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RoseAnn Duplan, Wanda Felty and Erin Taylor serve as parent advocates for Waiting List Caucus, coordinated by Reps. Jon Echols and Cyndi Munson. | Photo Laura Eastes

Advocating respite A new tactic by Waiting List Caucus is on track to bring relief to families waiting years for services.

By Laura Eastes

In mid-March, Rep. Leslie Osborn, R-Mustang, introduced legislation designed to create a respite waiver program for families and caregivers of people with developmental disabilities.

Osborn, one of 15 members of the newly created Waiting List Caucus, introduced House Bill 2758 as a solution to reduce the long waiting list that has historically plagued Oklahoma Department of Human Services’ (DHS) Developmental Disabilities Services division and kept Oklahoma families providing care for the developmentally disabled on their own, with sometimes little or no help, for years on end.

“When I came in in 2008, it was a four-year wait,” Osborn said from the House floor. “Now, we are up to 14 years.”

The House, on a 91-2 vote, passed the respite waiver bill. The legislation now awaits a Senate committee. Osborn authored the legislation’s companion bill, House Bill 2754, which allows local governments the option to require annual registrations for utility vehicles.

All revenue collected from registrations would go toward the Developmental Disability Waiver Program Revolving Fund at the state treasury.

The floor vote was a monumental win for advocates and the more than 7,600 Oklahomans with developmental disabilities without state assistance and waiting. The legislation earned the support of advocates months earlier when Osborn approached parent advocate Wanda Felty about what she could do to bring relief to waiting list families.

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cated to supporting people with developmental and intellectual disabilities in Oklahoma. Before session started, at a half-day training, more than a dozen lawmakers arrived ready to learn about the waiting list and what could be done to improve services for Oklahomans with developmental disabilities.

“I think one of the greatest parts of this Waiting List Caucus story is that it shows that parents and state personnel can have outstanding, proactive relationships when people are open and transparent about what the goals are,” Taylor said. “My experience is that sometimes DHS, and certainly our legislators, make decisions without the person with the disability and the supporting family at the table, putting in their obligatory experience. We cannot have that continued.”

could help in the meantime. Over the past two years, the tone of the meetings has changed, Felty said. Stories of families frustrated with the waiting list have been replaced with stories of families in crisis, like the death of an elderly parent leaving no one to care for their adult children who require around-the-clock care.

“At every waiting list meeting, we hear a family in crisis,” Felty said. “I am afraid of the response the state will have when we have 20 families in crisis at one time. I am fearful of that because they will be charged to make a quick decision. When you make quick decisions in a crisis, they are not good decisions in the long-term. That has caused me the greatest fear.”

For those who receive DHS services — about 8,180 Oklahomans with developmental disabilities ranging from ages 2 to 89­— the care is provided in community settings and can include longterm case management, prescription drugs, home health aids, personal or medical care, therapy and employment training.

Current state funding for the program doesn’t match the need.

“There has been a waiting list from the time our home- and communitybased programs were created, and the reason is these programs are dependent upon state dollars to be appropriated to match Medicaid dollars,” said Sheree Powell, DHS’ director of communications and community relations. “For us to serve more individuals, we would have to have more money appropriated each year to that budget for that purpose.”

Oklahoma Capitol. That’s not because Oklahomans with developmental disabilities and their families haven’t traveled to the Capitol for meetings with lawmakers.

Back in 2012, Taylor and her son Henry paid their newly elected representative a visit. The family was two years into their wait for services. Taylor told Rep. Jon Echols, R-Oklahoma City, that her son’s name was added to the list in 2010, but the family didn’t expect to hear from the agency until 2018, at the earliest.

While schools provide support, including personal aids to children like her son, that still left Taylor’s family and many others struggling to find and pay for evening and weekend caregivers.

Echols lent his support. He went on to become a frequent speaker at Developmental Disabilities Day at the Capitol. He joined a relatively small group of legislators who fiercely advocate for people with developmental disabilities.

By 2017, the waiting list had jumped to more than 7,600 names. Taylor found herself in a disability policy seminar in Washington, D.C., where she made time to visit U.S. Rep. Steve Russell’s office.

W hile seated in the Choctaw Republican’s office, she overheard the congressman’s staff say Russell would attend a meeting of the Congressional Veterans Caucus. Taylor began to wonder, If there was a veterans caucus, could there be a waiting list caucus?

Back in Oklahoma City, Taylor proposed the question to Echols.

“Rep. Echols very graciously said, ‘Yes, we can do that, but we need educated advisors,’” Taylor said.

She knew just the group of parent advocates.

Path to a caucus

Work continues

Calls to increase funding to DHS’ Developmental Disabilities Services Division have gone nowhere during the recent financial troubles at the

Worsening crisis

The Waiting List Caucus couldn’t come at a better time, said Felty.

As of fall 2017, 7,659 people with developmental disabilities were waiting for state services. The applications of people who got in line in 2006 are being processed, according to DHS records.

In Oklahoma, DHS’ Developmental Disabilities Services Division offers Medicaid home- and community-based waivers to help people with disabilities and their families pay for in-home caregivers, employment services and other supports. The funding comes from the Oklahoma Legislature and federal Medicaid program funding. Individuals seeking such services are placed on a waiting list.

Twelve years ago, Felty took over the waiting list meetings, helping families brace for the long wait ahead and alerting them to other available services that

WAITING LIST CRISIS

7,659

number of individuals on the waiver request waiting list as of 9/20/17

Source: Oklahoma Department of Human Services

Taylor, Felty and Duplan see the respite waiver as the first push of many to come to improve access to developmental disabilities services. They view the legislation as a “pressure valve” for the waiting list families, aiding them with planned short-term and time-limited breaks.

However, the legislation was not intended to replace the home- and community-based services waivers, which will continue to be offered.

Powell, with DHS, said the respite waiver matches the needs of families on the waiting list.

As the Waiting List Caucus continues to meet with the three parent advocates, waiting list families continue to play an important role, Taylor said.

“We recognized … that legislators need to listen to us, but as family advocates, we have an obligation to have a constant relationship with our legislators,” Taylor said. “Not just one phone call a year or posting frustrations on Facebook. … This is about relationships.

We need every family talking to their legislator throughout the year.”

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Front and center This election cycle, women are raising their hands.

By Laura Eastes

A week before the lowest number of women lawmakers since 2010 were headed to the Oklahoma Capitol for the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, women from across Oklahoma gathered in a Tulsa hotel conference room for the one-day, nonpartisan Pipeline to Politics educational program, which seeks to increase women’s participation in politics.

It was hosted by Oklahoma Women’s Coalition and University of Oklahoma’s Carl Albert Center, and Julia Kirt made the two-hour drive from Oklahoma City to pick up new legislative advocacy tips to aid her work with Oklahomans for the Arts. She wasn’t considering running for office.

After female lawmaker after female lawmaker testified to working together across party lines to address issues of particular concern for Oklahomans, Kirt changed her mind about running for office. Six months later, in the summer heat, Kirt, a Democratic candidate for Senate District 30, was knocking on doors and meeting voters.

Her name will appear on a ballot for the June 2018 primaries.

“I was describing to people, ‘Not this November; the next November,’” said Kirt, a Sally’s List-trained candidate.

“Now, I’ve knocked the district — a certain targeted number of voters, and I am seeing people for the second time.”

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Much like the rest of the country, Oklahoma is seeing a growing number of women lining up to run in the 2018 elections. While women are mounting campaigns for local elections, like school board and city and county office, there is also a large number filing for state office, including House and Senate.

This year has the potential to be a watershed for women’s representation.

In the Oklahoma City metro alone, 23 women are vying for House and Senate seats, according to an analysis of campaign finance records by Oklahoma Gazette on April 3.

Women are running in rural districts too.

All of these women are bringing unique perspectives and qualifications that we don’t often see in current representation.

Alyssa Fisher Not all of them will make it to the November election. Still, this election has potential to bring more women to state leadership positions. While more than half of Oklahomans are female, the Oklahoma Legislature is 18 percent female and 1.9 percent women of color.

Oklahoma ranks next to last in the nation for the percentage of women elected to state legislatures.

Oklahoma’s version

Across the country, women are raising their hands to run for and serve in elected office, from seats in the U.S. Congress to local school boards. In national news reports, women candidates are driven to action by frustrations over the election of President Donald Trump, inspired by the women’s marches and the #MeToo movement or concerned by policies crafted by heavily maledominated legislative bodies.

In Oklahoma, federal issues only weigh slightly on women running for

Julia Kirt | Photo provided

office, said Sara Jane Rose, founder of Sally’s List, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recruiting, training and helping elect progressive women to public office in Oklahoma.

Instead, women candidates are driven by state issues impacting their communities, such as the fiscal circumstances that led to cuts to core services.

“The further this state has declined in terms of how it serves its citizens, the more fired up these women have become and the more passionate they are about getting their hands dirty and fixing things,” Rose said.

The national trend motivated Oklahoma women to consider running, Rose said. So too have special election results. In Georgia, Republican Karen Handel won the state’s 6th Congressional District. In contests for state seats, women candidates have fared well too. Oklahoma has its own examples with retired teacher Karen Gaddis’ victory for a Tulsa House seat last July and therapist Allison IkleyFreeman’s successful bid for the Senate in November. Both are Democrats.

On Wednesday, when state candidates can begin filing, 17 Sally’s List-trained candidates will turn in their paperwork.

Alyssa Fisher, Sally’s List programs manager, said the women running this year are stronger candidates than usual.

“When I look at the list, each name is of someone who has dedicated their life to being on the front lines of the issues we are facing in this state,” Fisher said. “All of these women are bringing unique perspective and qualifications that we don’t often see in current representation.”

Women candidates are serious contenders. Right now, it’s common to find Oklahoma women undergoing candidate training, receiving party support and running in strategic races with open seats or vulnerable incumbents.

Brave

Various reports outline the barriers women face when they decide whether or not to run in the first place. Barriers include fundraising, party support and gender stereotypes. Another reason women don’t typically seek office is

that they aren’t necessarily trained to see themselves as leaders.

In her college days, Oklahoma City resident Lori Callahan thought about running for office as a way to serve her community, which she had done successfully since her days as a candy striper.

As she grew older, those thoughts didn’t go away. She continued to serve through community volunteering and for the Republican Party in Canadian County. Now, with the lived experiences of a small business owner, mother, foster parent and more, she is one of six Republican candidates for Senate District 30. Callahan is the only woman Republican in the race.

“I hear it at the doorsteps, especially from men: ‘Wow! You’re brave,’” Callahan said. “Yes, but we should all be comfortable to do this. Women are more qualified than they think they are.”

Ajay Pittman agrees. As the daughter of Sen. Anastasia Pittman, she grew up in a household where women with values, opinions and leadership skills were supported. Then, when she visited her mom’s place of work at the Capitol, she saw too few women holding leadership positions.

At age 24, Pittman is vying to represent Oklahoma City’s House District 99, currently held by Rep. George Young, who is running for a Senate seat.

When she knocks on doors, the Democrat said some voters remark about her age, like when someone said, “Last time I saw you, you had braces.”

Pittman said it’s an opportunity to catch people up on what she has been doing as a health worker and nonprofit leader.

While the open seat sparked her motivation to run, Pittman said she feels fortunate to run at a time when there is such a favorable environment for female candidacy, including women of color.

“To see this trend of millennials, women and women of color tells me that if I have children, they will see themselves in positions that they want to have,” Pittman said. “I was able to see my mom in a position that I knew I could obtain one day. Others have not had that.

I want to inspire others, especially little girls, that they can do it.”

left Lori Callahan right Ajay Pittman | Photos provided

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The NW 23rd Street west corridor is one to watch as a $13.2 million streetscape revitalization project wraps up in The Windsor District. By Laura Eastes

There’s something magical about The Windsor District’s brick markers with the slanted “W” illuminated with an LED beam. Two years ago, when the first markers appeared around the west Oklahoma City commercial corridor on NW 23rd Street, local merchants and area residents stopped to admire some of the beginning sights of the $13.2 million streetscape revitalization project.

“Our street markers put up the name, the face of the district,” said Barbie Smalley, president of Windsor Area Business Group, which manages and operates The Windsor District. “When they finally put up the second iconic marker at Interstate 44, it really completed it.”

Situated west of Interstate 44 to the Bethany line on the NW 23rd Street corridor, Windsor is bounded by NW 19th and 26th streets. Seventeen years ago, neighborhood residents sparked the inner-ring suburbs revitalization through conversations in living rooms, which eventually formed Windsor Area Neighborhood Development. Taking a page from the playbook of neighbors and stakeholders around Capitol Hill and 16th Street Plaza District, they advocated for a streetscape revitalization project in the City of Oklahoma City’s 2007 general obligation bond.

Three years ago, city crews began reconstructing intersections with a stamped concrete design, updating crosswalks, repairing sidewalks and installing those brick markers, including the 11-foot-tall “W” backlit with an LED beam that now stands at NW 23rd Street and Meridian Avenue.

Later this month, city officials will gather for a ribbon-cutting ceremony symbolizing the project’s completion.

District leaders see the streetscapes as playing an important role in providing an attractive, safe, sustainable environment, meeting the needs and desires of patrons and those who are now coming

to explore the district for the first time.

“It’s been a 17-year process,” Smalley said. “People talk about how the Plaza District was a 20-year overnight success.

So we are banking on the next three years. There has been a lot going on.”

10-minute district

The Windsor District is an inner-ring suburb, meaning that it’s a suburban community located very close to the center of a large city. In the case of Windsor, the community evolved in the post-World War II era leading to the building of diverse housing stock and strip shopping centers to support the needs of residents. In 1959, Windsor Hills Shopping Center opened as a specialty and local higher-end retail destination. About a decade later, the first Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Store opened along N. Meridian Avenue.

In recent decades, America’s innerring suburbs haven’t had it as easy, as some of those communities face serious challenges with population loss, declining household incomes, increasing poverty, retail vacancies and dead shopping malls.

That’s not the story of Windsor, thanks in part to those neighbors who launched a commitment to support and strengthen the businesses along NW 23rd Street in 2001. These days, when you stroll between MacArthur and Meridian avenues, you find a bevy of local and national businesses; international eateries; four grocery stores; entertainment activities like a bowling alley and a movie theater; and an abundance of housing, from sprawling midcentury modern ranch homes to moderate-to-quaint 1,200-square-foot homes and rental apartments.

You wouldn’t find vacant storefronts, abandoned buildings or parking problems on a Friday night, Annie Lillard, Locals gathered for Windsor Games – Easter Edition, an event by The Windsor District on March 30. | Photo provided

A streetscape revitalization project brought markers to The Windsor District, including this 11-foot-tall “W” backlit with an LED beam that now stands at NW 23rd Street and Meridian Avenue. | Photo Laura Eastes

the district’s vice president, said.

“We talk about it being a 10-minute district,” said Lillard, who grew up in the district and now lives in Bethany.

“You can get your dry cleaning or your nails done, have a date night or try any international or American cuisine you want all within a 10-minute drive if you live in the surrounding neighborhoods.”

Windsor has experienced its own growing pains as it tried to fit into Oklahoma City’s urban landscape with trendy commercial districts that have blossomed over the past two decades. For a while, Windsor marketed its international flair as a way to draw outsiders in.

“We compete against Midtown, Plaza, [The] Paseo [Arts District] and Western [Avenue], but those aren’t our clientele,” Lillard said. “We tried really hard to match, and we figured out that just wasn’t who we were. … We’re the district with a heart for small business owners, neighborhoods, kids and our culture. We are pretty proud of that.”

Still, Windsor has cuisine and food offerings that are perhaps found nowhere else in the city. Within its boundaries are Queen of Sheba, the city’s only Ethiopian restaurant; Neveria La Fuente de Michoacán, which is known for its homemade ice cream; the original Gopuram Taste of India; and Feria Latina Supermarket, where shoppers find fresh sugar cane, banana leaves and freshly baked conchas, a Mexican sweet bread.

When the district hosts an event, the objective is twofold, said Lillard and Smalley. Events bring traffic to the district, which translates to shoppers in the businesses and eateries, but it also brings the community together. For example, March 30th’s Windsor Games – Easter Edition during which 135 children and their families engaged in an afternoon of games, including an egg hunt.

