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September 2 – September 16, 2014 // vol. 1 no. 18 NEWS & COMMENTARY

A closer look at the potential retail development near Turkey Mountain MOLLY BULLOCK // 8 10 // Policing the police Ray Pearcey, idea man

Transparency key to building citizen trust cityspeak

12 // It ain’t so, Joe Barry Friedman, soothsayer

Governor race a foregone conclusion? commentary

FOOD & DRINK

A love of beer sparked restaurateur’s growing empire

COLORS OF AUTUMN Your fall beer guide, including:

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Lo cal f a l l f avor it e s Brewe r s’ t op br ew s Upcomin g b e e r bl owout s Wh er e t o have a p int + MORE

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ARTS & CULTURE Groundbreaking dance company and long-lost photos debut in Tulsa

BY ALLISON KEIM featured

COVER: Lettering by Sarah Powell, Photography by Michelle Pollard

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editor’sletter

The season cometh, and the beer is already flowing

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s a lifelong Oklahoman, the coming of autumn brings to mind just two things: football and beer.

In my advancing age I’ve become less of a beer drinker, but there’s something about a crisp fall evening, sitting on the patio while pinion wood crackles in the chiminea, that causes a thirst only a dark, robust, full-bodied beer can quench.

Though, as of this writing, the temperature gauge still hovers in the nineties, so why am I talking about crisp evenings and crackling patio fires? Isn’t it too early for an issue devoted to autumn beers?

The answer: No. A thousand times no. It is never too early to start thinking about beer’s “glory season,” but now is a particu-

larly opportune time to begin the conversation, because brewers—including the many standout breweries in Oklahoma—are already starting to roll out their fall varietals.

So, in this issue we offer a guide to the beers of autumn (pg.

26), which includes resident craft beer lover Allison Keim’s selections of the best of the best from Oklahoma breweries, plus exotic recommendations from the experts (the brewers themselves), a rundown of upcoming beer fests, the best places in Tulsa to find a top-shelf pint, and more.

Beau Adams does some day drinking (pg. 22) with one of Tulsa’s preeminent beer enthusiasts, McNellie’s Group head honcho Elliot Nelson, whose now-ubiqui-

tous restaurant empire began with a simple desire to find good beer in Tulsa. When he couldn’t, he took matters into his own hands, and has been a driving force in turning Tulsa into a real beer city.

But this issue isn’t all hops and barley. Ray Pearcey has some ideas to make Tulsa’s police department more transparent (pg.

8), in hopes of restoring citizen trust in the wake of recent police violence in Tulsa and around the nation; Barry Friedman weighs in on Democrat Joe Dorman’s chances (or lack thereof) in the race for Oklahoma governor (pg.

10); and Molly Bullock checks in with all sides of the proposed outlet mall development at Turkey Mountain—the city, the developer, environmental advocates

and others—to try to get a clear picture of an issue that seems to be causing as much confusion among citizens as passionate outcry (pg. 12).

My advice: Flip to the beer guide first, pick out a fine Oklahoma brew that strikes your fancy, go get a sixer and crack one open while you enjoy the rest of the paper. That crisp autumn air will be here before you know it. a

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Digging in A closer look at the potential retail development near Turkey Mountain

by MOLLY BULLOCK

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asual observation of social media tells us many Tulsans shared a collective sigh of relief after the recent announcement that much of Turkey Mountain would remain undeveloped. The George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) swooped in to relieve the shock that followed Simon Properties’ earlier announcement of a potential outlet mall development near the mountain. Cries of “GKFF saves the day!” plastered social media.

It’s encouraging that GKFF would procure a large swath of the area for public use. But the conversation on the wildness of Turkey Mountain and the value of urban green space isn’t finished.

Many questions remain: What is the status of the potential outlet mall on Turkey Mountain? Are the developers tuned into our community? What immediate environmental impacts would result from such a project?

What we know

City Councilor Jeannie Cue of District 2, which includes Turkey Mountain, said she’s received a lot of inquiries, even from outside Oklahoma, about the proposed project. Those in favor and those opposed are pretty much split down the middle, Cue said. Like many Tulsans, Cue said she was 8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

unclear about the details and unsure whether the project will even happen.

“A lot of people want more information before they even make a judgment,” she said.

Robert Alexander – Simon’s senior vice president of mall leasing and the person who made the initial announcement – said, “We have every intention of building the project, but we’re not a hundred percent there yet.

“It’s a little awkward, because we don’t really disclose the status of our active deals until they’re closed, and this deal’s not closed, …” Alexander said. “We’re not ready to close on the land and break ground yet.”

Alexander was not familiar with Turkey Mountain or any controversy related to the project. He directed us to Simon spokesperson Les Morris.

Morris said he was familiar with the area – “Turkey Mountain? Turkey Hill?” – and the controversy. He said although the dissenters are determined, “there’s obviously the silent majority … of people who are really in support of this type of project in terms of economic benefit for the city. So I don’t know that I would term it controversial, but yeah, I’m aware of what’s going on.”

Morris said it’s too early to discuss the project at this point, but that in later stages, Simon

plans to engage the public and all stakeholders to make sure developments have adequate support.

“I don’t think we meant [Alexander’s announcement] to be interpreted as something that’s definitely going to happen at a specific time in a specific location,” Morris said.

“I’m not saying it won’t happen; I’m just saying it’s too early at this point [to discuss it].”

When asked what strategies Simon uses to reduce the environmental impact of its developments, Morris said, “I think at this point I probably have gone as far as I can go. I don’t feel comfortable talking any more about the property.”

City public information officer Michelle Allen said on Sept. 2 that the city had “not received any plans – nothing to that effect – from this developer.” Allen said any rezoning first goes through Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, which includes county and city appointees and provides recommendations to the City Council, which will also review the plan and take public comments.

“So there are going to be two public processes for the public to voice any opinions they have,” she said. Allen added that the city has received contact information from a group of interested citizens and will update them when more information becomes available.

Potential environmental impact

Eddie Reese, director of Oxley Nature Center, said the potential development would wipe out many smaller residents of the site, including hundreds of arthropod species, ornate turtles and threetoed box turtles, skinks, lizards and several species of snakes.

“All those things that live there now pretty much won’t be able to leave,” he said. “They’re too small, too slow. So they’re not going to make it.”

Flying squirrels, which occupy Oxley Nature Center and Mohawk Park, might also reside in the Turkey Mountain area, Reese said.

Unlike the more common fox squirrel, flying squirrels are nocturnal, which makes them particularly vulnerable to development.

“The bulldozers will come in during the daytime and start pushing things around, preparing the ground for development,” Reese said. “… [Flying squirrels will] be holed up in a hollow tree, and they will get pushed over.”

Larger animals like foxes, coyotes and and bobcats would be forced into territory already occupied by their counterparts. The reduced hunting and nesting area would also squeeze out Red Tailed Hawks, Screech Owls and other birds. “[A habitat] can only get so small before some animals have to

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just leave the area completely,” Reese said. “I don’t know how small that really is for them.”

Jay Pruett, director of conservation for The Nature Conservancy in Oklahoma, said such a development would also disturb the surrounding wilderness. Unfamiliar disruptions like automobile noise and nighttime lighting “can make [animals] feel uncomfortable obtaining food or raising young … such that they are not able to do it sufficiently,” Pruett said.

Some species, such as deer, opossums, skunks and raccoons, are relatively adaptable to such interference. Others leave the area in search of friendlier forests, Pruett said.

The details of any development are worth an earnest look because all life is connected, Reese said.

“I think sometimes people think that we don’t really need nature, because we’re separated from it,” Reese said. “… What they forget is that everything is tied together, and when you start taking pieces of that puzzle out, the puzzle starts to fall apart.”

The connections are intricate and hard to overstate. For example, hummingbirds build their nests with silk from spider webs, Reese said.

“If you don’t have spiders … then hummingbirds won’t be making nests,” he said. “They won’t be laying eggs, and before too long, we won’t have any hummingbirds. … Now, how many connections like that are there … that we don’t know about? How is a turtle important; what is it connected to? …

How much can you afford to lose?”

Jeff Stava, director of Tulsa’s Gathering Place, LLC, and chief operating officer of the Tulsa Community Foundation, oversees real estate holdings for GKFF. Stava said the foundation hopes to work with adjacent landowners – including, potentially, Simon – as needed to minimize effects of development. Stava said he thinks the environmental impacts of an outlet mall would be insubstantial considering Turkey Mountain’s surroundings. (A dozen or more businesses, including industrial sites, already abut Turkey Mountain.)

“There’s a major highway that’s just right there, so the impacts (of an outlet mall), I think, would be negligible,” he said.

Shrinking boundaries

Pruett said the potential development would infringe on an already-limited wild space and pave the way for more commercial projects.

Mountain biker LaDonna Baroni illustrated this point with the example of Tulsa Hills Shopping Center, a nearby development that’s brought increased traffic and road build-outs to the area around Turkey Mountain. Baroni is a member of Team LUNA Chix, a sponsored women’s mountain biking team that regularly uses the trail system on and near Turkey Mountain for biking, hiking and trail running.

“Everybody likes to say that [the proposed mall is] not going to impact Turkey Mountain, but it absolutely will,” Baroni said.

“We’re already closing in on that piece of property, and if it’s built up all the way around, we lose

some of that privacy. You just hate to see something that is considered a wilderness area being encroached on, and it seems like it’s just a matter of time [before more land in the area is sold and developed].”

Why here?

In addition to the Simon prospect, the developers of The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City have announced plans for a mall in east Tulsa. Both Baroni and Reese suggested that instead of clearing green space, developers repurpose existing sites that have fallen into disrepair.

“There’s enough property all over Tulsa – even abandoned properties – that could be utilized,” Baroni said.

“Why destroy something that we already hold precious, instead of … taking something else that’s not worth anything and making it better?” Reese said.

“We’re rotting from the inside; why don’t we fix the rot on the inside before we build more on the outside?” a

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Policing the police Transparency, oversight key to building citizen trust, effectiveness of operations

by RAY PEARCEY A bad portal is opening in America.

The problem: the out-of-control rise of white cops arbitrarily killing black males.

I’ll start by saying that most police/citizen encounters are nonviolent, and most cops in Tulsa and elsewhere rarely even pull out their guns in a typical year. But across the country and in Tulsa, the number of pullovers and encounters between cops and minority folks is outsized—it has become a part of the social ecology.

Rogue policing, particularly with regard to race, has been a reality for some time. But our new obsession with cell-phone video, social media and “see it now” kinetics has simply made it hyper visible. It’s a little like the creepy, sudden illumination of bugs in a squalid apartment when the lights get turned on: we are seeing part of the longstanding underbelly of policing, America-style.

In Tulsa, the problem manifested via the recent killing of Jeremey Lake—a biracial kid whose death was allegedly perpetrated by an off-duty white Tulsa cop who has been charged with homicide and is currently free on $825,000 bail.

And I don’t have to tell readers about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., or the killing of Eric Garner via an illegal police chokehold in Staten Island, N.Y., are other recent high-profile examples, but they are merely the tip of the iceberg.

Excitingly, what’s also emerging in many of the affected communities is an aggressive countermove against arbitrary police violence— among community activists and others—most notable in Staten Island after the Garner incident, and more recently with the aggressive protesters in the Brown case in 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

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The Ferguson crisis, grim as it is, has spawned another good thing: a re-examination of what keen observers call the hyper-militarization of policing in America.

When I first saw the Ferguson “event” on the news, I thought I was seeing scenes from the Gaza Strip or video from some Russian/Ukrainian separatist battle.

That’s because the scene in Ferguson was littered with armored vehicles, assault rifles and police officers in fatigues. It’s striking, and it brings to the forefront a troubling trend in contemporary policing in America. Radley Balko, a writer and police historian, has written a fabulous new book on this topic, “Rise of the Warrior Cop,” which I happened to be reading as the Ferguson “event” got under way. He examines how the unrest of the 1960s, followed by Nixon’s war on drugs, Reagan’s war on poverty, Clinton’s COPS program, and the post-9/11 security state under Bush and Obama has expanded and empowered police forces at the expense of civil liberties.

Transparency is paramount In a town that has great promise but many challenges, a police department must be transparent, allowing it to harness the energy, insight and special perspective that outsiders sometimes bring to even the most complex work, including policing. We got some accidental insight into how radical openness could work for Tulsa during the Good Friday killings a couple of years ago: the Mayor, TPD Chief Chuck Jordan, City Councilor Jack Henderson and a slew of ordinary citizens quickly gathered the information required to rapidly pick up a couple of suspects (convicted last December) who were killing black folks more or less at random.

