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editor’sletter The privilege of safety ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, I was working late at the office, putting the finishing touches on this issue. I’d read over Barry Friedman’s column for the 20th time, meditating on the tragic death of Khalid Jabara, thinking about what it means that such a brazen hate crime could happen in our backyard, in a supposed-

ly “safe” part of town, no less.

I kept returning to a nagging thought: safety is a privilege, and I, as a straight, white, cisgender man, would likely never know the kind of fear that plagued the Jabara family in the months leading up to Khalid’s murder— the fear of a stranger’s irrational, violent hate, based on something as simple and immutable as one’s name and skin tone.

I was thinking about this when the news broke—a black man had been shot and killed by a Tulsa police officer at 36th Street North and Lewis. Details were scant, but it looked bad.

As more information trickled out over the weekend, a damning picture emerged: Terence Crutcher was apparently on his way home from class at TCC when his car stalled in the mid-

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dle of the road. Tulsa Police were responding to a different call, but stopped when they saw Crutcher, who needed help. He was unarmed. Something happened, and an officer named Betty Shelby fired a single, fatal shot.

Early reports said that Crutcher had reached into the back of his vehicle and Shelby, thinking he was reaching for a weapon, fired—another example of the new “comply or die” paradigm that’s preached by a certain kind of empathy-challenged person every time an unarmed black person is shot by police.

On Monday, TPD released unedited footage of the incident, recorded from multiple angles.

Crutcher’s hands are in the air.

He’s walking, slowly, towards his vehicle, as four cops, guns drawn, move toward him. As a TPD helicopter circles overhead, we hear one of its officers say “Looks like a bad dude. Probably on something.”

Crutcher leans against his SUV and lowers his hands; he doesn’t appear to reach into his vehicle, but perhaps he did (ahead of the video’s release, Chief Jordan confirmed that no weapon was found on Crutcher or in the car). And then, he falls to the ground. He was shot by Shelby and tased by another officer, almost simultaneously. He bleeds out for nearly two minutes before anyone approaches him.

“Looks like a bad dude.” This phrase is key to understanding the perception problem that continues to rot the relationship between law enforcement and people of color. If it’d been a clean-cut white guy in the same SUV, and he’d approached the cops for help, what do you think would’ve happened?

In the words of Tiffany Crutcher, Terence’s sister, “That big bad dude was my twin brother. That big bad dude was a father. That big bad dude was a son. That big bad dude was enrolled at Tulsa Community College — just wanting to make us proud. That big bad dude loved God. That big bad dude was at church singing, with all his flaws, every week … That big ‘bad dude,’ his life mattered.” a

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he majority of people incarcerated in jails – 70 percent, according to national statistics – have not been convicted of a crime. In most cases, after a person is arrested, a judge sets a bail amount starting at several thousand dollars that the defendant must pay to be released as a guarantee that they will appear for their court date. If the defendant can’t afford to post bail or to purchase a bail bond (costing at least 10 percent of the bail amount), they will remain in jail until their case is resolved.

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allow some low-risk defendants who can’t afford attorneys to be released after signing a written promise to appear in court. The Public Defender’s Office recommends candidates who are likely to receive probation but can’t pay their money bail, and the District Attorney’s office screens them and submits them to a judge to sign off.

The process has so far resulted in 64 people released from the Tulsa County Jail, saving the county more than $50,000 in a little more than two months, according to Assistant Public Defender Jill Webb. This program has considerable room to grow.

In 2015, public defenders represented four out of five felony defendants and one in three misdemeanor defendants in the county – over 8,000 cases in total.

Tulsa County’s new program could be used as a stepping stone to a more comprehensive approach to assessing risk. Dozens of jurisdictions across the coun-

try have integrated standardized risk assessments into their release decisions. One of the most common assessments, the Public Safety Assessment developed by the Arnold Foundation, analyzed a database of 1.5 million cases to identify the best predictors of future crime or failure to appear in court. Low-risk defendants can be released and simply reminded of their court dates; defendants at high risk of reoffending or failing to appear may be denied pre-trial release or released under supervision.

In one county in North Carolina, the jail population dropped by almost 20 percent as the risk assessment was implemented. That means more resources can be devoted to guarding those who pose a real risk to public safety. The recent murder of Khalid Jabara in Tulsa provides a tragic reminder of the failure of our current system to adequately assess risk. The man accused of his murder had a long criminal history and, just

a few months prior, had bonded out of jail while awaiting trial for an alleged hit-and-run that nearly killed Jabara’s mother. The Public Safety Assessment takes into account factors like “whether the current offense is violent” and “whether a person has a pending charge at the time of arrest.” It’s possible that, had a standardized risk assessment been in place, he would have been denied bail altogether.

The justice system favors those with money at every turn. Ending money bail would be a proven way to level the playing field. When properly implemented, it saves counties incarceration costs at minimal risk to public safety and – most importantly – brings the system a little closer to ensuring justice for all. a

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

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THE KILLING OF KHALID JABARA Hate, murder, and America

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y friend Mohammad— he goes by Mo—is a car guy who sold me a Honda Element years ago. I thought then, think now, how oddly wonderful it was that a Muslim was selling a Jew a Japanese SUV in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I saw hope in that, metaphor in that, America in that. Mo’s last name is Jbara.

A man named Jabara was murdered in Tulsa on August 12. It wasn’t Mo, I knew that. Different spelling, and the man’s name was Khalid—but how many Jbaras are there in town, how many spellings, and how do you ask a friend if he no longer has a brother, a cousin, a son? Mo, in fact, knew Khalid Jabara and his family. One night a week, Mo and his friends, including some of the Jabaras, go to a church (in which most are not even congregants) to play cards.

It’s not a religious thing. Emiratis, Syrians, Jordanians, Saudis, Iranians, Iraqis, Muslims, Sikhs, Lebanese Christians—all come together to kibitz about children, elections, sports, culture, the old country. Many of their parents still live in the Middle East, but their children are here. Their lives are here. They are Americans. Mo threw out his Jordanian passport.

Many are Republicans, conservatives. They hate DAESH more than you.

But they also get stopped at airport security more than you.

“What do you mean he’s not coming?” Mo recalled someone saying about Khalid Jabara’s father

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not showing up to the card game.

“A shooting. Who? Why?” As news spread, some of the card group went to the Jabara home to check on the family.

There were barricades. All were kept back.

That’s how they found out about Khalid.

You know the story. Stanley Vernon Majors, a neighbor who shouldn’t have had a gun, who shouldn’t have even been a neighbor, shot Khalid for the crime of being a Muslim, even though—and this mattered little to Majors— Khalid wasn’t a Muslim, he was a Lebanese Christian.

The day of the shooting, Khalid Jabara, who lived at home with his parents, called 911 to report that someone was tapping on the windows of his home. He then called 911 again after learning from Majors’ husband, Stephen Schmauss, that Majors was armed with a gun and had fired a shot inside the couple’s house. The police came out. They knocked on Majors’ door, no answer. They left. Minutes later, Jabara walked onto his front porch, called his mother and told her not to come home because Majors had a gun.

While he was still on the phone, Majors shot him.

Majors was hiding behind a tree when the cops found him.

In 2009, Majors was sentenced to 16 months in prison for threatening to “terrorize” Los Angeles. He served less than a year.

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In 2013, in Tulsa, the Jabara family filed a protective order against Majors after he assaulted them with threats and harassing emails (“Fuck you Arabs, Fuck you bastards.”) and broke into their car and stole documents. The order was granted and ignored.

In 2015, Majors ran over Haifa Jabara, Khalid’s mother, with his car while she was out for a walk.

She spent weeks in the hospital with a broken shoulder, a collapsed lung, and fractured ribs.

Police charged him with felony assault and bail was first set at $30,000. Majors posted bond.

District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler objected. After a second bond hearing, the bail was increased to $60,000. Majors posted that bond, too.

“We wanted no bond or alternatively $300,000 bond,” Kunzweiler recently told the Tulsa World. “We got neither. Because of the proximity of the family’s home to the defendant, we requested ankle monitoring and, if possible, relocation. The judge’s ruling was initially a $30,000 bond.

He then doubled it to $60,000 without bond conditions despite our stated concerns.”

Tulsa Police Sgt. Dave Walker said, regrettably, that’s how it works. Bad guys get out.

“There are many guys we don’t want out who get out. Guys charged with murder get out on bail. But that’s the system,” Walker said.

Drew Diamond, former Tulsa police chief, agreed, but said the dysfunction goes deeper.

“A more engaged community policing officer may have been able to work with the court to ensure a high bond be maintained,” Diamond said. “Further, they might have spent more time and creative problem-solving intervening during that last call to the suspect’s house. What we heard from TPD were all the reasons they felt their hands were tied and that they did all they could do. Introspection seems to be lacking.”

Walker dismissed that last point; he said the options were limited (the last 911 call by Khalid was, he insists, somewhat vague).

But he agreed with Diamond about community policing—up to a point.

“Had the same cops been called who knew about the situation,

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then, yeah, it might have been diffused, but how do you do that in every situation? We’re an organization and we’re stretched thin and we get a lot of calls and a lot of people want us,” Walker said.

When I asked Walker what else could have been done to prevent Jabara’s murder, he paused for a long moment.

“Knowing what we know now, sure, but at the time,” and then he trailed off. “We could have knocked down Majors’ door and shot him, okay, but imagine the repercussions had we done that?

I can tell you that everyone wanted to save Khalid.”

Khalid’s family immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s from Lebanon. The family settled in Tulsa and raised three children. Khalid’s brother became a lawyer; his sister works in marketing. Khalid ran a catering business with his mother.

Their story is an American one.

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In October of 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain was told by a woman at one his rallies, “I can’t trust Obama. He’s an Arab.”

“No, ma’am,” McCain responded. “He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. He’s not an Arab.”

McCain got a lot of credit for that—but he never told the woman that there’s nothing wrong with being an Arab.

Khalid Jabara was killed because of his name and skin tone, because he was neighbor to a man who doesn’t want an America where Jabaras live next door.

The dog whistles are getting louder in this country, the winks and nods to people like Majors more overt.

Aliye Shimi, outreach director of the Islamic Society of Tulsa, has never seen it this bad.

“Since this platform has opened, since this presidential elec-

tion, I can’t tell you how much hate and bigotry there has been against people of Hispanic descent, Middle Eastern descent,” Shimi said.

“And we see it day in and day out.

And if a presidential candidate can say it without anyone reprimanding him, it must be okay for everyone else to act on it. We haven’t experienced this much hate, this kind of rhetoric, even after 9/11.”

A recent Georgetown University study on the connection between rising Islamophobia and the 2016 elections confirms Shimi’s assertion. “Anti-Muslim violence remained significantly higher in 2015 than pre- 9/11 levels, with American Muslims approximately 6 to 9 times more likely to suffer such attacks,” the study says.

“The number of incidents in 2015 is also higher than the total number of anti-Muslim hate crimes reported in 2014: 154.”

We’ve always had racists in this in this country, but Stanley Vernon Majors is now part of something else in America—a polluted underbelly that’s now tolerated, encouraged. It believes—insists— political correctness, affirmative action and, of course, immigration have caused America’s decay.

Muslims, Sunnis, Shia, Kurds, Syrians, Iranians, Pakistanis, Jordanians, Egyptians, Ay-Rabs, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, Army Captain Humayun Khan and his Gold Star parents, Omran Daqneesh, Khalid Jabara—they’re all the same, the nativist alt-right and its leaders seem to be saying, let’s find out what the ones here are up to, let’s keep the rest of them out. You want to know why America’s not great anymore? Look across your yard.

Majors went out to look.

I meet Victoria Jabara Williams, Khalid’s sister, and Jenna Carl Jabara, his sister-in-law, for coffee.

They’re running late; they’ve been at the courthouse—their second home for the next few months, years maybe.

THE TULSA VOICE: What story is not getting out?

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judge—I guess you could say, the system—failed us. Even the DA said we did everything right. We filed protective orders, we stayed on top of the district attorneys— [Majors] ran over my mom with a car and he got out. I mean, why did he get out in the first place?

