester Shelter – Kings Harbor Magoo’s – Octane Blue

Magoo’s – Johnny Duke

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Mon. // Mar. 10

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Laura Leighe

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Cimarron Bar – Harry Williams and friends Jam

Mason’s – DJ Spencer-LG – 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Mercury Lounge – Ha Ha Tonka, Lydia Loveless – 10 p.m.

The Bungalow – Communist Daughter, Rachel LaVonne – 7:30 p.m.

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Squadlive – 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Cain’s Ballroom – Blitzen Trapper, Horse Thief, Red Wood Rising – 8 p.m. - $16-$18

Pickles Pub – Robby Van Vekoven Band

The Colony – Open Mic Night w/ Cody Clinton

Thurs. // Mar. 6 CJ Moloney’s – Matt Lip

Mercury Lounge – Eagle Eye Williamson, John Henry & Friends – 8 p.m.

The Colony – Jared Tyler, Arthur Thompson, Matt Hayes, Travis Fite

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Squadlive – 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Cronies – DJ Mikey Bee

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Diffident Rebel – 7 p.m. - $10

Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin – 9:30 p.m. Fassler Hall – Andy Frasco and the U.N. Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross – 8 p.m. The Hunt Club – Mikey Ohlin

Pickles Pub - Rockfish Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Harley Daniels Band – 5:30 p.m. – The Dropouts – 9 p.m. River Spirit Event Center – Clint Black – 7 p.m. – $30-$60 The Shrine – Dirtfoot, Mike Dillon Band – 9 p.m. - $7.50 ADV, $10 DOS

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Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – James Muns – 5:30 p.m. – The Dropouts – 9 p.m. Roosters – T3 Trio 0

Mercury Lounge – Dustin Pittsley – 7 p.m.

Roughhouse Creative – Native Lights, Nuns – 10 p.m. - $6 Rum Runnerz – 3rd Degree Band – 8 p.m. Shades of Brown – Gwen’s Kids – 7-9 p.m. The Shrine – The Luxtones – 9 p.m. - $5

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Mon. // Mar. 10 Soundpony – Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt vs. Rich Aucoin, Michael Parallax, The Half Truths

Undercurrent – pez for breakfast, Madewell, A Pony Named Olga – 7 p.m. *The Vanguard – Paul D. Knight Album Listening Party w/ We Make Shapes, Foster Pace – 7 p.m. - $7 Woody’s Corner Bar – Tulsa Writer’s Round – 7 p.m.

Thurs. // Mar. 13

Sun. // Mar. 16

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Grooveyard

Chimera – The Vinyl Brunch w/ Evan Whitaker – 12-4 p.m.

BOK Center – Miley Cyrus, Icona Pop $41.50-$91.50

Cimarron Bar – Open Jam w/ Kevin Phariss Band

Cain’s Ballroom – Greensky Bluegrass, Wood & Fire – 8 p.m. - $15

The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Cimarron Bar – Harry Williams and friends Jam

Crow Creek Tavern – Jacob Dement

CJ Moloney’s – Matt Lip

Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 p.m.

The Colony – Left Lane Cruiser - $5 Cronies – DJ Mikey Bee

Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark, Chuck Mead – 8 p.m.

Fishbonz – Steve & Sheldon

Pickles Pub – Open Mic

Bounty Lounge – Rick Berry

Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross – 8 p.m.

Cork Wine Cafe – Olivia Duhon – 6:30 p.m.

The Hunt Club – Ego Culture

Soundpony – Happy Hour Show w/ Tangerine – 6 p.m. – GYMSHORTS, Vulture Shit, Copperheads, Pagiins

Crow Creek Tavern – Open Mic w/ Rusty Swan – 8:30 p.m.

Magoo’s – DJ TIMM-A

Tues. // Mar. 11

Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Live Band Karaoke w/ Charlie Redd – 9 p.m. Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic The Hunt Club – Wise Eyes Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 8 p.m. Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jams – 5:30 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Audio Crush – 7 p.m. Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7 p.m. Soundpony – Happy Hour Show w/ Secondary Modern – 6 p.m. – Greys

Wed. // Mar. 12 Baker St. Pub & Grill – Skinny Minis Cellar Dweller – Jazz w/ Michael Cameron – 9 p.m. The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project Crow Creek Tavern – Tulsa Writer’s Round – 8:30 p.m. Downtown Lounge – The Koffin Kats, Antique Scream – 8 p.m. Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Annie Ellicott w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 7 p.m.

