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Rub Food Truck owner Joel Bein partners with Cherry Street Yoga to feed Tulsa’s homeless

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An interview with Billy Howerdel, founding member of A Perfect Circle

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The enduring relevance of S.E. Hinton’s ‘The Outsiders’

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SO LONG Putting The Tulsa Voice together has always been an organic process. We run with a small

crew, there’s very little set formula, and sometimes we don’t even know what will be in an issue a week before our print deadline.

Naturally, we’re constantly second-guessing our editorial choices after the fact—lots of “How did we miss this thing?” and, “Oh, that

should have been the cover story,” and, “Maybe next time we do this differently.”

But every once in a while, the stars align and we put out a paper that’s kick-ass from front to back.

This is one of those times.

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activist who, last September, mobilized 24,000 prisoners across 24 states for what would become the largest prison labor strike in U.S. history. Mitch Gilliam talks to Von Gotcher about the reasons for the strike and the plans for more in the near future.

Kris Rose, co-owner of Bound For Glory Books, offers a whirlwind flashback to mid-90s Tulsa, when the San Francisco punk band Hickey frequently played at now-defunct clubs like Hercules and Eclipse. Rose hosted the band at her home—“The Crackhowse”—and in turn Hickey took her on the road with them.

We present a trio of great interviews: Michael Wright and Ty Clark speak with filmmaker Tim Blake Nelson and A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel, respectively, while Barry Friedman sits down with G.T. Bynum for the first time since he was sworn in as mayor.

Elsewhere, Zack Reeves reflects on S.E. Hinton’s “The Outsiders,” which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, while Mark Brown takes one last trip to Spaghetti Warehouse, the iconic Tulsa restaurant that shut its doors for good last month.

Finally, we debut our First Friday Bingo card, which makes a game of the sights, sounds, and people one might encounter over the course of The Brady Arts District’s First Friday Art Crawl (April 7).

One other thing: This is my 35th letter as editor of The Tulsa Voice.

It’s also my last. I’ve loved my time here and I’m going to miss working with this incredibly talented, devoted staff. The decision to leave was not an easy one, but it was made easier knowing the paper will be left in capable, caring hands. I’m excited to see where managing editor Liz Blood takes it. (No pressure, Liz.) So long, y’all, and thanks for all the fish. a

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or many Oklahomans in financial trouble, payday loans can seem like a quick and easy fix. Borrowers can take out a payday loan for up to $500, secured by a post-dated check, usually for a period of 12 to 14 days. Under Oklahoma’s deferred deposit lending act, payday lenders can charge $45 in fees for a $300 loan, which amounts to an APR (annual percentage rate) of 391 percent.

While some borrowers turn to payday loans for an emergency car repair or other one-time needs, the industry’s successful business model is built on repeated borrowing by customers facing chronic financial difficulties. Data from Oklahoma’s payday loan database revealed that a majority of all loans went to borrowers who took out twelve or more loans over the course of a year — or an average of more than one loan a month.

This dependence on repeat borrowing creates a debt trap, which can be extremely difficult to escape. The industry especially targets struggling households and communities. A 2015 study found that most of the payday loan outlets (199 out of 324) in Oklahoma were located within a 10-mile radius of military installations and bases. The same study found that census tracts with economically vulnerable populations (elderly, young adults, immigrants, and lower income) are more likely to be targeted by payday lending stores.

This legislative session seemed to offer hope for much-needed reform to curb industry practices that lead to chronic borrowing and growing indebtedness. Several reform bills were introduced, but these bills were not allowed a hearing in legislative committees. This was not surprising, as the payday loan industry and its lobbyists have stifled reform measures for the past 15 years. What was more of a surprise was that three days before the deadline for hearing bills in committee, a new bill was introduced by Rep. Chris KannaTHE TULSA VOICE // April 5 - 18, 2017

day (R-Oklahoma City) that looks to create a brand new form of high-cost loan.

HB 1913 creates a new loan product, known as a Small Loan, which could be made for up to $1,500 for a 12-month term.

Lenders could charge 17 percent monthly interest, which amounts to an APR of 204 percent. On a $1,500 loan over 12 months, borrowers would be charged cumulative interest of $2,108. After a strong push by payday lending industry lobbyists, this bill was narrowly approved by the House and now awaits a hearing in the state Senate.

The high-cost loans proposed in HB 1913 are an entirely unnecessary alternative. In addition to payday loans, Oklahoma law already allows “A” loans for over $1,470 with a maximum APR of 30 percent, one-eighth the interest on HB 1913’s “Small Loan.” On a $1,000 loan, existing law allows “B” lenders to charge interest and fees of $394, which is less than one-third of what could be charged under HB 1913.

Furthermore, even hard-pressed consumers have better options than high-cost loans. A 2012 survey found that if payday loans were unavailable, consumers said they would cut back on expenses, delay paying some bills, borrow from family and friends, or sell or pawn personal possessions. These may all be difficult choices, but none creates the high risk of a debt trap.

Far too many Oklahomans are already falling prey to loans with exorbitant costs. The question that lawmakers must ask themselves is whether allowing much higher interest charges on struggling Oklahomans is going to solve anyone’s problems or simply create new ones? a

DEBT TRAP ‘Small loan’ bill would mean big debts for Oklahoma families

by DAVID BLATT

David Blatt is Executive Director of Oklahoma Policy Institute (www.okpolicy.org).

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G.T. Bynum | MICHELLE POLLARD

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ack in July, I interviewed Mayor-elect G.T. Bynum (TTV July 20, Vol. 3 No. 15) just a few days after he handily beat then-incumbent Mayor Dewey Bartlett. I proposed then—and he graciously accepted—that we have lunch every few months during his administration to continue the conversation. What follows is our second meeting.

He arrives at the Daily Grill with no entourage and orders a Kale Chicken Caesar without the chicken or shrimp.

of me that looks like Voldemort, and my kids start laughing. “Dad, there’s a cartoon of you on TV.” I froze up—the kids are going to be so upset, this is terrible, I’ve done the wrong thing—and my wife was, “That’s an ad that Dewey is running, telling lies about daddy.”

My son asked why and she said, “Because he doesn’t want people to vote for him.”

THE TULSA VOICE: You’re kidding me with that, right?

BYNUM: That’s the one! My son looked up and said, “I still like our chances.” And I realized I don’t give them enough credit for being resilient.

MAYOR BYNUM: I’m only doing this because I just came off Spring Break. Plus it’s surprisingly good.

TTV: It’s kale! You lost my vote.

So your wife is in her last year of law school, you have two small children. What the hell were you thinking running for mayor?

There’s a right and a wrong time to this. This was both, no?

THE BYNUM LUNCH, PART 2 The mayor discusses sanctuary cities, Helmerich Park, and his first 100 days in office

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BYNUM: (Laughing) That’s one of the reasons I didn’t run when Kathy [Taylor] retired. And the next time I didn’t run—one of the reasons: our daughter was supposed to be born on primary day, back in 2009— TTV: Back when you were what— 19?

BYNUM: (Laughing) I’d be a terrible father if I was running for mayor the day my daughter was due on the primary, so I supported Dewey [Bartlett] instead. And the next time around, I was encouraged to run, but the kids were still too young. But this time around, it felt right. My wife was in school, and it was important to us for our kids to see both of us pursuing our dreams as adults and not making excuses to avoid pursuing them.

My kids loved it. They saw the first negative ad at BBD. The TV is over my head and the picture

TTV: This was the one accusing you of taking, like, a billion dollars from lobbyists?

Bynum then tells a marvelous story about the night before he was sworn in, when he snuck his son up to the mayor’s office—his new office—but his key card wouldn’t work.

TTV: You couldn’t even break into your own office?

BYNUM: I know.

TTV: Okay, sanctuary cities— BYNUM: (Laughing) From kids to sanctuary cities, all right.

TTV: You wrote a letter that you got a lot of credit for it, but to clarify, you were not saying Tulsa was a sanctuary city?

BYNUM: Correct.

TTV: You were not saying you wanted Tulsa to be a sanctuary city?

BYNUM: Correct.

TTV: But you were saying people who were here without documents should not fear being here and people who were here, shouldn’t fear those without documents?

BYNUM: Exactly right.

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TTV: And, more to the point, you were not going to direct Police Chief Chuck Jordan to bust into places like El Tequila and roundup those without documents? Fair enough?

BYNUM: Or Daily Grill, but yes.

TTV: So the liberals applauded you and the conservatives didn’t hang you in effigy in Woodward Park— yet. You didn’t really say that much; still, you must have worried about the letter’s reception?

BYNUM: I knew it had the potential for controversy. What bothered me was I was hearing, and this is even before Trump, a lot of demagogue-ing by Democrat mayors who were saying he was going to send people out—the storm troopers—and kick people’s doors down, and it was very similar to what I heard from Republican mayors who said the same kind of partisan demagoguery I heard about President Obama about how he was going to take your guns and he wasn’t born in the United States. The outcome of that was the immigrant community in Tulsa was scared to death. What Trump was saying was the cities should do what we’ve already been doing.

After someone is arrested, the sheriff at the jail checks their immigration status, and if they’re not here lawfully, then they’re turned over to immigration and customs.

But if someone calls the police and is afraid, we don’t ask for their immigration status. We don’t ask for their immigration status when we pull someone over. The other thing I heard is there were people preying on the immigrant community knowing they were afraid to call the police. I put that post up as a clarification that nothing about the executive order had changed the way we were doing things in Tulsa. But it blew up. Was it me standing up to Trump? No. TTV: What about the Trump administration’s desire to defund so-called sanctuary cities?

BYNUM: He said he would take funding away from cities that are not complying with federal law, which, by the way, I don’t have a problem with. If a city is not following federal law, there ought to be some sort of punishment.

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While Bynum, admittedly, was not giving an informed legal opinion, I decided to check with a good friend of the column, Garrett Epps, an American legal scholar, professor of law at the University of Baltimore, and contributing editor for The Atlantic, on this topic: “The threat to withhold funds is almost comically unconstitutional,” Epps said, adding, “I regard this as a clumsy—almost childish—attempt to violate the Court’s 10th Amendment rule that the federal government cannot ‘commandeer’ state officials to enforce a federal program. The 4th Amendment says you can’t hold someone in jail without a warrant or probable cause to believe they have committed a specific crime. Thus the city may become liable (as has happened in Oregon) when it is later determined that the ‘alien’ is an American citizen whose constitutional rights have been violated.”

TTV: When we talked last time, you said you had hoped to stay out of national politics. But neither one of us thought Trump would win.

BYNUM: (Laughing) Yes. But in this issue, there were people who on both sides—immigrant community and those who were anti-immigrant—who were misinterpreting how it would be applied, so I thought it was our responsibility to say this is our understanding of what this executive order says.

TTV: And if Clinton had won?

BYNUM: Different set of problems.

TTV: In assuaging the fears of immigrants in Tulsa, your tone is not Trump’s.

BYNUM: Absolutely. There’s a lot of bombast in tone, but what Trump is saying—and, again, this is falling into the trap of talking about national stuff—as a Republican, I feel a lot of the things that the president advocates, if you just look at it from nuts-and-bolts policy, makes a lot of sense. But the way it is messaged and conveyed is a disaster. It’s too inflammatory.

Tulsa, 20 years from now, is going to be a Hispanic city. That’s just the way the demographics are going. From a leadership standpoint, I want the immigrant community, who is hearing nothing but negativity on the federal level, to know, locally, they have someone in the mayor’s office who is happy they are here, who welcomes them

here, who knows they are the future of the city, just as my Irish ancestors were a century ago.

TTV: So you’re supportive of the immigrant community in Tulsa?

BYNUM: Yes. TTV: Even the illegal immigrant community that contributes to Tulsa?

BYNUM: Yes. I think the Republican Party should be a place that’s welcoming for the immigrant community. The immigrant community in Tulsa is pro-hard work, pro-family, loves the United States.

Those are all things the Republicans ought to be on board with.

TTV: Let’s move on. Another easy one. REI? BYNUM: (Laughing) Yeah, sure.

TTV: One of your predecessors, Mayor Terry Young, who has vehemently opposed the deal, actually applauds your handling of this. There are two issues here, yes? One, Tulsa didn’t get enough money for the land, and two, the city had no business selling it in the first place.

BYNUM: He’s the leading opponent of it, yeah. Well, one, I did not think it was handled well, leading up to when we took over the process. The whole thing was insular, the public was not engaged, and anytime you do that, you heighten the level of mistrust. Whether there should be development on that corner, I think, has been resolved repeatedly. It’s in the Arkansas Corridor Master Plan, it’s in the River Design Overlay that the council passed unanimously last year, so when I met with Mayor Young and Greg Bledsoe [the attorney for the plaintiffs], I realized they were not opposed to development at Helmerich Park; they just didn’t want it at the corner and wanted it farther into the middle of the park. Now, our planning has repeatedly shown it should be at the corner, then the question for me is, there’s already been a contract signed, so do we become a city that is known in the development community for not honoring our contracts? So the third step, then, is there a way to NEWS & COMMENTARY // 9

get the developer to modify what is a terrible design proposal?

Young, for his part, is apoplectic about the project, specifically the original deal negotiated between REI and the Bartlett Administration, calling it “a badly bungled shit show.” While finding Bynum to be “open, intelligent, and often inspiring,” Young said, “This is not and never has been a matter of a single building to house an REI store, nicely integrated into the middle section of Helmerich Park. It is about a 55,000-plus square foot, six- to seven-tenant shopping center crammed into another crummy commercial intersection corner that MIGHT have an REI store somewhere in it.” Moreover, he said, the whole project is stained with “some really lousy legal work by the city attorney.”

