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NEWS James Gallogly will assume the role of University of Oklahoma president July 1. | Photo provided

dent, shared this view in a February statement to The Oklahoma Daily, known as OU Daily, the student newspaper.

“Confidentiality is needed to attract highly qualified prospects,” Boren wrote. “Several may hold important posts which they don’t want to risk, and they will not agree to be considered unless the process assures that their names will not be revealed.”

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Employing search firms

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James Gallogly, former oil executive, emerged from a closed search as the board of regents’ pick for OU president. By Laura Eastes

In early February, Dean Suzette Grillot penned an open letter to the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, respectfully requesting they release names of the finalists for the University of Oklahoma president and provide an opportunity for university stakeholders to engage with those under consideration to lead the state’s flagship university.

“We have looked forward to public conversations about how our future leader will build on President Boren’s many accomplishments, as well as how the next OU president will address the challenges we face as an institute of higher education,” Grillot wrote.

More than 330 faculty members added their signatures to the open letter. About a month later, the board of regents held back-to-back special meetings in closed-door executive sessions and interviewed seven finalists.

Two weeks later, the board of regents posted a special meeting agenda for March 26. The agenda listed one item: the appointment of a president.

On March 26, thirty minutes after the board of regents entered executive session and remained in session, a text message alert notified the university community that James “Jim” Gallogly was named the 14th president of the University of Oklahoma.

Two hours later, the university community had its first chance to hear from Gallogly, a longtime energy company executive and major donor. At an introduction ceremony on the Norman campus, University of Oklahoma Board of Regents Chairman Clay Bennett praised the 65-year-old OU College of Law alumnus for his business expertise and love of the university.

“I came with a vision,” Gallogly told the crowd. “I came to help continue that work that David Boren started, that great foundation, to take the University of Oklahoma from a great institution to absolutely the pinnacle of academic success.”

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Closed search

With the exception of the board of regents, it was the first time the university community had heard the next OU president share their vision for the future.

The board of regents conducted a closed president search, meaning only members of the board, search committee members and select university administration discussed the task of selecting the next president in closed-door meetings.

The secrecy has left students, staff and faculty members with many questions.

Once again, Grillot, with input from other faculty, penned an open letter.

This time, it was sent to Gallogly, asking how his experience as an oil executive would influence his decisions as president; how he would handle decreased appropriations from the state, among other questions.

“We knew we needed to respond in a way that was welcoming to the new president,” Grillot told Oklahoma Gazette. “We wanted him to know that we had made the request for transparency and it had been ignored. We wanted to take the opportunity to ask the questions of him that we all would have asked if we had had the opportunity to meet him prior to his selection.”

Trends in higher education highlight that not many students and faculty get the opportunity to interact with finalists prior to a governing board announcing their pick for president, said Frank LoMonte, director of Brechner Center, a Florida freedom of information think tank, and nine-year executive director of the nonprofit Student Press Law Center.

“If you go back 20 or 30 years ago, it was unthinkable that you would hire a president without, at the bare minimum, bringing several finalists to campus,” LoMonte said.

Governing boards of public universities argue that their closed searches attract the best candidates because it offers privacy. Boren, OU’s 13th presi-

Boren contended that through the search committee, which was comprised of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members, the university community had a voice in the process.

The search committee worked closely with the regents’ hired search firm, Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates.

Contracted search firms operate out of the public view, providing candidates guaranteed secrecy. Committee members sign strict confidentiality agreements.

Researcher Judith Wilde at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government found that about 92 percent of public university presidential searches are now conducted using search firms. In the same study, researchers found during the 1975-1976 academic year, only 2 percent of universities employed search firms.

Governing boards, which are often comprised of business people, tend to employee corporate-style headhunters, which are widely used in the business

Think about it this way: This is a public office.

Judith Wilde world, said Wilde.

The selection and evaluation of a university president is the most important job by a governing board, Wilde contended.

“Think about it this way: This is a public office,” Wilde said.

Informing campus

Since Boren announced his retirement, OU Daily reporters have followed closely the process of picking a president, producing dozens of articles alluding to its secrecy and reporting the university community’s response.

Three months ago, Nick Hazelrigg, news editor and reporter, learned through an interview with a search committee member that the search would be “confidential.”

“When that article went out, the response to it — I don’t want to say surprising — we saw how many students and faculty alike did care,” Hazelrigg said.

On March 10, when the board of regents entered into executive session to interview candidates, university police asked OU Daily reporter Anna Bauman to leave a hallway at the OUHSC library. Hazelrigg explained that by standing in the hallway,

Bauman could potentially see candidates enter and leave meetings with the governing board. University police asked media to wait in the lobby, where there was no chance to see a candidate.

Business-minded presidents

The OU campus was abuzz following the announcement of its next president.

Some students took to social media to share their concerns about a nonacademic leading the state’s flagship university. Other students saw the appointment of an outsider as positive for the university, which welcomed a nonacademic when Boren, a former U.S. Senator and governor, was named president in 1994. (However, Boren did teach class at Oklahoma Baptist University while serving in the state Legislature.)

Gallogly, who notably gave a sizable donation to OU’s college of engineering, is the former chairman and chief executive officer of LyondellBasell, a company he guided out of bankruptcy.

He also served nearly 30 years in executive roles with energy companies.

In Oklahoma, Gallogly joins Burns Hargis, a well-known name in legal and business circles who became Oklahoma State University president in 2008 and also entered the president’s office new to academia. Oklahoma City University Board of Trustees recently named Martha Burger, an energy executive, as its president.

These days, while a majority of university presidents come from academia, 15 percent come from backgrounds outside of higher education, according to a 2016 American Council on Education report.

Regardless of the new president’s background, a closed presidential search could be the reason a new president struggles, explained LoMonte.

For example, in February, Sam Olens, a former Georgia attorney general, stepped down as Kennesaw State University president after a year. Olens entered the office amid complaints by some that he got the job through political connections rather than qualifications.

He was highly criticized for his response to a cheerleader protest scandal last fall.

Learning time

On July 1, Gallogly assumes the role as OU president. He views his early days in office as a chance to be a student again, learning from faculty and students.Many on the OU campus don’t want to wait until July. Grillot, the dean leading efforts around a public forum with the new president, is hopeful that the university community can learn from Gallogly before his first day.

“We are looking forward to working with him and we ask these questions out of the spirit of loving the university,” Grillot said. “We all want the same thing: a wonderful place to work, a wonderful place to educate and grow. We hope that we can work collaboratively, productively and positively to accomplish great things at OU.”

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An administrative law judge agreed with the complaint issued by the state.

The tribe challenged and appealed, invoking the arbitration clause of the Oklahoma Model Tribal Gaming Compact. The state argued that under the gaming compact, the tribe was obligated to collect, report and pay state sales taxes from all tribal businesses.

The tribe disputed that claim, arguing that the tribe was exempt from collecting and remitting sales tax on tribe’s trust lands. Retired Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Dan Boudreau, the sole arbitrator, ruled in the tribe’s favor.

The tribe sought to certify the arbitration award in federal court while Oklahoma asked the court conduct a de novo review. U.S. District Judge Robin J. Cauthron upheld the arbitration award. The state appealed to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing the arbitration clause was invalid. The state prevailed.

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Compact quandary

Gaming decision

Citizen Potawatomi Nation plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court following a decision by a federal appeals court. By Laura Eastes

In February, a ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the arbitration agreement in the Oklahoma Model Tribal Gaming Compact, calling it unenforceable. It’s a verdict that leaves both Native American tribes and the State of Oklahoma unclear how to enforce an aspect of the compact that enables tribes to operate gaming facilities.

In Citizen Potawatomi Nation v.

Oklahoma, the state prevailed as a panel of three judges invalidated the arbitration agreement language. De novo review of any arbitration award in federal court is prohibited under the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hall Street Associates, LLC v. Mattel, Inc. De novo review is a legal term that means the court decides the matter for itself, without any defference to the lower court’s decisions.

“Because Hall Street Associates clearly indicates the Compact’s de novo review provision is legally invalid, and because the obligation to arbitrate is contingent on the availability of de novo review, we conclude the obligation to arbitrate set out in Compact 12 is unenforceable,” wrote the justices in the court’s opinion.

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and tribes can enforce their gaming compacts,” George Wright, Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s tribal attorney, wrote in an email to Oklahoma Gazette.

In 2004, Oklahoma voters approved gaming compacts with tribes and racetrack gaming. Under the compact, tribes were authorized to operate casino-style gaming in return for making exclusivity payments to the state. According to the state’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services, Oklahoma collected nearly $134 million in exclusivity fees in 2017.

Under the compact, when a dispute arises between a tribe and the state, the parties must initially attempt voluntary dispute resolutions. If unsuccessful, the dispute is to be submitted to arbitration.

It also states that either party may “bring an action against the other in a federal district court for the de novo review of any arbitration award.”

Fourteen days after the court’s decision, Wright filed a petition for a rehearing, or a rehearing en banc, asking the court to reconsider the decision to strike the compact’s arbitration clause.

“The panel decision acknowledges that the effect of the decision will extend to all compacting tribes,” Wright wrote in the petition for a rehearing.

“Any enforcement problems would not

A recent decision from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raises a lot of questions around the arbitration clause of the Oklahoma Model Tribal Gaming Compact, which allows Native American tribes the ability to operate gaming facilities in the state. | Photo Gazette / file

be confined to the Nation but would extend to other tribes who have compacted with the State, as well as to the State itself. Amending the State’s voterapproved take-it-or-leave-it model compact is not a simple proposition.”

The federal appeals court denied the tribe’s motion for a rehearing. The tribe is preparing to file a petition, a writ of certiorari, requesting a review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“At this time, the Nation intends to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Wright wrote to Oklahoma Gazette.

The ruling creates uncertainty about the means by which both the state and tribes can enforce their gaming compacts.

George Wright

Dispute

The dispute between the state and Citizen Potawatomi Nation began in 2014 when state tax collectors sent a $27 million bill to the tribe for unmerited sales tax from sales made on its trust lands to non-members. The tribe maintains grocery stores, gas stations, casinos, a mini-golf complex and cultural activities centers. The tribe did not pay the bill, and Oklahoma Tax

There are worries, however, that the outcome could make it harder for tribes and the state to settle disputes.

“It doesn’t mean that the compacts are invalid; it just means there is a potential question of enforceability of the arbitration provision,” said Mike McBride III, who chairs Crowe & Dunlevy’s Indian Law and Gaming Practice Group and represented Citizen Potawatomi Nation in its arbitration.

“Arbitration is still a method that could be valid as a method to resolve the disputes.”

The current 15-year compact expires on Jan. 1, 2020. The model compacts automatically renew unless either side renegotiates. Media reports indicate that some tribes wish to renegotiate with the governor for possible expansion of the type of gaming that could be offered at gaming facilities. Given the current ruling, the arbitration clause could be re-worked to remove the de novo review language.

When it comes to Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s petition to the highest court in the land, four justices are needed to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court will agree to take up the case is an open question.

McBride explained the justices could potentially take it if they think that the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t follow the Hall Street decision.

Then there is the issue that the tribe raised. Thirty-two tribes currently hold compact agreements with the state, operating gaming facilities and sending the state its cut of the profits.

“It involved many sovereign nations, and [the decision] could upset an agreement that has been in place for 13 years,” McBride said.

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Addressing needs An OCU Law program follows national models to provide legal assistance to tenants facing eviction, thus reducing homelessness. By Laura Eastes

Rents have increased rapidly across the United States housing market, including Oklahoma City, which has long been praised for its low-cost living.

Even in one of the nation’s more affordable cities, an increased demand for affordable rentals, flat millennial homeownership rates and stagnant incomes lead to an affordable housing crisis. Add that more people desire to live in the urban environment — traditionally low-income neighborhoods — and gentrification pushes longtime residents out of their homes.

With rising rents comes a spike in eviction notices. An eviction can send a family into crisis. Without stable shelter, everything else falls apart, from employment and health to kids falling behind in school.

Each week, about 200 Oklahoma County families face eviction and end up in housing court or on the Forcible Entry and Detainer docket.

This month, Oklahoma City University School of Law (OCU Law) launches its Pro Bono Housing Eviction Assistance Program helping people under the threat of eviction understand their rights, navigate the court system and, sometimes, stay in their homes.

OCU Law, through a grant from Oklahoma Bar Foundation, is adopting a civil legal model that has swept American cities. Results from those cities, like Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Durham, show that tenants offered help fared far better than those not offered help.

A Harvard study found that twothirds of tenants who had a legal aid attorney were able to stay in their homes, compared with a third of tenants who represent themselves in housing court.

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resolution, whether it is a settlement or an outright victory, rises dramatically, exponentially based on the data from around the country,” program director and attorney Richard Klinge said. “Like any legal process, if you don’t understand the process, you start five steps back. You need a lawyer to help understand the process.”

Counsel case

The right to legal counsel is reserved for criminal cases only. In civil matters such as housing court, people must retain a lawyer by other means, represent themselves or not seek legal relief.

Hiring and retaining an attorney can be costly, which makes it especially difficult for low-income individuals to access legal representation.

A day in civil court can be just as life-altering as criminal court.

Defendants can leave court having lost their homes or their families.

In housing courts across the country, and in Oklahoma County, legal representation accompanying tenants is almost unheard of. Before the judge calls the case, the scale is almost always tipped in favor of landlords, who very often retain lawyers.

The OCU Law program seeks to “level the playing field,” Klinge said. Lawyers for landlords present facts and articulate their clients’ argument. Tenants, even those with strong defenses, struggle in the courtroom without lawyers.

“It is difficult for a client to articulate what the problem is with the landlord,” said Klinge, who explained that the average tenant is unable to craft a compelling case against eviction, applying the facts of their case to the law.

“They are under pressure; they are facing eviction; and without a lawyer to take a step, intervene and apply those laws to those facts and argue on their

Richard Klinge leads law students in providing civil legal aid to tenants faced with eviction at Oklahoma City University School of Law’s Pro Bono Housing Eviction Assistance Program. | Photo Laura Eastes

behalf, it is a tough fight.”

Even if an attorney is not able to craft a compelling case against eviction, they can negotiate on behalf of the tenant, which could result in a settlement between the two parties. A landlord and a tenant could reach a deal allowing the tenant more time to find a new home and avoid temporary homelessness.

Legal aid for tenants can be beneficial to landlords too. Evictions are expensive for landlords. Striking a deal before court can save time and money. Evictions have a costly effect on cities and social services providers. An evicted tenant can leave behind unpaid utility bills. After losing their homes, and often their possessions, evicted tenants and their families can seek aid from homeless shelters, food pantries and hospitals.

Legal strategies

Law students, overseen by practicing attorneys, will interview clients and prepare cases weekday afternoons and Friday evenings at OCU Law. Because of the quick timeline for eviction cases, students might only have a few days or hours to prepare their cases, Klinge said.

