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editor’sletter

W

hen we posted last issue’s cover story (“Welcome to Hazard,” about Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA) to Facebook, a man commented: “Do your writers get political fatigue as easily as your readers?”

I laughed because—like any decent joke—if it’s funny, there’s truth in it.

Yes, I have political fatigue.

I am tired of politics and I fight the urge to politicize everything, even when so much seems like low-hanging fruit. I wonder when I became like this. Was it a slow process? Did it happen overnight, perhaps during the 2016 presidential election? And besides making me (and people around

me; bless y’all) tired, what else is it affecting?

As I talked with our writers and edited this issue, particularly the pieces “Rethinking the Republican Resistance” (pg. 18) and the vignettes in “Stories from the Resistance” (pg. 21), I noticed a strong theme emerging: conversation. A theme of discourse as both a virtue and something we’re collectively struggling with. People desire to be heard and understood, not in an echo chamber, but by people who don’t necessarily agree with them.

For some—myself included— that’s never been tougher to do.

Since November 9, 2016, many Americans have been crying “Resist!” And others have been

decrying it. I wondered what that means and what it looks like in practical application here in Tulsa.

My hope is that this issue paints a portrait of the resistance—both nationally (see Barry Friedman’s piece, pg. 10) and locally by those who consider themselves part of it, and those who don’t. Even though we’re all tired, I think we ought to linger a bit on this significant time in which we live—and talk about it.

In a recent speech, former President George W. Bush said, “The great democracies face new and serious threats yet seem to be losing confidence in their own calling and competence. Economic, political, and national security challenges proliferate, and they

are made worse by the tendency to turn inward. The health of the democratic spirit itself is at issue.

And the renewal of that spirit is the urgent task at hand.”

Weariness can transform into apathy, but our country can’t afford that. Tulsa can’t afford that. A shut-down, turned-inward citizen body is dangerous. So, let’s converse, and, in doing so, move forward. a

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Thanks to Fallin and her Republican gang We all make less than a living wage of $15 an hour.

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Lowest in the nation at $7.25 an hour and $2.13 for tipped workers.

Twenty-nine states have raised their wage higher than the federal $7.25 and $2.13. The Arkansas minimum is $8.50 and $2.63 for tipped. But not Republican-controlled Oklahoma, where rednecks rule the roost.

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Oklahoma’s sprawling criminal code could use serious pruning

by RYAN GENTZLER

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n the wake of the failure of the criminal justice reform proposals put forth by the Justice Reform Task Force this year, Representative Scott Biggs, the chairman of the House Judiciary-Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee, blamed Governor Mary Fallin and others for refusing to discuss the definition of “violent” and “nonviolent” crimes used by some of the bills. After the session, in the lead-up to an interim study on that definition, Rep. Biggs distributed a survey asking respondents to classify every felony under Oklahoma law as violent, nonviolent, or a new, vaguely-defined category created by Rep. Biggs, “danger to the public.”

Governor Fallin, for her part, declined to return the survey, instead sending a strongly-worded letter criticizing Rep. Biggs’s actions during and since the regular legislative session. But the content and length of the survey are striking in themselves, revealing an increasingly sprawling criminal code that could make a felon out of just about any Oklahoman.

Rep. Biggs’s survey identified 682 felony crimes and their citations in Oklahoma’s state laws.

Many are notable for applying to relatively innocent or obscure offenses. For instance, a person who takes up a stray dog but does not report it to the county sheriff within seven days may be guilty of a felony punishable by six months to three years in prison. Making a false statement in the application to hold a closing-out sale is a felony. The second offense of selling or even giving an alcoholic beverage to, in the words of the law, “an insane, mentally deficient or intoxicated person” is a felony punishable by a fine of at least $2,500 and up to five years in prison. Even adultery is a felony under Oklahoma law, punishable since 1910 by up to five years in prison. Many more laws criminal-

ize violations of regulatory and licensing codes, touching everything from private security guard applications to horse racing.

The unabated growth of the criminal code means that it is much easier to run afoul of the law inadvertently, even when the language of that law is unclear.

Last year, for instance, a bar owner in Norman was arrested for selling drinks with bacon-infused vodka.

Although the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement (ABLE) Commission later ruled that such drinks are allowed, the episode had real costs: the bar manager spent several days in jail and had to hire an attorney to resolve the case.

Even as lawmakers have acknowledged the overreach of Oklahoma’s justice system and sought to reduce the prison population in recent years, they continued to create new criminal penalties for licensing and regulatory violations. A study by the Manhattan Institute found that the Legislature created an average of 26 new crimes per year between 2010 and 2015.

There’s no doubt that Oklahoma’s overgrown criminal code could use some serious pruning, and lawmakers would be wise to start the process sooner rather than later. Justice reform is at the center of the political moment, but it won’t always be so. The Legislature should strike while the iron is hot.

As a first step to roll back Oklahoma’s overcriminalization, a commission to reduce unnecessary regulations and laws should be popular with conservatives, progressives, and anyone who wants our criminal code to reflect common sense. a

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

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t was 7:21 p.m. on November 8, 2016. I was leaving the house to do a political podcast with Ziva Branstetter, then-executive editor of The Frontier. The TV was on and as I opened the front door, I looked back and saw that in Florida, with 92 percent of the vote recorded, Trump was up by about 2 percent. The state wasn’t being called because, since the 2000 election, the state is never called.

North Carolina was gone. Virginia was too close.

You could tell.

It’s over.

Not just Florida. All of it.

Donald J. Trump would be president of the United States.

There was supposed to be history. Instead there was cheap wine.

The next day, talking with then-Esquire editor Mark Warren, I mentioned acceptance, will of the people, other pablum. He was furious. “The RESISTANCE,” he said—all caps—“begins today.”

And so it did.

What follows are some of those national voices in, of, and around the resistance—on this, its first anniversary.

GARRETT EPPS American legal scholar, professor of law at the University of Baltimore, contributing editor for The Atlantic (Baltimore, MD) My feelings on this issue are mixed.

In some ways, the “hard-wired” parts of our system are functioning as designed. For example, the dismissal of Comey required the recusal of Sessions under DOJ rules that are written down, and 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

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Trump and, increasingly, anybody who voted for him; and the fervently pro-Trump people who are angry that the other side refuses to accept the election result.

Neither side talks, or listens, to the other. The disgust also comes from the people in the middle—the majority, I think—who are sick and tired of the relentless vitriol, the politicization of everything, and the feeling that we’re not going to get out of this impasse any time soon.

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by BARRY FRIEDMAN that led to Mueller. The lower courts have been very careful in assessing the legality of apparently popular Trump initiatives like the “travel ban” and the “sanctuary city” crackdown. Trump keeps losing in lower court. On the other hand, the customary parts of the system are showing a lot of strain.

For example, the First Amendment protects the right to protest, and it also protects the right of public officials to criticize protest. It does not, as a matter of custom and, to a lesser extent, law, protect the “right” of a powerful official to demand the dismissal of people who protest legally in ways he dislikes. Trump is attempting to change that norm and having some success in chilling the atmosphere of civil liberties in this country.

The administration is having some success bending the executive branch to its will. In addition, as it learns from its mistakes, it is liable to become more effective in promulgating policies that seem racist and authoritarian but are less clumsy than the original travel ban and the sanctuary order. The

administration is changing the nature of the federal judiciary by a systematic campaign to appoint extreme rightists, who are liable to be receptive to its arguments, not because they are personally proTrump, but because their ideology is authoritarian and in favor of executive power. So, the long-term prospects are very troubling.

DAVE BARRY syndicated columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner (Miami, FL) I see two predominant moods: anger and disgust. The fervently anti-Trump people, who loathe

ROBERT BATEMAN former career officer and strategist, U.S. Army Infantry; International Security Fellow with New America (Chesapeake Bay) For a quarter of a century I avoided politics. That was the ethic of my profession. My political neutrality made it easier to focus on my job and to maintain intellectual friendships across the spectrum. This is where the idea of #resist is failing America. The #resistance concept closes doors, emotionally and intellectually, that could lead to unification, and unified these efforts must be to be effective. Today I have friends, former Republicans, who are virulent in their opposition. Openly.

In writing. Often. But #resistance throws them off, and thus any concept of unification of an effort in support of a common goal is bifurcated, trifurcated, split into fragments that can make each splinter feel empowered but which have little actual purchase.

As a historian, all I can offer is an observation.

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ZIVA BRANSTETTER senior editor at The Center for Investigative Reporting (Emery, CA) We’d planned a broadcast via Facebook Live for the entire night.

I asked my then-20-year-old son, Parker, to help out on election night at The Frontier because I wanted him to experience the excitement of a newsroom during a presidential election. I don’t remember exactly what I said to Parker, who was clearly upset about the results. I stashed away a few bottles of wine for after we wrapped up our coverage, and we also had a half-full bottle of some kind of peach vodka that someone had given us. As the results of the election became clear, I was glad we had alcohol on hand to numb the shock of what had just happened.

As a journalist, of course, I’m not part of the resistance or the opposition to President Trump or his agenda. As a profession, though, journalists certainly did our part to resist Trump’s attempt to make a wide swath of the public doubt our credibility, our commitment to the truth, our motivation, and even the most basic facts as we reported them.

Thanks to the work of journalists since last November, there have been hundreds of revelations about conflicts of interest, lies, outrageous behavior, and just plain ineptitude that have contributed to a growing public understanding.

Who knows where it will lead? As I often told my reporters through the years, this is a marathon, not a sprint. We all need to lace up our shoes and keep running.

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LINDA CHARNES professor of English, Renaissance Studies, and Western European Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)

JOHN H. RICHARDSON journalist, author of “On the Road with the Birthers,” “My Father the Spy,” and “The Last Abortion Doctor,” (New Orleans, Manila, Mexico)

On this first anniversary of the resistance, there is a bunkering in.

Literally, as some are digging bunkers for the nuclear apocalypse, but also figuratively. Many of us experienced an uncharacteristic magical thinking after November 8th—that someone—anyone— would ride in on a winged horse and nullify the election on the grounds of fraud, roll purging, gerrymandering, Russian interference, rank fraudulence of the orange huckster, his vulgarity, ignorance, and incompetence, his personality disorders, or even the Scotch Tape on the back of his overly-long red tie. But nobody rode in, and with a variety of coping mechanisms, we are now living with the shortening of our telomeres.

The resistance has achieved something wondrous: We’ve tripled the “Five Stages of Grief ” to fifteen: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Overeating, Day-Drinking, Bargaining with Pets, Sheer Disbelief (the Director’s Cut), Pathetic Hope, Hedged Despair, Day-Sleeping, Marching, Signing Petitions, Head-Banging, and Mueller Worship. However, we did bump one category from the former Five: Acceptance. We do not accept, and we never will.

The prognosis may not be good, but we defy augury because we are progressives. There is a special providence in the fall of an orange albatross. If it be now, ’tis not to come.

If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

Come what may, the rest will not be silence.

I’ve read all the stuff about Trump supporters being racists or full of nostalgia for a world that never was, and I’m not going to dispute it—there’s truth in it, no doubt— but when I meet a person, I like to try to see the person and not a sociological category. For instance, I met a guy at a gun show who hated Obama for reasons that seemed caught up in racism, but he also had a bi-racial grandchild and doted on her.

As to America in the age of Trump, it’s a horror show. He’s destabilizing our alliances, tearing apart our social fabric (such as it is), and injecting poison into our minds on a daily basis. My take is that the world is coming at us so fast.

Globalism and the helplessness we all feel after the financial crash of 2008 revealed without a doubt that the supposedly smart people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.

[It] is destabilizing all of us.

In fact, that gives me more sympathy for the classic Republican arguments about small government and states’ rights and even a different perspective on gun rights. The world is out of our control. Maybe it always was. An eco-radical I know says a lot of eco-radicals voted for Trump because they figured he would be the candidate most likely to bring down the system. I tend to agree with the argument that “nihilism” like that is part of what motivated Trump voters—the system is so fucked up, why not just throw a bomb in it. I think we all feel a touch of that, and not without reason, even if liberals such as myself tend to frantically suppress it. Maybe it’s all wrapped up into a ball and half our explanations are wrong, but the intuition is more important than our explanations.

DAHLIA LITHWICK Amicus podcast host, reporter on courts and the law for Slate (Brooklyn, NY) The resistance has both kept me alive in the past year and is slowly killing me. It keeps me alive because it connects me to a vast, sprawling, decentralized machine of outrage and passion—people who remind me every day that this is not normal, not okay, not even imaginable. It’s killing me because, like everyone, I am exhausted and numb, with every day fractionally worse than the day before, and the cruelty of targeting DACA kids, women, Muslims, NFL athletes, immigrants, the poor, and the sick takes a toll. And this all happens as a demonstrably unwell man tweets at us about his ratings and his ego. It is easy to get frustrated with our friends on the left, with their purity tests and their need to be right as opposed to effective.

But there is SUCH power in getting offline and going to rallies, marches, fundraisers, and events in which you see people at their best and not in their social media flatness. If you are at a computer slowly drowning, I think you need to shut it down. Not for “self care” in the check-out mani/pedi sense. But to join something really good and powerful on a street or in a café or your government.

My son tells me his best day of the last year was the night a bunch of moms made soup for Syrian refugees and raised thousands of dollars as a small Syrian kid followed him around the room. The resistance only works if you can find what’s best in one another, and that doesn’t happen refreshing social media or losing your mind at the tweets of a madman. The resistance has been maddening because we are casting about like children for leaders and, more often than not, we are the leaders we are looking for. a NEWS & COMMENTARY // 11

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Blood rolls no more

Cherokee Nation v. Nash a successful challenge to black disenfranchisement

by HANNIBAL B. JOHNSON “Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”

— Bishop Desmond Tutu

The Cherokee Freedmen recently won a major legal victory in their continuing quest for recognition within the Cherokee Nation. Who are the Freedmen and what did they win?

In the 1830s and 1840s, the U.S. government forcibly removed the Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Seminole) from their homelands in the Southeast to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Persons of African descent, some free, some enslaved, accompanied the tribes; they often intermixed with Indians socially, culturally, and intimately.