TTV: By terrible design, you mean the windows, the parking, the green space?

BYNUM: Yeah, I was opposed to it as a councilor. It looked awful, it didn’t interface with the river, it did nothing for the park, the money coming from it wouldn’t benefit the park. So the question: Can I in good conscience go to the city council and say, even though we don’t know if you’re legally required to do this, I’m going to ask you to vacate this land because this proposal that has been modified is a good one. And Kathy Taylor and Nick Doctor and our legal team squeezed those guys [REI] for months before we brought it to the council.

TTV: Some of the opposition is the fact than any park land was sold for development, but you’re saying that issue had been resolved? And to be fair, there’s a Burger King across the street, so it’s not exactly a nature preserve.

BYNUM: Yes. And one of the reasons why they wanted to build at that intersection, it’s one of the busiest retail corridors in the city. By the way, right now, you have volleyball courts, then scrub brush, basically, and a playground—or would you rather have a whole park people can use?

TTV: And that was part of the re-negotiation by your team?

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“The whole thing was insular, the public was not engaged, and anytime you do that, you heighten the level of mistrust,” Bynum said of the Helmerich Park development controversy. “Whether there should be development on that corner, I think, has been resolved repeatedly.

It’s in the Arkansas Corridor Master Plan, it’s in the River Design Overlay that the council passed unanimously last year.”

BYNUM: Exactly. The whole sales price goes into the park and the developer is the first to contribute a hundred grand to improving the park, so that was the big difference between what the previous administration had agreed to.

TTV: Why was the original agreement negotiated behind closed doors?

BYNUM: Because that’s the way the previous administration did business. And you saw that on the sidewalk deal [A Gathering Place], saw that on the Turkey Mountain outlet mall thing.

TTV: So this was not about development at the park in any form?

BYNUM: Well, some plaintiffs involved in the lawsuit are opposed to any development in park land and some just don’t want it at that corner. There’s not unanimity among the people who are opposed. Now, a lot of folks said, “Well, why don’t you put it here, put it there,” but there was a signed contract for the land at 71st. Now, if you had an open

process from the beginning, could that have been on the table? Yes. TTV: What about the purchase price?

BYNUM: I used to work in the real estate auction business and I know every person in this town has a different idea of what they think any particular piece of land is worth. This is the price someone was willing to pay.

TTV: How is someone allowed to negotiate a deal like this that’s so central to a city’s identity without public comment and then have it presented to the next mayor as a fait accompli?

BYNUM: That was my criticism of the process. I don’t know. Brings up a huge issue: The land was already zoned for high-rise, office, and apartment buildings. That could be built there with no zoning change.

TTV: Even though it’s inside a park that was given to the city?

BYNUM: That’s the other thing, there’s a debate as to where the

park is. But here’s the thing: the developer had this lousy design.

If it goes to court and maybe the plaintiffs would win and the sale would be voided, but if the plaintiffs lost, we get the lousy development at the intersection. That was the risk we had to factor in.

Remember, if the Public Facilities Authority had won the lawsuit, the contract they had in place was for the old terrible design that would have backed up the River Parks Trail, that would have dumpsters back there, next-to-no landscaping, would have had a huge parking lot, straight asphalt, no trees, no berming along 71st, and no money going to the parks.

TTV: If REI called and wanted out of the deal, would you let them?

BYNUM: It’s not my call. It’s the Public Facilities Authority. But I want REI in Tulsa.

TTV: And if the lawsuit—which is still going on—regardless of the city council’s vote last month to approve the deal, is successful in stopping it, do you think REI goes somewhere else?

BYNUM: They’re not looking for somewhere else in Tulsa—they’re looking somewhere in Oklahoma City.

TTV: What you have done, seems to me, the first 100 days, is say to people, especially moderates, “We can do this together—yes, I’m a Republican—yet not all national issues effect Tulsa.” Your predecessor, for instance, endorsed Trump, wrote Obama about the Syrians. You seem less of a Republican than Dewey Bartlett.

BYNUM: That never ceases to crack me up when that’s asserted. One, the conventional wisdom is we won the election, that we didn’t win the Republicans but we got the Democrats and the moderates, when the reality—all the numbers we looked at—says we won the Republicans. That’s the thing.

We’re not doing anything that I think of as non-conservative. I take issue with anyone who says I’m less conservative than Dewey Bartlett. I’ll debate people all day long about that. a April 5 - 18, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Advocate to keep Teach for America and City Year funded

by JIM LANGDON

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each For America and City Year programs have made lasting differences in the lives of hundreds of Tulsa school children by providing access to a more inspiring, thoughtful education experience. The models attack educational inequity for many kids in low-income neighborhoods, an injustice caused by racism, outdated policies, lack of resources, poverty, and other issues.

Cruel realities exist within Tulsa Public Schools: 85% of the district’s students are economically disadvantaged and barely half finish high school. The consequences can be devastating.

Drop-outs are eight times more likely to become incarcerated and three times more likely to be unemployed. Our people and our economy suffer.

Teach For America and City Year, which arrived in Tulsa in 2009 and 2013, respectively, are committed to cultivating a large, diverse and thriving community of team members and staff who ignite educational excellence in partnership with local educators, school communities and community partners.

Teach For America in Greater Tulsa is now a growing leadership force of 400-plus individuals seeking to make a meaningful impact in our classrooms and community. This year there are 180 teachers serving students in 47 schools throughout Tulsa. And there are 200 TFA alumni who have stayed in Tulsa to become school administrators (22), teachers (100), employees of non-profit organizations and companies, and entrepreneurs.

City Year Tulsa began moving the needle in Tulsa by deploying 20 highly skilled corps members, ages 18-25, to serve in two TPS schools four years ago. This year, it has 72 corps members serving 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

City Year member with student | MICHELLE POLLARD

in eight schools. City Year Tulsa invests in evidence-based, cost-effective, locally controlled strategies to improve student outcomes in Tulsa’s public education system and helps to build our city’s future workforce. Each day, members of the corps provide academic and social/emotional support to students. They specifically focus on improving student attendance, behavior, and course performance in math and English, since students struggling in those areas are most at-risk of dropping out.

Though each national program operates within its specific model, Teach for America and City Year corps members come from AmeriCorps, the federally-funded service organization. Unfortunately, the Corporation for National and Community Service—which administers AmeriCorps—is on the list of federal programs slated

for elimination in the new administration’s 2018 budget proposal to Congress. The CNCS also enhances and supports the efforts of some 3,000 nonprofit, faithbased, and community groups, including Habitat for Humanity, Catholic Charities, Boys and Girls Club, and United Way through public-private partnerships with businesses and foundations.

Unless our elected representatives in Washington vote to reject the Trump administration’s call for eliminating funding for CNCS, the national service program will die beyond current federal funding.

Buried with it will be Teach For America and City Year.

What can be done? Advocate by placing a call to the offices of our members of Congress to register your support of AmeriCorps and national service. You may not talk to anyone, but staffers in Congres-

sional offices monitor and record all messages and report them daily to their elected official. Concerned constituents can make a difference.

Your message needs to be received before April 24 when the budget proposal will commence movement.

CALL: Rep. Jim Bridenstine, 202-225-2211 Rep. Markwayne Mullin, 202-225-2701 Rep. Tom Cole, 202-225-6165 (as a member of the House Appropriates Committee, Rep. Cole chairs the subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies; and serves on the House Budget Committee)

Sen. Jim Inhofe, 202-224-4721 Sen. James Lankford, 202-224-5754.

We need Teach For America and City Year to continue making positive impacts in the lives of our youth in Tulsa. a April 5 - 18, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

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J

oel Bein began his career as a barbecue pit master without even knowing it.

Bein was the president of his daughter’s Parent Teacher Association and would make food with his smoker for the yearly get-togethers. His barbecue soon became sought after by other parents, then their friends, and so on. When a food truck crossed his path, he jumped at the chance, and Rub BBQ was born.

Though Bein has had no formal culinary training, he grew up in a food-centric, multi-cultural family.

“My dad was a Jew from the East Coast, my mom was from New Orleans,” Bein said, “so I was exposed to all the great classic New Orleans dishes—Creole and Cajun and French cuisines—along with Jewish kosher delicacies, so all those flavors are in my wheelhouse.”

Barbecue is the main focus, but the Rub truck produces more than straight-forward barbecue sandwiches. The al pastor tacos are made with pork that’s slow simmered in coconut water, pineapple and jalapeno, imparting a sweet heat. The lamb tacos and the ahi tuna tostadas are also popular, and the brunch has caused a commotion.

The Fat Stack is probably the star of Rub’s brunch service, with its base of smoky, cheesy grits, topped with a selection of luxurious items—king crab meat, tenderloin, or pork belly—then crowned with a poached egg and hollandaise. Bein also whips up some killer chilaquiles and a French toast that is downright naughty, with macerated berries and fluffy brioche bread from an artisan bakery in Texas. In other words, definitely not items you would expect from a barbecue truck.

“I start everything from a traditional approach to my barbecue— the rub and smoke,” Bein said.

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KARMA ON WHEELS Rub Food Truck owner Joel Bein partners with Cherry Street Yoga to feed Tulsa’s homeless

by ANGELA EVANS what is really fun for me is using the barbecue as the base, then elevating it.”

Bein’s truck has made the rounds over the past two years to all the big festivals and events downtown. But during one of those bustling festivals, he noticed something disconcerting.

“I’d see people walking around, eyeballing the trash can. Then, not thinking anyone is watching them, they’d reach in for leftover food. It just really kind of crushes you,” said Bein. “The first time I saw that, I made five sandwiches, put them in a bag and gave them

to the guy, and tried not to be conspicuous.”

Word spread that a hot meal could be had at the Rub Food Truck, and Bein found himself feeding several homeless folks, incognito. He wanted to do more.

“After rocking a brunch service at Empire Bar, we had some leftover pork. So we went downtown and gave it away.”

He pulled the truck up on the corner across from The Day Center for the Homeless. One hundred to 150 people immediately lined up.

“It was shocking and heartbreaking at the same time. But

when you see the kids, it takes it to the next level,” he said. He had the kids come to the front so they would get first dibs on a warm meal.

Feeding the homeless has become a passion for Bein, but it’s tough for the small-business owner to do it as often as he would like. So, he has joined forces with Cherry Street Yoga to help fuel his new outreach project, Karma Café.

Bein has been friends with Jahan Mostofi, the owner of Cherry Street Yoga, for two decades.

When he described the plan, Mostofi loved the idea.

“It really fits with their mission of making yoga accessible to everyone by being donation based,” Bein said. “It’s going to give me a bigger platform and, hopefully, we can keep growing it.”

The first Sunday of every month at 1 p.m., Cherry Street Yoga will host a donation-based yoga class that will benefit Karma Café, 100 percent. Then Bein and Mostofi will purchase, prepare, and serve food on the second Sunday of the month.

“Before, we sort of went renegade and served at random spots,” he said. “For this project we have organized more and partnered up with the Mental Health Association. We will be going to various intake centers around town, spreading the love.”

Hair stylist Julie Morgan and a team of other stylists will also be on hand to give free haircuts to those in need of a trim.

“That way we can fill them up, give them a nice haircut. Get them looking good and feeling good,” Bein said.

For many restaurant owners, the desire to do more to help their community doesn’t always equal the resources they have available.

“I’m nobody. I’m just the little guy,” Bein said. “But if we all join together and pitch in, we can do a lot to help in our city.” a April 5 - 18, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

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PASTA LA VISTA Where would the Brady Arts District be without Spaghetti Warehouse?

by MARK BROWN

A diner enjoys one last meal in the trolley at Spaghetti Warehouse days before the restaurant closed permanently. | JOE RUSHMORE

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omebody forgot to turn on the neon. It used to be the only thing aglow in what’s now called the Brady Arts District, beaming red with hope and largesse. Even the words—“Spaghetti Warehouse”—screamed doggy bag. Tonight it hung there, unplugged.

It being the next-to-last Wednesday the Warehouse would be open, a disclaimer taped to the door warned of a limited menu: “We are not offering Warehouse Wednesday prices.” Still, the parking lot—a concrete sea unto itself—was packed and the waiting list 30-40 minutes.

While the kids played Centipede, I took a seat in the fabled front parlor and tried to remember the last time I’d been in the place.

Around the release of Nirvana’s In Utero, maybe?

Spaghetti Warehouse could re-open tomorrow as an antique store and probably clean house.

Equal parts Ollie’s Station, Olive Garden, and Interurban, it’s the original melting pot: Italianate food in a Wild West setting, minus the can-can girls, and probably the last place on earth you can get your palm read and your love tested.

Soon enough we were seated at a table up front near the bar and handed a scraggly menu offering

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25 items, which elsewhere would be plenty but not here, conceptually speaking.

We ordered a medley of classics: fried calamari, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken parmigiana, chicken Caesar. My kid had been loving him some calamari. Tonight he learned he’d been loving squid.

“Oh, man …” came the lament, but it was actually delicious: crisp, brightly seasoned, and more al dente than the pasta. But were you ever here for the food?

“None of the ceiling fans are turning,” my salad-eating wife said.

“Ceiling fans are kind of a thing here.”

She was right. Maybe that’s why the air was so smoky. Through the light haze, I read an ad, a replica on painted wood, for “Frank Lava, Gunsmith: Revolvers Bought • Sold • Repaired.” Shoot, Frank could open up today and make a killing.

With March Madness in the air, the TV in the bar was tuned into NCAA … wrestling. This caused more confusion than the squid revelation.

“I don’t understand,” my other son said.

