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June 1 – 14, 2016 // vol. 3 no. 1 2 N E W S & C O M MEN TA RY

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Fallin plays the fiddle

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by Liz Blood G. Oscar on midtown trees, drawing and the city’s evolution

The consequences of drilling tax breaks DENVER NICKS // 7

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8 // N ipping at TCSO’s heels

by John Tranchina A most-popular race, Tulsa Tough has to turn away cyclists

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10 // Barlett’s Trump card

Mitch Gilliam, frontiersman

Barry Friedman, proud Tulsan

Bates conviction marks end to 1st year for The Frontier

He may already be done with Tulsa

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Megan Shepherd, nacho ninja

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Josh Lynch’s latest concept plus Pearl’s Food Truck Park

by Mike Wozniak It’s come a long way, but still has miles to go

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any of you have asked when our seasonal Courtyard Concert series will return. The answer is as soon as it stops storming—with all this rain, our courtyard has become a mud pit and we’ve had to cancel and reschedule our first show three times now.

Stone Trio with Mike Dee will kick off this year’s series; we’ll keep you posted on the date, but it should be within the next week or so. Later this summer, Wink Burcham will perform, as well as Endless Forms, along with a handful of artists we haven’t yet confirmed. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for scheduling updates.

On to this issue: On page 8, Mitch Gilliam offers a post-mortem on the TCSO scandal through the eyes of The Frontier team, which broke many of the story’s developments in its first year of publishing. Denver Nicks writes about Oklahoma’s gratuitous drilling tax breaks and how they’ve contributed to our education funding crisis (page 7), while Barry Friedman considers Mayor Dewey

Bartlett’s recent endorsement of Donald Trump for president and what it might say about Bartlett’s larger political ambitions (page 10). Liz Blood sits down with legendary photographer and bike shop owner G. Oscar Herron for a conversation about trees and Tulsa (page 24).

Finally, on June 10, Saint Francis Tulsa Tough returns for its 11th year, which promises to be the biggest yet. On page 28, John Tranchina reports on the rapid growth that’s forced the festival to turn away cyclists. Tulsa Tough volunteer Andy Wheeler shares a journal entry detailing a day in the life of a Cry Baby Hill guard (page 30) and Soundpony co-owner and Bike Club founder Mike Wozniak pops in for a guest editorial on the state of cycling culture in Tulsa—how far we’ve come, and how far we have left to go (page 32).

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Fallin plays the fiddle The consequences of drilling tax breaks

by DENVER NICKS

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everal weeks ago Reuters asked Governor Mary Fallin to comment on a special report titled, “As oil boom goes bust, Oklahoma protects drillers and squeezes schools.” Reuters wanted to ask the governor about enormous tax breaks given to oil companies while funds for Oklahoma schools were slashed. Fallin declined an interview. Through a spokesperson, the governor’s office merely noted that, as Reuters soberly put it, “the tax breaks were created by her predecessors.” In other words, she passed the buck.

The governor is not wrong.

The tax incentives in question, which give a huge tax break to oil and gas companies far bigger than what they get in other states, were put in place in 1994, during the administration of Gov. David Walters, the second-to-last Democrat to hold the office. Without getting into the weeds on the intricacies of the tax code, suffice it to say that in order to give drillers an incentive to make risky investments, the state put in place an extremely low tax (of 1%, give or take) on horizontal wells—the kind that became ubiquitous during the fracking boom—with the stipulation that the rate increase over time. That’s far below the take in Texas, which taxes similar wells at about four times that rate, and North Dakota, which takes more than ten times the cut Oklahoma does. Thus, during the drilling boom in the 2000s, while North Dakota put $3.2 billion in taxes on oil production in the bank, oil tax revenue in Oklahoma actually fell from a peak of $1.3 billion in 2008 to $860 million in 2014.

The end result—a billion-dollar-plus budget shortfall projected for next year—should have been the obvious outcome to anyone with even a basic education in THE TULSA VOICE // June 1 – 14, 2016

By supporting the oil and gas industry on the backs of children, Oklahoma’s political class has ensured that education in Oklahoma will be even worse i n the coming years.

What we will get are dumber Okies.

An oil derrick on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds, the only capitol grounds in the U.S. with active oil wells. | SAM WARGIN

mathematics, but maybe that’s the problem. Oklahoma’s schools have never been well funded, but between 2008 and 2014 the state cut spending per pupil by 24%, more than any other state in the wake of the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression. And then, as they say, the wolves came.

Faced today with this current budget shortfall, the state has cut its education budget even further—$58 million out of a total $3 billion. Some Oklahoma school districts have already been forced to cut the school week to four

days and may shorten the school year entirely. Statewide, around 1,000 education jobs are on the chopping block.

Let’s cut the bullshit. Yes, there are other industries here but Oklahoma is a fossil fuel state.

By giving huge breaks to the oil industry during what should have been our jackpot decade, the people in charge of Mary Fallin’s Oklahoma have bankrupted the treasury. Yes, families that can will pony up the cash to send their kids to private school and those kids—the ones who don’t get

sent off to flat earth academies to study creation myths—may get a better education than they would have otherwise. Some Horatio Alger out there in Little Dixie or the Panhandle might thrive on the challenge of attending a crappy school. And obviously it’s true that you can’t throw money at a problem and expect it to solve itself, but in broad strokes educational outcomes track with spending on education. On the whole, if you spend $100 per pupil you will have better educated pupils than if you spend $1 per pupil.

A January 2016 study found that Oklahoma schools were among the five worst in all 50 states. That was before the coming cuts. By supporting the oil and gas industry on the backs of children, Oklahoma’s political class has ensured that education in Oklahoma will be even worse in the coming years. What we will get are dumber Okies.

Thinking people in Oklahoma often say they’re embarrassed by the madness that emits regularly from Oklahoma City. That’s fair enough, but it’s insufficient to capture the current state of affairs.

Oklahomans voted in the current regime to promote an agenda of social and fiscal conservatism, but no one voted them in to screw over children. What these people have done is not just embarrassing, it’s infuriating and an unmitigated disaster for the state.

Governor Fallin is right that the tax breaks that got us here were put in place under those who came before her. The state legislature is responsible, too. But in the years since Fallin took office, the crisis steadily deepened while she and others under her leadership did nothing. The grassfire became an inferno and if Mary could play the fiddle she might as well have been doing that. a NEWS & COMMENTARY // 7

The Frontier staff from left: Ziva Branstetter, Kevin Canfield, Cary Aspinwall, Dylan Goforth | GREG BOLLINGER

Nipping at TCSO’s heels The conviction of Robert Bates closes an intense first year for The Frontier

by MITCH GILLIAM

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e could take the picture in the office, which is messy... but hey, that’s journalism.”

Ziva Branstetter, editor in chief of The Frontier, spoke to me over her shoulder as she hunted down her team for a photo.

The small office in the 36 Degrees North building was indeed cluttered, but above the ibuprofen and Nutella stood numerous journalism awards.

The medals amassed (including Pulitzer finalist nominations) were impressive, but the team’s true trophies—the resignation of disgraced Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz and a manslaughter conviction for his buddy, former reserve deputy Bob Bates—were

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absent. In just the first year of its existence, the online investigative news start-up has made quite an impact on Tulsa’s power structure. Through relentless reporting in the wake of Bates’s killing of unarmed suspect Eric Harris during a sting operation, Branstetter and company helped expose the cronyism and corruption that plagued TCSO under Glanz’s watch.

Before lending her ear to whistleblowers, Branstetter covered film for her junior high school paper. In college, she got a taste of the pen’s power with an exposé on disproportionate athletics spending. Her post-college gig at the Tulsa Tribune saw her lean into her investigative calling, with

one of her pieces resulting in the firing of an abusive jailer. After the Tribune folded, she moved to the Tulsa World where she spent over two decades as the paper’s enterprise editor before leaving to start The Frontier at the behest of former World publisher Bobby Lorton.

“Bobby told me he wasn’t going to attempt this venture without me,” Branstetter said in her commanding, news anchor’s tone.

She accepted, and culled a journalist’s dream team from the World’s roster.

Stalking the halls of 36 Degrees North, Branstetter introduced me to her colleagues.

Staff writer Kevin Canfield, longtime city and government

reporter, sat in a meeting room hunched over a laptop. Creative director Cary Aspinwall, who shares the Pulitzer finalist distinction with Branstetter for their coverage of Clayton Lockett’s botched execution, was grabbing a salad from the kitchen.

“I told Dylan the photographer is here,” Aspinwall said to Branstetter. “And of course, he’s wearing a sweatshirt.”

Staff writer Dylan Goforth, the youngest of the team, has earned the right to lounge in a sweatshirt. After all, he first reported the Bates shooting; more significantly, he broke the bombshell that TCSO employees were pressured to falsify Bob Bates’s training records.

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Year One On April 2, 2015, weeks before Lorton would publicly announce the launch of The Frontier, 73 year-old reserve deputy Bates shot and killed Eric Harris during a gun sting. Bates claimed he mistook his gun for his taser when he shot Harris at point blank range.

The incident was captured on a deputy’s body cam, and included a jaw-dropping moment in which deputy Joseph Byars responded to Harris’s cries that he couldn’t breathe with “Fuck your breath.”

The shooting made national headlines and sparked a series of protests. It also raised serious questions over the reserve deputy program, which seemed to grant unqualified, wealthy donors such as Bates the chance to “buy a badge.” Branstetter and Goforth dug in and reported the unfolding scandal, along with World reporter Corey Jones.

On April 14, Bates was charged with second-degree manslaughter. He pled not guilty.

Three weeks into the story, Branstetter and Goforth, along with Aspinwall and Canfield, left the World for The Frontier, where they continued to report on the fallout from the shooting.

One of The Frontier’s first stories, published on medium.com while the publication’s website was being built, brought to light a 2009 TCSO internal report investigating complaints that Bates was receiving preferential treatment within the department.

The details were damning: Bates, a friend of Glanz’s, appeared to be untouchable. The report found that supervisors had fostered “an atmosphere in which employees were intimidated to fail to adhere to policies in a manner which benefits Reserve Deputy Bates.” Furthermore, it appeared that Bates had not completed the training required of reserve deputies.

I asked Branstetter how she felt when that information fell into her and Goforth’s laps.

“Fear and excitement and an absolute determination to see that story through,” she said. Acting on that determination, The Frontier steadily nipped at TCSO’s heels, breaking most major developTHE TULSA VOICE // June 1 – 14, 2016

Former reserve deputy Bob Bates (left) and Eric Harris (right) | COURTESY

ments in the year following the shooting, which included: • Glanz and his supervisors encouraged the “liberal” use by jailers of Staph Attack, a cleaning product made by Pure Bioscience, which Glanz owned stock in. He also issued press releases touting the benefits of the product, and endorsed it at corrections conferences.

• While Glanz ran large deficits in jail operations, he and his employees spent more than $500,000 from 2013 to 2015 on travel and training, most of it from jail funds.

Those expenses included Glanz’s stay at a $500-pernight resort where guests were transported by horsedrawn carriages.

• Former Ma j. Tom Huckeby, who played a ma jor role in protecting Bates within the department, was accused of using racist language and treating black jail employees unfairly. Seven employees sued the sheriff’s office in part over Huckeby’s alleged abuse; all seven suits were settled, costing the county $1.2 million.

• Glanz and interim sheriff Michelle Robinette provided inaccurate information to the Department of Justice about TCSO’s jail rape statistics, excluding several documented cases of rape and sexual assault by detention officers and at least 13 allegations of inmate-on-inmate sexual abuse.

• Judge Caputo, assigned to the Bates trial, failed to disclose apparent conflicts of

interest before the trial. He recused himself shortly after The Frontier highlighted these conflicts.

• Bates held the dubious honor of being one of only two reserve deputies to shoot someone, and the only one to be involved in a fatal shooting. He also had six documented instances of using force on the job. In one instance, Bates pulled a gun and taser on a naked-and-handcuffed suspect, teasing him and asking why he was moaning until an officer told him to stop.

The Aftermath In the fall of 2015, a grand jury impaneled in the wake of the Harris shooting to investigate TCSO indicted Glanz on two misdemeanor charges.

One was in relation to the falsified training records, and the other was for driving county owned-and-fueled SUVs while off duty.

Glanz resigned immediately to avoid termination, and an emergency election for Sheriff was held. The Frontier organized a candidate forum with the League of Women Voters, and Branstetter acted as emcee.

On April 28, a year after The Frontier first launched, a jury found Bates guilty of second-degree manslaughter and recommended a prison sentence of four years.

Branstetter is aware that The Frontier’s first year was heavy on TCSO coverage. In a satirical piece called “Future headlines,” The Tulsa Voice’s Andy Wheeler jokingly

accused The Frontier of “dancing on the grave of Stanley Glanz’s career.” Branstetter found the dig funny, but told me she looks back on the reporting with pride.

“I’m glad we didn’t stop. I think Bates would’ve had a far friendlier judge in Judge Caputo,” she said. “And I don’t think the case would’ve got to a charge if we, and the media in general, didn’t keep this in the spotlight.”

Though the TCSO scandal consumed the bulk of The Frontier’s first year, it’s not the only significant story it broke.

One of the bigger stories involved Tulsa spinal surgeon Dr. Steven Anagnost, who was under investigation for a series of botched operations that left patients injured or dead. The Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure had been trying to revoke Anagnost’s medical license since 2010; The Frontier found evidence that then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry, to whom Anagnost had made campaign donations, pressured Gov. Fallin to intervene in the state’s investigation. The piece resulted in the Oklahoma Democratic Party filing an ethics complaint against Fallin.

The Frontier was recently profiled by the Columbia Journalism Review for its unconventional business model, which is ad free and supported by subscribers for $30 a month. Although it’s pricey, the kind of in-depth investigative journalism The Frontier specializes in is often cost prohibitive for news organizations that are bleeding ad revenue thanks to Facebook and Google. Lorton has referred to the project as something of an experiment to see if there’s an audience willing to support an increasingly rarefied form of public service journalism.

Over the next year, Branstetter and company plan to further diversify their content while maintaining a focus on criminal justice. The team is ready to lay the Bates and Glanz saga to rest, but with recently elected Sheriff Vic Regalado already under scrutiny for campaign finance practices and another sheriff ’s election just around the corner, it looks like The Frontier may not be done with TCSO any time soon. a NEWS & COMMENTARY // 9

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Bartlett’s Trump card He may already be done with Tulsa

by BARRY FRIEDMAN That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more —Popeye

“I support the Republican philosophies, and I think it’s a process that they have gone through fairly and he appears to be the, probably will be the, nominee for the Republican Party,” Bartlett said.

“And I support him, absolutely I can support him1.”

For the love of Terry Simonson, mayor, really? You climbed on this bandwagon?

Dewey Bartlett, who is seeking to become Tulsa’s longest-serving mayor, is now, like many in the GOP, goose-stepping behind Donald Trump, a man who has alienated2 Latinos (Tulsa, it should be noted, is home to 71,000), African Americans (Tulsa, it should be noted, is home to 63,000), Native Americans (Tulsa, it should be noted, is home to 21,000), and women (Tulsa, it should be shouted from atop Turkey Mountain, where the mayor thought a restaurant would be a good idea3, is home to 200,000).

How can a mayor “absolutely” support a man who disses this many in the city he leads?

Don’t ask.

Ever since Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr., son of Oklahoma’s former governor and senator, proclaimed in 2008, before his first campaign4, “I am dead serious in becoming the most job-gettingest mayor this city has ever seen,” he has had an uneasy relationship with the English language, his words meandering, lost in a sea of consciousness and tortured syntax5 that has (badly) defined his tenure. Dead serious ... job-gettingest … Republican philosophies … And there will be water 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

“Build a float make a statement about our community about the giving nature we have of the birth of Christ.”

in the river. I can’t tell you how it’s going to happen, specifically, but there will be water in the river … I won’t kick the can down the road of passivity. You often need a mining helmet and a map to find the point. It was innocuous— most of it, anyway.