VICTORIA: Locally, community-wide, nationwide, it’s been phenomenal, but on a political, official elective level, Hillary [Clinton] got in contact. Valerie Jarrett, [special advisor to the president] also called. It was genuine, sent the president’s condolences. Congressman Tom Cole left a voice mail; Mayor Dewey Bartlett gave a statement, Mayor-elect Bynum came to the memorial service.

JENNA: [The $60,000 bond] was laughably low… Families and victims are not pieces of paper.

VICTORIA: It felt like negligence and indifference. My sister-in-law is an attorney, my brother is an attorney.

We’re all educated and if we’re our own victims’ advocates, we did everything we’re supposed to.

What about those that don’t have the voice and don’t know? How are they getting screwed?

TTV: So what about the tone of America? Trump and intolerance and your brother’s death? They related?

TTV: Did Majors ever say what he wanted from your family? Did he tell you to move?

JENNA: There was no endgame.

He didn’t say. It’s like he had a vendetta.

VICTORIA: It was racially based, for sure. I have to wonder, if my brother, my parents were white Oklahomans, Joe Schmo, maybe he wouldn’t have had such an issue.

I don’t know. He wrote us letters, said he was going to call immigration. I mean, my family have been American citizens since ’89.

TTV: This is a personal pain, but it’s being played out publicly. That changes the dynamic, yes? You are, for many, the face of Lebanese Christians right now.

VICTORIA: Yeah. People tell us they’ve been to that steak house [Jamil’s].

They both laugh—it’s a particularly wonderful sound considering their grief.

TTV: Is that an extra burden for you, knowing you and your pain are being watched?

VICTORIA: Yeah, but not so much as Lebanese Christians, but as innocent victims, innocent humans.

It’s important for the world to know our faith, because that’s how we are—not because we’re that religious—especially because the media and this neighbor perceive us to be something else.

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TTV: Islam?

VICTORIA: Yes. We have a cultural identity, as Lebanese Christians, not just a religious identity.

TTV: Do you feel the need to tell people you’re not Muslim?

VICTORIA: I’ve battled with that because CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) set up a fund for my brother. They’re liberal Muslims, community activists and I’ve had some Lebanese Christians—I don’t know if I’m going to get in trouble for saying this—but there have been some people who sent some texts, posted on Facebook, asking if there’s another place where they can donate.

TTV: Why? VICTORIA: Because they were afraid of what’s down the road, and on that donation page, there’s a woman with her head covered.

TTV: They didn’t want the association? What did you tell them to do?

VICTORIA: It’s early, but I want to.

I don’t know how successful we’ll be.

TTV: Who do you sue, anyway?

JENNA: You can’t sue the judge; you can ask for his resignation.

You want to sue everyone right now. It’s a very raw time, but at the same time, we’re angry, sad, but we’re trying to keep the focus on awareness on the justice side of things, of the negligence that goes on, that there’s a human being behind every piece of paper, and on the other side—the hate crime side—bringing awareness to the fact that Oklahoma even has a hate crime statute. (In addition to first-degree murder and possession of a firearm after conviction, Majors has been charged with malicious intimidation as a hate crime.)

TTV: Do you want them to seek the death penalty?

Victoria exhales, scrapes down her styrofoam coffee cup and runs her finger inside the cup holder placed for protection.

VICTORIA: I said “Donate to the church or don’t give.”

VICTORIA: My family wants justice, but I don’t think they know what that means yet because they’re hurting so much.

TTV: What happens now? Are you going to sue the city?

TTV: What have you felt from the rest of us, from America?

VICTORIA: It’s a stretch to make the connection, but it hasn’t helped. I mean, Majors is uneducated and ignorant. I don’t think he’d even show up to vote. He’s been a bigot his whole life and will be whether Trump’s in office or not. But you can’t help but see how the more mainstream these comments are, the more socially acceptable they are for people to say them. People are saying about Trump, “We like that he’s not politically correct.”

By the way, Lebanese Christians are also voting for him, as crazy as that sounds.

JENNA: The tone right now encourages a society where we start to think these comments are okay to make. It’s a dangerous place. One family friend, a family physician, says he’s afraid to go out with his wife because he says he looks “too brown”—and that’s right here in Tulsa. And that’s a direct result of all the compounding stories we’ve been hearing, and that fear-based, bullshit rhetoric is making it mainstream and making it okay.

VICTORIA: We grew up in south Tulsa, super integrated in the Jenks School System. I had a name like Victoria so it was a little easier, but Khalid had a very Arabic name and he looked more Middle Eastern. Rami, my brother, while he had an Arabic name, he is blonde with green eyes. I don’t know if it ever was really an issue for Khalid living in our local community, but I know it was on his mind. The ironic part is, that’s what killed him. a

Portions of this story first appeared on Public Radio Tulsa.

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citybites The deep bass chords began at five in the afternoon.

The bells of arsenic and the smoke at five in the afternoon.

On the street corners groups of silence at five in the afternoon.

And only the bull with heart uplifted! at five in the afternoon.

—FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

Costillas are chili-rubbed baby back ribs served with fried plantains MICHELLE POLLARD

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RUNNING WITH THE BULL The Hodges Bend crew ups the ante with Torero

by MARK BROWN

A

t 5 o’clock on a given Thursday, cars used to vacate downtown, not flock to it. This particular Thursday, at 5:03, there wasn’t a parking space to be had west of Main.

Construction took up a lot of it, and I’d forgotten about Coldplay at the BOK. I drove east on 1st, turned up Cincinnati, and pulled into the first space I found, beneath the PAC marquee pitching “Heathers: The Musical.” I walked the four blocks to Cheyenne under a black canopy of cloud threatening to clap any minute.

“Sorry,” I said, finally meeting Noah Bush at his new bar, Torero—the one with the bull’s bust in back of it. “I forgot about Coldplay.”

“Yeah, it kind of slipped my mind,” he said. “You going?”

“Nah,” I said.

“Yeah,” he said. “After that first album. Maybe.”

The bull’s name was Mataco.

His tormentor was Jose Luis Moreno, who dispatched the fouryear-old beast to that great pasture in the sky on October 4, 2009 at Madrid’s Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas. During the autumn feria, no less.

“It’s a little morbid, maybe,” Bush said, “but I love the tradition.”

Mataco now lords regally over a row of beer taps and waiting vessels. His nostrils flare, as if discerning tasting notes.

Five or six years ago, when Noah Bush was bartender at Doc’s Wine & Food, making his own bitters and tonics, he and Ian Van Anglen, back in the kitchen, dreamed of tapas.

“We always talked about how awesome it would be to have a traditional tapas bar in Tulsa,” Bush said. “This obviously isn’t a traditional tapas bar.”

A year and half ago, Bush, Van Anglen and John Gaberino—The Restaurant Group Without a Name, responsible for Hodges Bend, The Parish and Saturn Room—had their eyes set on a space on the Denver side of One Place, and an idea to do a highend gastro pub. Then came Elgin Park and Roosevelt’s.

“We thought, let’s make it completely different,” Bush said.

“Which is when we revisited our tapas bar idea from way back.”

The little tapas bars of Barcelona and Bilbao, San Sebastian and Seville, where you sit at the counter (usually stand, often two and three deep), under a canopy of ancient hams, and order pintxos of olives, fish and meatballs and toss them back with cheap tinto?

Yeah, this ain’t that.

“We liked the idea,” said Bush, “but we were going for something more updated.”

Enter small plates. In my experience, Tulsa is a big-plate town, with mounds of meat and piles of taters and something green for show. With horns out, Torero is bucking that trend.

“We’re not at David L. Moss, guarding our food and shoveling it down our throats,” Bush said.

“Small plates are small plates because everybody wants to try something different. A fork goes across the table now more than people deciding on which three different courses they’re going to order.” (Continued on p. 16)

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GLOSSARY Pisco: a grape spirit of Peru and Chile, or Chile and Peru, depending on who you ask. The grappa of the Americas.

Chimichurri: the cilantro-parsleyoregano sauce favored on grilled meat in Argentina and Uruguay.

Aji verde: a Peruvian green-chile sauce.

Medianoche: “midnight,” for the popular hour this famed Cuban sandwich is consumed by the club-going set.

Prosciutto: legendary Italian ham, cured over months, sometimes years, with salt and mountain air.

Criolla: a South American pepper-andonion (“creole”-style) salsa.

Huitlacoche: Wiki calls it “corn smut;” a delicacy in Mexico, Ustilago maydis is an edible plant fungus. The Mayans dug it on omelets.

Mignonette: the classic French shallot-vinegar-pepper sauce for oysters.

Leche de tigre: literally, “tiger milk;” incidentally, the debut album from Belle & Sebastian; practically, a Peruvian citrusand-spice ceviche marinade.

Picadillo: a thick stew of ground beef and tomatoes, raisins and olives.

Torero: a man (torera for a woman) who fights a bull.

Matador: one who kills it.

(Continued from p. 14) Only with sushi does the concept of multiple dishes seem to remotely work. On Torero’s deliciously intimidating menu, sushi appears under the “Ceviche” column as tiradito, a Peruvian dish.

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Ian Van Anglen and Noah Bush of Torero | MICHELLE POLLARD

is Peru,” Bush explained. “The names might be different but the flavors are familiar. How’s your cocktail by the way?”

I’d ordered the Armonia, a summery sip compiled of gin, manzanilla sherry, apricot brandy, grenadine and sour orange. Armonia=Harmony.

“You go to a sushi joint and order a Geisha Girl,” Bush went on, “you don’t care what it’s named, you just order it because you read the ingredients. We’ve given the dishes their traditional names, then we list the ingredients in gringo so everybody can understand it.”

At Torero, best to go with your gut. When our party of four went rampaging through the menu in August, before the menu was even complete, we tried to touch all the bases, starting with a hot cazuela of Provoleta (a bruschetta of grilled bread—black and golden-brown, like a pasture on fire—chimichurri and toasted Provolone) and a grilled salad of baby gem and prosciutto that went so fast I didn’t get a bite.

The Matambre—a thin cut of grilled beef favored all over South America—offered a charred carrot, fruity olives, perfectly softboiled egg, and a few petit fingers of flatiron (not even a hand’s worth), all damp with a paintbrush or two of chimichurri.

I liked the sprinkling of cabrales blue on the crispy patatas bravas.

I could have eaten more of the goat arepas and picadillo empanadas.

Like, $100 more.

I almost forget to order the duck leg. After flagging the server, it arrived in minutes: slow-cooked and falling off the bone, and nestled on a bed of pepita-tomatillo mole. Tasty, as I recall; I got two bites. The duck is a hair-raising $25. I’ve paid that for the whole Donald.

With Torero, it’s as if the portions went one way and the price the other. Is minimalism the cost of eating well? Perhaps. Or maybe it’s recompense. I’m of the lost generation that grew up on cheap food. Only now are we realizing the unsustainability of that. Like Jose Moreno, we’d been getting away with murder.

“We’re not trying to rip you off,” Bush said. “This is a solid product that we care about.

Frankly, you should be OK with forking over just a little bit extra just to know that we’ve taken the time and care to procure the food and drink.”

A lot of bars these days tout their curation, but Torero must be the Prado of bars, with its vault of Chilean wines and an arsenal of lagers and ales (40 taps, dozens more in bottle). There’s

even a modest sherry list, a nod to the tapas bars of team Torero’s dreams. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Noah Bush bar without a menu of thoughtful cocktails, including a pisco sour that’s a masterpiece to behold.

Bush talks about wanting to create the feel of a “big city” restaurant, one of those spots we all experience on the road when the mood is high, the tab on somebody else, and the hotel within walking distance. Truth is, I’m not sure if there’s been a more ambitious restaurant in Tulsa history. A lot of Torero’s menu you’ve eaten all over town, but probably not this exceptional, and certainly not under one roof.

“It’s an underdeveloped side, as far as restaurants and bars,” Bush said of their near-to-BOK location. “Mixco’s doing a great job, but I really wanted to see how a restaurant would do over here.”

He speaks excitedly about the two new hotels on their way to the area, both without bars or restaurants. He’s banking on everybody from Amy Grant to Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He wants to do charcuterie, he said, if the health department will come out of the stone ages. But will it be enough?

