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NEWS

Oklahoma singer-songwriter John Fullbright had been called the future of folk and Americana. At age 26, he’s awfully young to dominate things like National Public Radio and Grammy Award nominations.

His influences — and comparisons — run from Joni Mitchell to Neil Young, The Avett Brothers to Leonard Cohen. Some even call the Okemahraised musician the reincarnation of Woody Guthrie. P.41

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— by Jennifer Chancellor, editor-in-chief

Community: food bank insecurity 4

Metro: news briefs

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Religion: Green Bible curriculum 8

Business: airport concessions

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Legal: death penalty

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Chicken-Fried News

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Commentary

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Letters

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LIFE

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OKG picks

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OKG shop: Mother’s Day

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Visual Arts: The Tipsy Artist

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Performing Arts: Native American New Play Festival, 1812 Overture Finale, In the Heights, Henry V 30

Mother’s Day Gift Guide

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Home & Garden Directory

Books: Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage

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Stamping out hunger A worker grabs a box of bananas from a pallet in the warehouse at Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

A local food drive comes at a crucial time for a regional food bank.

BY BEN FELDER

Companies that package food are becoming more efficient.

That’s good for the bottom line but bad for Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

“All the producers are getting better at not making errors,” said Angie Gaines, director of marketing and communications for the food bank. “Which is great for them, but that also means we are down in our donations.”

One of the food bank’s sources of donations comes from mislabeled food items. The decrease in mislabeled products, along with a drop in donations from the U.S. Department

of Agriculture’s commodities program (The Emergency Food Assistance Program), have left the food bank with a shortage of nearly 3.4 million pounds of food compared to last year.

“We are essentially down 2.8 million meals,” Gaines said.

The drop in donations have left some shelves empty in the food bank’s 90,000-square-foot distribution center, which makes this year’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive even more critical.

This week, residents across central Oklahoma were given plastic donation bags by mail carriers. On Saturday, mail carriers will pick up any bags that have been left at the front door with

Typically we collect 800,000 to a million pounds of food from [the food drive].

— Angie Gaines

donated food items inside.

“Typically, we collect 800,000 to a million pounds of food from [the food drive],” Gaines said. “So that’s going to

help close that gap.”

Drops in the USDA and mislabeled product donations are likely to remain, so Gaines said community donations will play an even bigger part in helping the food bank meet its yearly goals.

“Turning to the community for more donations is probably the solution,” Gaines said.

The food bank distributed nearly 48 million pounds of food last year, a new record. The need is expected to continue to rise as one in six Oklahomans struggles with hunger, Gaines said.

METRO BRIEFS Shadid draws words of support, no votes in tax incentive debate

Councilman Ed Shadid continues to voice his concern over the use of tax incentives to create jobs, and it’s a message that might be slowly resonating with some Ed Shadid fellow councilors.

However, in the latest tax incentive vote, the Ward 2 councilman was the only one to go on the record with a vote to deny.

“We are incentivizing behavior that would happen anyways,” Shadid said during an April 22 meeting.

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by the council was to Tapstone Energy to locate its new headquarters in Oklahoma City. Shadid said he disagreed with targeting oil and gas companies that appear to be growing and felt the city lacked enough data on whether jobs created through the incentive program would go to Oklahoma City residents.

Shadid, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for mayor this year, has regularly debated the city’s liberal use of tax incentives.

Ward 8 Councilman Patrick Ryan said he understood Shadid’s concerns but felt OKC had to compete with other cities.

“I wish we didn’t have to give any [tax incentives],” Ryan said. “But we are going to have to match that competition with other cities.”

Ward 4 Councilman Pete White affirmed some of Shadid’s concerns

and said he wanted to see proof that the jobs created through the tax incentives were going to Oklahoma City residents.

“This is another example of Oklahoma City’s taxpayers paying for the expansion of the suburbs,” White said.

While a few councilors said they understood Shadid’s concerns, no one joined him in voting against the incentives for Tapstone Energy.

Council begins work on budget

The Oklahoma City Council received its first copy of a 658-page budget draft that projects a growth of 3.2 percent in revenue for fiscal year 2015.

The $1.1 billion budget will go into effect July 1, and the council will spend the next several weeks reviewing the draft and meeting with department heads.

“We begin with the citizen survey that feeds into the council priorities,” said Doug Dowler, the city’s budget director. “That feeds into our budget development.”

Public safety is commonly listed as a citizen and council priority, and Dowler said the fiscal-year 2015 (FY15) budget includes the addition of 28 police officers and seven firefighters. Overall, the proposed budget increases the city’s staff size by 80.

A majority of the revenue (51.8 percent) for the city comes from sales tax, followed by fees (15.5 percent), the fund balance (21.1 percent) and other sources.

The city council will hear from each department during regular council meetings over the next three weeks and is tentatively scheduled to adopt the FY15 budget on June 10.

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Onward Christian soldier Steve Green, president of Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby, pushes for Bible education in public schools. Mustang Public Schools agree.

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Steve Green has high aspirations for his new high school Bible curriculum.

“We have the most ignorant population ever ... because we aren’t teaching [the Bible] in our schools,” Green said last year after receiving the National Bible Association’s John M. Templeton Biblical Values Award.

“This nation is in danger because of its ignorance of what God has taught. If we don’t know it, our future is going to be very scary. We really want to be in the high school level because we want to reach as many as possible.”

Green’s quest to bring the lessons of the Bible to every high school student will begin next fall when an elective course is offered at Mustang High School. The curriculum was developed by a team of scholars organized by Green and his Museum of the Bible.

“Someday I would argue that it should be mandated,” Green said about his curriculum. “Here is a book that has impacted the world like none other and you are not going to teach it?”

The Mustang Public School Board recently voted to approve the elective Bible course. Green did not return a request for comment. However, while accepting the Templeton award last year, he spelled out his mission to bring the lessons of the Bible to every high school.

Green, who is president of Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby and son of store founder David Green, has been no stranger to wearing his Christian faith on his sleeve. Hobby Lobby stores close on Sunday and Wednesday nights to allow employees to attend church, and the company regularly donates to Christian ministry projects. Those actions are not uncommon for a corporation based in America’s Bible Belt, but Green’s missional approach has come in conflict with the government in ways that some believe challenge the separation of church and state.

“A course devoted solely to Bible study presents significant risks of unconstitutional religious instruction and could expose the school district to costly, time-consuming lawsuits,” said Ayesha Khan, legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS).

AUSCS issued a letter last week to the Mustang school board arguing that the class taught the Bible from a religious perspective and conflict

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Someday I would argue that it should be mandated. Here is a book that has impacted the world like none other and you are not going to teach it?

— Steve Green

The Satanic Temple of New York has constructed a monument it wants to place on the grounds of the Oklahoma Capitol. with the law could not “be avoided by dressing the course in secular clothing.”

A copy of the curriculum, which was given to Oklahoma Gazette by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oklahoma, prefaces the course by saying it isn’t designed to “create an argument” over the existence of God. However, the curriculum does teach biblical facts within the prism of a living God and teaches the Bible from a Western Christian perspective.

In a column for Religion News

Service (RNS), David Van Biema wrote that an objective study of the Bible is allowed in public schools. RNS is a Washington, D.C., based news agency that reports worldwide on ethics, religion, moral and spirituality issues.

“Contrary to popular assumptions, there is nothing unconstitutional about teaching about the Bible in public schools,” Van Biema said. “The same Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school-sanctioned prayer in 1963 qualified that ‘Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible … when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.’”

‘A faith walk’

Oklahoma leads the nation in the percentage of residents who claim to be evangelical Christians (53 percent),

according to the PewResearch Religion & Public Life Project Religious Landscape Survey. The high rate of evangelicals doesn’t preclude Oklahoma from its share of church-and-state debates, but Christian causes seem to encounter little resistance from the state’s top lawmakers.

“It’s almost like a faith walk getting into here,” Mike Jestes, former executive director of Oklahoma Family Policy Council, said about the ease in bringing faith-based initiatives to the state Capitol.

Jestes helped coordinate a National Day of Prayer event at the state Capitol last week and remarked on the state’s openness to Christian themes and legislation.

“It’s not like this in other states,” Jestes said. “We are blessed [in Oklahoma].”

So far, Green’s Bible curriculum has drawn ire from out-of-state organizations, which is generally the norm with other expressions of Christianity at public institutions.

The placement of a Ten Commandments monument at the state Capitol resulted in a proposal by the New York-based Satanic Temple to donate its own monument on the Capitol grounds of a goat-headed demon. The Capitol has stopped the placement of monuments pending a lawsuit from the ACLU, but Satanic Temple organizers say they plan to bring the monument here anyway.

Religious battleground

Bibles in schools and the Ten Commandments at the Capitol are examples of Oklahoma’s embrace of Christian culture, but they are also issues that spur debate over the idea of separation of church and state.

While certain organizations like the ACLU and AUSCS might be willing to engage state leaders in that debate, Oklahoma’s embrace of Christian expression might only intensify, especially since many state leaders believe their faith is under attack.

“There is a war on Christians,” said Rep. Bobby Cleveland, R-Slaughterville, when promoting a bill this year that would permit teachers and students to say, “Merry Christmas.”

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Grounded

Pops has two locations at WIll Rogers World Airport.

Will Rogers World Airport’s strong revenue base includes coffee shops, parking and other retail business.

BY BEN FELDER

Jon Cole typically arrives at Will Rogers World Airport about 30 minutes before his mother’s flight arrives from Atlanta.

Cole’s mother makes the visit to Oklahoma City every few months, and Cole likes to visit the coffee shop on the second level while he waits for her flight.

“I kind of look forward to this cup of coffee,” Cole said. “Always feels like a break.”

Cole might only be buying a cup of coffee, but OKC’s airport makes more money off of purchases like Cole’s on the ground than it does from revenue from airlines and passengers.

Twenty-one percent of the airport’s revenue comes from retail, concessions and parking fees, making it the largest chunk of revenue for Will Rogers.

In fact, the airport’s revenues from concessions and parking have doubled over the past 10 years, despite the fact that passenger traffic has only increased by 11 percent during that same time period.

Airport officials say there are multiple factors for the increase in revenue, including a more efficient security process.

“We have worked on our security since 9/11, so I think people have more dwell time in the terminal,” said Mark Kranenburg, director of airports for OKC. “People are getting past security much faster, so they have more time to spend in the terminal.”

Kranenburg also said the companies that oversee concessions have improved the offerings, including an expansion of the food court and the addition of locally owned and operated shops like

Sonic and Pops.

“The customer experience has changed so much,” said Karen Carney, public information officer at Will Rogers. “The look and feel [of the concession areas] has been brought into a more contemporary state, which has been one of the biggest changes over the years.”

Over the past decade, the airport has added fast-food options and other cafe-style restaurants and shops.

Carney said there are often requests from customers to have more sit-down restaurants and lounges, but those concepts don’t necessarily work in an airport like Will Rogers.

“It’s always a challenge for us because we are an origination and destination airport,” Carney said, referring to the airport’s lack of connecting flights. “We have a limited time to capture our customer. Whereas in Atlanta or Dallas, you have people there for hours.”

Less than 5 percent of the passenger traffic at Will Rogers is connecting to another flight, which means the majority are starting or ending their journeys here.

Park it

Parking is a major revenue source for the airport, with parking fees alone accounting for 12 percent of annual revenue. A growth in parking revenue over the years stems from an increase in passenger traffic and a fee increase.

“In the last 10 years, we’ve added a new five-story parking garage and a new surface parking lot,” Kranenburg said. “We’ve added significantly more

The food court at Will Rogers World Airport will receive a new face-lift in the upcoming year.

parking, and we have had it full.

We did have one rate increase even though we are still one of the lowest cost airports in the country in terms of parking.”

A 2013 storm that destroyed the only offsite parking company has also sent more business to Will Rogers, as The Parking Spot has yet to reopen.

Airport management also hopes to see a revenue increase in rental cars as a new expansion plan is underway. A new centralized rental car facility is under construction, with plans to open in the summer of 2015.

“That’s going to be a big improvement because that’s going to help us deal with the rental car demand we have not only today, but the growth,” Kranenburg said.

Rental car demand now exceeds the number of spaces Will Rogers has, and the new facility will more than double parking space. The facility will not be directly attached to the main terminal, as shuttles will take customers from the new rental car area to the ticket gate.

“The key is not about getting revenue,” Kranenburg said. “The key is providing the customer with the right product. And right now, we have a problem that we are not able to supply enough cars.”

Future growth

Carney said the managers of the airport’s concessions are drawing

up plans for renovations that will modernize some of Will Roger’s older establishments. A $70 million terminal expansion was also approved this year that will add gates, including the possibility of a gate for international flights.

Airlines remain volatile, and many airports have seen flights cut in recent years. However, Oklahoma City has bucked that trend as some airlines view the city as an opportunity for growth, Kranenburg said.

