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guage here on Earth and that Tulsa was a manufacturer of the lexicon. Tulsa’s search for its next summer music festival, then, is a search for itself, a search for the signal we want to broadcast to the world. Lindsey Neal Kuykendall has the odyssey on page 8. Just as our music festivals today are stories of a place, a people, and a time, so can a timeline of festivals past reveal from where we have come. Kelsey Duvall has Tulsa’s historic festivals on page 30. On page 27 begins a guide that leads to where to find this summer’s hottest music festivals, good for whether home beckons or the road comes calling—in fact, we would advise keeping this issue in the car once you’ve thumbed it through. Allison Keim finds the fairy godmother of Tulsa’s purveyors of fine festival foods (page 16) while Britt Greenwood weighs the costs and benefits to festival vendors, page 34. Ray Pearcey looks at Tulsa’s place in music outside of the festival scene on page 10, positing that music and technology should collaborate; on
FILM & TV 42 film review: ‘Home, James’ 43 tv review: ‘Mad Men’
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page 38 music writer Mitch Gilliam finds someone who couldn’t agree more. As beautiful as this issue looks in print, we hope you’ll check it out and share it with your friends from our website, recently born at TheTulsaVoice.com. Find there rendered, pixel by glowing pixel, stories on our local artists, musicians, and goings on about town, plus a calendar that will soon burst with all the best things to do in Tulsa. We will convene at Fassler Hall on Saturday, May 10, for a birthday—turn to page 25 for details, and please join us as we celebrate the launch of Tulsa’s newest place to gather, to raise these voices we have been given. a
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editor’sletter ver the years Tulsa has been up to grandma’s attic dozens of times, studying ourselves in the mirror as we tried the clothes of a jazz city, a crossroads for blues, an underground bastion of reggae, a place that rocks. We use music festivals like oral history, a way of passing down stories about who we are and what we’re about—or, at least, who we would like to think we are and what we would like to think we’re about. This year our corner of the state is host to a bumper crop of music festivals. Some are familiar as friends. Others are new, devised by a head-banging symphony or a boy band that owes its start to a stage at that other music (and arts) festival, the one that began as a birthday party for Tulsa’s 50th year. From 2002-2009, the years the much-lamented Diversafest (Dfest for short) was Tulsa’s music festival, we assured everyone watching (including ourselves) that music is the universal lan-
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According to Jim The Pride of Bridenstine by BARRY FRIEDMAN
Let’s take a road trip, shall we? We’ll begin at the Oklahoma State Election Board, 2300 N. Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, April 11. No savior appears to be coming to challenge First District Congressman Jim Bridenstine; hell, no lesser gods, either. The Congressman must’ve been feeling pretty good. About a week later, on April 17, at 701 North Union Avenue, the congressman said this to the Tulsa Association of Health Underwriters, a group having a big sad over the Affordable Care Act: “What we have under this president is lawlessness,” Bridenstine said. According to Tulsa World, continuing its usual bang-up objective coverage on ACA, the Congressman drew “a standing ovation from his audience of insurance executives caught in the middle of the transitions brought on by the Affordable Care Act ….” Please. These execs are not caught in the middle of “transitions”—they’re worried their gravy train might be losing steam. Profits for the 10 largest U.S. insurance companies jumped 250 percent between 2000 and 2009, according to a 2010 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But healthcare wasn’t the only thing on Bridenstine’s mind. “And it’s not just Obamacare,” said Bridenstine, who spits out “Obamacare” the way Neidermeyer spit out “pledge pin” in “Animal House.” “You look at welfare law, you look at drug law in our country, you look at marriage law. It doesn’t matter what the law is, this president is intent on undermining it based on own his political philosophy and not based on the process that our Constitution requires.” 6 // NEWS & COMMENTARY
Cong ressman Jim Bridenst ine cont inues in Washing ton, unopposed
How dare the president pursue an agenda on which he campaigned? Jimbo, for the 54th time (or about the number of times the GOP has voted to repeal it), ACA was passed by a majority of Congress. That’s how democracy works. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose—unless you’re the GOP and then you hold your breath until you turn red (see what I did there?) and start yelling Benghazi when you need a noun. Let us now head back in time even further, to June of 2013, to 730 12th Street NW in Washington, where the Congressman popped a carotid artery on the House floor. “Mr. Speaker, the President’s dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness and lack of moral compass lead many to suggest that he is not fit to lead. The only problem is that his vice president is equally unfit and even more embarrassing.” If distortion, verisimilitude, and douchebaggery were a flock of birds, he would be covered in white. And he sticks the landing: “The president’s State Department lied about Benghazi with false information provided by the White House,” Bridenstine said. Let’s stay in Washington but saunter over to 1 First Street NE
to listen to him heckle the men in black robes. “Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s constitutional.” And John Jay just flung himself out of his own grave. “What that means,” the Congressman continued, “is that that’s what they decided on that particular day given the makeup of the Court on that particular day. And the left in this country has done an extraordinary job of stacking the courts in their favor.” No, what that means, Congressman, is you know as much about SCOTUS as I do the about the best place for noodling on the Salt Fork River. In the last few years, the High Court ruled for Citizens United against a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, upheld Michigan’s Affirmative Action legislation, and obliterated campaign finance laws; meanwhile, state courts are limiting choice, suppressing minority voting, and loosening gun laws. And the congressman thinks liberals are running things? Oy. And. Vey. Bridenstine’s best work, however, is around constituents. For that, we take it back to Tulsa, to Bridenstine’s Town Hall meeting earlier
this year, when said an attendee: “Obama, he’s not president, as far as I’m concerned, he should be executed, he’s an enemy combatant… the Muslims that he is shipping into our country through pilots and commercial jets….” You’d think a man, who as a soldier swore to “defend and protect the United States,” wouldn’t stand in stoic puffiness with a shit-eating grin (check the video; link at thetulsavoice.com) while some nutjob called for the death of the president. You’d think. “Look, everyone knows,” he said upon her conclusion, “the lawlessness of this president.” (Bridenstine did issue an explanation the following day. It was both half-hearted and half-assed.) In Bridenstine’s world, the full get fed, facts get dismissed, the crazy get encouraged, and apologies get mumbled. We conclude our tour where we began. Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK1) will serve a second term after drawing no challengers during the three-day filing period that ended earlier this month. a
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Our quest to find our summer music festival by LINDSEY NEAL KUYKENDALL
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he Center of the Universe was once just a circle in the cement somewhere in downtown Tulsa that echoed, a spot where you could go to test the sound of your own voice. Last year, it was the name under which a storied 80,000 gathered at the inaugural Center of the Universe Festival, when the latest iteration of Tulsa’s summertime search for its sound flooded downtown Tulsa’s Brady District for two days and nights. The second-ever Center of the Universe Festival is slated this year for July 25-26 with headliners AWOLNATION, Young the Giant, Fitz and the Tantrums, Twenty One Pilots, Capital Cities, and Cold War Kids, with over 100 other bands performing. There is a third stage this year, a dedicated showcase of the best that Oklahoma has to offer. “For bands on their way up, this gives them an opportunity to be on the same billing as some of the biggest acts out there, play at the same festival with them, have a big crowd,” said Chris Lieberman, who, with Phillip Kaiser, founded the festival last year. Its stated focus as a non-profit music festival is to help the Brady District continue to grow. “Long term and in general, the ideas is to add to the cool stuff that’s happening in Tulsa,” Kaiser said. “We both grew up here, and people were saying the same thing about Tulsa when we were kids as they say now: It’s a great place to raise a family. It’s not going to keep our kids here when they’re in their late teens and twenties, a place that’s cool, has things to do,
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has an urban environment, things like what cities like Nashville and Portland have. We’re losing our young people to these cities.” Organizers donate a portion of festival proceeds to Tulsa Public Schools’ music program and to the district’s trolley service—“It’s our way of waving our lighters in support of a higher cause,” the website says. Last year, it all came free. This year, base price for a one-day ticket for the 2014 festival was $20 (it went up to $25 May 1, and it’ll be $35 starting July 12), with a weekend pass starting at $35 ($40 at press time); VIP packages, which include access to the VIP Lounge in Cain’s where there’s free beer and live video and audio feeds as well as access to the main-stage viewing area just to the side of the stage, will reach $200 by July 12. Local and regional festival prices most recently range from free to upwards of $200 for VIP packages and camping excursions. Musical experiences with a zero-dollar price tag include Tulsa Roots Music Bash, held at Guthrie Green last month; Hop Jam, set to bring together Tulsa’s craft-beer community and live music with the goal, according to Hanson front man Taylor, of creating an anchor for the city’s downtown renewal, set for May 18 at Guthrie Green and The Tulsa Music Festival on May 24, also at Guthrie Green. Others require healthy chunks of change for a full-on, outdoor-camping-and-concert experience, like Rocklahoma (held annually over the Memorial Day weekend in Pryor), Backwoods
Bash (also Memorial Day weekend, on Keystone Lake), Wakarusa (June 5-8 on the other side of the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line, in Ozark), and Easter Island Music & Camping Festival (in Keetonville every April). Price tags for those range $50-179.
Various festival business models abound, and some festivals have tried to move from one to another. Not all have survived. Various festival business models abound, and some festivals have tried to move from one to another. Not all have survived. One in particular has stood the test of time. Tulsa International Mayfest, the annual art and music festival that takes over downtown Tulsa along Main Street every spring, turned 40 years old in 2012, here since before anyone started looking at us like we were the next Austin. It was 1972 when Sammy Davis Jr. was the festival’s very first headliner. Mayfest has helped sustain Tulsa’s appetite for a major arts and music festival over the years, from the rise of Bartlett Square to downtown Tulsa’s Guthrie Green. Elsewise downtown, there’s the First Friday Art Crawl, the monthly place-to-be to catch the latest art exhibitions in Tulsa’s arts district that’s a festival all its own, with attendance in the thousands. Day of the Dead continues each October with a slew of Latin
music, and Living Arts hosts its OK Electric Festival in the Brady District, now home of Reconciliation Way. Reaching for the next note We thought it was the Tulsa incarnation of South by Southwest. It was Dfest, short for Diversafest. It gathered steam from its start in 2002, when journalists and music mavens began to compare us to Austin in the 70’s. When downtown Tulsa was a ghost town with only a couple of venues for the devoted underground scene, Dfest mixed touring national headliners with our local musicians on its stages; we asked the industry people to host business seminars in hotel banquet rooms, and they did. Dfest built it and they came, some from across the globe. I walked through the happy, trash filled streets of the ’07 Dfest, the year The Flaming Lips headlined, music from one stage echoing off the buildings and overlapping the faint echoes of the next stage. They were from this place, and you could tell. Tulsa filled up all the streets, from North Tulsa to South Tulsa, east to west. It was really just one big parking lot with a stage and confetti, but it seemed like more. Music, people, food smells and excitement dribbled from nextdoor-neighbor venues and street stages. There were huge audiences watching local bands and making golden memories. Musicians felt proud to be from Tulsa and play in Tulsa. People in the audience gorged on the celebration of youth and creativity. Everyone was there, from the soundphiles to the May 7 – May 20, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
hipsters to the curious to those simply interested in enjoying their city for one evening. Two years later, the festival lured a reported 70,000 ticketholders to the city’s center for a weekend of music, bringing what was said to be nearly $13 million in revenue. Festival organizers couldn’t have known that, the following spring, they would cast a powerful specter over the city when they announced the festival’s indefinite hiatus. DFest founder Tom Green told Tulsa World, “Tough economy, rising production costs and a decline in lower-level corporate sponsorships and support,” were among the reasons for the demise. Next summer rolled in and the audience came back to treat Free Tulsa like D-Fest with another name. But this time, Free Tulsa asked bands to play on different terms. “Here’s what selected artists get,” The Free Tulsa band submission website read in 2011. “Artists can sell their merchandise and keep 100% of the profits. Snacks and VIP Artist tent will be provided day of show for artists.
A sound system and a sound engineer will be provided at the venue, but artists are responsible for bringing their own instruments, amps and any additional equipment.” Basically, musicians were paid with anything except money. In the end, it all went down, 160 bands strong. On July 29, 2012, the night of the last day of Free Tulsa as the crowd was still dispersing, organizers wrote on the festival Facebook: “Well folks. It was a heck of a time. See you next year?” Musical Sustainability In between and after the fall of two major downtown Tulsa music festivals since the revitalization of the area, our ambitious local music scene has continued to develop. It creates its own tracks in the historical path left by the momentum of those giant parties in our streets and by musicians of Tulsa’s past. A new local bar scene feeds the sound, a smattering of venues with modest-capacity rooms and stages, from Fassler Hall and The Colony to Soundpony, Creative Room, and The Fur Shop. The audience may
be whoever happened to be having a drink that night, or it could be the members of a band in town because Tulsa is a new stop on the invisible highway that tracks north to Kansas City and down to Dallas, east to St. Louis and west to Oklahoma City. Bands make $50 to $100 per man per night to play, whether it’s to anyone paying attention or to an audience socializing over the music. “I think it’s necessary for local bands to venture out from their hometown to throw their music against other audiences,” Andrew Bones, a Tulsa drummer, explained. “The current doesn’t always blow through Tulsa, so sometimes you have to leave to spread your seed. But after the tour, you’ve played some shows, made some new friends and connections, and a little bit of money, you can come back to Tulsa where it’s calm and easy to live. That’s what’s worked for me anyways.” Travis Hall is the Managing Director of the Tulsa Music Festival, free and open to the public and set for Memorial Day Weekend at
Guthrie Green. “I’m not sure we have a mission statement,” he told me. “We just want to have a great show that families can come to for free. Enjoy some great food, great music and maybe create a memorial weekend tradition for everyone.” “All performers are compensated for playing,” Hall said. “Because it’s a free event, it’s hard to say how much the festival brings to the area.” With all the growth, there may be a need to look for ways to ensure the success of the community is trickling down to the local musicians feeding the scene. Bones shared what may be his personal vision of a Tulsa musical mission statement. “One thing I would like to see more of around here is a willingness from the musicians to offer more experimental ideas, to take more risks, and to challenge their audiences,” he said. “For that to happen, we need audiences that want to be challenged with new ideas and audiences that crave invention. There’s so much talent here waiting to burst.” a
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T-Town = Tune-Town? Melding of music and technology paves the way forward by RAY PEARCEY ome Tulsans and a bevy of outsiders, folks who know a lot about musical history and creative ecology, claim that the mantle of “musical kingdom” was a crown that we should have assumed years ago. They talk with passion about our history and the social and cultural diversity that characterizes so much of Tulsa’s musical landscape from the Depression years forward. We are one of several communities, Tulsa Jazz Hall chief Jeff Kos told me, for early jazz and allied forms. Jazz is arguably American’s quintessential gift to world culture: a hyperkinetic, fevered product of the African American experience, in triumph and in tragedy. Jazz is also a cultural shockwave that has rocked T-Town in spots like Cain’s Ballroom, Brady Theater (a.k.a., the Old Lady On Brady), and dozens of long-vanished gin joints, seedy speakeasies, and hideaway havens. More recently we can look to the musician and composer J.J. Cale. Mr. Cale was an electrifying figure in American music. He was a grand master at mixing styles, genres, and our rich musical traditions. Cale’s contributions to music in America is part of what musical historians now call the Tulsa Sound. Cale’s energetic conflations influenced artists like Eric Clapton, one of Cale’s best friends and someone who brought Cale’s tunes to the world stage on more than one occasion. Other inspirations and sometimes collaborators included Tulsa’s GAP Band, Bobby “Blue” Bland, the ever-quirky Rocky Frisco, Tulsa’s legendary Flash Terry, and, to name a contemporary example,
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. JFJO’s music is a brave braiding of many movements. Critics sometimes say the works of the group, which turned 20 this year, are iconoclastic, eccentric, even abstract. In a 2011 breakout piece, the group recorded “The Race Riot Suite,” centered on the Tulsa race riot of 1921, at Tulsa’s famous Church Studio. The music world is changing. It’s convulsive, happening at hyper-speed. What might a reclaiming of this past glory, a real upgrade to Tulsa’s competitive posture as a music center, look like? Wired and Fortune magazines both carried stories recently about new-instrument development projects, including the one under way at MIT’s famed Media Lab under the Opera of the Future group, which explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression. I got a taste personally of some of this work on a trip last year to Boston. There is an expanding ensemble of electronic wind instruments and digital synthesizing devices that have for years transformed almost every facet of American and World music. Tulsa jazz fan and economic development pro Court Newkirk told me recently that T-Town has long been a valued venue for instrument making. He said we have several veteran violin and guitar makers in town and reminded me that we live among people who know how to use tubing, exotic materials and sensors, mostly thanks to our heritage in fossil fuels. Why not fund a musical-instrument innovation initiative in Tulsa, one that could run under the auspices of our area universities, the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame,
Barthelmes, Tulsa Symphony, and our technology companies?
