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Nov. 5 – Nov. 18, 2014 // vol. 1 no. 22 NEWS & COMMENTARY
COVER: Cosplayers Celia Sigler (left) and Adam Dubos (right) dressed as Loki and Thor for Wizard World Comic Con in Tulsa PHOTOS BY JEREMY CHARLES
8 // Do the locomotion Ray Pearcey, stroller
Improve ‘walkability’ to improve Tulsa c i t y s p e a k 10 // A struggle, within and without Barry Friedman, commiserator
The bagel jihad and other worries commentary
FOOD & DRINK 14 // Classically exquisite Heather Tisdale, foodie
The Chalkboard marries old-school charm with modern cuisine t u l s a f o o d
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16 // Putting it together Beau Adams, inquirer
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26 // Pride and joysticks
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Joe O’Shansky, nerd admirer
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One Tulsan’s passion for retro gear and the nostalgia of nerddom featured
Ashley Heider Daly, collector
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What’s a nerd? You might’ve noticed the word on the cover of this paper, and you’ll see it a few more times as you flip through the pages. But what does it mean? I’m hardly the first person to bring this up. It’s a borderline hackneyed observation: What was once a derisive, often cruel term for outcasts and social misfits has now come to describe a very mainstream concept. The sheer volume of cultural properties that exist in 2014 makes nearly everything its own niche. And with so many niches, many of us become fiercely loyal to the ones we’ve decided to dive into. We create little tribes of like-minded cohorts, and together we revel in our obscure refer-
ences and secret languages and encyclopedic recall of minutiae. Talking to some of the Voice contributors about this issue, I came to find out that this new appropriation of nerdiness by the mainstream doesn’t sit well with “real” nerds—those who would still be called nerds had that term and its implications never evolved. I can understand that point of view. It’s a little like the obscure band you love suddenly scoring a radio hit (Is that a thing anymore? Radio hit?), becoming wildly popular, and the scene that had been your little secret, your special tribe, is now overrun with Johnny Come Lately dumdums. Always a bummer. But then I think, eh, who cares. Get over it, nerds.
In this issue you’ll find many nerdy things, and many things that might not actually be nerdy but still kind of are, so just go with it. We’ve got a guide to Comic Con, of course, including all the info you’ll need on the celebrities, the panels, the seeking of autographs; as well as a look at some local artists whose work will be featured at the convention (pg. 24). Elsewhere, Joe O’Shansky visits one of the “real” nerds of Tulsa and beholds his shrine to retro video gaming consoles (pg. 26); Beau Adams goes day drinking with the fascinating Eric Fransen—craftsman, mathematician, banjo player, carouser (pg. 16); the dynamic Daly duo (Ashley and Ryan) offer separate and equally useful ruminations on the art of collecting—
brass figurines and pretty much everything else for her (pg. 32), vinyl record albums for him (pg. 34). Plus, Ray Pearcey takes a look at improving Tulsa’s “walkability” and the myriad ways that simple concept would improve our city (pg. 8); and Barry Friedman has a bagel with Sheryl Siddiqui, spokesperson for the Islamic Society of Oklahoma (pg. 10). There’s lots more, so just get to it already. I’m off to track down William Shatner. a
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Do the locomotion Improving ‘walkability’ should be higher on Tulsa’s to-do list by RAY PEARCEY
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id you walk anywhere this week? Please don’t count strolls to and from parking lots. If the empirical data on most Americans is true for you, you didn’t get much shoe action. Tulsa’s average Walk Score, a composite rating that incorporates a variety of metrics, is a lackluster 36 out of a possible 100. To give some perspective, New York City leads all cities with a Walk Score of 88. Frequent walking is a powerful road to better health, but it’s also a potential boon to local economies. Creating hyper-connected American communities with sidewalks, bike paths and combo trails is the core of a quiet revolution in urban planning, exercise dynamics, landscape architecture and park design. The “walk-talk” has altered the way streets are conceived and created by builders, planners, architects and local officials. It has birthed strange new notions such as “road dieting”—partially re-claiming streets and highway segments, reducing car lanes and creating pedestrian paths and bike trails with the liberated territory; or “complete streets,” an exciting re-imagining of road segments as budding multi-lane corridors with spaces for cars, pedestrians, buses and bike riders. Some of these notions have been partially incorporated at Tulsa City Hall by the planning and public works departments after policy actions by positive City Council and the planning commission. Equity and fairness Surprisingly, getting around is mediated by a host of powerful and deeply-engaged policy and city budgeting contingencies— things that don’t constrict most Tulsans but do circumscribe the lives of many thousands in Green Country. Consider the explod8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY
Pedestrian Bridge at 29th Stre et on the River Parks East Bank Trail
ing cadre of seniors who can no longer drive; people who lack the resources to buy, maintain and insure a vehicle; and folks who simply think cars are hassles. All are profoundly disadvantaged in Tulsa. But the carless pay federal, state and local taxes to maintain our extensive street and highway system and the signalization and policing outlays required to run these elaborate networks. People with limited access to cars get very little for those contributions. Although improvements are afoot, Tulsa still has an anemic bus system and a limited para-transit system for people with physical challenges. It also has a distinctly inferior sidewalk system—which might help explain Tulsa’s feeble Walk Score. While we have an excellent dedicated trail and bike/ pedestrian system in Tulsa, only about half of our major streetways and arterials are equipped with even rudimentary sidewalks. Ren Barger, chief of our nonprofit bicycle services collective, Tulsa Hub, said it best in a recent article in this very publication: “Mobility is not just movement through geographic space. It is the intertwined physical,
technological, social, economic, political, and experiential dimensions of human movement. It is culturally meaningful. It affects changes in social condition and social status. It is a lens through which privilege and disadvantage, power and powerlessness, are revealed. Streets and transportation systems are the civic inheritance of cultures ... The street is also an expression of domination and power, where hierarchy of size, speed, affluence, and privilege dramatizes the relationship between the Quick and the Dead.” Sidewalk sidestep Mayor Dewey Bartlett sparked controversy recently when he decided to forgo a proposed sidewalk segment on Riverside Drive from 21st Street to the new Gathering Place park. The park is a fantastic, variegated design and is one of the most important large-scale new park developments in the U.S., and arguably on the planet. Most progressive planners and urban designers argue that sidewalks are an unambiguous public good—they allow for exercise, they give those without access
to vehicles an avenue from A to B, and they provide safety and security for pedestrians in the midst of high-speed traffic corridors. The fate of new sidewalk links shouldn’t be determined by well-connected folks with objections to “outsiders,” who we can safely argue overwhelmingly use sidewalks for honorable purposes. And there will be an eastside path leading up Riverside to the new park no matter what official action is taken. If typical human behavior is any indication, soon after the park is completed an informal footpath will emerge spontaneously from tens of thousands of treks made by people coming to the park. Pedestrians will create this soft path—voting with their feet, if you will—but it won’t be paved and it won’t be as safe as it might be if it were optimally aligned, designed and surfaced. Walkanomics Some of the folks who oppose the sidewalk claim it will whack their property values. Yet, a bevy of stout statistical analysis shows that well-designed sidewalk networks typically raise property values. Consider economist Joe Cortwright’s 2010 piece for the group CEOs for Cities, in which he gathered data for 90,000 distinct home sales in places like Chicago, Dallas and Jacksonville. “After controlling for all other factors that are known to impact house prices, he found a clear positive correlation [between housing values and walkability scores] in all but two of these markets. In a typical example—Charlotte, North Carolina—Cortright found an increase in walk score from the metropolitan average of 54 (somewhat walkable) to 71 (very walkable) correlated with an increase in average house price from 280,000, to $314,000.”
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Cortright and others have highlighted an array of new developments in America that have fetched higher valuations as a direct consequence of quality sidewalk complements and carefully crafted connectivity amenities, like nature trails and bike paths—assets that are typically open to all comers. Reversing course Tulsa isn’t the worst city in terms of sidewalk access and walkability, but we’re still leagues behind the vanguard and will have to make vast improvements even to reach the level of mediocre. Walkability, it turns out, is a surprisingly quantifiable aspect of a city’s character, aesthetic and economic dynamic. And there is an active, aggressive effort to advance the cause of sidewalk access and walkability in Tulsa led by the folks who populate the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, senior staff from City Hall and INCOG, our regional planning agency, and a host of volunteer activists. A $4.2 million “GO” allocation in the latest round of voter-approved capital improvements earmarked
for a pedestrian/bicycling plan that will rigorously identify areas of town lacking sufficient sidewalks and analyze the cost of upgrades. Taking steps An October summit at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, “Walk to the Future,” tackled many of these issues. It was conceived by Dr. Gerald Clancy, who until recently was president of the OU-Tulsa and a major advocate of exercise, walking and radically improved diets. Clancy gave a detailed presentation on the state of play for a whole range of health indicators for Tulsa and illuminated the connection between sidewalks, fitness and walkability for addressing them. Consider this passage from an article at SmartGrowthAmerica. org: “When streets are designed only for cars, they deny people the opportunity to choose more active ways to get around, such as walking and biking. Even when sidewalks do exist, large intersections and speeding traffic may make walking unpleasant or even unsafe—discouraging any non-motorized traffic. … The latest data
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show that 32 percent of adults are obese, the number of overweight or obese children nearly tripled between 1980 and 2004. Health experts agree that a big factor is in activity—55 percent of the U.S. adult population falls short of recommended activity guidelines, and approximately 25 percent report being completely inactive.” Clancy was followed up by Ian Carlton, director of OU’s Institute for Quality Communities, who talked about the direct health and wellness benefits associated with more walkable communities and the assets and investments needed to create them. Later, the dual topics of direct development—using accessibility and sidewalks to produce jobs and better retail connectivity—was covered by Chuck Marohn, president of the nonprofit Strong Towns, a consulting and advocacy group devoted to improving walkability in American cities. Jeff Stava of the Tulsa Community Foundation and the prime executive associated with the new Gathering Place, concluded the session with a talk on children and families and the new park, spiking accessibility to the park and how
we can create connections from the park to other parts of the city. Next The folks at City Hall would do well to emulate a new voter-approved capital project in Oklahoma City designed to make the city more walkable, improve safety among school kids and encourage adults and kids to “move”—something that a bevy of current research suggests has made spectacular progress toward quashing the obesity epidemic that continues to grip Oklahoma. Folks, it’s really all about imagining real empowerment, moving beyond autopilot nostrums and focusing on improving connectivity in the largest sense. We need to get beyond the same-old same-old, and soon. Perhaps we can walk there. a Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.
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heryl Siddiqui, spokesperson for the Islamic Council of Oklahoma, wants only black tea. “One of my big jihads is training myself to only eat when I’m hungry.” We’re at Old School Bagel Cafe. “Are you sure?” I ask, offering to split my salt bagel. “I’m fine.” “Jihad?” “Struggle.” “So where do we begin?” “This is just me, Sheryl, okay? I’m only speaking for myself—not in any official capacity.” I ask whether that’s really possible in Oklahoma, whether she can ever just be Sheryl. She smiles. Siddiqui is on the boards of The Oklahoma Center for Community & Justice (OCCJ) and the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK). She has chaired Tulsa Partners Inc.’s Language & Culture Bank, worked on First Amendment issues and volunteered her time to combat domestic violence. She also advocates for mental health and wants to spend more time pursuing her passion: disaster mitigation. She’s married to neonatologist Dr. Ali Siddiqui and has three married sons and five grandchildren. She’s also one of the daughters of the American Revolution, she informs me from across the booth. Come again. “Back in the battle of Lexington,” says the former Sheryl Harrington, “there were two Jonathan Harringtons, and my family was related to one of them. As such, we have direct bloodlines to the American Revolution.” That’s astonishing, considering she’s Tulsa’s go-to Muslim
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every time someone in the media needs one. “They call you,” I say. “What’s that like?” “Wicked,” she says. “Just wicked. God forbid, somebody see me when I’m doing something else … like being human. I’m so imperfect.” Both Jews and Muslims are often seen as guests in Oklahoma, but at least we Jews have the advantage of the hyphen—Judeo-Christian. Siddiqui calls my attention to the diversity of Tulsa Muslims, who come from more than 40 countries and three Native American tribes. More than half are American born, and a third are African American. “How can anyone think that we are monolithic in our thinking, politics or practice?” she says. And, yet, that’s exactly what many people think and why
her phone rings when a Moore woman’s throat is slashed by a man yelling in Arabic. The FBI and local police called it workplace violence1—not terrorism—but it doesn’t matter, at least not to State Senator John Bennett (R-Sallisaw): He said the “silent majority” of Muslims who have not commented on the beheading in Moore, as well as the terrorist acts of the Islamic State group, or ISIL, are “just like Germans” who joined the Nazis when the Nazis came into power. 2 “He has legitimacy because he’s an elected official,” Siddiqui says of Bennett, “even though he’s an elected official yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.” Still, Siddiqui is cautious about pushing back, even against the crazies—even, as it turns out, against a freshly re-elected governor who didn’t criticize Bennett for those comments. Siddiqui is a daughter
of the American Revolution, sure, but she is also wearing a hijab. “If I am critical, I’m not patriotic.” Siddiqui has no—she repeats this often—no problem with the local media in Tulsa. “In my experience, Tulsa media sees our diversity, our projects with OCCJ. We’re a part of their lives. Further, the leadership over the years in town—police chiefs, mayors, superintendents—we’ve had no trouble whatsoever.” Although, there is the matter of Tulsa World religion writer Bill Sherman, whose coverage of Islam Siddiqui compares to the national FOX News Network. “They both use a similar tactic when addressing any issue that in any way relates to Islam,” she says. “They find someone they know, whose credentials are not respected by mainstream Muslims, and then play their distorted perspectives against a respected Muslim scholar or leader as if the two are equals. And when stories are covered by these reporters, the hater always gets the last word.” Sherman, obviously, sees it another way. By email he told me, “In the case of Rep. John Bennett, I think Oklahoma needs to know what he is really saying and what his opponents (CAIR, etc.) are saying, without my opinion about it. I leave that to the editorial writers. I’m sure that Sheryl Siddiqui, whom I consider a friend, would rather I blast the Bennetts of the world, or not give them a voice. But when I’m quoting her, I’m sure she wants me to be accurate and fair.” Rabbi Charles Sherman (no relation), formerly of Temple Israel, who has known and worked with Siddiqui for more than two
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decades, sees a parallel between the two faiths and understands the frustration. “It is a terrible bind,” he says, “and we have to be on their side. We know what it’s like to be a minority. We are children and grandchildren of those Jews who suffered with the same problems of assimilation that Muslims are going through now. We’ve had a one- or two- generation head start. I think, similarly, there may need to be a reformed Muslim movement, just as there was a reformed Jewish movement. And that can only happen in America.” “Do I foresee Oklahoma Muslims splitting into congregations defined by level of observance?” asks Siddiqui, referring to the Reformed, Conservative, and Orthodox movements in Judaism. “God knows. I hope not. “I think that there’s goodness and spiritual health by having the whole bell-curve represented in each mosque. We know who the worker-bees are, we know who
knows more Quran than we do, who drinks or gambles, who really loves kids, who is looking for a spouse, who loves our community so much that they’ll walk out of a meeting and slam the door because the rest of us just don’t get it. That, I can live with.”
