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Steven Paul Judd is one of the hottest artists and filmmakers in Native American circles right now and a truly unique voice in Oklahoma’s Indian Country, in large part because his art, writing and filmmaking makes Indian people laugh and white people think. On the cover, Judd uses wheat paste as he creates a mural on an outside wall of Stash in Norman.

Photo by Garett Fisbeck.

Story by Wilhelm Murg, P. 33.

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Pushing change Efforts are being made to increase voter participation, but is more reform needed?

BY Laura Eastes

Supporting signatures

“That was the first time the Legislature had taken action on anything related to third-party ballot access in 40 years,” explained Micah Gamino, an OBAR representative. “Even though it is just one small change, we are seeing real progress. They are actually listening to us now, voting on the bills and giving us a shot.”

On weekends, members of the Green Party of Oklahoma and the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma visit community events across the state in signature-gathering efforts. Come November, Oklahoma voters could face a very different ballot at the voting booth. In addition to Democrat, Republican and Independent candidates, some new party names might attach to candidates.

While the law, authored by House Speaker Jeff Hickman, R-Fairview, is arguably a large stride for alternative political parties, it hints at a need for additional reform. The new law requires parties to collect signatures of registered voters equal to 3 percent of the last gubernatorial election.

Hickman’s original proposal called for 1 percent, which more closely reflected the long-standing previous requirement of 5,000 signatures. In 1974, legislators pushed away from the flat 5,000-signature mark and approved a measure requiring parties to collect signatures of registered voters equal to

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When individuals representing the Green Party and Libertarian Party formed the coalition Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) around 2004, they knew it would be tough to get laws reworked, tweaked and passed in a state known for stringent ballot access.

Nevertheless, they pushed for reform but never envisioned it would take a decade to see progress.

After years of lobbying and, at times, watching proposed bills die in committee, coalition members celebrated when House Bill 2181 was approved in May by the governor.

The measure significantly reduces the required number of signatures needed to form a new political party, widening the opportunity for political discussion and increasing interest in a state with dismal voter turnout.

Mark Hammons right, State Democratic Party chairman, delivers a letter to Paul Ziriax, secretary of the State Election Board, at the Oklahoma State Capitol, which formally notified the State Election Board that Independents will be allowed to vote in state Democratic Party primary elections.

5 percent of the last vote for governor or president.

To gain access to the 2016 ballot, political parties now seek 24,745 signatures, down from around 45,000.

The deadline for the petitions is March 1.

Richard Johnson, a political science professor at Oklahoma City University (OCU), sees the reform as a positive change; however, he argued it will have little impact on the state’s political dynamics.

“Oklahoma certainly has a history of being a one-party state, historically and presently,” Johnson said. “Anything that increases the number of voices and people who are being heard encourages people to participate at a higher rate.

One of the things you see as a result from being a one-party state is (voter) turnout is relatively low. I would like to see a situation where more people participated and felt elections really meant something.”

For the Green Party of Oklahoma, the reform is a win, but not a victory.

Members are strategically collecting only 5,000 signatures, like the requirement before 1974, to support efforts to further reform the law.

“We’ve had a lot of discussion, and

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we believe additional reform is needed,” said Rachel Jackson, an organization spokeswoman. “We are not satisfied with the under-25,000 requirement.

That is a lot of signatures for a small amount of people to gather.”

Collecting signatures is nothing new for the Greens, which collected signatures around the millennium for candidate Ralph Nader to appear on the presidential election ballot in Oklahoma. Party members fell short, commencing the start of a 15-year fight against the restrictive ballot laws.

“We are disenfranchised from the ballot. That’s essentially what we are,” Jackson said. “There are changes happening all the time in Oklahoma’s political landscape. The changes that we need, I am not seeing it.”

Parties gain a majority of support from name recognition, which comes from listing candidates on the ballot, contended Gamino.

“It is hard to raise money and get support when we can’t even get on the ballot,” said Gamino, who is a member of the Green Party. “We have to prove support to get on the ballot. It is quite a contradiction.”

Additional reform

According to current law, in the event a new political party gains access to 2016’s November ballot, the party must receive at least 10 percent of the popular vote in the presidential race to remain on the ballot the following year, which forces a party that falls below 10 percent to undertake a new signature drive for the next election.

Both Jackson and Gamino said achieving 10 percent of the popular vote is a difficult task for parties that are building a political party in a state traditionally represented by Democrats and Republicans alone. Oklahoma voters were limited in their choices for president during the last three elections. During the 2012 election, Oklahoma voters weren’t given an opportunity to vote for Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson because the party was not recognized by the state.

Laws targeting the 10 percent requirement, as well as continuing to work with lawmakers on efforts to further lower the number of signatures required for ballot access, will be OBAR’s focus for the coming legislative session. continued on page 6

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From left Joe Dorman and Mark Hammons spoke at a recent media event about opening Democratic primaries to include Independent voters.

Primary changes

Oklahomans who affiliate with parties such as Constitution, Green or Libertarian have no choice other than checking “Independent” when they register to vote. Voters who wish to be unaffiliated with Democrat or Republican parties also check “Independent.”

In Oklahoma, there are more than 261,000 registered Independent voters, according to election board records.

In mid-November, members of the Oklahoma Democratic Party delivered paperwork to the Oklahoma State Election Board to open their primaries to Independent voters. In a letter, signed by Chairman Mark Hammons, the party shared news of the July 26 convention vote to amend its constitution and bylaws to permit Independents to vote in primary and runoff primary elections.

“What we are doing is opening our doors,” Hammons said before visiting the election board office. “I think that is the right way, which is the most important thing. It is also a way that invites, encourages and will result in more Independents feeling that connection with November candidates.”

The next statewide primary, which features presidential candidates, is scheduled for March 1.

Opening primaries to Independent voters is not unusual, and more than a dozen states, including neighboring Texas, Arkansas and Kansas, feature open primaries. Oklahoma moves from a closed primary state, where only voters registered with a given party can vote in that primary, to a semi-closed state.

Pam Pollard, chair of the Oklahoma Republican Party, said GOP registered voters will be the only ones to participate in party primaries.

Currently, there are more than 886,000 Republicans registered in the state, compared to almost 882,700 Democrats registered.

“We think it is very important

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for our voters to be able to identify with our statements of principals and our platforms,” said Pollard. “We are firm believers that people in our party identify with people within our party.

We will be keeping closed primaries.”

The Democratic Party contends opening primaries will increase voter turnout for primary elections. Those who vote in primaries are more likely to return to the polls in November to cast another vote in the candidate’s favor, Hammons said.

Johnson, who teaches college courses specializing in state government, said the party could see a small uptick in voting numbers.

“I don’t think it will be a game changer,” said the OCU professor, who acknowledged that the number of Independent voters is growing throughout the nation. “I think there are people looking for something different from the Republican brand or the conservative Republican brand.

There is potential there, but I don’t know if the payoff will be as big as what people postulate it to be.”

The move by Oklahoma Democrats isn’t unique. In 2009, South Dakota Democrats made a similar move, and three years later, the Idaho Democratic Party followed. In both states, Republicans continue to maintain closed primary elections.

Former state representative and 2014 Democratic nominee for governor Joe Dorman believes the party will “grow more solid” and “represent a more diverse base” as Independents cast votes in future primaries.

“Far too many Oklahoma voters have felt disenfranchised for years, feeling their vote didn’t count,” Dorman said. “State law has prevented opportunities for Independents to fully participate because they don’t fully align with one party or the other. …

This will allow them to have a voice in selecting the nominees going forward and presenting better candidates on the general election ballot.”

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Breathing free The issue of resettling refugees was met with a mix of reactions locally and across the state.

As a child born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Imam Imad Enchassi hoped to one day reside in a peaceful country.

“Growing up as a refugee, I always looked for a place where I could eventually call home,” said Enchassi, senior imam and president of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, “somewhere I belonged, was respected and my views were respected.”

When he was a teenager, he found home. In 1982, he received a student visa to study in the United States, a country that lived up to the expectations he set at a young age, when he was surrounded by war and conflict.

Earlier this month, like people around the globe, he mourned for the victims of the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks. Days afterward, his heartbreak intensified as a plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees — a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of citizens escaping the Islamic State terrorist regime that also claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks — in the United States became the debate among national leaders, governors and residents.

A Syrian passport, which was later ruled a fake during the investigation of the attacks, was found near one of the Paris assailants. The passport fueled fears that the terrorist group could utilize refugee and resettlement programs to gain access into the United States.

Enchassi said he has no use for that debate. His heritage is Syrian, and he has monitored the civil war for the past four years. Civilians flee for their lives with nothing but hope.

“When you are in a refugee situation with hope given to you, whether that hope is in the form of housing, food, water or a foreign country taking you in to start your life all over again, and now [foreign countries] are playing with you, your future and your dignity,” said Enchassi, whose mother is Syrian, “I call it political soccer. It is very heartbreaking. The only hope you have in the midst of all the darkness is being undistinguished by some silly politicians.”

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By Laura Eastes

People bow their heads in prayer during a recent vigil for Paris, France, and Beirut, Lebanon, terror attack victims at Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

Syrian refugees

In Oklahoma, Republican Gov. Mary Fallin joined 30 fellow governors when she urged “President Barack Obama to suspend accepting Syrian refugees into the United States in the wake of deadly terror attacks in Paris being linked to the Islamic State,” according to a statement issued Nov. 16.

She was supported by other state lawmakers, including Rep. Casey Murdock, R-Felt, and Rep. Sean Roberts, R-Hominy.

On Nov. 19, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Republicanauthored bill, the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015, to restrict admission of Iraqi and Syrian refugees into the country by adding extra security procedures.

The bill moves to the U.S. Senate for consideration; however, Obama has denounced adding additional measures in the resettlement program, which began in the 1970s.

Currently, after a refugee passes the screening by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, additional review is required in the United

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States by agencies such as the U.S. Department of State and Department of Homeland Security.

Refugees in the United States often wait two years or more before being matched with resettlement service organizations and arriving in the country. In Oklahoma, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, along with YWCA Tulsa, serve refugees and remain committed to receiving Syrian refugees.

Presidential candidates also weighed in on the Syrian refugee debate. Businessman Donald Trump suggested creating a Muslim database for refugees as well as American citizens who practice Islam. Fellow Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor, stated that only Christian Syrian refugees should be allowed.

Governors declaring their borders closed to Syrian refugees are issuing political pressure, not action, said professor Joseph Thai, who teaches at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Many of us came here — whether we are Christians, Muslims or Jewish — for religious freedom.

— Imad Enchassi

“Our system is clear and simple,” Thai said. “The federal government has exclusive authority over immigration.

Congress passes immigration laws, and the president has the power and discretion to exercise under the Refugee Act of 1980. … What is clear under our federal system is that governors don’t have authority to make foreign policy decisions. They certainly cannot refuse to admit into the state anyone who is legally in the country.” continued on page 10

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Ryan Kiesel, American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma executive director, said the federal government can set admission requirements tailored to certain refugees, but states are not involved in making those decisions.

Additionally, he said, recent ideas shared by presidential candidates are unlawful.

“Discrimination on the basis of the national origin or some other protective characteristic like refugees’ religious beliefs is unconstitutional,” Kiesel said.

Closing door?

Turning away refugees wouldn’t fight terrorism, but breed hate, said Adam Soltani, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Oklahoma (CAIR), an organization that works to enhance the understanding of Islam. CAIR hosted a Nov. 15 interfaith vigil for Paris attack victims.

Following the well-attended vigil, CAIR received messages of support for its efforts to renounce terrorist violence. The support was met with the troubling statements made by state and national leaders, said Soltani, whose organization stands behind Syrian refugees arriving in the United States.

“We are very appreciative of Catholic Charities of Oklahoma City and Tulsa to say they are still bringing refugees,” Soltani said. “In my opinion and in my evaluation, the concept that we don’t want refugees is an extension of the increasing Islamophobia rhetoric we’ve seen in politics over the years.

These refugees; vast majorities are Muslim. Politicians and elected officials are using the term refugee interchangeable with the term Muslim to continue to propagate a fear and hysteria of Islam.”

Hiba Jameel, who was raised in Baghdad, Iraq, came to the United States four years ago through a scholarship to the University of Central Oklahoma. On Nov. 17, she attended a prayer vigil to honor victims of the terror attacks at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

Like Enchassi, she experienced war as it ripped through her homeland, followed by humanitarian aid workers who arrived and shared programs for those seeking asylum.

“It is the responsibility of every government to protect their people,” Jameel said, citing her studies in international relations. “I feel sorry that this is being used against people that are fleeing this situation. Not only did they experience terrorism in their own country and were trying to find a safe place, but now are impacted by another act of terrorism.

I feel sorry for the people that had to suffer by the act of a few.”

Enchassi said he came to America for its values and freedom and hopes people will remember the promises made to those who settled long ago or days ago. He quoted the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, which reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

“We were all refugees at one time,” Enchassi said. “Many of us came here — whether we are Christians, Muslims or Jewish — for religious freedom. We came here for a better life. We came here for a better opportunity. We should not close the door to others that are trying to do the same.”

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Chicken Vanity cuffs

Vanity is a funny thing.

At least it can be for some of us.