“Take them to see the trolley car,” my wife said, with the implication, “while you still can.”

The car was standing room only. It was like watching a small,

test-version of the concept. Other diners ate, enviously studying the trolley diners eat.

Incorporated in 1972, Spaghetti Warehouse had a presence in some 50 cities at its zenith. Over the years, in towns and bricktowns all over, Spaghetti Warehouses have been vanishing, shuttering in neighborhoods now flourishing, thanks to places like Spaghetti Warehouse.

“Akron, Columbus … all the same stories,” said Michael Kim, a VP for BLD, which owns Spaghetti Warehouse. BLD, for “Building Lives and Dreams.”

In Tampa’s Ybor City, it occupied “a large brick building that once was the largest cigar factory in the world and is now owned by the Church of Scientology,” said the Tampa Bay Times. It closed last September.

In Charlotte, it had opened in the old Nebel Knitting Co. mill.

“At the time,” read a post on the Charlotte Eats blog, “the South Blvd corridor was in a state of disarray. Lined with empty buildings and a fringe atmosphere, South End was a depressed area that was avoided by most.”

“Whatever Happened To …

Spaghetti Warehouse?” begged

the headline in the Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle, in a standing column that covers places disappeared.

“The Spaghetti Warehouse was just outside the Inner Loop,” the D&C reported. “Critics praised the look and vibe of the place and the quick service. They were less enamored with the cuisine, but the masses apparently didn’t care.”

From the Austin Eater blog: “The realtors handling the lease told the [Austin American] Statesman there’s been national interest in the historic landmark building and that ‘well-known restaurants have been looking for an opportunity like this in downtown Austin for years.’ Bonus trivia: the building used to be a brothel.”

Michael Klein of the Philadelphia Inquirer said the Philly SW was known for “doling out mass quantities at cheap prices to church groups, PGW workers, and the cops at the nearby FOP headquarters. Kids clamor to sit in the trolley car.”

“Corporate has swept in, and the plug will be pulled after dinner service on Monday.”

That was 2013.

In Cleveland, it occupied a building in the Flats district.

Reported Cleveland 19 News: “Managers at the restaurant said that for the past few months the April 5 - 18, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

restaurant tried to bring in business by changing the menu and lowering prices, but after Sept. 11, business declined even more.”

Our Spaghetti Warehouse, at Cameron and Detroit, moved into the old Nash Finch Grocery Wholesale building. Nash Finch is now SpartanNash, whose mantra is, “Taking food places.”

“In its day, it did very well,” he said of the Brady Spaghetti Warehouse. “But it had been losing hundreds of thousands of dollars for years. We said, ‘Let’s wait for the Kaiser Foundation, let’s wait for oil and gas.’ But the future was not looking advantageous to our brand.

“The bleeding had to stop.”

“In the 1970s and ‘80s,” Michael Kim said, “you could build in the middle of nowhere and people would come to you. They were willing to travel 30, 40 minutes to eat at a restaurant. Now, the model is, ‘Stay there, we’ll build where you are.’ Which is suburbia.”

Jeff Castleberry, of Caz’s and Caz’s Chowhouse, was in the Brady District when it was Spaghetti Warehouse to the east, Mexicali to the west, and Caz’s in the middle and that was that, food-and-drink wise. A lot’s changed in the neighborhood since then, he said, and in the restaurant business generally.

“When I was a kid, we never went out to eat,” Castleberry said.

“Then, probably in the ‘90s, we saw the saturation of the restaurant culture. And, now, we may be seeing the end of it.”

In 2016, quick-service restaurant traffic, which represents 80 percent of total foodservice industry visits, dropped for the first time in five years, according to research conducted by The NPD Group, a market research firm. NPD’s Bonnie Riggs recently authored a report titled, “Losing Our Appetites for Restaurants.”

“The dynamics that have driven the foodservice industry for all these many decades are changing and changing quickly,” Riggs said.

“There will always be a need for foodservice but there is a shift in consumer attitudes and behavior and the landscape is different.”

Castleberry saw the future in the autumn of 2015, in the new and abounding food kiosks of Europe. Casual dining, he said, the kind where you sit down at a table, a waiter takes your order, and you pay $10 to $14 a plate, is yesteryear, over there and probably here.

BLD’s Kim cites a wave toward trendy and hip dining culture “currently flowing through the U.S. So, the other way, as opposed to our direction.”

As we ate, in that hurried way orchestrated by quick-service restaurants, I realized this could be the last time I ever ate (or ate at) these dishes, in any location.1 Done, like the trips to Krebs we used to make for pasta with a side of pasta. The portion sizes are shrinking, and not just on the plate. You could fit all of the Boxyard, with its 17-and-counting shops, inside the one Spaghetti Warehouse. I could feel it all winding down.

“Everybody doing OK?” asked the bartender-hostess, doubling up on jobs.

“Great!” I said.

But it wasn’t great. The food was strangely fine and the service nervous and I should have known to just phone somebody in corporate and leave it at that.

Instead, I asked our waitress, Myra Ybarra, what she was going to do without Spaghetti Warehouse—an almost inconceivable notion given her 14-year career here that started when she was 15.

“I have to think about the positive,” Myra said, one of which was going home to see her kids. She said that, since the announcement, two-hour waits had been routine.

Nobody seemed to mind. Not the people in the trolley. Not the overworked but valiant staff. Not the bargain hunters of Warehouse Wednesdays.

Not even Myra. a

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Since her wish to go to Hawaii was granted in 2012, Katie Goss, from Vinita, Oklahoma, has volunteered for Make-A-Wish Oklahoma as “The World’s Greatest Wish Ambassador,” telling her story at various events and helping raising funds for more Oklahoma wishes to come true.

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Make-A-Wish Oklahoma turns 35 this year, and to celebrate its three and a half decades of granting wishes, the foundation is launching the 35-for-35 Campaign to raise awareness and funding for 2017 Wish kids.

Since its birth in 1982, Make-A-Wish Oklahoma has granted close to 2,800 wishes to Oklahoma children, ages two and a half to 18, who have faced life-threatening illnesses.

“We have been very blessed to do incredible work for so many Oklahoma families over the past 35 years,” says Kendra Loper, director of development and communications for MAWO. “While we celebrate this anniversary and those accomplishments, we are excited to launch 35-for-35 and make this year the best in Make-A-Wish Oklahoma history.”

The campaign will select 35 individuals, or “champions,” among local Wish kids, families, volunteers, supporters, friends and community partners who will take a pledge to share the Make-A-Wish Oklahoma story and help raise resources for continued wish granting in the coming year. These advocates will build teams, network, and strategize ways to spread word of the 35-for-35 Campaign. Selected individuals will tell MAWO’s story through televised appearances, radio interviews and various print and digital media channels. Word-of-mouth will be crucial to the campaign’s success, so champions will utilize their personal social media pages to encourage additional donations and broaden communication reach. Additionally, champions will be asked to host and attend events in which they promote giving back to the foundation with the purpose of engaging new and lapsed donors.

Thanks to a generous challenge grant made on behalf of MakeA-Wish America, every new dollar these selected champions raise through the 35th anniversary year will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $175,000, leaving MAWO with a total fundraising goal of $350,000. Even better, every dollar raised through this campaign will remain in Oklahoma to grant the wishes of Oklahoma children. To date, the foundation has raised $19,210, or 5 percent of its total fundraising goal, which the nonprofit hopes to reach by March 2018.

Make-A-Wish Oklahoma accepts individual and monthly donations, as well as donations in the form of airline miles. The nonprofit requires nearly 3-billion airline miles, or 50,000 round-trip tickets, annually to cover every travel wish made on a national level. To make a contribution and find out more about MAWO, visit www.35for35makeawish.com. a BRADY ARTS DISTRICT GUIDE // 21

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FIGHTING THE 13TH Tulsa activist Peter Von Gotcher

helps organize prison labor strikes across the country

by Mitch Gilliam

OVER TWO MILLION AMERICANS are currently

incarcerated, and the word “Attica� means a great deal to many of them. On September 9, 1971, nearly half of the 2,200 prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York rioted and took 42 staff members hostage.

Last September, the ever-smoldering ashes of Attica were fanned to full inferno on the 45th anniversary of the uprising. The largest prison labor strike in U.S. history took place across 24 states, with 24,000 prisoners participating.

Peter Von Gotcher, a Tulsa-based activist and organizer, played a vital role.

Von Gotcher is a member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and has been interviewed

by ABC New Zealand and the BBC in relation to his prison strike involvement. Al Jazeera has expressed interest in documenting his Southern speaking tours, which are funded by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). >>> FEATURED // 23

“Imagine if these prisoners could put money back,” Von Gotcher said.

“They would be able to take care of probation, get a nice set of clothes for job interviews, and rebuild bridges with their families.

Instead, they’re given a bus ticket, staying at shelters like John 3:16, going to Iron Gate for their meals, and digging through donation boxes to find clothes that never fit.”

Von Gotcher has the kind of rough edged appearance some would call “sketchy.” Though known to post knife-fighting tutorials on his Facebook feed, the tattooed and bearded anarchist emitted genuine warmth as he toured me through the Dennis R. Neill Equality center and found a place for us in the library.

Von Gotcher served six months on a prison yard in 2003 for assault and battery on a police officer. He uses Greyhound for traveling to his speaking tours, and can quickly spot fresh ex-prisoners at the bus stations. Prisoners are often given a bus ticket upon release.

“They’ll be wearing khaki pants and a white t-shirt, or a flannel, and all of their belongings in a plastic or mesh laundry bag, and sometimes they have flip flops,” Von Gotcher said. “I’ve been in prison and I can catch that very lost, ‘What the hell am I doing,’ new-to-theworld expression. But sometimes I’ll say, ‘What yard you come off of?’ and they’ll just say, ‘What the fuck are you talking about?’”

He often uses these interactions to gauge the conditions in specific prisons, and to pass out literature that explains the movement to amend the 13th Amendment.

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

The exception in this clause has allowed what Von Gotcher sees as slave labor to flourish in American prisons.

IWOC, in addition to groups like Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and the Free Alabama Movement, is a member of a coalition aiding the nationwide prison strikes. Their common goal is to remove the criminal exception from the 13th Amendment.

“We leave the demands up to the inmates in the different prisons,” Von Gotcher said. “We’re fighting against the 13th here on the outside, but on the inside, they’re just fighting for basic things.”

Those basic things include access to necessities like toilet paper, or the ability to do their laundry more than once a week. A central demand is fair pay, as some American prisoners are paid as little as 17 cents an hour.

Actions taken by inmates run the gamut of protest tactics—property destruction, hunger strikes, and refusal

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The exception in this clause has allowed what Von Gotcher sees as slave labor to flourish in American prisons.

to work have been employed across the country. Prisoners are uniting across gang and racial lines in pursuit of their common goals.

“You’ve got dudes with swastika tattoos fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with black, Mexican and communist dudes,” Von Gotcher said.

Outside, people like Von Gotcher have formed a robust support network.

“We’ll get inmates with medical issues in touch with insurance companies or specialists,” he said.

In addition to this, they will relay messages between prisoners and their families, and will mount calling campaigns to voice concerns of maltreatment directly to prison staff.

“We call that ‘phone zapping,’” Von Gotcher said.

“We kind of see ourselves as the only way to stop riots, by convincing prisoners to use their labor instead of violent action to create pressure.”

Guards at Alabama’s William C. Holman Correctional Facility joined prisoners in the strike to protest overcrowding after one of their fellow offi-

cers was murdered by one of the 200 inmates he had been left alone to supervise.

Still, some striking prisoners have reported retaliation by prison staff.

“Whether they kick in your cell door in the middle of the night and throw you in isolation without a way for you to tell your loved ones…whether it’s taking away your ‘good time’, which will extend your prison sentence…these are ways they control prisoners,” Von Gotcher said.

Other alleged tactics involve beatings and “pigeon feeding,” a sort of psychological torture where prisoners are served increasingly smaller amounts of food.

At least one prisoner, Kinetic Justice Amun, is still serving time in solitary confinement for his role in the September 2016 strikes. The conditions in the prisons weigh heavy on their residents, and Von Gotcher said he’s become a suicide hotline for many of the inmates with whom he’s corresponded.

Proponents of prison labor have claimed it gives prisoners a chance to

rehabilitate themselves through hard work and learn technical skills from which they can profit on the outside.

Opponents are quick to point out that most ex-cons rarely find work after release. A 2015 report by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights found that 76 percent of the 700 former inmates surveyed reported difficulty in finding work.

“Imagine if these prisoners could put money back,” Von Gotcher said.

“They would be able to take care of probation, get a nice set of clothes for job interviews, and rebuild bridges with their families. Instead, they’re given a bus ticket, staying at shelters like John 3:16, going to Iron Gate for their meals, and digging through donation boxes to find clothes that never fit.”

Additionally, the absence of workplace regulations in prisons increases the risk of on the job injury. While an ex-con may have a hard time finding work, a maimed and disabled one may find it impossible.

When most people think of prison labor they imagine someone in an orange jumpsuit stamping a license plate. In actuality, the person in orange is packaging your Starbucks Christmas blend, processing the beef for your quarter pounder, or sewing the uniforms for American soldiers. They’re also performing skilled labor.

“They’re taking your jobs,” Von Gotcher said. “If I was a welder, I’d be making around 20 bucks an hour… they’re giving those jobs to prisoners for 10 dollars a month.”

Government entity UNICOR employs 22,560 inmates, making them a larger American employer than any Fortune 500 company. In the wake of the Great Recession, many former government jobs are now being given to prisoners for bottom dollar. Roadkill cleanup, government building maintenance, and a variety of other public service jobs are on the table. Thousands of California inmates have been used to fight the state’s forest fires.

