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Happy almost-Halloween, Tulsa!
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esides “Trick or Treat,” I think “I can’t believe it’s already this time of year again” must be the most-said phrase around Halloween. And as cocktail columnist Andrew Saliga points out (pg. 19), the season of revelry is upon us; Halloween kicks it all off. Luckily, he’s given us a hangover remedy. (It’s oxbone soup, not witch’s brew.) We’ve got plenty of spirit and spook for you in this issue, including a guide to Halloween events around town (pg. 26), a look inside Nowata’s scariest haunted attraction—The Asylum (pg. 23), horror films (pg. 44), and—for the less scary but still witchy—aura portraits at Peace of Mind Books (pg. 30). In the News & Commentary section you’ll find frightening top-
ics of a different kind: OK Policy’s Gene Perry on the dire state of funding for our public education system—and what the numbers actually say (pg. 8), Barry Friedman on the recent mass murder in Las Vegas and the continuing lack of changes to gun laws (pg. 10), and Hannibal Johnson on the childhood innocence often not afforded to African American children (pg. 12). We’ve also taken a long look at Scott Pruitt (pg. 20), our state’s— and specifically Tulsa’s—contribution-of-sorts to the Environmental Protection Agency. We were inspired not only by his recent announcement to rescind the Clean Power Plan, which would have reduced global warming emissions from power plants by a third by 2030, or by his removal
of the “Climate Change” link on the EPA’s main webpage, but also by the season. Our minds went to the classic example of hubris gone awry, “Frankenstein.” In her novel (which she published at age 21!) Mary Shelley was good to remind us that nothing is permanent except change. From “Frankenstein”:
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of departure still is free. Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability! a
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CHERRY-PICKED NUMBERS Two myths that distort Oklahoma’s education funding debate by GENE PERRY
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he symptoms of a crisis in public education are all around us: one in five districts going to four-day school weeks, hundreds of Oklahoma’s best teachers moving out of the state or quitting the profession so they can earn a living wage, and a skyrocketing number of teacher positions filled with emergency-certified teachers, because the schools had no applicants with the required teaching license. Despite this evidence, some lawmakers continue to resist admitting that Oklahoma needs to increase revenues for education— especially if it means raising taxes. Lawmakers and anti-tax interest groups have felt the pressure from Oklahomans who are upset about what’s happening in public schools, so they put a lot of energy into coming up with excuses for why more revenues are not the answer. They have manipulated data and cherry-picked numbers to claim that lack of funding isn’t the problem. Despite numerous reports that Oklahoma’s per pupil education funding is way down, some continue to spread the myth that funding has not been cut. This myth was recently repeated by Rep. Michael Rogers (R-Broken Arrow), who called reports of declining school funding “fake news,” and by the
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Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA), which published charts purporting to show that public school revenues are higher than ever. These claims rest on a few serious mistakes. The statistics they cite combine a large number of revenue sources and funds with many different purposes—including families paying for school activities, athletics, and lunches; local booster clubs and other district fundraising; tuition and fees for extracurricular programs; municipal and county taxes and bond issues; state funding for general operations and employee health benefits; dedicated funds for a variety of services like alternative and at-risk education, mentor teacher stipends, and arts and vocational programs; and federal funds dedicated to disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, free and reduced-price lunch subsidies, and more. It’s understandable that this funding picture is complicated. We ask public schools to do many jobs. Oklahoma’s common education system operates thousands of schools across the state, employs tens of thousands of workers, and is responsible for educating hundreds of thousands of children with many different needs. For that reason, a single top-line October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
budget number hides more than it reveals. However, a good-faith analysis of school revenues can show more clearly what is happening. Breaking out total school revenues into local, state, and federal sources reveals some clear trends. Federal dollars coming into Oklahoma schools have been relatively flat over the past decade, with the exception of a bump from 2009 to 2011 due to the federal stimulus bill. Local dollars have steadily increased by 2 percent per year on average. This is normal and expected, because the bulk of local school funding comes through property taxes, which have a reliable rate of growth in most economic conditions. Increases in property values over time ensure that this funding source keeps pace with inflation, the size of the economy, and enrollment growth. This kind of growth is normal and necessary if schools are to keep up with the jobs they are tasked with. But when we get to state funding, the picture is very different. From 2006 to 2009, state dollars were showing the same reliable increase as local dollars. Then in 2010, state funding plummeted, and it has never returned to the pre-recession rate of growth, much less caught up with years of missed growth. If that trend had not been disrupted, public schools would have nearly $1 billion more in state revenues today. The increase over time in local revenues has not made up for the loss of state revenues. From 2009 to 2016, local revenues grew by $296.8 million after inflation; over those same years, state revenues dropped by $480.2 million. Per-pupil revenue from all local, state, and federal sources combined is down 7.3 percent compared to 2006; it’s down 12.0 percent compared to the pre-recession peak in 2009. Back in 2011, then-Superintendent Janet Barresi described the sudden drop in education revenues as “the new normal.” Unfortunately, it appears that she was right. All of this analysis is based on the same data source cited by OCPA and Rep. Rogers in their claims that funding has not been cut. However, the aggregated number that they use serves to THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
hide the deep cuts in state funding. They also do not account for inflation, and OCPA double-counts billions in revenues by adding in “carryover funds” as if it is new money. These are dollars that schools spend in a different fiscal year than they receive them because their obligations don’t always line up with the state’s budget calendar. But spending it in a different year does not mean they get to spend the same dollar twice. In this context, it should not be a mystery as to why schools face such difficulty keeping teachers in the classroom and covering other basic expenses. Despite this reality, another big myth has been commonly repeated as an excuse to not restore education funding. Those fighting revenue increases for education often say that Oklahoma’s relatively high number of school districts and the resulting administration costs are what’s really keeping dollars out of the classroom. We can look at the data to assess this claim. Based on 2015 U.S. Census data, school district administration accounted for $237 per student in Oklahoma, about 3 percent of total school spending. This puts us right in the middle of the U.S.: Oklahoma is 25th highest out of all 50 states. Our rank for spending on instruction is near the lowest (47th), so there may be some savings to be found by consolidating districts. However, these savings would be nowhere near enough to boost spending on instruction significantly. If the state somehow moved every dollar that we spend on district administration into instruction, our ranking would still be 47th. We wouldn’t improve by a single state. Consolidation may still be a good idea for some districts as parts of the state lose population and others gain. However, it will never be a replacement for increasing total revenues to support common education. If lawmakers hope to succeed at improving education in Oklahoma, they need to set aside these myths and get serious about reversing the funding cuts to our schools. a
Gene Perry is Policy Director of Oklahoma Policy Institute (www.okpolicy.org).
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an we talk about it now? Anderson Cooper has left, the president is again tweeting about football, the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival has been cleared and cleaned of blood and false narratives, Vegas is largely Vegas again, and the 58 killed are buried, cremated, their ghosts in empty bedrooms and at dinner tables across the country.1 We were told after Sandy Hook, don’t make it political, After Orlando, don’t. After Blacksburg, don’t. After Roseburg, don’t. After Killeen, don’t. After San Bernardino, don’t. Didn’t matter. “I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now. But: As harsh as this sounds—your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights,” Sam Wurzelbacher wrote back in 2014.2
Your kids, my .22. You lose. That was his “Joe the Plumber” character—a monstrous blowhard. Nobody listens to Sam/Joe, though, right? How about this guy? Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) on Tuesday reiterated a normal Republican talking point that gun laws don’t affect gun violence, with a twist: It’s the existence of “sanctuary cities” that creates a lawless culture fostering mass shootings like the one in Las Vegas, he said.3 How about this guy? “I have friends that have that many weapons. That’s not uncommon in my part of the country. I mean, I literall y could tick off 10 names right now of people— they’re collectors, they’re sportsmen … I mean, like 99.99 percent aren’t a threat to anybody … So, again, so are some trucks driving into crowds.”4
That’s Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole. People listen to him. 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY
YOUR DAUGHTER, 23 YOUR GRANDSON, 2 YOUR WIFE, 41 YOUR GRANDMOTHER, 86 YOUR BROTHER IN LAW, 46 YOUR ADOPTED SON, 11 YOUR NEIGHBOR’S KIDS, 6 AND 9 YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANT OWNER, 41 YOUR HUSBAND, 29 YOUR MISTRESS, 33 YOUR DOCTOR, 47 YOUR PASTOR, 71 YOUR U.S. HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE, 68 YOUR U.S. SENATOR, 82
Guns, death, and the end of conversation IS NOW A GOOD TIME? by BARRY FRIEDMAN
And of course they both sent thoughts and prayers. All the Oklahoma reps did5—they’re not barbarians, after all—but it’s throwing popcorn to pigeons. Fifty-eight dead and more than 500 wounded in Las Vegas on a Sunday night is not a defining American moment to them—it’s an inconvenience.
From the disparity in gun death statistics among civilized countries to the meaning of the Second Amendment itself, they hear what they want. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
To what militia did the Vegas shooter belong? Jim Inhofe would rather talk about sanctuary cities; some of Cole’s best friends have UZIs. Neither wants to talk about comma splices in the Bill of Rights. Someone’s daughter is dead because no government entity could stop a man from buying 33 guns in 12 months.6 He couldn’t have bought that much Sudafed. Months back, after a shooting in a Washington park during a softball game, a married, gay woman saved Louisiana Representative Steve Scalise’s life. A bullet nearly blew apart his groin. Scalise still stands behind the unlimited right to bear arms and spoke at an anti-LGBT event a few weeks back.7 But he’s pro-life. The dead are props while still warm. “This is the price of freedom. Violent nuts are allowed to roam free until they do damage, no matter how threatening they are.”
That’s Bill O’Reilly. He has two children. They weren’t killed in Vegas. These people were: Andrea Lee Anna Castilla, 28; Denise Cohen, 58; Austin William Davis, 29; Thomas Day, Jr., 54; Christiana Duarte, 22; Stacee Ann Etcheber, 50; Brian S Fraser, 39; Keri Galvan, 31; Dana Leann Gardner, 52; Angela C Gomez, 20; Rocio Guillen, 40.
Guns in America: Neo Nazis in basements have them; weekend sportsmen waiting for deer season have them. You prevent one from obtaining a weapon, you prevent the other. Some say that’s unfair. But is it? Both have to take off their shoes at airport security, even if only one has a bomb in his loafer; both have to get car insurance, even if only one is a lousy driver; and both have to take drug tests before work, even if only one is making meth in the bathtub. October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
The National Rifle Association announced on October 5 that it supports a review of bump fire stocks to see if they are in accordance with federal law.
If the panoply of guns and firearms were a full course dinner, the bump stock is the after dinner mints. And the NRA will consider talking about them. Princes they are. Hannah Lassette Ahlers 34; Heather Lorraine Al varado, 35; Dorene Anderson, 49; Carrie Rae Barnette, 34; Jack Reginald Beaton, 54; Stephen Richard Berger, 44; Candice Ryan Bowers, 40; Denise Burditus, 50; Sandra Casey, 34. “The right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.10
That’s not Ruth Bader Ginsburg; that’s Antonin Scalia. Charleston Hartfield, 34; Christopher Hazencomb, 44; Jennifer Topaz Irvine, 42; Teresa Nicol Kimura, 38; Jessica Kl ymchuk, 34; Carl y Anne Kreibaum, 34; Rhonda M LeRocque, 42; Victor L Link, 55; Jordan McIldoon, 24; Kelsey Breanne Meadows, 28; Calla-Marie Medig, 28; James Melton, 29; Patricia Mestas, 67; Austin Cooper Meyer, 24; Adrian Allan Murfitt, 35.
There are approximately 300 million guns in this country, double what we had in 1968. More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history.11
In 2009—2009, alone. One year—Americans bought 12 billion rounds of ammunition.12 How many generations will it take to rid the country of that much poison, that much power? O’Reilly, Wurzelbacher are right: Freedom is just another word for what you have to lose. The NRA encourages guns in America the way Israel encourages settlements in the occupied West Bank. It is a fait accompli, the new abnormal. Inundate the country with guns and ammunition, neuter THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
the regulations, and then complain the regulations are ineffective. We have laws against pedophilia, and children still get abused. We have laws against rapacious lending, and people still lose their homes. We have laws against dumping toxic wastes in water tables, and people still get Legionnaires. Nobody suggests doing away with those laws because they’re not perfect. But 58 lie dead off Las Vegas Boulevard and, really, what can be done? How many lives are saved by more regulation, fewer guns. Maybe not a lot. Maybe just one suicide victim, maybe one threeyear old accidentally shot by her seven-year-old brother, maybe your daughter and her friends at the mall. Every year, an average of 9, 200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes, and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped. If the passage of the Brady bill were to result in a reduction of onl y 10 or 15 percent of those numbers (and it could be a good deal greater), it would be well worth making it the law of the land.”
That wasn’t Chuck Schumer. That was Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharpl y restricted and onl y under licenses.”
That wasn’t Hillary Clinton. That was Karl T. Frederick, past-president of the NRA. I’d say tell that to these people except you can’t. They’re dead. Rachael Kathleen Parker, 33; Jennifer Parks, 36; Carol yn Lee Parsons, 31; Lisa Marie Patterson, 46; John Joseph Phippen, 56; Melissa V Ramirez, 26; Jordyn N Rivera, 21; Quinton Robbins, 20; Cameron Robinson, 28; Tara Ann Roe, 34; Lisa Romero-Muniz, 48; Christopher Louis Roybal, 28; Brett Schwanbeck, 61;
Bailey Schweitzer, 20; Laura Anne Shipp, 50; Erick Sil va, 21; Susan Smith, 53; Brennan Lee Stewart, 30; Derrick Dean Taylor, 56; Neysa C Tonks, 46; Michelle Vo, 32; Kurt Allen Von Tillow, 55; William W Wolfe, Jr., 42.
