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N E W S & C O M MEN TA RY

A two-pronged threat Gun culture and racism in America RAY PEARCEY // 12 8 // C ultivate the public good

10 // The odd couple

Gary Peluso-Verdend, voice of reason

Barry Friedman, matchmaker

Leaving the conversation weakens democracy

Inhofe and Francis tussle over climate change

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The triumph of Oklahoma’s largest hydroponic farm

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thin white coat covers the black spots that sprinkle my friend Sugar’s pink body from nose to nubbin. You might remember Sugar from earlier this year, when she cooperated for a chilly outdoor photo shoot to rep the Voice’s hip-hop issue. A companion of few words, Sugar lets her extended stare-downs do most of the talking. As I’ve gotten acquainted with that gaze over the years, I’ve observed that Sugar looks out at the world through a set of eyes not unlike those of animals used for industrial farming and consumption, in a body only moderately different from theirs. All that eye contact has amounted to this: I find it problematic to distinguish between Sugar and a farm animal to an extent that would rationalize one playing in the sprinkler with me and the other waiting in a stockade. Though the question of eating animals is a tough one for me, I’ve come to recognize that no diet is free of violence. Aside from the stom-

ach-turning treatment of factory-farmed pigs and cattle, a brief web search will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about dairy and egg industry practices. But even the plant-based diet involves the end of one life (be it baby kale or a small creature who gets mowed over in the farming process) in support of another. I used to consider the “plants are dying too” argument extreme and meant to antagonize vegetarians. Yet, it’s basic science that the same cells and energy animate us all, from a radish to yours truly. In my view, this brings us here: If we must eat (and we must), let us support farms that grow our food with integrity, and let us eat every bite with gratitude for this land of plenty. a

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ecently, Ray Pearcey discussed utilizing nuclear DAY DRINK energy because it emits ING no greenhouse gases. He cited Dr. James Hansen, one of the world’s top climatologists, and author Stewart Brand and their promoting nuclear energy as one means of dealing with the real and present danger of climate change. They might be justified in believing that nuclear power is the new green, but all that radioactive waste poses tons of problems, and we have no way of safely dealing with it at this time. We either must find a safe way of storing the nuclear waste or learn how we can produce radioactive-free nuclear power. Until this is solved, nuclear power cannot be considered a safe option for powering the 21st century’s technological thrust into the future. Mr. Pearcey is being farsighted in looking at some of the ongoing research. But we are not yet there. Hopefully, research can solve this problem quickly. The Carrie Dickerson Foundation supports efforts to use cleaner and safer energy resources such as wind, geothermal and solar, along with a strong conservation program. When nuclear truly becomes green, then and only then do we begin adding it to our energy repertoire. Bob Rounsavell President of the Carrie Dickerson Foundation APRIL 15 M AY 5 , 2 0 1 5 // V O L . 2 NO. 9

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EDI TO R ’ S NOTE // Rounsavell’s letter echoes the concerns of several readers who have responded to Ray’s story. For more information about efforts to address the problem of nuclear waste, Pearcey directs readers to transatomicpower.com or to Eric Roston’s June 2014 piece for Bloomberg Business, “Transatomic Power’s Safer Reactor Eats Nuclear Waste.” Pearcey has this to say about the Transatomic project: “They’re proposing to both reuse atomic waste to produce big power yields and to transmute highly radioactive conventional wastes into less toxic stuff, at old-hat nuclear sites and at shuttered reactor sites. The Transatomic project and a couple other new atomic ventures are explicitly designed to provide powerful, climate-centric solutions to the very real problems that have long bedeviled nuclear power in America.”

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Cultivate the public good A response to the Diocese of Tulsa’s withdrawal from OCCJ by GARY PELUSO-VERDEND

une 8 was not a good day for cultivating the public good in Tulsa. After the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice (OCCJ) participated in the Tulsa Pride Parade, the Diocese of Tulsa withdrew from OCCJ membership. The letter of withdrawal reads: “To march in such a parade seems to us to be a deliberate and full-throttled expression of support for the so-called gay agenda, a central component of which is same-sex marriage. Unless a clear statement can be made by OCCJ that its participation does not imply support for samesex marriage or be seen to condone sexual acts outside of marriage, we have no option but to withdraw from membership.”

Really, there were no other options? Given the long history of Catholics walking together with other faith groups to oppose bias, bigotry and hatred in Oklahoma, and given that there is still plenty of bias, bigotry and hatred in Oklahoma to oppose, it seems there might have been a way to continue to walk together. The lineage that produced OCCJ began with the National Conference of Christians and Jews, which was founded to combat anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic discrimination. NCCJ/OCCJ members have marched together for civil rights in Oklahoma for Catholics and Jews, Muslims and Christians, for the religious and non-religious—for all human beings. OCCJ has evolved into 8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

“When we create tables for conversation and argument, must we agree on everything in order to stay? The answer would seem to be ‘no.’ If it were otherwise, then every marriage would end in divorce.”

a human relations organization whose standards of liberty, compassion and justice draw people from multiple streams, religious and secular—a wider stream than the former NCCJ. Now, one of its founders has left the table. The departure is particularly disappointing because the OCCJ board had deliberately refrained from making a statement on same-sex marriage. OCCJ and its members have been vocal (and sometimes game-changing) when it comes to other prominent LGBTQ rights issues such as supporting anti-bullying and fair housing laws and opposing conversion therapies. But, after board-level and individual deliberations on the legal and moral bases of same-sex marriage, OCCJ decided not to make a statement about the issue. The bishop’s decision to leave OCCJ begs an urgent and

troubling question both for Americans generally and also for communities of faith. When we create tables for conversation and argument, must we agree on everything in order to stay? The answer would seem to be “no.” If it were otherwise, then every marriage would end in divorce. There are matters—some very important—in which I disagree with my parents, my wife, my children, my church, my colleagues, my school (even though I am the president!), my alma maters, my city, my state and my country. But I’m not divorcing any of them. We have to agree on essentials, but what are they? It’s essential to agree that we share a mission we can’t accomplish alone. When we leave, we’re saying we don’t need each other to accomplish the mission. Our current toxic ecology of gridlock politics and turning opponents into enemies

is feasting on this age of divorcing those with whom we disagree. Leaving the table dedicated to the public good weakens democracy—which, after all, is a “company of strangers” (to quote Parker Palmer) and a fellowship of conﬂicting interests. The recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the Affordable Care Act and same-sex marriage have left some religious people feeling threatened. The rulings make opportunities for dialogue even more essential for the public good. If we leave discussions we can’t control, for what kind of public good can we hope? Red and Blue America? Religious, spiritual, atheistic and I-could-not-care-less America? Horrible for the church. Just as terrible for democracy. Opining as a Christian, I believe following Jesus should have a real, positive effect on cultivating good in the public realm— including the good of staying at the table to argue, to understand one’s opponents and to strive to stay together by focusing on work that cannot be done (or done as well) alone. Do we as people of faith, as fellow citizens, need one another? The answer, in a practical sense, is not clear. But the decision to leave the table certainly implies the answer is “no.” a [Editor’s note: Gary Peluso-Verdend is an OCCJ board member and president and associate professor of practical theology at Phillips Theological Seminary. “Cultivate The Public Good” first appeared in Peluso-Verdend’s “Nurturing Leaders” blog series. It is updated and reprinted with permission. Read other blogs in the series at ptstulsa.edu.] July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

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The odd couple Inhofe and Francis tussle over climate change by BARRY FRIEDMAN

front man for this unshakable, arrogant collection of industry hacks, so to anyone facing droughts, erosion and rising10 sea levels, there’s only one heavyweight in this fight, and he wears a cassock and drives a used Renault11. A chemist by trade, the pope has degrees in philosophy and theology. Inhofe has a bachelor’s degree in economics, which, on this issue, the pope trusts as far as he can throw—wait for it—a snowball.

enator Jim Inhofe’s decades-long rant against global warming took a red-leathered papal shoe in the ass a few weeks back when Pope Francis issued his encyclical1 Laudato si’ (Praise Be to You) on care for our common home. In it, the pope called on those who deny climate change to knock it off2. “The Earth, our home,” said the pontiff, “is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.”

Them’s fightin’ words, so Inhofe3 took his manners and junk science to the nearest climate-denying chop shop. “Everyone is going to ride the pope now. Isn’t that wonderful?”

Snark and really bad imagery is no way to go through life, senator, but let’s continue. Francis’s encyclical, while sparing no one, effectively knocked out the legs on which Inhofe’s argument was barely standing. Science abandoned4 Inhofe years ago, including scientists5 who used to front for the con. Yet he clings to a peculiar interpretation of the Bible that maintains God’s good earth is immune6 to man’s actions: Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night,’ my point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous. 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

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“God’s still up there”—? Makes your head hurt, doesn’t it, to think of the Almighty as some white-robed omniscient James Adeylott (Fox23 meteorologist), sitting on a puffy cloud up there, dictating weather patterns. The senator has said global warming is the “greatest hoax7 ever perpetuated on the American people,” even though to believe that, you’d have to believe thousands of independent scientists worldwide conspired, along with Al Gore and liberals everywhere, to photoshop pics of Greenland’s disappearing glaciers8. The pope, who evidently is part of that hoax, was having none of it. They suggest that human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, with our neighbor and with the earth itself. According to the Bible, these three vital relationships have been broken, both outwardly and within us. The rupture is sin.

The pope goes on to talk about our “creaturely limitations.” This allows us to respond to the charge that Judaeo-Christian thinking, on the basis of the Genesis account which grants man “dominion” over the earth has encouraged the unbridled exploitation of nature by painting him as domineering and destructive by nature. This is not a correct interpretation of the Bible as understood by the Church.

You say “unbridled exploitation,” I say “Drill, baby, drill,” let’s call the whole thing off. The press coverage of Inhofe—portraying him as Joe Frazier to the pope’s Muhammad Ali—is astonishingly lazy. Climate change is only a punchline to those funded9 by Searle Freedom Trust, the John Williams Pope Foundation, the Howard Charitable Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation. Inhofe is a

Some circles maintain that current economics and technology will solve all environmental problems, and argue, in popular and nontechnical terms, that the problem of global hunger and poverty will be resolved simply by market growth. Their behavior shows that for them maximizing profits is enough.

Inhofe then brought the disingenuousness12. “I am concerned that his encyclical will be used by global warming alarmists to advocate for policies that will equate to the largest, most regressive tax increase in our nation’s history. It’s the poor that spend the largest portion of their expendable income to heat their homes, and they will be the ones to carry the heaviest burden of such onerous policies.”

Senator Inhofe, champion of the poor13! Il Papa, you were saying. Climate change … represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day. Many of the July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

poor live in areas particularly affected by phenomena related to warming.”

Clearly, the pope is more worried about the poor’s inability to eat than their ability to pay utility bills. “I’m not a Catholic,” Inhofe said, but I’ve got a lot of friends who are, who are wondering: Why all of a sudden is he invol ved in this? I don’t have the answer for that.”

ing Conspiracy Threatens Your Future. 8) NASA: Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt 9) Inside Climate News: Leaked Email Reveals Who’s Who List of Climate Denialists 10) National Geographic: Sea Temperature Rise 11) NY Daily News: Pope Francis plans to drive used car around

Vatican City by himself 12) TeaParty.org: Senator: Pope’s Words Will Be Used To Justify ‘Largest’ Tax Increase In History 13) Inhofe.senate.gov: Inhofe introduces food stamp restoration act 14) The Washington Post: Morning Plum: The Pope should stick to theology, climate skeptics say

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If you’re scoring at home (and, if you’re not, why not?), yes, Jim Inhofe, a Presbyterian, actually said14 he’s got a lot of Catholic friends who are wondering why the pope is acting like Bill Nye. And we weep. Armed with a sheet of talking points for when confronted with climate science, he asked the people to start fighting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) draft regulations to limit the amount of carbon power plants can produce. James Inhofe then assured them that God was on their side. “If we do it as a team you will be doing the lord’s work, and he will eventually bless you for it. Amen.”