“What we see most is it that there is a need for these types of community events,” Smalley said. “Seeing the joy

and the kids connecting with one another, that’s what it is all about.”

Continued attention

The city’s investment in Windsor continues past this month’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on the streetscapes. Windsor has long been included in the city’s Commercial District Revitalization Program in which city planners work directly with district leaders to provide stewardship for economic and community development.

“The strength of the area is the rooftops,” Kim Cooper-Hart, city planner, said. “Unlike a Plaza or a Paseo — to use the common district examples — the rooftops around those two districts are important, but that is not why a business locates there. They located there because the area itself is a destination. [The Windsor District] is a place that supports the neighborhoods. That is key.”

Another district asset is NW 23rd Street, which is the city’s most traveled street and home to the city’s most heavily used bus route and busiest bus stop, according to city planners.

This summer, the city’s planning department will release its first focus area studies examining community, transportation and place in The Windsor District and West Tenth, a commercial district along NW 10th Street south of Windsor.

In Windsor, city planners are looking to create plans for authentic walkability around the new streetscape project, connecting neighborhoods to destinations within the district, like Will Rogers Gardens and the newly opened Will Rogers Trail.

“We made a huge public investment there,” city planner Susan Atkinson said of the streetscape project. “What we are doing … is about maximizing return on investment for the city and all of the people who live in the Windsor District.

How can we use that streetscape to begin attracting new property owners, new merchants, new stakeholders who care about Windsor and recognize it as a place with wonderful neighborhoods and a strong commercial center with Windsor Hills?”

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Hamburger hoax

We appreciate a good April Fools’ joke like the rest of you, but what happened at the corner of NW 63rd and Northwest Expressway this year was nothing short of criminal.

“Hi, yes, police? We’d like to report a felonious case of getting our hopes up.”

A sign declaring “In-N-Out Burger Coming Soon,” showed up next to a lot for lease at the busy intersection the morning of April 1. Not realizing what day it was, people began commenting on a post from radio station Wild 104.9, equal parts intrigued and incredulous. Maybe the fact it was Easter distracted people from realizing it was also April Fools’ Day. KFOR confirmed with an In-N-Out spokesperson that it’s all a prank.

“Although the recent article published and the freeway sign were a hoax and we do not have any immediate plans to expand there, we’ll be sure to keep OKC in mind as we continue expanding,” the spokesperson told KFOR in an email.

The In-N-Out expansion in Texas has been popular, but it still has to overcome regional allegiance to Whataburger and would be in a similar situation in Oklahoma.

At the end of the day, missing out on a quick-service hamburger isn’t the end of the world. We’ve got plenty of great hamburgers in Oklahoma, and we should take pride in the onion burger.

It’s not like we were fooled into thinking we were getting something we really needed, like a drive-thru window handing out education funding.

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Residence evil

An April 5 New York Times article detailed Environmental “Protection” Agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s bonkers expenditures and ethical lapses. Nothing to see here!

The article outlined how Pruitt spent the first half of 2017 living in a toney D.C. townhouse owned by lobbyist Vicki Hart. Hart’s husband, Steven Hart, works for the D.C. lobbying firm Williams & Jensen, which had business before the E“P”A in 2017, and somehow Pruitt paid only $50 a night to live in the Harts’ digs.

The Motel 6 near D.C.’s Walter E. Washington Convention Center goes for $105 per night, so that’s one hell of a deal. Certainly there was no quid pro quo involved, right? Right?

Then came the spending for security and travel-related chicanery. His shopping lists included, but were not limited to, a proposed $100,000 per month charter aircraft membership that would have allowed Pruitt to use unlimited private jets for business trips, and another proposal to buy two desks for Pruitt’s office, including a bulletproof reception desk, for $70,000. He also reportedly wanted a bulletproof sport utility vehicle with “run-flat” tires, which would allow him to escape

an attack by armed environmentalist militias.

None of those proposals were

approved, but Pruitt also asked for the use of lights and sirens so that he could get around D.C. traffic easier. It was reportedly requested so he could get to his table at trendy D.C. eatery Le Diplomate, which serves a lovely steak frites for $29.50 but, oddly for Pruitt, has no pork on the menu.

Fortunately for Pruitt, his boss has his back.

“Do you believe that the Fake News Media is pushing hard on a story that I am going to replace A.G. Jeff Sessions with EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, who is doing a great job but is TOTALLY under siege?”

President Donald J. Trump tweeted during his “executive time” on April 6.

Judging by the reliability of recent

White House statements regarding human resource issues, Scott Pruitt could be U.S. Attorney General by the time this issue of Chicken-Fried News hits the recycling bin, provided there are still recycling bins.

Video daze

It is unlikely Rep. Kevin McDugle, Broken Arrow Republican and former drill sergeant, has ever regretted a social media posting more than a now-deleted video of his personalized message to protesting teachers who have been critical of his education-funding voting decisions. The Legislature preemptively passed a modest teacher raise bill before the statewide public educator walkout, but the bill did little to increase classroom funding.

“It took us a year and a half to pass it.

And now, they come into this House, they want to act this way,” McDugle said, wagging an accusatory finger into his cellphone camera. “I’m not voting for another stinking measure when they’re acting the way they’re

acting.”

According to Slate, McDugle later apologized for the way his words were taken but not for the sentiment.

So, a massive swarm of Oklahoma voters shows up at the state Capitol and emphatically tell you they feel a certain way about where the state’s money is going. But their message is invalid because maybe it came off as impolite?

Perhaps McDugle feels comfortable talking down to people he represents because he ran unopposed in the last election. How have his views been vetted against those of his electors?

The lawmaker will not have the luxury of a uncontested election in June.

This time he has two challengers, one of which is Democratic candidate and 30-year teaching veteran Cyndi Ralston.

Ralston filed the week before but was inspired to announce after McDugle’s video went live.

“That disrespect was given a name and a face this morning when Representative McDugle posted his video,” she wrote on Facebook in her official campaign announcement. “I cannot, I will not stand idly by any longer.”

Chicken-Fried News does not endorse candidates, but always cheers for fair, competitive state elections.

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The Press is located at 1610 N. Gatewood Ave. in 16th Street Plaza District. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

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The newest restaurant from Hungry Town Concepts deftly creates contemporary Oklahoman comfort food. By Jacob Threadgill

The Press 1610 N. Gatewood Ave. thepressokc.com | 405-208-7739 What works: The Beyond Burger used in the veggie burger does a good job of mimicking beef texture and flavor.

What needs work: The cheese sauce in the macaroni and cheese is subtle on the cheese flavor.

Tip: Massaged kale in the beans and greens makes the leaves tender without losing any nutritional value.

On more than one occasion while walking through 16th Street Plaza District, I’ve either been stopped by someone on the street or overheard someone ask the same question: How do you get to The Press?

Located about a block south of 16th Street at 1610 N. Gatewood Ave., The Press is a highly popular restaurant from Hungry Town Concepts (The Mule, Anchor Down) that opened last fall to much excitement, and for good reason.

Hungry Town’s first two restaurants have been successful — they’re built around indulgent themes: corn dogs and grilled cheese. As Hungry Town Concepts, comprised of longtime friends Roger Eleftherakis, John Harris, Joey Morris and Cody Rowan, grows with its owners, The Press is the group’s most ambitious project.

Billed as Southwestern comfort food, the menu was devised by consulting chef Beth Ann Lyon — who is a champion of mindfully sourced products — and it is the perfect blend of comforting heavy meals and nutritious clean eating.

The 4,400-square-foot building — a former printing press and garage — has been expertly renovated with beautiful wood, lights and an inviting atmosphere that includes two bars and an outdoor patio currently under construction that will be open in May. “The reception has been great so far,”

Morris said. “I still think we can grow business quite a bit, and there is room for us to grow with the space that we have.”

With dishes like Lyon’s chicken-fried rib-eye steak, which she used to advance out of the first round on Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games, The Press’ menu is a reflection of Oklahoma food in the 21st century.

So much so that The Press offers the official state dinner every Tuesday after 4 p.m. for $40. The meal consisting of barbecued pork, chicken-fried steak, fried okra, squash, corn, sausage gravy, strawberries, black-eyed peas and pecan pie was adopted by the state Legislature in 1988. Morris said the kitchen prepares enough to serve about 10 meals every Tuesday.

“Some people finish with two people, and I’m always impressed,” Morris said.

“Some people will come as a big group, like 10 or 15 people, and they will get it to start, so it’s almost like Oklahoman antipasto or a sampler platter.”

My first visit to The Press resulted in a severe case of plate envy. I had trouble deciding what to get. Should I go with the popular chicken-fried steak?

What about the mashed potato bowl, which is essentially a high-end version of the KFC Famous Bowl?

After I put in my order for a veggie burger, I saw a customer order the bone-in fried chicken that utilized a honey Buffalo dunk, and it reminded me of my favorite fried chicken restaurant in Memphis: Uncle Lou’s, which finishes the bird in a sweet and spicy sauce.

Envious as I might be, I was pleasantly surprised to find The Press’ veggie burger uses the much-hyped Beyond Burger patty. I followed Beyond Meat’s journey to create a replica beef burger using soy and pea protein for years. It was released to Whole Foods last year, but I have yet to try it.

The Press tops the burger with avocado, feta cheese, caramelized onions, pickles, red bell peppers, arugula and vegan mayonnaise. The patty really does mimic the texture of a beef burger, and especially after getting grilled on the flattop, it possesses the smokiness that a traditional

black bean or chickpea patty can’t provide.

At $10, I’m not sure The Press is turning much of a profit with each sale.

Morris said the Beyond Burger costs about $3 per patty.

“It would be cheaper to make our own,” he said. “It’s part of our company motto. We don’t want to be the place that you splurge on; we want to be a place that you can eat at five days a week and not break the bank.”

The most expensive item on the menu is the chicken-fried rib-eye ($15), but The Press is using a much higher quality cut of meat than you normally see for that dish.

A second visit to The Press did little to ease my indecisiveness because everything on the menu is appealing. I ordered the beans and greens ($8) and the barbecue version of its popular Buffalo chicken mac ($11) to get a taste of each end of the spectrum.

Coming out first was the massaged kale salad. If you’ve been burned by a tough, bitter and chewy kale salad in the past, give this one a chance. By handmassaging the kale, you can break down its fibers while still retaining all of its nutrition. It’s joined by quinoa, black and pinot beans and its house dressing, and the salad is sweet and savory. I kept returning to finish it even as the macaroni and cheese came out.

Morris said the Buffalo macaroni and cheese has rivaled the chicken-fried rib-eye for most popular items.

Radiatori pasta is covered in a creamy cheese sauce and topped with chicken strips topped in either Buffalo or barbecue sauce with green onions, blue cheese and ranch.

It was perfectly comforting, although I was hoping for a more intense cheddar flavor in the mac. I think the Buffalo sauce complements the cheese a little better than the sweet barbecue sauce, but it was plenty tasty in its own right.

After much anticipation, I was pleased to see that The Press is deftly offering contemporary spins on Oklahoma classics with plenty of nutritious options sprinkled in between. The Press only helps strengthen the 16th Street Plaza District’s healthy restaurant scene.

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Kize Concepts aims to energize body and mind with healthy products. By Jacob Threadgill

Taking inspiration from the Japanese term kaizen that means “change for better,” Oklahoma City-based Kize Concepts offers healthy energy bars, catering and meal services to address more than physical hunger.

University of Oklahoma graduate Jeff Ragan founded Kize in 2013. He was looking for an opportunity to combine his three passions: helping people, entrepreneurship and health and fitness.

“I can’t draw or play an instrument, so this is my creative side: to come up with ideas to help people live healthier,” Ragan said inside the Kize office and manufacturing center, 1740 W. Main St., where the company produces eight flavors of all-natural energy bars.

“The problem we address is hunger, but I use that in a holistic sense,” Ragan said. “People are starving for real meaning, love and good relationships.

I love helping people, and I want to build a company that does that.”

Full-hearted

Ten percent of every purchase of a Kize energy bar goes to benefit local and global missions. For every meal purchased at Kize’s prepared meal service, Kize donates a meal to a local food bank. Ragan said Kize has donated nearly 50,000 meals since 2013.

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trip at the end of May. In recent trips, they’ve help build an orphan home, medical clinic and church while hosting other community events in Haiti.

“The Haiti thing is glamorous to people,” Ragan said. “The same people might walk past a homeless person in downtown and not look at them. We do both.”

Ragan admitted that he was initially apprehensive about publicizing Kize’s philanthropic efforts, not wanting to be misconstrued for opportunistic “cause marketing.” “[Now] we try to share that narrative because we want to energize people,” Ragan said. “Not just for the food, but also to inspire people to find their passion to serve others.”

Kize began its operation in an OKC Farmers Market District warehouse without temperature control and sold its bars in a much larger package, about two and half times the size of its current 1.6-ounce product, as a meal replacement.

As Kize added machines to produce the bars, they settled on the current size, which is intended to be an allnatural snack or pick-me-up. The company has gone from part-time and volunteers to a full-time staff of 10 employees with an additional three to four part-time salespeople.

Almond butter, cookie dough, peanut butter chocolate chip and peanut butter are the best-selling Kize bars. | Photo provided

Jeff Ragan founded Kize Conepts in 2013. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

Paradigm shift

“There was never a goal to build a bar company,” Ragan said. “The goal was to build a platform that changes lives.

If we stay true to those values, we can make anything.”

Ragan views the Kize model as a forprofit business that operates with a nonprofit heart. He said he didn’t want to incorporate as a nonprofit because he wanted to generate the company’s own revenue, instead of relying on grants or donations.

“I want to transform how people think about business, especially forprofit [businesses],” he said. “One of the worst things that ever happened for our parents’ generation, and a little before that, was that big business became about making as much money as possible. I think that’s the worst thing because if that is how you define success, people get cut and hurt in the process.

“I’m not saying people don’t get fired, but profit is an outcome. If the input is doing the right things in the right way, the outcome is you have a profitable business and then what you do with that

profit isn’t a full hoarding by the owner or stockholders, but it’s the distribution of things. If you can get that mindset to more people, that’s a game-changer.”

Sales of energy bars account for the biggest percentage of Kize’s income.

They can be purchased through Kize’s website or at partners like Wheeze the Juice and Stella Nova Coffee. Catering service accounts for its second-biggest percentage, and there are weekly meal plans available for pick-up or delivery.

Kize offers 16 pre-made healthy and portion-controlled meals like breakfast tacos and chicken ratatouille for about $10 per meal. It also offers graband-go options at the Wheeze the Juice location in Leadership Square, 211 N. Robinson Ave. Health and nutrition are passions Ragan developed while going to the gym in high school. All of Kize’s food is real food, made without preservatives and artificial flavors.

Each bar has a short ingredient list and encourages refrigeration for prolonged freshness. Ragan said America’s rise in obesity started after WWII with the globalization of food, which encouraged additives and preservatives for longer shelf lives.

“Everyone is jumping to the latest fad [diet],” Ragan said. “Don’t get caught up in that. At the end of the day, if you look at the history of the world, we live in the time and place where people are the unhealthiest.

“If I’m a fisherman in Alaska, I might only be able to eat protein and fat because you can’t grow produce most of the year. I’ve been to Peru, where they have 25 different kinds of potatoes. You eat what’s in your area.

The common denominator is food from the earth and natural sources, not full of crap.”

Kize will undergo an expansion at its current facility, which is located inside the Amundsen Commercial Kitchen building, in the next two months.

“If it weren’t for the people of OKC helping us out, we wouldn’t be able to keep going,” Ragan said. “If people think highly or well of Kize, I hope they can take some pride in being from OKC.” Visit kizeconcepts.com.

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With a new season comes new concession items and offerings at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

By Jacob Threadgill

Long before the lines on the base paths are drawn or even before a batting practice pitch is thrown, Oklahoma City Dodgers’ executive chef Will Fenwick and staff are cutting produce and getting items ready for that day’s concessions.

“It’s a daily operation of getting items ready for the concession and the buffet [in the club level],” Fenwick said.

