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“P

ride is an expression of getting to be yourself,” Amy Jenkins said when I interviewed her for this issue’s Pride feature (pg. 22).

“It’s about making a space where people can just be their freaky selves. Too many people are walking around with masks on so tight they can’t breathe.”

How refreshing, then, to see the photos from this month’s Tulsa Pride week (taken by Nate Grace and Bhadri Verduzco, pg.

20) of Tulsans reveling and celebrating love and life. One of my favorite signs at the parade read: “I was born this gay.” (Which then got Lady Gaga’s “Born this

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Way” stuck in my head—not a bad thing.)

This issue celebrates Pride with our LGBTQ+ community that makes Tulsa a more vibrant, fun, equal, and freer place to be.

We also celebrate Pride to honor those who were and who continue to be discriminated against, abused, and killed for being themselves.

In June, I’m always reminded of James Baldwin’s classic, “Giovanni’s Room”—a book that showed me, as a young adult, an understanding of love and its naturalness, as well as the dangers and misery of repression.

Baldwin writes:

“ People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.

Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”

And also:

“ Somebody,” said Jacques, “your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places!

- for the lack of it.”

I celebrate Pride, in part, because of his writing. But, also, because Pride is honest and it is humbling. We are all “at the mercy of more things than can be named,” Baldwin wrote. If we let it, Pride makes us look at ourselves—our lives, loves, judgements—and the people around us with renewed, compassionate, more equal vision. a

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PERSISTANCE C NEEDED Investments in justice reform are a good start, but savings are a long way off

by RYAN GENTZLER

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riminal justice reform advocates can be encouraged at the progress made on justice reform in Oklahoma’s 2018 legislative session. New laws that open up our broken parole process, reduce sentences for many nonviolent crimes, and recalibrate our supervision practices will significantly slow growth in our prison population.

At her press conference to sign those measures, Governor Mary Fallin also announced that the FY 2019 budget includes funding critical to making justice reform work.

It’s heartening to see lawmakers recognize that improving our justice system will require targeted investments in alternatives to incarceration. It’s also a good reminder that, although reducing incarceration saves the state money in the long run, taking the first steps towards that goal requires some up-front spending.

This year, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections received a big bump in appropriations— from $486 million in FY 2018 to about $517 million this year. Nearly $5 million of that is directed to implementing a new offender management system. It’s almost unbelievable in this day and age, but Oklahoma’s current offender management system—which tracks the location and release dates of inmates—is kept by hand, meaning that release dates were calculated with pen and paper.

Persistent budget shortfalls have caused many agencies, including DOC, to fall far behind the times.

The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services received new funding as well, rising by about $9 million to an appropriation of $337 million in FY 2019. This is a good start as the state attempts to reach the two out of three Oklahomans who need these services but don’t receive them. Research shows that every dollar invested in drug treatment saves even more on crime reduction.

Gov. Fallin also announced increases of $1 million to support

drug courts, $1.1 million to chronically underfunded Oklahoma public defenders, and $1 million to the District Attorneys Council, as well as $500,000 to Women In Recovery as part of a pay-for-success prison diversion program.

Advocates for justice reform often point out that it’s much cheaper to provide treatment for a person in the community than it is to house and feed them in a prison. However, it’s important to recognize that it will be a while before we can significantly reduce our spending on prisons.

The states that have had the most success in reducing their prison populations have accomplished it not by one herculean effort, but by returning, year after year, to push further in reforming in every part of the justice system.

Perhaps the best example of this is Georgia, where Republican Governor Nathan Deal has led a sustained push for justice reform since taking office. Starting in 2011, the state reduced mandatory minimums, increased education opportunities for inmates, invested in rehabilitation programs, and reinvented its juvenile justice system.

Each year, the legislature returned and passed more reforms. The Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform, created in 2013 to steer the state’s efforts, reported that prison admissions in 2017 had dropped to their lowest point since 2002. Fewer African-Americans were sent to prison in 2017 than in any year since 1987.

Oklahoma must follow the same path of persistent reform if we want to call justice reform a success. Making key investments in a relatively good budget year is a start; pressing those gains further in the years to come is essential to saving money and improving public safety in the long run. a

Ryan Gentzler is a policy analyst with Oklahoma Policy Institute (www.okpolicy.org).

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viewsfrom theplains

The education of Tom Coburn What the hell is he doing?

by BARRY FRIEDMAN His superciliousness was palpable.

“So teachers, don’t take this as something against you,” Coburn … said. “This is about the leadership that leads Oklahoma.” 1

And with that, the former senator helped launch a petition drive to stop House Bill 1010XX—landmark legislation that will give Oklahoma teachers their first raise in a decade—from going into effect.

What kind of man picks this kind of fight?

Mock the Oklahoma legislature all you want—and nothing brings me more joy—but what it did in passing HB 1010XX took courage.

The bill provides teachers with a $6,000 raise while increasing taxes on cigarettes, motor fuel, and oil and gas production. For too long, Oklahoma legislators have been at the behest of State Question 640, which prevents all tax increases unless approved by 75 percent of both the House and the Senate.

You can’t get 75 percent of Oklahoma reps to agree the earth isn’t 6,000 year old, so passage of this bill ain’t nothing.

Of course, 1010XX did not do everything teachers wanted, nor everything public education needs.

But Oklahoma Republicans agreed to raise taxes and teachers got a six-grand raise.

Let’s relish that for a moment.

Moment’s over.

Coburn, who has spent precisely zero time in state government yet pretends to know the inner workings of it better than anyone, believes the bill was the worst thing imaginable.

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ing for schools was “the worst of government.” 2

He then dusted off shopworn conservative talking points about government spending, as if there’s a line in the state budget titled “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” that only he can see.

Oklahomans should know that the governor vetoed a bill requiring all spending to be put online, so all Oklahomans can see how our tax dollars are spent. [Fallin] also refused to share how much in federal grants each department received and what that money was used for. 3

Yeah, that’s the problem. Not the decades worth of tax cuts we couldn’t afford, not the 28.2 percent cuts to education over the past decade, not the cowering to Harold Hamm and Larry Nichols—it’s that Mary Fallin refused to itemize every orange barrel the Department of Transportation bought last year.

Coburn is a carnival barker whose satchel is filled with the equivalent of legislative hair tonic and magic beads.

“We’re not spending money where it really matters,” Coburn said. “Our greatest asset is our children. We ought to have our investment in the people who are going … to make a difference.” 4

That’s something about which he’s never actually cared.

When he was in Washington, the National Education Association gave Coburn an F every year he served.

Coburn voted against extending grants to local educational agencies, voted no on using corporate tax loopholes to help fund education, voted against the funding of community learning centers, but voted for school vouchers, and, of course, voted in favor of prayer in public schools. In 2010, he told Laura Ingraham: “I don’t even think education is a role for the federal government.” As a matter of fact, Thomas Jefferson said, ‘I believe in the federal government having a role for education but the onl y way to do that is to change the Constitution.’”5

If you’re going to trot out Thomas Jefferson to bolster your point, try not to embarrass yourself. Our third president founded the nation’s first public university, the University of Virginia, and not only supported public education, but thought funding by means of taxation was a bargain. “[T]he tax which will be paid for this purpose [education],” Jefferson wrote, “is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.”

Further, this mantra of low taxes upon which Coburn genuflects has been a dismal failure: “Seven of the 12 states with the biggest cuts in general school funding since 2008 — Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Oklahoma — also have cut income tax rates in recent years,” the report said.6

This is the worst of government.

Equally troubling is the company Coburn keeps. Joining him in the petition to overturn 1010XX was Ronda Vuillemont-Smith, head of the local 9-12 Project movement.

The 9-12 Project was started

by Glenn Beck, who hoped to get “us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001” with nine principles and twelve values Beck believes are shared with the Founding Fathers’ vision. (But Beck also said former President Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”)

For her part, Vuillemont-Smith, Tulsa’s 9-12 leader, once wrote of the Republican Party, “We have always been the party of God’s grace and of hard work.”7 Her modesty is breathtaking.

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The movement has some other unusual fans.

Despite the tea parties’ ostensible purpose of opposing taxation, many of the signs today at the 9/12 march attacked President Obama using explicit racial and ethnic smears.8

And elsewhere: I do believe our President is a racist […] But I think it’s mainly communism that he’s going to want to tell us what to wear, what to do, have his little red book like Mao because he really is a communist.

This is the company the senator keeps?

My commitment to the people of Oklahoma has always been that I would serve no more than two terms. Our founders saw public service and politics as a calling rather than a career. That’s how I saw it when I first ran for office in 1994, and that’s how I still see it today.

I believe it’s important to live under the laws I helped write, and even those I fought hard to block.9

If only he would.

True, he served two terms … but twice, for a total of 18 years, six years in the House, 12 in the Senate. Since his retirement, he has lent his imprimatur to all kinds of cockamamie ideas, like a constitutional convention10—only the worst idea in American politics— and now has set his all-knowing Oz glare on teacher salaries.

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Coburn’s plan includes cutting wasteful spending, conducting genuine audits, trimming the Medicaid rolls, cutting corporate welfare, using existing funds from the School Land Trust, increasing the cap on scholarship limits, diverting funds from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, changing the rules for using property tax revenues, legislative lineitem budgeting for higher education, trimming higher education administrative costs, and more.11

Cutting wasteful spending … how come nobody’s ever thought of that before?

Coburn said cutting corporate welfare subsidies to the wind industry, often owned by foreign companies, could generate up to $172 million annually.

Except not so much. Literally.

Not so much.

A high-stakes battle is being waged in the state capitol over a bill that would kill a wind industry subsidy that currently is costing Oklahoma taxpayers about $70 million a year.12

Further, using money from the School Land Trust is not only stupid and shortsighted, it’s unconstitutional.13 Tapping the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust means taking money and treatment away from lung cancer patients—and it raises constitutional questions.14 And the legislative line-item budgeting for higher

education and trimming higher education administrative costs is a time-honored sop easily debunked with a calculator.

Meanwhile our rank for spending on instruction is near the lowest (47th) … in FY 2015, Oklahoma spent $4,466 per student on instruction. If the state somehow moved EVERY dollar that we spend on district administration into instruction, our ranking would… still be 47th! We wouldn’t improve by a single state.15

But even if you could get it all done, which you can’t, and even if it were to raise enough money to fund teacher salaries and increase necessary education funding, which it wouldn’t, it would take years to address all the constitutional and legal challenges, meaning—wait for it—teachers would need to wait God knows how long to get a raise.

Only a cynic would think that’s Coburn’s intention.

Call me a cynic.

The senator didn’t advocate restoring the gross production tax to 7 percent, which could raise $312.9 million,16 didn’t call for eliminating the tax deduction on the capital gains, which has cost the state $474 million over the past five years,17 and didn’t call for an even modest increase the income tax rate. Since 2004, we have cut 1.022 billion dollars in taxes in Oklahoma. That’s how you correct funding issues, not by throwing more children off Medicaid.18 With the passage of 1010XX, Oklahoma took the first step

towards responsible governance, while Senator Coburn lurked on the political landscape like Billy Bigelow from “Carousel.” For Coburn to stand alongside groups like 9-12, using cooked numbers and preposterous alternatives, arguing the only way to help teachers is to hurt those in need is not only a false, mean choice—it’s typical. a

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n June, Oklahomans will have the opportunity to vote on State Question 788, which provides for legalizing medical marijuana. But the path to the ballot was long, and the measure still faces opposition from some government and law enforcement representatives, and other groups.

When SQ 788 first gathered enough signatures to be placed on a ballot in 2016, then-Attorney General Scott Pruitt alerted the secretary of state that he intended to rewrite the title, arguing that it was insufficient to fully explain the measure. A statement from his press secretary said that Pruitt wanted to “ensure that [voters] are sufficiently informed by providing an accurate description of the measure’s effects.” Doing so postponed the measure from the November 2016 ballot until 2018.

Pruitt amended the ballot title to focus on the leniency of SQ 788’s guidelines, rather than it’s medical intent. The amended ballot title began: “This measure legalizes the licensed use, sale and growth of marijuana in Oklahoma,” he wrote. “There are no qualifying conditions.”

In 2017, the Oklahoma Supreme Court found in a 7-1 ruling that the amended ballot title was misleading and ordered that its original language be restored.

In a January 2018 Executive Proclamation, Governor Mary Fallin moved the election date for the initiative to the June 26th primary ballot, rather than the more widely-attended November general election. This maneuver had not been done since 2005.

There were also attempts to undercut SQ 788 by legalizing medical marijuana under a much more restrictive law. In early 2018, Senate Bill 1120, authored

by Senator Ervin Yen (R-OKC) and Representative Chris Kannady (R-OKC), would have legalized medical marijuana, but only for persistent muscle spasms due to MS or paraplegia, neuropathic pain, nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy, and weight

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LONG MARCH TO THE BALLOT SQ 788 has faced some opposition on its way to the June 26 vote

by FRASER KASTNER

or appetite loss from HIV/AIDS or cancer. The bill did not list smoking as a legitimate method of delivery. Furthermore, patients would only have been allowed a 30-day supply of cannabis. The bill also imposed a mandatory minimum of one year in prison and up to five for “criminal diversion of medical marijuana.” After failing in the Senate in March, it was resubmitted and narrowly passed a few days later. It was approved by the House Judiciary Committee in April but died in the House.

Senator Yen criticized the leniency with which he thinks SQ 788 treats marijuana.

“In my view medical marijuana should be treated like any other drug,” said Yen. “That means if the benefits outweigh the

risks, then you use it. That’s what we do with every other prescription drug.”

“I’m hopeful that 788 will not pass. Why do I say that? Because I think it’s recreational and I think it’s stupid to have recreational.”

Americans for Equal Liberty is currently running the SQ 788 is Not Medical campaign. The political action committee’s members include the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Oklahoma Pharmacists Association, Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association.

The group says that the state question could allow marijuana to be prescribed for any purpose, legitimate or not. The measure specifically states that “there are no qualifying conditions” for a marijuana prescription, meaning

that it would be up to a doctor’s discretion. The coalition argues that this would essentially legalize recreational marijuana.

“Our campaign is not against medical marijuana, it is against State Question 788. Those are two very distinct issues,” said Pat McFerron, a spokesman for the group.

SQ 788 “creates a special class of citizen out of those who obtain a medical marijuana license,” said Mike Waters, Pawnee County sheriff and president of the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association in a press release. “It does not make sense that an 18-yearold can go to a veterinarian, say he gets headaches, and then be given a two-year license to carry enough marijuana for 85 joints.”

“Let’s talk reality. Your vet starts prescribing medical marijuana for humans, how’s that going to go?” said Oklahomans for Health Chairman Chip Paul. “Do you think that vet would be subject to prosecution? He would, certainly.”

SQ788 is Not Medical also claims that if measure passes, businesses will be unable to drug test their employees, doctors will have too little oversight over use, and that doctors who prescribe the drug illegitimately could not be “harassed or stigmatized.”

“The business community has serious concerns about how this state question is written,” said Roy Williams, president of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber.

“This state question infringes upon our rights to operate a drug-free workplace. Our opposition centers around our concerns for the safety of employees and the public.”

But Paul argues that this misrepresents the measure. “In my company we already have a drug policy. We won’t change anything due to medical marijuana if we pass it,” said Paul. “If you come to work high you’ll get fired just like if you came in under the influence of an opiate.”

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Fruit- and vegetable-forward Oren sates without saturating

by ERIC HOWERTON

T

he moment you walk into Oren—Chef Matthew Amberg’s progressive Brookside eatery—there is an appreciable lack of ostentation.

Absent from the dining room are the chintzy gimmicks that too often adorn the walls of restaurants designed to trend. While mood and appetite are easily manipulated by vibrant colors, art, photography, music, and even TVs, Oren eschews unnecessary distractions in order to keep the focus on what you (and your senses) arrived for—the food.

