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20 THE CURTIS HOUSE IN CRUTCHFIELD

PUBLISHER Jim Langdon MANAGING EDITOR Joshua Kline ART DIRECTOR Madeline Crawford ASSISTANT EDITOR Liz Blood DIGITAL EDITOR John Langdon GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Georgia Brooks, Morgan Welch PHOTOGRAPHY/MULTIMEDIA Greg Bollinger AD SALES MANAGER Josh Kampf

Saving the Outsiders house

INTERNS Nataly Anderson, Chandler Hunt, Tara Rittler, Josalyn Scaife

A MAP OF SHO OTING LO CATIONS

BY JOE O’SHANSKY

24 TULSA PLAYS ITSELF Mapping “The Outsiders” across Green Country

CONTRIBUTORS David Blatt, Joe Cervantez, Alicia Chesser, Claire Edwards, Angela Evans, Barry Friedman, Mitch Gilliam, Valerie Grant, Jeff Huston, Zachary Matthews, Adam Murphy, Denver Nicks, Mary Noble, Joe O’Shansky, Megan Shepherd, Michael Wright The Tulsa Voice’s distribution is audited annually by

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7 THE SMELL OF ROTTING FLESH

14 WANGS OF DESIRE

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On political disagreements today

Two years in, TNT Wangs has built a faithful following in the Brady District

Playwright Lynn Riggs and the roots of “Oklahoma!”

8 REGALADO PLAYS POLITICS

BY BARRY FRIEDMAN

Blaming the press is just part of the story

10 ESCAPING THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM

16 GREASER BAR

BY CLAIRE EDWARDS

Down the hatch at Downtown Lounge

With her Tulsa Talks panels, DeVon Douglass uses her voice for change

18 SLICE OF LIFE

BY DAVID BLATT

BY ANGELA EVANS

Confront the “parasite economy” by raising the minimum wage

Finding innocence by breaking the rules of food

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FILM

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Patrick Swayze does a handstand on the chain-link fence outside the Curtis’ brothers home in “The Outsiders.”

42 JASON BORED

BY JOSHUA KLINE

BY JOE O’SHANSKY

Broncho’s Ryan Lindsey on the new record, touring and ambiguity

The latest “Bourne” entry is a dull mess

40 KEEP IT AUTHENTIC THE OUTSIDERS LEGACY

BY MARY NOBLE

Surron the 7th talks process and inspiration

34 SAY IT LOUD

BY LIZ BLOOD

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32 HAUNTED BY HOME

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editor’sletter

“T

he Outsiders” has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. As a child, I read S.E. Hinton’s a dozen times, and watched Francis Coppola’s film adaptation at least as much.

The story of the orphaned Curtis brothers and their surro-

gate family of Greasers living in north Tulsa is bursting with empathy; Hinton very obviously loves her characters, flaws and all.

As a child, it provided a window into the gritty, mysterious world of delinquent teenagers that was both frightening and enticing.

It also taught me lessons about

friendship, compassion and forgiveness that I carried with me into adulthood.

After all these years, the book still holds up. The film, though dated and flawed, is a charming, worthy adaptation of Hinton’s story. It’s one of Coppola’s most interesting films, a gorgeous

triumph of Old Hollywood style.

Shot in Technicolor, it looks like nothing else made in the early ‘80s, and Tulsa—lovingly, lushly captured by cinematographer Stephen Burum—has never looked better.

Now, on the eve of the book’s 50th anniversary, three fans are working to preserve a piece of pop culture history through a fundraiser to save the Crutchfield house where much of the film was shot. Danny Boy O’Connor (of the rap group House of Pain) has purchased the home at 731 N. St. Louis, and he’s working with local business owners Zach Matthews and Donnie Rich to restore it to its original state and turn it into a museum. This weekend, they’re holding a two-day event to help raise awareness and funds, including an auction at IDL Ballroom on Saturday evening and a screening at the Circle Cinema on Sunday, featuring actors C. Thomas Howell (Ponyboy) and Darren Dalton (Randy). To read more about the house preservation effort, turn to page 20 for an interview with O’Connor, Matthews and Rich.

In honor of this upcoming “Outsiders” weekend, we’ve put together an oral history of the film’s production (page 27), featuring remembrances by Hinton, Howell and Dalton, along with actors Ralph Macchio, Gailard Sartain and Brent Stice. On page 24, you’ll find a map of the film’s two-dozen shooting locations in and around Tulsa.

To paraphrase Johnny Cade himself, “if you live in Tulsa, you gotta know the Pledge of Allegiance and ‘The Outsiders.’” If you somehow avoided reading the book and watching the movie in school, you should do both immediately—it’s a piece of your city’s history. If nothing else, do it for Johnny. a

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hile I write this, a “corpse flower”—so nicknamed because of the stench of rotting flesh it emits when in bloom—is beginning to blossom at the New York Botanical Garden, the first time the garden has had a corpse flower in bloom since 1939. The enormous, stinking flower can grow up to 10 feet tall and reveals its purple blossom just once or twice a decade, give or take. Each bloom, lasting only a day or two at a time, is a brief, disgusting effort to entice flies and beetles with the smell of putrid meat, during which visit the bugs will pollinate the plant, which will then recede into hibernation only to reemerge in a few years to undertake the whole hideous display all over again.

As a metaphor for anything both majestic and revolting, the occasion of a corpse flower blooming in the United States at this particular moment, straddled by the Democratic and Republican national conventions amid one of the ugliest and strangest elections seasons in our history, is almost too perfect. The fickle flower appeared as Donald Trump emerged as the official GOP nominee, and its scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum, which translates roughly to “gigantic formless penis.” (Never let anyone tell you nature doesn’t have a sense of humor.) The plant also reeked while the Democrats kicked off their own convention amid revelations that officers of the Democratic National Committee conspired to corrupt the nominating process by actively working against Senator Bernie Sanders, whose supporters have long sensed something was fishy at the DNC. In every election season passions run high and the uglier sides of our humanity come growling out from under the yoke of civility, but somehow this one feels particularly gross. The two major party candidates, perhaps the most unpopular pair in American history, have been accepted with THE TULSA VOICE // August 3 – 16, 2016

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held noses by many in their own parties—and they’re absolutely reviled by people on the other side.

Donald Trump riles his supporters with visions of looming apocalypse. Hillary Clinton riles her supporters with visions of Donald Trump. Mass shootings, cop killings, killer cops, and foreign terrorist attacks make this moment feel all too real, adding a sense of urgency and danger to the crisis.

Under these circumstances, maintaining decency toward people on the other side, who you believe are not just wrong but are putting your life, the lives of your

loved ones, and of the country itself in mortal danger can seem not only difficult or irresponsible, but immoral. The situation is made all the more desperate because inevitably some of those people are your friends, your coworkers, your family.

Kindness is never wasted, but with stakes this high it’s natural that people should feel anger, even hatred, toward the dangerous idiots on the other side. You can be forgiven for wondering if being good to people who are so wrong might actually be bad. It’s confusing.

I want to suggest we all turn east for a moment to take a lesson from Zen Buddhism, which has a unique philosophical take on conflict resolution.

In Zen, a great deal of emphasis is given to the concept of nothingness, typically rendered—at least as this non-Japanese-speaking Okie understands it—as the Japanese word mu. Mu is not yes, but it is also not no; it isn’t one, but it also isn’t zero. Nothingness isn’t something, but neither is it nothingness. It is no thing. The idea of mu is to break the lens of duality through which we typically experience the world.

“This word mu can be neither measured nor grasped,” writes 13th century Zen master Dogen, “for there is nothing to grab hold of.”

One of the most helpful explanations of mu comes from a book that is only kind of about Zen, the American classic “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.”

Robert Pirsig uses the example of a computer circuit, which can only exhibit two states—one or zero.

“Try to find a voltage representing one or zero when the power is off!” Pirsig writes. “The circuits are in a mu state.” As Pirsig puts it, mu means not to answer yes, or no, or to refuse to answer but to “un-ask the question.”

When confronted with a friend you thought a decent person until he turned out to be a fill-inthe-blank supporter, try putting yourself into a mu state. You may wonder, “What in the hell is wrong with this person? How am I supposed to be friendly toward someone with beliefs so abhorrent?” You don’t have to answer.

You don’t even have to not answer. Just un-ask the question and watch as time continues to pass while our little rock spins onward through space into oblivion.

And if all this sounds to you like so much mumbo jumbo, fair enough. We may just have to hold our noses and bear it until November. Fortunately, this stinking flower only blossoms every few years. a NEWS & COMMENTARY // 7

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Regalado plays politics Blaming the press is just part of the story

by BARRY FRIEDMAN

T

here must be something in the air at 303 West 1st, home of the Tulsa County Sheriff ’s Office, that brings out the worst in our sheriffs—some atmospheric anomaly, mold maybe, that turns seemingly hard-working law enforcement officials into petty crooks, press-mistrusting stonewallers, tone-deaf community leaders, and, in the case of the current occupant, Tea Party mouthpieces.1

“THE LAST THING WE IN THE MEDIA EXPECTED WAS FOR SHERIFF REGALADO TO COME IN AND ACTUALLY BE LESS TRANSPARENT THAN SHERIFF GLANZ.”

The liberal media has to be held accountable for a great deal of the controversies that exist.

That was Sheriff Vic Regalado speaking with Pat Campbell on 1170 KFAQ, grandstanding about the horrific shootings in Dallas last month, where five police officers were murdered.

Regalado wanted it to be known that their gruesome deaths were not the result of a lone, deranged gunman, specifically, or a festering societal mistrust between police and African Americans, generally, but rather the fault of reporters not employed by stations like 1170 KFAQ. It was a despicable, unnecessary sop to the fringe, a fact-challenged rant that was incendiary, bellicose, and ignorant, not to mention counter-productive.

They show these images. They don’t give all the facts. And what happens? The uninformed have a knee-jerk reaction to it. And then we get this civil unrest.

Come for the generalizations, stay for the accusations.

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and that by trumpeting police murders without context, he ratchets up fear and paranoia. But instead of calling for calm, perspective, facts, and ongoing dialogue between law enforcement and community leaders, he strapped on the riot gear and auditioned for Hannity.

I think we’re in an era that is simil ar to the civil unrest of the 1960s.

The difference is, in my opinion, is that in the ‘60s, the civil rights movement was in full effect. It was a wor thy cause.

Thanks for the validation— you’re a prince—but that’s not why you brought it up, is it?

Of course not.

I don’t believe it justified any killing. You move forward now and you have 11 police officers shot just doing their jobs, protecting, ironicall y, protestors.

And for what?

Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, Lorne Ahrens are murdered, one day after an unarmed black man, Philando Castile, is shot by a policeman while sitting in a car in Minneapolis with his girlfriend and her little girl, two days after another black man, Alton Sterling, was shot outside a convenience store in Louisiana—and the best the Tulsa County sheriff can do is pull out a tiresome, lazy trope about the liberal media?

Leaders don’t do that—parrots do.

Police have been targeted even way back before I got on the department (more than 20 years ago),” Regalado said.

“It’s getting worse.”

No it’s not.2 In fact, about half as many police are murdered every year now, as compared with the 1970s.

Regalado surely knows how easy statistics are to manipulate

Really, you don’t know?

That cops were there protecting those assembled was not ironic—it was their job. It’s your job.

You don’t get to pick and choose which groups are worthy of law enforcement presence.

And how dare you conflate hundreds of protestors—even loud, obnoxious, troublesome ones—with murderers like Xavier Johnson and Gavin Eugene Long?

Then again, we shouldn’t have been surprised by Regalado’s posturing, for in the months since he became sheriff—and it’s only August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

been since April—he’s brought an impervious, thin-skinned arrogance to the job, a circle-the-wagons mentality to the position that his predecessor, Stanley Glanz, who recently pled guilty to one misdemeanor count and no contest to another, would have been proud.

I called Ziva Branstetter, editor-in-chief of The Frontier, who’s been following the decay in the sheriff ’s office since before following the decay was cool, and asked for her take on our new sheriff, both stylistically and substantively.

“When Sheriff Regalado ran for office, he promised transparency, which people certainly expected since Stanley Glanz was indicted, removed from office and convicted largely due to a cover-up and culture of intransigence when it comes to open records,” Branstetter said.

I think you probably know what’s coming. Branstetter and The Frontier, by the way, are suing the sheriff to see some of those records.

“The last thing we in the media expected, however, was for Sheriff Regalado to come in and actually be less transparent that Sheriff Glanz … by slow-playing other requests made by the media and by making himself unavailable to discuss these issues.”

We will end p atronage and politics in decision-making. We will look to bring a new spirit of cooperation and citizen invol vement to sol ve long-standing problems. 3

To Branstetter’s point, that was Regalado, victory night, April 5, 2016, specifically talking about the busy pipeline between the sheriff ’s and appraiser’s offices, jobs that were being handed out4 like “Massage in your Room” pamphlets on the Strip in Las Vegas.

Gl anz told the newsp aper that he appoints people to the sheriff’s appraiser positions as a reward for suppor ting him and ser ving the community. “I’m sure there’s maybe a perception problem, but I don’t consider it one,” said Gl anz at the time.

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Clearly, rewarding political support with cushy county jobs is something you’d stop if you wanted to show the community there was a—wait for it—new sheriff in town. What made this particular patronage situation such a unique cesspool was the fact that Glanz had appointed both the wife and daughter of his personal attorney, Clark Brewster, as appraisers— jobs that paid them over the years close to $1 million.

(The daughter of Robert Bates, who shot Eric Harris, was also appointed and made about $250 grand.)

As disturbing as all this is, there’s nothing illegal about it (Oklahoma’s funny that way), but still, most agreed, it was pretty gamey.

Regalado promised to end the program.