Klinge envisions serving tenants who have run into a myriad of issues that led to eviction papers for nonpayment of rent.

He previously served as associate director of advocacy, outreach and legal services at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, where he occasionally worked with clients on housing issues. He recalled a water leak in a client’s apartment caused a fight with a landlord, who sued to evict the tenant.

Under Oklahoma’s landlord and tenant law, landlords must make all repairs and keep the tenant’s living area in a fit and habitable condition.

Klinge said legal services would also be provided to clients who simply haven’t paid their rent.

The services are available to any Oklahoma County resident, regardless of income or immigration status, facing eviction.

The program’s mission is twofold. In addition to providing legal services to tenants, the program’s long-term goal is to find ways to educate tenants on their rights and obligations under the law to prevent evictions. Before the program can reach tenants, it must reach those on the front lines of poverty who could spot the warning signs of eviction and break the eviction cycle. Klinge is actively meeting nonprofit and faith leaders to introduce the program and share the eviction narrative of local low-income renters.

“We are another resource for people fighting the cycle of poverty,” Klinge said. “We are not the answer, but another piece. … A year from now, I am confident that the program will be a lot stronger.”

Visit law.okcu.edu or call 405-2085207.

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High-fives?

Lawmakers do deserve a pat on the back for passage of the first legislative state tax increase in 28 years. Educators and public employees deserve praise for applying pressure to get the two parties to reach a compromise and ultimately put up the votes to approve the revenue package.

With that said, Chicken-Fried News has another suggestion for lawmakers: Keep working. That’s right. Lawmakers just made the Arbuckle pie but haven’t placed it in the oven yet. Oklahomans are far from ready to come to the table to take a bite.

Sure, teachers are going to keep rallying behind increasing funding for classroom education. While lawmakers need to set their sights on increasing appropriations for common education, eyes also need to be on the budgets for human services, health, public safety, mental health, corrections, agriculture and more. It’s not just teachers and state employees who have suffered, but rural hospitals, seniors, the developmentally disabled, inmates and many more.

The work continues. Following that historic $447 million revenue bill passage in both chambers, House leadership brought up a trailer bill to repeal the lodging tax, according to Tulsa World.

With 69 votes, the loading tax repeal passed the House. The Senate did their part, sending a reduced HB 1010xx to Gov. Mary Fallin, which she signed. Now, Tulsa World reports, leadership estimates the $447 million revenue package will bring in something in the vicinity of $400 million.

Lesson learned. Oklahomans need to keep their eyes on lawmakers at all times, even in the midst of celebration.

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Board games

The relationship between educators and the elected officials who set the rules and budget with which the educators operate has always been a little strained.

But when was the last time Oklahoma saw the two sides so polarized?

As Oklahoma City teachers were preparing to strike and business-minded lawmakers cried extortion, Rep. John Bennett, the Capitol’s one-man public relations nightmare, offered a new and crispy hot take on the real root of this state’s education challenges.

“Money is not the number one issue,” Bennett said on the House floor as lawmakers debated revenue measures that would lead to a teacher pay increase. “Maybe if we spanked our kids at home a little better with a paddle, made them mind and be good kids, the teachers wouldn’t have it so hard in the classroom.”

Oh, right. Oklahoma has teachers panhandling on the side of the road because Johnny has not been taught to respect his elders through the use of sheer disciplinary force. When questioned about his statements by a KFOR reporter later, Bennett stood by his comments, saying he tells all of his children’s teachers to paddle them if

they misbehave.

“If they get out of line after that,” the Sallisaw Republican told Channel 4, “call me and I’ll come up and paddle them in front of the whole class because they will not disrespect their elders or teachers in school.”

Bennett sounds like someone desperately trying to divert attention from the funding crisis at hand. Then again, his history of questionable statements makes it seem like this could be a perfectly valid point in his mind.

When interviewed by KFOR, Rep. Cyndi Munson, D-Oklahoma City, said the comments, coming from Bennett, did not necessarily surprise her. But she also said they were nonetheless inappropriate.

“One of the reasons why I perked up is because I did grow up in domestic violence,” she said. “I was a child who was abused, and there is never a time that it’s appropriate to say something like that, especially as an elected leader in our state on the House floor.”

Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer followed Fields in the left lane of Interstate 40 going eastbound for quite some time and then turned on his lights when Fields signaled to the right lane.

Staying in the left lane too long was the least of Fields’ problems. He was also cited for driving under the influence and having an open container.

“I wasn’t even aware of [the law],” Fields told The Oklahoman. “That was called the fast lane, as far as I knew, and right lane was for the slower drivers.”

The left lane violation carries a fine up to $235.

Carter County, which includes much of the Interstate 35 stretch between Davis and CFN fave rave Lake Murray State Park, issued the most left lane tickets (14) of any county, according to The Oklahoman.

A similar law has been on the books in Texas for years and is designed to cut down on traffic, which is created by drivers unnecessarily changing lanes. Only go into the left lane for passing, to allow merging or when emergency vehicles are on the side of the road.

Just don’t be as clueless as Mr. Fields.

Bennett stepped out of line, you say? By his own logic, doesn’t that earn him a paddling? Violence is out of the question in the mind of Chicken-Fried News, but if Bennett wants to stand by his own convictions and volunteer for a public whooping on the House floor, far be it from us to stop him.

Passing probs

We at Chicken-Fried News tried warning you that you won’t be able to cruise in the left lane on the Interstate in Oklahoma anymore — not after a new state law went into effect at the end of 2017 that forbids motorists from traveling long distances in the left lane of a four-lane highway.

According to records obtained by The Oklahoman, 60 people received tickets for violating the left lane law in the first three months it was enacted.

Don’t be like Justin Fields, who was profiled in an Oklahoman story for being in violation of the left lane law 10 days after it went into effect. An

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All grown up

Oklahoma Gazette launches a bright new version of okgazette.com. By George Lang

If you visited okgazette.com last week, you undoubtedly noticed the online version of Oklahoma Gazette quietly received a massive upgrade.

Everything you need, including dramatically improved restaurant and event listings, is all there and easy to reach. It also just feels good, and I’m confident you will not feel nostalgic for the old version of our site.

We’ve all experienced website redesigns that foisted cumbersome architecture onto a beloved web destination, often to the point that we just don’t visit as much as before and we pine for the old days. This happened to me last year, when an entertainment site that is part of my daily online information diet was forced by its new corporate overlords to migrate over to a new platform. It fundamentally changed the character of the site, disrupting navigation and even scaring away much of the community that thrived in its online forums. Sure, they integrated com-

merce into the platform, but at what cost?

Visit okgazette.com now, and you’ll see that our new site is closely modeled after Oklahoma Gazette itself.

Our print categories — News, Eat & Drink, Arts & Culture and Music — reside at the top with pull-down menus that take readers directly to what they want. I’m particularly excited about our restaurant listings, which I’m confident will be extremely useful as you participate in OKC Restaurant Week supporting Allied Arts. We didn’t complicate things — everything is in the right place, site searches produce remarkably accurate results from our archives and the mobile experience (an essential part of any good redesign) ensures you lose nothing when you shift from laptop to smartphone or tablet.

When the new okgazette.com went live, I realized I’d forgotten what the site looked like over the years, so I visited the web equivalent to a

used bookstore, Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and traveled back to February 2000, the Wayback Machine’s first entry for okgazette. com that did not pull up an “Under Construction” notice.

Newspaper websites in the first half-decade of public internet consumption were essentially winging it. Keep in mind that The New York Times launched its online component in January 1996, and most majormarket daily newspapers followed suit about three years later. Weeklies like Oklahoma Gazette were trying to find a healthy balance between getting you to the rack to pick up the latest issue while also offering something on what was still being called “the information superhighway.”

That healthy balance is still important today.

The first okgazette.com was utilitarian, to say the least. A black screen with red letters announced to readers they were experiencing “okgazette.

com: literally virtual.” The menu sent readers to several categories including features, entertainment, local movies, real estate and something called “hot links.” When I clicked through “hot links,” it was a series of local websites for nonprofit organizations, government pages and bands like Wakeland and The Suburbillies. The internet was still such a novelty at the time that local entities with websites were worth a major shoutout.

But at its core, the infant okgazette.com was in the early stages of becoming what it is today. The architecture was a little rough, but the events and restaurant listings were killing it, year 2000 style.

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OKC Restaurant Week supports Allied Arts’ mission to facilitate art and art education across Oklahoma. By Jacob Threadgill

Oklahoma Gazette’s OKC Restaurant Week returns next week, and every $1 spent at lunch or dinner with a participating restaurant benefits Allied Arts.

Founded in 1971, Allied Arts provides financial and hands-on support for 40 arts and cultural organizations in Oklahoma in addition to providing grants for non-member groups. Allied Arts announced its community-wide campaign to raise $3.125 million in 2018.

“One of our greatest challenges is for the general public to know who we are and what we’re doing. Restaurant Week opens up opportunities for us,” Allied Arts president and CEO Deborah McAuliffe Senner said. “This isn’t just a campaign for five or six thousand donors, and the Gazette helps us in a tremendous way by reaching people we may not reach otherwise. We’re challenged because public funding for the arts continues to be cut every year. [Allied Arts represents] the private side, and we have to help raise more dollars. The only way to do that is to get more people involved.”

Chairs Aimee and David Harlow are spearheading the $3.125 million fundraising campaign that will honor Polly and Larry Nichols of Devon Energy for their work with Allied Arts in addition to cultural nonprofits like Myriad Botanical Gardens, Arts Council Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Ballet, National Cowboy Deborah McAuliffe Senner is president and CEO of Allied Arts. | Photo provided

& Western Heritage Museum and Science Museum Oklahoma.

“They were worthy of the honor long before this,” McAuliffe Senner said.

“Polly Nichols has led the campaign before, so she knows us on a personal level. … She has learned how much Allied Arts has truly grown and how we’re doing so much more than funding organizations.”

Allied Arts expanded its member organizations in 2013 with the addition of deadCenter Film Festival, Firehouse Art Center in Norman, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Opry Heritage Foundation of Oklahoma, Sooner Theatre in Norman and Red Earth, Inc. Member organizations range from

having as large as a $10 million budget to as small as a $45,000 budget.

McAuliffe Senner said Allied Arts prides itself on doing more than just giving money to its members.

One of McAuliffe Senner’s main duties is to speak at corporate presentations to highlight the importance of art and art education while explaining some of the challenges faced by its smaller organizations.

She relies on its board of 109 members to help facilitate needs of his member organizations — everything from information technology support to bookkeeping.

“We essentially try to do speed dating for board members for some of the smaller groups,” McAuliffe Senner said.

“They don’t really have the relationship with corporations, and that’s one of the main things we do: Go into companies for workplace presentations to educate more and more people about the transformative power of the arts.”

According to an Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 study published in 2017, the arts supported 20,571 full-time jobs in the Oklahoma City metro area and generated over $67 million to local and state government in fiscal year 2015.

McAuliffe Senner pointed to the neighborhood in which the Allied Arts office is located, Automobile Alley, as an example of the transformative power of the arts.

“The street where our office is located used to be completely vacant,” McAuliffe Senner said. “Arts groups move in and suddenly we’re surrounded by restaurants and retail. The same thing happened in [16th Street] Plaza District with Lyric Theatre and also [The] Paseo [Arts] District.”

In addition to working with its member intuitions, Allied Arts has a

grant program open to any nonprofit in the state. McAuliffe Senner said she is excited to work with new groups El Sistema Oklahoma, KidsAlive!, Edmond Fine Arts Institute and Oklahoma City Girls Art School in 2018.

“Sometimes people only know about the performances or exhibits, but our groups are active 365 days a year,” she said. “We are serving all 77 counties in the state with four or more of our groups.”

Allied Arts will host its 15th annual ARTini fundraiser hosted by its young professionals group Catalyst April 13 at OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave. Guests vote on their favorite cocktail from a local restaurant while bidding in a silent auction featuring works by Oklahoma artists.

McAuliffe Senner said that Allied Arts is already in the planning stages of its 2021 fundraising campaign. In honor of its 50th anniversary, she said that the goal is to raise $5 million.

“The arts help revitalize and help change cities, but they also change individuals,” she said. “There are people that may never have had ability to dance or hold instrument in their hand. We want to make sure that everyone has a chance.”

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OKC Restaurant Week

There are a total of 18 restaurants participating in OKC Restaurant Week April 6-15 this year that will each serve unique prix fixe lunch and dinner menus ranging from $10 per person for lunch to $40 per person for dinner.

Pricing does not include taxes, gratuity or beverages.

For an entire list of participating restaurants and their prix fixe menu options, visit okcrestaurantweek.com and click on the “Restaurants” tab.

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Caeli’s Sweets, Eats, & Bar thrives from poke offerings and finding a non-messy way to eat a meatball sandwich. By Jacob Threadgill

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Film Row has undergone a transformation the last few years with the opening of the 21C Museum Hotel, The Jones Assembly and more. Biding its time as construction blocked traffic, Caeli’s Sweets, Eats, & Bar has come out the other side.

Located at 726 W. Sheridan, Caeli’s is the brainchild of brothers Kenney and Kyle Harris and their mother Gina, whose name in Latin is the inspiration of the restaurant.

Caeli’s (pronounced “Chaylee’s”) came as a lifeline for Kenney Harris, who began his career as an oil and gas engineer.

“So when oil and gas tanked, we decided to look for something new,” Kenney Harris said. “It was a timing thing. I saw the spot, liked it and then one day, I thought, ‘Let’s put a restaurant there.’”

Catering lifeline

He enlisted his brother and mother to come in as co-owners. Gina Harris operated a catering business as he was growing up. Through high school, Kenney Harris remembers putting together meals for Oklahoma Pork Council and other clients.

The Harrises’ experience in catering allowed Caeli’s to thrive even when there wasn’t much foot traffic to the restaurant due to construction and lack of other eateries on the block.

“Our lunches break the place even, and catering is main step,” Harris said, noting that they’ve built a rapport with pharmaceutical drug reps and doctor’s offices. “A lot of restaurants will just set the bags down. We set everything up, take all the lids off — that way they don’t have to touch anything or drag in anything from their car.”

Caeli’s has a full liquor license at its restaurant and for use in catering.

Ahead of the curve

Its menu has evolved since opening in May 2015. Meatballs have been a staple, as well as Italian sandwiches, but Harris said that the biggest boon came when he The meatball grilled cheese with a side of marinara for dipping | Photo Jacob Threadgill

A free cookie is a gift to first-time customers at Caeli’s. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

added the traditional Hawaiian dish poke.

Essentially deconstructed sushi, a poke bowl combines marinated raw tuna or salmon (if you order Caeli’s shrimp poke, it is cooked) with rice, vegetables and a slightly spicy sauce.

