Oklahoma Gazette 5-6-15 by Oklahoma Gazette

FREE EVERY WEDNESDAY | METRO OKC’S INDEPENDENT WEEKLY | MAY 6, 2015

Heartstrings Musician Kyle Dillingham smashes all the rules with his new album, Broken Beyond Repair.

FOOD: STOP JOKING ABOUT HER AND TAKE YOUR MOM TO BRUNCH ALREADY! P.19 FILM: SALT OF THE EARTH DIRECTOR TALKS ABOUT FILMING HIS FATHER P.44

MARK HANCOCK

BY JENNIFER CHANCELLOR P.39

$50K COUNTDOWN TO SUMMER GIVEAWAY EARN ENTRIES ALL MONTH LONG AND TRIPLE ENTRIES ON TUESDAYS TO SHARE IN $10,000 CASH EVERY FRIDAY IN MAY FROM 6 PM TO MIDNIGHT.

TOP OF THE STRETCH MAY 16, WIN A SHARE OF $1,000 BY ENTERING YOUR LOSING PREAKNESS STAKES TICKET IN THE HOPPER. $1,000 RANDOM CASH DRAWINGS 1 PM–6 PM.

SUNNY SIDE UP SENIORS, EARN 20 POINTS ON YOUR WILD CARD ANYTIME THURSDAY-TUESDAY AND RECEIVE A FREE BREAKFAST BUFFET AND $20 BONUS PLAY ON WEDNESDAY.

JUNE 5

JUNE 12

CLINT BLACK

JAMEY JOHNSON

JUNE 26 BILL ENGVALL

OKC’S MOST REWARDING CASINO

405.322.6000 • WWW.RIVERWIND.COM I-35 AT HIGHWAY 9 WEST, NORMAN, OK

COMING SOON: THE COMMODORES - JULY 10 RON WHITE - AUGUST 1 MARK CHESNUTT - AUGUST 15

2 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E UNI_15-CGR-048_May_Combo_NP.indd 1

GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY 1.800.522.4700

MOE BANDY, GENE WATSON & JOHNNY LEE - AUGUST 21

4/29/15 1:35 PM

CONTENTS 19

ON THE COVER

NEWS

LIFE

This isn’t punk rock — it’s far from it — but it might as well be. Local musician Kyle Dillingham finds our voices, our shared stories of defeat and hope, in a box filled with broken instruments and his new album, Broken Beyond Repair. P. 39.

Education: Justice Alma Wilson SeeWorth Academy

Eat Local

Fit Local

News briefs

OKG shop: spring survival

Sudoku / Crossword

Chicken-Fried News

Shop Local

Performing Arts: Video Games Live

Commentary, Letters

Health: biohazard cleaners

Cover: Kyle Dillingham

Shopping: The Black Sheep

Music: Deerpeople, event listings

Culture: Asian Festival

What Mama Wants

Film: The Salt of the Earth, Avengers: Age of Ultron

Astrology

Visual Arts: FRINGE show

Classifieds

Active: Special Olympics

— By Jennifer Chancellor

LIFE 14

OKG picks

Food & Drink: Mother’s Day brunch; food briefs; bitters; B&B Wok, Noodle and Moore; OKG eat: egg cocktails

MISSION STATEMENT

Oklahoma Gazette’s mission is to stimulate, examine and inform the public on local quality of life issues and social needs, to recognize community accomplishments, and to provide a forum for inspiration, participation and interaction across all media.

DWIGHT YOAKAM

JUNE 12 8PM Tickets Starting at $40

THE MUSIC OF

PINK FLOYD JUNE 19 8PM Tickets Starting at $15

GRANDRESORTOK.COM

I-40 EXIT 178 | SHAWNEE, OK | 405-964-7263 O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 3

P HOTOS BY GA RETT FI S BEC K

NEWS EDUCATION

Worthy vision This local charter school aims to change more than just grades. Justice Alma Wilson SeeWorth Academy also changes lives for many of OKC’s most at-risk youth. BY BEN FELDER

Malaysia Glover was born in shackles. Both her parents were incarcerated on the day of her birth, which sentenced Glover to a childhood of bouncing between the homes of relatives. Despite that instability, she thrived in school during her early years, developed a passion for fine arts and appeared to have a chance at breaking free from the prison of poverty she was born into. But the pressures of life were slowly building up, and when a close friend was killed during Glover’s freshman year at Oklahoma Centennial High School, she began a downward spiral. “I was going through a depressive state,” Glover said. “I couldn’t think right, and it caused me not to eat. I became so depressed that I made myself so sick that my kidneys began to fail. I missed a lot of school and couldn’t get work done, which made it worse.” After falling behind on her studies, Justice Alma Wilson SeeWorth Academy in Oklahoma City was recommended as her best option. Over the past two years, Glover was able to catch up academically and is on track to graduate this spring, a feat most

4 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

students facing similar challenges don’t accomplish. “They’ve helped me find jobs, they understand my living circumstances and they also help me get back and forth to school,” Glover said about SeeWorth and its staff of teachers and principals. “Literally, my principal is like a father to me.”

above Students Denzel Graves and Malaysia Glover laugh and sing in music class at Justice Alma Wilson SeeWorth Academy.

Success

Like most alternative schools in Oklahoma City, SeeWorth has its share of students who have been kicked out of a traditional school for fighting, gang activity or drugs. But most of the 450 high school students there have grown up in an environment where a specialized learning program is the only way for them to not only avoid a life of prison or poverty but live to see the age of 18. Although the state of Oklahoma, using limited data, grades SeeWorth as an “F” school, its teachers and administrators say they have a school that is beyond successful, especially when factors like giving kids a second chance at life, developing aspirations

High school student Diamond Alexander sits in a class at Justice Alma Wilson SeeWorth Academy. for the future and unlocking academic potential are factored in. It’s not wonky math, said Janet Grigg, SeeWorth’s executive director and superintendent.

“If you give me a ninth-grader who is reading at a first-grade level, do you think I can get them reading at a highCONTINUED ON PAGE 6

DUMP ON US.

WORLD PREMIERE

Oklahoma City’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility at 1621 S. Portland can take all the paint, bug and weed killers, used motor oil and other chemicals and solvents in your garage, under your sink and around your home. And it doesn’t cost you anything. Check www.okc.gov for a complete list of what we can and can’t take or call 6827038 for more information.

Bring your current water bill stub to prove residency. Residency restrictions apply. We’re open Tuesday–Friday 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m and Saturday 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE S. COLLECTION FACILITY 1621 Portland

May 15-16 at 7:30 PM and May 17 at 2:00 PM Mitchell Hall Theatre Created and conceived by Greg White

A tribute to legendary Oklahoma Singer Kay Starr.

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA | COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN

For tickets, call the UCO Mitchell Hall Theatre Box Office at 405-974-3375 or online at www.mitchellhalltheatre.com

UNI_15-RP-97_MothersDay_Gazette.indd 1

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 5 4/30/15 9:50 AM

NEWS EDUCATION school level by the end of the year? Probably not,” she said. “But I can get them reading at a sixth- or seventhgrade level by the end of the year. Well, the state considers that a failure. I don’t.” Grigg calls her role as director “the hardest job [she has] ever had,” but she is quick to call her students the real heroes of SeeWorth. “I don’t know how they do it,” she said. “These students do not think beyond tomorrow, and it’s not because they can’t; it’s because they have just been in this mode of trying to survive and get by today.” Steve Davis is literally fighting for the lives of the students sitting in front of him. With the bravado of a holy man, Davis’ lecture turns from a verbal listing of do’s and don’ts to a passionate plea for his students to deeply consider their paths in life. Like a typical high school class, most students stare down at their desks. Some scribble on notebook paper, counting down minutes until it’s over. Davis, however, locks eyes with a young man as he is looking up. Just like that, Davis has his attention, and he doesn’t let it go. “I take this [job] very personally,” Davis said after class. “When I come to school every day, for me, it’s not about a job; it’s really about a calling on my life.” Davis is in his first year at SeeWorth but has worked with at-risk students for more than 20 years. He shares a story similar to many of his students: growing up in poverty with an abusive, alcoholic father. But what was different about Davis was his willingness to consider a better future.

Literally, my principal is like a father to me. — Malaysia Glover

“I always was a dreamer, and I don’t know where that came from; it was just in me,” Davis said. “What I have found for a lot of these young people is the dreaming is not there. It almost makes it easier for them to quit or play the victim.” Indeed, test scores and letter grades can’t always measure resilience and emotional growth. Instead, a few words written on a dry erase board offer that proof. Not too long ago, a male student expressed frustration with his home life and shared that his mother is unemployed and he often goes hungry.

6 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

P HOTOS BY GA RETT FI S BEC K

Fighting

Kollin Bruner, a SeeWorth graduate who now works security for the school, monitors students between classes. Then, he comforted himself. In the long run, he said, this struggle will make him a better man. “That student told me he didn’t want to live like this when he grows up, and he wrote on the board, ‘You have to learn how to struggle,’” Davis remembered. “I said, ‘Son, you don’t know how profound that is.’”

Family

Stevie Taylor was sitting in front of her parents’ tombstone seven years ago. It was a ritual she had developed over the past year, ever since her mom and dad had been killed in a car accident. “My life was going to hell in a handbasket,” Taylor, a SeeWorth special education teacher, said about that time in her life. “I didn’t know what to do with myself.” As she mourned, she also felt an urge to embrace something bigger than herself. “On my way home [from the cemetery that day], I passed SeeWorth, and I walked in there with my not-sogreat clothes on and asked what this school was about,” Taylor said. Armed with a special education degree she had not used in years, she got the job. She is now in her seventh year with the school. Walking between buildings during a passing period, she holds multiple conversations with students, many of which tower over her petite frame. Seconds after entering her math class, she is writing equations on the board and asking her students questions. Taylor’s energy is abundant yet controlled, and her compassion is apparent. “All they want is someone to care

Teacher Stevie Taylor engages pupils in discussion during a class break. for them,” she said. “Day after day, they have been put down, and you just have to build them up.” The teacher-student relationship does more than fulfill many youths’ need for parental-type bonds; it also gives staff credibility as it challenges students to change their lives. “The greatest shock I got when I first came here,” said Art Schofield, the school’s academic principal, “was [when] I asked a young man what his goal in life was and he said to ‘live until I’m 35.’ That kid said that was a tough goal considering the crew he runs around with, but I said, ‘Son, you’ve got choices.’” For many students, the best thing SeeWorth offers is alternatives. That’s why there is a lot of anxiety on Fridays, Taylor said, as students prepare to leave school for two days. That’s also why most teachers at SeeWorth don’t assume

that their jobs are done after the final bell rings. “The teachers here are more like family to these kids,” Schofield said. “We’ve got some of the staff here that have taken [students] home with them, provided for them, given them jobs. The students know that we care for them and we try to protect them.” Students find supportive educators, including some who also grew up with similar struggles. Kollin Bruner is a campus security guard and a 2008 SeeWorth graduate. In the eighth grade, fighting and his association with a gang left him homeless. His Amateur Athletic Union basketball coach recommended he go to SeeWorth, so he did. “I always liked the school because that’s where I knew I was going to get something to eat every day,” Bruner said. “I felt like everybody cared about

me. Most of them get it.” Bruner went from skirting the law to earning a criminal justice degree. Eventually, SeeWorth hired him. “I know exactly what they are going through,” Bruner said about the students he interacts with every day. “At another school, these [students] know they can get kicked out and nobody cares. But here, if they leave school, they know somebody will find out what’s going on.” SeeWorth doesn’t suspend its students, Taylor said. However, there have been times when a student’s actions demand drastic correction. School leaders understand that for many kids, the next destination after this school could be a jail cell. “We do everything but suspend,” Taylor said. “I have kids that just can’t make it, and instead of suspending them, I am going to bring them with me and they are going to follow me for a day. Anything we can do to keep them from getting back on the streets, we will do it.” In the late 1990s, Alma Wilson, a former Oklahoma Supreme Court chief justice, partnered with former Oklahoma first lady and schoolteacher Kimberly Ann Henry and other community leaders to develop strategies to better serve at-risk students. In 1998, Wilson helped launch SeeWorth as a public charter school. “We are all about prevention here,” Grigg said. “Justice Wilson died in 2000 and didn’t get to see what she has done, but from there, we have grown to serve over 1,000 students annually.”

Saved

Diamond Alexander knows what she wants from SeeWorth. “I just want a way out of all this,” she says before listing off colleges she’d like to attend and career paths she’d like to follow. Alexander, a junior, was raised by her mother while her father bounced in and out of prison. After struggling in school, her mother gave her a choice between home school or SeeWorth. She grudgingly picked the latter. Less than a year later,

Steve Davis teaches life skills to SeeWorth pupils. Alexander admits that she’s thriving. “I always have hope and know that I’m going to be successful someday,” Alexander said. “I just always have that mind-set; that’s what gets me through.” Alexander works a part-time job to help her mother, who often works multiple jobs while raising four kids. If Alexander goes to college in two years — which she plans to do — she knows her decision will impact her family at home. “I know it will be hard for a little bit,” Alexander said. “But we have all talked about how it will be better for us all [for me to go to college].” Even as students plan for higher education and careers, Grigg said it’s not uncommon for some upperclassmen to “dig their heels into the sand” as they near graduation. “They know in their minds but they don’t know in their hearts yet that they can make it on their own when they graduate,” she said. “But it’s not like they can’t come back, because they can come back anytime for help.” Grigg recalled two students who graduated several years ago after moving past their histories of gang activity. The two young men came by to say goodbye and pick up care packages from the staff. That night, they were caught up with a friend who killed two people. The crime sent the two students to Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for 50 years. “All it takes is one time for you to be at the wrong place at the wrong time,” she said. Grigg has a list of similar stories, and it sometimes causes her to second-guess what could or should have been done differently. Then, she collects herself and focuses on the many positive and remarkable achievements made by so many SeeWorth students. “I can’t save the world, but I might be able to save this [student’s] life,” she said. “We’ve certainly saved a lot more than we’ve lost.”

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 7

Hundreds of larger & smaller diamonds available *Subject to prior sale

NEWS BRIEFS BY BEN FELDER

Diamond Selection

UNBELIEVABLE PRICING RADIANT CUT .70 D SI1 .......... 2190.00 1.01 J SI1 ......... 2623.00 1.57 G VS2 ....... 8507.00 1.62 D VS2 ...... 9572.00

ROUND BRILLIANT CUT

All Excellent Cut Excellent Polish and Excellent Symmetry

.53 F VS1 .54 G VS2 .73 D SI2 .90 I SI1 1.00 G SI2

2387.00 1758.00 2532.00 3460.00 4500.00

1.00 1.10 1.30 1.73 2.06

K SI2 J VS1 I VVS2 G VS1 J VS2

3250.00 5185.00 8410.00 17851.00 13303.00

Urban Land Institute is hosting the Livable Streets Summit, a three-day conference focusing on pedestrian, cycling and other open street issues, next week. Running May 14 through 16, the conference will feature special guests Jeff Risom (pictured), Sean Benesh and Dr. Rebecca Sanders; a guided bike tour; and bike olympics. Registration is $25 for ULI members and $35 for nonmembers. The opening night will feature a presentation from Risom of Gehl Architects, who will talk about the relationship between social science and design. For more information and to register, visit oklahoma.uli.org.

P ROVI DED

Livable Streets

H&A INTERNATIONAL JEWELRY WE OFFER DIAMONDS GRADED BY

CALL PAUL BROCKHAUS 405-947-6616 • pbhaokc@att.com 3535 NW 58, Ste. 860 Landmark Tower East – OKC • Mon-Fri 9-5

RENDERING PROVIDE D

Appraisals $20 • Rings • Pendants • Earrings • Bracelets & More

Local innovation GE’s new oil and gas research center will boost Oklahoma City’s standing as an energy hub and expand the growing technology sector, which might very well be the future of OKC’s economy, company officials said during a gathering in OKC last month. “What this center does is help open the oil and gas sector up to our other areas of innovation,” said Todd Alhart with GE. “Breakthroughs in other sectors can have an impact on the development of oil and gas.” Oklahoma City’s economy is more diversified than it was in the 1970s and 1980s, a time when setbacks in oil production had a devastating impact on the city. The last few months of dropping oil prices have had a negative impact on the city and some of its oil and gas producers, but the local economy appears to remain stable. GE officials in town last month for a shareholder’s meeting said OKC was a logical spot for its new center, which will be able to tap into other GE sectors, such as health care, in an effort to bring new ideas to the energy field. “Over time, the success of the Oklahoma City [research] center will become how many satellite entrepreneurial spin-offs are created by it,” said Michael Ming, general manager of GE’s new center.

