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editor’sletter

So how ‘bout that debate?

Kidding. If you don’t know for whom you will vote at this point, God help you. Screw politics, let’s talk about movies.

The Tulsa American Film Festival returns for its second year on Wednesday, Oct. 12, and will take place across Kendall Whittier, Gilcrease Museum and the

Woody Guthrie Center.

Greatly expanded from last year, it’s now an epic five days of shorts and features, both narrative and documentary, along with

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after parties, live music, a J.J. Cale concert film, and a special outdoor screening of the 1986 Oklahoma-shot slasher, “Terror at Tenkiller,” featuring locals doing live commentary in the vein of Mystery Science Theater.

I’ve had the opportunity to watch a handful of the scheduled films; I’m impressed by the caliber and diversity of the programming, which includes a strong Native presence, a children’s series, music documentaries (J.J. Cale, Samantha Crain and J.D. McPherson, among others), and Oklahoma student shorts. This, in addition to new genre fare like the suspenseful border thriller “Transpecos,” which won the audience award at this year’s South

by Southwest, revival screenings (Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”) and discussion panels hosted by the Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Art & Culture.

If you consider yourself a cinephile or film buff or movie geek or someone who just enjoys art and community, you should seriously make a point of attending. Ben Arredondo, Adam O’Connor and Colleen Thurston have put together something special; read more about it on page 23. a

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VOTED

Time for a change

Oklahoma and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad runoffs

by DAVID BLATT

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n August, Oklahomans went to the polls to decide 13 legislative primaries and one Congressional primary where no candidate received a majority in the initial primary ballot in June.

More precisely, a few Oklahomans went to the polls. Less than one in five registered voters – 19.5 percent – voted in the runoff races in their district. In only one district, SD 19, did turnout exceed 26 percent.

In all but one district, turnout for the runoff was lower than in the primary election. Overall turnout in the 14 races fell by 32 percent between June and August.

The biggest drops were mostly in Tulsa-area seats, where voters turned out in larger numbers in June to vote for Tulsa’s Mayor in an open primary.

The drop in turnout was not unusual or unexpected. In the 16 races that were decided by runoffs

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in 2014, turnout dropped by an average of 32 percent from June to August and fell in every race but one. In 11 of the 16 races, less than twenty per cent of voters showed up for the runoff. In 2012, turnout fell in all 10 legislative and Congressional runoff elections by an average of 26 percent.

Nor is this phenomenon unique to Oklahoma. A 2013 study by the Center for Voting and Democracy examined all primary runoffs in federal House and Senate elections from 1994 to 2012 and found that turnout decreased in 165 of 171 contests. The same study found that the longer the gap between the initial primary round and the runoff, the more turnout is likely to fall. Oklahoma moved its initial primaries from July to June in 2012, creating the current two-month gap.

In addition to the fundamental democratic tenet that elections

should be decided by more voters, not fewer, there are other arguments against the runoff. One is the substantial cost to both candidates and the state of holding runoff elections. In 2014, the State Election Board estimated that the runoff election cost the state as much as $1 million, with additional costs incurred by the counties. The 2016 runoff election will be less expensive because there were no statewide runoffs this year, but the Election Board estimates that the cost will still exceed $500,000.

Low turnout elections also tend to reward more ideologically extreme candidates who are better able to rally hardcore party supporters. This year, Lisa Kramer in SD 25 and Toni Hasselback in SD 31 were Republicans who were seen as more moderate candidates and finished first on the initial ballot, but lost in the runoff to

more extreme challengers. There were similar outcomes in 2012 and 2014.

Oklahoma is one of only seven states, all in the South, that uses a primary runoff system. There are several good options for replacing the runoff, such as a nonpartisan top-two primary system; an instant runoff with ranked choice voting; or simply declaring the candidate with the most votes the winner, even if they don’t have majority support.

By keeping the primary runoff, Oklahoma makes elections more expensive and ensures that important races are decided by a significantly shrunken electorate.

It’s time for a change. a

David Blatt is Executive Director of Oklahoma Policy Institute (www.okpolicy.org).

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viewsfrom theplains

The worst question of all SQ 790, a monumental disaster

by BARRY FRIEDMAN

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s ghoulish as is State Question 776—the proposed amendment which empowers the state legislature to designate any method of execution not prohibited by the United States Constitution—and as horrendous as is State Question 777, the socalled Right to Farm Bill, neither embodies the awful quite like State Question 790.1 This measure would remove Article 2, Section 5 of the Oklahoma Constitution, which prohibits the government from using public money or property for the direct or indirect benefit of any religion or religious institution.

And what could go wrong there?

The only reason SQ 790 is on the ballot at all is because supporters of a Ten Commandments monument behaved like 9-year-olds who had their iPads taken away when the Oklahoma Supreme Court said the structure violated the constitution and had to be removed.2 The Ten Commandments monument in this case does explicitly “display” and “articulate” ideas that directly pertain to the Judeo-Christian system of religion.

But Mom!!!!!!

“If this is the Court’s opinion,3 [Senator Mike] Ritze said, “it threatens all displays on state property that contain religious imagery.”

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donate carved stone tablets like those that star Charlton Heston, as Moses, brandished in the movie.

Had Ritze put the monument in his backyard, garage, or simply given it to his church as a gift, no problem, but since he insisted it be placed at the entrance to the Capitol, the court ruled his intent was to promote a Judeo-Christian worldview.

Not at all, countered Ritze, who said it was not a bow to any one religion but a celebration of our shared monotheistic history.

The Court had none of it.

LET’S REMEMBER:

SQ 790 was written by Christians for Christians—not for the protection and/or celebration of Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims, their beliefs or histories. law at the University of Baltimore and contributing editor for The Atlantic, who reminds us the Oklahoma Statute in question, Article 2, Section 5, is based on something called “a little Blaine Amendment,” an offshoot of legislation proposed in 1875 in the U.S. House of Representatives, designed to keep religious funds from flowing to Catholic schools.4 The bill was never ratified, but many states, including Oklahoma, subsequently based their church/ state prohibitions on Blaine’s provisions. Specifically, Epps says that Ten Commandment exhibits throughout the country—at least those already in place—do not violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution when they are considered historical acknowledgement rather than religious shrines.

“Already in place” appears to be key.

Ritze’s statue has no real history—it was erected in 2009—unlike a similar monument in Texas, erected in 1961, that was ruled constitutional in part because of the shameless marketing of Cecil B. DeMille.5 DeMille actually helped establish the battleground.

He played a role in getting the granite replica of the Commandments placed outside the Texas Capitol.

He skillfully avoided footing the bill for the tablets, leaving that to the Fraternal Order of Eagles. DeMille’s Ten Commandments premiered in 1956. Learning of the Eagles’ work—and keen to promote his film with their cause—the director encouraged the group to

The Ten Commandments monument’s location on state property is a clear violation of a straightforward, unambiguous provision of the Oklahoma Constitution.

In its short life at the capitol, Commandments were misspelled, it was driven over by the car of a madman, challenged in court by the ACLU. Additionally, the State Capitol Preservation Commission was inundated with so many requests from those who wanted to place additional monuments next to it—including, my favorite, a “Flying Spaghetti Monster” exhibit6—the commission put all requests on hold.

Moses didn’t have this much trouble getting the original down Sinai.

After the court’s 2015 decision that called for its removal, the pouting began, led by the governor.7 “[The Court’s] decision was deeply disturbing to many in our legislature, many in the general public, and to me.” Fallin said. … “During the [examination] process, October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

which will invol ve both legal appeals and potential legislative and constitutional changes, the Ten Commandments will remain on the Capitol grounds.”

Apparently, in Oklahoma, a governor can ignore the state supreme court if she finds its rulings “deeply disturbing.” That appeal, to which the governor alluded, failed and the monument was removed in the dead of night.

State legislators then immediately approved Senate Joint Resolution 72, which was the basis for SQ 790, in hopes of getting it back.

Let me stop for a second.

What was promoted by Ritze, and is now being championed by Attorney General Scott Pruitt, is not, as the court suggested, a Judeo-Christian system of religion in Oklahoma—it’s a Christian one. (More on this in a moment, but the term Judeo-Christian, part meaningless, part insulting, is something of a sop to Jews to make them feel like they’re on the home team). Moreover, there are many versions of the Ten Commandments. In the Jewish Bible (that’s the Old Testament for those scoring at home), the first one reads: I am the Lord thy god, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

In Ritze’s version: Thou shall have no Gods before me. Thou shall no make unto thyself any graven image.

Not for nothing, but for Jews, that “brought thee out of the land of Egypt” is kind of a big deal.

To Attorney General Scott Pruitt, though, it’s just history.8 “The court completely ignored the profound historical impact of the Ten Commandments on the foundation of Western law.”

Please. Not only are The Ten Commandments not mentioned in the U.S. or Oklahoma Constitution, if it were the foundation of Western Law, we’d be throwing people in the hoosegow for infidelity, working on the Sabbath (both Saturday and Sunday), cursing, and desiring great riches.

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Further, according to Epps, courts get cranky—as they did with Judge Roy Moore in Alabama when he tried to place a Ten Commandments monument at the state’s supreme court building9— when people start getting hinky with the establishment clause.

“Each monument is tested by a fact-specific test,” Epps says.

And the one in Oklahoma clearly failed.

The Court, by the way, didn’t just swat away Ritze’s contention and Pruitt’s appeal, reaffirming its ban on state property being used for religious purposes, it called the two on their disingenuousness.

Stripping the Ten Commandments of their religious significance and characterizing them as secular and a component of the foundation of the laws of this State trivializes the sacred nature of the text and degrades those individuals who truly believe the Ten Commandments are a covenant between God and His people.

As Epps says, “If courts rule the way religious groups want, then states won’t be able to exclude religious groups from lots of programs.” Further, he adds, if the Blaine Amendment is repealed, legislators will be able to start shoveling money to “preferred religious entities, including churches and schools.”

And that may be the point.

This is the new American fundamentalism, a creeping, concerted effort by those who want a faithbased America—a Christian-based America—and it’s been percolating for almost a quarter century.

In 1992 at a governor’s conference, then-Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice said the following:10 “The United States of America is a Christian nation …

It is just a simple fact of life in the United States of America. … And the less we emphasize the Christian religion, the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos in the United States of America.”

But it’s what happened next which is even more chilling.

At that point, South Carolina’s Carroll Campbell stepped up to the lectern and hastily extended that

point to include America’s Judeo-Christian heritage. The Washington Post reported what happened next: Campbell then stood back, put his arm on Fordice’s shoulder and said quietly: “I just wanted to add the Judeo part.” Fordice, appearing to glare at Campbell, said: “If I wanted to do that, I would have done it.”

Let’s remember: SQ 790 was written by Christians for Christians—not for the protection and/or celebration of Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims, their beliefs or histories. And I’d bet all the dinars in my thobe against all the dinars in your thobe, if any of those faith communities wanted to honor its religious tenets on public land, Oklahoma legislators would have denied the request— and denied it using the same statue, Article 2, Section 5, they’re now trying to gut.

That SQ 790 promises to do away with that protection, promises to chisel away at such a fundamental American principle—and all because legislators threw a hissy fit when the court took away their monument—makes it one of the most abominable and childish state questions ever to appear on a ballot. a

1) ok.gov: State Questions 2) bjc.online.org: Oklahoma Supreme Court Reiterates: Ten Commandments Monument Must Go 3) chrisitiantoday.com: Oklahoma Supreme Court reaffirms order to remove Ten Commandments monument 4) becketfund.org: Blaine Amendments 5) chron.com: ‘Ten Commandments’ went from film to stone 6) cbslocal.com: N.Y. Group Applies To Build Satan Statue At Oklahoma State Capitol 7) theblaze.com: Oklahoma Governor Vows to Defend Ten Commandments Monument, Calling Court Mandate to Remove It ‘Deeply Disturbing’ 8) tulsaworld.com: Attorney General Scott Pruitt accused of politicizing state question resulting from 10 Commandments monument ruling 9) huffingtonpost.com: Roy Moore, Alabama Justice Ousted Over Ten Commandments Monument, Poised To Regain Post 10) salon.com: Governor: Only Christians are my brothers NEWS & COMMENTARY // 9

changemakers

Common ‘sense’

Local mothers tired of gun violence work for change

by AMANDA RUYLE

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hannon Watts was fed up.

It was December 15, 2012, the morning after the Sandy Hook shooting. Watts, a mother of five in Indianapolis, knew there had to be other mothers who were tired of gun violence and the lack of action on the part of lawmakers, so she decided to create a Facebook page. Mothers Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was born.

By February, just a few months later, Tulsa mother Sabine Brown was also fed up. Expecting to see a change in gun laws at the state and local level in the wake of Sandy Hook, but instead seeing lawmakers and the NRA move to put more guns in schools and on the streets, she and a friend considered going to the capitol to protest—but they didn’t know where to start.

“That’s when we found Moms Demand Action on Facebook,” Brown said. “They were actually looking for people to start an Oklahoma Chapter, so we raised our hands and said we’d start something here.”

Since then, local chapters have formed in Oklahoma City, Lawton, Norman and Tulsa, making the encompassing Oklahoma chapter one of the most active and successful groups in the country. Moms Demand Action has worked with corporate partners, the highway patrol, and professors to beat back law-loosening legislation, including a bill that would have amended the state constitution to allow for the repeal of existing gun laws.

“And we aren’t coming for your guns. That is an impossibility both practically speaking and legally speaking,” said Sara Len-

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Moms Demand Gun Sense Oklahoma chapter leader Sabine Brown and Sara Lenet-Rotenberg, Tulsa chapter leader | GREG BOLLINGER

et-Rotenberg, head of the Tulsa chapter. “Our victories have been both legislative and cultural in the state of Oklahoma. Legislatively, we just beat back NRA-backed bills for the first time in Oklahoma.” These include HB 3098, which would have allowed for permitless open carry, and HJR 1009, a bill that would have kept businesses, educational institutions and private citizens from implementing carry restrictions unless they passed a “strict scrutiny” review in the courts.

Despite the successes the chapter has seen, both Brown and Lenet-Rotenberg knew that there was still more to be done. Noting the lack of diversity in their membership and the disproportionate ways in which gun violence affects the African American community, they began a “listening tour” by reaching out to local leaders in the community to learn about the specific ways in which gun violence affects people of color.

“We leaned heavily on advice from our best allies in the community, including Reverend Ger-

ald Davis and former police Chief Drew Diamond,” Lenet-Rotenberg said. “It was sort of a process that the more we learned, the less we knew. It was humbling, but an important humbling.”

The conversations they had with local leaders showed them that they needed to engage with the black community, but in a way that put them in the listening seat.

When the film “3 ½ Minutes” came out, they knew they wanted to bring it to Tulsa and combine a screening of the film with a panel discussion, which they’ll host at Circle Cinema on Tuesday, October 18.

