Oklahoma Gazette 10-15-14

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Marriage equality is now law, but the civil rights battle is not over yet.

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Oklahoma entered a new phase of civil rights advances after last week’s Supreme Court ruling against the state’s ban on gay marriage. This week’s news section is dedicated to the reaction of our community, the impact on families, what might come next and feedback from area and state leaders as part of Oklahoma Gazette’s continuing coverage. Stories by Ben Felder. P.4

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Gay Marriage: family values

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OKG picks

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Gay Marriage: benefits and challenges

Food & Drink: seasonal food, food briefs, Earl’s Rib Palace, OKG eat: coffee shops

Music: Abysmal Dawn, David Bazan, Mikah Young, event listings, Elms

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Gay Marriage: pioneers

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Culture: writing workshop

Film: Rudderless, OKC Horror Fest, The Good Lie Astrology

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Letters

— Jennifer Chancellor, editor-in-chief

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Books: Redeemed, Haunted Norman, Oklahoma

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

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They did!

Marriage equality is now law, but many gay and lesbian couples have been families for years. Also, the Supreme Court decision forces closer examination of other state laws.

BY BEN FELDER

SHANNON CORNMAN

Saturday, under an overcast sky with a handful of family and friends gathered around, Jennifer and Bonnie Allen-Barron exchanged vows, placed rings on each other’s finger and ended the ceremony with a kiss.

Two years earlier, the couple had done the same thing, except in front of a much larger crowd and with maybe a bit more nervousness. However, the one thing Saturday’s ceremony included that the previous one didn’t was a chance to sign a marriage license officially recognizing the marriage in the eyes of the state.

“Whenever I would go to fill out any form, I felt so dumb to have to check single even though we have been together for more than 10 years and we had a [wedding] ceremony a few years ago,” Jennifer said.

Last week’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear one of several same-sex marriage cases triggered the immediate legalization of marriage equality across Oklahoma, where 10 years earlier, more than three quarters of voters said they wanted to outlaw samesex marriages through a constitutional amendment.

Jennifer Anne Allen-Barron and Bonnie Kay Allen-Barron celebrate their completed nuptials Saturday at the rose garden in Will Rogers Park.

Over the past year, marriage equality appeared to be a possibility in Oklahoma before it was suddenly declared law last week, opening the door to dozens of marriage licenses for couples like Jennifer and Bonnie, who have always considered themselves married, even if Oklahoma didn’t recognize it.

“I still feel like the first ceremony [two years ago] was our wedding,” Jennifer said.

Opponents to same-sex marriage have lost the fight to keep gay and lesbian couples from enjoying tax breaks, insurance benefits and other legal perks of being legally married. But even before same-sex couples were allowed to legally marry, many of those couples had already started families, raised kids and experienced the same family issues heterosexual couples deal with.

More than marriage

“This does change things,” said Rob Howard, whose marriage in Iowa will now be recognized in Oklahoma. “We now have the right to get married in Oklahoma, but we don’t have the right

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Kim McDonald and Rebeka Radcliff didn’t wait on the Supreme Court to start their family. They are the parents of a 19-month-old. to not get fired for being gay. It’s not over yet.”

Nine years earlier, Howard was profiled in an Oklahoma Gazette article with his partner, Art Christensen, and their son, Nate, an example that well before this year’s legalization of same-sex marriage, there were same-sex couples building a life together and

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raising a family.

Howard and Christensen are no longer together, but Howard is now married to a person he wishes not to name because he fears the impact it could have on his job.

“Our current state government is hostile to gay people,” Howard said.

“But we have been living our lives for many years, and now we are recognized through the government.”

Legal issues

Howard’s son is grown and living in another state, but Kim McDonald and Rebeka Radcliff are early in their journey as parents with a 19-month-old at home.

“I didn’t believe it,” McDonald said about first hearing the news last week.

“I was checking my Facebook and was looking for it to be from The Onion (a satirical news site).”

McDonald and Radcliff were married in Canada in 2010, a marriage that is now recognized in Oklahoma.

“We wanted to change our last name, and it’s really expensive to do that

unless you get married,” McDonald said.

“We own a home together, we have a kid together; it was always really frustrating to do our taxes separately.”

By most definitions, McDonald and Radcliff, along with their son, Jordan, are a family and have been for several years. But that doesn’t mean last week’s legal victory isn’t special.

“It brought tears to my mother’s eyes,” McDonald said. “We are both lifelong Oklahomans, and to be recognized by our home state is amazing.”

Challenges remain

Although the Supreme Court has ruled Oklahoma’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional, there is now confusion over current state law and how inconsistencies between state and federal decisions will hash out over coming weeks, months and perhaps years to come.

As Howard referenced, there is still a fear over state law, which allows employers to fire gay and lesbian workers.

But last week was a bellwether moment for same-sex rights in Oklahoma, even as same-sex couples have built families for decades across the Sooner State.

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Opponents speak out on same-sex law, but few options — if any — remain to reverse course.

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BY BEN FELDER

Opponents to same-sex marriage were quick to criticize the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Oklahoma’s case last week, which resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage across the state.

“The will of the people has now been overridden by unelected federal justices, accountable to no one,” Gov. Mary Fallin said in a statement hours after the court’s decision.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt called the decision “troubling,” and Congressman James Lankford said the legalization of same-sex marriage would have “far-reaching effects on our American society.”

In a state in which 75 percent of voters agreed to ban same-sex marriage just 10 years ago, there is bound to be some disagreement with last week’s court ruling. But there doesn’t appear to be too many options for reversing course.

“I am calling on my colleagues and the governor to stand in unity that Oklahoma will let Oklahoma decide what marriage is and should be,” Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said last week. “Every child deserves a mother and a father, and only natural marriage provides that.”

Kern offered strong words, but when asked for any details on how the state could limit same-sex marriage, she told Oklahoma Gazette there were no ideas at this time.

Two Tulsa-area same-sex couples filed a lawsuit in 2004 challenging the state’s ban and won a favorable verdict from a district that declared the state ban unconstitutional just last January. The decision was appealed by Tulsa County Court Clerk Sally Howe Smith to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the district judge’s ruling this summer.

Marriages were put on hold, however, in order to give the U.S. Supreme Court time to decide if it wanted to take up the case. Last week, the Supreme Court said it would not take up any of the several same-sex marriage cases before it, resulting in the legalization of samesex marriage in 11 states, including Oklahoma.

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Winning freedom to marry: progress in the states

Freedom to Marry Pro-marriage court filing; pending further action Marriage ban, lawsuit filed awaiting ruling

[My constituents are] willing to have that discussion about whether marriage needs to be regulated by the state at all.

— Mike Turner

Still fighting

That leaves no other court for Oklahoma same-sex marriage advocates to appeal to. However, that’s not to say lawmakers won’t try to come up with some way to fight back. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Edmond, proposed banning all marriages this year in an attempt to outlaw same-sex marriage. “[My constituents are] willing to have that discussion about whether marriage needs to be regulated by the state at all,” Turner said earlier this year.

The proposal gained little traction, and legal experts said they had never seen a similar law in another state. But the upcoming legislative session could provide a platform for lawmakers to

continue expressing their objections, even if there is little they can actually do about it.

Many Oklahoma religious leaders were also critical of the Supreme Court’s inaction.

“Marriage is not merely a human institution that can simply be redefined at will, but one established by our Creator and necessary for human flourishing,” Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley said in a statement.

“It is truly a shame that the Courts of the land have gone against God’s Word,” said Anthony Jordan, executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.

There were also several religious leaders who praised the decision, including Robin Meyers, senior minister at Mayflower Congregational UCC Church in Oklahoma City, where dozens of same-sex weddings were performed last week.

“I want you to remember where you are,” Meyers told couples last week, reminding them that not every church was against their marriage.

The Supreme Court decided not to hear Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage case last week, but there is still a chance that

another case could make its way to the nation’s highest court.

“One of the reasons the Supreme Court would get involved is if you have a circuit court split,” said Brady Henderson, legal director for the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “Right now, there isn’t one, so the [Supreme Court’s] take is that there is no need to get involved.”

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has two cases before it regarding same-sex marriage bans in Texas and Louisiana.

If the court, which agreed last week to expedite hearings for both cases, were to rule in favor of the bans, it would create a conflict with other rulings that could force the Supreme Court to step in.

If that were to happen, legal observers believe it would just result in a decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

“It’s really hard to imagine the Supreme Court would have allowed thousands of same-sex couples to get married, including in some very conservative areas like Utah, and then turn around and say, ‘Just kidding, there’s nothing wrong with state bans,’” Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, told various news outlets last week.

The growth of states allowing samesex marriage, which now sits at 30, comes at a time when a majority of Americans support marriage equality.

Last week’s inaction by the Supreme Court not only legalized same-sex marriage in Oklahoma, it also opened the door to marriages in other states that make up the 10th Circuit, such as Kansas. A district judge in Johnson County, Kansas, gave the go-ahead for marriage certificates to be issued to samesex couples. However, other counties in the state have not followed suit.

“You can go ahead and get a marriage license,” University of Kansas law professor Richard Levy told The Kansas City Star. “But if you do that, you may run the risk that the order under which you got your license is declared invalid.”

Opponents to same-sex marriage might still have a chance in other states, and a favorable ruling in another circuit court could force the Supreme Court to step in. But in Oklahoma, where opposition remains high, samesex marriage is the law of the land and appears likely to stay that way.

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Seeking clarity New marriage law offers legal benefits — and possible legal challenges.

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BY BEN FELDER

As court clerk offices across the state began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, equality advocates expected bumps in the road as the new law is fleshed out.

Troy Stevenson with The Equality Network said his office spoke with several county offices the day after the marriages were declared legal and they were not issuing licenses to same-sex couples because they had not yet received instruction to do so.

“I think we got them all open today,” Stevenson said 24 hours after the law was announced. “But it was a fight.”

Not clear or easy

Stevenson said some counties told him they were awaiting instruction from Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt following the United States Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an appeal of a ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.

The AG’s office told Oklahoma Gazette it has issued no instructions to court clerks and it had no plan to do so.

The only statement from the AG’s office was one criticizing the court’s action.

“I am disappointed the Supreme Court chose not to grant a hearing of these cases,” Pruitt said in a statement.

There have also been reports of tag agencies not allowing newly married couples to apply for name changes.

However, legal experts say the district attorney for each county is the agency that should provide clarity to court clerks.

Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater reviewed the order from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals lifting its stay.

“Every DA’s office represents their elected county officials, one of whom would be the court clerk,” Prater said. “As soon as the [10th Circuit Court] lifted their stay and issued their mandate, I told the court clerk to issue marriage licenses.”

Prater told the county court clerk within hours of the court decision that he could begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples. Dozens of couples were already lined up to receive marriage licenses last Monday afternoon, just a few hours after the Supreme Court announced its decision not to hear the case.

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above Brady Henderson, legal director of the ACLU of Oklahoma, and Ryan Kiesel, director of ACLU of Oklahoma, speak at Mayflower Congregational Church the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold the circuit court’s decision that Oklahoma’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional. left Troy Stevenson, executive director of Garden State Equality, speaks at Mayflower Congregational Church.

Progress

Several of the counties Stevenson said we’re not issuing licenses on the first day of legalization — such as Seminole County, Carter County and Cherokee County — told Oklahoma Gazette they were issuing licenses by Wednesday.

Stevenson said some confusion might come from the fact that the AG’s office issued instructions to court clerk offices following the United States v. Windsor (the Defense of Marriage Act) decision in 2013, causing some court clerks to expect instructions now.

“If the state is issuing guidance to these folks after the Windsor decision, they should offer guidance now,” Stevenson said. “If they felt it was their job to issue guidance following the Windsor, I don’t know why they don’t feel it’s their job today.”

The AG’s office said it could not confirm that it sent instructions following the Windsor decision.

In one county, a technical failure slowed the process. The Sequoyah County court clerk’s office said it was not issuing marriage licenses to samesex couples as of Wednesday because it needed to update its computer system.

Keeping watch

Advocates like Stevenson, along with representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), are monitoring the process of marriage licenses and other legal issues that might arise.

Because many state leaders, including the governor, have expressed disapproval for same-sex marriage, there is an expectation that lawmakers will be slow to act when there are violations.

“Our work is so critical to provide accurate information to Oklahomans because our political leaders in both parties have abdicated that responsibility,” said Ryan Kiesel of the Oklahoma chapter of the ACLU. “Our governor issued a statement yesterday that widely misrepresents … the rights that exist under the Constitution.”

Both Kiesel and Stevenson encourage same-sex couples to call their offices if they experience issues when exercising their newly recognized rights.

“If there is a lack of clarity, it’s not because the courts haven’t been clear,” Kiesel said. “The decision was made on this issue.”

Marriage equality advocates say the new law is a huge victory, but they worry that other issues, such as employment discrimination, will arise.

“We still live in a state where a person can be fired from their job because of their same-sex relationship,” said Scott Hamilton, executive director of the Cimarron Alliance.

While some same-sex couples quickly secured marriage licenses from county court clerks, some were cautious, waiting to know all the facts before making their marriage legal.

“We are definitely interested [in getting married],” said Tamra Carver, who has been with Chere Carver for over 15 years. “We just had some questions about what could happen in the future.”

Tamra and Chere are already legal mothers of Jackson, 8, but could find additional legal benefits through a legal marriage.

“Getting married would allow Chere to inherit my social security; it would allow for us not to pay the kind of inheritance tax that you would have to if you inherited something from a friend,” Tamra said. “It would change the fact that when we carry each other on our insurance benefits, we would not have to carry the tax on the benefits.