“Who knows?” he said with a shrug. “We’ll all see, won’t we?” a

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

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

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

PEARL DISTRICT Ike’s Chili JJ’s Hamburgers Lola’s Caravan The Phoenix Café

Papa Ganouj El Rancho Grande Soul City

BROOKSIDE 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 The Hen Bistro HopBunz In the Raw Keo La Hacienda Lambrusco’Z To Go Leon’s Brookside

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

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

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

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

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

GREENWOOD Abear’s Fat Guy’s

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

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

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

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Lou’s Deli MADE Market in the DoubleTree by Hilton Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Oneok Café Oklahoma Spud on the Mall Seven West Café Sheena’s Cookies & Deli Steakfinger House The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Williams Center Café

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

BRADY ARTS DISTRICT Antoinette Baking Co. Bull in the Alley Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Coney Island Draper’s Bar-B-Cue Gypsy Coffee House Hey Mambo The Hunt Club Laffa

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

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

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

ROSE DISTRICT Andolini’s Pizzeria Daylight Donuts Fiesta Mambo Franklin’s Pork & Barrel In The Raw Sushi Main Street Tavern

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downthehatch

Big, bold, sour Chase Healey opens American Solera, a beer society and taproom

by LIZ BLOOD

C

hase Healey started professionally in the beer industry as COOP’s original brewmaster (responsible for their most delicious beers, in my humble opinion, F5 and DNR). You might know him best, however, from starting Prairie Artisan Ales, which he sold in June to Krebs Brewing Co. Healey still brews for Prairie Brewpub in the Brady Arts District, but his main focus now is American Solera (AS), a beer society with a taproom that traffics mainly in sour beers.

“I wanted to call it American because it’s broad—and bolder,” Healey said. “It’s of the country and not just the region, like ‘Prairie.’ And ‘Solera’ is the style of production—the idea is that we have one of those large oak tanks and we only take out maybe one-third of the product, add new product in, and it continues to age. … Hopefully if I’m still doing this in ten years, the tiniest bit of stuff from our launch will still exist.”

AS launched last month. Its beer society is currently made up of 250 members, though the number will grow with subsequent years. Each member purchased a $300 membership for the year, with the guarantee of receiving 20 bottles AS releases throughout the year, plus the option to have first right of refusal on buying more, as well as the opportunity to buy more than the general public is allowed. Some of the 20 guaranteed bottles will be production runs that are so small the general public will never see them.

So, yes, it’s a fancy, pricy beer club with a limited membership, but there’s good news for the rest of us.

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Chase Healey, owner and sole brewer at American Solera | LIZ BLOOD

On August 26, Oklahoma Senate Bill 424 went into effect, allowing full-strength beer to be served and bought in Oklahoma breweries. That same day, American Solera opened its doors to the public. Now, you can visit their taproom (1801 S. 49th W. Ave.) and sample the six or so beers on tap, as well as buy bottles and cans to take home.

Most AS beers are sours, but Healey does have a double IPA on draft and for sale in four-packs. At the time of writing this article, he had started selling the IPA three weeks prior. He began with 1000 four-packs, and when we spoke he had less than 100.

“The focus is definitely on the sour beers, but little projects like the IPA keep me going, too. I’ve

got a problem—I like a lot of different beers, and I want to be able to make them. But 90 percent of what we’re doing is sour beer aged in oak barrels … It’s the hardest beer to make, and so it helps me feel fulfilled as a craftsman.”

Sour beer’s difficulty is twofold: first, they are time-consuming, most taking six to 18 months to age, with some taking years.

Secondly, they don’t always turn out. When Healey makes wild-fermented beer, with outdoor fermenters collecting wild yeast from the air, sometimes they turn out great, and sometimes Healey has to wait until they turn into something better, which might take three years.

I sampled AS’s current selection, and my advice is to get while the gettin’s good.

The double IPA, Terpy Citra, gets its name from terpines—basically the essential oils found in hops—and citra, a type of hops known for its lovely, not overpowering, citrus aroma. It’s malty, smells great, and at eight percent ABV, is on the lower-percentage end for double IPAs. The funky Money Blend farmhouse ale gave me goosebumps when I drank it.

It’s got a mustard seed citrus thing happening on the nose and the acidity runs up the side of your tongue like a good, dry sour. My third favorite (yes, I’m playing favorites; it’s called “word count”) was the Foeder Cerise, which was like drinking a sour, nutmeggy fruitcake without the sweetness.

Seriously, think dry, tart, delicious Christmas in a bottle.

Healey does plan to get some of the draft beer out into Tulsa, and may look at eventually moving into town, though he’s got a great space and doesn’t want to compromise the craft.

“My approach has been kind of backwards in not trying to let it be too many places. We’ve never in my experience in this industry been able to have so much control over our product, so it’s been cool to be able to say ‘no, I’m going to keep it here and let people come here.” a American Solera will release its newest sour, Western Culture, on September 23 and 24. This Lambic-inspired beer was wild fermented, aged for 18 months in oak barrels, and is complex, earthy, and—you guessed it—sour. It will be available on draft and in bottles.

The taproom is open Wednesdays and Thursdays 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Fridays from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturdays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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tastingnotes

Writer Angela Evans and four Tulsa sommeliers. Left to right: Noah Bush, Jared Jordan, Joe Breaux, Evans, and TC Ryan | GREG BOLLINGER

Be Somm-body

Four Tulsans reflect on becoming certified sommeliers

by ANGELA EVANS

T

he role of the sommelier has changed drastically over the years, especially here in Tulsa. It wasn’t long ago that when the guy in a tie at a restaurant came to the table, he was regarded as a used car salesman trying to hock his overpriced products. Today, after being depicted in television shows and movies, the sommelier has attained somewhat of a cult status, inspiring a slew of would-be sommeliers. Even in Tulsa, you can find aspiring somms sitting alone at local bars, their noses planted purposefully in glasses of and books about wine.

But cult status leads to some confusion—like what it actually takes to become a certified sommelier and, more importantly, what the certification means.

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There are about a dozen certified sommeliers working in downtown Tulsa, and four them recently gathered around a table to talk about their journey to certification. The similarity in their origin stories is uncanny.

TC Ryan, operating partner/ general manager of PRHYME Steakhouse, started in the restaurant biz at 16 and could appreciate a fine glass of wine even though he was only in high school.

Joe Breaux’s first job was as wine manager for Fleming’s, and now he runs and operates his own wine distribution outlet, Bevworks.

Jared Jordan, owner of MixCo Bar, worked in his uncle’s liquor store, stocking bottles on shelves as a teen.

And Noah Bush, one of Tulsa’s most prolific downtown restaura-

teurs, became a bar manager at a restaurant before he was even legal to stand behind one.

“I was working at the bar one day and I was talking about wine and a person at the bar asked if I was a sommelier,” Bush said.

“I was like, ‘what are you talking about? No, I’m not from Somalia!’

But they started explaining it to me and I realized I could have a career in this.”

Each of them, young and a bit naïve, did not realize that they had already established roots in wine and would grow within the Tulsa restaurant scene.

To become a certified sommelier, one must pass certain criteria set forth by the Court of Master Sommeliers, an organization created to improve and implement standards of knowledge about beverages in

the restaurant and hospitality industry. There are four levels one must pass to become a master sommelier. Currently, only 147 people in the Americas’ Chapter have passed the final master level since the Court’s inception in 1977. Needless to say, it is a very elite club.

The introductory-level examination is a multiple-choice, 70 question theory exam that covers everything from regions to varieties, history to hospitality. LeRoy, Breaux, Jordan and Bush all took their level one together in 2007.

“I failed miserably,” Bush said, “but I retook it and passed in 2008, then became certified in 2010.”

Step two, the certification examination, is comprised of three parts: a blind tasting, a written exam and a service practical, (Continued on p. 22)

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(Continued from p. 20) where one must not only know the service components of wine (how to present and serve, for instance), but answer a vigorous interrogation by a master sommelier on everything from cocktails to sakes.

“They are intentionally asking you questions you don’t know to see how you handle yourself.

They grill you and, if you show weakness, they will poke at you until you want to walk away and cry,” LeRoy said.

Access to information about what to expect at the certification level, let alone access to the wide variety of wines one must know, can be limited.

“In the program, you lean a lot on people who have done it before,” Jordan said. “It’s supposed to take on a mentor/apprentice situation. So you reach out to someone who is a level or two ahead of you and they tend to be very helpful.”

Breaux points out that having experience in the restaurant business is the best way to be exposed to the information needed to pass.

“In the trade, you have much broader access to wines, because you are getting visited daily

TIPS FOR ASPIRING SOMMS: IMMERSION Being in the restaurant or hospitality industry allows for maximum exposure to the wines and mechanics of wine service.

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by people bringing wine to your doorstep, telling you all about it, and drinking it. And you learn the mechanics of serving them in a hospitality environment.”

Jordan notes how being in the business can give test-takers the edge.

“I don’t want to call people ‘civilians’ who do it without hospitality experience; but for people who aren’t from the trade, it’s got to be harder.”

Those who pass the rigors of the second level are accredited as certified sommeliers and are bestowed with a lapel pin. But the path to becoming a master-level sommelier has two more levels, and Bush has recently completed his first prep course for the advanced sommelier examination.

“It’s still very intense, but I honestly think it’s a stark difference from certified levels,” Bush said. “You’ve got a litany of wines in front of you and they are all completely different colors—bright pink to brownish-black wine—and there’s a Master Sommelier making you smell all of them. You are totally confounded by all of it; but they are there encouraging you. It was

TIME The tests require you to know about botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, anthropology, geography and history. And that’s before even a drop of wine touches your tongue. The average sommelier allows themselves at least a year in between exams to absorb the information.

honestly very inspirational for me and reinvigorated my passion for it.”

The role of a certified sommelier has been glamorized a bit, but not undeservedly. Those who have passed have put in the time, effort and money necessary to be successful.

“The pin is great; the credentials are great.

But there are a lot of people out there who have an incredible amount of knowledge and have incredible palates who have never sat for the exam,” Breaux said. “I don’t think their opinion should be diminished just because, by God, I have my CS pin on.”

“The role of the sommelier is to make wine more accessible, so ask us questions,” Bush continued. “We want to start the conversation for you. The wine is asking you to get to know it. A beer just happens to you. A cocktail just happens to you. A wine is wanting to speak to you.”

Considering the cumulative knowledge among these four sommeliers, the advice they pass along to those who want to enjoy wine like a sommelier is simple: drink as much of it as you can.

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MONEY Part of the course materials are bottles of wine—lots and lots of bottles—not to mention books and the cost of taking the examinations (prices start at $500).

FRIENDS Find like-minded people who enjoy popping corks and talking about

wine. There are several groups in town who meet regularly.

RESOURCES For more information about the application process, visit mastersommeliers.org and for more generalized information about wine, guildsomm.com is highly recommended.

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Five Tulsa Jr. Oilers team members played in the CCM Cup Beijing International Youth Hockey Invitational | COURTESY

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Tulsa youth hockey players enjoy trip of a lifetime to China

by JOHN TRANCHINA

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group of young hockey players from Tulsa enjoyed the rare experience of playing in China recently, taking part in the CCM Cup Beijing International Youth Hockey Invitational from July 31 through Aug. 8.

Five peewees from the Tulsa Jr. Oilers formed the core of a team called Stampede USA, which also included players from Oklahoma City and the Austin, Texas area.

They competed in the 2005 birth year age bracket against teams from all over the world, including another U.S.-based squad (San Diego Jr. Gulls), as well as those from Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, and of course, China.

After winning three of its first five games to advance to the tournament’s second round, the Stampede wound up losing its final three contests to finish 3-5 overall.

But it wasn’t the team’s performance on the ice that was the true focus of the memorable trip.

“We never expected we would win this tournament,” said Bob Welke, whose son Henry—a member of the Tulsa Jr. Oilers—played for the Stampede. “We knew there 26 // ARTS & CULTURE

would be some really tough teams that had a lot shorter trip to get there than we did, but it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. Our guys now have a real understanding of what other countries are like and the way they live, and that kind of stuff. And it’s very satisfying to me, because you see a lot of kids, especially in this part of the country, never get to get outside of their own little realm. They have a very narrow view of the way the world works and for these guys to go that far and to see what the differences are, I think is absolutely invaluable.”