For others, it can bring your alleged carjacking, gun-toting, cellphoneswiping crime spree to a downer of a screeching halt.

According to News9.com, suspect Cruzitio Fuentez — one of several, but the news station has not yet named the others — held a man at gunpoint before stealing his car.

Police believe the suspects, traveling on a flat tire, soon abandoned that vehicle, shot another man in the leg, then escaped on foot to an apartment complex, where they stole another car, according to News9.com.

“They apparently walked to an apartment complex and stole another car at gunpoint along with a cellphone of the victim there,” El Reno Police Lt. Van Gillock told the television news station.

Soon, the suspects holed up in an Oklahoma City hotel room, police

Fried news said, where they unwound by using the stolen phones to make phone calls.

We bet you can guess what they did next.

Go ahead; guess.

Of course they took selfies!

“When the victim obtained a new phone, these had been saved onto her cloud, and they loaded automatically into her cellphone, which gave us pictures of the suspect in the hotel room,” Gillock said.

Fuentez was soon arrested. Several others face charges.

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“I’m God, bitch!” said the creator of all things, omnipotent and all-knowing, after She recently crashed a stolen SUV into a Sand Springs police car.

“Welcome to hell!”

God, who takes many forms, allegedly appeared on Nov. 6 as Stacey Ann Bunsey, 41,

who drove Her divine instrument into officer James Matthew Stacy’s patrol car.

The officer fired two shots at the Alpha and the Omega before the collision but was not injured.

“My only explanation was he was under the protection of God,” Sand Springs Police Chief Mike Carter said at a press conference, according to Tulsa World.

And She also was under the protection of the officers, who Tased the suspect before handcuffing Her as She sang hymns.

Bunsey, aka THE GREAT I AM, was arrested on complaints of assault and battery with a deadly weapon on a police officer, eluding a police officer, driving under the influence of drugs, possession of a stolen vehicle and resisting arrest.

By the way, there are just 30 more shopping days until Christmas.

Birthday wishes

Most elderly men just sit around on their 81st birthdays, silently disapproving of President Obama’s environmental and energy policies.

But not Sen. Jim “Two Mike Gundys Plus One” Inhofe, who spent his special day on Earth celebrating an official Senate disapproval of President Obama’s environmental and energy policies.

Inhofe, a climate change denier who, somehow, also is chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, danced the Charleston as he counted a narrow victory on Senate Joint resolutions 23 and 24, which offered a toothless rebuke to the President’s carbon mandate.

“It brings me great joy for the Senate to come together in a majority, bipartisan vote to disapprove of this economically disastrous carbon mandate from the administration,” Inhofe said. “In this country, it is Congress who writes the laws, not EPA.”

No word on if he took a nap right after the vote, took up scrapbooking or joined a Pat Boone tribute band.

Check boom

Who needs actual money when you can just write checks for everything?!

Checks are great — paper promising that someday maybe the writer will pay you what they owe. Probably.

And quite possibly, few love checks more than Baby Boomers — they whip out their checkbooks at tills all over the country and elicit sighs from those in line behind them who know that the future is plastic, and it’s now and in the time it takes you to write a check and process it, we’re already back in the car, eating chips and Rolo candies, lip-syncing to terrible indiepop-folk music and just generally driving while distracted.

Four metro Baby Boomers — well, three and one

45-year-old — have yet to discover the almost-immediate magic of plastic.

They are facing charges for writing counterfeit checks.

Basically, Marjorie Elaine Lodes, Daniel Charles Lodes, Mechelle Lee Ashcraft and Belinda Sonya Shelton stole bank info from some people in Nebraska, printed counterfeit checks, made fake IDs and went on a shopping spree totaling $134,535.06. Sometimes they didn’t even keep what they bought; NewsOK.com reported that the indictment claimed they “returned items for cash and store credit.”

They’re being indicted on nine charges, including conspiracy, and could get 10 years and $250,000 fines.

Evaporating assets

The police can’t take your stuff without proof that it was used in criminal activity, right?

Wrong.

Under Oklahoma law,

all they need is suspicion, but some believe mere suspicion isn’t enough and that new laws need to be made to protect citizens.

The Huffington Post reported that Oklahoma Senator Kyle Loveless “sees this as a fundamental violation of people’s rights to due process and property and says the lax standards have gotten innocent people in Oklahoma caught in the civil asset forfeiture net.”

On the other hand, The Norman Transcript explained, “For law enforcement, the loss of a key funding source and a means to target drug traffickers without requiring a criminal conviction is under attack.”

University of Oklahoma (OU) College of Law hosted a debate on civil asset forfeiture Nov. 18, and the issue remained complicated.

Loveless, who is trying to pass Senate Bill 838 to change the law; First Assistant District Attorney Scott Rowland; Oklahoma City Police Maj. Bill Weaver; and Brady Henderson, ACLU of Oklahoma’s legal director, participated in the debate.

“I think that most people would agree that if we can convict and use

criminals’ assets against them, that would be great — and that’s the whole concept,” Loveless told The Huffington Post on Nov. 13. “But the problem of it is, should we use that money before there’s a conviction? I don’t think so, because the person is not a drug dealer until they’re convicted under the law.

We want to give law enforcement the tools, but not at the expense of innocent people’s stuff.”

The Norman Transcript explained that “Oklahoma City has an agreement with three to four counties it works with and 100 percent of the money seized is dedicated to narcotics enforcement. Without that money, the enforcement would decline.”

During the debate at OU, Weaver also said that law enforcement’s goal isn’t to take money from innocent people.

Henderson countered that appearances — and actual cases of misconduct — are partly to blame.

And since it was a debate, nobody came to any solid agreement.

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It’s time for compassion, not fear

By Veronica Laizure

For the past year, I’ve worked as civil rights director for Oklahoma’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and I want to address some of the things going on in our state now that I’ve had a year to reflect on my position as a non-Muslim serving the Oklahoma Muslim community.

Right now, many people are afraid to accept Syrian refugees due to the perceived risk they pose. Others fear the influence of “radical Islam” on the Muslim community and ask, “Are they dangerous to us?” They question the allegiance of Muslim Americans and view their Muslim neighbors with distrust.

I will tell you that in my year of working closely in and around the Oklahoma Muslim community, not once have I felt threatened by a Muslim.

When my parents asked me if I was sure I wanted to take this job, they weren’t

worried that Muslims were going to come after me. When they express fear for my safety during our events, they aren’t afraid of my Muslim friends and family. When my mother called me in tears, begging me not to attend Tulsa’s Veterans Day parade, she wasn’t worried that a Muslim would snap and carry out a threat of violence.

They’re afraid of Islamophobia.

They’re afraid of radicalized, white Christian men who believe their right to own guns trump my right to feel safe in my own state. They’re afraid of the kneejerk reaction that people have to things they don’t understand. They’re afraid of ignorance and racism and xenophobia.

It isn’t Muslims who send us death threats on a weekly or even daily basis.

It wasn’t Muslims who suggested sitting on a rooftop over the parade with a rifle to pick off the Muslim veterans and families as they walked by. It wasn’t

a Muslim who picked up a gun and called 911 to a Norman neighborhood, threatening to shoot “anything that looks Muslim.” It hasn’t ever been a Muslim person who feels entitled to come into my space, make me feel unsafe or use physical intimidation to try to force me to back down. Based both on statistics and anecdotal evidence, I’m much more in danger from white men than I am from any Muslim person.

Our own governor is urging us to be afraid of Syrian refugees, and many have suggested that we place incoming refugees in internment facilities until this imagined risk is cleared. Others say that we can’t afford to house our own struggling and marginalized population, so we definitely can’t handle an influx of needy people. If that’s your real objection, you need to put your money where your mouth is.

Let’s work on some policies that will

actually make all of us safer by limiting the spread of weapons into the hands of people who use them in violence.

Let’s stop marginalizing people and pushing them further out of the fabric of American life. Let’s stop pushing foreign policy that destabilizes regions and sets up groups like Daesh in the first place. Let’s commit to helping our own vulnerable populations in tangible ways by providing housing and food and social assistance.

And let’s stop pretending that our fear is rooted in anything but Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia. Because if Muslims are what you’re really afraid of, trust me; you’re looking in the wrong place.

Laizure is a 2014 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and civil rights director and an attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Oklahoma.

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OG&E seeks to curtail renewable energy

By Joel Olson

At 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, citizens will have a chance to comment on OG&E’s request for an unusual rate increase. The energy company wants to impose extra charges on customers who invest in wind generators or solar panels for their homes.

In 1988, Oklahoma passed a net metering law requiring utility companies to allow homeowners who generated renewable energy to connect to the grid. Homeowners were to be paid the going rate for the energy they contributed by running meters backward to reduce their bills. The law forbade companies from charging those customers extra. Now that solar panels are much more affordable, more people are beginning to make this type of home improvement.

But last year, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 1456, which assumed that

this extra energy placed additional costs onto customers who did not generate clean energy and directed the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to allow an extra charge on their bills.

In the process of finding how much that charge should be, there have been hearings, and at each, citizens have demanded utility companies prove such an effect exists and have repeatedly requested that a cost-benefit analysis be performed.

This sort of examination has been performed in several other states and includes the fuel the utility doesn’t need to use, the transmission losses that don’t happen, the reduction in the need to purchase energy from other sources during peak demand, the reduced need to build new plants and the benefits to the environment.

On the residents’ side, solar

panels or a wind turbine are a home improvement that will pay for itself in around 10 years — sooner if electric rates increase — and continue to produce energy for 25 years or more.

The home actually earns income. Plus, there is a federal tax rebate of 30 percent of the cost of the system if purchased before the end of 2016. It is available to homeowners and small businesses.

The rate increase proposed by OG&E, if granted, would cancel out the economic argument for locally produced clean energy; it would also — as it has in Arizona — put an end to a fledgling industry with an array of jobs in manufacturing components and installation.

OG&E is not opposed to solar energy — it has installed two solar farms on the west side of Oklahoma City. But with its advantage of bulk

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purchasing, in addition to this new charge for other stakeholders, the company will take this good investment opportunity away from working people.

So if you don’t think their plans should go through, come and speak out at Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s public hearing at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in courtroom B of the Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 N. Lincoln Blvd., just southwest of the state capitol.

A rally is planned at noon, and public hearing comments begin around 1:30 p.m. Or write to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission at 2101 N. Lincoln Blvd. #B22, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. If you can’t make it, there will probably be another hearing before the question is finally decided.

Joel Olson is an environmental activist and a retired National Severe Storms Forecast Center/Storm Prediction Center satellite meteorologist who lives in Moore.

LETTERS 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, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com. Include a city of residence and contact number for verification.

Garden gratitude

I just finished reading the excellent article about the positive changes taking place at Bodine Elementary School (News, “Kid-approved,” Laura Eastes, Nov. 11, Oklahoma Gazette).

The article briefly touches on the edible garden and outdoor classroom located at the front of the building. It was provided free by Oklahoma City Harvest, a nonprofit program of OKC Beautiful, founded in 2013 by Lisa Putt and me.

Our goal was to provide sustainable, easy-to-manage, community gardens to schools in at-risk communities. To date, we have built 20 four-bed gardens in schoolyards, community centers and other places where children and families gather. Bodine’s garden was generously funded by Frank McDonald. OKC Harvest plans,

builds, funds and plants the gardens with surface-drip irrigation and supports gardens through ongoing plantings and education opportunities for teachers and administrators, as well as children and their parents.

At Oklahoma City Harvest, we know the power of garden learning and we are committed to planting seeds of knowledge in schoolyards where children and teachers work together.

— Larry Heyman program director, OKC Beautiful, co-founder, Oklahoma City Harvest Oklahoma City Duplicitous defense

Last week, one guy ranted about a coffee cup. Most people recognized the ridiculous nature of his call to force baristas to wish them a merry Christmas (before Thanksgiving, no less).

Many very rightly declared this not to be very Christlike. Good for them. We need to show love to those who may not feel comfortable wishing another person a merry Christmas.

But today, I saw a disturbing trend among those who will be celebrating the birth of Jesus next month. It has been reported that one of the Paris attackers passed himself off as a Syrian refugee. And now there is a call to keep all Syrian refugees far away from

us; that we are not safe if we allow these people to come to our country because they will attack us. This is the narrative I have read over and over. Yes, safety is an issue — for the thousands of people fleeing the land of their birth in order to save their lives and the lives of their children.

How Christlike is it to turn them away?

OK, I know this may be more of a political issue than a religious one. But our governor, who fought so hard to keep the Ten Commandments on state property, also declared her desire to refuse the refugees. The governor of the state where I was born (Texas) supports a pro-life agenda but has said no to people fleeing for their lives. A presidential candidate declared Christian refugees would be welcome, but not Muslim.

These leaders are the very ones many support and vote for because of the Christian values they hold.

How hypocritical is it to say we want Christian values and then, when we have an opportunity to do what Jesus would do, turn our backs? Have we forgotten that Mary and Joseph were refugees?

The way to save the world is not to condemn it.

Merry Christmas.

— Stacey Paugh Oklahoma City

Pro-life?

Here’s what I have to say to the so-called pro-life movement: Just because you’re opposed to abortion doesn’t make you “pro-life.” Your morality could be lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, educated or housed. Why would I think that you might not? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there.