“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” NRA Executive Director Wayne LaPierre said once. He said it again on “Face the Nation” … last week. If every one of those Vegas concertgoers had a gun, they would all be dead, their guns not pried from their cold dead hands. The day after the massacre in America, gun retailers said business was booming.14 It wasn’t just the sportsmen and hunters who went shopping. I called my good friend and novelist Shane Gericke (“Torn Apart,” “The Fury”), who, for reasons that had nothing to do with Vegas, sold 48 of his guns, leaving him with three. “I know some guys can’t have enough around the house,” he said. “In a nutshell as tight as an acorn: If no one tries to hurt me, I will go to my grave never pulling that gun on anyone. If a predator insists I should die, however, I will act accordingly, as my life is worth far more than his.” So, what happened to us? “As to why mass shootings are becoming so ‘popular’ in the past two years, funny that the beginning of the jump seems to have coincided with the beginning of the Presidential campaign—the most scandalous, lie-filled, hate-infested, campaign in my memory. The Trump administration and its media and social media enablers have only poured gasoline onto that roaring fire of hate. If limiting everyone to, say, five guns would guarantee no more mass murders, I would be the first to sign up. But it won’t, and since we will never have a gun ban in the country—guns and Manifest Destiny and the Wild West are part of the founding myth of America that we will never abandon in our secret hearts—we have to pursue socioeconomic ways to get through to these maniacs. Gun control by itself won’t do it.” He’s right, he’s wrong.
Just know that if you went to the Tulsa State Fair, the only reason you’re reading this, the only reason you’re alive today is because Stephen Paddock didn’t rent a room at the Expo Inn the night you were there. Your daughter, 23; your grandson, 2; your wife, 41; your grandmother, 86; your brother in law, 46; your adopted son, 11; your neighbor’s kids, 6 and 9; your favorite restaurant owner, 41; your husband, 29; your mistress, 33; your doctor, 47; your pastor, 71; your U.S. House Representative, 68; your U.S. senator, 82.
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The age of innocence
African American children and the absence of childhood blamelessness by HANNIBAL B. JOHNSON
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he presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying—these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights— human rights—that should be enjoyed by all.” —Randi Weingarten, American labor leader, attorney, and educator
Implicit bias affects us all. Conclusions borne of humans all-tooready to resort to assumptions and stereotypes entail consequences running the gamut from simple slights to the use of lethal force. Consequentiality matters. Dismantling implicit bias takes on added urgency in some arenas, like the police force. The life-or-death power possessed by the police as a necessary element of the job makes addressing implicit bias an imperative. Implicit bias affects how law enforcement engages with communities of color, with negative, sometimes deadly, consequences. The seemingly endless parade of high-profile deaths of young black men at the hands of white police officers signals the need for further inquiry, investigation, and, where warranted, intervention. But the effects of implicit bias do not begin and end with law enforcement. Recent data on the negative perception of African American children illustrate its pervasiveness and perniciousness. The data reveals the widely-held perception that African American children lack the relative blamelessness typically associated with youth. What might otherwise be considered mischievousness in white children becomes malevolence in black children. 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY
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Consider this: Oklahoma public schools suspend African American children at a rate approximately three times that of white children, a disparity remarkably consistent with national data. To its credit, Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) reduced overall out-ofschool suspensions for 2016–2017 by 26 percent. In a 2014 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study,
researchers asked college students and police officers to estimate the ages of young children. The researchers told the study respondents that these children had committed crimes. The respondents proved far more likely to overestimate the ages of young black boys and less likely to view black children as innocent. They viewed black children aged ten and older as “significantly less inno-
cent than other children of every age group.” “Most children are allowed to be innocent until adulthood,” analysts wrote, “black children may be perceived as innocent only until deemed suspicious.” If we see African American kids not as tender, vulnerable, and naive, but rather as hardened, precocious, and menacing—as psychologically fully-formed virtually at birth—then we may deny them the presumption of innocence. In a system fraught with lower expectations for African American children, this innocence conundrum only exacerbates an already-wide achievement gap, not just in school, but in life. It contributes to the much-talked-about school-to-prison pipeline, the confluence of legal policies, education policies, and social constructs that funnel struggling children, often children of color, from schools to jails and prisons. Locally and nationally, contributing factors to the school-toprison pipeline include: poverty, implicit bias, school policies (e.g., zero-tolerance; overemphasis on testing), ineffective strategies for meeting the needs of students with disabilities, and the failure to address trauma-related issues tied to the destruction of traditional Native American cultures. The Oklahoma Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hosted school-to-prison pipeline public hearings in 2015 and issued a report containing recommendations in 2016. Negative perceptions about African American children also extend beyond boys. A report published this year by Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality found similar perceptions October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
about African American girls. People generally view them as less innocent and more grown up than white girls, and therefore needing less nurturing and protection. The disparities in perception emerge as early as age five, preschool for some children. “If our public systems, such as schools and the juvenile justice system, view black girls as older and less innocent, they may be targeted for unfair treatment in ways that effectively erase their childhood,” said Rebecca Epstein, lead author of the Georgetown report. These perceptions about our African American boys and girls too often translate into cruel realities: the stunting of individual growth and the blunting of developmental potential, disparities in school discipline, and disastrous interactions with authority figures, including law enforcement officers. When we perceive African American childhood naughtiness as nastiness, we deny those children the essence of childhood: a sense of wonderment, a lack of maturity, and an experimental, trial-and-error approach to life situations. In “These Are Our Children,” an Essence magazine website video, African American mothers reflect on their role in confronting the end of innocence for their offspring. These mothers arm their children for implicit bias combat, outfitting them with an extra layer of protection to deflect situations their contemporaries simply do not face. While no bulletproof vest exists, two core beliefs lie at the core of the armament. These mothers must: be fully present in their children’s lives and constantly affirm their children’s worth and the value and validity of their dreams and aspirations. The diagnosis is clear; the cure, less so. Implicit bias is a chronic human relations issue to be treated, but not likely fully cured. The prescription seems straightforward, but difficult nonetheless: Know. Care. Act. We must know about—acknowledge—these troubling findings. We must care about them enough to say, “No more.” We must act—educate and eradicate such that these implicit biases diminish. To paraphrase Frederick Douglass: It is easier to build strong THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
black children than to repair broken black men and women. Withholding the presumption of childhood innocence may well haunt us when the denied enter adulthood, scarred by the experience and untrusting of the systems and institutions that facilitated it. All of us must work to create a world in which all children can be children, with an equal opportunity to succeed—and fail—and to reach their full potential. Investing in them yields economic and social dividends for us and our entire community. In Tulsa, examples abound. Prominent Tulsa organizations like the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice (OCCJ) and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) facilitate programs and projects that reduce bias, bigotry, and racism and promote self-esteem and leadership among children. The empowerment efforts of groups like OCCJ and the YWCA are among the examples of ways Tulsans work to create a world of possibility and promise for all. TPS, through its Student and Family Supports initiative, champions supports for all students with food, medical attention, tutoring, transportation, and a host of other services, programs, and resources. The goal is to ensure that all children receive the guidance and help needed to graduate from high school, ready for college or a career. The new Greenwood Leadership Academy, a partnership between TPS and the Met Cares Foundation, educates PK-1 students by engaging them in an academic program focused on scholarship, entrepreneurship, technology, and citizenship. The school seeks to leverage the Greenwood District history to transform the academic and social outcomes of North Tulsa’s students. Innocence lost is painful. Innocence never accorded can be catastrophic. a
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SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE Tulsa sweet shops bring their a-game this fall words and photos by LAUREN PARKINSON
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s the weather slowly cools, menus change, and pumpkins are ripe for the picking, the fall season entreats us: Treat yourselves. From the IDL to the edge of South Tulsa, here’s a collection of sweets in rich flavors that capture the season: fig, maple, apple, caramel, pecan, and of course—pumpkin.
BROWN SUGAR PECAN POP TART Antoinette Baking Co. 207 N. Main St.
PUMPKIN EMPANADA Pancho Anaya Bakery 2420 E. Admiral Blvd.
Inside Antoinette’s glass display case was a delectable assortment of pastries, but what caught my eye was the brown sugar pecan pop tart. “A fan favorite,” I was told by the employee behind the register. Rarely do you find a pastry that tastes as good as it looks, and this looked good—its decadent white drizzle and golden flaked sprinkles practically screaming to be Instagrammed. The taste lived up to its visual appearance. The softness of the pastry’s inner layer enhanced the crunchiness of the pecans. This isn’t your 10-yearold’s pop tart.
I think Pancho Anaya has a cult following and I want in. The traditional Mexican bakery’s primary location in the Kendall-Whittier District has stacks of trays and tongs that patrons use to grab what they want of off dozens of display shelves. The bakery is a veritable smorgasbord. In search of a fallthemed pastry, I found the pumpkin empanadas—and made the mistake of judging by its no-frills outward appearance. Its natural, fresh, not overwhelmingly sweet flavor surprised me. Bonus: It was less than a dollar for a huge portion. Pancho Anaya doesn’t need to try hard: their multigenerational history means they know how to make pastries their customers love.
CARAMEL APPLE POPCORN Premier Popcorn 3215 S. Harvard Ave. This offbeat treat would make a great gift or conversation starter. The flavor is definitely for lovers of the super-sweet. The visual appearance is nothing but fun—combining golden buttery caramel popcorn with the bright green apple flavor. Let your eyes and taste buds live a little. The shop also boasts over 36 flavors, from jalapeño cheddar to salt and vinegar.
Fig roll from Chimera
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CRANBERRY PUMPKIN LOAF Farrell Family Bread | 8034 S. Yale Ave. One of the reviews on Farrell Family Bread’s Facebook page said it best: “It is so good, I’ll eat carbs.” This 17-year-old bread company, tucked away in a South Tulsa shopping center, uses all natural ingredients and steers clear of any artificial preservatives. When you walk into the small shop, the smell of bread is near hypnotic. I tried their fall loaf—pumpkin bread with bits of cranberries. In the store, I ate it plain and right off the slicer. At home, I toasted it and added cream cheese. Both times I felt like I’d fallen in love. October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
BAVARIAN CREAM PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE Ludger’s Bavarian Cakery 6527 E. 91st St. Rumor has it some people dream about Ludger’s Bavarian cream cheesecakes. I’ve tried the flavors they offer year-round, so I was interested to see their take on fall. If you’re one of those people who count down the days until pumpkin spice lattes return to Starbucks—this should be your go-to fall dessert. The German style cheesecake, which is creamfilled, blends light sponge cake on the outside with pumpkin cream cheese in the center. It’s delightful.
PEANUT BUTTER BACON PIE Bread and Butter Kitchen and Bakery 3837 E. 51st St. Although Bread and Butter is known as a Southern-comfort eatery, the market items at the front of the restaurant deserve equal attention. We’d all like more comfort in our lives—and Bread and Butter is serving it by the slice. The refrigerated display cabinet boasts the traditional fall pies you’d expect, like pumpkin and pecan. The peanut butter bacon pie got the better of my curiosity. The peanut butter flavor was robust with a smooth consistency. The bacon was crispy, not overcooked. I couldn’t finish the entire slice because it was so rich, but I recommend it to all peanut butter (and bacon) lovers.
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PUMPKIN WHOOPIE SANDWICH WITH MAPLE CREAM FILLING Little J’s Bakeshoppe & Coffee 10032 S. Sheridan Rd. Little J’s was filled with an overabundance of fall-themed sweets, from sugar cookies shaped like fall leaves to various kinds of pie. But what caught my eye was the pumpkin whoopie sandwich with maple cream filling. When I was a kid, my mom would buy us chocolate chip whoopie sandwiches in the food court at Promenade mall. I haven’t tried one since, so I was intrigued by this artsy, seasonal version. The bright orange pumpkin cookie outside was soft, allowing the maple cream filling to be the shining star of the treat. I loved every bite.
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FIG ROLL Chimera | 212 N. Main St. I went to Chimera on a mission: to try the beloved fig rolls. I was surprised when the barista pointed toward the pastry stand on the counter, which I thought contained cinnamon rolls. I was hesitant. As a kid I hated fig anything. Remember the bland cookies from the grocery store with fig paste squeezed in the middle? But Chimera’s fig roll made me a believer. The fig was subtle and the flavors of the baked roll and thin icing glaze balanced each other out. If you want to switch up your traditional cinnamon roll pick, this is an excellent alternative. a
All your Andoliniʼs favorites – including Garlic Knots – plus our brand-new-to-Tulsa Roman Square Slice pizza and STG Napoletana pizzas, too. All new, all amazing, all in for making the best pizza.
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PRAIRIE FIRE PIE (Opening Oct. 31) is a pizza restaurant from Palace Café owner James Shrader with a decidedly West Coast-inspired style, meaning the difference is in the details. West Coast style has a thin crust similar to New York and Italian styles topped off with high quality ingredients from California cuisine. This adds up to a unique flavor and texture. Prairie Fire Pie is looking forward to bringing this style to Cherry Street very soon.