Undercurrent – Nathan Hull – 4 p.m. – Waterbed Yankees, D-RAILED, Take One Car, Severmind – 8 p.m.

Lanna Thai – Scott Musick Market Pub – DJ Cory B Mercury Lounge – Milkdrive – 8 p.m. Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Dante & the Hawks – 8-11:30 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3 p.m. – Me & My Monkey – 7 p.m. Soundpony – Spirits and the Melchizedek Children Woody’s Corner Bar – Jake Moffat – 9:30 p.m.

Fri. // Mar. 14 Baker St. Pub & Grill – Replay Cain’s Ballroom – Jana Kramer, Canaan Smith, Austin Webb – 8 p.m., $14-$29

Sat. // Mar. 15 Baker St. Pub & Grill – The Reds BOK Center – Third Day, Skillet, Mandisa, Peter Furler, Brandon Heath, We As Human - $25-$99 Cain’s Ballroom – St. Vincent, Noveller – 7:30 p.m. - $20-$35 Centennial Lounge – Don White – 9 p.m. CJ Moloney’s – DJ Mikey Bee The Colony – Brad James Band Creative Room – Killing a Classic, Of What We Made, Darling Parade – 5 p.m.

The Colony – Open Mic Night w/ Cody Clinton Downtown Lounge – David Castro Band, Geri X – 8 p.m.

Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3 p.m.

Pickles Pub – Bag Pipes - 5:30 p.m. – Off the Record – 9 p.m.

Fassler Hall – Verse

Soundpony – Wet Nurse, Jesus Sons

CJ Moloney’s – Jump Suit Love

Fishbonz – Jump Suit Love

Undercurrent – Travis & Tia

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Full Moon Cafe (Both Locations) – Dueling Pianos – 9 p.m.Harvard Sports Bar – Sextion 8, soupbone – 9 p.m.

The Vanguard – Queen Caveat, Sad Robot, The Foreign Resort, The Secret Post – 8 p.m. - $10-$30

Guthrie Green – Tennessee Jet, Good Graeff, Clear Plastic Masks

Woody’s Corner Bar – DJSpiN

Dust Bowl – DJ Kylie – 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Fassler Hall – Paul Banjaman Band

The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks

Fishbonz – Travis Kidd

The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – REO Speedwagon – 8 p.m. – $40-$55

Creative Room – EMMA, The Fossil Youth, Keeper, Paper Planets, fade, Ellewood, Life Lessons, Don’t Weight - $5-$8

Full Moon Cafe (Both Locations) – Dueling Pianos – 9 p.m.

Lucky 13 Tavern – 4Going Gravity – 8 p.m. Magoo’s – Rock Show

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

Magoo’s – David Dover

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Mason’s – DJ Spencer-LG – 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

On the Rocks – Don White – 7 p.m.

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Mercury Lounge – Jessie Harris and the Gypsy Sparrows, The Dirty Okie – 8 p.m.

Pickles Pub – Billy Snow

Mercury Lounge – Chris King, The Brandon Clark Trio – 8 p.m.

Soundpony – Happy Hour Show w/ Canadian Rifle – 5 p.m. – Lazy, Dirty Few

Cain’s Ballroom – The Devil Wears Prada, The Ghost Inside, I Killed the Prom Queen, Dangerkids – 7 p.m. - $20-$35

Crow Creek Tavern – T3

The Hunt Club - Deacon

Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7 p.m.

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Uninvited Guest

Fassler Hall – Alan Doyle – 2 p.m. – Taddy Porter – 3 p.m. – Pilgrim – 9 p.m. – Yawpers – 11 p.m.