His Aw Shucks/Harmonica playing persona actually resonated for those who couldn’t see themselves having (or wanting to have) a beer with Tom Adelson, whom he beat in 2008, or Kathy Taylor, whom he beat in 2012. He was onomatopoetic—Dewey—for better or worse.

If he wasn’t a transformative figure, so be it, he wasn’t entirely without nuance, for he could be counted on to do, if not the right thing, not the worst thing.6 In 2010, for instance, he said of a proposed name-change to the Tulsa Downtown Parade of Lights, “If it was up to me, I’d call it a Christmas parade, but I also understand that we have a diverse community, and I’m sensitive to the importance of the many cul-

tures and traditions that make up our city.”

Not the A answer, but good enough.

But then, as his party moved ever more right (I’d say off a cliff and into an insane asylum), something happened. Bartlett inexplicably followed it, embraced it, held open its door. He cozied up to the likes of Rick Santorum,7 who claimed the GOP would never attract the smart people, and Jim Bridenstine,8 who once laughed when a constituent talked of hanging the president. Bartlett, too, promised to protect the city from Obama. It was so unnecessary, so uncalled for, yet here was Dewey Bartlett, acting as one of the party’s butlers, towing the company line, with an attitude, a meanness that had f**k-all to do with Arkansas River development or zoo funding.

Here, by way of contrast, was his statement on that same Christmas parade in 2015.

So what happened to the town’s diversity, the sensitivity needed to address those disparate religious views?

What happened to our mayor?

In supporting Trump, a casual racist, sometime misogynist, and incurious carnival barker, Bartlett—and here he was like Senator McCain, Governor Fallin, and even Ben Carson, whom Trump called a pedophile—has now drunk the GOP Kool-Aid. And for what? Just to appease the loonies on the right, just—in Bartlett’s case—to make sure the fringe doesn’t stay home on election day.

G.T. Bynum, his opponent in what is laughably known in these parts as a non-partisan election, will pick up the majority of the Democratic vote, as there’s no Democrat running; the two will split the vote of moderate Republicans (if such a group exists any longer); so, for Bartlett to win (the primary is June 28, the runoff, August 23), he’ll need the almost universal support of those in Tulsa, the Tea Party Republicans, those who still believe Obama is an undocumented Kenyan who’s coming in a black UN Agenda 21 helicopter to personally take away their guns and diesel powered vehicles.

This is now Bartlett’s base.

Here’s where it get interesting.

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in your pockets,9 if Bartlett wins a third term as mayor, he’s running for one of those seats. And he’s not going to win unless he can prove his right wing chops.

If Bartlett, who’s 69, loses to Bynum, his political career is over; if he wins, get ready for Dewey 2.0.

So, he’s taken positions on the Affordable Care Act10, gun control11, and Syrian refugees.12 It’s boilerplate, feckless stuff, but it’s not for local consumption. He doesn’t want a third term because he enjoys arguing with Blake Ewing on Facebook.13 Tulsa is his springboard to Washington.

Something happened last December that may be instructive about how he plans to play this.

The same day—the same day— Bartlett penned that declaration to President Obama about keeping out Syrian refugees—in which he talked of “heart of the country values” (his rhetoric is truly mind-numbing sometimes)—he showed up unannounced at a fundraiser Vice President Biden was holding in town. Now, Bartlett is smart enough to know there are official ways to meet the vice president, channels by which a sitting mayor can get an audience. It’s easy. You’re the mayor. Announce you’re headed to the airport to meet the vice president, to welcome him to the city—that is, unless you don’t want to be seen seeing him. So, what do you do then? You bum rush the Summit Club, try to strong arm your way into a Democratic event, and start throwing your mayoral weight around, as if such a stunt sways a secret service that’s heavily armed and frowns on people driving up to secure areas.

(Incidentally, Bartlett was turned away. The official word was because he didn’t have a ticket to the well-advertised invitation-only event.)

But why, you’re asking, go through all that, why, if you’re Bartlett, do you care about seeing Joe Biden?

Because it’s still a good photo op: you, the vice president, mano a mano. Maybe someone snaps a picture of you two in deep thought or captures you thrusting your finger in the vice president’s grill. It’s the proximity to power you’re after. And if you’re seen as bipartisan to the 14 people in your THE TULSA VOICE // June 1 – 14, 2016

party to whom that still matters, all the better.

Bartlett is playing the long game—unless he’s just a duplicitous glad-hander. Maybe this new Dew is just an act. Maybe the old one was. Maybe when it comes to Dewey Bartlett, there’s no there anywhere.

People often say Tulsa is to Oklahoma what Austin is to Texas—an oasis of sorts—a place for art and music, creativity and acceptance surrounded by statewide lunacy. As such, it deserves a mayor, whether this is the last stop on his political train or not, who, if he can’t completely embrace the city’s quirky DNA, should be smart enough to not harsh its mellow by throwing a sop to the most insular and bigoted parts of his party and the country. It reflects badly on all of us, which is one thing a mayor, especially one in Oklahoma, needs to avoid—any more bad publicity, any more ridicule. Tulsa needs a mayor smart enough to think from the inside out, beyond politics, beyond party, beyond pettiness … beyond Donald Trump. a

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NIGHTINGALE Free outdoor concert, plus food trucks and Marshall Brewing Company

Selected leather furniture will be 15% off during After Five. Also explore the gallery of Urban Art Lab Studios!

Artist Pop-Up Shops, plus the entire stock of framed art (including all framed Tulsa art) will be 25% off!

THROWDOWN! Baristas from across Tulsa compete to win cash for the best latte art! Starts at 7:00pm.

Special 40th Anniversary screening of TAXI DRIVER at 7:00pm, followed by film critic panel discussion.

Four words: Churro Ice Cream Sundae!

Only $3.00 (dine-in only, please).

Stop by for a different dinner special every Thursday night for After Five!

Kendall Whittier’s buzzing neighborhood bar, open daily 4pm to 2am.

Screen the second of six collectible art prints, only during After Five!

Lovely bouquets, custom arrangements, plus workshops & more!

Pop-Up Shop featuring a local maker, plus 10% off storewide after 5:00pm!

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Short-sighted solution, long-term detriment This part of the budget deal may be the greatest threat to Oklahoma’s economy

BY GENE PERRY

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verwhelmingly, the states where residents earn the highest wages also have the best-educated workforce. Both productivity and median wages in a state are strongly correlated with the percentage of residents with a college degree. At the same time, overall state tax levels show no significant correlation with median wages. Plenty of states — including Oklahoma — have relatively low state and local taxes and relatively low wages, but there are no states with a well-educated workforce and low wages.

The link between education levels and state prosperity is clear.

That’s why it is especially troubling that the long-awaited budget proposal from the Oklahoma Legislature and Governor Fallin decimates funding for higher education. The budget cuts $153 million from higher education, a nearly 16 percent drop from initial 2016 funding levels. In total dollars, the cut to higher education is by far the largest cut to any agency.

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have already reduced per-student-funding for higher education by 21.7 percent, or $2,081 per student after inflation, compared to 2008 levels. Last year Oklahoma made the 5th deepest cut to higher education in the nation, at a time when most states have begun to restore funding lost during the Great Recession. Over that same period from 2008 to the present, average tuition at Oklahoma’s four-year colleges has jumped 30.5 percent after inflation.

Even with the recent tuition hikes, Oklahoma’s four-year universities have managed to keep tuition and fees relatively low compared to the national average ($6,227 for undergraduate resident students at four-year institutions in Oklahoma, compared to a $9,410 national average).

However, the student costs at Oklahoma’s two-year institutions of $3,620 actually exceeds the national average of $3,435. And over the past decade, student tuition and fees have gone from 36.1 percent to 47.7 percent of total revenue for higher educa-

tion, surpassing state funding which fell from 50.8 percent to 35.7 percent of total revenues.

There’s wide agreement among Oklahoma’s business community that we need more college graduates in our state workforce. Yet the state has dis-invested and college has become more expensive for students. Instead of increasing our education levels, total enrollment in Oklahoma public colleges and universities has fallen for the past four years. In the 2014-2015 school year there were nearly 25,000 fewer students enrolled in Oklahoma public higher education institutions compared to 2011-2012, a 9.6 percent drop in enrollment.

Tuition increases are especially likely to deter students in low-income families from enrolling, even those high-achieving students who could likely obtain a scholarship.

A Brookings Institute study found that high-achieving, low-income students commonly do not apply to selective universities due to concerns about cost. Even when financial aid programs could ease

the cost burden, these students are less likely to have parents or school counselors who can guide them through complex financial aid applications. Instead, they apply to two-year colleges or non-selective four-year colleges — a decision that could dramatically reduce their earnings over a lifetime.

Students from all backgrounds are likely to face higher debt burdens for getting an education, which can damage the economy for years to come, as deeply indebted students postpone buying a home or starting a new business. Putting more of the burden on students to fund their own educations in this way doesn’t make economic sense. Oklahoma lawmakers are saving a few dollars today by holding back the growth of those we’ll depend on to fuel our economy for years to come. a

Gene Perry is a policy director for Oklahoma Policy Institute .

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Andolini’s Pizzeria 1552 E. 15th St. THE PATIO: When the weather’s nice, this patio fills up quick.

Located on Trenton, it’s just a few steps from the fast-paced Cherry Street life.

WHAT TO ORDER: A purple label luxury pizza, if you’re feeling fancy, and the Norma Jean cocktail Arnie’s 318 E. 2nd St. THE PATIO: Just beneath the shadow of the blue dome, this walled-in patio is at the heart of the district. In spring and summer, the foliage grows thick over the patio, creating a cool canopy.

WHAT TO ORDER: Guinness, Bushmills Baker Street 6620 S. Memorial Dr. THE PATIO: This patio near Woodland Hills is large and in charge. With a Gold’s Gym and tanning salon next door, you can GTP … gym, tan, patio.

WHAT TO ORDER: Jameson and ginger beer with a lime Blue Rose Cafe 1924 Riverside Dr. THE PATIO: Blue Rose Cafe’s crown jewel is its expansive, bi-level riverfront patio with a beautiful view of the sunset.

WHAT TO ORDER: Blue Rose Famous Cheese Fries and a longneck Cafe Olé 3509 S. Peoria Ave. THE PATIO: This patio is a hidden gem. Because it doesn’t sit directly on Peoria, it might be easy to miss—but don’t. The charming tiled wood-burning fireplace in back makes it a good spot in cooler weather, too.

WHAT TO ORDER: Tequila or mezcal flight Caz’s Chowhouse 18 E. M.B. Brady St. THE PATIO: First off, Bernie Sanders ate here. Ok, he ate inside—but still. The patio puts you front and center in the Brady Artist District hubbub.

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Saturn Room

Crow Creek Tavern 3534 S. Peoria THE PATIO: Their motto says it all: See no evil, hear no evil, eat no crow! Crow Creek is a great spot to park your hog and catch live music (5 nights a week).

WHAT TO ORDER: Crow rings (fried red onions) and a cold one

El Guapo’s 332 E. 1st St. THE PATIO: One of the few rooftop patios to be enjoyed in Tulsa!

Head here for a cold cerveza on a sunny day, or one of their many specialty margaritas.

WHAT TO ORDER: Tony Collins Dip and a tamarind margarita

Dalesandro’s 1742 S. Boston Ave. THE PATIO: The beloved Italian bistro features full service outdoors on a spacious wooden deck when the weather’s right, perfect for a romantic evening with the one you love, or at least like.

WHAT TO ORDER: Stuffed shells and the Lemon Basil Prosecco, an Italian twist on the French 75

El Guapo Southside 8161 S. Harvard Ave. THE PATIO: This garden patio serves the same great food and service as the downtown location.

WHAT TO ORDER: A house marg, or try one made with mezcal

Doc’s Wine & Food 3509 S. Peoria Ave. THE PATIO: Laissez les bon temps rouler at Doc’s Wine & Food— maybe the classiest patio on Peoria.

WHAT TO ORDER: Sazerac and oysters on the half shell Dust Bowl/Dilly Diner 402 E. 2nd St. THE PATIO: Miniature houses for kids and springy astro turf-covered stools make this patio interactive and fun for all ages.

WHAT TO ORDER: Pie, a boozy milkshake, or your favorite jazzedup diner fare East Village Bohemian Pizzeria 818 E. 3rd St. THE PATIO: Nestled between two red brick buildings in the East Village, this cozy patio has charm, good seating, blankets, and a couch—perfect for an al fresco lunch during the day and live music at night.

WHAT TO ORDER: Margherita Bohemian and the Hunter S. Thompson—a far above average rendition of the Doctor’s favorite cocktail, the Singapore Sling

Elote Cafe & Catering 514 S. Boston Ave. THE PATIO: Elote’s intimate patio is the perfect spot for a downtown quittin’ time drink. Watch the cars cruise by on Boston as you snack on chips and salsa and sip a cocktail from Elote’s Luchador Bar. WHAT TO ORDER: Farmer’s Market Margarita (May - Oct) Empire 1516 S. Peoria Ave. THE PATIO: Spacious and multi-leveled, the patio at Tulsa’s most dedicated soccer bar offers a respite for smokers and those philistines uninterested in the big game.

WHAT TO ORDER: Jell-o shots, one of each color Fassler Hall 304 S. Elgin Ave. THE PATIO: This place was awesome before, but its biergarten is a major upgrade—now with an outdoor bar, bean bag toss, those iconic community picnic tables, and a great view of downtown architecture.

WHAT TO ORDER: Deutches bier (That’s German ... for German beer.)

The Fur Shop 520 E. 3rd St. THE PATIO: Tulsa’s skyline is best enjoyed with the sound of a local band and a good drink. This downtown patio is ideal for trying local beers and food under the stars. It’s fit with a large stage, relaxing lighting, and friendly Tulsans.

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THE PINT

BLUE ROSE CAFÉ

Welcome to The Pint on Cherry Street.

Cherry Street’s neighborhood Pub and Grill featuring craft beers and great food.

We strive to bring the best food and drinks here in Tulsa with high quality ingredients. We offer a comfortable and warm atmosphere where you can kick back, relax and enjoy yourself. Join us on the Patio for Happy Hour 4pm-6pm; 10pm-2am!

Surrounded by windows, roll-up garage doors, indoor/outdoor service, live music and a large patio area constructed on piers overlooking the Arkansas River, it’s the best place in town to kick back and relax. Voted Best Patio by the readers of The Tulsa Voice!

1325 E 15th St | 918.561.6119 thepinttulsa.com

INNER CIRCLE VODKA BAR 410 N Main St Ste A | 918.794.2400 icvodkabar.com

Inner Circle features the largest and liveliest patio in downtown Tulsa. With a brand-new outdoor bar, giant patio games, unique shipping container seating, a stage, and an amazing view of the skyline this patio is the place to be. DJs & live music on weekends, acoustic on Wednesdays and movies on large projector screen Sundays.

SOUL CITY

1621 E. 11th St. | 918.582.SOUL tulsasoul.com Soul City offers the patio experience coupled with a full backyard experience.

Live music every night of the week and during brunch on Saturday, the tasty food & drinks are the perfect compliment to the Louisiana/Caribbean flare found only at Soul City. Home to an extensive collection of art & memorabilia from around the country as well as a deep appreciation & love for the local art & music scene in Tulsa. Step in, kick back and relax with us…

1924 Riverside Drive | 918.582.4600 bluerosecafetulsa.com

DALESANDRO’S

1742 S Boston Ave | 918.582.1551 dalesandros.com Welcome to Dalesandro’s. Join us on the Patio for Award Winning Authentic Italian Food. Located on 18th & Boston, Downtown Tulsa. Walk-ins are welcome, but reservations are recommended.

