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ON THE COVER

NEWS

OKC Pride Week is in full swing and runs through Sunday. Learn more about local businesses, events, music and related films in this week’s issue. See pages 4, 14, 30, 51 and 56 for stories, as well as our listings on page 16.

Community: LGBT-friendly businesses

City: transit advantages

News briefs

Election: Chip Carter

Congress: Steve Russell

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Chicken-Fried News Commentary, Letters

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Food & Drink: Elemental Coffee Roasters, Pizzeria Gusto, food briefs, The Red Cup, OKG eat: pork

Community: OKC Pride events

Best of OKC Nomination Ballot

Culture: Great Race

Shopping: Father’s Day fashion

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Safety: active shooter class

Visual Arts: A Foot in Two Worlds

OKG picks

Performing Arts: Funniest Person contest, Paseo Comedy Showcase

Visual Arts: Oklahoma’s Bennie Owens: Man for All Seasons

Active: Red Bull Reign, Father’s Day 5k, NAMIWalks Oklahoma

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Music: (We Are) Nexus, Summer Twilight Concert Series, Jerry Burgan, listings

Film: LGBT films, Lone Man’s Land, 7 Chinese Brothers

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news community OKC Pride’s publication. “It’s important to support the cause,” she said. It’s also good for her bottom line. Blair said she believes more businesses in Oklahoma City are willing to be openly supportive, or at least view the LGBT community as a market worth advertising to.

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Dignity dollars More local and national businesses of all sizes support LGBT civil rights as they discover support also improves their bottom line.

By Ben Felder

Ten years ago, Oklahoma voters approved a ban on gay marriage. Almost every year since, the state Legislature earns national media attention when it repeatedly proposes what many see as anti-LGBT legislation. Last year, the confusion and pushback experienced throughout the state after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered same-sex marriage was legal exemplified the reason Oklahoma is often branded as a state with a reputation of intolerance. However, local LGBT events and organizations, including the nonprofit group OKC Pride, which organizes OKC Pride Week each year, are finding increased support from the business community. “You have seen growing support from the larger corporations like Pepsi and Anheuser-Busch for awhile,” said Kindt Steven Myers, a Pride Week volunteer and local business owner. “It’s a trickle-down effect from those larger corporations to the small businesses.”

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National corporations like AnheuserBusch, State Farm and AT&T are sponsors of OKC Pride Week. “They realize all dollars are green,” Myers said. While some businesses might make a specific effort to support LGBT causes and events, most national companies view it as good business, especially as majority support for same-sex relationships continues to grow. Fifty-seven percent of Americans now support same-sex marriage, a 2015 Pew Research Center poll shows. Myers, creative director and owner of Kindt Events, said the legalization of same-sex marriage in Oklahoma and growing public dialogue related to LGBT issues can also impact a business’ customer base. “There is a learning curve for business, and many are trying to adapt not just in [advertising] but also customer service,” he said. “The wedding industry is not a bridal market anymore; it’s a wedding market as you see same-sex couples planning weddings.” Similarly, flipping through the pages of OKC Pride Guide, a glossy,

They realize all dollars are green. — Kindt Steven Myers

magazine-like publication highlighting this week’s myriad pride events, one can’t help but notice the healthy combination of local and national companies openly marketing their support of the LGBT community. The Skirvin Hotel echoes OKC Pride Week’s mantra: “Together, Equal, Proud.” Scott Cleaners tells readers to “wear it with pride.” The Oklahoma City Police Department seeks new recruits by stating that “serving a diverse community requires a diverse police department.” Leslie Blair is active in the Diversity Business Association, a local organization that seeks LGBT support from the business community. She’s also a State Farm agent who supported Pride Week with a paid placement in

Growth in corporate support for LGBT issues in Oklahoma follows a nationwide trend, including traditionally conservative states. This year, Indiana’s governor dropped a law that allowed retailers to refuse service to same-sex customers, and companies like GAP and Subaru threatened to pull their businesses from the state. Oklahoma is an “at-will” employment state, meaning employees can be fired for any or no reason, but anti-discrimination laws prohibit terminations based on race, color, national origin, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, age (over 40), sex, genetic history or military service. Employees also can’t be let go if they smoke or don’t smoke or use tobacco off the clock. However, it isn’t illegal to terminate employment due to sexual orientation or gender identity. Even so, LGBT civil rights advocacy group Equality Forum studies Fortune 500 companies to determine which ones include sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination prohibitions in their employment policies. A 2012 report shows 484 (96.8 percent) of that year’s Fortune 500 companies had adopted such prohibitions, including Oklahoma firms Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Devon Energy and ONEOK. In 2004, when the forum first starting tracking the data, only 323 (64.6 percent) had such rules. “As is often the case, private employers adapt more quickly than state government when it comes to protecting employees,” Troy Stevenson, executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, wrote in an Oklahoma Gazette guest commentary in February. “Being inclusive is good for business.” Myers said there is room for improvement. “I have had shoppers who say they just don’t want to be rejected again,” he said. “My goal in producing the wedding show and as an event planner and wedding producer is to highlight the businesses that are supportive and want the business from the LGBT community.” OKC Pride Week runs through Sunday. Read more about this week’s events on page 30.

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Midnight run Expansions to public transit make life easier for many OKC residents, but some say more services are still needed.

By Ben Felder

Oklahoma City’s investment in evening bus service has made Laquanna Tucker a better cook. “If I’m making dinner and I forget something, I can now run out on the bus to get something I need for the recipe,” said Tucker, who relies exclusively on public transportation. “Before [evening service], you couldn’t do that.” In January, Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority (COTPA), which manages the Embark

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Laquanna Tucker waits for a bus. bus system, extended two central routes to midnight, giving Oklahoma City bus service past 7 p.m. for the first time in decades. Even on the first day of evening service, many riders said their employment options were expanded. But accessibility to grocery stores, health care providers and other common destinations were also expanded. “You used to have to get everything

done by 6 or 7 p.m.,” Tucker said. “Now, I have more time.” When considering route expansions, Jason Ferbrache, COTPA’s director, said access to a hospital or grocery store is important, especially in parts of town that have been labeled food deserts because of a lack of access to stores that sell fresh produce. “They were a big part of the focus and discussions we had back in 2013 when we were working through that whole transit system analysis,” Ferbrache said about grocery store and healthcare facility access. “Accessibility to those types of services was very important. We definitely want to make sure we consider health care options when we consider service expansion.” A 2014 Embark rider survey found that 63 percent of bus users say they have better access to grocery stores because of the bus system and 55 percent said they had better access to health care facilities. After experiencing ridership growth on routes 23 and 11, the two routes with evening service, Ferbrache said two more routes will be extended to midnight sometime in early 2016. “[Night service] was such a new thing for Oklahoma City, and it was such a limited service, you’re thinking, ‘What are our expectations with night service?’” Ferbrache said. “It certainly has met or exceeded our expectations.” Routes 23 and 11 averaged over 2,200 evening riders a night when the buses began running until midnight in January, COTPA data shows. In April, ridership had hit over 3,300 a night. Routes 13 and 5 will expand to midnight sometime next year, Ferbrache said. Tucker said the night service is great but adding Sunday service would be even better. “You can’t get around on Sundays, and a lot of people have places to go,” Tucker said. “That’s what I would like to see next.” Oklahoma City had been the largest city in America without bus service past 7 p.m. prior to this year. It remains one of the largest cities without bus service on Sunday. Oklahoma City Council has named expanded transit as one of its priorities, and citizen surveys also

show an interest in expanded service. Following a route realignment last year, which saw many routes increase in frequency, COTPA faces minor expansions until a more detailed and financed approach is offered by city hall. Tyrone Cherry, who is a regular bus rider, said the city should be focused on adding more buses. “If they doubled or tripled the buses they have right now, they will really be in the game,” Cherry said. Cherry said he also wanted to see more crosstown buses run, rather than all routes having to go to a transfer center in downtown, which also requires purchasing another ticket to get back on another bus. “Everybody is tired of going to the transfer center,” Cherry said. “It can take hours to get someplace if it’s not in downtown and you aren’t in downtown.” Ferbrache said expanding bus service is always a goal but increased frequency also makes a difference. “We may not be serving a new location, but maybe we are serving it better,” Ferbrache said. “Instead of a bus coming by every 90 minutes, maybe it’s every 15.” Ferbrache said he also wants to focus on replacing his aging fleet. In a proposed budget to the city council last week, COTPA would like to spend $4 million in Fiscal Year 2015-16 to replace nine buses that are past their recommended useful life. Another nine buses are also in need of being replaced, Ferbrache said. Any improvement, whether new service or increased frequency, will have a positive impact on the lives of residents like Tucker who rely on the bus system. “I use the bus all the time, and so do a lot of people,” Tucker said. “The new night service makes a big difference for people like me, and I also think it will make more people ride the bus, which is good for the [system].”

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Even on the first day of evening service, many riders said their employment options were expanded. But accessibility to grocery stores, health care providers and other common destinations were also expanded.

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By the numbers 24 percent. That’s the percent increase in the number of riders compared to last year’s Oklahoma City Pro-Am Classic. This year’s event was May 29-31 in locations across downtown. The event drew many local racers and others from states such as Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado, Louisiana and Kansas, said Chad Hodges, race director.

Great Commitment Schools can be good at identifying problems and talking about solutions. However, implementation can be tricky. “Now the heavy lifting starts,” Mutiu Fagbayi, president of Performance Fact Inc., told the Oklahoma City Public Schools school board last week as he presented results of The Great Conversation, the monthslong process of identifying goals for the district. Fagbayi, whose Oakland-based firm facilitates community-led planning for school systems across the country, said that nearly half of them fail to follow through on the plans and procedures they adopt. Following his arrival nearly a year ago, Superintendent Robert Neu said he wanted the community to help establish a set of goals the district would hold itself accountable to. The Great Conversation included six months of public meetings with business leaders, educators, parents and community members. The results were used to formulate The Great Commitment, which includes seven specific goals: early literacy and numeracy, maximizing instructional time, student engagement and voice, mastery of core subjects, accelerated performance for underperforming groups, advanced tech-literate courses and the arts. Each goal has benchmarks the district hopes to reach. Neu said progress will be evaluated regularly. School board chairwoman Lynne Hardin (pictured) said if the board adopts the goals, which it is expected to do later this month, it needs to take it seriously. “It doesn’t matter in my mind what you implement unless you will do it with diligence,” Hardin said during a school board meeting last week. “If we are going to do this, then it is incumbent on this board to tell [the superintendent] that if we hire people and they aren’t going to do this, we need to remove [them]. This isn’t a maybe if we are going to commit to this as a community.”

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Before he took the stage, Blair Humphreys, a board member of Plaza District Association, commented on Oklahoma City’s constant love of celebrating its success. “It’s in our DNA,” he said recently at 2015’s Urban Pioneer Awards Luncheon, an annual event celebrating the neighborhood’s renewal and honoring this year’s honorees, Keith and Heather Paul, founders of A Good Egg Dining Group. The city’s renewal efforts are largely visible in downtown’s massive capital projects, but successes also worth celebrating are often embodied in ongoing neighborhood efforts, such as the Plaza District, and in the entrepreneurs who take risks in their efforts to improve the city’s economy and spirit. “It really validates everything we have done over the last 15 years,” Keith Paul said about the award. “It’s been fun rehabbing old buildings and building restaurants and hiring staff with spaces that have all the character.” A Good Egg operates Cheever’s Cafe, Republic Gastropub, Red PrimeSteak, Tucker’s Onion Burgers and Kitchen No. 324. “The food is great, we hope the hospitality is better than most, but we have a huge advantage with the atmosphere,” he said. This was the first major event since Cayla Lewis became Plaza District Association’s new executive director. Recently, the Pauls announced they’re opening another Republic Gastropub soon in Chisholm Creek and another Tucker’s Onion Burgers in Norman. They are in lease negotiations for a Midwest City location. They said they hope to eventually open Republic Gastropub restaurant in Tulsa, too. Their newest concept, The Drake, is scheduled to open in August.

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Myriad Botanical Gardens is a finalist for Urban Land Institute’s Urban Open Space Award, an annual competition that recognizes outstanding examples of successful small- and large-scale public spaces that socially enrich and revitalize the community’s economy. In addition to the gardens, other finalists include Marina Bay in Singapore and Millennium Park in Chicago. “The submissions from this year are representative of how quality urban open space has become more than just an amenity for cities,” jury chairman Michael Covarrubias said in a media statement. “The international diversity of the projects is reflective of how developers continually work to meet global demand by the public for the inclusion of healthy places in cities.” The winner will be announced in October, and a $10,000 cash prize will be awarded to the individual or organization most responsible for the creation of the winning open space project.

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Talking points As House District 85 heads into a primary vote on July 14, Republican candidate Chip Carter does an Oklahoma Gazette Q&A. by ben felder

Following the death of House District 85 Rep. David Dank in April, a special election was announced for the district, which includes northwest portions of the city. One Democrat and four Republicans filed for the Sept. 8 special election, and a Republican primary vote is scheduled for July 14. Prior to the Republican primary, Oklahoma Gazette will present Q&As with candidates, starting with first-time Republican candidate Chip Carter, vice president of corporate communications and business development at Jones Public Relations in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Gazette: Do you remember when you first became interested in politics? Chip Carter: When I was a sophomore in high school, my best friend worked at Safeway, and he complained about having to pay union dues. I came home and asked my dad, “Surely this is a mistake ... Brian’s only 14.” My dad said we weren’t a right-to-work state and if he wanted that job, he had to pay those dues. I remember saying “Dad, that’s not fair.” He said, “Well, that’s what right-to-work is about” and “You ought to go do something about it.” I honestly remember that, and it was always a pet issue for me, so in the late 1990s, I would talk about it and we had a governor in Frank Keating who supported it. A group of us ... would talk about how to bring it to a vote of the people.