Market Pub – Rick Berry

Roosters – DJ Cory B

Mon. // Mar. 17

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Groove Pilots – 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Pickles Pub – Moving Company Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 5:30 p.m. – Replay – 9 p.m. Roosters – Steve & Sheldon The Shrine – Harley Poe, For the Wolf, The Normandys, Frank Zito and The Mannequins, Hey Dollface – 8 p.m. - $5 ADV, $7 DOS

Woody’s Outdoor Stage – Melissa Hembree and Whiskey Union, The 66, Radio Junkies, The Eliminator Band (ZZ Top Tribute The Yeti – Whores

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

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Groove Pilots – 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Crow Creek Tavern – Open Mic w/ Rusty Swan

Pickles Pub – The Luxtones

Full Moon Cafe (Cherry Street) – Live Band Karaoke w/ Charlie Redd – 9 p.m.

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Scott Ellison – 5:30 p.m. – M.I.C. – 9 p.m.

Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic

Roosters – Mike Barham

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Liam Ne eson in “Non-Stop”

Flying the unfriendly skies Liam Neeson and Peter Bedood have a bad trip by JOE O’SHANSKY

iam Neeson is enjoying a late-career streak as an accented version of what Harrison Ford should be: an internationally famous and weathered ass-kicker. Indiana Jones grumps his way through stuff like “Ender’s Game” while Oscar Schindler elevates every check cashing gig he takes. “You’re about to be ‘Taken’” is kind of a joke line at this point, but Neeson doesn’t deliver it that way for a millisecond and never will, no matter how many of those flicks he signs up for. Whether playing a Scottish Bronson, a noble Jedi, or even Lion Jesus, Liam Neeson imbues whatever mythical character he plays with personal gravitas and a commanding physical presence. “The Grey” is like watching a documentary about Neeson dick-punching an entire pack of wolves into oblivion.

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In “Non-Stop,” in wide release Friday, Feb. 28, Neeson plays Bill Marks, a troubled air marshal who’s booked on a flight to London. I can’t remember why he was going to London, but that clearly doesn’t matter. Marks is troubled because whenever he isn’t breaking carbon life forms down into more manageable chunks, he gets depressed. Fired from the police force after his daughter died of cancer, Marks became an alcoholic, thus ending his marriage. Marks washed up at the TSA because, obvs, they’ll hire anyone (there’s some ham-fisted commentary about airline security late in the film; a bad move since it distracts from Neeson choking dudes out and senselessly terrorizing the passengers). After run-ins with what seem like your standard-issue group of

As the film begins, it manages to achieve a sense of tension, due mostly to Neeson looking cagey and like he’ll headbutt anyone on the sixhour transatlantic flight. But it doesn’t take long for that tension to be subverted by a story with more red herrings than a bait store. annoying travelers who deserve what’s eventually coming to them, Marks finds himself seated next to Jen Summers (Julianne Moore).

After a bit of getting-to-know-you chitchat, where we learn Marks has a fear of airplane take-offs that disappears once he’s airborne (shouldn’t he be more worried about the landing?), Marks receives a text message from an unknown fellow passenger. The gist: Hey Bill, give me 150 million bucks or I start killing random people on this plane every 20 minutes. Of course, the killer has every angle worked out, using the clueless Marks to fulfill the promised deaths, in neat, 20-minute intervals. The ransom money winds up being wired to an account in Marks’ name, which turns his TSA overlords against him. He’s always the guy who seems unhinged as he stalks the aisles looking for his man, only to wind up looking responsible for the next casualty. He keeps falling for it such that, Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