Basking in minimalism, Oren’s dining room is a blank slate of confidence. The color scheme is overwhelmingly white and the walls are mostly bare. In keeping up with appearances, the menu has also been judiciously scaled back. At a mere three pages, the selection of food and drinks can be perused without causing option paralysis or eyestrain.

As the website and staff will tell you, Oren is a fruit- and vegetable-forward establishment, and the lion’s share of the offerings adhere to this principle. The menu, which is seasonal and shifting, is split into four sections: To Begin, Salads & Composed Vegetables, Pastas & Grains, and Mains.

While the Mains section features options for unwavering carnivores, only two items in the other sections were not vegetarian-friendly: the Ichabod Flats Oysters (served with cantaloupe, seabeans, green tomato, and Chardonnay vinegar; $12) and the Risotto “Au Poivre” (white pepper, pecorino cheese, and veal jus; $13). The remaining dishes represented a cornucopia of intriguing vegetable preparations including gem lettuce tempura ($8), summer squash with pumpkin seed salsa verde and labne ($8), charred broccoli with cashews and sour cream ($8), fingerling pota-

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Oren’s ricotta gnudi | MICHELLE POLLARD

toes with leek-mayo and Aleppo pepper ($8), and ricotta gnudi with mint and peas ($16).

My dining partner J. and I started our meal with the oysters, broccoli, summer squash, risotto, and tapioca crackers with fennel ($6). The tapioca crackers were a marvel. Airy and kissed with spice, these addictive crisps had the appearance of sea foam, the crunch of a popped chip, and an aroma that brought back childhood memories of carnival mini-donuts and funnel cakes.

The broccoli and summer squash offerings were both expertly prepared, retaining substantial crunch and flavor. The salsa verde (think a more rustic pesto) ladled over the squash medley was a toothsome delight, but of the two the broccoli was the clear winner. The charred florets had a hint of cruciferous bitterness that contrasted nicely with the tempering sour cream, and the verdant brightness of raw oregano and flat-leaf parsley, herbs that are usually either cooked to death or minced into obscurity, lifted the broccoli to new heights.

The Risotto “Au Poivre”—

made with Carnaroli rice—was magnificently cheesy and offered an unparalleled risotto experience.

Compared to the more common Arborio rice, Carnaroli grains are longer, have more starch, and are noticeably plumper. Oren’s dish delivers an umami wallop of pecorino cheese and veal jus. It’s a delicious but somewhat heavy dish that, on hot summer days, is best shared.

When the oyster and seabean (or, drift seed) dish arrived, J. and I were excited to dive in. The pucker of green tomato and sweetness from the cantaloupe worked nicely with the brininess of the shellfish, and the Chardonnay vinegar paired well with the fruit, but the vinegar and the oysters seemed at odds with one another. While acid and oysters are a classic combination, here the oyster flavor was almost completely eclipsed by tartness, which left the dish eating more like a savory fruit salad than a seafood appetizer.

After finishing our small plates, J. and I jumped into the mains.

The fennel and coriander spiced lamb loin ($39) with asparagus, curry rice, and rhubarb-lamb jus was tender, well rested, and nicely

balanced. The barramundi (a species of sea bass) with quinoa, ajo blanco, pickled green strawberries, and charred avocado ($33) read like the most inventive dish on the menu and demanded we sample it. Arriving at the table in a waft of butter, the skin on the fish was crispy, the fish steak flakey and moist, and the acid from the pickled green strawberry cut through the garlicky ajo blanco and the fatty avocado in a revelatory way.

With dishes that don’t leave you feeling leaden, thanks to Amberg’s focus on fresh ingredients and minimal use of refined products, Oren is prime summer fare.

And the unique-to-the-restaurant drink menu only provides further evidence that Oren is a great summer haunt.

Bar Manager T. Read Richards (formerly of Valkyrie) has selected an assortment of wines from the world over, but the adventurous mixed drinks are where Richards’ talents are most apparent. The eclectic spritzes (blackberry, strawberry rhubarb, kumquat, and cherry; $11) all feature under-appreciated European herbal liqueurs and amaros (bittering spirits), perfect for cooling off on Oren’s outdoor patio. For those who prefer sour flavors to bitter ones, the Grace ($12) is a must. A blend of tequila, mezcal, and cardamom, this margarita-chai hybrid is a strange and mercurial combination that, like much of the menu at Oren, will leave you satisfied, a little contemplative, and, most importantly, curious as to what Amberg and Richards will cook up next. a

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UTICA SQUARE

Antoinette Baking Co. Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Cafe Coney Island Dos Bandidos Gypsy Coffee House Hey Mambo The Hunt Club Laffa Medi-Eastern Restaurant & Bar Lone Wolf Banh Mi Mexicali Border Cafe PRHYME: Downtown Steakhouse Sisserou’s Caribbean Restaurant The Tavern

GREENWOOD Fat Guy’s Burger Bar Lefty’s on Greenwood Wanda J’s Next Generation

BLUE DOME Albert G’s Bar-B-Q Andolini’s Sliced Dilly Diner El Guapo’s Cantina Fassler Hall Hurts Donut James E. McNellie’s Public House Jinya Ramen Bar Joebot’s Coffee Joe Momma’s Juniper Restaurant Rose Rock Microcreamery Sabores Mexican Cuisine Yokozuna

DECO DISTRICT Atlas Grill Billy’s on the Square Boston Avenue Grille & Catering Deco Deli Elote Cafe & Catering Poke Bowl Love Roppongi Tavolo: an Italian Bistro The Vault

DOWNTOWN Baxter’s Interurban Grill The Boiler Room The Boulder Grill Cafe 320 Daily Grill East Village Bohemian Pizzeria Foolish Things Coffee Co. The Greens on Boulder Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli Lou’s Deli Made Market (in the DoubleTree

by Hilton) Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar ONEOK Cafe Steakfinger House

Bill & Ruth’s Blue Rose Cafe Burn Co. Barbeque The Chalkboard Dalesandro’s DoubleShot Coffee Company Elwood’s Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Kitchen 27

PEARL DISTRICT Cirque Coffee Corner Cafe Freeway Cafe Ike’s Chili JJ’s Gourmet Burgers Papa Ganouj El Rancho Grande Soul City Gastropub & Music House

CHERRY STREET Andolini’s Pizzeria Cafe Cubana Chimi’s Mexican Food Coffee House on Cherry Street Crushed Red Hideaway Pizza Jason’s Deli Kilkenny’s Irish Pub & Eatery Lucky’s Restaurant Main Street Tavern Mary’s Italian Trattoria Mi Cocina Nola’s Creole & Cocktails Palace Cafe Panera Bread Phat Philly’s Prairie Fire Pie Roka Roosevelt’s SMOKE. On Cherry Street Tucci’s Cafe Italia

BROOKSIDE Biga Billy Sims BBQ Bin 35 Bistro Blaze Pizza Blue Moon Bakery and Cafe The Brook Restaurant & Bar Brookside By Day Brookside Cookhouse by Reasor’s Brookside Diner Cafe Olé Charleston’s Restaurant Claud’s Hamburgers Cosmo Cafe & Bar Crow Creek Tavern Doc’s Wine and Food The Donut Hole Egg Roll Express Restaurant Elmer’s BBQ In the Raw Keo Asian Cuisine La Hacienda Lambrusco’Z To Go Mondo’s Ristorante Italiano Old School Bagel Cafe Oren Pei Wei Asian Diner Pure Food and Juice R Bar & Grill Señor Tequila Shades of Brown Super Wok Sushi Hana Torchy’s Tacos The Warehouse Bar & Grill Weber’s Superior Root Beer Whole Foods Market Zoës Kitchen

MIDTOWN Albert G’s Bar-B-Q Bamboo Thai Bistro Bangkok Thai Super Buffet

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Bill & Ruth’s Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Boston Deli Grill & Market The Brothers Houligan Chopsticks D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Cantina & Grill Gogi Gui Korean Grill Hideaway Pizza Himalayas Aroma of India Jumbo Burgers La Roma Pizza Margaret’s German Restaurant Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Monterey’s Little Mexico Nelson’s Buffeteria Pho Da Cao Rice Bowl Cafe RibCrib BBQ & Grill Savoy Restaurant Sezchuan Express Shawkat’s Mediterranean Grill Speedy Gonzalez The Spudder Steak Stuffers USA Ti Amo Italian Ristorante Tokyo Garden The Tropical Restaurant & Bar Uncle Bently’s Pub & Grill Viet Huong Villa Ravenna Yutaka Grill & Sushi Buffet

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Arizona Mexican Restaurant BBD II The Deuce Baja Jack’s Burrito Shack The Brook Restaurant & Bar Cajun Ed’s Hebert’s Specialty Meats Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe Cardigan’s Restaurant & Bar Charleston’s Restaurant El Guapo’s Cantina El Samborsito Eritrean & Ethiopian Cafe First Watch Flavors of Louisiana The French Hen Bistro & Wine Bar Gyros by Ali Hideaway Pizza India Palace La Flama Los Mariachis Mexican Grill Leena’s Mediterranean Grill Mahogany Prime Steakhouse McNellie’s South City Goodcents Deli Fresh Subs Napa Flats Wood-Fired Kitchen Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Nordaggio’s Coffee OK Country Donut Shoppe Pita Place Redrock Canyon Grill Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Siegi’s Sausage Factory Sura Korean Japanese Cuisine Sushi Hana Japanese Fusion Thai Village Cuisine Tres Amigos Mexican Grill & Cantina TWL Bistro White Lion Whole Foods Market Yokozuna Zio’s Italian Kitchen

Asahi Sushi Bar Billy Sims BBQ The Bistro at Seville Bluestone Steakhouse & Seafood Charlie’s Chicken Chuy’s Fat Daddy’s Pub & Grille Fat Guy’s Burger Bar Fish Daddy’s Grill House Fuji Sushi Bar Firehouse Subs Hungry Howie’s Pizza In the Raw on the Hill Jameson’s Pub Jason’s Deli Jay’s Original Hoagies Keo Asian Cuisine Kit’s Takee-Outee Lanna Thai Logan’s Roadhouse Louie’s Grill & Bar Mandarin Taste Manos Peruanas Marley’s Pizzeria Mekong River Restaurant Oliveto Italian Bistro Ri Le’s RibCrib BBQ & Grill Ridge Grill Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Shogun Steak House of Japan Siegi’s Sausage Factory Sobahn Korean Cuisine & Sushi Wranglers Bar-B-Q Zio’s Italian Kitchen

WEST TULSA Arnold’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers Charlie’s Chicken Hideaway Pizza Jumpin J’s Linda-Mar Drive In Lot A Burger Monterey’s Little Mexico Ollie’s Station Restaurant Pachac Peruvian Food Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Union Street Cafe

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TU/KENDALL-WHITTIER 918 Coffee Big Al’s Healthy Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s Catfish & BBQ Brownie’s Hamburger Stand The Brothers Houligan Calaveras Mexican Grill Cancun International Restaurant Duffy’s Diner El Burrito El Rio Verde Freddie’s Hamburgers Fuel 66 Guang Zhou Dim Sum Jane’s Delicatessen Jim’s Coney Island & Never on Sunday Las Americas Lot A Burger Lone Wolf Banh Mi Mr. Taco Oklahoma Style Bar-B-Q Pie Hole Pizzeria Pollos Asados al Carbon RibCrib BBQ & Grill Rozay’s Wingz Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Tortas Del Rey Ty’s Hamburgers Umberto’s Pizza

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EAST TULSA Casa San Marcos Charlie’s Chicken Cielito Lindo Mexican Grill Doña Gloria’s Restaurant El Gallo Loco El 7 Marez El Refugio Azteca Super Taqueria Fiesta Del Mar Fu-Thai Sushi Bar Garibaldi’s The Gnarley Dawg Hatfield’s Burgers & BBQ Jay’s Coneys Knotty Pig BBQ, Burger & Chili House Korean Garden Leon’s Smoke Shack BBQ Lot A Burger Maria’s Mexican Grill Mariscos El Centenario Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Señor Fajitas Seoul Bistro Shiloh’s Restaurant Shish Kabobs Stone Mill BBQ & Steakhouse Tacos San Pedro Taqueria la Cabana Tikka Kabab Timmy’s Diner Tortilleria De Puebla

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Admiral Grill Bill & Ruth’s Christy’s Good Food Evelyn’s Freeway Cafe Golden Saddle BBQ Steakhouse Hank’s Hamburgers Harden’s Hamburgers Hero’s Subs & Burgers Las Tres Fronteras Leon’s Smoke Shack BBQ Los Primos Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market

The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Ti Amo Ristorante Italiano Topeca Coffee Williams Center Cafe

PEORIA AVE

NORTH TULSA

Bodean Bravos Mexican Grill Bread & Butter Kitchen + Bakery Celebrity Restaurant El Tequila Felini’s Cookies & Deli Golden Gate Jamil’s JC’s Pizza Jimmy Hula’s Livi Lee’s Daylight Donuts Super Shop Mario’s NY Style Pizzeria My Thai Kitchen NYC Pizza P.J.’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner The Run Trenchers Delicatessen

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Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse Goldie’s Patio Grill McGill’s Olive Garden P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Pepper’s Grill Polo Grill Queenie’s Plus Cafe and Bakery Stonehorse Cafe Wild Fork

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JENKS Andolini’s Pizzeria Burn Co. BBQ Bramble Flying Tee George’s Pub Los Cabos Melting Pot Marble Slab Maryn’s Taphouse and Raw Bar

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Matt Sanders outside the new location of Vintage wine bar in the Blue Dome District | GREG BOLLINGER

NEW VANTAGE, SAME VINTAGE Passion for wine motivates Vintage 1740’s relocation OVER THE PAST 13 YEARS, VINTAGE 1740 created a name for itself as an intimate wine bar and established a strong local following. Its Victorian-esque aesthetic features ornate couches, floral patterns, and a plethora of wall art. Many regulars formed personal connections with the space, which is why it might come as a surprise that the business is relocating.

When owner Matt Sanders began working at Vintage twelve years ago, the look and feel of the place were already established. Now that the concept has matured, he’s ready to implement his vision of how to tailor space toward hospitality and experience.

This speaks to the core of what Vintage 1740 has always been—a place for guests to socialize and learn as much or as little about wine as they’d like. “I can’t have everybody over to my house,” Sanders said, “but I can have everybody over to my bar.”

As part of the relocation, they’ll drop the “1740” from the name, as it was associated with the original address.

Plans for the move have been in the works since August 2016, and the new location at East 1st Street and and South Elgin Avenue (beneath The First Ward hair studio) will open in early July. The space is owned by Tulsa-based Hygge Properties, who contracted Workstead, a boutique design studio founded in Brooklyn, to create the interior design.

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town Tulsa studying how to blend the new space seamlessly with the existing fabric of the community.

“We didn’t want this to feel like something in New York, Chicago, or Paris,” Sanders said.

Opting for timeless rather than trendy, they chose Art Deco as the motif. Every element from floor to ceiling will be crafted with a level of detail that aims to reveal new surprises with each visit.

“I knew going into this that the scale was going to be incredible based on the team we are collaborating with,” Sanders said. “Now that it’s all visually coming together is surreal.”

The menu won’t undergo any significant changes and the new space will not be more formal or any larger.

“We’re still a bar. We’re not a fine dining restaurant,” Sanders said. “I cannot and will not ever be further from that.”

Vintage will offer a wide selection of small-production wines, a concise list of classic cocktails, and three local beers.

They plan to improve their meat and cheese plate options, but there are no plans to serve anything other than simple finger foods.