We did, and I was the campaign manager for that campaign. OKG: Did you know Dank, and when did you decide to run? CC: We were not terribly close; I don’t want to overstate it. We would talk three or four times a year. My son would drive a go-kart in the Fourth of July parade with a Dank sign on it. I had just talked to David on the Wednesday before he passed. He said, “Let’s get together in a couple weeks.” And he died two days later. It was a punch to the gut. Then I got two phone calls from some friends who asked if I was going to run. In politics, people immediately start planning, and I got a couple more calls, and by Monday, I began to think it was something I should consider. OKG: What about Dank’s work do you want to continue? CC: Dank was much like my old boss Sen. (James) Inhofe in that he was very direct and honest. He had a reputation for telling people exactly how he was going to vote. He was polite but straightforward. That’s something I think I am, and I would like to have the same reputation. [Dank] had two issues that were really important to him: The first was tax incentives and asking if they are transparent and are working. The other was senior issues. OKG: What issues do you believe are important to HD85 voters? continued on next page

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news CC: I have been knocking doors almost every afternoon for six weeks ... People ask, “Are you going to create jobs and grow the economy?” If not tied for No. 1, it’s an immediate No. 2, and that’s education reform. The public — certainly the Republican public — is sick and tired of mediocre education, and they want reform. They are ready for bold measures because the status quo simply isn’t working. That’s something that is easy for me to respond to. OKG: It sounds like you support school choice. CC: I’m an absolute advocate for allowing parents greater control on where they send their children, whether that’s [via] vouchers, education savings accounts or greater charter schools. Pretty much any measure like that, I’m going to be supporting and embracing as well. OKG: Democrats see this as a seat they might win. How important is this seat to the Republican Party?

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CC: I think because it’s a special election, the Democrats are particularly targeting it. I think [Democratic candidate Cyndi Munson] proved herself last time to be a hard worker, and I fully expect that again. I tell people that I fully expect this to be a difficult race. I have three primary opponents, each of which I believe could win. I think this is an important race. OKG: If elected, what legislation would you want to pitch first? CC: I don’t think I’m ready to say that yet. I have some ideas and thoughts I’m keeping close to the vest. I think it’s not outside the realm of possibility that there could be a special session later this year if the economy falls. The budget has some optimistic revenue projections to hit its marks, but I won’t be surprised if we have to come back in to try and fill some gaps. I’m prepared, if I’m elected, to quickly get to work.

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Tough talk The representative of Oklahoma’s 5th District discusses immigration and marijuana.

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topics that don’t always attract large attention in a sound bite media culture. Following that town hall, Oklahoma Gazette caught up with the freshman congressman to discuss a few topics, including immigration reform. Russell believes border security must improve prior to any type of immigration reform legislation. While he said a giant wall is not the answer, he believes increased border security personnel and improved technology for tracking illegal immigrants can work. Russell referenced a bill from Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, as one that has some potential for bipartisan support later this year. It would spend an additional $10 billion for border security in the form of agents and equipment. “Border security has to be improved before any type of immigration reform,” Russell said. “Before you can deal with a puddle on the floor, you’ve got to stop the leak.” However, Russell does see a need to make changes to the nation’s immigration process, including a possible increase in the number of visas that are issued. “I think our numbers — in terms of legal worker permits, permanent residency and permanent asylum — I think we have to reexamine them and ask, ‘Do we have enough?’” Russell said. “Should we have more of the worker’s visas? Should we have more of permanent residencies? And as we do, I think we should have a system that gets us to the point where if a Nigerian is coming here and wants to work in

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Congressman Steve Russell points to an elderly woman with her hand raised, signaling he is ready to take her question. Following a 20-minute, off-the-cuff speech on foreign trade agreements and federal budget deals, Russell is asked about a topic he is fully aware of but has no interest in giving any attention. “This Jade Helm stuff is just the most insane, crazy stuff I have ever seen,” Russell said to the woman’s question about a military training exercise this summer that has ignited conspiracy theories from conservative bloggers and cable news pundits. Called Jade Helm 15, the training exercise has drawn concern from some that the military is planning a hostile takeover of Texas, and Gov. Greg Abbott recently directed the Texas State Guard to keep a lookout for any military advancement into Texas. “As a soldier, it is a bucket of nonsense,” said Russell, who is a veteran of the U.S. Army and served several tours in combat zones, including Tikrit, Iraq. Russell wears his deep conservative beliefs on his sleeve and will openly criticize the president for what he views as unconstitutional practices. But during an Oklahoma City town hall meeting last month while on congressional recess, Russell demonstrated an unwillingness to cater to extreme right-wing viewpoints or fuel the small crowd with vitriolic speech towards the president. He has his complaints about President Barack Obama, but his town hall speech centered more on foreign trade agreements, military funding and other

the Bakken oil fields, then let that guy in. Who cares that we have capped this draconian number? If we’ve got people who want to work in our economy and do good things, I think we’ve got to reexamine the number totals.” Russell also stated that people who enter the U.S. illegally should not be given the same treatment as someone who entered legally. “People who have done it lawfully should always have priority,” he said. When asked about granting citizenship to undocumented residents currently in the country, Russell said he is strongly against amnesty. But he also doesn’t see mass deportation as an answer. “I do not ever see a day that we would put any immigrants on trains and cart them to the border,” Russell said. “I don’t believe that is ever a reality for the United States to see.” But before Russell is willing to consider any changes to current

immigration laws, he is adamant that the border has to be secured first. “Let’s stop the flow,” Russell said. “After we stop the flow, then let’s have these discussions of what to do with those who are here.” The topic of rescheduling the federal classification of marijuana has also been discussed in Congress over the past year, including some attempts to open the door to medical marijuana in limited uses. Russell said he is opposed to any legalization of marijuana for any use. “It is a slippery slope,” he said. “I know people will cite this drug treatment study or this cannabis oil study; you get it from all different angles. But the Oklahoma delegation has been very, very consistent with this. We have seen a lot of problems with the Colorado laws and a lot of problems that I don’t think we need in Oklahoma.”

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Talk about old-school. Workers at Emerson High School uncovered untouched chalk drawings on slate blackboards almost 100 years old, The Oklahoman reported. In three classrooms, MAPS for Kids renovations revealed pilgrim history, penmanship lessons, personal hygiene tips and music, math and literature work. A young girl in a bright pink dress walks next to a turkey on one blackboard drawing. Next to it is a calendar from December 1917. City and district officials told the newspaper that they’re working out ways to preserve the education artifacts.

Just … meh

Just so you know, former Republican U.S. Senator from Oklahoma Tom Coburn doesn’t really like most of the Republican presidential candidates either. During a recent

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FRiED NEWS interview he did with Sirius XM radio, he knocked out Jeb, brother o’ George W. and son to George H.W., saying, “I don’t think that America will elect another Bush president.” He “has a bone to pick” with Ben Carson over his opinion of President Barack Obama. Rick Perry is not “capable.” George Pataki? Well, he’s a little more promising, and Coburn said he’s “probably smart enough” to do the job, though he lacks the requisite level of conservatism. Rick Santorum? Nope. Scott Walker and Ted Cruz are “not ready for primetime.” Rand Paul? Nope. His foreign policy “scares [Coburn] to death.” Well, dang. Who does he like

then? Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina received lukewarm reactions. He even said Fiornia is “smart, savvy and experienced.” Marco Rubio? Yep. “Of all that are out there right now, probably my favorite,” Coburn said.

Test fail

The State Department of Education flunked another set of writing tests taken by fifth- and eighth-grade students. Deemed too unreliable to count, this is the second year Oklahoma state writing tests were discarded. Even after a change in test vendors, test results showed grades too high from poor students and too low from good students. (Though, we’re guessing, if all the tests were “too high,” they’d go ahead and keep them.) And, as the Legislature hasn’t officially addressed the issue, we should probably expect more tests to be thrown out next year.

Look, nobody wants kids to fail a reading test, but at some point, the state has to live with the results of the tests it gives unless it wants the parents who care about their children’s educations to be reading “Now Leaving Oklahoma” as they pack up and head to another state.

Great mom

An Oklahoma City mother should be nominated for mother of the year after she tried smuggling marijuana to her son in prison — in a Bible. Did we say mother of the year? No, no, no. That’s not right. The mother, 62-year-old Ilona McChesney, was held at the Oklahoma County jail Tuesday on drug distribution charges, according to a story in the Tulsa World. Her other son said his brother wanted to trade the drugs to get better food and that his mother just wanted to help. All my mother did for me was everything except smuggle illegal

contraband into jail for me. Thanks for nothing, Mom.

All wet?

Not so fast, Mr. Inhofe. Oklahoma’s U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and environmental activists see the world in different ways, and they also took very different findings from a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on health risks associated with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. So FactCheck.org got to the bottom of the matter by actually reading and analyzing the EPA’s study into the potential impact oil and gas fracking could have on drinking water resources. Inhofe said the EPA report “confirms” that the practice is “safe.” However, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is sure the same report proves contamination. Let’s roll the tape. FactCheck.org confirmed the study “in fact reported specific cases of water contamination.”

However, the contamination was not as widespread as the NRDC claimed. “The reality of the situation is more nuanced,” FactCheck. org concluded.

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Anything but the eggs! Your daily McMuffin might soon become a thing of dreams. Avian flu already has impacted farms and chickens across the country, and officials are worried this is just the beginning. Since December, the bird flu epidemic has hit Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin hard. PBS Newshour reported 25 percent of Iowa’s hens and a large number of Minnesota’s turkeys were infected. CNN Money reported that “35 million egg-laying hens” have perished but most of the infected birds produced “breaker eggs,” which are used to create liquids and powders that are sold to fast food chains. However, breaker egg buyers supplement their deficit by buying eggs from grocery stores where

you and I purchase them for use in our homes, in turn creating more demand and causing prices to spike. CNN Money also reported that low egg supplies create a ripple effect that raises the prices of other foods made with eggs, including mayonnaise, baked goods and ice cream. It warned that consumers should expect these items to get more expensive over the next few months. H-E-B, a Texas-based grocery store, is now rationing sales in what spokesperson Dya Campos calls “a proactive move to keep prices low and availability strong for Texas families.” And fast food chains, such as Whataburger, have shortened their breakfast hours. So far, Oklahoma hens are unscathed, but the Department of Agriculture is taking precautions anyway. “Officials with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture (ODA) are working with local farmers to increase biosecurity and to prevent the virus from spreading

to the state,” reported KOCO.com. Rod Hall, a doctor of veterinary medicine with the ODA, told KOCO. com that egg prices will increase because “1 in 5 table eggs are laid in Iowa.”

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It’s a girl! Er, it’s a woman! Oklahoma City Fire Department’s first female operations district chief was named recently. Cathy Hayes is a 19-year veteran of the fire department and one of 17 female employees, News9.com reported. “When we are all decked out in our gear and everything we look exactly the same. You can’t tell if you’re a man or a woman,” Hayes told the television station. There are other women in other chief roles, too. In fact, the department is hiring. Learn more at okc.gov/fire/employment.

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A lot to be proud of, but fight isn’t over BY TROY STEVENSON

June is LGBT Pride month. For most, this means giant parties, parades, festivals and rainbows for the entire world to see. But as pride becomes more mainstream and integrated into popular culture, it is important to remember that in 2015, Pride will be historic. Any day now, the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to issue a decision that will resolve the national debate on the freedom for same-gender couples to marry. Pride began in 1969 with the Stonewall Riots in New York City, only 46 years ago. If the court’s decision is in favor of equality, as expected, it will represent a quantum leap in the arena of civil rights. However, full and lived equality

encompasses a lot more than just marriage equality. In the eight months since marriages began in Oklahoma, there has been ample proof that many challenges remain for the LGBT community beyond marriage. It is still legal in 35 states — including Oklahoma — to discriminate in the arenas of housing, employment and service based on one’s gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. In 46 states — including Oklahoma — it is legal to abuse LGBT youth in the name of so-called “conversion therapy.” Oklahoma does not even have an LGBT-inclusive hate crimes law. The fight for marriage has captured the attention of the nation, but even if we win that battle, full and lived equality is still far from our reality.

There is also the danger of a greater backlash after a national marriage resolution, greater than the one we have already seen in 2015. In states around the nation, we saw attempts by state legislators to roll back the progress that has been made. They proposed laws to create legal segregation with “turn away the gays” legislation. Oklahoma in particular faced an onslaught of anti-LGBT bills, with 18 during the 2015 legislative session. While all of these bills were defeated, the statement was clear: The battle isn’t over. And as fair-minded Oklahomans from all walks of life proved this year, we are more than ready to continue working for freedom and equality. In the past year, Oklahomans witnessed their brothers and sisters,

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friends and neighbors, mothers, fathers and children get married to their partners. And what they discovered was that the world did not quit turning. In fact, the only thing that changed was how happy their loved ones had become. It is this momentum, this revelation, that is changing hearts and minds. As anyone who has ever studied the civil rights movement can tell you, it did not end with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. That is where it really began. So, as we celebrate Pride this month, we have a lot of achievements to be proud of, but chief among them is the momentum we take in to the next phase of the equality movement. Troy Stevenson is the executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, a statewide organization focused on public education and advocacy on behalf of Oklahoma’s LGBT Community.