“I DENOUNCE THOSE ACTS OF TERRORISM BECAUSE I’M ISLAMIC,” SHE SAYS. “HERE’S THE CHAPTER, HERE’S THE VERSE IN THE QURAN. HERE’S MUHAMMAD’S TEACHINGS ON IT, BUT IT DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE OF MUSLIMS AS KILLERS, MURDERERS.” And she must live with Bennett, too. “I denounce those acts of terrorism because I’m Islamic,” she says. “Here’s the chapter, here’s
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The Chalkboard 1324 S. Main Street 918.582.1964 chalkboardtulsa.com
Pan roasted bone-in chicken breast
Classically exquisite The Chalkboard marries old-school charm with modern cuisine by HEATHER TISDALE | photos by VALERIE GRANT
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he Ambassador Hotel was built in 1929 as a luxury extended-stay hotel for the booming oil business. The Chalkboard restaurant joined the historic hotel in the 1970s, and since its renovation in 1999, the owners have done a remarkable job of integrating the building’s beautiful original charm into the dining experience. I had the pleasure of dining there for the first time recently with some of the TulsaFood.com team, and couldn’t help but wonder why I had waited so long. The ambiance is warm and inviting without being pretentious, our servers delivered truly impeccable hospitality and a table full of foodies left impressed and satisfied. We were guided past the bar and main dining room to a cozy dining space in the back of the restaurant where we ordered our wine and pored over the menu. Following a delightful seafood amuse bouche, our salads came. Mine was an incredible red romaine wedge salad with Par-
mesan, fried anchovies, rosemary croutons, confit garlic, fried capers and house Caesar dressing. Believe me when I say—It. Was. Perfection. It’s a difficult task to make a Caesar salad original, but the crispy fried anchovies, fried capers, and flavorful garlic confit make this a truly unique and memorable version. Those delightful savory elements with the house-made rosemary croutons and light but rich Caesar dressing make this my favorite Caesar in town. Next came a colorful artisan cheese plate. Diners have the option of three or five cheeses, served with an assortment of fresh fruit, olives and more of the heavenly garlic confit. Everyone at the table moaned when I ordered the bone-in chicken breast—the chicken dish on any given menu can often be quite boring. But I salivated at the description on the menu and had to try it. As I suspected and hoped, the dish was wonderful. The chicken is pan roasted with herbed jus and was prepared
perfectly with nice crispy skin and moist meat. And the presentation is gorgeous; the chicken is served with a delectable Cremini mushroom risotto and grilled asparagus. One of the gentlemen at the table ordered the special, a ribeye topped with cajun shrimp and served with grilled asparagus. The char-grilled ribeye had a perfect char on the outside and a dark pink, juicy center. The cajun shrimp added nice color to the dish and the cajun sauce was creamy with the right amount of spice. Although this was a special, the char-grilled ribeye (sans shrimp) is on the regular dinner menu. One of the ladies ordered the house-made artichoke and spinach lasagna with confit garlic, house marinara, ricotta and Parmesan cheese. As someone who doesn’t enjoy ground meat in my Italian dishes, I always appreciate vegetable lasagna, and this one was cheesy, flavorful and spectacular. My date ordered the Beef Wellington, The Chalkboard’s signature dish. It’s made with a savory
pâté, Dijon mustard and duxelles of mushroom, wrapped in puff pastry and oven roasted. It’s served with herb-roasted new potatoes and grilled asparagus and complemented with a veal demiglaze. To my knowledge, The Chalkboard is the only restaurant in Tulsa with Beef Wellington as a regular menu item—and it is a must-try. We ordered the pan seared diver scallops for the table to share. They are perfectly seared and tender and served over shrimp saffron truffle risotto and braised spinach, then finished with a roma tomato white wine sauce that added a comforting brightness to the dish. For me, the highlight of every meal is the last, sweetest course, and the heavenly bread pudding was everything I had hoped it would be. It’s a simple bread pudding—not over-complicated by nuts and fruit—topped with both a cream sauce and a chocolate sauce. With a cup of coffee, it’s the best end to a wonderful dinner. a
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Putting it together Crunching numbers with crafty downtown denizen Eric Fransen by BEAU ADAMS
Who: Eric Fransen, CEO, Fransen Furniture and Cabinetry Where: Soundpony To drink: Dos Equis on tap The Tulsa Voice: Could you be bad at math and do what you do? Eric Fransen: [Laughs] So, I guess the long and the short of it is—OK, let me use an example: Let’s compare mathematics to something you know, like creative writing. Creative writing starts with the alphabet, we learn letters first. Then we learn letters make words and words make sentences and sentences make paragraphs. But all of this is learned over a 16 // FOOD & DRINK
relatively long period of time. Once we learn this, we can use these tools to write poetry or prose or maybe something that might stir human emotion and move people. Mathematics is no different. We start with quantities, with numbers, and then add symbols that link them together, like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Then we add letters and variables, algebra and calculus, rules and definitions—and eventually, you might write the poetry. It’s the same thing. So, having said that: Can you be bad at math and do this? You might be bad at some of the “grammar” part of math but have the overall concept down.
EF: Yes, because it’s complex. It’s a lot of 3-D spatial visualization. To take a space that is empty and visualize everything that’s in it, and break it down into two dimensional parts and put it all back together and make it make sense in a three dimensional world takes an understanding of math, which in this case would be measuring space.
TTV: You’d have to be able grasp the overall concept.
EF: The design and execution of my work can be. And I think that,
just like many writers feel—it’s almost all terrible. TTV: Right. There’s no satisfaction, except for being done with it. EF: No. I gave away all of my furniture to my son. I was sick of looking at it. I had five pieces that I made; some of them took me a hundred hours to make.
TTV: That being said, are you good at writing poetry?
TTV: So you just see the flaws?
EF: When I studied mathematics a lot, I wrote papers that were published on number theory, so I have written original mathematics.
EF: Yeah. It could be the most wonderful piece and the flaw could be insignificant, maybe not even visible, but it’s there and I know it, and it still bothers me.
TTV: There you go. Is your work poetry?
TTV: Yeah, I get that. From a writer’s perspective, I don’t think I’ll ever create a piece without flaws. Math is a little less slippery.
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Is it possible to make a perfect piece of furniture? EF: I think, yes, through iteration. I take a lot of my designs and I change little things through iteration, in almost an OCD fashion. I’ve made four of the same coffee table, changing it just slightly every time. Through iteration, I am starting to approach some level of perfection, or at least something that allows me to be comfortable with what I have produced. Don’t you do the same with writing? TTV: I don’t think so. EF: No, c’mon. You self-edit as you go, maybe edit some more, then an actual editor makes more edits. You are refining through iteration. TTV: Yeah, but I like the flaws, as long as they’re not foundational in nature. I’m kind of wabi-sabi that way. The truth is, I’ve learned to love the flaws because I can’t be flawless. EF: I see. I get that.
TTV: I imagine that there has to be a great deal of satisfaction in actually making something from an idea—producing a tangible object. There’s a fair amount of noise coming from certain groups of people who claim that one of the things that’s wrong with this country is that we don’t make things anymore. Thoughts on that? EF: Oh yeah. That’s a wormhole, man. OK, I think it started with us selling our steel mills to the Chinese and Japanese three decades ago. We sold our manufacturing facilities, not because we didn’t have the people who wanted to do it, but for pure profit because the owners of these businesses could make so much more money by exploiting the labor forces of other countries. It’s a small oligarchy that controls all of that, and I think that’s what we’re seeing now. On a small level, at the grass roots level, yeah, I’m making this stuff because I love the tangible side of making something. When my mom was still alive, when I was a mathematician for a
living, she said, “Eric, you’re not going to be happy unless you are using your head and your hands.” My life was research and writing papers and studying and teaching math all the time. So I never had anything tangible at the end of the day. I just had ideas and concepts and stacks of papers with arguments written on them that only a few people in the whole world would even care about, much less understand. My mom reminded me that, you know, I have this vigorous physical energy. I wake up every day happy and excited to get going, I’m a high-energy person. When I was little she’d have me run around the house ten times just to burn off energy. As a kid, I was doing all kinds of stuff, just a crazy volume of stuff, naturally. So, I need this. I need the design details, the technical side, the running of the business, the physical component. There are a lot of aspects to what I do, and I believe that I, on purpose, directed my life to this place.
EF: I taught mainly at junior colleges and some state schools. I worked for MCI [telecomm company based in Washington, D.C.] for four and a half years, as an engineer, and I made killer money there. But it was a terrible environment to work in. I didn’t feel like my work ethic was challenged. It seemed silly in some ways, almost a sophomoric pursuit of life. I mean, people were engineers and this job was just reduced to this oddly simple thing of filling out spreadsheets. TTV: Tell me what you were actually doing there. What was the goal for the company as it related to your work? EF: We would analyze all of the traffic across the fiber network and we would try and forecast the rates of growth in certain corridors. And we did it all by hand! TTV: What? EF: Yeah, so I got there and I noticed that on this weird, green (continued on page 18)
TTV: Tell me about life as a mathematician.
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(continued fr om page 17) monochrome screen that related to the mainframe, there was this little code that would change with each screen. You’d be on one screen and the code would say, like “TCA497” or something, and then you’d change screens and the code would change, but when you went back to the previous screen the code was there again. So, I thought, “That’s a data table or something. Where’s the data?” So I found the data and got access to the mainframe, and then I wrote programs to do all of my work for me, and then thirty hours of work was done with a single push of a button, always accurate. But I didn’t tell anyone, because all of those guys were such assholes. I just goofed off all the time; I came in late. So in some sense I was the best employee, but in some sense the worst employee. And I enjoyed that kind of duality. TTV: But ultimately what you were doing was using math to make this Telecomm giant, who had helped bust up AT&T, more money. EF: Oh yeah, I wrote a program that made it possible for them to save $12 million a month by handing off the Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) and putting it on a long haul network, on an OC12. So I wrote a report and showed them how they could save the money 18 // FOOD & DRINK
and another guy, a guy above me, took credit for it. TTV: Because Corporate America.
THERE IS A POINT WHERE A PERSON SHOULD SAY, “IT’S VULGAR TO TAKE THIS MUCH MONEY FOR WHAT I’M ACTUALLY PRODUCING FOR MANKIND.” IT’S RUDE—THAT’S WHAT IT IS, THOSE PEOPLE ARE RUDE. EF: Right. I was in the meeting when he took credit for it. He said he discovered it and I just wish I had asked him in front of everybody how he did it, or what his assumptions were, or just to show his work. I don’t know, I went through all kinds of bullshit at that company. TTV: I don’t think much has changed in corporate culture, do you? EF: There’s a lot of bright people in some of those companies, and there’s a lot of people that just kind of get by. But here’s what happens to the bright people: the bureaucra-
cy of the companies, the machine that they’re plugged into, just dumbs it all down. It doesn’t allow them to shine, and that’s the problem.
TTV: Instead of saying, “If you want money, you should get this type of degree whether you care about it or not.”
TTV: Because once you are in the machine, there is no payoff for innovation other than maybe saving yourself some time and effort.
EF: It’s like everything is geared toward people ending up in some sort of middle management position, and middle management is the entire problem.
EF: Right. I didn’t get shit for coming up with the formulas to save them that money. I should’ve said, “I will show you guys how to save $120 million a year if you put $1 million in my bank account right now. Now shut the fuck up and do it.” TTV: Should young people be looking to technical schools to learn to build things rather than going to traditional universities to try and score a job in finance? EF: I think it’s sad that a lot of junior highs and high schools are getting rid of the vocational programs they used to offer. I think it’s a mistake. You know, even if we have robotic-run manufacturing facilities, we still need someone to repair the robots, and that technical know-how starts at some sense at a basic shop level. So, a great vo-tech class could be robotics, both maintenance and design. I do think there needs to be more career paths for all of the different types of people that are alive.