Blessed are the deniers, for they shall inherit the earth. This, too: Inhofe was re-elected last year—we cannot remind you enough—with nearly 70 percent of the vote. a 1) Vatican: Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ of the Holy Father Francis On Care for Our Common Home 2) The New York Times: Pope Francis, in Sweeping Encyclical, Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change 3) Huffpost Politics: Jim Inhofe Says The Pope Shouldn’t Talk About Climate Change 4) Union of Concerned Scientists: Scientific Consensus on Global Warming 5) Green Joyment: Global warming is real says former denier 6) Right Wing Watch: James Inhofe Says the Bible Refutes Climate Change 7) Amazon.com: The Greatest Hoax: How the Global WarmTHE TULSA VOICE // July 1 – 14, 2015

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“SOMEDAY WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO CONFRONT THE REALITY THAT THESE MASS KILLINGS ARE RARE OCCURRENCES IN OTHER ADVANCED COUNTRIES. IF THIS BOTHERS US, WE WILL NEED TO MOVE BEYOND THE NOTION THAT AMERICANS HAVE NOTHING TO LEARN FROM OTHER SOCIETIES.” —UNIVERSITY OF TULSA HISTORY PROFESSOR BRIAN HOSNER

A two-pronged threat Gun culture and racism in America by RAY PEARCEY

he Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina shouldn’t shock even a casual student of gun violence in the U.S. But its scale, venue and simple horror is a new low. America’s Faustian entanglement with “gun freedom” is creating a social and physical landscape we almost certainly don’t want. In an address about the Charleston shootings, President Obama said America has more gun deaths than any other developed country. University of Tulsa history professor Brian Hosner concurred. “I agree with the president,” Hosner told me through e-mail. “Someday we’re going to have to confront the reality that these mass killings are rare occurrences in other advanced countries. If this bothers us, we will need to move beyond the notion that Americans have nothing to learn from other societies.” The Charleston outrage is a nightmarish testament to the fact 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

that deep, lurking racial animosity is still an everyday reality in America. In a sickening confection, self-confessed killer Dylann Roof has fused the reckless, imperial impulses at the heart of too many racially-fueled conﬂicts between bad cops and citizens of color—in Baltimore, New York, Ferguson, North Carolina and here in Tulsa—with the horrific mass killings we’ve seen in Newtown, Virginia Tech, Colorado, Arizona and elsewhere. These killings highlight a grim, accelerating “empowerment” dynamic in our country, driven by vast gun availability that offers no barriers to securing pocket-sized (and bigger) dispensers of death. Startlingly, a country already festooned with 300 million firearms will, by several credible accounts, soon have access to home-based gun-making machines—“3D printers” with Apple-like user interfaces. We’re at the cusp of a frightful path that promises anyone with a modicum of resources the “gift” of gun making—a sea change that will

defeat even the most stringent gun control measures. THE LOCKDOWN SOCIETY Imagine a country in which going almost anywhere—a restaurant, the supermarket, the gym, a church, a music festival—becomes an invasive, TSA-like routine that you repeat as you move through a typical day. For some Tulsans, daily encounters with scanners and security guards became routine long ago at workplaces, in gated communities and on some religious campuses. But these momentary hassles will seem trivial compared to a daily ritual of seemingly endless searches and pat-downs. The coming lockdown society is a galloping by-product of 9/11—one that’s quickened by our continued inability to coexist peacefully with one another across the color line. An enormous amount of cogitation (though sadly, not much action) has gone into fixing our racial divide and rolling back gun violence. Here’s a brief survey of the critical and the creative:

Move beyond “more guns” mythology // One of the socalled solutions ﬂoating around is a cluster of “data-rich” claims made over the past 15 years by economist and gun activist John Lott. The Lott assertion is a simple one: We simply don’t have enough gun users. A gun lobby leader recently blamed Emmanuel church’s Pastor Pinckney because he or one of his operatives should’ve had a gun on hand to “dispense” the 21-year-old who apparently killed him and nine of his congregants. Yet, a bundle of empirical studies strongly suggests that having still more gun users won’t deter mass killings. On June 18, Evan DeFillippis (a 2012 University of Oklahoma valedictorian) and Devin Hughes wrote about the previous day’s shooting in Charleston for The Trace, a gun violence watchdog website. “Gun-rights advocates have long defended the public carrying of guns on the basis of a widely debunked 1992 study estimating 1.5 million to 2.5 million incidents July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

of defensive gun use per year,” they wrote. “Empirical evidence, however, indicates that defensive gun use may occur far less frequently: According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were only 1,600 verified accounts of defensive gun use in 2014. The best current statistical model, which corrects for numerous weaknesses in Lott’s body of work … suggests that concealed-carry laws may actually increase the rate of aggravated assaults.” Detect guns in public spaces Pushing the advanced development and broad-scale use of electronic gunpowder detectors in public spaces would increase transparency and improve public safety. Still in the early stages of development, these fixed scanning sensor arrays (known as electronic noses1) and other gun detection devices2 could communicate with a smart phone app to indicate who in your immediate proximity is packing heat. Befriend the other // A society in which children don’t encounter kids unlike themselves is bound to have problems. It appears that Roof never really had any sustained encounters with black folks. His experience, it seems, came mostly from selective exposure— toxic relatives, gonzo websites, TV and movies. The past decade has given rise to several strategies to expose young Americans to a more diverse cross-section of their fellow citizens. One of the most intriguing, if contentious, notions would require every child to make a one-time community service commitment for a few months to a year. The great historic models here are the FDR/New Deal youth employment efforts. The many arguments against this option come mostly from the libertarian vantage and from right-wing partisans—both see national youth service programs as another instance of big government overreach. The counterargument of course is that democracy has its costs, and THE TULSA VOICE // July 1 – 14, 2015

creating a world in which kids (and adults) are less fearful of people unlike themselves is an essential component of a high-functioning modern America. Alternatively, we might make huge strides through imaginative, focused attempts to get adults from all of Tulsa’s hoods and hangouts to spend time with one another on a regular, sustained basis. But as “Bowling Alone” author and diversity guru Robert Putnam notes, reconciliation campaigns are no picnic. Evidence suggests that difficulties might initially increase as people interact more intensely with their crosstown/interracial compadres. The John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Foundation is doing some of this work here in Tulsa with its periodic gatherings, and the multipronged, interracial engagement efforts of All Souls Unitarian Church are also very promising. Hold gun owners accountable // “Gun freedom” has an enormous cost in America—isn’t it time that gun owners and their powerful allies deal with this reality? A bill was introduced last year in the U.S. house that would require gun owners to purchase insurance. Like all gun-related issues, the politics and particulars of the bill are convoluted. But such insurance policies would likely reduce the human and property costs of accidental discharges and collateral damage from defensive use. Although civil lawsuits sometimes address these losses, mandatory insurance is surely an equity adjustment worth pursuing. a

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Bramble

Two diner-inspired eateries bring breakfast back to the Blue Dome | B Y M E G A N S H E P H E R D

ulsa’s always had a healthy appetite for prefabricated fare, and diners abound. We lost longstanding breakfast staple Blue Dome Diner and a few years ago, but downtown has rebounded with two new restaurants—both on the same street, both rising from the ashes of earlier concepts. Within weeks of each other, Dilly Diner and Bramble Breakfast & Bar recently opened at the same downtown intersection, on 2 nd and Elgin. Executive chefs Trevor Tack and Michelle Donaldson are good friends, and both told me their concepts were years in the making. The synchronicity is curious. Just a few months ago, Dilly Diner was the sandwich shop Dilly Deli, and Bramble was an evening cocktail bar with a limited selection of small plates. Both previous incarnations closed for a conceptual overhaul around the same time this spring. Tack said his recent signing as corporate executive chef of the McNellie’s Group tasked him with developing Dilly

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Diner’s menu. Donaldson (who is also executive chef of Bramble’s sister restaurant, Tallgrass Prairie Table) said a breakfast concept was in the works even before Tallgrass opened. Neither chef seemed concerned about sharing real estate or competing for business. “Before we closed down to do our diner, I caught wind that they were doing theirs,” Tack said. “And I reached out to her in a friendly—very, very, I want to reiterate that, very friendly— phone call, in no way trying to bully, but just to tell her, ‘Hey, it’s in the works, we’re doing the same thing.’ They have been nothing but gracious and supportive during our opening. And I love them, and I love what they do.” Despite that the two concepts are of a piece, Donaldson stressed their differences. “I think (Tack and Dilly Diner) are taking a much more straightforward approach to breakfast,” she said. “And I think we’re a little off the beaten path. We’re not really a diner. We like to consider ourselves more short-order farm-to-table.” +

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DILLY DINER’S TWO-EGG BREAKFAST

DILLY DINER’S SUMMER STEAK

BRAMBLE’S WHITE CHEDDAR SHORT STACK

Tulsa-based Hoot Owl Coffee provides Bramble’s bean juice, and Donaldson plans to add a nitro system for their cold brew. “Hoot Owl is definitely of the same ethos that we are,” Donaldson said. “For every pound of coffee they sell, they donate a pound of food.”

HOOT OWL COFFEE SERVED AT BRAMBLE

BRAMBLE’S KHACHAPURI

DILLY DINER’S COCKTAILS

DILLY DINER’S STRAWBERRY RHUBARB PIE

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WINNERS

BRAMBLE’S SMASH BURGER

DILLY BURGER

DILLY DINER

Since Dilly Diner’s hard opening a few weeks ago, Tack said he’d already seen repeat customers. (Confession: I’m one of them). Despite the Diner’s retro aesthetic, Tack’s menu is impressively fresh and full of locally sourced ingredients. Plates like the Beets and Quinoa can satisfy greasy-spoon lovers and green eaters alike. Local craft-cocktail maestro Tony Collins developed the drink menu, and Topeca provides the coffee, including full espresso service. A robust pastry section includes an assortment of pies alongside a “farmto-cone” soft-serve machine of rotating ice creams. At every turn, the Diner feels like an improvement over the Deli. “When we opened Dilly Deli many years ago, we weren’t as big of a company, and we had an idea to do a deli because that was a hole that needed to be filled in the particular market back then,” Tack said. “But (the company) matured, needs matured, and we thought it was time for Dilly Deli to mature with it.”

Former fixture:

Dilly Deli

Power pastry: Don’t be fooled by the sneaky, nostalgic seduction of that Froot Loops-topped doughnut. Keep your eyes on the prize and order the piece de resistance of diner fare: a fat slice of strawberry rhubarb pie. It’s flaky, it’s perfectly latticed, it’s all that and a side of softserve. Wildcard favorite: Try the Chicken and Waffles. The

dish is having a moment, but Tack is giving it laudable longevity with Asian updates and a spicy kick. Look out for a daily grilled cheese and some blue-plates, which Chef Memo Zavala hopes to add in the future. Daily special:

The curious Cereal Milk cocktail begs for a taste. I didn’t try one because it was 2:30 p.m. and my boss was in the office, but house-made cereal milk mixed fresh every morning, laced with booze? Watch out, Sunday. (The Voice staff couldn’t resist; see boozeclues on p. 27 for details.)

Boozy fun:

BRAMBLE’S PASTRIES

WHO DOES IT BEST DINER STAPLES GO HEAD TO HEAD

MATCH 1: BURGERS In the southeast corner, we’ve got the Dilly Burger, a Mickeydee’s throwback featuring double meat (responsibly sourced!) and cheese, red onion, house-made pickles and Tack’s own fancy sauce on a freshly-baked sesame seed bun. It’s juicy, tangy, smooth and sweet, but be warned: This burger will change you. As someone who’s rarely compelled to order beef (or perhaps because of that), this dish has occupied my thoughts since the first bite. Consider this my entrance to the dark side. Down the road, Donaldson butchers locally sourced, grass-fed beef and hand-presses her own patties for the appropriately dubbed Smash Burger. She adds local lettuce and tomato, local cheddar from Christian Brothers farm and house-made pickles, ketchup and sriracha for garnish. A pile of string-thin French fries dusted with vinegar and sea salt finishes the plate. Bramble’s is a smaller, more elegant dish, bursting with bright, clean flavors. But it’s hard to beat a classic diner burger. Dilly Diner wins out in this round.

MATCH 2: DOUGHNUTS Dilly Diner gets points for charm with toppings like whipped buttercream, fresh strawberries, candy sprinkles and fruity pebbles. But there’s a formidable opponent in Bramble’s pastry case, which presents a new daily doughnut concept each morning. With flavors like S’mores (toasted house-made marshmallow, chocolate streaks and crumbled graham cracker) and green apple and cheddar laid over what tastes like an apple cider-fried delight, Bramble’s doughnuts are in a league of their own. For this battle, Bramble takes the cake.

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BRAMBLE BREAKFAST & BAR

Donaldson said Bramble’s fare, helmed by Chef de Cuisine Madeleine Eller, is “an homage to breakfast everywhere,” and the description fits: From the English Breakfast to Spanish skillet Migas and Georgian Khachapuri cheeseand-egg bread, eating your way through the menu is like eating your way around the world. “I love to break things down and reconstruct them in a way that makes them my own,” Donaldson said. “I don’t ever want to serve what someone else is serving.” Donaldson and her team are as creative as they are resourceful. At Tallgrass, she and her staff butcher whole steers. To honor their nose-to-tail ethic, they’ve used the excess utility cuts in Bramble items like the Smash Burger and Chili Colorado. Like its sister restaurant, Bramble partners with local farms for much of its produce. Everything from Bramble’s carefully curated selection of antique salt and pepper shakers to the hammedup pig décor beckons to grandma’s kitchen. Despite its similarities to Tallgrass, Bramble’s lower price point and rustic atmosphere make it more accessible.

