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Bringing Country Back Jacob Tovar revives the Honky-tonk spirit and brings Tulsa back to its roots | p. 24 How to support your local musicians | p. 12 Jimmy Markham on (almost) everything | p. 28 What is destroying Tulsa’s record-store habitat | p. 30

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July 16 - Aug. 5, 2014 // vol. 1 no. 15 NEWS & COMMENTARY

How to support your local musicians RYAN DALY // 12 8 // S ciencing Tulsa

10 // C hristmas in July

Ray Pearcey, wonderer

Barry Friedman, just sayin’

The case for science education in Oklahoma cityspeak

Can we not have a parade? news from the plains

FOOD & DRINK

24

Staycation eats to feed your wanderlust

“ Tulsa is where I wanted to be. I knew the music scene here was amazing, and I wanted to be here and be around it.”

ALLISON KEIM // 14

c ov e r p h oto b y j e r e m y c h a r l e s

Bringing country back

ARTS & CULTURE

Jacob Tovar revives the Honky-tonk spirit and brings Tulsa back to its roots featured 22 // Center of the Universe

Y our hour-by-hour guide to the festival f e at u r e d

A group of Tulsa artists give back

28 // The road that leads home Lindsey Neal Kuykendall, listener

Jimmy “Junior” Markham on everything featured

BRITT GREENWOOD // 32 34 // Elements of a good porch

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Nicci Atchley, stylin’

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MITCH GILLIAM // 30 43 // Returning to the Circle

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editor’sletter

The arts and Tulsa: Leaving no stone unturned

T

he Tulsa Voice has done plenty of growing and evolving since our inaugural issue last winter. ut one thing that hasn’t changed, and never will as long as I have anything to say about it, is part of the mission we clung to from its initial conception: To shine a spotlight on Tulsa’s rich and vibrant arts community, especially in the corners that don’t often get the benefit of such a spotlight.

It’s a totally conscious, even calculated, effort—one that often directly guides our decision-making. Take our cover story, for instance (pg. 24). A few months back I told Jacob Tovar, a rising star in Tulsa’s music scene, that we should get togeth-

er for a chat. He said he’d never done a media interview, had never been the subject of an article.

Given that fact, it’s possible you have no idea who Jacob Tovar is.

But he’s out there, in Tulsa, night after night. And he’s making art that’s worth your attention.

In other words, he’s exactly who we’re looking for.

Sift back through the archives of our young paper, and you’ll find many instances of that general principle: A group of artists (sometimes anonymously) blurring the lines between vandalism and beauty. A local hiphop group using art to illuminate our city’s dark past for a younger generation. A young man whose life found new direction with the discovery of a new artistic

passion. These are stories we’re proud to tell, and we’ll continue to seek them out.

But that’s not to say we ignore the more visible happenings in Tulsa. In this issue you’ll also find a handy guide to the second-ever Center of the Universe Festival (pg. 22), including a full schedule for all the venues, complete with our handpicked selections for shows you won’t want to miss.

Sticking with music, columnist (and local musician) Ryan Daly offers a primer on how best to support Tulsa’s hardworking music-makers (pg. 12); Mitch Gilliam checks in on the health (or lack thereof) of the record store in Tulsa (pg. 30); Lindsey Neal Kuykendall chats

with Tulsa Sound legend Jimmy Markham (pg. 28); and we ask a selection of local musicians to dish on their favorite restaurant eats of the moment (pg. 16).

It’s summertime in Tulsa.

There’s music all around. On the streets. In the air. Get out there and soak it up. We’ll keep telling you about our discoveries—let us know about yours. a

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cityspeak

Knowledge fever Chasing Higgs, and the case for science education in Oklahoma

by RAY PEARCEY

R

ecently I saw Mark Levinson’s documentary, “Particle Fever,” an intense, dramatic look at the high-energy physics community as it powered up and employed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most advanced particle accelerator, near Bern, Switzerland.

Levinson is himself a particle physicist, in addition to being a first-rate moviemaker. Viewers benefit enormously from the unrivaled eye of Walter Murch (“THX 1138,” “American Graffiti,” “Apocalypse Now,” “The English Patient”), one of the great film editors of our time.

I spoke recently about “Particle Fever” and particle physics with Professor Jerry McCoy of The University of Tulsa. He and a couple of other area physicists offered an oral annotation as part of a recent showing of the film at Tulsa’s Circle Cinema. Afterward, the group hosted a discussion about the meaning of the new work at the Hadron Collider, the discovery of the Higgs particle, and the scientific, technological, and managerial talents required to deliver the findings that will reshape physics as we’ve known it.

“Fever” is one of the most exciting, lucid documentaries I’ve seen. It chronicles the efforts of an agile cadre of super-nerds who

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managed to convince the European community, India, Japan, and Russia to pony up over $7 billion for one of the most adventurous projects in the history of science and human enterprise. The good, old USA chunked in about $2 billion to round out the budget, but it’s important to know that the LHC project was put on the ground in Switzerland only after our government, via an early episode of congressional cowardice, decided not to build an even larger, more powerful, and possibly more rewarding facility in Texas. But with our buy-in, American scientists have a seat at the table, including a handful of Oklahoma physicists.

The LHC is easily the most complex contraption ever erected, but the project is also a brainy micro-society of scientists from over 100 countries, managed by CERN, the European high-energy physics organization. If you get the willies about the future of the planet given ongoing international conflicts or our own seemingly hapless domestic political conflicts, it’s refreshing as hell to learn about a peaceful oasis overseen by a polyglot medley of scientists pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.

It was an astonishing success.

Within only a few months of operations, the LHC carried out the dead-on detections that led to the

identification of the long-theorized Higgs, which physicists believe is responsible for the fact that matter particles have mass—a profoundly practical feature, since otherwise, the universe as we know it would likely not be possible.

A big part of what Peter Higgs, who won the Nobel prize last year, stipulated in a 1964 paper has essentially been detected. Now there is a fresh, grand mystery that springs from how the mass of the Higgs exceeded what was imagined.

The findings call into question a theory known as supersymmetry, a passel of subatomic theories that mandate the discovery of a kind of partner to all of the particles on the scene in pre-Higgs days, ghostly particles that, when the Hadron Collider is fired up again in 2015, must be discovered. Otherwise, some physicists say, there will be a crisis at the center of particle physics, and indeed in our entire conception of the physical world.

The Higgs quest is important, and science needs to be aggressively supported both nationally as well as here, in the Sooner State.

Fundamental science and the push for new knowledge are under attack in America and are far from a top priority in Oklahoma. The efforts of Steadman Upham at The University of Tulsa, David Boren at University of Oklahoma,

and the excellent research work at Oklahoma State University in the material sciences are islands of excellence, archipelagos that are unambiguous refutations of anti-science, those malignant forces that will doom our country and our state if they are allowed to grow and go “untreated.”

TU’s professor McCoy told me about his recent visit to Singapore, which is said to have witnessed an explosion in its per-capital gross national product over the course of the last 50 years—in no small part, McCoy reminded me, because of huge increases in outlays for public education, for an ambitious research and development program, and for a slew of science-related training and developmental initiatives.

McCoy called them insightful. We could use more of that around here. a RE A D T HE RE S T AT

Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.

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Christmas in July

A parade by any other name would still be a parade

by BARRY FRIEDMAN

W

hen last we left Jesus, in the July 2 edition of this column, he was campaigning for two GOP senatorial candidates.

Now he’s back on a parade float where some think he belongs.

Which brings us to “The American Waste Control Tulsa Christmas Parade,” the latest moniker for the downtown parade that happens every second Saturday of December, which has had more names of late than Albertsons.

Not that I’m not glad a sponsor has stepped up so downtown can have its parade, but for the love of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, did no one anticipate the comedy buffet of a holiday parade named for a refuse hauler?

When the “Downtown Parade of Lights” replaced the “Tulsa Christmas Parade” in 2009, all hell broke loose. Removing “Christmas” from the title was like removing emcee Bob Barker from the Miss America Pageant. It was changed, clearly, to reflect Tulsa’s diversity, but that inclusivity chafed those who felt that, without Jesus, standing in a Best Buy parking lot at 5 a.m. on Black Friday would be a Godless experience.

A group led by Mark Croucher, president of the W.H.Y. Insurance Agency in Jenks and former candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner and state senate, decided to have its own parade at the Tulsa Hills Shopping Center, called the “Tulsa Christmas Parade,” or as I thought of it, “No Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Taoists, Heathens Parade.”

Consequently, for a few years now, Tulsa has had two parades, and this isn’t the first time I’ve written about them—in fact,

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Tulsa’s parade debacle was the topic of my inaugural column in The Tulsa Voice . Apparently, like a dental checkup—and just as enjoyable—I am destined to write about it every six months or so.

Last year, downtown organizers offered to rename their shindig “The Tulsa Downtown Parade of Lights: A Celebration of Christmas, Hanukkah and Other Holidays,” theoretically in hopes that Croucher would fold his “Tulsa Christmas Parade” and stop pouting.

He didn’t.

Which brings us back, again, to the “American Waste Control Tulsa Christmas Parade.” John McFarland, chairman of the non-profit Tulsa Events Group, LLC, producers of the new event, said at Tulsa Press Club last month that “Christmas” was added back into the name to bring both parades under one roof.

But Croucher said, “We have never agreed to merge nor have we ever been asked for a meeting to discuss the possibility of a merger.”

Oops.

Coincidentally, McFarland, who was part of the group that found-

ed the parade out South, which included Croucher, Eddie Huff, and 1170 KFAQ, admitted he had no direct communication with his former partner regarding the latest downtown-parade name change.

Huh? Wouldn’t that be the first call you make?

“He’s welcome to do his parade,” McFarland said. “Anyone can start a Christmas parade in Tulsa if they want. We can have 50 parades.

“But our hope and goal is for this to become the main one,” he said.

Why is this a thing, anyway?

These two are behaving like 8-year-olds fighting over the last LEGO Star Wars Death Star on the shelf.

Imagine the TV spot, with one of Santa’s helpers pointing at the screen: “’The American Waste Control Tulsa Christmas Parade’ wants to be your Christmas parade.”

It’s not just a name in a parade.

It’s Oklahoma’s attempt to change its motto from “Labor Omnia vincit (“Labor Conquers All Things”) to “In God We Trust,” and allowing a Ten Commandments statue to be placed smack dab in front

of the seat of government. It’s prayers being allowed at the beginning of city-council meetings.

It’s GOP senatorial candidates talking of God coming to them with job openings. It’s Creationism in the public-school curriculum.

It’s an arts-and-crafts store using its corporate faith to deny women reproductive freedom.

Some in Oklahoma want Christianity to be the default religion here. All faiths, they’ll insist, are welcome. But in their America, Christians get to pre-board and sit in First Class, while the rest of us are herded into coach. It’s incremental, so it’s easy enough to deny and dismiss those who take offense as snarky, paranoid, Godless liberals.

The point here: we already have one “Christmas” parade.

I said it in the pages of this publication seven months ago, and I’ll say it again: we’re not all Christian, nor want to be. The downtown event, by contrast, should give the rest of us—after all, it still has “Tulsa” in the name—a chance to enjoy a parade without the notion that floats, reindeer, and peppermint bark have anything to do with a virgin birth. This compromise—this capitulation, really—is unnecessary, a waste. a “News from the Plains” appears each issue and covers Oklahoma politics and culture—the disastrous, the unseemly, the incomprehensible … you know, the dayto-day stuff. Barry Friedman is a touring stand-up comedian, author, and general rabble-rouser.

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“Fever” is one of the most exciting, lucid documentaries I’ve seen. It chronicles the efforts of an agile cadre of super-nerds who

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Into the wild

How to support your local musicians

by RYAN DALY

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aybe you were at a local bar, drinking local beer, and gnawing on locally-grown appetizers, and you happened to hear a rad local band.

Just like you patronize this local eatery, local brewery, and perhaps even local farmers, you want to support this new source of localtainment. But, how?

1 // Show up. It blows my mind to hear people complain they have nothing to do in this city. There are a dozen great bands playing in Tulsa on any given night. Pause that episode of “Real Housewives of Rural Pennsylvania” (actually, someone should make that show), put on some pants, and go support a group of young artists trying earnestly to entertain you.

Just listen to Robby Housh, head honcho for Johnny Badseed and the Rotten Apples: “Bring some friends and enjoy yourself.

The more people are enjoying themselves at a show, the more fun the band has.”

2 // Pay the cover charge.

I won’t lie, being in a band is a lot of fun. It also takes up a lot of time and a surprising amount of money, so it’s nice when we get to make a little scratch for our trouble. You should feel good knowing that $5 you laid down at the door is going toward stitching up the holes in our pockets.

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“A good friend of mine pointed out that the standard cover charge has always been a cool $5 bill for most places,” said Bo Hallford, bass guitar extraordinaire for a number of bands, including Paul Benjaman Band. “Cheap live music is the only thing that hasn’t inflated over the years. A lot of folks will turn away from a bar with a cover charge, only to spend more than $5 on each drink. Pay the cover.

What’s $5 buy these days, anyway?”

3 // Drink. If you’re looking for an excuse to go on a Wednesday-night bender (like you need another excuse), I’ll give you two.

First, at bars without a cover charge, the band is probably getting paid a cut of the bar (read: 10 percent or less). So, the more you drink, the more we get paid.

If you buy drinks for the band, it’s like they get paid twice (hey, I’m a musician, not a mathematician).

Second, most bars aren’t in the business of putting on free shows, and the ones that are don’t stay in business very long. The more the bar makes, the happier the owners are, and the more likely your favorite band is to get invited back.

Pro tip: No matter how charming you think you are, you’re a super-obnoxious drunk, so remember to tip your bartender and to designate a driver.

4 // Buy some merch, listen to their music. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that

listening to your favorite local band’s music is a great way to support them, but have you ever thought about how you listen to their music? Buying a tape, vinyl record, or CD is the best way to get bands the most money up front, but that physical product stops paying us the moment it’s in your hands. Streaming services like Spotify pay out with every listen.

So, if you’re at a show, buy a band’s merch – tapes, CDs, shirts, stickers – and when you’re sitting at your desk, listen to them on Spotify.