TTV: Right. Middle management is heavy; they take up a lot of cash and resources and don’t really produce anything. EF: The unlimited, unfettered free enterprise system is too much controlled by a small group. And even though the wealth potential is uncapped, it should be capped by each person. TTV: Ah, but that person would have to be of the mindset that he or she is not more deserving of the money than someone else. EF: It’s self-regulation. There is a point where a person should say, “It’s vulgar to take this much money for what I’m actually producing for mankind.” It’s rude— that’s what it is, those people are rude. We’ve created a situation where everyone is out for themselves, there’s no sense of community. Everyone is out to fuck everyone. a
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3509 S. Peoria Ave. The server: Don Jones, Café Ole manager The cocktail: Santana Cooler The ingredients: Mango/pineapple Svedka, pineapple juice, grapefruit juice, lime juice, simple syrup—sprinkled with chili powder and garnished with fresh fruit and pickled peppers The lowdown: “We’re famous for our margaritas,” Jones said. “But everyone loves to sit on the patio, so we wanted to create some more cocktails that are best enjoyed on a nice patio. We’re rolling out that new cocktail menu next week.”
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dininglistings DOWNTOWN Abear’s Baxter’s Interurban Grill The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Fat Guy’s Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch The Greens on Boulder Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli Lou’s Deli MADE Market in the DoubleTree by Hilton
Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Oneok Café Oklahoma Spud on the Mall Seven West Café Sheena’s Cookies & Deli Steakfinger House The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Bistro at Atlas Life Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Trula Williams Center Café
EAST TULSA Al Sultan Grill & Bakery Big Daddy’s All American Bar-B-Q Birrieria Felipe Bogey’s Brothers Houligan Casa San Marcos Casanova’s Restaurant Charlie’s Chicken Cherokee Deli Darby’s Restaurant El Centenario El Gallo Loco El 7 Marez El Refugio Azteca Super Taqueria Fiesta Del Mar Flame Broiler Frank’s Café Fu-Thai Garibaldi’s The Gnarley Dawg Hatfield’s
Jay’s Coneys Josie’s Tamales Kimmy’s Diner Korean Garden Lot a Burger Maria’s Mexican Grill Mariscos Costa Azul Mariscos El Centenario Mekong Vietnamese Pizza Depot Porky’s Kitchen Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili RoseRock Cafe Señor Fajita Seoul Restaurant Shiloh’s of Tulsa Shish-Kabob & Grill Stone Mill BBQ & Steakhouse Tacos San Pedro Taqueria la Cabana Timmy’s Diner
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BLUE D OME
Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Draper’s Bar-B-Cue Gypsy Coffee House Hey Mambo The Hunt Club Laffa Lucky’s on the Green Mexicali Border Café Oklahoma Joe’s
Albert G’s Bar & Q Dilly Deli El Guapo’s Cantina Fassler Hall Joe Bots Coffee Joe Momma’s Pizza Juniper
Prhyme Downtown Steakhouse The Rusty Crane Sisserou’s Spaghetti Warehouse The Tavern Z’s Taco Shop Zin Wine, Beer & Dessert Bar
I-44/BA INTERCHANGE Big Anthony’s BBQ Bill & Ruth’s Subs Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Chop House BBQ D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s In & Out Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Monterey’s Little Mexico
Nelson’s Buffeteria Pho Da Cao Pickle’s Pub Rice Bowl Cafe Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Royal Dragon Sezchuan Express Shawkat’s Deli & Grill Speedy Gonzalez Grill Spudder Steak Stuffers USA Tacos Don Francisco Thai Siam Tokyo Garden The Tropical Restaurant & Bar Viet Huong Villa Ravenna Watts Barbecue
NORTH TULSA Admiral Grill Bill & Ruth’s Christy’s BBQ Evelyn’s Golden Saddle BBQ Steakhouse Hank’s Hamburgers Harden’s Hamburgers
Hero’s Subs & Burgers Ike’s Chili Los Primos The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market
WO ODLAND HILLS Lambrusco’z McNellie’s S&J Oyster Company Tallgrass Prairie Table White Flag Yokozuna
UTICA SQUARE Brownies Gourmet Burgers Fleming’s Goldie’s Patio Grill McGill’s Olive Garden P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
Pepper’s Grill Polo Grill Queenie’s Café and Bakery Starbucks Stone Horse Café Wild Fork
SOUTH TULSA BBD II Baja Jack’s Burrito Shack Bamboo Thai Bistro Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders Bodean’s Seafood Restaurant The Brook Camille’s Sidewalk Café Cardigan’s Charleston’s Cimarron Meat Company Dona Tina Cocina Mexicana El Samborsito Elements Steakhouse & Grille The Fig Café and Bakery First Watch Five Guys French Hen Gencies Chicken Shack Gyros by Ali Hebert’s Specialty Meats
Helen of Troy Hideaway Pizza India Palace La Flama Mahogany Prime Steakhouse McNellie’s South City Mr. Goodcents Subs & Pastas Napa Flats Wood Fired Kitchen Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Nordaggio’s Coffee OK Country Donut Shoppe Pita Place Redrock Canyon Grill Ripe Tomato Ron’s Hamburgers and Chili Sushi Hana Japanese Fusion Thai Village Tres Amigos Mexican Grill & Cantina White Lion Whole Foods Zio’s Italian Kitchen
BROOKSIDE Antoinette Baking Co. Biga Billy Sims BBQ Blue Moon Bakery and Café The Brook Brookside By Day Café Ole Café Samana Charleston’s Claud’s Hamburgers Cosmo Café & Bar Crow Creek Tavern Doc’s Wine and Food Egg Roll Express Elmer’s BBQ Fuji La Hacienda The Hen Bistro Hibiscus Caribbean Bar and Grill In the Raw Keo Lambrusco’Z To Go
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TU/KENDALL WHITTIER Big Al’s Health Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s BBQ Brothers Houligan Capp’s BBQ Corner Café Duffy’s Diner El Rancho Grande Freddie’s Hamburgers Guang Zhou Dim Sum Jim’s Coney Island Las Americas Super Mercado & Restaurant Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant
Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Nelson’s Ranch House Oklahoma Style BBQ The Phoenix Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza
Atlas Grill Billy’s on the Square Boston Avenue Grill Deco Deli
Elote Café & Catering Mod’s Coffee & Crepes Tavolo The Vault
CHERRY STREET 15 Below Andolini’s Pizzeria Café Cubana Chimi’s Mexican Food Chipotle Mexican Grill Coffee House on Cherry Street Daylight Donuts Doe’s Eat Place Full Moon Café Genghis Grill Heirloom Baking Co. Hideaway Pizza Jason’s Deli Kilkenny’s Irish Pub & Eatery
La Madeleine Lucky’s Restaurant Mary’s Italian Trattoria Mi Cocina Oklahoma Kolache Co. Palace Café Panera Bread Phat Philly’s The Pint Qdoba Mexican Grill SMOKE. Te Kei’s Tucci’s Café Italia Zanmai
WEST TULSA The Hutch Pantry Main Street Tavern McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro Romeo’s Espresso Cafe The Rooftop
MIDTOWN Albert G’s Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse
Jay’s Original Hoagies Keo Kit’s Takee-Outee La Roma Lanna Thai Logan’s Road House Louie’s Mandarin Taste Marley’s Pizza Mekong River Mi Tierra Napoli’s Italian Restaurant Oliveto Italian Bistro Ri Le’s Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Ridge Grill Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Savoy Shogun Steakhouse of Japan Siegi’s Sausage Factory & Deli Ti Amo Italian Ristorante Wrangler’s Bar-B-Q Yasaka Steakhouse of Japan Zio’s Italian Kitchen
DECO DISTRICT Leon’s Brookside Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Mondo’s Ristorante Italiano Old School Bagel Café Pei Wei Asian Diner R Bar & Grill Rons Hamburgers & Chili Señor Tequila Shades of Brown Sonoma Bistro & Wine Bar Starbucks Sumatra Coffee Shop Super Wok The Warehouse Bar & Grill Weber’s Root Beer Whole Foods Market Yolotti Frozen Yogurt Zoës Kitchen
ROSE DISTRICT BruHouse Daylight Donuts Family Back Creek Deli & Gifts Fiesta Mambo! Hideaway Pizza
Asahi Sushi Bar Baker Street Pub & Grill Billy Sims BBQ Bistro at Seville Bluestone Steahouse and Seafood Restaurant Brothers Houligan Brothers Pizza Bucket’s Sports Bar & Grill Charlie’s Chicken Chuy’s Chopsticks El Tequila Fat Daddy’s Pub & Grille Fat Guy’s Burger Bar Fish Daddy’s Seafood Grill Fuji FuWa Asian Kitchen Firehouse Subs The Gaucho Brazilian Steakhouse Haruno Hungry Howie’s Pizza In the Raw on the Hill Jameson’s Pub Jamil’s Jason’s Deli
Felini’s Cookies & Deli Golden Gate Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Steve’s Sundries Trenchers Delicatessen
Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken Go West Restaurant & Saloon Jumpin J’s Knotty Pine BBQ Hideaway Pizza
Linda Mar Lot a Burger Monterey’s Little Mexico Ollie’s Station Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Sandwiches & More Union Street Café Westside Grill & Delivery
TERWILLEGER HEIGHTS Bill & Ruth’s Blue Rose Café Burn Co. BBQ The Chalkboard Dalesandro’s
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Wizard World Comic Con descends on Tulsa IN A “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” sketch from the ’80s, William Shatner famously told a roomful of Star Trek enthusiasts—decked out in all manner of clichéd “nerd” attire—that they should “get a life” and move out of their parents’ basements. Such was the prevailing popular opinion at the time about fan conventions and the people who visited them—bunch of weirdos. How times have changed. These days a “nerd” label is a badge of honor. Obsessive fandom has become so commonplace that if you’re not nerding out over something, you’re the weirdo. And now that nerdiness has entered (or taken over?) mainstream culture, the fan convention—once an obscure phenomenon—has become an institution.
San Diego’s Comic Con International began in 1970 with 145 comic book enthusiasts gathered in a hotel conference room. Nowadays the event routinely draws nearly 150,000 attendees and has expanded to include pop culture fandom of all kinds. Wizard Entertainment, formerly Wizard Press, which began as a small monthly comics-related magazine, took the reins of Chicago’s Comic Con in the late ’90s and grew it into one of the largest fan conventions in the nation. The company eventually devised a way to take the show on the road and has hosted Comic Con events in cities such as Portland, Austin, New Orleans—and this year, for the first time, in Tulsa.
“It has become a bit of a running mystery with our team— what is happening in Tulsa?” said Peter Katz, senior vice president of business affairs and development with Wizard World. “Ever since we announced the event, the interest level has been incredible. It can sometimes take a while for the event to catch on in a new city, but even in this first year, the response has been amazing.” Organizers say they expect more than 30,000 attendees over the three-day event, which will take over the Cox Business Center Nov. 7-9 with celebrity guests, discussion panels, Q&A sessions, artist and vendor booths—encompassing pretty much any aspect of pop culture, from movies and TV to comics, gaming, anime and more. // BY MATT CAUTHRON
WIZARD WORLD COMIC CON WHERE: Cox Business Center, 100 Civic Center WHEN: Friday, Nov. 7: 3-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. TICKETS: Three-day passes are sold out, but single-day tickets can be purchased starting at $35. VIP packages offer special goodies and heightened access to panels and celebrity autograph and photo op sessions. If you have your heart set on seeing one celebrity in particular, several special celebrity-centric VIP packages are available.