Former fixture:

Bramble

Although “pastry” might be a stretch, the Khachapuri is unlike any other dish I’ve seen on a Tulsa menu and better than anything I’ve tasted in a while. Grab a loaf of the cheesy pull-apart bread for your table, dunk it in the egg froth, and enjoy a taste of euphoria.

Power pastry:

Wildcard favorite: The Cheddar Short Stack with jala-

peño-infused maple syrup was the dark horse of the menu. The quirky cheddar, jalapeño and maple syrup-bathed flapjacks had a cornbread-like flavor with the fluff of a pancake. Bramble’s daily Blue Plate Specials feature age-old favorites like Chef de Cuisine Madeleine Eller’s family recipe for King Ranch Chicken casserole, and the beloved Matzo Ball soup. Daily special:

Boozy fun: Pair the Smash Burger with a vanilla stout. Or, try the Sunnyside Up—a smooth, creamy bourbon cocktail with egg yolks and a pickled quail egg garnish. Plan C: the Porter Cinnamon Float, made with cinnamon ice cream and the surprisingly fizzy Tallgrass Buffalo Sweat.

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MAI TAI

CARIBE WELCOME

DEAD BASTARD

The Escapist’s Bar Saturn Room brings the

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by JOSHUA KLINE | photos by GREG BOLLINGER NOAH BUSH LAUGHS AND POINTS at his Mai Tai. “Look at this stupid drink! There’s a flamingo in there.” One of the more understated drinks at Saturn Room, the Mai Tai is the original Tiki cocktail. It’s served in a lowball glass, as opposed to the hollowed-out coconuts or Tiki tumblers found elsewhere on the menu, but with a pink paper flamingo and a stylish garnish of lime and mint. Many of us land-locked Tulsans have come to associate colorful, fruit-laden cocktails with the garish excesses of low-rent chain restaurants: high-fructose corn syrup, powdered sweet ‘n’ sour mix, a sickly sweet concoction with a vaguely chemical finish. But these drinks are different. “I take what I drink seriously, but I’ve never really taken myself seriously,” Bush tells me as we sip the rum drinks under grass thatch, surrounded by bamboo, totem poles and spherical multicolored lamps. We’re not in the Caribbean, but it’s easy to pretend. Saturn Room, Bush’s latest project with partners Jeremy Reed and John Gaberino, is a collision of the serious and the trivial. Sophisticated, nuanced cocktails garnished with florid, unwieldy arrangements of 20 // FOOD & DRINK

fruit and mini umbrellas are crafted by talented professionals who happen to be wearing Hawaiian shirts in a room made to feel like a hut on the beach of some exotic island. The concept for the bar was born from Bush’s and Reed’s mutual love of Tiki bars. “The Tiki bar is all about escapism,” Bush says. “If you look around here, there are barely any windows. We have the swim-up bar over there”—he motions to a single large window connecting the bar to the outside patio, where guests can order drinks without setting foot inside—“but the idea is that you come in here, and you forget that you’re in Tulsa.” Bush, who also owns Hodges Bend with Gaberino, says his first experience with a Tiki bar was Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco. “I remember walking in the door and thinking to myself—‘I don’t get it,” he says. “Martin Denny Exotica jazz was playing, and I was like, this is so odd. I looked at the cocktail menu, and nothing was of interest to me, but I still ordered a drink. I took a sip of it, and it was boozy, it was bracing with citrus and then it had that underlying sweetness to it. I absolutely, instantaneously fell in love

with the place. I got it. I was transported to an island. And that’s when I started seeking out Tiki bars.” Reed, who also owns Bar 46, says the craft cocktail movement first intrigued him several years ago, when Hodges Bend and Valkyrie opened downtown. “The more I studied craft cocktails, the more I enjoyed drinking them and learning the recipes, the more I fell in love with it,” Reed says. “However, I’m just never going to be the guy to wear a bowtie and denim shirt to work. I work in shorts and a polo or Hawaiian shirt.” The Tiki ethos of complex drinks served in a casual, vacation-like atmosphere suited Reed. “This fits perfectly with my personality and my sense of dress.” Bush and Reed wrote Saturn Room’s menu together. It’s a combination of new creations and Tiki classics, occasionally tweaked to suit the owners’ personalities (Bush prefers a dryer cocktail). “I think that these are serious cocktails, but I want to take the pretense away from what a serious cocktail is,” Bush says. “I also think that a lot of people have never really had a well-made Tiki drink, and as soon as they do, whether they

be vodka soda drinkers or people that appreciate Scotch and highend cocktails, their mind is kind of blown.” Indeed, this particular Mai Tai (my first ever) is an elegant multi-sensory experience. A blend of Rhum Clement V.S.O.P., Myers’s Dark Rum and lime juice form the base, and it’s fleshed out with orgeat (an almond syrup), dry curacao (a traditional French triple sec) and simple syrup. Besides looking pretty, the mint and lime garnishes’ pronounced aromas contribute to the composition of each sip. Saturn Room’s juices are freshsqueezed daily, and the various syrups are made in-house. In the future, they plan to add a full-service food menu and some sort of water feature—a staple of Tiki bars. I drain the dregs of my drink and make my way to the exit. As I push the door open and step onto the concrete, I’m assaulted by a blast of midwestern heat as my eyes adjust to the blinding light. Though a view of the downtown skyline greets me, I’m hit with the overwhelming desire to duck back into Saturn Room and continue pretending that the beach and a palm tree are just a few feet away. a July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Scissortail Farms | EVAN TAY LOR, INSET-GREG BOLLINGER

Nerd-ture over nature The triumph of Oklahoma’s largest hydroponic farm by JENNIE LLOYD

efore Scissortail Farms grew into a hydroponic farm capable of harvesting a million pounds of greens each year, it was just an experiment in John Sulton’s backyard. The former production and supply chain engineer founded the farm—now Oklahoma’s largest hydroponic growth facility—a few years ago with his friend Rob Walenta, who has a background in construction and government management. The pair went searching for technology that could eliminate the usual drawbacks of farming and keep consistent, fresh greens available to the community year-round. “In Oklahoma, a lot of vegetables are available at one point during the year, then they disappear,” Sulton said. “Then [other crops] come out of California, and there’s a drought and prices go up, or there’s a ﬂood and prices ﬂuctuate.” 22 // FOOD & DRINK

Hydroponic farming has the advantage of control. “That’s the key,” Sulton said. “Not being at the mercy of the elements.” Intrigued with the methods used at Disney’s Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida, they planned a greenhouse of their own. During the yearlong construction, Sulton’s backyard became Scissortail’s testing site. The not-so-mad scientists tinkered with a dozen vertical growing towers and produced lettuce mixes, sorrel and arugula. Last fall, Sulton and Walenta transplanted the test farm to their half-acre facility on a hill deep in west Tulsa. Inside the 26,000-square-foot greenhouse, more than 1,300 lightweight plastic towers hold about 50 plants each. At the base of each tower, sensors monitor water levels, pH and nutrients. Baby kale grows in less than a month on a sheet of artificial

soil made of spun volcanic ash. Leggy arugula and tufts of peppery mustard greens mature a few rows down. Scissortail Farms partners with local restaurants including The Vault, Juniper, Bodean, Boston Deli, Doc’s Food & Wine, La Villa at Philbrook, Tallgrass Prairie Table and The Canebrake in Wagoner. The farm offers select leafy greens and herbs—living roots and all—including spinach, Swiss chard, Thai basil, cilantro, parsley and others. Sulton and Walenta are also experimenting with vegetables—some of which would be less expensive to grow because they wouldn’t require a tower. Protected from the hazards of our temperamental climate (the farm has weathered both hailstorms and tornadoes), Scissortail can grow and harvest between 60,000 to 70,000 plants in rapid, continuous cycles. The thriving

greenhouse is a testament to the power of applied nerdery—the leafy-green victory of nerd-ture over nature. Still, it’s not immune to catastrophe. On June 1, an electrical fire in the greenhouse destroyed half a dozen towers, and smoke and ash ruined the entire harvest. On a typical farm, the season would be a wash at this point. But as soon as the smoke cleared, the Scissortail crew cleaned up and immediately re-planted the hundreds of seedlings at the ready in an isolated nursery. Less than a month later, the greenhouse has bounced back. Amidst the lush greenery, the only sign of fire is a cloudy black smoke stain in the center of the overhead tarp. To order or pick up freshly-plucked greens for your own dishes, visit Scissortail Farms weekdays from 2-5 p.m. To tour the facility, schedule in advance. a July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Fair-weather ﬂavors Ten one-of-a-kind local dishes for summer by MAURIE TRAYLOR | photos by VALERIE GRANT

ith innovative chefs and ambitious menus, Tulsa’s independent restaurants catapult local dining to new heights. No matter what time of day and whether you’re dressed for a night at the symphony or cooling off after a swim, one-of-a-kind options abound. Here’s my shortlist of summer highlights—each boasts incredible value and selection and guarantees a holiday from your usual dining routine. But hurry: Some of these options are for warmer months only. DUCK The Chalkboard’s Pekin Duck Breast. This cold-smoked and panseared dish is served over duck fat polenta and sautéed broccolini beside splattered blueberry compote. It’s just one of the newest sweet and savory creations of Executive Chef Josh McClure, a rising star in the Tulsa culinary scene. SANDWICH Trencher’s Delicatessen’s Dutch Crunch. Turkey, avocado mayo, bacon, tomato, baby Swiss and arugula complete the sandwich. Toasting gives a special ﬂour on the fresh, house-made bread a wonderful texture.

Left to right : The Chalkboard, Trencher’s, SMOKE, The Tropical, Lone Wolf, Mod’s

CHICKEN SMOKE on Cherry Street’s grilled Half Chicken is served with dried cherry and hazelnut panzanella and tarragon butter. Smoky bacon mustard vinaigrette adorns the arugula,

and the tomato salad is beautifully garnished with micro greens and edible ﬂower. APPETIZER The Tropical’s Chicken Curry Puff. Curry, savory seasonings and deep-fried pastry stuffed with chicken make a great take-along for summer parties. The refreshing sweet and sour cucumber salad is made with ingredients harvested from The Tropical’s on-site garden the very day you order this dish. This is one addictive pairing of pastry and salad. BRUNCH Lone Wolf’s French Omelet served with the food truck’s version of home fries: sweet potatoes and beets parboiled with vegetable stock and infused with cilantro, mint, ginger and green onions. Look for a new version of the omelet each week, depending on seasonal availability. On my recent visit, the dish featured Havarti, oven-roasted tomato, basil aioli and scallions. Lone Wolf ’s new brunch menu is available at The Fur Shop on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. SAVORY CREPE Mod’s Spicy Turkey and Cranberry with horseradish, spicy mustard and mozzarella in a tender, ﬂaky crepe. Finish this perfect combination of spicy and sweet with one of Mod’s famous Gelatos, which are made with fresh fruit and include vegan options. (Continued on page 26)

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(Continued from page 24) PASTA The Vault’s Vault Pasta. This dish is delicate and light yet generously portioned and surprisingly filling (a smaller size is available for lunch). Rotini, eggplant, spinach and local cherry tomatoes compliment a lemon garlic sauce. Garnished with Parmesan and pecans, the pasta comes with sausage or makes a satisfying vegetarian option. It’s impossible to finish this dish without feeling better about life.

SEAFOOD Tavolo’s Salmon Picatta. This tangy selection is served with a lemon and white wine sauce and seasoned with capers and garlic. The house-made linguine pasta makes this dish extra special, and there’s something about Tavolo’s romantic ambiance that just makes this dish all the more satisfying.

with fresh Burrata, hand shredded basil and a dressing of olive oil and blackberry balsamic. Burrata, a fresh Italian cheese made with mozzarella and cream, might be new terrain for some diners. This innovative version offers Doc’s signature ﬂavoring with the topshelf presentation we’ve come to love and admire from chef Tim Richards.

SALAD Doc’s Heirloom Tomato Salad. This warm weather delight is made

MEAT ON A BONE Tallgrass Prairie Table’s Hoot Owl Coffee Rubbed Spare Ribs.