At the end of the Civil War, the federal government negotiated treaties (collectively the Treaty of 1866) under which the Muscogee, Cherokee, and Seminole Nations adopted persons of African ancestry in their midst and their descendants (collectively the “Freedmen”) as tribal members.

The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations jointly negotiated similar treaties, which included optional Freedmen adoption provisions.

The Choctaws grudgingly adopted their Freedmen in 1883. The Chickasaws never did.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the federal government dissolved tribal nations and terminated their communal land ownership system. The Dawes Commission facilitated this process by dividing Indian lands and allotting them to individual tribe members.

As the first step, Commission agents compiled registration rolls (the Dawes Rolls) for the tribes.

In each case, federal emissaries drew up a Dawes Blood Roll and a Dawes Freedmen Roll. The Blood 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

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Roll documented the enrollee’s Indian blood. Commission agents listed virtually all persons who showed evidence of African ancestry (meaning those who looked black) on the Freedmen Roll.

Given the longstanding ties between Native Americans and persons of African extraction and the prevalence of cross-cultural relationships, this binary configuration obscured the fact that some Freedmen possessed Indian blood. Thus, some Freedmen were denied their Indianness.

The federal government began conditioning some tribal benefits on an applicant’s ability to demonstrate possession of Indian blood.

The Freedmen, lacking the requisite evidence, were not qualified for various tribal benefits, which adversely impacted their status and relative economic posture.

Some tribes, including the Cherokees, instituted measures requiring Indian blood not just for specified benefits, but for tribal membership. These tribes typically relied upon the Dawes Rolls as the single source of proof. One would have to trace an ancestor back to the Blood Rolls to evidence one’s entitlement to such benefits and, for Cherokees, to tribal membership.

Issues of Indian blood aside, the Treaty of 1866 offered the

strongest argument for Freedmen citizenship within the Five Civilized Tribes. It sets forth what the Freedmen and others consider unassailable evidence of the Tribes’ intent to accord the Freedmen the same rights granted to other tribal members.

In recent years, the Freedmen debate raged most noticeably in the Cherokee Nation. In Lucy Allen v. Cherokee Nation Tribal Council (2006), the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court declared unconstitutional legislation designed to limit Cherokee tribal membership to those who could demonstrate their Cherokee-by-blood status.

The Court’s decision rested upon Article III of the 1975 Cherokee Nation Constitution. The Court held that the law impermissibly prescribed tribal membership criteria more restrictive than that set forth in the Constitution. After the Allen decision, the Cherokee Nation began accepting and processing Freedmen citizenship applications, enrolling more than one thousand.

Then-Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chadwick Smith led the opposition to Freedmen citizenship, culminating in a successful 2007 referendum petition that amended the Cherokee Nation Constitution. The measure limited Cherokee citizenship to those

of Indian ancestry listed in the Blood Rolls.

Following this setback, Freedmen advocate Marilyn Vann, attorney John Velie, and many Freedmen and their allies rallied the troops. Political and legal maneuvering, including court challenges and Congressional lobbying, kicked into high gear. A court granted provisional citizenship for Freedmen already enrolled as the battle languished in federal court.

The legal landscape changed on August 30, 2017. Thomas F. Hogan, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., upheld the citizenship rights of the Cherokee Freedmen in Cherokee Nation v. Nash.

Judge Hogan held that the Treaty of 1866 guaranteed citizenship for persons previously enslaved and their progeny. He opined: “The history, negotiations, and practical construction of the [Treaty of 1866] suggest no other result … Consequently, the Cherokee Freedmen’s right to citizenship in the Cherokee Nation is directly proportional to native Cherokees’ right to citizenship.”

Acceptance of the Nash decision by the current Cherokee Nation Principal Chief, Bill John Baker, settles the matter, ending a contentious and divisive chapter in Cherokee history.

Nash provides powerful, positive precedent of inclusion for the Freedmen of the other members of the Five Civilized Tribes. One would hope that these sovereign nations would seek a proactive approach to incorporating their Freedmen back into the fold. a Hannibal B. Johnson is a Harvard Law School graduate, author, attorney, consultant, and college professor.

His books include “Black Wall Street,” “Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District,” and “Apartheid in Indian Country?: Seeing Red Over Black Disenfranchisement.”

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esistance is hard work.

It’s showing up to community action meetings after a full day on the job. It’s finding a babysitter for the kids so you can get to the rally (or towing them along). It’s knocking on doors and making phone calls. It’s tough conversations in public and deft navigation in comment threads.

It’s processing and responding to a nonstop onslaught of bad news.

And it makes you hungry.

For people on the margins, this kind of work has never been optional. People of color, LGBT+ and disabled individuals, and other communities have long histories of joining together in their own defense. In the past year, many who never had to fight for themselves woke up to the need to fight for others.

Even with the best intentions, it’s not always easy to know how to begin. Cookbook author Julia Turshen is one of those who found herself asking what she could do, as a person of privilege, to join the resistance in a supportive way. She’s co-authored cookbooks with the likes of Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow and penned articles for Vogue and Bon Appetit. Her book on accessible home cooking, “Small Victories,” was named one of the best cookbooks of fall 2016 by The New York Times.

Turshen often cooks for volunteer organizations with missions to feed the sick, poor, and homebound. “I haven’t always quite seen the connection between this kind of work and the resistance,” she writes in her new book, “Feed the Resistance.”

“It took something else for me to connect the dots.”

That something came after a post-election meeting at her local branch of Citizen Action of New York (she lives in the Hudson Valley), when the meeting leader recruited her to lead a food team for the group.

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“Together we would make sure there was something to eat at every single meeting at our Citizen Action branch. Together we would make sure [the] organizers didn’t have to think about what was for dinner. In saving them that time and providing the food, they could continue their important work and be guaranteed the comfort and nourishment of a homemade meal.”

“Feed the Resistance,” a pocket-sized volume (the proceeds from which go to the ACLU), came directly out of this work.

It features 30 recipes (some by Turshen, others by a diverse array of contributors at the intersection of food and activism) in three categories: Easy Meals for Folks who are Too Busy Resisting to Cook; Feeding the Masses: Food for Crowds; and Baked Goods + Portable Snacks. As the headings suggest, these are things you can

cook for any gathering—not just an envelope-stuffing meeting, but also a night in with friends or a church potluck.

“Cooking,” Turshen writes, “cannot only balm our emotions and sustain [our work], it is also a constant reminder of transformation and possibility.”

The recipes are as varied as the communities doing the work.

A Thai yellow curry vegetable pot recipe is followed by sheet pan sausage, potatoes, and red cabbage. Variations on arroz a caballo sit alongside a tikka masala macaroni and cheese and The People’s Grits. There’s suugo, a Somali pasta sauce, and an angel food bread pudding with butterscotch sauce. (As a single mom of three, I’m adding quite a few of these affordable, nourishing meals to my repertoire.)

Turshen’s recipe curation reflects her approach to community action, which is based in listening to people who aren’t like her. There’s a refreshing humility here, aimed at educating rather than shaming readers who might unwittingly tend towards white savior-ism. “Feed the Resistance” becomes much more than the basic cookbook it could be, in large part because of the five eloquent essays by various activists that anchor it, with titles like “How Food Can Help End Recidivism” and “Food is Like Sex. It is the Provocation.”

Five principles from Stephen Satterfield, the founder of Whetstone, a publication about food origins and culture, provide the book’s foundation for feeding the resistance. He suggests in a short essay that food should be accessible, simple, global, efficient, and vegan (though the book has receipes for meat eaters, too).

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For the uninitiated: Kombucha is a slightly effervescent fermented tea with a myriad of baseless health benefits often ascribed to it. The one perk Linhart is willing to vouch for is kombucha’s active probiotic cultures, which promote healthy gut bacteria. Recent research indicates a strong correlation between mood and the health of the gut.

Linhart started brewing kombucha a year ago, after recognizing the high cost of his daily post-cycling habit. He initially brewed out of his apartment, where his roommates became his first converts and tasting panel. Their experience with both coffee and cocktails played to his advantage, providing him with valuable feedback.

Linhart also works at Chimera, so once his friends and family became loyal followers, he used the café’s commercial kitchen to scale up production. He was sharing his brew with fellow staff when it caught the attention of Chimera co-owner, Rob Stuart.

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Linhart expected that first batch to last a month, but it sold out in three days. Since then, several other local coffee shops and breweries have expressed interest in carrying Cült.

To Linhart, the most valuable aspect of Cült is that it represents local culture.

The native Californian aims to perpetuate the supportive community he’s found in Tulsa. Showcasing the work of local artists on his labels will be one of the ways he does that.

“There really isn’t a fun kombucha company,” said Linhart. “I want to take influence from different breweries and coffee shops or art.”

Once Linhart expands production to accommodate kegs, he aims to begin bottling—a process which requires more knowledge about commercial operations.

Linhart is one of seven entrepreneurs in the current session of the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation’s Kitchen 66 program, which offers training in both the business of food and beverage as well as a commercial kitchen space.

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I AM CHECKING FACEBOOK AND REFRESHING MY EMAIL. This means I am avoiding something. Perhaps you know the feeling? When you’ve just reached the hardest part of your task, and you find yourself resisting it?

“Resistance” is an interesting word. There are a lot of ways to define it, and everyone, it seems, defines it differently.

Danny Stockstill, the pastor at Brookside Baptist Church and a Republican candidate in Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District, told me, “In the current climate the idea ‘resist’ means to stop or prevent or bring to a halt. And I don’t think that’s positive ... Even if you’re successful, then you have to gain momentum to get moving again.”

Only a few blocks away, in his office at the Fellowship Congregational Church, Reverend Chris Moore had a very different take (though to be clear, he also intimated that his church is progressive and leans left).

“Here’s an analogy,” Moore told me. “When you go rafting, the guide will tell you they are in control of the boat.

That’s not really true … The river is really in control of the raft. What resistance is, is when you fall out of the boat and into the river … you resist long enough for someone to help you, or to get to a quieter part of the river where you can get out … it may not feel like success when you’re just keeping your head above water, but you’re breathing.

You’re doing the most important thing.”

John Roberts, the Chairman of the Oklahoma Young Republicans, made a similar comment about the tenacity required to work with politics and government. “There has always been this resistance to authority,” Roberts said.

“That was the result of a two-party system. Change is slow ... This is not an activity that gets you a lot of instant gratification.”

Reverend Alexis Carter at the Metropolitan Baptist Church said resistance is pushing back against evil ideas while pulling people close, “and letting them pull me in, too,” she added.

When I drove to these interviews, my car was met with the literal resistance the atmosphere provides. I find it compelling that there is resistance “where the rubber meets the road.” That as soon as we put our theories to a practical test, there is a natural inclination to push back, to fit more neatly into the groove of normalcy. I am, it occurs to me, resisting the possibility that my interviews have been the practical test of the topic we were discussing.

A part of me set out to tell a fairly specific story. One more like what we’re seeing emerge in national headlines, like Senator Flake’s “kamikaze speech” and Senator Corker’s remarks about Trump’s honesty or lack thereof. But that isn’t exactly the story that has emerged.

I entered this assignment with a set of assumptions about the people I would be talking to. But what I was told, repeatedly, is that the idea people are resisting is that we can rely on those assumptions to guide our decisionmaking. It’s a lazy way to move through the world, I was reminded—and also an unfulfilling one. Rev. Carter would not even tell me her political affiliation, which makes writing this incrementally harder for me, but drives home her point that party affiliations really only “help us put people in boxes… [And] we’re so much more complex than that.”

Even Roberts, who works with people in his own party, emphasized the importance of not making assumptions about where people are in life. He described the challenge of his position as, “trying to bring everyone together and meet everyone where they are. You can’t put everyone into neat little cookie-cutters and assume everything is going to work … The first thing that has to be the goal is understanding where everybody is and being able to communicate effectively. When we devolve to rhetoric for rhetoric’s sake, we don’t influence anyone.”

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negatively impacting the whole country—and one they are resisting in their own ways.

Roberts told me he makes a point of following people on social media with whom he doesn’t usually agree, so that when it comes time to discuss issues, he knows what they might have in common and can work from there.

Stockstill says part of his strategy, if elected, will be to foster relationships with Democrats in Washington so that they can identify and work toward common goals. When he first started at Brookside, he told me, one of the first calls he made was to Planned Parenthood to ask how they could work together.

Moore told me about a dinner organized by the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry called an Intersection Dinner, where people from various backgrounds and ideologies get together to find out just how much they have in common. The rules of the road also apply at this dinner: “You may not know who’s in the car next to you, but you know you have to stay in your lane,” Moore said.

Everyone I spoke with shared this desire to bridge the gap between people of different backgrounds and experiences in a way that could help us all work together instead of against each other. But they also recognized the challenges to making that desire a reality.

“It’s an imagination problem,” Carter said over coffee. “[People] can’t even imagine that there could be joy and peace in relationships with people who aren’t like them.

With people who don’t share the same religious views [or] political views as you. Our relationships become insular and our communities become insular.”

On the other side of town, Stockstill agreed. When I asked him how we could encourage Congress to work across the aisle, he said, “We tend to focus on the things we don’t agree upon ... [but] deep down we want better education for our kids, we want job security, we want to be able to support our families with the resources we have … that’s the same on both sides.”

Roberts told me his idea of what it means to be Republican: (naturally) limited government, but also “being able to give everyone the opportunity and freedom to pur-

sue their own American dream. I don’t … assume what the American dream means to me is what the American dream means to my neighbor.”

Given the malcontent and factions ever-forming between and within parties, I asked Roberts if two parties were enough. He said he thought they were.

“Even if there are factions within each group, they come together to make things happen and get things done,” he said.

By the same logic, though, I wondered if two parties were too many. I wondered if we could we do away with the labels that, for so many, simply mean “friend” or “foe.”

It can be hard to remember that our government has never promised the right to happiness, but we have been promised the right to pursue it. And it is fear of losing that right that has perhaps driven such a deep wedge between us. No matter what side of the debate you’re on—gay marriage, gun ownership, healthcare, et al—the fear that there isn’t enough America to go around, that laws made to protect one person’s interests will be at the expense of our own, is a fear we all share.

“Sometimes my initial pushing-back is fear,” Carter said of the human tendency to resist change. “It’s a fear of what that might mean for me, or a fear for what that might mean for the way I do life … my sense of tradition.

