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Nov. 19 – Dec. 2, 2014 // vol. 1 no. 23 NEWS & COMMENTARY 8 // Cognitive dissonance Ray Pearcey, change agent
Change is in the air, yet many still refuse to embrace it cityspeak 10 // I see red people Barry Friedman, blue person
Come election time, Oklahoma’s always right commentary
FOOD & DRINK 14 // Harvest bounty Mitch Dees and Evan Wei-Haas
Standout dishes from 10 Tulsa restaurants’ new fall menus tulsafood
20 // Costa living Beau Adams, extractor
On touring with Broncho, the pitfalls of writing, and the eternal chess game dayd r i n k i n g
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n this space I normally give a rundown of what’s in the paper, couched in some sort of semi-relevant personal anecdote. So let’s pretend I did that, shall we? Now. Let’s talk about The Sidewalk. Ray Pearcey offers some thoughts on the Great Sidewalk Debate on pg. 8, but in our previous issue he devoted an entire column to Tulsa’s tragically low “Walk Score,” and all the ways improving that score would improve the city as a whole. That discussion, naturally, cannot be had without addressing this sidewalk kerfuffle. Ray wrote: Most progressive planners and urban designers argue that sidewalks are an unambiguous public good— they allow for exercise, they give those without access to vehicles an avenue from A to B, and they provide safety and security for pedestrians in the midst of highspeed traffic corridors. The fate of new sidewalk links shouldn’t be determined by
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well-connected folks with objections to “outsiders” …
Yes, Ray refers to our honorable mayor and his rich pals, who put the kybosh on the proposed sidewalk that would run from Veterans Park to the new Gathering Place. It’s another in a seemingly endless string of examples—people who run this city (elected officials as well as the rich folks who “suggest” things like this to elected officials) will stop at nothing to … do nothing. While other cities (including the one down the turnpike, which Tulsa used to laugh at) stride into the future, Tulsa’s complacent cronyism keeps our city’s feet firmly in the mud. A coalition started earlier this year, Smart Growth Tulsa, is rallying citizens to reverse that trend in every way imaginable through innovative policy initiatives regarding infrastructure, transportation, public health and a host of other issues. The group, led by Executive Director Bill Leighty, former chair of the Tulsa Metro Area Planning Commission
and current member of the city’s Transportation Advisory Board, has penned a letter to the mayor detailing the reasons we need that sidewalk. Those reasons are many, but this closing bullet point sums it all up pretty well: The Gathering Place is projected to attract a million or more visitors a year. The decision on whether or not to build the proposed sidewalk and provide adequate pedestrian access should be made on what best serves the best interests of the public, not the private preferences of a few neighborhood residents.
If you agree with that sentiment, I encourage you to do two things: 1 //Come to the public meeting at 6 p.m. on Nov. 24 at the Tulsa Garden Center (2435 S. Peoria Ave.), hosted by City Councilor Blake Ewing and a representative from the mayor’s office. Many of the most outspoken opponents of the sidewalk project are expected to attend, so
the forum could use as many voices in favor of the project as it can get. A second public forum, as part of Ewing’s “Dive Bar Town Hall” series, will be held at 6 p.m. on Dec. 1 at The Fur Shop (520 E. 3rd St). 2 // Visit SmartGrowthTulsa. com, read the petition they’ve created, which urges the mayor to reverse his decision, and add your name. It may seem like no one ever listens. It may even be true. But that shouldn’t stop us from trying. Tell the mayor you support that sidewalk. Tell him you support progressive, forward-thinking initiatives that will make this city better for all of us, not just some of us. Tell him you want Tulsa to stop sitting around— it’s time to get moving. a
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Cognitive dissonance Change is in the air, yet many still refuse to embrace it by RAY PEARCEY
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ome days ago, I watched Christopher Nolan’s mesmerizing new science-fiction film, “Interstellar.” The new movie, from the iconoclastic director of “Inception,” “Memento” and an inspired “Batman” trilogy, is grim—and sometimes depressing as hell. But it’s also a lyrical, visually stunning meditation on imagination, the human spirit and American psychology. The two-sided, schizoid-like element in Nolan’s new flick is a fitting description of Tulsa at the end of 2014. We have enormous energy, real entrepreneurial power and a resilient population. But our town is often highly resistant to changes in city planning, social innovation, engagement in issues of race and class and embracing “outsiders”—openness that’s propelling other communities forward. We are missing out, and we risk becoming real laggards if we don’t tune in. What are some of our immediate challenges? What hot-button issues are galvanizing activists, politicos and active Tulsans? The immigration moment If President Obama’s widely anticipated executive order to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation and grant work permits to many of them would affect millions of families in the U.S. Tulsa Public Schools, our workplaces and our company start-up rate have been altered dramatically by the infusion of 8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY
and cultural trajectory as the century rolls on. To do otherwise would be foolish in the extreme.
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tens of thousands of Hispanic folks into T-Town over the past decade. While some Tulsans see this influx as problematic, others see this sea change—righteously in my book—as an opportunity for grand, energizing developments. Tulsans have an opportunity to welcome the thousands of folks who’ve lived here, in the shadows, for many years. The moral, socially positive and economically useful thing would be to welcome these folks with open arms and all the goodwill and positive energy we can evince. I spoke recently with Bill Wynn, managing editor of La
Semana, the Tulsa-based bilingual weekly. Wynn said that the biggest barrier to turning this quiet revolution into a wholly positive thing is that all of our state’s federal officials and our governor have manifested monolithic opposition to the president’s initiative. It’s counterproductive to what could be a big boost to state and local interests. Hispanic folks in this community and elsewhere have demonstrated enormous entrepreneurial zeal, an outsized work ethic and tremendous adaptability. These are elements that we can use to spark Tulsa’s economy and augment our social
The great sidewalk tussle A roiling controversy is stewing over a proposed eastside walkway leading to the Gathering Place park on Riverside Drive. At issue is whether our mayor and City Council are committed to the core principles of PlaniTulsa— the impetus for a new focus on connectivity, neighborhood walkability and mixed-use development. PlaniTulsa, which reworked Tulsa’s old-hat zoning, land use and development guidelines, resulted from a deep, democratic, local engagement of the time, energy, imagination, and aspirations of thousands of Tulsans. The commitments that emerged from PlaniTulsa aren’t legally binding, but they should have great moral influence on elected officials, community leaders and homeowners near the Gathering Place. These stakeholders appear to have ignored this weight, and the vision has taken some major hits this year. Part of the intensity of this fight is the cringe-worthy nature of the response, so far, by Mayor Dewey Bartlett, who canceled plans for the sidewalk after protests from residents with whom the mayor has business ties. The sidewalk contretemps is a big test—a public forum on the topic is scheduled for Nov. 24 at
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the Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S. Peoria Ave. The Ferguson spark The Ferguson, Mo., grand jury charged with ascertaining officer Darren Wilson’s culpability in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is likely to come to a decision shortly. As it happens, the grand jury proceedings in Ferguson have leaked a lot in recent weeks, and the betting outcome is that Wilson will not be indicted. This outcome will precipitate a whole series of large-scale demonstrations, civil disobedience actions and simple protests in Missouri and elsewhere. But a major takeaway concerns the future of policing everywhere in America—the evolution of police/community engagement, racial profiling and a whole series of equity issues that are also very much in play in Tulsa. Green Country has a reputation as a place that has sometimes been at the forefront of social innovation—our early involvement in aviation, seminal role in energy, the
[TULSA HAS] ENORMOUS ENERGY, REAL ENTREPRENEURIAL POWER AND A RESILIENT POPULATION. BUT OUR TOWN IS OFTEN HIGHLY RESISTANT TO CHANGES IN CITY PLANNING, SOCIAL INNOVATION, ENGAGEMENT IN ISSUES OF RACE AND CLASS, AND EMBRACING “OUTSIDERS”—INITIATIVES THAT ARE PROPELLING OTHER COMMUNITIES FORWARD. voluntary school integration plan and the magnet school initiative are singular examples. And while the Tulsa Police Department under Chief Chuck Jordan has been active with community forums on some of these issues, the “Ferguson moment” is an opportunity for T-Town to reconsider policing— and not just in trivial ways. A community policing program—getting more Tulsa cops out
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of cars, increasing beat-centric patrols, more on-bike presence, foot patrols, Segway-supported neighborhood beats and other efforts that will create more active engagement, particularly in black and Hispanic neighborhoods—really needs to be a big part of policing in Tulsa. Again, Jordan and others such as Tulsa writer and activist Hannibal Johnson, have made a start on these fateful reworks. But we need a fervent effort to forestall the kind of catastrophe that occurred in Ferguson and, more importantly, a re-imagining that can optimize Tulsa’s social prospects. Some kind of police/citizen oversight process, a formal one, would also help improve the interplay between the police department, the sheriffs operation and Tulsa neighborhoods that have been sometimes traumatized by overreactions by TPD and the continuing local legacy of our society’s failed war on drugs. Another very tangible initiative, adoption of so-called body-borne video (now in increasing use by major metro police departments)
deserves a big look. The notion is conceptually simple: Tulsa cops would wear small video cameras that would record every police encounter of any consequence. The evidence from tryout cities like Denver is fascinating: in the multi-month demonstration in the Mile High City, body-borne video has dramatically reduced the number of complaints against cops and the number of irregular/ brutal encounters between citizens and cops. Body-borne video is an enormous step in the direction of radical transparency in policing and something that a community with a checkered racial and social history could really use. Let’s get with it. a
Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.
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I see red people Come election time, Oklahoma’s always right by BARRY FRIEDMAN
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klahoma’s elected officials, both in OKC and Washington, are the Brick Red, Radical Red, Razzmatazz, Red Salsa, and Big Dip O’ Ruby in the nation’s GOP Crayola box--a rich, velvety hue of garish self-satisfaction, lapel-pin patriotism and bullying faith. I’m not judging, you understand. They won. Let ‘em enjoy. State Democrats, meanwhile, are looking for the gas pipe. We’ll get back to them. So, how is it we, in Oklahoma, have allowed ourselves to be represented by those who hate
the very act of a functioning government? For the love of short-term memory loss—and for example—Jim Bridenstine, Markwayne Mullin, and James Lankford not only voted to shut down the government in 2013, but voted to keep it shut down1, even after an agreement was reached to reopen it (a shutdown which cost the economy 24-billion and slowed the recovery)— and all because they were still pouting about the Affordable Care Act. Forget sending them to Washington, they should have been sent to their rooms without dessert.