“I usually get in at 7:30 a.m., and the earliest I leave is 8 p.m., but sometimes it’s more like 10 or 11 p.m. It’s a long day.”

Fenwick, who is originally from Texas, is entering his third season working with the Dodgers. Fenwick is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Orlando. He moved to Oklahoma City, following his wife, who is an instructor at the University of Central Oklahoma, and first got a job as sous chef at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club.

“Since I’ve been here, I’ve been trying to improve the overall quality of ballpark food,” Fenwick said. “I try to go outside of the box for the home stand specials.”

A home stand special will stay on the menu for an average of 12 games but could stay as long as 15, depending on the amount of home games each month.

When guests arrive for the opening home stand of the season this week against Round Rock Express and New Orleans Baby Cakes, they will have access to a Juicy Lucy, the Minnesota staple that stuffs cheese inside a beef burger, at the newly relocated Burgertopia stand.

Dodgers general manager and president Michael Byrnes said the relocation of the Burgertopia stand from down the first base line to right behind home plate was a significant offseason investment.

“Some of our most popular items were not in the most accessible locations,” Byrnes said.

The Burgertopia stand will also offer a few Oklahoma-style concepts like meatloaf and pot roast sandwiches in addition to 8-ounce burgers and freshly cut fries.

“Nobody went down there unless it was a packed house,” Fenwick said. “We wanted to get it in front of people because we’re proud of the product.”

Local flavors

Fenwick listens to customer feedback throughout the season, and one refrain that kept coming up was that people wanted concession items that reflected Oklahoma tradition.

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Executive chef Will Fenwick assembles a macaroni and cheese hot dog inside a kitchen at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

that really becomes popular pre-game throughout the game,” Byrnes said.

In addition to the relocation of Burgertopia and the Beer Garden, guests at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark will notice that the movement of a few other vendors like the hot dog stand Franx, which is now a standalone cart on the first base side.

Its new featured item is the macaroni and cheese hot dog. An all-beef hot dog is topped with creamy macaroni and cheese and bacon on a thicker-than-average bun.

Fenwick said he is a fan of adding jalapeños to the dog for some extra kick.

Unique eats

home stand specials — the OKC Original burger, which combines the classic Oklahoma onion burger and the Theta burger — is now a permanent menu item.

Onions are cooked into the beef patty, and the staff combines barbecue with mayonnaise instead of serving them separately like on the Theta burger.

The commitment to local flavor extends into alcoholic beverages. A beer garden featuring taps from local brewery COOP Ale Works will be operational on opening day, filling in the area down the first base line formerly known as Brickyard.

“It’s a space most people have used to grab a bite to eat before a game or to connect with a friend during the game.

[It] will be a beer concept, and we will have a number of their offerings throughout the season. … I think it will be a space The special chorizo burger will be available during eight Cielo Azul games this season. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

The salsa cart also received an overhaul, and it will be heavily featured during Minor League Baseball’s Es Divertido Ser Un Fan campaign in which the team will wear special Cielo Azul jerseys and concessions will feature special items.

The ballpark will host these games May 31-June 3 and July 27-July 30.

Burgertopia will feature a chorizo burger that combines beef and chorizo in the patty and be topped with chipotle mayonnaise, caramelized onions, peppers and pepper jack cheese on a brioche bun. The salsa cart will serve platters of tamales, empanadas and carnitas tacos. The clublevel buffet will feature dishes from a different region of Latin America each of the eight nights of the campaign to celebrate Hispanic and Latin fans.

Fenwick said he listened to fans who said they wanted something unique. He created helmet nachos and a funnel cake sundae, which also fills an oversize helmet bowl. The nachos are available with chicken and beef and are topped with nacho cheese, rice, beans, sour cream and pico de gallo. The sundae is a funnel cake topped with soft serve, whipped cream and raspberry, caramel and chocolate sauces.

“You see all of these food shows that have unique eats,” Fenwick said. “Ours is now the nacho helmet or the funnel cake helmet. They are ginormous. It is something unique where fans can say, ‘Oh wow! This is awesome.’”

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The combination of booze and ice cream is nothing new. Junior’s has made it a classic pairing at the venerable establishment, but ice cream has taken a different look in recent years, including the phenomenon of “stir-fried” or rolled ice cream, which started in Thailand and has gone worldwide thanks to viral videos. Whether you’re looking for a cool treat with a buzz or a dessert that is all the buzz, here are seven places that have you covered.

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Rolled ice cream is sometimes called “stir-fried” ice cream because it is formed on an anti-griddle, which flashfreezes instead of heating up. 11 Below allows you to choose a base flavor and then select a secondary fruit or even an Oreo to be chopped into the base while it freezes. Your final rolled ice cream can even have whipped cream layered into its rolls for something unique.

All of the ice cream used at En Croûte and its sister restaurant, St. Mark’s Chop Room & Bar is made in-house. This is most certainly the case for the vanilla bean ice cream that is combined with Italian espresso and Frangelico hazelnut liqueur for the En Croûte Affogato, which comes with a biscotti cookie. En Croûte also offers a healthy selection of dessert wine.

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Petal pusher

Vibrant growth and newness mark Dylan Bradway’s solo exhibition at DNA Galleries.

By Ben Luschen

Spring is here, and the never-ending cycle of changing weather has once again returned to the time of color, freshness and new beginnings. But the neighbor’s yard planters are not the only place where flowers are popping up.

Petals and floral designs are also sneaking their way into the trademark flow of artist Dylan Bradway’s work.

Bradway, who can be counted as a godfather of the 16th Street Plaza District art community through the founding of DNA Galleries with his former wife Amanda Zoey Weathers, is preparing for the launch of a new solo exhibition at the gallery space.

The untitled exhibit has a free preview opening 6-9 p.m. Thursday at DNA, 1709 NW 16th St. It will have another opening 6-10 p.m. Friday during Live! on the Plaza.

The exhibit runs at DNA through May 6.

Flowers have never been a major subject of Bradway’s work, but they played a major role in his upbringing. For many years, his mother crafted unique arrangements for a flower shop she owned.

“I’ve been around that kind of stuff for much of my life,” Bradway said, “but never thought of it as something I would express with, necessarily. But the line work and quality of color seems to lend itself to the mood I’m in lately.”

The solo exhibit will include around 20 new pieces from Bradway, ranging from smaller works to larger paneled diptychs. Some prints and shirts featuring his designs will also be available for sale during the show’s run.

The theme of the show is vaguely about life and exploring new things. The strongest common thread between the works is actually in appearance. Lately, Bradway is focused on incorporating bright colors into his work, which was defined for many years by a more muted palette. He wants viewers to be almost overwhelmed with the color.

“The colors are all very close together,” he said. “I feel like that’s where the life of the work is coming from.”

In the last several years, Bradway’s work clearly leaned toward the surreal.

It includes a lot of flowing motion in the line work, often accented with paint drips and bursts.

Floral and organic patterns, it turns out, are conducive to that style. Bradway found they are things that can be incorporated within the work as the artist goes, with lines moving as freely as the course of nature. Petals and ivy patterns can build on themselves and represent multiple different things at the same time.

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hidden Easter eggs for months or even years down the road — which is exactly what Bradway hopes for.

“Over time, there is still some life to viewing it,” he said. “It’s not just like, ‘Well, that’s a red canvas; I got that statement.’”

The new work is an exciting development for the artist who is doing some evolving himself.

“It’s opening up those doors, letting down that guard and letting some newer stuff into my work rather than repeating the same motif over and over and over,” he said.

Shifted focus

Though Bradway’s solo show is at DNA, neither he nor Weathers currently owns the gallery, which is now run by artist and photographer Lindsay Harkness.

Not owning a business in the Plaza, an area he helped revitalize, has been an odd adjustment.

“It’s weird to not be in the district,” he said, “but I’ve been involved here for a really long time, so it’s hard to not continue that with those relationships and community involvement.”

Bradway still has a stake in the Plaza goings-on through his status as founder of Plaza Walls, which curates more than 5,000 square feet of mural space within the district through its Oklahoma Mural Syndicate nonprofit group.

Though he had withdrawn himself from Plaza Walls for a while to focus on other things, Bradway would like to work his way back into the group’s work with fellow co-founder Kristopher Kanaly.

The biggest Plaza Walls event of the year is its annual September mural expo, in which over a dozen artists work over the course of a few days to paint fresh pieces over the mural space. The last mural expo, which included work by Bradway, was sponsored by Google. That partnership had a huge impact on what Plaza Walls was able to offer visiting artists.

“To go from asking and pleading people for money to be able to give an artist anything — even just $100 or $200 — and now we’re about to give them $1,000 or $2,000, what a great hurdle to get over,” he said.

That partnership is indicative of a larger mural renaissance occurring around the city. Bradway just finished installing his most recent commission, a six-story, westfacing flower mural on Classen Senior Center, 913 NW 12th St. He is happy the city has not only embraced murals but has largely warmed to the idea of fairly compensating artists for that work.

“That’s great; we need that,” he said.

“We need people to understand it costs money to make that stuff happen because that was a hurdle for a long time.”

“To Feel the Breeze in My Bones”

by Dylan Bradway | Image provided

Baton passed?

One could make the case that the Plaza District is entering a new chapter in its history. The district recently announced the hiring of Selena Skorman as its new executive director. DNA has changed ownership, and places like Tree & Leaf have recently closed their doors.

There is also a lot that has not changed, but Bradway is a realist when it comes to how the Plaza might look different someday in the future.

“It’s going to be different, for sure,” he said. “I hope it all stays in a similar mindset, but you have to look at things differently in a district once it grows because it’s not the same as it used to be. It gets stuck in people’s minds that, ‘Oh, the Plaza will always be this.’ But, well, maybe not.”

More than a decade ago, Bradway was seen as one of the city’s most promising young artists — a promise on which he has capitalized and continues to build. But a younger generation of artists is beginning to emerge from underneath Bradway and his contemporaries. He is excited to see what comes out of their influence in the future.

“To see the work of people who aren’t even 20 yet — there’s a lot of inspiration and tools out there that all creatives can attain now through the internet,” he said.

Increased interest in local art par-

ticipation can also be attributed to greater visibility of that art through communities like the Plaza District.

Bradway likes how social media and the internet allow artists to connect with and learn from a community much larger than their own while also promoting the area in which they live.

Even as the internet becomes a larger part of artists’ lives, Bradway expects their focus to stay within the local community, partly because they have seen it demonstrated how art can help push a city forward. He loves Oklahoma City’s art direction and would like to see the city continue to invest in art opportunities for years to come.

“I hope that is the case,” he said, “and I hope our city continues to appreciate what’s going on because it doesn’t happen everywhere.”

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What do you get when you cross five guys with a love for craft beer? In this case, you get a dream come true for 5 lifelong friends. Vanessa House Beer Co., aptly named for the street on which the brewery concept was born, was originally brewed in Norman, Oklahoma. The brewery has since moved to the new Brewers Union on N. Meridian Avenue and has a lineup of core beers that will make any beer lover cry with joy. Vanessa House Beer Co. offers Broken Tile Double IPA all year.

This DIPA, due to mosaic and citra hops, has notes of pineapple, citrus and grapefruit and delivers big on aroma. And just like sharing a beer with friends, each core beer has a great story behind its name. Its cream ale offering, 401K, is not only named for the metaphorical “give it your all” attitude but, literally, was funded with the owner’s retirement accounts. Just like a solid retirement profile, this gamble on the future smells like a winner. A light body with centennial hops that add floral and citrus notes, 401K is finished with sweet orange peel, making it a refreshing and easy-to-drink craft beer. Keep your eyes open for Vanessa House’s upcoming Power’s Out Vanilla Stout and 1st Anny Pina Colada Ale, both sure to delight your palate and have great stories behind the names.

Jose Cuervo® Tradicional 100 percent agave perfection!

Though the tequila-maker had almost one hundred years of growing and refining its agave plants, Jose Cuervo® made its first appearance in America in 1852. With recipes handed down from generation to generation, Jose Cuervo® has been making tequila with the same craftsmanship and experience for over 250 years. Heck, there’s even a song in the tequila artisan’s honor. Jose Cuervo®, a pioneer in the tequila industry, was the first brand to bottle tequila, making it easier to meet the booming demand in Mexico and across the border. And just as true Champagne has to be made in Champagne, France, as of 1974, in order for a spirit to be called “tequila,” it has to be made in a certain state of Mexico.

Jose Cuervo® Tradicional Silver is 100 percent blue agave silver tequila. A special process done at freezing temperatures is used to conserve its flavor and finish.

That means it can and should be kept in the freezer, served as a crisp frozen shot. From the Paloma to the Tequila Sunrise, Jose Cuervo® Tradicional Silver is the inviting and smooth tequila to enhance the perfect cocktail.

Just like the name says, “Reposado” is Jose Cuervo’s® “rested” tequila. To perfectly craft the Jose Cuervo® Tradicional Reposado, the 100 percent blue agave tequila must be rested in oak barrels for a minimum of two months, giving it the smooth and subtle build that aficionados seek. Tradicional is the original Cuervo® tequila, and it is still the No. 1 premium tequila in Mexico.* *Source: Based on the 2012-2103 Nielsen Market Share Data

Charles Smith Wines The Modernist Project.

If the name doesn’t say it all, the labels, with their simple yet bold imagery, define these edgy, delicious wines. Charles Smith Wines were created with the intent to be enjoyed now and also remain true to the varietal taste and region of origin. The results are wines that are full of flavor, balanced and approachable.

Kung Fu Girl Riesling is among the popular Charles Smith varietals. This 100 percent riesling offers a fruity taste with white peach, mandarin orange and apricot notes. Fresh, full of energy and true to the label design, the riesling pairs well with Thai or Chinese Food, spicy pork or duck and fresh seafood.

Another recognizable Charles Smith bottle is The Velvet Devil Merlot. Aptly named for its velvety palate, The Velvet Devil is a classic Washington State merlot with layers of black fruit, including black plum. Ringing in at 88 points from Wine Spectator *, The Velvet Devil pairs beautifully with grilled steaks and roasted pork.

Boom Boom! Syrah is true to form with explosive aromas, including spice and blueberry. For a chardonnay to tempt the entire group, look no further than Eve, a crisp and delicious wine filled with notes of ripe Asian pear, golden plum and honeydew layers. It’s light and sure to please every chardonnay lover. The Chateau Smith Cabernet Sauvignon offers a Bordeaux-esque cab with intense flavor depth and complexity.