“As goes the economy and the community, so goes the airport,” Kranenburg said. “When we do presentations to an airline and try to recruit service, we spend about half the time talking about the airport … the other half of that conversation is really about the community.”

Kranenburg said OKC’s economic growth has helped recruit more flights, including nonstop service to San Francisco due to OKC’s growing biosciences sector.

Beyond concessions, parking and passenger fees, Will Rogers also brings in revenue through building rentals on its property and federal and state funding and fuel sales, along with several other smaller sources. However, revenue from the cup of coffee Cole buys when waiting for his mother remains a significant source of income.

“Sometimes I get a pastry,” Cole added.

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Demise of death penalty?

A botched execution creates a new chapter in the capital punishment debate.

BY BEN FELDER

In the end, Clayton Derrell Lockett’s botched execution was still quicker and less violent than that of Stephanie Neiman, the 19-year-old girl he himself executed in 1999.

After shooting her twice, Lockett ordered a friend to bury Neiman in a shallow grave. Still alive and pleading for mercy, Neiman choked on dirt as it was thrown on top of her.

For supporters of capital punishment, and the Neiman family, last week’s execution of Lockett was justice, no matter how complicated the execution process that took 40 minutes to kill Lockett.

“She was the joy of our life,” Neiman’s family said in a prepared statement following Lockett’s execution on April 29. “We are thankful this day has finally arrived and justice will finally be served.”

Minutes into the execution process, Lockett’s body began to convulse as prison officials attempted to revive him.

Lockett later died of a heart attack, throwing a new wrinkle into the debate over state-sanctioned killings.

“It looked like torture,” said Dean Sanderford, an attorney for Lockett.

“His vein exploded,” Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton was quoted as saying in The Tulsa World.

Examining the protocol of injecting the three drugs used to induce Lockett’s

Sen. Constance Johnson surrounded by David Slane (rear left), Garland Pruitt and Nathaniel Batchelder at an April 30 press conference at the state Capitol on the resolution to halt executions in Oklahoma. death, Patton said, “The doctor observed the line and determined that the line had blown.”

The execution debate

Sixty percent of Americans support capital punishment, according to Gallup public opinion and research company. However, that’s a drop from a high of 80 percent in the mid 1990s, and last week’s failed execution attempt in Oklahoma could intensify the spotlight on capital punishment and grow the debate about whether or not it is an appropriate form of punishment in today’s modern society.

“The gap between those who support the death penalty and those who are not in support of it has greatly narrowed,” said Diann Rust-Tierney, executive director of the Washington D.C.-based National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. “This is a graphic picture of what the death penalty really is.”

Rust-Tierney said she saw Oklahoma’s failed execution as a chance to spark a national conversation about capital punishment, especially when polls show more of the public are viewing the practice as inhumane.

In Oklahoma, some lawmakers have called for a halt to all executions while an investigation is done into how drugs are administered.

Sen. Constance Johnson, D-Forest Park, announced a resolution to end capital punishment in Oklahoma for one year. While she doesn’t expect the issue to get much of a debate on the Senate floor, Johnson said Oklahoma needed to step up on this issue.

“I can’t imagine a bigger debacle for the state of Oklahoma,” she said at a press conference last week. “Nationally and internationally, we’re on the stage right now, and the world is looking to us. The eyes of the world are on us as to how we are going to resolve the issues that are here before us today.”

What happened in Oklahoma is deeply troubling.

— President Barack Obama

The botched execution drew criticism from the United Nations, which referred to it as “cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.” President Barack Obama also commented on the incident and said the federal government would conduct its own review of capital punishment.

“What happened in Oklahoma is deeply troubling,” Obama said last week. “This situation in Oklahoma I think just highlights some of the significant problems there.”

Across the United States, 39 people were put to death in 2013, which is less than half the number from just 15 years ago. Execution verdicts have declined, and opponents of capital punishment have had some success in delaying executions with lawsuits and other legal challenges.

Despite the decline in executions and a steady rise in opponents to the practice, Oklahoma remains one of 34 states that recognize capital punishment.

Opponents have challenged the state’s use of controversial drugs and its refusal to disclose the source of those drugs administered in an execution.

Lockett was momentarily successful in postponing his death before the state Supreme Court validated his execution

and the practice of keeping the drug sources and manufacturers a secret.

Full examination and fallout

Tuesday’s failure gives opponents of the practice a platform to speak from, and even supporters of the practice, such as Gov. Mary Fallin, have had to admit that executions should be put on hold until more can be learned about how the state goes about killing people.

“I have asked the Department of Corrections to conduct a full review of Oklahoma’s execution procedures to determine what happened and why during this evening’s execution of Clayton Derrell Lockett,” Fallin said in a statement less than an hour after Lockett’s death. “I have issued an executive order delaying the execution of Charles Frederick Warner for 14 days to allow for that review to be completed.”

A few days later, Fallin announced that an independent investigation would look into the botched execution and all other executions would be put on hold until it was complete, which could be months.

What last week’s execution will mean for local politics is yet to be seen.

Republican lawmakers, who hold a supermajority in the state, have been slow to comment on the incident.

Considering 2014 is an election year, it’s likely the issue of capital punishment will be a talking point for candidates in the coming weeks and months.

However, in a state that has executed more people than just two other states — Texas and Virginia — and has the highest rate per capita, local opposition might be slow to rise.

Broken down by party affiliation, Gallup reports that 81 percent of Republicans support capital punishment, which is a few points higher than just three years ago.

Whether or not the act of capital punishment comes under attack, the debate over the secrecy of drugs used in Oklahoma is not ending anytime soon.

“This is not about whether these two men are guilty; that is not in dispute,” said Ryan Kiesel, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oklahoma. “Rather, it comes down to whether we trust the government enough to allow it to kill its citizens, even guilty ones, in a secret process.”

The ACLU’s legal director, Brady Henderson, said Lockett’s execution highlighted the need for the public to have access to information about the drugs used.

“If we are to have executions at all, they must not be conducted like hastily thrown-together human science experiments,” Henderson said.

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Okie sweetheart Kristin Chenoweth, best known for playing Glenda the Good Witch in the Broadway musical Wicked, has mentioned that she might be playing mascara-stained Tammy Faye Bakker in Rise, the new musical about her fame and subsequent scandal that was big news.

In an interview with NY Castings magazine, she said, “Tammy Faye Bakker are three words I find interesting.” Either an indication that she is considering the role or it’s the weirdest non sequitur ever.

As for the real news here, there is a musical about Tammy Faye Bakker! Let’s hope that it focuses on her wiping her raccoon eyes and moving on after Jim Bakker’s fall from grace, because she was the infinitely more likable of the two.

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Ron Jeremy on the television show The Surreal Life. We hope that makes it in the musical because it was awesome and weird ... and utterly delightful.

Nobody’s perfect.

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We all write shoddy headlines from time to time. Actually, we take that back. Our headlines are pretty much flawless. But The Oklahoman — oh, The Oklahoman — got a little carried away with one of its own recently, as you’re probably aware.

After the fact, “Mr. Unreliable” — the headline The Oklahoman ran referencing Kevin Durant’s supposed woes in this year’s playoffs — sounds a bit silly. Aw, who are we kidding?

It sounded silly the day it ran, too.

But you can’t really fault The Oklahoman that much. The point it was trying (key word: trying) to make with the headline

was actually valid: Kevin Durant has been unreliable in these playoffs. Fair or not, for a guy who is neck and neck with LeBron James for The World’s Most Superior Athlete Ever, we expect a certain degree of excellence from The Slim Reaper. (Can we still call him that?) That KD has underperformed — at least by the extraordinarily high standard he set during the regular season — is undeniable.

Thankfully, Oklahoman Sports Editor Mike Sherman issued an apology.

“Thursday’s headline in The Oklahoman on Kevin Durant’s performance in the Memphis series missed the mark,” Sherman said in a statement. “The words were overstated and unduly harsh.”

The day the headline ran, Durant scored 36 points and the Thunder beat the Grizzlies by 20 points.

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by Chevrolet (because, you know, corporatism), which celebrates “the innovation of this year’s hitmakers.”

“Innovation” applied loosely.

But the Muskogee-born Underwood isn’t the only Okietied act under consideration for the prize. Colorado Springs pop-rockers OneRepublic — whose latest album, Native, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 last year — is also nominated. The group’s co-founder and frontman, Ryan Tedder, was born and raised in Tulsa, and Billboard once dubbed him The Undercover King of Pop. That’s a pretty rad moniker, if you ask us.

The third nominee, Ellie Goulding, regrettably, is not from Oklahoma.

Therefore, we do not want her to win.

Fans of Underwood, OneRepublic or Oklahoma in general can vote for their favorite at billboard. com/milestone. The winner will be announced during the awards

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A burglar in Enid roiled the wrong rancher when he decided to go shopping around town and give himself the five-finger discount.

KFOR reported the rancher, Mike Diel, noticed a man parked in a truck near his property. The man was cordial and said he was fixing a flat tire. A little while later, the truck was next to Diel’s barn. Diel looked in the barn and noticed his welder was missing. He then pulled a gun on 34-year-old Ronald Roberts.

Roberts reportedly headed back to his truck to make his escape. But Diel wanted to ensure the heist was halted and raced ahead in his truck, locked a gate on the property and called 911.

When sticky fingers Roberts realized he was corralled, Diel pointed his gun and told Roberts to get on the ground.

Roberts approached Diel but finally laid down on the ground. Deputies arrived shortly thereafter and arrested Roberts.

In his truck, deputies found a television, oil field tools and, oddly enough, bags of cold and frozen groceries likely stolen from other residences.

Let this be a lesson to wannabe criminals that window shopping does not mean seeing something you want in a window and then climbing in and taking it.

Shannon the copycat

The news that Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, would step down at the end of the year put potential replacements in hyper mode to launch a campaign to replace him. So it’s not too surprising Rep. T.W. Shannon, R-Lawton, used a little copy and paste to get his campaign website up and running. However, several weeks later, it might be time to update it with some fresh material.

Last week, Buzzfeed reported on two chunks of

language on Shannon’s website matching identically segments of Coburn’s and Sen. Jim Inhofe’s own websites.

Shannon appeared to “borrow” language on national defense and energy.

Then again, originality isn’t necessarily a key to electoral victory in this state. As long as Shannon carries on with Coburn’s and Inhofe’s antiObama rhetoric, he should be on his way to D.C.

Hey, what’s that smell?

Popular pizza joint Upper Crust, 5860 N. Classen Blvd., had to be evacuated recently during the lunch hour rush. And it wasn’t because your Uncle Vinny decided to hang out there all day either.

Some genius with a backhoe cut a medium pressure line close to the restaurant.

Though Upper Crust and its hungry patrons remained unharmed, it was evacuated as a safety precaution, which was probably a good idea since there have been a surprising number of enormous deadly building explosions caused by gas in the past few months.

And give your poor uncle a break; it’s not his fault that he is old, unkempt, leaky and in need of repairs, much like many of the gas mains ... anywhere.

Correction: We may be good with headlines, but we busted a name in last week’s CFN roundup. The founder of Hobby Lobby is David Green. Steve Green is president of Hobby Lobby. Oklahoma Gazette apologizes for the error.

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COMMENTARY

Oklahoma’s mean Jesus

BY ROBIN MEYERS

After three decades of ministry in Oklahoma City, the land of my birth and the home of so many resilient, creative and wonderful people, I have come to the conclusion that despite all our loving up on Jesus, we are not very religious. We are people with strong beliefs, even when those doctrines hurt the people we love. We are people with passionate opinions about who is saved and who is lost. We congratulate ourselves endlessly for having some quasireligious birthright called the “Oklahoma spirit,” but we are not very religious.

The word religion comes from the Latin religare, to “bind back,” to be obligated and bonded — in short, to remember where we came from, where we are going and to whom we belong.

In other words, religion is present when human beings form covenants that honor

God by caring for one another.

The timeless question, “Am I my brother’s (and sister’s) keeper?” was answered very early in scripture. The answer was not, “So long as I agree with my brother.” Or, “So long as my sister is not a lesbian or has never had an abortion.” Or, “So long as my brother is not Muslim or in any way kindly disposed toward Barack Obama.”

To be religious is to want what is best for the neighbor by loving the neighbor as much as we love ourselves (which is a lot).

To be religious in the tradition of the Jesus followers is to seek out those who suffer by virtue of their minority status, those who have been denied a place at the table, those who have no friends or defenders in a cruel and indifferent world and bring them in out of the cold.

To be religious is not to have certain knowledge about God’s favorite people or party but to live as if either all of us matter or none of us do.

On that score, I do not recognize Oklahoma’s mean Jesus, the one who persecutes gays and lesbians, the one who turns down Medicaid funds as a political stunt and denies health care to hundreds of thousands of our poorest neighbors.

The one who refuses to raise the minimum wage and now prohibits voters in a democracy from raising it by edict of our deeply Christian governor. The one who leads the nation in cuts to funding for public education as a way to show how much we love the little ones, lest a giant millstone be hung around our necks. Is that the Oklahoma spirit?