ANDOLINI’S PIZZERIA 1525 E 15th St | 918.728.6111 andopizza.com

Full service dining al fresco. Full bar service outside so enjoy any of our beers, wines or cocktails. We do patios like we do pizza: all in. Come experience it for yourself! Outdoor dining is also available at the Broken Arrow Rose District Andolini’s & at both STG locations in Tulsa.

QUEENIE’S

ZANMAI

Proudly serving Tulsa since 1983. We make the freshest, tastiest food using local meat and veggies. Enjoy our Famous Chicken Salad or Grilled Cheese Sandwiches or come in and check our chalkboard for daily specials. We hope to see you soon!

Tulsa’s newest Japanese Steakhouse, Hibachi, Sushi, and Bar. Award winning Patio overlooking downtown Tulsa on Tulsa’s famous Cherry Street.

Tuesday - Thursday 11 AM - 10 PM Friday - Saturday 11 AM - 11 PM Sunday 11 AM - 9 PM zanmaiok.com

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Hodges Bend 823 E. 3rd St. THE PATIO: Classy and well lit, the patio is also within striking distance of The Parish, the gourmet food truck permanently stationed at Hodges. No need to order from the truck—the restaurant’s attentive waitstaff never neglects the patio—just enjoy the smells.

WHAT TO ORDER: Japanese cold brew or the Tobacco Old Fashioned Hop Bunz 3330 S. Peoria Ave. THE PATIO: A big outdoor television makes this a great choice for watching the game while enjoying nice weather. If you want less distraction, sit on the 33rd Place side.

WHAT TO ORDER: Bourbon & Caramel custard shake The Hunt Club 224 N. Main St. THE PATIO: Partially covered and with plenty of places to park it, The Hunt Club’s two-story patio is a great spot to take in a show.

WHAT TO ORDER: Whatever you feel like, dammit!

Inner Circle Vodka Bar 410 N. Main St. THE PATIO: This 7,000-square-foot patio with cabana-style seating has giant Jenga, giant Connect Four, giant beer pong, and three cornhole sets to keep you and your buds busy.

WHAT TO ORDER: One of their many different vodka infusions Laffa 111 N. Main St. THE PATIO: Good things come in small packages, like this compact patio. Laffa’s myriad Medi-eastern flavors in its food and drink mean no patio could ever be big enough.

WHAT TO ORDER: Street falafel and a Fall From Grace McNellie’s South City 7031 S. Zurich Ave. THE PATIO: An excellent sunny spot with Ping-Pong, picnic tables, and plenty of beer.

WHAT TO ORDER: Probably a beer—there are 350+ from which to choose. Or, try a flight.

Mercury Lounge 1747 S. Boston Ave. THE PATIO: The charming patio of 18th and Boston’s oldest bar features picnic tables divided between covered and uncovered areas, so you can enjoy a beer outdoors whether rain or shine.

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Zanmai

Mixco 3rd St. and Denver Ave. downtown THE PATIO: It’s hard to go wrong at this downtown favorite, inside or out. Mixco has just added a kitchen, with food by Nico Albert, meaning you can imbibe both excellent drink and food, now.

WHAT TO ORDER: Smoke & Mirrors, or a cold shot of Fernet, which they serve on tap(!)

Saturn Room 209 N. Boulder Ave. THE PATIO: With its giant ceramic ashtrays, wicker furniture, bartenders in Hawaiian shirts, and outside order window—Saturn Room’s patio recalls hedonistic times of beach-lounging and Mai Tai-sipping. Why buy a ticket to Maui? Saturn Room has brought the vacay to Tulsa. Did we mention the fantastic view?

WHAT TO ORDER: A Scorpion Bowl for the table

The Penthouse Rooftop Lounge at The Mayo 115 W. 5th St. THE PATIO: The Penthouse bar’s roomy patio offers a stunning 360-degree view of downtown. Weekends on the rooftop are great for party crashing and people watching.

WHAT TO ORDER: Something really classy

Soul City 1621 E. 11th St. THE PATIO: Soul City’s back patio is a great listening venue with frequent live music, and is bike, creative, and family-friendly.

WHAT TO ORDER: Spicy Foo-Egg-O Fightin’ Sliders and, maybe, a glass of milk

The Pint on Cherry Street 1325 E. 15th St. THE PATIO: String lights, umbrellas, quality beers, and the bustle of the busy neighborhood might make you feel like you’re in … Tulsa. Enjoy it.

WHAT TO ORDER: $4 pint special

Soundpony 409 N. Main St. THE PATIO: Grungy, funky Soundpony is a Tulsa must: great view of the downtown skyline, décor made out of bikes, graffiti, and bizarro handmade patio tables.

WHAT TO ORDER: Sixpoint Brewery’s Resin beer, or local, of course

Queenie’s 1834 Utica Square THE PATIO: This cute, small sidewalk patio sits right in front of Queenies, with good views of their pastry case and Utica Square and ceiling fans to keep you cool.

WHAT TO ORDER: Tomato tart with a side salad, or carrot cake and a coffee

Tucci’s 1344 E. 15th St. THE PATIO: Outdoor seating at this covered patio is made all the more special by red curtains and a cozy Italian trattoria feel.

WHAT TO ORDER: Vino bianco, o vino rosso

R Bar 3421 S. Peoria Ave. THE PATIO: This patio equals brunch goals. With plenty of shade and spots in the sun, R Bar is the place to people watch on Brookside and/or nurse a hangover while you stuff your face with chicken and waffles.

WHAT TO ORDER: One of their 80+ different beers The Rusty Crane 109 N. Detroit Ave. THE PATIO: Though a great stop-off or pre-game point for your downtown adventures, Rusty Crane’s lengthy, comfortable patio is meant for slowing down and being here.

WHAT TO ORDER: Rusty wings and a Tin Man

Vintage 1740 1740 S. Boston Ave. THE PATIO: Nearby smells of Burn Co., Dalesandro’s, and Doubleshot make this patio a sensational experience. Sit at one of the few tables and feel supremely classy with a delicate glass of wine in hand.

WHAT TO ORDER: Wine you haven’t tried before Yokozuna Southside 9146 S. Yale Ave. THE PATIO: Yokozuna’s tagline is “Noodles. Sushi. Cocktails.

Happiness.” The only thing they forgot is: Patio. Luckily, this location has one anyway!

WHAT TO ORDER: Saké Sour Zanmai 1402 S. Peoria Ave. THE PATIO: This Japanese Steakhouse, Hibachi, Sushi, and Bar has a comfortable second-story patio that looks straight towards Tulsa’s downtown and is located just a few steps off of Cherry Street.

WHAT TO ORDER: A big Japanese beer: 33 oz. Asahi, or 22 oz.

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FASSLER HALL

CAZ’S CHOWHOUSE

Welcome to Fassler Hall Tulsa. This German gem in the heart of downtown Tulsa is known for its German beer and live entertainment. Join us for the Thunder Games and Happy hour in the biergarten! Also, don’t miss the expansive whiskey and cocktail menu.

Homestyle cooking the way you wish your mama made it! Look for our New Patio coming this Summer! Located downtown in the Historic Brady District just steps away from the Brady Theater, Cain’s Ballroom and just a couple of blocks from the BOK Center and PAC. We look forward to seeing you!

MCNELLIE’S SOUTH CITY

THE HUNT CLUB

Sure our beer selection is immense, but the food’s pretty good too! McNellie’s menu is filled with fresh, reasonably priced food. Every day, our dedicated kitchen staff works hard to make a variety of items from scratch, using the best ingredients available. Enjoy brunch on the patio every Saturday and Sunday, which features a great bloody mary bar.

Join us on the Patio and try our New Menu, Mr. Nice Guys at The Hunt Club!

Located Downtown in the Historic Brady Arts District. Food, full bar, and live music!

304 S Elgin Ave | 918.576.7898 fasslerhall.com

409 E 1st St | 918.382.7468 mcnelliessouthcity.com

DILLY DINER

402 E 2nd St | 918.938.6382 dillydiner.com Downtown Tulsa’s favorite diner. Serving up breakfast all day, housemade bread, pastries, pies & cakes, homemade soft serve, house cured meats, local produce and so much more! Come soak up the sun on our patio with a fat stack of pancakes and mimosa service. Open till 1am on weekends.

18 E M. B. Brady St | 918.588.2469 cazschowhouse.com

224 N. Main | 918.599.9200 thehuntclubtulsa.com

Happy Hour Mon-Sat 2p.m.-9p.m. & All Day Sunday BAKER STREET PUB-TULSA 6620 S. Memorial Dr. bakerstreetpub.com Live Music Thursday-Saturday, No Covers

EL GUAPO’S CANTINA SOUTHSIDE

8161 S Harvard Ave | 918.728.7482 elguaposcantina.com Our newest El Guapo’s is located in the Walnut Creek shopping center at 81st and Harvard. Here you’ll find the largest selection of tequila and mezcal in Tulsa, a beautiful garden patio, and the same great food and service as the original.

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Candace Conley at her The Girl Can Cook! studio and kitchen space | VALERIE GRANT, TULSAFOOD

Spontaneous consumption Tables are turned at Candace Conley’s Broken Arrow cooking studio

by ANGELA EVANS

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wenty racks of lamb stand like teepees on the kitchen prep table while a jocular sommelier waxes poetic about German vineyard farmers who drive their tractors naked “for the good of the grape.” Placed in front of me is a bowl of steaming snails, liberated from their homes and sitting atop a chunky tomato sauce. The aroma tells me there is just enough basil mixed with those amatory hunks of slow-simmered tomatoes, and I’m intrigued to eat a snail that isn’t drowning in butter and garlic.

The theme for Candace Conley’s spring pop-up dinner is regional Italian, and it occurs to me that The Girl Can Cook!— Conley’s cooking studio and classroom in downtown Broken Arrow—could not be farther from Italy. But, by the time the second glass of wine is poured by Tulsa sommelier Joe Breaux and the pasta course is introduced by Conley, I am closer to the Umbria region of Italy than I have ever been.

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Pop-up dinners typically feature a menu created for only one evening, which gives chefs the opportunity to be adventurous.

Reservations are limited to a small group, creating a more intimate experience between chef and guests. Pop-ups are sometimes referred to as “underground supper clubs” because they are often held in abandoned buildings or other secret locations that aren’t announced until right before the dinner starts.

Conley’s studio lends itself to the intimacy of a pop-up style dining experience. From where I am seated, I can see Conley sprinkle walnuts onto twenty-one bowls of homemade orecchiette pasta with an elegant flick of her wrist. Later, I catch her smiling as she ladles her Italian version of salsa verde onto porchetta-spiced lamb.

The dozen or so tables that usually function as work stations for Conley’s eager students have been rearranged into one long table with seating for 21 guests.

“It doesn’t usually look like this at all,” says Conley. “Depending on how many people are in a class, each table has individual burners, sauté pans, bowls, et cetera. The room looks more like a stadium, with the tables lined up so that people can watch as I guide them and so they can see each other.”

Conley’s students are usually the ones cooking.

“Overall, I just guide them … and rarely get to cook. So this is my opportunity. I don’t have a restaurant, so the pop-up is a pleasure for me.”

As she reverses her roles, one can’t help but think about the English professor who finally writes her book, or the botanist who ends up on a space shuttle.

She gets to flex her culinary muscles while also creating a teaching moment for her students, many of whom are guests. As each dish is served, it’s like she’s saying “here is how to have fun while cooking a multi-course dinner for a couple dozen of your closest friends.”

“I want people to enjoy cooking in the kitchen. I want them to try new things,” Conley says.

“They shouldn’t be afraid of their own kitchen.”

Conley teaches her students more than how to properly sear a flank steak or how to whip up a paella. This isn’t a textbook class.

In fact, she doesn’t even use recipes with her students.

“I will have a guide for myself but I never give students recipes. If you are tied to a recipe, you lose the joy,” she says. “All you’re worried about is do I have enough of this, am I chopping this right. You don’t just cook.

So what I make people do in my class is just cook.”

In this way, she builds their confidence and the ability to cook without a net, to be more instinctual home chefs.

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Candace Conley | VALERIE GRANT, TULSAFOOD

to your repertoire,” she says. “It’s very therapeutic.”

With the therapeutic element in mind, it’s not completely surprising that Candace Conley is not “Chef ” Conley; she is Dr. Candace Conley, with a PhD in clinical psychology. She practiced for over ten years before making the move to food.

“I loved being a doctor, but it didn’t really charge my batteries,” says Conley.

What did charge Conley up was cooking, which was something she grew up doing. And though she did not attend culinary school, she had a very significant cooking instructor.

“My mom was an amazing cook.

One of those intuitive, natural cooks. She didn’t know what you called it; she could just do it. She wasn’t afraid of anything,” she says.

“I learned what I learned from her, from watching and osmosis.”

What she learned from her mother is imbued into her personal style and cooking philosophy. Her THE TULSA VOICE // June 1 – 14, 2016

cooking studio is neither pretentious nor formal. Instead, it’s empowering—there are no mistakes, only learning opportunities.

As twenty strangers clink glasses before each course, I am learning to let go of what I thought a pop-up wine dinner should be.

There is no “recipe” to follow tonight. So, I relax. I eat beautiful food, experience new wines and make new friends. I become part of this ephemeral evening, knowing there will never be a night exactly like it again. I savor this realization, as a lovely pinot noir fills my glass and a chocolate hazelnut semifreddo transports me to the Piemonte region of Italy.

Conley offers hands-on classes about some great subjects, like creating the perfect brunch or how to prepare a “Havana nights” inspired dinner in your own kitchen. A full calendar of her upcoming classes can be found on her website at thegirlcancook.com along with information about future upcoming pop-up dinners. a FOOD & DRINK // 19

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Korean BBQ nachos from Crunch Nacho Ninjas | GREG BOLLINGER

Crunch this!

Josh Lynch revamps his latest concept, prepares to open Pearl’s Food Truck Park

by MEGAN SHEPHERD

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meet up with Josh Lynch in the middle of the fray at Blue Dome Arts Festival. Food trucks pumping out paper basket meals surround us on all sides as clusters of Tulsans hungrily eye their menus. The beading sweat on Lynch’s brow is as much a sign of his schedule as the heat.

Lynch is busy—very busy. As the owner of several food trucks, the co-organizer of Eat Street Tulsa Food Truck Festival, and now executive director of Pearl’s Food Truck Park (408 S. Peoria Ave.), Lynch can be hard to pin down.

Somehow, I catch him between commitments and he catches me up on his latest projects.

Between gigs at Fuji, Rib Crib, Tsunami Sushi, Tallgrass Prairie Table, and other Tulsa staples, Lynch has been in the food industry for more than 20 years. Back in the day, his father gifted him a hot dog cart. The gesture sparked a lifelong pursuit of food ventures, including his two proudest projects: the Dog House hot dog truck, and the recently revamped Crunch Nacho Ninjas, featuring a variety 20 // FOOD & DRINK

of gourmet Asian nachos (made with wontons), including Pad Thai, Chicken Teriyaki and Korean BBQ. With several other trucks in the works—including Sip, a truck specializing in kombuchas, teas, nitro coffee and infused waters—Lynch shows no signs of slowing down.

It bears mentioning that although Lynch makes it look easy, opening these trucks is no simple task. As he tells it, finding a commercial space or commissary kitchen to store and create products can be a nightmare. Then there’s the obstacle of clientele.

Just because you buy a truck and write a menu doesn’t mean people are going to try it.

“It’s not just, ‘oh, I opened a food truck. Now I’m going to be at all the cool events,’” Lynch said.

“No, that takes time.”

To keep forward momentum, Lynch updated the menu a few months ago and brought Matthew Buechele on as executive chef.

Buechele was formerly the sous chef of Tallgrass Prairie Table, and his training has brought a new level of culinary play and experi-

mentation to Crunch’s food that’s hard to deny.