Organizing police operations in as transparent a fashion as possible would not only produce additional confidence in what TPD officers are doing and how they’re treating everyone across the various tribes that make up our community, but it’s also consistent with emerging evidence on the value of rich “client” feedback to business and public sector managers.

An emerging movement in city planning and technology circles called the “network city” is working its way across the planet.

You can find a very thoughtful (if slightly aged) piece on these

technologies and their import for Tulsa in a piece by Tulsa blogger Michael Bates in the March 2012 issue of This Land Press titled “Government 2.0.” Wiring cheap sensors to major street segments, bridges, water/sewer works, traffic lights, storm water outlets, sidewalk segments, etc. to ascertain their “health”—using feedback from digital sensor systems—could transform the cost, effectiveness and agility of local government. One guru in the police science and accountability movement has suggested using body video cameras (BWV).

David Harris of the University of Pennsylvania wrote a big piece on this new option a couple of years back in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.

“Given universal trends in technology for digital devices to become more capable and smaller over time, recording systems for police have become so small that, instead of mounting these units on police car dashboards, you can now mount them on police officers themselves.”

We can make use of body-worn video and related technologies to give TPD and our citizenry spectacular insight into policing operations—what’s getting done, what isn’t getting done and how one of our most essential services might be improved by making it radically transparent. a

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

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It ain’t so, Joe Governor race a foregone conclusion? (And does it even matter?)

by BARRY FRIEDMAN

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oe Dorman is not—not—going to be Oklahoma’s next governor. But let’s play the home version of our game, just in case.

We’re entertaining the possibility because a Rasmussen Poll conducted back in July indicated that the Democratic rep from Sand Springs was only five percentage points behind our twice-married governor who favors traditional marriage, Mary Fallin1.

“Seventy-six percent voted,” Fallin said at the time, “instead to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. I was one of the many voters who cast my ballot in favor of traditional marriage.”

Even, apparently, if you need a couple of shots at it.

But don’t call for tickets to Dorman’s Inaugural Ball just yet, for Rasmussen is to credible polling what Papa John’s is to memorable pizza.

(Even still, Democrats found hope in the results, for if Rasmussen—a GOP favorite polling house—actually had the race this close, it might mean … the race was actually this close.)

Except, it wasn’t. For one thing, Rasmussen can be spectacularly wrong (once being off by 40 percent), so for it to have the race within 5 percent, there’s no guarantee its reps didn’t just repeatedly drunk-dial and survey Dorman’s immediate family. For another, other polls conducted during the same time (and since) show the twice-married governor who favors traditional marriage with a lead closer to double digits.

More importantly, there’s something about Mary that voters in the state are starting not to like.

Her favorability rating dropped 20 percent in the last few months in all polls, something her chief 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

Gov. Mar y Fallin (left) and Rep. Jo e Dorman, Democrat ic candidate for Oklahoma gover nor

of staff, Alex Weintz2, got vertigo trying to spin.

“First of all, I think the easiest way to have an 80 percent approval rating is to sit in your office and do nothing but ribbon cuttings,” Weintz said. “And that is not who Mary is. It has energized our campaign and base to remind people they need to get involved.”

What great luck then.

The twice-married governor who favors traditional marriage might also have higher approval numbers had she not pursued an execution back in April that experts warned her was a disaster waiting to happen, not performed a Double Back with Double Twist accepting/rejecting Common Core and on not taking/taking federal money to set up state ACA exchanges, and not caved to the oil and gas industry on horizontal drilling rates.

This new polling data also means Oklahoma Democrats, who actually still outnumber Republicans in the state, no longer have to hide at family gatherings and be afraid to put out yard signs.

But, as Oklahoma Policy Institute executive director (and friend of the column) David Blatt reminds us: they better hurry, for soon, there will be no there there.

“Take a typical Oklahoma family,” he said. “Two generations

ago, the grandparents registered Democrat and voted Democrat.

A generation ago the parents still registered Democrat but voted Republican. Today they register and vote Republican.”

None of this is to say that Dorman can’t win—actually that’s exactly what it is to say—even if Michael Whelan, Tulsa County Democratic Chairman, sees a path to victory.

“To win in November,” Whelan told me, “Joe must succeed in making this election about education and Mary Fallin’s numerous failures.

If folks go to the polls to vote for the candidate who will fix public education in Oklahoma, Dorman will be our next Governor.”

But Laura Belmonte, department head and professor of modern U.S. history at Oklahoma State University, says Dorman will need even more help.

“If the rapture happens on November 3, Dorman wins the gubernatorial race on November 4,” she said with a laugh. “You know that all Democrats are atheistic commies, so we’d be the only ones left.”

When pressed, Belmonte believes if the one million eligible registered voters actually vote, and if all the registered Dems turn out, and if there’s a serious scandal within the Fallin administration before Election Day, Dorman could win.

Yeah … and I could be named Grand Marshall at both Tulsa Christmas Parades.

Still, if all that happens—the voters, the scandal—and if Dorman cleans up at the October 2 debate in Stillwater and continues to raise money, we will have a Democratic governor in Oklahoma.

Hot damn!

“I’m an old-fashioned Democrat,” Dorman said. “I have a higher rating from the NRA than her, I have an A-plus, and I think she’s barely breaking an A at best.”

This is a selling point, a better grade from the NRA? “I’m pro-life. … I think I fall more in line with traditional Oklahoma values and what people want to see in their leadership at the capitol.”

If everything falls into place— everything— and he’s actually elected, Governor Joe Dorman will genuflect even more to the NRA, offer women no substantive change on reproductive rights, give lip service to those without healthcare, and dish out daily doses of grandstanding, pablum, and hyperbole with all the alacrity of our twice-married governor who favors traditional marriage.

Oklahoma. Oy. a 1 okcfox.com, “Governor Mary Fallin’s statement on same-sex marriage ruling” 2 joedorman.com, “Fallin should be doing better in the polls, political watchers say” RE A D T HE RE S T AT

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TWISTS AND TURNS

SEPTEMBER 5 – OCTOBER 26, 2014 ISRAELI ARTISTS ALEKSANDRA STOYANOV & ZEMER PELED Made possible by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, The Newman Family, The Association of Israel’s Decorative Arts (AIDA), FABRICUT, Sharna & Irvin Frank Foundation, Jewish Federation of Tulsa and Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 5 | 6 – 9 p m ARTIST TALK: Saturday, September 6 | 11 a m –1 p m

108|Contemporar y | 108 E. M. B. Brady Street Tulsa, OK 74103 | 918.89 5.6302 108contemporar y.org | A 501(c)(3) Organization Image: Zeme r Pe le d — por c e lain, 2014

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TULSA’S ORIGINAL LATE NIGHT COFFEE & TEA HOUSE OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 303 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Historic Brady Arts District www.gypsycoffee.com

Best brick oven Pizza in Tulsa!

114 North Boston ave, Tulsa , OK 918.508.7000 www.heymambo.com

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

SEPTEMBER • Sept 4: The Outsiders • Sept 11: Bridesmaids • Sept 18: Motorcycle Diaries • Sept 25: Almost Famous OCTOBER • Oct 2: Tootsie • Oct 9: Shawshank Redemption • Oct 16: Stand By me • Oct 23: Coming to America • Oct 30: Beetlejuice • Oct 31: Rocky Horror JOIN OUR ONLINE FAMILY AT GUTHRIEGREEN.COM FOR ALL THE GREEN HAS IN STORE FOR YOU. 111 North M.B. Brady Street

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Open Wed.–Sat. 12–7 p.m.

Sun. 12–5 p.m.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

free with paid admission or annual membership

Sept. 13 - 2:00 PM RIK PALIERI

address 102 East Brady Street, Tulsa, OK 74103 Phone 918.574-2710 Visit WoodyGuthriecenter.org for more events and info THE TULSA VOICE // September 3 – September 16, 2014

116 E. M.B. Brady Street Tulsa, OK 74103 South of Guthrie Green BRADY ARTS DISTRICT GUIDE // 15

voice’schoices Dishes best served with a cold beer

MOLLY BULLOCK

JOSH KAMPF

MATT CAUTHRON

JOHN LANGDON

Elote

Hideaway Pizza

Brownie’s Gourmet Burgers

Hebert’s Specialty Meats

514 S. Boston Ave.

1419 E. 15th Street

1730 Utica Square

2101 E 71st St

Fresh Mex and beer go together like… just like you’d think they would. Elote’s vegetarian soft tacos with molasses-cayenne sweet potato filling make a great lunch or dinner.

In case you eat stuff like this for breakfast (I do), these don’t make the best leftovers. If I’m taking it easy, it’s double rice for the sides. Order the rice and black beans if you want a little extra boost.

Not since peanut butter and jelly has the world seen such a perfect marriage as pizza and beer.

The Paradise Pie at Hideaway eschews boring tomato sauce in favor of rich alfredo, topping it with a blend of mozzarella and smoked provolone cheeses, grilled chicken breast strips, smoked bacon, fresh sliced mushrooms, diced Roma tomatoes—and, for all you health nuts out there, fresh spinach. Paradise indeed.

With a frosty mug of beer, nothing hits the spot like a salty treat to wash down. Brownie’s, a beloved Tulsa institution with a new gourmet twist, has elevated the concept of salty treats to near perfection with its selection of “well dressed fries.” I’m partial to the bacon ranch variety, topped with (you guessed it) bacon, roasted garlic ranch, green onions and melted cheddar cheese. If you dare put ketchup on this glorious creation, you’re dead to me.

For me, there aren’t many cuisines that go better with beer than that of the Cajun persuasion. This delicious crawfish and jalapeño cornbread-stuffed chicken is lovingly doused in hot sauce, making that cold Abita an absolutely necessary part of the meal. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

MON-SAT, 11 AM-10 PM

SUN-THURS, 11 AM-9:30 PM FRI-SAT, 11 AM-10:30 PM

SUN-WED, 11 AM-8 PM THU-SAT, 11 AM-9 PM

LUNCH: MON-SAT, 11 AM-2:30 PM DINNER: MON-THURS, 4-8 PM, FRI-SAT, 4-9 PM

boozeclues

(tips on drinking well in Tulsa) Kilkenny’s 1413 E. 15th Street the bartender: Jenna McQuigg the cocktail: The Yellowjacket the ingredients: Guinness Stout, Marshall’s Sundown Wheat The secret: It’s a Black & Tan with a Tulsa twist. Fill a pint glass about two-thirds with Tulsa-brewed Marshall’s Sundown Wheat. Let it settle. Hook a bent spoon over the side of the glass and slowly pour Guinness over the spoon.

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September 3 – September 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

Fine dining…

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South 918.499.1919 6024 S. Sheridan

Downtown 918.592.5151 219 S. Cheyenne

BEST CHINESE FOOD Dine in or carry out,

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TULSA’S BEST DINNER SPECIAL! GOLDEN GATE CHINESE CUISINE 30 Years in Business

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2620 S. Harvard • 918-742-4942 OPEN: Mon.-Fri. 11am-9pm, Sat. 12pm-9pm

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Not a bad seat in the house with all our flatscreens... We have the Sunday NFL Ticket.

HALF PRICE APPETIZERS in the bar

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From the coffee we pour to the cookies we bake, Heirloom Baking Co. is committed to serving our customers the best and freshest locally sourced products. Topéca coffee has been grown on our family farms in El Salvador for generations, and is roasted just up the road. Heirloom Baking Co. sources many of its ingredients from local farmers – from eggs to milk to produce. Our menu changes with the seasons in order to serve you the freshest ingredients and a variety of treats to delight in throughout the year.

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PHILL’S DINER

3310 E 32nd St | 918-742-4563 There are many breakfast favorites at Phill’s–”the little neighborhood diner where everybody knows everybody”–but a signature favorite is the Country Ham and Eggs served with hash browns and a side of biscuits and gravy for $8.49. Phill’s has been an award-winning Tulsa cafe for 22 years. One reason “everybody knows everybody” at Phill’s is because there are so many locals who eat breakfast at the diner at least once per weekend, and probably a weekday lunch, too.

YOKOZUNA

309 E 2nd St | 918.508.7676 9146 S Yale | 918.619.6271 Yokozuna doesn’t have to mean sushi.

Our weekend brunch includes classic dishes with an Asian spin. We suggest the Eggs Benedict, offered with your choice of pork belly, salmon, tenderloin, or grilled tomato and asparagus. Enjoy it with friends over a spicy Asian Bloody Mary, or a carafe of mimosa or sparkling sangria. Brunch is served every Saturday and Sunday from 11am-3pm at our downtown and south Tulsa locations.