The tournament provided the team with its own translator and tour guide around Beijing, although the Stampede didn’t really need one. That’s because one Tulsa player’s parents are from China, and in fact, was the primary reason the team was there at all.

Yu Shuai, whose son Sean also plays on the Jr. Oilers, was born in China, speaks fluent Chinese and still has family there. So last December, when he first heard about the tournament, he initially attempted to persuade the entire Jr. Oilers squad to go.

“Mr. Shuai was informed last year that CCM, the manufacturer of equipment, was working with the Chinese to sponsor this first international youth tournament for kids 14 and under,” Welke explained. “So he talked to a couple of us dads and then we went about asking if the whole Tulsa team could go. That wasn’t possible, because obviously, this is a pretty heavy commitment in terms of money and time, so we got the guys who could and wanted to, and then we reached out to other teams that we play against in the Dallas Stars Travel Hockey League, and they responded, and we also knew this kid up in Toronto, so that’s how this whole thing got put together.”

In the end, Stampede USA consisted of five players from the Jr. Oilers (Henry Welke, Sean Shuai, Caeleb Burch, Marshall Nunnely, and Andrei Shapiro), two from the Oklahoma City Oil Kings, and seven more from the Austin-based Texas Jr. Stars, as well as the one player from Toronto.

They were only able to practice twice as a team before heading overseas, but the players gradually gelled together from a disparate

group of individual factions into a cohesive unit on the ice.

They also enjoyed connecting with players from other countries who they couldn’t converse with, but shared the common love of hockey.

“When you’re a hockey player, you’re sort of in a little bit of a culture of your own,” Welke said.

“It was very heart-warming that before every game, the guys would exchange little gifts, like pins. And after every game, each team would skate to the other end of the ice and bow to the parents in the stands. And after the tournament, the kids all ran around trading jerseys and pins and hats, so my son Henry came home with jerseys from a Korean team, an Indonesian team, and a Swedish team. He’s got those hanging up in his bedroom, he’s very proud of those.”

And of course, the experience was about much more than just hockey, as the Americans did plenty of sightseeing and observed a culture different than their own.

“We did just about everything,” Welke said. “We went to the Great Wall, we went to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square—it was all great.” a

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Cypher 120, an open mic held every Monday night at The Yeti | GREG BOLLINGER

Cyphamily Cypher 120 is a Monday night ritual

by AMANDA RUYLE

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t’s another Monday night at The Yeti and Cypher 120 is about to go down. The back patio is lit with lights strung overhead, the Day-Glo colors of the graffiti on the fences and walls popping under them. The picnic tables fill with an eclectic mix of people who are laughing, hugging, and getting into their first few drinks of the night.

Some, like the Tulsa-based rapper, KG, came early enough to help set up, and to get his name on the list for a chance at six minutes on the mic. He makes it out to Cypher every week.

“It’s therapy, it’s become a ritual,” he says. “I look forward to seeing the same people every week…this is the house. The crib.”

Others roll in later, waiting for the night to ripen a bit before joining, but by 11 p.m. the place is electric with energy, a mixture of cigarette smoke, the tangy-sweet smell of a black-and-mild, and the earthy scent of incense drifting through the air. Written Quincey, host and founder of Cypher 120, takes the stage, and the crowd tunes in, ready for the poets, musicians, vocalists and emcees to transport them.

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Quincey, a Tulsa transplant and a poet, began Cypher to fill a personal need. He had been doing open mics and poetry nights at various restaurants and clubs around town, but noticed that they “weren’t set up to receive the art,” and he and his fellow poets often found themselves performing for inattentive or even openly hostile audiences.

Hoping to change this, he conceived of a weekly event that would combine live music with poetry, and also provide emcees, vocalists and musicians a place to hone their craft in front of open and receptive audiences. Through luck and a bit of fortuitousness, he found musicians who were not only talented, but willing to play for free, and the first Cypher was born.

Throughout the years, Cypher has had many homes, but its move to The Yeti three years ago felt right from the first night.

With its spacious indoor room, large patio and top-notch sound system, The Yeti offered Quincey what he had been searching for—a venue that would provide a “vibe consistent with the integrity of art” and a place where he

could put his personal values of love, humility, and belief in art as a social salve and unifier to work.

It is this integrity and set of values that has defined the energy of Cypher, and the artists respond to Quincey’s mission by leaving it all on the stage, week after week, for the sake of the craft and the community they have created together.

The house band, known as The Contraband, is made up of a revolving group of local musicians, but its core is comprised of Johnny Mullenax on guitar, DG Rozell on trumpet, Marcus James on the kit, Allen Brown on bass and DJ AB covering DJ duty. The musical virtuosity of this group alone is worth the $5 cover charge. And then there are the people, so beautiful and happy to be there, clearly relishing their Monday night ritual.

Quincey tells newcomers that they “are part of the family now, you can’t get out” and encourages everyone to “meet three new people and hug them.”

“Everyone is welcome at Cypher 120,” says Kenesha Daniels, one of the Cypher originals, “no matter your race, class, size, belief, taste, etc. You are family as soon

as you walk through that door, ya know, the way it’s supposed to be.”

And it’s the way it is.

A whole spectrum of performers take the stage, some new to their craft, others working on a professional level, but each paid their due respect by the crowd, with Quincey’s encouragement in his role as MC. Branjae Jackson, of Count Tutu and Branjae and the Filthy Animals, has been going to Cypher for years, and has watched its evolution.

“I’ve witnessed the shyest of them all develop and move to the forefront … I’ve observed my own creativity, flow, off-the-dome creative streak explode like a shooting star. I always feel better.

I leave my fears on the platform Monday nights.”

This is a space filled with people who care for one another, who respect one another, who show up for one another. It has come to be so much more than another open mic or poetry slam.

“Cypher is like a lunchroom,” KG tells me over the sound of The Contraband, “Everyone gets the chance to eat. It gives us food for thought.” a

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Tulsa Artist Fellow Eric Sall | MELISSA LUKENBAUGH

Call and response Abstract language in Eric Sall’s paintings

by LIZ BLOOD

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ulsa Artist Fellow Eric Sall’s paintings are big, bright, many-colored, and abstract. Large patches of color lay over other patches; polygons, circles, and striations of paint dance on canvas; abstract figures hide in the thick textured layers of paint.

Sometimes, when Sall asks his six year-old son, Wyatt, what it is Wyatt has just painted, his son responds, “oh, that’s just a painting.”

So it is with Sall.

“It’s hard to ask, ‘what is this?’” said Sall of his work. “You understand it’s a formal kind of painting with shapes and colors, but it’s abstract because it’s hard to name it. It’s like asking what a tree is.”

His paintings, some oil and some acrylic, are jumbles of color and lines and shapes that look technical and playful, like an engaging conversation. They’re also big—some reach eight feet long and over five feet tall.

“I like that relation to my body,” said Sall. “I like when they

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become objects. They start to affect your psyche that way.”

While working, Sall is constantly in conversation with his paintings, trying to determine when one is finished, or what needs to be added or changed next. The half a dozen or so that are being worked on in his Cameron Street studio at the moment are in dialogue together, too.

“I think of them as autonomous objects in their own right.

There’s one idea of the painting like it’s a picture-plane—a place you go to discover a space or an experience. But I think when they’re objects, they kind of resonate as their own thing with its own life and they kind-of start talking to each other, they become like siblings in a weird way, a family of paintings.”

And like a family, there are things that look obvious, that tie the paintings to one another, such as a repetition of stripes and pulls and layers of paint. But there’s also a lot that gets covered up by

those layers, by time, by different moods.

“Pulling the paint can cover layers underneath. Sometimes I scrape back in to reveal the under-painting that was there in the beginning … [but] I’m trying not to bury so much anymore.

Because I’m always trying to get to something that feels kind of fresh, and was created in a moment, and captures that moment, but I work on them a long time … so it’s a little deceiving.”

I hadn’t thought about a painting as a collection of moments before, because often a painting of a scene, or still life, or portrait seems to capture one moment in time. But in looking at Sall’s paintings, with their many different little moments coming together as a whole, it’s apparent it doesn’t all happen at once, is not set in a certain time.

Sall calls himself an “intuitive painter,” and mentioned that a lot of his work is done by first putting something on the canvas and

then responding to it. He may do something fast, then come back in and agitate it, or make a different move.

“There’s a lot of call and response,” he said.

That also exists between the viewer and painting.

“I like that idea of how songs and food are really good at evoking a moment,” he said. “Can a painting do something like that?

Be something that can be evocative of a memory. I don’t really pinpoint that memory, exactly, because I think there’s openness to the abstraction. You [the viewer] bring something to it that’s unique to you. It’s different than what I was thinking of when I made it. So it’s kind of like a shared dialogue—you have to complete some of it, too.” a

This profile is the eighth in a series of twelve featuring each artist in the inaugural class of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. To read previous installments, visit thetulsavoice.com.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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23 Soledad O’Brien Tulsa Town Hall 23-Oct. 2 Glengarry Glen Ross Theatre Tulsa 25 Grupo Corpo Choregus Productions 27-28 Once Celebrity Attractions 30 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters PAC Trust

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5 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live!

35 Concerts 5 Ensemble Salonniére Brown Bag It, PAC Trust 5-30 John Owen: Cherokee-Dutch Modernism Joseph Gierek Fine Art, PAC Gallery 6-8 C.S. Lewis Onstage - The Most Reluctant Convert Fellowship for Performing Arts 7-16 All the Way Theatre Pops 8 Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Symphony Tulsa Symphony Classics 9 Trio Solisti Chamber Music Tulsa

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et a first glimpse into the Bob Dylan Archive in this film series, which will feature the first public exhibition of elements from the Archive, the world premiere of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Martin Scorsese’s “No Direction Home,” a screening of D.A. Pennebaker’s 1965 classic “Don’t Look Back,” followed by a Q&A with Pennebaker, and more. Visit bobdylanarchive.com for the full schedule of screenings.

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FILM FESTIVAL

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Tulsa International Animation Festival is the largest-in-the-region screening of experimental and contemporary animated short films from around the country and around the world. Sept. 23, $7, Living Arts, livingarts.org

The Cigar Box Whiskey Bar & Tap House hosts Pigskins & Pinots Kick Hunger Challenge, an evening of wine tastings, appetizers, and music benefiting the Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. Sept. 28, 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., $40-$50, cigarboxtulsa.com

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The second year of the groovy Higher Plains Music Festival features Nolatet, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey with Oilhouse, Verse & The Vapors, Mike Dee & Stone Trio, and more. Sept. 24, $17-$20, Vanguard, the vanguardtulsa.com

Local electronic music group Recorder will provide a live score to Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” at Reconciliation Park. Sept. 30, 8 p.m., facebook.com/ recorderband

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McNellie’s Harvest Beer Festival returns with beers from more than 40 breweries and food from McNellie’s, El Guapo, and Fassler Hall, under Tulsa’s beautiful skyline. Sept. 24, $30-$35, McNellie’s Downtown, facebook.com/McNelliesHBF

Go back to the days of old at the Kiefer Medieval Faire and see historical reenactments, jousting, sword and archery demonstrations, performances, arts and crafts, and more. Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, free admission, $2 parking, Kiefer Park

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Woofstock is Oklahoma’s largest pet adoption event, bringing together area rescues, shelters, and pet-related businesses for a day of peace, love, and pets. Sept. 24, Riverwalk Crossing, woofstock.org

BaseCamp is the only chance each year to camp on Turkey Mountain. Performers include Klondike5, Grazzhopper, Ryan Browning, and Cassi Stephan and Midnight Sun. Oct. 1-2, starts at $60/tent, facebook.com/basecampatturkey September 21 – October 4, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

Glengarry Glen Ross // Theatre Tulsa Next Stage presents this production of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about two days in the lives of four desperate real estate agents. // 9/23-10/2, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Liddy Doenges Theatre, $20-$22, tulsapac.com/index.asp Once // This Tony Award-winning musical about a struggling Irish songwriter and the woman who pushes him to fulfill his dreams returns to Tulsa for just two performances. // 9/27-9/28, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, $20-$75, tulsapac.com/index.asp

Tulsa State Fair Fri., Sept. 29 through Sun., Oct. 9

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crisp chill in the air. Changing leaves. Fried foods on sticks. Nothing says beginning-of-autumn like the Tulsa State Fair.