“Clearly, we are already completely obligated to each other and have already decided we want to spend our life together, but we want to be able to get some of those legal benefits.”

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Long road P HOTO BY GA RE TT FI S BE C K

The journey to marriage equality was paved with numerous victories big and small.

BY BEN FELDER

Long before marriage equality in Oklahoma seemed like a possibility, same-sex advocates were winning seemingly small battles in an effort to someday pave the way for samegender couples to legally marry.

In 1995, Oklahoma City’s gay community rallied to get a pro-marriage equality candidate elected to the Oklahoma City Council, there was a legal victory to fly rainbow flags during gay pride month and a federal court ruling that same-sex couples could adopt in Oklahoma.

In the mid-1990s, national support for same-sex marriage hovered below 35 percent, according to data compiled by Gallup Politics. Over the past 15 years, the national mood toward gay marriage began to improve and a majority of Americans approved by 2011.

As the national opinion slowly shifted, Oklahoma’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community was also working to slowly turn the tide toward equality.

“Homosexuality is a learned behavior,” Mike Paque, a Ward 8 candidate in 1995, told The Oklahoman during his campaign. “I would not vote for special rights.”

Simank’s opponent, incumbent Councilwoman Beverly Hodges, also voted to defund the city’s Human Rights Commission in 1995.

1980s

Late ’90s

The first known gay pride parade in Oklahoma took place June 16, 1988, along Classen Boulevard in OKC. Newspaper records reported a crowd of nearly 400, and the event featured a speech by Jeff Levi, executive director of the Fourth International AIDS Conference.

“We’re making progress for gay rights, but it’s slow,” Levi told The Oklahoman.

Mid-’90s

Ann Simank was elected to the city council in 1995 and was one of the first straight allies championing for equal rights for the LGBT movement. Her campaign rallied many in the LGBT community, which helped spark the creation of the Cimarron Alliance.

“That [election] was the first time that the gay community had some traction,” said Richard Ogden, an Oklahoma City attorney and the first president of Cimarron Alliance.

Supporting equal rights for gay residents was not necessarily seen as a good strategy for being elected in 1995, as several other council candidates openly opposed any policies that would protect same-sex couples.

Richard Ogden speaks about the Supreme Court’s decision not to take up Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage case at Cimarron Alliance on Oct. 6

Keith Smith, right , a lobbyist and LGBT advocate, passed away in 2006. He is pictured with former state senator Andrew Rice and his wife Apple in 2006.

“He just tried to do what we could to sound the alarms that this was based on discrimination,” Rice said about Smith’s work to fight against State Question 711, the 2004 voter-approved amendment that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. “I think those who have been involved in the fight [for equality] for many years and put their necks out on the line ... there is a feeling of satisfaction this week.”

Several years later, the Cimarron Alliance battled the city of Oklahoma City to place banners on light poles along Classen Boulevard to promote LGBT pride. Mayor Kirk Humphreys asked the council to change its policy so the LGBT banners would not be allowed.

“I don’t think they have the right to use public facilities to advance their philosophy, for the same reason that Neo Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and religious groups don’t,” Humphrey’s told The Oklahoman.

Early 2000s

A majority of the council voted in 2001 to change the policy in an effort to remove the banners, but a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union a year later resulted in a federal judge ruling that the city could not prevent banners because they include advocacy.

In 2011, the city council had progressed on the issue of marriage equality and the majority voted to add sexual orientation to the city’s nondiscrimination policy. The council’s vote followed public debate on both sides of the issue, including a speech by Pastor Tom Vineyard of Windsor Hills Baptist

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He just tried to do what we could to sound the alarms that this was based on discrimination.

— Andrew Rice

Church, who told the council that gay persons committed half of all murders in big cities, a statement that received national attention.

Mid-’00s

Advancement for the LGBT community came in the form of small legal and political victories, but the work of gay individuals who simply built friendships with lawmakers was also instrumental.

“At a time when Democrats controlled the Legislature but was still a very conservative environment, Keith [Smith] helped break down some of their phobias,” former state senator Andrew Rice said about Keith Smith, an openly gay lobbyist who passed away in 2006.

Rice said Smith was an example of the type of committed men and women who had worked hard over the past few decades to promote equality and acceptance for same-sex persons.

Rice said he took time to reflect on Smith’s memory last week when samesex marriage became legal in Oklahoma and knew his friend had helped make it a reality with his work years ago.

Late ’00s to today

Other notable advocates for marriage equality and LGBT rights include Jim Roth, Oklahoma’s first openly gay statewide official; Bob and Mary Lou Lemon, Hero of Hope award winners for their work in advancing LGBT rights; and a host of other individuals who have contributed to the movement in various ways.

Last week’s legalization of same-sex marriage was a direct result of a lawsuit filed 10 years ago that challenged the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban.

Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin, along with Sue Barton and Gay Phillips, were the two couples at the center of the lawsuit, which resulted in a declaration by a district judge in January that the state’s ban was unconstitutional. The ruling was upheld by a federal appeals court this summer and resulted in the legalization of marriages last week.

Bishop and Baldwin received their Oklahoma marriage license hours after the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case, ending a chapter in the fight for LGBT rights that has lasted decades.

“Here’s to equality,” the couple said at a post-wedding reception, interlocking their arms and toasting with a glass of champagne.

It was a moment of celebration not just for the new marriage that was now recognized in Oklahoma but for the hard work of thousands across the state who always believed that day could become a reality.

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Cleaning up Oklahoma City hopes to combat neglected properties with a new ordinance.

Vacant properties like this one are targeted once again by a new ordinance.

BY BEN FELDER

Oklahoma City’s attempt to create an abandoned building registry last year was brought to a halt by the state Legislature and was opposed by local realtors. A new attempt to reduce the number of vacant and abandoned properties was approved by the Oklahoma City Council last week, this time winning approval from the real estate community.

“I have to give the city a lot of credit on this one,” said Nels Petersen, president of the Oklahoma City Metro Association of Realtors.

The new ordinance will allow the city to fine building owners who fail to maintain their property, along with setting up a system for recovering police and fire expenses, which can accumulate quickly at abandoned homes and buildings, city officials said.

The previous effort to create a registry and fee for owners of abandoned property was opposed by realtors who felt it would unfairly hurt those owners who maintained their property.

“Really, it came down to definitions,” Petersen said. “We didn’t feel that an uninhabited building should necessarily fall on this list.

There are vacant properties all over that we have no idea they are vacant because they are taken care of.”

Petersen said his group continued to work with the city to find a solution and he praised city staff for its work over the past few months.

“The proposed ordinance will create a schedule of escalating class ‘A’ fines to increase the pressure on the offender to remedy the problem,” City Manager Jim Couch said in a memo to the city council. “This may slightly lengthen the abatement timeline but will help with the eventual determination of abandonment and may help with the cost recovery allowed under the new state statute.”

Tim Rogers

New library director

The Metropolitan Library Commission of Oklahoma County voted to hire Tim Rogers as the library system’s new executive director.

Rogers was one of three finalists introduced last month during a public meeting. He told the crowd he wanted to help the library system grow in a new era of digital content and develop a closer relationship with the community.

“Branch staff needs to be integrated into the community,” Rogers said.

“The best way for the library staff to be a major part of the community is to get out into the community and be active in the community and not just seen as the librarian behind the desk.”

Rogers is currently a director for a library consortium in North Carolina that provides digital content and service for North Carolina libraries.

Rogers will have an annual salary of $150,000, a $650 car allowance and a relocation allowance of up to $10,000.

Uber/Lyft ordinance

The city council moved an ordinance regulating drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft forward last week with a final vote scheduled for later this month.

After nearly a year of study and months of debate, an ordinance requiring Uber and Lyft drivers

to get a $30 permit, a medical physical, a background check and a vehicle inspection was approved by the council with a vote of 5-2.

Councilmen Ed Shadid and John Pettis Jr. were the two votes against.

Because an emergency clause failed to receive seven votes, the ordinance will require another vote on Tuesday and would go into effect 30 days later if approved by a simple majority.

Like many cities across the country, Oklahoma City has been discussing the regulatory requirements for companies that link drivers and riders via a mobile app. Uber and Lyft drivers use their personal cars to transport riders, and money is collected through a pre-entered credit card.

Taxi companies have argued that Uber and Lyft have been ignoring the same regulations and laws that govern their industry, offering the new companies an unfair advantage.

The approved ordinance means vehicle inspections, driver permits and background checks would be the same for drivers of taxicabs and Uber or Lyft.

The ordinance also does away with the requirement that cab companies receive approval of fares.

It also will allow cab companies to increase fares during peak times, which Uber and Lyft both do.

The site of a proposed convention center and hotel in Oklahoma City.

Say what?

“This presentation is so lacking on details.”

That was the response from Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid following a presentation to the council last week on a possible convention center hotel.

The city has been discussing whether a new large-scale hotel is needed to go along with a planned convention center in downtown and whether tax dollars should be used.

Shadid has been critical of both the MAPS 3 convention center and a hotel built with public funds. He criticized city staff for not having more details about what might be needed. However, Cathy O’Connor with The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City said it was too early to tell which funding options should be used for a new hotel.

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All the (road) rage

so flat and desolate it has been bred into our DNA to covet the road as a holy sacrament and we, therefore, take ownership of it to extremes.

Our collective driving habits are ruining OK our reputation!

Tulsa and Oklahoma City were ranked No. 1 and 2, respectively, on another list of things. This time, the list was the 10 Most Dangerous Cities in America.

Indeed, search website Mylife.com claims that because Tulsa ranked 16th in sex offender occurrences and 31st in traffic fatalities and violent crime per capita, that somehow also makes the city No. 1 for everything.

OKC was ranked No. 2 because it ranked 27th highest in traffic fatalities per capita, and 20th in property crime per capita.

So, again, we are talking about state drivers.

We’ve been unmasked; Oklahomans are the nicest stock in America, until you get them behind the wheel.

Here’s why: Transportation was key in settling and claiming the land that became this great state, and its

On top

Democrats outnumber Republicans in Oklahoma.

Before liberals get too excited, it’s important to remember that Democrats had an advantage when Republicans took back control of the state house several years ago and that lead has since narrowed to 5,000 voters.

If this is the case, then why don’t more Democrats win elections? There are a wide range of factors that might include low Democrat turnout and the evolution of Democrat voters becoming more conservative in recent years, at least when they consider national politics.

At some point over the next few months, Republicans could take the lead in the number of registered voters, and then Democrats will have nothing real to hang their hat on when it comes to politics in the Sooner State.

Democrats don’t control the Senate, the House or the governor’s chair. For a few more weeks, they can at least celebrate having more registered voters, for whatever that’s worth.

Not without a fight

This doesn’t happen every day.

Jason Fitch recently lost his job.

That’s bad news. It sucks to lose your job.

But Fitch, 27, (formerly) a corrections officer trainee for the Oklahoma County sheriff’s office, was busted for possession of weed.

And not just a joint or just weed.

NewsOK.com reported that the man was arrested

on complaints of “possession of marijuana, possession of drugs without a prescription and assault and battery after a fight” outside an OKC bar. He also allegedly grabbed a cop by the neck when the officer intervened to stop the scuffle.

The police report and NewsOK. com said that Fitch had on his person “what appeared to be hashish,” and 53 Xanax pills.

It’s more exciting than being laid off, but, lord, what a way to get the boot.

She never fails

By far, the most exciting thing to come out of Oklahoma’s first 2014 gubernatorial debate was a T-shirt.

After Gov. Mary Fallin and challenger Joe Dorman finished exchanging their pillowy jabs, resident badass Rico Smith delivered a brutal undercut to Fallin’s pride.

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associate justice of the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Legislature, caught up with Fallin for a seemingly innocuous photo op, which she kindly obliged.

There was one problem: Smith’s shirt altered Fallin’s campaign logo to read “Mary Failin’ Oklahoma.”

Fallin did a double take before realizing just what in Sam Hell was going on. But, alas, it was too late. A second photo had been snapped — of her priceless, side-eyed reaction.

Never one to squander a smear WE MUST KEEP THE NUT JOBS opportunity, OFF OF OUR Fallin’s camp tried STREETS! to paint Smith as a member of the Dorman campaign.

FOX “I thought it was petty and the kind of stunt that we’ve come to expect from Joe Dorman, who is running a very negative campaign,” Fallin spokesperson Alex Weintz said.

Naturally, Dorman spokesperson Adrienne Covington-Graham denied, denied, denied.

“He comes to events,” CovingtonGraham said. “But he has not done our volunteer events... He’s just a Joe Dorman fan.”

That might be true. But in our book, Smith is Dorman Fan of the Year.

Fact and fiction

The talking heads over on one of our country’s most conservative news networks recently espoused more ham-fisted logic, using an Oklahoma tragedy as their focal point. One Fox “news” analyst recently suggested that more guns would deter crimes like the horrible workplace violence that happened at Vaughan Foods Inc. in Moore.

Maybe the dude was pulling a Ron Burgundy (Anchorman) and just read blindly from his prompter. That happens sometimes. Not often, but it’s possible.

The woman who died was a worker, a mother and a wife. She was killed

senselessly and horribly. Why would anyone use her death as a pulpit to blame President Barack Obama’s administration (and his imaginary crusades against the Constitution) for all of society’s problems? Perhaps we should discuss the benefits of treating mental health and ways to better protect our citizens before things turn violent.

Sometimes, we need to remind ourselves that we, as a state, can act in our own best interests and not listen so much to MAY AVE outside … “analysts.”

