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arlier this week, the Tulsa World reposted a December 31 editorial with the headline “Oklahoma isn’t ready for medical marijuana.” The piece, credited to the “World’s editorial writers,” is remarkable for its tone deafness and condescension. We have sympathy for people who are suffering from very real afflictions and who believe they could get some relief from marijuana. When the Food and Drug Administration finds that those hopes are backed up by evidence that marijuana is safe and effective, we’ll join the parade.

The World’s deference to the FDA as the final word on the safety and effectiveness of marijuana ignores mountains of evidence,

both anecdotal and scientific, that point to the plant being significantly safer and more effective than many mainstream prescription drugs used in its stead. The World then suggests that the whole idea of medical marijuana is a sham, a loophole for dopeheads to get their kicks legally by claiming totally made-up conditions like “anxiety.” In many states, medical marijuana has been a sham, a cover for allowing those who can afford the cost of a friendl y doctor to prescribe “treatment.” In California, medical marijuana is available for those suffering from anxiety. Worried about flunking out of college? What better course could there be than smoking dope? Lots of struggling college students have already proven that,

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This dismissive attitude is offensive and stupid. Clinical anxiety is a serious condition that can manifest itself in many forms. It can be debilitating or even life threatening. Anxiety is most often treated with highly addictive benzodiazepines like Xanax and zombie-fying SSRIs like Prozac. In 2015, over 25,000 people died in the U.S. from overdosing on FDA-approved prescription drugs, the vast majority of which were opioids and benzodiazepines—drugs used to treat pain and anxiety. In 2012, Oklahoma ranked third in the nation for number of painkiller prescriptions handed out by doctors. That same year, over 500 Oklahomans died from unintentional prescription

drug overdoses. While we’ve recently seen slight decreases in overdose deaths, the number still hovers around 500, and we remain one of the most drug-addled states in the country. I cringe to trot out the hoary truism that nobody ever died from a marijuana overdose, but it’s a fact (don’t take my word for it; ask the CDC). As the legalization advocacy group Oklahomans for Health kicks off its petition drive to get medical marijuana on the ballot in November, keep in mind those numbers. The math is fairly simple. We have an opportunity to create a viable alternative option to a proven killer. Why wouldn’t we take it? a

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The war on women Part the infinity: they’re winning by BARRY FRIEDMAN PART THE FIRST: Getting government off our backs and into our uteri 1 A bill that would deny medical licenses to abortion providers advanced from the state House of Representatives’ Public Health Committee Wednesday on a 6-4 vote.

The legislation, SB 1552 (already passed by the state senate), would prohibit, under penalty of de-certification, medical personnel in the state from performing abortions, which, it should be noted, is still legal in this country, which means it’s still legal in Oklahoma, which means it’ll wind up in court, which means we’ll spend means gobs of money we don’t have fighting it (and losing) and for what? Nathan Dahm (R-Broken Arrow), who abhors government intrusion in our lives, yet authored this detritus, thinks the idea of bureaucrats keeping a watchful eye on the doctor performing a dilation and curettage to make sure nothing hinky’s going on is sound public policy—the law of the land, the sanctity of patient-doctor confidentiality, Orwellian echoes be damned.2 This is a core function of government,” he said. “This is our proper function, to protect life.”

Of course it is, but timing is everything, so once the fetus is born and develops into a beautiful child and, say, is about to be shot in the head at an elementary school by some lunatic who shouldn’t come within an area code of a loaded weapon, Dahm thinks government should stay out of the protecting business. Here was his homily after the massacre at Sandy Hook.3 8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

And yes, somebody should not take that right and violate somebody else’s right, and take a life, and they should be punished accordingl y if they do that. But you don’t understand what a right is, and that’s the problem here.

Yeah, that was the extent of his outrage, his soaring rhetoric— “somebody should not take that right and violate somebody else’s right, and take a life.” Your child, my Colt. Same same. Former Representative Barney Frank was right about these guys when he said, “For them, life begins at conception and ends at birth.” PART THE SECOND: Trump inadvertently exposes the hypocrisy

Recently, Donald Trump got in trouble for musing that perhaps women, too, should be punished for having abortions if Roe v Wade is overturned.4 The reaction, even among the GOP and right to life groups, was swift and condescending—it is the physician, not the patient, who should suffer.

From Ted Cruz:5 Of course we shouldn’t be talking about punishing women; we should affirm their dignity and the incredible gift they have to bring life into the world.

From March of Life:6 “Women who have chosen abortion need healing & compassion, not punishment.”

How precious. We must save these helpless, hapless impregnated women who would otherwise keep their babies but for these depraved medical professionals who prey on them. Why shouldn’t women be punished, though, along with the doctor? What about the person who drove the woman to the facility, what about the father— aren’t they accessories, as well, to the crime? You keep telling us it’s a human life that’s being snuffed out—don’t lose your nerve now. The fertilized egg is counting on you—and if abortion is murder, as you keep telling us, the only intellectually supportable position is to call for all those, including, most importantly, those who undergo them, to be punished. That

is, unless you’re more concerned about what the electoral optics of thousands of women in orange smocks being marched to the hoosegow would do to the GOP brand than you are the innocent zygotes. PART THE THIRD: The Dupe, explained.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who’s usually as maddening as a traffic jam, reveals the long con.7 The Republicans said, listen, we’re going to have all of these trade deals and tax cuts that benefit our wealthiest donor class, but we’ll give them the social issues,” Scarborough said of the last 30 years. “We’ll give them abortion, we’ll give them gay marriage, we’ll give them guns and they’ll vote for us.”

And it worked. In Oklahoma that approach translated to tax cuts for the Republican elite, while the GOP rank and file got Sharia Law bans; the elite got charter school contracts and reduced drilling fees, while the poor got 10 Commandment monuments and fetal heart beat legislation. For decades, Republicans have tossed cash to the luxury boxes, while handing out cheap souvenirs (mostly in the way of nostrums for a better America) to those in the cheap seats, dangling the cultural/social shiny objects at the base while corporate marauders were stealing the inventory. So, no, it’s not just SB 1552 that’s problem. It’s the entire raison d’être of the GOP, a party that has been intubating and incubating the worst America has to offer of late—that’s the problem. From Georgia:8 April 20 – May 3, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

State Rep. Terry England was speaking in favor of HB 954, which makes it illegal to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks even if the woman is known to be carrying a stillborn fetus or the baby is otherwise not expected to live to term. He then recalled his time working on a farm: “Life gives us many experiences…I’ve had the experience of delivering cal ves, dead and alive. Delivering pigs, dead or alive. It breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it.”

From Texas:9 The doctors and nurses at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin cried with them, but said because of Texas law HB2, they could not help speed Taylor’s labor. Technicall y, the baby was healthy and the mother was healthy, so to induce labor would be an abortion, and to do it at this stage in the pregnancy would be illegal. The Mahaffeys were sent home to wait for their baby to die or for Taylor’s labor to progress. “We cried ourselves

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to sleep, waiting for him to come,” Daniel said in an interview with The Daily Beast.

From Mississippi:10 The Mississippi law makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest and includes onl y a narrow exception for medical emergencies or fatal fetal abnormalities. Earlier this year Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R) announced his intention, during his state of the state speech, to “end abortion in Mississippi.” As it stands, there is onl y one abortion clinic remaining in the entire state.

From Florida: Also on Tuesday, a new Florida law went into effect banning abortion at any point in the pregnancy once a fetus is deemed viable unless two doctors certify in writing that it is necessary to protect the health and life of the woman. If two doctors are not available, one must certify in writing that a second was unable to consult on the matter. The law also further limits abortions after 24 weeks – allowed if

the pregnant person’s life or health is threatened – by removing mental health conditions as a reason to allow a late abortion.

And now comes Oklahoma.11 McDaniel said she resented the reference to “unprofessional conduct” applied to providing legal abortions and said she “felt like you’re comparing me to a road or a bridge, and women don’t need that.”