According to county records, Cassie Barkett, Leslie McCrary, and Deborah Brewster still have their jobs.

Damn liberal media.

Regalado has also failed to make even the most cursory of staff changes inside the office, especially getting rid of those who embody the philosophical and ethical black hole the place had become.

Speaking of Terry Simonson, guess who still works there?

Yeah. The same Terry Simonson who tried to squelch the initial grand jury investigation of Glanz by claiming those collecting signatures were offering hotdogs5 at the sign-up tables, the same Terry Simonson who misled6 the public on the Bates investigation, the same Terry Simonson who strong-armed the fire chief in an earlier life to get his son a gig as a fireman,7 and the same Terry Simonson, who, as a journalist, thought gang-on-gang violence was a good idea8—is the TCSO intergovernmental affairs and contract administrator.

The gob hasn’t been this smacked since the last time we discovered he hadn’t been fired.

None of this, though—none of it—not the failure to clean up the mess left by Glanz, not the impending disaster at the jail that’s coming,9 including negligent death lawsuits and investigations and broken necks and kickbacks, not the staffing changes he refuses to

make, not even his dissing of the press—could have prepared us for this: “ We’re unique when you look at Ferguson (Mo.) and Dall as,” he said.

“These two incidents happened in our back yard and yet they don’t happen here. I do believe it’s the rel ationship l aw enforcement has with the community. It’s been a long time fostering that rel ationship, but I think it’s p aid off in sp ades.”

He actually went there.

In spades.

“He shot me! He shot me, man. Oh, my god, I’m losing my breath,” Harris says as officers pin him to the ground following the lethal gunshot.

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1) 1170kfaq.com: Sheriff Regalado: Liberal Media Should be Held Accountable 2) npr.org: Is There A ‘War On Police’? The Statistics Say No 3) newson6.com: Republican Vic Regalado Elected Tulsa County Sheriff 4) cnsnews.com: Oklahoma sheriff defends ‘patronage’ jobs he gave friends 5) kjrh.com: TCSO: Petition gathering may have been illegal 6) thetulsavoice.com: Glanz and Company 7) newson6.com: Favoritism Allegations Lead To Suspension Of Tulsa Fire Chief, Bartlett’s Chief Of Staff 8) batesline.com: Terry Simonson: Tulsa murder rate isn’t so bad, when you don’t count all the killings 9) readfrontier.com: Judge’s order: Elliott Williams’ jail cell became ‘burial crypt’ 10)newsmic.com: White Cop Killing Unarmed Black Man

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Good thing those things don’t happen here. We’ve got good relationships. They have paid off in spades.

One more thing: Regalado will almost certainly be re-elected in November.

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WHEN WORKERS HAVE MORE MONEY, BUSINESSES HAVE MORE CUSTOMERS. AND WHEN BUSINESSES HAVE MORE CUSTOMERS, THEY CREATE MORE JOBS.

Escaping the race to the bottom Confront the ‘parasite economy’ by raising the minimum wage

by DAVID BLATT

E

very quarter, the ADP Research Institute releases its Workforce Vitality Index, a measure of private sector job and wage growth. For the past two quarters, Washington state has led the nation in growing jobs and boosting wages, far outpacing the national average and such states as Texas, Florida, and California.

Why does this matter? Because Washington state has one of the highest minimum wages in the nation at $9.47 an hour. And since April 2015, the city of Seattle has been moving towards a $15 minimum wage, with the current minimum ranging from $10.50 to $13 depending on employer size.

As the Workforce Vitality Index shows, businesses in Seattle and Washington state are thriving and generating more employment. Seattle’s restaurant industry — which fought the wage laws fiercely — is continuing to add jobs.

The simple explanation is laid out by Nick Hanauer, a successful entrepreneur and venture capital-

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ist from Washington state, in an insightful article in The American Prospect magazine titled “Confronting the Parasite Economy.”

Hanauer argues that paying workers decent wages is good for business and good for the economy. He writes, “When workers have more money, businesses have more customers. And when businesses have more customers, they create more jobs.” To take the restaurant industry as an example, higher wages lead to more disposable income that workers and their families can spend on eating out in restaurants.

Some prominent companies, such as Costco, Nordstrom, and QuikTrip, have voluntarily opted to pay their employees higher wages and offer full benefits. They’ve been rewarded by higher employee productivity and reduced turnover while remaining profitable. Yet in highly competitive sectors with low profit margins, many businesses calculate that they cannot voluntarily pay their workers a living

wage. The result is a race to the bottom in what Hanauer dubs “the parasite economy,” where businesses cut costs by paying poverty-level wages, subsidized by billions in taxpayer-funded assistance to keep the working poor afloat.

Escaping this race to the bottom requires leveling the playing field upwards, so that businesses are not penalized for paying a living wage. Decent wages, along with basic benefits and greater scheduling certainty, would mean that all jobs are good jobs — jobs that provide security and opportunity for everyone willing to work hard, without reliance on public benefits or private charity.

Thirty states now have minimum wages above the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. In 2014, initiative petitions to raise the minimum wage passed decisively in the conservative strongholds of Arkansas, Nebraska, Alaska, and South Dakota.

Unfortunately, the minimum wage is stuck below subsistence

levels in Oklahoma. Our $7.25 an hour minimum wage hasn’t been raised in seven years and has lost 30 percent in inflation-adjusted value since 1979. Thirty percent of jobs in Oklahoma are in occupations where the median pay is below the poverty level for a family of four. Rather than support even a modest increase in the minimum wage, Oklahoma lawmakers instead opted to block cities from even considering adopting a higher minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage would be a win for the Oklahomans who work hard preparing our food, cleaning our offices, and caring for our loved ones. Just as importantly, by putting more money in the pockets of the customers who shop in our stores, travel our roads, and eat in our restaurants, it would be a win for all of us. a

David Blatt is executive director of the Oklahoma Policy Institute (www.okpolicy.org).

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Nancy.”

That’s Nancy Williams speaking, head honcho at TNT Wangs, the food truck typically parked outside Cain’s Ballroom or Soundpony and the Yeti. Odds are, if you’ve spent any time browsing the menu on the TNT trailer, bought into their cult-like social media following, or hung around and chatted while you wait for your food, you probably know her as “Sis.” Most of the time, TNT Wangs operates as a family affair with Sis leading the charge alongside her son Marcus Williams and her brother Keenan Lane. But Mr. Thomas, the owner and social media operator, is never far behind. Without him, there wouldn’t be a TNT Wangs—not because he started it, but because he demanded it.

“We sat around one Father’s Day and I cooked this chicken for all the guys,” Williams explained.

“They loved it, just wanted more and more each day. So I’m like, ‘this is gonna cost you guys. I can’t keep feeding you guys for free!’”

The TNT Wangs name wouldn’t come along until months later, but the obsession was instant. Friends and family stopped by to try the chicken, word got around, and demand for Williams’ cayenne and honey-drizzled chicken grew. Deliveries were made, events were catered, people showed up at Williams’ door looking for the supposed holy grail of fried chicken. That’s when Mr. Thomas offered up the trailer.

The cayenne and honey chicken is TNT’s signature dish, but they also fry up tilapia, catfish,

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Catch TNT Wangs in the Brady District on weekends, at events around town, and after shows at the Venue Shrine. Those in a rush should call ahead, or step outside to order food before tabbing out—especially on weekends.

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shrimp, seasoned okra, cheese fries, and other so-bad-but-sogood foods.

“I’m not gonna lie to you … everything is good. Now, everything may not be healthy,” Williams said with a laugh, “but everything is good.”

TNT’s residency outside the Soundpony has done wonders for the truck’s exposure, and has fostered a symbiotic relationship between the two businesses over the past two years.

“We’re a big family—TNT and Soundpony together,” Williams said. “We do it together. Our relationship is great. We were just doing events before we posted up here, and when we first came down, we just fell in love. I’m kind of Pony-struck.”

Last month, they celebrated two years of TNT with an anniversary party and hip-hop showcase at Soundpony, complete with entertainment from some of the Tulsa scene’s biggest names,

like Earl Hazard. The party was a blowout, and the TNT crew donated all of the event’s proceeds to St. Francis Children’s Hospital, a spot they often visit as a team.

“They love us there,” Williams continued. “We’re the loudest group. It puts smiles on their faces, and their parents thank us because when they do get visits, it’s kind of like a pity party. Then we come in like ... Let’s turn up.

Let’s get moving. Let’s get some smiles.”

Right now, Williams juggles TNT as a side project among other family ventures, but if she had her way, she’d go all in for a full-time operation. A perfect world for Williams would have TNT Wangs trucks in every state, an even bigger fan-base (it currently boasts high-profile fans such as Waka Flocka, Scarface, and Tory Lanez in its army of supporters), and plenty of time to develop new menu items. Curry chicken and Mexican Corn are both in the works, and

Williams says she never shies away from requests. If it sticks, the idea’s originator might even get added to the TNT Menu Squad.

The TNT Menu Squad is a namesake honor bestowed only on TNT’s most loyal fans. Early supporters of the wing truck were commemorated with personalized dishes a few years back, and the trend stuck. Today customers can maw down on dishes like the SpaceGrrrl, cheese fries with cayenne pepper named for Soundpony bartender Amy Pullen, Trak bread, a family recipe for Indian fry bread named for TNT enthusiast Chris ‘Trak’ Williams, and The Threezy, a fried chicken and fish combo named for Deandre Starks, Williams’ late friend and a longtime TNT supporter.

“When we were starting up, he was one of the guys that kept wanting it, so we just felt the need to give back and keep his name alive.”

As sentimental as Williams is, she’s anything but soft. Running the Wang operation often requires seven-day workweeks, powered by as little as three hours of sleep on weekends. She keeps her focus squarely on the customers and making sure they have a great experience, and is careful not to let drunk and demanding late-night patrons ruin the experience.

As she explains it, good food takes some time, and after four hours of barhopping in the Brady, that’s longer than most think they should have to wait for their fourth meal. The truck team often ends up playing both cook and babysitter to some customers, but Williams said it comes with the territory.

“It seems like alcohol makes you very, very hungry.” a August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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hen I asked Downtown Lounge bartender Austin Bryant if he thought his place of employ might be Tulsa’s modern-day Greaser bar, he said they would never discriminate against the Socs, but, yeah, Greasers probably spend more time in there.

The bar is dark and cool—you can feel the air circulating but it’s not Antarctic, movie-theater cold.

Illustrated concert posters line the painted black walls, floor to ceiling. Christmas lights hang above the blacktop bar, and a blue-felt pool table sits in one corner of the single-room bar. If you stumble in off the hot street, you too might envision a slick-haired Patrick Swayze or leather-jacketed Matt Dillon bent over its top, aiming for the cue.

Bryant went to Will Rogers High School where, he said, “The Outsiders” was required reading.

“If ‘The Outsiders’ was filmed in 2016, those guys would fit right in at our bar.”

Downtown Lounge celebrated its seventh anniversary this summer. Bryant said a lot of rat rod racers come through, and the Mustang show/meet-up earlier this summer brought hundreds of Mustangs in front of the bar.

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“Whenever they do those classic car events, they drive right down Archer in front of us.”

The bar is a pretty no-frills affair—mostly beers, shots, and your basic mixed drinks.

“I’ll put frills on it if you want,” Bryant said. “We can do frills. But nine times out of 10 there are no frills. It’s beer and a shot. Jack and Coke. We don’t have cheap booze—we have the labels people like—but we sell it cheap.”

We talked about the intimidation factor surrounding the idea of Downtown Lounge (it’s next to a tattoo shop, it’s known as a punk/metal bar, you can’t really see inside of it from the outside) and that which surrounded S.E. Hinton’s Greasers.

“Sometimes the people—even the owner Jake—look gruff; but they’re the sweetest people I know.

They may not have the collared shirt and the cologne, but they’re good people.” a

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

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SLICE OF LIFE

by ANGELA EVANS

Food writer Angela Evans dressed as a Greaser, eating chocolate cake on the floor like Two-Bit in “The Outsiders” | ADAM MURPHY

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emory fades and flickers like the candles on my second birthday cake. I was not old enough to understand that the room filled with friends and family wearing silly hats would become a yearly tradition. The love and decorations that filled the room were there for me, but none of that registered.

It was the chocolate cake that captured my attention, along with the song that transformed the lopsided confection my mom baked into a sacred object that would conjure my heart’s desire.

To this day, I still concentrate on the ever-growing number of candles with laser focus as I whisper a secret wish to myself.

As an adult, chocolate cake has taken on new meaning. No longer the special treat of my youth, the desert—viewed through health-conscious, scale-watching eyes—has become both a symbol of innocence and that of indulgence. But how can the combination of flour, eggs, sugar and chocolate be both benign and forbidden? Whether a simple sheet cake or an elaborate confection, chocolate cake has a lot of meaning packed between its frosted layers.

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In S.E. Hinton’s “The Outsiders” (1967), Hinton employs chocolate cake to do the heavy lifting of explaining the Curtis boys’ relationships and circumstance. Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy were orphaned by the death of their parents. Left to take care of themselves as teenagers, the boys created their new, post-tragedy normal by making up their own rules.

Eating chocolate cake for breakfast was one of those rules.

“All three of us like chocolate cake for breakfast.

Mom had never allowed it with ham and eggs, but Darry let Soda and me talk him into it. We reall y didn’t have to twist his arm; Darry loves chocolate cake as much as we do. Sodapop always makes sure there’s some in the icebox every night and if there isn’t he cooks one up real quick.”

The idea of cake for breakfast springs from the childhood fantasy of making one’s own rules without parents interfering. The idea loses its luster, however, if the impetus for the new tradition is tinged with tragedy. For the Curtis boys, it was one-part coping mech-

anism—a way to create something positive out of something destructive—and one-part new tradition.

