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NEWS ing an absentee ballot, which Glover sees as the best way to avoid missing an election.

Absentee ballots are sent in advance of elections and give voters the chance to review candidates, research state questions and prepare to vote. Voters can send back their absentee ballot or choose to vote at their polling station.

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Election officials left Eva Welch and Mary Austin sit at their station during an election at Crown Heights Church of the Nazarene. | Photo Gazette / file

Vote local

With the deadline to register to vote looming, locals call on untapped voters to plan to visit the ballot box. By Laura Eastes

Andy Moore is full of ideas for improving voter turnout in Oklahoma, the state the U.S. Census Bureau ranked 49th in voter turnout during the last major election.

As a millennial (those born after 1980), Moore doesn’t buy arguments like votes don’t count or voting wouldn’t bring change. As the founder of Let’s Fix This, a nonpartisan movement that drove hundreds of citizens to the state Capitol advocating a myriad of issues, Moore has witnessed firsthand the impact of citizen involvement on democracy.

“It’s like drops of water in the ocean,” Moore said. “You feel a drop, it feels insignificant. If there is a wave, it makes a difference. We have an untouched ocean of voters who don’t vote.”

Five months after Let’s Fix This was first mentioned on social media, Moore is taking the organization from grassroots movement to nonprofit status. As a nonprofit, increasing voter engagement, along with establishing events to bring everyday folks to the Capitol, will be a major mission.

When it comes to voting, Moore believes many registered millennials would cast a ballot come Election Day, but they’re sometimes too busy or forget to visit their polling station. He recommends millennial voters organize their friends or coworkers together for group voting. It could be as easy as meeting a friend before work at a polling station and casting ballots together or facilitating an office lunch event that includes stopping at area polling stations.

Another option is stopping by the county election office for early voting the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the election.

“Make voting a fun thing you do with your friends, and be proud,” Moore said.

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Some of his other proposals include advocacy efforts around absentee ballots and posting reminders sharing registration tips and the elections date near campaign signs.

Voting trends

Across the nation, voting advocates have been developing and pushing for new ways to get Americans to the polls this November.

Many argue it’s a needed effort, with voter turnouts in the 2014 midterm election hitting the lowest point since the 1940s, according to United States Election Project.

Locally and nationally, lower turnout rates are most prevalent among young voters. Turnout rates increase among older age groups.

Like other states, Oklahoma struggled to attract voters to the polls. The U.S. Census Bureau reported 34.2 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in 2014.

Oklahoma’s midterm election ballot featured a governor’s race and contests for state and federal legislators.

Typically, presidential elections lead to higher voter numbers. While voter turnout always matters no matter the election, in a close presidential election, it can prove decisive. Political analysts are split on predicting November turnout. The 2016 presidential election holds high levels of interest among the public, which could signal higher turnout. However, the top two candidates running collect high disapproval ratings, which could hint little interest in voting.

Peer pressure

Oklahoma City resident David Glover, a longtime voting advocate, has wanted to see an uptick in voter turnout in the Sooner

State for years. After reviewing numerous voter studies and research, Glover concluded there was a single tool greater than simply encouraging participation: shaming people into voting.

Glover formed his opinion based on a 2008 Michigan study that concluded inducing feelings of shame against a person who doesn’t vote had a much greater impact on their likelihood of visiting the polls. Instead of mail pieces, which were used in the study, Glover built a website after collecting public data on registered voters and how often ballots were cast.

“All I wanted to do was one thing: try to encourage people to reset their civic engagement grade to A+ several times [a] year,” Glover said.

BadVoter.org, an online site that exposes the frequency at which Oklahomans vote, went live in 2014. With the simple site, anyone with access to the Internet can see how long it has been since someone last voted. Those who haven’t cast ballots in a 12-month period are deemed “bad voters.”

“If people know that other people can know how frequently or infrequently other people vote, they usually increase the amount of time they vote,” Glover said.

“Most people don’t realize their frequency of voting and their voting record is public.

How someone voted is still a secret, but if someone voted is public.”

Part of BadVoter.org’s effect is visitors’ ability to post a registered voter’s great, good or bad voting record onto social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In this day and age, social media presences are a big part of everyday life, and a damaging voter record can bring someone to the polls to avoid online taunting, explained Glover.

BadVoter.org sees a surge in visitors on and around elections, like the March 1 Super Tuesday and the June primary. Most visitors spend an average of three minutes on the site for a total of eight searches. Glover believes most people type their name first, followed by close friends and relatives.

Those shamed into voting will find resources for registering to vote and request-

Oklahoma voters will see seven state questions on the ballot. Those questions include education, criminal justice reform, capitol punishment and farming, all arguably big issues in the Sooner State. League of Women Voters of Oklahoma, a nonpartisan political organization that pushes for informed and active citizens, approaches the general election with voter education efforts.

League of Women Voters members have trained other groups in hosting voter registration drives and have hosted their own in areas like Tulsa and Stillwater. Recently, the Norman chapter held a forum covering the state questions with speakers for and against the measures. Through a partnership with the Kirkpatrick Foundation and a number of other organizations, the league supported the 2016 Oklahoma Voter Guide, which began distribution this month.

“There is a lot of focus on the presidential election this year, but it’s the candidates and the issues that are farther down on your ballot that often make the biggest difference in your life,” said Shelia Swearingen, president of League of Women Voters of Oklahoma. “Those legislators will be making decisions directly affecting the lives of Oklahomans. There are seven state questions on the ballot, and whatever comes of those will have a direct and immediate effect.”

Last call

The deadline to register to vote and update registration is Oct. 14. In January, Oklahoma State Election Board reported there were 1.9 million registered voters in the state. A year earlier, the board counted 2.03 million.

It’s hard to predict the voter turnout in Oklahoma. March 1, Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Ted Cruz scored presidential primary victories in Oklahoma, but neither went on to win their parties.

With millennials now surpassing baby boomers, who cast substantially more ballots than younger people as the nation’s largest living generation, some wonder if voter turnout will ever rise.

“People who get out to vote are my age,” said Swearingen, a baby boomer. “We are making the decisions for millennials. … I am ready for the millennials to show us what they are made of, get out there and vote.”

Moore would like to see the Oklahoma Standard applied to voting and citizen involvement in politics. Oklahomans should have the interests of children, veterans, the elderly, teachers, the disabled and many more in mind when they cast ballots.

“Our duty in society is taking care of each other,” Moore said. “Oklahomans are great about that when there is a big crisis. …We’ve got to pull together and say, ‘How can we help each other, and how can we get the people in charge to help us?’”

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The City of Oklahoma City staff and Omni Hotels and Resorts are in discussions about the construction of a convention center hotel | Rendering provided

Forward movement

OKC is in talks with Omni over a convention center hotel, but the deal wouldn’t likely come without public investment. By Laura Eastes

After years of talk about the prospect of a convention center hotel, the path toward a full-service facility with luxury amenities near the proposed MAPS 3 Convention Center became clear. Last week, City of Oklahoma City staff entered negotiation proceedings with Omni Hotels & Resorts.

The Dallas-based company proposes constructing a $235.5 million, 600-room convention center hotel between SW Third and SW Fourth Streets along S. Robinson Avenue. If the city and Omni strike a deal,

How did we get here?

the hotel tower would grace the skyline in 2019. Omni predicts a 71 percent occupancy rate and an average daily room rate of $193 after four years in service. Revenue from nightly stays and food and beverage is expected to top $51 million annually, according to figures provided by the city.

With Omni’s proposal comes a call for public money to flow into the project. The city could give $84.5 million in tax subsides to the hotel chain owned by TRT Holdings, one of Texas billionaire Robert

March 2010: Urban Land Institute releases a report indicating a 700-room conven-

nomic Research & Policy Institute.

Stone estimated a convention center

october 2015: Oklahoma City Council approves the MAPS 3 Convention Center

tion center hotel in OKC would cost be-

hotel would reach 56 percent occupancy

site, which runs SW Fourth to SW Sev-

March 2009: Conventions, Sports &

tween $200 to $220 million and require

in the first year, followed by 64 percent

enth streets between S. Robinson Avenue

Leisure (CSL) completes a market

around $50 million in public funding.

the next. The hotel would average 66

and S. Shields Boulevard.

feasibility study on a new Oklahoma

percent occupancy in 2022. The study

City convention center for the Greater

June 2013: Oklahoma City Council ap-

also estimated the city lost around 100

Sept. 21, 2016: The selection committee

Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.

proves a resolution authorizing the Urban

conventions and events due to a lack of

meets with the two finalists, Marcus/

According to the executive summary,

Renewal Authority, a partner of the

rooms since 2009.

Mortenson and Omni Hotels & Resorts.

CSL recommends OKC pursue a conven-

Alliance for Economic Development of

Local university economic expects

tion center facility with 200,000 square

Oklahoma City, to lead negotiations for

indicated a convention center hotel with

mends Omni. The Dallas-based luxury

feet of exhibit space. The study calls for

potential development of a hotel.

meeting space would come with a $200

hotel brand estimates a development

million price tag. The study concluded

budget of $235.5 million and requests $85.4 million in taxpayer support.

a new headquarter hotel with 650 rooms and 50,000 square feet of meeting/ball-

December 2013: Oklahoma City Council

that for every 10,000 convention at-

room space.

receives two key economic impact and

tendees drawn to the city, local economic

market studies on the proposed conven-

output would increase by $1.6 million.

The committee unanimously recom-

Sept. 27, 2016: In a 7-2 vote, Oklahoma

December 2009: City voters approve

tion center hotel. The Urban Renewal

a sales tax initiative to improve quality

Authority, through the Alliance for Eco-

March 2015: Seven proposals are submit-

authorizing city staff to continue talks

of life though eight distinct programs,

nomic Development, obtained the reports

ted to the city. Councilmembers Larry

with Omni Hotels & Resorts and to work

including a new convention center. Over

from Stone Hospitality and Real Estate

McAtee and David Greenwell were chosen

toward a publicly assisted funding plan.

time, the sales tax increase would gener-

and Oklahoma City University Meinders

to serve on the selection committee.

ate $777 million to fund the projects.

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Rowling’s companies.

The issue of subsidies raises debate among the nine Oklahoma City Council members, a group previously split on whether taxpayer dollars would be required for a convention center hotel. For years, optimism ran through the council horseshoe that public assistance wouldn’t be needed, despite repeated studies that suggested otherwise.

Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid, a frequent critic of the perceived necessity of constructing a new convention center hotel, advises taxpayers will likely contribute greater than $85.4 million toward the project. Public funding for the hotel could include public borrowing, increasing the hotel-motel tax or initiating a rental car tax. The city could finance its share through tax-increment financing, known as TIFs. Additionally, the city budgeted $7 million for acquiring the land where the hotel will be located. In late September, the city moved closer on parking for the convention center and hotel but is about $10 million short on estimated project funding.

“When you figure in the $7 million we

will need for the land, the $10 million they are trying to get for the parking garage, the more than $30 million in interest we will have to pay on the loan and the $85 million in subsidy, we are in the $125 to $130 million range,” Shadid told Oklahoma Gazette.

In comparison, the city budgeted $131 million toward the MAPS 3 Streetcar project.

During the Sept. 27 council meeting, Vice Mayor James Greiner stated the public funding piece could be a MAPS 4 project.

Grenier joined Shadid in voting against the resolution authorizing further discussions.

The vote was 7-2 in favor of negotiations with Omni, which is seen across the country as the convention magnet with its hotels positioned steps away from convention centers.

Supporters of convention center hotel development believe the facility will increase the success of the MAPS 3 Convention Center, which is more than double the size of Cox Convention Center. Many city leaders believe the hotel would attract groups whose members plug money into local restaurants, shops, attractions and more.

Oklahoma City joins a number of American cities in building convention centers or expanding existing centers.

Next month, city staff expects to return to the council with Omni negotiations complete. Tom Morsch, a city-hired consultant, advised the subsidy could be negotiated lower than the estimate. Although Morsch also said similar projects in cities like Kansas City, Louisville and Nashville called for additional public support. The City of Nashville paid $150 million toward an Omni project located near Music City Center.

Omni is well established in the convention center hotel market with developing and operating hotels in Fort Worth, New Orleans, Dallas and Nashville. Omni is constructing a site in Louisville, Kentucky, adjacent to a convention center.

“We are going to be competing against Nashville, Forth Worth, Louisville, Dallas and Denver,” Morsch said. “That’s where you want to be. ... We wanted to be with those cities, among those cities, competing like those cities and growing like those cities.”

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The Chickasaw Nation broke ground on the new centers Aug. 4. | Photo The Chickasaw Nation / provided

City living

The Chickasaw Nation recently broke ground on a new community center and senior center in OKC. By Lauren Dow

The Chickasaw Nation broke ground on new community and senior centers in Oklahoma City on Aug. 4. Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby led the ceremony, which took place on the 50-acre property in northwest Oklahoma City.

The property was chosen for its central Oklahoma City location and features a 26-acre lake, meadows and wooded areas.

The location previously owned by Sportsman’s Country Club will provide Chickasaw Nation members a place for a variety of outdoor activities in Oklahoma City. Chickasaw Nation members served on the committee that chose the space and were a vital part of the project.

The expansion of Chickasaw Nation Community and Senior centers into the metro is a direct result of a growing Chickasaw presence in the city, according to Anoatubby. The goal of the expansion is to improve access to Chickasaw history and culture. The centers follow recently completed Oklahoma City area Chickasaw Nation office and gallery Exhibit C in Bricktown as well as the installation of “The Warrior” statue and several plaques describing Chickasaw history and culture along the Bricktown canal.

Anoatubby said the project is a necessity.

“Our elders and community members

needed a place to come together and call their own,” he said in a statement released

by The Chickasaw Nation. “Across the Chickasaw Nation, the Chickasaw Community Centers and Senior Centers serve as places of fellowship, festivity and activity for all of our Chickasaw citizens.”

The two new spaces, a community and senior center built in the Adirondack style, will be home to community services for members of the Chickasaw Nation. This comes as a welcome development to council members who have met in numerous spaces over the years and simply wish to have a central location specifically for them.

The two-story 21,910-square-foot community center will house a large banquet hall, a multipurpose stage and a large lobby with a fireplace. It will also include a catering kitchen for large events and family-style kitchen for small groups. The center, designed to optimize lake views, will feature a large lounge and deck on the second floor and a large patio connected to the lobby.

The banquet hall will accommodate up to 950 guests and include a state-ofthe-art audiovisual system. Additionally, the space will include a meeting room, an office and storage.

Tony Choate, Chickasaw director of media relations, said the project differed

from other centers in its Adirondack architecture as well as its ample patio space. The Chickasaw Nation expects the building to be a location for community council meetings, picnics and family reunions.

The 12,000-square-foot Senior Center features a 200-person dining room and scenic lake views. It will also include a parlor room, an exercise room, a craft room and a computer room that doubles as a safe room.

While these amenities are similar to other Chickasaw Nation senior centers throughout the state, this location will feature a garden patio.

“Our elders and community members needed a place to come together and call their own,” Anoatubby said in the press release. “Across the Chickasaw Nation, the Chickasaw Community Centers and Senior Centers serve as places of fellowship, festivity and activity for all of our Chickasaw citizens.”

The center will serve as a central location for senior services within the Chickasaw Nation. Choate said it will feature a senior nutrition program providing congregate breakfasts and lunches to Chickasaws and other qualified Native American elders. It also will provide health monitoring, including blood pressure and blood sugar checks. Other services include social activities, cultural classes, speakers and elder wellness programs.

“These new buildings are a continuation of the Chickasaw Nation mission to enhance the overall quality of life of the Chickasaw people,” Anoatubby said.

The new spaces came to fruition due to the steady growth of a Chickasaw presence over the past few years. The Oklahoma City Chickasaw Community Council was largely responsible for bringing tribal members who live in the Oklahoma City community together, making the space possible.

“We’re excited for our largest Oklahoma City project to date, one that will give our elders and other community members a place to come and gather and call their own,” Anoatubby said.

The centers are expected to open in late fall or early winter of 2017 and will be located at 4001 NW 39th Street.

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Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School plans to open its doors to metro students in fall 2017. By Michael Kinney

Renee Porter knows the importance of education. Throughout her professional career with groups such as Choice Matters and Scissortail Community Development Corporation, she has worked to provide educational options for all families.

So when Porter was named the first president of Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic School, one of her first public statements was to let the community know that “every child, regardless of ZIP code or income, has the right to a highquality education.”

That is the foundation for Porter and her new school.

“That’s extremely important to me.

For most people, their education is what allows them to be functional, successful adults,” Porter said. “If a good education is out of reach to you for whatever reason, you are at a huge disadvantage professionally and personally. If only certain areas of the state or people of certain economic backgrounds can get good

educations, then we are creating a cycle of poverty and low attainment that is enormously harmful to us as individuals, damaging to our state economy and morally wrong.”

That way of thinking might seem contrary to the stereotypes that have surrounded many private schools. But officials at Cristo Rey hope to change that perception when the school opens its doors in the fall of 2017. According to Porter, the school will offer families with limited educational opportunities an affordable and transformative educational option.

“Every Cristo Rey school is designed to provide a world-class education to children who might otherwise not have access to one,” Porter said. “Obviously, we can’t solve the world’s problems by ourselves, but for the 10,000-plus kids who go to Cristo Rey schools, they have received a lifeline to a future they otherwise would have had no idea existed.”

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Cristo Rey OKC school president Renee Porter | Photo Garett Fisbeck

High School will be the newest member of the Cristo Rey Network, which is a group of college preparatory high schools that serve more than 10,000 low- and modest-income students across the nation. The network launched 20 years ago and now consists of 32 Cristo Rey schools in 21 states and Washington, D.C. According to Cristo Rey, nationwide, only 15 percent of students who come from low-income families graduate from four-year colleges and universities. The numbers are just slightly better for all income levels at 23 percent.

But Cristo Rey alums are completing four-year institutions at a rate of 32 percent.

“Cristo Rey Oklahoma City will provide an excellent Catholic secondary education to a wider segment of our community for families who might never have considered such an option,” said Rev. Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of Oklahoma City.

“Its unique education model combines quality academics with the opportunity to gain valuable work experience for young men and women as they prepare for higher education and the workplace.

Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School will have a tremendous impact on the spiritual and professional lives of our students.”

Because it’s also a Catholic school, Cristo Rey officials say they combine academics with real-world work experience to prepare students for college and life.

“We are open to students of all faiths, but we emphasize spiritual growth, faithbased values and personal responsibility,” Porter said. “We exist to provide a great educational opportunity to low-

income families in underserved communities. A lot of times, when these families hear ‘private school,’ the assumption is that it is financially out of reach. At Cristo Rey, 100 percent of our students receive financial assistance.”

Cristo Rey also offers students its Corporate Work Study Program in which students work one day a week in professional settings to help pay for their tuition.

“We are giving them exposure to the real world and job experience that will benefit them for the rest of their lives,” Porter said. “Students are exposed to mentors, careers and a connection to what is taught in the classroom. Students acquire the soft skills they need to succeed in the workplace. They also graduate high school with a … resume that most young people their age don’t have.”