INHOFE
Human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with imp acts observed on all continents. If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible imp acts for people and ecosystems.—U.N. Intergovernmental P anel on Climate Change
Well, actuall y, the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.’ My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous. —Sen. James Inhofe
Inhofe will now chair the Senate Environmental Committee—which is like putting State Rep. Mike Ritze in charge of handing out safe sex pamphlets at Planned Parenthood. Inhofe beat Matt Sil verstein 68 percent to 28.5 percent
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necessaril y mean that that’s constitutional.” After accusing Democrats of “stacking the courts in their favor” (five of the current nine justices were appointed by Republican presidents) Bridenstine dismissed the idea that Congress must write l aws within the boundaries set by the Supreme Court. “That’s not the case.”
That’s noted legal scholar and U.S. Supreme Court aficionado Jim Bridenstine, 1st District Congressman—who, astonishingly, didn’t get any of that above paragraph right4. It was Bridenstine, you may remember, a veteran, a patriot, who also decided the best response to a woman who called for the execution of President Obama, the commander in chief, was to tell her, “Look, everyone knows the lawlessness of this President.” Way to defuse, Jimbo.
Bridenstine was re-elected and nobody ran against him.
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Yeah, but those are scientists with facts. Jim Inhofe knows scripture3.
BRIDENSTINE “ Just because the Supreme Court rules on something doesn’t
“ If we want to put prayer back in our schools, our communities have to stand up; the churches have to stand up; the p arents have to stand up. They have got to say, ‘No, we want it in our schools.’ We’re going to do what we want to do because it’s our schools. It’s our public schools.”
That’s 2nd District Congressman/Plumber/Fire-and-Brimstone Coach Markwayne Mullin, who’s clearly fed up with all the non-Jesusing going on in our public schools5. Mullin was re-elected—beating Earl Everett, a dead guy, 70 percent to 24.6 percent
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“ I think it’s a choice issue. Are there tendencies and such? Yes. But I think it’s a choice issue.”
That’s James Lankford, former bible school director and Oklahoma’s new U.S. senator, reminding us that, yeah, there might be some biological, neurological pangs that determine one’s homosexuality6, but nobody forces them to love show tunes. Congressman Lankford beat Connie Johnson, 67.9 percent to 29 percent
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All of which brings us, ahem, to Oklahoma Democrats. I weep. Let’s first get a diagnosis from the invaluable Bruno Gianelli from “The West Wing”:
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“ We all need some therapy, because somebody came along and said ‘Liberal’ means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on Communism, soft on defense—and we’re gonna tax you back to the Stone Age because people shouldn’t have to go to work if they don’t want to! And instead of saying, “Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, progun, ‘Leave It To Beaver’ trip back to the ’50s,” we cowered in the corner, and said, “Please. Don’t. Hur t. Me.”
And we also showed our guns, sucked up to the crazies and tried to find ourselves. Joe Dorman mentioned being beloved by the NRA; Matt Silverstein promised to reach across the aisle; and Connie Johnson, well, I still can’t figure out what was going on there. Moreover, this past year, Lankford campaigned with Michele Bachmann, T.W. Shannon with Sarah Palin, and Mary Fallin with Chris Christie, but Democratic candidates wouldn’t embrace the leader of their own party? Under Obama, the deficit has been cut in half, unemployment is under 6 percent, Bin Laden sleeps with the fishes, more people here
illegally have been deported than ever before, people can now defend this nation to regardless of sexual orientation, banks no longer run student financial aid programs, the U.S. auto industry has been saved and we no longer invade the wrong countries. And Democratic candidates were afraid to say his name? Maybe they deserved to lose. A party in search of itself doesn’t get elected. a 1N ews9.com: Government Shutdown, Debt Deal: How Oklahoma’s Delegation Voted 2 Un.org: Climate change threatens irreversible and dangerous impacts, but options exist to limit its effects 3 Rightwingwatch.org: James Inhofe Says the Bible Refutes Climate Change 4T hinkprogress.org: GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn’t Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional 5 Tulsaworld.com: Markwayne Mullin calls for school-led prayer, support for Israel during telephone town hall 6 Thetulsavoice.com/September-B-2014/Put-some-sunlight-on-it/: GOP Rep. Lankford Explains Why It Should Be Legal To Fire Someone For Being Gay: ‘It’s A Choice Issue’ 7 Stateimpact.npr.org: Interactive Map: Uninsured in Oklahoma
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Harvest bounty Standout dishes from 10 Tulsa restaurants’ new fall menus by MITCH DEES and EVAN WEI-HAAS | photos by VALERIE GRANT
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all is upon us and winter is knocking, which means Tulsa’s top chefs have launched their new fall menus. The TulsaFood writers have thoroughly enjoyed dozens of new dishes over the past couple months and compiled a short list of Fall 2014 favorites. In no particular order, here they are:
rich, super tender, bone-in veal is moderately coated in a red wine demi-glace and sits on a thick bed of stewed red potatoes and carrots. Order this with caution, because it might affect how you judge every “beef stew” you eat again in your life. In terms of a fall dish that is hearty, rich and filling, this stew comes in as our favorite.
Veal Osso Buco ($38) The Tavern, chef de cuisine Mat thew Baile y Provided you like beef and heartwarming stew, if this dish doesn’t get you in the mood for fall and Thanksgiving, nothing will. The
Crispy Duck Confit ($15) SMOKE, exe cut ive chef Erik Re ynolds There is something about the balanced combination of colors in this dish that makes you want to just curl up beside it with a
full-bodied pinot noir. But the dish is every bit as delicious as it is visually stunning. One local chef told me this week, “A lot of people in Tulsa seem to be afraid of duck for some reason.” So, for those who struggle to take the plunge and order away from their comfort zones, this is the dish with which to take the risk and learn to love duck done properly. The Brussels sprouts and butternut squash arrived perfect in temperature and texture, and the crispy sage was a great touch to the overall flavor profile of the dish. Every tender bite of this bird—with its brown and crisp exterior, cooked in its own fat—
will leave you wondering why you always order the steak. Braised Beef Short Ribs ($24) Palace Café, chef/ow ner James Shrader Tulsa has enjoyed the consistent quality of this farm-to-table owner/chef concept for more than a decade. The short ribs, which sit atop wilted greens, are as tender as you can imagine and the veal gastrique ignites the rich, savory flavors. The fall vegetables that accompany the short ribs are the classic grilled carrots and the innovative roasted cauliflower mash. This dish wins (continued on page 16)
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(continued from page 14) most delicious and unique vegetable accompaniment; the roasted cauliflower mash is a nice vacation from the traditional potato. (The photo is from the chef ’s tasting menu and not of the fully prepared dish.) Roasted Turkey, Bacon & Havarti sandwich ($9) with a side of Bison Chili ($6) Juniper, chef/owner Justin Thompson and chef Tim Slavin Who doesn’t love chili on a cold fall day? This meaty bison chili has just enough heat to please almost anyone, and the large cornbread crouton holds up ’til the last bite. The Justin Thompson Restaurant Group (Juniper, PHRYME, Tavolo, 624) now has a full-time chef baking all the bread, and you can tell the ciabatta bun came out of the oven that morning. Within that fresh, warm bun are the roasted turkey, black pepper, brown sugar and bacon coated with melted Havarti cheese. Beneath the local greens is a pesto mayo spread proportionately across the bread. Grilled Local Organic Blue Prawns ($32) Tallgrass Prairie Table, chef Michelle Donaldson. Leave it to executive chef Michelle Donaldson to source local seafood from the Tulsa area. Wow. The prawns are raised organically by Lake 11 Fisheries in a 50-acre private lake 15 miles south of 16 // FOOD & DRINK
Bixby. As food columnist Brian Schwartz says: “[The prawns] have a wonderful flavor, all you’d want a prawn to be, and they have huge heads and tiny bodies. I devoured the whole thing, gamely crunching sharp spines and thick skulls. Although many diners choose not eat the heads (or at least pull off the spines first) I couldn’t pass on this delicious aspect of the dish. The prawns are served with a squash leaf pesto and recline on an heirloom pepper risotto, surrounded by rich, creamy ‘American’ sauce.” Masala Lamb Chops Cumin, chef Shifali Bhullar The thick red sauce poured over these chops give the dish its distinctive Punjabi flavor. The tender chops are cut thick, and grilled to a perfect medium rare. The masala sauce is rich, mellow and toasty with the savory flavors of the lamb drippings it’s cooked with. Prepare yourself for medium heat from this sauce; its foundation is paprika and tomato with a bit of cream. This wonderful dish deserves to be listed among this fall’s best. Parisian Mac and Cheese ($10) The Hen, chef Grant Vespasian We have a soft spot for chefs who can transform this simple childhood favorite into something special. This mac and cheese comes piping hot from of the oven. The combination of chèvre
(goat cheese) and boursin (much like cream cheese in flavor and texture) makes this French-influenced dish unique in Tulsa. The baked bread crumb crust gives the perfect contrast in texture to the rich and creamy cheese and shell pasta. This dish is available on both the lunch and dinner menus and wins best fall vegetarian dish. El Bracero Ranchero Calaveras Mexican Grill, ow ners David and Angelica Molina The founders of El Rio Verde recently opened this new authentic Mexican restaurant at Admiral and Lewis in the Kendall Whittier District. The El Bracero Ranchero, which translates to “ranch hand,” includes ribs, carne asada, chorizo links, potatoes, grilled green onion, pickled cactus and roasted tomato salsa—all served in a mini portable charcoal grill to keep it hot at the table. This beast of an entree is served with warm tortillas and all the usual fajita-style toppings on the side. The ribs are delicious and prepared with a homemade barbecue sauce made with brown sugar, mulato pepper and spices. The pickled cactus, prepared simply with salt, carries a unique but pleasant bitter savoriness that might set it apart from anything you’ve ever tasted. This is a unique and delicious play on the typical fajitas entree found at most Mexican eateries.