The music world is changing. It’s convulsive, happening at hyper-speed. What might a reclaiming of this past glory, a real upgrade to Tulsa’s competitive posture as a music center, look like? One of the biggest and latest developments—one that doesn’t have to do with music origination or instrument invention but still vastly improves our live-music offerings—is the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa. This fabulous facility was designed to bring worldclass performers to Tulsa and it has succeeded in doing so, beyond almost anyone’s expectations. It was a difficult undertaking, as any game-changing effort is bound to be, but the BOK Center is a riveting example of how large, public expenditures can dramatically improve Tulsa’s cultural ecology. We need to fund facilities that can help maturing and new musicians get a foothold in the increasingly competitive space that defines the modern musical world. Blue Man Group, for example, created a school in New York City. The school is an attempt to teach music theory, composition, and performance, but it is also a novel employment opportunity for professional musicians who need steady work to add to their weekend gigs.
Here in Tulsa we have Barthelmes Conservatory, with a tight mission to provide classical music education for a very defined portion of Tulsa’s younger community, along with a bevy of the smaller, more informal tutorial and development offerings for promising kids and veteran musicians, including several Arts and Humanities incubator spaces, a range of efforts at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, and the Deborah Brown children’s project. A commitment to the training of children in music appreciation, music history, and instrumental music is a hallmark of a vibrant community. At the same time, dramatically expanding music education for kids in Tulsa would create a cadre of adults who want to consume quality music, which is ever-present in our cafés and bars as well as in our performance halls and arenas. These programs require dramatically augmented funding. We need to reanimate our music classes, band classes, and tutorial programs in Tulsa Public Schools. We need to demand the talent and agile management required to operate high-quality music offerings and allied performing-arts efforts, including an immediate rollback of the ridiculous cuts to Tulsa Performing Arts Center recently recommended by the Bartlett administration. a Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice. May 7 – May 20, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
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How justice should be served Does how we choose our judges and justices matter? by DAVID HARPER
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he legal wrangling that surrounded the botched execution of Clayton Lockett has prompted new questions about the best method to select the judges who make some of society’s most important decisions. An Oklahoma County judge ruled on March 26 that Oklahoma’s secrecy statute for executions is unconstitutional. The Oklahoma Supreme Court, whose members are appointed and subsequently face retention elections, later ruled 5-4 to extend the stay, which caused one state lawmaker to call for the impeachment of the justices in the majority. However, the state’s highest court reversed itself on April 23, clearing the way for the
lethal injection of Lockett, whose excruciating death on April 29 has drawn international attention. While Lockett’s death has spawned renewed debate about the death penalty, it also points to the longstanding debate about how judges should get—and keep—their jobs, whether elections or appointments are best. Judges in the federal court system, where the appointments are for life, don’t have to worry about elections. However, most of the legal activity in the United States occurs elsewhere. The American Constitution Society reported in 2013 that state courts handle about 90 percent of the nation’s legal cases and that 89 percent of
state court judges, including those in Oklahoma, face voters in some type of election.
Some of society’s most important decisions are made from the bench, but judicial elections aren’t known to draw a crowd. In Tulsa County, voters will go to the polls this year to select judges for its district courts. Eight Tulsa County District Judge incumbents and one associate district judge drew no opposition
in filing for office that ended April 11. Another district judge position to will go to former Tulsa mayor Bill LaFortune, the only candidate who filed to take over the retiring Tom Gillert’s seat. Two of this year’s five races will require a June 24 primary to thin the field. The other three races, with two candidates each, will to proceed straight to the November general election. The Tulsa County races are non-partisan, meaning voters can’t make up their minds by simply filling in the blank next to the candidate who belongs to their political party of choice. Instead, citizens will be called upon to do some research in order to cast an informed ballot.
BRIEFLY NOTED PARK AND WRECKED // The beginning of May brought an end to a north Tulsa gathering place. In the early morning hours of May 1, crews demolished the recreation center and swimming pool at B.C. Franklin Park, 1818 E. Virgin St. The Park and Recreation Department has been tearing down such “inoperable” facilities in order to replace them with other features that will be cheaper to maintain: a “pavilion, sports court and water playground,” in the case of B.C. Franklin Park, according to a press release posted on the City of Tulsa’s website. The demolition did not sit well with Tulsa District 1 City Councilor Jack Henderson, who 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY
compared the early-morning demolition to the actions of a “thief in the night.” He said tearing down the facility at a time of day when no one would be present to protest the move was a “cowardly way to do it.” The demolition of Franklin’s recreation center spawned a lawsuit in 2012 from those who wanted renovations and repairs instead of demolition. The six plaintiffs claimed in their lawsuit that tearing down the structure would “adversely impact the quality of their life and that of their children” and that Tulsa Parks officials have “blatantly ignored and refused to expend tax dollars allocated for the maintenance, upkeep and refurbishing of B.C. Franklin Center
for more than a decade.” The lawsuit was later dismissed. “I’ve yet to see anyone learn to swim in a splash pad,” Henderson said. –David Harper OWNING THE RIOT // At the invitation of producers and writers for the OWN Network and the TCC Foundation, Tulsans were invited to Tulsa Community College Center for Creativity on April 30 to share stories about the Tulsa Race Riot. Writers with Oprah Winfrey’s OWN came to Tulsa to host a forum and gather stories and oral history as part of their work on a television mini-series, now in pre-production. The writers and their assistant spent the day touring Greenwood
and the Greenwood Cultural Center. Then, they took the stage at TCC, opened the forum, and listened. Each speaker was given three minutes at the microphone. Nearly every speaker shared dissatisfaction with the suppression of certain events, concerned that the OWN Network was fictionalizing what’s been called the worst civil disturbance in American history. “We will tell one story,” one of the producers said. They reminded the gathering that theirs was a fiction project, that certainly those gathered may not like every part of their representation of events. Nancy Miller, one of the producers said, “That’s the way of the world.” –Jennifer Luitwieler May 7 – May 20, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
Still, statistics that would quantify a judge’s performance are difficult to unearth, and what data is readily available may be of little real value to voters trying to make up their minds. Tulsa County Court Clerk Sally Howe Smith said her office does monitor judges’ caseloads and the number of trials they hold, but such statistics do not take into account how the number of trials for a given judge are civil cases settled short of trial with the court’s encouragement, or when prosecutors and defense attorneys reach a plea deal. Smith said the clerk’s office does not track sentence length by individual judge in criminal cases. However, even if someone made such a study, it couldn’t indicate whether a judge is “tough on crime.” In the state court system, sentences and their length often depend more on juries and attorneys and their plea deals than judges. Jill Webb, a candidate challenging incumbent Kurt Glassco in District 14, said she has tried to discover how many inmates have been put in the Tulsa County Jail over the past four years and by which judges. She was told such statistics are unavailable. Webb said that beyond emphasizing one’s professional experience, candidates are limited in terms of what they can say when addressing potential voters. “We’re not allowed to say what we would do in particular cases,” Webb said. “We can’t say we would be tough on crime. It’s very difficult.” Longtime University of Tulsa law professor Gary Allison said he believes an elected judiciary is “problematic.” A judge’s most important task is to protect individual rights, a mission that can run counter to public opinion, he said. He mentioned the three Iowa Supreme Court justices who lost their positions in a November 2010 retention election, an apparent result of a 2009 ruling that legalized same sex marriage in that state. By contrast, Tulsa-based U. S. Senior District Judge Terence Kern had no such professional worries in January when he ruled that Oklahoma’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, approved overwhelmingly by state voters in November 2004, violates THE TULSA VOICE // May 7 – May 20, 2014
the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Defenders of judicial elections claim that they let the public maintain some sort of check on the judiciary. Voters can go the polls in Oklahoma and most other states to express their displeasure with their state and local judges. Still, statistics provided by the Tulsa County Election Board show that voters do not always
take advantage of the opportunity to choose who sits on the bench. Turnout for the July 2010 judicial primary in Tulsa County was only 22.83 percent and only 18.47 percent for the July 2006 judiciary primary, according to the board. Tulsa County First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond, who is running for the spot on the bench currently occupied by Mark Barcus, acknowledged that judicial races
typically don’t draw the sort of public interest that campaigns for political offices do. However, he said he emphasizes to voters the importance of such races and delivers the message that “it does matter” who they select. a RE A D T HE RE S T
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Q&A
A guy, a girl, and a pizza place by ANAMARÍA SCAPERLANDA BIDDICK
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e sat down with Molly Wizenberg, a native Oklahoman and New York Times bestselling author, to talk about her second book, “Delancey” (Simon & Schuster, $25), which tells the story of how she opened a pizza restaurant with her husband, Brandon—or, rather, the story of how Brandon opened a pizza restaurant and her reluctance about the whole thing. Molly will be in Tulsa Thursday, May 8, at 7 p.m. at Fifteenth and Home, 1512 E. 15th St., for the release of her book as part of a Booksmart Tulsa event.
You attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountains as a high school student and went back in your early twenties to work as an assistant. What was your experience there?
When I was growing up, poetry was really important to me. I got really into writing poetry in high school—poetry was my thing in high school, a big part of my identity. While I was lucky to have really excellent English teachers at my normal school, getting into Quartz and studying under accomplished poets who really took us seriously was very empowering. Was there one aspect that was particularly meaningful to you?
The “Conversations with the Artists,” in the evening—I remember being incredibly moved by the photography teacher, Ted Orland. He talked about the problem of art and fear. It was the first time I heard someone talk about this. There is often a lot of fear and dread involved in
creating. That is something that we have to learn how to manage, how to work with this fear. That is the dark side of making things: the fear of not knowing how, the fear of failing. It was the first time I heard someone acknowledge the dread involved in creativity. Both your blog and your books center on very personal subjects. What is it like for you to meet people who may feel like they know you based on your writing?
I’ve always had a very easy backand-forth conversation with my readers. I feel closer to them than I would if I hadn’t had a blog. I feel indebted to them. I wouldn’t get to do what I do if they hadn’t come along to read my blog.
I certainly don’t know them but it doesn’t seem weird to me that we have a relationship. I feel like writing about our lives is always a careful balancing act between writing down the details that interest me and help me to tell the story, with what is comfortable for me and for my readers. At this point, it feels really intuitive to me, since I’ve been blogging for ten years. It’s like what you would talk to your best friend about versus a friendly acquaintance.
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Tulsa’s food-truck inspector on her growing brood by ALLISON KEIM
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hen Kendra Wise talks about Tulsa’s 100 or so mobile food vendors, her voice takes on a maternal tone. She is the Special Event Coordinator for The Tulsa Health Department, and she is responsible for regulating the operation of all Tulsa full-service mobile food vending operations according to health department standards, from pushcarts to food trucks. She shows up when it’s all in full swing, whether it’s a midweek lunch or in the middle of the night. “I don’t know how I would do my job without Facebook,” Wise said, a nod to the juggling act she faces with trucks’ locations and schedules, all of them in constant flux. It’s Wise’s job to check boxes and run down requirements lists, like a mother takes a headcount, while the rest of the city goes about the business of celebrating—in fact, that’s her favorite part of the job, “that I get to be outside at the events with all the craziness,” she said. Wise is busiest during the Tulsa State Fair and spring and summer festivals season; now, with the popularity of alternative dining at a peak, her department is growing. “The volume of new people calling me and new events starting is the biggest challenge of my job,” she said.
