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This Mother’s Day, four young women credit their mom as the key to their success. By Laura Eastes

When Elizabeth Smith was a little girl, no dream was ever too big or unrealistic.

Her valiant attitude traces to her mother Dana Carter, who encouraged Elizabeth to discover and pursue dreams. Admiration and fondness filled the 20-year-old’s voice as she talked about her mom.

“She encouraged us to have really unrealistic dreams, which I am so fortunate for.

I am a broadcast journalism major at the University of Oklahoma, but I want to be an entertainer, correspondent, actress and a singer. As crazy as it sounds, I believe I can do it wholeheartedly,” Elizabeth said.

She giggled before continuing with her younger sisters’ aspirations.

“Paula wants to be a fashion designer for the red carpet. Hellen wants to be an actress.

Evelyn wants to be a doctor and a ballet dancer,” she said. “We all have cuckoo dreams, but I like to tell people it’s because of our mother encouraging us and pushing us that we are the way we are.”

Many parents tell their children to dream big, but Carter also motivated her daughters to take the steps needed to accomplish their aspirations, said 19-year-old Paula Smith, Carter’s second-oldest daughter.

“She is one of the biggest cheerleaders you will ever meet,” said Paula, a student at Savannah College of Art and Design’s Atlanta campus. “If you are in my mother’s life, she is going to support you no matter what. She does that with my sisters and me. I’ve seen her do it with her friends and the people she is close to. I think that is what anyone would say about my mother.”

Evelyn Smith, a 15-year-old student at Classen School of Advanced Studies and Carter’s youngest daughter, described her mom as well-spoken and outspoken.

“She is our mom and our dad,” Evelyn said. “With my siblings and my mom, I never have to explain. They will always be there for me.”

Known in Oklahoma pageant circles as the “Smith sisters,” the four young women are noted for their titles as well as their grace, eloquence and talent in the fine arts. In June, Elizabeth, as Miss Frontier Country, competes in the Miss Oklahoma Scholarship Pageant. Her younger sister Paula, as Miss Troup County in Georgia, competes in the Miss Georgia Scholarship Pageant. If both sisters win the coveted titles, they will contend for the Miss America crown in Atlantic City come September. Hellen Smith, also a student at Classen SAS, is Miss Oklahoma Teen USA and Evelyn is Miss Tulsa State Fair Outstanding Teen.

Long before they were title-holders competing in statewide pageants, they were four little girls who depended on their mother.

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ters. Would a single parent still be able to give her children everything they needed?

Would her girls become part of the negative statistics of growing up in a fatherless home?

Carter pushed away thoughts about high school dropouts, teenage pregnancy and drug abuse. Instead, she focused on raising happy and confident young women who excelled at school and were active in extracurricular activities. She imagined her children raised in a family environment where each member was caring and supportive of the other.

With determination, prayer and sacrifice, Carter embraced single parenthood.

The affirmations that Carter repeated to her children matched her unspoken parenting oath.

“We don’t say what we can’t do; we do,” Carter responded when she heard a daughter say, “I can’t.”

Carter stayed positive when faced with the stresses of single parenthood and the financial obstacles of raising four daughters on a salary she earns while working in the nonprofit sector. She also relied on her parents and siblings for help.

“Iron sharpens iron,” Carter often told her girls.

The three-word phrase was more than an expression or Bible scripture; it was the

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beautiful white evening gown that my grandmother made. It maybe cost $100, but it was incredible.”

Years later, a teacher at Classen SAS suggested Elizabeth consider competing in pageants. Thinking about her mother in those old VHS tapes, Elizabeth was interested, but Carter wasn’t. The reality television show Toddlers & Tiaras painted a disturbing picture of today’s pageant culture. Children seemed stressed, scarred and pressured by parents, which Carter explained was unlike

They were naturals. They worked hard to be themselves and made their mark.

Dana Carter family’s mantra as they relied on one another and pushed each other to greatness on a daily basis.

“I wanted excellence for them,” Carter said. “I wanted to raise them outside of the box.”

Family traits

When the Smith girls were in grade school, they spent summers with their grandparents. Old portraits and snapshots hung on the walls of Carter’s parents’ home. A few were of Carter in her crown and sash from her time as Miss South Oklahoma City in 1994. That year, she also finished as third runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma Pageant.

“I think what got us into watching the videos was the photos on the wall,” Paula said. “They were pageant headshots and from her competing in Miss Oklahoma. We were curious, and we pulled out the videos.”

Elizabeth recalls her grandfather proudly showing her and her sisters the videos from the 1994 Miss Oklahoma pageant.

“She was so, so incredibly talented gliding across the stage,” Elizabeth said. “In pageants, women spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on evening gowns. She was in this

her experience. After some time and following a discussion between Carter and her pageant director from the 1990s, Carter encouraged her eldest daughter to compete.

It didn’t take long for all the sisters to “get the pageant bug,” Paula said. One year after the first sister competed, Elizabeth earned a Miss Oklahoma City 2014 title and Paula won Miss Bricktown’s Outstanding Teen 2014.

“They were naturals,” Carter said.

“They worked hard to be themselves and made their mark.”

As the sisters practiced for competitions, Carter insisted they do it their way. They didn’t hire a consultant or a personal trainer.

Instead, Carter opted for vocal teachers and dance classes, and the girls created their own workout schedules before school. When it came to hair and makeup, YouTube videos taught them how to create hair extensions and apply mascara. Homework and chores also remained a priority.

During pageants, the family support system remains intact. Carter high-fives her daughters as they walk off the stage. She keeps spirits high and the pressure low as they compete.

“We work hard to stay silly,” Carter said.

“You’ve got to keep it light. … You can’t let these kids feel like this is their whole world.”

No matter what happens at a pageant, Carter knows they learn from the experience and come away with increased confidence and higher self-esteem.

“I understand what a pageant does for a young woman,” Carter said. “Among interviews, exercise, dance or voice, they are developing themselves.”

For the sisters, their mother is their inspiration.

“Watching those videos, I saw how much potential my mother had,” Elizabeth said.

“It is a huge motivator for me to do more and do better. If this is what my mother could do at my age, I can do even more because I’ve been raised by her and taught by her.”

Strong bond

Pageants don’t define Carter and her closeknit daughters. They are just what the family does together, like how some families support children in sports or band, Carter said.

The moments the sisters most cherish have little to do with crowns or sashes, but with time spent together, like mother and daughters singing along to Prince or Lauryn Hill songs on the car radio. Even past family meetings are fond memories for the young women.

“Every time my mother called a family meeting, I would be angry because we had to stop what we were doing,” Paula said. “As soon as we sat down, we would talk about life, our dreams, our goals and God. They were some of the most special moments. I think we were very often the closest and most connected when we sat down for the family meetings.”

Carter beams with pride as she talks about her four exceptional daughters.

“I’ve learned from them,” Carter said. “I believe the biggest investment you can make is in your children. That’s where I choose to invest.”

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Flint, Michigan, has been in the news since the recent discovery of very high levels of lead in its water supply. OCU students asked how the lead got there and if scientific findings could help avoid a similar crisis in the future. By Laura Eastes

The journey to restore safe water to Flint, Michigan, residents began this spring after a two-year battle between residents and government officials over dangerously high levels of lead found in the city’s drinking water.

More than a thousand miles away, an Oklahoma City University (OCU) professor used the crisis as his catalyst for teaching inorganic chemistry. In January, Stephen Prilliman began his upper-level science course by passing out copies of a Detroit Free Press article. It outlined the most recent response to the lead levels found in the Michigan city’s drinking water. Students quickly realized the situation was a scientific catastrophe.

“Everyone’s jaw dropped at the decisions that were made and the consequences of those actions,” Prilliman said. “We used this as a means to learn about chemistry, but I emphasized that we had to remember it was affecting real people’s lives. There are serious consequences of chemistry gone wrong.”

Flint’s water disaster was thrust into the national spotlight in January after President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency and endorsed using federal dollars to aid Flint’s recovery.

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sion by city leaders to switch to a new provider in an effort to cut costs. The move required building a new pipeline, meaning the Flint River became the interim water source until the added infrastructure was operational. Flint River water began flowing through taps and drinking fountains April 25, 2014. Corrosion controls were not required to treat the water.

Weeks later, the first wave of concerns were reported as residents complained about the water’s smell and color. After some time, E. coli and total coliform bacteria was detected, forcing residents to boil water and the city to increase chlorine levels in the Flint River. By early 2015, city officials warned water customers that Flint was in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as high levels of total trihalomethanes (TTHM) also were discovered. A city test detected high lead levels in water at a resident’s home. A battle began as Flint residents fought to stop the poisoned water from flowing into their homes. The clash eventually lead to resignations by workers at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and regional Environmental Protection Agency, a congressional committee investigation and the state’s attorney general filing criminal charges in connection with the water crisis.

For residents, water filters and bottled water are the new norm until water returns

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to safe levels. Most tragically, the community is dealing with the outcome of elevated lead levels found amongst the city’s youngest residents.

Reactions, research

“There was a moment when I thought, ‘Oh my gosh. This is really happening,’” said OCU student Kelli Kortemeier. “They were really letting this happen to people.”

Other students shared her reaction. The outrage only intensified as they began their semester-long research assignment, part of the course requirement.

Prilliman instructed each student to select an area of the water crisis to study, such as the water’s chlorine levels, treatments for lead exposure or the effects of lead released from pipes. Through sources like scientific journals, news articles, government reports and data collected from a volunteer Virginia Tech University research team, the OCU students began forming their analysis.

Kortemeier and student Landan Beathard researched how chlorine impacted the oxidation of lead pipes. Basically, they wanted to understand the domino effect responsible for the contaminated water.

Flint River’s high chloride levels caused lead to leach from the pipes, which contaminated water running into homes. The two reviewed independent scientific studies like the one conducted by Virginia Tech. Both were disturbed that government officials ignored indications of a problem found within independent studies. According to the EPA, when lead levels hit five parts per billion, there is cause for concern. The highest lead level found by researchers at Virginia Tech was 158 parts per billion, 30

times higher than the EPA number indicating unsafe amounts of lead. The data came from a water sample from a Flint home submitted in fall 2015.

Student Rachel Young examined lead, which is a chemical element with the symbol “Pb” on the periodic table. Young was aware of lead-based paint warnings and endorsed testing drinking water for lead; however, she wanted to understand what made the element so dangerous. Part of its danger results from its ability to mimic other metals that take part in biological processes and interact with many of the same enzymes.

The science confirms lead exposure is unsafe.

“Before, this was something I only heard about,” Young said of her topic. “Now, I’m taking part and getting to the bottom of this problem. I have a better understanding of how much I’ve learned over the past four years. Before I came [to OCU], I wouldn’t have known how to do any of this.”

A week before the semester ended, students presented their findings to their peers.

Prilliman advised them to explain their analyses in a scientific manner, but also be prepared to communicate findings to nonscientists. Their ability to communicate the science behind the evolving national news story became the professor’s proudest moment of the semester.

“This is such a valuable experience for the students as interpreters of sciences,” Prilliman said. “They are not just passive receivers, but able to interpret the science of others, informally and formally. … I’ve been very happy with the level of research.

They all exceeded my knowledge within their own area. I learned a lot talking with them about their projects.”

There are serious consequences of chemistry gone wrong.

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Expanding reach Metro Technology Center’s South Bryant campus embarks on a $22.3 million remodeling project.

By Laura Eastes

For years, Metro Technology Center leaders knew a remodel at the South Bryant campus was imperative. Constructed in 1965, the Foster Estes building opened as a vocationaltechnical campus for Oklahoma City Public Schools on the city’s southeast side. About 20 years later, the Oklahoma City school board agreed to turn the campus over to Metro Tech, a recently established public career and technology education district.

Over the years, small building upgrades and projects transpired, but nothing to the magnitude of a remodel. Now, 51 years after the first students enrolled in career training programs, the campus is in dire need of technology upgrades, infrastructure updates, a tornado/safe room and a building addition to accommodate the CareerTech school’s needs. Currently, many students are placed on waiting lists for programs like welding, cosmetology and graphic design.

The South Bryant campus is the largest Metro Tech site for full-time students and offers 15 career-training programs to more than 400 full-time students.

“It isn’t necessarily the building that makes quality instruction, but it helps in that process,” said Dennis Portis, Metro Tech’s associate superintendent of instruction. “You are giving your students a competitive advantage.”

The South Bryant campus is undergoing a $22.3 million renovation, which began this school year with the site’s automotive technology center. Renovations are broken down into seven phases with the last phase, a new building for the cosmetology and barbering program, set to be completed during the 2018-19 school year.

The projects, set to be paid from a combination of building funds, borrowing and Oklahoma City tax increment finance (TIF) funds, match Metro Tech’s efforts to transform the southside campus. District leaders believe the school’s mission goes beyond providing career and technology education to adult students as well as students from Oklahoma City, Millwood and Crooked Oak districts.

Metro Tech is training the next generation of Oklahoma City leaders, Portis said.

“It’s not just bodies in seats and teaching the curriculum; it’s winning the students’ hearts,” said Portis, who began his career at the school in 2003 as a pre-engineering instructor at the South Bryant campus. “How do you encourage students to give back? How do you get students involved in their community? How can a student’s success help make another student successful? It is not just about skill set, but building character.”

Curriculum excellence

When Portis visits the automotive technology center at the South Bryant campus, students in mechanic work clothes welcome

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him. Students’ names and specific patches highlighting their mastery of skills in the program are stitched on the uniforms. The uniforms were added to the program as one of the first steps in creating a Centers of Excellence for Career Training program, a national model backed by leaders in the industry.

Portis reports the simple addition of uniforms increased student motivation levels.

Students feel they are not only learning the industry, but also a part of the automotive industry.

“We’ve always held standards in our curriculum, but we feel that we are building a new culture with the Centers of Excellence, which will help our students go above and beyond in their fields,” Portis said.

With Centers of Excellence, Metro Tech tweaked the automotive curriculum, adding suggestions by nationally known companies.

The curriculum calls for student practice on new, modern equipment and technology, which Metro Tech plans to obtain in the first phase of the building remodel.

Metro Tech plans to expand the Centers of Excellence program into the climate and energy controls technologies, which was most recently known as the HVAC program.

Instructors are moving away from preparing students for a career of HVAC and electrical repair but are covering how to create appliances and work on energy-efficient equipment.

Part of the Centers of Excellence plan is to engage local industry professionals to serve on an advisory committee for the various programs. Industry representatives provide feedback on students’ work, and instructors make adjustments to ensure students graduate ready for local employment.

City support

Last month, the Oklahoma City Council approved an allocation request of $5 million from TIF No. 2, known as the downtown/ MAPS district, to assist in the South Bryant campus remodel. The City of Oklahoma City uses TIF as an economic redevelopment tool.

The fund typically assists private developments but has supported Oklahoma City Public Schools, the Metropolitan Library System and Metro Tech, which are often impacted by TIF districts freezing ad valorem tax revenue for decades.

In 2009, Metro Tech received $550,000 in TIF funds to support its downtown business campus and purchase classroom furniture and equipment.

Portis said the new funding stream will benefit an area of Oklahoma City that has struggled with blight and limited economic development. Located in the 73129 ZIP code, the South Bryant campus pulls most of its students from an area south of Interstate 40 and just north of Valley Brook town limits.

Twenty percent of residents rely on public assistance, according to most recent data from the United States Census Bureau.

“We like to think an investment to Metro Tech is essentially an investment to the economy,” Portis said. “A student graduating from Metro Tech is a student ready for the workforce and a taxpaying citizen. … We are educating with an outcome that has a drastic impact on the economy.”

Metro Tech reported 89.4 percent placement rate of career major students in 2014, the most recent year data was available. South Bryant campus programs like climate and energy control technologies, welding, graphic design and culinary arts reported 100 percent of students passed certification tests.

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While the state faces a major budget crisis, everyday folks are calling, emailing and visiting lawmakers with optimism for change before this year’s legislative session ends. By Laura Eastes

Andy Moore was fed up with dreary headlines about the state’s financial mess.

Articles covering the revenue shortfall and its impact on state agencies and school districts that are now facing massive budget cuts frustrated the Oklahoma City resident and father of two young children.

Like many, Moore logged on to Facebook to share his irritation with friends and family members; however, that action didn’t prompt any change.

About a month ago, Moore jokingly suggested to friends they take a day off work to visit the state Capitol to talk with lawmakers about the $1.3 billion budget hole and funding issues regarding core government services.

His idea was met with enthusiasm, which surprised Moore, who never considered himself politically active but rather politically interested.

A public Facebook page, Let’s Fix This: A Day at the Capitol for Regular Folks Who Care, was created with an event date set for April 27. The man who never attended a political rally had organized a nonpartisan, multi-issue day of advocacy at the Capitol.

“We all have a dog in this fight,” Moore said at the inaugural event. “We are all Oklahomans, and we all care.”

Moore’s movement centered on everyday folks from all walks of life who hold different political opinions coming to the Capitol and advocating for their passions.

Moore has concerns about funding cuts to schools, mental health and roads but acknowledged others worried about health, human services and public safety.

Wearing red “let’s fix this” buttons, citizens from across the state spoke with lawmakers and advocated for a better Oklahoma.

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Together Oklahoma

Thousands of Oklahomans visit the “People’s House” annually; however, many visit for rallies on specific legislation, pressing issues or advocating for a single entity.

Founded on the notion that “Oklahoma’s future depends on our essential public services — we need safe communities, a strong infrastructure and environment, and great schools to keep this state attractive to business and a great place to live” four years ago, Together Oklahoma brought a wave of citizen lobbyists to the Capitol.

Together Oklahoma is a coalition of citizens working to connect the state’s values to the state’s budget priorities.

Oklahoma Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, staffs and funds Together Oklahoma, which also encourages coalition members to call, write and visit with lawmakers.

During this session and in the wake of Oklahoma’s economic crisis, much of Together Oklahoma’s message centered on creating new revenues to close next year’s budget gap, said David Blatt, Oklahoma Policy Institute executive director.

“We appreciate the citizens that are getting involved, engaged and helping to put solutions out there,” Blatt said. “If lawmakers wouldn’t do the hard things — in particular roll back the tax cuts, tax breaks and increase taxes — if they aren’t willing to do that in this situation, the outcome will be really bad for the people of this state and a really bad outcome for elected officials.”

Coalition members campaign on three suggestions: roll back the most recent income tax credit, end tax breaks and tax loop holes and enact selective tax increas-

es. The group endorses increasing the cigarette tax rate by $1.50 per pack to support state health agencies.

Additionally, raising fuel tax by five cents would bring $135 million into state coffers.

The proposed solutions aren’t unique to Together Oklahoma or Oklahoma Policy Institute. Republican lawmakers and the Oklahoma Hospital Association also spoke in favor of the cigarette tax proposition. In February, Gov. Mary Fallin called for an end to the personal income tax double deduction, which only benefits the state’s high earners who itemize deductions.

Efforts on budget solutions appear stalled to Blatt and Moore, which is why they push for citizen engagement.

It is a critical time for citizens to make their cases to lawmakers. Lawmakers must pass a state budget for the coming fiscal year before adjourning the regular session. The final day of session, called sine die, is May 27.

“Everyone agrees something needs to be done and new revenue is part of the solution, but [lawmakers] can’t agree on what the new revenue should be,” Blatt said. “They can’t come together. We really are seeing a leadership crisis.”

Social media

Blatt said Oklahoma Policy Institute and Together Oklahoma are witnessing record numbers in web traffic and social media interactions. He believes the spike is spurred by the state’s current financial woes.

“People are really freaked out about what’s happening,” Blatt said, “or what could happen if legislators don’t fix this.”

Together Oklahoma created the website dosomethingok.org and generated the social media hashtag #DoSomethingOK. Testimonials of funding cuts impacting everyday Oklahomans are published on the website.

A lawmaker locator and talking points also are accessible from the site. Putting the crisis in perspective is a variety of short, humorous videos.

The state’s budget crisis is a disheartening subject. Together Oklahoma staff strive not to discourage people with the facts they present. Rather, they encourage people who have concerns and frustrations to become part of the solution by writing legislators, visiting the Capitol and speaking with peers about the issues.

Social media also was the driving force in Moore’s Let’s Fix This campaign. He

expected about a dozen people to join him.

Instead, around 70 people participated in the inaugural event.

Moore connected with lawmakers through Facebook to explain the event and ask for their help. Could they share advice for approaching elected officials?

Sen. Stephanie Bice, R-Oklahoma City; Rep. Jason Dunnington, D-Oklahoma City; Rep. Mark Lepak, R-Claremore; and Rep. Cyndi Munson, D-Oklahoma City, spoke during the April 27 meeting.

Citizen lobbyists

“One of the things I’ve learned over the past two and a half years is there are not enough people engaged,” Bice said as she addressed the crowd.

The state senator stressed that lawmakers are everyday folks who want to hear from constituents. Letters, emails, phone calls and visits aren’t unnoticed, Bice said.

Six Let’s Fix This advocates visited Munson’s office. The freshman lawmaker said she found it encouraging that both Republicans and Democrats spoke of similar funding concerns during their visits.

“To have people share their everyday stories about how the budget impacts them, that is powerful for elected individuals,” Munson said. “We have to remember that we are making decisions on people’s lives.”

The Let’s Fix This movement continues through its presence on social media.

There’s a good chance the group will soon be back at the Capitol. In the meantime, it continues advocating for a better Oklahoma.

“I’ve heard so many people say they haven’t been politically active, but by someone saying, ‘Hey, we are just regular folks,’ that was the piece that keyed them into getting involved,” Moore said.

Like Moore, Blatt believes there is still time for lawmakers to pursue new revenue streams for the coming year’s budget, which begins July 1, and not pass a budget with dire cuts to core services. However, lawmakers’ lack of action during the first 13 weeks of session paints an ominous picture.

“At this point, I don’t think anyone knows how this will end,” Blatt said. “I don’t think any of the scripts have a good ending. … We can’t fix all of our problems.

Even if the price of oil doubled, there are still major budget challenges. There is no great ending. There is worse and there is catastrophic.”

Everyone agrees something needs to be done and new revenue is part of the solution, but [lawmakers] can’t agree on what the new revenue should be. They can’t come together.

We really are seeing a leadership crisis.

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When some people remember their 21st year, visions of dark bars, idiotic dates and unfinished college research papers come to mind. For most, it’s that special time in life when a person is more grown up than their parents can admit but still far from being the mature adult they imagine themselves to be.

But that’s just some of us. Some 21-year-olds actually have some notion of a vision for their lives.

Macy Gleason is one of them. The Mannford native is running as a Democrat to represent House District 29. That seat is being vacated

by Republican James Leewright. The minimum age for a state representative is 21.

There’s plenty of reason to believe Gleason is crushing this whole early-20s thing.

According to the bio on the former education major’s campaign website, she paid her own way through college (with the help of “generous scholarships”). She won the top award in Oklahoma State University’s Freshman Research Scholars Program.

Interestingly, Gleason also gave a speech about outside perceptions of teachers and education majors at the independently organized TEDx event in Stillwater.

Her website indicates she supports education, job creation and senior care improvements. Gleason’s opponents are fellow Democrat Rick Parris and Republican Kyle Hilbert, who is only a year older than Gleason.

Maybe politics is a young person’s game after all.

Trump’s veep?

Gov. Mary Fallin and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are chummy.

According to The Washington Post, both attended a Republican Governors Association lunchtime fundraiser in March 2015 at businessman David Koch’s Palm Beach mansion.