5 // Follow them on social media. I know – your Facebook timeline, like mine, is already a logjam of your friends’ business ventures, art shows, and poetry slams, held together with a glue of cat videos and Upworthy headlines. But festival and concert promoters use social media to gauge bands’ potential audience, so if you want to see your friend’s doom-jazz quartet (yeah, that’s a thing) at the next whateverpalooza, you need get to clicking. Like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter and Instagram, send them 5-second bursts of NSFW video on Snapchat, or add them to your professional network on LinkedIn (scratch that, LinkedIn is a terrible social-media platform that nobody should use).

6 // Tell everyone you know.

Watch your step, I’m about to drop some knowledge. A 2012

study by Nielson showed that 92 percent of people trust word-ofmouth recommendations from friends and family over anything else, which means that no matter how much a band shamelessly self-promotes, what concerts we play, or awards we win, none of it means a thing compared to that time you mentioned us to your friend Dave over nachos.

7 // Talk to them after they play. Want to know why most of us play music? It isn’t the money.

It’s because we’re tremendous narcissists who need constant validation. Seriously, though, even if we look hot and tired and busy trying to get our stuff off the stage, there are few better feelings than someone coming up after a show and paying a compliment.

“I feel the most rewarded when the audience speaks up,” said Danner Party frontman Pete Hess.

“Even if they’re talking shit, at least I know they’re listening.” a

Award-winning music journalist Ryan Daly is coasting through life on his wit and good looks.

Outside these ink-smudged pages you can find him performing as one-half of local band The Fabulous Minx, promoting shows with his label, Midnight Creeper Records, or loitering. Tweet to him @okwordsandpics.

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Budget woahs City fun and city funding in post-Recession Tulsa

by JENNIE LLOYD

S

ince the Great Recession crashed our economic party in Dec. 2007, cable news networks have locked into a yearslong blame game. Aggressively blond pundits fuss nightly over what kind of economy Obama inherited – or created.

Depending on the channel, I can’t tell whether the bad times have ended or just begun.

Timelines are melted down and re-molded to suit political agendas. Every talking head worth his coif is crossing fingers you’re too tired from your second job to Google any of this stuff, anyway.

Thanks, Obama.

We spare you the depths of global recession here. We’re more worried about economic recovery IRL – right here, right now. In that spirit, we cracked open the zillionodd-page Tulsa city budget, the slim-and-trim $688.1 million plan (shrunk 2 percent from current year) passed on June 20, now available online for anyone with a bored-to-death wish.

The budget’s story reflects a middle-size, middle-of-the-nation city muddling through, fighting— sometimes with each other—to make ends meet in lean times. It wasn’t pretty. Bartlett’s original

budget included some painful cuts to public transit and the arts.

There were protests, there was outcry. The council countered with some stop-gaps.

The get-along gang attempted to get more realistic about future sales tax revenues; bump up our water, sewer, stormwater, and EMSA rates; drop roughly 150 city jobs, 127 of which are vacant; throw money toward Visit Tulsa marketing to fish for more tourism dollars; try to task-force their way into more public-private collaborations; and hold off on police and fire academies for the next fiscal year.

Four fingers pointing back at you Gov. Mary Fallin and Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, were in the U.S. House when the now-maligned immigration policy, which led to our current child immigration crisis now manifested at Fort Sill, passed unanimously in Congress in 2008. The bill was signed by George W. Bush. Thanks, Obama?

(Hat tip to The Oklahoman, “Obama gets blame, but 2008 bill set procedures for dealing with young illegal immigrants”)

Righteous indignance alerts A recent study ranking energy-expensive states put the Sooner State 5th on the list. Oklahoma, where the oil drillers come sweeping down the plain? We should be able to swim in pools of black gold around here, but lower prices don’t always mean lower costs; consumption is key. Most of us sun-fried Okies love to bask in that greatest human invention, electric ice-cold air conditioning – until the corresponding summer electric bill shows up.

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On the subject of his economic inheritance, Tulsa’s mayor said:

Cit y Hall // Photo by John Langdon

If our mayor and our president can agree on something, it must be true, right?

In a May 1 letter to the City Council, Mayor Bartlett gave a delightfully brief history of the recession vis-à-vis Tulsa. Our mayor and our president have (maybe just this one) thing in common: they both inherited a busted economy.

Hey, if Bartlett and Obama can agree on something, it must be true, right?

Murder is my best angle A&E is filming its reality hit “The First 48” on the mean streets of Tulsa. A camera crew is following homicide detectives as they work a case. The 918 episode is scheduled to air this fall. Watching TPD’s finest solve a murder mystery?

Sounds like an open and shut case—of entertainment.

Unclench Forget red, Oklahoma is an “uptight” state. A recent study shows how states differ politically, not on a

“A significant global recession began in 2008. While the recession arrival was delayed in Tulsa, it did impact the local economy significantly. Tulsa has steadily improved since the low point.

The unemployment rate in March of 2010 was 7.5 percent. Last March it was 5.6 percent and it currently stands at 5.3 percent…

Real estate sales have improved and foreclosures have fallen to less than the national levels. Last year at the end of March the sales tax for the fiscal year was growing at a rate of 2.8 percent. Despite the overall good condition of the economy the city has seen a near leveling of its sales tax revenues.”

Bottomline: So much of Tulsa’s budget—about a third—depends on sales taxes, not exactly a stable flow of cash in these uncertain times. A city can’t make money off sales taxes when no one can afford to buy anything. It’s not sexy enough for primetime. It’s not click bait. But this is where we’re at – and, until we can agree on something better, it’s a place to start. a blue-and-red scale, but in a special, highly scientific tightness-looseness matrix. Oklahoma, ranked 4thmost-uptight state in the union, clenches hard to its conservative social values, enforced social norms (the ban on gay marriage), dry counties, strict drug laws (you’ll be slapped with a felony for any amount of marijuana sales), and a penchant for natural disasters (oh, hi, Tornado Alley). Each of the most uptight states were in the Deep South, while the loosest were in coastal or mountain regions.

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foodfile

Tallgrass Prarie Table

Keo

Stonehorse

Bodean

Prhyme Photos by Michelle Pollard and Evan Taylor

Travel to go Staycation eats to feed your wanderlust

by ALLISON KEIM

L

uciano Pavarotti said, “One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

Consuming nourishment should be a celebration. Eating is not only a basic requirement of life, it has become a form of lustful entertainment. Hunger lures us into strange places in search of the perfect taco, tempts us into long lines for kimchi fries, and tricks us into spending too much on dinner.

Food is a dangerous addiction for some, but it is a necessity for us all. You cannot quit food to manage its prowess. You must simply overcome your cravings and make good food choices. Unless, of course, you are on vacation. Then all bets are off.

My first trip to New York City opened my eyes to all things epicurean. I was finally mature enough to appreciate the incredible dining experiences in a big city and also understand the art of food. The awe, from the first bite of sushi at Nobu, was encompassing. I daintily devoured the artfully crafted tasting menu at The Modern. I had the finest seasonal fare at Craft. The culinary stimulus was ridiculous and amazing and wonderful.

Recently, a friend traveled to Italy and returned only to find herself in a food depression. The 14 // FOOD & DRINK

impeccable simplicity of authentic Italian cuisine left a mark on her and nothing could compare.

Those of us who worship food cannot help but acknowledge the undeniable emptiness of coming home to a handful of familiarities.

Fortunately, there are dining venues here that can satisfy my wanderlust, my short list of places that will pull you out of a food funk in a heartbeat. (If you are new to Tulsa, this is an easy way to step into our local gourmand scene.)

Tallgrass Prairie Table This stunning local treasure was opened in the Blue Dome District last year by a talented team led by two incredible women. Owner Hope Egan has a personality that fills a room and has been a fixture in the hospitality industry for as long as I can remember. Michelle Donaldson, Executive Chef, has extreme talent, finesse for all things edible, and remarkable vision. The farm-to-table style menu is seasonally charged and makes my mouth water—the Zucchini Tian is a dish inspired by a classic Julia Child recipe. The vegetables for this delicious casserole were sourced from the Tallgrass farm in Depew. Tomatoes, sweet corn, and basil are the stars of this vegetarian indulgence.

The ingredients are local, but the flavors are world class.

313 E. Second Street tallgrasstable.com

Keo Asian Cuisine Owners Bill and Zahida Hyman manifested a clean and contemporary space to serve healthy, high-quality, Asian-inspired dishes in style. Both locations have the same, sophisticated vibe that makes you feel like you’ve stumbled into a hip eatery in a big city.

I crave the spicy Papaya Salad and the creamy coconut sauce in the Steamed Mussels, both of which are on the small-plate menu.

These dishes are prepared with extreme attention to the finer details and are consistent, both of which can be said about the entire menu.

These are people who are doing it right, all the time.

3524 S. Peoria Avenue and 8921 S. Yale Avenue keorestaurant.com Stonehorse Café Chef Tim Inman’s talent is obvious, and his café and market offer a neighborly vibe. Inman is frequently in the kitchen making everything from scratch, motivating his team, and waving over the hot line at his customers. In Utica Square, this is the place to ‘see and be seen,’ especially if you are a food lover. The menu changes seasonally but there are items, like the “Truck Stop Style” meatloaf, that Inman can’t take off the menu. The regular guests would surely revolt.

1748 Utica Square stonehorsecafe.com

Bodean Seafood Restaurant The freshest fish and finest oysters come from Bodean Restaurant and Market, a Tulsa tradition.

The service and ambiance are continuously great, but the food that comes from the kitchen of Executive Chef Trevor Tack is impeccable. Each dish is stunning to look at and even more impressive to taste. Intentionally crafted to balance textures and flavors, his menu is exquisite. To have a truly fine experience, start your meal with a dozen Kumamoto oysters and end with an artisanal cheese plate.

3376 E. 51st Street bodean.net Pryhme Steakhouse This is the only restaurant in town to get any steak you want, prepared any way you want it, thanks to Chef and Owner Justin Thompson. All four of his Tulsa eateries are world-class—Juniper, Tavolo, and 624 Kitchen & Catering are the others—but Prhyme has a swanky atmosphere that sweeps you off your feet. This just might be the most impressive place in Tulsa to take a date. The menu boasts classic steakhouse fare adorned with modern surprises. You can’t go wrong with any entrée, but you must order the Lobster Bisque to start. It’s the best in town.

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voice’schoices

Favorite dishes from Tulsa’s music makers

MITCH GILLIAM

AMELIA PULLEN

El Burrito

The Tavern

Eloté

Egg it On Café

3955 E. Admiral Place

201 N. Main St.

514 S. Boston Ave.

I’ve visited El Burrito once a week since the day Obama was inaugurated. Fluffy stuff, gorditas, and guaraches are their claim to fame, but the showstopper is the caldo de pescado. Did you play rock and roll last night, get band-beer wasted, and wait ‘til 3 a.m. to get paid? Get this soup, a michelada, and pull up Los Elegidos’s “Fruta Prohibida” on the jukebox. No hangovers in this House of the Holy.

The best meal I’ve had in a long time was a very simple, traditional breakfast from the Tavern. Eggs over medium with breakfast potatoes, bacon and seasonal fruit.

When simple food is done this well it’s hard to beat. The service and atmosphere are awesome at the Tavern. And, of course, I ordered a bottle of champagne with a side of OJ. It was brunch, after all.

The Dante El Niño is one hell of a burrito—stuffed with rice, black bean corn relish, crema fresca, caramelized onions, poblano peppers, portobella mushrooms, spinach, and chicken. I prefer mine with rice and black beans. It’s named after one of Elote’s legendary Luchador wrestlers, a Dominican-born futbol player from hell. What’s not to like?

1131 S. Aspen Ave., Broken Arrow

MITCH is lead singer and guitarist for Lizard Police

AMY beats the drums for Bitchcraft

BO HALLFORD

BO slaps the bass for Paul Benjaman Band, among others

MICHAEL STAUB

They call the eggs benedict “Benny’s” on their menu, for whatever reason. Lame name aside, they have a lot of variations, but I almost always order Ham & Avocado, though you can’t go wrong with any of the options.

Probably not better than what you can get at the hipster brunch places, but I guarantee, for $7.99, including hash browns and fresh fruit, nobody comes close.

STAUB blows the saxophone for Gogo Plumbay

boozeclues

(tips on drinking well in Tulsa)

Mixed Company 302 S. Cheyenne Ave. the bartender: Nico Albert the drink:

The Bushwick

the ingredients: High West Campfire Whiskey, Vya Vermouth, Bitter Truth Orange Bitters, Flamed Orange Peel the secret:

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“ This is kind of our take on a Manhattan,” said proprietor Jared Jordan. “But the secret to the flavor of this one is the flamed orange peel, which adds an extra component of bitterness from the burning of the citrus oil.”

July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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dininglistings DOWNTOWN Abear’s Baxter’s Interurban Grill The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Fat Guy’s Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch The Greens on Boulder Heavy Metal Pizza 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 Bistro at Atlas Life Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Trula Williams Center Café

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

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

BRADY ARTS DISTRICT

BLUE D OME

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

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

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

I-44/BA INTERCHANGE Big Anthony’s BBQ Bill & Ruth’s Subs Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Chop House BBQ D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s In & Out Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Monterey’s Little Mexico

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

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

Hero’s Subs & Burgers Ike’s Chili Los Primos The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market

WO ODLAND HILLS Juniper McNellie’s S&J Oyster Company Tallgrass Prairie Table White Flag Yokozuna

UTICA SQUARE Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Goldie’s Patio Grill McGill’s Olive Garden P.F. Chang’s China Bistro

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

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

Helen of Troy Mediterranean Cuisine Hideaway Pizza India Palace La Flama Mahogany Prime Steakhouse McNellie’s South City Mr. Goodcents Subs & Pastas Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Nordaggio’s Coffee OK Country Donut Shoppe Pita Place Redrock Canyon Grill Ripe Tomato Ron’s Hamburgers and Chili Sushi Hana Japanese Fusion Thai Village Tres Amigos Mexican Grill & Cantina White Lion Whole Foods Zio’s Italian Kitchen

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

Tulsa Broken Arrow

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TU/KENDALL WHITTIER Big Al’s Health Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s BBQ Brothers Houligan Capp’s BBQ Corner Café Duffy’s Diner El Rancho Grande Freddie’s Hamburgers Guang Zhou Dim Sum Jim’s Coney Island Las Americas Super Mercado & Restaurant Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant

Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Nelson’s Ranch House Oklahoma Style BBQ The Phoenix Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza

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

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

CHERRY STREET Andolini’s Pizzeria Café Cubana Chimi’s Mexican Food Chipotle Mexican Grill Coffee House on Cherry Street Daylight Donuts Doe’s Eat Place Full Moon Café Genghis Grill Heirloom Baking Co. Hideaway Pizza Jason’s Deli

Kilkenny’s Irish Pub & Eatery La Madeleine Lucky’s Restaurant Mary’s Italian Trattoria Mi Cocina Palace Café Panera Bread Phat Philly’s Qdoba Mexican Grill SMOKE. Te Kei’s Tucci’s Café Italia Zanmai

WEST TULSA Hideaway Pizza Main Street Tavern McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro Romeo’s Espresso Cafe

MIDTOWN Albert G’s Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse

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

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

ROSE DISTRICT BruHouse Daylight Donuts Family Back Creek Deli & Gifts Fiesta Mambo!