Lynch has also been busy readying Pearl’s Food Truck Park for the summer season. Originally launched last September as the Park in the Pearl, it reopens with an evening kickoff event on Thursday, June 2 and will celebrate with live music through the weekend.

The vendor line up will stay in steady rotation at Pearl’s, offering Tulsa’s fleet of food trucks plenty of exposure. Each shift—lunch and dinner—will host four trucks, with different vendors cycling through constantly. Pita Place, Gyros by Ali, Ando Truck, Bohemia Love, Local Table, Rub, MASA, Dog House, Crunch, Mod’s, Smash Cake, and others will be in regular attendance. As long as they’re Tulsa-bred and doing interesting things, Lynch said they’ll have a space at Pearl’s.

“It all has to be good quality food. We want local and unique, outside of the box.”

In addition to local food, the park will support local music.

Cody Clinton will host a weekly

jam session on Thursday nights with music from artists like Dustin Pittsley and Paul Benjaman.

Cold beer will be available once the facility obtains its liquor license—“hopefully the week after we open,” Lynch said. Pearl’s will also host special events, like a monthly open market, and jazz and beer festivals this summer.

The park will be family-and-dog friendly, so long as owners are careful to watch and clean up after both.

There’s even talk of having Robbie Bell set up shop next to the park for “Fair Week,” with rides, games, and fair-themed menus from each of the featured food trucks.

Cities across the country have embraced the food truck parkand-pod trend. With Tulsa’s food truck portfolio stronger than ever and still growing, the revamped park is a promising next step. Add in the appeal of the up-and-coming Pearl District neighborhood, and you’ve got all the makings of a new hotspot. Here’s hoping the crowds don’t kill it. a June 1 – 14, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Valkyrie offers an array of Negroni variations

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une 1 is Valkyrie’s fourth birthday (congrats, V). June 5 is their Yacht Rock-themed birthday party (I’m imagining “Weekend at Bernie’s”-style antics). And June 6 kicks off Negroni Week, a worldwide celebration of my very favorite cocktail, of which Valkyrie serves several variations.

So, here we are.

I sat down in front of bartender Tyler Schilling and asked for a variation on the classic Negroni, which is equal parts gin, Campari—a bright red, bitter herbaceous liqueur—and sweet vermouth.

“Do you want something more boozy, the same, or less boozy?” he asked.

I opted for less and soon Schilling set down a beautiful red, already sweating drink in a crystal clear glass with several perfect ice cubes.

“This is an Americano,” he said. As the Negroni’s precursor, it’s made with soda water instead of gin, and an orange slice instead of an orange peel. Refreshing, crisp, and light, it was a good drink to start the evening.

Next to me, a Valkyrie regular was having a Boulevardier, another Negroni variation that substitutes rye for gin, making the drink a bit heavier and even more full-flavored. He told me he goes through a bottle of Campari a month, he loves the stuff so much, and Negronis and Boulevardiers are his go-to drinks. I asked what he liked about them.

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“They’re bright, bitter, and boozy.”

True enough, simple enough.

“When I first came to Valkyrie, I hated Campari,” said Schilling.

“But it was a stepping stone in my drinking journey. Once you accept it’s bitter and in your face, you can start to enjoy it.”

We’ve all been in a similar situation before. Who among us really liked that first sip of beer?

You faked it ‘til you made it into the club. Campari invites you into another one.

Valkyrie offers a few other variations. One, an original called the Bahnahnana, is made with banana rye, Campari, sweet vermouth, cinnamon, and bitters. Then there’s the Chin Chin, A Negroni with Cynar (an artichoke liqueur) instead of Campari, and the Negroni Sbagliato (an Italian word that means “bungled”), which is an Americano made with sparkling wine instead of gin.

Valkyrie posts a “haiku of the week” in the upper right corner of their chalkboard. So, on the occasion of their birthday (and because I love haikus as much as Negronis):

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Bright, bitter, boozy— Another yeargroni gone.

Valkyrie turns four! a In “Down the Hatch,” assistant editor Liz Blood offers a look inside Tulsa’s many bars, pubs, saloons and gin joints. Send suggestions for future columns to liz@langdonpublishing.com or @lizblood on Twitter.

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FlyingTee is a contemporary, multi-level sports bar and restaurant that is modeled after sports stadiums. Along the Jenks Riverwalk, guests will find this brand new venue fitted with 60 hitting bays and three private suits. All of these featuring FlyingTee’s proprietary ball tracking technology. Guests can use this technology to golf classic courses such as Pebble Beach and St. Andrews. As a part of FlyingTee’s partnership with Cobra Puma Golf, guests will be provided golf clubs that include Cobra-brand drivers and irons.

Each level of FlyingTee offers a different experience. On the first level, the sports bar features a 16-foot-wide video wall, a large sports ticker as the bar’s centerpiece and 65-inch TV screens. The second level of the venue is home to Ironwood Rotisserie, which has wood-fire rotisseries and comfortable booths for seating. It also has a large bar that overlooks the putting green and beer garden. The third floor features FlyingTee’s original FLITE restaurant. This experience will allow guests to enjoy premium wines, craft beer, food, and specialty cocktails.

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Streets Gone Wild brings 80s hair metal to downtown Tulsa Streets Gone Wild, an 80s rock street festival, will take over Detroit Street between 1st and 2nd Streets downtown and the IDL Ballroom on September 9 and 10, 2016. This is the inaugural year for the event in Tulsa, which is part of the Farm Rock franchise under Frederick Entertainment.

Eddie Trunk, hair metal connoisseur and host of SirusXM’s Hair Nation, will be there to help kick off the festival. Night Ranger, Quiet Riot, Queensryche, Warrant, Vixen, White Lion, Faster Pussycat, and Autograph are just a few of the bands set to perform. More acts will be announced at a later date.

Besides live music, the festival will feature celebrity hosts such as the aforementioned Eddie Trunk, Luc Carl (also from SirusXM’s Hair Nation), and Bobbie Brown, author and iconic star from Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” music video. All of them will be emceeing different festival events.

Ozzy’s Boneyard DJ will also be present.

Tulsa is the seventh city-market to host this event and the first to do so in an urban setting. All previous festivals were exclusively outdoors events. Tickets went on sale May 24 and can be purchased through Starship Records and Tapes or at stubwire.com. Tickets are $30 to $40 for general admission and $50 to $150 for the spots at the front of the stage and VIP. The festival runs from 6 p.m. to midnight on Friday, September 9, and from noon to midnight on Saturday, September 10.

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n 1975, Tulsa photographer Gaylord Oscar Herron published “Vagabond,” a semi-autobiographical photo essay set in Tulsa, to great acclaim. In the years since, he’s made a significant impact on Tulsa’s cycling culture as the owner of G. Oscar Bicycles, located at 16th and Main.

In Herron’s upstairs studio above his shop, Donald Trump is bloviating on TV. Herron turns it off and recites a limerick he wrote.

G. Oscar Herron: “Donald Trump for a little while/ Donald Trump for a little while/ Donald Trump for a little while/ Then he be gone.” And that’s probably the way it’s going to work out.

The Tulsa Voice: Let’s hope, anyway. So, tell me about the work you do through the bike shop with Family and Children’s Services.

GH: They said they have a lot of women who can hold a job but can’t get there. So, they figured a bicycle would be good for a small commute to work and back.

I sell them for $100 and then I maintain the flats and tubes, calibration and upkeep. One of the ladies came in and she wanted a softer seat on her bike, so I put a big lounger seat on there and she rode off across the parking lot and she was so happy. She seemed so free and so energized by all of that—able to hold a job, go to work without having to struggle, and feel positive and contributive. So it’s a good thing all the way around. It’s funded by the Kaiser Foundation, but I’m not sure if it’s going to continue to be funded by them. I don’t know; that’s not my department.

TTV: You’ve said photography was the first love, and then came bicycles. Is there a correlation between the two?

GH: I’ll look at pictures I did years and years ago and I’ll see a bicycle here and there … Some of the first pictures I did in Korea and Japan were people on bicycles. But I didn’t have any conscious attraction to bicycles necessarily. But that’s a good question. I’ve seen the eviTHE TULSA VOICE // June 1 – 14, 2016

dence of that kind of interest. Let me show you something.

We go into the next room.

Herron pulls out a large black three-ring binder with small, old photographs pasted and numbered inside.

GH: This starts in ‘62 in Korea and Japan. And here’s a bicycle in one of the very first pictures … A photographer waits to be called to something. It’s almost existential.

You don’t just say, “I like that and want to take a picture of it.”

TTV: What are you working on now?

GH: I’ve got a book going … it has to do with the section of Tulsa that starts at 21st and goes to 51st, from the river to Harvard. It’s a little more than six square miles.

In there is a stand of trees, or a “wood” … Tall, ancient, majestic trees that were there before the neighborhoods were built … All of that watershed coming down through the creeks and whatnot created this just incredible earth to grow big old hardwood trees.

We move to a side table where a large stack of white papers and photographs sits.

GH: These are photographs I draw on with colored pencils [and pastels] and then re-scan. These are real places. But I go in and make subtle changes to help illustrate the trees.

[The text] is Revelation chapters 21 and part of 22, which talk about the city foursquare, the New Jerusalem. I’m [showing] how [the images] line up visually with the description in the Bible. It’s a very strange combination, but that’s what I’m after.

Here is the Frank Lloyd Wright house. I turned it into a picket fence. And this is our house with a big old sugarberry tree. Here is Crow Creek at 26th and Utica … This was J. Paul Getty’s wife’s house. So there’s a lot of history in here, too.

TTV: Do you get the sense that trees tell us about time?

GH: Yeah. I get the sense that trees are telling us more than we ever thought.

Herron shows me two images of the same tree at different times of year. In one, it’s wild, vibrant green, sprawling. In the other it’s rich brown, sparse, and bony, like arrested hands with fingers stuck in the air.

GH: There’s something I’ve realized in doing these drawings … that’s totally unconscious.

Your hands are they key. You can arrange and frame and compose, but until you start playing with pens and pencils and paintbrushes do you get that energy to come through your hand. Something else is going through you.

TTV: Do you have a name for that thing?

GH: A touch of God’s eye, a touch of God’s ear. I think that’s it.

TTV: Are you religious?

GH: I’m not religious. But I know the Bible. Let’s put it that way … I don’t believe it’s been interpreted right. Nobody talks about the city foursquare.

Herron finds a printout of commentary on the Revelation chapter.

GH: This idea is that we need to pay attention to God’s formula for building a city because he doesn’t like the way we’ve done it. We’ve created too much crime and chaos and angst—mainly by cramming people into boxes…

[The trees] establish what I call “dappled light,”… it’s very soothing to people. You’ve got to have this if you don’t want madness.

God says he wants us in nature; he doesn’t want us in the city, the streets, in cars.

TTV: You must have seen Tulsa change a lot over your life.

GH: It’s evolved a lot. And it evolved through legitimate commerce that was well funded by the oil industry. They built those gorgeous buildings downtown.

They built neighborhoods and kept the trees. They built beautiful serpentine drives that weren’t gridded off, which tends to make your thinking rigid. Then they prevented commerce—CVS or anyone else from coming in on

every corner. That needs to be maintained.

You know where the incursion that’s a sin is, right now? East of Whole Foods. That cracker box that just went in. Those people are from Texas … And now they want to do the same thing down at Denver and Riverside ... The same company wants to build cracker boxes in there, too.

TTV: People see that land, though, and then see dollar signs.

GH: My job and your job is to continue to talk about it until everyone understands what we should be doing, preserving, keeping it from being desecrated by commerce.

It’s dramatic how things change outside that central midtown block of trees. I was looking at some of the street scenes from Mayfest.

There wasn’t a tree to be seen anywhere, just buildings and easy-ups.

It looked hostile because there was no shade.

TTV: I think about that when I see people at bus stops with no shade. Let’s build them something, or plant a tree.

GH: It’s costly. But the comfort of the culture should be the first priority. Why do we have to take a second seat to the economics?

The philosophy is that you give people enough money to go buy toothbrushes and tires … they have to continually make all of these little transactions. Each turn that toothbrush takes creates a profit margin. That margin keeps gathering upward, until you get to the top and people are taking margins off of every transaction at the bottom. The network feeds itself, makes itself wealthy at the top, and allows only a certain amount of success at the bottom—just enough … to make those purchases. It’s constantly encroaching on its own success; it grows all the time. And we’re not going to be able to do anything about that, either. I mean, it’s going to be difficult. Donald Trump for a little while …

So enjoy the trees, acknowledge how we got here, and honor it. a

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TAKE MONDAY OFF TULSA’S WILDEST WEEKEND IS ONCE AGAIN UPON US.

Whether you’re a cyclist or hedonist, active participant or costumed onlooker, there’s no denying the electricity that envelopes downtown each year as the nationally lauded Saint Francis Tulsa Tough cycling festival descends on the city; at this point it should probably be an official holiday.

Turn the page to find all you need to know on this year’s revelry, including a glimpse into the life of a Cry Baby Hill guard and a full schedule of races.

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TOUGH LUCK A most-popular destination race, Saint Francis Tulsa Tough has to turn away cyclists

BY JOHN TRANCHINA

Daniel Holloway has won the National Criterium Championship three times since 2010. | ALLEN FARST

IT HAS GROWN WELL BEYOND ANYTHING THE ORIGINAL ORGANIZERS COULD HAVE IMAGINED. The 11th Annual Saint Francis Tulsa Tough cycling festival runs from Friday, June 10 through Sunday, June 12 and promises to be the biggest one yet, with over 4,000 participants pedaling in 36 different races over three days.

From hardcore Gran Fondo races that extend over 100 miles to elite-level 90-minute sprint criterium races to non-competitive “townie” rides for the whole family, the event is expected to inject well over $1.5 million into the local Tulsa economy and attract upwards of 15,000 spectators and revelers on each of the three days.

Yes, it’s gotten to be a pretty big deal.

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“It’s definitely a destination race,” said Tulsa Tough executive director Malcolm McCollam, one of the original founders. “We’ve heard that from people for the last several years now.

If you look at our numbers, last year we had 41 states and 14 countries represented, so word is out.”

Count Daniel Holloway of Boulder, Colorado, as one elite-level racer who agrees. Holloway was the overall winner at last year’s event in the Men’s Crit Pro/Cat 1 series.

“The promoters do an amazing job putting on a cycling event,” said Holloway, who also won the overall Crit championship in Tulsa Tough’s first year, 2006. “They treat the riders better than any race in the country, so it makes it really fun to go out there. They also do a really good job for the spectators to have fun during the races.”

Holloway races in many cycling events across the U.S., working to build up his overall pro tour point totals, so when he rates Tulsa Tough among the best, he is drawing from considerable experience.

“There are two different race series that riders chase points for,”

Holloway explained. “One is the PRT or Pro Road Tour, which is like the newly-re-labeled National Racing Calendar race schedule, where they mixed the stage races back with the criteriums for total points, and then the other one is the USA Crits, which is 10 events around the nation that’s crits only. Those are different styles of racing, but most guys pick and choose between those two schedules.”

Holloway’s racing team, Alto Velo-SeaSucker, also won the team competition at last year’s Tulsa Tough, and teammate Marco Aledia, of Columbus, Ohio, indicated that the team committed to returning to Tulsa as soon as the schedule was announced.

“We mark it on our calendar as soon as it comes out when this race is,” said Aledia, who finished third on his team and 33rd overall last year.

“Mostly for Cry Baby Hill, it’s just a fun, fun time. But also, the Blue Dome District, Saturday night. We love to win races and compete, but we also love to go to cool places and hang out and there’s always something going on in Tulsa. It’s just a blast all around.”

Luckily for Holloway and Aledia, they registered for their crit race series before it filled up. McCollam said that Tulsa Tough has become so popular, he has had to turn away a lot of interested racers.

“Unfortunately, we do,” McCollam said. “In these races, we have field limits and races are filling up sooner and sooner than they ever did before.