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ANDOLINI’S SLICED, formerly known as STG, is has brought a brand-new style of pizza to Tulsa on their updated menu: Romana square slice. They’ve also expanded their downtown location at 114 S. Detroit, which will include a new full bar (in a couple of weeks) and more seating. NAPLES FLATBREAD KITCHEN AND BAR recently tweaked their menu to better accommodate the business lunch crowd. Now on offer are more salads, as well as a pick-two option for any panini, salad, pizza slice, or taco you’d like. Not to mention the new cheesy garlic bread now available. ELGIN PARK is a great place to watch Tulsa sports, eat pizza, and drink good beer, including craft ales and lagers brewed on site using a seven-barrel brewing system custom built in Portland, Oregon. Elgin Park’s proximity to ONEOK Field makes it an easy choice for sports fans. HIDEAWAY is bringing back a fall fan favorite: an Oktoberfest Pizza, The German Bratza. Consisting of garlic glaze, Bavarian mustard, mozzarella, sauerkraut, sliced bratwurst, red onion, cheddar, and jalapeños, the Bratza made its debut last year for only four short weeks, but had such a response that they’ve decided to bring it back this fall for a longer run. Try it with a locally-brewed Marshall Oktoberfest. October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
You never again have to make the heartbreaking choice between pizza or bratwurst with your beer.
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ANDOLINI’S SLICED • Driven By Virtue. Crafted For Taste: It’s more than our standard...it’s the Andolini’s mantra. Combine that dedication to taste with the STG dedication to authentic Italian tradition, and you have Andolini’s Sliced. New Roman square slices, STG Napoletana pizza, NYC foldable slices, Brooklyn Demarco, and your favorite Andolini’s Tulsa style pizzas – all under one roof. Order your pizza by the pie or by the slice. At Andolini’s, we make our own dough, sauces, cheese, dressings, sausage, and more. We promise you’ll taste the difference. Voted “Best of Tulsa” for pizza 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017.
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Prairie Fire Pie is a casual pizza restaurant featuring West Coast inspired pies and unique craft cocktails, located on historic Cherry Street. Stop by for dinner or late night dining.
ELGIN PARK • Welcome to Elgin Park! A sports inspired pizza restaurant and brewery in downtown Tulsa. Conveniently located across from Tulsa Drillers ONEOK Field. New Haven style Pizza & Brew Pub brewing on-site using a custom built seven-barrel brewing system.
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Beyond hair of the dog HANGOVER REMEDIES FOR HALLOWEEN THROUGH NYE by ANDREW SALIGA
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he last few months of every year are a marathon of revelry. Even the modest are susceptible to nights of over-indulgence. Halloween marks the start, with costumed attendees drinking various potions. A few princesses may end the night with only one shoe. Fortunately (or, maybe not), the next mile marker, Thanksgiving, is more family-centric. Best case scenario—you nurse a food coma and not a hangover. By December, you’ve recovered and are ready for the finish line: the double whammy of Christmas and New Year’s. It’s no wonder “dry January” has risen in popularity. Records indicate that man has been consuming alcohol for around 9,000 years, and hangover remedies date back to at least the second century. For reasons unknown, hangover remedies historically included less than appetizing ingredients, like ground swallow beaks, roasted goat lungs, fried canaries, dust from the skull of a hanged person, and eel blood. One modern recipe, the prairie oyster (raw egg, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice, vinegar, hot sauce, salt and ground black pepper), continues the tradition of vile flavors. Other solutions are more about process than panacea. “Liquor before beer, you’re in the clear,” or “Beer before whiskey, always risky”—depending on who you ask. Others suggest one glass of water to be consumed for every drink, or a full meal before the night begins. Regardless of your method, alcohol is a toxin. Your liver requires energy to remove toxins, so remedies that aid this process are the most beneficial. Step one should be to rehydrate and replenish the nutrients that alcohol depletes from your system. Water, sports drinks, and B-vitamins all help.
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Next comes food. The simplest option is honey toast. The fructose in honey helps your body break down the hangover-inducing acetaldehyde, a byproduct of your body breaking down alcohol. The toast because honey needs a vehicle. And it’s easy— you’re hungover, remember? Many remedies include cabbage, which contains enzymes that assist the liver in detoxing. One old recipe calls for two ounces of white cabbage, two ounces of pomegranate juice, and one ounce of vinegar, boiled into a syrup. Mmm. I suggest a Korean soup called ppyeo-haejangguk, or “hangover soup.” This rich soup contains cabbage, fresh herbs and spices, and an ox bone broth. OX BONE HANGOVER SOUP (PPYEO-HAEJANGGUK) Recipe adapted from maangchi.com 6 cups ox bone or beef broth 2 pounds cabbage 6 quarts water ¼ cup Korean fermented soybean paste (doenjang) 8 garlic cloves, minced 2 green chili peppers, chopped 1 tablespoon fish sauce 2 green onions, chopped Korean hot pepper flakes (Gochu-garu), optional 1.) Boil cabbage in a large pot of water for 5 minutes, then strain and blanch. Chop into pieces. 2.) Fill a large pot with bone broth and add cabbage, soybean paste, garlic, green chili pepper, and fish sauce. Cook for 20 minutes on medium high heat. Serve garnished with green onions and pepper flakes. a FOOD & DRINK // 19
Frankenpruitt is scary, but he’s not surprising BY LIZ BLOOD AND MARY NOBLE ILLUSTRATIONS BY TONY THUNDER 20 // FEATURED
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, TRUMP PROMISED to “end the war on coal and the war on miners.” Last week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt made good on that promise, announcing the withdrawal of the Clean Power Plan (CPP). “The war against coal is over,” he said to a crowd of miners. He was in Hazard, Kentucky, but he might as well have been in Oklahoma, speaking across the southern border to our Texas neighbors. Last year, the EPA introduced a plan in Texas meant to reduce the amount of haze created by 14 power plants across the state, nine of which are coal-burning, as enforcement of the Regional Haze Rule found in the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act, passed in 1963 (and which has had several amendments) still exists, the Trump administration and Pruitt’s EPA are rolling back the CPP, which established emission guidelines for states to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants. The plan aimed to reduce U.S. carbon pollution by a third by 2030. But according to Pruitt, the CPP exceeded the agency’s statutory authority— meaning they were bulldozing industries without the legal right to do so. In fact, he called it “regulatory assault.” “ … We are no longer going to have regulatory assault on any given sector of our economy,” Pruitt said in March of President Trump’s executive order to review the CPP. “We are not going to allow regulations here at the EPA to pick winners and losers.” Pruitt repeated the “winners and losers” talk in Hazard, when he again said that was the aim of the CPP. As far as losers are concerned, a study at MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment found that air pollution causes 200,000 premature deaths every year. And according to the Oklahoma chapter of the Sierra Club, last year’s plan to reduce haze from Texas alone could save Oklahoma taxpayers $770 million in annual health costs. That figure doesn’t take into consideration the rest of the effects the CPP might have had—if it had ever gone into effect. (When it was proposed by the Obama administration in 2014, 28 states—Oklahoma included—sued the federal government, freezing the plan’s implementation.) At a Congressional hearing on the legal implications of the CPP in 2015, while Pruitt was still Oklahoma Attorney General, he said, “Quite simply, madam chairwoman, the EPA does not posses the authority under the Clean Air Act to do what it is seeking to accomplish in the so-called Clean Power Plan. The EPA under this administration treats states like a vessel of federal will.” Environmentalists and polluters alike are wondering how the EPA will uphold its federal responsibility to regulate pollutants as the Supreme Court decided it must in the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA. According to The Economist, there are fewer than 4,000 underground coalminers in Kentucky, or less than 0.2 percent of the October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
state’s labor force, due to cheap natural gas and declining costs of renewable energy—not a war on coal. CBS News reported last week that a Department of Energy survey released earlier this year shows nearly 374,000 people in the U.S. earn at least a part of their living from solar, versus just over 160,000 in coal. That same report found that “solar employment accounts for the largest share of workers in the Electric Power Generation sector ... largely due to the construction related to the significant build out of new solar generation capacity.” “Yet it was coal miners who assumed almost mythic importance in Donald Trump’s campaign narrative of paradise lost during last year’s presidential election,” wrote Helaine Olen for CBS. But rhetoric plays well, as we’ve seen exemplified again and again since the contentious 2016 presidential campaigns. And what is perhaps most frightening about that rhetoric, is that no one is quite sure exactly what is meant, and what isn’t. When one goes to investigate the opposing sides (which may simply mean Googling them) to get a clear picture, the picture is anything but. A lot has been written about Scott Pruitt—his work as Oklahoma Attorney General and his current reign as head of EPA. After President Obama’s climate change-focused administration, Pruitt is a breath of … something different. Some of what’s written is alarmist. Some of it isn’t. Think Progress tells you Pruitt is stabbing people in the back, while Outside Magazine publishes an article titled “Don’t freak out ...” A middle of the road analysis might be that Pruitt is simply taking a page from his Oklahoma AG playbook: bringing everything back to the argument that states have the rights to determine these rules for themselves—a different philosophy than what is often adopted by federal-level officials. But federal administrations will continue to come and go. And people like Pruitt will continue to fight them at the state level. While Pruitt is working to undo the environmental progress made under Obama, we might look at how we got here and what can be done locally.
KENTUCKY-BORN PRUITT BEGAN HIS political career in the Oklahoma Senate representing Tulsa and Wagoner counties from 1999–2007. He then set his sights on the office of Attorney General, running a campaign focused on challenging the Obama administration rather than the typical AG rhetoric on criminal justice. His message resonated with Oklahomans and he won by a landslide in 2010. According to eenews.net, a news site for energy and environmental professionals, Mark Derichsweiler, who formerly worked at the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, couldn’t recall Pruitt championing THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”
any environmental enforcement while AG. “He hasn’t really done anything to protect Oklahomans,” Derichsweiler said. “He campaigned on EPA overreach.” The year he was elected AG, Pruitt dismantled Oklahoma’s Environmental Protection Unit—an office which investigated environmental crimes like illegal dumping. He then created a Federalism Unit meant to challenge the EPA. State budget funding for environmental law in the AG’s office fell from $463,000 in 2010 to zero dollars in the span of four years. Meanwhile, the office of the solicitor general, where the Federalism Unit is housed, went from zero dollars in 2010 to $545,000 in 2014. In the 2016 state budget, it received $3.6 million. He went on to sue the EPA as Oklahoma AG 14 separate times. In 2012, Pruitt challenged the CrossState Air Pollution Rule, a law preventing hazardous pollutants such as soot, mercury, and smog from crossing state lines. The pollutants were known to cause asthma attacks and premature deaths. The EPA estimated that under the protection anywhere from 13,000–34,000 premature deaths are prevented every year. “People who live downwind of these major polluters need this decision, because the ozone and particle pollution in their communities threatens their lives,” representatives of the American Lung Association said in a statement. Other Pruitt suits against the EPA challenged anti-pollution programs established to reduce ozone levels in the air. Some have yet to be heard in court. Researchers find ozone to be immensely dangerous when accumulated at ground level, intensifying asthma symptoms and causing premature deaths. The American Lung Association calls it “one of the most dangerous” pollutants in the United States.