Along with the usual smorgasbord of sinfully delicious foods, livestock competitions, and thrill rides, this year the Fair features performances by The Oak Ridge Boys, Beatlemania, Oklahoma’s own Color Me Badd, and Ashanti. Also keep an eye out for the Moto Maniacs, All-Star Stunt Dogs, “Frozen,” as performed by Disney On Ice, the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show, The Great American SPAM Championship, and the Fun Slide.

Attn. Thrill-seekers: A Mega Ride Pass costs $75. And we’re still waiting for the introduction of a Mega Food Pass. Get back to us.

Expo Square, $6-$10, tulsastatefair.com

BEST OF THE REST Crime Time: A Night w/ Karin Slaughter // The author of the bestselling novel “Pretty Girls” comes to Tulsa to discuss the newest installment of the Will Trent series, “The Kept Woman.” // 9/22, 7 p.m., Hardesty Regional Library, booksmarttulsa.com I Can’t Draw Cartoons // Learn to draw expressive characters as part of TCC’s I Can’t series of workshops. // 9/26, 12:45 p.m., Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College, TulsaCC.edu/CenterforCreativity Becoming Winston Churchill // Acclaimed historian Candice Millard discusses her new book on the life of Winston Churchill, “Hero of the Empire,” with guest interviewer, mayor elect G.T. Bynum. // 9/27, 7 p.m., 36 Degrees North, booksmarttulsa.com True Grit: Facts and Fictions // Discover the truths and legends behind the iconic 1969 John Wayne film, “True Grit.” // 9/29, 5:30 p.m., Philbrook Museum of Art, philbrook.org Family Fun Night w/ Dav Pilkey // Children’s author and illustrator, creator of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey comes to Tulsa to discuss his latest book, the graphic novel spinoff Dog Man. Reading Partners will be accepting donations of new and gently used books. // 9/29, OU-Tulsa, booksmarttulsa.com Altar Talk 2017 // Living Arts Artistic Director Steve Liggett will hold this discussion for those interested in cre-

ating altars dedicated to lost loved ones for the annual Day of the Dead Arts Festival on November 1st. // 10/4, 7 p.m., Living Arts, livingarts.org Red, White & Brew // Craft beer, live music, and local vendors and artisans fill Main Street Broken Arrow for Red, White & Brew. // 9/24, The Rose District, thebabuzz.com Monarchs on the Mountain // Tulsa River Parks Authority celebrates the monarch butterfly migration at Turkey Mountain’s pavilion. // 9/24, 10 a.m., Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, turkeymtn.com Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters // Two young women travel through a mystical jungle in hopes of marrying a great African king in this production

by Dallas Children’s Theater. // 9/30, 7 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - John H. Williams Theatre, $10, tulsapac.com/index.asp Anne of Green Gables // Spotlight Children’s Theatre presents Alice Chadwick’s classic story. // 9/23-10/2, Tulsa Spotlight Theatre, $10-$12, spotlighttheatre.org Grupo Corpo // Over 40 years, Grupo Corpo has become the premier contemporary dance company from Brazil. This will be the company’s first appearance in Oklahoma. // 9/25, 3 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, $20-$75, tulsapac.com/index.asp

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OK, So Story Slam - Theme: Rhymes with LUCK // 9/22, 8 p.m., IDL Ballroom, $5, facebook.com/oksotulsa Soledad O’Brien // The former CNN and NBC anchor will discuss diversity on TV, behind the scenes, and in our lives. // 9/23, 10:30 a.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, Tickets available through subscription to Tulsa Town Hall, tulsapac.com/index.asp Garba on the Green // Learn to dance the traditional Indian Garba at this family event presented by South Asian Performing Arts Foundation and George Kaiser Family Foundation. // 9/24, 7 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com The Admiral Twin Goes Pink // Fight cancer with a day full of activities at the Admiral Twin Drive-In, including live music, a car show, pin-up contest, a screening of “The Outsiders,” and more. // 9/24, 12 p.m., Admiral Twin Drive-In, facebook.com/PinkTulsa ShalomFest // Temple Israel hosts ShalomFest, an annual celebration of Jewish food, music, art, and culture. // 9/25, Temple Israel, templetulsa.com

COMEDY Open Mic Comedy Night hosted by Ryan Green // 9/21, VFW Post 577 Centennial Lounge The Mic Drop // 9/23, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Blue Dome Social Club w/ Razorlaughs // 9/23, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Hammered! A Drunk Improv Show // 9/24, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com News Junkie // 9/24, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 9/25, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Ha-Has for Heroes w/ Landry // Benefits Oklahoma Veterans Project // 9/28, Loony Bin, $20, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa Open Mic Comedy Night hosted by Landry Miller // 9/28, VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge,

By George! // 9/29, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Ono, Dan Riffe and Peter Tomshany as Pink Parts // 9/29, VFW Post 577 Centennial Lounge, Army of Stand Ups // 9/30, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

T-Town Famous // 9/30, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Hitmen // 9/30, VFW Post 577 Centennial Lounge The Mic Drop // 10/1, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Squeaky Clean Stand Up // 10/1, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Rachel Bachmen // 10/1, VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge Sunday Night Stand Up // 10/2, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com I Can’t Be Funny // Toby Morton teaches this comedy class as part of TCC’s I Can’t series of workshops. // 10/3, 12:45 p.m., Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College, TulsaCC.edu/CenterforCreativity Ritchie Holiday, Andy Beningo // 9/21-9/24, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa Landry, Ryan Wingfield // 9/29-10/1, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa

SPORTS & RECREATION XPO Gaming Convention // Get a first look at new gaming technology, hear panels and speakers from inside the industry, and play plenty of games. // 9/23-9/25, Cox Business Center, $30-$75, tulsaxpo.com Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Swope Park Rangers // 9/21, 7:30 p.m., ONEOK Field, $10-$45 TU Volleyball vs Cincinnati // 9/22, 7 p.m., The University of Tulsa - Reynolds Center, utulsa.edu Corndog Classic 5K // Run a 5k through the Tulsa State Fair while scarfing down a mini-corndog, mini-caramel apple, and a lemonade or beer. Still counts as fitness, right? // 9/23, Expo Square, corndogclassic5k.com Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Sacramento Republic FC // 9/24, 7:30 p.m., ONEOK Field, $10-$45 ORU Men’s Soccer vs Eastern Illinois // 9/24, 7 p.m., Oral Roberts University - Case Soccer Complex, oru.edu TU Volleyball vs East Carolina // 9/24, 12 p.m., The University of Tulsa Reynolds Center, utulsa.edu TU Men’s Soccer vs Missouri State // 9/27, 7 p.m., The University of Tulsa Hurricane Stadium, $5, utulsa.edu TU Men’s Soccer vs UConn // 10/1, 7 p.m., The University of Tulsa - Hurricane Stadium, $5, utulsa.edu ZooRun // The Zoo hosts its annual run, with 10k and 5k races and a onemile fun run. // 10/1, Tulsa Zoo and Mohawk Park, tulsazoo.org ORU Volleyball vs Omaha // 10/2, 1:30 p.m., Oral Roberts University Aerobics Center, oru.edu ORU Women’s Soccer vs North Dakota State // 10/2, 1 p.m., Oral Roberts University - Case Soccer Complex, oru.edu ORU Men’s Soccer vs Central Arkansas // 10/4, 7 p.m., Oral Roberts University - Case Soccer Complex, oru.edu ARTS & CULTURE // 33

SPACE COWBOY PREPARES FOR LIFTOFF John Calvin Abney releases sophomore album

by BOBBY DEAN ORCUTT

John Calvin Abney | JEREMY CHARLES

S

ome things are lost to the moment, meant not to be clearly recalled.

“It’s a mystery,” said local folk singer John Calvin Abney on the origin of his nickname “Space Cowboy.”

“It could have something to do with my astronaut aspirations or my cosmic approach to life, but I don’t even think I will ever know.”

It is fortunate for the citizens of this particular terrestrial body that Abney is a songwriter, not an astronaut.

Abney has spent the last near-decade of his young life recording and releasing original material as well as being a multi-instrumentalist gun-for-hire.

He has shared the stage with and provided instrumentation and harmonies for Samantha Crain, John Moreland, Chris Porter, Camille Harp, Kierston White and others.

On September 23, Abney will break out and blaze his own trail across the atmosphere with Far Cries and Close Calls, his ethereal folk journey album being released

by Horton Records.

Far Cries is his second full length and was conceived, he said, while on the western slope of Colorado, which is to say he had

an outline and a few songs but no real plan going into the studio.

Through accident, experiment, and the right band, Abney has created a unique work—equal parts dream pop and rock and roll, with layers of lo-fi folk drenched in atmospheric reverb.

Abney recorded live to tape at Little Rock’s “Temple of Tone,” Fellowship Hall Sound. The studio has made Little Rock a home away from home for many Tulsa artists.

He brought in Oklahoma’s current go to rhythm section, Paddy Ryan and Aaron Boehler for drums and bass, Megan Palmer on fiddle and harmonies and Cody Clinton on electric guitar.

“There’s a strange phenomenon, where you begin immediately hearing what should and shouldn’t be, visions but experienced with the ears,” said Abney.

Based on those auditory visions, he made the decision to record live in hopes of using the songs’ first takes.

“I learned from working with John Moreland on ‘Better Luck’ that single takes can bring out something raw and real and relatable in a song. I was lucky to have a band as intuitive and crazy as I was.”

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Lyrically, the songs center on the idea of something bigger than ourselves, something larger than life, love or loss. One of Abney’s strongest attributes is his ability to make the mundane seem magical with fanciful, poetic, folkloric writing.

The record begins with the enchanting track “Beauty Seldom Seen,” with an opening line about a “long string of failures and bad news bearers and broken testimonies at bars” setting a dark tone to a creeping melody.

Songs are carried throughout the album with steady transitions, a rotating through uptempos, pseudo-60s sounds of summer organ, haunting harmonies, quiet acoustics, airy and floating choruses, and a particular song (“I’ll Be Here Mairead” ) that is a barrage of greasy rock and roll with a lead guitar tone that can only be described as gnarly, delivered by Cody Clinton. It drives home the point that it is not all soft spoken balladry. Sometimes you have to get some dirt under your nails.

The album holds strong through its final song, “Opportunity,” which concludes with an arresting piano and violin composition.

On the cover of the album is a rendering of Abney’s trusted and much traveled jean jacket, painted

by Pearl Jr. Moreland.

“I was touring through Athens, Georgia with Daniel Markham and Pearl said ‘I need a picture of your jacket, the space fighter denim jacket,’” said Abney. “So I went outside, threw my jacket on the parking lot of Weaver D’s [an iconic Georgia soul food restaurant] and took a photo. Through the space-time-magic-wizardry of satellite communications, Pearl got that photo seconds later and began on what became the art.”

The finished package—music, art, and poetry—is a sophomore effort full of heart and just enough grit to balance it out. a

Far Cries and Close Calls is available September 23 on CD, Vinyl, iTunes, and Spotify. Abney will perform a solo set at the Woody Guthrie Center on Saturday, September 24, and with a full band at Soul City on Saturday, October 1.

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Henna Roso fights hunger one concert at a time

by LINDSAY KLINE

MUSIC FOR A CAUSE

H

enna Roso is more than just a band—it’s an organization dedicated to feeding the hungry.

At its first Tulsa show earlier this summer at Guthrie Green, billed as a “food drive and launch party,” the group played a genre-bending combination of jazz, soul and funk, to which few could resist dancing.

It also raised 2,166 meals and 1,090 pounds of food for the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. Combined with the subsequent three shows played in Norman and Fayetteville, the project has raised over 8,000 meals for people in need. Founding member and bass player Taylor Graham is still in shock.