Today’s political divide, especially when it comes to women’s rights, is not a matter of degree— it’s a matter of kind. Democrats, who can be just as craven and spineless as Republicans, do not dream up and traffic in this kind of heartlessness. Promoting free college tuition and healthcare to all Americans is not akin to threatening doctors and forcing women to carry dead fetuses to term. GOP representatives like Dahm who write and revel in bills like SB 1552 are at best chauvinists, at worst misogynists, and they’re dismantling, coarsening and dividing America and Oklahoma in the process. a

1) tulsaworld.com: Oklahoma House panel votes to deny medical licenses to abortion providers 2) newsok.com: Oklahoma senators approve bill to yank license of abortion doctors 3) piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com: Piers Morgan welcomes the senator who used his name in a pro-gun bill 4) cnbc.com: Trump Advocates Abortion Ban, Walks Back ‘Punishment’ for Women Remark 5) theking-heartedsmartalc.blogspot. com: Why the GOP’s reaction to Trump’s abortion comments is ridiculous. 6) townhall.com: Pro-Life Orgs Condemn Trump’s Comments on Punishing Women Who Have Abortions 7) rawstory.com: Joe Scarborough gives up the game: After 30 years, the GOP base realized ‘it never trickles down’ 8) thinkprogress.com: Georgia Republican Compares Women to Cows, Pigs, And Chickens 9) dailybeast.com: Texas Forced This Woman to Deliver a Stillborn Baby 10) feminist.org: Restrictive Abortion Laws Take Effect in Mississippi and Florida 11) tulsaworld.com: Oklahoma House panel votes to deny medical licenses to abortion providers

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Animal kingdom The Tulsa Zoo prepares for a makeover by RAY PEARCEY

indsey Henderson is an energetic advocate for an 87 yearold mini city within Tulsa. It's a little burg populated exclusively by over 1,500 animals from 436 species—denizens of every continent on Earth. Henderson and her colleagues at the Tulsa Zoo and its non-profit management partner, Tulsa Zoo Management Inc., want to ensure that Tulsa continues to have an accessible, pacesetting window to the wild for children and adults. And Henderson and her team want to eliven a signature Green Country asset that draws well-over 600,000 visitors a year. Recently, Tulsa voters gave the go-ahead for a $25 million zoo improvement package—a critical augment to the $40 million-plus sum garnered via fundraising— that will fund an ambitious elephant enclave, a re-designed zoo front entrance and a long-sought animal preservation-and-research initiative. An augmented tiger exhibition and a carnivore mini-territory are also parts of this $100 million, twenty-year master plan 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

that will create a powerful trajectory for the future of the Tulsa Zoo. As the zoo’s vice president for development, Hendserson wears multiple hats: fundraiser, animal preservationist, and public educator. She is what Malcolm Gladwell might call a “connector.” She and her team have secured large donors in Green Country and strategic national and international partners including the International Elephant Foundation and the Snow Leopard Trust. An eleven-year Tulsa Zoo veteran, Henderson became an animal kingdom enthusiast because of her passionate and inventive Tulsa parents. They often “placed” her and her brother at the zoo, which became their alternative to daycare. “My dad was on the board of Tulsa Zoo Friends when I was really little and he used to do a kind of amazing daycare for me and my brother through the zoo,” Henderson told me. “I'd be out there and I'd ﬂag anyone with a golf cart—I knew they could take me around and get me access to

the animals. It sparked the passion I have for species preservation and protecting animals, and my interest in helping other people to experience wild animals. The zoo is the only place where [local] children have the opportunity to see a tiger or an elephant.” Henderson wants to make her childhood engagement with animals a routine adventure for visitors to the zoo—from the little to the adult. “My brother and I were at the zoo all the time when we were growing up. We were founding members of the ‘Buzzby and Denny’ Rhino Club. We would go out to the zoo to do overnights and special events with the education department … we got to see the animals up close. It was a unique experience and one that really isn't the norm with our current exhibitions ... I want to help make that experience available to every child, every single person who comes to the zoo.” To that end, Henderson and her team are working towards the completion of new exhibits,

as well as making existing environments more immersive for visitors, something that zoos elsewhere have been working on for years. “Because of our past funding allocations, we just weren't able to keep up [with other zoos]. So when we put together the new arrangements to set up Tulsa Zoo Management Inc. and finally got the resources to put our zoo master plan together, we realized we had to rebuild all our exhibitions.” The planned changes at the zoo feature an African enclave, which will have new African painted dog, lion, antelope, bird, and rhino portals. The giraffe exhibit will also be expanded and include a winter-months viewing venue, and the Maasai Village site will be renovated to include new small animal exhibits. Perhaps most exciting is the zoo’s plan to create the world’s largest African elephant exhibition. “Our new exhibitions are giving the animals what they deserve,” said Henderson. “Better care, more space and more choices.” a April 20 – May 3, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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According to the Earth Day Network, the idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, Calif. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and recruited Denis Hayes as national coordinator. Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land.

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As a result, on the 22nd of April, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, free-ways, the loss of wilderness and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.

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Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts. “It was a gamble,” Gaylord recalled, “but it worked.”

Born on April 22, 1970, Earth Day is designed to mark the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement.

In 2000, as the millennium approached, Hayes agreed to spearhead another campaign, this time focused on global warming and a push for clean energy. With 5,000 environmental groups in a record 184 countries reaching out to hundreds of millions of people, Earth Day 2000 combined the big-picture fervor of the first Earth Day with the international grassroots activism of later years.

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New Leaf sits on five acres of land in east Broken Arrow. For the last 36 years, the horticultural non-profit has provided job training and employment for individuals with developmental disabilities. “[They are] just like you and me,” said Kayla Jones, director of marketing and business development. “They have a lot of different interests, which is why we’ve created diversity in work and tasks. They want a choice in what they do for work.” Until last fall, these services were provided primarily through A New Leaf ’s greenhouse, which is open to the public and sells annual and perennial plants. But after receiving a United Way Innovation Grant last year, A New Leaf expanded its mission through Blooming Acres, a farming project with nineteen raised-bed gardens, potato barrels and row crops, cared for by its clients. Besides offering meaningful work to individuals who might have trouble finding it otherwise, Blooming Acres also helps feed low income families by donating produce to the Food Bank of

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Eastern Oklahoma, the Lindsey House, and to Women in Recovery (WIR). Last fall, it gave produce to the Healthy Community Store Initiative, which sends a mobile grocery store into low-income food deserts in Tulsa. Nicole Pittman, the program’s horticulture manager, said they plan to continue expanding through the spring and summer. “Last fall was our kickoff, we expanded this spring by two more raised beds and twenty potato barrels. We’re hoping to add a few more raised beds before summer, when we’ll add row crops,” she said. “There’s potential to produce a lot of food.” Last year, they were able to grow 760 pounds of food with 19 raised beds. With these new additions they’ll grow well over 1000 pounds of food by the end of this summer. The general public is also able to buy a share, or petite share, of the food grown in a season as part of Blooming Acres’ Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, which means 6-8 weeks of fresh produce grown at its gardens and delivered by its employees.

Customers can also pick up the produce on site or in Tulsa. A full share ($195 for the summer) feeds a family of four-to-six and a petite share ($105) feeds two people. “We’re sold out for spring but have a few more spots for summer,” Jones said. Individuals can also buy shares and donate them. If you choose to donate, Jones suggests the food bank, Women in Recovery, or A New Leaf ’s own residential clients. “We can make sure the share gets to a nonprofit, or to where it’s most needed. We serve 70 developmentally disabled individuals through residential services. Thirty of those need full-time care and many don’t have guardians and/or have limited finances. Our hope is one day to feed all of them, and to grow more nutrient-rich food for the food bank, for our clients, and for WIR,” Jones said. Though not certified organic—which is a lengthy, expensive, and arduous process—Blooming Acres buys organic seeds, doesn’t use chemicals, and follows organic growing guidelines. This spring, CSA members are receiving peas, broccoli, onions,

potatoes, Swiss chard, and spinach. For summer, members will get onions, peppers, tomatoes, squash, corn, beans, okra, and sweet potatoes. Becky Hale, who lives in Tulsa, participated in the Blooming Acres CSA last fall. “What was really nice is that you get homegrown vegetables without having to have a garden,” she said. “They were very good. The price is reasonable and it’s for a good cause. Good vegetables for a good cause. It’s a win-win. And the clients working there are really sweet.” Blooming Acres plans to begin composting and rainwater harvesting in the next year. But for right now, it’s focused on growing as much dense, homegrown, nutritious food as possible. If you’re interested in volunteering at Blooming Acres, visit anewleaf.org. You might find yourself harvesting spinach, building a tomato trellis, planting green beans, or watering the onions. A New Leaf ’s greenhouse is also open to the public—8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Monday-Friday and Saturday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. a April 20 – May 3, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

Oklahomans for Health ﬁghts to bring medical marijuana to a vote BY JENNIE LLOYD FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND 2014 DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE JOE DORMAN recently endorsed Oklahomans for Health, a medical marijuana legalization advocacy group. The newly-minted board member said the group’s petition for a statutory change that would legalize medical marijuana without qualifying conditions “will bring to a vote of the people the ability to have medical marijuana as a treatment plan, to allow doctors to work with their patients.” Dorman’s support for medical marijuana began in 2014, when he met Tulsa mom Brittany Hardy. Hardy’s daughter, Jaqie Warrior, was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome at five months old. The syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy, causes relentless pediatric seizures and developmental impairment. Studies show that marijuana is capable of reducing and in some cases eliminating seizures. CBD oil— then illegal in Oklahoma—was the ideal treatment for Jaqie. Because she couldn’t find the treatment her daughter needed here, Hardy moved to Colorado to find it. It worked. “That’s when I really first took [medical marijuana] as a serious issue,” Dorman said. “When Brittany sat down with me and told me what was going on with Jaqie it became clear CBD oil was the only way to treat her child.” >>

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“ I TRUST A DOCTOR IN DECIDING WHAT’S BEST FOR A PATIENT, FAR MORE THAN A POLITICIAN.”