hilariously, almost everyone thinks he’s the terrorist, while the real terrorist relentlessly trolls him via text for being such a predictable schmuck. So Marks must prove his innocence while saving the ungrateful passengers and pummeling the actual bad guy into dust for making him look like an inept dildo. Directing from a script by a trio of television writers, Jaume Collet-Serra reunites with Neeson after the similarly high-concept “Unknown,” and the results here similarly uneven. As the film begins, it manages to achieve a sense of tension, due mostly to Neeson looking cagey and like he’ll headbutt anyone on the six-hour transatlantic flight. But it doesn’t take long for that tension to be subverted by a story with more red herrings than a bait store, growing more unlikely and strained as “Non-Stop” navigates its way around plot holes you could fly the fucking plane through. At least the pace of the film doesn’t drag, despite the calculated artifice of the plot. Serra manages a certain sense of claustrophobia with the setting. But the script subverts the characters, putting them on obvious narrative rails of questionable logic, and ultimately squanders what is an otherwise fine cast doing good work. Neeson is belting it to the cheap seats while Moore brings along her knack for being utterly engaging no matter what she’s in. Nate Parker, as a tech-savvy passenger, shines rather brightly. And that’s not even counting newly bestowed Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o as a flight attendant, who doubts Neeson (big mistake), and Shea Wigham in his ongoing quest to be in every movie made in the last two years. It’s not terrible. It’s not even really technically bad. But the next stop for “Non-Stop” is endless rotation on FX next summer. I’ll probably keep channel surfing.

*** It’s something of a given for Tulsa’s most talented to migrate west to make movies and get noticed. Local actor and comedian (and writer and illustrator and, yeah, he’s talented) Peter Bedgood THE TULSA VOICE // Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014

Alexis Raben, Todd Edwards, and Peter Bedgood in “Jeffie Was Here”

made that trek. In the process he reunited with his friend, collaborator and “Chillicothe” writer/ director Todd Edwards, to make the 2010 road trip comedy, “Jeffie Was Here.” Bedgood plays Alan Mangold, a frustrated novelist and lit professor who lives in a Blues Brother’s-esque, letterbox apartment, complete with tumultuous el trains and a fold-out bed that doubles as a shower. With him is his longtime girlfriend, Amanda (Alexis Raben). She’s a budding photographer; he is struggling to finish his first novel. Money is always an issue to the anal-retentive Alan, and the last thing he needs are any unexpected expenses. Those arrive with a phone call from the Left Coast: his beloved “nana” has died. Alan, his interest piqued at the possible inheritance, must drive across the country, with Amanda in tow, to attend the funeral and, possibly, score a generous payday. They decide to place an ad for a carpool to get help with gas. Enter Jeffie, a wheelchair-bound nerd with no filter or social skills, who’s also utterly out of his mind. Thus begins a transcontinental war of wills as Jeffie subjects the strained couple to his militant eco-activism and shitty self-produced demo album (on cassette or CD), while forcing Alan and

Amanda are forced to examine the future of their relationship and their notions of family, inadvertently changing their lives, though generally not for the better.

“ Jeffie Was Here” doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does score some decent laughs, largely due to Bedgood’s understated, straight-man delivery. As a comedy, “Jeffie Was Here” doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does score some decent laughs, largely due to Bedgood’s understated, straight-man delivery. Edwards, co-starring as Jeffie, plays a character who should be funnier on paper, though he becomes more endearing as the story unfolds, revealing his deeper motives. Alexis Raben holds her own with some solid comedic timing. Visually, “Jeffie Was Here” hits all the right beats, thanks to cinematographer Jeff McCutcheon, and it also enjoys an inventive soundtrack due largely to Edwards’ composing talents, even on Jeffie’s embarrassingly charming demo songs. The script, by Edwards and Bedgood, is adeptly written, nodding to

road-movie tropes, playfully satirizing hippie misfits, academia, and nerd culture while crafting a sympathetic relationship between Alan and Amanda. The tone can be a bit uneven, but the chemistry between Bedgood and Raben makes the dramatic moments feel believable, and their relationship with Jeffie all the more absurd. Cameos from Ken Marino and Steve Little from “Eastbound and Down” (before Kenny Powers was even a thing) provide even more amusement. “Jeffie Was Here” is an amiable comedy from two filmmakers who need to continue their trip. Here’s hoping the whims of fate allow them to do so. “Jeffie Was Here” is available for rent or purchase on iTunes.