Sanders assures that it’s going to be the same Vintage, just in a space tailored to better deliver a hospitable wine experience. That Vintage will still feature patio seating with a fireplace, serve Chambongs, and, most importantly, host Rosé Party 2019 confirm this. –ANDREW SALIGA

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“Burgher” means citizen of a town or city, and though this homonym ostensibly has no connection to the naming of the hamburger, it seems fitting: Burgers bring Americans together at cookouts, ball games, and even nouveau hipster eateries (“You put what on that patty?”). Burgers are American, and in Tulsa we’re proud of ours.

From classic to experimental, big and juicy to thin and cheese-smothered, garnished, plain, egged, baconed—there’s a burger out there for every carnivore.

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BLUE ROSE CAFE • In the heart of Riverparks, overlooking the Arkansas River, May is the perfect time to enjoy a mouthwatering Blue Rose Classic or Junior Walker Burger on TULSA’S BEST PATIO! Bring your bike, your running shoes, your kids and the dog. We have a great selection of craft beer, live music, and truly some of the best tasting burgers in town. Open 7 days per week at 11 am.

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R BAR & GRILL • R Bar & Grill features succulent dishes ranging from its famous chicken and waffles to a monstrous pork chop, specialty pizzas, and the best burgers in Tulsa. A local, mid-town favorite. You walk in as a stranger and leave as a regular — thus the R “Our” Bar moniker.

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PRAIRIE BREW PUB • Is there anything better than Burgers & Beers?

We think Not. Come and enjoy our Prairie Burger and a Prairie Artisan Ale! The Prairie Brewpub is all about Food & locally brewed; Oklahoma made craft beer. Located in the heart of Tulsa’s Historic Tulsa Arts District in Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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ROOSEVELT’S • POLO GRILL • It’s life changing!” are words used by a patron to describe Polo Grill’s Half-Pound Tenderloin Burger, a popular menu choice topped with grilled onions, house-made pickles, a choice of cheddar, Swiss, smoked gouda or blue cheese, and served on a Kaiser roll. A fixture in Utica Square for 34 years, Robert Merrifield’s lauded restaurant also offers a flavor-filled Texas Burger featuring chipotle aioli, smoked cheddar, fried jalapenos and onion hay. Each of the robust club burgers offers fresh ground tenderloin off-the-grill and buns toasted to perfection.

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MCNELLIE’S • Sure, our beer selection is immense, but the food is pretty good, too! Try the original McNellie’s charburger - it’s a 1/2 pound patty served with bib lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle, on a brioche bun.

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DILLY DINER • Downtown Tulsa’s favorite diner serves up breakfast favorites and dinner classics all day.

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FASSLER HALL • This German gem, located in the heart of downtown Tulsa, is known for it’s German beer selection and housemade sausages. But, don’t pass on the burger! It’s topped with Gouda, house sauerkraut and mustard, and comes with a side of duck fat fries.

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THE CHALKBOARD • Grilled 10oz Angus Beef Chalkboard Burger: House 80/20 ground black angus with wagyu ribeye fat, red onion pork belly marmalade, aged cheddar, arugula salad, ciabatta bun. House cut frites. Open: breakfast, lunch/brunch & dinner.

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SMITTY’S GARAGE • Featuring the Spicy Sriracha Bleu Burger, made with Sriracha Ranch, Grilled Onions, Grilled Jalapeños, and Bleu Cheese Crumbles.

Smitty’s Garage offers everything from bison, turkey, Angus Beef burgers and vegan garlic quinoa patties to fork-andknife hotdogs, tacos, cheese-smothered fries, and an extensive craft beer list.

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ECTLY EER STORIES FROM TULSA’S LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY AND PHOTOS FROM TULSA PRIDE 2018

BY LIZ BLOOD, MARY NOBLE, TIMANTHA NORMAN, KRIS ROSE, DAMION SHADE, JOHN TRANCHINA, HOLLY WALL The weekend of June 1–3, 2018 marked the 36th year of Tulsa Pride. For The Tulsa Voice, June 6 marks our first-ever Pride issue. We know, we know—we have some catching up to do. There is a lot to be proud about in Tulsa, from LGBTQ+ activists to business owners to multitudes of joyous revelers. Photographers Nate Grace and Bhadri Verduzco documented the Pride weekend celebrations and several TTV writers found stories near and dear to the LGBTQ+ community’s heart. Happy pride, y’all! And as one Pride parade sign read: Y’all means ALL.

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ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE

Local sex work activists Nate Grace and Amy Jenkins are busy making Always for Pleasure, a new zine titled after the name of their collective.

“Always for Pleasure is our umbrella brand for our sex-positive workshops and events, the zine, a podcast [in the works], and activism,” Grace said.

Besides featuring local artists, the AFP zine will highlight sex workers through interviews and provide a directory where people can safely find providers in the sex industry.

“Passing the FOSTA and SESTA laws [this year] made it a lot more challenging for sex workers to advertise online and for people to find providers and seek out the healing that they need,” Grace said. “I believe sex workers are healers. They deserve the right to work and make a living. And the criminalization of online sex work and the takedown of the blacklists has made sex workers less safe.”

The duo—both of whom identify as queer—believe that pleasure is healthy and healing, especially for the many people who have experienced trauma, or have never fully experienced the enjoyment of their own bodies.

“Pleasure is beyond sensual and erotic experience,” Jenkins said. “It’s about being awakened to the miracle of life and all the senses. What makes you happy?

What brings you pleasure? When we get connected to our pleasure we get connected to the core of who we are.”

“Everything that AFP is about is about queer pride and pride in sexuality and the naturalness of sex,” said Grace.

“We need to feel good in our bodies so that we feel like we belong on the earth. Our bodies are sacred … the feelings in our bodies are natural and beautiful. If we can spend time feeling good, it nourishes our mind and soul and body. It fills up our cup enough to go out and make the world a better place.”

Jenkins and Grace expect to finish the zine by early July. Keep up with AFP on Instagram at @_alwaysforpleasure_.—LIZ BLOOD

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LATINX AND QUEER IN THE SOUTH

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he history of oppression and struggles of black and LGBTQ+ Americans are part of the public psyche. But the plight of LGBTQ+ people of color, especially in Oklahoma, does not get the attention it deserves given the national statistics on the horrors this group endures. According to a recent report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, “60 percent of hate violence against LGBTQ and HIV-affected people was against people of color.”

Add to that Oklahoma’s often racist and homophobic political and ideological landscape and you get a dynamic that legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined as intersectionality—“the oppression and discrimination resulting from the overlap of an individual’s various social identities”.

I spoke with local immigrant and queer activist Rosa Hernandez about how the intersection of race and sexuality play out in their lived experiences in this region of the country.—TIMANTHA NORMAN TIMANTHA NORMAN: Can you tell me about your coming out journey?

ROSA HERNANDEZ: It’s been a rough one. I’m actually more out in the LGBTQ+ community than I am in my own family. I am still especially afraid about my mother finding out about my queerness because in the Latinx community it is still very taboo. Due to [her] language barrier, luckily, she hasn’t found out yet (laughs).

NORMAN: In what ways have your struggles as a Latinx

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person and as a queer person in this society intersected?

HERNANDEZ: I feel as though all movements are intersectional. It adds to how many closets you have to come out of. And, with being undocumented and fully assimilated in America, it is another closet to come out of as well. You always fear coming out as queer and undocumented because you will be discarded from multiple communities. You have to be mindful when you work simultaneously in the undocumented activist community and the LGBTQ+ activist community because of prejudice on both sides. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of racism in the LGBTQ+ community. Whenever the black and brown stripes were added to the pride flag, a lot of white LGBTQ+ folks were angry and didn’t get why these colors were being added. It seems like people always forget how people within their movements have different struggles that intersect.

NORMAN: What do you want fellow Oklahomans to understand about the experiences of people of color who are also LGBTQ+?

HERNANDEZ: That it’s a lot harder for people of color to come out and often they don’t. We often choose our culture over our sexuality. White families are historically more accepting of their LGBTQ+ family members. Especially being a part of the Latinx community, we are very proud of our culture and do not want to disappoint or disrespect our community. Even though our communities are progressing to be more accepting, there are still hurdles that we are working to move past.

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LAURA ARROWSMITH “Go back to California.”

That’s what a Tulsa-area physician told Dr. Laura Arrowsmith in 2010 when she went to a minor emergency center to be treated for an abscess that had formed following a secondary labiaplasty. She originally underwent the procedure in California, but when a painful complication arose after she returned home to Tulsa, and her primary care physician was unavailable, Arrowsmith was forced to seek care from someone who ultimately refused to treat her because she is transgender.

This is a fairly common occurrence, Arrowsmith said, especially in the middle of the country, and conditions haven’t improved much in the eight years since she experienced the discrimination.

Arrowsmith, a retired radiologist, wrote about her experience for The Washington Post last year in an op-ed titled “When doctors refuse to see transgender patients, the consequences can be dire.”

According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 33 percent of transgender individuals who had seen a health care provider in the last year reported negative experiences such as “verbal harassment, refusal of treatment, or having to teach the health care provider about transgender people to receive appropriate care.” Another 23 percent of respondents reported not seeing a doctor when they needed to out of fear of mistreatment. For these reasons, many transgender individuals receive delayed or inadequate care.

“I’ve heard of transgender patients told in the emergency room that the doctor isn’t going to treat their bronchitis because they don’t know how to treat ‘transgender bronchitis,’” Arrowsmith said. She also mentioned an orthopedist who once refused to treat a patient’s broken ankle because he didn’t know how to treat “transsexual bones.”

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care, and there Arrowsmith provides hormone therapy, as well as routine reproductive care.

“People feel a little more comfortable with me because I’m in the community, so it’s a little easier for me to convince a trans man that a pelvic exam should happen than someone else,” she said. “I know how to talk to them, to use vocabulary that’s less offensive. It softens the experience.”

LAURA ARROWSMITH Arrowsmith also spends time teaching health care professionals how to provide affirming care for transgender people. She lectures to second-year medical students at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine; nursing students at Tulsa Community College and Rogers State University; and social work students at the University of Oklahoma, among others. Arrowsmith estimates she gives approximately 30 lectures a year at colleges across the country.

She stresses that being transgender is a medical condition that people are born with— not a “choice” or a “lifestyle” or a “midlife crisis.” She also focuses on gender identity and sexual orientation as two different, independent things. She aims to provide doctors and nurses with affirming language to use with their transgender patients—to refer to them by their preferred names and gender markers.

She said one thing that could make a difference in the care of transgender patients is education. More than just a lecture, she said, students in health care should be exposed to transgender patients on a regular basis.

“This needs to be routinely seen at all of the country’s medical education programs,” Arrowsmith said. “We talk about hypertension—this is just as common. This is as common as cystic fibrosis. It needs to be routinely taught at medical schools, clinical programs, and residency programs. Until that happens, things aren’t going to get a whole lot better.”

—HOLLY WALL

BIBLE BELT QUEERS Darci McFarland wants your perspective. Specifically, she wants your creative work for an anthology that explores queer identity in the Bible Belt.

The book, “Bible Belt Queers,” is slated to come out in early 2019 and will be composed of poems, essays, paintings, drawings—“all different types of creative works made from various, different perspectives,” said McFarland, the anthology’s editor.

“I was born and raised in the Bible Belt,” McFarland said. “My experience has been interesting as far as religion shaping my identity. This is a pattern for queer people across the South.”

To be considered for the anthology, send your visual art or writings before October 1 to biblebeltqueersbook@gmail.com. You can pre-order “Bible Belt Queers” at gofundme.com/biblebeltqueers. When published, the book will be available on Etsy and Amazon and—hopefully— in local bookstores. For more information, visit facebook.com/biblebeltqueers.

This will be McFarland’s second anthology to edit. The first, “Post-Traumatically Stressed Feminist: Survivors Reclaiming Their Truths” came out in December 2017.—LIZ BLOOD

THE TULSA VOICE // June 6 – 19, 2018

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TULSA PRIDE 2018 | BHADRI VERDUZCO

TRANS SUPPORT GROUPS AT THE EQUALITY CENTER

PLANNED PARENTHOOD People who attended the Tulsa Pride Celebration on June 2 may have noticed Planned Parenthood’s involvement, both in the parade itself as well as their table along the parade route downtown where they handed out free condoms and reproductive health information.

It is with a definite sense of pride that Planned Parenthood offers services specifically geared toward the LGBTQ community.

“We support the LGBTQ community in a number of different ways,” said Darci McFarland, special events coordinator for Planned Parenthood in Tulsa, who both organized the PP presence and marched in the parade. “The primary way is making sure that we provide safe, affordable, non-judgmental health care for everyone in Tulsa.

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BEING TRANSGENDER CAN BE ALIENATING. Not only do many trans people run the risk of losing familial or spousal support by coming out, they are often on their own when navigating a wide range of multidisciplinary resources available to those wishing to transition either medically or socially.

Transgender people are 22 times more likely than the general population to commit suicide. According to the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey, 30 percent of transgender people reported being homeless at some point in their lives. They experience unemployment at three times the rate of the general population.

At the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in Tulsa, there are several support groups available to help break down barriers and provide support and resources to not only those transitioning, but also for their loved ones. I spoke to Ben Matthews, a former attendee, now a co-facilitator of several of the groups.

“When someone transitions it’s obviously not just that person changing,” Matthews said. “Everyone in their life has to go through that transition at some level.

So it’s not just providing support for trans folks, but for the people who are providing support for them.”

Starting this month, the Equality Center will start two new groups—a partner support group and a sibling support group.

“A lot of times we see parents kind of shift their focus to the child who is going through transition,” Matthews said.

“Siblings will struggle with jealousy and understanding of how everything works and why it’s so important and why their parents are focusing all of their resources and attention on that.”

Matthews also said the facilitators of the groups make a concerted effort to ensure loved ones who may have limited knowledge and ties to the LGBTQ community feel welcome and accepted. “[They] do an excellent job of making sure that it’s an open space, they’re there to answer questions and they’re there to foster acceptance.”

For those seeking support, education, or social opportunities for transgender and intersex individuals call 918-743-4297 or e-mail transgenderprogram@okeq.org.

—MARY NOBLE

“We do have LGBTQ-specific care, we do serve transgender patients, which is a really exciting feature that we have here in Tulsa, and the Tulsa model really helped pave the way for the expansion of our LGBTQ services in Arkansas. We’re excited about the work that we do here for the queer community.”

As McFarland noted, perhaps the most important part of Planned Parenthood’s appeal to LGBTQ folks is the “non-judgmental” aspect of their care.

“LGBTQ people do have a tough time accessing non-judgmental health care, especially here in the South, where conservative politics kind of dominates the conversation. It’s really important that we are open and non-judgmental and we acknowledge the various different identities that exist within our community, so we really want to make sure that all of our patients are served in the best possible way.”

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Tulsa is located at 1007 S. Peoria Ave., but in late July will be moving to a new site, at 205 E. Pine St., without any break in services. To make an appointment, call 918-587-1101 or visit plannedparenthood.org.—JOHN TRANCHINA June 6 – 19, 2018 // THE TULSA VOICE

MEMBERS OF SOUTHERN PRIDE | JEREMY CHARLES

ALYSSA BRYANT

ON DOCUMENTATION FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE In the 1920s, Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jewish sexologist who was a pioneer in the study and care for transgender people, provided his patients with “passes” to help them avoid detainment by the Berlin police, who would routinely arrest on charges of prostitution anyone caught wearing clothing associated with a gender different from the one he or she was assigned at birth.

Hirschfeld’s patients could submit to authorities printed documentation that they were ALYSSA under his care at the Institute of Sex Research, BRYANT and avoid arrest.

Alyssa Bryant, a Tulsa-based attorney, uses this story to stress the importance of affirming documentation for transgender people.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) cites “changes in name and gender marker on identity documents” among its “Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People.”