8 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

BEN FE L DE R

Great commitment The results of Oklahoma City Public Schools’ (OKCPS) Great Conversation were revealed during a breakfast for lawmakers last week as Superintendent Rob Neu (pictured at left) said the community had picked seven goals for the district to achieve in the coming years. “We are saying this is what is important and now we are going to measure it,” Neu said. “This will be our A through F report card … and I ask the Legislature to pay close attention to the work we are doing in these seven areas and help us by passing legislation that will help in these areas.” Neu, along with Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Keith Ballard, hosted Thursday’s breakfast to ask lawmakers for their support in improving urban education in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. A detailed presentation on the Great Commitment will be made June 8 as the district begins to develop a strategy for each goal. “When you start to look at this, especially the strategies underneath each goal, it really comes to life,” Neu said. Dozens of community forums with educators, parents and community leaders were held over the past several months in an effort to identify the district’s biggest challenges and determine which core goals OKCPS should strive for. The Great Conversation was one of Neu’s largest programs during his first year as superintendent. The seven community-wide goals and measures of students’ success are: Early Literacy and Numeracy: Every child will meet literacy and numeracy readiness criteria for successful transition from pre-k to second grade. Maximizing Instructional Time: Every student will participate in at least 95 percent of the instructional days per school year. Student Engagement and Voice: Every student will play a personal and meaningful role in their own learning and in the educational decision making of their school, district or community. Mastery of Core Subjects: Every student will meet standards of performance in the core subjects at key transitional grade levels. Accelerated Performance for Under-Performing Groups: Low-performing student groups will perform at a level that closes the opportunity, learning and achievement gaps. Advanced Tech-Literate Courses and the Arts: Every student will complete at least one higher-level course or study outside the core subjects. High School Graduation: Every student will graduate from high school, prepared for success in college or in career-technical fields.

Quotable “A standardized test doesn’t take into account the behavioral aspects of a student and will not tell you if the student has good time management skills. Those behavior variables don’t show up in a test.” Those were the words of Matt Eastwood, an institutional research analyst at Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC), who gave a report to Oklahoma City Public Schools last week on variables that have the biggest impact on a student’s achievement in college. The report was based on a decade of data shared by the district with OCCC. The data seemed to indicate ACT scores are not good predictors of how well a student will do in college, Eastwood said. High school grade point average, attendance rate and poverty levels had far greater impact, the report showed.

Congrats Grads! 1,657 promises kept 1,657 dreams realized 1,657 lives transformed The Central community congratulates the 1,657 Bronchos graduating in our spring 2015 class!

Live Central

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA Edmond, OK • (405) 974-2000 • www.uco.edu TM

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 9

CHiCKEN ‘Fancy’ equality

Though it was legalized last October, same-sex marriage continues to be a point of contention in Oklahoma. Local celebrities and officials have publicly voiced their opinions about it, but it appears that Oklahoma’s own country queen Reba McEntire believes there isn’t any room for debate. “You gotta love people for who they are,” she told PrideSource. “Accept them, and then go on with life.” Well, that sounds easy enough to do. She went on to say that it isn’t fair when one partner is ill and the other doesn’t have rights as a spouse and family member. She defies current country music culture, which often isn’t accepting of LGBT people, and hopes it will continue to improve.

1 0 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

FRiED NEWS “I’ve always held the belief that people should not pass judgment on how others want to live their lives,” she told NewNowNext. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t get ticked off every once in a while, though. In the early ’90s, she met a gay fan in full drag before a show and was shocked and more than a little jealous. “It really ticked me off because his hair and makeup looked better than mine! I was kinda wantin’ to get tips! But unfortunately, I didn’t have time. I had to go and get ready for the show,” she told Advocate.com. “Imitation is a huge form of flattery.” McIntire’s new album, Love Somebody, was released April 14.

Snowballing anger

During last month’s White House Correspondents Dinner, President Barack Obama offered remarks that were spiced up with the help of Luther, the president’s Anger Translator, played by comedian Keegan-Michael Key of Comedy Central’s

Key & Peele show. As Obama offered a respectful take on the current political scene, Luther followed with the rage that many assume burns deep inside of him. But near the end, Obama was in no need of anyone to translate his feels. “Instead of doing anything about it, we’ve got elected officials throwing snowballs in the Senate!” Obama shouted about Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe’s recent climate change stunt on the U.S. senate floor. “It is crazy. What about our kids? What kind of stupid, short-sighted, irresponsible bull—” Luther cut him off as he reminded us how frustrating it is to be president and how crazy it is to reject scientific evidence simply because you can throw a mass of hardened precipitation at your peers. I mean, come on. Who does that?

Decent action

Well, that’s one way of getting your money back from the casino. Shawnee resident Thomas Bierd, 35, was arrested April 23 for allegedly embezzling about $182,000 from Citizen Potawatomi Nation and faces six federal counts of embezzlement and theft. A federal indictment alleges Bierd worked with Kristi Bias, 41, the former executive director of the tribe’s Community Development Corporation, to issue checks to illegitimate companies controlled by Bierd between December 2010 and September 2011. Each could be sentenced to as many as five years in prison and might be forced to pay a $250,000 fine. According to prosecutors, Bias pleaded guilty to related charges in November but has not yet been sentenced. A return of $500,000 on a loss of $182,000? Forget gambling. It sounds like the best way to get rich is to have employees embezzle your cash.

Media buzz

The very same day that two Tulsa World investigative reporters were named as Pulitzer Prize finalists for their work covering Oklahoma’s execution process, the rumor mill exploded. In drama better suited for shallow and overhyped, mid-’80s Geraldo Rivera-era “must-watch” TV, media descended on our state like someone busted into Al Capone’s secret vault during sweeps week. While in the midst of covering alleged conduct that could have contributed to a reserve deputy shooting and killing an unarmed black suspect, the two lead reporters walked away from the publication just as national news crews swooped in to feast on the sensational story. Later that day, it was discovered that two more people also left the newspaper. Industry gossip rags frothed with speculation of possible reporting failures or pushback from law enforcement

agencies as reasons for their departures. “Oh. Media has no freedom anymore. They were axed for perpetuating liberal bias,” people said. But the truth was even more shocking. World enterprise editor and Pulitzer finalist Ziva Branstetter, along with Pulitzer finalist Cary Aspinwall and reporters Dylan Goforth and Kevin Canfield, abruptly resigned because Bobby Lorton, the man who sold the Tulsa World family newspaper to Warren Buffet’s BH Media Group, decided he wanted to get back into the biz. We’re assuming the non-competition agreement, if there was one, must have expired. But Lorton hired away Tulsa World’s A-Team to launch The Frontier, an independent, web-based media company that’s scheduled to formally launch this month. How’s that for turning notions of old media on its head?

Science, schmience!

It appears that oil and gas magnate and Oklahoma native Harold Hamm didn’t get rich due to his rigorous adherence to scientific fact. “You know, these earthquakes primarily have been happening in areas where there is no oil and gas activity, first of all,” begins Hamm’s rebuttal of recent studies that correlate the uptick in Oklahoma quakes to hydraulic fracturing practices. “And second of all, there’s not any tie to stimulation, fracking of wells in Oklahoma. There’s been no tie to that at all,” he told NBC News. Hamm goes on to say that our state also experienced a lot of seismic activity in the ’50s, perhaps implying that it is a natural phenomenon, but he also conceded there might be a connection between injection wells and recent temblor “disturbance.” “But for the most part, that hasn’t been the case,” he said. “[In the ’50s,] there were 30 earthquakes reported over just more than a decade at a time …” said Glenn Brown, vice president of geology at Continental Resources Inc., in a

NewsOK.com report from June 2014. We’ll take this opportunity to remind readers that Continental Resources is “America’s Oil Champion,” according to its own website. So, there were 30 recorded earthquakes in the ’50s. For comparison, Oklahoma had more than 30 earthquakes in the week leading up to Hamm’s comments. “The increase in seismicity has been found to coincide with the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in several locations, including Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Ohio,” reads the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) website. Hamm knows oil and gas, obviously, so maybe he knows better than the USGS, despite the fact that Oklahoma had more than 1,700 quakes in the past year. Let’s just sit back and drink each other’s milkshakes and smile.

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 2 0 1 5 | 1 1

COMMENTARY

M A RK HA N COC K

Quality arts means quality lives BY JASON DUNNINGTON

Tuesday at the Oklahoma Capitol, we celebrated a special day: Arts Day. The goal was to raise awareness of the impact our thriving arts community has across our state. As the Representative for House District 88, I’m fortunate to represent many of Oklahoma City’s finest arts districts, including the Paseo Arts District and the Plaza District. These areas provide the finest in quality of life and serve as an economic engine for our community. Supporting the growth of Oklahoma’s arts community seems like a common sense issue that should transcend political parties and allegiances. However, in recent years, the arts community has been under fire. With budget shortfalls, many at the state Legislature are scrambling to find any way to save a buck and often look to

cut crucial programs in the name of efficiency. Luckily, the arts community has played a significant role in the lives of many Oklahomans, and those voices have been effective in defending our arts opportunities. Groups like Oklahomans for the Arts have worked hard to protect our quality of life. Simply put, the arts are a crucial piece of our quality of life and artistic expression has incredible value to our society. Just last year, the arts created $23 billion in revenue for local, state and federal governments. According to Americans for the Arts’ 2015 Creative Industries Report, Oklahoma boasts 5,822 arts-related businesses that employ 23,990 residents. The report goes on to state that nationally, there are over 702,770 artsrelated businesses employing 2.9 million

Americans. Studies show the important roles that arts and arts-related industries play in our economy. The arts help create jobs, revitalize communities and generate tax revenue. Looking at House District 88 alone, areas like the Plaza District show how public investment in programs like the arts can reap significant benefits. The Plaza District utilized $2.9 million in public investment resulting in $11.6 million in private investment. Artists represented in the district include 300 theater professionals, 200 theater students with Lyric Theatre, 400 Everything Goes Dance students, 298 musicians, 547 visual artists, 68 poets, comedians, storytellers and others. The Paseo Arts District boasts the second largest arts festival in OKC and is now home to over 20 galleries. Both

Opinions expressed on the commentary page, in letters to the editor and elsewhere in this newspaper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of ownership or management.

areas attract significant tourism, enrich the quality of life, build upon our creative workforce and continue to promote positive community development. With the work of many dedicated advocates, the arts have remained an important focus in our state, but we should not take it for granted. This is not a partisan issue and affects rural and urban communities alike. From Guymon to Idabel and Miami to Altus, Oklahoma boasts incredible artistic talent. This talent adds to our culture and quality of life and is as an important economic driver for our state. I hope you will join me and many others in our state in advocating for the arts. Together, we can protect this important facet our lives and see the arts continue to thrive in Oklahoma. Jason Dunnington is a State Representative for House District 88 in Oklahoma City.

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

How many Americans are fully aware of our relationship with Iran over the past 65 years? For instance, how many know that the U.S.-CIA and the UK-MI9 jointly overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosadegh in 1953 and then installed Shah Reza Palhavi as ruler? The shah was infamous for his use of SAVAK (a secret police unit) to keep political opponents tortured, imprisoned or dead. When the seriously ill shah was invited to the U.S. in 1979 for treatment, it was no surprise that his government was overthrown. The Iranians, suffering under 26 years of the shah’s despotism and angry at the U.S. for complicity, surprised few observers when they took our embassy people captive and held them for 444 days before releasing them unharmed. Is it not both sad and ironic that

1 2 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

our government is responsible for the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran and the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini? — Frank Silovsky Oklahoma City Commentary kerfuffle

I compared Robin Meyers’ view (Commentary, “Lessons learned, lessons forgotten,” April 15, Oklahoma Gazette) of the Oklahoma City bombing with Adam Soltani’s (Commentary, “Hope springs from tragedy,” April 15, Gazette). Meyers said, “Tragedy temporarily transforms human beings,” while Soltani said, “Out of all evil comes good.” My opinion is that tragedy brings out the good in some human beings, but no good comes from evil. Meyers emphasizes that Oklahomans are too “ignorant” to realize that Christians and right-wingers are the ultimate example of hate, fear and discrimination. Soltani uses the bombing to bring attention to ignorance, bias and prejudice assigned to Christians while whitewashing the extremist massacres of his own faith. One other interesting point was the statement by Meyers, “You can lose your life just by going to work.” It is sad that many innocents lost their life at work that day, but I wonder

why no one gets upset about the thousands who lose their lives on the way to or from work. There. Even I used the bombing for my own interests. — Michael Moberly Mustang Fix schools

More options for those who are self-aware and lucky enough to be able to choose them is not a solution to a damaged school system, yet that is exactly the kind of system ESAs create and that Brandon Dutcher supported in his commentary (Commentary, “An argument for education choice,” March 4, Gazette). The state’s public school system is broken, especially in OKC. Is it any wonder more people living in the city would prefer not to use public schools? If you want to provide a better

education to children, fix the schools, as they are the one option every child everywhere can use. Not every parent has time to homeschool, and charter schools cannot be built fast enough to house every public school student. The ESAs are a life raft that cannot hold everyone on the boat, and that boat is sinking. Is fixing the public school system more difficult than the peeling bandage that is the ESA? Yes, but it is a necessary change that must occur in order to ensure that Oklahoma’s children are able to live full and fulfilling lives. Stop bemoaning the state of education in Oklahoma, and do something about it. Fund the system so it can care for the students. — Autumn Slaughter Bethany

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 1 3

on e dc mAYal6-9 M

rong carMlAsYt13-16

recommended by Oklahoma Gazette editorial staff members. For full calendar listings, go to okgazette.com.

BOOKS

anley mike st -24

0 MAY 2 l Day Sh ow moria

Special

OKG picks are events

shrEeNwT s d e m a unt IAL ENGAGEM SPEC MAY 27-30

Meet Nicest Nazi Author, meet Christiane Brant Faris, author of The Nicest Nazi: Childhood Memories of World War II, a reflection on her childhood under the regime of Aldof Hitler, 6:30 p.m., May 11. Edmond Library, 10 S. Boulevard St., Edmond, 341-9282, metrolibrary.org. MON Let’s Talk About Baseball, Oklahoma, discussion of the book, Wait Til Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin, 6 p.m., May 12. Northwest Library, 5600 NW 122nd St., 606-3580, metrolibrary.org. TUE

FILM

Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of, one-night event giving viewers an inside look into the lives and careers of the members of the Backstreet Boys along with never before seen footage including acoustic performances, 7 p.m., May 13. Cinemark Tinseltown, 6001 N. Martin Luther King Ave., 424-0461, cinemark.com. WED Dazed and Confused, (US, 1994, dir. Richard Linklater) the adventures and mischief caused by incoming high school and junior high students in the late 70’s, 7 p.m., May 13. Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 2326506, okcfarmersmarket.com. WED

HAPPENINGS Live on the Plaza, monthly artwalk event which promotes emerging artistic talent in Oklahoma City; live performances, artist exhibits, store events and more, 7-11 p.m., May 8. Plaza District, 1618 N. Gatewood Ave., 367-9403, plazadistrict.org. FRI 2nd Friday Norman Art Walk, a celebration of art in downtown Norman; including various nonprofit organizations, galleries, shops, studios, live music and more, 6-9 p.m., May 8. Downtown Norman, 122 E. Main St., Norman. FRI PAMBE Ghana Fest, enjoy music, drumming, and dancing, taste an array of foods prepared with international flair, and peruse the PAMBE Ghana Global Market for Fair Trade items from around the world, 6-9 p.m., May 8. St. Paul’s Cathedral, 127 NW 7th St. FRI OKC Garden Fest, a day full of many of Oklahoma’s herb and plant growers along with wineries, produce and food producers, garden art, gifts and local food trucks, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., May 9. Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com. SAT Mothers Extravanganza, an afternoon of fun, entertainment and pampering including make-up, hair and nails, and more along with live performances and

P ROVI DED

Clouds of Sils Maria, (FR, 2014, dir. Olivier Assayas) an international theater and film star learns of the sudden death of her mentor and reluctantly agrees to star in a revival of one of his productions though not as her original part which is played by a Hollywood Starlet who causes scandal; featuring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz, 7:30 p.m., May 7; 8 p.m., May 8-9. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU-SAT

Faux Real Friday and Saturday, Kasum Contemporary Fine Art, 1706 NW 16th St., hosts its first interactive installation performance piece, Happy Camper, as part of Nick Bayer’s Faux Real series. Visitors are encouraged to interject themselves into camping scenes and share their experiences on social media using the hashtag #FauxRealArt. It runs 7-11 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Saturday at Kasum. Visit kasumcontemporary.com or call 604-6602.

Friday-Saturday music, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., May 9. The Mayfair Center Inc., 3200 NW 48th St. SAT Mother’s Day Ferry Cruise, cruise the Oklahoma River in celebration of Mother’s Day; all moms ride for free, May 9-10. Oklahoma River Cruises, 1503 Exchange, 702-7755, okrivercruises.com. SAT-SUN

FOOD Dining in the Dark, experience food, drink and conversation as you may never have before; rediscover all your senses, expand your imagination and understanding of what individuals who are blind encounter throughout their lives, 5:30-9 p.m., May 9. National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St. SAT

The Dinner Detective, interactive murder mystery dinner show, 6:15-9:30 p.m., May 9. Sheraton Hotel, 1 N. Broadway Ave., 235-2780, sheratonokc.com. SAT Desperate Homicides, Whodunit Dinner Theater presents dinner and a comedic murder mystery play involving the audience, 6:30 p.m., May 10. Cattlemen’s Steakhouse, 1309 S. Agnew Ave., 236-0416. SUN

YOUTH Hour of Code, a chance for teens to learn how to write code or programs and play in a gaming world they created, 10 a.m.-noon, May 9. Belle Isle Library, 5501 N. Villa Ave., 843-9601, metrolibrary.org. SAT Drop-In Art: Line Art Sculptures, guest artists as they interact with families to create extraordinary works of art inspired by the Museum’s collection, exhibitions and special occasions, 1-4 p.m., May 9. Oklahoma City

29th Asian Festival 2015

PROVID ED

The Asia Society of Oklahoma, Inc. celebrates its 30th anniversary with this year’s Asian Festival 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Langston University’s Oklahoma City campus, 4205 N. Lincoln Blvd. Live performances, activities, arts and crafts, pageants and Indian food showcase the cultures of China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, Iran, the Philippines and Vietnam. Admission is free. Visit aso-okc. org. See related story on P. 31.