Cristo Rey leaders said they felt Oklahoma City was the right place in which to open a school.

“In fall of 2015, a Cristo Rey steering committee made up of people in and around Oklahoma City launched a feasibility study to measure interest and support for a Cristo Rey school,” Porter said. “We wanted to determine first, are there students and families interested in this kind of educational experience?

Second, are businesses willing to participate in the Corporate Work Study program that makes the school financially viable?”

Porter said community support was “overwhelming.”

According to Porter, Cristo Rey has already received letters of intent from more than 30 business executives to hire students as part of the Corporate Work Study Program at companies such as Boeing, Mercy Health, Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores, BancFirst, Phillips Murrah and Cox Communications.

Cristo Rey Oklahoma Catholic High School will be located at 900 N. Portland Ave. in a leased space at OSU-Oklahoma City. According to officials, the school’s full enrollment goal is 500 students.

The school will serve 125 ninth-grade students in its first year of operation and will add an additional 125 students each subsequent year until it serves grades nine through 12.

“I want to see hardworking kids have access to a good future — that includes both college and a career — that they otherwise could have never imagined,” Porter said. “And I want to strengthen our community by building bridges between the business community and the families and children who attend Cristo Rey.”

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Mankind might be good at hunting, but we are not always the best climbers.

According to a News9.com report, a man preparing for the upcoming hunting season while perched on a tree near the 10100 block of N. XXX Road took a spill and tumbled 25-30 feet to the ground. Somewhere, little Bambi was heard mumbling something about karma under his breath.

Before the story goes any further, please take a moment to appreciate XXX Road. What is the story behind this mysteriously named Oklahoma passageway? One gets the impression it was originally named by a strip club owner, a gang of misfit pirates or the world’s biggest fan of Vin Diesel action movies.

Anyway, the man fell in a heavily wooded area, and the ambulance could not reach him. Instead, he was loaded in the back of a sheriff’s office pickup truck and transported to emergency personnel. Maybe this really is a Vin Diesel movie.

A KFOR.com report said authorities are warning hunters to be safety conscious this hunting season. The man who fell was taken to an area hospital, but the extent of his injuries is unclear. Not least among them, though, is likely a bruised ego.

Only if

If you’re trying to score a job, you’re not alone.

Unfortunately, Oklahoma saw one of the largest unemployment number growths in the nation in the last year. Recent U.S. Department of Labor numbers show seasonally adjusted unemployment in increased an uncom uncomfortable 17 percent.

The good news? Don’t answer, “There isn’t any,” because there is some mid middling news at least. The unemployment growth rate has slowed since it peaked in March.

Annual data runs August 2015 to August 2016 and showed Oklahoma’s unemploy unemployment rate at 5.1 percent, which is higher than the national average of 4.9 percent.

The good news? We’re trying to be pos positive here.

Oklahoma Employment Security Commission economist Lynn Gray told NewsOK.com that energy jobs in the state grew by 200 in August and the July number of energy jobs also was “revised upward.”

The good news? … Nevermind.

“It is possible that we have found a bottom in employment for this sector if oil prices maintain at least their recent price range,” Gray said.

If!

Least favorite

The verdict is in: Mary Fallin is one of the least-popular governors in the nation. You probably already knew that, and if you didn’t know for sure, you probably had a pretty good idea.

Morning Consult, a tech and media company and polling firm, ranked Fallin No. 9 in its list of least-popular governors in national poll results released in September.

“Fallin’s disapproval rating increased from 47 percent in May to 53 percent now, according to the polling firm, while her approval fell from 42 to 40 percent,” Tulsa World reported.

The margin of error is 3.5 percent, Morning Consult data shows.

Our neighbor to the north, Kansas’ Sam Brownback, was ranked the least-popular overall. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker won the popularity vote, coming in at No. 1 with the highest approval rating of 72 percent.

More than 80,000 people in all 50 states were polled between January and May, and sample sizes from each state were based on state population.

We here at Chicken-Fried News imagine that drastic budget cuts, controversies over tornado shelters in schools and other mishaps contributed to Fallin’s weak score.

franchise football watch parties!

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Cruising cow

Cows get out of their pastures a lot. We’re not sure whether their gates are inefficient or they have spent that last 100 years developing a plan to outsmart their owners and escape their confinement for good and sightings are just part of their test runs. In any case, students at Oklahoma State University (OSU) in Stillwater found a surprise on their way to campus the afternoon of Sept. 26.

Student Allie Broussard tweeted a photo of the black cow with a white stripe down its face trotting down Hall of Fame Avenue without a care in the world. KOCO. com posted her video of the rambunctious animal as it ran down the street, pursued by traffic.

“Literally, right now, there’s a car running toward my car. Holy shit! What the heck?” Broussard said in the video.

Caroline Varnau also tweeted a photo of the cow and wrote, “Meanwhile at Oklahoma State.”

Maybe fences need to be built stronger to withstand rebellious farm animals, and someone should have a talk with OSU students and tell them that it’s pretty dangerous — and possibly illegal — to take photos while driving, especially when there is loose livestock in the street.

ported The Wall Street Journal.

Almost 1,000 bidders from 17 countries on four continents participated in the event, which liquidated more than 4,600 bottles of wine, according to Chicago Tribune. Strong demand drove bidders to pay above the estimated high price on almost 80 percent of the lots.

The most expensive item was a case of 1989 Château Pétrus, which sold for $65,725, well above its estimated $35,000$55,000 value.

Smuggling rules

Liquidation sale

Aubrey McClendon always had an eye for a good investment.

The wine collection of the late Chesapeake founder and former CEO, who died in a single-car accident in March, was auctioned off by Chicago-based wine vendor Hart Davis Hart for $8.44 million in midSeptember, Fortune recently reported.

More than 10 times the average number of Oklahoma bidders took part in the auction, which exceeded expectations, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. president Ben Nelson told The Wall Street Journal. Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. ran the auction.

A pre-sale estimate valued the collection between $5.1 and $7.7 million, re-

The first rule of smuggling drugs: You don’t talk about smuggling drugs.

The second rule of smuggling drugs: You don’t talk about smuggling drugs.

Third rule of smuggling drugs: If an officer stops you, finds drugs or arrests you, the smuggling is over.

Those appear to be the rules followed by Rodney Bonner and his passenger. Last month, the two were traveling in a Ford pickup when Oklahoma City police initiated a traffic stop after viewing a license plate improperly displayed.

According to okcfox.com, police uncovered 299 pounds of marijuana in the truck’s bed under a camper shell. When of officers asked Bonner about the marijuana bale, the 49-year-old

told police the truck belonged to the passenger. Both driver and passenger offered police conflicting stories about their travels from Phoenix, Arizona, to Warsaw, Missouri.

The TV news station reports police booked Bonner into the Oklahoma County jail on complaints of trafficking illegal drugs.

At Chicken-Fried News, we suggest drug smugglers develop new rules.

The first rule of smuggling drugs: Check vehicle for compliance with traffic laws.

The second rule of smuggling drugs: Get all smugglers in on the same story.

The third rule of smuggling drugs: Just don’t do it.

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NEWS available candidate with the intelligence and courage to beat our enemies (internal and external) by outsmarting them.

Michael Moberly Oklahoma City

Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed or emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com.

Include a city of residence and contact number for verification.

Lotta shakin’

Not Khaaaaan!

I could not agree more with Steve L. Perry’s sentiment in his letter (Opinion, Letters to the Editor, “Stand and deliver?,” Sept.

21, Oklahoma Gazette).

I would, however, point out that is not the Wrath of Khan doctrine.

Khan asked Kirk if he was up on his Milton in the original Star Trek episode “Space Seed,” which introduced Khan Noonien Singh. Kirk told Bones (doctor Leonard McCoy) that Khan was telling him he would rather “rule in hell than serve in heaven” when Kirk transported Khan, his followers and Lt. Marla McGivers.

And of course, Kirk — not Khan — was quoting Satan from John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost: “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

Khan was quoting from Moby Dick by

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Herman Melville in Wrath of Khan when he armed and subsequently detonated the Genesis device: “To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”

Kevin George Guthrie

Trumping Kirk

Mr. Perry, why did you liken Donald Trump to Star Trek’s Khan in your Sept. 21 Gazette letter? I prefer to liken him to Captain Kirk, a take-charge leader who is outside of the political corruption of the day.

Maybe you are familiar with the saying “better dead than red,” which refers to

patriotic Americans who defied the Cuban and Russian threats of the 1960s. Also, if the Christians of earlier centuries had not chosen to defy Rome (as in the Roman Empire and the Roman Church), you would never have had a Judeo-Christian America.

Your point of view is backwards. The Democrats, Independents and our weak Republican brothers and cousins need to repent of their political corruption and moral failures and save our country from being a weak culture that is fodder for the Russian, Chinese or Muslim leaders of the likes of Khan.

I believe Donald Trump is the only

Earthquake damage has cost Oklahomans millions of dollars. We used to get about 50 earthquakes per year.

Today, Oklahoma has over 900 earthquakes per year.

Fracking wastewater injection wells are the obvious cause. Solar and wind power do not cause earthquakes, oil spills or global warming and climate change.

Will our November votes support reliance on fossil fuels or the shift to environmental sustainability?

Nathaniel Batchelder Oklahoma City

Correction

A Sept. 21 Oklahoma Gazette music feature “Following footsteps” by Ben Luschen included incorrect spellings of artist Gabrielle B.’s last name and mother’s first name. Gabrielle’s last name is Bruner and her mother’s first name is Ava.

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The Hutch on Avondale team — from left Kyle Fleischfresser, chef de cuisine David Henry and owner Kurt Fleischfresser. | Photo Greg Elwell

Escape Hutch as a “special occasion” spot, it’s hard to change their minds; diners who were once regulars stayed away because of perception rather than the actual menu prices.

But that wasn’t the end. The venue reopened Sept. 27 as The Hutch.

dinners as The Hutch at different restaurants, including Bonjour, former Coach House Apprenticeship Program graduate Vuong Nguyen’s French-inspired breakfast and lunch eatery.

“We’ve reached a different audience at Vuong’s place,” Henry said. “We got new people seeing our price points, and we received some great feedback.”

It was also an opportunity to “do some real weird stuff,” he said. Those experimental dishes helped establish The Hutch’s new menu, which more heavily leans on the Oklahoma palate.

“It keeps the simple stuff, but elevates it,” he said. “It’s very seasonal, local and of-the-moment.”

Dining evolution

Bar upgrade

The Hutch on Avondale leaves behind fine-dining expectations to make a new home. By Greg Elwell

Chef de cuisine David Henry is done being a culinary nomad after spending months wandering Oklahoma City’s restaurant scene as a visitor.

“After the pop-ups, I can’t wait to have a home,” he said as he looked over the kitchen of The Hutch on Avondale, 6437 Avondale Drive, in Nichols Hills Plaza. “I’m excited to get going.”

Open House

Henry was executive chef at The Coach House, which closed its doors in February.

Owner Kurt Fleischfresser said at the time that he had mixed feelings about shutting down the restaurant that helped him rise to the top of the city’s food scene decades ago.

“It would be more difficult for it to not go out in style,” he told Oklahoma Gazette in February.

The Coach House was Oklahoma City’s long-lived home of locally sourced French cuisine long before the term “farm-to-table” became part of the popular nomenclature.

The menu could be pricey, but Fleischfresser and Henry worked to keep some budgetfriendly dishes available. Fleischfresser said when people start thinking of a restaurant

There was never an expectation that the restaurant wouldn’t return, Henry said.

He and Kyle Fleischfresser, Kurt’s son, worked with the owner on the venue’s dining evolution.

In the intervening months, with the help of original owner Chris Lower, the group reimagined everything, holding onto what worked and sussing out what should change to keep the operation thriving, Kurt Fleischfresser said.

While the venue was being renovated inside, Kyle Fleischfresser and Henry designed new menus and hosted pop-up

Kyle Fleischfresser’s focus is on The Hutch’s bar, which might come as a surprise to fans of The Coach House since it didn’t really have one.

He said he doesn’t plan to get too wild with his mixology experiments though.

“It’s pretty straightforward; no weird esoteric ingredients for no reason,” he said.

“We’re keeping flavored vodka on the back bar. It’s going to be a place that’s comfortable to just hang out and drink.”

Kurt Fleischfresser’s pride in his son was evident. A mischievous grin crossed his face as he described the new menu.

After the pop-ups, I can’t wait to have a home.

David Henry

“We’re not going to have any drinks with cute names that don’t taste good,” he said.

Deconstructed, reconstructed — whatever the style, it still has to taste great, he said.

“David’s got the finesse to do it,” Kurt Fleischfresser said.

A tour through the kitchen reveals a true walk-in freezer — something the old restaurant didn’t have — and a reorganized and centralized area where The Hutch chefs put together dishes as a team. There’s also a fryer, which will be used for french fries and chicken wings.

But the main difference is how much more open the restaurant feels, from the way stations are positioned around the center island to the wide-open window connecting the kitchen and the dining room, which allows hungry diners to witness the work going into their meals.

Henry said the menu will change a lot in coming months as he works through seasonally available ingredients and focuses on the dishes customers order. The Hutch still serves lamb, though instead of ordering only by the rack, diners can choose to get it by the chop.

Henry has also reworked the salmon and cornbread, updating the signature dish by modernizing its presentation while retaining the taste.

But he said menu additions will make The Hutch a more casual dining experience and include sandwiches at lunch and dinner.

Kurt Fleischfresser said he wants people to relax and have fun. He said the service is high quality and now more people will be able to receive it.

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The Aikman Bacon Avocado Burger | Photo Garett Fisbeck

Founding foods

Oklahoma-focused 1907 Burgers & Brews is a sports bar and restaurant with love for the Sooner State. By Greg Elwell

While bison, Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and lightning bolts have become de rigeur symbols of our home, it’s a little odd that 1907 doesn’t get more love. That is the year Oklahoma became America’s 46th state.

That’s one of the endearing qualities of 1907 Burgers & Brews, 1035 SW 19th St., in Moore — there’s a genuine fondness for Oklahoma on its menu.

The sports bar isn’t focused on serving pioneer cuisine (though that’s not a terrible idea for a restaurant concept), but it does pay homage to the state’s athletic and cultural history with a variety of tasty burgers.

Nestled on the eastern corner of a shopping center, 1907 Burgers & Brews is perfectly lit for watching sports. Many shaded windows allow in plenty of light to read the menu, yet quell glare on the multiple screens that adorn the walls and sit above the bar.

The noise level is low enough to allow for conversation and folks who are more interested in a social lunch or a laid-back date than watching college football.

The beer and wine menus offer enough variety to keep thirsty patrons satisfied and include local brews from COOP Ale Works, Anthem Brewing Company and Prairie Artisan Ales.

Those visiting 1907 to drink and snack should look at the restaurant’s selection of tasty waffle fries, which are goldencrisp on the outside and rich potato inside.

That is the platonic ideal of french fries — a flavorful crust with enough strength to survive a trip through some ketchup and a mashed potato-like fluffy burst of savory tuber after each bite.

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Truffle fries ($4.49) were the best of the bunch. Waffle fries are perfect for this preparation with all kinds of nooks and crannies in which toppings can hide, imbuing bites with more flavor.

Truffle fries are tossed in truffle oil and liberally decorated with salty, nutty Parmesan cheese. The heat from the freshly fried potatoes helps soak up oil and cheese, making each fry into a bitesized flavor powerhouse.

Onion rings ($4.99) offer the hard-tobeat contrast of crispy sweetness of batter-fried crust against the snap and sting of onion. However, check the salt level before getting too deep into these — seasoning varies a bit at 1907, and a little salt can go a long way to making the rings taste their best.

A big plus of dining at a locally owned restaurant like 1907 is that its servers and cooks have more leeway to customize meals. Burgers that come with a side can be upgraded to any type of fries or onion rings for a modest upcharge.

So far, my favorite sandwich on the menu is The Aikman Bacon Avocado Burger ($8.99, including a side). Named for Henryetta High School’s favorite son, former Dallas Cowboys star quarterback Troy Aikman, the burger is pretty selfexplanatory with strips of well-cooked bacon and slices of ripe avocado along with the standard lettuce and tomato.

This is another case in which checking the seasoning can make a difference.

Either let the server know if your preference is salting before it’s grilled or do it to taste at the table.

cooking it to medium-well can end with a sandwich that is too 1907 Burgers & Brews dry for my tastes.

Chicken tenders ($6.99, including a side) are delight1035 SW 19th St., Moore facebook.com/1907burgersbrews fully golden and crisp on the 405-912-1907 outside and unbelievably juicy on the inside. Even warmed what worKs: The laid-back atmosphere and Oklahoma-centric menu. up a little later in the evening — like you’ve never had the what NeeDs worK: Seasoning can be an munchies — they were quite issue, so talk to the server when ordering. moist.

Those who like fish tacos tIp: Though it’s a full-service bar, it’s also a family restaurant, so bring the kids. ($7.99, including chips and salsa) fried instead of grilled will find plenty to love about this Sriracha sauce-covered For something a touch more heart tilapia dish, but it seemed too heavy for healthy, Buffalo Nickel Burger ($8.99, inwhat is often considered a lighter option. cluding a side) replaces the usual beef Your mileage might vary, but the chicken patty with bison meat and tops it with and burgers are preferable options. lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo.

The dish names, evoking famed OU Servers at 1907 don’t ask how done coach Barry Switzer, folk icon Woody customers would like their hamburgers, Guthrie and actors James Garner and Brad but the menu does make a note about “raw Pitt, might not matter to some, but I found or undercooked meats,” which means 1907’s menu, food and staff charming. diners can ask for items to be cooked Next time someone needs an out-of-themedium or medium-rare. That is a good way spot to watch a Thunder game and idea with a bison patty, which any of the grab a burger, this local sports bar ought to be on the list of destinations. other burgers can be switched to for $2 more. Bison is leaner than beef, and

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at the event check-in tent and include three bowls of chili. Visitors can buy a commemorative mug for $10 more.

Carne Diem proceeds benefit United Way of Central Oklahoma.

Bye, Buy

Bacon-y sushi from In the Raw (now Dekora!) at 6 Degrees of Bacon in 2015. | Photo Quit Nguyen / provided

•Bacon & Brussels

Oklahoma City’s bacon-wrapped party 6 Degrees of Bacon has wrapped its run. The event lives on with a new name and a concept that promises to be more inclusive.

Bacon & Brussels, 7-9 p.m. Oct. 13 at 1114 N. Harvey Ave., includes the cured pork bellies guests love and adds a greener dimension with Brussels sprouts.

Though 6 Degrees of Bacon sold out each of its first four years, organizers wanted to add something for vegetable lovers, too, said Downtown OKC, Inc. vice president Jill DeLozier. The event raises money for Midtown District amenities, marketing and programming while providing foodies with a sampling of bacon- and Brussels sproutinspired food from local restaurants.