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Big Al’s Health Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s BBQ Brothers Houligan Calaveras Mexican Grill Capp’s BBQ Corner Café Duffy’s Diner El Rio Verde Freddie’s Hamburgers Guang Zhou Dim Sum Hoot Owl Coffee Company Jim’s Coney Island Las Americas Super Mercado & Restaurant

BBD II Baja Jack’s Burrito Shack Bamboo Thai Bistro Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders Bodean’s Seafood Restaurant The Brook Camille’s Sidewalk Café Cardigan’s Charleston’s Cimarron Meat Company Dona Tina Cocina Mexicana El Guapo’s El Samborsito Elements Steakhouse & Grille The Fig Café and Bakery First Watch Five Guys French Hen Gencies Chicken Shack Gyros by Ali Hebert’s Specialty Meats Helen of Troy Hideaway Pizza India Palace

Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Oklahoma Style BBQ Philly Alley Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza

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Ike’s Chili Papa Ganouj JJ’s Hamburgers

BROOKSIDE Antoinette Baking Co. Biga Billy Sims BBQ Blue Moon Bakery and Café The Brook Brookside By Day Café Ole Café Samana Charleston’s Claud’s Hamburgers Cosmo Café & Bar Crow Creek Tavern Doc’s Wine and Food Egg Roll Express Elmer’s BBQ La Hacienda Lokal The Hen Bistro Hibiscus Caribbean Bar and Grill HopBunz In the Raw

Keo Lambrusco’Z To Go Leon’s Brookside Lokal Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Ming’s Noodle Bar Mondo’s Ristorante Italiano Old School Bagel Café Pei Wei Asian Diner R Bar & Grill Rons Hamburgers & Chili Señor Tequila Shades of Brown Sonoma Bistro & Wine Bar Starbucks Sumatra Coffee Shop Super Wok The Warehouse Bar & Grill Weber’s Root Beer Whole Foods Market Yolotti Frozen Yogurt Zoës Kitchen

UTICA SQUARE Brownies Gourmet Burgers Fleming’s Goldie’s Patio Grill McGill’s Olive Garden P.F. Chang’s China Bistro

WO ODLAND HILLS

BLUE D OME The Krazy Olive La Crêpe Nanou La Flama Mahogany Prime Steakhouse McNellie’s South City Mr. Goodcents Subs & Pastas Napa Flats Wood Fired Kitchen Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Nordaggio’s Coffee OK Country Donut Shoppe Pita Place Redrock Canyon Grill Ripe Tomato Ron’s Hamburgers and Chili Sushi Hana Japanese Fusion Thai Village Tres Amigos Mexican Grill & Cantina White Lion Whole Foods Yokozuna Zio’s Italian Kitchen

Pepper’s Grill Polo Grill Queenie’s Café and Bakery Starbucks Stonehorse Café Wild Fork

Albert G’s Bar & Q Bramble Dilly Diner El Guapo’s Cantina Fassler Hall Joe Bots Coffee Joe Momma’s Pizza

Juniper Lambrusco’z McNellie’s S&J Oyster Company STG Pizzeria & Gelateria Tallgrass Prairie Table Yokozuna

DECO DISTRICT Atlas Grill Billy’s on the Square Boston Avenue Grill Deco Deli

Elote Café & Catering Mod’s Coffee & Crepes Tavolo The Vault

DOWNTOWN 624 Kitchen and Catering All About Cha Stylish Coffee & Tea Baxter’s Interurban Grill Bohemian Pizzeria The Boiler Room The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch 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 Café Oklahoma Spud on the Mall Seven West Café Sheena’s Cookies & Deli Steakfinger House The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Williams Center Café

TERWILLEGER HEIGHTS Bill & Ruth’s Blue Rose Café Burn Co. BBQ The Chalkboard Dalesandro’s

Elwoods Mansion House Café Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili La Villa at Philbrook

GREENWOOD Abear’s Fat Guy’s

Lefty’s on Greenwood

MIDTOWN Albert G’s Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bravo’s Mexican Grill Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse Felini’s Cookies & Deli

Golden Gate Lambrusco’z Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Trenchers Delicatessen

I-44/BA INTERCHANGE Big Anthony’s BBQ Bill & Ruth’s Subs Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Chop House BBQ D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Gogi Gui Growler’s Sandwich Grill Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s Mexican Restaurant & Bar Mazzio’s Italian Eatery

Monterey’s Little Mexico Nelson’s Buffeteria Pho Da Cao Pickle’s Pub Rice Bowl Cafe Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Roo’s Sidewalk Café Royal Dragon Sezchuan Express Shawkat’s Deli & Grill Speedy Gonzalez Grill Spudder Steak Stuffers USA Tacos Don Francisco Thai Siam Tokyo Garden The Tropical Restaurant & Bar Viet Huong Villa Ravenna Watts Barbecue

NORTH TULSA Amsterdam Bar & Grill Admiral Grill Bill & Ruth’s Christy’s BBQ Evelyn’s Golden Saddle BBQ Steakhouse Hank’s Hamburgers

Harden’s Hamburgers Hero’s Subs & Burgers Los Primos Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market

WEST TULSA

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Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken Jumpin J’s Knotty Pine BBQ Hideaway Pizza Linda Mar

Lot a Burger Monterey’s Little Mexico Ollie’s Station Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Sandwiches & More Union Street Café Westside Grill & Delivery

Asahi Sushi Bar Baker Street Pub & Grill Billy Sims BBQ Bistro at Seville Bluestone Steahouse and Seafood Restaurant Brothers Houligan Brothers Pizza Bucket’s Sports Bar & Grill Charlie’s Chicken Chuy’s Chopsticks El Tequila Fat Daddy’s Pub & Grille Fat Guy’s Burger Bar Fish Daddy’s Seafood Grill Fuji FuWa Asian Kitchen Firehouse Subs The Gaucho Brazilian Steakhouse Haruno Hungry Howie’s Pizza In the Raw on the Hill Jameson’s Pub Jamil’s Jason’s Deli

Jay’s Original Hoagies Keo Kit’s Takee-Outee La Roma Lanna Thai Logan’s Road House Louie’s Mandarin Taste Marley’s Pizza Mekong River Mi Tierra Napoli’s Italian Restaurant Oliveto Italian Bistro Ri Le’s Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Ridge Grill Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Savoy Shogun Steakhouse of Japan Siegi’s Sausage Factory & Deli Ti Amo Italian Ristorante Wrangler’s Bar-B-Q Yasaka Steakhouse of Japan Zio’s Italian Kitchen

BRADY ARTS DISTRICT Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Draper’s Bar-B-Cue Gypsy Coffee House Hey Mambo The Hunt Club Laffa Lucky’s on the Green Mexicali Border Café

Oklahoma Joe’s Prhyme Downtown Steakhouse The Rusty Crane Sisserou’s Spaghetti Warehouse The Tavern Zin Wine, Beer & Dessert Bar

CHERRY STREET 15 Below Andolini’s Pizzeria Café Cubana Chimi’s Mexican Food Chipotle Mexican Grill Coffee House on Cherry Street Doe’s Eat Place Full Moon Café Genghis Grill Heirloom Baking Co. Hideaway Pizza Jason’s Deli Kilkenny’s Irish Pub & Eatery La Madeleine

Lucky’s Restaurant Mary’s Italian Trattoria Mi Cocina Oklahoma Kolache Co. Palace Café Panera Bread Phat Philly’s The Pint Qdoba Mexican Grill SMOKE. Te Kei’s Tucci’s Café Italia Zanmai

EAST TULSA Al Sultan Grill & Bakery Big Daddy’s All American Bar-B-Q Birrieria Felipe Bogey’s Brothers Houligan Casa San Marcos Casanova’s Restaurant Charlie’s Chicken Cherokee Deli Darby’s Restaurant El Centenario El Gallo Loco El 7 Marez El Refugio Azteca Super Taqueria Fiesta Del Mar Flame Broiler Frank’s Café Fu-Thai Garibaldi’s The Gnarley Dawg Hatfield’s

Jay’s Coneys Josie’s Tamales Kimmy’s Diner Korean Garden Leon’s Smoke Shack Lot a Burger Maria’s Mexican Grill Mariscos Costa Azul Mariscos El Centenario Mekong Vietnamese Pizza Depot Pizza Express Porky’s Kitchen Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili RoseRock Cafe Señor Fajita Seoul Restaurant Shiloh’s of Tulsa Shish-Kabob & Grill Stone Mill BBQ & Steakhouse Tacos San Pedro Taqueria la Cabana Timmy’s Diner

ROSE DISTRICT BruHouse Daylight Donuts Family Back Creek Deli & Gifts Fiesta Mambo! Hideaway Pizza In the Raw

Main Street Tavern McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro Romeo’s Espresso Cafe The Rooftop

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Clockwise from l eft: Oyster mushrooms, herbs, artichoke and blueberries | VALERIE GRANT

The invented diet Re-wilding dinner to transcend the beige by ZAC KING

ow sexy is the produce section? Without even tasting all those bulbous plants, you’re hit with a sensory overload. There’s the deceptively fabulous passion fruit, the regal eggplants, the lettuce wall—AKA 50 shades of green. Though sanitized and bloodless, the butcher’s counter is a bit less appealing. But for most of us, it awakens our carnivorous appetites like dinner bells during a cowboy nap. Mother nature sure had an eye for presentation, right? Not so fast—there was no such thing as a red, polished apple and center-cut cured bacon in the Paleolithic era. Despite the pseudo-diversity at your local grocery, only a few real distinctions characterize your colorful dinner. About 10,000 years ago, Homo sapiens—highly advanced foraging omnivores—traded in a ridiculously diverse range of wild and medicinal foods to focus on harnessing life-sustaining calories. Adopting agriculture and animal

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husbandry, most humans left the hunting and gathering to hobby. Certain plants and animals proved more suited for predictable consumption. After centuries of manipulation, our modern food hardly resembles the wild cuisine that nourished our ancestors. Consider wild Brassica Oleracea, a plant that flourishes in the limestone near the English Channel. Half of your shopping cart—cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, savoy, collard greens, cauliflower and many other edibles—were cultivated from this one bitter little bud. Then there’s Rosaceae, a flowering plant family whose numerous descendants include the apple, pear, cherry, almond, plum and raspberry. Though some of this diversity occurs in the wild, humans domesticated varieties for flavor, size and so on, including more than 5,000 varieties of apple. From wild grasses, we developed more gummy, calorie-rich germ. We mutated the tiny, col-

orful, bitter wild potato into the nightshades, whose gigantic tubers are typically white and worthless on the tongue without a heap of corn-fed butter. Our carrots were once miniature, purple and packed with anthocyanins1 (a wonderfully robust compound known for its cancer-fighting and anti-aging properties2). Modern carrots are monochromatic, excessively sugary and lower in phytochemicals. Finally, the prized cow, chicken and pig—what the heck are these things? Like the pug and Chihuahua, farm animals are domesticated models of their robust ancestors. The wild boar, AKA Sus Scrofa, first came to the U.S. with European explorers. Husbandry tamed these horned and aggressive quadrupeds into anthropomorphic movie star material (see “Babe” for details). A similar story precedes the more than 300 breeds of cow in the world today. Ever heard of yattle (cow/Yak) or beefalo (no need to explain there)? They both lineate

from the Eastern wild ox, according to new genetic research3. The chicken descended from the wild rooster, which was bred initially for cock-fighting and not chicken nuggets. Though the docile animals now peck around in pastures and backyards, their forefathers were extremely aggressive and full of vitality. So the majority of your dinner plate is invented—is creativity such a bad thing? Not necessarily. But what if vital foods build vital people? Due to a naturally active lifestyle, wild game is typically lower in fat. And wild plants and animals have intense ﬂavor profiles, mostly due to high levels of minerals and fat-soluble vitamins (A, E, D and K). The bitterness of plants comes from phytochemicals such as nitrogen-based alkaloids, carotenoids and capsaicin. Curcuminoids make the turmeric root taste almost like cologne but indicate its extensive cancer-fighting abilities4. These compounds are typically more abundant in the FOOD & DRINK // 29

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wild ancestors of our supermarket hybrids. For more robust nutrition, eat local and incorporate more wild plants into your diet. Mulberries, dandelion greens, venison, morel mushrooms and wild plums are just a few powerhouse foods that are easily accessible here in Oklahoma. Foraging without guidance can be dangerous, so make sure you’re well aware of edible plant traits, as well as the less obvious differences exposing their dangerous impersonators. Acquire tips by scanning and inquiring on the local Facebook community page, “Foraging Oklahoma.” OklahomaWildcrafting.com also offers an abundance of information— including events and e-books—for safely foraging herbs, mushrooms and other edibles. If blindly entering our buggy forests for weird food sounds like a stretch, local farmers’ markets and alternative grocery stores have great wild and closer-to-wild options. Health writer Jo Robinson frequently revisits the globe 30 // FOOD & DRINK

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Summer Dandy 1 avocado 1 mango 5 leaves wild dandelion greens 8 leaves homegrown mint 12 oz coconut water 1 tsp turmeric powder artichoke in her book Eating on the Wild Side. Robinson calls it “one of the most nutritious vegetables in the grocery store,” even when canned5. If artichokes aren’t your thing, Robinson recommends blueberries, black grapes, purple carrots, mangoes, papayas, arugula, blue fingerling potatoes, beets, lentils and chives. Herbs are also highly bioactive and rich in a wonderful array of phytochemicals. Giving your tongue another world of untamed variety, mushrooms like morels, oysters and chanterelles find their way into market on occasion as well.