Fallin rubbed shoulders with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Jeb Bush, Texas’ Rick Perry and “The Donald.”

Who would pass up an invitation with that lineup at an estate overlooking the ocean?

Not Fallin.

About 10 months later, in Tulsa, Fallin was escorted onto Trump’s private plane after it touched down. The two, along with former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, enjoyed 20 minutes catching up before an Oral Roberts University rally there, reported News9.com.

A month later, Fallin sat front-andcenter at Trump’s Oklahoma City rally, held days before Super Tuesday, NewsOK. com reported.

The two-term governor has not endorsed a candidate for president; however, she does make sure her path crosses Trump’s.

We’ve all heard the old adage, “It’s not what you know but who you know.”

That’s why she said she was “honored” when her name came up for veep consideration.

“It’s a great honor to even be mentioned as a possible consideration for vice president,” she said in a statement to NewsOK. com.

The two could be a great match. Fallin could lend her experience with the state’s $1.3 billion budget shortfall to working on the $19 trillion debt crisis.

Both were probably caused by low oil prices.

And building that wall in Mexico will be as easy as building the new lodge at Lake Murray State Park, right?

Fallin has got this.

Carry on

The only shots the Oklahoma City Thunder want to see are the ones on the court.

The basketball club is among a couple dozen businesses and organizations that sent a letter to Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman asking him to block a pair of bills that would require a statewide vote on whether to curtail the Legislature’s ability to regulate firearms and would remove license or background checks for felony-free adults age 21 or older to open-carry.

Our current law says folks can carry concealed or open firearms in public if they obtain a gun license, which includes

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training and both criminal and mental health background checks.

It’s not exactly tyranny.

If you think, “Who cares what a bunch of basketball players think about guns?” maybe the concerns of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations (OSBI) will carry more weight.

OSBI officials said the laws could fully repeal gun licensing requirements.

Licensing fees help fund the cashstrapped agency to the tune of $8 million.

If the bills pass, the state’s current budget crisis will impact the agency’s ability to send investigators to small towns that rely on OSBI assistance in serious crimes like murder.

“Our effectiveness as agents, as laboratory analysts will diminish greatly, because we’re not going to have the resources to get out there and do our job,” agency spokeswoman Jessica Brown told KFOR.com.

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Oklahoma City is the sixth-best market in the nation for first-time homebuyers, according to real estate and rental marketplace

website Zillow.

The report, released last week, studied four variables: affordability (percent of income going toward rent or mortgage payments), median home values, competition among all-cash offers and how many homes in the market are available to firsttime buyers.

Oklahoma’s median home value is $132,500. Also, 25.6 percent of income goes toward rent, home inventory is average and all-cash competition is average.

The top five cities deemed most friendly to first-time homeowners are Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Cleveland and Chicago.

Bacon burglar

OKC is home to a man from the future who has stolen Chuck Norris’ moves.

Dante Rashad Anderson took his extensive knowledge of what’s to be to two fast food chains to grab some grub.

Fox New s . com reported that he yelled at Carl’s Jr. employees and demanded food.

When that didn’t work, he

went across the street to Arby’s, where he jumped over a counter, shoved a manager, grabbed fistfuls of chicken and bacon then ran away, breaking a glass door on his way out.

According to KOCO.com, Anderson claimed he was from four years in the future — 2016 in particular, because that’s how math works — and that’s how people get food, or they would if they all weren’t dead.

“I am from planet Earth 2016 and am four years advanced on you, and you guys are always trying (to) kill me,” Anderson told police. “On my planet Earth, everyone is dead and I walked here from there.”

And here we all are, wasting time in grocery stores and working so we can pay for things when we’re all just going to die soon.

Witnesses said Anderson walked down the street as he ate bacon and kicked automobiles.

“He jumped up like he was Chuck Norris and just kicked the crap out of my car,” Patricia Beedle told Fox 25. “I mean, he kicked it so hard you could just feel the momentum of him kicking it.”

KOCO.com reported that police fou nd Anderson lying on the ground down the street.

“I got bacon and chicken and I scared the lady,” Anderson allegedly told police.

“She thought I was going to hurt her, but I was not. I was just hungry and wanted some food.

That is what I have to do to get food. I knew I was going to jail for doing this, but no one wants to help me out.”

Anderson was arrested on charges of assault and battery, larceny and destruction of property, and police suspect he was on drugs or having some sort of breakdown.

In any case, if we woke up in the future and had Chuck Norris’ superpowers, we definitely wouldn’t waste them robbing chicken from an Arby’s (king of the slowcooked roast beef sandwich) or kicking cars.

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Voter apathy

Voter apathy created the oligarchy. Voter apathy created the 1 percent. Voter apathy writes legislation that works against the common man. Voter apathy is a disease that is slowly killing the United States as a democracy.

Voting is not important every four years; it is important every single day. You must be aware of local, state and federal elections, and you must vote in every election. There is no excuse, no exception; if you don’t, you are a part of the problem. You can vote by mail. You can vote early. In Oklahoma, your employer legally cannot deny your right to vote if you work on days when votes take place.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

• Registered Democrats and Independents in Oklahoma: 1,144,115 (open primary) • Voted: 313,392 • Didn’t Vote: 830,723 For a country that has been waging wars for nearly a century to “spread democracy,” we seem to lack the basic understanding of how the system works. We will never be “we the people” if the people do not participate.

We then become “we don’t care.”

Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, Independent — it doesn’t matter. If our voices are not heard, they do not exist. Voting is not just your right; it is your responsibility. Votes take place around five times a year. In Oklahoma, it usually doesn’t take more than 20 minutes to vote.

Therefore, by not voting, you are saying you don’t have 120 minutes a year for your country, your troops, your home, your family, your friends, your children, yourself or your freedom.

The system is broken because we let it rot unattended. The only way to fix it is to participate every chance you get. Humanity has fought for thousands of years for the right to vote; let us not forget the horrors of feudalism. Let us not forsake the blood of our ancestors. Let it not take us losing the right to vote to see how important it is.

Vote!

Jordan Rohrback Norman

Maximum responsibility

The United States minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Many of those working minimum wage jobs are trying to support families, but statistics show that with an increase in minimum wage comes a decrease in the value of employment. Competition for jobs increases regardless of minimum wage, meaning we are inevitably going to be stand-

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ing in a hole that we have dug ourselves.

Is it worth it to raise the minimum wage to help meet the needs of those living in poverty, or should we back down and tell the people that they are on their own? Shouldn’t we have solutions to problems that encompass more than 3 million hourly-wage workers in the U.S.?

I have heard it proposed that we should follow the examples of other countries like Iceland, Denmark and Norway and do away with a minimum wage altogether, leaving baseline pay negotiation to trade unions and employers’ organizations. These countries have shown continuous benefit from this plan.

I just wonder if the United States could adopt this idea without further economic destruction. Maybe we should first work backward and clean up preexisting messes caused by selfish government mandates.

Miranda Vail Midwest City

Better plan

Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) coupled with the advent of horizontal drilling resulted in a nearly exponential growth in natural gas production. Unfortunately, this bonanza coincided with an alarming increase in the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes.

The horizontal drilling into deep shale containing trapped natural gas extends the collecting area; this is followed by injection of large volumes (up to millions of gallons) of fracking fluid at high pressure to produce multiple fractures that facilitate gas flow.

The fracking f luid contains 90 percent water and 9 percent proppants such as sand or glass beads that prop open the fissures. The remaining 1 percent is a mixture of various additives, some of them with lubricating properties to facilitate the penetration of the proppants into the fractures.

In addition to natural gas, the effluents of these wells contain fracking fluid and various noxious compounds leached from the shale.

This liquid waste is usually disposed off by injection into deep wells. It is conceivable that the lubricating properties of this waste material may facilitate sliding of soil layers, thus causing or at least potentiating, earthquakes.

Increased seismic activities following a boom in fracking also occurred in Colorado, Texas and California; interestingly, the earthquakes appeared clustered around disposal wells. Reports that waste f luids from other states are being brought to Oklahoma for disposal are very troubling.

This practice must be stopped.

A concerted effort involving the petroleum industry and academic institutions to develop effective recycling techniques for this fracking waste material should be implemented at once.

Raoul Carubelli Oklahoma City

‘Coarsening speech’

Nathaniel Batchelder rightly decries the “coarsening political speech” (Opinion, Letters, “Choosing Trump,” March 23, Gazette) of our time and suggests that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a special villain, with which I couldn’t agree more. In fact, I count myself with the growing Republican “Never Trump” movement.

Unfortunately, Nathaniel goes off the rails when he blames this climate on “Rush Limbaugh and his ilk” on the right. Sadly, much of that “coarsening political speech” actually comes from his side of the political spectrum.

In 2005, leftist Air America radio show host Randi Rhodes compared George W. Bush with a character from The Godfather and said,

“Like Fredo, someone ought to take him out fishing and phuw,” followed by the sound of gunfire.

When Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, by all accounts a good and decent man, was killed in a 2002 airplane crash, leftists showed up at his funeral to boo Sen. Majority Leader Trent Lott, who had come to honor his memory.

Ann Coulter can be a rowdy commentator, but not as rowdy as the two University of Arizona leftists who hurled custard cream pies at her while she gave a speech in 2006.

Imagine Nathaniel’s outrage if conservatives did that to Noam Chomsky.

Fortunately, we have manners.

At Columbia University in 2007, liberal activist students made their position plain as they tried to drown out speeches by two antiillegal immigration militia members. “They have no right to speak,” they screamed, thus unilaterally repealing the First Amendment and encompassing most of the persistent leftist campaign to purge campuses of any ideas other than their own.

In 1994, Liberal PBS commentator Julianne Malveaux also made her position clear when, discussing conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, she opined on the air that “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.”

Sorry, Nathaniel; most coarse and ugly political discourse of our time comes from your side.

Mike Brake Oklahoma City

Correction

In an April 13 story about Cultivar Mexican Kitchen (Food, “Fire away,” Greg Elwell, Oklahoma Gazette), designer Larry Dean Pickering was mistakenly referred to as an architect.

We apologize for any confusion.

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Nacho plate | Photo Garett Fisbeck

At almost 50 years old, Tacoville is a delicious local institution. By Greg Elwell

Despite having what many might refer to as a nascent food culture, Oklahoma City has plenty of restaurants that locals hold in such high regard that not having eaten there is a disqualifier for “true” residential status.

Kremlin never even put a killswitch behind my ear.

Tacoville, or “The Ville,” as real Americans are wont to call it, has been around since 1967 serving crispy tacos, burritos and chilled tallboys out of a refrigerator case. It’s Tacoville a cash-only business that is closed on Sundays and 3502 Newcastle Road Mondays and only open 405-681-0661 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. the What works: Get a Sancho, some tacos rest of the week. and that sauce.

It has a following that is, What needs work: Tamales are a bit bland. to put it mildly, quite devoted. And rightly so.

Tip: Take cash because the ATM in the lobby charges a fee.

In a town that seems to be endlessly fighting a battle between Tex-Mex “You haven’t had Pho Lien Hoa? You’re and “authentic” Mexican food, Tacoville not a real Oklahoma Citianiter until you do.” is proudly and defiantly devoted to making “What do you mean you’ve never been to the kind of low-cost fast food Mexican fare Cattlemen’s? Did you just move here?” everybody loves, but better.

Take the taco, for instance. At $1.29, it “Either you eat Bobo’s chicken or you are is one of the best deals going. legally required to vacate this city.”

Have a seat. Grab a drink of water.

Crispy tacos are the kind of comfort food Breathe into this paper bag. I don’t care that instantly calms me. The crunch of the shell as it shatters and the inevitable panic how long you’ve lived here; if you haven’t visited Tacoville, 3502 Newcastle Road, about whether the structure can hold as you then you’re probably a deep-cover spy sent destroy it bite by bite is a kind of low-level here to observe Oklahomans and attack thrill. It’s a fun game, especially when you when your handler speaks the activation slather on Tacoville’s signature hot sauce. phrase “tipsy baby.”

Any Tacoville devotee will point you Don’t worry, comrade! I was recently the toward a Sancho ($3.49). This supreme same way. I grew up in the metro, and it wasn’t burrito might seem familiar in its makeup, until earlier this year that someone finally but the flavor is much better than you’ll find told me my real name was probably Grigor in a drive-thru. A 10-inch, yellow flour torand I was bent on destroying America. But tilla is stuffed with beef, cheese, lettuce, then I went to Tacoville and it’s like the onions, sour cream and hot sauce, and then

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it is restuffed by you, into your mouth.

The urge to order two or three Sanchos will be strong, but try to refrain. Not only is there more menu to explore, but a Sancho is like the TARDIS of burritos. It might not look huge, but it contains multitudes.

A brief note on the Nacho ($1.39) for any of you who don’t read the menu descriptions.

At Tacoville, a Nacho is much more like a tostada. If you’re looking for shards of fried corn tortilla covered in cheese, you’re looking for Chip Nacho ($2.99) or nacho plate ($3.59).

Are you trying to eat healthy? Why on earth would you do that?

If you’re looking for something a little leaner than the delightful beef taco meat, you should give the chicken soft taco ($2.39) a try. It’s closer to fajita chicken, grilled and seasoned just right, in a big flour tortilla with lettuce and sour cream and cheese and a side of chips.

On the other hand, if you’re looking for more ways to eat taco meat, then I firmly recommend the taco burger ($1.69). It’s a great option for kids, with its simple filling of beef, cheese and lettuce in a bun. I go

crazy with the sauce because it’s seriously wonderful.

The one thing I probably wouldn’t get again is the tamale dinner ($4.39). I love tamales, but these didn’t hit the spot. They were tender enough but didn’t have as much flavor as some of the other entrees.

Space is an issue at Tacoville — not just the dining room, which can get plenty crowded at lunchtime, but in your stomach.

The competition is fierce, and with food this good, you want to make sure you’re eating the best of the best.

If you’re the sort who likes to end a meal with an alcoholic beverage, then you will find Tacoville has a leg up on its competitors with a case full of domestic ($1.59) and imported ($2.50) bottles of beer. It’s kind of a luxury. I don’t know the last time you’ve sat down in a fast-food taco joint, but they tend to frown on you opening up a cold one in the dining room.

Maybe you didn’t know about Tacoville before, but you do now. And if you’re going to keep living in Oklahoma City, it’s time to make your pilgrimage. There’s a reason it has been around this long.

b r i e f s By Greg Elwell

One sticking point in SJR 68 is a proposed 20-percent cap on sales of nonalcoholic items in liquor stores that is opposed by RLAO. Bice said the provision is meant to keep convenience and grocery stores from becoming de facto liquor stores. How that would be enforced if passed is not decided.

Bice said enshrining it in the state constitution, rather than making it part of statutory law with SB 383, would prevent the provision from being relitigated each session by making it harder to change.

District, between Bickford and Rock Island avenues in downtown El Reno.

The festival also includes a car show, games and rides for children, a craft show and live music from Ross Clayton Band, Annie Oakley, Jason Young Band and Coyette and the Haywire Band.

Burger lovers need to hit the free festival by 10 a.m. to sign up for burger eating contests, which start at 12:30 p.m.

Find more information about the schedule of events at elrenoburgerday.com.

Metro meal

Jack of all trades (Larry of all trades?) Larry Dean Pickering is guest chef at The Metro Wine Bar & Bistro, 6418 N. Western Ave., for a Monday dinner with tasting wines from Argot vintner Justin Harmon.

Pickering said the menu will be a tour of Spain’s Basque region via northern California.

“It’s northern Spanish style with a California influence,” he said. “I’m very excited to be going back to The Metro and cooking with them.”

Tickets are $85. Call 405-840-9463 for reservations.

A customer picks a bottle of strong beer off the shelf at The Wine Gallery. | Photo Gazette / File

•Liquor legislation

May 27 is the deadline for the Oklahoma State Legislature to pass Senate Joint Resolution 68 (SJR 68) or start the process over again next year, said Sen. Stephanie Bice.

SJR 68 would put proposed changes to the Oklahoma Constitution’s alcohol laws — including strong cold beer and wine sales in convenience and grocery stores and sales of cold beer and nonalcoholic items in liquor stores — to a statewide vote of the people.

Bice’s companion legislation, Senate Bill 383 (SB 383), will be released this week and will provide the legal framework for new alcohol laws.

Following the rejection of four House of Representative amendments April 26, both houses of the Legislature have until the Sine Die Adjournment later this month to decide if SJR 68 is going onto the November ballot.

If it fails, initiative petitions from Oklahomans for Consumer Freedom and the Retail Liquor Association of Oklahoma (RLAO) might still give voters a chance to change the state’s alcohol laws.

Bice said many Oklahomans don’t realize that the state’s legislative session is a twoyear process. Any bills that don’t get a vote are considered dead and must be resubmitted the following year, subject to the same hurdles and barriers as any other new bills.

•Burger Day

Downtown El Reno hosts the 28th annual Burger Day Festival 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.

The main event is the cooking of the big burger — 8 1/2 feet across and more than 850 lbs. — beginning at noon in the Rock

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Bar raisers

Bartenders are pouring themselves into a guild to advance the local industry. By Greg Elwell

Every bartender starts out pouring the local bartending community together, same cocktails, Ryan Goodman said. said USBGOKC membership director and As bar manager at The R&J Lounge WSKY Lounge general manager Kyle and Supper Club, 320 NW 10th St., he’s Zimmerman.

“You get to see the creativity and the well acquainted with some old-school passion from others in the business that drinks, but his start was, by his own account, nothing special. you might not get to normally see during “Really, I fell into it,” he said. “I used normal business practices,” he said. “The to live down in Norman, and when I took networking and education you gain at a semester off from these events in unschool, a friend was paralleled.” managing Coach’s Phillip Smith from and said he could get Parliament in Dallas Talk Derby to Me me on as a server.” and level 2 sommelier A few weeks in, he Leslie Nelson from 3-7 p.m. Saturday was bar tending.

The Saturn Room in Ambassador Hotel Soon, he found he Tulsa judged the 1200 N. Walker Ave. really enjoyed it. He event, with top honors okctalkderbytome.eventbrite.com spent time working at going to Goodman for $25 Blackbird Gastropub a trio of cocktails inon Campus Corner cluding Spring in the and then at Scratch Burroughs, a take on a Perfect Manhattan.

Kitchen & Cocktails, where they focus on craft cocktails.

Zimmerman said using experienced About six months ago, Goodman bartenders to judge helps competitors joined a fledgling group of fellow mixlearn and improve. ologists called United States Bartenders’ “We brought in two seasoned veterans Guild Ok la homa Cit y chapter from out of town for the judging panel (USBGOKC). On April 24, his drinks won that also were able to help guide and the group’s first Whiskey Rebellion cockeducate competitors in future competitions,” he said. “At the conclusion of the tail competition at Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar, 1845 Northwest Expressway. event, they provided insight to help com“One of the first things I did after I petitors grow and make them stronger joined was I went to a contest in San for the next competition.”

Antonio,” he said. “It’s a really good way Chapter treasurer Anna Mains, coto meet people who share your interests owner of Rockford Cocktail Den, In the and expand your horizons.”

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OKC is an emerging market, and we want the nation to know how great our bartenders are here.

Anna Mains continue to expand.

“You don’t have to be a bartender to join either,” she said. “Enthusiasts can be a part of the guild. It’s a great way to get to taste and learn about different spirits.”

Mains said bartending has not traditionally been seen as a career but it can be a lucrative and rewarding path for many. The guild helps people in the industry take pride in their jobs and take their careers to the next level by providing resources that might seem common in other professions.

Chapters can conduct monthly meetings in members’ bars to focus on topics as diverse as learning about vermouth and tasting rare whiskies with distillers or giving information about upcoming events.

The guild also has an online education component called USBG Pulse, Mains said. Members can access a forum for sharing stories, asking for professional advice and gaining experience on cutting-edge techniques behind the bar. It helps build local and national networks, which can lead to new opportunities for bartenders.

“OKC is an emerging market, and we want the nation to know how great our bartenders are here,” she said.

“Competitions play a huge part in that, so we want to put in good local competitions to help encourage our members to compete at a national level.”

Goodman is pleased with his win, but he’s more excited about the promise USBGOKC holds for improving the

quality of life for area service industry workers. The group promotes getting bartenders health insurance and creating a better work-life balance — a notoriously tricky feat for workers who work late and know how to mix a great drink.

The next USBGOKC event, Talk Derby to Me, is 3-7 p.m. Saturday at Ambassador Hotel, 1200 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $25 and include two Maker’s Mark Derby Day cocktails, including mint juleps, and signature Hot Brown sandwiches on the hotel’s back patio. The event benefits the St. Anthony Foundation.

Tickets are available at okctalkderbytome. eventbrite.com and the door.

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Fast food

Are you so hungry you could race a horse? Put on your fancy hat and pour a mint julep because the Kentucky Derby is this week. Much like the race, speed is a big part of the draw for many local restaurants. Here are a few thoroughbred eateries that are galloping to get your order out in a hurry.

Greg Elwell Photos Garett Fisbeck and Gazette File

The Sandwich Club

3703 N. Western Ave. thesandwichclubokc.com | 405-525-0799 Groucho Marx once said he didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. How nice, then, that he, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and you can enjoy membership in The Sandwich Club until the day comes that a sandwich is named after you.

And even if you sport an unfortunate moniker like Jessie’s Girl, Omega Mu or Cousin Eddie, you can still grab a sandwich to-go (with some Jolly Ranchers in the bag, to boot).

GoGo Sushi Express & Grill

Gyros by Ali

1611 S. Service Road, Moore gogosushinow.com | 405-794-3474

3214 N. Classen Blvd. facebook.com/gyrosbyaliokc 405-606-4499

It’s fun to imagine the person behind the register yelling, “GO! GO!” at customers as they try to decide which rolls to get off GoGo Sushi’s voluminous menu, but that would take far too long. A haven for fish, rice and seaweed, this speedy spot is a great place to get your nigiri in a hurry. But if rapidity isn’t your main objective, you’re welcome to lounge, toss back some maki and while away the day.

You won’t get kicked out of Gyros by Ali for humming the classic song “Prince Ali” from the hit Disney film Aladdin, but it won’t get you a sandwich any faster either.

While the hookah lounge out back is perfect for taking it slow, the grill moves faster than Robin Williams’ improv skills and you’ll be gnawing on that perfectly seasoned gyro before you can even get to the chorus of “A Whole New World.”

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Do you have someplace else to be? Then the place to be is Someplace Else, where the staff move sandwiches out of the kitchen like their jobs depend on it. In fact, that’s probably true, so you better go in there and help them practice. BLT! Pastrami! Hoagie! Avocado and cream cheese! Congratulations, Someplace Else; you just broke the landspeed record for sandwiches. How will you celebrate?

Probably with one of its signature cookies.

What’s cooler than being cool? According to Andre 3000, the answer is “ice cold.”

But as any salad lover in Oklahoma City can attest, there’s nothing cooler than Coolgreens. Zip in and watch these titans of tong-wielding flip, swirl and mix a pile of lettuce into a healthy, delicious salad in no time flat. And if, heaven forbid, you’re not in the mood for a salad, you can still get a pretty great sandwich or flatbread pizza in a jiffy.