In the past year, not one but two cannabidiol (CBD) oil bills breezed through the Oklahoma House floor. House Bill 2154 opened the way for children under 18 to gain access to CBD therapy, and was signed into legislation by Gov. Mary Fallin last April. In January, House Bill 2835 – expanding CBD oil access to adults – passed on the floor and is currently headed to the Senate. For children like Jaqie, this legislation is life-changing. “I’ve met [Jaqie] before and after [CBD oil treatment],” said Chelsea Marlett-Kennedy, another Oklahomans for Health advocate. “She went from being pretty well catatonic to smiling, joyful, enjoying her life. Before, she couldn’t even smile.” But, Dorman believes Oklahoma’s CBD bills haven’t gone far enough, thus his support of Oklahomans for Health and their push for the legalization of medical marijuana. He is careful to point out he does not support recreational marijuana legalization, but believes legislators should stay far away from constituents’ private medical decisions, like the one Hardy was forced to make, which took her away from her friends and family to another state. “I trust a doctor in deciding what’s best for a patient, far more than a politician,” he said.

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day, April 11, to legalize medical marijuana without qualifying conditions. Now, they wait for the paperwork to be verified by the Oklahoma Secretary of State and Oklahoma Attorney General. In early May, the 90-day race to collect 66,000 signatures will begin. It’s a tall order for an all-volunteer operation like Oklahomans for Health. “We’re not rich or anything,” said Frank Grove, a Tulsa-based founding board member of the group. “We have hundreds of donations from individuals, but we have no corporate backers. No out-ofstate donors. This is all Oklahomans. No big money here.”

TRY, TRY AGAIN Back in 2014, Oklahomans for Health was a fledgling coalition of like-minded volunteers, none of whom had run a large-scale petition initiative before. They came out of the gate with a proposed amendment to the state constitution, a move that required 125,000 signatures to earn a spot on the ballot. Grove described their 2014 effort as a “fly by the seat of your pants” learning process. Though they fell short of their goal, the group garnered more than 70,000 signatures “without a lot of organization,” Marlett-Kennedy said. “Basically, we hit the ground running.” “It was everyone’s first time then,” Grove said. A scientist by education and political activist by nature, Grove became involved with marijuana reform “as a matter of principal.” “I know it’s hard to consider 2014 a success since we did not get the required amount of signatures,” Paul said in an April 11 statement released by Oklahomans for Health. “But what we accomplished in that year gives us great hope for this petition drive. We completely changed the conversation in Oklahoma.”

Marlett-Kennedy has lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. She struggles to manage her pain without narcotics. “I would like to have [medical marijuana] as a legal option to treat pain,” she said. Marlett-Kennedy joined Oklahomans for Health at its inception in 2014, and volunteers as a co-coordinator in Oklahoma City, because she wants an alternative to “120 Lortabs a month”—a controlled-substance prescription medication that can easily lead to addiction. “I’ve had friends go down that road, and I don’t want to go there,” she said. “I’m not on narcotics now and don’t use [marijuana] because it’s illegal.” Chip Paul formed Oklahomans for Health after Medical marijuana can’t cure her lupus or years of working with the sick and dying as the RA, “but it can help,” she said. owner of Right at Home, an in-home care serChronic pain sufferers like Marlett-Kenvice for the elderly. nedy say CBD treatments aren’t enough be“We were with so many people who were dycause they must contain no more than ing,” Paul said in a 2014 interview with three-tenths of one percent of THC, TTV. “You’ve got somebody dying which does not significantly ease from cancer who is not being pain, and can only be given if treated with medical marijuathe patient has a qualifying na, and they’re addicted to opiFor more about condition such as pediatric ates, they’re not themselves, Oklahomans epilepsy or cancer. they’re not rational. Mom is for Health, “The problem with CBDnow this lump that just lays only treatments is it gives there in the bed and is going patients access to only part to die soon.” of the plant,” Marlett-Kennedy Paul sold Right at Home said. “Most patients need access and started Palm Beach Vapors, to the whole plant because one an electronic cigarette franchise part is not enough.” concept. Potential franchisees often Yet many Oklahoma legislators are wary of asked Paul about the possibility of selling vaallowing access to THC, the psychoactive comporizers marketed to marijuana users, which ponent of the marijuana plant; so while highled him to start thinking about legalization free CBD oil is now legal with qualifying condifrom a business standpoint. tions, Oklahomans are still denied access to the “It occurred to me, why is no one doing this? whole plant and its possible medical benefits. It’s clear the legislature never going to deal Enter Oklahomans for Health. The group with this, so why hasn’t anyone put forth a pefiled a petition (State Question 787) on Montition?”

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Not just any petition will do, however. Their first petition attempted to change the Oklahoma constitution. This time, with the assistance of Dorman and others, Oklahomans for Health drew up new language for a statutory change, which means fewer required signatures. “We’re pretty confident we’re gonna knock it out of the park this year,” Grove said. “The numbers are right. We’ve got political support. There’s so much activism this year.” Paul is also confident in Dorman’s support because his politics play well with the group’s goals. “Joe took on addiction issues, end-oflife care and health care reform as missions in his days of legislative service,” said Chip Paul, founder of Oklahomans for Health. “So we are very pleased that he has seen the value of marijuana as a medicine and how it can assist with these critical health issues.”

CLEARING THE WAY However, a statute change isn’t ironclad, no matter how well it does in a general election. “It can be changed by the legislature with a bill that’s filed in an upcoming session,” Dorman said. “But we certainly hope they won’t water down something that is a vote of the people.” To prevent this possibility, Oklahomans for Health included anti-tampering language that would protect their statutory change as well as ease the petition process for the future. The group seeks to extend the time allotted for gathering signatures from 90 days to one year, as well as to require a supermajority – twothirds – to alter legislation for two years after a petition passes. “This will give grassroots movements more capability to run petition initiatives [while also] preventing our overbearing legislature from repealing them or something,” Grove said. “It reforms the petition process,” Marlett-Kennedy said. “It’ll give people a chance to be really hands-on with the law.” THE TULSA VOICE // April 20 – May 3, 2016

There is a great stigma with this … With more research, more knowledge and with what we’re seeing in patients, this will be one of those issues that moves forward with time. -DORMAN

Other groups are getting hands-on with the law this election season, too. Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform has filed a marijuana decriminalization petition using “the exact same strategy” as Oklahomans for Health, said Grove. Their petition offers a statutory change to lower the penalties for drug possession including methamphetamine and marijuana, minor property crimes and shoplifting, as well as nonviolent felonies. The petitions are two sides of the same leaf. Oklahomans for Health approaches marijuana legislation to allow patients access to the plant’s medical benefits; while Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform attempts to loosen Prohibition-like drug laws to reduce prison overcrowding and ruined lives. Both are endorsed by the ACLU, Oklahoma Policy Institute, and Family & Children’s Services, among others. Oklahoma maintains the nation’s highest rate of incarceration for women, and third highest rate for men. And it’s been this way in large part because of the severe penalties the

state inflicts upon people for possessing or distributing the drug. The goal is to stop “destroying people’s lives over nothing,” Grove said.

GOING OFF-LABEL Oklahomans for Health’s 2014 petition restricted medical marijuana to 37 qualifying medical conditions. Their decision to drop the qualifying conditions this time around is meant to give Oklahoma doctors the freedom to prescribe medical marijuana as they see fit. “Off-label uses for prescriptions are everywhere,” Grove said. “If the doctor thinks something works for your condition, they give it to you. Cannabis is a good anti-inflammatory. There are no side effects, no overdose possibility. It could apply to so many conditions and to palliative care. … California has [qualifying conditions] but they also have a clause that covers everything else. We’re not the first ones to do this. But we would be the first southern state.”

DUMPING THE STIGMA Say Oklahomans for Health collects the required signatures, and voters overwhelmingly approve State Question 787. Will skeptical doctors prescribe the long-maligned plant to their patients, even if it’s legal? “With some doctors, we’ll need to educate them and get rid of the old way of thinking,” Dorman said. “There is a great stigma with this … With more research, more knowledge and with what we’re seeing in patients, this will be one of those issues that moves forward with time.” Grove, too, thinks legalized medical marijuana, and its regular prescription, is “inevitable.” “But for the people who have cancer now, telling them it’s inevitable is not really much of an answer,” he said. a THE GREEN ISSUE // 21

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BY KEITH DANIELS No chant from any frat house could ever produce a volume as loud as my page.

