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ast week, as we at the Voice worked to close this issue, fretting over the trivial-but-necessary minutiae of headlines (“Is this clever or cliché?”) and commas (“Oxford or no?”) and photo captions (“How do you spell that guy’s name again?”), violence erupted across three continents.

On November 12, in South Beirut, two suicide bombers blew up an open-air market, killing 43 people and injuring 239.

Less than 24 hours later, a roadside bombing in Baghdad killed 26.

Then, we all watched in horror as Paris burned in a coordinated terrorist assault across the city.

An estimated 129 people died, 352 were injured.

These attacks—all claimed by the Islamic State—are stark

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reminders that the world is a chaotic, unforgiving place, full of violence, injustice and tragedy.

Many of us in Tulsa (and the United States) are extraordinarily privileged in our comfort and safety. We have the luxury of arguing in our digital public squares over what’s best for each other and the rest of the world. We lob rhetorical grenades at those we disagree with, then retreat to our abstract “safe spaces” so no one can return fire and injure our feelings.

We pause to selectively mourn tragedy—sorry, Beirut and Baghdad—with displays of solidarity like flag overlays on Facebook.

Then we resume our bickering until the next calamity strikes.

It’s extraordinarily lazy and selfish. And I’m as guilty as the next guy.

There are real things we can do to help better the world, things that involve closing our laptops and setting our phones down and engaging with our own communities.

For example, Food On The Move, a mobile food initiative started by Taylor Hanson in partnership with Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, Iron Gate, R&G Family Grocers, Community Partners Fund, EduRec, TCC and numerous local food trucks, brings sustenance to Tulsa’s food deserts, fulfilling an immediate need while engaging the community in the long conversation—how do we help the 16% of our brothers and sisters who live below the poverty line? How do we get a grocery store in North Tulsa? How do we build a healthy future for our entire city, not just those in downtown, midtown and South Tulsa?

Tragedy and injustice are just a stone’s throw away. Focus on fixing your own house first, then move outward. Beirut and Iraq and Paris should be in our thoughts and prayers, as should the Syrian refugees, and all of the other oppressed, abused and displaced people crying out across the globe.

People need help, everywhere.

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sa does have some awesome Jazz musicians and Guitars Gone Wild (one of my faves) has just released a new CD. I went to their CD release and was surprised by the crowd as they had so little advertising. Also saw them do a benefit concert a few weeks back. Joesf Glaude sponsors the annual BUS Concert. He

collects Blankets, Underwear and Socks for the homeless.

Franklin Birt was also there.

John Taylor is one of the biggest supports for Tulsa Jazz.

If you want to do an article on the Jazz scene he would be the guy to talk to.

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In response to our interview with Branjae and the Filthy Animals, “Everything about it is love,” November A. Funny article considering you always have the same 5 bands in your magazine. You do know there are more than 5 local bands in Tulsa... right?

It is not that I have anything against these bands and I’m a big fan of Fiawna but can you maybe see if you can add to your band list? Marcus Curtis, Joesf Glaude, James Ruggles, Guitars Gone Wild, Empire Trio, Sylvie and the Other Guy, Randy Brumley, Misty Lane....

I live in Utah now and know more about the Tulsa music scene than you guys.

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Other overlooked musicians: Cynthia Simmons, Frank Brown, Jarrod Elmore, Heavy Jones, Lon de Ada, Angie Cokrell, Sean Al-Jibouri and a slew of jazz musicians...I could go an all day. Hopefully Tulsa Voice will search these artists out. And Guitars Gone Wild just released a new CD. Sure would like to see something about that here!

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SPEAKING OF GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND TEXAS…

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n November 9, the Center for Public Integrity’s nationwide State Integrity Investigation made official what most of us paying attention already knew: Oklahoma’s government is largely unchecked, inaccessible and bursting at the seams with cronyism, despite the mouth-service our slack-jawed puppet-leaders like to pay to public accountability.

The investigation, conducted by Tulsa reporter Cary Aspinwall and verified by CPI, gives Oklahoma an “F” for overall accountability

and transparency, ranking us 40th in the nation.

The failing grade of 59% (even Texas managed to score a 60%) is based on a number of factors which are graded separately and then averaged together. Our highest grades are a 78% in procurement and an 85% in internal auditing, the lowest a 33% for public access to information. The rest of the categories—political financing, electoral oversight, state budget processes, state civil service management, lobbying disclosure, ethic enforcement agencies,

state pension fund management, and accountability across the three branches—received either a D or an F (most were Fs).

Battle-scarred Blue Bell comes home

camera, and numerous other people spoke in the excitedly reverent tones usually reserved for something like a war hero returning home. Mary Fallin tweeted in celebration.

That the ice cream carried listeria that killed several people in Kansas due to reportedly less-than-sanitary conditions in its Austin and Broken Arrow factories was glossed over by local media.

Embattled ice cream brand Blue Bell finally returned to Tulsa store shelves this month after a 7-month absence. Local news outlets interviewed a slew of insane people celebrating the return of their favorite 99% listeria-free ice cream. One woman cried on 8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

BOTTOMLINE: While my own knee-jerk reaction to this information tends toward a cynical “No shit,” Aspinwall and the good folks at CPI have done us a service by conducting such a thorough, objective assessment of the damage.

The detailed analyses of all 50 states can be found at stateintegrity.org; Oklahoma’s is well-worth reading.

A recent joint investigation

by The Frontier and The Dallas Morning News revealed that in 2013, Oklahoma’s medical board suddenly dropped a three-year investigation into Tulsa spinal surgeon Steven Anagnost after former Texas governor Rick Perry called Mary Fallin to complain.

Anagnost was being investigated for mishaps that left 23 patients dead, paralyzed or charged for surgeries never performed, and the medical board was apparently ready to revoke his license.

The surgeon, however, happened to be a donor to Rick Perry’s 2012 presidential campaign.

Anagnost and Perry also shared a mutual friend—a significant Perry donor named Dick Powell (great name) who called Perry on behalf of Anagnost. Perry then called Fallin and reportedly threw a fit about the investigation. Fallin in turn sent one of her lemmings to deliver the message to the medical board, which promptly folded and cut a deal with Anagnost that involved him paying a fine but, terrifyingly, keeping his license.

Anagnost is still mired in negligence lawsuits; in the past decade, he’s settled 19 suits, with another nine still pending against him.

BOTTOMLINE: “I know that I’ve never done a perfect job on any patient I’ve worked on … but it’s not fair to look at anybody at a single point in their career.”

– Dr. Steven Anagnost, spinal surgeon

BOTTOMLINE: Am I the only one who thinks this is insanity? I love ice cream, and I grew up with Blue Bell in my freezer. But it just killed some folks. Call me paranoid, but I’m switching to Blue Bunny.* *UPDATE: I just googled Blue Bunny and learned that just a month ago they recalled their Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate flavor for possibly containing egg, an unlisted allergen. :-(

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How Trump got his Oklahoma girl The GOP fulfills a vision

by BARRY FRIEDMAN You start out in 1954 by saying, “N***er, n***er, n***er.” By 1968 you can’t say “n***er”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract.

Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totall y economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N***er, n***er.

–the late Lee Atwater, GOP political strategist, circa 19811

That was his gift to us: legitimizing casual racism in America. As long as the poison was couched—and he was explaining precisely how to do that—it would be allowed back in the national debate and would, in time, gain credibility just from being at the table. After years in exile following the Civil Rights Movement, the closet racists got their marching orders, poured from their basements and garages, and took to talk radio and then social media, blaming minorities, immigrants, government, entitlements for their lot in life and the 10 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

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perceived decline of America, an America they demanded back.

The game plan was unveiled—I’ll tell you exactly when—on August 3, 1980, when Ronald Reagan, then the GOP presidential nominee, opened his campaign a few miles from Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site where three Civil Rights workers— Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman—were murdered in 1964. At the Neshoba County Fair—Reagan did this here—he promised to “restore to states and local government the power that properly belongs to them.”2 Here’s what Washington Post columnist William Raspberry said in 2004 about that speech.

It was bitter symbolism for black Americans (though surel y not just for black Americans).

Countless observers have noted that Reagan took the Republican Party from virtual irrelevance to the ascendancy it now enjoys. The essence of that transformation, we shouldn’t forget, is the party’s successful wooing of the race-exploiting Southern Democrats formerl y known as Dixiecrats. And Reagan’s Philadelphia appearance was an important bouquet in that courtship.3

It continued.

On August 17, 1992, Pat Buchanan, then a presidential candi-

date, said at the GOP convention in Houston, “And as they took back the streets of LA, block by block, so we must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country.”4 There were moments when the party stopped its assault on minorities, and inclusiveness came up for air.

On September 17, 2001, President Bush took his shoes off and went inside a mosque and said, “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam5. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace.

These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.” Imagine a current GOP candidate doing that today? (Imagine if Obama did?). In 2008, at a campaign stop in Minnesota, John McCain told a woman who called Obama an Arab, “No ma’am, [Obama’s] a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.”6 (McCain would have been more of a mensch had he asked the woman, “What’s wrong with Arabs?”)

After the 2008 election, there was an intelligent, articulate black man in The White House with a funny name, talking about hope and diversity. These were truly desperate times.

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On the question of Barack Obama’s legitimacy, compare McCain’s reaction then to Donald Trump’s now.

mind would vote for this guy? No, no, no. He has absolutel y NO abilities and is taking donations to owe favors now.

Sayonara Benny.”

“ We are going to be looking at a lot of different things. A lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there.” 7

(Who can forget our own Representative Jim Bridenstine’s take?)8 The GOP began rewarding the fringe with prizes and access.

Louisiana Representative Vance McAllister asked Leviticus-loving duckhunter Phil Robertson to be his date at a State of the Union Address; Mike Huckabee called Ted Nugent, who shat in his own pants to avoid military service and who called the president a subhuman mongrel, his “good friend, hunting buddy, and remarkable individual”9; Clint Eastwood was invited to a convention to talk to an empty chair; Ted Cruz told us Kim Davis was doing the lord’s work; and every Republican representative loved the Duggars. “ Republicans will never have the elite, smart people on our side.”

—Rick Santorum.

How proud they must be.

All of which brings us to Oklahoma City.

Take Carol Hefner … please.

(Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.)

Hefner, an Oklahoma City socialite whose storied family name (by marriage) is plastered throughout OKC, has a lot to say about the OTHERS on Facebook and spews her hatred like Alberta tar sands from a broken XL pipeline.

After her skewering by the good people at The Lost Ogle, her page magically disappeared; thankfully, the Internet’s memory is long and screen shots are a wonderful thing.10 Here’s one highlight (but you really need to see them all): Carol Hefner July 21 KFC UPDATE!!!

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Then Michelle Obama was offered $50 by National Geographic?

And remember when KFC offered a “Hillary” meal, consisting of two small breasts and two large fat thighs?

Now KFC is offering the “Obama Cabinet Bucket.”

It contains nothing but left wings and chicken shit.

She also posts about Donald Trump. A lot. Here’s my favorite: Do you see Mr. Trump’s face? This is the genuine demeanor of this man.

Having met and talked with him, he is thoroughl y wonderful, kind and giving. He loves the people of America and knows this nation could be much better. He will infuse our country with everything good as President.

Donald Trump’s face? Oy. Trump, the present GOP frontrunner, this man whose idea of diplomacy is telling China: “ Listen, you motherf*ckers, we’re going to tax you 25%.”

Okay, so why is it important to know what Carol Hefner, who was once hoodwinked into auditioning for a fraudulent Real Housewives of Oklahoma City series, thinks about anything?11 Because she is—drum roll, please— Donald Trump’s Oklahoma campaign manager.