Kendra Wise // Photo by Evan Taylor
Inspectors visit each truck four times each year, posting their findings on the Health Department’s website, at tulsa-health.org. All food-service establishments in Tulsa County require a license that must be renewed annually, and that includes mobile food vending operations. Wise didn’t know that her degrees in Environmental Science and Plant and Soil Science would lead to a career regulating the consumption of food in unusual places. She approaches her job like a scientist, but she also likes to think of herself as a guardian of the connection between the businesses she inspects and the public she’s charged to protect. “I love
helping people get their business started,” Wise said. Inspections are routine but spontaneous, and she gets right in the middle of a tiny truck during service to make sure those inside follow code. Crucial violations result in immediate close until the owner can prove that the violation has been cleared. “Simple menus and small spaces make quick work of inspections,” Wise said. Hungarian physiologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi said, “water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.” Our planet exists because of water. So does the standard food truck in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you don’t have clean water, you don’t have a business. A ten-gallon tank of durable con-
Justin Thompson has done it again. His fourth project, 624 Kitchen and Catering, will open downtown this summer at 624 South Boston. It will serve as an event hall and a catering kitchen, a home base for his corporate offices, and more. Mark your calendar for the very first brunch at this new spot, Sunday, June 1, for an elegant, unique experience in the heart of downtown Tulsa.
ing the fence that surrounds the pig farm in Broken Arrow, which means all the pigs went to the market. While the repair is underway, owner Stephen Green is tilling up the land and planting everything from swiss chard to corn. Don’t worry, he’s got plenty of pork to sell at the Cherry Street Farmer’s Market, but this year he will also be loaded with organic vegetables. While you’re picking up a head of broccoli and fresh lettuces, make sure to grab a package of blueber-
struction is required, and without that, a license can’t be granted. Clean, fresh water means hands can be washed and dishes can be sanitized, cornerstones of healthy food service. “The big challenge is water because they could run out during a shift and the public wouldn’t know,” Wise said. A relationship with a dedicated commissary is the first requirement to earning a permit to sell edibles from a mobile source. If a mobile food vendor doesn’t have an approved location to properly dispose of the water used during a shift, he or she can’t operate. “Most of these vendors are familiar with the industry, so they have food safety knowledge,” she said, “but they are owners instead of hourly staff or managers.” The implication is that the people who are actually making the food are highly invested, experienced, and educated in properly handling food. “This is how they feed their families, so they are more than happy to follow rules and work with me to solve problems,” Wise said. Wise’s picture hangs inside the Airstream that houses Lola’s Gypsy Caravan, operated by Lola Palazzo and her daughter, Wren. “She’s a treasure,” Palazzo said. “She really is concerned with the well being and health of the public because she’s an environmentalist.” a
ALLISON’S DISHES Trevor Tack, Executive Chef at Bodean Restaurant, was contacted by the folks at Food Network last month. He’s been asked to appear as part of one episode of a show as yet to be named. Who knows, maybe we will have a celebrity chef in the 918. In the meantime, stop by the restaurant and try the Spring Risotto, because it is delicious. It’s got fresh peas, asparagus, a truffled farm egg, and is adorned with thinly sliced fried onions. 16 // FOOD & DRINK
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ry-maple sausage links or chorizo, a few of his bestsellers. The White Owl is surely missed, but I’m excited to report that Andres Camacho is give us a new dining option on Cherry Street in its place. The Pint, a casual but sophisticated bar and restaurant, will serve classic pub fare with more casual elegance than most. No details on an exact opening date. The interior has been redone and it looks fantastic; let’s hope the food is just as good. May 7 – May 20, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
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Travis Fite, David Brennan, and Matt Hayes hang out at the coolest places. They’ve turned Friday and Wednesday nights from 7-9:30 p.m. at Hey Mambo Italiano into live-jazz central, and with great food to match. Order the Torta al Gorganzola to start. This spreadable, bacon-embellished, baked-cheese torte, served with seedless grapes and Tuscan Lavosh, is sultry. I have dreams about it. Between this dish and the lofty vocals from the band, it makes for a lovely experience.
Service industry die-hards nurse their brunch hangovers at this German-style beer hall on Sundays because of the flavorful, house-made sausages, stunning pretzels and the legendary duck fat fries (along with some hair of the dog). It also sports a great stage for live performances. I was going to squeeze a sausage party joke in here somewhere but Fassler Hall actually has one on Mondays.
Every Sunday, Chimera helps its patrons wind down from the weekend by way of custom Bloody Marys, homemade vegan donuts, and music courtesy of The Tulsa Vinyl Society. During The Vinyl Brunch, the coffee house/café/bar becomes the site of a weekly music podcast featuring selections from British Invasion rock to Bo Diddley—all depending on who is behind the turntables. It’s unique food and a chance to get in on the vinyl resurgence. Plan on eating two donuts.
With background music, most brunch spots broadcast the blandly inoffensive. Do you really need to hear that Lumineers song again? (Did you need to hear it the first time?) Lucky’s goes full tilt gangsta on Sunday mornings, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., with its Gangsta Brunch: Dre, Cube, Warren G. Huevos Rancheros, $2 mimosas, Biggie and Pac. If you wanna chug your gin and juice to “Gin and Juice,” here’s your hangover cure.
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take a dive
Drunk on the Spirit(s) Danny Bob’s Hideout brings together an unlikely group of regulars by JOSHUA KLINE
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anny Bob’s Hideout, like Buckaneer at 11th and Harvard, is, by virtue of location and aesthetic, both a townie and college bar. Attached to a modest Days Inn a stone’s throw from Oral Roberts University, Victory Christian Center, and the Cityplex Towers, it welcomes the Inn’s out-of-towners. Still, it’s not by any stretch a traditional “hotel” bar. Some patrons claim this is where the more rebellious ORU students go to break the Christian university’s honor code, which stipulates that no student will consume alcohol or tobacco, among other things, while enrolled. They told me how to spot the students. Just look for random clusters of fresh-faced kids reveling louder than the rest, crooning a Taylor Swift song on karaoke night. “Hideout” is humorously apropos. The old truism about churches and bars in Tulsa is alive and drunk on the Spirit here. The collision of the carnal and the pious generates a subversive, upbeat energy that’s intoxicating. On a particular Wednesday, I arrived at Danny Bob’s by myself and squeezed into the last open stool at the corner end of the bar. I ordered a bucket of beer (it was on special, and I planned on being there a while) and lit a cigarette. I scanned the room and soaked in the energy and the smoke. In a moment of shame I realized my smoke was assaulting the couple sitting across from me. I watched the carcinogenic tentacles travel from my cigarette and wrap around their faces and prepared for a dirty look, but they were intensely focused on the
Danny Bob’s 8888 S Lewis Ave Thunder/Clippers game playing out on the flatscreen above us. As the smoke poked and prodded at their devout, unblinking gaze, I fruitlessly waved my hand at the cloud, maybe a little too close to their faces. I apologized a little too quietly. They didn’t respond. I bent my arm at various angles in an effort to divert the trail of toxins. I held the cigarette first above my head, which kind of worked but I looked like an idiot. I tried hiding the cigarette below the bar, but the smoke monster knew how to turn corners. Regardless of my positioning, the airflow from the ceiling vent seemed hellbent on carrying the smoke straight into their eyes. I finally stubbed the cigarette in the ashtray and thought once more about quitting. I turned away and joined the couple in focusing on the third quarter of the Thunder game. DeAndre Jordan flew through the air and completely butchered an easy dunk. The bar cheered. The couple laughed derisively. I looked at them and chuckled, too, eager to join the moment of solidarity. The game went into a timeout and commercial break. The couple finally acknowledged me.
The old truism about churches and bars in Tulsa is alive and drunk on the Spirit here. The collision of the carnal and the pious generates a subversive, upbeat energy that’s intoxicating. “Hey, buddy, you mind if I bum one of those cigarettes from you?” the man asked me. “I promise I won’t ask you for another one.” “Of course!” I said, a little too enthusiastically. “Hey,” he said to me with mock seriousness, “we’ve been here several hours and this is my first cigarette. I’m doing good.” His girlfriend rolled her eyes and smirked. “He prob’ly hasn’t heard a word I’ve said all night. He’s just thinking, ‘cigarette, cigarette, cigarette.’” We made conversation as the game wore on, but only during commercial breaks, when the couple’s intense reverence for their team gave way to an affable curiosity about the stranger next to them.
We discussed sports and movies and the ORU drinkers (“Such nice people,” they both agreed), and then the game would return and we’d all go silent. The game ended (107-101, Thunder win) and the woman’s face, so serious and committed, relaxed into a bright, tipsy glow. “You play pool?” she asked me. Not very well, I told her. “That’s okay. You wanna play a game?” We played doubles, myself and another friendly stranger versus the couple. I was predictably terrible, but my far-more-talented partner was gracious and forgiving. We played several games, switching partners along the way. My team always lost. They asked me to play a fourth game, but I opted out. We were all a little drunk, and our goodbye was awkwardly emotional. A lot of so-nice-to-meet-you and hope-tosee-you-again and we’re-here-allthe-time and I’ll-definitely-be-back. “I’ll definitely be back,” I repeated to them. They nodded, but there was disbelief behind their eyes. It was like when I visited a youth group as a teenager. The young counselor sent to grill me, a visitor, about the state of my soul (“Do you know Jesus?”) gave me the same look when I cut our time short to go play video games in the arcade next door. “I’ll definitely be back,” I told him. And he gave me the same look, that “you-really-should-comeback-because-it-would-be-beneficialto-your-life-but-I-know-you-probably-won’t” look of barely hidden sorrow and compassion. The counselor was right; I never went back to that youth group. But I’ll probably go back to Danny Bob’s. a
TAKE A DIVE is a running column in which Joshua Kline explores the fringes of drinking culture in Tulsa County by visiting the dives, holes, beer bars and neighborhood pubs that keep Green Country drinkers happy. For suggestions on Josh’s next drink, email joshua.s.kline@gmail.com. 20 // FOOD & DRINK
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EAST TULSA Al Sultan Grill & Bakery Big Daddy’s All American Bar-B-Q Birrieria Felipe Bogey’s Brothers Houligan Casa San Marcos Casanova’s Restaurant Charlie’s Chicken Cherokee Deli Darby’s Restaurant El Centenario El Gallo Loco El 7 Marez El Refugio Azteca Super Taqueria Fiesta Del Mar Flame Broiler Frank’s Café Fu-Thai Garibaldi’s The Gnarley Dawg Hatfield’s
Jay’s Coneys Josie’s Tamales Kimmy’s Diner Korean Garden Lot a Burger Maria’s Mexican Grill Mariscos Costa Azul Mariscos El Centenario Mekong Vietnamese Pizza Depot Porky’s Kitchen Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili RoseRock Cafe Señor Fajita Seoul Restaurant Shiloh’s of Tulsa Shish-Kabob & Grill Stone Mill BBQ & Steakhouse Tacos San Pedro Taqueria la Cabana Timmy’s Diner
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Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Draper’s Bar-B-Cue Folks Urban Market Gypsy Coffee House Hey Mambo The Hunt Club Laffa Lucky’s on the Green Mexicali Border Café
Albert G’s Bar & Q Dilly Deli El Guapo’s Cantina Fassler Hall Joe Bots Coffee Joe Momma’s Pizza
Oklahoma Joe’s Prhyme Downtown Steakhouse The Rusty Crane Sisserou’s Spaghetti Warehouse The Tavern Zin Wine, Beer & Dessert Bar
I-44/BA INTERCHANGE Big Anthony’s BBQ Bill & Ruth’s Subs Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Chop House BBQ D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s In & Out Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Monterey’s Little Mexico
Nelson’s Buffeteria Pho Da Cao Pickle’s Pub Rice Bowl Cafe Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Royal Dragon Sezchuan Express Shawkat’s Deli & Grill Speedy Gonzalez Grill Spudder Steak Stuffers USA Tacos Don Francisco Thai Siam Tokyo Garden The Tropical Restaurant & Bar Viet Huong Villa Ravenna Watts Barbecue
NORTH TULSA Admiral Grill Bill & Ruth’s Christy’s BBQ Evelyn’s Golden Saddle BBQ Steakhouse Hank’s Hamburgers Harden’s Hamburgers
Hero’s Subs & Burgers Ike’s Chili Los Primos The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market
WO ODLAND HILLS Juniper McNellie’s S&J Oyster Company Tallgrass Prairie Table White Flag Yokozuna
UTICA SQUARE Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Goldie’s Patio Grill McGill’s Olive Garden P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
Pepper’s Grill Polo Grill Queenie’s Café and Bakery Starbucks Stone Horse Café Wild Fork
SOUTH TULSA BBD II Baja Jack’s Burrito Shack Bamboo Thai Bistro Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders Bodean’s Seafood Restaurant The Brook Camille’s Sidewalk Café Cardigan’s Charleston’s Cimarron Meat Company Dona Tina Cocina Mexicana El Samborsito Elements Steakhouse & Grille The Fig Café and Bakery First Watch Five Guys French Hen Gencies Chicken Shack Gyros by Ali Hebert’s Specialty Meats
Helen of Troy Mediterranean Cuisine India Palace La Flama Mahogany Prime Steakhouse McNellie’s South City Mr. Goodcents Subs & Pastas Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Nordaggio’s Coffee OK Country Donut Shoppe Pita Place Redrock Canyon Grill Ripe Tomato Ron’s Hamburgers and Chili Sushi Hana Japanese Fusion Thai Village Tres Amigos Mexican Grill & Cantina White Lion Whole Foods Zio’s Italian Kitchen
BROOKSIDE Antoinette Baking Co. Biga Billy Sims BBQ Blue Moon Bakery and Café The Brook Brookside By Day Café Ole Café Samana Charleston’s Claud’s Hamburgers Cosmo Café & Bar Crow Creek Tavern Doc’s Wine and Food Egg Roll Express Elmer’s BBQ Fuji La Hacienda The Hen Bistro Hibiscus Caribbean Bar and Grill In the Raw Keo Lambrusco’Z To Go
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TU/KENDALL WHITTIER Big Al’s Health Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s BBQ Brothers Houligan Capp’s BBQ Corner Café Duffy’s Diner El Rancho Grande Freddie’s Hamburgers Guang Zhou Dim Sum Jim’s Coney Island Las Americas Super Mercado & Restaurant Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant
Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Nelson’s Ranch House Oklahoma Style BBQ The Phoenix Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza
Atlas Grill Billy’s on the Square Boston Avenue Grill Deco Deli
Elote Café & Catering Mod’s Coffee & Crepes Tavolo The Vault
CHERRY STREET Andolini’s Pizzeria Café Cubana Chimi’s Mexican Food Chipotle Mexican Grill Coffee House on Cherry Street Daylight Donuts Doe’s Eat Place Full Moon Café Genghis Grill Heirloom Baking Co. Hideaway Jason’s Deli
Kilkenny’s Irish Pub & Eatery La Madeleine Lucky’s Restaurant Mary’s Italian Trattoria Mi Cocina Palace Café Panera Bread Phat Philly’s Qdoba Mexican Grill SMOKE. Te Kei’s Tucci’s Café Italia Zanmai
WEST TULSA Main Street Tavern McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro Romeo’s Espresso Cafe
MIDTOWN Albert G’s The Alley Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse
Jason’s Deli Jay’s Original Hoagies Keo Kit’s Takee-Outee La Roma Lanna Thai Louie’s Mandarin Taste Marley’s Pizza Mekong River Mi Tierra Napoli’s Italian Restaurant Oliveto Italian Bistro Ri Le’s Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Ridge Grill Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Savoy Shogun Steakhouse of Japan Siegi’s Sausage Factory & Deli Ti Amo Italian Ristorante Wrangler’s Bar-B-Q Yasaka Steakhouse of Japan Zio’s Italian Kitchen
DECO DISTRICT Leon’s Brookside Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Mondo’s Ristorante Italiano Old School Bagel Café Pei Wei Asian Diner R Bar & Grill Rons Hamburgers & Chili Señor Tequila Shades of Brown Sonoma Bistro & Wine Bar Starbucks Sumatra Coffee Shop Super Wok The Warehouse Bar & Grill Weber’s Root Beer Whole Foods Market Yolotti Frozen Yogurt Zoës Kitchen
ROSE DISTRICT BruHouse Daylight Donuts Family Back Creek Deli & Gifts Fiesta Mambo!