This year’s participants are 1492 New World Latin Cuisine, Brown’s Bakery, Dekora! (formerly In the Raw Sushi), Elemental Coffee Roasters, Fassler Hall and Dust Bowl Lanes & Lounge, Gigglez Bar & Grill, Jerky.com, James E. McNellie’s Public House, Native Meat Co., Packard’s New American Kitchen, Park Avenue Grill, Prairie Thunder Baking Company, The R&J Lounge and Supper Club, Room 222 and Viceroy Grille.

Bacon & Brussels is a 21-and-older event. Tickets are $35-$55 and are available at downtownokc.com/bacon-and-brussels.

Grocery shoppers have two fewer options as Buy For Less closes two metro locations.

The locally owned-and-operated grocery chain shut down its original store, 2121 W. Hefner Road, Sept. 24. The 2500 N. Pennsylvania Ave. location closes Friday.

Closing the Hefner Road location was long in the works, said Buy For Less CEO and founder Hank Binkowski. The business opened an Uptown Grocery Co.branded store in February at 9515 N. May Ave., less than two miles from its original shop.

The Pennsylvania Avenue store closing comes after Buy For Less could not reach an agreement with the property owner to allow for what Binkowski said were necessary building improvements.

• Pie Piper

After more than 20 years absent from the local market, Arizona-based Peter Piper Pizza returned to the metro Oct. 3.

The new store, 4701 SE 15th St., in Del City joins locations in southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico and is what chief marketing officer Jason Greenwood said is the first step toward relaunching the eatery as a national franchise.

Greenwood said the company’s updated aim is to be a food-first pizzeria with familyand parent-friendly amenities.

The Del City location features a game room in the back that’s separated from the dining room. It also serves wine and beer, including COOP Ale Works F5 IPA, Greenwood said.

“The open kitchen design lets our customers see that there’s real food preparation going on here,” he said. “We’re training dough masters. We hand-chop the vegetables. It puts the food front and center.”

The company is considering several sites for additional stores in Oklahoma City, which Greenwood said is “ground zero for a national expansion.”

To celebrate the opening, Peter Piper Pizza hosts a Throwback Thursday event 5-8 p.m. Thursday.

Customers who come dressed in ’80s or ’90s attire receive a buy one, get one free card and other giveaways.

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More than 50 amateur and professional chefs descend on downtown OKC with giant stockpots of chicken, pork, beef, venison, seafood and vegetarian chilis as Wise Guys play a live show. Tickets are $10

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Even as the majority of Europeans cringed as English voters decided to leave the European Union, the chefs from France, Italy, Spain and the rest of the E.U. probably smiled quietly to themselves, because soon, they won’t have to pretend that fish and chips is “just as good” as their own, distinctive cuisines.

Visit these restaurants for a taste of E.U. variety.

By Greg Elwell Photos Garett Fisbeck and Gazette file

The Mantel Wine Bar & Bistro

The Metro Wine Bar & Bistro

Say “Bonjour!” to European favorites at longtime Bricktown restaurant The Mantel. Start with a shared appetizer of honey and fig-topped baked Brie or the decadent blend of dijon, shallots and a quail egg on the steak tartare. Then let those taste buds immigrate to Italy with housemade lobster ravioli or a heaping bowl of creamy fettuccine Alfredo with a glass of vino from The Mantel’s palate-pleasing wine list.

Wander up Western Avenue to find one of Oklahoma City’s oldest fine-dining establishments. The Metro Wine Bar & Bistro has been home to several of the city’s best chefs. Dishes range from well-loved classics like steak frites and saffron risotto with shrimp and scallops to rarer fare like sautéed veal liver with caramelized onions.

Looking for something lighter? Check out the chilled leek and potato vichyssoise.

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2415 N. Walker Ave. pizzeria-gusto.com | 405-437-4992 Of course Pizzeria Gusto serves great pizza.

No need to lament the lack of pepperoni — the soppressata pie has plenty of that sharp sausage bite — when there are so many intriguing flavors to try. The eatery also offers plenty of alternatives to pizza.

Its chopped liver crostini with bacon, garlic, Balsamic, tomato crudo and capers is delicious, as is the crispy gnocchi with braised short rib. A best bet is the tuna conserva salad, which is as filling as it is tasty.

Das Boot Camp

229 E. Main St., Norman das-bootcamp.com | 405-701-3748 Jäger means “hunter” in German, but it’s also a kind of mushroom-bacon gravy Das Boot Camp serves on jäger fries — french fries covered in roasted pork, melted Swiss cheese and gravy — and jägerschnitzel, a golden, hand-breaded pork loin served with eggy spätzle noodles. If that sounds heavy, consider ordering a few boots of Royal Bavaria Brewery beer to wash it down. While you’re there, enjoy an Oktoberfest beer.

Mediterranean Imports & Deli

5620 N. May Ave. medimportsokc.com | 405-810-9494 There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love fresh hummus and those who have not had fresh hummus. Anyone in either group would be well advised to visit Mediterranean Imports & Deli, where the hummus is so creamy and smooth, it already ordered and paid for your favorite drink at the bar. As the weather turns chilly, be sure to check out the rotating roster of soups, including minestrone and lentil. But watch the clock. The kitchen closes at 6 p.m.

Istanbul Turkish Cuisine

Ingrid’s

Not to be confused with Constantinople, Istanbul is a Turkish delight right here in Oklahoma City. Ease into something familiar like falafel or tabbouleh before diving headfirst into Istanbul’s varied menu.

Adana kebab blends ground lamb with red pepper, onion, garlic and parsley for a meaty dinner with a chargrilled flavor. Lahmacun is a Turkish spin on pizza with a thin crust topped with ground beef and lamb. For dessert, save room for sütlaç rice pudding with pistachios.

Walking into Ingrid’s, diners can expect to see long tables filled with happy diners eagerly chowing down on delicious bratwurst and German delicacies, including braunschweiger sandwiches and chicken schnitzel. But don’t eat too much or there won’t be room for Ingrid’s ridiculous variety of cookies, cakes and pastries, including the cream-filled Devil Dog. Luckily, Ingrid’s staff is happy to pack dessert to go.

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When did beer get so complicated?

When people start drinking beer, it’s usually whatever they can get. There are the big names — Budweiser, Miller, Coors — and a few off-brand brews at a lower price point, but mostly it comes from a keg at a party or in a suitcase of cans from the convenience store.

But something changed. The beers of the world began trickling into the Oklahoma marketplace, and people took notice. Home brewers started selling their own versions of these different styles of beer and became their own industry.

People who were once content to drink whatever

they could get became connoisseurs.

Oklahoma City is becoming a beer lover’s frontier. New brewers open regularly and with them a passel of new varieties and tastes. It can be confusing (and expensive) to keep up with new releases here at home, much less the ever-expanding roster of craft brewers from across the country bringing their wares into the marketplace.

As always, Oklahoma Gazette is here to help.

We gathered seasonally available beers from local brewers and others available for sale in Oklahoma City and put our panel of beer experts — local beer enthusiast Emerson Mounger, The

McNellie’s Group catering and events manager Nettie Jo Mann, Freeman’s Liquor Mart sales consultant Brett Fieldcamp, Oak & Ore owner Micah Andrews, Freeman’s Liquor Mart beer specialist and certified Cicerone beer server Maurice Pérez and Gazette staff reporter Greg Elwell — to work tasting, testing and recommending. Their sacrifice — the Gazette’s Fall Brew Review — is now in your hands. Please enjoy our guide to make buying and drinking the best beers in Oklahoma City a little easier. continued on page 23

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By Gazette staff / Photos bigstock.com

Historians think humans were making beer in 4,300 B.C. and used the intervening years to brew, drink and describe the drinks they love. Below is a fraction of the many types of beer available today, along with some common terms to help drinkers understand, enjoy and discuss beer.

voring, and the ale is usually mild and malty with little bitterness

Russian imperial stout:

strong dark beer with high alcohol by volume and intense malt flavor; hoppiness varies, and many have low carbonation and big chocolate and dark fruit tastes

Lager: made with bottom-fermenting yeast at colder temperatures than for a crisper, cleaner taste Märzen:

medium- to full-bodied German-style beer; Märzen is German for “March,” when the beer was traditionally brewed, and is a traditional Oktoberfest beer with color ranging from golden yellow to dark brown and a rich taste with mild hoppiness

Pilsner: smooth pale lager named for the Czechoslovakian city of Pilsen; hops impart bitter and floral spice notes Ale: beer made using warm fermentation, which imparts a sweeter fruit taste and heavier body; hops add bitterness and balance sweetness

American amber/red ale:

ale with primarily toasted malt flavors and a deep red or reddish-brown color

Baltic porter: robust, dark porter named because it was shipped to the North Sea; it has a cloudy body with deep, roasted malt flavor and medium bitterness

Belgian quadrupel: Belgianstyle ale with a full, heavy body and strong malt flavor; colored deep garnet to dark brown, it was inspired by Trappist monks and has high alcohol content and a sweet, slightly bitter taste Cream ale: ale-lager hybrid brewed

at higher temperatures and finished with lager yeast; a pale-colored beer with low hoppiness and a carbonated body

and it’s traditionally brewed in winter and kept farm staff busy in off seasons as they created beer to drink in summer months

India pale ale/IPA:

ale with stronger hop flavor; originally brewed in England and exported to India for British troops, and more hops were used to help preserve the beer during its transport

Kölsch: German-style beer first brewed in Cologne; mixes warm and cold fermentation to create a light-bodied brew with pale color and medium hoppy bitterness

and oils that give beer bitterness when used early in brewing and aroma when added later

• Malt: most popular brewing grain, short for malted barley, is soaked in water until it germinates and then cooked or roasted to stop the growing process; the amount of heat used impacts the color and flavor of beer and sugars in malt create alcohol during fermentation

Vienna lager: color ranges from copper to reddish-brown with a medium body; named for the Austrian city, Vienna lagers are more associated with American and Mexican beers like Yuengling and Negra Modelo • Hops: delicate,

cone-shaped flowers of the Humulus lupulus plant, which grows in vines more than 20 feet long; light green cones are full of flavorful resins

• Yeast: single-celled microorganisms that create flavors in beer and convert sugar into alcohol; ale yeast rises to the top during fermentation and bottom-fermenting lager yeast settles at the bottom

Some descriptors used by Oklahoma Gazette’s six-person Fall Brew Review panel: Estery: aroma or flavor of fruit or flowers

Pale ale: made with pale malt, usually with a medium hoppiness that is easy to drink

Grassy: aroma or flavor of fresh-cut grass or green leaves

Phenolic: spicy clove, pepper or smoky flavors or smells

Cream stout: made with lactose, a

Alcoholic: the aroma, flavor

sugar found in milk, with a sweeter flavor and creamy body; sometimes called milk or cream stout

and warming effect of ethanol and higher alcohols

Astringent: puckering, lingering

Farmhouse ale/saison:

complex bottle-conditioned beer with heavy spice flavor, often tart with medium bitterness; saison, French for “season,” is the most common variety,

harshness or dryness in the finish

Diacetyl: artificial butter, butter-

• Pumpkin ale: ingredients

include pumpkin chunks, puree or fla-

scotch or toffee aroma and flavor

Sour/Acidic: tart aroma and flavor, either sharp and clean or vinegarlike

Vegetal: cooked or canned vegetable aroma and flavor, such as cabbage, onion, celery or asparagus

Yeasty: a bready or yeastlike aroma or flavor

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Raise a glass to these upcoming metro and statewide events.

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TAPPED craft beer festival invites beer lovers to “tap out” on weekend fun. For the first time, TAPPED heads to Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark to offer more than 100 beers, wines and ciders along with Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark’s Flashpoint Grille. Enjoy Blake O the DJ,

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Enjoy an IPA Day celebration and the

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fun run featuring craft beers brewed

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By Greg Elwell | Photos Garett Fisbeck

Methodology

The inaugural Oklahoma Gazette brew review panel recently convened to taste and score 36 seasonally and locally available beers in five categories: aroma, appearance, flavor, mouthfeel and overall impression. The sixmember panel blind-tasted each one knowing only what type of beer it was sampling in order to score it according to style.

This method was chosen so beers only compete with the ideal of the stated style and not against each other. Panel judges submitted score sheets before brewers and beers were revealed.

Scoring

Appearance, mouthfeel and overall impression were each scored on 6-point scales. Aroma and taste were scored on 10-point scales. The highest possible combined score is 38.

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Beer scores listed are combined average scores from the six-judge panel. The top 24 beers are listed here with comments aggregated from the entire six-judge panel.

Average scores 26-38: Outstanding — world-class example of style 21-25: Excellent — exemplifies style well; might need minor fine-tuning 16-20: Very good — generally within style parameters; some minor flaws 11-15: Good — misses the mark on style and/ or has minor flaws 6-10: Fair — off flavors, aromas or major style deficiencies 0-5: Problematic — major off flavors and aromas dominate

1. Barrel Aged Bomb!

Prairie Artisan Ales, Tulsa | Alcohol by volume: 11.2 percent Average score: 32.66, outstanding Superlatives swirled around Prairie Artisan Ales’ Barrel Aged Bomb!, which “tucks away” the brewer’s beloved imperial stout in wooden barrels for a few months for a brew our panel called “fantastic,” “delicious” and “roasty.” The color is “so dark, no light can escape,” and the flavor has notes of “chocolate and love and booze.” The beer smells strongly of alcohol, which isn’t surprising given its 11.2 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), but the panel also found sherry, maple and coffee wafting up from the “dark, totally opaque” body. In the mouth, Barrel Aged Bomb! is “coating,” “creamy” and “frothy.” “Very, very good,” said one expert.

2. Pumpion Ale

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Elk Valley Brewing Co., Oklahoma City Alcohol by volume: 12.4 percent Average score: 32.5, outstanding Our panel was nearly unanimous in its love for Elk Valley’s Pumpion, calling it “pretty damn fantastic” with a palate of dark fruit, molasses and cinnamon. The aroma is “very sweet, almost syrupy.” It is “very malty” with strong pumpkin and slight cherry flavors. Another judge said the boozy ale with a strong smell of maple syrup “would murder me.” With a perfect score from one of our six-person panel members, Pumpion has tantalizing “opaque color,” smells “amazing” and presents a “silky, perfect” texture with a “rich, nutty, spicy caramel” taste.

3. Black Snake Russian Imperial Stout

Twisted Spike Brewing Co., Oklahoma City Alcohol by volume: 9.8 percent Average score: 30.66, outstanding Panelists reveled in the “amazing aroma” of Black Snake, which evoked images of dark fruit and coffee. Judges said it is “a perfect hearty roast” with a “great dark” color. Almost pitch-black, it boasts a “caramel-colored head” that holds up well after pouring. Though the mouthfeel was “thin” and “almost watery” to some, the brew imparts “really nice flavors of vanilla, chocolate and cinnamon” with a deep and alcoholic smoothness. “Solid stout,” wrote one judge, who detected a “slight plum” flavor. Its “perfect heavy roast” scent and “great heavy flavor” led another to give it a 38 of 38.

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4. Fat Jack Double Pumpkin Ale

Samuel Adams, The Boston Beer Company, Boston Alcohol by volume: 8.5 percent Average score: 29.66, outstanding If 20 Pounds of Pumpkin isn’t enough (see No. 18), Samuel Adams Fat Jack is a double pumpkin ale that packs in more than 28 pounds of the harvest squash per barrel. Our panelists loved its “malty, boozy, alcohol, spice” scent and “malt-forward” flavor with subtle pumpkin and “nice spice” with an alcoholic finish. The “deep amber” ale has a “really nice red color” with “beautiful sweetness.” The highest scoring judge called it “great for pumpkin” and loved its “roasty, spicy flavor.” “If I had to drink a pumpkin beer, this one is pretty good,” commented another.

5. The Demise of Ivan Russian Imperial Stout

Kannah Creek Brewing Company, Grand Junction, Colorado Alcohol by volume: 11 percent Average score: 29, outstanding The tasty Demise of Ivan Russian imperial stout hits the glass with a “great dark red hue” that’s clean to the eye and “boozy,” “sweet” and “astringent” to the nose. The group whiffed “roasted dark fruit” before the first taste further revealed a “roasty” flavor “with a bit of plum” and “red fruit.” The beer presents “booze up front” with an alcoholic burn followed by hints of chocolate and espresso. One expert deemed it “too sweet” for a Russian imperial, but others found it “a little thin for style, but pleasant.” One panelist enjoyed the warming mouthfeel, calling it “thin but boozy” with “good carbonation.”

6. Zombie Monkie Robust Porter

Tallgrass Brewing Co., Manhattan, Kansas Alcohol by volume: 6.2 percent Average score: 28.66, outstanding Zombie Monkie Robust Porter rises from the Tallgrass vaults from August to December with scents of “chocolate” and roasted coffee and hints of caramel and fruit, panelists said. Despite pouring “really dark” with a good head, the brew’s flavor is “light bodied” and possesses “a true Baltic porter mouthfeel.” Our judges loved Monkie’s “dark, opaque” look with a taste and appearance that are “perfect for the style.” The balanced texture is “creamy” with little carbonation and invokes “roast meat, cocoa and coffee” on the palate. “Perfect fall dark beer,” one commented.

7. 10th St. Pale Ale

Twisted Spike Brewing Co., Oklahoma City Alcohol by volume: 6.2 percent Average score: 27.83, outstanding Recently opened Oklahoma City brewery Twisted Spike nails its 10th St. Pale Ale with a “juicy mouthfeel” and “nice balance of malt and bitterness.” It is a golden “dark straw” color and has a nice head, and its aroma has an “almost chocolate” scent with a “nice sweetness” that one panelist compared to estery “citrus grapefruit” and pine. The “fruitforward” flavor has a nuttiness with “hints of caramel” that is “delicious.”

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8. Old Man Ogle Vienna Style Lager

Anthem Brewing Company, Oklahoma City Alcohol by volume: 5.5 percent Average score: 27.5, outstanding Anthem ages its Oktoberfest-style Ogletoberfest beer in bourbon barrels to create Old Man Ogle Vienna-style lager. Its aroma is deep with whiffs of maple and raisin, and its flavor is bright and slightly sweet. “Very unique. Very surprising,” commented one smitten panelist. The lager pours golden and clear with “good head retention and lacing.” Tasters appreciated its phenolic “good, smoky flavor” and “nice finish,” especially the alcoholic “bourbon warmth” and “sweet, nutty” smell of honey.

Overall, judges deemed the brew “enjoyable” and “very good.”

9. Standing Wave Pale Ale

Kannah Creek Brewing Company, Grand Junction, Colorado Alcohol by volume: 5.5 percent Average score: 27, outstanding The first impressions of Kannah Creek’s pale ale comes from the hoppy aroma that rises from this heady golden brew.