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. Color problem

Slices of reality are slowly cut away from the apple of delusion that masquerades as American justice when we see videos showing how the law enforcement establishment denigrates the lives of African-Americans. American society was created by people with biased attitudes towards people of color, but especially Africans with dark or black skin complexions. Historian Gary B. Nash noted in his book, The Great Fear, that the English were familiar with people of skin complexions darker than their own because of years of trading in the Middle East as well as North Africa. He writes, “Black — and its opposite, white — were emotion-laden words. Black meant foul, dirty, wicked, malignant and disgraceful.” That attitude continues today because it became part of the

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fabric of the European American psyche. Looking back through history, we learn that even though America made efforts to abolish slave trade in the 1770s, it was not until 1808 that Congress ended trade. However, slavery did not end. Nash noted that “after 1790, the free Negro, in both the North and the South, was subjected to increasing hostility, discrimination and segregation.” The European American exerted total control over Africans/African-Americans since slavery and the tool they used to justify that control was the invention of a white and black race. Any effort to free the African-American would suggest that he was capable of living with European Americans on an equal basis; this proposition they would never concede because their belief system was based on black inferiority. So, ethnic bigotry, race, was introduced into the American psyche as normal and correct. America has always been perceived by European Americans as their country. All non-Anglo-Saxons are here through the their generosity. Too often, some Americans associate denigration of the African-American with only the South. Not so, said Ronald Takaki, author of The Black, Child-Savage. He noted that the negative “image of the Negro served a need shared by whites, North and South;

it performed an identity function for white Americans during a period when they were groping for self-definition.” What do these historical references and some European American attitudes have to do with the mentioned videos? Simply this: That attitude is reflected in many law enforcement actions, regardless of geographical location. So, we can recognize that behavior as part of a system. For over 300 years, officers have acted with impunity against African-Americans. We also know that the law enforcement agents do not act independently but under the auspices of an administration. The primary element that keeps this system operating is the false concept of races. The children and grandchildren of closet bigots were told the lie relative to

democracy that life, liberty, freedom was for all people, that everyone should be respected and valued. So now, when these children and grandchildren see an injustice committed, they come to the aid of the victims, which is exactly what the bigots do not want to see. The keepers of the system are fighting with everything they have to hold it in place, but it is too late; society continues to change. With every video recording an injustice against African-Americans and other people of color, another slice of the apple is removed and the reality slowly and painfully comes to the light. — Paul R. Lehman Edmond Lehman is a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. Read more of this letter online at okgazette.com.

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YOUTH James and the Giant Peach, an orphaned boy living with his awful aunts discovers a magic peach and befriends the bugs living inside it who take him on an adventure to New York City, 10 a.m. & noon, Jun. 17-19; 2 p.m., Jun. 20-21. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre. org. WED-SUN Beekeeping for Bee-ginners, observe a working hive and hear beekeeper, JD Hill’s tips and tricks on what to expect when maintaining your own; best for ages 15 and up, 10 a.m., Jun. 20. Children’s Garden, 301 W. Reno & Harvey Ave., 445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens. com. SAT Free Crafts for Kids, make a fishing pole picture frame for Father’s Day, 11 a.m.-3 p.m, Jun. 20. Lakeshore Learning Store, 6300 N. May Ave., 858-8778, lakeshorelearning.com. SAT Kids in the Kitchen, cooking school teaching young people the basics of the fine art of food preparation, as well as an understanding of food safety and basic nutrition; ages 9 to 12, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Jun. 23-24. Northeast Regional Health & Wellness Campus, 2600 NE 63rd St., occhd.org. TUE-WED Art Adventures, young artists are invited to experience art through the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw, 10:30 a.m., Jun. 23. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. TUE

Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. memphis Redbirds Play ball! The Dodgers play the Memphis Redbirds 7:05 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 6:05 Sunday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive. Catch the Dodgers against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox 7:05 p.m. Tuesday; 11:05 a.m. Wednesday, June 24; and 7:05 p.m. June 25 before the team heads to Nashville. Admission is $8-$22. Visit milb.com or call 218-1000.

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HAPPENINGS Shop Hop, explore all that Automobile Alley has to offer; open house events at shops, live music, street artists, discounts at local restaurants and more, 6-9 p.m., Jun. 18. Automobile Alley, 1015 N. Broadway Ave., 488-2555, automobilealley.org. THU Zoobilation, wildest party in town hosted by the Oklahoma Zoological Society; no-tie gala with food from some of OKC’s favorite restaurants, drinks, silent auction and live music, 7-11 p.m., Jun. 19. Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Pl., 424-3344, okczoo.com. FRI

Dawg Dayz Oklahoma County 4-H hosts its Dawg Dayz adoption and fundraising event 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday at OSU Oklahoma County Extension Office, 2500 NE 63rd St. Dog adoptions, microchipping, vaccinations, demonstrations and service activities, as well as hourly demonstrations and service activities, including how to make homemade dog treats and toys, will be available. Proceeds benefit 4-H youth development programs in Oklahoma City. Visit oces.okstate.edu/oklahoma/4-h/.

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Wednesday, June 24 Premiere on Film Row, family-friendly block party featuring film screenings, live music, art exhibitions and food trucks, 7-10 p.m., Jun. 19. Film Row, 700 W. Sheridan Ave., filmrowokc.com. FRI Deep Deuce Block Party, celebrate the opening of the OK Sea container project & explore Deep Deuce and all it has to offer, 3-7 p.m., Jun. 20. Bella Vici, 1 NE 2nd St., 702-9735, bellavici.com. SAT The Great Race, world’s premiere old car rally featuring 120 of the world’s finest antique automobiles, 4:30 p.m., Jun. 21. Bricktown, Mickey Mantle Drive. SUN Preservation 101: Strategies for Preserving Historic Resources, workshop will providing information on ways to preserve, promote, and revitalize them the communities historic buildings, 1-3 p.m., Jun. 22. Overholser Mansion, 405 NW 15th St., 525-5325, overholsermansion. org. MON

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FOOD Garden Party, brewery tasting and date auction benefiting the Children’s Hospital Foundation; featured breweries include Coop Ale Works, Anthem Brewing Co., Black Mesa Brewing Co. and Artisan Ales, 6-9 p.m., Jun. 18. Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., bleugarten.com. THU Fiesta Friday, an evening with music, food, beer, dancing, games and a bit of Capitol Hill history, 6-10 p.m., Jun. 19. Calle Dos Cinco, 319 SW 25th St., historiccapitolhill.com. FRI Foodie Foot Tour, food tour taking you through the beautiful Deep Deuce neighborhood; learn some of its history, sample the foods at several restaurants, and meet some great people, 6-9 p.m., Jun. 20. The Wedge, Deep Deuce, 230 NE 1st St., 270-0660, thewedgeokc.com. SAT

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PERFORMING ARTS The Burgans & Chan Songs & Stories Concert, an engaging and entertaining experience that takes the audience back to those days of the classic folk era with some memorable tunes, 7 p.m., Jun. 18. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. 5th St., Edmond, 359-7989, ucojazzlab.com. THU Steve McGrew, country comedian who has appeared on MTV, VHI and show such as Showtime’s Full Frontal Comedy, Comedy on the Road, An Evening at the Improv and many others, 8 p.m., Jun. 18; 8 & 10:30 p.m., Jun. 19-20. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. THU-SAT

Guys and Dolls, UCO’s Sumerstock Productions presents the classic 1950’s musical, 7:30 pm., Jun. 19; 2 & 7:30 p.m., Jun. 20; 2 p.m., Jun. 21. UCO Mitchell Hall Theater, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 974-2000, uco.edu. FRI-SUN Company, show following an anti-hero bachelor Robert as he makes his way through a series of encounters with single women as well as his married friends and in the end realizes being alone is alone, not alive, 8 p.m., 19-20. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 282-2800, thepollard.org. FRI-SAT

VISUAL ARTS A Foot in Two Worlds, exhibit by sculptor and storyteller Holly Wilson that tells a story through seven one-of-a-kind sculptures and seven largescale photographs. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 951-000, oklahomacontemporary.org. 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. 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. 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. Audubon and the Art of Birds, view an extensive collection of the original ‘double-elephant’ù prints from The Birds of America, the work that made John James Audubon famous. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

For all of life’s celebrations... Eleazar Velazquez, self taught artist whose work explores the relationship between multiculturalism and geometric shapes with influences such as Kahlo and Picasso. Paseo Gallery One, 2927 Paseo St., 5244544, facebook.com/paseogalleryone. Emphasis on a Colour Environment, art by painter and curator Amena Butler who investigates color and ways hues in differing compositions impact our environment. Urban Roots, 322 NE 2nd St., 297-9891, urbanrootsokc.com. Father’s Day Painting and Pints, treat Dad to great food, brews and fun; Wine & Palette and Flint are partnering for painting on The Patio and at the end of the time dad will walk away with his own custom pub sign, 3-6 p.m., Jun. 21. Flint, 15 N. Robinson Ave., 605-0657, flintokc.com. SUN Illuminate, a group show composed of a variety of mediums, united by the camaraderie of the women binding together to further their cause and each other as working artists. Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., Norman, 360-1162, mainsite-art.com.

Relics from the Akashic Prairie, body of work inspired by dreams, spiritual readings, random thoughts and moments of synchronicity comprised of mixed media including clay, wood, paint and glass by artist Molly O’Connor. The Project Box, 3003 Paseo St., 609-3969, theprojectboxokc.com. The Toy Maker, The Bizarrely Cool Creations of Allin KHG, creations range from the sexually humorous to dark depths of laughable; a collection of recreated ‘once toys’ù which have been reanimated to amuse, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Jun. 19-21. Kasum Contemporary Fine Arts, 1706 NW 16th St., 604-6602, kasumcontemporary.com. FRI-SUN

BOOKS Don’t Be Shy, Oklahoma author Ralph Cissne reading and signing of Don’t Be Shy, Poetry of a Single Life, reception to follow, 8-9:30 a.m., Jun. 17. chi studio + gallery, 2300 NW 17th St., 401-0540, chi-okc.com. WED

Jan Hellwege: My Blue Mind and KB Keuteman: Manitou Spirit Collection, oil paintings by artist Jan Hellwege and mixed media works by KB Keuteman. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

Jerry Burgan Book Signing, co-founder of We Five will sign his book, Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution, 4-5 p.m., Jun. 18. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 340-9202, bestofbooksedmond.com. THU

Klair Larason, new works filled with a mixture of vibrant colors, fluid shapes and textures from both manmade and natural orgin. DNA Galleries, 1709 NW 16th St., 525-3499, dnagalleries.com.

To Kill a Mockingbird Page to Screen, a lively discussion of this acclaimed novel and its screen adaptation; discuss favorite parts of the book, scenes from the movie, famous quotes and more, 7 p.m., Jun. 18. Barnes & Noble, 6100 N. May Ave., 843-9300, barnesandnoble.com. THU

Pencil Light, a series of drawings inspired local poet Jane Vincent Taylor’s newly published book, Pencil Light. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd St., 815-9995, artspaceatuntitled.org.

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If making a great sandwich was as easy as stacking together a few basic elements, Subway would be the king. The truth is, real sandwich glory requires a little alchemy. Elemental Coffee Roasters, 815 N. Hudson Ave., has an alchemist named Elena Hughes. When she left The Wedge Pizzeria, she brought a bevy of foods with her to the coffee

shop and has transformed what had been a caffeine refueling station into a Midtown breakfast and lunch destination. Stop in around noon and experience the wizardry of the P.C.P. ($9 with a side). Unlike the narcotic of the same name, this wrap has an all-natural high from a peanut-cilantro pesto paired with chicken, spinach, spicy cheddar and jalapeños. There’s heat here, but the flavor of the pesto is where the power truly lies. What if you don’t like meat? If you’re some kind of flesh-hating freak, you can get your spice from a Smokie Dokie ($8.50) filled with barbecued tofu. Say what you will about that slab of soy, but it sure soaks up the smoke. This sandwich is Elemental’s version of the bánh mì; Elemental heaps on pickled daikon radish, slivered carrots, jalapeño and avocado. I still like meat, but I liked this, too. The Joan Rivers ($9.50) is the mirror image of the Costanza ($9) with sauerkraut, stone-ground mustard and grilled Big Sky German rye except Joan has had some work done, so she has marinated tempeh bacon and vegan cheese instead of the Costanza’s delicious turkey pastrami and gruyere. Do you like cauliflower? Probably not. Cauliflower is the stuff left over when someone brings a veggie tray to the office. (Just kidding. I know

from left Elena Hughes, manager of Elemental Coffee, holds C’est La Brie and Sweet Jesus sandwiches and a salted chocolate chip cookie. it’s all left, except the ranch dressing. Oklahoma!) However, when Elemental roasts cauliflower and stacks it on rye bread with mashed sweet potato, tomato, gruyere cheese and a runny fried egg,

it is called — quite aptly — the Sweet Jesus ($9). It’s a version of a sandwich Hughes first had during a trip to a farmers market in Santa Barbara, California. The sandwiches were so scrumptious, people stood there eating them as egg yolk ran down their arms. You don’t have to stand when you’re eating the Sweet Jesus, but it’s worth it if you want to. But the gold (Au) medal winner at Elemental is the one sandwich Elena has never eaten. The C’est La Brie ($9.50) has grilled ham, fig jam and melted Brie cheese on white Big Sky bread with toasted Parmesan cheese on one side. Hughes does not dig on swine, but oh, she should for this sandwich. Ham and Brie go together like me and money: It’s so delightful, and then suddenly, it’s all gone. Fig jam is the new bacon, in that I will eat both of them and will not share with you. Also, it makes everything better. Before leaving, I implore you to get a salted chocolate chip cookie at the counter. It’s tremendous. The whole menu at Elemental is a delight. Now if we could only convince it to stay open for dinner.