Asahi Sushi Bar Baker Street Pub & Grill Billy Sims BBQ Bistro at Seville Bluestone Steahouse and Seafood Restaurant Brothers Houligan Brothers Pizza Bucket’s Sports Bar & Grill Charlie’s Chicken Chuy’s Chopsticks El Tequila Fat Daddy’s Pub & Grille Fat Guy’s Burger Bar Fish Daddy’s Seafood Grill Fuji FuWa Asian Kitchen Firehouse Subs The Gaucho Brazilian Steakhouse Haruno Hungry Howie’s Pizza In the Raw on the Hill Jameson’s Pub Jamil’s
Felini’s Cookies & Deli Golden Gate Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Steve’s Sundries Trenchers Delicatessen
Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken Go West Restaurant & Saloon Jumpin J’s Knotty Pine BBQ Linda Mar
Lot a Burger Monterey’s Little Mexico Ollie’s Station Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Sandwiches & More Union Street Café Westside Grill & Delivery
TERWILLIGER HEIGHTS Bill & Ruth’s Blue Rose Café Burn Co. BBQ The Chalkboard Dalesandro’s
Elwoods Mansion House Café Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili La Villa at Philbrook
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ow that The Tulsa Voice has a website, our editorial team has been mulling new ways to cover arts and culture in Tulsa— using a multimedia platform to offer unique and engaging new content, the kind we can’t deliver on the printed page. While bouncing around ideas, one of them stuck to the wall immediately: To invite great Tulsa musicians into our Langdon Publishing office courtyard and ask them to put on short concerts for our employees, contributors, neighbors, and friends—and to shoot video of
these performances to share with our readers. So, that’s exactly what we did. On a breezy, beautiful evening in early May, we kicked off The Tulsa Voice’s Courtyard Concert Series with the all-acoustic folk-rock stylings of Jared Tyler, Travis Fite and Arthur Thompson. A couple of guitars, a hand drum, and three voices filled up our enclosed yard with lively arrangements and note-perfect harmonies. We couldn’t have asked for a better start to the series. We’re celebrating the launch of our website (as you’ll see on the op-
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IN C L U D E S :
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FESTIVAL CITY MUSIC FESTIVALS ARE LIKE FLAGS, declarations of where we come from, where we’re going, and what about us is good. We gather for hours, sometimes days to trade ideas about this place from makeshift stages, using our playtime and tens of thousands of voices to build a city. Here, then, is a yearbook of sorts, a primer on where to find the best music festivals this summer as well as how they help us put pins in our memories so we never forget. Keep this guide within easy reach—this might just be our most musical summer yet.
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HERE IN TOWN Tulsa International Mayfest
Now in its 42nd year, Tulsa International Mayfest (just Mayfest for short) fills downtown streets with art and music performed on three stages. Headliners gracing the Williams Green stage at 3rd and Boston include the rootsy Paul Thorn Band, funk and soul singer/guitarist Black Joe Lewis, and singer/songwriter Bob Schneider. Local music will be in abundance, too, with performances by old-timey string band Klondike5, indierock Radiohead disciples The Lukewarm, the roots/rock/ reggae/folk-tinged Steve Liddell Band, and more, all on the stages at Williams Green, 4th and Boston and Bartlett Square. Free to attend.
5/15-18 // Downtown Tulsa tulsamayfest.org
Blue Dome Arts Festival
Blue Dome Arts Festival has grown up. Though it got its start in the shadow of Mayfest, it’s now just as big a part of that mid-May weekend as it’s neightbor down the street. Blue Dome has a stronger emphasis on local artists and vendors, and the same rings true for the musicians gracing its stage, including Nehemiah Akbar, Jay Coop, Dirty Creek Bandits, and The Move Trio, as well as comedic performances presented by the Comedy Parlor. Nearl y twenty local food trucks and vendors will be on site, as well as vendors of art, clothing, and more. Free to attend.
5/16-18 // Blue Dome District Facebook.com/bluedomefest
Hop Jam
Last year Hanson entered the world of brewing with their oh-so-Hanson-y pale
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ale, MmmHops. Now, the brothers are taking their “Beer + Music = Awesome” credo a step further by treating Tulsa to this new beerand-music festival. Fifteen Oklahoma craft brewers will be onsite, including Tulsabased Prairie Artisan Ales, Marshall Brewing, and, of course, Hanson Brothers Beer. HBB will introduce a new beer at the festival and will make MmmHops available for online purchase for the first time. The music side of the festival, which is open to music fans of all ages, will feature performances by Hanson, Robert Randolph and The Famil y Band, as-yetunannounced special guests, and a local band chosen by fans as the winner of the “Awesome Music Contest.” Free to attend.
5/18, 3-10 p.m. // Brady Arts District // thehopjam.com
Backwoods Bash
Held each Memorial Day Weekend since 2008, Backwoods Bash offers a camping festival where families and regional music acts can coexist on the shores of Lake Keystone, just 20 minutes outside Tulsa. Nearly 40 bands and DJs will appear, including Groovement, Ego Culture & Move Trio, Totojo, Wink Burcham, Center of the Universe, and Dirty Creek Bandits. There will also be yoga, a drum circle, belly dancing, and arts and crafts; the festival’s close proximity to the lake make it possible to take a swim while listening to bands onstage. Food vendors will be onsite, and attendees are invited to bring their own grills and coolers. Tickets are $75 and include camping fees. Kids 12 and under get in free. RV and boat passes are also available. Proceeds benefit Sheep Dog Impact Assistance.
5/23-26 // Prue // backwoodsbash.com
Tulsa Music Festival
Kicking off Memorial Day weekend at Guthrie Green will be this tulsanightout.com joint starring Tulsa Symphony Orchestra as it presents a symphonic rock show. TSO will perform classic rock from the likes of Paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, plus music by the likes of Lady Gaga, Lorde, and more. Other performers include indie-rock band We The Ghost, local X-Factor contestant Briana Wright, and another classicalmeets-rock performance from Tulsa Rock Quartet. Boston Avenue will be closed off for vendors, food trucks, and a kids’ area. The festival benefits Project Reach of Tulsa and Tulsa SPCA. Free.
5/24, 2 p.m. // Guthrie Green tulsamusicfestival.com
Center of the Universe Festival
Back for its second year, Center of the Universe Festival will once again take over the Brady Arts District with performances in several venues in the area, plus three outdoor stages, this year including Guthrie Green. Most of the promised 100 acts appearing at the festival remain unannounced, but headlining the Main Stage will be AWOLNATION, Fitz and the Tantrums, and Twenty One Pilots on Friday, Jul y 25, and Young the Giant, Capital Cities, and Cold War Kids on Saturday, Jul y 26. Cain’s and Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ will serve as the VIP Zone, and the bulk of the live music over the weekend will be found at The Yeti, SoundPony, The Hunt Club, The Vanguard, Chimera, Laffa, Zin, Mason’s, and Hey Mambo. As with last year, the festival will offer vendors and food trucks and all-ages fun. Tickets are $25 for single day
passes and $40 for weekend passes through Jul y 11 after which they’ll cost $35 and $50, respectivel y. VIP passes have sold out.
7/25-26 // Brady Arts District
Hound Dog Blues Festival
The Hound Dog Blues Festival offers eight solid hours of blues music for a good cause (all proceeds benefit animal aid) on one of Tulsa’s choice hilltops. Headliners are Moreland & Arbuckle, 2014 International Blues Challenge winner Mr. Sipp, Kris Lager Band, and Kentucky Gentlemen. The festival is free to attend, though parking is $10, campsites are $25 per night, and a limited amount of VIP tickets, which go on sale August 1, are $75.
9/20, 2-10 p.m. // Chandler Park facebook.com/hounddogblues
Claremore Bluegrass & Chili Festival
This year marks the 35th Claremore Bluegrass & Chili Festival, made especiall y for those who believe one just isn’t as good without the other. The lineup for this year’s festival has yet to be released, but the festival consistentl y puts together three days’ worth of world-class shows. Headliners of recent years have included New Grass Revival founder Sam Bush, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and Ricky Skaggs. This year, for the first time, the festival will feature not one, but two days of International Chili Society cook-offs. Free to attend; parking is $10 per car.
9/4-6 // 400 S Veterans Pkwy, Claremore // facebook.com/ claremorebluegrass
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Rocklahoma
The hardest rocking festival in Oklahoma is now in its eighth year, and it continues to bring a plethora of hard-rock acts old and new to Catch the Fever Music Amphitheater in Pryor. Headliners this year are Kid Rock, Twisted Sister, Five Finger Death Punch, Staind, Deftones, and Theory of a Deadman. For those paying attention, yes, Motörhead and Skindred were billed to appear but have since cancelled. (So much for that Dee Snider/ Lemmy Kilmister duet we were all hoping for.) Plenty of headbanging music still to be had: Seether, Skid Row, Texas Hippie Coalition, Black Label Society, Truckfighters (DO NOT miss Truckfighters), and Tulsa’s own Able the Allies, The Bourgeois, and David Castro Band remain on the bill. Single day tickets are $74, weekend passes are $159. Camping is offered for an additional fee of $75 for the weekend.
5/23-25 // Pryor rocklahoma.com
OK Mozart International Music Festival
Celebrating its 30th year, OK Mozart encompasses an entire week of performances and music events. While classical music takes the forefront of the festival, myriad styles are celebrated and performed, including Americana, jazz, Dixieland, folk, rock, and chamber music. It’s when the Amici New York Orchestra makes the trip to Oklahoma, performing at most of the Main Stage concerts, including a performance in English of Mozart’s “The Magic
Flute;” an outdoor concert at Woolaroc including a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, complete with cannons and fireworks; and a grand-finale performance with the Bartlesville Choral Society of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Prices for individual performances vary, but OK Mozart offers a 25-percent discount for those who purchase tickets to three events. Season Tickets are $115-$180 for adults and $50$100 for students.
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Woody Guthrie Folk Festival
Each year over the weekend closest to Woody Guthrie’s birthday (he would be 102 on Jul y 14), Woody Guthrie Folk Festival (WoodyFest for short) is held in multiple locations across Okemah, including Crystal Theatre, Brickstreet Cafe, and the outdoor main stage at Pastures of Plenty.
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Jazz in June
Jazz in June started in 1984 with an audience of 300. In recent years, more than 50,000 have gathered for the festival, which takes place in several venues throughout Norman. Folk jazz band Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks tops the bill this year. Also on offer will be performances by blues singer/guitarist Samantha Fish, The Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola Duo, Dirty Red & The Soul Shakers, Boyd Street Brass, and Pidgin. The festival also includes clinics with the artists, and blues and jazz jams. Free to attend.
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The lineup this year includes Ellis Paul, Jimmy LaFave, Annie Guthrie (Woody’s granddaughter), Joel Rafael, Tim Easton, and Ronnie Cox, who starred in the 1976 film adaptation of Guthrie’s book, “Bound for Glory.” The festival will also include performances by local favorites John Fullbright, Wink Burcham, and Paul Benjaman. Free to attend.
7/9-13// Okemah woodyguthrie.com
Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival
Founded by three-time national fiddle champion and Guthrie resident Byron Berline, OIBF celebrates bluegrass music and its influence on music in America and abroad.
The lineup includes acts from near (Turnpike Troubadours, John Fullbright, Red Dirt Rangers) and far (Canadian April Verch, J apanese band Blue Side of Lonesome), and lots in between, with performances by Dail ey & Vincent, The Cl everl ys, J eff Scroggins & Colorado, and more. The weekend also offers jam sessions, music workshops, a golf scrambl e with bluegrass performers, an auction, children’s activities, and an open mic. Earl ybird 3-day passes are $60 through June 1, when the price rises to $70 through October 1. They are $80 during the festival. Day passes range $15-$35 in advance, or $20-$40 during the festival. Tent camping is availabl e for $7 per night; RV sites are $12.
10/2-4 // Guthrieoibf.com
ROLL OUT. Music festivals worth hitting the road
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Raft races. Reggae. $4 tickets. There’s a drawer at the Tulsa CityCounty Library that is crammed with newspaper clippings, a collection of photos, articles, line-ups and reviews that catalog Tulsa’s historic musical festivals. We have found it easy to laud our current festivals, but when one dies or evolves, we’ve had trouble finding the words, or perhaps the inches, to explain why. Some organizers of these festivals, those still here, help us remember. // BY KELSEY DUVALL 1973 Mayfest
Tulsa’s largest arts festival was initiall y known as Jubil ee ’73. It was a cel ebration of the city’s 50th birthday, organized by the Tulsa Junior League; it also coincided with the 25th birthdays of the Tulsa Philh armonic and The Tulsa Opera. After the first year, the festival was turned over to Downtown Tulsa Unlimited (DTU), which relied on local artists as volunteers and organizers. One of them, Rocky Frisco, remembers when the festival was held at Civic Center Plaza, when it was a coll ection of artwork and Native jewelry. When the festival ch anged h ands again in 1978, this time going to the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council, the festival offered its first International Music Competition, starting at Mayfest ’80. The festival spent 1991 and 1992 in the Brady Arts District; Mayfest h as since been held on the Downtown Main Mall, where it now draws crowds estimated between 350,000 and 400,000 each spring.
1974 Western Swing Festival
It’s onl y fitting that Tulsa, Home of Western Swing, would at some point have a festival celebrating the genre which it saw birthed. The first Tulsa Western Swing Festival was held November 16, 1974, at the Tulsa Fairground Pavilion. Sponsored by KVOO (naturall y), festival goers could attend workshops hosted by the likes of Leon McAuliffe and Eldon Shamblin for a $4 ticket, then watch performances by a slew of classic Western Swing artists.
1977 Tulsa International Music Festival
In September of 1977, Jim Halsey, the legendary Tulsa music manager and promoter whose career spans 60 years working with a slew of
renowned artists, replaced his Ranch Party’s five-year run with the first-ever Tulsa International Music Festival. It was held at the Tulsa Assembly Center, now known as Cox Business Center. For two nights, 30 acts, including those Halsey represented, played for television buyers, advertising agencies, the directors of all the ma jor county and state fairs, record execs, and entertainment directors from Vegas and Tahoe, all in an effort to give international bands exposure to talent-industry buyers in the U.S. Halsey brought ma jor acts like The Oakridge Boys, Tammy Wynette, Roy Clark, and Oklahoma’s still-reigning fiddle queen, Jana Jae, along with the Nashville editor of Billboard Magazine and England’s top country disc jockey at the time, David Allan.
1979 Tulsa Bluegrass and Chili FestivaL
Another festival pioneered by Downtown Tulsa Unlimited, The Tulsa Bluegrass and Chili Festival took over Williams Green, Bartlett Square, and the Main Mall from 1979-1999 in early September. Dell Davis, a bluegrass radio show host from 1974-1987 on KVOO, took over as coordinator in 1980 and made it her mission to draw local and regional acts together to compete in a musical challenge. Kicking off on Friday, the festival brought office workers to the streets. After 1999, the festival moved to Claremore, where it continues to draw crowds close to 30,000 each September.