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MOD’S COFFEE AND CREPES 507 S Boston Ave | 918.582.6637

Mod’s Coffee and Crepes serves breakfast from 7am-11am Monday through Friday, and Brunch from 10am-2pm Saturday.

Our breakfast is a favorite for meetings, a quick stop in, or just an opportunity to breathe and take in the beauty of one of Tulsa’s most intricate buildings: the Philcade Tower!

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5th and Boston

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September 3 – September 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

54TH ANNUAL TULSA GREEK FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 18-20

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35+ PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS (as of 9/1/14)

will offer $12.95 per person, three-course, prix fixe lunch/brunch menus* and/or one of three tiers of three-course, prix fixe dinner menus at either $25 per person, $35 per person or $35 for two*. *excludes tax, gratuity and beverage

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dininglistings DOWNTOWN Abear’s Baxter’s Interurban Grill The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Fat Guy’s Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch The Greens on Boulder Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli Lou’s Deli MADE Market in the DoubleTree by Hilton

Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Oneok Café Oklahoma Spud on the Mall Seven West Café Sheena’s Cookies & Deli Steakfinger House The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Bistro at Atlas Life Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Trula Williams Center Café

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

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

BRADY ARTS DISTRICT

BLUE D OME

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tulsa Broken Arrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hideaway Pizza

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

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

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

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

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

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

September 3 – September 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

LANNA THAI RESTAURANT & BAR

“Thai Styled Fresh Seafood”

Ranked in the Top 10 in 2011

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For Best New Restaurant by the Tulsa World

Voted Tulsa’s Best Thai Restaurant 1st Place Award for 14 Consecutive Years

Listed on Best Business Meal Spots for Tulsa by UrbanSpoon

Ranked in the top 50 nationally.

Voted Tulsa’s Best Vegetarian Restaurant 2013

Lunch Specials Daily

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See our full menu at LannaThaiTulsa.com

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“Your BLT is the best in town. Love how you make it different.”

- Bob Roberts, Tulsa “If I was stranded on an island, but left with an unlimited amount of any dish, it would be the Turkey, Egg & Cheddar Salad.”

- Michael Boyle, Tulsa “The Vegetarian Pizza. Oh my god.”

- Zoe Rainey, Tulsa “The Indian Bruschetta was awesome!”

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CAFÉ & BAR

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$5 Burger Night

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Catering options available through new favorite Maxxwell’s Restaurant.

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6 am-10 pm • 7 days a week • (918) 748-5550 Located inside the historic Campbell Hotel THE TULSA VOICE // September 3 – September 16, 2014

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

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daydrinking

Spreading the gospel A love of beer sparked restaurateur Elliot Nelson’s growing empire

by BEAU ADAMS Location: James E. McNellie’s Public House, downtown

EN: Yeah, you want something kind of thirst quenching. A lot of those big IPA’s, you need a glass of water sitting beside it. You want something that evaporates quickly on your palette.

To drink: A variety of draught beers, chosen by Elliot Nelson

TTV: How many businesses are you running right now?

The Tulsa Voice: How did you come to be interested in beer?

Elliot Nelson: I did an exchange program in Dublin during my junior year in college, and I went in to a pub down the street from where I lived. This guy Eddie was the bartender. I said, “I want a pint of Smithwick’s.” And he said, “Sorry, lad. Only Guinness.”

And I kept telling him I wanted a Smithwick’s and he kept refusing to serve it to me. I said, “Look, I see that you have it, I see other people drinking it.” And he said, “You don’t get it. I’m only serving you Guinness. Give me five pints, and if you still want a Smithwick’s, I’ll serve it to you.” After about three pints, I never turned back.

I was fortunate enough when I was over there to travel back into the continent a little and got to Germany and Belgium and really started to discover how much amazing beer was out there.

TTV: Is that what got you thinking about opening McNellie’s?

EN: Yeah it started to coalesce.

When I’d come back home, I couldn’t find a good beer on tap anywhere, so I thought, you know, if I could do this and offer a crazy amount of beers and a good burger, I might be able to make it.

TTV: And now you’re ten years in. I guess it’s worked. Is it hard to manage all of these beers?

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EN: We have El Guapo’s out south under construction, and then two more restaurants in Oklahoma City under construction, so those will be 13, 14, and 15.

TTV: Ten years ago, is this where you thought you’d be?

EN: Oh, no.

TTV: What were you thinking? Just keep the doors on this one open?

Elliot Nelson has a be er and a chat with Beau Adams // Photo by Mat t Cauthron

EN: Yeah, it’s somebody’s full time job. There’s about 60 on tap and 300 or so more in bottles. It’s really difficult to stay on top of; we’re vigilant about the dates and freshness, so that makes it even harder. We keep our lines clean. I mean, it’s never ending. When you do it all and do it all right, it’s a lot of work.

TTV: So, what’s new? Anything in development?

EN: [Laughs] Just a few things.

TTV: Let’s talk about the new pub in development near the ball field.

EN: That’s something I’ll bet Eric [Marshall, of Marshal Brewing] has been talking about for about four or five years now. Finally, we had a building that came up, and we’ve been working on the building since 2012.

TTV: So it’s going to be a brewery. 3.2 beers?

EN: Yeah, people are skeptical of the 3.2 label, but truly, 3.2 beer is 4.1 percent alcohol. To give you an idea, Guinness is 4.2 percent, and all of the new sessionable IPA’s are about right there as well, so you can brew some great beers in that range. It allows us to do some interesting things. We can do growlers, we’re gonna have pizza, so we’re really excited about the prospects. With 3.2 beers, there are fewer open container restrictions, so that will afford us the opportunity to have a lively patio atmosphere and happy hours and things that we’re excited about.

TTV: Who wants to chew through something thick when it’s this hot anyway?

EN: Yeah, for sure. Just get to the next day. But along the way, we got pretty good at the restaurant business and I’ve had some great people who have worked with us, and that’s who we grow for now. You know, it’s not some empirical plan. We grow so that our people can step up and run things and grow with us.

TTV: What are we drinking?

EN: That’s Hoffbrau Lager. Like I mentioned, on these hot days I always like drinking either a German or Czech Lager. The hops from that part of the world hit the back of your tongue really crisply, which makes it great drinking for a hot day. Some days, when I’m having a rough day, I’ll come down here and work the floor, run food, try beers—kind of reconnect with why I started all of this in the first place. It’s nice to get to do this. (continued on page 24)

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A powerful creature…too strong to be contained by any ordinary bottle…experience Abita Andygator. This lusty beer is slightly sweet with a subtle fruit aroma that makes you forget its natural intensity.

THE TULSA VOICE // September 3 – September 16, 2014

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Brewed with pale, Munich, biscuit and caramel malts and Willamette hops. Real Louisiana roasted pecans are added in the brewhouse and give the ale a subtle, nutty flavor and aroma.

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(continued from page 22) TTV: There’s a handful of breweries popping up around Tulsa.

EN: You look at all of these guys making great beer here, and due to their particular goals and business plans, they may or may not ever be big enough to ship large quantities of beer all over the world. So, they may not be an internationally known brewery. But when I travel, I want to taste the local beers from the area I am visiting. And we’re in a situation now because of these guys that when you’re in Oklahoma and you want to drink craft beer, you’re getting some really good stuff. I think people coming to this part of the country will taste our style of beer, it will develop its own kind of style and brand; and that makes it interesting.

TTV: It makes our country more interesting.

EN: Yeah, eventually you’re going to have regional beer styles again.

You’re going to go to a restaurant or pub and they will have several

national brands and the rest will be local beers. That’s how it is in Europe. Everything is hyper-local.

Every town has its own brewery.

TTV: What are people who drink the big, national brands missing out on?

EN: Oh, I don’t know. I had a Miller Lite the other night at a function because that was what was available to me. I think those beers are all just so similar and, in a lot of ways, like soda water.

They’re almost like a soft drink at this point. There’s not a lot of beer profile to them.

So, in a lot of ways, I think people are missing the agrarian side of beer making, the real connection to the product. You taste this beer, you taste malt and then the hops, and those ingredients, if you really learn about beer, you know where they’re from. Sometimes you taste the grain or yeast, a lot of times the hops. Those big commercial beers don’t have that.

There’s a romantic side to beer for me, knowing that this all started

in a field somewhere, there’s a real connection back to the land that creates these flavor profiles. The big stuff, it’s rice, it’s force-injected CO2, quick fermentation, on and on. Our goal here is to take a customer who really likes, say, Miller Lite, and find that person a beer with the qualities he enjoys in that beer, but also find him something a little more authentic.

TTV: So, if my uncle walks in here and says, “I like Coors Light.

Cold. In a bottle.” Where do you take him?

EN: Okay, when we have Kronenbourg on draft, I am so excited to give that to a light beer drinker.

It’s a French beer, it’s from Alsace, which has been French or German depending on the war. So it’s really a German beer. It’s very light and drinkable, but it’s a real fucking beer. And I would say, you’re going to drink it and you’re going to like it. I mean it’s just got a great flavor and the tiniest profile, but it’s wonderful and light beer drinkers enjoy it.

TTV: Can Tulsa become a beer city?

EN: Oh yeah. I mean, we’ve got a lot of great beers being brewed here right now—I mean really solid beers—and it seems like we’ve just gotten started. Our laws are a little tough to deal with, but you know, these guys are champs, they work around it. There’s no reason in my mind why we can’t be.

You look at Leon’s, which is basically a Brookside staple right now. They devoted—I can’t remember how many, but the majority of their handles—to local beer the other day. And they have that 35-45 [age group] crowd coming in there. That says a couple of things to me: One is, that may be what the market is demanding. But the other thing is, that the owner feels comfortable enough with the product to make that move. That’s encouraging to me. But Tulsa has the local-grown kind of mentality that could turn it into a great beer city. I think we’re seeing at least an attempt to get there right now. a

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YOUR FALL BEER GUIDE

I wasn’t always a craft beer lover.

I grew up in fine restaurants and tasted wine from Riedel glassware during five-course dinners. You’d think I became a wine expert or a connoisseur of all of the nicest things in life, but instead, I’m a girl with uninhibited love of great beer.

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My fascination with craft beer blossomed when I opened a restaurant a few years ago. While researching products for our bar program, I stumbled upon some wonderful local people making great local products. My first craft beer love was COOP DNR, a Belgian Strong Ale served in a 750-ml bottle, which I added to our beer list for my own enjoyment.

This epiphany led to a world of boozy geekery I did not know existed.

I’m no beer expert, but I love handcrafted local products — and the ones that make me tipsy have a special place in my heart. As fall slowly creeps in, our palates naturally change with the weather; the crisp evening air inspires a taste for sultry, spicy flavors and hearty sustenance. In anticipation of autumn, these are my favorites for the season in the order in which I would drink them, lighter to darker. by Allison Keim September 3 – September 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

ASK THE EXPERTS What beers have tickled the palates of Tulsa’s true beer aficionados—the brewers?

Tony Peck, DEAD ARMADILLO BREWERY

One of the best beers I had in the last year was from Almanac Beer Co. from San Francisco.

They made a bourbon barrel sour Porter that was unbelievable. It had a great malt backing from the porter, which would have been very good on its own, but this beer came through in layers, and each one was a very pleasant surprise. You really could taste what the bourbon barrel contributed, and the roasted barley mixed really well. Then it finished off with a tart, but not overpowering sourness.

Paul Hargrove, HOME BREWER

One of my favorites of the last year is the 2014 batch of Cuvee de Tomme by The Lost Abbey. It’s created by using a Belgian Dark Strong Ale, which is brewed with malted barley, candied sugar, raisins and cherries. It’s then added to French oak and American bourbon barrels, where it spends a year with more sour cherries, souring bacteria, and Brettanomyces (a wild yeast). The end result blends dark fruit notes, a smooth vanilla flavor from the bourbon barrels, a vinous quality from the cherries, a complex funk from the Brettanomyces, and a refreshing lingering sourness that begs you to take another sip.

LO CA L FA L L FAVO R I T E S COOP Native Amber

Toasted caramel is the phrase that comes to mind when thinking about this creamy amber ale. I recently had the pleasure of drinking a freshly canned Native Amber during a tour of COOP’s new brewery in Oklahoma City. Its freshness was a decadent treat. The perfect balance of hops and malt is what makes this beer addictive.