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Liver is the line that separates my father from me. Growing up, it was clear that his tastes and mine were aligned. Bleu cheese dressing. Lemon pepper seasoning. Spicy sauces. Prime rib with lots of horseradish. But I could never get into liver — a dish my mother only ever pretended she might serve us — while my father would sometimes seek it out. Still, the folly of youth is often softened with age, and as I am ripe to the point of being mushy, I thought things might be different at Pizzeria Gusto, 2415 N Walker Ave. I ordered the chopped liver crostini ($8) and ... nope. Still not a fan. There’s nothing wrong with it. As liver goes, it was tempting. The capers and tomatoes and onions and bacon helped. When it came to another piece of crostini vs. another slice of pizza, however, I chose the latter. Another appetizer has captured my heart, though: Gusto Hot Wings ($9), a bowl full of beautifully fried chicken drumettes tossed in a Sriracha-based hot sauce. The burn is mild, but the flavor is divine. (Somewhere online, there is a slo-mo video of me devouring a wing in one bite.) The bruschetta ($10) is a good choice, though with only three, it’s not much to share. Instead, I would heartily recommend the fried artichoke hearts ($10) with harissa aioli for dipping. These hot little bites are addictive and delicious. Not that you’re looking for a

reason to skip the pizza, but if you’d like one heck of a salad, get the tuna conserva ($12). Starting with a base of arugula, the conserva mixes oilpacked tuna with cannellini beans, green beans, tomato, olives, onion and a lemon vinaigrette. As we enter into the dregs of the Oklahoma summer, May’s rainy wonderland a distant memory, this salad is fresh, cool, crisp and satisfying.

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Let’s talk about pizza. As you might have reckoned from the name, Pizzeria Gusto does serve pizza. These are Neapolitanstyle pies, which means they cook up incredibly quickly in their custom ovens without overdoing the toppings. There is no pepperoni on the menu. Sorry, salted meat fans. There is, however, soppressata, which is a slightly less pungent cured sausage. The $14 pizza is straight to the point: soppressata, peppers, tomato sauce and cheese. If you want something even more simple, let me point you to Margherita the Queen ($10). It’s sauce, cheese, basil and extra virgin olive oil. This is actually a great starting point pizza, especially if you’re new to this style of cooking. Get a sense of the sauce and the cheese before you begin piling on more toppings. When you do start piling them on, I very much enjoyed the cherry tomato pizza ($12). The sweet tomatoes melt under the heat while

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The Red Cup was born when Kurt Orth got tired of drunk people. The coffee shop and vegetarian restaurant turns 20 this year, which Orth said seemed impossible during the rocky start. He opened The Red Cup in 1995 with former partner Kelly Sawyer. They were veterans of the restaurant business, and he said they were sick of the daily grind and putting up with late hours and inebriated patrons. “I’d always enjoyed coffee shops, so we decided to open one,” he said. After scouting possible locations across the city, they found a home at 3122 N. Classen Blvd. Orth’s father bought the property and rented it to him. The business faced struggles from the get-go. When it was purchased, the city told him the property was zoned C-3, for commercial use, but when he applied for permits, they said it was actually zoned for a residence. It took a year to iron out those issues and make the necessary repairs. When they did open, there were still tools sitting out in the dining room. It couldn’t wait to be perfect, Orth said. If they waited for perfection, they would never open. “We probably made $18 all day, and that was my parents and Kelly’s parents and friends coming in for coffee,” he said.

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Now a haven for vegetarians and vegans, The Red Cup initially offered just three sandwiches and didn’t shy away from meat. Orth and Sawyer slowly built the menu up, and when Sawyer and her sister Jerry Logan opted to leave the business five years in, Orth hired a new cook who just happened to be vegan. “She could cook meat quite well, even without tasting it, but she did vegetarian specials all the time,” he said. “The ones that became popular were added to the menu.” At the same time, during a trip to San Francisco, Orth decided to become a vegetarian himself, thanks to Daniel Quinn’s novel Ishmael. It was an economical and environmental decision, and from then on, any addition to the menu was vegetarian.

“Then, it was like, why be 95 percent vegetarian? Why not go all the way?” Orth said. New head chef Patrick Clark II, though a meat eater, has taken The Red Cup’s vegetarian ethos and run with it. His focus on seasonality and variety has brought new life to the restaurant. “Only cooking a vegetarian menu forces you to be creative,” Clark said. “I’m always looking for ways to get the flavors I want and give customers something new.” Orth said he hired Clark when he was 16 years old to do the “lethal chores” of the restaurant business but has seen him grow and progress into a top-notch chef. In fact, Clark has bought into the business as a partial owner, which ensures the continued services of “Chef Beave” into the future.

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What they serve is not necessarily health food, though one can eat there and easily keep an eye on calories. Orth describes it as “vegetarian comfort food,” with favorites such as its renowned Frito chili pie and veggie burgers. “It’s not on the menu if I don’t like it,” Orth said. “I started out in this business thinking about how to please people, but I realized that you can serve what you like and people trust that.” The menu isn’t the only eclectic thing about The Red Cup. The clientele is a reliable mix of businessmen in suits, rockers with dyed-bright hair, college kids, old hippies, young hippies and everyone else.

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Orth likens it to the preCommunist Chinese teahouses. Here, as there, everyone is equal once they walk through the door. “We want a situation where all kinds can come together,” he said. “We don’t have any one kind of people that overwhelms the others.”

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We probably made $18 all day, and that was my parents and Kelly’s parents and friends coming in for coffee. — Kurt Orth This is the kind of laid-back business he dreamed of when he tired of late shifts with drunken customers, and at 20 years in, his wish is that he was a decade younger with the staff he has now. “I wish I could be 10 years younger with Beave here,” he said. The Red Cup has an anniversary party each year, but at 20 years, Orth said this one will be bigger than most. More details will soon be announced. Fans of the coffeehouse-turned-vegetarianhaven should mark their calendars for July 25. Or they can do like the regulars do — the ones who have come in daily for more than a decade — and belly up to the bar tomorrow for a cup of coffee and whatever special is cooking up back in the kitchen.

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High hog It’s a little-discussed fact that, over the course of The Muppets, there have been 17 different Miss Piggys. Every time a contract dispute came up, the set would get quiet for a few days before a new pig in a blonde wig would show up, and the craft services table was suddenly stocked with BLTs, pork rinds and biscuits made with lard. Now that you’re hungry, here are some of OKC’s finest pork dishes. — by Greg Elwell, photos by Mark Hancock and Garett Fisbeck

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Taste buds take note. Guernsey Park recently stopped serving its tremendously delicious Thit Kho Tau pork and egg dish, but have no fear — it is not giving up on swine. This glorious half-rack of pork ribs is stacked with meat and glazed with an intoxicating mix of oyster sauce, brown sugar and Sriracha. On the side is tart and tasty kimchi cucumbers and a red chile and garlic slaw.

The first time a child who has eaten ubiquitous cinnamon Hot Tamales candies orders actual tamales in a restaurant can be traumatic. Help make their transition into eating real food less fearful by making sure they get pork tamales from Tamales El Patio. The richly seasoned filling pairs beautifully with the sweet corn masa exterior for a dish that is as satisfying as it is simple. If only it would sell bite-size versions in boxes at the movie theater.

“BUN me. It’s pronounced B-U-N me,” said someone who is no longer a friend. Because what kind of friend brings pronunciation into question while you’re eating a delicious bánh mì sandwich from Quoc Bao Bakery? I’ll tell you what kind: an enemy. Let her go eat a gross turkey sub at a sandwich chain. Besides, you have a new best friend: those achingly tasty shredded pork and ham “buns.”

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How do you make a pulled pork sandwich better? Stuff it full of macaroni and cheese, of course! That’s what the owners of The Mule did when they created the Macaroni Pony. Served on a piece of jalapeño cornbread, it’ll kick your hunger in the gut like a donkey. Keep yourself from feeling like too much of an ass by ordering some fried cheese curds while you wait.

Hear ye, hear ye! All hail his majesty the Cajun King, regent by the grace of the buffet, defender of the pile of empty plates, head of the catfish fryer and server of the blackened pork chops. There is no shortage of swine cooked up in the Kingdom of Cajun, but none is quite as magnificent as the blackened pork chops. Put down some rice, grab a chop and pour a little gumbo on top and you’ll be living like royalty, too.

The Bible says God took a rib from Adam to make Eve, but what it doesn’t say is how long it took the Big Guy to convince Adam not to eat her. Even in the Garden of Eden, everybody knew how good ribs were. Good news: Now you can just buy pork ribs at George’s Happy Hog BarB-Q, where the meat pulls away from the bone easier than a snake convincing a naked lady to eat an apple.

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This year’s theme, “Together, Equal, Proud,” rings true as organizers prepare for the largest OKC Pride festival in 28 years, said Michael Clark, OKC Pride president. “Pride isn’t just about a big party, and it isn’t just about gay marriage,” he said. “The LGBTQ community has a voice, and it’s louder and harder for our lawmakers to ignore when so many [people] — gay, straight, trans and businesses large and small — speak in unison … That’s what OKC Pride is really about.” With that in mind, Clark also admitted that this year’s parties — including a mass wedding — are big ones. Organizers expect more than 75,000 OKC Pride Week revelers at events that run through Sunday along the strip on Northwest 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The city confirmed that this year’s pride parade is the largest parade held within city limits. It tops off Pride Week activities and runs 6-9 p.m. Sunday along the strip. OKC Pride is a nonprofit organization established to help provide education, leadership, awareness, health and other services for the city’s LGBTQ community. Clark said Pride Week festivities happen with the help of everyone, including local outreach groups, artists, individuals, grassroots donors and major corporations. “This is the best year we’ve ever had,” he said. Below is a roundup of Pride Week festivities. Learn more at okcpride.org.

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This mass wedding is open to everyone, whether it’s a ceremonial recognition of your relationship, a legally binding event with your marriage certificate, a renewal of vows or to support the LGBTQ community, Clark said. Registration includes the ceremony, a photo of the couple, a T-shirt, a raffle entry and a reception following the ceremony. A marriage license is $50 at the Oklahoma County Courthouse, and you will need to bring it with you. Pastor Neill Spurgin Coffman will officiate. Sonja Martinez will sing and Ivy Tran Kinney Monroe will play violin.

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The event includes local and regional artists, beer, food trucks, live music, vendor booths, activist organizations, free HIV screenings, church and community groups, local and national businesses and more. Music acts include Presley Tweed & The Press-Ons, Lower 40, (We Are) Nexus and DJ Dragn’fly.

OKC Pride Parade 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Sunday Northwest 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue

Approximately 40,000 people are expected to attend this year’s parade, up from last year’s estimated attendance of 30,000, Clark said. Also, parade entries might exceed 100, up from 80 last year. Floats span the spectrum of LGBT supporters, including politicians, clubs, charities, bars, performers, pageant organizations, arts groups, local and national businesses and activist groups on floats, in walking groups and in vehicles.

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2015 Hemmings Motor News Great Race 4:30 p.m. Sunday Mickey Mantle Drive Bricktown greatrace.com Free

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck called Route 66 “the mother road, the road of flight.” Migrants fled the Dust Bowl, driving “the long concrete path across the country,” heading west in search of better lives. Today, the nation’s longest drivable stretch of Route 66, more than 400 miles, runs through the state and those who drive the road are no longer fleeing Oklahoma. They’re coming here. The 2015 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty

follows Route 66 and starts Saturday in Kirkwood, Missouri, and finishes June 28 at California’s Santa Monica Pier. Oklahoma City hosts competitors during a stop Sunday, Father’s Day, as more than 120 antique automobiles roll onto Mickey Mantle Drive in Bricktown for the $150,000 event. Vintage cars — including a 1915 Hudson racer, a 1916 Hudson Hillclimber and a 1917 Peerless — start arriving at 4:30 p.m. Race director Jeff Stumb said spectators can see cars and visit racers. Started in 1983, the Great Race is not a speed race but a time/speed/distance rally. Each vehicle receives instructions each day detailing every move down to the second (no GPS or odometers allowed). Teams are scored at secret checkpoints along the way. At race’s end, the team with the lowest score wins $50,000.

“It’s a game, and it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a competition,” Stumb said. Barry and Irene Jason of Keller, Texas, won the event three years: twice in a 1935 Ford and last year in a 1966 Ford Mustang, marking the first time a postWorld War II earned top honors. This year, local driver Dick Russ will compete in his 1970 Jaguar, Stumb said. OKC is the second of eight overnight stops along the 2,400-mile route. There also will be lunch stops in Claremore on Sunday and Elk City on Monday. Last year’s event from Maine to Florida drew over 250,000 spectators, Stumb said.

Event planning

Stumb visited Bricktown in March 2014 with Sue Hollenbeck, Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau director of sports business, and was impressed that

Last year’s Great Race stopped in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. he planned 2015’s Great Race around OKC’s overnight stop. “That was all she wrote,” Stumb said. Hollenbeck said when she attends trade shows around the country to woo sporting events, many people consider OKC to be the “zero baseline image.” “When they get here, they’re absolutely blown away,” she said. She credits MAPS and local business development for the success. “We, as locals, kind of take that for granted because we see it every single day, but this stuff doesn’t happen in other cities,” she said. “It’s super fun to bring somebody to town and show them everything we have.” For more information, visit greatrace.com.