In 2014, Devon Energy was accused of releasing 80 more tons per year of methane gases than it was permitted. This year, Pruitt suspended the methane rule, potentially saving Devon $430,000 annually, and showing good faith to his old friends (more on that later). In June of this year, the EPA also announced it would roll back the Clean Water Rule, which was introduced by the Obama administration to clarify the 1972 Clean Water Act. All “navigable waters” were to be included and protection extended to drinking sources of nearly a third of the U.S. population. Pruitt called the Clean Water Rule “the greatest blow to private property rights the modern era has seen.” That argument might sound familiar to Oklahomans—it hearkens back to a local fight over water and its cleanliness. In 2005, former Oklahoma AG Drew Edmondson sued Tyson Food and other major poultry companies for pollution and health hazards caused by animal waste runoff in the Illinois River. The action required the companies to change their methods of disposing of the yearly 300,000 tons of animal waste. While the lawsuit concluded before Pruitt took office, the judge never issued a ruling and the case remained stagnant. Attorney General Pruitt disbanded the Environmental Protection Unit that regulated factory chicken farms. Many of the companies named in the suit made significant contributions to Pruitt’s 2010 campaign. An investigation by the Environmental Working Group discovered he received more than $40,000 in campaign contributions from executives and lawyers representing the poultry companies. Connections like that make draining the swamp more difficult. His link to industry has been apparent for years. An open-records request for correspondence between Pruitt’s office and the industries he was expected to regulate revealed frequent meetings, calls, and other events with executives from fossil fuel industry businesses, such as Devon Energy, dating back to as early as October 2011. Representatives from the company helped Pruitt draft a letter to the EPA aiming to fight regulations related to fracking. Investigations found the letters sent to Pruitt by Devon Energy company were almost identical to letters sent off to President Obama by Pruitt. A 320-page documentation of his schedule from February through May showed almost no meetings with environmental groups or public health advocates. Several of his meetings were with companies who helped him sue the EPA. Tom Pelton, communications director for the Environmental Integrity Project, told Think Progress, “... Scott Pruitt’s calendar ... shows that his focus is entirely on serving the oil and gas industry and other big polluters—not the environment or the health of the American public, which he has a responsibility to protect.” FEATURED // 21
But Pruitt believes you can be pro-business (or pro-energy), and pro-environment at the same time. Is that possible, or is that simply more hot air? With the famously secretive Pruitt leading the charge, it’s hard to tell. According to interviews from EPA employees, Pruitt is the first head of the agency to request 24-hour security and has restricted access to his floor, requiring employees to have an escort to gain entrance. Christopher Sellers, a professor at Stony Brook University, compiled interviews from nearly 40 EPA employees past and present. Sellers took precautions to ensure their identities were concealed. “Pruitt is requesting in the 2018 budget that he have a security team, 24/7, made up of 10 people because he feels his life is, I guess, at risk because there’s such internal hatred at EPA. This is scary and unfounded,” said an anonymous employee. Employees are also asked to leave their cell phones behind when meeting with Pruitt and are sometimes told not to take written notes. Steven J. Milloy, member of Trump’s EPA transition team and author of the book “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA” said, “EPA is legendary for being stocked with leftists, if you work in a hostile environment, you’re not the one that’s paranoid.” This year, Pruitt received the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Golden Padlock award, which recognizes “the most secretive U.S. agency or individual.” From the IRE announcement in June: Pruitt was selected for this honor for steadfastly refusing to provide emails in the public interest and removing information from public websites about key environmental programs. The Center for Media and Democracy filed nine public records act requests, and one lawsuit between 2015 and 2017, seeking Pruitt’s emails during his time as Attorney General of Oklahoma. It took two years, and a judge’s order containing candid criticism of Pruitt’s office for its “abject failure” to abide by the Oklahoma Open Records Act. The resulting emails showed Pruitt “closely coordinated with major oil and gas producers, electric utilities and political groups with ties to the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers to roll back environmental regulations.” But many other emails have been withheld and are subject to a lawsuit. Pruitt has recently ordered a custom designed, soundproof phone booth, according to government contracting records. Made by a company in Richmond called Acoustical Solutions, the booths 22 // FEATURED
“You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!” — Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”
were originally designed for conducting hearing tests. Pruitt’s version is for complete privacy within the agency. The booth was completed on October 9th to the tune of nearly $25,000. His expenditures—besides the booth and security detail—are also in question. From March to May this year, Pruitt visited Oklahoma or traveled between Oklahoma and D.C. 43 times. The travel is now being investigated by the EPA’s Office of Inspector General. In an August 28 press release, the EPA IG said it would begin work to determine, “the frequency, cost and extent of the Administrator’s travel that included trips to Oklahoma, through July 31, 2017” and “whether EPA policies and procedures are sufficiently designed to prevent fraud, waste and abuse with the Administrator’s travel that included trips to Oklahoma.” “I’m in D.C. and ... across the country and states,” Pruitt told The Oklahoman in July. “There’s no one who has looked at our record, including these groups, and said, ‘They’re not very efficient and/or impactful.’” He sees visiting Oklahoma as a key component of his role because he believes EPA regulations have had a severe impact on the state. In late July, according to public records, Pruitt and six staff members arranged a flight on a Department of Interior plane from Tulsa to Guymon, OK, with the price tag of $14,434.50. The EPA said “time constraints” on Pruitt’s schedule prevented him from driving to the location. The purpose of the trip was to meet with Oklahomans “whose farms have been affected” by a rule known as the Waters of the United States rule, which, according to Politico, “...is largely a technical docu-
ment, defining which rivers, streams, lakes and marshes fall under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers.” Pruitt has initiated a process to withdraw the Obama-era regulation. In addition to Pruitt’s frequent Oklahoma visits, he has also taken at least four non-commercial and military flights since February, costing taxpayers nearly $58,000. Liz Bowman, Pruitt’s spokeswoman explained the flights were due to, “particular circumstances.” But as for the agency itself? Pruitt approves of slashing their budget by 31 percent, the largest of any federal agency. Those cuts could affect Oklahoma in several ways—namely, reduced funds for cleaning up superfund sites like Tar Creek in northeast Oklahoma; cuts to state environmental grants that help pay for environmental programs that respond to citizen complaints, monitor industries for pollution, and deal with environmental emergencies; and fewer employees at the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.
PRUITT’S FAMILY ATTENDS FIRST BAPTIST Church of Broken Arrow where he is also a deacon. Head pastor Nick Garland, whose sermons are accessible on Youtube, calls on the congregation to pray for the EPA administrator. Garland believes there is a “war on spirituality,” and once referred to the women’s march on Washington as an example of liberal intolerance and a stark contrast to the powerful impact of the Christian faith being brought back into the White House. “Righteousness will once again be exalted in this land,” he said. Pruitt pictured as a righteous soldier heading into war is a gross exaggeration, yet Pruitt as a greedy boogeyman poisoning children with mercury or methane may be off the mark. There is no doubt that what is happening inside of the White House and EPA is alarming. Pruitt and his Republican cohorts should accept scientific fact and address the real and present dangers of climate change and environmental hazards. Oklahomans must ask themselves what their role has been in getting Pruitt to where he is now, and what it should be in the future, should he set his sights on the governorship in 2018, or U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe’s seat in 2020. “Here is a guy who doesn’t believe in climate change,” said a current EPA employee. “Well, that’s one thing. And you’ve sued the agency 14 times, ok. But he’s still one person versus 15,000 people. Right? And not a whole lot of other bodies around to support him from what I can see so he can dictate and try to affect change all he wants, but these people—let me tell you they’re gonna go underground.” Frankenstein wasn’t a self-made man. He was created. a October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
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IT WAS DARK WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I reached downtown Nowata. The town’s empty streets and darkened shop windows looked ominous. I saw a young man standing alone in the dark on a platform in The Asylum Haunted Attraction parking lot. Trey Bishop, The Asylum’s founder, is conscious of presentation, even when presenting himself. Bishop, who grew up in Kellyville, started his spook house career when he created one for a high school fundraiser in 2007. Seven years ago, he started The Asylum. It was supposed to be a one-off thing, but it seems to be his calling. As my husband and I drove north earlier that day, we mused about not knowing what to expect, other than the theme of “mental hospital.” Inside the building, in the dressing room area, we met a few of the associate directors. Russell Rhodes, 21, has been with The Asylum five years. Alexis Mader, 20, and Evelyn Miller, 19, have both been around since the get-go—seven years. Everyone’s dedication to the craft is intense. As we entered the first room, Rhodes took over the tour. It’s a simple room with water fountain, two metal chairs chained to the floor, and a few mirrors. A spooky portrait of another director and actor, Robbie Smith, hangs on the wall. If someone wishes for the nightmare to end, they can say a predetermined safety phrase. Our guides told us many grown men opt out in the first room. Even with the lights on and no actors waiting to pounce, the place is creepy. In the boiler room, salvaged metal tanks are mixed with pieces of wood disguised as rusted metal. Though most peoTHE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
CRAZY SCARY The Asylum in Nowata rocks by KRIS ROSE
ple will be too distracted to notice such details in the dim light, they hold up even in bright light. We proceeded with the set lights on and the main lights turned off. The soundtrack was also on for effect. We entered more rooms, each more horrible than the last. I won’t go into any more detail so as not to spoil the fun, but real medical equipment is mixed with innovative make-do in a seamless fashion. Attention to detail is what this crew does best. It’s obvious why word of mouth has made The Asylum a success. They have never advertised outside of Facebook, and they play to packed houses every night they’re open. Security and safety are priorities, and they spend several months working with the actors in order to train them for any scenario. The building is a two-story brick structure and is on the small side of haunted attractions. Bishop said many haunt enthusiasts drive hours to visit
and, upon seeing the size of the building, become worried it will be too tiny. But they have made inventive use of the space they do have. The walkthrough takes about the same amount of time as much larger haunts. Customers exit happy and blood-spattered, gushing about how the space may appear small, but the terror inside looms large. A few nights later, we went through the haunt for real. Even the line to get in was fun. Costumed actors stood outside teasing and scaring the customers. One woman was so startled by a man in a butcher’s apron and burlap mask that she rolled down a hill to get away from him, laughing and screaming all the way. Before we were allowed inside, we were warned that the actors would be able to touch us. But that’s why we were there— for the interaction. Everyone was told the safe words to stop the theater macabre in its tracks. We were also warned that we
might get some “blood” on our faces and clothes, but that it washes out easily. With a final buzz, the red light above the door blinked on and in we went. The actors were dedicated and convincing. A 14-year-old girl gave a realistic performance as a well-intentioned but crazy hillbilly to whom one must make promises in order to complete a mission. Did I mention participants have tasks they must complete in order to escape? That’s the best part. Every visitor has a unique experience inside. There’s no long winding line of customers throughout the building. You won’t trip over another person’s heels as the scares are dampened by seeing and hearing them happen to the folks a few feet in front of you. We made it all the way upstairs and through quite a few terrifying encounters before my friend’s child said the safety phrase. Rhodes was the actor in the room with us. He pulled off his mask and left the scary voice behind as he introduced himself to the kid, reassuring him that he was just an actor. Rhodes took one of his hands and my husband took the other, as they left me and my friend to finish. Every actor between them and the exit stayed out of their way. The Asylum hosts three haunts each year. The next one, a romantic two-person experience called Sweetheart’s Slaughter, opens in February. Actor auditions will be held in December. In June, The Asylum presents Dodsfall, an hourlong interactive experience for small groups, available by reservation only. Auditions will be held in April. Bishop hopes to open an even larger haunt soon. My guess is that it will be amazing. a FEATURED // 23
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JENNIFER KOCH “North Korea. The escalating rhetoric and China’s ability to reel Kim Jong Un in.”
CHRISTY TIPTON | BUYER “So many. The nuclear war that might happen between North Korea and the United States, the unstable social divide, healthcare, the instability within the Republican Party, gun safety.”
GRACE DAWKINS | ATTORNEY “I fear that we have confused patriotism with nationalism, and I’m afraid for what that means for the country in general. We judge other countries for defending themselves, when the majority of Americans would want the U.S. government to do the same thing in their shoes.”
ELMER CROCKETT | SECURITY OFFICER “Gotta be that one in North Korea. Don’t know what he’s thinking. Don’t know what Donald Trump’s gonna say to set him off.”
GWEN JONES | GRANDMOTHER “North Korea. They’re crazy.”
RYAN HAMIL “The electoral college. Mostly just because they get the last say. Then we get the president we have.”
KATE JONES | PARALEGAL “Aw geez. Just Trump in general.”
JACLYN SADLER | PARALEGAL “I’m over it. Honestly, I don’t even follow it anymore.”
CHASE THOMAS | OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY “North Korea. Unfortunately, I think there’s gonna be casualties on South Korea and Japan. Kim Jong Un is a loose cannon. It’s not Donald Trump’s fault. We’ve been doing this for the last three decades.” a
THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
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HALLOWEEN IN GREEN (COUNTRY) MORE ALL-HALLOWS-EVE PARTIES THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A BROOMSTICK AT BY TTV STAFF This intro is pointless. We all know why you’re here: Halloween is fast approaching and other than your dope James Comey costume, you have yet to make any solid plans. So we’ll stop wasting your time and let you get to it. Happy Halloween.
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The Haunted Castle Halloween Festival is open Fridays and Saturdays throughout October at The Castle of Muskogee, with fun and spooky activities and attractions for all ages and fright-tolerances. Don your leg warmers and get an early start to this sinister season at Booksmart Tulsa’s Paperbacks from Hell: 80s Party (10/19, The Venue Shrine), an evening celebrating the horror fiction boom.
Celebrating their thirteenth year of operations, the forty-acre Psycho Path Haunted Attraction in Sperry has a walk-through haunted house, a zombie paintball ride, and a ride-through attraction. Over one hundred people work to create this haunted environment—including entire families that return year after year to put on costumes and scare the bejesus out of folks. (10/19–10/21, 10/26-27) Do the Time Warp again at “The Rocky Horror Show,” presented by TU Department of Theatre (10/19–21, Kendall Hall). Pro-tip: Attend the “Creature of the Night” super-fan experience performance, Saturday at midnight. Try specialized cocktails, take part in a costume or pumpkin carving contest, and enjoy LED light performances and music from Fiawna Forté at Gilcrease After Hours: Halloween at the Museum (10/20)—or is it GHOULcrease? [foreboding laughter] Take in Tulsa Opera’s performance of “Faust” (10/20 & 10/22, Tulsa PAC), in which the titular aging scholar sells his soul to the devil Méphistophélès for a chance to win the affections of the young Marguerite. Parade your costumed canines at the .9 mile Mutt Strut (10/21, Centennial Park), which raises awareness for Domestic Violence Intervention Service’s kennel. Prizes for best dressed (human-dog duos, too).
See all sorts of creative craniums in various art media at the Skulls Art Contest (10/21, The Cottage Art Gallery). Hear spooky stories or tell some of your own at Fireside Scary Tales (10/21, Chandler Park). Safari Joe’s H20 Water Park’s family-friendly Howl-Go-Green (10/21) returns with animal exhibits, a costume contest, door prizes, live entertainment, pony and train rides, and more. A portion of proceeds help support Safari Joe’s Exotic Wildlife Rescue sanctuary and feed the animals within the park over the cold winter months. Foolish Things Coffee Company will be showing the Halloween classic (their words), “Hocus Pocus” for their Its Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus Movie Night (10/21). They will also be serving exclusive food and drinks for the night. Explore the true story of a string of brutal murders in the 1940s on Tulsa Spirit Tours’ Serial Killers, Murders & Mayhem Tour (10/25, downtown). Circle Cinema will screen 1920s horror classics “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Nosferatu” while Austin band The Invincible Czars perform live original scores (10/27). Philbrook will screen one of the most beloved films of the season at Film on the Lawn: E.T. (10/27). Nicole Carrington hosts Halloween Bingo (10/27, Dennis R. Neill Equality Center), with appearances by Rainbow Granny and Trailer Trash Teresa.