He might as well have just said, “I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.”

Thank you, Mr. Burgundy.

It’s a ... meteorite?

An Oklahoma City man called 911 early one morning last week to report “strange lights in the sky.” Uh-oh. We

know where that leads.

According to NewsOK.com, the caller reported what he thought was a crashing plane. It appeared to move too fast toward Earth to have any kind of a safe landing. He did not hear an explosion.

When first responders arrived at the scene, they found nothing, NewsOK.com reported.

However, another 911 caller also reported the same streaking light in the same area while driving down May Avenue.

Could the little green men have stopped by for a visit? Cue the spooky Twilight Zone music.

Officials decided it was probably a meteorite. But it seems suspicious that there was no evidence of said space rock.

We hope our visitors don’t have the notion that we’re just a flyover state.

Hopefully next time they’ll pick a more entertaining part of town — say, the Adventure District — and stay awhile.

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COMMENTARY

OKC’s welcome mat is for everyone

BY RUSS FLORENCE

As our city gets bigger, our world gets smaller.

Every day, it seems, I meet someone, whether at the neighborhood park or at a business function, who moved here recently from across the country or around the world. Chicago, Washington, London, Istanbul — and that’s just this week.

It makes sense. Oklahoma City is the eighth fastest growing city in the country.

A worldly workforce is moving here to work in energy, healthcare, bioscience and other sectors.

As OKC continues improving its infrastructure and amenities, however, we should be mindful of another qualityof-life factor. We must make sure the welcome mat is out for everyone. That means all people of all faiths and all backgrounds and all nationalities.

More than one person has compared our city to a smaller but burgeoning version of Houston. It’s easy to see why.

Both are sprawling Southwestern cities with an economy built on energy.

Today, Houston is the fourth largest city in the U.S. It has evolved into a major international city. But it hasn’t done so by stiff-arming people who are different.

It hasn’t done so by keeping out people who practice different religions or have a different sexual preference.

Add that to the long list of reasons that comments from our state leaders in recent weeks have been so troubling.

State Rep. John Bennett continues to spread fear and misinformation about Muslims — those who have moved here to do business, as well as those who were born and raised here.

And after the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Oklahoma, our governor issued an abrupt statement that our gay and lesbian community somehow doesn’t represent “Oklahoma values.”

It’s ironic, considering that our muchdeserved “Oklahoma standard” was built on friendliness, that our Christian tradition teaches us to “love thy neighbor.”

Earlier this month, a columnist in Relevant, “the magazine on faith, culture and intentional living,” described coming to grips with loving people who are different than he and his wife.

“We quickly realized,” he said, “that loving our neighbors required we know our neighbors.”

By developing one-on-one relationships and keeping an open mind, they were able to quell their fears, expand their worldview and contemplate their own faith in deeper fashion.

Dr. Stephen Klineberg at Rice University has studied demographic trends and social change in Houston for more than 30 years. In the documentary Interesting Times, Klineberg points out that quality-of-life issues have been central

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

to the pro-growth agenda of Houston at the same time as “this irreversible transformation in the ethnic composition in our population.”

“Houston is becoming a microcosm of the world,” he said.

A glance at demographics around the city confirms it: Houstonians come from everywhere.

“And you can go to the bank on this,” Klineberg said. “This ethnic transformation could be the greatest asset that Houston could have. Or it could tear us apart.

“What kind of future will we build?

That is the central question that this generation needs to deal with.”

As our city gets bigger and our world gets smaller, such is the crossroads OKC faces.

Russ Florence is chairman of the board for the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice, a nonprofit that strives to eliminate bias, bigotry and racism.

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.

Corrections:

» In the Oct. 8 issue of Oklahoma Gazette, the okc.Biz Best Places to Work in Oklahoma (BPTW) section published an incorrect photo with the profile of the No. 2 Small Business winner TBS Factoring Service, formerly known as Truckers Bookkeeping Service. Also, Wood Kaufman is the company’s managing member. The correct photo is shown here.

In the same section, Chaparral Energy should have been listed as a private company. Also in the same section, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is the full name of the company that won No. 3 Large Business. » A Sept. 24 Gazette food briefs story incorrectly identified the co-owner and pastry chef of The Tin Can. Her name is Lisa Woods. » OKG wants to clarify a Sept. 10 Gazette food brief on Ingrid’s Kitchen.

Ingrid’s new bakery at 6501 N. May Ave. will share space with current building occupant Sweete Memories Specialty Bakery. » An Oct. 8 Gazette cover story on The Grease Trap’s 1-year anniversary contained two errors. The HiLo is owned by Chris Simon and Jimmy O’Neal, and the Arts Council of Oklahoma City has assigned Leslie Hensley to work with its art program.

LETTERS Water shortage?

During future discussion to increase rates charged to citizens for water in Oklahoma City, I hope the city council is asking, “How sustainable is the water supply and what is being done to protect

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it?” The Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world’s largest aquifers, feeds Oklahoma and, according to the film Symphony of the Soil, has gone down half since the 1960s. As citizens, we must conserve water. But our usage is miniscule in comparison to the oil industry. The oil industry is free to use millions of gallons of drinkable water in each of its hydraulic fracking wells each day.

The least our city council could do is also pass an ordinance, like New York City has done, which prevents fracking within our city limits. Take a stand to protect the integrity and sustainability of our water systems.

— Susan Schmidt Oklahoma City

It is easy being green

Thanks to Oklahoma Gazette for the cover story on sustainable living (Life, “It’s not (always) easy being green,” Angela Chambers, Oct. 1).

We must examine the impact of our food choices. Studies show that the production of meat, eggs and dairy products might have as great an impact on climate change as all vehicle traffic. Becoming vegetarian or vegan does not just reduce cruelty to animals; it greatly lowers our environmental impact.

— Nathaniel Batchelder Oklahoma City

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BOOKS P.C. & Kristen Cast Book Signing, authors of Redeemed, the final novel of the House of Night series, 5:30 p.m., Oct. 15. HastingS, 2300 W. Main St., Norman, 329-5527.

WED Women’s Book Discussion Group, this month’s featured selection is Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, 7-8 p.m., Oct. 16. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks. com. THU Book Signing, two-time Pulitzer nominated Oklahoma poet Ed Robert, 1-3 p.m., Oct. 18. Hastings, 2300 W. Main St., Norman, 329-5527. SAT Kristi Eaton Book Signing, author of Main Streets of Oklahoma: Okie Stories from Every County, 2-3:30 p.m., Oct. 19. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. SUN Juliann Troi Book Signing, author of Dragonfly Saga, Book 1: Empress of Canton & Where There Is No Comfort: Seven Days In Ethiopia, 2-5 p.m., Oct. 19. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Rd., Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. SUN Anna Myers Book Signing, author of Tumbleweed Baby, 6:30-8 p.m., Oct. 20. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. MON

FILM The Congress, (U.S., 2013, dir. Ari Folman) an actress must decide whether or not she wants to accept one last job, weighing the choices and sacrifices she makes to save her son, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 16; 8 p.m., Oct. 17; 5:30 p.m., Oct. 18. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU–SAT Monsters University, (U.S., 2013, dir. Dan Scanlon) Mike and Sully’s adventure during their time at Monsters University, 8:30 p.m., Oct. 17. Jackie Cooper, 1024 E. Main St., Yukon. FRI The Zero Theorem, (U.S., 2013, dir. Terry Gilliam) a computer programmer is hired to find out the reason for human existence but is interrupted, 8 p.m., Oct. 18.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 2363100, okcmoa.com. SAT

October’s Spooky Premiere on Film Row Everyone loves a block party, especially when said block party is Halloween-themed.

This month’s Premiere on Film Row — the monthly film screening/food truck/live music/art exhibit festival — will also feature ghostly activities for the whole family 7-10 p.m. Friday at Film Row, Sheridan Avenue between Dewey and Shartel avenues.

Admission is free. Visit facebook.com/FilmRowOKC.

Friday

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The Conformist, (U.S., 1970, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) digital restoration of the original film about an Italian man who arranges the assassination of an old teacher, 5:30 p.m., Oct. 17; 2 p.m., Oct. 19. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa. com. FRI, SUN

Orchids in October Lecture, learn about miniature orchids that are easy to care for and add color to terrariums or vivariums, 6-7 p.m., Oct. 16. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. THU

An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola, director of films such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now offers a discussion about life, careers and the future of the film industry, 7 p.m., Oct. 20. Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S. May Ave., 682-1611, occc.edu. MON

Shop Hop, explore all that Automobile Alley has to offer in this open house event at shops featuring live music, street artists, discounts at local restaurants and more, 6-9 p.m., Oct. 16. Automobile Alley, 1015 N. Broadway Ave., 488-2555, automobilealley.org. THU PROVIDE D

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Trail of Fear, largest haunted attraction on Oklahoma featuring various haunted attractions including Doll Creek, Cirque De Morte and The Experiment, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Oct. 16-18. Trail of Fear, 14501 East Etowah Rd., Noble, trailoffear.com. THU–SAT Haunted Maize, experience Oklahoma’s largest corn maize along with hayrides, 6-10 p.m., Oct. 17; 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Oct. 18; 1-6 p.m., Oct. 19. Reding Farm, 614 Reding Road, Chickasha, 222-0624, redsiloproductions.com/ home.html. FRI–SUN Terror on 10th Street Haunted House, learn the ghostly history behind the house of horrors on this guided tour, 7-11 p.m., Oct. 17-19. Terror on 10th Street, 2005 NW 10th St., 232-1816, facebook.com/terroron10thstreet.

FRI–SUN

FOOD Family Fun Night, seasonal cooking demonstration, trail walking, food trucks, a health assessment and free movie, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Oct. 16. Northeast Regional Health & Wellness Campus, 2600 NE 63rd St. THU

Heard on Hurd By all measures, last month’s inaugural Heard on Hurd was a huge success. And Edmond’s outdoor street festival returns for another batch of local food, shops and live music, including a host of new vendors and performances by folk acts O Fidelis, Desi and Cody and North Meets South. The party is 6-10 p.m. Saturday at the corner of Broadway Avenue and Hurd Street in downtown Edmond. Admission is free. Visit facebook.com/HeardOnHurd.

Saturday

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6 Degrees of Bacon, a bacon lover’s dream, 19 restaurants provide samples of bacon-inspired food items, 7 p.m., Oct. 16. Downtown OKC, 1114 N. Harvey Ave. THU Eat Well, Move More, Be Well, learn ways to improve your health and healthy habits to adopt, 1:30-3 p.m., Oct. 17. Integris Third Age Life Center, 5100 N. Brookline Ave., 951-2277. FRI Madeira and Cheese, an exotic Portuguese wine and cheese tasting, 7:15-8:30 p.m., Oct. 17. Forward Foods, 2001 West Main St., Norman, 321-1007. FRI Cooking Class, learn the art of Kimichi and make it from scratch, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Oct. 21. Francis Tuttle

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Building Buddies, interactive village where children can play, build, decorate, paint, construct and tile. Science Museum Oklahoma, Oct. 15-22.

2100 NE 52nd St., 602-6664, sciencemuseumok. org. WED–WED Pumpkinville, a fall celebration with pumpkins, crafts, games and more, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Oct. 15-16; 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 17-18; 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Oct. 1922. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/ events. WED–WED

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Safari Day Camps, a unique adventure for your child during school holidays, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Oct. 16-17. Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Pl., 424-3344, okczoo.com. THU–FRI Chomp & Stomp, a variety of zoo animals get to enjoy some Halloween-themed treats, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Oct. 17. Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Pl., 424-3344, okczoo.com. FRI Op-Art Shape Collage, go on a shape-scavenger hunt through the galleries, for ages 3-5, 10-11 a.m., Oct. 18. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT

PERFORMING ARTS Count Basie Orchestra, Grammy-winning jazz orchestra, 8 p.m., Oct. 16. Oklahoma City University, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 208-5000, okcu.edu. THU

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The Sandman, comedy hypnotist, 8 p.m., Oct. 16; 8, 10:30 p.m., Oct. 17-18. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. WED–FRI

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TORO Everything is better with a little wine, and art is certainly no exception. Waters Edge Winery and renowned Oklahoma artist Skip Hill are partnering for the release of a limited edition Spanish Tempranillo called TORO, and they’re holding a special event to commemorate its release. Two hundred numbered and autographed bottles will be available for purchase at the event, along with many of Hill’s other works, 6-10 p.m. Thursday at Waters Edge Winery, 712 N. Broadway Ave. Admission is free.

Call 232-9463 or visit wewokc.net.

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Carrie the Musical, musical production based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, 8 p.m., Oct. 17-18.

Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. FRI–SAT Cinderella, ballet production of the classic fairy tale with a score played by the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, 8 p.m., Oct. 17; 2, 8 p.m., Oct. 18; 2 p.m., Oct. 19. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. FRI–SUN Consider the Oyster, comedy by David MacGregor in which Gene breaks his leg and the oyster shell the doctor left in his leg to help it heal causes Gene to slowly turn into a female, 8 p.m., Oct. 17-18.

Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St., 232-6500, carpentersquare.com. FRI–SAT

Sta r ts at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Dow ntow n Oklahom a Cit y.