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There are plenty of clothing items you can get your patriarch for his special day, but there are also some to avoid.

By Mark Beutler

When buying dad the proverbial necktie for Father’s Day, what kind of purchase do you make, a trendy, knit job like the ones that were popular when Madonna first hit the charts or the more traditional style he can wear for many years to come? Experts say that’s the real trick — knowing the difference between traditional versus trendy — and it doesn’t just apply to neckwear. “Traditional means your style remains the same over an extended period of time,” said Spencer Stone, proprietor of Spencer Stone Company, a high-end men’s store in Nichols Hills Plaza. “Trendy — a word I don’t like — means that which is happening right now and may not last. I prefer to dress in traditional styles with a trendy fit.” For example, Stone said what was considered traditional in the 1950s would be trendy by today’s standards.

“Pants that are slim with little or no break at the hem are considered to be trendy in traditional stores that are selling fuller, pleated pants that break at the cuff,” he said. “However, in the ’50s, pants were slimmer with no break. Today, most traditional stores have more of a 1980s feel, with fuller fits. So it’s generational.” Some might be comfortable in a pair of shorts and flip-flops and think a nice pair of jeans is dressing up. But Stone said every man needs a few basic necessities in his wardrobe. Even for those on a limited budget, he said, a modest investment will go a long way. Stone said a navy blazer with a flattering fit and one good-quality suit that can be worn on any occasion is a good place to start. “In Italy, young men appreciate the artisanal quality of a garment more

Spencer Stone at his aptly named shop, Spencer Stone Company. so than most Americans,” Stone said. “They will spend more on a high-quality suit or jacket than on a few low-quality garments. Then, they will wear it exclusively. Being of a high quality, it will stand up to the wearing.” Just like choosing the right basics, choosing the right store can help a man develop his own personal style. “When you go to the tire store, most likely, you trust the technician to see that the right tires go on your vehicle,” he said. “It should be the same with clothing. The store you shop in should be telling you no as often as they are making suggestions for you.” This ensures that they have your best interests at heart, Stone said. He likes his patrons to step out of their comfort zone and take his advice on a new look.

He said they will generally get a good response from their audience and expand their comfort zone to include more fashion. With Father’s Day on Sunday there are a number of options for dear old Dad, and Stone urges customers to think outside the box. “The perfect gift really depends on the dad,” he said. “If we know them, it’s easy to choose something we know he would like. But in general, I suggest filling his sock drawer! Having a drawer full of new socks is a pleasure.” And one final tip: choose a store where you feel comfortable. “Service, service, service,” Stone said. “Styles come and go, but service is constant.”

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dead perfect deadCENTER Film Festival closes out its 15th year. By Ben felder

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top left BLOW wrestlers Bonedust Cowgirl and Southside Strangler laugh before the screening of Grapple Habit: Oklahoma City’s Addiction to BLOW during deadCENTER Film Festival.

During a visit to last week’s deadCENTER Film Festival, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett emphasized a singular point from his personal checklist of things every great city should have. “You better have a film festival,” Cornett said. Indeed, final tallies weren’t available by deadline, but the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber expected this year’s fourday festival attendance numbers to far exceed last year’s number of 15,000. Documentaries, features and shorts filled the schedule, along with popular

top right Cecilia Nguyen and Allison McMichael party on the rooftop of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art during a festival launch party.

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Bob Berney of Picturehouse is interviewed by a video crew during the deadCENTER kickoff party on the rooftop of Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

parties and events that connect industry professionals with one another and give audiences unique opportunities to meet filmmakers. “[All film festivals] have screenings, and [this one] does a good job,” said Brent Ryan Green, who presented a rough cut of his new feature The Veil on Sunday. “But it’s these after-hours parties, filmmaker lounges or brunches that they do here that makes it a different experience. I think that’s what makes this festival really special and different.” Being Evel, a film about the life of stunt cyclist Evel Knievel, was named Best Documentary Feature. Welcome to Happiness earned the Best Narrative Feature award. This Way Up and Tiger Hood won

Best Documentary Short awards, SKID won Best Oklahoma Feature and Course of Food won Best Oklahoma Short.

Other winners include Kimi Kabuki for Best Student Film, Nomansland for Special Jury Short, Best of Enemies for Special Jury Documentary and The Overnight for Special Jury Narrative, organizers said. Head over to okgazette.com for exclusive deadCENTER Film Festival photo pages, interviews, stories, reviews, podcasts and more. Born in November performs at a deadCENTER rooftop party.

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A former cop teaches businesses how to fight back against workplace violence. By louiS foWler

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Each year, almost 2 million people claim they are victims of workplace violence, according to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). For Randy Yount, that number is too high. The former law officer took on a new passion after he retired. He now teaches employees and employers how to survive and prevent on-the-job violence with his Active Shooter: Homicide in the Workplace class, offered through Oklahoma City Com-munity College’s (OCCC) Professional Development Institute (PDI). While many speculate about why such incidents have increased over the past decade, Yount, who also studied both OSHA law and environmental health and safety, professionally believes that it is due to a desensitization to violence thanks to a violent pop culture that diminishes the value of life. “It seems like people don’t have a way to solve their problems when they get to the end of their rope,” Yount said. “They feel like it’s over and the only way to fix it is to take their life, and by golly, they’re going to take as many people out with them as they can. Unfortunately, it’s come to that.” The workshop is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 24 at PDI’s Crossroads Facility, 7124 Interstate 35 Service Road. Registration is $395, and participants who successfully complete the course will be recognized with a certificate of completion. Meant to create awareness, the course utilizes Yount’s years of expe-

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rience in real-world situations and often-graphic depictions of workplace violence. Key topics of discussion include situational awareness, knowing your peers, having a survival mindset, having an individual plan of action and the role of law enforcement. Yount teaches employers and employees how to recognize warning signs of violent behavior down to its minutiae, like learning how to tell if someone is carrying or hiding a weapon; Yount emphasizes the idea that violent outbursts often aren’t spontaneous. “A guy just doesn’t wake up one morning and decide that he’s going to go to work and kill a bunch of people,” Yount said. “It happens over a period of time, and because we’re close to people that we work with, even if we know there is a problem and things are happening in their life, we don’t always see it coming.” Yount said that in addition to saving lives, this course helps employers avoid things like OSHA infractions, civil lawsuits and even criminal charges by keeping them updated on their safety standards, therefore helping reduce liabilities by making sure employees know about these programs. “You can either do something about it or you can wait until there’s a major problem and somebody dies,” Yount said. “This program could help get somebody the help they need that could save their life or the lives of other people.”

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Experience Holly Wilson’s A Foot in Two Worlds, now on display at Oklahoma Contemporary. By Greg Horton

A Foot in Two Worlds 5:30 p.m. Thursday Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. oklahomacontemporary.org 951-0000 Free Casting demonstration 10 a.m.-1 p.m. June 27 Free Crayon Casting with Holly Wilson 1-4 p.m. July 25 Participants must be 8-12 years old. $20

Increasingly, in our culture, people have their feet in different worlds, as the metaphor goes. As often as not, the binary perspective does not suffice; there are more than two worlds we inhabit and more than two masks we wear. That metaphorical dual citizenship is the subject of Mustang artist Holly Wilson’s installation A Foot in Two Worlds. Wilson is an Oklahoma native, but she grew up in various contexts and places. Her father was an artist and a teacher, so the family moved where his work took them, most notably to a Native American boarding school in Lawton and a Cherokee boarding school in North Carolina. “I never attended boarding school, but I grew up on the grounds,” Wilson said. “When we moved to Lawton, it was a move to a different kind of world.” That theme is repeated throughout Wilson’s life, including her dual heritage; her mother is part Delaware and Cherokee, and her father is Anglo. Even in her art, Wilson does not settle for one world. Her installation features sculpture and photography. “I originally got into art school to do photography,” Wilson said, “but I ended up getting my Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics.” She completed two more degrees, both masters, one an M.A. in ceramics and the other an M.F.A. in sculpture.

We Need A Hero by Holly Wilson Even with her education, her world was divided. The first came from Kansas City Art Institute; the other two she earned at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. A Foot in Two Worlds is a study in what Wilson calls the dance between her sculpture and her photography. “There are seven sculptures and seven color photographs,” she said. “Sometimes, I take a picture and I think, ‘That would be a beautiful sculpture,’ and other times, I see a scene that reminds me of one of my sculptures, so I shoot it.” This interplay is on display at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center at the State Fairgrounds, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., through Aug. 21. The sculptures are on a large scale, as are the photographs. The photos are all 3 feet by 2 feet, whereas the sculptures are three to seven times that size. One of the pieces, Bloodline, is a 22-foot tree with sculptures of human figures walking atop the 29-inchhigh trunk. Each block of humans represents one generation of Wilson’s bloodline, working backward from her children to her oldest known relative. “I went back as far as the Dawes Rolls would let me go,” Wilson said. The Dawes Rolls were lists of Native Americans who chose to enroll as members of the Five Civilized Tribes from 1898 to 1906. As part of the opening reception, Wilson will participate in an artist talk about the pieces. A Q&A also will be part of that event. “I talk until people start to glaze over, and then I let them ask questions,” Wilson said. “Each piece has a story, and each piece is one of a kind. In a real sense, I only have to tell the story once by my art, so I don’t duplicate stories.”

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The founders of OKC Comedy scout the metro in their quest to find the city’s funniest person. BY JACK FOWLER

Funniest Person in Oklahoma City Competition 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 ACM@UCO Performance Lab 329 E. Sheridan Ave. okccomedy.com $12-$40 Note: Contests run through the July 11 finals.

A series of standup comedy showcases will culminate with the crowning of the Funniest Person in Oklahoma City and give local comics the chance to perform in front of some movers and shakers from the entertainment industry. “The point of this is kind of thing is to get local comics in front of industry people,” said BradChad Porter, who organized the tournament with fellow OKC Comedy founders Spencer Hicks and Cameron Buckholtz.

It opened recently at ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave. “This is the first year we’re doing this contest, but the breakdown is this: six preliminary showcases, six nights,” Porter said. “We’ll take two comics out of each show and move them on to the final round.” Those finalists will compete for a $1,000 first-place prize and perform in front of some accomplished and wellconnected judges. “The preliminary rounds will be judged by local celebrities, TV personalities, people like that,” he said. “But for the finals, one of our judges is the comedy booking agent for South by Southwest and Bonaroo. One was Marc Maron’s producer, and the other is the lady who runs the Riot LA comedy festival in Los Angeles.”

from left Spencer Hicks, Cameron Buchholtz and BradChad Porter in front of ACM@UCO Performance Lab The group hopes the event becomes an annual showcase. “We’d like to have somebody from Comedy Central, late show bookers, those types of people. That’s where we hope to go from here,” Porter said. The number of doors opened for a local comic after a competition like this one could be limitless, he said. “Just because somebody comes to OKC and sees your set and likes you doesn’t mean you’ll be selected for their festival immediately,” he said. “But when you apply next year and they see your name and remember you, that’s a heck of a leg up.” Porter is also quick to remind contestants that bringing a crowd is

imperative — more specifically, their crowd. “They need to remember that it’s important to get their people out to support them,” he said. “One of the questions we ask when people buy their tickets online is ‘Who are you coming to see?’ We’re trying to get a sense of the crowd, about who people think the funniest person in OKC is.” Tickets are $12 for the preliminary rounds and $18 for the finals. A pass to all shows is $40. “So if there are any hardcore comedy nerds out there who want to see a whole lot of local comics, you’re all set,” Porter said. Visit okccomedy.com.

Standup spotlight Ryan Drake

BY GREG HORTON

Paseo Comedy Showcase Featuring Dan Skaggs, James Nghiem, Ryan Drake, Stan Silliman, Andrew Rose and Jerry Ramsey and hosted by Heather King 9 p.m. Thursday The Red Rooster Bar & Grill 3100 N. Walker Ave. redroosterokc.com facebook.com/redroosterokc Free

Heather King has worked with comedy since she was age 15. The Texas native grew up in Kingfisher, where she was active in high school theater. She went on to study theater in college, but comedy has always been her favorite thing. “I love the ability to make people laugh, to help them have a good time,” King said.

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Paseo Comedy Showcase returns Thursday to The Red Rooster with a growing roster of local talent.

King works for a large, national merchandising company, but she still does comedy whenever and wherever she can. Last year, she even opened for Rob Delaney. “The Rob Delaney thing came about thanks to OKC Comedy,” King said. “They book national acts, and they try to book local talent to open for those headliners.” King takes on a slightly different role at Paseo Comedy Showcase. She emcees a night of comedy and introduces the six other comedians on the bill. As part of her emcee gig, she also is responsible for warming up the crowd. “Hosting can be difficult at times,” King said. “It depends on the crowd; sometimes you’re competing against music or a loud crowd, but not at Red

Rooster. They turn the music off, so the show is really about the comedy.” The comedy showcase will be at The Red Rooster Bar & Grill, 3100 N. Walker Ave. “It’s my favorite bar,” Drake said. “The owner, Brittany Callison, and I are friends, and when I needed a new venue, we agreed that Red Rooster would be perfect.” Drake has been performing comedy in various forms, including standup and improv, since 2009. His new album, Drinking Games for One Person, was reviewed by Joshua Boydston in Oklahoma Gazette in February. As part of his training, Drake took improv classes with King, and he describes her as “one of the funniest people [he has] ever met.”