Whatever the occasion, Charles Smith Wines provide an on-point meal pairing and remarkable pieces of table art. *Source: 2104 Vantage: 88 Points, Wine Spectator, December 31, 2016

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ROCOCO PENN LUNCH

per person

Mary Eddy’s Kitchen $ 14

DINNER

per person

$ 45

Choice of one soup or salad and one entrée per person

Choice of one salad or soup, one entrée and one dessert

Appetizers New England chowder (chowda)

First course Kale Caesar Parmesan, black pepper, eggless Caesar vinaigrette, garlic breadcrumbs

Better salad mixed freens, sweet and spicy walnuts, pancetta, grilled pears and balsamic vinaigrette entrées Grilled sage and roasted garlic chicken sandwich with applewood smoked bacon and provolone Springtime Saute with shrimp, grape tomatoes, toasted garlic and artichoke hearts

dinner

per person

Second course Pan-roasted chicken farro, shishito peppers, carrot puree, black garlic salsa verde Braised brisket crispy potatoes, roasted mushrooms, house steak sauce, blue cheese Campanelle shrimp, romesco, charred broccoli, hazelnuts

$36

Choice of one appetizer, one entrée and dessert per person

Third course Flourless chocolate cake popcorn ice cream, coco nib brittle Key lime semifreddo Toasted meringue, graham crumble

Appetizers Mussels garlic, andouille sausage, tomato broth Mushroom soup with Brie cookie entrées Filet with sautéed mushrooms and vegetable medley

Cocktail special $8 Far From the Tree Old Overholt rye, Laird’s Applejack, toasted cinnamon and apple syrup, lemon juice, hard cider float

Pork Tenderloin with grilled pears and sage with saffron rice Baked Cod with buttery crumbs, sautéed tomatoes and fried leeks Dessert Pistachio Brûlée

(405) 528-2824

DINNER

PARK AVENUE GRILL per person

$ 15

starterS BLT chopped salad iceberg, radicchio, egg, buttermilk blue cheese, beef steak tomato, cucumber, horseradish dressing Loaded steak and potato soup prime rib, Kennebec potato, cheddar, scallions, Nueske’s bacon, chive crème fraîche EntréeS Nashville hot chicken sandwich fried buttermilk brined chicken thigh, bread-and-butter pickle, molasses butter served with house-made French fries Brick oven baked ziti sunday red sauce, romano, grilled garlic bread PAG Burger applewood bacon, grilled onion, pimento cheese, lettuce, tomato, Martin’s potato bun served with house-cut fries *can be served with house veggie burger

per person

$38

Choice of one starter and one entrée per person STARTERS Loaded steak and potato soup prime rib, Kennebec potato, cheddar, scallions, Nueske’s bacon, chive crème fraîche Beef tartare chopped tenderloin and flat iron, frisée, grilled rye, PAG zip sauce Grilled asparagus salad arugula, marcona almond, scarlet radish, preserved lemon, tarragon vinaigrette EntréeS Grilled Atlantic salmon corn and pickled pepper chowchow, bearnaise Sea salt crusted prime rib au jus, horseradish cream Fennel and lemon-roasted Amish chicken 1/2 bird, house dry rub, confit shallot served with cheddar mashed Kennebec potatoes and garlic glazed haricots verts DessertS Chocolate peanut butter pie caramel peanut popcorn, shaved chocolate Bourbon vanilla bean crème brûlée Luxardo cherry, candied orange, turbinado sugar

405-272-3040 1 Park Ave Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102

per person

$ 40

Includes each of the courses below

Choice of one starter and one entrée per person

dinner

900 W Main St Oklahoma City, OK 73106

TEXAS DE BRAZIL

2824 North Pennsylvania Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73107

LUNCH

405-982-6960

First course Lobster Bisque Second course 50-item gourmet salad area Third course Various cuts of flame-grilled meat served tableside Endless servings of filet mignon, lamb chops, beef ribs, sausage and more (see menu for details)

405-362-9200 1901 NW Expressway STE 1069B Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73118

MMR PRIME STEAKHOUSE LUNCH

per person

$ 18

per person

$ 45

Choose one item from each course APPETIZERS Caesar salad Shaved Brussels sprouts Truffle fries Cup of soup EntréeS Salmon and a side Chicken-fried tenderloin and a side Cheeseburger and a side Pastrami on rye and a side

dinner Choose one item from each course APPETIZERS Garden salad Caesar salad Brussels sprouts and radicchio

EntréeS 5-oz filet with asparagus and whipped potatoes Cedar plank sea bass honey, truffle and whole-grain mustard served with a white bean cassoulet 10-oz sirloin asparagus and whipped potatoes DESSERTs Key lime pie Bread pudding

405-608-8866 2920 NW 63rd Oklahoma City, OK 73116

CHICK N BEER LUNCH

per person

T he M e ltin g P ot $ 10

Choice of one side and five-piece boneless or six-piece wings

Create your own combo with any two Mexican Favorites

V I C E R O Y G R I LL E

dinner

per person

per person

$ 15

per person

$35

Choice of one appetizer and one entrée per person Drunken shrimp cocktail Soup of the day Entrées

Maryland crab cake sandwich fresh lump crab, Maryland-style crab cake served with lettuce, tomato, tarter and cocktail Sauce. Served with Maryland house-made chips DESSERTS Bread pudding with caramel sauce

dinner

per person

$32

Choice of one appetizer and one entrée per person APPETIZERS Heart of romaine caesar salad Spicy shrimp and grits Entrées Striped bass with roasted root vegetable and polenta

FL I N T LUNCH

per person

Second course Pot roast po’ boy slow-braised beef pot roast, creamy horseradish, butter lettuce, tomato, red onion on butter griddled baguette with our Creole spiced potato chips Red beans and rice hickory-smoked pork-braised red beans, andouille sausage, jasmine rice

E S C A V I TA E per person

$ 15

dinner

per person

6 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Choice of one item per course per person

Start with a parfait House-made yogurt, fresh berries and house-made granola

Vegetable posole with grilled lime

$35

First course Caesar salad Hearts of romaine, sourdough croutons and creamy Parmesan dressing

Then choose one of our signature toasts Avocado toast Ham-and-cheese toast Creamy mushroom gravy toast BLT toast

Second course No Name Ranch pot roast herb-roasted red potatoes, cipollini, carrots, celery, natural jus

Finish off with a choice of dessert from our case

dinner

$ 15

Caesar salad Hearts of romaine, sourdough croutons and creamy Parmesan dressing

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breakfast

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First course

405-600-6200

The meat lovers burger 8 oz. chopped jalapeño burger topped with bacon and barbecue brisket. Served with Maryland house-made chips

405-543-2656

Vegetable posole with grilled lime

Second course Sole meunière with frites Croque madame with salad Third course Chocolate mousse Creme brûlée

APPETIZERS

Desserts

Choice of one first course item and one second course item per person

First course Frisée salad with lardon and poached egg French onion soup $ 20

Choice of one appetizer, one entrée and one dessert per person

Caramel churros Brownie sundae

Choice of one from each course

LUNCH

$ 18 99

Entrées

DESSERTS Chocolate pot de crème with berries Bread pudding with fresh whipped cream

ES FOUNDERS

per person

Classic fajita choice of carnitas, mesquite grilled chicken or portobello and vegetables. For $3 more, choice of steak or shrimp. Served with endless Mexican rice and beans.

ENTRéES Mussels and frites with white wine and shallots Chicken paillard sandwich with lemon caper aioli and greens

715 NW 23rd St Oklahoma City, OK 73103

dinner

4 E Sheridan Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Choice of one entrée and one dessert per person

405-604-6995

Tacos (soft or crispy) choice of seasoned ground beef or chicken tinga

405-235-1000

LUNCH

Peppers galore Rootbeer BBQ Salt-and-pepper Sweet chili Szechuan garlic parmesan Yellow curry

Enchiladas choice of ground beef, chicken tinga, spinach and mushroom or cheese and onion

Cup of tortilla soup House salad Cup of queso

Choice of one side and five-piece boneless or sixpiece wings

BBQ honey red curry Bourbon teriyaki C-n-B buffalo C-n-B gochujang Honey lemon pepper Mama’s sweet & salty Mango thai chili

EntréeS

Appetizers

$ 15

WINGS

Appetizers

Salad

Dark mint cookie dark chocolate swirled with crème de menthe topped with chocolate mint cookie crumbles

SIDES

$ 10 99

Bacon Parmesan Ranch crisp romaine, bacon, shredded Parmesan, croutons, peppercorn ranch and Parmesan pine nuts

Chocolate Fondue

Traditional fries Sweet potato waffle fries Hot fries Salt-and-pepper fries Edamame Dip Duo: Edamame guacamole, kimchi salsa and wonton chips

per person

Cup of queso Small guacamole

Entrée

Peppers galore Rootbeer BBQ Salt-and-pepper Sweet chili Szechuan garlic parmesan Yellow curry

LUNCH

Choice of one appetizer and one entrée per person

Teriyaki-marinated sirloin Old Bay shrimp Featured pasta Honey dijon chicken Entrée includes seasonal vegetables and signature dipping sauces.

WINGS

per person

$35

Cheese Fondue

Traditional fries Sweet potato waffle fries Hot fries Salt-and-pepper fries Edamame Dip Duo: Edamame guacamole, kimchi salsa and wonton chips

dinner

per person

Bacon and mushroom melted with white wine, crispy bacon, mushrooms, garlic and scallions

SIDES

BBQ honey red curry Bourbon teriyaki C-n-B buffalo C-n-B gochujang Honey lemon pepper Mama’s sweet & salty Mango thai chili

LUNCH

ON THE BORDER

per person

10 oz. Prime rib with roasted brussels sprouts with bacon and herb roasted potatoes

10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

DESSERT

Start with a small cafe salad

Bread pudding with caramel sauce

Then choose any of our sandwiches

$ 18

Lemon-and-herb stuffed trout spinach and tomato risotto, Pernod butter Third course Key lime pie brûléed merinque and raspberry sauce Bourbon cake whipped cream and candied pecans

Finish off with a choice of dessert from our case

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1114 Classen Drive Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73103

15 N. Robinson Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

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per person

$ 18

THE METRO WINE BAR DINNER

per person

$ 42

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Choose one item from each course

Includes an appetizer, choice of one entrée and dessert per person

Appetizers

Appetizer Crab cake with lemon butter and mixed greens with balsamic dressing

B23 mac and cheese smoked Gouda cheese sauce, andouille sausage, jumbo lump crab meat Brussels sprouts flash-fried Brussels sprouts, cilantro vinaigrette and Southern aioli Mains Fried green tomato salad green tomatoes, pickled red onions, harvest mix, sweet potatoes, candied walnuts, grilled chicken, jalapeño vinaigrette French dip braised short rib, blue cheese fondue, caramelized onions and horseradish aioli

entréeS Pecan-crusted pork tenderloin with red wine sauce, apple-onion galette and braised kale Seared red snapper with tomato-saffron emulsion, crispy-creamy potatoes and roasted asparagus Dessert trio Crème brûlée, fudge cake, four-berry sorbet

ENTRéES Braised beef short rib with chimichurri roasted potatoes and carrot pistachio purée Chicken drummies served over saffron rice with Spanish olives

605 NW 28th St Oklahoma City, OK 73103

WHISKEY CAKE $ 25

DINNER

per person

Choice of one appetizer, one entrée and one dessert per person

Appetizers

APPETIZERS

$30

Mains Brodie burger apple chutney, manchego cheese, heirloom tomatoes, red wine braised onions, arugula Grilled salmon wild rice risotto, wilted spinach, white wine garlic butter sauce Cast-iron flank steak grilled flank steak, charred heirloom tomatoes, herb roasted marbled potatoes, chimichurri

Second course Choose any 3 barbecue meats (2 oz each) from the following (comes with steamed rice): Salt-and-pepper prime top sirloin Tare prime coulotte steak Miso prime skirt steak Spicy pork Basil chicken breast

Basic burger Chicken cheese melt Salmon Pork brisket DESSERT

LUNCH B

Whiskey cake

405-582-2253

Second course Choose any 3 BBQ meats (2 oz each) from the following (comes with steamed rice): Wagyu Zabuton steak Wagyu NY steak Wagyu flat-iron steak Basil chicken breast Spicy pork

YOKOZUNA

THE JONES ASSEMBLY $ 10

Choice of one appetizer and one entrée per person APPETIZERS Deviled eggs Arugula salad local arugula, mizuna and baby mustard greens, Parmesan, pine nuts, champagne vinaigrette Avocado toast avocado, lime, fresno chili, cilantro, house sourdough

per person

$ 14

BB Salad grilled chicken, lardon, avocado, gruyére, spiced hazelnut, red onion, sourdough crouton, green goddess Jamón Sandwich Schwab’s country ham, gruyére, dijon, sprouts, cornichon, house sourdough side of frites for extra charge J Burger Tillamook cheddar, roasted tomato, crispy shallot, pickle relish, dijonnaise, brioche bun (chef’s cook temp- medium) side of frites for extra charge

dinner A

for two

$ 35

Choice of one appetizer and one entrée per person

First course Wafu salad and Miso soup x2

APPETIZER

Second course Choose any four from the following barbecue items (comes with steamed rice): Prime miso skirt steak Prime tare coulotte steak Basil chicken breast Ginger chicken thigh Spicy pork Pork belly Corn and butter Shishito pepper

Miso sesame chicken salad Cup of miso soup Edamame Entrée Vegan green curry with jasmine rice Hot Mess Roll Tare pulled pork banh mi with tempura sweet potato fries

dinner

per person

$38

Choice of one appetizer, one entrée and one dessert per person

EntréeS Any wood-fired pizza margherita, parma, mushroom, pepperoni, G.O.A.T, fennel sausage

$ 14 99

First course House salad or miso soup

1845 Northwest Expy Oklahoma City, OK

LUNCH

per person

Features wagyu beef

Chef-inspired dessert

715 NW 23rd St Oklahoma City, OK 73103

$ 12 99

First course House salad or miso soup

Dessert

405-604-6995

per person

Features prime Angus beef

Entrées

Short rib sliders cajun remoulade, pickles, bourbon barbecue, crispy onions

W A GY U LUNCH A

Deviled eggs Fried green tomatoes Farm salad

Roasted cauliflower tacos beer and lime roasted cauliflower, cilantro mango coleslaw, avocado, pico de gallo

per person

APPETIZERS Red snapper ceviche Posole

405-602-2302

2 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

Choose one item from each course

LUNCH

$ 40

DESSERT

6418 N. Western Oklahoma City, OK 73116

Chef-inspired dessert

per person

per person

Chocolate tres leches

Dessert

dinner ARIA LOUNGE

DINNER

Choice of one appetizer and one entrée per person

405-840-9463

House-smoked turkey breast sandwich toasted wheat berry bread, havarti cheese, tomatoes, arugula and pesto aioli

S C R AT C H K I T C H E N

APPETIZERS Tempura fried cauliflower Summer rolls with ebi Albacore salad with taro chips EntréeS Chirashi bowl (sushi) Chef’s choice roll Sliced NY strip with peach kimchi puree and grilled baby bok choy DESSERTS

THIRD course Choose your dessert: S’mores Ice cream

dinner B

for two

$ 50

First course Wafu salad and Miso soup x2 and Chicken karaage Second course Choose any four from following barbecue items (comes with steamed rice): Wagyu Zabuton steak Wagyu flat-iron steak Basil chicken breast Ginger chicken thigh Spicy pork Pork belly Garlic asparagus Mushroom medley THIRD course Choose your dessert: S’mores Ice cream Mochi ice cream

Coconut jelly with strawberry gelée Chocolate torte

$2.99 / glass (12 oz.) Add-on Vanessa House Cream Ale or Broken Tile IPA

405-212-2378

405-604-6995

405-285-9796

901 W Sheridan Ave. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

715 NW 23rd St Oklahoma City, OK 73103

3000 W Memorial Rd. Ste 105 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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ARTS & CULTURE

‘Point of change’

Emerging artist collective Art Group launches OKC’s next wave of art leadership ahead of its first group show. By Ben Luschen

Five months ago, Art Group was no more than a vague idea shared between two friends. But as it prepares for a debut exhibition this week, the art collective boasts a roster of 30 artists representing nearly every visual medium.

Virginia Sitzes, who co-founded the collective with fellow artist Katelynn Noel Knick, said the concept has snowballed faster than anyone could have anticipated.

“It’s this contrast between, ‘I’m scared out of my mind; what am I doing?’ and ‘This is what I’m doing; this feels so right,’” Sites said. “Since November, it’s just been on hyper-speed.”

Art Group is a collection of visual artists mostly between the ages of 21 and 35. The collective has a multi-faceted mission and complex vision for its future, but it was founded on the idea of creating more opportunities for emerging artists in the area. Word-of-mouth buzz and driven leadership has quickly turned the group into a popular art hub.

The collective’s debut group show is scheduled to run 5:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m.

Saturday at Skyline Ink Animators + Illustrators, 220 SE Fourth St. The free show will include around 50 different works by 18 different artists, including paintings by Sitzes and Knick and additional works by Mycah Higley, Theresa Hultberg, Chandler Domingos, Allison Hix, Cub Olson, Emma Difani, Eric Maille, Evan Ward, Katrina Ward, Lexi Dickens, Malcolm Zachariah, Nate Ward, Ryan Pack, Taussen Brewer, William Walker Larason and Zan Miller.

The show will also include food by Prefix (chef Shawn Perkins); drinks from Prairie Wolf Spirits, COOP Ale Works and Anthem Brewing Company; and music by Panhandlers and Annie Oakley.

Participating artists will include a variety of small works and merchandise in an affordable artist market.