Harris got the idea after traveling to Houston for the wedding of one of his best friends, who is Hawaiian. “[My friend’s] cousin and wife and niece own a poke restaurant in Houston,” Harris said. “I consulted with them about it. I thought I could do it.”

It has become one of Caeli’s most popular menu items. The poke bowl ($12) is an affordable way to eat light when you’re downtown. Harris said that they pick up fish fresh every morning and they usually run out of tuna by 2 p.m.

Caeli’s was ahead of the poke trend in Oklahoma City. There will be three standalone concepts opening along 23rd street alone in 2018.

“I know there are a bunch of places popping up, but we set the standard,” Harris said.

While the poke is light and refreshing, Caeli’s other signature dish, a meatball grilled cheese ($7.50), is a much more continental take on a heartier dish. Meatballs have been on Caeli’s menu since its inception, but boredom is the mother of invention. Harris’ niece Caeli, who works in the restaurant in the summer, got tired of eating a meatball sandwich or salad every day, so one afternoon, Kyle Harris made a meatball grilled cheese with a mozzarella and provolone blend.

I’ve had poke on a few occasions in my life, and I know that Caeli’s version more than holds up to any that I’ve had in southern California, so on a recent visit, I wanted to try the meatball grilled cheese because it’s something I’ve never seen before.

It arrives as a whole sandwich filled with eight pork-and-beef meatballs and a side of marinara dipping sauce. The meatballs are very good, relying on the contrasting texture and fat content of pork and beef to provide good flavor and bite. Having the dipping sauce on

the side was inspired because it keeps the bread crispy and your shirt clean.

“A meatball sub is great, but it gets all over you. If you’re downtown and you want something hearty like that, you eat the meatball grilled cheese without having to worry about getting covered in sauce,” Harris said.

I got a side salad ($3) with balsamic vinaigrette that had a nice mix of healthy greens to help offset the heaviness of the meatball sandwich, which I found to be the perfect size. It wasn’t so big that it ruined my afternoon, and the marinara was full of flavor. It was like a meatball sub found at popular chains, but 1,000 times better. I think the inside of the sandwich might benefit from a sprinkle of dried oregano and garlic powder, but that is a very minor complaint because the sauce provides those flavors.

Gina Harris handles the baked goods at Caeli’s, building off her catering business, where her son said she gained quite the following for her cakes. Caeli’s sells cake slices for $3 and will work with customers to build a full cake to their liking. Its most popular cake is a bourbon whiskey cake with bacon buttercream frosting.

On any customer’s first visit, they receive a free cookie. On my recent trip, I added a strawberry milkshake cookie.

It was the right amount of tartness from the strawberry with additional sweetness from white chocolate chips and was very soft without falling apart.

As the weather warms up and construction on Film Row falls farther behind it, Caeli’s — currently open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — will be adding dinner service on Thursday and Friday with a brunch service on Saturdays in the coming weeks.

The Harrises will add a few appetizers and a pasta dish for its dinner menu, and the Saturday brunch was a hit when they first opened, but they had to stop when construction closed the street to vehicle traffic. The brunch menu will include a waffle with bourbon glaze, a French toast sandwich and smoked salmon, among other items.

“We’ve got a pretty expanded menu for just some people that started cooking in a little place,” Harris said.

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A new refrigeration system allowed tamale production to begin at the facility in February, even to the surprise of his son.

“He’s a wild card,” Guadalupe said of his father. “I didn’t think starting this year we were going to start making tamales. … It’s been a dream for him. We make everything else fresh and in-house, and the fact we can now do the same with the tamales as the tortillas is very meaningful. It’s what the customers deserve.”

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Chelino’s adds fresh tamale production at its tortilla factory as new menu items debut.

By Jacob Threadgill

Guadalupe Garcia has watched as his father Marcelino “Chelino” Garcia has built Oklahoma City’s largest network of Mexican restaurants, which now total 14 in the metro area.

Growing up, Guadalupe remembers the first menu at the now-shuttered original Robinson Avenue location and how it differs from the menu that drove its expansion.

“Back in the day, when we first started Chelino’s, we used to sell beef stew and a lot of real authentic Mexican plates,” Guadalupe Garcia said. “I don’t think people were used to it. ... We stuck to what they knew.”

As food culture has changed since the turn of the century, with the prevalence of food television and media and the explosion of authentic ethnic cuisine across the city, Chelino’s is leaning into the trend by bringing back old menu items and is now producing tamales from scratch at its 14,340 square-foot tortilla factory at 2101 S. Robinson Ave., which opened in 2007 after a 2006 fire at its previous facility.

Fresh production

Chelino’s has produced its own tortillas, both flour and corn, since 1998. On the flour tortilla line, a worker places fresh dough through the machine. The dough is flattened, baked and packaged by a pair of workers who fill plastic packages at lightning speed.

Two separate corn tortilla presses are

in the other room in the facility. One machine presses the corn masa thinner so that it can be fried for chips and taco shells. Another machine produces thicker corn tortillas for tableside service.

The tortilla factory also has a storefront, where fresh tortillas, spices, canned goods, sweet treats and plate lunches are served. A plate of two large tamales with sides of rice and beans is $6.

Seasonal tamales, like a dessert tamale made with pineapple, apple and raisin, which is a favorite during Lent, and tamale rajas de queso with poblano, jalapeño and Anaheim peppers with mozzarella cheese are available at Chelino’s convenience store, Calvillito Mexican Imports No. 3, 5800 S. Western Ave. Just behind the lunch counter is a refrigerated room where four workers prepare chicken and beef tamales that will be served at Chelino’s restaurants.

Pliable cornhusks are ready to be filled with a layer of masa and meat filling.

The bright red and green hue of the masa lights up the room. Chelino’s mixes the same salsa used on the meat — verde for the chicken and rojo for the beef — into the masa before it is cooked.

“Tamales are like brisket; everyone has their own recipe,” Marcelino Garcia said. “[Everyone thinks] their recipe is better than yours. When you mix the masa, you must add flavor to the masa,

Marcelino Garcia shows off the new fresh tamale operation at Chelino’s tortilla factory at 2101 S. Robinson Ave. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

the same flavor in the meat so it mixes in the whole bite.”

The process of making tamales is timeconsuming and arduous. Cornhusks must be soaked for hours, and the masa must have whipped lard added at the right time at the right temperature.

“Lard is the only thing that keeps the masa from sticking to the corn husk,” Guadalupe Garcia said.

He said that some of his favorite memories as a child were watching his mother set up in the kitchen for hours, usually around Christmas, to make tamales.

“I asked my mom to teach me the recipe, and it’s a little bit of this, a little bit of that. There are no exact measurements,” Guadalupe Garcia said. “It’s a skill that you learn from time and practice. To bring it to a professional level is a wonderful thing.”

Previously, Chelino’s served tamales made at a factory in Lubbock, Texas,

The addition of fresh tamales comes as Chelino’s unveils a new menu with new additions and a few items that were relegated to secret menu status.

Carne asada fries, which trace their origin to the San Diego tradition of putting french fries in burritos, have been one of the most popular additions, Guadalupe said. His menu item is the ’Lupe Special.

It’s a chicken chimichanga, a five-ounce chicken tamale and a chicken enchilada.

“It’s for someone with a big appetite; you have to come hungry and you’ll be satisfied,” he said.

Other new additions include chili cheese fries, a fish filet with shrimp and mixed vegetables and sliced Mexican potatoes, which have been on Chelino’s secret menu for some time, Guadalupe Garcia said. They’ve also added a quesadilla norteña, which is a fajita quesadilla with fried peppers and onions. A flour tortilla enchilada filled with avocado slices and topped with salsa verde and sour cream has earned high marks from both father and son Garcia.

“We are always thinking about what we can do better,” Marcelino Garcia said. “We are concerned about quality, and we want it better. We want everything to be homemade, and it means a lot to me. Tortillas are made every day, fresh with no chemicals.”

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With the opening of Buttermilk, operator Todd Woodruff continues to diversify. By Jason Threadgill

Since Todd Woodruff opened the brickand-mortar location of Waff le Champion in Midtown to long weekend brunch lines in 2013, he has heard from people that there needs to be another location.

They’ll get their wish, but not until after Woodruff and his Day One Concepts team finishes a nearly yearlong stretch that saw him open the innovative tasting restaurant Nonesuch, 803 N. Hudson Ave., last November; the permanent location of Buttermilk, 605 NW 28th St, Suite A; and the upcoming Maples Barbecue brick-and-mortar at 1800 16th Street, which is scheduled for an August or September opening.

“It’s been very rewarding. I had a lot of people tell me to just continue to open Waffle Champions,” Woodruff said.

“They said I was making a mistake trying to do new concepts. It’s been rewarding to do creative new concepts. They all fill a void in the market and elevate the scene, which is what we want to do.”

Woodruff was an accounting major at the University of Central Oklahoma when he had the epiphany that he didn’t want to be an accountant. Before he started his senior year, he decided to get a job at a steakhouse in Edmond.

Within a few years, he was at Cheever’s Café, and he moved to the Waffle Champion food truck concept within a few years.

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Food truck start

Buttermilk opened its permanent location in the Pueblo development in the Paseo in the middle of March, but it started its life as a food truck, the same truck Woodruff used to start Waffle Champion in 2011.

Woodruff planned to sell the truck, but after six months of no decent offers, he took heed of his employees who were looking for extra hours. He came up with the Buttermilk concept, and it gave employees an outlet, especially for those interested in the food truck model.

He said that he wrote 12 different biscuit recipes but ultimately settled on the first one, which is inspired by Seattle restaurant Morsel and awardwinning Charleston, South Carolina, chef Sean Brock. It’s a black pepper buttermilk biscuit that’s heavy on the butter and doesn’t use lard.

“We cook them just under burnt,” Woodruff said. “We like a real golden brown. We like the flavor profile and what that does to the texture. When we’re building a sandwich, we’re thinking about where is the crispy element, and it’s built into the biscuit.”

The permanent Buttermilk concept came together quickly, going from ground breaking to opening in about 75 days. Its menu is built around seven biscuit sandwiches and a variety of sweet biscuit minis topped with buttercream and macerated berries.

Todd Woodruff’s biscuit recipe at Buttermilk is inspired by Seattle restaurant Morsel and Charleston chef Sean Brock. | Photo provided

A vegan smoothie bowl is joined by a side salad and hash brown bites on the Buttermilk menu.

In the meantime, Maples is hosting periodic pop-ups at Stonecloud Brewing Co., 1012 NW First St., every two weeks. Information about the pop-ups can be found through its Facebook page.

Maples Barbecue

2019 and beyond

Much like Waffle Champion and Buttermilk, Maples Barbecue began as mobile food truck — albeit a much more fancy version — at the beginning of 2017.

The central Texas-inspired barbecue features large briskets and baby-back ribs cooked in a smoker designed after Austin’s Franklin Barbecue set up shop in food truck parks around the city.

It’s been rewarding to do creative new concepts.

Todd Woodruff Woodruff is confident in the quality of the barbecue, but not the food trailer concept. A year later, the trailer is on the market and a permanent Maples location is opening in the 16th Street Plaza District location formerly housing Chiltepes in August or September.

“Trucks are hard business, really hard. If anyone asks, I tell them not to do it because it is very hard work for very little reward,” Woodruff said. “It’s hard to make a living. … Oklahoma weather is unpredictable, and if there is rain or too much wind, people don’t want to eat at the trailer.”

The former Chiltepes location is undergoing a heavy renovation that will include the installation of steel H beams painted black on its patio that will create an eye-opening view along 16th Street, Woodruff said. It will also feature a giant mural of a cow with angel wings, in honor of one of its star products: brisket.

Nonesuch moved to its standalone location at the end of 2017 after spending more than a year operating as a pop-up inside Waffle Champion. Chefs Colin Stringer, Jeremy Wolfe and Paul Wang are turning out multi-course tasting menus with a commitment to using 100 percent Oklahoma ingredients.

“I used to be a full-time chef, and what they’re doing is way over my head,” Woodruff said. “Even as an operator, I didn’t eat dinner there for two months because I wanted their feet under them. I was blown away and brought to tears. They set a great example for other Day One concepts. … It’s incredible what they’re pulling off. It’s been a joy to watch.”

Woodruff has moved away from being in the kitchen every day, relying instead on his trained staff to execute the menus he has created. It has allowed him more time to facilitate concepts and grow the brand of Day One Concepts.

“I like to have a lot of input in floor plan and design [at my restaurants],” he said. “ It is a guilty pleasure. My favorite part of being an operator is to be creative.”

Once the calendar turns to 2019, Woodruff will begin to entertain the people that told him to open more Waffle Champion restaurants. He said that it might be in north Oklahoma City or Tulsa or even Fort Worth.

“Waffle Champion has been a gift because it has allowed us to do other projects,” Woodruff said. “In 2019, we will shift back to Waffle Champion being the No. 1 priority.”

Four of the seven biscuit sandwiches on the menu at Buttermilk. | Photo provided

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Whether you’re looking for a smoothie or fresh-pressed juice for its nutritional benefits or just want something refreshing as the weather warms up, there are plenty of options in the Oklahoma City area.

By Jacob Threadgill with photos provided

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Opened in the second half of 2017, you would be hard-pressed to find another establishment that offers such a wide array of drinks. From coffee to flavored ice tea, iced milk tea, hot tea, slushies and smoothies, Babble covers it all. You can also try appetizers of popcorn chicken and vegetable dumplings or go for something sweet. Babble offers what it terms a mini babble box: sweet rolls hollowed out and filled with ice cream and toppings.

The Get Juiced Café at Betterbody Nutrition in Moore has everything you need to eat right and help build muscles.

The cafe offers low-sugar smoothies made with stevia and fresh squeezed juices, in addition to grain bowls made with dragon fruit or acai berries. You can also get a sandwich or wrap made with Boar’s Head meats. There are a few guilty pleasures on the menu, like the banana cream pie premium dessert smoothie.

Smoothies certainly aren’t the only things on the menu at Blenders Cafe, but they are the stars. Eight categories of smoothies offer drinks to fit your need. Choose an immunity boost to get an influx of vitamin C or get an Albert Einstein blend, which includes a shot of ginkgo biloba to facilitate memory enhancement. You can also get a variety of breakfast and lunch sandwiches and wraps or peruse the coffee bar.

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Folding science

Science Museum Oklahoma’s new smART Space exhibit explores the art of origami. By Jeremy Martin

Introduced to many through instructional books showing how to fold simple cranes or hopping frogs, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper folding known as origami is more complex than children’s crafting projects might suggest. Into the Fold: The Art and Science of Origami, an exhibition on display at Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, through January 2019, shows the intricate interplay between artful paper folding and advanced math and science with uses in biology, architecture and space exploration.