That’s not pro-life; it’s “pro-birth.”

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

— Frank Silovsky Oklahoma City Correction

Oklahoma Gazette would like to let our readers know the name and maker of the cocktail pictured on last week’s Season’s Drinkings cover.

It’s a Chai Spiced Old Fashioned made with chai-infused bourbon, clove simple syrup and orange bitters created by the staff at In the Raw. We also misidentified a drink in a photo caption in the related story inside. It is the Brose. We apologize for the omission and error.

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BOOKS Small Business and Indies Celebration, enjoy a super special Saturday celebration featuring appearances by several Oklahoman bestselling authors as well as a few performances, giveaways and more, all day, Nov. 28. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 340-9202, bestofbooksedmond.com. SAT

FILM A Ballerina’s Tale, (2015, US, dir. Nelson George) Misty Copeland’s ascent to the top of the ballet world was not an easy one; Copeland faced adversity at every turn, forced to stare down the pale gaunt aesthetic ideal of the ballet world at large before becoming the first ever African-American principle dancer at the legendary American Ballet Theatre, 5:30 p.m., Nov. 27-29. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SUN The Third Man, (1949, UK, dir. Carol Reed) considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time, Carol Reed’s masterpiece starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten is a must-see for any cinephile; a pulp novelist accepts his friend’s invitation to visit postwar Vienna only to discover his would-be host has died under mysterious circumstances, 8 p.m., Nov. 27 & 28; 2 p.m., Nov. 29.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SUN Roman Holiday, (1953, US, dir. William Wyler) a runaway princess and an American news reporter find love in the Eternal City; this classic Academy Award-winning romantic comedy stars Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck as the two lovebirds from different worlds, 2 & 7 p.m., Nov. 29 & Dec. 1. AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial Road, 405-755-2406, amctheatres.com. SUN & TUE

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This Changes Everything, (2015, Canada, dir. Avi Lewis) based on the bestselling book by Naomi Klein, this documentary takes a look at seven communities driving environmental change, as well as the complex relationship between capitalism and the global ecosystem, 6:30 p.m., Dec. 1. AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial Road, 755-2406, amctheatres.com. TUE Christmas Vacation, (1989, US, dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik) join the Griswolds as they attempt to celebrate Christmas as a family, and witness all the chaos that ensues; National Lampoon’s Christmas classic is back on the big screen to make sure you’ll laugh your jingle bells off, 7 p.m., Dec. 1. Harkins Theatre, 150 E. Reno Ave., 231-4747, harkinstheatres.com. TUE

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Last Sunday Poetry Reading, come get your monthly recommended dose of spoken word, a vital vitamin in which too many of us are deficient, 2-4 p.m., Nov. 29. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. SUN

Fowler Volkswagen Opening and Art Reception To those who insist that the realms of automobiles and artwork should never mix, well, that’s a really specific issue to choose to waste all your energy on, and maybe you should talk to somebody about these feelings of arbitrary animosity. But also, to those naysayers, Fowler Volkswagen says fooey! At 4 p.m. Dec. 3, it will open the doors of its new store at 617 N. Interstate Drive in Norman for a celebration and an art reception featuring Volkswagen-inspired artwork, including several pieces done on VW auto parts. Event entry is free. Call 642-0318.

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HAPPENINGS Christmas in the Park, drive or walk through a dazzling exhibition of over 4 million Christmas lights covering 400 displays; best of all, admission is free, so bring all your friends and family to kick your holiday rear into gear, 6-11 p.m., ongoing. Yukon City Park, 2200 S. Holly Ave., Yukon, 350-8937, cityofyukonok.gov.

Crossroads of Commerce, Oklahoma history buffs won’t want to miss this exhibit showcasing the growth and development of Oklahoma’s economy from 1716 to statehood, the Dust Bowl, the depression, and all the way to present day. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter.

Holiday Light Spectacular, over two decades, this annual event has grown to more than 100 light displays spanning over a mile-and-a-half drive, including

Take tours over Nichols Hills Downtown Lake Hefner The State Capitol

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Through the Eyes of the Lynx: Galileo, Natural History and the Americas, The Academy of the Lynx was one of the world’s earliest scientific societies, whose star pupil happened to be Renaissance artist and scientist (among other things) Galileo Galilei; this exhibit celebrates the contributions of Galileo and the Academy of the Lynx in the areas of natural science and history, through Jan. 18.

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

Free Zoo Day, work off the calories you’ll inevitably consume as you chase down your kids at the OKC Zoo free day; get your fill of fun and physical activity the day before Thanksgiving so you’ll be all the more thankful for the sleepy sports ball and infinite turkey when the holiday

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a 118-foot Christmas tree and dancing light shows coordinated to music, 6-10 p.m., Nov. 20-Dec. 30. Joe B. Barnes Regional Park, 8700 E. Reno Ave., Midwest City, 739-1293, midwestcityok.org.

“God, Mom! Regular, box-shaped stores are so last year. This year, all the cool kids are only shopping at geodesic dome shops,” said the crappy hypothetical hipster teen we invented while Googling geodesic dome, which is basically a much artsier igloo, by the way. Seriously, though, the rotating vendors at Holiday Pop-Up Shops are very cool (much cooler than that imaginary brat) and totally local, offering gifts for everyone at affordable prices. They can be found 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Friday-Sunday through Dec. 20 at 399 NW 10th St. Visit okcpopups. com.

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Red Earth Treefest Sure, those department store trees are pretty — pretty boring, anyway. Leave corporate Christmas far behind with a uniquely native Oklahoma twist on trees at the first Red Earth Art Center Treefest Dec. 1-30. Each of the displays at Treefest features handmade decorations, including handwoven and beaded ornaments and dream catchers, provided by five native tribes and nations — there’s not a homogenous bauble in sight. One tree will even feature one-of-a-kind homemade stockings that will be on sale to the public. Entry is free, and Red Earth Art Center, 6 Santa Fe Plaza, is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday-Friday. Visit redearth.org or call 427-5228.

Tuesday-Dec. 30 arrives, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Nov. 25. Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Pl., 424-3344, okczoo.com. WED Black Friday Blitz Chess Championship, capture kings and mad cash at the Black Friday Blitz; compete for cash prizes at this nine-round Swiss tournament, which, if you’re reading this right now, we assume is a term you understand, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Nov. 27. District House, 1755 NW 16th St, 642-6136, youthchessok.org. FRI Bricktown Tree Lighting Festival, the day after Thanksgiving is widely regarded by sticklers as the first day society can safely and without fear of judgment acknowledge the Christmas holiday, and this annual celebration is the perfect way to do just that, 5-7 p.m., Nov. 27. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 218-1000, downtownindecember.com. FRI Drop-In Art, these quilts are practical, prismatic, and mathematical, everything you need to keep you warm and thoroughly, stagnantly, eternally in bed throughout the winter; join OKCMOA to make your own geometric felt quilts, 1 p.m., Nov. 28. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT Walking Tour, come explore the wonders you might never have noticed at the Myriad Gardens while learning about the plants and flowers; tours are free and walk-ups are welcome, 10 a.m., Nov. 28. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SAT

FOOD Apple Pie 101, join the Norman Public Library to learn everything you need to know about baking the dish that somehow became the comparative epitome of American cuisine, 2 p.m., Nov. 25.

Norman Public Library, 225 N. Webster Ave., Norman, 701-2600, pioneerlibrarysystem.org. WED Paleo Pancakes, you, too, can perform the sorcery of breadless pancakes without the messy blood sacrifice; learn how you can eliminate grain and processed foods to look and feel better and live longer, probably, noon, Dec. 1. Natural Grocers, 7001 N. May Ave., 840-0300, naturalgrocers.com. TUE continued on next page

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Ree Drummond Book Signing Better known as The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond is one of Oklahoma’s own who made it into the big-time, and for good reason: Her recipes are easy to follow and prepare. She is also a firm advocate of breakfast for dinner. Meet her at noon Friday for a signing of The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime at Full Circle Bookstore inside 50 Penn Place, 1900 Northwest Expressway. The event is free, and line passes and copies of the book can be reserved by calling 842-2900.

Guests must have a line pass to attend the event. Visit fullcirclebooks.com.

Friday

YOUTH Devon Ice Rink, see how well you fare in a nearly frictionless environment at this year’s Devon ice rink; perhaps you’ll discover a new talent you never knew you had… or maybe you should try, like, knitting or something. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Tape & Tunnels, get psyched for recyclables at the newest exhibit at SMO, where kids can experience an interactive wonderland with packing tape tunnels, bungee cord mazes, and cardboard clubhouses where they can climb, build and explore. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Join us for the ceremonial lighting of the President’s Tree located north of Broncho Lake at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, to kick off WinterGlow 2015.

Followed by free holiday snacks, kid crafts, carriage rides and family activities in NUC. Free photos with Santa with the donation of a new toy!

www.uco.edu/winterglow • 405-974-2363 UCOWinterGlow @ucowinterglow

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Black Friday Camp, swap the tradition of hauling cranky children through crowded stores and shopping malls at 6 a.m. for restful retail therapy while they’re off having fun with the folks at OKC Zoo, learning about animals, making friends and having snacks, 6 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 27. Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Pl., 424-3344, okczoo.com. FRI Crafts For Kids, long ago in ancient times, people would use light to capture images on thin strips of plastic known as film, which could be developed into real physical photographs; honor that tradition by creating your very own photo frame out of foam pieces and glitter glue, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 28. Lakeshore Learning Store, 6300 N. May Ave., 858-8778, lakeshorelearning. com. SAT

PERFORMING ARTS The Fourposter, an ode to the circle of life as represented by marriage, this play follows a turn-ofthe-century couple through 35 years together and the moments that shape them, all set in their bedroom, dominated by the titular fourposter bed, 8 p.m., Nov. 26-28; 2:30 p.m., Nov. 29. Jewel Box Theatre, 3700 N. Walker Ave., 521-1786, jewelboxtheatre.org. THU-SUN Greetings!, if you’re looking for on-stage holiday cheer that you haven’t seen a billion times before, check out Greetings!, a show featuring a protagonist who brings home his Jewish atheist fiancée to his very Catholic family for the first time, 8 p.m., Nov. 27-28.

Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St., 232-6500, carpentersquare.com. FRI-SAT Frank Santos, Jr., as though you post-turkey tryptophan coma wasn’t enough to keep you sleepy, very sleepy, comedy hypnotist Santos is here to ensure you remain delightfully unconscious until your in-laws go back home, 8 & 10:30 p.m., Nov. 27-28; 8 p.m., Nov. 29. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. FRI-SUN The Dinner Detective, this improvised show is an ordinary dinner, with one exception: someone is guilty of murder, and that person might be sitting right across from you; guests are encouraged to come in costume, 6 p.m., Nov. 14. Sheraton Hotel, 1 N. Broadway Ave, 2352780, sheratonokc.com. SAT

Junie B in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Junie B. has a whole world of problems this Christmas, and they’re about to get worse when Junie B. draws Tattletale May, who has been ruining her fun all along, for Secret Santa, 11 a.m., Nov. 30 & Dec. 2. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org. MON

The Oklahoma Nutcracker, young Clara has awoken in the night to find that her Christmas present, a nutcracker prince, has come to life and is leading a charge against an army of mice led by a great rat king; join Norman Ballet Company for its seasonal production, 3 p.m., Nov. 29. Nancy O’Brian Center for the Performing Arts, 1809 N. Stubbeman Ave., Norman, 364-0397, normanballetcompany.com. SUN

Learn To Skate, become a master of the ice with the skating pros from Blazers Ice Centre and not only will you glide across the ice with ease, you’ll also be able to amaze your friends with several skills necessary for the basics of figure skating and ice hockey, Nov. 30, 7 & 7:30 p.m. Devon Ice Rink, 100 N. Robinson Ave., 708-6499, downtownindecember.com. MON

A Christmas Carol, Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge was lacking in holiday spirit, so fate sent him three: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future; see Charles Dickens’ classic story brought to life onstage and leave the humbug at home, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 2. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 524-9312, lyrictheatreokc.com. WED

Art Adventures, children experience the world of art through stories and projects in this event series; this week’s story is Art by Patrick McDonnell, 10:30 A.M., Dec. 1. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. WED

ACTIVE OKC Thunder vs. Brooklyn Nets, go cheer on your favorite sports ball team, local heroes the Oklahoma City Thunder, as they challenge the Brooklyn Nets in

Karen Sonntag of Norman donated her 2002 Ford Focus

this big city show down, 7 p.m., Nov. 25. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 602-8700, chesapeakearena.com. WED Turkey Day 5K, prepare for the marathon of shopping, racing to the sales tables, and fighting for the last $2 sweater in your cousin’s size by running this 5K on Thanksgiving morning; all proceeds benefit Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity, helping build homes in Moore for families devastated by the May 2013 tornado, 7 a.m., Nov. 26. Norman High School, 911 W. Main, Norman, 366-5812, okfoodbank.org. THU OKC Thunder vs. Detroit Pistons, cheer on your favorite team, local heroes the Oklahoma City Thunder, as it challenges the Brooklyn Nets in this big-city showdown, 7 p.m., Nov. 27. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 602-8700, chesapeakearena.com. FRI Foam Roller Stretch Class, these rollers won’t curl your hair, but they might help curl your limbs in ways you forgot you could; join fitness expert Denise Burns to learn the benefits of using foam rollers for deep muscle stretching, 10:30 a.m., Nov. 28. INTEGRIS Fitness Center, 5520 N. Independence Ave., integrisok.com. SAT OU Men’s Basketball, if you still aren’t quite sure what the phrase “go hard in the paint” means, come out and support Sooner men’s basketball as fight to the figurative death the Wisconsin Badgers, 1:30 p.m., Nov. 29. Lloyd Noble Center, 2900 S. Jenkins Ave., Norman, 325-4666, lloydnoblecenter.com. SUN

VISUAL ARTS Annual Ceramics Sale, ceramic pottery from Oklahoma Contemporary is fantastic for a lot of things, including food & drink, decoration, and as useful and unique gifts for the whole family; proceeds go directly back to the studio to help keep class costs low and to improve and replace equipment. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., oklahomacontemporary.org.