Yaki Gyoza ($8) KEO, chef Dust in Logan These duck breast potstickers with scallion and ginger are presented on fresh local greens. True story: Dees’ 12-year-old son wanted to go to KEO for his birthday and try the new fall tasting menu. He grabbed his chopsticks, picked up one of the dumplings, dipped it in the sweet soy sauce and took a bite. I watched as his eyes grew bigger than they get on Christmas morning. “Wow, that’s incredible; oh man!” he said. The cooked and ground duck breast is packed inside the thin dough. It’s lightly fried then finished off by steam cooking in its own duck fat, giving it a perfect exterior crust. We love this dish and intend to start a petition to see it permanently on the main menu. Yaki Gyoza wins best badass Asian-inspired hors d’oeuvre. Roast Beef Po Boy with a side of Gumbo Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli, ow ners Chris and Amanda West One of the essential elements to this authentic sandwich, the bread, is shipped directly from a bakery in New Orleans. It has a distinct crispy exterior and fluffy interior. The roast beef is slow-cooked, locally sourced Angus beef in a rich gravy. It’s easy to see why this sandwich sells out every day. The gumbo is thick and packed with true Cajun flavors and a medium heat. a
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dininglistings DOWNTOWN Abear’s Baxter’s Interurban Grill The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Fat Guy’s Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch The Greens on Boulder Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli Lou’s Deli MADE Market in the DoubleTree by Hilton
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EAST TULSA Al Sultan Grill & Bakery Big Daddy’s All American Bar-B-Q Birrieria Felipe Bogey’s Brothers Houligan Casa San Marcos Casanova’s Restaurant Charlie’s Chicken Cherokee Deli Darby’s Restaurant El Centenario El Gallo Loco El 7 Marez El Refugio Azteca Super Taqueria Fiesta Del Mar Flame Broiler Frank’s Café Fu-Thai Garibaldi’s The Gnarley Dawg Hatfield’s
Jay’s Coneys Josie’s Tamales Kimmy’s Diner Korean Garden Lot a Burger Maria’s Mexican Grill Mariscos Costa Azul Mariscos El Centenario Mekong Vietnamese Pizza Depot Porky’s Kitchen Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili RoseRock Cafe Señor Fajita Seoul Restaurant Shiloh’s of Tulsa Shish-Kabob & Grill Stone Mill BBQ & Steakhouse Tacos San Pedro Taqueria la Cabana Timmy’s Diner
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Albert G’s Bar & Q Dilly Deli El Guapo’s Cantina Fassler Hall Joe Bots Coffee Joe Momma’s Pizza Juniper
Prhyme Downtown Steakhouse The Rusty Crane Sisserou’s Spaghetti Warehouse The Tavern Z’s Taco Shop Zin Wine, Beer & Dessert Bar
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Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Nelson’s Ranch House Oklahoma Style BBQ The Phoenix Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza
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Costa living On touring with Broncho, the pitfalls of writing and the eternal chess game by BEAU ADAMS Who: Costa Stasinopoulos, producer/writer/musician/ sound engineer Where: Arnie’s To drink: Guinness
The Tulsa Voice: How was the recent tour with Broncho? Costa Stasinopoulos: I like running sound and traveling a lot more than I thought I would. I thought I’d be a lot more uncomfortable. TTV: That’s surprising to me. CS: Well, we’re not sleeping on floors and that sort of thing. It’s kind of gotten to the point where I regret not having toured with a band throughout my twenties. TTV: Can you make a living being a musician in Tulsa? CS: Technically yes, technically no. I don’t know, is there one? TTV: Are you? CS: Am I? ... I make hundreds of dollars a year. [Laughs] The answer is, sure, but at what cost? TTV: Explain. CS: Well, running a studio like The Church, for example. [Editor’s note: Stasinopoulos is the primary producer/engineer for The Church Studio. The studio is currently closed for renovations, potentially for the next year.] With all due respect to everyone that has been involved with that project, that’s way different than just chasing down your own passions. Sometimes it can become something like turning in your homework. TTV: It’s all still useful though, right? 20 // FOOD & DRINK
Costa Stasinopoulos // Photo by Jaret Fer rat usco
CS: Any project that I work on, whether it is producing, engineering, editing, mixing, live shows, writing, film stuff, directing—I just try to view it as an opportunity to add to one thing, … the experience that I can put into the next thing. So any project that I’ve worked on, I wouldn’t give back. I wouldn’t give that experience back for anything. A lot of it is an emotional experience as well. That’s sort of how I take things in ... not necessarily learning a new trick on a record every time, you know? You don’t necessarily put a new trick in your bag every week as a producer ... but you do learn how to be a person in that setting—you get better and better at it. You learn about other artists, and I think that’s probably the merit of going to art school—you learn how to appreciate other people’s art. So in that case you’re getting a front row seat in a master class every time that you do it.
sound a certain way, I hope. In my mind, I was supposed to be a writer.
TTV: Do you identify as a producer at this point in your career, or is that too limiting?
TTV: Did you take it as a sign on some cosmic level?
CS: Everything’s always been too limiting—without meaning to
TTV: What were you supposed to write? CS: Well, let me back up. I was supposed to be a soccer player, then a writer, and I liked music—so those were my plans. I was writing a novel, since that’s never been done before, and from high school to college I had this kind of bank of ideas and I wanted to discover through writing. ... [But] I lost it all. TTV: You physically lost it? CS: Yeah, I never printed it out. It still blows my mind. I mourned it for three months. It was just gone. It was all on a laptop, and it crashed, as they do. I had it backed up on my parents’ computer at home, but when I looked there, it was gone. So I was like, “Fuck writing. Forever.”
CS: Yeah, that I fucked up and I need to never, ever do that again. [Laughs] I just decided the other
thing I like is music and I was just too heartbroken to go back into writing again at that point. But that’s all I wanted, was to discover myself and other people and the world around me through writing. So I just said, “Well, somebody give me a guitar, I gotta figure this out.” So I started writing lyrics. ... But to get back to your original question, two years ago I would have said that I was a producer/ engineer. I mean, that’s what I was doing, and my own personal music projects were on the backburner—that seems to always be the case. That’s part of the cost of living as an artist in Tulsa. TTV: That you might have to get paid by using your talent to help someone else create their vision. CS: Yeah, and slowly inch your way toward yourself. I don’t know what the hell I am right now, you know? There are six little projects I’ve got ready to fire off, and I just don’t know what the next one will be. ... TTV: Does being in that situation weigh heavy on you? Or are you a person that believes that whatever is supposed to happen next will come on it’s own? CS: Oh, wow, that would be nice. No. Look, I try to shed the image of having the burden of the art cross and dragging it through the streets of Tulsa. That’s someone else’s job now, if it ever was mine. But just a song itself presents a terrible cloud at all times, until it’s done, and then it’s dead to me because I no longer get to interact with it. It feels like quitting sometimes. So there are some projects that I don’t want to die; I want them to continue. I want this really long chess game with myself to continue, because I’m really enjoying it and hating myself
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Stasinopoulos, day drinking at Ar nie’s with Beau Adams // Photo by Mat t Cauthron
and also loving little bits of me at the same time. It definitely weighs on me very heavily, and that’s just how it goes for me. TTV: Is working with musicians’ egos just the worst? CS: ... I’ll put it this way: If someone has an ego, it had better come out in their music, that’s what I’ll say. I’ll demand that. But I’m not gonna try to stifle it, either. If that’s what sparks their flame, if that’s the lighter fluid to their emotional spark, then that’s fine, I don’t care—in studio. Outside of the studio, in the real world, it’s the last thing I want to see, from myself or others. TTV: Is that more of a thing when money is involved? CS: I think so. On a local level— on a Tulsa level, let’s say—we are all just trying to get something down that we can live with, get some stuff made. So the ego doesn’t have any social utility in that realm, so it’s avoided I think.
TTV: What concerns do you have making and producing music? CS: Well, I used to have this idea that if you wanted to create something moving and poignant and sad, that you had to be moving and poignant and sad. And that was a terrible way to live. ... There’s still a part of that that I respect in a way and that I think is necessary so that your work isn’t full of shit. But most of that is just trying to crutch a lack of life experience. Now, it’s more of a device like any other. That always concerns me—“Why am I writing this?” That’s something that concerns me. I only took lessons for ... tenor sax, when I was learning to play jazz. And I was playing in a lesson, you know, going through the changes, and I just fly off and let fingers do the talking, and I looked at my teacher and I was like, “Yeah?” And he said, “Do you know what you just did?” and I said, “No.” And he said, “Then it doesn’t fucking count.” His point was that that wasn’t jazz. That
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Stasinopoulos (back right) on tour with Broncho // Photo by Jaret Fer rat usco
was horrendous and masturbatory. I learned that early. I didn’t always apply it to my life, I still tried to cheat—and I think everyone does to a degree—but that was a shock, and it was embarrassing. TTV: That’s an interesting thing to be confronted with early on. CS: I loved it. It felt authentic. It was like, “Oh shit, that’s one of the secrets,” you know? We’ve spent three months in here taking lessons, and you finally gave me something. Because blowing through a tube isn’t making me an artist, but learning stuff like that is. TTV: Do you remember the first instrument you picked up? CS: My dad bought me a guitar. I was little; it actually survived a few days. I was on the top bunk, and I dropped it and it shattered into a million pieces. It stayed with me forever. I was five or six, and it was a little baby guitar, a toy guitar. But it was pretty, and I liked it. I liked
the idea of it—that it could do something, but that I couldn’t make it do something yet. I liked that. And so it just broke, and it was weird because nothing was ever said about it. And it was a really stark, scary moment for me and I almost respected the instrument more at that point. It was like taking a fish out of water and watching it die. You realize, “I shouldn’t have done that.” TTV: Can you listen to music on the radio without dissecting it? CS: Man, that’s like Neil De Grasse Tyson bitching about the movie “Gravity” because the debris was coming from the wrong direction. I’ll hear a song and it’s like living in “The Matrix” and I’ll see the session. So, there is an element of that for me where I have to clear the fog of what I know before I can get to what it is that they do or what they’re saying. The music that I enjoy the most immediately is the music that I enjoy the most immediately, you know? a Now Alway s NON-SM OKING Check fo daily spe r our cials
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n a damp Saturday afternoon in Chicago, crowds of tattooed, sweaty music fans trudge through the muddy, foot-tilled knolls of Humboldt Park, hosting ground for Riot Fest, an annual multicity music festival showcasing a grab bag of noteworthy punk, alternative and metal bands from the past four decades. A handful of stages and numerous vendors compete for attention from the elbowing throngs looking for food and drink before the next bucket-list show. On one end of the park, British punk elders the Buzzcocks perform for a few thousand nostalgic fans; half-a-mile away, Portland indie popsters
BY J OSHUA KLINE P H OTO S B Y JA R E T F E R R AT U S C O The Dandy Warhols do the same. Midway between the two shows, on a small, unassuming side stage tucked behind a row of beer booths and food trucks at the edge of the park, a quintet of scraggly, sleepy-eyed Oklahomans runs through a final sound check before a few dozen curious onlookers. Frontman and guitarist Ryan Lindsey approaches the mic and greets the crowd with deadpan restraint: “We’re Broncho.” The band launches into “Family Values,” a sunny, gleefully perverse B-side from its latest album. The perpetually bed-headed Lindsey, in a ratty, oversized sweater, bounces across the stage with abandon as the rest of the band stoically performs in place.