So now we have a wait list that we’ve put together, because occasionally, you do get people that drop out or get injured or for whatever reason are not able to make it. For example, in our top elite category right now, the Cat 1/2 category, the field limit on that race is 125, so once we hit 125, we can’t admit anybody else into the race. It’s full. And the race officials do that because it’s a safety factor, really. These closed courses, you can only accommodate so many … it filled up 60 days out from the race and there are over 30 people on the wait list.”

To give an idea of how much the event has grown since 2006, McCollam said of the first professional criterium race that Holloway won, “I think we had what would be consid-

ered in most circles a very respectable field of maybe 60 or 70 athletes.”

As the racing fields have grown, the crowds cheering on the action have swelled, too.

“That first year, we were only getting maybe 5,000 people down there, and now we have maybe 15,000 people a night,” McCollam estimated.

“So the crowds have gotten bigger, the race has gotten bigger, so we just have to be mindful of security. I think that first year we used maybe 1,000 feet of steel fencing and this year we’ll use over 5,000.”

He also points out how much the volunteer force has had to grow in order to keep up with the increased demand. The current total of 525 volunteers, which includes what McCollam calls “course marshals” stationed at each un-barricaded corner of the race courses, is about three times what it was the first year.

“It’s easily tripled,” McCollam said. “As the fields get bigger and the crowds get bigger, it does get more complicated. Fortunately, we have a very good foundation of people who have helped from year to year to year, so that’s good, and we’ve built upon that. But like most large-scale events like this, you’re always having to recruit new volunteers, and you can’t do it without volunteers. If you thought about, ‘Okay, I’ve got to hire 525 people to do this,’ the economics would never work out … So we rely on them very much.”

As one of the participants, Holloway has noticed and appreciated Tulsa Tough's impressive growth since 2006.

“There’s just more spectators, the show gets better every year,” Holloway said. “They’ve incorporated fireworks and all those kinds of things. I think that the local spectators are as excited or more excited than the racers, just because it’s become an event for them more than a bike race.”

Aledia also participated in the first Tulsa Tough and has been impressed with how it has evolved since.

“I did the very first one and the prize money was huge,” Aledia said.

“That’s kind of what attracted us first, and then once we got there, it was like, ‘Oh my God.’ The races were awesome, the venues were awesome, the fans. The race was really well-run, especially for a first-year event.”

The three races that make up the crit series consist of Friday night’s McNellie’s Blue Dome Criterium, Saturday night’s George Kaiser Family Foundation Brady Arts District Criterium, and then finishes with Sunday’s River Parks Criterium, which features the infamous weirdo-party subculture of Cry Baby Hill.

Last year, Holloway won each of the first two stages, and although he “suffered really bad the third day,” he’d compiled enough points to win the overall individual title, while Aledia and crew helped claim the team title.

Each of those races last 90 minutes, and the riders have to complete as many laps of the circuit as possible in that time frame, so they end up passing the same spectators over and over.

So yes, the riders really do notice the throng of revelers and feed off of their frenetic energy.

“Absolutely, when the spectators get involved in the race and watch and notice that guys are attacking or suffering, they encourage us,” Holloway said. “We definitely notice and it makes a big difference in our racing.”

The overwhelming enthusiasm with which Tulsa has supported the races, coming back in larger numbers year after year, has been a source of pride for McCollam.

“I’ve never seen anything like it before,” McCollam admitted. “I moved to Tulsa in 1982 and I’ve been a part of the running and cycling community for, I guess, 34 years now. I’ve been a participant in, and a spectator at, almost every local event we have around here—the big events, the marathon, the Tulsa Run, and other events. And I’ve also traveled all around the country [as a] a participant and a spectator… I’ve just never seen a community grab hold of an event like this and claim ownership of it like Tulsa has done with Saint Francis Tulsa Tough.

“We always thought we had the capability of producing a really good event and those of us on the inside were comfortable about that, and we always thought we could do something big and cool, but seeing how the community has grabbed a hold of it has been … probably the most gratifying thing to me.” a PHOTOS COURTESY PROPELLER COMMUNICATIONS

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CRY BABY HILL GUARD STORY BY ANDY WHEELER & PHOTO BY ADAM MURPHY

SUNDAY, A.M. 6:22: Hit snooze.

6:32: Hit snooze.

6:42: Hit snooze.

6:52: Accidentally turn alarm off.

7:15: Shit! My stupid alarm didn’t work!

Dammit! Stand up and try to get bearings.

Head pounding. Mouth is the scene of a crime.

7:16: Conclude a feral cat broke into bedroom while I slept and used my mouth as a feline port-a-john. There is no other explanation for this taste.

7:18: Remember I shut down Soundpony a few hours ago. And forgot to drink water … since Thursday. This explains the current mouth troubles and jaundice-like skin coloring.

Further investigation into location of trespassing cat in my room has been called off.

8:30: I sit halfway down the hill against a tree.

I try to wake up.

8:35: Some racer rides by covered in sweat.

“That’s weird. It’s not hot enough to be that sweaty and pale right now.” Oh well. I go back to my coffee. What else needs to happen?

8:35: That same racer who just rode by awkwardly falls off his bike at the top of the hill.

He’s limp. I think, “That didn’t look right.”

8:35: The racer is still down, not moving.

People are starting to move towards him.

Oh shit. I trot up the hill.

8:36: By the time I reach him, a Tulsa Police Department officer is beginning CPR. 8:38: The racer’s eyes are open but vacant.

His coloring is blue. He is not breathing.

His heart has stopped.

7:28: Jump back into shower to wash off soap after realizing I put the soap on after the shower part.

8:42: We pour water on the TPD officer to cool him while he continues chest compressions. EMSA pulls up in their golf cart.

Tulsa Fire is coming up the downhill side of Cry Baby Hill. All I can think is, If he dies, this is over.

Cry Baby Hill is cancelled.

7:35: Squeeze Red Bull down esophagus like Popeye slamming spinach.

8:43: EMSA zaps him with a defibrillator.

“CLEAR!” zzzzt. “CLEAR!” zzzzt.

7:25: Shower and soap.

7:40: Walk out door with helmet, whistle, bullhorn, two costume changes, four-pack of Red Bull, sunglasses (costume and practical), two kinds of sunscreen (for when I lose one of them), a half-full water bottle, bathing suit, phone, billboard, Soundpony flag, goggles.

8:44: The racer’s friends arrive. They are screaming at him to live. I’m crying. We are all crying and yelling. “LIVE!” “FIGHT!”

7:41: Hop on scooter.

8:55: The racer is stabilized and transported down the hill.

7:42: Run back inside because I forgot keys, Advil, breakfast, and the Soundpony flag. Wait.

The flag is on the scooter. Where are my keys?

Wait. In my hand. Dammit.

7:45: Hop on scooter for Cry Baby Hill.

7:50: Arrive on Cry Baby Hill. Spot a lot of the same people I just saw at Soundpony a few hours ago stumbling around the hill. Giggle.

Everyone looks like death.

7:58: Ensure Cry Baby Hill is clear of people and the street has been painted with stripes and “Mind the Gap” everywhere.

7:59: Tulsa Tough executive director Malcolm McCollam drives up in golf cart, looks at us, laughs, and rolls right on by.

8:00: Races start. Bullhorn sirens and whistles accompany the first racers as they come up the hill.

Only 15-20 people are witnesses.

It’s peaceful and beautiful. If you were there for your first time and knew nothing about it, you would think it was just the sweetest little bike race.

Cry Baby Hill lies to you.

8:05: Neighbors start coming out.

Laughter and anticipation fill the air.

8:10: Someone tells me I look terrible.

I offer no argument.

8:20: That same someone hands me a giant coffee, “You need this.”

8:49: They get a pulse.

He starts coughing.

He lives.

9:00: Holy shit. Did that just really happen?

9:05: Holy shit.

9:10: Holy shit.

9:20: Race is back on. In fact, it never stopped.

They just kept racing by us, unaware of what was happening.

9:30: I find the TPD officer who started CPR. I take a picture of him and post it to the Cry Baby Hill Facebook Page. It goes viral.

10:00: Friends and families of racers—the initial inhabitants of Cry Baby Hill—are yelling encouragement and enjoying mimosa brunches.

10:30: A comically huge wall of speakers—the Megawattage 5000 PA system—is almost set up.

10:45: The sound guy is ready and asks when he should turn on the speakers. The refs look at each other. “Now?” 10:50: EARTH SHATTERING BASS—BOOM! BOOOOOM! BOOM! BOOOOOM! BOOM! 10:51: We are dying laughing—it is so loud.

10:52: There is an older woman, from the condos at the top of CBH, running at me.

“The speakers are so loud,” she yells with a curled finger pointed at me, “my dishes are …

SHAKING!” “Geez, I am sorry,” I say.

“But I am not in charge here.”

Cry Baby Hill lies to you.

11:00: The growing crowd is restless.

The first band starts. The crowd’s nervous energy is channeled into shaking what the good lord gave them.

11:05: Cry Baby Hill refs are now actively patrolling the racecourse. When white people dance, they lose all concept of where they are and wander into the street. “Mind the gap!”

SUNDAY, P.M. Noon: With the bands blaring, a new influx of people stake their claim directly in front of the speakers. They are less interested in racing than partying. “Mind the gap!”

12:15: GT Security (of Cain’s Ballroom fame) rolls up. “Where do you want us?” We point at the bulge of people crowding the speakers.

“Keep those people out of the race.” A shift in duties: the majority of CBH refs and security will now spend most of our energy keeping the booty-shaking partiers off the course.

“Mind the gap!”

1:00: The crowd continues to swell.

The music’s tempo increases. Slowly, people are losing their minds. “Mind the gap!”

1:15: CBH refs now issue regular warnings to the crowd with every lap the racers make.

“Get out of the way! Here they come!”

We blow whistles. We use sirens. People’s attention spans are getting shorter.

We still have five more hours of this.

1:30: The refs are now drinking.

We accept our fate. We may as well have fun while it all falls apart.

1:45: The crowd, sensing our acceptance of the situation, feeds us Jell-O shots and drinks.

We gladly accept their offerings.

2:00: The three-headed triumvirate of DJ monster Cry Baby Hill is unleashing the music they have been eagerly curating for months. They start big and the crowd responds immediately.

The area in front of the DJ booth is now an official bouncing problem.

3:30: The music and crowd have become one giant, sweaty, jubilant, jumping organism.

It’s exhausting.

4:00: I am badly dehydrated. I am definitely buzzed. I can’t hear very well. My voice is shot.

5:00: The last race begins but I don’t really know when until it’s blasting up the hill, nearly on top of us. We have reached peak Cry Baby Hill fervor. It is beyond our control. Most of security is actively pushing against the crowd in front of the DJ booth. People are barn dancing in the street. There are bodies EVERYWHERE. We have to get all these people behind the line in less than 30 seconds every single lap.

It is now officially insane.

5:15: Racers are getting dropped from the main group and the crowd doesn’t realize it and wanders in front of them, making it impossible to pass. We give the dropped racers beer. We give them hugs. We give them water.

They love us. We love them. Everyone loves each other. It is the best time to be alive.

5:30: I am now part of the crowd. It is lawless.

I have no idea how it is still working. The crowd gets out of the way just in time. I don’t know how it’s still working but it is.

6:15: That’s it. Tulsa Tough is over. The last race is complete. Cry Baby Hill still has a few more song-and-dances left in her. She has quit her crying as we put her to bed for another year. I cannot speak. I am covered in glitter and smiles and dancing on top of a truck.

6:30: We hand out bags to help clean up.

Most people pitch in and the vast majority of the trash is picked up in ten minutes.

6:45: I am a bit teary-eyed. I love it so much and it’s over and I already miss it. I talk to people and try to put together what I missed.

7:00: “Let’s head to Soundpony,” I say.

“I want to dance some more.” a

2:30: I yell at someone for breaking a bottle of tequila on the course. They are in the spirit world and don’t hear me. I tell their friends to get them out of here as the crowd helps me clean the course of glass.

2:31: Someone in the crowd grabs me and pulls me out of the way at the last second, saving me from getting smeared.

I was so busy cleaning the course I forgot about the race.

3:00: The refs are now regularly grabbing people and pulling them off the course. A few people want to fight because they are intoxicated and we touched them but they are overwhelmed by the crowd or security before they can take a swing. I grab a woman and pull her out of harm’s way. She wants to make out. “No, thank you. Please move. I love you, too.”

3:15: Someone passes out from the heat. It takes us ten minutes to get them help because we can’t find them. It is too crowded. It is hot and humid and insane on top of the hill.

Mike Pinion, Carol Pinion, Andy Wheeler AUTHOR’S NOTE: I dedicate this to my mom, Carol, who passed away on May 24. She loved Cry Baby Hill: the race, the people, the music and the fun.

She will be there this year, too.

She wouldn’t dare miss it.

See you on the hill, mom. Love you.

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Mike Wozniak outside of Soundpony | GREG BOLLINGER

One recently developed program is the Tulsa Public Schools after-school Bike Clubs. The clubs connect elementary school kids with confident cyclists. The kiddos learn bike safety, bike handling, simple maintenance, STEM lessons, and the freedom of riding bikes. The volunteers and students eventually take field trips to places of interest in the community surrounding the schools. The kids are incentivized with the promise of a bike at the end of the year. The after-school clubs encourage the kids to get to school and the bonds made in Bike Club are strong.

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SHAMELESS PLUG BIKE CLUB NIGHT CLUB PARTY AT THE FIRST WARD, FRIDAY, JUNE 10TH. PROCEEDS GO TO BIKE CLUB. The Tulsa Hub is another super cool local, program-based bike service. They offer bike-related education to adults that may not have the resources for a car. It empowers these individuals by giving them transportation options and making Tulsa more accessible to everyone. It’s been great to see the Hub grow—they’ve put so many people on bikes!

CYCLING IN TULSA

BY MIKE WOZNIAK

IT’S COME A LONG WAY, BUT STILL HAS MILES TO GO I started riding a bike in the early 2000s.

Riding to work, my route took me through some of Tulsa’s nicest neighborhoods. My ride was not only scenic and enjoyable, but a great way for me to exercise before work.

Some of my buds were racers and got me into riding some of the group rides around town. I loved it and felt like being a bird in a flock, so I started to race. Back then, there were maybe three or so teams you could join TULSA TOUGH | 32

if you wanted to race. The races were held in small towns that were willing to shut down their streets or parks. The scenes were sparse and kind of lonely and you had to really be into it to get there.

Some say that Tulsa’s signature event is the Saint Francis Tulsa Tough. It’s crazy that Tulsa is known nationally for a bike race— seems a little backwards for our not-so-cycling-friendly state.

Today, there are 19 clubs in the Tulsa INCOG area registered with USA cycling. We close our busiest streets in our most populated areas to hold races. We also utilize local parks like Keystone, Mohawk, Owen, and Turkey Mountain for these healthy lifestyle events.

You can race every weekend of the year if you feel up to it.

During the spring and summer on Mondays and Wednesdays, Tulsa cyclists gather informally to pedal through the Osage hills.

We used to all ride together and now we have too many groups to count, but you can ride with any of them. I don’t think there is a better, more encouraging or welcoming recreational riding community in the country.

But while Tulsa’s ridership has increased, the infrastructure supporting it has not.

A-to-B connections in this town are hard.

Our trail system is great, but it could stand improved connections. Currently, it gets you west, north, and south. Filling in the gaps with strong bike infrastructure—such as dedicated bike lanes—would greatly help our town’s connectivity via the bike. The costs related implementing proper bike and pedestrian infrastructure may be large, but if we look way down the road at the costs of maintaining our cars, and the systems that support them versus those associated with bikes, we may determine it is cheaper.

Bike transit doesn’t damage the roads or the environment, and it provides a natural calorie burner.