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Trick or treat with the biggest party animals in town at HallowZOOeen (10/27–31, Tulsa Zoo) and HallowMarine (10/27–31, Oklahoma Aquarium). Drink beautiful works of art at the latte art Halloween Throwdown (10/28, Foolish Things Coffee). Take part in cosplay and carved pumpkin contests, a scavenger hunt, gaming, and karaoke at Tokyo in Tulsa’s Halloween Party (10/28, Central Library). Bring a carved pumpkin for discounted entry to Tulsa Oilers Purple Pumpkin Night (10/28) as they take on the Allen Americans. Bash some piñatas to the music of Joe King Carrasco, Ill Fated, and Soul Surferos at the Halloween Howler (10/28, Unit D). Head to Guthrie Green for a Creepy Crawly Art Crawl, live music, market, and contests at Ghouls on the Green (10/29) and return for Halloween on the Green (10/31) for a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Take part in wizard duels, house competitions, quidditch and more at the—now all-ages—Potter-Fest: A Festival of Secrets (10/29, Inner Circle Vodka Bar). Rock out with St. Louis band Bug Chaser and Tulsa’s own Dr. Rock Doctor at the Soundpony Spooky Sunday Halloween Hullabaloo (10/29). If you’re not already burnt out on Halloween by the day itself, head to the Halloween Party with DJ P (10/31, The Max Retropub) for spooky tunes and specials.
THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
THE BASHES
Apparently Tulsa’s favorite name for a Halloween hoopla: Fire performance group Burn Tulsa hosts a Halloween Bash (10/27, Fuel 66) that will feature live music from Marie Curie, Carlton Hesston, Konkoba percussion, and more. The Stylees, Full Service, and Stinky Gringos perform at The Blackbird On Pearl’s Halloween Bash (10/27). See local bands play the music of their heroes in the annual Black Mold Halloween Bash at the Yeti. The two-day show will feature The Red Stripes as The White Stripes, Hey Judy as The Vaselines (10/27), The Danner Party as Black Sabbath, Golden Ones as T-Rex, Damion Shade as Bob Dylan, (10/28) and many more. Party like it’s 1984 with Freddy Krueger and Glam R Us at Elm Street Pub’s Nightmare at Elm Street Halloween Bash (10/28).
THE CASHES
If you think your costume idea is good enough to bring in some extra income, these parties—all on Saturday, Oct. 28—are where to go: Prizes at Hard Rock Casino’s Night of the Living Twisted (where you can also meet Dee Snider of Twisted Sister) are $2,000 for third place, $3,000 for second, and a whopping $5K for first place. The 2nd Annual Halloween Party and Costume Contest (featuring DJ Noodles!) at River Spirit Casino will have five $1,000 prizes, each for a different costume category. The 9th annual Spider Ball at Enso, Unicorn Club, and IDL Ballroom will have a $1,000 grand-prize costume contest, and so will the Saints and Sinners Halloween Party at Lady Godiva’s. The Halloween Bash at Rodeo Nightclub is offering $500 for best-dressed.
10/27 Halloween Party The American Legion Post 1
10/27 & 28 Alice in Wonderland Halloween Weekend She Theatre & Lounge
10/28 Halloween Party Yellow Brick Road Hawgzloween Wyld Hawgz Heroes vs Villains Halloween Party The Venue Shrine Little Fur Shop of Horrors The Fur Shop
Dance the night away with DJ Soule and enter the costume contest at Boo Bash (10/28, Chandler Park). Double-down on your reasons to celebrate at Caz’s 23rd Annual Halloween Birthday Bash (10/28, Caz’s Pub).
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UNDEAD-FRIENDLY FUN An insomniac’s guide to Tulsa by BRADY WHISENHUNT
ARISE, RESTLESS MASSES.
The city is ours. Maybe you’re awake because you’re stuck—the lack of momentum in your life has got you depressed. Maybe you’re awake because you’re new in town—you’d rather be back on the East coast, you just can’t connect. Maybe you’re just plain crazy, and a restful night’s sleep isn’t your thing. Whatever the reason, you can either grind through the night and try to get some, any, shuteye, or get up, get dressed, and make the most of it. Let’s assume you choose the latter. Depending on the time of year you’re looking at about 4-6 hours between last call at the bars and sunrise. Options for activity during these quiet hours are pretty limited in Tulsa. You can either get something to eat, or you can hang out and kill time. Good morning.
EAT
There are a few spots open in the redeye window between 2–4 a.m. Perhaps the most delicious of Tulsa’s extreme late night cuisine is Tacos Don Francisco on 11th Street near Yale Avenue. On Friday and Saturday nights they stay open until 4 a.m. Here you’ll find primo 28 // FEATURED
munchies: authentic Mexican delights such as tortas, horchata on tap, pupusas, and enchiladas. A favorite of postbar drunks, college kids, and kindred night owls of all dimensions. Another legit late night grub haunt is Phat Philly’s on Peoria Avenue, also open until 4 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Philly cheesesteaks, wings, chicken tenders, waffle fries, and vegetarian options are available. If you act quickly, there are a few delivery options after 4 a.m. hits. Both JC’s Pizza and Mary Jane’s deliver ‘til 4:20 AM, which reveals the demographic they target. Even still, Mary Jane’s huge, gooey pies are universally crave-able to anyone except the most bitter and humorless of foodie snobs. If you want to grab-and-go, your fast food options are relatively plentiful. Recommended: Whataburger on Peoria Avenue near 15th Street. Pros include 24-hour dine-in lobby and a slightly more interesting menu than your average fast food burger joint (Editor’s note: Honey Butter Chicken Biscuits FTW). Cons: Extreme latenight patrons here can be sketchy and/or super drunk. Whataburger has been a post-bar/post-concert/post-party
munchie stop for several generations of Tulsa late-night ragers. If you want sit-down fare you’re going to have to settle for a chain diner. Village Inn on Harvard Avenue is a post-bar staple. Enjoy a slice of pie and a cup of coffee while you run out the clock till dawn. IHOP and Denny’s offer similar environments; Waffle House rocks the stripped down greasy spoon vibe.
HANG OUT AND KILL TIME
At 3 a.m., Walmart is a different place. No longer loud and buzzing, it’s bright, empty, and surreal. Drag your weary bones up and down the aisles, marveling at things you will never buy (camouflage seat covers, dice-less electronic Yahtzee sets, culinary lard). Wander the sports aisle and imagine yourself in an alternate life, one where you play these games at the semi-pro level. Dream up a nickname for yourself. Wander the kitchen gadgets aisle, and imagine all the different dishes you’ll never make with bamboo skewers. There are no rules. Go to a 24-hour Walgreens or CVS and check out all the oddball medicines and supplements. Someone must
use Saw Palmetto for some legitimate reason, right? What is their name? Imagine they live on the other side of the world and the only way you could possibly convey your feelings about Tulsa to them is through haiku. Write that haiku. Parking lots, rooftops, graveyards, and other auspicious outdoor places. Anywhere legal, spooky and/ or beautiful, where you can set up camp and chill for a couple hours. Bring a notepad and sketch happy rested people, Japanese bamboo beds, sleepy citadels tucked into the side of a mountain. Chew gum, vape, smoke cigarettes, flick a fidget spinner. Visit the Center of the Universe and say whatever you want into the echo chamber—literally no one will hear you. Daytime will come around the bend soon, and city life will begin anew. You’ll still be awake, but the options of things to do will become myriad again. The desolation of late-night activity will no longer mock the inner desolation keeping you awake at night. Congratulations, you have bested the night once more and are now the frazzled waking dead—until the sun sets and you dance this vacant tango again. a October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
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spiritworld
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w, you’re a rainbow!” Marie looked up from the AuraMaster, smil-
ing at me. Most of the aura portraits Marie showed me when I first arrived had a single dominant color. Indeed, a multihued gradient surrounded my face like a bulky nimbus. Russ, who works at Peace of Mind Books with Marie, printed my aura portrait on a glossy paper like the kind for souvenir photos at amusement parks. It was a Saturday, which meant the bookstore and giftshop had an Aura Camera Coggins 6000 on standby for anyone with $25 and a curiosity to capture the invisible essence of their spirit. The Coggins 6000 evaluates biofeedback like MRI and EKG machines, or like polygraphs and e-meters. It took less than eight seconds for the sensor to collect electromagnetic data from my hand and convert it to a vibrant field of colors around my head. These colors supposedly reflect my physical, emotional, and spiritual state. I’m a rainbow. “What’s that mean?” I asked. My left palm was still on the biofeedback apparatus—a stationary metal box that measures body temperature and static electricity—when Marie convinced me to spring for the full aura report. About three feet behind Marie, a man with braided hair and a puckish grin named Alexander tuned his guitar between ballads. Alexander, a prolific artist in the neo-Celtic, pagan-folk music genre, crooned about myths and magic to a small but rapt audience while a printer spat out the pages of my ready-made auric analysis. The 12-page report explains how each color and its spectral location around my head reflects my “person potentials, character types, but also problems and disturbances.” The service “is NOT
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TRUE COLORS
New Age technology turns biofeedback into spiritual snapshot by KATHRYN PARKMAN
medical software or intended for therapeutic diagnosis or treatment,” according to the boilerplate disclaimer. Most peddlers of aura-imaging devices acknowledge that technology can’t actually photograph an aura, but claim that electronic interpretations of auras match colors described by clairvoyants. If you’re unsure of whether or not you’ve been aware of someone’s aura, think of a person who seemed sketchy even though you couldn’t quite explain why—that person likely had a garbage aura.
Ever been inexplicably drawn to someone’s effortless magnetism? Good aura on that one. Maybe you call it “vibes,” “energy,” or “electro-photonic vibrations.” It’s exciting to capture something distinctive and pervasive that’s also invisible. Who knows if the mixture of colors really reflects anyone’s physical, emotional, or spiritual health? According to my New Age case study, my aura is golden-orange around the center, meaning that pleasure and authenticity are my highest priorities. Where
an aura bends to the right is supposed to offer clues on the “vibrational frequency most likely seen or felt by others.” Mine shifts to yellow there, suggesting people see me as “hopeful, confident, and optimistic.” This warm color gradient continues until it snaps to green on my left (the side where vibrations enter the body), which signifies an exciting change and rejuvenated energies. The splotch of violet blue over my throat (communication sector) indicates I’m capable of achieving spiritual bliss through creative expression. There’s some great stuff in this report, enough broad truths and flattering reflections to satisfy the ego, but without the existential buzzkill of, say, drawing the Ten of Swords from a Tarot deck. “You cannot be misled very easily since your discerning mind can clearly perceive deceptions,” the report says, leaving out my appreciation for irony. Though, it’s true that what I desire most in life is “to help, inspire, support, and nurture others with my humor, optimism, and wisdom,” and I’ve always suspected I have a “unique ability to remain centered and amused when all else is falling into chaos.” I was up too late the night before my aura portrait, worried that I might have an unphotogenic aura—the same feeling I got before class photos in junior high. Since I was awake anyway, I burned sage and soaked in epsom salts and lavender oil. Who knows if it affected the rendering of my spiritual energy, but I felt replenished and invigorated afterward. a
The Aura Camera Coggins 6000 is on standby at Peace of Mind (1407 E. 15th St.) every Saturday from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Individual aura portraits cost $25 à la carte, or are included with the $40 analysis, which also examines full-body auras and chakras. October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
TULSA SYMPHONY
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TCHAIKOVSKY’S SYMPHONY NO. 6
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TULSA PERFORMING ART S CENTER TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, op.74 COPLAND: Quiet City HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
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October 20 • 7-9 p.m. • FREE Gilcrease After Hours is Ghoulcrease After Hours this month celebrating all things Halloween. You’re invited to a thrilling night of LED light performances, specialized cocktails, a costume contest, and a pumpkin carving contest. Bring your pumpkins already carved. Check out the exhibition Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist, and enjoy live music by Tulsa musician Fiawna Forté.
Live music presented by KOSU with Matt Stansberry & The Romance, Dane Arnold & the Soup, and Stephen Salewon’s Music starting at 2:30 pm! @GUTHRIEGREEN GUTHRIEGREEN.COM THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
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Choreographers in the corner To level up, dancemakers need affordable spaces and support by ALICIA CHESSER
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very form of creativity has its costs and, like other artists, choreographers are all too ready to do their best with what they’ve got. But because of its unique physical demands, dance is tough to make on the cheap. Creating a good dance can take anywhere from weeks to years. Dancers must warm up for up to an hour before practice or performance to avoid injury. Their workspace needs to be large, clean, and safe for jumping and rolling. It takes time to research, develop, and teach the movement, and then to edit, redraft, memorize, rehearse, and make the hundreds of choices (the speed of a turn, the shape of a hand) that create a rich performance. It worries me, a longtime dance observer and practitioner, to see local choreographers getting priced out and pushed out of spaces in which to work. Dozens of beautiful studios exist in dance schools, yoga schools, and gyms all over town. But either the facilities don’t allow non-employees or non-members to use them, or the rental prices are too high for most makers to afford the amount of time needed to make high-quality dance. “Tulsa has a surprising amount of studio spaces,” said dancer/ choreographer Luis Garcia. “The problem is not having access to them.” It’s a simple equation. Hourly rates for studio rental in the Tulsa area range from $15–$50. Independent artists who are unaffiliated with a 501(c)(3) organization, and thus ineligible for most grants, are nearly always charged more than grant-funded artists. Fly Loft, downtown’s best space for dance, requires a two-hour booking after 5 p.m., which means it would cost
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an unfunded artist $60 for a single evening’s unpaid work. (A visual art workspace in Liggett Studio costs about that much per week for 24/7 access.) By comparison, according to Fractured Atlas, there are 66 spaces in New York City that offer rehearsal time for less than $25 an hour. Rates at New York’s Gibney Dance Center start at $7.50. “Most people really underestimate the cost of producing a dance,” said Olivia Jensen, a Tulsa dancemaker who received her BFA at Reed College in Portland. “Local, independent choreographers usually work for free and so do their dancers. We would love to pay our collaborators, but production costs come first and more than likely everything is coming out of our own pockets. For me, that’s rent money.”