“Most people are familiar with origami in one way or the other, and mostly they’re familiar with paper boats or trains or simple folding they might have learned in school or from books, but in the last 30 years, it’s really grown and expanded from that into something more complex,” said Scott Henderson, director of the museum’s smART Space galleries. “There’s a lot of new principles that have been discovered by studying the natural world, and some of these things are being applied in medicine and space technology and architecture and the list could go on and on, and it’s still growing.”

Henderson said displaying advanced origami is a “perfect” use of the smART Space galleries, which are intended to show visitors “the crossroads of science and art.”

Into the Fold features origami works by local and international artists, many of whom are trained scientists. Renowned origami artist Robert J. Lang, for example, is also a Caltech-educated physicist who worked with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design a solar array that can be folded and compacted into a small rocket. The array is about 8 feet in diameter when folded, Henderson said, and 82 feet when deployed. Lang also helped design the prototype for the Eyeglass Telescope, which would have a foldable lens that would expand to the size of a football field.

Other applications include self-assem-

bling robots, expanding heart stents that can be inserted without surgery and even origami on a cellular level, folding proteins in an effort to combat cancer, HIV and other diseases.

“If you look at flowers, insects, many different things in nature have folding patterns,” Henderson said. “Even our DNA is a folding pattern. Our protein structures are also folded, so it goes pretty far in research.”

Artful science

Into the Fold features examples of origami’s applications in engineering, architecture and fashion, Henderson said, but it also includes many works of art made with advanced methods including Lang’s work constructed from laser-etched patterns and Japanese computer scientist Jun Mitani’s intricate creations made with his 3-D modeling software.

“If you see some of these folding patterns, it’d probably blow your mind. The directional stuff you see in books, step one through 12, and you think that’s hard — you should see some of these complex patterns and how difficult it really is,” Henderson said. “It’s something that people will look at and say, ‘Wow! I had no idea that this is origami.’ They look at some of these things, some of these objects in the show, they probably wouldn’t know it’s origami unless it was explained to them because they’re so complex and they don’t really look like folded paper.”

Other works on display use variations of traditional origami methods such as wet folding using damp paper and modular origami made from many pieces fit together. A modular snakelike piece

by Eric Gjerde was created using tessellated origami, a method repeating a geometric pattern that allows for large, striking pieces.

“When unfurled, it reaches to about 80 feet long,” Henderson said. “It’s very complex and it’s usually displayed on the

Reptoid by Erik and Martin Demaine | Photo Science Museum Oklahoma / provided

floor or on some sort of tabletop, but we decided it would be a lot more interesting attached to the wall, kind of serpentining around the actual wall itself. It’s a good entry point. You can see it pretty much from all angles.”

Reptoid, created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Erik and Martin Demaine using a circular folding method, looks more like an abstract sculpture than folded paper. A mask created by Joel Cooper is accompanied by a step-by-step illustration of the process for making it just to show visitors that it is, in fact, origami.

“It looks almost woven or like someone pressed it against a mold, but in actuality, it’s just one sheet of folded paper,” Henderson said. “And whenever I tell that to people, they are blown away. They can’t believe it.”

Henderson completely understands.

When he first began studying contemporary origami for the exhibit, he couldn’t believe some of these works himself.

“When I started to research and Great White Shark by Nguyen Hung Cuong | Photo Science Museum Oklahoma / provided

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discover what was out there, it blew me away,” Henderson said, “and I was like, ‘I have to do this. I have to see if I can get in touch with these people and these artists and these scientists and come up with a show that’s comprehensive and engaging, and I think we succeeded.”

Local artists featured include Klint Schor, whose large bird greets visitors at the exhibition’s entrance; Zephyr Andrews, who created the lifecycle of a caterpillar metamorphosing into a butterfly; Jianlan You, whose handmade cranes are only a few millimeters tall and are best viewed through a magnifying glass; and Larry Dean Pickering, whose functioning origami chairs can be sat in while visitors watch an instructional video. Created by Israeli artist Miri Golan, the video gives viewers a hands-on introduction to the art of paper folding, teaching them to make a jumping frog.

“That’s why I think this show is very important,” Henderson said. “It draws people in aesthetically with the beauty and the shapes and the forms, but it also can spark that interest in learning more.”

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Royal revelry

The Medieval Fair of Norman continues its time-honored tradition of free fun and learning. By Ben Luschen

In a modern atmosphere totally saturated with technology and the internet, there is at least one annual state event showing guests that long ago, people actually survived and thrived without the assistance of smartphones and computers.

The Medieval Fair of Norman returns for its 42nd year Friday-Sunday at Reaves Park, 2501 Jenkins Ave., one block east of Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum. Through the years, the free-admission public fair has swelled into one of the state’s most cherished annual events. According to the fair’s website, The Medieval Fair is the state’s third largest annual event.

Ann Marie Eckart, who has been the fair’s coordinator for the past seven years and involved with the festival as a performer, volunteer or organizer since 1990, said everyone should be able to find something that suits their fancy over the weekend.

“No matter what your thing is in the modern world, we will have the medieval equivalent for you at the fair,” Eckart said.

Overall event attendance is hard to predict and weather-dependent, but with good conditions, Eckart said the event brings in as many as 300,000 visitors.

Last year, total attendance dipped to 175,000 due to a rainy weekend.

“Most of the crowd left early Saturday evening, and Sunday was a very light crowd,” she said, “but we have people that still come out when it rains.”

There will be 40 food vendors and more than 190 artist booths on-site. And Crowds frequently gather to watch human-sized chess games held during The Medieval Fair of Norman in Reaves Park. | Photo Michael Mahaffey / University of Oklahoma / provided

there are an onslaught of demonstrations, activities and games to keep guests entertained, including jugglers, jousters, musicians, dancers, combat, table games, blacksmiths, cooks, animals, a humansized chessboard and more.

Performers from around the country will be dressed in historic garb. Each festival models itself after a specific year in Medieval history, with this year taking after King Edward III’s reign in 1360.

Each day begins with a royal procession as the king and his court make their way from the northeast corner of the park to the royal pavilion, gathering a crowd as they go. Once at their destination, the king greets guests and announces the day’s planned activities and welcomes them into the fair.

The fair’s cast also participates in another parade around the park at noon each day.

“Nobles love to show off their finery,” Eckart said. “And everyone loves a parade, of course.”

At the end of each day is The Last Huzzah, a showcase hosted by Black Oak Shillelagh that is essentially a medley production of the day’s performers.

Eckart said there is no reason anyone should leave The Medieval Fair unsatisfied.

“If you’re bored at fair, you’re beyond help,” she said.

Upon a time

The Medieval Fair is no doubt a fun time, but it is primarily an educational event. Eckart said the era is where modern Western society really started to take shape.

“This is the time when we’re switching to a money economy and the middle

class is starting to exist,” she said. “It’s fascinating when you start studying and reading and learning about it.”

The Medieval Fair began in 1977 and has been held each year since. It was originally a forum for the University of Oklahoma’s English department, which held the event on the first weekend of April because it was close to William Shakespeare’s birthday.

Outside interest in the festival grew steadily over the years, and the one-day event expanded into a three-day festival in 1993. The Medieval Fair has been held in Reaves Park since 2003.

The event is a self-funded university function within OU’s campus outreach department. Admission is free, so funding comes from vendor booth fees and food and game sales.

The Medieval Fair is one of the few renaissance fairs in the country offering free admission. Eckart said the event remains free as part of its core mission, which is to spark curiosity that leads to lifelong learning through educational entertainment.

“It’s not only the patrons who are coming to see us,” she said, “but we keep our booth fees low for the artists who are participating, and our artists, as well as our performers, are coming from all over the country, including Oklahoma.”

Because the fair has remained free for so many years, it has established itself as a strong tradition among local families.

“We hear many stories from people saying, ‘I was at the first fair in ’77, and then I brought my daughter and now I bring my grandkids,’” Eckart said. “We’ve got multi-generations of patrons as well as multi-generations of local performers.”

Life-changing impact

Eckart attended her first Renaissance fair as a teenager living in Kansas City, Missouri. Going into the event, she had no idea what effect it would have on the course of her life.

“I switched to a new high school, and my new friends were like, ‘Hey, come check out this new thing,’” she said.

“And I got hooked.”

She began participating as a historic

Local and national historic actors descend upon Reaves Park each year for The Medieval Fair of Norman. | Photo Michael Mahaffey / University of Oklahoma / provided

performer in her local fair and branched out to some other events in the region.

Eckart first visited The Medieval Fair of Norman in 1986. She moved to Oklahoma four years later and entrenched herself in the event for years before becoming its full-time coordinator.

Participating as a cast member in The Medieval Fair is a more time-intensive commitment than some might guess. Cast auditions are typically held in October, with acting workshops occurring all the way up to the start of the fest in April.

Eckart said this year’s cast is incredibly diverse, composed from a number of different backgrounds and religions.

“It’s amazing how they all come together as one big family,” she said.

Organizing each Medieval Fair is also a lot of work. Eckart said each fair weekend takes 18 months to fully orchestrate, with one year’s event always overlapping another.

With as much work that goes into it, Eckart said she still loves what she does.

Few things lift her spirits like the sight of bright-eyed children amazed at their surroundings and adults who, for at least a moment, can escape the contemporary worries with a piece of the past.

“It’s very fun, and it’s very rewarding,” she said. “Watching people change and grow as they participate in fair is the most rewarding part for me. Seeing the patrons come out and the smiles on their faces and the looks of amazement when they’re watching a blacksmith turn a lump of metal into a fantastic piece of art is very rewarding to see.”

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ARTS & CULTURE Aubrey York-Ketner and her father Brad York started Fancy Couches in 2017. | Photo Mark Hancock

They began storing pieces first in their home and then in multiple storage units, York said. Eventually, York and her parents decided to search for a space that would allow York-Ketner to combine her hair and makeup studio with sofa rentals.

York-Ketner and her parents began the process of incorporation, designing a logo, setting up a website and arranging other business practicalities for their studio.

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Fancy Couches brings the past into the present by renting out unique antiques for photo shoots, weddings and other events. By Ian Jayne

Sofas are the places we sit, the sites of family gatherings and, sometimes, objects of historical consideration. But they are also the focal point of Aubrey York-Ketner and her father Brad York’s business, Fancy Couches.

Fancy Couches opened in late 2017 with a unique business model offering “exquisite lounging rentals” especially suited for photography shoots, weddings, parties and other events. One-day rentals cost around $130 per piece, with a 50 percent discount per day for longer rentals. Delivery is free for locations within a 15-mile radius of the studio’s Bethany location, 5204 N. Rockwell Ave., Suite B. Distances outside this radius require a $1.25/charge per mile one-way.

Like the pieces in its collection, Fancy Couches has a family story of its own, one of unlikely origins and generational curiosity.

“My mother was very artistic. She was a porcelain artist, a teacher,” York said. “Every day of her life … she was doing something artistic. … Apparently, that passed on to my daughter.”

York-Ketner, who has worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist for about 12 years, has since channeled her creativity into an avenue favored by her grandmother: antiques.

After York’s mother passed away, he said they were left with her large collection of antique furniture. While they sold several pieces at antique booths, York said they were still left with a number of pieces, which Aubrey successfully sold online.

In addition to selling her grandmother’s antiques, York-Ketner also began purchasing and re-selling sofas, chairs and settees that struck her eye, York said. She noticed a trend among her clientele: Most of the people who 30

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purchased her pieces were photographers who used the furniture as props during photo shoots.

“I came to find that they used it seasonally,” York-Ketner said. “They would buy a piece, use it for the season, use it for their mini-shoots and then wouldn’t have any place to put it, so they would sell it.”

“They didn’t want to be in the couch business,” York added.

The idea of a furniture rental business began to coalesce.

Treasure hunt

For the better part of a year, York-Ketner and her parents — whose backgrounds are in real estate — drove across Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas on weekends to pick up furniture pieces she had discovered. They purchased a 12-foot trailer and set off in search of pieces to add to their ever-growing collection.

“It became a treasure hunt,” York said.

Like any quest for treasure, they braved storms and wind, traveling to remote locations to purchase from individuals who knew the history behind the pieces they were selling.

“The history behind them is what gets us the most,” said York-Ketner, who said that many times, a search for one piece would put them on the trail for others nearby.

The pieces she finds bequeath an entire history of creation, carving and upholstery. Additionally, there’s an entire unseen history behind the sofas: hours of sitting, talking and taking photos.

Many of the sofas purchased had previously been family heirlooms that no longer fit into subsequent generations’ lives, York said. For the York family, this sense of familial history dovetailed with the family dynamic that informs the business.

York-Ketner said her experience in the world of local commercials, weddings and hair and makeup prepared her for the kind of aesthetic attention that antique scouting requires. She said she has a behindthe-scenes knowledge of what photographs well and what pieces work best at larger gatherings like weddings or parties.

A basic set of criteria informs YorkKetner’s purchases — avoid major rips or tears that can’t be reupholstered — but the process is otherwise entirely based on pieces to which she is drawn.

“It’s what I’m attracted to,” YorkKetner said.

Her knowledge of colors, themes, palettes and points of interest has helped shape Fancy Couches’ inventory selection, a wide variety of sofas and chairs that range from Victorian to midcentury in style.

Fancy Couches generally has between 50 and 70 pieces on hand at any time, York said. Some, like the ornate, gilded “party throne” remains perennially popular at weddings.

Fancy Couches has been in business for about six months, York said, but so far, reception has been positive and the business filled a unique need. For YorkKetner, it was all about finding that niche that allowed her to use her professional experience and develop her eye for finding unique, striking furniture.

“They love our pieces,” York-Ketner said. “They say they’re unique; we find what we like.”

This summer will be Fancy Couches’ first, and York said he’s optimistic about the season, a popular time for weddings.

“We’re building; we’re building fast,” York said.

York-Ketner described the business as ever-evolving, especially as the search continues.

“We never feel like we have enough,” she said.

For York-Ketner and her parents, Fancy Couches represents a business venture that remains, at its heart, rooted in a family that loves to talk and connect with others. The business venture ostensibly deals in luxury sofas, but also in the repurposing of previously obsolete objects into 21st-century pieces that will appear in Instagram posts and wedding photos for years to come.

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Open house Fun Home brings Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel to musical life. By Jeremy Martin

In the 21st century, a few musicals revisiting the past might be the key to the art form’s future. Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma producing artistic director Michael Baron said Fun Home, which begins its Oklahoma debut at Lyric on April 11, is one of a few recent productions that reimagine the classic genre to give it new relevancy in modern times.

“A musical like this comes along, like, once every decade,” Baron said.

“Fun Home, Hamilton and Spring Awakening are the three that have really kind of forwarded the form.”

Baron, who recalls wanting to direct Fun Home for Lyric after he fell in love with “everything about it” while watching the production on Broadway in 2015, said the musical stands apart from its peers for several reasons.