They recognized that their mother would probably not have approved of dessert for breakfast, but this was their home now. They were the ones in control. The act of chocolate cake for breakfast was both rebellious and virtuous.

For all their self-proclaimed and perceived toughness, this was their ultimate act of rebellion. The community viewed the Curtis boys and their Greaser friends as miscreants, but as the story unfolds, we learn they were, in reality, the innocent ones.

I have a similar rule-breaking breakfast tradition with my mother. We like to eat cheeseburgers with all the fixins early in the a.m.

My mother also had an unfortunate upbringing. Rules applied to her as a child were abusive and arbitrarily cruel. She vowed things would be different for her children and they were.

For example, she saw no reason why bacon and eggs were the only appropriate breakfast fare. So, eating cheeseburgers for breakfast became our Saturday morning tradition. Saturday was the one day she wasn’t working one of her

four jobs and actually had the time to cook a meal. It was the time we got to spend with each other and indulge in a tradition of our own creation.

When I ate my cheeseburger while watching Saturday morning cartoons, I relished the rebelliousness of it. None of my other friends’ mothers would dream of committing such breakfast blasphemy. But to my mom, the act was a way of reclaiming her childhood by providing a different one for me.

We all accept that food is culture. But it also means family—a way of relating to and being with those we care about. Eating is more than perfunctory, it is ritual.

Chocolate cake is both ubiquitous and special. Innocent and sinful. It is as rich with texture and flavor as it is with memory and tradition.

Like the Curtis boys’ slice of chocolate cake for breakfast, each of us has our own outside-of-thenorm food custom. Rather than pleading, “it doesn’t fit this or that diet,” rather than denigrating our dietary oddities, we ought to celebrate these customs and remember we don’t eat just to feed our bodies. Life’s about more than that. a August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Finding innocence by breaking the rules of food

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The Curtis House in Crutchfield

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During the golden hour of an evening in late July, I sat on the porch of “The Outsiders” house drinking Pabst and smoking Camels with Zach Matthews, owner of Cellar Dweller, and Donnie Rich, owner of The Venue Shrine. Ubiquitous train sirens howled and bugs chirped and buzzed in the sticky twilight. It was a bit surreal; clearly, it still is for them, too.

“This was the Curtis Brother’s house. Sodapop. Ponyboy. And older brother…Darr-ell!”

Matthews rolls that last bit out with an Okie flourish, as if we should all posthumously pour one out for Patrick Swayze, who played the eldest Curtis brother in the 1983 film.

The house, which sits at 731 N. St. Louis Ave., was home to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s novel “The Outsiders” and is now being renovated and transformed into what will be The Outsiders House Museum.

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Za ch Matthews and Donnie Rich on the front porch of the curtis house

“There’s probably 20 people in this neighborhood that lived in this house at one point,” said Rich, who has been helping with restoration and fundraising efforts.

“They were here during the filming. They’ve been here since. To them, they’ve just been surrounded by it their whole lives.”

The blue-collar Crutchfield neighborhood lies between Peoria and Utica, just north of the train tracks. The modest area hasn’t changed much in the 25 years since the film; most of the houses are 50-100 years old, and many of them are in various states of disrepair.

“What you see here, this house isn’t here out of preservation,” Matthews said. “This house is here out of neglect. What Susie Hinton wrote about 50 years ago was a socioeconomic divide.”

The divide persists.

Ten minutes into my visit, a neighbor joined us. Chuck Drywater has lived next door to the house since before the film was made. After shooting wrapped, the original couch from the film found a new home on Drywater’s porch, where it sat for decades.

“I tried to get Matt Dillon high,” Drywater offered, before launching into a charming, lengthy anecdote eventually drowned out by the howl of another passing train.

“That’s the sound right there,” Rich said.

Matthews and Rich are citizen scholars. They know details like

local filming locations, who was an extra and who was a makeup artist, who now owns what famous car from the movie, where a certain photograph was taken.

One might say they’re obsessive, a perfect match for the owner of the house, Daniel “Danny Boy” O’Connor.

O’Connor it turns out, was the catalyst for the resurrection of “The Outsiders” house.

A rapper from L.A. by way of Brooklyn, O’Connor is most notable for the band he formed with Everlast and DJ Lethal, House of Pain. If you were a ‘90s club kid, you likely pogoed to “Jump Around.”

“I saw [“The Outsiders”] when it came out and it just left an indelible mark,” O’Connor said. “It’s one of those movies that’s a classic. Right side of the tracks, wrong side of the tracks. I was the perfect age, 14 years-old, and I related with the characters.”

O’Connor enjoyed a three-day layover after playing a show at Cain’s Ballroom in 2009. During a cab ride, O’Connor asked if any of the film’s locations were still around. His providential driver took him on a tour: Circle Cinema, the Admiral Twin, and the dilapidated 1920s Craftsman-style abode the Curtis brothers called home.

“It blew my mind. I like L.A. and I like New York. But stuff changes so quick. Nothing looks the same,” he said. “When I first got to Crutchfield Park, and ‘The Outsiders’

house—dude, I got goosebumps … my jaw dropped. It was like being in the 1980s. Or ‘60s, really.”

Since then, on tours or road trips, the charmed O’Connor made a point of visiting Tulsa, growing more disconcerted each trip by the neglect that has defined Crutchfield since Hinton’s time.

“I thought, why doesn’t somebody around here save this place?”

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would buy ‘The Outsiders’ house,” he continued.

After being introduced to Zach Matthews through a mutual friend, O’Connor and Matthews bonded over a love of film—especially “The Outsiders”—and started talking about how they could save the famed-but-dilapidated house. During a series of road trips together, visiting cities with favorite film locations, O’Connor and Matthews decided to buy the place, which turned out to be easier said than done.

A renthouse in a poor neighborhood, the house was owned by a widowed landlord in Florida, and the sleuthing it took to get in touch with her was only the beginning. Then came the real predicament: how to turn a sagging derelict into a shrine.

“We bought the house sight unseen,” O’Connor said. “When I got there I was so blinded that I didn’t see the mess. Zachary was out of town and I had to sneak in a back window. Dude, that house was destroyed.”

“Destroyed” meaning stolen copper, frayed electricity, a hordes of roaches—it gave them a sinking feeling that matched the foundation. But with the house bought and Zach and Donnie onboard, the only way out was through.

“Within 48 hours I had a tool bag over here and we were ripping out walls,” Rich said. “It wasn’t meeting Danny O’Connor from House of Pain. I worked with him for three weeks before that even kicked in. I was in awe of the house.”

The house is still a mess, but of a different kind. It’s now immersed in process. We walked through the skeleton, stripped to studs and plywood, some of which is stamped 1982, the year they replaced walls torn out to shoot scenes.

It’s undeniably the house, with placeholders for the exhibits that will make up the re-creation of the first two rooms. They have the Magnavox TV. They know where to get the Curtis’s stereo.

The stained glass is in Florida. The front door has been remade by a local remodeling company that donated its services.

“My plan is to fix the entire house, and restore the first two rooms to how they look in the movie to the best of our ability,” O’Connor said. “Those two rooms are the most prominent FEATURED // 21

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HOW TO PACK IN THE FUN BEFORE YOU HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL THIS FALL

The Outsiders House Renovation Fundraiser takes place on August 6 at IDL Ballroom. “The Outsiders” screens on August 7 at noon at Circle Cinema, with C. Thomas Howell and Darren Dalton in attendance for a Q&A.

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in the movie. The back rooms will be filled with all the paraphernalia I have [along with many submissions]. Posters, magazines, you name it, from all over the world. I have a switchblade collection. S.E. Hinton gave me Matt Dillon’s jacket. I have some Holy Grail stuff.”

Rich and Matthews also hit up antique shops and locals, veritable Tulsa Pickers, looking for any match to the original set they can find.

“You realize how many fans are still here,” Rich said. “They have these artifacts.”

Tentatively scheduled to be christened in April of 2017, the museum’s opening will coincide with the novel’s 50th anniversary. S.E. Hinton has expressed her support.

“I’m thrilled Danny Boy O’Conner is undertaking this,” Hinton said. “I would not do it myself. To me, it’s just a movie location. But seeing how everyone is pitching in and helping this happen—from all over the world—has made me see how much it means to so many.”

The city is on board—the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, Visit Tulsa, and the City Council are all lending their full support to the effort, and, by proxy, the legacy of our most famous house. Innumerable fans are donating wouldbe exhibits and the stories that go with them. Someone even saved (and has donated) Ralph Macchio’s (Johnny Cade) now-30-year-old prosthetic scar.

Businesses and individuals are offering free labor, from leveling the foundation to mowing the lawn. Rob Lowe (Sodapop Curtis), Macchio, and Hinton (among others) are donating memorabilia for a silent auction.

Darren Dalton (Randy) and C. Thomas Howell (Ponyboy Curtis), who formed a lifelong friendship during the production, are overjoyed to lend themselves to the cause, and will be in town to participate in this weekend’s fundraiser.

But it’s the unlikely trio’s providence and enthusiasm that’s infectious. You can practically see their haloes.

“Being here 35 years, I’ve seen a lot of cool things fall apart in Tulsa. When the Admiral Twin burned, I didn’t think it would be rebuilt,” Matthews said. “You see these things drop away. Who knew the Circle would go from being a grindhouse to a boutique cinema?

Perfect. So what’s next on the map?

‘The Outsiders’ house. Like Donnie says, ‘it’s our Graceland.’” a

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Francis Coppola’s film is littered with famous Tulsa landmarks, as well as many more obscure locations around town. Here’s a starting point for finding the city within the film, courtesy of Zach Matthews. To see specific cross streets and structures, visit Matthews’ Google map at bit.ly/outsidersmap

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1.) Francis Ford Coppola’s residence while filming in Tulsa 2.) Scene of Windrixville Church fire, now underwater 3.) Hospital where Johnny Cade Dies

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14.) Rumble with the Socs

5.) Former location of the very first opening scene, filmed near then-Bowen Lounge. Dally stood on this “Corner of Dreams” waiting to do “nothing legal”

16.) Socs chase Ponyboy down the alley behind the Curtis brothers’ house, jump him, and cut his hai r with a knife

6.) Corner across the street from Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, where the bus mirror almost knocked Two-Bit in the face

8.) “ What’s the movie about” — the boys walk by what is now Topeca’s coffee roastery on North Peoria and East Admiral

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The original monkey bars are gone. The fountain was put in place for the film and removed when they finished

4.) Convenience store Dally robs and then gets shot

7.) Dally and Pony pulled over by police after the fire

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17.) The Curtis’ Brothers’ Home, AKA The Outsiders House, now being renovated and made into The Outsiders House Museum (see page 20) 18.) Socs throw sticks at Ponyboy as he walks the tracks 19.) Circle Cinema 20.) Will Rogers High School 21.) The Pines Drive-In 22.) The Admiral Twin DriveIn, which was the location for many scenes in the Outsiders including when Dally and Ponyboy snuck in and met Cherry Valance for the first time 23.) Two-Bit and Ponyboy hitchhike down Main St. Owasso 24.) Pony talks with the Socs 25.) Former Location of Buck Merrill’s (Tom Waits) Road House

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‘The Outsiders’ Cast and crew share memories of the film production I N T E R V I E W S B Y M I TC H G I L L I A M , J O S H UA K L I N E , J O E O ’ S H A N S K Y, M I C H A E L W R I G H T P H O T O S B Y J O E C E R VA N T E Z

In 1965, a 16 year-old Will Rogers High School student named Susan Hinton began writing a novel based on her observations of the social divide at Rogers. “The Outsiders” depicted the clash between rival gangs the Greasers and Socs, told through the eyes of Ponyboy Curtis, a Greaser orphan who lived in north Tulsa with his older brothers Darrel and Sodapop. The book was published in 1967, when Hinton was a freshman at the University of Tulsa, and quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Credited with starting the YA (Young Adult) genre, the book was soon required reading in classrooms across the country.

In 1982, director Francis Ford Coppola came to Tulsa to adapt the book into a movie, collaborating with Hinton on the script and assembling a large cast of mostly unknown young actors whose careers would be made by the experience: Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, Leif Garrett, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Darren Dalton, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane and Tom Cruise.

Here, a handful of cast and crewmembers recall memories of working with Coppola, shooting in Tulsa, and having Hinton as their own “Greaser den mother.”

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S.E. HINTON (author of “The Outsiders”): [I first realized the book was going to be a success] when Delacorte created a whole YA department built around “The Outsiders.” Until then there were children’s books and adult books. “The Outsiders” sales made them realize there was a whole new market to focus on… I am very happy the books are famous. I never have wanted to be famous myself. When I wake up in the morning I think “Is the coffee ready?” not “Wow, I’m S.E. Hinton.” Since I began writing it over 52 years ago, it seems like it’s always been part of my life.

RALPH MACCHIO (Johnny Cade): I read the book when I was twelve years old in school, in seventh grade English class. You know, if memory serves me correctly, I don’t think I read a book cover to cover before “The Outsiders,” outside of, like, “Green Eggs and Ham.” I was not a big reader, so I credit “The Outsiders” and S.E. Hinton for holding my interest enough at that adolescent age that I very much connected to the book and the characters.

DARREN DALTON (Randy): I’d read it in school and loved it, and once I realized what [the audition] was for, I got a lot more excited. I associated most with Ponyboy, because I was an artist, I was a writer.

That was my first love, which is what I do now. I was writing poetry; I was someone who enjoyed sunsets. I didn’t have very much, you know, as far as our economic position.

GAILARD SARTAIN (Jerry): When Susie and I were at [Will Rogers High School] there was the Socs and the Greasers. That’s derived from life. I don’t know if it’s an economic split, but there were guys from the north side, and I mean we’re talking 1963 or ‘64 and before that. Rogers had kids from South of 11th Street and then north—there was a difference. From the waist up I was a Soc [laughs].