The process of transition is different for each individual. Sometimes it involves surgery, sometimes hormone replacement, sometimes just a social transition. But transition also involves changing names and gender markers on legal documents so that they reflect the person’s true identity.

“Social security cards, passports, driver’s licenses, credit reports—it’s amazing how many ways we tether ourselves to these identities,” Bryant said.

Some of these document transitions are easier than others. Changing a name on a driver’s license, for example, is fairly simple. You file a petition with the court to change your name, and then mail a copy of the decree, along with a form you can print out online, to the Department of Safety.

Changing your gender marker, however, is more difficult. In Oklahoma, state regulations require “a notarized statement on letterhead from the physician who performed the sex change operation indicating the applicant or licensee has undergone a complete physical sex change,” according to Section 595:10-1-18 of the Oklahoma Administrative Code, which continues: “The letter shall state the sex change is ‘irreversible and permanent’.”

Because not every transgender person’s transition involves an “irreversible and permanent” surgery (“sex change operation” is not considered appropriate terminology), this means not every transgender person has access to a driver’s license that reflects their true gender, which can be problematic.

For example, if someone gets pulled over and the gender marker on their license doesn’t match their name or appearance, they could elicit harsher punishment from law enforcement, Bryant said. Or if someone with a new job is required to present their employer with a driver’s license bearing a gender marker that is incongruent with their identity, that could put their employment at risk.

“It really is a setback for people,” Bryant said. “They do all this to be authentic, and then they can’t get a piece of paper.”

Other states have less stringent requirements. California simply requires a licensed physician or psychologist to complete a form certifying the applicant’s gender identification and demeanor. And beginning January 1, 2019, the state will allow driver’s license applicants to select their gender—female, male, or nonbinary—without requiring additional documentation.

Even changing the gender marker on social security cards and passports is relatively simple—each requires a “signed letter from a provider confirming you have had appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition.” According to the U.S. Department of State: “Your physician determines what appropriate clinical treatment is according to acceptable medical practices, standards and guidelines … Surgery is not a requirement to get a U.S. passport.”

“It’s all part of the idea of transition—living congruently with who you are,” Bryant said.—HOLLY WALL THE TULSA VOICE // June 6 – 19, 2018

TWO-SPIRITED PEOPLE

“T

wo-spirited people are traditional,” said John Co-cke’, who is Cherokee and leads an Okmulgee- and Tulsa-based two-spirited support group.

“They have been part of our nations for centuries.”

A two-spirited person “is a person who can walk in both worlds,” he explained. Wade Blevins, the leader of the first-ever two-spirit drum group and who is also Cherokee, explained further.

“Two-spirit was coined from the Ojibwe language,” Blevins said. “But for many of us in our native languages, we have separate words. Some tribes have as many as eight different terms.

But ‘two-spirit’ in and of itself was meant to be an all-inclusive term for all LGBTQ people.”

“We love both sides and nourish both sides,” Co-cke’ said. “In [the] dominant society, they want you to be one or the other. But we were allowed to both … Elders tell us our loop has been broken and it’s the last piece to the circle … that our [two-spirited] people need to be embraced and welcomed back into the tribe.”

Traditional two-spirit roles included caring for orphans and taking care of the dead. Some were medicine peo-

ple, or arbiters between male and female issues, and some protected camp when the men left on war parties.

“A lot of us still maintain those roles and responsibilities,” Blevins said.

Nearly twenty years ago, Blevins overheard traditional singers making fun of two-spirited people they’d seen at a gathering. So he created Southern Pride—a drum group—for two-spirited drummers, singers, and dancers to feel welcome.

“We sing for stomps, sweats, longhouse, powwows—it’s what we grew up doing,” Blevins said. “I created Southern Pride to have a safe place for two-spirit people to be themselves and uphold traditions we grew up with.

We’re located all over Oklahoma, mostly, and are either two-spirit, transgender, allies, or families of two-spirited people.

“We consider ourselves to be a traditional family drum circle, which by definition is inclusive of all people. For us, that’s what we hope will happen in the future—that people aren’t looked at for their sexuality or gender identity. I was very lucky that my family was supportive of me and that I was never excluded because I was two-spirit. To me that’s really what it’s all about— inclusivity.”—LIZ BLOOD FEATURED // 25

MICHAEL EASTER | KRIS ROSE

MICHAEL EASTER & GOOD MISCHIEF

M

ichael Easter owns Good Mischief (4612 E. 11th St.), a store on Route 66 with all the weird and wonderful things you might find in the background of a Tim Burton or a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. He has been a teacher in Tulsa for over 20 years and out as a gay man for the last 10.—KRIS ROSE

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KRIS ROSE: Why did you decide to come out when you did?

MICHAEL EASTER: In 2008, under pressure from the charitable families [like] Kaiser, Zarrow, [and] Schusterman—who pledged big money to operating costs during one of the budget crises—TPS changed its hire/fire policy to offer sanctuary to employees based on sexual orientation. And out I came. [I’ve grown] tremendously both personally and professionally by being able to be my true self.

ROSE: What are the advantages or disadvantages?

EASTER: As an “out” teacher, one of the biggest perks is kids liking my class and knowing they liked a class a gay man taught. That might seem simple, but it is an important kind of normalizing of LGBTQ+ people. For people who may wonder if “gay” is platform for my class, it is not. I do not talk about being gay or gay issues. If I am baited by a student, I tell them that sexuality is a fraction of life—and not the fraction I hope identifies or defines me to them.

ROSE: Are you active in the LGBTQ+ community?

EASTER: I keep an equality flag on my wall, something rainbow-y somewhere, and a picture of me and my boyfriend on my desk. As far as activism goes, I keep it in the classroom. I advocate for equity.

ROSE: When and why did you open Good Mischief?

EASTER: In 2015 I decided to take my side hustle—shopping garage sales, flea markets, and reselling at an antique mall in Jenks—and become an LLC. In the beginning, I did not realize I could use my business as a form of outreach for the LGBTQ+ community. I realized pretty quickly that by posting signage on the front window that ALL are welcome, or saying “We don’t care” instead of gendering the toilet, I could make a space of acceptance. Using our Instagram and Facebook feeds to honor days like Transgender Day of Visibility and using hashtags like #gayowned let the customers know who they were supporting.

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TAYLOR BURNS TRANSGENDER THERAPIST Taylor Burns has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for nearly 30 years.

“They say therapists don’t get good until after they turn 50,” he joked.

From 1994 until 2005, Burns served as executive director of National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Burns also ran a private practice where he was identified as a transgender ally.

“Once one person comes through your door, the word spreads through the community that you’re a welcoming, nonjudgmental person,” Burns said.

As his transgender clientele grew, Burns started a small support group. Due to the vastness of Alaska and remote location of many of its towns, accessing resources can be burdensome—if not impossible.

“Some people would drive 12 hours to attend our little group,” Burns said.

Burns moved back to Tulsa in 2005. He now runs a private practice specializing in working with the transgender population. Having worked primarily with trans adults before his return to Tulsa, Burns was surprised to see the growing number of teens, adolescents, and young children approach him.

This spurred Burns to attend international conferences on transgender issues to expand his knowledge and better serve his younger clients.

“They review the research that’s going on around the globe about transgender health,” Burns said.

Burns shared that in the last four years researchers in Europe have learned how to identify the difference between a male and female brain using SPECT scans. When scanning the brain of a transgender person before starting hormones, researchers found that adults who identify as transgender do have the brain of the gender they feel like they are.

I asked Burns about the controversy surrounding diagnosing children as young as two with gender dysphoria.

“It’s controversial to the public but it’s not controversial to parents, if they’re bringing in a child that young they’re already seeing a very strong personality who’s saying ‘This is who I am.’ Sometimes kids get squelched because most of society is going to correct them and say, ‘No you’re really a little boy or a little girl, but if they’re around people who are educated and allow them, they can just be.”

If you or someone you know would like more information on the services provided by Burns, call 918-760-9796 or e-mail taylorburnsinc@gmail.com.

—MARY NOBLE

BLOOM

Liz Uzzell and Amy Jenkins wanted to create a night of sensual self-care for women in Tulsa. So they did.

“If you can’t find what you want, then you just create it,” Uzzell said.

The retreat, held in late March, was called Bloom. The next one will be held October 26–28 in or near Tulsa.

The foundation of Bloom is self-care and nourishment, so to begin the retreat Uzzell and Jenkins led the women in a sacred sharing circle, a series of rejuvenation exercises—like self-breast massage, yoni gazing, and womb meditation—and provided herbal tinctures, vegan food, and a safe space for exploration and expression.

“There are a lot of places women can get self-care— like getting their hair done or being a part of mothers’ groups,” Jenkins said. “But there’s not a lot out there for them to be empowered sexually, which can be nurturing and nourishing. Our sensuality and sexuality are an important part of who we are.

The evening, crafted to meet the needs of whoever was there, had spaces for women who wanted to be meditative or social, or who wanted to physically connect with each other.

“A wide spectrum of experiences,” Jenkins said. “It was a sensual slumber party for adult women.”

“Bloom is not for just straight or bi or lesbian women,” Uzzell said. “It’s for anyone who identifies as a woman. And being able to connect with other women on the basis of identifying as a woman is very powerful. Forging deep emotional connections is what allows you to experience what sensuality and sexuality are. It’s more than just sex. That THE TULSA VOICE // June 6 – 19, 2018

ROBBIE DEE EWENS COURTESY

ROBBIE DEE EWENS

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obbie Dee Ewens was given the name Robert at birth in England in 1962. This name never matched the gender identity she felt inside. Her parents discovered Ewens was a violin prodigy when she was 10, and she traveled the world playing with a British youth symphony. A series of powerful personal religious experiences led Ewens to become a missionary. Later, these experiences helped her accept herself completely. Today she’s a mother, a partner, an accomplished musician and the author of the memoir “At Last! Free to be Me.” She often plays at First Friday in the Tulsa Arts District.

—DAMION SHADE DAMION SHADE: When did you start questioning your gender identity?

ROBBIE DEE EWENS: I had this recurring dream [in the ‘70s] that I was on a hospital gurney as a young teenage boy. I went into surgery and came out again with no bandages, no bruising, no scars—and I was a girl of the same age. Emotionally I was just so happy. I’d want to get back into the dream again if I woke up.

SHADE: You weren’t raised religious. When did you become a Christian?

AMY JENKINS AND LIZ UZZELL | NATE GRACE

kind of safe atmosphere where you’re nourished is freeing and allows people to get outside of society’s labels and exist where you’re at.”

The two are excited to see how Bloom grows organically and hope to take the retreat to other cities.

“There’s a deep desire to keep having them here, too,” Uzzell said.

Tickets for the October 26–28 Bloom will go on sale soon. Visit nightofbloom.com for information or follow them on Instagram at @night_of_bloom.

—LIZ BLOOD

EWENS: It was the ‘80s. My marriage of 10 years back in England was ruined and my wife divorced me. I had two daughters who I lost connection with because of this “crossdressing” thing. Everything kind of crumbled around me and I was contemplating suicide. At the age of 30, in my bedroom, I cried out to God [and] to Jesus. He appeared in my bedroom. A very palpable dramatic change happened in my life not brought about through the Bible or people preaching or anything like that. It was a very personal experience.

SHADE: Do you have a message for anyone else experiencing similar struggles?

EWENS: The core—the passion of my heart—is to tell people who are searching with their gender identity that the true and living God loves them exactly as they are. If they’ve had Christians trying to fix them or change them in any way, that is not man’s job at all. If man is trying to change you, don’t listen. a FEATURED // 27

RIVER PARKS CRIT

1. DIFFICULT TO ACCOMPLISH, RESOLVE, ENDURE, OR DEAL WITH

2. CAPABLE OF ENDURING STRAIN, HARDSHIP, OR SEVERE LABOR

3. UNRULY, ROWDYISH

BY TTV STAFF PHOTOS BY VALERIE GRANT

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SWEAT. BLOOD. PROBABLY SOME TEARS. TULSA ARTS DISTRICT CRIT

ATTN: WEEKEND WARRIORS It’s time again for Tulsa Tough, practically this town’s Christmas.

As the sun goes down on Friday, June 8, spandexed racers will lean into the sharp corners of the Blue Dome District. Onlookers will ring cowbells. Cyclists will crash.

On Saturday, dozens of athletes will mash past onlookers at 30 miles per hour in the Tulsa Arts District.

You might have too many Tiki drinks on a patio or radlers on a sidewalk somewhere. (It’s happened.)

On Sunday, the costumed and half-naked will descend upon Cry Baby Hill for Tulsa’s Best Party of the Year (you voted, again!), dancing and hollering and shotgunning beers as cyclists race their way up that hellish hill near 13th Street and Riverside Drive.

In these pages you’ll find the race schedule, an interview with a pro cyclist who calls Tulsa home, a cry baby mask, and the rules for reveling on the Hill, written by its referees.

THE TULSA VOICE // June 6 – 19, 2018

Friday, June 8

MCNELLIE’S GROUP BLUE DOME CRITERIUM THIRD ST. & ELGIN AVE. Tulsa Tough festivities kick off in the Blue Dome Arts District. Cyclists take to the district’s streets (and corners) at unbelievable speeds in these twilight races. It’s an exciting night to start your weekend of spectating or competing. Registration and packet pick-up for races and Gran Fondos is from 5–9 p.m. Purses range from $1,500 to $12,000.

6:15 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 7:55 P.M. 8:50 P.M.

Men’s Cat III Men’s Cat I/II Women’s Pro I/II Men’s Pro I

Fireworks begin at five laps to go during Men’s Pro I race. Women’s Pro I/II awards ceremony begins after fireworks, followed

by Men’s Pro I awards ceremony.

GEORGE KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION TULSA ARTS DISTRICT CRITERIUM M.B. BRADY ST. & BOSTON AVE. On this first full day of races, cyclists navigate an L-shaped course through the Tulsa Arts District. Women’s Pro I/II purse is $7,500; Men’s Pro I is $12,000.

10:00 A.M. 10:50 A.M. 11:30 A.M. 12:10 P.M. 12:45 P.M. 12:45 P.M. 1:35 P.M. 2:25 P.M. 3:05 P.M. 3:25 P.M. 4:30 P.M. 5:35 P.M. 6:50 P.M. 7:55 P.M.

Men’s Masters B (Cat III/IV) Men’s Cat V (over 35) Men’s Cat V (under 35) Women’s Cat IV/V Women’s Cat III Women’s Masters (over 40) Men’s Cat IV Juniors Kids (under 9) Men’s Masters A (Cat I, II, III) Men’s Cat III Men’s Cat I/II Women’s Pro I/II Men’s Pro I

Women’s Pro I/II awards ceremony begins at conclusion of men’s race, followed by Men’s Pro I awards ceremony.

Saturday, June 9

GRAN FONDOS JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN BLVD. & 201 N. ELGIN AVE. Riders will head from downtown through Jenks, Sapulpa, Sand Springs, and Skiatook on three different routes: Piccolo (38.7 miles), Medio (66.2 miles), and Gran (102.6 miles). Packet pick-up starts at 6 a.m. Course closes at 5 p.m.

7:00 A.M. 7:30 A.M. 7:40 A.M.

Fondo rider staging Ace Peloton start Gran, Medio, Piccolo riders start

Sunday, June 10

GRAN FONDO 15TH ST. & RIVERSIDE DR. Riders race west and north through Prattville, Sand Springs, and Skiatook. Piccolo (32.7 mi.) and Medio (68.3 mi) races only.

Packet pick-up starts at 6 a.m. Course closes at 2 p.m.

7:00 A.M. 7:30 A.M.