Paseo Comedy Showcase is a monthly event for now, and Drake is responsible for booking comics. “There is a laundry list of people I want to book,” he said. “We have a ton of talent in Oklahoma City, so much that we’re in talks to do the showcase twice a month.” Red Rooster is a beer bar, which means low-point beer is available, but the show is still 21 and over. Callison opened a kitchen in November 2014, so food is also available. It is a smoking venue. Drake has his own set that night, and King starts her hosting duties with a short set of her own. Dan Skaggs, James Nghiem, Stan Silliman, Andrew Rose and Jerry Ramsey also will perform.

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It’s difficult for Norman author Gary King to imagine the University of Oklahoma (OU) without the accomplishments of its sixth head football coach, Benjamin “Bennie” Owen, whose 22-year tenure (1905– 1926) with the Sooners is the longest in OU history. “Bennie Owen made such an impact on Oklahoma that the most valuable and best-known acre of land in the state now bears his name. This acre is, of course, Owen Field, the turf on which the University of Oklahoma football games are played,” King wrote in his new book, Oklahoma’s Bennie Owen: Man for All Seasons. Owen amassed a record of 12254-16 at OU, establishing a legacy that would be carried on by legends Bud Wilkinson, Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops. According to King, it was the reputation Owen built that led Jim Tatum to accept the Sooners’ head coaching job in 1946, hiring Wilkinson as one of his assistants. “If (Owen) had not been here and set the standard, Tatum might not have come, and then Tatum wouldn’t have brought Bud,” said King. “And if Bud hadn’t come, the whole history might have been a lot different.”

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King deftly tells the story of Owen’s journey from his birthplace in Chicago in 1875 to St. Louis — where, as a 13-year-old boy in 1888, he scored tickets to St. Louis Browns baseball games by selling his spot in the ticket line — to the windswept plains of Oklahoma Territory, where he built a football program. The narrative is skillfully interwoven with facts and details, painting a rich portrait of Owen, and the book features many vintage photographs. “Bennie Owen was a leader of men,” King said. “He was a natural leader, and he inspired people.” He calls Owen “the architect of Soonerland” because, as athletic director and later intramural director, he was the driving force behind original versions of Memorial Stadium, the field house, the Memorial Union

building, the men’s swimming pool, the baseball field and bleachers, the tennis courts, the intramural fields and a nine-hole golf course that was located on what is today the Brandt Park Duck Pond. “He literally did build (the golf course). He got on a tractor and pushed the dirt around and built the greens and the tee boxes,” King said. A gifted athlete who aspired to be a physician, Owen played football at the University of Kansas. Small and quick, he was star quarterback for coach Fielding Yost’s undefeated 1899 team. After stints at Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas, and the University of Michigan, Owen accepted the head coaching job at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, and defeated Oklahoma in 1903 and 1904. When Owen came to OU in 1905, King wrote, the school had 484 students and had recently added two new buildings to bring its total to four. In his first year as head coach, Owen gave the Boomers (as they were known then; before that, they were the Rough Riders) their first victory over the Texas Longhorns. He adapted quickly to the many rule changes in the early 1900s, including the forward pass. King wrote that Owen ran a no-huddle, pass-first offense 50 years before Wilkinson and nearly 100 years before Stoops. Owen quickly established a reputation for clean play and sportsmanship during football’s violent infancy. He did not drink, smoke or use profanity. “He knew how to win and lose like a gentleman,” Dewey “Snorter” Luster, captain of Owen’s unbeaten 1920 team and an OU head coach, said of Owen. Despite losing his right arm in a hunting accident in 1907, Owen never slowed down. According to his grandson, Joe Haynes, Owen could tie fishing lures and neckties better with one hand than he could with both, King wrote. A little-known fact about Owen is that he also served as

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Gary King, author of Oklahoma’s Bennie Owen: Man for All Seasons head basketball coach for 13 years, having two undefeated seasons, and he spent 15 seasons as OU’s baseball coach, compiling a 142-102-4 mark. The book also details Owen’s family life, including his wedding to Nina Bessent in 1912. The entire football team attended the wedding and presented the couple with a case of flat silver and a tray inscribed with the name of every member, King writes. Owen was a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame and was elected in 1951. He died in Houston on Feb. 26, 1970 at age 94.

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Touring several years ago with the Harlem Superstars, an entertainment basketball troupe akin to the Harlem Globetrotters, Avery Stevenson Jr. saw firsthand streetball meccas like New York City’s Rucker Park. When the former University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma shooting guard came home in 2012, he wanted to build Oklahoma City’s streetball culture and showcase undiscovered local players in the process. Stevenson has done that and more as OKC plays host on Saturday to the Red Bull Reign 3-on-3 basketball tournament at Downtown Oklahoma City, Inc.’s Community Basketball Court, 412 W. Reno Ave., where 16 local teams battle for a spot in the Red Bull Reign finals Aug. 22 at Chicago’s Seward Park. “It’s a huge deal,” said Stevenson, 31, who runs The Cage, a basketball league that is the centerpiece of OKC’s streetball movement. Red Bull Reign began in 2014 in Chicago, and this year, seven local qualifiers will be in Houston; Memphis, Tennessee; Detroit; Cleveland; Indianapolis; Chicago and OKC. Local champs compete in the finals for a spot in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 North American World Tour. Registration is free and opens at 9 a.m. Saturday. The competition begins at 10 a.m. The qualifier is open to amateurs and pros alike, but players must be at least 18 years old to participate. Visit redbull.com/reign for more information.

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The Cage was born in 2012 when Stevenson found the new downtown community basketball court while attending Festival of the Arts. He had nurtured relationships with Red Bull staffers while competing in Red Bull’s King of the Rock 1-on1 basketball tournament, and he

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The Red Bull Reign is open to pros and amateurs. represented Oklahoma City from 2011 to 2013 in the world championships played at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. Red Bull agreed to sponsor The Cage, and with Stevenson at the helm, the league grew from three teams its first year to eight last year, collecting sponsors along the way. Although known for football, the state’s colleges and universities have produced dozens of NBA draft picks throughout the years, Stevenson said. Michael McCowan, a six-footeight former Capitol Hill High School center who played collegiately at the University of New Mexico and the University of West Georgia, said streetball has long been a part of the Oklahoma basketball machine. “People have always played streetball here,” said McCowan, 32, who won three King of the Rock local qualifiers and twice reached the final four in the world championships. “For a lot of people, streetball is all they play. You don’t need much [more than] a court and a ball.” At The Cage, spectators are treated to giveaways and peruse offerings from food trucks. DJs play positive hip-hop music and announce action, and Stevenson generates buzz on social media. As the streetball movement has grown, The Cage has worked with local civic groups to provide youth clinics. “It’s a good thing, and it’s great for our community that people know they have somewhere to go,” he said. Streetball has grown since the arrival of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and players like Perry Jones III, Steven Adams and former Thunder guard Reggie Jackson have shown up at the downtown court, stirring up excitement. “We kind of want to be like what Rucker Park is to the New York Knicks,” he said.

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Oaks and Acorns Father’s Day 5K & Fun Run 8 a.m. Sunday Great Lawn Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno Ave. 445-7080 $25-$40

Oklahoma City running guru and coach Mark Bravo lost his father 12 years ago, but chances are dear old dad will be there in spirit on Sunday for the Myriad Botanical Gardens Father’s Day 5K and Oaks and Acorns Fun Run. For 88 years, Bravo’s family owned Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop, located just blocks from the new race’s course. They sold the business in 1999, but the building is located near the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon’s finish line, for which Bravo does TV analysis yearly.

Bravo also serves as race announcer during Sunday’s race. “When you run downtown, it’s a special feeling,” Bravo said. “To veteran runners in Oklahoma City, it’s like home base.” The race meets community need for more races in June and the need to honor fathers and father figures, and all proceeds support the Gardens and its mission to promote fitness and health, said Melissa Pepper, director of festivals and events at Myriad Botanical Gardens. Before moving here a couple of years ago, Pepper and her family routinely participated in a Father’s Day race in Kansas City. Her 72-year-old dad, John, recently completed his first halfmarathon. “I was inspired to run by my dad,” Pepper said. “My dad was a big

botanical gardens supporter. That’s how I became interested in working here.” Produced by DG Productions, the race is a sanctioned USA Track & Field event with standard five-year age groups. The 5K race begins at 8 a.m., and the one-mile fun run starts at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. The staging area is at the Great Lawn and Band Shell. The 5K course starts and finishes on Sheridan Avenue, just north of the Gardens. The course goes from Sheridan to Walker avenues, north to NW Ninth Street, east to Hudson Avenue, north to NW 14th Street, east to Harvey Avenue, south to NW Ninth Street, west to Walker Avenue, south to Sheridan Avenue and east back to the finish line. The fun run course goes around the Myriad Botanical Gardens grounds, Pepper said.

Last year’s Oaks and Acorns Father’s Day 5k & Fun Run The race also features live music and healthy food truck options. Since the nonprofit Myriad Gardens Foundation took over management of the Gardens in 2011, programming for children and adults has increased, and Pepper said there will be nearly 100 public events this year at the Gardens. “The running community, in numbers and in participation, has never been stronger in the 30-plus years I’ve been a runner here,” Bravo said. Registration for the 5K is $35 for members and $40 for non-members. Registration for the fun run is $25 for members and $30 for non-members. Visit myriadgardens.org or call 445-7080 for information and to register.

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National Alliance for Mental Illness Oklahoma (NAMI) hosts a fundraising walk Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens. This annual, family- and pet-friendly event raises money to help Oklahomans with mental illnesses such as autism, anxiety and depression. NAMIWalks Oklahoma begins at 9:30 a.m. with registration at 8:30 a.m. and includes a 5K loop through Myriad Botanical Gardens. Last year, 2,400 people participated, and this year, attendance is expected to rise significantly. “We are expecting 4,000,” said Michelle Gregory, NAMI Oklahoma’s development director. NAMIWalks will raise funds for programs available to Oklahomans seeking support and education on mental illness. Last year, $78,264 was raised. The target is higher this year. “Our goal is $90,000,” said Gregory. “Most of the money goes to programs that are free of charge.” These free programs include basics classes, family support groups, peer-to-peer courses, student education and veterans support groups. A portion of the money raised also goes to advocacy at the capitol. Susie Seymour, who works for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, has benefited from involvement with NAMI since 2001 as a volunteer and a client.

Her first experience was as a NAMIWalks volunteer. Only able to walk about 500 feet, she was among supportive people who helped start her journey to healing. “I was out. I was about,” said Seymour. “It was fun. It helped me propel my way into recovery.” An important goal of NAMIWalks is to decrease the stigma of mental illness. Many people do not seek help because they are afraid of what others might think of them. If the stigma attached to mental health is decreased, more people will seek help and companies will do more research to find cures. NAMI Oklahoma also offers a breakfast to recognize and honor those who have suffered a loss to suicide. The breakfast is 7:30 a.m. Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens in the Water Plaza Room. Gregory explained that after a suicide, those left behind often feel disconnected. The breakfast offers support to family members and honors those who have died. This year, NAMI Oklahoma celebrates 30 years of education, support and advocacy. Last year, more than 23,000 family members and people with mental illness participated in support groups across the state. More than 2,400 callers were referred to mental health resources, more than 250 teachers participated in Parents and Teachers as Allies classes and 49 people trained to facilitate in the Summer Institute, Gregory said. This is NAMIWalks’ 13th year, and the theme is Hope Starts with You. For more information, visit namioklahoma.com or contact Michelle Gregory 1-800-583-1264.

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Fresh off an LGBT club tour, (We Are) Nexus performs live at this year’s OKC Pride celebration. The electronic dance and pop duo is world music veteran Nick Gunn and singer-lyricist Carmen Rainier. The two met through mutual friends in Santa Barbara, California, where Gunn first heard Rainier sing. “I had produced dance music on the side for years,” Gunn said. “I loved the market, and I had wanted to take the initiative at some point to jump into electronic dance music (EDM). I

heard Carmen sing, and she had such a great tone.” The two decided to collaborate. In college at the time, Rainier said her experience of EDM prior to working with Gunn was “warehouse raves in [her] teenage years in LA.” Part of those growing years included a fascination with Garth Brooks. “Nick is shocked every time a Garth Brooks song comes on because I know the words to every line,” Rainier said. “It was his performance as much as anything that I loved, though. When he took the stage, you just wanted to watch him.” Rainier’s musical education included some work with cello, choir and musicals, but she opted for acting in her teenage years. After extensive world travel, she moved to Santa Barbara to pursue a global studies degree. Gunn, also known as Nicholas Gunn, is a classically trained musician who was born in England. He is best known as a flautist. During the 1990s, Gunn was a popular New Age artist who also

worked in World Music. The market shifts in the early to mid-2000s pushed Gunn to think more about mainstream music. “I wanted to produce more mainstream music,” Gunn said, “and I know you can argue whether or not EDM is mainstream, but it’s certainly moving into the mainstream.” The duo released their first EP, It Feels so Good, in 2013. The accolades came quickly, and the attention Rainier generated was sort of what is expected for females in the maledominated EDM industry. “My experience isn’t typical of many females in EDM,” Rainier said. “I didn’t start as a DJ like so many did. I have always had a producer by my side. I take an ‘ignorance is bliss’ approach to social media and publicity. I’ll post stuff, as does Nick, but he reads most of it. I just don’t.” For this year’s OKC Pride celebration, (We Are) Nexus performs tracks from its latest EP, They’ ll Never Stop Me, which features remixes from Bimbo Jones and Jose Nunez. It also will play songs from its 2014 EP Better Off Without You.