1983 Aquafest
In 1972, the first Great Raft Race kicked off Labor Day Weekend at Tulsa River Parks. According to Janet Kendall of the Tulsa River Parks Authority, the race and all the attendant activities were originally referred to as River Romp, eventually adopting the unofficial name River Parks Festival. In 1983, a special Aquafest became part
of the activities. The festival showcased local talent like Dwight Twilley and Jim Sweney, with Tulsa legend Leon Russell as the headliner. The Tulsa Philharmonic also figured into the festivities, playing Disney themes to be followed by a screening of the original “Tron.” The festival was a one-off, meant as the blowout celebration for the completion of the dam in 1983. In 1992, KRMG ended its sponsorship of the Great Raft Race, citing low turnout.
1986 Reggaefest
Long-time local music promoter Tim Barraza launched Reggaefest in Veteran’s Park in 1986. It switched homes a few times over the years, first to the River Parks Amphitheatre, then to Mohawk Park. Ma jor headliners included Little Feat and The Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1988, but as an Oklahoma festival, the emphasis was on homegrown musicians. Bands like Local Hero and The Upstarts figured prominently as well as bands from Oklahoma City and Norman. The festival drew crowds of up to 15,000 until 2001. In 2012, Barazza brought Reggaefest back to Veteran’s Park for one last year with local, regional, and international acts.
1989 Juneteenth
Juneteenth has served as a celebration of Oklahoma’s African-American community and its music. The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and the North Tulsa Heritage Foundation were two organizations involved in getting it started, among others. Greenwood, as the heart of Black Wall Street, is home for the festival, also a commemoration of the June 19, 1865, emancipation of slaves throughout Texas, a holiday that gained traction and observation throughout the region. Last year, a second Juneteenth festival launched at Guthrie Green. Details on both are forthcoming for 2014.
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Mayfest 1974
1995 Edgefest and Birthday Bash
In the mid-90s the popular radio station Z104.5 became The Edge, an alternative programming format. Riding the wave of popularity that an alternative music outlet brought to Tulsa, the station began hosting Edgefest in Mohawk Park in the summer of 1995. According to Chuck Stikl, on air with The Edge since the beginning, the festival beat its attendance record each year, eventuall y drawing crowds of 20,000. Ma jor headliners over the years included Kid Rock, Velvet Revolver, and Cypress Hill as well as Oklahoma bands like All American Rejects, Caroline’s Spine, The Nixons, and The Flaming Lips. In 2004, the last Edgefest took place at The Green on the East End, the current location of ONEOK Field. In 1996, the station launched its Birthday Bash at The Expo Square Pavilion with headliner Gravity Kills. The festival, which usuall y coincides with Earth Day, has included headliners like Cypress Hill, Collective Soul, and Beck. Birthday Bash remains an annual event, the most recent on April 27, 2014, at River Parks.
2002 Diversafest
Diversafest, or Dfest, is arguabl y the event that put Tulsa on the map for today’s pilgrims of the music-festival circuit and is also, arguabl y, responsible for the recent explosion in the number of music festivals in our city, both large and small. Tom and Angie Green founded the series, intending to promote emerging bands. That first year, the line-up was 12 bands
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strong; 150 fans came to the festival grounds at 18th and Boston. In 2004, the festival added a music-industry conference; a yoga conference was eventuall y added, too. Dfest rivaled other regional festivals with key music industry speakers and line-ups including Paramore, Ghostland Observatory, Cake, and The Black Crowes. The festival moved to the Blue Dome District in 2007. By 2009, Dfest spanned 14 stages in venues from the Tulsa Performing Arts Center to Fl ytrap (now Legends Dance Hall) to McNellie’s, along with two outdoor stages. Attendance eventuall y soared to 70,000.
2010 Free Tulsa
Marc Matheos, Tulsa club owner and music producer here since the ‘80s, planned a concert he called Free Tulsa in 2010, a plan to lure some of the Dfest foot traffic to Soundpony Bar, The Crystal Pistol (now Yeti), and the rest of the Brady Arts District. When Dfest organizers announced the event’s indefinite hiatus, though, bands called Matheos to see if they could perform as part of his concert, he said. In short order, he suddenl y had a fullblown festival on his hands. That first year over 100 bands played on two outdoor stages and six indoor stages in Brady neighborhood venues. In 2011 the event moved to the Blue Dome District with more than 15 stages, drawing a crowd of more than 20,000. Free Tulsa showcased a multitude of Oklahoma musicians, including Taddy Porter, Jesse Aycock, and colourmusic, before its last festival in 2012.
Mayfest 2010
2011 Brady District Block Party
Oklahoma City’s DCF Concerts debuted the Brady District Block Party the summer of 2011, with The Flaming Lips as headliner. Other acts included Primus, Awolnation, and Pretty Black Chains from Oklahoma City on stage at Cameron and Boulder, a package and a location promoters hoped would draw attention to the revived arts district. Thunderstorms and high winds collapsed the stage the day of the festival. Shows were cancelled. The Flaming Lips performed a rescheduled concert at The Brady Theatre later that year.
2013 Center of the Universe Festival
(The free one.) The nonprofit group Tulsanity presented
the first-ever Center of the Universe Festival in the Brady Arts District the summer of 2013 as a free music festival. Organizers expected a turnout of 40,000 to see the 70 bands play across two stages on two nights, including headliners One Republic, Neon Trees, OK Go, and Mutemath. Instead, according to festival organizers, attendance was twice that, compounded when food trucks, Brady neighborhood art galleries, and other vendors joined the party. The festival, which requires paid admission this year, will expand to three stages this year as part of a goal to provide more airtime for local and regional talent; more than one hundred bands will join the line-up, including six headliners: AWOL Nation, Fitz and the Tantrums, and Twenty One Pilots on Friday, Young the Giant, Capital Cities, and Cold War Kids on Saturday. a
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Stretching Excercises: A Poetry Intensive with Qurtaysh Ali Lansana // Stretch your writing muscles in this workshop with Living Arts’ first featured resident poet, Quraysh Ali Lansana. Explore various approaches to furthering works in progress, and engage in excercises to generate new ideas. // 5/8, 7:00 pm $7, 307 E M.B. Brady St, livingarts.org/
Dress for Success 5k/150 Meter Stiletto Sprint // Dress for Success Tulsa holds its fourth annual 5k Power Walk/Run, starting at Blue Rose Café. Tulsa is one of 30 cities around the world participating in the Worldwide Power Walk for Dress for Success. An hour before the race, the 150 Meter Stiletto Sprint will offer men and women the chance to race in a pair of 2” (or higher) stilettos. // 5/10, 7:00 am-:00, $15-$30, 1924 Riverside Dr, dfstulsapowerwalk.com Tulsa Wind Riders Kite Club 21st Annual Festival of Kites // Kites of all sizes will be flying at the 21st Annual Festival of Kites. The event is free to attend and located at the multipurpose field at 43rd and Garnett, which was the location of the 1995 American Kite Association National Convention. There will be kite buggy and fighter kite demonstrations, and you’re invited to bring your own kites as well. // 5/105/11, 10:00 am-5:00 pm, , 43rd and Garnett, facebook.com/tulsawindriders
10th Annual Tulsa ArtCar Weekend
Molly Wizenberg // Oklahoma author and creator of the blog Orangette (declared the best food blog in the world by The London Times) Molly Wizenberg returns to Tulsa for an evening of pizza and to chat about her new memoir, “Delancey,” in which she recounts how opening a pizza restaurant sparked the first crisis of her young marriage. // 5/8, 7:00 pm, 1512 E 15th St, booksmarttulsa.com Tulsa Comic Expo // Nerd out during this weekend for all fans of comics, video games, pop culture, movies, and TV. Special guests of this year’s Comic Expo include Billy Dee Williams, cast members of The Walking Dead, Kevin Sorbo of Hercules and Andromeda, Marvel artist Angel Medina, and more. // 5/9-5/11, tulsacomicexpo.com Rooster Days // Broken Arrow’s Rooster Days includes a carnival, a 5k run, a parade, a market place, live music, the “Miss Chick” contest, and more at Central Park in Broken Arrow. Headlining the live music this year are Little Texas and Dailey & Vincent. // 5/9-5/11, 1500 S Main St, roosterdays.com/ Savor the Sounds // Guthrie Green and the George Kaiser Family Foundation present this evening of food and entertainment. Local musicians will be playing in several Brady Arts District restaurants, and patrons are invited to move from one to another, experiencing a different pairing for dinner and desert. Dinner pairings include the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra at Prhyme, Travis Fite and Arthur Thompson at Chimeral, and Cody Brewer at Hey Mambo, and desert pairings include Paul Benjaman Band at Bar 46 and Eric Himan Trio at Ma jestic. Visit guthriegreen.com for more info. // 5/10, 7:00 pm-11:00 pm, guthriegreen.com/ event/612 East Village 2nd Saturday Street Fest // Enjoy live music, food trucks, artist booths, mural painting and more in Tulsa’s newest District. Written Quincey will emcee the main stage which will host performances by Freak Juice, Outcold, Signs & Warning, and Whesli Gamble. // 5/10, 11:00 am-4:00 pm, , , eastvillagetulsa.org/
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Fantasy Art BoxCar Workshop // Children and their families work together to create an ArtCar from cardboard boxes. Living Arts will provide all the materials needed to create the car of your dreams. Continue work on your car at home and bring it to the Blue Dome Arts Festival on Saturday, May 17 to be part of the Great Art BoxCar Parade at 3 p.m. // 5/11, 1:00 pm-4:00 pm, , 111 E M.B. Brady St 10th Annual Tulsa ArtCar Weekend // Some of the most creative, bizarre, and incredible cars will be driving through town, making stops at Living Arts, Pancho Anaya Bakery, the Admiral Twin Drive-in, the Cherry Street Farmer’s Market, Blue Dome Arts Festival, local schools and hospitals, and more. For the complete schedule, visit livingarts.org/artcar. // 5/15-5/17, 307 e Brady St, livingarts.org/artcar Scissortail Street Competition // Action sports contests, a battle of the bands, and street art competitions make up Scissortail Street Competition, held in conjunction with Blue Dome Arts Festival. If you’re a skater, BMX rider, longboarder, musician, or artist, don’t miss this chance to compete for eternal glory. // 5/16-5/17, 6:00 pm-12:00 am, scissortailsc.com
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Tulsa Pulse // Tulsa Pulse is a celebration of health and fitness. Combining fitness instruction with medical information from OSU Medical Center, YMCA, and other health specialists, and local produce shopping. Take a zumba class, get your cholesterol measured, learn about changing habits, and more to live a healthy life. // 5/17, 10:00 am-2:00 pm, , 111 E Brady St, guthriegreen.com
The Hop Jam // The Brothers Hanson present the innaugural Hop Jam, a free beer and music festival featuring 15 Oklahoma Breweries, and performances by Hanson, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, and more as-yet-unnanounced artists. // 5/18, 3:00 PM10:00 pm, thehopjam.com Tom Nissley // Tom Nissley is an eighttime champion on Jeopardy!, a former Amazon books editor, and a Ph.D. in English lit. Booksmart Tulsa is bringing Nissley to town for a night of trivia and to discuss his new book, “A Reader’s Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year.” // 5/20, 7:00 pm, 1317 E 6th St, booksmarttulsa.com
Performing Arts
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type // A group of animals engages in peaceful protest to improve working conditions on their farm in this play prestented by Riverfield Country Day School. // 5/95/10, $5-$10, 110 E 2nd St, tulsapac.com
The Sound of Music
Kenzilla’s Experimental Comedy Lab // 5/11, 7:00 pm, $5, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com/ Brandon Vestal, Thai Rivera // 5/145/17, $2-$10, 6808 S Memorial Dr, loonybincomedy.com/ Rodney Carington // The performs at The Joint as part of his “Don’t Make Me Come Down There!” tour. // 5/16, 8:00 pm, $60-$80, 777 W Cherokee St, hardrockcasinotulsa.com Roger Haak // 5/17, 8:30 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com/ Jane’s Comedy Connection // 5/18, 7:00 pm, $5, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com/
Sports
Oklahoma Defenders vs. Dodge City Law // 5/10, 7:05 pm, $6-$40, 100 Civic Center, oklahomadefenders.com/
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Sister Act // A lounge singer is placed in a convent under the Witness ProtectionProgram after she witnesses a crime in this stage adaptation of the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg movie. // 5/135/18, $20-$55, 110 E 2nd St, tulsapac.com Ok, So…Tulsa Story Slam // Competitors tell true stories based on a common theme in this first Ok, So… since last month’s Grand Slam. This month’s theme is Karma. // 5/14, 8:00 pm-10:00 pm, , 104 S Detroit Ave, facebook.com/ oksotulsa The Sound of Music // Theatre Tulsa presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical about the Trapp Family and their governess, Maria, in preWWII Austria. // 5/16-5/25, $16-$20, 110 E 2nd St, tulsapac.com Trog and Clay // Based on trial transcripts by William Kemmler, the first person put to death by electrocution, this dark comedy is an imaginitive retelling of the invention of the electric chair by playwright Michael Vukadinovich. // 5/16-5/31, 8:00 pm, $10, 1416 E 4th St, nightingaletheater.com
Comedy
Dan Chopin, Dave Waite // 5/7-5/10, $2-$10, 6808 S Memorial Dr, loonybincomedy.com/ Raw Meat // 5/8-1/0, 7:00 pm, $5, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com/ Zac Smith // 5/9, 8:30 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com/
Tulsa Shock ve. Chinese National // The Tulsa Shock hosts the Chinese National Women’s Olympic Basketball Team in this preseason game. // 5/12, 7:00 pm, $17-$55, 200 S Denver Ave, wnba.com/shock/ Tulsa Drillers vs. Sprinfield Cardinals // Make-A-Difference Monday: Kids and families in need will attend this game free of charge. Sponsored by McElroy Manufacturing. // 5/12, 7:5 PM-:00, $5$35, 201 N Elgin Ave, milb.com/index. jsp?sid=t260 Tulsa Drillers vs. Sprinfield Cardinals // Ozone Alert Day Giveaway: Free Ozone Alert T-shirts for the first 500 adults, and Drillers logo sunglasses for the first 1,000 kids! // 5/14, 12:05 pm, $5-$35, 201 N Elgin Ave, milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t260 Tulsa Athletics vs. OKC Energy // The second round of the 2014 US Open Cup is Tulsa vs. OKC in the “Oklahoma Derby.” // 5/14, $5-$10, tulsaathletics. com/ Tulsa Drillers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals // Kids Eat Free Souvenir Sunday: All kids 12 and under will receive a voucher for a free hot dog, juice, and ice cream! First 500 kids will receive a water bottle. After the game, kids will be invited to run the bases of ONEOK Field! // 5/18, 2:05 PM, $5-$35, 201 N Elgin Ave, milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t260 Tulsa Drillers vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 5/19, 11:05 AM, $5-$35, 201 N Elgin Ave, milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t260
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Artists ante up for festival season by BRITT GREENWOOD
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ows of white canopy tents line our city streets every May. Looky loos and art aficionados alike peruse the spoils of our local art scene at Blue Dome Arts Festival, Tulsa International Mayfest, and dozens of other local arts festivals in the metro this spring and summer to see the hands that painted, molded and assembled it all. Ideally, a festival artist simply hangs the results of hours of both toil and joy on a hook in one of those canopy tents, lounges in a canvas chair, and awaits the arrival of patrons of the arts who take to the streets to toss bank rolls into the pockets of artists and, often, their friends—that is, if the weather holds up. I approached an oil painter’s booth at Blue Dome Arts Festival in 2012. Jan McKay surprised me with her English accent; we chatted for awhile about her wildlife artwork, about one of her images in which an oversized bumblebee collected pollen from a sunflower. McKay spent over 120 hours preparing for the festival that year, she said. She sold $800 in art, $800 in future commissions. She paid the $125 booth fee to festival organizers, about $4.50 per hour of festival foot traffic. “If you include tent, mats, chairs, business cards, banners, and Gilclee copies of my work, the fee is nothing in comparison,” said McKay. “I do consider the Blue Dome as an advertising event, an opportunity to get my name out,” McKay said. “As they say in business, ‘a loss leader.’” The festival is profitable for many artists, according to Blue Dome Arts Festival organizer JoAnn Armstrong. Her festival is affordable, she said, “from beer to booth space to the price of art. It’s low-key and laid back. Artists come and hang out with not a lot of expectations. People doing these
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The 2014 Blue Dome Ar ts Fest ival is May 16-18 in dow ntow n Tulsa, centered on 2nd Stre et and Elgin Avenue
festivals are typically not here to get their next paycheck.” She remembered one artist who exhibited at the 2013 Blue Dome Arts Festival, one who didn’t sell a single piece. “The next week he sold $4,000 at his business because they saw him at the festival,” Armstrong said. Organizers don’t see a profit, she said. “This festival actually loses money,” said Armstrong. Steve Cluck, who has taken part every year of the ten the Blue Dome Arts Festival has been in Tulsa, begins making his Tulsa-themed flair two months prior to the event. He said he bears the brunt of the cost of participating in the event on labor: “You are setting up your booth, doing a lot of heavy lifting and then working in the booth for three solid days. Luckily the adrenaline and excitement kicks in,” he said. “There are a lot of artists who make their primary living doing festivals,” said Kelsey Karper, associate director of the Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition (OVAC), though she admitted festivals are not every artist’s cup of tea. Julie Kirt, OVAC director said she
knows festival artists who travel to upwards of ten nationwide events a year, but it’s a financial gamble. A festival may prove fruitful one year and run a loss the next, she said.