Sometimes … if I hear something and my defenses go up and I feel a need to attack, it’s because I’m fearful.”

Moore built on that idea: “People who look like me— white, straight, married guys with 2.3 kids—are not going to be the majority in 30, maybe 40 years,” he said. “And a lot of what you see, in terms of the anxiety and the stress, comes from people who look like me seeing that we’re not going to define normal anymore.”

In the wake of WWI, Warren G. Harding ran for president under the campaign promise of a “Return to Normalcy.”

Economies were depressed. Citizens were tired. The pursuit of happiness, I imagine, felt like a distant luxury. There are many who feel this way today, who believe there was some historical time when America was great and that we’ve drifted away from it.

Senator Flake echoed this idea in his speech when he decried the “new normal” as presented by the national leadership. Yet others feel that the pursuit of happiness was a luxury never made available to them. Those people fell out of the raft a long time ago and have been resisting the powerful current of the old normal all this time. People who believe that a new normal could be even better. At this point, even I’m not sure which side I’m describing. Probably we all want to believe that the future could be better than today.

There is a powerful but largely ignored common goal here: the desire for our country to live up to its reputation of greatness. As citizens, we don’t have to leave what greatness looks like up to Congress, or the executive branch. We have the privilege and responsibility of deciding that for ourselves in our homes and our communities.

“We’ve been taught to hate each other,” Stockstill said.

“Maybe it’s just getting out of our own selves. Maybe as a Republican, go to a luncheon with the Tulsa Democrats and just listen with the idea of finding one piece or idea you agree with.”

I think that applies to Democrats as well. And having just done this, I recommend it.

Among the many assumptions I began this article with was that the problem is Trump, or at the very least the way he communicates. And frustration with his toxic rhetoric was a common thread throughout my interviews. But I’m not going to change the way Trump talks or tweets, and if anything has been made clear by Flake and Corker, it’s that Republicans won’t, either. But what we can change is ourselves.

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As part of the Boesche Legal Clinic at TU’s College of Law, the Immigrant Rights Project (IRP) offers pro bono legal help for people seeking asylum in the U.S., non-citizen victims of crime, and non-citizen minors, and informs undocumented citizens of their rights, like what is required and not required of them if they encounter Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

IRP Director Elizabeth McCormick, who has worked with immigrants for 25 years, said interest in the project has surged since last year’s presidential election.

“I think two things have happened,” she said. “The students in law school at the moment are very engaged in civic justice work … and the added layer of the sort of ‘attack’ on justice in a variety of layers, in particular on immigrants … I think [Trump] has inspired a lot of people to go to law school and to fight back.”

The September rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program bolstered many of them. In addition to increased interest in the IRP, McCormick said students have been showing documentaries about undocumented immigrants and holding discussions.

In the Spring of 2015, McCormick traveled with a group of students to South Texas, where they spent six 20-hour days over spring break aiding women and children in immigrant detainment centers.

“There are two large privately-run prison facilities in South Texas where we are detaining immigrant women and children who have come

to the United States seeking asylum,” she said. “When I say children, I mean, literally babies we have detained.”

McCormick said there is work to be done among both undocumented and documented citizens in order to bridge the current toxic conversation over immigration. She shared her spring break anecdote at a recent presentation and received a harsh response from an attendee.

“You know, ‘moms and babies’?” she said. “That’s something you think anyone could relate to.”

A woman approached her and—in exact language McCormick did not wish to repeat—said, “You encourage people to come here illegally, and it’s your fault we have this big problem.”

“If I step back and think about what motivated this woman … I would say she was a late ‘60s, educated, retired person … I think there is obviously something that is motivating her to feel this way,” McCormick said. “Until we get to that, we’ll never be able to have a conversation.”

“This is one of the biggest challenges of resistance in this era,” she said. “We have to speak out and call people out on things that we think are attacks on democracy and our justice system, but we also have to learn a new way to have conversations so we can move past a butting of heads to actually reach resolutions to these huge problems.”

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to take a breath and decompress, relax, think and plan again,” Wilder said. “For Planned Parenthood and lots of organizations, that breath never came.”

Prior to his current position, Wilder was the Oklahoma organizer for PPGP and PPGPV. He said the challenges, however daunting, came on the heels of two years of steady growth leading up to the election and an influx of support afterward.

“Since November, we’ve identified more than 4,000 new supporters in Oklahoma, a 29 percent increase,” Wilder said. “We’ve been able to translate that into real political power for Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes and reproductive rights in Oklahoma.”

In January, PPGPV trained 300 Oklahomans to become activists in the federal fight over the Affordable Care Act. In April, they activated protesters to attend Republican Representative Jim Bridenstine’s town hall. The organization endorsed two candidates, Jacob Rosencrants in Norman and Karen Gaddis in Tulsa, in special elections this year. Both won seats in the State House.

Wilder said the expansion continues with new staff positions open, including the Oklahoma organizer role he vacated. A new health center is slated to open in Oklahoma City in March, with another breaking ground in Tulsa next year.

“We’ve been part of Oklahoma’s fabric since 1937,” Wilder said. “Planned Parenthood Great Plains is strong and isn’t planning on going anywhere.” —BECKY CARMAN

ON NOVEMBER 9, 2016, “RESIST” BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR THOSE OPPOSED TO A TRUMP PRESIDENCY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS. HERE’S A LOOK AT THE LOCAL MOVEMENT ONE YEAR LATER.

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The next solo project from Tulsa rapper Mike Dee, member of hiphop collective Oilhouse and powerful frontman with Stone Trio, explores the breaking point of Dee’s “love everybody” motto in the age of Trump and the Alt-Right.

Dee, who is making all the beats himself for “The Saddest EP,” will include samples of Donald Trump on all seven tracks.

“I found a YouTube page where they collected all the most ridiculous shit he’s ever said, and I listen to it and go, ‘oh, that sucks,’ and then I sample it,” Dee said. Apart from the “ridiculous shit,” Dee sampled his own breathing patterns for beats.

Dee often whips up crowds into chanting “love everybody.”

But he said exercising the creed is “definitely a difficult task” in a post-Charlottesville climate.

“Like, whoever the guy was that ran through that protest … it is hard to follow that motto,” Dee said. “But also, there is the kind of love that my mom gives me—she loves me, but if I’m super disrespectful, she’s gonna beat my ass. There is a way to love, and stand up for love … but also stand up for yourself.”

“For me, I know that racism exists … but not to the level that has been shown lately,” Dee said. “I’ve had people drive by and say the N-word, and people have followed me in stores, but now I have to be cautious where I am, and have crazy mofos that may try to prove something … I’m worried about my fam and my sisters, you know?”

“The Saddest E.P.” will condemn the current ills Dee sees in our nation, but he also hopes to start conversations with the people that may hate him for his skin.

“I just want to understand, and I want them to let me know where they’re coming from,” he said. “Because I don’t get it.”

— MITCH GILLIAM

In its 12 years of existence, the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in downtown Tulsa was never the target of serious vandalism—until 45 days into the Trump presidency. Police located 13 pellet bullets that punctured the Center’s front door and windows on March 6, damaging the bulletproof glass and alarming employees and volunteers.

The Center houses the LGBT advocate organization, Oklahomans for Equality (OKEQ), as well as Dream Act Oklahoma and Mosaic, Tulsa Regional Chamber’s diversity business council.

“The safe zones that have been created in our country are being eliminated one by one,” said OKEQ Program Director Jose Vega. “I believe my work is to rebuild them with more concrete reinforcement and pull in even bigger allies than before. The shooting wasn’t even considered a hate crime, because the state doesn’t have a law that addresses hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity. That has to change.”

Since the election, Jose says the number of suicide calls to OKEQ has tripled.

“After every presidential announcement or executive order, we keep getting calls saying, ‘I feel bad and I don’t wanna live,’” Vega said. “So, we knew we had to be proactive. We recently provided a series of free suicide prevention training.”

The key to fighting the resistance in Vega’s mind? Allies.

“We need to break down boundaries,” Vega said. “I identify as a Latino cisgender gay man, so while I connect and fight for Latino/immigrant and LGBT rights, I’m also a huge supporter for all other movements, like Black Lives Matter. As an ally, you may have a different connection than they do. Be willing to give them those connections and let them be the face of the movement. That [reinforces], ‘we’re all going to be behind you, helping you.’”

Vega sees signs of unity coming out of the resistance.

“After every disaster, mishap, or whatever you want to call it, we are seeing unity,” Vega said. “All these very different communities are coming together, little by little. People want to be part of something, and since the election our number of volunteers has tripled.” —LAUREN PARKINSON

Guillermo Rojas had to watch his wife, Marina, and Tulsa-born infant son walk away. The family had traveled from Tulsa to the border town of Juarez to get an immigration waiver for his wife. Heading home, they were stopped at customs. Marina was told she couldn’t reenter the U.S. She was accused of human trafficking and of attempting to smuggle young Mateo across the border, and her American passport was stamped: “Not admissible to the United States for ten years.”

Guillermo pleaded with customs officials: “This is not true. This is not true.”

Mateo’s passport had not been validated by the immigration staffer when they crossed the bridge into Juarez; there was no proof he was ever in America. The officials took Marina’s waiver documents. She and Mateo traveled to her father’s house in Mexico City.

Emotionally shattered by a change of presidents and policy, Guillermo and his older son, Diego, returned to Tulsa, where the Rojases had lived for fifteen years.

During the Obama presidency, the path to these waivers was clearer. Months earlier, before the 2016 election, Guillermo helped Diego through the process. No hitches. Inspired by the ease of Diego’s immigration experience, Guillermo completed the paperwork for Marina’s waiver.

With the 2016 election season in full swing, the Immigration Department ground to a halt. Post-election, Trump tightened the screws. The Rojas family suffered.

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Guillermo was “destroyed, the worst ever,” he said. But he called the American Consulate in Juarez every day. They knew of Marina’s case but couldn’t help and couldn’t say why. As three months passed, he wrote poems to his missing family.

In March, Guillermo’s daily query was answered. Marina’s papers were ready. He flew to Mexico City. Within two days, Marina had a visa and a restored passport. But as their car approached the border, they were uneasy.

“Anything to declare?” the guard asked.

“Only a bottle of tequila,” Guillermo said.

“Follow me.”

The words echoed in Guillermo’s ears. The guard punched some computer keys, stared awhile at the screen.

“Three bucks. OK, free to go.” A clear path.

But the path isn’t as clear for all Latinos. In his weekly Tulsa newspaper, La Semana, Guillermo encourages Dreamers to defy Trump.

“Maybe one day my little Mateo will be President.” —STEVE GERKIN

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OKLAHOMA PROGRESSIVE NETWORK Theater on November 2 at 6 p.m. The forum will also be livestreamed on Facebook.

“We are calling it a forum because we don’t want it to be contentious; we just want answers to questions people have. We have a team of people working on the questions. There will not be a rebuttal—we are asking everyone the same questions, no one will be attacked,” said Greenhaw.

Greenhaw has reached out to two Republican candidates to participate, but as of the date of this printing, neither had responded. “[OPN is] not specific to party. We want to get candidates that support equal rights for all citizens, support public schools, and have what is typically referred to as ‘progressive values,’” said Greenhaw. “I’m a registered Republican and so are many people in our organization.

So, it’s not necessarily Democrats or Independents or anti-Republican like many people may think. It’s people that want to work toward the same goals that we have for the state.” —MARY NOBLE

Last November, hundreds of Oklahomans protested the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at “Tulsa Marches with Standing Rock,” a rally organized by then-20-year-old Olivia Ramirez, who is of Wahzhazhe, Mvskoke, and Chichimeca Jonaz descent. The march led protestors through downtown Tulsa to the Bank of America building, where protesters staged a sit-in—some demonstrators even withdrew their money—and demanded that the company pull its funding for the pipeline.

Ramirez was one of the protesters threatened with arrest, though no arrests were made. Remarkably, Ramirez had never organized a protest before, so she learned along the way.

“As an organizer, you have to make sure groups are accountable, because you have a limited time to get stuff done,” she said.

Ramirez has done most of her activist work with Arkansas Rising, a campaign aimed to stop the Diamond Pipeline. More recently she’s worked with the Good Hearted People’s Camp, a Native American organization and camp in Harrah, Oklahoma, which the organizers describe as “a spiritual, prayerful, peaceful camp for water protectors and land defenders.” She also participated in the recent Oilfield Prayer Day protest in Oklahoma City, a Midwest City protest against Jeff Sessions, and an Indigenous Peoples’ Day protest against Columbus Day. As far as the resistance movement is concerned, Ramirez believes it’s having a positive effect in Tulsa.

“It brings up uncomfortable topics to people who might ignore them,” Ramirez said. “It’s reassuring to see such an active liberal population in Tulsa, even though we’re in such a conservative state.” —TRENT GIBBONS THE TULSA VOICE // November 1 – 14, 2017

JOSEPH RUSHMORE

Founded on Facebook on the day of the election, the Oklahoma Pantsuit Nation began with a mission of sharing information and celebrating a Hillary victory. When Trump won, it quickly changed into Oklahoma Progressive Network, a grassroots organization aiming to inform and motivate Oklahomans to take political action.

“We have a little over 11,000 people in our Facebook group, and people want to get out there and do something—knock on doors for a candidate, register voters— actually do something instead of sitting at home and complaining,” said Kasey Greenhaw, president-elect and current vice president of OPN. In addition to full-time jobs and caring for their families, the eight OPN board members work with candidates to spread word about elections, create voter guides, organize voter registration events, create awareness for small elections, and connect constituents with candidates for whom they wish to canvass.

Most recently, OPN has organized the Gubernatorial Forum, which will be held in Oklahoma City at Will Rogers

During last year’s Standing Rock protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), Oklahoma songwriter Levi Parham found himself at a crossroads.

He released his 2016 album, These American Blues, with Music Road Records, a label co-founded by Austin songwriter and former Oklahoman Jimmy LaFave and funded by Kelcy Warren. Warren is the CEO and chairman of Energy Transfer Partners, the operators of DAPL. Protestors demanded Parham and other artists sever ties with Warren’s label. The songwriter called his contract with Music Road “basically like charity.”

“Nobody was going to make any money,” he said. He had never met Warren and landed at Music Road only by way of LaFave’s support.