In addition to founders Sitzes and Knick, Art Group’s current leadership team includes Higley, Hultberg and Domingos, who acts as the collective’s treasurer. Everyone on Art Group’s leadership team is participating in the group’s debut show.

Higley said Art Group is for artists who thrived in the structure provided in a college environment — full of guidance, support, assignments and critique — only to find much less certainty upon graduation.

“You get out of college and you suddenly have no one except your friends,” she said.

One part of Art Group’s mission is to break down art gallery intimidation and elitism — both from the artist’s and art viewer’s perspectives. At the show, guests

will be allowed to submit their questions about the displayed art, participating artists, the collective or the local art community in general to a question box. On several occasions throughout the night, submissions will be collected and answers given by collective members.

“We want to make it super inviting,” Sitzes said. “If you have questions and are like, ‘What does this mean?’ you can ask us — we want you to know. We don’t want to be on this higher level.”

Art Group is not exclusive to artists of a particular age, but everyone on its leadership team is in their mid- to late20s. Knick believes they represent the metropolitan area’s new wave of art direction and leadership.

“I feel like we’re at that point where this artistic generation can contribute,” she said. “There’s a lot of potential there, and I think we’re ready for it and our community’s ready for it.”

Inceptive idea

The group was born out of a November conversation between Sitzes and Knick about the lack of opportunities in the city for emerging artists — those who were post-graduate but not pursuing grad school at the time and not set on leaving the state for a larger art community.

From that chat, they decided it would be a good idea to get some art friends together to visit each others’ studio spaces, critique their work and, most importantly, continue a structured art discourse within their own means.

“We just have so few galleries here and so few organizations,” Knick said.

“I’ve worked a lot with OVAC (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition), and I know that they’re tapped out. They can only service so much. I feel like we should be creating our own opportunities along with them.”

The collective was originally limited to a small friend group, but in a matter of months, it more than tripled its original size as word of its mission traveled. Art Group’s popularity is perhaps a sign of an underserved need in the art community.

Artists were likely also attracted by the collective’s emphasis on artist payment — Art Group will not take a commission on individual artist sales in its shows.

“Every time we had a meeting,” Knick said, “our group grew from 8 to 15 to 30. It was just growing pretty quickly, and we realized we should make this more of a formal thing.”

Better together

Domingos said Art Group is only as valuable to its member artists as the effort they are willing to put into the group.

“Part of being an artist in Oklahoma

Art Group’s leadership team includes (from left) artists Mycah Higley, Chandler Domingos, Virginia Sitzes, Katelynn Noel Knick and Theresa Hultberg. | Photo Ben Luschen

is going to be showing up and participating,” she said. “That’s what we’re going to encourage people who are part of Art Group to do.”

Art Group’s slogan is that it’s “like the other art collectives, except nothing like them.” There are other independent artist groups in the city, but Higley said it can be intimidating for some artists to get involved with them. Art Group focuses on mixing the casual with the professional. The collective is planning on frequent house shows and meetings that are equal parts fun hangout and productive gathering.

“When you have something as casual as meeting at someone’s house and going into their home studio that may be in the corner of one of their rooms,” Higley said, “that opens it up a lot more to being a personal group and getting to know the members and being more involved in each other’s lives.”

I feel like we’re at that point where this artistic generation can contribute.

Katelynn Noel Knick Hultberg said the real value in Art Group is the knowledge that there are others like her who are simply trying to navigate the professional art world that, at their age and experience level, still feels new.

“It removes that sense of isolation we get as emerging artists,” she said. “And as you’re connecting with other artists, they have different ideas and perspectives, so you’re sort of sharing ideas and growing.”

New age

Membership in Art Group is currently capped at 30 while the collective gets a grasp on what size group it can support while still achieving its core functions.

The group might expand sometime after its debut show.

“We want to be inclusive, but inclusive to the point where it’s still benefi-

“100 mph” acrylic and pastel on panel

by Virginia Sitzes from Art Group’s debut group exhibition | Image provided

cial,” Domingos said.

Art Group is in the process of putting together a website and becoming an official nonprofit organization. It is also seeking a home for its brick-and-mortar headquarters and art center. Though the plan is to give Art Group a physical location, Knick sees the future of the collective as one that is not centralized.

“Rather than us having another gallery space, we are a group of people who can apply ourselves to other businesses,” the co-founder said. “That’s what we want, to act as an agent to work in the community.”

Art Group has enough potential and enthusiastic support to make a major impact on the local art community. Its ability to maintain that enthusiasm and divine a clear path forward will likely determine the scope of that impact longterm, but the group believes the ground is fertile for its young group to take root.

“Oklahoma City seems to be at this big point of change,” Sitzes said. “There’s lots of activism going on and just development of newness, which is really cool.

Things are changing, and we get to be on the front wave of that change.”

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to reach the side of the road, the cars zipping by at high speed didn’t make him feel any safer or more comfortable.

“I had to climb out and try not to die,” he said.

It turned out that repositioning his body to get out of the car was enough to open up the floodgates.

“There was just diarrhea all over the fucking side of the highway,” he said.

Amazingly, considering the event occurred on a busy Los Angeles interstate, there is no cell-phone footage of Swardson’s very public incident. Such video would have been enough to ruin most other celebrities, but Swardson’s branding and the comedic tastes of his fan base probably would have turned such a clip into a cult classic.

“It probably would have made me a hero,” he said. “I would have become like an Avenger.”

CO M E DY

Tricky Ricky

Letting loose

Nick Swardson gasses up his Too Many Smells Tour for a pit stop at The Criterion. By Ben Luschen

Nick Swardson’s new stand-up special is about bowel movements, which is not a euphemism for an acrid modern news cycle or the politically correct internet call-out culture that works so many other comedians into a tizzy. Nope; this is just good, old-fashioned potty humor — nothing on stage but a mic and a stool.

“It’s nothing political,” Swardson said in a recent Oklahoma Gazette interview. “I just talk about diarrhea and stuff. No one has to go, ‘Oh, I wonder if Nick is going to get controversial?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I will — with this toilet!’”

The Too Many Smells Tour, which is a new hour of material from the comic best known for his recurring role on the television series Reno 911! and his close association with Adam Sandler and his Happy Madison Productions film company, makes a local stop 7:30 p.m.

Sunday at The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave. Admission is $39.50.

Swardson, 41, is a Minneapolis native who got into stand-up comedy almost as soon as he graduated high school. His career took off when he appeared in the 2000 film Almost Famous and scored his first Comedy Central stand-up

special in ’01. He was a screenwriter on ’03’s Malibu’s Most Wanted and began working with Sandler, who originally reached out to Swardson as a fan of his work, on the ’06 film Grandma’s Boy. But Swardson remains well grounded in spite of career success. He might be a movie star, but he eats, sleeps and defecates the same way we all do. Or at least that’s his goal.

“I’ve crapped myself so many times,” he admits freely.

Swardson is allergic to dairy products — a fact about himself he did not fully realize until about eight or nine years ago.

He stopped eating dairy then, but enough damage had already been done. Lactose regularly wreaked havoc on his digestive track. It was often hard to tell if something was going to be simple flatulence or something more substantial.

There was no worse example of this than a time Swardson felt a movement coming while driving on a high-traffic Los Angeles freeway.

“It was horrifying,” he said.

Swardson remembers desperately looking for a place to pull over, but cars were everywhere. Even when he was finally able

Swardson’s most recent work was on Comedy Central’s digital-only series Typical Rick. The series stars Swardson, an actor trying to make it in Hollywood who is constantly overshadowed by his handsome but toolish friend Rick, played by co-star Simon “Dirt Nasty” Rex. While the series was able to build a small but enthusiastic online following, Swardson was recently informed that the network would not be bringing the show back for a third season.

Typical Rick was actually a plan-B pitch Swardson made to the network after it turned down his original idea: a comedy series called Brossassin.

“It was about an assassin who lived in a frat house,” the comic said. “His dad was an assassin and he was raised as an assassin, but then he went to college and became a frat guy — so obviously me. So I just stay at the frat house and moonlight as an assassin. It would have been the best show ever made. It’s genius.”

As good as Swardson felt the idea was, Comedy Central passed on it. So the comic decided to give them his idea for Typical Rick, which he had developed one night in a bar with close friend and Grandma’s Boy director Nicholaus Goosen. The network was much more open to this concept.

“They were like, ‘Yeah, we’ll do it,’” Swardson said. “And I’m like, ‘Really?

After I’ve done all this work on this other show?’”

After Typical Rick’s second season ended, Swardson and Rex made a push for the series to go to air. But Comedy Central was not interested in continuing it at all. Todd Phillips, a friend of Swardson who is also the director and producer behind films like Old School and The Hangover trilogy, even offered to executive produce the show when he heard it was ending. Still, Comedy Central turned them down.

“It was crazy to all of us,” Swardson said. “We were like, ‘Uh, what?’ Todd Phillips was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

Still, Comedy Central’s decision to not pursue another season of the show is not putting Swardson out of work. In fact, he has many new projects on his plate, including his new tour and comedy special set to hit a to-be-determined streaming platform; a role in the upcoming summer comedy The Buddy Games with co-stars Neal McDonough, Olivia Munn, Josh Duhamel and Dax Shepard; a new movie with Goosen; and a show in development with actor and writer Danny McBride.

Self-assisted

Swardson is handling his entire workload without the help of a personal assistant. He has gone without an assistant since firing his hometown friend who used to fill the role after his financial manager called and told Swardson about some checks he had forged.

The comic was on his tour bus in the middle of nowhere when he called his friend to confront him about the situation.

It was not great to have money stolen from him, but Swardson did get a laugh out of his former assistant’s response.

“I call my buddy and I say, ‘Hey, man.

Did you forge 51 checks that totaled $80,000?’” he said. “And literally he goes, ‘Was it that much?’ He didn’t even try to cover his tracks.”

Aside from his roles as a standup and comic actor, Swardson is a passionate fan of Minnesota sports teams. One of the most amazing moments in the state’s sports history came just a few months ago, when Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs raced into the end zone to propel his team over the New Orleans Saints and into the conference championship game as time expired.

Videos of Vikings fans reacting wildly to the play went viral all over the internet. No one was recording Swardson’s reaction in the restaurant of the Denver hotel where he watched the game, but apparently it was quite a scene, too.

“I fell to my knees in the middle of the restaurant and just started sobbing uncontrollably,” he said. “People were like, ‘Oh my God! Are you OK? Do you need an ambulance?’ And I was like, ‘No, guys. This is my team. Did you guys not watch what just happened?’”

Swardson is someone who has undoubtedly found his comedic niche. He knows who his audience is and remains forever loyal to them.

“When you first start out doing comedy, you just have to throw everything out there,” he said. “Some stuff works but you don’t really have a voice yet. But I’ve been doing this 21 years, you know what I mean? I know what’s going to work.”

Nick Swardson 7:30 p.m. Sunday The Criterion | 500 E. Sheridan Ave. criterionokc.com | 405-840-5500 $39.50

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Once again, top Dodgers prospects begin the season in Oklahoma City. By Jacob Threadgill

In what has become a trend since the Dodgers became the Oklahoma City affiliate four years ago, the top-rated prospects in Los Angeles’ system will begin the season playing their home games at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

Walker Buehler, the organization’s reigning pitcher of the year and topranked prospect in the minor league system, according to Baseball America, is at the top of the rotation for his second stint in Oklahoma City.

Outfielder Alex Verdugo also returns to OKC as the No. 2 prospect in the system after leading the team in hits at 21 years old last season.

Shortstop Corey Seager (2016) and first baseman Cody Bellinger (2017) each started the season in Oklahoma City before going on to earn National League Rookie of the Year honors.

Verdugo and Buehler are on the Dodgers’ 40-man roster, which means they can be called up to the major leagues without a corresponding roster move and can be in the majors in September when rosters expand from 25 to 40, as both got brief looks in the majors at the end of last season.

Also on the 40-man roster are lefty relievers Adam Liberatore and Edward Paredes, starting pitcher Brock Stewart, infielder Tim Locastro, third baseman Rob Segedin, infielder Breyvic Valera and outfielder Andrew Toles, the latter of whom spent the entire 2017 season in Los Angeles and Pitcher Walker Buehler starts the season atop the Oklahoma City Dodgers’ rotation and the organization’s prospect rankings. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

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lost a spring training competition with Joc Pederson for the final outfield spot on the major league roster. Toles opens the season as OKC’s leadoff hitter.

Player development

Oklahoma City Dodgers manager Bill Haselman said he will be frank when relaying reports to Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.

“I let [Roberts] know what guys are doing; if they’re playing hard and their effort is there fundamentally, that’s all I ask. If they do that, I feel like we’re good enough to win,” Haselman said at preseason media day.

If they’re playing hard and their effort is there fundamentally, that’s all I ask.

Bill Haselman Buehler, 23, got the first start of the season for Oklahoma City and is building off the talent that made him a firstround pick out of Vanderbilt in 2015.

After spending most of 2016 recovering from Tommy John surgery, Buehler started the season in Single-A and finished in the majors as a reliever.

He topped out this spring with a 99 mph fastball and sharp-breaking curveball that is ranked the top-breaking ball in the Dodgers’ organization by mlb.com scouts.

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Command issues marred his time in the majors last season. Buehler walked eight batters in 9.1 innings with a 7.71 earned run average.

“I just want to get back to myself, and starting I’ll need some efficient outs and hopefully I’ll strike some people out along the way,” Buehler said. “[I’m focusing on] trying to create easier outs and moving forward with a lower pitch count. … The elite guys, they command the baseball. It’s the biggest thing.”

Buehler struck out seven and only walked one batter in four innings with the major league club this spring training. “[Last season in the majors] was two types of uncomfortable: You’re new in the big leagues and you’re new to being a reliever,” Buehler said. “I’m excited to get to starting and see where we’ll go from there.”

Haselman said that Buehler and other starters begin the season on a 75-pitch limit.

“It’s more to build them up than to protect them,” Haselman said. “We want to build them up through six to seven innings if we can and keep their total pitch count around 100 as the year progresses.”

A .305 hitter throughout his minor league career (.314 last season), Verdugo has the offensive tools to be an everyday major league outfielder.

Verdugo went 11-for-34 (.324) in spring training and hit two home runs after hitting six all of last year.

“I have a little more power this year, and I’m starting to tap into things, figure more stuff out,” Verdugo said.

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hit only .174 and arrived late for a game in Washington, D.C. “In spring training, [Verdugo] was phenomenal,” Haselman said. “He was an outstanding teammate to the guys, and it looks like he has grown up quite a bit since last year. I was proud of the way he came into spring training and handled himself.”

Talent pipeline

Jake Peter, who was acquired in an offseason trade with the Chicago White Sox, starts the season at second base for Oklahoma City after tying for second on the Dodgers in spring training with 14 RBI. Valera was acquired April 1 from the St. Louis Cardinals organization, for whom he made his major league debut last season and hit .320 in Triple-A. Reliever Pat Venditte comes to the Dodgers organization after being acquired as a free agent. Venditte became major league baseball’s first switch pitcher in 2015, which required a rule to be named after him, compelling him to declare which hand he will throw for an entire at-bat.

As Buehler and Verdugo likely make their way back to the major league roster this season, Oklahoma City will have an influx of talent, too. Former top prospect Julio Urias, still just 21, will return to the roster as he continues to rehabilitate from surgery to repair a capsule in his throwing shoulder.

Outfielder DJ Peters (No. 6), pitcher Yadier Alvarez (No. 8), pitcher Mitchell White (No. 4, still in extended spring training), catcher Keibert Ruiz (No. 3), pitcher Caleb Ferguson (No. 16), pitcher Dennis Santana (No. 10), catcher Will Smith (No. 9) and infielder Errol Robinson (No. 20) begin the season on the Double-A Tulsa Drillers team as top-20 organizational prospects.

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Okie Kids Playground brings purposeful indoor playtime to Edmond. By Ben Luschen

Starting a new business from scratch is a lot of work, especially when introducing a concept into a market without a lot of precedent for it. But then again, not many people are Annalisa Douglass, a mother of 4-year-old triplets and founder of Edmond’s Okie Kids Playground, which opened in January just one month

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“You don’t really tell a triplet mom she can’t do something,” Douglass said. “She’ll figure out a way to do it. When we put our shoes on and go, we’ve accomplished a lot already, so nothing scares us.”