And that Trump would have

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someone so unhinged, an entitled wannabe TV star as his statewide chair is, well … just about right. “ I have a great rel ationship with the bl acks,” Trump told Albany’s Talk Radio 1300 Thursday. “I’ve always had a great rel ationship with the bl acks.” 12

Let me stop. This is like shooting a sedated carp in a small barrel. Suffice it say, Carol Hefner is a callous, unmoored block of cheap patriotism, anti-(minority group here), and warmed-over pablum—a humanoid with stationery and an event planner. Politics, for her, is a bauble. She is not important, but is instructive, for hers is a special kind of mutation. To put it in a statewide perspective, imagine if one of Tulsa’s well-known liberal matriarchs took to Instagram to mock Connie Carson’s (Ben’s wife) appearance; imagine if she took to Twitter to compare President George W. Bush to Pol Pot. The condemnation from the state’s major newspapers would be quick and severe. Hefner, on the other hand, still makes the Oklahoman’s society pages pretty regularly.

Tell me again about the liberal media, when you get a chance.

But it’s when Hefner turns her invective on her own party that you fully realize what a blight she is. “ He also has no idea about foreign policy and suppor ts Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan. He has an admitted criminal p ast and has been a radical ‘liberal’ just up until l ast year???? Seriousl y? Who in their right

Nobody is more suspicious of “Benny” (that’s Dr. Carson to you folks scoring at home) than I, but how much Dilaudid do you have to ingest to compare him with Sharpton and Farrakhan? That’s some major league bigotry right there, but did you catch the tell?

Carson isn’t just a liberal like Sanders or Clinton, he’s a liberal like those guys. Get it? Carson may be a Republican, but he’s still one of them and they’re all alike.

Yes, Carol Hefner is a punchline, but not an aberration, for she is both a product and symptom of her party, comfortable in her own toxicity and confident in her derp. She is the fulfillment of the Neshoba County Fair and the Astrodome, but meaner, unconscionable. A spawn of Atwater, she is reflective of too many in today’s GOP. a

1) Powerlineblog.com: WHAT DID LEE ATWATER REALLY SAY? 2) Neshoba Democrat: Transcript of Ronald Reagan’s 1980 Neshoba County Fair speech 3) Washington Post: Reagan’s Race Legacy 4) Buchanan.org: 1992 Republican National Convention Speech 5) New York Times: Six Days After 9/11, Another Anniversary Worth Honoring 6) Politico.com: McCain: Obama not an Arab, crowd boos 7) CNN: Trump doesn’t challenge anti-Muslim questioner at event 8) Tulsa World: Comments from Bridenstine town hall draw criticism 9) DangerousMinds.net: REPUBLICAN ‘HERO’ TED NUGENT SHIT IN HIS OWN PANTS TO AVOID THE DRAFT! 10) TheLostOgle.com: Check out the crazy, racist, islamophobic Facebook posts of Carol Hefner…

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My God, My Body, My Decision All Souls forum brings spiritual salvo to battle for reproductive rights

by JENNIE LLOYD

“U

se self-control!”

The anti-abortion protestor yelled the command at Kylie Shelley as she entered a Brookside restaurant on a Saturday evening earlier this month. Shelley, regional organizer for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, was taking a dinner break during the weekend’s “My God, My Body, My Decision” Reproductive Justice Forum, held just down the street at All Souls Unitarian Church. Those protestors who weren’t stationed in front of All Souls were in Brookside to picket Hop Bunz and Cosmo Café, two restaurants supporting the forum by donating 10% of that day’s food sales to the Oklahoma Roe fund.

“That was really interesting to me, because it all weighs on the woman,” Shelley recalls. “It could mean a variety of things. Use self-control to not have sex before marriage? Or use self-control to wait it out and have a baby that

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you’re not ready to have? That was an interesting thing to yell at someone.”

Despite the fact that access to abortion care is just one component of reproductive justice advocacy, conventional thinking usually pits Christianity as anathema to the movement. But if one of those protestors had stepped off the street and into All Souls’ sanctuary, they would have found themselves in the company of their own; Christ’s message of love and acceptance was conjured more than once. The night’s events culminated in a moving speech by the nationally renowned Dr. Willie Parker, an abortion doctor, reproductive justice advocate and devout Christian.

“In the movement, the reproductive justice movement specifically, we always think about Christianity and religious people as being in opposition to our objectives,” Shelley says. “So I think it’s really inspiring to have someone

like Dr. Parker, who provides abortion care himself, come to Tulsa and talk about how he does this because he’s a Christian, not in spite of being a Christian.”

Barbara Prose is a senior minister at All Souls and former midwife.

We meet in the church’s library to discuss her role in launching the event and bringing Dr. Parker to Tulsa.

“There is something about women and sexuality and power and control that has yet to be unlocked,” she says. “The conversation is important.”

She created the forum to give people an open, public space to talk about reproductive justice “in a broader context.”

Along with Dr. Parker, Prose brought together an interesting lineup of local luminaries including Bishop Carlton Pearson, Oklahoma State Representative Jeannie

McDaniel and Dr. Kirsten Havig, an anti-human trafficking activist.

The phrase “reproductive justice” is relatively new, used to describe the labyrinth of cultural ills (from teen pregnancy and limited access to birth control to human trafficking and poverty) that all contribute to unintended pregnancies and abortion. It’s not just about being pro-choice anymore, it’s about being pro-woman and pro-community.

“It’s about women’s autonomy,” Prose says. “It’s because of a love of life and family and children that women need to be able to safely get abortions when they think it’s the right thing to do.”

Lack of contraceptive use is responsible for 95 percent of unintended pregnancies. In 2013, Oklahoma’s publicly funded family planning centers helped prevent 20,700 unintended pregnancies, which would likely have resulted in 10,300 unplanned births and 7,100 abortions,

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according to the Guttmacher Institute. By averting unintended pregnancies and other negative reproductive health outcomes (e.g. sexually transmitted infections), publicly funded family planning services in Oklahoma saved $135.2 million in federal and state government dollars in 2010.

Prose began her career in midwifery in her early 20s. For her, there is a weaving together of the “personal and political and intellectual” between birthing babies and liberal ministry.

“I think being made in the image of God, one meaning of that is that we are given these incredible powers. We’re given the power to create life and end life,” Prose says. “Let’s do it in open and responsible ways.”

So, when does life begin?

She asks me to stop typing as she puts her head in her hands to think. “You could say life begins when we take the first breath,” she says. “It begins with the breath.”

She shakes her head, starts again. “That’s too simplistic an answer.”

She refers to Dr. Parker, the forum’s guest of honor. “He talks about life being a process. Life isn’t something that is or isn’t. We are born dying. We are all part of this process, which is creation.

Our lives all get interrupted at a certain point.”

Violet Rush is pissed off.

The founding singer/songwriter/bassist of the now-disbanded Tulsa punk band Bitchcraft is also the president of the Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a women’s rights group founded 37 years ago as part of a national coalition of mainstream religious organizations that believe in a woman’s right to reproductive autonomy. The group runs the Peaceful Presence escort program as well as the state’s only Roe Fund.

“A big reason we exist is because it’s patently unfair for a group of fundamentalists and

zealots to co-opt God and religion and faith to restrict the constitutional rights of half the population,” Rush says. “We’re a religious group but we believe in the separation of church and state, and we believe that you can be pro-faith and pro-choice. We don’t see any conflict there.”

One in three American women will have an abortion by the time she is 45. Women who have abortions make up a broad cross-section of the population: 58 percent are in their 20s; 61 percent have one or more children; 85 percent are unmarried; 69 percent are economically disadvantaged; and 73 percent report a religious affiliation. No racial or ethnic group makes up a majority: 36 percent of women who obtain abortions are white non-Hispanic; 30 percent are black, 25 percent are Hispanic, and 9 percent are of other racial backgrounds.

Abortions are in steady demand in Oklahoma, with an average of 5,852 performed each year, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.

Despite these figures, the number of clinics where women can access the procedure is on the decline. In 1993, there were 11 abortion clinics in Oklahoma; by 2008, the number dwindled to 4.

Now there are two, one in Oklahoma City and one in Tulsa.

Oklahoma has some of the strongest restrictions on abortion in the nation, including state-directed counseling with information designed to discourage a woman from having an abortion; a 24-hour waiting period before the procedure is performed; little insurance coverage available; and parental consent and notification requirements for minors.

This forum couldn’t come soon enough for women’s rights activists like Rush. “Being able to do this is a big fucking deal,” Rush says. “We are in a place where we don’t feel afraid.”

Rush expected protestors, whose zealous belief and activism are similar to hers with one difference. “I don’t care if you politically agree with us, we are fighting

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for your constitutional rights,” she said. “I don’t care if you’re yelling at me, I will fight for you.”

She acknowledges all people have varying beliefs about when ensoulment—or life—begins. “If you believe ensoulment begins when the egg implants in the uterus, you can have that belief,” she says. “But if you ever need an abortion, give us a call. We’re here to help you.”

On the Saturday night of the forum, while protestors accosted Brookside diners and forum participants, Dr. Parker stood at the pulpit in All Souls and told of his own journey from doctor to activist, and how he reconciles his Christianity with abortion care.

“When we wrestle with our conscience and lose,” Parker told the congregation, “We really win.”

Parker is a graduate of Berea College in Kentucky, and holds degrees from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Michigan. He provides abortion care for women in Alabama, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Illinois.

Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and trained in preventive medicine and epidemiology through the Center for Disease Control, he is also the physician plaintiff in the federal lawsuit preventing the closure of Mississippi's only abortion clinic.

The U.S. Supreme Court may soon hear this case.

Parker recounted an experience early in his career—before he became a women’s health advocate—of listening to Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech in which King tells the story of the Good Samaritan.

This prompted Parker to do some serious soul-searching.

“What does it mean to be a Good Samaritan?” he asked himself.

His conclusion: It means doing good for someone because they need help, not because you agree with their politics or religion. With

this epiphany, Parker began offering abortion services.

“Right now what we’re going through is a devolution of women’s rights, they’re slowly being eroded,” he said. “When we talk about the powerful versus the powerless, if you do nothing, you’re by default helping the powerful.”

He exhorted the audience to not let identity politics override our basic humanity, and argued that there needs to be better communication and cooperation between all groups fighting for equality and freedom. He summoned the Black Lives Matter movement as a prime example.

“If you look at it a certain way, [Black Lives Matter] is a reproductive rights issue,” he said. Just as women have the right to terminate pregnancies, “mothers have the right not to lose their children to violence.”

Oklahoma State Rep. Jeannie McDaniel (D-Tulsa) is in her 12th year in the state legislature. During this time, the mother of five and grandmother of eight has enacted more than 50 bills to improve reproductive rights for the women of Oklahoma. So when Rev. Prose invited her to speak at the forum, McDaniel eagerly accepted.

“I love the words ‘reproductive justice,’” McDaniel said. “It paints a broader brush. Not only for reproductive rights but other issues this trickles down to. From wages, education, healthcare and domestic violence, it’s about a woman’s right to make choices about her body.”

Oklahoma abortion numbers are hovering at the same rate while other states and countries with better family planning policies are seeing a decline.

“We’re at about 5,000 a year.

They’ve stayed the same,” McDaniel said. “We are not improving women’s health … We need to wake up and pay attention.” a

Additional reporting by Josh Emanuel.

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Turkey trouble

There’s a bird shortage this year, but don’t panic

by MEGAN SHEPHERD

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local chef friend of mine said it best: “shit’s about to get real this Thanks-

giving.”

A bad case of the avian bird flu has left cities across the country low on turkey this year. After killing off millions of turkeys to contain the epidemic, the shortage is hitting Tulsa hard this month.

As Thanksgiving approaches, turkey availability is at an all-year low, and prices in the bird biz are at an all-time high. While you can probably still get your paws on a bird at the grocery store, if it’s slim pickings when you go to shop, consider ordering your holiday meal from these local purveyors. Most come ready-made, and what you drop in dough you’ll more than make back in time.

Turducken from Hebert’s Specialty Meats 2101 E. 71st St. S. 918.298.8400

This much-hyped holiday dinner is a Cajun favorite, but many Tulsans have never tasted the magic of turducken. If the idea of a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken sounds a little gross to you, let Hebert’s classic Creole preparation change your mind.