BRENT STICE (Stunt crew/the cop who shoots Dallas): Susie was a friend of mine … In junior high I was a Greaser, until ninth grade, when I played football. All the football players were jocks and Socs, so I started dressing different and wearing different colors, and I became a Soc. So I’ve been on both sides of the fence…

There was a big clash between Socs and Greasers. The Socs had money and the Greasers were raised poor and never got a chance. There were Greasers that played football, but they were still Greasers—the grease monkeys. It was really because of their hair. That’s why the book became such a big hit—she hit it exactly. I wish I’d of thought of it.

HINTON: Francis Coppola and I wrote the screenplay. Not a word of [credited screenwriter Kathleen] Rowell’s script was used. Because of an arbitration with the WGA, Francis was told he could claim co-authorship with Rowell but not me. He refused and quit the WGA for a while over it. He cut pages from a paperback copy of The Outsiders, outlined the action in one color, dialogue in another, narration in another. He cut these up, arranged into a script form, and handed it to me, saying “Cut it for me, Susie.”

Which I did.

SARTAIN: My agent in California called me, told me they were shooting a film in Tulsa and I happened to be here at the time. Susie Hinton, we went to Rogers and TU together but we didn’t really know each other. It’s kind of serendipitous, everything just fell together. I didn’t have to read for it or anything. They probably figured out “well we don’t have to pay airfare for him so we’ll just go ahead and cast him.”

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MACCHIO: I was 19 years old when I heard that they were casting. I was on a TV show called “Eight is Enough” at the time, so I was just sort of breaking in. I heard that they were making a movie of “The Outsiders,” and Francis Ford Coppola was going to be involved and direct it. I mean, “The Godfather” at that point was still my Bible of a movie, so it was everything I could possibly want it to be.

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DALTON: [After two auditions in L.A.] they said “we’d love if you could come to New York.” This was the final stage of the casting. So I went to New York, they cut my hair and greased it back and put me in a leather jacket. They were going to eliminate everyone and have two people for each role. They wanted to do a read-through of the entire script in a recording studio where they’d record our voices. So we all sat around a big table with a couple of mics hanging down and we read the whole script.

C. THOMAS HOWELL (Ponyboy): I had read the book when I was a kid. I got the call from my agent to go meet Francis Ford Coppola, which started a series of probably six to eight weeks’ worth of auditions. That was a fun process. We read with everybody that ended up in the cast, and hundreds and hundreds of other actors. I was elated when I got the call.

DALTON: I was down to the wire for the Dally role, and I saw Matt Dillon come in. I was like, OK, well that’s the end for me because this guy—I’d just seen him in “Over the Edge” and he was ridiculously good, and he’s perfect for this role. So I thought well, this has been real and it’s been fun.

That night was actually the eve of my seventeenth birthday and we were in the studio past midnight, so when midnight came, Coppola, very wonderfully, got a couple of cakes and had a big party. It was a great night. I flew home the next day. I thought, “Okay, that’s it, I can’t wait to see Matt in the movie.” Maybe six or eight weeks after that, I was doing some theatre and my parents came to the rehearsal to pick me up. I was very excited because I had just gotten an offer to do some melodrama at some tiny theatre which would pay me $50 a performance. My father said “Well, I guess you won’t be able to go do ‘The Outsiders.’” They had called and offered me the role of Randy. I went back into the script and found the role and said, “This is fantastic!” A couple of weeks later I was in Tulsa.

MACCHIO: I went for the Johnny role, which is the role I felt I fit the most, just physically. Also, it’s arguably one of the best, most sympathetic characters in the book and the movie. I get to say “Stay gold, Ponyboy,” you know? It was the movie that everybody wanted to be in, from age 14 to 30.

So I spent two days reading back and forth with other different actors, it was really like theater camp. A couple weeks after that, I heard—every day felt longer than the next—that I had gotten the part.

had old, denim notebooks. We were picked up in like a mini-van from the airport, while the Socs had cushy rides. Coppola had a very theatrical way of working. We spent two weeks really improving things, doing different scenes, doing acting exercises. He was very much about the camaraderie, so when we shot the movie, we felt like we had been with each other a little bit. But he definitely kept us separated.

with you, and that’s all you get to spend for two days.” And I did that, ‘cause this was literally the Godfather giving me notes. I was very taken aback at first, like “Boy, he thinks I suck,” but he gave me stuff to think about and it really helped— walking in the shoes of a kid who’s got no place to go, and nowhere to sleep, and his parents aren’t there to back him up, and he’s got a few dollars in his pocket, and that’s it.

DALTON: He was a very smart guy, especially dealing with young people. I flew in for the whole rehearsal period, which was a month or so before the filming began. He gave the Socs—myself, I was the only Soc cast at the time—he gave me a beautiful suite on the 16th floor of the Excelsior [Editor’s note: The Excelsior is now the Doubletree downtown] and the Greasers were all on the sixth floor, regular rooms. He gave me a wonderful leather-bound binder for the script, whereas the Greasers got like kind of a denim, three-ring cardboard thing. He’d give us the pick of whatever type of sweats we wanted; we got nice, cool sweats and all the Greasers were in grey. During the rehearsal period we played football against each other. Smartly, Coppola didn’t bring Leif Garrett [who played the Soc Bob] in until just days before filming. So, I had a chance to sort of bond with the people and become more like my role, which is someone who is more of a middleman. And Leif came into a group of people that were already established. It was Leif Garrett, you know? I mean, the guy came in acting like a teenage rock star and a lot of us kind of looked down our noses at it. The dynamic worked quite well, I thought.

DALTON: He had us go spend the night at a family’s house that mirrored who we were in the movie. I was not raised like a Soc, I was much more raised as a Greaser. I remember going and staying with a family who lived in a very nice area in Tulsa, had a beautiful house. The thing that really blew my mind was that they had cable TV. Coppola did everything possible to make it easy for us to be our character and be comfortable in front of the camera.

HOWELL: It was all fraternal. Everybody was super close and spent a lot of time together, and I think that carried over. We all were cut from the same cloth, and I think there’s this, I don’t know, pride that goes with it—at least for me, anyway.

SARTAIN: I mean, what an incredible cast of young guys, young actors. They hadn’t really done much; I mean Tom Cruise still had old teeth. [laughs] It was pretty amazing—all those guys have gone on to other things.

MACCHIO: I’ll never forget, about a week into rehearsal, [Coppola said about me], “He’s too Long Island! He’s too together, he’s too happy family.”

He advised me, “Why don’t you just spend the night outside? Sneak outside, take a few dollars

DALTON: The people in Tulsa were so fantastic, it’s great stock there—people are proud of where they’re from. They really embraced us and took care of us. But there were a couple of situations I remember—I remember when I was at Cain’s

STICE: Because I was doing stunts, the cast really—they like the stunt guys. They were all great.

Patrick Swayze was more mature than the other boys. He had been around a little bit. Kind of quiet, very nice. The nicest was Ponyboy, C. Thomas Howell. He was just a kid, and showed a lot of respect and just was nice as could be. Matt Dillon’s parents were there with him. Course, he was just a teenager. He’s nothing like his character. Super, super good kid. I didn’t know much about Tom Cruise—I didn’t really interact with him very much. Oh, and the Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio.

Another super kid. Very intelligent. You can see how they got these parts. The kids were pretty sharp.

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HINTON: One of the first things I did with Francis is drive around with him showing him potential locations. The ones I thought of in the book, the Circle Theater, the Admiral Twin Drive-In, were musts for me and he agreed.

HOWELL: Coppola was a real patriarch for everybody, the entire cast and crew. He’d make meals for us at lunchtime and spend a lot of time telling us stories about other films that he made and other actors that he worked with. We were all raw and young and very impressionable, so it was a good time for us to have a mentor like Coppola. I mean, the careers that were made because of that movie are amazing, and I think a lot of that had to do with the start that we all had.

SARTAIN: Coppola was very polite and welcoming. He didn’t really direct in the sense of “move to the right” or “louder.” In fact, he directed the whole thing from an airstream trailer. And he’d come out every once in a while and say “hello” and go back in. Most of his attention was focused on the cast—the guys. No criticism, no nothing.

Just “do it, fine, good, cut, print.”

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with Matt and at some point we had to leave because the girls were crazy. When the girls are crazy, the guys don’t appreciate it so there were some rumblings of some things happening, and we were asked to leave. But that was such an isolated thing, everyone that worked on the movie that was from Tulsa was fantastic. There were a lot of pretty girls, I can tell you that. And for someone who was 17… It was a fun time.

STICE: The scene where I shoot Dallas [Matt Dillon’s character], I think we did it five or six times. I know Matt was getting tired because he was having to shoot at us and then crawl …

Not to get off subject, but I kept all those blanks and gave them to my daughter, who’s now a schoolteacher. She was pretty young, about 10 or 11 years old, and she took them to her junior high and sold them for a dollar a piece. And, of course, all the teenage girls hated me for killing Matt Dillon. Anyway, Matt was a good sport because he had to keep doing it, kept doing it, kept doing it. It was exciting. I was proud that we didn’t have to shoot the scene over and over because of me.

HINTON: Loved working with the boys. They were such goofy, normal teens who became focused artists in front of the camera. We are good friends to this day… We bonded very strongly and I ran lines with them to work on edits. We had two weeks rehearsal time, a luxury not many actors get.

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was 16 years old. I don’t think you could live in Tulsa without having that information. You gotta know the Pledge of Allegiance, and that S.E. Hinton wrote “The Outsiders.”

DALTON: Susie was there the whole time. I love her and keep in contact with her now, she’s just a wonderful person. She was such a combination of mother and truck driver, you know, it was fantastic. We really got along well. We were playing Ping-Pong, playing pool, things like that. She was right there in the middle of it. She’s got some bite, you know? She’s wonderful, but I don’t want meet her in a dark alley—she’s a tough chick.

That goes a long way, I thought that was part of her charm—she was very motherly to all of us on the set in the best way.

HOWELL: She called herself “the Greaser den mother.”

SARTAIN: I didn’t have any scenes with her but she was always there. Coppola would refer to her quite a bit, actually. But I wasn’t privy to all that because—well, to quote Susie, “That was then and this is now.” But she and Coppola were always in communication.

HINTON: Francis paid me to be on the set—you see I have a credit as a consultant, and he asked me to be a nurse. I chose to be the nurse in Dallas’ room. Matt Dillon and I had been close friends ever since the filming of Tex—the director, Tim Hunter, also wanted me on set—and I knew that scene would be easy to play. We were so used to hassling each other. It was hard for us to keep a straight face. I did hit my marks, say my lines, and exit with just a couple of takes.

STICE: “The Outsiders” is something that stuck with me. It stuck with my kids. And you know, there’s a lot of people in Tulsa that were in that movie who will tell you the same thing. It was just exciting to be in that movie, to be in a real movie.

DALTON: I think it’s a wonderful thing that we’re going to keep this part of Tulsa alive [through “The Outsiders” house museum]. It’s been an amazing part of my life; The people who love the movie and book are such true fans. Other than the very occasional person coming up trying to kick my ass because I tried to drown Ponyboy [laughs], it’s been fantastic because everybody really loves the movie. And I can see why, because it’s an important, nostalgic landmark.

HOWELL: The memories that I have from the movie were so good, that’s the motivation behind wanting to come and support the [house museum fundraiser] now. It was a great time, a great group of people, and I’m really proud to have been part of it.

MACCHIO: It was one of the highlights of my life and career. Working on the film was just very special.

And then, on top of that, look at how many careers it launched. Really, pretty amazing.

HINTON: The novel sold more last year than it ever has, and any movie sales were for readers and teachers. I love the movie, especially “The Complete Novel” version—I believe Francis was the only director who went back and re-edited a film because the fans of the book asked him to—and we could not have had a better cast. a

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Haunted by home Playwright Lynn Riggs and the roots of ‘Oklahoma!’

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n 1928, Lynn Riggs, a slender young man with wire-rimmed glasses, sat in a café in the French Riviera writing a play he thought he’d call “Shivaree”—a folk custom of harassing young couples on their wedding night.

He’d recently left his home in Claremore, Oklahoma, first settling in an artists’ colony in Santa Fe after suffering an apparent nervous breakdown, then traveling to France as the first Oklahoman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.

“People are always asking me about Oklahoma,” Riggs wrote in a letter earlier that year. “[But] the range of life there is not to be indicated, much less its meaning laid bare, by a few people in a few plays…. The people who settled Oklahoma were a suspect fraternity, as fearful of being recognized by others as they were by themselves … Men disdainful of the settled, the admired, the regular ways of life.

“These people,” he continued, “have been not quite known—a shifting fringe of dark around the camp-fire … I happened to be born myself just outside the rush of light. And I know how it feels, and, I think, how those others felt.”

Riggs was a poet, and a Cherokee Indian, and gay. His biographer Phyllis Braunlich called him “haunted by home.” And his most lasting contribution to American letters is a loving, lyrical, and complex six-scene reminiscence of the people with whom he could not live.

That play, ultimately titled “Green Grow the Lilacs,” was an effort to explore, Riggs wrote, “the great range of mood which characterized the old folk songs and ballads I used to hear in my Oklahoma childhood—their quaintness, their sadness, their

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robustness, their simplicity, their hearty or bawdy humors, their sentimentalities, their melodrama, their touching sweetness.”

That tenderness striated with darkness would become the chief note of the play, which premiered in 1931. Set “in Indian Territory in 1900,” it let the people Riggs grew up with speak for themselves. It was a time, he wrote, “when people were easier, warmer, happier in the environment they had created … And in spite of ignorances and darknesses, there was a cool wisdom … Even the speech of the people, backwoods though it was, was rich, flavorous, lustrous, and wise.”