PHOTOS AND AUTOGRAPHS You’ll have plenty of opportunities to get autographs and photos with the celebrity guests, but you’ll be lighter in the wallet afterward. Autograph prices range from $20 (Ari Lehman, better known as the man behind the Jason Voorhees hockey mask) to $80 (Norman Reedus of “The Walking Dead” and fan convention veteran William Shatner). Photos with the celebrities get even pricier. You can get your picture snapped with actor David Della Rocco for $35. But if you want his “Boondock Saints” co-stars Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery in the shot as well, that price jumps to $165. (Surprisingly—confusingly, even—William Shatner will say cheese for $80, the same price you’ll pay for his signature. Maybe he hates writing.) The autograph and photo opportunities are scheduled in special areas throughout the weekend and are available on a first-come basis. Visit wizardworld.com for schedules, rules and other info. 22 // FEATURED
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PANELS AND TALKS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS FRIDAY, NOV. 7
Charlie Christmas: Journey of an Oklahoma Super Hero Cast and crew discuss the making of an independent superhero movie shot entirely in Oklahoma. 4:30-5:15 p.m., Conference C Psychology of “The Walking Dead” A couple of psychology professors from SMU discuss human nature, ethics and other existential conundrums through the prism of everyone’s favorite zombie apocalypse drama. 6-6:45 p.m., Conference B
SATURDAY, NOV. 8
Jon Bernthal and Scott Willson of “The Walking Dead” Spoiler coming stop reading spoiler coming seriously stop reading Find out what the portrayers of Shane and Hershel have been up to since having their zombified heads impaled. Noon-12:45 p.m., Ballroom A One-on-one with Corey Feldman He might care more about his music career than acting these days,
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but he’ll always be Mouth to me. He’ll answer audience questions— and I hope someone asks him why he read the treasure map with a weird accent in “The Goonies.” 1:30-2:15 p.m., Assembly Hall Boldly Going with William Shatner The captain himself. Whatever you do, don’t ask him about “Star Trek.” On second thought, do. 2-2:45 p.m., Ballroom A
“The Karate Kid” 30th Anniversary with Ralph Macchio This might be the first time in Ralph Macchio’s life that he gets more questions about “The Outsiders” than “The Karate Kid.” 3:30-4:15, Assembly Hall Michael Rooker vs. the Audience He’s gruff. He’s funny. He shoots from the hip. This could sneakily be the best panel of the bunch. 4-4:30 p.m., Ballroom A
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Back to Hogwarts with Tom Felton Felton (aka Draco Malfoy) is shooting a documentary about fandom while he’s here, but for at least this 45-minute session, he will answer your burning Harry Potter questions. 5:30-6:15 p.m., Assembly Hall Wizard World Costume Contest The title of Tulsa’s Best Cosplayer is up for grabs. Don’t let it go to an out-of-towner. 7-9 p.m., Ballroom A
SUNDAY, NOV. 9
The Man of Steel: Dean Cain Quick—besides Christopher Reeve, who comes to mind when you think of Superman? It’s Dean Cain. Given how many people have donned the cape, that’s oddly impressive. Noon-12:45 p.m., Assembly Hall Keeping the Faith with Eliza Dushku The “Buffy” veteran will take your questions and tell you that, no, she has not heard of any new developments on a long-rumored “Buffy” movie reboot. Sorry. 1:45-2:30 p.m., Assembly Hall FEATURED // 23
Comic Con’s arrival in Tulsa means big exposure for local artists // BY ANNA BENNETT
ALTHOUGH POP CULTURE ICONS AND WELL-KNOWN ARTISTS MIGHT BE COMIC CON’S MAIN DRAW, a jaunt down Artist’s Alley turns up some serious Tulsa talent in a variety of media. The artists use events like Comic Con to sell their work and increase their visibility. The convention circuit is like old-school social networking, but with more cosplay. Cons can be lucrative, but the up-front investment is large for artists, and sales aren’t guaranteed. Expenses push lesser-known talents out of the loop for major conventions held outside their cities of residence—which makes Tulsa’s selection as host city a welcome development. In the run-up to the huge Wizard World event, a few of these locals took time out of their intense prep work to chat with the Voice.
MICKEL YANTZ, TULSA Secret Identity: Bookish adjunct professor at OU and museum curator Origin Story: “I always joke around that my art is what happens when a kid grows up reading comics, watching cartoons and (driving) a 1963 Cadillac Hearse to high school.” Weapon of Choice: Adobe Illustrator. Yantz uses digital media to create his signature pieces, Día de los Muertos sugar skulls. “I have a skull template that I created a few years ago, and then I start adding layers for clothing, hair, pin striping, shading and more. One print could have from 15 to 40 separate layers.” Heroes: Animators Chuck Jones and Tex Avery, and Dr. Seuss Superpower: Making people smile. “I am grateful for every sale (at conventions), but the greatest feeling (comes from) the smiles and comments that people share.” Plans for World Domination: More sugar skulls! Recent posters feature Disney villains and the thirteen Doctors (from Doctor Who), and Yantz hopes the requests of fans will continue to stretch his boundaries. “The future is wide open. I get my greatest inspiration from fans.” Backstory Highlights: Designed the poster for the 2014 Living Arts Day of the Dead festival. 24 // FEATURED
JONNY HINKLE, TULSA Secret Identity: Mild-mannered librarian Weapons of Choice: Pencil, ink, chalk, charcoal and watercolor Heroes: Ed McGuinness, the comic book artist and penciller best known for his work on Deadpool, Superman and The Hulk, among others. Superpower: The ability to transform into a car sized, super strong and invulnerable scorpion! Plan for World Domination: To work with one of the big comic companies to develop a new comic series franchise that would eventually be turned into a big-budget blockbuster movie series and reap the rewards that confer. Backstory Highlights: Drew comic books and sold them for a quarter in elementary school; awarded Runner Up in TopCow’s 2013 talent search for writers. Hero Name: Tsisduna (from Cherokee for Scorpion: tsi-s-dv-na a-datsv-i-s-gi). An adoptee, Hinkle researched his heritage and discovered he has Cherokee, Chiracahua Apache and Irish ancestry. “Many of the characters I have created or worked on have been Native American.” November 5 – November 18, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
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JERRY BENNETT, OKLAHOMA CITY Secret Identity: door machinist turned professional artist Weapons of Choice: Cintiq, Manga Studio, Photoshop. Digital media gives artists more precision, and comic book art “is also a commercial art that requires deadlines, and you need all the timesavers you can get.” Heroes: Comic book artists Arthur Adams, Stuart Immonen and Micheal Golden Superpowers: Like Superman, but without a cape. “Never a cape.” Plan for World Domination: “I have found some stories inside me that I want to bring to life as graphic novels and picture books, all with the hopes of them becoming movies.” Backstory Highlights: Designing T-shirt for Tokyo in Tulsa 2014. Doing licensed T-shirt design work with Marvel, Lucasfilm and Saban. Working for the Stan Lee Foundation.
NATASHA ALTERICI, TAHLEQUAH Secret Identity: University librarian turned freelance artist Weapons of Choice: Pencil and inks, charcoal and oil, digital inks Heroes: Illustrators Rick Berry and Jon Foster and comic book artist Ashley Wood Superpowers: “Encyclopedia Girl! With the ability to know any fact in an instant. Black suit, pink boots, with a pink brain on the chest, and I’d want a mask like Captain Marvel, that gives my hair that awesome mohawk.” Plans for World Domination: Doing variant covers of her favorite titles, or drawing a limited run of a great female-led comic, like Black Widow or Captain Marvel or Wonderwoman. “I want to write and draw comics about women, because they’re the stories that I want to read and don’t see enough of right now.”
ZACH RAW, TULSA Secret Identity: Unassuming Dillard’s associate Weapons of Choice: Sharpies, Faber Castell pens and Cintiq—“the most handy tool I’ve invested in,” which is like a high-tech digital sketch pad. Hero: Hiroyuki Imaishi (animator and anime director) Superpowers: Flight and Regeneration. “Originally it would have only been flight, but it would be too easy to crash into something.” Plan for World Domination: Leading a team of animators on a feature film. Good comics are “like reading storyboards to a movie.”
Although Purveyors of fine art might dismiss comics, but the art form is a medium—not a genre—and it’s a blend of literature and art. Limitless in their storytelling possibilities and stylistic range, comics are in a time of transition. Increasing demand for more diversity and inclusivity in comics is pushing artists to explore new territory, and popular artists and large comic empires have come under fire for their less-than-heroic response. Blogs about the portrayal of women in comics, like Escher Girls and The Hawkeye Initiative, once covering a fringe topic, have gotten attention in the mainstream media. On Saturday at the Wizard World event, a selection of panel discussions will focus on diversity and gender in the world of comics:
FEMALES IN GENRE FICTION: WRITING STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS AND HANDLING GENDER STEREOTYPES Saturday, Nov. 8, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Conference A Discussing the need for strong, realistic female characters that defy stereotypes, and the need for progressive voices in genre storytelling.
NERDY GIRLS AND THE NEED FOR WOMENCENTRIC SPACES Saturday, Nov. 8, 2–2:45 p.m., Conference B Discussing the genesis of the nonprofit group Nerdy Girls, and why a women-centric group is only a Band-Aid for a much larger problem in nerd culture.
NERDY GIRLS: FEMINISM AND FANDOM Saturday, Nov. 8, 5:30–6:15 p.m., Conference A A panel discussion on the ways—both good and bad— that women are portrayed in nerd culture.
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Pride and joysticks One Tulsan’s passion for retro gaming gear and the nostalgia of nerddom by JOE O’SHANSKY
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e wears a black shirt with the Ghostbusters chasing the ghosts from Pac-Man. Jeans and a t-shirt, like he never left the arcade. He speaks with a matter-of-fact, broadcast-quality elocution, and occasionally staggers his words for added effect: “I only have the Wii connected (semi-dramatic pause) for Gamecube compatibility.” He’s Jesse Hardesty. And he’s a retro gaming nerd (first console: the Magnavox Oydessy 300, released in 1976, which he promptly deconstructed). I’m immediately charmed. When I step into his retro-gaming room—a shrine, really—it’s with the awed silence generally reserved for the arrival of extraterrestrials in a Spielberg movie. The lightswitch is covered by a joystick game pad. Toggling the joystick brings up the low lights. Pressing either of its gray buttons elicits the “pew pew pew” of 8-bit laser blasts—Asteroids or Galaga-style, respectively. It has the feel of a recording studio crossed with an interactive gallery. Subdued track lighting illuminates the glass display cabinets which bookend a couch covered with a Pac-Man maze blanket and a couple of ghost pillows (specifically, Blinky and Clyde). The ambient light of the glass towers bathes a carefully arranged collection of pristinely packaged vintage games for various consoles. The dim walls are marked by bookcases and cabinets loaded to capacity with cartridges, discs and gaming ephemera. But the star of the show is at the front of the room, a glass and metal display case holding more than half a dozen game systems spanning decades, all efficiently wired to a nearly extinct multi-channel switcher (“I’ve got 26 // FEATURED
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8 outputs on that bad boy”) which runs through a modern home theater rig. It’s a veritable stable of gaming history. There are nods to modernity with the PS3 and Wii U; Sega is well-represented with the Saturn, the Master System and Genesis; and the shrine is peppered with Atari—the 7800 and the Jaguar—and obscure shit no one remembers, like the NEC Turbo Duo. “I just A/V-modded that with a new s-video circuit that has not been shown to the public yet,” he says of the Turbo Duo with an unmistakable hint of pride. Translation: Turbo Duo owners? It’s about to get real. However many of you there are. Most everything is hand-customized. Consoles are outfitted with more advanced electronics and upgraded audio and video outputs so that the oldest games don’t look like pixel chaos on the HD flat-panel that many of these systems were never meant to be displayed on. He makes his own cables and hardware when the need calls—which is exactly the kind of thing that differentiates a run-of-the-mill gamer from a real-deal awesome fucking nerd. Gamers are fans. They speak a language most people understand.
Popular culture is, well, popular. Nerds speak in their own dialect. “Standard CX-40’s in there,” “that’s a K600 AMD processor with a deactivated internal and external cache,” “it’s got a Roland LAPC-1 soundboard for MIDI,” “that’s a 2600 homebrew by Paul Slokum, the same guy who did the synth cards,” “DOS Box helps. ScummVM is pretty handy, as well.”
WHILE A COLLECTION LIKE HARDESTY’S WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE FANTASY FOR MOST PLAYERS, THE NERD’S PREDILECTION TO TEAR THAT GEAR APART AND KNOW ALL OF ITS FACETS, AND EVEN ADD A FEW OF HIS OWN, IS WHAT SETS THE NERD APART. Gamers just want their gear to work. Nerds want to know how the objects of their obsession work. While a collection like Hardesty’s would be the ultimate fantasy for most players, the nerd’s predilection to tear that gear apart
and know all of its facets, and even add a few of his own, is what sets the nerd apart. A gamer is a fan. A nerd who plays games is a fanatic. Hardesty is a nerd, and I feel warm nostalgia looking at the installation, nostalgia for these very things that fulfilled my life during a seminal, lost era. But does he feel it, too? Can you feel nostalgia for a place in time if a part of you never stopped living there? Hardesty recently organized the eleventh edition of the Oklahoma Video Game Expo, which he started in 2003. Attendees and contributors often bring in their own rare systems to be set up for all to play. “The OVGE, I’ve always thought of as a living, breathing, video game history museum,” Hardesty says. “One year, I had a guy bring not one, but two Altairs and they were both set up to play Star Trek.” You’ll have to hit up Wikipedia to find out why that is amazing (It is.) The last OVGE took place at P.J. Gamers in August, but the air conditioner couldn’t keep up with the 40-odd arcade cabinets in use, so Hardesty has yet to begin preparations for the next OVGE. “I know I should,” he says. “The Superbit Con guys are already taking registrations for 2015. But the fact of the matter is, I’m going to have to find another venue.” There’s no apparent rivalry in this micro-community, per se, though names like Delph Meek, Justin Edlich and Rob “Flack” O’Hara, as well as competing regional events, are mentioned with a competitors respect. “Superbit Con gets 2,000 people,” he says. “Tokyo in Tulsa gets 3,000. We get at least 500 hundred every year, but that’s not huge.” And while that’s relatively true, the exclusivity winds up feeling even nerdier—and more genuine. a
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thehaps Rock N’ Folk N’ Chili Cook-Off 11/8, Cain’s Ballroom $15-$20, cainsballroom.com Horton Records’ first annual fundraiser is shaping up to be one of this year’s most entertaining. Proceeds support local music projects, and admission covers all-you-can-eat chili, including vegetarian and gluten-free options and recipes from some of Tulsa’s finest musicians. The stellar lineup includes Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Dustin Pittsley, Paul Benjaman, Jesse Aycock, Wink Burcham, Pilgrim, Desi & Cody, Low Litas, Lizard Police, And There Stand Empires, Jacob Tovar & The Saddle Tramps, Chris Becker, Kyle Reid & The Low Swingin’ Chariots, Verse & The Vapors, Rachel LaVonne, Robert Hoefling, Erin O’Dowd, Grazzhopper, Dan Martin & Chris Woody, Adrienne Gilley and a surprise live performance. The evening also features an SLJ guitar raffle, door prizes, a silent auction and live art. All ages are welcome, and kids 12 and under get in free. Students and military members receive a discount at the door. For $15 admission and a free raffle entry, donate a non-perishable food item to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma or bring a coat for those in need. Doors open at 5 p.m. Music starts at 5:30 p.m.