JoAnn Armstrong, Blue Dome Arts Festival organizer, remembered one artist who exhibited at the 2013 festival, one who didn’t sell a single piece. “The next week he sold $4,000 at his business because they saw him at the festival,” she said. McKay travels the festival circuit because “I love beauty in art and hope that others may see what I see when I paint,” she said. The festival setting is social, which McKay enjoys, and she can meet potential buyers and fans of her work face to face. McKay is readying her set-up for the 2014 Blue Dome Arts Festival, set for May 16-18. Her inven-
tory of original art will double to 17 works total. She said she would be over the moon to sell $2,000 worth of art, her break-even point. McKay plans to reuse some of the materials she purchased to support her first showing at Blue Dome to keep costs down. The Blue Dome Arts Festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is bigger than ever at 225 vendors. Organizers hope to draw a crowd to match. With 50 percent of vendors returning annually, there are signs of payoff, whether it’s sales, marketing, or, as Armstrong said, just a really good time. “It’s a really great festival, its grassroots,” she said. “And everybody’s just so dang nice.” a
MORE ART HAPPENINGS LATINO IN TULSA // See the diversity within Tulsa’s Latino community through a showcase of art from eight artists, including Pantoja, a refugee in the states from Cuba, to Teresa Valero, University of Tulsa Professor // 5/2 through 5/22; Living Arts; 307 E. Brady; 918-585-1234 ARTS DAY AT THE CAPITOL // Let your voice be heard and join the statewide lobbying effort to educate elected officials about the need for public funding for the arts // 5/7, 9-3 p.m.; Oklahoma State Capitol; OKC, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.; OklahomansfortheArts.org HUNTING TROPHIES // Price Jones’ first solo show is compiled of original characters and sculptures. He relies on color and bold lines to create his cartoon-like creations // 5/3 through end of May; Colour Gallery; 1532 S. Harvard; 918-815-0910 May 7 – May 20, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
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Samantha Ruble is founder and ow ner of ShopSamsCloset.com, a web-based clothing consig nment shop
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How a Tulsa fashionista turned her closet into a business by NICCI ATCHLEY
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amantha Ruble posted photos of her clothes on her Instagram feed to scratch an itch. She longed to stride out the doors of her favorite boutiques three bags full, but she couldn’t justify such extravagance without a purge. She added a short description of her clothing and a price to her posts and waited. To her surprise, her followers began to call dibs and purchase her pieces. Ruble made $2,000 the first month. When two friends turned into ten, Ruble launched ShopSamsCloset.com, a Tulsa-based online clothing consignment company. Wares from 30 consigners, both contemporary and vintage, are personally curated by Sam, known for her personal style that’s somewhere between eclectic and Bohemian. It’s a mix of dresses, pants, blouses, accessories, shoes, handbags, and jewelry; there’s lots of BCBG and Loeffler Randall. “A couple of my friends started calling me and asking to sell their stuff, too. I knew there was a need for this,” Ruble said. The consignment business model is nothing new but Sam’s spin on it, utilizing an e-commerce website and also her vast social-media network to showcase available items, offers the advantage to customers of perusing and purchasing whenever strikes their fancy. Consumers shop Sam’s closet like any other online store, ending
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with a stop at Pay Pal and, finally, a box at the doorstep. Cosigners contact Sam through her website, send photos of clothes or accessories for pre-approval, and arrange a pick-up. Sam photographs the items, loads the images to her site, then cuts a check for 50 percent of the selling price. If an item doesn’t sell, the consigner can donate it or get it back; there are no returns. Sam hosted clothing swaps in the past, where friends brought clothes to trade with one another—“It’s my golden rule. If you haven’t worn it in a year, you probably don’t really need it. Get rid of it,” as Ruble says. But “people are trending more and more towards online shopping,” she said. “You can buy or sell without ever leaving your house, all paid via PayPal online and no one even has to know it’s you.” Ruble is influenced by fashion on the coasts, she said: “I think women in New York are the most beautiful women in the world; I also love the laid-back bohemian style of San Francisco, the maxi dresses, the middle hair part, Farah Fawcett waves, big sunnies.” She’s from Texas, and she lets the Austin influence show. The one item in her closet no one will ever see on her site is her cowboy boots. “They tie me to my roots,” she said. “Style is a very personal thing.”
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“I’ve had to get really creative with making my own opportunities to stay in the fields that I’d like to work in and still remain here,” said Ruble. Rube’s degree is in advertising, but her passion for beauty and fashion has always pulled. She worked in outside sales with Aveda and Davines, but more than once she was laid off or replaced by a rep based in a big city. “If I moved to a larger city, I’d have those opportunities. But then I met my love and it’s made me want to stay here in Tulsa,” she said. “I’ve had to get really creative with making my own opportunities to stay in the fields that I’d like to work in and still remain here.” There are no guarantees for entrepreneurs, but “I’m not punching a clock,” she said. “I’m working long hours, but it’s on my terms. Now I feel like I can pave the way for myself. If anyone lays me off, it’s going to be me. And I can choose love and to also build a career for myself. It isn’t easy, but I love the freedom and the possibilities.” a
for buying vintage clothing:
• Know your measurements. Vintage sizes are different from today’s sizes. • Don’t be afraid to think outside the box and just try something. You can always turn around and resell it. • With vintage, the clothes have a story. It’s also oneof-a-kind. If you’re at a party, you know no one else is going to have it.
Sam’s current style icons:
• Emily Schuman, a blogger for Cupcakes & Cashmere // “She is obsessed with fashion and food, two of my favorite things.” • Scott Schuman, blogger and creator of The Sartorialist // “I love the photos he takes of everyday people on the street and how they pull things together.” • Garance Dore // “I find a lot of inspiration in her Instagram page (@StudioDore).” • Olivia Lee, owner of Edit, 3524 S. Peoria Ave // “She has great style. She’s one of the most fashionable people in Tulsa.”
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Fashion and style events near you: Local vixen and vintage aficionado Sara Wilemon recently opened the doors at Volupté, a vintage-inspired ladies’ apparel boutique on Cherry Street. Wilemon will offer dresses, separates, shoes, and foundation wear as well as a small selection of curated vintage, especially intended for those with a preference for nostalgic dressing and the hour-glass silhouette // Volupté, 2814 East 15th Street, 918-794-5707, voluptetulsa.com Dolce Vita, another new Cherry Street store, will carry a variety of styles in junior’s and women’s clothing from brands such as Free People, Lush, Chaser, Piko, Nikibiki, and TOMS. The store will also carry a variety of Tulsa and Thunder t-shirts to show your Oklahoma pride on your sleeve // Dolce Vita, 1602 E. 15th Street, 918-459-9070
With clothing by Apricot Lane and “Doll-inspired” hair and makeup by Blu Raven Salon, the organizers of Darkest Desires Fashion Show at Recess Lounge promise to provide a darker spin on spring fashion. Admission is $5, or $4 with a canned-food item for God’s Shining Light Church Food Pantry // Recess Lounge, 1660 East 71st Street, 918-804-7006
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Bootlegger One musician’s plan to keep the music alive by MITCH GILLIAM
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hree years ago, Mike Gilliland decided he had to write one million songs before he dies. Gilliland, a member of The Dull Drums, Cucumber and The Suntans, and Who & The Fucks, eventually realized it wasn’t possible, and “certainly not smart,” to write one million songs. But, refusing defeat, he decided he’d leave his fingerprints on a million songs instead. If his current project stays on point, he just might pull it off. If you’ve been to a concert in Tulsa since March, you may have seen a headphone’d person tending to a device in the shadows. Arcane and analogue with two wheels whirring, that contraption is a reelto-reel tape recorder. The shadowy figure, depending on height and hair length, is either Gilliland or one of his friends who have joined his cause. The team’s goal is simple: record as much live music in Tulsa as possible. “On a good week, we’re recording five to six shows,” Gilliland told me. Of those shows, most have three to four bands on them. If each band plays eights songs each, and Gilliland does this for even one year, that’s at least 780 songs captured—music that, otherwise, would have been lost to the ether. Gilliland accrued the first reelto-reel as an addition to his toolbox at his Auggy Reed Studio. “There is a way to use these machines and re-create the vocal delay Elvis had,” Gilliland said. “I couldn’t get the first machine to do that trick, but I took it to one of my band practices and bootlegged our rehearsal.” After recording several practices, and being surprised at the playback quality, Gilliland added more reelto-reels, a compressor, and a mixer to his mobile arsenal. His unique 38 // MUSIC
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microphone set-up, “The Three Eared Woman,” as he calls it (“because I like to party” he laughed, when I asked why) has been there from the beginning. Gilliland and his team—Orion Kim and Ike Wright— went into the field and started bootlegging shows. Moai Broadcast was the first show that really clicked, according to Gilliland. Before winding up his tape, he passed his headphones to the bands’ members and let them hear what they’d just finished playing. He could see blank stares as they listened in, he told me, “and then the smiles came to their faces.” That’s when Gilliland realized he was leaving his fingerprints on the songs. With the setup he was giving them a blown-out quality that certain bands loved but would never seek on their own. Soon after he was driving from south Tulsa to downtown five nights a week, leaving his fingerprints everywhere. In addition to bootlegging Tulsa groups and national acts passing through, Gilliland does traditional recording work at Auggy Reed. In a few cases where he’s missed a band’s gig, like Japan’s Otonana Trio, he’s had them over the next day to record before leaving town.