Judges said it was musty, “slightly dank, piney” and has “lots of citrus for the style,” conjuring flavors of “bitter tea, subtle hops and great nuttiness.” Standing Wave is “smooth and clean” on the palate and creamier than many pale ales, giving the popular brew an earthy flavor with notes of grassiness, pine and an astringent hint of soap. One panelist enjoyed the herbaceousness and called it a “good, easy-drinking” beer.

10. Oktoberfest Festival Lager

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., brewed with Bamberg, Germany’s Mahrs Bräu Alcohol by volume: 6 percent Average score: 27, outstanding This Märzen-style Oktoberfest from California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was a big, big hit with most panelists, who loved the “classic German appearance” of the lager that carried flavors of “fields of grass, stonelike dryness and subtle sweetness.” The lager has a “classic” lightgolden hue and a slightly astringent mouthfeel with “nice carbonation, a mildly creamy consistency with a nice, bitter pucker” and scents of citrus and yeasty “biscuit.”

The sweetness balanced out a “really nice herbal, grassy” hoppiness that was almost universally loved.

11. Broken Oar India Pale Ale

Kannah Creek Brewing Company, Grand Junction, Colorado Alcohol by volume: 6.2 percent Average score: 26.5, outstanding Panelists were enamored with Kannah Creek’s fresh and outdoorsy Broken Oar IPA, a “nice burnt gold” beer with an odor and flavor many described as tart, estery, grassy, musty and floral. “Nicely structured for style,” wrote one, who enjoyed its “medium-to-heavy” texture and creamy “floral hop” on the tongue. The fruity nose gives way to a complex flavor. “Fantastic carbonation and great bitter finish,” commented one judge. Another said the way it lingers after each sip “makes this beer special.”

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12. Vertical Drop Robust Red Ale

Kannah Creek Brewing Company, Grand Junction, Colorado Alcohol by volume: 6.2 percent Average score: 26.33, outstanding Kannah Creek produces a robust red ale that lives up to the categorization, and panelists complimented Vertical Drop for its “dark amber” appearance with “excellent head retention and good lacing.” “Fantastic brownish-red color, perfect for style,” said another, who called its malt body and slightly bitter taste of roasted hops “perfect.” The aroma is “subtle” and “slightly smoky” with hints of leather.

The body is creamy with “mild carbonation” and a mildly bitter finish that is “nicely balanced.” While scores varied, almost every panelist came to the same conclusion, calling this selection “very good” and “a perfect red” with a “deep, smoky finish.”

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13. Octoberfest Lager

Samuel Adams, The Boston Beer Company, Boston Alcohol by volume: 5.3 percent Average score: 25.83, excellent With a slightly malty, alcoholic aroma with hints of “fruit and baking spice,” Boston-bred Octoberfest lager earned plenty of love for its “sweet but very well-balanced” flavor and smooth, rich texture that is “wonderful” for the style. The copper-colored lager carries a “sweet, yeasty flavor” with hints of banana and a fruity acidity, said one panelist, who called it a “clean, unaggressive beer.” A few of our judges were torn, calling it both “lighter than expected” and a “little full-bodied” for an Oktoberfest, though it was given high marks for a “nutty, slightly herbal hop presence” that was “really good.”

14. Octoberfest Lager

Abita Brewing Company, Abita Springs, Louisiana Alcohol by volume: 5.4 percent Average score: 25.66, excellent “This was good,” one panelist said of Louisiana-based Abita’s Octoberfest offering. The mildly phenolic, spicy brew has a “light, golden amber” color that looked “lighter and thinner” and others in the style, judges said, but offered a “nice, solid body” that ended cleanly and crisply. The “slight sulfur” smell is within style, and the flavor is “bready, with delicious herbal and grassy hops and balanced bitterness.” One commented the medium-bodied, German-style lager is “lovely” and said they “love the German hop character,” and others praised it as “easy to drink” with a nice, smooth finish.

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15. Coconut Cream Stout

Battered Boar Brewing Company, Edmond Alcohol by volume: 7.5 percent Average score: 25.5, excellent Praised for its strong coconut and mild roast aroma with a smooth texture, Battered Boar’s Coconut Cream Stout was a standout with panelists for its dark chocolate sweetness and rich flavor with “good finish.” The smell reminded others of sunblock, and some said the color is “as dark as my heart” and had no lacing on the head. “Great aroma; underwhelming flavor,” wrote another. For a stout, its texture is “smooth, but thin,” and it has a “good mouthfeel with a drying finish.” continued on page 31

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16. Holy Beer Belgian Style Quadrupel Ale

Twisted Spike Brewing Co., Oklahoma City Alcohol by volume: 9.5 percent Average score: 25.5, excellent Hallelujah! Twisted Spike’s Holy Beer Belgian Quadrupel arrives with a translucent, caramel body and subtle estery, oxidized and phenolic notes of banana, clove and port wine. “Slight fruit, lots of dark malt,” commented one panelist. While one expert described it as “mild” in both smell and flavor, others were impressed with the “cloudy dark amber” look and “good sweetness” of the brew. “The flavor is really fantastic,” wrote one.

17. Märzen-Style Oktoberfest

Shiner, K. Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, Texas Alcohol by volume: 5.7 percent Average score: 24.83, excellent Panelists were a little surprised by this Texas-based Märzen-style Oktoberfest and praised its “slightly darker golden color” that held “good malt flavor with a bit of sweetness.” The aroma is nutty and malty with caramel notes. “Unique,” another said, with a slight vegetal scent that gives way to “good, dark spice” that exemplifies the style. The clear, copper-colored beer has subtle plum flavors and a full-bodied texture that retained a light feel in the mouth. It’s a fine example of Oktoberfest beer with a “great pure color” and excellent head retention.

18. 20 Pounds of Pumpkin Ale

Samuel Adams, The Boston Beer Company, Boston Alcohol by volume: 5.7 percent Average score: 24.6, excellent Panelists loved Samuel Adams’ 20 Pounds of Pumpkin ale and praised its “great, rich brown color” and “spicy pumpkin aroma.” The “slight malt flavor with pumpkin in the front” leads to a slight bitter finish. The ale carries a dark orange tint with a “sherry-like, orange and red” appearance. It has “just enough pumpkin to call it a pumpkin beer,” one expert said. The medium-bodied, phenolic, creamy brew features a “nice malt backbone” that is “well balanced.”

19. Dogtoberfest Märzen

Flying Dog Brewery, Frederick, Maryland Alcohol by volume: 5.6 percent Average score: 24.5, excellent Flying Dog’s Dogtoberfest swooped in with a “nice, fruity” aroma that left a taste of malt and spice on the tongue. Those who liked it said it smelled of “shortbread cookie” and tasted a bit sweet, like a “tasty caramel biscotti,” while others deducted points for its lack of malt and “astringent aftertaste.” The Märzen’s texture is light with “decent carbonation” and a good body accompanying a lovely red-brown appearance with an “almond-colored head.” Brewed with 100 percent imported German ingredients, the Oktoberfest-style beer is “easy to drink.”

20. Kölsch German-Style Ale

Black Mesa Brewing Company, Oklahoma City Alcohol by volume: 5.2 percent Average score: 24.3, excellent Kölsch-style beers, the German answer to the British pale ale, have a reputation for being easy to drink, so it’s no surprise that panelists described Black Mesa’s Kölsch as “fruity” with a hint of citrus, but “little to no aroma.” It received praise for the extremely light bitterness and “grapefruit acidity” of brew and the gorgeous “burned gold” of the straw-colored beer with a nice carbonation. One reviewer said its flavor was of a “slight old-world malt” with a smooth, rich texture. The estery beer has a “good appearance and good head retention” with only “a small amount of bitterness on the aftertaste,” said another.

21. Oktoberfest Märzen-Style Lager

Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, Fort Worth, Texas Alcohol by volume: 7 percent Average score: 24.16, excellent Fort Worth, Texas, brewing company Rahr & Sons wins Okie fans with its Märzen-style Oktoberfest, an amber lager with scents of “toasty caramel sweetness” and “crisp, biscuity malt,” wrote one panelist, who also loved the clean, crisp flavor of toasted malt. The mouthfeel is smooth, with good structure that is nice for the style, said another.

The mildly sweet aroma and full-flavored carbonation makes for a “solid beer for the experience.” Its citrusy hop character might be a bit out of character for an Oktoberfest, which is usually characterized by a rich, full-bodied flavor, but our panelists loved the texture.

22. Lion’s Tooth Floret Farmhouse Ale

Battered Boar Brewing Company, Edmond Alcohol by volume: 6 percent | Average score: 24.16, excellent With a tart flavor, Lion’s Tooth Floret has a scent of “wild yeast and citrus” wafting up from the slightly cloudy, unfiltered beer.

An extremely complex style, farmhouse ales are typically fruity with plenty of earthy hops. The panel noted a growing phenolic spiciness of clove and coriander that one described as “herbaceous.” The head had “nice webbing” and “good retention,” panelists said, with a mouthfeel that was effervescent and minerally. It is astringent “in a good way,” said another, and has a “nice balance with hops and malt.” It is an “easy to drink” ale.

23. LaPadite Farmhouse Ale

Battered Boar Brewing Company, Edmond Alcohol by volume: 6 percent Average score: 23.58, excellent A somewhat sweeter saison, Battered Boar’s LaPadite Farmhouse Ale brought notes of banana and bubblegum, said one panelist.

“Citrus, but drying on the back,” another commented. Others enjoyed the “dry finish and nice body” of the fruity and floral beer that is a great example of the farmhouse ale style but predicted it might be “too strange to have wide appeal.” Brewed with Madagascar vanilla beans and Galaxy and Eldorado hops, it has a “beautiful white and fluffy head” and “good texture on the palate” and one expert gave it high marks for a “candied sugar licorice” smell.

24. 401k Cream Ale

Vanessa House Beer Co., Oklahoma City | Alcohol by volume: 5.1 percent | Average score: 23.16, excellent Panelists praised this beer from newly established Oklahoma City brewer Vanessa House Beer Co. as “golden” with a light foam and yeasty, bready, phenolic spice flavors as “mildly effervescent” with earthy hops. The flavor was mild, wrote one, with hints of clove and a “light, bright, sweet” aroma. Some noted a diacetyl (buttery) smell, while others said it was light-struck or “skunky.” The group appreciated the slightly creamy and fullbodied mouthfeel and the malty, German-style taste. It was “a bit cloudy,” one panelist commented, but the finish was “clean, crisp and dry.”

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51st Street Speakeasy 1114 NW 51st St. 51stspeakeasy.com 405-463-0470

27 E. Sheridan Ave. hhpublichouse.com 405-605-4995 HeyDay 3201 Market Place, Norman heydayfun.com 405-310-3500 HiLo Club 1221 NW 50th St. hilookc.com 405-843-1722 Humble Pie Authentic Chicago Style Pizza 1319 S. Broadway, Edmond facebook.com/humblepiepizza 405-715-1818 Ingrid’s (visit website for more locations) 3701 N. Youngs Blvd. ingridsok.com 405-946-8444

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Anchor Down 30 NE Second St. anchordownokc.com 405-605-8070 Baker Street Pub & Grill (visit website for more locations) 2701 W. Memorial bakerstreetpub.com 405-751-1547 The Barrel 4308 N. Western Ave. www.barrelokc.com 405-525-6682 BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse (visit website for more locations) 2525 W. Memorial Road bjsrestaurants.com 405-748-6770 The Bleu Garten 301 NW Tenth St. www.bleugarten.com 405-879-3808

Earl’s Rib PalaceLower Bricktown (visit website for more locations) 216 Johnny Bench Drive earlsribpalace.com 405-272-9898

Interurban (visit website for more locations) 1150 Ed Noble Parkway, Norman interurban.us 405-307-9200 Iron Star Urban Barbeque 3700 N. Shartel Ave. ironstarokc.com 405-524-5925

Lumpy’s Sports Grill (visit website for more locations) 5909 Northwest Expressway lumpyssportsgrill.com 405-728-7000 Mary Eddy’s Kitchen + Lounge 21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City 900 W. Main St. maryeddysokc.com 405-982-6960 The Mule 1630 N. Blackwelder Ave. themuleokc.com 405-601-1400 Oak & Ore 1732 NW 16th St. oakandore.com 405-606-2030 O’Connell’s Irish Pub & Grille 769 Asp Ave., Norman oconnellsnorman.com 405-217-8454 Okie Tonk Cafe (visit website for more locations) 1003 SW 19th St., Moore okietonk.com 405-603-8665 Old Germany Restaurant 15920 SE 29th St., Choctaw oldgermany.com 405-390-8647 Opus Prime Steakhouse 800 W. Memorial Road opusprimesteakhouse.com 405-607-6787 Packard’s New American Kitchen - The 10 Roof 201 NW 10th St. packardsokc.com 405-605-3771

Empire Slice House 1734 NW 16th St. empireslicehouse.com 405-557-1760

Bricktown BreweryRemington Park One Remington Place bricktownbrewery.com 405-419-4449 Castle Falls 820 N. MacArthur Blvd. castlefalls.com 405-942-6133 Cattlemen’s Steakhouse 1309 S. Agnew Ave. cattlemensrestaurant.com 405-236-0416 Dave & Buster’s 5501 N. May Ave.

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Fuzzy’s Taco Shop (visit website for more locations) 208 Johnny Bench Drive, Suite C fuzzystacoshop.com 405-602-3899 Gigglez Bar & Grill 1016 N. Walker Ave. gigglezokc.com 405-602-2074 Guyutes 730 NW 23rd St. guyutes.com 405-702-6960 Hudsons Public House Bricktown (visit website for more locations)

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The Shack Seafood & Oyster Bar (visit website for more locations) 303 NW 62nd St. theshackok.com 405-608-4333 Skinny Slim’s Public House 201 E. Main St. skinnyslims.com 405-228-4000

James E. McNellie’s Public House 1100 Classen Drive mcnellies.com 405-601-7468

The Patriarch Craft Beer House and Lawn 9 E. Edwards St., Edmond thepatriarchedmond.com 405-285-6670

Jazmo’z Bourbon St. Cafe 100 E. California Ave. jazmoz.com 405-232-6666

Picasso Cafe / The Other Room 3009 Paseo St. picassosonpaseo.com 405-602-2002

Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler (visit website for more locations) 6629 Northwest Expressway johnniesburgers.com 405-721-9018

Power House 1228 SW Second St. powerhouseokc.com 405-702-0699

La Luna Mexican Cafe 2812 US-62, Newcastle lalunamexicancafe.com 405-387-9475

Pub W (visit website for more locations) 3121 W. Memorial Road pubdub.com 405-608-2200

The Library Bar & Grill 607 W. Boyd St., Norman gldining.com/the-library 405-366-7465

The Pump Bar 2425 N. Walker Ave. pumpbar.net 405-702-8898

The Lobby Cafe & Bar 4322 N. Western Ave. willrogerslobbybar.com 405-604-4650

Republic Gastropub 5830 N. Classen Blvd. republicgastropub.com 405-286-4577

Lost Highway 1613 N. May Ave. losthighwaybar.com 405-601-5606

Royal Bavaria 3401 S. Sooner Road, Moore royal-bavaria.com 405-799-7666

Louie’s Grill & Bar (visit website for more locations) 9401 Lake Hefner Parkway louiesgrillandbar.com 405-751-2298

S&B’s Burger Joint (visit website for more locations) 20 NW Ninth St. sandbburgers.com 405-270-0516

Battered Boar Brewing Company 14801 Metro Plaza Blvd., Edmond batteredboar.com 405-254-5000 Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewing Company 1900 Northwest Expressway belleislerestaurant.com 405-840-1911 Black Mesa Brewing Company (coming 2017) 1354 W. Sheridan Ave. blackmesabrewing.com 405-778-1865 Bricktown Brewery (visit website for more locations) 1 N. Oklahoma Ave. bricktownbrewery.com 405-232-2739

Slaughter’s Hall 221 N. Central Ave. slaughtershall.com 405-606-6063

Choc Beer Company (Choc Room inside Pete’s Place) 120 SW Eighth St., Krebs petes.org/choc-beer 918-423-2042

TapWerks Ale House 121 E. Sheridian Ave. facebook.com/tapwerks 405-319-9599

COOP Ale Works Tap Room 4745 Council Heights Road coopaleworks.com 405-842-2667

Topgolf 13313 Pawnee Drive topgolf.com/us/oklahoma-city 405-607-7154

Elk Valley Taproom (Elk Valley Brewing Co. at Mustang Brewing Company) 520 N. Meridian Ave. elkvalleybrew.com 405-209-0016

VZD’s Restaurant & Bar 4200 N. Western Ave. vzds.com 405-602-3006 The Wedge Pizzeria Deep Deuce (visit website for more locations) 230 NE First St. thewedgeokc.com 405-270-0660

The Zu Sports Grill 16 S. Broadway, Edmond thezusportsgrill.com 405-330-1833

Flip’s Wine Bar & Trattoria 5801 N. Western Ave. flipswinebar.com

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Scratch Kitchen & Cocktails 132 W. Main St., Norman scratchnorman.com 405-801-2900

WSKY Lounge 228 NE Second St. wskylounge.com 405-606-7171

FlashBack RetroPub 814 W. Sheridan Ave. flashbackretropub.com 405-633-3604

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Brent’s Cajun Seafood & Oyster Bar 3005 S. Broadway, Edmond brentscajunseafood.com 405-285-0911

Sauced on Paseo 2912 Paseo St. saucedonpaseo.com 405-521-9800

Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar 1845 Northwest Expressway Penn Square Mall whiskeycakeokc.com 405-582-2253

Fassler Hall (visit website for more locations) 421 NW 10th St. fasslerhall.com 405-609-3300

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Saints 1715 NW 16 St. saintspubokc.com 405-602-6308

Breweries and taprooms 405 Brewing Co. (coming soon) 1716 Topeka St., Norman 405brewing.com 405-573-2668 American Solera Tap Room 1801 S. 49th W. Ave., Tulsa americansolera.com 918-949-4318 Anthem Brewing Company 908 SW Fourth St. anthembrewing.com 405-604-0446

Iron Monk Tap Room (Iron Monk Brewing Company) 519 S. Husband St., Stillwater ironmonkbeer.com 405-714-2585 Marshall Brewing Tap Room (Marshall Brewing Company) 618 S. Wheeling Ave., Tulsa marshallbrewing.com 918-292-8781 Mustang Brewing Company 520 N. Meridian Ave. mustangbrewing.com 405-943-0100 Prairie Brewpub (Prairie Artisan Ales) 223 N. Main St., Tulsa prairiepub.com 918-936-4395 Roughtail Taphouse (Roughtail Brewing Co.) 1279 N. Air Depot Blvd., Midwest City roughtailbeer.com 405-771-6517 Stonecloud Brewing Co. (coming early 2017) 1012 NW First St. facebook.com/ StonecloudBrewingCo stonecloudbrewing.com Twisted Spike Brewing Co. (coming soon) 1 NW 10th St. twistedspike.com 405-301-3467 Vanessa House Beer Co. (coming early 2017) 516 NW 21st St. vanessahousebeerco.com 405-826-2629

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ARTS & CULTURE her,” he said. “We have formed a really great stage relationship as well as an offstage relationship as friends. It’s a real pleasure to feed off of that onstage.”