Their bird touts a spicy kick, and unlike classic turkeys—which require a host of annoying monitoring and pedantic prep—their turduckens come ready to pop into the oven for easy cooking.

Round out your order with the crawfish etouffee, boudin, and a few orders of crab-stuffed shrimp for a true Cajun feast.

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delicacies don’t come cheap, so be prepared to pay a pretty penny for the mega-meat. Want to try before you buy? Hebert’s plates Turducken for the blue plate special every Thursday at Cajun Ed’s.

Epicurean Thanksgiving from Boston Deli Grill + Market

6231 E. 61st St. | 918.492.4745

If you haven’t tried the Boston Deli Grill + Market’s signature Hasty Bake-smoked meats, now’s the time. Grab a hickory-smoked turkey for your main course, or shake things up with a plate of rosemary balsamic-injected boneless breasts, or a brown sugar-cured turkey, all served with wild mushroom giblet.

Of course, who’s to say you need turkey at all for Thanksgiving?

Use the shortage as an excuse to

subvert tradition and grab the chili ginger pork tenderloin, the coffee spice-rubbed beef tenderloin with chimichurri, or cedar plank salmon cakes with mango salsa. And for the procrastinators out there, Boston Deli will offer a host of grab ‘n go a la carte items in-store at their Carry Out Market leading up to Thanksgiving Thursday.

Thanksgiving orders must be placed by 8:00pm on Friday, Nov. 20th and will be available for pickup from 11am-3pm on the 25th.

For a complete list of items and prices, head to thebostondeli.com

Traditional Thanksgiving from Lambrusco’z to Go

1344 E. 41st St. | 918.496.1246

If anyone can get a spread right, it’s Lambrusco’z, where herbaceous touches and fruity turns brighten up the tradi-

tional Thanksgiving meal. This year, they’re taking orders for herb-roasted turkey (choose your size of bird), Boar’s Head brown sugar and spice ham, cornbread stuffing, whipped sweet potatoes, Roxie’s Cranberry Relish with cranberries, apples, raspberries, mandarin oranges, pecans, and celery, and plenty of other food coma-inducing favorites.

If you’re feeding a crowd, you can also add some of Lambruscoz’s a la carte items to your order, like the heavenly Heart Attack Mac and classic Ambrosia, to round out your meal.

Need something to snack on in the morning? Add an order of quiche and cinnamon rolls to the mix for a Black Friday Breakfast.

Grab the corn dip for a pre-dinner snack.

For the full Thanksgiving menu, check out their Facebook page.

Orders for Thanksgiving must be placed by Saturday, Nov. 21st.

Pumpkin Pie from Antoinette Baking Co. 207 N. Main | 918.764.8404

Like turkey, pumpkin and pecans have been in short supply this growing season, due to record rainfall levels in Oklahoma this summer. Consequently, canned pumpkin filling and pie pecans might be hard to come by at the grocery store. If you’re looking to nibble on a cream-topped slice of these dishy desserts this Thanksgiving, best to order early.

Freshly settled in at their new location, Antoinette Baking Co. has already made a few friends on the Brady block, and for good

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reason. Their monster pie slices (Mile-High lives up to its name on sugar and happiness) and hand-made macarons are sweet enough to brighten up even the blackest of Fridays. You’d be remiss not to consider getting your after-dinner treats from these ladies this year.

Seasonal pies are available for reservation at Antoinette Bakery and online, and start at $30 each.

only fresh turkeys that have never been frozen. Dinners are prepared in the store’s catering kitchen, then stored under refrigeration until picked-up the day preceding the holiday meal.

The deadline for Thanksgiving orders is Saturday, Nov. 21. Call 918-747-8905 or email elaine@ pettysfinefoods.com.

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If a “traditional” holiday feast is your desire, Petty’s Fine Foods offers its longtime tradition of preparing complete dinners for Tulsa families. Since the store’s opening in 1945 by L.G. Rowan and Robert D. Petty, the special store has carved its place as a premier purveyor of quality meats, specialty foods, and customer service.

Today, Petty’s is owned and managed by Scott Petty, the grandson of the store’s founders, who took over command of the business upon the retirement of his father—Robert J. Petty—in 1985. The business, located at 1964 Utica Square, is truly a unique food emporium loved by generations of Tulsans.

Petty’s presents four Turkey Dinners ranging from a 12-14 pound bird that serves eight to 10 people to an 18-20 pound turkey serving 12 to 14 around the table. Each is served with cornbread dressing, turkey gravy, cranberry relish, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie and/or pecan pie.

Prices range from $119 to $189.

Additionally, the store offers a Ham Dinner featuring an 8-9 pound spiral half ham with appropriate side dishes for $139; Beef Brisket Dinner, a threepound sliced brisket with sides for $99; and a 7-8 pound Pork Loin Dinner with sides for $109.

Petty’s also offers fresh baked turkey or turkey breast, baked boneless ham or spiral ham, and baked pork loin and 26 individual side dishes available a la carte for those not desiring full dinners.

As one would expect, Petty’s bakes and offers customers

Those looking for a French spin can save the headache of cooking and order from the Justin Thompson Restaurant Group.

It’s too late for Thanksgiving orders (must be placed by November 14th for the whole shebang), but select grab ‘n go items will be available at the newly-opened Tavolo: Caffè & Market downtown, slated to open Andopizza.com | @andopizza | Facebook: Andopizza Wednesday, November 18th. driven by virtue. crafted for taste.

Swing by for sauces, breads, cheeses and other items to go, or pre-order from the holiday menu TulsaVoice_one-eighth.indd 1 11/2/15 for freshly baked pies (pumpkin, Shimp with bourbon pecan, etc.), breads, Lobster Sauce sweets, and breakfast dishes for Dine in or carry out, the morning after. Order forms 3.5 Out of 4 Stars From Scott Cherry’s Review in Tulsa World can be found at any JTR Restaurant, and orders require 48 hours notice for pickup.

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ulsa has no shortage of the Western world’s favorite meal, and this list is certainly not comprehensive (note the exclusion of burgers—too many in town to include just one). But you’re missing out if you haven’t tried at least one of these delicious local sandwiches. a

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Loxtrami Pastrami-cured salmon, horseradish cream cheese, capers, and kale salad

Chimera Café Bluebird - Grilled turkey, thick-cut bacon,

pickled blueberry smash, brie and mayo

Cosmo Café The Euro Beast - Roast beef, avocado, roasted red peppers, cheddar, horseradish cream cheese, red onions, tomatoes and spring mix

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Roast Beef Sandwich with red peper aioli

The Krazy Olive Beef Trio - Corned and roast beef, pastrami topped with Swiss cheese

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

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

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

PEARL DISTRICT El Rancho Grande The Phoenix Café Lola’s Caravan

Ike’s Chili Papa Ganouj JJ’s Hamburgers

BROOKSIDE Biga Billy Sims BBQ Blue Moon Bakery and Café The Brook Brookside By Day Café Ole Café Samana Charleston’s Claud’s Hamburgers Cosmo Café & Bar Crow Creek Tavern Doc’s Wine and Food Egg Roll Express Elmer’s BBQ Lokal The Hen Bistro Hibiscus Caribbean Bar and Grill HopBunz In the Raw Keo La Hacienda

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

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

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BLUE D OME The Krazy Olive La Crêpe Nanou 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 Yokozuna Zio’s Italian Kitchen

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

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

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

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

Elote Café & Catering Mod’s Coffee & Crepes Tavolo The Vault

DOWNTOWN 624 Kitchen and Catering All About Cha Stylish Coffee & Tea Baxter’s Interurban Grill Bohemian Pizzeria The Boiler Room The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill 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 Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Williams Center Café

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

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

GREENWOOD Abear’s Fat Guy’s

Lefty’s on Greenwood

MIDTOWN Albert G’s Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bravo’s Mexican Grill Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse Felini’s Cookies & Deli

Golden Gate Lambrusco’z Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Trenchers Delicatessen

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 Gogi Gui Growler’s Sandwich Grill Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s Mexican Restaurant & Bar Mazzio’s Italian Eatery

Monterey’s Little Mexico Nelson’s Buffeteria Pho Da Cao Pickle’s Pub Rice Bowl Cafe Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Roo’s Sidewalk Café 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 Amsterdam Bar & Grill Admiral Grill Bill & Ruth’s Christy’s BBQ Evelyn’s Golden Saddle BBQ Steakhouse Hank’s Hamburgers

Harden’s Hamburgers Hero’s Subs & Burgers Los Primos Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market

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Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken 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

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

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

BRADY ARTS DISTRICT Antoinette Baking Co. Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Coney Island 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 Prhyme Downtown Steakhouse The Rusty Crane Sisserou’s Spaghetti Warehouse The Tavern

CHERRY STREET 15 Below Andolini’s Pizzeria Café Cubana Chimi’s Mexican Food Chipotle Mexican Grill Coffee House on Cherry Street Doe’s Eat Place 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

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

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

ROSE DISTRICT BruHouse Daylight Donuts Family Back Creek Deli & Gifts Fiesta Mambo!

Hideaway Pizza In the Raw

Main Street Tavern McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro Romeo’s Espresso Cafe The Rooftop

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STAY ‘TIL IT CHANGES TAYLOR HANSON’S FOOD ON THE MOVE BRINGS LONG-HAUL PERSPECTIVE TO FOOD ACCESS

By Molly Bullock

Nearly 30 years after they found international success as two teens, a tween and a really catchy ditty, the Hanson brothers’ wholesome, boy-next-door image and entrepreneurial spirit show no signs of wear. In 2007, the band founded Take The Walk, a barefoot walking campaign to support HIV/AIDS relief and fight poverty in Africa (TakeTheWalk.net). In the years since, they’ve built an empire from their home base— the unassuming 3CG Records in the heart of what’s now the Brady Arts District—and employed their strengths with increasingly positive results for Tulsa.

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(10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. for volunteers) Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus at 3727 E. Apache St. Sat., Nov. 21 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

(9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. for volunteers) EduRec at 5424 N. Madison Ave.

Josh Lynch, The Dog House food truck; Michael Grogan, Food On The Move volunteer coordinator; Taylor Hanson, FOTM founder; and Katie Plohocky, R&G Family Grocers. | EVAN TAYLOR

In 2013, Hanson launched their first craft brew, Mmmhops Pale Ale, through Hanson Brothers Beer Company. This year marked the second all-ages beer and music festival, The Hop Jam, to downtown Tulsa. The band just wrapped up a 10-city North American tour and is working on a project with strong ties to Oklahoma’s music heritage, to be released in the next 12-18 months.

They’re also looking to open a local brewery and continue to expand their involvement with the local music scene.

Perhaps the most interesting project to come from the Hanson brothers’ commitment to Tulsa is Taylor Hanson’s Food On The Move, a program inspired by the community-focused work of Edward Perkins, a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa. The mobile food project brings food trucks, fresh produce, cooking demonstrations, music, and health and social services to food deserts—economically strapped areas with limited access to nutritious food options.

Food On The Move is visionary because it deals with the problem of food access in a way that both meets an immediate need and asks anyone who’s paying attention to re-think the way our community lives, works and eats.

I interviewed Taylor Hanson at 3CG a few days before he left for tour. Though discussing food insecurity was clearly his priority, he graciously answered all of my other questions—even about the renaming of Brady Street—and I walked away with a lot to think about.

Hanson told me that Tulsa’s geographic segregation is a primary challenge for Food On The Move. The program’s success depends on Tulsans’ willingness to step outside our insulated neighborhoods and invest in the marginal areas of our city. Broadening the boundaries of access to high-quality food and employNovember 18 – December 1, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

To volunteer, partner or find more information, visit FoodOnTheMoveOK.com.

Food on the Move event | EVAN TAYLOR

ment opportunities is good for all Tulsans, Hanson said, and a central goal of Food On The Move is to gain local consensus about that.

Mobile food events take place once a month at Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus and EduRec and will likely expand to other parts of town. The program’s “pay as you can” policy aims to build a culture where a person who eats for free now will return in the future able to pay a little extra. In the same vein, Food On The Move seeks to attract Tulsans from across the city—of all income levels—to connect with the events and build a stronger community as they help support the program.