American evangelical Christianity is

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now indistinguishable from laissez-faire capitalism and hyper-individualism. Don’t talk about greed in a world of want or you will labeled a socialist. Don’t fund the arts because, as we all know, they are non-utilitarian and do not make us better consumers, only more human. Is that the Oklahoma spirit?

We have a lot of churches around here, and we have a lot of “believers.”

But I would not say that we are religious.

Rather, there appears to be an inverse relationship between official, approved religiosity and collective compassion.

Strange indeed when you consider that on Easter, we did not celebrate the resurrection of mean Jesus but rather the head of the beloved community.

Rev. Dr. Robin Meyers is senior minister of Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ in OKC and Distinguished Professor of Social Justice at OKC University.

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.

Government secrecy is deadly

I agree with those who feel that Oklahoma is very much in the wrong when it comes to hiding basic facts about its plans for lethal injection from the public.

It’s important to remember that concern about the way the state carries out executions is not the same thing as sympathy for the condemned. If we are to have good government, it is essential for us to be able to fully know, understand and be able to communicate with our government about its actions.

Oklahoma is treating its citizens as if we are children who don’t need to be bothered with the facts, but in reality, the government’s extreme secrecy about lethal injection raises serious concerns.

It’s our state government, and we have every right to understand what it is doing in our names. Extreme secrecy is bad

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government, undemocratic and dangerous.

The state must turn over much more information about lethal injection before any execution can move forward.

— Emmett E. “Bud” Welch Oklahoma City National President of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights For the people, by the people?

On April 14, Governor Mary Fallin signed into law a piece of legislation that prevents cities and counties from setting mandatory minimum wage standards.

Some Republicans cited general fear of capital flight and rising unemployment as the cause of concern, while others said the bill was a direct shot across the bow of those in Oklahoma City agitating to raise the city’s minimum wage. There are a number of things that may be gleaned from this episode that explain the current condition of state politics.

First, there is a lack of diverse political positions available to Oklahoma voters right now. Governor Fallin and the rest of the Republican leadership have in the last couple decades presided over a transition to what can only be described as a single-party political system. There is no credible opposition at almost every level of government, and this is

beginning to become a problem. The lack of accountability allows politicians like Fallin, for example, to cite “executive privilege” in the attempt to cover up the details surrounding her rejection of expanded Medicaid coverage for the poorest Oklahomans. One might also point to similar deficiencies of governance in matters of state infrastructure, education and many of the empty ideological gestures that come from the state Legislature each session.

Oklahomans need an opposition party to keep its elected officials accountable.

Second, there is a growing rift between state politics and Oklahoma City politics.

The movement to raise OKC’s minimum wage demonstrates this, but the vitality of the LGBTQ community, for example, has for a long time provided a foil to the political valence of the state. As the city

has attracted more people, businesses and a diversity of establishments in the arts, entertainment and restaurants, we can see a continued increase in the diversity of political opinion.

Lastly, the state-level political class is attempting to impose a standard of ideological purity that contradicts their purported populist values. Oklahoma politicians often wax eloquent about the independent spirit of the state and make hay about the encroachments of the federal government — to great effect. But this move to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage demonstrates the vapidity of these claims. Populist rhetoric should always be evaluated by a single empirical test: Are these policies good for the people?

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Tipsy Artist, wine and paint party, 6 p.m., May 8. Thunderbird Casino, 15700 E. State Highway 9, Norman, 360-9270, thunderbirdcasino.net. THU Pinot’s Palette, paint, drink have fun, 7-9 p.m., May 8; 12:30-4 p.m., May 11. Pinot’s Palette, 115 E. California Ave., 602-3850, pinotspalette.com. THU, SUN The Artistik Palette, the social painting place, 6-9 p.m., May 9-10. Artistik Palette, 5820 E. Reno Ave., Midwest City. FRI–SUN

BOOKS Molly Wizenberg, signing her book Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage, 6:30 p.m., May 7.

Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. WED Summer Book Tour, book signing for Kierra Cass, Danielle Paige, Kelley Armstrong and Kimberly Derting, 6:30 p.m., May 7. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Rd., Edmond, 340-9202, bestofbooksedmond.com. WED “He Said, She Said” Author Road Show, discussion on books, writing, book-to-movie experience and how to manage day jobs and children, 6 p.m., May 9. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Rd., Edmond, 340-9202, bestofbooksedmond.com. FRI

FILM Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, (U.S., 2014, dir. Nancy Buirski) of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent, 7:30 p.m., May 8; 5:30, 8 p.m., May 9-10; 2 p.m., May 11. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa. com. THU–SUN The Dinner Game, (France, 1998, dir. Francis Veber) each week, Pierre and his friends organize un dîner de cons, everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest, 7 p.m., May 9. The Paramount OKC, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 517-0787, theparamountokc.com. FRI

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Saturday Cooking Class, learn to prepare a variety of easy and delicious dishes, 10-11 a.m., May 10. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Rd., Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. SAT Spa Day, variety of health and beauty vendors, sample products, facials, detox foot baths, skincare and cosmetic tips, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., May 10. Green Acres Market, 7301 S. Penn Ave., Ste. D. SAT Paint N Cheers, creative social art classes, 6:30 p.m., May 10, 13. Paint N Cheers, 1614 N. Gatewood Ave., 5244155, paintncheers.com. SAT, TUE Superberries, learn about the health and wellness benefits of the aroniaberry, 1 p.m., May 13. Green Acres Market, 7301 S. Penn Ave., Ste. D. TUE Tea and Tips with Becky, a devotion to nutrition and wellness, 9:30-10:30 a.m., May 14. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Rd., Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. WED

Is there anything more awesome than the pyramids, mummies and Cleopatra? We’re seriously struggling to come up with things that are. Dr. Zahi Hawass is kind of an expert on said things, and he’s also one of the best damn archaeologists around. As part of the Museum’s Friends’ Lecture Series, Hawass will speak on the topic 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 14 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive.

Admission is free for museum members and $5 for non-members. Call 2363100 or visit okcmoa.com.

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HAPPENINGS Mayor’s Development Roundtable, experts, local panel members and attendees discuss topics relevant to Oklahoma City’s growth and development, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., May 7. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com. WED

National Public Garden Day, in celebration of botanical gardens, mark the day with special events and activities for schools, families and visitors, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., May 9.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. FRI

Indulge: A Stylish Treat for Mothers, experience style consultations, beauty services, complementary massages, refreshments and event giveways, 5-8 p.m., May 8. Penn Square Mall, 1901 Northwest Expressway, 841-2696, pennsquaremall.com. THU

Live on the Plaza, come see the best of what the Plaza District has to offer, 7 p.m., May 9. Plaza District, 1618 N. Gatewood Ave., 367-9403, plazadistrict.org. FRI

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Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread, learn to make healthy, 100% whole wheat sourdough bread, 6:30-9:30 p.m., May 7. Francis Tuttle Technology Center-Rockwell Campus, 12777 N. Rockwell Ave., 717-4900, francistuttle. edu. WED

Stamp Out Hunger, letter carriers in more than 120 cities collect canned food donations on their route, May 10.

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, 3355 S. Purdue Ave., 972-1111, regionalfoodbank.org. SAT

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Oklahoma City Promise Walk for Preeclampsia, two-mile family fun walk to benefit the Preeclampsia Foundation, refreshments, raffle, silent auction, balloon creations, face painting, 8 a.m., May 10. Earlywine Park, 3033 SW 119th St., 297-3882, okc.gov/parks. SAT Asian Festival, performances, food, art exhibition, crafts and activities from nine Asian cultures, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., May 10. Langston University, Oklahoma City Campus, 4205 N. Lincoln Blvd., 962-1620, langston. edu. SAT Oklahoma Route 66 Corvette RoundUp Car Show, live music, t-shirts, merchandise, food vendors, door prizes, silent auction and a 50/50 pot, 10 a.m., May 10.

Hafer Park, 1034 S. Bryant Ave., Edmond, 359-4630, edmondok.com. SAT Walk This Way, fashion, entertainment, food and fun benefiting local food pantry, 5:30 p.m., May 10.

Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com. SAT Mother’s Day Cruise, pamper your mom with an indulging cruise down the Oklahoma River, May 10-11.

Regatta Park Landing, 701 S. Lincoln Blvd., 702-7755, okrivercruises.com. SAT–SUN 6th Annual Women’s Health Day, women’s healthcentered organizations gather to share their work and discuss problems they face, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., May 13.

Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 521-3356, ok.gov. TUE

SPORTS

Mother’s Day at the Zoo Do you really love your mom? Prove it by taking her to the zoo, where all your favorite monkeys, tigers and elephants (Oh my!) would like to wish her a happy Mother’s Day. And so would the zoo, which is offering free admission to all the moms of the world (human moms, of course) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday at Oklahoma City Zoo, 2101 NE 50th St. Call 424-3344 or visit okczoo.com.

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OKC Redhawks vs. Memphis Redbirds, minor league baseball, 7:05 p.m., May 7-9. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 Mickey Mantle, 218-1000, okcredhawks.com.

WED–FRI Color Me Rad 5K, run and color bombing benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 9 a.m., May 10. Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, 3001 General Pershing Blvd., 9486700, colormerad.com/race/oklahoma-city. SAT The See Spot Run, 5K, 10K and a 1-mile fun run to benefit Free to Live, a non-profit animal sanctuary, 9 a.m., May 10. Downtown Guthrie, 212 W. Oklahoma Ave., Guthrie, 282-1947, guthrieok.com. SAT OKC Energy vs. Orange County Blues, men’s professional soccer, 7 p.m., May 10. Pribil Stadium, 801 NW 50th St., energyfc.com. SAT

OKC Redhawks vs. Colorado Springs Sky Sox, minor league baseball, 7:05 p.m., May 10, 12; 2:05, May 11; 11:05, May 13. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 Mickey Mantle Drive, 218-1000, okcredhawks.com. SAT–TUE YogaVerve, donation only class, all proceeds go to a local nonprofit, 10:30 a.m., May 11. YogaVerve, 16501 N. Shawnee Blvd., Edmond. SUN Full Moon Bike Ride, meet-and-ride from the Gardens bandshell on a full moon route through downtown Oklahoma City, 7 p.m., May 14. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. WED

PERFORMING ARTS Seussical Jr., Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat, and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage, 7 p.m., May 8-9; 2, 7 p.m., May 10. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 524-9312, lyrictheatreokc.com. THU In the Heights, authentic and exhilarating journey to rediscover family, community and what it means to be home, 8 p.m., May 8-10; 2 p.m., May 11. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 282-2800, thepollard.org. THU–SUN

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Native American Play Festival featuring Manahatta, reflection of Oklahoma pride and highlights the tradition of storytelling in the Native American culture, 8 p.m., May 8-10. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. THU–SAT

Guest Chef Dinner Series: Jonathon Stranger Jonathon Stranger ain’t no stranger to cookin’. The chef and co-owner of Ludivine knows a thing or two about the kitchen — and what to do in it. He also wants to share the breadth of his knowledge with you, and he’ll do so at Francis Tuttle’s School of Culinary Arts Guest Chef Dinner Series. There will be five seatings every 30 minutes beginning at 6 p.m. Friday at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, 12777 N. Rockwell Ave. Tickets are $50. Call 717-7799 or visit francistuttle.edu.

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continued Henry V, taking place during the Hundred Years’ War between France and England, Henry V debates whether he has the right to claim French territories under a property contract, 8 p.m., May 9-10. Reduxion Theatre Company, 914 N. Broadway Ave., 651-3191, reduxiontheatre.com. FRI–SAT Growing and Learning with Sissy, part fantasy, part comedy, part drama about one man’s journey toward overcoming and embracing his powerful effeminacy, 8 p.m., May 9-10. Actors Warehouse Studio, 30 NE 52nd St., 702-0400, actorscasting.com. FRI–SAT 1812 Overture Finale, triumphant finale features color-filled orchestral showpieces with a full chorus, 8 p.m., May 10. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. SAT William Rader: An Enchanted Evening, a fun, intimate and sophisticated parlor show, 8 p.m., May 10.

The Caliber, 48 NW 8th St., williamrader.com. SAT

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YOUTH Lilyfield Tot Trot, 5K, 1-mile and Kid’s Dash to benefit adoption and foster care programs, 5:30 p.m., May 9.

Oklahoma Christian University, 2501 E. Memorial Rd., Edmond, 216-5240, lilyfield.org. FRI Mother’s Day Celebration at Orr Family Farm, zipline, train rides, petting zoo and mining for gemstones, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., May 10. Orr Family Farm, 14400 S. Western Ave., 799-3276, orrfamilyfarm.com. SAT Story Time with Julie, hear the best and newest children’s books, 10:15-11 a.m., May 10. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. SAT Mom’s Coupon Book, kid-created coupon book filled with promises for Mom, 11 a.m., May 10. Lakeshore Learning Store, 6300 N. May Ave., 858-8778, lakeshorelearning.com. SAT Weekend Keeper Connections, from anemones to zebras, learn about your favorite zoo animals from the people entrusted to care for them, 11 a.m., May 10-11.

Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Blvd., 424-3344, okczoo.com. SAT–SUN Little Big Chefs Cooking Classes, chef-instructed kid’s cooking class, 2 p.m., May 11. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Rd., Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. SUN

Visual Arts 7th Anniversary Celebration at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum, celebrating seven years of preserving Oklahoma’s heritage, free admission, family-friendly activities, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., May 10. Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, 2354458, oklahomaheritage.com. SAT A Walk Through the Soul, paintings by Karam, an artist from Seoul, Korea whose impressionist oil paintings are derived from her emotions. Paseo Originals Art Gallery, 2920 Paseo St., 604-6602, paseooriginals.com.

Better Than Wallpaper, Beth Hammack’s new body of work consists of her large, trademark abstract paintings.

JRB Art at the Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 528-6336, jrbartgallery.com.

Cletus Smith, includes watercolor still-life and landscapes. Summer Wine Art Gallery, 2928 B Paseo St., 831-3279, summerwinegallery.com.

Cuba 2014, photographic exhibit, meet the photographers, hear stories of their adventures in Cuba, 7-9 p.m., May 9. Shevaun Williams & Associates Commerical Photography, 221 E. Main St., Norman, 329-6455, shevaunwilliams.com.

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, gain a global perspective on the food and the environment through photos. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu.

Indigene, original photographs of indigenous people taken over the past five years, many document the Hadzabe tribe of Tanzania. The Caliber, 48 NW 8th St., 641-4500, facebook.com/TheCaliber.

Just Watercolors, new weekly painting class, supplies provided, Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. Hobby Lobby, 800 W. Danforth Rd., Edmond, 340-0349, hobbylobby.com.

THU LIve on the Plaza, see the best of what the Plaza District has to offer, 7 p.m., May 9. Plaza District, 3679403, 1618 N. Gatewood Ave., plazadistrict.org. FRI Master Artists at the Jacobson House, works of art by 40 Oklahoma Native American artists. Jacobson House Native Art Center, 609 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 3661667, jacobsonhouse.com.

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Norman’s 2nd Friday Circuit of Art, monthly celebration of arts connecting downtown arts district with galleries, performance halls and Campus Corner, 6-10 p.m., May 9. Downtown Norman, E. Main St. and Jones Ave., 2ndfridaynorman.com. FRI North of Reno, black-and-white photographs of architectural elements from selected buildings in Oklahoma City. JRB Art at the Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 528-6336, jrbartgallery.com.

Not Just Another Day in May, curated photography exhibit marking last May’s storms in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 951-0000, cityartscenter.org.

OK CityScape, Oklahoma City skyline built of more than two-million building blocks. Remington Park, 1 Remington Place, 424-9000, remingtonpark.com.

Outta the Ball Park, featuring artists Alan Ball and Nancy Park. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

RISQUE: The Art of Sexuality, undergraduate and graduate students create and exhibit art to shed positivity on a taboo subject. Womb Gallery, 25 NW 9th St., 596-3999, wombgallery.com.

Washita River Bottom Bluegrass Jubilee What’s better than camping?

Camping and seeing live bluegrass music, of course! The Washita River Bottom Bluegrass Jubilee features big-time acts like The Byron Berline Band, The Red Dirt Rangers and several others just itching to pluck a banjo. Reserve your campsite for the three-day fest Friday–Sunday at the illustrious Reding Farms in Chickasha (pictured). Tickets are $15$40. Visit redsiloproductions.com.

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Small - The New Large, paintings, prints and drawings which utilize colors that appeal in small sizes. Jann Jeffrey Gallery, 3018 Paseo, 420-5707, jannjeffrey.com.

Spring 2014 Capstone Exhibition, showcasing the work of 10 graduating Central studio art students working in various media. Istvan Gallery, 1218 N. Western Ave., 831-2874, istvangallery.com.

SiO2, glass works by John Byrne, Rick and Tracey Bewley and father/son duo Chris and Micah McGahan.

Paseo Originals Art Gallery, 2920 Paseo St., 604-6602, paseooriginals.com.

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Our dirt is red, for crying out loud. Artist Joey Frisillo’s new exhibit, Oklahoma Colors: Earth Sky and Water, celebrates the diversity of our environment. The exhibit opens with a reception 6-9 p.m. Friday at Depot Gallery, 200 S. Jones Ave., in Norman and runs through June 28.

Admission is free. Call 307-9320 or visit pasnorman.org.

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Brad Stumph, owner of Black Mesa Brewing Company, draws his winning Endless Skyway Bitter from a tap at Picasso Cafe.

Oklahoma beers win international awards at a yearly competition.

BY GREG HORTON

Oklahoma City-based Black Mesa Brewing Company won a gold medal at the 2014 World Beer Cup for its Endless Skyway Bitter. The World Beer Cup was established in 1996 to increase recognition for traditional beers around the world and award those breweries that produce excellent beer in 91 categories.

Black Mesa won in the Extra Special Bitter category. ESBs are English-style ales similar in style to pale ales, and Black Mesa was judged the best of 57 entries from around the world. The award was announced in a ceremony in Denver on April 11.

“If you can pick one medal to win as a brewery, this is the one. It’s the most prestigious beer competition in the world,” Brad Stumph, cofounder and co-owner of Black Mesa, said.

Stumph and his co-owner and head brewer, Chris Sanders, were unable to make the trip to Denver, so they watched the ceremony on a live stream at Grandad’s Bar, 317 NW 23rd St.,

one of the first locations in the metro to offer Black Mesa’s beers on tap.

Endless Skyway Bitter’s name is an homage to Oklahoma’s own Woody Guthrie. In addition to the ESB, Black Mesa also brews a blonde and a double ESB. The beers are widely available at establishments around the metro, including Grandad’s Bar; Picasso Cafe, 3009 Paseo St.; and TapWerks Ale House,121 E. Sheridan Ave. Black Mesa is still recovering from tornado damage it incurred on May 31, 2013. Currently, Black Mesa is brewed at O’Fallon Brewery in O’Fallon, Mo., but Stumph said the company is working on a plan to get back to brewing in Oklahoma City as soon as possible.

Black Mesa was the first Oklahoma brewery to win a gold medal at the World Beer Cup, but another Oklahoma brewery was awarded a silver. Choc Beer Company, based in Krebs, won the silver in the German-style Sour Ale category for its

Brad Stumph enjoys a glass of Black Mesa Endless Sky Bitter.

If you can pick one medal to win as a brewery, this is the one.

— Brad Stumph

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Gose is a German sour made famous around Leipzig, Germany. Choc’s president, Zach Prichard, said they discovered the style during a trade show trip to Germany a few years ago. Very few breweries still produce Gose, but Prichard managed to get some sample bottles while on the trip, and those bottles were used to help produce Choc’s version of the nearly extinct style.

Prichard said he thought the beer would compete well, but he didn’t expect it to win a medal.

“We’d entered it in a few competitions, including the last two Great American Beer Fests, and while it made it out of the preliminary rounds, it never medaled,” he said.

The 2013 Gose was the medalwinner, so supplies in the metro are limited. All the kegs are gone, but Prichard said some metro liquor stores, including Freeman’s Liquor Mart, 4401 N. Western Ave., still have it.

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There have been some changes at Packard’s New American Kitchen, 201 NW 10th St., and Chris McKenna couldn’t be more excited.

He is officially the restaurant’s new executive chef. Last week, factors came together just so. His girlfriend was offered a job in Oklahoma City.

The executive chef at Packard’s also had moved on rather abruptly, leaving the door wide open for McKenna to lead the restaurant into its second year. Packard’s celebrated its one-year anniversary in March. McKenna started as a line cook at Packard’s in November of 2013.

“I loved the vibe of the restaurant.

From the moment I walked in, I could see there was tremendous potential,” McKenna said.

But he is not out to make drastic changes to Packard’s way of doing things.

“The new spring menu that Mitchell [Dunzy, former executive chef] rolled out a few weeks ago, we’re actually revising that. It’ll be version 2.0,” McKenna said.

The emphasis will remain on a seasonal menu and sourcing local when he can.

“The whole thing about staying seasonal, to me, is that it’s a lot easier and more affordable to source products [with the seasons], and I just feel it’s better quality,” he said.

McKenna said that while not everything on the menu is locally sourced, a lot of it is. Nothing about that will change. The restaurant sources its beef and chicken from local farms and its produce through local suppliers.

“That doesn’t mean the whole menu is local, but I want to keep everything as local as possible,” he said.

One change will be more creole and Cajun items on the menu.

“I lived in and ran a restaurant in Louisiana. That’s a favorite with me,” he said.

He also mentioned traditional Southern food as a favorite.

McKenna has trained in kitchens but not in a culinary school. He started as a front-of-house manager at The County Line BBQ, the legendary barbecue joint on NE 63rd Street that closed its doors in 2010.

“I was drawn to the kitchen and started working as the kitchen manager on weekends,” he said.

He worked his way up to executive chef.

“Having the ability to create my own menu items for the first time was the beginning of the journey I’m on now,” he said.

He has worked alongside some of Oklahoma City’s best and never missed an opportunity to learn.

He cites chefs Brian McGrew and Jonathan Krell at Stella Modern Italian Cuisine, 1201 N. Walker Ave., as influences who shaped both his culinary knowledge and technique.

He spent three years there as sous chef (assistant to the executive chef).

“When I hear New American, I think about how America has become such a melting pot with so many nationalities and cuisines,” he said.

He stressed that it’s not going to be too wild. This isn’t his new test kitchen for gastronomy experiments.

“No one is going to look at it and think, ‘I don’t even know what that is,’” he said. “This is going to be comforting and familiar. I like to make simple, flavorful grub.”

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TIP: PARK BEHIND THE RESTAURANT AND GO IN THROUGH THE BACK DOOR.

You have to give it to the practical jokers at Back Door Barbecue, 315 NW 23rd St. They’ve created a prank so esoteric it’s almost invisible, yet it gets me every time.

First, they created a maddeningly large number of delicious sauces. Then they make barbecue so tender, moist and flavorful that it doesn’t need sauce.

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Back Door Barbecue, like the successes Big Truck Tacos and Mutt’s Amazing Hot Dogs before it, begs the question, “Is there

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anything these two can’t do?” No offense to owners Chris Lower and Kathryn Mathis, but when I heard they were trying barbecue, I thought it would be their stumbling block.

Then I went. I ate. And I realized that, as usual, I have no idea what I’m talking about. God almighty, that is some tasty barbecue. And it

doesn’t matter that it’s in the middle of Oklahoma City or that the decor is kind of faux-rustic or that it’s clean (rarely the sign of great barbecue), because the food is wonderful.

If you would like to try a bit of everything, the Grandad’s Platter (named for Grandad’s Bar next door) is $28.50 worth of brisket, pulled pork, ribs, turkey, sausage and bologna. And it’s a bargain.

The brisket is fall-apart tender with a flavor that doesn’t quit. Get it either fatty or lean (get the fat) and enjoy. I like it fine on a plate (one-meat plate $10, two-meat plate $13, three-meat plate $16), but it also makes a very satisfying sandwich ($8).

And while I wouldn’t call its brisket run of the mill, if you’re looking for something more adventurous, check out the Daily Beast. Once a week, they choose something different. Pork cheek. Duck. Venison. If they can get something different and make it delicious, they do. Prices vary, but I’ve yet to walk away disappointed no matter how much I paid.

Still, if I was told I could only have one meat from Back Door, it wouldn’t even be a contest. The ribs ($2.25 a piece, half rack for $12, full rack for $24). Get the ribs. Try the ribs. Oh my god, did you taste those ribs? For my money, you won’t find a better example in the city. I am absolutely and utterly obsessed with the ribs. Deep, dark, flavorful bark that peels away to reveal tender, but not mushy, smoked meat below.

If you must use some sauce, for the sake of trying it, you will want the espresso barbecue sauce. On the ribs, it’s amazing. It kicks the turkey and brisket up, too.

Sandwiches? The Back Door Club ($8) is the hands-down winner. And while I like the idea of the smoked burgers, none of them capture my heart the way that club does.

On the side, I recommend you get everything. But, barring that, the fried pickled okra is wonderful; the homemade pickles and onions are a treat; and the deviled eggs, like all deviled eggs, will disappear so fast you will not be sure they were ever there.

If you have room left for dessert, I assume it’s because you’ve done something wrong. Did you accidentally become a vegetarian halfway through your meal? I will pray for you.

If, however, that has occurred, you are hereby required to get a jar pie ($3.50, or $4.50 if you get it to go).

There’s much more to the Back Door menu, and I encourage you to do some exploring. Or be like me and just keep getting those ribs every time because seriously, did you try the ribs?