“These numbers have blown away my projections, and the great thing is, this is just the beginning,” said Graham, who is joined in the group—billed “a musical collective”—by guitarist and co-writer Justin Dupuis, keyboardist Bobby Moffat, Jr., saxophonist Andy McCormick, drummers Jerry Jones and Nicholas Foster, and percussionist Kristin Ruyle, who is also VP of operations.

Every time Henna Roso plays a show, it asks that each concertgoer donate 10 non-perishable food items. They also raffle off prizes from local companies like yoga classes from Be Love Studio, barbeque from Burn Co., concert tickets to Cain’s Ballroom and passes to Easter Island Music Festival. Roso’s director of operations, Armawn Asgari, oversees the raffle as well as the food drive.

The Regional Food Bank and The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma receive 10 percent of all monetary proceeds and of course, all of the donated food.

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Henna Roso playing at Guthrie Green | DERRICK WEBER

I asked Graham what caused him to narrow in on hunger as his main cause.

“Food insecurity was an issue I thought I could start helping right away. One in six Americans can be classified as food insecure, and one in four children. To me that number is staggering and Henna Roso wants to do what we can to change that. People are going to come out, drink and dance anyways; they might as well have something they can contribute to help people in need.”

Before Henna Roso launched, Graham himself spent his birthday doing what he could to fight hunger in Tulsa. Using cash donations from a show with Branjae and the Filthy Animals (with whom he plays bass one Sunday a month at Fassler Hall), Graham bought enough eggs, cheese, and tortillas to make 30 breakfast burritos in his home kitchen. He took to the streets with no direction or plan but to give the food to people in need; the burritos were gone in an hour. Now, Graham works with

friends who donate money or help with the cooking process, and he tries to hit the streets of downtown once a week.

“The experience has been so rewarding. I’ve been able to establish relationships with the people I’m trying to help and this gives me a better understanding of who they are and what they need the most.”

Having volunteered with food banks before Henna Roso came into being, Graham had some first-hand experience with Tulsa’s homeless.

“They are out in the elements all day long, no place to lay their head at night, yet they are really pleasant people with a sense of humor and most importantly, a sense of hope … I have been making a point to meet with various organizations around town that work within the same realm as Henna Roso. Iron Gate was the one that stuck with me because of the work they do every single day.”

Iron Gate’s work within the community resounded with Henna

Roso so much that they booked a show on Black Friday (November 25) at Fassler Hall specifically to benefit the organization.

When it comes to the organization’s long-term goals, Graham is aiming high.

“We want to not only inspire people musically but we want to inspire people to get involved in helping within their communities.

Food insecurity can’t be solved overnight, and it’s going to take many people getting together and providing collective support. I hope other bands latch on to this idea and find a way they can combine music and helping the community. Because at the end of the day, helping people through music is a pretty special thing.” a Henna Roso will perform at Higher Plains 2016 festival on Saturday, September 24 at The Vanguard.

For more information on the festival, visit thevanguardtulsa.com.

To learn more about Henna Roso’s mission, visit hennaroso.com.

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hen recorded music first became a commodity, there were people who strongly opposed it. In a 1906 essay titled “The Menace Of Mechanical Music,” composer John Philip Sousa said, “talking and playing machines offer to reduce the expression of music to a mathematical system of megaphones, wheels, cogs, discs, cylinders and all manner of revolving things.”

Flash forward to 2016. For many professional musicians, the new menace is digital streaming technology, which provides consumers an infinite number of music choices always available at their fingertips, typically for a monthly price less than the cost of a single CD. According to Billboard, Spotify is the streaming service market leader, with an apparent 30 million paid subscribers and close to 100 million non-subscription users.

These numbers keep going up and do not appear to be slowing.

Still, many artists ask why they should be on Spotify or, more specifically, why the unsigned artist should be.

Consider the numbers I just mentioned—100 million users. If you are a sludge metal band and one percent of those users like sludge metal, that is one million potential fans.

There are many ways that Spotify can benefit artists. Firstly, Spotify gives credit where credit is due. Spotify’s “Guides and Best Practices” states that “all of the music on Spotify is delivered by labels and distributors (CD Baby, Tunecore, The Orchard, Universal, etc.). Music cannot be directly uploaded to Spotify. This is to ensure that all of the music on Spotify is fully licensed and prevents illegal or unlicensed music from being uploaded by 3rd parties.” In other words, the artist or company that owns the music is sure to get their cut of each stream.

Much has been made of Spotify’s compensation formula—by its own admission, the average payout

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THE CASE FOR SPOTIFY The Bourgeois’s Ty Clark defends the oft-demonized streaming service

by TY CLARK

ILLUSTRATION BY JEREMY LUTHER

per song play is between $.006 and $.0084. That’s less than a penny per play, which sounds awful.

If you follow music news, you might have heard Portishead’s horror story: 34 million Spotify plays yielded songwriter Geoff Barrow a paltry $2,511. Obviously, Portishead is a massively wellknown band with other lucrative revenue streams—big paychecks from film and television licensing, touring and festival performances offset the small Spotify returns.

But Portishead’s music is owned

by Universal Music Group, not

by Geoff Barrow, which means Barrow only receives a fraction of that half-a-penny per-play. If he were the sole owner of the music rights, the $2,511 payout would’ve actually been somewhere between $200,000 and $300,000.

This horror story says more about the financial relationship between artists and major labels than the fairness of Spotify’s pay structure.

Furthermore, according to a recent BBC article, music stream-

ing is actually boosting the sales of vinyl records. “Half of consumers say they listened to an album online before buying a vinyl copy,” the article states. Not to mention, you can also sell merchandise directly on Spotify, now.

We independent musicians not yet at the level of playing Glastonbury or Coachella are still playing shows and maybe touring. Songkick, a site with which Spotify works, shows the listener the when and where of the band’s next closest show. It’s simple show promotion for the artist plus a good way to find your markets, once you have a fan base. My band has reaped many new fans because of Spotify’s show promotion.

Outside of tour promotion via Songkick, Spotify allows fans to share music via Facebook and Twitter, more free publicity that leads—hopefully—to more fans. Take a personal experience: when producer Trent Bell shared Temples’ “Keep In The Dark,” I listened, was instantly sold, and

soon purchased their record and saw them live.

Also, consider that the musicians you look up to are just people who share the same love of music that you do and most of the time they are looking for a new audio fix, themselves. Get a nice share from a famous artist on Twitter and you have publicity gold. Get a nice share from a well-known TV show host like Rachel Maddow and you’ll be more than high on Tulsa heat, you’ll be high on the influx of followers and new fans (looking at you, John Moreland).

And then you have playlists.

Get the attention of a Spotify curator and your plays will go through the roof, and the blogs, managers and labels will take notice. This happened to Tulsa’s very own indie pop act, Sports.

About a year ago, the band put its record Naked All The Time on Spotify. A curator quickly discovered the band’s single, “You are the right one,” and added it to a playlist. As the band’s frontman Cale Chronister put it—“it triggered a snowball effect and started appearing on a bunch of other playlists and got more people to hear [them].” Soon after, Sports landed a management contract.

After a well-attended July show at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, Sports members asked some fans where they had heard of them.

The answer was, overwhelmingly: Spotify.

Sports’ fortune may be a case of good luck, but it’s my impression that this happens more often than we know. Make a record with good songs and proper recordings and your chances of being heard, liked, and placed by tastemakers goes way up.

It’s important to note that Sports owns 100 percent of the rights to their music and get every dime that Spotify pays them. But how much was it?

“Enough to propel us forward so we can do things differently with our next record,” says Chronister. “We can’t complain about Spotify at all.” a

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Sat // Sept 24 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Gypsy Coffee House – *Hector Ultreras Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Cabin Creek – River’s Edge Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Midlife Crisis, The Hi-Fidelics Hunt Club – RPM Mercury Lounge – Kayla Ray River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Hi-Fidelics River Spirit Casino - Margaritaville Stage – Zodiac Soul City – Joshua Yarbrough & Memphis Bound Soundpony – DJ Sweet Baby Jaysus The Colony – The Kalyn Fay Band, Laren Pratt The Venue Shrine – Wakeland – ($15-$20) Uncle Bently’s Pub & Grill – Hurricane Mason Vanguard – *Higher Plains Music Festival w/ Nolatet, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Oilhouse, Verse & The Vapors, Henna Roso, Mike Dee, We Make Shapes, Mason – ($17-$20) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Grass Crack Woody Guthrie Center – *John Calvin Abney Album Release – ($15) Yeti – *Verbose, The Danner Party, Sleepwalking Home, Transit Method, The Girls Room

Sun // Sept 25 Cardigan’s Restaurant and Bar – Dean DeMerritt and Sean Al Jibouri East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Guthrie Green – *James McMurty, Herencia De Timbiqui, Grazzhopper – 2:30 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Modern Oklahoma Jazz Orchestra – 5 p.m. – ($5-$20) Soundpony – Typesetter The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Utopia Bar & Lounge – DJ MO Vanguard – Stevie Stone, Mugen Music, Alan Doyle – ($10-$15)

Mon // Sept 26 Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – K Phillips Soul City – The Writer’s Block Songwriter Night The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Woody Guthrie Center – Steve Poltz – ($20) – Dean DeMerritt and Frank Brown

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Thurs // Sept 29 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Saint Motel, JR JR, Weathers – ($23-$38) Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Urban Addiction, Chad & Keith Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – *Art Garfunkel – ($40-$45) Hunt Club – Casii Stephan and the Midnight Sun Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Musicians Thank You w/ Annie Ellicott River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – DJ Josh River Spirit Casino - Margaritaville Stage – Chris Hyde Band Soul City – *The Blueside of Lonesome, Jacob Tovar & Seth Lee Jones The Colony – *Foster Party Vanguard – *ISHI CD Release Party – ($10) Woody Guthrie Center – Dom Flemons – ($25)

Fri // Sept 30 American Legion Post 308 – American Strings Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – *Local Natives, Charlotte Day Wilson – ($26.50-$41.50) Electric Circus – Phluf N Stuf Fassler Hall – Count Tutu Gypsy Coffee House – Jeffrey Brown Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Cabin Creek – Stonehorse Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Riffs – Replay, Chad & Keith Holy Mountain Music & Oddities – *Otis the Destroyer, The Girls Room, Shelter People Hunt Club – The Brothers Moore Mercury Lounge – Two Tons of Steel Pepper’s Grill – Sarah Maud and the Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – FM Live River Spirit Casino - Margaritaville Stage – Chris Hyde Band Soul City – *Jimmy Markham and the Caretakers Soundpony – Benja, DMTB The Colony – Hold The Venue Shrine – First Class Friday – ($10-$15) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Cucumber Mike’s Yeti VIP Lounge

Soundpony – Soul Night The Colony – Levi Parham Band, Zach Schmidt The Fur Shop – Brando West, Jay Red The Run – Fuzed Vanguard – Jack Ketch and the Bilge Rat Bastards, Less then Human, Longpig, Oldman, Pittersplatter – ($5)

Sun // Oct 2 Brady Theater – Andra Day, Corinne Bailey Rae, Brandee – ($29-$114) Brady Theater – *Andra Day & Corinne Bailey Rae – ($31.75-$275) Cain’s Ballroom – *Die Antwoord – (SOLD OUT) Crow Creek Tavern – Cody Woody East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Guthrie Green – *Stop Light Observations, Count Tutu, Riverfield Rocks – 2:30 p.m.

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Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, James Allen McCune, Valorie Curry and Wes Robinson in “Blair Witch” | COURTESY

Into the woods, again ‘Blair Witch’ is a serviceable but unnecessary sequel

by JOE O’SHANSKY

B

ack in 1999, two young, untested filmmakers, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, wrote and directed the surprise indie-horror hit “The Blair Witch Project.” In the film, three college students (Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard, playing versions of themselves) trek through Maryland’s densely forested Black Hills, shooting a documentary about the legend of the Blair Witch. One by one they disappear—leaving behind only

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their footage to hint at their fate.

Shot for around $25,000, it went on to gross almost $250 million worldwide, becoming the most profitable film of all time.

Of course, there was a shitty sequel rushed out a year later, with plans for a cash-grab franchise.

But the sequel tanked, and the franchise stalled.