As for wild game, many hunters end up with more than they can handle. Asking around might get you a plump pheasant or some venison liver (one of the most abundant sources of vitamins A and B12). Bison and lamb also offer a more gamey and wild taste. If it’s beef you’re after, the grass-fed variety has been thoroughly proven to contain more fat-soluble vitamins and minerals6. For direction, check out Robinson’s online catalog of Oklahoma’s wilder producers of animal products7. Okie growers bring many of these products to our highly accessible farmers’ markets. Getting

these foods locally will always offer more nutrients and a more direct connection with your dinner. Prepare your next meal using wild bounty. Aside from being more nutritious, the mouth feel and ﬂavor profiles will refine your palate and make it harder to return to the bland and beige hybrids invading our food supply. Don’t forget to enjoy the meditations of cooking—chew slowly, laugh with good company, and don’t fret over a few extra creamy calories. a

1) Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology: Anthocyanins and Human Health: An In Vitro Investigative Approach 2) Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry: Effects of commercial anthocyanin-rich extracts on colonic cancer and nontumorigenic colonic cell growth. 3) University College London: DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago 4) Cancer Letters: Curcumin inhibits proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis of different cancers through interaction with multiple cell signaling proteins 5) Eating on the Wild Side, p.14 6) Journal of Veterinary Medicine: Blood Vitamin E, Selenium and Glutathione Peroxidase Concentrations in Heifers Fed either on Grass or on Winter Feed 7) Eatwild.com/products/oklahoma July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

JULY

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Failure Lab

Remembering Mukesh: Nitin Mukesh Live in Concert

Nitin Mukesh

South Asian Performing Arts Foundation

AUGUST

7-23 Spamalot - Theatre Pops

SEPTEMBER

4-20 Miss Saigon - Theatre Tulsa 11-12 Half Life - Living Arts of Tulsa 12

Parsons Dance - Choregus Productions

Pacifica Quartet - Chamber Music Tulsa

KEVYN AUCOIN

25-27 Next to Normal - Theatre Tulsa 26

Experience the Exotic - Tulsa Symphony

Alonzo King LINES Ballet

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Happy Birthday, America! It’s been 239 years since our forefathers said “Thanks but no thanks” to King George III. We believe the best way to celebrate July 4th is to do whatever you want. Fortunately, Tulsa offers many opportunities to do just that, especially if you like watching things go boom. Bonus points if you find a spot downtown where you can see both the fireworks display on the river and the one at ONEOK Field. Sports fans can combine American pride with hometown pride by cheering on our local teams in a couple of Independence Day contests. At 7:05 p.m., The Drillers host the Corpus Christi Hooks at ONEOK Field—followed, naturally, by a fireworks display. At 7:30 p.m., the Tulsa Athletics take on the Houston Regals at Athletics Stadium. For those celebrating early, fireworks shows will follow the Drillers games on the 2nd and 3rd as well.

7/3

The 4th on the 3rd

Fri., July 3, 7:30 p.m. Van Trease PACE, signaturesymphony.org

Signature Symphony celebrates our independence a day early. Dr. Barry Epperley returns to conduct the 60-piece orchestra’s 34th Annual patriotic performance.

7/4

Folds of Honor FreedomFest

Sat., July 4, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Veteran’s Park, riverparks.org/freedomfest

Staged from the center of the Arkansas River, FreedomFest’s fireworks display is one of the largest in the country. Veteran’s Park is the center of the action, with festivities beginning at 5 p.m., so grab a picnic blanket and celebrate our country’s birth under the Oklahoma sky. The celebration will include activities for the whole family and inflatables for kids. “The Voice” contestant Corey Kent White will perform at 6 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., Tom’s Bicycles presents a Bicycle Parade for Kids, in which kids can give their bikes a patriotic makeover. Paul Benjaman Band will perform from 7:30-9:30 p.m. There’s more music just across Riverside at Elwood’s, with sets from Full Flava Kings, Mass FX, DJ Matt and more. Then, the main event: brilliant, colorful explosions lighting up the night sky. From any vantage point, you can tune in to the display’s accompanying music on KRMG, 740 AM or 102.3 FM. Note: River West Festival Park will not be open for this year’s Independence Day festivities due to renovations at the park.

7/4

Free Damn Fest

6 p.m. to 2 a.m. The Fur Shop, furshoptulsa.com

The patio at The Fur Shop offers a great view of for the ONEOK Field fireworks. To sweeten the deal, they’re offering the most stacked music lineup of the day. From 6 p.m. to close, catch sets from headliners Green Corn Rebellion, Count Tutu, Mike Gilliland (of Cucumber and the Suntans), Ectoplasmic Sex Weapon, Jared Hinkle, records spun by Shane Gilley and a surprise mystery guest opening the show. Afro-funk, psychedelia, folk, rock and roll and things exploding. Check, check, check, check, BOOM.

7/4

Jenks Feedom Fest, Fish and Fireworks and Sooner Boomfest 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Main Street, Jenks

Head to Main Street Jenks for full day of patriotic events. Jenks Freedom Fest takes place downtown from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and features live music, local vendors, a kid’s zone with inflatables, water games and demonstrations by the Jenks Fire Department, food trucks and free watermelon for all! Nearby, the Oklahoma Aquarium will be open late and offering half-price admission for Fish and Fireworks starting at 6:30 p.m. Wonder at the aquarium’s creatures and then find a spot out back for a front row view of the Sooner Boomfest fireworks display.

Brady Arts District’s First Friday Art Crawl: July 3 108 Contemporary—Overlap: Amanda Bradway and Lindsay Ketterer Gates; AHHA—INTERTWINED: Stories of Splintered Pasts: Shan Goshorn & Sarah Sense, Tulsa Underwater Dream Project, live painting, music by Rebecca Ungerman and Josh Westbrook; Bar 46—Ryan Smart: paint on canvas; Brady Artist Studio—pottery by Mel Cornshucker & Chas Foote, pottery and jewelry by Donna Prigmore, jewelry by Rachael Dazey, music by Seth Dazey; Caz’s Chowhouse—Music by Josh Caudle; Caz’s Pub—live graffiti art; Chrysalis Salon & Spa—The Space Between: mixed media, painting and drawing by Zac Heimdale; Classic Cigars—art by Jon Hammer; Club Ma jestic—Hoe You Think You Can Dance! contest; Glacier Confection—The art of chocolate making; Guthrie Green—First Baptist Church Annual Picnic with food trucks, music and activities; Gypsy Coffee House—oils and acrylics by Wes Jackson, music by Weather for Strangers; Hey Mambo—art by Susan Foust, music by 7 Blue Jazz Trio; Living Arts—FiberWorks 2015 presented by Fiber Artists of Oklahoma, Fragile Armor by Emily Chase, Window of Vulnerability performed by Living Arts Performance Committee; Mainline—Thomas Conrad: Figures & Patterns; Mason’s—Art by DD Duvall; Philbrook Downtown—Arts of Ceremony: Highlights contemporary Katsina carvings and provides a window into Hopi ritual, belief and art; TAC Gallery—Convalescence: ElQuan Delanoe; Tulsa Glassblowing School—Glassblowing demonstration by Cedric Mitchell; Woody Guthrie Center—Catch a Fire: The Legacy of Bob Marley; Zarrow Center—Oklahoma Impressionism, music by Cody Brewer; Zin—Music by Jamey Hooper

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artspotting Healing Hearts camp | COURTESY

7/6

Art for heart’s sake

Tristesse Grief Center, thegriefcenter.org Mondays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the summer

BY MONIQUE GARMY // This year, The Tristesse Grief Center’s annual art auction, Artscape, features a pop-up gallery to help fund the center’s new Healing Hearts camp, Oklahoma’s first overnight summer camp for grieving children. More than 63 children—mostly from homes at or below the poverty line—participated in the camp this year. The Tristesse Grief Center does not turn away anyone in need. In addition to traditional camp activities like canoeing and hiking, Healing Hearts campers have access to group therapy sessions facilitated by licensed counselors. This gives kids tools for coping with their grief while also establishing a sense of normalcy. The summer gallery includes paintings, sculpture and photography, and the center is still accepting submissions. Among others, contributors include contemporary artists F. Thompson and C.S. Tomlin; ceramicist Cristiana Prado; photographers DJ Morrow Ingram and Elliot Andrew; mixed media artists Michelle Firment Reid and Kristy Lewis Andrew and painters Barbara O’Neil, Jim Polan and Jan McKay.

7/10

Poets vs Rappers

Fri., 8 p.m., $3-$7 Living Arts, livingarts.org

Wordsmiths and lyricists come together to duke it out and find whose flow is most captivating. The audience will choose the winners in this spoken word showdown, hosted by Tony B.

7/13

Harper Lee Midnight Release Party Mon., 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. booksmarttulsa.com

Fifty-five years after the publication of her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee is set to release Go Set a Watchman. Though written before To Kill A Mockingbird, the new novel is a sequel that takes place 20 years later when Scout Finch returns to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama to visit her father, Atticus. Booksmart Tulsa celebrates this momentous literary event with an evening of film, books, guest authors, readings, music and more. The evening begins at 7:30 p.m. with a screening of the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird at Circle Cinema. The celebration continues at Barnes & Noble (41st and Yale) at 10 p.m. with special guests and music from Bandelier. The events wrap up just in time for the midnight release of Go Set a Watchman. Due to high demand, attendees are encouraged to reserve a copy of the book in advance by calling Barnes & Noble Southroads at 918.665.4580. THE TULSA VOICE // July 1 – 14, 2015

EVENTS An Affair of the Heart of Tulsa // An Affair of the Heart is celebrating its 20th year of bringing local and national artisans and independent retailers to Tulsa. In the 850 booths that will fill River Spirit Expo you’ll find everything from handmade jewelry and up-cycled furniture to gourmet foods, home décor, personalized gifts and much more. 130,000 square feet of merchandise might be too much for one day, so tickets are good for the entire weekend. // 7/10-7/12, River Spirit Expo, Expo Square, $7, heartoftulsa.com/ Tulsa Rock, Mineral, Fossil & Jewelry Show // The Tulsa Rock and Mineral Society was founded in 1958 to promote interest in rocks, minerals, fossils, artifacts, gem stones, lapidary, jewelry-making and all forms of earth science. The organization’s annual show includes all of the aforementioned as well as working exhibits, demonstrations, a kid’s zone and more. // 7/11-7/12, Central Park Hall, Expo Square, $6, www.ttownrockhound.org/ Second Saturday Walking Tour // Learn about downtown Tulsa’s beautiful architecture in this monthly tour led by Tulsa Foundation for Architecture. The tour departs from Topeca Coffee in the Mayo Hotel. // 7/11, 10 am, Topeca Coffee, $10, www.tulsaarchitecture.com/ Ok So… Tulsa Story Slam // Once a month, Ok So… gathers at Enso to hear true stories from anyone willing to share. Each storyteller has five minutes to tell a story based on a monthly theme. July’s summery theme is “Road Trip.” Each story is judged by a panel and the winner receives a cash prize and an invitation to the annual Grand Slam. // 7/8, 8 pm, Enso Bar www. facebook.com/oksotulsa COMEDY Shane McConnaghy, CJ Starks // 7/1, 7:30 pm, Loony Bin, $7, 7/2, 7:30 pm, Loony Bin, $2, 7/3, 7:30 pm, 10 pm, Loony Bin, $10, 7/4, 7:30 pm, 10 pm, Loony Bin, $10, www.loonybincomedy.com/ Knock ‘Em Dead w/ Andrew Ouellette and Jake Daniels // 7/2, 8 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com/ T-Town “Famous” // 7/3, 8 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10-$12, comedyparlor.com/ Ryan’s Drinking Problem // 7/3, 10 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Sunday Night Stand Up // 7/5, 8 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com/

Laugh Local Comedy Night // 7/8, 8 pm, Centennial Lounge www.facebook.com/centenniallounge577 Pop Up Players // 7/9, 8 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com/ Crayons // 7/10, 8 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Army of Stand Ups // 7/10, 10 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Squeaky Clean Stand Up // 7/11, 8 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Comfort Creatures // 7/11, 10 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Sunday Night Stand Up // 7/12, 8 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com/ SPORTS Tulsa Drillers vs Corpus Christi Hooks // 7/2, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, www.tulsadrillers. com Tulsa Drillers vs Corpus Christi Hooks // 7/3, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, www.tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Athletics vs Houston Regals // 7/4, 7:30 pm, Athletics Stadium, $7, www.tulsaathletics.com/ Tulsa Drillers vs Corpus Christi Hooks // 7/4, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, www.tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs San Antonio Missions // 7/5, 2:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, www.tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs San Antonio Missions // 7/6, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, www.tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs San Antonio Missions // 7/7, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $2-$35, www.tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Athletics vs Joplin Demize // 7/8, 7:30 pm, Athletics Stadium, $7, www.tulsaathletics.com/ Tulsa Roughnecks vs Orange County Blues // 7/9, 7:30 pm, ONEOK Field, $8-$45, www.tulsaroughnecksfc.com/ Tulsa Athletics vs FC Wichita // 7/10, 7:30 pm, Athletics Stadium, $7, www.tulsaathletics.com/ Tulsa Shock vs LA Sparks // 7/11, 7 pm, BOK Center, $13-$173, shock. wnba.com/ Tulsa Roughnecks vs Colorado Springs Switchbacks // 7/11, 7:30 pm, ONEOK Field, $8-$45, www. tulsaroughnecksfc.com/

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Dylan Layton, Steve Liddell and Chris Foster perform at a recent Courtyard Concert | GREG BOLLINGER

The heartbeat

Courtyard interview with Steve Liddell by JOHN LANGDON

inger/songwriter Steve Liddell is among Tulsa’s most active musicians. You’ve probably heard him solo or with a band at such disparate venues as farmers’ markets, the Tuesday food truck gathering at 13th and Boston, the Penthouse Bar at the Mayo Hotel, The Hunt Club, Soundpony or The Shrine, where you might also find him behind the bar or running sound. With tinges of reggae, jazz and Latin rhythm, Liddell’s soulful blend of rootsy folk and rock adds toe-tapping groove to any setting and chills out even the hottest summer days. At his recent appearance in our Courtyard Concert Series, we talked about sweet addictions, Cellar Dweller’s clientele and the joy of ﬂea markets. Best way to spend a Saturday: Well of course I get up and watch

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Saturday morning cartoons and get a big bowl of cereal. I like to go out to the ﬂea markets. It’s a little nerdy. I got these boots at the ﬂea market. Ten bucks, man! Just put a little oil on them and they’re good.