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Pancakes for all occasions Pancakes, flapjacks, griddlecakes — whatever you call them, they’re the cornerstone of an American breakfast. There also are variations worldwide, from French crepes to Slavic blins. We’ve scoured the metro to find the best traditional pancakes and a few variations of the breakfast classic.

— By Devon Green, photos by Mark Hancock and Shannon Cornman

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Through several changes, including location, this restaurant consistently serves up a variety of pancakes for a reasonable price. While there are several options, there’s no shame in going for a classic, and Beverly’s blueberry short stack is just that. The pancakes are bursting with blueberries that are actually in the batter, not served on top of plain pancakes (like some imitators).

Norman’s well-kept secret hasn’t been a secret for some time, especially since Guy Fieri from the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited the tiny Norman breakfast hot spot in 2009. Be prepared to line up outside the door at peak times, but the line moves pretty fast and the food is worth the wait. You can’t go wrong with a classic breakfast of buttermilk pancakes with eggs and bacon.

Cafe 501 has established itself as one of the finest destinations for great food and service in the Oklahoma City metro, and its Saturday breakfast deserves the same accolades. With its trademark style, the breakfast menu is full of classic items with a twist, and the buttermilk pancakes are pretty much perfection.

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Cattlemen’s is world-renowned for its steaks, which are aged to perfection right on the premises, but did you know the historic eatery serves a mean breakfast all day long? Order up a plate of hot cakes. They are as big as your head and twice as fluffy. Pair them with a side of sunny-side-up eggs and a huge bone-in ham for a breakfast that will stick to your ribs. And don’t forget the coffee. Cattlemen’s brew is always hot, and the service is second to none.

Jimmy’s Egg got its start in 1980, when Loc Le opened his first location at 1616 N. May Ave. There are now 38 locations in Oklahoma City serving up some of the best omelets in town.

However, Jimmy’s Egg does a great job at branching out, and its pancakes are right on the money. The newest addition to the menu is a savory bacon and cheddar pancake that combines just the right amount of salty and sweet.

Crepe Brewers has been wowing the metro with its sweet and savory crepes since it opened in 2013. You can find the truck every Saturday morning at Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City Farmers Market going through record amounts of filled crepes and local java from Hoboken Coffee Roasters. A crepe is just a light, airy pancake, right? Crepe Brewers’ crepes are worth waking up early on Saturday morning.

Picasso is one of the city’s most popular brunch spots nestled in the heart of the Paseo Arts District. While it doesn’t have classic pancakes on the menu, its build-your-own blintzes with fresh strawberries and bananas and loads of whipped cream are a great way to start a leisurely brunch. Order a plate of these and a build-your-own mimosa with your choice of juices and get your Sunday recovery started off right.

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Tiffany Bora, aka The Tipsy Artist, has always had a flair for the dramatic. When she was in the fourth grade, she hosted small art classes with refreshments.

“I would recite my poetry to help teach simple techniques for drawing and painting,” she said. “It’s funny to think about now.”

The transplant Okie’s passion for teaching and putting on a show has turned into a lucrative career. Her Tipsy Artist wine and paint parties sell out, whether in her home studio in Guthrie or in other venues around the state. She is a one-woman dynamo.

Bora moved to Oklahoma from Texas in 2007. She had already started experimenting with her brand with craft and cocktail parties when scrapbooking was all the rage.

“I hosted my first wine and paint party at the Oklahoma Creativity Project launch in 2008 with a six-foot community canvas,” she said. “It was the first of its kind in Oklahoma.”

Her classes transitioned to her first love: painting. She has a degree in fine arts with an emphasis in painting from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and pursued her love of teaching while working in art gallery management, museum shows and the wholesale art market. She also held private lessons and taught small classes out of her studio.

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These days, it isn’t uncommon for there to be 100 or even 500 people in one Tipsy Artist class, and they continue to grow. There are several other wine and paint parties here in Oklahoma City, but Bora wants to be clear about what you get when you sign up for a Tipsy Artist party.

“I am not only the owner, I am the artist,” she said. “I am personally invested in my company on every level. I love making people feel encouraged and blessed.”

I love making people feel encouraged and blessed.

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Bora was the first in town, and she recently hosted what was possibly the largest ever wine and paint party in Woodward. The event sold more tickets than the guys from Duck Dynasty, who had visited the same venue a few weeks before. Bora is proud of that, and rightfully so.

She said the secret to her success is twofold: she has a clear vision, and she believes in being thankful every step of the way. And while she does encourage anyone to sign up for a class, she also warns that they are addictive.

“Even if you are scared, do it anyway,” she said. “You will be surprised by your accomplishments.”

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Oklahomans have a cultural heritage rich with Native American tradition.

Although the reason most tribes came to live in Oklahoma is tragic, we have those circumstances to thank for our cultural legacy. Former Oklahoma City Theatre Company Artistic Director Richard Nelson sought to celebrate these traditions in the context of theater, and the result was the Native American New Play Festival.

The festival had a quiet beginning in 2009. Rachel Irick is the current artistic director of the company, and she plans to continue making the festival bigger and better every year. The event itself has evolved from what she described as “a subdued affair” to a well-attended, multifaceted event with dramatic readings and participatory events like Native song and dance classes.

“We’ve been growing and growing every year and trying to do better, reaching into the communities involving more Native people,” Irick said. “I want this to belong to the Native American community.”

There will be three staged readings on Saturday and Sunday as well as acting classes for teens May 17. The classes are geared toward Native American youth, but anyone is welcome to attend. They are free of

The cast of Salvage, from last year’s Native American New Play Festival charge, and lunch is provided.

“One of our challenges is finding Native American actors to fill these roles,” Irick said. “So let’s develop these young actors who have a little bit of interest in theater, so maybe in five years they’re starring in the next show.”

The featured play this year is Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Manahatta, which runs Thursday through May 18.

Nagle is a native Oklahoman, but her play explores the historical context of the island of Manhattan, sold by the Lenape Delaware tribe to the Dutch.

“The Dutch basically tricked the Lenape into selling the island for 60 guilders, which was, like, $400,” Mitchell said.

The play explores the impact on future generations of Lenape, from its distrust of colonial settlers to the relocation of the tribe to Oklahoma.

The modern part of the play takes place in both contemporary Bartlesville and New York City.

When Irick asked Mitchell to direct the play, he was already taken with it.

“I had already started to form this bond with the play, going up to New York and getting to look at the natural history of the island,” Mitchell said. “And the language has been fascinating.”

This experience has provided Mitchell with a chance to get firsthand knowledge of Native American culture, and the process has been especially rewarding for him.

“They are there with open arms, wanting us to learn as much as we can,” he said. “They have been eager to have their nation represented.”

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Over and out For the season’s grand finale, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic takes on some bona fide classics.

BY ERIC WEBB

1812 Overture Finale 8 p.m. Saturday Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. okcphilharmonic.org 842-5387 $15-$53

The Oklahoma City Philharmonic ends its 25th season with a lineup designed to take audiences on a musical journey from the high seas to wartime Russia.

It all begins with the siren song of Debussy’s ode to the sea, “La Mer.” “His so-called impressionistic style works so well in evoking the ‘shock and awe’ factor that is the sea,” philharmonic conductor Joel Levine said. “Whether playful or powerful, the music knocks you back in your seat.”

Starting with Alexander Borodin’s “Polovtsian Dances,” members of Canterbury Choral Society will join the philharmonic for the rest of the program for pieces often performed sans chorus but, Levine remarked, “are much more fun with the singers.” Taken from the opera Prince Igor, “Polovtsian Dances” is inspired by the music of the invading Turks in the story and stands out for its layering of themes, including a famous oboe melody.

Next up is “Suite No. 2,” Maurice Ravel’s daring adaptation of the ballet Daphnis et Chloe, a 2nd-century Greek love story between a goatherd and a shepherdess. Commissioned by the Ballet Russes, Daphnis et Chloe became famous for its complex time signatures, causing its dancers much consternation.

“The music produced in this early

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Joel Levine conducts the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. era of the 20th century posed a lot of challenges for choreographers and dancers alike,” Levine said. “I am looking forward to hearing Ravel’s outrageously difficult writing in Daphnis’ ‘Suite No. 2,’ handled with aplomb by our fabulous musicians.”

The OKC Phil will end the evening with an explosive performance of Tchaikovsky’s immensely popular “1812 Overture.” Commemorating the Russian defense against Napoleon’s invading army, the composition has been pervasive in pop culture going back as far as the 1930s.

Often relegated to outdoor performances where conditions are less than ideal, Levine is excited about delivering a polished performance of this challenging piece. Despite what you might hear, he said orchestras enjoy performing the “1812 Overture” as long as it is not overplayed.

While it stands out as a well-known and beloved classical composition, it was written as a work-for-hire that Tchaikovsky initially dismissed.

“He thought the work was created in haste, without a lot of thought or craftsmanship,” Levine said. “It is not the most subtle music ever written, but that was never its purpose. Let’s not forget that he also disliked his ‘Fifth Symphony’ and The Nutcracker.

Tchaikovsky was not always the best judge of his own music.”

Levine said that the work now belongs to audiences the world over and is beyond the reach of critics — even its creator.

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With its production of the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, Pollard Theatre Company raises the bar.

BY LARRY LANEER

In the Heights 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday The Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie thepollard.org 282-2800 $25

Pollard Theatre Company has become adept at staging musicals set as far from Guthrie as you can get both culturally and geographically. To wit, last year’s Passing Strange (South Central Los Angeles and Europe) and the current In the Heights (Washington Heights’ neighborhood of upper Manhattan). And brother, are they putting on one hell of a show.

Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical and Original Score (Quiara Alegria Hudes, book; Lin-Manuel Miranda, music and lyrics), Heights is a

classic book-musical with a modern patina.

The show concerns the largely immigrant denizens of a multiethnic neighborhood who struggle with the tragedies and triumphs of human existence. Jon Young’s detailed, scruffy scenic design, with the George Washington Bridge in the background (abetted by Michael James’ costumes of thrift-shop authenticity), shows a local hair salon, a combination deli and grocery, a taxi company and modest apartment buildings. Here, good, hardworking people play the lottery, gossip, suffer rising rents, navigate the confusions of the English language and pursue their dreams. Some dreams are realized, while others, alas, are not.

Kudos to W. Jerome Stevenson’s excellent direction of the 21-actor cast and 8-piece band (led by Todd Malicoate) and

Pollard Theatre Company cast members rehearse for In the Heights. to Hui Cha Poos’ exuberant choreography, which reflects Miranda’s hip-hop-infused score and is danced by the terrific cast.

The musical’s leads are more firsts among equals. In an engaging performance, Matthew Alvin Brown raps his way through the show as the proprietor of the deli/grocery with Aaron Stewart as his young, horn-dog employee.

Many of the characters aspire to leave the Heights. Delightful newcomer Victoria Trujillo plays a Stanford University student who has unexpectedly returned home to her parents, the rock-solid Ben Hall and Lin Sanchez. Trujillo’s character is involved in a difficult romantic relationship with an ambitious employee of her father’s taxi company, played by J. Lamont Thomas.

Thomas’ song “Benny’s Dispatch” is a highlight of the first act.

As the feisty Daniela, Gwendolyn Evans (unrecognizable from her brilliant performance as Annie Sullivan in Pollard’s The Miracle Worker) leads a trio of cosmetologists, including the conflicted Vanessa (Jennifer Teel) and cute Carla (Tiffany Tuggle). Their song “No Me Diga” is a tutorial on the art of gossiping.

Ashley Cain does a fine job as Abuela Claudia, a poignant character who was to be played by Cristela Carrizales until she broke her leg during a late rehearsal, delaying the show’s opening a week.

All of these elements come together to form a nearly perfect whole far from the real Washington Heights.

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V guys Reduxion Theatre Company changes directions with an elaborate production of Shakespeare’s Henry V.

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Reduxion Theatre Company brings its 2013-2014 Theater In Your Lap season to a close with what promises to be a rousing production of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved works, Henry V. The play chronicles the life of the eponymous king of England and his successful conquest of France, centered around the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

“Henry V focuses on the journey of a young king who is heroic but profoundly human,” said Reduxion Managing Director Erin Woods. “He is noble but can identify with the common men who follow and fight for him. To put it in pop culture terms, Henry is the Captain America of Shakespeare’s works.”

Woods said that Shakespeare sought to honestly portray the human experience for everyone — the highborn, the low, the elderly, the young, men and women, rich and poor, the noble and the slave. In Henry V, he captures the triumph and hardships of war and the question of why we fight that has resonated throughout history.

For this production, Reduxion will take full advantage of the flexibility of its new Automobile Alley location by reconfiguring the stage from the threequarters thrust seen in As You Like It to in-the-round for Henry V, hoping to create a more intimate setting. No one will be more than two rows from the action onstage, of which there will a great deal.