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a welcome playtime addition for parents in the community. The calming play environment includes a number of activities and features purposefully designed to enhance young learning and build motor skills. Okie Kids, 321 W. 15th St., in Edmond is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Douglass said the idea for an indoor play facility came about a year ago when she was stuck at home with her triplets, then 3 years old. The weather wasn’t so bad that they could not get out of the house, but it made playing outside pretty much impossible.

She had no choice but to keep her kids at home, and spending days at a time cooped up with multiple 3-yearolds was incentive enough to think of ways to prevent such a scenario from happening again.

“I was like, ‘There has to be something we can do; there has to be something better,’” she said.

Even when the weather was sunny, Douglass struggled to find play environments suited for younger children. She began doing research into indoor playgrounds that were geared toward kids who were still too young for school. She visited a few places in Texas with her husband and children, and those visits helped her realize

how much Oklahoma lacked.

Douglass was unable to find a franchise to bring into Edmond, so she decided to start her own indoor playground concept. Her plans were made more difficult when, just one week before closing on her future building, she found out she was pregnant for a second time.

She thought hard about scrapping her plans for the business, but Douglass ultimately felt as if she was being led to open Okie Kids. Just one week after having her baby by cesarean section in December, Douglass was back to work.

“I was not able to lift, of course,” she said. “I had assistance with that, but I was definitely still able to make decisions.”

In January, Okie Kids was ready to open. Douglass oversaw the debut while nursing and caring for her month-old infant. It is always bring your child to work day at Okie Kids.

Douglass said the community response to the playground has been strong. Many days, they hit their capacity within an hour of opening.

“That’s been quite shocking,” she said. “I never anticipated that, so I’m very happy with it.”

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No prior reservations are necessary to take one’s children to Okie Kids.

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long membership package that includes discounts for parties and the on-site cafe.

The building’s interior includes a long room for meetings and parties and another side room for coloring and crafts.

Everything is centered on a main play area separated into six distinct parts.

Near the entry gate is a sensory boat loaded with building blocks that Douglass switches out from time to time to keep things fresh. The boat includes a magnetic fishing game, which helps the children work on steadying their hands.

A mock farm sits not far away. A large, electronic cow moos as children milk its utters. Douglass said this helps them learn to use their hands in different ways and develop the pinching mechanism and grasp strength needed to write with a pencil or pen.

Next to the farm is a play market where children can learn about commerce and shopping. It includes a board with magnetic letters and bins where children can sort plastic foods by color.

“It’s fun to see when the children actually start to put their stuff back in the correct color patterns so you know they’re grasping that concept,” Douglass said.

There is also a playhouse where children can mimic family life. Douglass said she has noticed that area is as popular with boys as it is girls.

“I have more friends who have sons who love that because they don’t get to experience that unless they live with sisters,” she said. “They’ll be in there pretending with the baby dolls and cooking and pretending with that.”

For quieter play, there is a schoolhouse where children can go read books and play with letters. Next to it is a small replica of an Edmond Fire Department fire truck.

A stuffed Dalmatian on top was named Cowboy through a social media poll.

Away from the main play area, children will find an air tube wind tunnel installation similar to the one found inside Science Museum Oklahoma.

Douglass said this teaches children how the wind works and gives them a concept of the different weights of things.

The indoor playground’s pièces de résistance are its two custom-designed play structures, one made specifically from crawling toddlers and one for older children. Douglass wanted the structures to be as accessible for parents as they are for their children.

“I wanted to make sure adults could get in it and not get trapped,” she said.

“Every time I tested one, I got in it and I couldn’t get my kids.”

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‘Ol’-fashioned fun’

One thing parents won’t find at Okie Kids are games and activities focused around touch screens, computers or electronic devices. Excluding Lucy the mooing cow, the playground toys are entirely unplugged, a rebuke of the direction a lot of youth entertainment is going.

“I wanted good ol’-fashioned fun,” Douglass said. “My children are getting ready to be 5, and they still don’t have tablets. They still don’t know how to operate my phone. They get on the computer mostly to watch shows on how things are made, but that’s it.”

Okie Kids puts a lot of emphasis on providing parents with peace of mind while their children still have fun. A portion of all door proceeds goes to a different local charity each month. (Angels Foster Family Network and Human Animal Link of Oklahoma Foundation have been beneficiaries in past months.)

An indoor cafe comes staffed with a barista and coffee provided by Edmond’s Perk Place Café. While one parent watches the kids, another can get work done while connected to the playground Wi-Fi. Instead of bright reds, blues and yellows, Okie Kids comes with a more calming and soothing color palette.

There is no music played indoors, and there are no cheesy characters fighting for a child’s attention. It is earnest fun without the chaos.

“I wanted something that was not for kids only,” she said. “I wanted parents to come in and relax and feel good.”

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

Books Legends of the Lost Causes join author Brad McLelland for the signing of his action-packed book for kids aged 10-14, 3-4:30 p.m. April 14. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. SAT Literary Voices Event a dinner raising money for Metropolitan Library System’s Library Endowment Trust featuring author Lee Child, 7 p.m. April 12. $175.

Metropolitan Library System, 300 Park Ave. THU Reading Wednesdays a story time with naturethemed books along with an interactive song and craft making, 10 a.m. Wednesdays. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405.445.7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com. WED The Survivor Tree a signing of a book about the tree that grows with Oklahoma City until April 19, 1995, by Gaye Sanders, 6:30-8 p.m. April 16. Full Circle Booksore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. MON Wordy Birdy Tammi Sauer signs her children’s book about a very chatty bird named Wordy Birdy, 10:15 a.m. April 14. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. SAT

Film 24 Frames (2017, USA, Abbas Kiarostami), a posthumously completed project that shows the last three years of the director’s life, 5:30 p.m. April 14 and 2 p.m. April 15. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT-SUN The Death of Stalin (2018, USA, Armando Iannucci), depicts Stalin’s last days as his inner circle goes through a power struggle, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

April 6-7, 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. April 8, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. April 12-13, 8 p.m. April 14, 5:30 p.m. April 15., Thursdays-Sundays. through April 15. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SUN Lazy Circles (2017, USA, Marcus and Lucas Ross), a comedy filmed with one camera about a small-town in Oklahoma based on true stories, 7 p.m. April 17.

Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., 405-708-6937, towertheatreokc.com. TUE

Happenings 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 through April 15. Oklahoma Railway Museum, 3400 NE Grand Blvd., 405-424-8222, oklahomarailwaymuseum.org.

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Food For Thought OKC features diverse speakers who are actively engaged in sparking community change in Oklahoma City, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. April 11, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. May 17. $25.00. Will Rogers Theatre, 4322 N. Western Ave., 405-525-3131, facebook.com/foodforthoughtOKC. WED-THU Herbs and Edibles for Urban Gardens an event free to the public about the aesthetics of edibles for your garden and the variety there is to choose from, 6 p.m. April 11. Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 NW 36th St., 405-943-0827, okc.gov. WED 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. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. TUE-FRI Navajo Rug Sale and Silent Auction features unique colors, patterns and craftmenship by Two Grey Hills, Ganado, Teec Nos Pos, Burnham, and Shiprock 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 13 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

April 14. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. FRI-SAT Noon Express Toastmasters Open House improve your speaking or leadership skills with a demonstration meeting with a guest speaker, member testimonials and opportunities to visit with club members and other guests, noon-1 p.m. April 11. Free.

Innovation Station, 133 W. Main St., 405-297-8960, facebook.com/events/2041637326087872/. WED OKG Music Show features music by Jabee, Bowlsey, The So Help Me’s, Gabrielle B. and DJ sets by Jon Mooneyham with proceeds benefitting Classen SAS, 8-11:30 p.m. April 12. $5. Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., 405-708-6937, towertheatreokc. com. THU 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 Oklahoma Missing Persons Day families can report a missing person and provide their DNA and receive education and counseling, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. April 14. University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute, 100 N. University Drive. SAT Optical Delusions a meet and greet with artist Hilary Black Waltrip for the Norman 2nd Friday Art Walk with live music by Chris Christos and Jahruba Lambeth, 6:30-9:30 p.m. April 13. Sandalwood & Sage, 322 E. Main St., 405-366-SAGE. FRI Shark Tank Casting Call Oklahoma Black Business Expo brings business owners the chance to be featured on Emmy Award-winning show Shark Tank, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 14. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Botanical Gardens, 405-602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com. SAT Spring Garden Tour enjoy the gardens full of plants and flowers native to the American West with a story about the West’s roots, 1-2 p.m. April 14-15, 21-22, 28-29. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. SAT-SUN Spring Sampler Tour view the spring exhibitions with works by Jerome Tiger, Theodore Waddell and more, 1-1:45 p.m. April 14-15, 21-22, 28-29. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

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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 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

Food Easy Home Nutrition learn about how certain foods have the highest impact on your personal health with Reece Dodd, 3-4 p.m. April 15. Natural Grocers, 7013 N. May Ave., 405-840-0300, naturalgrocers.com. SUN The Lost Ogle Trivia for ages 21 and up; test your knowledge with free trivia play and half-priced

After Hours and Divided JRB Art at the Elms’ April exhibits feature amateur and professional artists. After Hours consists of a select group of professionals’ artwork created after hours. Divided includes abstract paintings by Oklahoma artist Janice MathewsGordon and pots and murals by Mexico native Carlos Tello. Both exhibits run through April 29 at JRB Art at the Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave. Call 405-528-6336 or visit jrbartgallery.com. WEDNESDAY-WEDNESDAY, THROUGH APRIL 29 Photo JRB Art at the Elms/provided sausages, 8-10 p.m. Tuesdays. Fassler Hall, 421 NW 10th St., 405-609-3300, fasslerhall.com. TUE 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, 405974-3667, orgsync.com/151079/forms/309485. WED

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 Brownie Girl Scout “Bugs” Workshop learn the role bugs play in our world while creative crafts and earning the “Bugs” badge, 10 a.m.-noon April 14. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu. SAT 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 Shaving Cream Rainbow Swirls an early learning program with themes of twirls and swirls playing with shaving cream for ages 3-5, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. April 14.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT Summer Camp Contemporary keep kids creative and learning in camps featuring visual arts, music, hip-hop, fiber, clay, performance, robotics and more, through August 10. $100-$215 per camp. Go green and save $5 by enrolling online., MondaysFridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. through Aug. 10. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, bit.ly/OCsummer. WED-TUE

Swirly Paper Marbling for ages 5 and under to experiment with paper marbling inspired by Dale Chihuly’s exhibition, 10 a.m.-noon April 17. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. TUE

Performing Arts Impractical Jokers New York-based comedy troupe with Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn and Sal Vulcano brings their public dares to the stage, 7:30 p.m. April 13.

Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W Reno Ave., 405-602-8700, chesapeakearena.com. FRI Bach and Bachianas an evening of music by JS Bach and Heitor Villa-Lobos; free and for the whole family, 7-8 p.m. April 13. Free. First Christian Church Norman, 220 S. Webster Ave., 405-329-2192, scissortailprodcutions.com. FRI Blood Relations a psychological mystery based on the book by Sharon Pollock about Lizzie Borden and the murders of her father and stepmother, 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 Fun Home a musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir as she navigates her childhood, through April 29. Lyric at the Plaza, 1725 NW 16th St., 405-524-9312, LyricTheatreOKC.com. WED-SUN The Little Mermaid this performance is reimagining the classic tale of a young mermaid who dreams of living above the waves, through May 5.

The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., 405-2822800, thepollard.org. FRI-SAT McKnight Center Chamber Music Festival features chamber musicians from across the United States including performances of the Dallas Symphony, Zurich Opera, Santa Fe Opera and more, 6 p.m.

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Visual Arts Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness features films by award-winning artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul who was born in Thailand and earned a master of fine arts degree in Chicago, Through June 10. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

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The Art of Oklahoma Celebrate the 110th anniversary of Oklahoma statehood with a diverse collection of art created by or about Oklahomans– and the cities and landscapes they call home.

Enjoy works by John Steuart Curry, Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Nellie Shepherd, David Fitzgerald and Woody Big Bow, Through Sept. 2. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

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Bubble Wrap Prints make prints with printmaking materials and bubble wraps assisted by Erin Latham, 1-4 p.m. April 14. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT

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New Exhibition In the Principles Office: Tom Ryan the Art Student Through November 11, 2018

AIA Architecture Week Tour American Institute of Architects Central Oklahoma chapter hosts selfguided tours of residential homes and commercial buildings. Participants experience the great, varied architecture of Oklahoma City. The tour is noon-5 p.m. Saturday at various locations such as the Sundial Residence, 4000 N. Kelley Ave., and Squirrel Park, 1226 NW 32nd St. Tickets are $20-$25. Call 405-9487397 or visit aiacoc.org. SATURDAY Photo Keena Oden/provided p.m. April 14. McKnight Center for the Performing Arts, 400 S. Monroe St., Stillwater 239-888-0189, mcknightcenter.org. MON-WED 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 Oklahoma Songwriter’s Festival showcases songwriters who perform their original songs and tell the stories behind the songs they’ve written, 7-10 p.m. March 14. Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., 405-708-6937, towertheatreokc.com. SAT

Can’t Touch This features works by six UCO Department of Design faculty in augmented and virtual reality through several technological mediums, through April 19.

Melton Gallery, 100 N. University drive, 405-5253603, uco.edu.

Chromatic Ritual features paintings and fused glass creations by Fringe: Women Artists of Oklahoma with a portion of sales to The Homeless Alliance, throughJune 1. Verbode, 415 N. Broadway Ave., 405-757-7001, fringeokc.com.

COMIX OK an exhibition featuring well-established Oklahoma comic artists including Arigon Starr, Dustin Oswald, Natasha Alterici and more, through April 22.

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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.

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, Through May 13. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

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.

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, through Nov. 11. National

Petite Mort: A Triple Bill OKC Ballet presents Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, Helen Pickett’s Petal and Robert Mills’ world premiere, 8 p.m. April 13-14, 2 p.m. April 15. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. FRI-SUN Theatre Music of Henry Purcell composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) was popular in London for his theater music and the concert presents his compositions, 3 p.m. April 15. Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd St., 405-325-0538, musicaltheatre. ou.edu/facilities/catlett/. SUN

Active Fearless K provides a selection of runs from 1K to 5K with an obstacle course to support Sexual Assault Awareness Month, 9 a.m.-noon April 14. Stars & Stripes Park, 3701 S. Lake Hefner drive, 405-2972756, okc.gov/parks. SAT

Men, Light and Shade Assignment. Tom Ryan, 1952. Tom Ryan Collection. Dickinson Research Center. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. 2002.03.6.

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. Lighthouse Fitness (front), 3333 W. Hefner, 405-845-5672, marlinswimamerica.com.

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. ASA Hall of Fame Complex, 2801 NE 50th St., 405-424-5266, asasoftball.com. WED Yoga Series in the Gardens bring your mat for an all-levels class with Lisa Woodard from This Land yoga, 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405.445.7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com. TUE

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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

Walk MS: Oklahoma City Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that targets the brain and spinal cord. Walk MS: Oklahoma City is a free opportunity for people to connect and advocate for people affected by the disease. Proceeds help groundbreaking research and services for those affected by MS. The event starts 10 a.m. Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave. Call 855-3721331 or visit walkms.org. SATURDAY Photo National Multiple Sclerosis Society/provided

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Old and New Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble presents a performance featuring Franz Schubert’s The Trout quintet, Camille Saint-Saëns “Piano Quartet No. 2” and work by Oklahoma City composer Samuel Magrill 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 127 NW Seventh St. Admission is $20. Call 405-550-1484 or visit brightmusic.org TUESDAY Photo Performing Arts Photos/provided

Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Into the Fold: The Art and Science of Origami features origami artists from around the world and displays the techniques of artful paper folding and other unique applications of origami, Through Jan. 13, 2019. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

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, Through May 13. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Mentorship Exhibition a program for high school students to learn more about printmaking, the book arts and works on paper; the exhibit features linoleum relief prints, Plexiglass monotypes and more, Through April 20. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-6665, 1ne3.org.