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abstraction. DNA Galleries, 1709 NW 16th St., 525-3499, dnagalleries.com.

Ellen Lisle/Mary Lou & John Moad, in celebration of the Studio Gallery’s 25 years in business, come see their featured artists’ works, including the wildflower macrophotography of Ellen Lisle and the paintings of Mary Lou & John Moad. The Studio Gallery, 2642 W. Britton, 752-2642, thestudiogallery.org.

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James Surls, nature figures prominently in the work of sculptor James Surls, and over the course of four decades, he has developed evocative, hybrid forms in wood, steel, and bronze inspired by flowers, the human body, and rock formations. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

Retro 75, Jann Jeffrey’s latest exhibit is a celebration of color and design through watercolor, glasswork, photography and more; help her celebrate decades of involvement in the arts community as a creator and supporter as she closes her gallery at the end of December. Jann Jeffrey Gallery, 3018 Paseo St., 607-0406.

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Small Works Great Gifts, if you are puzzled as to what to gift your artistic loved one for the holidays, check out this unique show featuring small works during the holiday season; the gallery shows a wide variety of styles as well as mediums; oils, acrylics, watercolor, photography, pen and ink, pencil as well as sculpture and glass, and also will have gift certificates and layaway. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

The 3 of Us, join resident artist Dana Powell, along with painter Mary Howard and jewelry crafter Andrea Kissinger for a unique multimedia exhibit featuring bright colors and shining necklaces. In Your Eye Gallery, 3005 Paseo #A, 525-2161, inyoureyegallery.com.

This Place We Have Become, Barry Snidow’s photographic prints, Shane Scribner’s paintings of brief ordinary moments, and Sara Scribner’s eternal women all combine the timeless with the distinctly dated; together, these artists fill the gallery with varied artworks, all asking the viewer how we know where we are in time. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 528-6336, jrbartgallery.com.

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Cody Rains/Eleazar Velazquez/Chandler Watson, check out three unique local artists working in a variety of 2-D media, ranging from spray paint to acrylics & oils to pastels; all share in a love of color and physiological

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Turkey time It’s okay if you don’t feel like cooking Thanksgiving dinner; OKC restaurants will take care of it.

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Cooking a turkey is bonkers, right?

It’s 1,000 pounds and you had to start defrosting it a few days before it was frozen and there’s no way that thing is fitting in your oven, so you have a team of arsonists in the backyard just setting fire to it again and again while you’re inside mashing potatoes and stuffing stuffings.

Unless your mom does it. That’s OK. Moms can handle anything.

But you! It’s not fair to expect you to cook Thanksgiving dinner! That might be why the fairness experts at many Oklahoma City restaurants are happy to do the cooking for you.

Warning: You might want to call ahead, because while reservations are not required everywhere, they are highly recommended.

1. Deep Fork Grill

5418 N. Western Ave. | 848-7678

One of the city’s more traditional Thanksgiving spots, Deep Fork offers

a set menu 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Thursday.

That day’s fare features traditional turkey and dressing for $45, filet mignon for $65 and cedar plank salmon for $45. Walk-ins are welcome, but there might be quite a wait.

2. Vast

333 W. Sheridan Ave. | 702-7262

For a Thanksgiving view from the top of the city, Vast is doing a buffet-style meal 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Its Daily Table will be filled with traditional dishes for $49 per person (or $25 for those 12 and under). Reservations are recommended, but Vast is, well, pretty vast and has plenty of private dining spaces for larger parties.

3. Viceroy Grille

1200 N. Walker Ave. | 898-8120

Though this fine-dining spot inside the Ambassador Hotel is always booked up, a little bird said there

not mandatory, for this Chinese foodthemed Thanksgiving meal, replete with Peking duck. R&J’s opens at 5 p.m. Drinking is not mandatory either, but, c’mon — you know you’ll have a couple.

are invariably a few last-minute cancellations and no-shows. At $35 each, the four-course menu has a choice of favorites including honeyglazed ham, roasted turkey, dijoncrusted Scottish salmon and a killer pumpkin roll cake for dessert.

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Another hotel option, Flint, is inside the Colcord Hotel and will serve traditional, family-style Thanksgiving dinners all day for $22 per person.

Reservations aren’t required, but it’s probably wise to call ahead, just in case. One big plus: The restaurant is open 6 a.m.-midnight, so you can definitely get that late-night Thanksgiving itch scratched.

5. The R&J Lounge and Supper Club

After reopening earlier this year as J. Bruner’s at the Haunted House, this classic Oklahoma City dining spot is doing Thanksgiving starting at 5 p.m. with a traditional turkey roasted dinner, prime rib and other selections from its menu. The turkey meal is $29 and includes cranberry salad, turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams, corn casserole, rolls and a pumpkin cranberry bash for dessert.

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Elias Attouleh thinks of everything.

Peek in the kitchen of a pizza or Chinese food delivery operation and you’ll see a mad dash by cooks to fix orders as soon as they’re received.

It’s a different scene inside Oklahoma Steak & Grill Delivery, 76 E. 33rd St., in Edmond, where owner and cook Attouleh checks the GPS on his drivers’ cars before tossing a wellseasoned rib-eye under the broiler.

“We track the drivers to make sure they get back at the same time the next order is ready,” he said. “The driver has to be in a 10-minute range before we start cooking.”

Pizza can hold, he said. Chinese food can hold. Steak, cooked to order, cannot hold.

A deft hand in the kitchen, Attouleh also studied the packaging he uses to send out orders. Steaks

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come out of the broiler slightly undercooked because he knows they’ll continue cooking during delivery.

That’s how a customer can order a medium-rare steak and it shows up at the door perfectly cooked.

French fries come in boxes with holes punched out so that steam escapes. Toast is wrapped tight in foil to keep it crisp. They are little steps, but Attouleh said they make a big difference.

With a crew of six drivers, deliveries can usually be completed in 30 minutes, though in a rush, they’ll push delivery time to an hour. They stop taking orders if it gets any busier.

His wife, Heba “Happy” Attouleh, works the counter for takeout orders and adds inspiration to the menu.

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For more Oklahoma Steak & Grill Delivery, 76 E. 33rd St., in Edmond can also be found online at oksteak.com or ordered by phone at 341-0001.

Hours are 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4 p.m.-9:15 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

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Though steak is in the title, Attouleh said, the restaurant moves a lot of burgers, gyros and baked potatoes. The draw is in value and the ability to get something a little different delivered to eat in the comfort of your own home.

Patrons have come to expect specials on different days — like dessert and steak Thursdays — and it’s clear they’re satisfied, Attouleh said.

“Some customers order twice a day,” he said. “Some we see every week.”

It’s a concept they think has legs.

Elias is originally from Jordan. Happy is from Egypt. In their travels across the U.S., it has become apparent that delivery is popular. But most delivery restaurants cook the same old stuff. Steak, chicken, soups and fried cheesecake are much less common.

Ideally, the Attoulehs hope to see their idea spread from Edmond to the rest of the country.

But they know they owe a lot of their early success to their team. A delivery service is only as good as its drivers. Enter Austin Aishman — the first employee they hired and the one who has been with them ever since — even though he lives in Stillwater.

As they sit down to a meal together in between the 2 p.m. end of lunch service and the 4 p.m. beginning of dinner, it’s easy to see that this upstart restaurant concept has forged a bond among them.

“We have a good crew. They’re family at this point,” Attouleh said.

That seems fitting, given the number of family meals Oklahoma Steak & Grill Delivery is distributing to their little corner of Edmond every day.

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When is the last time you heard someone say they don’t like pizza?

In high school, a friend of mine was deathly allergic to flour products, but even he would get pizza and just eat the toppings and cheese and sauce.

It’s an almost universally beloved dish.

Rich and poor, young and old, half-mage and half-thief, everyone loves pizza. And Sauced on Paseo, 2912 Paseo St., makes some pretty excellent pizza.

Plenty of people love that pizza, yet I know I will get yelled at for saying this.

When this sees print, I will likely receive a few unkind messages from the former owner of Sauced, as I have when I’ve written about Sauced on Paseo in the past. But, you know, stuff happens.

The current owners have had the business for five years now.

They weathered some pretty daunting storms, including a wave of criticism from customers of the previous establishment.

And they’ve turned the restaurant from a patio bar that occasionally served pizza into a powerhouse on the popular Paseo strip.

So let’s talk about what makes Sauced on Paseo so good.

First and foremost, the pizza is top-notch. It has a good crust that holds up under a mountain of toppings without detracting from the overall flavor.

My personal favorite is the Loaded Hawaiian ($12 for a small, $17 for a medium and $20 for a large),

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What needs work: It can get pretty busy when people want pizza, which is always.

Tip: Suicide Pie! is the best way to try a which takes the little of everything. classic combo of Canadian bacon with Hawaiian pineapple and adds regular bacon and I’m especially taken with its take on jalapeños. It’s a-spicy. It’s a-sweet. It’s Buffalo chicken, which uses a slightly a-what I order all the time. tangy blue cheese sauce as the base On a diet? Try the Gardenia with chunks of spicy chicken on top. It ($12/$17/$20) with mushrooms, won’t replace eating hot wings, but it is artichokes, zucchini and romesco sauce. a pretty nice homage.

It’s less a pizza than a cooked salad on That said, you can just get some a crust, but it’s still pretty good. chicken wings (6 for $6.50), but I For a truly unique pizza, the Green recommend eating them quickly. They aren’t quite as crisp as I prefer them, but they’re still very satisfying.

The Italian nachos ($7.50) are a monster and should not be underestimated. We’ve lost some good men down there, trying to dig wonton chips covered in sausage and chicken and peppers and olives from that cheesy mess of Alfredo sauce and mozzarella. (They didn’t die; they just got heartburn.)

And if, for some reason, you simply cannot abide another slice of pizza, I recommend the Italian club ($7).

It’s a sandwich packed full of salami, pepperoni, capicola, peppers and olives Lantern ($15/$21/$24) has pear, feta, drenched in red sauce and melted spinach, mozzarella and capicola — a mozzarella. Definitely take your spicy ham that might be the reason Prilosec before starting this one. people invented that move where you There’s no way you should have pinch your fingers in front of your room for dessert, but you will find a pursed lips and then explode it while way to make room for one of Sauced’s making a kissing sound — over garlic enormous bricks of Rice Krispies and oil sauce. treats.

But I always recommend people You guys head down there and get the Suicide Pie! ($28), which has order us a pie. a slice of almost all Sauced’s specialty pizzas packed together in one box.

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“As we’ve been revamping the menu, we decided to revisit brunch,” said Oak & Ore co-owner Micah Andrews. “We’ve had a lot of customers asking for it.”

The craft beer bar and restaurant, 1732 NW 16th St., started brunch service from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 22 and will continue each Sunday. Oak & Ore is known for a rotating 36-tap brew selection, and Andrews said it’s bringing some of that spirit into the kitchen.

“The cool thing is this revolving beer menu has translated to how we work in the kitchen,” he said. “A lot of stuff goes into creating a new menu. We obviously can’t rotate the food as much as the beer, but it keeps us engaged and working.”

The new brunch menu will include entrees including taquitos de gran altura, Boston Fosters fried pie, savory fried pie, Cajun shrimp and grits, smothered clucker and The Continental alongside specialty cocktails Fancy Pants Grapefruit Mimosa, Craft Bloody Beer, Craft Beermosa and Housemade Bloody Mary.

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“It’s something that’s been going through our minds for a while,” said chef and partner Kurt Fleischfresser of changes to The Coach House, 6437 Avondale Drive. “The fine dining institutions across the country, people appreciate them, but they don’t go to them as often.”

After Valentine’s Day weekend next year, the restaurant will shut its doors to undergo a remodel, opening with a new concept and new name. But Fleischfresser said not to mourn the end of The Coach House — they’re keeping the heart and soul of the restaurant as well as current chef de cuisine David Henry and mixologist Kyle Fleischfresser.

The idea is simple, he said: Keep the same cutting-edge cuisine, but make the restaurant more accessible to Oklahoma City.