“It’d be nice to do this for a living and quit my real job, but asking for money puts a pressure on the bands and their art,” Gilliland said. “Money stops me from making that million songs, man.” He and his team’s most recent endeavor had them bootlegging the entire Easter Island Festival last month, with video captured by the team from the Tea Room Sessions. With additional help from friends, every song from every band over three days was recorded onto reel-to-reel tape. One of the more memorable sets for Gilliland, who was also sneaking downtown to play with his own bands during the fest, was from Captain Comfy. The band played non-stop from 4:30 to 7:45 in the morning, and Gilliland caught the whole jam on tape. Constantly recording projects for himself and his friends, Gilliland surrounds himself with sound 24/7. I asked where money figures
into this, and if he has plans to sell any of the bootlegged material. “It’d be nice to do this for a living and quit my real job, but asking for money puts a pressure on the bands and their art,” he said. “Money stops me from making that million songs, man.” I asked him what he plans to do with all of the audio he’s bootlegging. Choice cuts of the Eastern Island Fest will be matched with video for a documentary, he told me. A database of everything his team has recorded is also a goal, though that’s down the road. In the meantime, his focus is solely on preserving what he sees as an extremely unique and important time in Tulsa. “It’s just a rich oil reserve that keeps brewing up, and I just know it’s going to explode,” he said. “I just wanna exist in it.” a
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Mike Bell is a man from Philly who plays pop punk and cries a lot. The Movies are his backing band, and they’ll be joined by Lesbian Summer and Lizard Police (full disclosure: I’m a member of Lizard Police) during Pony happy hour for their last stop on tour. May 8th. Soundpony. 5:30 p.m. Free. Hip-hop/soul/other stuff group Mexican Cartel join the hip-hop/ soul/other stuff group Verse and The Vapors to play from Mexican Cartel’s first album, “Nervous Breakdown” to be released soon. May 10th. Fassler Hall. 10:30 p.m. Sugary-sweet folk act Desi and Cody has a residency at Cellar Dweller. Pick a Sunday, any Sunday, and go see ‘em. 9 p.m. Free. Nuns take shape as a full band to release its debut space rock opus, “Opportunities.” Rounding out the show will be Native Lights and The Bourgeoisie. May 16th. Vanguard. 8 p.m. $5. Read my review of the album at thetulsavoice.com. May 7 – May 20, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
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Main Street Tavern – Cynthia Simmons Guthrie Green – Dan Martin, Cody Woody – 11:30 a.m. Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Brady Theater – Gavin Degraw, Parachute, Rozzi Crane – 7:30 p.m. – $29 Soundpony – Brother Gruesome, Pure Predicaton, Dead Shakes The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9 p.m. Elwood’s – Signal My Way, Dan Martin – 5:30 p.m. Mercury Lounge – Old Man Markley, The Dirty Mugs – 9 p.m. On The Rocks – Don White – 7 p.m. Downtown Lounge – Leonhardt, Junkyard Amy Lee – 8 p.m. Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Sovev Kinneret – 7 p.m. The Fur Shop – Paul Benjaman Band – 10 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – Billy Snow
Thurs // May 8
Undercurrent – Framing the Red, SkyTown Nine18 Bar @ Osage Casino-Tulsa – DJ Kenneth Maxx Campbell – 8 p.m. The Hunt Club – Move Trio Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Cain’s Ballroom – Dillon Francis, Magic Man – 9 p.m. Brady Theater – Lyle Lovett & His Acoustic Group – 8 p.m. – $45-$65 Soundpony – Mike Bell and the Movies, Lizard Police, Lesbian Summer – 5 p.m. The Colony – Beau Roberson and Friends Magoo’s – DJ TIMM-A Mystic River Lounge at River Spirit Casino – Dante & the Hawks – 8 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Poison Overdose – 7 p.m. Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Audio Crush – 8 p.m. Downtown Lounge – WhiskeyDick – 8 p.m. Woody’s Corner Bar – Brandon Jackson – 9 p.m. Lanna Thai – Scott Musick Crow Creek Tavern – Fools on Stools – 8 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – DJ Lewis
Sat // May 10
Fat Daddy’s – Eli Howard Hey Mambo – Cody Brewer – 7:00 p.m. The Rusty Crane – Mike Cameron Collective – 7 p.m. Lucky’s on the Green – Dante & the Hawks – 7 p.m. The Hunt Club – Bat-Or Kalo – 7 p.m. Prhyme – Tulsa Symphony Orchestra – 7 p.m. The Tavern – Miles Ralston, Ashlee Elmore – 7 p.m. Caz’s Chowhouse – Rachel La Vonne – 7 p.m. Chimera – Travis Fite and Arthur Thompson – 7 p.m. Sisserou’s – Preslar Music Students – 7 p.m. Bar 46 – Paul Benjaman Band – 9 p.m. The Yeti – Traindodge, Creepazoids – 9 p.m. The Vanguard – The Tontons – 9 p.m. The Hunt Club – JT & the Dirtboxwailers – 9 p.m. Zin Wine Bar – Tulsa Symphony Orchestra – 9 p.m. Mason’s – Red Wood Rising, The 66 – 9 p.m. Caz’s Pub – Phil Marshall – 9 p.m. Chimera – Robert Hoefling – 9 p.m. Club 209 – Ornythologyst, Mindy Bartlett – 9 p.m. Club Majestic – Eric Himan Trio – 9 p.m. Club Majestic – DJ Scandal – 11 p.m. Undercurrent – Dryvr, Even The Dogs, Kingshifter Nine18 Bar @ Osage Casino-Tulsa – 4 Going Gravity – 9 p.m. Gypsy Coffee House – Terry Aziere – 9 p.m. The Yeti – Bass Tribe Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Big Daddy – 10 p.m. BOK Center – Red Dirt Roundup w/ Randy Rogers Band, Casey Donahew Band, Kevin Fowler, The Cadillac Three – 7 p.m. – $25 ADV, $30 DOS Cain’s Ballroom – Drowning Pool, RED, We The Ghost, Sweatin Bullets – 7 p.m. – $20-$25 Soundpony – DJ Falkirk Magoo’s – Rock Show Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Thomas Martinez – 5:30 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Reverse Reaction – 9 p.m. C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Joe Worrel – 9 p.m. Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Wilbur Lee Tucker – 9 p.m. Shades of Brown – Gwen’s Kids – 7 p.m. Mercury Lounge – The Captain Legendary Band, Carson McHone – 10 p.m. Woody’s Corner Bar – Tim Dancey – 9:30 p.m. Torchy’s Cadillac Country – OutlawSonBand – 8 p.m. Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3 p.m. Romeo’s Espresso – Nathan Sink – 6 p.m. Kenosha Station – Wesley Michael Hayes – 8 p.m. Joe Momma’s – The Dusty Pearls – 8 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – Luxtones
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Fri // May 9
Fat Daddy’s – Chris Clark Main Street Tavern – Kevin Sac, Laron Simpson Aloft Downtown – PLUMB – 6:30 p.m. Nine18 Bar @ Osage Casino-Tulsa – 4 Going Gravity – 9 p.m. Gypsy Coffee House – Taste of Absinthe – 9 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church – Pro Musica Tulsae - Josquin des Prez: Renaissance Rock Star – 7:30 p.m. – $8-$10 The Hunt Club – Glam R Us Guthrie Green – Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – 8 p.m. The Yeti – The Danner Party Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Recommended Dose – 10 p.m. Cain’s Ballroom – Wolfmother, Black Piston Fire – 7:30 p.m. – $20-$25 Soundpony – La Panther Happens, DJ Sweet Baby Jayzus The Colony – The Dirtboxwailers Magoo’s – Johnny Duke Event Center at River Spirit – Los Lonely Boys – 7 p.m. – $25-$45 Mystic River Lounge at River Spirit Casino – The Real Band – 9 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 5:30 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Replay – 9 p.m. C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Joe Worrel – 9 p.m. Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – River’s Edge – 9 p.m. Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7 p.m. Mercury Lounge – Deep Fried Squirrel, Wood & Wire – 10 p.m. Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover – 9:30 p.m. Blue Rose Café – Black Kat Benders, Barrett Lewis Band – 7 p.m. Torchy’s Cadillac Country – Moonlit Highway – 7:30 p.m. Harvard Sports Bar – Midnight Run Band – 8 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – Sucker Punch 40 // MUSIC
Guthrie Green – Blues Day at the Park w/ Mark Gibson, Earl & Them – 2 p.m. Mystic River Lounge at River Spirit Casino – The Real Band – 9 p.m. Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Myron Oliver – 10:30 a.m. Soundpony – Blackstone Rangers, Nowater The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Chimera – The Vinyl Brunch w/ Matt Cauthron – Noon Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark – 9:30 p.m. Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Mother’s Day Celebration w/ Starr Fisher – 5 p.m. – $10-$20 Pickles Pub & Grill – Open Mic
Mon // May 12
Undercurrent – Elisium Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 6:30 p.m. Soundpony – Jinda Lee, Erin Anderson Band The Colony – Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Dustin Pittsley – 7 p.m.
Tues // May 13
The Vanguard – The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Legion, Murder Death Kill,Leaders, Death of an Era, Demolisher, Reformers, Don’t Weight, For What We Are – 7 p.m. – $14-$17 Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – James Muns – 7 p.m. Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10 p.m. Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jam – 5:30 p.m.
Wed // May 14
Frank Phillips Club, Kress Building – SHEL and the Amici New York String Quartet – 7:30 p.m. – $32-$72 Guthre Green – Robert Hoefling, Rachel La Vonne – 11:30 a.m. Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Brady Theater – Queens of the Stone Age – 8 p.m. – $37-$42.50 The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9 p.m. Mercury Lounge – Low Cut Connie – 10 p.m. On The Rocks – Don White – 7 p.m.
The Fur Shop – Paul Benjaman Band – 10 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – Billy Snow, Darrell Lee
Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Rebecca Ungerman Presents: The Way Broad Review – 8 p.m. Rum Runnerz – BlackWater Rebellion – 8 p.m. Centennial Lounge – Joe’s Red Barn – 8 p.m. Fassler Hall – The Moai Broadcast – 10 p.m. Lil Dixie – Johnny Duke & Shootout – 10 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – RPM
Sat // May 17
Thurs // May 15
Undercurrent – Bruce Flea, Aiden Wells, LivingStone, Roots of Thought Nine18 Bar @ Osage Casino-Tulsa – DJ Kenneth Maxx Campbell – 8 p.m. The Hunt Club – Phil Marshall and the Cellar Dwellers The Yeti – Turnt Up The Vanguard – Dance Gavin Dance, Capture the Crown, Palisades, Beach Blonde, City Never Sleeps – 7 p.m. – $15-$30 Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Cain’s Ballroom – One More Time - A Tribute to Daft Punk, Rufus – 9 p.m. – $12-$22 Soundpony – Deerpeople, The Photo Atlas The Colony – Jared Tyler, Arthur Thompson, Travis Fite, and Matt Hayes Magoo’s – DJ TIMM-A Mystic River Lounge at River Spirit Casino – T3 Trio – 8 p.m. The Joint – The Band Perry – 8 p.m. – $65-$85 Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Lost On Utica – 7 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Members Only – 9 p.m. Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Merle Jam – 8 p.m. Mercury Lounge – Boxcar Bandits – 10 p.m. Mayfest - Williams Green Stage – Paul Thorn Band, Seth Walker Trio, Ballroom Thieves, Wayne Humbyrd – 4:45 p.m. Mayfest - 4th and Boston Stage – klondike5, Dante & the Hawks, Leon Rollerson, Honey – 11:30 a.m. Mayfest - Bartlett Sq. Stage – The 66, FM Pilots, Red Wood Rising, Scott Ellison, Randy Brumley – 11:30 a.m. Woody’s Corner Bar – Jake Moffat – 10 p.m. Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – Noon Legends – Midnight Run Band – 8 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – Steve & Sheldon
Fri // May 16
Fat Daddy’s – Ben and Nick Undercurrent – Enlaved By Fear, The Joint Effect, Dirty Crush Nine18 Bar @ Osage Casino-Tulsa – Retro Rockerz – 9 p.m. Gypsy Coffee House – Andrew Michael – 9 p.m. The Hunt Club – RPM The Yeti – HIP Dance Party The Vanguard – Nuns, Native Lights, The Bourgeois – 9 p.m. – $5 Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tom Basler – 5 p.m. Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Jump Shots – 10 p.m. Brady Theater – Brit Floyd – 8 p.m. – $27-$47 Soundpony – Depth and Current, Brothels Magoo’s – Jennifer Marriott Mystic River Lounge at River Spirit Casino – Annie Up – 9 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Scott Ellison – 5:30 p.m. Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Members Only – 9 p.m. C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Uncrowned Kings – 9 p.m. Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Duke Mason – 9 p.m. Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7 p.m. Mercury Lounge – The Vine Brothers, Josh Jennings Band – 10 p.m. Downtown Lounge – Hear Kitty Kitty – 6 p.m. Blue Dome Arts Fest – Nehemiah Akbar, The Hi Fi Hippies, Kelli & Skillet Lickers, Spaghetti Eddy, The Agenda, La Lune, Dirty Creek Bandits, Oklahoma Mike, Lowland Sound, Randy Brumley – Noon Mayfest - Williams Green Stage – Black Joe Lewis, Soft White Sixties, The Lukewarm, Bradio – Noon Mayfest - 4th and Boston Stage – Mark Gibson, Carnegie, The Taylor Machine – 8 p.m. Mayfest - Bartlett Sq. Stage – New Westerns, The Trading Co., Loaded Dice, Jeff Shadley Quartet, Lem Shepard – 11 a.m. Woody’s Corner Bar – Replay – 9:30 p.m. Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover – 9:30 p.m. Torchy’s Cadillac Country – Jimmy Blythe – 7:30 p.m.
Fat Daddy’s – Chris Clark Club Majestic – DJ Scandal Undercurrent – Seven Day Crash Nine18 Bar @ Osage Casino-Tulsa – Retro Rockerz – 9 p.m. Gypsy Coffee House – Superdarren65 – 9 p.m. The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks The Yeti – We Make Shapes The Vanguard – Freakfest w/ Genitorturers, Axis, Pittersplatter – 8 p.m. – $15-$40 Infuzion Ultra Lounge and Bistro – Another Alibi – 10 p.m. Soundpony – Banjer Dan, DJ Brown – 6 p.m. Magoo’s – Octane Blue Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 5:30 p.m. C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Uncrowned Kings – 9 p.m. Fassler Hall – Mexican Cartel – 9 p.m. Shades of Brown – Gwen’s Kids – 7 p.m. Mercury Lounge – Lucky Tubb, The Modern Day Troubadours – 10 p.m. Blue Dome Arts Fest – Jay Coop, Serafem, Black Kat Benders, Cheyenne Roberts, Sugar Free All Stars, Erin O’Dowd, Cairde na Gael, Allie Lauren, Outcold Band, Herrold Sisters – 11:35 a.m. Mayfest - Williams Green Stage – Bob Schneider, Stooges Brass Band, Bear Roberson, Wink Burcham & Paul Banjaman, Blu 7 – 5 p.m. Mayfest - 4th and Boston Stage – Phillip Zoellner Band, Mass FX, TL Odell – 11 a.m. Mayfest - Bartlett Sq. Stage – Sam & The Stylees, Roots of Thought, Steve Liddell Band, Eric Himan, Jake Wesley Rogers, Susan Herndon, Annie Oakley, Replay, Charlie Hill – 11 a.m. Woody’s Corner Bar – 80’z Enuf – 9:30 p.m. Torchy’s Cadillac Country – Blue Moon Zombies – 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Rebecca Ungerman Presents: The Way Broad Review – 8 p.m. Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3 p.m. Toby Keith’s @ Hard Rock Casino – Jason Young Band – 8 p.m. White Flag – Dan Martin – 8 p.m. Joe Momma’s – Jordan McLeod – 9 p.m. Dixie Tavern – Skytown – 9:30 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – Echelon
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Sun // May 18
Undercurrent – Johnny Richter of Kottonmouth Kings The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Chimera – The Vinyl Brunch w/ Scott Bell – Noon Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark – 9:30 p.m. Blue Dome Arts Fest – Move Trio, Jane Lyon, Charlie Hill, Mountain Orchestra, Queens of Chaos – 11:35 a.m. Mayfest - 4th and Boston Stage – Scott Musick, Loeon Rollerson & Friends, Turtle Creek Cloggers – 11:30 a.m. Mayfest - Bartlett Sq. Stage – Something Steele, Dylan Whitney, Taylor Thompson – 11:45 a.m. The Hop Jam – Hanson, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, and more TBA – 5:00 p.m. Pickles Pub & Grill – Open Mic
Mon // May 19
Undercurrent – Devoid, Even The Dogs, Southern Lush, Hemlock Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 6:30 p.m. Cain’s Ballroom – Peter Furler Band, Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil – 7:30 p.m. – $18-$33 The Colony – Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Dustin Pittsley – 7 p.m.
Tues // May 20
Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Brian Capps – 7 p.m. Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10 p.m. Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jam – 5:30 p.m.