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

Felini’s Cookies & Deli Golden Gate Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Steve’s Sundries Trenchers Delicatessen

Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken Go West Restaurant & Saloon Jumpin J’s Knotty Pine BBQ 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

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

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

July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

VOTED TULSA’S

BEST PATIO

3 Years Running!

PYRAT PARTY

Home of the $2 Mimosa & $5 Bloody Mary (All Day Every Day)

Happy Hour

Mon – Fri 4-7pm

$2 Domestic Bottles & $5 Appetizers

Cold Beer, Great Food & The Best Local Live Entertainment FRI. 18 SAT. 19 THU. 24 FRI. 25 SAT. 26 Earl & Travis & Curt Hill Hosty Duo Barrett Tia Lewis Trio Them FRI. 8/1 Wayne Garner • SAT. 8/2 Charlie Redd

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Cocktails 101 Learn fun summer recipes Giveaways & Prizes

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“One of the most enjoyable meals I’ve had in a while...

Flavors were well developed and delicious.”

- Pam Vrooman, Tulsa “Delicious, fresh food. So well done.

Really excited you’re adding to the Tulsa restaurant scene.”

- Sarah Winchester, Tulsa “Most delicious meal we’ve enjoyed in years...

Absolutely loved all of it.”

- Douglas Fischer, Tulsa “Very much enjoyed this unique restaurant.”

- Trevor Hughes, Tulsa

$5 Burger Night

Sundays from 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.

10% off for all Students, Faculty & Alumni

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Create an Event They Will Never Forget.

Two spacious events centers that will give your event a unique feel.

Catering options available through new favorite Maxxwell’s Restaurant.

Twenty-six one of a kind rooms that will wow your guests.

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6 am-10 pm • 7 days a week • (918) 748-5550 Located inside the historic Campbell Hotel THE TULSA VOICE // July 16 – August 5, 2014

Located on Historic Route 66, and National Register of Historic Places.

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brady WE’RE CELEBRATING THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE FESTIVAL AT SISSEROU’S

Happy Hour daily 2Pm-7PM & Specials Daily!

Now Open For Lunch Daily!

Live Music Every Wed. & Every Weekend!

TROPICAL DRINKS JERK CHICKEN STREET CORN & MORE!

TULSA’S ORIGINAL LATE NIGHT COFFEE & TEA HOUSE OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

JULY 25 & 26 107 N. BOULDER, UNIT C

ENTRANCE FACING MAIN ST.

*Special menu with limited seating both nights

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woODy GuthriE cenTEr presENTs Ani DiFranco

303 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Historic Brady Arts District 122 N. Boston Avenue. 918-582-4888 facebook.com/masonstulsa

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woodyguthriecenter.org

Sun Oct 26, 2014 Cain’s Ballroom Doors :: 7:00 pm Show :: 8pm

(times subject to change)

Tickets :: Cain’s Box Office, cainsballroom.com Advance $30 | Day of $33 Door $33 | Mezzanine $45 VIP $60

The limited # of VIP tickets include a general admission seat near the front of the stage as well as a catered meet & greet at the Woody Guthrie Center at 6pm on the day of the show. This ticket can only be purchased online.

All proceeds from this show will benefit the Woody Guthrie Center's education programs

address 102 East Brady Street, Tulsa, OK 74103 Phone 918.574-2710 email info@woodyguthriecenter.org 20 // BRADY ARTS DISTRCIT GUIDE

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Serving Brunch Sat & Sun 10:30am -2pm

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AUG. 1 FROM 6-9 PM WINE BAR

A Contemporary Wine Bar & Urban Lounge WINE • BEER • COCKTAILS MARTINIS • COSMOS • LIVE MUSIC • FRIDAYS @ 9PM WEEKDAY HAPPY HOUR 4-7

- Caz’s Chowhouse - Chimera - Gypsy Coffee House - Hey Mambo - Laffa - Lucky’s on the Green - Mexicali Border Cafe

- PRHYME - Sisserou’s - The Hunt Club - The Rusty Crane - The Tavern - T-Town Gourmet Food Truck

THE TULSA VOICE // July 16 – August 5, 2014

- 209 - Bar 46 - Cain’s Ballroom - Caz’s Pub - Classic Cigars & Lounge - Club Majestic - Downtown Lounge - Gypsy Coffee House - Hey Mambo - Laffa

- MAINLINE - Mason’s - PRHYME - Soundpony - The Hunt Club - The Rusty Crane - The Tavern - The Vanguard - Valkyrie - YETI - ZIN

WEEKLY DRINK SPECIALS $6 SIGNATURE COCKTAILS

Join us for FREE movies in the park every Thursday night at 8:30 pm!

JULY • July 17: Dumb and Dumber • July 31: The Princess Bride AUGUST • Aug 7: Back to the Future • Aug 14: Disney Movie VOTE • Aug 21: La Bamba JOIN OUR ONLINE FAMILY AT GUTHRIEGREEN.COM FOR ALL THE GREEN HAS IN STORE FOR YOU. 111 North M.B. Brady Street

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FEST PRO TIPS

Some musicians and veteran festival-goers on how to have the best time possible

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE FESTIVAL July 25-26

Doors open at 5 p.m.

Brady Arts District in downtown Tulsa Main Stage (Easton & Main) Tulsa World Stage (Main between Brady & Archer) Guthrie Green Stage Day passes are now $35; Weekend pass is now $50; VIP passes are sold out Box office location 107 N. Boulder Ave. enter through the east door Ticket purchased online will be available for pick-up at the will-call tent outside the festival gates (all passes purchased before July 12 will be mailed) MORE AT centeroftheuniversefest ival.com

JUST AS SUMMER REACHES its boiling point, downtown Tulsa will erupt for two days with the music from over 100 bands. Musicians will come from near and far, both in terms of geography and craft, to gather with their fans at the heart of the country for the Center of the Universe Festival, just in its second year and already a draw for tens of thousands.

BEFORE THE FEST

Case the line-up. Sure, we’ve given you the line-up we like best (right), but if you want a truly customized experience, take the time before the fest to listen to each band before you settle on a schedule. The Center of the Universe Festival website, at centeroftheuniversefestival.com, is an easy resource. Then, download the COTU Fest mobile app, free on iTunes, and bookmark each band you want to see. The app offers you the option to receive a reminder before the event—or, you can filter the acts by stage/ location or by day if you’d rather wing it. The app comes with a list of nearby museums, retail, bars, and restaurants to visit on your downtime, too, plus a festival map and other info.

If you’d rather skip the app, here’s a quick hack from local music photographer Kevin Pyle: Create a daysheet in Notepad or Notes. Then, take a screenshot and make it your lockscreen wallpaper. Your customized lineup, at a glance.

A custom daysheet is available on the full COTU site, too. Use the iCal function or email it to the account you use on your phone.

Once you’ve picked which bands you’d like to see, like them on Facebook. If you’re feeling really enthusiastic, says Ryan Daly, TTV contributor and member of The Fabulous Minx, a COTU Fest band, post on the groups’ wall to let them know you’re excited about their shows. Bonus points: Tag Center of the Universe in your post. It helps build buzz for the set.

TTV music writer, Lizard Police frontman, and COTU Fest per-

former Mitch Gilliam has more homework for you: listen to all the bands you can, pre-fest. “It’s great to discover music at a fest, but you can’t get jacked for the goods if you’ve struck out on bullshit all day in the heat,” he said.

Somewhere in the fest there are corporate-branded koozies, sunglasses, and bandanas being handed out for free. Find these items. You can thank Mitch Gilliam later for the advice and the shade.

WEEKEND OF THE FEST

Footwear. Pretend you are old and wise and make the kind of footwear choices someone old and wise would make. Trust.

Who wants to worry about parking or trying to enjoy a music festival without the company of a beer or two? Consider hiring a ride. In case you haven’t heard, Uber, the mobile app-powered rideshare and taxi alternative, is new to Tulsa. Don’t forget to download the app before you leave for the festival; if you’re an Uber virgin, a dry run might not be a bad idea, either.

Too: if you don’t plan to imbibe, consider biking to the festival. It’s lots cheaper than blowing cash on a cab. Plus, parking is easier. “There are bike stands er’where,” according to friendly local and TTV contributor Andy Wheeler (before the fest, check out his downtown how-to guide at thetulsavoice.com).

Yet another option: Drive downtown, find a parking spot nice and removed from the mayhem, then bike in.

You’ve heard it before: Stay hydrated. The COTU Fest folks won’t allow any outside liquids onto the festival grounds, but the doors of the restaurants of the Brady District and the serving windows of an entire herd of food trucks will be open, so water should be in plenty supply— by the bottle and for a price, we assume. Bring cash and spend the few days prior guzzling plenty of H2O.

Sunscreen. The sun doesn’t set until 8:34 p.m. on July 25-26, the days of the festival; the first bands strike up at 5:30 p.m. The rays will be long, but even on music-festival weekends, it’s better to be safe than crispy.

Find a bar/grill near the fest, and do all your drinking/resting there.

“Be nice to your servers, and you’ll be glad to have a place with respectably priced drinks, air conditioning, and (hopefully) chips, while you skip all the bands you decided you hate,” Gilliam said. “Don’t be the guy passed out under a tree with an $8 High Life spilled in his lap.”

Have a designated spot for meetups. “A real one, like that bar you picked, or a stop sign across from where the fest lets out,” Gilliam said. “One of you or your friends’ phones will go dead, I promise you, or they will get lost.

I double promise you that you will both be glad you picked a rendezvous that’s more solid than ‘in front of the main stage and kinda back to the left.’”

Last but not least: pace yourself.

Fests are typically (hot) and longer than you think, Gilliam said.

“Don’t pass out under a tree.”

Photo by Case y Hanson

Here we connect the dots between the must-see bands and when and where to find them; some tips from our music writers on how to best enjoy the fest; and some commiseration.

With a fest this big, the music lovers’ choices are not easy.

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Staff picks for your best itinerary for both days of COTU ‘14

FR IDAY // JULY 25 MAIN STAGE

GUTHRIE GREEN STAGE

TULSA WORLD STAGE

BAR 46

CHIMERA

HUNT CLUB

LAFFA

MAJESTIC

5:30 5:45 6:00 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 1:15

YETI

Creepozoids

Mexican Cartel

The Secret Post

Guardant

All About a Bubble

EH3 (Eric Himan Band)

Dovetail

The Dusty Pearls

Bison Witches

twentyonepilots Zeke Duhon

Taddy Porter Max Frost

SOUND PONY

VAN GUARD

La Lune

Fiawna Forte Space Capone

MASON’S

Magic Pageant

Mighty Mountain

Roger Jaegar

The Bourgeois

Summit

LITTLE RADAR

ADMIRAL

Fitz & The Tantrums Honeylark

Nuns Fly Golen Eagle

FM Pilots Ings

AWOL NATION

Carnegie Algebra

Captain Munch

The Moai Broadcast Big D & The Kid’s Table

Kelli Lynn & the Skillet Lickers

Aaron Pierce

Jumpship Astronaut

The Rude Amps Nee

Desi & Cody Deerpeople

Lizard Police

Gogo Plumbay

Society Society

PINKISH BLACK

Big Rahb

Star death & white dwarfs

MASON’S

SOUND PONY

YETI

VAN GUARD

Brother Rabbit

Bitchcraft

Kids in the Street

We The Ghost

Afterlight Z-Trip

Kawnar The Loaded Dice

The Wright Brothers

Noisemekka

SATURDAY // JULY 26 MAIN STAGE

GUTHRIE GREEN STAGE

TULSA WORLD STAGE

BAR 46

CHIMERA

HUNT CLUB

LAFFA

MAJESTIC

5:30 5:45 6:00 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 1:15

Posh Maverick ft.

Jake Wesley Rogers

Dante & The Hawks

The Boogie

Clear Plastic Masks

Sick/Sea

Wyland

HIKES

Staying for the Weekend

Derrick Weber

COLD WAR KIDS

Greensky Bluegrass

Matt Stansberry & The Romance

Jason Swanson

Red Wood Rising

Thick As Thieves

Paperscissors

Tallows

Seven Story Fall

I Heard A Lion

Capital Cities I Said Stop!

Horse Thief Yo Mamas Big Fat Booty Band Young the Giant

Weston & The Outsiders chateau

The Wright Brothers Spoonfed Tribe

Jason Ferguson

Steve Liddell Band

Larry g(EE)

Allie Lauren Nicnos

Otis the Destroyer

And There Stand Empires klondike5 String Band

Pageantry Jay Coop Music

Moongiant

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Josh Sallee

The Fabulous Minx

Verse & The Vapors

Alan Doyle

The Happen-Ins

Radioactivity

Oilhouse

Aftermidnight

Warrbuck Well Hung Heart

KiiD H4WK

source: Center of the Universe Fest ival, centeroftheuniversefest ival.com THE TULSA VOICE // July 16 – August 5, 2014

CONFLICTING SET TIMES AND YOU

Simultaneous shows that will tear your heart out

IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN to a music festival that’s spread across several stages, you know your experience will be defined just as much by which acts you don’t see as the ones you do. It’s inevitable that the excitement you feel while reading the initial lineup will be replaced with some anxiety-inducing difficult decisions at least, and possibly utter heartbreak the dreaded day the schedule is released. It’s the nature of the beast that all music festivals have scheduling conflicts. There will always come a time when you’ll wish you could be in two (or five) places at once. Center of the Universe Festival 2014 proves no different.

With over 100 bands playing in the Brady District over the weekend, there’s a lot of good music to choose from. At any given moment, wherever you are, it’s a safe bet there’s a show just down the block that you could be enjoying equally as much as the one you’ve chosen. But then there are the big conflicts, when it seems as if whoever was in charge of scheduling bands did so just to ruin your day. These are the times you’ll see your fellow festivalgoers sprinting between venues in a vain attempt to see and hear it all. (Pro-tip: Seeing a full performance from beginning to end is almost always preferable to trying to catch bits of two or more shows.)