The vernacular language of the cowboy Curly, his girl Laurey, her Aunt Eller, and Riggs’ entire cast of characters (many drawn from real Claremore life, even the Syrian peddler) is the gold of “Green Grow the Lilacs,” as lyricist Oscar Hammerstein and composer Richard Rodgers recognized when they met to turn the play into the Broadway musical, “Oklahoma!”

It was post-Depression, World War II America, and the fresh breeze of the frontier seemed just the thing for people hungry for reminders of who they’d once been and who they might be again.

“Oklahoma!,” complete with its eponymous show-stopping song, opened in 1943 and, in celebration of 110 years of Oklahoma statehood, Theatre Tulsa presents the musical August 12-September 4 at the Tulsa PAC. When you see it, give a nod to Mr. Riggs—almost all of the dialogue is taken directly from his play, which Hammerstein said he thought couldn’t be improved upon. Even the opening song, “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” comes from the play’s elegiac first stage direction: It is a radiant summ er morning several years ago, the kind of morning which, enveloping the shapes of ear th—m en, cattl e in a m eadow, bl ades of the young corn, streams—makes them seem to exist now for the first tim e, their

But loveliness coexists with loneliness in “Lilacs” to an even greater degree than it would in “Oklahoma!” It’s not just the malevolent Jeeter Fry (renamed Jud in the musical) who stands for the shadow in “Green Grow the Lilacs.” Laurey is an orphan besieged by anxiety; the play’s “shivaree” nearly shatters her. Curly himself sings endlessly about loneliness.

He says to Aunt Eller, “Nobody cain’t sing good ‘ceptin’ when he’s lonesome.” (The play is strung through with sad folk songs, none of which Rodgers and Hammerstein used, but which were sung by real cowboys during the play’s run in New York.)

There’s real question about whether those in Indian Territory will submit to the “furriners” (i.e., the United States), and also whether Curly will be exonerated after giving himself up in the aftermath of Jeeter’s accidental death. There’s always a threat of violence hanging over the promise of marriage.

Ultimately, in the world of “Lilacs,” what’s different must be excised (Jeeter) or converted (the peddler) or gradually put away (the natives) in pursuit of stability and maturity. Such is “civilization,” and “Oklahoma!” would draw those lines even more broadly. But Riggs, born homeless in his own home state, was less concerned with a happy ending than Rodgers and Hammerstein would be. He was true to the hauntedness of this place, the foolhardiness, the eager enthusiasm—both the darkness and the joy. a August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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With her Tulsa Talks panels, DeVon Douglass uses her voice for change

by CLAIRE EDWARDS

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hen I asked DeVon Douglass if she thinks of herself as a community leader, she laughed.

“Oh, no, no, no. I don’t describe myself as that,” she said.

“And I don’t think there’s anybody besides my mother who would.”

Still, it’s hard to deny her seemingly effortless leadership, charisma and magnetism, and it’s little wonder why she would be a natural choice to act as moderator for the Tulsa Talks panels on police violence.

“No matter where I go, people sometimes look to me, because I’m vocal. I’m not the type of person who’s gonna sit back and let anybody get beat up. I’m a champion of the people … I’m an underdog supporter. I don’t know if I’m a community leader, but I am a community advocate … I believe I have a gift of building bridges.”

Earlier in the evening, when I pulled up to a sandstone office building on Detroit to pick up Douglass for our interview, our happy meeting was torn asunder by a tremendous clatter of grinding metal and shattered glass. Two cars had collided in the intersection behind me, right as Douglass was walking out of the building.

While I was eager to go ahead and get our interview started, Douglass wanted to check on the drivers to see if they needed help.

Without a second thought, she was crossing the street to the site of the crash. After offering the drivers the use of her cellphone and assuring that the passengers weren’t hurt, we retreated back to my car.

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than take the bar exam following her graduation from the University of Tulsa law school in 2014.

Her choice to change her career path was solidified in 2013 when George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Douglass was interning at Americorps VISTA in New Jersey when she heard the news.

“I started getting texts and phone calls from people ‘did you hear? Did you hear?’ I turned on the television. I was crying, and I was angry. Like, what could I do? I felt helpless.”

The next day, a co-worker gave her the book “Root and Branch” by Rawn James Jr., which documents the work of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall leading up to Brown vs.

Board of Education.

“The last few lines of the book talk about how we have to destroy

racism ‘root and branch’—all of it—not just the parts we can see, not just the parts that are easy to reach … It talks about how if we don’t do it, who will? Then how much more upset would we be collectively and as individuals if the only people doing to work to liberate black people were done by non-black people? That summer really galvanized me.”

As a policy change activist and the Government Relations Chair for the Greenwood Young Professionals Group, Douglass has learned the importance of arming oneself with good information.

“We can compare stories all day … but that belongs around a campfire,” she said. “I believe in the phrase ‘data or it didn’t happen.’ When it comes to legislation, you shouldn’t be basing it off of what feels good or even what hurts. It should be based on facts.”

A few weeks ago, the feelings of despair and helplessness she experienced during the Zimmerman verdict resurfaced following the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

Soon after, Douglass moderated the Tulsa Talks panels on police violence, which she organized herself. As a black woman, she sees her voice as particularly vital to her community.

“Black women have always been a part of our own liberation … Women have always led the fight. When we think about people who liberated slaves, we think about Harriet Tubman,” she said.

She explained to me that women of color have a particular challenge, as their race and gender are inextricable from each other in the eyes of other people. In this way, women of color are doubly set upon, but it also makes them more poised to speak for everyone.

“I believe there are black men who are fighting just as hard for our rights, but, more often, you have black women who are willing to do the emotional lifting, who are willing to fight for everyone— and women are tasked with taking care of children.”

As women are often charged with caring for and shaping the worldview of children in the community, she is they are essentially charged with the future of the community.

She mentions two women, Jamalha Rogers and Juliette Jacobs, who helped her cultivate a healthy sense of self-worth. “These women, both of them, said ‘You can change the world.’ It was about believing in myself, that my voice matters.”

Douglass’s voice does indeed matter, and she’s using it to elevate the voices—and lives—of others, too. a August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Save the Outsiders House Sat., Aug. 6 and Sun., Aug 7

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IDL Ballroom and Circle Cinema gofundme.com/theoutsidershouse idlballroom.com

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anny Boy O’Connor is helping a small but historic part of Tulsa to “stay gold.”

O’Connor, a founding member of the hip-hop group House of Pain, is a life-long fan of “The Outsiders” and has an extensive collection of memorabilia. When in Tulsa in 2009, O’Connor visited the house where Ponyboy Curtis and his family lived in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s classic novel. Concerned by the deteriorating condition of the house, O’Connor has since bought the house to preserve and restore it to its silver screen heyday. When finished, the house will also be a home for O’Connor’s “Outsiders” collection. (see pg. XX) On Saturday, starting at 5 p.m., IDL Ballroom will host an event to raise funds for the restoration. The event will feature appearances by actors C. Thomas Howell (Ponyboy) and Darren Dalton (Randy), a classic car show and a silent auction with tons of autographed items including scripts of “The Outsiders” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” signed by their casts, and Kris Kristofferson’s hand-written lyrics to “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” among many other items up for grabs. The event is $25 in advance or $30 at the door.

On Sunday, Circle Cinema will host a special screening of “The Outsiders,” followed by a Q&A with Howell and Dalton.

DINNER THEATER

DRINKS

Harwelden Murder Mystery: Ten Little Zombies The undead have risen in this whodunit written

by James Watts, benefiting the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa. Aug. 4-13, $75 , Harwelden Mansion, ahhatulsa.org/mystery

Four area Roasters (Mariposa, Airship, Onyx Coffee Lab, and Topeca) and four Brewers (Coop, Dead Armadillo, Marshall, Willow’s Family) go head to head at Barista Speedball. Aug. 6, 6-9 p.m., $10, Topeca Coffee, topecacoffee.com

RUN FOR A CAUSE

BOOKSMART

The YWCA’s Close the Gap 5K works to raise awareness of the gaps in women’s wellness, wealth, and civic education. A scenic course through the Brady Arts District and Brady Heights. Aug. 6, Guthrie Green, ywcat.convio.net

Jeffrey Toobin comes to town to talk “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” the U.S. Supreme Court, and “American Heiress,” his book on the Patty Hearst kidnapping. Aug. 11, Congregation B’nai Emunah, booksmarttulsa.com

BIRTHDAY PARTY

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Caz’s Pub Comes of Age. In honor of finally being old enough to serve itself, Caz’s Pub is throwing a weeklong celebration, with specials, giveaways, and more. Here’s to 21 more. Aug. 7-13, Caz’s Pub, cazspub.com

Greater Tulsa Culture Festival Enjoy cultural history exhibitions, art, food, performances, music from Brian Nhira, Charlie Redd & The Full Flava Kings, and much more. Aug. 12-13, Glenpool Conference Center, tulsaculturefestival.com

FOOD

FUN

Sample dishes from your favorite restaurants at Taste of Brookside, including KEO, R Bar, Sushi Hana, BBD and more. Proceeds benefit Youth Services of Tulsa. Aug. 11, 6-10:30 p.m., $45-$55, Brookside, tasteofbrookside.com

Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In. Watch more than 100 small planes fly-in and land on the 2,000-ft. grass airstrip on Will Rogers’s former home. Aug. 13, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch, Oologah, willrogers.com August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

First Friday Art Crawl Fri., Aug. 5, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

BEST OF THE REST EVENTS Movie in the Park: Inside Out // 8/4, 8:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Movie in the Park: Big // 8/8, 8:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Movie in the Park: Aladdin // 8/11, 8:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Tulsa Foundation for Architecture’s 2nd Saturday Walking Tour // 8/13, 10 a.m., Topeca Coffee Roasters, $10, topecacoffee.com IICOT Pow-Wow of Champions The Intertribal Indian Club of Tulsa holds its 39th Annual Pow-Wow of Champions, which includes a large Native American arts and crafts market, dance contests and performances, traditional foods, and more. // 8/12-14, $7-$15, Mabee Center, iicot.org

PERFORMING ARTS

108 Contemporary: “Savages & Princesses: The Persistence of Native American Stereotypes,” highlighting 16 Native artists from Oklahoma; AHHA: Tulsa Artists Coalition Members Show, Queenager and more music on the 4th floor terrace; Bar 46: Dustin Saied: Watercolors; Brady Artists Studio: Pottery by Mel Cornshucker, Donna Prigmore, Chas Foote, Erin Slauson, jewelry by Rachael Dazey, wire weaving

by Seth Dazey; Caz’s Chowhouse: Music by Josh Caudle; Caz’s Pub: Graffiti art; Chrysalis Salon & Spa: Art sale, live violin by Abigail; Classic Cigars: Art by John Hamer; Club Ma jestic: Hoe You Think You Can Dance! Contest; Guthrie Green: Starlight Jazz Orchestra; Gypsy Coffeehouse: Music

by Andrew Michael; Hey Mambo: art by Gigi Carillo, music by 7-Blue Jazz Trio; The Hunt Club: Music by Bryce Dicus and the Mercenaries; Living Arts: "Chandeliers & Other Luminous Objects," "Playing the Color Wheel”; Lucky’s on the Green: Printmaker and storyteller, Kalyn Barnoski; Mainline Art & Cocktails: Michele Utley Voigt: “Beyond Shadow,” music

by Green Corn Trio; Philbrook Downtown: “First Person: Remembering Little Big Horn”; TAC Gallery: Corazon Watkins: “Verses/Poetry:My Muse”; Tulsa Glassblowing School: Guest artist Daniel Kilbride; Woody Guthrie Center: The Brumley Family and their gospel legacy; Yeti: Music by Cucumber and the Suntans; Zarrow Center: Art by Jenny Robinson, music by Mark Gibson

Brady Arts District, thebradyartsdistrict.com

For the most up-to-date listings

thetulsavoice.com/calendar THE TULSA VOICE // August 3 – 16, 2016

L-E-V Dance Company L-E-V Dance Company, which features Sharon Eyal, the star of the Israeli Dance scene, will perform “OCD Love,” a piece that examines the challenges Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can pose to relationships. // 8/3, 8 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - John H. Williams Theatre, $15-$40, tulsapac.com/index.asp BODYTRAFFIC Los Angeles-based company BODYTRAFFIC will perform Barak Marshall’s “And at midnight, the green bride floated through the village square...,” a dark comedy based on a true story about how jealousy doomed all nine of a family’s children to a life of anger and loneliness. Also on the program is Hofesh Shecter’s “Dust” and Richard Siegal’s “O2Joy.” // 8/6, Tulsa Performing Arts Center Chapman Music Hall, $15-$75, choregus.org/summer-heat-international-dance-festival/about

COMEDY Best of the Betht // 8/4, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Army of Stand Ups // 8/5, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor. com Blue Dome Social Club // 8/5, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor. com The Mic Drop // 8/6, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Stand Ups for Downs // 8/7, Loony Bin, $20, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa Shrine Comedy Night // 8/8, The Venue Shrine, tulsashrine.com Improv Club // 8/11, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Tulsa Tonight // 8/12, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Crayons // 8/12, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Comfort Creatures // 8/13, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor. com Komedy Kombat // 8/13, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 8/14, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Comedy’s Best Kept Secret w/ Andrew Frank, Dan Frigolette, Sonya Vai // 8/14, The Venue Shrine, $10, tulsashrine.com Soundpony Comedy Hour w/ Ron Babcock, Patrick Hastie, Nick Pupo, Albert Kirchner // 8/15, Soundpony, thesoundpony.com Todd Rexx // 8/10-4/13, Loony Bin, $2$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa Collin Moulton // 8/3-8/6, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

SPORTS Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Orange County Blues // 8/4, 7:30 p.m., ONEOK Field, $10-$45 Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Swope Park Rangers // 8/6, 7:30 p.m., ONEOK Field, $10-$45 Wrestling for a Cause - Summer Sizzler // 8/6, Rose Bowl Event Center, $5$20, rosebowltulsa.com Tulsa Drillers vs Midland RockHounds // 8/9, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $2-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Midland RockHounds // 8/10, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Midland RockHounds // 8/11, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Frisco RoughRiders // 8/12, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Frisco RoughRiders // 8/13, 7 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35 Tulsa Drillers vs Frisco RoughRiders // 8/14, 1 p.m., ONEOK Field, $5-$35

Squeaky Clean Stand Up // 8/6, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor. com Sunday Night Stand Up // 8/7, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

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Broncho, from left: Nathan Price, Ryan Lindsey, Ben King and Penny Pitchlynn | POONEH GHANA

Seriously not serious

Broncho’s Ryan Lindsey on the new record, touring, ambiguity of “Fantasy Boys”

by JOSHUA KLINE

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arlier this summer, Tulsa-based Broncho released Double Vanity, its third LP, which marked a noticeable shift for the band into slower, darker territory after the infectious garage pop of its first two records. After an early summer tour with Cage the Elephant, the band is preparing to hit the road with indie rock elders Guided By Voices, starting with a show at Cain’s Ballroom on August 13, followed by a European headlining tour in the winter.