Garden Deva Open Studio Party 11/7-11/8, 317 S. Trenton
Holiday Market 11/6-11/9, $6 Expo Square, jltulsa.org The Junior League of Tulsa holds its annual Holiday Market in the Exchange Center at Expo Square. You’ll find rows upon rows of gift wrapping bows, home decor, food and winter wear. Prepare for the season while the weather’s still pleasin’; winter’s coming. So get a head start, find a gift with some heart, and get a cookie and a portrait with the Clauses.
The nationally-known Garden Deva Sculpture Company celebrates 15 years with its annual arts festival Friday, Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Shop one-of-a-kind jewelry, sculpture, knits, ceramics, glassware, paintings and more from 45 vendors. More than 20 acts will pack the weekend with music, and food trucks will be on-site. Admission is free.
Eat Street Food Truck Festival 11/8, Blue Dome District Tulsa food trucks are decidedly here to stay, and Eat Street goes big to celebrate these innovative small businesses. In its third year, the festival has expanded to bring more than 30 food trucks and all-day live music to the Blue Dome. Mobile cuisine includes American, Mediterranean, Greek, Italian, Japanese, French, Mexican, Vietnamese and more. This year’s food truck challenge features Meaty, Veggie, Sweet Tooth and Kid Friendly categories, and well-qualified Tulsa foodies (including kid chefs) will decide who earns the coveted hubcap awards. The all-ages event runs from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and benefits Meals on Wheels.
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” 11/8, 8:00 pm, Circle Cinema, $10 Watch a horror classic with a horror icon. Special guests Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger himself) and Heather Langenkamp will introduce the film after a special VIP meet and greet. VIP tickets are $50 in advance and benefit Circle Cinema.
Walking with Dinosaurs 11/11-11/12, BOK Center, $29.50-$59.50, bokcenter.com Dinosaurs once again roam the earth in this production based on the award-winning BBC Television series of the same name.
See art for free // Brady Arts District’s First Friday Art Crawl: November
108 Contemporary: “Here and Now: Contemporary Native American Art of Oklahoma;” AHHA: “Mother Road” by artist Jessica Harvey; “Relationships: Societal + Environmental” ceramics by Keith Ekstam, Kevin W. Hugues and Howard Koerth; Entertainment by The bART Center for Music; Brady Artist Studio: Pottery by Mel Cornshucker, Teresa Rechter, Donna Prigmore, Connor Wingfield, Murf and Julie Box; Chrysalis Salon & Spa: “Stop the Stigma” mixed media by Ann Marie DiStefano; Living Arts: NPN/VAN Installations, The Tulsa Contingent; Mainline Art Bar: Dee J Lafon’s “DIVERSITY,” Tommy Ball’s “Ballscapes;” Mocha Butterfly: “A Skirt Shop;” Philbrook Downtown: “Shifting Focus: Native Artists of the late 20th century,” historical photos, contemporary art; TAC: “Solitary Kingdom” paintings by Kristal Tomshany; Tulsa Glassblowing School: Demonstration by guest artist Rob Stern; Zarrow Center: “Hidden Room in the House: Printmakers and the Art of Sublimation,” + live music with Steve Liddell.
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THE BEST OF THE REST EVENTS
Book Swap/Author Talk with Adam Davies // Arrive with one book, leave with another. Bring a book you’ve finished to trade with another attendee of this Booksmart Tulsa event. Bestselling novelist Adam Davies, author of The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon, will talk about his life and work. // 11/6, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, Dwelling Spaces Second Saturday Walking Tour // Discover a new appreciation for Downtown Tulsa’s beautiful architecture. On the second Saturday of every month, Tulsa Foundation for Architecture presents guided tours of Dontown Tulsa’s historic architecture. The tour begins at the Mayo Hotel, 155 W 5th St. // 11/8, 10:00 am, $10, tulsaarchitecture.com Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show // The world’s largest gun show is celebrating its 60th anniversary. With over 4,200 vendor tables, if you can’t find the gun you want, it’s probably illegal to own. // 11/8-11/9, Expo Square, $3-10, tulsaarmsshow.com
PERFORMING ARTS
An Evening with David Sedaris 11/12, $19-$49, 7:30 pm Tulsa Performing Arts Center, tulsapac.com Humorist and writer David Sedaris returns to Tulsa to read excerpts from his most recent collection of essays, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.
Kendall Whittier Art Festival 11/15, 11:00 am-5:00 pm, Kendall Whittier Main St. Presented by Fowler Chevrolet of Tulsa, the festival will feature Open Houses by many Kendall Whittier merchants and organizations, talented Oklahoma artists and craftsmen, local food, craft beer from Marshall Brewing Company, the Fab Lab Tulsa Kids’ Zone and live music from local musicians.
Brian Regan 11/15, 8:00 pm, $37.50$42.50, coxcentertulsa.com One of the country’s favorite comedians, Brian Regan comes to Tulsa for a show at Cox Business Center. Regan has the distinction of appearing more than any other comic on The Late Show with David Lettermen. When you’re laughing so hard you can barely breathe at Regan’s show, you’ll see why Dave keeps inviting him back.
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas // Get into the Christmas spirit early with the citizens of Whoville and their cave-dwelling frenemy, The Grinch. // 11/4-11/9, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $20-$50, tulsapac.com Morgenstern Trio // Named after German poet Christian Morgenstern, the Morgenstern Trio makes wordless poetry in music. In this performance in the John H. Williams Theatre, the trio will perform works by Bloch, Ravel, Fontyn, and Brahms. A free lecture will precede the concert, 45 minutes prior to showtime. // 11/9, 3:00 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $5-$20, tulsapac.com Conversations with Bill Bryson // Bill Bryson has a knack for taking commonplace, everyday events and writing about them in such a way thats fascinating and laugh-out-loud funny. His book A Walk in the Woods was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books. His most recent book is One Summer: America, 1927. // 11/14, 10:30 am, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Tickets available by subscription to Tulsa Town Hall, tulsapac.com Mixed Feelings // A graduation party is derailed when several uninvited guests arrive in this production by G-Rated Theatre that will make you feel like you’re at the party. // 11/15, 7:30 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $5-$10, tulsapac.com The Lost Elephant: A Comedy Concerto // Elmer the Elephant has escaped the zoo and it’s up to the zookeeper to track him down before he causes too much trouble. This production starring comedic mime Dan Kamin with live music performed by Tulsa Symphony Orchestra is a fun way to introduce children to classical music. The production features Romsky-Kosakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee,” Rossini’s “William Tell Overture,” and Saint-Saens’ “The Swan.” // 11/16, 3:00 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $10, tulsapac.com
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Live & On Stage 11/17-11/18, $15-$20, tulsapac.com Eight innovative and edgy performances from four national artists and four local artists over two evenings. Forward-thinking artists in dance, drama and music will be featured in this production presented by the The National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network. THE TULSA VOICE // November 5 – November 18, 2014
Adam Hunter, Mr. Biggs // Stand Up // 11/5, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, 11/6, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $2, 11/7, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 11/7, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 11/8, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 11/8, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy. com/tulsa Pop Up Players // Improv // 11/6, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Show and Tell w/ Peter Bedgood // Talk Show // 11/6, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Crayons // Improv // 11/7, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com
Comfort Creatures // Improv // 11/7, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 11/9, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Ben Creed, Mike Brody, Nate Armbruster // Stand Up // 11/12, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, 11/13, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $2, 11/14, 7:30 pm, 11/14, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, The Loony Bin, $10, 11/15, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 11/15, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy.com/tulsa Show and Tell w/ Peter Bedgood // Talk Show // 11/13, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Crayons // Improv // 11/14, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com The Log // Improv // 11/14, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Ryan’s Drinking Problem // Drinking Game Show // 11/14, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Snap! // Improv // 11/15, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Phunbags // Improv // 11/15, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Kelly’s Treehouse // Improv // 11/15, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 11/16, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Soundpony Comedy Hour w/ Andrew Deacon, Michael Zampino, Madison Allen // Stand Up // 11/17, Soundpony, thesoundpony.com/events/
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oklahomacool Moving beyond Woody & Will in search of the new Oklahoma canon
David Rakoff, Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris
A story in three acts Of public radio’s storytelling greats, only the Okie has kept her distance by JEFF MARTIN t’s hard to measure the impact the long-running public radio program This American Life has had on me. The show’s been on for two decades but didn’t really become a part of my life until about 2002. Since then, in terms of personal cultural influence, I put it right up there with the great music, books, and films of this era. Creator and host Ira Glass seems as familiar to me as any real friend could be. I always have the sense that were we ever to meet, the conversation would pick up naturally as if we’d known each other since school. This is the genius of the radio/listener relationship when done at the highest level. Of course Ira’s talking to all of us, but for that one hour a week (our session), I like to imagine he’s talking only to me. With me. Over these past dozen years or so, one of the great pleasures This American Life provides is an introduction and occasional visit from some of the great essayists/ humorists of our time. The list is long, but the holy trinity to me will always be David Sedaris, the late David Rakoff, and Oklaho-
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ma’s own Sarah Vowell. If you had told me in 2002 that I would one day become friendly with two of these three writers, one would have assumed that the Okie would be one of the two. Wrong.
THE LIST IS LONG, BUT THE HOLY TRINITY TO ME WILL ALWAYS BE DAVID SEDARIS, THE LATE DAVID RAKOFF, AND OKLAHOMA’S OWN SARAH VOWELL. Through various capacities and alliances, I’ve had the great pleasure to bring David Sedaris to town a half-dozen times in the past decade, including his upcoming gig at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center on November 12. He’s always so kind and as fun as you’d imagine, and our times together have been a blast. My favorite memory is hanging out at the Brookside Laundromat for an hour or so because he “didn’t trust hotel laundry.” My wife even
took him swimming once at the Thornton YMCA. Getting to know David Rakoff during what would be the last six years of his life was truly a gift. After striking up a bit of an email correspondence, I brought David to Tulsa in 2006 in partnership with the now-defunct Celebration of Books at OSU-Tulsa. We had a great time, and he always talked about going to the Tulsa State Fair. The giant turkey leg left a lasting impression. We stayed in touch fairly regularly after that and saw each other a few more times, once in Austin (with Amy Sedaris to boot), and another time in New York City, where he took my wife and me on a walking tour of his neck of the woods around Gramercy Park. We had a return trip to Tulsa arranged for 2010, but around that time David was diagnosed with a malignant tumor that led to further complications. He died on August 9, 2012. Of all of the TAL personalities, Sarah Vowell stands out. She is funny. She is witty. But above all else, she’s endlessly curious, specifically with American his-
tory. It might sound silly to say I enjoy learning from her work, but I always do. Of Cherokee descent and born in Muskogee in 1969, Sarah spent the first decade of her life in the Sooner State before heading to Montana. Her distinctive voice (so great Pixar came calling), doesn’t sound particularly Oklahoman, but it doesn’t really sound like anywhere. It’s just her. I’ve tried for years and years to get Sarah back to her home state. I’ve emailed, asked friends to put in a good word and badgered her publishers any time a new book arrives. No dice. She deserves to be celebrated and we’re ready to do so. Perhaps she has a few crazy relatives she wants to avoid. We all do, Sarah. Whatever the reason, let’s work it out. It’ll be fun. Still not convinced? Just ask Mr. Sedaris. a An evening with David Sedaris Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa PAC Win a pair of tickets Visit TheTulsaVoice.com/sedaris
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Ashle y’s carefully curated, tastefully displayed brass animals // Photo by Ashle y Heider Daly
Of a piece Walking the line between impassioned collector and hoarding weirdo by ASHLEY HEIDER DALY
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here is nothing inherently wrong with collecting a lot of similar things. It’s a big part of many of our lives. Jack Donaghy? Cookie jars. Me? Brass animals. You? Maybe Star Wars figurines or spoons or Pez dispensers. Displaying these collections in our homes is a way of celebrating our interests. Do it well, and you become better understood. Do it poorly, and you become the butt of jokes. My goal is to make my collection of brass animals look so cool that people revere the shiny little figurines for the wonders that they are. You can do the same for your rare coins or Chia Pets. Refine your collection Haven’t honed your collecting down to the details? Amateur hour. I only collect small brass animals with similar stylistic engravings. Only. Do I want to own the giant brass eagle and goofy billy goat? Yes. But I have to keep my game face on. This 32 // ARTS & CULTURE
isn’t about having all the brass or all the commemorative plates or all the stuffed animals. Collecting means searching carefully for similar items to make a cohesive group. You’ll find hunting much more rewarding if you narrow your search.