How hot is it inside The Saucee Sicilian’s oven? Science doesn’t know, but some theorize that it’s nearly hot enough to burn the sun. Those people are idiots, of course, but it’s still mighty toasty, given how quickly Gannon and Nonna are pulling some of the best pizzas in Oklahoma City out for customers. In fact, if anyone should slow down, it’s you. Take a bite too fast and you’ll be intimately aware of how hot that oven is.

What is a “chamaco”? Clearly, anyone who has visited a Taco Bueno will recognize the menu (and building) at Taco Rico and enjoy the letter jumble that went into rearranging some of your fast food favorites into tasty anagrams. But the best stuff in this speedy Mexican restaurant are the items you won’t find elsewhere.

Check out those lovely tamales slathered in queso and order a few street tacos. It’s all buen — uh … good.

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Mother’s Day Mother’s Day is Sunday. This year, celebrate Mom, the woman who helped make you everything you are, by doing something thoughtful and unique. Take her shopping, share a salon day or find a gift that lasts longer than a bouquet of flowers — unless that’s what Mom wants on her special day. By Gazette staff | Photos Garett Fisbeck and provided

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SUMMER GUIDE

Shine on!

Oklahoma Gazette presents our 22-page roundup of fun and special events with everything you need to plan the perfect outing any day, anywhere, with just about anyone (even your pets).

Keep this issue! It’s your passport to summer fun.

SUMMER GUIDE

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ere it is! Oklahoma Gazette’s Summer Guide features more than three months of event listings and stories about upcoming events throughout the state. Learn about festivals, concerts, art exhibits, performing arts events, concerts, youth camps and activities, sports activities and more.

May 4-11 events: pages 27-29

Page 26: Riversport Rapids opening weekend is Saturday and Sunday with family activities, a visit by Olympics’ Team USA and more at Oklahoma City’s expanding Boathouse District.

May events: 30-33

July events: 39-44

June events: 33-39

August events: 44-46

Page 32: The Exchange on Film Row launches its monthly festival May 20 with a new name and a family-friendly focus on local art, brews and eats.

Page 37: Our City, Our Collection captures more than a century of our city’s dynamic cultural growth and runs through August at Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

Page 44: OKC Broadway readies its performing arts season at Civic Center Music Hall with blockbuster shows such as The Lion King, Newsies, Motown the Musical and more.

Page 32: Learn how to get your events into Oklahoma Gazette’s Fall Guide.

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SUMMER GUIDE Guests maneuver whitewater at Oklahoma City’s new Riversport Rapids complex in the Boathouse District. | Photo Georgia Read / Provided

Riversport Rapids Grand Opening Spectacular 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday 8 p.m. outdoor concert Saturday Boathouse District 725 S. Lincoln Blvd. boathousedistrict.org Free (parking is $10)

event

Fun, Games

A two-day opening celebration for Riversport Rapids welcomes Olympic trials, Team USA and the community. By Oraynab Mohamad

This week, Team USA arrives in Oklahoma City to celebrate the grand opening of Riversport Rapids with its Road to Rio Tour Saturday and Sunday in the Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd.

Plan your summer Fitness

• Boot Camp: Boathouse District fitness camps are 5 a.m. Mondays, Wednesday

OKC Riversport’s newest Riversport Rapids facilities span 11 acres and cost $45 million to build. Its grand opening is timed to coincide with welcoming Team USA, as the site also is home to one of few U.S.

• Youth League: Program offers rowing

Olympic and Paralympic Training Sites in the country.

Mike Knopp, Boathouse District director, expects Oklahoma City’s involvement in the year’s Olympics to be huge.

“We have Olympic hopefuls, athletes that want to try to make the Olympic team, to qualify to represent the United States in Rio, so they will come to Oklahoma City to qualify on our whitewater course,” he said.

The U.S. Olympic Team trials for canoe/ kayak slalom happen Saturday and Sunday in conjunction with weekend festivities.

Weekend activities include a familyfriendly festival with concerts by Aaron

Events

Newman & The OK Caravan and Matt Stansberry & The Romance Saturday afternoon and a country music concert and fireworks to wrap up the night. Sunday, music acts Shawna Russell, FM Pilots and Mike Hosty will perform. Food trucks, a beer and wine garden and the district’s Big Water Grill also will be on-site.

Activities also include whitewater rafting, water games and volleyball, Knopp said. Olympic athletes will welcome visitors, demonstrate whitewater routines and update guests on the upcoming games.

Road to Rio Tour events feature past and present Olympic kayakers and rafters, interactive sports, volleyball athletes training at the University of Central Oklahoma, 1984 Olympic gold medal gymnast Bart Conner; virtual reality experiences with pole vaulting, gymnastics, diving and more; team giveaways and more, organizers said.

While here, athletes from across the U.S. are using Riversport Rapids facilities to try out for Olympic competitions.

The nine-stop Road to Rio tour launched in July 2015 and runs through Sept. 10.

Featured cities include Philadelphia, San Diego, Boston, New York City, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles and Birmingham, Alabama. Team USA athletes launched its 100 Day Countdown to the Rio Olympic Games 2016 April 27 from a tour stop in Times Square. The games run Aug. 5-21 in Brazil. The Rio 2016 Summer Paralympic Games follow Sept. 7-18.

The tour is a precursor to the Olympics, and Team USA helps highlight the various games by giving fans and visitors opportunities to see what’s in store for the 2016 Olympic Games.

While the two-day event is free and open to the public, tickets for whitewater rafting will be for sale. Due to the large number of crowds expected at the opening, Knopp said, guests are urged to preorder tickets online. Visit boathousedistrict.org for more information.

Dragon Boat Festival, Riversport Chal-

to Oklahoma City high school students.

• May 14: OKC Riversport Youth League

lenge duathlon, races, talent contests and

Call 405-552-4040 for more information.

Championships happen May 14 on the

a family festival with music, food, Olym-

Oklahoma River and feature student row-

pic adventures and, of course, fireworks.

Fun

ing athletes from U.S. Grant High School,

and Fridays and 6 a.m. Saturdays at Dev-

• OKC Riversport Adventures: Activities

Santa Fe South High School, ASTEC Char-

• Aug. 3-6: The 2016 USA Canoe/Kayak

on Boathouse in the Boathouse District,

on the Oklahoma River and at Lake Over-

ter High School, Northwest Classen High

Sprint World Championships happen Aug.

725 S. Lincoln Blvd.

holser include the new Riversport Rapids,

School and Oklahoma School of Science

3-6 on the Oklahoma River’s 200-meter

whitewater rafting and kayaking as well

and Mathematics.

race course.

• Indoor Rowing: Boathouse District fit-

as SandRidge Sky Zip, Sky Trail, Sky

ness rowing is available 5 a.m. Tuesdays

Slides, Rumble Drop, Youth Zone, paddle

• May 20: LeadWell leadership, business

• Aug. 6-7: The USA Canoe/Kayak Slalom

and Thursdays at Chesapeake Boathouse

boarding and cycling. All-access passes

and health conference lead by Shanna

Age Group National Championships at the

and 10:15 a.m. Saturdays at Devon Boat-

are good through the entire season. Visit

Teel, founder and CEO of Dr. Shanna Teel

OKC National High Performance Center

house in the Boathouse District, 725 S.

boathousedistrict.org/buy-a-pass.

& Company. Event is 8 a.m.-5 p.m. May

on the Oklahoma River are Aug. 6-7.

Lincoln Blvd.

20 at Chesapeake Central Boathouse in

• OKC Riversport Sailing: The Sailing

the Boathouse District, 732 Riversport

• Sept. 29-Oct. 2: Oklahoma Regatta

Center at Lake Hefner, 3821 S. Lake Hef-

Drive. Registration is $245. Learn more at

Festival is a family-friendly event that

fitness group meets 9 a.m. Tuesdays and

ner Drive, offers youth and adult sailing

drshanna.com/events-2.

celebrates dragon boating, kayaking

Thursdays at Chesapeake Boathouse in

lessons. Visit boathousedistrict.org/

the Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln

sailing.

• Silver Sneakers: Boathouse District

Blvd.

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and rowing and features youth activities,

• June 25: Stars & Stripes River Festival

food, beer and fireworks Sept. 29-Oct. 2

celebrates the Fourth of July at this spe-

in the Boathouse District, 732 Riversport

cial event that features the PaddleFest

Drive. — By Gazette staff

MAY

May offers plentiful sunshine and cooler temperatures. (Well, compared to our summers!)

This month, celebrate Olympic-quality watersports during the grand opening of Riversport Rapids in the Boathouse District; join in on the cultural phenomenon of May the 4th Be With You; enjoy the On the Lawn festival with food trucks, live music, craft beer and yard games; run in the surreal Color Me Rad 5k; attend Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies; take the family to The Exchange on Film Row; and more.

Forgotten, Isaac Harper aims to preserve what people once called their homes and show the legacy that is left behind by families; through May 7.

Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-9995, artspaceatuntitled.org.

Revision: Contemporary Navajo Weavings from the Pam Parrish Collection, showcases 22 of the more than 60 major weavings donated to the museum over the past three years by Pam Parrish, featuring examples of Two Gray Hills, Teec Nos Pos, Yei, Storm pattern, Wide Ruin, Ganado and sampler weavings by some of the top contemporary weavers of the late 20th century; through May 8. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

The Cowboy Returns: Photographs by Bank and John Langmore, an intimate view of the cowboy spanning more than two generations in a collection of 100 images depicting the gritty reality of working and living in the American West; through May 8. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Philip Van Keuren: Murmurations, although each work stands on its own, the body of images is one work of art; through May 14. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-9995, artspaceatuntitled.org.

102nd Annual School of Art and Art History Student Exhibition, the gallery is transformed into an exhibition space for University of Oklahoma students; see top student works in multiple mediums, including

photography, design, video, sculpture and painting; through May 15. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

Erratic Fieldwork: Doing Art and Art History in the Anthropocene, exhibit by Robert Bailey and Todd Stewart; through May 15. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

TYPE 41, annual University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History’s senior capstone exhibition features works of graduating seniors; through May 15. The Lightwell Gallery, 520 Parrington Oval, Room 202, Norman, 405-325-2691, art.ou.edu.

Flora and Felines, a cat’s-eye view into Oklahoma artist O. Gail Poole’s unique artistic vision; a collection of whimsical depictions of cats in nature, blending into their surroundings; through May 26. Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405297-3995, myriadgardens.com.

Featured Artists, Linda Guenther’s Trip’n with Linda, Jan Hellwege’s Unforgettable, Adoptable Dogs and Verna Fuller’s Birds and Birds’ Nests. A love of history, farms and critters is the inspiration for Guenther’s thoughtful photographs; Hellwege’s compassion for lost and abandoned dogs is obvious in her expressive dog portraits as she raises awareness of the pet overpopulation in our state; and Fuller’s poetic bird nests come alive with dancing lines that unite her work; through May 30. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

The Photographic Legacy of Dr. Charles Simmons, show curated by Bill Broiles for the Ntu Art Association as a celebration of the contributions of Simmons, who retired from the United States Air Force as a highly decorated master sergeant and then embarked upon a new career in education; through May 31. Owens Arts Place Museum, 1202 E. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 405-260-0204, owensmuseum.com.

Posed & Composed: Portraits of Women from the Permanent, exhibition of 12 portraits by 11 American

Hooked on Fishing Have you been waiting for the day you could take your children to a lake or river, cast your hooks and be as close as Sheriff Andy and Opie? Then you should definitely take them to Oklahoma City Parks & Recreation Department’s Hooked on Fishing program so your trip down a Mayberry dirt road doesn’t end in tears and a trip to the emergency room. Fishermen learn knot tying, casting, fish identification, fishing safety and regulations. The free program is open to children ages 5-15. Classes are 8-10:30 a.m. Saturday at Edwards Park Lake, 1515 N. Bryant Ave., and May 14 at Metro Technology Center’s Springlake campus, 1900 Springlake Drive, and continue through July at various locations. Call 405-297-1426 to register. Visit okc.gov/parks.

Saturday, ongoing bigstockphoto.com artists covers the period from just before World War I through the early 1980s; paintings are arranged according to commonalities in pose, gesture, color, composition and subject matter; through June 1.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405236-3100, okcmoa.com.

In One Ear, a kaleidoscope of overlapping video clips in constant flux, ruled by a soundtrack broadcast on radio frequency 99.9 FM; David Steele Overholt chose more than 200 mostly ’80s and ’90s video clips to conjure nostalgia among the generations

raised in front of the TV; through June 12. Oklahoma Contemporary Showroom, 1146 N. Broadway Drive, 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

NEXT COURSE! A taste of the epic life that awaits, solo show of whimsical artwork by OSU alum Shel Wagner; meant as a celebration and inspiration for new graduates or for anyone looking ahead to a fresh chapter; through June 23. Stillwater Multi Arts Center, 1001 S. Duck St., Stillwater, 405-747-8080, multiartscenter.org.

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by Carol Egger; through June. 50 Penn Place Gallery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, Suite 113-R , 405-848-5567, 50pennplacegallery.com.

Scattering Light — The Optics of Clouds, oil paintings by David Holland focus on how light interacts with clouds and features educational components; through July 1. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Pry the Lid Off, Summer Wheat exhibition explores history, revealing “the world behind the white kitchen wall” of Johannes Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid” and includes a variety of 2- and 3-D media, from faux stained-glass panels made of Mylar and mesh to silhouetted dishes and a peek inside imagined dresser drawers; through Aug. 12. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Our City, Our Collection: Building the Museum’s Lasting Legacy, exhibit that tells the story of the museum’s history as a series of transformative gifts, bequests and acquisitions; including artists such as Georgia O’Keefe, Rembrandt van Rijn, Gustave Courbet and many more; through Aug. 28. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

Natural Impressions — Evolved, by Oklahoma City artist Stacey Dianne Miller who creates mixed media artwork with a primary focus in printmaking; through Aug. 29. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405307-9320, pasnorman.org.

Spring 2016 Show, featuring works in oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media; handmade jewelry and ceramic sculptures also are featured; through Oct. 31.

The Studio Gallery, 2642 W. Britton Road, 405-7522642, thestudiogallery.org.

Brandon Vestal, comedian whose comedy has been referred to as “extremely powerful” and has been used by thousands to make the world a better place, 8 p.m. May 4-5, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. May 6-7. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-2394242, loonybincomedy.com.

MiniMemoir Group Writing: Cinco de Mayo (morning), writing class practicing the major steps in the writing process, drafting and workshopping attendees’ personal stories. Northwest Library, 5600 NW 122nd St., 405-606-3580, metrolibrary.org.

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Wild Weather, a casual conversation about the museum’s current exhibitions; James T. Bialac, associate curator of Native American and Non-Western Art at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, discusses wild weather

in the West from a Native American perspective, noon-1 p.m. May 5. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Chelino’s Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, live entertainment, giveaways, drink specials and more, 5 p.m.-close May 5. Chelino’s Mexican Restaurant, Bricktown, 15 E. California St., 405-235-3533, chelinos.net.

My Epic/Come Wind/Jose Hernandez and The Black Magic Waters, 6:30 p.m. May 5. 89th Street Collective, 8911 N. Western Ave., 89thstreetokc.com.

Dancing in the Gardens, the Seasonal Plaza is transformed into an urban dance space; instructors from 3Sixty Dance Studio give a salsa dance demonstration followed by a free lesson for all, 7-10 p.m. May 5. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Memphis May Fire/We Come As Romans, 7 p.m. May 5. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-5842306, cainsballroom.com.

Paseo First Friday Gallery Walk, see what the historic Paseo Art District has to offer; galleries and shops host receptions for new shows and featured artists along with live music, food trucks and local restaurant options, 6-10 p.m. May 6. Paseo Arts District, 3022 Paseo St., 405-525-2688, thepaseo.com.

Evening to Remember: A Night in Emerald City, evening of food, entertainment and imagination reigniting your inner child; wine pull, raffle, flip books and other attractions, 6:30-9 p.m. May 6. Aloft Downtown Oklahoma City, 209 N. Walnut Ave., 405605-2100, aloftoklahomacitybricktown.com.

Be the Dinosaur: Adult Trivia Night, gather your cleverest friends for a team trivia night full of all things prehistoric; test your dinosaur knowledge skills, 7-10 p.m. May 6. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-3254712, snomnh.ou.edu.

Broadway & Brew 2016, an unprecedented night of fun in the city featuring beers from Oklahoma breweries, tasty treats from local eateries, live music, prizes and more, 7 p.m. May 6. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Signature Series, Tulsa Ballet performs a triple bill including Serenade, a masterpiece of George Balachine, Remansos by Nacho Duato with music

by Enrique Granadas, and Infra choreographed by Wayne McGregor, 8 p.m. May 6-7 and 13-14; 3 p.m.

May 8 and 15. University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Drive, Tulsa, utulsa.edu.

Mother’s Day Ferry Cruise, treat your mom to a ride on the Oklahoma River; moms ride free, May 7-8.

On the Lawn Get off our lawn! Actually, don’t get off our lawn; get on it. Enjoy drinks, food trucks, a car show, face painting, yard games, cardboard sliding and a performance

by Sugar Free Allstars. On the Lawn is the first Thursday of every month through July.

May’s event features beer by Anthem Brewing Company and food by The Saucee Sicilian, Klemm’s Smoke Haus, Katiebug’s Shaved Ice and Hot Chocolate, Buttermilk Southern Sliders, Phill Me Up Cheesesteaks and Food For All OK. The fun starts 5 p.m. Thursday at 6200 N. Western Ave. Admission is free. Visit facebook.com/WesternAve. Thursday Photo Gazette / File Oklahoma River Cruises, 1503 Exchange Ave., 405-702-7755, okrivercruises.com.

USRowing Central Youth Championship, top junior crews from seven states this year as part of Riversport Rapids Grand Opening Celebration; enjoy two days of spirited racing, district championships and the opportunity to race at the USRowing National Youth Championship, May 7-8. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

2016 AutismOklahoma PieceWalk & 5K, with over 7,500 walkers and 700 runners participating in the event each year, it is the largest autism event in our state, 9 a.m. May 7. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

Color Me Rad 5K, 5K that sends you running through rad color stations and leaves you covered from head to toe in powders and gels of pink, yellow, green, blue and violet, 9 a.m. May 7. Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, 3001 General Pershing Blvd., 405-948-6700, okstatefair.com.

Arts on the Corner, featuring a performing arts stage, visual arts tent, local vendor booths and live music around the corner; benefitting the Norman Public Schools Art Foundation, this free community arts festival provides an outlet for community members to showcase, create and experience local art, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 7. Campus Corner at OU, 765 Asp Ave., Norman, 405-928-1509, oucampuscorner.com.

2nd Annual Garden Fest, family event with vendors of all kinds featuring herbs, plants, garden art, pottery, soaps, fresh produce, food trucks, wines, jewelry and more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 7. OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

Oklahoma City Great Strides, participants form walk groups and celebrate walk day with a 1-mile walk along with food trucks and the annual Hero of Our Hearts awards, 10 a.m. May 7. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Buffed: The Aesthetics of Removal He used to work with the Oklahoma City Police Department covering up graffiti across town. Now artist Randall Barnes offers a series of prints dedicated to the artistic beauty of graffiti removal. Buffed: The Aesthetics of Removal opens 6 p.m. Friday at The Project Box, 3003 Paseo St. The show runs through May 30 and includes artist demos May 28-30. Admission is free. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Visit theprojectboxokc.com or call 412-370-9157.

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Riversport Rapids Grand Opening Celebration, event features Team USA’s Road to Rio tour presented by Liberty Mutual Insurance. The interactive tour gives fans a chance to experience the spirit of the Olympic Games, try their hand at some of the sports and meet Team USA athletes. On Saturday evening, a live concert will be staged in the whitewater center followed by fireworks, May 7-8.

Riversport Rapids, 800 Riversport Drive, 405-5524040, riversportokc.org.

Saturdays for Kids: Culture Quests in the West, celebrate the closing of five wonderful exhibitions with special related activities including a scavenger hunt; designed for children ages 4-12 and adults,

10 a.m.-noon May 7. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

My First Project, participants build a standard-style toolbox under the guidance of Phil Gilliland or Jerry Hickman Sr., 1-3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday, Joe’s Workshop, 13915 N. Harvey Ave., Edmond, 405531-0153, joesws.com.

Greg Proops, stand-up comedian known for his unpredictable appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, 6:30 p.m. May 7. ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-974-4700, acm.uco.edu.

Red Brick Nights, enjoy music, food and shopping in downtown Guthrie, 7 p.m. first Saturday. Downtown Guthrie, Wentz and Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie.

Miss Brown to You, 7:30 p.m. May 7. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Biting the Apple, fundraiser and art exhibition; fundraiser supports IAO’s programming and individual artists of all disciplines through a provocative event and entertaining party, 8 p.m.midnight May 7. IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-232-6060, iaogallery.org.

Harry Connick Jr., 8 p.m. May 8. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com.

Bridesmaids, (US, 2011, dir. Paul Feig) Lillian’s maidof-honor and bridesmaid compete to prove who the better friend is, 8 p.m. May 10. The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., bleugarten.com.

SoMo/Quinn XCII, 8 p.m. May 10. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies, featuring exclusive Dead & Co. footage and an interview with David Lemieux on the making of the July 1978: The Complete Recordings box set along with the previously unreleased Grateful Dead concert from Sullivan Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts, 7/2/89, Cinemark Tinseltown, 6001 N. Martin Luther King Ave., 405-424-0461, cinemark.com.

Sturgill Simpson, 8 p.m. May 11. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Lenny Schmidt, stand-up comedy performance, 8 p.m. May 11-12, 8 and 10:30 p.m. May 13-14. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

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May the 4th Be With You Who has what it takes to return balance to the 4th? Anyone attending Star Wars celebration May the 4th Be With You, that’s who. Games, crafts, activities and photo opportunities with favorite characters from the movies will all be available. The event begins 6 p.m. Wednesday at Mustang Parks & Recreation Special Events, 1201 N. Mustang Road, in Mustang. Admission is $5 per child. Pre-registration is required, and space is limited. Visit www.cityofmustang.org/calendar or call 405-376-3411.

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continued from page 29 Poet Valerie Wetlaufer Reading and Signing, author reads and signs her second book, Call Me By My Other Name, 6:30 p.m. May 12. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Ray Wylie Hubbard/Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights/Aaron Lee Tasjan, 8 p.m.

May 12. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Dances With Brushes Gallery Opening, longtime Norman artist Mitsuno Ishii Reedy began her career in mid-1970s painting award-winning portraits, still lifes and landscapes for collectors throughout the United States, 6-9 p.m. May 13. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

LIVE! on the Plaza, join the Plaza District the second Friday of each month for an art walk featuring artists, live music, street pop-up shops, live performances and more, 7-11 p.m. May 13. Plaza District, 1618 N. Gatewood Ave., 405-367-9403, plazadistrict.org.

Bring Me The Horizon/’68/Silver Snakes, 7 p.m. May 13. Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405-6779169, diamondballroom.net.

Disclosure, 7 p.m. May 13. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Filter/Vampires Everywhere!/Death Valley High, 7 p.m. May 13. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Lisa and Laura, 7:30 p.m. May 13. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com.

4000 Miles, after suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21-year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91-year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment; over the course of a month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder and ultimately reach each other, 8 p.m. May 13-14, 20-21, 26-27, June 3-4; 2 p.m. May 29; 7:30 p.m. June 2. Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St., 405232-6500, carpentersquare.com.

The Damn Quails/Midnight River Choir, 9:30 p.m.

May 13. Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-604-6276, wormydog.com.