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“Home, James” opens at Circle Cinema May 9
Import or domestic? Movies about where the heart is by JOE O’SHANSKY
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o matter where you were born, home—aside from being where the heart is—is where you live the seminal moments of your life: that first kiss, graduation, making the friends that will be at your funeral. Jonathan Rossetti is an east coast expat to Tulsa, a fact that he’s clearly come to terms with in his directorial debut (and often striking visual love letter) “Home, James.” James (Rossetti) is a budding art photographer looking for the inspiration to open a gallery show. As a side gig he runs a one-man “sober driver” service. He drives the drunk to their homes in their own cars and rides back on a tiny, folding motor scooter. James soaks in those urban vistas those nights, seeking celluloid inspiration. On a pick-up he meets Cooper (Kerry Knuppe), a Blue Dome dweller who likes to drink a lot. Sparks fly, especially after they cross paths again at a wedding that James is shooting freelance. Cooper makes her intentions clear even as they fall hard for each other: no matter what, she’s leaving for New York in one month to make something of herself. But even as Cooper inspires James to lock down a gallery show, her love of hard drinking threatens 42 // FILM & TV
to derail her own ambitions and ruin what fleeting moments she has left with James. At once a romantic drama suffused with moments of comedy thanks mostly to James’ quirky friends at the film shop (including Tulsan and Paul Verhoeven regular Marshall Bell), “Home, James” isn’t the weightiest film of its kind. But Rossetti establishes an amiable tone that’s at once atmospheric and personal, layered with a lighthearted wryness. Plot-wise it doesn’t drag, and there’s nothing leaden about it, though the theme of Cooper’s alcoholism threatens to crush the character under its one-dimensionality. Her self-destructive tendencies are a load-bearing part of the narrative, but as a character she isn’t quite as complicated and wellfleshed as she needs to be. While James and Cooper are at the center, it’s the world around them that gives them weight. “Home, James” is often gorgeous and Rossetti (with cinematographer George Su) clearly has a photographer’s eye for what looks cool about this place, sometimes utilizing a dual-frame lens that mirrors James’s own photos. As James, Rossetti turns in a charming yet thoughtfully reserved performance while Kerry Knuppe
gives life to Cooper, shining through the boozy affectations with genuine grace. And man, does she look a lot like Heather Graham.
Scenes set in Arnie’s and Dwelling Spaces seem almost surreal through the filter of Rossetti’s lens. If you live downtown you’ll probably recognize most of the locations. Rick Dacey as James’s best buddy, Mike, gives a light-hearted turn in a romantic sub-plot involving James’s shutter-nerd co-worker, Sam (Julie Gearheard), a pair that, on the surface, seems more functional than James and Cooper. But Rossetti and Knuppe share a tangible chemistry that sells the romance right from their awkward first-kiss at sunrise, a shot so lovely you’ll forget they’re on the west side. Scenes set in Arnie’s and Dwelling Spaces, among other recognizable locales, seem almost surreal through the filter of Rossetti’s lens. If you live downtown you’ll proba-
bly recognize most of the locations and probably some of the extras. Of course, none of that much matters except to the people who live here. But it’s clear that Rossetti’s love of Tulsa isn’t just a plot device. Rossetti proves to be a talent, in front of and behind the camera. “Home, James” wears its heart on its sleeve, but in a genuine way that makes me look forward to that what Rossetti has to say next. a RE A D T HE RE S T
Joe reviews “The Wind Rises,” the latest (and last?) from Hayao Miyazaki
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Man Men airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. central on AMC
Out in the cold
Don Draper grapples with changing world in Mad Men’s final season by JOSHUA KLINE
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effrey Wells, a veteran film critic, recently bemoaned the supposedly unrealistic lack of change to Don Draper’s haircut. “Draper’s hair style hasn’t changed a bit since the very beginning,” Wells wrote on his blog, Hollywood Elsewhere, under a post titled, “This is Getting Ridiculous.” “Let me make something clear: every single American male who had any give-and-take dealing with the upheavals of the ‘60s grew his hair out to some degree between ’61 and ’69… Even the Draper types (neurotic, alcohol issues, plugged-up) at least grew their sideburns a bit and allowed their hair to lengthen a tad.” Wells is an intelligent, passionate film disciple, but his frustration with Draper’s aesthetic stasis indicates a vital misreading not only of the character but of Mad Men as a whole; a misreading that unfortunately echoes many viewers’ frustrations with where creator Matthew Weiner has taken the series over seven years. Common complaints overheard: there’s no plot; the show has gotten boring; Don’s misbehavior has become repetitive; the historical reference points are too on the nose. At the heart of these complaints is a literal-mindedness that exemplifies how most people have been conditioned to watch television: with an eye for plot and information made explicit, an unconscious need for conventional dramatic arcs that THE TULSA VOICE // May 7 – May 20, 2014
leaves little room for subtext. The growing dissatisfaction of many ex-fans runs parallel to what’s made Mad Men slowly become the best thing on television. For its first three seasons, the show was an especially well-made piece of nostalgia porn, a nighttime soap that, at its worst, appealed to viewers with romanticized, glossy images of un-PC masculinity in the early 1960s. Draper and his fellow ad men drank at work, smoked like chimneys, caroused like libertines and generally treated the women in their lives like shit. As the series progressed, we watched the consequences of Draper’s dishonesty with himself and those around him, combined with seismic cultural shifts, slowly erode his composed façade. As things got heavy, the storytelling became novelistic. Weiner shifted gears and began to craft the show as a cerebral mood piece, eschewing plot in favor of cultural and literary allusions, heavy metaphor and seemingly small exchanges loaded with philosophical musings and implicit anxieties about the changing world. In the opening episode of the final season, which aired April 13, we first see Draper (Jon Hamm) greeting his wife, Megan (Jessica Pare), in the glaring sunshine of Los Angeles. It’s 1969 and Draper, all pent-up dread and guilt, every bit the Manhattan businessman in full suit and tie, is painfully out of
place amongst the khaki shorts and cleavage of the fun-loving Californians. Weiner pulls a fast one by making us believe for a moment that Draper has actually uprooted from New York to join his wife and the newly formed L.A. branch of SC&P. But he’s only visiting.
The growing dissatisfaction of many ex-fans runs parallel to what’s made Mad Men slowly become the best thing on television. At the end of the season prior, Draper finally owned up to his phoniness, acknowledging his secret history as Dick Whitman to his colleagues through an ill-advised confession during a sales pitch to The Hershey Company. He was put on indefinite leave from SC&P, the ad agency he helped found, and the episode’s last scene showed Draper and his children standing in front of the whorehouse from his childhood. “This is where I grew up,” he told them. Now, he’s dealing with the fallout from his honesty. He’s still languishing in the purgatory of his forced sabbatical, hopping back and forth between coasts, taking
lunch meetings with old colleagues and adversaries, pretending like he still has a significant role at the agency. The tension in his bicoastal marriage to Megan is soon apparent, expressed through color: Megan’s California is all warmth and sunshine, Draper’s New York is cold and overcast. They fight and argue despite their efforts to enjoy their limited time together. On his flight back to New York, Draper finds an intense, almost surreal connection with a widow (Neve Campbell) sitting next to him. We think for a moment this will be the start of a new extramarital affair. But the chronic womanizer does something new: he refuses the widow’s advances. Back in his penthouse, alone, Draper leaves the sliding glass door of his patio open despite the frigid temperatures. In the last shot of the episode, he’s on the patio in the middle of the night, alone and shivering. He’s out in the cold by choice as Vanilla Fudge sings “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” And this seems to be the theme of this final run of episodes, which AMC is gratuitously splitting into two mini-seasons, as it did with Breaking Bad. Don’s career has imploded, his marriage is in tatters, society is leaving him behind. Draper has finally acquiesced to honesty, but he’s still fighting the change. He needs a new haircut; this season will almost certainly give it to him. a FILM & TV // 43
news of the weird by CHUCK SHEPHERD
Drunk Logic Wendy Simpson, 25, explaining her DUI arrest during a March incident in Huddersfield, England, pointed out that she had just minutes earlier walked to a McDonald’s for a late-night meal because she knew she was too inebriated to drive. However, the dining room was closed, and she was refused service at the drive-thru window because she was on foot, and, she said, the only option left for her was to go home, get her car and return to the drive-thru. On the way back, she was arrested.
Ironies
England’s Stockport magistrates’ court levied the equivalent of a $13,000 fine in March against Lorraine White, 41, who runs a part-time service as a dominatrix (chaining up and whipping “bad”
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men) in a “sex dungeon.” Her business is apparently perfectly legal; the citation was for violating fire codes because inspectors could not see how a client, being properly disciplined (handcuffed and chained), might escape the dungeon in the event of fire.
Litigious Society A columnist for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Yawm Al-Sabi proposed in March that Egypt sue Israel in international court for reparations for the 10 Biblical plagues cast from Hebrew curses, including boils, lice, locusts and turning the Nile River into blood. Ahmad al-Gamal asserted that Israelites swiped gold, silver and other precious items as they began their legendary desert wandering. Al-Gamal also wants reparations from Turkey (for the 16th-century Ottoman invasion),
France (for Napoleon’s invasion in 1798), and Britain (for 72 years of occupation).
Rehabilitated Cook County, Ill., judge Cynthia Brim is awaiting the Illinois Courts Commission’s decision as she seeks to be reinstated following her suspension in 2012 for mental health issues. Brim has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, has been hospitalized “multiple” times since 1993 (according to a Chicago SunTimes report), and now claims to be fine, provided she takes her meds on schedule – which her doctor said she will need to do for the rest of her life. Her suspension came after a manic courtroom outburst lauding her heroic “testicles” and which preceded a scuffle with sheriff's deputies outside a county judicial building.
Least Competent Criminals Evelyn Hamilton, 37, was arrested in Lufkin, Texas, in April as merely the most recent person to complain to police that in a recent street transaction, she had been sold inferior marijuana. “Seeds and residue,” she whined to the nearest officer, as she pulled a stash from her bra. 4/16 SOLUTION: UNIVERSAL SUNDAY
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free will astrology by ROB BREZSNY
Taurus (April 20-May 20):
Free jazz is a type of music that emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against jazz conventions. Its meter is fluid and its harmonies unfamiliar, sometimes atonal. Song structures may be experimental and unpredictable. A key element in free jazz is collective improvisation -- riffing done not just by a featured soloist, but by the entire group of musicians playing together. To prepare for your adventures in the coming days, Taurus -- which I suspect will have resemblances to free jazz -- you might want to listen to music by its pioneers, like Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Sun Ra. Whatever you do, don’t fall prey to scapabobididdilywiddilydoobapaphobia, which is the fear of freestyle jazz. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Apple and Exxon are the most valuable companies in America. In third place, worth more than $350 billion, is Google. Back in 1999, when the future Internet giant was less than a year old, Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tried to sell their baby for a mere million dollars. The potential buyer was Excite, an online service that was thriving at the time. But Excite’s CEO turned down the offer, leaving Brin and Page to soldier onward by themselves. Lucky for them, right? Today they’re rich and powerful. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Gemini. An apparent “failure” may, in hindsight, turn out to be the seed of a future success. CANCER (June 21-July 22) “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” is an English-language proverb. It means that you will no longer have your cake if you eat it all up. The Albanian version of the adage is “You can’t go for a swim without getting wet. “ Hungarians say, “It’s impossible to ride two horses with one butt.” According to my analysis, Cancerian, you will soon disprove this folk wisdom. You will, in effect, be able to eat you cake and still have it. You will somehow stay dry as you take a dip. You will figure out a way to ride two horses with your one butt. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I know this might come as a shock, Leo, but . . . are you ready? . . . you are God! Or at least godlike. An influx of crazy yet useful magic from the Divine Wow is boosting your personal power way beyond normal levels. There’s so much primal mojo flowing through you that it will be hard if not impossible for you to make mistakes. Don’t fret, though. Your stint as the Wild Sublime Golden Master of Reality probably won’t last for more than two weeks, three tops. I’m sure that won’t be long enough for you to turn into a raving megalomaniac with 10,000 cult followers. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In your imagination, take a trip many years into the future. See yourself as you are now, sitting next to the wise elder you will be then. The two of you are lounging on a beach and gazing at a lake. It’s twilight. A warm breeze feels good. You turn to your older self and say, “Do you have any regrets? Is there anything you wish you had done but did not do?” Your older self tells you what that thing is. (Hear it now.) And you reply, “Tomorrow I will begin working to change all that.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Over a hundred years ago, the cattle industry pressured the U.S. government to kill off wolves in Yellowstone National Park. By 1926 the wolves had all but vanished. In the following decades, elk herds grew unnaturally big, no longer hunted by their natural predator. The elk decimated the berry bushes of Yellowstone, eating the wild fruit with such voracity that grizzly bears and many other species went hungry. In 1995, environmentalists and conservationists got clearance to re-introduce wolves to the area. Now the berry bushes are flourishing again. Grizzlies are thriving, as are other mammals that had been deprived. I regard this vignette as an allegory for your life in the coming months, Libra. It’s time to do the equivalent of replenishing the wolf population. Correct the imbalance. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I have no problem with you listening closely to the voices in your head. Although there might be some weird counsel flowing from some of them, it’s also possible that one of those voices might have sparkling insights to offer. As for the voices that are delivering messages from your lower regions, in the
vicinity of your reproductive organs: I’m not opposed to you hearing them out, either. But I hope you will be most attentive and receptive to the voices in your heart. While they are not infallible, they are likely to contain a higher percentage of useful truth than those other two sources. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Kangaroo rats live in the desert. They’re at home there, having evolved over millennia to thrive in the arid conditions. So well-adapted are they that they can go a very long time without drinking water. While it’s admirable to have achieved such a high level of accommodation to their environment, I don’t recommend that you do something comparable. In fact, its probably better if you don’t adjust to some of the harsher aspects of your environment. Now might be a good time to acknowledge this fact and start planning an alternate solution. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled,” said writer William Blake. I think you will challenge this theory in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Your passions will definitely not be weak. They may even verge on being volcanic. And yet I bet you will manage them fairy well. By that I mean you will express them with grace and power rather than allowing them to overwhelm you and cause a messy ruckus. You won’t need to tamp them down and bottle them up because you will find a way to be both uninhibited and disciplined as you give them their chance to play.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Dear Pisceans: Your evil twins have asked me to speak to you on their behalf. They say they want to apologize for the misunderstandings that may have arisen from their innocent desire to show you what you had been missing. Their intent was not at all hostile or subversive. They simply wanted to fill in some gaps in your education. OK? Next your evil twins want to humbly request that you no longer refer to them as “Evil Twin,” but instead pick a more affectionate name, like, say “Sweet Mess” or “Tough Lover.” If you promise to treat them with more geniality, they will guarantee not to be so tricky and enigmatic. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Fireworks displays excite the eyes and lift the spirit. But the smoke and dust they produce can harm the lungs with residues of heavy metals. The toxic chemicals they release may pollute streams and lakes and even groundwater. So is there any alternative? Not yet. No one has come up with a more benign variety of fireworks. But if it happens soon, I bet it will be due to the efforts of an enterprising Aries researcher. Your tribe is entering a phase when you will have good ideas about how to make risky fun safer, how to ensure vigorous adventures are healthy, and how to maintain constructive relationships with exciting influences.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Would you please go spend some quality time having non-goal-oriented fun? Can I convince you to lounge around in fantasyland as you empty your beautiful head of all compulsions to prove yourself and meet people’s expectations? Will you listen to me if I suggest that you take off the mask that’s stuck to your face and make funny faces in the mirror? You need a nice long nap, gorgeous. Two or three nice long naps. Bake some damn cookies, even if you’ve never done so. Soak your feet in epsom salts as you binge-watch a TV show that stimulates a thousand emotions. Lie in the grass and stare lovingly at the sky for as long as it takes to recharge your spiritual batteries.
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