After Andrews, Checotah-raised country music star Carrie Underwood is probably the most famous person to be cast as the story’s protagonist. Davis said he was a fan of Underwood’s The Sound of Music Live!, which aired on NBC in 2013, from the standpoint that it was the first time many people likely had experienced the true musical.

Some critics gave harsh reviews of the broadcast, sometimes citing amateurish acting by Underwood. Nevertheless, it became NBC’s most watched non-sports TV event since the 2007 Golden Globe Awards.

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from left Merwin Foard as Max Detweiler, Teri Hansen as Elsa Schraeder and Ben Davis as Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music | Photo Matthew Murphy / provided

Captain’s orders OKC Broadway brings The Sound of Music to Civic Center Music Hall.

By Ben Luschen

Christopher Plummer’s version of handand gooey” (though he went on to say the movie is very good “for what it is”). some but emotionally cold widower Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of “I think that’s a shame,” said Ben Davis, Music’s defining cinematic telling might who has been touring for the last year in not be as iconic as Julie Andrews’ guitarthe O’Brien stage production as the von playing nun Maria, but it Trapp family patriarch.

“There’s so much to this is no less essential.

The 1965 film version character, and I think he of the Rodgers and goes through such a transThe Sound Hammerstein musical formation and a story of of Music (itself an adaptation of redemption.” the real Maria von 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Oct. Trapp’s 1949 memoir The Character depth 13, 8 p.m. Oct. 14, 2 p.m.

Story of the Trapp Family Beyond the film version’s and 8 p.m. Oct. 15, 2 p.m.

Singers) is immortal as a flowery tint, von Trapp and 7 p.m. Oct. 16 stands out as the story’s sweet and comforting Civic Center Music Hall family movie. OKC most emotionally complex 201 N. Walker Ave. Broadway presents a character. okcbroadway.com truer-to-source, nation“A lot of times, we just 405-297-2584 ally touring stage producthink about the captain as $23.84-$94.29 tion directed by Jack this very stern, angry guy,” O’Brien Oct. 11-16 at Civic Davis said in a phone interCenter Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. view with Oklahoma Gazette. “That’s very Plummer, a celebrated stage and screen simplistic, so why is he that way?” actor, has often looked back on his role in The reasoning, the actor said, is best The Sound of Music with Captain von found in the original text of the Rodgers Trapp’s same lack of whimsy. In a 2011 and Hammerstein musical. The story interview with Hollywood Reporter, he takes place in 1938 Austria just before the called the film “awful and sentimental country was annexed by Nazi Germany.

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Davis, who said his turn as von Trapp was also supplemented by his own research of the historic captain, called it a dangerous time of great unknowns.

Furthermore, von Trapp still hurts from the grief of his wife’s death. Davis approaches the father’s distress with a clinical understanding.

“The kids are just a reminder of that wound, so he shuts himself off from them because it’s just too painful to be around them,” he said. “Because of that, the joy in his life has just gone out.”

Solving Maria

Davis, who has been working in theater since 1997, played von Trapp in a regional Sound of Music production at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse three years before he was cast again for the national tour. Recently, he played Curly in a production of Oklahoma! at The Muny in St. Louis, an opportunity the Indiana native called one of the most fun experiences in his life.

When Davis brings The Sound of Music to present-day Oklahoma, he will be accompanied by Kerstin Anderson, who plays Maria. Anderson, counter to Davis’ nearly two decades of professional acting experience, is a bit of a newcomer to theater. She was in her sophomore year of college when she was cast as the production’s lead.

Davis, who was cast before Anderson, recalls reading with several potential Marias before the production began. He knew right away that Anderson was the obvious choice.

“There’s just something so unique, quirky and fun and real and fresh about

The popularity should come as no surprise. Adjusted for inflation, Guinness World Records ranks The Sound of Music as the fifth highest grossing film of all time, generating the modern equivalent of more than $2 billion in just over five decades. Davis said he thinks part of that broad appeal comes from a story that entertains across generations.

Another reason for the story’s success is how universal its music and score has become. Billboard lists the soundtrack for the film version as the second greatest album of all time.

“I can’t imagine people who don’t know ‘Do-Re-Mi,’” Davis said, “even people that don’t know it’s from The Sound of Music.”

While the civic center show won’t be the kind of sentimental spectacle that makes Plummer cringe, Davis said there is still plenty for fans of the film to recognize in the bright production.

“It’s a family show, but it’s not a family show from the standpoint that it’s all treacle, just sweetness and sap,” he said.

“It can be, but what our production has really done is to try to play the realism in it as much as possible.”

Actor Ben Davis plays Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music. | Photo OKC Broadway / provided

most recent winner traditionally hosts the following year’s contest, but his health prevented him from being able to.

He has long acted as a mentor for young acts in the city, said Terri Libby, the club’s general manager, in a statement to Oklahoma Gazette.

“Stan is and always will be the godfather of comedy to many in Oklahoma City,” she said.

Silliman joked that he was surprised to hear The Looney Bin had something nice to say about him.

“I parked my sports car in their handicap parking spot,” he said. “They weren’t always too thrilled about that.”

In this comedy scene, there’s no one else like him, and I don’t think there probably ever will be.

Ebby B.

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Sylvan Solloway started a GoFundMe page to support treatment for her father Stan Silliman’s rare spinal cancer. | Photo provided

Humorist help A local comedian and his family battle a rare spinal cancer with laughter.

By Ben Luschen

The family of longtime Oklahoma City comedian Stan Silliman hopes friends, fans and the local comedy community can pitch in to get the funnyman back to performing stand-up and just standing up.

Silliman, also known by his given last name Solloway, started performing comedy in the late 1980s and continued doing stand-up gigs until this summer.

He is also known for writing a humorous, nationally syndicated sports column and authoring several books.

However, Silliman’s health quickly deteriorated this summer. A tumor in his back that he has been fighting since 1999 spread into his spinal cord, making it impossible for him to stand or walk without help.

“It’s tough on him, but he’s still making us laugh,” said his daughter Sylvan Solloway. “He told us a joke today in the car.”

She launched a GoFundMe crowdfunding page Sept. 11 to help her father afford continued treatment. She set a $64,000 funding goal. More than $6,500 had been donated at press time.

Expensive medical bills have accumulated over the course of Silliman’s 17-year, on-and-off treatment.

Solloway said Medicare might not pay for her father’s chemotherapy (an estimated $18,000) because his type of cancer is so rare that the treatment could be considered uncovered.

Solloway also hopes to raise enough money for a wheelchair van and electric wheelchair that could soon help Silliman become mobile and get back into comedy.

She asks everyone who has come to know the comic in the past several decades — there have been many — to help in any way they are able.

“Comedians aren’t necessarily rolling in the dough,” she said. “They’re all just trying to do what they love and enjoy their craft. Nobody’s really doing it for the money; there’s not a lot of money to be made.”

Silliman said he is grateful for the local comedy community and considers most of the city’s comics to be his friends.

“There are a lot of comedians that I’ve encouraged and mentored over the last many years, and it thrills me to see them succeeding and growing,” he said as he rested in a hospital bed. “I’m inspired by how well they’re doing.”

Silliman won a citywide comedy competition at The Loony Bin in 2015. The

Local comedian James Nghiem recalls road tripping with Silliman to perform corporate shows in small towns like Vinita. Under no condition would Silliman let Nghiem drive his sports car, despite Theabout hiTSilliman’s Men heavy foot. protests “IF just remember sitting there riday , OcTOber 21 for like three@ hours terrified, watching him Occc drive,” Nghiem said.

The two first met in 2007 at The Looney Bin. Nghiem said Silliman has a style that works well with many types of crowds.

“He doesn’t care if he makes people uncomfortable for a second,” he said. “I think he appeals to people because I don’t really think people expect his comedy to be the way that it is. It’s a lot more progressive than you’d think, too.”

Kari Grant started her comedy career in the ’80s, around the same time as Silliman. She said he was the main reason she returned to comedy after life and open-heart surgery led her in other directions.

“He really was the reason I got back in the saddle,” she said. “Seeing him still going at it and being so damn good at it was such an inspiration.”

Silliman has inspired more than longtime performers. Ebby B., who launched her comedy career just over a year ago, said Silliman is one of the first local comedians she recognized by name.

“In this comedy scene, there’s no one else like him, and I don’t think there probably ever will be,” she said. “I don’t think any of these guys will be as humble and as kind to people.”

Visit Silliman’s crowdfunding page at gofundme.com/stansilliman.

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Light trick

Reduxion Theatre’s production of The Woman in Black offers ghostly thrills.

By Lisa K. Broad

Opening just in time for Halloween, The Woman in Black will inaugurate Reduxion Theatre’s Season Nine: Evolution at Civic Center Music Hall. For Tonia Sina, who took over as artistic director in May 2016, the concept of evolution signifies an opportunity to explore new approaches, tell new stories and build new relationships while honoring the spirit of immediacy and innovation that has distinguished Reduxion since it was founded in 2007.

The Woman in Black, which allows Sina to fuse Reduxion Theatre’s contemporary, minimalist approach with her own interests in horror and Victoriana, seems like an ideal place to begin.

Victorian era

“I’m in love with the Victorian time period,” Sina said. “It’s far enough away that it seems antique to us, but you can still relate to it. In most scary movies, they have to find ways to disable the phones, disable the TV, disable all the technology that we have now, because we’re so connected. In the Victorian time period, there’s none of that. You have candles, you have lanterns and you’re on your own.

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Susan Hill’s 1983 gothic novella of the same name, The Woman in Black has been performed in London’s West End theater district since 1989, making it the second longest-running play in West End history.

It relates the strange tale of Arthur Kipps (portrayed by Matthew E. Ellis), a man tormented by a supernatural encounter. Working as a junior solicitor, Kipps traveled to the remote village of Crythin Gifford to settle the estate of a deceased client. While there, he found himself drawn into a tragic and unsettling local mystery. Still haunted by the experience years later, Kipps rents a theater and hires an actor (portrayed by David Fletcher Hall) to help him reenact the traumatic events of that period. Together, they invoke the vengeful spirit of the mysterious Woman in Black in hopes of banishing her once and for all.

Intimate production

Directing a two-person cast for the first time, Sina was struck by the inclusive, collaborative atmosphere that developed behind the scenes.

“Everybody on the design team and everybody on the creative team has equal parts in the project. Everybody has as much input as anybody else. It’s really a team effort, which is unique and really cool, because everyone feels like they own the project.”

She also feels fortunate to be working with veteran actors like Ellis and Hill, whose precise, nuanced attention to mood, movement and dialogue helps bring the chilling story to life.

“They make my job much easier,” she said. “Exploring the script with them and finding layers in the script that I wouldn’t normally have been able to find with less experienced actors has been great.”

The fact that Ellis is also her husband has contributed to personal discoveries.

“It’s the first time I’ve directed him in

David Fletcher Hall and Matthew E. Ellis rehearse for The Woman in Black at Civic Center Music Hall. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

a show, and that’s an interesting position to be in,” Sina said. “I’m learning how to direct my husband, which is new and funny, and also when to talk work and when not to. … As a director, I always want to talk about the show all the time.”

Mysterious imagination

The Woman in Black’s play-within-a-play structure puts an austere, modern spin on the traditional ghost story, blurring the line between fiction and reality. In the absence of elaborate sets or a wide array of props, the theater becomes a character in its own right.

“Space is so important when you’re doing a show. I picked [Freede Little Theatre] on purpose because to me, it’s the most haunted place in this city. It’s an old space, and we’re going to use that to our advantage.”

Yet beneath the production’s deceptively simple surface lies an intricate, technical marvel that marries old-fashioned storytelling with deft sleight-of-hand. “[I’m] fascinated with the darker side of manipulating an audience, using fear, using confusion, using diversion techniques; masking things so they don’t always fully know what they’re seeing all the time,” Sina said. “I love to keep my audiences guessing. I don’t want them to be ahead of us. And this is a great play for that, because there’s so much about it that’s a mystery.”

Most of all, Sina hopes The Woman in Black prompts viewers to engage both their eyes and their intellects.

“I want them to fall in love with using their imaginations. I hope that they can be immersed in the story and not just the spectacle,” she said. “I hope that that the story is enough, that the acting is enough to transport them someplace.”

The Woman in Black runs Oct. 14-29 in Freede Little Theatre at Civic Center Musical Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $15-$35.

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Riley Turner plays Victor Chandler and Lydia McBee Reed plays Laura Chandler in UCO’s production of A Flea in Her Ear. | Photo University of Central Oklahoma / Department of Theatre Arts / Provided

Farcical flea The University of Central Oklahoma stages a comedy for all.

By Lauren Dow

A Flea in Her Ear, staged by the University Senora Maria Homenides De Histangua, of Central Oklahoma (UCO) theater deportrayed by Arianna Nero of Perry, to set partment, provides more than a few a trap to trap him. laughs. The production runs 7 p.m. Oct. From there, the action builds momen14-16 and 2 p.m. Oct. 17 in Mitchell Hall tum as Victor sends his friend into the fray Theatre on the UCO campus, 100 N. and Maria’s jealous husband Señor Don University Drive, in Edmond.

Carlos , the Chandlers’ maid, her husband, Written by Georges Feydeau in 1907, the butler, a cousin, Edward Chandler and the play humorously addresses issues such the family doctor all arrive at Pussycaat Hotel with various assignations in mind. as infidelity and sexuality. The UCO theater department chose the adaptation Pamela Washington, dramaturg at

by Greg Leaming first produced in 2004 UCO, described the increasingly compliin Dallas by Classical cated and chaotic plot that Acting Company. draws in multiple charac“ The depa r tment ters with varying motives.

A Flea in Her chose a farce so that our “[It culminates when] Ear students would have an Victor arrives at the hotel opportunity to learn the to stop the tryst and ev7:30 p.m. Oct. 13-15, very physical acting style eryone tries to hide, with 2 p.m. Oct. 16 a farce requires,” said divar y ing deg rees of Mitchell Hall Theatre success, from everyone rector Daisy Folsom, a University of Central else,” Folsom said. “Oh, professor in UCO’s Oklahoma Department of Theater did I mention that Victor 100 N. University Drive has a double?”

Arts. uco.edu/cfad Folsom was intrigued This is the first time the 405-974-3375

by Leaming’s adaptation, production has been $10-$20 set in 1968, because it exstaged at UCO. The play is amines the cultural shifts suitable for high schoolof the time in a way that parallels presentaged students through adults, as it deals with mature themes. day cultural shifts. The idea is that the audience laughs about issues they might Steven Akins, College of Fine Arts & normally avoid discussing. These issues Design marketing and communications represent an exaggerated vision of the director, said the audience should “be human condition, one that, in times of prepared to laugh and laugh and laugh at these very human characters caught in a tumult (like the late ’60s and today), seem ridiculous situation.” particularly relevant.

Tickets are $10-$20 and are available The play focuses on Laura Chandler, online at uco.edu/cfad or by calling 405portrayed by Lydia McBee Reed of 974-3375.

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The Saint John’s Bible is full of modern illuminations.| Photo Oklahoma City Museum of Art / provided

Artful illumination

Not your ancestors’ holy book, The Saint John’s Bible uses modern text and visuals to illuminate a centuries-old process.

By Ian Jayne

It’s not every day, or even every century, that a Benedictine monastery commissions an illuminated Bible.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) hosts special exhibit Sacred Words: The Saint John’s Bible & the Art of Illumination Oct. 15-Jan. 8, 2017.

Pieces on display include the titular Saint John’s Bible and illuminated texts from Islamic and Jewish faith traditions.

In 1995, Saint John’s Abbey in Minnesota was one of the first Benedictine monasteries in over 500 years to commission an illuminated Bible, said Catherine Shotick, assistant curator of exhibitions and coordinating curator of the exhibit.

“It was created using all the traditional medieval methods. It was handwritten on vellum using a hand-cut quill … using all-

natural inks and gilded in gold and silver and platinum,” Shotick said.

Although the project was commissioned in Minnesota, a scriptorium in Wales created The Saint John’s Bible under the direction of Donald Jackson, the Queen of England’s calligrapher.

The scribes paid homage to the Abbey’s location by including flora and fauna from Minnesota in the marginalia of the text, Shotick said.

She said the entire text of The Saint John’s Bible comprises 1,150 pages and seven volumes.

“It was an enormous project,” Shotick said, “It was completed in 2011, so about 15 years from the very beginning to the last word was written. The actual text is the New Revised Standard Version, so it’s an accept-

a larger focus.

“We’re looking at the history of illumination,” Shotick said. “It’s not just a Bible exhibition. It’s the history of the process of illuminating.”

Illuminated texts from other Abrahamic religions, the Torah and the Qur’an, will provide an interfaith context for the exhibit.

“One thing I think is pretty unique with this exhibition, too, is there are so many different ways to approach it,” Weintz said.

“If you’re coming for the religious aspect, that’s great. We have Judaism, Christianity and Islam all represented. Or if you’re coming for the art of the book … we’ve got that aspect to it.”

Despite various points of theological divergence, all of the illuminated texts reveal a similar process of artistic production.

“It’s that quality over quantity,” Shotick said. “It’s really just the human hand. It’s incredible what it can do.”

Shotick said illuminated manuscripts were prolific in the Middle Ages, often commissioned by the wealthy for personal devotion. However, she also said monasteries commissioned larger books for a more communal purpose.

“It’s this fascination with this idea of extreme wealth and these illuminated manuscripts and also the idea of community and togetherness in this history of these incredible documents,” Shotick said.

The museum setting provides a public context, as well.

“We’re not exhibiting it as one book,” Shotick said. “It’s unbound, so it’s spread throughout the entire exhibition space.

When it’s open, it’s 2 feet by 3 feet big. … It’s something that they want to be shared, not held and kept private.”

The lettering and illuminations in The Saint John’s Bible were drawn The text’s size allows for examination by hand. | Photos Oklahoma City from different vantage points, just like other Museum of Art / provided works of art. ed translation.”

“You can actually read the text of the While the illuminated manuscript reBible while you’re looking at the illuminations,” she said. “If I were a visitor looking sembles those of the past, its creators brought the art into modern times. at this for the first time, I would take a close “They really took all these modern visuals look at every little element, because there’s to make it a contemporary visual translation, a story behind everything or there’s a which I think kind of makes it very different meaning behind everything. But then they from some of the older ilcan also be appreciated luminated manuscripts just for their beauty, that we also have in the from far away.” exhibition,” said Becky Weintz said the Sacred Words: Weintz, director of marexhibit also functions as The Saint John’s keting and communicacontemporary art.

Bible and the Art tions at OKCMOA. “It’s going to have a of Illumination lot of different entry Illustrations include a view from the Hubble points for visitors,” she 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 15-Jan. 8 telescope, visual refersaid.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art ences to the Holocaust The exhibit features 415 Couch Drive and a microscopic look a film about the producokcmoa.com tion of The Saint John’s at a virus.