While Hamilton and Spring Awakening re-contextualize historical periods with anachronistic musical choices — a hip-hop retelling of Revolutionary War-era America and an alt-rock reimagining of late 19th-century Germany, respectively — Fun Home’s focus is more contemporary and more personal. Based on Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel of the

same name, the five-time Tony Awardwinning production is more subtle than typical Broadway productions.

“I would call it a quieter musical in many ways, in that it leaves room for the scenes to breathe and behave like real human behavior,” Baron said.

“When you see the show, the songs as well as the scenes, you feel like you’re watching a portrait of someone’s real life. The few moments in the show when it becomes a ‘musical’ in capital letters are essentially dream sequences.”

Fantasy sequences aside, Baron compares Fun Home to Tennessee Williams’ classic memory play The Glass Menagerie. Narrator Alison (played by Lyn Cramer) attempts to make sense of her troubled family history, recounting often painful memories starring Small Alison (Reese Freund) and Medium Alison (Taylor Yancey), which are reenacted for the audience. Bechdel, whose long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For introduced readers to the conflicted and complex lives of several LGBT characters and their families, made The New York Times bestseller list in 2006 with her illustrated memoir examining the private

Mateja Govich (Bruce Bechdel), Lyn Cramer (Adult Alison) and Mandy Jiran (Helen Bechdel) in Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s production of Fun Home | Photo Keith Rinearson / provided

lives of herself and her parents. Like the graphic novel, Baron said, the musical adaptation uses a familiar format to make otherwise uncomfortable observations and memories more palpable to the audience.

“She’s not just a cartoonist; she’s an artist, and she’s using that medium to tell her story,” Baron said. “And I think that’s why the book got such acclaim because it’s such a disarmingly safe way to tell a very unsafe story. And musical theater’s the same way. ... Fun Home’s really funny, the songs are really beautiful, but it serves a greater purpose in that it’s giving you a window to the human experience.”

Like all of Bechdel’s work, Fun Home is notable for its feminism and nuanced portrayal of gay characters.

“It’s a groundbreaking musical in that it’s the first musical that I know of that has been on Broadway where the main character is a lesbian,” Baron said. “It’s exciting that the women are front and center. … It’s also refreshing, too, because her father, who you find out very early on is a closeted gay man, is not at all compassionate or a character that’s inspiring. Usually when there’s a gay character — and I’m a gay man — usually when I see a gay character, he usually has a heart of gold, you just fall in love with him and it’s really refreshing to see a gay guy who is actually not that great and has damaged his family by being so secreLyn Cramer stars in Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s production of Fun Home. | Photo Keith Rinearson / provided

tive with his life. … It’s a more complex portrayal of a gay person. Every gay person doesn’t struggle to come out and then everyone’s happy or dies of AIDS. There’s a lot of complexity to gay stories, and you see not only the complexity of her but her dad as well.”

Though Bechdel’s artwork is used sparingly in most productions, a casting decision Baron made led him to reconsider the play’s production design.

Deciding Sandra Mae Frank, a deaf actress who also worked with Baron in Lyric’s 2016 production of Fiddler on the Roof, would be perfect for the role of Medium Alison’s college girlfriend Joan, Baron modified the play to incorporate American Sign Language (ASL) into her dialogue, which led him to seek a way to make the entire play more enjoyable for deaf audience members.

A musical like this comes along, like, once every decade.

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“The whole show takes place sort of on the pages of the book,” Baron said.

“We’ve actually reproduced paintings from the book on the set. Except for older Alison, the narrator — she’s in full color — everyone else is wearing the color palette of the graphic novel. The piano and the coffin and the sofa, they’re all in the color palette of blues, blacks and grays. They’re outlined. Everything looks like you’re watching a graphic novel come to life on the stage visually.”

Subtitles for the signed dialogue between Joan and Medium Alison are projected on the wall behind them, also reminiscent of the look the graphic novel. Three shows will feature ASL interpretation for deaf audience members throughout. Though Fun Home’s story is extremely personal, Baron said, the musical is extremely accessible and its themes of self-discovery and coping with troubled family history and bittersweet memories are relatable to everyone.

“That’s why I think this show resonates so much with so many people,” Baron said, “because whether or not you have gay people in your family, every family, I believe, has some secrets that aren’t healthy. So everyone watching the musical, I think, identifies with what it’s like to grow up with the lies, whether big or small, that a family passes down.”

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OKC Ballet embraces modern ballets by prestigious choreographers with this season’s triple bill. By Jeremy Martin

Celebrating a decade of work with Oklahoma City Ballet, artistic director Robert Mills has seen the company’s abilities increasingly recognized on the national and world stage, but they’re still waiting for some people in their hometown to get with the program.

Just securing permission to perform Petite Mort, the featured work on the triple bill opening on April 11 at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., was a feat, Mills said.

“This isn’t handed to anybody,” Mills said. “We had to go through a lot to even get this work, so we’re proud of that, we’re headlining with it, we’re leading with it and we’re hoping that people come into the theater to see their own homegrown ballet company that was chosen to dance this incredible work that is not given to many.”

After Mills inquired about Petite Mort, a work by internationally renowned choreographer Jiří Kylián, a representative from the Kylián Foundation had to observe the company in action to assess the dancers’ capability. Cora Bos–Kroese, who danced in the work’s debut at the 1991 Salzburg Festival and traveled to OKC to direct the ballet’s rehearsals after another representative determined that the dancers were up to the task, said “the company is of a very good standard [if] they have the ability to actually perform the work of Jiří.”

“They have to have a classical technique to a certain level, and they need to have musicality and be able to move — actually, that’s the big one,” Bos– Kroese said. “They need to be connected with their partners to be able to do all the off-balance stuff, and it looks kind of like it’s not so fast, but 34

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actually, a lot of the things are quite speedy but they have to make it look like it’s easy and flowing and connected with each other, so they have to be on the ball.”

Petite Mort, originally commissioned in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death, begins with a synchronized and tricky performance featuring six male dancers holding swords.

“It’s not easy, because the swords are hard to control,” Bos–Kroese said.

The male dancers then pair off with female dancers for a series of intricate duets symbolizing the intimacy for which Petite Mort is named.

“It’s the French word for ‘small death,’ which actually means ‘orgasm,’” Bos– Kroese said. “So the piece is very much directed to the tension between men and women, and so it’s a representation of that, but it also represents life and death and war and survival and being in the moment in this time when you’re doing this now. It’s very important in all Jiří’s works that you’ve been born and that you’re going to die at some point and you’re in life at this moment.”

Mills said OKC Ballet has had to advance significantly in the past several years in order to obtain permission to perform a work by “a genius sort of figure in the world of dance” like Kylián.

“Quite frankly, when I took over this company 10 years ago, the requests didn’t come readily,” Mills said. “The first George Balanchine work that I asked for, we were denied. I had to strengthen the company to get to a point where we could dance it. … So I think the evolution of our company in Oklahoma City is evident. It’s evident in the works that we are allowed to perform now.”

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Accompanying Petite Mort on the triple bill is Petal, a work by choreographer Helen Pickett, who performed as a dancer with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt for more than a decade.

Mills said the work provides a noticeable contrast to Petite Mort.

“To me, when you see the ballets onstage, they’re starkly different in many ways,” Mills said. “They’re starkly different in how they’re choreographed.

They’re starkly different in movement quality, and they’re starkly different in how the stage looks. They’re almost mirror opposites of one another.”

While Petite Mort is intimate and dark, featuring flesh-tone costumes and set to two of Mozart’s piano concertos, Petal features pastel yellows and pinks and music by contemporary composers Philip Glass and Thomas Montgomery Newman. One thing that these works by two powerhouses of modern dance have in common is that Mills has been planning on having OKC Ballet perform them for several years.

“Those two ballets are two ballets that I really wanted to bring to our audiences here probably the entire time that I’ve been directing the company,” Mills said.

The third work on the bill, The Means to Fly, is an original by Mills himself, which he began creating last summer when he was chosen to participate in the National Choreographers Initiative.

Though he’s extremely proud of his work, Mills admitted to being a little intimidated debuting it alongside ballets by such notable artists.

“Helen Pickett is creating works for ballet companies around the world, and Jiří Kylián is one of the most famous choreographers alive today in our industry. So to think that it was a daunting idea for me to program myself

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on the same program, it is. Sometimes, as an artistic director, you kind of have to take a big leap of faith and do your best. … I’m pleased with what we’ve put together so far on The Means to Fly, and I think it will hold its own against these really two huge figures in dance.”

With this triple bill, Mills hopes to expand the audience’s idea of what ballet means and how it can relate to their lives.

“I’m trying to show our city what ballet can be in the 21st century,” Mills said. “Ballet is a living, breathing art form that is informed by the world that we’re living in today. And people don’t come to these mixed bills that we have, and it’s interesting because they’re the exact performances that will change people’s perceptions as to what we do.”

Mills compared the works included in the triple bill to the dancing seen on popular dance shows like So You Think You Can Dance. While OKC Ballet’s dancers have more experience with classical forms of dance, the steps are more accessible to general audiences.

“I would love to see our city come out to see this,” Mills said. “Not only to celebrate where the company has gone over 10 years and to celebrate the fact that it’s dancing works by people like Helen Pickett and Jiří Kylián, but they need to understand that ballet is not just that staid classicism that you’re telling stories about fanciful monsters and sorcerers and swans that turn into people.”

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Nearly a year after the release of his debut poetry collection, Chen Chen will bring poetic prospects to a reading at UCO. By Ian Jayne

It’s a common question: What do you want to be when you grow up? The answers are pat, sometimes full of naïveté: Doctor.

Lawyer. Astronaut. Superhero. Often asked of young children, the question points to larger, subtler tensions of identity: Are you what you do? Who are you, and what can you be?

In his debut poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen investigates the nuances of modern life.

Chen delivers a reading from his work 6 p.m. April 13 at the University of Central Oklahoma as part of a national book tour.

“I’m very excited to come to Oklahoma, to get to meet some of the … faculty and students there, as well,” Chen said.

Released in April 2017 by BOA Editions, Ltd., When I Grow Up has received positive critical acclaim. The collection won the 15th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry.

United States poet laureate Tracy K. Smith referenced Chen in a recent interview with The New York Times.

Chen’s entrance into the world of poetry began as a draft for his thesis project during his Master of Fine Arts studies at Syracuse University.

“I was working closely with poets there — Bruce Smith — and really just going poem by poem,” Chen said. “At the time, I wasn’t sure exactly how they would all go together as a collection. … I knew that it would need some more tweaking, but I just needed some time to live with the work.”

Poet Chen Chen will read from his collection of works, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, at the University of Central Oklahoma. | Photo Jess Chen / provided

After graduating, Chen said he continued revisions, putting aside the work and then returning to it. He sent the manuscript to various presses and submitted it to contests. Once it was picked up, Chen said that he had a further six months or so to continue editing the work.

Revision, much like writing, might be considered a largely solitary process, but for Chen, it was collaborative.

“I really have to get outside of my own head. I feel like often, I can get stuck in this very internal, cerebral process,” Chen said.

“I really need to be in dialogue with other writers, with teachers, with friends. … I’ve been very fortunate to work with some really smart fellow poets who understand what I’m trying to do with a specific piece and then the collection as a whole.”

Chen said that the first poem in the collection — “Self-Portrait as So Much Potential” — initially came later in the book. After a friend and peer suggested that it come before the first section break, the collection snapped into focus.

“All of a sudden, I understood what the first section needed in terms of the pacing and how the poems fit together,” Chen said.

Collaboration during the revision process furnished some critical distance from the work, and Chen said he was able to see the bigger picture of the collection.

Conversational exploration

Counting Pablo Neruda, Jean Valentine and Martìn Espada among a wide array of poetic influences, Chen worked at developing his distinct poetic voice, which often infuses heady subject material with wryness and authenticity.

“I think for a while, because I was drawn to poems like this, I was trying

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to write in a very spare, serious, devastating style,” Chen said.

After trying to write in the same vein as poets like Lucille Clifton and Louise Glück, Chen took a different approach.

“I started experimenting more with bringing in a voice that is closer to how I actually talk and how I am in conversation with friends or people that I’m close to,” he said.

Chen said adopting a more conversational style allowed him to draw from influences while also coming into his own.

“That really changed things for my writing, and all of a sudden, it came alive and surprised me in different ways,” Chen said.

The formal component of Chen’s poetry dovetails with frequent themes of the collection: Asian-American experiences, queer identity and interpersonal relationships. For Chen, such categories of identity remain fundamentally open-ended.

“In my own experience, ‘AsianAmerican’ means so many different things, and things that I don’t have a full understanding of and things that I’m still really learning. And the same for ‘queer,’” Chen said. “I feel like I’m not trying to speak from some definitive position or a position of authority, but more from a learning position and a very subjective position as well.”

In addition to investigating questions of identity as a poet, Chen is also working on a Ph.D. in writing and English at Texas Tech University. The two modes — academic and poetic — have enriched one another, he said.

“To me, I guess, it comes down to the kind of questions that I feel like I can ask, or the kinds of questions that occur to me to ask … in reading scholarly work, critical theory, that really pushes me to think,” Chen said. “It’s this indirect path, and I can’t predict how one thing’s going to influence another, but that’s sort of the pleasure of it, as well.”

As a contemporary poet, Chen has had the opportunity to interact with readers of his work on social media. Chen said he occasionally uses platforms like Twitter to brainstorm or test out ideas, but he always tries to make time and space to return to writing itself.

Chen said he wants to explore writing more creative nonfiction.

Visit chenchenwrites.com.

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Michael Byrnes introduces the Cielo Azul name and uniform, worn by Juan Fuentes, at a fan event in southeast Oklahoma City. | Photo Laura Eastes

Hispanic fans,” Byrnes said. “We certainly felt that when we transitioned to the Dodgers in 2015. This is an opportunity to be more immersive and be more authentic. When we began the process, we wanted to do more than add Los in front of our name. We wanted it to be localized and be part of Oklahoma City’s DNA.”

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Before the first pitch, OKC Dodgers focuses this season on serving its diverse fan base. By Laura Eastes

Jorge Hernández drew cheers when he said the name “Fernando Valenzuela” in his speech in Spanish to introduce Minor League Baseball’s Copa de la Diversión, a new multicultural campaign for baseball, to south Oklahoma City baseball fans.

It was the response many expected because the Mexico-born former Los Angeles Dodger accomplished much in his baseball career. He was Rookie of the Year and is a Cy Young Award winner and a World Series champion.

Valenzuela captivated baseball fans, but especially Mexican and MexicanAmerican baseball fans. When the Oklahoma City RedHawks switched affiliations to the Dodgers in the 2015 season, the Hispanic audience began to boom at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, said Michael Byrnes, president and general manager of the OKC affiliate since 2010.