The Tulsa region does have a bike and pedestrian master plan, called GoPlan; you can look it up at www.tulsatrc.org.

While you're waiting for more improvements, you can: A) Ride you bike to work once a week, month, year… Ok how about once?

And B) Tell your city councilor our city needs to provide more transportation access for everyone.

Tulsa has a ton of bike “stuff” going on, more than we give ourselves credit for.

People like me will always ride a bike in Tulsa, but we need to make it easy, safe, and accessible for cyclists and pedestrians whenever we can. With our bike momentum, a robust cycling/pedestrian infrastructure could make Tulsa the “bike capital” of the Midwest. a

MIKE WOZNIAK IS A FOUNDER OF BIKE CLUB A ND CO-OWNER OF SOUNDPONY.

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7 a.m.

Start time: Deuce Peloton 7:30 a.m.

Start time: Fondo Riders (Gran, Medio, Piccolo) 7:40 a.m.

All courses close, route support ends 5 p.m.

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Women’s Pro I/II Awards Ceremony at conclusion of men’s race

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Men’s Cat V 35+ 10:50 a.m.

Men’s Cat V under 35 11:30 a.m.

Women’s Cat IV WEEKEND POCKET SCHEDULE

NAVIGATING THE GAP

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Women’s Cat III 12:45 p.m.

Men’s Cat IV 1:35 p.m.

Juniors 2:25 p.m.

Kids (ages 9 and under) 3:05 p.m.

A quick guide to Tulsa Tough

Men’s Masters B (Cat III, IV) 8 a.m.

Imperial Fireworks Display

beginning at 5 laps to go during men’s race

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Men’s Master A (Cat I, II, III) 3:25 p.m.

Men’s Cat III 4:30 p.m.

Women’s Masters 40+ 8 a.m.

Men’s Cat V 35+ 8:35 a.m.

Men’s Cat V under 35 9:10 a.m.

Women’s Cat IV 9:45 a.m.

Women’s Cat III 10:20 a.m.

Men’s Cat IV 11 a.m.

Juniors

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Kids (ages 9 and under) 12:20 p.m.

Men’s Master A (Cat I, II, III) 1 p.m.

Men’s Cat III 1:25 p.m.

Men’s Cat I/II 2:25 p.m.

Women’s Pro I/II Awards Ceremony at conclusion of men’s race

Men’s Pro I Awards Ceremony following women’s awards ceremony

Men’s Cat I/II For more information on Saint Francis Tulsa Tough, see tulsatough.com.

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Women’s Pro I/II Awards Ceremony at conclusion of men’s race

Men’s Pro I Awards Ceremony following women’s awards ceremony

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onstage

No risk, no reward Tulsa needs more productions like the challenging ‘Mothers and Sons’

by ALICIA CHESSER

“I

n a Town Full of Musicals…” reads the tag line on a press photo for American Theatre Company’s production of Terrence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons,” directed by Norah Sweeney. It felt like a poke at other troupes in town whose seasons are loaded with familiar song and dance.

“That line has engendered a lot of comment, most of it positive,” said Richard Ellis, ATC’s set designer and longtime board member. “But it’s that straightforward.

There are an awful lot of musicals going on in Tulsa.”

In fact, almost a dozen have been announced for this fall alone.

At just shy of 50 years old, ATC prides itself on being a regional theater company in the strict sense, with actors, directors, designers, and leadership who share historical memory spanning decades. (They’re not averse to musicals; they produce “A Christmas Carol” every year.)

“Our mission,” Ellis said, “has always been to do good shows well.”

“I see a lot of good things happening in town, but that can lead everyone back to ‘there’s so much going on that we have to have that name recognition and we have to do fill-in-the-blank musical.’”

“Mothers and Sons” has closed, so this column isn’t about getting you to see it. Instead, it’s a challenge to risk an evening out seeing something unfamiliar. Why? The more places we’re willing to go and see ourselves in someone else, the more honest and open we become. And it’s possible we might have an experience as rich as the one this play provided.

On a bitterly cold night, Katharine Gerard shows up unannounced to the Manhattan

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American Theatre Company’s production of Terrence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons” | JOHN MCCORMACK

apartment of Cal Porter, widowed lover of Katharine’s late son Andre. Cal, who waited eight years after Andre’s death to start dating again, now enjoys a comfortable life with his writer husband Will Ogden and their son Bud. Katharine has arrived under the pretense of returning her son’s journal, but her true motivation is something more complex. She refuses to accept Andre’s life as a gay man and his death from AIDS, and she struggles to allow that others’ perspectives and experiences in her son’s life are as important as her own.

“I guess you had to be there,” she says, as she wrestles with the

uncomfortable memory of a risqué story told at Andre’s memorial service years ago.

The passing comment is an attempt at tolerance and empathy in a play filled with many such attempts. Many of them fail. But again and again the characters show that the effort, the fight for connection, is itself a noble act.

As Katharine, Lisa Wilson would have given Kate Hepburn a run for her money as a proud Yankee widow with a trim figure, a glass-cutting wit, and a hatred for pleasantries (among many other things). From the very first lines, through subtle shifts in tone and flickers of light and shadow

across her face, Wilson showed a chasm of grief, fear, and guilt hiding under Katharine’s veneer of bitterness over her son’s life and death.

Perhaps the most powerful moment of the play came in the milliseconds of hesitation she showed before putting her hand on Cal’s arm in comfort as, together, they read from Andre’s diary for the first time.

As Will, Chad Oliverson matched Wilson’s ferocity with the sharp strength and mercurial humor of a man who knows who he is and who he isn’t (namely, a second Andre). Will Lane was a bit broad as six-year-old Bud, but his winning openness propelled the play’s touching conclusion as he tells a new story for their family, one that might include Katharine.

As Cal, who cared for Andre as AIDS ravaged him and an entire generation, Sterling McHan quietly held the heart of the play: the regret, the hope, the sustenance of love through happiness and pain.

Few things here were single-layered, because love and loss and family are not, and the production carefully folded the audience into this complex reality.

“Mothers and Sons” was some of the best theater I’ve seen anywhere—an evening of masterful writing, acting, directing, and design that (in Shakespeare’s words) held “a mirror up to nature.” This was invigorating, heartfelt, intelligent work.

Going to the theater is an act of faith in the entire human project. It needs an audience, not just for financial support, but as a witness to the search for the unknown—what we’re missing in our hearts, what we’re longing for.

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Tulsa Artist Fellow and Tahlequah native Nathan Young with his sound sculpture | MELISSA LUKENBAUGH

American Indian Gothic Tulsa Artist Fellow Nathan Young on sound and ritual

by LIZ BLOOD sparse octagonal structure made of two-byfours stands in the middle of Tulsa Artist Fellow Nathan Young’s Cameron Street studio. It has no walls, ceiling, or roof—just the bones of a small roundhouse building, similar to those built by members of the Native American Church for peyote ceremonies.

“I call my practice American Indian Gothic,” says Young. “I’m trying to express being an Oklahoma Indian. People want to think of us as being on reservations. We don’t have those here. Oklahoma’s so different.”

The Tahlequah native has lived many artistic lives as an animator, documentary filmmaker, collaborator in the indigenous arts collective Post Commodity, and an MFA student at (and then, graduate of) Bard College, among others. In Tulsa, he’s working in many mediums, including sound art, noise music, photography, and painting.

“Here, I’m focusing on my individual practice. I spent ten years working collaboratively. But we never worked in Oklahoma, and I’m from here. I grew up in the Native American Church. So, my

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work now is biographical. Some call it ‘identity work,’ but I’m using contemporary vernacular.”

Young tells me the small building in his studio is a sound sculpture.

“I’m interested in sound as a material,” he says. “This will be activated as a sound piece.”

To make sound art, Young plays and manipulates electronic tones through a synthesizer, or with his voice or guitar. Sometimes he will play two or four tones in a room, creating disruptions in the air.

“All sound is air. The two tones will create an eddy in the room.

They’re finding a way to be there with each other. You can feel it.

And that’s why I do it—to make sound physical.”

Hanging in a row on the wall nearby are three single-color sculptural paintings, each of raised crescent moons. One is white, another navy blue, and the third, lemon yellow.

“This is a scene from the peyote rituals. The fire is set inside the curve of the moon, the moon and teepee open to the east, and the Road Man sits directly across from the opening. In my work,

I’m also interested in ritual and ceremony.”

Young walks me over to another table in his studio, on top of which lie photographs he’s made.

He pulls one from the stack—a fictionalized still life of sorts. A traditional peyote box and its contents are against a white surface and background. There are family photos with black boxes over the individuals’ eyes, beaded items, feathers, and a Derringer gun, which he says would never be in a peyote box. It’s in his photo as a nod to a family story, oral tradition, and to play a bit with profanity.

“People want to think about Indians as spiritualists, and I’m a spiritual person, but there’s also a dark side to that world… The noble savage isn’t an interest of mine. I’m more of a realist.”

“I grew up with heavy metal, skateboarders, and descendants of outlaws,” he continues. “Those black bars are classic punk rock.

Oftentimes you’ll see them in gang documentaries. It’s a reference to the darker side of people’s lives and the reasons why they go to the [peyote] meetings.”

Young says people often go to the meetings to pray for someone who is sick, dying, heading off to war, or getting out of a prison. In other words, a crisis situation.

“They’re in there praying for the community. It’s so community-based,” he explains.

Coming from that culture, and having learned about ceremonies his entire life, Young has also created event scores, or text-based works of art that create and describe how a musical score is to be performed.

“Whenever I’m thinking about these, I’m thinking about the poetics of space and movement and how to create something new with community. I’d like for mine to be performed, but they don’t have to be—it already exists because it’s a poetic gesture.” a

Check out Young’s sound sculpture at this month’s First Friday Art Crawl in the Brady Arts District.

Gary Kachadourian, who we profiled last issue, has organized a sculpture show on the fourth floor terrace of AHHA. June 3, 6 p.m. to 9., 101 E. Archer St. June 1 – 14, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Nonsensus

BY LANDRY HARLAN I’m not a scientist: I’m not qualified.

I don’t know the science on that and we do not comment. So let the scientists debate and figure that out—but

(Left) “The Way We Get By,” mixed media on panel, 16x20”, 2015; (Right) “Jump Higher!” mixed media on panel, 24x24”, 2015 May Yang is a Tulsa-based artist, printer, and designer. You may view a selection of her pieces at Mainline Art Bar this month as a part of the ETA Collective show, "Interval.” See more of her work at mayyang.net.

we see conflicting reports from around the globe and it’s very very cold out, very unseasonable.

It’s just nature itself and the patterns that flow.

It could just be a shift of the axis— I’m not sure.

I can’t say one way or another.

I’m not a scientist.

Landry Harlan is an editor, writer, and regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice. You can find more of his poetry in This Land’s 2016 spring issue. He is not a scientist, and neither are the policy makers who he quoted to make his poem.

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SCOOTER BROWN

Brookside Rumble & Roll thehaps

Thurs., June 2, 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., $10 Brookside, rumbleandroll.com Engines are revving up again this June. Tulsa’s 15th annual Rumble & Roll will see countless bikers riding motorcycles in a parade that starts at the University of Tulsa, goes down Cherry Street and lands in Brookside for a live music celebration featuring the Midlife Crisis Band. $10 is the cost of admission. Participants will help to support Make-A-Wish Oklahoma, who last year raised $22,315 with this event.

Real Okie Craft Beer Festival Fri., June 3, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., $25 Honor Heights Park Within the last decade, Oklahoma has become a welcoming home for craft beer. In celebration of this, Friends of Honor Heights Park Association are hosting their 2nd annual Real Okie Craft Beer Festival. There is no better event for tasting and experiencing Oklahoma’s unique craft beer line-up. 14 different Oklahoma breweries will be featured at the event. Proceeds are to go to Honor Heights Park so that it can continue to better the community.

Tallgrass Music Festival Fri., June 3 and Sat., June 4, $15-$20 Skiatook Sports Complex tallgrassmusicfestival.com Skiatook’s annual bluegrass festival will feature performances from Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Grass Crack, The Farm Hands, Wood & Wire, Southbound Mule, and Blue Pearl. Each night ends with a Band Scramble featuring musicians from several bands jamming together.

Miss Tess and the Talkbacks Fri., June 3, doors at 7 p.m., $15 in advance, $20 at the door American Theater Company, 308 S. Lansing Tickets can be purchased through Paypal with scottapoet@yahoo.com

One More Night at the Cain’s…

A Tribute to Steve Pryor

Acclaimed folk artist Miss Tess makes a stop in Tulsa to perform an intimate show at American Theater Company, courtesy of Scott Aycock and House Concerts Unlimited. Show up early, grab a drink from the bar and settle in for a night of genre-bending folk/Americana/country/jazz/rockabilly, anchored by Tess’s timeless croon.

Sat., June 4, 8 p.m., $10 Cain’s Ballroom, cainsballroom.com Tulsa’s music scene is still reeling from the loss of one of its most iconic legends, guitarist and singer Steve Pryor.

Pryor’s talents and the amount of soul he could squeeze into every note were unmatched.

On June 4, Cain’s Ballroom will host a tribute to Pryor featuring a cast of some of Tulsa’s best, including Don White, Jamie Oldaker, Scott Ellison, Paul Benjaman, Brad Absher, Brandon Jenkins, Matt Kohl, and special guest speaker, author and historian John Wooley.

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Tulsa Pride Festival & Parade Fri., June 3 through Sun., June 5 Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, Centennial Park okeq.org Celebrate Tulsa’s LGBTQ community in Oklahoma’s longest-running Pride celebration. The weekend begins on Friday at 8 p.m. with the RainGLOW Run, a 5K and fun run with more than enough glow-in-thedark paint and accouterments to go around. Following the run is the AfterGLOW party with My So Called Band bumping all your favorite 90s jams.

Saturday, the Parade starts at 6 p.m. at 13th and Boston and ends at the Festival outside Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, where dozens of organizations will have exhibits, and an outdoor stage will feature performances by FM Pilots, Austyn King, Jackie Beat and The Bourgeois. The festival runs from noon to 10 p.m.

The weekend’s festivities conclude on Sunday with Picnic in the Park, a family-friendly picnic under the skyline at Centennial Park.

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Top of the Town Thurs., June 9, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., $75-$150 Downtown Tulsa, ccrctulsa.org Downtown Tulsa offers a variety of restaurants, live music, and bars.

What better way to experience all of that and more at your own pace than this year’s Top of the Town? Buy your ticket and head off to Downtown to take in an excess of enjoyable views and attractions. VIP ticket holders get to kick it all off early at 5:30 p.m. at this year’s special venue- the Mid Continent Tower. All proceeds benefit the Child Care Resource Center, a program of Community Service Council.

Kendall Whittier After Five Thurs., June 9, 5 p.m.

Admiral and Lewis, historicKWMS.com On the second Thursday of every month, the Kendall Whittier neighborhood hosts a block party. Shops stay open late, many of which offer specials just for After Fivers. Nightingale, the folk-soul band fronted by singer Briana Wright, will play a free outdoor concert. And Circle Cinema will show a 40th anniversary screening of the Martin Scorsese classic, “Taxi Driver,” starting at 7 p.m.

Tulsa Tough Fri., June 10 through Sun., June 12 Blue Dome District, Brady Arts District, and River Parks tulsatough.com You’ve been waiting for it all year. Whether you’re a cyclist bent on placing better than last year, or you’re just looking for an excuse to party in the streets, Tulsa Tough is here for you. See page 27.

Claremore Regional Air Show Sat., June 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Claremore Regional Airport, visitclaremore.org Keep your eyes to the sky on June 11 this year. Bring the whole family to watch a dazzling display of stunts and talent that will have you on the edge of your seat. Fourteen different performers will be in tow, all looking to impress—not to mention an appearance by the world’s smallest jet. There will be food trucks, a kid’s area, an RC plane competition, and helicopter rides.