That is, until Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the talented directing and writing duo behind the recent (and great) thrillers “You’re Next” and “The Guest,” decided to return to Burkittsville, Maryland with the quasi-sequel, “Blair Witch.” It certainly feels familiar—for better and worse.

James (James Allen McCune) is the younger brother of Heather, who famously disappeared two decades earlier. When he discovers a newly uploaded video, depicting what might be her final moments, James enlists three of his friends, Lisa (Callie Hernandez), Ashley (Corbin Reid), and Peter (Brandon Scott), to try and find out what happened—and, obviously, help him film a documentary about it.

They drive to Burkittsville to meet the uploaders, Lane and Talia

(Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry), a local couple with a camera of their own and a ton of stories about the Blair Witch. They agree to lead James’s group to where they found the tape, on the condition that they can make the search for Heather a part of their film, too. But, once they find themselves under the ominous bowers of the impassive forest, their hopes crumble into the grim realization that they’ve made a terrible mistake.

One of Wingard and Barrett’s strengths is making their characters relatable and likeable without becoming shallow archetypes, as well as an almost mumblecore aesthetic that fuses personal naturalism into the horror genre.

With “Blair Witch” they also add the tropes of the first film to that cocktail.

Justifying the look of the found footage gimmick, they upgrade the technology. The college kids all have hi-def, GPS-equipped ear cameras, dSLR cameras that shoot video, and—of course—a drone.

Meanwhile Lane and Talia have an old mini DV camera that might as well be a hat tip to the look of the first movie. Wingard expertly cuts

between them all, and while there is plenty of the shaky cam that defines the found footage genre, on the whole this is a well-directed, more attractive and sophisticated looking film than its progenitor.

But that’s where the freshness ends. As much of a remake as a sequel (though on both counts I enjoy it more than the previous films), aside from a few minor plot tweaks and characters who are less abrasive than the original cast, “Blair Witch” is so similar to the original that it sometimes subverts whatever tension Wingard and Barrett manage to build—and which they attempt to bolster with an overreliance on jump scares that soon start to lose their potency. Again, the creepiest part is when they wind up at the house (yes, they wind up back at the house) when it becomes clear that they were always doomed to be there. That’s one creepy-ass house.

“Blair Witch” is not bad, but it feels like a misappropriation of valuable creative resources.

Considering the quality of their original works, Wingard and Barrett have no business remaking anything. a

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WHITE PEOPLE PROBLEMS If ‘The Hollars’ were a drink, it’d be a decaf soy vanilla latte

by JEFF HUSTON Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Krasinski in “The Hollars” | COURTESY

TURNING AN ALREADY TIRED, solipsistic indie-Sundance template into a full-blown Hollywood formula, actor/director John Krasinski’s “The Hollars” feels like a Cameron Crowe movie twice removed (with Zach Braff being the devolving link between the two). It’s a tale of family dysfunction writ adorable. At its center is a white American male in quarter-life crisis, and it’s all fueled by a near-relentless folk/ hipster soundtrack.

Buckle up, Millennials, and grab your lattes, because we’re about to go on an emotional journey with all the feels, and no one will ever be the same again.

The premise here is boilerplate. Krasinski plays John Hollar, a struggling New York City graphic novelist stuck in a desk job who’s forced to rush back to his small hometown after his mother (Margo Martindale) is diagnosed with a brain tumor.

There he finds even more family problems coming to a head.

These take John by surprise because, naturally, he never calls home anymore. His deadbeat unemployed older brother Ron (an oddly cast Sharlto Copley) is having issues with his ex-wife and kids, their dad (the always-great Richard Jenkins) is on the brink of losing the family business, and John has to step in and become the glue before everything falls apart.

That’s proving difficult, of course, because John finds himself at an existential crossroads of his own. Not only is he failing at his artistic ambitions, but he’s unsure if he’s truly prepared to be a worthy husband to his pregnant girlfriend Rebecca (Anna Kendrick), or a good father to their impending child. For her part, Rebecca is beautiful, loving, and supportive (not to mention rich), making her John’s default Manic Pixie Dreamgirl archetype, albeit in her final trimester.

Yes, despite facing the very real prospect of motherhood with a navel-gazing boyfriend, Rebecca primarily exists to encourage John out of his awe-shucks

angst and help him “find himself” again. Things could be worse.

They are, in fact, for the rest of his family. By contrast, when you compare John’s perceived struggles to the very immediate (and even life-threatening) ones that confront each of his family members, John’s own issues merely stack up as one big heap of White People problems. And yet, as mere supporting players to the film’s protagonist, everyone else’s more serious burdens are essentially catalysts to help John come to terms with his own, and affirm that he’s going to be okay.

Rote resentments, arguments, and regrets abound (John even crosses paths with his old high school flame) in yet another movie about pondering the choices not made, the paths not taken, and doubting the ones that have been. Predictably, apologies will be given that should’ve been long ago, and things that need to be said finally are. It’s all punctuated by the mother’s inevitable pre-surgery “head shave” being turned into a hammering metaphor— one that, for John, symbolizes letting go of the past and embracing change even when it’s scary. Yes, he may have lost sight of what’s truly important but, doggone it, it’ll all come back into feel-good focus before it’s all said and done. Sniffle.

For as contrived as this all is, where lessons are learned in a story about what happens when life doesn’t go as planned, “The Hollars” does achieve one true moment of raw emotion late in the film (thanks to Margo Martindale). But instead of letting that moment breathe, sit, and sink in—you know, actually deal with its hard reality—Krasinki’s direction undercuts it all-tooquickly with the safety net of an uplifting folk tune (crescendoing in a group sing-along, no less).

It’s the defining example of a movie that thinks it’s wrestling with the real issues of life when, in fact, it’s merely coddling them in comfy, cozy frameworks. a

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THE HOLLARS The second film from actor/director John Krasinski (“The Office”), this sentimental family dramedy follows a man who finds his life at a crossroads when he returns home where his mother has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. This official 2016 Sundance Film Festival entry co-stars Anna Kendrick, Margo Martindale, and Richard Jenkins.

Rated PG-13.

MY BLIND BROTHER This comedy tracks the intense rivalry between two brothers, one of whom is blind, as they fall for the same girl and face off at a charity swim competition. Adam Scott (“Parks & Recreation”) stars with Nick Kroll and Jenny Slate. Rated R. UNLOCKING THE CAGE Legendary documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (“Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back,” “The War Room”) follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise as he attempts to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans (aquatic animals such as dolphins), and apes. Not Rated.

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Dubbed the world’s first global film festival, this feature-length collection of short films compete against each other for viewers’ votes in over 250 cities worldwide, including Tulsa. To learn more, visit manhattanshort. com. Not Rated.

OPENING SEPTEMBER 30 AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY The unbelievable true story of a Laura Albert, a 40-year-old former phone sex operator who penned novels under the avatar of JT LeRoy, a made-up HIV-positive ex-prostitute transgender male. When the books become a sensation and celebrities clamor to meet LeRoy, the New York Times begins to investigate as Albert goes to drastic lengths to maintain the ruse. Rated R.

NO DIRECTION HOME A 10th Anniversary Screening of the Bob Dylan documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. It traces Dylan’s evolution from folk troubadour to “going electric.” This special presentation kicks off the Circle’s DYLAN ON FILM event. (Wed., Sept. 21, 7:00 p.m.)

THE THREEPENNY OPERA Broadcast live from the National Theatre of London, this is a new, darkly comic take on Brecht and Weill’s raucous musical, hailed a landmark of 20th Century theatre. Live broadcast at 1p.m.; re-broadcast at 6p.m.. (Thurs., Sept. 22, 1:00 p.m. & 6:00) DON’T LOOK BACK The Circle’s DYLAN ON FILM event continues with this classic 1965 Bob Dylan documentary directed by D.A. Pennebaker, who will be in attendance. This special presentation will be followed by a live Q&A with Pennebaker. (Fri., Sept. 23, 8:00 p.m.)

DYLAN ON FILM CLOSING EVENT Dylan on Film concludes with four screenings: “No Direction Home” documentary feature, Dylan short docs “65 Revisited,” “Eat The Document,” and “Bob Dylan: From The Archives.” (Sat., Sept.

24, 1:00 p.m., 7:00, 8:05, and 9:30, respectively.)

PHANTASM (1979) A 4K restoration by longtime fan J.J. Abrams is this year’s Circle Cinema celebration of Art House Theatre Day. This 1979 fantasy/horror classic mind-melter is presented by Fantastic Fest & Alamo Drafthouse, which includes a live stream Q&A with cast members and director Don Coscarelli. Bonus sneak peak of the upcoming “Phantasm: Ravager,” plus limited edition merchandise from Mondo! (Sat., Sept. 24, 9:30 p.m.)

BOTTLE SHOCK A special presentation of Circle Cinema and Edible Tulsa’s Wine & Film Series.

Set in 1976, when California wines were still perceived as inferior, this outrageous comedy tells the true story of how a blind tasting event by a French sommelier (played by the late Alan Rickman) transformed perceptions of California wines and shaped the future of the wine industry. Hosted by Steve Gerkin, with a post-film wine tasting.

(Tues., Sept. 27, 7:00 p.m.)

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

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

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

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MERLIN and WIZARD are seven month-old Airedale terrier mixes. They were found wandering the streets in Collinsville, with so many ticks that they were anemic from the blood loss. Merlin had to have surgery on his eyelids because of the infestation. It took a few weeks, but now they are happy, healthy and ready for their next adventure. Wizard is more laid back and quiet were Merlin is more vocal and outgoing. They both are great with other dogs and enjoy meeting new friends.

PRESLEY is a one year-old boxer.

While she is picky about her dog friends and doesn’t get along with cats, she adores kids so much that when she sees them coming to play her whole body wiggles. Running, playing, and bouncing around in the yard is her favorite. She knows some basic commands and is very attentive. In the evening she settles down for a good night sleep—especially if she has a cuddle buddy.

IRON is a seven month-old shepherd mix. He came from a hoarding situation. He is great with other dogs. He loves jumping and splashing in his kiddie pool and playing fetch. He has the face of an angel complete with heart shaped markings. He would do great in social settings, as he is young and very eager to learn. He is learning basic commands, leash manners, and kennel training.

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news of the weird

by Chuck Shepherd

Updates Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky’s most infamous moment was in 2013 when, to protest government oppression, he nailed his scrotum to the ground at Moscow’s Red Square. (He had also once sewn his lips shut and, at another time, set fire to a door at Russia’s FSB security headquarters.) In August, the Burger King company announced a series of four limited-edition sandwiches inspired by Pavlensky for the artist’s hometown of St. Petersburg. The scrotum performance, for example, will be marked by an egg “nailed” to a burger by plastic spear. A company spokesperson said Pavlensky was chosen as the inspiration because he is popular with “the masses.”

What goes around, comes around One of the Islamic State’s first reforms in captured territory has been to require adult women to dress devoutly — including the face-covering burka robe, which, in Western democracies famously presents security dilemmas because it hinders identification.

Now, after two years of Islamic State occupation in Mosul, Iraq, the security problem has come full circle on ISIS itself. Dispatches from the town reported in September that ISIS has likely banned the burka because it hinders identification of anti-ISIS insurgents who (female and male) wear burkas to sneak up on Islamic State officers.

Recurring themes Barbara Murphy, 64, of Roy, Utah, is the most recent “dead” person battling the federal government to prove she is still alive (but seemingly getting nowhere). She said Social Security Administration bureaucrats, citing protocols, have been tight-lipped about her problem and remedies even though her bank account was frozen; Social Security was dunning her for two years worth of Medicare premiums (since her 2014 “death”); and warning letters had been sent to banks and credit agencies. Nonetheless, Murphy told the Deseret News in August that, all in all, she feels

pretty good despite being dead.

Political connections in some Latin American countries have allowed convicted drug dealers and crime bosses to serve their sentences comfortably, and the most recent instance to make the news, from Agence France-Presse, was the presidential-suite-type “cell” occupied by Brazilian drug lord Jarvis Chimenes Pavao in Paraguay. When police (apparently not “politically connected”) raided the cell in July, they found a well-appointed apartment with semi-luxurious furniture settings (including a conference table for Pavao to conduct “business”), embellished wallpaper designs with built-in bookcases, a huge TV among the latest electronics — and even a handsome shoe rack holding Pavao’s footwear selection. Pavao also rented out part of the suite to other inmates for the equivalent of $5,000 plus $600 weekly rent.