“This show packs a punch. And a broadsword. And a battle ax,” Woods said. “Safety is our No. 1 priority and necessitates that director Tyler Woods and combat choreographer Matthew Ellis rehearse how to deliver the thrill of being smack in the middle of a fulltilt live battle without any danger to our audience or performers.”

Reduxion is promoting the production as “Saving Private Ryan meets Game of Thrones.” Woods said that American audiences have embraced period dress and accents in popular fiction like never before.

“Whether it is part of historical or fantasy storytelling that is extremely popular right now, everyone is hungry for visceral human drama,” Woods said.

“A sword or two doesn’t hurt either.”

This show packs a punch. And a broadsword. And a battle ax.

— Erin Woods

Andrew Rathgeber, who stars as Henry, spent last summer studying in London at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the premier classical acting school in the English-speaking world. The 13-member company also includes Rachael Barry as Princess Katherine of France and Sam Bearer as the war hero Duke of Exeter.

Henry V will be a departure for Reduxion, as it plans to present the show in period costumes created by Jeffrey Meek, a first for the company when it comes to Shakespeare plays.

“Reduxion is known for immersion and accessibility,” Woods said. “For Henry V, we take it to the next level, not only drawing audiences into the play but into the time period as well.”

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Delancey tells the story of opening Delancey pizza restaurant in Seattle with her husband, Brandon Pettit, in August 2009.

“A big part of the second book is about learning the difficult lesson that I think we all learn in a marriage, which is that you can choose someone … you can both want the same things in life, but it doesn’t mean that … things aren’t going to change,” Wizenberg said.

“We continue to learn about them, and they continue to change. So we never really know what’s going to happen when we choose someone.”

Wizenberg’s second book also includes 20 recipes created for the restaurant. Delancey serves Pettit’s ideal vision of New York pizza.

“It’s not crackerycrispy, but it’s also not floppy and soggy. It’s just firm and chewy enough that you can pick up a slice and fold it in half and get it to your mouth without everything falling off of it,” Wizenberg said.

The dough ferments for up to 24 hours, which allows the starches to create a complex and natural sweetness. The dough is baked in a wood-burning oven and then topped with aged or fresh mozzarella and Grana Padano, or fresh, house-made ricotta. The 12-inch pies are then sprinkled with the “perfect” amount of toppings to balance with the crust, she said.

Wizenberg’s love of food is what led her to her passion for writing, and she was able to combine the two through her blog, Orangette, in order to figure out exactly what they both mean to her.

“It was through writing about [food] on the blog, through having to put into words these thoughts that had been going through my head or these experiences that I was having that allowed me to see that food is really the marker and the constant and the rhythm keeper in my days,” she said.

After her first book found its audience in such a natural way, Wizenberg was reassured that she could, indeed, write a book.

“There was this uncertainty the whole time with the first book like, ‘How do people even write books?’

The second time, it was really wonderful to have that uncertainty removed,” she said.

For her, blogging was invaluable practice, and her advice for budding writers is to keep returning to their work and read voraciously.

Her first book, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, was published in 2009.

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School’s almost out, and the NBA playoffs are heating up.

Ready for some hoops?

For all you would-be KDs and Westbrooks out there, the Oklahoma City Thunder will hold 10 youth basketball camps throughout the Oklahoma City metro and Tulsa this summer.

In the program’s fifth year, about 80-150 youth are expected to attend each camp, said Dan Mahoney, the team’s vice president of corporate communications and community relations.

“We reach into the community and find experienced coaches who know and understand the game but also understand what is necessary to work with children and teach them not only the fundamentals of the game but also the concepts of teamwork, hard work, dedication, resilience, good nutrition and other skills,” he said.

A new feature this year will be more focused instruction for participants at varying age and skill levels.

Thunder Youth Basketball junior camps are five-day camps designed to give participants ages 5-9 a positive, noncompetitive introduction to the fundamentals of the game during a shorter camp day (9 a.m.-noon).

Thunder Youth Basketball camps are five-day camps for youth ages 10-16, full-day sessions (9 a.m.2:30 p.m.) that give campers the opportunity to hone their basketball skills beyond the basics.

Flex camps are also available during the last week of May and the first week of August, giving families with children ages 5-16 the option of attending between one and five days of camp.

All camps emphasize both development of basketball skills

Youth participate in a basketball camp sponsored by the Oklahoma City Thunder. and the importance of life lessons such as sportsmanship and respect.

Camp instructors are selected locally, Mahoney said.

With busy schedules, the team never guarantees that Thunder players or coaches will appear, but in the past, team members have found time to attend, Mahoney said.

The junior and flex camps will be held at the Thunder Community Events Center, 14701 N. Lincoln Blvd., the team’s original training home for three seasons.

Junior camps will be June 2-6, June 16-20, June 23-27, July 7-11 and July 28-Aug. 1. Flex camps will be May 27-30 and Aug. 4-8.

Youth camps will be held at different venues across the state.

The first is June 9-13 at the Santa Fe Family Life Center, 6300 N. Santa Fe Ave. The second is June 23-27 at Bishop Kelley High School, 3905 S. Hudson Ave., in Tulsa.

The third is July 14-18 at Casady School, 9500 N. Pennsylvania Ave. And the final one is July 21-25 at Yukon High School, 1777 S. Yukon Pkwy., in Yukon.

Each camp participant receives an Oklahoma City Thunder Youth Basketball T-shirt, a $10 Thunder Shop voucher and a basketball.

Youth camp registry is $235, and junior camp costs $175.

Season ticket holders and Thunder Kids Club members receive a 20 percent discount.

To register and for more information, visit nba.com/thunder and follow the Community link.

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SPORTS BRIEFS LIFE SPORTS The first thing that Brad Lund, managing partner of the new Oklahoma City Football Club (OKC FC) team, wants you to know is they are not going anywhere.

One year ago, Lund and his partners got the lease rights to form a North American Soccer League (NASL) franchise. Most teams that achieve Major League Soccer status are either NASL or United Soccer League (USL) franchises.

Lund is a partner in Sold Out Strategies, a sports management team responsible for the now-defunct Oklahoma City Blazers hockey team.

“We have a restructured ownership group, locals who have more than enough capability to run and own a team,” Lund said.

Sold Out Strategies is now in the final steps of signing a contract with a stadium, he said.

“We have it narrowed down to two venues, one in the city and one in the metro with an adjoining suburb,” said Lund.

Lund plans to announce the ownership and ticket prices immediately after a venue contract is signed.

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“Our ownership transaction was delayed by 90 days. It’s a setback, but we’re not dead,” Lund said.

The team recently asked the public to help design the team scarf, a tradition common throughout Europe.

Lund was quick to point out that in Europe, fans make or break a team.

Lund sees OKC as a parallel. He doesn’t feel that OKC is ready to support two pro soccer teams but that the fans will determine who survives.

“I find that in Oklahoma City, the patrons will support you at every turn,” he said. — Devon Green

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The Oklahoma City RedHawks made several improvements to Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, for the team’s 17th season there. Seven 55-inch highdefinition LED video boards were placed throughout the concourse. The boards display information about the ballpark, team, schedule, players and featured food items.

A wall of four 46-inch LED screens was also added near section 113.

“Improving the fan experience prior to each season is one of our passions,” RedHawks president and

Ruby and Cooper, the RedHawks official mascots. general manager Michael Byrnes said.

“The new concourse video boards will provide key information and will enhance the fans’ experience as they enter the ballpark, walk along the concourse to their seats and visit our concessions stands.”

Near section 107, an iSnap social media photo booth was added so fans can share photos that include RedHawks graphics.

In sections 100, 101 and 102, the bleachers were replaced with chairback seating.

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For the sake of the song PHOTOS BY M A RK HA N COC K

Okemah native John Fullbright started writing music with his listeners in mind. Two albums and a Grammy nomination later, he is finally connecting with them — a lot of them.

BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

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John Fullbright isn’t supposed to be here.

Not yet.

How far he has gone in such a short amount of time, well, it’s beyond the wildest dreams of a small-town kid from Oklahoma. This is damn near fantasy, and it’s fast becoming his reality.

Fullbright is a 26-year-old, Grammynominated singer-songwriter setting the national folk scene on fire. He is championed by the likes of NPR and compared favorably to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell by publications like American Songwriter, all on the heels of his first true studio album, From the Ground Up. “Stuff like that,” Fullbright said, “it’s not supposed to happen to guys like me.”

He has arrived, in every sense of the word, well before the departure date he had in his head. And for a lesser musician, for a lesser man, it would be too much.

His ego should be at critical mass.

He should have ditched his native Okemah for brighter lights in Nashville and sold his soul to the devil, focused on

everything but the music.

He may well be the future of folk and Americana, and he is being adorned as such by tastemakers and critics alike.

But Fullbright doesn’t know much about all that, instead content to finish his new album, Songs, from his quaint home, scoffing at the very notion of being the next Young, Woody Guthrie or Townes Van Zandt.

“Praise is nice, it’s flattering. But I don’t absorb it, really. I’m not done,” Fullbright said. “I’ve got a million miles to go before I can even shine the shoes of those lofty names.”

So much has happened and is happening, but in his humble mind, the bio reads the very same: His name is John Fullbright, and he writes songs.

Gold star

There’s no shortage of emotions an artist goes through upon hearing news they have been nominated for a Grammy, a career highlight for even the most hardened performers. There’s shock, elation, relief, astonishment.

For Fullbright, it was fear.

“My gut reaction was, ‘Do I have to go? Do I have to dress up? I don’t have clothes for something like that,’” he said.

“We call it The Great Grammy Scare of 2013 because it wasn’t supposed to happen that soon.”

But it did, and in the minds of many, deservedly so.

Praise is nice, it’s flattering. But I don’t absorb it, really. I’m not done.

— John Fullbright

John Fullbright performs at a recent show in his hometown of Okemah.

The names he was announced alongside for Best Americana Album — winner Bonnie Raitt, The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers and Mumford & Sons — are some of the most revered and popular names in modern music, and Fullbright was slotted right in the thick of them.

“It puts wind in your sails, but it also makes your sails bigger and the harder it is to control,” he said. “At least I didn’t win. Thank God.” If not yet understanding the hows and whys of his Grammy nod, he does feel validation to a certain degree, as

though that instrument strapped to his shoulder isn’t just for show anymore.

“I can walk around with a guitar and be confident in someone asking me what I do with that thing and answering, ‘I write songs,’” Fullbright said.

And that is all he cares much about. A quick stint in college was cut short when Fullbright realized that music was the only way he was going to be able to live happily.

He played with Red Dirt legend Mike McClure and early on with lauded Oklahoma country rock outfit Turnpike Troubadours before striking out on a solo career, making a name for himself with some awe-inspiring turns at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in his hometown and singer-songwriter haven The Blue Door in Oklahoma City.

There wasn’t much formal training beyond some piano lessons in his youth; instead, he cut his teeth onstage and back home with a crate of classic records.

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write well, and I went to my own school,” Fullbright said. “I listened to the Joni Mitchells and Leonard Cohens and Townes Van Zandts, and it was just about how I could do what they were doing with a pen.”

For all the places a songwriter can take his work, Fullbright was always drawn to the songs that encapsulate the human experience. He appreciates complexity but strives for simplicity, creating universal, graspable moments that don’t dumb down his wit for mass consumption.

That was the mark that made From the Ground Up the critical success it was; songs like “Gawd Above” and “Jericho” found the good ol’ Oklahoma boy creating pieces of art that bleed well across national — even international — borders.

“How do you write a good song, but more importantly, how do you write a song that is going to connect with someone else?” Fullbright asked, rhetorically. “How do you write something that is going to make people go, ‘Yeah, that’s what I go through.

I’ve done that, and I’ve been there’?

Something that connects with a lot of people — that’s what I’m looking for.”

All ears

Sometimes it’s hard to tell when to push and when to pull.

Lots of sophomore albums struggle with the expectations a hotshot debut

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like From the Ground Up brings along, and Fullbright is ready to admit the pressure was there, if mostly “selfcontained” and of his own creation.

His gut told him to make the new album his biggest, most produced work to date, following up the right hook that was his debut with a gut punch.

But maybe Fullbright’s real promise is shown in what he did instead, which is just the opposite; despite what everything in his head was telling him going in, he stripped down the songs and let them live and grow on their own accord.

“I hate to use the word serendipitous, but you can feel when it’s working,” Fullbright said. “When a song is going where it needs to be, it tells you.

You’ve just got to be willing to listen.”

Fullbright is quick to acknowledge it’s a slow-burning record — a knife, not a hand grenade. But there’s a maturity in the faith he carries, letting the songs speak for themselves. It’s a sentiment that followed through with the title Songs itself.

“I can sit around and try and think about something that’s poetic and has a double meaning, but that’s not what I do. That’s not the point. I wouldn’t be where I’m at if I didn’t focus purely on the craft of what I do, and that gets so lost in image, the clothes you wear and the influences you have,” he said.

