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inside COVER P. 23 Oklahoma Gazette celebrates the nation’s 242nd birthday with a list of the best local Fourth of July events, including fireworks, parades and music.

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Correction

The June 13 story “Open minds” (News, Ben Luschen, Oklahoma Gazette) incorrectly identifies the former place of employment of Larry Long, a retired agriculture teacher who presented a Ku Klux Klan hood to a retiring black teacher as part of a joke, as Metro Technology Centers. He was formerly employed at Elk City Public Schools. Oklahoma Gazette regrets and apologizes for the error.

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grew in use during this time, a result of two factors: an increase in the number of Mexican workers immigrating to the U.S. fearing persecution following the 1910 revolution in that country and the prohibition of alcohol, which spurred an increased demand for alternatives like marijuana.

According to Richard DavenportHines’ book The Pursuit of Oblivion, an expansive history of narcotics, Oklahoma’s prohibition on marijuana followed similar laws against the sale, cultivation and distribution of the substance in other states. California and Utah were the first in 1915, followed by Colorado and Texas in the late 1910s, Iowa in 1921 and then a spate of new legislation in 1923 in which Arkansas, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state criminalized cannabis.

Six more states passed laws before North Dakota and Oklahoma finally authored and passed legislation in 1933, just as alcohol prohibition was repealed at the federal level, but as a states’ rights issue, Oklahoma maintained its prohibition on booze until 1959.

It’s a 100 percent ‘We the People’ effort.

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Hemp history

Oklahoma’s State Question 788 is preceded by a lengthy history of demonization and criminalization. By George Lang

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series examining cannabis and cannabinoids in Oklahoma leading up to the June 26 medical marijuana referendum.

Oklahomans under the age of 85 never knew a time when it was legal to use marijuana in the state, but by the time the state made marijuana illegal, it was one of the last states to independently pass laws against cannabis.

As Oklahoma reaches an inflection point in its laws and attitudes toward cannabinoids, like many states that have considered revising their laws, it faces a long history of industry-driven legislation, harsh sentencing for offenders and propaganda fueled by parental fears and racial division.

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in earnest with the Harrison Narcotics Act, which passed in late 1914 as a response to opium use in the Philippines, which the U.S. controlled following the Spanish-American War. The U.S. was also facing a half-century opium epidemic that began during the Civil War. Authored by U.S. Rep. Francis Burton Harrison, D-New York, the law was “An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or gives away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes.”

While the Harrison Act directly addressed opiates and drugs derived from coca plants like cocaine, marijuana

In The Pursuit of Oblivion, DavenportHines documents how such legislation was popularized through media reports.

As Montana prepared for passage of its anti-marijuana laws in January 1929, The Montana Standard of Butte, Montana, published an account of the committee hearing in which an area doctor entered his racially charged testimony.

“When some beet field peon takes a few rares of this stuff, he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts to execute all his political enemies,” said Dr. Fred Ulsher to the committee members.

Even the name “marijuana” was an attempt to racially code the substance in the 1920s and 1930s.

Racial coding, something that was used in the criminalization of opium, was only one aspect of the push for anti-marijuana laws. In 1936, a church group produced the now-legendary propaganda film Reefer Madness, a film in which the sale and use of marijuana leads to a spiral of licentiousness, insanity and vehicular homicide. The film, originally titled Tell Your Children but bought by an exploitation producer and renamed Reefer Madness and, in some screenings, The Burning Question and Doped Youth, was shown in roadshow-

style screenings throughout the U.S. The following year, the federal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 instituted onerous taxation on the substance that effectively ended trafficking. Thirtythree years later, as marijuana was enjoying its post-Summer of Love popularity, the U.S. Senate approved the Controlled Substances Act, which classified marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug.

Big changes

In April, Oklahoma legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp, but it was not the first time since the 1937 tax act that Oklahoma was allowed to grow the plant.

During World War II, a documentary called Hemp for Victory promoted hemp cultivation for the war effort, where it was used to make uniforms, rope and canvas. Oklahoma farmers were allowed to grow the crop until the war ended in 1945. Individual states have since been able to legislate in favor of industrial hemp cultivation.

“It’s kind of hippie talk, but it’s true,” said Chip Paul, president of GnuPharma and a founder of Oklahomans for Health, a proponent of State Question 788. “It’s a better wood than wood. It’s a better fiber for clothing than cotton.

It’s a biofuel — it’s all sorts of things.”

Paul said that the reason for marijuana and hemp criminalization has as much to do with early 20th-century industrialists wanting to protect their wood and cotton businesses as it does with marijuana’s psychoactive effects.