The duo’s set kicks off at 8 p.m. Saturday. The show follows the OKC Pride Arts Festival, which runs 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday along the strip. OKC Pride 2015 culminates with its annual parade, which takes over the strip at 6 p.m. Sunday. One of the things Gunn brings to EDM is his classical and acoustic background. “His rig looks like a DJ rig,” Rainier said, “but he’ll have keys and a drum trigger back there as well.” Gunn said he tries to add live instrumentation as much as possible. “Since I’m a flautist, I’d like to eventually add woodwinds, too,” Gunn said. The duo performed at Tampa Pride, and Gunn said sees a new pride crowd emerging as the “country — maybe even the world — wakes up” to LGBT rights. “The crowds at pride concerts are very diverse now,” Gunn said. “These events are a fucking blast, and no one questions any more why you would go to a pride show.”

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More than 1,500 people occupied the Great Lawn at Myriad Botanical Gardens on June 7 for the inaugural concert in the 35th season of the Sunday Twilight Concert Series. Offered by Arts Council Oklahoma City and sponsored by Devon Energy, the shows are free and family-friendly. Christina Foss, Arts Council Oklahoma City communications director, said all the council’s events or programs are meant to bring the community and arts together. “When looking at our community, we always ask what needs they have in terms of the arts,” Foss said. “A free event open to all ages makes it possible for more people to encounter the arts.” The events are much like a family outing or friendly meetup. Many bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnic dinners, much like they would to a festival. Shows are 90 minutes, with a 10-minute intermission. “People who attend are encouraged to enter a drawing during intermission,” Foss said. “Prizes are given away ... and it’s usually something like a pass to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art or free admission to Science Museum Oklahoma.” Pets are prohibited, and Foss said it is mainly for the safety of animals and attendees. Glass containers also are prohibited, but other containers including ice chests are welcome. The environment is family-friendly, and security is present at all shows. The performers are eclectic, and they tend to be acts that have worked with Arts Council in the past, Foss said, usually at events like the arts

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The series is free and open to the public. festival or Opening Night. There is a selection process, though, so that first-time musicians and bands do not get excluded from consideration. Katelyn Carter is the series director, and she said she does her best to curate an interesting assortment of music genres. She also mixes regional acts with local ones so visitors can often see some of their favorites. In fact, Beau Jennings, from Inola, also made this year’s lineup. Jennings is in the midst of a busy year. His new album, The Verdigris, dropped in January, and his documentary, The Verdigris: In Search of Will Rogers, made its Oklahoma premiere at deadCENTER Film Festival last weekend. In addition to Jennings, Denton, Texas, transplant Horse Thief closes out the season on Sept. 27. This year’s schedule covers the musical spectrum. It is perhaps a stretch to say there is something for everyone, but there is a genre for nearly every taste. upcoming concerts June 21: Polyphony Marimba (world beat) June 28: Kalo (blues) July 5: Elizabeth Speegle Band (pop/jazz) July 12: Tap Band (jazz/R&B) July 19: Air Line Road (country/rock) July 26: Beau Jennings (rock) Aug. 2: Aaron Newman and the OK Caravan (red dirt) Aug. 9: Shawna Russell (country) Aug. 16: Roland Bowling Band (blues) Aug. 23: Uncle Zep (’70s rock) Aug. 30: Porch Mice (alt-country) Sept. 6: Hip Hop Night (hip-hop/rap) Sept. 13: Grassland Caravan (modern bluegrass) Sept. 20: Allie Lauren (alt-pop) Sept. 27: Horse Thief (Americana)

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The Burgans left behind fame and touring for a stable life, but now, they’re back. By Greg Horton

The Burgans & Chan Songs & Stories Concert 7 p.m. Thursday UCO Jazz Lab 100 E. Fifth St., Edmond bestofbooks.com 340-9202 $20 Note: Tickets also are available at Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, in Edmond.

Billboard’s top songs list for 1965 includes few surprises. It is populated with now-iconic names: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations and The Supremes. Alongside British Invasion bands and Motown elite, an almost-forgotten folk music revolution mushroomed. The Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy era damaged the genre’s growth and popularity, and pulled legends like Pete Seeger into confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Rather than stop making music, though, artists like Seeger taught the next generation to play and write it. That investment paid off with the folk revolution of the 1960s. In the mid-’60s, We Five was a San Francisco-based folk act. The group’s song “You Were on My Mind,” a remake of Ian and Sylvia Tyson’s tune, reached No. 3 on Billboard Hot 100 in 1965. By year’s end, it was ensconced at No. 4, between the Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling.” Jerry Burgan played guitar in the original We Five — the band’s personnel changed dramatically after 1967. Fifty years after the success of “You Were on My Mind,” Burgan is touring again. Thursday, he will be in Edmond at the UCO Jazz Lab to present The Burgans & Chan Songs & Stories Concert. Burgan and his wife Debbie stopped touring in 1981, after the birth of their

second child. Debbie Burgan assumed the female lead role for We Five in 1968 when Beverly Bivens left the group. The couple attempted to keep the band going, and they did record two more albums. “We did most of our touring from 1965 to 1975,” Jerry Burgan said. “Disco was on the rise, and the available venues went through a huge shift. All the large clubs that could hold 500-600 people were closing down. We had to decide whether to live on the road or let go of touring.” The couple slowed down considerably before hanging it up nearly completely in 1981. “I went to school, finished my degree, worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 25 years, and on Sundays, I led a worship team at my church,” Burgan said. Burgan would eventually turn his storytelling ability into a book. He sat down and told his story and the story of the folk revolution to Alan Rifkin, and the two published Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution in 2014. The title comes from the last line of “You Were on My Mind.” The Burgans enlisted the assistance of bassist Tholow Chan to begin a book tour of sorts. “People wanted to talk about the book,” Burgan said. “They wanted to talk about the stories and the music, so we put together a show that was more than just a book tour.” Burgan runs through lists of folk musicians and their relationships to each other and the music like a tribal storyteller. He is an oral archivist, which is what folk music has always tried to do: chronicle the human experience from the perspective of common folk. Thursday’s show features the Burgans and Chan playing music and telling the stories behind the songs and when folk mattered to the population at large almost as much as rock and R&B.

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Aaron Newman Band, Five Star Grille. ACOUSTIC

En Vogue/The Village People/Erika Jayne, 39th Street Enclave. VARIOUS

Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Forum, Myriad Botanical Gardens. ROCK

Kill the Reflection, 9 East Liquor, Norman. Rock

Gentry, Kendell’s Bar. VARIOUS

Mark Vollersten, Colcord Hotel. ACOUSTIC

Gunpowder Junkies, Five Star Grille. ROCK

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

J. Roddy and The Business/Sleepwalkers, Opolis, Norman. ROCK

Steve Crossley, Red Rock Canyon Grill. SINGER/ SONGWRITER Tedeschi Trucks Band/Sharon Jones/The Dap-Kings, Zoo Amphitheatre. BLUES The Mowgli’s/Vinyl Theatre/Firekid, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK The Weathermen, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ROCK Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

THURSDAY, JUNE 18 Billy Dawson/Lainey Edwards, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY Brent Saulsbury/Will Galbraith/Wayne Duncan, Friends Restaurant & Club. ROCK Dan Weber, The Blue Door. COUNTRY David Morris, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO Drive/Charles Scott DUO, Colcord Hotel. ACOUSTIC G3 Band, Chisholm Trail Park, Yukon. COVER

Jim the Elephant, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ROCK Joe Burleigh, The Paramount. SINGER/SONGWRITER Josh Roberts/Camille Harp, Lower Bricktown Live on the Green. ROCK Kaitlin Butts, Riverwind Casino, Norman. ACOUSTIC Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO

Matt Blagg, Broadway 10 Bar & Chophouse. SINGER/ SONGWRITER Old Bulldog Band, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. ROCK Randy Cassimus, Full Circle Bookstore. ACOUSTIC Rocky Kanaga, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC Roy Lee Scott & The Flying Cowboys, Sliders. COUNTRY Smashing Pumpkins, Brady Theater, Tulsa. ROCK

The Wavetones, Louie’s Grill & Bar, Lake Hefner. COVER

Teenage Bottlerocket/The Copyrights/Little Kicks, 89th Street Collective. ROCK

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Kingfish, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. ROCK

Somebody’s Darling/Caught Stealing, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

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Kevin Fowler/Curtis Grimes, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. COUNTRY

Kai Jorgenson, Coffee Commission, Edmond. POP

Replay, Red Rock Canyon Grill. COVER

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This year’s Jazz in June features concerts, workshops and clinics with the artists. Blues Under the Stars kicks off the festival at 7 p.m. Thurdsay with Nathan James & the Rhythm Scratchers and Kalo at Brookhaven Village, 3700 W. Robinson St., in Norman. At 2 p.m. Friday, Norman Public Library West, 300 Norman Center Court, hosts blues workshop From Ragtime to Rock ’n’ Roll — How the Blues Shaped American Music. The Jazz Under the Stars concert, featuring Moon Hooch and Kyle Reid & the Low Swingin’ Chariots, is 7 p.m. Friday at Brookhaven Village. Saturday, three clinics with the artists run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., and are followed by a Jazz in the Park concert with Bill Evans’ Soulgrass and others 6 p.m. at Andrews Park, 201 W. Daws St. Admission is free. Visit jazzinjune.org.

Foy Vance, Opolis, Norman. FOLK

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Grant Stevens, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO Ill.Gates/KJ Sawka, Farmers Public Market. ELECTRIC

2AM, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. ROCK

John Wayne’s Bitches/YOUR MOM/Kinda Creepy/Killer Kicks, Red Brick Bar, Norman. ROCK

MONDAY, JUNE 22 Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. ROCK Wane Cantwell, Robinson Renaissance. VARIOUS

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2-Bit Palomino, The Blue Door. FOLK

411 Band, Remington Park. VARIOUS

Attica State Unplugged, Five Star Grille. ACOUSTIC

Miss Brown To You, The Paramount. FOLK

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Aaron Einhouse, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

Chief Peace/Brandon Romans/Fre$h Jay, 89th Street Collective. HIP-HOP

MyRock, Red Rock Canyon Grill. ROCK

LUCKY/Shaun Suttle, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. COVER

Replay, Remington Park. COVER

The Panhandlers, Leadership Square. FOLK

Christian Pearson/Gary Johnson, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO Derek Harris, Red Rock Canyon Grill. ACOUSTIC

Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO

Aranda/Hanging Hayley/Atrus, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK

Kyle Park, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

DJ Josh Tullis, Colcord Hotel. VARIOUS Don and Melodee Johnson, Twelve Oaks, Edmond. JAZZ Drive, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ROCK

Roy Lee Scott & The Flying Cowboys, Sliders. COUNTRY

Shortt Dogg, Riverwind Casino, Norman. R&B

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Stat Band, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. R&B

Drive/Tyler Smith Solo, Red Rock Canyon Grill. ROCK

The Mills Band Duo, Bedlam Bar-B-Q. COUNTRY

Folklahoma/Gregory McKillop/Adult Mom, Bad Granny’s Bazaar. FOLK

Shadowman Blues, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. BLUES

Trey Rosenthal, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. SINGER/SONGWRITER Uncle Zep, Oklahoma City Limits. COVER

Greg Northwood, Oklahoma City Museum of Art. ACOUSTIC

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

Beverly Hills, 51st Street Speakeasy. VARIOUS Edgar Cruz, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. ACOUSTIC Eric Herndon, Full Circle Bookstore. VARIOUS Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Edmond. PIANO Michael Kleid, Colcord Hotel. JAZZ

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Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Polyphony Marimba, Myriad Botanical Gardens. VARIOUS Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

Phil Rodriguez, Five Star Grille. ACOUSTIC Replay/80’z Enuf, Baker Street Pub & Grill. COVER Town Hall Devils/The Easy Lovers, Opolis, Norman. ROCK Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

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Celebrate OKC Pride Week and the rest of Pride Month with these LBGT-themed films now streaming on a screen near you.

OKC Pride Week runs through Sunday, but Pride Month runs through June. Whether taking a break from this week’s festivities or relaxing, keep this list close and bingewatch these LGBT-themed films.

Family Cruise), Scott Kennedy (USO Comedy Tour), Sandra Valls (Latino 101) and Alec Mapa (Ugly Betty, Half & Half ). Directed by Scott L. Montoya.

Tennessee Queer 2012, unrated, 90 minutes Available on Hulu, Amazon and iTunes

This somewhat corny dramatic comedy stars Christian Walker (Creepers) as openly gay Jason Potts, who leaves New York City and the domestic comfort of his boyfriend for what he thinks is a cursory homecoming trek to see his family in small-town Smyth, Tennessee. He gets pulled into organizing the community’s first gay pride parade. Meanwhile, the town’s conservative political and religious leaders scheme to round up Smyth’s gay youth and send them to reparative therapy camp.

pride parades for the next century and how laws make it almost impossible to discuss LGBT civil rights in public. It’s written and co-directed by AmericanRussian-Israeli gay porn actor Michael Lucas with Scott Stern. Gigola 2010, unrated, 102 minutes

Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013, NC-17, 179 minutes

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French author Laure Charpentier wrote and directed this screen adaptation of her novel about Gigola (Lou Doillon, Sparrowhawk), who loses her lover to suicide then embraces androgyny as she embarks on a journey into the 1960s Paris underworld’s lascivious Quartier Pigalle.