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The crowd grows significantly as the band burns through its 40-minute set. By the time they kick into the new single, the joyous, jangly “Class Historian,” an enthusiastic few hundred watch. A handful of energetic 20-somethings sing along to each song; several Broncho T-shirts can be spotted. The crowd’s built-in awareness of the music is impressive. This tour, a five-week trot across the U.S., is the first for Broncho as a five-piece. In addition to its core members— Lindsey, guitarist Ben King and drummer Nathan Price—the band recruited guitarist Mandii Larsen and bassist Penny Pitchlynn, both of Tulsa’s Low Litas, to fill out the live show.
They also hired Tulsa producer Costa Stasinopoulos to run sound throughout the tour (see Day Drinking on page 20). The benefit of these additions is clear in Humboldt Park: even outdoors, the band sounds louder, meaner and tighter than ever. The Chicago performance— at 2:45 p.m. on the festival’s smallest stage—was supposed to be an obligatory, dues-paying reprieve from the sold-out, high-pressure theater shows they’ve been playing as the opening act for Brand New. But it’s just days before the release of Broncho’s sophomore album, Just Enough Hip to Be Woman, and the crowd is hungry.
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“ … Pe ople would say, ‘I saw your show, I c a n ’ t p u t a f i n g e r o n w h a t i t i s .’ I think maybe it’s because there are all these (disparate) influences—we weren’t j u s t s i t t i n g a r o u n d l i s t e n i n g t o p u n k r e c o r d s .”
Broncho’s 2014 touring lineup: Ryan Lindse y, Mandii Larsen, Penny Pitchlynn, Ben King, Nathan Price
Out of the gate Broncho initially formed as a goof. In 2010, Norman-based Lindsey was experiencing a modest amount of success as a solo artist. He’d landed a publishing deal with BUG music based on the strength of his album White Paper Beds—a collection of gauzy, folk-tinged pop songs—and his music had begun to show up in TV shows and commercials. (Disclosure: In 2009, as a freelancer, I wrote some promotional material—a bio and a handful of press releases—for White Paper Beds.) While on a break from recording his follow-up to “Beds,” Lindsey and friend Johnathon Ford (founder of instrumental act Unwed Sailor) wrote and recorded a couple of lo-fi punk songs in the voice of a fictional band as part of a potential film project. The movie never happened, but the two musicians so enjoyed the experience of playing rambunctious rock ‘n’ roll that they decided to keep doing it. They recruited Price and King— two prolific players in Norman—to round out the line-up, and Broncho started playing house parties. 24 // FEATURED
A year later, the band released its full-length debut, Can’t Get Past the Lips, a blistering 20-minute LP that conjures the youthful, analog energy of ’70s American punk rock. “The first record was really a total concept record,” Lindsey said. “We now had a name for this music where I’d previously just been putting out solo stuff. There was a name that you could use to do things with. So I thought, the first record this band is going to do is a straight punk record, and we’ll kind of put out some shitty songs. That’s the way I viewed it.” Despite Lindsey’s modesty (by any standard, the songs on Lips are better than shitty), the freeform, id-driven approach to writing paid off, connecting to audiences in Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa as the band transitioned from performing at friends’ parties to proper gigs. Lindsey abandoned his solo project and the band began to tour often, cultivating a fan base through its raucous live shows. Austin-based label CQ Records
picked up Lips for distribution and single “Try Me Out Sometime” became a staple of college radio. The next two years were heavy on false starts and lineup changes. They parted ways first with CQ, then with their manager, and finally with Ford. Jarod Evans, co-owner of Norman’s Black Watch Studios, took up bass duties as the band split time between touring and recording its second album. Fairfax Recordings signed the band and agreed to re-release the first record with the major backing of its parent company, Universal Music Group. But Fairfax was dealing with internal problems and eventually folded. Universal released Broncho from its contract. The band ultimately found a home with Toronto label Dine Alone Records. In the spring of 2014, it offered listeners a taste of the new album with the early single “It’s On,” a snarling barn-burner that benefited from prominent placement in the third season of HBO’s “Girls.” In July, Broncho announced the drop date and title of its sec-
ond album, the winking Just Enough Hip To Be Woman, and released another single, “Class Historian.” NPR’s All Songs Considered called the track “the most immediately catchy song so far this year.” Stereogum likened it to “some bizarrely satisfying hybrid of T. Rex and Phoenix.” The progression from first to second album is startling but also intuitive. If Lips is the delinquent teenager high on Ramones and The Stooges, Woman is the college student who’s moved on to 80s post-punk, shoegaze and new wave. Older, more melancholy, but still up for a wild night. “You know, people would hear the first record and be like, ‘OK, it’s this, this and this,’” Lindsey said. “But I think live we were slowly progressing past what that record was. And people would say, ‘I saw your show, I can’t put a finger on what it is.’ I think maybe it’s because there are all these (disparate) influences—we weren’t just sitting around listening to punk records. There’s nothing wrong with that, there are tons of great punk records, but as
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individuals, we listen to all kinds of different things—country, pop stuff, it’s all over the map for us.” Woman’s three most propulsive tracks, “What,” “Kurt” and “It’s On,” feel like more layered, nuanced companions to anything on Lips, but the rest of the album largely moves out of the Midwest basement party and into a Manchester club. “Stop Tricking,” with it’s washed-out falsetto vocals and fuzzy, low-end guitar, recalls The Jesus and Mary Chain, while “Deena” and “Stay Loose” feature the kind of spare, emotive guitar lines typical of new wave acts like Modern English and New Order. The British factor looms large, but the band also listened to a lot of Dwight Twilley (the Tulsa Sound stalwart who had a top 40 hit in 1975 with “I’m on Fire”) between the two records, and it shows. “Class Historian,” with its speedy “Dah-dah-dah” chorus and loose, Americana-tinged melody, feels like a spiritual cousin to Twilley’s “Looking for the Magic.”
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A handwrit ten setlist from Broncho’s 2014 tour
“Yeah, that song is totally an influence,” Lindsey laughed when asked about it. “We actually wanna end up being Dwight Twilley’s band. It’s kind of a dream. We haven’t really had any communication with him, but we want to get to a place where we can say, ‘Hey Dwight, you want a backing band?’ I think it would be awesome.” Not even drunk “That show was a real surprise for us,” Lindsey told me after the Riot
Fest performance. “I thought that playing a festival at three in the afternoon on a side stage would be kind of a bummer. Television was playing (at the same time), and there was some other great shit going on. But we still had—not only the size of the crowd, but it was enthusiastic. People were moving around and I’m not sure that anyone was really drunk, ya know?” Indeed, Broncho, whose punkish, hook-driven garage rock would seem most at home in a poorly
ventilated room full of intoxicated hooligans, experienced a rarity at Riot Fest: an outdoor, early-day show supported by a large crowd of zealous, sober fans. Currently, the band is touring Europe with The Coathangers and Purple. “Class Historian” is in heavy rotation on satellite radio and featured in an extended commercial for Tinder, the popular dating app. In February, they’ll open a handful of U.S. shows for Billy Idol in some of the largest venues they’ve yet played. Just Enough Hip to Be Woman mostly positive reviews hae raised the band’s profile, and with it the pressure to deliver. “We wanted to make a record that made sense to us at the time,” Lindsey said. “And we’re proud of it. But I don’t want to dwell on this record. Nobody in the band wants to dwell on it. Sitting around thinking about it too much leads to depression, and it’s not very productive. We just want to keep creating.” a
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The Adventures of Robin Hood Produced by Visible Fictions of Scotland Presented by the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21 John H. Williams Theatre | Tickets: $10 | www.tulsapac.com Visible Fict ions brings ‘The Advent ures of Robin Hood’ to Tulsa for one night only
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nglish poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s words from 1873, “We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams,” could have been talking about Visible Fictions, an innovative Scottish theater company currently touring the U.S. During the 2013-2014 season, Visible Fictions’ fresh version of “The Adventures of Robin Hood” from Oliver Emanuel began as a commissioned co-production of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Their show comes to Tulsa for one night only on Friday, Nov. 21, courtesy of the Performing Arts Center Trust. Simon Donaldson, a cast member and a 12-year performer with the company, chatted with the Voice via telephone about some of the updates to this classic tale. The two narrators—Donaldson and fellow cast mate Darran Lightbody—transform an ambiguous storage room and a mountain of boxes into Sherwood Forest while playing a multitude of familiar 28 // ARTS & CULTURE
characters. The off-beat setup is part of what keeps Donaldson engaged, which is essential because the touring company is just the two cast members and a stage manager. “The nature of the piece is about those who have a lot, and those who have nothing, those who are starving, and those who are hungry for things they don’t need,” Donaldson said. The story is full of messages for kids, who understand well what’s being presented and learn a lot, he said. “They really get into it. Kids are so smart, and they pick up on the little nuances they’re seeing. We’ve had fantastic reactions to the show, and that’s been great.” “The Adventures of Robin Hood” is a very physical show that requires sustained high energy. The challenge is perfect for a guy who’s done another Visible Fictions piece entirely on bicycles (“The Spokesmen”) in Scottish parks. Although Donaldson is a wellversed actor, he loves projects that can be shared between generations.