CotU has two of these ma jor conflicts, one for each day.

On Friday night, between 11:15 and 12:15, how, dear reader, will you ever choose between the ethereal psychedelia of Deerpeople at the Hunt Club, folksy sweethearts Desi & Cody at Laffa, the string-laden pop of We the Ghost at Ma jestic, the triumphant garage shredding of Lizard Police, and the swampy, haunted sax and lap steel wailing of Gogo Plumbay at Yeti? Likewise, when the clock strikes 9 on Saturday, will you go to Ma jestic for the lush, progressive pop of Tallows, whose debut album “Memory Marrow” was chosen as the Local Album of 2013 by the Oklahoma Gazette, the Tulsa World Stage for the spacious psych-folk of Horse Thief, the Vanguard for the speed and flow of OKC rhymesmith Josh Sallee, Mason’s for the rockabilly thunder and lightning of The Fabulous Minx, or the Guthrie Green Stage for the undeniable funk power of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band? We can offer you no answers here, only commiseration for the impossible decisions ahead of us all.

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Photo by Jeremy Charles

What I’m doing isn’t even country music anymore … not the kind of country music that sells. Nowadays it’s all about these game shows, or how young you are, or how you look. It’s just pop music. There’s no story to it anymore.

I’m interested in the stories. I want to play real country music.

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Jacob Tovar looks like he rolled off an assembly line at the Country Music Star Manufacturing Plant™. Tall and slender, his frame appears custom-built for a pearl-snap Western shirt and snug-fitting Wranglers. A devilmay-care grin (what some of his country music idols might’ve called “shit-eating”) peeks out from beneath a ten-gallon hat with just the right bend in the brim.

If Tovar—a relative newcomer to the Tulsa scene who has already established himself among the most sough-after acts in town— were interested in regurgitating the sort of slickly-produced, dancepop ditties that currently pass as “country” music, he’d likely have Nashville record executives tripping over themselves to offer him fame and fortune.

But he’s not interested in that sort of music. Not in the slightest.

“What I’m doing isn’t even country music anymore,” he said.

“I mean, it is, of course. It’s the original country music, the kind I’ve loved all my life. But it’s not the kind of country music that sells.

Nowadays it’s all about these game shows, or how young you are, or how you look. It’s just pop music.

“There’s no story to it anymore.

I’m interested in the stories. I want to play real country music.”

Tovar hails from Perry, Oklahoma, the son of hardworking parents who encouraged him to get to work as soon as he was able. Homeschooled from an early age, he spent his formative years as an apprentice to his father, an electrician.

“The education I got working with my father, I wouldn’t trade that for anything,” he said. “Meeting and interacting with the kinds of people THE TULSA VOICE // July 16 – August 5, 2014

I did, at that young age, in that environment, you figure out a lot of things about the world real quick.”

When the time came that many of his peers were headed off to college, Tovar was already a skilled electrician, and didn’t see much point in breaking the bank to learn some other trade. He just kept on working, and it was about this time that he started teaching himself the guitar.

“My older brother is a great guitar player who lives in Nashville. My uncle is a great guitar player. But I never started playing until I was about 19 or 20. I was always just a bedside picker. I played because I liked playing.”

Also around this time, on a job in Stillwater, Tovar met Jamie, who became his first girlfriend, and eventually his wife. (The pair have since added three new Tovars to the brood— sons Waylon and Coltrane, and daughter Sylvia).

Eventually, when Jamie got a job offer in Tulsa, he was more than happy to relocate.

“Even though I still didn’t have the nerve to get out and play in front of people, Tulsa is where I wanted to be,” he said. “I knew the music scene here was amazing, and I wanted to be here and be around it, because I’m just obsessed with music. At that time, there wasn’t a thought in my mind that I’d be able to make money at it.”

For years, he showed up as an eager fan at the collaborative live music showcases that laid the foundation for Tulsa’s current scene—particularly Tom Skinner’s “Science Project” at The Colony, and “Higher Education” at McNellie’s, led by Dustin Pittsley and Jesse Aycock.

He’d been coming out to shows so often that he made casual acquaintance with many of the musicians, and one Halloween night found himself at a late-night party at Pittsley’s house.

“Everyone was playing and singing, just having a good time,” Tovar said. “At one point, I grabbed a guitar and played a little tune, and they all seemed to like it.”

By all accounts from the musicians in attendance that evening, the claim that people “seemed to like it” is a massive understatement.

Pittsley called it revelatory. Tulsa singer-songwriter Wink Burcham said the room fell silent, every mouth agape, every eye fixed on this unknown talent who’d been hiding in plain sight. “Who is this guy?”

Burcham recalled thinking. “How is there a voice like this in Tulsa that none of us have ever heard?”

Heartened by the encouragement from musicians he so admired, Tovar eventually built up his nerve and began “crashing their gigs” to sing a few songs, he said, and was soon offered his own standing gig at The Colony, dubbed “Honky-Tonk Happy Hour,” for which he recruited slide guitarist (and master luthier) Seth Lee Jones, and the wunderkind electric guitarist Cooper Waugh. The trio had so much fun that they gave themselves a name—The Saddle Tramps—and started getting more and more gigs around town, eventually around the state and the region, playing venues from Enid to Stillwater to Oklahoma City to Norman. Tovar earned an invite to play the Folk Alliance International showcase in Kansas City this year, and he has achieved what’s regarded as a pinnacle for any Tulsa musi-

cian: performing on the legendary Cain’s Ballroom stage.

“Just to have the opportunity to step foot on that stage is amazing,” he said. “But to perform on it, where so many greats have performed, so many of my heroes—it’s one of the proudest achievements of my life.”

Several Tulsa music heavyweights have said that Tovar is primed for breakout success far beyond the Sooner state. Some say it’s simply a matter of time and circumstance. Others say it could be a matter of overcoming one last hurdle.

“I challenge him every day to write more,” said Burcham, who started as one of Tovar’s most fervent cheerleaders and has since become one of his dearest friends.

“I know he can write great songs.

He’s always got great stories to tell. He just needs more confidence. But, you know, it takes a lot of balls to write something from your heart and share it with people. I think the more he does it, and gets a positive response from an audience, that’ll give him the hunger to do it more and more.”

Burcham and other local songwriters are so steadfast in their belief in Tovar’s talent that they’ve gathered for group songwriting sessions, aiming to beef up his catalog of originals, and to offer him guidance, to coax him into realizing his natural capability.

“Wink and those guys always say, ‘Don’t tell me you’re not a songwriter. You get up there and tell stories that entertain people, that captivate people. All you have to do is put that into a song.’

“I just haven’t found it yet. I haven’t overcome the fear yet.”

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“Tulsa is where I wanted to be.

I knew the music scene here was amazing, and I wanted to be here and be around it.”

Not that Tovar doesn’t perform any original material. Two originals he co-wrote, “Tips and Beer” and “Good Spirits,” are among the strongest tunes in his repertoire, which also includes Honky-tonk and Western swing standards such as “Hey Good Lookin’” by Hank Williams, and “Take Me Back to Tulsa” by hometown hero Bob Wills. But at most local gigs, the expectation is for three or four hours of music, and Tovar simply doesn’t have the backlog of original material yet.

“I’m sure he’ll work his way into more songwriting,” said Jesse Aycock, the Tulsa-based musician currently touring nationally with rock supergroup the Hard Working Americans.

“But the thing is, with the kind of music he plays, it’s not as necessary. Part of the tradition of old Honky-tonk music is to interpret. Some of the greatest Honky-tonk players didn’t write many songs. They were interpreters of songs that are part of the tradition. And Jacob is a phenomenal interpreter.”

Indeed, one of Honky-tonk’s most revered and enduring artists, Waylon Jennings (the namesake of Tovar’s firstborn), recorded

more than 60 albums over a career spanning five decades, yet wrote fewer than 20 of the hundreds of songs he recorded.

It was his unique and powerful voice, and his ability to inject his own soul into a song, that made him a country music legend.

What that means for Tovar and his musical trajectory remains to be seen. He could continue to hone his songwriting chops, or he could follow in the tradition of Honky-tonk interpretation. In the end, it may not even matter. Like Waylon, it’s Tovar’s one-of-a-kind voice—a booming baritone, with lilting hints of down-home twang, bouncing with ease from barroom boisterousness to tender vulnerability—that stands to propel him to the heights of his Honky-tonk heroes.

Nashville may crank out a hundred who have the look of a country music star, with their perfect hats and their shiny boots.

But that sound—the sound of authentic country music—is not something that can be taught, or learned, or manufactured. That sound comes from a place.

Jacob Tovar is from that place. a

WATCH: Jacob Tovar performs original tunes “Tips and Beer,” featuring accompaniment by Wink Burcham and Cody Clinton, and instrumental composition “On Top” at the Woody Guthrie Center.

TheTulsaVoice.com/tovar GO: See Tovar perform every Monday at R Bar with Jeff Coleman.

He’ll play with his band The Saddle Tramps Aug. 21 at Mercury Lounge. For more dates as they become available, make a habit of visiting TheTulsaVoice.com/calendar LISTEN: Jacob Tovar & The Saddle Tramps’ “Good Spirits” appears on the Horton Records compilation “The Colony Presents: New Tulsa Folks,” available at HortonRecords.com and select local retailers.

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The road that leads home Jimmy “Junior” Markham on (almost) everything

by LINDSEY NEAL KUYKENDALL

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immy “Junior” Markham is a singer, a harmonica player, an Oklahoma Blues Hall of Famer, an Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame Blues Inductee. Most of all, he’s a cog in the inner-workings of Oklahoma’s music scene, a rainmaker since Tulsa’s formative years as a rock-and-blues hub.

In the 1950s and ‘60s he made music with Leon Russell, J.J. Cale, and David Gates, to name but a few, and he also crooned in his own bands. In 2009, Markham entrusted Steve Ripley (The Tractors, Leon Russell) with some of his 50-year-old master recordings. Steve played one on the tape machine in his recording studio. Markham’s sweet, smooth voice came through the speakers.

“It hurts me deep inside that you lied,” I heard Markham sing.

Last summer, Jimmy gave me a ride in his truck over to a coffee shop, where he sat with me and my recorder, telling stories.

On his chance meeting with Elvis Presley: I saw Elvis Presley and that ruined my life.

That was at the Fairground. I was in the 8th grade, maybe. He only came here once, to the Fairgrounds Pavilion.

Back in those days, security for those things didn’t exist. There was no need for it. It became kinda frantic. Just before it was over, I told [my mother] I’d meet her at the car. I went back into that perimeter tunnel of the Fairgrounds Pavilion. No one was there to stop me…I walked back in there and looked up and there’s Elvis Presley.

I visited with him. He wanted to know where the bathroom was, and we went to the bathroom. Actually, his first words were, “Do you know where a guy can take a piss around here?” I said, “Yeah, follow me.”

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not accept my credentials, my fake ID. I could get in all the rest of them but I couldn’t bust that deal at Dreamland. They would just refuse. They knew I wasn’t 21. But I would dress in coat and tie and act like I was 21. The ones that let me in knew I wasn’t.

On the ‘60s in LA, living in the same house with Leon Russell and Dave Teegarden: [Leon] enticed me to come to California, so I pulled up and went to California. I was about 18. Dave Teegarden came out after I had been there a year, six months. We all lived in the same house.

I got a recording contract out there, with Capitol Records. The Tulsa Review. [LA is] where I met Gram Parsons, who became the leader of the Flying Burrito Brothers. I opened a lot of shows for them. I still work with Bobby Keys, a tenor sax player from Texas. Bobby’s been in the Rolling Stones for the last 35 years. He was in Joe Cocker’s band.

Jimmy “Junior” Markham // Photo by Natasha Ball

We went down to the men’s bathroom and he said, “I gotta go back out here and sign autographs,” so I went back out with him in the hall. And by the time we got out there, those windows opened up about eight, 10 feet tall.

And he stood up on a Coca-Cola box on the inside and Colonel Parker was outside selling his glossy black-and-white photos.

He would sell one and pass it up, and Elvis would sign it and pass it back down. I stayed there about 15 minutes, just watching him do that. We never spoke because he was kinda busy doing that thing, and I finally said, “Well, I gotta go man.” And he said, “I’ll see ya.”

On the music of Black Wall Street in the late ‘50s: I cut my teeth over on the north side. That used to be the Black Wall Street.

But it was the tail end of it. There were at one time some beautiful nightclubs over there that had everything going on. B.B. King played over there; Billie Holiday played over there one New Years Eve. I was there for Ray Charles and Little Richard and Jackie Wilson. It was only on that side of town and it was never advertised over here. Never.

There was the Flamingo Club on Greenwood and right across the street was Dreamland Theater, and that’s the only club that would

On picking up the harmonica: [A drummer] said, “You need to start playing harmonica on some of these [recordings].” So I went down to the music store that day—we were out on the road somewhere—and bought a harmonica, and I started fooling with it then.

I’m still picking it up. It’s a difficult little booger to get it the way you want it. I suppose any of it is. I did a lot of pop music and even some urban-cowboy music, believe it or not, keeping up with the trends. But [I] wound up back at the harmonica.

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Endangered species What’s destroying Tulsa’s record-store habitat

by MITCH GILLIAM

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few weeks back I stopped by Tulsa’s newest record store, Holy Mountain, at 1416 E. 11th Street, hoping to find owners Jay Hancock and Violet Rush behind the counter. Several customers milled about the deep, narrow, high-ceilinged room, talking with the trucker-hatted Hancock and panning the bins for gold.

I set to idly picking through records myself, sleepily looking for nothing in particular while the crowd thinned out. I gasped when I flipped to a record I’ve wanted since last year. I ran to the counter, bought it, and fought the urge to throw it on the store’s turntable.

That experience—a “eureka” moment in a brick-and-mortar record store—is becoming increasingly rare. In Tulsa, it’s an experience in constant flux,

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where the opportunity presents itself just as quickly as it recedes back into the void. For a town with such a rich scene and history in music, the question is often asked: “Why can’t Tulsa keep a record store?”

From shops of the past like Mohawk and Seasick to the more recent casualties of Under The Mooch, Vinyl Countdown, and Size, all have shared the fate of the closed door, leading some to call the record store a cursed concept here. Jay Hancock, who worked for three of those stores, says he has seen shops fail for their own reasons, and not simply because they sold records. Burnout, moving to another state, the financial burden of providing for a family in a fickle market, and tough real-estate deals, he told me, have all helped kill record stores in this town.