Pick up your map detailing more than 30 stops handing out free candy and prizes at the Reno and Mickey Mantle plaza. There will be a free pumpkin-painting station, Redhawks mascots Ruby and Cooper, Energy soccer players, Barons hockey players, and Barons mascot Derrick. This event is free and open to the public. Trick-or-treaters must be under the age of 14 and be in costume to receive free gifts or candy. For more information about Brick-or-Treat visit www.welcometobricktown.com

Evil Dead: The Musical, based on the cult classic film of five friends who travel to a cabin in the woods and the evil force they unleash, 8 p.m., Oct. 17-18. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 2822800, thepollard.org. FRI–SAT

ACTIVE OKC Barons VS. Texas Stars, professional hockey game, 7 p.m., Oct. 17. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com. FRI Rage in the Cage XXXII, MMA fighting event featuring Marcus Penland vs. Ricky Compala with appearances

by Lamont Stafford, Dustin Freeman, Ken Coulter and Austin Gunter, 8 p.m., Oct. 17. Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com.

FRI Zombie Apocalypse Paintball, protect yourself from the zombies and shoot them with glow-in-the dark paintballs, 8-11 p.m., Oct. 17-18. Orr Family Farm, 14400 S. Western Ave., 799-3276, orrfamilyfarm.com.

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VISUAL ARTS Can You Hear Me Now?, sculptor Holly Wilson creates figures that act as storytellers of life. Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., Norman, 360-1162, mainsite-art.com.

DECODE, exhibit by Beatriz Mayorca translates languages in to a universal narrative. The Project Box, 3003 Paseo St., 609-3969, theprojectboxokc.com.

Dialogos E Interpretaciones II: The Americas, a North and South American print exchange featuring over 50 artists. Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., Norman, 360-1162, mainsite-art.com.

Drama, Death, Dirge: Fredric Remington’s American West, dramatic portrayals of the American West inspired by the media and entertainment. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

Hunter Roth, exhibit by multi-talented artist features geometric paintings and woodcut figures along with Oklahoma landscapes. Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., Norman, 360-1162, mainsite-art.com.

M.F.A Show, artwork from OU’s School of Art History graduate students; show will feature various works of art including media arts, studio arts and design.

University of Oklahoma, 660 Parrington Oval, Norman, 325-0311, ou.edu.

Macrocosm/Microcosm, abstract expressionism in the American Southwest. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

No Lady of Leisure, 24 original Victorian Era handmade dresses worn by women from the Civil War through the turn of the century.

Chisholm Trail Museum, 605 Zellers Ave, Kingfisher, 3755176, ctokmuseum.org.

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Minnesota Timberwolves vs. OKC Thunder, NBA preseason basketball game, 6 p.m., Oct. 19. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave. SUN

Barre3 Community Class, enjoy a free barre3 class, 7-8 p.m., Oct. 20. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. MON

Theresa Caputo Live!

The Experience Whether she can actually communicate with the dead or not, Theresa Caputo — star of TLC’s Long Island Medium — puts on an eerily entertaining show.

Caputo will offer an evening of interactive readings and personal stories at Theresa Caputo Live! The Experience. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave. Tickets are $39.75-$89.75. Call 602-8700 or visit chesapeakearena.com.

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An Inspector Calls You can’t beat a good, old-fashioned whodunit. But Lyric Theatre’s An Inspector Calls — an investigative thriller about the mysterious death of a young girl — is more than that, resembling more of a whydunit than a whodunit. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at Plaza Theatre, 1725 NW 16th St. Tickets are $45. Call 524-9312 or visit lyrictheatreokc.com.

Wednesday–Saturday, ongoing Pink Pony, artists Thandeka Zulu and Kiktode exhibit their minimalist expressionists paintings, Oct. 17-18.

Main Street Photo Studio & Gallery, 420 E. Main St., Shawnee, 275-1875. FRI–SAT Portraits of Courage and Culture, watercolor and acrylic paintings by Muskogee artist Dana Tiger artwork depicts strength and determination of Native American Women. Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. 521-3356, ok.gov.

Terra, New York artist Orly Gender’s work inspired

by Oklahoma’s wide open spaces and red dirt.

Campbell Park, NW 11th Street and Broadway Avenue, oklahomacontemporary.org.

The Dragoman, a guide through mysteries, IAO Art Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 232-6060, iaogallery. org.

The Hub of Creativity, local artists and car lovers created their own works of art using old hubcaps.

The Hub of Creativity, 800 N. Broadway Ave., downtownokc.com/hub-creativity.

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Remix: Selected Works by Diana J. Smith, Oklahoma City artist known for her portrayal of dogs, wolves and horses as well as her mixed-media art dolls. In Your Eye Studio & Gallery, 3005-A Paseo St., 525-2161, inyoureyegallery.com.

Renewed, upcycled artwork by artists Brett McDanel and Eric Carbrey. Kasum Contemporary Fine Arts, 1706 NW 16th St., 604-6602, kasumcontemporary.com.

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freshness means peak nutrient levels.

This fall, get ready for warm, hearty dishes that reflect tasty, locally available produce.

Oklahoma Gazette talked with local chefs who are showcasing the transition to fall in their menus.

Chris McKenna Packard’s New American Kitchen 201 NW 10th St. packardsokc.com 605-3771

AT WORK, Chris McKenna, executive chef at Packard’s New American Kitchen, treats this season’s palate with menu items including duck breast with a hard cider demi-glace and butternut squash puree.

New menu items also include fried Brussels sprouts, ancho-coffee crusted ribeye and apple cake with a maplebourbon crème Anglaise.

“We’ll also be running plenty of delicious braised meat features on the board this month,” he said.

Seriously, yum.

Season’s eatings

Cooler temperatures signal changes to local produce and what we — and area chefs — crave as we slide into the new season.

BY DEVON GREEN

As Oklahoma City transitions into the cooler weather, what’s available to eat locally — and what we crave — changes. We want heartier, spicier, more substantial fare.

While modern refrigeration and technology make it easier to eat whatever you desire year-round, there are benefits to eating in tune with nature’s design. It’s more affordable, for

right Packard’s New American Kitchen executive chef Chris McKenna presents portions from his seasonal menu, including duck with bacon and Brussels sprouts and kale chopped salad, above Butternut squash soup topped prosciutto, seared sage and cranberries by Kamala Gamble and Barbara Mock. one. Even if all of your produce comes from the corner big-box grocer, you will see a seasonal reflection in price due to costs associated with shipping

and growing out-of-season items.

Also, eating seasonally means eating produce at its peak freshness. It both tastes better and is better for you. Peak

AT HOME, McKenna likes to spice things up, too.

“My favorite thing about fall cooking is roasting fall vegetables.

Roasting gives veggies like cauliflower and autumn squash a rich, buttery flavor,” he said.

When McKenna cooks at home, which he admits is not as often as he would like, this time of year, he always craves stick-to-your-ribs chili.

“I like to play around with different meats such as turkey and venison,” he said.

He doesn’t have a particular recipe, but his advice is to make certain you brown the meat well, with the onions in the pan.

“The caramelizing of the meat makes the chili have a greater depth of flavor,” he said.

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16-Times World Champion Sirloin Chili 1 lb ground round 1/2 lb beef sirloin cut into 1/2-inch cubes 1/4 lb link sausage, cut up 1 medium onion, diced 1 med. green pepper, diced 1 stalk celery, diced 1 clove garlic, minced 5 chili peppers 1 bay leaf 2 tbsp. chili powder 1 1/2 tbsp. salt 1 (29 oz.) can stewed tomatoes 1 (12 oz.) can tomato paste 1 (12 oz.) can tomato sauce water Brown meat in a large pot with the onions. Then add green pepper, celery, garlic, chili peppers, bay leaf, chili powder and salt. Cook over medium heat until veggies are tender. Discard fat. Add tomatoes, tomato paste and sauce. Cover just to top of pot with water, and cook over medium heat for 1 1/2 hours. Remove bay leaf before serving. Suggested toppings include grated sharp cheddar cheese and diced onions or chives.

He also recommends a book, Chili Nation, by Jane and Michael Stern. In the book, each state is represented by a different take on the hearty classic. Oklahoma’s representative is “16-Times World Champion Sirloin Chili,” by bull rider Jim Shoulders. Find it above.

Rockinville oysters at Packard’s New American Kitchen.

Kamala Gamble Kam’s Kookery and Guilford Garden 2834 Guilford Lane kamskookery.com 840-0725

AT WORK, Kamala Gamble has a slightly different perspective on seasonal fare, as she’s a chef and a producer.

She works alongside chef Barbara Mock, and they share an intimate relationship with Oklahoma’s strange growing seasons. Gamble described the growing year in detail. The highlight? It was, as always, a funky year.

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Chefs Kamala Gamble and Barbara Mock use fresh produce from Guilford Garden’s fall crop.

Butternut squash soup 4 lbs butternut squash halved and seeds removed olive oil for brushing 2 1/2 cups chicken stock 2 1/2 cups water 1/4 cup ginger 1 cup heavy cream 1 tbsp. maple syrup pinch of cayenne pepper salt and pepper to taste Brush squash with olive oil and roast at 350 for about an hour, until soft. When done, let cool enough to handle it.

While cooking squash, shred ginger with a food processor or grater.

Place ginger and water in pot and bring to a boil. Once boiling, remove from heat and cover.

Strain ginger and discard chunks. Keep remaining liquid.

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Heat on medium heat, whisk in maple syrup, cream, cayenne, salt and pepper to taste.

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Seasonal fruits and veggies While the seasonal change affects produce, it’s not nearly as scheduled and precise as produce charts would have you believe.

The Oklahoma season is long, and the transition is a time for a wealth of late summer and early autumn delights. While we focus on the coming months and what is available, take note that you will see the last of the summer’s bounty at farmers markets and produce stands for a few weeks to come.

Oklahoma weather is finicky, as we all know. During the seasonal transition, you can find summer fruits and veggies (tomatoes, carrots, okra, squash) throughout October and into November, and there’s always some carryover.

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*These foods will last the longest into the winter and often can be found at local markets through November or even December, depending on how mild the weather remains.

Augusts on record, which is atypical — every season [here] is atypical,” she said.

She’s now harvesting the last of her summer vegetable crop, including okra, tomatoes and peppers, and because she grows organically, there are concerns she has that don’t always impact larger, commercial farmers.

For Gamble, insect activity is a major concern — squash vine borers

wiped out her crop. Insects also got her pumpkins, but she has accepted it as part of the cost of growing locally.

Even so, she also has a lot of success.

“We’ve probably got about 12-15 types of greens, and it was another great year for cucumbers. Armenian cucumbers, I have great luck with them, and they never get bitter,” she said.

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1 1/2 cups farro 1 butternut squash 1 bunch beets (about 4 single beets) 1 bunch parsley, finely chopped Salt and pepper to taste

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For the dressing: 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard 1 tsp. honey 1/2 tsp. fresh garlic, minced 1/4 cup red wine vinegar

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1 cup olive oil Cook farro according to package directions, and when tender, drain.

Peel squash and cut into medium chunks.

Drizzle squash with olive oil, salt and pepper on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Roast squash at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until tender.

While cooking squash, cut greens off beets and simmer in water over medium

AT HOME, Gamble and Mock enjoy this time of year and work with all the produce that’s available.

They pair the flavors that linger in the late summer with some of the hearty greens to make unique salads and soups.

They suggested a salad and soup combo with interesting flavors. It’s light, yet filling enough to be perfect for cooler months.

heat until fork tender, let drain and cool.

When beets are cool, peel and cut to a medium dice.

Whisk mustard, garlic, honey, vinegar, salt and pepper together. Slowly drizzle olive oil in while whisking. Taste for correct seasoning.

Mix dressing with farro, then add squash, beets and parsley, lightly folding together.

Serve or refrigerate for up to a day.

FOOD BRIEFS

Food with soul Good Life Dining heads south with recipes and drinks that highlight Louisiana.

BY DEVON GREEN

COMING THIS FALL TO MIDTOWN OKC

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Ryan Robinson, co-owner of Jax Soul Kitchen.

Good Life Dining, owner of The Library Bar & Grill, 607 W. Boyd St., and Blackbird Gastropub, 575 S. University Blvd., in Norman, among others, have developed a new concept.

Jax Soul Kitchen, 575 S. University Blvd., in Norman opened its doors this month. It’s a casual, comfortable place that serves up a taste of The Big Easy.

The group consists of five owners: Jack and Lisa Hooper, John Howell, Ryan Robinson and Victor Rojo.

According to Howell, they took a look around Norman and decided that it was sorely lacking in the soul food department.

“People go out to experience, to see, be seen, and every one of those reasons is tied to emotions. Soul food, comfort food is at the heart of feeling,” Howell said.

The group also owns Coach’s Brewhouse, so local beer is available at all of their concepts. In addition to the Coach’s brews and nearly every Okie beer available, the bar at Jax will feature Louisiana-inspired favorites like the hurricane.

The food menu includes classics like po’ boys, seafood and meat platters and sides like deviled egg potato salad and slow-cooked collard greens. Something else we’re looking forward to trying is the house-made sweet potato pie.

You can find out more and see the full menu at facebook.com/jaxsoulkitchen.

Ty Wiseman decided it was time for a change: OKC residents needed more Philly cheese steak in their lives.

The concept behind Phill Me Up Cheesesteaks was born. The three owners — brothers Ty and Vann and their cousin, Holly Bigby — went all in and started serving the masses two months ago.

Besides the standard Philly sandwich, the truck offers a Philly cheese dog, a hot dog covered in Phillystyle meat and the crucial Cheez Whiz.

How do you make a Frito chili pie even better? Make it a Fritos Philly pie with chips, Philly-style meat and Cheez Whiz.

You can find the truck around the metro most days. Track them on Facebook at facebook.com/ phillmeupcheesesteaks or Instagram at instagram.com/phill_me_up_ cheesesteaks.

New vendors coming to OSU-OKC

Brooks Farm Market, 1205 SW Second St., was closed on Saturdays last month.