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Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson in “Broad Cit y”

Woman-child The endearing burnouts of slacker sitcom “Broad City” by JOSHUA KLINE

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road City,” Comedy Central’s new Amy Poehler-produced sitcom, represents a minor, unassuming step forward in the evolution of the contemporary slacker comedy. Like the characters that populate the shows “Workaholics,” “The League,” and “Wilfred,” as well as every film that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produce or write, its two leads are adorably aimless, neurotic, self-medicating losers whose stupidity is the engine that drives the series’ laughs. But unlike every example listed above, the characters in “Broad City” are female, a fact that may seem insignificant until you watch the show and realize how rare it is to witness a woman dive headfirst into the scatological and slapstick realms of comedy usually dominated by men. Expanded from a popular web series, the show depicts two 20-something “Jewesses” (as they refer to themselves) barely scraping by in New York City. Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) is the janitor at a fitness center and Ilana (Ilana Glazer) works as a sales cog for 50 // FILM & TV

an Internet startup. They possess little ambition outside the moment; Abbi calls herself an artist, but after an entire episode devoted to her frantically trying to meet a deadline for a gallery show, we discover the “gallery” is actually a vegetarian sandwich shop. Ilana, meanwhile, is eternally stoned and flagrantly violates her company’s attendance and personal-conduct policies on a daily basis.

The characters in “Broad City” are female, a fact that may seem insignificant until you watch the show and realize how rare it is to witness a woman dive headfirst into the scatological and slapstick realms of comedy usually dominated by men. “What’s worse?” Ilana asks her flabbergasted co-worker. “Con-

stipation or diarrhea? Constipation, I think. Diarrhea, I’m like, ‘Okay...’” Later, after she has once again left work early after arriving late, the horrified co-worker pulls out an audio recorder and speaks into it. “Day number 257. Five hours late, wearing a napkin for a shirt, violently high.” Their romantic prospects are bleak, and they’re both forced to tolerate foolish men. Abbi must put up with the sloth boyfriend of her perpetually absent roommate (whom we never meet) as she pines after her dreamy neighbor, while Ilana casually sleeps with a dim, lovelorn dentist (Hannibal Buress). Abbi’s and Ilana’s relationship with the male gender is one of the show’s greatest strengths. These women may be fools, but they’re always most self-possessed when colliding with their hapless male counterparts, who are portrayed with varying levels of perversity and incompetence by guest stars like Fred Armisen, Jason Mantzoukas, Matt Jones, and Steven Ogg. Among the men, Buress, a

woefully under-utilized comic, is the standout. “This is purely physical,” Ilana tells him, after he seeks to define the relationship mid-coitus. “Why does this always happen to me?” he moans. Jacobson and Glazer inhabit their underachieving-millenial characters with a commitment devoid of vanity. Both leads are especially adept at physical comedy, which provides some of the show’s funniest moments — a visit to the dentist’s office becomes an epic Keaton-esque collision of bodies and objects. Like Lena Dunham (sorry to “Girls”-weary readers, but the comparison is apropos), Abbi and Ilana refuse traditional femininity — that is, the need to appeal to the libidos of that crucial 18-34-year-old male demographic — but, unlike Dunham’s characters, they lack even a modicum of drive. They’re the weirdo burnout neighbors that Hannah Horvath would barely notice, but who are much more fun to be around. “Broad City” airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on Comedy Central. Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

free will astrology by ROB BREZSNY

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20):

In the 1997 film Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, the lead character announces that “’Danger’ is my middle name.” Ever since, real people in the UK have been legally making “Danger” their middle name with surprising regularity. I think it would be smart fun for you Pisceans to add an innovative element to your identity in the coming days, maybe even a new middle name. But I recommend that you go in a different direction than “Danger.” A more suitable name might be “Changer,” to indicate you’re ready to eagerly embrace change. Or how about “Ranger,” to express a heightened desire to rove and gallivant?