President Trump was elected in part for his stated commitment to protecting American jobs from migrants and outsourcing, but private prison stocks soared in tandem with his campaign prospects.

“Your job isn’t going to a Mexican,” Von Gotcher said. “It’s going to some convicted coke dealer in California.”

Oklahoma prisoners did not participate in last September’s historic strike, but they may be involved this year, though that’s all Von Gotcher is willing to say at this moment.

“Oklahoma is a huge prison state, and we have one of the biggest women’s prison populations in the country,” Von Gotcher said. “There’s not a single prisoner I’ve talked to that doesn’t know about how bad Oklahoma’s prisons are… So, to me, the prisoner strike, and abolition movement have just as much to do with Oklahoma as anywhere else.”

Von Gotcher won’t say what prisoners have planned in Oklahoma, but the groups he works with have just announced plans for an even bigger nationwide strike that will take place

Illustrations done from prison by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC)

on August 19. It will be held in tandem with the Millions for Prisoners Human Rights march on Washington, D.C. I asked Von Gotcher what benefit, if any, there was in providing foreknowledge of the strike to prison staff.

“It puts pressure on them, and lets them see this big ball rolling at them down the tube…and it lets them know they better get out of the way.” a

‘I’M STILL TRAINING’ N

oted actor, writer and director Tim Blake Nelson, a native of Tulsa, will deliver the McFarlin Fellows lecture at The University of Tulsa on April 6. Initiated in 1992, invited speakers have included well-known authors, political figures and artists such as playwright Tracy Letts, National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien, and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. The McFarlin Fellows is a giving society affiliated with TU’s McFarlin Library.

Nelson is highly regarded for films he has written and directed, including “Eye of God,” “The Grey Zone,” “Leaves of Grass,” and “Anesthesia.”

As an actor he is best known for roles in films such as “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Syriana.”

THE TULSA VOICE: What is your lecture about?

NELSON: It’s about how changes in technology have impacted the way we think, the way we approach and experience storytelling, and the wider cultural implications of what’s manifested, specifically in our attitudes toward art.

TTV: You’re Tim Blake Nelson, you’re recognizable and now you’re coming home and for some of the time you’ll be your mother’s son. What’s that transformation like for you?

NELSON: I find tremendous pleasure in that. I suppose I’m very well known but I’m not what you would call extremely famous (laughter). I owe the lion’s share of what’s right about my life to my mother, so it’s very easy to go home and exist in the role of the son in her house. I frankly feel that I owe a tremendous amount to her.

TTV: Are you writing anything at the moment?

NELSON: I’m in this weird position of actually having a bit of a backlog.

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Tim Blake Nelson talks Old Testament, James Franco, and self-evaluation

by MICHAEL WRIGHT

and I’m very excited about that. But I’ve got a movie that I’m supposed to be directing at the beginning of next year—something I’m just directing, I didn’t write it—and I’ll wait until I know what’s going on with that before I start pursuing making this new Oklahoma script.

TTV: Your films seem in one way or another to be about fate. What are your philosophical underpinnings?

NELSON: I work on what interests me and if there’s a common theme it goes back to the Old Testament and Judaism and the notion that man is a venal creature with an unruly core, who strives to organize a world that is just as unruly and merciless as he is. We have this gorgeous desire to control ourselves and the world around us through law, definition, structure and limitation, without which there’s going to be chaos and eventually extinction. I’m interested in the impact of all that on the individual and how ultimately our impulse to control ourselves fails and what we do to confront that. And that probably is common to all [my] movies: the need for structure and laws and the ultimate folly of that for the individual.

TTV: You’ve worked a lot with James Franco. What is it like when you have a running relationship with one director?

NELSON: James has been a really important collaborator in my own development, particularly as a filmmaker. I had reached a point in my career when I felt like I had it very well under control. I would do two or three nice character roles a year, make

a movie every five years or so—which is all another way to say I’d become somewhat complacent.

And then I got a call one day, asking me to be in the film “Child of God” that James was directing. It was a Cormac McCarthy novel I really loved and I certainly admired James and so I immediately said yes. I found myself in West Virginia on what was quite familiar as a movie set [but] also quite unfamiliar to me because the movie set was inhabited by a sort of collective that had gathered around James. Everybody was working for the same amount of money; everyone was young. There was a stance of collective ownership of what was being put on the screen. It just served to remind me why I got into this in the first place which was the spirit of collaboration along with a rigor of spirit toward all coming together in a cohesive way, with as little hierarchy as possible.

I became a much more productive writer and director because James reminded me that I’ve only got one life and I want to get as much done during that life as possible and that there’s really no excuse or upside to complacency.

TTV: Obviously, you’re never going to be the leading man “type.” That must give you a lot of freedom in a way.

NELSON: It gives me a tremendous amount of freedom. I was with another character actor on a set years ago and he said, “I don’t want to do this anymore, I don’t want to be the ‘guy next to the guy,’ I want to be the ‘guy.’” I’ve never had any interest in being “the guy,” unless it’s a film that’s driven by the character and then I’m fine. I think character roles are more interesting.

I like being in a lot of different stories

and going to a lot of different places; it’s a more adventurous life. I also can take risks I couldn’t take as a leading man because if I do a character part in a movie and the movie doesn’t work it’s not going to do much damage to my career.

TTV: What was your development as an actor from your training at Juilliard?

NELSON: I’m still training. I feel like I’m still learning. Juilliard was really the nonpareil in terms of teaching how to work with language, technically, and how to work technically with the body as well. But every director, every experience has taught me something.

After Juilliard, I worked with this director, Mark Wing-Davey, and from him I learned how to work actively with scene partners. That was enormous.

Then I started doing more and more films and I remain in this process of learning how to work on film. I’ve done over 60 movies now and still I trip myself up and look at my work and say, “That’s too theatrical,” or, “These other actors seem to have the tone of the piece right and I didn’t quite get that.”

It’s this never-ending process that takes an enormous degree of openness and discipline and the self-confidence to be able to be self-critical.

TTV: Many actors say they can’t or won’t watch themselves in a film.

NELSON: I’ve gotten to the point now where I can watch myself and say, “Alright, that performance works. This scene, that scene, maybe I could have made some adjustments, but by and large that works.”

There’s a movie coming out next month called “Colossal,” which is really good; it’s a wonderful film made by a Spanish director named Nacho Vigalondo. I’m happy with my performance in that. I think, “All right, you got the tone of the movie and I believe you.” This is just to say I’m capable of looking at myself and being satisfied.

But I’m also capable of looking at myself and saying, “That just didn’t work.” It’s how I can get better. a FEATURED // 27

THE NAKED CULT ON THE MUTHASHIP Looking back on a wild time with Tulsa’s favorite adopted punk band, Hickey

by KRIS ROSE

IN 90S TULSA, you could still

get your ass kicked for looking like a freak. The cops regularly beat up your friends, took you to jail, pulled you over for no reason, harassed you on the street. Strange guys still yelled obscenities at you even if you were just two girls trying to get food after the bar closed. It felt like we were always fighting just to exist, surrounded on all sides by religious fanatics, homophobes, misogynists, rednecks, and racists.

Then Hickey, or The Naked Cult of Hickey as they were also known, rode in on their van, The Muthaship, to save us, or at least to let us know we were

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already saved. It would have been very easy to believe the trio—Matty Luv, Aesop, and Rizzler (aka Dwight Trash)— were a band of traveling evangelists, and that we, their audience, were having a “Come to Jesus” moment of pure rapture in their presence, a rock ‘n’ roll hallelujah chorus of “The Only Lesbian in Tulsa” sung out word for word, everyone joined together in this moment, a great moment, purely because it was theirs and it was happening in the most unlikely city.

Though Hickey was from San Francisco, they became honorary Tulsans from the moment they played the Hercules Lounge in 1994, perhaps because

their lack of aesthetic fit perfectly with our own. They felt the way we felt and said the things that rang true at that time in our lives. They made fast, catchy songs with squealing guitar and animalistic drums, held together by throbbing bass, on the verge of collapsing into chaos yet somehow never crossing that line. The lyrics were a fine balance of humor, intelligence, politics, and poetry—true cynicism mixed with a deeply held belief in their own moral code. It was why some lived in shithole houses and put on shows for no money. Here was a smart, hilarious band telling us we were the good guys, to keep fighting the good fight. It was

everything we needed when everything was falling apart.

I heard Hickey before I ever saw them play live. I was 17, and my best friend brought their 7” home from his first punk show. The lyrics “Everyone’s a whore...life is cheap, but living is expensive...” warbled through my speakers and into my consciousness.

I knew I was listening to greatness, something that was happening in my own time, not greatness that had happened in some far away place. I had heard the Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, The Clash—great bands that were unreachable on so many levels.

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that I could see and talk to, experience in its heyday. We listened to that 7” countless times and played it for everyone. By the time they played their second Tulsa show in Chris Fitzpatrick’s basement, it was apparent that this was something big.

I didn’t see them live until they played their third Tulsa show at The Eclipse, owned by Tulsa’s biggest personality, Kay Rahal. The show was all ages and packed, with seemingly every weirdo in Tulsa in the same room.

Tulsa had recently enacted a new curfew for kids under 18. When it was becoming evident some kids might have to leave before the show was over, the drummer stood up behind his kit and yelled into his microphone, “First, they don’t trust you with real beer, now they don’t even trust you with real time!” The crowd exploded into cheers and laughter.

The after-party was at a house we called “Headquarters.” My roommate ran off with Matty, the singer and guitar player, while I hung out with Aesop, the drummer, whom I’d previously met when he came through town playing drums for Grinch.

I’m not sure how it was decided Hickey’s next show would be at my house (affectionately named “The Crackhowse”) but a few months later they were preparing to play in my living room. It was a large, dilapidated two-story house, and we thought we could easily host a large audience without a problem. We were in no way prepared for the 400 people who showed up. Before the opening band could set up, we were surrounded by cops—at the door, in a paddy wagon out front, and in a helicopter shining a spotlight onto our roof, where some kids had crawled out to enjoy the spectacle. As the most responsible resident, it fell on me to talk to the cops.

I was sheltering a troubled 15-yearold runaway girl, whom they caught drunkenly peeing off of the roof.

They arrested her. One of the officers implied that because she was drunk, she was having sex with every guy inside the party. Furious, I berated him and his commanding officer and somehow convinced them that it was inappropriate to talk about a teenage girl in that way, especially in front of her. Their guilt and regret saved anyone else from being arrested, but it couldn’t save my runaway, whose parents knew where she was and couldn’t have cared less. The cops took her to juvie.

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About 200 people left the party at that point. The remaining mob crammed into my house. The only place I could sit was on the stairs behind the bands. By that time I was sober, exhausted, and worried about my adopted teenager. I wish I could say I enjoyed watching Hickey play that night, but the memory is a blur of adrenaline and anxiety.

At the end of the night, Matty and Aesop gave me records and a canister of pepper spray as thank-you gifts.

Just then, the phone rang. It was my teenage runaway, who had escaped the juvenile institution by jumping out of a second-story window and shimmying down a basketball hoop.

She was waiting at a friend’s house and wanted me to pick her up. And that’s how the decision was made to follow Hickey to Fort Smith, Ark. We would hide our runaway at a friend’s, so if the cops came looking, she would be safe.

That night, Aesop, the runaway, and I stayed up drinking and playing UNO. We wrote silly messages like “I love Snausages!” all over my sleeping friend Nadia. Later that morning I decided that I, too, needed a break from Tulsa. I gathered my courage and asked the band if I could join them on their tour. They agreed, and I climbed into the Muthaship and traveled the South with my favorite band. These guys looked like every parent’s worst nightmare—but they were perfect gentlemen. They called me their “14-year-old roadie” (I was actually 19) and bought me Taco Bell when I was broke. I returned the favor by macing a violent maniac for them in Alabama.

I learned every city wasn’t like Tulsa—there weren’t always throngs of eager kids waiting to shower them with food and praise.

After tour, Matty welcomed me and my friend into his SF home for three weeks, no questions asked. He platonically shared his bed, his food, his time, and gave me a special prize for telling the best and most traumatic loss-of-virginity story while coming down from some excellent crystal meth. The prize was a necklace that simply said “FUCK” in gold letters. I still have it.

As it turned out, that would be their last tour, and the last of the band as well. They broke up in Tucson in the fall of 1997. Rizzler, bassist and van mechanic, ran off to make crazy things through redneck engineering.

Kris Rose (right) and friend Eric Marlow, circa Hickey’s Eclipse show, 1997 | COURTESY KRIS ROSE

Inside the Crackhowse, Nov. 1997 | COURTESY KRIS ROSE

Hickey drummer Aesop in his room at the Hickey hotel in the Mission District, San Francisco, Dec. 1997 COURTESY KRIS ROSE

Aesop plays violently good drums for several metal bands in the Bay area and raises his amazing kiddo in Oakland. Matty Luv, lead singer, guitarist, and shit starter extraordinaire, died in October 2002, leaving a hole in the heart of everyone who knew him.

I last saw Matty at Mission Records the night he played with Dr. Dre Del as DJ Queenie. I was only able to talk with him for a moment, but I did thank him one more time for letting me stay with him before his girlfriend dragged him

away. I talk to Aesop through the internet now and again, but I haven’t seen Rizzler since Matty’s funeral. I don’t listen to Hickey as much, but still I have their logo tattooed on my wrist as a reminder, and if you ask me I’ll tell you some stories, but most importantly I will put on their music, music that makes me feel that special blend of nostalgia and hope for the future, and make you listen to the best band that Tulsa ever loved, and who loved Tulsa in return. a FEATURED // 29

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The Ponyboy effect The enduring relevance of S.E. Hinton’s ‘The Outsiders’

by ZACK REEVES

T

o commemorate the massive successes of “The Outsiders” and its movie adaptation, S.E. Hinton sat in the well of a theater in Circle Cinema last month and answered questions from 250 fans. The event celebrating the book’s 50th anniversary was sold out and I couldn’t get into the room. Instead, I sat in the lobby, where it was livestreamed.