THE TULSA VOICE: Food On The Move is innovative because you’re bringing food to areas without it, instead of asking people to come to you.

TAYLOR HANSON: If you’re facing challenges of access to a paycheck, you’re also probably facing not having a car, not having transportation. You can’t build a soup kitchen on every street corner, and you shouldn’t. The food bank can only do so much.

But if we could take food or take energy to an area that is currently not thriving, then we could begin to strengthen a core group in each of these areas.

We’re meeting you where you are today—so we’re meeting a core need, we’re meeting a hunger need. But what we’re really trying to do is to grow the list of people that are committed to seeing that neighborhood thrive again. And creating a climate that says, “We’re ready to see a grocery store; we’re ready for that business to come back”—or to be born out of that neighborhood.

TTV: What do you see as barriers for Food On The Move? How can

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Tulsa make the project go as far as possible?

TH: One of the greatest challenges we’re facing is the fact that there are people in Tulsa—farmers, people with knowledge— that could be bringing healthier and better food to us. One of the most critical things that we need to see happen in Tulsa is a change in conversation about food.

It just makes sense—when you see a family farmer, or a group of people that are growing amazing vegetables, and all the new things that are happening with aquaponics and hydroponics and small areas where you can grow incredible produce—that you would support your local farmer.

Because all of the sudden, you’re eating better, our grocery stores are fueled, and our local economy is thriving.

That issue actually ends up benefiting all of us—poor, rich, living in a food desert or not.

Looking at food deserts unlocks this bigger conversation about what all of us are eating, and how it’s getting to us, and why we’re eating it.

There’s this incredible opportunity: We actually are going to be led toward new solutions to make healthier produce accessible for everybody. There are incredible innovations in agriculture, and an opportunity to bring access to greater produce to us all is staring us in the face.

But we have to bring those lines together and say, “We actually want to find a way to support our local farmer. We actually want to see innovative and creative and positive things like an urban garden that is a good business”—not just an urban garden that’s successful, but an urban garden that actually provides employment.

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what’s now the Brady Arts District. Redevelopment has literally surrounded you on all sides, so you’ve watched a lot of change come through, as well as some growing pains. As a Brady district business owner, how have you processed the pseudo-renaming of Brady Street and the continued conversation about the Brady name?

TH: I don’t really want to get stuck on that. Here’s what I think. I think that forward is better than backward. There’s a million reasons to rethink the past. But I’m not sure that renaming an area is not more of a distraction than it should be a priority.

What I want to talk about is what the district is gonna be named that’s not there now (points toward north Tulsa). I want to name things after people that are leading today. Life is not made up of clean slates and perfect histories. What we should be talking about is, why are we still not seeing businesses grow in certain areas?

Renaming a district is not a bad idea. But I’d really rather name the next district after other individuals that we all believe are worthy of that new name. That, to me, is what we should be focused on.

TTV: Your studio is also at the physical center of live music in Tulsa, in an area full of local artists. Do you feel connected with the local music scene, or are you kind of your own situation?

TH: Yeah, I feel connected with a lot of local bands. When we’ve done The Hop Jam, we’ve put on opening band contests and had tons of great artists submit their music. We’ve gotten to know a lot of those musicians. Paul Benjaman is a friend and a great musician in town. All About a Bubble guys won the last contest, and they’re playing around.

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are paying the bills daily and starting their businesses, they are at the heart of seeing real change happen. And a huge amount of appreciation I have for the many food trucks that have taken time and dollars out of their pockets to say, “Today I am a mobile kitchen, and I’m providing these guests a level of dignity, a level of being treated just like every person that walks to the Guthrie Green to get their foodie lunch.”

TTV: That’s inspiring.

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Clark, and we have those friendships, is huge. There is the current scene of musicians locally that I think is really cool. But what I’m most interested in is the future, because Tulsa is in a position to decide to be a great place for music and arts. And right now, it is only a place to be a local artist—or like us, we’ve had success, and we’ve chosen to be here, so we’ve kind of made our own island; we’ve figured out how to work here and love being in Tulsa.

But it’s not an industry city.

It’s not a city where you’re able to move from A to B to C as an artist, as a musician. And so I think the question is, can Tulsa be a place where we begin to invite innovators that are really starting labels, starting publishing companies, writing songs, promoting events—and grow those areas?

Seeing Tulsa thrive is not necessarily about keeping everyone in Tulsa. You’re always gonna go somewhere and come back. But each time you do that, it’s that question of, well, do you come back? And then when you come back, do you bring something

back to this place, and does it continue to build and grow?

TTV: How do local food trucks factor into your work with Food On The Move?

TH: Food trucks are so key to what we’re trying to accomplish because they represent a sort of dignity. They’re cool and they’re fun, and they’re going to areas of town that are not seeing food trucks. It’s not a current stop for Andolini’s to be at 5424 N. Madison, almost to Turley. But they’re there, at Food On The Move. And those food trucks are an example of community leaders, businesses that are saying, “I’m going to give today. Not one day when I have enough money to start a foundation. I’m going to give with my business.”

Great example: Josh Lynch, who has the Dog House and Crunch (Nacho Ninjas) and recently started The Park in the Pearl. He made a commitment to request those trucks be a part of Food On The Move as a part of joining the park. And that’s a huge, huge statement as a small businessperson. The people that

TH: Yeah, it’s ‘cause they’ve done it. I don’t have a food truck, so I couldn’t offer it.

We define what kind of place we live in. And I have the advantage as well of working since I was really young. So I have zero tolerance for people saying, “Oh, I can’t make a difference.” Because I was given the gift of seeing that it’s possible to succeed with what you love. That’s where I love getting the opportunity to come alongside people that have those abilities—a food truck owner, an entrepreneur—and they’re right on that cusp where they’re like, “I might cash it in. I might just throw in the towel. This is too hard.” But it’s just a matter of surviving just a little bit longer. Just a little bit longer until that idea or that business or that thing that we believe in works.

And most people that end up making a change, they didn’t necessarily have a better idea than the person next to them. But they stuck it out. They stayed on it. That is a huge, non-flashy, non-complex version of what we need to do. We just need to decide as a community that having two miles away from here be an area that has no grocery store—with thousands of people that would put dollars into the coffers of that business and support it and see it grow, and see business thrive, and see neighborhoods begin to improve—that we believe that that’s not okay. You decide you’re going to stay on it until it changes. a

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Miss Jackson’s Utica Square store ready for opening in August 1965 | COURTESY

The mythical Miss A misspent lament for Miss Jackson’s

by MARK BROWN

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iss Jackson’s is a teentsy Tiffany’s. Walking through the doors—the day after the store announced it’d be closing its doors for good—I felt like Paul Varjak, minus my Golightly and capable of spending only a limited amount. Perhaps a pound jar of the Lindsay Farms muscadine jelly.

But I wasn’t looking to buy, just to look, and I wasn’t alone. A clerk in giftwrap stood idle over a large table, with a nearby closet stacked with green, purple and grey gift boxes. Out in the showroom, clerks outnumbered customers by a safe margin.

“If you have a question, just holler, sir,” one of them said to me.

I did: Where did everybody go?

little emporiums, indie record bins, corner bookstores, oddball thrifts, and the misfits who run them. Remember Swinney’s Hardware, in Whittier? Home Depot, by design, gives me a headache.

You don’t shop in a big box.

You bag and tag.

I go “shopping” at Macy’s every day, whether I like it or not.

Because I bought a suit online five years ago—a black, wool DKNY that cost less than my weekly trip to Sprouts—my web browsing is littered with their little white men in little black suits.

I navigate away from those pages, and hope that Macy’s doesn’t inadvertently hand my credit card over to Russians.

“Shop” dates to 1300, possibly from the Old English scoppa, a “booth or shed for trade or work,” likely related to scypen, meaning “cowshed.”

I don’t miss shopping, but I strangely miss shops. The

Miss Jackson’s, 1974 Utica Square, announced its closing the week of Halloween, fulfilling a prophecy it denied even this summer. When Steve’s Sundry closed two years ago, I never even dropped in to say goodbye.

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“When was the last time you were in?” Judy White, Miss Jackson’s GM asked me. I couldn’t remember, but she’d missed the target.

White talks of the “perception” problem Miss Jackson’s has been saddled with over the years, that everything in the store is priced through the roof. There was a time, when retail was fought in the cold trenches of class warfare, that price had a cachet. Now, it’s a war we wage with drones.

“We’ve changed considerably with the times,” said White, who’s been with the store 14 years. “It’s a process. You continue to reevaluate your business.”

Forty-one “associates” will be reevaluating, too, come January.

Back in the day, Miss Jackson’s on a resume likely carried some heft. But, with what White calls the “culture of dress up” fading year by year, how long before the doors close on the last boutique ever?

“I don’t think it’ll happen,” she said. “But I do think it’s always

going to be a struggle to provide the type of service and expertise that we do.”

Service and expertise … both relics of a bygone era, like the Nutcracker vignettes that animate the Square each Christmas, or the red London phone booths, their handsets tethered to a foot of coil.

So who was this mythical Miss?

She was a transplant and a corsetière1. She came to town from gloomy Pittsburgh—where “the sky was dark with coal smoke and the sun was hidden from view”—and went to work for the Beane-Vandever Dry Goods Company for two years before going out on her own.

The mission, as outlined in the brief history, The Story of Nelle Shields Jackson by Kate Meyers: “The shop exists to serve its patrons, and they should be made as comfortable in the shop as they would be in their own homes.”

Jackson’s own home in Riverview sits too far in to offer any

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glimpse of the Arkansas. Maybe from an upstairs window.

“Even by 1920s standards,” Meyers wrote, “the house, located at 1403 South Guthrie, was not by any means ostentatious.”

It was a saffron-yellow, New England clapboard two-story that featured a curved staircase with handrails upholstered in apricot velvet, Meyers wrote. “The long living room was carpeted by a huge gold rug, specially woven in Scotland, and was papered in emerald green grasscloth.” Gold brocade draperies, Louis XV armchairs, wallpaper “in the Bird and Flower pattern” from Alsace-Lorraine rounded out the elegant understatement.

After a half-century run, Miss Jackson sold her shop in 1962 to A. Ray Smith, owner of the Tulsa Oilers baseball club, who sold it two years later to the Vandever brothers (their big “V” adorned my fifth-grade baseball jersey), who moved it to its Utica address.

Bill Fisher bought it in 1967, a year after Jackson died at 93.

Forever a miss, she never married.

Miss Jackson’s is part museum, for the exhibitionist in all (or some) of us, and part mausoleum, where sleeping beauty has been laid to rest: the delicate pattern of acorn, oak and laurel on the Bernardaud porcelain; the William Yeoward decanters with Gin, Bourbon, Scotch and Vodka etched in frost; the lacquered handmade trays of Annie Modica; the Match pewter hand hammered into chargers and bowls; the Lulu Frost and Julie Vos rings, necklaces, bracelets and other charms.

Afraid to touch anything, I took the elevator to the second floor, where the bridal registry gives way to the dressing room. A slender woman who could have been Italian or Incan stood up from a desk and asked me gently, “Just looking? OK.” With its Greco-Roman touches, it reminded me of Caesar’s Palace, which only embellished the

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decadence. It’s the last place I’d expect to hear Sam & Dave, but there they were, belting a soulful rendition of “I Thank You”: Every day was something new You pull out your bag and your fine to-do You got me trying new things too Even out of my league, I was taken by a rack of Frascara gowns—pretty maids, all in a row—arrayed with ample room between each, like the houses in Ranch Acres. Underfoot, bamboo floorboards that bore the black scuffs of the well heeled.

Near the elevator hangs a portrait of Nelle herself: a Warholian triptych nailed over a display of Commando “dig-free” legwear.

A sign near the Fur Salon reads, “Is your fur outdated?”