But do not despair; vendor Double R Farms and several others have moved.

Patrice Whittle is owner of Double R Ranch in Asher. (Read more about Whittle online at okgazette.com.) She will be at OSU-OKC Farmers Market, 400 N. Portland Ave., starting Saturday, adding to the plentiful choices at the market.

“We’re jumping in with both feet and expanding our operation,” she said.

She and fellow farmer Carolyn Harris are making the move to gain more exposure to new customers, Whittle said.

Harris offers chickens to order and some produce.

Whittle raises hogs, cows and eggs at Double R Ranch, and her farm is Animal Welfare certified, meaning it is inspected for the overall well-being of the animals several times a year.

Joining them will be Oklahoma Food Cooperative producers Melinda and Danny Billingsley. Melinda’s Mittie’s Kitchen line includes a variety of jar items, including fresh salsa, jams and jellies and baked goods. She creates her goods in her kitchen in Earlsboro.

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Earl’s Rib Palace 6816 N. WESTERN AVE. EARLSRIBPALACE.COM 843-9922 WHAT WORKS: THE MILD BARBECUE SAUCE IS TANGY AND DELICIOUS. WHAT NEEDS WORK: SOME OF THE FOOD WAS OVERCOOKED. TIP: BE PREPARED FOR A MAMMOTH IF YOU ORDER THE BROWNIE A LA MODE.

Let me just preface this whole thing by saying I don’t normally eat barbecue. I know, I know, how am I an Oklahoman?

However, the allure of Earl’s Rib Palace’s original location on Western Avenue convinced me to try one of Oklahoma City’s favorite barbecue spots. Also, Earl’s has won Best Barbecue Restaurant by voter choice in Oklahoma Gazette’s Best of OKC awards for several years running.

I don’t know what overcame me.

I went in, asked to be seated where I could watch the game on the TV

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and wasn’t bothered by staff when I changed my mind and started thumbing through YouTube videos on my smartphone. People come here to relax and be themselves — I felt at home at Earl’s.

My waitress was friendly and attentive. I ordered the smoked BBQ chicken ($10.29), which comes with two sides and “Okie” toast. I ordered fried okra and curly fries. To wash it all down, I picked pink lemonade ($1.99).

Soon, I received my heaping plates of savory food and didn’t know where to start. However, my waitress left me amply prepared for my future messiness with a stack of napkins and a wet wipe. In other words, I knew what was coming: sloppy, saucy hunger annihilation.

In fact, I think I might have perfected the right placement of sides and food-to-mouth ratio to minimize the mess.

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It was mixed with the mild barbecue sauce, and I ate it all up wondering why I don’t eat more barbecue. The mild sauce moistened the chicken to perfection and highlighted its smoky flavor.

Oh, that mild barbecue sauce.

It was my favorite part of the entire dinner, and I even asked for some to-go. It was the right combination of sweetness and smokiness to perfectly complement my order. And … OK, I’ll stop there. It’s really good.

Earl’s truly is the original; it has been around for 18 years and has grown to include six metro locations.

Its Western location proudly showcases old-timey automotive decor, complete with license plates and hubcaps on the walls.

I have to admit this: After one bite, I realized the okra was a bit overcooked — too fried? — but I kept coming back for more. Oh, and when it’s topped with ranch dressing, it’s possibly my favorite Southern food. Also, the curly fries were precisely the junk food I needed after my uber-healthy spin class. I’m pretty sure my meal canceled out that class, but that’s OK. You have to have some so-tasty-itcan’t be-good-for-you food every once in while. Treat yourself.

My waitress made sure my pink lemonade was filled to the brim at all times. And I needed the entire table to myself just to make room for all of my plates. I didn’t come close to

Bonnie F. Montgomery delivers barbecue to customers at Earl’s Rib Palace. eating it all, but that’s what to-go boxes are for.

That said, naturally, I somehow had room for dessert. I ordered the brownie a la mode. Earl’s does not skimp on its dessert portions either.

I got two big brownies with three scoops of ice cream ($4.99), made complete with chocolate sauce on top. The brownies were crispy on the edges and soft on the inside. It was a perfectly sweet ending to my meal.

Why is it always so cold in restaurants? This isn’t just an issue at Earl’s either. When the air conditioner wasn’t blasting, I was more comfortable. The bathrooms also are a little dated, but despite that, the Western location was clean and inviting.

Overall, service was attentive and my food was flavorful and filling. I can see why Oklahomans love Earl’s Rib Palace: You get as much food as you can stomach (plus some), served in a homey atmosphere. I only tried one combination, but Earl’s offers many temptations, from smoked turkey breast to jalapeño sausage. Next time someone suggests barbecue, I won’t have to say, “I normally don’t eat that”; I’ll say, “Let’s try Earl’s.” And maybe then I’ll get the ribs with some sweet tea.

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Cuppies and Joe

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The Underground Coffee LLC

With mood lighting, loads of funky furniture and a general good vibe, you’ll definitely want to hang out at Vintage Coffee. The staff is friendly and makes a damn fine latte, and the cozy vibe in the old church on Western Avenue is definitely worth checking out. It’s a perfect place to study or spend a lunch break.

This charming and bright place for sweet treats is a welcome haven with plenty of comfy chairs and tables for chilling. Grab a cup of iced coffee or hot tea and a spot to watch the world go by for a while. If you feel the urge for sweetness, you’re covered. You cannot go wrong with the Boom Boom Pow cupcake in all its salted-caramel chocolate buttercream glory, a perfect pick-me-up for the homework blues.

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When it comes to a relaxed atmosphere, The Underground doesn’t mess around.

It has serious coffee and a relaxed atmosphere, making it a go-to place to unwind. Check out local art hanging on the walls, and peruse an excellent rotation of house coffees. Caramelita, a weekly special, is a cinnamon spice latte that’s perfect for the season.

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This stylish and comfortable cafe is the second location for owner Daniel Chae, who opened his Nichols Hills Plaza location this year. It offers a fine selection of teas and coffees, and the food items look like miniature works of art. You can also order from a full menu, including sushi and salads, and everything is fresh and made-to-order. Try a Goguma latte, a mixture of sweet potato and milk.

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The retro decor and the friendly service make Beatnix a great place to haunt, eat delicious food and sip strong coffee. It offers an assortment of beverages, including non-coffee drinks (for you free-thinkers out there). Choose from a freshly baked sweet selection of muffins, order a chai latte and then spend time catching up on emails or updating social media — we won’t tell anyone you haven’t been studying.

This place has our number, and its menu is straightforward and done right. The decor is clean and inviting, and the menu includes featured drinks, along with espresso and a selection of roasts for your cup of java. And you can’t get more in tune with the season than a pumpkin spice latte and a pumpkin spice muffin to warm your taste buds.

This cute coffee shop in Edmond is a student favorite and can be a little tricky to find — just remember it’s upstairs.

The broad, welcoming shop is filled with an impressive coffee and tea selection.

If you’re not in the mood for coffee, we suggest the rooibos tea. It’s beautiful red color and bright zing of flavors is a great wake-up for the taste buds.

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Check out these places to eat, drink and be merry in one of OKC’s most charming districts.

Take a short walk south on Hudson Avenue, pause between 10th and Ninth streets and gaze east. For maximum effect, do this at sundown on a Monday or Tuesday, when people are largely absent. In the foreground, Swanson’s Tire Co., with its bricked-over windows and salmon-colored coat of paint, stands as one of the last operating automotive businesses in the area. Beyond that, a small white dozer rests in the midst of fresh earth and parking lot remnants.

The landscape rises, and rebuilt lots give way to renovated, redbrick apartments.

The focus shifts. A massive gold dome tops what was once the historic First Christian Church, now Frontline Church.

Midtown’s balancing act of rebuilding, renovating and repurposing a once-crumbling district has not only been successful, it has become a template for the surrounding area. Where many developing districts have aimed for a singular vibe, Midtown indulges the weird, often contradicting, lifestyles that make OKC — well, OKC. The latest addition to the district, The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., streamlines the block party experience.

Food trucks are set up at this food truck court every day, beginning at 11 a.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. on weekends.

The food truck court has room for six trucks. It features open-air seating for guests, complete with umbrellas for shade, misters and heaters. Bleu Garten’s drink pod supplies customers with beer, wine and signature cocktails. For a schedule of participating food trucks, visit www.bleugarten.com.

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If you feel the pressing need to repent after a night of overindulgence, take comfort knowing Frontline Church, 1104 N. Robinson Ave., is only onetenth of a mile away.

At a time when a third of America’s adults under the age of 30 claim no religious affiliation, according to Pew

Jesus can be found in Midtown at Frontline Church’s Sunday morning services, which take place at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Research Center, the church defies the odds with a bulk of its membership fitting that demographic.

The congregation meets in the same space First Christian Church met in from 1911, when it was originally constructed, to 1956. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Justin Coffee, the church’s lead pastor, said the church doesn’t try to make its own story but is proud to play a part in the district’s story.

The church partners with local shops and eateries throughout the district.

Recently, Frontline staffed Shop Good’s Mustache Bash with 100 volunteers.

“We want to serve our friends, our family. We’re here with you. Our city matters to us like it matters to you,” Coffee said. “We want to make a huge city small again.”

Frontline’s Sunday morning services take place at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Looking good

“What we do is a very personal, a very intimate thing,” Claire BuchananWestlund, owner of Revel Eight Salon and Spa, said.

Buchanan-Westlund said her salon, 201 NW 10th St., occupies what was

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once an automobile showroom 89 years ago. Revel Eight has 14 hairstylists on staff. Buchanan-Westlund speaks at length of her staff’s skills and ability to connect and empathize with clients. She’s not only proud of her staff, she’s proud of the salon’s location.

“Being in Midtown gives you a sense of place. Young people are moving down here. A lot is going on. You just feel like part of something greater than yourself,” Buchanan-Westlund said.

The salon also features work by local artists during H&8th Night Market events.

Get your grub on

Next year, if Oklahoma Gazette adds “Most Meticulously Groomed Facial Hair at a Brunch Hotspot” to its Best of OKC list of categories, Waffle Champion, 1212 N. Walker Ave., is a shoe-in. Sweet ’staches aside, Waffle Champion serves a moderate selection of salads and soups. Are they any good? No one knows. Everyone is too busy making war on the gourmet waffle sandwiches with ingredients so unusual and names so delectable and foreign (Smoked Duck Banh Mi, Migas), you’ll be reduced to simply pointing at the menu and saying, “This one.” No worries. These waffles transcend language. Waffle Champion serves wine and beer and coffee from the coffee roasting gurus at Elemental Coffee Roasters. To experience wordless bliss, you should swing by early. The restaurant is open 7 a.m.- 2 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

Next stop for coffee is the aforementioned Elemental Coffee Roasters, 815 N. Hudson Ave. At Elemental, it pays to be a frequent customer. The shop is constantly switching the brews it has available. This week’s small batch is next week’s staple.

The coffee shop’s environment — open spaces, minimalist design, soft music — is conducive to getting things done, a key ingredient in a good coffee joint. Also,

Patrons enjoy the outdoors with drinks and food on the rooftop at Cafe Do Brasil. if you don’t gorge yourself at Waffle Champion, you can find a variety of breakfast and lunch items made with local and fresh ingredients at Elemental.

With vegan, gluten-free and traditional options, the food speaks for itself and the baked goods are in a league of their own.

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A drink with a view

Two spots in Midtown offer excellent rooftop bars for the drinker who likes a little fresh air with their libations.

Packard’s New American Kitchen, 201 NW 10th St., and Cafe Do Brasil, 440 NW 11th St., both offer live music, superb cocktails and the reassurance that if things get a little out of hand, you’re not far from St. Anthony Hospital.

Bossanova and jazz music take center stage at Cafe Do Brasil, while Packard’s leans toward more modern music stylings.

If a good beer list is more important than a good view, visit James E. McNellie’s Public House, 1100 Classen Drive. McNellie’s OKC location launched in 2008. Since that time, it has become a favorite for people looking for that neighborhood pub vibe. With a beer list rivaled only by TapWerks Ale House downtown, McNellie’s offers 60 brews on tap and a couple hundred more in bottles. Stop by on Mondays for Pint Night, beginning at 5 p.m.

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Now take a short walk south on Hudson Avenue, past Swanson’s Tire Co. Do this on a Friday, the last Friday of the month.

Join the swelling crowd at H&8th Night Market. Break some pita bread with your brothers in craft beer, sample whacky ramen concoctions and leaning towers of cookie dough ice cream and realize this is exactly how a big city is made small again.

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Write away

A writing workshop brings together experts to help area writers hone their skills.

BY JOSH HUTTON

For writers seeking to strengthen their style, iron out the kinks in their storytelling or figure out where in God’s green earth the comma goes, three staples of Oklahoma City’s literary community offer help.

Together, Oklahoma City University’s (OCU) Red Earth MFA creative writing program, Short Order Poems and the Ralph Ellison Library host free writing workshops for the public at the library, 2000 NE 23rd St., each second Thursday of the month, 6-8 p.m. October’s workshop, however, will take place this Thursday due to a scheduling conflict at the library.

Upon completion of the pedagogy strand in the MFA program, OCU students become eligible to lead workshops at the Ellison Library.

Students set up tables displaying the subject each will teach. Community members sign up for their preferred session. Subjects range from forms — short story, poetry, memoir — to the finer details of the craft like dialogue, point of view and conflict.

Tim Bradford and Chad Reynolds of Short Order Poems facilitate the monthly event during months that Red Earth’s residencies do not take place.