Walk from Obesity, set your own pace for this 1-mile walk or 5K run, 6 a.m. May 14. Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Place, 405-424-3344, okczoo.org.

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Tami Sauer Book Signing, bestselling author Tammi Sauer signs latest children’s book, I Love Cake!, 10:15 a.m. May 14. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Free Family Make + Take Art Project: Super SONIC, outdoor activities for the family include a variety of individual art projects such as sun prints and stamped windsocks, paper tambourines, figure paintings, chalk art, snow cones, face painting, a DJ and more, 1-4 p.m. May 14. Oklahoma Contemporary’s Campbell Art Park, NW 11th Street and Broadway Avenue, 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

A Banjo Salute to Steve Martin, Lucas Ross takes the stage at the American Banjo Museum and gives tribute to comedian and musician Steve Martin as he plays songs highlighting Martin’s early career and touching on his comedy roots, 3:30 p.m. May 14.

American Banjo Museum, 9 E. Sheridan Ave., 405604-2793, americanbanjomuseum.com.

Beats & Bites, outdoor food truck and live entertainment event, local vendors and wineries, beer garden, bounce houses and more, 6 p.m.

May 14. Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9, Norman, 405-322-6000, riverwind.com.

Pink Tie Ball, an evening of elegance impacting programs and research for Susan G. Komen Central and Western Oklahoma; silent auction, formal dinner, dinner program, survivor celebrations and more, 6-11 p.m. May 14. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Fairy Ball, children are invited to dress for a fairy ball to create an evening of visual delights, music and dancing, 7-9 p.m. May 14. First Christian Church of Oklahoma City, 3700 N. Walker Ave., 405-5256551, fccokc.org.

OKC Dodgers vs. Las Vegas, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. May 14-16, 11:05 a.m. May 17.

Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

Classic Radio Theatre, enjoy beverages and hors d’oeuvres and travel back in time to the golden days of radio; live performance of scripts from various radio shows from the 1930s to 1960s, 7 p.m. May 14.

Actor’s Casting & Talent Services, 30 NE 52nd St., 405-702-0400, actorscasting.com.

Movie in the Park: The Good Dinosaur, (US, 2015, dir. Peter Sohn) a dinosaur named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend; bring blankets, lawn chairs

Movie in the Park The Good Dinosaur see listing p.30 | Photo Disney Pixar : Provided and picnic baskets or enjoy concessions, 7 p.m. May 14. Mustang Parks & Recreation, 1201 N. Mustang Road, Mustang, 405-376-3411, cityofmustang.org.

Ellie Goulding/Years & Years/Bebe Rexha, 6:30 p.m. May 18. The Zoo Amphitheatre, 2101 NE 50th St., 405-602-0683, thezooamphitheatre.com.

Luke Bryan, 7:30 p.m. May 14. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 405-602-8700, chesapeakearena.com.

Immersive Event with Summer Wheat, Oklahoma Contemporary brings Wheat’s works to life through immersive storytelling, dance and design while guests enjoy an open top-shelf car and a signature cocktail inspired by Wheat’s work, 6:30 p.m. May 18. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Star Wars Party, come dressed as your favorite Star Wars movie character, 8 p.m. May 14.

FlashBack RetroPub, 814 W. Sheridan Ave., flashbackretropub.com.

Granger Smith/Earl Dribbles Jr./Lindsay Ell, 8:30 p.m. May 14. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

GUM, 10:30 p.m. May 14. 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., 405-463-0470, 51stspeakeasy.com.

Family Baking Class, hands-on baking class for mom, dad and the kids; roll, cut and cook doughnut dough, pipe and fill macaroons, 1-3 p.m. May 15. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, bellekitchen.com.

Last Sunday Poetry Reading, a longtime resident of Norman, Larry Bierman writes imaginative lyric poetry, sometimes with a sarcastic edge, and will be reading from his most recent book, Broken Rain; his poetic goal is to make his audience feel more aware, be more alive, 2 p.m. May 15. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

OKC Energy vs. San Antonio, professional soccer game, 6 p.m. May 15. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St. Atreyu/Islander/Sworn In, 7 p.m. May 15. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Dave Matthews Band, 7 p.m. May 17. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 405-602-8700, chesapeakearena.com.

The Handsome Devils, 7:30 p.m. May 17. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

Ghost/Pinkish Black, 8 p.m. May 17. Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405-677-9169, diamondballroom.net.

Gregg Allman, 8 p.m. May 17. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Anthem Brewing Company Beer Dinner, one of the tastiest events of the year in downtown Oklahoma City; The Museum Cafe’s chef Henry Boudreaux pairs up with Anthem Brewing Company, one of the most highly acclaimed local breweries, to bring you the perfect complimentary beer tasting dishes, 6-9 p.m.

May 18. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

Triple-Feature Week, three funny dudes, one killer show; variety of comedy styles and limitless number of topics. Roy Haber, Jon Stringer and Gabe Kea, 8 p.m. May 18-19, 8 and 10:30 p.m. May 20-21. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-2394242, loonybincomedy.com.

Automobile Alley Shop Hop, explore all that Automobile Alley has to offer; open-house events at shops, live music, street artists, discounts at local restaurants and more, 6-9 p.m. May 19. Automobile Alley, 1015 N. Broadway Ave., 405-488-2555, automobilealley.org.

Nothing Daunted Women’s Book Club, discussion over City of Thieves by David Benioff, 7 p.m. May 19.

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

OKC Dodgers vs. Salt Lake City, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. May 19-21, 1:05 p.m. May 22. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

Okie Mod Squad Oklahoma Modernism Weekend, an informative and fun-filled weekend including featuring mixers, a vintage car show, a mid-century Modern Market and Mod Swap, a fashion show, architecture tours and an ultra-lounge dance party, May 20-22. First Christian Church of Oklahoma City, 3700 N. Walker Ave., 405-525-6551, fccokc.org.

Katarina Bivald Book Signing, author signs her New York Times bestseller, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, about a Swedish girl named Sara traveling to Iowa to meet her pen pal but discovers she has died; Sara sets out to open a bookstore in the small town, 6:30 p.m. May 20. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Garden Festival in the Park 2016, educational exhibits, flower shows and vendor booths, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 21. Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 NW 36th St. Sensory Safari: Smell, explore our natural world with sensory activities and crafts, animal demos and more, 10-11:30 a.m. May 21. The Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Place, 405-424-3344, okczoo.org.

NEW INK!, a gathering of Oklahoma’s newest and brightest authors sign their books, 3 p.m. May 21.

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

The Beach Boys, 7 p.m. May 21. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com.

Dwight Yoakam, 8 p.m. May 21. Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9, Norman, 405-322-6000, riverwind.com.

Paper Diamond/Styles & Complete, 7 p.m. May 20.

OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

Rage in the Cage, MMA/Muay Thai boxing event, 8 p.m. May 21. OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

Youth Triathlon Series, four competitive events featuring swimming, biking and running; each course is chipped time and provides the athletes an opportunity to improve at each event, 7 a.m. May 21. Earlywine Park, 3101 S. 119th St., 405-297-3882, okc.gov/parks.

Randy Rogers Band, 8 p.m. May 21, The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Ellis Paul, 8 p.m. May 21. The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley Ave., 405-843-1573, bluedoorokc.com.

Bullets Over Broadway, a hilarious musical comedy about the making of a Broadway show, written by Woody Allen; the story of a young playwright who accepts an offer he can’t refuse from a mobster looking to please his showgirl girlfriend, 7:30 p.m.

May 13-26, 8 p.m. May 27, 2 and 8 p.m. May 28, 2 p.m. May 29. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com.

OTEP/September Mourning/Through Fire, 6:30 p.m. May 23. Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405-677-9169, diamondballroom.net.

OKC Energy vs. Real Monarchs, professional soccer game, 7 p.m. May 24. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St. STRFKR/Com Truise/Fake Drugs, 8 p.m. May 24.

Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-5842306, cainsballroom.com.

Movie Night at the Market: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, (US, 1986, dir. John Hughes) a high school boy is determined to have the day off from school; free popcorn and costume contest, 6:30 p.m. May 25.

OKC Farmer’s Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-2326506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

The First Monday in May Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala Benefit, commonly known as the Met Gala, is the subject of documentary The First Monday in May. The project, directed by Andrew Rossi, takes viewers behind the scenes of the 2015 edition of one of fashion’s biggest nights. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, will show six screenings of the films across three days. See the film 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $5-$9.

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Tech N9ne/Krizz Kaliko/Rittz, 7:30 p.m. May 25.

Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405-6779169, diamondballroom.net.

Old 97’s/Heartless Bastards, 8 p.m. May 25. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Kris Shaw, stand-up comedy performance; Kris is a storyteller who, with quick bursts of wit and carefully crafted silences, keeps the audience engaged through everyday observations and tough topics

alike, 8 p.m. May 25-26 and 29, 8 and 10:30 p.m. May 27-28. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

A$AP Ferg/Tory Lanez, 8 p.m. May 26. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Deftones, 8 p.m. May 26. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Mary Volmer Book Signing, author signs her book, Reliance, Illinois; gossip, murder, love and hate, lacemaking and drunken fist fights, sinners, saviors and even Mark Twain himself grace the pages of Reliance, Illinois, a brilliant and beautiful window into American life during a period of tumultuous change, 6:30 p.m. May 26. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Senior Fun Day, free lunch and group exercise classes, 9 a.m. May 27. E.L. Gaylord Downtown YMCA, 1 NW Fourth St., 405-297-7700, ymcaokc.org.

4th Friday in the District, block party featuring food trucks, live music and pop-up shops, 6-11 p.m. May 27, June 24 and July 22. OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

Eats On 8th, food truck festival and night market; family-friendly event with live music, a kid’s zone, pop-up vendors and much more, 6-11 p.m. May 27, June 24 and July 29. Midtown, NW Ninth Street and Walker Avenue.

Annual Chuck Wagon Festival, two-day festival offers traditional chuck wagon food samples, musical entertainment from Rodeo Opry, family-friendly activities and the many museum galleries and outdoor gardens; children of all ages can join in numerous indoor and outdoor activities including bandana decorating, butter churning with Ag in the Classroom, rope making, leather stamping, face painting, square dancing, selfie stations and more, May 28-29. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

40th Annual Paseo Arts Festival, more than 80 visual artists fill the historic Paseo Arts District, selling original artwork in a variety of mediums; live music and performances, food and more, May 28-30.

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

Ladies-Only Chess Club, chess club giving girls and women a venue where they can build and maintain social relationships with other chess-playing girls and women; all skill levels are invited to participate, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. May 28. District House, 1755 NW 16th St., 405-633-1775, districthouseokc.com.

The Makers Fair, a craft market open to the public with items for sale made by members of Joe’s Workshop, 1:30-6:30 p.m. May 28. Joe’s Workshop, 13915 N. Harvey Ave., Edmond, 405-531-0153, joesws.com.

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Exchange premiere

Film Row’s monthly street festival takes the best of the old to make something new. By Greg Elwell

The premiere is over for Film Row, but the district has already loaded the second reel.

A few years after launching Premiere on Film Row street festival, the event is being rebooted as The Exchange on Film Row 6-10 p.m. May 20 at the corner of Sheridan and Lee avenues. It continues the third Friday of each month through October.

The priority for The Exchange is to showcase local talent, said Douglas Sorocco, Dunlap Codding intellectual property law director.

“The goal is to take it to the next level.

Premiere was hyperlocal about what’s going on inside Film Row,” he said. “What we want to do is use The Exchange as a platform for all the makers and creators in the community at large to show what they’re doing.”

It’s also a time to be inspired by what others are doing, whether it’s a physical good or an artistic expression.

“We want people to exchange ideas, exchange a laugh and exchange a good time with one another,” he said.

That commitment to local goods is why the organizers named Roughtail Brewing Co. as the event’s official beer provider.

Blaine Stansel, brewery co-founder, owner and CEO, said it’s an exciting opportunity for the beermaker to introduce products to a new audience that might not be familiar with Roughtail or craft beer. He said the lineup will include a blonde ale, a dark beer and a session IPA. “No matter what style you like, we’ll have something for you,” Stansel said.

The festival will also feature a rotating cast of Oklahoma City’s prodigious population of food trucks. Cuisines for every taste will find a showcase this summer. Cajun cooking from La Gumbo Ya Ya, eastern European fare from Czech Delights and

The Exchange on Film Row 6-10 p.m. May 20 N. Lee and W. Sheridan avenues exchangefilmrow.com Free

desserts from the likes of The Sugar Shack Sweets and Treats, The Crepe Brewers, Snow S’more, Katiebug’s Shaved Ice and That Pie Place will make appearances.

But food and drink alone do not a street festival make, so The Exchange is also building on Premiere’s legacy with live music from local artists, a children’s activity area and access to the district’s art galleries.

Pop-up shops are another focus of the event, which is part of Sorocco’s vision for highlighting local artisans. The shops will rotate each month, giving visitors more reasons to return.

For city residents, festivals play an important role in defining districts and showcasing what makes each one unique.

Downtown OKC Inc. vice president Jill Brown DeLozier said Film Row benefits greatly from this kind of attention and involvement.

“It’s fantastic to see the community come together to invest in activities that add vibrancy to the area,” she said.

With 21c Museum Hotel anchoring one end of the area and Dunlap Codding at the other end, Sorocco wants to jump-start some of the excitement coming to Film Row while bringing more eyes to bars and restaurants FlashBack RetroPub, Noir Bistro & Bar and Joey’s Pizzeria and event spaces like IAO Gallery and The Paramount OKC. “21c is about thinking big and creating something new, and on the other end, we help people protect it and commercialize it. The Exchange is everything that’s happening in between us,” he said. “The concept is bringing it together and showcasing it to the Oklahoma City community.”

Updated information will be posted monthly at exchangefilmrow.com.

Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter.

Gogol Bordello/Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, 8 p.m. June 1. Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405-677-9169, diamondballroom.net.

All-Night Skate, skating from 8 p.m.-8 a.m. June 1. Skate Galaxy, 5800 NW 36th St., 405-605-2758, skategalaxyokc.com.

Alex Reymundo, stand-up comedy performance; with two 1-hour specials on Showtime and Comedy Central, his latest Red-Nexican and previous awardwinning Hick-Spanic, Reymundo appeals to all, 8 p.m. June 1-2, 8 and 10:30 p.m. June 3-4. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

Dancing in the Gardens: Salsa Night Myriad Botanical Gardens’ Dancing in the Gardens series kicks off with some heat and Latin flavor just in time for Cinco de Mayo.

Salsa instructors from 3Sixty Dance Studio give a demonstration and free lessons 7 p.m.

Thursday. Learn the foundation steps, and then show off your new moves when the party — complete with salsa music, dancing and drink and food specials — starts at 8 p.m.

Dancing in the Gardens continues through September. Visit myriadgardens.com.

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Last Sunday Poetry Jam, featured poets are Carol Hamilton and Mark Evans followed by an open-mic session, 2 p.m. May 29. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Art Adventures, young artists are invited to experience art through books and related art projects for children ages 3 to 5, 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

The Steel Wheels Band, 7:30 p.m. May 31. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

Tyler the Creator/Taco, 8 p.m. May 31. Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405-677-9169, diamondballroom.net.

Macaron Filling & Decorating Class, hands-on macaron filling and decorating class, 6-9 p.m. May 31. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, belle-kitchen.com.

Fairy Tale Ballet Camp, a four-day dance camp that includes a daily dance class and also introduces students to four famous fairy tale ballets; The Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, May 31-June 3. Dance Center of Oklahoma City Ballet, 7421 N. Classen Blvd., 405-843-9898, okcballet.com.

OKC Jazz Fest, featuring jazz, jazz-rock, rhythm and blues along with other genres of music, May 31-June 4.

Deep Deuce District, 100 NE Third St. Summer Art Camp: From Ordinary to Extraordinary, children ages 7-9, learn to notice details and investigate new ways to create painted masterpieces; while experimenting with everyday items, students learn an appreciation for art and gain the confidence to create their own work, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 31-June 3. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Oh What a Relief!, students ages 10-12, engage in a variety of projects: unusual sculptures, abstract painting and designs, relief printmaking; all techniques made famous by Jasper Johns himself, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 31-June 3. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Amazingly Abstract, young artists, ages 5-6, explore a variety of artistic mediums and create multiple artworks all while learning about American painter and printmaker Jasper Johns, 9 a.m.4 p.m. May 30-June 3. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

OKC Dodgers vs. Iowa, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. May 31-June 3. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

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June offers an explosion of outdoor events, music and culture festivals, art walks, youth camps, concerts, OKC Dodgers baseball games and even Oklahoma TenaCity, a family-friendly cycling festival spanning three historic districts across the city.

TenaCity runs June 3-5. Read on for more details.

Awake, an exhibit featuring works by Christie Owen and Brandi Downham; a collection of works immersed in the language of unity and balance; through June 4. Graphite Gallery, 1751 NW 16th St., 405-919-0578, graphiteokcart.com.

Matisse in His Time: Masterworks of Modernism from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, exhibit includes 100 works of art, including nearly 50 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Henri Mattise, as well as masterworks by his contemporaries Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Andre Derain, Fernand Léger and Amedeo Modigliani; through Sept. 18. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

Wine & Howl, fundraiser benefiting the Central Oklahoma Humane Society featuring refreshments from Broadway Wine Merchants, Coop Ale Works and Seven47 along with a silent auction; cocktail party open to anyone who wants to lend a hand to pets in need, 5:30-8 p.m. June 2. Dunlap Codding, 609 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-607-8600, dunlapcodding.com.

Oklahoma TenaCity, a family-friendly cycling festival spanning three historic districts in Oklahoma City, June 3-5. Elemental Coffee Roasters, 815 N. Hudson Ave., 405-604-9766, elementalcoffeeroasters.com.

Sordid Lives, when Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas, June 3-12. The Stage Door Theater, 601 Oak Ave., Yukon, 405-2651590, stagedooryukon.com. Éclairs, Crullers and Profiteroles Class, hands-on pastry couples class with the super versatile pate à choux dough; create some amazing éclairs, crullers and profiteroles, 6-9 p.m. June 3. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, belle-kitchen.com.

Saintoberfest Beer Tasting, hosted by St. Anthony Foundation and Byron’s Liquor Warehouse, the event features more than 50 beers to sample, music, snacks, outdoor games and a raffle, all outdoors in the heart of Midtown, 6:30-9 p.m. June 3. St. Anthony Hospital lot, SW corner of NW Ninth Street and Walker Avenue, 405-272-7000, saintsok.com.

My First Project, participants build a standard-style toolbox under the guidance of Phil Gilliland or Jerry Hickman Sr., 1-3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday, Joe’s Workshop, 13915 N. Harvey Ave., Edmond, 405531-0153, joesws.com.

Sailing at Lake Hefner, sunset sailing and sailing lessons aboard a full-size sailboat, 5:30 p.m. Saturdays, Lake Hefner East Wharf, 9101 Lake Hefner Parkway.

Red Brick Nights, enjoy music, food and shopping in downtown Guthrie, 7 p.m. the first Saturday of each month. Downtown Guthrie, Wentz and Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie.

Bowie Tribute: Kali Ra/Tapestry, 8 p.m. June 4.

Back Alley Gallery, 5026 A N. May Ave., 405-6042950, backalleyvapes.com.

Once Upon a Princess, have a magical day with the little princess in your life by attending the Once Upon

a Princess events at the 2016 Peace Love & Goodwill Festival; a dance floor so all our little ones can dance with their favorite princess and characters; 10 a.m.

Frozen, 1 p.m. Cinderella, 4 p.m. princess medley, June 5. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Peace Love & Goodwill Festival, listen, eat, shop and explore the very best Oklahoma has to offer during this one-day event for the entire family, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. June 5. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Mitsuno Reedy Artist Talk/Painting Demonstration, an artist talk and demonstration of oil painting techniques, 2 p.m. June 5. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

A Taste of Culture 2016, sip on wines from around the world, enjoy appetizers from local restaurants, jewelry pull, wine pull and live entertainment, 6-9 p.m. June 5. Cafe do Brasil, 440 NW 11th St., 405525-9779, cafedobrazilokc.com.

American Head Charge and Motograter/Numbers Game/God in the Machine, 6:30 p.m. June 5.

89th Street Collective, 8911 N. Western Ave., 89thstreetokc.com.

Diamond on the Rocks: A Neil Diamond Tribute, UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., Edmond, 405-3597989, ucojazzlab.com.

Sunday Twilight Concert Series, free concert every Sunday, 7:30-9 p.m. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Camp Video, camp for students grades 2-8; participate in rehearsing and producing a full musical production of Press Start, a new 8-bit musical inside the bright, pixilated world of video games where famous characters we know and love run out of lives and decide to put on a musical fundraiser to raise gold rings and play on, June 6-18. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 405-524-9312, lyrictheatreokc.com.

Summer Explorers, a variety of weeklong summer camps for children ages 4-14 who love exploring the great outdoors, investigating science and discover dinosaurs, June 6-July 25. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

Snow White Summer Camp, children’s summer camp held by Oklahoma Children’s Theatre; ages 11 and up, June 6-26. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

Camp Tumbleweed, day camp for teenagers and young adults with disabilities; ages 14-21, June 6-30.

Dale Rogers Training Center, 2501 N. Utah Ave., 405946-4489, drtc.org.

Youth Sailing Camps, learn everything you need to know about sailing, including safety, parts of the boat, stirring, knots and lines, upwind and downing sailing and much more during these full-day weekly camps, June 6-Aug. 5. Lake Hefner East Wharf, 9101 Lake Hefner Parkway.

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Ultimate Adventure Camps, camp giving kids a chance to try adventures like zip lining, the SandRidge Sky Trail, high-speed slides, kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding and whitewater rafting, May 30-Aug. 12. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

Deer Creek Volleyball Camp, three-day skills camp designed to focus on all aspects of the game with an emphasis on fundamentals; reinforce skills through repetition and performed in completion, grades 4-9, 8-10 a.m. and 11-1:30 p.m. June 1-3. Deer Creek High School, 6101 NW 206th St., Edmond, 405-348-5720, deercreekhs.org.

Kids Bowling, kids bowl free all summer long; program designed to give back to the community by providing a safe, secure and fun way for kids to spend time this summer. Sooner Bowling Center, 550 24th Ave., Norman, 405-360-3634, soonerbowl.com.

Okietales, one-of-a-kind reading and storytelling time where kids can hear and see history; dive into history with books and stories and explore a different topic from the Wild West and cowboys to land runs and pioneer life, 10:30-11:30 a.m. every Wednesday.

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June 6-10. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Still Life Summer, focusing on Oklahoma Contemporary’s exhibiting artist, Summer Wheat, 5- to 6-year-old campers create a series of exciting pop-art still-life pieces; students work in the gallery and the studio to make art using pencils, watercolors, charcoal and oil pastels accented in black contour lines, just like Summer Wheat, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 6-10. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Stop Motion Animation: Figurative Fun, in this stop motion animation camp, students ages 10-12 learn how to make animatable figures such as humans, animals and aliens; campers use their figures and newly acquired knowledge of Dragonframe software to create a short film that will be shown in the theater on the last day of camp, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 6-10. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

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Super Science Spectacular!, a week full of fantastic explorations and investigations that explore science’s most basic question, what if?, June 6-10. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Dance & Down Syndrome, summer camp presented by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 13 and up, June 6-10. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu.