“I don’t want The Coach House to be your parents’ restaurant or your grandparents’ restaurant,” he said. “I want it to go out on a positive note. I’ve spent more than half my life in that restaurant. My family has spent half their life in that restaurant. This will just be a fresh start.”

Restaurateur Chris Lower, who originally founded the restaurant in 1985, will help with the redesign.

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Leftover hangover How many turkeys did grandma make again?

Somehow, the fridge, freezer and several coolers in the backyard are full of dark meat, and there’s only a single thimbleful of gravy left. There’s just so much of that gobbler you can gobble.

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4U Café bills itself as Oklahoma City’s Original Gun Range Cafe, which might tell visitors a lot about how deep the Second Amendment culture runs in our fair city.

But even if you’re not interested in bullets, you’d be a fool to shoot off your mouth about the food at 4U without giving it a try. It serves top-notch onion burgers, Frito chili pies and an award-winning chicken salad sandwich. (It’s from the first chicken to place in a skeet shooting competition.)

Ann’s Chicken Fry House and Gift Shop 4106 NW 39th St. 943-8915

“I just got through with that turkey, and now you want me to eat chicken?” is something you might say if you’ve never been to Ann’s Chicken Fry House, where the specialty isn’t fried birds, but rather chicken-fried steaks. There’s nothing quite so entertaining as watching someone’s face when one of these beauties finds its way to a table. These meaty delights are so big they can hang off the plate and come replete with plenty of country (not turkey) gravy.

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Camilya’s Cafe 10942 N. May Ave. 418-4141

Due to a long-standing feud between turkey producers and Turkey the country, there are rarely any turkeys included in the Mediterranean diet. That makes Camilya’s Cafe an ideal spot for your post-Thanksgiving meal. There are gyros, of course, but why not explore something really unique, like okra cooked with ground beef, garlic, onion and tomato sauce or feast on a few tender lamb chops?

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For a place called Crooked Crust, it has a pretty straightforward menu. Any whole pizza is $16, and that includes unlimited toppings. Specialty pies? $16. Cheese and pepperoni? $16. Some weird combo of barbecue sauce, every kind of pepper, mushroom, pineapple and cream cheese?

Still $16. Best of all, there’s not a hint of turkey on the menu. If only you could get your family to agree to pizza for Thanksgiving dinner in the first place.

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Nobody brought pickle fries to Thanksgiving. Sweet potatoes and dry stuffing and green bean casserole, sure, but where were the pickle fries, Aunt Kevin? Take your leave of dull sides and park yourself in a booth at Cal’s, where you can find a tasty Italian beef sandwich, Polish sausage and a heaping helping of crunchy, sour and habitforming pickle fries.

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Imagine if it got loose. Then you’re stuck running down the street, yelling, “Tacos!

Tacos! Here, Tacos!” And that is a recipe for a riot. Because Oklahomans come a-running when they a-hear someone a-talking about tacos. Save yourself a lot of heartache and just go to La Frontera for your asada and carnitas tacos and name your dog something else, like Father Tinkles O’Fluffy, Ph.D.

The Sweetery Eatery is a lot of things: a cute little cafe with sandwiches, a bakery with fresh cookies and a purveyor of fine salad. But there’s one thing it isn’t, and that’s open after 3 p.m. So if you have a post-holiday hankering for a cupcake, a pastrami and Swiss panino or the Ultimate BLT (with avocado and cream cheese), make plans to get there early.

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Unhampered history Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma takes Oklahoma History Center visitors on a ride through three centuries of free enterprise development in the state.

By Kaley Patterson

WKY-Radio and WKY-TV studios and their economic impact on the state is highlighted in Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma. think people will enjoy learning how those are connected, and especially, I think a lot people will enjoy the shared memories.”

Other exhibit facets highlight agricultural developments like gristmills, cotton gins and grain elevators.

Cultural markers include a TG&Y store in the 1950s, a Thunder scoreboard from Chesapeake Energy Arena, WKY-Radio and WKYTV studios, a newspaper printing operation, and Shelter/Church Studio and historic Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa.

Aviation history, including an actual truss from Oklahoma City’s Wiley Post Hangar and a simulated flight in the cockpit of a Lockheed Vega monoplane, also is on display.

“For the first time, we’re putting [our history] together to show how one investment opens the door for another and it changes the stage of history and each new generation walks onto that stage and hopefully overcomes the challenges and says, ‘I’m going to move

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Work on the Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma exhibit began more than two years ago. it forward,’” Blackburn said. “We’re connecting the dots through time, through different companies, to give this big picture of how we’ve evolved through the history of free enterprise.”

Crossroads of Commerce will evolve with Oklahoma’s rapidly changing economy, he said, and there are plans to add to the exhibit by the end of 2016.

“With only 8,000 square feet, we can only tell several hundred stories, and there are many more out there,”

he said. “We are a collective agency; that’s our job: to collect stories and objects. ... We hope to have many more opportunities to bring in the collections and add to this exhibit and keep it changing in a dynamic way.”

Oklahoma History Center is located at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive.

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Oklahoma History Center celebrated its 10th anniversary last week as it unveiled a new permanent exhibit, Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma.

The 8,000-square-foot, interactive display “connects the dots” between Oklahoma’s economic development through five time periods between 1716 and present day, said Bob Blackburn, Oklahoma Historical Society executive director.

“The story is made up of little mini biographies of businessmen and women who have been willing to take a risk, saw an opportunity to invest and created a business that generated jobs, paid taxes, built infrastructure and, ultimately, opened doors for others or contributed back to society through charities and good works and making a difference in the quality of life,” Blackburn said.

The history center began work on Crossroads of Commerce two years ago, he said, an ambitious timeframe to collect stories and artifacts and complete research, as the project spans almost three centuries of Oklahoma development.

“If you think about our history, everything we can do in terms of education, home construction, the development of cities, the demand for gasoline and oil and natural gas — everything comes back to the economy,” said Blackburn, who has worked with the historical society for 37 years. “What was driving the wheels of the economy to create jobs, to give people a sense of hope, to move to Oklahoma first, to invest their times and resources? What gave people the opportunity to raise families and to retire? So we wanted to tackle this through almost 300 years of one generation following the next.”

The exhibit includes well-known, state-founded enterprises like Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, Sonic Corp. and its popular drive-in eateries and the Chicken in the Rough restaurant chain founded by Beverly and Rubye Osborne in Oklahoma City.

“Depending on the age, I think everyone will recognize a lot of the names and the stories,” Blackburn said.

“All of these dots are connected, and I

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Norman was named one of Oklahoma’s newest certified cultural districts.

By Brett Dickerson

Downtown Norman was one of several locations in Oklahoma to receive a certified cultural district designation from Oklahoma Arts Council. The honor was announced at the Oklahoma Arts Conference, held Oct. 21-22 in Tulsa. Oklahoma City’s Plaza and Paseo Arts districts also earned certified cultural district status. The initiative recognizes areas that demonstrate efforts to boost civic pride, quality of life, property values, commerce and tourism while establishing an arts, education and cultural identity.

Norman Arts Council defines a certified cultural district as a “mixeduse area of a community in which a high concentration of arts and cultural facilities or activities serves as the anchor of attraction.”

Since it was founded in 1976, Norman Arts Council has worked to establish this type of identity for downtown Norman, said Joshua Boydston, Norman Arts Council associate director. The organization receives 25 percent of Norman’s hotel/ motel tax and distributes that money to other organizations to promote the arts in that city.

Norman is often called the City of Festivals, and Boydston said they launched Norman Music Festival (NMF) more than eight years ago to promote both arts and commerce and more recently established 2nd Friday Norman Art Walk with a similar goal.

The music, culture and art festival grew from one day with about 1,000 attendees to three days with an estimated 2015 attendance of 80,000, Boydston said.

“I think that it’s become this really nice symbiotic relationship between downtown Norman and the businesses, restaurants and bars that are always down there,” he said. “The festival shines this really bright spotlight for all of them for

Crowds gather at the 2015 Norman Music Festival. the other 362 days of the year.”

2nd Friday was developed to fill in those gaps, said NMF publicity chairwoman Michelle Bui. “We thought that we should give back to the community throughout the whole year and not just during the festival,” Bui said.

It, too, added music acts to its lineup each month as it grew.

Guestroom Records is located on Main Street, and its owner Will Muir said he has seen dramatic growth throughout downtown. The shop sells music and art and hosts live music events through the year. (See our Record Store Day: Black Friday story on P.39.)

“Except for the furniture stores, for a long time, we were the only retail place on Main Street,” he said. “I have a feeling that we are going to start seeing more results of the designation soon. …

It does add a sense of pride that, yeah, this really is as good as we think it is.”

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High-flying discipline An OCCC course offers hands-on training to curious drone enthusiasts and aspiring professionals alike.

By James Benjamin

As Shane Snyder watched interest in drones grow, he also recognized that education has not kept up with that increasing demand.

“There’s a lot of [people] who buy cheap ones, all the way through expensive ones,” he said. “They put it up in the air, and they wonder, ‘I crashed it; I don’t know what happened.’”

Snyder has 15 years of experience flying remote control planes, quadcopters and drones and said he hopes his course at Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) will give newcomers a greater understanding of when and how to fly drones. The Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) program runs Dec. 7-18 at OCCC’s Professional Development Institute, 7124 Interstate 35 Service Road near Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads.

Registration is $1,499 and includes the purchase of a quadcopter, flight simulation software and a radio transmitter, and students can keep each of them after the course is completed.

Half of the sUAS program involves hands-on flight instruction.

In compliance with Federal Aviation Administration airspace rules, training will occur indoors.

When flying recreationally, drone pilots must stay within a 400-foot sky cap, Snyder said. They also are restricted from flying within five miles of an airport or 25 feet of people.

When not engaging in hands-on coursework, Snyder said students will learn about potential drone uses and commercial and legal guidelines.

“We’ll ask you to do a little homework here and there, and each night and each day, it’ll be a combination of all three,” he said.

The course, intended for the curious and those with an idea of what they want to do with a drone, is

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Curious guests learn about Oklahoma City Community College’s upcoming Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) program during a recent community orientation presentation in Oklahoma City. a first-of-its-kind offering at OCCC, and Snyder said training classes in general are “almost a brand-new thing” globally.

In the future, however, he said training like this will increase as sUAS commercial uses are more routinely demonstrated to the public.

“There’s 100 different things you can do with these things and 100 we haven’t thought of,” he said. “We’re going to go over all these things, and by the end of the class, everyone will go, ‘I had no idea you could do that, and that’s actually a really good idea; I may pursue this instead. I was thinking of the wrong use.’”

Snyder admitted that he has considered getting involved in commercial drone use himself. In the next five to 10 years, he said, the military will no longer be the first thing people think of when drones are mentioned. Instead, they will become another part of daily civilian life as package deliverers, landscape surveyors and data collectors.

Before any of that can happen, however, Snyder said the public will need to demonstrate some knowledge of proper and legal use of the technology.

“The biggest thing we’re going to teach is safety,” he said. “We have to maintain a safe flying practice or the FAA is never going to let this get off the ground.”

For more information or to register, call Patrick Clanin at 682-7854 or email patrick.a.clanin@occc.edu.

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By Brett Dickerson

Three Plaza District art gallery owners have combined their knowledge and skill to create Plaza Gallery Group in an effort to expand their exposure through Oklahoma City and beyond. They also will work together to coordinate exhibit dates and events while advocating for the arts in Oklahoma.

Kasum Contemporary Fine Art, DNA Galleries and Graphite Elements and Design each reside within the same block of the district, which spans NW 16th Street from Classen Boulevard to Pennsylvania Avenue.

“We want to be able to support each other and provide more opportunities to people to immerse themselves in art and learn more about art,” said Tony Morton, owner of Kasum.

Plaza District is probably best known for its monthly Live! on the Plaza art walks, which happen the second Friday of each month and have drawn progressively larger crowds as they’ve expanded artist participation and food, drink and entertainment options.

Cayla Lewis, Plaza District Association executive director, said the organization estimates 5,000-6,000 guests flood the two-block area each month for the event.

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This welcome success is the result of a lot of community coordination and business participation. Live! on the Plaza heavily focuses on food and entertainment, said DNA Galleries co-owner Amanda Bradway, and Plaza

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Plaza Gallery Group has come together to find ways to provide a “fuller art experience in the Plaza.” From left Dylan and Amanda Bradway, Crystal Murphy, Stacey D. Miller, Tony Morton, Benny Jacobs and JT Coburn in front of the Plaza District’s Plaza Walls mural by Erin Cooper.

Gallery Group hopes to help maintain and support the district’s lively mix of art and artists.

So it’s finding ways to complement that success while giving local residents and artists opportunities to return when things have slowed down a bit.

“I think people who appreciate and like to patronize the arts and purchase art … want to stand back from the art, which you can’t do if it’s super crowded,” Bradway said.

Morton added that while crowds are fun and Live! on the Plaza exposes a lot of people to their galleries and brings in many newcomers, repeat gallery visitors expressed a desire to return for art-focused events that allow a little more room to enjoy the galleries — and to park.

Plaza Gallery Group founders said that interest bodes well for the district, galleries and locals.

“We want to be able to support each other and provide more opportunities for people to immerse themselves in art and learn more about art,” Morton said.