Short Order Poems is also a mainstay of H&8th Night Market, Midtown’s block party on the last Friday of each month.

Patrons pay $5 and give the poets a prompt; the poets then use a typewriter and craft the poem within 20 minutes.

“There are some people that have been there every time. Some just drift in out of curiosity,” Reynolds said.

An emcee greets the participants, introduces the students and previews the individual workshops. Then the emcee often opens with a poem or a prompt, some sort of icebreaker. Students teach their workshops, and then pieces created during the workshop are read. The emcee and audience then give the writers feedback.

Quraysh Ali Lansana, an OCU faculty mentor and adjunct at the

Chad Reynolds and Belinda Bruner with Short Order Poems type away in front of Elemental Coffee Roasters during September’s H&8th Night Market.

School of the Art Institute in Chicago, said that respect is key to a successful workshop.

“When I enter a classroom or workshop, I do so with respect. I enter with the idea that I’m going to learn as much from my students as they will from me,” Ali Lansana said.

Ali Lansana has more than 20 years of experience facilitating writing workshops in the community and published a book on the practice, Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom and Community, in 2011. The workshops at the Ellison Library utilize his format.

The workshops began in 2012 as an integral part of Red Earth’s summer residency. The first writing workshop for the community took place at the Wonderfully Made Homeless Shelter.

Current director of the program, Dr. Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, established the workshop as an extension of OCU’s commitment to service learning and social justice.

“Writing is usually so solitary. With these workshops, it’s not so solitary anymore. We want writers to know they’re not alone, to learn something from each other,” Dr. Mish said.

The organizers chose the Ellison Library because of the community it serves. The library resides in a historically African-American district of Oklahoma City, one that Dr. Mish said is culturally vibrant but often overlooked.

“We chose what we felt was an underserved community. We want to serve a community that otherwise wouldn’t have a program like this,” Dr. Mish said.

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Oklahoma City Ballet puts a new spin on a centuries-old fairy tale in a nimble-footed adaptation of Cinderella.

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Cinderella Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday okcballet.com 848-8637 $26-$59

Oklahoma City Ballet’s production of Cinderella kicks off a season of entirely new shows in OKC. Published in collections like those of the Brothers Grimm, Cinderella tells the story of a young servant girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. Thanks to the intervention of a fairy godmother, she is gifted with fine clothes and a carriage that conveys her to a ball where she catches the eye of the prince.

In creating this new adaptation, OKC Ballet Master Jacob Sparso drew inspiration from the fairytale and a Sergei Prokofiev score originally commissioned by the Bolshoi Ballet in 1945 that also accompanies this weekend’s production.

“The score is glorious and pretty much tells the story just listening to it,” Sparso said.

While Sparso looks at what has come before, he strives to create a unique vision with original choreography.

“What has always been very important to me is that acting, mime and dance go together and have a natural flow, so the audience really can understand and feel what is happening

on stage,” he said.

For this production, the role of Cinderella has been double-cast with dancers Miki Kawamura and DaYoung Jung taking turns in the glass slippers.

Rather than insisting that the dancers duplicate the performance, Sparso encouraged them to make the part their own.

“I try to give the dancers the emotion that’s needed for the roles,” he said, “but I like when they find their own way to convey the character, style and feelings.”

While there are many things that could be contemporized in any fairy tale, Mills said that he and Sparso wanted to give OKC a beautiful, traditional version of Cinderella. Bolstering that vision will be the costume and sets by British designer Alun Jones.

“His designs, especially in the second act, are royal and opulent, while the look of the first act in Cinderella’s house are very realistic — drab and sorrowful,” Mills said.

Sparso is excited for audiences to see this classic tale retold through the power of dance and music.

“The performance is funny and a little sad, but Cinderella will get her prince in the end,” he said.

There will be children’s activities before each performance, including a station sponsored by Oklahoma Contemporary where they can make their own magical pumpkin and fairy wand. A meet-and-greet with the dancers follows both matinees.

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Tig Notaro

From tragedy to comedy

As one of the industry’s fastest-rising talents, comedian Tig Notaro had to emerge from the dark before being thrust into the spotlight.

BY ERIC WEBB

Tig Notaro with Jeramy Westbrook and Spencer Hicks 8 p.m. Saturday Oklahoma Contemporary 3000 General Pershing Blvd. okccomedy.com $25

Few comedians are as respected and admired by their peers as Tig Notaro, who will perform her unique blend of jarringly honest and absurd humor Saturday at a comedy showcase presented by OKC Comedy and Fowler Volkswagen.

Notaro’s 35-city Boyish Girl Interrupted Tour is her first since exploding onto the national stage with her Grammy-nominated album, Live, recorded in August 2012 at Largo in Los Angeles.

In the four months prior to that performance, Notaro was hospitalized with a life-threatening bacterial infection. After being released, her mother passed away. Then Notaro and her girlfriend broke up. After all that, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Rather than give up in the face of so many devastating calamities, Notaro turned personal tragedy into an incredibly powerful stage performance that changed the trajectory of her life and career.

In the show, she opened up about

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her harrowing experiences to an audience that included Louis C.K., who took to Twitter that night and declared it one of the best stand-up sets he had ever seen. He later released a recording of the performance through his website.

Notaro said the choice to be so candid wasn’t that difficult, as she has always striven for authenticity.

“To discuss anything other than the adversity that had taken over my life would have been inauthentic to me at that moment in time,” she said, “which, more than anything, was the driving force that prompted me to be so open and honest.”

OKC Comedy partner Brad Porter said that Live was so special because Notaro was clearly feeling her way through, not knowing how it would go beforehand.

“The old formula is tragedy plus time equals comedy,” he said. “To hear somebody confront tragedy in real time and weave comedy out of it in the moment is not only unique, but it’s almost unimaginable that it would be duplicated in the future.”

Since Live was released, Notaro inked a book deal, filmed a documentary series for Showtime, delivered a TED talk, runs the popular podcast Professor Blastoff and has numerous television and film appearances lined up.

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TOGETHER, WE RAISED Despite branching out, she still thinks of herself, first and foremost, as a stand-up comic.

“It will always be my top creative priority, as it is what I truly love,” she said. “But I am enjoying having new creative experiences as my career is progressing, including acting jobs when they organically come up.”

That love has existed since childhood, when she looked up to comics like Paula Poundstone, Joan Rivers and Richard Pryor.

“It was a fantasy of mine to pursue comedy as a career, but I never in a million years thought it would ever, ever be a possibility,” Notaro said.

Unsurprisingly, she has no regrets about doing Live. Beyond the huge career boost, the performance had an unexpected positive effect.

“I feel really fortunate that being so open seems to have inspired and helped others out there in the world going through a deadly diagnosis or just a rotten day at the office,” Notaro said.

When it comes to the challenge of following up such an acclaimed performance, Notaro decided to stick with the creative philosophy that served her so well before.

“I felt compelled to write and do material that excited me and that was true to my reality,” she said.

The reality is that Notaro is healthy and content. Personally, her cancer is in remission and she has fallen in love, which she said has made her the happiest she has been in her life. Professionally, her career has never been better.

Local comics Jeramy Westbrook and Spencer Hicks will open for Notaro. Porter described Westbrook as a surly man with a fertile mind.

“He may look the part of your garden variety biker gang leader, but his jokes reveal a thoughtful observer of life in a big, weird world,” he said.

Porter, meanwhile, said that Hicks is as funny as he is handsome.

“His quick but deliberate style of delivery has won over audiences everywhere. Spencer’s wit and clever way are a perfect compliment to Notaro,” he said.

Notaro will continue to embrace new career opportunities and challenge herself to keep creating comedy that is personal and honest.

More than anything, though, she’s looking forward to hanging around the house and spending as much time with her girlfriend as possible.

If she could offer her younger self a few words of wisdom, it would be to appreciate what you have.

“Use it or lose it — every area of your body and life,” she said. “Also, floss.”

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The mother-daughter duo that brought you the House of Night book series is bidding farewell to a decadelong story with the release of the series’ final book, Redeemed.

Redeemed finishes Zoey Redbird’s story as she embraces her power to summon the elements and the power of Old Magick to save humans and vampires.

Writer P.C. Cast, along with her daughter and editor, Kristin Cast, have worked on the 16-book young adult fantasy series together since 2005. Saying good-bye to the series has been a challenge for both of them.

“It’s difficult to let go of the characters after you’ve lived with them for a decade,” P.C. said.

With most characters between the ages of 18 and 21, P.C. wrote the books with an older young adult audience in mind.

“As you get further into the series, it gets darker and darker and deals with more serious issues of the balance of good and evil,” P.C. said.

After selling the first three books in the series, P.C. got the green light from her publisher to write as many books as she wanted. She took that opportunity and ran with it.

“I got to really delve into the world and expand the mythos [and] get into the heads of a bunch of different characters,” she said.

During the drafting process, Kristin served as the teen voice editor, and she would read the books with a fresh editorial eye. Over time, Kristin earned her editing stripes, and P.C. took Kristin’s edits more seriously.

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“In the beginning of a series, the characters don’t yet have strong voices, but the longer you’re with them, the more they do things on their own and the less intervening by the author has to be done,” Kristin said.

Because Redeemed is the end of the series, P.C. is excited to see the readers’ reactions to the high body count, and Kristin is looking forward to the readers learning about the conclusion for the character Kalona.

Now Kristin is joining with Diversion Books, based in New York, to start her own paranormal suspense new adult series. Told with a balance of comedy and real-life events in mind, the characters will battle Grecian creatures to try to save the world.

The first book in the series is available for pre-order and will come out in April.

P.C. taught creative writing at Broken Arrow South Intermediate High School for 15 years, and in 2009, she was able to retire from teaching when Chosen, the third House of Night book, hit No. 2 on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

P.C. and Kristin will be at a book signing for the Redeemed book tour at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15 at Hastings, 2300 W. Main St., in Norman.

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Haunting grounds A new book examines Norman’s ghostly past.

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Jeff Provine book signing 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22 Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway fullcirclebooks.com Free

The History Press will hold a book signing for author Jeff Provine at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22 at Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway.

Provine celebrates the release of his new book, Haunted Norman, Oklahoma, an unsettling journey through some of Norman’s most paranormal sights. The book is a follow-up to Provine’s Campus Ghosts of Norman, Oklahoma and part of The History Press’ Haunted America book line.

“I like sharing the stories,” Provine said. “I was very surprised and kind of shocked about all the history and different things around. Seeing that shock on other people’s faces is really cool.”

At 33 years old, Provine is an instructor at the University of Oklahoma (OU), teaching the history of comics as well as teaching composition as an adjunct. A graduate of OU, the author and teacher has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in journalism.

Haunted Norman, Oklahoma reads like a Halloween History Channel special. Each page delves into the unique, abstract and historically bizarre that encapsulates one of Oklahoma’s most distinctive cities.

The book is more than a collection of ghost stories. Provine’s immense attention to detail and his sure-handed

Jeff Provine will be at Full Circle Bookstore on Oct. 22 to sign his new book, Haunted Norman Oklahoma. weaving of historical fact and interest with local hearsay and stories of paranormal activity make the book a quick read.

The guts of Haunted Norman, Oklahoma start with a history lesson, one that begins in Norman during the land run of 1889. Provine sets the stage for what is now downtown Norman and then jumps headlong into haunting stories of suicidal barbers with strait razors, a lady in white who eternally descends the east stairs at the Sooner Theatre and other stories.

After a dark yet informative tour through downtown, Provine explores haunted houses around Norman, hallowed halls and odd locations throughout the metropolitan city that will make a believer out of any skeptic.

The crypt of infamous gangster Murray Humphreys and Crybaby Bridge are just a few of the consecrated stops along Provine’s sinister trip.

The book’s tone relishes in the odd stories Norman has generated throughout its history; however, the historical element is what drives the book. Provine artistically illustrates the estranged stories of locals but also attaches an indulgent history to each haunted location that makes it an easy read. Finishing Haunted Norman, Oklahoma gives readers a satisfaction that only comes from gaining knowledge and understanding of a town steeped in Oklahoma history.

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From dusk till Dawn The harrowing sludge of death metal outfit Abysmal Dawn should make for one hell of a night.

BY NATHAN WINFREY

Abysmal Dawn with Deicide, Septicflesh and Carach Angren 6 p.m. Saturday The Labyrinth 1309 24th Ave. SW, Norman ticketstorm.com 537-8136 $18-$235

Veteran death metal quartet Abysmal Dawn will touch down in Norman for one hellacious night in its monthlong conquest of North America. Frontman Charles Elliott has added his guitar and growl to the LA-based outfit since Abysmal Dawn’s inception in 2003.

Now, more than a decade and three (soon to be four) albums later, Elliott still loves nothing more than unleashing sonic devastation onstage and then sharing some beers afterward with the folks who came out to brave the aural gauntlet.

“I think the most cathartic experience is playing death metal for a rabid audience,” Elliott said. “When we perform live, there’s this energy that you can’t get anywhere else in the world, and when you go home, the volume

gets turned down and you miss that. So that’s why I keep doing it; I’m addicted to the feeling that it gives me.”

Perhaps there’s irony in the title of Abysmal Dawn’s latest album, Obsolescence, because the time-tested metal mainstay seems far from it. The new record will be released on Oct. 27, and it charts a voyage to new waters while honoring the past.

“It’s a little bit faster, but it still has some groovy elements,” Elliott said.

“It’s a culmination of everything we’ve done.”

Abysmal Dawn’s trademark melodic elements and catchy riffs are evident in the new single “The Inevitable Return to Darkness,” which is available for free download on the band’s Bandcamp site.