IF YOU HAVE A TON OF OUTLANDISH COLLECTIONS, YOUR HOUSE BECOMES MORE LIKE AN ODDITIES MUSEUM, AND, AT THIS POINT, YOU SHOULD CHARGE ADMISSION. You can also become a more soulful collector by limiting your means of procurement. I have a friend who collects toy cars. He was a purist, only buying in person, until a recent eBay purchase. I could see in his eyes the shame he felt for straying. To experience
the joy of collecting, don’t do this to yourself. Keep them corralled There is beauty in similarity and consistency. Assemble your collection with purpose. If it’s scattered willy-nilly around your home, it looks sloppy and you look like a hoarder. If you build a lovely shelf for your figurines and arrange them all in a row, your collection makes a statement. It says that this is a controlled and focused design effort. It’s also a way to respect yourself and your interests. Make a home for the things in your home. Watch yourself There is an inverse relationship between the absurdness of your collections and the number of collections you should reasonably have. If you have a whole wall of vintage camera parts, you might want to call it a day and make that your sole collection. If you have just one shelf of dolls, then
maybe there’s room for another collection elsewhere. If you have a ton of outlandish collections, your house becomes more like an oddities museum, and, at this point, you should charge admission. But if you want a well-decorated home, keep yourself in check. It really comes back to my first point of editing your selection. The more you exercise restraint and provide homes for your collections, the more respect and meaning you give them. This diligence is rewarding. And one of those rewards is not looking crazy. a Ashley Heider Daly manages her brass animal collection every day of her life, carefully balancing it into a purposeful part of her home décor. If you want to talk seriously about having a lot of one thing, drop by and say hi to her at her vintage and one-of-a-kind home store, Retro Den. Follow her on Instagram, @ahdaly.
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Right round, round round
Vinyl is on the upswing—and it’s never too late to become an aficionado by RYAN DALY
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inyl is back. After two decades of CDs and, subsequently, digital downloads dominating music sales, Nielsen Entertainment reported that as of mid-year, CD sales were down 20 percent, while vinyl album sales were up 40 percent, totaling 4 million units (a far cry from the 62.9 million CDs sold, but still). Although this kind of news is enough to send you spiraling into a hazy, Wes Anderson-esque 8mm dreamland where you finally whisk that charming indie dude/chick at your favorite cupcakery off his or her feet while the soothing hum and crackle of a vinyl record mercifully obscures Justin Vernon’s warbling falsetto, you need to slow your roll. Like anything worth doing, starting a vinyl collection is worth doing right, and there are a few things you need to know to keep from looking like an asshole. Master the basics (music pun!) First, you buy vinyl or a record, not a vinyl. Second, records come in myriad sizes and playing speeds resulting
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from a full-scale format war in the early years of mass-produced recorded music, but unless you’re buying a Jack White album, it’s unlikely you’ll need to know anything more than the following formats: • Single – a 7-inch record played (typically) at 45 rpm and containing two songs, a single and a “B-side” • EP – a record of any size or playing speed that holds more than two songs but fewer than a full-length LP • LP – a 12-inch record played at 33½ rpm that holds a fulllength release, typically more than 20 minutes per side Third, thanks to some creative manufacturing and marketing, records now come in an endless array of colors and shapes, with everything from glitter to Wayne Coyne’s presumably narcotic-laced blood. But if you’re really in it for sound quality, it’s best to stick with 180-gram black vinyl.
Everything else is just for show. Keep things clean “Don’t touch the vinyl – that’s pretty easy, but it’s the main thing,” said Jay Hancock, owner of Holy Mountain Music and Oddities, 1416 E. 11th Street. “Pick it up by the label and edges.” Records play when a needle passes through tiny grooves on the vinyl’s surface. The dirt, oil and barbeque sauce on your grubby mitts can get down in those grooves, obscure the sound and degrade the record. “You should always use a carbon fiber brush to get the dust [and static electricity] off your records and brush off your needle every time you play a record,” said Curtis Compton, store manager at Starship Records and Tapes, 1241 S. Lewis Avenue. “You don’t have to be precious about it, but make sure there aren’t any dust bunnies.” Finally, keep your vinyl stored upright and away from the heat. “Don’t stack them, and don’t sit them in front of a hot window,” Hancock said. “Those are
the two things that cause the most warping.” Okay, so this might seem more complicated than organizing files in your iTunes library, but it boils down to this: treat your records like you’d treat your privates— keep them clean, dry, and out of the sun. Don’t worry too much Yes, owning vinyl records sounds like (and can be) a pain in the ass. But as much care as you can put into maintaining your collection, you shouldn’t be losing any sleep. “There are a lot of aficionados that concern themselves with the care of their vinyl,” said Hancock. “But really, it’s a pretty bulletproof medium. When CDs came out, they were the easiest to ruin – one small scratch and you could never listen to it again. I’ve come across records with a significant amount of wear, and unless you gouge them or have mold growing on them, they sound fairly good—there’s more static and pop, but they’re listenable.” a
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voice’schoices Best bets for live music
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DON WILLIAMS
Bridging the gap between hippie-ish dance rock and bass-thumping EDM rhythms, Sound Tribe Sector 9 will give the Cain’s dance floor all it can handle—like always. Save your energy for an after-show next door at the Yeti with Tulsa’s own Moai Broadcast. And remember: Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
A Country Music Hall of Famer and owner of a boatload of top-10 hits on the country charts, Don Williams is best known in our corner of the world for his 1978 hit single “Tulsa Time.” The only question is whether he opens or closes with it. I imagine Tulsans wouldn’t mind if the answer was “both.”
11/6 w/ Exmag at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main Street
11/14 w/ Colm Kirwan at Brady Theater, 105 M.B. Brady Street
Wed // Nov 5
Cain’s Ballroom – Atmosphere, PROF, deM atlaS, DJ Fundo – 8:00 pm – ($25-$40) Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm Downtown Lounge – Sean Danielsen, Smile Empty Soul – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher On the Rocks – Don White Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell Soundpony – Guardant The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project Tulsa Little Theater – Darrell Scott – 7:30 pm – ($25-$50)
Thurs // Nov 6
Cain’s Ballroom – STS9, Exmag – 8:00 pm – ($28.64-$42.50) Centennial Lounge – Gypsy Hot Tub – 9:00 pm Downtown Lounge – The Moms, Everything Ever, Whiskeydick – 7:00 pm Enso – Erin O’Dowd – 5:00 pm Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Clark Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Event Center – Jenny Labow Soundpony – Various Blonde The Colony – John Calvin Abney CD Release 36 // MUSIC
The Hunt Club – A Night of Rock The Shrine – Slick Rick, The Sex, iamDEZ – ($15-$75) White Flag – Hodera – 8:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – Tyler King – 8:00 pm
Fri // Nov 7
Centennial Lounge – Gerrett Heck – 9:00 pm Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm Fassler Hall – Bandelier Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Laron Simpson Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Guthrie Green – Paul Benjaman Band – 6:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Chorus Blonde Junes, Weather for Strangers – 6:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Zodiac – 10:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Viva Le Vox, Joe Buck Yourself – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Event Center – Annie Up Pepper’s Grill South – Dean Demerritt’s Jazz Tribe River Spirit Event Center – Rick Springfield – 7:00 pm – ($40-$60) Soundpony – Ebony Tusks, Oilhouse, Guardant The Colony – Colin Elmore & the danville Train The Hunt Club – Glam R Us
JD MCPHERSON
MOM’S KITCHEN, THE SCHWAG
He might be from Broken Arrow originally, but Tulsa has no qualms claiming JD McPherson as a native son, and the love is evident every time he comes to town. Blending old-school rock, R&B and rockabilly with a modern sensibility and razor-sharp songwriting chops, it’s possible his local roots are immaterial—Tulsa just loves the guy’s music. 11/ 14 w/ The Cactus Blossoms at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main Street
The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – The Oak Ridge Boys – 8:00 pm – ($35$45) The Shrine – David Starfire, maSSad & Aycock duo, Dilation, The Shimmy Shack Bellydance Troupe – ($9.50-$13) The Vanguard – November Birthday Bash w/ Searching for Sanity, Severmind, The Joint Effect, The Board, Benny’s Little Weasel – 7:00 pm – ($8-$10) Undercurrent – For the Wolf, First Jason – 8:00 pm Yeti – Mannequin Pussy
Sat // Nov 8
Cain’s Ballroom – Rock n’ Folk n’ Chili Cook-Off – 5:30 pm – ($15-$20) Centennial Lounge – Bull Finger – 9:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Seven Day Crash Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Four Aces Tavern – David Dover – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Gypsy Coffee House – Terry Aziere – 9:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Grady Nichols – 10:00 pm Mercury Lounge – The Bellfuries – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Event Center – Annie Up Pepper’s Grill South – Danny Timms
It’s tribute time at the Shrine. Mom’s Kitchen will bring some swampy Georgia rock to tide over Tulsa’s (considerable) Widespread Panic fanbase on Nov. 8 The Schwag will channel the gorgeous psychedelic grooves of late-60s San Francisco on Nov. 15 for Deadheads old and new. Mom’s Kitchen 11/8 The Schwag 11/15 at The Shrine, 112 E. 18th Street
Soundpony – Ghost Foot - Happy Hour Show – 5:00 pm Soundpony – DJ Falkirk The Colony – Bryan Huling The Hunt Club – Randy Crouch The Hunt Club – Ray Wylie Hubbard – 7:30 pm – ($25-$50) The Shrine – Mom’s Kitchen (Widespread Panic Tribute) – ($10) The Vanguard – Gooding CD Release Party, The Heroine, Nicnos – 8:00 pm – ($10) Undercurrent – Southern Lush, Machine in the Mountain, Serafem, Dirty Crush, Mortuary Science, prey 4 me – 8:00 pm White Flag – We Shall Remain, The Board, Streetlight Fight, Mammoth Man – 8:00 pm
Sun // Nov 9
Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 am Mercury Lounge – Joe Sundell and the Show and Tellers – 10:00 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Cynthia Simmons: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald – 5:00 pm – ($5-$20) Soundpony – Thelma and the Sleaze! The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Vanguard – Kublai Khan, Advocate, Home Grown Terror, Adiaphora – 7:00 pm – ($12-$15) VOICE’S CHOICES
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Soundpony – Radar vs Wolf The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton
Tues // Nov 11
Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz Jam – 5:30 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Blues Jam – 8:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell White Flag – Exalt – 7:00 pm
Wed // Nov 12
Cain’s Ballroom – Savoy, Bright Lights – 8:00 pm – ($16-$31) Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher On the Rocks – Don White Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell Soundpony – Tatsuya Nakatani Happy Hour Show – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Bitchcraft The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project
Thurs // Nov 13
Enso – Ice Cold Glory – 5:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Event Center – Echo River Spirit Event Center – Foreigner – 7:00 pm – ($60-$90) Soundpony – Angwish, 2B2 The Colony – Beau Roberson and Friends The Hunt Club – Chris Hyde Duo The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Paul Rodgers – 8:00 pm – ($45$55) The Shrine – Framing the Red, Alloy, Skytown – ($5) Woody’s Corner Bar – Brandon Jackson
Fri // Nov 14
Cain’s Ballroom – JD McPherson, The Cactus Blossoms – 8:00 pm – ($17-$32) Centennial Lounge – Steve Pryor – 9:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Amped Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm Downtown Lounge – 36 Crazyfists, Skinlab, All Hail The Yeti, INCITE – 8:00 pm – ($20) Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Smokin’ Crawdadz – 6:00 pm Elephant Run – 4Going Gravity – 9:00 pm Fassler Hall – Whirligig Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Ben Neikirk Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Gypsy Coffee House – Andrew Michael – 9:00 pm IDL Ballroom – Assimilation – 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Acousta Noir, The Electric Rag Band – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Event Center – Smilin’ Vic