Amber Deen, whose work “Hereafter” was recently presented at Living Arts and the Exchange Choreography Festival, agreed. “As an independent choreographer without funding, I encounter not being able to afford as much time as I would like to work.” There are other issues, too. “For my last work,” Deen said, “I was rehearsing in the same space at the same time for months and was suddenly booked over and had to scramble to find new space.” It took me four tries before someone at Fly Loft responded to my request for rental guidelines. I have experienced and been told by multiple local artists that, after booking time there, no one was there to open the studio when they arrived. Other spaces are dirty and dangerous.
What does it mean when the most basic elements of this art—time and space—are the very things that choreographers struggle to access? It means that outside of its one big institution, Tulsa Ballet, and despite plenty of performance opportunities, dance in Tulsa continues to lack the energy and quality that would enable it to level up. “Free or reduced-cost studio space would be life-changing for local choreographers,” said Jensen. “It would increase the number of dances being made as well as the caliber of the work. The structure and funding for this could happen a number of ways, but the first step is to help the community understand that there is a real need.” Local dancemakers have plenty of creative ideas about how to address the issue. “Having a program where you could propose a project and apply for [free] studio space would be awesome,” Jensen said. “I would love the opportunity to pay a monthly reduced rate with a set rehearsal schedule to maintain consistency and affordability,” suggested Deen. “It would be nice to have spaces that offer residency programs to groups and also carve out availability for individual artists who don’t have a regular season,” said Rachel Bruce Johnson of The Bell House, a Tulsa art nonprofit that supports dance across several platforms. “But to do that,” she concluded, “those institutions have to understand the long-term investment. You’re not going to see a revenue return today, but hopefully you see the value in cultivating these artists and keeping them in Tulsa.” a October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
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Change is good OPTIMISM SURROUNDS THE OILERS AS NEW HEAD COACH SETS TONE FOR THE SEASON by JOHN TRANCHINA The Oilers’ sell-out crowd on March 31, 2017—the second largest single-game crowd in the league’s 30-year history. Attendance was 16,759. | TEEJAY CRAWFORD PHOTOGRAPHY
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fter back-to-back disappointing seasons that saw them collapse down the stretch and miss the playoffs, the Tulsa Oilers made significant off-season changes to make sure that doesn’t happen again. The Oilers began their fourth season in the ECHL, and 66th overall, on October 13 against the Kansas City Mavericks at the BOK Center, with a new buzz of optimism surrounding the club. Out is former coach Jason Christie and the affiliation with the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League (AHL). Setting a new tone for the organization is head coach and Director of Hockey Operations Rob Murray. Murray boasts an outstanding resume, both as a player and a coach. He played 109 NHL games over the course of a 16-year professional career, most of which was spent in the top-rung AHL, where he is in the Hall of Fame. He has also been a head coach and an assistant in the AHL and spent the previous six years coaching the ECHL’s Alaska Aces, where he won the Kelly Cup championship in 2014. When Alaska ceased operations following last season, Murray 34 // ARTS & CULTURE
became available and was hired June 7. Murray was instrumental in establishing a new affiliation with the NHL’s St. Louis Blues, one that has already seen three promising young players (defensemen Tommy Vanelli and Dmitrii Sergeev and forward Justin Selman) assigned to Tulsa to start the season. “We’re very fortunate to get a guy with the kind of experience that Rob brings to the table,” Oilers General Manager Taylor Hall said. “Honestly, if it wasn’t for the Alaska team not playing this year, we would have never had a shot because he would still be employed there. He’s been doing a great job. Every day, I pinch myself saying, ‘We’re very lucky to have him.’ He was pretty much the main reason why we got the affiliation with the Blues … Rob had the opportunity to be at their training camp, and got our whole hockey operations staff up there, learning from all the big league guys. It’s really been nice to have a team give the support like the Blues have, and Rob deserves all the credit for that.” On the ice, Murray expects to employ a swift-skating, aggressive offensive style that should be exciting to watch.
“I want a team that’s going to play a fast-paced game, in your face, relentless on the puck,” Murray said. “It might waver from game to game, depending on the structure of the lineup, but that’s what I want. I want us to play a fast pace, be a hard fore-checking team. We’ve got to be physical, obviously—it’s the game of hockey, but I don’t need to dress a guy to sit on the bench and go out and fight every night. I need somebody that can play the game and if something was to happen, we need team toughness and everybody to step up for each other.” There are several players back from last season’s team, led by fifth-year veteran forward Adam Pleskach, who scored 13 goals and 26 points in 50 games in 2016–17. Pleskach pointed out that it’s been a learning process as the players adjust to new teammates and Murray’s new system. “It’s going good. The systems are quite a bit different,” Pleskach said. “That’s not a problem, though, for most guys. Just the personality change—he’s my third coach I’ve had since I’ve been here and it’s been a pretty big change every time. We have guys who are on contract to the NHL,
and he’s trying to keep it as close as possible to the systems in St. Louis. That’s probably why there’s the biggest difference, because last year, we were playing Winnipeg’s systems a little bit more.” Also back from last season are defensemen Dennis Brown, Eric Drapluk, and Chris Joyaux, and forward Christophe Lalancette. The Oilers’ new number one goaltender is Jake Hildebrand, who played for the Indy Fuel last season and helped the Allen Americans win the 2016 Kelly Cup. “I’m really pleased with our goaltending. We’ve got eight strong defensemen. Quite honestly, there’s going to be some decisions to be made as far as the lineup goes,” Murray said. “We’ve got some really good players up front, also. It’s not an easy decision on who’s going to play. Sometimes that takes care of itself on its own, so don’t really need to worry about it. As people say, it’s a good problem to have.” a
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BEST OF THE REST EVENTS All the Single Ladies: A Talk by Rebecca Traister // Traister will read from her book, “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.” // 10/19, TU’s Chapman Lecture Hall, facebook.com/ OKcenterforthehumanities Movie in the Park: Big Trouble in Little China // 10/19, Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Condomania // See original clothing and accessory designs all made of prophylactics at this fashion show fundraiser for TU’s Little Blue House. // 10/21, Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, facebook.com/littlebluehouseattu
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Native Fall Festival // Browse arts and craft vendors while listening to a variety of live music and enjoying an Indian Taco or two at this fest hosted by Tulsa Indian Club and Engage Life Institute. // 10/21, Riverwalk Crossing, facebook.com/ELIINSTITUTE
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A middle-aged cartoonist looks back on two time periods in her life in “Fun Home,” the winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical. Oct. 21–28, $26–$32, John H. Williams Theatre, Tulsa PAC, tulsapac.com OPERA
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NAASA Conference // The 21st annual Native American Art Studies Association Conference features events at Gilcrease Museum, Philbrook Downtown, Guthrie Green, and PostOak Lodge. // 10/25, Various locations, nativearts.org Movie in the Park: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol II // 10/26, Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com
Aaron Copland’s Quiet City, and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. // 10/28, Chapman Music Hall - Tulsa PAC, tulsapac.com
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THE MOST AMAZING F***ING THING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN THE WORLD Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello talks punk and being one with magic by TY CLARK
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atin meets Slavic meets punk in the energetic, celebratory band Gogol Bordello. Informed by the multiculturalism of its members, neither the East nor the West seems quite sure what to do with them. “It’s considered to be exotic on both sides,” said frontman Eugene Hütz. On October 25, they bring their gypsy punk to Cain’s Ballroom.
TY CLARK: How do you describe Gogol Bordello? EUGENE HÜTZ: I think we have a pretty uncompetitive spot. I mean, I actually really enjoy the place in music we have. Being in a band with its own unique walk of life and sounds, I think that’s the kind of place we were aiming for ... I don’t believe in any kind of competitiveness … in anything, really! It’s really a pretty damaging myth that has infected human kind. I think there is enough resource, and place for everyone under the sun. 38 // MUSIC
HÜTZ: I must say nobody pinned us that way. I invented that term. It was me giving a helping hand to the writing brother who was completely unequipped with how to describe us [laughs]. In fact, it was very American of me to do that [laughs] … I was getting frustrated with absolutely nonsensical descriptions of our music. Nobody was really hitting it on the head, and I looked around and said “hey, this is the States.” Everything has to be labeled. Personally, I have no need for that label … I just kind of boiled it down to the two main legs upon which our monster was stomping at that time, which was punk rock tradition and gypsy music tradition. It was really as simple as that. And that actually worked to a great benefit, ‘cause suddenly the clouds just came apart and people welcomed us with opened arms.
HÜTZ: It’s a very subjective thing … For some people it was on a kind of facade level—a Sid Vicious kind of thing with shit smeared across their face. For people who were more intellectually aware, it was more something like Fugazi, and a DIY ethic, and a pretty solid package of a system of values. At the root of it all it’s really just music of damaged people. And damaged from a vast sense because almost everyone is damaged, just some of them—if you read any sort of Kabbalah or any spiritual type of teaching, you’ll find people come into the world with damage, and they’re here to heal it. So, punk rock in the way Iggy originated it was about acknowledging the pain, searching the pain, and destroying the pain. Except a lot of people don’t understand that it’s about searching the weakness, and destroying the weakness. That somehow—that part gets left out.
CLARK: What’s your interpretation of punk music?
CLARK: There’s a deep side to your band, and I interpret your messages
CLARK: How do you feel about being pinned as gypsy punk?