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you between jobs? Between romantic partners? Between secure foundations and clear mandates and reasons to get up each morning? Probably at least one of the above. Foggy whirlwinds may be your intimate companions. Being up-in-the-air could be your customary vantage point. During your stay in this weird vacationland, please abstain from making conclusions about its implications for your value as a human being. Remember these words from author Terry Braverman: “It is important to detach our sense of self-worth from transitional circumstances, and maintain perspective on who we are by enhancing our sense of ‘self-mirth.’” Whimsy and levity can be your salvation, Aries. Lucky flux should be your mantra. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma once came to the home of computer pioneer Steve Jobs and performed a private concert. Jobs was deeply touched, and told Ma, “Your playing is the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God, because I don’t really believe a human alone can do this.” Judging from the current astrological omens, Taurus, I’m guessing you will soon experience an equivalent phenomenon: a transcendent expression of love or beauty that moves you to suspect that magic is afoot. Even if you are an atheist, you are likely to feel the primal shiver that comes from having a close brush with enchantment. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my dream, I was leading a pep rally for a stadium full of Geminis. “Your intensity brings you great pleasure,” I told them over the public address system. “You seek the company of people who love you to be inspired. You must be appreciated for your enthusiasm, never shamed. Your drive for excellence doesn’t stress you out, it relaxes you. I hereby give you license to laugh even louder and sing even stronger and think even smarter.” By now the crowd was cheering and I was THE TULSA VOICE // Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014

bellowing. “It’s not cool to be cool,” I exulted. “It’s cool to be burning with a white-hot lust for life. You are rising to the next octave. You are playing harder than you have ever played.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): “My old paintings no longer interest me,” said the prolific artist Pablo Picasso when he was 79 years old. “I’m much more curious about those I haven’t done yet.” I realize it might be controversial for me to suggest that you adopt a similar perspective, Cancerian. After all, you are renowned for being a connoisseur of old stories and past glories. One of your specialties is to keep memories alive and vibrant by feeding them with your generous love. To be clear, I don’t mean that you should apologize for or repress those aptitudes. But for now -- say, the next three weeks -- I invite you to turn your attention toward the exciting things you haven’t done yet. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I recommend that you sleep with a special someone whose dreams you’d like to blend with yours. And when I say “sleep with,” I mean it literally; it’s not a euphemism for “having sex with.” To be clear: Making love with this person is fine if that’s what you both want. But my main point is that you will draw unexpected benefits from lying next to this companion as you both wander through the dreamtime. Being in your altered states together will give you inspiration you can’t get any other way. You won’t be sharing information on a conscious level, but that’s exactly the purpose: to be transformed together by what’s flowing back and forth between your deeper minds. For extra credit, collaborate on incubating a dream. Read this: http://tinyurl.com/dreamincubation. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “One chord is fine,” said rock musician Lou Reed about his no-frills approach to writing songs. “Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.” I recommend

his perspective to you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Your detail-oriented appreciation of life’s complexity is one of your finest qualities, but every once in a while -- like now -- you can thrive by stripping down to the basics. This will be especially true about your approach to intimate relationships. For the time being, just assume that cultivating simplicity will generate the blessings you need most.

caused by something as tangible as a rash or hives, and can’t be soothed by any obvious healing agent. It is, shall we say, more in the realm of a soul itch -- a prickly tickle that is hard to diagnose, let alone treat. I’m guessing that there may be just one effective cure: Become as still and quiet and empty as you possibly can, and then invite your Future Self to scratch it for you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You Librans haven’t received enough gifts, goodies, and compliments lately. For reasons I can’t discern, you have been deprived of your rightful share. It’s not fair! What can you do to rectify this imbalance in the cosmic ledger? How can you enhance your ability to attract the treats you deserve? It’s important that we solve this riddle, since you are entering a phase when your wants and needs will expand and deepen. Here’s what I can offer: I hereby authorize you to do whatever it takes to entice everyone into showering you with bounties, boons, and bonuses. To jumpstart this process, shower yourself with bounties, boons, and bonuses.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The world is awash in bright, shiny nonsense. Every day we wade through a glare of misinformation and lazy delusions and irrelevant data. It can be hard to locate the few specific insights and ideas that are actually useful and stimulating. That’s the bad news, Capricorn. Here’s the good news: You now have an enhanced ability to ferret out nuggets of data that can actually empower you. You are a magnet for the invigorating truths you really need most.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing,” wrote the Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius more than 1,800 years ago. Is that true for you, Scorpio? Do you experience more strenuous struggle and grunting exertion than frisky exuberance? Even if that’s usually the case, I’m guessing that in the coming weeks your default mode should be more akin to dancing than wrestling. The cosmos has decided to grant you a grace period -- on one condition, that is: You must agree to experiment more freely and have more fun that you normally allow yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For the itch you are experiencing, neither chamomile nor aloe vera will bring you relief. Nor would over-thecounter medications like calamine lotion. No, Sagittarius. Your itch isn’t