Prix de West Sculpture Workshop: Sculpting with Purpose, from concept to finished surface, there should be purpose in the process of sculpting, and it starts with a strong idea and continues with an effective design, anatomical accuracy and surface that best realizes a personal vision; workshop is best for students with prior experience who are striving to expand their skills to the exceptional, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 6-9. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-4782250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Summer Art Camp: Portraits that POP!, 5- to 6-year-old artists create colorful 2-D and 3-D portraits, focusing on color mixing and organic forms; use various mediums including paint, paper mâché, clay and cardboard to create their portraits, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 6-10. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Native Symbols, by discussing Native American symbols of the past and present, 7- to 9-year-olds will explore symbols that represent our society today; incorporate our

Summer Art Camp: Good Times with Vermeer, with the direction of local artist G. Patrick Riley, campers ages 7-9 create visual art based on contemporary artist Summer Wheat and learn about her connection to famous historical artist Johannes Vermeer; students use paint, oil pastels, charcoal, paper and more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 6-10. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

Free First Monday for Kids, complimentary admission to the museum for children 17 and under, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. June 6. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

WWE Monday Night Raw, see your favorite WWE superstars live in action, 6:30 p.m. June 6.

Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 405602-8700, chesapeakearena.com.

The Frog Prince, summer performing arts day camp for boys and girls ages 6-17; campers put on a full musical production, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. June 7-17. Taylor Recreation Center, 1115 SW 70th St., 405-634-1120.

Mamma Mia!, the ultimate feel-good smash-hit musical that combines ABBA’s greatest hits with the story of a bride-to-be as she tries to find her real father, June 7-10. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com.

Painting the Portrait Workshop, learn how an image is built on a series of relationships and the process of painting the head from a live model; learn the visual principles at each stage of development, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. June 8-9. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

Samantha Crain/Nick Jaina, 7:30 p.m. June 8. The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley Ave., 405-843-1573, bluedoorokc.com.

Chris Porter, stand-up comedy performance; recently seen on Comedy Central’s Live Tour and

heard on such radio shows as the Bob and Tom Show, 8 p.m. June 8-9, 8 and 10:30 p.m. June 10-11.

Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

one-of-a-kind works of art using ink, paper, glass plates and creativity, 1-4 p.m. June 11. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

OKC Dodgers vs. Nashville, minor league baseball game, 4:35 p.m. June 9, 7:05 p.m. June 10-12.

Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

Medicine Bow/Quentin Cash Band, 4 p.m. June 11.

First Pastafarian Church of Norman, 115 S. Crawford Ave., Norman, 405-369-3330, facebook.com/ FirstPastafarian.

Summer Cannibals/Poolboy, 8 p.m. June 9. Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman, opolis.org.

Beats & Bites, outdoor food truck and live entertainment event, local vendors and wineries, beer garden, bounce houses and more, 6 p.m. June 11. Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9, Norman, 405-322-6000, riverwind.com.

Prix de West Opening Weekend, includes seminars, artist demonstrations, luncheons, fixed-price draw for art, live auction and awards dinner; featuring 100 artists and introducing two new guest artists, Glenn Dean and Z.S. Li., the exhibition and sale includes more than 300 Western paintings and sculptures by the finest contemporary Western artists in the nation, June 10-11. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Red Earth Festival, award-winning festival features American Indian artists and dancers from North America who celebrate the richness and diversity of their heritage with the world; sample the work of some of the nation’s most celebrated artists, with opportunities to purchase contemporary and traditional examples of beadwork, basketry, jewelry, pottery, sculpture, paintings, graphics and cultural attire during the juried art show and market, June 10-12. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 405602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com.

Minions, (US, 2015, dir. Kyle Balda) two minions are recruited by a villain and her husband who plan to take over the world; enjoy live music and great food before the movie, 6-10 p.m. June 10. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

A Dinosaur’s Life, blast into the prehistoric past; learn about how dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period lived and test your knowledge as you venture into the Be the Dinosaur exhibit, 6-8 p.m. June 10. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

LIVE! on the Plaza, join the Plaza District every second Friday of the month for an art walk featuring artists, live music, street pop-up shops, live performances and more, 7-11 p.m. June 10. Plaza District, 1618 N. Gatewood Ave., 405-367-9403, plazadistrict.org.

Green Day’s American Idiot, two-time Tony Awardwinning hit musical; Green Day’s powerhouse album is brought to life in this electrifying rock musical of youthful disillusion, 8 p.m. June 10-11, 17-18, 23-25, 30 and July 1-2, 2 p.m. June 19 and 26. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 405-2822800, thepollard.org.

Movie Night in the Park: Pan, (US, 2015, dir. Joe Wright) orphan Peter is spirited away to the world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger and discovers his destiny to become Peter Pan, 9 p.m.

June 10. Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell Road, Edmond, 405-359-4630, edmondok.com/parks.

Free Family Make + Take Art Project: Summer Printmaking, explore foam mono-printing inspired by fun summer activities, participants will create

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Le Tour de Vin 2016, a celebration of wine, food and generosity; a powerful collaboration of the Cross Timbers, Sooner and Norman Rotary clubs to raise money for our current beneficiary, 6:30 p.m. June 11. Marriott Conference Center & Hotel, 2801 E. State Highway 9, Norman, 405-329-4532, cc.nced.com.

Plain White T’s, 8 p.m. June 11. Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 31 Service Road, 405-478-2140, frontiercity.com.

OKC Flea, a market for makers, artists, crafters, curators, designers and upcyclers, noon-7 p.m. June 12 and July 10. OKC Farmer’s Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

SummerWind Youth Ballet Program, youth program hosted by the OU School of Dance; ages 11-14 and 1518, June 12-25. University of Oklahoma, 660 Parrington Oval, Norman, 405-325-0311, ou.edu.

Built to Spill, 8 p.m. June 12. ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-9744700, acm.uco.edu.

Design Workshop, summer camp presented by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 15-18 and incoming UCO freshmen, June 13-16. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405974-2000, uco.edu.

Prix de West Art Workshop: Painting the Spirit of the Horse, workshop addresses the physical anatomy of horses, but focuses on learning to see and understand their energy; through keen observation and knowledge of their subject, participants discern the horse’s body language, resulting in paintings that reflect the inner spirit and life of the horses they paint, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 13-16. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

D. I. Why Not! A Tinkering Garage Spectacular, experience the power of collaboration and innovation and immerse yourself in a world of possibilities, June 13-17. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Rock Camp, presented by ACM@UCO for ages 10-18, June 13-17. ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-974-4700, acm.uco.edu.

High School Drama Camp, summer camp presented

by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 13-18, June 13-17.

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Summer Art Camp: Color Wheel Your World, campers ages 5-6 will explore the style of Dale Chihuly while learning about elements of design. Using a variety of mediums and techniques, young artists will create colorful masterpieces of their own, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 13-17. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

Summer Art Camp: 4-D Art: Video Installation, fill a week and a space with new media, making animations, videos, sounds and temporary sculptures; completely transform an environment with personally made 4-dimensional art, ages 13-16, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 13-17. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Unbreakable Art, local artist G. Patrick Riley will direct his 7- to 9-year-old students in the making of a 2-3-foot colored-plastic totem, a mosaic leather mask, a sculpture made of clear tape and a pair of painted shoes; create several large squirt bottle expressionist paintings just like Dale Chihuly, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 13-17. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Mixed Media Frenzy, 10- to 12-year-old students will learn about different contemporary artists, explore a number of techniques and try their hands at acrylic paint, watercolor, chalk pastels, oil pastels and charcoal; every student will experiment with 3-D art, collages and mosaics, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 13-17. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Stage Presence: Performing Arts, this exciting camp takes your 7- to 9-year-old child through a week’s exploration of their mind, body and artistic spirit; learn about their physical and vocal strengths while exploring new ways to utilize them during any type of performance, ending the week with a short skit, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

June 13-17. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

An intimate view of the cowboy in a collection of 100 black-and-white plus color photographs, depicting the iconic cowboy’s gritty reality of working and living in the American West. Includes select work from Bank Langmore — considered a preeminent photographer of the American cowboy in the 1970s — and his son, John Langmore, a celebrated artist in his own right, who spent the last three years photographing many of the same people and ranches his father documented over 40 years ago.

A nationally traveling exhibition organized by the Briscoe Western Art Museum.

1700 Northeast 63rd Street Oklahoma City, OK 73111 Open daily 10:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. www.nationalcowboymuseum.org

Summer Art Camp: Spectacular Sculptures, young artists ages 5-6 will make fun and colorful sculptures using clay, plastic, books, paper mâché and more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 13-17, Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

Max Smith & the Sunnyvale Beauty Pageant Summer Camp, children’s summer camp held by Oklahoma Children’s Theatre; ages 7 and up, June 13-25.

Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

Rapunzel, summer performing arts day camp for boys and girls ages 6-17; campers put on a full musical production, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. June 13-24. NW Optimist Performing Arts Center, 3301 NW Grand Blvd., 405-841-2414.

OKC Dodgers vs. Omaha, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. June 13-14 and 16, 11:05 a.m. June

15. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

Buckethead, 8:30 p.m. June 13. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Macaron Basics Class, a hands-on basic macaron cooking class; learn the importance of meringue consistency, food color additions, mixing time and technique, 6-9 p.m. June 14. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, belle-kitchen.com.

Kelly Willis, 7:30 p.m. June 14. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

Brandi Carlile/KT Tunstall, 7:45 p.m. June 14. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Pineapple Express, (US, 2008, dir. David Gordon Green) two men end up running from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after witnessing a murder, 8 p.m. June 14. The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., bleugarten.com.

Speedy Ortiz/The Good Life, 9 p.m. June 14. Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman, opolis.org.

HOT ROD Power Tour, finest high-end automotive tour in the world offering the viewers the chance to view a variety of vehicles, June 15. Remington Park, 1 Remington Place, 405-424-9000, remingtonpark.com.

Stephen King, author will talk, read and do a Q&A with the audience; each ticketholder receives one copy of End of Watch, 6 p.m. June 15. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

A Film in Color, 8 p.m. June 15. First Pastafarian Church of Norman, 115 S. Crawford Ave., Norman, 405-369-3330, facebook.com/FirstPastafarian.

Tim Gaither, stand-up comedy performance; blessed with natural timing and the ability to make up characters on command, he is, in a word, hilarious, making audiences across the country scream with laughter, 8 p.m. June 15-16, 8 and 10:30 p.m. June 17-18. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

Book Signing, Ann Sherman signs her book, Car Collections of Oklahoma, which makes a great coffee table book, 6:30 p.m. June 16. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Weezer/Panic! At The Disco, 7 p.m. June 16. The Zoo Amphitheatre, 2101 NE 50th St., 405-602-0683, thezooamphitheatre.com.

Nothing Daunted Women’s Book Club, discussion of West with the Night by Beryl Markham, 7 p.m. June 16.

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

Craft Beer Festival, beer tasting event focused on craft beers from the U.S. and around the world; access to over 200 samples, a commemorative tasting cup and food from some of Oklahoma City’s best food trucks, June 17-18. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 405-602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com.

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An Oklahoma City Museum of Art exhibit chronicles over a century of our state’s cultural heritage. By Wilhelm Murg

Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s Our City, Our Collection: Building the Museum’s Lasting Legacy exhibit showcases the organization’s history dating back to early art collection efforts during statehood and features works by Roy Lichtenstein, Rembrandt van Rijn, Marcel Duchamp, Gustave Courbet, Dale Chihuly and others.

It also chronicles the various arts groups

and organizations that were active in the city and transformational gifts, bequests and acquisitions that have made Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) central Oklahoma’s premiere collecting and cultural institution.

“The exhibition is divided into large collections from our permanent collection, so there are eight sections [marking points in history],” said Michael Anderson, curator of film and American art. “In each of these sections, we have pieces that we don’t normally have on view.”

He described the display as showing the chronology of building a museum.

“We’re telling the museum’s history through these large gifts,” Anderson said.

“We’re still a relatively young museum, and we have a pretty eclectic collection. The exhibition reflects that. … There are things that are brought together because of the collections they are a part of which normally would not be seen in proximity, so there is that cheeky aspect to it, too.”

Humble beginnings

Ellie Shepherd’s “Lottie,” ca. 1910 | Photo Oklahoma City Museum of Art / Gift of the Oklahoma Art League with additional funds from the Isabel Croft Memorial / Provided

While the story of Oklahoma City art properly begins with a 1940s donation from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), its humbler beginnings came in 1916, when Nan Sheets, an artist in her own right, married Oklahoma native Fred Sheets. By 1920, the Sheets built The Elms, a gallery and home. Its opening night was followed by a two-week open house.

The couple opened Oklahoma City’s first gallery, Anderson said.

“They exhibited her works and some other pieces they collected in her travels,” he said. “When the WPA was in the process of establishing new art centers and galleries before that, they contacted Nan Sheets to be the first person to run a gallery in Oklahoma City.”

The museum has one of her paintings, “Sudden Shower, the Coming Storm,” in the current exhibition.

“Nan Sheets was not just our first director once the art center was established in 1945,” Anderson said. “She was an allaround focal point of the art scene in Oklahoma City for close to 30 years.”

She also wrote art criticism for The Oklahoman at that time and fiercely defended modern art, he added.

Another seminal influencer was Oklahoma Art League, founded by Nellie Shepherd, one of the state’s first professional artists.

Shepherd was born in Kansas during the Oklahoma Land Run, and her family relocated to a homestead near Oklahoma City.

She went on to study art in France, where a portrait of her sister, Lottie, was exhibited at the 1910 Salon art exhibition in Paris. It won an honorable mention.

“It was one of two pieces picked that year from over 800 entries by American artists,” Anderson said. “The Paris Salon rarely took works by American artists, but they took one by a female Oklahoma artist.”

That work also is on display in Our City, Our Collection.

Growing pains

As a relief project during the Depression, the WPA paid artists to create paintings and murals. In the process, it amassed the world’s largest art collection. In 1942, the organization liquidated its collection to

Robert Henri’s “Tesuque Buck,” ca. 1916 | Photo Oklahoma City Museum of Art / Gift of the Kirkpatrick Foundation / Provided

other organizations. That included 28 works given to the City of Oklahoma City, which, at that time, did not have a museum.

“Three years later, in 1945, the Oklahoma Art Center incorporated. At that time, we started as a collecting institution, starting with these works from the WPA,” Anderson said.

Eight of those pieces are on display, he said.

By the late 1950s, a new facility was built at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, but the association lasted only a decade before the group split into two factions over nonrepresentational art.

“In 1968, the Art Center came across the opportunity to purchase the first collection of modern art,” Anderson said. “The museum purchased it, and that led to a split.”

Oklahoma Art Center collected more modern art, and Oklahoma Museum of Conservative Art focused on representational European works.

“Probably the most important piece in our collection, the Gustav Flaubert landscape from the mid-19th century, was actually collected by the Museum of Conservative Art,” Anderson said.

The two reunited in 1989 for practical reasons, after the state and city took a financial hit due to a dramatic drop in oil prices. Throughout the 1990s, extensive fundraising campaigns lead to the 2002 opening of OKCMOA at its current location at 415 Couch Drive.

New additions

The museum recently acquired a 1765 and a 1766 pastel by John Singleton Copley. They also are on display.

“Copley was the most important portrait artist of 18th-century America, and those pieces are on view for the first time in this exhibition,” Anderson said. “They are in the museum collection for the first time on the occasion of their 250th anniversary. Those are two works we are very excited about; there aren’t a lot of pastels from the 18th century, and not many people worked in pastels in 18th-century America.”

Our City, Our Collection: Building the Museum’s Lasting Legacy runs through Aug. 28. For more information, visit okcmoa. com/current-exhibitions.

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Rob Bell Book Signing, New York Times best selling author signs his last book, How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living, 5:30 p.m. June 17. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Souled Out, 8 p.m. June 17. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., Edmond, 405-359-7989, ucojazzlab.com.

Automobile Alley Shop Hop, explore all that Automobile Alley has to offer; open-house events at shops, live music, street artists, discounts at local restaurants and more, 6-9 p.m. June 17. Automobile Alley, 1015 N. Broadway Ave., automobilealley.org.

Urban Camping, a night under the stars at Riversport Rapids; brings classic camping favorites like s’mores, stargazing and outdoor games together with whitewater rafting on Riversport Rapids’ island, all just steps away from modern conveniences, June 18. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

NEW INK!, a gathering of Oklahoma’s newest and brightest authors to sign their books, 3 p.m. June 18.

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

OKC Night Bazaar, outdoor night event aimed to support and foster the Oklahoma City community by serving as a platform to showcase local entrepreneurs, businesses, artists and performers at a fun-filled event for all ages; food, live art and entertainment, 6 p.m. June 18. OKC Farmers Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

POK White Party, come dressed in your best white outfit and join Preservation Oklahoma for its inaugural White Party; all proceeds benefit the work of Preservation Oklahoma, including its stewardship of the 1903 Henry Overholser Mansion, 7-10 p.m.

June 18. Henry Overholser Mansion, 405 NW 15th St., 405-525-5325, overholsermansion.org.

Act of Defiance/Arkhon/Bag O Bones, 7 p.m. June 18. Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405677-9169, diamondballroom.net.

Classic Radio Theatre, enjoy beverages and hors d’oeuvres and travel back in time to the golden days of radio; live performance of scripts from various radio shows from the 1930s to 1960s, 2:30 p.m. June 19. Actor’s Casting & Talent Services, 30 NE 52nd St., 405-702-0400, actorscasting.com.

Widespread Panic, 7 p.m. June 19. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Rowing Camps, half-day camps focus on rowing; full-day camps include rowing plus Riversport Adventures in the Boathouse District and whitewater rafting, June 20-Aug. 5. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

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Cinderella, summer performing arts day camp for boys and girls ages 6-17; campers put on a full musical production, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., June 20-July 1. Taylor Recreation Center, 1115 SW 70th St., 405-634-1120.

Advanced Sailing Camps, pick up where the OKC Riversport Youth Sailing Camps left off; campers sail in teams and learn skills such as docking and using a jib, June 20-July 29. Lake Hefner East Wharf, 9101 Lake Hefner Parkway.

Jurassic Science, an epic journey unearthing the amazing creatures from the past, June 20-24.

Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Kids Summer Cooking Camp, each day features a new topic including doughnuts, cookies, cupcakes and other delicious treats, June 20-24th, July 11-15.

Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, belle-kitchen.com.

Drama Day Camp, summer camp presented by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 7-12, June 20-24.

University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu.

Summer Art Camp: Collage Barrage, 7- to 9-year-old campers produce artwork that creates thought-provoking messages; incorporate a variety of media to create collages of all types all while learning about contemporary artist Barbara Kruger, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., June 20-24. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Bigger, Bolder, Better!, during this week, 5- to 6-year-old campers will learn how to take small ideas and turn it into big art; creating and working with recycled materials, little artists construct large, free-standing sculptures, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 20-24. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Absence of Color, Presence of ME, explore and expand your inner artist and writer; students ages 10-12 write their memoirs and incorporate striking black-and-white images into them, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 20-24. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Fundamental Hip-Hop, provides a basic understanding of the history and early cultural influences of hip-hop and its effect on modern society; encourage teamwork, open-minded explorations, creative problemsolving and self-confidence; emceeing, graffiti and breakdancing, ages 7-9, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 20-24. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Say it with Slogans, 5- to 6-year-old campers take magazine clippings and black-and-white images to make high-contrast collages inspired by artist Barbara Kruger, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 20-24. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Reverend Horton Heat/Unknown Hinson/Koffin Kats, 7 p.m. June 21. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

contortion, aerial silks, lyra, belly dancing and more, 8 p.m. June 24 and 25. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 405-524-9312, lyrictheatreokc.com.

OKC Dodgers vs. Round Rock, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. June 21-24. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405218-1000.

Annual Gigantic Garage Sale, huge garage sale event presented by Pets and People Humane Society of Yukon, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. June 24-25. American Legion — Yukon Post 160, 1020 W. Main St., Yukon, 405-265-1955.

John Mayall, 8 p.m. June 21. ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-9744700, acm.uco.edu.

Electric Six, 8 p.m. June 21. Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman, opolis.org.

Snow White, join Snow White as she escapes the evil queen with the help of a kind woodcutter, seven friendly dwarfs and a true love’s kiss, 10 a.m. and noon June 22 and 24, 10 a.m. June 23, 2 p.m. June 2526 Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

Citizen Cope, 8:15 p.m. June 22. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Fitz & The Tantrums, 8:30 p.m. June 22. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com.

Rick Gutierrez, stand-up comedy performance; Gutierrez is slated to star in an HBO comedy series based on his life and the experiences he talks about in his stand-up act, 8 p.m. June 22-23, 8 and 10:30 p.m. June 24-25. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

Ladies-Only Chess Club, chess club giving girls and women a venue where they can build and maintain social relationships with other chess-playing girls and women; all skill levels are invited to participate, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. June 25. District House, 1755 NW 16th St., 405-633-1775, districthouseokc.com.

Stars & Stripes River Festival, Fourth of July-themed event features rowing, kayaking and dragon boat races along with the Riversport Challenge 500-meter kayak/5k run duathlon; enjoy the free family event, try out all the exciting attractions with Riversport Adventures & Riversport Rapids, listen to music and enjoy the fireworks show, June 25. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

The Makers Fair, a craft market opened to the public with items for sale made by members of Joe’s Workshop, 1:30-6:30 p.m. June 25, July 30. Joe’s Workshop, 13915 N. Harvey Ave., Edmond, 405-5310153, joesws.com.

OKC Dodgers vs. Iowa, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. June 25 and 27, 6:05 p.m. June 26, 11:05 a.m.

June 28. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

SoonerCon 25, over 100 discussion panels cover a wide range of fandom, literary and science topics, cosplay, art shows, gaming and much more, June 24-26. The Reed Center, 5800 Will Rogers Road, Midwest City, 405-741-7333, reedcenter.com.

OKC Energy vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC, professional soccer game, 7 p.m. June 25. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St.

4th Friday in the District, block party featuring food trucks, live music and pop-up shops, 6-11 p.m. June 24. OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

Hardboiled Space Boogie: A Cowboy Bebop Art Show, art show paying tribute to the genre-defying classic Cowboy Bebop by featuring original art celebrating all things that make him unique along with live music, 8 p.m. June 25. 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., 405-463-0470, 51stspeakeasy.com.

Eats On 8th, food truck festival and night market; family-friendly event with live music, a kid’s zone, pop-up vendors and much more, 6-11 p.m. June 24.

Midtown, NW Ninth Street and Walker Avenue.

Rachel Platten, 8 p.m. June 24. Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road, 405-478-2140, frontiercity.com.

The Agony & the Agony, a once-promising playwright finds himself a virtual shut-in with only rejection letters to amuse himself until his wife meets a leading producer who also happened to have written his last rejection letter and he starts to write again; a series of events continues to further complicate matters, 8 p.m. June 24-25, July 1-2, 8-9 and 15-16; 7:30 p.m.

July 7 and 14. Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St., 405-232-6500, carpentersquare.com.

Fourth Annual Oklahoma City Burlesque Festival, Adèle Wolf presents the state’s largest burlesque and variety production featuring award-winning and internationally touring performers from around the world; performances include burlesque, vaudeville,

Jazz Camp, summer camp presented by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 15-18, June 26-July 1.

University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu.