“This screening has truly been the culmination of two years of talking and listening and soul searching … it will be a successful event if it starts a dialogue and brings in a greater representation of people of color into our organization,” Lenet-Rotenberg said.

The film tells the story of Jordan Davis, a young black man who was gunned down in Jacksonville, Florida by Michael Dunn, a middle-aged white man,

for playing his music too loud.

The film uses over 200 hours of footage and follows the trial of Dunn and the parents of Davis as they navigate their grief and ultimately become activists in the gun violence prevention community.

“This film looks specifically at Stand Your Ground laws and implicit bias,” Brown said. “And we know Stand Your Ground laws disproportionately affect people of color … At the end of the day, you can’t talk about gun violence without talking about racism … a black man is eleven times more likely to be shot than a white man, and we need to be having real conversations about why that is and what policies need to change to change that fact.”

Brown and Lenet-Rotenberg have assembled a panel of community leaders and activists to field questions and facilitate a discussion among the community, to take place directly after the screening. Panelists include former Tulsa Police Chief Drew Diamond, Minister of Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Rev. Gerald Davis, Langston University professor of sociology Dr. Art Williams, and Mana Tahaie, Director of Mission Impact-YWCA Tulsa.

“The questions we want to ask are ‘How are these issues affecting you in your community? What can we do to support you? And what do you wish we knew?’” Lenet-Rotenberg said. “We’ve taken to saying that we are late to the party, and we are sorry, and we are here to listen.” a

For more information on the event, visit circlecinema.com.

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Searching for justice, praying for peace In the wake of Terence Crutcher’s death, a series of rallies, vigils, and protests

by MITCH GILLIAM

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n Tuesday, September 27, a thunderous flock of news helicopters chopped through the Oklahoma humidity above Tulsa’s downtown, while onlookers stood on rooftops and protesters blocked the intersection of 2nd and South Cincinnati.

Not two years since the shooting of Eric Harris, another unarmed black man, Terence Crutcher, had been killed by police, and the Reverend Al Sharpton was here to lead a community rally.

Outside the Greenwood Cultural Center, on the same ground where, in 1921, hundreds of black Tulsans were massacred by white residents, a growing crowd sought shade. The overall mood was similar to the stuffy climate, but it relaxed when McFadden and Whitehead’s “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” blared from the PA. Smiles and chatter increased as people packed in towards the podium and the multitude of news station microphones in front of it. A local pastor took the stage, asked everyone to grab the hands of their neighbors, and bow their heads in prayer.

“We come to you today, God, to pray that justice will be served in our city and all across this nation,” she said, “and we pray that you would touch the hearts and minds of those that you have put in charge over the nation and over the Earth.”

As her prayer continued and her voice raised, the crowd exclaimed “Hallelujah,” and “Yes,” raising their volume to reflect her intensity.

“And we pray, God, we pray for reconciliation, and we pray for justice, in the name of Jesus.”

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Marq Lewis of We the People Oklahoma and protesters at the 9/26 100 Bad Dudes Rally JOSEPH RUSHMORE

Then, in the middle of the prayer, a siren sounded.

“Blues live matter!” yelled a counter-protester across the street through a megaphone. “Blues lives matter! Stop falling for race baiters!”

A woman near me cried “Lord Jesus, no!” and began sobbing.

Several people broke from the crowd and headed towards the two men across the street, one of whom held a sign that said “every Muslim is a terrorist.”

Another speaker urged the crowd to ignore the demonstration across the street.

“One of the enemy’s biggest tricks is to distract and divide us,” he said, “and I ask you to pay them no mind.”

On September 16, 40 year-old Terence Crutcher was shot and killed by officer Betty Shelby near 36th Street North and Lewis. No weapon was found on his person or in his vehicle. Three days later, dash cam and helicopter footage of the incident was released by police, who first showed it to Crutcher’s family and north Tulsa community leaders. Petitions asking for Shelby’s arrest quickly gathered signatures and six days after Crutcher’s death, Shelby was charged with first-degree manslaughter.

Although footage of the incident was quickly released, the lack of Shelby’s own dash cam footage, coupled with inaccurate early reporting, sent speculation

spinning. The death was quickly politicized and absorbed into the fabric of a larger, national narrative involving use-of-force training, systemic racism and the relationship between law enforcement and people of color.

Shouts of “comply or die!” came from the pro-law enforcement faction, who believed and circulated police claims that Crutcher reached into his car window and showed signs of being high on PCP. Attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the Crutcher family, held a press conference to dispel this rumor, and presented a still photo from the footage that shows Crutcher’s blood splattered on what appears to be a closed window. Police countered this claim and said his window was down about five inches. Initially, media analysis (including an editor’s letter in The Tulsa Voice) held the idea that Crutcher was merely having car trouble when Shelby happened upon him and drew her weapon. 911 transcripts revealed multiple reports of an abandoned, running vehicle in the middle of a road, and an erratic man yelling “it’s gonna blow.”

Video shows Crutcher, arms in the air, slowly moving towards his vehicle as four cops, including Shelby, close in on with him weapons drawn. He lowers his hands shortly before the fatal shot is fired.

Just four days after Crutcher’s death, while speculation and tempers swirled in Tulsa, police in Charlotte, North Carolina fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott. In less than 24 hours, Charlotte was in flames, and videos of the riots, including an alleged racially motiOctober 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

Protesters at a march for justice and peace, 9/27 JOSEPH RUSHMORE

Reverend Al Sharpton at Greenwood Cultural Center, 9/27 JOSEPH RUSHMORE

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Markus Whited protests Terence Crutcher’s death outside Tulsa County Courthouse, 9/19 | JOSEPH RUSHMORE

vated mob attack on a white man, fueled fears of violent protest in Tulsa.

Rumors of a Black Lives Matter protest on Highway 169 by 71st Street South circulated on Facebook, and prompted a group of men to set up near the intersection to counter-protest. A video of a protester at the Tulsa County Courthouse stating “A good white man is a dead white man” made headlines on conservative blogs.

Another Tulsan, Chris Vermillion, became infamous when a racist Facebook post (“Better remember the last time blacks got rowdy in Tulsa ... they all died… we don’t play that round here…”) went viral. Vermillion deleted the post and offered an apology, but his remarks were representative of an increasingly fearful section of Tulsa’s populace.

But something amazing happened: Tulsa rallied and peace prevailed. Protesters channeled their sorrow and outrage into vigils for justice for Crutcher, benefits for his family, communi14 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

ty meetings, and peaceful protests calling for Shelby’s arrest, which were quickly answered. The world took note.

Both CNN and the LA Times ran articles drawing comparisons between Charlotte and Tulsa, praising our leaders and citizens for their respective transparency and temperament. President Obama called Mayor Bartlett and complimented him on the city’s handling of the tragedy.

Back at the Greenwood Cultural Center, after the “Blue lives matter!” interruption, Tulsa Police established boundaries between the protests. Several men walked back from the counter protest, and one of them hugged an officer.

Speakers following the pastor included the Crutcher family’s legal team and Terence Crutcher’s sister, Dr. Tiffany Crutcher.

Throughout the rally, each one of them commended Tulsa’s peaceful grieving process.

“Throughout this ordeal, the entire city has been so supportive ... people of every background, every culture, every ethnic group,” Dr. Crutcher said to the crowd.

“And I want to say that the intent of this rally is to promote healing, not just here in Tulsa, but across the nation. I believe we’ve done that, and set the tone of peace, unity, and healing.”

“This isn’t a war against police,” she continued. “We honor our men and women in blue. But when they said my brother looked like a ‘bad dude’? This is a war against bad cops.”

State Representative Regina Goodwin took the podium next.

“We’re first about love, we’re about justice, and we’re about it coming swiftly,” she said. “And we’re gonna show everyone around the country that we’re going to do this differently, and get a better result.”

Between the speakers, chants of “peace!” rang through the crowd.

As Sharpton’s appearance grew closer, a few in the crowd began

counter-chanting, “No justice, no peace,” injecting an element of hard reflection into the rally’s good vibrations.

Many people, locally and nationally, praised Tulsa District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler for quickly charging Shelby, but her quick release on bond and her defense’s assertion she shot Crutcher due to momentary hearing loss have raised concern over the possibility of eventual justice. On September 30, she pled “not guilty” to her manslaughter charge.

In the moments leading up to Sharpton’s time at the podium, people began to doubt Sharpton’s arrival. “I told you he wasn’t coming,” a man next to me said into his phone. The counter-protester’s earlier order to “Stop falling for race baiters,” summed up how some whites feel about Sharpton, but disdain for the Reverend isn’t neatly drawn along racial lines.

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like him, because of what he hasn’t done,” Hazard said.

Hazard, who originally planned to confront Sharpton at the rally, said “Everything [Sharpton] does is just for media and propaganda.”

Vanessa Hall-Harper, who led a campaign for City Hall to create an African American Affairs Commission, told me she didn’t mind Sharpton’s presence in Tulsa, but wasn’t sure why he came. “Any national attention for this is good, but we were already handling everything well.”

Goodwin seemed to understand the controversial nature of Sharpton when she addressed the crowd.

“I’d like to say to all of the folks saying, ‘we don’t need any outsiders coming in here,’ understand this,” Goodwin said. “The wheels of justice turn slowly, and when you have folks with experience and folks that care, and folks that can bring to the table what needs to be brought to the table ... we need anyone to come into this town that is about justice.

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And we should be welcoming them.”

Sharpton finally took the stage.

Like all speakers before him, he commended Tulsa’s response, before discussing the tactics of the opposition.

“I’ll tell you what they’re going to do,” he said. “They’re going to say we’re violent, when we’re peaceful, that we’re anti-white, when there are whites that march with us. We’re not anti-white, we’re not anti-police ... we are anti-injustice.”

“I want to commend the local folks for taking one step,” he continued. “They put the video out right away, which they won’t do in other cities, and I congratulate you on that first step. But now you’ve got to go into that second step and that third step,” he said, invoking the cry of “no justice, no peace.”

“When I got off the plane today, a man asked me why I was in Tulsa,” Sharpton said. “I told him I thought y’all were looking for a ‘bad dude.’ Let’s march.”

The crowd, now around 400, took to the street with a roar of laughter, and began to march past the Blue Lives Matter protesters while chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot!”

“Yes! Hands up!” they yelled.

“Raise your hands to God and praise him,” said the man who earlier interrupted the group prayer. “Praise God, instead of the man you’re praising who deserved to be shot!”

To this, a student from the Langston Hughes Academy politely responded, “he deserved to be arrested, not shot.”

That sentiment was echoed on a sign bobbing ahead of me that read: “Didn’t have to kill him!”

Other signs in the mass declared “I’m a vet, not a threat,” and “I can’t calm down, I have black sons.” One simply asked, “Am I next?”

As the crowd marched, squad cars pulled up to intersections to secure the participants’ safety.

A woman warmly told a cop to “have a good night,” and received

a cold leer in return. Still, some cops could be seen shaking hands with passing protesters, displaying genuine kindness. In stark contrast to Charlotte, riot gear was nowhere to be seen.

The March ended in front of City Hall, completely stopping traffic. A white man in a Thundercats t-shirt grimaced at the marchers from the City Hall steps, pointing his thumb down in disapproval. A woman approached him and began screaming “Don’t shoot!” in his face, until a man pulled her away. “Don’t worry about them, that’s what they want,” he said.

Amid the loud drone of helicopter blades, Sharpton spoke of peace, unity, and justice, before concluding the rally. As the crowd dispersed, chants of “Hands up, don’t shoot!” could still be heard, but another chant had outgrown it in popularity and intensity. As the throng splintered into smaller groups, you could hear powerful yells of “No justice, no peace,” echo through downtown. a NEWS & COMMENTARY // 15

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Tulsa has a long and storied history with opera. The romance began with a performance in 1904 of Charles Gounod’s “Foust,” two years before the city had any paved roads. The ghost of the acclaimed Italian tenor Enrico Caruso allegedly haunts the Brady Theater, having caught the cold at the venue that would eventually kill him in 1921. Tulsa Opera began (as Tulsa Opera Club) in 1948, and is now among the oldest and most beloved opera companies in the country, attracting great singers from around the world while also fostering local talents. Tulsa Opera continues that tradition with its season opener, Georges Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers,” the organization’s first production under its new leaders, General Director and CEO Greg Weber and Artistic Director Tobias Picker.

“The Pearl Fishers” tells the story of two friends, Nadir and Zurga, who both fall in love with a priestess, Leila, yet vow to remain friends despite the love triangle. Leila brings her own complications to the romance, as she grapples with feelings of secular love and her sacred oath of chastity as a priestess. The opera includes the devastatingly beautiful duet “Au fond du temple saint,” in which the two men describe their love for Leila while staving off feelings of jealousy.

This production will star tenor Aaron Blake—who the Los Angeles Times called “a vocal powerhouse—as Nadir, baritone Yunpeng Wang as Zurga, just a few months before Wang will take the role of Mercutio at The Metropolitan Opera, and soprano Sarah Shafer, who has been named “a singer to watch” by Opera News magazine. The production will feature costumes and sets by British fashion icon Dame Zandra Rhodes.

Artistic Director Tobias Picker, who joined Tulsa Opera in June, has composed works in many genres—five operas commissioned by major companies, including The MET—and is an artistic consultant for the New York City Opera. The Wall Street Journal called Picker “our finest composer for the lyric stage.”

Greg Weber, who has held the title of Director of Production for the San Francisco Opera and Houston Grand Opera, returned to his position as Tulsa Opera’s General Director in March after a stint at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan State University.

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hroughout Elgin Park, Tulsa’s newest sports bar and brewpub, natural light brightens and balances a space full of TV screens (47 to be exact), and the green walls, yellow trim, and industrial light fixtures beckon to the nostalgia of stadium architecture, locker rooms, and the Green Giant at Fenway park. The wide, contained booths give off a press or penalty box feel and are built for crowds—alums, fantasy football groups, die-hards in sweatshirts, or families out for dinner.

And without the expected smattering of sports memorabilia to distract from the charm of the subtle ballpark theme, the space successfully makes room for all kinds of crowds. As someone who doesn’t know anything about sports, I can

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say it lives up to its early reputation as being more than just another place to watch a game.

Elgin Park capitalizes on its downtown location with several urban appointments that give the brewpub a cool Chicago or Denver-ish vibe in the evening. I remark to the staff on how bright everything feels, and I’m told that owner Elliot Nelson likes to add a signature mechanical element to each new concept he churns out, and with Elgin Park, it manifests as a retractable garage door.

When the doors go up, the bar area is transformed into an openair concept on brisk days, and the view of ONEOK field looks even more mythic set against the Oklahoma sky—especially on game days when fireworks boom

overhead. A serviceable patio seats diners even closer to the ballgame, and two-way televisions in the bar area mean you won’t miss a second of the action if you choose to dine or drink al fresco.