For Parham, it was a gray area: He had no relationship nor any connection with Warren, only assistance from the label’s small staff. He credits songwriter Samantha Crain for putting the issue into perspective.

“She told me, ‘You’ve got to stand on the right side of history,’” he said. “I had to make a decision.”

In November 2016, Parham opted out of the second album in his contract and made a statement on Facebook, a subtle move with heavy implications.

“It meant publicly separating myself from people … who wanted nothing more than to help me and giving up knowing … I’d have the opportunity to make art,” Parham said. “Jimmy was going through cancer at the time. It was all a whirlwind of emotion.”

Music Road still owns These American Blues, which Parham did not have the funds to buy back. He said communication with the label about the album has been difficult but that his decision was the right one.

“I don’t regret it,” Parham said. “It was the best way I could stand in solidarity with Standing Rock.”

LaFave passed away from spindle cell sarcoma in May. DAPL began shipping oil to customers in June. —BECKY CARMAN FEATURED // 23

While sanctuary cities have been in major news stories of late, Oklahoma represents the opposite situation.

“ICE has an office at David L. Moss,” Allegro said. “The previous sheriff started it, and the current sheriff has continued it.

They have specific pods that are ICE pods where they hold the detainees, and they’re usually at maximum capacity. You’re looking at 280 individuals at any time that are held for ICE.” New Sanctuary believes that churches should be the last line of defense for undocumented immigrants seeking refuge. Rabbi Fitzerman, one of the group’s founders, is informed by his own family’s history.

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Every Thursday at noon, a small group of demonstrators gather outside the David L. Moss Tulsa County Jail and read a list of names: all of the undocumented individuals marked for deportation by ICE on the court docket that day. The reading usually takes several minutes. One of the goals of the group is to meet with and advocate for the families of jailed undocumented immigrants who are seeking to visit their loved ones.

The group is called the New Sanctuary Network of Tulsa, and it’s headed by Rabbi Marc Boone Fitzerman, Reverend Alzaro Nova, Reverend Barbara Prose, and Project Director Linda Allegro.

“There’s been a revival of the sanctuary movement all over the United States,” Allegro said. “Currently there are about 35 to 40 individuals, undocumented people who have sought refuge in a house of worship in the United States. Usually the people that take sanctuary are women with children. They have no legal recourse. They don’t have any grounds to stay here …

These are churches that are opening their hearts and their doors to harbor an undocumented immigrant who is experiencing an imminent threat of being deported.”

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NEW SANCTUARY NETWORK

MAREO JOHNSON IS THE HEAD OF THE TULSA CHAPTER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM) AND IS ON THE LEGAL REDRESS COMMITTEE AT TULSA’S NAACP BRANCH. —LIZ BLOOD LIZ BLOOD: How has the BLM movement changed in Tulsa over the last several years, and how has it changed specifically since Trump was elected?

MAREO JOHNSON: As far as Tulsa goes, [we’ve been] supporting the movement, but our certain group didn’t start until last [summer]. When Donald Trump became president, the dynamics kind of changed because it was causing people to resist more.

He and Jeff Sessions want to make certain laws to hinder protests—and then here just lately start trying to make BLM and things like that labeled as terrorist groups, which is not true.

During the Betty Shelby verdict, I was helping to keep the peace for better solutions. It’s about people making a difference where they can. And BLM is trying to make a difference with people who are really hurt, in more ways than one.

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“My wife’s parents came to this country after they were persecuted in Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen,” he said. “They were deported from their homes and, at the end of the war, had to wait in line for visas behind German nationals who were deemed useful to America during the Cold War. All four of my own grandparents were European Jewish immigrants to the United States. I feel intensely loyal to the idea of America as a refuge, a place where we work to relieve suffering and to shelter the dispossessed.”

—DAMION SHADE

BLOOD: What is the long view of resistance? Do you see things differently in highly charged moments, or can you think about the future?

JOHNSON: With the Shannon Kepler conviction, I think that’s going to help in the future. That right there—in this time, in this moment, in this season of our lives—that was a pivotal moment. I believe it will help our city move forward and become a better city. Even though it wasn’t what I considered full justice.

It was some justice, which brings some kind of hope to people in the community that change is coming. And it also sends a message to our law enforcement that people are going to hold them accountable. And they should hold each other accountable, and think twice before reacting with excessive force on- or off-duty.

I believe in the future things will get better. [The Betty] Shelby verdict didn’t go like I wanted it to go. But from these things we see the injustice. We see where something went wrong. I think, ok, well maybe this time it didn’t go the way I wanted it to go, but if there’s a next time, then it may be the time it goes like we want it to go. Like with Shelby, there was a “not guilty,” then with Kepler there was a “guilty”—but he got less than what he should have. But I see it as a step ahead.

BLOOD: How does the BLM movement fit into Tulsa?

JOHNSON: Tulsa needs, you know, a group or entity that the black community—that’s been harassed, faced policy brutality, racism, things like that—can go to, trust, and confide in and have hope in. That’s what BLM is. Because when you really look at it, Tulsa doesn’t have a group like that. The human rights department was done away with by the City.

It also fits in with the race massacre in 1921. That still lingers today. That’s something people don’t forget, and I don’t know if everyone feels the same way, but I feel there’s still something from that catastrophe that’s within people unconsciously.

The hurt, the pain, even disappointment. Bringing awareness to the truth, to a people, that’s what BLM is.

We also stand against the violence that happens in our own community.

Though I’m in my thirties, white, and male, it’s weird being a fly on the wall in the business world of Tulsa. I’m an oil and gas professional, and I meet a lot with sales and technical types to work on deals regarding technology ventures. And I’m a pretty nice guy, which I think means most people in my line of work assume that I believe what they believe.

Things didn’t get really troubling ‘til the Trump election.

There has always been tension between conservatives and liberals, but now that space is very dark. When I was a kid I used to watch documentaries about skinheads. They talked about the coming race war. I thought that was the silliest thing to worry about. I mean, normal people are chill—they want to get along with each other. They’re not fixated on mythical phenomena.

But now I’m starting to get nervous. Over the last year, my colleagues, who trust me and are by all accounts normal, have started talking about blacks and Mexicans as if they’re subhuman, i.e., “My wife and I were at the park the other day and this fat, black woman comes up to us and asks us for a handout. So typical.”

They talk about how nonwhite races are in for a rude awakening in the not-too-distant future, how it’s been a long time coming. They exchange knowing looks while they speak.

I want to know what they’re so confident about. Are they bolstered by Trump’s utter lack of position on race relations? Are they spun up by the right-wing media’s attack on and dismissal of the Black Lives Matter movement? Or do they know something I don’t know?

I’m not sure what to make of grown, modern men giving serious, unironic consideration to racist ideology—or how to talk to them. —NAME WITHHELD November 1 – 14, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

MARY NOBLE: Do you feel that the act of making music is a form of resistance?

BRANJAE JACKSON: Making music is making magic. And that magic can change people— vibes and energy. Wanna get some rage out and break shit? Well, there’s music for that! Feel sexy and vibe with a romance? Music for that. It can make people feel something. It makes me feel something. And if it’s just right, that same something the listener feels connects to what I feel, and they push it back. Yes. It definitely can resist and lead others to resist.

NOBLE: Social justice issues were a part of your music before last year’s election. Has anything changed about the way you make music since Trump was elected?

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JACKSON: I noticed my writing evolving postelection when this wave of separation and negative energy birthed itself again. I’ve taken a softer approach by realizing how much power I actually have. I don’t have to accept the negative. I can speak my truth unapologetically and really not feel anything negative about someone else and their thoughts. We don’t have to agree, but this is my truth.

I resist Trump by specifically paying less and less attention to him. I mean, we already know the man’s unbalanced with evil intentions. To argue with each other, stress out, and worry—honestly, to me—is wasted energy and happy time … Remaining unsurprised at what he’s up to next brings a peace to me and makes me want to focus on the things I can contribute to change.

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Tulsa-based singer, songwriter, and dancer Branjae Jackson advocates for her community and change. She finds that the Trump presidency has pushed her to find peace and focus her energy on music and the issues that matter to her. —MARY NOBLE

HOLY MOTHER COLLECTIVE Sitting in a circle with dozens of fellow women artists and creators may not seem subversive or revolutionary. But a giddy, almost conspiratorial energy bubbled from woman to woman at the Holy Mother Collective’s first meeting in October. The collective is the brainchild of Cyterica Kahl and Lydia Cheshewalla, who were quick to point out that women simply gathering and supporting one another is itself an act of resistance.

Cheshewalla also pointed out how thoroughly the capitalistic and individualistic mentality pervades American culture, and how having a

supportive community around the individual artist is a form of subversion.

“We [women] compete everywhere else in life; I don’t wanna compete here,” she said.

“I love the DIY culture,” said Kahl. “I’m not gonna rely on a gallery to put up my art. I’m just gonna do it myself, and then there’s no rules.”

The collective’s concrete goal is to resist the barriers faced by women creators on a local level. Time- and skill-sharing are essential facets of the group, which will allow members to trade childcare for a massage or a yoga class for web design.

“Everyone I know is working four jobs and poor as shit,” Cheshewalla said.

Both founders agree that for whatever reason, female artists and creators in Tulsa are frequently overlooked. “At these meetings, I met all these amazing women doing really cool things,” said Kahl. “Like, how have I never met you before? How have I never heard your name?”

“Women work so quietly,” said Cheshewalla. “What could we accomplish if we’re all doing it together?”

Holy Mother Collective’s first public effort will be a market on December 1 at Chimera, coinciding with First Friday. — ANNA BENNETT

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A planned protest feels like a dress rehearsal, especially in the moments leading up to the event. For the protest at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission on October 13, which Governor Fallin famously declared “Oilfield Prayer Day” in 2016, participants started milling around the front of the building a half-hour early. Captain Brent Sugg of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol was there to meet them.

“I like to meet people and shake their hand,” Sugg said. He was friendly, accommodating even—an unsettling way to begin a protest. Everyone seemed to know everyone; everyone seemed to know their roles.

A group of young men wearing the uniform of anarchists—black everything, down to their shoes—were the first to arrive, and they were joined by a member of the professional clergy. He asked not to be named, saying, “I’m not here with the bishop’s awareness,” but his particular sect was obvious in his vestments. He was decked out in cassock and jewelry.

VICE News was doing preliminary interviews in the parking lot for a segment on Native American pipeline protests, which should air in March 2018. When Lakota/ Absentee Shawnee activist and OU Ph.D. student Ashley McCray finally got free of the VICE cameras, she started the protest with a message to Governor Fallin, noting

that Oilfield Prayer Day is a “slap in the face” to Native people. The governor’s original proclamation called on churches to pray; she would later amend the proclamation to make it more interfaith friendly, but the message was already clear.

“We were told that as long as the waters continued to run, this would be our land,” McCray said. “Instead, we were pushed into concentration camps called reservations.”

The emotion at the event came from the Native activists. They spoke of broken treaties, the destruction of Native bodies, the decimation of the land, and the grasping for profits. Prayer for more profits is a blasphemy of sorts, a furthering of the destruction of human life for corporate gain.

“We are pushed to extreme measures of putting our bodies on the line because you’re not listening,” McCray said.

In all, only four dozen people joined the protest early, many of them from the Oklahoma Chapter of the Sierra Club. They came with signs and T-shirts; they were polished, with prepared statements and business cards. But McCray’s shirt translated the emotion of the activists. It was a face with an inscription: “Let Them Drink Oil.” —GREG HORTON a FEATURED // 25

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found them at The Colony, drunk on mead and buzzing about the end times. A dankness from the night before hung in the air, heavy with the sweet reek of sour apples and dead ants.

The barmaid swabbed the boards with a mop dripping disinfectant. Various bees hunched darkly over their steins, wetting their bristles in the winey brew. The Colony didn’t come to life until after dark, when a good little bee was safe and snug in its comb. These bees were off to an early start, drinking their fill during the unhappy hour.

I joined them in their brooding. A pint of mead does a body good. If fresh, it has a fine, racy flavor. I like it in a glass, which reflects the color, like sunlit honey. I eyed the bar and took a stool opposite. They could be a hotheaded lot, and barbed to the hilt.

Being a drone, I had no stinger, and little meaning anymore, what with the Queen kaput. There’d likely be other hives and other HR departments accepting CVs, but I was no spring chicken. Three campaigns and nary a conquest: A drone begins to doubt his manhood—really all he has, in the end.

My pint arrived and I drank deeply. Oh, the first sip of anything! But especially mead, bee spit bound up in alchemic ferment. No different from the Incan brewers, señoras all, that spit into the corn mash to dazzling enzymatic effect. I handed the barmaid my Visa and she walked off to swipe it, wagging her hindwing like a queen—in any other country.

As for the rest, the stench of fear was in their pheromones, caked beneath a veneer of apathy. I always did have a nose for it, and you can’t teach that. Take that one, hunched over her glass, a once-proud fanner (you could tell by the steroidal wings) charged with condensing the dew from the nectar. Now look at her. Her thorax burnished with smoke, her eyes like setting suns, droplets of sweat beading on her face. You could smell the sense of loss.

To avoid contamination, bees will abandon a hive with high virus levels.

These were infected in the brain, no doubt, and had been since the election, if not before. Their queen had left them high and dry. I stuck around longer than I should have, rubbernecking the wreckage and racking up empties. But the contagion was spreading, and it was time to for me to fly.

She came from a passel of hopefuls and rose quickly, reared on the finest royal jelly. Her challengers could feel the force of her and kept to their cells, emerging only when it came time to assume their fate.

She made short work of most, ripping them limb from tender limb. With Bernie off in the weeds, sucking at unsustainable stamen, she turned her attention to the royal cup and the brood at hand. No bee would have bet it wasn’t enough. Her place, infirm and short-lived—the babes weren’t 26 // FEATURED

much more than a sticky, yellow-white spongiform mass when she was sent packing—was bad for business and politics.

Alas the Queen was dead, an already fading memory. Some blamed Sanders, others the Weiner. The former was a fly in the wax, but the old gal lost her stinger in the face of Weiner and his pinprick, a puzzling bug she could not shed. She’d have booted him from the hive herself but for Huma. Huma, her dark eyes threatening water at any moment, was her soft spot.