For a culture happily resigned to eating in the car, it all feels a bit idyllic, even delusional. All the place settings and gowns and fra-

grances seem more at home in the pages of a Wharton novel than the dining rooms of Terwilleger Boulevard.

Still, I want to box it in Nalgene and freeze it in time. A keepsake, like the Lalique vase in the window case whose crystal softly shimmers, suspended against a black veil as if by magic. In the window, the vinyl signage, equally radiant, advertises the 50th, and final, season for Miss Jackson’s.

“Ageless,” it goes. a 1) French for corsetmaker.

Also called a staymaker.

Corsetières combined a knowledge of anatomy with a fashion sensibility to provide their clients with the classic wasp-waisted, hourglass look that many 19th century women (and men) failed to come by naturall y. The best corsetières were power players, with posh clients and multiple patents. In a mode of skinny jeans, corsets are more likel y to appear in boudoir photography and online BDSM websites.

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9th Annual Williams Route 66 Marathon | COURTESY

The rolling party Route 66 Marathon is a global destination

by ANDY WHEELER

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arathons are difficult. A half-marathon is 13.1 miles and a marathon is 26.2 miles. They’re brutal tests of mental stamina and physical endurance. Preparation takes months, sometimes years. But something happens along the way.

People change.

Tulsa’s 10th Annual Williams Route 66 Marathon will be no different. On November 21 and 22, thousands of first-time and return joggers will descend upon Tulsa to run themselves into the ground.

Route 66 Marathon founder and race director Chris Lieberman understands that a marathon can be a life-changing event, and it’s in this spirit of self-actualization that he’s nurtured Route 66 into a nationally respected “destination marathon.”

“It’s amazing what an event like this can do for a city,” Lieberman said. “When there is a major marathon, people can set goals ... ‘You know, I just might be able to do a marathon or a half-marathon!’ It is a huge, lofty goal. You are going to prove things to yourself that you never dreamed you could do.

And you are going to come out the other end a better, more confident individual.”

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is exactly what Lieberman set out to achieve when he founded the Marathon.

“If 500 Tulsans a year are doing their first marathon, what kind of effect is that going to have?”

Lieberman said. “They might not be afraid to start a new business.

Or show their boss the Glow-inthe-Dark Cat Hat.” So what sets Route 66 apart from other marathons?

For starters, attention to the casual runner over the Olympic gazelles.

“The overall feel of the race is what it is famous for,” Lieberman continued. “A lot of races are mostly about the fastest runners.

And for us, it has never been about the front of the pack; it has been about the middle of the pack.”

For this reason, the Route 66 Marathon pays no prize money— its focus is on the health and fitness of the masses, not attracting elite runners. This year’s 10th anniversary participants will receive a pirate’s booty in free swag, including a sweet jacket and an art deco finisher’s medal, among other things.

“To me it is much more inspiring to see your neighbor finish a marathon than an elite athlete,” Lieberman said. “It makes it seem possible for anyone to do it.”

This attention to the amateur marathoner or half-marathoner

has resonated worldwide. This year will find every state in the union represented along with Washington D.C. and 12 nations from China to Uruguay.

Early on, in a show of progressive thinking, Lieberman reached out to several key marathon groups: Marathon Maniacs, the Half Fanatics and the 50 States Marathon Clubs. These are marathoners who run a marathon or half-marathon every weekend—true ambassadors of the sport. “These are the people who encourage others to run,” Lieberman continued.

“We want to take care of them.

They’ve earned it. This year over 2,000 members of these clubs are coming to Tulsa to run our marathon.”

As a result, these groups have become ambassadors for the Route 66 Marathon and, by extension, Tulsa. But what is the value of this word-of-mouth publicity?

“We are known as being one of the most fun races out there,” Lieberman said. “Most of it has to do with Tulsans out on the course cheering on the racers and having a good time.” Indeed, the marathon is a rolling party through the heart of our city, and Tulsans respond in kind.

“I have heard it said that a participant can get more beer on our course than any course in the world,” Lieberman added with a begrudging smile. “It is not endorsed by the marathon in any way! People are going to do what they are going to do. If someone wants to set up a ‘Free Beer’ stand in their driveway, it’s up to the participants to decide. We can’t keep them from doing it.”

What he and the Marathon can endorse is the money the event rolls into our city’s coffers. The Marathon’s expected economic impact is in the range of $7-8 million, with an estimated 5,000 Tulsa hotel rooms booked for participants over the weekend.

“We have a lot going on in Tulsa,” Lieberman said. “We get thousands of people here who are going to take an intimate street-level tour of our city. And that’s priceless as far as changing impressions.”

The route takes runners through the Brady District, the Blue Dome District, Brookside and along the Gathering Place construction.

“What other event gets this amount of people from out of town, taking a running/walking tour of Tulsa? That’s why we started doing it,” he concluded.

“That’s why we are going to keep doing it.” a

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Winterfest Sat., Nov. 21 through Sun., Jan. 17 BOK Center, tulsawinterfest.com It’s time again to ice skate under the Tulsa Skyline and Oklahoma’s tallest Christmas tree. Winterfest skating rates are $5-$10, and half-price rates are available by donating non-perishable food items on Mondays and warm items, including clothing and blankets, on Wednesdays. Winterfest also includes downtown horse and carriage rides, live music and entertainment on an outdoor stage on the weekends and hot chocolate and other seasonal concessions.

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Cyntergy Hurtland

Sat., Nov. 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Owen Park, hurtlandusa.com

Do you love Tulsa Tough? So do we. Thankfully, for the first time we don’t have to wait until June for more cycling shenanigans, because the folks behind Tulsa Tough are giving us Hurtland.

Held at the historic Owen Park, this all day cyclocross event features seven rounds of races on a course designed by three-time USA CX National Champion Jeremy Powers. The insane courses of cyclocross include pavement, wooded trails, steep hills and obstacles that require riders to dismount and carry their bikes.

Could Hurtland be the next Cry Baby Hill? Make it so, Tulsans.

Disco Drome

Fri., Nov. 20, 8:30 p.m., $10-$15 American Theatre Company

LA comedian and Blue Whale Comedy Festival alum Randy Liedtke returns to Tulsa. Liedtke’s debut album I’m on a Roll broke the iTunes top ten and you may have seen or heard him on Conan, @midnight, Maron, Comedy Bang Bang, Adventure Time, Late Night with Seth Myers and Last Comic Standing.

Also appearing will be 10-year-old stand-up phenom Saffrom Herndon, who also impressed Tulsa audiences at the Blue Whale fest earlier this year. Herndon’s jokes are funny beyond her years. An example: “Online dating is tough. Every time I meet someone new, they end up in jail.” The show will be hosted by OKC comedian Ryan Drake.

Fri., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., $20-$22.50 Cain’s Ballroom, cainsballroom.com To kick off Cyntergy Hurtland, Cain’s Ballroom hosts Disco Drome, a bike race INSIDE our favorite honky-tonk. The Red Bull Mini Drome—the smallest velodrome track in the world— will be set up in the middle of the Cain’s dance floor, a DJ will be bumping high-energy jams and six-time Mini Drome winner Addison Zawada will be on the mic, calling the action. Bob Wills never saw this coming.

Illeana Douglas: An Evening of Books and Film Thurs., Nov. 19, 7 to 10 p.m.

Circle Cinema, booksmarttulsa.com

Award-winning actress Illeana Douglas, known for roles in several Scorsese movies including "Goodfellas" and "Cape Fear" and also for roles in "To Die For," "Ghost World" and an Emmy-nominated guest appearance on "Six Feet Under," comes to town to discuss and sign her acclaimed memoir. After the presentation, Douglas will introduce a screening of the cult classic, "Ghost World."

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Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre

Fri. and Sat., Nov. 20 and 21, 8 p.m., $40 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC, tulsapac.com

Grounded in traditions of African American dance, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater uses storytelling and a variety of dance styles to touch on universal themes in pieces that are emotional, muscular and passionate. Students from the OU School of Dance will join Deeply Rooted dancers in the show’s finale.

Champagne and Chocolate Gala

Sat., Nov. 21, 7-10 p.m., $40 Living Arts, champagnechocolatetulsa.org This sweet evening features a Wearable Art Fashion Show, art for sale by some of Oklahoma’s finest artists, music by Tim Shadley, desserts provided by Tulsa chefs and, of course, plenty of champagne and chocolates. The Gala raises funds for Living Arts to continue to host contemporary art, performance art, new music, spoken word events and art education for children.

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Bright Victory

Tues., Dec. 1, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., $15-$35, Circle Cinema, circlecinema.com Circle Cinema will host two special screenings of the 1951 war drama “Bright Victory,” starring Tulsa philanthropist Peggy Helmerich (then known as Peggy Dow). Helmerich will appear for Q&A sessions after each screening.

Arthur Kennedy stars in an Oscar-nominated turn as a blinded WWII veteran struggling to adjust to his affliction in peacetime. Helmerich plays a woman who loves him enough to push him through his self-pity, even if that means she must be cruel to him. Circle Cinema will screen a digital version of the film made especially for this event from an archival 35mm print.

Attendance is free for WWII veterans at the 2 p.m. screening.

EVENTS An Affair of the Heart of Tulsa // The bi-annual craft marketplace returns with nearly 500 pop-up shops featuring artists, craftsmen, local boutique owners and more. // 11/20-11/22, River Spirit Expo, Expo Square, $8, heartoftulsa.com COMEDY Dante, Jeff Bodart // 11/18-11/21, The Loony Bin, $2-$10, www.loonybincomedy.com Improv Club // 11/19, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Blue Dome Social Club // 11/20, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com The Mic Drop // 11/20, 10 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Hot Mic Comedy! // 11/21, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Watch This #$@! Comedy Show! // 11/21, 10 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Sunday Night Stand Up // 11/22, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

By George! // 11/26, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Route 66 Marathon

Sat. and Sun., Nov. 21 and 22, Downtown, route66marathon.com The 10th Annual Route 66 Marathon returns to Downtown Tulsa, attracting distance runners from every state in the union and 12 countries abroad.

Read Andy Wheeler’s story on the marathon on page 30.

Turkey Day 5K

Thurs., Nov. 26, 8:30 a.m.

Guthrie Green, okfoodbank.com Thanksgiving morning, get a head start on burning off the calories of your imminent feast. The Turkey Day 5K and Fun Run starts and ends at Guthrie Green and raises funds for the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma.

The Hunt Club’s 2nd Annual Beard and Mustache Competition Sat., Nov. 28, 7 p.m. thehuntclubtulsa.com

No Shave November is coming to a close, and that means it’s time to show off the facial manifestation of your manliness. Trophies will be awarded in several categories for both beards and mustaches. Dapper, Inc. men’s salon will be doing live demos and Dante and the Hawks will perform.

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Philbrook Festival

Sat., Nov. 21 through Thurs., Dec., 31, $7-$9, Philbrook Museum of Art festival.philbrook.org Philbrook’s annual holiday celebration returns with festive events, décor, thousands of twinkling lights and local art for sale. Garden Glow, a free public opening of the festival Nov. 21 at 7 p.m., includes holiday art-making activities and the lighting of the Philbrook Gardens. Festival admission includes entrance to Philbrook Downtown and all proceeds support Philbrook’s educational programs and museum operations.

T-Town Famous // 11/27, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Unusual suspects // 11/27, 10 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Mark Poolos, Keith Terry, JC Sabala // 11/27-11/28, The Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy.com News Junkie // 11/28, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Hammered! A Drunk Improv Show // 11/28, 10 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor. com Sunday Night Stand Up // 11/29, 8 p.m., The Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Soundpony Comedy Night // 11/30, 10 p.m., Soundpony, thesoundpony.com SPORTS TU Men’s Basketball vs Wichita State // 11/17, 7 p.m., Reynolds Center, $15-$44, tulsahurricane. com Tulsa Oilers vs Missouri Mavericks // 11/20, 7:05 p.m., BOK Center, $13-$73, tulsaoilers.com

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Sun., Nov. 29, 3-7 p.m.