“I think in an all-ages show, there’s maybe not as much of a gap in the action,” he said. “You do have to maintain that energy all the way through and be more precise with the pace in order to keep their attention.” Kids these days don’t get too many opportunities to simply dream up adventures, but it’s a critical part of childhood. “I think sometimes we forget how well kids can play,” he said. “Hopefully they’ll go home from this and talk about it with their parents, play and have their own adventures. In this age of video games and gigantic movies that are so well-made, it’s important to engage and truly use that part of the brain.” Imagination was in full tilt when Lightbody’s Robin and Donaldson’s Sheriff—along with all the other characters they embody— caused a stir at a recent tour stop in Costa Mesa, Calif. “Not to give too much away, but there’s a scene where a fire starts, and that was unfolding
when the fire alarm went off,” Donaldson said. “The audience just thought it was part of the show, and we had to evacuate.” It turned out to be a false alarm, but the audience was so absorbed with the performance that the actors had to go out and tell everyone to evacuate for a few moments. It’s not only kids who get immersed in the story. This Robin Hood has clever winks that speak to adults, as well. “We enjoy the family shows where you’ve also got adults laughing, and the kids laugh because they see their parents having fun as well,” he said. The show is full of physical antics and an epic legend—all born from the ingenuity of a simple setting. With swordfights, daring rescues and amazing escapades, Donaldson and Lightbody construct a whole fantasy world through the magic of play. This version of “The Adventures of Robin Hood” goes back to the basics, where the audiences’ imaginations help create the journey. a
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December 12, 19, 20, 21 at 7pm December 13, 14, 20, 21 at 2pm Tulsa Performing Arts Center See the magic unfold as over 100 local children join Tulsa’s acclaimed ballet company in the holiday spectacular that will delight audiences young and old.
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thehaps Route 66 Marathon Sat., Nov. 22 and Sun., Nov. 23 Downtown Tulsa, route66marathon.com With six races of different lengths, everyone from seasoned marathon runners to casual joggers can take part in the Route 66 Marathon. The Marathon is a Boston-qualifying race on a USATF certified course. There is also a half marathon, relay marathon, 5K, fun run and the Mascot Dash. For those wanting to run more than 26.2 miles, add on the Center of the Universe Detour for a run through one of Tulsa’s most strangely iconic landmarks and an extra .3 miles that makes the race “the world’s shortest ultra marathon” at a measly 26.5 miles.
Block Party $4, Thurs., Nov. 20, 7-10 pm Living Arts, artdirectorsoftulsa.org Art Directors Club of Tulsa holds this annual party to raise funds to support exceptional local art students. Artists create work from 3.5” square blocks to be judged and auctioned off. The funds raised will be awarded to art students at ADCT’s Graphex 46 awards.
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth $60-$75, Thurs., Nov. 20, 8 pm The Joint, tysonontour.com Directed by Spike Lee, Mike Tyson invites audiences to a personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared Heavyweight Champions ever. A must-see for boxing fans and sports enthusiasts.
An Affair of the Heart of Tulsa $7, Fri., Nov. 21 through Sun., Nov. 23 River Spirit Expo, heartoftulsa.com An Affair of the Heart, the state’s largest arts, crafts and antiques show, returns to Tulsa with 405 independent retailers taking over the River Spirit Expo building, Browse handmade jewelry, furniture, clothing, gourmet foods, and more. 30 // ARTS & CULTURE
Philbrook Festival of Trees $12 GA, opening Sat., Nov. 22 Philbrook, festival.philbrook.org A Tulsa tradition for 30 years, Festival of Trees transforms Philbrook Museum of Art into a winter wonderland with local artworks inspired by the season on display and for sale, just in time for holiday gift giving. It all begins on 11/22 with Garden Glow, the free public opening celebration of Festival of Trees. Enjoy hot cocoa, holiday art-making activities, and a first glimpse at Philbrook’s beautiful gardens adorned with holiday lights.
Ready, Set, GLOW Sun., Nov. 30, Noon-10 pm Downtown Tulsa, downtowntulsaok.com Downtown Tulsa’s second annual holiday lighting celebration and progressive lighting tour takes attendees through four areas of downtown. John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park’s “HOPE Floats for the Holidays,” lighting ceremony features music and a balloon launch. Then, it’s on to Guthrie Green for “Glow on the Green,” featuring special performances, live music, special guests and a holiday market. At Arvest Winterfest outside the BOK center, attendees can ice skate, take carriage rides, enjoy some live entertainment and marvel at Oklahoma’s largest Christmas tree. Finally, the Deco District lights up during “S’Mores On Boston,” where a holiday choir fills the streets with cheer and the s’mores are complimentary. November 19 – December 2, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE
THE BEST OF THE REST PERFORMING ARTS
Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. // Dive deep into the ocean for an adventure under the sea with Ariel and her friends. Presented by Theatre Tulsa Family. // 11/20-11/23, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $12-$16, tulsapac.com The Adventures of Robin Hood // Scotland’s Visible Fictions presents a silly and unexpected take on the story of Robin Hood. // 11/21, 7:00 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $10, tulsapac.com Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis // Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Mannheim Steamroller’s first Christmas album. // 11/24, 7:30 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $25-$75, tulsapac.com
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Show and Tell w/ Peter Bedgood // Talk Show // 11/20, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Crayons // Improv // 11/21, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Improv Over/Under // Improv // 11/21, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Spontaniacs // Improv // 11/22, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Back In My day // Improv // 11/22, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com
The Loony Bin, $10, 11/21, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 11/22, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 11/22, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy.com/tulsa Tulsa’s Funniest Person - Comedy Competition Finals // Stand Up // 11/26, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, loonybincomedy.com/tulsa Mitch Fatel // Stand Up // 11/28, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $15, 11/28, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $15, 11/29, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $15, 11/29, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $15, 11/30, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $15, loonybincomedy. com/tulsa
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TU Men’s Basketball vs Abilene Christian // 11/19, 7:05 pm, Reynolds Center, $15-$44, www. tulsahurricane.com ORU Women’s Basketball vs TU // 11/21, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, $8, www.oruathletics.com Iron Mike Productions Presents Live Boxing featuring Wes Nofire // 11/21, 8:00 pm, The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino, $42-$75, tysonontour.com Tulsa Revolution vs Dallas Sidekicks // 11/22, 7:00 pm, Cox Business Center Arena, $5-$35, www. coxcentertulsa.com Tulsa Oilers vs Wichita Thunder // 11/23, 4:00 pm, BOK Center, $15-$55, www.bokcenter.com
Comfort Creatures // Improv // 11/22, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com
ORU Women’s Basketball vs Missouri State // 11/24, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, $8, www.oruathletics.com
Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 11/23, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com
Tulsa Oilers vs Allen Americans // 11/25, 7:00 pm, BOK Center, $15$55, www.bokcenter.com
Black Friday // Improv // 11/28, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com
Tulsa Oilers vs Allen Americans // 11/27, 7:00 pm, BOK Center, $15$55, www.bokcenter.com
Unusual Suspects // Stand Up // 11/28, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com
Tulsa Oilers vs Quad City Mallards // 11/28, 7:30 pm, BOK Center, $15-$55, www.bokcenter.com
Squeaky Clean Stand Up // Stand Up // 11/29, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com
TU Football vs East Carolina // 11/28, :00 , H.A. Chapman Stadium, $15-$40, www.tulsahurricane.com
Southern Stupidity of gains Kelly // Stand Up // 11/29, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com
Tulsa Revolution vs Wichita B-52’s // 11/29, 7:00 pm, Cox Business Center Arena, $5-$35, www. coxcentertulsa.com
Blue Late Special w/ Jeff Brown // Talk Show // 11/29, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com
WWE Raw Live // 12/1, 6:30 pm, BOK Center, $17-$97, www.bokcenter.com
Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 11/30, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com
Tulsa Oilers vs Allen Americans // 12/2, 7:00 pm, BOK Center, $15$55, www.bokcenter.com
Michael Mack, Keith Terry // Stand Up // 11/19, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, 11/20, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $2, 11/21, 7:30 pm, THE TULSA VOICE // November 19 – December 2, 2014
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abouttown
J.D. McPherson gets happy with the Cain’s Ballro om crowd during his Nov. 14 show. Photo by Marissa Burger
Performers at the first annual Horton Records Rock’n’Folk Chili Cook-Off at Cain’s Ballroom included Desiree Roses and Cody Clinton (left), Branjae Jackson (center), and Paul Benjaman (right) Photos by Marissa Burger
2014 TYPros chair Isaac Rocha, 2013 chair Hillary Pankhurst, and 2015 chairelect Evan Tipton at the annual Boomtown Awards at Legends Dance Hall and Saloon. Right, Mixed Company owner Jared Jordan toasts the TYPros event. Photos by Casey Hanson 32 // ARTS & CULTURE
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Humorist and author David Sedaris enjoys a coffee and a pie to-go at Antoinette Baking Co. Later that night, Sedaris would implored Tulsans to let owner Molly Martin take care of their pie-baking needs this holiday season—because, he said, “compared to Antoinette Baking Co., your pumpkin pie is shit.”
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‘Leftover Last Waltz’ gives thanks to the power of creativity by MATT CAUTHRON
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atthew Schultz is an attorney by trade. He’s a music lover at heart. Schultz grew up in the kind of family that valued the appreciation of music, and one of the family’s most cherished traditions was gathering around the television on or around Thanksgiving to watch a beat-up old VHS tape of Martin Scorsese’s concert film, “The Last Waltz,” celebrating the music of The Band. For years Schultz kicked around the idea of reviving his family’s tradition with his Tulsa friends, but the logistics never quite worked out. With the holidays, all the family obligations, no one could ever commit. Except for one old friend, one who could help revive it on a grander scale than Schultz ever dreamed— Hunter Rodgers, whose family owns and operates the legendary Cain’s Ballroom. With Rodgers’ help, Schultz will share his family’s Thanksgiving tradition with Tulsa on Nov. 30— with live music, a full Thanksgiving feast, collaborative art projects and, of course, a screening of “The Last Waltz.” The Tulsa Voice: What is it about ‘The Last Waltz’ that speaks to you? Matthew Schlutz: The snapshot in time that Scorsese captures
to benefit this great organization that is promoting all those things for a new generation. TTV: And that organization is the Woody Guthrie Center.