Wingapalooza Sat., June 11, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., $25-$75 BOK Center, tulsawingapalooza.com Bring an appetite and some napkins with you to the downtown BOK Center for Wingapalooza, the premier event for Tulsa wing-lovers.

Sample dozens of wings from fifteen different local-area restaurants and decide which recipe is your favorite. There will be a DJ and a cash bar. New this year, the VIP experience lets you skip lines and get in to the VIP-lounge with wings from each restaurant, beer and soda.

Stephen King Film Festival Sun., June 12 through Wed., June 15 $6 per film or $20 for all four Circle Cinema, circlecinema.com In the days leading up to Stephen King’s sold-out appearance at Cain’s Ballroom, Circle Cinema, in conjunction with the Tulsa Literary Society and Booksmart Tulsa, will screen four of the most popular films written by King: “The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Shining,” “Misery,” and “Stand By Me.” THE TULSA VOICE // June 1 – 14, 2016

BEST OF THE REST EVENTS Movie in the Park: “Kinky Boots” // 6/2, 8:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com An Evening with A.O. Scott - New York Times Chief Film Critic // Booksmart Tulsa hosts an evening of film, debate, and a look inside the mind of a critic with The New York Times chief film critic, A.O. Scott. Scott will read from his book “Better Living Through Criticism,” in which he makes the case that though individual critics can make mistakes and find flaws they shouldn’t, criticism as a discipline is one of the nobles, most creative, and urgent activities of modern times. // 6/2, Circle Cinema, circlecinema.com Movie in the Park: “Frozen” // 6/9, 8:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com An Evening with Lucky Peach // Edible Tulsa, Tallgrass Prairie Table, and Booksmart Tulsa present an evening for foodies, cooks, chefs, and lovers of all things tasty with Chris Ying, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of the food and lifestyle journal Lucky Peach. // 6/9, 7 p.m., Bramble Breakfast & Bar, bramblebartulsa.com Copa America Kid’s Day // A day for kids centered on the Copa America tournament, featuring soccer activities, skill challenges, tournaments, and meet & greets with local soccer stars. // 12-Jun, Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Quilt Tulsa // Quilt Tulsa is Oklahoma’s largest judged quilting show, with 350 quilts on display, vendors, an on-site boutique and more. Bring a quilt to be appraised, take part in the auction, or take a class on quilting. // 6/3-6/4, Expo Square, exposquare.com

PERFORMING ARTS Entr’acte // Seven people from different backgrounds, all of whom struggle with mental illness meet in a weekly support group in the basement of North United Episcopal Church. “Entr’acte” takes an unflinching look at mental illness and the stigmas around it, exploring public perception, private wounds, and the difficulty of finding ones place in a world that would rather turn a blind eye. // 6/106/11, 8 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Liddy Doenges Theatre, $12-$15, tulsapac.com Janet Rutland: I Fall To Pieces // Singer Janet Rutland presents a review of songs written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard, including “Make the World Go Away,” made popular by Eddie Arnold, “Why Not Me?” by the Judds, and George Strait’s “The Chair.” // 6/10-6/11, 7:30 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Charles E. Norman Theatre, $14-$24, tulsapac.com Mamma Mia! // The sensational musical featuring the hits of ABBA returns to the PAC. You know all the words to “Dancing Queen,” admit it. Belt them out. You are among your people. // 6/11-6/12, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, $25-$65, tulsapac.com The Secret Garden // Sand Springs Community Theatre brings Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved Victorian classic to life. // 6/2-1/5, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Liddy Doenges Theatre, $15-$20, tulsapac.com Shrek: The Musical // From the swamp to the stage, Tulsa Project Theatre brings the world of Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona to life, accompanied by Tulsa Symphony. // 6/3-6/12, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - John H. Williams Theatre, $25-$35, tulsapac.com My Yiddishe Mamas - The Early Years // Rebecca Ungerman writes a musical love letter to the women who inspire her most: singers of jazz and pop from the early 1900s to the 1960s. The show features Ungerman, Jennifer Paxton, and Machele Miller Dill.

// 6/3-6/5, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Charles E. Norman Theatre, $20-$30, tulsapac.com (Sorta) Love Songs // A collection of heartbreaking ballads and hilarious character turns, the music of Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel covers love, loss, lust, and everything in between. // 6/2, 8 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Charles E. Norman Theatre, $13-$15, tulsapac.com Jeff Shadley & The Mad Men of Swing // 6/9, 7:30 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Charles E. Norman Theatre, $22-$35, tulsapac.com Amazing Family Magic Show by Steve Lancaster // Catch a severe case of the “how’d-he-do-thats” as master magician Steve Lancaster blows your little minds with illusions. // 6/12, 2 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Liddy Doenges Theatre, $22.50-$25.50, tulsapac.com

COMEDY Pop Up Players // 6/3, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Drew Welcher // 6/3, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Blue Dome Social Club // 6/3, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Ricky Smiley // 6/3, 8 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, $35-$65, tulsapac.com The Mic Drop // 4-Jun, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Squeaky Clean Stand Up // 4-Jun, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 5-Jun, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Shrine Stand Up Comedy Night // 6-Jun, The Venue Shrine, $8-$10, tulsashrine.com Roast of Drew Welcher // 9-Jun, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Tulsa Tonight // 11-Jun, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Crayons // 11-Jun, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 12-Jun, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Steve Hirst, Nathan Anderson // 6/1-6/4, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa Shaun Jones, Chad Thornsberry, Antonio Aguilar // 6/8-6/11, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy. com/Tulsa

SPORTS Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs OKC Energy // 6/4, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $10-$45, WWE Live // 6/4, BOK Center, $17-$102, bokcenter.com Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals - Doubleheader // 6/7, 4:30 p.m., ONEOK Field, $2-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 6/8, 12 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 6/9, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 6/10, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35 ARTS & CULTURE // 39

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Insane Clown Posse at The Other Side Event Center on May 23 | DAVID LACKEY

F is for Faygo

Insane Clown Posse returns to Tulsa

by JOSHUA KLINE

T

he Faygo on my face and arms has started to coagulate. I can taste the sickly-sweet stickiness on the edge of my mouth. More importantly, I can smell it. The cheap soda’s thick chemical balm hangs in the air, co-mingling with the pungent odor of the sweaty bodies packed into the muggy concert hall of The Other Side in south Tulsa.

The resulting bouquet smells like an entourage of unhinged morons.

Well, it smells like Insane Clown Posse.

“Prepare yourself—this place is about to get disgusting,” someone in the crowd warned moments earlier, just before ICP took the stage. He wasn’t lying.

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ICP is banned from Cain’s Ballroom. Incidentally, they had to change venues twice (first The Rose Bowl, then IDL Ballroom) before finding a home for this particular show—their first in Tulsa in a decade. This isn’t necessarily surprising, considering the FBI classifies the rap group’s fans, known as “Juggalos,” as a criminal gang, but it’s not the threat of violence that made finding a venue difficult—it’s the Faygo. The cheap soft drink is a staple of ICP performances and an icon of Juggalo culture—a sacrament, of sorts.

There’s a semi-truck out back full of the stuff—hundreds of three-liters—and throughout the

show, stagehands dressed as gorillas and demons constantly shake bottles and shower the crowd. Literally dozens of bottles per song are emptied onto eager fans. The discharged soda drips from the stage lights and the speaker stacks.

They soak it up. Everyone glistens.

A Juggalette sitting on someone’s shoulders lifts her shirt up and flashes the group; she’s obliged with a Faygo shower, which she relishes, shaking her head and arching her body toward the stage, trying to catch every fizzy drop.

By the end of the show, the venue floor will be covered in sticky liquid and empty three-liters.

“Whoop, whoop!” someone yells between songs, the call of

the Juggalo. The crowd responds with a collective, “WHOOP, WHOOP!” Two teenagers standing in front of me surreptitiously smoke a blunt. A nearby couple sucks clown-face with abandon. Behind me, a seven-year-old girl in a Hatchet Man shirt and full Juggalo facepaint watches the stage, transfixed by the sounds and colors.

This is a family affair, a celebration of generations, as I’m reminded by the abundance of children, not to mention the crowd’s frequent chant of “FAM-UH-LEE!” The horror-core duo launches into “Cemetery Girl,” a 21-yearold song from the group’s 1995 breakout album, Riddlebox.

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A young woman made up like a corpse bride slinks across the stage; her tattered dress hangs precariously off her shoulders as she gropes and teases Violent J, who is rapping about digging up the decomposing body of a murdered lover. The song (like the show itself and ICP in the abstract) is by turns vulgar, juvenile, funny, grotesquely violent and rooted in visceral feeling. At its heart, the song is about a young person grappling with the sudden death of his girlfriend, but the pain is hidden under a veneer of lowbrow gallows humor and horror movie imagery. Lyrics that are almost tender one moment—“I need her by my side, to hold me, to squeeze me / I still have pictures, but all they do is tease me”—turn scatological and eventually pitch black as J’s rap arrives at the inevitable necrophilic punchline.

A 2011 report from National Gang Intelligence Center concluded Juggalos “generally engage

in assault, robbery, theft, drug possession/sales, vandalism, and to a lesser extent murder.” The fanbase’s dubious reputation has resulted in a number of documentaries, think pieces and at least one book in which reporters have attempted to unpack what it means to be a Juggalo and pinpoint the source of the notoriety.

They all arrive at more or less the same conclusion: ICP’s fanbase skews toward misfits and outcasts who often come from abject poverty and abusive homes; drug use and petty criminality are an incidental part of that socioeconomic makeup.

ICP founders Joseph Bruce (aka Violent J) and Joseph Utsler (aka Shaggy 2 Dope) grew up in similar circumstances—self-described poor white trash from the Detroit suburbs who had difficult home lives and brushes with the law. They’ve developed a passionate cult following by creating a rallying point, a sense of com-

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munity, for marginalized people, especially troubled youth, who otherwise have little in the way of social support.

This crowd is more polite and respectful than the average Cain’s or Brady audience. They’re a rough-looking bunch, sure, but they behave like goddamn Canadians; I’ve never received so many apologies over the normal human collisions that occur at a show. A dancing Juggalo accidentally nudges me—he stops, his face turns serious, and he leans into my ear: “I’m so sorry, man.” Another tries to squeeze past me while I’m filming on my phone—“Sorry!” he says, and before I can lower my phone and make way for him, he ducks down to avoid obscuring the shot. A bearded, legless man in a wheelchair barrels through the crowd mid-show, occasionally bumping the legs of those he’s passing; the crowd parts respectfully. One Juggalo quick

on his feet busts out a flashlight and leads the wheelchair with it, illuminating a path until the man has reached the very front of the audience.

People are hugging, loving on each other, smiling, reveling in the spectacle of the show.

On my way out, I’m accosted by a very large, very drunk Juggalo. He stares at me, his eyes halfclosed from the intoxication, jaw hanging open in a frown. He looks like he’s ready for a fight. “Hey!” he yells. He moves in quickly.

I brace myself for whatever’s coming. He grabs my arm, looks me in the eyes, then pulls me into his chest and gives me a hug—a big, sloppy, from-the-heart bear hug. Our cheeks mash together as we embrace. I can feel the drying Faygo on my face bond to his, and for a brief moment we’re glued together. He pulls out of the hug and looks me in the eyes again. “Hey, man”—he pounds his chest—“Whoop, whoop!” a

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musiclistings Wed // June 1 Brady Theater – Justin Hayward (of the Moody Blues), Mike Dawes ($39.50-$49.50) Brady Theater – *Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues ($39.50-$49.50) Cain’s Ballroom – *Tyler, the Creator, Taco ($30-$45) Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin, Deerpaw Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Eicher Wednesdays The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Kathleen Westby Pavilion – Tulsa Rock Quartet Woody Guthrie Center – Mike & Ruthy ($17-$20)

Thurs // June 2 Billy and Renee’s – Big Boyz, G Sharp, Kin Kaid Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Pumpkin Hollow Band, The Hi-Fidelics ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Timekiller ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – Vince Gill ($70-$80) Hunt Club – *Erin O’Dowd and Chloe Johns Mercury Lounge – The Howlin’ Brothers River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Aaron Woods Soundpony – Tomas Gorrio - Happy Hour Show 6 p.m.

The Colony – Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ Jacob Tovar Woody’s Corner Bar – Brandon Jackson

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American Legion Post 308 – Round Up Boys Baker St. Pub – Superfreak Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Elephant Run – SquadLive Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Brian Capps ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Stars, Darren Ray ($50-$65) Hunt Club – Brothers Moore Lefty’s On Greenwood – Scott Ellison Band Mercury Lounge – Micky and the Motorcars River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Grooveyard Soul City – Wink Burcham Trio Soundpony – Lessons in Fresh The Colony – Dan Martin Band Vanguard – The Fairweather, Slow Dreamer, The Notionaries ($10-$15) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Mikey Bee

Sat // June 4 Cimarron Bar – Rocket Science Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Heather Buckley Band Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Stars, Darren Ray ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Wilbur Lee Tucker ($50-$65) Hunt Club – Hosty Duo Mercury Lounge – Miss Tess River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Fuzed Soul City – Jake Karlik Soundpony – Soul Night The Colony – The Great American Wolf

The Shady Tree – RPM The Venue Shrine – Hondo’s 2nd Annual Birthday Bash ($8-$10) Vanguard – The Musical Blades ($8-$10) Woody’s Corner Bar – Jacob Stiefel

Sun // June 5

Cain’s Ballroom – Grace Potter ($26-$41) Elwood’s – Cole Lynch Guthrie Green – *Bill Kirchen & Redd Volkaert, Victor & Penny, Jacob Tovar & The Saddle Tramps Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Charley’s Angels w/ Chuck Gardner, Cindy Cain, Janet Rutland, Sandy Gardner ($5-$20) The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Vanguard – Anti-Nowhere League, Violent Affair, Merlin Mason, The Riot Waves ($12-$15)

Mon // June 6 The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Yeti – Cypher 120

Tues // June 7 Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Great Big Biscuit ($50-$65) Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams Smitty’s 118 Tavern –Scott Ellison Band Soundpony – *Pagiins The Colony – Travis Linville Woody Guthrie Center – Samantha Crain, Nick Jaina ($17-$20) Yeti – Yeti Writers’ Night

Wed // June 8 Main Street Tavern – Cynthia Simmons Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame –Eicher Wednesdays Soundpony –Shmu, Hey Judy, Who & The Fucks, Sunvow The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Vanguard – Mandolin Orange, Dan Martin ($15-$18)

Thurs // June 9 Brady Theater Kirk Franklin – ($29.50-$49.50) Elephant Run – Midnight Run Band Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Darrel Cole ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Phil Vaught, Travis Kidd ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint –Boston ($75-$85) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Amarillo Junction Soundpony – Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes - Happy Hour Show 6 p.m.