“There’s definitely not a curse on record stores,” said Bart Ford, former owner of Under the Mooch, which closed in late 2009. His store, where Hancock helped, was doing great until the crash of 2008. Before the crisis, Ford said, sales were up every single month. “I didn’t see it coming, and when it happened, it was devastating,” he said. Apart from the global economic collapse was the downfall his clients were “probably too nice to point out,” he told me. Ford spent each month’s revenue solely to keep the doors open, and rarely bought new stock. His store ended up with the same stuff sitting around, and his regulars ran out of reasons to be regulars.

Ford believes there are ways for record shops to survive in Tulsa, however. One way is to roll the wax into a larger, more tradi-

tionally viable enterprise—in other words, sell records on the side.

“Lottery tickets and cigarettes do great in this town, right?” he joked, noting that Starship, he believes, has survived thanks to that very model.

Starship Records and Tapes has been in Tulsa since 1972, but it’s often overlooked when music collectors wonder to each other why Tulsa can’t keep a good record store. I asked store manager, Calvin Compton, why that was.

“It seems some people feel that since we are a head shop, it makes us less of a record store,” he told me, adding, “I think that is complete bullshit.”

He confirmed that the headshop, merch, and gifts have enabled the store to sell vinyl for as long as it has. “The record store is more a labor of love,” said the 32-year-old Compton, who has July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

been shopping at Starship since he was 14, and working there since ‘06. The store has endured its own unique struggles: the downward trend of demand for vinyl after CDs stole the market (and their floor space), plus a forced move from their iconic spot near The University of Tulsa in ’05. When the store moved its two small buildings into a single large one at its new location at 1241 S. Lewis Avenue, Compton says customers complained that the record selection had shrunk when, according to him, it actually grew. “There has not been in the last 15 years a store with as deep of a selection spanning all genres of new-release vinyl in Tulsa,” he said.

culture, but their million-plus residents don’t hurt, either. “Tulsa is right in the middle of that,” Ford said, adding that the store itself could facilitate the culture needed to keep itself afloat. Hancock and Rush are aware of that need for culture, and hope to cultivate an environment where customers can catch in-store DJ competitions, all-ages shows, or zine-making workshops—a place to meet new people, hear

new music, and find out what is happening around town.

Size Records Tulsa, a division of the Oklahoma City mainstay where Hancock was employed, closed up its shop at 2619 E. 15th several months ago. Though it pulled its Tulsa storefront, the store consigned a large amount of stock to Holy Mountain. Size Records Tulsa couldn’t be a culture hub because of its size and location, said Hancock. “If three

people were in the store, it was crowded,” he said.

Rush and Hancock believe their store can break the losing streak and facilitate a community that buys records in the volume the store needs to thrive. “Holy Mountain will be around until the DIY aesthetic I’ve lived by for the past 20-plus years withers away and dies, and that isn’t exactly in the foreseeable future,” Hancock said. a

From shops of the past like Mohawk and Seasick to the more recent casualties of Under The Mooch, Vinyl Countdown, and Size, all have shared the fate of the closed door, leading some to call the record store a cursed concept here.

Though Starship can pursue its vinyl dreams on rolling-paper revenue, traditional record stores like Holy Mountain have chosen to flirt with the failings of all those before them. Hancock’s time at several failed stores hasn’t put a dent in his optimism.

“Learning from all the mistakes that got us here is what makes me believe we’ll be around for a long time,” Hancock said. One thing he learned is something on which he and his former Under the Mooch employer, Ford, agree: the store has to serve as a cultural nexus.

Norman, Ford said, is a small town, but Guestroom Records can survive there thanks to the culture the university in town provides. A city like Dallas, on the other hand, may not have the THE TULSA VOICE // July 16 – August 5, 2014

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Paul Bevilacqua, M.D., shows off re cent work at his home glassblowing st udio // Photo by Brit t Gre enwood

What the doctor ordered A group of Tulsa artists give back

by BRITT GREENWOOD

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aul Bevilacqua, Marty Beal, and Robert Block have delivered babies, treated sick children, and administered anesthesia for life-saving procedures. They have also painted canvas, carved sculptures out of remnants of trees, and blown 2,000-degree glass.

Later this month, each will donate original artwork for the event Art Rx, a fundraiser that aims to cover the cost of medical procedures for low-income and uninsured residents of Tulsa County.

With his black Goldendoodle pup at our side, I followed Dr. Paul Bevilacqua, a doctor of anesthesiology, to a garden shed in the backyard of his midtown home.

Beyond the unassuming door, glass vases rested on a countertop, with kilns on one side of the workspace and a shelf of supplies on the opposite.

Bevilacqua, who recently retired, was dressed in a suit—not exactly glassblowing attire. He started blowing glass with his son, Sam, about eight years ago, at Tulsa Glassblowing Studio. Multiple

workshops across the globe later, all along with his son, Bevilacqua became an avid glass-smith.

When he was wearing the white coat, Bevilacqua said, “it was tough because all of this equipment needs constant care.” He would come home from practicing anesthesiology to tend the kilns; glassblowing wasn’t even his only artistic endeavor. “I played a little music in an all-doctor band… called “Bad Outcome.”

“I’ve been involved from the beginning,” Bevilacqua said about Art Rx. “It’s a great project, charity, and service to Tulsa. My part is easy. It’s the guys treating the people who do the hard part.”

Dr. Block is a woodcarver. He started about 35 years ago, at about the same time he launched his medical career as a pediatrician at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Community Medicine.

He recently traded in the stethoscope for more time with the mallet and chisel.

Block said he finds art relaxing. “I actually recommended it

to all of the medical students in residence I was teaching, that they find an outlet, even if you just do it every once and awhile. If you have that quiet time it is really therapeutic and a lot cheaper than going to a psychiatrist.”

Block’s carving for Art Rx is a figure of a young girl, around 16 inches tall and produced from a single mass of walnut. “A couple of times now I have been able to donate a piece and hope someone will pay way too much money for it,” Block said.

Obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Marty Beal is donating a wood stain and lacquer painting for Art Rx. A painter for 15 years, he originally had his course set in literature at the University of Oklahoma. When he read the E.E. Cummings poem “Forward to an Exhibit:II,” which depicts an imaginary interview between Cummings and himself, “a word never really says what it is. A kid can point to a tree and recognize it. I thought, ‘Boy, if you’re always going to fall short as a poet, only

pointing to the direction of the thing you are talking about, why not become a painter?” So he did.

Beal said art and medicine aren’t as different as they seem. “We care about the endpoint. No one cares how you got there. It’s really, in part, what art does for you. It forces you to see the endpoint,” he said. Medicine is actually an art, not a science, he added. “There are some really impressive artists who are physicians in this city.” a

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ABOUT ART RX: Art Rx raises funds for non-emergency specialty care for uninsured, low-income residents of Tulsa County through the Tulsa County Medical Society Foundation and The Alliance to the Tulsa County Medical Society. In addition to the silent art auction, hors d’ oeuvres, drinks, and prizes will also be available.

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Porch panache

Or, how to stylishly spy on your neighbors

by ASHLEY HEIDER DALY

I

’ve always been like that character from Bewitched, Gladys Kravitz, who would keep creepy-close watch on her neighbors.

Blasphemous as it sounds, Ms. Kravitz didn’t have her snooping down just right. Peering through curtains with binoculars is suspect, but you know what’s not? Sitting on your front porch, sipping a spiked lemonade, and (seemingly) watching traffic.

Spying on your possibly innocent neighbors isn’t the only reason to have a decent front-stoop set-up, but honestly, it’s a valid one. People do weird stuff. You’ll want to keep tabs on what shenanigans might be happening next door. At the very least, you may actually learn your neighbors’ names, be able to know if a thief is at your neighbors’ house, or not be afraid to ask for an extra egg or a cup of milk if you run out while baking.

Your front porch should be an extension of your home and reflect your personality. It’s the place you sit to look at mail, take a phone call, talk with friends, and survey your front yard.

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Seating. You’ll want at least a spot for yourself. I like to have company over, so as many chairs as could fit on my porch without looking crowded was my goal. I’ve been through three sets of patio furniture to find just the right one.

Comfort is very important to me, too; I like to lean back and settle in. I’m also on the eternal hunt to pair natural with modern. I’ve currently settled on a pair of vintage butterfly chairs with mesh covers and a bamboo lounge chair. I’m nuts over the bamboo fella. I can sense he’s lived a full life and is happy to retire to helping me leer at passersbys.

Patio pieces really give you an opportunity to play with materials you may not use indoors. Bamboo, wrought iron, plastics, maybe wicker—these are what outside seating dreams are made of.

Plants. Your porch needs plants.

Porch plants provide important visual transition from outside to indoors. You’re welcome to keep it simple or overdo it according to your fancy, but you must have a plant of some sort.

May I suggest various heights and coordinating pots? I planted

succulents for my patio because they require very little care, and when the cold weather hits, my succulent friends get to come inside and keep me company.

Succulents mean never having to say goodbye.

Cocktail, book, phone. Sometimes I really just want to enjoy my patio and be at one with nature, all on my own. Read: I don’t want to small talk. This isn’t always possible because sitting on your porch can seem like an open invitation for walk-up visitors.

The best way to avoid talking to people is to have stage business—a phone or book to focus on. Maybe a dog who could need to be taken to the backyard at any necessary moment. And when all else fails, have a cocktail handy.

You’ll at least get to sip on it if you get trapped.

A note on concrete animals and statues: Brass animals live indoors, concrete ones live outdoors. You’ll want to play this one carefully. Pick simply designed animals. Limit your number to under three, or perhaps carefully sneak them into your front beds.

It can be hard to express your personality through front-porch decorating without looking crazy.

Animal statues really flirt with the line, so it’s your risk to take, a risk that’s brought me secret pleasure beyond measure. (Live a little! Put a concrete dog on your walkway!)

At present I have a concrete squirrel, St. Francis, and strange bunny tastefully on display.

Love your front porch? Share photos with us on Instagram. Use the hashtag #tulsavoicehome. a

Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared on TheNoshery. com, a food and lifestyle blog with Tulsa roots.

Ashley Daly probably isn’t joking about spying on her neighbors.

Please don’t approach her and her dog , Walter, on their front porch without a food or drink offering. To guarantee a warm welcome, skip the porch and visit her vintage home store, Retro Den. July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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by NICCI ATCHLEY

W

hen summer hits, we women prepare to enter the world in practically nothing more than our underwear. There are few moments more emotionally charged than that inevitable day when it’s time to stand in front of a dressing-room mirror, a half-dozen bathing suits dangling, tags still on, from the back of the door.

Whether it is a moment of anguish, celebration, or something in between, it’s a moment of reckoning. Any successful bathing suit designer must not only understand this moment but design for it. Who better than a lingerie-turned-swimwear designer to help us navigate the waters?

Sisters Arin Zinke Robinson and Jessie Zinke, founders of Zinke, a fashion-forward intimates and swimwear label, offer suits for young women that are pretty, a little sexy, and a lot of classy.

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& Merchandising in LA. With Arin’s business and management know-how and Jessie’s connections, artistic vision, and sketches for a new lingerie line, the two partnered and launched Zinke Intimates in 2010. The resulting collaboration was a fun and flirty lingerie collection, plus the foundation for expansion into other markets, including the swimwear collection launched under the Zinke label in 2012.

This season’s collection springs from a palette of beachy pastels, contrasted by some black-and-white, graphics, multi-colored chevrons, and a jewel-toned paisley. Separates include bandeaus, ruffled tops, hip-hugger bottoms, a few structured bustier options, one-piece maillots with plunging necklines and high-waisted bottoms, and peplum waists to flatter. The options are classy, not frumpy.

They lend a casual sexiness that isn’t overt.

Arin and Jessie are bold, like their signature chevron pattern,

designed by Jessie and incorporated into Zinke swimsuits and coverups. “We had many requests from our current clients to add swimwear to the line. I was excited to start designing swimwear— who doesn’t want to think about summer year round?” Jessie said.

The high-profile retail and online outlets they’ve amassed have given the pair the confidence and encouragement to keep pushing into other markets, such as clothing and accessories.

Anthropologie picked up the Zinke intimates line in 2010, resulting in subsequent retail partnerships with Urban Outfitters and Free People. Soon after, Arin and Jessie moved the com-

pany to New York. Jessie oversees all production and design from NYC; Arin stayed in Tulsa to still oversee marketing, sales, and distribution. The high-profile retail and online outlets they’ve amassed have given the pair the confidence and encouragement to keep pushing into other markets, such as clothing and accessories.

Zinke’s retail reach has expanded to include Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales and Shopbop, as well as the Zinke-owned shopzinke.com.

“Swim sales forced us to reorganize our distribution in an effort to handle the future demand.

Now we are focusing on marketing efforts to maximize shopzinke.com sales. We are confident that online sales is the future of apparel retail,” said Arin.

If Jessie is having a good time living and working in the big City, it’s coming through in her designs. The result has been swimwear that’s young, fun, and without trying too hard—just like summer fun should be. a July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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7/18 Porter Peach Festival 7/17-7/19 Porter, OK porterpeachfestivals.com Take a short trip to Porter for the 48th-annual Porter Peach Festival. Purchase or pick your own peaches at nearby orchards, and hang around downtown Porter for the Peach Cobbler Contest, a 5k Run, peaches, arts and crafts, a car/truck/motorcycle show, peaches, live music, the Peach Pageant, a talent show, peaches, street games, mud races, and more peaches. Bring your pets on Friday for the Pet Show for a chance to win prizes for best trick, best costume, ugliest dog, fattest cat, and most unusual pet.

7/17

Artist Talk – Randall Barnes 7:30 p.m., Mainline Art & Cocktails, 111 N Main St, rs-barnes.com

Tulsa’s newest art bar hosts a talk with OKC artist Randall Barnes, who will display and discuss the “Red Shirt Collective,” a loosely biographical body of work inspired by his experiences as a supervisor of the Graffiti Removal Unit for the Oklahoma City Police Department.

7/19

Taste of Summer 10 a.m.-5 p.m., $5, 1500 S Main St, Broken Arrow

Blue Bell Creamery hosts this annual festival, which features local artists, family activities, live entertainment, food trucks, and best of all, ALL YOU CAN EAT BLUE BELL ICE CREAM. Our choice for the best way to beat the heat this month.