Others, anxious for a rematch, were clamoring for Russian hide. The bear, our old nemesis, nosing drunkenly in the honeycomb. I say let’s rock! Sometimes, it feels good to haul off and sting something.

I myself did not have that luxury. But I was up for a last order and a tour of flyover country. Barmaid … Mead here!

Who’s to blame? We are, of course. The enemy within. We were socialist, once, with hives from here to Atoka. Then came the dwindle. Was it Colony collapse? I wouldn’t know. I’m only a drone, worth more dead than alive. I was not alone. We’d all suffered a loss of earning power, a diminishing of respect and, most arguably, from an unclear mission. It doesn’t help to have toads barking at your cellar door.

Pilgrim, over against the wall, went dutifully through another set and not a beegirl was a-waggle on the dance floor.

No longer were we humming in a fruitful C (minor key), but more the syncopated rasp of a death rattle.

Political suicide? Smear campaigns? A lack of strategic vision? It was a honey of a deal, and they’d gotten the raw end. All the waxing poetic was for naught. Their Mum had absconded, and I don’t mean with the church funds. This was no larceny, however grand. You can’t be jailed for what she

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took, which was their reason for being, not to mention most of the hive and certainly her inner circle. A high crime? No, not even a misdemeanor. But vanishing in a swarm doesn’t sit well with the base.

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cloud of chalkbrood hung about the hive, leaving mummies at the gate.

When it strikes, it’s without prejudice.

Underlings had gone missing in droves, their smiling faces posted on the backs of honey pots with sad missives and 1-800 numbers. Kakugo, a nasty virus that infects bee brains and turns them against one another and anything in their flight pattern, akin to that awful mob in 28 Days Later. An omen from early November: A lone fruit bat flew past the Colony, foaming THE TULSA VOICE // November 1 – 14, 2017

white at the nose, breathing his last. That kind of virus you can’t fight. Before the sun had set, the Queen was down for the count, a fate all but foretold.

Who suffers such maladies! Every corner of the Colony lay heaped with lifeless exoskeleton and empty brood cells—the vestiges of black plague and red menace.

Bottles of mead crashed to the floor as bees went belly-up. Up and down the avenue, scattered survivors circled aimlessly, homeless nomads minus a hive, hiding in the corners of the Dollar Tree, watching the pumpkins grow yellow eyes. A dangerous game, for bees alone are bees short-lived.

Mice, sloths, spiders and other plunderers fed on the weakened state. Deadliest of all: the mites, an insidious lot, and legion.

They entered clandestinely, on the backs of gatherers back from a suckle. Bees began deleting emails en masse—skeptics, pundits, brazen blasts from odd accounts with sketchy grammar—but the virus was Colony-wide.

The barkeeps sprayed down the tables but all the drinkers complained about the smell.

I don’t blame her. A queen no longer pushing pheromones—signs on the campaign trail might include sudden confusion, internal revolt, bad press, usually a cocktail of several ingredients—won’t last a day.

Detecting a weakened state, once faithful and productive staffers will “ball” a queen to death, circling her with a tenacity easily construed as fierce loyalty when, in fact, it’s wholesale sedition. She can’t stand the heat and is unceremoniously rid of the kitchen. Her dismembered parts they shove off land’s end.

Avoiding such a fate, ours had flown.

And we were so close. Victory is a taste— heady and sweet—savored more often by

those in the trenches, a place no dame of regal means dares go.

Our sordid history is replete with men who fell useless to riches, leaving a woman to carry on, occasionally taking her with him. (I’m recalling the Ceausescus, Elena and Nicolae, riddled with bullets, to quote a Guardian reporter, “beside a toilet block in a freezing courtyard.” He sang “The Internationale”; she dropped a resounding F-bomb.) For centuries, forever, our kings had been weak-kneed despots incapable of ruling a larder, let alone a nation. The best of them sat on their thrones, asses out and mouths open, gobbling up attention, nectar, and loot. The worst ransomed the hive with nary a qualm. Love, not money, marries a colony to its master. Money, for a bee, is honey.

“Blech!” a beegirl cried, spewing ale across the bartop. “Disgusting! Is this rapeseed? I’m, like, totally allergic.”

She lifted her blouse. Her belly was, in fact, covered in the pox. Bad beer: A sure sign of hive in decline. Well, no sugar water for me. Food, drink, and a place in the sun: Was that so much to ask?

Before this pestilence, we had it all. We had hope. Short-lived hope, perhaps, but who can measure the infinite quality of that? A time of pristine meadow and steady wuthering, probing sweet nectar, snorting up pollen, seeding the stigma— passionate only for the flower.

But it had been two months since we’d seen red and I’d gone all but dormant. A drone is afforded no second chance. It’s either the flight of your life—and death—or you’re out on the streets, going bar to bar with the rest of the also-rans, dribbling yellow rain, hanging out in bars, chasing beegirls half your age, playing godfather to the heirs of more nimble males, those swift and sure enough to land a queen on her maiden flight. In a word, slumming.

Better to join that mile-high club to which all drones are drawn, and all queens, though only one sticks around for the baby showers, the others doomed to kamikaze fates whose shrapnel remains must appear to a passing ant on a pheromone trail like the flotsam of any air disaster—torn abdomen here, shard of male member there—if a bit more carnal. The way I see it, you can resign, or you can resist.

Anyway, Lord Business was on the promenade, primed for a coronation. I downed my drink and wiped the pollen from my eyes. O, death, where is thy sting, indeed! Out there, somewhere (Portland?

San Diego?) was my destiny, the one true hive. I was Joseph Smith in search of Deseret. As I took flight, I caught a nostalgic whiff of woodsmoke wafting from the Colony. God, the memories. So much honey, so little brine.

Up and away, north along the avenue, I broke the cardinal rule. I looked back.

Yes … we had it all. Everything but the girl. a FEATURED // 27

How to Walk to Town

BY STEVE GERKIN

WALKING TO TOWN is not as easy as it sounds. As in life, there are times when you need to be a little less self-conscious, to repel self-pity. You should not enter into it lightly. Do so, and you will miss the opportunity to feel less isolated, to show yourself and the world that you have influence, vision and community spirit. To assure success, consider these recommendations.

1 // CHOOSE A BRIGHT, SHINY DAY Weather sets the tone, and your sidewalk stroll to the downtown buildings in the distance should be jubilant.

2 // DRESS APPROPRIATELY Remember, your walk to town is a TRIUMPH, an homage to the rebirth of your individuality.

Grab your red, white, and blue top hat, the one with all the stars on top and sparkler burns along the brim. Pull out those gold lamé pants you thought were so cool in the 70s. Shirts are optional—make your own decision—after all, this is a liberating moment for you. Seize it.

3 // ACCESSORIZE Find that cane or walking stick you never used. It will be an integral part of your ensemble. Not only will you look smart; you can twirl it as you high-step down the concrete slab or pump it enthusiastically like the drum major you always wanted to be. Do it to shut up those water-cooler jerks at the office. Do it because it feels good. Do it because this is your breakthrough moment of walking to town, by God. 4 // RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF WALK MECHANICS AND RECRUITMENT You are not walking down a grocery aisle, nor updating your phone software, nor choosing a beer with more hops, nor anything else, for that matter. You are walking to town, dadgummit. This is a moment in time you will never forget. Get in the spirit.

You’ll be glad you did.

Swing your arms to and fro. Swing them back. Swing them forward. Make large fleshy arcs that will send a strong signal to those who come out of their houses to watch you strut. Swing, march, swing, march, swing to your new rhythm. Beckon the gawkers to join in. Use this chance to be a part of humanity, for heaven’s sake.

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Wave to them. Grab them by the hand and say, “Howdy, neighbor,” and smile real big.

Persuade them to be a part of the journey.

March in place to your favorite John Phillip Sousa tune—“The Stars and Stripes Forever,” perhaps. Whistle the melody. Sing your favorites lines, like, “Patriotic hearts will falter never, following the stars and stripes forever.”

While they rush back to their closets to get appropriate clothing and accessories, imitate a trombone, exaggerating the motion of pushing the instrument’s slide out to its limit and snapping it back.

As they stream out of their houses, compliment them on their themed clothes, praise their accessories, and call them “neighbor” again. Keep marching in place.

Encourage them to march to the cadence of your stomping feet. Whistle louder. Tell them to whistle. Tell them you are darn glad that your paths have crossed. Energize your recruits to be advocates for the experience.

Know that people happily walking to town attracts more people who’ve always wanted to walk to town but have never had the guts to do it alone. Some will break off from the parade; they lack the vision. Let ‘em go.

Behind you is the glory of a parade of fleshy, swinging arms, sweaty from the joint effort, joyful in the beaming sun.

This is happening because of you. Imagine what may be next for you. For them!

Imagine it.

5 // CONGRATULATE YOUR FELLOW MARCHERS As you approach the center of town, stop the parade and turn to your energized followers. See yourself wearing a combat helmet with two general stars. Remind your acolytes of the journey they’ve taken. Remind them that the walk to town is more than a physical achievement. Remind them that this is an emotional moment—a life-changing moment. With each reminder, increase the volume of your voice, wave your arms and point to each person, singling them out as important members of your squad.

Tell them you will be proud to walk to town with them any time. End with a fist raised high, saying, “We didn’t know we could do it, but we did.” a

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Near Checotah, OK, June 2017

CONTACT SHEET: PROTESTS photos and words by JOSEPH RUSHMORE

Sometimes you feel it boiling. You can tell it’s all going to explode. Sometimes it happens so quickly that there’s no time to react in a reasonable way. Everything crashes down. Sometimes the tension is so thick the air gets hard to breathe. You wait—everyone waits—for that thing, that breaking point. You see it all in the faces, in the anger and tears. Sometimes you see people looking so hopeless—“Is this ever going to end?” You see the same people in the same cities in the same streets a month or a year later and it’s deja vú in the worst of ways. Not a reunion, but a crashing back together brought on by still more violence from some large outside force. It’s not getting better. It’s not going to end anytime soon. So, give some time to the people in the streets. Look in their eyes as they march, as they inhale gas and pepper spray, as they lay beaten and bleeding, because a picture can’t tell their story. But their eyes will. There it is—the real story, right there in their eyes. Look and listen. a

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Inside Museum Confidential at Philbrook Museum of Art | GREG BOLLINGER

Do you get it?

Museum Confidential is a surprising glimpse into Philbrook

by ZACK REEVES

L

ike most art museums, Philbrook Museum of Art shows about 5 percent of its collection at any given time.

The pieces on display in Museum Confidential—running now through May 6, 2018—represent the other 95 percent.

Picture a clown of many vivid colors. A few feet away, a cowboy lounges luridly across a fence, tempting the camera with a smile.

A samurai’s suit of armor stands at attention just yards away from a classical painting of men hauling away Christ’s corpse. Farther on, a painting of a portrait of Edward Hopper on paper taped into the white space of an empty frame defies perspective, an artist’s trick so successful I thought it was lazy at first.

Picture all of these with paintings, drawings, and photographs stuffed between, so close they’re almost overlapping, and you have a sense of the occasionally overwhelming scope of Museum Confidential.

“The subject of the show

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is the museum,” Director Scott Stulen said. “We want to answer the questions people frequently ask. ‘What’s in the collection that you never show?’ ‘How do you curate a show?’ ‘What do you guys do all day?’ We want to tell people stories about Philbrook that they haven’t heard.”

The show answers these questions. Around the space, television screens repeat an assortment of videos in which Stulen explains aspects of Philbrook’s processes: a tactic that succeeds in disseminating information while having the odd effect of Stulen’s pleasant, disembodied voice floating about the room at all times.

Many of the pieces are framed in blue with explanations as to why they might be excluded from any given Philbrook show: “CURATORIAL PREFERENCE,” “CONDITION,” or “QUALITY.” I felt bad for the painting with the “quality” tag. It wasn’t that bad.

The artist-in-residence for the show, Andy DuCett of Minneapolis, has an installation titled “At

the Intersection of Everywhere,” which includes a Route 66-style ‘60s motel lobby situated near the entrance of the show. Upon invitation from the friendly attendant Bhadri, I wrote down a travel recommendation in the guestbook and was thanked with a custom-printed book of matches.

While the experience was warm and endearing, I wondered what exactly DuCett was trying to tell me.

One part of “Everywhere” that I wish had been more fleshed out is what DuCett rightly calls on his Instagram “local lamps,” a platform of 19 lamps culled from Tulsa homes. While the lamps themselves are tagged with their type and identified, the idea behind the piece doesn’t come through. More contextualization could help these luminous vehicles to shine, but, alas, they appear at first, second, and third glance to be simple lamps on a platform. I failed to understand their purpose or the ideas they’re meant to represent.

One of DuCett’s more stimulating touches is the installation of an entire wall of his studio onto a wall of the exhibition. It’s huge.

When taken in at once, the countless post-it notes, photographs, and sketches give the space a refreshing touch of rawness, albeit a calculated one: no one puts their studio into a public space without giving it some thought.

All in all, where some fine art exhibits pander only to audiences who are in on the secret, Museum Confidential, for the most part, demystifies the museum. This is Philbrook when it gets home and takes its pants off.

The clever (and free) Museum Confidential Club Member rewards card speaks to the fact that this exhibit pays intangible dividends on repeat visits. Even after four hours, I grew to respect pieces I hadn’t fully appreciated when I walked in. Even with what I found to be a few missteps, the exhibit keeps its strong footing, and, more impressively, it explains itself while doing so. a November 1 – 14, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Carla Meneses of Que Gusto | SHANNON KLINE

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hen Carla Meneses and her husband immigrated to Tulsa from Ecuador five years ago, she knew she wanted to continue doing what she loved, what she had always done: feeding people the wholesome, fresh Latin food she had grown up eating and preparing. With a background in catering, she knew she had the talent and the ability, but finding a commercial kitchen that was available and affordable proved difficult.

In 2015, a friend told her about Kitchen 66, a then-new initiative by the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation meant to give entrepreneurs the support they needed to jumpstart their food business.

Meneses was all in.

Now, two years after starting her successful catering operation, Que Gusto, she is ready to open her own restaurant with the help of Kiva, a non-profit micro-loan program that allows individuals in the community to support entrepreneurs with small, zerointerest loans.