Soundpony – Wussy, American Werewolf Academy The Colony – An Evening with Jared Tyler Woody’s Corner Bar – Cale Lester

Fri // June 10 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Hook AAmerican Legion Post 308 – Joe Harris Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Phil Vaught ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – The Jumpshots, Scott Eastman ($50-$65) Hunt Club – FM Pilots Mercury Lounge – Left Arm Tan River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Slicks Soundpony – Defcee The Colony – Carter Sampson The Venue Shrine – Mountain Sprout ($8-$10) Vanguard – My So Called Band ($10) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Alan Doyle

Sat // June 11 Billy and Renee’s – Scarlet Canary, Burning Icarus, Pittersplatter, After Glow, Octave Son Brady Theater – Brit Floyd ($27-$47) Cimarron Barm – Seven Day Crash Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Phil Vaught ($50-$65) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Travis Marvin, The Hi-Fidelics ($50-$65) Hunt Club – Smunty Voje IDL Ballroom – BUKU, Stylust Beats ($15-$20) Mercury Loungem – The Toasters River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Imzadi Soundpony – Afistaface The Colony – *Barnoski Project CD Release Vanguard – NeoRomantics, Roots of Thought, Dad. The Band, Oceanaut, Unsung Alibi ($10-$12) Whiskey Dog – The Blue Dawgs

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Soundpony – Cry Baby Hill After Party w/ DarkuJ and Friends The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Vanguard – *Piece of Mind record release w/ Loathe, Iron Born, Ruse, Sledge ($10)

Mon // June 13 Cain’s Ballroom – Buckethead ($18-$33) The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Yeti – Cypher 120

Tues // June 14 Cain’s Ballroom – Brandi Carlile, KT Tunstall ($32-$47) Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Mark Chamberlain ($50-$65) Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams The Colony – Tuesdays with Maury Vanguard – Eliot Sumner, Cheerleader, The Lukewarm ($10-$13) Yeti – Yeti Writers’ Night

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Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver” | COURTESY

We’re Talking to You On June 9, Circle Cinema and the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle will present a special screening of Martin Scorsese’s searing, nihilist 1976 masterpiece, “Taxi Driver,” which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

An insomniac ex-Marine named Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) begins to feel his sanity slip as he spends his nights driving a cab across the Dantean purgatory of lower Manhattan, a cesspool of misery populated by pimps, hookers, drug dealers and other assorted weirdos. That is, until he meets Betsy (Cybil Shepard), a gorgeous campaign worker who breaks through Travis’s brooding isolation, giving him hope for a real human connection.

See the still-amazing, still-relevant film in a gorgeous 2K remaster and stick around after the screening for a post-film Q&A with OFCC members Jeff Huston (icantunseethatmovie.com), Michael Smith (Tulsa World), Adam Chitwood (Collider.com), and Joe O’Shansky (The Tulsa Voice)—followed by a drawing to win special prizes.

For more info visit www.circlecinema.com

Tulsa’s independent and non-profit art-house theatre, showing independent, foreign, and documentary films.

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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in “The Nice Guys” | COURTESY

Buddy pulp ‘The Nice Guys’ succeeds on the chemistry of its leads

by JOE O’SHANSKY

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hane Black is responsible for several generations of seminal genre cinema. From “Lethal Weapon” and “Predator” to “Monster Squad” and “The Last Boy Scout,” the legendary screenwriter has always had comedy and action—and a weird affinity for the Christmas season—baked into his work, along with a predilection for densely-written plots.

Black started directing his own co-scripted stories with 2005’s “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” an underseen noir comedy that starred a newly sober Robert Downey Jr. (with whom Black would reunite for “Iron Man 3”) and Val Kilmer. Those who loved the hilarious, rapid-fire chemistry Black elicited between Downey and Kilmer are bound to go apeshit for Black’s latest, “The Nice Guys.”

It’s Hollywood in 1977, and a porn star named Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) is dead under mysterious circumstances.

The girl has an aunt (Lois Smith) who—claiming to have seen her niece alive two days after the ostensible accident—hires a hard-drinking, down-on-his-

luck private investigator named Holland March (Ryan Gosling) to prove that she’s not dead. March is already working the case of another missing girl, Amelia Kutner (Margaret Qualley), which he believes might be related.

March fortunately runs afoul of Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe), an aging tough guy hired by Amelia to get March off her trail.

“When you’re talking to your doctor tell him you have a spiral fracture,” he instructs March, just before breaking his arm.

Suffering an existential malaise of his own, Healy and his beloved goldfish get roughed up by a pair of unknown enforcers (Keith David and Beau Knapp), who are also looking for Amelia.

So he teams up with March to get to the bottom of their now-unified interests, while also giving Healy a shot at avenging his fish.

Black is in Elmore Leonard territory here, creating a grittier spiritual successor to the Raymond Chandler-influenced “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” For Black, that means a typically multi-genre comedy that skewers the decay of Los Angeles and its eternally banal

culture where gangsters are for sale, corruption is de rigueur, and the siren song of money and fame can inspire a 12 year-old kid to a career in porn.

Brought to life by Gosling’s and Crowe’s pitch-perfect chemistry, “The Nice Guys” delights in Black’s repeated forms. It’s a bro comedy, a convoluted noir, and a Hollyweird satire featuring idiots tumbling off of balconies, perfectly timed quips, bullet-riddled action sequences, and a healthy dose of pulp silliness. The only thing missing this time is Christmas.

Though Black’s troubling penchant for portraying women as party favors is once again on full display, he counters that this time around with Holly (Angourie Rice), March’s wise, headstrong teenage daughter who becomes the film’s unlikely hero.

As the twisting plot, like a ride into the Hollywood Hills, wends its way to the solving of its mystery, the bond that grows between March and Healy captures us as well. The film is a web of laughs, thrills, and confident storytelling from which you won’t want to escape. a June 1 – 14, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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OCTAVIA lives for her big red ball. Every morning she races to her dog yard to greet her toy, and she loves company.

This four year-old brindle terrier mix is strong and strong-willed, but she is loyal to her people and listens well. She knows how to sit and heel, and she calms down quickly when she gets excited.

The Tulsa SPCA has been helping animals in our area since 1913.

The shelter never euthanizes for space and happily rescues animals from high-kill shelters. They also accept owner surrenders, rescues from cruelty investigations, hoarding, and puppy mill situations. Animals live on-site or with foster parents until they’re adopted. All SPCA animals are micro-chipped, vaccinated, spayed/neutered, and treated with preventatives.

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

ECLIPSE is a two yearold shepherd mix. This sweet young man gets along with other dogs and adores people. He is crate-trained, knows basic commands, is a quick study and wants to learn as much as he can. Eclipse enjoys exploring, going for walks or runs, and tug-of-war is a favorite game.

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20):

I foresee fertile chaos in your immediate future, Gemini. I predict lucky accidents and smoldering lucidity and disciplined spontaneity. Do you catch the spirit of what I’m suggesting? Your experiences will not be describable by tidy theories. Your intentions will not fit into neat categories. You will be a vivid embodiment of sweet paradoxes and crazy wisdom and confusing clarity. Simple souls may try to tone you down, but I hope you will evade their pressure as you explore the elegant contradictions you encounter.

Love your life exactly as it is! Methodical improvisations will be your specialty. Giving gifts that are both selfish and unselfish will be one of your best tricks. “Healing extremes” will be your code phrase of power.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to many sources on the Internet, “werifesteria” is an obscure word from Old English. But my research suggests it was in fact dreamed up within the last few years by a playful hoaxster. Regardless of its origins, I think it’s an apt prescription to fix what’s bugging you.

Here’s the definition: “to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery and adventure.” If you are not currently seeking out at least a metaphorical version of that state, I think you should be. Now is an excellent time to reap the catalytic benefits of being willingly lost in a wild, idyllic, relaxing setting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m debating about which of your astrological houses will be your featured hotspot in the coming days.

I’m guessing it will come down to two options: your House of Valid Greed and your House of Obligatory Sharing. The House of Valid Greed has a good chance to predominate, with its lush feasts and its expansive moods. But the House of Obligatory Sharing has an austere beauty that makes it a strong possibility, as well. Now here’s the trick ending, Leo: I’d like to see if you can emphasize both houses equally; I hope you’ll try to inhabit them both at the same time. Together they will grant you a power that neither could bestow alone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Between now and July 25, there’s a chance you will reach the peak of a seemingly unclimbable mountain.

You could win a privilege that neither you nor anyone else ever dreamed was within your reach. It’s possible you’ll achieve a milestone you’ve been secretly preparing for since childhood. Think I’m exaggerating, Virgo? I’m not. You could break a record for the biggest or best or fastest, or you might finally sneak past an obstacle that has cast a shadow over your self-image for years. And even if none of these exact events comes to pass, the odds are excellent that you will accomplish another unlikely or monumental feat. Congratulations in advance!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “My mother gave birth to me once, yeah yeah yeah,” writes author Sara Levine. “But I’ve redone myself a million times.” I’m sure she is not demeaning her mom’s hard work, but rather celebrating her own. When’s the last time you gave birth to a fresh version of yourself? From where I stand, it looks like the next 12 to 15 months will be one of those fertile phases of reinvention. And right now is an excellent time to get a lightning-flash glimpse of what the New You might look like.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author Rebecca Solnit offers some tough advice that I think you could use. “Pain serves a purpose,” she says. “Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”

With that in mind, Scorpio, I urge you to take full advantage of the suffering you’re experiencing. Treat it as a gift that will motivate you to transform the situation that’s causing you to hurt. Honor it as a blessing you can use to rise above the mediocre or abusive circumstances you have been tolerating.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Aphorist James Guida contemplates the good results that can come from not imposing expectations on the raw reality that’s on its way. “Not to count chickens before they’re hatched,” he muses, “or eggs before they’re laid, chickens who might possibly lay eggs, birds who from afar might be confused with chickens.” I recommend this strategy for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Experiment with the pleasure of being wide open to surprises. Cultivate a mood of welcoming one-of-a-kind people, things, and events. Be

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

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so empty you have ample room to accommodate an influx of new dispensations. As James Guida concludes: “Not to count or think of chickens.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “No gift is ever exactly right for me,” mourns Capricorn poet James Richardson. Don’t you dare be like him in the coming days. Do whatever you must to ensure that you receive at least one gift that’s exactly right for you. Two gifts would be better; three sublime. Here’s another thought from Richardson: “Success repeats itself until it is a failure.” Don’t you dare illustrate that theory. Either instigate changes in the way you’ve been achieving success, or else initiate an entirely new way.

Here’s one more tip from Richardson: “Those who demand consideration for their sacrifices were making investments, not sacrifices.” Don’t you dare be guilty of that sin.

Make sacrifices, not investments. If you do, your sacrifices will ultimately turn out to be good investments.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Life will invite you to explore the archetype of the Ethical Interloper in the coming days. The archetype of the Helpful Transgressor may tempt you, as well, and even the Congenial Meddler or the Compassionate Trickster might look appealing. I urge you to consider experimenting with all of these. It will probably be both fun and productive to break taboos in friendly ways. You could reconnoiter forbidden areas without freaking anyone out or causing a troublesome ruckus. If you’re sufficiently polite and kind in expressing your subversive intentions, you might leave a trail of good deeds in your wake.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your theme comes from the title of a poem by Fortesa Latifi: “I Am Still Learning How to Do the Easy Things.” During the next phase of your astrological cycle, I invite you to specialize in this study. You may imagine that you are already a master of the simple, obvious arts of life, but here’s the news: Few of us are.

And the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to refine your practice. Here’s a good place to start: Eat when you’re hungry, sleep when you’re tired, and give love when you’re lonely.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The voices in our heads are our constant companions.

They fill our inner sanctuary with streams of manic commentary. Often we’re not fully cognizant of the bedlam, since the outer world dominates our focus. But as soon as we close our eyes and turn our attention inward, we’re immersed in the jabbering babble. That’s the bad news, Aries. Now here’s the good news. In the coming weeks you will have far more power than usual to ignore, dodge, or even tamp down the jabbering babble. As a result, you may get a chance to spend unprecedented amounts of quality time with the still, small voice at your core -- the wise guide that is often drowned out by all the noise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): We are inclined to believe that the best way to see the whole picture or the complete story is from above.

The eagle that soars overhead can survey a vast terrain in one long gaze. The mountaintop perspective affords a sweeping look at a vast landscape. But sometimes this perspective isn’t perfectly useful. What we most need to see may be right next to us, or nearby, and it’s only visible if our vision is narrowly focused. Here’s how poet Charles Bernstein expresses it: “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain to see on the ground.” Use this clue in the coming weeks.

Psychologists say that a good way to eliminate a bad habit is to replace it with a good one. How will you do that? t h i s w e e k ’ s h o m e w o r k // T E S T I F Y AT F R E E W I L L A S T R O L O G Y. C O M .

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June 1 – 14, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

ACROSS 1 Homer hitter’s asset 6 Rotten kid 10 Shoot the breeze 14 Enjoy with relish 19 Modern party notice 20 100 cents, for some 21 Prefix with dynamic 22 Market action 23 Arugula or radicchio 25 Discount purchaser’s clip-out 27 GOP part 28 Reputation, informally 29 Free-for-all 31 London’s Royal ___ Hall 32 Bathtub toy 33 Dumbbell reps 34 Colorado River feeder 35 Do a maitre d’s job 38 Mme. Tussaud 39 Riot squad supply 40 Source of syrup 43 Go skyward 44 Ignorer of highway limits 46 Green around the gills 47 They can be stripped 48 Coat label (Abbr.)

49 Cow-horned goddess 50 Pirate of fiction 51 Radius’s place 52 Rush-hour subway car, figuratively 56 “Meet John Doe” director 57 Country musician’s wear 60 Gives the thumbs-down to 61 Guitarist Santana 62 “Here’s to you!”

63 Reached one’s limit, with “out”

64 Khan’s Golden ___ 65 Big-enough fish 67 West Point motto word 68 “Oh, Pretty Woman” singer 71 Didn’t sit by 72 One with special powers, in a saying 75 2012 Facebook event, for short 76 Scatters about 77 Antioxidant berry 78 Pack it in 79 Muscle car engines 81 One of the Mannings 82 Original “Tonight Show” host 86 Karl or Moses of NBA fame 87 Musical key abbr.

88 Like Texas’ star 89 Brings disgrace upon 90 Wide-bottomed dresses 91 Greedy one’s cry 92 KP throwaways 93 Sporty car, for short 94 White Rabbit’s lament 97 Pirate ship feature 98 Award in the ad business 99 ___ bono 102 Independent nation since 2011 104 First mate’s boss 107 ___ Cristo sandwich 108 Like some foreign nouns (Abbr.)

109 Constellation beast 110 “Copperhead Road” singer Steve 111 Cowpoke’s charge 112 Big Apple tennis venue 113 Hammer part 114 Zaps, in a way DOWN 1 Cancun cash 2 Lionel layout shape

3 Like the West, once 4 Captain’s guess, briefly 5 Losers at Yorktown 6 Guardian Angels topper 7 Regretted bitterly 8 “Trix ___ for kids!”

9 Monk’s hairdo 10 Moved two pieces at once 11 Preliminary races 12 Pixar’s “Good Dinosaur” 13 Turf ___ (gridder’s malady) 14 Fruity loaf 15 West Indies vacation spot 16 Smoke an e-cig 17 Dumpster emanation 18 Monopoly deed word 24 Prepare, as Romano 26 Turks and ___ Islands 30 Jay Gould’s railroad 32 109-Across, for one 33 Clad like Dracula 34 Street kid 35 Compositions for sitars 36 Chris with three Wimbledons 37 Chang, for one 38 Roman Cath. title 39 Western sights 40 Penniless nursery rhyme character 41 Last Oldsmobile made 42 Humble requests 45 Cut into small bits 48 Crow’s-nest cry 50 Big Apple restaurateur Vincent 52 Gone bad 53 Lacking a point

54 Giver of the Checkers speech 55 Apply, as influence 56 Pasta, e.g., for short 58 Videophile’s collection 59 Dog team burden 61 Trite humor 63 Bollywood creation 64 Holler’s partner 65 Pioneering DJ Casey 66 Bacterial strain 67 Mighty toss 69 Give one’s two cents 70 Attendance taker’s count 72 It can be stolen 73 Stilettos, e.g.

74 ___ serif 77 Does penance 79 Not quite shut 80 London Magazine essayist 82 Move snakily 83 Suspicious way to look 84 Pork cut 85 Makes a connection 86 An Obama girl 91 Paint option 92 Reduce sharply 93 Highway constructed during WWII 94 Political doctrines 95 Pointless to debate 96 “Clair de ___” 97 Handhelds, for short 98 Job for Robert Kardashian 99 Find a spot 100 Irritate but good 101 Monopoly stack 103 Mia player in “Pulp Fiction” 105 Palindromic preposition 106 Cross shape

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By Fred Piscop

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