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Marshall Oktoberfest

Adding a stout to a fall beer list might seem crazy to official beer geeks, but this lady craves a semichocolaty coffee stout when the temperature drops.

This is a lighter stout with more emphasis on hops, which is probably why I like it. Its ABV is 8 percent which qualifies it as the vanilla-laced, full-bodied nightcap beer of choice. Oh, and it’s available yearround, too.

This Tulsa girl has German roots, so I have a natural affinity for a classic German beer made in the 918 – especially by Oklahoma’s finest. Eric Marshall and his crew do a great job with all their beers – I drank nothing but Atlas for years – but Oktoberfest is a fantastic, malty lager that is incredibly easy to drink. This full-bodied, copper-colored Märzen weighs in at 6 percent ABV. It’s a limited release beer, so if you see it, grab it.

Prairie Funky Gold Mosaic

Dead Armadillo Black Hop

JD Merryweather, COOP ALE WORKS

India Pale Ales are one of the most popular styles of ale in the craft beer market. This summer I was lucky enough to try one straight from the source and it blew me away. Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, killed it with their Fresh Squeezed IPA. On tap at their Public House I was overwhelmed with the taste and nose of this fresh bomb of citra and mosaic hops.

It was not a fluke pour—I had three pints to make sure. Originally a seasonal for Deschutes, this amazing offering is now a year round beer.

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The first whiff of this pale-yellow sour ale is papaya and mango — a surprising and delightful tropical kick. This is the beer for seamless transitions from hot days to cool nights. It’s refreshing, exotic and easy to drink, mostly because of its fruity playfulness. Packaged in 16.9-ounce bottles and produced on a small scale, it’s a bit hard to find. Check with Freddie at The Biergarten in Jenks; he’ll hook you up. It’s currently on draught at R Bar, too.

There is something highly seductive and challenging about an über-hoppy ale in a big bottle, but I fell in love with Black Hop, a complex beer that entertains the senses with every sip. The nose is slightly honeyed and mostly toasty and the bittersweet coffee flavors enhance those aromas. Even though it seems like it should be a heavy, serious beer, it leaves you with a dry, tingly mouthfeel.

With an IBU of 117, this might be too bitter for the average beer drinker. If that’s you, try their Amber ale for a sweeter, medium-bodied malty experience.

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Marshall’s batch of Oktoberfest brews is rolling out in bottles right now, and the brewery will hold a ceremonial tapping of the first Oktoberfest keg at an official launch celebration on Sept. 11 at Fassler Hall. Find Marshall Brewing Co. on Facebook for more details.

WHERE TO HAVE A PINT James E. McNellies Public House 409 E 1st Street 7031 S Zurich Ave

With more than 350 beers to choose from, this is where Tulsa drinks beer.

The Fur Shop 520 E 3rd Street

They strive to offer every Oklahoma beer they can get their hands on.

Soundpony

409 N Main Street

“Magic served by the pint.” Enough said.

Photo by Michelle Pollard

OKTOBERFEST, Tulsa’s favorite yearly beer extravaganza, is still a ways off, but the actual celebration is only part of the old German tradition. The name Oktoberfest also refers to the style of Marzen beers (so named because they’re brewed in March) that were put aside in ice-filled caves to keep fresh over the summer. (“Despite what our friends in Golden, Co., would have you believe, they did not invent frost brewing,” said Wes Alexander of Marshall Brewing Co.) The beer was then released around late summer, and needed to be finished off in time for the barrels to be used for new beer, brewed using grains from the autumn harvest. No better way to finish barrel after barrel of beer than a twoweek party, right? Hence, Oktoberfest.

B EER LOV ER S, MA R K YO U R CA LE N DA R S HARVEST BEER FESTIVAL

The fifth annual Harvest Beer Festival is set for Sept. 27 outside McNellie’s downtown. The festival will feature two sessions this year to accommodate beer enthusiasts who’d like a little more time to talk with the more than 30 brewers in attendance about their bounties. The first session is from noon-3 p.m. and the second is from 5-8 p.m.

Tickets are $25 and are available at ticketstorm.com.

FIRST DRAFT

Tulsa’s premier beer tasting fundraising event hosted by the Tulsa Press Club at ONEOK Field will celebrate its tenth anniversary on Oct. 10. Tickets are $50 and the price of admission includes a commemorative pint glass, a regional beer tasting from the finest brewers, rare beers and ballpark goodies.

Harvest Beer Festival Sept. 27 First Draft Oct. 10 Linde Oktoberfest Oct. 16-19

LINDE OKTOBERFEST

River West Festival Park hosts the biggest beer extravaganza of them all Oct. 16-19. Tulsa’s beloved Oktoberfest will welcome more than 60,000 visitors and feature around sixty special Oktoberfest beers, authentic German bands, delicious food, games and family activities — everything that continues to draw Tulsans to the other side of the river (while drawing beer-loving patrons from around the world) year after year.

R Bar

3421 S Peoria Ave

Josh Royal puts together a heck of a selection of local and regional beers.

Leon’s

3301 S Peoria Ave

The newly remodeled bar can now hold twice as many local-beer-loving sports fans.

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dalystyle

Fill holes in your walls.

Touch up your trim.

Put your shit away.

Don’t tear down cabinets.

Paint front porch.

Build a pergola.

Change tile counters.

Knock out a kitchen wall.

House in order The continuing quest for the perfect abode

by ASHLEY HEIDER DALY

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feel like I’m in a relationship with my house. I made a commitment to it. I signed stuff.

Money was exchanged. I spent more to be legally bound to my house than to my spouse. I dedicate more hours to cleaning it than I do to cleaning myself. That’s love.

My loyalty only falters those times I want to poop when my husband is using our only toilet, or when I imagine myself in an airy, light-filled ranch house living room. I don’t want more space, just differently-planned space. I also don’t want to pour my heart into small adjustments and updates that suit me perfectly, only to leave them behind. I’m not afraid of home repairs, but I do them only for my personal enjoyment, not out of consideration for the next homeowner.

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home to now. I was such a whimsical, innocent child then. All I wanted was wood floors, an older home, walls and doors and such.

Now, I know wood floors are still a must, but so is one large living space rather than two. For me, two is just more. One big one means my husband and I can do our hobbies together. I want a kitchen where my husband can cook for me and I can sit nearby and keep him company, rather than sitting in the living room like I am too good to be with the help.

What I’d change If I had lots of money or amazing renovation skills, and if I knew I’d be in my home for years, I’d knock out a wall to my kitchen and change my tile counters to concrete or Corian. I’d redo the bathroom tile, build a pergola, plant more trees, paint my front porch and, for sure, put in asparagus bushes. I keep thinking, “What if

I put in my asparagus and nurture it like I would my soul, only to sell the house two years into the three years it takes for the plant to produce its delicious offspring?

Would a future buyer consider a mature asparagus plant a plus?”

God, I know I would.

What the pro would change My husband and I met with a realtor recently just to chat. He said the obvious: Fill and paint the holes in your walls. Touch up your trim. Put your shit away. Don’t tear down those cabinets, because buyers love storage. In case you were wondering, he didn’t tell us to plant asparagus.

The plan for now On the one hand, I have a list of what I’d do to make my sweet 1950s bungalow my perfect, weirdly-tailored home. On the other hand, I have a list of updates that would help sell our

house. As I often do in moments of stalemate, I compile a trusty Venn diagram. Each list has its own respective circle, and some items from each list fall in that nice little overlap space. It’s these items we’ll attack first. We’re making progress while leaving the question of moving to our future selves. I’ll probably plant the asparagus; when is putting more asparagus in the world (for you or another) a bad idea? a

Ashley Heider Daly believes every person is a mere two circles away from better understanding any life problem through Venn diagrams.

It was just such a graph that led her to own her vintage and one-of-a-kind home store, Retro Den. Follow her on Instagram, @ahdaly.

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SEPTEMBER

4-30 Susan D. Eddings Design with Exhibit by Aberson’s PAC Gallery

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Simply Great - Tulsa Symphony

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Jessica Fellowes - Tulsa Town Hall

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BOOM - PAC Trust

OU & OSU game day apparel

20-21 Martha Graham Dance Co. Choregus Productions

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Lysander Piano Trio

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Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!

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Heller Shorts: Taking the Fifth Sept. 11-14 Henthorne Performing Arts Center Crayons Improv LIVE from the Comedy Parlor Sept. 12, 19 & 26 The Drunkard & Olio Sept. 6, 13, 20 & 27 Spotlight Theatre

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onstage

Short plays, long view Heller Theatre Company wobbles but won’t fall down

by GEORGE ROMERO

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ntil last month, Heller Theatre Company technically didn’t exist.

Oh, it has plenty of history, but as another civic theater company under another banner. It is a phoenix rising from the ashes after a hard fight.

In its former incarnation (Heller Theatre), HTC was the resident adult company at the Henthorne Performing Arts Center program through Tulsa Parks. When the proposed budget for the year was published, Heller’s future looked grim. That’s when a group of longtime volunteers banded together to support local performing arts, including Clark Youth Theatre and the Tulsa Performing Arts Trust. City Council and many community members worked tirelessly to secure victories, but Heller remained on the chopping block. A decision had to be made: Form a new company, or pack it in and quit?

With characteristic determination, Heller supporters pushed through to make the new Heller Theatre Company a reality. (For the sake of transparency: I’m production manager for HTC.) To celebrate, HTC premieres its inaugural season with “Heller Shorts: Taking the Fifth.”

HTC Board President Susan Apker has been producing Shorts since its inception and looks forward to the fresh start.

“This year was more fraught with drama than most,” Apker said in an email to The Voice.

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Heller Theatre Company rehearses for “Heller Shorts: Taking the Fifth” // Photo by George Romero

like at one point that Heller Shorts would just not happen.”

This year marks Heller Shorts’ fifth anniversary, and there’s plenty to look back on. Apker said the show has “given many novice and experienced playwrights the chance to see their work performed, as well as served as a training ground for directors and actors.”

A one-act festival, Heller Shorts produces 10-minute plays to highlight Tulsa’s homegrown talent.

This year, due to tight scheduling at Henthorne Performing Arts Center, the cast and crew have only three days in the theater before opening. Apker must rely on the talents of fantastic directors and actors to put on six plays a night. With only a few weeks to coordinate, how does HTC make all this happen? “I have to trust

the directors to bring polished performances to the space … as we iron out technical issues and prepare for opening night, September 11th,” Apker said.

With some of Tulsa’s best talent, Shorts runs the gamut from absurd to giggle-worthy. Past shows have included everything from an unusual incident in an elevator to a full-blown musical.

(Yes, really – a 10-minute musical!)

Some playwrights who started with Shorts have gone on to publish in literary magazines, win awards in the short play format and have their works produced nationwide.

Though it had just a “short” time to come together, this year’s lineup makes for a night filled with plenty of variety. And if you don’t like one play, there’s a whole

new one coming up in about the same time it takes Oklahoma weather to change. Donny Bailey, who wrote “Experiment Number 5,” described his play as a “mix of excitement, happiness, suspense, and terror rolled up into one of my favorite genres: sci-fi time travel thriller.” For “Ars Longa, Vita Ferris,” David Blakely took on a writing prompt to tell a story of a man selling a Ferris wheel. Shorts veteran Robert Young is both writer and director in “Moving On,” a paranormal drama about a father and daughter trying to move past the death of a loved one.

More than just a show, Shorts encourages local talent to step out and try something different.

The response has been enormous, and shows sell out – often before opening night. It’s this sort of creative incubator that keeps Apker engaged and looking to the future.

“I would love to see Heller Shorts build on its success and provide the opportunity for the production of original, longer works by local writers,” she said. Plans are in the works to expand HTC workshops in upcoming seasons to include writing and directing elements.

And for a season that almost didn’t happen, the future of HTC looks bright with stage lights. a

Heller Shorts: Taking the Fifth September 11-13, 7:30 PM September 14, 2:00 PM Henthorne Performing Arts Center, 4825 S. Quaker Ave

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Claremore Chili & Bluegrass Festival 9/4-6, Free Admission, $10 parking Claremore Expo Center, 400 S Veterans Pkwy bluegrasschilifest.com

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To celebrate its 35th year, this year the Bluegrass & Chili Festival will have twice the chili! The brand new Oklahoma State Championship Chili Cook-Off will be held Friday, and the ever-popular Mid-America Chili Cook-Off, and winners from both competitions will be invited to compete in the World’s Championship Chili Cookoff in Las Vegas. As always, the festival includes a stellar lineup of bluegrass music, headlined by Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and Ronda Vincent & the Rage. The festival will also include an Open Car Show, Kiddie Korral, Vocal Competition, and Junior Showcase. For more performing artists, see music listings.