One of the group’s first decisions was to create a monthly, “second Thursday” art walk, featuring coordinated shows between the galleries.

“We want to cater to that particular person who wants to come

down here and enjoy going out to eat but not deal with all the crowds,” J.T. Cochran, co-owner of Graphite, said.

Graphite co-owner Benny Jacobs agreed.

“Working collectively as a group gives exposure to the other[s],” he said.

“Every gallery is different, and every gallery has a different following.”

Plus, said DNA Galleries co-owner Dylan Bradway, visitors can park close and take their time visiting with featured artists.

“It’s a good night,” he said. “It just gives them a whole other reason to come down.”

Second Thursday art walk promotion launched last week as the three galleries rolled out their gift-giving-themed holiday exhibits featuring ornaments, toys and small works, said Plaza Gallery Group spokeswoman Crystal Murphy, also DNA Galleries’ retail manager.

Each gallery owner seemed happy to solidify an organic relationship that has been forming naturally over the last couple of years.

“We take care of each other in this community. You have to support locally,” Murphy said. “We just all have to support each other. At the end of the day, that’s all that matters.”

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Andy Warriorhol The art of local filmmaker, painter, writer and Oklahoma resident Steven Paul Judd subverts cultural norms while making people laugh.

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Steven Paul Judd is one of the hottest artists and filmmakers in Native American circles right now and a truly unique voice in Oklahoma’s Indian Country, in large part because his art makes Indian people laugh and white people think.

Working films

His latest short film, Ronnie BoDean, is a 12-minute love letter to ’70s-era antiheroes and stars iconic Oklahoma actor Wes Studi. It premiered earlier this year at deadCENTER Film Festival and has since screened at events in Germany, Denver, San Francisco, Toronto and Paris.

Ronnie BoDean was designed to be a short that could also be used to pitch a possible feature or series about the character. The project is a strong contender to be the breakout work that gets Native American filmmakers noticed by the mainstream.

The dark comedy opens as Ronnie wakes up in his car, presumably after falling asleep in it from a night of drinking, and sees his neighbor arrested. When the neighbor’s children come home, Ronnie “babysits” them, and in the process, he teaches them a life skill: how to hustle three-card monte. One of the film’s early working titles was Ronnie BoDean: World’s Worst Babysitter, and it was shot in Norman over several days.

While Ronnie BoDean is a straightforward comedy, each frame is loaded with Native American in-jokes.

There are smudge sticks in the ashtray, a child’s milk glass advertises a casino, Ronnie’s house number is 1491, he smokes Smoke Signal cigarettes (Judd’s nod to American Spirit and Quentin Tarantino’s Red Apple cigarettes and Chris Eyre’s Smoke Signals film) and Ronnie even takes off his boots to kick people’s ass, à la Tom Laughlin’s 1970s

Local artist Steven Paul Judd puts finishing touches on a mural along an outside wall of Stash in Norman. counterculture action hero Billy Jack.

“As a kid, I would watch movies and come home and act them out. … I would do fights — or whatever I perceived as a 12-year-old kid as cool — with my brothers and sisters.

When I was in college, I thought, ‘I would want to make something that the 12-year-old me would go home and pretend to do.’ The character would not only be cool, but he would be a cool Native character with a little bit of self-worth, for once,” said Judd, who is Kiowa and Choctaw. “I make a lot of different kind of movies, but if I had any control to make my own things, I always think of the 12-year-old me.”

Having Studi, a Native American film legend, join the project certainly attracted attention to it, but he wasn’t a consideration as Judd wrote the script.

“A lot of great actors were auditioning for the part, but there was something very specific I was looking for. … I needed him to exude a little bit of natural coolness. I needed him to be tough, but I also needed comedic timing so he could be funny when he’s delivering these lines, even though they weren’t hardcore jokes,” Judd said. “I don’t know how Wes came to my mind, but I thought, ‘If he delivered these lines straight, it would be funny.’”

Judd first came onto the scene with a feature film he made with high school friend Tvli Jacob: 2003’s Native American Graffiti: This Thing Life. They recorded it with a digital camera bought off Craigslist. continued on next page

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Judd said he tried to explain the concept to one white critic by asking him to imagine entertainment in which no movies, television shows or advertisements included white people in them.

“Well, you could see a white person, like in a Western, like an old frontier’s man, but that’s about it,” Judd said, and then he laughed. “That’s how it is with Native people. I get it; we’re a small percentage — why would they waste advertising dollars, or pop culture, making these things? But we love TV! We would like to see a lunchbox or an action figure or a funny poster done with a Native kind of vibe to it, so I am just trying to fill a hole.”

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Judd’s laughter in the midst of serious discussion is his trademark and probably his strongest feature as an artist. His short films, which he both writes and directs, and his graphic works are conspicuous political

While Judd was promoting that film, he won a competition for aspiring writers, which led to a move to Los Angeles.

He became a staff writer for Disney XD sitcom Zeke and Luther.

He went on to direct the 2013 horror film Death Factory and is now doing post-production work on two projects: Headgame and Danny Trejo vehicle Crowning Glory: A Psycho Thriller. Two of his short comedy films — Shhh!

(2013) and Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco (2010) — earned him accolades on the film festival circuit.

By design

The subversive use of iconography in his graphic design work is often compared to Andy Warhol, and Judd jokingly refers to himself as “Andy Warriorhol.”

He created a series of provocative mash-ups using pop culture imagery and 19th-century Native American photographs, such as Godzilla about to stomp a row of teepees as UFOs hover overhead. His art also includes Banksylike projects and Warhol-inspired Native American portraits.

His designs can be seen on the Web,

T-shirts, stickers, prints and even as graffiti and street art — including a “War Paint” mural in Los Angeles’ Skid Row — and indigenized superheroes like Siouxperwoman, Siouxperman and Powwow Rangers.

“With ‘War Paint,’ I was trying to retake that work,” he said. “Anyone who uses ink — whether a writer uses ink, or an artist uses ink or a photographer uses ink — any time you are using ink to further a social cause or a movement, it’s your war paint, the modern warrior’s war paint.”

The pop culture references give an immediacy to Judd’s seemingly simple statements.

For example, his The Indigenous Hulk, the reimagined, braid-wearing Marvel antihero that swells with strength and anger at his people’s broken treaties, can at first read like a joke. However, a look below the surface shows that Judd is committing

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Above Steven Paul Judd displays his Andy Warhol-esque blend of pop culture, street art and reverse cultural appropriation, called “War Paint,” in Oklahoma City. At right “We’re gonna need a bigger canoe,” joked Oklahoma artist Steven Paul Judd when he posted this pop art piece to Instagram (@stevenpauljudd) several weeks ago.

statements expressed with such wit and brevity that his art often endears people to it before its message can even be interpreted.

When creating his 2011 stopmotion short Neil Discovers the Moon, Judd said he was inspired by Gary Larson, author of syndicated, singlepanel comic The Far Side. Judd first drew a panel showing an Indian girl greeting Neil Armstrong as he steps on the moon.

He decided to make it into a oneminute film.

“I love the way Larson could take a simple idea and do it as one frame,” he said. “It’s a good way to teach people without yelling at them.”

Outside of introductory classes in high school and college, Judd hasn’t studied art.

“Any of the graphic design stuff I’ve done, with my stickers, I learned how to do it on Photoshop,” he explained.

“When I was trying to make Six Pack and Gas Money (a Tarantinoesque Native American project still on the back burner), I wanted to make a poster for it, so I Googled ‘cool movie poster tutorials,’ and one came up for a vintage boxing poster. The first thing I did, ‘Battle of the Little Bighorn,’ turned out nicely, and people wanted to buy it.

That was my first foray into design.

“Learning Photoshop is tedious, but I wanted to learn because I couldn’t get these ideas in my head. I couldn’t make them unless I learned. No one’s going to make a vintage boxing poster with Sitting Bull and Custer unless you make it yourself.”

One of his photo manipulation projects, now available as both a sticker and a T-shirt, “I Loved America Before it was Called America,” will likely become a mural in Norman.

“That’s a tricky one because a lot of people didn’t understand it at first.

The one thing that Native Americans have on our side is — legally, treaties have been broken — we have a legal leg to stand on,” he said. “When people talk about American exceptionalism, I always ask if this exceptionalism includes honoring the treaties. They say, ‘You don’t love America, man; you hate it so much.’ I’m like, ‘Au contraire, player; I love America so much I loved it even before it was called America!

My ancestors loved it here; we loved it before it was called America.’

“We’re like hipsters; we loved it before it was cool. That’s what that sign means,” he explained. “It’s not antiAmerican at all; it was an answer to these people who want to use patriotism as a way to not honor treaties.”

The mural is also Judd’s answer to the Centennial Land Run Monument, which many Native Americans see as a reminder of Native land that was taken from their people.

“When I heard about these statues they had in downtown Oklahoma City, I went to see them. I heard the statues were giant, and I wanted to see these statues of giant Native Americans,” he said. “I get down there, and I see a schooner and people having fun on their horses, but there’s not one Native person. I was like, ‘This is the 21st century?!’ I understand in the ’70s they were trying to not mention it, but I thought we were past that.”

Judd feels it is a matter of educating people, and he sees art as one way to do just that.

“I think there are genuine, good people in Oklahoma who just don’t know,” he said. “If you want to say this was untamed land, just remember that there were people already living here on this land that y’all were foraging.”

Local artist Steven Paul Judd transforms his Banksy-esque image of a Native American holding a boom box into guerrilla-style marketing for electronic music group A Tribe Called Red. could find was racist and disturbing.

“I was thinking, once again, because of nostalgia and pop culture — I love the 16-bit games that I had when I was a kid — and I thought, ‘I would like to have a 16-bit Native shirt,’” he said. “I Googled it because I was sure there would be one, but the only thing I could find was a game called Custer’s Revenge, where the object of the game was to get to an Indian girl and rape her.”

In 1982, once its contents were publicized, the game was infamously banned outright in Oklahoma City.

“When I saw that, I called A Tribe Called Red and I told them the story.

I said, ‘I think we have to have our own 16-bit because the only one made by the dominate society was this rape video game, and no one has made one since,’” he said. “To their credit, they said, ‘We have to make this,’” so I made their 16-bit logo with the headdress they put on the cover of their CD and on their T-shirts.”

Expanding horizons

Judd is currently working on multiple projects that he cannot yet announce.

One he can talk about, however, is his first book, The Last Powwow, which was co-written with Thomas Yeahpau and hits shelves in 2016.

He describes it as “a collection of short stories that make up a larger story.”

And Ronnie BoDean will come home for the holidays: The short film will be available for $5 via video-ondemand the week of Christmas.

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The obsession with pop culture that seems to drive his work is particularly interesting after Judd admitted that he was not nursed on television like most Americans — he did not see a TV until he was in the hospital to have his tonsils removed.

Though he was too young to remember the experience, according to his family, someone flipped on that box.

“The Wizard of Oz was playing, which starts out in black-and-white and then turns to color. So in the span of 30 minutes, I had seen the invention of TV, black-and-white and then color, but then those flying monkeys came out and I started crying, so they turned it off,” he remembered. “I went home and told my brothers and sisters that there is this thing called TV and we had to get it, so my mom and dad got us a TV, but it was black-and-white.”

One of his earliest memories is watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang take flight on television, which inspired a flying car in his short Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco.

“When I was a kid, there were reruns of CHiPs, and I thought Erik Estrada kind of looked like my uncle, so I wanted to be a policeman,” he said.

“That let me know early on that media can influence.”

While film and graphic art is usually enough for most people, Judd also has taken Native art into new platforms with his free app game, Invaders, for Android and iPhone (search “Invaders Judd”).

It’s his interpretation of Space Invaders: The shooter is an image of a Native American with a bow and arrow, adapted from a 19th-century photo.

“With Invaders, it is also a two-part thing,” he said. “I loved Space Invaders, and the second part is, well, I think you can read into it: Someone is trying to invade where you are living, you know, peacefully. I tell people it’s the only time you’re allowed to play Indian and not get in trouble.”

Around the time he developed the game, he was contacted by Canadian First Nations’ electronic music group A Tribe Called Red about doing artwork for its CD, Suplex.

Judd was interested in doing a retro computer image for the project, but as he researched Native images from classic video games, the only image he

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Friday frenzy Local record stores participate in Record Store Day’s Black Friday edition.

Nov. 27 is Record Store Day (RSD): Black Friday, and up to 100 limited vinyl releases will flood the market the day after Thanksgiving, sending collectors into feeding frenzies when the doors first open at their favorite local record stores across the country and into Canada and Europe.

The limited issues are often a mixture of cult bands, like Gram Parsons’ preByrds The International Submarine Band, next to major contemporary artists like Beck, and everything in between, from Charlie Parker and Johnny Cash to Megadeth, Outkast, Tenacious D, The Isley Brothers, Link Wray, Falco, MGMT, Gang of Four, Les Paul & Mary Ford and Jimi Hendrix, to name but a few.

The limited editions are usually pressed on special vinyl, the kind collectors fetishize, like the heavy, 180-gram vinyl release of Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company’s Live at Winterland ’68 double LP or the 30th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie original soundtrack on etched, colored vinyl housed in a package that “transforms” or the double picture disc set of Songs of Anarchy Vol. 4, from the television show Sons of Anarchy, housed in clear plastic.