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you come up with an original invention, apply for a patent immediately. If you think of a bright idea, put it to work as soon as possible. If you figure out crucial clues that everyone else seems blind to, dispel the general ignorance as quickly as you can. This is a perfect moment for radical pragmatism carried out with expeditious savvy. It’s not a time when you should naively hope for the best with dreamy nonchalance. For the sake of your mental health and for the good of your extended family, be crisp, direct, and forceful. This week’s homework: What we re the circumstanc es in which you we re most dange rously alive?

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Prison Blues

Norway’s prison system is regarded as among the most inmate-friendly in the world, but convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik is still not impressed. Breivik, serving 21 years for the 2011 bomb-and-gun attacks that killed 77 people, may already enjoy amenities unheard of for a comparable American murderer, but he sent wardens 12 demands in November, including an upgrade of his manual typewriter and his PlayStation 2 (to a PS3, with better access to game selection). He also demanded that his weekly government “allowance” (equivalent of $49) be doubled, and said if the “torture” of his living conditions is not relieved, he would be forced into a hunger strike. (Breivik threatened a similar strike in 2012, citing “inhumane” conditions such as cold coffee, lack of skin moisturizer and insufficient butter for his bread.)

Continuing Crisis

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Following alarming reports, the Ohio attorney general's office began working with the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association in December to be vigilant for pet owners who might be commandeering their dogs' and cats' pain killers -- for their own use. Worse, other reports suggested some owners were deliberately injuring their pets just to obtain the drugs.

Close Enough for Government

Clare Lally, weary of her threeflight front walk, demanded a wheelchair ramp on her government-subsidized house in 2/19 SOLUTION: UNIVERSAL SUNDAY

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Duntocher, England, for her daughter, 7, who has suffered from bulbar palsy since birth, and the West Dunbartonshire Council came through promptly. A front-yard-dominating concrete platform was built in January (costing the equivalent of $67,000), consisting of a 10-level "snake"-style series of ramps with steel railings. Not only does navigating the "snake" take time, but Lally now complains that the ramp has been taken over by neighborhood kids as a skateboard run.

Higher-Intellect Confrontation

Following an evening of heavy drinking, according to police in Russia's Sverdlovsk region in January, a former schoolteacher, 52, was charged with fatally stabbing his host, 67, during a dispute over whether poetry or prose is the more important literary form.

Smooth Reactions

One Russian man shot another (nonfatally, with rubber bullets) in the town of Rostov- on-Don in September in an argument over theories of German philosopher Immanuel Kant. (3) Nadja Svenson, 22, was charged on Christmas Eve in Londonderry, N.H. (a night with clear skies, apparently), with stabbing her father in the chest during bickering over the position of the Big Dipper.

Inexplicable

The first-ever skydive by Makenzie Wethington, 16, in Chickasha, Okla., in January was a catastrophe -- a tangled parachute that opened “halfway” with the girl unable to reach the emergency chute. She fell into a spiraling free fall from 3,500 feet and landed with a thud, but somehow survived. Mackenzie had shattered vertebrae, a split-in-half pelvic bone, two broken ribs, tooth loss and various internal injuries. Said her sister Meagan, to incredulous doctors and nurses, “She, obviously, she hit the ground, but she did not hit the ground. God’s hand caught her.” Mar. 5 – Mar. 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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ACROSS 1 Trig. function 6 Slushy fruit drink 12 “CSI” evidence 15 A case of pins and needles? 19 Earthy paint pigment 20 Riverside insurance 21 Dust cloth, often 22 Disagreement 23 Sincere talk 25 Flight deck guess 26 Book after Joel 27 Paddle kin 28 What a band might go around 29 Hard to understand 32 More sharp-tongued 35 Practice piece for one instrument 36 Dogs and cats, e.g. 38 Tool in an office desk 41 Working stiff, for short 43 Furnish food for a party 46 It’s fit to be tied 47 Actress Campbell 49 Hawaii’s Mauna ___ 50 Clamor or to-do 52 Authoritative proclamations 55 Sullies or besmirches 57 History-book chapter 58 Unexpected sports result 60 “That’s tasty!” 62 Emulate Rodin 63 The state of being under a guardian 66 Iron get-up 68 In a skillful manner 69 Happy serving 73 All set for a nightly slumber