Green. I just let it go.

Favorite local venue to play: I like The Hunt Club. It’s an outdoor deal, there’s plenty of seating and people can look down on the stage from above.

Favorite local hangout: Cellar Dweller’s cool. It’s like the roulette wheel. You never know who’s gonna be down there—different people coming in for different shows and whatnot, ﬂight attendants hanging out, just a gamut of different patrons. And I like hanging out in the 18th and Boston area. I go back and forth between Shrine, the wine bar [Vintage 1740], Mercury—that triangle. It’s pretty chill over there. Lots of patio space; everything’s outdoors. You can look at the beautiful Tulsa skyline and fall in love all over again.

Currently listening to: I’ve got Happy Mondays in the CD player. My iPod kinda goes on a schizophrenic shufﬂe. So it might go from Frente! to Mastodon to Al

People might be surprised to know: I may or may not have a problem with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. It’s a thing. I’m sure there’s worse things. But it’s a sweet thing.

Three albums I’d need on a desert island: Jeff Buckley: Mystery White Boy, Regina Spektor: Soviet Kitsch, Redman: Muddy Waters. But I might change those tomorrow.

Best Tulsa show ever: Ryan Adams, the first time he came to the Brady. Had killer seats in the balcony with no one in front of us. Sounded great. Afterwards, we go to Lola’s, when it was Lola’s bar. I go to order a beverage, and I see Ryan Adams. So I go up and say, “Hey man, can I get you a drink?” And he says, “Oh no thanks, we’re just drinking coffee.” I had totally forgotten he was on the wagon. It’d be my luck, I get Ryan Adams drunk and then his tour goes off the rails, thanks to this guy in Tulsa. But it was a really good show. Music is: Life. Like that gust of wind. It’s cheesy, but it’s all music. Rhythm. The heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear before you’re even born, and you get addicted to that. a July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Our red dirt friends by BETH NIELSEN

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The IDL Ballroom, located at 1st and Detroit, bills itself as a “sophisticated and modern event space with limit-less possibilities,” which couldn’t be more accurate. The venue’s one-of-a-kind environment allows for a flexibility in format, and it’s one of Tulsa’s more diverse event rooms. Being connected to two sister clubs doesn’t hurt, either— Enso Bar is the upscale post for all things beer, cocktail and wine, and Electric Circus is an LED-lit dance club showcasing Tulsa’s finest in house, electro, drum & bass and dubstep. IDL Ballroom attracts nationally sought-after shows like comedian Brian Posehn (who performed on June 36 // MUSIC

24) and Australian pop act The Griswolds (Wednesday, July 15). Earlier this year, it hosted the TATE-nominated Theatre Pops production of “Venus in Fur,” and it frequently hosts annual parties like the Halloween Spider Ball, New Year’s Crystal Ball and block party Rise at Night (August 15). The clubs have independent operating hours. Unless closed for a private event, Enso is open for business Monday through Saturday, and Electric Circus hosts at least one public dance party per month. Whether you’re looking to take in a concert, jump into a dance party or just grab a drink, IDL Ballroom, Enso Bar and Electric Circus have something for every kind of party animal. a

t was the call I've been dreading since we moved northwest of town nine years ago. "I've fallen off the roof," I heard faintly through the phone in my office downtown. "Not the big roof ?" I asked, thinking of the steep, sloping roof on the second ﬂoor of the house. "No, the one by the bedroom," came the pained reply. At that point, I knew that my husband, Kurt Nielsen, would most likely survive the 14-foot drop. Kurt, AKA Frenchy, is a landscaper and "mister mom" (in his own words) and has been part of Oklahoma’s music scene since the late 1970s. The evening before his April 9 accident, he played The Tulsa Voice Courtyard Concert Series with Chris Lee Becker. From the emergency room, Kurt texted area musician Kevin Smith, who posted about the accident on Facebook. The texts and calls started rolling in. John Cooper and Brad Piccolo of the Red Dirt Rangers encouraged us to apply for the

Red Dirt Relief Fund to help with out-of-pocket costs insurance wouldn’t cover. The fund is designed to help Oklahoma musicians facing emergencies. Later that month, Chris Reed organized a picking circle and benefit at Lucky’s on the Green. About 30 people came to jam and pass the hat, and we also received the Red Dirt Relief Fund gift that day. Kurt has months of physical therapy ahead before he’s back to his usual chops. The recovery has been challenging, but with the support of friends, I know we'll make it. We've seen an incredible outpouring of concern and love from our local music community, and we’d especially like to thank Kevin, Chris, Brian Horton, my brother Joe Baxter, Randy Bell, Kyle Dismukes, Adam Miller, Bob Wiles, Jean Wiles and Chris Lee Becker. Thanks also to Coop, Brad, Katie Dale and the Red Dirt Relief Fund Board. We hope to pay it forward some day. To learn more about the Red Dirt Relief Fund, visit reddirtrelieffund.org. a

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musiclistings Wed // Jul 1 Blue Rose Cafe – Brandon Clark Crow Creek Tavern – 4Going Gravity – 8:00 pm Elwood’s – Little Joe Full Moon Cafe - BA – Ayngel & John – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 7:00 pm Hunt Club – The Brothers Moore Mercury Lounge – The Steepwater Band – 10:00 pm Mix Co – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:00 pm Shrine – Ces Cru – ($10-$12) Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm Soundpony – *Ed Hochuli, Lizard Police The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project Vanguard – Valleys, Souls – 8:00 pm – ($5-$8)

Thur // Jul 2 Blue Rose Cafe – DJ Matt Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Boulevard Trash – Los Reactors Expoerience, Merlinmason, The wheelz, The Scandals – 8:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Gypsy Cold Cuts – 8:00 pm Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin – 9:00 pm Elwood’s – Susan Herndon Full Moon Cafe - BA – Piano Man Tom Basler – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Toast & JAM w/ C. Redd and Cynthia Jesseen – 10:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Jason Young Band – 9:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Hi Fidelics – 3:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Members Only – 7:00 pm Hunt Club – Mercury Tree, Dachshund Krystal Palace Event Center – Rich Homie Quan – 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Armadillo Creek – 8:00 pm Soundpony – Mountain Tamer The Colony – Wink Burcham – 6:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – Cale Lester

Fri // Jul 3 AHHA – Rebecca Ungerman and Josh Westbrook American Legion - Post 308 – Round Up Boys – 7:30 pm Blue Rose Cafe – Scott Musick Brady Artists Studio – Seth Dazey Caz’s Chowhouse – Josh Caudle Centennial Lounge – Gasoline – 9:00 pm Crow Creek Tavern – Soul Shine – 9:30 pm Elwood’s – Bryce Dicus – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Weather for Strangers – 9:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Jay Falkner Duo – 5:30 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Members Only – 9:00 pm Hunt Club – FM Pilots Magoo’s Billiards – David Dover – 9:00 pm 38 // MUSIC

Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Stars Peppers Grill - South – David Skinner Band The Shady Tree – Austyn King Vanguard – FYWROK Fest w/ Lower Class Brats, Monster Squad Punks, The Agrestix, Potato Pirates, The Chernobyl Babes, Wyldlife, Ravagers, Semi Automatics, Indonesian Junk, Merlinmason – (SOLD OUT) Yeti – We Make Shapes Henry Zarrow Center for Art & Education – Cody Brewer Zin – Jamey Hooper

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Boulevard Trash – What We Do In Secret Cain’s Ballroom – Lake Street Dive – 8:00 pm – ($20-$35) Centennial Lounge – Open Mic & Jam – 8:00 pm Elwood’s – Dan Martin – 6:30 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Preslar Music Showcase – 6:30 pm Fur Shop – *Natural Child, Hey Judy, Dead Shakes, Who & The Fucks – 10:00 pm Guthrie Green – Starlight Concert Band - Way Out West – 8:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – The Tiptons – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm Soundpony – Lesionread, Skeleton Farm - Happy Hour Show – 6:00 pm The Colony – Lewis & Martin Vanguard – Hollow Breath – 7:00 pm

Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Elephant Run – 4Going Gravity – 9:00 pm Elwood’s – Full Flava Kings, Mass FX, DJ Matt and more Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Fur Shop – *Free Fest w/ Green Corn Rebellion, Ectoplasmic Sex Weapon, Mike Gilliland, Jared Hinkle, The Afrodelics – 6:00 pm Guthrie Green – Starlight Concert Band – 8:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Another Alibi – 9:00 pm Hunt Club – Jessica Hunt Band Magoo’s Billiards – David Dover – 9:00 pm Mayo Hotel Penthouse – *Brujoroots – 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge – TheEelectric Rag Band – 10:00 pm Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Stars Peppers Grill - South – Chuck Dunlap Soundpony – Soul Night w/ DJ Sweet Baby Jaysus The Shady Tree – DJ Goodground and Friends Vanguard – FYWROK Fest w/ The Casualties, The virus, Complete Control, Brutal Dildos, Ponx Attax, Evacuate, Violent Affair, Sniper 66, Alcohol Fueled, The Pervert Preachers, The Riot Waves – (SOLD OUT) Veteran’s Park – Paul Benjaman Band Woody’s Corner Bar – Wayne Garner Band – 10:00 pm

Sun // Jul 5 Blue Rose Cafe – Rockwell Bohemian Pizza – Mike Cameron Collective – 5:00 pm Dirty Knuckle Tavern – The Blue Dawgs – 4:00 pm Elwood’s – Miles Williams, Hammer Down – 6:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 pm Fur Shop – FYWROK After Party w/ Who Killed Spikey Jacket?, The bad Engrish, The Shame, Soap Charge – 10:30 pm Mercury Lounge – Two Cow Garage – 10:00 pm Soundpony – Steph Simon The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Vanguard – FYWROK Fest w/ Cheap Sex, The Heart Attacks, The Bad Engris, The erections, The Jetbirds, Antagonizers, Streetlight Fight – (SOLD OUT) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Good Ground

Cain’s Ballroom – *Jason Isbell, John Moreland – 8:00 pm – ($20-$22) Elwood’s – Mark Gibson Guthrie Green – Open Mic – 7:30 pm Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:00 pm The Colony – Open Mic Hosted by Cody Clinton Vanguard – The Monday Night Brawl Fest w/ Keeper, Animal, Bodysnatcher – 6:30 pm – ($10-$15)

Tues // Jul 7

Wed // Jul 8 Blue Rose Cafe – Brandon Clark Full Moon Cafe - BA – Ayngel & John – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Union Specific – 10:00 pm Mix Co – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:00 pm Sandite Billiards & Grill – Wade Quinton – 8:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm Soundpony – Summer Salt, Dr. Nobody The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project

Thur // Jul 9 Blue Rose Cafe – DJ Matt Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Centennial Lounge – Dewayne Conley & Western Underground – 8:00 pm Downtown Lounge – Watson, Alan Doyle, CJ Monroe – 8:00 pm Elwood’s – Susan Herndon Full Moon Cafe - BA – Piano Man Tom Basler – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Toast & JAM w/ C. Redd and Cynthia Jesseen – 10:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Darren Ray – 3:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – nighTTrain – 7:00 pm Hunt Club – Lindsay Rae Duo

Soundpony – I Said Stop!, Dead Shakes The Colony – Beau Roberson Vanguard – Seryn – 8:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – Bryce Dicus