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Read in solitude. It’s OK. Live from the Panhandle state! Where they panhandle weight cross de border from mis amigos. “¿Que pasa guey, donde es mi kilos? ¡Compadre andale!” He say how he underground because back home he underpaid… Just another UFO what the governor say...but hey… My nephew’s part Latino. With the mixture of Africana and Indiana— The complexion of his essence comes nothing short of heaven. And to hear his language jibber from his lips is a miracle within itself. I say “¡Mijo, give me besos!” And he gives me a kiss, right on the cheek—

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That has to be God right there. I've been baptized with the foresight to see that these small moments are everything. Somehow a second feels like 23 years. The core of my siblings manifested into children. How can two pair of eyes control time? I'll tell you… The same way a spinning chair becomes a spaceship. Only with our spirits as the pilot— My ﬂesh is my own destruction— My reﬂection my only obstruction— Note to self. I shall be a better human being than I was the day before. Effective immediately. Repeat repeatedly. I pray I leave my seed room enough to be any tree his leaves desire. Till we expire— Mijo. Keith Daniels, aka "Sneak the Poet," is a Tulsa native, writer, actor, poet and director, and recent graduate of TU.

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Tulsa Oilers | KEVIN PYLE

Closing ice

Oilers end season just short of playoffs by JOHN TRANCHINA

he Tulsa Oilers closed out the regular season on a five-game winning streak, including an exciting 2-1 overtime victory over the Wichita Thunder in the finale in front of 10,480 at the BOK Center on April 9, but it wasn’t enough to get them into the playoffs. They had been eliminated from contention the night before when the Quad City Mallards beat the Cincinnati Cyclones to secure the eighth and final Western Conference spot. So despite Phil Brewer’s team-leading 26th goal of the season, off a pass from Brian Nugent during a 2-on-0 breakaway at 2:26 of OT, the Oilers left the arena disappointed. “Our guys battled here, I won’t take nothing away from how they competed,” said Oilers coach Jason Christie. “It’s tough, five straight just wasn’t enough and now you look back at those odd games you don’t win. Shoulda, woulda, coulda—it will drive you crazy. That’s why every game is so important.” Back on Feb. 21, after sweeping a two-game set with defending

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champion Allen, the Oilers owned a 28-18-3-2 record, sitting fifth in the Western Conference, but went 4-12-0-0 over the next 16 contests, including separate losing streaks of seven and five games, to fall to ninth. “March was the biggest one, it just felt like we couldn’t catch a breath,” Christie said of the Oilers recent woes. “We were on the road and trying to win games, and it was like we were just treading water. You’d outwork a team and outplay a team and it just wasn’t happening for us. It was a tough stretch.” During that time, Tulsa had several key players recalled to the higher-level AHL, including two of its top three scorers, Dan DeSalvo and Emerson Clark, as well as top goaltender Jussi Olkinuora. They got Olkinuora back for the final six games, but DeSalvo and Clark never returned and the Oilers finished their second season in the ECHL (after it absorbed the old Central Hockey League), and first as an affiliate of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets and AHL’s Manitoba Moose, one win short of a post-season berth.

“For sure, with affiliation, you don’t have the same guys around all year,” said Oilers captain Nathan Lutz, who completed his third season in Tulsa. “Some teams in the last month have been getting a bunch of players back, so you don’t really know what you’ve got through the whole season, so that’s the difference from last year or the year before where you have the same guys the whole year and you can really bank on those guys when it comes down the stretch. It’s a double-edged sword with the affiliation and we kind of got the raw end of the deal there.” Christie acknowledged the impact of losing stars like DeSalvo, who was named team MVP, and Clark, but felt the Oilers still should have been able to overcome it. “That’s my part, to have guys able to step in when guys are called up,” Christie said. “That’s the biggest thing in putting a team together, having that layer. It just felt like we were playing catch-up, and it just wasn’t happening for us. It was a tough little stretch there, and those are key players. I won’t take that away from them, what

they meant to our club, but I think overall, we could have done a better job.” The season finale ended up being the last one ever for Lutz, 38, who retired from hockey after 15 professional seasons. Along the way, he played a total of 907 pro games for 17 different teams in seven different leagues, and won two championships, the last in 2006-07 as captain of the United Hockey League’s Rockford Ice Hogs. The club honored him before the game for his service, and for being one of just two Oilers (along with Adam Pleskach) to play in all 72 games this year. “I’m the oldest guy in the league by quite a few years, I’ve had a great run,” said Lutz, who compiled 107 goals, 409 points and 1,515 penalty minutes over his career. “It’s time. The body, I pushed it to the limit. I consider myself fortunate. I’ve never had a surgery, I’ve never had a broken bone. I’ve had a lot of stitches and stuff like that, but I’ve been very fortunate with the whole thing. “It was a special night, it was a good win, and that’s a good way to finish.” a April 20 – May 3, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Tulsa Championships featuring McEnroe & Roddick Sat., April 23, 7 p.m., $30-$195, BOK Center, bokcenter.com A one-night tennis tournament featuring 4 Champions: Andy Roddick, John McEnroe, Jim Courier and Mark Philippoussis.

An Evening with Bill Maher Sat., April 23, 8 p.m., $45-$95 Brady Theater, bradytheater.com Political comedian and “Real Time” host Bill Maher performs at the Brady.

Woody Guthrie Center 3rd Anniversary Celebration

JOHN HAMMER

Thurs., April 28 through Sun., May 1 Woody Guthrie Center, Guthrie Green, Cain’s Ballroom, University of Tulsa, woodyguthriecenter.com

The Arts Abide: A “Big” Lebowski Celebration Thurs., April 21 through Sat., April 23 Dust Bowl, Hardesty Arts Center, Guthrie Green The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at TU, Booksmart Tulsa, AHHA, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation present a three-day celebration of quite possibly the greatest film ever made, “The Big Lebowski.” (“…that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”) The festival will benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Oklahoma. So strap on your jellies and see “what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps,” as the TV edit of a memorable, windshield-bashing scene says. Things start off appropriately on Thursday, with bowling and a costume contest at Dust Bowl from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday at AHHA from 6 to 10 p.m., learn about the history of the White Russian, see a live reading of the film’s script by local celebrities, and peruse the opening of a Lebowski-centric exhibition of works by John Hammer. Saturday there will be live music and a screening of the movie at Guthrie Green starting at 7 p.m.

Tulsa is very fortunate to be home to the incredible Woody Guthrie Center, which is celebrating its third anniversary this month. We’re also very fortunate for the way the Center likes to celebrate its birthday. The four-day party includes guest speakers, live recordings of Guthrie, and plenty of live music. Thursday, Del McCoury Band and Black Lillies play at Cain’s, with proceeds benefiting WGC’s education initiatives. On Friday, starting at 6 p.m., there will be a free concert at Guthrie Green with U.S. Elevator, Griffin House, and an Okie Jam featuring Wink Burcham and more. Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., TU hosts “Standing at the Crossroads of American Cultural Life,” at Lorton Performance Center, a symposium featuring perspectives on Guthrie from over a dozen artists and scholars. A free concert will follow at Guthrie Green, starting at 4 p.m., with Jimmy LaFave, Lance Canales, and more. Sunday, at WGC, starting at 11:30 a.m. will be a listening party of one of the few remaining live recordings of Guthrie, from The Live Wire in Newark, NJ in 1949. The celebration ends with another free concert at Guthrie Green, starting at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, with David Amram, Ellis Paul, Red Dirt Rangers, Gretchen Peters, and a closing Okie Jam featuring Desi and Cody, Jacob Tovar, and Paul Benjaman.

Cypher 120 3rd Anniversary Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them Thurs., April 21 through Sun., April 24, $25-$27 Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa PAC, tulsapac.com This black comedy by Christopher Durang follows a young woman suspicious that her new husband, whom she married while drunk, might be a terrorist, and that her father could be involved in a shadow government. This satire on fears surrounding homeland security is presented by Theatre Pops.

Sat., April 30, 9 p.m., Yeti, yetitulsa.com For three years, Written Quincey’s weekly open mic for poets, emcees and musicians has been guaranteed to be one of the grooviest and soulful nights, every week, attracting some of the best well-known and unknown talent in Tulsa. Usually held every Monday, this special Saturday Cypher will be a blowout to celebrate three years of dopeness.