7/19

Vice, Crime & Vigilantes in the Magic City 10:30 a.m., Tulsa Historical Society

From the Osage Indian murders to the Tulsa Race Riot to notorious gangster and outlaw activity, 1920s Tulsa was no stranger to violence and crime. Join a panel of writers as they discuss stories of murder, mayhem, and local criminal masterminds in the Magic City. Registration required; seating limited.

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7/19

Dodgebrawl & Live Great 918 10 a.m.-5 p.m., BOK

Gather a team of six and compete in this all-day, double-elimination dodgeball tournament at the BOK Center. Each team plays for a charity or nonprofit of its choice. Prizes will be awarded to the top three winning teams, the team with the best uniforms, and best team name. Be sure to cheer loudest for The Tulsa Voice team, playing for Oklahoma Literary Arts Alliance. Entry is $35. In conjunction with Dodgebrawl is Live Great 918, a Fitness Fair presented by St. John Health System.

7/20

Ian Doescher – William Shakespeare’s Star Wars 2-3 p.m., Hardesty Regional Library

What happens when you mix “Star Wars” with William Shakespeare? A best-selling series of books! Join author Ian Doescher as he discusses his latest installment, “The Jedi Doth Return.”

7/20

Wrestling for a Cause 2 p.m., $5, Broken Arrow Boys & Girls Club, wfccharity.com

WFC hosts a night of wrestling matches, with proceeds benefitting Brody Christian, a young boy with neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer. The night will be hosted by local radio personality Rick Vyper, and will include several matches, culminating in a Tag Team Ladder Match to decide the first ever WFC Tag Team Champions.

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midwestharpfestival.org The University of Tulsa Lorton Performance Center hosts the 15th Annual Midwest Harp Festival, July 20-26. Workshops will be held for harpists of all skill levels.

Five concerts open to the public are also part of the festival, including “Hooray for Harpywood,” 7/20, a multimedia look at how the harp is used in TV and movies both on screen and off, and “Harp Chronicles,” 7/24, a performance and multimedia astrological presentation with Guest Artist Janet Witman. Oh my stars­—and harpists!

Billy Bazar’s Birthday Bash 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. starts at Comedy Parlor

Local comedian and champion of Tulsa’s rapidly expanding comedy movement Billy Bazar is turning 40, and celebrations for the occasion couldn’t be limited to just one venue. The evening starts at The Comedy Parlor at 1st and Detroit at 8:30 p.m. with a show featuring Matthew Spruill, Summer Ferguson, Dain Livingston, Cian Baker, and of course, Bazar himself. Then the party moves to The Shrine at 18th and Boston, where, starting at 10, there will be a night full of entertainment.

ALSO HAPPENING THIS WEEK EVENTS

Scissortail Wine Festival // Raise your glasses to the Claremore for hosting this festival featuring eleven Oklahoma wineries, food and coffee vendors, an art show featuring the RSU art department and The Three Rivers Artists, and a car show presented by Route 66 Cruisers Car Club. // 7/19, 1:00 pm-6:00 pm, $20, 400 Veteran’s Parkway, visitclaremore.org An Evening with Best-Selling Author Wendy Corsi Staub // New York Times best-selling author Wendy Corsi Staub visits Hardesty Regional Library to share her secret to selling over four million books worldwide. Staub is the author of over 25 psychological suspense titles including “Sleepwalker” and “The Good Sister,” critically acclaimed young adult novels including the series “College Life 101,”and, under her pseudonym Wendy Markham, several romance novels for which she has won numerous awards from the Romance Writers of America. // 7/29, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, 8316 E 93rd St, tulsalibrary.org

PERFORMING ARTS

She Kills Monsters // The year is 1995.

Agnes is a young woman leaving her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly.

Finding Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, Agnes stumbles into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was Tilly’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all. “She Kills Monsters” will be the first theatrical production at American Theatre Company’s new facility in The East Village. // 7/11-7/19, $10-$15, 308 S Lansing, americantheatrecompany.org The Bomb Shelter: Workshop & Open Mics // Though targeted toward teens, participants of all ages are welcome to attend this free program. Workshop begins at 6 p.m. and is lead by teaching artists from the Oklahoma Literary Arts Alliance and/or Louder Than a Bomb.

Open Mic then begins at 7. Participants have th opportunity to perform pieces in progress or finished work in front of a supportive audience. Programming concludes with a feature from a special guest artist. // 7/17, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm, 311 S Madison, olaa.org Bare: A Pop Opera // After opening off-Broadway in 2004, this contemporary rock musical, with lyrics by Jon Hartmere Jr. and music by Damon Intrabartolo, is being presented in Tulsa for the first time. The story revolves around a group of high school students during their last semester at St. Cecilia’s Catholic boarding school. In this comingTHE TULSA VOICE // July 16 – August 5, 2014

of-age story, each student struggles with issues of sexuality, identity and self-worth alongside the Christian faith.

Mature audiences only. // 7/18-7/20, $17$20, 110 E 2nd St, tulsapac.com Mob Mental.ity // “Mob Mental.ity” is an interdisciplinary production featuring local dancers and musicians and renowned video and installation artists.

The production illustrates the mentality of mobs — the psychology behind thinking like the group — and the consequences that follow. Various mobs are depicted: religious, political, civic, social, etc. The concept is how an individual “I” becomes a collective “we.” The entire production is set to original live music, and dancers also interact with prerecorded video segments. Portico Dans Theatre uses four genres of dance in the production: aerial, contemporary, hip hop and modern. // 7/18-7/20, $10-$20, 110 E 2nd St, tulsapac.com Tinkerbell is Dead // Theatre Pops presents its annual evening of “stand-up theatre.” The show features monologues encompassing a wide range of dramatic and narrative writing performed by some of Tulsa’s finest actors. // 7/19, 8:00 pm, $15, 110 E 2nd St, theatrepops.org

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Justin Leon, Matt Holt // Stand Up // 7/16, 8:00 pm, $7, 7/17, 8:00 pm, $2, 7/18, 7:30 pm, $10, 7/18, 10:00 pm, $10, 7/19, 7:30 pm, $10, 7/19, 10:00 pm, $10, 6808 S Memorial Dr, loonybincomedy.com Snap! // Improv // 7/18, 7:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Hilton Price, Corey Douglas, GK Palmer, CR Parsons // Stand Up // 7/18, 8:30 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Low Status Characters // Long Form Improv // 7/18, 10:00 pm, $10, 7/25, 7:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com

pm, $10, 7/26, 10:00 pm, $10, 6808 S Memorial Dr, loonybincomedy.com Dirty Divas w/ Jane Bevan, Sheila Naifeh, Sophia Starr, Drew Welcher, Dianna Jarvis // Stand Up // 7/25, 10:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Squeaky Clean Stand Up // Stand Up // 7/26, 7:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Back In My Day & Improv Over/Under // Improv // 7/26, 8:30 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Blue Late Special with Jeff Brown // Sketch Talk Show // 7/26, 10:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Bazar’s Cavalcade of Comedy // Sketch Talk Show // 7/27, 7:30 pm, $5, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Collin Moulton, Roy Haber // Stand Up // 7/30, 8:00 pm, $7, 7/31, 8:00 pm, $2, 8/1, 7:30 pm, $10, 8/1, 10:00 pm, $10, 8/2, 7:30 pm, $10, 8/2, 10:00 pm, $10, 6808 S Memorial Dr, loonybincomedy.com Raw Meat Jam // Improv // 7/31, 7:00 pm, $5, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Ryan’s Drinking Problem (A Beer Drinking Gameshow) // Gameshow // 8/1, 10:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Rumble-Ish: The Improv Competition // Improv // 8/2, 7:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com CR’s Variety Hour // Sketch Talk Show // 8/2, 8:30 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Sinbad // Stand Up // 8/2, 7:00 pm, $25, 951 W 36th St N, osagecasinos.com Rick Shaw’s Comedy Showcase // Stand Up // 8/3, 7:30 pm, FREE, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com

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Kelly’s Treehouse // Improv // 7/19, 8:30 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com

Tulsa Drillers vs. Arkansas Travelers // Margaritaville Night! Bust out that Hawaiian shirt from the back of your closet, you Parrothead, you. And it’s Thirsty Thursday! // 7/17, 7:05 pm, $5-$35, 201 N Elgin Ave, tulsadrillers.com

Comfort Creatures // Improv // 7/19, 10:00 pm, $10, 8/2, 10:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com

Tulsa Shock vs. San Antonio Silver Stars // 7/17, 11:30 am, $12-$155, 200 S Denver Ave, wnba.com/shock

Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 7/20, 7:30 pm, $5, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com Wednesday Night Live // Variety // 7/23, 8:00 pm, $10, 6808 S Memorial Dr, loonybincomedy.com

NORCECA U-19 Continental Championship // Teams from eight countries travel to Tulsa as USA Volleyball hosts the 2014 U-19 Continental Championship.

Quarterfinals on 7/17, semifinals on 7/18, and medal rounds on 7/19. // 7/17-7/19, $8, 100 Civic Center, norceca.net

Landry, Justin Berkman, Dwight Ray // Stand Up // 7/24, 8:00 pm, $2, 7/25, 7:30 pm, $10, 7/25, 10:00 pm, $10, 7/26, 7:30

Tulsa Drillers vs. Arkansas Travelers // Friday Night Fireworks! // 7/18, 7:05 pm, $5-$35, 201 N Elgin Ave, tulsadrillers.com

Spontaniacs! // Improv // 7/19, 7:00 pm, $10, 328 E 1st St, comedyparlor.com

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musiclistings Let’s Have a Party The Queen of Rock, Oklahoma native Wanda Jackson, has been one of the leading ladies of Rock and Roll since the ‘50s when she shared the stage with—and briefly dated—Elvis Presley. While at the forefront of early Rock and Roll, Jackson kept one foot firmly planted in country music. Songs like the tempo­—and time—signature shifting “I Gotta Know” are precursors to what is now referred to as alt-country. Jackson has had a bit of a resurgence in the last few years, thanks in part to her two recent albums The Party Ain’t Over and Unfinished Business, produced by Jack White and Justin Townes Earle, respectively. 8/1, The Vanguard, 222 N Main St, $20-$50

Wed // July 16

Undercurrent – HellBeast, Sylo, 3 Weeks Later Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 PM Soundpony – Zorch The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar – 7:00 PM Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tony Ward – 5:00 PM On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 PM Rum Runnerz – Electric Dirt – 8:00 PM Mason’s – Bryce Dicus – 8:00 PM

Thurs // July 17

Undercurrent – Ancient Elm, Machine in the Mountain, Lastwatch Yeti – Turnt Up Soundpony – The Gentle Art of Floating The Hunt Club – Mark Gibson The Vanguard – Rings of Saturn, Pig Advocate – 8:00 PM – ($13-$15) The Colony – Jared Tyler, Travis Fite, Arthur Thompson, and Matt Hayes The Shrine – Steve Pryor Band The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Boston – 8:00 PM – (SOLD OUT) Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 3:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Members Only – 7:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 8:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – Ben Neikirk Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross – 8:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – T3 – 8:00 PM Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tony Ward – 5:00 PM Bluestone Steakhouse – Travis Andrew Taylor – 10:00 PM

Fri // July 18

Gypsy Coffee House – Andrew Michael – 9:00 PM Lot No. 6 – 3 Year Anniversary w/ The Electric Rag Band Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Diffident Rebel – 7:00 PM – ($10) Undercurrent – The Sons Studio Soul – Penny and Sparrow – 8:00 PM – ($20) Kingspointe Village – The Fabulous Mid Life Crisis Band – 7:30 PM Guthrie Green – Brady Orchestra plays Classic Rock, Tulsa Rock Ensemble – 6:00 PM Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 PM Yeti – The Dirty Mugs Centennial Lounge – Scott Ellison Band – 9:00 PM Soundpony – DJ Mooneyham Bronzai The Hunt Club – David Castro Band The Vanguard – Catalogue: French Post Punk, The Secret Post, Kali Ra, Sever the Feeling – 8:00 PM – ($7) The Colony – Kevin Kerby and Wink Burcham The Shrine – Local Hero – ($5) Mercury Lounge – Jesse Harris & The Gypsy Sparrows – 10:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – T3 – 5:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Reverse Reaction – 9:00 PM C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – nighTTrain – 9:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer and Chicken Band – 9:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM River Spirit Event Center – Bowzer’s Rock n’ Roll Party w/ Lesley Gore, Jay Siegel’s Tokens, Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, Bowzer & The Stingrays, Rocky & The Rollers – 7:00 PM – ($30-$50) Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – The Real Band – 9:00 PM Pickles Pub – MIC Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tony Ward – 5:00 PM Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Sovereign – 10:00 PM Rum Runnerz – ShotGun Rooster, David Wayne Broyles – 9:00 PM Woody Guthrie Center – Oh, Jeremiah – 7:30 PM – ($10) Westbound Club – Midnight Run Band – 8:00 PM Blue Rose Caf_ – Travis McClearen & Signal My Way, Billy Shaddox – 8:30 PM Fassler Hall – Sunset to Burns – 9:00 PM Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover – 9:30 PM Cigar Box – Mark Gibson – 7:30 PM Tulsa Performing Arts Center – Bridging the Gap – 7:30 PM – ($12)

Sat // July 19

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Gypsy Coffee House – Superdarren65 – 9:00 PM Fur Shop – Jillian Holzbauer Lot No. 6 – Resurxtion w/ DJ Jessy James Undercurrent – Riff Wrath Guitar Contest Yeti – Crawl of Fame

Centennial Lounge – Scott Ellison Band – 9:00 PM Soundpony – Milk and Knives The Hunt Club – Jay Faulkner The Vanguard – American Dog, ANU_ – 8:00 PM – ($8) The Colony – Pidgin, Helen Kelter Skelter The Shrine – Reggae On Boston w/ Heritage, Stranger – ($5) Mercury Lounge – The Blind Pets, Okie Mirage – 10:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Thomas Martinez – 9:00 PM C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – T3 – 9:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer and Chicken Band – 9:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – All In Gents Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – The Real Band – 9:00 PM Pickles Pub – Luxtones Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Audio Crush – 10:30 PM Rum Runnerz – Baron Von Swagger, OLDMAN, Dryver, Even the Dogs – 8:00 PM – ($5) Lambrusco’z – Gypsy Twang – 1:00 PM Four Aces – The Dirtboxwailers – 8:00 PM Utopia Club – Branjae – 9:00 PM Kenosha Station – David Dover – 9:00 PM