The Leftover Last Waltz // 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 30 // Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main Street Live music from Bandelier and Cody Brewer • A Thanksgiving feast • A collaborative art project conceived by artist Sarah Grigsby • A backstage photo booth experience • “The Last Waltz” projected on a giant screen on the Cain’s stage, turned up loud (as directed by the opening title card) Tickets are $25 in advance. All proceeds benefit the Woody Guthrie Center and its youth music education initiatives. Leftover Last Waltz after-party Fassler Hall, 304 S. Elgin Ave. Paul Benjaman will gather some of Tulsa’s finest for a ‘Last Waltz’-inspired super-jam, with proceeds from the after-party also benefiting the Woody Guthrie Center. Mat thew Schultz brings a cherished old family tradit ion to the Cain’s Ballroom Photo by Greg Bollinger
is incredible. And the way he shoots it, you actually see the emotion of the song and the artist, not just the crowd or the lights. Those things were minimal; the focus was on the artists. Clapton, Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison—it’s crazy that all these guys got together for free, and just said, “We love The Band. Let’s do it.”
TTV: Is this a one-time thing? MS: Hunter and I want it to be an annual event. Eventually we want to make this into a celebration of music similar to what “The Last Waltz” was. It doesn’t have to imitate it, but to have the same idea, the same spirit—coming together to celebrate music, to celebrate artists, to celebrate Tulsa. And also
MS: Yes. When I was thinking of what organization we might help with this event, the Woody Guthrie Center stood out immediately, because they put on these amazing programs for less fortunate youth, and the youth of Tulsa in general. The center inspires creativity. It inspires kids to find their own voices. Cody Brewer, Paul Benjaman, Wink Burcham—these local artists come in and teach the kids about music, how to write songs. They teach them to write from experience. Write what you see. Write what you feel. Much like Woody Guthrie did. And these programs— they’re not completely funded by Kaiser and all these folks who actually built the museum and sustain the museum. It’s basically people getting fundraisers together, people donating, that keep those sorts of programs running. I think it’s going to be a unique experience. I’ve been to fundraisers all over Tulsa, and sometimes they can be—for lack of a better term— stuffy. I want to create a cool experience for people to be able to raise money for a good cause, but not feel like they’re schmoozing. I want people to party. a
Punk ’n pie by Mitch Gilliam
The Daddyo’s, Who & The Fucks, and Cucumber And The Suntans (together known as the Spook Troop) recently got back to Tulsa from a three-week east coast tour. It looks like they came back hungry, as they now beg you to bring your Thanksgiving leftovers to their Hillman’s Garage haunt when the sun goes down on Turkey Day. Rounding out the homecoming are Daddyo’s label-mates Playboy Manbaby, Oklahoma City-based Trash Pops, Mr. and Mrs. from Lawrence, Kan., and Tulsa’s sickest underage pop-punkers The Riot Waves. Bring all baked starches, baked meats and baked brains— along with donations for all the road dogs—to the holiday hangover.
7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 27., Hillman’s Garage, 1016 E. 4th Street., All Ages. Donation only. THE TULSA VOICE // November 19 – December 2, 2014
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TIM REYNOLDS Tim Reynolds, longtime friend and sometime partner to Dave Matthews, whose unique guitar sound has, at one time or another, blared throughout the halls of every college dormitory across the nation, joins up with one of Tulsa’s very own guitar heroes (Dustin Pittsley and his eponymous band) for a weeknight shred-fest at the Shrine. 11/19, Shrine
Wed // Nov 19
Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 PM Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher On the Rocks – Don White Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Sandite Billiards & Grill – Joel Wilson & The Revival – 8:00 PM Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell Soundpony – The Sun Pilots The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Shrine – Tim Reynolds, Dustin Pittsley Band – ($10.25-$15) The Vanguard – Reapin Asmoedeia – 8:00 PM – ($10-$12) The Vanguard – Reaping, Asmodeia, Favorite Weapon – 8:00 PM – ($10-$12)
Thurs // Nov 20
Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Chad Lee – 8:00 PM Cain’s Ballroom – Cole Swindell, Kelleigh Bannen – 8:00 PM – ($23-$38) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 PM Living Arts – Grazzhopper Lot No. 6 – Justin Cooper Mercury Lounge – Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys – 10:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – T3 Trio Pickles Pub – Sitting Ducks Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Jump Suit Love – 7:00 PM Soundpony – Spiritual Buzz The Colony – Jared Tyler and Friends The Hunt Club – Ego Culture The Vanguard – Raw: Natural Born Artists – 9:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – Kaitlin Butts Yeti – Turnt Up 38 // MUSIC
ELI YOUNG BAND
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In the grand tradition of Jethro Tull and Lynyrd Skynyrd, there is no one named Eli Young in Eli Young band. That name denotes the pairing of Texas pals Mike Eli and James Young, whose college acoustic duo bloomed into the country music powerhouse set to make a return visit to Cain’s Ballroom. If you like gents in ten-gallon hats and big ol’ belt buckles, or pretty ladies in sundresses and cowboy boots, get in line early. 11/22, Cain’s Ballroom
Question: What’s better than jamming the night away with the horn-driven jazzfunk mashup that is Gogo Plumbay? Answer: Whetting your pre-Gogo appetite with Tulsa’s best MC (Verse) spitting buttery rhymes over the rhythm of one of Tulsa’s best bands (The Vapors)—and I don’t mean one of the best “backing” bands, I mean one of the best bands. Period. 11/22, Fassler Hall
Tell me you didn’t pull “Sixteen Stone” out of your oversized Case Logic catalog and blast “Glycerine” into the night sky while driving your used car on the back roads of your suburban town—and I’ll tell you we will never know or understand each other on a deep, emotional level. When it comes to “nostalgia acts,” our parents have Three Dog Night. We have Bush. (We win.) 12/1, Brady Theater
Fri // Nov 21
C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 9:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer & Chicken Band – 9:00 PM Centennial Lounge – Duo Sonics – 9:00 PM Cimarron Bar – 13 Toyz – 9:00 PM Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 PM Fassler Hall – Matt Stansberry & The Romance, Mark Gibson Trio Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Clark Four Aces Tavern – Black Cat Benders – 8:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Infuzion Ultra Lounge – The Jumpshots – 10:00 PM Lot No. 6 – Christine Jude Mercury Lounge – Steamboat Bandits – 10:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Traveler Pepper’s Grill - South – Sea of Time (Beatles Tribute) Pickles Pub – David Dover – 9:00 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Kevin Jameson – 5:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – FM Live – 9:00 PM Soundpony – Helen Kelter Skelter, Gum, Who & The Fucks The Colony – Barak Hill The Hunt Club – RPM The Vanguard – Saywecanfly, Joel Faviere, Rookie of the Year, Summit – 8:00 PM – ($12-$15) The Vanguard – ISHI at Friday Night Fall Back – 11:00 PM Yeti – The Rebellion
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BOK Center – Casting Crowns, Mandisa, Sidewalk Prophets – 7:00 PM – ($20-$45) C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 9:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – VCR – 9:00 PM Cain’s Ballroom – Eli Young Band, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors – 8:00 PM – ($28-$43) Centennial Lounge – Terry Quiett – 9:00 PM Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover – 9:30 PM Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 PM Fassler Hall – Gogo Plumbay, Verse and The Vapors Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Laron Simpson Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Midlife Crisis Band – 10:00 PM Lucky 13 Tavern – The Boogie – 8:00 PM Mercury Lounge – The Hooten Hallers – 10:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Traveler Pepper’s Grill - South – Pete and Jennifer Marriott Pickles Pub – Johnny Duke & Shootout Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Ayngel & John – 5:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – The Jumpshots – 9:00 PM Soundpony – Soundpony Goes Latino Tres The Colony – Jesse & Noah The Hunt Club – Daydream Empire The Shrine – Freakjuice – ($5) Whiskey Dog Bar & Grill – David Castro Band – 10:00 PM White Flag – Sovereign Dame, Quentin Cash Band – 8:00 PM Woody’s Corner Bar – Wayne Garner Band Yeti – We Make Shapes
Sun // Nov 23
Cain’s Ballroom – Carnage, Dzeko and Torres, Paris Blohm – 8:00 PM – ($26-$41) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 AM Mercury Lounge – The Souveneers – 10:00 PM Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Chuck and Sandy Gardner – 5:00 PM – ($5-$20) Pickles Pub – Sunday Showcase Sandite Billiards & Grill – Wade Quinton – 8:00 PM Soundpony – Eric and Erica The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing
Mon // Nov 24
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Tues // Nov 25
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Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 PM Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Clark Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher On the Rocks – Don White Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Vanguard – Dance Gavin Danve, Secrets, Alive Like Me, Defeat the Low, Ethera – 7:30 PM – ($17-$45)
Thurs // Nov 27
Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross Hillman’s Garage – Danksgiving w/ Playboy Manbaby, Mr. and the Mrs., Trash Pops, The Riot Waves, The Daddyo’s, Who & The Fucks, Cucumber and the Suntans – 7:00 PM Lanna Thai – Scott Musick – 12:00 PM Lot No. 6 – Phil Marshall Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Hi-Fidelics Pickles Pub – Scott Ellison Soundpony – Afistaface The Colony – Beau Roberson and friends The Shrine – Dustin and Jesse Higher Education – ($5) Yeti – Turnt Up
Fri // Nov 28
C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – T3 – 9:00 PM Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Rivers Edge – 9:00 PM Cain’s Ballroom – Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Cody Canada & The Departed – 8:30 PM – ($16-$31) Centennial Lounge – Dustin Pittsley – 9:00 PM Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 PM Fassler Hall – Hosty Duo Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Ben Neikirk Four Aces Tavern – The Dirtboxwailers – 8:00 PM Full Moon Cafe - BA – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Gypsy Coffee House – Onyx Owl – 10:00 PM Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Stars – 10:00 PM Mercury Lounge – Tequila Songbirds – 10:00 PM Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Another Alibi Pepper’s Grill - South – The Living Room Project Pickles Pub – Wharp Drive Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 5:30 PM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Joe Worrel – 9:00 PM Soundpony – We Make Shapes, Oilhouse The Colony – Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey The Hunt Club – Brandon Clark Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Pillage People
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Sorkin being Sorkin
Abbreviated final season will conclude uneven run for ‘The Newsroom’ by JOSHUA KLINE