405-236-3100 Bible and materials and Shotick said The Saint Free-$10 John’s Bible shows the sketches from the “mutual vision” of Saint process.

John’s Abbey’s ideologies and Donald OKCMOA will show Dekalog, 10 hour-long Jackson’s artistic vision. films about the Ten Commandments, on the “I think they were very successful in their exhibit’s opening weekend.

Weintz said the exhibit also features leccollaboration. The end result, I think, is proof of that,” Shotick said. tures from scholar Elaine Pagels and from Father Eric Hollas, an Oklahoman who curHuman hand rently resides at Saint John’s Abbey.

While the exhibit’s centerpiece is The Saint “I think it’s a true feat, a true artistic feat,” John’s Bible and its production, it also takes Shotick said.

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“Japan Landscape #2” by Michael Litzau | Image provided

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Michael Litzau combines his love of art, crafts and the Green Bay Packers in his new exhibit.

By Ben Luschen

Growing up in Wisconsin, Michael Litzau divides the two. It creates a tension he finds could hardly go anywhere without seeing relatable.

“I like to see what happens when a fine Green Bay Packers colors.

In Packer Land, Litzau uses cross-stitchart and a craft setting mesh together,” he ing to bring Packers green and gold to landsaid. “The artwork occupies both spaces but scapes spanning Oklahoma to Japan. The doesn’t fully occupy either.” exhibit is on display Friday through Oct. 29 On one wall, Packer Land shows off green at The Project Box, 3003 Paseo St. and yellow cross-stitched yarn abstractions “That’s pretty much the only team that of Oklahoma plains and prairies. The other you can root for [there],” said Litzau, who wall features mountainous Japanese landnow oversees the drawing and printmaking scapes on smaller, more intricate Aida cloth areas of University of Central Oklahoma’s stitching.

(UCO) College of Fine Arts Litzau’s exhibit was inand Design. spired by a recent artist residency in Kōfu, Japan.

Being a “Packer fan” is Packer Land one part of what makes the The artist said he has been to Japan four times. artist who he is. Litzau, who Opening reception said he is half Japanese, On the flight back into 6-10 p.m. Friday spent his life divided Oklahoma from Japan, Artist demo and talk between identities. It is a Litzau said he again took noon-2 p.m. Saturday dynamic he said many notice of two distinct worlds.

Exhibit runs people with mixed heritage “Just being around through Oct. 29 must grapple with. mountains for so long, it was The Project Box “My whole life, who I am kind of a sharp contrast,” he 3003 Paseo St. has kind of been an opposaid. “All the Oklahoma abtheprojectboxokc.com site,” he said. “The theme stracted landscapes [in 405-609-3969 Packer Land] are rolling of my work has always had Free hills and those kinds of opposing forces mashing together to create this things, more flat.”

He moved to Oklahoma in 2012 to work piece of artwork.”

Green Bay Packers and fandom are at UCO. He draws parallels in the landscapes frequent themes in Litzau’s work. The between this state and Japan as well as with merger of sports with what is often seen his Wisconsin home. Litzau said he has as the highbrow realm of fine art is a stark noticed that in Oklahoma, he can see for contrast in its own right, but he takes the miles without obstruction.

“The grass is brown in the summer and conflict a step further by making many of his pieces from craft materials. in the winter [here],” he said. “In Wisconsin, Arts and crafts share some commonthe grasses are usually green even in the alities, he said. Both are about making winter and the trees are a lot bigger.” something new out of raw materials and No matter where Litzau is, one thing both require creativity, yet the word remains: the Green Bay Packers. He even “crafts” often evokes images of knitting met a Packer fan in Japan. It illustrates a key grandmothers and obsessive hobbyists, point in Litzau’s art. He merges mediums not galleried artists. and realms to show how they are different and the same.

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Pick your costume and your date, as Cosplay Prom returns Saturday to Mustang Town Center. | Photo bigstock.com

Cosplay Prom takes a popular subculture and dresses it in finery. By Jack Fowler

Cosplay Prom 7:30 p.m. Saturday mustang town center 1201 N. mustang Road, mustang c2cosplayprom.eventbrite.com $30-$85

Everyone remembers their prom. The lights were low. The music was soft. Your date dressed like Princess Leia.

Fantasies become reality Saturday as Mustang Town Center hosts the third annual Cosplay Prom, in which characters from Obi-Wan Kenobi to Bilbo Baggins put on their finest and dance like it’s a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Event director Ken Edwards said the prom routinely draws upward of 500 guests.

“Whether you’re into comics, or another culture, or gaming, or whatever it may be, you can actually come and express yourself

at our event,” Edwards said. “You can come and meet other people who share your interests and who want to share in this culture with you.”

The cosplay, or “costume play,” subculture is booming. Essentially, it means dressing up as your favorite movie, video game, television show or book character. It has been described as everything from a passing fad to performance art, but the rise in popularity of what Edwards calls “stepping into the shoes of your favorite character” is evident from Tokyo to Toledo.

Not only has it become standard for fans at comic book conventions, autograph signings and movie premieres to don the garb of stormtroopers or elves, cosplay has branched out to having dedicated events all over the country. Cosplay conventions and events like Saturday’s prom are becoming more common.

“It’s actually relatively new to Oklahoma,” Edwards said of the scene. “I actually started down in Houston, volunteering and directing a couple of conventions. When I came to Oklahoma, I really

wasn’t impressed that much in terms of the lack of variety of events here. There just wasn’t that much going on up here, so I started the Cosplay Celebration in Tulsa.”

That was in 2014, and Edwards said the throng of guests was almost exclusively in costume, something that’s suggested at this year’s event, but not required. Formal wear, however, is required. That means you can dress up like Boba Fett if you’re Boba Fett in a tuxedo.

A prom king and queen will be elected, and guests can enter and campaign. A 6:30 p.m. dinner includes roast beef, marinated asparagus and chocolate cream cake. A photographer will capture the evening’s

finer moments.

Cosplay Prom is an all-ages, drug-andalcohol-free event. Costumes should be kept modest, and anyone caught with illegal substances will be removed and “dealt with legally,” Edwards said.

“With events like these, the majority of people who are die-hard into this are younger,” he said. “But the younger community also represents the future of the community, so by keeping it friendly to all ages, we can assure people that no matter what age they are, you can come express yourself.”

Visit cosplaycelebration.org for more information.

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Pumpkin project Myriad Botanical Gardens’ Pumpkinville features events and activities through Oct. 23. By Mark Beutler

As the days grow shorter, A number of crafts, Pumpkinville activities and displays the crisp October air signifies the coming of fall. help get everyone into the 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Oct. 23 And with the changing spirit of the season.

Children’s Garden of the seasons comes the “Cider press demonMyriad Botanical Gardens autumn wonderland strations will take place 301 W. Reno Ave. known as Pumpkinville. each Friday during myriadgardens.org Pumpkinville, beginMore than 16,000 pump405-445-7079 ning at 1 p.m.,” Elkins kins are transforming a Free-$6 said. “Our education portion of Myriad Botanical Gardens into team will be on hand to show kids how they can make their very a sea of orange for the fundraising event. own cider. We ask for a $2 donation for Pumpkinville is open to the public and geared toward families and children age kiddos that decide to taste some of the 4-12. It’s located in the Children’s Garden homemade cider.” area 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Oct. 23.

Painting in the Gardens is Oct. 15 under “Last year, more than 20,000 people the Pumpkinville programming tent on visited Pumpkinville,” said Ashley Elkins, the pavilion lawn. Wine and Palette will be Myriad Gardens Foundation public events onsite to show guests how to paint an image coordinator. “It’s a celebration of fall and on a pumpkin, and Elkins said preregistraall things harvest. Our executive director, tion is required.

Maureen Heffernan, had the idea five years “We will also have a Halloween party ago, and it has grown into a major event.” on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 What many people might not realize, p.m.” she added. “This is an after-hours Elkins said, is Myriad Botanical Gardens is event that includes trick-or-treat stations, a nonprofit organization and Pumpkinville games, entertainment, pizza and fun for is one of its largest fundraisers. the whole family.”

“The Children’s Garden is free and open Pumpkinville even offers a variation of to the public throughout the year,” Elkins the time-honored childhood tradition of said. “But twice a year, we close it and curling up for a story on Grandma’s lap. charge admission during our fall and spring “We are featuring Story Time on festivals. That allows the Children’s Garden Grandma’s Porch every Saturday at 1 p.m.,” to be free the rest of the year.”

Elkins said.

Planning starts early in the summer, While Pumpkinville is geared toward Elkins said. kids and families, the event is open to ev“We meet every other week for an hour eryone. In fact, there will be a patch where to plan and brainstorm,” she said. “We also visitors can purchase pumpkins for porch and yard decorations. have a Pumpkinville committee that’s made up of the general public and volun“Pumpkinville is all about families and teers. They meet once a month leading up making memories,” Elkins said. “We strive to the event.” as a staff to create a beautiful fall and Elkins said the gardens require over 600 harvest haven for members of our city to volunteers to make the 17-day event happen. come together and enjoy the event with the Those volunteers help staff the admission people they love the most. If we see children gate, make sales at the pumpkin patch and outside, smiling and laughing, during the event, we know we’ve done our job.” patrol the kids’ activities inside the Visit myriadgardens.org.

Children’s Garden.

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OKC Zoo’s new red panda cub is almost ready to come out and play. By Alissa Lindsey

Two red panda cubs surprised the staff at the Oklahoma City Zoo, Botanical Garden + Aquarium on Fourth of July weekend with their unexpected arrival.

Unfortunately, while two panda cubs were born on July 3 to mom Jaya, 9, and dad Lhotse, 2, only one survived.

“We are saddened by the loss of one of Jaya’s cubs but thrilled that the surviving cub is healthy and receiving great maternal care from Jaya,” said Nate Strong, animal supervisor, in a media statement.

Zoo staff recently determined the surviving red panda cub is female and named her Wasabi, or Sabi for short.

Jaya and Sabi have been in their nest box in the back of their habitat for several months, and Lhotse spent some time in the animal hospital after Sabi’s birth.

“He’s a young male, so he doesn’t know his boundaries as well,” Strong told Oklahoma Gazette. “He squabbled with [Jaya] a bit. So we decided to pull him out and let her bond with the baby.”

The zoo plans to share updates on social media about the red pandas and when they will be visible in their habitat, which is located across from the zoo’s Endangered Species Carousel.

Sabi left her nest box and started exploring Sept. 28, and she and her mother will reutrn to their exhibit this month.

The breeding season for red pandas runs December through March, and with a delayed implantation, cubs usually start developing around June.

As a member of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) since 1981, the zoo participates in the Red Panda Species Survival Program (SSP), developed by the AZA to help promote genetic diversity through species management.

“Looking back, we did see a little bit of evidence [on the X-ray images], but it

wasn’t conclusive when we first looked at it,” Strong said of the panda’s early pregnancy in June. “We’re always cautiously optimistic; so we still prepare just in case.”

Red pandas were upgraded from a vulnerable to an endangered species in 2015, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) Red List of Threatened Species. Only about 10,000 red pandas live in the wild because their habitats are threatened by deforestation, agriculture, cattle grazing and competition for resources.

The SSP works with the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago to do computer simulations of the genetics and make breeding recommendations.

“We found out our female is pretty globally valuable, whereas (regionally) her bloodline is actually produced quite a bit,” Strong said. “So the SSP is looking for options that way to see what they can do globally.”

The red panda has caused a lot of controversy over which taxonomic animal family it belongs in.

Red pandas have canine teeth, which has led scientists to classify them as carnivores. In the past, they were grouped with raccoons or bears, but now they’re the only living species in the ailuridae family, which is in the mammal order Carnivora.

Eventually, the male red panda will be put back with the female, and around November, when Sabi gets older, the zoo will work with the SSP to see where to place her and whether the Jaya should be bred with Lhotse again.

Sabi is Jaya’s fifth offspring since arriving at the OKC zoo in 2011.

Red panda cub Wasabi, or Sabi for short | Photo Jennifer Jeffords / Oklahoma City Zoo / Provided

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Oil and water

Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon examines the 2010 British Petroleum disaster. By George Lang

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In a rare display of taste and intelligent creative decision making, Deepwater Horizon is the best possible film mainstream Hollywood could make about the events of April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded 35 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The sheer horror of the disaster is recounted at breakneck speed with almost no breaks for exposition, creating a realistic air of pressurized chaos and catastrophe.

Director Peter Berg shows no apparent interest in oversimplified explanations of how the rig caught fire and set off what’s often called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. In fact, precious little of the technical dialogue will make sense to people who aren’t petroleum engineers, but Berg makes it clear that his characters know what they’re doing, and in this kind of storytelling, that’s the most important thing to understand.

Deepwater Horizon’s guides to the unfolding disaster are Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), who is the facility’s chief electronics technician who can rattle off a

matter-of-fact list of what works and what doesn’t on command, and crew chief Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell), whose down-to-earth leadership inspires unerring loyalty among his charges. These are people who speak with their own dialect, a kind of oil platform patois generated from close quarters and a common mission, and it lends depth and reality to how these men and women interact once the dominoes start to fall.

Those dominoes are knocked into action by British Petroleum (BP), which leased the platform from Transocean, one of the largest offshore drilling companies in the world. With drilling seven days behind schedule, BP executives Donald Vidrine (John Malkovich) and Robert Kaluza (Brad Leland, Friday Night Lights) demand to go forward with operations despite Williams’ insistence that the Deepwater Horizon required necessary repairs and maintenance.

Berg and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand make it clear where the blame lies for what

Mark Wahlberg plays offshore driller Mike Williams in Deepwater Horizon. | Photo David Lee / Lionsgate / provided

follows. In Deepwater Horizon, there is no equivocation, but neither is there any editorializing or excessive speechifying over BP’s culpability.

This honesty is something Berg cultivated with 2004’s Friday Night Lights and the subsequent TV series: a close-in, naturalistic depiction that occasionally raids the documentary filmmaking toolbox.

With Deepwater Horizon, Berg’s work occasionally resembles the intimacy of filmmaker and former journalist Paul Greengrass, who brought his experience with documentaries to bear with Captain Phillips and the Bourne films.

Deepwater Horizon looks a lot like an impossible documentary, the kind of chronicle that would be shot if filmmakers had foresight and didn’t fear for their lives.

These attributes are not displayed sufficiently in the film’s landlocked opening scenes, which jam too much unnecessary

foreshadowing and portent into the proceedings. But it is important to see Williams at home to establish background and stakes for his survival. Kate Hudson, who portrays Williams’ wife Felicia, scores some points in what is typically a thankless role showing that the Williams family has two strong leaders. Meanwhile, back on Deepwater Horizon, Russell, Wahlberg and Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), who plays rig worker Andrea Fleytas, ably depict how these real-life workers stayed the course until there was no other option than escape.

Deepwater Horizon stays focused on the event itself and only references the ensuing environmental disaster in postscript — a smart move, given that the impact of the oil spill and the global response is worthy of its own cinema vérité depiction. That film should be made, and given how well he executes Deepwater Horizon, Berg should consider doing it.

Peculiar fun

Director Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of this bestselling novel is dark and a little campy, but entertaining. By Jacob Oller

The Hunger Games have ended, and Hollywood still thirsts for a new franchise.

This is how Tim Burton found himself directing a film based on the debut novel of an author whose collection of strangers’ photos inspired a book with a sensibility dark and angsty enough to attract him.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Burton’s attempt at a weird mix of Harry Potter and mutant X-Men coated with a Gothic polish of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

The film centers around peculiars, children (all well-acted) who genetically inherited strange qualities like floatation, fire control or being filled with live bees.

These youths exist within a plot laden with time loops and travel, yet cow before milquetoast protagonist Jake (Asa Butterfield). His grandfather told him stories of these children before he was killed, leading Jake on quest for closure that gets him engulfed in their world.

The universe-building setup of “a semispecial white boy is the most special of all the special kids” tosses viewers into a classroom instead of the action. Seventh

Son tried this, as did The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and the Percy Jackson films, without success.

The movie gets fun when it cuts loose from these restrictions.

Butterfield’s somewhat mannequinlike performance is pushed to its creaky limits and tamps down otherwise warm Chris O’Dowd, who portrays Franklin Portman, into a suffocated father figure.

Then Jake finds the Home.

There, Eva Green is Miss Alma LeFay Perigrine, the guardian of these special children. She’s a shapeshifter with Sherlock’s brain and a knack for turning back the clock. Miss Peregrine makes her home a sort of time-bubble to protect those who would be ostracized and persecuted by unpeculiar society. This sanctuary repeats the same 24-hour period as the children remain ageless in Peregrine’s unchanging 1940s. The excitement comes just before the day resets, as Nazi planes close upon the Welsh home on a bombing run.

All is well, if a bit stifling, in this repetitious paradox until the inevitable

Miss Peregrine (Eva Green at back) and a group of very special children are the residents of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. | Photo Leah Gallo / Twentieth Century Fox / provided

baddies rear their heads. Evil peculiars (whose cruel reasoning is nonsensical, complicated and morbidly hilarious) hunt these sanctuaries. This development is the first real drama in the film and doesn’t come until late. However, it does introduce us to villainous Barron, played by a pupilless and sharp-toothed Samuel L. Jackson, whose propensity for enhancing films with wacky malefactors has increased from his Nazi-costumed role in The Spirit to the lisping streetwear enthusiast in Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Jackson has fun with this role, which is a credit to him and to the movie’s ending and finally pays off the story’s intermittent weirdness.

Some of this peculiarity manifests in its characters, like the little girl with a monstrous mouth on the back of her neck, and its special effects, including a delight-

fully low-fi stop-motion cockfight between two creations that look like they leapt from Toy Story scoundrel Sid’s workbench. Some is more action-oriented, including a final battle with an inventive and macabre mechanic that makes for an entertainingly violent Silly Symphony out of Disney’s “The Skeleton Dance.”

These goofy highs are hamstrung by Jake’s description, which manifests in a brief montage, of his time-hopping adventures.

I’m not sure I’d see the sequel, but the cute oddballs buzzing about Jake’s feet have certainly piqued my interest in the peculiar.