As a brewery, restaurant, and sports bar fusion, Elgin Park’s proximity to the ballpark is perfect. There are elements of a warehouse-style brewery at play, the well-appointed swank of a gastropub, massive, sharable portions, and the simplicity of a pizzeria menu—wings, dips, and other apps, grinders and hoagies, salads, a few surprising dishes (clam chowder, churros, cauliflower wings), and of course, the pizza—Elgin Park bills theirs as “New Haven style.”

Traditional New Haven pizza is quite different than the handtossed, deep dish, true Neapolitan, or paper-thin New York styles found in most places around Tulsa. New Haven Appiza (pronounced abeets), as it was dubbed

by Frank Pepe back in the ‘30s, usually comes as a shapeless stretch of crisp, sooty crust with tomato sauce and toppings lightly sprinkled over like any traditional pie. But the real difference is in the pizza’s foundation. New Haven-style dough is ashy and crisp on the outside—thanks in large part to the coal-burning ovens used to prepare it—and soft and chewy on the inside. Elgin Park’s isn’t exactly New Haven-style (a bit too little char, a bit too much cheese, maybe) but it’s close.

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Elgin Park is currently brewing a few mainstay beers in-house with the help of local aficionado Eric Marshall. Bar manager Evan Kuck and crew have developed a solid list of craft cocktails and a wine selection. For the full experience, you’re going to want to take advantage of the Monday night pizza and pitcher special, where $20 gets you the pizza of the night, and a pitcher of one of Elgin Park’s three signature brews, one of which, right now, is Mr. Oktoberfest—a smooth amber nod to Reggie Jackson. “Good fall drinking,” Kuck calls it. The Slow Pitch—a piney session IPA with a mild hop flavor—is great for warmer days.

As for the pizza of the day, it rotates, but with any luck, you’ll come in on a Monday where the two MNF teams dictate the menu. The kitchen rolls out themed pizzas on game nights like the Philly Cheese Steak pizza, or the heavily topped Chicago Dog Pizza. On my visit, New Orleans was playing Atlanta. We had our choice of a creole combo pizza featuring Andouille sausage, crawfish, and fried okra, or a fried green tomato pizza made with goat cheese, mozzarella, and frying tomatoes from a little farm in Inola.

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no—which offers up a true taste of New England, along with the cauliflower wings, which are a great starter (get all the dipping sauces).

Other noteworthy touches include the trophy-topped taps in the bar, TVs in every bathroom, a bullpen party room that can accommodate around 60 for private events, the sleek, 40-seat bar, drink specials during games whenever an Oklahoma team is ahead, $15 house pitchers, the ridiculous mountain of waffle cheese fries, the upper management’s very appropros baseball card-inspired business cards, and the foul balls that make their way onto the patio from time to time.

Thanks to a recent change in law, Elgin Park can now brew and sell beer on site, though their focus is currently on low-point beer. The brewpub has plans to expand the operation to include higher offerings, and is hoping the likely passage of SQ 792 will open up opportunities for the coming years. Kuck says he envisions street parties, tailgates, events and happy hours in Elgin Park’s future.

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line formed at Florence Park Café for a delicacy not found often enough in this neighborhood—Indian tacos. Julie Morgan, a hair stylist by trade, put up her scissors for the evening to give Tulsa a taste of her family’s Native American tradition at a fundraiser she hosted to help her prepare for the National Indian Taco Festival in Pawhuska.

“We thought maybe 30 to 50 people would show up at the fundraiser,” said Morgan, “but we ended up selling about 120 tacos.”

Morgan, who is Creek, has been making Indian tacos for her friends and family for about 20 years.

“I remember my grandma and mom making them for us,” said Morgan. “Somewhere down the line, I decided to ask my mom for the recipe.”

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common in Oklahoma at fairs and festivals, but are not always accessible the rest of the year. There are even still a few Okies out there who have not had one.

“I was telling a client of mine about the Indian taco competition, and she had never had one,” Morgan said. “I told her it’s basically like a regular taco, almost like a taco salad, but on a very fluffy fried piece of bread.”

The fluffy piece of bread is frybread, sometimes known as squaw bread, and has a subtle sweetness, reminiscent of a funnel cake or sopapilla.

“I like mine super fluffy, not too hard, with a little chew,” Morgan said.

The frybread is topped with a mixture of ground beef and pinto beans, seasoned like a mild chili.

Then, all the fixings are piled on— lettuce, tomato, onion, sour cream and chunky salsa.

Though called an Indian taco, the dish is not traditional Native American fare in the pre-colonial sense. In fact, frybread has come to symbolize the resourcefulness of a people faced with adversity.

“When we were put on reservations, we were given things that we didn’t normally use—like flour, lard, milk,” said Morgan. “Our culture centered more on meats and grains.

When they put us on the reservation, they gave us different stuff.

Indian tacos came out of that.”

About six years ago, Morgan began hosting Indian taco brunches for her friends every few weeks at her home, acting as an ambassador and introducing many people to to the dish.

“Some of my friends have said they’d never had Indian tacos before and they thought they were amazing, which makes me feel great. I feel like I gave someone a little of my culture.”

After getting such positive response from friends and family, Morgan will be taking her special brand of Indian taco to the national championship.

“I usually go to the Indian taco championship with my family. We always taste what’s there and each year I walk away thinking ‘hmmm, I think I could do better,’” she said. “I take pride in not just the way the I make it, but in the ingredients I use. I try to use the best ingredients I can find. And there’s a lot of love in there, too.”

To get herself in the right mindset for cooking, Morgan listens to tribal music or to A Tribe Called Red, a group of DJs from Ottawa, Canada that remixes traditional Pow Wow music with electronic music.

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NEW AMERICAN CINEMA THE TULSA AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS SECOND YEAR WITH A DIVERSE AND EXPANSIVE FIVE-DAY SCHEDULE SURE TO SATE LOCAL CINEPHILES

BY JOE O’SHANSKY Wednesday, October 12, the Tulsa American Film Festival returns for its second year, with five days of eclectic films, panels and parties taking place across the Kendall-Whittier District, Gilcrease Museum and the Woody Guthrie Center.

Building on the scope of its successful inaugural year, the festival promises an expanded roster of contemporary documentaries and narrative features, classic films, shorts, student films, and an expanded Native American program, along with the festival’s first outdoor screening.

“Our opening night film, ‘Transpecos,’ was a film that won the audience award at South by Southwest,” said Ben Arredondo, festival co-founder. “I’m friends with the screenwriter and one of the producers. I’d read that screenplay in its first three iterations. The fact that it got made and was premiering at South By got me excited, and Colleen and I went to go see it, and we decided it really fit the model of our festival. We have a big Latino film angle this year, so it fit that. It has a Western element to it. And also it’s topical. There’s obviously a lot of conversation about the border right now.

“There are a lot of shorts that we’re really excited to show. The opening short for ‘Transpecos’ is a film called ‘The Last Hunt.’ It was written and co-directed by Brock Harris. He’s a local guy, he lives in New York and L.A. now but he’s from here and he’s coming back for the show. And there’s a very cute animated short film that’s playing on our kids day called ‘Moom’ that makes me fucking tear up every time I watch it. (Editor’s note: We felt similarly. You will tear up.).”

New panel discussions for up-and-coming filmmakers, among other events, round out a packed yet smartly planned series of exhibitions.

Most of the film screenings take place at the historic Circle Cinema (10 S. Lewis Ave.) with a special exhibition of Sam Peckinpah’s classic western, “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” at the Woody Guthrie Center (102 E. M.B. Brady) and the outdoor screening of the 1986 Oklahoma-shot schlockfest, “Terror at Tenkiller,” at Ziegler Art Supplies (6 N. Lewis Ave.). In addition, there are free shows, including the Native and Kids showcases, at Gilcrease Museum (1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Rd).

After parties at Fair Fellow Coffee (1 N. Lewis), Pancho Anaya (2420 E. Admiral Blvd.), and Mainline Art and Cocktails (111 N. Main), round out evenings of cinematic adventure and enlightenment.

“We did aim for bigger and better and that’s exactly what’s happening this year,” Arredondo said. “I am very proud of the films that our programming director, Colleen Thurston, put together. … Last year we were really worried about good quality feature films that would be interested in screening with us. It was a little bit harder. This year it was a struggle to figure out which ones we wanted to show out of all these good ones.”

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The marriage of two classically trained musicians descends swiftly through purgatory and into hell.

Thomas Thumb Jr. is unlike any other man. He’s got a giant thumb for a head, and he’ll do whatever it takes to achieve the American Dream.

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Dust to Dust Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Sasha

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An unsupervised little girl wanders into her neighbor’s house looking for her lost dog.

On Time

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Doug’s new bed changes his life.

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The Piano’s Fate

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A man suffering from hallucinations and glimpses of another world tries to connect with the woman who bewitched him.

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The Life and Times of Thomas Thumb Jr.

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A man who has lost his wife finds relief through a mystical piano.

Daniel (Brock Harris) and Cody (Creed Garnick) are friends who share a two-decade tradition of hunting in the frost-covered Wyoming wilderness. When Cody begins to succumb to a degenerating brain condition he forms a pact, unbeknownst to his girlfriend (Tanaya Beatty), to go on one last hunt—from which he won’t return—with Daniel. ¶ Written by Harris and co-directed with Matthew Daddario, “The Last Hunt” offers a thoughtful, initially meditative story, delivered with finely tuned performances from Harris and Garnick, who share a natural sense of familiarity. ¶ Their emotional landscapes are deftly sketched during “The Last Hunt’s” brief runtime, as well as the literal—and gorgeous—mountainscapes. The cold impassivity of their unforgiving world magnifies the sadness of their insignificance, captured by some arresting cinematography from Axel Lanzenberg (“Celeste & Jesse Forever”). ¶ The pensive tone of the film does take something of a noirish left turn at the end that subverts what came before, leading to a climax that, while satisfying, also feels a bit out of place—leaving the question of whether or not Daniel can, or should, follow through on his pact with Cody. –JOE O’SHANSKY

A TAUT, SLOW-BURN THRILLER

Sounds like a weird genre to get attached to, but I’ve always had a thing for border patrol movies. The desert is a creepy place where, more often than not, nefarious doings are afoot. ¶ There was a run of them in the ‘80s. I don’t remember why, aside from Reagan being in office, so I assume everyone was (still) paranoid about “illegal aliens” flooding over our porous borders. The 1984 thriller “Flashpoint,” starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams, found two scruffy border patrol agents on the run after they discover a dark secret behind the ultimate conspiracy, buried deep in the desert. 1980’s “Borderline” featured Charles Bronson as an agent on the hunt for a murderous human smuggler played by Ed Harris. “The Border” (1982) finds Jack Nicholson being corrupted by the leader of a human trafficking ring, to cover the growing expenses of his high maintenance wife. ¶ It’s that last one to which “Transpecos,” a frontier thriller that premiered earlier this year at South By Southwest, bears the closest resemblance. ¶ Three border patrol agents, Davis (Johnny Simmons), Flores (Gabriel Luna), and Hobbs (Clifton Collins Jr.), man a remote immigration checkpoint in the Texas desert. They pass the time bullshitting and waiting for the occasional car to pull up and submit to a few questions—the boredom of which inspires Hobbs to be somewhat of a dick, usurping Davis when he’s interviewing a seemingly innocuous, lone driver. ¶ Turns out, the driver is not so innocent, and tries to escape with Hobbs’s arm trapped in the door. Fearing for his life, Hobbs kills him, and a quick search of the car reveals many kilos hidden in the trunk. With a dead driver and a pile of cocaine on their hands, Hobbs and Flores delight in the inadvertently massive bust they’ve stumbled upon. Until they realize that their wisecracking partner, Davis, is not entirely who he seems. ¶ Directed and written by Greg Kwedar in his feature debut (and co-scripted with Clint Bentley), “Transpecos” is a taut, slow-burn thriller with a ton of atmosphere and a trio of intense performances.

Collins brings his weary, tough guy chops to the role of Hobbs, a character who winds up being deeper than his racism belies. As Flores, Gabriel Luna is at the moral center of the film’s sly heart, delivering an often wrenching performance. As Davis, Simmons (hey, it’s Young Neil from “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”!) provides the conflict, calibrating a performance that’s as sympathetic as it is frustrating. The great character actor Julio Oscar Mechoso (“Machete Kills”) pops up in a cameo to deliver a typically charismatic turn. ¶ Kwedar is a thoughtful director, managing to wring a good amount of tension from the story, maintain a steady pace, and elicit damn good performances that elevate his fairly standard-issue script. Some flat-out jaw dropping cinematography by Jeffery Waldron captures the stunning New Mexico vistas (standing in for West Texas) with a sense of cold beauty and creepy solitude that almost brings you through the screen. ¶ “Transpecos” is no masterpiece, but it is a memorable, solid, and surprising first feature from a director to keep an eye on. –JOE O’SHANSKY

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CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 2 | 8:15 P.M.

THIS LAND PRESS OPENING NIGHT AFTER PARTY

Fairfellow Coffee | 9:30 p.m.

Free admission to all VIP, ALL ACCESS and same-day ticket holders. $10 door charge for non-ticket and pass holders. Western Swingabilly Jazz Tribe will perform. Cash bar and snacks.

October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

FRIDAY, OCT. 14 CIRCLE CINEMA | 1 P.M. Short Screenplay readings

DIRECTED BY MICHAEL WRIGHT | FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Four short screenplays will be read by local actors and directed by TU professor and playwright Michael Wright.

CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 4 | 6 P.M. Limitless Potential DIRECTED BY PHILIP BASTIAN

A boy struggles with accepting his newly discovered supernatural ability.

SHORT, PRECEDING SCREENING OF “ELECTRIC NOSTALGIA”

A THOUSAND ACRES

THURSDAY, OCT. 13 OFF BEATEN PATHS: Documentary Shorts CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 3 | 6 P.M. These C*cksucking Tears

CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 2 | 7 P.M. The Wedding Party DIRECTED BY THANE ECONOMOU

A groomsman must navigate a slew of disasters to maintain order at his best friend’s wedding reception.

NARRATIVE FEATURE

DIRECTED BY DAN TABERSKI

Meet Pat Haggerty, the man behind the world’s first and only gay-themed country music album, Lavender Country, 40 years after its release.

Love Bite: Laurie Lipton And Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings DIRECTED BY JAMES SCOTT

No one on the planet has drawn more than Laurie Lipton. With millions of strokes of her pencil, Laurie’s images seek answers to some uncomfortable themes in our culture. What compels her to live a life of isolation is neither black nor white.

The Provider DIRECTED BY LEAH GALANT

Restrictive laws threaten abortion providers and force clinics to shut down or hire out-of-state practitioners. Some abortion doctors, such as Dr. Shannon Carr, travel hundreds of miles to provide legal and safe services, while encountering opposition from anti-abortion forces.