The records also come in multiple sizes and formats, including singles, like a yellow 7-inch pressing of Neil Hefti’s “Batman Theme” from the 1960s television series, a 10-inch EP of Big Star’s demo “Jesus Christ” and a 12-inch 40th anniversary single of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

While it might seem like a haphazard and mismatched collection of ideas to the outsider, record collectors know many of these lesser-known titles will be harder to find than the more mainstream releases.

Carrie Colliton, an RSD cofounder, runs its social media and she said she hears all the complaints when she posts the lists,

but the point is not for everyone to want everything on the list.

“I immediately see comments [like] ‘There’s nothing good on the list’ or ‘I only want two or three things,’ but everybody’s two or three things, combined, make up the list — you don’t have to want everything on the list because, ultimately, the list is for everyone,” she said.

RSD (the standard, non-Black Friday edition) takes place the third Saturday of April every year. The concept came about in 2007 as corporate giants like f.y.e. and Tower Records started closing their stores.

“All we saw in the press was that record stores are great and it’s sad that there aren’t any left,” she said. “We knew for a fact that there were hundreds of them and they were just fine, but they weren’t national names, so no one was really talking about them. At a conference we had, we decided to have our own party, hired a publicist, and that’s how it happened.”

The first Record Store Day: Black Friday happened in 2010; the idea was to release slightly more expensive releases as gift options for collectors. Colliton said the media made a big story out of Black Friday, so they wanted Record Store Day to be a paragraph in that story.

“Whether you love Black Friday or hate it, that is the beginning of the holiday season; it’s like the Super Bowl of being a store. We thought, ‘Record stores sell nothing but great gifts; whether it’s a box set, a turntable or some cute little thing you found at the register, everything would make a perfect gift.’”

Guestroom Records, 3701 N. Western Ave. in Oklahoma City and 125 E. Main St. in Norman, is participating in Record Store Day. “Black Friday is certainly not the circus that Record Store Day is,” said co-owner Justin Sowers. “But if you are out that day, come in, have a beer and find some

records. It’s a much better environment than Best Buy or whatever.”

According to Colliton, RSD encourages every record store to celebrate in their own way, and Guestroom will be doing just that.

“We usually have a band on Record Store Day, but we try to keep it low-key on Black Friday,” Sowers continued.

“We’ll have some local beverages to give away, we’ll be running a sale and we’ll have DJs throughout the day. It should be fun.”

Though the limited releases are a driving force behind RSD, the ultimate goal is to celebrate record stores in general, and though Trolley Stop Record Shop, 1807 N. Classen Blvd., will not offer the new releases, it will still celebrate RSD, and according to owner John Dunning, it’s quite successful at it.

“We don’t have official Record Store Day records,” he said, “but we participate and have food and bands. We’re a record store; how could we not celebrate Record Store Day?” Trolley Stop celebrates its fourth anniversary this year, and it’s looking forward to Black Friday.

“Some people look for Record Store Day release records, but most people are just in a record-hunting mood,” he said. “We’re open all day, we get slews of people coming in and we usually have a bunch of records real cheap, just to feed that vinyl addiction.”

Over the years, RSD has been seen as a driving force in vinyl’s resurgence, and Colliton is proud of the impact its concept has had on the market.

“Our goal is to promote independent record stores,” she said. “I don’t think anyone can find fault with our ultimate mission.”

Find Record Store Day: Black Friday releases at recordstoreday.com.

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Center stage Friday, Opolis hosts its second annual Black Friday Karaoke event.

By Adam Holt

Black Friday Karaoke 8 p.m. Friday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org Free

Does the thought of heading into the stores on Black Friday, elbowing through crowds and digging through merchandise, make you want to scream?

One Norman institution hopes you’d rather try an activity where the product is an experience and you create it for yourself.

Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., in Norman hosts a free Black Friday Karaoke event 10 p.m. Friday.

Whether you leave the Thanksgiving table humming “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays” or you want to share a rendition of “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” Opolis’ 18,000-song catalog has you covered.

Co-owner Andrew Nunez, who runs the venue along with his wife Marian (both are former members of indie pop band Starlight Mints), said regular musical acts are tricky to book for the weekend after Thanksgiving, yet many people are eager for an activity that lets them escape the house.

“There are always a lot of people coming in from out of town on Thanksgiving,” Nunez said. “We want to give them something to do that weekend that’s a little more social than a regular show.”

Opolis has been hosting karaoke nights for several years, and this is its second annual Black Friday karaoke event. Links to two playlists will be posted to the venue’s website on

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Andy and Marian Nunez joke around about opening their venue, Opolis, for a night of Black Friday Karaoke.

Friday so eager patrons can start choosing whether to stick with favorites like “Don’t Stop Believin’” or try the latest Taylor Swift.

Nunez is proud of what Opolis offers to karaoke fans.

“Because it’s a music venue, the karaoke’s not just tucked away in a corner,” he said. “It’s on a big stage that a lot of well-known acts have performed on over the years, and we have a great sound system.”

The Nunez’ have diversified the offerings at Opolis over the nearly 15 years they’ve operated the music venue.

In addition to semi-regular karaoke, there are comedy nights most Sundays, lounge nights and even a trivia night.

It also has a full cocktail bar, and Nunez promises creative drinks available to try at these smaller evening events.

“Opolis started out just doing small indie rock shows, and we slowly worked our way above ground,” Nunez said. “We’ve concentrated on bringing in smaller traveling bands, bands that can’t play the bigger venues in the city. As a college town, Norman is perfect for that.”

In fact, Nunez doesn’t really want residents to choose between local, quirky activities and Black Friday shopping. He’s hoping central Oklahomans will do local shopping in downtown Norman before heading over to Opolis to belt out their favorites.

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Tyler Hopkins/Willow Way, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. FOLK

DJ Ryan Drake, 51st Street Speakeasy, Saturday

FRIDAY, NOV. 27 2AM, Baker Street Pub & Grill. POP Annie Up, Riverwind Casino, Norman. POP Caleb Fellenstein, Gaillardia Country Club. ACOUSTIC

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Chris Sullins Band & Friends, Wormy Dog Saloon.

COUNTRY Damn Quails, The Goddard Center, Ardmore. COUNTRY Daniel Jordan, Fuze Buffet & Bar. ACOUSTIC DJ Six, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. VARIOUS DJ Tom Hudson, 51st Street Speakeasy. VARIOUS K.C. Clifford, The Blue Door. SINGER/SONGWRITER LUCKY/The Blend, Remington Park. COVER

Live Music WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25 Drive, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ROCK Edgar Cruz/Jeff Nokes, Avanti Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC

Meanstreak, Bourbon Street Bar. ROCK Metal Headz, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK Old Bulldog Band, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. ROCK The Choke/The Secret Post/Sensitiv Southside Boi, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Z-RO/BALLTEAM, Farmers Public Market. HIP-HOP

Jared Deck/Ali Harter & Kierston White, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. SINGER/SONGWRITER

SATURDAY, NOV. 28

Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club. VARIOUS

2AM, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. POP

Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

Billy Kirchen Holiday Honky Tonk Show, The Blue Door.

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The Cruz Brothers, The Blue Door. ACOUSTIC

Costello/Em & the MotherSuperiors/Trap Queen, Blue Note Lounge. INDIE

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Deuces Wild, Baker Street Pub & Grill. COVER

Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. JAZZ

Brent Saulsbury/Will Galbraith/Wayne Duncan, Friends Restaurant & Club. ROCK

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Thanksgiving Belle Bash Wednesday, Nov. 25-Saturday

One thing you can be thankful for this weekend is the fourday music extravaganza showcasing local artists from different genres going down at Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewing Company, 1900 Northwest Expressway. Thanksgiving Belle Bash kicks off Wednesday, Nov. 25 with performances by Jared Deck and duet songstresses Ali Harter and Kierston White and continues through Saturday with more local talent ranging from the hip-hop stylings of Bowlsey (pictured) to indie folk crooners Willow Way. Tickets each night will be $5 and can be purchased at the door or through cellardoormusicgroup.com. Doors will open nightly at 9:30 p.m. Call 317-7443.

DJ Ryan Drake, 51st Street Speakeasy. VARIOUS Don and Melodee Johnson, Twelve Oaks, Edmond. JAZZ Eldredge Jackson, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. JAZZ Empire Grey, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK

SquadLive, Riverwind Casino, Norman. POP

Edgar Cruz, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. ACOUSTIC

Flatland Band, Bourbon Street Bar. ROCK

Gabrielle Hancock/Bowlsey, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. VARIOUS Hosty Duo, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. ROCK

Hosty Duo, The Deli, Norman. ROCK Howard Brady, Full Circle Bookstore. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

Stephen Salewon/Rachel Brashear, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. INDIE

Pearson Jazz Trio, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. JAZZ

Jason Bolland & the Stragglers, Wormy Dog Saloon.

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Castle/Love Cobra, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

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Superfreak as The Blend, Remington Park. VARIOUS

Julie Christiansen/Sergio Webb, The Blue Door.

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Mike Hosty, JJ’s Alley. ACOUSTIC

Diamond on the Rocks, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. COVER Edgar Cruz, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. ACOUSTIC

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2 Aaron Woods Band, Baker Street Pub & Grill. COUNTRY

Mike Hosty One Man Band, The Deli, Norman. ROCK

Edgar Cruz/Jeff Nokes, Avanti Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC

Nellie Clay, The Blue Door. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Figure, Kamps. ELECTRONIC

Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club.

Tim Stanford & the Exclusives, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES

Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

MONDAY, NOV.30 Brigades/Too Close To Touch, 89th Street Collective.

ROCK Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. ROCK

The Damn Quails, The Goddard Center, Ardmore, Friday

Sam Kahre, Chase Tower (Cotter Ranch Tower). CELLO Tory Lanez, Kamps 1310 Lounge. HIP-HOP

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In a Tiff

A new book celebrates Oklahoma City native Pamela Tiffin, who became a big-screen sexpot in the 1960s, first in Hollywood, then in Rome.

By Rod Lott

like Bond girl Lana Wood (Diamonds Are Forever) and Planet of the Apes’ near-silent Nova, Linda Harrison.

Tiffin herself got the Lisanti treatment back in 2001’s Fantasy Femmes, but while his other interviewees merit a handful of pages, only Tiffin has graduated to an entire volume all her own.

“She was a bona fide leading lady of the ‘60s and arguably one of the most beautiful and talented of all the actresses I spoke with over the years,” said the Big Apple-based Lisanti. “Through Tom my website Lisanti over the years, I received so many inquiries about her and what she did after leaving Hollywood, I thought a career retrospective on one actress that I admired and had interviewed would be a nice change of pace for me to write.”

The Golden Globe nods arrived not only in the same year, but for the first two features in which Tiffin appeared: 1961’s Summer and Smoke, based on the Tennessee Williams play, and Oscar-

nominated comedy One, Two, Three, Billy Wilder’s follow-up to The Apartment, in which she was the female lead opposite James Cagney.

With that one-two punch of a debut, the roles rolled in, including the 1962 RodgersHammerstein musical State Fair; 1965’s The Hallelujah Trail, a Western vehicle for Burt Lancaster; and in 1966, her biggest hit in the Paul Newman crime drama Harper.

Although never quite an A-lister, the former 405er sure was getting there.

“Critics and directors raved about her, and she was destined for superstardom, but a number of issues got in the way,” Lisanti said, citing such obstacles as studio politics, a yearning for the East Coast, the loss of several high-profile roles and her hatred of doing television. (A single-episode stint on The Fugitive in 1963 marked one of her rare TV gigs.)

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Peruse Internet Movie Database’s list of the 1,566 Most Popular People Born in Oklahoma, and you’ll find Brad Pitt sitting pretty at No. 1. Other obvious stars in the top dozen slots include everyone from Ron Howard and James Garner to Kristin Chenoweth and Chuck Norris.

Currently at No. 109, right underneath singer Patti Page, is Pamela Tiffin.

“Who?” you may ask, and that’s OK. In fact, it’s expected.

Born Oct. 13, 1942, in Oklahoma City, the beautiful brunette Pamela Tiffin Wonso made her way to the silver screen by way of teen modeling in Chicago and New York City. Despite earning two Golden Globe nominations, Tiffin is a name that has fallen into obscurity since she left the silver screen behind in 1974, just seven years after leaving Tinseltown for Italy.

A new book, however, might help restore some of the faded star’s luster.

Titled Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974, the trade paperback was published in September by McFarland & Company. It is the first book devoted to the actress.

Its author, Tom Lisanti, specializes in chronicling such cult-favorite glamour girls whose smiles and sexuality brightened many a beach and biker film decades ago; most of his seven other books ―—including Drive-In Dream Girls and Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema — are collections that profile dozens of B- and C-list starlets

Pamela Tiffin played a sexy, ditzy housewife in 1968’s Kiss the Other Sheik, a re-edited version of the Italian anthology Oggi, domani, dopodomani. proverbial camel’s back was her unhappy marriage to New York magazine founder Clay Felker, whom she wed in ’62.

Ending for good in 1969, their dissolving union, Lisanti said, “was the catalyst for her to run away to Rome and work there as a blonde.”