Oklahoma All American Tattoo Convention Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself Sat., April 23, 2 p.m. Woody Guthrie Center, woodyguthriecenter.com WGC will pay tribute to the late, great Merle Haggard with a screening of Gandulf Hennig’s American Masters film, “Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself.” The film features interviews with Merle, Robert Duvall, John Fogerty, Billy Gibbons, Kris Kristofferson, Keith Richards, Dwight Yoakam, and more. 38 // ARTS & CULTURE

Fri., April 29 through Sun., May 1, $20-$50 Hyatt Regency Hotel, oklahomainternationaltattooconvention.com Hosted by Richard and Jennifer Stell and Pair-O-Dice Tattoo, this convention for ink fans will gather nearly 40 top tattoo artists from around the country for one weekend of body-modifying glory. The convention also features classes and seminars taught by Rick Cherry of Rick’s Tattoos, the oldest tattoo studio in the north Virginia/Washington D.C. area. Cherry has been building custom, hand-made tattoo machines since the early 1980s. April 20 – May 3, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

BEST OF THE REST EVENTS

Earth Day 4/22 Thank you, Mother Earth, for all you give us. We know we don’t always treat you as well as we should, but that’s why we have things like Earth Day to remind us that you’re the only home we’ve got. Earth Day is Friday, April 22, and there are plenty of ways in Tulsa to help, celebrate, and enjoy our little corner of the planet.

On Wednesday, April 20, Francis Renewable Energy and The M.e.t. hold their annual Enviro Expo at Bartlett Square, 5th and Main, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Learn about sustainable practices, alternative energy and fuel, green services, e-waste and more from several local organizations. There will be giveaways from Grogg’s Green Barn and the M.e.t. and live music by Randy Brumley. On Friday, elementary school students from Choteau, Emerson, Eugene Field, Kendall Whittier, Mark Twain, Sequoyah, and the University School will take part in Earth Day: Celebrate CommUNITY, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Harwell Field at the University of Tulsa. The event features activities and programs that will promote a better understanding of our environment and inspire students and the community to be mindful of it and take part in its preservation. The Tulsa Zoo will celebrate Earth Day with Party for the Planet, Saturday, April 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day includes conservation activities and programs, a self-guided nature tour, and more. Spend part of Earth Day keeping our planet healthy by disposing of household materials that could cause harm to the environment. Tulsa now has a free year-round household pollutant collection facility at 4502 S. Galveston Ave. Open Wednesdays and Saturdays by appointment only by calling 918-596-2100. Find a list of accepted and non-accepted items at cityoftulsa.org. Be sure to take a moment sometime over the weekend to enjoy the Earth’s beauty with a long bike ride or a hike through Turkey Mountain, Redbud Valley Nature Preserve, Chandler Park, or Tulsa Botanic Garden’s Cross Timbers Nature Trail. Smell the roses at Woodward Park, or the tulips at the Botanic Garden’s Floral Terraces (and get a glimpse of their soon-toopen Children’s Discovery Garden).

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Bare Bones International Film Festival // Muskogee’s Bare Bones Film Festival, now in its 17th year, boasts screenings of 170 films at several venues, including features, shorts, and student films. The festival also features speakers and panels, a screenwriting conference, awards, and more. // 4/19-4/24, tickets and passes range from $5 to $75, Roxy Theater and various locations throughout Muskogee, barebonesfilmfest00.tripod.com Literary Happy Hour with Jessica Knoll // Have a cocktail and hear from Jessica Knoll, author of the bestseller “Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel.” Knoll has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan and the articles editor at SELF. “Luckiest Girl Alive” is her first book. // 4/22, 6 p.m., Enso, booksmarttulsa.com Savoring Sister Cities // Tulsa Global Alliance holds their 9th annual celebration of the foods of Tulsa’s 8 Sister Cities: San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Beihai, China, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Amiens, France, Tiberias, Israel, Utsonomiya, Japan, Zelenograd, Russia, and Celle Germany. International foods donated by Ming’s Noodle Bar, EuroMart, Tulsa Jewish Federation, Marshall Brewing Co., the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, Reasor’s, and more. // 4/27, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., $15, Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity

songs and dances from South and Latin America. // 5/1-5/7, 3 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Liddy Doenges Theatre, $11-$31, tulsapac.com

COMEDY

Laughing Matter // 4/21, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 4/23, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Puscifer, Luchafer // 4/24, Brady Theater, $29.50$45, bradytheater.com Soundpony Comedy Hour // 4/25, Soundpony, thesoundpony.com Shrine Comedy Night // 4/26, The Venue Shrine, $5, tulsashrine.com By George! // 4/28, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Unusual Suspects // 4/29, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com T-Town Famous // 4/29, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Oklahoma Renaissance Festival // Experience the culture of 16th Century England at the 21st Oklahoma Renaissance Festival at the Castle of Muskogee. Watch in awe as the Heroic Knights of Old joust, cheer on the noble pawns on the life-size chess board, try on the latest Renaissance fashions, and by all means, have a giant turkey leg and a ﬂagon of ale. Open Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. // 4/30-5/30, The Castle of Muskogee, Tickets start at $14.95 for adults, $10.95 for students and seniors, and $5.95 for kids, okcastle.com

Hammered! A Drunk Improv Show // 4/30, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Tresspassing Across America // In September 2012, Ken Ilgunas began an incredible adventure: to hike the entire length of the proposed route of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Ilgunas will speak and read from his book, “Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland” at Woody Guthrie Center in this Booksmart Tulsa event. // 5/3, Woody Guthrie Center, booksmarttulsa.com

The Sandman // 4/20-4/23, Loony Bin, $7-$15, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

PERFORMING ARTS

Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage // Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no orchestral performance has gone before on The Ultimate Voyage. A symphony orchestra will play music from all generations of Star Trek, including the original series, “The Wrath of Khan,” “Insurrection,” The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and more. The music will be accompanied by iconic Trek moments from film and TV on a 40-foot screen. // 4/23-4/24, 8 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, $37.25-$109.50, tulsapac.com Judy Collins in Concert // Judy Blue Eyes comes to town for a concert benefiting Woody Guthrie Center’s educational initiatives. // 4/24, 7 p.m., $41-$56, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com Billy Elliot: The Musical // A young boy in a northern English mining town in 1984 struggles to pursue his dream of being a dancer. Adapted from the 2000 film of the same name, the musical features a score by Elton John and won 10 Tony Awards in 2009, including Best Musical. Presented by Tulsa Project Theatre. // 4/29-5/7, $36-$41, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Liddy Doenges Theatre, tulsapac.com Dalí Quartet with Ricardo Morales // The Dalí Quartet fuses Latin soul with classical music. Joined by Ricardo Morales, principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Quartet will perform Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115, Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Quartet No. 1, as well as a selection of

News Junkie // 4/30, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 5/1, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Graham Nash // 5/3, Brady Theater, $49.50-$59.50, bradytheater.com

Tim Northern Is A Comedian // 4/22-4/23, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Patrick Garrity, Rickey Reyes // 4/27-4/30, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

SPORTS

Legacy Fighting Championship // 4/22, Hard Rock Casino - The Joint, $42-$74, hardrockcasinotulsa.com Tulsa Championships featuring McEnroe & Roddick // A one-night tennis tournament featuring 4 Champions: Andy Roddick, John McEnroe, Jim Courier and Mark Philippoussis. // 4/23, 7 p.m., BOK Center, $30-$195, bokcenter.com Tulsa Roughnecks vs Portland Timbers 2 // 4/23, 11 a.m., ONEOK Field, $10-$45, Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 4/25, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35, Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 4/26, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $2-$35, Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 4/27, 11 a.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35, Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 4/28, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35, Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 4/29, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35, Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 4/30, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35, Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 5/1, 1 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35, Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 5/2, 11 a.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35, ARTS & CULTURE // 39

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Old school gangsta An interview with N.W.A’s DJ Yella by MARY NOBLE

founding member of groundbreaking gangsta rap group N.W.A, Antoine Carraby, aka DJ Yella, has lived through history and played a pivotal role in hip hop’s evolution. With Dr. Dre, he co-produced all of N.W.A’s albums as well as the late Eazy E’s solo debut, and he’s worked with a slew of Ruthless Records artists including J.J. Fad, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Kokane. This past year saw N.W.A canonized with the release of F. Gary Gray’s acclaimed biopic, “Straight Outta Compton,” and the group’s recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On Friday, April 29, Yella will perform in Tulsa along with Lil Eazy E (Eazy’s son) at Venue Shrine (tickets can be purchased at TulsaShrine.com). The Tulsa Voice: Congratulations on the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. How does it feel to receive that honor? Yella: It’s different because we never even thought about a hall of fame. When we started doin’ it there wasn’t even a hall of fame. So, it feels pretty good.

gonna be big,” we would’ve never went nowhere. We knew Compton and Compton is everywhere, ghetto is everywhere. We only talked about what we knew, what we’d seen, what we’d heard. I guess that’s what made us sound so real. If people didn’t like it, oh well. TTV: How “Straight Outta Compton” didn’t win any Academy Awards is beyond me.