The Hunt Club – Preslar Sunday Showcase Guthrie Green – Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils, Paul Benjaman Band, Desi & Cody – 6:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 PM Pickles Pub – Old School Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 AM Elwood’s – Midnight Run Band – 5:00 PM Doc’s Food and Wine – Mark Gibson – 5:00 PM Tulsa Performing Arts Center – Appassionata Duo – 3:00 PM – ($12-$20)

Mon // July 21

The Vanguard – Meg Myers – 7:00 PM – ($1.45) The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton Mercury Lounge – Rusty Maples – 9:00 PM Smitty’s 118 Tavern – Vinny Hines, Good Times – 6:00 PM

Tues // July 22

Mainline – Mike Cameron and Guests – 8:00 PM Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 PM Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jam – 5:30 PM Undercurrent – McGrey Guthrie Green – Starlight Concert Band plays audience choices – 8:00 PM Brady Theather – Chevelle, Highly Suspect – 8:00 PM – ($24 ADV, $29 DOS) The Hunt Club – Fine as Paint, Marry Me The Shrine – Supersuckers – ($10 ADV, $15 DOS) Mercury Lounge – Rusty Maples – 8:00 PM Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Brent Baker Band – 7:00 PM Enso – Mark Gibson – 9:00 PM Tin Dog Saloon – Fifty Nine South – 9:00 PM

Wed // July 23

The Blind Pets, Okie Mirage

Sun // July 20

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Cindy Cain Blues Band – 5:00 PM – ($10-$20) Cain’s Ballroom – Senior Star RoundUp, Cowboy Jones, The Round Up Boys – 2:00 PM – ($10) Yeti – Lung Butter Soundpony – Equals

Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 PM Brady Theater – Steely Dan – 8:00 PM – ($79-$99) Soundpony – The Sour Notes, Hey Judy, The DaddyO’s The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Shrine – Old Salt Union – ($5) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar – 7:00 PM Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Jon Glazer – 5:00 PM On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 PM Rum Runnerz – Bryce Dicus – 8:00 PM

Thurs // July 24

Undercurrent – Mississippi Dirt, Fist Of Rage, Framing the Red, Ice Cold Glory – Yeti – Carnegie The Hunt Club – Ego Culture July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

musiclistings Cypher 120: Experience Every Monday at 8 p.m., Cypher 120 meets at The Fur Shop, 520 E 3rd St, for an open mic and jam session for poets, MCs, and musicians. Formerl y held at the Creative Room, Cypher 120 quickl y gained a reputation as one of the best places in town to see and hear new talent in music and spoken word.

Mondays, 8 p.m., T he Fur Shop, $5

The Vanguard – Ska Revival Tour w/ The Last Slice, Survay Says!, Squirt Gun Warriors – 7:00 PM – ($10) The Colony – Beau Roberson and Friends The Shrine – Dead Shakes, Bruce Flea, For the Wolf, The Normandy’s – ($5) Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Taria – 7:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Jason Young Band – 8:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – C Plus Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross – 8:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Dante & The Hawks – 8:00 PM Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Jon Glazer – 5:00 PM Mason’s – Bryce Dicus – 8:00 PM Bluestone Steakhouse – Travis Andrew Taylor – 10:00 PM Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 PM White Flag – A Summer Better Than Yours – 6:00 PM

Fri // July 25

Gypsy Coffee House – Grant Wiscaver – 8:30 PM Fur Shop – Sam and the Stylees Lot No. 6 – Christine Jude Undercurrent – I Killed Kenny Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 PM Downtwon Lounge – White Light Cemetery – 8:00 PM The Colony – Clay Welch Trio Mercury Lounge – J.B. Beverly, Rory Kelly’s Triple Threat – 10:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 5:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Replay – 9:00 PM C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Taria – 9:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – The Tiptons – 9:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Squadlive – 9:00 PM Pickles Pub – Wharp Drive Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Jon Glazer – 5:00 PM Infuzion Ultra Lounge – FuZed – 10:00 PM Rum Runnerz – Stereo Revolution – 8:00 PM – ($5) Westbound Club – Johnny Duke & Shootout – 10:00 PM Fassler Hall – Hosty Duo – 10:00 PM Cimarron Bar – Rock Show, Kevin Jameson – 9:30 PM Tulsa Performing Arts Center – 1964: The Tribute – 8:00 PM – ($25-$50)

Mercury Lounge – The Whistle Pigs – 10:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Joe Worrel – 5:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – The Jumpshots – 9:00 PM C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Taria – 9:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Rivers Edge – 9:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – Jake Moffat Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Squadlive – 9:00 PM Pickles Pub – Crossland Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Empire – 10:00 PM Kenosha Station – Matt Mason, The Brandon Clark Band – 9:00 PM Fur Shop – Mark Gibson – 7:00 PM Elwood’s – Black Kat Benders – 7:00 PM Cimarron Bar – 13 Toyz – 9:00 PM

Sun // July 27

Undercurrent – Page 9, Kings Harbor, The Reckoners Yeti – Oklahomans For Health Freedom Fest Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 PM Pickles Pub – Old School Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 AM Doc’s Food and Wine – Mark Gibson – 5:00 PM

Mon // July 28

The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton

Tues // July 29

Mainline – Jack Wolfe & Friends – 8:00 PM Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 PM Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jam – 5:30 PM Yeti – Milezo, Marmalakes Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Kinsey Sadler – 7:00 PM

Sat // July 26

Gypsy Coffee House – Ryon Whitfield – 8:00 PM Fur Shop – Cypher 120 Lot No. 6 – Truck Stop Betties Undercurrent – Machine in the Mountain, Madewell Downtwon Lounge – The Spectacle, GULCH – 8:00 PM The Colony – Travis Linville Phobia, Lung Butter, Hollow Breath, Bluntsplitter, Constant Peril

THE TULSA VOICE // July 16 – August 5, 2014

Wed // July 30

Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 PM Brady Theater – American Idol Live – 8:00 PM – ($39.50-$65) The Vanguard – Guy Forsythe’s Hot Nut Riveters – 7:00 PM – ($12-$15) The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project Mercury Lounge – The Hooten Hallers – 10:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar – 7:00 PM Pickles Pub – Billy Snow On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 PM Rum Runnerz – R.I.S.K. On Da Disk – 8:00 PM Elwood’s – Wendy Nichol – 6:00 PM

Thurs // July 31

Undercurrent – Screaming for Silence, Dryver Yeti – Turnt Up Barkingham Palace – Phobia, Lung Butter, Hollow Breath, Bluntsplitter, Constant Peril – 8:00 PM Soundpony – Open Fields Downtwon Lounge – Tantric, Kingshifter – 7:00 PM The Colony – Kayln Barnoski Mercury Lounge – Beth Lee and the Breakups – 10:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 3:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Poison Overdose – 7:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 8:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – Cale & Tim from All In Gents Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross – 8:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Jenny Labow – 8:00 PM Bluestone Steakhouse – Travis Andrew Taylor – 10:00 PM Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 PM

Fri // Aug. 1

Gypsy Coffee House – Justin France, Aural Elixir – 6:00 PM Undercurrent – Shyner, Shotgun Rebellion Guthrie Green – Starlight Jazz Orchestra – 8:00 PM Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 PM Cain’s Ballroom – Aaron Watson, Cody Johnson – 8:00 PM – ($12-$22) Yeti – Simple Stephen CD Release Show Soundpony – Wino Vino The Hunt Club – RPM The Vanguard – Wanda Jackson – 8:00 PM – ($20-$50) Downtwon Lounge – They Stay Dead, Dave Klein & Joy Subtraction – 8:00 PM BOK Center – Michael Buble – 8:00 PM – ($56.50-$101.50) The Colony – Malcolm Holcombe and Jared Tyler The Shrine – Hip Hop All Stars w/ Manifess Ron Ron, Stax, Mr. Burns, Written Quincey & The Contraband, Scrilladamus The Don, MuGen Crew, Steph Simon, EMP, and more – ($10) Mercury Lounge – Sarah Gayle Meech – 10:00 PM

The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Counting Crows – 8:00 PM – ($55-$75) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Rum Runnerz – KMOD Party on the Patio w/ Severmind, Machine in the Mountain, BlackWater Rebellion, Dirty Crush, 777, Enslaved by Fear – 5:00 PM Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover – 9:30 PM Elwood’s – Travis McClearen & Signal My Way – 8:00 PM White Flag – Black Kat Benders – 8:00 PM

Sat // Aug. 2

Gypsy Coffee House – Josh Caudle – 9:00 PM Undercurrent – Dirty Crush, The Revolutioners Yeti – Fuck Your Ego Soundpony – Soul Night!! w/ DJ Soul Fingaz and DJ Sweet Baby Jayzus The Hunt Club – Brandon Clark The Vanguard – Farewell, My Love, Jamies Elsewhere, Incredible Me, Lion Fight – 7:00 PM – ($10-$30) The Colony – Chris Combs Trio The Shrine – Let’s Zeppelin – ($10 ADV, $12 DOS) Mercury Lounge – Kentucky Knife Fight – 10:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – Jenny Simms and Shiloh Station – 9:30 PM Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 PM Rum Runnerz – Shyner – 8:00 PM – ($5) Lambrusco’z – Jeff Graham – 12:00 PM Sandite Billiards & Grill – Mike McClure Band, Bo Phillips – 8:00 PM Magoo’s – 4Going Gravity – 9:00 PM Centennial Lounge – Dustin Pittsley Band – 9:00 PM

Sun // Aug. 3

Soundpony – Otonana Trio The Hunt Club – Preslar Sunday Showcase Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 PM Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 AM Elwood’s – The Dirtboxwailers – 3:00 PM

Mon // Aug. 4

Soundpony – DJ Rdubb The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton

Tues // Aug. 5

Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 PM Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jam – 5:30 PM The Vanguard – Rittz, Tuki Carter, Raz Simone – 7:00 PM – ($15-$75) Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 PM

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A Life at the movies “Life Itself” is a rich, funny, and critical eulogy

by JOE O’SHANSKY

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hen I’d first seen the PBS-produced “Sneak Previews” sometime in 1980 and its combative pair of Laurel and Hardy-esque hosts, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, I had no idea that talking about movies was a job. Or even a thing. That was amazing to me. I instantly idolized them both (though I only loved Ebert; Siskel hated “The Empire Strikes Back”). It seemed the perfect life to a 9 year-old movie freak already steeped in a slew of great films, some of which I had no business seeing at that age (“A Clockwork Orange,” anyone?).

To this day I feel lucky that I had parents who fortunately didn’t care what I watched.

So, as you can imagine, “Life Itself,” the semi-adaptation of Roger Ebert’s 2011 memoir, is more than just a documentary about a film critic, at least to me. It’s a time capsule of earned nostalgia, akin to being wrapped in a warm and familiar blanket. And that’s before it gets to the business of being an affectionate, funny, and inspiring portrait of the most charmed man I never met.

Directed by Steve James (whose own 1994 documentary, “Hoop Dreams,” benefitted largely from Siskel and Ebert’s advocacy), the opening scenes of “Life Itself ” immediately grab us. We meet Ebert in the hospital after he’s been re-admitted for a hip fracture. Due to his wellknown battle with thyroid cancer, he long ago lost the ability to speak without the assistance of a voice synthesizer, and, at this point in the film, he has no lower jaw left to support the strictly decorative flap of skin hanging from below his ears. At first, it’s jarring. But it also has the disarming effect of giving him a permanent smile that compliments his obvious vitality.

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Roger Eber t from “Life Itself,” available to view on demand and at the Circle Cinema beginning July 20

James intercuts between the present (where Ebert, his doting wife, Chaz, and his step-children deal with their day-to-day hopes against his worsening condition) and the serendipitous path of history that allowed a newspaper-loving kid from Urbana, Illinois, to become one-half of the most popular pair of film critics in history.

Employing the evidence of a life written in the collective culture, James goes back to the beginning to tell of the seemingly predestined road that lead Ebert from creating his own alt-daily as a teenager, to becoming the editor of his college newspaper, and ultimately serving as the chief film critic at Chicago Sun-Times, all by the tender age of twenty-five.

Entertaining interviews with friends and colleagues as well as eerily spot-on narration from the book by director James, channeling Ebert’s lost voice, paint a picture of Ebert’s early years as a hard-drinking newspaperman

during a romanticized time in Chicago, and the redemption of his eventual sobriety.

It’s not entirely hagiographic.

Ebert could be brash and commandeering. A man of appetites seemingly unsatisfied, he thought himself a cosmopolitan libertine, wore his Pulitzer Prize on his sleeve, and developed an instant distaste for a rival critic, Chicago Tribune’s Gene Siskel, that, at the time, was completely genuine.

The relationship between Ebert and his frenemy Siskel lies at the heart of “Life Itself.” Old commercial outtakes of the pair acrimoniously sniping at each other for fumbling lines (“For Gene, English is a second language”) are hilarious, as is the one-upmanship of their many appearances on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.” They were two sides of the same coin in every sense. Clips from their shows highlight the sometimes contentious and always engaging

debates they brought to a national audience, many of which can be found at siskelandebert.org.

Interviews with heavyweight filmmakers (or as I call them, Gods) Martin Scorsese and Werner Herzog recount Ebert’s profound effect on their careers and the landscape of cinema while, conversely, a chat with Richard Corliss, editor-in-chief of the scholarly Film Comment and critic for TIME, makes clear that his views about the rise of Siskel and Ebert’s style of criticism, the populist nature of their television shtick, and the reductive nature of “Two Thumbs Up” has softened little. (Spoiler: he thinks they dumbed down the craft.)

Ultimately, what makes “Life Itself ” so special—and I’ve only scratched the surface here because I’m not half the writer of its subject—is Ebert himself. He spends the apparent end as he would any other time: doing what he loved most with those he loved.

Roger Ebert carried that indefatigable spirit throughout his life—a formidable, funny, eloquent writer and the maverick captain of his ship, whose passing leaves the many vessels of film criticism unmoored, never to find quite the same current again. a

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July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

Returning to the circle The long road home for a most vital organ

by JOE O’SHANSKY ast year, as Circle Cinema celebrated its 85th anniversary, Tulsa’s only standing, pre-WWII theater completed its transformation from a half-hollowed (though hallowed) edifice with its single, shoebox screen into today’s three-screen multiplex. Updated with state-of-the-art seating and projection equipment, shiny, new concessions, and a spiffy sidewalk ticket booth, the years of toil, worry, and more than its fair share of setbacks finally paid off.