Fondo rider staging Medio and Piccolo riders start

Your complete 2018 Tulsa Tough schedule

TOWNIE RIDE 15TH ST. & GALVESTON AVE. A free, all-ages 5.8-mile ride. This is not a race—you can go your own pace, so it’s perfect for kids and families. Remember your helmets!

1:55 P.M. LINE UP 2:15 P.M. MASS START RIVER PARKS CRITERIUM 15TH ST. AND RIVERSIDE DR. This is the race better known as The Home of Cry Baby Hill. Women’s Pro I/II purse is $10,000; Men’s Pro I is $15,000. Music on Cry Baby Hill turns up at 11:30 a.m. and includes DJ What the Gif?, DJ Lelander, DJ Darku, Paul Benjamin Band, Count Tutu, and others. Mind the gap.

8:00 A.M. 8:35 A.M. 9:10 A.M. 9:45 A.M. 10:20 A.M. 10:20 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 11:45 A.M. 12:20 P.M. 1:10 P.M. 1:25 P.M. 2:25 P.M. 3:30 P.M. 4:35 P.M.

Men’s Masters B (Cat III, IV) Men’s Cat V (over 35) Men’s Cat V (under 35) Women’s Cat IV/V Women’s Cat III Women’s Masters (over 40) Men’s Cat IV Juniors Men’s Masters A (Cat I, II, III) Kids (under 9) Men’s Cat III Men’s Cat I/II Women’s Pro I/II Men’s Pro I

Women’s Pro I/II awards ceremony begins at conclusion of men’s race, followed by Men’s Pro I award ceremony.

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A Q&A WITH PROFESSIONAL CYCLIST FABIO CALABRIA

BY JOHN TRANCHINA FABIO CALABRIA | TEAM NOVO NORDISK/POBY

W

e all know the Tulsa Tough weekend is a big deal and a great occasion to party, but what is it like for the cyclists who race in it?

For Fabio Calabria, Tulsa Tough has played a huge role in his life—and not just because he enjoys its races and festivities. Originally from Canberra, Australia, Calabria met his wife Misty while participating in the 2015 Tulsa Tough. Now, he lives here.

Calabria, age 30, has had type 1 diabetes since he was 13, is in his 12th season racing as a professional, and is a proud member of Team Novo Nordisk, whose cyclists all have diabetes. He and his teammates want to show the world that they live active, productive, athletic lives while managing the disease.

I spoke to Calabria while he was overseas racing in Estonia and Poland before returning home to prepare for Tulsa Tough.

We do most of our racing in Europe. I’ll probably take three trips to Europe during the year. I’ve been here in Europe for a month, and I’ll do at least one more month here, maybe two [later in the year], and then in between I’ll have some races where I’m traveling in and out of Tulsa. I probably spend, if you average it out, one week every month at home during the heart of the season. It’s a lot of travel.

TRANCHINA: You’re racing in Europe right now. Being a pro cyclist sounds like a cool way to see the world and compete at the same time.

CALABRIA: I would say, in terms of crowd participation and the city of Tulsa in general getting behind the race, it’s world-class.

The amount of people that come out to watch the race is not really seen anywhere else, unless you’re getting into some really big races like the Tour de France or Tour of Italy or Tour of Spain. Especially in the U.S., having crowds like [you get at Tulsa Tough] is just really special. And it’s just a really nice vibe in town during the whole week. It’s really welcoming. Sometimes you go to a race and if the race is shutting off streets and stuff, certain businesses don’t really see the benefit in it, so there’s a bit of hostility, whereas I feel like Tulsa really embraces it, and sees it as an opportunity to do some really cool stuff.

CALABRIA: I’m pretty lucky, for sure. I get to travel around all over the place and basically have my hobby as my profession.

It’s pretty awesome.

TRANCHINA: How much are you away at races and how often do you get home?

CALABRIA: The season is February through November. When we’re not during the season, we have training camps and stuff, so the travel’s pretty constant.

I’m probably home in little spurts.

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TRANCHINA: That must make it more fun to come home for Tulsa Tough.

CALABRIA: Absolutely. It’s really fun because I have a lot of friends who come into town for the race, so it’s really neat to show off the town to them. Racing at home’s pretty special any time, but when it’s such a big event, it’s a little bit more special, I think.

TRANCHINA: How does Tulsa Tough compare to other races around the country and around the world?

TRANCHINA: Has Tulsa Tough made an impression on your biking friends from other places?

CALABRIA: I’m from Australia, and I had a couple of friends come two years ago for their first Tulsa Tough, and they basically haven’t stopped talking about it since.

They came back last year, and have been talking to each other about this year’s race since then. I don’t know of anyone that’s come and didn’t come back, which is really cool.

TRANCHINA: What is your favorite part of the weekend?

CALABRIA: I would say the way it feels like the whole city gets behind the race. We’ll ride in the mornings before the races, and usually, when I wasn’t living in Tulsa, we came in a day or two before to get settled, and you’ll have people in cars rolling their windows down, asking you when the race is, where you’re from and wishing you good luck and things like that. You don’t really get that many places.

TRANCHINA: Your wife, Misty, is from Tulsa.

How did you meet her?

CALABRIA: In 2015, my first time doing Tulsa Tough, I met her while I was there for the race. So, then I started traveling to Tulsa to see her and it got to the point where I wasn’t actually going home, so that’s when I moved to Tulsa. It’s going on a year and a half now. That’s one of the reasons why [Tulsa Tough] is so special to me, because that’s where I met her.

TRANCHINA: As part of Team Novo Nordisk, you’re racing with diabetes. What does it mean to have that cause behind you?

CALABRIA: It’s really special to be a part of the team. I’ve raced for other teams and you’re wearing a jersey and it doesn’t really have any meaning other than it’s the company that’s paying the bills. There’s no real deeper meaning or deeper association with it. So, this team for me is really special, because it’s a bit more. Every time I pull the jersey on before a race, I feel pride, because we’re not just a team advertising a product.

The goal of the team is to—first off— show that you can race with type 1 diabetes.

And I reach out to people when we’re out traveling to different places [to] educate, inspire, empower people with type 1 diabetes … and try to change the stigma attached to it. I feel like the diabetes community has received the team well, and I think in general, the cycling community has also.

A lot of people get a bit disheartened by a type 1 diabetes diagnosis, especially small children and parents of small children. So, we can meet up with them and show that I’m no different than anyone else in the bike race, I just happen to have type 1 diabetes as well. It doesn’t stop me from racing my bike, it doesn’t stop me from traveling around the world, and I think being able to actually see people doing it really helps people.

One my teammates, Steven Clancy, he’s from Ireland and I know that he’s said that seeing us racing with type 1 diabetes at Tour of Ireland years ago kind of motivated him that he could do it and that he could become a professional athlete.

There’s another guy on the team that had a similar experience, where he saw us racing in France and that kind of motivated him to chase his dreams. That’s really special—hearing that we kind of inspired them. Without sounding all super-corny, having that bond with all the teammates is pretty neat. a June 6 – 19, 2018 // THE TULSA VOICE

CRY BABY HILL

CRY BABY HILL

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THE 13 COMMANDMENTS OF CRY BABY STATE FAIR 1. Mind the carnival’s gap.

2. Thou shalt groweth thine hair for business and bankers in thou frontal area, whilst displaying luxurious locks which harken of parties and waterfalls in thine back. Thus sayeth Brother Billy Ray. 3. The referees are the carnival barkers. Listen to them or be kicked out of the state fair. No refunds on unused tickets or Zima coupons.

4. Get ‘r done.

5. You must be this old to ride Cry Baby Hill: 4 9 12 12-1/2 16 18 21.

6. Unlike the trailer park, festival regulations prohibit: glass, kids, and dogs. Smoking ain’t cool on the track. Smoke downwind where racers ain’t breathin’ none, ya’ moron!

7. Our bearded lady is sweatin’ sumpin’ fierce. It’s gonna be hot. Water is on top of the hill and near the stage. Drink water! Act like you been to the fair before, Cleetus!

8. “This look like a rash to you? It ain’t itchy or nothin’.” Identify where the medical services are.

9. We got blue outhouses all over these here fairgrounds. Use them or get thrown in with the gimp, banished, or arrested. We don’t want no rubes!

10. “I know you been sleepin’ with my sister, Tammy!

Shut up and get in the El Camino!” Do not touch the racers or any other humans without consent or yer gonna get roughed up.

11. State fairs are fun. Acting like a douche is not.

Have fun, be cool, and pick up after yourself.

12. Don’t be skeered.

13. Behold! When you hear, “Who are we?”

The correct response is, “Soundpony!”

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‘THIS LAND WAZ MADE 4 U + ME’

108 Contemporary’s new show pulls at a divisive thread

by ZACK REEVES

“W

ork while you can,” she said.

“Because when you’re bored, the saints cry.”

Consuelo J. Underwood could talk for hours and I’d let her. A warm and talkative speaker, she shook my hand with both of hers when she met me. Her show, “Thread Songs from the Borderlands,” is up now at 108 Contemporary.

“The trouble with talking to you,” Underwood said, “is that I’m not sure if you want the 30-second version, the one-minute version, the five-minute version, or the take-up-the-entire-dinner version.”

“I’ll take whatever you’ve got,” I said.

Underwood’s work is primarily weaving work. “Buffalo Shroud Almost 1,000 Left” is a silk-andcotton weaving with almost 1,000 buffalos silkscreened onto the surface, honoring the few buffalo left in America—down from around 60 million in the late 1800s.

“Run, Jane, Run!” weaves cotton, barbed wire, and caution tape into a picture of a family— father, mother, child—running, the child nearly lifted into the air by the mother’s hand. The word “CAUTION” haunts the space above them.

“In my family,” Underwood said, “my mom was in front, and my dad was the one holding my hand.” Her father was one of the first braceros, a group of farm laborers brought over from Mexico by the U.S. government from the ‘40s to the ‘60s.

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“Home of the Brave,” 2013, mixed media fiber, wire, silk, fabric, and safety pins, 72” x 99” CONSUELO J. UNDERWOOD

“He came over, met my mom, and didn’t know a bit of English.

So, from him I learned how to cross social and cultural boundaries with music.”

Her father loved the Mexican music of his homeland, but he also found solace in Woody Guthrie’s tunes.

Underwood worked in the farms for a time herself, picking prunes and tomatoes at nine years old in the fields outside Sacramento. But upon hearing Woody Guthrie and reading Joan of Arc, she knew that she wanted to do something different with her life.

“Here [Joan of Arc] was, kicking England out of France, and I’m crying about picking tomotoes?” she joked.

“When I heard the songs of Woody, I went, ‘Dang! Dang!

Dang!’ I told myself that when I grew up, I would do something

like that. His songs drive me.

They’re songs of the land and the wind and the rivers. They’re songs from the earth. My dad taught me that.”

This personal history comes through in her work “Woody, My Dad and Me,” a triptych of rebozos (long, flat, shroud-like garments traditionally worn by Mexican women) made of wire, linen, and thread. The rebozos are topped by the words “THIS LAND WAZ MADE 4 U + ME.” The triptych is both precise and erratic: the horizontal weavings are tight and controlled, while bold lines of color shoot up the length of them like lightning, or, if viewed the right way, a trail map.

“C. Jane Run” is a series of 126 different rectangles of fabric with the word “CAUTION” and the running family screen-printed across each. The fabric pieces are

strung together with hundreds of safety pins, a fact that seemed significant to me: “safe” is in the name of safety pins, and yet they can cause harm. And the U.S., for many, is a place of both great safety and great danger.

The show, finally, is all about borders. On 108’s southern wall, Underwood has installed “A New Borderline: American Border Charge: Power Wands and A Basket,” a piece which incorporates made flowers and animals tracks spread over a zigzag drawing that looks similar to the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

The piece was made with the help of women in the Women In Recovery program.

“They were so excited, so energetic,” Underwood said. “They were absolutely incredible.”

After Tulsa, the show moves onto Boston, then Chicago. One area the show hasn’t been to, she noted with a wry smile, was along the Mexican border. “No Texas, no Arizona, no New Mexico, no San Diego. Los Angeles, but none of those border areas.”

When I suggested the hope that she would make it to these areas, she responded with dark humor.

“It has to work,” she said.

“Either that or I’ll be deported.” a

CONSUELO J. UNDERWOOD: THREAD SONGS FROM THE BORDERLANDS June 1–July 22 Wednesdays–Sundays, 12–5 p.m.

108 Contemporary, 108 E. M.B. Brady St. Free | 108contemporary.org June 6 – 19, 2018 // THE TULSA VOICE

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A Drop-In Studio featuring clay at the Gilcrease Museum Creative Learning Center | COURTESY

Process-driven play GILCREASE MUSEUM’S DROP-IN STUDIO MAKES THE CREATIVE EXPERIENCE ACCESSIBLE

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different ways to use the materials. I sat at a large table beside an older woman who was happily surprised when Craven remarked that the energy in her drawing was probably coming from the complementary colors she’d used. A family that comes every Sunday sat behind me, adults and children alike busily focused on color wheels and blending tools. A pair of women asked Craven how to give more depth to their landscapes and received expert suggestions that they immediately tried.

The room was so quiet that I could hear the shushing sound of a finger blending colors, and wonder at the feathery swirls a Q-tip made when I rubbed it into a heavy swath of oil pastel. I got so engaged in getting to know the pastels that I was delightedly lost in my own weird world of colors and shapes for almost two hours.

Rossi hopes the program facilitates people’s desire to spend time simply being creative, alone or with loved ones, and maybe discover a medium that makes them realize their own creative ability.

“The word ‘museum’ means ‘house of the muses,’” she said. “We’re constantly in front of computers and smart phones, but there’s this strong desire to use our heart, head, and hands to make something. It’s realizing our most human humanness.” a

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THREE SUNDAYS A MONTH, A LITTLE ROOM off the main hall at Gilcrease Museum becomes a flow state paradise.

Alison Rossi, the museum’s director of education and community engagement, developed the Drop-In Studio program as a way to empower people in their own creativity, no matter their experience. Each month is focused on a different approach (i.e., pen and ink, watercolor, subtractive sculpture), with the attentive but unobtrusive guidance of a teaching artist fluent in that medium, process, or concept.

“This isn’t a ‘make and take’ where you all make masks one day, or pictures of trees,” Rossi said. “It’s not product-driven but process-driven.

“You can wake up that morning and say, ‘I want to go with my friend, spouse, grandma, child, and be creative together.’ You don’t have to invest in supplies, or even make a reservation. You can come once or several times, and stay as long as you want.”

The drop-in program is free with museum admission ($8 adults, $6 seniors/ military, $5 college student with ID), and kids 18 and under are always free, so even for a large family it’s basically a semi-private art experience for less than the cost of a couple of coffees.

I dabble in visual art but have scant familiarity with color theory or pastels (the focus during last month’s sessions), so I was eager to get to work during my visit.

Teaching artist and art therapist Staci Craven talked with me about using colors to focus emotion and showed examples of

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huffles Board Game Cafe owner Eric Fransen walked into his new establishment with a bag of limes and a story. He’d just returned from Las Americas grocery store, where he had a problematic encounter at checkout.

A Fransen-esque dilemma: He’d chosen one more lime than optimal.

Fransen knew that for lime-buying at Las Americas there exists a best strategy. The optimal number of limes should be n*L, where n and L are positive integers, and L is rate of the current special (e.g., if limes go for 8 per dollar, then L = 8). At every n multiple of L, the stair function of the total price reaches a most economically advantageous case. Today, sadly, he accidentally grabbed n*L + 1 limes.

He laughed as he told the story, pointing out the triviality, and utter sub-optimalness of his move.

“I hate it when that happens!”

Fransen exclaimed.

A self-described nerd with an inquisitive brain brimming with a passion for strategic puzzles, it’s no wonder board games became part of his calling.

Despite having studied math in grad school, Fransen does not identify as a mathematician.