9/6

Utsav – Spirit of India 11 am-4 pm, Expo Square Pavilion, 4145 E 21st St, iagtok.org

Experience the rich and diverse culture of India. This utsav (Hindi for celebration) is hosted by the India Association of Greater Tulsa, and will feature food from different regions of India, traditional music and dancing, cultural art, a children’s area, henna tattoos, and vendor booths selling jewelry and other goods.

Taste on Main 9/6, 11 am-10 pm, Main St, Broken Arrow Over 20 food trucks will converge on Main St. BA for Broken Arrow’s first food truck festival. Live music from Steve Liddell, Jill holzbauer, Jacob Tovar, Dustin Pittsley, and BrujoRoots. There will also be a Kidz Zone for family fun.

9/11

Rock ‘N Rib Festival 9/11-14, BOK Center, smgspecialevents.wix.com

Barbecue teams from around the country converge at the BOK Center to showcase their award-winning ribs. Enjoy the taste and smell of barbecue and the sound of live music from local bands. Don’t miss the Whiskey Well with samples from Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, Hudson Brothers, and Firefly Moonshine in a souvenir shot glass. Take part in the Aporkalypse Fun Run & 5k (new this year) where you can dress as a zombie and participate in a fun run or 5K that includes the Pig Out Challenge, a series of checkpoints throughout the race where competitors must eat ribs and sides and drink a beer. The festival also includes a kids zone, party saloon, culinary stage, and fireworks.

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9/12

I AM Yoga, Art & Music Festival 9/12-14, $10-$89, Centennial Park

A weekend of yoga classes, live art, inspirational workshops, kids’ activities, and live music. Take part in up to 21 classes and 8 workshops throughout the weekend, and enjoy live music from Grazzhopper, Branjae, BrujoRoots, Erin O’Dowd, and more. Visit the I AM Marketplace to browse vendors including Zen Body, Togi Yogi, Playful Buddha Designs, 717 Yoga Couture, and more.

For the complete music lineup, see music listings.

9/13

Can You Bring the Heat? Chili Cook-Off

10 am, River Parks, 17th & Riverside, tulsafederalcu.org

Tulsa Federal Credit Union holds its 3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off. Prizes valued at $500 will be awarded to the winners of each of two categories. There will also be live music and family-friendly activities.

9/13

Bunion Derby and Sock Walk 8 am, Milton Stadium, 1919 W 40th St

In 1929, an epic 3,554-mile footrace from Los Angeles to New York was held to highlight the opening of Route 66 two years earlier. One of the 77 men who entered the “Bunion Derby,” as it became known, was Andy Payne, a farm boy from Foyil, Oklahoma, who was vying for the first prize of $25,000 so he could save his family’s farm and marry his sweetheart. Payne won the race, finishing in 23 days, and became a symbol of the perseverance through adversity that’s become known as the “Oklahoma Standard.”

The Bunion Derby and Sock Walk is now held to honor Payne and the Oklahoma spirit. Participants can choose a 5k race, 1k power walk, or untimed Sock Walk for kids. Awards will be given to the top three males and females in 15 different age groups. A portion of the proceeds will support Communities in Schools.

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Rober t Fraser (left) photog raphed members of the Mar tha Graham Dance Company (right) in New York in 1937 // Provided by Choreg us Product ions

Reviving art

Groundbreaking dance company and long-lost photos debut for Tulsans

by BRITT GREENWOOD

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his month, Martha Graham Dance Company – the nation’s oldest contemporary dance troupe – makes its Oklahoma debut. Hardesty Arts Center, 101 E. Archer, will showcase never-before-seen photography from a 1937 performance by Martha Graham dancers.

The family of photographer Robert M. Fraser donated the photos to the dance company.

Fraser’s son Doug, an amateur photographer and professor at Dartmouth, began restoring negatives of the photos after learning of their significance.

According to exhibit sponsor Choregus Productions, Robert sat front row center the night of the Martha Graham show in New York City’s Guild Theater. Using a 35mm Contax-I camera, he captured numerous images of dancers at the peak of jump. Working without a

flash in the dim theater, he adjusted the camera’s settings with exceptional skill. Only about a dozen of his 170 photos from that evening were out of focus – an outstanding feat given the technology of the time.

Doug has only restored a third of the Martha Graham collection.

He focused his efforts on the photos chosen by Ken Tracy, executive director of Choregus Productions, and Janet Eilber, artistic director for the Martha Graham Dance Company. In an email to The Voice, Doug said he’s “probably got another year’s worth of Vermont winter evenings to spend restoring photos.”

The exhibit runs through September 20, and the Martha Graham Dance Company performs September 20-21 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Chapman Music Hall.

The company has influenced the development of contemporary dance on both a national and a global scale, according to Tracy.

“The chance to see her work performed by her company is an unparalleled opportunity for Tulsa audiences,” Tracy said in an email to The Voice. “But the company is not just a museum of Martha Graham’s choreography; the company has a strong commissioning program and they invite some of the leading choreographers in the world to create new work for the company. Tulsa will get to see some of that work as well.”

As for the photos, Tracy initially sought to arrange a small archival exhibition on Martha Graham history to coincide with the Tulsa performances. However, he learned that Hurricane Sandy had badly damaged most of the archives. The material was undergoing restoration

by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was unavailable, Tracy said.

A few weeks later, the company informed Tracy that Robert Fraser’s negatives had turned up.

Known to many as “Bob,” Robert died in 1998. The exhibition adds a layer to his legacy. “The restoration has been satisfying from the standpoint that I can ‘contribute’ to his success,” Doug said of his father. Doug plans to visit Tulsa for the exhibit and performance.

According to Doug, Robert loved dance and would likely be pleased with the restoration project.

“We have technology now that can bring out photo details that he didn’t have access to,” Doug said.

“He’d be thrilled with the show.”

Admission is free for Martha Graham: December 19, 1937.

Purchase tickets to the Martha Graham Dance Company performance at the PAC box office. a

ART HAPPENINGS

SPIRIT OF GILCREASE // Works by 16 local artists reflect on the Gilcrease Museum’s presence in the community over the years // through 9/14; Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education; 124 East M.B. Brady Street; 918-631-4400

VIRTUOSITY // The show displays Brett Lethbridge’s large-scale oils of draping fabric, Juan Medina’s female figures and Terry Donahue’s impressionist wildlife paintings // 9/13-10/13; Lovett’s Gallery; 6528 E. 51st Street; 918-664-4732

FIRST THURSDAY: STEVE TOMLIN // Oklahomans for Equality features the work the of expressionist painter, who has painted and taught art in Tulsa for more than three decades // 9/4- 9/30; Dennis R. Neill Equality Center; 621 E. 4th Street; 918-605-9894

DENDRITIC IMPRINTS // Sante Fe artist Michael Kessler layers translucent acrylic up to 50 times to create his contemporary paintings // 9/11-10/11; Joseph Gierek Fine Art; 1342 E. 11th Street; 918-592-5432 34 // ARTS & CULTURE

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9/13

The Castle Zombie Run 1-9 pm, The Castle of Muskogee, okcastle.com

Evade the horde and escape the Castle on a 5K course through the Castle’s 60 acres, where you’ll be faced with hidden perils, challenging obstacles, and hungry zombies. Survive the course with all of your life flags and brains intact, and you’ll be lauded for you apocalypse-survival skills, or succumb to the growing number of the infected. After the race, zombie and human alike will celebrate at the “Paint the Town Dead” party!

9/14

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States 2-3:30 pm, 124 E M.B. Brady St

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the indigenous peoples was genocidal and imperialist; designed to crush the original inhabitants.

Spanning more than three hundred years, this classic bottum-up history significantly reframes how we view our past.

THE BEST OF THE REST EVENTS

PechaKucha Tulsa 09 // Started in Tokyo in 2003, PechaKucha Night is a celebration of creativity based on a simple structure: 20 images x 20 seconds. Local speakers from different walks of life will make presentations consisting of 20 images shown for 20 seconds each (that’s 6 minutes, 40 seconds total for you Mathletes.) Presenters at this installment of PechaKucha Night include poet Deborah J. Hunter, Kent W. Martin with Louder Than a Bomb, painter John Hammer, Molly O’Conner with the Arts Council of Oklahoma, guitarist and luthier Seth Lee Jones, National Performance Network Annual Meeting Site Coordinator Lydia Moore, painter A. Nigh Herndon, Nellie Kelli with Dillon International, a Tulsa-based adoption agency, and TTV’s own Matt Cauthron. // 9/6, 8:00 pm, $7-$10 Audi Autocross 2014 // Audi Tulsa and Audi Club North America host a day of high-octane driving fun benefitting the Child Abuse Network, Inc. Test your skills as you maneuver through a challenging course in a brand new Audi with former NASCAR driver Russ Dugger in the passenger seat helping you unlock your true driving potential, or sit in the passenger seat as Russ or another instructor shows you what your own Audi can really do! Audi will be unveiling two new models at the event, making it the first time the Q3 and S3 will be seen outside Europe. // 9/13, 10:00 am-5:00 pm, $30, audiclubna.org Second Saturday Walking Tour // Discover a new appreciation of the incredible architecture downtown by learning about the history of its buildings. On the second Saturday of every month, Tulsa Foundation for Architecture presents guided tours of Downtown Tulsa’s historic architecture.

Tours begin at the Mayo Hotel // 9/13, 10:00 am, $10, tulsaarchitecture.com

VISUAL ARTS

Virtuosity // An exhibition of works by four virtuosos of their crafts, Australian Brett Lethbridge, Texan Juan Medina, Nebraskan Terry Donahue, and Washingtonian Ron Gerton. An artist reception and demontstration will take place the opening day of the exhibition, Saturday, 8/13 from 10 am to 5 pm. // 9/13, lovettsgallery.com

9/14

ShalomFest 12-5 pm, Temple Israel, 2004 E 22nd St, templetulsa.com

Celebrate Jewish life and culture at the annual ShalomFest. Enjoy traditional foods, music, entertainment, a children’s craft and play area, take a tour of Temple Israel, or browse the many vendors.

Modern Masters: An Evening with Charles Burns 7-8:30 pm, Philbrook Museum of Art

9/16

Spend an evening with graphic novelist and illustrator Charles Burns. Burns is the author and illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel Black Hole, as well as the trilogy of X’ed Out, The Hive, and the soon-to-be-released finale Sugar Skull. Burns is also the official cover artist of The Believer magazine, and his work can be seen everywhere from ads for Altoids to Iggy Pop’s album Brick by Brick.

COMEDY PERFORMING ARTS

The Ugly Duckling // As part of First Friday Art Walk, Playhouse Tulsa presents two free performances of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling” at 6 and 7 pm. // 9/5, 6:00 pm Heller Shorts: Taking the Fifth // Heller Theatre Company celebrates its new incarnation with a festival of original works by local playwrights performed by local actors directed by local directors. // 9/11-9/13 Aesop’s Falables // Spotlight Children’s Theater presents Aesop’s Falables, a rock musical based on Aesop’s Fables. // 9/119/21, spotlighttheater.org George Gershwin’s Americana // Michael Rossi conducts Signature Symphony through the works of one of America’s greatest composers. From Tin Pan Alley pop songs (“Someone to Watch Over Me”) to orchestral epics (“An American in Paris,” “Rhapsody in Blue”) Signature Symphony will showcase the range and talent Gershwin achieved in his short life. // 9/12-9/13, $30-$65, signaturesymphony.org Janet Rutland Sings the Sixties // “This music is a real heart punch,” says Rutland.