Guthrie Green, guthriegreen.com Celebrate the beginning of the holiday season at Guthrie Green. An on-site market with local vendors will offer holiday décor, art, food, clothing and more.

Tulsajazz.com, Bravo Brass and Arthur Thompson will offer live music, and DJ Spencer LG will kick off the event with holiday karaoke. Food trucks will be on site and Lucky’s on the Green will feature holiday food and drinks. Even jolly old Saint Nick will make an appearance for the lighting of the Green, which happens at 6 p.m.

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Earl Hazard | GREG BOLLINGER

Fierce Hazard Earl Hazard graduates from blacktop battles to studio production

by MITCH GILLIAM

E

arl Hazard has premonitions.

“I wouldn’t call it a problem, maybe a gift,” he told me.

“But sometimes, it is a curse.”

In 2002, when he heard he’d be moving to Tulsa from Tallulah, Louisiana, the young emcee had visions of buildings he’d never seen and crowds watching him perform. In time, he’s come to find those very buildings and crowds in Tulsa.

Before he moved, Hazard hit the search engines to study his new city. “I found out all about the racism, and its history, but I also saw that Tulsa was this crossroads for jazz,” he said. “I knew I was moving to the right place.”

Hailing from Tallulah, where 44% of the population lives below the poverty line, Hazard saw promise in his move, and wasted no time in delivering upon it.

I met with Hazard at the home studio of Ryan Paquette, the manager of local hip hop label MuGen, which is releasing Hazard’s debut LP, King of Tallulah. Hazard’s characteristic wide-eyed demeanor 36 // MUSIC

was in full force as he frantically plucked Newports and brought them to lip and flame.

When Hazard first came to Tulsa, he quickly made a name for himself as a fierce freestyler. A high-school trombone player, he brought his rapid sense of rhythm from rehearsal rooms to blacktop battlefields.

Apart from solidifying his lyrical strength, Hazard developed his rep as an unrivaled shit talker. “I was almost killed for a battle rap, bro,” he told me. Freestyling in his apartment complex, Hazard went against a gang member, and insulted his set. “He went to his trunk, pulled out a sawed-off pump, put it to my head, and said ‘say some shit.’ I just looked at him and yelled, ‘man, I’m only seventeen!’”

Undeterred by threats and the occasional battle lost, Hazard graduated to making mixtapes, and began aligning himself with Tulsa emcees.

When Oilhouse began pulling crowds in 2011, Hazard (then, and occasionally still, going by the stage name Mr. Burns) was often

in tow. His on-stage ferocity— matched only by the fast-rapping (though deceptively calm) Mike Dee—lived up to his off-stage reputation as the group’s wild card. Though never an official member of that crew, Hazard calls the Oilhouse boys his brothers.

As restless in life as his jittery rhymes suggest, Hazard soon found himself multi-tasking various projects, including fronting the Tulsa-by-way-of-L.A. rock group, Freak Juice (which made the Onion A.V. Club’s “Year in Band Names”).

Between dropping digital EPs and performing with Oilhouse and Freak Juice, he often guests with Verse and the Vapors and continues to do battle with other emcees. He recently joined global hip-hop clique Pragmatic Theory and signed with MuGen. Now, he’s preparing to support King of Tallulah.

“People know me as a battle-rapper, but I don’t think anybody knows I can write songs,” Hazard said between drags on his Newport.

King of Tallulah, then, is a coming out for Hazard as a songwriter and studio craftsman, the product of half a year’s work, with beats pulled from international producers and a guest appearance by legendary Jamaican-American rapper Canibus.

For the fledgling MuGen, KoT is its golden goose (I had to sign a waiver just to hear it early), and Paquette and his team make no attempt to hide their love for it. The label is planning a blowout album release party at Nitro Lounge on November 20th.

Despite taking firm root in Tulsa, Hazard still sees himself as a man of two cities. He cites certain flowers he says can only grow in the two states, and sees himself as one such product of both soils.

“It’s crazy, man, my connection to Louisiana and Tulsa,” he said.

As for the premonitions—gift, curse or otherwise—Hazard has none about this album. “It’s all new territory to me, man.” Lucky for us, premonitions aren’t needed, as King of Tallulah spreads out the tea leaves just fine. a

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by MITCH GILLIAM

ART GALLERY & BAR

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arl Hazard, King of Tallulah,” are the first lines rapped on Hazard’s debut LP. Self-promotion isn’t unexpected from the battle-rap vet, but having lyrical legend Canibus proclaim this is a big deal. As the album’s 12 tracks run their course, Tulsans will most likely: A) easily concede the throne, and B) ask “Why the hell Tallulah?”

The Louisiana native came up with the album title when he saw a hip hop thread over his home town’s most celebrated emcees.

“All of them were just doing trap, and club raps,” he told me. Hazard wanted to set the record straight.

With KOT he sure as hell has.

Hazard’s wild performances have earned him the “loose cannon” label, but his debut nixes any allusions to clumsy artillery. Excising any sense of spray and pray on his bars, like Kill Bill’s Karen Kim, he assures you he’s “a fucking surgeon with this thing.” The world currently praises shock groups like Ho99o9 and pretends MC Ride can rap, but Hazard has true technique on his side. He takes nest in his menthol cloud, sniping through whack emcees and eclectic beats with percussive spitfire.

Globally curated from as far as Spain and Serbia, the album’s beats feature down tempo jazz inflections, old school video game tunes, skate-able future roll-bounce, and even one club banger. Although he borrows the template of those laying claim to his hometown’s throne on the trap-happy “To Da Max,” Hazard

never sacrifices lyrics for head nods. “Y’all’d be stupid to cross me/ like robbing Jesus of Nazareth/ in a labyrinth tripping acid with alchemist catalyst,” he spits over skittering hi-hats and timpani booms.

Aside from clever turns of phrase, the album is marked by politically conscious lyrics. On “Mathematica,” Hazard comes out swinging with number puns, “They say three is a crowd/and deuce to the haters/only one Earl Hazard ain’t enough for you to play with…like add a lot of real/ then give me the dividends/don’t die, multiply, subtract it from ignorance…” before reflecting on the divide-and-conquer technique employed by The Powers That Be. “I find myself one with the Earth, mental geology/it’s two ways to go when you here so choose logically/you will never have peace, love, respect, and justice/amongst Mexicans and Blacks, cuz it’s against government policy,” he spits on the song that features Chicano rapper KroMatik. That juxtaposition of the playfully adept and woefully aware is where the battle rapper finds his calling.

The album’s half-year gestation and attention to detail comes through on the whole. Whether it’s through the beat selection, lyrics, Hazard’s delivery, or the killer emcees featured, nothing comes across as less than whole-assed.

With KOT, Hazard earned the title of his album’s namesake, and has crafted a whetstone upon which his Okie peers can hope to sharpen their swords. a

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musiclistings Wed // Nov 18 Brady Theater – Rise Against, Killswitch Engage, letlive. – 7 p.m. – ($32.50-$35) Cimarron Bar – Harry Williams and Friends Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Dusty Dog Pub – *Steve Pryor Fur Shop – Some Nerve, Class Zero – 9 p.m.

Hunt Club – The Brothers Moore, Cucumber and the Suntans Mamasota’s – Mark Bruner – 6 p.m.

Mix Co – *Mike Cameron Collective On the Rocks – Don White – 7 p.m.

Sandite Billiards – Bo Phillips Band – 7 p.m.

The Shrine – Industry Wednesday – ($5) Tin Dog Saloon – Open Jam Night – 8:30 p.m.

Thurs // Nov 19 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Centennial Lounge – Randy Brumley – 8 p.m.

Colony – Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ Jacob Tovar Crow Creek Tavern – Reekorens Dusty Dog Pub – Chuck Dunlap Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Chad Lee – 8 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Scott Ellison – 3 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Chris Hyde – 7 p.m.

Hunt Club – Ego Culture Mamasota’s – *Stephanie Oliver, Matt Hayes, Sean Al-Jibouri – 7 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – Shane Smith & The Saints – 10 p.m.

Nitro Lounge – DJ Matt Dodd Pickles Pub – Creeler River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Hi-Fidelics – 7 p.m.

Sandite Billiards – Bryce Dicus, Mike Ryan Soundpony – Attic Ted – 10 p.m.

The Shrine – My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Sever the Feeling, Axis – ($18-$20) Woody’s Corner Bar – Born in November

Fri // Nov 20 Centennial Lounge – The Blue Dawgs – 9 p.m.

Cimarron Bar – Infinity CJ Maloney’s – FM Pilots – 9 p.m.

Colony – *Pilgrim album release - Easy People w/ Paul Benjaman and Friends – ($5) Crow Creek Tavern – Pearson Brothers Dusty Dog Pub – Creeler Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Soul Shine Elwood’s – Brian Pounds – 7 p.m.

Four Aces Tavern – Truck Stop Betties Hall of Fame – Danny Davis Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd – 5:30 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – The jumpshots – 9 p.m.

Hunt Club – Marie Curie, White Giant, The Brothers Moore Nitro Lounge – *Earl Hazard Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition – 9 p.m.

Pepper’s Grill - South – The Living Room Project w/ Jennifer Marriott and Wanda Watson – 8:30 p.m.

River Spiri Event Center – Gin Blossoms – 7 p.m.

– ($20-$40) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Zodiac – 9 p.m.

Soul City – Goovement – 8 p.m. – ($10) Soundpony – *Helen Kelter Skelter, And The Stand Empires – 10:30 p.m.

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Starship Records – *Woody Records Fall Showcase w/ Mr. and the Mrs., Noun Verb Adjective, SWAP MEAT, The Daddyo’s, Cucumber and the Suntans – 3 p.m.

The Run – Starz The Shrine – Dead Metal Society – ($5) Unit D – *Samantha Fish Vanguard – *Tulsa Reggae Alliance w/ The Rebellion, Sam & The Stylees, Brujoroots, One Nation – 8 p.m. – ($10) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Mikey Bee

Tues // Nov 24

Sat // Nov 21

Wed // Nov 25

727 Club – Scott Ellison Band – 9:30 pm Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – *JD McPherson, Parker Millsap – 8 p.m. – ($18-$33) Centennial Lounge – Gypsy Cold Cuts Cimarron Bar – Evil Twin Colony – *Stone Trio Crow Creek Tavern – Christine Jude Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Liquid Static – 3 p.m.

Four Aces Tavern – Mojo Risin Hall of Fame – Danny Davis Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Wilbur Lee Tucker – 9 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Travis Kidd – 5:30 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Reverse Reaction – 9 p.m.

Hunt Club – The Atlantic IDL Ballroom – Ego Likeness, Die Sektor, The Rain Within, Axis – 9 p.m. – ($10) Magoo’s – Rocket Science Mamasota’s – Andrew Michael – 7 p.m.

Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman Band – 10:00 Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition – 9 p.m.

Pickles Pub – South of Vertical River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Zodiac – 9 p.m.

Soul City – Buffalo Annie – 8 p.m. – ($10) Soundpony – Costello, The Gnomes, Plain Speak, Ramona & The Phantoms – 10 p.m.

The Shrine – Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers – ($15-$18) Vanguard – David Cook, Andrew Ripp – 8 p.m. – ($20-$70) Woody’s Corner Bar – Jason Young Yeti – *Rock Against Violence w/ Tonne, Holy Void, Queenager, Sun Vow, Girls Club – 6 p.m.

Sun // Nov 22 Bohemian Pizza – Mike Cameron Collective Cimarron Bar – Open Jam Colony – *Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Crow Creek Tavern – The Fingers Dirty Knuckle Tavern – The Blue Dawgs Nitro Lounge – Buddha Bless Sundays Soundpony – Wild Moth, Creepozoidz, Power Pyramid – 10 p.m.

Vanguard – Andrew Jackson Jihad, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Rozwell Kid – 7:30 pm – ($15)

Mon // Nov 23 Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night hosted by Cody Clinton Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Soundpony – *Grape St., The Daddyo’s, Dead Shakes, Noun Verb Adjective – 10:30 p.m.