1 4 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

Saturday

WE GOT ART

CALL TO COMPARE OUR EVERYDAY LOW RATES

MICRODERMABRASION $30 First Treatment $200 Package of 5 MICRODERMABRASION ADD-ONS $10 Glycolic Peel $20 Jessner’s Peel

50 PENN ART GALLERY 1900 N.W. Expressway Suite R-113

PERMANENT MAKEUP

Tues - Sat | 10:00-5:30 Ph. 405-848-5567

• $250 Eyeliner • $250 Eyebrows • $350 Full Lips • $250 Lip Liner

JUVEDERM • RADIESSE

COME TO OUR OPENING May 8th, 6-8:30 p.m. Featuring artwork by Janie Tigert

BOTOX Always $10 Per Unit

Schelly’s Aesthetics

Schelly Hill, R.N. 405-751-8930

Shoppes at Northpark, 12028 May Ave.

Open Mon-Sat • www.SkincareOKC.com

P ROVI DED

Gift Certificates Available

Letter Carriers’ Food Drive Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma needs more than 200 volunteers to help sort canned food donations at 20 metro-area post offices as part of Saturday’s Letter Carriers’ Food Drive. That means you can help the food bank reach its goal of feeding 7.3 million Oklahomans. Area residents also are invited to fill plastic sacks with canned food and leave them at their mailbox on Saturday. The sacks will be picked up by carriers and sorted by volunteers (you!). Sign up at regionalfoodbank.org or call 600-3132.

Saturday

Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT Make + Take, make a one-of-a-kind felt necklace or bracelet along with a colorful, personalized card perfect for a Mother’s Day gift, 1-4 p.m., May 9. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., OK, 951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. SAT

PERFORMING ARTS Million Dollar Quartet, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the true story of the recording session that brought together rockn-roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, 7:30 p.m., May 6-7, 8 p.m., May 8; 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., May 9; 2 p.m. & 7 p.m., May 10. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. WED-SUN DC Malone, talented comic musician, 8 p.m., May 6-7; 8 & 10:30 p.m., May 8-9. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. WED-SAT

Closes May 10, 2015

SHREK: The Musical, musical based on the Oscar winning DreamWorks film, SHREK; tells the story of everyone’s favorite ogre’s dazzling new life on the stage, 8 p.m., May 7-9; 2 p.m., May 10. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 282-2800, thepollard.org. THU-SUN

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 1 5

P ROVI DED

continued

Movie Night at the Market “Alright. Everybody be cool. This is a robbery!” No, no, no. Not really. But it’ll feel like you’ve committed a crime Wednesday after watching Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction for only five bucks. Come dressed appropriately (syringe to the heart, anyone?) and ready your favorite lines from Mia, Lance, Vincent, Marsellus, Butch … and, heck, will someone just bring us a copy of the script, already? Showtime is 7 p.m. at OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave. Admission is $5 at the door. Full cash bar. Visit facebook.com/okcfarmersmarket or call 232-6506.

Wednesday, ongoing

ImmortalIze Your 15 minutes of Fame okgazette.YourHeadline. com

Come Blow Your Horn, a father and his wife are dealing with their 33-year-old playboy son and then their younger 21-year-old son moves in with him causing even more turmoil, 8 p.m., May 7-9; 2:30 p.m., May 10. Jewel Box Theatre, 3700 N. Walker Ave., 5211786, jewelboxtheatre.org. THU-SUN

America’s Road: The Journey of Route 66, exhibit shares the history of one of the world’s most famous highways including photographs, narrative, music and objects from the highway’s heyday. Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, 2354458, oklahomaheritage.com.

XX (Twenty), final season performance of the Tulsa Ballet celebrating Artistic Director Marcello Angelini’s 20-year tenure with the Tulsa Ballet; opening with Val Caniparoli’s Going for Baroque and closing with Age of Innocence by Edwaard Lang, 8 p.m., May 8-9; 3 p.m., May 10. Lorton Performance Center, 550 S. Gary Place, Tulsa, (918) 631-5241, lortonpc.utulsa.edu. FRI-SUN

Ansel Adams: Masterworks, a collection of 47 works by photographer Ansel Adams; nature, architecture, portraits and landscapes. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Jimmy Webb: The Glen Campbell Years, songwriter, Jimmy Webb, shares the music and personal stories of his friendship with Glen Campbell, 8 p.m., May 8-10. The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley Ave., 843-1573, bluedoorokc.com. FRI-SUN

ACTIVE OKC Dodgers vs. New Orleans Zephyrs, professional baseball game, 11:05 a.m., May 6; 7:05 p.m., May 7. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 218-1000. WED-THU

Own your day in the news.

COVERS

ARTICLES & PHOTOS

AWARDS

order archival reprints mounted on a modern plaque, ready for display and shipped to your door.

Great Strides Walk, family-oriented event with a 1-mile walk around the Myriad Gardens, food and various activities in support of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundations, 7 a.m.-noon, May 9. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SAT Miracle Miles, 5k & 10K with proceeds going directly to Children’s Hospital Foundation, 8 a.m., May 9. Stars and Stripes Park, 3701 S. Lake Hefner Drive. SAT OKC Energy vs. LA Galaxy II, professional soccer game, 7 p.m., May 9. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St. SAT

VISUAL ARTS A World Unconquered: The Art of Oscar Brousse Jacobson, exhibit celebrating Oscar Brousse Jacobson featuring over 50 of his pieces and insight into the vital role he played in the visual arts in the region. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

1 6 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

Artwork by Janie Tigert, exhibit of local sculptor and her latest works. 50 Penn Place Gallery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, Suite 113-R, 848-5567, 50pennplacegallery.com. FRI AS YET UnNAMED, exhibit of original drawings from the sketchbooks of Norman artists, O. Gail Poole. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 307-9320, pasnorman.org. Curatorial Practice & Models, hear from a panel of visiting experts offering a broad view of various professional practices within the field of contemporary art, 1-3 p.m., May 9. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT D.G. Smalling Exhibit, showcase of his newest ‘singleline’ artwork, in which he creates an image drawn from a continues line. Exhibit C, 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Ste. 100, 767-8900, exhibitcgallery.com. Edmond Spring Art Show, showcase of a variety of art for viewing and purchase, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., May 9. Spring Creek Plaza, 15th & Bryant Ave., Edmond, 947-1643, springcreekplaza.com. SAT Exploring My World, three solo exhibits by painter, printmaker and mixed media artist Sallyann Milam Paschall, oil and acrylic painter Behnaz Sohrabian and photographer Holly Wilson. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 528-6336, jrbartgallery.com. From Earthsea To Fantasy: A Literary & Visual Exploration of the Genre, exhibit in celebration of the National Endowment for the Art’s Big Read Selection: The Wizard of Earthsea featuring artists A.K. Westerman, G. Patrick Riley and Earthsea Art Submissions. Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., Norman, 360-1162, mainsite-art.com. Identity of Torment/Self-Restoration, exhibit of paintings by Eli Casiano and Blake Stewart and live music by HOG, DJ Bi-Furious and Stereo LITHO, 6 p.m.,

BI GSTOC KP HOTO.COM

Gutter Dance XII Celebrate the glory of the gutter ball by watching this charity bowling event 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Sooner Bowling Center, 550 24th Ave., in Norman. Proceeds benefit Camp ClapHans, a residential summer camp for youth ages 8 to 19 with developmental disabilities. Admission is free to watch, and dinner tickets are $10 at the door. Visit soonerbowl.com.

Thursday May 8. Dope Chapel, 115 S. Crawford Ave., Norman, (580) 917-3695, facebook.com/Dop3chapel. FRI Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries, exhibit spotlighting more than 60 works by some of the world’s most notorious con artists. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com.

The Nature of Life: Sculptures by Don Narcomey, Oklahoman sculpture who focuses on mixedmedia and one-of-a-kind furniture. Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, 301 W. Reno Ave., 297-3995, myriadgardens.com. Ultimate Painting 42, live art competition with 12 Artists and three 20 minute rounds with winner voted for by the audience, 7-10 p.m., May 8. Wine and Palette Studio, 201 NW 10th St., 227-0230, wineandpalette. com. FRI

JACK FOWLER / PROVIDE D

Jewelry 101, make a multi-strand bracelet using ribbon, beads and a metal heart pendant, 6:30-8:30 p.m., May 12. Michaels, 5012 N. May Ave., 942-8920, michaels.com. TUE

Sticks and Stones and Glass and Bones, mosaic works by artist Jenny Perry. Governor’s Gallery, State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 521-2931, arts.ok.gov.

Brand Self-trained Oklahoma City artist Jack Fowler presents Brand 7-11 p.m. Friday at Graphite Elements & Design, 1751 NW 16th St., as part of the monthly LIVE on the Plaza event. Fowler is a painter, musician, journalist, radio show host, cowboy and former high school drama teacher (who also writes and draws editorial cartoons for Oklahoma Gazette). A portion of Friday’s show proceeds will go to SixTwelve, a collaborative arts and learning space in the Paseo Arts District. Visit jackfowlerart.com. For OKG

Friday

music picks see page 43

Free Music Festival May 16th NW 39 & Penn O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 1 7

2015

“RECOGNIZING GREATNESS IN THE WORKPLACE” GO TO BESTPLACESTOWORKOK.COM TO REGISTER | APPLY DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, MAY 22ND, 2015

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (405) 605-6789 Proudly brought to you by

GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THE STATE CHAMBER | OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR NONPROFITS OKLAHOMA HUMAN RESOURCE STATE COUNCIL 1 8 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

LIFE FOOD & DRINK

Birthright This holiday, take your mom someplace nice for brunch. She deserves it.

GARE TT FISBE CK

Your mom — she’s more than the butt of many, many jokes. She’s also the woman who raised you up right-ish. (You are reading the Gazette, after all.) As it does every year, Mother’s Day has come and you are considering making her breakfast in bed. It’s a little creepy since she took away your key, but it’s a nice thought. What if, instead of burning some eggs and splattering grease on the backsplash, you took her someplace nice? Your mom gets around ... a lot ... so it’s time to take her somewhere new. For instance, if you’re not a frequent visitor to Norman, she might be intrigued and delighted by a stop at Fancy That, 215 E. Main St. Formerly a bakery, Fancy That has been transitioning the business into a white tablecloth, upscale eatery since it was purchased by owner Tom Slatt over four years ago. He said brunches are always packed, and Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the year. (Don’t forget the holiday is this Sunday.) Reservations are accepted for tables of six or more, though, so if you hurry, you might still grab a spot for the family. While you’re there, try the barbecue brisket eggs Benedict ($10.50), which Slatt started serving years ago in Dallas. The dish starts with Texas toast and adds a slow-roasted brisket, braised greens, a BBQ hollandaise sauce and, of course, poached eggs. Top it all off with crispy onions and you have a nice Southern twist on a brunch staple. For a rustic spin on a fancy brunch, there is Lottinvilles, 801 Signal Ridge Drive, in Edmond. Manager Zac Beverage said Lottinvilles has been taking Mother’s Day reservations since before Easter. “We serve our same menu, but with more,” he said. “We add a carving station, entree items and usually some chilled seafood, like peel-and-eat shrimp or crab legs.” Beverage said many employees bring in their families to enjoy the food. “I do bring my mom in, but I’m usually working,” he said. “A lot of our families come because it’s the only time we see them. Mother’s Day is so busy, we usually work 12 or 14 hours.” As if your mom didn’t already have enough spice in her life, you can try to

G ARETT FISB ECK

BY GREG ELWELL

top The Classic New Mexico Burrito Plate at Green Chile Kitchen Route 66 turns up the heat on Mother’s Day brunch. above The Pump Bar’s breakfast burger.

titillate her taste buds with a burst of southwest cuisine from Green Chile Kitchen Route 66, 12 E. Main St., in Yukon. Biscuits and gravy might seem like old hat, but that’s because you haven’t tried the green chile cheddar biscuits and gravy ($6) on for size. Remember, your mom can’t express her disappointment in your choices if she can’t feel her mouth. Now this food might seem familiar, but Green Chile Kitchen specializes in New Mexican food, so take it slow as you dig into the Classic New Mexico Burrito Plate ($12). There’s plenty of heat hiding inside this tortilla. So maybe you would like to wet your whistle with brunch at a restaurant that’s a big departure from your mom’s usual haunts: The Pump Bar, 2425 N. Walker Ave. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 1 9

LIFE FOOD & DRINK BUY ONE ENTREE GET 2ND HALF OFF (DOES NOT INCLUDE TUES/WED SPECIALS)

NOW SERVING AT A BIGHEAD’S NEAR YOU! THE BEST CAJUN STYLE CRAWFISH BOIL IN THE OKC METRO AREA!

CAJUN SPECIALTIES

GUMBO BURGERS GATOR FRIED CATFISH FRIED SHRIMP

PASTA PO’ BOYS RED BEANS N RICE ETOUFFEE CRAWFISH FONDUE JAMBALAYA

10 OFF

CLAM CHOWDER FRIED OYSTERS FISH TACOS FRIED ICE CREAM SALADS

$50 SPENT

5 OFF

$30 SPENT

Call in orders available for pickup • Closed Sundays M A RK HA N COC K

617 SOUTH BROADWAY • EDMOND • 405-340-1925

Ask for Mark this Mother’s Day! “Finding the perfect gift for your mother can be overwhelming. I do my best to make the process simple, aiding you to find a treasure as genuine as Mom.”

MA RK HANCOCK

With over 25 years in the jewelry industry, Mark understands that each jewel is as unique as the individual wearing it. top Bubble and Squeak at Silks Restaurant for Mother’s Day brunch. above BBQ brisket eggs Benedict with coffee, orange juice and a Kir Royal (créme de cassis and champagne) at Fancy That in Norman.

exclusively at

2 0 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

First things first: No one under 21 is allowed in this establishment. So, if the grandkids are coming, too, you might want to find another party spot. But if everyone is of legal drinking age, you can spend Mother’s Day getting your mom buzzed on a variety of bloody marys, Tiki drinks or something called an “Irish breakfast” shot. Hungry? Good. In addition to a spicy chorizo eggs Benedict ($12), The Pump is particularly proud of its breakfast burger ($11), which combines a beef patty with bacon, cheese, hollandaise sauce and a poached egg on a toasted bagel. Whether you’re playing Cornhole, talking with a bunch of bikers or just listening to Harry Potter audiobooks in the bathrooms, it’s a Mother’s Day experience none of you are soon to forget. Maybe your mom misses you and wants to reminisce about your childhood ... or maybe not. If everybody is okay with just enjoying the day without a lot of talk, then you’ll need something to do while you eat.

That’s where Silks Restaurant at Remington Park, 1 Remington Place, comes in. The menu will have you eating like a horse as the ponies take a trot around the oval. One notable dish is Bubble and Squeak ($12), which crams a trifecta of great flavors in your mouth all at once. Poached eggs and hollandaise are givens, but the fried potato patties filled with cabbage, bacon, cheddar and onions and a pair of kielbasa sausage links on the side will fuel you for a day at the races. The white-tablecloth, multitiered dining room is elegant for mom’s special day, and the TV on the table means you won’t have to look up from your French toast to see if Toastee French is going to pay off in the third. Wherever you go, remember to figure out if you or your brother are paying for brunch before you get there. That poor woman has put up with enough without you two ruining yet another Mother’s Day.

Happy Nurses’ Week!

FOOD BRIEFS

Start Now! Train for a career in

BY GREG ELWELL

NURSING. We offer: • Practical Nursing (LPN) • Associate of Science in Nursing (LPN-RN)

M A RK HA N COC K / FI L E

• Associate of Occupational Studies in Practical Nursing (RN-BSN)

Tables open

-Financial Aid available for those who qualify -Career Services and support available

Act now. Call us today!

New locations Two Hal Smith restaurants are getting new locations. Pub W, 3720 W. Robinson St., in Norman opened a second spot at 3121 W. Memorial Road here in Oklahoma City, in the former home of Wes Welker’s Sports Bar & Grill, which closed earlier this year. Managing partner Brandon Kistler said the concept is known for its selection of 40 beers on tap, craft cocktails and modern takes on classic dishes, including a Guinness onion gravy pot roast. “We’ve got over 200 seats,” he said. “We’ve done a natural separation between the pub and the restaurant, so we’re very family- and kid-friendly.” Mahogany Prime Steakhouse, 3241 W. Memorial Road, also is expanding its OKC portfolio by opening a downtown location at 100 W. Main St. Mahogany also has locations in Tulsa and Omaha.