“You can remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you first heard these songs. It’s a trip.” Rutland will perform songs by Dusty Springfield, The Mamas and the Papas, Bob Dylan, and others. // 9/12-9/13, $14, americantheatrecompany.org Tulsa Symphony - Simply Great // Pianist Meng-Sheng Shen, winner of the 2013 Crescendo International Music Awards, is guest artist for a program that includes Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C Ma jor, also known as “The Great.” Daniel Hege, music director of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, returns as guest conductor. // 9/13, 7:30 pm, $15-$70, tulsapac.com The Drunkard and The Olio // A Tulsa tradition for more than 60 years (and the longest-running play in the country) Tulsa Spotlighters perform the melodrama “The Drunkard” and “The Olio” every Saturday night at 7:30. // $10-$15, spotlighttheater.org

THE TULSA VOICE // September 3 – September 16, 2014

Marc Ryan // Stand Up // 9/3, 8:00 pm, $7, 9/4, 8:00 pm, $2, 9/5, 7:30 pm, $10, 9/5, 10:00 pm, $10, 9/6, 7:30 pm, $10, 9/6, 10:00 pm, $10, loonybincomedy. com/tulsa Pop Up Players // Improv // 9/4, 7:00 pm, $5, comedyparlor.com

Comfort Creatures // Improv // 9/12, 10:00 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com Snap! // Improv // 9/13, 7:00 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com Naturally Improvable // Improv // 9/13, 8:30 pm, $10, 9/13, 10:00 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com

Show and Tell w/ Peter Bedgood // Talk Show // 9/4, 8:30 pm, $5, comedyparlor. com

Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 9/14, 8:00 pm, $5, comedyparlor.com

Comfort Creatures // Improv // 9/5, 8:30 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com

SPORTS

Ryan’s Drinking Problem // Drinking Game Show // 9/5, 10:00 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com Rumble-Ish: The Improv Competition // Improv // 9/6, 7:00 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com CR’s Variety Hour // Stand Up // 9/6, 8:30 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com Acoustic Ross // Music // 9/6, 10:00 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com Rick Shaw’s Comedy Showcase // Stand Up // 9/7, 8:00 pm, $5, comedyparlor.com Woody’s Comedy Night // Stand Up // 9/7, 9:00 pm, , woodyscornerbar.com TGIM Comedy Night // Stand Up // 9/8, 9:00 pm, , tulsashrine.com/

Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // $2 Wednesday! Just like $2 Tuesday, but a day later. // 9/3, 7:05 pm, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // Thirsty Thursday // 9/4, 7:05 pm, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com TU Men’s Soccer vs Virginia // 9/5, 7:30 pm, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Women’s Soccer vs Central Arkansas // 9/5, 1:00 pm, $5, tulsahurricane.com Rumble on the River X // 9/6, 7:00 pm, $35-$60, riverspirittulsa.com TU Football vs Oklahoma // Will you root for your home town or your home state? This game will have the city divided. // 9/6, 11:00 am, $15-$45, tulsahurricane.com

Janet Williams - “The Tennessee Tramp” // Stand Up // 9/10, 8:00 pm, $7, 9/11, 8:00 pm, $2, loonybincomedy.com/tulsa

Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 9/7, 1:05 pm, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com

Raw Meat // Improv // 9/11, 7:00 pm, $5, comedyparlor.com

TU Men’s Soccer vs CSUN // 9/7, 2:30 pm, $5, tulsahurricane.com

Show and Tell w/ Peter Bedgood // Talk Show // 9/11, 8:30 pm, $5, comedyparlor.com

TU Women’s Soccer vs Tennessee-Martin // 9/12, 7:30 pm, $5, tulsahurricane.com

Janet Williams - “The Tennessee Tramp” // Stand Up // 9/12, 7:30 pm, $10, 9/12, 10:00 pm, $10, 9/13, 7:30 pm, $10, 9/13, 10:00 pm, $10, loonybincomedy.com/tulsa

TU Men’s Soccer vs Creighton // 9/13, 7:00 pm, $5, tulsahurricane.com

Crayons // Improv // 9/12, 7:00 pm, $5, comedyparlor.com

ORU Women’s Soccer vs Cal Poly // 9/14, 12:00 pm, , oruathletics.com

Rubber Chicken Factory // Improv // 9/12, 8:30 pm, $10, comedyparlor.com

TU Men’s Soccer vs ORU // 9/16, 7:00 pm, $5, tulsahurricane.com

TU Women’s Soccer vs Oklahoma // 9/14, 7:30 pm, $5, tulsahurricane.com

ARTS & CULTURE // 35

musicnotes

Folk yeah

Rising singer-songwriter Robert Hoefling leaves the open mic behind

by MATT CAUTHRON

R

obert Hoefling is a relative newcomer to the Tulsa music scene. His first dose of widespread local exposure came when he was featured on the Horton Records compilation “New Tulsa Folks,” a showcase for up-and-coming singer-songwriters. Since then he has completed his first full-length album, to be released this month, and has beefed up his gigging schedule considerably.

start, and for a second I thought it was from the jukebox—and it’s always kind of awkward when you’re there and someone plays your song on the jukebox.

But then it dawned on me, like, “Wait—is Paul Benjaman playing my song?” I immediately ran inside. I was trying to play it cool, but I couldn’t believe it. I respect him so much as a musician.

The Tulsa Voice: How did you come to be involved with the “New Tulsa Folks” compilation?

RH: The week after the release show, I’ll be playing at the VFW— Friday, Sept. 19. Then the next weekend, I’ll be at the Stone River Music Festival. And the following weekend, I’m really excited about playing a little show out at the Prairie Artisan Ales brewery.

Good stuff coming up. a

Robert Hoefling: It really grew out of Cody Clinton’s Singer-Songwriter Night that he hosts every Monday at The Colony.

People started to notice how many original songwriters were coming up there—most that had never been recorded—and that’s how that compilation came together.

I’d go every week, and I didn’t want to just go and do the same three songs every time. So that was actually a motivator to write more songs. It was a goal almost every week: “I want to do at least one new song.”

TTV: What’s coming up for you?

Where can we see you?

Se e Rober t Ho efling (right) and friends perform a t une from the new re cord for The Tulsa Voice’s Cour t yard Concer t Series. TheTulsaVoice.com/Video

Ryan had worked with Jacob Fred [Jazz Odyssey] on some stuff, and I had met Chris Combs before, but Ryan is the one who suggested we try to get Chris to play lap steel on one of the tracks. I was blown away. I mean, it’s Chris Combs. And Jared Tyler plays on the record, too. He’s a master.

He really listens and captures the spirit of the song. He’s incredibly skilled, technically, but it’s more than that. He hears what the song needs and just nails it.

TTV: And then your new record kind of grew from there?

TTV: Who are some of your biggest influences in performing and songwriting?

RH: Yeah, I’d been wanting to do a full-length record for a while. I met Ryan Weaver, and he recorded the song that appeared on the compilation, and I really liked working with him. He’s so easy to work with.

RH: Wink Burcham comes to mind immediately. I’ve been a huge fan of Wink for a long time.

When I started getting into more folk and singer-songwriter type music, I always thought to myself, “Man, what happened to this kind

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of music?” Then one day someone invited me to Elwood’s by the river, and Wink and Jesse [Aycock] were playing. I realized, “Oh. This is where it is.”

TTV: I heard Paul Benjaman has been covering one of your songs.

RH: Yeah, “Midnight Daydream.”

It’s the one that was on the “New Tulsa Folks” album, and it’s on the new record, too.

TTV: I love that about him—that he covers fellow Tulsans’ songs at shows. I think it helps spread the gospel of the Tulsa scene. Did you know he was going to do that?

RH: I had no idea. I was sitting outside at The Colony smoking a cigarette. It wasn’t too long after the “New Tulsa Folks” album came out, and they had it on the jukebox there. So I heard the song

For updates and gig info, follow Robert Hoefling at Facebook.com/HoeflingMusic

Robert Hoefling “Old Memories & Live Wires”

Join Robert Hoefling and friends for a special release show on Saturday, Sept. 13, at Fassler Hall. Grayless and Wink Burcham open the show, and Hoefling will be joined by special guests all night, including Burcham, Chris Combs, Jared Tyler, Paddy Ryan and more.

Available at select local retailers, online at HortonRecords.com, iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby.

September 3 – September 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

THE TULSA VOICE // September 3 – September 16, 2014

MUSIC // 37

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Going out to see live music isn’t the only way to support Tulsa musicians. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can also chip in to help them get albums made or hit the road for nationwide tours.

Lend a hand and cough up a few shekels for these fine local music-makers currently running online crowdfunding campaigns.

Wed // Sept 3

Rum Runnerz – Jacob Jones, Johnny Paul – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Amanda Preslar – 7:00 pm Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project 15 Below – Skinny Minnie Gre en Cor n Rebellion with Hamby

Thurs // Sept 4

Soundpony – The Escatones, Cucumber and the Suntans, Madd Comrades The Vanguard – Stitched Up Heart – 7:00 pm – ($8-$10) Mercury Lounge – Joseph Huber and The Dirty Okie – 10:00 pm Elwood’s – Johnny Cooper, Austin Allsup, Mike McClure Band – 9:30 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Dante & The Hawks – 8:00 pm The Hunt Club – Phil Marshall Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – Cale & Tim from All In Gents Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross – 8:00 pm Undercurrent – DJ Al No Mor Claremore Expo Center – Claremore Bluegrass & Chili Fest - Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Flatt Lonesome, Heartland Xpress, Merle Jam, Foyil Music Studio, Just Gotta Dance, Charis Music Studio – 6:00 pm The Colony – Chris Combs Crazy Music w/ Jesse Aycock & Josh Raymer Lot No. 6 – Daniel Jordan 15 Below – Bob O’Neal and Alex Gamarra

Fri // Sept 5

Yeti – Johnny Polygon Soundpony – Green Corn Rebellion, Hamby The Vanguard – Ska Revival Tour ft.

The Last Slice, Survay Says!, Squirt Gun Warriors – 7:00 pm – ($10) Mercury Lounge – Cole Porter Band – 10:00 pm The Shrine – Forgotten Space (Grateful Dead Tribute) – 9:00 pm – ($10-$12) Gypsy Coffee House – Jerry Mason & Kurtis Keener, Weather for Strangers – 6:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Another Alibi – 9:00 pm The Hunt Club – Dachshund White Flag – Life Exposed, Sabertooth, Upright, Thought Crime – 7:00 pm Bruhouse Grill – Bryice Dicus – 8:00 pm Cimarron Bar – 13 Toyz – 9:00 pm 38 // MUSIC

Magoo’s – 4Going Gravity – 9:00 pm Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover – 9:30 pm Rum Runnerz – Midnite Run – 8:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin – 9:30 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Don White – 9:00 pm Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm Undercurrent – Symphonia Claremore Expo Center – Claremore Bluegrass & Chili Fest - Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Hearland Xpress, Spring Street, Not to Scale, Vintage Wildflowers, Adkins & Loudermilk, Lauren Lee & Liberty Road, The Belonging, Charis Music Studio, Cornerstone, Coyote Hill, Turtle creek Cloggers – 6:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Fusion CD Release Party w/ Jovita – 10:00 pm

Sat // Sept 6

Yeti – Fuck Your Ego Soundpony – Sweet Talk, Deadshakes, Noun Verb Adjective - Happy Hour Show – 5:00 pm Soundpony – Soul Night! w/ DJ Soul Fingaz and DJ Sweet Baby Jayzus The Vanguard – The Griswolds – 7:00 pm – ($1.45) Mercury Lounge – Filthy Still, Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy – 10:00 pm The Shrine – Mexclave, DJ Guero – 9:00 pm – ($10) Gypsy Coffee House – A Celebration of the Life of Steven McDaniel – 6:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Another Alibi – 9:00 pm The Hunt Club – Deacon White Flag – 99 Bottles, Justice Blocc – 8:00 pm Bruhouse Grill – Eric Himan – 10:00 pm Magoo’s – David Dover – 9:00 pm Rum Runnerz – Hard Truth – 8:00 pm Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm

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Fur Shop – End of Summer Luau w/ Kali Ra, Axis, The Choke, DJs Robbo, Lynn K, Xylo, Badger – 8:00 pm Undercurrent – Branjae Album Release Show - Powersource – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Garrett Heck, BrujoRoots – 9:00 pm Fassler Hall – Travis Fite, Jesse Aycock – 5:00 pm Lambrusco’z Downtown – Kalyn Barnoski, Rachel La Vonne – 5:00 pm Dwelling Spaces – Green Corn Rebellion – 7:00 pm Arnie’s – Sam and the Stylees – 9:00 pm Joe Momma’s – The Savage Young – 9:00 pm White Flag – Bandelier – 9:00 pm Yokozuna – Isaac Eicher Trio – 10:00 pm Tallgrass Prairie Table – Jubal Lee Young, Amanda Preslar – 9:00 pm Comedy Parlor – Acoustic Ross – 10:00 pm – ($5) Claremore Expo Center – Claremore Bluegrass & Chili Fest - Mountain Heart, Rhonda Vincent & The rage, The Grascals, Adkins & Loudermilk, Hearland Xpress, Common Tyme, Spring Street, Oklahoma Summer, Workman Bluegrass, Sixx Gunn Hill, Jessica Hunt Band, Eric James & The Unbroken, Just Gotta Dance, The 66 Band, Smith Brothers, Dylan Hall & Friends, Southbound Mule, Whiskey Minstrels, Celtic Cheer, Coyote hill, Charis Music Studio, OK Kids, Turtle Creek Cloggers – 11:00 am The Colony – Dustin Pittsley Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Braxus – 10:00 pm 15 Below – Christine Jude Duo

Sun // Sept 7

Cain’s Ballroom – Washed Out, Small Black – 8:00 pm – ($19-$34) Soundpony – DJ Darkuj - Happy Hour Patio Show – 5:00 pm Soundpony – Barghest The Shrine – End of Summer BBQ w/ The Outsiders – 5:00 pm – ($5) The Hunt Club – Preslar Sunday Showcase Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 pm Guthrie Green – The Mowgli’s, Justin Roberts Trio, Cherokee National Youth Choir – 2:30-6:45 pm Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center – The Time Jumpers ft.