The Head of Joaquin Murrieta DIRECTED BY JOHN J. VALADEZ For over a decade, John J. Valadez searched for the remains of Joaquin Murrieta, a legendary Mexican outlaw. Valadez is convinced he finally has them. He embarks on a cross-country road trip through history to bury the remains of Joaquin Murrieta and a dark and troubled past.

Electric Nostalgia DIRECTED BY JACOB BURNS

A young woman is haunted by visions of a faceless man after she is awoken from the dead in a body that is not her own.

NARRATIVE FEATURE

CIRCLE CINEMA | 6:05 P.M. Tulsa Film Mixer & Panel Series: Rethinking “Diversity” in Indie Film FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 3 | 8 P.M. Marceline Blurr DIRECTED BY NADIA MATA PORTILLO

CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 4 | 8 P.M. A Thousand Acres DIRECTED BY CHAZ FULK

A young man infiltrates an anarchist cult in search of a former love.

SHORT, PRECEDING SCREENING OF “POPULATION ZERO”

Population Zero

Inspired by movies of the French New Wave, Marceline Blurr is the story of a young woman who was born with vision impairment out of the ordinary. For her the world is a magical place.

NARRATIVE SHORT, PRECEDING SCREENING OF “BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS”

Best and Most Beautiful Things DIRECTED BY GARRETT ZEVGETIS

A celebration of outcasts everywhere, this documentary stars a precocious young blind woman who disappears into quirky obsessions and isolation.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

DIRECTED BY JULIAN PINDER

Hours after three men were gunned down in cold blood, Dwayne Nelson walked into a ranger station miles away and confessed to the crime. Nelson walked free.

Pinder travels to Yellowstone in a chase for truth behind a crime that should have rocked the nation. NARRATIVE FEATURE

Oklahoma Film & Music Office After Party PANCHO ANAYA | 8 P.M. VIP, ALL ACCESS and same-day ticket holders welcome. Live music, cash bar, and light snacks.

ZIEGLER ART SUPPLIES IN KENDALL WHITTIER | 8:30 P.M. OUTDOOR SCREENING Terror at Tenkiller 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING DIRECTED BY KEN MEYER

Leslie and Jana take off on a vacation and strange things start to happen at their remote cabin. Soon, corpses begin turning up near the lake as, one by one, the locals disappear. Film will be accompanied by a live, MST3K-style comedy commentary.

NARRATIVE FEATURE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

ALSO SHOWING

TAFFest Kendall Whittier Outdoor Party 10 p.m. | free and open to the public

Following the outdoor “Terror at Tenkiller” screening, Count Tutu will close out the night with a rowdy street show and dance party.

THE TULSA VOICE // October 5 – 18, 2016

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SATURDAY, OCT. 15 TE ATA

THE THUNDERBIRD OVER THE WHALE D I R E C T E D B Y N I C O L E AC E V E D O

GILCREASE MUSEUM | 10 A.M. | FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC DOCUMENTARY SHORT (PRECEDING THE SCREENING OF “KIVALINA”)

The importance of traditions, and what to do with yourself when those traditions succumb to modernity, are at the center of the comforting and compelling documentary short, “The Thunderbird and the Whale.”

Derived from the Northwestern Native American myth of an eagle-god who saved the people from starvation when a murderous whale began killing their catch, “Thunderbird” tells the story of Spencer McCarty in his own words. A Native American of the Makah tribe, living in Neah Bay, Washington, McCarty was raised a whaler, who built his own canoes as a teenager (I’m still trying to wrap my head around hunting whales in a canoe).

After a debilitating accident, McCarty falls into a bout of alcoholism, and as his sense of relevance dries up, so does the market for whaling.

His identity is renewed when he begins to carve wood for art’s sake, to critical acclaim and gallery success. His relative fame becomes a means for him to carry forth his culture.

Directed by Nicole Acevedo, “Thunderbird and the Whale” is a pleasing slice of life, handsomely filmed in the gorgeous Pacific Northwest.

The foggy docks of Neah Bay—a fishing village with scenery straight out of a Bob Ross canvas—is a near-mystical background upon which McCarty, gifted with a world-weary charisma, tells his unlikely and inspiring story. –JOE O’SHANSKY

ALSO SHOWING CIRCLE CINEMA | 12:30 P.M. Tulsa Film Mixer & Panel Series: Experiences as a Working Actor in Oklahoma Free and open to the public.

CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 3 | 3 P.M. Okay, OK DIRECTED BY KYLE BERGERSEN It’s like Portlandia but set in Oklahoma.

SHORT, PRECEDING SCREENING OF “O, BROTHER!” O, Brother! DIRECTED BY LANCE MCDANIEL O, Brother! is a wild, low budget, home-grown comedy about sex, race, drugs, politics, drag queens and family in Oklahoma.

NARRATIVE FEATURE

NATIVE FILM GILCREASE MUSEUM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 10 A.M.

In Attla’s Tracks DIRECTED BY CATHARINE AXLEY

An aging Alaskan dogsled champion trains his grandnephew to carry on a tradition and compete in the world’s largest dogsled sprint race.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Kivalina DIRECTED BY GINA ABATEMARCO

The story of an Inupiaq Eskimo tribe whose island is disappearing into the Alaskan Arctic. With no resources and only a precarious sea wall to protect them, the film explores the community’s struggle to maintain its way of life.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

DIRECTED BY AUGUSTA LEHMAN

Throughout her career, artist Kay Walkingstick has defied categorization. Her work has spanned styles from abstraction to realism and materials from acrylic to saponified wax creating a complex assortment of work that resists summary and generalization.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

What Was Ours DIRECTED BY MAT HAMES

An Arapaho journalist and a powwow princess travel from the Wind River Indian Reservation with a Shoshone elder to explore vanished artifacts.

As the elder looks to the future, the young look to the past to revive hope for their beloved home.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

GILCREASE MUSEUM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 12:30 P.M.

Bisonhead DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH LO

A family of Native American hunters journey from northern Montana to Yellowstone National Park to assert their treaty right to hunt by participating in the controversial culling of the park’s wild bison.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

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Kay Walkingstick: An American Artist

GILCREASE MUSEUM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 3 P.M.

Te Ata DIRECTED BY NATHAN FRANKOWSKI

Te Ata is based on the true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, one of the greatest Native American performers of all time. Te Ata’s journey led to isolation, discovery, love and a career of worldly performances.

October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

HOMEGROWN: LOCAL SHORTS CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 3 | 5:30 P.M. YES, WE’RE OPEN

NARRATIVE SHORTS The Nuclear Blast from the Past DIRECTED BY ALEX ALLEN, DREW ALLEN While the United States government performs nuclear tests in the early ‘60s, three scientists are accidentally blasted forward in time to 2016 and must come to grips with the stark reality of the future.

Yes, We’re Open

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

to help his sister Mariana raise money for their ailing mother’s much needed surgery.

Thespianism Info TBA Alma Avira DIRECTED BY KYLE KAUWIKA HARRIS

A woman awaits the return of her husband who is away at war.

DIRECTED BY YOUSEF KAZEMI

Tells a story about an unlikely friendship between a convenience store owner and a shy, young girl.

La Mercancia DIRECTED BY ROGELIO ALMEIDA

Bruno embarks on an unknown and dangerous journey

Even in Death DIRECTED BY ZACHARY DAVIS

Jonah, a young boy living in New Orleans is about to experience a loss in his family. Faced with grief, Jonah is visited by the Grim Reaper and is taken on a charming adventure through New Orleans.

ALSO SHOWING WOODY GUTHRIE CENTER | 7 P.M. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) DIRECTED BY SAM PECKINPAH

Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn and Bob Dylan star in the classic Peckinpah Western set in 1881 New Mexico, featuring an original soundtrack by Dylan.

CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 2 | 8 P.M. The Champion DIRECTED BY BRETT GARAMELLA, PATRICK MCGOWAN

A former Iraqi boxing champion Estaifan Shilaita overcomes tremendous hardships as he builds a special bond with his family and taxicab customers in Chicago.

SHORT PRECEDING SCREENING OF “FERAL LOVE” THE TULSA VOICE // October 5 – 18, 2016

Feral Love DIRECTED BY MARKIE HANCOCK

Crazy cat lady or world-class musician? A violinist with the New York Philharmonic for 40 years, Dorian Rence also cares for a feral cat colony in the tunnels of New York City. You decide.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

MAINLINE ART & COCKTAILS | 8 P.M. Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture After Party Free admission to all VIP, ALL ACCESS and same-day ticket holders. $10 at the door for non-ticket holders. Cash bar and light snacks, with a performance

by Samantha Crain.

SAMANTHA CRAIN

DIRECTED BY ALLISON HERRERA, JEREMY CHARLES

Samantha Crain is a Norman-based singer, songwriter, and producer whose Americana-influenced songs are infused with her Native American heritage. Part troubadour, part social justice warrior, Crain crafts songs that reveal her personal narratives, inner struggles, creative whims, and passion for the lost traditions of her ancestors.

“Samantha Crain” is a cinematically shot and melodious portrait of a pure and unaffected Oklahoma artist.

–JOE O’SHANSKY

BEANS

DIRECTED BY MARK D. WILLIAMS

Peyton “Beans” Factor is just like every other kid. Well, except that as an eight-year-old championship golfer she’s already hit the radar of top college athletic programs.

I LIKE JD

DIRECTED BY NATHAN POPPE, TRAVIS TINDELL

Why did Lorna Dixon travel 4,000 miles to see JD McPherson? Follow the music enthusiast as she takes trains, planes and a cab ride to get from England to Oklahoma; just to see Broken Arrow’s JD McPherson perform live.

DIG IT IF YOU CAN DIRECTED BY KYLE BELL

The story behind the art of Steven Paul Judd.

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SUNDAY, OCT. 16

MOOM

D I R E C T E D B Y RO B E RT KO N D O , DA I S U K E “ D I C E ” T S U T S U M I

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC GILCREASE MUSEUM | 1 P.M.

AN ESOTERIC FABLE FOR CHILDREN

“Moom” seems like an uber-cute, state-of-the-art CG animated short, with somewhat simplistic character design, aimed squarely at toddlers who love big expressive eyes, cooing non-dialogue, and obtuse storytelling—a pretty looking Pixar-aspirant that feels like a cut scene from a Zelda game.

That is, until the emotional gutpunch of an ending that brought this deceptively saccharine, lava lampfor-kids full circle and put a genuine lump in my throat.

In an idyllic otherworld, a little, anthropomorphized ball of purple called Moom rescues trapped memories from objects like bottles, shoes, or whatever falls randomly from the sky. Moom is shepherded by a green creature in an astronaut’s flight suit who helps Moom yank a memory from a pair of ballet slippers. The memory turns out to be another emotive cuteblob with whom Moom is instantly smitten. But the bond they form, and the connection to their nascent objects of desire must be relinquished to the inevitability that all memories fade, sundered by the impassable frontier of death.

I think. Japanese fables can be inscrutable, sometimes.

Based on the children’s book by Genki Kawamura that I clearly haven’t read, and adapted by Pixar expats Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi (whose studio, Tonko House, produced the 2015 Academy-winning short, “The Dam Keeper”), “Moom’s” subtle story is a stark yet familiar contrast to the high-concept narratives that fuel Pixar’s necessarily crowd-pleasing work. –JOE O’SHANSKY 28 // FEATURED

EGGVENTURE

KIDS’ FILM DAY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | GILCREASE MUSEUM | 1 P.M.

The Iroquois Creation Story

Eggventure

DIRECTED BY CATHLEEN ASHWORTH

DIRECTED BY DANIELLE JOHNSON

Combining animation and dance, The Iroquois Creation Story tells the Haudenosaunee tale of Sky Woman and her grandsons Flint and Sky Holder.

A penguin and a polar bear share love for the same egg.

The Red Thunder

DIRECTED BY MIKE DILIBERTO

DIRECTED BY ALVARO RON

Two hundred years in the future, a teenage girl from Earth adjusts to life in a small town that sits atop an asteroid.

Without permission, Sarah borrows her mother’s car for the evening. The evening takes a turn for the unexpected when the car reveals the alter ego of Sarah’s mom.

Space Town

ALSO SHOWING WOODY GUTHRIE CENTER | 2 P.M. Steve Pryor – “Can’t Find My Way Home” The late Tulsa legend Steve Pryor performs in this video Produced by Jamie Oldaker, Dan Mayo and Jeremy Lamberton for Mad Dogs and Okies.

MUSIC VIDEO

To Tulsa and Back: On Tour With J.J. Cale DIRECTED BY JÖRG BUNDSCHUH

Featuring Eric Clapton, Rocky Frisco, and Tulsa’s own J.J. Cale, this tour documentary follows the legendary guitarist as he returns to his hometown.

Tulsa American Film Festival Awards Circle Cinema | 6 p.m. | free and open to the public

An evening of honoring the winning filmmakers of the 2016 Tulsa American Film Festival. A special local recipient will be honored with the Bill Blair Award for Excellence in Film. Sponsored by The University of Tulsa.

October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

OKLAHOMA STUDENT SHORTS CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 2 | 4 P.M.

DIRECTED BY MEGAN PORTER

friend, a man starts a new life with another lover. He soon discovers, however, that she’s been keeping deadly secrets from him.

A small town guy struggles to become an amateur boxer.

Wrung

NARRATIVE SHORTS Angry Max

DIRECTED BY J. LOGAN ALEXANDER

I’m Just There DIRECTED BY JOSH DOWNING

A misunderstood man, living in a world where he doesn’t belong, searches for happiness and a place to call home. He discovers true peace and a transformation in the most unlikely of places.

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A humanlike robot, tethered by engineered borders, makes the decision to leave knowing very well that he will perish. In doing so, he finds the answer to life.

A Time Before Remembering DIRECTED BY TAHLIA MUNOZ, KELSEY HAUSAM

When a teenage boy experiences grief, there’s no telling how he’ll cope with it. Acceptance is the first step toward recovery, and his just happens to come in the form of art.

How Do You Doo? DIRECTED BY KELLY EDWARDS

Following the death of his girl-

Trevor Jacobs returns to his hometown to compete in the amateur rodeo circuit. A chance encounter with his estranged father, known bull rider “Bucking” Bill, stirs his tragic past, and Trevor is faced with a decision: forgive or be free.

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS Bunee: The Boy from Constanta DIRECTED BY BUNEE TOMLINSON

After spending the first six years of his life in the Romanian orphanage system of the 1980’s and 1990’s, a young boy discovers that filmmaking could be the engine for personal growth in his new world.

The Prisoner’s Voice DIRECTED BY ETHAN DENNIS

Mr. and Mrs. Stick noticed odd behavior from son Matt, but nothing would prepare them for what would happen next. In late 2012, Matt stabbed his mother to death.

The Prisoner’s Voice advocates for mental health treatment rather than punishment.

DEAF CODE DIRECTED BY CHASE CHAMBERS

CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 2 | 4 P.M. | DOCUMENTARY

LIVING IN SILENCE

University of Tulsa junior classman Chase Chambers won an Emmy this year in the Best Variety category for this confessional-style, student short film about living life while deaf.