“Eliminate all that from your thought immediately, and just listen to John Fullbright playing songs that he wrote.”

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Something that connects with a lot of people — that’s what I’m looking for.

— John Fullbright

Saturday’s show at UCO’s Mitchell Hall Theater, Fullbright is learning the ropes of becoming as much an entertainer as songwriter, though his performances are true to the man behind the mic: sincere, powerful, witty and the furthest thing from flashy. He’s not Garth Brooks in Central Park, but he might happily go there if that’s where his songs wanted him to go.

The world is impossible to control, spinning again the second you think you found your footing, the paths twisting ahead and closing behind. It’s frightening, bewildering and enthralling all at once, and there’s no point in trying to make sense of it or dictate the future, either.

Fullbright doesn’t pretend to understand why he has been proclaimed as one of the torchbearers of modern folk music, but he knows it’s his songs that got him here. And he’s content to let them lead the way from here, too.

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Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl would rather avoid the looming shadow of the past, but they’ll gladly revel in its sounds.

BY KEVIN PICKARD

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Let’s just get this over with: The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger is the self-admittedly silly moniker under which Sean Lennon and model Charlotte Kemp Muhl play psychedelic, ’60s-throwback music. Yes, Sean Lennon is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Yes, his voice sounds like his father’s. And yes, people often compare the musical and relationship dynamics of Sean and Charlotte to John and Yoko.

Muhl and Lennon met at Coachella in 2004 and, before they began playing music, started sending each other letters while Lennon was on tour. That was how they fell in love.

Muhl had been playing the guitar and writing songs throughout her adolescence, some of which she ended up recording and releasing in 2012 with Eden Rice, her friend since childhood.

“Those were all very old songs from before I knew Sean,” Muhl said.

Once Muhl and Lennon had the opportunity to occupy the same physical space, music became a part of their relationship.

“It was mostly just acoustic guitars in bed in the beginning,” Muhl said. “I didn’t really get rock ’n’ roll. I wasn’t into loud drums or whatever. I was super white, super uptight and dorky. I was like a Shakespeare dork.”

They released an album of louddrum averse music in 2010 called Acoustic Sessions. Muhl did, however, have an experience that helped her “get” rock ’n’ roll.

I smoked my first joint and something just clicked in my brain.

— Charlotte Kemp Muhl “It’s really cliché,” she said, “but about five years ago, I discovered marijuana and Pink Floyd.”

Muhl and Lennon were on tour in France and, during some downtime, were watching Echoes, the Pink Floyd concert film.

“I smoked my first joint and something just clicked in my brain, and there was no going back,” Muhl said.

“Since that moment on, we’ve been writing psychedelic rock songs.”

She ran through a list of rare instruments used on Midnight Sun, the album they released on April 29, which included not only a Hammond B3 organ but also a calliope. Muhl described the instrument as “a giant, red circus organ from the 1800s, which is steampumped or air-pumped.”

In addition to their musical adventures, Muhl and Lennon have also used their mutual fame to speak out about environmental issues important to them. Lennon started the Artists Against Fracking coalition, which, according to Muhl, “managed to postpone the fracking of New York for a little while.”

“The problem is [oil companies] have so much money that they’re pumping into promoting it and brainwashing people into thinking it’s good that there’s almost no way to fight it,” Muhl said. “It’s a pretty daunting thing to fight. There’s so much power and money behind it.”

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Southern drawl Country music is still relatively new to Cody Bryan, which makes his songwriting proficiency all the more remarkable.

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Cody Bryan is the frontman for the eponymously named Cody Bryan Band, but he hasn’t always played country music. Bryan’s dad brought him a guitar from a pawnshop when he was seven or eight years old and taught him the basics, and his father was qualified to do so.

“My dad was a musician himself.

He played in a high school band,” Bryan said. “He played more rock.

He was more [into] Led Zeppelin and stuff like that.”

Since this is the music he heard growing up, naturally, he gravitated toward it.

“He would crank up Lynyrd Skynyrd and Pink Floyd, the classics.

So that was a big influence of mine growing up,” Bryan said.

However, his music tastes changed freshman year of high school.

“I really, honestly, didn’t start getting into the country music thing until I was a freshman in high school.

That’s when I would start going out to the concerts, this little free series of concerts they had in Austin,” he said.

“I was turned on to Texas country immediately. After my first concert, I was hooked.”

Coincidentally, that was the same year he began to progress as a guitarist. Having not had the attention span to give that pawnshop guitar much love before then, something clicked for him musically that year.

The band now consists of Zach Lynch on lead guitar, Casey Conway on the drums and Miles Barker on

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the bass. However, this was not the original lineup.

“My dad was one of the original members of my band,” Bryan said.

“He played bass in the band.”

They both knew his dad wouldn’t be able to play bass with his band forever, so Conway suggested they give Barker — who happened to live on Conway’s street at the time — a tryout.

“We brought him in to practice, and Miles was amazing,” Bryan said.

“I had to call my dad one day and tell him, ‘Hey, Dad. Sorry, but I found a guy that’s a little better than you. I’m going to have to get rid of you.’ That was one of the hardest phone calls I have ever made in my life.”

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Everything I write is from real-life experiences.

— Cody Bryan One final change was necessary for the band’s members to become who they are today. At that time, they still weren’t playing country music.

Strangely, the person who saw Bryan’s potential as a country musician was the band’s producer, Matt Noveskey, the bassist for alternative rock band Blue October.

Given the confidence to play the genre of music that he was drawn to all along, Bryan and Noveskey wrote what became Cody Bryan Band’s first record, Wreck Me. Since the band had just come out of a breakup, that became the album’s guiding theme.

“Pretty much everything I write is from real-life experiences,” Bryan said. “I try to pull from that. I feel like people can really connect to those types of things.”

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Ama-Deus

Deus Eyeslow

LYRICAL VOODOO

BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

Oklahoma has long been viewed as a mecca for songwriters and hell on earth for rappers. But that’s not necessarily the case, certainly not as of late.

While John Fullbright, Parker Millsap and John Moreland make a name for themselves on a national scale, so too do Josh Sallee, Jabee and Johnny Polygon.

It’s the state for the underdogs, the fighters, the storytellers, its humble plains and prairie towns birthing the homegrown, blistering truths that mark the very best folk and hip-hop songs. Suddenly, the formerly barren Sooner State is feeling as fruitful a birthing place for quality emcees as anywhere else around.

Along comes Oklahoma City rapper Deus Eyeslow, the ice to Sallee’s fire (or the bag of Funyuns to Polygon’s blunt), and with his third mixtape, Lyrical Voodoo, he feels primed and ready to ascend to the local scene’s upper echelon rather than fall back with the rest of the pack.

The charismatic record is chock-full of whip-smart, progressive party rap brought to life with an ease that’s hard to come by — a glassy-eyed daze but racing mind echoing Curren$y or Schoolboy Q. That’s the glue that holds this eclectic collection — immaculately curated and created by producer Shawny C — together while the album shifts anywhere from vintage Snoop Dogg (“Outlaws”) to the jazz-bent work of the early ’90s (“Daddy’s Lil Girl”). Lyrical Voodoo is an apt descriptor; the album is an intoxicating cocktail of all things hiphop, and a deadly one at that.

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Opener “Riches” sets the bar high from the outset, finding Deus riffing over a skittish trip-hop beat and nailing a quality earworm hook in just over a minute. “Lost Soul” doubles up on that success. These moments provide the clearest glimpse of the emcee’s artistic future.

Deus has a sharp sense of humor (the South Park/Mr. Garrison sample in “Needles” is an unexpected but wholly inspired choice), and it’s one that he sprinkles as liberally through Lyrical Voodoo as Childish Gambino. But not every punch line lands; jokes fall flat, boasts feel empty and some hooks are a little too breezy for their own good.

More troublesome are the serviceable but nondescript entries like “Kings” or “Pay Me” — songs that might serve as highlights elsewhere but feel like requisite, Hip-Hop 101 placeholders here.

The MF Doom-divined “Muhuwahaha,” the bluesy “Stars” and the mesmerizing “Lady Sophie’s Disguise” are thoroughly more enjoyable. These songs find the wordsmith flexing his tonguetwisting muscle and husky voice more like a supervillain than a disposable henchman.

And that the 20-year-old Deus Eyeslow could feel so imposing — even in bursts — so early in his career is a telling sign. He is just a little time and personal growth away from flipping the switch to full-time lyrical monster from part-time musical menace.

LIVE MUSIC WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 Beth Bombara, The Conservatory. ROCK Gavin DeGraw/Parachute/Rozzi Crane, Brady Theater, Tulsa. SINGER/SONGWRITER

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Grant Wells, Red Piano Lounge, Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

PIANO

Jim the Elephant, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. ROCK

Laura Leighe, Baker St. Pub & Grill. POP

Jimmy Webb, Sooner Theatre, Norman. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

North Meets South, The Deli, Norman. ROCK

THURSDAY, MAY 8 David Morris, Red Piano Lounge, Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

PIANO Dillon Francis/Magic Man, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa.

ELECTRONIC Drive/Charles Scott Duo, Aloft Oklahoma City Downtown.

ROCK Kyle Dillingham and Horseshoe Road, The Paramount OKC. COUNTRY

Kyle Reid and the Low Swingin’ Chariots/The Great American Jug Band, The Deli, Norman. ACOUSTIC Kyle Yeager, Jazmoz Bourbon Street. VARIOUS Kylie Morgan, Remington Park. COUNTRY Laura Leighe, Nonna’s Purple Bar. POP

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The Recliners, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK

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Lyle Lovett, Brady Theater, Tulsa. ACOUSTIC

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JD McPherson, ACM@UCO Performance Lab, Friday, May 9

Mark Vollertsen, Redrock Canyon Grill. PIANO Old Man Markley, Bricktown Music Hall. ROCK Pinkish Black/Curse/Idre/Shabiha, Opolis, Norman.

ROCK Radney Foster, The Blue Door. SINGER/SONGWRITER Randy Cassimus, Bricktown Brewery. ACOUSTIC The Dave Thomason Band, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon.

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We promise not to mention that Sean Lennon — the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono — is one half of The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, aka The GOASTT. Dammit. Did we just mention that? Anyway, he and his other half, model-turned-musician Charlotte Kemp Muhl, also happen to be pretty good at the whole music thing. Check out their modernist take on ’60s psychedelia 8 p.m. Saturday at ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave. Tickets are $12. Call 974-4700 or visit acm.uco.edu. Read our GOASTT feature on page 44.

Lower 40, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COUNTRY Pidgin, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. ROCK Rainbows Are Free, The Deli, Norman. ROCK Rick Jawnsun, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill.

COUNTRY

Trent Tiger, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC

Shakers of Salt, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. COVER

Wolfmother, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK

Slowvein, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. ROCK

SATURDAY, MAY 10

Steel Panther/Future Villains, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK

Admirals/Me Like Bees, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Annie Up, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. COVER Borderline, Sliders. COUNTRY

The Swon Brothers/Frankie Ballard/Chuck Wicks, Riverwind Casino, Norman. VARIOUS

Chad Sullins, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

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Saturday

Tommy Gallagher, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

The Hideouts, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

Yardsss/Krist Krueger, The Conservatory. ROCK

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

Condoors, Nonna’s Purple Bar. BLUES Crossland, Baker St. Pub & Grill. COVER

TUESDAY, MAY 13 Bobby Bare, Jr./Cory Brannon/The Tequila Songbirds, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. SINGER/SONGWRITER DJ Ryno/DJ Brewdawg, Baker St. Pub & Grill. DANCE Hospital Job/Sundials/They Stay Dead, HiLo Club. ROCK Paul Thorn, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. BLUES

Stereo Deck, Oklahoma City Limits. COVER

Tara Dillard, Red Piano Lounge, Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

PIANO

Steve Crossley, Redrock Canyon Grill. ROCK

War Master, The Conservatory. ROCK

Stranded at the Station, Vintage 89, Guthrie. ACOUSTIC

Zanzibar Showcase/Parker Millsap, The Deli, Norman.

VARIOUS

Tanner Miller, The Paramount OKC. POP The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger/Broncho, ACM@UCO Performance Lab. VARIOUS We the Ghost/Sweatin Bullets, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa.

ROCK

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 Aaron Newman, Baker St. Pub & Grill. FOLK Grant Wells, Red Piano Lounge, Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

PIANO

Dustin Prinz Duo, Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse. ACOUSTIC

SUNDAY, MAY 11

Dylan Hammett, Colcord Hotel. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Edgar Cruz, Red Piano Lounge, Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

ACOUSTIC

North Meets South, The Deli, Norman. ROCK

Eric Dunkin, Newcastle Casino, Newcastle. ROCK

Michael Fracasso/Tom Skinner, The Blue Door. ROCK

Fox/Forrester/Moongiant, Opolis, Norman. ROCK

Mike Hosty, The Deli, Norman. BLUES

Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Bricktown Music Hall.