The ribbon cutting last summer represented a symbolic and literal crossing of the finish line for owner Clark Wiens and his tireless staff, plus the return of a piece of Tulsa’s heritage to its former glory, and then some.

But still, it wasn’t quite finished. Over the years, as phases of the theater’s renovation moved deliberately along, the thing Wiens anticipated most was the eventual return of the Circle’s original pipe organ. Now, on Friday, July 18, with the celebration of the Circle’s 86th year, audiences will get to see and hear one of the city’s most exciting and long-awaited homecomings.

“This was here for the sole purpose of playing background music for silent movies,” said Phil Judkins, the man responsible, with the help of some dedicated and skilled volunteers, for bringing the 1920s behemoth to back to life. “The bigger theaters had orchestras at first. But then they developed the theater organ, which was really just a pipe organ with pipes that sounded like orchestral instruments.”

Judkins, a professed organ hobbyist and a member of the local

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Circle Cinema’s original pipe organ arrived in time for the theater’s 86th birthday // Courtesy

chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society, will perform on Circle’s lovingly restored Robert Morton original, providing the mirthful score for a screening of the 1920 Buster Keaton comedy, “One Week.” The film finds Keaton as a newlywed, gifted with a prefabricated, build-it-yourself house as wedding gift that, supposedly, can be assembled in one week. Unfortunately, a rejected suitor of his new bride has rearranged the order of the boxes, leaving Keaton mystified as how to properly build his new home.

Hijinks ensue.

The film will screen Friday, July 18, as a part of the Circle’s birthday festivities that evening.

There, audiences will learn of the organ’s history at the Circle, the Rube Goldbergian mechanics that make it possible for one player to command the impressive panoply

Judkins elicits scintillating strings, lilting flutes, vibrating xylophones, and thunderous bass drums, with sounds that recall a Merrie Melodies cartoon more than a church, all with the press of a few keys or the flick of a switch. of instruments and sounds (all of which are delightfully analog), and a mini-concert to demonstrate what this beautiful, wooden time capsule can do.

It’s not the mournful drone of a cathedral pipe organ (though

The Phantom of the Opera could offer some fittingly ominous melodies). Instead, Judkins elicits scintillating strings, lilting flutes, vibrating xylophones, thunderous bass drums, and more than a few zany sounds that recall a Merrie Melodies cartoon more than a church, all with the press of a few keys or the flick of a switch.

The way the natural tones fill the Circle’s newest and largest theater make for a trip back in time. It’s the sound of pure Americana.

Though the organ isn’t completely a relic of early 20th-century technology. I was touring the theater recently when Judkins pulled open a small drawer underneath the two-tiered keyboard to reveal a small MIDI module, which gives the old Robert Morton the ability to play songs without the benefit of a human, like a player piano.

“There’s an expense factor to the thing. When you hire an organist, they’re going to charge you union rates,” Judkins said with a grin. a RE A D T HE RE S T AT

Full Circle

Happy 86th birthday to Tulsa’s indie movie house Circle Cinema Birthday Celebration // Friday, July 18 Circle Cinema, 8 S. Lewis Avenue Free to attend The Circle celebrates another year with a free demonstration of its restored theater organ by the Sooner Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society, complete with a brief history, a sing-along, behind-the-scenes footage of the organ loft, a tworeel movie, and birthday sweets.

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Who’s going home with Emmy Forecast: politics as usual on TV’s biggest night

by JOSHUA KLINE

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et’s be clear: The Emmys are meaningless. The voting system is shamelessly rigged to favor programming from the largest networks, which means HBO can eke out a win for Jeff Daniels in the poorly received “The Newsroom” while Bryan Cranston, Jon Hamm, and Kevin Spacey are left in the cold for their far-superior work on “Breaking Bad,” “Mad Men,” and “House of Cards.” Networks are said to strongly encourage staff to vote in favor of its own shows, which obviously creates a formula in which the largest support staff has disproportionate voting power, while the smaller networks (Starz, A&E) are largely vaporized.

Nevertheless, it’s a fun diversion, and another reason to keep talking about “True Detective.”

Here are five random observations about this year’s Primetime Emmy nominations, the winners of which will be announced August 25th on NBC.

tions for its exceptional fourth season. Ryan Murphy’s made-forTV movie “The Normal Heart” received 16 nominations, while golden-child newcomer “True Detective” snagged 12, including double lead actor nods for Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Adam Driver received a deserving shout for his supporting role on “Girls” (a show largely shut out this year) while Jeff Daniels was once again nominated for his work in the uneven, frustrating “The Newsroom” (for which he won last year). Mike Judge’s sharp new tech comedy, “Silicon Valley,” was rightfully acknowledged, as was the third season of political satire “Veep.”

Since the announcement of the nominations last week, HBO has been running an obnoxious bumper ad congratulating itself on its head-spinning 99 nominations this year. HBO also has the largest voting staff of any nominated network. Go figure.

1 // HBO continues to dominate. Fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” has finally come into its own, garnering 19 nomina-

2 // Everyone forgot about “Homeland.” Its third run was arguably stronger than its second—a meandering, transitional

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season that still cleaned up last year—yet it received only two nominations this time around: Best Actress (Claire Danes) and Supporting Actor in a Drama (Mandy Patinkin). Danes won the last two years, but the show was also hyped as a leading contender in all categories. Now, with the enthusiasm cooled and newbies “True Detective” and “Masters of Sex” encroaching on “Homeland” territory, Danes will likely lose to a network star—either Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife”) or Kerry Washington (“Scandal”)—with “Masters” Lizzy Caplan providing a possible upset.

3 // Apparently, “Downton Abbey” is still a thing. If I can ever stay awake through another episode of this snoozer I may one day discover why this show inspires such fierce loyalty in viewers. The stuffy, well-meaning, class-warfare drama was once again recognized with a slew of nominations, including Best Drama and Best Actor (Hugh Bonneville).

I nominate it for Best Cure for Insomnia.

4 // Netflix broke TV. With 30-plus nominations (more than double from last year), the online streaming service has officially destroyed old-school notions of television. “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black” both received multiple major category nominations, and Ricky Gervais was even (inexplicably) nominated for his grating simpleton shtick in “Derek.” One of the nominations for “Orange is the New Black” is for Laverne Cox, the first ever Emmy nod for a transgender actress.

5 // The Ghost of “Breaking Bad” threatens to ruin the party. The 2013 Emmys aired the night of the penultimate episode of “Breaking Bad,” making the beloved meth thriller’s Best Drama win feel like a final series-capping farewell rather than an acknowledgement of the previous year’s season.

Now, with nearly a year passed since the finale, Walter White has returned for a final victory lap, and it’ll be shocking if everyone isn’t saying his name come awards night. a July 16 – August 5, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Cultural diversity A formal-dress rental store in Fukui, Japan, with a side business making keepsake portraits of client brides, was surprised at the number of men who began requesting a similar service — to be outfitted just like the women, in wedding gowns and other frills.

In fact, just as women expect full makeup and hairstyling for their portraits, so, too, do the men.

The store, Marry Mariee, charges the equivalent of about $400 ($600 on weekends). Said the manager, “We want to provide opportunities for people to enjoy showing their real selves, whether they are men or women.”

Democracy in action!

Jordan Haskins, 24, is Michigan Republicans’ best hope for the open state House seat in Saginaw in November, but he is burdened

by a teenage past of being “young and stupid,” he told the Saginaw News in June. Haskins has been in prisons in two states (and is still on parole) stemming from trespassing and breaking-andentering charges yearly from 2006 to 2011 — most involving vehicles he used for sex (by himself). (He admits to “cranking,” in which he would remove spark plug wires and try to start the car, pleasuring himself while watching the sparks and listening to the noise.) “I was in a messed-up state of mind, mentally and emotionally,” he said, but now is proud of the man he has become. “You may not respect my policies (or) my ideas, but you at least have to respect me as a person.”

Religious messages The leader of Romania’s Orthodox church was shown

in June on the church’s website performing a traditional blessing of a newly inaugurated facility, in this case the church-owned Trinitas Radio and Television studios. The rooms are big and the walls are tall, and Patriarch Daniel is pictured applying holy oil to the facilities with a longarmed commercial paint roller.

questioned Carlson’s candor, pointing to other 1984-era documents in which Carlson referred to the statute of limitations for legal protection (suggesting he at least suspected that adult-child sex was illegal).

Least Competent Bishop In a May deposition on a priestchild sex abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, thenauxiliary bishop Robert Carlson said he was “not sure” in 1984 whether he “knew it was a crime or not” for an adult to engage in sex with a child. (Carlson added, reassuringly, “I understand today it’s a crime.” Carlson today is the archbishop of St. Louis.)

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Cancer (June 21 - July 22):

Mozart debuted his now-famous opera Don Giovanni in Prague on October 29, 1787. It was a ma jor production, featuring an orchestra, a chorus, and eight main singers. Yet the composer didn’t finish writing the opera’s overture until less than 24 hours before the show. Are you cooking up a similar scenario, Cancerian? I suspect that sometime in the next two weeks you will complete a breakthrough with an inspired, last-minute effort. And the final part of your work may well be its “overture;” the first part will arrive last. (P.S.: Mozart’s Don Giovanni was well-received, and I expect your offering will be, too.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “We must learn to bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains,” says writer Nikki Giovanni.

That will be apt advice for you to keep in mind during the coming months, Leo. You may think I’m perverse for suggesting such a thing. Compared to how demanding it was to manage the suffering you experienced in late 2013 and earlier this year, you might assume it will be simple to deal with the ease and awakening that are heading your way. But I’d like you to consider the possibility that these blessings will bring their own challenges.

For example, you may need to surrender inconveniences and hardships you have gotten used to, almost comfortable with.

It’s conceivable you will have to divest yourself of habits that made sense when you were struggling, but are now becoming counterproductive.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I would hate for your fine mind to become a liability.

As much as I admire your native skepticism and analytical intelligence, it would be a shame if they prevented you from getting the full benefit of the wonders and marvels that are brewing in your vicinity.

Your operative motto in the coming days comes from Virgo storyteller Roald Dahl: “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Suspend your disbelief, my beautiful friend. Make yourself receptive to the possibility of being amazed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Kris Kristofferson is in the Country Music Hall of Fame now, but it took a while for him to launch his career. One of his big breaks came at age 29 when he was sweeping floors at a recording studio in Nashville. He managed to meet superstar Johnny Cash, who was working there on an album. A few years later, Kristofferson boldly landed a helicopter in Cash’s yard to deliver his demo tape. That prompted Cash to get him a breakthrough gig performing at the Newport Folk Festival. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were able to further your goals with a similar sequence, Libra: luck that puts you in the right place at the right time, followed by some brazen yet charming acts of self-promotion.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In her poem “Looking Back,” Sarah Brown Weitzman writes that she keeps “trying to understand / how I fell / so short of what I intended / to do with my life.” Is there a chance that 30 years from now you might say something similar, Scorpio? If so, take action to ensure that outcome doesn’t come to pass. Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the next ten months will be a favorable time to get yourself on track to fulfill your life’s most important goals. Take full advantage!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “There is no such thing as a failed experiment,” said author and inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s the spirit I advise you to bring to your own explorations in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Your task is to try out different possibilities to see where they might lead. Don’t be attached to one conclusion or another. Be free of the drive to be proven right. Instead, seek the truth in whatever strange shape it reveals itself.

Be eager to learn what you didn’t even realize you needed to know.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Architects in ancient Rome used concrete to create many durable structures, some of which are still standing. But the recipe for how to make concrete was forgotten for more than a thousand years after the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century. A British engineer finally rediscovered the formula in 1756, and today concrete is a prime component in many highways, dams, bridges, and buildings. I foresee

a similar story unfolding in your life, Capricorn. A valuable secret that you once knew but then lost is on the verge of resurfacing. Be alert for it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Beginning in 1798, European cartographers who drew maps of West Africa included the Mountains of Kong, a range of peaks that extended more than a thousand miles east and west. It was 90 years before the French explorer Louis Gustave Binger realized that there were no such mountains.

All the maps had been wrong, based on faulty information. Binger is known to history as the man who undiscovered the Mountains of Kong. I’m appointing him to be your role model in the coming weeks, Aquarius. May he inspire you to expose long-running delusions, strip away entrenched falsehoods, and restore the simple, shining truths.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In the simplest, calmest of times, there are two sides to every story. On some occasions, however, the bare minimum is three or more sides.

Like now. And that can generate quite a ruckus. Even people who are normally pretty harmonious may slip into conflict.

Fortunately for all concerned, you are currently at the peak of your power to be a unifying force at the hub of the bubbling hubbub. You can be a weaver who takes threads from each of the tales and spins them into a narrative with which everyone can abide. I love it when that happens!

For now, your emotional intelligence is the key to collaborative creativity and group solidarity.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on,” says satirical news commentator Jon Stewart. That’s a healthy attitude. To do his work, he needs a never-ending supply of stories about people doing crazy, corrupt, and hypocritical things. I’m sure this subject matter makes him sad and angry. But it also stimulates him to come up with funny ideas that entertain and educate his audience — and earns him a very good income. I invite you to try his approach, Aries. Have faith that the absurdity you experience can be used to your advantage.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Bananas grow in Iceland, a country that borders the Arctic Ocean. About 700 of the plants thrive in a large greenhouse heated by geothermal energy. They don’t mature as fast as the bananas in Ecuador or Costa Rica. The low amounts of sunlight mean they require two years to ripen instead of a few months. To me, this entire scenario is a symbol for the work you have ahead of you. You’ve got to encourage and oversee growth in a place that doesn’t seem hospitable in the usual ways, although it is actually just fine. And you must be patient, knowing that the process might take a while longer than it would in other circumstances.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) While at a cafe, I overheard two people at the next table talking about astrology. “I think the problem-solvers of the zodiac are Cancers and Capricorns,” said a young, moon-faced woman. “Agreed,” said her companion, an older woman with chiseled features. “And the problem-creators are Scorpios and Geminis.” I couldn’t help myself: I had to insert myself into their conversation so as to defend you. Leaning over toward their table, I said, “Speaking as a professional astrologer, I’ve got to say that right now Geminis are at least temporarily the zodiac’s best problem-solvers. Give them a chance to change your minds.” The women laughed, and moon-face said, “You must be a Gemini.” “No,” I replied. “But I’m on a crusade to help Geminis shift their reputations.”

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