877.344.7172 plattcolleges.edu

North Campus*

Central Campus*

Moore Campus*

2727 W. Memorial Rd. Oklahoma City, OK 73134

309 S. Ann Arbor Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73128

201 N. Eastern Ave. Moore, OK 73160

*(Branch of Platt College Tulsa, OK Campus) Licensed by: OBPVS. Programs vary by campus. Important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended the programs at Platt College, visit http://www.plattcolleges.edu/content/program-disclosures

Sidecar opens Options for grabbing a drink in Automobile Alley are growing. Broadway 10 Bar & Chophouse owners Jeff Dixon and Aaron Soward opened Sidecar Barley & Wine Bar at 1100 N. Broadway Ave., last Wednesday. Dixon said the ink was literally drying on the lease for Broadway 10 when the owners of the historic Pontiac Building asked, “Hey, do you have 20 minutes?” They showed off a 930-square-foot property they thought would be perfect for a bar in the mixed-use building. “We said, ‘Let’s do it!’” he said. “I’m going to be in the area anyway, so let’s get it on.” Open seven days a week, Sidecar features craft cocktails, draft wines and smaller food items. If Broadway 10 is where you go for a night on the town, Sidecar is the perfect spot for a snack and a drink with friends, Dixon said.

MARK HANCOCK

MARK H ANCOCK / FILE

OpenTable.com named two Oklahoma City eateries to its list of Top 100 Brunch Restaurants in America. La Baguette Bistro, 7408 N. May Ave., and Kitchen No. 324, 324 N. Robinson Ave., were given the distinction after the reservation website consulted 5 million reviews of more than 20,000 restaurants. “It’s gigantic for us,” Kellen McGugan, Kitchen manager, said. “We love to serve this great city brunch on Saturday and Sunday.” McGugan said Kitchen’s downtown location draws in diners from across the country and around the world. “The main focus for us is accuracy and consistency in the dishes people love,” McGugan said. “Fried green tomato Benedicts, strata, open-faced toast — it’s one of those things where we have all these classic dishes we can put our touch on. And the staff really sells it for us.”.

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 2 1

LIFE FOOD & DRINK

P HOTOS BY GA RE TT FI S BE C K

Bitters city We examine the drink trend with bite.

BY GREG HORTON

“What bitter cocktail would you like?” is not the best opening line for a bartender. Describing a drink as “bitter as your ex’s heart,” might be worth a smile, but it probably won’t work on a menu to describe the featured drink. It is likely true that bitter is an acquired taste. There is little question in the zoological community that animals avoid these flavors, as they are often a sign of poison, rancidity or something simply unpleasant to eat. Humans, however, can overcome those evolutionary impulses and do something dangerous, like drink black coffee or eat baker’s chocolate, often with the aid of added ingredients like milk, sugar or flavored syrup. Jason Ewald is the beverage director for A Good Egg Dining Group, the parent company of Cheever’s Cafe, Red PrimeSteak, Kitchen No. 324 and other concepts. When he planned his spring and mixed drink menus, he decided to tease the dangerous parts of our palates. “Bitter is an emerging flavor trend in cocktails and food,” Ewald said. “For cocktails, bitterness imparts a level of complexity you can’t achieve with the standard sweet-sour axis.” Ewald is not talking about bitters, the medicine-tasting alcoholic mixture of botanicals common in all bars where craft cocktails are the norm. While the bittering agents Ewald added to his cocktail list are indeed alcoholic, many of them also have rich histories, and a disproportionate number are from Italy. Names like Campari, Aperol and amaro are commonly found in metro drinking establishments.

Better bitter

Some buck all trends when following trends, though. Kitchen No. 324, 324 N. Robinson Ave., even has a cocktail in which one bitter component comes from Lambrusco, a semi-sweet Italian red wine. The Serendipity cocktail is by far the most bitter on Ewald’s list for Kitchen No. 324, partly because it contains three distinct bittering agents — four if you count orange zest. He combined a Grasparrosa-based Lambrusco (very dark and slightly bitter) with Ponti Vermouth and Campari. Served over ice and with an

2 2 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

orange rind, The Serendipity draws just enough sweetness from the vermouth and the Lambrusco to offset its bite. “The bitterness provides structure,” Ewald said. “Many times, cocktails use lemon juice to provide structure, so it’s acid versus sweet. Bitterness can also provide structure and keep the acid levels down.” Bitter components in place of other ingredients can also help keep the alcohol content down. The aperitifs

The Salary Man and The Showroom from Packard’s New American Kitchen

The Premiere (right) from Red PrimeSteak

The Serendipity at Kitchen No. 324

or digestifs, which the bittering agents tend to be, have less alcohol points than most liquors. A cocktail like the Gran Torino at Cheever’s Cafe, 2409 N. Hudson Ave., features great fruit and complexity with the intensity of bitter components and a low enough alcohol content that you can worry a bit less about overconsumption.

Savory berry

Red PrimeSteak, 504 N. Broadway Ave., offers a fruit-based cocktail, The Premiere, that’s fantastic paired with a steak dinner. Made with fresh pureed strawberries, Amaro Ramazzotti and silver tequila, instead of tasting like an oversweetened berry bomb, this drink hits the palate as almost savory — and it really does have the structure to stand up to a hearty meal, partly due to the amaro. Amari (the plural) are a class of digestifs; locally, the most popular is

SPECIAL JUMBO RATE CDS

1.26

1.76

21 40 % % MOS. APY MOS. APY $75,000 minimum deposit

mecuokc.org DOWNTOWN

101 North Walker 813-5500

SOUTH

NORTH

8812 South Walker 3561 W. Memorial 813-5550 813-5564

INSURED UP TO $500,000 Review Our Website for Additional RATES AND TERMS

The Annual Percentage Yield (APY) assumes dividends are compounded quarterly and will remain on deposit until maturity. A withdrawal of dividends may reduce earnings. Fees may reduce earnings. The annual percentage yield, the annual percentage yield earned, and the dividend rate shall be rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of one percentage point (.01%) and expressed to two decimal places. For account disclosures, the dividend rate may be expressed to more than two decimal places. New deposits only. Other rules apply. Dividend rules apply.

Colby Poulin makes a Teflon Don at Ludivine.

MECU 10-31-14 Jumbo CD.indd 1

11/18/14 1:15 PM

and Ross substitutes Strong Tonic in place of vermouth. The change is invigorating, and the Strong Tonic adds layers of complexity that are substantially different than a Negroni.

Rye on

The Teflon Don

probably Fernet-Branca. Amari are made from macerated herbs, flowers, roots and fruit peels — usually orange — mixed with a neutral spirit or wine. The blends are typically proprietary, so the exact mixtures are unknown, but amari can range from slightly syrupy sweet to very herbaceous. In Italy, they are often consumed straight as an after-dinner drink, and while Fernet-Branca is certainly consumed the same way in the U.S., most amari make better mixers than sippers. Tempus Fugit Gran Classico Bitter is another popular digestif, and this mixture of 25 herbs and roots is the structure of The Showroom at Packard’s New American Kitchen, 201 NW 10th St., John Ross makes the drink with Gran Classico and sweet vermouth. Ross said he prefers Gran Classico “because it adds nuances and complexity you don’t get with other cordials.” Botanicals in bittering agents work better with some liquors than others, Ross said, and the experimentation is much of what he enjoys about the cocktail creation process. The Negroni is a classic in every sense of the word — a simple mixture of Campari, gin and sweet vermouth — but Ross wanted to change it up. The result is Salary Man, a mixture of gin and Campari liqueur,

Ludivine, 805 N. Hudson Ave., has several drinks on its menu with bittering agents, including Teflon Don, an interesting mixture of rye whiskey, Amaro, dry vermouth and Domaine de Canton ultra premium ginger liqueur. Since ginger is a legitimate botanical in its own right, the Domaine Canton works beautifully, and the bitterness of the botanicals is offset somewhat by the sweetness of the rye. It’s a very complex, very layered cocktail.

The Premiere, made with fresh pureed strawberries, Amaro Ramazzotti and silver tequila, instead of tasting like an oversweetened berry bomb, this drink hits the palate as almost savory. Both Ewald and Ross suggested that bitterness is an acquired taste, much like not liking dark chocolate on first experience, but Ewald has very simple advice. “If you don’t like it the first time, try it four to seven times and it will likely become a craving,” he said. Presumably, he meant four to seven different times. Either way, bitter is the new sweet trend in Oklahoma City.

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 2 3

BUY ANY 2 ENTREES & 2 DRINKS AND GET

LIFE FOOD & DRINK

$10 OFF

YOUR TICKET

EXCLUDES STEAKS • 1 COUPON PER TABLE GOOD THROUGH 5/9/15 • MUST PRESENT COUPON NOW SERVING BREAKFAST EVERY SUNDAY, 8-11AM

THURS 11AM-8PM | FRI & SAT 11AM-9PM | SUN 8AM-7PM

MAIN ST., MULHALL, OK

649-2229 WWW.LUCILLESOK.COM

PHOTOS BY M A RK HA N COC K

Power eating

Bulgogi ramen at B&B Wok, Noodle and Moore

We’re all winners when we visit B&B Wok, Noodles and Moore. It’s in — you guessed it — Moore. BY GREG ELWELL

TECH N9NE

Go to

okgazette.com/GWW to enter to win a pair of tickets:

Tuesday, June 12, 2015 @ Diamond Ballroom

GAZETTE’S WEEKLY WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED EACH WEEK IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS Printed winners have 7 days to claim tickets 2 4 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. Whether you’re playing football on the tennis court, staring down the receptionist during an all-staff meeting or just eating lunch, it’s important to always win. Quitters never win, you know. And winners never quit eating. So, if you’re looking to dominate the competition, take your “friends” with you to a restaurant called B&B Wok, Noodle and Moore, 1615 S. Interstate 35 Service Road, in Moore. 1. Be the first through the door. This is a power move. It shows them you have enough upper body strength to open a door. If one of them beats you to it, you can either:

a. Turn around and leave — also a power move. b. Say, “That’s OK. I don’t even like opening doors” to let everyone know you actually won that interaction. 2. Don’t even touch the menu when it arrives. Expect to hear some murmuring at the table. “Harumph, harumph! Does she own this restaurant? Why doesn’t she need a menu?” or “Mumble, mumble, he certainly is asserting his power.” How will you know what to order? Because I’ll tell you what to order right now. (2.5. This is the ultimate power move, and it’s in a newspaper, so good luck finding a comeback to this one, Antonio!)

VALID ON DINNERS UP TO $1199 ONLY. DISCOUNT TAKEN OFF EQUAL OR LESSER PURCHASE. LIMIT 2 COUPONS PER PERSON. NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER OFFERS. EXPIRES 5/13/15.

Galbi short rib rice platter

3. Order the B&B Wok, Noodle and Moore kimchi fries ($6.49). Don’t 1615 S. Interstate 35 Service Road, Moore | 794-5261 break eye contact with your dining WHAT WORKS: Sizzlin’ Galbi and the Bulgogi ramen are both winners. companions until they arrive. This WHAT NEEDS WORK: Pho broth was can be tricky if somewhat bland. you are in a group TIP: Get the Vietnamese coffee if you of five or more. love your mouth. Once the plate of fries arrives, covered in sweet sauce, spicy 6. Don’t order the pho (small for kimchi and crunchy green onions, $5.99, medium for $6.99, large for only make eye contact with the food. $7.99). Not because it isn’t good — it’s fine — but because there’s so Do not share willingly. If anyone much more on the menu. Remember reaches in, growl at him or her and to pronounce it “ fuh” and then start continue eating. mispronouncing your friends’ names to let them know you don’t care about them.

Do not share willingly. If anyone reaches in, growl at him or her and continue eating.

4. Order the Bulgogi ramen ($9.49). When the waitress asks how hot you want it, say, “Eleven,” but then whisper “Only a three!” at her, because you don’t want to die. Aggressively slurp the noodles and eat the sweet, tender bulgogi beef with chopsticks. Anybody at the table who uses a fork gets a withering stare. Continue until they wither away to nothing and take their food. 5. Order the Sizzlin’ Galbi ($12.99). Try not to swallow the bones on the short ribs (aka galbi), but if you do, act like you needed marrow and don’t choke. Enjoy as everyone oohs and aahs at your delicious plate of food with rice and kimchi and pot stickers. Stop using utensils and eat with your hands. Power move!

11AM-9PM | MON-SAT • 11AM-4PM | SUN

NW 50TH & MERIDIAN OKLAHOMASTATIONBBQ.COM 947.7277

7. Order the Chicken on the Stick platter ($7.99) and the egg roll vermicelli bowl ($7.99). “Gee, Greg, this seems like a lot of food.” You think I don’t know that? This is about P-O-W-E-E-R. (The second E is for extra power.) Your enemies must know that your appetite is insatiable. Also, the chicken on the stick is lightly seasoned, grilled nicely and tastes great over rice. The egg roll vermicelli bowl is filling, with tons of tender noodles, crunchy lettuce and a gloriously deep fried egg roll chopped up on top. Pour on that little bowl of orange liquid. It tastes like power. 8. Offer to pay for everyone’s lunch. If people let you, they are yours, puppets you can control. If they don’t, whew, that’s good, because you are a little low on cash right now. Bills, man. Bills. Aren’t we all winners if we eat at B&B Wok, Noodle and Moore? Probably. Because the food is good and the price is nice. But it’s important to be more of a winner — or Moore of a winner. See what I did there? I just won this review.

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 2 5

Yo, Adrian! Fictional boxer/brain damage enthusiast Rocky Balboa famously drank a few raw eggs as he trained for his failed bid against the superior fighter Apollo Creed in the classic movie Rocky. Now, you can do the same in a much tastier way as we explore some of Oklahoma City’s finest cocktails featuring eggs. — by Greg Elwell, photos by Garett Fisbeck

O Bar

WSKY Lounge

Ludivine

1200 N. Walker Ave. | 600-6200 ambassadorhotelcollection.com/ oklahomacity

228 NE Second St. wskylounge.com | 606-7171

805 N. Hudson Ave. ludivineokc.com | 778-6800

For a fruity treat, it’s hard to go wrong with O Bar’s Clover Club cocktail. Egg white, lemon juice, simple syrup and muddled raspberries are joined with gin in a way that will have you asking every bartender you see to crack an egg in your glass.

Watch out for devious ducks and diminutive duelers as you down WSKY’s delicious What’s Up Doc-tail from its new seasonal menu. Flavorpacked from the get-go, this drink includes 12-year-old El Dorado rum, Ancho Reyes Ancho Chile Liqueur, egg white, lemon, simple syrup and a spirited kick of ginger beer. But you’ll really feel your ears twitch when you taste the carrot juice, you wascal.

A party for the eyes and the mouth, the 7th Street Hibiscus Fizz from Ludivine gets its signature effervescence from egg whites, but the color is pure Campari aperitif, Hibiscus Strong Tonic and grapefruit. Add in gin, bitters and agave syrup and you might drink it down before you remember to take a picture.

LASGIDI LOUNGE

Ankara Style “Happy Hour” where West African food & fashion meet. Sheraton OKC Downtown Hotel

04/30/15 5:30pm-8:30pm

$20 ALL YOU CAN EAT • CASH BAR AVAILABLE •

need lunch for a large group? We got you covered with our box lunches, party trays & party subs

Mama Sinmi’s Chop House

RSVP on your event page on FACEBOOK www.mamasinmi.com for more details

CHOOSE FROM ANY OF OUR COLD SANDWICHES • INCLUDES CHIPS & A COOKIE •

M-F 7am-6:30pm • Sat 9:30am-4pm 2310 N Western 524-0887 2 6 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

The Lobby Cafe & Bar

Whiskey Cake

Opus Prime Steakhouse

4332 N. Western Ave. willrogerslobbybar.com | 604-4650

1845 Northwest Expressway whiskeycakeokc.com | 582-2253

800 W. Memorial Road opusprimesteakhouse.com | 607-6787

Whiskey and eggs — they’re not just things your unemployed uncle has every morning. At The Lobby Cafe & Bar at Will Rogers Theatre, the Japanese Fizz is a sweet concoction with a base of whiskey, a tart twist of lemon and the sweetness of simple syrup and ruby port, all with a frothed-up egg white in the mix. Do you want another? Hai!

The secret to Whiskey Cake’s Oklahoma Redbud is that it’s shaken twice: once dry, with egg white, blueberry-infused Veev acai spirit, lemon juice and simple syrup to add frothy texture and again with ice to cool it down. Then it’s strained into a glass and topped with Prosecco sparkling Italian wine for a refreshing twist on the classic French 75.

Some of the best steakhouses in the country are in Chicago, but Opus Prime imported something tipsier with its Chicago Fizz. This rum-based cocktail includes a fine tawny port, egg white, sugar, lemon juice and sparkling water for a refreshing drink that will blow the Windy City blues right off you.

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

With the Friends Like These cocktail at Scratch, you might need a ride home. This original blend of vodka and house-made coffee liqueur is a riff on a White Russian with cream, egg white, blackstrap molasses bitters and even Cynar, an artichoke liqueur. Don’t expect this coffee to keep you up, though. You’ll need a cup of joe on the side to do that job.