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Homo Sapiens, (AT, 2016, dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter) a 90-minute progression of exquisitely composed, long-take camera set-ups, taking you on a global tour of the post-human landscape; bear witness to a set of uncanny and strangely beautiful abandoned structures that are beginning to fall into ruin, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa. com. THU Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil, (NL, 2015, dir. Pieter van Huystee) the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch, Netherlands, celebrated the 500th anniversary of the death of artist Hieronymus Bosch, the city’s most famous resident, with a major exhibition; deep behind the scenes as the museum’s curatorial staff travels to a number of major art institutions, including the Prado in Madrid, Spain, as they research their mercurial subject in preparation for their ground-breaking exhibition, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 7-8, 2 p.m. Oct. 9. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SUN Author: The JT Leroy Story, (US, 2016, dir. Jeff Feuerzeig) the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, the fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, 8 p.m. Oct. 7-8, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 9. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI -SUN

Charlesfest 1.5 It’s nice to be liked. Though he’s not a musician, local music enthusiast Charles Mendoza is well-liked enough that Oklahoma City bands came together for his birthday to put on Charlesfest. Now he’s back with a follow-up show with 15 bands, Charlesfest 1.5, 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday at Power House, 1228 SW Second St. Tickets are $5. Proceeds benefit YWCA of OKC. Visit powerhouseokc.com. SATURDAY Photo provided

BOOKS Educator Night, educators enjoy 25 percent off, door prizes and young adult author Paul Griffin talks and signs his books, 5-6:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. THU Rashi Shukla Book Signing, author signs Methamphetamine: A Love Story which presents an insider’s view of the world of methamphetamine based on the life stories of thirty-three adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing meth in rural Oklahoma, 6:30 p.m.

Oct. 6. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU

Passport to Global Korea: The Juche Idea, (US, 2008, dir. Jim Finn) explore the hybrid of Confucianism and authoritarian Stalinist pseudosocialism that is making a comeback, Oct. 10.

Pegasus Theater, UCO Campus, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu. MON

Western Movie Matinee: Hud, (US, 1963, dir.

Martin Ritt) Hard-drinking, arrogant, womanizing Hud Bannon lives a self-centered, indolent life supported by his hard-working and morally upstanding father, Homer, on the family cattle ranch in Texas. Hud’s teenage nephew, Lonnie, blames Hud for the car crash that took the life of his father, Hud’s older brother Norman, but shows hints of following in his ne’er-do-well uncle’s footsteps when both men pursue the family housekeeper, 1 p.m. Oct. 5. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED Young Frankenstein, (US, 1974, dir. Mel Brooks) an American grandson of Frankenstein struggles to prove that he is not as crazy has people believe; he is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body, 7 p.m. Oct. 5.

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OKC Flea, a market for makers, artists, crafters, curators, designers and upcyclers, noon-5 p.m.

Oct. 9 and Nov. 13. Farmer’s Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-232-6506, okcfarmersmarket. com. SUN Schlegelfest 2016, bring your friends and family for a day of fun and amazing deals; shop major markdowns on bikes and apparel, enjoy carnival games, sno-cones, cotton candy, popcorn, face painting for the kids and a kids’ Safety Clinic, noon5 p.m. Oct. 9. Schlegel Bicycles, 900 N. Broadway, 405-232-4040. SUN Innovate or Die: The Innovation Series with Jamie Gallagher, Jamie Gallagher, North American president of Faber-Castell, discusses creativity as a key success factor in real business at the innovation series presented by Creative Oklahoma, 5-6:30 p.m. Oct. 12. Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library, 300 Park Ave., 405-231-8650, metrolibrary.org. WED

Cheese and Wine of Spain, cheese and wine pairing course exploring the many other flavors and styles of cheese that Spain has to offer; celebrate the diversity and history of Spanish cheesemaking, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Oct. 7. Forward Foods, Norman, 2001 W. Main St., Norman, 405321-1007, forwardfoods.com. FRI

When the Earth Shakes, learn about the science of earthquakes, tsunamis and tectonic plates; an immersive interactive exhibit exploring the world below our feet, though Jan. 2. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh. ou.edu. SAT Pops Arcadia Corn Maze, bounce houses, fishing, face painting, paintball shoot, hay fort, pumpkin patch and much more, Sept. 23-Oct. 31. Arcadia Corn Maze, 660 W. Highway 66, Arcadia, 405-6424522, facebook.com/Arcadiacornmaze. FRI Art After 5, enjoy the Oklahoma City skyline along with live music, friends and cocktails on top of the OKCMOA, 5-9 p.m. October 6. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU

The Compassion Experience, free event featuring an interactive journey through the true stories of children living in developing countries like the Philippines, Kenya, Uganda and the Dominican Republic; an interactive exhibit space where visitors step inside homes, markets and schools, Oct. 7-10.

Quail Springs Mall, 2501 W. Memorial Road, 405755-6530, quailspringsmall.com. FRI - MON

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William Bernhardt Book Signing, author signs The Ocean’s Edge and Challengers of the Dust, 3-5 p.m. Oct. 8. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma, book discussion over The Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle, 7 p.m. Oct. 11. Walker Center, Room 151, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-208-5000, okcu.edu. TUE

Adult Haunt The River Cruise, enjoy a haunted cruise along the Oklahoma River, 8 p.m. Oct. 8. Exchange Landing, 1503 Exchange Ave., 405-702-7755, okrivercruises.com.

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This Is My Brave, 15 Oklahomans take to the Sooner Theatre stage during Mental Illness Awareness Week to share their struggles and triumphs, 7 p.m.

Oct. 6. Sooner Theatre, 101 E. Main St., Norman, 405-321-9600, soonertheatre.com. THU

Second Sunday Poetry Reading, Norman resident Paul Austin has acted and directed on and off Broadway, as well as television and film and his work has appeared in various publications, 2 p.m.

Oct. 9. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org. SUN

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Western Movie Matinee: Lonely are the Brave, (UK, 1962, dir. David Miller) a fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary, 1 p.m.

Oct. 12. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED

OKCMOA Art Book Sale, browse over 2,000 titles with topics including art history, art making and more, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 8. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT

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Pumpkin Carving Class with David Holland, follow pumpkin carver David Holland through the process of carving a traditional jack-o-lantern using curved and straight line cutouts in a pumpkin that you can take home with you, 2-3 p.m. Oct. 8. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-4457080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Cider Press Demonstration and Tasting, learn how cider is made and try out an old-fashioned cider press, 1 p.m. Oct. 7, 14, 21. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. FRI

Weekly Farmers Market, shop goods from local producers, bakers and artisans, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. every Saturday. OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com. SAT

Woodland Terrarium Class, make your own woodland terrarium to enjoy at home; learn the steps and tips for maintaining it, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Oct. 8. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SAT Beginner’s Homebrew Class, demonstration of the “mini-mash” process of brewing beer at home, 11 a.m. Oct. 8. The Brew Shop, 2916 N. Penn Ave., 405-528-5193, thebrewshopokc.com. SAT Victorian Zoo Picnic, enjoy family time, just like folks did 100 years ago when they came to the zoo; begin with a guided tour from a historical reenactor, then enjoy an old-fashioned picnic, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 8. The Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Place, 405-424-3344, okczoo.com. SAT

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Juicing Your Way to Vitality, learn tips and trends to juicing, 2-3 p.m. Oct. 9. Natural Grocers, 7001 N. May Ave., 405-840-0300, naturalgrocers.com. SUN

offering all while raising money for local cancer research, Oct. 9. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000, tourdebbq. com. SUN

Tour de BBQ, OKC’s tastiest event; riders choose between routes of 15, 35 and 62 miles and rest spots are some of OKC’s most famous barbecue restaurants where riders are provided with samples of that restaurants

Seafood Talk & Tasting, learn more about the benefits of seafood and how to make meals as part of a well-rounded diet, noon-1 p.m. Oct. 11. Natural Grocers, 7013 N. May Ave., 405-840-0300, naturalgrocers.com. TUE

YOUTH Red Dirt Dinos, following a journey around the state and across the world, the dinosaurs that once roamed over Oklahoma’s red dirt landscape return to Science Museum Oklahoma; three interactive, lifelike robotic dinosaurs and a variety of hands-on components help visitors explore Oklahoma’s dinosaurs. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Bodacious Bats, toddlers learn about the Zoo’s animals through crafts, activities, discovery stations, presentations and/or guided zoo excursions; 2-year-old toddler program, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Oct. 6 and 8. The Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Place, 405-424-3344, okczoo.com. THU

Terror on 10th Street Haunted House, face your fears at the 12th annual event with new nightmares around every corner; take a guided tour of the home and learn the ghostly history behind the house of horrors, 7-11 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights Sept. 30-Oct. 25, open every night starting Oct. 26-31. Terror on 10th Street, 2005 NW 10th St., 405-232-1816, facebook.com/ terroron10thstreet. FRI Extra Life at Game HQ, 24 hours of roleplaying, board games, card games, tournaments, food, prizes and more tabletop fun while raising money for local kids in need, 9 p.m. Oct. 7. Game HQ, 9118 S. Western Ave., Suite B , 405-691-0509, gameheadquarters.com. FRI -SAT

The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Adventure Sound the Octo-Alert! Fans of Disney Junior series The Octonauts should see the arrival of the crew’s first theater show The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano 6 p.m. Oct. 13 at Hudson Performance Hall, 2820 N. May Ave. Captain Barnacles, Lieutenant Kwazii and Peso the medic takes the audience on an undersea adventure with new songs and a new story. Tickets to the all-ages show are $42-$132. Visit octonautsliveus.com.

Chef Masters, interactive cooking class for kids teaching them the basics of cooking while filling their appetites, 6-7 p.m. Oct. 6. Yukon Community Center, 2200 S. Holly Ave., Yukon, 405-354-8442, cityofyukonok. gov. THU

A Good Trip with Shane Mauss Selfdescribed “psychonaut” Shane Mauss has a message for you: Do drugs — psychedelics, specifically. The comedian is known for appearances on Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and his podcast Here We Are, which discusses life, science and the sense of understanding obtained through an altered state of mind. He will perform a live show 9-11 p.m. Monday at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., in Norman. Tickets $10$12. Visit okccomedy.com. MONDAY Photo provided

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Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live, donning his iconic red sweater, Daniel invites the audience on an interactive musical adventure as he and his friends explore their much-loved Neighborhood of Make-Believe, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 6. Rose State College Hudiburg Chevrolet Center, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 405-733-7960, rose.edu. THU Homeschool Art: 3-Dimensional Adventures, three-session class, learn more about 3-dimensional art and view sculptures in the galleries along with creating your own 3-dimensional works of art; ages 6-13, 10 a.m.noon, Oct. 7. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI Camp Fired-UP!, free-family friendly event for all ages; camp activities including the rock wall, sling shots, pumpkin painting and more, 6-9:30 p.m.

Oct. 7. Camp DaKaNi, 3309 E. Hefner Road, 405478-5646, campdakani.org. FRI

calendar Sticky Shapes, visit the gallery to find inspiration in the exhibition Dale Chihuly: Magic and Light create your own original suncatchers using colorful shapes, sticky paper, and mat board frames, ages 15-36 months 10-11 a.m., ages 3-5 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Oct. 8. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT I Like to Move It, Move It, strut on over and explore the different ways animals move and practice moving the same way they do; great for children (ages 3 and up) with special needs or any child who needs a little extra active play, 10-11:30 a.m. Oct. 8. The Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Place, 405-424-3344, okczoo.com. SAT Pumpkinville Express, climb aboard the Pumpkinville Express for a ride around the fantastically fall gardens, noon-4 p.m.

Oct. 8-9, 15-16 and 22-23. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SAT Home School Day, designed to offer family learners the chance to participate in a program specifically designed for mixed age groups; activities run throughout the day allowing participants to stop by any time, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 10. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter. MON Art Adventures, young artists are invited to experience art through books and related art projects for children ages 3-5, 10:30 a.m. Oct. 11. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. TUE Treasure Island, a storm at sea, a mosquito-infested jungle and a treasure cave filled with eerie ghosts, made with the help of the audience, creates the setting for

OKC Improv presents Fall Shows, improvisational music and comedy from local performers, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Oct. 7-8, 14-15, Nov. 4-5, 11-12, 18-19; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13.

The Paramount Theatre, 11 N. Lee Ave., 405-6379389, theparamountokc.com. FRI -SAT Spirit of America, celebration of the many cultures that America has to offer; folk songs and hymns of America, African-American and more notably, a newly commissioned work for adult chorus, children’s chorus, soloists and orchestra by Chickasaw composer and Oklahoma native Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate; joining the Canterbury adult chorus for this concert are the Canterbury Youth Choruses and guest artist soloists, 8 p.m.

Oct. 7. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. FRI Russell’s Comedy Night, Andrew Deacon with Ryan Green, Josh Lathe, Melissa McGinnis, Ashley Watson and Chandler Watson, 9 p.m. Oct. 7.

Russell’s Bar, 3233 NW Expressway, 405-8426633, towerhoteloklahomacity.com. FRI Heathers: The Musical, the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers, Oct. 7-8, 14-16, 20-23, 26-29. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 405-282-2800, thepollard.org. FRI -SAT Pryor Rendering, a new musical by Frank Schiro and Shawn Churchman based on the critically acclaimed Oklahoma novel by Gary Reed, Sept.

30-Oct. 9. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. FRI -SUN Virginia Campbell’s 34th Annual Piano Artist Series, featuring Italian-born pianist Christiana Pegoraro, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 9. All Souls’ Episcopal Church, 6400 N. Pennsylvania, 405-842-1461, allsoulsokc.com. SUN Angela Cheng, praised for brilliant technique, tonal beauty and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Edmonton Symphony and her Salzburg Festival debut in a recital with Pinchas Zukerman, both in 2012, 3 p.m. Oct. 9. Oklahoma City University, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-208-5000, okcu. edu. SUN Oklahoma City University Jazz Ensemble, free concert in Petree Recital Hall under the direction of professor John Allen, 8 p.m. Oct. 10, 8 p.m. Nov. 20. Petree Recital Hall, Oklahoma City University, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-208-5000, okcu. edu. MON

acTIVe 2nd Annual Market On The Edge Careful, shoppers, because there are sharp sales ahead at the second annual Market On The Edge with Skulls & Stones noon-6 p.m. Sunday at 5924 NW 38th St. The free, rain-or-shine market is a one-day event with local artists selling handcrafted goods with a focus on the weird and wonderful. Look for lots of skulls, edgy art and supernatural supplies for those who view Halloween as a lifestyle more than a holiday. There is a kids’ craft area and face painting for a small donation as well as henna tattoos. Visit facebook.com/ontheedgeokc. SUNDAY Photo provided

Drop-In Yoga, yoga class in the museum’s galleries, 5:45-6:45 p.m. Oct. 6. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU

The Rocky Horror Show Antici ... pation abounds for the third year of Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s production of The Rocky Horror Show. J. Robert Moore, recently seen in the company’s productions of Billy Elliot and Big Fish, plays the role of Dr. Frank ’N’ Furter in the show directed by Michael Baron. Rocky Horror runs Oct. 13-Nov. 5 at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, 1727 NW 16th St. Opening night is 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Tickets are $31-$61. Visit lyrictheatreokc.com or call 405-524-9310 for showtimes and tickets.

OCT. 13-NOV. 5 KO Rinearson / provided / file Da Vinci — The Genius, the most comprehensive exploration of Leonardo da Vinci’s work ever created; interactive experience immersing guests in da Vinci’s timeless brilliance through full-scale interpretations of the mastermind’s inventions and unparalleled studies of his iconic art. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-6026664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Edmond People, Edmond Politics, showcases a variety of political memorabilia and historic photographs that illustrate the many ways Edmondites have participated in local, state and national politics; political brochures, elections guides and even a Bellmon Belles dress with matching jacket complement the many posters on view in the Sign of the Times exhibit, runs through Dec. 16. Edmond Historical Society & Museum, 431 S. Boulevard, Edmond, 405-340-0078, edmondhistory.org.

Fall Adult Classes, from budding talents to seasoned creators, artists of all skill levels can find their creative home with Oklahoma Contemporary this fall; develop your skills and explore your creativity in ceramics, 2-D and 3-D arts, fiber

Zombie Hunt, take a ride through a haunted paintball park and shoot as many zombies as you can with glow-in-the-dark paintballs from the safety of a battle wagon, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7-8. Battle Park Paintball Park, 14805 W. Industrial Road, Guthrie, 405-433-2223, battleparkok.com. FRI -SAT

PerFOrMInG arTS Landry, stand-up comedy performance; his material is drawn from everyday life situations and is a hybrid of character work, storytelling and oneliner jabs to the pancreas, 8 p.m. Oct. 5-6, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Oct. 7-8. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy. com. WED -SAT

Power and Prestige: Headdresses of the American Plains, original exhibition includes nine headdresses from Northern and Southern American Great Plains along with historical photographs and other supporting artifacts including ledger art depicting Indian warriors and bonnets from the museum’s permanent collection. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Heaven Can Wait, Joe Pendleton finds himself being checked in for the Hereafter by a Mr. Jordan when it is discovered Joe was called sixty years too early, the iconic Harry Segall comedy finds Joe in all sorts of trouble in his new body as a wealthy man about to be murdered by his wife, 8 p.m. Oct. 6-8, 13-15, 20-23; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 9, 16 and 23.

Jewel Box Theatre, 3700 N. Walker Ave., 405-5211786, jewelboxtheatre.org. THU -SUN

The Modernist Spectrum: Color and Abstraction, explore the invigorating ways in which postwar American artists, especially those associated with the Washington Color School, made it new, producing novel work that sought to reinvent abstract art through an alternatively rigorous and playful manipulation of color, line and shape.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

Picturing Indian Territory, surveys how the people, land and history of Oklahoma were constructed visually by artists, illustrators and journalists from the early decades of the 19th century before and after the creation of Indian Territory in 1834 to the inception of Oklahoma Territory in 1890 and finally to the unification of Indian and Oklahoma Territories to create the state of Oklahoma in 1907, Oct. 6-Dec. 30. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-3253272, ou.edu/fjjma.

Paseo First Friday Gallery Walk, see what the historic Paseo Art District has to offer; galleries and shops host receptions for new shows and featured artists along with live music, food trucks and local restaurant options, 6-10 p.m. Oct. 7.

Paseo Arts District, 3022 Paseo St., 405-525-2688, thepaseo.org. FRI

October Artists, three artists showcase their work; watercolor artist Deborah Burian, Verna Fuller and painter Renee Jones. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

VISUal arTS Hell on Wheels: Uniting a Nation by Rail, exhibition of the labor force that built the first transcontinental railroad reflecting the colorful diversity of the American West in the 1860s through a display of wardrobes. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Christie Owen Artist Talk, artist of Surroundings talks about her latest exhibit, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Oct. 6. Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, 405-235-4458, oklahomaheritage.com. THU

Color, Connections, Constellations, gifted photographer Caroline Cohenour finally releases her debut collection of original watercolor works.

In Your Eye Gallery, 3005 Paseo St. #A, 405-5252161, inyoureyegallery.com.

Zombie Bolt 5K, run, walk, skip or canter through a 5K (3.1-mile) course; use your amazing wit and speed to stay alive through the end of course, but if you don’t, it doesn’t really matter, everyone can join the party at the end where a touching reunion of dead and undead will be sure to have you crying your eyes out, 4-6 p.m. Oct. 8. Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell Road, Edmond, 405-359-4630, edmondok. com/parks. SAT

this magical adaptation; some children become members of the treacherous pirate gang, while others join captain’s crew and in the end the audience must decide the fate of Long John Silver, Sept. 23-Oct. 7. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

arts and photography, Oct. 3-Nov. 3. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Mixed Messages opening Artist Deborah Burian debuts a new watercolor exhibit during Paseo First Friday Gallery Walk.