“We just enjoy a good melody in our technical death metal,” Elliott said.

Back in the band’s primordial days in winter 2004, when Abysmal Dawn was passing around a three-song demo and building a repertoire for its first album, From Ashes, the focus was squarely on melody.

“We started progressing more to the technical aspect, but I don’t think we ever lost a sense of melody or catchiness.

In that sense, I think we’re different from a lot of metal bands,” Elliott said. “I just kind of play what I like. I’m not heavily involved or infatuated with everything that’s new in this scene. I feel like we’re one of the few bands that’s maintaining the old-school feel while adding something modern to it.”

Lyrically, Elliott is inspired by life experiences and scenes of the world he catches through other media. His songwriter’s ear is shaped by everything from thrash to jazz fusion — even what he calls “angry, female-fronted alt music” like Portishead and The Gathering.

“I keep my mind open, but in the end, what I really like playing is death metal,” he said. “To play this music, you’ve got to be a little insane because

there’s no real payoff in it. It’s more something you do out of love and stubbornness — and even pride.”

Elliott and his bandmates are excited to play new cities on this tour and unveil new songs that they have worked on for so long.

“Part of the fun of this whole thing is meeting new people and having new experiences,” Elliott said. “Now we get to play them live, and that’s the whole point.”

We just enjoy a good melody in our technical death metal.

— Charles Elliott

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LIFE MUSIC

Bazan a whim

David Bazan + Passenger String Quartet

David Bazan has no idea what the future holds, and he’d rather keep it that way.

BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

David Bazan + Passenger String Quartet and David Dondero 8 p.m. Sunday ACM@UCO Performance Lab 329 E. Sheridan Ave. acm.uco.edu $20

For what has felt like the longest time, David Bazan hasn’t known what to do with himself. It was the Seattleite’s frankness on matters of faith and the questions thereof that drew so many to his work in Pedro the Lion and as a solo artist in the first place. He’s also just as candid about the frustrations that have plagued the last few years: monumental writer’s block that is just finally starting to crumble away; the struggle to find the means to a career without spending as much time on the road; and a better way to release the music to his fans, some of whom have followed him for upwards of 19 years now.

“I don’t know who I am or what I want to do or what I like,” Bazan said. “I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.”

Nearing the end of 2014, the 38-year-old singer-songwriter is starting to get his legs back. That three-year mental block wasn’t happenstance, though; it was the deliberate institution of the Bazan Monthly series that sees two songs being replaced at the dawn of five consecutive months, the first of which were unveiled in July.

“I hadn’t written two songs period since Strange Negotiations was finished.

I didn’t know how. For some reason, I was stuck,” Bazan said. “So to do that for four straight months, that’s fucking amazing for me. And I like them. It was kind of taking the stakes of each individual song and lowering them so I can explore a little bit.”

Bazan is heading into his 20th year making music, fighting at every angle with a new album backed by Passenger String Quartet and a full national

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I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.

— David Bazan tour — including Sunday’s stop at the ACM@UCO Performance Lab — in support of it.

The record isn’t comprised of new originals; instead, it’s a reinvention of choice selections out of his back catalog. Yet it breathes new life into them all the same.

It was two years ago that Bazan first came across the Andrew Josylnled quartet (which has also backed Macklemore and Suzanne Vega, among others) when Bazan played a gig where its services were offered. The initial hesitance for streamlined, simple and independent-minded Bazan was washed away upon hearing a few demos of Joslyn’s arrangements.

“It’s a heavy thing to hear this sort of instrumentation on your tunes,” Bazan said. “It’s really novel, something one doesn’t have much access too. The fact that it went so well off the bat — I was excited to do something else.”

He hopes for further collaboration with Passenger String Quartet, especially after this two-month tour that will push them past casual acquaintanceship into friendship. But there’s a lot on his future agenda, including a reissue of the 2005 eponymous Headphones album in honor of its 10th anniversary, a Christmas album and tours in support of each.

It all goes to show that even if Bazan doesn’t know all the whys and hows of what he’s doing, he’s going to do as much as he can all the same.

“You want to go out and bring something different to people,” he said.

“When you have the opportunity to do that, it’s a no-brainer that you would.

Who knows how many chances you have at something like this?”

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Mikah Young tends to work in reverse, an old soul unafraid of the path less traveled. Nurtured by her father’s record collection of mainstays like Fleetwood Mac, Moody Blues and Paul Simon, she started in the classics and was comfortable from the onset, not digging into contemporaries like The Killers or Tegan and Sara until just a few years back.

“I was born a 70-year-old man,” Young said of her influences. “I was kind of going backwards from what a lot of people do, and it took me a while to play catch-up with what was cool with the kids.”

But it’s her reverse pilgrimage to Oklahoma City from her native Temple, Texas — just a short hour from Austin — that is even more unusual.

By Young’s estimation, though, it makes perfect sense; the Live Music Capital of the World is more saturated and set in its ways than the emerging, more collaborative scene up Interstate 35.

Young first brushed shoulders with local musician Matt Stansberry at a SXSW party, who — wowed by her raw talent —convinced her to record her debut EP in Oklahoma. She did so last November, and by January, she knew it was the place she wanted — maybe even needed — to be.

“People are willing to grow with you,” Young said. “There are so many [who are] happy to help you do what you want to do. It’s a cool time to be here.”

Young grew up a theater kid with a taste for performing in front of an audience, and somewhere between that, Rumours and some preteen angst, songwriting took hold.

I was born a 70-year-old man.

— Mikah Young

She left Stephen F. Austin State University — fellow dropout Don Henley’s school, as fate would have it — to dedicate herself full-time to music. But Tennessee Is Burning, her debut EP released last March, served much of the same purpose and centered on that feeling of finding your proper place in the world.

“It’s like the first semester of college: You just want to try everything and see what feels right,” Young said of the eclectic record, which recalls everything from English indie-folk act Daughter to The Airborne Toxic Event’s orchestral indie rock. “It’s a good jumping-off point for me.”

Young is on the verge of that, too.

She started working on new material in the late spring — which she is hoping to put out in about a year’s time — and is already feeling more confident and closer to her true artistic identity.

“The second [Tennessee Is Burning] was released, something snapped inside me, knowing what I want to do,” Young said. “This is a more cohesive body of work, like I was given a prompt and it was just laid out before me.”

Vulnerability, mindfulness and candidness sit at the core of these new songs, some of which you can hear Saturday at VZD’s, and Young is feeling like working backwards is putting her in just the right place.

“You can never be too honest,” Young said. “Even when you think you are, there are probably about eight more walls to be broken down.”

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Amanda Cunningham, Tres Cantina, Norman. ACOUSTIC

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Voodoo, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK

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Annie Up, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COVER

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Banana Seat, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. COVER

Don and Melodee Johnson, Twelve Oaks, Edmond. FOLK

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Eric Dunkin, Aloft Downtown Oklahoma City. ROCK

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Maurice Johnson, Avanti Bar & Grill. JAZZ

Of Montreal/Pillar Point, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. POP

Mikah Young, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

David Bruster, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. VARIOUS

Mitch Casen, Friends Restaurant & Club. COUNTRY

WEDNESDAY OCT. 22

Rick Jawnsun, Nonna’s Purple Bar. ACOUSTIC Roy Lee Scott, Sliders. COUNTRY

Grant Stevens, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Shade of Blue, Full Circle Bookstore. JAZZ

Lucky, Sweeney McGann’s, Edmond. COVER

Shakers of Salt, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. COVER

Replay/80z Enuf, Baker St. Pub & Grill. COVER

Shadowman Blues, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. BLUES The Franklin Twins, Newcastle Casino. Newcastle. COVER Voodoo, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. ROCK

The Atlas Moth/The Proselyte, The Conservatory. ROCK The Friends No BS Jam, Friends Restaurant & Club.

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Wino Browne, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK ZuZu Petals, Bedlam Bar-B-Q. ACOUSTIC

SUNDAY, OCT. 19 Casey and Minna, Uptown Grocery Co., Edmond. FOLK DJ RnR, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. VARIOUS

Grant Stevens, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Earl Thomas, Dog Iron Saloon, Claremore. COUNTRY

Ja Porter/L.T.Z., The Conservatory. HIP-HOP

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Dan + Shay, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. COUNTRY Edgar Cruz, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. ACOUSTIC Greg Jacobs, The Depot, Norman. ACOUSTIC

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LIFE MUSIC REVIEWS

Full blossom

BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

Elms is a sort of soft rebirth for Chelsey Cope, but it also represents something of a sacrifice.

Oklahoma audiences have already been familiarized with Cope’s searing brand of alt-folk over the past few years. She has steadily built a following with her formidable debut EP, A Deeper Root, and even nabbed a small part in Rudderless, the Oklahoma-shot music drama and William H. Macy directorial debut, in thanks to that undeniable talent.

And no doubt, Cope still owns this project with her charismatic presence (both in person and on record) and star quality, but to rebrand as Elms essentially says that these players she has assembled — guitarist Chavez Soliz, bassist Michael Bewley and drummer Billy Reid — and the sounds they are making are as essential to the process as she is. She’s still in the spotlight, but her name is off the marquee, and to acknowledge that fact is humbling, brave and, as evidenced by the fourpiece’s debut EP Parallel Lines, totally correct.

This doesn’t have the feel of faceless studio musicians (with the utmost respect to what they do) fleshing out a songwriter’s acoustic sketch for the sake of an album. The band cares as much about this music as Cope does and is just as spiritually invested in the process that demands equal ownership.

Different without being revolutionary in regard to A Deeper Root, the band has a new, distinct edge and vitality, the name Elms alone an indication that the quartet is dead-set on the tree-line-skying brand of indie rock. But they consistently

dodge the traps that litter that trail in their five songs that owe as much to nature’s landscapes as any singular musical influence.

In said mode, there’s a tendency to hold those notes out longer, bigger, bolder (let’s call it the Band of Horses Effect). Elms maintain that aesthetic but subvert it in the same stroke (swampy standout “Journey Down”) with these chirpy little jab steps for a heartbeat of their very own, like St. Vincent anchored to Southern soil in lieu of floating in space. Soliz and Bewley again act as each other’s perfect foil in the subsequent “Father, Dear,” one smoothing out as the other edges more jagged — and back again.

Cope’s voice is as full of character as ever, her delicate rasp melted into a crisp, full-bodied delivery, and she culls each eccentricity out beautifully in lead single “Burn,” a hooky, highnoon anthem and patchwork of spunky yet gentle Western tones.

“Tyrant” is Parallel Lines at its most standard and rigid, but even then its impassioned execution (especially in a nicely constructed bridge) keeps a clear distance from slumberland. Morning-dew ballad “Change My Mind” is the fuzzy but potent cap to the cohesive but interesting collection, seeing Elms find a way to make a big impact with a sleek and slender arrangement, Cope’s vibrato and poignantly placed strings carrying much of the load.

Captured at Bell Labs Recording Studio, Parallel Lines is an exercise in effortless chemistry and the ease and impact that allows for. With these musical soul mates in tow, an already strong Cope now feels near invincible.

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Oklahoma spirit In advance of this weekend’s official release, producer Keith Kjarval talks Rudderless and the film’s connection to the state.

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Some people didn’t know what they wanted to be when they were little.

Keith Kjarval, producer of the distinctly Oklahoman film Rudderless, was not one of those people.

“I always wanted to be a film producer,” Kjarval said. “I remember telling my mom that’s exactly what I wanted to do when I was 10 or 11.”

Kjarval was born and raised in Chicago and had a blue-collar, middleclass upbringing. Movies were a big part of his childhood.

“My mother and father split up when I was young,” he said. “While my mom went to college, I spent a lot of time at the theater instead of daycare.”

Kjarval said that immersing himself in all those movies — “all these people making believe,” as he described it — made him fall in love with everything about making a production. And that love continued over the course of his life.

“I made home movies,” Kjarval said. “In high school, I directed, starred in and produced short films. It was just something I always knew I loved.”

His latest producing credit, Rudderless, is a star-studded musical drama shot in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Guthrie and Edmond, to be precise). It’s also the directorial debut of actor and writer

William H. Macy (Fargo).

Kjarval has worked with Macy several times in the past and said that he had a strong feeling that Macy would be a great director.

“He’s done everything one can do as an actor,” Kjarval said. “It’s a completely logical evolution in this third act of his life.”

Macy approached Kjarval about Rudderless on the set of the 2013 film A Single Shot, which Kjarval also produced.

Kjarval said that when he and his fellow producers read the script for Rudderless, they all had the same reaction.

“It was the fastest read we had,” Kjarval said. “We were all thoroughly impressed with the way the story unfolds.

It just felt like comfortable storytelling.”

Rudderless was written by two Oklahomans — Jeff Robison and Casey Twenter — who collaborated with Macy to produce the final draft.

The film stars Billy Crudup (Big Fish) as Sam, a father struggling with the death of his college-aged son.

After hitting rock bottom (drowning his sorrows in booze and living in a boat on Lake Hefner), Sam discovers a prolific log of original music that his son wrote and recorded. Through listening — and eventually playing —

his son’s music, Sam finds a bit of peace and the courage to find a place back in the world.

Kjarval noted that the film has a strong musical center as well as a lot of heart and humor.

“There are many doorways through which people can connect with this film,” Kjarval said. “It’s got a remarkable amount of fantastic music.

It’s got a mega-talented cast.”

Rudderless also stars Lawrence Fishburne (The Matrix), Anton Yelchin (Star Trek: Into Darkness), Felicity Huffman (Magnolia) and Selena Gomez (Spring Breakers).