“Mathematics is a jealous lover, and if you don’t pay attention to her, she will find someone else,” he explained.

Regardless, his creations are informed—inspired—by numbers, patterns, and logic. His magnum opus to date, Shuffles Board Game Cafe, located at 207 E. Archer St. in the Tulsa Arts District, opens this month.

The Shuffles storefront, designed by Lilly Architects and featuring Fransen’s furniture, began two years ago as a concept and has since been worked and reworked into a space that fits together much like the snug, dimensioned fit of parts, boards, figurines, and miscellanea nested inside an expertly designed board game box.

The stunning bar top, fashioned from diagonally striated strips of beech wood, visually

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Shuffles Board Game Cafe owner Eric Fransen | GREG BOLLINGER

FUN RULES TO BRING THEM ALL Shuffles Board Game Cafe advances the play of game night

by BRADY WHISENHUNT interlocks with the bias on the nearby cashier’s booth as well as the birch wood ledge behind the bar. They were all built from scratch, as were the angular chairs, the cabinets, barstools, and the hexagonal gaming tables that echo the tiled, polygonal Shuffles logo.

Shuffles boasts a library of 700+ games. User-friendly categories group games based on types of user experience, difficulty level, and mechanism of play. Patrons can browse by themselves, or they can consult a staff expert. The library contains mainstream titles like Risk and Monopoly, as well as new classics like Cosmic Frontier, Ricochet Robots, and Rising Sun. Many of them are also available for purchase in the retail area.

Shuffles’ board game design group, led by Dan Dvorett, helps café patrons turn pet board game ideas into reality. The café will also host date nights, corporate team building events, and private, catered parties. To Fransen, the

objective of Shuffles, like gaming, is to stimulate interaction.

“It’s all about time with people.”

Shuffles’ full bar and kitchen offers craft cocktails, non-alcoholic drinks, and vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, and healthy food options—plus some less restrictive dishes like chicken tenders and po’ boys. The menu is rooted in Fransen’s vision of Shuffles as champion of inclusivity.

“We want everyone to participate. We don’t want anyone to feel left out.”

But if a player desires some alone time, one can listen to their own mp3 devices in acoustically muted, light-dimmable, USBready gaming booths, as they tap a touch-sensitive tableside interface and summon food and drinks, request help on game rules, or invite other players to join them.

“It knocks down the wall of awkwardness,” Fransen said. “We want to have a silent service mentality. We don’t want to bother you.”

“None of this would have been possible without my staff,” Fransen said, referring to Brent Essley (general manager), Matt Shipley (kitchen manager), Nick Flores (bar manager), Nathan Spillman (content generation), and Brandon Collins (game procurement).

Reverse engineering the concept of the board game cafe, reformulating it, and exploring the transform between art and math “represents two years of obsessive thinking,” Fransen said.

“The general populace thinks, ‘Oh you’re a mathematician? You must be really good at balancing your checkbook.’ No, I’m good at poetry, actually. Because that’s what mathematics is.”

Tulsa also knows Fransen as a woodworker and furniture designer. His designs, which can be found in Yokozuna South, Prairie Fire Pies, and The First Ward use flat shapes to approximate curves.

“Sit down in this,” Fransen directed me. I indulged him. The chair, which Fransen calls “a rectilinear approximation of an old Shaker design using planes” was comfy, the back support unflagging. It felt wholly unlike any other chair I can recall, and there are no curves anywhere in the design.

Clever and elegant, it has abrupt edges and a pixilated simplicity.

It was designed specifically for the purpose of gaming at the cafe—and inspired by “Newton’s method,” Fransen said.

“It was only by iterations that I arrived at these [chairs].”

The comment is as much mathematical as it is evidence of hard work. Fransen’s (and Newton’s) iterative method is the spatial aesthetic equivalent of Beckett’s “Try, fail, try again, fail better” prescription.

“It’s a series of refinements.

You start crudely,” Fransen said of innovation. “In mathematics, you don’t want to copy a proof from anyone else.” a

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COMEDY

The enigmatic Creed Bratton—best known for playing Creed in “The Office”—will perform at The Vanguard. June 6, 8 p.m., $20-$300, thevanguardtulsa.com

VIEW FROM THE TOP

Gain access to some of the best vantage points in Tulsa at the 10th annual Top of the Town, which benefits the Community Service Council. Enjoy live music, hors d’oeuvres, and drinks at the top of several downtown buildings. June 7, $75, 6–10 p.m.

SUMMERSTAGE TULSA

Tulsa Performing Arts Center, tulsapac.com There’s something for everyone in the shows on stage throughout June for SummerStage. Here’s what’s happening over the next two weeks:

WO This collaboration between Portico Dance Theatre, Holy Mother Collective, Living Water Dance Collective, and others explores several issues women face through dance, spoken word, performance art, and a visual art installation. $10–$12, June 8 & 9 Multiphonic Funk: Boogie Wonderland Tulsa proprietors of party funk pay tribute to the band that inspires them most: Earth, Wind & Fire. $20, June 8 & 9 Janet Rutland Sings Gershwin In her 14th SummerStage cabaret show, Rutland will perform some of George & Ira Gershwin’s classic songs, backed by Scott McQuade, Nathan Eicher, and Jared Johnson. $14–$24, June 14 & 15 Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes A woman re-examines her carefree lifestyle after befriending the aging women in her neighborhood in this comedy presented by Sand Springs Community Theatre. $18–$20, June 15–17 Onward Kara Staiger performs an evening of Broadway showstoppers with a common theme: each is sung by a character choosing to move forward through difficult decisions. $15–$20, June 16

JUNETEENTH

Wednesday, June 13 through Sunday, June 17 Greenwood, tulsajuneteenth.org Celebrate black culture over five days of Juneteenth celebrations in and around Greenwood. Highlights include:

Feast for the Ancestors at Greenwood Cultural Center, June 13

BOARD GAMES

Shuffles Board Game Cafe will celebrate its grand opening on Friday, June 8. Find more information on pg 36. shufflestulsa.com

GET TOUGH

Tulsa will lose its collective mind during Tulsa Tough, June 8–10. Friday’s races are in the Blue Dome District, Saturday’s are in The Tulsa Arts District, and the grand finale is Sunday in the Riverview neighborhood. Full schedule on pg. 29.

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Enjoy unlimited ice cream at Blue Bell’s Taste of Summer Ice Cream Festival, which will also feature live entertainment, a marketplace, a vintage car show, and more. June 9, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., $5, tasteofsummerba.com BALLOON FESTIVAL

Tulsa International Balloon Festival features spectacular hot air balloon glows and flights, as well as carnival rides, shopping, and food. June 13–17, $20/car, tulsaibf.com

COMEDY

Stand-up and sitcom star George Lopez will perform at The Joint at Hard Rock Casino. June 16, $29–$49, hardrockcasinotulsa.com

Movie in the Park: Black Panther at Guthrie Green, June 14 Friday Night Jazz hosted by Chuck Cissel and featuring Prince’s saxophonist Marcus Anderson, Robert Banks and Positive Production, and more in the field at OSU-Tulsa, June 15 Saturday Night R&B featuring Midnight Star, Ms. Val, Charlie Redd and the Full Flava Kings, and more at OSU-Tulsa. June 16 Praise in the Park featuring Thaddeus Johnson and more gospel music at OSU-Tulsa. June 17 38 // ARTS & CULTURE

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Brookside Rumble and Roll Parade and Street Festival // 6/7, Brookside, rumbleandroll.com

Fortuna Tulsa vs FC Wichita // 6/9, Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium, fortunatulsa.com

deadCenter Film Festival // 6/7-10, Various locations, deadcenterfilm.org

Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Saint Louis FC // 6/9, ONEOK Field, roughnecksfc.com

Vintage Market Days // 6/8-10, Oklahoma Aquarium, vintagemarketdays.com

OKM Music Festival // 6/9-15, Various locations, okmmusic.org

Citywide Juneteenth Block Party // 6/9, B.S. Roberts Park, facebook.com/citywidejuneteenth

Oklahoma Footy Club vs Des Moines Roosters // 6/9, Veterans Park, tulsabuffaloes.com

Sexual Harrassment Workshop // 6/9, Unity Center of Tulsa, unitytulsa.org

Tulsa Athletic vs FC Wichita // 6/10, Veterans Park, tulsaathletic.com

PERFORMING ARTS

Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 6/13, ONEOK Field, tulsadrillers.com

Miró Quartet // 6/15, Tulsa PAC - Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com Pinocchio // 6/16-17, Tulsa PAC - John H. Williams Theatre, tulsapac.com An American in Paris // 6/19-24, Tulsa PAC - Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com

COMEDY Robert Hawkins, Tony Dijamco // 6/6-9, Loony Bin, tulsa.loonybincomedy.com Zach Khan - Attempting 30 w/ Nick Birkitt, Dakoda Potter, David Bair, Meagan Carr // 6/10, Blackbird on Pearl, facebook.com/ bazarentertainment JT Habersaat // 6/11, Soundpony, thesoundpony.com Comedy Survivor // 6/13, Loony Bin, tulsa.loonybincomedy.com Andu Woodhull // 6/14-17, Loony Bin, tulsa.loonybincomedy .com MacKenzie Bryan, Adam Benson, CR Parsons, Laura Cook, Hilton Price // 6/15, The Starlite, thestarlite.net Heather Land - I Ain’t Doin’ It // 6/15, Tulsa PAC - Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com

Tulsa Drillers vs Northwest Arkansas Naturals // 6/14, ONEOK Field, tulsadrillers.com

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Dane Arnold & The Soup played TTV’s courtyard on May 15 | GREG BOLLINGER

The universal family Strumming to the rhythm of everyday life with Dane Arnold & The Soup

by JOHN LANGDON

D

ane Arnold & The Soup recently graced our courtyard with their brand of R&B and funk-tinged Southern soul. Behind Arnold’s guitar and vocals, guitarist Johnny Mullenax, bassist Jordan Hehl, drummer Matt Teegarden, trombonist Dominick Stephens, and trumpeter Austin Stunkard played grooves that met the rising heat with much the same intoxicating effect as a cool midsummer whiskey sour.

Just before their set, I spoke with Arnold and Mullenax over sips of Tullamore D.E.W. and Mullenax’s wistful mandolin strums. If my transcribing abilities extended to writing sheet music, I’d have included the score. In my memory of the evening, the music is inextricable from the conversation.

Born in Baton Rouge and raised in Austin, Arnold mixes southern and folk styles to write soulful songs that make a person move, sway, and—likely—eventually jump up in exuberant booty-shaking delight.

Mullenax comes from a large family of musicians who revere the sacred tradition of the family jam. Those jams inspired him from an early age and shaped the musician he would become. Fittingly, once the cameras and voice 40 // MUSIC

recorders were packed away and another Courtyard Concert was in the books, Dane & The Soup and whoever was still around relocated to Mullenax’s uncle Eric Robb’s house to pass around bluegrass and western swing tunes. The family jam continues.

JOHN LANGDON: Johnny, what’s the first song you learned to play?

JOHNNY MULLENAX: Dude, it was “Horse with No Name” [by America]. It’s real easy to play on guitar and an easy one to teach, and I’m pretty sure I was a shithead kid, so they were like, “Throw him something to do.”

LANGDON: What about you Dane?

DANE ARNOLD: I would say probably “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton. I just went and learned that whole Unplugged album.

LANGDON: You’re on a desert island, you have three albums for the rest of your life, what are they?

ARNOLD: D’Angelo – Voodoo, Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life, and probably Astral Weeks [by Van

Morrison] to get me through the mornings.

MULLENAX: Definitely any of the D’Angelo albums, Isaiah Sharkey—D’Angelo’s guitar player— just came out with a new album, LOVE.LIFE.LIVE. It’s the shit.

And I don’t know, man, maybe that Grateful Dead album American Beauty. It’s a good listen from top to bottom.

LANGDON: What’s the best show you’ve ever seen in Tulsa?

ARNOLD: Consistently, the best weekly residency that goes on is Tovar’s Honky Tonk Happy Hour at Colony. Then the best show that I’ve seen period here in Tulsa?

I’m going to have to think about it for a second.

MULLENAX: I like The Dull Drums, man. Those harmonies, and the changes, man? Fucking pristine.

Every single time it’s like, “Woah!

What?”

ARNOLD: Yeah, if you’d asked me what my favorite band in Tulsa is, it’s The Dull Drums.

LANGDON: I know what you mean, I’ve played in that band for less

than a year, so before that it was years of going to their shows and being like, “What the fuck is going on with this band? It’s crazy.” [Full disclosure: I play keys and guitar in The Dull Drums. They were blowing minds for more than a decade before I joined and I take no credit for all the ass that band kicks.]

ARNOLD: I’d say the best show I’ve seen though was when I saw Gogo Plumbay at Colony one time when I first got to Tulsa. It was crazy. Just mind blowing. I was like, “This is what the Tulsa music scene is all about?” It was swampy and it was underground and it was low-key. Great introduction for sure.

LANGDON: Tell me about a memorable show with Dane & The Soup.

MULLENAX: A couple months ago we were playing out at Margaritaville, and this lady comes up, and she’s like, “So and so just got married, could you guys sing them a song or whatever?,” and we’re like “Alright here’s for the married couple, will you please stand up?,” and this couple stands up, and they’re dancing and everyone’s like “Yay, congrats!,” and it was not the couple that just got June 6 – 19, 2018 // THE TULSA VOICE

married. It was just some other couple. Then these nicely dressed people come down and we said, “Oh, that’s them.”

LANGDON: But some people just stole the spotlight?

ARNOLD: And they were cracking up about it too, they just sat down looking smug. It was hilarious.

LANGDON: Do you have a dream venue?

MULLENAX: I can’t think of a specific venue, but anybody that’s a musician has that vision of a big-ass stage with tons and tons of people, arena-style. That’s a dream right there. Jesus.

reunion. Conor [Robb, singer/ guitarist for The Dull Drums and Johnny’s cousin] was there I’m sure and the whole family would plug in amplifiers and my uncle had a drum set, and we’d jam for hours. I had my mom’s Gibson Marauder—I must have been six years old and that guitar weighs 14 lbs.—and I was pissed off and went up and said, “I want to jam.

It’s my turn to play a song.” My mom and uncle said, “No, you can’t play with us. Get outta here.”

I went a laid on the couch and cried my fucking eyes out, man,

and I was like, “I’m going to do this and I’m gonna be better than those motherfuckers.” And ever since then I’ve been completely obsessed. Now it’s what I’ve always wanted to do.

LANGDON: You showed them.

ARNOLD: Yeah, this is one of the best musicians I’ve ever met right here. For me it was when I was seven or eight, and my mom sang a solo in the church choir. She was uncertain about it, but for me it was awe-inspiring. I couldn’t

believe that my mom was up there singing in front of all these people and everybody loved it. She killed it. Whatever it was she was evoking, I wanted to be a part of it.

LANGDON: Finish this sentence: “Music is ______.”

ARNOLD: Music is universal. a

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ARNOLD: Some sort of international stage, I guess. A way to be heard by as many people as possible.

For a specific venue that I think is cool: NPR’s office [the setting of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts]. It’s intimate. I love the aesthetic of that place.

LANGDON: Outside of other music, what influences the way you write and play?

MULLENAX: People live their everyday lives in patterns and rhythms and they want to hear those patterns reflected in music.

ARNOLD: Film really helps me put together ideas. Videos and visual arts in general can capture a lot of the same emotions as music.

LANGDON: When you write a song do you find yourself visualizing its setting? Does that cinematic influence work both ways?

ARNOLD: Yeah, songs take form in imagination. There are songs I’ve written about love stories I’ve never experienced. It’s all some sort of dream or some sort of lie. And there are real experiences behind it, but you start there and build on it.