Motif: UCO Design’s Senior Show celebrate the award-winning work of UCO’s graduating interior and graphic design students, 5-8 p.m. April 12. Free. CHK/Central Boathouse, 732 S. Riversport Drive, 405-974-5200, boathousedistrict.org. THU 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., 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org. FRI 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. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

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 Optical Delusions Hilary Black Waltrip’s exhibit that displays the interplay of technique and expression combined elegantly to lead the viewer through a spiritual journey, through May 5. Sandalwood & Sage, 322 E. Main St., 405-366-7243. WED-SAT Plein Air Paint Out your paints, pastels and pencils; set up an easel; and join other art lovers in the museum’s beautiful gardens, 1-4 p.m. April 15. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. SUN

Porcelain Art Exhibit World Organization of China Painters presents a free tour for the member porcelain art exhibit, March 21-June 22., Through June 22. Porcelain Art Museum, 2700 N. Portland Ave., 405-521-1234, wocp.org. WED-FRI Sandwich Baggie an exhibit of ceramics that can fit in a sandwich bag that were created by OU ceramic students over the last three semesters, through April 28., Through April 28. The Lightwell Gallery, 520 Parrington Oval, 405-325-2691, art. ou.edu. MON-SAT Solitude features photographs of quiet landscapes by award-winning artist Alan Ball, noon-5 p.m.

Thu-Sat and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun through April 29., Thursdays-Sundays. through April 29. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com. FRI-SUN 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., April 6-29. The Paseo Plunge, 3010 Paseo Plunge, 405-315-6224, paseoplunge.org. FRI-SUN 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.

Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter. MON-TUE

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Hot list

The OKC metro area is packed with music talent.

Oklahoma Gazette looks at a few artists who are at the top of their games. By George Lang and Ben Luschen

When Jabee, Bowlsey, The So Help Me’s and Gabrielle B. take the stage 7 p.m.

Thursday at the OKG Music Show at Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., they will represent some of the best music of the Oklahoma City scene, but there are plenty of extraordinary artists who are on their way up. It’s such a strong lineup we started dreaming up a wish list for 2019.

This hot list is by no means complete because there is an OKC area band forming right now that will likely melt our faces off in the coming months, but these are locals who seem on the cusp of starting musical revolutions.

By next year, they might be too big to play our show. We’re rooting for that to be true.

Lincka | Photo Dakota Watson / provided

Lincka

lincka.bandcamp.com The blanket label “Latin artist” is not nearly enough to describe the layered intricacies of Linkca’s sound, which is as or more informed by English-language influences as anything else. At the same time, the indie pop vocalist’s MexicanAmerican heritage is front-and-center in the majority of her recordings.

Lincka, whose full name is Lincka Elizondo, gives off shades of Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse in her strong vocals, and an added hint of Jhené Aiko flair and artistry is popping up in her most recent work. Para Ti, Lincka’s April 2017 threesong EP, stands out with tremendous, lively production by Dan “Rat Fink” Ashford. Elizondo never shies away from social or political matters in her music, but she also doesn’t let doom and gloom overshadow her usually bright tone.

Lincka performs with Me Oh My and Johnny Manchild 8 p.m. April 18 at Tower Theatre as part of the COOP Showcase.

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post-punk alt rockers The Lost End to show off his impressive vocal depth.

The Lost End — which includes guitarist Scott Jones, bassist Brian Daniel and drummer Trevor Helm in addition to Taylor — released its impressive self-titled, seven-song debut in mid-February.

Songs like “Self Control” and “Viking Attack” are equal parts dark melancholy and post-apocalyptic vigor. Taylor’s previously mentioned howl, perhaps comparable in sound to the Oklahoma equivalent of Ian Curtis, perfectly complements the instrumental urgency.

The band is already in the process of recording its next album and is scheduled to play 1:30 p.m. April 28 at NMF’s outdoor Lyft Opolis Stage.

Red Dirt Home, released in February.

As the name suggests, the seven-song project gives proper tribute to Oklahoma’s open fields and wellstocked lakes, particularly on the opening title track. But Eagle really shines with songwriting that is as frequently fun (“No Cash,” “Cheers to the Bottle”) as it is daring and personal (“Dark Shell,” “Beauty or Beast”).

Red Dirt Home finally gets an official album release show May 10 at Tower Theatre. Eagle can also be spotted making live appearances Memorial Day weekend at Paseo Arts Festival and National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s annual Chuck Wagon Festival.

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Vonna Pearl

facebook.com/vonnapearl A sound nearly as perfect as a pearl itself, Vonna Pearl’s self-titled debut album arrived in early 2018 boasting the twin lead vocals of singer-songwriter Chelsey Cope and The Wurly Birds’ Taylor Johnson. That combination suggests a melding of thoughtful folk and Kinks-inflected power-pop, yet Vonna Pearl extends beyond those borders and invites organic R&B, art-pop, swamp rock and disco rhythms to the party.

Rounded out by bassist Taylor Overholser, guitarist Chavez Soliz, drummer Billy Reid and a horn section including saxophonist Adam Ray and trumpeter Garrison Brown, Vonna Pearl feels ready to explode from the energy behind songs like “Marigolds” and “Arvada” but finds an emotional directness on quieter tracks “Alone” and “People.” Hear the full range of Vonna Pearl’s abilities 4:30 p.m. April 28 at Norman Music Festival’s Sooner Theatre stage.

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Sativa Prophets

sativaprophets.com In the same tradition as nationally known collectives like Odd Future and Brockhampton, Sativa Prophets is an evolving group of individually talented rappers, producers, musicians, visual artists and visionaries culminating in adventurous and illuminating hip-hop.

Their name suggests deep inhalations of sticky herb, and it’s not just a suggestion, but last year’s Into the Clouds displayed sharply focused tracks like “Cloud Dancer,” the paean to happy little trees “Bob Ross” and the raging “Encyclopedia Brown.” It’s all necessarily stoned and beautiful, and Sativa Prophets will prove they’re not just blowing smoke when they play 1:15 a.m. April 28 at NMF’s Main Street Events Center stage.

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LCG & the X

lcgandthex.bandcamp.com A local supergroup that earns its title and might fight you if you think otherwise, LCG & the X boasts two formidable leaders in Feathered Rabbit’s Morgan Hartman on Moog and The Wurly Birds guitarist Pilar Guarddon Pueyo, with Caitlin and Alyssa Lindsey holding down the rhythm.

Everything about the band’s first four singles — “Shark Week,” “Peach Boyz,” “Lil’ Peaches” and “Runaway” — displays equal parts ferocity and skill. As the band continues to build its repertoire, expect nothing but full commitment to fury. Bet against LCG & the X at your peril. Instead, go watch them raise blisters 5:30 p.m.

April 28 at NMF’s Lyft Opolis Stage.

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The Lost End

thelostend.bandcamp.com Ryan Taylor is known by some for his instrumental contributions to the Americana four-piece The Rounders, which recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a local reunion show.

But Taylor uses the bleaker tones of

Net | Photo Nathan Poppe / provided

Mallory Eagle | Photo provided

Mallory Eagle

malloryeagle.com Mallory Eagle blends traditional country sensibilities with a fresh millennial perspective on her debut album

Net

netinspace.bandcamp.com Net puts out the kind of songs that make dads say things like, “Are you sure this is even music?” — that is, unless the dad in question is also a lover of Kraftwerk and the eccentric avant-garde, in which case please remember to buy that man

something extra nice come Father’s Day. The united talents of guitarist and vocalist Kyle Vasquez, keyboardist John Baber, bassist and synth player Tommy McKenzie and drummer Andy Escobar produce a mind-bending swirl of guitar and spacey effects with a digitized feel that culminates on February’s impressive debut Memory Swipe.

Net is in the process of writing and recording its second album and finalizing details of a late-summer tour across the Midwest. The band can be seen 9 p.m. April 28 at NMF’s outdoor Lyft Opolis Stage.

play mostly acoustic instruments and root their sound in Appalachian traditions, but their music feels more classic than old-timey. On 2015’s Thought of You a God and last year’s Lunar Manor Sessions EPs, Annie Oakley steeps its songs in Southern Gothic finery, particularly on richly harmonic standout tracks like “Abraham” and “No One Else.” Every note feels true and earned.

The trio is currently recording a fulllength debut, one that could trigger national interest in the band. Catch Annie Oakley 9 p.m. April 27 at Sooner Theatre during NMF.

Annie Oakley

Original Flow & The Fervent Route

theannieoakley.com Twin sisters Sophia and Grace Babb and violinist Nia Personette of Annie Oakley Annie Oakley | Photo provided

theflowmentality.com Whatever Post Malone’s understanding

Original Flow & The Fervent Route | Photo Pattila Balazs / provided

of hip-hop music is, count Original Flow and the rapper’s frequent collaborators The Fervent Route as the opposite. With music given vibrant life through the band’s live instrumentation, the emcee shines with technical craftsmanship and emotive lyrics that easily dispel misguided notions of rap’s hollow subject matter. Born Christopher Acoff, Original Flow is joined in The Fervent Route by percussionist Josh “Soulful” Carpenter, keyboardist Andrew Wood and guitarist Daniel “DanYoSon” Acuna.

Be on the lookout for the release of Original Flow’s Flowmentality Volume 5 in the next few months and a Fervent Route EP before the end of the year. The group makes its NMF Fowler Automotive Main Stage debut 3 p.m. April 28.

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Husbands

husbandsokc.bandcamp.com Led by Wil Norton (formerly of The Non) and Danny Davis, Husbands creates exquisite dream-pop of the highest order.

Formed while Norton completed his Master of Arts degree at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Davis was in Oklahoma City, Husbands built tight harmonies across the distance and released a slew of gorgeous singles before bringing it all together for the 2015 full-length album Golden Year. At the top of 2018, the band released two new songs, the spacey synth ballad “No One’s Dreaming” and “Amazon,” an ebullient jangler that could be their creative high water mark — for now.

Husbands plays 7:30 p.m. April 27 on the Winston Gray Street Stage at NMF.

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Getting Honest

Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell brings a diverse music history to his show at 89th Street — OKC.

By Ben Luschen

Though known by many as one of two stifled, so when I got back to the studio, I titular co-stars in the popular mid-2000s just started writing songs and it all started Nickelodeon comedy Drake & Josh, coming out. When we started to work on Drake Bell’s music career is lengthy and the production, it just took on a whole new includes much more depth than one life. might assume from a former child star.

His pop-rock song “Found a Way” was OKG: Do you still talk to Brian an excellent theme for the television Setzer?

Bell: Every once in awhile. You know, series created by former Nick hit maker Dan Schneider (All That, The Amanda here and there. He’s always on the road.

Show, iCarly, Victorious), who was removed from the network in March OKG: What was your introduction amid reports of anger issues and uproar to Setzer’s work? What’s the backstory behind that? over past Twitter pictures he posted of young actresses’ feet.

Bell: I’ve just loved rockabilly music ever Bell’s music has frequently paid since I was a kid. When I was a kid — I tribute to past eras that predate his was maybe 10 or 11 — there was this ’80s young fanbase, giving heavy nods to The hair-metal compilation thing they were Beatles on his 2006 album It’s Only showing on TV. And then the Stray Cats Time and covering rock ’n’ roll greats came on and I was like, ‘Whoa! Those on his 2014 LP Ready Steady Go!, exguys look so cool! They look like all the guys that I love, like Elvis and Jerry Lee ecutive produced by guitar legend Brian Setzer and featuring a cover of Setzer’s Lewis and all of that, but this is the ’80s.’

Stray Cats ballad “I Won’t Stand in Your So I ask my dad, ‘Who are the Stray Cats?’

Way.” His most recent work, the June And he’s like, ‘Oh, you mean the rockabilly band from the ’80s?’ And I’m like, 2017 EP Honest, takes a sharp turn from ‘What? There were rockabilly bands in tender homages to the past in favor of the ’80s?’ So I started to radio-ready, trap-influenced pop. get into this whole new rockabilly thing — you The artist will present his eclectic blend of styles 7 know, The Blasters and p.m. Monday at 89th Street the Stray Cats and all that — OKC, 8911 N. Western kind of thing. I was like, Ave. Admission is $15-$20 ‘Oh my gosh! There’s all and open to all ages. these people.’ And then There was talk of a Brian Setzer came out with his big band right bitter split between Bell and former co-star Josh around that time. And I Honest | Image provided Peck after the latter failed was just like, ‘Oh my God! to invite the songwriter and guitarist There’s people now doing the music that to his summer 2017 wedding to girlI love — all this old ’50s rock ’n’ roll!’ I friend Paige O’Brien. But both have thought I could only find this with all publically patched their differences the old cats, you know? The ’60s guys since, and in a recent Oklahoma Gazette and Sun Records and all of that. So it phone interview, Bell was highly comopened up this whole new world for me. plimentary of his longtime friend.

It gave it this punk rock edge that I just Bell also answered Gazette questions loved — tattoos and hot rods. I just always about discovering Setzer’s music for the loved that growing up. first time, his love of SoundCloud rap and Schneider’s time at Nick.

OKG: So is that the music you’re listening to when you’re chilling out at Oklahoma Gazette: Ready Steady Go! home? was your tribute to rockabilly, but Bell: Yeah, I listen to a lot of rockabilly the new Honest EP has strong pop music. But I listen to everything. I listen and electronic vibes. How did the to a lot of hip-hop, trap, rock, reggae, swing, sound on Honest come to be? big band, jazz — just everything, you know?

Drake Bell: Well, I made that rockabilly record basically for myself. It was my pet OKG: Is there anything in particular project. I got to work with Brian Setzer, that you’re playing right now? who’s my guitar god. I played a bunch of Bell: I’m listening to a lot of Lil Pump the songs I loved growing up, and that got and Lil Xan and Lil Skies. Also like Kyle me into music. But it was more of a cover and Khalid. I really love Post Malone. album. I was touring it, and it was more like touring with a cover band, kind of. It OKG: A lot of people write off Lil was a lot of fun — shredding on the guitar Pump without looking into his music and playing all that music that I love — but too much.

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OKG: Recently, you were in the studio with Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun, right?

Bell: Yeah.

OKG: Is there any kind of story behind that? Is there some new work coming up?

Bell: Yeah, he’s played on a couple of my new songs. It’s super dope. I’ve known Josh for a while, and he is a super-cool guy. He’s a really good drummer.

OKG: Is there a lot of new music you’re working on at the moment?

Bell: Yeah, I have a lot of new stuff coming out. I mean, not a ton, but I’m constantly working, working, working. I have a bunch of new songs that are about to come out; I’m just finishing them up.

OKG: What is the typical Drake Bell crowd like? Who are you seeing when you look out into the audience?

Bell: The crowd is completely eclectic.

They’re all ages — it’s everybody. My crowd is just so diverse; I just look out there and see diversity. There’s not a demographic. I’ll have a girl who’s got a One Direction T-shirt and a Justin Bieber phone case and then a guy behind her with a Slipknot shirt and long hair.

And they’re all ages; there will be a 10-year-old and 25-year-old and then a 32-year-old behind that. It’s really cool.

OKG: There is eclecticness in the crowd that kind of reflects your musical tastes and the music you’ve worked on.

Bell: Totally. There’s people who are there

who want to hear “Bitchcraft” and people who want to hear “Honest.” There’s people who want to hear the theme song from Drake & Josh and the deep cuts from my earlier albums. It’s really cool. Everyone’s not just there for the single.

OKG: I need to ask at least one Drake & Josh question. Because of the show and its title, you’re pretty much going to be associated with co-star Josh Peck for the rest of your life. What’s it like to have a person like that who you will forever be linked to?

Bell: Well, I’m glad it’s someone as badass as Josh Peck — someone who is that talented and witty and awesome.

He’s like my real brother, you know?

I’m proud to have that moniker forever.

OKG: I should also ask about Dan Schneider, who was recently let go

by Nickelodeon amid allegations of misconduct with some of the network’s young acting talent and anger issues. What were your interactions with Schneider like over the years?

Bell: I’ve known him for years; he’s one of the greatest people I ever worked with.