Fri // Jul 10 American Legion - Post 308 – Joe Harris – 7:30 pm Blue Rose Cafe – Recommended Dose Cain’s Ballroom – *Asleep at the Wheel, Red Dirt Jazz Tribe – 7:30 pm – ($25-$40) Centennial Lounge – Ronnie Pyle & The Drivers – 9:00 pm Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers – 8:00 pm Elwood’s – Jimmy Blythe Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – John Ratliff – 9:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Darren Ray – 5:30 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Superfreak – 9:00 pm Hunt Club – BC and the Big Rig Mercury Lounge – Shane Smith & The Saints – 10:00 pm Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Traveler Peppers Grill - South – Steve Liddell Soul City – Dan Martin Band – 9:00 pm Soundpony – Helen Kelter Skelter, Who & The Fucks The Colony – The Dustin Pittsley Band The Shady Tree – Bullfinger, Garrett Heck, Onyx Owl Vanguard – mewithoutyou, Foxing, Field Mouse – 8:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Jay Rufus, Falkirk, DJ Noticeably F.A.T., DJ Frequency, Frank B Grimey

Sat // Jul 11 American Legion - Post 1 – The EricaJames Band – 6:00 pm Arnie’s Bar – *klondike5 – 7:00 pm Blue Rose Cafe – Ice Cold Glory – 8:00 pm Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Boulevard Trash – *Bug Chaser, Lizard Police, The Teasers – 9:00 pm – ($5) Downtown Lounge – Blackwater Rebellion, GULCH, Oklahombres, GRIND – 8:00 pm Elwood’s – Ryan Reid Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Terry Aziere – 9:00 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Darren Ray – 5:30 pm Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Lost On Utica – 9:00 pm Hunt Club – Deacon Lennie’s Club – David Dover – 9:00 pm Lot No. 6 – 4-Year Anniversary party w/ The Fabulous Minx Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Traveler Peppers Grill - South – The Scissortails Soundpony – DJ Falkirk The Colony – John Calvin Abney & Savage Young July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

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NATURALLY Hearing Nashville’s Natural Child, it doesn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination to picture them playing Willie Nelson’s 1977 Fourth of July Picnic (which, incidentally, took place at the Tulsa Fairgrounds.) The band’s existence in the 21st century tells us something about the timelessness of good, whiskey-soaked rock and roll—or proves the existence of time travel. Relentless touring has honed a sound equally at home playing in-the-pocket grooves that would have Cale himself tapping his foot, and fast, tight burners worth starting a mosh pit. Their ragged, anthemic melodies, often sung in unison, will have you hollering out lyrics you hadn’t heard a minute before. This is your summer dose of rock and roll. It goes down smooth.

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Vince Vaughn in “True Detective” and Mackenzie Davis and Lee Pace in “Halt and Catch Fire” | COURTESY

Flat circles and ﬁery coders ‘True Detective’ and ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ return for second seasons by JOSHUA KLINE

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rue Detective” and “Halt and Catch Fire” both debuted last year, on HBO and AMC, respectively. The former arrived with modest fanfare and muted expectations but evolved into a full-blown cultural phenomenon by the end of its eight-episode run. The latter was paraded by its network as the ambitious heir apparent to “Mad Men” but received middling reactions from audiences and critics. In their second seasons, “Fire” is knocking it out of the park while “Detective” is struggling and so far failing to live up to the astronomical expectations it set for itself last year. TRUE DETECTIVE The first season of “True Detective” was a perfect alchemy of casting, direction and writing. Director Cary Fukunaga, writer/ 40 // FILM & TV

showrunner Nic Pizzolatto and actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson elevated what could have been a run-of-the-mill potboiler to a brooding, high-toned tale of broken men rooting out evil against the foreboding backdrop of the Louisiana bayou. Pizzolatto’s writing was at times self-consciously literary, and his penchant for Easter egg references (e.g. “The King in Yellow”) teased viewers with the promise of a deeper supernatural component that never materialized. But Fukunaga’s assured, meticulous direction kept a firm hold on the writing’s tone, and McConaughey and Harrelson sold some of the more writerly dialogue with staggering conviction. The magic of the show was in the way its sometimes-imperfect elements came together to form a more perfect whole. Now we have season 2, which after only two episodes is clear-

ly inferior to the original, if not completely terrible when taken on its own terms. Pizzolatto said from the beginning that he conceived the show as an anthology, with each season telling a stand-alone story with a different cast and setting. Thus, we’re forced to reset and leave our baggage of expectations at the door. This time, we’ve moved from the swampy, southern gothic milieu of coastal Louisiana to the concrete neon-noir landscape of industrial L.A. We have four protagonists instead of two—Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch as the titular detectives and Vince Vaughn as a principled gangster. Most crucially, multiple journeyman directors have replaced the singular vision of Fukunaga. Episode one, cryptically titled “The Western Book of the Dead,” devotes the majority of its runtime to ponderous,

clumsy character introductions. Ray Velcoro (Farrell) is a drunk, burned-out detective in the small suburb of Vinci, California who serves two corrupt masters: his superiors at city hall, and criminal businessman Frank Semyon (Vince Vaughn), whom we meet as he’s attempting to close on a lucrative deal to build a highspeed rail. Antigone Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) is a hardened, workaholic detective for Ventura County who carries some distinctly Angelino daddy issues. Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) is an emotionally scarred war veteran who now works as a motorcycle cop for California Highway Patrol. This first episode acts mostly as a primer for the myriad ways in which these characters are scarred and broken, until the thrilling final minutes when the mystery is fully introduced. July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

The main problem with the series so far lies at the feet of director Justin Lin—a hardhat hack best known for a couple of “Fast and Furious” sequels—who directed the first two episodes and is trying very, very hard (without much success) to live up to Fukunaga’s legacy. His staging is mostly flat and rhythm-less; isolated moments of stylistic flair—menacing shots of L.A.’s refineries and spider-web highways, a musical number by Lera Lynn in the world’s saddest bar— feel labored and self-conscious. More damaging, though, is Lin’s handling of the actors, who do their best to ape the profundity and gravitas of McConaughey and Harrelson but end up flirting with self-parody. Pizzolatto’s writing desperately needs a director as intuitive and confident as Fukunaga; in the hands of Lin, much of the dialogue (especially Vaughn’s existential pondering) is stiff, broad and grandiose. But there’s hope yet. As the mystery is teased out, the show gets

better. A sudden apparent death at the end of episode two suggests that the series may find its rhythm still and unfurl into something darkly magical—especially with Lin no longer in the driver’s seat. At this point, there’s little hope of “True Detective 2” reaching the heights of season one, but it might turn out to be a perfectly respectable sophomore slump. HALT AND CATCH FIRE Season two of “Halt and Catch Fire” improves greatly on its debut run. The period drama about early ‘80s startup culture in the silicon prairie of Dallas started with uncomfortable echoes of “Mad Men” but slowly grew into itself as the series unfolded. It was stylish, consistently well written and acted, and seemed to know its very specific, jargon-heavy world inside and out. Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) was on first glance a less sympathetic, less charismatic Don Draper facsimile—a blustery salesman with a sleek mannequin’s face

given to near-constant speechifying. But MacMillan was reckless, prone to screw-ups in his grifter scheming and more transparently full of shit than Draper ever was. His uneasy alliance with browbeaten, Wozniak-like engineer Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and brash, erratic coder Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) as they attempted to build a PC that could compete with IBM made for compelling, if not exceptional, drama. In the second season, we jump ahead to 1985, nearly two years after Cardiff Electric has imploded, along with the trio’s PC. MacMillan, who went out with a fiery bang at the end of last season, is living in Austin and engaged to an old college friend. As he recounts his past at a dinner party, he seems humble and contrite, a far cry from the con artist we’ve come to know. In Dallas, Gordon—jobless but ﬂush with cash from Cardiff ’s sale—spends much of his time doing coke and playing video games while his wife, Donna (Kerry Bishé), works tirelessly to help

Cameron run Mutiny, an online gaming startup. The relationship between Cameron and Donna has grown into something more dynamic and emotionally grounded than last season’s clusterfuck of dysfunctional personalities. Writer/Creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers have smartly transplanted most of the action from the drab offices of Cardiff to the rowdy home base of Mutiny—a house converted into a playpen, teeming with energy and empty pizza boxes, for a dozen young coders working to keep the company in business and bandwidth. The jittery postpunk soundtrack—so out of place at points last season—now feels appropriate, even poignant, against the youthful chaos of the Mutiny house. The recalibrations have made for a much better show this time around. If season three improves that much more, AMC might finally have the artistic equal to “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” they’ve so desperately sought. a

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An awkward slumber party ‘The Overnight’ is a sex comedy with dramatic heft by JOE O’SHANSKY

he law of unintended consequences is the backbone of the best uncomfortable comedies: A well-intentioned choice creates a domino effect of bad ones. When the writing isn’t clever, you wind up with predictably telegraphed bad ideas and shallow, stupid characters you kind of want to see suffer. A well-made comedy of errors offers vividly-drawn characters and a gleeful subversion of expectations. The filmmaker orchestrates an assured

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turning of the screws before eventually bringing us all back to a (more or less) happy place. “The Overnight,” the second feature outing from writer/director Patrick Brice (“Creep”), firmly resides in the latter category while somehow being a different animal altogether. We first meet Alex and Emily (Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling) during a verbose sexual tryst. Not dirty talking so much as instructional—like an awkward sex scene in “Girls.” The married parents of a toddler named RJ (R.J. Hermes), Alex and Emily now have to find their orgasms together when, where, and if they can. Freshly transplanted from Seattle to L.A., Alex stays home and tends to child-rearing and domestic duties while Emily works. Largely cloistered from the outside world, Alex worries that he won’t be able to make new friends without a job (“I’m a grown up person. I’m supposed to just ask other grownups if they want to be friends? Seriously, am I seven years old?”). But at a birthday party for RJ’s new

friend, Max (Max Moritt), they meet Kurt (Jason Schwartzman), Max’s amiably weird, mysterious and distinctly Californian father. Kurt invites Alex and Emily over for a kids playdate and dinner with his French expat wife, Charlotte (Judith Godrèche). Once the wine takes hold, the children go to sleep and the breast-milk fetish is revealed, things take a turn for the strange. “The Overnight” strikes a satisfying balance between the raunchy sweetness of Judd Apatow and something darker. One scene, in which Emily is dragged by Charlotte on a liquor store run, ends with a detour to a sleazy massage parlor where things get weird in a hurry. Meanwhile, Alex discovers that Kurt is a gifted painter who specializes in anal self-portraiture—though he’s always looking for new models. Finding the right tone between genuine character study, contemporary sex comedy and dark satire of upper-middle-class privilege, Brice delivers with an auteur’s handheld intimacy and a playwright’s eye for thematic

heft. Yet, considering the serious questions it evokes about trust, sexual insecurity and the viability of monogamy, it’s also impossibly lighthearted and funny. The cast is perfect. Schwartzman’s Kurt is Willy Wonka: full of mirth and an agenda that isn’t what it seems. As Charlotte, Judith Godrèche gamely plays the polysexual adventurer to the hilt. Adam Scott employs his trademark charm and deadpan timing to inhabit the life of a married man who’s still deeply insecure about the size of his manhood. Emily is Alex’s support—sexually, emotionally, and financially—and Schilling’s chemistry with Scott anchors our stake in the outcome as the couple’s sheltered marriage collides with a narcotic, unnerving night of uncomfortably enticing possibilities. “The Overnight” fits firmly into the pantheon of indie cinema defined by a decade of the Duplass Brothers (credited here as executive producers). It’s another smart and funny film about intelligent, privileged white people sympathetically bending under the weight of love, life and adulthood. a July 1 – 14, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

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If you were looking for follow-ups to “The Terminator” and “Magic Mike” (or not), you’re getting them this weekend. “Terminator: Genysis” brings back Arnie for a hybrid reboot/sequel to the long-running sci-fi action franchise. No synopsis needed—you already know the drill. I’ve been avoiding trailers (I recommend you do the same), as they apparently give up pretty massive plot spoilers. The production was a troubled one, but series creator James Cameron has given his enthusiastic approval (for what that’s worth), and early words seem to indicate that perhaps it’s not the train wreck one might assume. Hardly a ringing endorsement, but I’m always up for a potentially kick-ass “Terminator” movie. Keep hope alive. “Magic Mike XXL” is the sequel to director Steven Soderbergh’s great 2012 comedic drama set in the world of male strippers. And while Soderbergh sadly doesn’t return to the director’s chair, Channing Tatum is back in the banana hammock, along with True Blood alum Joe Manganiello. Three years after Mike (Tatum) disbanded the Kings of Tampa, he’s getting the band back together for one last shot at glory—going on the road to compete against a bunch of MILF killers at a Myrtle Beach strip show. New director Gregory Jacobs doesn’t inspire the same confidence or excitement as Soderbergh, but this is a world close to Tatum’s heart (the first film was inspired by his real-life experiences), so perhaps it will have some weight beyond being another flick that makes insecure guys not want to see it with their girlfriends.