Least competent criminals The most recent perp to realize that cops use Facebook is Mack Yearwood, 42, who ignored a relative’s advice and uploaded his Citrus County, Florida, wanted poster for his Facebook profi le picture, thus energizing deputies who, until then, had no leads on his whereabouts. He was caught a day later and faces a battery complaint and several open arrest warrants.

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Super-size me Texan Monica Riley, age 27 and weighing 700 pounds, is the most recent “super-sized” woman to claim happiness in exhibiting herself semi-nude for “fans” (she claims 20,000) who watch online as morbidly obese people eat. She told the celebrity news site Barcroft Media in September that her 8,000 calories a day puts her on track to weigh 1,000 pounds soon, and that her loving boyfriend, Sid, 25 and a “feeder,” is turned on by helping her. Sid, for instance, feeds Monica her special 3,500-calorie “shake” — through a funnel — and supposedly will eagerly become her caretaker when she eats herself into total immobility.

No longer weird Population grows; goods must be hauled; traffic congestion is worse; and thus trucks keep spilling their loads on the highways.

The really weird ones have set the bar perhaps unattainably high for this genre of news (e.g., the truck spilling pornographic magazines; the truck hauling ham colliding with the truck hauling eggs).

In September, a tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 295 in New Castle, Delaware, spilling a particularly low-value load. The truck, headed for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, was fi lled with 22 tons worth of increasingly shunned U.S. pennies, but these

were even less useful (though perhaps, by metal content, more valuable!) because they were notyet-engraved “blanks.”

A News of the Weird Classic (November 2012) Former Arkansas state legislator Charlie Fuqua is running again (in 2012) after a 14-year absence from elective office. In the interim, reported the Arkansas Times, he wrote a book, “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution,” reminding Christians that they could put their rebellious children to death as long as proper procedure (from Deuteronomy 21:18-21) was followed. “Even though this (procedure) would rarely be used,” Fuqua wrote, “if it were the law of the land ... it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.”

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22):

I’m confident that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills. My gig as a horoscope columnist provides me with enough money to eat well, so it’s no longer necessary to shoplift bread or scavenge for dented cans of beets in grocery store dumpsters. What accounts for my growing financial luck? I mean besides the fact that I have been steadily improving my skills as an oracle and writer? I suspect it may in part have to do with my determination to cultivate generosity.

As I’ve become better at expressing compassion and bestowing blessings, money has flowed to me in greater abundance. Would this strategy work for you? The coming weeks and months will be a good time to experiment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s my translation of a passage from the ancient Gospel of Thomas, a gnostic text about the teachings of Jesus: “If you do not awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will damage you. If you do awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will heal you.” Whether you actually awaken and develop those talents or not depends on two things: your ability to identify them clearly and your determination to bring them to life with the graceful force of your willpower. I call this to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a highly favorable time to expedite the ripening of your talents. And it all starts NOW. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can’t completely eliminate unhelpful influences and trivial saboteurs and debilitating distractions from your life. But you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to diminish their effects. To get started in this gritty yet lofty endeavor, try this: Decrease your connection with anything that tends to demean your spirit, shrink your lust for life, limit your freedom, ignore your soul, compromise your integrity, dishonor your reverence, inhibit your self-expressiveness, or alienate you from what you love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Work too much and push yourself too hard, Sagittarius. Eat corn chips for breakfast, ice cream for lunch, and French fries for dinner — every day, if possible. And please please please get no more than four hours’ sleep per night. If you have any extra time, do arduous favors for friends and intensify your workout routine. JUST KIDDING! Don’t you dare heed any of that ridiculous advice.

In fact, I suggest you do just the opposite.

Dream up brilliant excuses not to work too much or push too hard. Treat yourself to the finest meals and best sleep ever. Take your mastery of the art of relaxation to new heights. Right now, the most effective way to serve your long-term dreams is by having as much fun, joy, and release as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I propose that you and I make a deal. Here’s how it would work: For the next three weeks, I will say three prayers for you every day. I will ask God, Fate, and Life to send you more of the recognition and appreciation you deserve. I will coax and convince them to give you rich experiences of being seen for who you really are. Now here’s what I ask of you in return: You will rigorously resolve to act on your core beliefs, express your noblest desires, and say only what you truly mean.

You will be alert for those times when you start to stray from the path with heart, and you will immediately get yourself back on that path. You will be yourself three times stronger and clearer than you have ever been before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you loosen yourself up by drinking an alcoholic beverage, don’t drive a forklift or ride a unicycle.

If you have a hunch that your luck at gambling is peaking, don’t buy lottery tickets or play the slot machines. If you’re drawn to explore the frontiers of intimacy, be armed with the ancient Latin maxim, Primum non nocere, or “First, do no harm.” And if you really do believe it would be fun to play with fire, bring a fire extinguisher with you. In presenting this cautionary advice, I’m not saying that you should never push the limits or bend the rules. But I want to be sure that as you dare to experiment, you remain savvy and ethical and responsible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I invite you to explore the healing power of sex. The com-

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ing weeks will be a favorable time to do so.

You are also likely to generate good fortune for yourself if you try to fix any aspect of your erotic life that feels wounded or awkward. For best results, suspend all your theories about the way physical intimacy should work in your life. Adopting a beginner’s mind could lead you to subtly spectacular breakthroughs. (P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner to take full advantage of this big opening.)

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even if you are a wild-eyed adventure-seeker with extremist views and melodramatic yearnings, you’ll benefit from taking a moderate approach to life in the coming weeks. In fact, you’re most likely to attract the help and inspiration you need if you adopt the strategy used

by Goldilocks in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: neither excessive nor underdone, neither extravagant nor restrained, neither bawdy, loud, and in-yourface nor demure, quiet, and passive — but rather just right.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some of my readers love me but also hate me. They are drawn to my horoscopes in the hope that I will help relieve them of their habitual pain, but then get mad at me when I do just that.

In retrospect, they feel lost without the familiar companionship of their habitual pain.

It had been a centerpiece of their identity, a source of stability, and when it’s gone, they don’t know who they are any more. Are you like these people, Taurus? If so, you might want to avoid my horoscopes for a while. I will be engaged in a subtle crusade to dissolve your angst and agitation. And it all starts now with this magic spell: Your wound is a blessing. Discover why.

GEMI NI (May 21 - J une 20): In my dream l ast night, bad guys wearing white hats constrained you in a canvas straitjacket, then further wrapped you up with heavy steel chain secured by three padlocks.

They drove you to a weedy field behind an abandoned warehouse and lef t you there in the pitch dark. B ut you were indomitable. B y dawn, you had miraculousl y wriggled your way out of your confinement. Then you walked back home, free and undaunted. Here’s my interpretation of the dream: You now have special skills as an escape artist. No cage can hold you. No riddle can stump you. No tangle can confuse you. (P. S.: For best results, trust yourself even more than you usuall y do.)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next four weeks will be a favorable time to come all the way home. Here are nine prompts for how to accomplish that: 1. Nourish your roots. 2. Strengthen your foundations. 3.

Meditate about where you truly belong. 4.

Upgrade the way you attend to your selfcare. 5. Honor your living traditions. 6. Make a pilgrimage to the land where your ancestors lived. 7. Deepen your intimacy with the earth. 8. Be ingenious about expressing your tenderness. 9. Reinvigorate your commitment to the influences that nurture and support you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What tools will work best for the tasks you’ll be invited to perform in the coming weeks? A sledgehammer or tweezers? Pruning shears or a sewing machine? A monkey wrench or a screwdriver? Here’s my guess: Always have your entire toolbox on hand. You may need to change tools in mid-task — or even use several tools for the same task. I can envision at least one situation that would benefit from you alternating between a sledgehammer and tweezers.

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ACROSS 1 “Everything else” category, briefly 5 Clucks disapprovingly 9 Bit of high jinks 14 Bogus thing 18 Copy, in a way 19 “Hold it!”

20 “Reduce, ___, recycle” 21 Reduce, as expenses 22 Bartender on TV’s Pacific Princess 23 Crucifixion inscription 24 Fine sheet material 25 Left in a hurry 26 It accrues, with “censored,” “trumpet” and “tremendous” inside 29 Volcano in Sicily 30 Lingers behind 31 Drama-filled 32 Rooftop antenna 34 Fizzy drink 37 Monetary unit of Honduras 40 “No problem!”

41 Concerning a changeover, with “nationals,” “traits” and “sanitation” inside 43 Make, as money 44 IV amounts 47 Cortez’s victim 48 Automobile sticker fig.

49 “___ say!”

50 Fat-avoiding Jack 52 ___ constrictor 53 Supreme Court justices’ attire 56 Traditional English festival, with “maestro” and “overheat” inside 59 Bake sale offering 60 Certain doublereed player 61 A tablet maker 62 Car feature, with “assistant” and “titanium” inside

69 Buzzing pest 70 Members of the working class 71 “Green Gables” girl 72 Right now, with “daytime” and “mailed” inside 74 Island nation east of Fiji 76 Appropriate 79 Run out, as a subscription 80 Deviate from a course, at sea 81 Embargo 82 Folded sheet of paper 84 USNA grad 85 Hindrance to fair judgment 87 Ate too much, with “devour,” “glove” and “nudge” inside 91 Two-masted sailboat 92 Adherent 93 Carpenter’s groove 94 Ravel composition 97 Chain of hills 99 Pub rounds 101 St. crossers, sometimes 102 Concerning reporters, with “suction,” “acorns” and “stallion” inside 109 Good farm soil 110 Pun attachment 111 Doing nothing 112 Daisy variety 113 One of the Hindu trinity (var.)

114 Some skirts 115 Sign filler, sometimes 116 Get connected 117 Gulf off the coast of Yemen 118 Kin of orgs.

119 Spaces between teeth 120 Knowing, as a secret

DOWN 1 Japanese soup 2 Islamic holy man 3 Craft with skis 4 Apres-ski drink 5 Certain bedding purchase 6 Beach, basically 7 Diva ___ Te Kanawa 8 Subsisting on a meager allowance 9 Arms depot, with “earns,” “laser” and “learns” inside 10 Approaches 11 Student getting one-on-one help 12 Goddess symbolized by a cow 13 Man on horseback?

14 Globe or ball 15 Half of Hispaniola 16 Sports venue 17 Do well in the Olympics 18 Emcee’s prop 27 Jamaican citrus fruit 28 Prefix meaning “trillion” 33 Dada artist Max 34 Bayonet thrust 35 Ricelike pasta 36 Computer info 38 Act out in charades 39 Boston ___ Orchestra 40 “Death of a ___” 42 “Beat it!”

43 “Jailhouse Rock” singer 44 Early spring relatives of irises 45 Small part for a big star 46 Back of the boat 49 Vitamin additive 51 New moon, e.g.

54 Striped animal similar to a giraffe 55 Act of disloyalty 56 Carousel figure, to a tot (var.)

57 Atty.’s assn.

58 Bee injury

59 Sheep shelters 62 Graceful, lively and quick 63 Deprive of courage 64 Packs down, as dirt 65 Itty-bitty quantities 66 Ball of thread or yarn 67 ___ Aviv 68 Big mess 73 Not allow to practice 74 Hawaiian tuber 75 “Step ___!” (“Hurry!”)

76 Bit of rootless aquarium flora 77 “The ___ Piper of Hamelin” 78 List heading, sometimes 81 Chamfering 83 Low German prior to 1200 86 Site of a famous flag-raising 87 Peculiarity, with “noses,” “sends” and “done” inside 88 Chevy of yore 89 Attacks clutter 90 Sandwich shop, for short 91 Servile aide who won’t say “no” 94 Hobbyist’s wood 95 Not perfectly round 96 Bequeath 97 Archaeological digs 98 Football great Michael or baseball great Monte 100 Cause of some food poisoning 103 Name on elevators 104 Sneaking suspicion 105 Meal fit for pigs 106 Small building block 107 Capital of Rhone 108 Strong desire

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