“The 2016 State of Entrepreneurship report the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation put together showed that the number one gap we’re seeing for small business and entrepreneurs was access to financial capital,” said Casey Allen, the Kiva program lead for Tulsa.

“There are many people, espe-

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BIG SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation partners with Kiva to bring capital to local entrepreneurs.

by AMANDA RUYLE cially in Tulsa and across Oklahoma, that need smaller amounts than what banks are interested in loaning, specifically in micro loans of less than $10,000. When that was established, the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation started looking for an easy option to bring to Tulsa … but we wanted to look for something different.”

Around the same time, Kiva was pushing their Kiva City program, which was designed as a way to partner with community organizations and foundations in order to access underserved populations.

The fit was a natural one, with the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation agreeing to fund Kiva for the first three years as well as connect Kiva loan recipients with the resources necessary to successfully operate a small business.

“I really think the cool thing about Kiva is the connectivity of it,” Allen said. “I think many people come to Kiva because they need $10,000 to buy some tables and chairs, and Kiva is a great option for that, but what they really end up loving is that they end up with 500 new customers.

It connects lenders as customers, Kiva businesses with each other as networks, and organizations that can help with all aspects of running a business.”

There are many barriers to small business ownership, especially for those who may have lessthan-ideal credit or who lack personal access to capital (i.e., no rich uncles). Some have a great idea and a great product, but are without the social connections necessary to build a customer base. Kiva

helps to fill those gaps, allowing more people who have traditionally been cut off from the necessary resources—such as minorities and women—to start a business.

“Small business owners and entrepreneurs are the people who are creating jobs and stimulating local economies,” Allen said. “And they are also the ones that are pulling in customer loyalty and brand advocacy for cities. In Tulsa, we have all the perfect pieces and parts to have an incredible entrepreneur ecosystem, but we want that to be an ecosystem that is inclusive for all people, not just someone who has a business degree or is inheriting a family business, but to anyone and everyone who has a goal.” a

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HURTS SO GOOD Cyntergy Hurtland cyclocross event is fun for all ages

by JOHN TRANCHINA Women’s Cat 2 at the start/finish line of Cyntergy Hurtland 2016 | PROPELLER COMMUNICATIONS

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he third annual Cyntergy Hurtland cyclocross event takes place on November 12 at Owen Park and will feature quite a bit of local talent. Among the competitors will be Tulsa’s Chris Drummond, who is also training for the UCI Masters Cyclocross World Championships in Belgium in December.

Cyclocross is a unique cycling sport that combines an off-road obstacle course with a more traditional bicycle road race like St. Francis Tulsa Tough.

“Tulsa Tough is on the road, 100 percent on the pavement,” Drummond said, explaining the difference. “You typically have higher speeds, you’re in a group most of the time, so it’s pack racing. You can draft off people, so there are times where you’re working hard, times where you’re not working so hard.

“Cyclocross is much different.

You are rarely going speeds on a cyclocross course where drafting even comes into play. Most of the time, you’re kind of on your own.

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group. It’s 95 percent off-road.

Occasionally, races will have starts on pavement, or short sections of pavement, but it’s [mostly] offroad, it’s grass. You dismount your bike and run over barriers and run up stairs. Sometimes, they’ll put hills in that are too steep to ride up and you have to run up those.”

The different and sometimes unpredictable nature of a cyclocross course makes it more difficult to train for than a road race, but this also makes it fun.

“It’s not just going out on the road and doing interval work and training like that,” Drummond said of cyclocross training.

“There’s a lot of skill work involved, whether it be running or just how to handle your bike. You spend a lot of time off-road just working on skills … trying things and challenging yourself to learn how to ride that stuff. I ride sand quite a bit right now, deep sand, because I’ll be going to Belgium for the Masters World Championships, and that course is almost 100 percent sand. Depending on conditions that day, I could be running a good portion of the

lap if it’s not rideable, or I could be riding—but either way it’s sand.”

Drummond works at T-Town Bicycles in Brookside (4329 S. Peoria Ave.), and is part of the SPCX team, which also includes Paul Bonds of DeLeon, Texas, and T-Town co-owner Jake Lasley. Bonds will be joining Drummond on the trip to the world championships.

Drummond has even recruited his 15-year-old daughter, Aubrey, who has been a teammate the past two years.

“The grand plan is to kind of establish [the team] with our results and the things we’re doing to be a reputable team,” Drummond said, “and then make it into a junior development-type program, where we can bring 14-, 15-year-old kids into it and hopefully help them progress and feed them into professional teams.”

Drummond highly recommends that kids get involved in cyclocross now. The Cyntergy Hurtland event has categories for riders starting at nine years old, and if your kids want to try

it, Drummond suggests bringing them out to observe.

“Cyclocross is probably the lowest barrier of entry to cycling for kids because it’s not scary,” he said. “Road, you’re going pretty fast; if you fall, it’s probably going to hurt. Mountain biking, not too bad, but you kind of go off in the woods by yourself, which can be scary for a young kid. Cyclocross is off-road, relatively low speed.

You can see mom and dad the whole time.”

Overall, Drummond enjoys Cyntergy Hurtland and encourages people of all ages to come check it out.

“That location is very spectator-friendly,” Drummond said.

“It kind of has all the features of ‘cross. I hope it doesn’t have mud, but it could have mud. It’s got some stairs, it’s got some pretty technical off-road stuff in there— flyover, which is an over-under type bridge, and it’s pretty easy to navigate … It’s a good time.” a

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Friday, Nov. 3, 6–9 p.m., Tulsa Arts District, thebradyartsdistrict.com 108 Contemporary: “Streets” by Mark Lewis, and Gift Shop Artist of the Month Stephanie Grubbs; AHHA: Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s “Art 365,” Jane Dunnewold’s “When is a Quilt Not a Quilt? The Paradox of Appropriation,” Northeastern Oklahoma Woodturners’ Association’s “Turned to Perfection: From Nature into Art”; Brady Artists Studio: Pottery by Mel Cornshucker, Donna Prigmore, and Chas Foote; Chrysalis Salon & Spa: “Art Macabre – A Halloween Art Show” by Rickey Mizell; Club Majestic: Hoe You Think You Can Dance! Contest; Colors of Etnika: Painter Darren L. Whitson; Guthrie Green: Art After Dark: A Nocturnal Emporium; Henry Zarrow Center: “Evolution of Color,” featuring Native American artists from Oklahoma, curated by Tony Tiger; Hey Mambo: Susan Palmer Foust; The Hunt Club: Hosty; Living Arts: Día de los Muertos exhibition “Altared Spaces,” an installation by Rodolfo Marron III, and “Corporeal Cadences,” an exhibition highlighting contemporary Native practices through static and performance works; Mainline: “Living is Easy with Eyes Closed” by Jason Cytaki, music

by Olivia Riise; Philbrook Downtown: “Identity & Inspiration” and “Game On! – Oklahoma superstar larger than life”; Soundpony: Soft Leather; TAC Gallery: “Window Gazes” by Andy Mattern; Tulsa Glassblowing School: Demonstration by Kenneth Gonzales; Woody Guthrie Center: Hootenanny in the theater

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Celebrate Mexican heritage and pay tribute to departed love ones, all while enjoying live music and performances, art, and food at Living Arts’ Day of the Dead Arts Festival. Nov. 1, 5–10 p.m., $5, livingarts.org

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Writer Ilan Kozlowski and director Machele Dill’s, “Shades of White,” set in 1990s Tulsa, is a comedy about how a family confronts racism and reconciles events that stretch back to 1921 and before. Nov. 10–12, $20, TU’s Tyrrell Hall, echotheatreco.org

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To celebrate Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s life and legacy, Signature Symphony will perform The Execution of Stepan Razin, a collaborative work between the poet and composer Dimitri Shostakovich. Nov. 4, $12–$37, Van Trease PACE, signaturesymphony.org

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November 1 – 14, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

BEST OF THE REST EVENTS Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce // Morgan Parker is a recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship. // 11/2, Living Arts, booksmarttulsa.com Growing Up Palestinian: Healing the Wounds of War // Award-winning author, translator, artist, and educator Ibtisam Barakat will discuss her childhood in Jerusalem. // 11/2, TU’s Tyrrell Hall, facebook.com/okcenterforthehumanities Movie in the Park: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone // 11/2, Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Wild Turkey // This fundraiser for Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area will feature a gourmet dinner, craft beers, specialty wine, bluegrass music, guided trailhead tours, and crackling fires. // 11/2, Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, facebook.com/turkeymountain Living and Sustaining a Creative Life // Philbrook hosts a conversation with artist Wendy Red Star, Hrag Vartanian, and Sharon Louden. // 11/3, Philbrook Museum of Art, philbrook.org Invisible Tulsa // Rescheduled from 10/21, this community bike ride aims to create awareness of cyclists among drivers. // 11/4, Kendall Whittier Square, facebook.com/tulsahub Hafli // St. Antony Orthodox Church celebrates the Lebanese festival of food and hospitality. // 11/9, St. Antony Orthodox Church, hafli.org Big Band Hangar Dance // Swing-dance among WW2 warbirds to the music of a live big band playing the hits of the ‘40s. // 11/11, Tulsa Technology Center Riverside, squareup.com/ store/caf-spirit-of-tulsa-squadron Diwali // The India Association of Greater Tulsa celebrates the Hindu festival of lights. // 11/11, Union Performing Arts Center, iagtok.org Rt. 66 Renaissance Faire // Lady Awen Blackhear, Baroness of Crimson Creek welcomes nobles and commoners alike to the celebration of the Changing of the Leaf Festival, which will feature an artisan market and the wonders of days of yore. // 11/11, Creek County Fairgrounds, rt66renaissance.wixsite.com/rt66renfaire Tulsa Boutique Collective // More than 15 local boutiques and designers hold a sale under one roof. // 11/11, The Farm Shopping Center, shopblacksheepboutique.com Harmony Singing Workshop // Singer/songwriters Jared Tyler and Sam Gleaves will teach harmony singing. No experience required. // 11/12, Woody Guthrie Center, woodyguthriecenter.org

PERFORMING ARTS William Shatner: Shatner’s World // Shatner performs a larger-than-life one-man show, with stories, jokes, and his unique musical style. // 11/4, Broken Arrow PAC, brokenarrowpac.com PJ Masks Live! Time to be a Hero // Three young friends transform into their dynamic alter egoswhen they put on their pajamas and activate their animal amulets. // 11/8, Chapman Music Hall - Tulsa PAC, tulsapac.com Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild Live! // Zookeeper Jack Hanna comes to town. // 11/9, Chapman Music Hall - Tulsa PAC, tulsapac.com THE TULSA VOICE // November 1 – 14, 2017

The End Will Hurt // TU Theatre presents a staged reading of Laura Neill’s comedy “The End Will Hurt.” // 11/10, TU’s Kendall Hall, calendar.utulsa.edu Meccore Quartet // The quartet performs Szymanowski, Grieg, and Schumann // 11/11, Westby Pavilion - Tulsa PAC, tulsapac.com The Wizard of Oz // 11/11, Broken Arrow PAC, brokenarrowpac.com

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Second Sunday Serials // On the second Sunday of each month, Heller Theatre Company invites audiences to decide the fates of new pieces of drama. // 11/12, Agora Event Center, hellertheatreco.com

COMEDY Shaun Jones, Steven Briggs // 11/1, The Loony Bin, tulsa.loonybincomedy.com Soundpony Comedy Hour w/ Jay Light, Andrew Deacon // 11/1, Soundpony, thesoundpony.com Dennis Miller // 11/4, River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove, riverspirittulsa.com/entertainment Gerald “Hurricane” Harris, Shang // 11/5, The Loony Bin, tulsa.loonybincomedy.com Comedy to the Rescue w/ Erik Myers, benefiting Single Dogs Seeking // 11/8, The Loony Bin, tulsa.loonybincomedy.com Erik Myers // 11/9, The Loony Bin, tulsa.loonybincomedy.com Terry Fator // 11/12, Hard Rock Casino The Join, hardrockcasinotulsa.com

SPORTS TU Women’s Basketball vs ArkansasFort Smith // 11/1, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com Light the Night Walk to Fight Cancer // 1/3, River West Festival Park, lightthenight.org/oklahoma TU Football vs Memphis // 11/3, H.A. Chapman Stadium, tulsahurricane.com DAV 5K Run to Honor Veterans // 11/4, Guthrie Green, dav5k.org/events/tulsa ORU Women’s Basketball vs Northwestern Oklahoma // 11/4, Mabee Center, oruathletics TU Men’s Basketball vs Missouri S&T // 11/4, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com ORU Men’s Basketball vs Avila // 11/10, Mabee Center, oruathletics TU Men’s Basketball vs Lamar // 11/10, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Women’s Basketball vs American University // 11/10, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com McNellie’s Pub Run // 11/11, McNellie’s Downtown, fleetfeettulsa.com TU Women’s Basketball vs Balmont // 11/12, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Basketball vs ORU // 11/13, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com ARTS & CULTURE // 39

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MUSIC Cecada

LONELY ASTRONAUTS

Cecada’s new album is a lesson in method and perseverance

by DAMION SHADE

PRECOCIOUS PUNKS Teenage rebellion and Bob of Tribes’s ‘Death of Bambi’s Mother’ 40 // MUSIC

IF YOU WERE A NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMAN teenager in 1995 you may have found access to the Tulsa punk rock scene complicated and forbidding. The absence of the internet meant you needed to know people to get your foot in the door. And even if you got that far, what if you weren’t cool? What if you had lousy social skills? There’s a real problem when you feel out of place in a group of people whose one point of commonality is feeling out of place.

If you were such a teen and found your way into a Bob of Tribes show, you may have found in their music a cultural Rosetta Stone. On the one hand, they served up loud, aggressive, adrenaline-saturated pop-punk. On the other, the melodies were roaming and unconventional; their lyrics were silly yet left room for interpretation.

The musicians looked like guys you knew from AP Chemistry class—smart dudes who you suspected had a secret life after dark. Like playing inspirational punk

Cecada | GREG BOLLINGER

T

he new Cecada album almost didn’t happen.

Six years of setbacks and challenges nearly broke the band.

Their lead guitarist moved to Portland in 2011, and hopes of finishing the record seemed lost.