In a particularly poignant moment, one fan asked Hinton how she felt about the enormous influence the book has had— sometimes in practical, life-altering ways—on so many readers.

“Well,” Hinton said, “It’s one thing when people tell me they loved the book, or it got them into reading, all that. That’s great, I love that.” She paused and looked into her lap. “But when someone tells me the book stopped them from committing suicide, that scares me. Who am I, to save somebody’s life?”

In 1774, German novelist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” wherein the titular character kills himself with a pistol while dressed in yellow pants and a blue jacket. Besides catapulting the young Goethe to instant literary fame, the novel also sent young men to their self-inflicted deaths in spades: same weapon, same outfit. To this day, when copycat suicides spread throughout a region, it is referred to as “The Werther Effect.”

As a literary device, death offers readers a route into the text, being a convenient way to ratchet up tension and stakes. And characters who die need not be particularly interesting for readers to understand their death’s effect in a story.

Life is not so easy to affirm in a novel. Characters must be

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well-rounded and real for readers to understand that their lives matter. And to take the extra step of self-identifying with the character, readers must be able to see themselves reflected in the character’s struggle.

People die without having ever seen themselves reflected in a work of art. Their lives could have been more (as all of ours could be): more beautiful, more experienced, more understood, had they found

a foil within literature, a mirror with which to accept themselves the way amputees use mirrors to correct phantom limb pain. But this is not so easy to find, and it is far, far harder to create.

The answer to Hinton’s question, “Who am I?” is simple: an artist.

I don’t like the idea that artists are beholden to their fans to provide certain answers about life, and I don’t think Hinton does

either. And yet, the relationship remains. Readers take to heart what books say and how they say it, often with more heed than they would give their loved ones.

(Ponyboy, from “The Outsiders,” is like this. He barely understands or listens to his eldest brother, yet can recite Robert Frost from memory.) The artist’s unacknowledged obligations to a reader are moral, and many, even most, fail.

But “The Outsiders” succeeds.

When Hinton’s talk at Circle Cinema ended, she came into the lobby to sign the new 50th anniversary edition of the book: a gorgeous black-bound hardback with gold lettering. The attendees with tickets wore bright green wristbands and looks of eagerness so palpable the event could have been a pop concert.

A guy in all black sat down next to me. His name was Joe, and he didn’t have tickets either. We talked as the queue streamed by, both of us outsiders at the “Outsiders” event. He revealed that, back in the eighties, he was an extra in the movie, during the “rumble” scene.

His black mustache spread wide as he smiled talking about it.

“I got all those actors to sign my book, the paperback,” he said.

“Got Susie’s [Hinton’s] autograph too. I didn’t ask for Tom Cruise’s, though; to be honest, I didn’t think he’d make it as a movie star.”

We laughed about it. I think most of us see ourselves as one kind of outsider or another. (Even Tom Cruise was B-list in Joe’s eyes.) That’s why the book has such a lasting appeal; that’s why it can stay the hand with a gun, or a bottle of pills.

By the end of the book, Ponyboy finally decides to own himself—his identity as an outsider— and his story. That’s his effect, and it’s as good as gold. a April 5 - 18, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

@TPAC

UPCOMING EVENTS Apr. 5-27- Michael Knigin- The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art- PAC Gallery Apr. 5- Brown Bag It: Tulsa Camerata- PAC Trust Apr. 8- Brahms’ Requiem- Tulsa Symphony Classics Apr. 8- L.O.V. The Art Within U- Oklahoma Performing Arts Apr. 11-16- Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage- Celebrity Attractions Apr. 14- Bollywood And BeyondSouth Asian Performing Arts Foundation Apr. 18- Che MalamboChoregus Productions

TICKETS: tulspac.com 918-596-7111

THE PLAYHOUSE TULSA & ORU THEATRE PRESENT

April 12 & 13 at 7pm Howard Auditiorium,

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heatre Pops’ production of “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” is a bold choice here in the Bible belt. The play takes on the title character, Judas—persistently reviled throughout history—in the form of a trial to determine his ultimate fate. Utilizing strong language, many of the characters speak more like people from the New York City streets than inhabitants of Purgatory. This is part of the play’s genius: we are never mired in the turgid speech often found in historical dramas.

“I was trying to demystify people we’ve always thought of as saints,” said author Stephen Adly Guirgis. “The apostles were common people: fishermen and tax collectors. The idea was to communicate to the audience that these were regular folk.”

This is evident in the Theatre Pops production, where we feel a kinship with the characters because they reveal themselves through naturalistic speech.

Guirgis uses a broad approach in crafting the trial, showing many differing perspectives on Judas by having a wide variety of characters testify, including Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud and even Satan.

“In the state of Oklahoma, where many of us take the story of Jesus and Judas for granted, I think putting a contemporary face on the story is important,” said Angela McLaughlin, co-director of the play. Rick Harrelson, the play’s other co-director, concurred.

“When we view something from more than one perspective we gain a clearer and more robust understanding of that thing,” Harrelson said.

“Judas” is Guirgis’s most frequently produced play and it’s easy to understand why. The script provides a range of viewpoints, not only on Judas and the other biblical characters, but takes aim at iconic twentieth-century figures as well. Mother Teresa (a hilari-

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A TRIAL FOR THE AGES Theatre Pops presents ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’

by MICHAEL WRIGHT

Theatre Pops’ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” | COURTESY

ous Barbara Murn) and Sigmund Freud (Thomas Hunt, who also assays the role of Satan), perhaps saints in their own realms, are shown to be flawed people, rife with contradictions. This provides a modern counterpoint to figures in Judas’s story who are too far back in history to be fully known.

The historical characters are treated to the same intense cross-examination as the modern paragons. The play entertains while asking us to think about our own assumptions and philosophies.

Guirgis attributes his interest in Judas from third grade lessons

in Catholic school, where the nuns wouldn’t say definitively that Judas went to hell but hinted that he had. It became a crisis of faith over the nature of divine judgment for Guirgis. The play speculates about Judas’s destiny in the afterlife and examines larger concerns about spiritual issues such as compassion and the possibility of redemption.

Theatre Pops’ production of the play is straightforward and earnest. The pace of the performances is uneven at times, some of which is attributable to the script. During our interview,

Guirgis candidly acknowledged, “The play is flawed.” It’s true: certain scenes are overly long or have identically escalating arcs, creating a rhythm that is predictable and disengaging. Other moments, however, played with heart and simplicity, genuinely draw us in through writing that vectors easily between funny, unsettling and thoughtful.

Some performances are outstanding. Blake Simpson as Matthias of Galilee is moving as a kid whose only desire is to own a spinning top like the other kids; his Simon the Zealot is a knowit-all street punk, spoiling for a fight. Michelle Cullom brings verve and wit to her portrayal of Guirgis’s sassy-as-I-wanna-be version of Saint Monica, while Timothy Hunter does fine work with monochromatic Judge Littlefield and the self-justifying Caiaphas the Elder. Andy Axewell plays an arrogantly unrepentant Pilate and then eases the play toward its luminous end as heartbroken Butch Honeywell. Forgiveness is possible, for Butch and for Judas (a solid Chris Williams). Freddie Tate presents us with quiet humility in his portrayal of Jesus, delivering compassion in the final moments of the play where Jesus kneels to wash the feet of Judas. In the end, the trial is beside the point: no human failing is irredeemable.

The play calls for a huge ensemble: fifteen actors portray twenty-seven characters. Everyone in the cast is up to their roles and the energy on stage seldom flags. The production succeeds in bringing to life a difficult script and its provocative ideas without settling for easy or stock choices.

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” runs nearly three hours with intermission; the play contains strong language and sexual references—definitely not for children. The show runs Thursday, April 6, through Sunday, April 9 at the Tulsa PAC Liddy Doenges Theatre. Visit theatrepops.org for more information. a April 5 - 18, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

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RESTING CARE BEAR FACE

Vanessa Dawn | GREG BOLLINGER

Catch comedian Vanessa Dawn before she skips town

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by MITCH GILLIAM

anessa Dawn is leaving the building—er, town.

For the past few years, the Tulsa comic has featured on and emceed countless shows and hosted the VFW’s weekly open mic. By month’s end, Dawn will be settled into Seattle, and between now and then Tulsans only have two shots left to catch her act.

I caught Dawn at a recent Comedy Parlor open mic, which she hit right after a restaurant shift.

“Sorry I’m ratchy, y’all,” she told the crowd. “I can’t go anywhere after work without smelling like food. I go to the library and all the homeless people look at me like … a snack.”

Those pre-punchline pauses feature largely in Dawn’s sets. She has a knack for leading audiences right to the ledge of a laugh, and letting them see the drop before shoving them over.

“Has anyone else noticed how all the zoos in this state are, like, low-key built right next to the ‘hood?” she asked. “I think somebody designed it like a Katrina situation, like … ‘If the animals get out and do fuck shit up?’”

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of their price tag and “just how fucked up the world is”), and demonic possession. Dawn navigates the sometimes-uncomfortable subject matter of her sets with a conversational tone and a bright, permanent grin, as if to say, “I know something you don’t.”

“A lot of girls say they have resting bitch face,” Dawn said.

“I think I have the opposite, like I have resting Care Bear face …

Something about this,”—she points to her face—“just says, ‘Tell me all your problems.’”

Dawn, a former DHS worker, said her “resting Care Bear” affliction is all too real.

“People will just tell me the craziest shit, like, ‘Hey, didn’t need to hear that so you can get food stamps, sir, but thanks for sharing…’ Oh my god, he’s a murderer!”

“I started comedy as a dare, actually,” Dawn said. “My roommate said, ‘You’re pretty funny,’ and my dad said, ‘No, you’re not.’”

Over the past three years, she’s proven her skeptical father wrong, and the pursuit of comedy is driving her move to Seattle.

Catch Dawn at a farewell roast at The Venue Shrine on April 10, and her two Comedy Parlor farewell shows April 14 and 15. a

DONT MISS! SATURDAY APRIL 22 7:30PM TICKETS: MyTicketOffice.com 918-596-7111 3rd & Cincinnati

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O G N I B FIRST FRIDAY

is once again upon us. popular First Friday Art Crawl nightlife in Tulsa.

The Brady Arts District’s wildly te both the arts and downtown mo pro to way l rfu nde wo a e om The monthly tradition has bec g to poke fun at it.

We love it, so of course we’re goin rk. game, crafted with love and sna Here’s your First Friday Bingo

Broke millennial just there for the veggie tray

A repressed pyromaniac

Buskers

Steve Liggett wearing a hat

Some dude mansplaining art

“Visceral” in an artist statement

Reference to 1921 Race Riot

More than one hyphen in an artist statement

Main Street nostalgia

Circular horn-rimmed glasses

Free cheese cubes

Sweet white wine

Overhearing the word “aesthetic”

Pedestrians ignoring the crosswalk

Works titled “Untitled”

FREE

Custom poetry from a typewriter

Some jerk biking on the sidewalk

Optimistic pricing

Intimidating eyebrows

Cattle noir

Installation art that’s really just a pile of trash

subsidized by GKFF

Works “inspired by nature”

The last three people you slept with, in the same gallery at the same time

Artistic parking

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YES, SHE CAN The League of Women Voters will host the Madam President event, with original art by John Hammer

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he League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Tulsa (LWV) recently announced their annual Madam President event, in which Tulsans nominate local women who could/should be president. Last year’s event honored 35 women, including Deborah Gist, Kathy Taylor and Jeannie McDaniel. The 2017 results will be announced on May 9 at the Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity at TCC. Tickets for the event can be purchased at lwvtulsa.org/madampresident.

In addition to heavy hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, guests will have a chance to take home one of three new paintings of famous historical women by Tulsa artist John Hammer, who created these works specifically for the Madam President event.

Hammer first contributed to the event last year, with five original paintings, after LWV proposed the idea. “[They] approached me with the idea of doing some portraits to draw attention to Madam President,” Hammer said. “It sounded like a fun project and I hadn’t taken the time to paint many women, so I looked at it also as a challenge.”

Through an online poll, LWV members determined the women Hammer would paint.

Here, we present to you Hammer’s 2017 Madam President paintings: Frida Kahlo, Maya Angelou, and Michelle Obama. Prints of each are available for purchase now and at the event; the original works will be given away in a series of raffles on the night of. a

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EASTER ISLAND MUSIC & CAMPING FESTIVAL Thursday, April 6 to Sunday, April 9

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aster Island returns to Valley Park (just a half-hour northeast of Downtown Tulsa) for three nights of music and camping. Over two dozen bands will perform over the weekends festivities, including Turkuaz, Jon Wayne & The Pain, Greyhounds, Mountain Sprout, and ROAR, and local acts including The Moai Broadcast, Mike Dee and Stone Trio, Paul Benjaman Band, Henna Roso, Grazzhopper, Count Tutu, The Grits, and many more. The festival will also feature art and vendors, yoga workshops, a 3K trail run, and more.

Valley Park Sports Complex, easterislandfestival.com

COMEDY

GARDENING

Comedy legend Chris Rock performs at Paradise Cove at River Spirit Casino. April 6, 8 p.m., $125$450, riverspirittulsa.com

Find herbs, peppers, heirloom tomatoes, and other unique plants at the annual Herb Day in Brookside.