Chambers, who is deaf, appears alongside his friends and peers, elucidating the differences between the ways deaf people commiserate, party, and communicate with each other and how that intersects with the hearing world around them.

Told entirely in sign language with subtitles, “Deaf Code” follows in the vein of MTV series’ “Guy” and “Girl Code,” revealing the etiquette of deaf culture, and the frustrations that come with day-to-day life that the hearing probably never think about—like talking with your hands full.

The most memorable bits clear up some common misconceptions. No, lip reading is not an exact science so don’t pull a Costanza and expect to find out what your ex-girlfriend is saying at a party. And, yes, they can feel a bass beat so don’t ask if they can dance to music.

“Deaf Code” is entertaining and informative, and the players are an amiable bunch. Its earnestness often overcomes its Spartan execution, and is an apt calling card for Chambers’ perceptive, playful perspective of the world. –JOE O’SHANSKY THE TULSA VOICE // October 5 – 18, 2016

ALSO SHOWING Jáaji Approx.

DIRECTED BY SKY HOPINKA

Audio recordings of the filmmaker’s father are juxtaposed with videos gathered of the landscapes the two separately traversed, question the relationships between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song. Jáaji is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hocak language.

SHORT PRECEDING SCREENING OF INAATE/SE/

CLOSING NIGHT DOCUMENTARY

INAATE/SE/

[it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. it falls./] D I R E C T E D B Y Z AC K K H A L I L , A DA M K H A L I L CIRCLE CINEMA, THEATER 2 | 7 P.M.

Jesuits suck.

That’s the main takeaway from “INAATE/SE/,” a confounding documentary, in concept and title, about the native Ojibway tribe, who live on the Canadian border on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, in the town of Sault Ste. Marie.

The Jesuits in question came with white settlers, preaching “accept Christ, or die” to the natives. But, as the two cultures merged, the clergy evolved to merely opening boarding schools and abusing the kids. Their influence is written on the landscape in hollowed-out, abandoned Jesuit schoolhouses, and a creepy looking Masonic-influenced spire cutting the horizon, called the Tower of History. You’d almost expect the Eye of Sauron to blaze above it all.

“INAATE/SE/” retells the ancient parable of The Seven Prophecies, which predicted the arrival of white people, the sundering of the Ojibway from the knowledge of their traditions, and a far-flung future where the young return to the roots of their culture. This lost knowledge was written on birchwood scrolls that have been hidden from the world to protect the tribe’s secrets.

Created by brothers Adam and Zack Khalil, who utilize a strange mixture of archival footage, reenactments, and interviews—amid flourishes of experimental cinema—the brothers explore many of the boilerplate issues that concern documentaries about Native culture: assimilation and appropriation, forgotten traditions, sovereignty, and the need to reconnect with their roots in a modern society that doesn’t care to understand any of it.

The interviews cover an eclectic range of people who talk of the loss of their ways, from elders lamenting the new generation’s disconnect from its past or the sequestering of their artifacts at a local museum, held by the Jesuits who helped murder or convert their ancestors.

“INAATE/SE/” makes some odd creative choices; it almost feels like it was edited by two people with wildly different styles and visions. As a documentary it doesn’t totally work—some information is redundant, and the narrative lacks cohesion to the point of frequent confusion. It’s cut like a horror movie at times (one of the Jesuit priests taunts the camera while wearing an unnerving Halloween mask) and the music plays to that vibe, as well, with disjointed, staccato pieces that appear and disappear out of nowhere with the next unexpected smash cut. The randomness lends the film a chaotic, ominous vibe.

Despite the tonal and narrative mish-mash, “INAATE/SE/” is bizarrely memorable. Depending on your connection to and understanding of the subject, your mileage will vary. –JOE O’SHANKSY FEATURED // 29

lolz

A shining, bald duck

Andrew Deacon might be Tulsa’s hardest working comedian

by MITCH GILLIAM

“M

an, I am so tired,” Andrew Deacon said when we met.

As one of Tulsa’s hardest working comedians, he has a right to be. He was still recovering from the Blue Whale Comedy Festival, during which he spent two days running between venues, setting up chairs, grabbing cash boxes for volunteers, performing sound checks, and vibe-checking national comedians he had booked. He also performed in two of the festival’s most popular showcases.

“I did two days of the fest, and did a show last night before I worked this morning and came here.” His work ethic was written in red on his eyes.

On Facebook, Deacon is a sort of fresh-take machine, socially workshopping material that may hop from news feed to microphone.

“The first girl I ever asked out on a date became a grandmother recently. I’ve never been more relieved to be stood up at a ska concert,” is one joke that performs especially well. Deacon knows this because he tracks performance stats of his material in a spreadsheet, making him a funnier, though less Asian, Dat Phan. Though he tweets with the irresponsible candor of Trump, he’s as cautious as Clinton when he knows he’s on the record.

Throughout our interview he repeatedly down-played his contributions to Tulsa comedy, so I asked local comics to assess him.

“Andrew Deacon is one of the best ambassadors for Tulsa comedy,” said Landry Miller, local comic and host of the Laundry Room video series. “He’s one of the most supportive comics, he’s quick to help out new comedians and great at connecting two people that he thinks could benefit

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Andrew Deacon | GREG BOLLINGER

from collaboration. Sadly, there are more Andrew Deacon one-liner Facebook statuses than Harambe memes.”

Added Evan Hughes, another local comedian who volunteered with Blue Whale: “[Deacon] started the Soundpony Comedy Hour, which he put me on when I was only a couple months into the scene. And he was in the front row at the first comedy show I hosted in Tulsa, a show he wasn’t on, which is the kind of support I’ve seen from him since I started.”

The aforementioned Soundpony Comedy Hour, held monthly, has become a Tulsa comedy institution. The show provides a chance for upstarts like Hughes to hone their craft and mingle with higher profile comics who are on the road. No matter the caliber, Deacon curates all comics.

Amanda Ruyle, who’s relatively new to the scene, said Deacon saw her at an open mic and put her on

a Soundpony show, though she was still green.

“I killed,” she said. “I just knew I was going to be famous by Labor Day.” However, when he gave her a shot to perform alongside Last Comic Standing’s Dusty Slay, she bombed ... “Hard.” Deacon gave her honest comments and direction, and abstained from sugar-coating his critiques.

“He may not actually have emotions, now that I think about it,” Ruyle said. “I’ll ask the pizza delivery guy since he sees him at his most vulnerable more than just about anyone.”

Other comics offered more praise for Deacon... but most just roasted him.

“He’s a shining example of what Tulsa comedy should be,” Drew Welcher said. “As shining as his balding head.”

“Andrew Deacon is like a comedy duck. Under the water

he is working like hell to make something of himself and Tulsa Comedy,” said CR Parsons, before adding: “On the surface he appears confident, serene, and tasty with orange sauce.”

It was on a trip to the Riot L.A. Comedy Festival that Deacon saw 7 Minutes In Purgatory, which feature comics performing their material without benefit of seeing or hearing their audience. They stand in an empty room and tell their jokes into a camera while wearing noise-cancelling headphones. Deacon spoke with Ian Abramson, the show’s host, and booked it for Blue Whale. He also participated, which he said was a “horrifying” experience—he felt all of his behind-the-scenes tasks had zapped his energy. Deacon was helping to feed Blue Whale volunteers up until the moment he put on the noise cancelling headphones. (I saw his performance and can honestly say he killed it.)

This type of relentless boosterism has made Deacon a poster child for Tulsa Comedy.

“I don’t have any ideas about being famous,” he said. “I just travel to raise awareness of our scene and bring comics to Tulsa.”

Aside from securing 7 Minutes in Purgatory, Deacon also lured the Goddamn Comedy Jam to Tulsa for their first out-of-town gig.

None of this is to say that Deacon’s cheerleading eclipses his stand-up. He and his bald spot are an ever-present fixture at open mics and features across town, and a good chunk of our country, and he still finds time to emcee the monthly Soundpony event he curates.

“This is the first year I’ve paid all of my bills doing stand-up,” he said. That, and proudly watching the Tulsa comedy scene explode, are enough for Deacon, for now. a October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Ben Waters, Will Carpenter, and Nathan Gwartney in Theatre Tulsa’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” | LESLI LEWIS

Soft sell

Theatre Tulsa’s ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ is imperfect, but a strong effort

by MICHAEL WRIGHT

T

he production of David Mamet’s Pulitzer-winning “Glengarry Glen Ross” by Theatre Tulsa has some commendable performances and a strong sense of directorial dedication. Unfortunately, the production falls a few pennies short of a complete sale.

Director Tony Shanks has taken on this Gordian knot of a theatre piece, believing the play’s 1983 message viable in our current time of economic instability. In explaining why he chose the play, he described “Glengarry Glen Ross” as “a scathing commentary on American capitalism.”

Theme is not the issue, however. The play is a minefield for production: it can only work with stellar performances by every cast member. Each of the five primary characters—four salesmen and their manager, working in the real estate business in the 1980s—lacks a moral compass to one degree or another, garnering little empathy from the audience. Because of Mamet’s tendency to direct on the page through his use of punctuation, overlapping dialogue and incessantly interrupted thoughts, each actor is doubly challenged.

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Act One is written like three linked one-act plays (each a two-person dialogue and thus entirely reliant on the pairing) while the blustery Act Two teeters on a series of convenient twists to resolve the setup. Each of the primary characters in Act One seeks an outcome with varying degrees of determination or desperation, acting on a secondary character who is either resistant, terrified or bemused. The burden on these second bananas is daunting because Mamet provides little help, leaving it up to the actor and director to illuminate them. This is where the production falters.

Act One is set in the Chinese restaurant favored by the salesmen, a space nicely realized by scenic designer Dustin Proffitt, though marred by overly loud music throughout. In the first scene, desperate Shelly Levene (Brian Rattlingourd) strives to convince manager John Williamson (a rather wooden Ben Waters) to provide him with “leads”—potential buyers—in order to compete for the current prize: a Cadillac and pride of place amongst the sales force.

This twosome is the least engaging of the three. Rattlingourd creates a

distraught loser quality in Levene but his performance presents little sense of a salesman fighting to make a sale: it lacks a variety of tactics. Rattlingourd seems stuck in pleading, making the scene a transparent setup for the last moments when Williamson goes out of his way to humiliate Levene, thus defusing any impact and making the scene feel interminable.

The second scene—the most satisfying of the three—pits oral-fixated, manic Dave Moss, played with delightful flare by Sidney Flack, against George Aaronow (Andy Axewell, an ideal foil, gullible and riddled with palpable anxiety). Moss wants Aaronow to rob the sales office, in order to sell leads to a competitor. The scene is hilarious and terrifying, with Flack utilizing every item on the table like chess pieces. Here, Mamet’s writing gives Shanks a chance to orchestrate a duet almost musical in its interplay.

In scene three we meet the Machiavellian wonder, Richard Roma (Will Carpenter, a gifted character actor), who spellbinds a newly-met drinking partner (and likely mark) James Lingk, played by Jarrod Kopp. Carpenter’s perfor-

mance as Roma is mesmerizing; he soliloquizes in a nearly incantatory manner, full of wacky mysticism.

Although it suffers from Carpenter’s occasionally glacial pace and Kopp’s near-invisibility, the scene still accomplishes a sense of spiderand-fly foreboding.

In Act Two, the robbery has occurred, plot-lines about sales are run up the flagpole only to be shredded by Mamet’s winds of irony and invective, the who-doneit is revealed and we go through the door a little emptied out. What kind of people are these, why are they like this? Can we blame capitalism as Shanks suggests? It’s hard to know; Mamet gives us very little by which to understand what’s beneath the surface or reasons to care about these characters. A sense of the manic “go” of pressurized bigcity life, a genuine dog-eat-dog, is missing in this production, leaving us mostly with dog-eat-puppy.

The production is a very strong effort; everyone is highly committed and the audience enjoyed the show (especially Mamet’s frequent avalanches of profanities). Shanks and the company do their best with Mamet’s problematic script but don’t quite win the Cadillac. a October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

UPCOMING EVENTS

@ the PAC

October October 28 • 7-9 p.m. • FREE You’re invited to discover Kyya’s farm-to-bar chocolate and Topeca’s seed-to-cup coffee at “When Chocolate Meets Coffee.” Sample varieties of chocolates and coffee from local vendors, enjoy live music from Desi and Cody, and explore the relationship between human culture and chocolate with an after-hours tour of the exhibition Chocolate.

Gilcrease After Hours takes place on the last Friday of the month Explore the museum, grab a drink, network with other young professionals, and support your local art community. FREE.

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 13-16 Pryor Rendering American Theatre Company & CityRep 20 An Evening With Sheridan Road Sheridan Road Vocal Ensemble 21, 23 The Pearl Fishers Tulsa Opera 21 The Man Who Planted Trees Tulsa PAC Trust 28-30 Onegin Tulsa Ballet 28-11/6 Cabaret Theatre Tulsa

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Narratives, past and present Tulsa Artist Fellow Crystal Campbell examines Tulsa’s racial history

by LIZ BLOOD

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met Crystal Campbell two days before Terence Crutcher was shot and killed by Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby.

That may seem like a strange way to begin an artist profile, but let me explain.

Campbell, an African American artist here as part of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, spoke much about the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 when I met her.

Crutcher’s death in north Tulsa was a painful reminder, that race is still a dividing factor here in Tulsa, where it has been—violently—before. Since she’s been in Tulsa, Campbell, an Oklahoma City/Norman native who’s lived out of state for the last decade, has become very aware of the city’s fraught racial history, and the lack of space that has been created to reckon with it. “[Greenwood] is just a few blocks from where my studio is,” she said. “I think I have been fixated on this particular history because there’s almost no trace of it here.”

On one expansive wall of Campbell’s Cameron Street studio are 17 paintings on enlarged black and white archival photographs.

Each is a photo from Greenwood taken just before, during, or after the massacre. Each is covered with paint marker, graphite, acrylic paint, or pens.

“These are kind of really tiny memorials to the event,” Campbell said. “There’s been a real lack of space to honor that history. Of course we have the park, but the actual structures are really gone. I like this idea of the images of the 34 // ARTS & CULTURE

Crystal Campbell with her 35mm film project | MELISSA LUKENBAUGH

people going through the rubble to build again.”

In one image, a man is going through the remains of what was left after the fire. Many are of unmarked sites of ruin. In another, a crowd stands outside a burning church. Some of the paintings have multi-colored dots sprinkled over the image, others use lines and texture to make the images more sculptural, to have

dimension. Campbell sees them as translations that mediate the narrative of what happened, and how to look at it.

“I was wanting to show these different slices of time and make them more tangible in a literal way—like trying to bring history into the present … the images, for me, are incredibly hard to look at, or even look away from, and I wanted to add a layer of possibili-

ty over the historical aspect of the image.”