one way, but do you have a particular thing you are trying to convey? HÜTZ: First of all thank you for the acknowledging of our efforts. I think you are kind of hitting it on the nail on what we do. It draws people on a kind of subconscious level. The celebration is what attracts people at first. After they spend more time with it, they find the lyrics and music more mind-opening. The general celebration is the denominator that attracts a lot of people first. For us, that part of it is really, kind of, a shadow of what we do. There is zero effort that goes into that. That shadow just shows up on it’s own. There’s a lot of classical influence in the band. I have three classically trained musicians in the band. Because we love playing and performing, on a deep level we let it be reckless and we spill all the guts of each song. We dig in to every song in many ways, so it’s alive. But before any of that takes place, it’s crafted. It’s very thoroughly written and arranged. October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
Only on stage is when improvisation comes in. So, as far as conveying … a message, it’s all in the songs. CLARK: What’s it like writing music with so many members? HÜTZ: Well, first of all, I don’t feel like it’s that many people. I know it’s twice the size of a usual band, but we’re so used to it we don’t think of it as any sort of anomaly. The songwriting goes in a quite different way with every album. I mean, every album we did was set out to make a new sonic world. They were all made in geographically different locations and very different mental places. With the record before this last, we were like, “let’s be total pros.” Let’s go to the studio. We booked a studio for two weeks and we set the goal to be finished in that short period of time, because we’re pros. And we did that. We executed that. The time came to make a new record and we threw away that whole scenario. I produced it because I am a night owl. My peak time is after midnight, so that ruled out anyone co-producing it with me. I was fine with that. I wanted to revisit the feeling of that majestic atmosphere that you have when you were just 14, 15, 16 years old and you just got first recording devices, and you recorded a drum track in basement or garage. You have a friend coming over to lay some bass [laughs] and you wrote some lyrics at like three in the morning, so you scream whispered it because everyone’s asleep. And you’re thinking this is the most amazing fucking thing that ever happened in the world. That’s the feeling this record was made with. It was completely orchestrating this atmosphere of being one with what people call magic, ya know? We left the studio at four, five, six, sometimes eight in the morning. To some people that’s nightmare. I thought it was fantastic. I felt like I drove every song to it’s maximum potential. I love this feeling … This is exactly where the song sits in the universe. It’s priceless! It’s really the biggest payoff of the whole thing. I mean, yes, making a living at doing it is very important, amazing, wow, thank you. Thank THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
you, universe! But that payoff— that fulfillment—is the ultimate payoff. CLARK: Tell me about the multicultural aspect of your band. HÜTZ: I’m very excited about it. It’s a very important part to fill each other up. Complement each other with these various cultural things. So, Sergey [Ryabtsev, violinist], Pasha [Newmer, accordianist],
and Boris [Pelekh, guitarist], we’re all Slavic souls—Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. And if you look at the history of Eastern European music you’ll see there is absolutely no sense of rhythm. That’s why you never heard of any great rock bands from that part of the world. It’s not in our blood. We have very incredible melody and harmonies. So I was always very influenced by the idea of bringing that with a deep groove sensibility—that
is why we have Thomas [Gobena, bassist] and Alfredo [Ortiz, percussionist] and Pedro [Erazo, percussionist] as rhythm section. Thomas is from Ethiopia and Alfredo is from L.A. of Mexican descent and Pedro is from Ecuador. The rhythm and groove is in their blood! Something we don’t have, so we listen to each other and try and find the most crucial intersections. a
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The search is over IT’S EASY TO FIND THE MAGIC OF DWIGHT TWILLEY by MITCH GILLIAM THERE ARE TUNES THAT START WITH RIFFS. Your “Black Dogs,” “Black Diamonds,” and Black Sabbath discogs. Bad-bitch door blowers flipping the bird to lyrical afterthought. And there are tunes that start with a single lyric. The kind of lyric that pulls a gun on the brain that put it on paper; demanding a melody. Then there is the almighty, hummable hook. Tulsa native Dwight Twilley’s “Looking for the Magic” is the hook. (Find it on the Shelter Records release, Twilley Don’t Mind.) The first time Twilley let loose that ascending wail of “ah, ah ah, I!” in the studio—the trumpet of Gabriel announcing that he is indeed looking for the magic— he must have known he’d already found it. It’s the kind of hook delivered from the firmament of the heavens. The kind of hook that once captured, makes any sensible man look for the nearest Cadillac dealership. If you’ve got that hook, then you’ve got the money, honey. But it wasn’t “Magic” that put the cars in Twilley’s driveway. It was 1985’s power pop hit, “Girls.” And though “Girls” is great, and “Girls” is “Girls” … it ain’t magic. That eternal hook in “Magic,” and the string shimmering dismount where Twilley tells you it’s “in [his] eyes,” are the skeleton, organs, and muscles of the tune. Twilley draped his divine creation in dressed down—but durable—denim. Hit play and you get several seconds of piano tinkles and big chord teasing, then you’re in. Drums and bass tramp in tandem on a militantly chill vamp that says “buckle up, and lay back.” Throw the “budda-bum-bududda” into a spectrograph, and you’ll see Tom Petty’s spliff burnt eyes
looking just over the top of his shades. He’ll wink at the 38 second mark, knowing good and god damn well you’ll have what follows in your head for the rest of the week. Rock n Roll’s commander-in-chief of chillness played guitar on the track. Baby Petty is in the video, seesawing his mitts along a bass like it’s a washboard; every inch of him invoking Janice from The Muppets. But the rhythm, the verse, the pre-chorus, even Petty’s presence, are all accidents of the hook’s holy substance in the song. A hook like this required nothing more than a Beatles’ “scrambled eggs” treatment for words. But nevertheless, Twilley brought the goods. His staccato delivery punches holes through an intimidating wall of reverb. “Only child is a silly little ragged, she’s been looking for the magic,” he says. “Stay awhile ‘til the city is a desert, she’s been looking for the treasure.” Feeling silly and ragged, like when all you can do is sigh and your bones feel hollow, those are the feelings that send people looking for magic. The magic could be 1970’s Tulsa, where Leon Russell built a playground for local musicians in his Church Studio. A place that was anything but a dessert, where bright-eyed songwriters like Twilley could chance an encounter with the likes of Eric Clapton. Though Twilley met Petty in L.A., and not Tulsa, it was their tenure on Russell’s Shelter Records that brought them together. But the magic and treasure may be as simple as a tune. Something like this tune. Something potent and undeniable. Whatever it is, it’s in your eyes. a October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
musiclistings Wed // Oct 18 Mercury Lounge – Jared Tyler & Seth Lee Jone River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jacob Dement River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Wink Burcham Soul City – Don & Steve White The Beehive Lounge – ATTWT, DeePaw, Brian Milligram The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project The Vanguard – Stevie Stone, Flawless, Twistello, Knotages, Mr. Burns, No Name Bones, P.Win – ($10-$13)
Thurs // Oct 19 Blackbird on Pearl – Grind Unplugged Cain’s Ballroom – Luke Combs, Ray Fulcher, Josh Phillips – (SOLD OUT) Crow Creek Tavern – Cody Woody Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Time Machine Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd, That 80s Band Mercury Lounge – Hillbilly Casino, Fabulous Minx – ($10) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Caleb Fellenstein River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jake Flint Soul City – The Begonias Soundpony – When Particles Collide The Colony – Jacob Tovar’s Thirst The Hunt Club – Erin O’Dowd and Chloe Johns The Vanguard – Flyover Fest Pre-Show w/ Sabrewulf, Ruse, Downward, Tell Lies – ($5) Tulsa Botanic Garden – Jared Tyler
Fri // Oct 20 American Legion Post 308 – Double “00” Buck Bad Ass Renee’s – New Time Zones, The Ivy Cain’s Ballroom – Josh Abbott Band, Flatland Cavalry – ($20-$35) Fuel 66 – Jacob Tovar Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Rivers Edge Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Ayngel & John, Time Machine Mercury Lounge – Nic Armstrong and the Thieves Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Sonny Gray Tribute Concert Pepper’s Grill – George and Linda Barton River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Brent Giddens, Randy Brumley River Spirit Casino - LandShark Pool Bar – Don White Trio River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Vashni Duo Soul City – The Cherokee Maidens – ($10) The Bistro at Seville – Dean DeMerritt and Sean Al-Jibouri The Colony – Dane Arnold & The Soup – ($5) The Fur Shop – Sissy Brown, JonEmery Dodds The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks The Max Retropub – Boo Ya The Vanguard – Flyover Fest w/ Harley Flanagan, Homewrecker, Eternal Sleep, Purgatory, No Victory, Judiciary, Orthodox, and more – ($33-$65) Utopia Bar & Lounge – DJ MO Yeti – Colouradio, The Phlegms
Sat // Oct 21 Bad Ass Renee’s – Failing Minnesota, The Plums, New American Classic BOK Center – The Weeknd, Gucci Mane, NAV – ($39.75-$125.75) Brady Theater – Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots, Jillian Jacqueline, Nikita Karmen – ($35-$84.50) THE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – Dennis Crouch Acoustic Tulsa Trio – ($5) Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Rusty Meyers Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Scott Ellison, Mayday By Midnight Mercury Lounge – Drugstore Gypsies River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Lost On Utica, The Marriotts River Spirit Casino - LandShark Pool Bar – Seth Lee Jones Trio River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – The Morgan Band Soul City – The Don White Band – ($10) Soundpony – Bacon, Beats, & Buttcheeks The Beehive Lounge – The Wirms, Molasses Disaster, The Dull Drums, The Earslips The Colony – Damion Shade, Marie Curie, Petty Fox – ($5) The Fur Shop – Iron Cathedral, PowerColt, Carcinogen Daily The Hunt Club – Flabbergaster The Max Retropub – DJ Al Compton The Venue Shrine – Fist of Rage, Oldman, and more – ($5) Woody Guthrie Center – Annie Oakley – ($15-$20)
Sun // Oct 22 East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Guthrie Green – The Burney Sisters, Red Dirt Rangers, Seven Feathers IDL Ballroom – Warrant, Firehouse, Rocket Science – ($45-$50) Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Angie Cockrell & Mike Leland – ($5-$20) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Chris Foster River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Ali Harter Soul City – Bruner & Eicher Soundpony – Better Now The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing ft. Tori Ruffin The Fur Shop – Dan Martin The Vanguard – The Ghost of Paul Revere, Moonshine Miracle, Caezar – ($10)
Mon // Oct 23 Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – Dave Les Smith and Friends Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Chris Blevins River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jacob Tovar The Colony – Seth Lee Jones The Fur Shop – Open Mic The Vanguard – Vale of Pnath, Depths of Hatred, Virvum, Field Dressed Hooker – ($10-$13) Woody Guthrie Center – Beppe Gambetta – ($22) Yeti – The Situation
Tues // Oct 24 Cain’s Ballroom – Highly Suspect, Bones, DJ RedBees – (SOLD OUT) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd Band Lefty’s On Greenwood – Dean DeMerritt, Sean AlJibouri, and Sarah Maud Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Scott Musick, Dos Capos River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Brent Giddens Soul City – Dustin Pittsley The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Yeti – Writers Night
Wed // Oct 25 Cain’s Ballroom – Gogol Bordello, Lucky Chops Mercury Lounge – Jared Tyler & Seth Lee Jones River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jacob Dement River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Wink Burcham Soul City – Don & Steve White The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project
Thurs // Oct 26 Cain’s Ballroom – Judah & The Lion, The academic, Tyson Mostenbocker – (SOLD OUT) Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Darrel Cole Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Jesse Joice, Another Alibi Hard Rock Casino - The Joint – Bad Company – ($75-$85) Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Caleb Fellenstein River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jake Flint Soul City – Grazzhopper Soundpony – Too Live Kru Party Spinster Records – Arc Flash, Tyto Alba, Planet What, Sylvia Wrath The Colony – The Soup Kitchen with Dane Arnold The Hunt Club – Ego Culture The Vanguard – John Mark McMillan, Kings, Kaleidoscope, Lapeer – ($19-$45)
Fri // Oct 27 American Legion Post 308 – American Strings Blackbird on Pearl – Halloween Bash w/ The Stylees, Full Service, Stinky Gringos, Konkoba Percussion – ($10) Brady Theater – Maren Morris, Ryan Hurd – ($22.50-$79) Dusty Dog Pub – James Groves Blues Machine Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Follow the Buzzards Fuel 66 – Burn Tulsa Halloween Bash w/ Marie Curie, Carlton Hesston, Konkoba Percussion Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Great Big Biscuit Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Chris Hyde, Stars Mercury Lounge – The Yawpers Pepper’s Grill – Jennifer Marriott Band River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Hi-FidelHicks, Randy Brumley River Spirit Casino - LandShark Pool Bar – Don White Trio River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – Chase Rice – ($30-$40) River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – The Morgan Band Soul City – Paul Benjaman Band – ($10) Soundpony – DJ Sweet Babby Jaysus The Colony – Chris Blevins Band – ($5) The Hunt Club – Ben Neikirk Band The Max Retropub – Afistaface The Vanguard – My So Called Band – ($10) The Venue Shrine – Andy Frasco – ($12) Utopia Bar & Lounge – DJ MO Yeti – Black Mold Halloween Bash w/ The Red Stripes as The White Stripes, Hey Judy as The Vaselines, The Danner Party as Black Sabbath, Golden Ones as T-Rex, Damion Shade as Bob Dylan, and more
Sat // Oct 28 Bad Ass Renee’s – Center of Disease, Broken Flesh, Horde Casket Cain’s Ballroom – The Floozies, EPROM, Maddy O’Neal – ($20-$35) Elm Street Pub – Nightmare at Elm Street Halloween Bash w/ Glam R Us
Fassler Hall – Darku J Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Rod Robertson Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – The Hi-Fidelics, Superfreak Mercury Lounge – K Phillips River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Grooveyard, The Marriotts River Spirit Casino - LandShark Pool Bar – Seth Lee Jones Trio River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – The Duo Soul City – A Desi & Cody Halloween – ($10) Soundpony – Afistaface The Beehive Lounge – Oceanaut, Echo Bones, Opposite Day The Colony – ROAR! – ($5) The Fur Shop – Josh Field The Hunt Club – Grind, Fight the Fade, Skytown The Max Retropub – DJ Aaron Bernard The Vanguard – American Dischord, The Penny Mob, Loose Wires - Matinee Show – ($5-$7) The Vanguard – Blameshift – ($10) Unit D – Halloween Howler w/ Joe King Carrasco, Ill Fated, Soul Surferos – ($13)
Sun // Oct 29 Cain’s Ballroom – The Lacs, Big Smo, Saving Abel, Demun Jones, Shotgun Shane – ($23-$38) East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Allison Arms, The George Brothers Hard Rock Casino - The Joint – Chicks with Hits: Terri Clark, Pam Tillis, Suzy Bogguss – ($29-$49) Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Stephanie Oliver and the Gypsy cold Cuts – ($5-$20) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Chris Foster River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Ali Harter Soul City – Bruner & Eicher Soundpony – Bug Chaser The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing ft. Johnny Mullenax The Fur Shop – Dan Martin
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From “Monkey Business: The Story of Curious George’s Creators,” animated Hans and Margret Rey pushing bikes in archival photo, Paris 1940. | JACOB KAFKA
The familiar in the foreign Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival has something for everyone by TRENT GIBBONS
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he 4th annual Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival, hosted at the Circle Cinema, offers a slew of comedies, dramas, foreignlanguage films, and documentaries. Kerry Wiens, the festival’s director of programming, says it’s always been her intent to ensure that the festival would appeal to all sorts of audiences. Their screening committee plucked from the general Jewish film festival circuit those movies that they thought Tulsans would most enjoy. In her own words: “We don’t want too many documentaries or too many dramas.” The festival began as a collaboration between Circle Cinema, the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, and the Sherman Miller Museum of Jewish Art. A small year-round film series already existed, but the partners decided a film festival would bring in more new films. “Plus, having a firm date every year made it easier for us to get better guests,” Wiens said. “Last year we had Yuval Rabin come from Israel to speak about his father, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. That was really special.”
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This year the festival’s guests are as diverse as the films. Local film critics will follow up a screening of “The Graduate” with a panel discussion; the animator of mixed-media documentary “Monkey Business: The Story of Curious George’s Creators,” is hosting a post-screening Q&A. The intricacies of Tel Aviv’s 1977 European Basketball Championship are explored in “On The Map,” a documentary with an intro and Q&A hosted by TU Basketball Coach Frank Haith. “Be Curious” is the throughline of each film this year. Each day, the theme will take on a new meaning. While viewing a documentary about a hotel that served as an Anglo-Jewish hub, a comedy about a young man trying to steal his grandmother’s pickle recipe, and a comedy-drama depicting an orthodox community in Jerusalem divided by a bat mitzvah mishap, viewers are encouraged to be curious about community. “It takes a little bit of curiosity to attend any film festival, really,” Wiens said. “You don’t see ads or trailers like you might for other movies in theaters. At a festival you really just have to take a chance.”