Athens Greek & American

RESTAURANT WEEKLY SPECIAL

Gyro

With Fries & a Drink

George’s Happy Hog Bar-B-Q

$6.99 7700 NW. 23rd St. Bethany, OK

405.787.4414

MON - SAT 11-8:30

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

712 Culbertson Dr. Oklahoma City, OK 73105 (405) 525-8111 • M-Sat 11-7

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 2 7

curious minds discover new possibilities Spring survival As your nose and eyes have already told you, spring is now in full-throttle. It’s time for you to throw open your windows, wipe away the dust and pollen and invite yourself to enjoy this season. — By Gazette staff

Karis Jones | Yukon, Oklahoma | Art Oklahoma’s Public Liberal Arts College Nationally Recognized for Affordability and Quality

P HOTOS BY M A RK HA N COC K

Rigorous and Distinctive Interdisciplinary Core Curriculum

university of science and arts of oklahoma | college for the curious mind

1727 W. Alabama Chickasha, OK 73018

USAO.edu (405) 574.1357

Schlegel Bicycles 900 AND 905 N. BROADWAY AVE. SCHLEGELBICYCLES.COM 232-4040

Hey, it’s gorgeous outside. Go for a bike ride. Don’t have a bike? No worries. Schlegel Bicycles is conveniently located in a bike-friendly area within minutes of trails and paths. Get your gear and accessories (helmet, water bottle and bicycle), learn how to fix your bicycle, go for a ride and get fit with the help of Schlegel’s employees. heat. You want the best bloody carcass. Wheeler’s Meat Market has been serving the right kind of meats for your grill since 1988, but it’s a family tradition that goes back even further to 1907. Lassiter Drugs 3252 SE 29TH ST. LASSITERDRUG.COM 677-0549

Tony Foss Flowers 7610 N. MAY AVE. TONYFOSSFLOWERS.COM

“ T h e Po e s y R i n g C o l l e c t i o n create a message of love, hope or inspiration for the one you love”

843-4119

Tony Foss Flowers has everything you need to brighten up your home so it can properly reflect the season’s new bounty. As one of the city’s premier flower shops, Tony Foss offers exotic, out-of-the ordinary arrangements for everyday purposes as well as sophisticated wedding and special occasion arrangements. Wheeler Meat Market 1524 SE 44TH ST. WHEELERSMEATMARKET.COM 677-6281

If you’re going to grill, you don’t want to toss just any bloody carcass over that

2 8 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

If you’re like most Oklahoma residents, allergy season hit you like a sucker punch to the sinuses. Luckily, Lassiter Drugs carries a non-drug, non-drowsy remedy: Neti pots. If you’re undaunted by the thought of salinized distilled water traveling into one nostril, grabbing up all that trapped sinus mucus and coming out the other nostril, then this is for you. Even if you’re not OK with it, perhaps you should be.

Forest Building Materials 300 N. MAY AVE. FORESTOK.COM 232-6141

The grilling world is now yours to dominate, especially with a little help from the American-designed Big Green Egg ceramic cooker. It is a grill, an oven and a smoker all in one. You can bake bread, slow-cook those short ribs or grill a steak at 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Turfguard

KC’s #1 Explore O age Shop Vint

essories Clothing • Accot her & s rd co Re s od go s curiou

in the Plaza 1759 NW 16th • Oklahoma City • 405-528-4585 Open Tues-Sat 12-7 • Like us on Facebook

831-3079

Stop ignoring the overgrown grass and weeds in your yard. Since 1986, Mike Harris has provided the metro area with expert turf management, annual weed control programs and lawn aerating services and tree trimming and feeding. Harris does the dirty work so you can spend the spring outside without worrying about your yard.

Super Cute! JD Star Ltd. Co. 1147 NW 38TH ST. JDSTAR.NET 816-2476

If you haven’t yet done it this season, you need to have a picnic. And because you are having a picnic, you’re going to need a blanket. Partake in some spring cleaning and get a blanket with one phone call. JD Star Ltd. will take your old t-shirts and magically turn them into a quilt.

www.shopbowandarrow.com 617 N. Broadway Ave. • 601-0605 Hours: Mon-Fri 11-6 • Sat 11-4 O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 2 9

LIFE HEALTH

Scene changer Running a biohazard cleanup company has its perks and its fair share of blood and guts.

BY JACK FOWLER

We’ve all seen enough cop thrillers on television to know what happens at a fresh murder scene. Two detectives in rumpled suits stoically brush past the neighbors crowded behind the police tape boundary in the yard. An ambulance pulls up to the curb. Inside, a forensic photographer snaps pictures of the departed before being sent out for coffee by one of the detectives. Ideally, the murderer will be behind bars in about 57 minutes. What most people never consider is the aftermath, the reality of making a space livable again after it has been the scene of a grisly death. After the police tape is taken down, the body has been removed, the detectives have gathered their evidence and the final credits have rolled, somebody still has to live in that house —somebody has to clean up after the terrible thing that just happened there.

a resident had passed away a few days ago.” It’s definitely a niche market, and one Douillard had never considered before one fateful day last year. “It’s actually a fairly easy story,” he said of his decision to leave a “stable and lucrative” career to start a strange new company. “When it comes down to it, I started doing this because I read about it in Entrepreneur Magazine. I was reading the Top 200 Franchises for 2014 edition, and biohazard cleanup was on the list. It really interested me because it’s obviously not your standard type of business.”

PROVIDED

An employee of Bio-One Oklahoma cleans a restroom. “We specialize in everything from murder and undiscovered deaths to hoarding and clutter cleanup,” said Justin Douillard of Bio-One Oklahoma, the biohazard cleanup company he started last year. “We also have experience with suicides and decompositions. Today, I did a decomposition cleanup in an apartment. I got a call from the apartment manager Friday saying that

3 0 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

Since then, the 44-year-old Tahlequah native has seen a little bit of everything. He has cleaned mold infestations and suicides, hoarding cases and fatal accidents, elderly people who died in their sleep and murders so gruesome it made him question the nature of humanity itself. “We had a job where we cleaned up after a fight between two men,” said Douillard. “One of the men had cut a main artery, and he bled out and passed away. But before he died, he struggled throughout the entire home. He went from the bathroom to the bedroom, from the bedroom to the living room [and] out onto the front porch. It really did look like a Hollywood horror movie. It looked like somebody had sprayed the walls with blood with a garden sprayer. There were bloody handprints all over the walls where he had struggled.” Along with the blood were breathing packs and IV packages on the floor from where the paramedics fought to save the man’s life. “You’re standing there realizing that he didn’t come back. Nobody comes back from stuff like this,” Douillard said. “I remember thinking how sad it is, what the world is coming to. When you see the real scene behind the crime and you see bloody handprints on the wall from a man trying to stay alive, it can really hit you hard.” He said it might be those realizations that make him good at his job. It’s the human beings left in the wake of crimes that he tries to be especially sensitive to while

PROVIDED

Bloody job

Employees of Bio-One Oklahoma have to wear biohazard suits anywhere from four to eight hours a day. he’s working. After all, becoming a biohazard remediation specialist is, at the end of the day, simply about acquiring the special licenses and certifications required by the state and taking out a few ads. But becoming a good one? That, according to Douillard, is something altogether different. “I do think you can train somebody to do this job,” he said, “but I also think it takes a certain kind of person to do this job well. You have to deal with a lot of awful situations, and you have to show compassion. You have to be aware of some of the heartache that people are going through while you’re there to do a job.”

The unknown

When Douillard’s phone rings, he doesn’t know what the scene will entail, whether there is blood present from a cut finger or because someone lost a husband. It could be anything, and Douillard has to be aware of that every time he answers. “These are people who have a stranger in their house eight hours after losing a loved one. It takes a special kind of person to be able to handle

that,” he said. He also said that the physical, reactionary elements of the job take some getting used to. He is in a biohazard suit anywhere from four to eight hours at a time. He witnesses massive amounts of blood and other elements that take some getting used to. “There are times when you can smell the scene 100 feet before you get to the door,” he said. “There are definitely some elements that you have to adjust to.” Despite some of the more gruesome aspects, Douillard said working with clients is his favorite part, one that more than makes up for the grit and grime of the rest of his day. He realizes that the people who call him aren’t characters in a cop show. Their scenes don’t end when the police tape comes down. They need help to move on. Douillard relishes providing that help. “At the end of the day, nobody likes to clean up blood. But I do love seeing the gratitude I get from people who’ve just gone through a horrible situation,” Douillard said. “I take care of the things nobody else can and nobody else wants to.”

LIFE SHOPPING

P HOTOS BY M A RK HA N COC K

Sheep shop Midtown’s newest boutique caters to a local lifestyle.

BY LOUIS FOWLER

As the popularity boom in Midtown continues, retail and business spaces are filling up and creating a prime commerce spot for people from all walks of life. It was this groundswell of local pride that inspired Rachael Gruntmeir — who has only been back in Oklahoma a little over two months — to open up the newest shop on the block, The Black Sheep, 1112 N. Walker Ave., Suite 104. A lifestyle boutique that offers both men’s and women’s clothing, pet products, children’s items and a wide selection of specialty items from numerous Oklahoma vendors, The Black Sheep will carry a full range of goods that reflects Gruntmeir’s passion to be a part of the district’s Keep It Local movement, creating a shopping experience that she believes will bridge

Rachael Gruntmeir in her new Midtown shop, The Black Sheep

a gap and give the full boutique feel to the area. “Ever since I can remember, people have always told me I needed to do my own business, and I always just kind of shrugged it off,” Gruntmeir said. “But I’ve always been designing my own clothes, and after so many people have offered to buy my clothes and have had an interest in my designs, that’s when I finally thought ... I really could do it.” While acknowledging that she could have opened this type of boutique anywhere in the world, she said that it was the immediate support of the community that led her to realize OKC is where her heart truly was and she wants to contribute to it and be a part of it. With a background in interior design and having studied boutiques during

The Black Sheep boutique excursions to countries such as Italy and France, Gruntmeir has the idea of putting what she calls a “true boutique feel” in Oklahoma City — designing every inch of the space and keeping the product selections very hands-on, complete with a custom clothing line that she aims to fit every size need for women, from small to 3XL, because she believes everybody is different and everybody needs to feel good about themselves. “This is truly shopping local, which is something that Oklahoma is such an amazing place to do,” Gruntmeir said. “It not only supports myself and my store, but also the other vendors that I’m carrying in there.”

LIFE CULTURE

Gold fest PROVID ED

The Asia Society of Oklahoma celebrates 30 years in Oklahoma with the 29th annual Asian Festival.

BY ZACH JACOBS

Asian Festival Langston University OKC 4205 N. Lincoln Blvd. aso-okc.org Free

For some, the Oklahoma City Asian District might conjure images of giant milk bottles or gilded domes, but the cultural significance is undeniably much more than that. Officials from central Oklahoma’s largest Asian organization will provide a chance for the community to come together, celebrate and learn more about the cultures that comprise the district with the 29th annual festival on Saturday. The Asia Society of Oklahoma, Inc. (ASO) also will celebrate its 30th anniversary during the festival.

Ira S. Burrough, vice president of ASO, said the Asian Festival provides an opportunity for people in Oklahoma to display unique customs. “We encourage Oklahomans of all backgrounds to witness the incredible colors, choreography, artwork and music of ... Asian cultures at the festival,” she said. ASO is an umbrella organization of nine separate, smaller cultural groups. These local member organizations represent the nations of and people from China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. It strives to foster a deeper sense of community among Asian societies, promote cutlural art and heritage and provide educational opportunities for Oklahoma residents of Asian descent and

programs for those interested in learning about the cultures. Burrough said the India Association of Oklahoma will sell Indian food from Himalayas Aroma of India. Additionally, each country will have its own booth to display and sell artwork and crafts. Henk Edward Saroinsong, the consul general of the Republic of Indonesia, is also scheduled to attend. “The entertainment competition and demo will be performed by children and adults,” said Burrough. “The Indonesian American Association of Oklahoma (IAAO) will perform a fashion show where they will show a variety of traditional costumes.” Burrough also said the entertainment demo will exhibit the vast range of cultural performances within the ASO.

For instance, Indonesia is an archipelago with thousands of islands and 300 tribes. Each tribe has at least 10 different styles of dance and is represented by a unique costume for each style. The highlight of the festival, said Burrough, is the pageant competition, in which 11 candidates of varying ages will compete in one of three different age categories. Each candidate will introduce herself in her own traditional costume at the beginning of the pageant after having gone through a rigorous selection process by country and academic performance. The winners and runners-up will receive crowns, titles, trophies, awards and scholarship money from ASO. ASO has put on a festival each year since 1986 to celebrate Asian cultures, cuisine and heritage.

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 3 1

T A H W A M MA

t Nothing bu M om ! the best for Gift cards available

themakeupbar.com

810-1226 • 7646 N. Western

WANTS! Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Treat Mom to an Exotic South American brunch this

Mother’s Day. Enjoy a fun, yet sophisticated atmosphere along with innovative dishes and live music! make your reservations now! • 525-9779 440 nw 11th & walker • www.cafedobrazilokc.com 3 2 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

Sweet Gifts For Moms and Grads

LIFE ART

Unique Confections

Hand-rolled Truffles,Toffees, Candied Nuts, Brittles, Chocolate-covered Strawberries and more…

Are you between the ages of 18-30? Are you not currently enrolled in college classes?

Fringe society Oklahoma’s women artists are highlighted in this local show.

Participants can earn $20 in iTunes or Barnes & Noble gift cards for approximately 1 hour of their time. Visit bit.ly/1CcKKky or scan this: to learn more about the study and begin participation!

BY ANYA ALVAREZ

FRINGE Annual Group Show through May 30 The Project Box 3003 Paseo St. 609-3969 Free

The Project Box, an art gallery located in the Paseo Arts District, will host the Oklahoma City Women’s Art Organization Group Art Exhibition, FRINGE’s annual group show highlighting female artists. Since 2011, FRINGE has served as a support group for women artists in Oklahoma. Artist Lisa Jean Allswede, a textile artist, said FRINGE has served a pivotal role for women looking to make a living as an artist. “FRINGE came about as a support system. In a lot of situations, some of these women are new mothers trying to stay on top of their careers as a new artist. [FRINGE] gives women the foundation of support from other women in their artistic journeys,” she said. Over the last four years, FRINGE has grown from 10 members to 25. They normally have smaller shows featuring three to five artists. However, Allswede says this annual show goes back to the roots of how FRINGE started and celebrates all the women who are part of the group. “We don’t place restrictions on creation,” Allswede said. “You will see a lot of contemporary work ranging from paintings, textiles, jewelry, performance artists and sculptures.” Kerri Shadid, an Oklahomabased poet, is a member of FRINGE. Currently, she is the artist in residence at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel. People can come by her poetry stand and have her write a free poem for them. One aspect that Shadid loves about

Do you have internet access? Can you travel to Edmond? If the answer to all these questions is “Yes,” please consider going to the web address below to participate in a research study being conducted at the University of Central Oklahoma that examines how religiosity impacts different psychological factors

P ROVI DED

1100 E. Constitution • Norman, OK 11 AM - 6:30 PM Tues. - Sat. 405-579-8856 • www.ucshops.com

P ROVI DE D

All handmade in Norman, OK

FRINGE is that it gives the public an opportunity to see the state’s female talent. Krystle Brewer, who will serve as the new president of FRINGE in 2016, believes FRINGE is a great way to network and help with professional development, while also facilitating with a built-in family. “Visual artists, myself included, tend to work in isolation. It can be really helpful to have a group of people look at and critique your work or bounce ideas off of,” Brewer said. The group also gives women a new voice and sense of stability that might have been lost during art school, Brewer said. “Christie Hackler, a co-founder of FRINGE, described to me how the organization was meant to help you though that transition and encourage continuous growth, which is exactly what the organization has provided for me,” she said. FRINGE plans to expand to a statewide organization. Brewer said that doing so will encourage its artists to show outside of Oklahoma City and connect with other artists around the state. “While women continue to advance, I feel it’s important to continue giving women a platform to build off of,” Allswede said. “The more we continue to support each other in the world of arts, the easier it will become for us to actually do what we love and make a living while doing it.”

This study has been approved by the University of Central Oklahoma’s Institutional Review Board (#13153). Please contact Dr. Caleb Lack at clack@uco. edu or 405-974-5456 with any questions. *iTunes and Barnes & Noble are not sponsors of this study

s U w o ll o F on

facebook ...all the

cool kids are doing it!

facebook.com/okgazette

Oklahoma Gazette O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 3 3

LIFE ACTIVE

Torch bearer Oklahoma Special Olympics celebrates its 46th Summer Games in Stillwater. BY BRENDAN HOOVER

Special Olympics 46th Annual Summer Games 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 13-May 15 Oklahoma State University sook.org 918-481-1234

Blake Reynolds is a crowd pleaser, always smiling and looking for his next hug. “He’s very outgoing. He flirts with all the girls,” said Blake’s mother, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Jennifer Fisher. “He’s pretty much always in a good mood and puts everybody in a good mood.” Blake, 19, has Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a rare genetic developmental disorder that affects 1 in 10,000 to 30,000 newborns and is characterized by slow growth, intellectual disability and skeletal abnormalities in the arms and hands. Blake’s case is considered mild. He is developmentally delayed, yet he graduated from Harrah High School last year and “pretty much lives a normal life,” Fisher said. Blake and his family have been involved with Special Olympics since he was 7 years old, and they will be among the thousands of participants at the 46th Annual Summer Games Wednesday, May 13 through May 15 in Stillwater. The games are hosted by Oklahoma State University. Throughout the year, Blake participates in bowling, bocce and swimming. He will compete in bocce at this year’s Summer Games, Fisher said. “If you’re ever down and depressed and you want to be rejuvenated, all you need to do is go to the Summer Games and be around a Special Olympic athlete,” she said. This year, more than 5,000

3 4 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

athletes and 1,700 volunteer coaches are expected to take part, making it the state’s largest Summer Games ever, said Donna Ham, marketing and communications director for Special Olympics Oklahoma. Thousands of volunteers help organize and run the massive operation, doing everything from staging events and serving food to awarding medals and greeting athletes as they cross the finish line. Special Olympics Oklahoma relies on individual and corporate donors to assist with the Summer Games and other year-round events. The state is divided into 14 areas, and virtually every community in the state supports athletes who compete at local and state levels, Ham said.