The images, of which she hopes to make 50, are arranged in a grid. Blank spaces punctuate the arrangement, as if certain images once hanging have disappeared. “[In the historical archives] you’ll see the newspaper … and you realize there are sections cut out and it’s a photocopy. So, it’s been manipulated. It’s clearly not a full account and that’s something I think about in laying out these images. Some of these I left blank … that story is buried with a lot of people, and some missing people.”

Campbell is a multi-disciplinary artist; she works with everything from ceramics to copper to film, and makes light, sound, and video art. Besides the race massacre-inspired paintings, she is working on making photographs and a film with a roll of damaged 35mm film she found in a theater in New York City.

“I found it in The Slave Theater,” she said. “The Slave was an important place for activism in the black community.”

She doesn’t know much about the film but plans to make a research trip to New York this month in hopes of discovering more. Campbell has spent much of this year at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship manually scanning 20,000 images, which is about every other frame of the film.

Regardless of the medium, Campbell takes on historical anecdotes and narratives, and offers through her practice a lens through which to view the past. a October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Pryor Rendering Thurs., Oct. 13 through Sun., Oct. 16, $20-$26

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t’s been a while since someone created a new musical set in our state—73 years, in fact. “Pryor Rendering” is a very different animal than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”, though they both originate in a story written by a native son.

Tulsan Gary Reed’s acclaimed novel by the same name follows Charlie Hope, a gay teenager coming of age in 1960s Pryor in the “care” of a hard-drinking, woman-chasing grandfather and a Pentecostal mother—not the strongest supports for a young man who’s struggling to come out as well as grow up.

Adapted for the stage by Shawn Churchman of the University of Oklahoma, with an elegaic country/bluegrass musical score by Frank Schiro, and directed by Stephen Nachamie (whose show “She Loves Me” was recently on Broadway), “Pryor Rendering” is a co-production of American Theatre Company and the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (CityRep).

If musicals about Oklahoma are rare, such a collaboration is maybe even rarer. According to ATC’s Richard Ellis, “as far as we know, there’s never been anything like two ma jor theater companies in two cities combining to produce a world-premiere musical.” // John H. Williams Theatre, PAC, tulsapac.com

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ON STAGE

BOOK RELEASE PARTY

Theatre Pops presents “All The Way,” the Tony Award-winning dramatization of Lyndon B. Johnson’s first year as President.

Oct. 7-16, $22, Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC, tulsapac.com

TTV contributor Denver Nicks, who also writes for Time magazine and National Geographic Traveler, hosts a release party for his book “Hot Sauce Nation.” The event includes Cajun food, live music, and stories. Oct. 8, $12, Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli

MUSICAL

COMEDY

With a nod to the late Gene Wilder, Broken Arrow Community Playhouse presents Mel Brooks’s “Young Frankenstein The Musical.” Oct. 7-16, $10-$15, facebook.com/bacptheatre

Legendary comedienne Carol Burnett comes to the Broken Arrow PAC for An Evening of Laughter and Reflection Where the Audience Asks Questions. Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., $63-$128, brokenarrowpac.com

FOOD COMPETITION

ART MARKET

At Oysterfest local restaurants go head-to-head to see whose oysters reign supreme while local oyster-heads go head-to-head in an oyster eating contest. Sat., Oct. 8, Guthrie Green, free admission, guthriegreen.com

Over 150 Native American artists representing 50 tribes will exhibit their works at the 11th annual Cherokee Art Market at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Oct. 8-9, cherokeeartmarket.com

DIY ART

FILM FESTIVAL

The second annual Tulsa Zine Fest is an exhibition for independent creators and publishers of zines, comics, newspapers, pamphlets, anthologies, and other readable DIY content. Oct. 8, noon-4 p.m., AHHA, ahhatulsa.org

Tulsa American Film Festival returns for its second showcase of feature and short films from around the country, with an emphasis on Native American, Latino, Oklahoma-based, and student filmmakers.

See pg. 23. Oct. 12-16, tulsaamericanfilmfest.com October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

BEST OF THE REST MUSIC

Over 30 Oklahoma songwriters including Don White, Paul Benjaman, Wink Burcham, Chris Lee Becker, and Desi & Cody will perform in the Brady Arts District for Tom Skinner’s Skyline Music Fest, which celebrates the late songwriter’s life. Oct. 13, $15-$40, Hunt Club, Inner Circle, Vanguard, reddirtrelieffund.org.

SPORTS

The OKC Thunder comes to Tulsa for their annual preseason game at the BOK Center, taking on the Memphis Grizzlies.

Oct. 13, 7 p.m., $22-$122, bokcenter.com DRINKS

Tulsa Press Club holds the 12th annual First Draft Craft Beer Tasting, featuring 250 beers from 55 brewers. Oct. 14, 5:30-8:30 p.m., $50-$150, firstdrafttulsa.com MORE DRINKS

Taste whiskeys from around the world and support the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma at their annual Giving Spirits event.

Oct. 15, $125, Cain’s Ballroom, okfoodbank.org AWARDS

The annual Woody Guthrie Prize will be awarded to Kris Kristofferson at Cain’s Ballroom, in the first ceremony for the Prize to be held in Tulsa.

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Rodney Crowell, John Flynn and more will perform to honor Kristofferson. Oct. 18, $50-$63, woodyguthriecenter.org FOOD

Eat Street Tulsa’s food truck festival returns bigger than ever with 40 purveyors of mobile cuisine and live music.

Something for all tastes.

Oct. 15, Blue Dome District, bluedometulsa.com THE TULSA VOICE // October 5 – 18, 2016

Linde Oktoberfest - Das Prefest Innen Guthrie Grün // Kick off Oktoberfest early at the Green. // 10/6, 5:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Blue Whale Music & Art Festival. About a dozen bands will play over two days at the Blue Whale of Catoosa. // 10/7-8 26 Songs in 30 Days // 75 years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and the Grand Coulee Dam. WGC will host a book discussion on KEXP DJ Greg Vandy’s “26 Songs in 30 Days.” // 10/8, 2 p.m., Woody Guthrie Center, woodyguthriecenter.org Toy Train Show // The Toy Train Society will have model train layouts displayed with various sizes of trains. // 10/8, 9 a.m., Bixby Community Center, bixby@tulsacounty.org October BookFest // Decopolis hosts local authors of mystery, horror, and otherwise spooky books. // 10/8, 6 p.m., Decopolis, decopolisstudios.com 2nd Saturday Walking Tour October will highlight Tulsa’s Modern Architecture and will feature a sneak peak of the newly renovated Central Library. // 10/8, 10 a.m., $10, tulsaarchitecture.com

Neighborhood” lives on with Daniel Tiger and his friends. // 10/5, 6:30 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Chapman Music Hall, $27-$55, tulsapac.com/index.asp Octonauts Live! Deep Sea Volcano Adventure // 10/8, Brady Theater, $29.50-$39.50, bradytheater.com C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert // Max McLean brings C.S. Lewis to life, tracing his journey from atheism to belief. // 10/6-8, Tulsa Performing Arts Center - John H. Williams Theatre, $39-$59, tulsapac. com/index.asp Trio Solisti // Violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexic Pia Gerlach, and pianist Fabio Bidini will perform Chausson’s rarely performed Trio in G Minor, as well as Haydn’s Trio in C Ma jor and Brahms’s Trio in B Ma jor. // 10/9-16, 3 p.m., Tulsa Performing Arts Center - John H. Williams Theatre, $5-$25, tulsapac.com/index.asp Working Class Heroes: An Evening with Tamara Draut // Booksmart Tulsa hosts Tamara Draut, one of the country’s leading commentators on class, work, and economics, and author of “Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America.” // 10/5, 7 p.m., Woody Guthrie Center, booksmarttulsa.com Harry Potter Party // Inner Circle holds its second annual H.P. lovefest, with a magical brunch, themed drinks, wizard duels, quidditch, trivia, and more. // 10/9, 12 p.m., Inner Circle Vodka Bar, icvodkabar.com

History of Time Travel: HG Wells to Dr. Who // Science historian and author James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that has fascinated audiences for over a century. // 10/10, 7 p.m., Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College, booksmarttulsa.com

Movie in the Park: Ghostbusters (1984) // 10/13, 8:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com

I Can’t Loosen Up // Create a poster in this playful screen printing and drawing challenge. // 10/10, 12:45 p.m., Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College, TulsaCC.edu/ CenterforCreativity

Pumpkin Patch // A day of shopping, crafts, and games in a beautiful setting, featuring a patch of glass pumpkins by Tulsa Glassblowing School. // 10/15, 10 a.m., Tulsa Botanic Garden, tulsabotanic.org

Kendall Whittier After Five Enjoy an outdoor concert, craft beer from Marshall Brewing Company, and an outdoor movie. 10/13, 5-8 p.m. historicKWMS.com

Red Scare Book Fair // A two-day festival of radical and alternative literature, covering a wide range of perspectives and ideologies. // 10/1516, Nightingale Theater, nightingaletheater.com

Hell Bay - Will Thomas Book Launch // Oklahoma Book Award-winner and recently-named Oklahoma Author of the Year Will Thomas will launch “Hell Bay,” the new installment of his Barker & Llewelyn series of mystery novels. // 10/13, 7 p.m., Mainline Art & Cocktails, booksmarttulsa.com Nimrod Write Night // TU’s Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry hosts an Author Chat with National Book Award Winner Robon Coste Lewis and National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy. // 10/14, The University of Tulsa - Lorton Performance Center, nimrod.utulsa.edu

Tulsa Tonight // 10/14, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Crayons // 10/14, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Army of Stand Ups // 10/15, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Saturday Night Boy and Girl Party // 10/15, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Cian Baker says Laugh it up! // 10/16, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Scott White, James Ervin Berry, Kate Brindle // 10/12-10/15, Loony Bin, $2$12, loonybincomedy.com Tim Gaither, Sam Demaris // 10/6-10/8, Loony Bin, $2-$12, loonybincomedy.com

SPORTS & RECREATION TU Women’s Soccer vs Cincinnati // 10/6, 7 p.m., The University of Tulsa Hurricane Stadium, $5, utulsa.edu ORU Volleyball vs Western Illinois // 10/7, 7 p.m., Oral Roberts University Aerobics Center, oru.edu TU Football vs SMU // 10/7, 7 p.m., Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium, $15-$55, tulsahurricane.com/news TU Volleyball vs Temple // 10/7, 12 p.m., Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com/news ORU Volleyball vs South Dakota State // 10/9, 1 p.m., Oral Roberts University Aerobics Center, oru.edu TU Women’s Soccer vs East Carolina // 10/9, 1 p.m., The University of Tulsa Hurricane Stadium, $5, utulsa.edu TU Volleyball vs UCONN // 10/9, 12 p.m., Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com/news ORU Volleyball vs Denver // 10/11, 7 p.m., Oral Roberts University - Aerobics Center, oru.edu

Movie in the Park Double Feature: Rudy & We Are Marshall // 10/17, 8:30 p.m., Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com

TU Men’s Soccer vs Creighton // 10/11, 7 p.m., The University of Tulsa - Hurricane Stadium, $5, utulsa.edu

COMEDY

OKC Thunder vs Memphis Grizzlies // 10/13, 7 p.m., BOK Center, $22-$122, bokcenter.com

Comedy to the Rescue w/ Tim Gaither, Sam Demaris // 10/5, Loony Bin, $20, loonybincomedy.com/Tulsa Open Mic Comedy hosted by Vanessa Dawn // 10/5, 10/12, VFW Post 577 Centennial Lounge, Improv and Chill // 10/7, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

I Can’t Make a Print // Learn to create an intaglio print. // 10/17, 12:45 p.m., Center for Creativity at Tulsa Community College, TulsaCC.edu/CenterforCreativity

Blue Dome Social Club // 10/7, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, comedyparlor.com

PERFORMING ARTS

Komedy Kombat // 10/8, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood // The legacy of the beloved “Mr. Roger’s

Working Title Improv // 10/13, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

Comfort Creatures // 10/8, 10 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor. com

ORU Women’s Soccer vs Fort Wayne // 10/14, 7 p.m., Oral Roberts University - Case Soccer Complex, oru.edu ORU Men’s Soccer vs Central Arkansas // 10/15, 7 p.m., Oral Roberts University - Case Soccer Complex, oru.edu TU Men’s Soccer vs UCF // 10/15, 7 p.m., The University of Tulsa Hurricane Stadium, $5, utulsa.edu ORU Women’s Soccer vs IUPUI // 10/16, 1 p.m., Oral Roberts University Case Soccer Complex, oru.edu TU Men’s Soccer vs ORU // 10/18, 7 p.m., The University of Tulsa Hurricane Stadium, $5, utulsa.edu

Sunday Night Stand Up // 10/9, 8 p.m., Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com ARTS & CULTURE // 37

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Endless Forms playing The Tulsa Voice courtyard | GREG BOLLINGER

Light in the fog A Courtyard Concert with Endless Forms

by JOHN LANGDON

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hen Endless Forms stopped by the Voice’s courtyard, singer/guitarist Justin Allen spoke with me about music as an evocative nebula that mines feeling from the deepest parts of our psyche. The same could be said to describe Endless Forms itself.

Allen’s introspective baritone is cradled in a wash of delayed guitar tones and synthesizers, where rhythms emerge like a guiding light in fog. The atmospherics could easily become overpowering without the careful restraint employed by each member of the band.

Endless Forms’ songs gradually build in tension and power before washing away and blending into the next piece. The greatest illusion of music—whose primary vehicle is time—is that time is malleable, or doesn’t exist at all.

Endless Forms rides the Theory of Relativity like a wave into space to observe life back home from that all-but-impossible perspective.

Find Endless Forms’ album Lazarus on iTunes, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

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FIRST SONG LEARNED: I think it was “She Don’t Use Jelly” by the Flaming Lips. The chords are really easy. You can kinda just barely get it, and then you just play it over and over again until you can play it really fast.

LAST SONG PLAYED ON SPOTIFY: I can’t remember the name of the song, but it was by the 90s shoegaze band All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors.

DESERT ISLAND DISCS: I’m probably going to have to go with The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, Takk by Sigur Ros, and I’m gonna say Eternity Sunrise by John Tavener, who’s a sacred choral music composer.

BEST SHOW EVER IN TULSA: Local Natives at Cain’s. There was kind of a raw energy to it. I think that it was the first time they could headline a tour, and so there was a lot of excitement and electricity around feeling like people liked their music, and still this kind of youthful energy. I think they felt really excited to be there, and that was just contagious.

MOST ANTICIPATED UPCOMING SHOWS: I saw that M83 is coming in October to the Brady, and I really want to go to that. And then Beach House is going to be in Columbia, Missouri, and the four of us [in Endless Forms] are talking about going to that.