Despite its catchy tunes and genuinely funny moments, Rudderless has a fair deal of somber elements, particularly concerning the death of Sam’s son. Kjarval said the film is more topical than others he has worked on, as it touches on the issue of gun violence.

“It’s a hot-button topic,” Kjarval said. “It’s an important issue, particularly with young people.”

Kjarval noted that the people of Oklahoma understand what it means to be struck by an act of appalling violence, like the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

“There’s a permeating awareness

of what this kind of violence means,” Kjarval said. “There’s also a sense of family. People know people who have been touched by this tragedy.”

Kjarval said that spending time in Oklahoma showed him the enduring spirit of the people who live here.

“We discovered a very resilient people, a strong community,” he said.

Kjarval ultimately dedicated the film to his mother, who passed away during the post-production period of the film. Kjarval said that his mother instilled in him the courage to follow his heart and his passion.

“I don’t think that I’d have any of the audacity to believe that any of this would be possible without her,” Kjarval said. “As proud as I am to be involved in this film, I’m prouder that I could dedicate it to her.”

Kjarval said that he brings his relationship with his mother to everything he makes and that the bond Sam forms with young musician Quentin (played by Yelchin) shares similarities with Kjarval’s relationship with his mother.

“At the end of the day, this film is about love,” Kjarval said.

Rudderless opens Friday in select Oklahoma City theaters.

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The OKC Film Club reacts to a movie at The Paramount.

Horror express The OKC Film Club offers the chance to see a variety of horror films this month.

BY ERIC WEBB

OKC Horror Fest 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15 Through Oct. 31 The Paramount OKC 7 N. Lee Ave. facebook.com/OKCFilmClub Free

Following up on the success of last year’s inaugural Horror Fest, the Oklahoma City Film Club is hosting another series of free horror-themed double features throughout the month of October.

The organization got its start in March of last year when local film enthusiast Alex Palmer, tired of watching movies by himself, set out to bring together like-minded film lovers for screenings and discussions of beloved films.

Over the next year, Palmer was joined by his friend Mitch Leisure, a lover of older movies, and local film critics Louis Fowler and Patrick Crain, who brought their knowledge of cult film.

Palmer said OKC Horror Fest is a fun way to reach new film lovers and celebrate the underappreciated.

“People watch horror films for the same reason they ride roller coasters; no other genre can make you scream, gasp and laugh more than horror,” he said.

Palmer said that selecting the films that will be shown was the most fun part of the process, with each of the four members getting their own double feature to program.

“I would like to say there is some formal process, but it really just consists of us bouncing ideas off one another, arguing like film geeks and then coming to a consensus,” he said.

“The one thing we did try to do was pick one film people want to see and

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one film we want people to see.”

The Wednesday, Oct. 15, lineup features a classic and modern take on Italian giallo (crime/mystery) films with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Amer. The screenings begin at 6 p.m. at The Paramount OKC, 7 N. Lee Ave. Palmer anticipates plenty of audience participation at Saturday’s presentation of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at District House, 1755 NW 16th St., which starts at 8 p.m.

“We’re showing it with the little-seen companion piece Shock Treatment, which is a very different kind of horror show,” Palmer said.

Tuesday’s double feature starts at 7 p.m. and will include the 1980 slasher classic Prom Night, starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis, and The Loved Ones, which Palmer caught at South by Southwest’s U.S. premiere in 2010.

There will be a prize giveaway that night for whomever brings the “best” high school prom photo.

Beetlejuice will screen outside at sunset Oct. 17 on the west side of the Paramount building.

“We’ve been wanting to do an outdoor screening for a while and felt that Beetlejuice is just the right mix of horror and comedy that’ll play well in a festival setting,” Palmer said.

The alien slugs double feature at 6 p.m. on Oct. 29 will include the horror comedy Slither from Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn paired with its thematic precursor, Night of the Creeps.

The monthlong OKC Horror Fest will end with an all-night movie marathon on Halloween, kicking off at 8 p.m. at District House. While the lineup is being kept secret, Palmer said that everything from horrorcomedy to Italian gore and everything in between will be represented.

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Maybe the most pleasant irony of a film following the plight of the Lost Boys of Sudan, a group of refugees misplaced by civil war at the end of the 20th century, is that the project was spearheaded in the upcoming film The Good Lie by a pair of homegrown Oklahoma twins.

The career of Trent and Thad Luckinbill, cofounders of Black Label Media and natives of Enid, was originally foreshadowed by their own upbringing. Raised in a “very musical family” cared for by an artistic mother, Thad and Trent formed an early appreciation for the performing arts.

Film became particularly specific, as the American Movie Channel was a fixture in their house.

Trent, a lawyer of nine years after graduating from the University of Oklahoma, commented on the typically unseen compatibility of business and filmmaking.

“There’s a lot of business involved in making, marketing and producing films,” he said.

On the other hand, Thad — an actor by trade known for his performances in TV’s The Young and the Restless, CSI and Nikita — mentioned the union from his point of view.

“Coming at it from being mostly an actor, I understand the work that the actor has to do to make a movie,” he said. “From a producer’s standpoint, it never ends. It’s like raising a child.”

Trent illuminated a major difference between Black Label and many other production companies: It works hand-in-hand with a film’s cast and creative staff, cultivating a hatchling of a piece until it’s ready to take flight across the cinematic market.

“We don’t buy finished products,” Trent said, “and that’s the difference.”

The Good Lie, showing now at select metro theaters, took a bit of grassroots effort to get off the ground.

The Luckinbills first decided on a narrative that resonated with the two of them personally.

“It’s a movie about trial,” Thad said. “And growing up in Oklahoma, it really meant a lot to us, since we were brought up on a communal value. This was a movie we could sell, we should sell, and we wanted to be a part of it.”

The pinnacle of the film’s staying power lied within the script of Margaret Nagle (Warm Springs).

“The script was really trying to capture the triumph of the human spirit,” Trent said. “Imagine living through something no child should ever have to experience. Nagle was really going for the characters to be true to who they were: South Sudanese Christian.”

Nagle’s work, in the Luckinbills’ eyes, tied together the whole endeavor.

Similarly, the film finds a happy balance between humor and tragedy, tethering two sides of the human experience, a particular human experience that is active within national headlines.

“It’s an important movie because it’s still going on,” Thad said. “It is tremendously tragic, but it’s something that, ultimately, everyone relates to.”

Thad and Trent remember how the journey of the film struck a chord within the two of them and how that humanistic strain flowed through them and the people the film was inspired by.

“Meeting a lot of these folks, I think we share a common connection over how much we are still connected with our families,” Thad said. “We could all find a bond in the love these guys felt towards their families.”

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ARIES March 21-April 19 New York City’s Diamond District is home to over 2,000 businesses that buy and sell jewelry. Throughout the years, many people have lost bits of treasure here.

Valuable bits of gold and gems have fallen off broken necklaces, earrings, watches, and other accessories. Now an enterprising man named Raffi Stepnanian is cashing in. Using tweezers and a butter knife, he mines for the rich pickings that are packed in the mud of sidewalk cracks and gutters. “The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine,” he says. I’d love to see you get inspired by his efforts, Aries. Dig for treasure in unlikely places where no one else would deign to look.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 In 1987, a college freshman named Mike Hayes was having trouble paying for his education at the University of Illinois. He appealed for help to the famous newspaper columnist Bob Greene, who asked each of his many readers to send Hayes a penny. The response was tidal. Although most of the ensuing donations were small, they added up to over $28,000 -- enough for Hayes to finance his degree. I encourage you to take a comparable approach in the coming weeks, Taurus: Ask for a little from a lot of different sources.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 The word “abracadabra” is a spell that stage magicians utter at the climax of their tricks: the catalyst that supposedly makes a rabbit materialize from a hat or an assistant disappear in a puff of smoke. There’s no real sorcery. It’s an illusion perpetrated by the magician’s hocus-pocus. But “abracadabra” has a less well-known history as an incantation used by real magicians to generate authentic wizardry. It can be traced back to Gnostic magi of the second century. They and their successors believed that merely speaking the word aloud evokes a potency not otherwise available. I invite you to experiment with this possibility, Gemini. Say “abracadabra” to boost

your confidence and enhance your derring-do.

You already have more power than usual to change things that have been resistant to change, and intoning some playfully ferocious “abracadabras” may put your efforts over the top.

CANCER June 21-July 22 The 17th-century writer Rene Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy and the founder of rationalism. His famous catchphrase is a centerpiece of the Western intellectual tradition: “I think, therefore I am.” Here’s what I find amusing and alarming about the man: He read almost nothing besides the Bible and the work of Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas. He said that classic literature was a waste of time. Is that who we want at the heart of our approach to understanding reality? I say no. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to instead adopt one or both of the following formulas: “I feel, therefore I am” or “I dream, therefore I am.”

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 You can’t give what you don’t have. Here’s a corollary: You can sort of half-give what you half-have, but that may lead to messy complications and turn out to be worse than giving nothing at all. So here’s what I recommend: Devote yourself to acquiring a full supply of what you want to give. Be motivated by the frustration you feel at not being able to give it yet.

Call on your stymied generosity to be the driving force that inspires you to get the missing magic.

When you’ve finally got it, give it.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 I suspect that one of your allies or loved ones will get caught in his or her own trap. The way you respond will be crucial for how the rest of the story plays out. On the one hand, you shouldn’t climb into the trap with them and get tangled up in the snarl. On the other hand, it won’t serve your long-term interests to be cold and unhelpful. So what’s the best strategy? First, empathize with their pain, but don’t make it your own. Second, tell the blunt truth in the kindest tone possible. Third, offer a circumscribed type of support that won’t compromise your freedom or integrity.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 “I am naughtiest of all,” wrote poet Emily : In 1936, Libran author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the “crack-up” he had experienced years earlier. It included this tough realization: “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even my talent.” Let’s use this as a seed for your oracle. Have you been a good caretaker of your talent? Have you been a good caretaker for other things you are responsible for? Look within yourself and take inventory. If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to raise your game. If you’re doing pretty well, reward yourself.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Let’s discuss that thing you are eyeing and coveting and fantasizing about. My operative theory is that you can enjoy it without actually having it for your own. In fact, I think it will be best if you do enjoy it without possessing it. There’s an odd magic at play here. If this desired thing becomes a fixed part of your life, it may interfere with you attracting two future experiences that I regard as more essential to your development. My advice is to avoid getting attached to the pretty good X-factor so as to encourage the arrival and full bloom of two stellar X-factors.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 On a late summer day in 1666, scientist Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, England. An apple fell off a branch and plummeted to the ground. A half-century later, he told his biographer that this incident inspired him to formulate the theory of gravity. Fast forward to the year 2010. Astronaut Piers Sellers got on the space shuttle Atlantis carrying a piece of Newton’s apple tree. He took it with him as he escaped Earth’s gravity on his trip to the International Space Station. By my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you undertake a comparable gesture or ritual, Scorpio. With a flourish, update your relationship with an important point of origin.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way,” said philosopher Alan Watts. You have either recently made a personal discovery proving that this is true, or else you will soon do so. The brainscrambling, heart-whirling events of recent weeks have blessed you with a host of shiny new questions.

They are vibrant replacements for the tired old questions that have kept at least one of your oldest dilemmas locked in place.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 “There is for everyone some one scene, some one adventure, some one picture that is the image of his secret life,” said Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I invite you to identify that numinous presence, Pisces. And then I urge you to celebrate and cultivate it. Give special attention to it and pay tribute to it and shower love on it. Why? Because now is an excellent time to recognize how important your secret life is to you -- and to make it come more fully alive than it has ever been.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Most birds don’t sing unless they are up high: either flying or perched somewhere off the ground.

One species that isn’t subject to this limitation is the turnstone, a brightly mottled shorebird. As it strolls around beaches in search of food, it croons a tune that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology calls “a short, rattling chuckle.” In the coming weeks, this creature deserves to be your mascot -- or your power animal, as they say in New Age circles.

Why? I doubt that you will be soaring. You won’t be gazing down at the human comedy from a detached location high above the fray. But I expect you will be well-grounded and good-humored – holding your own with poise amidst the roughand-tumble. As you ramble, sing freely!

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2014 320i Sedan

$

2014 328i xDrive Gran Turismo

299

*

Lease for 36 months.

$

439

*

2014 528i

Lease for 36 months.

$

489

*

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2014 BMW 320i Sedan vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $299.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $35,100.00.

*Lease financing available on 2014 BMW 328i xDrive Gran Turismo vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $439.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $46,200.00.

* Lease financing available on 2014 BMW 528i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $489.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $52,500.00.

2014 740Li

2014 X6 xDrive35i

2015 Z4 sDrive28i

$

809

*

Lease for 36 months.

$

779

*

Lease for 36 months.

$

389

*

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2014 BMW 740Li vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $809.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $82,950.00.

*Lease financing available on 2014 BMW X6 xDrive35i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $779.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $68,750.00.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW Z4 sDrive28i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $389.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $52,200.00.

2015 640i Coupe

2015 X1 xDrive28i

2015 X3 xDrive28i

$

969

*

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW 640i Coupe vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $969.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $81,850.00.

$

339

*

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW X1 xDrive28i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $339.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $35,250.00.

$

529

*

Lease for 36 months.

*Lease financing available on 2015 BMW X3 xDrive28i vehicles, only at participating BMW centers on leases assigned to BMW Financial Services NA, LLC/Financial Services Vehicle Trust through November 01, 2014. Monthly Lease payments of $529.00 for 36 months based on MSRP of $44,400.00.