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ince its first season, “The Newsroom” creator Aaron Sorkin has flirted with self-parody, presenting his characters—the staff of a 24-hour cable news network—as walking-andtalking mouthpieces for his own blustery opinions on the world. What once was endearing, even exciting, about Sorkin in network shows like “The West Wing”—the impassioned arguments, the political idealism, the screwball comedy— has in “The Newsroom” devolved into cloying self-righteousness. Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) is no Jed Bartlet. The cantankerous host of ACN’s “Newsnight” is written as a prickly Keith Olbermann type prone to glib speechifying in front of the camera and grandstanding tantrums behind it. McAvoy is meant to be both the hero of the show and an avatar for Sorkin’s fantasy of uncompromising liberal principle (this despite the fact that McAvoy is a registered Republican, a RINO if there ever was one). It’s hard to pinpoint why “The Newsroom” falters where shows like “The West Wing” and “Sports Night” flourished. Maybe it’s the format—rather than create fictional news stories for McAvoy to report on, Sorkin sets the show 18 months in the past so he can revisit and deconstruct recent real-world events. It’s an enticing premise on paper, but there’s something lazy and disingenuous about the way the show utilizes this conceit as a weekly formula. Sorkin has the benefit of hindsight perspective and uses it to criticize the failings of cable news; the staff of ACN always falls on the right side of history. Or maybe it’s that, after two consecutive Oscar nominations for writing two nearly perfect 40 // FILM & TV
Jeff Daniels in ‘The Newsroom’
films—“The Social Network” (for which he won) and “Moneyball”— expectations for a new Sorkin series, especially one that found the scribe playing for the first time in the unrestricted sandbox of HBO, were unreasonably high. Whatever the reason, “The Newsroom” didn’t quite work out of the gate, and Sorkin didn’t do himself any favors by responding so petulantly to the first wave of criticism. He was so disturbed by the negative reaction to season one that he fired his whole writing staff (except for his girlfriend) and took to engaging in petty verbal fisticuffs with any journalist who dared to question him directly about the show’s failings. Season two showed remarkable improvement. Sorkin and his new staff addressed every major
criticism in some way, fleshing out the female characters, clarifying McAvoy’s more nuanced political stances and generally toning down the Sorkinisms (if you don’t know what that means, Google “Seth Meyers Sorkin parody” immediately). He even overhauled the opening credits and score to be more modern (read: more becoming of an HBO series) and less nostalgic, and he ditched the goofy, antiquated mid-episode montages set to Top 40 treacle. Most importantly, he developed an overarching plot involving a fictional scandal that undermines ACN’s integrity. He didn’t stick the landing, though. Season two’s regressive finale is unbearably awful, packed with sappy declarations of love, perfunctory turns of plot that too quickly resolve the built-up
conflicts and a god-awful wrapup montage inexplicably set to a maudlin Christian pop song. Sorkin undermined his own atonement by delivering the worst episode of “The Newsroom” yet. The series finally putters to an end next month with a brief six-episode third season that premiered Nov. 9. The first two episodes, “Boston” and “Run,” are solid and engaging. “Boston” starts off predictably, tackling the Boston Marathon bombing and revisiting the chaos of assumptions and misinformation perpetuated by The New York Post, Fox News and amateur sleuths on Reddit. ACN, fresh off season two’s public humiliation, reports the story with extra caution, and avoids the embarrassment of retractions that befell CNN and others. The episode takes an intriguing turn as it moves into a subplot involving ACN’s social media guru, Neel (Dev Patel), and a mysterious government whistleblower modeled after Edward Snowden. “Run” then ups the ante as the feds raid ACN and Neel goes on the run with the help of McAvoy. By the end of the episode it seems as if Sorkin might actually let his hair down and venture into thriller territory for this final season. An eleventh hour turn into genre storytelling would be a welcome swan song for a show that’s been so mired in its own high-mindedness it has often mistook reading yesterday’s newspaper out loud for compelling storytelling. But this is Aaron Sorkin we’re talking about. Love him or hate him, he’s rarely unpredictable, and he loves to be himself. With only four episodes left, he’s not likely to surprise us. Brace yourself for the final montage. a
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Michael Keaton and Edward Nor ton in ‘Birdman’
Flying high
Director Alejandro Iñárritu finally lightens up, and ‘Birdman’ soars by JOE O’SHANSKY
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lejandro González Iñárritu made a movie that didn’t cause me to walk out of the theater when the credits popped up, sit in the car and stare hopelessly at my steering wheel for a solid 10 minutes, pondering the futility of the human condition, wondering if its transient joys were truly worth the pain of being alive. It’s as if Lars Von Treir decided to make slapstick comedy with zero sexual hangups or uncontrollable forces crushing his protagonist(s) into dust. Iñárritu, a multi-lingual, multi-cultural master, can be held up alongside greats such as Lars von Trier and Darren Aronofsky—not only for pushing cinema
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to new heights of often dizzying emotional and technical complexity, but also for making peerless films that, in some cases, you’ll likely never want to see again. (Or, at the very least, film’s you have to recover from.) “Amores Perros,” “Babel,” “21 Grams” and “Biutiful” are many things (including award-winning), but mirthful—and easily digestible—they aren’t. They’re date movies for the clinically depressed. (And I mean that in the best way possible.) But this time, I left Iñárritu’s latest, “Birdman,” ecstatic— charged with the pure energy that leapt off the screen from practically the first frame, feeling a narcotic rush from the best film I’ve seen all year. Michael Keaton is Riggan Thompson, a former A-list movie star famous for a successful superhero franchise called Birdman (sound familiar?). He left it all behind in the early ’90s, opting for art instead of commerce, and he’s now fixated on doing something meaningful—to the point of delusion. To that end, Thompson is writing, producing, directing and starring in a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” When we meet him, he’s sitting in his underwear
in lotus fashion, levitating two feet off the floor, moving objects telekinetically and hearing the voice of Birdman (his voice), skewering his artistic ambitions—while enticing him to return to the glory of Hollywood. Preview performances are under way, the money and schedule are tight, things aren’t working out so well, and the pressures of staging the production are immense. While he has a fine lead actress in Lesley (Naomi Watts), Thompson is saddled with a terrible lead actor, Ralph (Jeremy Shamos). Sensibly enough, he rigs a stage light to fall on Ralph, though without thinking through his replacement. That replacement serendipitously arrives in the form of Lesley’s boyfriend, Mike (Ed Norton), a famous and driven actor with a reputation for being hard to work with (sound familiar?), who quickly turns out to be hard to work with. Mike blows up a preview and trashes the stage when he discovers his glass doesn’t contain real gin. During a scene under the sheets with Lesley, his sudden erection inspires him to try and go full-on method for the sex, in front of a packed audience. The stage is the only place Mike actually has emotions.
Unfortunately, Mike comes with a hefty price tag, so Thompson—facing not only the crushing weight of the play but the possibility that his costume assistant/ girlfriend, Laura (Andrea Riseborough) might be pregnant with their child—is forced to, once again, disappoint his recovering addict daughter, Sam (Emma Stone) by refinancing her house to ensure his dream comes true. As the previews commence Thompson becomes obsessed with Mike stealing his thunder (and daughter), his own selfdoubt, and the opinion of the Times theater critic, Tabitha (Lindsay Duncan), whose opening night review can either nurture or destroy Thompson’s idealistically narcissistic vision. Iñárritu (who co-writes, produces, and directs) has made something wholly distinct, and not just from his past works. Sure, it’s not the only satire about the behind-the-scenes sausage-making involved in getting a theatrical production off the ground. Nor is it the only commentary on the skewed relationship between the artist and the critic. And it’s certainly not the only meta-fantasy of an adequate man beset by delusions of grandeur, either.
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But, with its kinetic, graceful, and atmospheric visual prowess, bristling performances, whimsical Icarus themes, and brilliantly timed sense of meta-humor (Christ, that Norton/Keaton fight is not only hilarious—it’s also Batman fighting the goddamn Hulk), “Birdman” is an utterly unique, breathlessly-paced, visually-arresting wonder. Iñárritu, with his miraculous cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (Academy Award winner for “Gravity”) craft the illusion that the entire film takes place in one dream-like take. Effortlessly gliding around scenes, falling into the flow of the action, or lingering on the faces of its actors, writ large through means so truthful that they almost redefine the medium, the look of “Birdman” is nothing short of astonishing. But all that effort, from the stunning execution to the vivid writing and percussive score (with Antonio Sanchez’s scintillating debut as composer) would be for naught without the performances from Iñárritu’s uniformly incredible cast.
Keaton shouldn’t be a revelation at this point, but he is—and this might be the role of his career. As Riggan Thompson, he sears the screen, perfectly balancing that slightly unhinged intensity with the quiet desperation in his character, along with his trademark comedic timing. Keaton’s as cool as Bill Murray, but no one seems to remember that anymore. I can’t think of higher praise. Norton is equally on fire, and the electricity between him and Keaton could power a small city. Mike is even more narcissistic and borderline-insane than Riggan, and Norton lands comedic body blows like a prizefighter, while striking a completely believable caricature of himself that revels in his volatility and his immense insecurities. Naomi Watts is vibrant as Lesley, easily holding her own in the comic timing department alongside Galifianakis, Keaton and Norton, and Zach Galifianakis, who plays Thompson’s lawyer and longtime friend. Equally, Emma Stone is a force as Sam. Her soliloquy to her father about the ultimate importance of anything
(much less him and his stupid play) is a withering, fatalistic, and ultimately sad exchange in an award-worthy scene. Supporting performances from Andrea Riseborough, as Riggan’s girlfriend, and Amy Ryan as his understanding ex (and Sam’s mother), Sylvia, elegantly fill the narrative periphery, lending even more heft to the main characters, and Iñárritu’s tangible, utterly cinematic world. “Birdman” is a rare beast—a masterpiece of structure and form that not only lives and breathes, purring like a 12-cylinder Jaguar on the Autobahn, but does so with such great intelligence, effortless imagination, and a seemingly limitless well of fulfilling entertainment. It’s fan-fucking-tastic— the kind of film that, if it enjoyed real commercial success, would not only be meta-ironic, but also give me hope for the soul of the American filmgoer. a “Birdman” runs exclusively at Circle Cinema through Nov. 20, with additional showings possible. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.circlecinema.com
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The District of Calamity The Washington, D.C., school system last year declared Avery Gagliano, 13, a habitual truant whose parents somehow require special training to ensure her attendance. The eighth-grader was a straight-A student at Alice Deal Middle School, but also a piano prodigy selected for prestigious world exhibitions -- which caused her to exceed the maximum 10 “unexcused” absences that trigger the assignment of a truancy officer and a series of relentless threats against the parents (which ultimately provoked them to withdraw Avery and this season to home-school her). (In October, following a Washington Post account, D.C.’s governing council honored Avery in a public ceremony, and the D.C. schools chancellor overnight began begging the Gaglianos to bring Avery and her suddenly “excused” absences back to school.)