The Shrine – Demun Jones – ($10) Yeti –

Dusty Dog Pub – Darrel Lee Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – The Tiptons – 7 p.m.

Nitro Lounge – Jeff Hail Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams – 5:30 p.m.

Soundpony – *Edhochuli, Lizard Police – 10:30 p.m.

Tin Dog Saloon – Dan Martin Yeti –

Centennial Lounge – Jennifer Westwood and the Handsome Devils – 9 p.m.

Cimarron Bar – Harry Williams and Friends Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project Crow Creek Tavern – The Blue Dawgs – 9 p.m.

Dusty Dog Pub – Scott Ellison Band – 8:30 p.m.

Mix Co – Mike Cameron Collective On the Rocks – Don White – 7 p.m.

Soundpony – *The Panda Resistance, Dillafluence – 10:30 p.m.

Tin Dog Saloon – Open Jam Night – 8:30 p.m.

Thurs // Nov 26 Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Colony – An evening with Jared Tyler Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin – 8:30 p.m.

Dusty Dog Pub – Sweney and Campbell Pickles Pub – LeFerve MD River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Hi-Fidelics – 7 p.m.

Soundpony – Afistaface – 10:30 p.m.

The Shrine – *Dustin & Jesse’s Higher Education (Pittsley & Aycock) – ($5)

Fri // Nov 27 Cain’s Ballroom – Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Cody Canada & The Departed – 8:30 p.m. – ($18-33) Centennial Lounge – The Moonshine Drifters Cimarron Bar – G Force Colony – Steve Pryor Band Crow Creek Tavern – RPM Dusty Dog Pub – Christine Jude Enso and Electric Circus – Yo Gobble Wobble w/ Darku J, DJ Kylie, KrewX, Nomad, Noizmekka, DJ abSRD, The Runaway Fassler Hall – Hosty Duo – 10 p.m.

Four Aces Tavern – Forgptten Friday Gypsy Coffee House – Marilynn McCullogh Hall of Fame – South of Vertical Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Kinsey sadler – 9 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Scott Ellison – 5:30 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Urban addiction – 9 p.m.

Hunt Club – BC and the Big Rig Mercury Lounge – Brando Jenkins – 10:00 Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – The Stars – 9 p.m.

Pepper’s Grill - South – Dean DeMerritt’s Jazz Tribe – 8:30 p.m.

Pickles Pub – Merle Jam River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Lost on Utica – 9 p.m.

Soundpony – Not a Planet, The Fair-Weather – 10 p.m.

The Run – RockFisch Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin

Sat // Nov 28

Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cain’s Ballroom – Cancer Sucks Concert w/ Poison Overdose, We The Ghost, Sweatin Bullets and more – 6 p.m. – ($10) Centennial Lounge – *Darrell Christopher & The Ingredients Cheri’s Tavern – Forgotten Friday Cimarron Bar – The Addiction Colony – Jessi Aycock, Nellie Clay, Desi & Cody Crow Creek Tavern – Curt Hill Dusty Dog Pub – Luxtones Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers – 3 p.m.

Four Aces Tavern – Justin Case Gypsy Coffee House – Hector Uteras Hall of Fame – South of Vertical Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Merle Jam – 9 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – The Hi-Fidelics – 5:30 p.m.

Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Annie Up – 9 p.m.

Hunt Club – Dante & The Hawks IDL Ballroom – That 90’s Party – 9 p.m. – ($7-$10) Mercury Lounge – *Count Tutu – 10 p.m.

Nitro Lounge – Re:Wind Pickles Pub – Truck Stop Betties River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Lost on Utica – 9 p.m.

Sandite Billiards – Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition Soundpony – DJ Sweet Baby Jaysus – 10:30 p.m.

The Run – RockFisch The Shrine – Candied Gams – ($10) Woody’s Corner Bar – Funk Frequency

Sun // Nov 29 Bohemian Pizza – Mike Cameron Collective Cain’s Ballroom – *Ryan Bingham, Jamestown Revival – 8 p.m. – ($25-$40) Cimarron Bar – Open Jam Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Crow Creek Tavern – The Fingers Dirty Knuckle Tavern – The Blue Dawgs Mercury Lounge – Johnny Dango – 10:00 Nitro Lounge – Buddha Bless Sundays Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Chuck and Sandy Gardner – 5:00 pm – ($5-$20)

Mon // Nov 30

Cain’s Ballroom – Parkway Drive, Miss May I, Thy Art Is Murder, In Hearts Wake – 7 p.m. – ($22-$37) Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night hosted by Cody Clinton Dusty Dog Pub – Steve Pryor Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Yeti –

Tue // Dec 1 Cain’s Ballroom – Kevin Gates, Young DV – 8 p.m. – ($30-$45) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7 p.m.

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams – 5:30 p.m.

Phoenix – Casii Stephan – 7:30 pm Osage Casino - NINE18 Bar – The Stars – 9 p.m Yeti – .

Blue Rose Cafe – Josh Roberts – 8 p.m.

Bobbisox – David Dover – 9 p.m.

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Snowy footprints last longer The sprawling second season of ‘Fargo’ is brilliant, so far

by LANDRY HARLAN

I

n the spirit of “Fargo,” I will start with a parable.

Imagine two sophomores finishing up their summers at a prestigious creative writing workshop. One is a moody, black-teed bad boy from New Orleans whose dorm is decorated with posters of Friedrich Nietzsche and “Chinatown.” The other has a northern accent, a plaid-heavy wardrobe, and a politeness that belies a pitch-black sense of humor. They both get full scholarships because of their debut, award-winning short stories.

The first student lets this initial success go to his head, eschewing the advice of his peers and instructors, and turns in a follow-up piece that’s so bad, the university rescinds its scholarship offer. The second student, on the other hand, consults with his more accomplished friends and mentors, happily inviting feedback and criticism in an effort to craft the best possible version of the story he wants to tell, and ultimately turns in a piece that is heralded as confirmation that this guy is the real deal, a great writer with a long future ahead of him.

As you might have guessed, the two sophomores are television showrunners Nic Pizzolatto (“True Detective”) and Noah Hawley (“Fargo”).

“True Detective”’s second season suffered significantly from a convoluted plot and stilted writing.

These issues seemed to stem from Pizzolatto’s creative hubris—he spent a fair amount of time during season one press interviews downplaying director Cary Fukunaga’s contributions and hogging all the credit for himself. Thus, when season two rolled around, we got 40 // FILM & TV

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a bloated, uneven mess helmed by a series of hack directors who lacked Fukunaga’s uniformly elegant vision but were reliably pliable to the whims of Pizzolatto.

After slogging through the series, I feared the fate of my other favorite drama of 2014, FX’s “Fargo” (an adaptation of the 1996 Coen brothers film). As a friend and I piled up the Little Caesar’s and fell back in our couch the night of the premiere, I couldn’t help but throw up a quick prayer for Hawley and the gang.

It’s a relief to report that “Fargo”’s second season is, thus far, brilliant. Rarely is a show so utterly confident in its storytelling.

The opening black-and-white vignette expertly sets the tone.

The camera tracks across a field covered in arrow-filled dead bodies for the opening of the film “The Massacre at Sioux Falls.” Just as you’re wondering if you flipped to TCM by accident, the director runs onto the set to consult with one of the actors portraying a

Native American. We find out everyone is just waiting for Ronald Reagan to finish getting his battle wound makeup applied.

It’s a strange way to start the season, but it’s quintessential “Fargo”—you’re already as confused and off-balance as the characters.

After the off-kilter opening, we jump to Luverne, Minnesota in 1979, a few hours south and several decades prior to the events of last season. Our moral compass is state trooper Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson), a character first introduced in season one as a veteran, world-weary cop (played

by Keith Carradine) haunted by a past incident in Sioux Falls—an incident toward which this season is almost certainly heading. In that sense, season two could be looked at as Solverson’s origin story, although he’s once again on the periphery, upstaged by evil men and morally compromised rubes.

The premiere’s inciting incident is a gruesome massacre at a Luverne diner, the ramifications of

which ripple through a sprawling set of idiosyncratic characters.

There’s Ed and Peggy Blomquist, played by Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons (“Meth” Damon from “Breaking Bad”), a simple couple whose small town life is disrupted when they cover up the fallout from a fatal accident.

Then there’s the Gerhardt crime family, led by tough-as-nails matriarch Floyd (Jean Smart giving a master class), who struggles to keep her reckless offspring in line while contending with a not-so-friendly buyout offer from a Kansas City crime syndicate, repped by accountant Joe Bulo (Brad Garrett) and eloquent muscleman Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine).

And then of course there’s Solverson, following a trail of bodies and footprints with his fellow trooper (Ted Danson) while tending to his wife Betsy (Cristin Miliani), who’s slowly succumbing to cancer, and their baby daughter Molly (who will grow up to be the central protagonist in season one’s narrative).

How do all these disparate characters come together? Hawley makes it look easy. His keen eye for small-town interconnectivity is key to what makes the show come alive. The first season was an intimate affair, a cutting look at the intersection of masculinity and violence. Season two seems to be taking the same route, yet on a much larger scale. Everyone is hunting for someone or something; actions have reactions, and no one is spared. It doesn’t matter where (or how) the bodies are buried, they’ll always be found.

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FILM & TV // 41

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Defiance ‘Love’ pushes the boundaries of sex in film; ‘Suffragette’ depicts a revolution

by JOE O’SHANSKY Love Argentine-born provocateur Gaspar Noé has made a career out of transgressive and often difficult cinema, the pinnacle of which is still “Irreversible”—a film that seems determined to snuff out any hope that life has meaning or purpose. The stomach-churning cinematography (aided by riot control horns buried in the soundtrack meant to induce nausea in crowds), with its camera spiraling in a seemingly constant take through a devastating love story told in reverse, is a horrific roller coaster ride.

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From the brutal, 12-minute rape of Monica Bellucci’s character (a scene so unwatchable it prompted mass walk-outs at Cannes), to the film’s heartrending last scene (the chronological beginning of the narrative), “Irreversible” makes “Requiem for a Dream” feel like afternoon popcorn material.

With his latest, “Love,” Noé offers us an odd exchange. He’s made his most narratively accessible and emotional film while also giving us some of the most artistic scenes of real sex in mainstream cinema history. And he shot it in 3D. Because, provocateur.

The story is simple. Murphy (Karl Glusman) is an American film student in France who falls in love with the emotionally chaotic Electra (Aomi Muyock). Enjoying life in a sanctuary of sexual chemistry, they invite their new neighbor, Omi (Klara Kristin) into their bed. Which, of course, destroys Eden forever.

We find Murphy living with Omi after they’ve had a child. He’s miserable, wracked with regret, and desires nothing more than to be with Electra again. She’s gone missing for weeks and Murphy is desperate to find her. Noé’s script unfolds in equilateral scenes that

reveal Murphy’s obsession with getting back to Eden, in naive defiance of all the moments where everything went wrong.

Filmmakers from Catherine Breillat (“Romance”) to Paul Verhoeven (“Spetters”) boldly crossed the unsimulated sex line decades ago, though that is largely a reflection of European mores. Our Puritan roots still make us uncomfortable with realistic depictions of copulation, not to mention the politically correct idea that explicit sex on film only serves the male gaze. That’s unfortunate, and retrograde, because the beauty of “Love”—aside from Benoît Debie’s gorgeous cinematography, Noé’s brilliant editing, sublime direction, and the emotional rawness that it all evokes—is in how it pulls us into those intoxicating, ephemeral moments we’ve all probably (hopefully) experienced. Lust is a splendid, if fleeting, thing, an idea which Noé hammers home with a frankness that feels new and vital.

“Love” is ultimately about the entropy of romantic hubris. It’s also a reflection of its maker. Noé names Murphy’s unwanted baby (an irony considering Omi’s “prolife” stance) Gaspar; he also plays Electra’s not-so-ex lover. And

dialogue like Murphy’s “I want to make movies out of blood, sperm, and tears” pretty much describes the filmmaker’s entire filmography.

Noé has made an updated New Wave film in the classic sense—in love with cinema, sex, youth, and France. This is his rude, money-shot answer to Bertolucci’s sentimental erotica, “The Dreamers.”