April 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., facebook.com/HerbDayInBrookside

LOCAL ART

CRAFT SHOW

The fourth annual Back Gallery Portrait Show—in which 99 local artists have been randomly selected to create portraits of each other—with music from Planet What! and The Hot N Dirty Thirtysomethings. April 7, 6-9 p.m., facebook.com/backgallery

Indie Trunk Show returns to Tulsa with dozens of crafters, artists, and makers—all from Oklahoma.

April 8, 10a.m.-5 p.m., Central Park Hall, Expo Square, indietrunkshowokc.com

GARDENING

VIDEO GAMES

SpringFest 2017 at Tulsa Garden Center features plant vendors, arts and crafts, children’s activities, and more to celebrate the season. April 7-8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., tulsagardencenter.com

Heartland Gaming Expo features speakers from the video game industry, games produced by upand-coming indie developers, and the largest game development competition in the region. April 8-9, Reynolds Center, heartlandgamingexpo.com

OPENING PARTY

LOCAL COMEDY

Celebrate the grand opening of the mystical land known as The Unicorn Club (in the former location of Electric Circus). April 7-9, 9 p.m.-2a.m., facebook.com/unicorntulsa

Several local comedians, including Ryan Green, Andrew Deacon, and De’Marrio Oates, will take part in The Farewell Roast of Vanessa Dawn before Dawn moves west. April 10, 8:30 p.m., The Venue Shrine

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FIRST FRIDAY // APRIL 7 108 Contemporary – “Steeped: The Art of Tea,” gift shop artist: Sarah Bliss; AHHA – “Precarious Arrangement” by Angela Piehl, “Re-envisioned Architecture” by Ama Rockett-Todd, “The PhotoArk” by Joel Sartore, Harwelden Awards Exhibit; Back Gallery – Annual Portrait Show; Bar 46 – Oil on canvas by Sally Pierson; Brady Artist Studio – Pottery by Mel Cornshucker, Donna Prigmore, Erin Slauson, Chas Foote, Jewelry and wire weaving by Rachel and Seth Dazey; Caz’s Chowhouse – Music and art by Josh Caudle; Caz’s Pub – Live graffiti art; Chimera Café – Art by Austin McAfee; Classic Cigars – Art by John Hammer; Club Ma jestic – Hoe You Think You Can Dance? Contest; Chrysalis Salon – “Explosive Nature,” photographs by Larry Saideman; Gypsy Coffee House – Art by Zoe Michaels, music by The Mules; Hey Mambo – Scott Goodpasteryre; The Hunt Club – Music by Interlaced; Living Arts – “Luminous Topographies” by Emily Chase, “Strange Days” by Michael McRuiz, “Notes From the Road” and “Exit 6A” by Clifford Tresner; Mainline Art & Cocktails – “Leftovers” by Codak Smith; Philbrook Downtown – “The Alphabet of Lili” by Mike Glier; TAC Gallery – “Drawn to Art” by John Hammer; Tulsa Glassblowing School – Glassblowing demo by TGS staff; Zarrow Center – “Tidal Shift” by Art Werger

ART SHOW

Tulsa Girls Art School celebrates 10 years with the Tenfold Spring Art Show featuring paintings, screen prints, ceramics, and other media, and music

by DJ Kylie. April 13, 5:30-8 p.m., tulsagirlsartschool.org

BASEBALL

The Tulsa Drillers take on the Midland RockHounds for their first home game of the season. April 13, 7 p.m., $5-$15, tulsadrillers.com

BEST OF THE REST EVENTS Youth Poetry Workshop // Living Arts will offer a free poetry workshop for high school students. // 4/6, Living Arts, livingarts.org Epic Birthday Latte Art Throwdown // Celebrate Fair Fellow’s first birthday // 4/7, Fair Fellow Coffee Co., fairfellowcoffee.com Ladies Night 90s Party // Buy one get one free on all used merchandise. // 4/7, Gardner’s Used Books & Music, gardnersbooks.com

In the Route 66 Gurney Tourney, teams race, pushing each other on gurneys to raise funds and awareness for Hospitality House of Tulsa. April 15, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., The University of Tulsa, hhtulsa.org

LOBBYING

Learn how to contact your legislators about issues that are important to you at the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice’s Lobbying 101 Training.

April 15, 1-4 p.m., Rudisill Regional Library, ocrj.org

POETRY

The 2017 Poetry Slam at Living Arts will see 18 spoken word artists bearing their souls and over $500 in prize money on the line. April 15, 8 p.m., $10, livingarts.org

Shane Mauss: A Good Trip // 4/13, Chimera Cafe, chimeracafe.com Tulsa Tonight // 4/14, Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com

Tulsa Auto Show // 4/7-4/9, Expo Square - River Spirit Expo, thetulsaautoshow.com

The Sandman, Hypnotist // 4/13-4/15, Loony Bin, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

Curator Walkthrough - “Steeped: The Art of Tea” // 4/8, 108 | Contemporary, 108contemporary.org

Vanessa Dawn: The Future’s So Bright // 4/14-4/15, Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com

The Saturn Room’s Second Birthday Luau // 4/9, Saturn Room, saturnroom.com

Dave Landau // 4/5-4/8, Loony Bin, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

OK Reptile Expo // 4/9, Cox Business Center, coldbloodedexpos.com

Jeff Foxworthy & Larry the Cable Guy // 4/15, BOK Center, bokcenter.com

April Fools // 4/7-4/8, Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com

SPORTS Tulsa Oilers vs Allen Americans // 4/7, BOK Center, bokcenter.com

J Fridays 90’s Party // 4/15, The Venue Shrine, tulsashrine.com

Tulsa Oilers vs Wichita Thunder // 4/8, BOK Center, bokcenter.com

PERFORMING ARTS

Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Sacramento Republic FC // 4/8, ONEOK Field, roughnecksfc.com

TSO Classics: Brahms’ Requiem // 4/8, Tulsa Performing Arts Center Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com L.O.V. The Art Within U // 4/8, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - John H. Williams Theatre, tulsapac.com Theresa Caputo // 4/11, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint, hardrockcasinotulsa.com Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage // 4/11-4/16, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com Bollywood and Beyond // 4/14-4/16, Tulsa Performing Arts Center John H. Williams Theatre, tulsapac.com

COMEDY

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Stand Up Comedy // 4/10, The Venue Shrine, tulsashrine.com

Blue Dome Social Club // 4/15, Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com

Che Malambo // 4/18-4/16, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com

Sandy Wexler’s Here Comes the Funny Tour brings former SNL castmates Adam Sandler, David Spade, and Rob Schneider, as well as Nick Swardson to River Spirit Casino’s Paradise Cove. April 18, 8 p.m., $115-$135, riverspirittulsa.com

Sunday Night Stand Up // 4/9, Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com

Babypalooza - The Painted Pacifier // Babypalooza is a concert and student art competition to benefit Emergency Infant Services taking place during First Friday. // 4/7, eistulsa.org

Hogs 4 Service Dogs // 4/15, Glad Wags Service Dogs, gladwagsservicedogs.com RUN

Comedy Buzz w/ De’Marrio Oates, T.J. Clark, Laura Cook, Michael Jordan Dunn, and more // 4/9, The Beehive Lounge

COMEDY Army of Stand Ups // 4/7, Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com Comfort Creatures // 4/8, Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com

The Color Run 5K // 4/8, River West Festival Park, thecolorrun.com Walk MS: Tulsa 2017 // 4/8, Guthrie Green, main.nationalmssociety.org Yoga Groove // 4/9, IDL Ballroom, idlballroom.com Tulsa Drillers vs Midland RockHounds // 4/14, ONEOK Field, tulsadrillers.com Xtreme Fight Night 341 // 4/14, River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove, riverspirittulsa.com Tulsa Drillers vs Midland RockHounds // 4/15, ONEOK Field, tulsadrillers.com Derby Dash 5K // 4/15, Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, tulsaboyshome.org Tulsa Drillers vs Frisco RoughRiders // 4/17, ONEOK Field, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Frisco RoughRiders // 4/18, ONEOK Field, tulsadrillers.com ARTS & CULTURE // 37

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EMOTIONAL, NOT MATHEMATICAL An interview with Billy Howerdel, founding member of A Perfect Circle

by TY CLARK From left, James Iha, Billy Howerdel, Matt McJunkins, Jeff Friedl, and Maynard James Keenan of A Perfect Circle | COURTESY

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aving worked as a producer and former guitar tech for Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie and TOOL—among others—Billy Howerdel wanted to be around like-minded people. After showing his music to his friend, TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan, Howerdel and Keenan recruited an all-star cast of musicians and A Perfect Circle (APC) was born.

Featuring players from Queens of the Stone Age, TOOL, and Smashing Pumpkins, APC released their first studio album, Mer De Noms, in May 2000, which sold over 188,000 copies its first week, making it the highest selling rock debut in history. It went platinum in October that same year.

Currently, APC is touring while preparing to release its next studio album. They play Tulsa on April 22 at the BOK Center.

Besides Howerdel and Keenan, current members include Matt McJunkins (The Beta Machine, Eagles of Death Metal), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), and Jeff Friedl (The Beta Machine, Puscifer).

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THE TULSA VOICE: Last year it was announced that you were working on a new album. Where does it stand now?

BILLY HOWERDEL: I’m working on it right now. It’s getting all the stars to align, with our schedules, that’s going to make it possible…

If all goes [according] to plan, we should see it in 2017.

Right now, I have the songs in demo form but they’re easily finishable, but he’s sending me down different paths and has asked me to take out my scissors and cut them into different shapes and paste them back on a page. We can be in the same room but we just happen to be communicating about the same track—just in different parts of the country.

TTV: Are you producing it yourself?

TTV: Do you prefer doing it that way?

HOWERDEL: So far I’ve just been working by myself. Literally, been in my room with no one else around working on these songs. I send mixes off to Maynard on a server and he’s been working on them in his isolation. Then we’re going to get together next month and combine where we’re holding these ideas, then get in a room and get with the band, play them in a live setting and see what happens with the human element that comes into the picture.

I’m waiting for some feedback—some of Maynard’s ideas.

We tracked years ago. I’m getting very anxious and curious to see where Maynard is at with things.

HOWERDEL: Well, that’s kind of how we’ve always done the other APC records. I write it by myself and get it to a place where I’m not embarrassed by it anymore, then present it. And then usually Maynard writes to it. Then, again, we get the band together into a rehearsal room and work them out. Now, to be honest, I’d kind of prefer it the other way. Maynard and I have talked about this before: going somewhere away from my home base, away from his home base and going on working vacation. Working together somewhere in isolation for 10 days and just seeing what happens.

TTV: Are you aware of any possible themes or lyrical content?

HOWERDEL: Not really. We’ve talked about broad concepts of themes for the past two years but it’s light. We’ve talked about visual themes. There is a narrative, I think, that’s gonna drive some of the lyrical content, but that’s his thing. I work in isolation with the music and come up with the unspoken emotion of what our music is gonna be to start with, then Maynard reacts to that, then we have a conversation and I react to what he gives me. So, I don’t know where it’s gonna land. There’s no intended direction. You never know where it’s gonna go and that’s what’s nice about collaboration. It’s not mathematical, it’s very much emotional. The bird shitting on your head when walking into the studio could completely change the direction of the song or the kiss you just got from your dying grandmother. All these things in your life can contribute to what’s going to be put down on a page or the keyboard.

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TTV: Do you enjoy touring or are you more of a studio guy?

you anticipate similar messages on this record?

HOWERDEL: Sort of 50/50 but I’m leaning a little more towards touring. I kind of grew up in that world. I like traveling. I like being in different places. I’ve made many friends all over the world through touring for the past 27 years.

Touring musicians get a very unique perspective where we have a job to do but our job is interfacing, sometimes intimately, sometimes from a distance, with people who’ve worked really hard and want to be where we’re gonna be.

I think you see the best in people.

You see the best of the hard day or shitty day that they had and this is their escape. It is for us too, and we are lucky to be a part of that.

HOWERDEL: I think it’s probably impossible to escape the torment that we all are going through in this year.

I am open to people taking the interpretation of this album and seeing what happens. I think that’s what’s interesting about music: as long as you are not being psychotic about it and having delusions—

then it becomes dangerous—but it’s nice to have your own interpretations of songs. I would think for any artist—whichever side of the political spectrum—it’s going to be really hard to not have influence [from] what’s going on. So, in a way this turmoil is probably really great for the arts. It starts your engine at a pretty high RPM. TTV: What can Tulsa expect from the APC show?

HOWERDEL: We’re not promising but we’re hoping to have some new songs to play. They won’t be released, probably, but they’ll be in a working form, which is going to be good cause we’re kind of going to be able to use you guys as our testing ground.

I just want to say thank you all so much for all the support there, it’s been amazing! I can’t wait to get there. a

TTV: Do you think the music industry is “collapsing in on itself ” as Maynard described it?

HOWERDEL: I guess it’s always changing, but there was a time when I came up in the 90s and it was changing much less. It’s seemed a little more hopeful than it did in the last two years than it did four or eight years ago. When the recession hit in ‘07 and ‘08, I mean, we were all affected by it in some way but the music industry really seemed to dive bomb.

Things feel like they’ve been coming back. I don’t know, maybe, it’s in my bubble, but just economically, things have been getting progressively better year after year, since ‘08. It’s been interesting in music to see that kind of confidence build back up and take its form within the arts. That being said, everyone is accepting that it’s not the traditional model, that we’re all used to in the early 2000s and 90s. There are different ways to get out there and it takes more creativity.