OKG: So, would you say his removal from Nickelodeon was unjust?

Bell: No clue.

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The Lost End begins its journey with a debut that balances dark post-punk with energy and optimism. By Ben Luschen

Seductively dark Norman four-piece The Lost End debuts with a short but impactful self-titled record.

The frequently somber post-punk unit is led by the vocals of Ryan Taylor, known for his part in bluesy jam band The Rounders. The rest of the lineup includes guitarist Scott Jones, bassist Brian Daniel and drummer Trevor Helm.

The seven-track record, released in mid-February, was recorded and mixed

by Trent Bell in Norman’s Bell Labs studios. It was mastered in Pennsylvania’s Treelady Studios by Garrett Haines, a Grammy Award-winning engineer who has worked with several Oklahoma acts including Tyson Meade, KALO, Carter Sampson and Sugar Free Allstars.

“Self Control” starts the album with some urgently plucked guitar strings that would seem to signal the start of some kind of journey, which the song propels further with a nice, driving drum rhythm. The real stand-out star on the opener is Taylor, whose vocals and lyrics perfectly set the stage for what is to come.

Taylor sings with a howl that one can tell comes from somewhere deep inside him. Like the rest of the album to follow, “Self Control” is mostly an exercise in the morose. Taylor seems to be describing the turning of a life chapter and the sudden realization of any individual’s cosmically small place in the universe.

“Is this how it feels when you cease to exist?” the lyrics ask. “The moments that persist, the growing emptiness. I used to know how to love, the warm touch of embrace. Now clouds linger above and I feel I’ve been erased.”

The lyrics often convey dread, but Taylor’s strong delivery prevents The Lost End from spiraling into a pity party and instead seems to guide the listener through a sense of awakened self-discovery. This energy is a quality that helps “The Stop Next” stand out as perhaps the album’s most accessible joint. Track No. 2, in many ways, is guitarist Jones’ gift to the world.

Not only does he give the tune its chilling feel, but

the song leaves on an impressive guitar outro.

From a lyrical standpoint, it is fun (and unfortunately a little too relatable) to hear Taylor stare down the dropping of a doomsday bomb. “The world explodes to our favorite song,” the singer sneers.

“The Stop Next” is followed by “Signs That Guide,” a song that begins a bit subdued but grows much louder as it progresses. The track builds on the album’s theme of loneliness with ponderings on the nature of existence and purpose.

The album’s fourth song caught this reviewer’s attention before it entered the headset. “Viking Attack” is an intriguing title, and listeners should be pleased to know that it lives up to the moniker. Though not a confirmed viewpoint by the band itself, the tune can certainly be interpreted as a contemptuous view of corporate greed and the well-to-do that disassociate themselves from the larger world.

“Viking Attack” sounds like a song that could easily be played over a trailer for the next installment of The Purge.

This can also be taken as an anthem for self-reliance in a hostile world.

“I will take what I can; it was always meant to be,” the lyrics read. “It’s a cold, hard world out here for men like me.”

The Lost End pairs one of the album’s slower songs, “Bending Minds,” next to high-tempo “Agent Orange,” which also features a lot of interesting, ambient distortions and higher, more frantic vocals from Taylor.

However, it’s the album’s closer, “As a Ghost,” that really ties everything together. The band returns to the musical form it displayed earlier on the album, but this time with lyrics about breaking free from life’s shackles and running into the openness of possibility — disappearing from captivity in favor of self-reliance.

“Never let a hostage out the door,” the song warns. “Never see me anymore.”

Overall, this is a very strong debut from The Lost End, which is a welcome addition to the state’s post-punk scene and alternative rock scenes. If there is a bit of constructive criticism to be made, it is probably that the record feels more or less homogenous without a high degree of variation. But this also helped give the debut a very distinct feel.

Regardless, it was a pleasure to be lost in the thick of this sonic forest, and audiences should be eager to see how the band develops with time.

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Cheyenne celebrates the vinyl rerelease of its debut album with a rare reunion show at NMF.

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.

Beau Jennings is certainly no stranger to Norman Music Festival. He has played the free local music gathering several times, be it on the wide-open main stage or the tight shoulder-to-shoulder confines of Blackwatch Studios, which used to function as an NMF venue.

“Those were always really fun shows,” Jennings said. “It would get too crowded and there was always just something crazy happening — lighting rigs tipping over, things like that.”

But this year’s NMF appearance will be extra special because it marks a rare reunion of his landmark 2000s indie-rock band Cheyenne, which was formed in Norman but later relocated to Brooklyn, New York. The reunion celebrates the vinyl reissue of the band’s 2005 fulllength debut I Am Haunted, I Am Alive, available Friday through Clerestory AV. Haunted was released on CD during its initial debut but has never before been available on wax.

“Vinyl just wasn’t a thing people were really into at that point,” Jennings said.

Cheyenne performs 6:30 p.m. April 28 on NMF’s Winston Gray Street Stage. The band, primarily Jennings’ pet project, was known for its rotating cast of affiliated musicians. The version of the band that will play NMF includes original

drummer Heath Fisher, guitarist Brady Smith, bassist Brine Webb and keyboardist Dustin Ragland, who plays with Jennings in his current band The Tigers.

Jennings, also an accomplished filmmaker who produced the 2015 Will Rogers documentary The Verdigris, has not played a public Cheyenne show in Oklahoma since at least 2012 — which is around the time the group informally disbanded as members moved, got married and had children. It did release one last studio album, King’s County, in 2013, but never got much of a chance to play the material live. In addition to reminiscing over Haunted and jams from the other releases, Jennings is excited to give King’s County a live consummation at NMF. “This is a nice thing to do to kind of revisit that in a more official capacity,” he said.

Coming together

Cheyenne began as just a handful of songs Jennings had written in his bedroom, which he recorded in 2003 with the band Ester Drang, whose members he had grown up with around Broken Arrow.

Out of that experience came the foursong You Talk Like You’ve Seen a Ghost EP. Jennings had a fun time recording that project and was looking to record again as soon as was able. Around that time, he formed a working relationship with Chad Copelin and brand-new Blackwatch Studios, which was where Jennings decided to record Haunted after Kansas

City record label The Record Machine offered to put out his full-length debut.

“Just a bunch of things came together at once,” he said. “There was a good thing happening around Norman and Oklahoma City. It felt like a lot of original bands were starting to play.”

Cheyenne took off toward the tail end of Jennings’ college years at the University of Oklahoma. The songwriter remembers the local bands of the time were more frequently cover groups, especially compared to the wellspring of original tunes found around the metropolitan area today.

Cheyenne, with Jennings’ frequently melancholy prose, was one of several bands that led a departure from that mindset.

“It felt like there was this nice burst of creativity with original music,” he said.

“Everything just kind of fed into each other, and that’s how the band got started.”

Cheyenne Songs

Arguably the best part of ordering a Haunted reissue record is getting the download code for Cheyenne Songs, an ambitious 27-song cover compilation featuring a who’s who list of local talent offering unique takes on their favorite Cheyenne catalogue gems. Tributes from John Moreland, Broncho (whose frontman Ryan Lindsey was once a Cheyenne band member), Labrys, Student Film, Husbands, Chase Kerby, Travis Linville and many more can be spotted on the extensive tracklist.

Jennings said the idea for Cheyenne Songs grew out of wanting to package something special with the record release. His original idea was to put together a collection of the band’s B-sides, but reflecting on the band’s history led him to something greater.

“I got to thinking about how many friends I made and just how much community developed out of being in that band and playing with other bands at the

time,” he said. “At some point — and I can’t remember whose idea it was — it was just like, ‘Let’s have people cover the songs.’”

Jennings began his recruitment process by approaching his friends and Cheyenne’s contemporaries, letting them select their favorite tunes to cover.

He then branched out to some other artists and bands that Cheyenne did not necessarily play with but whom he has personally befriended through the years. From there, the project snowballed into a major undertaking.

“Once word got out, people would inquire about it and say they wanted to get involved,” he said. “And I’d be like, ‘Well, I have this song left.’”

Hearing talented artists like Moreland, who covers “Big Weather” from Cheyenne’s 2007 sophomore effort The Whale, put their own spin on Jennings’ words has been a surreal experience for the songwriter.

“It was really fun to have all those songs come in, and it’s nice to listen to all the way through,” he said. “I’m looking forward to people hearing the whole thing.”

Seeing growth

For the community’s musicians and music enthusiasts, NMF can feel similar to a family reunion.

“It’s kind of like a holiday and a chance for everyone to get together in one place and show off what they have been doing,” Jennings said.

Those expecting Cheyenne to start cranking out new tunes after its reunion show might be disappointed to hear that Jennings has no plans for the group following its gig “unless something amazing happens.” His full attention right now is on finishing a debut full-length album from Beau Jennings & The Tigers. The band released its single “Back in Town” in October 2016, which KOSU The Spy’s The Oklahoma Rock Show later listed as that year’s best Oklahoma song.

Jennings said the biggest difference between the state’s music scene during Cheyenne’s early years and now is that there are way more bands and musicians in it, which has led to an influx of new perspectives.

“It seems to me that there’s a little bit more of a diverse sound,” he said. “It was pretty indie-rock heavy when I was playing Cheyenne stuff. I guess you could say things are kind of Americanaheavy now — and I’m guilty of that as well — but it seems like there’s lots of hip-hop and really experimental stuff.”

It would be fair to give Cheyenne at least a smidge of credit for inspiring future state songwriters, and some of those talents are on display in the Cheyenne Songs collection. But Jennings believes NMF deserves a great deal of thanks for the visibility it affords local musicians and creatives.

“I think it’s a great thing for the town and the community,” he said. “I think there are all kinds of intangible ways Norman and Oklahoma City — and maybe even the state — have benefited from it.”

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Jared Deck/Chase Kerby, The Root. ROCK Mark Chamberlain, Chisholm’s Saloon. COUNTRY Midas 13, Landing Zone. ROCK Mike McClure/Dylan Stewart, Bluebonnet Bar. COUNTRY

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Randall Coyne, Grand House. JAZZ

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Christoper Blevins/Caleb McGee, The Deli.

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Deer Tick/John Moreland, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK Jessey Thompson, Bluebonnet Bar. ROCK

Red City Radio, Tower Theatre. PUNK Ronnie Milsap, Riverwind Casino. COUNTRY Something Like Seduction, Chixs & Styx. REGGAE Zack Andrew, Belle Isle Brewery. HIP-HOP

Kalyn Fay, Saints Pub. FOLK

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Shaun Peace Band, Red Brick Bar.

Amarillo Junction, Okie Tonk Café. COUNTRY

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Shawn James, Tower Theatre. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Ashley Windham, Anthem Brewing Company. POP Cedar House, Tower Theatre. FOLK

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Chad Todd Band, The Weekend Saloon. COUNTRY

Cloud Catcher/Cobrajab, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

Chief Keef, Tower Theatre. RAP

Elizabeth Cook, The Blue Door. COUNTRY

The Funeral Portrait, Red Brick Bar. ROCK

Normal-C, The Drunken Fry. PUNK OKG Music Show, Tower Theatre. Various Stephen Baker, Bluebonnet Bar. INSTRUMENTAL

Megafauna/Space4Lease/Em & the MotherSuperiors, The Deli. ROCK The Okie Tramps, The Root. COUNTRY Papa Nooch, Full Circle Books. SINGER/SONG-

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Brian Jones & Misfit Cowboys, Remington Park.

Stephen Chopek, Anthem Brewing Company. ROCK

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That 1 Guy/Jarvix, Opolis. POP The Unlikely Blues Band, Bedlam Bar-B-Q. BLUES Wicked Shimmies/The Shrinking Giants, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

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Monday, Apr. 16 The Cake Eaters, The Deli. ROCK Drake Bell/Tryon/Joe Kirk, 89th Street Collective.

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Tribute to Joni Mitchell Mary Reynolds and Louise Goldberg of Miss Brown to You pay tribute to legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Mitchell is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter famous for her hits “Both Sides Now” and “Big Yellow Taxi,” among others. Reynolds and Goldberg will be joined by special guests 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at The Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley Ave. Tickets are $20. Call 405-524-0738 or visit bluedoorokc.com.

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Lincka/Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards/ Me Oh My, Tower Theatre. INDIE

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Aries statesman Thomas

Jefferson was the third President of the United States.

He wrote one of history’s most famous documents, the Declaration of Independence. He was an architect, violinist, inventor, and linguist who spoke numerous languages, as well as a philosopher who was knowledgeable about mathematics, surveying, and horticulture. But his most laudable success came in 1789, when he procured the French recipe for macaroni and cheese while living in France, and thereafter introduced the dish into American cuisine. JUST KIDDING! I’m making this little joke in the hope that it will encourage you to keep people focused on your most important qualities, and not get distracted by less essential parts of you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In the early 1990s,

Australian electrical engineer John O’Sullivan toiled on a research project with a team of radio astronomers.

Their goal was to find exploding mini-black holes in the distant voids of outer space. The quest failed. But in the process of doing their experiments, they developed technology that became a key component now used in Wi-Fi. Your digital devices work so well in part because his frustrating misadventure led to a happy accident.

According to my reading of your astrological omens, Taurus, we may soon be able to make a comparable conclusion about events in your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In the fictional world

created by DC Comics, the superhero Superman has a secret identity as a modest journalist named Clark Kent.

Or is it the other way around? Does the modest journalist Clark Kent have a secret identity as the superhero Superman? Only a few people realize the two of them are the same. I suspect there is an equally small number of allies who know who you really are beneath your “disguises,” Gemini. But upcoming astrological omens suggest that could change. Are you ready to reveal more about your true selves? Would you consider expanding

the circle that is allowed to see and appreciate your full range and depth?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Playwright Tennessee

Williams once spent an evening trying to coax a depressed friend out of his depression. It inspired him to write a poem that began like this: “I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.” Now I address you with the same message, Cancerian. Judging from the astrological omens, I’m convinced you currently have more strength than ever before to bear the tremendous excitement of living. I hope this news will encourage you to potentize your ability to welcome and embrace the interesting puzzles that will come your way in the weeks ahead.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Are you finished dealing with spacious places and vast vistas and expansive longings?

I hope not. I hope you will continue to explore big bold blooming schemes and wild free booming dreams until at least April 25. In my astrological opinion, you have a sacred duty to keep outstripping your previous efforts.

You have a mandate to go further, deeper, and braver as you break out of shrunken expectations and push beyond comfortable limitations. The unknown is still more inviting and fertile than you can imagine.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Between December 5 and

9, 1952, London was beset with heavy fog blended with thick smog. Visibility was low. Traffic slowed and events were postponed. In a few places, people couldn’t see their own feet. According to some reports, blind people, who had a facility for moving around without the aid of sight, assisted pedestrians in making their way through the streets. I suspect that a metaphorically comparable phenomenon may soon arise in your sphere, Virgo.

Qualities that might customarily be regarded as liabilities could at least temporarily become assets.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your allies are always important, but in the coming weeks they will be even more so. I suspect they will be your salvation, your deliverance, and your treasure. So why not treat them

like angels or celebrities or celebrity angels? Buy them ice cream and concert tickets and fun surprises. Tell them secrets about their beauty that no one has ever expressed before. Listen to them in ways that will awaken their dormant potentials. I bet that what you receive in return will inspire you to be a better ally to yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In the coming weeks, I

suspect you will be able to find what you need in places that are seemingly devoid of what you need. You can locate the possible in the midst of what’s apparently impossible. I further surmise that you will summon a rebellious resourcefulness akin to that of Scorpio writer Albert Camus, who said, “In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.

In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger -something better, pushing right back.”

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C. Brown graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in science. His girlfriend Sarah Baylen rewarded him with the gift of a two-dollar book about the elements boron and silicon. Both he and she were quite poor; she couldn’t afford a more expensive gift.

Brown didn’t read the book for a while, but once he did, he decided to make its subject the core of his own research project. Many years later, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries about the role of boron in organic chemistry. And it all began with that two-dollar book. I bring this story to your attention, Sagittarius, because I foresee you, too, stumbling upon a modest beginning that eventually yields breakthrough results.

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