Vince Gill, Kenny and Dawn Sears, Ranger Doug Green – 7:30 pm – ($35-$60) The Colony – Jesse Aycock Presents Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 am

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Mon // Sept 8

Soundpony – Thelma and the Sleaze, Who and the Fucks, Trash Pops The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton

Tues // Sept 9

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The Vanguard – Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes – 8:00 pm – ($12-$15) Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Live Band Karaoke – 9:00 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jam – 5:30 pm Hillman’s Garage – vRootbeer and Mermentau, Okie Mirage, The Daddyo’s, Cucumber & The Suntans, American Shadows – 10:00 pm

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2014-2015 SEASON simply great

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Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op.18 Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C major, D.944 (“The Great”)

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Beethoven, Symphony No. 8 in F major, op.93 Mozart, Requiem Mass in D minor, K.626

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Cain’s Ballroom – Pokey LaFarge, Dom Flemons, Joel Savoy, Jesse Lége & The Ca jun Country Revival, The Tillers, The Loot Rock Gang – 7:00 pm – ($15-$30) Soundpony – Left and Right, Lizard Police - Happy Hour Show – 5:00 pm Soundpony – Gymshorts, Bitchcraft, The Daddyo’s The Vanguard – Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Monophonics – 8:00 pm – ($15-$50) Crow Creek Tavern – FAZE – 8:30 pm Undercurrent – Bobby Butcher – 7:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Amanda Preslar – 7:00 pm Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project 15 Below – Brandon Clark

Soundpony – Hayes Dunn, Jinks Spring The Shrine – Steve Pryor – 9:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – T3 – 8:00 pm The Hunt Club – Daniel Jordan Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – Jake Moffat Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross – 8:00 pm Undercurrent – DJ Al No Mor The Colony – Chris Combs Crazy Music w/ Jesse Aycock & Josh Raymer Lot No. 6 – Brandon Clark 15 Below – Dave Armstrong

Fri // Sept 12

Yeti – HIP Dance Party Soundpony – La Panther Happens The Vanguard – D.R.I, Volition – 8:00 pm – ($17-$40) Mercury Lounge – Randy Crouch – 10:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Justin France – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Annie Up – 9:00 pm The Hunt Club – Glam R Us White Flag – When the Clock Strikes, The Dirty Mugs, Johnny Badseed and the Rotten Apples, Worse Than Before – 7:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Amped – 9:00 pm Rum Runnerz – Stars – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Sneaky Pete – 9:00 pm Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm Undercurrent – Jacob Stieful and the Truth Centennial Park – I AM Yoga Fest Son Bembe, Moai Broadcast, Sam & the Stylees, Grazzhopper – 5:00 pm The Colony – O Fidelis, Kalyn Barnoski Lot No. 6 – Christine Jude and Chris Brown Infuzion Ultra Lounge – The Jumshots – 10:00 pm 15 Below – Dirtboxwailers

Sat // Sept 13

Yeti – We Make Shapes Soundpony – DJ Falkirk Mercury Lounge – Rollfast Ramblers – 10:00 pm The Shrine – Sara Dunn Band CD Release Concert, Free Kennedy – 9:00 pm – ($7-$8) Gypsy Coffee House – Terry Aziere – 9:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Annie Up – 9:00 pm The Hunt Club – RPM Rum Runnerz – KingShifter, Mine Enemies Fall, Motortrain – 8:00 pm Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Lambrusco’z – Gypsy Twang – 1:00 pm Four Aces – David Dover – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Joe’s Red Barn – 9:00 pm Centennial Park – I AM Yoga Fest BrujoRoots, Dharampal, DJ Turk, DJ Darren George, Sharla Pember, Branjae – 12:00 pm The Colony – Jesse Aycock Presents Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Lot No. 6 – Pat Cook Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Filthy Gorgeous – 10:00 pm

Sun // Sept 14

Cain’s Ballroom – Aaron Behrens and The Midnight Stroll, Ranch Ghost – 8:00 pm – ($12-$14) Soundpony – Rockford Blue Rose Café – Randy Crouch – 12:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 pm Centennial Lounge – Ronnie Pyle & The Drivers – 9:00 pm Centennial Park – I AM Yoga Fest - The Melody & The Sea, Erin O’Dowd – 11:30 am Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 am Cain’s Ballroom – Twenty One Pilots, MisterWives, Vinyl Theatre – 7:30 pm – ($20-$35) The Vanguard – Eric Gales, Dustin Pittsley, The Duo Sonics, The Boogie – 8:00 pm – ($8-$10) The Hunt Club – Devin Tuel and Stephen Harris The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Guthrie Green – Nahko & Medicine for the People, Nikki Hill, Arthur Thompson – 2:30-6:45 pm Tin Dog Saloon – Cody Woody and The Woodpickers – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Brookside – Live Band Karaoke – 9:00 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jam – 5:30 pm Centennial Lounge – Open Jam Hosted by Dwayne Thompson & Crazy Horse – 8:00 pm

September 3 – September 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Adam Driver (“Girls”), Kate Mulg rew (“Orange is the New Black”) and William H. Mac y (“Shameless”)

And the award should go to...

Predictability and repeat wins make for a boring night at the Emmy Awards

by JOSHUA KLINE

T

here was actually a lot to like about this year’s Primetime Emmys ceremony.

Seth Meyers made for an affable (if milquetoast) host, landing an amusing opening monologue that affectionately lampooned the industry while celebrating its renaissance.

A handful of inspired moments served to prop up the evening, from the good ol’ boy “Night at the Roxbury” act of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson to Bryan Cranston’s aggressive lip lock with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as she attempted to accept her Best Actress award for “Veep.”

Billy Crystal offered a moving, extended tribute to Robin Williams that was all class. Weird Al Yankovic continued his comeback tour with a goofy mash-up of TV theme songs—most memorably “Game of Thrones,” at which point he and co-performer Andy Samberg handed seated guest (and “Thrones” author) George R.R. Martin an ancient typewriter and encouraged him to write faster.

Ricky Gervais continued to not give a shit and took his moment as a presenter to lament his own loss (he was nominated for “Derek”) and read his acceptance speech.

“Ha ha, I won,” he read. “I knew I

would because I’m the best actor.

Better than those other actors— Parsons, Cheadle, H. Macy, Joey from ‘Friends’ and Louis from ‘Louie,’ spelled slightly differently.”

Pomp and jokes aside, though, this year’s ceremony was more of the same: predictably predictable repeat wins for established industry favorites, with the occasional surprise (read: deserved win) thrown in for good measure—thank god for Cary Fukunaga’s best director prize for “True Detective,” the HBO hit’s only award of the night. And while no one seems to know what the hell constitutes a “miniseries,” the win for FX’s fantastic “Fargo” in this category was spot-on, as were the surprise acknowledgments of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (neither of whom were present) for their lovely work in “Sherlock: The Last Vow.” But the Emmys got it wrong more often than not.

Nearly every major category was dominated by previous winners in a year rich with deserving new blood. Here are the lowlights, five examples of how the Emmys once again screwed the pooch.

1 // Modern Family kinda sucks. And yet ABC’s declining single-camera sitcom won

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Best Comedy Series for the fifth year in a row, beating out better-thans “Louie,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Silicon Valley” and “Veep.” Consolation prize: At least “The Big Bang Theory” didn’t win.

2 // Jim Parsons has enough trophies. Speaking of CBS’s inexplicably popular “Big Bang Theory”: Jim Parsons is talented, but he’s not four-wins-for-the-samecharacter talented. And he certainly isn’t as deserving as “H. Macy, Joey from ‘Friends’ or Louis from ‘Louie,’ spelled slightly differently.”

3 // Actually, let’s just write off the Comedy Performance categories as a total loss. Julia Louis-Dreyfus should win all the awards for “Veep,” and the Emmys at least got that right.

However, every single comedy performance category was taken by a previous winner. Adam Driver (“Girls”) should have beaten Ty Burrell (“Modern Family”) for Supporting Actor. Kate Mulgrew (“Orange is the New Black”) or Anna Chlumsky (“Veep”) should have bested Allison Janney (“Mom”). Louis CK or Jodie Foster or Mike Judge should have taken best director over winner

Gail Mancuso (“Modern Family,” of course). Consolation prize: At least Louis CK won the comedy writing trophy for “So Did the Fat Lady,” that especially ballsy episode of “Louie.”

4 // The Normal Heart won something. Larry Kramer’s groundbreaking polemic deserved more than Ryan Murphy’s clunky, unsubtle adaptation. And yet the HBO production won Outstanding Television Movie over “Killing Kennedy” and “Sherlock: The Last Vow.” 5 // Breaking Bad ruined the party. This is a tricky one.

The Emmys didn’t get it wrong; “Bad’s” near-sweep—for Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, creator Vince Gilligan and writer Moira Walley-Beckett—was as deserving as anything. But it was such a foregone conclusion (and the show had a near-identical sweep last year) that what should have been an exciting final sendoff for Walter White and the gang turned into the most yawn-inducing moments of the night. Conversely, Cary Fukunaga’s upset win over Vince Gilligan made for the ceremony’s high point. Go figure. a FILM & TV // 41

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Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gle eson in “Frank”

Band of misfits

However you classify it, the quirky “Frank” has charm to spare

by JOE O’SHANSKY couple of weeks back, Michael Fassbender (“12 Years A Slave”) was on The Colbert Report. After a typically fun interview and the requisite commercial break, Fassbender reappeared, only this time on the band stage. He had donned an oversized, slightly creepy plastic head with an implacable-looking, boyish face painted on it. Maggie Gyllenhaal (“The Dark Knight”) and Domhnall Gleeson (“True Grit”), were on keyboards. With a backup rhythm section, they slid into a whimsical sounding, Doors-esque tune called “I Love You All.” The novelty of the band (and the song) were immediately disarming, between Gyllenhaal’s goofy stage moves and the ominous sight of the shrouded Fassbender affecting a Jim Morrison delivery as he sang lyrics like, “Put your arms around me, fiddly digits, itchy britches.”

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It was borderline surreal. And that goddamn song has been stuck in my head ever since.

As a left-field drama and rumination of the soul of an artist who can only exist by defying convention, “Frank” is an absolute joy.

You haven’t seen anything else like it.

At that point I had then yet to hear of Frank Sidebottom (née Chris Sievey) or the new film, “Frank,” loosely based on the cult British star’s sweetly bizarre persona. But now, “Frank” is one

of my favorite films of 2014.

It can happen that quickly.

Jon Burroughs (Gleeson) is a talentless songwriter who wanders the streets looking for the stream-of-consciousness inspiration he can’t find at his soul-deadening office gig— though he pretty much just improvises mundane lyrics and rote melodies, noting the existence of everything around him (when he’s not accidentally re-writing Madness songs).

On a stroll by the beach he meets Don (Scoot McNairy), manager of a band with the unlikely name Soronprfbs, whose keyboard player has just tried to drown himself in the rough waves of the cold British surf.

The band has a gig that night and Jon (having seen their fliers all over town) enlists as a backup keyboardist. He meets his bandmates: Clara (Gyllenhaal), Bara-

que (François Civil) and Nana (Carla Azar)—who all share an instant distaste for the wet-behind-the-ears (com)poser. He also meets their enigmatically weird singer, Frank (Fassbender). After an inauspicious gig that ends with Clara storming off in disgust, they part ways.

When Jon later gets a call from Don about another gig in Ireland, he takes a few days off to go on the road with the band. Turns out, the gig is actually an experimental boot camp recording session for the Soronprfbs’ first album—which irrevocably changes Jon’s life as he’s drawn into Frank’s siren presence and by the white whale of his own musical ambitions.