The Other World Series In October, another premier world sports event reached its climax, with one team left standing, rewarded for months of grueling practices, to the cheers of adoring, frenzied fans. The “world series” of professional team computer games was settled on a stage in a packed, 40,000-seat stadium in Seoul before three gigantic TV screens and an Internet audience of millions. The powerhouse Samsung White team out-moused and -keyboarded the Chinese champions at “League of Legends” (which 27 million gamers worldwide play every day), using its fantasy characters to destroy opponents’ bases. The winning team took home $1 million of corporate money, but future earnings should escalate when idolized world-class players unionize and swing merchandising endorsement deals.
Can’t Possibly Be True Carnell Alexander at one point owed about $60,000 in child support for a kid he did not father (according to a DNA test) and knew nothing about, but despite “successfully” challenging the claim 20 years ago, he still owes about $30,000. The mother who accused him long ago admitted lying (in that naming a “father” was necessary to get welfare benefits), and while a judge thus wiped out Alexander’s debt to her, the state of Michigan nonetheless still demands that Alexander repay benefits it had paid to the mother. America’s largest pornography website, PornHub.com, decided recently to erect a public bill44 // ETC.
board prominently encouraging the use of its service, first selecting as its location the New York City neighborhood formerly the smut epicenter of the city, Times Square. However, that area is now respectably tourist-friendly, and the billboard had to be relocated -- to Los Angeles’ West Hollywood, near the headquarters of PornHub’s parent, MindGeek. The sign features a person’s two thumbs and fingers forming a rough version of a heart, beside the message (inspired by a Beatles song), “All You Need Is Hand.”
equation. The answer, and the explanation, quickly appear on a screen, as a teaching tool -- or for the students to show “their” work if PhotoMath is used on exam questions. The Croatia-based developer told the Quartz website in October that it is working on upgrades for higher-level math equations (though no relief is in sight for those chronically pesky “word problems”). Meanwhile, the debate has been triggered over whether PhotoMath is a dynamic technological advance in education -- or a cheating-enabler.
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Literature professor Thomas Docherty was back at work in October following his nine-month suspension from the University of Warwick for “inappropriate sighing” during meetings with a senior colleague, along with “making ironic comments” and “negative body language.” In October, Andrew Davies, 51, was ordered by magistrates in High Wycombe, England, not to lie down in public places anymore (unless genuinely stricken by emergency). Previously, he had a habit of making bogus “999” (911) calls to get attention, and when police confiscated his phone, he began compensating by lying in roads until compassionate passersby called for ambulances.
Neighbors in the Mandarin neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida, complained to the city recently about a resident who scattered hundreds of mothballs -- over 400 now, at least -- around her front yard, even driving over them in her car to crush them open and extend their noxious odor. The National Pesticide Information Center warned that the mothballs were hazards to plants, wildlife, water and air, but the female resident (unnamed in a report by First Coast News) said she was forced into the tactic in order to prevent neighborhood dogs from defecating in her yard. Celebrity Musicals: In September in Hamburg, Germany, “Charles Manson: Summer of Hate -- The Musical,” opened at the Thalia Theater, covering the influences and failed musical career of the man convicted in the notorious 1969 Sharon Tate murders. And “I Am Stephon Marbury,” a musical featuring
The New Math More than 6 million students have downloaded the new iPhone app PhotoMath to solve Algebra I and Algebra II problems by pointing the phone’s camera at a printed
the former star NBA basketball player, ran for 11 nights in September in Beijing, where the popular Marbury has led the Beijing Ducks to national basketball championships the last two seasons. Marbury has a role onstage in what is described as a parable about pursuing one’s dreams. The most challenging toys this holiday season might be the series of furry human innards from the U.S. firm I Heart Guts -- not just the soft and cuddly pancreas, brain and prostate, but especially the rectum. Each part is packaged with a cheekily written educational description explaining its importance (the rectum being “the butt of many jokes” yet with “a serious role” in waste disposal as the “fecal loading
Weird Scenes Richard Shear, 28, was arrested in Muskegon County, Michigan, in October after an apparent violent episode with his mother and girlfriend. Shear had allegedly threatened the two, slashed an SUV tire, and tried to burn down their home with gasoline and a lit candle -- but when it was time to flee the premises, hopped on his moped, ensuring his flight from police would be a short one. A woman (described only as “robust”) in Darmstadt, Germany, fled with the equivalent of about $125 from a pharmacy in October and is still at large. According to the police report, she swiped money from two cash registers by twice lifting her shirt and squirting breast milk at a clerk as a diversion. a
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Scorpio (October 23 - November 21):
Near the end of the 19th century, an American named Annie Londonderry became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world. It was a brave and brazen act for an era when women still couldn’t vote and paved roads were rare. Her 15-month journey took her through countries that would be risky for a single woman on a bike to travel through today, like Egypt and Yemen. What made her adventure even more remarkable was that she didn’t know how to ride a bike until two days before she departed. I’d love to see you plan a daring exploit like that, Scorpio -- even if you do not yet have a certain skill you will need to succeed. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Shape-shifting is a common theme in fairy tales, says cultural historian Marina Warner in her book From the Beast to the Blonde. “A rusty lamp turns into an all-powerful talisman,” for example. “A humble pestle and mortar become the winged vehicle of the fairy enchantress,” or a slovenly beggar wearing a dirty donkeyskin transforms into a radiant princess. I foresee metaphorically similar events happening in your life sometime soon, Aries. Maybe they are already underway. Don’t underestimate the magic that is possible. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The technical scientific term for what happens when you get a headache from eating too much ice cream too fast is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. I urge you to be on guard against such an occurrence in the coming week. You should also watch out for other phenomena that fit the description of being too-much-and-too-fast-of-a-goodthing. On the other hand, you shouldn’t worry at all about slowly getting just the right amount of a good thing. If you enjoy your pleasures with grace and moderation, you’ll be fine. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Pregreening” is a term for what impatient drivers do as they are waiting at a red light. They partly take their foot off the brake, allowing their car to creep forward, in the hope of establishing some momentum before the light changes to green. I advise you to avoid this type of behavior in the coming week, Gemini -- both the literal and the metaphorical variety. Pregreening might make sense by, say, November 15 or 16. But for now, relax and abide. CANCER (June 21-July 22): German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was one of the greats. His influence on the evolution of Western music has been titanic, and many of his best compositions are still played today. He was prodigious, too, producing over 350 works. One of the secrets to his high level of energy seems to have been his relationship with coffee. It was an indispensable part of his diet. He was fastidious in its preparation, counting out exactly 60 coffee beans for each cup. I recommend that you summon a similar attention to detail in the coming days. It will be an excellent time to marshal your creative energy and cultivate your lust for life. You will get the best results if you are precise and consistent and focused in your approach. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): By the time we have become young adults, most of us don’t remember much about our lives from before the age of five. As we grow into middle age, more and more childhood memories drop away. Vague impressions and hazy feelings may remain. A few special moments keep burning brightly. But the early events that shaped us are mostly gone. Having said that, I want to alert you to the fact that you are in a phase when you could recover whole swaths of lost memories, both from your formative years and later. Take advantage of this rare window of opportunity to reconnect with your past. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Photographer Joel Leindecker can kick himself in the head 127 times in one minute. Guinness World Records affirms that his achievement is unmatched. I’m begging you not to try to top his mark any time soon. In fact, I’m pleading with you not to commit any act of mayhem, chaos, or unkindness against yourself -- even if it it’s done for entertainment purposes. In my view, it’s crucial for you to concentrate on caressing yourself, treating yourself nicely, and caring for yourself with ingenious tenderness in the coming weeks.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The writing of letters is becoming a lost art. Few people have a long enough attention span to sit down and compose a relaxed, thoughtful report on what they have been doing and thinking. Meanwhile, the number of vigorous, far-reaching conversations is waning, too. Instead, many of us tend to emit and absorb short bursts of information at frequent intervals. But I invite you to rebel against this trend in the coming weeks. Judging from the astrological omens, I believe you would stir up some quietly revolutionary developments by slowing down and deepening the way you communicate with those you care about. You may be amazed by how much richer your experience of intimacy will become. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): P. G. Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books, as well as numerous plays, musical comedies, and film scripts. When he died at age 93, he was working on another novel. He did not suffer from writer’s block. And yet his process was far from effortless. He rarely churned out perfection on his first attempt. “I have never written a novel,” he testified, “without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again.” The way I see your immediate future, Sagittarius, is that you will be creating your own version of those 40,000 wrong words. And that’s OK. It’s not a problem. You can’t get to the really good stuff without slogging through this practice run. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a favorable time for you to meditate intensely on the subject of friendship. I urge you to take inventory of all the relevant issues. Here are a few questions to ask yourself. How good of a friend are you to the people you want to have as your friends? What capacities do you cultivate in your effort to build and maintain vigorous alliances? Do you have a clear sense of what qualities you seek in your cohorts and colleagues? Are you discerning in the way you choose your compatriots, or do you sometimes end up in associations with people you don’t truly enjoy and don’t have much in common with? If you discover any laziness or ignorance in your approach to the art of friendship, make the necessary fixes. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Before the invention of the printing press, books in Europe were handmade. Medieval monks spent long hours copying these texts, often adding illustrations in the margins. There’s an odd scene that persistently appears in these illuminated manuscripts: knights fighting snails. Scholars don’t agree on why this theme is so popular or what it means. One theory is that the snail symbolizes the “slow-moving tedium of daily life,” which can be destructive to our hopes and dreams -- similar to the way that literal snails may devour garden plants. In accordance with the cosmic omens, I am bestowing a knighthood on you, Aquarius, so you will be inspired to rise up and defeat your own metaphorical version of the snail. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To be in righteous alignment with cosmic forces, keep the Halloween spirit alive for another week. You have a license to play with your image and experiment with your identity. Interesting changes will unfold as you expand your notion of who you are and rebel cheerfully against your own status quo. To get started, try this exercise. Imagine that your gangsta name is Butt-Jugglin Smuggla. Your pirate name is Scallywagger Hornslasher. Your sex-worker name is Saucy Loaf. Your Mexican wrestler name is Ojo Último (Ultimate Eye). Your rock star-from-the-future name is Cashmere Hammer. Or make up your own variations.
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