Last Sunday Poetry Jam, featured poet John Selvidge followed by an open-mic session, 2 p.m. June 26. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

4th Annual Equality Run, hundreds of runners from around the region join together to support dignity, freedom and inclusion in Oklahoma; 5K, 10K and family-friendly run for all ages, 7:30 p.m. June 26.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-4457080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

Science of Star Wars, call on your inner Jedi to examine unusual crystals, make a lightsaber and even go for a ride on a hovercraft, June 27-July 1. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Summer Art Camp: Wacky World of Whimsy, 7- to 9-year-old artists explore the work of Nick Cave while creating fun pop-art portraits; create a colorful costume modeled after Nick Cave’s Soundsuits, and finish the week with a fantastic fashion show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 27-July 1. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Monster Sculpting, ages 10-12 work with polymer clay to sculpt monsters of their own creations; learn the basics of sculpting and firing and the best techniques to paint their monsters, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 27-July 1. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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Fourth Annual Oklahoma City Burlesque Festival see listing p.39 | Photo provided June 27-July 1. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Snow White and Too Many Dwarfs, summer performing arts day camp for boys and girls ages 6-17; campers put on a full musical production, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

June 27-July 8. NW Optimist Performing Arts Center, 3301 NW Grand Blvd., 405-841-2414.

Jungle Book Summer Camp, children’s summer camp held by Oklahoma Children’s Theatre; ages 7 and up, June 27-July 9. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

Bread Making for Beginners, hands-on bread making class; learn to make the perfect loaf of bread, 6-9 p.m. June 28. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, belle-kitchen.com.

Mama Sweet, 7:30 p.m. June 28. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

Dreamgirls, follow the Supreme-inspired girl group as they make their way from the Apollo Theatre to the top of the pop and R&B charts, June 28-July 2.

Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-2972264, okcciviccenter.com.

Maxwell, 7 p.m. June 29. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Dashboard Confessional/Taking Back Sunday/ Saosin/The Early November, 6:30 p.m. June 30.

The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Stryper/Sign of Lies/Spinal Cross, 7:30 p.m. June 30. Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave., 405677-9169, diamondballroom.net.

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Catch professional soccer games by Oklahoma Energy Football Club, live concerts by performing artists like Sabrina Carpenter at Frontier City, Free First Monday for Kids at Oklahoma City Museum of Art, youth Rock Camp and even take a trip to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz. Print on Paseo Art Show, all types of printmaking ranging from traditional style to contemporary; exhibit spotlighting the depth and diversity of the work of Oklahoma printmakers, July 1. Paseo Arts District, 3022 Paseo St., 405-525-2688, thepaseo.com.

SummerDance!, performances featuring Oklahoma Festival Ballet, July 1-3. Reynolds Performing Arts Center, 560 Parrington Oval, Norman, 405-325-4104.

Summer Art Camp: Get Up & Moving with Dr. Seuss: Collaborative Camp, ages 5-6 experience storytelling and writing, singing, dancing, visual art and, of course, a wild and crazy good time; a creative journey to discover the artistic links between Dr. Seuss and Nick Cave, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., June 27-July 1. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Food Truck Triple Play, food truck festival with more than 35 food trucks, live music and family entertainment, 6-11 p.m. July 1. Joe Carter Parking Lot, Joe Carter Ave. and California Ave.

Summer Art Camp: Getting crazy with Cave, ages 5-6 explore the art of Nick Cave; all media will be used to create large, vibrant sculptures, full-body masks, flower veils, button collages, clothing embellishment and so much more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

My First Project, participants build a standard-style toolbox under the guidance of Phil Gilliland or Jerry Hickman Sr., 1-3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday, Joe’s Workshop, 13915 N. Harvey Ave., Edmond, 405531-0153, joesws.com.

Leon Bridges, 9 p.m. July 1. WinStar World Casino, 777 Casino Ave., Thackerville, 580-276-4229, winstarworldcasino.com.

Red Brick Nights, enjoy music, food and shopping in downtown Guthrie, 7 p.m. the first Saturday of each month. Downtown Guthrie, Wentz and Oklahoma avenues, Guthrie.

OKC Energy vs. Rio Grande FC Toros, professional soccer game, 7:30 p.m. July 2. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St. Sabrina Carpenter, 8 p.m. July 2. Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road, 405-478-2140, frontiercity.com.

Free First Monday for Kids, complimentary admission to the museum for children 17 and under, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. July 4. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

OKC Dodgers vs. Colorado Springs, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. July 4-6. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

Camp Tumbleweed, day camp for teenagers and young adults with disabilities; ages 14-21, July 5-29.

Dale Rogers Training Center, 2501 N. Utah Ave., 405946-4489, drtc.org.

Twelve Dancing Princesses, summer performing arts day camp for boys and girls ages 6-17; campers put on a full musical production, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., July 5-15. Taylor Recreation Center, 1115 SW 70th St., 405-634-1120.

Mythbustin’, now it’s your turn to wonder, research, guess and put things to the test as we discover what really works and what really doesn’t, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

July 5. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Summer Art Camp: Geometric Printmaking, ages 7-9 explore James Siena’s pattern style and apply his contemporary concepts to create their own printed images; experiment with a variety of relief printmaking techniques using an assortment of fun gadgets and tools, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 5-8. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Prolific Patterns, inspired by artist James Siena and his use of visual algorithms, 7- to 9-year-old students create a body of work based on patterns; projects include zentangles, large-scale repetitive patterning, collaborative work and printmaking, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 5-8. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Optical Art: Animating Patterns, learn how to dazzle your friends by creating animated optical delights; ages 10-12 make drawings and paintings from shapes and patterns and then turn those visual experiments into short animated videos, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 5-8. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Toy Invention, become an extreme toy engineer and use your imagination to deconstruct and reconstruct the perfect toy or game, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 6. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-6026664, sciencemuseumok.org.

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continued from page 39 Okietales, one-of-a-kind reading and storytelling time where kids can hear and see history; dive into history with books and stories and explore a different topic from the Wild West and cowboys to land runs and pioneer life, 10:30-11:30 a.m. every Wednesday. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory. org/historycenter.

Mike Stanley, stand-up comedy performance; winner of Last Comic Still Standing, 8 p.m. July 6-7, 8 and 10:30 p.m. July 8-9. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

A Dozen Dangerous Things, the best science involves a little bit of risk; explore the things that helped to invent the phrase “don’t try this at home,” 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 7. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

OKC Dodgers vs. Omaha, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. July 7-9, 5:05 p.m. July 10.

Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

I Will Survive!, gain the skills to navigate your surroundings, identify plants that are safe and those that are not, purify your water, build a trap, brush your teeth with a stick and much more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 8. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Goosebumps, (US, 2015, dir. Rob Letterman) a teenager befriends the daughter of R.L. Stine, a young adult horror author, and his imaginary demons are set free; enjoy live music and great food before the movie, 6-10 p.m., July 8.

Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-5524040, boathousedistrict.org.

LIVE! on the Plaza, join the Plaza District every second Friday of the month for an art walk featuring artists, live music, street pop-up shops,

live performances and more, 7-11 p.m. July 8. Plaza District, 1618 N. Gatewood Ave., 405-367-9403, plazadistrict.org.

Free Family Make + Take Art Project: Paper Mâché Bowl, work with paper mâché paste, paper and other materials to create original colorful bowls; open-ended project great for any age, 1-4 p.m.

July 9. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Beats & Bites, outdoor food truck and live entertainment event, local vendors and wineries, beer garden, bounce houses and more, 6 p.m.

July 9. Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9, Norman, 405-322-6000, riverwind.com.

Kansas, 8 p.m. July 9. Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road, 405-478-2140, frontiercity.com.

OKC Flea, a market for makers, artists, crafters, curators, designers and upcyclers, noon-7 p.m. July 10. OKC Farmer’s Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

Kids Summer Cooking Camp, each day features a new topic including doughnuts, cookies, cupcakes and other delicious treats, July 11-15. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, belle-kitchen.com.

Strings Chamber Music Camp, summer camp presented by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 1118, July 11-15. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu.

High School Drama Camp, summer camp presented

by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 13-18, July 1115. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu.

The Apple Tree, summer performing arts day camp for boys and girls ages 11-17; campers put on a full musical production, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., July 11-22. NW Optimist Performing Arts Center, 3301 NW Grand Blvd., 405-841-2414.

A Night with Bats see listing p.45 | Photo Bigstock.com Summer Art Camp: Puppets on Parade, 7- to 9-year-old students create a variety of 3-D puppets and even their own puppet theater; dream up a short skit for family and friends to enjoy at Friday’s Camp Contemporary Showcase, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 11-15. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Creative Robotics, a STEAMbased program that introduces the concepts of artistic engineering through simple mechanical and algorithmic exploration for students ages 10-12; learn the basics of functional coding, creative designing and the If-Then-Else approach to problem solving, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 11-15. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Supersized 3-D Art, advanced sculpture class, 13- to 16-year-old students create giant likenesses of everyday items, bringing new meaning to the phrase “Supersize it”; use a variety

of techniques and materials, from sewing giant plush foods to crafting cardboard kitchen items and learning professional aspects of being an artist, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 11-15. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Honey, I Blew Up the Art!, ages 5-6 create large 3-D objects of their choice with a focus on creating organic and structured forms using foam sheets, cardboard, paint and lots of glue, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 11-15. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Fiber Fanatics, ages 7-9 learn the basics of weaving, dyeing and decorating fabric; use yarn and fabric to create beautiful and unique pictures, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 11-15. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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continued from page 40 Blast Off! Space Camp, examine and dissect a telescope, see how you can eat in space, design and launch a few rockets and see just what it takes to become an astronaut, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 11-15. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Summer Art Camp: I’m Livin’ It: Food in 3-D, modeled after artist Claes Oldenburg’s Cheeseburger, 5- to 6-year-old campers create a pop-art hamburger collage using a variety of materials and also use mixed media to create other pop art foods like soda, fries and ice cream, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 11-15. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Annie Summer Camp, children’s summer camp held by Oklahoma Children’s Theatre; ages 11 and up, July 11-31 Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

The Wizard of Oz, journey to the Emerald City as Dorothy, Toto and her companions travel along the Yellow Brick Road to meet the Wizard of Oz, July 12-16. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405297-2264, okcciviccenter.com.

North Meets South, 7:30 p.m. July 12. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

The Goonies, (US, 1985, dir. Richard Donner) a group of misfits set out to find a pirate’s hidden treasure, 8 p.m. July 12. The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., bleugarten.com.

Greg Morton, stand-up comedy performance; since the debut of his two-minute Star Wars mash-up on Just for Laughs and Comedy Central, he has gone on to entertain audiences worldwide opening for Celine Dion and Luther Vandross at Radio City Music Hall, 8 p.m. July 13-14, 8 and 10:30 p.m. July 15-16. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

Collin Halloway, 7:30 p.m. July 15. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Urban Camping, a night under the stars at Riversport Rapids; brings classic camping favorites like s’mores, stargazing, and outdoor games together with whitewater rafting on Riversport Rapids’ island, all just steps away from modern conveniences, July 16. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

NEW INK!, a gathering of Oklahoma’s newest and brightest authors to sign their books, 3 p.m. July 16.

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

OKC Energy vs. Orange County, professional soccer game, 7:30 p.m. July 16. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St. Night Ranger, 8 p.m. July 16. Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road, 405-478-2140, frontiercity.com.

Rock Camp, presented by ACM@UCO for ages 1018, July 18-22. ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-974-4700, acm.uco.edu.

Fairy Tale Ballet Camp, a four-day dance camp that includes a daily dance class and also introduces students to four famous fairy tale ballets: The Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, July 18-21. Dance Center of Oklahoma City Ballet, 7421 N. Classen Blvd., 405843-9898, okcballet.com.

Oklahomans Without Limits Summer Camp, provides children who are blind or vision impaired with a summer camp experience; campers enjoy adaptive water sports and visit multiple destinations around the metro for sports such as basketball and gymnastics, July 18-22. Rogers State University, 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd., Claremore, 918-343-7777, rsu.edu.

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Marquee acts OKC Broadway’s inaugural season includes big names like The Lion King and The Sound of Music. By Ben Luschen

In its debut season, OKC Broadway plans to welcome some of Broadway’s biggest productions.

Organizers had a short window of opportunity to set this year’s season while transitioning to a new show presenter. They weren’t able to set this season’s schedule until last fall.

Tulsa-based Celebrity Attractions formerly brought shows into Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., as part of the Best of Broadway series. That relationship ended last year.

But Oklahoma City theatergoers will continue to be treated to a wide range of crowd favorites.

Elizabeth Gray, OKC Broadway general manager, said local residents can look forward to larger, more frequent shows.

The group also hopes to bring the bigger shows in sooner along their national tours than the city is accustomed to.

The inaugural season opens Sept. 20 with Newsies. The Disney musical production is based on the newsboys strike of 1899. It was also a 2012 Tony Award winner for Best Score and Best Choreography. Other shows this season include The Sound of Music, Pippin, Motown the Musical, The Lion King and Elf The Broadway Musical, which is based on the popular holiday movie starring Will Ferrell. Gray said she has already heard several people say how excited they are to see the Broadway version.

New partners

OKC Broadway represents a partnership between nonprofit Civic Center Foundation and Nederlander Organization, one of the world’s largest theater and concert presenters.

Nick Scandalios, Nederlander executive vice president, said the company is “overwhelmingly excited” to get a chance to move into the Oklahoma City market.

Scandalios said Nederlander often is approached about entering partnerships like this, but they don’t always accept.

The time Nederlander was able to spend w ith Civ ic Center Foundation representatives led the company to believe the two shared very common goals.

“We really believe in the communities we become a partner with or a part of,” Scandalios said. “We need to feel like we’re a part of the community. Because we’re a family business, that permeates everything we do. It’s not just simply looking at a spot on the map.”

Nederlander was founded in 1912. The company has produced for and managed venues for more than 100 years. Scandalios said it has nine Broadway theaters and close to 25 theaters. Some are located as far off as London.

“We’re one of the most significant forces in the commercial theater industry at large today,” he said. “I like to categorize us more as the benevolent giant.”

Jimmy Awards

Scandalios preaches community-building efforts that don’t just stop at providing entertainment for locals. Nederlander hopes to help promote area school theater programs by introducing The National High School Musical Theatre Awards to the city.

The awards program partnered with Nederlander to present Jimmy Awards (named for company executive James Nederlander). Local judges go into schools and evaluate musicals and performances.

Once a year, at the community’s performing arts center, the kids judged to be the best compete to win best actor, best actress, best production and other honors.

Local winners then head to New York City to compete on Broadway.

Gray said OKC Broadway is still working on establishing a local version of the program, but it’s something that should debut here in the near future.

“This is something that really interests us,” Scandalios said, “the idea of finding a way to take the aspirational nature that kids have when they’re performing in high school and show them the larger world that might be available to them, and to give them just the chance, even if they never perform on Broadway again, to potentially perform on a Broadway stage for one night.”

The awards program has a presence in more than 30 markets around the country.

Scandalios said that number grows each year.

Long-term relationship

The show lineup for the 2017-18 season is being set.

Gray said those unfamiliar with Nederlander should know that Oklahoma City is getting one of the best Broadway presenters in the business.

“I think that really goes to show the spirit of our people, the quality of our city and that we are a top-tier city among the nation,” she said. “It’s something not only the current patrons of the Broadway series

here but the community in general should be proud of.”

Scandalios said Oklahoma City fans should expect an exciting opening season and show opportunities for years to come.

“I see this as the beginning of a great, long-term partnership,” he said. “We’ve been around over 100 years, and we believe in long-term relationships. It’s what we’re built on, and we’re excited to build that long-term relationship with the community in Oklahoma City.”

Those who held season tickets for the previous Best of Broadway seasons will be asked if they want to renew their tickets.

New package sales begin this month.

Visit okcbroadway.com for more information.

OKC Broadway Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. okcbroadway.com 887-737-2929

Newsies Sept. 20-25

The Sound of Music Oct. 11-16

Elf The Broadway Musical Dec. 27-31

Pippin Feb. 7-12, 2017

Motown the Musical March 7-12, 2017

The Lion King May 9-28, 2017

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SUMMER GUIDE to form throughout this week as we learn about different materials and contemporary art, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 18-22. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Curtain Call: Performance Art, 7- to 9-year-olds take an exploration of their mind, body and artistic spirit and learn about their physical and vocal strengths while exploring new ways to utilize them during any type of performance, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., July 18-22. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

The Astonishing Science of Super Heroes, each day, you examine one or more of your favorite costumed heroes and discover what makes their powers so super, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 18-22. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

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by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 7-12, July 18-22. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-9742000, uco.edu.

I Think My Mom Is a Zombie Summer Camp, children’s summer camp held

by Oklahoma Children’s Theatre; ages 7 and up, July 18-July 30. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

History Pioneers Junior Curator Camp, participants work to create their own exhibit to display at the History Center; learn how to handle artifacts, write labels, research, make mounts and present an exhibit, ages 8-12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. July 18-22.

Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter.

Summer Art Camp: Rock the Catwalk, 5- to 6-yearold campers craft upcycled fashion looks from head to toe; fierce fashion camp includes a photo shoot and runway performance on Friday to show off their rockin’ designs, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 18-22. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Patterns, Paints, & Paper Mâché, a visual feast for your little 5- to 6-year-old artist as we use paint, paper and pastels to create textures and shapes; a giant group paper mâché flower inspired by artist Yayoi Kusama will come

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Art Adventures, young artists are invited to experience art through books and related art projects for children ages 3-5, 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

The Queers, 7:30 p.m. July 20. 89th Street Collective, 8911 N. Western Ave., 89thstreetokc.com.

Triple-Feature Week, three funny dudes, one killer show; variety of comedy styles and limitless number of topics, 8 p.m. July 20-21, 8 and 10:30 p.m. July 22-23. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

Automobile Alley Shop Hop, explore all that Automobile Alley has to offer; open-house events at shops, live music, street artists, discounts at local restaurants and more, 6-9 p.m. July 21. Automobile Alley, 1015 N. Broadway Ave., automobilealley.org.

Nothing Daunted Women’s Book Club, discuss Friendship by Emily Gould, 7 p.m. July 21. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com.

OKC Dodgers vs. New Orleans, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. July 22-23 and 25, 6:05 p.m. July 24. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

National Day of the American Cowboy, experience live musical entertainment, crafts, roping lessons, kids’ activities and purposeful horsing around, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. July 23. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

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Glass Animals, 8 p.m. July 18. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com.

Gypsy Glam, an upscale three-day roadshow; a shopping experience like no other, boutiques of all kinds, live music and more, July 22-24. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 405-6028500, coxconventioncenter.com.

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Summer Art Camp: Video Installation Art Experience, hands-on camp for students ages 10-12; learn basic principles of video installation art and experimental video techniques and create your own short individual experimental video or performance art piece, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 18-22. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

A Night at the Museum, have you ever wondered what happens in the museum when the doors are locked and the lights go down? Explore and play in the museum with your family in a completely new way; you just might see something you’ve never seen before, 7-9 p.m. July 21. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

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Summer Art Camp: Lots-A-Dots, focusing on Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, 5- to 6-year-old students use geometric shapes and rhythmic patterns to create images worth wearing and sharing and explore their own personal design style with printmaking and various mediums, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 18-22. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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Ant-Man, (US, 2015, dir. Peyton Reed) cat burglar Scott Lang has the special ability to shrink but increase in strength, he must help his mentor plan and pull off a heist that will save the world; enjoy

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OKC Energy vs. Tulsa Roughnecks, professional soccer game, 7:30 p.m. July 23. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St. Kellie Pickler, 8 p.m. July 23. Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road, 405-478-2140, frontiercity.com.

Classic Radio Theatre, enjoy beverages and hors d’oeuvres and travel back in time to the golden days of radio; live performance of scripts from various radio shows from the 1930s to 1960s, 2:30 p.m. July 24. Actor’s Casting & Talent Services, 30 NE 52nd St, 405-702-0400, actorscasting.com.

The Science of the Magical World of Harry Potter, get sorted into your house, become an expert at Muggle Quidditch and discover how magic is just science in disguise, July 25-29. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Art Workshop, summer camp presented by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 15-18, July 25-29. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu.

Drama Day Camp, summer camp presented by UCO Fine Arts and Design for ages 7-12, July 25-29.

University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu.

Summer Art Camp: 3-D Printing, 13- to 16-yearold students create one-of-a-kind 3-D printed artworks; learn how to use free and easy CAD software and master the fundamentals of editing and preparing files for 3-D printing, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

July 25-29. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Refurb & Repeat, campers ages 5-6 repeat items on a large scale to create contemporary and striking abstract art, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 25-29. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Mini Makers, campers ages 5-6 work like miniature engineers to build, sculpt and construct one-of-a-kind 2-D and 3-D art pieces inspired by installation artist Tara Donovan, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 25-29. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

1st Annual Skate Camp, for ages 6-12 years old; skate training, creative workshop, snacks, games and more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 25-29. Skate Galaxy, 5800 NW 36th St., 405-605-2758, skategalaxyokc.com.

Summer Art Camp: Life-Size Installation Creation, from thumbnails sketches and mock-up models to the actual execution, 10- to 12-year-old campers explore and experience all the steps of the creative process through a group-built, large-scale installation piece, 9

a.m.-4 p.m. July 25-29. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Intro in Creative Robotics, meet the concepts of artistic engineering through simple mechanical and algorithmic exploration in this STEAM-based camp; students ages 7-9 learn the basics of functional coding, creative designing and the If-Then-Else approach to problem solving, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 25-29. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Summer Art Camp: Art Under Construction, students ages 7-9 develop their artistic talents and engineering skills as they build with paper, cotton, buttons, metal washers, cups and wood; a buildingup experience for your child’s art along with their self-esteem, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 25-29. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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Tidewater Winery Turn-eR Me On Winery Wakefield Winery Waters Edge Whirlwind Winery

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Fiddler on the Roof, celebrate family and tradition with Tevye in one of the most beloved musicals of all time; enjoy classics such as “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were A Rich Man” and “Matchmaker” in this brand-new production, July 26-30. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com.

Adam and Kizzie, 7:30 p.m. July 26. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

Annie Jr., adapted from the Tony award-winning best musical based on the popular comic strip featuring everyone’s favorite little redhead Annie; with equal measures of pluck and positivity, she charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City, 10 a.m.and noon July 27-29, 2 p.m. July 30-31. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.

The Swinger David Scott, stand-up comedy performance; The Midnight Swinger erupts onto the stage like the volcano in front of the Mirage Hotel in a fresh and original, over-the-top event that has been called “sharp-witted,” “clever” and “classy,” 8 p.m.

July 27-28, 8 and 10:30 p.m. July 29-30. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com.

Eats On 8th, food truck festival and night market; family-friendly event with live music, a kid’s zone, pop-up vendors and much more, 6-11 p.m. July 29.

Midtown, NW Ninth Street and Walker Avenue.

Wye Oak, 8 p.m. July 29. Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman, opolis.org.