LANGDON: Was there a moment when you were younger, whether it was at a concert or otherwise, that made you think, “I want to play music forever”?

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THE ONLY WAY TO WIN The Lonelys’ new album chronicles the drawbacks of love

by DAMION SHADE THE LONELYS’ LEAD SINGER DONOVAN FITE has always struggled with a sense he just wasn’t good enough—and this feeling fueled his songwriting. He wrestled his inadequacy into harmonies and catchy rock songs.

“Singing wasn’t really my way to prove to other people I was good at something,” Fite said. “It was honestly proving to myself that I wasn’t trash. Songwriting felt like the only way I could win.”

The band’s latest EP, Wall of Love feels like a bit of an emotional breakthrough. It’s a ten-song exploration of ‘60s British rock, chamber pop, and the earnest problems of growing up and learning to love.

In 2016 the Lonelys became a fourpiece. Fite and his songwriting partner and guitarist Jason Swanson were originally a folk duo. They were joined by bass player Keri Hackbarth and drummer Paul Paino.

The group was finally able to drive the band’s sound towards the rock music Fite and Swanson grew up loving as kids.

“I’ve always wanted to be in a band that struck me like Queen and The Beatles,” Fite said. “I remember listening to Cool 106.1 here in Tulsa and just thinking this is miles above what I’d heard before.

‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ was ten times better than the songs that were on pop radio in the early 2000s.”

The Lonelys produced and recorded Wall of Love themselves, and their process drew inspiration from their heroes.

“We built a studio into a garage, and

we took all the songs that we’d been working on since college,” Fite said. Then we made some rules for ourselves. There would be no sounds on this album that originated later than 1970.”

This meant all of the amps, pianos, mics and instruments on this record are from the era of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds (1966). Choosing an era focused the band’s sound. On Wall of Love, Fite’s earnest, belting tenor voice soars over The Lonelys’ tight and tuneful rhythm section. He plays like a melancholy Brian Wilson on this EP. Two and three-part harmonies appear often. Vintage organs and compressors fill any negative space not taken by Swanson’s sparkling Les Paul.

The effect is a record which is at times epic and immediate.

Wall of Love is a coming of age record.

Most of these songs focus on self acceptance and being honest about how much you actually need and fear love. Fite’s past as a homeschool kid from the tiny town of Cordell, Okla. imbued him with a sense of smallness that he’s finally beginning to relinquish. He feels grounded and more in touch with and in control of his own emotions.

“If you live by your feelings you’ll move from person to person waiting for someone to fix you when nothing will,” Fite said.

“You fix you and then you can give to someone else.”

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musiclistings Wed // Jun 6 Blackbird on Pearl – Wednesday Night Live w/ DJ Celly 2X, Comedy & Poetry – ($5) Cain’s Ballroom – Buckethead – ($23-$38) Cellar Dweller – *Grazz Trio Dusty Dog Pub – Robert Combs Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – George Brothers Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Weston Horn Trio Los Cabos - Jenks – Caleb Fellenstein Mercury Lounge – Jared Tyler & Seth Lee Jones Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Shelby and Nathan Eicher – ($10) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jason Young Band Soul City – Don & Stephen White The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project The Stumbling Monkey – Tom Basler Wyld Hawgz – Open Mic

Thurs // Jun 7 Cain’s Ballroom – Shinyribs – ($15-$17) Dusty Dog Pub – Lori Duke Four Aces Tavern – David Thayer Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Jacob Flint, Shotgun Bill’y Hard Rock Casino - The Joint – The Charlie Daniels Band, Marshall Tucker Band – SOLD OUT) Lefty’s On Greenwood – Branjae Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Local Spin Trio Los Cabos - Jenks – Jacob Dement Duo Los Cabos - Owasso – Chris Hyde Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman MixCo – Cypher 120 Experience Mulligan’s Sports & Spirits – DJ MO River Spirit Casino - DJ Johnnie Bananas Soul City – The Begonias Soundpony – The Human Beings The Colony – Chris Lee Becker - Happy Hour The Colony – Tovar’s Western Night The Hunt Club – Brad Pilgrim The Market Pub – Tyler Brant The Vanguard – Unfair Fight – ($10) The Venue Shrine – Biddishop, Big Ro aka Punki Loco, Cale, Chiefy, D Koolin, D-Dogg Muzik, G Sharp – ($12-$15) Yeti – *Alan Doyle, Jankins, iamDES, DJ Kylie

Fri // Jun 8 American Legion Post 308 – Joe Harris Blackbird on Pearl – *Casii Stephan & Midnight Sun, Jamie Lou and The Hullabaloo, Carlton Hesston – ($7-$10) Cain’s Ballroom – Jon Wolfe – ($10-$15) Dos Bandidos – Cactus Slayers Dusty Dog Pub – Oklahoma Stew Elwood’s – Matthew Marcus McDaniel Four Aces Tavern – Bottoms Up Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Donte Schmitz, FM Live Hard Rock Casino - The Joint – John Fogerty – ($75-$95) Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Str8ght Shot Los Cabos - Jenks – Recommended Dose Los Cabos - Owasso – Rockwell Duo Mercury Lounge – *The Greyhounds, Dane Arnold & The Soup Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – Red Sawyer Pit Stop – DJ MO River Spirit Casino - The Tipton’s River Spirit Casino - LandShark Pool Bar – DJ Xplisive River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – The Duo Smitty’s 118 Tavern – Travis Bond and the Rebel Souls Soul City – Red Dirt Rangers – ($10) Soul City – Susan Herndon - Happy Hour Soul City – Scott Musick & Friends Soundpony – Afistaface The Beehive Lounge – Chrim, Jhohn Arlie, Caregiver to a Monster The Colony – Justin Bloss - Happy Hour The Colony – Cowboy Jones, Dan Martin Band – ($5) The Hunt Club – The Agenda The Max Retropub – DJ Robbo THE TULSA VOICE // June 6 – 19, 2018

The Vanguard – Amerigo, Manta Rays, Locust Avenue, Florence Rose – ($10) Wyld Hawgz – Ginger Grey Yeti – *Inkslingers w/ Okipa, Echoes & Copycats, Drew Hale Yeti – Cucumber Mike’s Happy Hour

Sat // Jun 9 Bad Ass Renee’s – Labadie House, BirdDad, Skytown, Spook Barkingham Palace – *The Big News, Hans Grueber & the Die Hards, Shoog Night, Søaker Blackbird on Pearl – *Marie Curie, Colourmusic, Free Association – ($5) Blue Rose Café – Tyler Brant Cain’s Ballroom – Ragland! – ($15-$18) Dusty Dog Pub – Christine Jude Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – EverFade Four Aces Tavern – Ronnie Pyle & The Drivers Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Tandem, Boogie Fever Lefty’s On Greenwood – Curt Hill Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Jumpsuit Love Los Cabos - Jenks – Radio Nation Los Cabos - Owasso – Acoustique by Franklin Mercury Lounge – Comanche Moon, Jared Deck Mulligan’s Sports & Spirits – DJ MO Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – Travis Kidd Band River Spirit Casino - Zodiac River Spirit Casino - DJ Ayngel, The Morgan Band River Spirit Casino - Brent Giddens Soul City – *Levi Parham album release w/ Them Tulsa Boys and Girls – ($10) Soundpony – Pony Disco Club The Colony – Brad James Band – ($5) The Hunt Club – The Groove Pilots The Max Retropub – DJ Aaron Berbard The Vanguard – NeoRomantics, My Heart & Liver Are the Best of Friends, Future Tapes, The Classless – ($10) The Venue Shrine – Wesley Michael Hayes Band, Brent Giddens Duo, Ben Neikirk – ($5) Wyld Hawgz – Kashmir Yeti – *Spandex Required: Tulsa Tough Party w/ Fabulous Minx, Tight Rope, The Mules, Trap Queen, Bringer

Sun // Jun 10 Cain’s Ballroom – *Turner & Boggs Suicide Awareness Concert – ($15) East Village Bohemian Pizza – Mike Cameron Collective Elwood’s – Miles Williams Four Aces Tavern – David Thayer Guthrie Green – Cucumber and the Suntans Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Laron Simpson Los Cabos - Jenks – The Fabulous Two Man Band Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Donald and Barron Ryan – ($5-$20) River Spirit Casino - Brent Giddens Soul City – Gospel Brunch w/ Dustin Pittsley & Friends Soul City – Bruner & Eicher Soundpony – DJ WhyNot The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Vanguard – Modern Color, Carvist, Full Color Dream – ($10) The Venue Shrine – D.O.A., MDC – ($15) Wyld Hawgz – Exposure Rock Jam Yeti – Dan Martin

Mon // Jun 11 Blackbird on Pearl – The Portal Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – DJ and The Band Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective River Spirit Casino - The Marriotts Soundpony – *Saganomics, Flock of Pigs The Colony – Ryan Browning - Happy Hour The Colony – Seth Lee Jones The Fur Shop – Open Mic The Vanguard – Astragal, Sad Cops, The Daddyos – ($10) Yeti – The Situation

Tues // Jun 12 Blackbird on Pearl – The Pearl Jam Fassler Hall – Chris Combs Trio Guthrie Green – Starlight Concert Band - Women in Music Lefty’s On Greenwood – Olivia Duhon Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams River Spirit Casino - Jacob Dement Smitty’s 118 Tavern – Scott Ellison Band Spinster Records – Manta Rays, The Odyssey The Colony – Deerpaw - Happy Hour The Colony – Singer Songwriter Night w/ Dan Martin The Hunt Club – Erin O’Dowd and Chloe Johns Yeti – Writers’ Night

Wed // Jun 13 Blackbird on Pearl – Wednesday Night Live w/ DJ Celly 2X, Comedy & Poetry – ($5) Cellar Dweller – Grazz Trio Dusty Dog Pub – Robert Combs Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – John Conlee Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Travis Kidd Los Cabos - Jenks – Charlie Redd Mercury Lounge – Tommy Luke Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Shelby and Nathan Eicher – ($10) River Spirit Casino - Brent Giddens Soul City – Don & Stephen White Soundpony – The Slow Poisoner, Sightlines The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project The Stumbling Monkey – Tom Basler Wyld Hawgz – Open Mic

Thurs // Jun 14 Crow Creek Tavern – Jake Flint Dusty Dog Pub – Sweeny & Campbell Fassler Hall – *Kalyn Fay Four Aces Tavern – David Thayer Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Scott Eastern, Another Alibi Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – The Hi-Fidelics Los Cabos - Jenks – Willy Echo Duo Los Cabos - Owasso – Daniel Jordan Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman MixCo – Cypher 120 Experience Mulligan’s Sports & Spirits – DJ MO River Spirit Casino - DJ Johnnie Bananas River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot – ($40-$55) Soul City – The Begonias Soundpony – Chasing Ryan The Colony – Chris Lee Becker - Happy Hour The Colony – The Soup Kitchen w/ Dane Arnold The Fur Shop – GLOW Tulsa w/ Noizmekka, KrewX, Josh Beeson, and more The Vanguard – Makari, Keeping Secrets, Host of Hosts – ($10)

Fri // Jun 15 American Legion Post 308 – Double “00” Buck Blackbird on Pearl – Jam eCono, Peachtown & Friends, Robert Hoefling – ($5) Cain’s Ballroom – Robert Earl Keen – ($28-$43) Dusty Dog Pub – Bottoms Up Band Four Aces Tavern – Bottoms Up Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Scott Ellison, Jason Nelson Lefty’s On Greenwood – Mary Cogan Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Banana Seat Los Cabos - Jenks – Empire Los Cabos - Owasso – Ronnie Pyle Trio Mercury Lounge – Electric Rag Band Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – The Hi-Fidelics Pit Stop – DJ MO River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jason Young Band River Spirit Casino - LandShark Pool Bar – DJ Ayngel River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Ayngel & John Soul City – Susan Herndon - Happy Hour Soul City – Scott Musick & Friends Soundpony – Lyrical Smoke The Colony – Damion The Colony – Justin Bloss - Happy Hour The Hunt Club – Dustin Pittsley The Max Retropub – DJ Moody The Stumbling Monkey – Randy Brumley Band

The Vanguard – Unsung Alibis, The Beaten Daylights, Sprnrml, Postparty – ($10) The Venue Shrine – Eric Gales, Anthony Gomes – ($25) The Wine Loft – Usual Suspects Woody Guthrie Center – *Kyle Reid Album Release w/ Jared Tyler, Ken Pomeroy – ($20) Yeti – FLUiD w/ Psyonix, Dane Arnold & The Soup, Dedboii, Kudos Yeti – Cucumber Mike’s Happy Hour

Sat // Jun 16 Blackbird on Pearl – *Mountain Deer Revival, Deerpaw, klondike5 – ($5-$10) Cain’s Ballroom – Tech N9ne – ($30-$45) Dusty Dog Pub – Ronnie Pyle & The Drivers Four Aces Tavern – Ronnie Pyle & The Drivers Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – M80’s, Superfreak Lefty’s On Greenwood – Faye Moffett & FM Band Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Speak Easy Los Cabos - Jenks – DJ & the Band Mercury Lounge – *Ivory Deville, Acid Queen Mulligan’s Sports & Spirits – DJ MO Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – Str8ight Shot River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Rock of Ages, The Hi-Fidelics River Spirit Casino - LandShark Pool Bar – DJ Demko, Caleb Fellenstein River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Brent Giddens Soul City – Blues Society Showcase – ($10) Soundpony – Soul Night The Colony – Sauce – ($5) The Hunt Club – Jesse Joice The Max Retropub – DJ Aaron Bernard The Vanguard – Dead Metal Society – ($10-$20) The Venue Shrine – Death by Diesel, 3Eighty3, Oklahombres, Murderous Mary – ($10) Vox Pop Tulsa – *Carter Sampson, Rachel Bachman Yeti – Underland w/ Saganomics, Domewrekka, Cosmic Elegy, Brian Lindsay, Kudos, Psyonix, Such N’ Such Yeti – Cosmic Elegy

Sun // Jun 17 East Village Bohemian Pizza – Mike Cameron Collective Elwood’s – Tyler Brant Four Aces Tavern – David Thayer Los Cabos - Broken Arrow – Steve Liddell Los Cabos - Jenks – The Fabulous Two Man Band Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark River Spirit Casino - Brent Giddens Soul City – Gospel Brunch w/ Dustin Pittsley & Friends Soul City – Bruner & Eicher Soundpony – Carlton Hesston The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Vanguard – SUMOKEM – ($10) Wyld Hawgz – Exposure Rock Jam Yeti – Liz Greuel of Vagittarius, Sister Silent

Mon // Jun 18 Blackbird on Pearl – The Portal Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – House Party Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts Soundpony – Eeeks The Colony – Ryan Browning - Happy Hour The Colony – Seth Lee Jones The Fur Shop – Open Mic Yeti – The Situation

Tues // Jun 19 Blackbird on Pearl – The Pearl Jam Fassler Hall – Chris Combs Trio Guthrie Green – Starlight Concert Band - America Revisited Lefty’s On Greenwood – Jennifer Marriott Band Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jacob Dement The Colony – Deerpaw - Happy Hour The Colony – Singer Songwriter Night w/ Dan Martin The Vanguard – Onward, The Gales, Briana & Parker of Nightengale, Alexis Onyango – ($10) Yeti – Writers’ Night MUSIC // 43

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JACKASSES RETURN

Eleanor Worthington-Cox and Johnny Knoxville in “Action Point” | COURTESY

Johnny Knoxville stars in new stunt film ‘Action Point’ FROM THE DERANGED AND RATTLED MINDS behind “Jackass” and “Dirty Grandpa” comes “Action Point”—a wild romp of a tale set in of the late ‘70s where loose morals and even looser parental restrictions allow for dangerous and adventurous summer fun at the local amusement park.