I, personally, don’t like it ‘cause you have to become salesman mixed with being an artist. You have to find people to help you or you have to get creative and, ya know, just do it. I think art suffers from people having to switch hats from being artists to being marketers.

TTV: The last studio album, eMOTIVE, was the most political. Do THE TULSA VOICE // April 5 - 18, 2017

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Mary and Jamie Oldaker at East Village Bohemian Pizzeria | GREG BOLLINGER

Block party Mary and Jamie Oldaker’s MOJOFest returns to Tulsa’s East Village

by BEAU ADAMS

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hen Mary Billings wed Jamie Oldaker last April, the couple decided to have a rather unique wedding reception.

“Mary and I used to come to [Bohemian Pizzeria in the East Village] and we knew we were going to get married, we’ve known each other for over 30 years, but we didn’t know where we were going to do it,” said Oldaker, a Tulsa native and former drummer for Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Bob Seger, and Peter Frampton— among many others. “So I said, ‘How about here? We can get married up on that little stage there and just have a real tight group.’

And then we thought, ‘Where will the reception be?’ and we walked out onto Third Street and said, ‘Well, how ‘bout right here?’ This area has a great feel to it, like a 40 // MUSIC

Little Italy or something. It just felt right.”

But the reception was more than just a block party. Oldaker was ready to play. So after the customary first dance, Oldaker stepped behind his drum kit and counted off with his former band from high school, The Rogues Five, putting the reception in party mode. And instead of wedding gifts, the couple asked that attendees bring a small monetary donation for the Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless.

This year, for their first anniversary, Mary, who took the Oldaker name, and Jamie will host another street party/concert, dubbed MOJOFest (their shared initlals are now MOJO), on April 22 in the East Village.

“I’ve been fortunate to make a living playing music, which is diffi-

cult to do, and I’ve never not been appreciative of that. Now it’s time to give something back,” the Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer said.

“And that feels good. I’ve lobbied for the OKPOP museum—I’ve worked really hard for that project.

I’m doing some work teaching ensemble playing for the Woody Guthrie Museum. Now Mary and I are putting on MOJOFest and helping some people out locally, and that is what it’s all about right now for me.”

While Jamie has lined up the talent, Mary has been instrumental in the fundraising side of the festival.

“It was important for us to have a cause,” Jamie said, explaining the decision to donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the festival— tickets are $20—to the Day Center for the Homeless.

“You know people see someone on the side of the road with a cardboard sign and they think, ‘Oh, that’s a homeless person,’ but that’s not always right. You go down to the Day Center for the Homeless and you see families and children, you see people that maybe have lost their jobs, you even see some people that have jobs but they just don’t make enough to live without help. And I don’t care what anybody says, nobody in this country should have to be without a place to live.

That’s a basic need.”

While Mary is the driving force behind the philanthropic side of the event, Jamie handles the entertainment side.

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the Ed Sullivan Show and knew then that he wanted to live the life of a professional musician.

Through musician friends in town he worked his way into gigs with J.J. Cale, Leon Russell and The Gap Band. When legendary Tulsa bassist Carl Radle came calling, Oldaker and his friend, pianist and keyboardist Dick Sims, joined up with Eric Clapton as his backing band post-Derek and the Dominos. Oldaker has shared the stage and recording studio with too many acts to mention, but through it all, even when he played to over two billion people at Live Aid, he never lost his head.

“I never took it that seriously,” Oldaker said. “Cale taught me that years ago and I’ve lived with it like that all of my life. I mean, if people like what I do and I can play and make music for a living, fine.

I’ve been lucky. I told my wife the other day, I’m exactly where I thought I’d be at this age and I’m right back here where I’m from.”

Oldaker’s first band, The Rogues Five, will open the event again this year.

“We’re all still alive,” he joked.

“We’ll play the same set list as we did when we were kids. We opened up for The Doors and Hendrix and I was only 13 back then.”

Oldaker’s vision for MOJOFest reaches a little further than his own backyard. While there will be a wealth of local talent, including the closing finale from midnight until 2 a.m. with many people from the Tulsa scene performing, Oldaker wanted to bring an international flare to the main stage.

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people aren’t always exposed to, different genres. So I got a call from a friend of mine, Tommy Malone, and he sings for a New Orleans Band called the Subdudes. They’re a stable icon in that scene,” Oldaker said. “And I ran into the guys from Gaelic Storm and they said they’d be on board with helping us raise some money, so they’ll be on the main stage as well.”

During breaks or set changes on the main stage, American Theater Company, Bohemian Pizzeria and Girouard Vines will host performances. In addition to music there will be food trucks, local beer, and art from the Day Center for the Homeless for sale.

The newlyweds see their festival as a win-win.

“You pay 20 bucks and you get to enjoy world-class musicians and help out a program that is doing amazing things in our community,” Oldaker said. “I’m grateful to be in this position. I always have been thankful for the people of this town and the people of this state who have supported me over the years. My life has done a 180 and I’m back home and in a position to do some good things.” a

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musiclistings Wed // Apr 5

Main Street Tavern – Little Joe McLerran Mercury Lounge – Travis Linville On the Rocks – Don White pH Community House – Pocket Vinyl, Damion Shade, Jhohn Arlie* Soundpony – Sweet Spirit, Planet What The Blackbird on Pearl – Sloppy Joe Fiasco Acoustic Happy Hour The Blackbird on Pearl – Sexy Wednesdays w/ T. Graham* The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Zin Urban Lounge – Jim Tilly

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Billy and Renee’s – AlterBlood, Scorned, Smoking Crow, FETALJUICE, Black JellyBean And The Peeps BOK Center – Chris Tomlin, Big Daddy Weave, Phil Wickham, Zach Williams, Mosaic MSC, Jason Barton – ($15-$69.75) Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Chris Robinson Brotherhood – ($24-$26) Crow Creek Tavern – Dave Vincent Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – Kris Kristofferson* – ($25-$35) Hunt Club – Jacob Dement Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman Band The Blackbird on Pearl – Noches Tropicales w/ DJ Pez & DJ Brody The Colony – Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ Jacob Tovar The Fur Shop – The Devils Cut, Saint Christopher Zin Urban Lounge – Sean Al-Jibouri

Fri // Apr 7

Hunt Club – Interlaced Mercury Lounge – Brandon Jenkins River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – LOCASH – ($40-$75) Smitty’s 118 Tavern – Melissa Hembree & Whiskey Union, And Then There Were Two Soul City – Dang Djangos Soundpony – Gurney Show The Colony – The Daddyo’s, Hey Judy, Girls Club The Fur Shop – Coatie Pop The Wine Loft – Reckoners Duo Vanguard – Funk N Beers – ($5) Westbound Club – Rusty Grove Band Zin Urban Lounge – Randy Brumley

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Soul City – Scott Ellison Trio with Marty Holiday of The Drifters* Soundpony – Noun Verb Adjective, The Girls Room, Ramona & The Phantoms The Colony – Mason Prophet, Pilgrim The Venue Shrine – Jeff Austin Band* – ($12.75-$20) University of Wash – Erv Felker, George & Linda Barton, Larry Spears Vanguard – Beach Slang, Dead Shakes, Colorblind* – ($15) Westbound Club – Rusty Grove Band Woody’s Corner Bar – Wayne Garner Band Yeti – Josh Sallee, Jankins, The Brothers Moore, Jarry Manna, Higher Learning Academy* Zin Urban Lounge – Jim Tilly

Sun // Apr 9

Gilcrease Museum – Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble* Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Soundpony – Asumaya The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Venue Shrine – Local H – ($8-$10) Vanguard – Colony House, Knox Hamilton – ($15-$40)

Mon // Apr 10 The Colony – Seth Lee Jones The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Yeti – The Situation

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Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham, Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps The Blackbird on Pearl – The Pearl Jam Tin Dog Saloon – Cody Woody

Wed // Apr 12

Cain’s Ballroom – STS9, Jaw Gems – ($30-$45) Mercury Lounge – Travis Linville Soundpony – Wood Chickens The Blackbird on Pearl – Sexy Wednesdays w/ T. Graham The Blackbird on Pearl – Sloppy Joe Fiasco Acoustic Happy Hour The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Zin Urban Lounge – Randy Brumley

Thurs // Apr 13

Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Hunt Club – Erin O’Dowd and Chloe Johns Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman Band Sisserou’s – Havana 405 Soundpony – Soft Leather The Colony – An Evening with Jared Tyler Vanguard – Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers, Colouradio – ($10)

Fri // Apr 14

Cain’s Ballroom – Battle of the Bands – ($10) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters – ($35-$45) Hunt Club – Straight Shot

Mercury Lounge – The Stockyard Playboys, Jacob Tovar Savage Space – Jarvix, Quixotic Foxes, Hector, Hannah – ($5-$7) Soul City – Songs of the Fall Soundpony – Afistaface The Blackbird on Pearl – Mike Hosty – ($5) The Colony – Greater Pyrenees The Fur Shop – Ragland!

Yeti – American Shadows, The Girls Room, Acidqueen Zin Urban Lounge – Jim Tilly

Sat // Apr 15

727 Club – Chuk Cooley Billy and Renee’s – Kick Tree, Goodfella, Streetlight Hero Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Aaron Watson, Kevin Fowler – ($20-$35) Guthrie Green – Global Bash w/ Los Lobos, Young Dubliners, Sister Carol & more* Hunt Club – Smunty Voje Mercury Lounge – Dan Johnson and the Salt Cedar Rebels Savage Space – Church Tongue, Stanley’s Revenge – ($10-$12) Soul City – Stephen White Group Soundpony – Colfax Speed Queen, Cucumber and the Suntans, Dead Shakes The Beehive Lounge – Garrett Dale, Mike Williams, Joe Myside The Venue Shrine – J Fridays 90’s Party – ($10) Vanguard – Dead Metal Society – ($10)

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Tues // Apr 18 Cain’s Ballroom – NF, Kyd The Band – ($22-$72) Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham, Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps The Beehive Lounge – The Bad Engrish, Loose Wires, MERLINMASON* The Blackbird on Pearl – The Pearl Jam The Fur Shop – Safe So Simple, The Beaten Daylights, GoodFella, Dark Values – ($5-$7) Vanguard – Lincoln Durham, Onward Etc., The Mules – ($13)

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Classic anime brought to life ‘Ghost in the Shell’ swings for the fences

by JOE O’SHANSKY

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t’s difficult to overstate the influence Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 anime classic, “Ghost in the Shell,” had on the Wachowski siblings’ 1999 breakthrough hit “The Matrix.”

I was unfamiliar with the influence, having seen “Shell” only once before during a brief fl ing with anime in the mid-90s.

So “The Matrix” seemed new to me. It took watching the original “Ghost in the Shell” again, in anticipation of its remake, to reinforce just how much the Wachowskis cribbed from it.

“Jacking in” to a universal network. Arachnid robots that hate your face. “Agents” that can control your actions. Bullet-time-ridden martial arts battles. The idea of digital souls expressed in retro, monochrome-green, cathode ray symbols. It’s all there.

But then “Ghost in the Shell” was always just a William Gibson-esque amalgam of “Robocop” meets cyberpunk James Bond. In the realms of genre cinema, technology, literature, music, and art, cultural appropriation has always, thankfully, been a two-way street.

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ry version of “Ghost in the Shell,” director Rupert Sanders (“Snow White and the Huntsman”) blurs the line between faithful aesthetics and simplified adaptation.

Major (Scarlett Johansson) is a cyborg super-agent for Section 9, led by Chief Aramaki (Takeshi “Beat” Kitano), one of a group of competing counterterrorist organizations tasked with policing a dystopian neo-Japanese megalopolis where almost everyone is either a cyborg or festooned with cybernetic implants that can be hacked to control their actions and memories.

When rogue cyborg Kuze (Micheal Pitt) begins knocking off the scientists behind the Weapon X-style program that created Major, the ruthless head of Hanka Robotics (Peter Ferdinado) commandeers Section 9 to get to the bottom of it all.

Major teams up with her trusty sidekick, Batou (Pilou Asbæk), and what begins as a mission to assassinate a corporate terrorist leads the puppet soldiers down a rabbit hole to the truth of their own existence.

While diehard fans might take umbrage with changes that alter

and rearrange the often convoluted plot of the original into something more digestible for American crowds, “Ghost in the Shell” is a semi-faithful adaptation with its heart firmly in the right place.

Sanders, from a script by Jamie Moss, William Wheeler, and Ehren Kruger (“Transformers”), transposes the stylized anime to the real world, the densely packed skyline of Hong Kong digitally enhanced to the 2029 future, through which his camera sweeps and loops, recreating iconic shots (the building dive) and whole set pieces (the water battle) with respectful fidelity. Between his visual dexterity, stunning FX, and the detailed production design from Andrew Niccol regular Jan Roelfs (“Gattaca”), the look of “Ghost in the Shell” is a slickly state-of-theart stunner. The score from Clint Mansell and Lorne Balfe wraps it all in an atmospheric aural landscape that reinforces the Blade Runner vibe of this world.

It would have been nice to see someone like Rinko Kikuchi in the role of Major and I do sympathize with the whitewashing argument—to a degree. There

are certain realities that go with making a 100-plus million dollar action movie, one being the need for a bankable star. Between this and her Black Widow, Johansson is one of the few women succeeding in the rarefied realm of ass-kicking action stars. While I’ve never found her to have much range, she sells the fight sequences with concussive grace, and confidently inhabits the character.