These days, where the police are getting such bad reps and horrible things are happening, it’s a good sight. — Jennifer Fisher

Law enforcement plays a big part. Fisher’s husband, retired state trooper Lt. Jim Fisher, is executive director of the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Torch Run, a grassroots organization started in 1986 that is the Special Olympics Oklahoma’s largest fundraising sponsor, raising more than $460,000 in 2014. More than 50 agencies carry the torch on a statewide run that culminates in the

P HOTOS P R OVI DE D

Oklahoma Sport

Fencing

24 NW 144 Circle, Edmond

755-4195

VIST US ONLINE TO SCHEDULE YOUR FIRST FREE CLASS

EDMOND

Special Olympics 2014

ZERO INITIATION FEE with this ad!

lighting of the Special Olympics Flame of Hope at the opening ceremonies. The athletes enjoy the officers cheering them on, said Jim, who works on Gov. Mary Fallin’s security detail. “These days, where the police are getting such bad reps and horrible things are happening, it’s a good sight,” Jennifer said. Blake’s family participates in other fundraisers as well, such as Craig Meyer Memorial Walk, an annual 125-mile trek from Chickasha to Stillwater prior to the Summer Games, and Super Plunge, in which they jump into freezing-cold water once an hour for 24 hours. Blake’s younger sister, Shelby, partners with him during competition. “It’s just a little pain and discomfort out of a couple of days of my life,” said Jennifer. “Special Olympics athletes have to deal with physical limitations every day and overcome those, so why can’t we?”

NORMAN

DOWNTOWN

1333 N. Santa Fe 1284 N. Interstate Dr. 911 N. Broadway www.balanceyogabarre.com

New members save 25% with this ad.

Stop Call oErither by ation Loc

911 N Broadway, OKC 6900 N May Ave 405-604-3614 405-418-4496 www.fourstarfitnessOKC.com

W.A.R.

WOMEN AGAINST RAPE FREE SELF DEFENSE SEMINAR Tru Warriors Academy 16516 N Penn, Edmond, OK 73013 Sat., April 18 @ 1:00 p.m. Limited Space Available Call to Re serve Your Spot Reserve Your Place Today!!! 405-749-3587 edmondmartialarts.com • facebook.com/truwarriorsacademy

MY RESOLUTION:

“I will make it to the gym” lose weight & get in shape at Conan’s Kickboxing, boxing, jujitsu & mma.

Call Today and ask for BONUS $99 OFF SPECIAL

310 E. MAIN ST., NORMAN • 405.366.1204

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 3 5

SUDOKU/CROSSWORD SUDOKU PUZZLE HARD

WWW.S UDOKU-P UZZLES .N ET

Fill in the grid so that every row, column and 3-by-3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9.

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE ANSWERS Puzzle No. 0426, which appeared in the April 29 issue.

“MY SON ASKED ME TO QUIT SMOKING.” BRANDI, TULSA What’s your inspiration for quitting? “Quitting without support is very hard. That’s why I called the Helpline. The Quit Coaches were really understanding and caring. With their help, it was a lot easier to quit than I thought it’d be.”

CALL 1-800-QUIT NOW OR VISIT OKHELPLINE.COM FOR FREE QUIT COACHING. Have a happy, healthy and smokefree Mother’s Day.

NO JUDGMENTS. JUST HELP.

3 6 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

C E D E

H A I G

E T R E

U S A G E

R O T O R S

L A R D

A L O E

I M P O R T Q U O T A

M S R P

I T O R

K A Y O

A S T R A

P M A L O YL I N F R S T O H E E M E R A R E DN A T U O R R A Y E U M K N C HP A N S O I T I N B G O R E A D O T I O NW A L I B E T

K N E E

T E W N H E R A T E T S A J A M O N I E D L S

L A B R A D O A N R T Y R E T I A A B N A T A C A G O R O N A N S

S E A S O N S

C H E N E Y E F S S E E S A W S

H A A G

I M R E A I D N Y S I N N I P A P V E E D S A T E A L P A O V E A

N O

T H H O TW A R M R O O L B E E O R U K E A R C A LN O T P B U R E S S O R N I N GS S B E R A T R E E E A R L A D A P E RT R E R A C R G H

I S I S

G E N T

H A G S

I N S I N U A T I O N

F D I C

T O N E

P L A G U E

F R E T S

T A T A

R I E N

A L D A

NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD PUZZLE WHICH IS WISH By Patrick Berry and Zhouqin Burnikel / Edited by Will Shortz

1 19

ACROSS 1 Rye, NY, or Fort Lee, NJ 7 Like some photographs and cliffs 13 Bouquet tossers 19 Means of access 20 Viola’s love in Twelfth Night 21 Tombstone material 22 Wordlessly indicated “uh-oh” 23 Valiant attempt to finish off a seven-course meal? 25 ____ gel 26 Forestall, with “off” 28 Mauna ____ 29 Minerals to be processed 30 What an investor in golf courses might buy? 32 Beat soundly 35 Look for 36 Grazing in a meadow and jumping fences, for two? 41 Include surreptitiously, in a way 44 Vacation unit, often 46 H of antiquity 47 Cybertrade 48 “Be sure to lose!”? 55 Org. of concern to Edward Snowden 56 Like some communities 57 ____ bone (U-shaped bone above the larynx) 58 Big small screen 61 Pac-12 team 62 Jazzmen 63 Modest hacienda 64 Two blender settings? 68 Dojo Mart, e.g.? 72 Hunting milieu 73 Dismounted 74 Audiophile’s preference, maybe 75 Hone 78 Caesar’s dressing? 80 Rendezvoused 81 Acting as a group 82 What I unexpectedly had for breakfast? 86 Another time 89 Toothpaste brand 90 Obstacle for a golfer 91 2012 Mark Wahlberg comedy

DOWN 1 Sons of Anarchy actress Katey 2 It’s down in the mouth 3 Not on deck, say 4 Releases 5 Repentant feeling 6 Sleep on it 7 Green-energy option 8 Fancy 9 Size up 10 English ____ 11 Discontinue 12 “How ____ look?” 13 What runners may run out of 14 W.W. II “Dambusters,” for short 15 About to be read the riot act 16 New Look pioneer 17 Raison d’____ 18 Match makers? 21 Dead man walking? 24 Indicator of freshness? 27 “… the Lord ____ away” 31 Did some surgical work 32 They rarely have surnames 33 Mother of Levi and Judah 34 Poetic preposition 37 Flip response? 38 ____ Del Rey, singer with the 2014 #1 album Ultraviolence 39 Errand-running aid 40 Pole, e.g.

VOL. XXXVII NO. 18

Oklahoma Gazette is circulated at its designated distribution points free of charge to readers for their individual use and by mail to subscribers. The cash value of this copy is $1. Persons taking copies of the Oklahoma Gazette from its distribution points for any reason other than their or others’ individual use for reading purposes are subject to prosecution. Please address all unsolicited news items (non-returnable) to the editor. First-class mail subscriptions are $119 for one year, and most issues at this rate will arrive 1-2 days after publication.

104

105

90 96

109

91 97

101

102

103

110 114

115

111

116

117

119

120

121

122

123

124

41 “Dagnabbit!” 42 Raccoonlike animal 43 Nail-care brand 45 Ring alternatives 49 Worrier’s farewell 50 Mock tribute 51 ____ honors 52 Painter of illusions 53 Arm-twister’s need? 54 Boor’s lack 59 ____-devil 60 Dancer in a pit 63 Unfair? 65 “____ fair!” 66 One to beat 67 Preprandial reading 68 Supermodel Heidi 69 Bandleader’s shout 70 Good to have around

113

100

108

112

99 107

89 93

72 76

62 66

46 50

36 44

106

35 41

Stumped? Call 1-900-285-5656 to get the answers to any three clues by phone ($1.20 a minute). The answers to the New York Times Magazine Crossword Puzzle that appeared in the April 28 issue of Oklahoma Gazette are shown at left.

Oklahoma Gazette

71 Added after a silence, with “up” 73 They make up everything 75 Fire-extinguisher output 76 Young Frankenstein character 77 ____ East 79 Permanent thing 80 Some digital videos, briefly 83 Franz’s partner in old S.N.L. sketches 84 Rackful in a closet 85 Hits back? 87 Single out 88 Org. of the Jets and the Flyers 93 Occupation 94 Church chorus 95 Roars 96 Outpourings 98 “Prove it!” 101 UV light blocker

118

0506

92 Swamp fever? 97 Doesn’t keep up 99 Oxford institution 100 Floating casinos? 106 See 108-Down 109 Face value, in blackjack 110 Relative of cerulean 111 Deep South delicacy 112 Reviewer of the paperwork? 117 “Don’t get yourself worked up” 119 Chow 120 Be in the offing 121 Vic with the 1949 #1 hit “You’re Breaking My Heart” 122 Fraud 123 Compact containers 124 Like cherry-picked data

102 Residents of a certain -stan 103 “You already said that!” 104 Lying flat 105 Cut 106 Be a polite invitee 107 Mississippi River’s largest tributary 108 With 106-Across, “It’s time to do this thing” 113 Kind of season 114 Die spot 115 ____ oil (Australian folk medicine) 116 E.M.S. technique 118 Wine-barrel wood

CORPORATE

ADVERTISING

EDITORIAL

PHOTOGRAPHERS

CREATIVE

www.okgazette.com

PUBLISHER Bill Bleakley

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING DIRECTOR Christy Duane

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jennifer Palmer Chancellor

Mark Hancock, Chief

ART DIRECTOR Christopher Street

Order mounted or ready-toframe prints of Oklahoma Gazette covers, articles and photos at okgazette.yourheadline.com

publisher@okgazette.com

VP, CORPORATE AFFAIRS Linda Meoli lmeoli@okgazette.com

MARKETING MANAGER Kelsey Lowe klowe@okgazette.com

DIGITAL OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Jesse Snyder

cduane@okgazette.com

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE / ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Leah Roberts lroberts@okgazette.com

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Stephanie Van Horn

svanhorn@okgazette.com

Saundra Rinearson Godwin

jsnyder@okgazette.com

sgodwin@okgazette.com

ACCOUNTING/HR MANAGER Marian Harrison

eriddle@okgazette.com

mharrison@okgazette.com

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Sue Auld sauld@okgazette.com

Elizabeth Riddle Amber Parker

aparker@okgazette.com

Sarah Brigance

jchancellor@okgazette.com

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Kory Oswald

mhancock@okgazette.com

Garett Fisbeck

gfisbeck@okgazette.com

cstreet@okgazette.com

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Mandy Coakley

CIRCULATION

mcoakley@okgazette.com

STAFF WRITERS Ben Felder

CIRCULATION MANAGER Chad Bleakley

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Paul Mays

bfelder@okgazette.com

cbleakley@okgazette.com

Greg Elwell

ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MANAGER Duke Fleischer

koswald@okgazette.com

gelwell@okgazette.com

COPY EDITOR Brittany Pickering

bpickering@okgazette.com

pmays@okgazette.com

Ashley Parks

aparks@okgazette.com

Ayesha Younus

ayounus@okgazette.com

PRINT TRAFFIC COORDINATOR/ MARKETING ASSISTANT Arden Biard

STREET/MAILING ADDRESS 3701 N Shartel Ave Oklahoma City, OK 73118-7102

GENERAL PHONE (405) 528-6000

GENERAL FAX

abiard@okgazette.com

sbrigance@okgazette.com

INSIDE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Whitney McCown

wmccown@okgazette.com O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 3 7

LIFE PERFORMING ARTS

Serious fun

P ROVI DE D

Gaming music icon Tommy Tallarico leads the city’s first production of Video Games Live.

BY ZACH JACOBS

Video Games Live 8 p.m. May 21 Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. okcciviccenter.com 297-2264 $45-$75

Two disparate entertainment genres and the cultures they represent merge May 21 in the form of an immersive multimedia concert experience that showcases music from the world’s most iconic and popular video games. Classical orchestral and vocal music have long been considered a staple of so-called “high culture,” while video games have been relegated to “low culture” possibly since their infancy in the early 1970s, said Susan Webb, director

3 8 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

of marketing and public relations for Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Philharmonic Pops Chorale worked together to break down those stereotypes and preconceptions with its show Video Games Live (VGL). The result is a rock concert atmosphere that includes a fusion of gaming imagery, videos and theme tunes melded with the dynamics and passion of a symphony orchestra and chorale. Its goal is to showcase the technology, interactivity, visuals and fun of gaming’s most dramatic moments. “We’re trying to engage audiences with the Philharmonic,” Webb said of the production, which makes its Oklahoma City debut with this show. It hits Civic Center Music Hall with

Video Games Live co-creator Tommy Tallarico also hosts and performs. force after it sold out all previous shows on its 2015 run in cities all over the world. VGL was co-created by Tommy Tallarico, a composer who has created video game scores across multiple platforms for more than 20 years. He has worked on RoboCop Versus The Terminator, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Pac-Man World, MDK, Advent Rising and multi-platform sensations like the Earthworm Jim and Prince of Persia series. He’s often credited with helping transform the industry; his music moved gaming sounds from monophonic beeps, simple loops and chiptunes into a dynamic medium that now also includes its own game-specific soundtracks and live concerts.

Tallarico also helped create exclusive song arrangements and video for Video Games Live, organizers said. Tallarico will be at the Oklahoma City show. “There is a subculture waiting for others to acknowledge its presence,” said Webb of video game fans. “Average single ticket buyers will come out of the woodwork at the last minute to get seats.” The interactivity aspect also gives fans an opportunity to help choose which songs are played on May 21. Webb said the event’s Facebook page allows viewers to vote for their favorites, including The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft.

COVER MUSIC

Perfectly Broken Kyle Dillingham examines his faith and our human faults in his uncommon, emotive new album. BY JENNIFER CHANCELLOR

Kyle Dillingham album release and listening party

PHOTOS BY MARK HANCOCK

4-7 p.m. Thursday All About Cha 7300 N. Western Ave. horseshoeroad.net Free Note: Free drink with album purchase

Kyle Dillingham says that his new album, Broken Beyond Repair, was inspired by a visit to an orphanage in Togo, West Africa, and the resilience the youth there showed despite tremendous adversity. A read through the album’s liner notes also reveals a quotation of Matthew 11:28: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” However, with this album, Dillingham proves that his motivation for playing is as locally derived as it is spiritual. He dedicated the record to Dena Bagwell, owner of Inter-City Violin Studios in Oklahoma City. The shop was founded in 1956 by her father, Herbert W. Bagwell, who helped establish the city’s first string instrument program in Oklahoma City Public Schools and was a charter member of the Oklahoma Philharmonic. At age 19, Bagwell also became chairman of Oklahoma City University’s (OCU) string instrumental department. In his lifetime, Herbert mentored Dillingham, along with thousands of other local students. “There’s a lot of Daddy in Kyle,” Dena said. “He kept the music going after my daddy died.” Dena, who turns 80 next month, still runs Inter-City six days a week. She called Dillingham “my very best young friend” with a kind and keen sincerity that’s often heard from great teachers. Her statements are unequivocal.

‘Faded Love’

“I met Mr. Bagwell when I was 13 years old,” Dillingham said of Herbert in a recent visit with Oklahoma Gazette.

The man asked the boy to play a song, and he chose the classic Western tune “Faded Love” written by Bob, John and Billy Jack Wills. Dena remembers that day, too. “My daddy called me that day and said, ‘Daughter, I heard a 13-year-old boy play “Faded Love” like I’ve never heard,’” she said. “He taped it. He was so intrigued by Kyle’s version that he wrote an arrangement based on it.” Indeed, Dillingham said Herbert used that arrangement in live performances for almost 20 years. When he was younger, Dillingham often held band rehearsals in the Bagwell home and was a shop regular as a student of OCU’s instrumental music performance program. After Herbert had a stroke in the 1990s, Dillingham played for him almost daily. On Feb. 28, 2000, Dillingham knocked on Herbert’s door and was met by Dena. She had tears in her eyes. “Mr. Bagwell passed away,” he said. She welcomed him inside anyway, and he played for her family. These days, he is family.