MOST MEMORABLE SHOW PLAYED: There was one house show that we played around Christmastime, and sometimes house shows can be kind of hard, depending on the crowd. People can just talk through your entire set because it’s low-key and casual. But this one was quiet, the crowd was pretty small but it was all people we knew intimately, so when we were playing there was a sense that there was a lot of respect for the songs we were playing and a lot of willingness to really hear them and process them and let it wash over them.

DREAM VENUE: I would love to play Cain’s. Bands like Wilco, it’s their favorite venue. It brings out a really great crowd. I just love Cain’s. It connects back to Tulsa’s musical roots while also fostering a new

wave of artistic energy that’s just now budding in Tulsa. It stands in the balance there.

NON-MUSICAL INFLUENCE: I’m a huge fan of the performance artist Marina Abramovi´c. She did a piece several years ago called “The Artist is Present,” where she just sat with whoever would come sit with her.

And the idea was just complete and total presence. And people would just sit down and weep. It was just presence as art, and that was a really huge idea for me.

MUSIC IS: Music to me is almost the most spiritual thing that you can experience physically. You can’t see it, you can’t feel it, but at the same time, just frequencies through time can raise these huge swelling emotions in us and allow us to see parts of ourselves that we couldn’t see. But where is it?

I think it’s just manifest spirit.

It’s nebulous but it’s also measurable. It’s scientific but it probably escapes our physical experience more than any other sense. a See Endless Forms perform in TTV’s courtyard at thetulsavoice.com October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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musiclistings Wed // Oct 5

Sat // Oct 8

Brady Theater – *M83, Tennyson – ($32.50$37.50) Cain’s Ballroom – Cold War Kids, The Strumbellas – ($25-$35) Hunt Club – Open Mic w/ The Brothers Moore Mercury Lounge – Travis Linville Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Eicher Wednesdays – ($10) On the Rocks – Don White Sandite Billiards & Grill – Tyrel Draper BAnd Soul City – Shrimp n’ Grits w/ Papa Foster’s Creole Trio Soundpony – Megafauna, The Well, Dead Shakes The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Vanguard – Get the Let Out – ($20-$25) Zin Urban Lounge – Randy Brumley

Baker Street Pub – SquadLive Billy and Renee’s – Less Than Human, Pittersplatter Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – TRIVIUM, Sabaton, Huntress – ($20-$35) Cimarron Bar – Seven Day Crash Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – *Willie Nelson – ($55-$75) Hunt Club – Animal Library Lot No. 6 – Dan Martin Mercury Lounge – *Peelander-Z, Dead Shakes, Merlin Mason River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Wave Theory River Spirit Casino - Margaritaville Stage – Zodiac Soul City – Brunch w/ Mark Bruner Soul City – *Dustin Pittsley CD Release w/ Katie Williams Soundpony – *Mike Dee and Stone Trio The Colony – Barton & Long The Run – The Sex Uncle Bently’s Pub & Grill – Tyler Brant Vanguard – For Today, Wage War, Gideon, Rival Choir – ($18-$45) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Vox Squadron

Thurs // Oct 6 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Brady Theater – Ben Rector, Jacob Whitesides – ($25-$29.50) Crow Creek Tavern – Jake Flint, Jake Shell Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – The Fab Four – ($40-$45) Hunt Club – Tyler Brant Mercury Lounge – The Grannies River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Ayngel & John Soul City – The Writer’s Block Songwriters Night Soundpony – *Wet Nurse, Queenager, Girls Club The Colony – Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ Jacob Tovar The Vault – Jazz Night w/ Jordan Hehl & Friends Vanguard – *Michale Graves of The Misfits, Redneck Nosferatu, Kick Tree, The Normandys – ($10-$15) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Lisa Lynn VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Adrienne Gilley

Fri // Oct 7 American Legion Post 308 – Round Up Boys Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Brady Theater – *Tom Jones – ($35-$85) Cain’s Ballroom – *Deerhunter, Aldous Harding, Jock Gang – ($20-$35) Hunt Club – Tony Romanello and the Black Jackets Mercury Lounge – Flatland Cavalry River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Chris Hyde River Spirit Casino - Margaritaville Stage – Fuzed Roosters Cocktails – Cole Lynch Smitty’s 118 Tavern – James Groves Blues Machine Soul City – Scott Ellison Soundpony – *Pagiins, The Uh Huhs, Noun Verb Adjective The Colony – Melody Pond, Rachel LaVonne Band The Fur Shop – Left Strait Down, Octave Son, Steelyface The Run – Jump Suit Love The Venue Shrine – Cody Jinks – ($20-$75) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – The Mules Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Mikey B

Sun // Oct 9 Cain’s Ballroom – Catfish and The Bottlemen, The Worn Flints – ($22-$37) East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Guthrie Green – *Big Bands, Big Voices w/ Branjae Jackson, Cynthia Simmons, OSU Jazz Orchestra, NSU Jazz Ensemble – 2:30 p.m.

Hunt Club – Preslar Monthly Music Showcase Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Sandy Gardner: Reprise – ($5-$20) Soul City – Soulful Sunday w/ Mark Gibson – 1 p.m.

The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Utopia Bar & Lounge – DJ MO

Thurs // Oct 13 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - The Joint – Heart – ($65-$75) Hunt Club – *Tom Skinner’s Skyline Music Festival Kendall Whittier Main Street – Casii Stephan and the Midnight Sun – 5 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman Soul City – The Writer’s Block Songwriters Night Soundpony – *Otis the Destroyer The Colony – An Evening with Jared Tyler The Fur Shop – No Render, Local Eyes – ($5-$7) The Run – Zinners The Vault – Jazz Night w/ Jordan Hehl & Friends The Venue Shrine – Dustin Pittsley Band, Gold Magnolias, Steve Liddell – ($5) Vanguard– Tom Skinner’s Skyline Music Fest VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Lisa Lynn

Fri // Oct 14

Cain’s Ballroom – Tory Lanez, Jacqueez, Kranium, J.I.D., VeeCee – ($25-$99) Mercury Lounge – Chloe Johns Soundpony – Caitlin Jemma & Bart Budwig, Grazzhopper Trio The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night w/ Dan Martin The Fur Shop – Cryptic Wisdom The Venue Shrine – Stand Up Comedy Night Vanguard – Bear Hands, Savoir Adore – ($10.45$15) Yeti – Cypher 120

American Legion Post 308 – Joe Harris BOK Center – Toby Keith, Casey Donahew, Ben Haggard and The Strangers – ($25-$125) Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Cody Johnson Band, Cameran Nelson – (SOLD OUT) Dusty Dog Pub – Barry Seal Gypsy Coffee House – John Paul Ratliff Hunt Club – *Dustin Pittsley Band Mercury Lounge – The Electric Rag Band River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Mass FX River Spirit Casino - Margaritaville Stage – Hook Soul City – Cucumber and the Suntans Soundpony – *Don’t Sleep On My City: Pade, Verse, Surron, Dial Tone, Keeng Cut, Hakeem Elijuwon The Colony – The Washitas, Gene Williams The Fur Shop – Coatie Pop, Watkins, Mentalism, Along Came Paully, The Girls Room The Run – Stars The Venue Shrine – *Dirtfoot, Count Tutu – ($10-$15) Vanguard – My So Called Band – ($10) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin

Tues // Oct 11

Sat // Oct 15

Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams Soul City – Tuesday Bluesday w/ Dustin Pittsley The Colony – Beau, Hugs N Harmony Yeti – Writers Night

727 Club – Midnight Run Band Baker Street Pub – Deuces Wild Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Hunt Club – Dusty Pearls Mercury Lounge – *KALO River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Hi-Fidelics Soul City – Brunch w/ Mark Bruner Soul City – Roger Jaeger Band Soundpony – Bugchaser The Fur Shop – The Captain Ledge Band The Run – Stars

Mon // Oct 10

Wed // Oct 12 Cain’s Ballroom – *JD McPherson, Jake La Botz – ($16-$31) Hunt Club – Round Up Boys 40 // MUSIC

Mercury Lounge – Travis Linville MixCo – Mike Cameron Collective Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Eicher Wednesdays – ($10) On the Rocks – Don White Soul City – Shrimp n’ Grits w/ Papa Foster’s Creole Trio Soul City – Tony Lucca & Alex Dezen Soundpony – Parasites, Weak Boyz, Merlin Mason The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Vanguard – Adley Stump, Jesse Joice – ($12-$50) Zin Urban Lounge – Little Joe McLerran

The Venue Shrine – Freaktoberfest – ($5-$7) Vanguard – Ben Kilgore, Brady Toops, Whitney Fenimore – ($10) VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Piper Leign and The Smokin Section

Sun // Oct 16 BOK Center – KoRn, Breaking Benjamin – ($39.50-$62.50) Crow Creek Tavern – Cody Woody East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Soul City – Soulful Sunday w/ Mark Gibson – 1 p.m.

Soundpony – Constant Peril, Letters to a Friend, No Light, No Life Soundpony – Leggy - Happy Hour Show – 6 p.m.

The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Fur Shop – The Vibrators, Streetlight Fight, Pawn Shop Heroes, The Normandys – ($8) The Venue Shrine – Young La – ($10-$15) Utopia Bar & Lounge – DJ MO Vanguard – The Eastern Sea – ($10)

Mon // Oct 17 Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Chloe Johns Soundpony – Crunk Witch, The Danner Party, Echo Bones The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night w/ Dan Martin Yeti – Cypher 120

Tues // Oct 18 Brady Theater – *Bonnie Raitt, The California Honeydrops – ($59.50-$89.50) Cain’s Ballroom – *The Woody Guthrie Prize Ceremony Honoring Kris Kristofferson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Rodney Crowell, John Flynn – ($50-$63) Gypsy Coffee House – Tuesday Night Open Mic Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams Soul City – Tuesday Bluesday w/ Dustin Pittsley The Colony – Beau, Hugs N Harmony VFW Post 577 - Centennial Lounge – Lisa Lynn Yeti – Writers Night

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A novel research study is being conducted at The University of Tulsa to identify potential markers of risk for chronic pain in healthy (currently painfree) Non-Hispanic White and Native American individuals.

This study is safe, non-invasive, and does not involve medication. Participants must be able to attend 2 laboratory sessions (4-5.5 hours/day) in which physiological and behavioral reactions to different stimuli are recorded. This is a University of Tulsa, Cherokee Nation, and Indian Health Service Oklahoma Area Office IRB approved research study.

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Outrageous hoax

New documentary recounts the stranger-than-fiction tale of JT LeRoy

by JOSHUA KLINE

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n the late 90s, the New York literary world was set ablaze by the arrival of an exciting new writer named JT LeRoy. A West Virginia-born teenager, LeRoy was an abuse survivor who had a history of prostitution and homelessness, was confused about his gender identity, and was HIV positive.

He first started writing as a therapeutic exercise at the behest of a psychiatrist to whom he spoke only on the phone, but after sending samples of the writing to a few key authors he admired, LeRoy landed an agent and quickly published his first novel, “Sarah,” a fictionalized account of life on the road with his prostitute mother, a lot lizard who allowed her many tricks and boyfriends to sexually abuse JT from a young age.

The book was a bestseller, received glowing praise from critics and became a favorite of sophistos and celebrities. Demand for the reclusive LeRoy to do public readings became deafening.

The problem? LeRoy didn’t really exist in a literal sense. He was the avatar of Laura Albert, a 30something San Francisco phone sex worker addicted to calling

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emergency help lines, during which she would affect a soft Southern accent and pretend to be a teenage boy.

Albert, a sexual abuse survivor herself, wrote the stories for therapy in JT’s voice, they turned out to be exceptional, and she accidentally made this figment of her imagination a literary phenomenon.

Now, filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig (“The Devil and Daniel Johnston”) has crafted an electric retelling of the scandal with “Author: The JT LeRoy Story,” a documentary, easily one of the best of year, that is both exhaustive in its recounting and unapologetically subjective in its conclusion.

Was it a hoax or performance art? Was Albert an attention-starved narcissist or a broken survivor coping with the trauma of abuse? Because Feuerzeig allows the author at the center of the scandal to hold court as the doc’s primary talking head, the film’s answers tend to favor the latter explanations on both counts.

But, rather than undermine Feuerzeig’s credibility as a documentarian, his subjective approach succeeds at raising larger questions about identity, trauma and the nature of storytelling that might have been brushed aside had he populated the film with counter-opining critics and skeptics.

Albert tells her story in lucid, self-aware, self-deprecating detail.

As “Sarah” became a bestseller, rather than keep LeRoy hidden from the world or confess to the misdirection, Albert recruited her sister-in-law, Savannah Knoop, to don a wig and sunglasses and take on the role of JT LeRoy’s public persona. The ruse worked, and LeRoy’s celebrity only ballooned. As LeRoy, Knoop was soon being courted and fawned over by everyone from Tom Waits to Asia Argento (who wrote and directed a film adaptation of LeRoy’s second book, “The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things,” and who is painted in the documentary as a ruthlessly opportunistic manipulator). He became besties

with Courtney Love and received fatherly career advice from Bono.

He became a fashion icon, modeling for prestigious designers and photographers.

Meanwhile, Albert rode the coattails of her own creation by taking on the role of Speedy, LeRoy’s hardass British manager. The film’s most touching passage has Albert recalling how, as Speedy, she grew close with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and soon confessed to him the entire truth of who she really was, and who Knoop wasn’t. He accepted her confession without judgment and kept her secret until her cover was finally blown in 2006, when the New York Times exposed Albert and Knoop, effectively ending Albert’s career as a writer.

The triumph of the film is in Feuerzeig’s balancing of the sensational facts—the parade of celebrity anecdotes alone is enough to fill a week’s worth of E! programming—with the harsh reality of Albert’s difficult upbringing, her history of abuse, her need to make her fractured self whole, and the necessity of creating LeRoy. The thorny question of how to categorize and judge this outrageous saga—fraudulent hoax versus performance art versus psychological manifestation—is addressed thoroughly, and by the end of the film I found myself believing that it was some combination of the latter two. Unlike literary fabulists such as James Frey or Augusten Burroughs, who garnered and then lost the world’s sympathy by embellishing memoir and representing fiction as truth, LeRoy’s writing was always labeled fiction, and stands on its own regardless of who wrote it. At the end of the day, if the work stands on its own, how much does the creator’s identity matter? “Author” argues: not much at all. a October 5 – 18, 2016 // THE TULSA VOICE

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‘The Birth of a Nation’ tells the true story of a slave rebellion “The Birth of a Nation” | COURTESY

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t’s difficult to overemphasize the pure evil of America’s original sin: slavery.

The idea that human beings could be owned, brutalized, and subjugated in the land of the free simply because of the color of their skin was a sickening, repugnant philosophy born of metastasized racism, the tendrils of which still exist today—thanks to scared, stupid white people anxious to “take their country back,” emboldened by that Cheeto-hued garbage fire of a human, Donald Trump.

If you think we’ve been living in a “post-racial America” for the last seven years because a black dude has been president, then I got an ostrich farm for sale that you might be interested in.