In the offseason, when the Oklahoma City Dodgers organization was approached by Minor League Baseball (MiLB) to participate in the 2018 Copa de la Diversión, translated to “Fun Cup” in English, it was the perfect initiative to join. This season, 33 teams, including Oklahoma City, will celebrate their multicultural fan bases through a culturally relevant game day experience in which teams trade their traditional names and uniforms for on-field personas representing their regions’ Hispanic heritage.

Valenzuela served as a key inspiration to the OKC Dodgers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. For eight Copa de la Diversión games at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, the OKC team will don the name Cielo Azul de Oklahoma City — which translates to “Blue Sky”

— and wear corresponding uniforms.

“There were a number of inspirations we drew to arrive at this,” Byrnes said. “One was the Los Angeles Dodger great Fernando Valenzuela. … He looked to the sky during his windup to deliver each pitch. We have a nice nod to Fernando. In Oklahoma, we have wonderful vast blue skies and we wanted to pull on that imagery and really embrace that as this persona.”

The Cielo Azul logo pays homage to the scissor-ta iled f lycatcher, Oklahoma’s state bird. During the May 31-June 3 series against Omaha Cazadores de Tormentas and July 27-30 series against El Paso Chihuahuas, fans will find special menu items like tamales and hear mariachi music.

Byrnes said it’s all a part of the Dodgers’ efforts to bring the deep roots of Oklahoma City’s Hispanic culture alive.

According to an analysis by ESPN Sports Poll, more than 18.2 million U.S. Hispanics say they are fans of MiLB with 1.87 million reporting they attended a game in 2016. Based on MiLB’s recent efforts to attract Hispanic fans, the league estimates this season’s initiative will attract 106,000 first-time Hispanic fans and generate $3 million in new revenue.

In Oklahoma City, Byrnes said the Dodgers have embraced the sizable Hispanic fan base. Last year, through a partnership with Supermercados Morelos, Dodgers players hosted a clinic with local youth players. On Cinco de Mayo, when the Dodgers faced off against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, folkloric dancers performed and fireworks followed the game.

“The Dodgers in Los Angeles have always had great connectivity with

Like the Copa de la Diversión initiative, the OKC Dodgers Rookie League is another unique opportunity for the minor league team to connect with its fan base. After learning that Oklahoma City Parks and Recreation was forced to cancel its youth baseball league due to low participation in 2017, the OKC Dodgers swooped in with a large donation of jerseys, hats and other resources, reducing participant cost and removing a key barrier keeping some children from playing.

The OKC Dodgers Rookie League begins play Saturday with children playing in T-ball, coach pitch and kid pitch divisions. Dodgers’ leaders believe the league can boost youth baseball interests and offer players a chance to experience leadership, teamwork and sportsmanship.

“Our expectations are right in line with the OKC Dodgers. We want this to happen,” said Douglas Kupper, Oklahoma City Parks and Recreation director, at a press event at Eugene Field Elementary School in February. “We know that kids who participate in a sport, whether it is actively participating or on the sidelines, that they learn confidence. A more confident student is … a student who is willing to raise their hand and become more involved in student activities.”

The Dodgers have a long history of being community-oriented, but this past offseason, the organization took it to another level, holding discussions on how to expand its presence and active role in the community, Byrnes said.

“The rookie league is really going to come to life soon,” Byrnes said. “We’re excited for it to begin, and we’ve had a great response.”

Opening night

The OKC Dodgers start the season Thursday, playing their first five games away from Bricktown in Iowa. They return to The Brick Tuesday for an opening night game against Texas’ Round Rock Express. The games continue through early September.

Last season, the Dodgers finished with a 72-69 record; the sixth-straight season an Oklahoma City team ended the summer with a winning record. Bill Haselman, the former Oklahoma City catcher, returns as manager of the team for the third consecutive season.

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Books Hickory Doc’s Tales join Oklahoma author Linda Harkey for the signing of her book about Doc, the hunting dog who narrates his life and adventures, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. April 7. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. SAT Second Sunday Reading writer, actor and director Paul Austin reads his works that have appeared in This Land, Sugar Mule, Oklahoma Review and more, 2 p.m. April 8. Norman Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org. SUN

Film American Folk (2017, USA, David Heinz), a story of two strangers who meet when their plane is grounded following the September 11 attacks, 8:30 p.m. April 8. Norman Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org. SUN Native Crossroads Film Festival and Symposium with screenings of films that emphasize the significant roles that music plays in Native culture such as Mankiller, When They Awake, Sweet Country and more, April 5-7. (nativecrossroads.org). Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-3254712, snomnh.ou.edu. THU-SAT

Happenings 2018 Spring Triad a fun-filled day of art, music, food, vendors, recreational activities and more including the USAO Scholastic Meet and Droverstock Music Festival, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. April 5. University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, 1727 W. Alabama Ave., 405-224-3140, usao.edu. THU ACM@UCO Metro Music Fest features performances by The Revolution, The Ivy and more, at various downtown locations, April 6. Downtown OKC, 211 N. Robinson Ave., 405-235-3500, downtownokc.com. FRI

EarthFest a day celebrating Earth month with arts and crafts, relay races, giveaways and more, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. April 7. Martin Park Nature Center, 5000 W. Memorial road, 405-297-1429, okc.gov/parks/martin_park/martin_programs.html. SAT Ladies in the News Oklahoma Hospitality Club hosts a luncheon fashion show with the theme of shining stars and proceeds benefit OKC Metro Alliance Women’s First Step, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. April 6.

Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, 7000 NW Grand Blvd., 405-848-5611, okcgcc.com. FRI Montmartre 2018 Chalk Festival the creative and competitive can create art using water-based chalk and winners are announced, 9:30 a.m. April 5.

University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, 1727 W. Alabama Ave., 405-224-3140, usao.edu. THU Museum Theory and Practice Explore the research, preservation, management and interpretation of historical and cultural resources through the University of Central Oklahoma’s graduate program in museum studies, through April 27., Through April 27. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. TUE-FRI Mystery Night and Family Sleepover a dinner night with guests participating as a speakeasy patron, sleuth, or suspect and try to figure out who committed the crime, 6-8 p.m. April 7. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. SAT Nghiem’s Fairytales returns with the theme “I don’t think I should be here right now” and storytellers that give an oral history about awkward departure stories, 8:30-10:15 p.m. April 7. New World Comics, 6219 N. Meridian Ave., 405-721-7634, newworldcomics.net/. SAT OK NEDA Walk walk for a cause with National Eating Disorders Association to raise funds and awareness for eating disorders, 10 a.m. April 7. (nedawalk.org). Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405.445.7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/. SAT Oklahoma Arts Day an advocacy event for arts and culture supporters to support the positive impact of the arts in the community, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. April 11. (405-887-3515 ok4arts.org). Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 405-521-3356, ok.gov. WED

At the Throttle here’s your chance to operate a steam locomotive with a qualified engineer for 30 minutes, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Sunday. Oklahoma Railway Museum, 3400 NE Grand Blvd., 405-424-8222, oklahomarailwaymuseum.org. FRI-SUN

Reach for the Stars! Pivot, the new name for Youth Services, presents an evening of food and games with cocktails and a silent auction as well as opportunities to provide services to at-risk teens, 6-10 p.m. April 5. (pivotok.org, 405-235-7537). The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com. THU

CANstruction Oklahoma City judges choose the best structures and all proceeds and canned goods are donated to The Salvation Army Central Oklahoma’s Client Choice Food Panty, April 7-9. Penn Square Mall, 1901 Northwest Expressway, 405-8412696, simon.com/mall/penn-square-mall. SAT-MON

SchmoozaPalooza Trade Show a networking event for business professionals to promote their company, make new contacts and generate sales with drinks and treats from local restaurants, 4-7 p.m. April 5. Oklahoma State Fair Park, 3220 Great Plains Walk, 405-948-6700, okstatefair.com. THU

A Celebration of Oklahoma a reception celebrating the inauguration of mayor David Holt with music by Born in November and appetizers, 4:306:30 p.m. April 10. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. TUE

Spring Steam Train Rides enjoy a unique experience on the restored coal-burning steam locomotive for a 40-minute excursion, April 7-8, 14-15. Oklahoma Railway Museum, 3400 NE Grand Blvd., 405-4248222, oklahomarailwaymuseum.org. SAT-SUN Startup Entrepreneur Office Hours gain insight into growing your startup company and overcoming initial hurdles during a session with Tech Ranch, noon-6 p.m. April 5. StarSpace46, 1141 W. Sheridan Ave, 405-538-0069, starspace46.com/. THU Zoo Blooms enjoy the botanical garden with blooming tulips, daffodils, hyacinth and more, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through April 15., Through April 15. The Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington place, 405424-3344, okczoo.com. SAT-SUN

Girl Scouts Science Overnight Science Museum Oklahoma’s Girl Scouts Science Overnight provides an opportunity for your Girl Scout to reach badge requirements.

Classes include activities to fulfill requirements for the Between Earth and Sky! journey requirements. A parent or guardian must accompany their scout. The overnight is 7 p.m.-7 a.m. Friday-Saturday at Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place.

Admission is $25-$45. Call 405-602-6664 or visit sciencemuseumok.org.

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Youth Art Adventures Bring your young artists ages 3 to 5 to experience art through books with related art projects, 10:30 a.m.-noon Tuesdays through June.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., 405325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. TUE Explore It! get your questions answered of what, why and how about the natural world we live in, 11:30 a.m,-noon Saturdays. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu. SAT

Performing Arts Blood Relations a psychological mystery based on the book by Sharon Pollock about Lizzie Borden and the murders of her father and stepmother, 8 p.m.

March 30-31 and April 6-7; 7:30 p.m. April 12, 8 p.m.

April 13-14, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15; 7:30 p.m.

April 19 and 8 p.m. April 20-21. Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St., 405-232-6500, carpentersquare.com. FRI-SAT Classics 7 features Philippe Quint on violin with conductor Alexander Mickelthwate to reimagine traditional works, 8-10 p.m. April 7. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. SAT Greater Tuna a comedy with only two actors, Donald Jordan and Jonathan Beck Reed, playing several characters, 7:30 p.m. Thu-Sat and 1:30 p.m. Sunday through April 8., Through April 8. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. THU-SUN

Lucia di Lammermoor by composer Gaetano Donizetti and conducted by Jonathan Shames, this play is set in the Scottish Highlands about an eerie Gothic romance, 8 p.m. April 5-7, 2 p.m. April 8.

Reynolds Performing Arts Center, 560 Parrington Oval, 405-325-7370, ou.edu. THU-SAT OKC Improv Enjoy weekly performances of improvised comedy theatre on Oklahoma City’s premier platform for improv, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday., Fridays, Saturdays. through April 21. NOIR Bistro & Bar, 701 W. Sheridan, 405.208.4233, theparamountokc.com. FRI-SAT Scissortail: In Remembrance of the Oklahoma City Bombing Fresh Paint Performance Lab presents a play about the loss and recovery of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, through April 8., March 29-April 8, 8 p.m. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. THU-SUN Tuesday Noon Concerts A series presented

by OU School of Music and the museum features 30-minute concerts during the lunch hour, noon-1 p.m. Tuesdays. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. TUE

Active Learn-to-Swim Program Giving residents of all ages and financial situations the opportunity to learn to swim with proper technique and basic water safety at their own pace offered by the King Marlin Swim Club, ongoing, Through Dec. 31. Lighthouse Fitness (Front), 3333 W. Hefner, 405-845-5672, marlinswimamerica.com. SAT

Food Boozy Bacon Dinner features Prairie Artisan Ales for a beer tasting paired with bacon inspired dishes, 6:30 p.m. April 7.

Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse, 7 Mickey Mantle drive, 405.272.0777, MickeyMantleSteakhouse.com. SAT The Lost Ogle Trivia for ages 21 and up, test your knowledge with free trivia play and half-priced sausages, 8-10 p.m. Tuesdays. Fassler Hall, 421 NW 10th St., 405-609-3300, fasslerhall.com. TUE

GROW Fundraiser and Art Exhibition Oklahoma City Girls Art School hosts a spring-themed fundraiser that features art created by students centering on the ideas of gardens and growth with proceeds benefiting the school’s visual arts program. The event is 6-9 p.m. Friday at IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave. Visit okcgirlsartschool. org or call 405-996-8373.

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A Taste of Wine and Beer Variety Care hosts an evening of food, drink and music sponsored by Anthem Brewing Company and Waters Edge Winery, 6 p.m. April 6. (405) 635-5694, varietycare.org).

Film Row, 700 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-208-8836, filmrowokc.com. FRI Turkish Food & Arts Festival taste traditional Turkish food, see demonstrations and try traditional Turkish arts and have a fun full of day as the whole family, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 7. Raindrop Turkish House, 4444 N. Classen Blvd., 405-702-0222, raindropturkishhouse.org. SAT UCO Local Food Summit Students for Sustainability showcase the local food movement in Oklahoma City and the benefits associated with sustainable food systems, 5-8 p.m. April. 11. Free. UCO Nigh University Center, 100 N. University Drive, 405-974-3667, orgsync.com/151079/forms/309485. WED

BrickUniverse OKC Lego Fan Expo At BrickUniverse, the world’s best Lego builders showcase their creations and fans can enjoy a Star Wars zone and thousands of bricks to build with. The convention is 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday at Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens. Tickets are $15. Call 405-602-8500 or visit brickuniverse.com/okc.