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This award-winning French drama with English subtitles tells the story of young, rapturous first love in this adaptation of Julie Maroh’s popular graphic novel. School-aged Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos, Les anarchistes) seeks out older Emma (Léa Seydoux, Saint Laurent), finding her in a lesbian bar, and the two become lovers in a poignant relationship that eventually breaks apart. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche (Black Venus).

The Kids Are All Right 2010, rated R, 106 minutes Available on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Flixter and Vudu

Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda 2014, unrated, 78 minutes Available on Amazon

This American documentary chronicles Russia’s politically motivated campaign to demean, marginalize, demonize and criminalize homosexuality and “gay propaganda” in its attempt to wipe out Western influence and values. It examines how Moscow passed a law banning gay

Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam 2010, rated R Available on Netflix and Amazon

This made-for-TV comedy production is hosted by satirist and resident Oscars writer Bruce Vilanch. It includes Poppy Champlin (All Aboard! Rosie’s

Nic and Jules are a suburban couple raising two teenagers in southern California in this dramatic comedy directed by Lisa Cholodenko (The Slap, Cavedweller). The stellar cast is led by Julianne Moore (Jules) and Annette Bening (Nic), who face a crisis when their kids, Laser (Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1) and Joni (Mia Wasikowska, Madame Bovary) decide they want to find their biological father.

Breaking Through 2013, unrated, 85 minutes Available on Amazon

This documentary examines the obstacles that openly LGBT elected officials face as they run for office and manage and overcome stigma and exploitation in their personal lives and in office. Directed by Cindy L. Abel, Breaking Through includes interviews with politician Barney Frank, Wisconsin’s first openly gay U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, openly gay Atlanta city councilman Alex Wan, lesbian Arkansas lawmaker Kathy Webb and transgender Houston attorney Phyllis Randolph Frye.

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How to Survive a Plague 2012, unrated, 110 minutes Available on Netflix, Amazon and iTunes

This historical documentary chronicles how activist organizations — namely Treatment Action Group (TAG) and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) — came together in the late 1980s to confront America’s HIV epidemic, as well as indifference and hostility, and reduce the number of AIDS-related deaths. The film won New York Film Circle’s Circle Award for Best First Film and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary in 2012 and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2013. It was directed and co-written by David France.

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For the Bible Tells Me So 2007, unrated, 95 minutes Available on Netflix and iTunes

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Rent 2005, PG-13, 135 minutes Available on Netflix, Amazon and iTunes

Some people could rightly call Rent derivative, stereotypical and a bit

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While cruising the lake shores in rural France, Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps; À vif; The Rebel, Louise Michel) meets and falls desperately in love with Michel (Christophe Paou, The Affair of the Necklace). The pair are soon suspects in a mysterious death in this dramatic thriller written and directed by Alain Guiraudie.

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Stranger by the Lake 2013, unrated, 97 minutes

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Writer and director Daniel G. Karslake (Every Three Seconds, In the Life) movingly examines how five right-leaning evangelical families juggle a belief system that embraces homophobia and denies civil rights to LGBTQ communities while also raising an openly gay son or daughter.

Producing faith By Ben Felder

Ezra Gentle grew up in southern Africa as the son of missionary parents. But it was his time in the Oklahoma panhandle as a young adult, behind the lens of a camera, that caused him to find God. “I had sort of lost my faith in a sense before I started making this film,” said Gentle, referring to Lone Man’s Land, a documentary he produced and co-directed that premiered last week at deadCENTER Film Festival. “I was doubting if God existed. I had no significant proof.” While following the Apple family for his film in 2014, Gentle saw a faith in his subjects that changed his outlook on religion. “This film completely changed my faith, the way I view God and the way I

view trials and difficulties in our lives,” he said. Even so, at its core, Lone Man’s Land is not a religious film. Gentle, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, documents a ranching family in Kenton, the state’s farthest western town. The Apples battle with the state to keep their land, which has been in their family for generations. The fight to keep their lease for the governmentowned land is one challenge Gentle documents as the family also learns their 4-year-old son has cancer, another relative dies and one of history’s worst snowstorms hits the town. “After all that, they thank God and they know it’s going to be okay and they trust in him,” Gentle said.

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An article by Sheilah Bright in This Land Press sparked Gentle’s interest in filming in Kenton. “Two small graves tell the story of a community’s slow ride toward ghost town fame,” Bright wrote in 2012 in her 2012 article. Bright also co-directed and wrote Lone Man’s Land. Gentle made short videos in high school and college and had a short documentary shown at deadCENTER in 2013. The documentary, Gypsy Cafe, explored the growth of Red Dirt music. But Lone Man’s Land is his most ambitious project to date, and while he is happy to have completed the film, he realizes the journey is not over. “Very recently, I realized that making a movie is two parts,” Gentle said. “You have to make the product

above left Ezra Gentle, producer and co-director of No Man’s Land and then you have to get an audience, and getting the audience is the hard part. This process, for me, is exciting ... but in my mind, the battle is not over; there’s an incredibly long road ahead.” As Gentle works to distribute his documentary, he also will be moving to Los Angeles to continue his filmmaking career. “Their perseverance and their faith throughout all that happened is what drew me to them,” Gentle said about the Apple family in his documentary. Now, it’s Gentle who is putting his faith in his young career and hoping to persevere after celebrating Lone Man’s Land’s festival premiere.

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7 Chinese Brothers, the latest from writer-director Bob Byington (Somebody Up There Likes Me) is nothing you would expect from a film with that name. In fact, there aren’t any brothers in it at all. At a Q&A after the film’s world premiere at South by Southwest in March, Byington said the best description of the story is R.E.M.’s eponymous 1984 song. The tune is based on a Chinese story about five brothers with supernatural powers that allow them to help each other out of sticky situations. The film opens with Larry (Jason Schwartzman, The Grand Budapest Hotel) talking to his lazy, snoring French bulldog Arrow (Schwartzman’s dog in real life). Within minutes, it is clear that Larry is an unmotivated alcoholic in his late 20s or early 30s and is stuck in a pointless, fruitless routine. He’s also completely unwilling to change. By some miracle, he manages to obtain (and keep) a dead-end job at Quick Lube and reasonably take care of Arrow. The rest of his time is spent buying beer and liquor from the same convenience store clerk; obtaining pills from one of his grandmother’s nurses (TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe), who also is his drinking buddy; avoiding meaningful adult interaction; passing out near his dog, his one true friend; and waking up the next day to do it again. After all, Larry has “7,000 years to sleep away the pain,” so why should he put any effort into anything real and lasting? Larry survives everything that happens to him (most of it due to his actions/inaction) and comes out relatively unscathed. He appears upbeat and unaffected by the tragedy

he calls life and sabotages any chance that anyone might take him seriously, but he isn’t fooling anyone, much less himself. He is painfully desperate for attention and a real, human connection. He’s knocked out of his modernadult reverie by a life-changing event, but he doesn’t ease into the change: He throws everything away, leaving a nearly clean slate on which to move ahead. This smack in the face forces him to succeed in spite of himself. As in Somebody Up There Likes Me, Byington has assembled an impressive cast. Veteran actress Olympia Dukakis gives a refreshing performance as Larry’s smartmouthed, tough-love grandmother, his only remaining relative. Eleanor Pienta (See You Next Tuesday) is full of girl-next-door charm as Larry’s boss and love interest. Adebimpe manages to remain both simple and aloof as Larry’s drug dealer and Grandma’s caretaker, and character actor Stephen Root leaves viewers feeling as though there’s more to his family connection than just being Grandma’s lawyer. While these secondary performances are interesting, Schwartzman outshines them. We never learn much about their characters or their lives, but to be fair, neither does Larry. 7 Chinese Brothers succeeds in spite of its quiet simplicity and initial flatness — it sinks in and releases its lessons slowly, hours after the credits roll. It’s a picture of modern existence that remains unfiltered by the rosecolored glasses of Hollywood fiction. Byington wants us to realize that maybe everything we seek can be ours as long as we accept ourselves and are willing to clean up and start over, determined to be slightly better people.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY CANCER (June 21-July 22) I’m getting itchy to see you blow your own cover. I would love you to come all the way out of your hiding place, even if just for a while, and see what happens if you make full disclosures and brave displays. My hope is that you will close the gap between the real you and the images that people have of you. Does that sound interesting? Or have you become so fond of being a big riddle that you can’t imagine any other way to be? Maybe I can tempt you to be more self-revelatory if I add this: Taking your disguises off even briefly will enable you to discover intriguing secrets about yourself. And then once you put your disguises back on, you will seem more mysterious than ever.

Homework: Test this hypothesis: By giving up a useless “valuable” you don’t really need, you’ ll ensure the arrival of a real valuable that you do need. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Would you like to stop pushing and struggling for a while? Is there a clenched attitude you would love to let go of? Do you wish you could take a break from having to give so much and try so hard and be so strong? Then do it! Now would be a good time to take a sabbatical from any situation that feels too demanding or frustrating. You wouldn’t incur the wrath of the gods or the twists of karma if you sneaked away to indulge in some recreational frivolity. For the foreseeable future, “relax” and “surrender” are your words of power.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A new cycle will begin for you after your birthday. Between now and then you will be wrapping up the current cycle. I invite you to do so with a flourish. Don’t just wait around passively for the themes of the last 11 months to fade away or go to sleep. Instead, set an intention to bring them to a climactic close. Schedule a splashy graduation or a grand finale. Plan a cathartic party or a celebratory rite of passage. Take a playful leap of faith or try that magic trick you’ve been saving for the perfect moment. Or all of the above!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Theologian Karl Barth speculated that when the angels get together to praise and honor God with music, they perform the compositions of Bach. But when they are playing for each other, they are more likely to choose Mozart. I guess that’s because Mozart’s stuff is loose and free and inventive compared to Bach, who’s formal and sober and systematic. Mozart is more for parties, while Bach is for serious occasions. I’m seeing the coming days as a time when you, like the angels, should be especially willing to express yourself in very different ways, depending on the audience. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Before E. Annie Proulx became a Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist, she wrote a series of how-to books, including a dairy foods cookbook and an instructional text on making your own hard cider. But the manual of hers that I especially want to call your attention to right now is *Plan and Make Your Own Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives.* It might be inspirational for you to read it. You’re in a phase when it makes perfect sense to create new paths for yourself to travel on. This will allow you to forgo at least some of the paths that others have built and that can’t actually take you where you need to go.

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star. Pick a higher power that can truly help you with your wish, not necessarily one that has worked for other people’s wishes. Here’s another crucial detail: Be precise in formulating your wish. No foggy thinking or sloppy language allowed!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) If you are fully committed to being both honest and kind, you will have more power to heal other people than you’ve had in a long time. You will have a resemblance to a magic potion or a wonder drug. Here’s a caveat, however: The therapeutic influence you have to offer might be scary to those who aren’t ready to be cured. The solutions you propose could be disruptive to anyone who is addicted to his or her problems. That’s why I advise you to be discerning about how you share yourself. P.S. The medicine you are generating is not too potent for your own use. It’s exactly what you need to transform limitation into liberation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep,” said author Jean Kerr. “That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” In accordance with the current astrological omens, Virgo, you should feel free to play around with that impish idea. Just for now, appreciate and enjoy the surfaces of things. Make decisions based on first impressions and instant analyses. Give your attention and energy to what looks appealing to you, and don’t think too hard about stuff that presents a boring appearance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Each of us has at least one pesky ghost or nagging demon that occupies a dark corner of our psyches. It may have been there for years, or we might have picked it up more recently during a phase of temporary insanity. In any case, most of us can benefit from conducting a periodic banishing ritual. Now would be prime time for you to do just that. Ready? With your imagination, draw a clockwise circle of your favorite-colored light on the floor or ground. Next, identify an image that makes you feel happy and safe, and visualize four versions of it at the four cardinal points, hovering three feet above your circle. Then say this: “I dissolve any hex and banish any pest that has been draining my energy. I purge any wasteful emotions, unsound ideas, and trivial desires that I may have grown attached to.” To put the seal on your magic, laugh for two minutes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Now is a favorable time to wish upon a star. In other words, you can enhance the likelihood that your wish will come true if you choose this phase of your cycle to enlist the assistance of a higher power. It’s your duty to make sure, however, that you wish upon the right

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) By my estimation, 97 percent of the population is chronically starving for the pleasure of being listened to with deep empathy and focused intelligence. Very few of us enjoy the prolonged and undivided attention of a receptive ally on a regular basis. It’s rare to be

in the presence of a person whose sole agenda is to be innocently curious about you. Your assignment, Capricorn, is to go on a quest to remedy this shortfall. Figure out how you can get the skillful listening you’re missing. (P.S. One way to prime the magic is to offer yourself up as a skillful listener to others.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) At this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, British singer Sam Smith won in four categories. His tune “Stay with Me” was named Song of the Year. In one of his acceptance speeches, Smith expressed appreciation for the difficult muse who inspired the song. “I want to thank the man who this record is about, who I fell in love with last year,” he said. “Thank you so much for breaking my heart, because you got me four Grammys.” I invite you to come up with a comparable expression of gratitude, Aquarius. What experience that seemed like tough luck at the time has actually turned out to be a blessing? Now would be a perfect time to acknowledge and relish and make full use of the unexpected grace. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The Bay of Fundy is a branch of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It’s renowned for its tidal range. When high tide comes, the water may be as much as 53 feet higher than what it is at low tide. The shift back and forth happens twice a day. I’m wondering if in the coming weeks your emotional ebb and flow will have a similar variability. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience both very high highs and very deep depths. Please note that when I say “depths,” I don’t mean sadness or despair. Rather, I’m talking about a profound ability to feel your way into the heart of things. 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.

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