A Night with Bats, discover the amazing life of bats including secrets of echolocation, flight and cave homes before traveling by caravan to a local park to encounter these high-flying animals, 8-10 p.m. July 29. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

Friday, May 6

Rose Rock Pageant 6:00 pm Christian Cheyenne 7:15 pm Williams & Brunghart 8:30 pm

Saturday, May 7

5K Run 7:00 am | Parade & Poker Run 10:00 am Car Show 10:30 am | Travis Kidd 11:15 am Edgar Cruz 12:30 pm | Songbird Swap 1:45 pm Bruce Benson 3:00 pm | Choctaw Line 4:15 pm Empire Grey 5:30 pm | Harumph 6:45 pm Jack Rowdy 8:00 pm

Sunday, May 8

Discover Church 10:00 am Rose Rock Idol Finals 12:15 pm Rose Rock Idol Performance 1:15 pm BC and the Big Rig 2:15 pm

Carnival • Car Show • Poker run • heliCoPter rideS GameS • Food • CraFtS • inFlatableS • Parade

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SUMMER GUIDE p.m. Aug. 3. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Craftsman Class: Leather Handled Tote, create a leather-handled basket approximately eight inches high, 10 inches wide and six inches deep, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 6. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

My First Project, participants build a standard-style toolbox under the guidance of Phil Gilliland or Jerry Hickman, Sr., 1-3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday.

Joe’s Workshop, 13915 N. Harvey Ave., Edmond, 405-531-0153, joesws.com.

Beginning Tatting, learn the fascinating and historic art of lacemaking through this hands-on class from instructor Irene Morgan of the Lacemakers Guild of Oklahoma; learn the essential techniques of tatting using a shuttle; previous lacemaking experience is not required for the class, 1-4 p.m. Aug. 6. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-5212491, okhistory.org/historycenter.

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Ladies-Only Chess Club, chess club giving girls and women a venue where they can build and maintain social relationships with other chess-playing girls and women; all skill levels are invited to participate, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. July 30. District House, 1755 NW 16th St., 405-633-1775, districthouseokc.com.

The Makers Fair, a craft market open to the public with items for sale made by members of Joe’s Workshop, 1:30-6:30 p.m. July 30. Joe’s Workshop, 13915 N. Harvey Ave., Edmond, 405-531-0153, joesws.com.

American Authors, 7 p.m. July 30. Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road, 405-478-2140, frontiercity.com.

Robby Ray, 7:30 p.m. July 30. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

Last Sunday Poetry Jam, featured poet Todd Fuller followed by an open-mic session, 2 p.m. July 31. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

NomiNatioN Ballots PuBlish June 8 & June 15 RuNoff Ballots PuBlish July 13 & July 20 Results PuBlish August 24 thaNk You PuBlish August 31

Beats & Bites, outdoor food truck and live entertainment event, local vendors and wineries, beer garden, bounce houses and more, 6 p.m. Aug. 6. Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9, Norman, 405-322-6000, riverwind.com.

Red Brick Nights, enjoy music, food and shopping in downtown Guthrie, 7 p.m. First Saturday. Downtown Guthrie, Wentz and Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie.

Chef, (US, 2014, dir. Jon Favreau) after losing his restaurant, a chef starts up a food truck in hopes to reclaim his creative promise all while working to bring his family back together, 8 p.m. Aug. 9. The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., bleugarten.com.

The Drowsy Chaperone, Tony-Award winning musical; this musical-within-a-comedy combines rouge gangsters, comic asides and larger-than-life leading ladies, Aug. 9-13. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com.

Wide Open Wednesday Western Movie Matinee: The Cowboys, (US, 1972, dir. Mark Rydell) When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster, 1 p.m. Aug. 10. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

In My Life: A Musical Theatre Tribute to The Beatles, get a fresh perspective on the band’s history; more than a tribute, this show has a narrative element that depicts everything from the Ed Sullivan Show appearance to the final performance atop the Apple Corps offices, 7 p.m. July 31. Rose State College, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 405-733-7673, rose.edu.

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We didn’t want to end our three-month Summer Guide with July, so we included the first month of August as a bonus.

Doughnut Making Class, learn about raised and yeast doughs; make fresh yeast and cake doughnuts followed by decorating your delicious creations, 6-9 p.m. Aug 2. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405430-5484, belle-kitchen.com.

OKC Energy vs. Sacramento Republic FC, professional soccer game, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 2.

Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St. USA Canoe/Kayak Sprint National Championships, four-day event will include competitors of all ages from across the country and the US Masters National Championships, Aug. 3-6. Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-552-4040, boathousedistrict.org.

OKC Dodgers vs. Round Rock, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 3-6. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

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Wide Open Wednesday Western Movie Matinee: The Comancheros, (US, 1961, dir. Michael Curtiz) Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) arrests gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros, 1

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Toys from Allin KHG’s Muses for a Nightmare collection at Kasum Contemporary Fine Art

Toyland terrors Allin KHG’s Muses for a Nightmare put a dark twist on childhood trinkets. By Ben Luschen

A beheaded bunny keeps watch over a white-walled, pristine Plaza art gallery.

With his grimy, paint-streaked head mounted on a clunky robotic frame, he stands out in a room full of conventional, high-dollar paintings.

This bunny and other pieces like it are exactly the kind of icebreaker Kasum Contemporary Fine Art gallery owner Tony Morton had always wanted.

“Ninety-nine percent of people will never step foot in here because they think there are rules beyond just respecting things,” he said.

Morton was first introduced to the array of haunting creations from local artist Allin KHG about 18 months ago.

He now sells them off a table near the front of his gallery, in part to draw in curious pedestrians.

The artist’s work sells for between $30 and $100, far cheaper than the neighboring wall art priced at $1,000 or more.

KHG calls his collection of oftencreepy and reimagined toys Muses for a

Nightmare.

They are all kinetic, movable pieces of art. Many of them make sounds.

It’s easy for those observing the bizarre creatures to be reminded of what crawled out of Sid’s sandbox in Toy Story. While many toymakers strive to make their figures nonthreatening, KHG pushes for the macabre. “[The title Muses for a Nightmare] really sums them up, because not all nightmares are necessarily scary; it’s just kind of the randomness of everything,” he said.

Easter gift

KHG first met his toy bunny friend on Easter morning in 1989.

The tall plastic figure moved to the rhythm of a cheery

recording at the press of a button. And that was about all it did.

“I was a smartass high-school kid,” KHG said. “[When I saw the toy,] I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s not going to work.’”

It sat around in his room for a few weeks untouched, but one day, he decided to make it his own.

He stripped down the figure, examining how it worked on the inside and thinking of a way to turn the gift into something he found more interesting.

His father walked by his room as he was tinkering on his gored Easter gift. He was a longtime handyman, and KHG credits the basic electronic skills he uses to create his Muses collection to things he picked up from his father’s work.

However, his dad never imagined how he might put those skills to work. He didn’t have much to say when he saw the dissected toy. He just shrugged and walked away, defeated.

Artist Allin KHG’s first toy creation is on display at Kasum Contemporary Fine Art. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

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The process

KHG said these days, his father has taken on a different attitude about his work.

“He’s actually been really proud of it,” he said. “Instead of ending up in the trash like a lot of these [toys] would anyway, I did something better and different with it.”

Though his first piece dates back to 1989, KHG didn’t seriously begin work on his reimagined playthings until about four years ago, when he began making them in earnest for a movie project he was working on. To his surprise, people began asking him if they could buy them.

His hard drive crashed while making the film and KHG lost about two-thirds of his footage.

The sale of his toy creations is an attempt to bounce back from that devastating blow.

“Because money doesn’t grow on trees, a lot of the money from the sales is going to saving up to get that hard drive restored,” he said. “People don’t just walk up and hand you $2,000.”

Toys can take KHG as little as 20 minutes or as long as several hours to complete. He usually has a dozen or more of these projects going on at the same time.

His source material rarely comes straight out of the package or from an Amazon order.

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actually want to play with them. Instead, the artist usually gets second or thirdhand toys from thrift stores.

Friends and family will often give him things to work on.

The bulk of KHG’s work is usually repairing or finding a way to salvage and recycle the original piece.

“A lot of these are close to just being thrown out,” he said. “For a lot of them,

KHG recalls a visibly impressed little girl coming up to his booth at the first event he ever attended with his toys.

At a later show, the girl’s mother approached him and said his work had affected her daughter so deeply, she went home and colored in the faces of all of her dolls with crayon.

Embarrassed, KHG began apologizing profusely for influencing the girl in the

A lot of these are close to just being thrown out. For a lot of them, it’s almost a rescue effort.

Allin KHG it’s almost a rescue effort.”

Getting reactions

There was a time when KHG tried hard to keep children away from his Muses for a Nightmare cast. He built his eerie toys with himself and other adults in mind, not kids.

He was terrified one of his creations could be responsible for emotionally scarring a child.

What if they recognized one of his mangled figures as a toy they kept for themselves at home?

Instead, as the artist started attending vending events with his figures, he found that kids are always the most eager to approach his table.

Some even recognize a modified toy as one they own themselves, but it doesn’t seem to bother them.

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wrong way, but the woman stopped him.

“Her mom was like, ‘No. I loved it. It was great to see that kind of creativity,’” he said. “The fact that it wasn’t just scribble, it was carefully colored in; things like that really touch me. That’s why I was like, ‘Why am I keeping them away from the kids?’”

KHG said ultimately, his work is for anyone interested in having fun with it, no matter their age.

His pieces might be housed in an art gallery, but they’re not meant to be kept behind glass.

“A lot of this is play,” he said. “As much as it’s art, it’s play at the same time.

They’re meant to be played with; they’re meant to be touched.”

For more information on KHG’s work, visit facebook.com/AllinKHG.

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Silver salon

The Studio Gallery celebrates its 25th anniversary with its 2016 Spring Show.

By Christine Eddington

The women gathered, chattering and laughshifts during its business hours.

“Most of us use that time to paint, and ing. They eventually seated themselves in folding chairs arranged in a circle in the most of us find it helpful to have scheduled middle of the gallery, which was in a state hours set aside to paint. It does surprise of barely organized chaos. Paintings were people when they come in to realize this is a working gallery,” Hammack said. propped against most of the chairs, the walls and the glass jewelry Like most of her fellow case, which had also been artists, Hammack had a diftemporarily moved to the ferent career before pursu2016 middle of the room. ing art full-time.

Spring Show Oklahoma City’s Studio The work is good and ranges in style from very Gallery, 2646 W. Britton 11 a.m.-3 p.m. modern/abstract to more Road, celebrated its 25th anTuesday-Saturday traditional still life. Jane niversary in April. Its Through October White, whose mother was members were in the process The Studio Gallery artist Ellen Covington, a of hanging its 2016 Spring 2646 W. Britton Road founding member of the Show, which is now open and 405-752-2642 runs through October. gallery, said she is inspired Gallery membership is a by whatever pops into her living cross-section of head. A couple of months ago, Oklahoma City history. Members are Arden it was a vacation to Greece.

Barrett, Sally Burpee, Pat Edwards, Beth “Right now, I’m into cupcakes,” she said.

Hammack, Dodge Hill, Margot Holaday, White’s painting career began when her Whitney Ingram, Phebe Kallstrom, Ellen mother bought her art lessons for her 40th birthday.

Lisle, Amy Maguire, John Moad, Mary Lou Moad, Lacy Saak, Mary Lee Smiser, Kay Smith and Jane White.

Reviving art “We are Oklahoma City’s longest-operThere are common threads in the members’ ating co-op gallery, and that sets us apart,” stories. Each of the women fell in love with said Beth Hammack, a 10-year member and painting and the arts early in their lives and oil/acrylic painter. found that there were eras in life when Artists are voted in, and each pays a painting had to take a back seat to things portion of the studio’s expenses and works like raising children or other, more lucrative

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careers. But in each of them, art waited patiently for the moment it could come roaring back.

As the women took turns sharing their histories as artists, another common theme emerged: mothers. Mary Lee Smiser, one of the gallery’s founders, began painting as a young girl and, thanks to her mother, took lessons from revered Oklahoma City artist Richard Goetz.

“That’s how I started, and I got hooked really fast,” she said.

Smiser painted through college but did not major in art because it wasn’t something people did then. Instead, she majored in education and taught elementary school.

“I enjoyed teaching, and I was a good teacher,” she said. “I also drew pictures all over all the chalkboards.”

Hammack’s mother is also an artist who took her third-grade daughter to lessons at The Art Institute of Chicago, and as Hammack puts it, “It stuck.” Her work is very large-scale and abstract.

Though she said she didn’t paint for almost 30 years, she did lots of other things, including running a charm school, doing marketing for the John A. Brown department store in OKC and launching her own jewelry line. She is the only gallery member who is also represented by another gallery, JRB Art at the Elms in the Paseo Arts District.

Phebe Kallstrom is a six-year gallery member and the group’s only member whose entire career has been in art. Her mother was a watercolor artist who went to Pratt School of Design.

Kallstrom took lessons at the Cleveland Museum of Art and taught art for 31 years for Edmond Public Schools.

Whitney Ingram’s jewelry is displayed in The Studio Gallery’s 2016 Spring Show. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

“Art is just in my genes. After I’d been retired for a year or two, I went to Jane (White) and said ‘What do you guys do in there?’” Kallstrom said. “I started taking lessons at the gallery, and that was it.”

Kallstrom’s artistic muses are aquatic.

She is smitten with fish.

“I also did a series on water and reflection,” she said. “I roll with one thing and then another. My work always includes an element of whimsy.”

Pat Edwards, who at 80 is one of the elder stateswomen of the group, has been a part of the studio for 25 years and is its president.

She’s from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she said the beach was her painting school.

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Managing art

Edwards’ management style works so well for the rest of the members that she has been designated the permanent, indefinite president.

“My philosophy is to keep things extremely simple so we can all paint as much as possible,” she said.

There are two members who venture into three-dimensional work: jewelry designer Whitney Ingram and ceramicist and painter Lacy Saak. There are two other members who’ve broken the typical Studio Gallery mold in a very different way — they are men.

“Dodge Hill was our first male. His wife Lori was worried about what he would do when he retired, so I said, ‘Well, let’s get him to join our group,’” Hammack said.

The second male is retired fire chief John Moad, who joined with his wife Mary Lou. The duo also owns Denton’s Frame Shop on Classen Boulevard.

The Studio Gallery hosts two parties each year, one in the spring and one in the fall, and they are much-anticipated.

“Because we only do two shows each year, they are packed literally elbow to elbow,” Hammack said.

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ARTS & CULTURE Apple is a joyous event for everyone insistance. A family organization heard volved. about what they were doing and came to picket the event.

“It just seems like people have such freedom to get to look at erotica,” she said.

The pushback did nothing but “It just makes people strengthen the show’s folhappy because usually in lowing. The second year, more than 1,000 people public, you have to kind of Biting the keep cool.” showed up.

Apple Biting the Apple is more In 1987, Biting the Apple than just a chance to was given a significant boost 8 p.m. Saturday observe art with sexual in notoriety following a IAO Gallery themes. Attendees often story detailing the event in 706 W. Sheridan Ave. become erotica themHustler. individualartists.org selves. The event has Gilmore organized Biting 405-232-6060 become known as an edgy the Apple for six years before $40-$100 costume party. Artus said handing it off to IAO. He reshe has seen people members that the biggest wearing anything and evyear they ever had was when erything. the event was held in the Artus, who used to be a Pa seo A r ts Distr ict. burlesque promoter, said a burlesque Thousands of people arrived, and every dancer from New Orleans will be coming art studio was involved.

“It was the ’80s, and it got way out of up to perform at the event. Organizers are also working on bringing an erotic poetry hand,” he said. “I remember there were reading to the show. pickup truckloads of alcohol. It was a “It’s not just the visual art. It’s the perhand-stamp type of thing. A lot of people didn’t get their hand stamped.” formance art, it’s the people that attend, their kind of performance thing that they do,” Artus said. “It’s just got a lot going Confronting sex on.”

Gilmore said Biting the Apple started as a More than 20 visual artists will have sort of social experiment; an opportunity work displayed in the coming show. to put a volatile situation together and Artus and original Biting the Apple coobserve what would happen next. creator Mark Gilmore believe the event It’s an experiment that has been reis one of the longest running, if not the peated for more than three decades.

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From left David Phelps, Marilyn Artus and Mark Gilmore prepare for Biting the Apple with Phelps’ sculpture “Willendorf Channel.” | Photo Garett Fisbeck

Forbidden art

Biting the Apple has become one of the longest running erotic art shows in the country.

By Ben Luschen

Any thorough art history class begins with Venus of Willendorf, a hand-sized statue of a woman carved in the Stone Age and discovered in Austria in 1908.

The piece is often called a fertility goddess and is known for showing early reverence to the pregnant female figure.

For his Biting the Apple submission, sculptor David Phelps wanted to take the statue to bigger and more modern heights.

Biting the Apple is an erotic art show that serves as one of the primary annual fundraisers for nonprofit Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO). This year’s event is 8 p.m. Saturday at IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave. Phelps’ version of the artifact, called “Willendorf Channel,” is about 4 feet tall and carved from Styrofoam instead of stone. He gave his statue more pronounced nipples than exist on today’s weathered 52

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version of the original. On the statue’s stand is a QR code onlookers can scan with their smartphones. The code directs the user’s phone to images of erotic art.

“It’s kind of playing with the idea of voyeurism in a lot of erotica and privacy,” Phelps said. “In my mind, there’s a strong correlation between fertility imagery and erotica.”

Phelps’ work is just one piece of many that will be on display at the 31st edition of Biting the Apple.

Feeling liberated

Marilyn Artus is this year’s juror for Biting the Apple. The local artist has been attending the events for the past eight or so years.

She has served on IAO’s board of directors and was once the vice president of the organization.

In her experience, Artus said Biting the

I thought it was a service to artists to give them a serious place to show their own personal works.

Mark Gilmore country. It is easy to wonder how an art show celebrating the raunchy could survive so many years in Oklahoma’s social climate, but Artus said the reason behind the event’s longevity is obvious: sex.

“People are interested in that, I’ve heard,” Gilmore said.

Making way

Gilmore operated an arts center on 50th Street and North Classen Boulevard in the 1980s. When he went to visit the studios of other artists, he began to notice they would often pull out a steamy work from a private stash to show off to him.

Often, the artists were really attached to these pieces but didn’t have anywhere to display them. No other gallery at the time would display something perceived to be obscene.

“They weren’t doing it at all for show,” Gilmore said. “When I started seeing enough of those pieces, I saw that there was a body of work to show. I thought it was a service to artists to give them a serious place to show their own personal works.”

Gilmore put on the first Biting the Apple in 1985. The event attracted about 300 people and was met with some local re-

have participated in the event’s history, even those you might not think would be interested in erotica.

“It can be like a palate cleanser or a reset, something fun to do to get creative again,” she said. “It gets boring sometimes making the same thing all the time.”

In her own work, Artus said she tries to focus on feminist issues. The chance to promote a dialogue about sexuality in Oklahoma is something she looks forward to.

“For me, it’s almost like women are still floundering with our sexual identity to some degree,” she said.

Sexuality is often stigmatized. Artus wants women to enjoy sex and take control over it, own it and not let someone else dictate to them what it should be. “[Biting the Apple] puts people together and forces them to confront sexuality,” she said. “I think that’s something we need to do. And it’s fun.”

For more information or to order tickets for Biting the Apple, visit individualartists.org.

of the local community.”

Organizers said programming will likely include things like artist lectures, film nights or yoga.

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An example of a room design for 21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City, scheduled to open in June. | Photo 21c Museum Hotels / Provided

Historic development

21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City promises a creative combination of contemporary art, chef-led dining experiences and community history.

By Christine Eddington

The moment each of us decides that Oklahoma City has arrived is slightly different, and in the past 10 or 15 years, the volume of momentous occasions has been such that there are plenty of choices.

Was it when the city put water in the river or when it got a Whole Foods? Was it when the first MAPS passed or when National Geographic Traveler listed Oklahoma City as one of the world’s mustsee destinations in 2015?

Or is that moment now, with the June opening of hotel and art venue 21c, which is described by its staff and on its website as North America’s largest multivenue museum?

“21c is so much more than a hotel,” said Matt Cowden, 21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City general manager. “It’s a perfect blend of Southern hospitality, chefdriven restaurant experiences and a beautiful place to call your home away from home, all anchored by a contemporary art museum.”

birds migrated to a 21c location in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2006 before nesting in Oklahoma City.

Museum hotel management hinted it will unveil more surprises and artistic projects leading up to its anticipated opening in June.

The process by which art is displayed in the hotel is elaborate and overseen by Alice Gray Stites, the company’s museum director and chief curator.

“There are three components to the art programming at 21c: site-specific works, permanent works that are integrated throughout the building and even some outside,” Cowden said. “The second component is the rotating, curated exhibitions. Third, 21c offers cultural programming specific to the needs and wants

Themed hotel packages are plentiful and inventive and are crafted to showcase OKC’s arts and culture. For example, the OKC Like a Local package includes exclusive discounts at local shops and a $100 voucher to a local spa. Similarly, an Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) package allows guests two tickets to explore the venue’s 19th- and 20th-century art collection as well as 21c’s collection of 21stcentury works. It also includes a $100 dinner credit to 21c’s Mary Eddy’s Kitchen+Lounge, led by executive chef Jason Campbell.

Campbell arrives from another 21c Hotel Museum restaurant, Metropole in Cincinnati, where he was chef de cuisine.

In Oklahoma City, he’ll guide a bold and flavorful, seasonally driven menu featuring roasted pizza, rotisserie-roasted pig and lamb and more.

21c management said it is committed to each of its locations and takes pains to imbue its hotels with local lore. To wit, the name of the restaurant was carefully considered in light of the venue’s unique history.

The renovated and modern former assembly plant building, built in 1916, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The hotel was built as the Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company in 1916.

Oklahoma civic leader and industrialist Fred Jones took a job at the plant the year it opened, working his way up to owner, and bought the building in the late 1960s. Jones became one of the largest Ford dealers in the nation. Mary Eddy’s Kitchen+Lounge is named for Jones’ wife, an art enthusiast and philanthropist who believed in giving back to her community.

“On any given day, one can enjoy a great meal, spend the night, meet a friend or colleague for a drink, attend a meeting or a social function in one of our meeting or event spaces, view one of the current exhibitions free of charge, attend an artist lecture or a concert or one of our other cultural events,” Cowden said.

The hotel is now accepting reservations. Visit 21cmuseumhotels.com.

Curating culture

Located in the historic Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant building, the venue features 135 rooms, a contemporary art museum and a chef-led restaurant on-site. Last week, in conjunction with World Penguin Day, venue management announced a flock of other additions, including a 1:30 p.m. Tuesday unveiling of iconic penguin sculptures created by Italian artist collective Cracking Art Group at 900 W. Main St. Created in 2005 for the Venice Biennale art exposition, the oversized, brightly hued

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Jack-of-all-trades filmmaker Tel Royal leans on his rural Oklahoma upbringing in Southern Tale.

By Ben Luschen

Name something to be done on the set of Southern Tale and there’s a good chance Tel Royal had a role in it.

The Medford-born filmmaker produced, directed, wrote, edited and starred in the upcoming independent film shot entirely in Oklahoma. The first official trailer for Southern Tale was released about a month ago. The complete movie will likely premiere at a film festival within the next two years.

“I like to definitely consider myself an athlete in the film world,” Royal said.

“Tell me what you want me to do and I’ll do it.”

Southern Tale takes place in desolate rural America. Royal’s character, Chris, thinks he has his life made, but keeping two lovers unsurprisingly leads him into trouble. Chris seeks comfort from a strange vagrant as he tries to avoid the

past mistakes of his father.

Acting comes most naturally to Royal, but writing and directing are what he considers the most rewarding.

“That’s something, creatively, I have to work a little harder toward,” he said.

“It’s something I have to put more time and devotion and effort into, so when I actually do finish something like that, I feel more accomplished.”