The album was buried by the typical struggles of 30-somethings: divorce, careers, babies. Despite the difficulties, Cecada’s members

did finally finish their second album, Nothing Known Unseen, and will release it on November 4 with a live performance at Mainline Art Bar. Nearly a dozen names are featured in the liner notes of this album, but Cecada’s creative core includes Brian Rawson (vocals/ acoustic guitar), Dougal Hansen (electric/acoustic guitar, banjo

shows for berserk ne’er-do-wells in dilapidated downtown venues.

“Death of Bambi’s Mother” from Bob of Tribes’ spectacular Does Anyone Have a Gun? 7” EP starts with a jammy, mid-tempo intro. The guitar lead, played in two separate octaves, evokes The Pixies’ Joey Santiago’s brand of controlled haphazardness. Around the 30 second mark, there’s a key change and short transitional fanfare, and the song erupts into a buzzing, breakneck frenzy.

The burning, crunchy guitars hammer out a Spanish-ish melody of galloping and cascading barre chords. Imagine a wiry teenage boy, his left fist flying along the neck so fast his hand is a blur, his right arm banging out the notes. The drums are ambitious. So fast you can almost sense a Doppler effect, with beats piling up on top of each other in space-time. The rhythm warps ever so slightly as the song’s momentum keeps the players teetering on the edge of control, like tumbling down a grass hill on

a skateboard. Having launched themselves into this maelstrom of inadvisable speed, Bob of Tribes were in the right place to tackle their decidedly juvenile topic at hand.

The lyrics are not political and they’re not cool. They merely express that the scene where Bambi’s mother gets killed in the Disney movie was so traumatic to the narrator that it only gets more painful with repeat viewings. It’s almost like an English Lit group project that the students were too cool to take seriously. But whatever the reason behind the song—sincere or snotty—it expresses the kernel essence of the teenage Oklahoma punker: acutely selfaware in a state full of perceived ignorant normies, grinding against the grain, complicating (as a form of sport) things that should be easy, all the while leaving room for speculation and mystery.

Smart, heavy, nerdy, bratty, and fun, “Death of Bambi’s Mother” was a song for the rest of us. —BRADY WHISENHUNT November 1 – 14, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

and melodica), David Council (banjo, electric/acoustic guitar), Micah Green Clopton (bass, electric guitar) and producer Costa Stasinopoulos (vocals, synths, programming, keys). The album also features the drumming of percussionist Andrew Bones, who played on the band’s first album.

“We’d just done so much work,” said Clopton on finishing the album. “You don’t go three-fourths of the way to your destination and turn back. So, we decided to keep pushing. We weren’t playing live, so we didn’t have any pressure. We could just take our time and make a record the way we wanted to.”

This slow work gave Nothing Known Unseen a uniquely nuanced and sophisticated sound. These are folk songs, but the sound runs a wide gamut. The production is rich and textural—layers of folk instrumentation centered on Rawson’s warm and insouciant voice. The guitars act as complimentary voices, sparkling with reverb and blurring genre lines.

Guest guitarist Clay Welch’s solo on the album’s title track is a particular moment of brilliance. His pleading voice hangs in the air even as the track fades. Creating a record whose tone falls somewhere between The Books’ Lost and Safe and Ester Drang’s classic album, Goldenwest, Cecada has crafted an introspective, meticulous epic.

But the band’s long process came at a cost.

“Honestly, when this thing came out, I finished it, but I had reached a point of manic craziness,” said Stasinopolos. “I had heard it so many times it was clinically insane. The band basically made me destroy this behemoth stone of an album and whittle it down to these little figurines.

These types of super-detailed passion projects that take years to develop just don’t happen anymore. There’s an assembly line process in the production of a lot of music these days. This culture of bang-wow-now mentality and the fear that the internet will crush you if you don’t constantly put out new material.”

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Rawson weaves a parable of contemplative longing across the eight tracks. An array of ragged—but not broken—characters inhabit these songs and their desolate landscapes. There are images of lonely astronauts dreaming of the ground, false gods and cities burnt to a cinder.

There’s a strange, stoic beauty to

the album—a weary, pleasant sort of peace.

“These songs all come from a similar emotional place and they’re all written around themes, but I don’t like to think of them as just one thing,” said Rawson. “Personally I just hope this album would be soothing to the general confusion of being alive.” a

CECADA ALBUM RELEASE PARTY with live painting by Caleb Burgess November 4, 8:30–10:30 p.m.

Mainline Art Bar 111 N. Main St.

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musiclistings Wed // Nov 1 Bound for Glory Books – *Tim Kaiser Cain’s Ballroom – Theory of a Deadman, Royal Republic, Ayron Jones – ($23-$38) 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 The Vanguard – Household, My Heart and Liver are the Best of Friends, Dark Values – ($10) The Venue Shrine – Will Hoge – ($12)

Soundpony – Soul night The Colony – Cassi Stephan, The Rachel LaVonne Band – ($5) The Hunt Club – The Plums The Run – The Rumor The Vanguard – Overslept, New Time Zones, The Classless, Couch Jackets Neoromantics – ($7-$10) The Venue Shrine – *Deathfest w/ Origin, Archspire, Defeated Sanity, Dyscarnate, Visceral Disgorge, The Kennedy Veil, Center of Disease, Contagion 237, Nokturnal Winter, Horde Casket – ($18-$22) Yeti – Larkin, The Soul Surferos Zin Wine Bar – Randy Brumley

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Sun // Nov 5

Fur Shop – The Devil’s Cut Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Cumberland Run Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Jesse Joice, Boogie Fever River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Caleb Fellenstein River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jake Flint Soul City – The Begonias Soundpony – Bud Bronson and The Good Timers The Colony – Jacob Tovar’s Thirst The Hunt Club – Ryan McLaughlin The Vanguard – Walker Lukens, Ben Kilgore – ($10-$20) The Venue Shrine – Jackson Taylor and the Sinners, BC and the Big Rig – ($10)

Brady Theater – Tim Hawkins – ($16.50-$82.50) East Village Bohemian Pizza – Mike Cameron Collective Fur Shop – Dan Martin Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Me & My Monkey Hard Rock Casino - The Joint – Micky Dolenz – ($25-$35) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Chris Foster River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Ali Harter Soul City – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Soundpony – Casual Six - Happy Hour Show The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Night Thing The Hunt Club – Randy Crouch The Vanguard – Moth Wings, Postparty, Barvist, Drew Richardson – ($10)

Thurs // Nov 9

Fri // Nov 3 Blackbird on Pearl – Into the Clouds Brady Theater – Drew Holcolm & The Neighbors, Lewis Watson, Jacob Burton – ($20-$25) Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – Dan Martin – ($5) Dusty Dog Pub – Barry Seal Fur Shop – Jake Odin & The Marching Band Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Darrel Cole Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Dante Schmitz, Miracle Max Mercury Lounge – Porter Union Band River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Randy Brumley Soul City – *Robert Hoefling and Poppa Foster’s Creole Trio – ($10) Soundpony – Soft Leather Spinster Records – The Paranoyds, Sadgirl, Planet What The Colony – The Regular Joes w/ Joe Baxter – ($5) The Hunt Club – Hosty The Venue Shrine – Kashmir The Wine Loft – The Blue Dawgs Utopia Bar & Lounge – DJ MO

Sat // Nov 4 Amsterdam Bar & Grill – Tammy Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – *Dirty Creek Bandits, And Then There Were Two, Sloppy Joe Fiasco – ($5) Fur Shop – The Electric Rag Band Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Great Big Biscuit Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Empire, FM Live Mainline – Cecada album release Mercury Lounge – Franks & Deans River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts Soul City – *Antry CD Release w/ Joyride – ($10) 42 // MUSIC

Mon // Nov 6 BOK Center – *The Spirit of Crazy Horse: Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson, Arlo Guthrie, Jessi Colter, Shooter Jennings, Rita Coolidge, Paul Benjaman, and more – ($25-$99) Fur Shop – Open Mic Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Mike McClure, Chris Blevins River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jacob Tovar Soundpony – Carpoolparty The Colony – Seth Lee Jones The Vanguard – Spite, Bodysnatcher, I Am, Planet Namek, Fester – ($12-$15) Yeti – The Situation

Tues // Nov 7 Cain’s Ballroom – Bleachers, Bishop Briggs – ($28-$30) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Pumpkin Hollow Band Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Scott Music Dos Capos River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Brent Giddens Soul City – Dustin Pittsley The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Tin Dog Saloon – Cody Woody Yeti – Writers’ Night

River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jacob Dement River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Wink Burcham Soul City – Don & Steve White Soundpony – *Festivus for the Best of Us w/ Mr. Burns, Steph Simon, Bezel 365, PUSH Gang, Hakeem & more The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project The Vanguard – Cold Shoulder, Backswing, Safe Bet, Keeping Secrets, Drew Richardson – ($7-$10) Woody Guthrie Center – Seth Glier – ($25) Zin Urban Lounge – Scott Ellison Band

Bad Ass Renee’s – Dixie Wrecked, The Punknecks Blackbird on Pearl – The Scissortails, Melissa Hembree Cain’s Ballroom – Whitey Morgan, Ward Davis – ($20-$75) Cellar Dweller – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe w/ Sarah Maud Fur Shop – Emily Herring and the Farm to Market Band Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Bobby D Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Scott Eastman, NighTTrain River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Caleb Fellenstein River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald – ($70-$285) River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jake Flint Sisserou’s Restaurant – Branjae Soundpony – Favored N Flavored Spinster Records – Top Nachos, Dolly Spartans, Planet What The Colony – The Soup Kitchen w/ Dane Arnold Yeti – *Festivus for the Best of Us w/ Mr. Burns, DismondJ, #Baconomics, Higher Learning Academy, Damion Shade & more

Fri // Nov 10 BOK Center – Air1 Positive Hits Tour w/ Skillet and Britt Nicole, Colton Dixon, Tauren Wells, GAWVI, Mark Lee – ($19.75-$49.75) Fassler Hall – *Festivus for the Best of Us w/ Mr. Burns, Breakfast, Roots of Thought, Dane Arnold & more Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Time Machine Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd, Stars Mercury Lounge – The Grits, The Dull Drums River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Randy Brumley Slo-Ride – The Blue Dawgs Soul City – Mark Gibson – ($10) Soundpony – My Brother and Me Pt. 8 The Colony – *Bandelier, Smoochie Wallus – ($5) The Hunt Club – Smunty Voje The Vanguard – Jack Kerowax, County Lights, Colouradio – ($10-$13) Utopia Bar & Lounge – DJ MO Woody Guthrie Center – Peter Case – ($20) Yeti – Glass Mansions, The Beaten Daylights, The Girls Room, Carlton Heston, Evan Hughes

Sat // Nov 11 14 North – *Festivus for the Best of Us w/ ScorPalooza, DismondJ Bad Ass Renee’s – Nameless Society, KRASHKARMA, The Alive, The Dischord Blackbird on Pearl – *Mountain Sprout – ($7)

Cain’s Ballroom – *Horton Records Rock N’ Folk N’ Chili Cook-Off 4 w/ John Fullbright, Combsy, and more – ($12-$22) Fur Shop – Loud Mountains Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Jenny Labow, Replay Lot No. 6 – Jake Flint Mercury Lounge – The Devilish 3 River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – Swon Brothers – ($25-$35) Slo-Ride – Dan Martin Soul City – Crow – ($10) Soundpony – Pony Disco Club The Beehive Lounge – Space Dingus, Tennis Club, Oceanaut The Colony – Nature & Madness, Kalyn Fay – ($5) The Hunt Club – Straight Shot The Vanguard – Nothing Left, Devil in the Details, Shamecult, Piece of Mind, Upright – ($10) The Venue Shrine – Severmind, Machine in the Mountain, Reliance Code – ($5, free for veterans) Woody Guthrie Center – Ray Bonneville – ($20$22)

Sun // Nov 12 East Village Bohemian Pizza – Mike Cameron Collective Fur Shop – Koffin Kats, Gallows Bound – ($7) Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Zodiac River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Chris Foster River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Ali Harter Soul City – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Soundpony – *Brujoroots The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Night Thing The Vanguard – Brujeria, Pwerflo, Piñata Protest, Forever in Disgust, Constant Peril – ($20-$25) Woody Guthrie Center – *Andy Adams album release show – ($15-$20)

Mon // Nov 13 Fur Shop – Open Mic Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jacob Tovar Soundpony – Some Kind of Nightmare, P.U.S.H. The Colony – Seth Lee Jones Yeti – The Situation

Tues // Nov 14 BOK Center – *Guns N’ Roses – ($62-$150) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Radio Romance Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Scott Music Dos Capos River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Brent Giddens Soul City – Dustin Pittsley Soundpony – Fireheads, Planet What - Happy Hour Show The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night The Vanguard – Never Let This Go, Sweet Ascent, Short Leash Lonely Bones, Unsung Alibi, Lights Out on Sheridan – ($7-$10) Yeti – Writers’ Night November 1 – 14, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

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hen Steven Castillo started performing comedy eight years ago, he had big dreams. After stints in Tulsa, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Steven is experiencing the realization of those dreams— he recently started writing for “Saturday Night Live.” Though he spends fewer nights performing and more nights in his office, he’s loving it.

first time I felt cool and good at something. Then it became an addiction. The way stand-up is, I’d go back to The Loony Bin the next week, do the exact same set and bomb. It’s important to say how much I love those guys I started with. They were my first clique. In high school I didn’t really associate with anybody. I wasn’t necessarily a nerd or cool, but with those guys was the first time I felt included. That was another reason I kept at it.

ANDREW DEACON: It’s interesting watching the local reaction to your new job. How’s it feel so far?

DEACON: How did working in Chicago shape your comedy writing and performance?

STEVEN CASTILLO: It’s crazy. I’ve been living in this bubble for a while. When I got it, it didn’t seem like a big deal, and then all these people from Bishop Kelly were messaging me. I knew all the people from the Loony Bin would reach out, but I wasn’t expecting the response I got. It’s overwhelming—in a good way.

CASTILLO: While living in Tulsa, I did a lot of improv with the group Crayons. A big reason I moved to Chicago was the improv scene at Second City. When I was doing stand-up in Tulsa, a lot of my comedy was geared towards The Loony Bin. It wasn’t necessarily material I was proud of, but I knew it would get a laugh there.