Full circle

Dillingham held out a copy of his new CD and opened the cover to an image of himself holding a cardboard box full of broken violins. “Each one of these has a tag on it,” he said. “Each one of these was rented to students in Oklahoma City.” And each came from Dena and her father’s shop. For Broken Beyond Repair, Dillingham lovingly took these instruments and recorded each sound

they made, from the hollow, reedy whispers caused by brushing the dust from their bellies to the sweet and sorrowful moans created from drawing his bow over strings that were decades out of tune. He pointed to one and said it was last rented in the early ’70s before it was stored and forgotten after it was broken beyond repair, meaning it would cost more to repair than replace. Indeed, his album movingly connects Dillingham’s passion for playing violin and fiddle with the rich local history of his mentors, his own spirituality and the stories of our shared human struggles. Dillingham wrote the music and words for six of the 12 songs on Broken Beyond Repair and recorded, mixed and mastered the album himself. Each song has its own personality, too, as listeners will hear tinges of folk, Western swing, classical music, bluegrass, gospel and Americana. He compared the unexpected amalgam to the powerful spiritual connection he discovered in that box. “Kids do what kids do,” he explained. “They put the instrument in their chair then accidentally sit on it and break it, or they get the necks intertwined while sword fighting. They break. These instruments can last for generations, but they’re not indestructible.” But Dillingham discovered that they each found a new voice and a new life after so many decades of being forgotten. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 3 9

COVER MUSIC

“I can go anywhere today, and I mean anywhere — it can be a fancy dinner or to church,” Dena said. “When they find out I’m connected to Inter-City, I hear, ‘I rented my instrument from you when I was in school.’” Dena immediately recognized the beauty in those long-quiet voices.

“She said, ‘This is me,’” Dillingham said as tears filled his eyes. The album is comforting and beatific and surreal, especially in his version of Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art.” His lone and intimate lilt blends with percussive string pulls and violin belly taps as he works his bow over its delicate strings. The result is emotive and ethereal.

Shared history

Not too long ago, it was Dena who invited Dillingham to play a broken violin for the first time in front of an audience. Track five, “But for the Grace of God,” was written about that experience. Its lyrics are pulled from addiction and recovery literature. “I gave him those lyrics,” Dena said and then chuckled. She has been sober since 1976 and said that first performance was at a local FIRSTEP meeting. “Those violins tell a more powerful story than words can,” Dena said. “For the rest of his and his children’s lives, they will hear ‘My son, daughter, mother, sister, daddy, husband, wife got sober with the help of this album.’” “But for the Grace of God” is a discordant symphony that combines Dillingham’s bright vocals with expansive, layered chords and individual notes that, once blended together, remarkably resemble a reedy, traditional Scottish tune. “There are sounds coming from these instruments that I have no idea where they came from … It’s like they’ve been reborn,” he said. After a show, a woman came to him and asked him if she could keep the neck from a broken violin. She then clutched it to her chest.

The song “Faded Love” was written by Bob Wills, along with his father John and brother Billy Jack. Bob Wills rose to prominence in the 1930s, when his concerts from the stage of Cain’s Ballroom were broadcast live from coast to coast. The tune hit No. 8 on national country charts in 1950. Today, Cain’s

4 0 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

Each song has its own personality. Listeners will hear tinges of folk, Western swing, classical music, bluegrass, gospel and Americana. It’s also extremely personal. “I’m discovering that everyone relates to the sound and the stories of these instruments … People tell me everywhere I play that they relate to feeling broken and beautiful,” he said. “We don’t all have the same stories and life experiences, but, really, we do.” Dillingham celebrates the release of his album with a free listening party and album signing 4-7 p.m. Thursday at All About Cha, 7300 N. Western Ave. And, while he said he doesn’t plan on performing a full set, he said he will be there “with a box of broken violins for people to see and explore.” If you’re near Enid, Dillingham’s hometown, his party there is 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday at Five80 Coffeehouse, 122 E. Randolph Ave.

Ballroom is often called The House that Bob Built. The song was also a recurring hit for musician Leon McAuliffe, who joined Wills’ band in Tulsa at age 18. McAuliffe went on to pay for the installation of a campus studio at Rogers State College in Claremore and helped fund its music program. — J.C.

P ROVI DE D

LIFE MUSIC REVIEW

Clouds of Sils Maria Thursday | 7:30 p.m. Friday & Saturday | 8 p.m.

Maniacal zeal BY GREG HORTON

Translating a live performance to an album is perhaps the most difficult thing for a band to do, especially when that band is excellent live. And particularly when that band has such a frenetic level of energy that just being in the venue with it induces a state in which it’s impossible not to laugh and scream and wonder why all bands don’t have this kind of stage presence. Stage presence is a little misleading when it comes to Deerpeople, the half-Oklahoman, half-Texan band that formed in Stillwater when frontman Brennan Barnes and drummer Jordan Bayhylle started assembling the pieces in 2008. Barnes is as likely to be on stage as he is to be in the crowd. Deerpeople’s live show has been just about the only way to fall in love with the band since its beginning, but now, its first album, There’s Still Time for Us to Die, has finally been released. Longtime fans were worried about how that gleeful, live show lunacy would translate to a record. Kendall Looney plays flute and adds vocals to several tracks. She’s slight, but when she stands center stage like a pixie axis mundi, the band swirls around her and it’s apparent she is a counterpoint to Barnes’ nearmanic zeal. So, how does it an album capture that dynamic? The album is 12 cuts, and it manages to present the band in a way longtime fans will appreciate. It is polished and produced well, and the intensity, along with its rough edges, is still there. Barnes’ voice moves from growls and shouts to distorted, garage band delivery, but his range is impressive and his pitch impeccable. These are not amateurs; these are

talented musicians making music because they love to. All the members participate in songwriting. Looney said that they get together with an idea — and it doesn’t seem to matter who comes up with it first — and then the band members start offering suggestions for lyrics. The lyrics might be the easiest part, given that the instrumentation includes Alex Larrea on guitar, Derek Moore on bass and Julian Shen on any of three instruments: keys, violin or accordion. Just orchestrating that selection is a challenge, but Deerpeople does it well. The song “Impala Abdul” is a fantastic way for new fans to “meet” the band, and longtime fans will be glad that it made the track list. From the hard-driving “She Skates Boards, and She Gets Real High” to the down-tempo, balladesque “Rusty & Michelle,” the album showcases a wide range of styles and instrumentations, including the expected moody and atmospheric on “Reprise Pt. 1.” It is fair to say that listening to the project might affirm some people’s insistence that Deerpeople is a “psychedelic rock band,” but hearing Shen play violin pizzicato on “Rusty & Michelle” indicates that this is a creative, unique band that makes damn good music in ways that no one else does right now. The band just returned from a quick mini tour of the East and Midwest, so it has yet to plan a date for its album release party. But get ready because it’s coming.

Deerpeople There’s Still Time for Us to Die | bandcamp.com, spotify.com, iTunes

Seymour: An Introduction Friday & Saturday | 5:30 p.m. Sunday | 2 & 5:30 p.m. For movie descriptions and ticket sales visit

OKCMOA.COM

FRI, MAY 8 NICO & VINZ THURS, MAY 14 CHASE BRYANT W/ JUSTIN ADAMS TUES, MAY 19 MAT KEARNEY JUST KIDS TOUR

THURS, MAY 21 PURITY RING W/ BRAIDS & BORN GOLD FRI, MAY 22 BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY W/ JOSH SALLEE & ALAN DOYLE TUES, MAY 26 BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS WED, MAY 27 RAE SREMMURD MON, JUNE 1 LESS THAN JAKE & REEL BIG FISH TULSA, OK ★ 423 NORTH MAIN ST. TICKETS: cainsballroom.com or 877.4.FLY.TIX O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 4 1

4 2 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

Foxburrows/Oklahoma Cloud Factory, 51st Street Speakeasy. ROCK Gentry, Kendell’s Bar. VARIOUS Hosty Duo, The Deli, Norman. ROCK Jason Young Band/John Arnold, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COUNTRY

Avenue, Baker St. Pub & Grill. COVER Brass Beats, Will Rogers Lobby Cafe & Bar. VARIOUS

Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO

Casey & Minna, Saints. VARIOUS

Krystal Keith, Sooner Theatre, Norman. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

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

Kyle Reid, The Paramount OKC. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Left to Die/Octave Jaw/Gulch/Killer Strut, The Conservatory. ROCK

Jake Parker/Chase Haberland/Max Walker/Alex Rembeurger, Bad Granny’s Bazaar. VARIOUS

Life of the Party, Oklahoma City Limits. COVER

Mastodon/Clutch/Graveyard, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK

Mark Vollersten, Red Rock Canyon Grill. ACOUSTIC

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

Matt Blagg, Broadway 10 Bar & Chophouse. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER Southern Rift, Colcord Hotel. COUNTRY

Nathan Burris, Thunderbird Casino, Norman. COUNTRY Nico & Vinz, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. POP

THURSDAY, MAY 7

Out of Sane, Cee Gee’s Club, Edmond. ROCK

Steve Earle & The Dukes

Randy Rogers Band, Brady Theater, Tulsa. COUNTRY

Aaron Newman Band, Red Rock Canyon Grill. ACOUSTIC

Rick Jawnsun, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC

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

Roy Lee Scott & The Flying Cowboys, Sliders. COUNTRY

David Morris, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Steve Earle & The Dukes/The Mastersons, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

Hinder, The Vanguard, Tulsa. ROCK

The Blend/The Val Gladden Band, Remington Park. VARIOUS

In Rooms/Oklahoma Cloud Factory, Blue Note Lounge. VARIOUS

Wild Heart, Fort Thunder Harley Davidson, Moore. ROCK

LUCKY, Colcord Hotel. COVER

SATURDAY, MAY 9

MAAJR/Trash TV/Beach Language, 51st Street Speakeasy. VARIOUS SKisM/Must Die!/Habstrakt/Magalodon, OKC Farmers Public Market. VARIOUS

Annie Up, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COVER

Taria/Mark Gibson Duo, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. COUNTRY

Banana Seat, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. VARIOUS

Tony Bennett, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Catoosa. JAZZ

Big Okie Doom/Killer Gandhi/Eyes Made Ready, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK

Zak Shaffer, O Asian Fusion, Norman. ACOUSTIC

pick

On Friday, American roots music icon Steve Earle brings his distinctive brand of blues to Wormy Dog Saloon. Steve Earle & The Dukes performs with The Mastersons 9:30 p.m. at 311 E. Sheridan Ave. On this tour stop, Earle celebrates the release of his 16th album, Terraplane, inspired by blues giants Freddie King, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30. Guests must be at least 21 years old. Visit wormydog.com. The Suspects, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. REGGAE Wino Browne, Oklahoma City Limits. VARIOUS

TUESDAY, MAY 12

LUCKY/Shaun Suttle, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. COVER

Derek Harris, Red Rock Canyon Grill. ACOUSTIC

Edgar Cruz/Larry Hammett, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. ACOUSTIC

Tom Russell, The Blue Door. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Dirty River Boys/Buffalo Ruckus, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO

Dead Armadillos, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. ROCK

Hollywood Undead/Cane Hill, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK

Swingin’ Utters, The Conservatory. ROCK

Mountain Smoke, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. BLUEGRASS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13

Neaven Morgan, Colcord Hotel. PIANO

Chicago, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. ROCK

Ed Sheeran, BOK Center, Tulsa. SINGER/SONGWRITER

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

Derek Harris, Baker St. Pub & Grill. ACOUSTIC

Edgar Cruz, Colcord Hotel. ACOUSTIC

Shana Falana/Gum/Team Nightstand, Blue Note Lounge. VARIOUS

Cover Me Badd, Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse. COVER

DJ Dev, 51st Street Speakeasy. VARIOUS

DJ Josh Tullis, Colcord Hotel. VARIOUS

DJ Rodney Ladd, Colcord Hotel. VARIOUS

DJ R&R, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. VARIOUS

Don and Melodee Johnson, Twelve Oaks, Edmond. JAZZ

Folk Family Revival, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. VARIOUS

Eric Dunkin, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC Grant Stevens, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO Harumph/Kyle Reid and the Low Swingin’ Chariots, Grandad’s Bar. JAZZ Hinder, Sugar Creek Casino, Hinton. ROCK Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO Kent Fauss/Tyrannosaurus Chicken, Grandad’s Bar. VARIOUS Larry Chin/Teach Me Equals/Spirits and the Melchizedek Children/Kykuit, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Melt Banana, Opolis, Norman. ROCK Miss Brown to You, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. JAZZ Out of Sane, Margarita Island. ROCK Peter Erickson, The Paramount OKC. ACOUSTIC PROVID ED

Friday

David Liebe Hart/Community Pools, The Conservatory. VARIOUS

Cover Me Badd, Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse. COVER

Banditos, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Christian Pearson/Gary Johnson, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

music

Steve Earle

Aidan Carroll, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. JAZZ

Champaign Jam, ET’s Bar-B-Que. VARIOUS

2AM, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. ROCK

OKG

SUNDAY, MAY 10

Bo Phillips, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COUNTRY

FRIDAY, MAY 8

Aidan Carroll, UCO Jazz Lab, Tuesday

TE D BA RRON / P ROVI DE D

LIVE MUSIC WEDNESDAY, MAY 6

Roy Lee Scott & The Flying Cowboys, Sliders. COUNTRY RPM, Remington Park. VARIOUS

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

MONDAY, MAY 11 A Lot Like Birds/I The Mighty, The Conservatory. VARIOUS Ali Harter Residency, Blue Note Lounge. SINGER/ SONGWRITER Paperhead/Heaters/Holy Wave, Opolis, Norman. ROCK

Edgar Cruz/Jeff Nokes and Freinds, Avanti Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO Hosty Acoustic, Captain Norm’s Dockside Bar. ACOUSTIC Jackson, Colcord Hotel. VARIOUS Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club. JAZZ Pink Martini/Storm Large, Brady Theater, Tulsa. VARIOUS Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

Quiet Company/The Rocketboys/Chase Kerby and the Company Men, Native Sound Stage. ROCK Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. ROCK

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 528-4600 or e-mail them to listings@okgazette.com. Sorry, but phone submissions cannot be accepted.

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 4 3

B E N FE L DE R

LIFE FILM

The Salt of the Earth director Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Click bait The fluttering shutter of famed photographer Sebastião Salgado revealed the world’s humanity for decades, but it showed little about the man behind the lens. BY JENNIFER CHANCELLOR AND BEN FELDER

A moment can change the trajectory of a lifetime. “The power of a portrait lies in that fraction of a second when you catch a glimpse of that person’s life,” Sebastião Salgado said, explaining how South American men talked to his still camera as if he was recording their voices. “When you take a portrait, the shot is not yours alone. The person offers it to you.” However, in real life, important family moments were often neglected as he dedicated his life to capturing the lives of strangers. Over four years, he traveled to more than 100 countries as he recorded intensely beautiful and often disturbing historical events. Finally, the man offers up a moving portrait of himself in the documentary The Salt of the Earth, now showing in a limited release at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24. The film’s co-director and Sebastião’s son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, spoke to Oklahoma Gazette at the film’s South by Southwest premiere in March. “For me, there is Dad and there is Sebastião; the photographer and the guy at home,” he said. “I had a grudge and a problem with the guy at home, but I always admired the photographer.” In The Salt of the Earth, Juliano finally bonds deeply with his father as he

4 4 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

and a film crew work together to explain and humanize the world-renowned Brazilian photojournalist. The result is a gorgeously told story about Sebastião’s life, dedicated to capturing a humanity that eventually broke him. Sebastião grew up in Brazil, once an abundant land permeated by rivers, forests, mines and endless trains filled with minerals. He was the only boy of eight children. “The man shoots back,” said a videographer, describing how challenging it can be to film such a person. Sebastião’s experiences during the Bosnian War in the 1990s were as chilling then as they are today. What struck him was how familiar the people were to him. They were people with European standards of living: educations, employment, homes, families, cars, intricate city infrastructure. In only a few short years, they lost everything. “Violence was everywhere,” he said in the film. “But what disgusted me the most was to see how contagious hatred was.” This film also documents how the actions of men can impact society and the world. From the surrealistic, postapocalyptic fires across the oil fields

of Kuwait to the virulent disease and famine that ravaged entire countries, Sebastião’s unflinching lens often helped educate the world about the otherwise unimaginable depths of human hate and humanity’s unquenchable will to survive. “There is not much you can say about taking a photo, so we decided to make a film about a weakness, about a guy who had seen so much about the world,” Juliano said to the Gazette. It wasn’t easy, but both men realized it was necessary. “We barely couldn’t speak with each other without getting into a fight, and that was happening since I became a teenager,” Juliano said of their first trip together, which was to the Amazonian forest. “The Zo’é tribe, they are so nice. I think their niceness intimidated us, and we behaved while we were there. But the important thing is when we came back, I edited what I shot about him working ... When Sebastião saw the way his son was thinking of him, he was so touched he starts crying in front of the screen and his eyes are so full of tears, and me too. We had this intense family moment, and that opened the door for the film.” At times, the humanness of Sebastião’s story — the things he has seen and recorded — will fatigue and probably sicken viewers.