The theme is inspired by “Monkey Business,” which will show at the festival. This documentary follows Margaret and Hans Rey, the caretakers, or parents of the cultural icon Curious George, as they forge success all across the world, even when forced to flee Paris on bicycles as the Nazi army invades. “The Reys were survivors,” said Director Ema Yamatzaki. “They never lost their spirit of adventure—not when things were bad, and not even when things were boring, or just normal.” If viewers take anything from the film, Yamatzaki hopes it will be that spirit and an understanding of what makes Curious George such a timeless character. “Children live vicariously through George; they see themselves in his curiosity. Parents might see themselves in the Man in the Yellow Hat, in the kind of love and patience he has for George.” This is not at all unlike Kerry Wiens hope for festival attendees in general. “[Circle Cinema’s] motto is ‘Community conscientious through film,’” she said. “The more one sees that other cultures have the same
hopes, dreams, and struggles as their own the more they are humanized, fostering tolerance.” This might be best exemplified in the documentary, “Germans and Jews,” which explores the large expatriate Jewish community in Germany today, and how Germans themselves have begun to address the horrors of the Holocaust. “When you first begin watching a foreign film, the first things you notice are the differences: the cars on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, or the language they are speaking,” Wiens said. “But then you start to see the human aspects. How a child might fight with their father, or how a girl feels about a boy.” This festival aims to make foreign cultures seem anything but. In the future, Wiens and the other organizers hope to bring it to Oklahoma City and make it an event for the whole state, not just Tulsa. The festival will kick off at the Circle Cinema on Sunday, October 22 and ends the Wednesday, October 25. The full schedule of events can be found at circlecinema.com. All tickets are $10 unless noted otherwise. a FILM & TV // 43
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THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU
Jessica Rothe in “Happy Death Day” | COURTESY
GROUNDHOG’S PARADISE ‘Happy Death Day’ is a clockwork remix by JOE O’SHANSKY
“Dawn of the Dead” | COURTESY
Shout! Factory deadens up Halloween by JOE O’SHANSKY GEORGE A. ROMERO BECAME THE FATHER of the zombie genre with his 1968 “Night of the Living Dead.” The film largely defined the rules as we know them today— not counting the debate over the relative merits of shambling, mournful zombies vs. the feral, Olympic sprinter variety. (I’m team shamble.) A decade after “Night,” Romero returned with “Dawn of the Dead,” expanding on the scope of the original’s black-and-white claustrophobia and its unflinching social commentary. The newly bloody, sinew-ripping, gut-munching gore was rendered in jarring ‘70s primary colors. “Dawn’s” cast is bigger, trapped in a bigger place—and it becomes clear that humans are losing the war for the world. Romero’s sociopolitical themes are a cynical allegory of consumer culture and humanity’s self-destructive myopia.
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The third entry, 1985’s “Day of the Dead,” expanded on that last bit, finding a team of scientists and military goons working together to save the human race, and failing utterly because, people. Twenty years later, in 2005, Romero dropped “Land of the Dead,” a vastly underrated return to form. I’m one of the heretics who gets bored by the one-note ugliness of “Day.” In “Land,” civilization has risen in Pittsburgh, though it’s hinted there are other outposts. Unfortunately, it’s run by a sleazy mafia-style boss, Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) from a luxury skyscraper that’s home to the city’s elite. When his paramilitary arm, led by the benevolent Riley (Simon Baker) discover that the dead are starting to communicate and even think, they are forced to take sides to save the poverty-stricken serfs who pack the feudalistic slums, from Kaufman and the dead. Here the themes are of classism, persecution, and income inequality, wrapped in Romero’s best looking film. Both “Dawn” and “Land of the Dead” come to Shout! Factory Blu Ray on October 31, with pristine new masters struck from the original negatives (“Land” is in 2K, and boasts an uncut version). Typical of their releases, both sets are packed with documentaries, interviews, deleted scenes, and extensive commentaries. It’s basically film school in a box. Romero did make two subsequent “Dead” films before he joined their ranks this year. Neither rise to the level of “Land,” or the films before it. But there was always something comforting in the knowledge that he was still tending his garden. RIP, man. a
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lumhouse Productions is becoming the A24 (“Moonlight”, “Swiss Army Man”) of mid-budget, quasi-independent horror and suspense flicks. Or at least it’s not-as-quirky, or sophisticated, grindhouse alter ego. While Jordan Peele’s zeitgeist-capturing “Get Out” was creatively, financially, and even culturally groundbreaking, Blumhouse was also ground zero for the ongoing James Wann era of supernatural horror with “Insidious.” The production company gave rise to lucrative, strippeddown B-horror franchises like “Paranormal Activity” and “The Purge.” Then there’s weird little gems like “Creep,” “Oculus,” and the 2010 family tragicomedy “Tooth Fairy,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson—a meta-allegory for the frustrations of parental responsibility and cycles of abuse both emotional and physical, where Rock punches kids in the face and makes them hand over their own teeth. (That last part is not true.) “Happy Death Day” is the kind of high-concept, kitchen sink slasher movie that makes you wonder how no one had thought of it already. Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) is a snooty sorority girl with aspirations to become a doctor. On the morning of her birthday, she wakes up after a bender of a party in the dorm room of a
clueless nice guy, Carter Davis (Israel Broussard). Hungover and resentful that she might have slept with someone so below her, she rallies and goes on about her day, which—in a repeating, yet random confluence of events—always ends with her being murdered in more and more devious ways by a stoic, masked killer. Realizing she’s reliving the same day, Tree is compelled to discover the identity of her constant murderer, while slowly coming to grips with why she’s an asshole. Like her budding romance with Carter, the more we get to know Tree the more endearing, capable, and funny she becomes. Rothe gamely brings light from of the snarkness, becoming a Veronica Mars-inspired asskicker with a heart. Broussard imbues Carter with an amiable, awkward, and nerdy charm, but it’s really Rothe’s movie to carry. While I never felt genuinely creeped out, “Happy Death Day” establishes enough tension to keep its cyclical (and somewhat derivative) nature from becoming tedious. Yes, it is Groundhog’s Day meets Final Destination. But writer Scott Lobdell and director Christopher Landon’s playfully twist the tropes of both of those films. The tone of referential ‘90s slashers and their red-herring amusement in baiting the audience with a whodunit conceit make “Happy Death Day” an unlikely charmer. a October 18 – 31, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE
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A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CIRCLE CINEMA OPENING OCTOBER 20 LUCKY An elderly US Navy vet goes on a search for meaning in his small town after experiencing a sudden near-fatal collapse. Harry Dean Stanton stars in the final role of his impressive career. Rated R.
GENOCIDE, THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD ‘First They Killed My Father’ is an important indictment by JEFF HUSTON Sareum Srey Moch in “First They Killed My Father” | COURTESY
TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT LIVING IN North Korea is like today, watching “First They Killed My Father” would likely paint the harrowing picture. It has nothing to do with the Kim regime. In fact, it’s set in Cambodia post-Vietnam War. But this unflinching portrayal of totalitarian oppression by the Khmer Rouge, in a four-year reign of genocidal terror that killed nearly two million people, is a bone-chilling reminder of how the past is repeating itself unabated. Based on the memoir of Loung Ung, who was only five when the Khmer Rouge takeover began, “First They Killed My Father”—streaming exclusively on Netflix— isn’t just an important historical document. It’s a relevant wake-up call. It’s also the most impressive directorial effort yet from Angelina Jolie. As a re-creation of a time, place, and event, this is utterly convincing—and Jolie’s choice to cast native actors that speak the language certainly helps. Yet Jolie goes beyond telling this girl’s true story with stark verisimilitude. Masterfully, she captures it from Loung’s point of view even while largely avoiding literal POV perspectives. Jolie’s use of film language is keen and constructs a very personal experience. The narrative flow is sequential yet loose. Time passes in subtle jumps. The plot, such as it is, doesn’t track a clear arc. More viscerally, we live through these events as perceived by an overwhelmed child. Jolie gives us a comprehensive unTHE TULSA VOICE // October 18 – 31, 2017
derstanding of something perpetrated on a massive scale, but does so through an effectively intimate lens. At first, the film feels a bit too familiar. We’ve seen these kinds of stories before, from movies about the Holocaust to African massacres and more. Though confidently made, the biggest sense of dread one has early on is that this will be another brutal but generic history lesson. But when Loung and her family finally arrive at a forced labor camp, “First They Killed My Father” opens a window that I can’t recall a movie having looked through before, at least not this vividly. The torturous conditions, abuses, and punishments are all there, yes, but added to that is the constant indoctrination of the Khmer Rouge’s communist ideology. It’s pervasive. Through the camp’s loud speakers, during back-breaking work, and even at meals, dehumanizing dogmas are bludgeoned into people’s psyches morning, noon, and night. The soldiers damn Western values as vanity, but then pervert their repressive cruelty into a selfless virtue. The toll this all takes isn’t just physical. It’s psychological. And it’s absolutely debilitating. “First They Killed My Father” is an important film. Most of all, it’s a harsh rebuke of the West, which ignored the Cambodians. It’s also an indictment of how we’ve done nothing to stop similar horrors from occurring in North Korea now. a
PARTY BOI Director and Booker T. Washington grad Michael Rice documents how crystal meth is devastating African-American and Latino LGBTQ communities. Q&A with Rice follows the 7 p.m. premiere screening on October 20. Reception sponsored by the Equality Center of Oklahoma starts at 6 p.m.
OPENING OCTOBER 27 THE FLORIDA PROJECT A lively, poignant portrait about poverty set just outside the magic of Disney World. A six-year-old girl and her friends experience life with wonder while the adults around them struggle with the hardships of reality. From director Sean Baker (“Tangerine”) and co-starring Willem Dafoe, this is gaining Awards buzz hot off the festival circuit. Rated R. MARK FELT: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE Liam Neeson stars as the FBI agent who, during the Watergate scandal, would become the whistleblower known as Deep Throat. Rated PG-13. THE UNKNOWN GIRL In this French-language drama, a guilt-stricken doctor searches for the identity of a mysterious African woman who, after being refused his aid, was found dead the next morning. Not rated.
SPECIAL EVENTS BOB DYLAN: TROUBLE NO MORE Oklahoma premiere of the new documentary focusing on Dylan’s “born again” Christian period. Exclusive footage from the Dylan Archive will be shown after the screening as well. Also, a Q&A with Jennifer LeBeau, the film’s director, and Steve Ripley, a Dylan band member at the time. Tickets are $20, and $15 for members. (Thursday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m.) THE GRADUATE 50th Anniversary screening of this Academy Award winning coming-of-age classic about Baby Boomer existentialism, starring Dustin Hoffman. Q&A panel follows. (Sunday, Oct. 22, 1 p.m.) ALL THE RAGE A documentary about one doctor’s radical methods to treat back pain, the connection between emotions and health, and rethinking how we do healthcare. Discussion follows with Dr. John Schumann, Pres. OU Tulsa and host of Tulsa NPR’s Medical Matters. (Thursday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.) NOSFERATU / DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE: DOUBLE FEATURE Two silent era horror classics, now accompanied by symphonic rock scores performed live by the Austin, TX group The Invincible Czars. Tickets $12 for one film; $18 for both. (Friday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. first feature, 10 p.m. second.) LINE OF DESCENT Tulsa Ski Club presents a documentary exploring ski culture around the globe. Tickets are $5. (Sunday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. & 7 p.m.) CHASING TRANE: THE JOHN COLTRANE DOCUMENTARY Free special event sponsored by Indie Lens PopUp, with live pre-show music by TU Jazz Combo at 6:30 p.m. The film dives into the influence of 1960s jazz legend John Coltrane. (Monday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.)
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ASUKA is a beautiful, one and a half year-old mixed breed dog. She loves to be around other dogs. When it comes to people, Asuka can be a bit shy at first. But when she gets to know you, she loves to snuggle on your lap and give you kisses.
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GUMP is a two yearold, Australian cattle dog/ Australian shepherd mix with a heart of gold, as long as he’s the only pet in your home. Despite not getting along with other animals, he loves going on walks, splashing in water, playing fetch, and laying out in the grass with his people.
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The Tulsa SPCA has been helping animals in our area since 1913. The shelter never euthanizes for space and happily rescues animals from high-kill shelters. They also accept owner surrenders, rescues from cruelty investigations, hoarding, and puppy mill situations. Animals live on-site or with foster parents until they’re adopted. All SPCA animals are micro-chipped, vaccinated, spayed/neutered, and treated with preventatives. Learn about volunteering, fostering, upcoming events, adoptions, and their low-cost vaccination clinic at tulsaspca.org.
OLIVER is a two and a half year-old, domestic shorthair mix with a lot of love to give his forever family. Oliver is about sixteen and a half pounds and he loves people of all ages. He is very affectionate and snuggly. Oliver would be perfect for anyone looking for a cat with a heart just as big as his fluffy tummy!
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JACKSON is an active and fun dog who loves to play fetch. He is a one year-old white and brindle Lab mix. Because of his dislike of other dogs and cats, Jackson should be the only pet in the home. Jackson is very smart and has already learned several tricks like sit, shake, and roll over.
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PORT is a two and a half year-old terrier mix who is the definition of a snuggle bug! He is learning to leash walk, but prefers to be carried. Port is timid at first, but he opens up after a little bit of love and pets. If you are looking for a dog to watch Netflix with, Port is your guy!
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