A hell of a lot more fun than I expected, “Ghost in the Shell,” while not a home run, certainly swings for the fences. a

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A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CIRCLE CINEMA Chris Evans and Mckenna Grace in “Gifted” | COURTESY

OPENING APRIL 7 SONG TO SONG Director Terrence Malick (“Tree of Life”) sets another one of his philosophical meditations against the backdrop of the Austin, TX music scene, with two intersecting love triangles. Starring Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, and Natalie Portman.

Rated R. THE VOID This low-budget horror movie follows a police officer who tries to protect the patients and staff of a hospital who become trapped there by cloaked, cult-like figures.

Everyone begins to go insane as a gateway to an immense evil is revealed. Not Rated (R level content).

YOUR NAME A Japanese anime feature based on a novel of the same name, this is the tale of a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in rural Japan who swap bodies. One of the highest grossing Japanese films of all time. Rated PG. OPENING APRIL 14 GIFTED Chris Evans (aka Captain America) stars as Frank Adler, a man raising the daughter of his deceased sister. When the girl emerges as a mathematical child prodigy, Frank turns down a scholarship to an advanced school so that he can give her a normal childhood.

The girl’s grandmother wants her to have the opportunity, and a custody fight ensues. Rated PG-13.

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SPECIAL EVENTS TWELFTH NIGHT - NT LIVE Simon Godwin directs this joyous new stage production of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about mistaken identities and starcrossed lovers. Champagne toast at intermission.

(Thurs. Apr. 6, 6 p.m.)

2ND SATURDAY SILENTS – BEN HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925) The original cinematic dramatization of the tale about a Jewish prince, Judah Ben-Hur, who seeks to find his family against all odds during the time of Christ.

Judah also seeks revenge on the childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. Bill Rowland accompanies on the Circle’s original 1928 pipe organ.

(Sat. Apr. 8, 11 a.m.)

RAINBOW ROAD A unique artistic experience from writer/artist Joe Andoe, described as a story about two 16-year-olds who are “kinda like a stoned Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.” Q&A with Andoe follows at 8:10 p.m.

(Sun. Apr. 9, 7:30 p.m.)

NATIVE SPOTLIGHT: CHASING THE LIGHT This independent comedy-drama by filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe is the story of Riggs, a down-onhis-luck screenwriter. A filmmaker reception prior to the film begins at 6:30 p.m., and Q&A with Lowe follows the screening, moderated

by Michelle Svenson.

(Tues. Apr. 13, 7:30 p.m.)

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WHO IS THIS REALLY ABOUT? ‘Personal Shopper’ deals with Kristen Stewart

“PERSONAL SHOPPER” MAY BE a story about a young woman’s possible communication with the dead, but it feels like an allegory for the very real and personal conversation between director Olivier Assayas and his latest muse Kristen Stewart.

Following their collaboration in 2014’s “Clouds of Sils Maria,” Stewart finds herself at the center of Assayas’s new film, one that symbolically delves into her anxious, conflicted psyche.

According to Assayas, “Personal Shopper” wasn’t based on an idea that he’d been developing, nor was it simply written with Stewart in mind. Rather, Assayas confesses, he’d never have written the screenplay if he had never known Kristen Stewart.

Yes, it’s subjective as to what “Personal Shopper” may reveal about Stewart herself, but undoubtedly it’s a mesmerizing window into how one of the world’s great directors perceives her, is intrigued by her, and worries about her.

As in “Clouds of Sils Maria,” Stewart again plays a woman on the periphery of fame’s circle, working for someone who’s actually a part of it. Stewart’s Maureen Cartwright is the titular shopper for a celebrity, though no mere lackey. She’s trusted to make decisions about wardrobe and other matters related to public image. But the title “Personal Shopper” serves a double meaning. Maureen is forced to take a deep, personal inventory following the death of her brother. He suffered a volatile heart ailment that she shares, and it lays in wait like a ticking time bomb.

Maureen’s brother was a medium, a person who claims to be in tune with spirits and supernatural energies, taking a more psychic approach to spirituality than a religious one. In her grief, Maureen makes attempts at opening herself up to her brother’s spirit, hoping he may have something to share with her, or his grieving girlfriend, or those close to them. This obsession to

hear from the dead, we come to see, stems from a void within Maureen.

It’s that void that Assayas seeks to understand. It’s rooted in insecurities—of her identity as Maureen—or Stewart herself—and how she’s perceived.

How this bears itself out causes Assayas to shift toward literal “ghost story” territory, a supernatural leap that polarized the churlish Euro crowd during its debut at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, though Assayas went on to win the Best Director prize.

Assayas does briefly visualize the spirit in rather low-rent fashion, but the primary contrivance he employs is more mysterious and clever, turning that unknown spirit (Is it Maureen’s brother?

Someone else?) into a stalker, giving the film its tension and suspense throughout the second and third acts.

The unknown spirit asks Maureen questions that cut to her core. These exchanges must be what initially inspired Assayas to write the script, a construct to lob confrontational questions at Stewart—someone who’s haunted by the ghost of celebrity yet also can’t seem to give up that ghost. Like a provocative mentor, Assayas asks Stewart via Maureen to take stock of what she actually believes, and needs (or thinks she needs).

The story goes places I couldn’t predict, stirring visceral reactions to its twists and turns.

There’s a stretch where Assayas fetishizes Stewart, temporarily adding a sleazy subtext, but the intensity of the final stretch is palpable and likely serves as its own metaphor about what Stewart would like to see come of her fame.

With Assayas as role player, “Personal Shopper” explores Kristen Stewart’s tortured relationship with stardom and how horrifying she finds it, though I’ll confess I could easily be over-psychoanalyzing the whole thing. Even so, it sure is a fascinating way to watch it.

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Learn about volunteering, fostering, upcoming events, adoptions, and their low-cost vaccination clinic at tulsaspca.org.

PHOEBE was originally transferred to us from another rescue towards the end of 2015. Since then, this nearly-3-year-old Dachshund mix she has been adopted twice and is now back at the Tulsa SPCA. She was returned the first time for being “too big” and then the second time her owner became sick and unable to care for her. Phoebe weighs 38 pounds and gets along well with people. She is picky about other dogs and would prefer to be the only pet.

ARDEN was one of several dogs that we took in from Louisiana last year during flooding and we have been trying to find her a permanent home ever since. This 21-monthold Pitbull/Boxer mix is a sweet dog and adores people, but she gets nervous around strangers and comes across as scary when potential adopters visit. Arden is a friendly dog and would make an excellent companion. She is picky about other dogs and prefers to be the only pet. If you decide to meet her in person keep in mind that she needs time to warm up to you. Once you give her enough time to feel comfortable around you she will become your best friend!

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

ARIES

(MARCH 21-APRIL 19):

Of course you want to get the best of everything. But that doesn’t mean you should disdain cheap thrills that are more interesting and gratifying than the expensive kind. And of course you enjoy taking risks. But there’s a big difference between gambling that’s spurred by superstitious hunches and gambling rooted in smart research. And of course you’re galvanized by competition. But why fritter away your competitive fire on efforts to impress people? A better use of that fire is to use it to hone your talents and integrity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I were to provide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG AND OFTEN! I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are on the verge of achieving a sly victory over the part of you that is unduly meek and passive. I believe that in the coming weeks you will rise up like a resourceful hero and at least half-conquer a chronic fear. A rumbling streak of warrior luck will flow through you, enabling you to kill off any temptation you might have to take the easy way out. Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian! I have rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph over our unconscious attraction to the victim role.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo journal entry, Thursday: Am too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if I slept a little longer and arrived late? Who cares if the dishes are piling up in the sink? I hereby refuse law and order. Saturday: I’m fantasizing about doing dirty deeds. I’m thinking about breaking the taboos. Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to. Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly. Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): William Boyd writes novels, which require him to do copious research about the real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters to inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity of his book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it was like to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety percent of the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourishing.

I suspect you’ll thrive on a similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo. Be patient as you search for what’s useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s a new word for you: enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance. Too much NO becomes YES, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if we resist them, but interesting if we cooperate. I figure that’s your choice right now.

Which will it be? The latter, I hope. P.S.: The reversals that you consciously co-create may not be perfect. But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent.

Place the numbers 1 through 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once.

NOVICE

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When I was 24, I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pick-up trucks roamed freely. Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me.

Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked.

My allies made me brave and kept me safe.

You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys, and unconscious agendas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m not suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest.

You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months.

And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The empty space at the end of this sentence has intentionally been left blank.

The serene hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of do-it-yourself therapy. Healing Silence is based on the underappreciated truth that now and then it’s restorative to just SHUT UP and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think — or even feel.) With Healing Silence, you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as long as you need to. Please try it sometime soon. Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence.

MASTER

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you won’t feel the need to say any of these things: 1.

“I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” 2. “Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” 3.

“I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: 1. “I thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” (This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua Graham.) 2. “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) 3. “I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you fantasizing more about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you do have and can do? If so, please raise the “do have” and “can do” up to at least 51 percent. (Eighty percent would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been gently taking care of yourself? If so, get your self-care level up to at least 51 percent. (Eight-five percent is better.) Are you flirting with a backward type of courage that makes you nervous about what everyone thinks of you and expects from you? If so, I invite you to cultivate a different kind of courage at least 51 percent of the time: courage to do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks or expects.

(Ninety percent is better.

What’s the part of you that you trust the least?

Could you come to trust it more? t h i s w e e k ’ s h o m e w o r k // T E S T I F Y AT F R E E W I L L A S T R O L O G Y. C O M .

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ACROSS 1 Shortened word, shortened 5 Sound of a fat tomato hitting a floor 10 Backups to starters 14 Revolver in a subway 19 A ___ coincidence 20 Bonnie’s crime mate 21 Riding piggyback, e.g.

22 Kind of colony for cons 23 Restaurant offering 24 Mr. Goldfinger 25 Hamilton dueler 26 Hops dryers 27 Mind game (Part 1 of 4) 31 Spiritual session?

32 Leavened flatbread of India 33 Battering, powerful wind 34 Expires permanently 35 Fighter’s weapon 36 Slight, itty-bitty bit 37 Guiding principle, in Chinese philosophy 40 Dispatch boat 43 Pleasant to be around 44 Words before “new world’s record” 45 Place of many wagers 46 Totally drunk 47 Common delivery of long ago?

52 People-funny link 53 Badgerlike animal 54 Australian parrot 55 Crowning high points 56 Cycle in one’s sleep 57 DeLuise of comedy films 58 Title for Shakespeare 59 ___-Wan Kenobi 60 Mind game (Part 2 of 4) 69 Landing guess 70 Bottom-heavy fruit

71 Some spaces in papers 72 Direction opposite WSW 73 Skillful 76 Societal square peg in a round hole 77 Sawyer of news and journalism 80 All-hours cash source 81 Meeting without traveling 85 Flashy dance maneuver 86 Seaside-soaring eagle 87 Cheers for working a cape with skill 88 Fails to be 89 Up to now 91 “Under the ___” (“The Little Mermaid” song) 92 He had multiple bad hare days?

93 Hoo-has and other big fusses 94 Small inlet 96 CD word 97 Cain’s unfortunate victim 98 Symbols of perfection 101 Mind game (Part 3 of 4) 108 Big name in aluminum foil 109 “Green” prefix 110 Furniture producers?

111 Mince words?

112 Dirty delta deposits 113 Mind game (Part 4 of 4) 114 Some Eastern rulers 115 “Monster” of a southwest lizard 116 Words with heart or seat 117 Snaky warning or a radiator’s “I’m working” 118 Ketchup alternative 119 Window part DOWN 1 Shells and arrows, e.g.

2 Complaints, in slang 3 Supporting neckwear?

4 Puts in more 1-Down 5 Hard to come by 6 Good points or assets 7 Harplike instrument of long ago 8 Miner’s “doorway” 9 Type of foul in the NBA 10 Midnight assembly of witches 11 One-eighty 12 Tora ___ (Afghanistan region) 13 Full of spirit and vitality 14 Ruined, as foodstuff 15 Ruffle, as hair 16 “Meet Me ___ Louis” 17 Stucco backing 18 “So what ___ is new?”

28 Word before jack and after student 29 Palette stand 30 Water nymph of mythology 35 Arson result 36 Creepy one 37 Senator’s six years 38 Kitty feeder, in poker 39 Utterances of admiration 40 Early morning sound 41 Olive-green songbird 42 Grocery checkout units 43 Crazy fan 44 Type of person who can’t deliver tall tales?

45 Product from castor beans 48 Cinnamon buns’ enticement 49 Pack down dirt 50 “The ___ of the Cave Bear” 51 Rum cakes

57 “I’ll have the same” 58 Soap unit 59 City near Salt Lake City 61 Native American dwelling of old 62 Popped a cork 63 Yachting hazards 64 Sign from a third base coach meaning “don’t swing” 65 Wife of a rajah 66 Kind of narrow eyes 67 Undo, as a knot 68 Dangle carrots in front of 73 Farewells of old Rome 74 Likely to end badly 75 Landlady of Laverne and Shirley 76 Gilts 77 Leaves in the lurch 78 Quality and Holiday, for two 79 Pretend to be a different person?

82 Boston Celtics Hall of Famer Bob 83 Horse’s burden 84 It’s pounded for order 90 Sailor’s bearings 92 ___ fiddle (quite healthy) 93 Monastery VIPs 94 Ticket-writing troopers, e.g.

95 Texas city 96 Thing sometimes played on a musical instrument 97 Hanging tapestry 99 Groucho’s Tattooed Lady 100 Various garden mixtures 101 Sprint 102 Sections of pelvises 103 655 in Roman numerals 104 Disgusted grunts 105 “___ la Douce” (film) 106 Armstrong or Diamond 107 Home of the Jazz hoopsters

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