In the end, though, a man defeated by the world he has internalized for so many years ends up reborn along with the area around his family’s farmland in his native Brazil. The men show that all relationships, it seems, are complicated and, somehow, always worthwhile. “I knew the stories [behind the photos] very well, and then [co-director] Wim [Wenders] set up to interview Sebastião about it. The problem started when we began editing the film with two directors; it took us a year to figure out how to do it,” Juliano said. Juliano’s motives become clear as the father-son duo work together on an Arctic island, patiently and pointedly following walruses and a rogue polar bear that sniffs out their camp. The wait for the perfect shot — neither man forces nature or the events around him — is as poignant as it is telling. “Things changed when I saw the rough cuts of the interviews. I knew the stories ... but when I saw it through the eye’s of someone else, I felt like I understood Sebastião, about how much he learned from humanity, how much he had to evolve and how painful it was,” Juliano explained. “I was the problem in our relationship, but I was sure of the opposite.”

P R OVI DE D

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Ultra action The new Avengers movie is a delight for comics nerds and novices. BY KORY B. OSWALD

Even half-functional subplots and formulaic main plots can’t trip up the in-your-face force that is Avengers: Age of Ultron. Nor can the action — textured with hyper-detailed effects and dizzying cinematography — be hindered by rational thought or muddy storylines. The movie is comic cinema gold, better than the first Avengers film because it delivers more action and backstories and a trip inside the superheroes’ psyches. When Iron Man Tony Stark (Robert Downy, Jr.), a tech genius who feels guilt for his previous life as a war monger, hatches a plan to protect the world from alien foes, it backfires and creates an artificial life named Ultron — voiced by James Spader — bent on forcing the human race to “evolve,” which is code for total annihilation. The Avengers assemble and proceed to fight an infinite army of robots and accidentally help create an android called Vision — thus setting up shop for sequels and creating a solid movie that stands on its own as a beacon of hope for comic book nerds and casual moviegoers alike. Age of Ultron is as much a superhero in Hollywood as are the characters in the Marvel universe. Since this will probably be the second biggest movie of the year (it earned $631.1 million worldwide its first weekend), it shows the strengths of superhero movies as moneymakers despite the recent influx of comic book films. The film is good, and comic connoisseurs can rest assured that comic book movies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. The inevitability of crossovers and reboots only bolsters this franchise. The movie lags, as many sequels do, but where some fall behind, Age of Ultron has enough characters to buoy the film without diminishing the adrenaline coursing through the audience members’ veins. This installment provides a deeper

look at the Hawkeye character, aka Clint Barton, played by Jeremy Renner. This works because he is one of only two Avengers — including Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) — who haven’t had their own movie. While both have had screen time in other Avengers-related movies, Renner has had considerably less. This makes him ripe for a glimpse into what he does outside of saving the world. Some might like this, but it is the film’s weakest part. However, Hawkeye delivers some of the film’s funniest lines. Writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has outdone himself with this sequel. Once you see an epic movie like the first Avengers, it seems the bar is set and sequels rarely reach that high again but this one outdoes the first in terms of action and effects. The cinematography is dazzling and as much a character in the movie as a conflicted Bruce Banner (played by Mark Ruffalo), yet the shots feel intuitive, as though they couldn’t be filmed any other way. Whedon is that talented, which makes it especially painful that this is supposedly his last foray into the Avengers world. The movie introduces two new superheroes, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, respectively). This sets up an interesting subplot involving Stark and war but also makes it seem natural when the duo switches from adversary to ally. Age of Ultron gives us more screen time with the Avengers during their downtime. The results are humorous. The plot also explores backstories and subjects like the psychology and sociology of the superheroes themselves. Scarlet Witch gives us a quick look at what drives the Avengers, what each one has experienced and what they fear the most. It is a limited but interesting twist that might foreshadow events in the next Marvel movies.

COME FOR THE LIVE MUSIC, STAY FOR THE WEIRD ASS BAND NAMES. Friday, May 8 Saturday, May 9

Friday, May 15 Saturday, May 16 Wednesday, May 20 Thursday, May 21 Friday, May 22 Saturday, May 23 Friday, May 29 Saturday, May 30

Kent Fauss (8:00) • Tyrannosaurus Chicken (10:00) Harumph (8:00) Kyle Reid and the Low Swingin’ Chariots (10:00) Shotgun Rooster (10:00) Tanner Miller (8:00) Chad Slagle’s Huckleberry Soul (10:00) They Play Wolf (FREE SHOW!) (10:00) Horse Opera (10:00) Hosty Duo (10:00) Josh Buckley Band (10:00) Jennifer Westwood & The Handsome Devils (10:00) Buggaboo (10:00)

And don’t forget Choir Practice with Buffalo Rogers every Wednesday at 9:00 and Family Game Night every Thursday at 6:30! Lineup subject to weird ass changes.

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 4 5

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Homework: No one can make you feel any emotion unless you agree to feel it. You are the sovereign of what happens inside you. Explain why at FreeWillAstrology.com. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Benedictine monks observe the Latin motto Laborare est Orare. The 19th-century abbot Maurus Wolter interpreted these words to mean “work is worship” or “work is prayer.” He was trying to impress upon his fellow monks that the work they did was not a grudging distraction from their service to God, but rather at the heart of their devotion. To do their tasks with love was a way to express gratitude for having been blessed with the gift of life. I propose that you experiment with this approach in the coming weeks, even if your version is more secular. What would it be like to feel contentment with and appreciation for the duties you have been allotted?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Here’s one of the best things you can do for your mental and physical health: Withdraw your attention from the life that lies behind you, and be excited about the life that stretches ahead of you. Forget about the past, and get wildly inventive as you imagine the interesting future you will create for yourself. Forgive everyone who has offended you, and fantasize about the fun adventures you’ll go on, the inspiring plans you’ll carry out, and the invigorating lessons you hope to learn. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In the children’s book The Little Engine That Could, a little blue engine volunteers to pull a long chain of train cars up a steep hill, even though it’s not confident it has the power to do so. As it strains to haul the heavy weight, it recites a mantra to give itself hope: “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” The story ends happily. The little blue engine reaches the top of the hill with its many cars in tow, and is able to glide down the rest of the way. As you deal with your own challenge, Gemini, I recommend that you use an even more forceful incantation. Chant this: “I know I can, I know I can, I know I can.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Here’s a confession: I have taken a vow to foster beauty, truth, love, justice, equality, tolerance, creativity, playfulness, and hope. To do this work is one of my life goals. I approach it with the devotion of a monk and the rigor of a warrior. Does that mean I ignore difficulty and suffering and cruelty? Of course not. I’m trying to diminish the power of those problems, so I sure as hell better know a lot about them. On the other hand, my main focus is on redemption and exaltation. I prefer not to describe in detail the world’s poisons, but rather to provide an antidote for them. Even if you don’t normally share my approach, Cancerian, I invite you to try it for the next two weeks. The astrological time is right.

collectively known as *The Matrix,* we humans suffer from a fundamental delusion. What we think is real life is actually a sophisticated computer simulation. Intelligent machines have created this dream world to keep us in suspended animation while they harvest our energy to fuel their civilization. Now as far as I can tell, this scenario isn’t literally true. But it is an apt metaphor for how many of us seem to be half-asleep or under a spell, lost in our addiction to the simulated world created by technology. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a favorable time to diminish the hold that the metaphorical Matrix has on you. What can you do to at least partially escape your bondage? (Hint: A little more contact with nature could do the trick.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The hill where I take my late afternoon hikes is teeming with the six-petaled purple wildflower known as the elegant cluster-lily. Every one of them — and there are hundreds — lean hard in the direction of the sun in the west. Should I deride them as conformists that follow the law of the pack? Should I ridicule them for their blind devotion? Or should I more sensibly regard them as having a healthy instinct to gravitate toward the life-giving light? I’ll go with the latter theory. In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to ignore the opinions of others as you turn strongly toward the sources that provide you with essential nourishment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In the coming weeks, you may be as alluring and intriguing and tempting as you have been in a long time. I suggest you capitalize on this advantage. Proceed as if you do indeed have the power to attract more of the emotional riches you desire. Assume that are primed to learn new secrets about the arts of intimacy, and that these secrets will make you even smarter and more soulful than you already are. Cultivate your ability to be the kind of trusted ally and imaginative lover who creates successful relationships.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Am I reading the astrological omens correctly? I hope so. From what I can tell, you have been flying under the radar and over the rainbow. You have been exploiting the loopholes in the big bad system and enjoying some rather daring experiments with liberation. At this point in the adventure, you may be worried that your lucky streak can’t continue much longer. I’m here to tell you that it can. It will. It must. I predict that your detail-loving intelligence will paradoxically guide you to expand your possibilities even further.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Physicist Frank Wilczek won a Nobel Prize for his research into quarks, the tiny particles that compose protons and neutrons. The guy is breathtakingly smart. Here’s one of his operating principles: “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” Let’s enshrine his advice as your meditation, Sagittarius. I think you’re strong enough and brave enough to go hunting for some new super-rich dilemmas. Yes, they may lead you to commit some booboos. But they will also stretch your intelligence beyond its previous limits, giving you a more vigorous understanding of the way the world works.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) According to the three science fiction films

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In 1934, Capricorn baseball player Dizzy Dean

s m U a w r o g ll a t Fo on ins voted best bar in norman

NOW HIRING

#selfies! Oklahoma Gazette

tweeting about! @okgazette

Oklahoma Gazette 4 6 | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) There has rarely been a better time than now to refine the art of being your own mommy or daddy. You’re finally ready to take over from the parental voices in your head and assume full responsibility for raising yourself the rest of the way. What do you want to be when you grow up? You may feel a giddy sense of freedom as it becomes clear that the only authority who has the right to answer that question is you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The universe has always played tricks on you. Some have been so perplexing that you’ve barely understood the joke. Others have been amusing but not particularly educational. Now I sense a new trend in the works, however. I suspect that the universe’s pranks are becoming more comprehensible. They may have already begun to contain hints of kindness. What’s the meaning of this lovely turn of events? Maybe you have finally discharged a very old karmic debt. It’s also conceivable that your sense of humor has matured so much that you’re able to laugh at some of the crazier plot twists. Here’s another possibility: You are cashing in on the wisdom you were compelled to develop over the years as you dealt with the universe’s tricks.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes /daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

PetroPhysicist - tulsa, oK.

to see all our @okgazette

was named the Most Valuable Player after winning 30 games. It was a feat that no National League pitcher has repeated ever since. After Dean retired, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Never shy about acknowledging his own prowess, he declared that “if you can do it, it ain’t bragging.” It is in this spirit that I invite you to freely expound on your talents and accomplishments in the coming week. You won’t be boasting. You will simply be providing information. And that will ultimately result in you being offered an interesting new opportunity or two.

NORMAN + NEW LOCATION apply online at pubwnorman.com C

HEX#

PANTONE

#1e5633

357c

NOW HIRING Servers, Host Staff & Bussers. HIRING BONUS for Servers & Host Staff. Apply in person, Mon-sat 2-4pm

Perform log interpretation of development & exploratory wells using adv petrophysical interpretation SW. Req include MS Petroleum Eng, Geology, closely related & 1 yr. as petrophysicist, geoscientist, or petroleum eng; or BS in Petroleum Eng, Geology, closely related & 5 yrs. prog. exp as petrophysicist, geoscientist, or petroleum eng; + working knowledge of Advanced petrophysical interpretation SW (ELAN); Field logging ops; Acoustic rock properties; Anisotropy proc of dipole acoustic tools; NMR logging; Acquiring wireline data; QCing & analyzing std wireline log data; Normalization protocols; QCing & data base mgmt for routine & special core analysis; developing mineralogy & fluid models using geochem logs. Periodic trips to well sites up to 10% of work schedule. Cover & resume to HR Manager, Cimarex Energy Co, 202 S. Cheyenne Ave, Ste. 1000, Tulsa, OK 74103. Ref job 6340TW.

P H O N E (4 0 5 ) 5 2 8 - 6 0 0 0 | E - M A I L : A D V E R T I S I N G @ T I E R R A M E D I A G R O U P. C O M

Sugar Chinese MASSAGE & SPA

NECK • BACK • BODY FREE TABLE SHOWER

20/hour – PA included

DOWNTOWN MUSIC BOX | 405-232-2099 DOWNTOWNMUSICBOX.COM

2 BEDROOM LUXURY CONDOS Starting at $795

810-0309

all appliances + w.d. • no pets • non smoking

Lic. OCC-11417

Need to Rehearse?

2751 NW Expressway, Ste. 4 • OKC

NW OKC • 405.615.2002

Hoggard

Construction & Repairs • KITCHEN/BATH RENOVATIONS • EXTERIOR MAKEOVERS/LANDSCAPING • HOME REPAIRS

Matt Hoggard, Owner

HOGGARDCONSTRUCTION@GMAIL.COM

MON-SAT 10A-9P | SUN 12P-7P EDMONDOKMASSAGE.COM 1733 W 33RD ST, STE. 120 EDMOND, OK | 340-0400

1565 SW 44th 405.681.2626

405-795-7003

OPPOSITE OFFICE DEPOT

l Sprinfirge upSyopuresycstia , em We will flow valve, check the back s and adjust the head x. bo l ro nt co set the

Advertise in Gazette’s

Royal Treatment MASSAGE GRAND OPENING NEW LOCATION!

*Prices may vary depending on zones

DOC SPRINKLER

IRRIGATION • INSTALLATION • REPAIR

Call to set up appt.

405.408.5181

Email:TommyKeith1964@hotmail.com “The Doctor is Making House Calls”

DOWNTOWN STORAGE

totally enclosed • 24-hr access climate controlled

2 NE 9th, OKC

290.7552

YOUNG LIVING EVENT OOLA Essential Oils at their finest May 17th 2-4pm 5600 nw 122nd St.

546 E. Memorial, Okla. City (at Broadway Ext.)

This is a model

Lic. OCC-04587

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing

Act of 1968, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, preference or discrimination. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of this law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings in our newspaper are available on an equal housing opportunity basis.

Certified Therapeutic

LIC. 05460

Java s Dave’

405.748.6888

405.528.6000

RSVP 405-850-5975

classifieds

Health

Day Spa

Check for daily specials

5005 N. Rockwell • 405.603.5300 Lic. 100895

This is a model

OPIATE ADDICTION TREATMENT

China Flower 7864 S. WESTERN @ I-240 (ACROSS FROM HAMPTON INN)

405.632.8989

We Relax Massage

Escape To Paradise LLC

60MINS $40 4209 NW 23

St. Suite 107

405.839.8009 • CC Accepted

1019 S Meridian Ave Oklahoma City I-40 & Meridian Open 7 days

New Me

Lic. 03439

405.605.0858

Lic. OCC 04591 • THIS IS A MODEL THIS IS A MODEL

New Me

Peony

OCC-09708

Attention

SALON OWNERS • MANICURISTS • PEDICURISTS All natural skin products • Nuskin • Epoch For Demo or Order Call 213-7745

Free Class - Hot Yoga 10:30am Every Sunday 4/12/15-6/28/15 bring your own mat Call for Appt. 213-7745 5959 NW Expressway Ste E

Join a Clinical Trial Today! · Free Treatment by our Doctors · Free Medication During the Trial · Get Paid for your Time and Travel HELP IS A PHONE CALL AWAY

405-525-2222

O K L A H O M A G A Z E T T E | M AY 6 , 2 0 1 5 | 4 7

BMW USA

bmwusa.com

HANDLING IS WHAT WE DO BEST. JACKIE COOPER IMPORTS, LLC.

Every BMW is engineered for superior performance and handling. And like the vehicle, our great customer handling is what makes Jackie Cooper Imports, LLC special. And, as part of BMW Ultimate ServiceÂŽ, when you purchase a new BMW, it covers maintenance costs for 4 years or 50,000 miles*. This can save you up to $2,000 in maintenance costs compared to other luxury vehicles.

Jackie Cooper Imports, LLC.

NO-COST MAINTENANCE

Up to 4 YRS / 50K MILES1

Jackie Cooper Imports, LLC . 14145 North Broadway Ext . Edmond, OK 73103-4120 . 866-597-5676

www.cooperbmw.com

*For model year 2015 or later vehicles sold or leased by an authorized BMW center on or after July 1, 2014, BMW Maintenance Program coverage is not transferable to subsequent purchasers, owners, or leasees. Please see bmwusa.com/UltimateService or ask your authorized BMW center for details. ÂŠ2014 BMW of North America, LLC. The BMW name, model names and logo are registered trademarks.

2015 320i Sedan

2015 328i xDrive Gran Turismo

319

Lease for 36 months.

429

2015 Z4 sDrive28i

Lease for 36 months.

429

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW 320i Sedan vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $319.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $35,300.00.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW 328i xDrive Gran Turismo vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $429.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $46,300.00.

* Lease financing available on 2015 BMW Z4 sDrive28i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $429.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $52,200.00.

2015 528i Sedan

2015 640i Coupe

2015 740Li Sedan

519

Lease for 36 months.

839

Lease for 36 months.

869

Lease for 24 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW 528i Sedan vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/ Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $519.00 for 24 months based on MSRP of $52,700.00.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW 640i Coupe vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $839.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $81,850.00.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW 740Li Sedan vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $869.00 for 24 months based on MSRP of $82,950.00.

2015 X1 sDrive28i

2015 X3 xDrive28i

2015 X5 xDrive35i

299

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW X1 sDrive 28i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $299.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $35,550.00.

* April Prices are subject to change

479

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW X3 xDrive28i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $479.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $44,400.00.

659

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW X5 xDrive35i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through April 30, 2015. Monthly Lease payments of $659.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $62,150.00.