Pepper’s Grill South – Gumbo Poets Soundpony – The Chosen Few w/ Dial Tone, Grand National, Steph Simon, Young DV, La Familia The Colony – Joe Schicke The Fur Shop – The Taylor Machine – 9:00 pm The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks The Shrine – Eric Himan – ($8-$10) The Vanguard – The Agony Scene, Project 86, Living Sacrifice, Even the Dogs, Far from Sanity – 8:00 pm – ($12-$25) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin
Sat // Nov 15
Centennial Lounge – Steve Pryor – 9:00 pm Club Ma jestic – The Bourgeois EP Release Party w/ SocietySociety – 9:00 pm Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Brandon Clark Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Gypsy Coffee House – Ryon Whitfield – 8:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Fuzed – 10:00 pm Kenosha Station Pub & Grill – The Dirtboxwailers – 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Red Eye Gravy – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Event Center – Smilin’ Vic Pepper’s Grill South – Terry Cooper and Brea Anderson River Spirit Event Center – Travis Tritt – 7:00 pm – ($30-$50) Soundpony – The Danner Party, Bite Me The Colony – The Souveneers The Hunt Club – David Castro Band The Shrine – The Schwag – ($10) The Vanguard – Milkdrive – 8:00 pm – ($8-$10) Yeti – Axis
Sun // Nov 16
Cain’s Ballroom – Dropkick Murphys, Blood or Whiskey, Bryan McPherson – 7:30 pm – ($24-$39) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 am Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark – 10:00 pm Soundpony – The Pointer Brothers The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing
Mon // Nov 17
Mercury Lounge – Moot Davis – 6:00 pm The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton
Tues // Nov 18
AHHA – Barron Ryan – 7:30 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Reliant K, Blondfire, From Indian Lakes – 7:00 pm – ($17-$32) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz Jam – 5:30 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Blues Jam – 8:00 pm
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Q&A
Whirligig, circa 1998: Kelly Oliver, David Mer rit t, Dylan Lay ton, Paul Moore, Mike Back, Mat t Caste el
Locked in a groove
Whirligig’s Sunday night jam session lasted 20 years and counting by MATT CAUTHRON
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came to Tulsa for a wedding in 1999, and the entertainment that night was provided by a local outfit called Whirligig. At night’s end, my legs limp like wet pasta from all the boogie, I was so smitten that I would end up making several return trips to Tulsa just to catch them play. The marriage we celebrated that night in 1999 didn’t make it a year. Whirligig, on the other hand, went another 15, and they’ll celebrate their 20th anniversary with a special concert at Fassler Hall on Nov. 14. To mark that milestone (and seriously, if you’ve ever attempted a creative collaboration with multiple people for any length of time, you know what an impressive milestone it is), I invited the band to sit down for a few drinks and talk about those 20 years. Present are Dylan Layton (lead guitar), Paul Moore (drums, vocals), Matt Casteel (bass) and Damon Daniel (drums, percussion). Absent are Kelly Oliver (guitar, vocals) and Michael Back (drums, percussion). So you know what’s first. How’d Whirligig start? Dylan Layton: Kelly and I have known each other since middle school, and we would jam together
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a little bit, up through high school. We probably would’ve jammed more, but I think his parents thought I was a bad influence. Paul Moore: No! Dylan: And they were right. [Laughter] And then Matt, Paul and Mike went to Bishop Kelley together. Dylan: We used to have these crazy jams at this guy Dave Merritt’s house. This would be around 1993. It was a pretty wild scene over there—show up, hang out, play music for 18 hours straight. Matt Casteel: All kinds of people, all kinds of instruments. Dylan: Members of Medicine Show, Glass House, Jacob Fred … everyone would just come and play. It was super free-form. But eventually the same people kept showing up and songs started coming together. Paul: I saw Mike [Back] at Cafe Olé one time. He invited me over to Dave’s for the Sunday jams. I didn’t go for a long time, but one Sunday I just happened to go and take a guitar. I walked in like I knew what I was doing, I sat my guitar down and picked up a mic, “OK, you guys follow me.” And I played and sang, and people played along
and it was really nice. Then when I finished, Kelly and Dylan started to play guitar, and I’m like, “Oh shit. I am not a guitarist.” But I really liked what was happening, so I told them, “Hey, I play drums too!” I couldn’t believe the music I was hearing. I had never heard guys play guitar like that—together in unison. It was like Allman Brothers-style dual melodies that you just don’t hear a lot of. So I went and told Matt about the jams, said they needed a bass player, and convinced him to come. So when Matt came, the band kind of started to get its footing. Matt: Before long, the other bands we hung out with at those Sunday parties kind of kicked us out of the casual jams. They started saying, “Come on guys. You’re a real band. Why are you playing in a living room?” Paul: We played at a place called Club 1 a lot in those days. It’s not there anymore. It’s an apartment building on Riverside. But it’s weird—it was an apartment building back then too. But it had this cool club. Dylan: We only played there because it was so fun. We loved it. The pay was half of anywhere else. It was so hot. It was smoky. But it was the place you could go
and do absolutely whatever—musically and otherwise. Paul: I remember one night Steve Pryor came and sat in with us, and before we started he turned around and said, “All right guys— if you see me duck, you’ll want to duck too.” And I started thinking, “What the hell are we in for tonight? Is someone going to shoot at us?” Dylan: So all of a sudden we’re this band with lots of gigs—we’d play at Club 1, Full Moon, Sunset Grill, Woody’s. We went from jamming in living rooms to getting voted best band in Tulsa—in some publication [Ed. note: An argument ensues over which one]— in just a couple years. And we were shocked, because all we did was play gigs and have fun. So, from the living room to Tulsa’s favorite band, give me an idea of what you were playing over that couple years. Covers? Originals? 30-minute improv jams? Dylan: We started out playing Grateful Dead covers, and then stuff that was influenced by Medicine Show. They were the jam band in Tulsa. That was back when there weren’t a lot of jam bands. (continued on page 40)
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
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Sophomore slump be damned—Broncho’s “Just Enough Hip To Be Woman” is a spectacular piece of music. Expanding on the upbeat lo-fi punk sound of their debut, Norman-based Broncho has turned the reverb up and completely found themselves where other acts might’ve easily gotten lost. Channeling equal parts ‘80s ambience and ‘90s attitude, songs like “What” and “Class Historian” demonstrate the band’s ability to craft superbly catchy hooks without losing the deconstructionist edge that gives their music its liveliness.
Local sons Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey balance their complex and intricate compositions with a spirit of anything-goes revelry, and the trio walks that tightrope with such confidence— swagger, even—that no net is needed. Their newest, “Worker,” is a groove-heavy amalgamation of the meticulous irreverence we’ve come to expect from the current JFJO lineup. Songs like “Betamax,” “Hey Hey NSA,” and “Better Living Through Competitive Spirituality” reveal a band with chops to spare and the gumption to let the music take them (and the listener) anywhere. Experimental jazz, indeed.
What Low Litas are able to capture in 35 minutes on their recently released self-titled album is something that takes many acts an entire career to harness efficiently. The duality of their gorgeously dreamy vocals layered perfectly over their overdriven fuzzbox guitars give the band a sonic certainty that informs every song on the album. Standout tracks include the phaser-heavy opener, “Busted,” the album’s soft moment of reflection, “Never” and the driving closer, “Go On.”
(continued from page 38) There was the Dead and the Allman Brothers. Phish and Widespread Panic were just barely starting to get big. There weren’t a hundred jam band festivals. It was kind of an underground scene back then. Paul: So we’re playing a lot of covers, and the original songs just kind of came organically—and pretty quickly, because with the kind of music we were playing, it was a lot of improvising, so Kelly and Dylan were very good at organizing cohesive songs out of some of the improv. We definitely modeled what we did after Medicine Show, doing covers but injecting our own style into it and taking it to new places. Dylan: Most of us would’ve been perfectly happy doing the cover thing. We had some originals, or at least the beginnings of some. But it got to a point where we said, “If we’re going to really try to do anything with this band, we gotta have original music.” And Kelly, more than anybody, really stepped up to the plate and started writing. 40 // MUSIC
Matt: None of us are the kind of people who want to take a leadership role and say, “It’s gotta be my way or the highway. I want to dominate.” Dylan: We’re all the most passive aggressive motherfuckers you’ve ever met, honestly. Paul: Nobody wanted to carry a leadership role, but inevitably, something had to happen. Matt: Well, it’s Kelly. And it’s not only a personality thing, he just has a sense of where we needed to go. And it comes down to: We all communicate well with Kelly. Dylan: Whirligig wouldn’t be Whirligig without Kelly. They’ve done it for a while without me. They’ve done it for a while without Paul. But there’s really no Whirligig without Kelly. Paul: And he would never tell you that he’s that guy. Matt: He’s probably not here for that very reason. [Laughter] But we all have this unspoken thing between us, musically. We’ve
played together so long. And the band being so guitar-driven, the interplay between Dylan and Kelly is a special thing. Lots of people say that, actually, and always have. There’s something magical about those two playing together. Skipping ahead to the present, you’ve got the 20th anniversary gig at Fassler coming up. Any other plans on the horizon?
Paul: And many of us play with different people and in different incarnations of this band, but it’s a larger musical family that we’re a part of. We’ve been seeing a lot of familiar faces for a long time. But at the root of what Whirligig is, it does pretty much retain its core. Dylan: The chemistry when we’re all together—it’s just special. a
Dylan: Brian Horton and I have been throwing around the idea of maybe putting together a retrospective album that also has some new tunes. I’d like to see that happen. We have some new tunes, it’s just a matter of making time to do it. Paul: Yeah, we all just have so much going on nowadays. I have two daughters, so it’s tough to tell my wife after she’s been working all week, “Hey, I’m going to play music with my friends—Friday night and Saturday night—cool?” Matt: Life just happens. All of us are still here in town. Tulsa kind of has that gravitational pull.
WHIRLIGIG - 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Friday, Nov. 14, 10ish p.m. Fassler Hall, 304 S. Elgin See selections from Whirligig’s stripped-down set during a recent Tulsa Voice Courtyard Concert. TheTulsaVoice/Video
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Ruth Wilson and Dominic West in ‘The Affair’
An ‘Affair’ to forget
Showtime’s new dual-perspective drama is a pretentious slog by JOSHUA KLINE
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he Affair” is like a Nicholas Sparks romance rendered by a moody art student. It betrays its Important Show aspirations early on in its pilot, when the unfolding drama is revealed to be the unreliable recollections of its two lead characters during a police interrogation. The reveal introduces a mystery: someone is dead, possibly murdered, and the key to the truth is wrapped up in the particulars of an illicit love affair between Noah (Dominic West) and Alison (Ruth Wilson). They first meet in a diner in Montauk. Alison, a waitress, serves Noah and his family, who are vacationing for the summer while Noah works on his novel. When Noah’s son chokes on his lunch, Alison assists. Noah notices her and becomes infatuated. The seeds of an affair are born. Alison is in a lot of pain. She’s still grieving the accidental death of her son two years after the fact, and it’s putting a strain on her marriage. Her rancher husband, Cole (Joshua Jackson), is aloof and pre-occupied with his work. Alison, isolated and numb, occasionally cuts herself. 42 // FILM & TV
Noah, a schoolteacher, lives in the shadow of his wealthy father-in-law (John Doman), a best-selling novelist who takes joy in criticizing Noah’s writing and reminding him of the financial help he lends the family.
“THE AFFAIR” MODELS ITSELF AFTER RECENT POP CULTURE TOUCHSTONES— MOST OBVIOUSLY “TRUE DETECTIVE” AND “GONE GIRL”—WITHOUT BRINGING MUCH NEW TO THE TABLE. The show splits its competing narratives cleanly down the middle—the first half of each episode is dedicated to Noah’s point of view, while the second half jumps to Alison’s version of the same events. The memories vary predictably, with each character casting him-or-herself as the morally conflicted Good Person fighting the brazen temptations of the unscrupulous other.