But as bad as it is now, with the old fault lines beginning to fracture again, it still can’t compare to an entire people in bondage whose best hope was that maybe they get a master who isn’t particularly cruel.

With “The Birth of a Nation,” the true story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, writer, director and star Nate Parker doesn’t flinch in his portrayal of servitude in the years leading up to the Civil War. Spoiler: it’s not easy to watch.

Turner (Parker) was born into slavery in 1809, in South Carolina. He was taught to read by his mother so he could study the Bible and become a preacher.

After killing a white marauder, his father disappeared. In the film, we meet Nat again many years later as a grown man, working the cotton fields of his master, Sam Turner (Armie Hammer) and his wife Elizabeth (Penelope Ann Miller).

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to take him to different plantations to spread the good word, and hopefully quell the angry dreams of insurrection that grow amongst the enslaved.

But when Nat internalizes the totality of their plight, their undignified dehumanization, and the cruel consequences of stepping out of line, he stops turning the other cheek and embarks on the path of revolution, and blood.

The rebellion that Turner ultimately leads lays the groundwork for the real war.

Cinematically, “The Birth of a Nation” is something of a tonal mashup of “12 Years a Slave” and “Braveheart”—to the point where the penultimate battle scene even cribs shots from Gibson’s bombastic liberation epic.

It also shares Gibson’s penchant for graphic violence and occasionally esoteric montages, anachronistic in their technique, like Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” delivering its brutal punch in one of the film’s most arresting sequences.

But all that grandiloquence comes with a price. A great-looking film with fine performances, some of its less black-and-white themes are flattened under the weight of its execution. At least there’s no white savior to pull out the happy ending, which was one of my biggest problems with “12 Years a Slave,” along with the sense that I’ve seen this all before.

Both films are at their best when they lay bare the senseless evil that was once so commonplace.

But as a window into the contemporary, “The Birth of a Nation” reminds us that while institutions can crumble and fall within one’s lifetime, changing what’s in people’s hearts takes far, far longer. —JOE O’SHANSKY

A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CIRCLE CINEMA OPENING OCTOBER 6 THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Divorcee Rachel Watson becomes fascinated with a couple she sees every morning on her train ride to work.

After witnessing a shocking event, Rachel wakes up with a hangover and discovers wounds and bruises on her body. She sets out to discover the truth of what happened. Based on the bestselling novel, this psychological thriller stars Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, and Haley Bennett. Rated R. THE BIRTH OF A NATION Actor/Writer Nate Parker makes his directorial debut in this incendiary true story about the most violent slave revolt in U.S history. In 1826, slave preacher Nat Turner went from using the gospel to keep slaves in line to preaching it as inspiration to rise up and revolt. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Rated R.

OPENING OCTOBER 13 AMERICAN HONEY Acclaimed indie British director Andrea Arnold makes her U.S. debut with this road movie drama (partially filmed in Oklahoma) about a teenage girl named Star with nothing to lose. She connects with a group of young door-to-door magazine sales people who work by day and party hard by night as they criss-cross the Midwest. Starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. Rated R.

OPENING OCTOBER 14 HALLOWEEN (1978) Circle Cinema will have a regular week-long run of this horror classic from genre auteur John Carpenter.

The terrifying legend of Michael Myers comes to life once again on the big screen, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. Rated R.

SPECIAL EVENTS THE DEEP BLUE SEA An encore presentation of National Theatre Live’s acclaimed production.

Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece showcases one of the great female roles in modern theatre. Helen McCrory stars as a judge’s wife in 1950s London who’s caught up in an affair after a failed suicide attempt, as her marriage begins to crumble.

Tickets $18, or $15 for members.

(Thurs., Oct. 6, 6 p.m.)

THE GREASY STRANGLER A father and son compete for the affections of a sexy woman who takes part in the Disco walking tour that they run. They soon must contend with the arrival of of a stalker who roams the streets at night, known as The Greasy Strangler. That’s when things get really weird. (Fri., Oct. 7/ Sat. Oct. 8, 10 p.m.)

RAMONA (1928) Popular upon its release, this silent film vanished for more than 80 years until a print was discovered in the Czech Republic. This tale of loss, grief and healing will feature musical accompaniment by TU student musicians and singer Monique Valadez. Discussion follows with film composers David Spear and Joseph Julian Gonzalez. Presented by Tulsa American Film Festival and TU. (Sat. Oct. 8, 10 a.m.)

MÖTLEY CRÜE: THE END Concert film of the final performance by the iconic metal band, held to a sold-out crowed at the L.A. Staples Center, on New Year’s Eve 2015.

Presented in partnership with 97.5 KMOD, and introduced by the station’s Lynn Hernandez. (Tues. Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m.)

SHIN GODZILLA The latest Japanese production of their legendary movie monster.

Government officials panic as they try to save a city from the rampage

by Godzilla, the lizard sea creature that emerges from the sea and has mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. (Screens Tues./Wed./Thurs, Oct. 11 – 13) TULSA AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL TAFF showcases new independent features and shorts from across America, with a focus on Native American, Latino, Oklahoman, and student films. More info at TulsaAmericanFilmFest.com.

(Wed. through Sun., Oct. 12 – 16) THE END OF EVANGELION An Anime Club presentation, this is the thrilling conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series phenomenon, from visionary director Hideaki Anno. (Sat./Sun. Oct. 14 – 15, 10 p.m.)

3 1/2 MINUTES, 10 BULLETS Presented by Moms Demand Action OK (an anti-gun violence advocacy group, see story on pg. 10), this important documentary looks at racial prejudice in 21st Century America through the lens of a senseless 2012 murder at a Florida gas station. Panelists include: Drew Diamond, Former Tulsa Chief of Police; Rev. Gerald Davis, Minister of Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist; Dr. Art Williams, Professor of Sociology at Langston University; and Mana Tahaie, Director of Mission Impact at YWCA Tulsa. Special discounted ticket price: Adults $6.50, Students $5.00. (Tues., Oct. 18, 6 p.m.)

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THE FUZZ THE TULSA VOICE SPOTLIGHTS: TULSA SPCA

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OTIS is a one-year and eight months-old domestic medium hair cat. He is a joy to have around and loves playing with the laser pointer, toys, and all the other cats and kittens. After a morning of eating and playing he likes to lay in the sun and nap. Pick him up, hold him in your lap and pet him but, make sure he knows he can get down when he’s ready – he has things to do.

MELINDA is a two-year-old terrier mix. She is very cautious of new people and needs a little time to warm up. It usually doesn’t take long and she will be off and running around the yard and coming back for belly rubs before taking off for her next lap. She plays like a three month old once she feels comfortable with you.

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.

Each of the dogs featured here were rescued from the recent flooding in Louisiana.

ZACK is a one-year and seven months-old Jack Russell terrier mix. He is great with other dogs and cats. He has been enjoying his trips to the fair and meeting new people. He enjoys playing in the yard with his dog buddies and has a kennel mate at night. He had a twin brother that was adopted already and he doesn’t like to be left alone for too long.

LARAH is a three-year-old domestic shorthair grey tortoiseshell who likes to be held. She will love to hang out and let you hold and pet her until your arms give out. If she isn’t in your lap she is usually found hanging out somewhere high enough to watch over her territory.

She isn’t much for joining in the festivities in the room but, enjoys watching it all take place.

RIPLEY is a one-year and seven months-old Labrador Retriever Mix. He is a very energetic guy. He absolutely loves people and wants their attention as much as possible. He also gets along with other dogs. He would make a terrific running or active lifestyle partner.

He hasn’t had anyone to teach him how to play ball, fetch or tug-ofwar yet, so he needs someone who is willing to try with him.

Who does Spencer like?

Who is he going to chew up?

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

LIBRA

(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22):

“It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” He wasn’t referring to the question of what you want for dinner or the new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day of your life. Now here’s the good news, Libra: The next ten months should bring you the best chance ever to figure out exactly what you want the most. And it all starts now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Practitioners of the Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular self-massage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends that you periodically go out on dates with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, and other organs. He says that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will also be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts and compliments and praise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. Why do I say that?

Because you’re likely to emerge triumphant!

That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender.

More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner. A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve? What test would you most like to ace? At what game would you most like to be victorious?

Now is the time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you grunting and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver your way towards the rewards of the future?

I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accomplish the first option. It will also ensure that your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you believe that you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and your genetic make-up? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you are capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing aspects of yourself that might have been unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around with this vision. Your knack for transcendence is peaking. So are your powers to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In one of your nightly dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter Pan to steal unused treasure from a greedy monster -- and then turn the booty over to you. Or maybe you’ll meet a talking hedgehog and singing fox who will cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded fantasies. It’s also conceivable that you will recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and attract the help of a fairy godmother or godfather to help you ripen it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): At a recent party, a guy I hardly know questioned my authenticity. “You seem to have had an easy life,” he jabbed. “I bet you haven’t suffered enough to be a truly passionate person.” I didn’t choose to engage him, but mused to myself, “Not enough suffering? What about the time I got shot? My divorce? My five-year-long illness?

The manager of my rock band getting killed in a helicopter crash?” But after that initial reaction, my thoughts turned to the adventures that have stoked my passion without causing pain, like the birth of my daughter, getting remarried to the woman I divorced, and performing my music for excited audiences. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you, too, will soon have experi-

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ences that refine and deepen your passion through pleasure rather than hardship.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s the Frank and Focused Feedback Phase, Taurus -- prime time to solicit insight about how you’re doing. Here are four suggestions to get you started. 1. Ask a person who loves and respects you to speak the compassionate truth about what’s most important for you to learn. 2. Consult a trustworthy advisor who can help motivate you to do the crucial thing you’ve been postponing. 3. Have an imaginary conversation with the person you were a year ago. Encourage the Old You to be honest about how the New You could summon more excellence in pursuing your essential goals. 4. Say this prayer to your favorite tree or animal or meadow: “Show me what I need to do in order to feel more joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many of my readers regard me as being exceptionally creative. Over the years, they have sent countless emails praising me for my original approach to problem-solving and art-making.

But I suspect that I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on developing it, and have worked harder to access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite you to tap more deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What areas of your life need a boost of ingenuity?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Love wants more of you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dispensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that will take your entire life to solve. But here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what’s necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you know how to work with such extravagant treasure and wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore the answers to these questions. I’m not sure what your answers will be.

MASTER

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us contains a multiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there’s just one of you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it’s closer to the truth to say that you’re a community of various characters whose agendas sometimes overlap and sometimes conflict. For example, the needy part of you that craves love isn’t always on the same wavelength as the ambitious part of you that seeks power. That’s why it’s a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings where all of your selves can gather and negotiate. Now is one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among your inner voices and to mobilize them to work together in service of common goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pike’s Peak is a 14,115-foot mountain in Colorado. It’s not a simple task to trek to the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunderstorms are a regular occurrence during the summer. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Williams decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn’t tough enough.

He sought a more demanding challenge.

Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you to avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don’t try to push a peanut up there with your nose, too.

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ACROSS 1 “The Lord of the Rings” army creatures 5 Tobacco wads 10 “Song of the South” Rabbit or Fox 14 Cat’s fashion feature, in kid-lit 17 Blackener of Santa’s suit 18 Certain Hawaiian island 19 Rifle attachment 20 Not many 22 Crunch them to see them better 25 Punching-in time, for many 26 Constrain or confine 27 Parts of valets’ income 28 Suffix for the diminutive 29 Discontinue 30 Move a limb in closer 31 Cheer for a bullfighter 32 Like paper towels 34 Conspicuously 38 Swedish handwoven rug 39 “Emergency!”

42 Daunting burden 43 Marina ___ Rey, Calif.

44 Tentative proposal 47 Type of flu 49 Not clerical 52 Cameos, e.g.

54 Scientology’s Hubbard 56 Concrete section 57 Corporate recruiter 59 Suffix with sea or land 60 Short sermon 62 Eccentric old man 63 Left in a hurry 65 “Touched by an Angel” co-star Downey

67 Eight fluid ounces 69 It may feature a roast pig 70 Castanet player’s dance 74 500-sheet paper unit 77 Shopaholics’ binges 81 Cooked at home 82 Result of too much walking 86 Fish story, e.g.

87 Having been delivered?

88 Empire conquered

by Cortes 89 Dagger wound 90 Entry in the black 91 Mark with spots 93 Grassland 95 Nonverbal acceptances 97 Some like it hot 98 Amateur radio operator 99 Feature of atheism 103 Went nuts 107 “... how I wonder what you ___” 108 Estate door man?

112 “Awright!”

113 1970s war site, for short 114 Love, in Latin class 115 Get there 116 Pro ___ (proportionally) 117 Fit sailor, e.g.

121 “___ Brockovich” 122 They’re on the staff 123 Follow in order 124 Like some loads on the road 125 Convenient ground cover 126 Paving stone 127 Keep from doing 128 Hasenpfeffer, e.g.

DOWN 1 Japanese port 2 Clad, as a judge 3 Like wartime messages

4 Clog, as a drain 5 Man between two Bushes 6 Solo in a sci-fi flick 7 Santa ___ winds 8 Sam’s Club founding surname 9 “Sharp as a tack,” e.g.

10 Include secretly, in emails 11 Elapse, as the years 12 Harmless fencing equipment 13 Renews, as faith 14 Parts of some commercial gyms 15 All excited 16 Half a dovetail joint 19 Frying bacon sound 21 Cried 23 One millionth of a meter 24 Stand on its head 32 Apportion 33 “The Catcher in the ___” 35 Stubborn beast 36 Scientific Newton 37 Gull-like bird 39 Beauty pageant accessory 40 Christiania, today 41 “The King and I” place 44 Far from domesticated 45 Periods of history 46 Gym class dangler 48 Assured thing, it’s said 50 Altar statement 51 Van. and straw. kin 53 Bible book after Exod.

55 Flanders on “The Simpsons” 57 Mass number?

58 180, to a driver 59 Cleaning agent 61 Car buyer’s need, often 64 ___-win situation

66 Like super-curious onlookers 68 Coatrack parts 70 Adjective for the four Beatles 71 A bit smashed?

72 Villainous fiddling emperor 73 10 of calendars, briefly 75 Rearward, aboard ship 76 Stands for 78 Right on the map 79 Civil War general Robert 80 ___ good example 83 Feudal slave 84 Clinched, as a game 85 Black, in poetry 88 Fact books published annually 90 Set one’s mind at rest 92 Marble for shooters 94 San Antonio landmark (with “the”) 96 Humiliating one 99 Cocktail of gin and lime juice 100 Wore away gradually, as shorelines 101 Amino acid found in proteins 102 Soda suckers 103 Spare thing in the U.K. 104 Uses a particular sense 105 2-to-1, e.g.

106 Aesop offering 109 Establish a maximum for 110 Circumvent 111 Extend, as a magazine subscription 114 22-Across, for short 118 Lizard, old-style 119 Not an exact fig.

120 Expected to come in

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