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Yella: Yeah, I mostly do it by myself, but we hook up on some shows. It started from VH1 when he gave his daddy an award in ’07. That’s the first time I met him, actually, and we’ve just been doin’ a few shows here and there. It’s different. I had to get used to lookin’ at him because he looks like his daddy so much and he sounds like his daddy. TTV: How would you say your life changed since the release of the movie?

Yella: I done been everywhere, almost everywhere, mostly out of the country. I rarely DJ inside of the country. Out the country they want that old school music. I just came back from Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Japan, all over London, Dubai, Scotland, and Ireland.

Yella: [I’ve been] on a rollercoaster ride—a fast 100-mile-an-hour rollercoaster. I probably done did about sixty shows since the premiere. And that’s across the world—none in the states except for a few where me, Ren, and Cube hooked up on a few of them at The Staples Center, Chicago, and Denver. We’re also doing the Coachellas here in California this week and next week.

TTV: I understand Lil Eazy-E is a guest at some of your shows? How did the two of you come together?

TTV: “Straight Outta Compton” was released at a time when incidents of police brutality had gained the attention of the nation.

TTV: Can you tell me a little about your upcoming tour?

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What role do you think the film plays in addressing this problem? Yella: It just shows that the problem never was fixed. Whatever the problem is, it’s still there. I’ve been tellin’ people in interviews, until they start giving the cops long stretches in prison for their crimes, it’s goin’ to keep on goin’ on because they not getting punished. Until they get punished, it won’t slow down. TTV: What is your favorite music to spin? Yella: All I spin is the late 80s early 90s rap. That’s it. I don’t play the new music, that’s all I play. That’s all the people want to hear is our old school rap. TTV: You played a major role in crafting the early sound of hip hop, do you believe you get the credit you deserve? Yella: Mmm, I guess I don’t know (laughs). We just did what we wanted to do. We didn’t think about gold records, platinum records. If we went in like “we’re

Yella: Well, you know that’s all political. It is what it is. But it’s won a lot of awards. Universal put up a lot of money for the movie, it wasn’t no cheaply-made afternoon special. It was a great storyline that was as close to reality as it can get. We squished ten years into two hours and twenty-five minutes. TTV: You were involved quite a bit in the movie weren’t you? Yella: Oh yeah, I was telling them down to the details what the studio looked like. The equipment that was in the movie was exactly what we used. There was a couple mistakes, like the black Chicago hat that was before it’s time, but it looked good all the same. TTV: Have you ever been to Tulsa? Yella: I don’t know what’s in Tulsa, I don’t even know people in Tulsa. It should be fun. I like going to smaller places because they appreciate it more than the big cities like New York, LA. The smaller places just appreciate it more, they’re more hungry for it. That’s what I like, it’s like being out of the country. a

Read the extended version of this interview at thetulsavoice.com. April 20 – May 3, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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musiclistings Wed // Apr 20 Cain’s Ballroom – K95.5 Unplugged w/ Jordan Rager, Clare Dunn, Drew Baldridge, William Michael Morgan Cimarron Bar – Framing the Red Downtown Lounge – Gutter Villain Hunt Club – Modlin’s Mayhem Mix Co – Mike Cameron Collective Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Wednesday Night Spotlight w/ Shelby Eicher ($10) Soundpony – Kykuit Soundpony – Floral Print - Happy Hour Show – 6 p.m. The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project

Thurs // Apr 21 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Umphrey’s McGee, TAUK ($25-$40) CJ Moloney’s – Mark Gibson Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Brian Capps ($42-$74) Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd, Scott Ellison ($42-$74) Hunt Club – Ego Culture River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jason Young Band Soundpony – Traindodge The Colony – Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ Jacob Tovar The Venue Shrine – Also With You, ESC CTRL and Guests ($12) Vanguard – Montu ($10) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – John Labin Thomas

Fri // Apr 22

American Legion Post 308 – Whiskey Bent Cain’s Ballroom – Keys N Krates, Nomad, PK Love ($20-$22) Gypsy Coffee House – Marilyn McCulloch Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – The Tiptons ($42$74) Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd, Stars ($42-$74) Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks Mercury Lounge – John D. Hale Band Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Imzadi Pepper’s Grill - South – Wanda Watson Band River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Phin Addicts Soul City – Nick Dahlquist Soundpony – La Panther Happens, Missing Sibling The Colony – Steve Pryor Band The Venue Shrine – Mo’ Of It - Magic of Motown ($5) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Little Joe McClerran Yeti – Class Zero, Joe Myside and The Sorrow

Sat // Apr 23 Billy and Renee’s – Social Genosyde, The Deformati, Smoke Offering Boom Boom Room – DJ MO

Cain’s Ballroom – The 14th Annual 80s Prom ($18-$50) Downtown Lounge – Redneck Nosferatu Gypsy Coffee House – Sean Moore & The Acoustic Freight Train Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Runnin’ On Empty ($42-$74) Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Hi Fidelics, Stars ($42-$74) Hunt Club – Highbeams Knuckleheads Too – Bull Finger Mercury Lounge – The Whiskey Misters, Cody Brewer, Chloe Johns Nitro Lounge – Heavy Glow Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Imzadi River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Phin Addicts Roosters Cocktails – Tyler Brant Soul City – Don White Soundpony – klondike5 The Colony – Joe Baxter, Larry Spears Band Vanguard – The Struts, Made Violent (SOLD OUT) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Craig Vaughn Band Yeti – Big Shoals, Fiawna Forté, Zach Short Group

Sun // Apr 24 BOK Center – Home Free ($33) East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Guthrie Green – New Reeltime Travelers, Monica Taylor & the Red Dirt Ramblers – 2:30 p.m. Soundpony – The Freeway Revival Soundpony – Signals and Alibis - Happy Hour Show – 6 p.m. The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Vanguard – Kyle Gass Band (featuring KG of Tenacious D), The Fabulous Minx ($12-$15)

Mon // Apr 25 Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night The Venue Shrine – Cornmeal ($10) Vanguard – Atlas Genius, Skylar Grey, The Young Wild ($17-$40) Yeti – Cypher 120

Tues // Apr 26 Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic – 6 p.m. Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Merle Jam ($42-$74) Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams Soundpony – The Mad Doctors The Colony – Mike Cameron Collective Yeti – Writers Night

Wed // Apr 27 BOK Center – Carrie Underwood ($46-$76) Cain’s Ballroom – Blackberry Smoke, SIMO ($22-$37) Downtown Lounge – Honky, GRIND, Oklahombres Dusty Dog Pub – Scott Ellison

Mix Co – Mike Cameron Collective Nitro Lounge – Hickoids Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Wednesday Night Spotlight w/ Shelby Eicher ($10) Soundpony – The Receiver The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project

Thurs // Apr 28 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – The Del McCoury Band, The Black Lillies ($23-$38) Crow Creek Tavern – Tyler Brant Elwood’s – Hosty Duo Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Rusty Myers ($42-$74) Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Chad & Kleith, Phil Vaught ($42-$74) Hunt Club – Erin O’Dowd, Chloe Johns IDL Ballroom – Black Tiger Sex Machine, Apashe, Dabin – 9 p.m. ($15-$20) Soundpony – The Last Slice The Colony – Wink N Thursday The Venue Shrine – Alzheimer’s Association Benefit feat. A.H. Pierce and the Arrows – 5 p.m. – ($5) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Steve Pryor

Fri // Apr 29 American Legion Post 308 – American Strings Brady Theater – BORNS, Nothing but Thieves, The Strumbellas ($25) Dusty Dog Pub – Barry Seal Guthrie Green – WGC Anniversary feat. U.S. Elevator, Griffin House, Okie Jam w/ Wink Burcham, Ali Harter and John Calvin Abney – 6:30 p.m. Gypsy Coffee House – Native Strange Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Phil Vaught ($42-$74) Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd, Members Only ($42-$74) Hunt Club – RPM Lennie’s Club – David Dover Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – SeXtion 8 Pepper’s Grill - South – The Living Room Project w/ Jennifer Marriott and Wanda Watson Pepper’s Grill - South – Barton and Long Roosters Cocktails – Beau Tyler Soul City – Paul Benjaman Band Vinyl Release Show Soundpony – DJ Trigger Warning, DJ Swang Em The Colony – Dan Martin Band The Venue Shrine – DJ Yella of N.W.A. and Lil Eazy ($20-$50) Vanguard – Half Moon Run, Jesse Mac Cormack ($17-$40) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Dustin Pittsley Band Yeti – Roots of Thought

Sat // Apr 30 Billy and Renee’s – The Violet Hour, Serafem BOK Center – Smoke and Guns ($22)

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Sun // May 1 Cain’s Ballroom – Animal Collective, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ($25-$27) East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Guthrie Green – WGC Anniversary feat. Ellis Paul, Red Dirt Rangers, David Amram, Gretchen Peters, Okie Jam w/ Desi and Cody, Jacob Tovar and Paul Benjaman – 6:30 p.m. Soundpony – David’s Bandana, Darkbird The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Venue Shrine – Ian Moore and the Lossy Coils ($10-$15)