I spoke with frontman Ryan Lindsey about the band’s evolution, touring, and finding humor in unlikely places.

THE TULSA VOICE: So the new album, Double Vanity, came out at

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the beginning of the summer and everyone’s making a big deal out of the sort of change in direction or pace, and I was curious how that’s been received so far, how the album’s going over and how the songs are going over live, specifically.

RYAN LINDSEY: There’s two groups of people—there’s people that like the record and there’s people who were really confused by the record until they saw us play those songs, and saw that there’s an energy to them that corresponds to the energy of past records and past shows. I think even on our last records, they were more upbeat so they made sense live.

It was easier to transition to live shows. But I still run into people

who were like, “I don’t get your records, but I get your live show.”

So it doesn’t really surprise me that—cause we think, when we record a record, we don’t really think about anything but that record, and when we play live, we think, “How do we play live?” So it really is two different things, which is probably bad business, but that’s not the type of businessmen we are.

I didn’t know fully how we were gonna pull that off or how it was gonna make sense until we started the production part of it. Even though I write almost every song way slow, these songs in particular I just knew wouldn’t make sense sped up.

TTV: Was there a moment when you realized you were recording a slower record, and did you pause and wonder how it was going to be received?

RL: No, the nice thing is it was really obvious. The question was more like, how slow can we get away with? You know? There’s times where I hear the record and I think it’s so slow, and there’s times when I hear the record and wish it was slower. I’m day to day on tempos, but I like the world it

RL: No, ‘cause it just made so much sense to me. I didn’t think about it. I kind of had an idea, but

TTV: Were you torn on any song, tempo-wise, that you felt worked well both fast and slow?

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ultimately sat in. I don’t want it faster.

tionship or a sexual relationship— and really all I’m talking about is making a couple trades and seeing who’s on the board, you know?

Seeing who’s left on the board, like, “Hey, I’m just talking about who’s available, and you’re asking me if I’m fucking him or her or if they’re fucking?” That’s the beauty of it.

TTV: These three records seem to have an organic evolution that, in a way, parallels the evolution of punk rock through the ‘70s and ‘80s. ‘Cause you’ve got the first record, which is, classic, rowdy, garage punk, and then the second record evolves into almost a post-punk thing, where you get more into the Manchester sound or whatever, on certain songs, at least, and then this record feels fully immersed in the sort of shoegaze aesthetic— RL: I agree. It’s kind of the express train through the late ‘70s into the early ‘90s through the three records. We just tried to do that all within, like, five years. [Our first record was] a real shit record, you know. I always knew our first record was gonna be the record where we could just be a mess.

And I knew we would go from there and start actually writing … to do something else, but that’s as much planning as—not even sure that’s planning, I just had an idea that it was gonna change from there.

TTV: Are you guys working on your next record right now, or are you still sort of fully immersed in this one?

RL: I’m still pretty immersed in this one, but I try to let songs happen, and there have been a few ideas that have been popping up, but I don’t really have a plan or anything. I would love to keep just making records once every year and a half, you know, tour, go record, go back out, tour. As long as we’ve got songs that I like, then that’s what I’ll do.

TTV: What has the evolution of touring been like over the last several records? Are you starting to feel more comfortable on the road, or did you ever feel uncomfortable?

RL: Nah. I always feel really comfortable. But there are tricks you learn the more you tour that make things easier as you go on. You THE TULSA VOICE // August 3 – 16, 2016

TTV: How was that song written?

RL: “Fantasy Boys” was the first song I really wrote for this record—“Highly Unintentional” and “Jenny Loves Jenae” were holdovers from the last record.

And that was the central direction of the album for me. It’s the first one we started recording.

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kind of figure out what things work best with your body, you know. I know how I can stretch out my night and have the best day tomorrow. And then, playing shows every night, you learn so much. I remember the last record felt weird to play live, and now the songs feel so good, so it made me not even worry about the new record. Now I love playing the new songs; they make sense. We’ve figured out a nice flow, and how they fit in with the old stuff—it feels like a rounded out show now, as opposed to just three different personalities. Now it’s more like a time-lapse than three different people. My mom always had the picture frames of kindergarten through senior year. Senior year’s the big picture in the middle, you know, so we’re on third grade. Or, I guess second grade? Kindergarten, first, second. I like where we’re at.

TTV: The tone and the lyrics of the new record feel more reflective and maybe a little melancholy and more concerned with interpersonal relationships, yet it seems like your live show has evolved in the opposite way, where you’re much more playful on stage now. Do you think about that dichotomy at all?

RL: I think, live, I just wanted to throw a little bit more of a party, be a little bit more of a preacher.

TTV: What about the album evolving into something a little bit more serious and somber?

RL: I don’t even think that everything was that serious, ‘til a conversation like this, and I think about the lyrics, and I’m like, Oh yeah, I guess [the songs] do seem that way. But I always thought that they were coming from that humorous take on real life. But they are serious. Lots of times that’s funny to me. You know, when things get real. Some of the best comedies are the ones that are really dry and real and it’s the tone that makes you crack up.

TTV: What’s the funniest song on the new record to you?

RL: I thought “Fantasy Boys” was pretty funny.

TTV: It is. I’ve read at least one story where the writer was reading into that song as a sort of nod to sexual fluidity. But from what I’ve heard, it’s a nod to a fantasy basketball league?

RL: I mean, my official statement?

Fantasy basketball is not as sexy as it being about a pansexual relationship. So I like that it can be that ambiguous. And I guess I like that if I’m talking about fantasy sports that it can be taken as though I’m talking about a homosexual rela-

TTV: The video for that song, for me, just sums up the whole record. It’s kind of hilarious but at the same time you can read it and appreciate it with a straight face. A lot of your songs are like that.

RL: We’re really serious about them not being too serious. I think that’s the whole record for us. I’m glad you saw that in both the record and the video. Because that’s the way I want to make anything. It’s the way the first two records were made. I’m not afraid to make a point, even make a real serious point, but it’s a balancing act. And I think it’s the best way to take someone seriously, too. If someone is focusing way too much on one thing then you’re not going to trust that side of them. It’s like, well, of course, you’re looking for this. You’re looking for this emotion, you’re looking for this to happen or to not happen. So keeping things balanced—the right amount of tension or humor, or even anger—always comes out the most natural to me. I think that’s the way I try to do anything that has to do with the art world—taking it seriously enough for it to matter to me emotionally, because that’s the way I’ll stay invested, but also realizing it’s not the only thing in the world. a GUIDED BY VOICES W/ BRONCHO Sat., August 13 | Cain’s Ballroom Doors at 7 p.m. | cainsballroom.com

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Surron the 7th GREG BOLLINGER

KEEP IT AUTHENTIC Surron the 7th talks process and inspiration

by MARY NOBLE

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on Bailey, aka Surron The 7th, is a prominent figure within Tulsa’s thriving hiphop community. His introspective and cunning lyricism will sometimes make you laugh and always make you think—setting the bar high for authentic local writing.

“Surron blends honesty and ingenuity in every word,” said Oilhouse’s Dan Hahn, aka Algebra. “There may not be anyone as authentic [as Surron] making hiphop right now. His narrative is the narrative of an entire ethos that seeks to replace millennial ennui with cleanliness and bravery.”

Surron’s approach to lyric writing is also authentic.

“I don’t actually pick up a pen and write,” he said. “I like driving around with music playing and writing in my head. It’s getting to the point now where I can’t even pick up a pencil because then I get writer’s block, because I’m so used to kinda going off of how I feel, just expressing myself and being free.”

I asked how he can remember so much content without writing it down.

“You start with the first bar then you get to that next bar and you repeat it until you come up with something.”

Throughout his discography, Surron exhibits an impeccable talent for sifting through a laboratory of beats and selecting that perfect sound to compliment his complex web of wordplay.

“I’m always borrowing someone’s car to hear different sound systems, different environments and aesthetics. I remember in my old car I didn’t have AC, it was super hot, so [that meant] a lot of aggressive lyrics,” he laughed.

As he explains in the intro of his latest EP, Chill, “The beat feels like it’s lap dancing on these flows.”

Chill is a 10-track EP featuring production from Tulsa’s finest: Nic Cheek (aka Sol Ray), Rivi, John Moreland, and 1st Verse, complete with mixing and mastering by Mugen Music’s Had Enough. Chill and much of Surron’s previous work features beats crafted by Chicago producer BrandUn DeShay (once a member of the group Odd Future). Surron

discovered DeShay on Myspace as a teenager and was the first person whose beats he sampled.

At one point DeShay told him to check out a 14 year-old rapper named Tyler. Surron was immediately impressed by the “dark, melodic, jazzy type sound” of the teenager’s music, and the two ended up forming a relationship.

Tyler would go on to become Odd Future’s iconoclastic leader, Tyler the Creator.

Surron is currently working on a mixtape he expects to release in September that will feature his popular song “Zombie Apocalypse.” A full-length album, Lo and Behold, is also in the works with no planned release date. He credits this surge of creativity to the recent passing of his biggest role model and musical inspiration, his father, Ron Bailey Sr.—a writer, musician, and luthier. Surron remembers him as a selfless and positive force in his community, a “man of God” who, along with Surron’s mother, took in a large number of foster kids throughout Surron’s childhood and teen years.

Surron often reflects on his father’s work, and during our interview, he volunteered a piece of his father’s writing: Why don’t someone save the kids we often see on T.V. / nasty flies swarm around their eyes, stomach riddled with disease / why won’t someone give up something, give their money or give their time /maybe I’ll be that someone who makes a big difference in their little lives /as I walk over to my lazy boy chair, I unfold the paper but before I can sit down / I’m startled by the headline news, disaster struck a neighboring town / why don’t I jump in my truck drive over and volunteer my time /oh Lord I pray that when you show up, I’m there to help you toe the line.

“I felt completely unmotivated after my pops passed, of course, but oddly enough, I felt extremely creative shortly after,” Surron said.

“I had time to process everything, like I was in a new space artistically. I knew the force that drove my pop creatively had been passed down to me, I knew I had that energy.” a August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

musiclistings Wed // Aug 3 On the Rocks – Don White Soundpony – Something and the Whatevers, Maria Fantasma Duo, Busty Brunettes The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project The Phoenix – Ocean Disco Westbound Club – Wade Quinton

Thurs // Aug 4 Baker Street Pub – Aaron Newman Cain’s Ballroom – Josh Abbot Band – ($20-$35) Downtown Lounge – All Hail the Yeti, Final Drive Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Empire, The Hi-Fidelics – ($65-$75) IDL Ballroom – Dr. Ozi, KrewX, P.C.P., Noizmekka – ($10) Mercury Lounge – Jaclyn Monroe River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Aaron Woods Soul City – Mark Gibson Soundpony – Megafauna, Brother Gruesome The Colony – Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ Jacob Tovar The Fur Shop – P.K. Gregory The Vault – Jazz Night w/ Jordan Hehl & Friends Utica Square Shopping Center – Summer’s Fifth Night feat. Alaska & Madi – 7 p.m. – (Free)

Fri // Aug 5 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Mike Ryan Band, Parker McCollum, Blake Pettigrove – ($10-$12) Guthrie Green – Starlight Jazz Orchestra Gypsy Coffee House – Andrew Michael Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Imzadi, Darren Ray – ($65-$75) Hardesty Arts Center - 4th Floor Terrace – Queenager, Endless Chasm, Video Nasty, Beachmaster Hey Mambo – Lou Bega Hunt Club – Bryce Dicus and the Mercenaries LaFortune Park – The Hi-Fi Hippies Lucky’s on the Green – Kalyn Barnoski Mercury Lounge – Thieves of Sunrise, American Shadows Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Princeton Donald Album Release Party – ($5-$20) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – SquadLive Roosters Cocktails – Cole Lynch Soundpony – Lessons in Fresh The Colony – Dan Martin, Deer Paw Vanguard – Magnet School, Dad. The Band, Ellewood – ($8-$10) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Calvin Youngblood & Cold Front Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Cucumber and the Suntans album release party w/ Hey Judy Yeti - Soundpony – Barnacle Banger

Sat // Aug 6 Billy and Renee’s – P.WIN Cheri’s Tavern – Calvin Youngblood CJ Moloney’s – The Suede Panther Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Heather Buckley Band Gypsy Coffee House – Chris Blevins Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – FM Live, Travis Kidd – ($65-$75) Hunt Club – RPM THE TULSA VOICE // August 3 – 16, 2016