In Alison’s version, Noah is self-centered, bored, and seeking out an affair to use as inspiration for his novel. In Noah’s version, Alison is a flakey free-spirit who all but seduces Noah with her eyes. In Alison’s story, Noah creepily watches from behind a tree as she and Cole have drunk sex in the driveway. On the other hand, Noah recalls the sex as borderline assault, which he watches for a moment out of shock and concern before Alison signals to him that she’s okay. It’s a literal “He said, She said” conceit that’s alternately intriguing and cumbersome. The divergent memories are no doubt laying the foundation for the larger mystery, but the constant retread is often tedious. Four episodes in, the series is still coasting on the promise of some imminent revelation that will retroactively justify and elevate what so far feels like a pretentious melodrama cribbing from better material. This is the show’s biggest problem. “The Affair” models itself after recent pop culture touchstones—most obviously “True Detective” and “Gone Girl”—without bringing much new to the table. Co-cre-
ators Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi (“In Treatment”) are working from an original idea that seems born from a desire to win Emmys, but the writing is often broad and clichéd, and there’s little chemistry between West and Wilson, which is a big issue for a show billed as an erotic drama. It may still grow into itself as the mystery is teased out, but right now “The Affair” is crumbling under the weight of its own self-importance. a
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As a creepy sociopath in ‘Nightcrawler,’ Gyllenhaal is great in a film that’s just good by JOE O’SHANSKY
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here was a time when I really lamented the fact that Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t take over the Peter Parker role in Sam Raimi’s “Spiderman.” Tobey Maguire famously had a rough go of the physicality involved with playing the physics-defying web slinger. And, the fact is, I thought Gyllenhaal was the better fit. But hindsight is always 20/20 and now it seems like providence that Raimi stuck with his star. Otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist (“Brokeback Mountain”), his Robert Graysmith (“Zodiac”) or his Coulter Stevens (in Duncan Jones’s under-seen “Source Code”). And we also wouldn’t have gotten one of the creepier characters in recent cinematic memory in Gyllenhaal’s latest, “Nightcrawler.” That would be Louis Bloom (Gyllenhaal), a sociopathic (at the least), yet lighthearted punk who’s out to make his mark on the world. But he could be anyone, because what he presents to everyone is a façade. When we meet Louis he’s stealing copper wire and manhole covers, and possibly killing for a nice watch. It quickly becomes clear that young Louis Bloom wants to be a small-business owner. He just doesn’t get the rules of unregulated, free market, Republican nirvana. He doesn’t understand why the scrap metal guy (Marco Rodríguez) will bone him on the market price of copper and not consider his impassioned plea to legitimately start at the bottom and work his way up (“I don’t hire thieves,” is the inarguable response). Bloom’s cold calculation has no effect on a world controlled by men beholden to the veneer of legitimacy. The rebuffed Bloom, who lives alone with a plant and a televi-
Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Nightcrawler’
sion in a ratty L.A. apartment, serendipitously drives by a serious car accident. He meets Joe (Bill Paxton), a “nightcrawler,” essentially a freelance videographer with a police scanner who sells graphic footage of accidents and crimes to the local news. “If it bleeds it leads,” is Joe’s Captain Obvious advice to Bloom. Smelling an opportunity to profit from human suffering, Bloom—like any hardcore capitalist with a hard-on for success—invests in a shitty video camera and a Radio Shack police scanner and takes his shot at the American Dream. That comes in the form of Nina (Rene Russo), an ethically questionable news producer, who lets Bloom get his foot in the door. As their symbiotic relationship grows it becomes clear that, while Nina is as desperate an opportunist as Bloom (she’s fighting a ratings war), only one of them is truly twisted. Writer and producer Dan Gilroy makes his directorial debut with “Nightcrawler.” He’s most acclaimed for adapting the novel Immortality Inc. into the fun, if dumb, Emilio Estevez/Mick Jagger-starrer, “Freejack,” back in
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1992 (also starring Rene Russo), and for scripting the last Jason Bourne entry for his brother, director and writer Tony Gilroy. With “Nightcrawler,” Dan Gilroy takes auteur credit, and in that capacity he succeeds at crafting a moody, tense and atmospheric thriller. He has also made an incredibly cynical indictment of media sensationalism that rings hollow for anyone who actually watches the news. I’m generally fine with that. The stats for local news that Bloom recites are correct, concerning the ratio of fear coverage vs. what City Hall is up to. The way the media incites fear and division (Ebola, terrorists, poor people taking your shit) is certainly rife for skewering. But there’s a willful, Lars von Trier-esque ignorance to how things really work, because to dwell on reality would subvert the coldly dystopian themes and satirical jabs Gilroy is going for. There’s no way any legit news organization would run the footage Bloom brings them. And the way the film indicts its only main female character (who succumbs to Bloom completely while subordinate men raise red flags,
mirroring the sensible rationale of every man who knows Bloom is bad news) is somewhat off-putting. “Nightcrawler” is admittedly more subtle and sophisticated than David Fincher’s bluntly satirical takedown of Nancy Grace in “Gone Girl,” which at least featured one other woman who was morally bankrupt. But even Paxton’s Joe, who is the worst kind of leech (one with made-up scruples) is less craven than Nina, having the sense to tell Bloom to go fuck himself when he realizes how calculating he is. Gyllenhaal excels in that capacity. Gone is the charm he exudes in roles like “Jarhead” and “Love & Other Drugs,” traded for a compellingly false front. His smile is just a reptilian defense mechanism here. If Paxton is the warm voice of reason in their corrupt underworld then Gyllenhaal is the polite devil—and a chillingly believable one. He’s scary and easily “Nightcrawler’s” strongest card. I’m a fan of sticking it to the awful state of journalism and the anarchy of libertarian politics— when it offers something new. “Nightcrawler” is a good film, good enough for me to get frustrated by the missteps that take me out of its carefully constructed world. The cinematography by Robert Elswit (“Inherent Vice”) is gorgeous. The soundtrack recalls Howard Shore in all the best ways. It’s part “Repo Man” (except here Bloom’s sidekick, Rick [Riz Ahmed] is the hapless Otto), part “Taxi Driver” (though unlike Bloom, Travis Bickle had a sense of right and wrong), and part “Wolf of Wall Street,” infused with a double shot of neo-noir nihilism that makes for a memorable pastiche. On paper there’s nothing I don’t love about that. In execution, fair or not, it’s been done better. a FILM & TV // 43
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This May Be The Last Time Writer/director and Holdenville native Sterlin Harjo follows up his feature-length Sundance winner, “Barking Water,” with his latest award-winning documentary, “This May Be The Last Time.” The film is a chronicle of the mysterious disappearance of Harjo’s grandfather in the early ’60s, interwoven with an exploration of Native American hymns that might have descended from farther away than anyone could have ever dreamed. A haunting, personal work, Harjo’s film leads us down paths mostly untrodden in contemporary cinema. Opens at the Circle Cinema 11/14
Interstellar The big screen’s P.T. Barnum, Christopher Nolan (“Inception”) indulges his sci-fi whimsy again with this sprawling galactic epic. Matthew MacConaughey plays a widower and astro-engineer who, after the discovery of wormholes that can transcend the gulfs of deep space, must come to grips with leaving his daughter behind to go on a mission to save a dying earth and all humanity. No big. The trailers are awe-inspiring and the reviews from early screenings have been good, though not great. Anne Hathaway, John Lithgow, Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain co-star. Opens everywhere 11/7
Birdman Michael Keaton and Edward Norton star in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s (“Bitiful”) mind-bending left turn of a film (mainly because it doesn’t look to be suicidally depressing) about a washed up actor (Keaton) who can’t escape the shadow of his superhero past. In an attempt to reboot his career, he writes, stars, and directs a stage version of a Raymond Carver short story, with co-star Norton. The two butt heads and weirdly enough (for Iñárritu), comedy seems to ensue. The word on this one is white hot, and Keaton and Norton look like they are having a blast. A must see. Co-starring Zach Galifianakis, Naomi Watts and Emma Stone. Opens at the Circle Cinema 11/7
Dumb and Dumber To It’s been twenty years, but Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back in perhaps their most iconic roles. And honestly, I’m kind of stoked. Sure, it seems like a recipe for disaster, going back to the well after so long (and the Farrelly Bros. haven’t been funny since “Stuck on You”) but the trailer got a few honest laughs out of me, which gives me a little hope that this might pay off. Co-starring Laurie Holden and Kathleen Turner. Opens everywhere 11/14
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Florida, at gunpoint in October. Police quickly picked up the two based on a lookout for the only man around with the word “Misunderstood” tattooed in large letters across his forehead (as Warrenfeltz had). Brandon Aaron, 27, charged with statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl in Panama, Oklahoma, in October, initially denied having sex, but changed his story when the girl remembered that her attacker had the name of an ex-girlfriend tattooed on his penis (as Aaron had).
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Funding the Revolution Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher of state secrets who remains holed up in the embassy of Ecuador in London, has signed on with an Icelandic licensing agent to sell Assange-branded high-end clothing, shoes and various household goods in India and much of Europe, and is negotiating to put his logo on apparel in Japan and the U.S. The agent told The New York Times in October that “WikiLeaks” and “Assange” “can be as big as Coca-Cola.” A 46-page book sets out licensing standards (e.g., no tacky slogans, such as “We Steal Secrets”) and includes the one approved Assange portrait (an “idealized line drawing” of him “gazing soulfully into what is presumably a better future,” wrote the Times).
Practical use for trig When a stampede killed pigs and induced sows’ abortions on a farm near York, England, two years ago, the operator of a noisy hot-air balloon denied responsibility, referring to a court order keeping balloons 500 meters away. Using GPS coordinates and the location of dead pigs, a mathematics professor at York Uni44 // FILM & TV
versity (employing trigonometry, he said) proved that the balloon could not have been more than 300 meters away. After the professor “showed his work” on the problem, the balloon’s insurer upped the settlement to almost four times its initial offer.
Believable Britain’s The Guardian reported in October that repairing the “fashion” holes in earlobes is one of the fastest-growing cosmetic procedures in the U.K., as millennial generation radicals tire of their half- to 3/4-inch, see-through lobes. Doctors charge up to $3,000 to remove the entire area around the hole (originally created by stretching the tissue) and connect the healthy parts back so they fuse together. (A Hawaiian man, not currently a patient, supposedly has the largest ear hole, nearly 4 inches in diameter.)
American Scenes A man named John Thornton was arrested in October after, for some reason, grabbing a mop from an employee at the Double Tree Hotel in Bristol, Connecticut, and (according to the police report) “aggressive(ly)”
Latest Religious Messages Ernest Angley, 93, is the latest televangelist to see his empire challenged -- following his July denial (from the pulpit of his Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) that he is homosexual and that he inappropriately touched some parishioners, as they have claimed. However, Angley freely revealed an intense interest in vasectomies -- that he had long encouraged his flock not to bring offspring into this troubled world. Of young men, Angley said, “Sure, I’d have them uncover themselves (during vasectomy counseling), but I did not handle them at all. ... I would look at them, their privates....” A once-prominent Angley insider said the “prophet” “doesn’t want people to have kids because it would take their time and money away from (the church).”
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free will astrology by ROB BREZSNY
Scorpio (October 23 - November 21):
Near the end of the 19th century, an American named Annie Londonderry became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world. It was a brave and brazen act for an era when women still couldn’t vote and paved roads were rare. Her 15-month journey took her through countries that would be risky for a single woman on a bike to travel through today, like Egypt and Yemen. What made her adventure even more remarkable was that she didn’t know how to ride a bike until two days before she departed. I’d love to see you plan a daring exploit like that, Scorpio -- even if you do not yet have a certain skill you will need to succeed. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Shape-shifting is a common theme in fairy tales, says cultural historian Marina Warner in her book From the Beast to the Blonde. “A rusty lamp turns into an all-powerful talisman,” for example. “A humble pestle and mortar become the winged vehicle of the fairy enchantress,” or a slovenly beggar wearing a dirty donkeyskin transforms into a radiant princess. I foresee metaphorically similar events happening in your life sometime soon, Aries. Maybe they are already underway. Don’t underestimate the magic that is possible. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The technical scientific term for what happens when you get a headache from eating too much ice cream too fast is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. I urge you to be on guard against such an occurrence in the coming week. You should also watch out for other phenomena that fit the description of being too-much-and-too-fast-of-a-goodthing. On the other hand, you shouldn’t worry at all about slowly getting just the right amount of a good thing. If you enjoy your pleasures with grace and moderation, you’ll be fine. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Pregreening” is a term for what impatient drivers do as they are waiting at a red light. They partly take their foot off the brake, allowing their car to creep forward, in the hope of establishing some momentum before the light changes to green. I advise you to avoid this type of behavior in the coming week, Gemini -- both the literal and the metaphorical variety. Pregreening might make sense by, say, November 15 or 16. But for now, relax and abide. CANCER (June 21-July 22): German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was one of the greats. His influence on the evolution of Western music has been titanic, and many of his best compositions are still played today. He was prodigious, too, producing over 350 works. One of the secrets to his high level of energy seems to have been his relationship with coffee. It was an indispensable part of his diet. He was fastidious in its preparation, counting out exactly 60 coffee beans for each cup. I recommend that you summon a similar attention to detail in the coming days. It will be an excellent time to marshal your creative energy and cultivate your lust for life. You will get the best results if you are precise and consistent and focused in your approach. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): By the time we have become young adults, most of us don’t remember much about our lives from before the age of five. As we grow into middle age, more and more childhood memories drop away. Vague impressions and hazy feelings may remain. A few special moments keep burning brightly. But the early events that shaped us are mostly gone. Having said that, I want to alert you to the fact that you are in a phase when you could recover whole swaths of lost memories, both from your formative years and later. Take advantage of this rare window of opportunity to reconnect with your past. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Photographer Joel Leindecker can kick himself in the head 127 times in one minute. Guinness World Records affirms that his achievement is unmatched. I’m begging you not to try to top his mark any time soon. In fact, I’m pleading with you not to commit any act of mayhem, chaos, or unkindness against yourself -- even if it it’s done for entertainment purposes. In my view, it’s crucial for you to concentrate on caressing yourself, treating yourself nicely, and caring for yourself with ingenious tenderness in the coming weeks.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The writing of letters is becoming a lost art. Few people have a long enough attention span to sit down and compose a relaxed, thoughtful report on what they have been doing and thinking. Meanwhile, the number of vigorous, far-reaching conversations is waning, too. Instead, many of us tend to emit and absorb short bursts of information at frequent intervals. But I invite you to rebel against this trend in the coming weeks. Judging from the astrological omens, I believe you would stir up some quietly revolutionary developments by slowing down and deepening the way you communicate with those you care about. You may be amazed by how much richer your experience of intimacy will become. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): P. G. Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books, as well as numerous plays, musical comedies, and film scripts. When he died at age 93, he was working on another novel. He did not suffer from writer’s block. And yet his process was far from effortless. He rarely churned out perfection on his first attempt. “I have never written a novel,” he testified, “without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again.” The way I see your immediate future, Sagittarius, is that you will be creating your own version of those 40,000 wrong words. And that’s OK. It’s not a problem. You can’t get to the really good stuff without slogging through this practice run. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a favorable time for you to meditate intensely on the subject of friendship. I urge you to take inventory of all the relevant issues. Here are a few questions to ask yourself. How good of a friend are you to the people you want to have as your friends? What capacities do you cultivate in your effort to build and maintain vigorous alliances? Do you have a clear sense of what qualities you seek in your cohorts and colleagues? Are you discerning in the way you choose your compatriots, or do you sometimes end up in associations with people you don’t truly enjoy and don’t have much in common with? If you discover any laziness or ignorance in your approach to the art of friendship, make the necessary fixes. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Before the invention of the printing press, books in Europe were handmade. Medieval monks spent long hours copying these texts, often adding illustrations in the margins. There’s an odd scene that persistently appears in these illuminated manuscripts: knights fighting snails. Scholars don’t agree on why this theme is so popular or what it means. One theory is that the snail symbolizes the “slow-moving tedium of daily life,” which can be destructive to our hopes and dreams -- similar to the way that literal snails may devour garden plants. In accordance with the cosmic omens, I am bestowing a knighthood on you, Aquarius, so you will be inspired to rise up and defeat your own metaphorical version of the snail. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To be in righteous alignment with cosmic forces, keep the Halloween spirit alive for another week. You have a license to play with your image and experiment with your identity. Interesting changes will unfold as you expand your notion of who you are and rebel cheerfully against your own status quo. To get started, try this exercise. Imagine that your gangsta name is Butt-Jugglin Smuggla. Your pirate name is Scallywagger Hornslasher. Your sex-worker name is Saucy Loaf. Your Mexican wrestler name is Ojo Último (Ultimate Eye). Your rock star-from-the-future name is Cashmere Hammer. Or make up your own variations.
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