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Special Olympics Oklahoma cheer on teams of Special Olympics Oklahoma as they take part in a regional qualifier, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. April 11. (usasoftball. com). ASA Hall of Fame Complex, 2801 NE 50th St., 405-424-5266, asasoftball.com. WED Yoga with Art Relax and stretch in contemporary art-filled spaces with yoga instructed by This Land Yoga, 10 a.m. Saturdays. 21c Museum Hotel, 900 W. Main St., 405-982-6900, 21cmuseumhotels.com. SAT

Visual Arts Chromatic Ritual features paintings and fused glass creations by Fringe: Women Artists of Oklahoma with a portion of sales to The Homeless Alliance, March 29-June 1. (fringeokc.com), Through June 1. Verbode, 415 N. Broadway Ave., 405-7577001, verbodegroup.com. THU-FRI

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Decomposition: Discovering the Beauty and Magnificence of Fungi The kingdom of fungi is on display at SMO’s smART Space Galleries exploring the uses, benefits and beauty of fungi, through Aug. 12., Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

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Divided an exhibit featuring abstract paintings by Oklahoma artist Janice Mathews-Gordon and pots and murals by Mexico native Carlos Tello, April 6-29. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com. FRI-SUN Do You See What I See? Painted Conversations by Theodore Waddell Explores Waddell’s abstract expressionism like never before by redirection the visitor’s attention to the importance of what they do not see rather than what they do see on the canvas, Feb. 9-May 13., Through May 13. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-4782250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. FRI-SUN Generations in Modern Pueblo Painting: The Art of Tonita Peña and Joe Herrera Documents and celebrates in particular the art of Tonita Peña (19831949), the only female Pueblo painter of her generation, and the work of her son, Joe Hilario Herrera, through April 8., Through April 8. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. THU-SUN Hidden Treasures: Seeing into the Unseen features photographs by Jim Reznicek in his first solo exhibition including art works of landscapes, macro and still life images influenced by his Christian faith, through April 28. Paseo Art Space, 3022 Paseo St., 405-525-2688, thepaseo.com. FRI-SAT In the Principles Office: Tom Ryan the Art Student Learn the principles of art as Tom Ryan did with his instruction on “general illustration” with famed teacher Frank Reilly, April 7-Nov. 11. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-4782250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. SAT-MON Life and Legacy: The Art of Jerome Tiger One of Oklahoma’s most celebrated artists, Jerome Tiger, produced hundreds of works of art and won numerous awards throughout the country. Celebrate the life and legacy of this remarkable painter, through May 13, 2018., Through May 13. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. FRI-SUN Mentorship Exhibition a program for high school students to learn more about printmaking, the book

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McKnight Center Chamber Music Festival Oklahoma State University’s inaugural concert series featuring chamber musicians from across the United States, including performances of the Dallas Symphony, Zurich Opera, Santa Fe Opera and more, kicks off 6 p.m. Tuesday. Other showtimes are 10 a.m. April 11, 6 p.m. April 12-13 and 7:30 p.m.

April 14 at McKnight Center for the Performing Arts at OSU, 400 S. Monroe St., in Stillwater. Call 239-888-0189 or visit mcknightcenter.org.

TUESDAY-APRIL 14 Image McKnight Center/provided arts, and works on paper; the exhibit features linoleum relief prints, plexiglass monotypes and more, March 22-April 20., Through April 20. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-6665, 1ne3.org. THU-FRI My Wildest Dreams Features Broken Arrow artist Micheal W. Jones; an artist from a young age, his paintings are created using water media, March 9-April 27., Mondays-Fridays. through April 27. Norman Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., 405-3079320, pasnorman.org. FRI

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The New Art: A Controversial Collection Fifty Years Later The 150-piece permanent collection purchased from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art is dedicated to the collection of contemporary art and features abstract expressionism, post-painterly abstraction, color field painting and pop art, through May 13. 2018., Through May 13. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SUN

Solitude features photographs of quiet landscapes by award-winning artist Alan Ball, noon-5 p.m. ThuSat and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun through April 29. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com. FRI-SUN

The New Art: A Milestone Collection Fifty Years Later Features 52 works including paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings; it is a collection that has shaped the museum and Oklahoma in the art world, Feb. 17-May 13., Through May 13. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT-SUN

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Through Abahay’s Eyes translates as “through my father’s eyes” and features the art that depicts the journey Ebony Iman Dallas takes to find her father, through April 29. The Paseo Plunge, 3010 Paseo Plunge, 405-315-6224, paseoplunge.org.

Transitions features graffiti and street art that celebrates Native American culture by artists Yatika Starr Fields, Hoka Skenadore and Josh Johnico, through June 20., Through June 30. Exhibit C, 1 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-767-8900, exhibitcgallery.com.

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Welcome Home: Oklahomans and the War in Vietnam explores the impact of the war on Oklahoma families as well as the stories of Vietnames families relocated to Oklahoma, through Nov. 2019., Through Nov. 6, 2019. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/ historycenter. MON-SAT

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Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day Program Catholic priest Father Desbois speaks at Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City’s Remembrance Day program. Father Desbois has interviewed over 4,000 witnesses and researched the Holocaust while fighting anti-Semitism. The program is 2-3:30 p.m.

Sunday at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, 801 NW 50th St. Admission is free.

Call 405-848-3132 or visit jfedokc.org.

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Keeping notes OKG Music Show lends a hand to Classen SAS’s flooded music facilities. By Ben Luschen

Later this month, vocal music students from Classen School of Advanced Studies will fly to New York City to perform by invitation at Carnegie Hall with choirs from Southern Nazarene University and Oklahoma Baptist University. In distance, it is a much greater field trip than most Oklahoma City Public Schools students will ever take.

But Classen’s choir students have already come a long way. Last semester, their rehearsal space was literally underwater.

“It was like having waterfalls in your room,” said Rebecca Lindley, director of Classen SAS’s vocal department. “It was running down the walls, it got our computers, it got some of our music, it got a shelf. Our piano is out of tune now because of all the humidity issues.”

Undetected clogs in the school’s gutter system led to repeated flooding of the middle-high school’s basementlevel choir room. The room flooded at least three separate times during rainstorms in late July and early August.

Hearing about the damage at Classen SAS inspired Oklahoma Gazette to lend a hand, donating a portion of proceeds from its planned OKG Music Show — a showcase event spotlighting some of the city’s best musical talent — to the school’s music department.

The show, which begins 7 p.m. April 12 at Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., features music from neo-soul vocalist Gabrielle B., hip-hop band Bowlsey, dreamy indie-rock group The So Help Me’s and rapper Jabee, with Jon Mooneyham mixing between sets. Admission is $5, and the show is open to all ages.

In addition to damaging the vocal program’s contest music, computers and piano, the water dislodged several ceiling tiles, ruined the carpet and led Gabrielle B. | Photo provided

to the growth of harmful black mold.

“They had to strip carpet, repaint and clean everything up,” Lindley said.

Vocal classes were moved to the school’s on-campus museum for three and a half months. While classes are now allowed to return to the patched and recarpeted space, vital pieces of music and equipment are still missing. Lindley said the show’s proceed money would most likely be used to address the department’s biggest priorities in recovery: replacing lost music, replacing damaged computers and repairing the flood-damaged piano.

Classen SAS, known for its reputation as an arts school across the state, allows its students to select different arts or academic majors of study. There are around 1,000 combined high school and middle school students attending Classen, including 22 guitar majors, 32 piano majors, 74 strings majors and 75 vocal majors.

Arts education is critical to overall education.

Ashley Davis Still, the major enrollment numbers don’t tell the total story of Classen’s musical depth. Students from different majors often take multiple types of music classes. Even students in the school’s International Baccalaureate (IB) academically focused advanced placement program often take music courses.

Ashley Davis, the principal at Classen SAS, believes there is no overstating the music program’s value at the school.

“It has an impact on every student in the building,” she said.

Davis said the school’s traditionally high classroom performance has a lot to do with making the arts a priority.

“Arts education is critical to overall education,” she said. “We believe our success at Classen academically is directly tied to our arts programs. The two programs work together and complement each other.”

Learning about art and music are not always seen as vital to the school experience, but Lindley believes those things are critical to the students’ overall development.

“I have a lot of singers who aren’t going to go to college for music necessarily, but they’ll always sing and it’ll always be a part of their lives,” she said.

“They will support the arts.”

‘Patience and perseverance’

Bowlsey drummer Donald Eisenberg, who is also the host of the alternative hip-hop program No One Man on The

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Spy 91.7 FM, is a Classen SAS graduate.

He gives unrelenting credit to the school for where he is today.

“The music education that I received from my time at Classen greatly influenced my playing, my development and my love for music as a means of expression,” he said. “Had I gone to any other school, I couldn’t imagine what my life would be like today.”

Eisenberg said Classen is a school where some of the area’s brightest students have been allowed to realize their complete potential. He said his band director at the school, Reginald Irons, developed his potential in the same way he has developed and inspired countless others.

“He championed positive competition amongst his students,” Eisenberg said.

“He wanted you to be your best, and that attitude was put into his students who wanted each other to be the best.”

Music from Earth, Wind & Fire and OutKast was often found alongside jazz greats Vince Guaraldi and Duke Ellington. The modern was paired with the classic in a way that helped the drummer think about music in a new way.

Eisenberg’s advice for current Classen music students is to keep pushing.

“No two things in our world go hand in hand like patience and perseverance,” he said.

‘The front lines’

Several other OKG Music Show participants are tied to teachers in some way.

Gabrielle B., whose full name is Gabrielle Bruner, had her mother as her eighth-grade vocal teacher at Belle Isle Middle School.

“I knew she had a passion for music, but to see that reflect off of her students is almost magical,” Bruner said. “They literally light up.”

Bruner’s mother was also her piano teacher from a young age. The vocalist said she developed her diligent approach to music through her mother’s training.

She would always bring out the best in her students.

The So Help Me’s guitarist John Wilkerson grew up with a grandmother and mother who were both lifelong Oklahoma public school teachers.

Hearing about teachers’ struggles with affording classroom supplies and unmanageable classroom sizes are familiar to him because he watched his

mother go through similar challenges.

“Teachers are on the front lines of preparing kids for an increasingly unsure world,” he said. “They are often the first to notice mental health concerns, and they are the role models for kids that have none. I don’t know how we ended up with a system where politicians and oil executives get paid more than teachers, but I think there’s some great tragedy in that.”

Bowlsey drummer and host of The Spy’s No One Man Donald Eisenberg | Photo Taylor Hale / provided

Wilkerson said his Poteau High School choir director Bill King had an immeasurable impact on his life in music. He encouraged his students at every ability level in a way that was always positive and levelheaded. King stayed late every day, giving free private lessons to students.

An offhand comment King said about becoming a music major in college opened Wilkerson’s eyes up to the possibility of taking music beyond high school. It was a comment he likely made without thinking, but it still had a monumental personal impact, which one could argue is the true value of teachers in a nutshell.

“I doubt he would even remember it,” Wilkerson said, “but looking back, that was a defining moment in my life.”

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Evan Jarvicks’ NMF Main Stage debut brings his musical journey full circle. By Ben Luschen

Editor’s note: Oklahoma Gazette is featuring Norman Music Festival performers each week leading up to its 2018 event April 26-28 in Norman.

Evan Jarvicks is weeks away from his first appearance on the Norman Music Festival main stage, which is a remarkable accomplishment for someone who, just 10 years ago, had no knowledge of the local music scene and had never even recorded a song.

These days, Jarvicks can be seen across the metropolitan area performing as Jarvix, the name given to his unique solo music project based mostly around his ukulele, looping pedals and trademark ingenuity. He has also built a reputation as one of the local music scene’s greatest cheerleaders and most comprehensive critics, with popular year-end album lists published on cellardoormusicgroup.com.

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to the art scenes in which he would one day entrench himself. It was on such a day in 2008 that he noticed a cover story on the second Norman Music Festival (NMF), which featured Kevin Barnesfronted experimental indie-rock band Of Montreal as a main headliner.

“I was like, ‘My brother loves Of Montreal; I have to let him know!’”

Jarvicks said. “And he had no idea.”

Jarvicks performs 1 p.m. April 28 on NMF’s Fowler Automotive Main Stage in downtown Norman. His set comes nine hours before the day’s main headliner, the Merrill Garbus-fronted experimental pop project Tune-Yards, hits the same stage. Jarvicks counts Garbus and Tune-Yards as one of his primary music inspirations.

He might have recommended the fest to his brother, but Jarvicks did not attend his first NMF until the next year, deciding to check it out after his sibling came back with high praise. The experience opened his eyes to a world of talent and music he had no idea existed.

“It was mind-blowing how much was going on,” he said.

One could argue that Jarvicks is one of NMF’s best success stories. The free festival is designed to give locals wide, unparalleled access to the state’s music scene. Jarvicks used his initial exposure as the soil from which his musical aspirations, long hidden under a sea of self-doubt, could grow into the Jarvix project people know today.

This will not be Jarvicks’ first year as an NMF performer, but it will likely go down as his most memorable appearance at the fest. Years ago, the chance to perform on the main stage seemed like a far-fetched fantasy.

“At most, I thought, ‘Maybe someday I’ll get to play Norman Music Festival,’” he said. “And this is my third year now.”

Yes, You

Jarvicks was shocked when he first heard he would appear on the main stage, opening for Tune-Yards. But it also felt like a destined culmination of life events.

“Even though I was floored by it, in some ways, it feels like it was meant to be,” he said.

Around the same time Jarvicks began encountering the local music scene for the first time, he was also learning more about the wider music world in general. For years, he had bought his CDs from stores like Hastings, but over time, he began to frequent Norman’s Guestroom Records more and more often.

At most, I thought, ‘Maybe someday I’ll get to play Norman Music Festival.’ And this is my third year now.

Evan Jarvicks During one of those first trips, he remembers hearing a promotional disc of Tune-Yards’ exquisite 2011 art-pop album Whokill playing on the record store speakers. Jarvicks had no idea who the artist was. He went up to the front desk and, after they told him about Garbus, offered to buy the album then and there.

“They were like, ‘Well, this isn’t out yet, but you can go check out the other Tune-Yards album,’” he said.

Jarvicks did buy the other TuneYards album, which was its more lo-fi ’09 debut BiRd-BrAiNs. He fell in love with the music, which was incredibly creative and remarkably resourceful while still being distributed nationwide on a label. Garbus made her ukulele recordings on a microphone in the same price-range as his own. She edited her audio with Audacity, a free program not known as a high-end music editor.

“The idea that she could record an entire album out of nothing but rudimentary recording software and whatever she had — voices overlaying on top

of each other, the ukulele stuff — I was like, ‘This is possible,’” Jarvicks said.

“You don’t have to be the virtuoso of any particular instrument.”

In the album’s liner notes, Garbus writes a message to fans, detailing the basic way in which she recorded the record and telling people that if she could do it, they could, too.

“I kind of took that to heart,” Jarvicks said.

Mass motivation

It is common to think about one day making music or art in one’s local city, but putting out that work for public consumption can be an intimidating proposition. Jarvicks faced similar apprehension. He was not a trained musician in any way. He had no idea if he could make anything that other people would deem worth listening.

“Music had always been something I wanted to do, but I second-guessed myself a lot,” he said. “I didn’t have anyone really pushing me. I had to want it myself, and I was very doubtful.”

But he decided to put out his art anyway, using his musical limitations to actually inform his creative work. He slowly gained confidence in his music and himself over time through performances at various local open mics.

Because Jarvicks lacks thorough proficiency in many traditional instruments, it frees him up to be resourceful in the kind of sounds he incorporates in his work. Bells, tambourines, paper and egg-shakers are all fair game, as is his classic yellow rubber chicken.

“It’s a novelty, admittedly,” he said.

As unique and varied as Jarvicks’ act is, it is mostly solo and stationary. He won’t be moving around the large outdoor NMF stage because he has to stay near his looping pedals. That’s why he hopes to enlist several surprise guest performers to keep the crowd engaged.

“I’ve been to enough NMFs to know that if you don’t have stuff going on, the camera is just going to sit there and linger on you,” he said.