Mixed Messages uses light to suggest immediacy and freshness through abstraction.

Opening night is 6-10 p.m. Friday at Contemporary Art Gallery on the Paseo, 2928 Paseo St. The night also marks the debut of new exhibits by artists Verna Fuller and Renée Jones. Exhibits are on display noon-5 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays in the gallery through Oct. 30.

Admission is free. Visit contemporaryartgalleryokc.com or call 405-601-7474.

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Defining detour Elvis Costello remembers ‘Okie from Muskogee’ Merle Haggard ahead of Costello’s Monday tour stop in Oklahoma City. By Ben Luschen

The death of country music legend Merle Haggard left an impression on Elvis Costello, the prolific London-born Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician and singersongwriter behind classic late-’70s new wave and punk rock releases My Aim Is True and This Year’s Model.

It is not unusual that Costello would encounter another famous musician.

Costello is a self-proclaimed serial collaborator. Of his more than two dozen career studio albums, six were made with other bands or artists. He has produced for Paul McCartney, The Pogues, The Specials and Nick Lowe (his own longtime producer).

For an Englishman, the musician is also incredibly well versed in classic American country music. Costello released Almost Blue, a collection of classic country covers, in 1981. The album includes a version of “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down” by Haggard, the Okie from Muskogee and Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer (technically California-born) who died in April on his 79th birthday from complications of pneumonia.

During a recent Oklahoma Gazette phone interview, Costello reminisced about meeting Haggard. Costello’s acclaimed Detour tour makes a Monday stop at Chevy Bricktown Events Center, 429 E. California Ave.

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Costello told The New York Times in an October 2015 Q&A that while growing up in England, hearing music by artists like Haggard and George Jones was one of the first times the country genre really clicked in his mind. Haggard was long known for earnest storytelling and an authentic outlaw aesthetic Costello could see when the two met at a show in 2009.

“I got a picture [with Haggard], and when he suddenly passed, I found it in my files, and boy, he just looks so great,” Costello said.

“He has such an incredible head; his features are so strong.”

The musician was attending a surprise salute to iconic country songwriter Hank Cochran in Nashville. Costello remembers being in a room with other legends like Cowboy Jack Clement and Bobby Bare before the show when he came across Haggard.

Costello, unlike some other A-list entertainers in the industry, is a genuine audiophile and music nerd, even at age 62. Though he counts Haggard as one of his biggest country influences, he said he still sometimes discovers songs in the artist’s back catalogue that blow him away.

“That’s one of the things about him,” Costello said. “You think you know all the songs, and then you find a half-dozen more that you lost sight of.”

In addition to “The Bottle Let Me Down,” Costello occasionally performed “I Threw Away the Rose” at gigs. He remembers his impromptu decision to do the song at a Detour show in San Diego, a four-hour drive from Haggard’s hometown in Bakersfield, California, the night Haggard died.

In recent years, Costello has frequently performed alongside Atlanta roots-rock sister duo Larkin Poe, which is scheduled to open for and back him during his Oklahoma City concert. Costello said they were onstage with him when he launched into his unannounced tribute. elvis Costello “By the name and title of with Larkin Poe the tour, you can detour quite literally,” he said. “In this case, 7:30 p.m. Monday I just went straight to the song Chevy Bricktown on the emotion of the night, Events Center and it felt like a really beautiful 429 E. California Ave. version of the song because it dcfconcerts.com wasn’t considered, it wasn’t 405-236-4143 sentimental. I didn’t say any$45-$75 thing ahead of it.”

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The Detour solo concert series started in April and is partly inspired by Costello’s 2015 New York Times best-selling memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. The artist uses the partially improvised shows to tell personal anecdotes and play whichever songs he feels like performing that day, including big hits, deeper cuts and tributes like “I Threw Away the Rose.”

“You just have to feel for the right moment, and I didn’t repeat that [song],” he said. “I just did it for that night.”

Fans who see Costello in Oklahoma City will see the musician perform in front of a giant screen featuring projected pictures of Costello’s family and personal photos mixed in with other images the artist deems appropriate for this show. No two Detour shows are identical, he said.

“You’re going to see something that you won’t see again,” he said. “Even if we came back and brought it back again next year, it would be different again. We’re all in it together because without the audience, I’m just up there on my own with my songs and a rack of guitars.”

Costello said the stripped-down, intimate shows help him find greater personal meaning in crowd favorites he has played thousands of times before.

Instead of going through the motions, partially hidden behind a wall of sound, Costello incorporates the audience’s energy to complete the show’s equation.

“That’s exactly what this tour is built to do — to come somewhere and not give you what you already know,” he said. “You find people that value the stuff that’s all around them.”

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Experimental harp act Sun Riah uses travel and loss as a way to appreciate home.

By Ben Luschen

M. Bailey Stephenson, also known as experimental local harp act Sun Riah, pulled over somewhere in the vast altitudes between Denver, Colorado, and Bozeman, Montana.

Stopping for a phone interview with Oklahoma Gazette, the artist said she is on a journey to the Pacific Northwest, her first visit to the region. People have always said her music would do well in Seattle. She also has friends who recently moved to Oregon, and tour stops often double as great excuses to catch up with old acquaintances.

Stephenson does not travel alone. She affectionately calls her boyfriend her “roadie,” as he sells merch at shows and picks up the slack Stephenson admits she leaves in self-promotion. Another friend, Carla, has joined her on tour for the last five or six years, but her age is catching up with her.

“She’s been pretty reliable in my life so far,” Stephenson said. “I’m pretty nervous this trip because this is the biggest trip she’s ever been on.”

“Carla” is the name Stephenson gave to her worn-out Chevy Astro van that has hauled the musician and her harp to shows across the country for years. The merry gang concludes this tour with a homecoming show 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at Power House, 1228 SW Second St. The So Help Me’s, Magnificent Bird and Young Readers also will perform.

Traveling with Stephenson’s harp is literally no small task. Aside from the instrument’s height, it must be kept in a temperature-controlled setting to main-

tain its tuning.

“The van does a pretty good job of keeping it at a good temperature, but it’s pretty nerveracking too, just traveling with the harp,” she said. “It’s a fragile instrument.”

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Lost connections

The last Sun Riah album, 2015’s Firefly Night Light, is an eclectic and, at points, eerie mesh of avant-garde sound that defies clear categorical definition. It’s thoughtful music, which should not come as a surprise. Anyone willing to learn the harp in the age of electric guitars and synthesizers must be introspective to some degree.

Similarly, Stephenson has spent much of the year since its release in deep, personal thought.

“It’s been a period of reflection and growth for me,” she said.

Stephenson’s time in thought helped spur several new songs and an album’s worth of

new material that might be released sometime in early 2017. Her new project is inspired by a small Oklahoma town, or more specifically, by one small house in that one small town.

“There’s a lot of different layers of storytelling in this album,” she said, “but what inspired me to write it was losing somebody in my family and realizing that my relationship to this particular place was going to change dramatically.”

Stephenson’s parents are divorced, and she spent her childhood growing up in several different spots across the state. She never felt like she had a true home. Often, Stephenson found herself staying with her grandmother, who lived in the same house in the same town her entire life. Her death greatly impacted Stephenson. “[My grandparents] offered this stability in my life,” she said. “They were really important to me and, in ways, had a really huge hand in bringing me up.”

Her grandmother was just one of three people Stephenson lost during the last year.

It has forced the artist to meditate on the value of relationships and what it means to have a place to call home.

Finding home

Stephenson said she is excited for her return home from tour, especially for the Power House show. Though her interview came just three days into her tour, she admits to being homesick.

When she does get home, Stephenson will refocus her attention from doing shows to concentrating on finishing her album.

Though she still loves to travel, she might take some time to appreciate a place that feels familiar.

“At this point in my life, I just love to hang out with my cats and play my harp at home,” she said. “I feel like I have more grounding, and coming home is like this great feeling.”

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Smell of success Clutch returns to OKC as the rock act celebrates 25 years. By Ben Luschen

The scent of stale perspiraAugust marked Clutch’s Clutch tion occasionally fuels Clutch 25th anniversary as a band, a with Zakk Sabbath shows. Frontman Neil Fallon span that includes 11 studio and Kyng said wearing his unwashed albums. Psychic Warfare, the clothes from the previous band’s most recent full-length 8 p.m. Tuesday night’s tour stop helps launch project, was released last Diamond Ballroom the internal ignition seOctober.

8001 S. Eastern Ave. quence leading up to the Fallon said the music busidiamondballroom.net band’s exhaustive live show. ness has changed a lot in those 405-677-9169 “It activates some kind of 25 years, but one thing experi$25 trigger mechanism that sudence has showed him in that denly says to the brain, ‘OK, time is how a basic passion for now you’re going to do it again,’” Fallon said music should serve as the bedrock for everyin an interview with Oklahoma Gazette. thing.

Moshers and headbangers alike will likely “Music has to be its own reward,” he said. work up their own fresh batch of sweat at “It shouldn’t necessarily be what you think each of the Maryland hard rock and alternais going to take you to fame and fortune tive metal outfit’s heavy sets. because if you look at it as a vehicle, you’re Clutch performs Tuesday at Diamond going to hit a dead end, guaranteed.”

Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave. It is the band’s Clutch is an independent act that started first visit to the venue since severe weather its own label, Weathermaker Music, in 2008. and tornado warnings halted its May 6, 2015, Before that, it released a few albums under Columbia and Atlantic music labels. Fallon date with Mastodon mid-show. said Clutch’s decision to become truly indie “Hopefully Mother Nature will shine on made, for the first time, a long, sustainable us this time,” Fallon said.

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career in music seem like a manageable thing.

“Once we became unshackled from major labels and started calling our own shots, it became much more real to me,” he said.

“Sometimes you can feel at the mercy of people you’ve never met before, and that can feel very disheartening for any career.”

Aside from music, Fallon is also known as a lover of books, specifically science fiction.

He said recently he expanded his horizons, reading things that are not set in space. Works

by Paul Auster and personal favorite Cormac McCarthy dominate his reading list.

Fallon, Clutch’s lyricist, compared his basement to the backroom of an office supply store with stacks of notebooks filled with old ideas. Despite that proficiency, he does not think lyricism and creative writing exist in the same realm.

“All the writers I admire I wouldn’t even

dare to compare myself to,” he said. “I have respect for just about any writer who can create a world from a blank page because I find that very intimidating.”

Fallon said he likes writing under the confinements of rhyme and meter. He also benefits from the creative input of a full band.

At no point in the early days did Fallon ever consider Clutch would be celebrating 25 years. Like most young people, the idea that rock ’n’ roll was not a viable career option was repeatedly bashed into his head. Before Weathermaker, he said the band was often living “hand to mouth” and had little time to consider the future.

Looking back, musical independence has afforded Fallon proper perspective.

“We make a living doing this,” he said.

“That’s all you can really ask for, and I think that’s its own success.”

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Praised for brilliant technique, tonal beauty and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Edmonton Symphony and her Salzburg Festival debut in a recital with Pinchas Zukerman, both in 2012. She has toured Europe, Asia, South America and the United States as a member of the Zukerman Chamber Players. A recording artist and touring soloist, she won the gold medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, and was the first Canadian to win the Montreal International Piano Competition.

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WeDneSDAY, 10.5 Judith/Real Live Tigers/Blue Valley Farmer, Power House. VARIOUS Kevin Devine/Chase Kerby/Josh Jones, Opolis, Norman. ROCK Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER The Struts/Beware of Darkness/Hannah Wolff, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK Trapt, The Criterion. ROCK

tHURSDAY, 10.6 Garage Band Jam, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES Jason Scott Duo, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman. VARIOUS Knocked Loose, 89th Street Collective.

ROCK

Michale Graves/Redneck Nosferatu, The Vanguard, Tulsa. ROCK Monolithic, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Steve Crossley Solo, Margarita Island. VARIOUS

Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road One of Oklahoma’s best Americana acts is back with a new album. Award-winning acoustic outfit Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road debuts heartfelt, multi-genre Fear or Faith at the Monday release show.

Dillingham is a celebrated violin player who has toured internationally. The act was voted Best Americana/Folk Band in the 2016 Gazette Music Awards. Food trucks and other festivities begin 5:30 p.m. The concert begins 7 p.m. Monday at CHK|Central Boathouse, 732 Riversport Drive. Admission is $15. Visit horseshoeroad.brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006. MONDAY

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The Weathermen, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ROCK

FRIDAY, 10. 7 2AM/Aguilar Band, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK Alesana/10 Frail Years of Vanity and Wax/Oh, Sleeper, 89th Street Collective. ROCK Bob Schneider, ACM@UCO Performance Lab. ROCK

Petree Recital Hall

Brad Good Band, Riverwind Casino. COUNTRY Casey & Minna, Paseo Arts District. FOLK

Blues Jam: Freddy Rice, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES

Catfish and The Bottlemen/The Worn Flints, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK Mountain Smoke, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond.

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Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER Tory Lanez/Jacquees/Kranium/J.I.D./VeeCee, Diamond Ballroom. HIP-HOP

Deuces Wild, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ROCK Don White, The Blue Door. COUNTRY

MOnDAY, 10.10

JV’s Fillin Station/Brad Fieldter/Caleb McGee & Clint Hardesty, Blue Note Lounge. VARIOUS

Tory Lanez/Jacquees/Kranium/J.I.D./VeeCee, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. HIP-HOP

JW Lane and County Road X, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COUNTRY

Twiztid/Mac Lethal/Zodiac Mprint/Lex The Hex Master/Menace 2 Sobriety/Godz of Kaos, OKC Farmer’s Public Market.

Lost On Utica, Remington Park. ROCK

VARIOUS

Martha Stallings, Lottinvilles Restaurant, Edmond.

tUeSDAY, 10.11

VARIOUS

Max Ridgeway Trio, Full Circle Bookstore. JAZZ Prophets of Rage, BOK Center, Tulsa.

VARIOUS

Shortt Dogg, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. BLUES

Garrett Dale Murderface/Red, Blue Note Lounge.

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Palisades/It Lives, It Breathes/Drake Complex/ Blindwish, 89th Street Collective. ROCK Peelander-Z, Opolis, Norman. ROCK

SquadLive, Baker Street Pub & Grill. VARIOUS Street Kings, Bourbon Street Bar. ROCK

WeDneSDAY, 10.12

Tom Jones, Brady Theater, Tulsa.

Adley Stump, The Vanguard, Tulsa. COUNTRY

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SAtURDAY, 10.8 Brad Good Band, Riverwind Casino, Norman.

COUNTRY

JD McPherson/Jake La Botz, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. SINGER/SONGWRITER Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club.

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Opeth/The Sword, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK

Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes/Psychotic Reaction, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

Tracii Guns/Enuff Z Nuff/The Dusty Rose Band/ Drunk on Monday, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK

Fit For An Autopsy/Lorna Shore/No Zodiac, 89th Street Collective. ROCK John Carnuccio, Full Circle Bookstore. VARIOUS Lost On Utica, Remington Park. ROCK Miss Brown To You, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. JAZZ Scott Keeton, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES Street Kings, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK Willie Nelson, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Catoosa. COUNTRY

SUnDAY, 10.9 Amy Lavere, The Blue Door.

Live music submissions must be received by Oklahoma Gazette no later than noon on Wednesday seven days before the desired publication date.

Late submissions will not be included in the listings. Submissions run as space allows, although we strive to make the listings as inclusive as possible.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)

At a recent party, a guy I hardly know questioned my authenticity. “You seem to have had an easy life,” he jabbed. “I bet you haven’t suffered enough to be a truly passionate person.” I didn’t choose to engage him, but mused to myself, “Not enough suffering? What about the time I got shot? My divorce? My five-year-long illness? The manager of my rock band getting killed in a helicopter crash?” But after that initial reaction, my thoughts turned to the adventures that have stoked my passion without causing pain, like the birth of my daughter, getting remarried to the woman I divorced, and performing my music for excited audiences. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you, too, will soon have experiences that refine and deepen your passion through pleasure rather than hardship.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) It’s the Frank and

Focused Feedback Phase, Taurus — prime time to solicit insight about how you’re doing. Here are four suggestions to get you started. 1. Ask a person who loves and respects you to speak the compassionate truth about what’s most important for you to learn. 2. Consult a trustworthy advisor who can help motivate you to do the crucial thing you’ve been postponing. 3. Have an imaginary conversation with the person you were a year ago. Encourage the Old You to be honest about how the New You could summon more excellence in pursuing your essential goals. 4. Say this prayer to your favorite tree or animal or meadow: “Show me what I need to do in order to feel more joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Many of my readers

regard me as being exceptionally creative. Over the years, they have sent countless emails praising me for my original approach to problem-solving and artmaking. But I suspect that I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on developing it, and have worked harder to access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite

By Rob Brezsny

you to tap more deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What areas of your life need a boost of ingenuity?

demanding challenge. Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you to avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don’t try to push a peanut up there with your nose, too.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Love wants more of you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “It isn’t normal to know

Love longs for you to give everything you have and receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dispensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that will take your entire life to solve. But here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what’s necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you know how to work with such extravagant treasure and wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore the answers to these questions. I’m not sure what your answers will be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Each of us contains a

multiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there’s just one of you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it’s closer to the truth to say that you’re a community of various characters whose agendas sometimes overlap and sometimes conflict. For example, the needy part of you that craves love isn’t always on the same wavelength as the ambitious part of you that seeks power. That’s why it’s a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings where all of your selves can gather and negotiate. Now is one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among your inner voices and to mobilize them to work together in service of common goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Pike’s Peak is a 14,115-

foot mountain in Colorado. It’s not a simple task to trek to the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunderstorms are a regular occurrence during the summer. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Williams decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn’t tough enough. He sought a more

what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow.

“It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

He wasn’t referring to the question of what you want for dinner or the new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day of your life. Now here’s the good news, Libra: The next ten months should bring you the best chance ever to figure out exactly what you want the most. And it all starts now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Practitioners of the

Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular self-massage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends that you periodically go out on dates with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, and other organs. He says that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will also be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts and compliments and praise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The coming

weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma.

Why do I say that? Because you’re likely to emerge triumphant! That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender.

More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner. A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve?

What test would you most like to ace? At what game

would you most like to be victorious? Now is the time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Are you grunting and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver your way towards the rewards of the future? I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accomplish the first option. It will also ensure that your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Do you believe that you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and your genetic make-up? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you are capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing aspects of yourself that might have been unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around with this vision. Your knack for transcendence is peaking. So are your powers to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In one of your nightly

dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter Pan to steal unused treasure from a greedy monster -- and then turn the booty over to you. Or maybe you’ll meet a talking hedgehog and singing fox who will cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded fantasies. It’s also conceivable that you will recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and attract the help of a fairy godmother or godfather to help you ripen it.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes /daily text message horoscopes.

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