The Circle’s late-night cult film series Splatter U continues July 10-11. The theme is apparently “remakes that are better than the originals.” The night begins with the 1982 John Carpenter classic “The Thing,” starring Kurt Russell, and concludes with the 1988 incarnation of “The Blob,” starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith. “The Thing” is a master class in crafting paranoia in suspense filmmaking (as well as stunning practical special effects) that finds a group of scientists in the Antarctic confronted by an interstellar beast that surreptitiously kills them off and assumes their likeness. It’s up to R.J. MacReady (Russell) to make sure the creature never makes it to civilization. I’ve seen “The Thing” so many times it’s almost embarrassing, and it miraculously maintains its intensity. Chuck Russell’s remake of “The Blob” doesn’t carry the same pedigree of terror, but it’s certainly still a blast to watch—arguably the “fun” one of the pair. Kevin Dillon plays an outcast small-town bad boy who’s forced to care about those who’ve scorned him when a gelatinous alien beast begins eating everyone in sight and growing exponentially larger in the process. Eventually, when mysterious government scientists show up to take control, the town bands together with Dillon. As usual, attendees who make it through both features receive a customized certificate of completion. For more information and tickets, visit circlecinema.com. a

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Three-year-old SAMANTHA has a high play drive but listens extremely well, sits on command and loves to unwind by lounging in her kiddie pool. This Black Lab mix loves people of all ages, but cats and other dogs should watch out—Samantha doesn’t like competition. Samantha does well on a leash and would make a great jogging partner.

For 10-month-old CARLIE, all the world’s a stage. This Seal-Point Siamese with big baby blues won’t hesitate to strut her stuff to catch your eye. The ultimate lap kitty, Carlie loves attention—especially the kind involving petting, holding and brushing. Though Carlie is undeniably fancy, she plays well with others.

Congratulations to Michael Stone, who adopted Larri (she now goes by Skylar) after he spotted her in The Fuzz. The Tulsa Voice applauds you for your act of kindness toward another sentient being.

A bit shy at first, VELMA takes her time warming up to strangers but always comes around. This beautiful retriever mix is only 9 months old and already kennel-trained. She hasn’t been exposed to cats, but she bonds with certain dogs (if they’re cool enough) and loves children.

PATTY is a true hound dog. This 1-year-old Basset Hound mix loves to dig into mole holes and use her snout to try and nab the little critters. A regular jazz lounge crooner, Patty adores people, especially when they give her belly rubs. Despite her upbeat attitude, Patty isn’t a cat lover and is choosy with her dog friends.

NEMO’s owners surrendered him due to allergies, but they couldn’t have given him a better name. This 2-year-old Domestic Shorthair loves to hide under his blanket! When he’s not hiding and seeking, Nemo enjoys being petted and having his ears scratched. He plays well with other cats and kids.

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Fetishes on Parade Cirilo Castillo Jr., 45, was arrested in February in Edinburg, Texas, but a charge was not filed until June, apparently because prosecutors were awaiting Castillo’s recovery from a broken leg. He had been found in a barn after trying to have sex with a horse — three years after having been convicted of a similar crime (and warned, at that time, to stay away from the Edinburg farm). The broken leg happened, prosecutors said, because in the February incident, the horse kicked him. That New York Attitude Gregory Reddick, 54, and his employer, SJQ Sightseeing Tours, fi led a lawsuit in June against New York City for “harass(ing)” them and hampering their ability to rip off tourists, specifically, interfering with their “right” to sell tickets for $200 or more for trips on the Staten Island Ferry — which is actually free to ride. Reddick was wearing an (unauthorized) “Authorized Ticket Agent” jacket when arrested, and according to a New York Post account, believes he operates legally because he misunderstands a technicality in a 2013 court case. Prosecutors, who described the waterfront tourist-exploitation scene as “the wild west,” found Reddick with seven dates of birth, five aliases and six Social Security numbers.

Possibly Be True Doctors at a hospital in Dongyang, China, removed 420 kidney stones from a single patient in June (a “Mr. He”). One of the surgeons told reporters that a soyheavy diet of tofu was probably to blame. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most stones removed from one kidney during surgery (in India in 2009 in a three-hour operation) is (this is not a misprint) 172,155. In May, the Museum of Modern Arts in Krakow, Poland, began showing a video of naked men and women entering a room and playTHE TULSA VOICE // July 1 – 14, 2015

ing a game of tag – then revealing that that particular room was actually a building in a Holocaust gas-chamber facility in Auschwitz. The idea, apparently, was to bring three affected nations (Poland, Germany and Israel) together, and among the sponsors of the exhibit was the Israeli embassy in Warsaw, despite criticism that the work was somewhat “repulsive and offensive.” (A similar project opened in Tartu, Estonia, in February, but was closed almost immediately after objections from Jewish-advocacy organizations.) Laquanda Newby, 25, was charged with three counts of child abuse on June 7 at the county courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, after police spotted her car with two children locked inside on a day in which the temperature reached the 90s. Newby had parked at the courthouse that day in order to attend her hearing on charges that on May 26, she had locked her kids in a hot car while she was out on errands.

Wait, What? Two students at Florida’s Valencia College filed a federal lawsuit in May against the school and three instructors for forcing them to undergo “transvaginal probes” as part of their sonography (ultrasound) curriculum. According to the lawsuit, the school insisted that students learn the probing on each other because, as an instructor

said, “Experience is the best teacher.” The plaintiffs also charged that some instructors and a student leader (dubbed the “TransVag Queen”) made inappropriate, sexualized comments about bodies during the demonstrations. Though the school defended the practice initially, it ordered the live probes halted about a week after the lawsuit was filed and announced lessons would in the future be conducted on simulators.

Questionable Judgments Some parents of Encinal High School students, in Alameda, California, demanded an investigation in June after learning from a counselor at an after-school program that students had been “assigned” the extra-credit project of rummaging through their parents’ bedrooms looking for sex toys (and bringing in a “selfie” holding one). Administrators told parents that the “assignment” was not a requirement of the course but could not ascertain how many students actually presented showand-tells to the class.

A News of the Weird Classic (July 2011) Bank of America (BA) had the tables turned in June (2011) after the company wrongfully harassed an alleged mortgage scofﬂaw in Naples, Florida. BA had attempted to foreclose on homeowners Warren and Maureen Nyerges even though the couple had bought their house with cash — paid directly to BA. It took BA a year and a half to understand its mistake — that is, until the Nyergeses sued and won a judgment for expenses of $2,534, which BA contemptuously ignored. The Nyerges obtained a seizure order, and two sheriff’s deputies, with a moving truck, arrived at the local BA branch on June 3 (2011) to load $2,534 worth of furniture and computers from the bank’s offices and lobby. After an hour on the phone with higher-ups, the local BA manager wrote a check for $2,534. a 6/17 SOLUTION: UNIVERSAL SUNDAY

Least Competent Criminals Nashville, Tennessee, police arrested Mashara Mefford in June and charged her with breaking into one of their marked cruisers. She was discovered by an officer after she had locked herself inside and could not figure out how the locks worked. ETC. // 45

free will astrology by ROB BREZSNY

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22):

“I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing,” said composer John Cage in describing his creative process. That’s excellent counsel for you to meditate on, Cancerian. The less expertise and certainty you have about the rough magic you’re experimenting with, the more likely it is that this magic will lead you to useful breakthroughs. To bolster Cage’s advice and help you get the most from your period of self-reinvention, I offer you this quote from Picasso: “I imitate everyone except myself.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your words of wisdom come from Leo artist Andy Warhol: “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years, when they could just say, ‘so what.’ That’s one of my favorite things to say. ‘So what.’” Can I interest you in that approach, Leo? It has similarities to the Buddhist strategy of cultivating non-attachment — of dropping your fixations about matters that can’t be controlled or changed. But I suspect you would draw special benefits from the breezy, devil-may-care spirit of Warhol’s version. So start there. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her late twenties, J. K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That’s when she began work on her Harry Potter books. Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world’s most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54. As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn’t begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it’s never to late to instigate the project of a lifetime. The time between now and your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favorable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the power-building phase of your astrological cycle. To take maximum advantage, convey the following message to your subconscious mind: “I know you will provide me with an abundance of insight, inspiration, and energy for whatever intention I choose to focus on. And during the next four weeks, my intention will be to cultivate, expand, and refine my personal power. I will especially focus on what author Stephen R. Covey called ‘the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.’” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m a big fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational. But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I’ll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal raw crazy wild mojo. For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams and ruminate about them as if they were revelations from the Great Beyond. You may also find it healthy to fantasize profusely about forbidden and impossible and hilarious adventures. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are lots of inquiries and invitations coming your way — perhaps too many. I don’t think you should pursue all of them. In fact, I suspect that only one would ultimately make you a better human being and a braver explorer and a wiser lover. And that one, at first glance, may have not as much initial appeal as some of the others. So your first task is to dig deep to identify the propositions that are attractive on the surface but not very substantial. Then you’re more likely to recognize the offer that will have lasting value even if it doesn’t make a spectacular first impression. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I find a lot of people physically attractive, but finding people mentally and spiritually attractive is different and much harder for me.” So says 40ozshawty on her Tumblr page. If you share that frustration, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due to encounter a higher-than-usual percentage of mentally and spiritually attractive people in the next six

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weeks. But I wonder how you’ll deal with this abundance. Will you run away from it, feeling overwhelmed by the prospect that your life could get more interesting and complicated? Or will you embrace it, daringly welcoming the interesting complications? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I think you will generate good fortune for yourself by choosing between two equally invigorating but challenging tasks: losing your illusion or using your illusion. Both are quite worthy of your attention and intelligence. To succeed at either would fuel your emotional growth for months to come. You probably can’t do them both, however. So which will it be: Will you purge the illusion, or put it to work for you? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you sometimes imagine yourself to be an underachieving underdog? If so, I suggest you start weaning yourself from that fantasy. Do you on occasion allow people to take advantage of you? It’s time to outgrow that role. Do you ever flirt with being a self-pitying martyr? Say bye-bye to that temptation. Cosmic forces are conspiring to relieve you of tendencies to act in any or all of those ways. I’m not saying you will instantly transform into a swashbuckling hero who knocks people over with your radiant self-assurance. But you will, at the very least, be ready to learn much, much more about how to wield your vulnerability as a superpower. ARIES (March 21-April 19): To determine whether you are aligned with the cosmic flow, please answer the following questions. 1. Would you say that your current situation is more akin to treading water in a mosquito-ridden swamp, or conducting a ritual of purification in a clear mountain stream? 2. Have you been wrestling with boring ghosts and arguing with traditions that have lost most of their meaning? Or have you been transforming your past and developing a riper relationship with your roots? 3. Are you stuck in a gooey muck? Or are you building a flexible new foundation? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus singer Sam Smith won four Grammys this year, largely on the strength of his hit single “Stay with Me.” The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems. But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded twenty separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound. What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Born under the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn’t interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes. He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-today lives of peasants and laborers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-thirties, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a ma jor international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone or erect your own clubhouse or launch a new enterprise. Do whatever it takes to show who you really are.

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2 Significant parts of history 3 Terminate 4 Inquired 5 Legalese adverb 6 Makes sense 7 Fall event 8 How Rocky ate his eggs 9 Have possession of 10 Working for a while? 11 Say suddenly (with “out”) 12 Appraised 13 Bridle part 14 Patient’s “restroom,” sometimes 15 Listening device 16 Airport info 17 Daiquiri ingredient 18 Evian or Vichy 24 Hinder, legally 26 Where the conga originated 30 Course concluder, often 31 British buses 33 Type of monkey 34 Proof of homeownership 35 Altar locations 36 Depilatory brand name 37 Tithers’ amounts 38 Arctic pullover 39 When a bond is paid off 41 Homecoming attender, for short 43 Paced back and forth 45 Fitting recompense, archaically 47 Four inches, to an equestrian 50 Brit’s blackjack 51 Physical therapy, briefly 53 Submit

68 Bonesetters and this puzzle’s theme 69 Some spa mixtures 71 School of whales 74 Snack in Madrid 76 Hillside, in Edinburgh 78 In a manner of speaking 80 Traffic cones 82 Basketball’s path 83 Now’s opposite 84 Miner’s way out 85 Utilized a bus 86 Breaks down, in a way 88 Work, as dough 90 Take a break 91 “... and make it fast!” 92 Fool 94 “Fiddler on the Roof” setting 96 Antifreeze component 99 Joule fragments 100 Santa ___, Calif. 101 Bambi’s parent 102 “___ change-o!” (magician’s command) 103 Aggregate 105 Deprive of heat? 107 Certain metal worker 109 Sock menders 112 Fakes out, in a way 116 Part of some ocean liners 119 Abbot’s underling 120 “... ___, whatever will be, will be” 121 Away from the weather 122 Mount of Moses 123 “It follows that ...” 124 “Iliad” city 125 Quad building 126 Disdain DOWN 1 Faint, as light

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