With that leap of hemispheres — and hair colors — Lisanti had found a narrative hook too good to go unpursued.

“This juxtaposition in her career was an interesting angle: brunette Hollywood ingenue versus Italian blonde sex goddess, especially since most of her Italian movies never made it to the U.S.,” he said.

Arguably the most enduring of her Euro period are two that star the original Django, Franco Nero: 1971 thriller The Fifth Cord and 1973 spaghetti Western Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears. In the latter, she plays a prostitute — one of many times she fought against going nude for the camera.

According to Lisanti, Tiffin’s arrival coincided with the European wave of plastering sex on the screen. Whereas Tiffin wanted to bare her soul as a serious actress, producers wanted her to bare her skin. “[S]he was reluctant to do [that],” Lisanti said. “Her goal was to become a

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character actress. That is difficult when one is blonde and gorgeous.”

With other “less inhibited” transplanted American actresses like Carroll Baker (Giant) shedding clothes and working more as a result, Tiffin gave in.

“But it was a struggle for her,” Lisanti said.

Lisanti struggled himself working on the Tiffin text. In fact, he almost gave up when his subject was unavailable to be interviewed again.

After three unsuccessful attempts, he heard from Tiffin’s second and current husband that she was ill and could not participate.

“I was going to abandon the book, but I had shared sample chapters with him and he told to keep going with it,” Lisanti said, “so I did.”

The result is a thorough look at her career — not quite a traditional biography, and not quite the easiest to complete. Landing interviews proved difficult because Tiffin’s co-workers seemed either deceased or unwilling to talk.

“Since she hardly did any TV, that was a hindrance as well,” Lisanti said, “but I did find supporting actors to speak to and film historians of Italian cinema that provided wonderful insight into her later career in Rome.”

Author Tom Lisanti said that Pamela Tiffin’s “diving board shimmy” in Harper “has become one of ’60s cinema’s most iconic images.”

Today, now 73, Tiffin remains retired and living in New York — and forever working in our living rooms, thanks to DVD and streaming media.

“Pamela was that rare commodity in the ’60s: the beautiful girl next door who could be quite funny.

Actresses who looked like her were not supposed to have her comedic ability and were to play the ingenue only,” Lisanti said. “She confessed to me when I interviewed her in 1997 that in regards to her acting, ‘I should have striven for more, but I didn’t.’”

The Glam of Pam Pamela Tiffin author Tom Lisanti picked these six films as “essential”: 1. One, Two, Three (1961) 2. The Pleasure Seekers (1964) 3. Harper (1966) 4. Kiss the Other Sheik (1968) 5. The Fifth Cord (1971) 6. Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears (1973)

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Fortified finale The final installment of The Hunger Games series provides a dark end to the story.

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By Tyler Talley

opposition to the rapid cut, shaky camplagued action dominating cinemas.

And while the action is grand, it also has consequences, a defining strength for this franchise. We see our heroes celebrating over rubble and vast destruction, with the severe loss a mere afterthought in the wake of victory, too often in modern blockbusters. Mockingjay - Part 2 offers no such “stand up and cheer” moments. Victory doesn’t come from slaying one’s enemy or rousing speeches. After all, who wins when the streets are lined with the bodies of innocents caught in the crossfire? Does Coin’s new order become no better than those that came before, or is the cycle of violence broken by finding common ground with a bitter enemy? They’re alltoo-real questions, but then again, this

series was never about easy choices.

The debate rages on whether or not splitting the final installment of a franchise in half is a cynical cash grab on the part of studios or an earnest opportunity for filmmakers to provide fans with more bang for the their proverbial buck. This last chapter of The Hunger Games does very little to provide definitive answers. Quieter characterbuilding moments and fan service come at the expense of plot momentum and often feel like filler. While it fares better than its predecessor, Part 2 lacks urgency.

At one point, Katniss even admits, “It gets a little tedious after all these years,” and it’s hard to argue.

Speaking of Katniss, Jennifer Lawrence finishes off her now-iconic role as the heroine with all of the grit

and humanity that has made the character so enduring. The rest of the cast get moments to shine here and there in the time they are allotted.

Great performers — including franchise favorites Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Jena Malone and the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman (in his last onscreen performance) — are given scraps of dialogue, but such is the nature of the beast when the film must tie up so many loose ends and provide closure for a small army of characters.

As is the case with many film franchises these days, this final chapter is easily the darkest in the group, so parents might use caution before bringing along the kids. Mockingjay - Part 2 serves as an appropriate ending to a series that never promised sunshine and lollipops.

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Picking up mere moments after Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 follows Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and the rest of the resistance, led by Julianne Moore’s Alma Coin, as they make for one final, decisive push against the wounded yet still dangerous and booby-trap-filled Capitol, headed

by President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

Things are further complicated by the return of brainwashed Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and his goal to assassinate Katniss.

Right out of the gate, this movie feels appropriately bigger in scale than the three previous Hunger Games films.

Director Francis Lawrence (no relation to Jennifer) wisely frames the action with a wide and steady lens, allowing the audience to take in all the action in

Holiday cheer The Night Before offers moviegoers a respite from sentimental seasonal films.

By Tyler Talley

The holiday season is here again, and with it comes a new batch of holidaythemed movies. As an alternative to the influx of the typical family-friendly fare comes a raunchy, R-rated alternative for mom and dad while the children are nestled all snug in their beds. Given that it’s from the same creative team that brought audiences 50/50, This Is the End and last year’s controversial The Interview, The Night Before is set to provide audiences with a Christmas cocktail full of hilarity, male bonding and debauchery.

After Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) lost his parents in a car accident on Christmas Eve 14 years ago, he and his two best friends resolved to reunite every year to celebrate the evening in the most outrageous and uninhibited

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ways imaginable. However, with Issac (Seth Rogen) now on the precipice of fatherhood and Chris’ (Anthony Mackie) fame as a football star beginning to grow, the three resolve to end the tradition with one last Christmas Eve out on the town in New York City as they set out on a quest to find the Nutcracker Ball, the “Holy Grail of Christmas parties.”

While it might not bring much in terms of innovation to the R-rated comedy, The Night Before is perhaps the funniest movie to come out this season.

Much like the past cinematic efforts of Rogen and his frequent producing and writing partner Evan Goldberg, this film provides gut-busting laughs at a relatively brisk pace.

For what it’s worth, this might be the

pair’s most consistently funny film. For every joke that falls flat, there are three or four more that knock it out of the park. Director and co-writer Jonathan Levin also ensures that the film wears its heart firmly on its sleeve and the more serious moments concerning growing up and growing apart from friends aren’t lost in the shuffle.

The shared chemistry of the film’s three leads must also be commended as they elevate a movie built around a potentially stale premise. Gordon-Levitt, Mackie and Rogen all have their own respective on-screen charisma, but when they’re combined, they create pure comedic gold — The Night Before often works best when all three share the screen. When they are apart, Rogen fares best, as his character spends the film’s

runtime largely experiencing the effects of one substance or another, leading to some of the film’s best lines and most memorable comedic set pieces.

Rounding out the supporting cast is a veritable cornucopia of comedic talent ranging from Workaholics’ resident scenestealer Jillian Bell to Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon as the gang’s wise old drug dealer, with a few surprise cameos thrown in for good measure.

While overtly juvenile at times, chances are that any fans of Rogen and Goldberg’s aforementioned filmography are going to have a great time with The Night Before, and in this reviewer’s eyes, any movie that finds an excuse to have Tracy Morgan play Santa Claus is a must-see.

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by ROB BREZNY

Homework: Who teaches and helps you? Who sees you for who you really are? Who nudges you in the direction of your fuller destiny?

kinds of intimacy. If there is no one to whom you can sincerely deliver a memo like Woolf ’s, search for such a person.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange,” wrote novelist Carson McCullers. “As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

I’m guessing that these days you’re feeling that kind of homesickness, Aries. The people and places that usually comfort you don’t have their customary power. The experiences you typically seek out to strengthen your stability just aren’t having that effect. The proper response, in my opinion, is to go in quest of exotic and experimental stimuli. In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, they can provide the grounding you need. They will steady your nerves and bolster your courage.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Some people are so attached to wearing a favorite ring on one of their fingers that they never take it off. They love the beauty and endearment it evokes.

In rare cases, years go by and their ring finger grows thicker. Blood flow is constricted. Discomfort sets in. And they can’t remove their precious jewelry with the lubrication provided by a little olive oil or soap and water. They need the assistance of a jeweler who uses a small saw and a protective sheath to cut away the ring. I suspect this may be an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your life, Cancerian. Is it? Do you wonder if you should free yourself from a pretty or sentimental constriction that you have outgrown?

If so, get help.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The Pekingese is a breed of dog that has been around for over 2,000 years. In ancient China, it was beloved by Buddhist monks and emperors’ families.

Here’s the legend of its origin: A tiny marmoset and huge lion fell in love with each other, but the contrast in their sizes made union impossible. Then the gods intervened, using magic to make them the same size. Out of the creatures’ consummated passion, the first Pekingese was born. I think this myth can serve as inspiration for you, Taurus.

Amazingly, you may soon find a way to blend and even synergize two elements that are ostensibly quite different. Who knows? You may even get some divine help.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” wrote Leo author Aldous Huxley. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in the coming weeks you are less likely to take things for granted than you have been in a long time. Happily, it’s not because your familiar pleasures and sources of stability are in jeopardy.

Rather, it’s because you have become more deeply connected to the core of your life energy. You have a vivid appreciation of what sustains you. Your assignment: Be alert for the eternal as it wells up out of the mundane.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Author Virginia Woolf wrote this message to a dear ally: “I sincerely hope I’ll never fathom you. You’re mystical, serene, intriguing; you enclose such charm within you. The luster of your presence bewitches me . . . the whole thing is splendid and voluptuous and absurd.” I hope you will have good reason to whisper sweet things like that in the coming weeks, Gemini. You’re in the Season of Togetherness, which is a favorable time to seek and cultivate interesting

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In their quest to collect nectar, honeybees are attuned to the importance of proper timing. Even if flowering plants are abundant, the quality and quantity of the nectar that’s available vary with the weather, season, and hour of the day. For example, dandelions may offer their peak blessings at 9 a.m., cornflowers in late morning, and clover in midafternoon. I urge you to be equally sensitive to the sources where you can obtain nourishment, Virgo.

Arrange your schedule so you consistently seek to gather what you need at the right time and place.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Are you willing to dedicate yourself fully to a game whose rules are constantly mutating? Are you resourceful enough to keep playing at a high level even if some of the other players don’t have as much integrity and commitment as you? Do you have confidence in your ability to detect and adjust to ever-shifting alliances? Will the game still engage your interest if you discover that the rewards are different from what you thought they were? If you can answer yes to these questions, by all means jump all the way into the complicated fun!

It may not happen in a classroom or require you to write responses to questions. The exam will more likely be administered by life in the course of your daily challenges. The material you’ll be tested on will mostly include the lessons you have been studying since your last birthday. But there will also be at least one section that deals with a subject you’ve been wrestling with since early in your life -- and maybe even a riddle from before you were born. Since you have free will, Capricorn, you can refuse to take the exam. But I hope you won’t. The more enthusiastic you are about accepting its challenge, the more likely it is that you’ll do well.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I suspect your body has been unusually healthy and vigorous lately. Is that true? If so, figure out why. Have you been taking better care of yourself?

Have there been lucky accidents or serendipitous innovations on which you’ve been capitalizing?

Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine. Now I’ll make a similar observation about your psychological well-being. It also seems to have been extra strong recently. Why? Has your attitude improved in such a way as to generate more positive emotions? Have there been fluky breakthroughs that unleashed unexpected surges of hope and good cheer? Make these new trends a permanent part of your routine.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) For $70,000 per night, you can rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for your big party. The price includes the right to rename the streets while you’re there. You can also create a temporary currency with a likeness of you on the bills, have a giant rendition of your favorite image carved into the snow on a mountainside, and preside over a festive medieval-style parade. Given your current astrological omens, I suggest you consider the possibility. If that’s too extravagant, I hope you will at least gather your legion of best friends for the Blowout Bash of the Decade. It’s time, in my opinion, to explore the mysteries of vivid and vigorous conviviality.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) From the dawn of civilization until 1995, humans cataloged about 900 comets in our solar system.

But since then, we have expanded that tally by over 3,000. Most of the recent discoveries have been made not by professional astronomers, but by laypersons, including two 13-year-olds. They have used the Internet to access images from the SOHO satellite placed in orbit by NASA and the European Space Agency. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect you Sagittarians to enjoy a similar run of amateur success. So trust your rookie instincts. Feed your innocent curiosity. Ride your raw enthusiasm.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Whether or not you are literally a student enrolled in school, I suspect you will soon be given a final exam.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Are you available to benefit from a thunderbolt healing?

Would you consider wading into a maelstrom if you knew it was a breakthrough in disguise? Do you have enough faith to harvest an epiphany that begins as an uproar? Weirdly lucky phenomena like these are on tap if you have the courage to ask for overdue transformations. Your blind spots and sore places are being targeted by life’s fierce tenderness. All you have to do is say, “Yes, I’m ready.”

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