But Noé’s eye for the explicit extends far beyond the prurient, and into the fugue of its title.

His predilection for evocatively shifting time remains, revealing his story in onion layers of dreamlike hedonism and aftermath, of which the catalyst (the three-way between Murphy, Electra, and Omi) seems to be the loving answer to “Irreversible’s” crushing rape—while a defining orgy reclaims Noé’s emotional nihilism. The explicitness isn’t pornography, though you could argue that it is. Everyone is autonomous. Even the audience.

They all serve a larger, equally crushing idea. The lucid dream of hope, lust, jealousy, anger, and regret. Which might be the ultimate definition of love.

“Love” is available for digital rental or purchase on Amazon Video and Vimeo On Demand.

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Anne-Marie Duff, Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter in “Suffragete” | COURTESY

Suffragette Men are assholes. I guess that’s not news, though “Suffragette,” the new fictionalized telling of the women’s suffrage movement in 1900s England, is an earnest reminder.

Contemporary examples of the kind of asshole I’m talking about are everywhere. Troll a “men’s rights” website, or just check out the Republican debates.

And look closely—these guys are reflections of how things used to be, reminders of the patriarchal hegemony embedded within a supposedly free civilization, one where “all men are created equal.”

But as bad as things are now with the conservative war on women, and for women’s rights worldwide, it’s easy to forget that they used to be much worse, even in so-called advanced societies.

Until the early 20th century, women in the U.S and U.K. had no vote and no real power—commanded to labor when poor, or comfort when not, but always

with a mandate to bear kids that they had no parental rights over, especially if the marriage dissolved.

They lived in a caste system reinforced by the disapproval of the herd and made legitimate by the law. Those women who agitated were treated as criminals.

Which makes you wonder, in 2015, what these politicians (and their constituents) are really nostalgic for.

Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) works at an industrial laundry by day and tends to her husband Sonny (Ben Whishaw) and their young son (Adam Michael Dodd) the rest of the time. Literally born in the laundromat, she’s been working for practically her entire life at a lesser wage and for longer hours than her male counterparts, while under the aegis of a boss who is likely a pedophile.

But a movement is fomenting around Maud—a movement she’s swept into when, by happenstance, she finds herself at a Parliament hearing on the right

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to vote, testifying on behalf of the Suffragettes about their awful working conditions.

Maud, who comes off like Switzerland at first (i.e. neutral), eventually risks herself to help the Suffragettes after she witnesses their arrests (and the sometimes violent retribution) overseen by Inspector Steed (Brendan Gleeson). Steed is an indiscriminate enforcer who is basically using the Nuremberg defense to justify his methods.

Emboldened by the movement, Maud engages in “Fight Club”-esque acts of vandalism with her co-workers under the leadership of Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter, in a bit of meta-casting), which escalate in boldness until they finally reach the attention of the international press, and the King himself.

Written by Abi Morgan (“Shame”) and loosely based on actual events, “Suffragette” is an effective, often enraging film that feels emotionally engaging yet

lightly sketched. It’s as if we’ve strolled into the final act of a three-act play. Yes, we know why this story is important, but you have to bring some familiarity with you. Most of the characters are fictionalized except for, notably, Meryl Streep’s Emmeline Pankhurst and Natalie Press’s Emily Davison, whose ultimate role in capturing the world’s attention changed everything.

Sarah Gavron’s direction is often lovely, eliciting some great performances, among which Mulligan and Carter (both flirting with Oscar) are the obvious standouts, along with Anne-Marie Duff as Maud’s bestie, Violet. She achieves a tangible and textured period atmosphere and maintains a propulsive pace, honing in on the drama with a fluidly assertive ease.

I was taken by surprise at how immediate and still-sadly-relevant “Suffragette” is. It’s a rallying cry to a battle that in many ways never ended. a FILM & TV // 43

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After bringing her home, “we were careful at first,” Jessika says, “We thought it would take her some time to adapt to her new environment.” That was not the case. She began eating well immediately, played unabashedly with all her new toys, and even joined 15-year-old Imp, the family cat, for fun and games. “Tris is outgoing and unafraid,” Jessika says, “She’s been a blessing to have around the home.”

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When we rescued BEAMER, this five-yearold Italian Greyhound/ Dachshund mix was extremely underweight and very shy. Slowly but surely, he has built up both his health and his confidence. He loves to follow us around the shelter, and he loves to be carried like child. He is very smart and learns quickly.

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news of the weird

by Chuck Shepherd

Vampire Association Members of the New Orleans Vampire Association are not, of course, like Dracula or those “Twilight” characters, but rather people who are convinced that consuming other people’s blood prevents illness or provides energy — and thus seek “donors” to sit for regular or occasional slicings or pin pricks for friendship, or money or sex.

Though some members have gone full-gothic in dress and lifestyle (as described in an October Washington Post report), an academic researcher studying the community has concluded that the vampires generally exhibit no signs of mental illness.

Basic Training Fort Bragg, North Carolina, declared an emergency on Oct. 30 when one of its soldiers had the bright idea to arrive for a Halloween party on base dressed as a suicide bomber, with realistic-looking canisters in a wired vest. Gates to the post (headquarters of Army special forces and airborne troops) immediately went into extended lockdown, and a bomb-disposal team was called. The soldier’s name was not released.

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Upland, California, dermatologist Sandra Lee is a social media cult figure with a massive audience on YouTube, where her cyst- and pimple-popping videos (charmingly, soothingly narrated) have garnered 170 million views. (The “Popping” community, on the Reddit.com site, has more than 60,000 members.) Dr. Lee admits longing for “the perfect blackhead,” which to her apparently means one that is photogenic and slides out easily from its snug epidermal home. Several “Popping” fanatics told a Washington Post reporter that watching the videos is therapy for anxiety, but one fan (a “Mr. Wilson”) apparently gets his “therapy” by submitting videos of his own — unsoothing — oil-laden bursts.

While hopeful Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero seeks funding to perform the first ever head “transplant” (with a patient already lined up), Australian doc-

tor Geoff Askin (the country’s “godfather of spinal surgery”) recently successfully “reattached” the head of a 16-month-old boy who was badly injured in a traffic accident. The toddler’s head was described as internally “relocated” and reset onto the vertebra, using wire and rib tissue to graft the head back in place. (Nonetheless, the operation was widely regarded as a “miracle.”)

Police Report Hugo Castro, 28, wanted for questioning in October in San Jose, California, after his girlfriend was stabbed to death, helpfully presented himself at county jail.

The sheriff ’s deputy listened — and then suggested Castro go find a San Jose police officer. (Castro did, and the deputy was subsequently reassigned.)

New Hampshire state police laid down spiked “stop sticks” in November to slow down a fleeing Joshua Buzza, 37, near Greenland, New Hampshire. Buzza was apprehended, but not before he managed to avoid the sticks while goading the drivers of three squad cars over them (flattening several tires).

Finer Points of the Law Daniel Darrington was spared a murder conviction in October even after admitting intentionally shooting Rocky Matskassy at point-blank range to “relieve his suffering.” The Melbourne, Australia, jury decided that Matskassy,

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in pain from an earlier accidental shooting, was indeed already dead when Darrington shot him. However, under the law of the state of Victoria, it is still “attempted murder” because Darrington believed that Matskassy was still alive when he pulled the trigger.

but the tires caught fire, and in addition to the van’s having a gas tank, it also carried an undisclosed amount of firearms ammunition.

The van was a total loss, but the sheriff ’s department said it doubted there would be an insurance claim filed.

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Even though Darren Paden, 52, confessed almost immediately upon his 2013 arrest for a 10year, 200-plus-episode pattern of sexual abuse of a girl that began when she was 4, many Dearborn, Missouri, townspeople, astonishingly, turned on her and not him.

Paden, volunteer fire chief in the 500-person town, is apparently a beloved neighbor with a lifetime of good deeds, leaving the victim, now 18, largely “ostracized” and called a liar, according to an October Kansas City Star report. Even some who accept that crimes were committed fear excessively punishing a “good man” (who, in one example offered by a neighbor, saved a man from being stomped to death by a cow). Nonetheless, in October, the judge sentenced Paden to 50 years in prison.

Least Competent Criminal In October, Rezwan Hussain, 29, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the illegal drugs enterprise he ran from his mother’s basement in Rochdale, England.

He had apparently avoided detection until March, when the Greater Manchester police arrived to question his brother. Hussain said his brother wasn’t home, and they left, but a frightened Hussain ran upstairs and began tossing 500 pounds of drugs out the window in preparation for his getaway.

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21):

If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”

The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams.

Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: http://bit.ly/liberateslaves.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Urbandictionary. com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term *baltre,* which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ve arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back towards where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. *You Only Live Once,* for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010,

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when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a nine-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain.

A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?”

Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself.

2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Normally I charge $270-an-hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory.

There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all of her professional fights, and *Sports Illustrated* calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

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ACROSS 1 Sheriff’s symbol 6 Chopped with an ax 11 1/2 fl. oz.

15 Headstone letters 18 Coolly detached 19 “Hurray!”

20 Lines on timelines 21 Express longing 22 Yummy 24 Yummy 26 Blood supply 27 Gambler’s woe 28 Fertile areas in deserts 30 Musical beginning 31 Downpour or drizzle 33 Lowly laborer 35 Desert plants 37 Treat tenderly 40 Like flushed cheeks 42 Femur’s upper end 43 Animal that beats its chest 44 Engage in a price war 46 Playground fixtures 50 Luxurious passenger cars 52 Prepares 54 Pod denizen 55 En route by ship 56 Golden Horde member 59 Fancy wheels 60 Aquatic resorts 61 Refer to, as a research paper 63 Woodworker’s tool 66 Blade sharpeners 68 Additional 70 Yummy 73 Affected, as a museumgoer 74 Signs back in 76 Tied up 77 Caesar’s 8 78 Eyes, in poetry

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88 Do a second time, as a role 91 Kind of patch 93 Expert at interpreting text 95 All-male get-together 98 “Yes” gesture 99 Grabbed a bite 100 Red carpet moment 101 Acts as king 103 Bagel enhancers 107 Eliminates from (with “of”) 108 Grounds for a suit 109 Ishmael’s people 110 No longer on the plate 112 1.3-ounce Asian weight 114 Guinness and others 118 Yummy 120 Make a pig of oneself 123 Wall St. debuts 124 Bottom-line figures 125 Tear open, as seams 126 Wilkes-___, Pennsylvania 127 ___ Moines, Iowa 128 Furtive summons 129 Orange rinds 130 Once ___ (annually) DOWN 1 Baseball bases 2 ___ vera (lotion plant) 3 It’s in a jamb 4 French filmmaker Jean-Luc 5 Baby newt 6 Chinese green tea variety

7 Has dinner 8 Library volume?

9 Clock watcher’s wait, seemingly 10 Humanitarian 11 “Bill & ___ Excellent Adventure” 12 Like some births 13 Hispanic dance music 14 Tire-pressure letters 15 Causes for the National Guard 16 Become accustomed (to) 17 Change in Chihuahua 21 Some cheesecake 23 Make an enemy 25 They have their limits 29 Cronelike 32 Styptic-pencil ingredient 34 Harris and Asner 36 Kraft product 37 ___-pie (from head to foot) 38 “Mr. Holland’s ___” (1996) 39 Yummy 40 Take a load off 41 Grand closing 45 “CSI” evidence 46 A ___ for sore eyes 47 Yummy 48 Becomes threadbare 49 Mouthy 51 Scottish landowners 53 The break of day 57 Rainbow’s shape 58 200-meter, e.g.

60 Like a tough teacher 62 It’s on some Scottish locks 64 Ford Explorer, e.g.

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67 ___ chi 68 Jagged, as a leaf’s edge 69 Make copies of 70 Medicated compress 71 Mouse manipulator 72 Alfonso’s royal wife 75 Drink served with a lemon (var.)

77 Old record player 80 Home plate?

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