COUNTRY

Gooding, Bricktown Music Hall. ROCK

OBS Blues Jam, Oklahoma City Limits. BLUES

The Band Perry, Grand Casino, Shawnee. COUNTRY

Brent Blount, Full Circle Bookstore. BLUES

Grant Stevens, Red Piano Lounge, Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

PIANO

Top Flight, Myriad Botanical Gardens. VARIOUS

CJ Simmons/Kylie Morgan, Remington Park. COUNTRY

Harp & Lyre/Tiger Lily/A Bullet for Pretty Boy, The Conservatory. ROCK

MONDAY, MAY 12

A.D.D., VZD’s Restaurant & Club. ROCK Annie Up, Thunderbird Casino, Norman. COVER Avenue, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. ROCK Borderline, Sliders. COUNTRY Brandon Jenkins, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COUNTRY

Casey and Minna, Bluebonnet Bar. ACOUSTIC Christian Pearson/Tara Dillard, Red Piano Lounge, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Dizzy Wright/Josh Sallee/Mike TurnUp, La Brasa.

HIP-HOP

Hroboski, Majors, Edmond. ROCK

Colt Ford, Diamond Ballroom. COUNTRY

John Fullbright/Tom Skinner/Travis Linville/Michael Fracasso, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond.

SINGER/SONGWRITER

Dante and the Hawks, Aloft Oklahoma City Downtown.

ROCK

Justin Witte and the Horn Wreckers, Grandad’s Bar. ROCK

Dylan Hammett, Traditions at Westmoore, Moore.

SINGER/SONGWRITER The Handsome Devils/Alan Orebaugh, The Deli, Norman. VARIOUS

Mike Hosty Duo, Grand Casino, Shawnee. ROCK

Queens of the Stone Age, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK

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A couple and their infant child spar with a hard-partying fraternity in Neighbors, a hilarious and heartfelt crowd-pleaser.

BY ZACH HALE

Is there a more unlikely lead actor than Seth Rogen? Since assuming the forefront in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, the burly, curly haired Canadian has shown audiences he’s someone they can not only laugh at but root for, doing so in everything from stoner comedies (Pineapple Express) to, well, more stoner comedies (This Is the End). Based solely on the way the film has been marketed, it would be easy to write off Neighbors as yet another Rogen stoner-com — or worse, frat-com — yet doing so would miss the mark entirely.

Rogen plays Mac Radner, a newlywed, newly fathered thirtysomething adjusting to the responsibilities of adulthood. Mac and his wife, Kelly (Rose Byrne, The Internship), are your average post-

adolescents, socially (and sexually) active and wary of being deemed uncool by younger generations. When a fraternity, led by the ever-photogenic Zac Efron (That Awkward Moment), moves in next door, Mac and Kelly immediately fear for both their sleep and their sanity, so they try to figure out a minimally invasive way tell the fraternity to “keep it down.” This can of worms inevitably devolves into a full-fledged proprietary war, and the ensuing efforts by Mac and Kelly to get the fraternity kicked out of its house serves as the film’s riotous central conflict.

In the wrong hands, Neighbors could just as easily be a hollow, dumbeddown affair, but the movie has too much wit and too much heart to

resemble anything of the sort. While it does have its share of easy laughs (the whole exploding airbag wasn’t funny the first time, much less the second, third or fourth), the movie is by and large defined by intelligent situational dialogue, like its many awkward exchanges between young and old or its razor-sharp “bros before hoes” bit. Both Byrne and Efron give commendable performances — especially Byrne, who is hilarious in her portrayal of a relatable wife and mother. She and Rogen have remarkable onscreen chemistry, and their husband-wife banter is arguably the film’s strongest asset.

Perhaps its most unheralded strength, however, is the direction of Nicholas Stoller (The Five-Year Engagement), who adds subtle flourishes

of visual flair to a movie that already had plenty in the verbal department.

The party scenes are heavy on the strobe lights (and the dubstep), establishing an invitingly informal tone.

By the film’s climax, it almost feels like you were right there, engaging in the same debauchery.

For a film like this to succeed, it needs both charm and charisma.

Neighbors has a lot of each. Few movies in recent memory capture the struggles of entering adulthood better, and few, if any this year, will offer more laughs.

Though he has no affiliation, Neighbors has the look and feel of an Apatow project — not only because it stars Rogen but because of its potential to be universally embraced. And that’s the hallmark of a truly great comedy.

has been made into a “green room” so he can film his tricks and motivational shorts in his own home.

The film is cantankerous and eccentric, and DeLarzelere sometimes resembles an angry raccoon when his temper flares. He also lacks boundaries.

All of this is also why people love him and love to hate him.

“You guys might end up shooting or killing me or something, and that would really suck,” he says when a Tulsa County zoning officer visits his eclectic property.

He soon follows with, “Do you know who I am ... or not?” After a few minutes, he continues, “I’m Biker Fox. I don’t know if you ever heard that name or not.

I’m 50. I do a front flip on a bicycle.”

His deadpan sincerity is hysterical.

Regardless, the zoning officer is

nonplussed. There are arrests, court dates, more primal screams. DeLarzelere is in a suit at the Tulsa County Courthouse as he talks about all the times he has been hit by cars while riding. Such is the drama of the life of Biker Fox. Then there are the threats to fight coming from motorists who tail him while he’s riding on a semi-rural road.

They go on for what feels like miles, but the banter perfectly encapsulates the dichotomy of Biker Fox: love and hate exist, often on the same plane.

“People get angry, full of hate,” he warns soon afterward. “When you see a kid, or a bicycle rider in the street, show some respect.”

Biker Fox premiered at Slamdance and deadCENTER film festivals in 2010 to, well, bewilderment and acclaim.

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“Tulsa’s misunderstood motivational cyclist” is an understatement.

Biker Fox is a hybrid documentary directed by independent filmmaker Jeremy Lamberton (Locaciones: Buscando a Rusty James, Winnebago Man) and produced by Lamberton and Todd Lincoln (The Apparition, From Dusk Till Dawn).

In some cases, Biker Fox is downright reviled — he’s threatened, chased, arrested, bullied and harassed, and not without some cause.

Tulsa resident Frank P. DeLarzelere III is a living meme with a skullet (middleaged in the front, party in the back) hairstyle and moose knuckle-baring, blaringly colorful bike shorts. He’s a nature conservationist, bicycle enthusiast and successful muscle-car parts salesman.

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Biker Fox is now available via streaming movie outlets, including Amazon and iTunes. It’s worth a watch, if for no other reason than you’ll now know A) what a well-groomed skullet really looks like and B) the unique joy and confusion that comes with both inspiration and the near-meltdown of a man’s personal life while he’s also trying to lift up the people around him. The latter is really hard for him to do.

DeLarzelere’s muscle car business invades every nook of his Tulsa property and somewhat resembles an eerie intro to a bad horror movie: car bumpers hang from the ceiling, fill his garage, overflow from his closets. He sleeps in his living room, rides his bike in thunderstorms and does front-flips from his bike into public swimming pools. A spare bedroom

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Homework: Upon waking up for the next seven mornings, sing the song that fills you with feisty hope.

ARIES March 21-April 19 Fireworks displays excite the eyes and lift the spirit. But the smoke and dust they produce can harm the lungs with residues of heavy metals. The toxic chemicals they release may pollute streams and lakes and even groundwater. So is there any alternative? Not yet.

No one has come up with a more benign variety of fireworks. But if it happens soon, I bet it will be due to the efforts of an enterprising Aries researcher. Your tribe is entering a phase when you will have good ideas about how to make risky fun safer, how to ensure vigorous adventures are healthy, and how to maintain constructive relationships with exciting influences.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 Free jazz is a type of music that emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against jazz conventions.

Its meter is fluid and its harmonies unfamiliar, sometimes atonal. Song structures may be experimental and unpredictable. A key element in free jazz is collective improvisation -- riffing done not just by a featured soloist, but by the entire group of musicians playing together. To prepare for your adventures in the coming days, Taurus ­– which I suspect will have resemblances to free jazz – you might want to listen to music by its pioneers, like Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Sun Ra. Whatever you do, don’t fall prey to scapabobididdilywiddilydoobapaphobia, which is the fear of freestyle jazz.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 Apple and Exxon are the most valuable companies in America. In third place, worth more than $350 billion, is Google. Back in 1999, when the future Internet giant was less than a year old, Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tried to sell their baby for a mere million dollars. The potential buyer was Excite, an online service that was thriving at the time. But Excite’s CEO turned down the offer, leaving Brin and Page to soldier onward by themselves. Lucky for them, right? Today they’re rich and powerful. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Gemini. An

apparent “failure” may, in hindsight, turn out to be the seed of a future success.

CANCER June 21-July 22 “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” is an Englishlanguage proverb. It means that you will no longer have your cake if you eat it all up. The Albanian version of the adage is “You can’t go for a swim without getting wet. “ Hungarians say, “It’s impossible to ride two horses with one butt.” According to my analysis, Cancerian, you will soon disprove this folk wisdom.

You will, in effect, be able to eat you cake and still have it. You will somehow stay dry as you take a dip.

You will figure out a way to ride two horses with your one butt.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 I know this might come as a shock, Leo, but . . . are you ready? . . . you are God! Or at least godlike. An influx of crazy yet useful magic from the Divine Wow is boosting your personal power way beyond normal levels. There’s so much primal mojo flowing through you that it will be hard if not impossible for you to make mistakes. Don’t fret, though. Your stint as the Wild Sublime Golden Master of Reality probably won’t last for more than two weeks, three tops. I’m sure that won’t be long enough for you to turn into a raving megalomaniac with 10,000 cult followers.

their natural predator. The elk decimated the berry bushes of Yellowstone, eating the wild fruit with such voracity that grizzly bears and many other species went hungry. In 1995, environmentalists and conservationists got clearance to re-introduce wolves to the area. Now the berry bushes are flourishing again. Grizzlies are thriving, as are other mammals that had been deprived. I regard this vignette as an allegory for your life in the coming months, Libra. It’s time to do the equivalent of replenishing the wolf population.

Correct the imbalance.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 I have no problem with you listening closely to the voices in your head. Although there might be some weird counsel flowing from some of them, it’s also possible that one of those voices might have sparkling insights to offer. As for the voices that are delivering messages from your lower regions, in the vicinity of your reproductive organs: I’m not opposed to you hearing them out, either. But I hope you will be most attentive and receptive to the voices in your heart. While they are not infallible, they are likely to contain a higher percentage of useful truth than those other two sources.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 In your imagination, take a trip many years into the future. See yourself as you are now, sitting next to the wise elder you will be then. The two of you are lounging on a beach and gazing at a lake. It’s twilight. A warm breeze feels good. You turn to your older self and say, “Do you have any regrets?

Is there anything you wish you had done but did not do?” Your older self tells you what that thing is. (Hear it now.) And you reply, “Tomorrow I will begin working to change all that.”

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Kangaroo rats live in the desert. They’re at home there, having evolved over millennia to thrive in the arid conditions. So well-adapted are they that they can go a very long time without drinking water. While it’s admirable to have achieved such a high level of accommodation to their environment, I don’t recommend that you do something comparable. In fact, its probably better if you don’t adjust to some of the harsher aspects of your environment. Now might be a good time to acknowledge this fact and start planning an alternate solution.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Over a hundred years ago, the cattle industry pressured the U.S. government to kill off wolves in Yellowstone National Park. By 1926 the wolves had all but vanished. In the following decades, elk herds grew unnaturally big, no longer hunted by

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled,” said writer William Blake. I think you will challenge this theory in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Your passions will definitely not be

weak. They may even verge on being volcanic. And yet I bet you will manage them fairy well. By that I mean you will express them with grace and power rather than allowing them to overwhelm you and cause a messy ruckus. You won’t need to tamp them down and bottle them up because you will find a way to be both uninhibited and disciplined as you give them their chance to play.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Would you please go spend some quality time having non-goal-oriented fun? Can I convince you to lounge around in fantasyland as you empty your beautiful head of all compulsions to prove yourself and meet people’s expectations? Will you listen to me if I suggest that you take off the mask that’s stuck to your face and make funny faces in the mirror? You need a nice long nap, gorgeous. Two or three nice long naps. Bake some damn cookies, even if you’ve never done so. Soak your feet in epsom salts as you binge-watch a TV show that stimulates a thousand emotions. Lie in the grass and stare lovingly at the sky for as long as it takes to recharge your spiritual batteries.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Dear Pisceans: Your evil twins have asked me to speak to you on their behalf. They say they want to apologize for the misunderstandings that may have arisen from their innocent desire to show you what you had been missing. Their intent was not at all hostile or subversive. They simply wanted to fill in some gaps in your education. OK? Next your evil twins want to humbly request that you no longer refer to them as “Evil Twin,” but instead pick a more affectionate name, like, say “Sweet Mess” or “Tough Lover.” If you promise to treat them with more geniality, they will guarantee not to be so tricky and enigmatic.

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