When I did that same material in Chicago, they saw right through me. I was going up night after night, bombing hard. That’s when I bought a Bluetooth speaker that I use in my act now. I would have it there so I could add a laugh track, because no one was laughing. That’s when I started the act I’m doing now. My routine has become incorporating these dumb, silly bits.

DEACON: Was working on “SNL” part of a trajectory you always saw for yourself ?

CASTILLO: I think so. The reason I moved to Chicago was to work on “SNL.” I was introduced to Second City through a workshop at TU. All the people that went to Second City eventually went to “SNL.” The ultimate thing was to wind up there. Once I was in Chicago, I found out just how hard it was to be on [“SNL”]. So many people audition, so I didn’t think about it much. But early on, it was definitely something I wanted.

DEACON: How does it feel to write for “SNL” during such a politically -charged time?

CASTILLO: One thing I noticed the first week there is that I’m surrounded by the smartest people I’ve ever been around. They’re 44 // FILM & TV

Laugh track STEVEN CASTILLO LANDS ‘SNL’ GIG—BY WAY OF THE LOONY BIN AND SECOND CITY

by ANDREW DEACON Steven Castillo performing at Blue Whale Comedy Festival 2016 | PHIL CLARKIN

so politically savvy and so upto-date. Colin Jost is a modern Renaissance man—the quickest, smartest, most well-put-together person. There’s a lot of people like that at “SNL,” and it’s been really inspiring. It’s really helped shape me. I’m reading so many articles during even my off weeks.

I’m definitely more up-to-date. It’s amazing to be in a room full of people who are incredibly smart, witty, and in touch with our political environment.

DEACON: I remember watching you perform stand-up at The Loony Bin in 2013. You were much younger than most of the comics.

What inspired you to get into stand-up at such a young age?

CASTILLO: I never saw myself as a

comedian. I wanted to go to film school and become a director. One of my friends from high school was doing an open mic at The Loony Bin. I decided to film a documentary about stand-up open mics.

They had a workshop Wednesdays where you would go onstage and practice. You would perform for Corey Douglas, Dan Fritschie, and Hilton Price. I thought that was fascinating, practicing your jokes before you got in front of an audience. There was something about seeing all those guys go up. I didn’t think I could write a joke, but I did think I could say something funny.

I [thought] I could deliver something funny.

Then I did my first open mic there and it might have been the best show I’ve ever done. I’ve never felt such a high. It was the

DEACON: You’ve done conceptual shows like “Steezus,” where you take on the persona of Kanye West. Do you have plans to do more of these types of performances now that you’re in New York?

CASTILLO: Yeah. I’m planning on creating a new solo show this year with a similar theme. One of the nice things about doing this job is that you have off-weeks, where I perform as much as I can. a November 1 – 14, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

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A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CIRCLE CINEMA

Once more into the breach ‘STRANGER THINGS’ SECOND SEASON IS FAR FROM UNDERWHELMING Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin in “Stranger Things” | COURTESY

PATTON OSWALT’S PREDICTION SEEMS on schedule: that true nerd culture (loosely defined as rarefied obsessions being cool because they aren’t supposed to be) will not only die of superficial popularity, but also suffocate creative innovation. Retro-mix tapes substituting for originality. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the ‘80s and Stephen King are still everywhere. The popularity of “Stranger Things” first season certainly paved the way for the stunning success of “IT.” And it seems completely tailored for me. Which is why I should probably hate it.

I’m the Stephen King fan. The Lovecraft reader. My ‘80s was defined by “Star Wars,” “Dungeons and Dragons,” rock, New Wave, and metal bands on MTV, and the sci-fi/ fantasy blitzkrieg that was the birth of blockbuster ‘80s genre film. “Stranger Things” isn’t just catnip for nostalgic Gen X’ers, but also latecomers charmed by geekery from before their time. A zeitgeist confection of pop culture callbacks that captured that holiest of Seinfeldian designations—the watercooler show.

Yet, despite my ingrained cynicism toward buzzy nostalgia-porn, I fell hard.

In season one, in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, a U.S. Department of Energy lab houses a covert experiment involving a

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

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young, telekinetic girl named Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). She escapes after scientists open a rift between our world and The Upside Down, a shadowy, “Silent Hill”-eqse mirror dimension, haunted by faceless, screeching monsters. One of them kidnaps young Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), imprisoning him in The Upside Down.

His devastated mom, Joyce (Winona Ryder) joins forces with Will’s brother (Charlie Heaton), his adorable Loser’s Club of nerdy friends (Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin), and the local sheriff (David Barbour) to infiltrate the lab—with Eleven’s help—and rescue Will from the clutches of the Demogorgon. They succeed, striking a wary bargain with the government: their silence in exchange for a vow that the government does everything they can to close the rift.

The new season is as much about the characters’ reaction to all of that as it is a continuation of their story. What it lacks in that sense of discovery, it augments by building on the characters’ connections.

It’s a very King thing to do: spend a twothirds of the story hinting at the threat, developing characters that you come to know and love, or sometimes hate, and then drop the hammer on them all.

What made that first season work is still in full effect. Writer-directors Ross and Matt Duffer have an uncanny deftness with packing the show with nods to films like “Escape from New York,” “Star Wars,” “Aliens,” and many more for the eagle-eyed fan. The music remains delightfully Carpenter-inspired (with a roster of licensed songs that must have cost more than most indie films). The kids are still a blast, their foul-mouthed comradery as charming as ever. Barbour and Ryder’s performances are compelling. As for the plot, let’s just say the rift is still open.

It’s not as fresh as it was, and those who thought the show spun its wheels a bit will find the same to complain about here. But in the last episodes, the Duffer’s go for broke. And when they let loose, it’s a creepy, emotional, and exhilarating thing of dark beauty. —JOE O'SHANSKY

OPENING NOVEMBER 3 GOODBYE, CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Biopic about writer A.A. Milne and how his son Christopher inspired “The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.” Starring Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie. Rated PG. LOVING VINCENT The mystery of Vincent Van Gogh’s death is explored in this animated film. Every frame is painted in the style of Van Gogh’s masterpieces. Rated PG-13.

(Reception with trivia and prizes, Fri., Nov. 3, 6:15 p.m.)

OPENING NOVEMBER 10 THE FLORIDA PROJECT Kids strive for happiness in the poverty fringes just outside of Disney World.

Co-starring Willem Dafoe. From director Sean Baker (“Tangerine”).

Rated R. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Kenneth Branagh directs and leads an all-star cast in this lavish adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery. Rated PG-13.

SPECIAL EVENTS BILL’S THUD A documentary about a Vietnam vet suffering from the effects of Agent Orange who’s reunited with the bomber he piloted through 128 combat missions. (Wed. November 1, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.)

MORE THAN A WORD: NATIVE SPOTLIGHT Documentary exploring the controversy over the NFL’s Washington Redskins mascot name. A live discussion with an all-female Native American panel follows. Pre-show reception at 6 p.m., catered by Cherokee Nation.

(Thu. November 2, 7 p.m.)

TIMES TALKS DISCUSSION: M. BUTTERFLY Free live webcast discussion with Tony-winning director Julie Taymor, actor Clive Owen, and Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang about his modern classic “M. Butterfly.” (Mon. November 6, 6 p.m.)

DON Q: SON OF ZORRO (1925) Second Saturday Silents screens this action adventure. Douglas Fairbanks stars as Don Cesar, the son of Zorro, who uses a whip rather than a sword when he becomes an outlaw in Spain. Mary Astor costars. $5 Adults; $2 children.

(Sat. November 11, 11 a.m.)

WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT Documentary by Pierre Sauvage, a Jew born in a French town during WWII. He examines the heroic kindness of locals that saved thousands of lives. Q&A with Sauvage follows. In conjunction with Jewish Federation of Tulsa. (Sat. November 11, 7 p.m.)

LEON RUSSELL MONUMENT FUND & TRIBUTE EVENT A screening of Russell’s concert Leon Live, on the one-year anniversary of his death.

Q&A with filmmaker Jeffrey Haas follows. Tickets $20 for full 4-hour fundraising event, in cooperation with The Church Studio and Leon Russell Monument Fund. (Mon. November 13, 5 p.m. reception; 7 p.m. film) DOWRY OF THE MEEK Documentary about Hoa Stone, a polio-stricken orphan from the Vietnam War who, thirty years later, works to help Vietnam’s less fortunate children have a better future. (Tues. November 14, 7 p.m.)

FOLLIES: NT LIVE Revival of the Stephen Sondheim classic, produced by the U.K. National Theatre, starring Imelda Staunton. Intro at 5:45 p.m. Adults $18; Seniors $17 (Thu. November 16, 6 p.m.)

November 1 – 14, 2017 // THE TULSA VOICE

THE FUZZ THE TULSA VOICE SPOTLIGHTS: TULSA SPCA

2910 Mohawk Blvd. | MON, TUES, THURS, FRI & SAT, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 918.428.7722

GRUMPY couldn’t be more the opposite of his name—he is lovable and sweet as pie. Grumpy is a one-and-a-half-year-old hound mix who is friendly with other dogs and good with people of all ages. If you are looking for a loyal and loving companion, Grumpy is your guy!

ACROSS 1 Its cups support 4 A bunch of gentlemen (Abbr.)

10 Wet ordeal for a pooch 14 Deli lunch order, sometimes 17 Aircraft-related prefix 19 It allows passage in a T-shirt 21 Turkish general 22 It’s well-circulated 23 Beef patty holder 25 Thing for a rabbi to wear 27 Provide support 28 Lowly subjects 30 Thanksgiving pie variety 31 Old communications code 32 Needed a tourniquet 33 Shed tool 35 Antelope variety 36 One of the California Santas 37 Like heirs of the Beatitudes 38 Things athletes occasionally pull 40 113-Across, in the champagne world 41 Group of like animals 42 Peruvian beast of burden 44 U.K.’s military flyers 45 Move a picture from this wall to that wall 47 Alligatorlike reptile 48 “Eventually ...”

52 Aussie source of low-fat meat 53 Long, tapering flag 54 “Yada-yada-yada” relative 55 First name in legendary puppeteers 58 Unanticipated or without warning 59 Substance measured in octane

60 Anguish 61 Last word of a three-word place in Wisconsin 62 Jeweler’s magnifying glasses 64 It has the power to turn litmus blue 67 It passes through 19-Across 68 Mine deposit 69 8-8, e.g.

70 One’s professional calling 72 A New York Island 74 Missing ___ bureau 76 Certain nobleman’s domain 77 Be a good schusser 78 Levee up 79 Holds off, as a mosquito 80 Cause to be grounded, as a tree 83 One thing to stuff in a boot 84 “He’s ___ nowhere man” (Beatles lyric) 85 Eat with Mr. Fancy Pants, say 86 Nonfictional Ryan or fictional March 88 Popular morning combo 92 She’s a real deer 93 Doctors’ org.

94 “___ we all?”

95 “Gosh, Beaver” 96 Staffs, in a non-PC manner 97 Fatty nut for ice cream 99 Having a series of grooves or bands 101 Mark up, as a musical score 104 Rope to fasten a sail 105 It holds a filling 107 Civil War naval battle 109 Slithering fish 110 Obsessed by 111 Rotated around, as a planet 112 Dele’s reversal

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.

PEPPER is a sweet nine-year-old schnauzer who is looking for a loving home. Unfortunately, Pepper does have some medical issues that require long term medications, but with her bright and charming personality, you’d never know her health wasn’t perfect. If you enjoy older dogs and have a space in your life for one with a few special needs, come meet Pepper.

113 All toweled off 114 Kiln for hops 115 Things in copiers 116 Predawn’s center?

DOWN 1 Nation with many, many cays 2 Onetime Safer coworker 3 Weapons buildup 4 Small shopping place 5 Unit of energy 6 Took in a scent 7 Shrill, ear-piercing cry 8 Immediately clothed after a shower, often 9 Slow-moving, slimy creature 10 Maryland’s Chesapeake 11 Some religious meals shared in love and fellowship 12 “No ___ traffic” 13 Flag symbols no more 14 Albania’s Peninsula 15 Approving, Facebook-style 16 What all the cool kids start 18 Some wraps in Japan 20 India-to-South Korea dir.

24 Find a function for 26 Elates or motivates 29 Medicine man 32 Obstacle in frigid waters 34 Country whose flag features a dagger 37 Course list 38 Quick, simple sandwich 39 Consisting of three parts 41 Non-U.S. city near Niagara Falls 42 Does more than yardwork 43 One of many in a script 46 “Who, that lady?”

47 Let go formally, as land 49 One born in Des Moines 50 Roger who played James Bond 51 One side in a war 53 Wee pooch 54 Ice cream thickening agent 55 Place to 77-Across 56 Eunuch’s responsibility 57 Astringent and bitter 58 Seeks a court award 63 Sounded like a pig 65 It can magnify things 66 Important or vital 71 Geometry answer, often 73 Fuel for a furnace 75 Devilish 76 The Edgar who handed Charlie life?

77 Transmit 79 A step beyond anger 80 If you see these, get out of the water 81 Cause to grow very thin 82 Did more than just ask for 85 Smallish kitchen offshoot 87 Rap genre 88 Fastened, as a gate 89 More Soho-y 90 Nothing more than 91 Expels from the body 92 Woman’s over-head securer?

96 Certain Latin American dance 97 Great thing to break on a golf course 98 Cupid’s Greek cousin 100 Common sandwich filler 102 “I see your game!”

103 Sweet pastry 104 Conclusions 106 One fresh out of diapers?

108 Above, poetically

RUGBY is a one-and-a-halfyear-old manx mix who came to the Tulsa SPCA from a hoarding situation. Because of this, Rugby is very timid and could use a bit of TLC. Once Rugby is comfortable with you, he enjoys pets and snuggles. Rugby would do great in a quiet home with loving owners.

Universal sUnday Crossword HaM iT UP

By Timothy e. Parker

© 2017 Andrews McMeel Syndication THE TULSA VOICE // November 1 – 14, 2017

CANOE is a four-month-old tabby kitten who would make a wonderful family pet. Canoe loves to play and snuggle with kitten friends and people of all ages!

Come to the Tulsa SPCA and meet him—you might be taking home a new forever friend.

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