Jon practically finds himself on a hero’s journey to bring Frank to the attention of the world, only to discover that the observer effect won’t allow what makes Frank

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special to be captured like so much lightning in a bottle. As Jon grows out of his timidity and takes the reins of the band (business-wise, at least) he forgets that he was never really smart or talented enough to succeed to begin with. His hubris brings their world crashing down.

Wonderfully directed by Lenny Abrahmson and co-written by (and based on the writings of) noted journalist Jon Ronson (who is himself loosely adapted as Gleeson’s character), “Frank” is at once a subtly absurdist comedy and a weirdly affecting drama. Ronson was a collaborator with Sidebottom in the late ’80s before he became a radio host, filmmaker and wrote such well-known books as “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” Here, Ronson’s script rearranges the real-life characters of his past into a contemporary fantasy, not dissimilar from the tone of “Goats” (which was adapted into an equally

quirky 2009 film starring Ewan McGregor and George Clooney).

Ronson’s characters are eclectic, hilarious, and thoughtful. His script is rife with fine details that reward repeat viewings. There’s a good example in McNairy’s engineer/manager Don, who reveals that he met Frank in a mental hospital where he’d been committed for an odd habit. “I like to fuck mannequins.

It’s a condition,” Don says. Later, when Jon is struggling to write a song, Don attempts to give him some inspiration by playing one of his own, a thinly veiled ballad about boning mannequins: “Just lie still… and let me in.” It’d be creepy if McNairy weren’t so entertainingly bent and the film so smartly written.

While all the characters enjoy such care in their realization and have their moments to shine, Frank is the fulcrum on which they all balance. Fassbender’s performance is a revelation. He

imbues Frank with a child-like yet wise personality, subverting the limitations of not using his face but instead finding expression in his posture and movements. He certainly disappears into the role.

Gleeson is a fine tour guide for the story, equal parts naïve enthusiasm and crushing self-doubt.

McNairy steals practically every scene he’s in as Don, while Gyllenhaal’s overt hostility gives way to sadness just when her histrionics start to wear thin. It’s the characters that drive the film more than the story, and the cast delivers in spectacular fashion (right down to performing those memorably batshit yet strangely endearing songs).

As a comedy it’s a success. As a quasi-biography it lovingly captures the spirit of its inspiration (though a third act tonal shift proves to be slightly less satisfying). As a leftfield drama and rumination of the soul of an artist who can only exist

Japanese countr y musician Charlie Nagatani, from “Far Wester n”

East and Western

Documentary on rise of country music in Japan seeks funding

by JOE O’SHANSKY

J

ames Payne, producer of the popular Oklahoma-centric documentaries “Okie Noodling” and “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo” (not to mention the viral-hit-writ-large, “Winnebago Man”) is currently raising completion funds for his latest film as a director, “Far Western.”

The documentary centers on the unlikely adoption of classic country and western music by the Japanese in the wake of that country’s post-WWII reconstruction. American radio gave rise to a nearly anachronistic subculture of musicians who, today, occupy a distinct niche in a homogenized

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society whose subcultures are deeply rooted in their sense of freedom and individuality.

It’s a great story, the kind of enigmatic and pleasing slice-of-life revelation that only movies can make possible.

Payne has filmed in Japan on two different occasions. Now he’s

by defying convention, “Frank” is an absolute joy. You haven’t seen anything else like it. a “Frank” opens at the Circle Cinema, this Friday, Sept. 5.

For tickets visit www.circlecinema.com or call (918)-585-3504

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

turned to Kickstarter to fund a final return to the Land of the Rising Sun and capture the rest of the footage he needs to complete “Far Western.” As of this writing there are only two weeks left to fulfill the project’s $35,000 goal, and they’re less than a third of the way there.

I want to see this movie. I think many of you would, too.

While I would normally use this space for films that are complete and already on their way to Tulsa, really it should be meant for projects like this. Local filmmakers with vision and talent, laying the groundwork for a more vibrant Okie film scene and utilizing the skilled people around them who want to create here.

So go and check out “Far Western’s” Kickstarter page and have a look at the video. I was charmed immediately. If it grabs you too, donate. Support local filmmakers. You won’t get points off the back end but you could have a crucial hand in the creation of something that might not otherwise get to exist. And that, Grasshopper, is its own reward. a For more information or to donate, search “Far Western” at www.kickstarter.com FILM & TV // 43

news of the weird

by CHUCK SHEPHERD

All war is weird As summed up by a Vox.com writer: “The absurdity runs deep.”

America uses American military equipment to bomb American military equipment that ISIS captured (from inept Iraqi soldiers, inept in part since America disbanded Iraq’s professional military in 2003).

America’s Kurdish allies, fighting ISIS, use inferior Russian weapons they captured in the 1980s. ISIS has a so-far-safer haven in Syria because America declined to arm moderate Syrian rebels, largely out of fear that radicals like the future ISIS would capture weapons America provided.

“So now (America is) bombing the guns that (it) didn’t mean to give ISIS because (America) didn’t give guns to their enemies because then ISIS might get guns.”

Compelling explanations Thomas Clark, 28, of Crawley, England, beat one of society’s most foreboding charges in July when he

was acquitted of voyeurism even after admitting that he had hidden that video camera in a workplace rest room, and even despite evidence that he formerly worked in the pornography industry. Clark persuaded a Horsham Magistrates Court judge that he suffered an extreme phobia of diarrhea and vomit and that, by hiding the camera, he was thinking only of ascertaining that the rest room was clean before he entered.

Suspicions confirmed A fire hydrant at 393 University Ave. has brought in more parking ticket revenue (since 2008) than any other hydrant in Toronto — $289,620 on 2,962 violations, according to an August Toronto Star report. While hydrants are usually located at curbside to facilitate fire-engine access, the one at 393 University Ave. was placed about 20 feet from the curb, in the middle of a sidewalk, and obscured by a

tree in a planter about 8 feet long.

(Nonetheless, the law’s wording treats the hydrant, for illegal-parking and revenue-earning purposes, as if it were curbside.)

Police report Arrest Him at Your Peril: In July, a jury in Brooklyn, New York, awarded Kevin Jarman, 50, $510,000 from the city for the broken ankle he suffered during his arrest for shoplifting in May 2011 (a charge to which he eventually pleaded guilty).

Among his other New York City income: a $20,000 settlement for false arrest on a drug charge in 2013 and another, for $15,000, in 2005.

14 pet ducks that he keeps at home.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, which paid for Welker’s back surgery, stopped short of providing physical therapy and counseling, causing him more than ever to rely on the ducks, which he says motivate him to get out of the house and provide them with caretaking services. Village officials, however, cited him in June for misdemeanor fowl-housing.

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by ROB BREZSNY

Virgo (August 23 - September 22):

“I have a hypothesis that everyone is born with the same amount of luck,” says cartoonist Scott Adams. “But luck doesn’t appear to be spread evenly across a person’s life. Some people use up all of their luck early in life. Others start out in bad circumstances and finish strong.” How would you assess your own distribution of luck, Virgo?

According to my projections, you are in a phase when luck is flowing stronger and deeper than usual. And I bet it will intensify in the coming weeks. I suggest you use it wisely — which is to say, with flair and aplomb and generosity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) When my daughter Zoe was seven years old, she took horse-back riding lessons with a group of other young aspirants. On the third lesson, their instructor assigned them the task of carrying an egg in a spoon that they clasped in their mouths as they sat facing backwards on a trotting horse. That seemingly improbable task reminds me of what you’re working on right now, Libra.

Your balancing act isn’t quite as demanding, but it is testing you in ways you’re not accustomed to. My prognosis: You will master what’s required of you faster than the kids at Zoe’s horse camp. Every one of them broke at least eight eggs before succeeding. I suspect that three or four attempts will be enough for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Peter the Great was the Tsar of Russia from 1682 until 1725. Under his rule, his nation became a ma jor empire. He also led a cultural revolution that brought modern European-style ideas and influences to Russia.

But for our purposes right now, I want to call attention to one of his other accomplishments: The All-Joking, All-Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters. It was a club he organized with his allies to ensure there would always be an abundance of parties for him to enjoy. I don’t think you need alcohol as an essential part of your own efforts to sustain maximum revelry in the coming weeks, Scorpio. But I do suggest you convene a similar brain trust.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In Roald Dahl’s kids’ story James and the Giant Peach, 501 seagulls are needed to carry the giant peach from a spot near the Azores all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City. But physics students at the U.K.’s University of Leicester have determined that such a modest contingent wouldn’t be nearly enough to achieve a successful airlift. By their calculations, there’d have to be a minimum of 2,425,907 seagulls involved.

I urge you to consider the possibility that you, too, will require more power than you have estimated to accomplish your own magic feat. Certainly not almost 5,000 times more, as in the case of the seagulls.

Fifteen percent more should be enough.

(P.S. I’m almost positive you can rustle up that extra 15 percent.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) So far, 53 toys have been inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. They include crayons, the jump rope, Mr. Potato Head, the yo-yo, the rubber duckie, and dominoes. My favorite inductee — and the toy that is most symbolically useful to you right now — is the plain old cardboard box. Of all the world’s playthings, it is perhaps the one that requires and activates the most imagination. It can become a fort, a spaceship, a washing machine, a cave, a submarine, and many other exotic things. I think you need to be around influences akin to the cardboard box because they are likely to unleash your dormant creativity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I’m not opposed to you fighting a good fight. It’s quite possible you would become smarter and stronger by wrangling with a worthy adversary or struggling against a bad influence. The passion you summon to outwit an obstacle could bestow blessings not only on you but on other people, as well. But here’s a big caveat: I hope you will not get embroiled in a showdown with an imaginary foe. I pray that you will refrain from a futile combat with a slippery delusion. Choose your battles carefully, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) During the next six weeks, I suggest you regard symbiosis as one of your key themes. Be alert for ways you can cultivate more interest-

ing and intense forms of intimacy. Magnetize yourself to the joys of teamwork and collaboration. Which of your skills and talents are most useful to other people?

Which are most likely to inspire your allies to offer you their best skills and talents?

I suggest you highlight everything about yourself that is most likely to win you love, appreciation, and help.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but I’m going to suggest that you monitor the number six.

My hypothesis is that six has been trying to grab your attention, perhaps even in askew or inconvenient ways. Its purpose?

To nudge you to tune in to beneficial influences that you have been ignoring.

I furthermore suspect that six is angling to show you clues about what is both the cause of your unscratchable itch and the cure for that itch. So lighten up and have fun with this absurd mystery, Aries.

Without taking it too seriously, allow six to be your weird little teacher. Let it prick your intuition with quirky notions and outlandish speculations. If nothing comes of it, there will be no harm done. If it leads you to helpful discoveries, hallelujah.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In English, the rare word “trouvaille” means a lucky find or an unexpected windfall. In French, “trouvaille” can refer to the same thing and even more: something interesting or exceptional that is discovered fortuitously; a fun or enlightening blessing that’s generated through the efforts of a vigorous imagination. Of course I can’t guarantee that you will experience a trouvaille or two (or even three) in the coming days, Taurus. But the conditions are as ripe as they can be for such a possibility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The Dutch word epibreren means that even though you are goofing off, you are trying to create the impression that you are hard at work.

I wouldn’t be totally opposed to you indulging in some ma jor epibreren in the coming days. More importantly, the cosmos won’t exact any karmic repercussions for it. I suspect, in fact, that the cosmos is secretly conspiring for you to enjoy more slack and spaciousness that usual. You’re overdue to recharge your spiritual and emotional batteries, and that will require extra repose and quietude. If you have to engage in a bit of masquerade to get the ease you need, so be it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) When James Franco began to learn his craft as an actor, he was young and poor. A gig at McDonald’s paid for his acting lessons and allowed him to earn a living. He also used his time on the job as an opportunity to build his skills as a performer. While serving customers burgers and fries, he practiced speaking to them in a variety of different accents. Now would be an excellent time for you to adopt a similar strategy, Cancerian. Even if you are not doing what you love to do full-time, you can and should take stronger measures to prepare yourself for that day when you will be doing more of what you love to do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Here are a few of the ma jor companies that got their starts in home garages: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mattel, Amazon, and Disney. Even if you’re not in full support of their business practices, you’ve got to admit that their humble origins didn’t limit their ability to become rich and powerful. As I meditate on the long-term astrological omens, I surmise you are now in a position to launch a project that could follow a similar arc. It would be more modest, of course. I don’t foresee you ultimately becoming an international corporation worth billions of dollars. But the success would be bigger than I think you can imagine.

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