Inner Circle Vodka Bar – Summer Fest ‘96 w/ My So Called Band – ($5-$75) Mercury Lounge – Vandoliers MixCo – Casii Stephan & The Midnight Sun River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Banana Seat Soul City – Scott Music, Duo Sonics Soundpony – Soul Night The Colony – Green Corn Rebellion, Robert Hoefling Vanguard – Shawn James and the Shapeshifters, Johnny Badseed & The Rotten Apples – ($10) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Randy Brumley Westbound Club – Wade Quinton

Sun // Aug 7 Cain’s Ballroom – Senior Star Round-Up w/ Cowboy Jones, The Round Up Boys – ($10) Cimarron Bar – Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers Crow Creek Tavern – Cody Woody East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Guthrie Green – Cody Brewer, Carter Sampson, Angaleena Presley – 2:30 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Annie Ellicott – ($5-$20) The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Mon // Aug 8 Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night

Tues // Aug 9 Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams Soundpony – Quiet Oaks The Colony – Beau, Tuesdays n Harmony Tin Dog Saloon – Cody Woody

Wed // Aug 10 Hunt Club – Open Mic w/ The Brothers Moore Main Street Tavern – Cynthia Simmons On the Rocks – Don White Soundpony – Sea Lion, War Party The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Vanguard – Rookie of the Year, Various Hands – ($8-$10) Westbound Club – Wade Quinton

Thurs // Aug 11 Elwood’s – Mark Gibson Foolish Things Coffee Company – Nick Dahlquist, Paul Demer Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Phil Vaught, Darren Ray – ($65-$75) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – Boz Skaggs, Michael McDonald – ($65-$85) Hunt Club – Evan Michaels River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Amarillo Junction Soundpony – Skeleton Farm The Colony – An Evening with Jared Tyler The Vault – Jazz Night w/ Jordan Hehl & Friends Utica Square Shopping Center – Summer’s Fifth Night feat. Grooveyard – 7 p.m. – (Free)

Vanguard – Jared & The Mill, Also With You – ($10-$12) Whiskey Dog – Cole Lynch

Fri // Aug 12 BOK Center – Dolly Parton – ($55-$125) Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Jon Wolfe – ($10-$13) Gypsy Coffee House – John Paul Ratliff Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Uncrowned Kings, Darren Ray – ($65-$75) Hunt Club – Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps Mercury Lounge – Cole Porter Band MixCo – Mike Cameron Collective River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Superfreak Soul City – Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers Soundpony – Animal Names, Mike Dee and Stone Trio The Colony – Victor & Penny, Paul Benjaman The Fur Shop – The Big News Vanguard – David Bazan, Michael Nau, Unwed Sailor – ($15-$18) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Mikey B

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727 Club – Calvin Youngblood & Cold Front Cain’s Ballroom – Guided By Voices, Broncho – ($23-$38) Elwood’s – Alan Doyle Gypsy Coffee House – Terry Aziere Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Thomas Martinez, The Hi-Fidelics – ($65-$75) Hunt Club – *Zach Short Group Mercury Lounge – Dan Johnson and the Salt Cedar Rebels River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Jumpshots Soul City – Brandon Jenkins The Colony – George Barton The Fur Shop – Evan Taylor James Vanguard – End of School Dance Party

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Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Jeremy Thomas Quartet – ($5-$20) Soundpony – Universe Contest, Deerpeople The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

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filmphiles

CLASSIC ENTERPRISE ‘Star Trek Beyond’ brings the fun back Directed by Justin Lin and written by Simon Pegg (reprising his role as Scotty) and Doug Jung (“God Particle”), “Star Trek Beyond” returns to the franchise’s roots. It has the feel of a small, classic “Trek” episode.

Picking up three years into their mission, we find Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) in a malaise. Restless, he applies for a new job at a space city called Yorktown— promoting Spock (Zachary Quinto) to take his place at the helm of the Enterprise.

Spock yearns to find a new home for refugee Vulcans and isn’t enthused about taking Kirk’s job. Plus, Uhura (Zoe Saldana) just broke up with him.

But then the crew are called to a rescue mission on a nebula-cloaked planet that turns into an ambush by swarms of Sentinel ships commanded by Krall (Idris Elba), a Drakk-like alien bent on finding the final piece to an ultimate weapon—a key that Kirk is hiding.

Lin brings a sense of spectacle, speed, and scope befitting his “Fast and Furious” roots, and the production design makes “Star Trek Beyond” look every cent of its $185 million dollars. And in the midst of Lin’s graceful, looping camerawork, it’s clear he’s as in love with these characters as anyone.

It’s those characters and their relationships that define the legacy of “Star Trek.” As a film franchise, it should be dead. But Pegg is a true geek who knows what makes a “Star Trek” episode tick, and Lin leads us with verve, mining the intimate chemistry of a honed cast that makes this new adventure welcome. –JOE O’SHANSKY

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Jason Bored

The latest ‘Bourne’ entry is a dull mess

by JOE O’SHANSKY

J

ason Bourne (Matt Damon) is a quasi-Manchurian Candidate, unwillingly conscripted into a secret CIA assassination program. He gets a case of amnesia on a mission. In the search for the truth of his identity, Bourne rebels against his former shadow masters—thus kicking much ass.

Though they suffered from a case of style over substance, the original trilogy of “Bourne” films were consistently entertaining: techno espionage, fisticuffs, explosive car chases, and dangerous women, all wrapped in a frenetic visual package. Infused with a tone befitting Robert Ludlum’s pulpy spy novels, they struck a satisfying balance between James Bond and Frank Martin (“The Transporter”).

But despite the welcome reunion of Damon and writer-director Paul Greengrass after the Jeremy Renner/Tony Gilroy detour, “The Bourne Legacy,” this fifth entry in the franchise is a tepid slog.

Bourne, who has now been in hiding for a decade, punches men for money in a Greek fight club.

His new career is interrupted when Bourne’s old ally, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) hacks a CIA database, snagging the digital goods on the Treadstone program (the one that created Bourne). Essentially pulling

an Edward Snowden, Parsons aims to expose the shadow conspiracy by putting the files on the Internet.

She quickly finds Bourne; once he learns that Parsons has his lost memories in the stolen files—and the key to long-awaited payback, he stops punching dudes for money and joins her ranks.

Meanwhile, CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones) is in cahoots with a Silicon Valley tech titan, Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed, “The Night Of ”), who owns a borderline omniscient, Google-esque web platform called “Deep Dream.”

Dewey, utilizing a rookie agent named Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) as a decoy, calls in an assassin (Vincent Cassel) to take out Bourne and retrieve the stolen files. Lee becomes Bourne’s unlikely ally for reasons that still don’t make a ton of sense. But they run around Europe a lot. And stare at a ton of computer screens. I swear to God, a solid third of this movie is people furtively staring at computer screens.

Yes, there is action, but the pace and tone of “Jason Bourne” are bafflingly dull. Pandering to a primetime crowd, it’s the kind of movie where, after the hacking of the CIA’s computers an agent says, “they must have had deep knowl-

edge of our systems.” Well yeah, genius. Goofy pseudo-spy dialogue (“the asset is online”) and spoonfed information—such as when an encrypted flash drive has the word “ECRYPTED” embossed on the side in big white letters—feel superbly dumb.

But even a rote script, elementary plotting, and misplaced belief that people spouting concerned exposition while staring at glowing stuff is interesting aren’t nearly as annoying as the way Greengrass (who co-wrote with longtime editor Christopher Rouse) shoots his action sequences. Cuts come hard and fast, ironically dulling the mayhem, like badly timed jokes.

Greengrass has a predilection for somewhat seizure-inducing camerawork. Here he turns that into an abstract art, spatial cognizance be damned. Instead of enhancing the chaos, he mutes it.

The film is not unlike an episode of “24” (Damon grumbles and broods like Jack Bauer). Vikander is charming, as always. Jones, a basset hound in human form, looks like he’s just waiting to get some Chik-fil-A. The shopworn tropes of Greengrass’s franchise have outlived their maker’s talent for reinvention. “Jason Bourne” needs to retire. a August 3 – 16, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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or being the kind of movie he could make in his sleep, Woody Allen’s “Café Society” bubbles with life, even youth. Though not as substantial as his best, this warm and witty throwback to the inner sanctum of 1930s cultural elites–via two star-crossed young lovers trying to navigate its allures and trappings– is a welcome trifle that ends up being richer than it first appears.

All of the Allen staples are here: Jewish kvetching, affluent hobnobbing, playful jazz, infidelities, love triangles, giving in to compulsions, and the angst of wondering if a final judgment awaits us all. It’s wrapped up in a love letter to Old Hollywood, one that finds nostalgia even in cynicism. There’s also the glamor of New York’s privileged class, the comedy of its working class, and the realm of organized crime that connect the two.

Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) is the young Woody surrogate who moves from New York to L.A. in hopes of starting a career in the movie business. His aspirations aren’t in front of or behind the camera; they’re with his Uncle Phil (Steve Carell) who’s a big time talent agent. The naïve and wide-eyed Bobby falls for Vonnie (Kristen Stewart), Phil’s secretary, who’s mixed up with a married man. She’s more emotion-

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ally confused than morally glib, and is drawn to Bobby’s innocence like a comforting, grounding tonic.

Complications ensue, but with a sincere romantic charm. Stewart has never looked better and the same can be said of Eisenberg, who cuts a pretty dashing profile.

Their chemistry together is as organic and palpable as it first was in 2009’s “Adventureland.”

It’s all told with the erudition and detail of a society insider as Allen plays raconteur through a recurring voiceover (you can hear his age like never before). In lesser films, that narrative device is often just a lazy exposition shorthand, but Allen’s real-world fables have a way of lending themselves to a storyteller. And as with most of his movies, this one inevitably comes back around to life and death, the melancholy of regrets, and the anxiety of following your heart when its consequence is betrayal.

Sophisticated with a light touch, “Café Society” is the cinematic equivalent of catching up with an old friend you haven’t seen in awhile—he hasn’t changed a bit and that’s exactly why you enjoy his company. Sure, his entertaining yarns tend to contemplate life’s most troubling, unanswerable questions, but it’s with a humor that doesn’t leave a burden, only a smile. a

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This faux-cinematic continuation of the of the long-running BBC comedy finds the booze-addled besties, Patsy and Edina (Johanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders) on the ropes of career relevance in the fashion world and bankruptcy when Eddie’s ex-husband cuts off her credit cards. They wind up on the lam in the south of France, after the world comes to believe Eddie killed Kate Moss.

All the players are back, but director Mandie Fletcher does the episodic plot no favors, by giving way to a raft of quasi-celebrity cameos. It’s the little character moments that score the best laughs. –JOE O’SHANSKY NOW SHOWING

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CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Viggo Mortensen stars as a hippie intellectual father whose family lives off the grid deep in the Washington wilderness. Raising his children according to his own unorthodox ideals, the physically and intellectually fit kids (including Tulsa native Samantha Isler) are ill-prepared to engage the outside world. Rated R

THE INNOCENTS Following World War II, a doctor discovers the tragic wake left on an order of Benedictine nuns after Russian soldiers have ravaged a Warsaw convent. A French-Polish production, this intense story of women in a crisis of faith is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Anne Fontaine (“Adore,” “Coco Before Chanel”). Rated PG-13

HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE In this dramedy from Kiwi auteur Taika Waititi (“What We Do in the Shadows”), a problem kid is shipped out to the country by foster care to live with a cranky old man (Sam Neill). After the two get lost in the woods, a manhunt ensues as the two bond over crazy adventures. Rated PG-13 CAFÉ SOCIETY The latest from Woody Allen finds two star-crossed young lovers (Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart) navigating 1930s high society, first in Hollywood and then New York. With a cast that includes Steve Carell and Blake Lively, this is a nostalgic look back at a jazz-fueled American Golden Age. Rated PG-13 DOUGH A culture clash comedy of two religions, an old Jewish baker (Jonathan Pryce) takes a young Muslim apprentice under his wing. The baker’s struggling business receives an unexpected boon after the apprentice drops cannabis into a batch of dough, sending sales to new highs in more ways than one. Not Rated

SHOWING AUGUST 5/6 ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992) The latest in the Circle’s Graveyard Shift series is Sam Raimi’s batshit crazy third installment in the Evil Dead saga, “Army of Darkness.” Our mouthy, chainsaw-wielding hero Ash (Bruce Campbell) gets sucked into a time portal and stuck in the Dark Ages. The only way he can return to modern day, of course, is to retrieve the Necronomicon. Gory, goofy, and easily the most fun of the series. Rated R

OPENING AUGUST 12 EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS Through archive footage taken from concert performances, interviews and backstage hangs, documentarian Thorsten Schütte paints a picture of the legendary, genre-defying musician. Rated R FOR SHOWTIMES AND MORE INFORMATION ON EVENTS AND REVIVAL SCREENINGS, VISIT CIRCLECINEMA.COM

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SCARLET is a five-year-old American bulldog. At 84lbs, she is a bit overweight but is on a diet. She doesn’t get along with other dogs or cats—but is super sweet to humans and loves to play ball, jump around, and chase squeaky toys. Scarlet is a bit timid with younger kids, so we recommend her for a home with older children.

She would also be great for apartment life.

CELICA is a one-year-old shepherd mix. She is a ball of energy that runs, swims, and loves to explore. She also loves to be pampered with petting, brushing, and bell y rubs. She isn’t a big fan of other dogs or cats, but will tolerate them on the other side of a fence.

This sweet soul is sometimes misunderstood because of her energy level, but she’s a good girl!

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

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

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

CHARLIE is a one-year-old Australian shepherd mix.

True to his breed, he needs a job to keep him busy.

He loves to bury his tennis ball, dig it up, and retrieve it when thrown. He hasn’t learned to stop nipping at your hands while you leash him, so control his nipping by putting a toy in his mouth. He is extremel y picky about his dog friends and he doesn’t like cats.