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Four and three and two and one The broads are back at it by CLAIRE EDWARDS

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road City,” Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s love letter to female friendship, returned for its third season this past February. Like many viewers across the country, I was rock hard with anticipation. The show’s premise is simple and not especially novel—two broke but scrappy best friends navigate their mid-twenties and the “surreal, but so real” landscape of New York City while contending with love, sex, and money problems. The formula invites comparisons to other shows about women in The City, most obviously Lena Dunham’s “Girls.” But what sets “Broad City” apart is its

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big, soft, cushy heart—Abbi and Ilana’s love for each other. Though they make pretty egregious mistakes and haphazardly stumble through life, Abbi and Ilana are just so damn likable as they are, it’s hard to root for them to mature. The audience, then, is placed in a precarious position— torn between wanting to see its beloved protagonists grow and wanting them to stay stagnant and unchanging because, hey, why mess with a good thing? So my anticipation came with a healthy dose of anxiety, unassuaged by the season’s impressive roster of guest stars like Whoopie Goldberg, Blake Griffin, the perennially adorable Tony Danza, and—holy shit—Hillary Clinton. Unsurprisingly, the latter cameo caused major waves, and more than a little backlash against the show. Recently, Facebook media headquarters hosted a Q&A with the show’s music director, but many of the questions came in the form of vitriol from fans who were angry and confused by Hillary Clinton’s cameo on the show. Her inclusion is indeed a little off-putting—this kind of stumping through a cameo often comes across as out of touch and, frankly, a little icky. But I didn’t find Ilana’s blind hero worship of Clinton to be out of step with the character,

and by the time she started making cold calls as Ilana “Rodham” Wexler, I was fully on board with the premise. And, really, having Clinton show up just to turn on one of those wacky, waving-armed inﬂatable tube men to boost office morale is a fairly brilliant, less-ismore employment of her talents. (Ultimately, more off-putting than the assumed calculation of Clinton’s appearance were the hordes of angry Bernie Sanders supporters who came out of the woodwork to demand answers about why their candidate hadn’t been given a guest spot on the show, as if Sanders was entitled to an appearance as well.) The writing this season has struggled with character stagnation; several episodes saw our heroes returning to familiar narratives and rehashing old adventures to diminishing returns. But episode eight, “Burning Bridges,” brought with it the promise of a turning point for the girls. The normally rational, down-to-earth Abbi engages in some Mrs. Doubtﬁre-level hijinks to avoid telling Ilana about her burgeoning affair with her sweet but obnoxious co-worker Trey (Paul Downs), while the aggressively self-confident, irreverent ball-scratcher Ilana finds herself reduced to tears at the end of a family meal because

her long-time lover Lincoln (Hannibal Buress) has dumped her. This isn’t necessarily an instance of the characters themselves changing, per se, but it does allow the viewer’s perception of them to deepen. Abbi can have a carefree ﬂing, we see; Ilana can develop deep feelings for someone for whom she claimed to only have physical affection. The end of the episode finds the two of them sitting in a bathtub, smoking weed and riffing about what secrets they’ve kept from each other. Despite all their emotional upheaval, they’re still waiting for each other at the end of the day, as if to reassure us that, no matter what sort of changes the future holds for them, the show can always come back to its emotional core. a

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Altered states Five classic stoner films by JOE O’SHANSKY

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The Big Lebowski (1998) This Coen Bros. classic follows the adventures of perma-baked Los Angeleno, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, who stumbles into a Raymond Chandler-esque mystery after two gangsters mistakenly rough him up and pee on his rug. The supporting cast includes a master class lesson in comic timing by John Goodman as The Dude’s overbearing, Vietnam vet, best-friend Walter Sobchak (“Nihilists? Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”)—among unforgettable turns from Julianne Moore, John Turturro, and Steve Buscemi. Endlessly quotable, “Lebowski” is the Coen Bros. funniest film, no matter your state of mind. PEAK SCENE: After being slipped a mickey by Ben Gazzara’s Jackie Treehorn, The Dude abides in a hallucinatory dream cocktail of bowling and erotic enticement, set to Kenny Roger’s “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In).” TRON (1982) Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a disgruntled hacker who, with the help of two programmer friends, breaks into his erstwhile employer ENCOM. Their objective is to steal the proof that his former rival, Dillinger (David Warner), took credit for a series of successful videogames Flynn created. When Dillinger’s creation, the Master Control Program, learns what Flynn is up to, it digitizes Flynn and brings him into the wonderfully dated Game Grid to do battle with other captive “programs.” THE TULSA VOICE // April 20 – May 3, 2016

Roland Topor (who’s 1988 film “Gandahar” mines similarly trippy poli-sci-fi territory) craft a singular world, with vibrantly original character and art design. Their imaginative details, from the ﬂora and fauna to the strange technology, presage the kind of world building James Cameron achieved with “Avatar”—minus the overkill. It’s like nothing you’ve seen before. PEAK SCENE: Literally every frame. Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi and John Goodman in “The Big Lebowski” | COURTESY

Though this and “Lebowski” do make for a kind double feature, this isn’t about Jeff Bridges. As a teenager, I conﬂated “TRON,” cloudy weekend afternoons, and herb into a nerdy comfort food with an 8-bit ﬂavor all its own.

Brian Blessed. Then there’s the bombastic soundtrack by Queen which most agree is the only legitimately good thing about this movie. No matter how you slice it, “Flash Gordon” is the life of the Havarti.

PEAK SCENE: Pretty much everything after Flynn finds himself in the handcrafted glow of Disney’s Syd Mead-designed computer netherworld.

PEAK SCENE: Out of a target rich environment, I’ll take Flash, Zarkov, and Dale passing through the psychedelic Sea of Fire to crash land on Mongo and meet Ming’s minions.

“Flash Gordon” (1980) Clearly these are personal preferences. And often, cheesy sci-fi is the jam on my toast. Flash Gordon (Sam Jones) and Dr. Hans Zarkov (Topol) must rescue Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) from the clutches of Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow), and save the Earth from total annihilation. So simple, yet such an embarrassment of riches. Lo-fi effects and garish costuming are faithful to the original serial, brought to ostentatious life by Academy Award winner Danilo Donati. Performances range from the laughable to the divine, by a cast including Timothy Dalton, von Sydow, Topol, and the divinely over-the-top bellowing of

“Fantastic Planet” (1973) If a stoner on death row had to write a movie to avoid execution, something like this French animated oddity would probably get him or her pardoned. On the planet Ygam, a race of giant, blue humanoids called Draags keep diminutive humans, dubbed Oms, as pets—often cruelly. When a domesticated Om, Terr, inadvertently gets an education via Draag technology, he breaks free into the wild, where he finds colonies of wild Oms. The Draags, who consider wild Oms vermin, begin summary fumigation. Terr, fighting for his people, leads them in revolt. An allegory for American slavery, creators René Laloux and

“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968)—This one is probably more for those who like mushrooms on their pizza. Still, there’s no denying that asking the deep, metaphysical questions that sentient humans have about the nature of life in a vast, impassive, and unknown universe (divorced from a literal God) fits nicely into any mental fugue. A breadcrumb trail of ominous, obelisk-like Monoliths lead a team of astronauts to investigate a newly-discovered, gigantic version ﬂoating near Jupiter. Their onboard, helpful AI buddy HAL promptly goes insane and kills everyone except for Dave Bowman (Kier Dullea), who ultimately embarks on a final journey to the beginning of Creation. Though not the Judeo-Christian kind. This is Kubrick’s masterpiece, and it’s still a visual stunner. Suffused with his cold distance, he winds the unnerving story of a serial-killing supercomputer with an epic treatise about the arc of human evolution and what the soul has to look forward to once it’s reborn into a multi-dimensional afterlife. Or something. PEAK SCENE: Let’s just say the epic “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite” finale was really designed for a 1968 audience. a FILM & TV // 45

free will astrology by ROB BREZSNY

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20):