75 “A Fistful of Dollars” director Sergio 76 Dreadfully dull 80 Young hen 82 Where one can make a splash 83 Cara on the “Flashdance” soundtrack 85 Hudson or Chesapeake 86 Several historic theaters 88 Declared as fact 90 On the beach 93 Postgraduate field 94 TV screenmeasuring unit 96 “Smoking or ___?” 97 Word on a three-sided sign 98 Mountain climber’s tool 100 Attending to again, as a problem 106 America’s national flower 107 “Sesame Street” regular 108 Strong inclination 112 Some write-offs 114 Copy of a movie 116 “Mamma ___!” 117 Victorian sort 119 Santa ___, Calif. 120 How some dance 124 Put into the pot 125 Communications abbr. 126 Forceful removal 127 Small weight 128 Backtalk 129 Pitches between innings? 130 Poorly made 131 Some survey responses DOWN 1 Some Pacific salmon 2 Indian, for one 3 Actress Belafonte

4 Always, poetically 5 Old-style computer screen 6 Bit of broccoli 7 Bring back to work 8 Old Roman welcomes 9 Bog fuel 10 The “p” in rpm 11 Mansion and grounds 12 Zwinger museum site 13 Gabbed 14 Food thickener 15 No. 2 end 16 What bored people have 17 Area 51 craft, supposedly 18 “For what ___ worth ...” 24 Buffoon 30 Leia’s do 31 Capital, as a letter 33 Mere commoner, briefly 34 Alpaca land 35 Film with a cast of thousands 37 Unable to keep one’s eyes open 39 Was a passenger 40 Passing announcement 42 ___ Orange, N.J. 43 Enjoy taffy 44 Emanating glow 45 Ski lift contraption 48 Word on either side of “-a-” (face-to-face) 51 Inlaid furniture decoration 52 Catches sight of 53 Newbie 54 ___ pump (drainage aid) 56 Toothpaste containers 59 Aspirin unit 61 Shed feathers 64 Live (in)

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65 Not on the football field 66 Did dinner 67 Horse controller 70 Negative votes 71 Buzzing annoyance 72 Kind of code used daily 73 Domestic from overseas 74 Use dynamite on 77 Slender woodwind instrument 78 Crumbly earth 79 Green-___ (jealous) 80 Insect feeler 81 32,000 ounces 83 “Believe ___ not!” 84 “Lethal Weapon 4” actress Russo 87 Like a CEO’s incoming calls 89 Shorthand for a burglary: B ___ 91 Lip-___ (mouth the words) 92 Temperature extreme 95 Tealike drinks 99 Certain Native Americans 101 Industrious insect 102 Dance halls of the ’70s 103 Like some footballs or punch 104 Gate guard 105 “... and ___ the fire” 109 Words shouted in church 110 Female in the family 111 Seizes 113 Spreadsheet contents 114 Cash in Cancun 115 Finally out of the rat race (Abbr.) 117 Mas’ counterparts 118 Cell “messenger” 121 “Come again?” 122 Flirtatiously shy 123 Color property

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February 13 Through June 29, 2014 February 13 Through Celebrating the centennial of the birth of June 29, Chiricahua Apache artist Allan2014 Houser.

The Force by Allan Houser The Force Vermont marble, copyright 1990 bycopyright Allan Houser Chiinde LLC Vermont marble, photo by Wendycopyright McEahern1990 copyright Chiinde LLC photo by Wendy McEahern

Celebrating the centennial of the birth of Works loaned by artist Allan Allan Houser, Inc. Chiricahua Apache Houser.

Exhibition season by title sponsor is the Works loaned Allan Houser, Inc. Sherman E. Smith Family Charitable Foundation. Exhibition season title sponsor is the Sherman E. Smith Family Charitable Foundation.

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