SHERA is a two-year-old boxer mix. She is dog/cat aggressive and must be the only animal in the household. She would make a great running partner, but could use some leash training. She would also enjoy watching movies and cuddling. Careful though, she will eat all the popcorn. SheRa isn’t much for kiddie pools, so keep an eye on her in the heat to make sure she doesn’t get too hot.

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news of the weird

by Chuck Shepherd

Trompe l’Oeil Jungle A conservation biologist at Australia’s University of New South Wales said in July that his team was headed to Botswana to paint eyeballs on cows’ rear ends. It’s a solution to the problem of farmers who are now forced to kill endangered lions to keep them away from their cows. However, the researchers hypothesize, since lions hunt by stealth and tend to pass up kills if the prey spots them, painting on eyeballs might trick the lions to choose other prey. (For the same reason, woodcutters in India wear masks painted with faces – backward – for protection against tigers.)

“Big Porn” gives back In June, the online mega-website Pornhub announced a program to help blind pornography consumers by adding 50 “described videos” to its catalog, with a narrator doing play-by-play of the setting, the actors, clothing (if any) and the action. Said a Pornhub vice president, “It’s our way of giving back.”

Later in June, another pornography website (with a frisky name – see bit.ly/29O4G9U) inaugurated a plan to donate a penny to women’s health or abuse prevention organizations every time a user reached a successful “ending” while viewing its videos (maximum two per person per day). Its fi rst day’s haul was $39, or $13 for each of three charities (including the Mariska Hargitay-supported Joyful Heart Foundation).

Can’t possibly be true A motorist in Regina, Saskatchewan, was issued a $175 traffic ticket on June 8 after he pulled over to ask if he could assist a homeless beggar on the sidewalk. According to the police report cited by CTV News, the “beggar” was actually a cop on stakeout looking for drivers not wearing seat belts (who would thus pay the city $175). Driver THE TULSA VOICE // August 3 – 16, 2016

Dane Rusk said he had unbuckled his belt to lean over in the seat to give the “beggar” $3 – and moments later, the cop’s partner stopped Rusk (thus earning Regina a total of $178!).

What goes around, comes around In May, the Times of India reported the death of a man known only as Urjaram, in Rajasthan, India, when, while hosting a party, he forgot that while he was enjoying himself, he had left his camel in the sun all day (during a historic heat wave) with its legs tied together. When Urjaram fi nally went outside, the enraged camel “lifted him by the neck,” “threw him to the ground” and “chewed on his body,” severing his head.

The thief who ransacked a community greenhouse in County Durham, England, in July got away, but, according to residents, among his bounty was a bottle of rum that is usually offered only as a constipation remedy, in that it contained a heavy dose of the aggressive laxative “lactulose.” Said one resident, “Maybe (the thief has) left a trail” for the police.

Suspicions confirmed Many website and app users are suspected of “agreeing” to priva-

cy policies and “terms of service” without comprehending them (or even reading them), though most judges routinely assume the user to have consented to be bound by them. In a controlled-test report released in July, researchers from York University and University of Connecticut found that 74 percent skipped the privacy policy altogether, but, of the “readers,” the average time spent was 73 seconds (for wordage that should have taken 30 minutes), and time “reading” terms of service was 51 seconds when it should have taken 16 minutes. (If users had read closely, they might have noticed that they had agreed to share all their personal data with the National Security Agency and that terms of service included giving up their fi rst-born child.)

Leading economic indicators Update: News of the Weird reported in 2007 and 2014 that, despite the abundant desert, Middle East developers were buying plenty of beach sand from around the world (because the massive concrete construction in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, among other places, requires coarser sand than the desert grains tempered for centuries by sun and wind). The need has now grown such that London’s

The Independent reported in June that black market gangs, some violent, are stealing beach sand – and that two dozen entire islands in Indonesia have virtually disappeared since 2005 because of sand-mining.

People with issues Joshua Long, 26, was arrested in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in June for possession of a suspected-stolen human brain (which he allegedly kept in a shopping bag under the porch at his aunt’s trailer home).

Police believe that the brain had been a medical teaching aid, but that Long was lacing his marijuana with the brain’s embalming fluid. (Long and a former resident of the trailer home called the brain “Freddy.”) a

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

LEO

(JULY 23-AUG. 22):

Let’s assume, for the sake of fun argument, that you do indeed have a guardian angel. Even if you have steadfastly ignored this divine helper in the past, I’m asking you to strike up a close alliance in the coming weeks. If you need to engage in an elaborate game of imaginative pretending to make it happen, so be it. Now let me offer a few tips about your guardian angel’s potential purposes in your life: providing sly guidance about how to take good care of yourself; quietly reminding you where your next liberation may lie; keeping you on track to consistently shed the past and head toward the future; and kicking your ass so as to steer you away from questionable influences. OK? Now go claim your sublime assistance!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Although you may not yet be fully aware of your good fortune, your “rescue” is already underway. Furthermore, the so-called hardship you’ve been lamenting will soon lead you to a trick you can use to overcome one of your limitations.

Maybe best of all, Virgo, a painful memory you have coddled for a long time has so thoroughly decayed that there’s almost nothing left to cling to. Time to release it! So what comes next? Here’s what I recommend: Throw a going-away party for everything you no longer need. Give thanks to the secret intelligence within you that has guided you to this turning point.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here comes a special occasion -- a radical exemption that is so rare as to be almost impossible. Are you ready to explore a blessing you have perhaps never experienced? For a brief grace period, you can be free from your pressing obsessions. Your habitual attachments and unquenchable desires will leave you in peace. You will be relieved of the drive to acquire more possessions or gather further proof of your attractiveness. You may even arrive at the relaxing realization that you don’t require as many props and accessories as you imagined you needed to be happy and whole. Is enlightenment nigh? At the very least, you will learn how to derive more joy out of what you already have.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, I suspect that Life will attempt to move you away from any influences that interfere with your ability to discern and express your soul’s code. You know what I’m talking about when I use that term “soul’s code,” right? It’s your sacred calling; the blueprint of your destiny; the mission you came to earth to fulfill. So what does it mean if higher powers and mysterious forces are clearing away obstacles that have been preventing you from a more complete embodiment of your soul’s code? Expect a breakthrough that initially resembles a breakdown.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Maybe you know people who flee from the kind of Big Bold Blankness that’s visiting you, but I hope you won’t be tempted to do that. Here’s my counsel: Welcome your temporary engagement with emptiness Celebrate this opening into the unknown. Ease into the absence.

Commune with the vacuum. Ask the nothingness to be your teacher. What’s the payoff?

This is an opportunity to access valuable secrets about the meaning of your life that aren’t available when you’re feeling full. Be gratefully receptive to what you don’t understand and can’t control.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I placed a wager down at the astrology pool. I bet that sometime in the next three weeks, you Capricorns will shed at least some of the heavy emotional baggage that you’ve been lugging around; you will transition from ponderous plodding to curious-hearted sauntering. Why am I so sure this will occur? Because I have detected a shift in attitude by one of the most talkative little voices in your head. It seems ready to stop tormenting you with cranky reminders of all the chores you should be doing but aren’t -- and start motivating you with sunny prompts about all the fun adventures you could be pursuing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What you are most afraid of right now could become what fuels you this fall. Please note that I used the word “could.” In the style of astrology I employ, there is no such thing as predestination. So if you prefer, you may refuse to access the rich fuel that’s available. You can keep your scary feelings tucked inside your

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secret hiding place, where they will continue to fester. You are not obligated to deal with them squarely, let alone find a way to use them as motivation. But if you are intrigued by the possibility that those murky worries might become a source of inspiration, dive in and investigate.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you ready for your mid-term exam? Luckily I’m here to help get you into the proper frame of mind to do well. Now study the following incitements with an air of amused rebelliousness.

1. You may have to act a bit wild or unruly in order to do the right thing. 2. Loving your enemies could motivate your allies to give you more of what you need. 3. Are you sufficiently audacious to explore the quirky happiness that can come from cultivating intriguing problems? 4. If you want people to change, try this: Change yourself in the precise way you want them to change.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Using scissors, snip off a strand of your hair. As you do, sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Seal the hair in an envelope on which you have written the following: “I am attracting divine prods and unpredictable nudges that will enlighten me about a personal puzzle that I am ready to solve.” On each of the next five nights, kiss this package five times and place it beneath your pillow as you sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Then observe your dreams closely. Keep a pen and notebook or audio recorder near your bed to capture any clues that might arrive. On the morning after the fifth night, go to your kitchen sink and burn the envelope and hair in the flame of a white candle. Chant the words of power: “Catalytic revelations and insights are arriving.” The magic you need will appear within 15 days.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This would be a good time to have a master craftsperson decorate your headquarters with stained glass windows that depict the creation stories of your favorite indigenous culture.

You might also benefit from hiring a feng shui consultant to help you design a more harmonious home environment. Here are some cheaper but equally effective ways to promote domestic bliss: Put images of your heroes on your walls. Throw out stuff that makes you feel cramped. Add new potted plants to calm your eyes and nurture your lungs. If you’re feeling especially experimental, build a shrine devoted to the Goddess of Ecstatic Nesting.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You Geminis are as full of longings as any other sign, but you have a tendency to downplay their intensity.

How often do you use your charm and wit to cloak your burning, churning yearnings?

Please don’t misunderstand me: I appreciate your refined expressions of deep feelings -- as long as that’s not a way to hide your deep feelings from yourself. This will be an especially fun and useful issue for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I advise you to be in very close touch with your primal urges.

CANCER (June 21-Jul y 22): Be vulnerable and sensitive as well as insatiable and irreverent. Cultivate your rigorous skepticism, but expect the arrival of at least two freaking miracles. Be extra nurturing to allies who help you and sustain you, but also be alert for those moments when they may benefit from your rebellious provocations. Don’ t take anything too personally or literally or seriously, even as you treat the world as a bountiful source of gifts and blessings. Be sure to regard love as your highest law, and laugh at fear at least three times every day.

What do you foresee happening in your life during the rest of 2016? Make three brave, positive predictions. t h i s w e e k ’ s h o m e w o r k // T E S T I F Y AT F R E E W I L L A S T R O L O G Y. C O M .

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ACROSS 1 Utter obscenities 5 Dress on the Ganges 9 Rene of “Lethal Weapon” movies 14 Traveled too rapidly 18 World Poker Tour payment 19 Super server 20 Entered 21 Time change loss 22 On the offensive 24 Bring into harmony 25 Individualized atmosphere 26 Peanuts, e.g.

27 Barcelona’s home 28 Tractor attachment 30 Crystal-lined stones 31 Volleyball smash 32 Bottom of a shoe 33 Palindromic Bobbsey 34 Water park feature 35 Succeed financially 39 Less desirable berth 42 Emporium on the old frontier 45 “Roses ___ red ...”

46 Ongoing hostility between families 47 Burn the surface 48 Face-cream ingredient 49 Cheerfulness 50 Mine output 51 Took care of 55 Needle injury 56 Word yelled at a party, sometimes 58 Up in the air 59 Innuendos 60 Native American group 61 Clobbered, biblical-style 62 Turned ashen

64 Stiff-upper-lip type 66 Closed, two-door car 67 Metric ton fraction 70 Sideshow barker 71 School funder, sometimes 73 “___ on a Grecian Urn” 74 Not much 75 Prison uproar 76 Aahs’ kin 77 FBI operative 78 Legendary bird of prey 79 Wimbledon climaxes 83 Romantic recitals 84 Free of charge, as legal services 86 Cowboys’ exhibition 87 Cranberry locale 88 Lively enthusiasm 89 Deposits of 50-Across 90 Midshipmen’s rivals 93 Barrister 96 Ducks, turkeys and geese 97 Peeve 99 Cookie with a creme center 100 It hangs around in the winter 102 Prisoner’s hope 103 Green or pinto 104 Thick drinks 105 200-meter, e.g.

106 Relative of “Oh, no!”

107 Unwanted beach souvenir 108 Passed illegally, as a check 109 “Don’t bet ___!”

110 “Peanuts” exclamation DOWN 1 “The Godfather” figure 2 Dismantle sail supports 3 Pilfered neckwear?

4 Not bland 5 Cotton with satinlike finish 6 Hydrochloric and nitric, for two 7 Accelerates, as an engine 8 Fiery emotion 9 Captured again 10 Release from bondage 11 Render speechless 12 One of the seven deadlies 13 Insignificant, as a town 14 Portfolio units 15 Come down in buckets 16 100 cents 17 Poker variety 20 Large deer 23 Chest material 27 Informal potato 29 What little things mean?

31 Emmy-winning Lewis 32 Animal scent 34 Have a yen for 36 “Race car” is an example of one 37 Be constructive?

38 Offends the nose 39 Abduction vehicles, supposedly 40 Andean land 41 Where San Juan is 42 The ones over there 43 Apology preceder 44 Cemetery unit 47 Where baby sleeps 49 “Peer Gynt” composer 51 Expensive (var.)

52 Obstruct, as a stream 53 Plan to marry in haste 54 Lavisher of attention

55 57 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 71 72 75 77 79 80 81 82 83 85 87 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 101 102

Flowering plant Copy of a movie Word with “sayer” Core substances “What a shame!”

Abrupt declivity Fifer’s drum Gator’s relative Former capital of Japan Eve’s husband Department-store section Climber’s aid Color variations Threw caution to the wind Aggressively enterprising person Tunneling rodent Searched for prey, lion-style Lots Dec. 13, e.g.

Conductors’ stands Not within reach of It could win you a beer English thinker John Early spring relatives of irises Tundra relative Brown-coated ermine Arcing tennis shots Word with “disaster” or “dining” Detach gradually, as from a habit Alfa Romeo competitor Nation once known as Persia They’re far from the center Tai ___ (exercise method) Amateur no more, or this puzzle’s theme

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