Johnny Knoxville plays D.C., the proprietor and mastermind behind the titular Action Point, a rough and tumble local amusement park that’s seen better days.

The park is chock-a-block full of rides and attractions that would make even the most lax code-enforcer cringe. But it’s not enough to keep the park afloat. In the wake of a larger, corporate-owned amusement park opening up down the road, Action Point’s business is waning. When a local greaseball developer (played by Dan Bakkedahl, who you’ve seen in everything from “30 Rock” to “Brooklyn 99”) catches wind of the park’s struggles, he smells blood. New ideas must be had—the bigger, more audacious and dangerous the better.

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“Action Point,” like many films cut from similar cloth, is about a group of weirdos, losers and oddballs who become family. What follows is a fairly ingenious way for Knoxville and his merry band of nerve-damaged buddies to interweave their trademark brand of over-the-top practical stunts and bone-cracking gags with an endearing plot about outcasts finding their place at a park that brings them joy. “Action Point” is also a warm-hearted story about D.C., an inattentive, part-time father trying to connect with his teenage daughter Boogie, played by Eleanor Worthington-Cox, as she comes of age in the era of punk rock.

Drawing inspiration from a real-life park in New Jersey, “Action Point” harkens back to the raunch and gags of the summer/camp comedies of the ‘70s and ‘80s when the hijinks were about as high as the tube socks. Think “Meatballs,” only with more nut-crunching brutality. Knoxville and gang managed to elicit some genuine kneejerk laughs out of me with some well-timed gags and cringe-inducing physical stunts.

What made a show like “Jackass” brilliant was the fearlessness the crew had with every stunt and gag. No ounce of pain was off limits if it meant they were leaving the viewer, or themselves, in stitches from laughing. With “Action Point” they take that approach further by throwing themselves, quite literally sometimes, into this enjoyable distraction of a film. Say what you will about the prank and violence culture a show like “Jackass” may have wrought, but with summers becoming a perpetual assault of mindless, eye-popping, CGI-drenched chaos and mega-sequels, it’s quite refreshing to see the pain of a real, practical stunt where you can literally feel the on-screen aches and bruises. “Action Point” is worth the price of admission. —CHARLES ELMORE

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GENERATIONAL CURSE Family demons and film mastery are in the DNA of ‘Hereditary’

WHEN A HORROR FILM HAS YOU REFLEXIVELY making the sign of the cross, that means it’s doing its job.

In the tradition of “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Exorcist,” “Hereditary” is a deeply unnerving supernatural thriller that takes its dark spirituality seriously.

Like the recent, startling debut “The Witch,” writer/director Ari Aster’s first feature is more than an impressive exercise in style. It’s a meticulous parable of patient Kubrickian precision about the insidious devastation that’s left in the wake of family dysfunction, toxic relationships, the repression of trauma, and how each repeats itself across generations.

“Hereditary” turns all of that into a horror movie that feels profoundly personal. By necessity, it becomes a blood-curdling gauntlet for us to endure even as it feels like an exorcising catharsis for its director. Ultimately, it’s a cautionary tale for everyone about the dangers of ignoring your demons and the need to confront them before they kill you.

Set in the bucolic rural woods of the American northwest, “Hereditary” disorients our bearings from the start with a subtle visual illusion that makes us question what we’re even seeing, and what the nature of this film’s reality is. It’s a perfect palette setter for an increasingly deceptive, queasy descent.

Toni Collette plays Annie (in an award-worthy performance of gripping emotional abandon), an artist of still-life miniatures who’s been estranged from her now-deceased manipulative mother. Annie’s family history also includes depres-

sion, dementia, and psychosis.

Her mother’s death should be the close of a long, troubled chapter, but instead it unleashes a malevolent evil.

Each of Annie’s miniatures depicts a family secret but she’s blind to these manifestations and their voodoo-like effects.

When they’re identified by her long-suffering husband (Gabriel Byrne, in a smaller but indispensable role), Annie flatly dismisses them.

Their creepy daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro, Broadway’s original “Matilda”) has abnormal looks, eerie ticks, and a tortured soul, while teenage son Peter (Alex Wolff, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”) gets slowly sucked into Annie’s unstable orbit. Shapiro may play the more iconic genre archetype, but Wolff matches Collette’s manic collapse.

Aster’s aesthetics conjure a palpable atmosphere that never resort to jump scares, subverting our expectations by setting them up only to withhold their cheap payoff. Aster has ways of making us wonder if our minds are playing tricks on us. He also intimates ghostly apparitions through fleeting movements on the edge of frame. His techniques are masterful.

“Hereditary” may lack the woke social commentary of “Get Out,” but it’s equal in craft and more unsettling in its psychological torment and spiritual nihilism. Even if you’re agnostic to the supernatural, “Hereditary” disturbingly taps into something that’s undeniably real. Few films in 2018 will leave as big an impact, or mess with you as much. —JEFF HUSTON June 6 – 19, 2018 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Laura Dern and Isabelle Nélisse in “The Tale” | COURTESY

SHAME NO MORE A filmmaker confronts her childhood sexual abuse in HBO’s ‘The Tale’

THERE ARE WOMEN, YOUNG AND OLD, who’ve kept secrets and have a tale to tell.

Fifty-nine year-old documentarian Jennifer Fox may give some the courage to do so by telling her own story.

Fox’s dramatized feature debut, “The Tale,” recalls Fox’s first sexual encounters—when she was a minor—with a man old enough to be her father. It is a memoir of a middle-aged woman coming to terms with repressed, hazy memories by going on an investigative journey to clarify the truth, discover its lingering ramifications, and confront them.

“The Tale” premiered to stunned audiences at January’s Sundance Film Festival and is now on HBO. With disturbing yet valiant candor, Fox tells her story through two on-screen surrogates: Laura Dern, a “Jennifer” who goes on the journey that Fox did, and Isabelle Nélisse, the early-teen Jennifer portrayed in flashbacks that lay out the predatory process of her abusers.

Eventually, it includes lengthy real-time depictions of the abuse itself.

It’s a bold choice on multiple levels, though Fox exercised care through shot and editorial choices, body doubles, and visual effects so that Nélisse was never required to simulate sexual activity with thirty-eight year old actor Jason Ritter.

That precision, however, never plays like a diluted cheat. On the contrary, it’s convincing to the point of nausea, and repulsive even before those moments.

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of their intent. It turns the stomach even now to consider the depth of calculation.

In other hands this could feel lurid, but under Fox’s confessional lead it’s a safe, honest space. Only someone who’s suffered this abuse could make a film this frank, unsettling, and true (at times truly sick), yet sensitive.

Everyone involved here has summoned some courage, not the least of which is Ritter who plays the pedophile, but also Nélisse who is the adolescent mark. Set in the ‘60s, Bill and Mrs. G run a horse riding summer camp, a safe haven that serves as the trap for would-be victims. They zero in on the most vulnerable targets—like Jennifer—whose home lives are dysfunctional and lacking in affirmation.

Pitching a free-love ethos, they boost Jennifer’s confidence while also playing to her anxieties and fears with strategic manipulation. Making her feel empowered is their seduction, every encouragement a set-up for the kill.

Dern’s Jennifer—a smart, sophisticated adult—must admit what happened, how damaged she was and still is, realizing that things she considered normal actually aren’t, and how abuse distorted her own reason, objectivity, and common sense. Most poignant is her internal conversation with her younger self.

“The Tale” is a personal reckoning that could trigger painful memories. But broached with intentional purpose and courage similar to Fox’s, it could also be the first group therapy session that many victims have been afraid to seek. Hopefully it won’t be their last. —JEFF HUSTON

A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CIRCLE CINEMA OPENING JUNE 8 HEREDITARY After the death of a matriarch, a family is haunted by the secrets and curses of their ancestery. Starring Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne, this chilling horror film was a breakout hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. See review on pg. 44. Rated R.

OPENING JUNE 15 FIRST REFORMED From director Paul Schrader, the writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” a priest in a small New York town faces an existential crisis of faith on the 250th Anniversary of his Dutch Reformed parish. Ethan Hawke stars. Rated R. THE SEAGULL A new adaptation of Chekov’s famous play about an early 20th century aging actress and her lover who visit her elderly brother at his estate. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, Annette Bening, Brian Dennehy, and Corey Stoll. Rated PG-13 SWEET COUNTRY Set in the Australian frontier of the 1920s, an Aboriginal farmhand is forced to go on the run after he shoots a white man in self-defense. Inspired by true events. Rated R.

SPECIAL EVENTS DONNIE DARKO (2001) Graveyard Shift presents a 4K DCP restoration of the cult classic about a disturbed teenager, played by Jake Gyllenhaal in his breakout role. He’s haunted by visions of a giant rabbit suit creature that manipu-

lates him into a series of crimes.

Rated R. (Fri. & Sat. June 8 & 9, 10:00 p.m.)

THE CIRCUS (1928) Second Saturday Silents presents this Charlie Chaplin classic as the Little Tramp. One of the highest grossing films of the silent era, Chaplain plays a circus clown looking for love. Bill Rowland accompanies on Circle Cinema’s original 1928 pipe organ. Tickets $5 adults, $2 16 and under.

(Sat. June 9, 11:00 a.m.)

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME NT Live presents this encore of the Tony and Olivier Award winner for Best Play. It’s the inventive adaptation of the beloved novel about an autistic young man trying to solve the murder of a neighborhood dog, and a landmark in 21st century theatre.

(Tue. June 12, 6:00 p.m.)

CREEPSHOW (1982) Graveyard Shift presents this classic horror anthology from Stephen King and George Romero in a special 35mm film print presentation. Rated R. (Fri. & Sat. June 15 & 16, 10:00 p.m.)

WOMAN WALKS AHEAD (TRIBAL FILM FESTIVAL SUMMER SHOWCASE) The Oklahoma premiere of the new film starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell. Set in the 1880s, it’s the true story of the close relationship between Chief Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes) and portrait artist Catherine Weldon (Chastain). Greyeyes will be in attendance for a live Q&A following the screening. Rated R. Tickets are $15. (Sat. June 23, 7:00 p.m.)

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June 6 – 19, 2018 // THE TULSA VOICE

THE FUZZ THE TULSA VOICE SPOTLIGHTS: TULSA SPCA

2910 Mohawk Blvd. | MON, TUES, THURS, FRI & SAT, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 918.428.7722

Spunky SAVANNAH is ready to smile and leap her way into your heart. She is a very active one-year-old, boxer mix who would benefit from an owner that can give her attention and structure. Her favorite activities are running, splashing in her kiddie pool, and playing educational games involving positive reinforcement.

ACROSS 1 Big-time clipper 7 Musical Frederic 13 Word before beta 16 Paulo or Vicente place name 19 Kay Thompson’s hotel kid 20 Morning love song 21 Rowboat feature 23 Four worldly things 26 Two-masted vessel 27 Twisty trunks 28 “Bunny” under the bed 29 “Gone With the Wind” manor 30 Lifesaver 32 Hungers 34 Attack from everywhere 36 Dr. Seuss character 39 Marriage indicator 41 Word with “real” or “a life” 43 Puts one’s feet up 47 “Dear me!” alternative 49 Extermination job 52 Italian hotspot, briefly 56 “Not ___ shabby” 57 Three worldly things 61 Jung’s feminine side 62 Bye-bye alternative 63 Hole in the face 64 Coated cote mamas 65 Exploratory mission, briefly 66 Suez, for one 67 Pelvic parts 69 Person provers 70 When-you’regetting-home letters 72 Shortens, as a snapshot 75 “Understand my point?”

76 Doctor’s office sounds

79 Courage, figuratively 81 Daily consumption 83 Break a Commandment 85 Moving on an ocean liner 88 “Leave me alone!” for one 90 Airline departing Israel 91 Really, really like 92 Three worldly things 97 Real attachment?

98 Lock, stock and barrel 99 Delectable 100 Assign a score to 101 Feel in your spirit 103 “___ be seeing you” 105 Eject, as lava 107 Word with Alamos 108 Airline seat features 112 Spreadsheet info 115 Quick, in an office 117 Appendectomy prover 120 Title of respect 122 Type of spray or cavity 124 Abalone production 128 Five worldly things 132 Consider almost seriously 133 Old home on the range 134 Run behind schedule 135 Creatures from way out 136 Took the bait 137 Stretch outward 138 Denim and other fabrics DOWN 1 At one’s ___ and call 2 Burn balm 3 Game for third-stringers 4 Beer variety

Attention all kitten lovers!

DALEY is waiting for his forever family. This fuzzy little guy is close to three months old and full of fun. Daley loves playing with his siblings, meowing, and climbing onto your shoulders.

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Book near Job Dreaming stage Head of the mob “Get there faster!”

Requiring extremely large clothing Rhythm relative Declaration at an altar Brainy, socially inept one Chasers in oaters Stops abruptly Fierce anger Picnic staple Maker of PCs Creole cookery item Starbucks selection Repentant one Make into a knight Thunderhead at Dollywood, e.g.

Big-time hauler Gaslight and Dead-ball Bush expedition United, politically (var.)

Things studied at Hogwarts Van Susteren with reports Sports car option Tuck away, as cargo Made into two?

Some Asian sauces Variety of wrestler Rickman and Alda Certain NFLer “Dukes of Hazzard” spinoff Render a crushing defeat Brother’s daughter, e.g.

Queen in India (var.)

Galileo’s surname Commonly brewed beverage Where to find a new auto

68 Short summary 71 Easy golf shot 73 Like some orange juice 74 Glitch 76 Open admission 77 “From ___ Eternity” 78 Cordwood units 79 Passenger on the ark 80 ___’clock (22nd hour) 82 Bucks or smackers 84 Ammonia feature 85 Works in a film 86 Baccarat box 87 Be on the payroll 89 ___ spumante (Italian wine) 93 Boardwalk structure 94 Half nelson, for one 95 Lion’s prey, sometimes 96 Some loaves 102 Backbreaker of a proverb 104 Surgical cutter 106 Pistonless engine name 109 Noted Cremona artisan 110 Boat? Bigger.

111 Word with band or circular 113 Gray-brown shade 114 Colorado city 116 Mr. Picasso 117 Stuff with cake, e.g.

118 Become obstructed, as blood 119 Irving and Tan 121 “G’day” receiver 123 Having already hit the hay 125 Blazer, e.g.

126 IRA’s first name?

127 ___ out a living 129 Bill in the air 130 Oscar winner Harrison 131 Leno’s old employer

Find the answers to this issue’s crossword puzzle at thetulsavoice.com/puzzle-solutions.

THE TULSA VOICE // June 6 – 19, 2018

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.

QUEENIE came to the Tulsa SPCA after being rescued from a neglectful situation at another organization. She is a threeyear-old, Staffordshire bull terrier mix.

Because of Queenie’s past treatment by humans, she can experience some anxiety, but she grows in confidence daily. Queenie loves to play outside with toys and give hugs and kisses to her people friends.

Bring out the string toys because ANGELICA cannot wait to play with you! Angelica is two years old and recently had kittens at the Tulsa SPCA. All of her kittens have been adopted and now it is her turn to get spoiled. Her beautiful eyes and quiet purr will melt your heart in seconds.

UNIVERSAL SUNDAY CROSSWORD WORLD AFFAIRS

By Timothy E. Parker

© 2018 Andrews McMeel Syndication

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THURSDAY

06.07

THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND AND THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND

SATURDAY

06.16

GEORGE LOPEZ

8PM

FRIDAY

JOHN FOGERTY

8PM

FRIDAY

HOWIE MANDEL

8PM

06.08

7PM & 10PM

06.22

SATURDAY

06.23

YANNI

8PM

LIGHTING IT UP SCAN TO PURCHASE TICKETS

Schedule subject to change.

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