NMF is often celebrated as a major music gathering, but Jarvicks said there is a lot of potential in the event to expose people to new things and inspire new forms of creativity.

“It’s one of the most visible and most visited music events around, and people will go to it just because it’s free,” he said.

“A lot of people don’t necessarily know any of the acts, but you can be exposed to new things you never even knew about — and in Norman, Oklahoma.”

Jarvicks said being exposed to a large amount of creativity produced by people who grew up in the same state as him sparked an inner energy he hopes can be replicated in others.

“That can be a number of things,” he said. “It doesn’t just have to be music. It can be art or community of any kind.”

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Writer’s way Oklahoma Songwriter’s Festival moves uptown to Tower Theatre. By Ben Luschen

The city’s — and perhaps region’s — biggest annual songwriting event is moving to one of its hottest venues.

The two-day Oklahoma Songwriter’s Festival, now in its third year, is set to make its Tower Theatre debut April 13-14 after two years of showcase performances at ACM@UCO Performance Lab. Several private events are scheduled for April 13, but a free Songwriting Camp, featuring the fest’s esteemed panel of Nashville songwriters, is scheduled for early April 14 at the Uptown 23rd District venue, 425 NW 23rd St. Leading the panel is Zac Maloy, the native Oklahoman and frontman/guitarist for the recently reunited alternative rock band The Nixons, who has helped write songs like “Temporary Home” for Carrie Underwood and “Words Are Medicine” by Tim McGraw.

Other panelists include country music hit machine and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Bob DiPiero (The Oak Ridge Boys’ “American Made,” Vince Gill’s “Worlds Apart,” McGraw’s “Southern Voice” and over a dozen No. 1 U.S. hits), Travis Hill (Kenny Chesney’s “Anything But Mine”) and Bowling for Soup vocalist and guitarist Jaret Reddick (who, in addition to his band’s hits, also penned and sang the theme song for the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb).

The event culminates 7 p.m. that night with a writer’s round music showcase, where the panelists take turns explaining the stories behind some of the songs they helped pen before performing them in an intimate acoustic setting. Admission to that portion of the festival is $18-$40.

Maloy, who founded the festival in partnership with sister Tava Maloy Sofsky, director of the Oklahoma Film + Music office, recently spoke with Oklahoma Gazette about the event he hopes could one day grow into a “Sundance for songwriters.”

Oklahoma Gazette: This is the festival’s third year but the first you’ve been involved with Tower Theatre.

How did all of that get set up? Were you looking into going to Tower?

Maloy: We did a venue in Bricktown, which was great for year one and year two, but we just felt like we wanted to change it up this year. And it seemed like I got an email a day saying, ‘You’ve got to do it at Tower!’ The event is meant to be a sit-down, listening-room type of event where us songwriters from Nashville Bowling for Soup’s Jaret Reddick is part of the four-person songwriter panel at this year’s Oklahoma Songwriter’s Festival. | Photo Will Bolton / provided

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— and there’s going to be a local round that will open the show with five Oklahoma writers — but we’ll sing songs and tell the stories behind the songs.

People just kept saying, ‘You’ve got to check out Tower!’ I talked to Chad [Whitehead] who runs it, and he just jumped at the chance. He was like, ‘Dude, a songwriter showcase listening night is perfect for Tower Theatre.’ I’m so excited.

OKG: Are there any songs you’ve got waiting that you’re excited to explain in the showcase?

Maloy: Well, at some point in the evening, I may have a couple of special guests jump up. A couple of members of my old band The Nixons will do a couple of Nixons songs at some point in the evening. I mean, I’ve got to tell you, these writer showcases, I love doing them. I’ll do ‘Temporary Home,’ which was a No. 1 song for Carrie Underwood.

I’ll sing a song which, if you know my history, you wouldn’t expect this to be attached to my name, but I won a Dove Award last year for a song I wrote with (Christian rock band) Skillet.

Zac Maloy

Film Festival director] Lance McDaniel came up to me and said, ‘Zach, I’ve never had a musical evening like that in my entire life. I got to hear the song “Bless the Open Road” and got to hear from the person who actually wrote that song.’ I think that’s what blew me away.

People just came up to me and said, ‘Oh my God, I think I thought Tim McGraw wrote all of his own songs.’ I have a Tim McGraw cut in my catalogue, and I played the song and told a funny story about Tim emailing me and wanting to change the lyrics that were awful and then he said, ‘No, I’m just kidding.’

You’re going to have shows in Oklahoma City, for sure, that are songwriter nights. But not songwriter nights where there is a total of like five Grammys and 50 No. 1 songs. That’s the really special thing about it.

OKG: Through the years you’ve been doing this now, has there been anything about the event that maybe you weren’t expecting when you started? Has it become anything more or different from what you had originally planned on it being?

Maloy: I’m not going to say I was surprised because I kind of told people, ‘If we can get people to come to this show, they’re going to be blown away.’ In Nashville, these shows happen two times a night at the Bluebird [Café]. In Nashville, we take it for granted. But I sat there and talked to people after the show. [Local filmmaker and deadCenter

OKG: How does this songwriter panel compare to past ones you’ve brought in?

Maloy: I keep telling people, ‘It’s the best lineup yet — and don’t tell the guys from last year.’ But it is a good one. Even when you see the guys, it’s going to be a really interesting thing. There’s Bob who is this sort of, been-around-awhile, grizzled, hardcore Nashville pro; Travis, who’s this regular-looking guy who could be the dad next door mowing the lawn; Jaret, who’s got a sleeve of tattoos down both arms and both legs; and then me, a guy who has walked both sides of the fence from country songs to smash-

Be creative every day.

The Nixons’ Zac Maloy (center right) founded Oklahoma Songwriter’s Festival in 2016. He will be joined on stage by several band members during the fest’s Songwriter Showcase 7 p.m. April 14. | Photo Monson Photography / provided

ing guitars and lighting stages on fire in the ’90s. So, it’s the most weirdly cool, varied lineup that we’ve had so far.

OKG: What’s one fundamental thing that an aspiring songwriter should know.

Maloy: Well, the long answer is come to the workshops Saturday morning.

They’re free, and you’re going to hear from four successful songwriters and then you’re going to get the opportunity to ask questions. We’re going to do a Q&A, and last year, it lasted an hour and a half — it was amazing. But the one thing that I do tell people, which is the one piece of advice I heard a long time ago — and I’ve heard it echoed by everyone from [Green Day’s] Billie Joe Armstrong to Tom Douglas, who is a great songwriter here in Nashville — and that is to be creative every day. That doesn’t mean write a song every day. I kind of do that because that’s my job, but just be creative every day. Billie Joe said he gets up and will pick up a guitar and write a riff and just leave it alone and come back to it maybe a month later.

Or he’ll sing a melody. And, dude, I’ve got like 500 voice memos. Sometimes it’s, ‘Song idea about a circus,’ or whatever it is. Be creative every day is the one piece of advice I tell people, but coming to these shows, you’re going to have a whole wealth of knowledge at your fingertips.

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COUNTRY

Jim the Elephant, Belle Isle Brewery. ROCK Miss Brown to You!, Full Circle Books. JAZZ The Oak Ridge Boys, Riverwind Casino.

COUNTRY

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Peter and Will Anderson, UCO Jazz Lab. JAZZ

Brujo/Cake Eaters, The Deli. ROCK

Saint Monroe/NoiseBleedsSound/Sovereign Dame, The Deli. ROCK

Clint Hardesty, Bluebonnet Bar. ROCK Direct Connect Band, Blue Note Lounge. R&B

Strawberry Girls/Speak/Memory, 89th Street Collective. INDIE

Flaural, Tower Theatre. ROCK

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The Holy Knives, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

Amarillo Junction, JR’s Pub & Grill. COUNTRY

Hunny/Made Violent/Talk in Tongues, 89th Street Collective. INDIE

Aron Holt, Anthem Brewing Company.

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Ruthcrest/Tripsitters/Second Wind, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar. ROCK

Monday, Apr. 9 Adam Miller, The Root. SINGER/SONGWRITER Chamber Swingers, UCO Jazz Lab. JAZZ Greenbeard, Blue Note Lounge. METAL

Tuesday, Apr. 10 Can’t Swim/Chase Huglin/Choir Vandals, 89th Street Collective. PUNK

Stone Tide, Whiskey Chicks. ROCK

Honey and Salt, Red Brick Bar. ROCK

Swimfan/Beach Language, 51st Street Speakeasy.

Red/Lacey Strum, Tower Theatre. ROCK

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Hosty, The Root. BLUES Jack Waters & The Unemployed, Bluebonnet Bar.

John Moreland/Deer Tick Longtime Tulsa resident John Moreland is a folk and country singer-songwriter who released his fourth solo album, Big Bad Luv, to critical acclaim last year. He pairs up with alternative rock band Deer Tick for an evening of music 8 p.m. April 11 at Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave. Tickets are $20. Call 405-677-9169 or visit diamondballroom.com.

Wednesday, Apr. 11 Christoper Blevins/Caleb McGee, The Deli. SINGER/

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Kalyn Fay, Saints Pub. FOLK

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Eighty-three-year-old

author Harlan Ellison has had a long and successful career. In the course of publishing hundreds of literary works in seven different genres, he has won numerous awards. But when he was in his thirties, there was an interruption in the upward arc of his career. The film production company Walt Disney Studios hired him as a writer. During his first day on the job, Roy Disney overheard Ellison joking with a co-worker about using Disney characters in an animated pornographic movie.

Ellison was fired on the spot. I am by no means predicting a comparable event in your life, Aries. On the contrary.

By giving you this heads-up, I’m hoping you’ll be scrupulous and adroit in how you act in the early stages of a new project -- so scrupulous and adroit that you will sail on to the next stages.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Are you an evolving

Taurus or an unevolving Taurus? Are you an aspiring master of gradual, incremental progress or a complacent excuse-maker who secretly welcomes inertia? Will the theme of your next social media post be “The Smart Art of Compromise” or “The Stingy Glory of Stubbornness”?

I’m hoping you will opt for the former rather than the latter in each of the three choices I just offered. Your behavior in the coming weeks will be pivotal in your long-term ability to animate your highest self and avoid lapsing into your mediocre self.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):If you fly in a passenger

jet from New York to London, the trip usually takes more than six hours. But on January 8, 2015, a powerful jet stream surging across the North Atlantic reduced that time significantly. With the wind’s extra push, several flights completed the trip in five hours and 20 minutes.

I suspect you’ll have comparable assistance in the course of your upcoming journeys and projects, Gemini. You’ll feel like the wind is at your back.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Actor Keanu Reeves’

career ascended to a higher level when he appeared as a lead character in the film Speed. It was the first time he had been a headliner in a big-budget production. But he turned down an offer to reprise his starring role in the sequel, Speed 2. Instead he toured with his grunge band Dogstar and played the role of Hamlet in a production staged by a local theater company in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

I admire him for being motivated more by love and passion than by fame and fortune. In my estimation, Cancerian, you face a choice that in some ways resembles Keanu’s, but in other ways doesn’t. You shouldn’t automatically assume that what your ego craves is opposed to what your heart yearns for and your soul needs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A Leo sculptor I know is

working on a forty- foot-long statue of a lion. Another Leo friend borrowed $30,000 to build a recording studio in her garage so she can pursue her quixotic dream of a music career. Of my other Leo acquaintances, one is writing a memoir of her time as a black-market orchid smuggler, another just did four sky dives in three days, and another embarked on a long-postponed pilgrimage to Slovenia, land of her ancestors. What about you? Are there any breathtaking challenges or smart gambles you’re considering? I trust you can surf the same astrological wave.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) How sexy is it possible for

you to be? I’m referring to authentic soul-stirring sexiness, not the contrived, glitzy, counterfeit version.

I’m alluding to the irresistible magnetism that wells up in you when you tap in to your core self and summon a reverent devotion to your life’s mission. However sexy it is possible for you to be, Virgo, I suggest you unleash that magic in the coming weeks. It’s the most reliable strategy for attracting the spiritual experiences and material resources and psychological support you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) According to my analysis of

the cosmic omens, your impact is rising. You’re gaining influence. More people are tuning in to what you have to offer. And yet your stress levels also seem to be increasing.

Why is that? Do you assume that having more power

requires you to endure higher tension? Do you unconsciously believe that being more worried is the price of being more responsible? If so, banish that nonsense. The truth is this: The best way to manage your growing clout is to relax into it. The best way to express your growing clout is to relax into it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The immediate future

will challenge you to revisit several fundamental Scorpio struggles. For best results, welcome these seeming intrusions as blessings and opportunities, and follow these guidelines: 1. Your control over external circumstances will increase in direct proportion to your control over your inner demons. 2. Your ability to do what you want will thrive to the degree that you stop focusing on what you don’t want. 3. Your skill at regulating and triumphing over chaos will be invincible if you’re not engrossed in blaming others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I’m about to say

things that sound extraordinary. And it’s possible that they are in fact a bit overblown. But even if that’s the case, I trust that there is a core of truth in them. So rejoice in their oracular radiance. First, if you have been hoping for a miracle cure, the next four weeks will be a time when you’re more likely than usual to find it or generate it.

Second, if you have fantasized about getting help to address a seemingly irremediable problem, asking aggressively for that help now will lead to at least a partial fix. Third, if you have wondered whether you could ever retrieve a lost or missing part of your soul, the odds are more in your favor than they’ve been in a long time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The French

government defines books as an “essential good,” along with water, bread, and electricity. Would you add anything to that list of life’s basics? Companionship? Stories? Deep sleep? Pleasurable exercise and movement? Once you identify your “essential goods,” I invite you to raise the level of reverence and care you give them. Take an oath to treat them as holy treasures. Boost your determination and ability to get all you need of their blessings. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to enhance your appreciation of the fundamentals you sometimes take for granted.

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role model for how to leave one’s comfort zone. In her early career, she earned writing degrees at placid universities near her childhood home in the American Midwest. Her first book mined material about her family; its first poem is addressed to her grandmother. But then she relocated to El Salvador, where she served as a human rights advocate during that country’s civil war. Later she lived and wrote in Lebanon at the height of its political strife. Her drive to expand her range of experience invigorated her poetry and widened her audience. Would you consider drawing inspiration from Forché in the coming weeks and months, Pisces? I don’t necessarily recommend quite so dramatic a departure for you, but even a mild version will be well rewarded.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Buckingham Palace is the home and office of the Queen of England. It has been the main royal residence since Queen Victoria took the throne in 1837. But in earlier times, the site served other purposes. The 17th-century English lawyer Clement Walker described the building occupying that land as a brothel, a hotbed of “debauchery.” Before that the space was a mulberry garden where silkworms tuned mulberry leaves into raw material for silk fabrics. I see the potential for an almost equally dramatic transformation of a certain place in your life, Aquarius. Start dreaming and scheming about the possibilities.

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