Royal, 25, said Southern Tale is a story that came to him when he was 19. There are parts of himself in the story, but the themes and characters are ubiquitous across small towns everywhere.

“I think a lot of Hollywood-style films take the South and really stereotype it and put a stigma to being from it,” he said.

“It doesn’t really represent it in its true form. What I was looking to do is create something that could speak to people

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from the South or from the Midwest and say, ‘Wow. I get that.’”

The film addresses rural conundrums like deciding whether to stay in what you know or move on to something bigger.

How do people in a small community react when problems back them into a corner?

“Chris is this guy running from his problems, and he’s forced to confront them,” Royal said. “It kind of gets a little vague, but what it comes down to are our choices in life.”

Oklahoma intended

Royal began writing Southern Tale when he was 21. He wrote the script with Oklahoma in mind, though it does not specifically name this state or any other.

Though he said the crew looked into all their options before picking a filming location, they ultimately decided his birth

While growing up in Medford, Royal tried to keep himself busy playing sports and acting in theater and Sunday school Christmas programs.

“I lived on a ranch, and I had horses,” he said. “I learned how to live on a ranch; I learned how to take care of animals. I pretty much just learned how to work and to kill time.”

Another thing he learned was how to act socially in a tight-knit community. In school, there were about 14 kids in his grade.

“Being able to develop socially in that environment, it was a blessing I didn’t know I was getting,” he said. “I thought, ‘Oh, it’s boring. I’m out here in the middle of nowhere. There’s nothing to do,’ but no, you’re actually learning all of these senses of community and how to work with people. I think all of that applies to filmmaking, especially directing.”

Colin (Daniel Kuhlman) left talks with Chris (Tel Royal) at a bar in Southern Tale | Photo Middle West Media / Provided

state would be best.

Royal utilized the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate provided by the Oklahoma Film & Music Office. The program gives filmmakers a 35 to 37 percent cash return on every dollar spent in the state. For a film like Southern Tale with a tiny budget, Royal said that offer was invaluable.

The movie was filmed in Guthrie, Edmond, Kingfisher and north of Enid.

“I’d written the script to be filmed in Oklahoma, and a lot of the locations I kind of already had in mind, being from Oklahoma,” Royal said. “I really wanted to shoot it there, and I was happy to bring in all those Los Angeles folks, too. It was their first real Midwest experience. I took them to Eischen’s [Bar in Okarche].”

Including Royal, who moved to LA after high school, there were four actors in the film from California. The rest were all hired out of Oklahoma.

Authentically rural

Royal’s experience growing up in Medford, a town in northern Oklahoma with a population of around 1,000, came into play as he was developing the Southern Tale story.

“I know rural America very well,” he said. “It’s authentic.”

In high school, Royal moved to Edmond before heading out to LA when he was 19. Both of those moves were huge steps up, but the actor said he likes subjecting himself to the culture shock.

“I’ve never really been content with where I’m at,” he said. “I always want to see and do the biggest and best things.”

Being well-rounded

Moving forward, Royal said he will probably want to continue doing it all in the film world. What he doesn’t want to do is everything all at the same time. He said the producing and logistics of filmmaking eventually get in the way of creativity.

“When you’re trying to act and direct on the same day, as if it’s already a lot going on and then you have to worry about dealing with location managers and stuff like that,” he said. “It takes away from the film.”

In the future, Royal hopes to put someone else in those business-type positions if his budget allows it.

“I would like to write and direct my own work from now until the end of time, but I see myself acting in other people’s stuff pretty consistently as well,” he said.

To view the trailer or learn more about Southern Tale, visit southerntale.com.

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Mike Love center and Bruce Johnston right and The Beach Boys band return to Oklahoma City May 21. | Photo Udo Spreitzenbarth / Provided

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Bruce Johnston and The Beach Boys return to Oklahoma City for fun, fun, fun. By Ben Luschen

He has traveled the world, but there’s nothing quite like sunny California for Beach Boy Bruce Johnston.

America’s Band performed more than 170 shows across the globe last year.

Johnston said in a recent Oklahoma Gazette phone interview that the group recently returned from tour stops in South Korea and Australia. Unfortunately, no trip home seems to last quite long enough.

“When I come back to Santa Barbara, sometimes I just leave the luggage on the floor,” he said. “I unpack it and take it to the dry cleaners because I know in a few days, I’m going to head back out.”

The Beach Boys visit Oklahoma City for the first time in nine years May 21 at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. Net proceeds from the show benefit Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. The touring act features longtime Beach Boys member Johnston and founding member Mike Love but not band cofounder and visionary Brian Wilson. (Another cofounder, Al Jardine, is now doing a Pet Sounds tour with Wilson.

Brothers and original members Dennis and Carl Wilson died in 1983 and 1998, respectively.)

Sun and fun are synonymous with the Beach Boy sound and experience that dominated American music in the ’60s and ’70s.

Its multigenerational appeal is part of the reason the band’s current roster has kept touring into their 70s.

Johnston joined The Beach Boys in 1965 before leaving to chase a solo career and rejoining again in 1978. Aside from recording and performing with one of the most famed bands in history, Johnston is also

“When you go to a basketball game, you don’t even have to be playing it to pick up the energy of it,” he said.

Writing songs

Johnston is the only Beach Boy, Brian Wilson included, to earn a Grammy Award for Song of the Year (Manilow’s version of “I Write the Songs” won in 1977). Despite the distinction, Johnston said he does not celebrated as the writer of the hit “I Write consider himself a great lyricist. the Songs,” made famous by Barry Manilow.

“A great songwriter writes a lot of great Keeping fresh songs, not just one song that’s a hit,” he said.

As much as it keeps him away from his One person in the modern music landbeloved Southern California, Johnston scape he does admire for her songwriting said he is always grateful for life in The ability is Taylor Swift. Johnston comBeach Boys. Many people dream of making pared her to Carole King, in that both it in a band like this. were talented songwriters before they When he’s not perbecame massively forming, Johnston, The Beach Boys 73, can be seen popular singers. surfing, sailing or “Taylor Sw if t 7 p.m. May 21 started writing from watching basketball.

Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts In many ways, touring the very beginning,” he Theatre is another way of said.

“She’s a writer Civic Center Music Hall keeping him vital. that sings. She’s not a 201 N. Walker Ave. “Sometimes if you singer that doesn’t okcciviccenter.com get a little tired [on write.”

405-297-2584 the road],” he said, True song owner$55-$100 “the show always ship, Johnston explained, is a tricky perks you up.”

Often, people will ask him how he keeps thing. The songwriter and the performer, his voice from going out when he performs he said, are in a 50-50 partnership. But at a certain point, when the song is made availso many consecutive nights. Johnston, however, said it’s not an issue. able to the public, many individuals will “It’s kind of like your doctor says, ‘You claim a tune for themselves. When a man know, you should start walking,’” he said. turns to his girlfriend and says, “That’s our “So someone starts walking who doesn’t song,” he isn’t wrong. walk a lot and they’re sore and everything “Some artist articulates lyrically what and the doctor says, ‘You’ve got to keep your head’s thinking, and the melodic thing walking.’ By the time they’ve walked for a just gets you hooked and that becomes your couple of months, they’re not hurting and song for the rest of your life,” Johnston said. they can just do it.”

The Beach Boys are their sharpest at the Out of sync end of the tour, after hours of repetition and Fan compliments are unending for The Beach Boys. Generations have thanked perfection, he said. Being around a crowd, be it in a concert or at a sporting event, also them for their music and live performances. can be energizing.

Seeing people his own age singing aloud

with their kids and grandkids at concerts is a terrific compliment.

The best praise Johnston said anyone could give the band, however, is to accuse it of lip-syncing.

“It happens all the time,” he said. “That’s our highest compliment.”

It sounds like it would be an insult, but Johnston can’t take it to heart when he knows it isn’t true. Instead, he revels in knowing the band still sounds as sharp as it did decades ago.

He said the only time act performs over a track is while accompanying a video tribute to Carl, and that’s just to ensure everyone’s in sync with the late guitarist and singer’s recorded vocals.

Feeling good

The Beach Boys are booked for many private shows. Their iconic status gives them fundraising power not available to most bands.

“We’ve raised a million dollars for hospitals for equipment and things,” Johnston said. “There will be black-tie events, and sometimes people have big checkbooks and they pay 10 times more at an auction than they’d ever do outside of one. It usually works well.”

Johnston said it was show promoter and Edmond resident John Occhipinti’s idea to make the May 21 concert in Oklahoma City a Regional Food Bank benefit. He expects the fundraising effort to be quite successful.

“It’s a chance to double down your experience,” he said. “You’ll have feel-good with our show and feel-good doing something nice for other people who probably couldn’t afford to come and see the band or they have to do something different so they can survive.”

One thing Johnston said he enjoys most about being a Beach Boy is that his career is like a giant blender. One day he’s playing out in a field someplace, later he’s in front of a symphony and the next day he’s raising money for a worthy cause.

“You kind of just do it all,” he said.

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Brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence applied bright pop melodies to deep house beats and launched Sam Smith’s career in the process. By George Lang

Preparation for Disclosure’s blockDisclosure “have not only made 2013’s best dance record so far — they’ve also buster debut album, Settle, began in the mid-1990s, when 3-year-old Brit concocted one of the most assured, conGuy Lawrence played his first drum. fident debuts from any genre in recent From that point onward, the beats memory.” “Latch” was followed by other didn’t stop. omnipresent dance hits including Released in 2013 to near universal “White Noise” featuring AlunaGeorge, acclaim, Settle combined a strong sense “You and Me” with Eliza Doolittle and of pop song structure and dynamics “F for You” featuring Mary J. Blige and with the propulsion of Chicago house a featured set at 2013’s Coachella Valley music, a combination reMusic and Arts Festival. flecting the studies and Disclosure’s exposure taste of brothers Guy and continued with last year’s Howard Lawrence, who follow-up, Caracal, and Disclosure debuted as Disclosure in while the slightly mellower 2010. While the brothers album did not achieve the 8 p.m. May 13 were still teens, they ubiquity of its predecessor, The Criterion studied diverse strands of the Lawrences still amassed 500 E. Sheridan Ave. music ranging from Claude several U.K. radio hits, incriterionokc.com Debussy to J Dilla, but the cluding “Omen” with Smith $32.50 Lawrences, who perform and “Magnets” featuring Lorde. The duo’s latest 8 p.m. May 13 at The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., built single is “Nocturnal,” a collaboration with much of their sound from classic pop Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd. and American club music of the 1980s Depending on the live setting, and 1990s.

Disclosure can pull its superstar colThe duo’s earliest exposure came laborators onstage, like the Lawrences from songs theyrecorded in their father’s did with their performance this season Surrey auction house in 2010 and upon Saturday Night Live, but in most cases, they make up for the lack of loaded to Myspace, which resulted in Disclosure’s contract with PMR Records. present and accounted for guest vocals Initial singles such as “Carnival” and with an intriguing mix of digital effects “Offline Dexterity” gained traction at and live performance. Howard Lawrence clubs, but Disclosure broke through in handily delivers vocals on songs like “F 2012 with its remix of fellow PMR artist for You” while Guy Lawrence triggers Jessie Ware’s “Running” and then hit samples and pounds the drums. hard with “Latch,” its 2012 single featurMeanwhile, the duo calls up vocal tracks ing Sam Smith. from Smith for “Omen” and “Latch” and Smith was relatively unknown at the punches up a laser projection that liptime, but “Latch” launched the singer synchs along with the tracks. Expect into the upper echelon of British pop constantly flashing lights and approprimusic and provided the first taste of ate effects during “When a Fire Starts 2013’s Settle, an instantly engaging to Burn,” and then watch Disclosure album that earned a 9.1 rating from burn all night.

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The So Help Me’s are primed for the future following a strong introductory EP. By Ben Luchen | Photo provided

The So Help Me’s aren’t afraid to take chances on The Relativity EP. It doesn’t take an Einstein to realize those risks pay off in a big way.

The self-described existential rock band is led by the tandem vocal efforts of Lindsey Cox and Bailey Pelletier.

The Oklahoma quintet’s debut, foursong EP pulls off a dreamy mesh without being overly ethereal. A fulllength follow-up album is planned for later in 2016.

The first track, “Blue Fox Drive,” is the EP’s best and most addicting song.

The lyrics and clean vocals are immediately apparent. Cox and Pelletier sound similar, yet complement each other so well.

“Blue Fox Drive” is Relativity’s most kinetic moment. The words might sound light and gentle, but the drums and bass hit hard enough to keep this band rooted.

An echoing outro ushers us into the next song in a thrilling way. Even after the first play, the listener can’t help but wonder what else The So Help Me’s have in store.

On “Trails,” we’re shown once again that the band is at its best when Cox and Pelletier are harmonizing together.

Again, the precision rhythm from drummer John Stewart is a standout. The third song, “Apollo,” is appropriately named. It’s a more spacey, even-keeled moment than the previous two tracks.

It’s a song of search and journey and might be the band’s best example of lyrical prowess.

“I cannot make the stars move; I am just one man,” the lyrics say. Much of the song — and Relativity in general — explores the smallness young people often face when first forced to take the world and its pressures head-on.

The closing number, “Wolf Mountain,” sets off in a marching cadence with folky vocals. It’s a fitting but not spectacular end to the EP, which at four songs and about 20 minutes, is a perfect length for the material included.

Though not a flawless release, the band’s debut project doesn’t include much to quibble about. The challenge moving forward will be translating its formula for success into a full-length format. The So Help Me’s soft wonderings and trancing backdrop worked well as a brief listen but could play itself out in a stretched runtime.

It’s no challenge the young musicians aren’t capable of meeting, especially if they keep thinking outside the box. On more than one occasion on Relativity, the band breaks into a captivating and unexpected outro or bridge. As long as Cox and Pelletier are harmonizing together, it’s hard to imagine this act turning too stale.

The dreaminess and existentialism The So Help Me’s refer to are primarily rooted in the vocal performance and lyrics. It flirts with the avant-garde, but honestly, a lot of the singing is reminiscent of an older church of folkloric sound.

It’s not clear who in the group is responsible for writing the songs, but they’re doing a good job. There are times the band could benefit from being more straightforward and less mystic or philosophical, but part of Relativity’s appeal is the need to relisten and fully digest the message. It’s easy to see the EP appealing to a young, local crowd seeking guidance in a state that sometimes seems dead-set against progress.

To stream The Relativity EP, search The So Help Me’s on Soundcloud or visit thesohelpmes.com.

As long as Cox and Pelletier are harmonizing together, it’s hard to imagine this act turning too stale.

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Blind Date!, Oklahoma City Limits. COVER

The Headliners, Oklahoma City Limits. VARIOUS

Boz Scaggs, Grand Casino, Shawnee. SINGER/

Pentatonix/Us The Duo/AJ, BOK Center, Tulsa. POP

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Carol Morgan, S&B’s Burger Joint, Midtown. ROCK

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Dirty River Boys, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

Eliza Rickman, Graphite Gallery. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Dylan Stewart and the Eulogists, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. ROCK

Job: Raker, 89th Street Collective. COVER Katie Williams, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon.

Elizabeth Speegle Band, La Luna Cantina & Grill, Newcastle. JAZZ

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SUNDAY 5.8 Blues Jam, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES Dreamers/The Young Wild, 89th Street Collective. ROCK Harry Connick Jr., Civic Center Music Hall. JAZZ Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/ Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

The Show Ponies California indie folk band The Show Ponies is coming into Oklahoma.

The band has built a dedicated following through a consistent tour schedule and quality records. The band is built on the backbone of storytelling from founding members and covocalists Andi Carter and Clayton Chaney. The show begins 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11 at The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., in Norman. Tickets are $15. Visit pasnorman.org or call 405307-9320. Wednesday, May 11 Photo The Show Ponies / Provided Levitation Room/Sugar Candy Mountain, Opolis, Norman.

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Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club. JAZZ Steve Crossley/Jerry Wilson, Louie’s Grill & Bar, Lake Hefner.

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

THURSDAY 5.5 Brent Saulsbury/Will Galbraith/Wayne Duncan, Friends Restaurant & Club.

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Dave Thomason Band, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COVER Jason Scott, Hillbilly’s.

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Krystal Keith, Sooner Theatre, Norman. SINGER/SONGWRITER Los Eskeletos/Fire Bad, HiLo Club. ROCK My Epic/Come Wind/Jose Hernandez and The Black Magic Waters, 89th Street Collective. ROCK Tyler Lee, S&B’s Burger Joint NW OKC. BLUES Lamb of God, Brady Theater, Tulsa. ROCK Memphis May Fire/We Come As Romans, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK

FRIDAY 5.6 4 of a Kind, Fort Thunder Harley Davidson, Moore.

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J-French/Original Flow/Jabee, 51st Street Speakeasy.

Max Ridgway Trio, Full Circle Bookstore. JAZZ Midas 13, Big Dick’s Roadhouse, Yukon. ROCK Shelley King, The Blue Door.

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Shortt Dogg, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. BLUES

TUESDAY 5.10 SoMo/Quinn XCII, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. POP Soul Time Tuesday with DJ Tom Hudson, Blue Note Lounge. VARIOUS

WEDNESDAY 5.11 Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club. JAZZ Sturgill Simpson, The Criterion.

Tyler Lee, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES

Whitechapel/Plot in You/ Fit For a King, 89th Street Collective. ROCK Asleep at the Wheel, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. COUNTRY

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Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/ Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER JJ Grey & Mofro/Ben Miller Band, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa.

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SATURDAY 5.7 Aaron Newman, S&B Burger Joint Midwest City. ROCK Buddy South, Bedlam BarB-Q. COUNTRY David Lindley, The Blue Door.

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Drive, Newcastle Casino, Newcastle. COVER Midas 13, Lumpy’s Sports Grill.

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Miss Blues, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES Miss Brown to You, Full Circle Bookstore. BLUES Ryan Dorman, Hillbilly’s. FOLK Smilin’ Vic, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. BLUES The Big News, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

Live music submissions must be received by Oklahoma Gazette no later than noon on Wednesday seven days before the desired publication date. Late submissions will not be included in the listings.

Submissions run as space allows, although we strive to make the listings as inclusive as possible. Fax your listings to 405-5284600 or e-mail them to listings@okgazette. com. Sorry, but phone submissions cannot be accepted.

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By Rob Brezny

Homework: Would it be possible to turn one of your liabilities into an asset? How? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

Before you do, though, I hope you’ll take time to explore it further. Toska has more to teach you about the previously hidden meaning of your life.

the lush opportunities, you should be willing to shed outworn stuff that might interfere.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Silence is not silence,

CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Gandhi’s autobiography is on my pillow,” writes Cancerian poet Buddy Wakefield. “I put it there every morning after making my bed so I’ll remember to read it before falling asleep. I’ve been reading it for 6 years.

I’m on Chapter 2.” What’s the equivalent phenomenon in your world, my fellow Crab? What good deed or righteous activity have you been pursuing with glacial diligence? Is there a healthy change you’ve been thinking about forever, but not making much progress on? The mood and the sway of the coming days will bring you a good chance to expedite the process. In Wakefield’s case, he could get up to Chapter 17.

On Cracked.com, Auntie Meme tells us that many commonly-held ideas about history are wrong. There were no such things as chastity belts in the Middle Ages, for example. Napoleon’s soldiers didn’t shoot off the nose of the Sphinx when they were stationed in Egypt. In regards to starving peasants, Marie Antoinette never derisively said, “Let them eat cake.” And no Christians ever became meals for lions in ancient Rome’s Colosseum.

(More: tinyurl.com/historicaljive.) In the spirit of Auntie Meme’s exposé, and in alignment with the astrological omens, I invite you to uncover and correct at least three fabrications, fables, and lies about your own past.

but a limit of hearing,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem “Everything Has Two Endings.” This observation is apropos for you right now. There are potentially important messages you’re not registering and catalytic influences you can’t detect. But their apparent absence is due to a blank spot in your awareness, or maybe a willful ignorance left over from the old days. Now here’s the good news: You are primed to expand your listening field. You have an enhanced ability to open certain doors of perception that have been closed. If you capitalize on this opportunity, silence will give way to revelation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Your ability to accomplish magic is at a peak, and will continue to soar for at least two more weeks. And when I use that word “magic,” I’m not referring to the hocuspocus performed by illusionists like Criss Angel or Harry Houdini. I’m talking about real feats of transformation that will generate practical benefits in your day-to-day life. Now study the following definitions by writer Somerset Maugham, and have faith in your ability to embody them: “Magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

According to author Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian word toska means “a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness.” Linguist Anna Wierzbicka says it conveys an emotion that blends melancholy, boredom, and yearning. Journalist Nick Ashdown suggests that for someone experiencing toska, the thing that’s yearned for may be “intangible and impossible to actually obtain.” How are doing with your own toska, Gemini? Is it conceivable that you could escape it — maybe even heal it? I think you can. I think you will.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

In the 16th century, European explorers searched South America in quest of a mythical city of gold known as El Dorado. Tibetan Buddhist tradition speaks of Shambhala, a magical holy kingdom where only enlightened beings live. In the legends of ancient Greece, Hyperborea was a sunny paradise where the average human life span was a thousand years and happiness was normal. Now is an excellent time for you to fantasize about your own version of utopia, Leo. Why? First, your imagination is primed to expand. Second, dreaming big will be good for your mental and physical health. There’s another reason, too: By envisioning the most beautiful world possible, you will mobilize your idealism and boost your ability to create the best life for yourself in the coming months.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

“Anytime you’re going to grow, you’re going to lose something,” said psychologist James Hillman. “You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.” I nominate these thoughts to serve as your words of wisdom in the coming weeks, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, you are in a phase when luxuriant growth is possible. To harvest the fullness of

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Poet Charles Wright marvels at the hummingbird, “who has to eat sixty times his own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that’s a life on the edge.” In the coming weeks, Scorpio, your modus operandi may have resemblances to the hummingbird’s approach. I don’t mean to suggest that you will be in a manic survival mode. Rather, I expect you’ll feel called to nourish your soul with more intensity than usual. You’ll need to continuously fill yourself up with experiences that inspire, teach, and transform you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

“Anybody can become angry,” said Greek philosopher Aristotle. “That is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” I’m pleased to inform you, Sagittarius, that now is a time when you have an exceptional capacity for meeting Aristotle’s high standards. In fact, I encourage you to honor and learn all you can from your finely-honed and well-expressed anger. Make it work wonders for you. Use it so constructively that no one can complain.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

When he was a boy, Mayan poet Humberto Ak’ab’al asked his mother, “What are those things that shine in the sky?” “Bees,” she answered mischievously.

“Every night since then,” Humberto writes, “my eyes eat honey.” In response to this lyrical play, the logical part of our brains might rise up and say, “What a load of nonsense!” But I will ask you to set aside the logical part of your brain for now, Aquarius. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the coming days will be a time when you need a big dose of sweet fantasies, dreamy stories, and maybe even beautiful nonsense. What are your equivalents of seeing bees making honey in the night sky’s pinpoints of light?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

“Sometimes, a seemingly insignificant detail reveals a whole world,” says artist Pierre Cordier. “Like the messages hidden by spies in the dot of an i.” These are precisely the minutiae that you should be extra alert for in the coming days, Pisces. Major revelations may emerge from what at first seems trivial. Generous insights could ignite in response to small acts of beauty and subtle shifts of tone. Do you want glimpses of the big picture and the long-range future? Then be reverent toward the fine points and modest specifics.

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