The ancient Greek geographer Pausanias told a story about how the famous poet Pindar got his start. One summer day, young Pindar decided to walk from his home in Thebes to a city 20 miles away. During his trek, he got tired and lay down to take a nap by the side of the road. As he slept, bees swarmed around him and coated his lips with wax. He didn’t wake up until one of the bees stung him. For anyone else, this might have been a bother. But Pindar took it as an omen that he should become a lyric poet, a composer of honeyed verses. And that’s exactly what he did in the ensuing years. I foresee you having an experience comparable to Pindar’s sometime soon, Taurus. How you interpret it will be crucial.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Measured by that standard, your strength of spirit has been growing — and may be poised to reach an all-time high. In my estimation, you now have an unusually expansive capacity to hold surprising, effervescent, catalytic truths. Do you dare invite all these insights and revelations to come pouring toward you? I hope so. I’ll be cheering you on, praying for you to be brave enough to ask for as much as you can possibly accommodate. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Göbekli Tepe was a monumental religious sanctuary built 11,600 years ago in the place we now call Turkey. Modern archaeologists are confounded by the skill and artistry with which its massive stone pillars were arranged and carved. According to conventional wisdom, humans of that era were primitive nomads who hunted animals and foraged for plants. So it’s hard to understand how they could have constructed such an impressive structure 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Writing in National Geographic, science journalist Charles C. Mann said, “Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.” In that spirit, Cancerian, I make the following prediction: In the coming months, you can accomplish a marvel that may have seemed beyond your capacity. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In myths and folklore, the ember is a symbol of coiled-up power. The fire within it is controlled. It provides warmth and glow even as its raw force is contained. There are no unruly flames. How much energy is stored within? It’s a reservoir of untapped light, a promise of verve and radiance. Now please ruminate further about the ember, Leo. According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s your core motif right now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Uh-oh. Or maybe I should instead say “Hooray!” You are slipping into the Raw Hearty Vivid Untamed Phase of your astrological cycle. The universe is nudging you in the direction of high adventure, sweet intensity, and rigorous stimulation. If you choose to resist the nudges, odds are that you’ll have more of an “uhoh” experience. If you decide to play along, “hooray!” is the likely outcome. To help you get in the proper mood, make the following declaration: “I like to think that my bones are made from oak, my blood from a waterfall, and my heart from wild daisies.” (That’s a quote from the poet McKenzie Stauffer.) LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In many cultures, the butterfly is a symbol of transformation and rebirth. In its original state as a caterpillar, it is homely and slow-moving. After its resurrection time in the chrysalis, it becomes a lithe and lovely creature capable of flight. The mythic meaning of the moth is quite different, however. Enchanted by the flame, it’s driven so strongly toward the light that it risks burning its wings. So it’s a symbol of intense longing that may go too far. In the coming weeks, Libra, your life could turn either way. You may even vacillate between being moth-like and butterfly-like. For best results, set an intention. What exactly do you want? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I gladly abandon dreary tasks, rational scruples, reactive undertakings imposed by the world,” wrote Scorpio philosopher Roland Barthes. Why did he do this? For the sake of love, he said — even though he knew it

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might cause him to act like a lunatic as it freed up tremendous energy. Would you consider pursuing a course like that in the coming weeks, Scorpio? In my astrological opinion, you have earned some time off from the grind. You need a break from the numbing procession of the usual daily rhythms. Is there any captivating person, animal, adventure, or idea that might so thoroughly incite your imagination that you’d be open to acting like a lunatic lover with boundless vigor? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Difficulties illuminate existence,” says novelist Tom Robbins, “but they must be fresh and of high quality.” Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to go out in search of the freshest and highest-quality difficulties you can track down. You’re slipping into a magical phase of your astrological cycle when you will have exceptional skill at rounding up useful dilemmas and exciting riddles. Please take full advantage! Welcome this rich opportunity to outgrow and escape boring old problems. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When I grow up, I want to be a little boy,” wrote novelist Joseph Heller in his book Something Happened. You have cosmic permission to make a comparable declaration in the coming days. In fact, you have a poetic license and a spiritual mandate to utter battle cries like that as often as the mood strikes. Feel free to embellish and improvise, as well: “When I grow up, I want to be a riot girl with a big brash attitude,” for example, or “When I grow up, I want to be a beautiful playful monster with lots of toys and fascinating friends who constantly amaze me.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In one of his diaries, author Franz Kafka made this declaration: “Life’s splendor forever lies in wait around each one of us in all of its fullness — but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.” I’m bringing this promise to your attention, Aquarius, because you have more power than usual to call forth a command performance of life’s hidden splendor. You can coax it to the surface and bid it to spill over into your daily rhythm. For best results, be magnificent as you invoke the magnificence.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve got a controversial message for you, Pisces. If you’re addicted to your problems or if you’re convinced that cynicism is a supreme mark of intelligence, what I’ll say may be offensive. Nevertheless, it’s my duty as your oracle to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, and so I will proceed. For the sake of your mental health and the future of your relationship with love, consider the possibility that the following counsel from French author André Gide is just what you need to hear right now: “Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The writer should never be ashamed of staring,” said Aries writer Flannery O’Connor. “There is nothing that does not require his attention.” This is also true for all of you Aries folks, not just the writers among you. And the coming weeks will be an especially important time for you to cultivate a piercing gaze that sees deeply and shrewdly. You will thrive to the degree that you notice details you might normally miss or regard as unimportant. What you believe and what you think won’t be as important as what you perceive. Trust your eyes.

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ACROSS 1 Antique, quaintly 5 Like haunted house sounds 10 Don’t go on 14 Low end of the Mohs scale 18 e.e. cummings works 20 16th-century council site 21 Trapper’s trophy 22 Village Voice award 23 Ship’s emergency exit 25 Deceptive gridiron run 27 Maternity ward arrivals 28 Like a DIYer 30 Flat dweller 31 Shrinking Asian sea 32 Turndowns 33 Starbucks offering 34 Zero of “The Producers” 37 Frampton of rock 40 Playground retort 43 Big Apple tennis venue 44 Hospital fluids 45 Crinkly veggie 46 “To ___ it may ...” 50 X, to Xenophon 51 Strategy B, maybe 56 Horatian work 57 “Zebra,” in sports 58 Lenders’ securities 59 Holds dear 60 De Valera of Ireland 62 Flatbreads of sorts 64 BART part 65 Passover meals 66 Poorer, as excuses go 67 Quick-cook noodle soup

GABE is a three monthold terrier mix. This little guy is very sure of himself. He can be a little dominant over other dogs, but he loves playtime with people. Tug-of-war is very exciting, as are keep away and chase. If nobody is around to play, he will sit quietly in the corner waiting for someone. Is that you?

68 Justice Ruth ___ Ginsburg 69 Native of northwest France 71 Break off 72 File holders 75 Gave a glowing review 76 Didn’t just sit there 77 Violinist’s application 78 Old hand 79 Get mellower 80 Carl Reiner’s directorial debut, 1967 83 Have a bug 84 Prepares to feather 86 Mae West’s “___ Angel” 87 Harrow rival 88 Chop into cubes 89 Sri Lankan tea 91 Bottomless pit 93 Turned suddenly 95 Mater’s mate 98 Mai ___ cocktail 99 Disorganized pile 100 River to the Congo 102 Cradle’s spot, in song 104 Seaweedclogged sea 108 Dress shirt style 110 Recording engineer’s place 112 Wight, for one 113 Tourists’ neckwear 114 AKA follower 115 Pianist’s exercise 116 In the neighborhood 117 Piano recital piece 118 Tither’s portion 119 Reach across DOWN 1 Still unresolved 2 Get checkmated

3 Radio City’s style, for short 4 Issue forth 5 Singer Merman 6 Hurlers’ stats 7 Emeritus (Abbr.) 8 Move stealthily 9 Simple hydrocarbon 10 Loses, as pounds 11 Pocket-sized 12 Roulette bet 13 Thunder sound 14 Unable to keep up 15 Treat like dirt 16 Hanky material 17 Granted, as land 19 Expendable 24 List-ending abbr. 26 Gen. Lee’s men 29 Neither’s partner 34 Large in scale 35 Milo of “Ulysses” 36 Auto’s gear selector 37 Hammer ends 38 Drops an easy one 39 Salon offering 40 Like Zorro or Batman 41 “___ fair in ...” 42 Three R’s org. 44 One in a cattle drive 45 Costner of “Bull Durham” 47 Activity for the 28-Across 48 Dumpster output 49 Department store department 51 Pie order 52 Draw a parallel 53 Oakland’s county 54 W.C. Fields persona 55 Short of 61 Yemeni port 63 Blanchett of “Elizabeth” 64 “Bolero” composer

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MAYA is a four monthold Catahoula leopard dog/American blue heeler mix. She is a little shy at first, but warms up eventually. She enjoys napping and hanging out in her run outside. Maya needs some TLC and a home so she can break out of her shell. Your love will be given back tenfold by this peaceful gal.

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HOOK is a three yearold domestic shorthair. Due to unknown reasons, Hook only has three legs, though he doesn’t seem to mind. He gets around as good as if he had all four. He’s a friendly cat that doesn’t seek attention, but loves all the attention you can give him. This unique little guy is a must-meet kitty.

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BOOTS is a two year-old domestic shorthair. Surrendered to us by her previous owner, she took a little while to warm up to being at the shelter. Now, she follows us around the room purring and rubbing against our legs. She has a ton of personality. Come visit this fun young girl and see how she plays and cuddles.

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