According to NAFTA & Neocolonialism: Comparative Criminal, Human & Social Justice by Lawrence French, the advent of a machine called a decorticator allowed for easier processing of hemp for use as pulp in paper and fiber production. Industrialists such as William Randolph Hearst, who in addition to his media empire also grew timber for paper production, and Andrew Mellon, a major source of financing for DuPont, helped stoke the fires of anti-marijuana sentiment to keep the timber industry on track and speed the acceptance of DuPont’s new synthetic fiber, nylon.

“Those folks owned a lot of wood and cotton, those type of enterprises,” Paul said. “The powers that be decided they wanted to use cotton and wood.”

In 2015, Gov. Mary Fallin signed House Bill 2154, which allowed the use of cannabidiol (CBD) oil for medicinal purposes, and the April legalization of industrial hemp cultivation in Oklahoma created new opportunities for farmers.

SQ788’s position on the June 26 ballot represented to Paul a major change in the state’s attitude toward marijuana.

“It’s a 100 percent ‘We the People’ effort,” Paul said. “It was brought forth by the people without big interests [involved].

I really don’t think there’s been anything like this that’s been driven by the people — certainly in a long, long time.”

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Removed OU professor John Scamehorn paid his way into the local film community. By Ben Luschen

It was early 2016 and Oklahoma City filmmaker Nick Sanford was unsure of whether his movie’s Kickstarter campaign was going to reach its funding goal. But then, days before the deadline for his locally made 2016 horror film The Harvesters had to reach a certain percentage of its $32,835 goal, he was contacted by a local film enthusiast pledging $3,500 to the project in exchange for an associate producer credit and a walk-on role.

That enthusiast was John Scamehorn, a former University of Oklahoma emeritus professor and donor who, in February 2016, had nearly all of his ties to the university severed after students raised multiple allegations of sexual misconduct to school administrators.

Scamehorn also spent a lot of money investing in the local film community, associate and executive producing more than a dozen projects since 2014. His contribution to The Harvesters came just days after his meeting with OU. “I didn’t know a whole lot about him at that time,” Sanford said. “I had heard a handful of unsubstantiated rumors that he was kind of an asshole to work with, but I didn’t really know much about him.”

After talking to other people, Sanford now believes that Scamehorn purposefully waited until the last moment to offer his funding to local film projects so he could come across as a hero and earn favor in the community.

He now regrets taking Scamehorn’s money for The Harvesters, but Sanford knows the past cannot be corrected.

“What’s done is done, and that’s some shit we’ll just have to personally come to terms with,” he said. “In hindsight, I wish I would have listened to the people who seemed to know the most about him more.”

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The primary reason allegations against Scamehorn have come to the surface is

as a reaction to an article he recently posted on the openly misogynistic forum Return of Kings about his 2015 film project Pax Masculina.

Roughly one-third of the 18-minute film consists of an extended scene of the lead character Emily, played by Rebecca Bartlett, being hung in a noose. Actors and crew members who worked on the Pax Masculina set have said the movie they filmed, which included a vague female empowerment message, was scrapped by Scamehorn and re-edited by new hires with an emphasis on the torture and killing scenes.

Pax Masculina was filmed with a $208,581 investment into the local economy, which qualified it for a 35 percent rebate from the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO) through its Oklahoma Film Enrichment Rebate Program. According to a recent statement from the Film + Music Office to Oklahoma Gazette, that rebate totaled $73,000 and was paid “after an extensive Third-Party Review to verify the Oklahoma qualifying expenditures.”

“The hardworking Oklahomans who make up the film and music industries deserve an atmosphere free of any type of coercive working conditions,” the statement said.

The statutes that govern the Film Enrichment Rebate Program have no content requirements other than excluding film and television productions that contain child pornography and “obscene materials.”

Rebate applications must include a copy of the film’s script, though the premise of Pax Masculina seems to have shifted after principal photography concluded.

Filmmakers who utilize the program must agree to the final rebate requirements certifying that all representations or statements made with their final application are true and correct in all ma-

versity professor told her it was research for a film he was writing about the deaths of an entire college sorority.

“He called it his sorority slasher film,” she said.

Brasel wishes she had quit Hells Belle, but at the same time, it was a paycheck for her.

“The way that I told myself it was OK was that I wasn’t working for him,” she said. “I was working for this other guy I had known for awhile.”

Establishing validity

terial. This includes the content of the film, which must be in alignment with the original script submitted to OF+MO. In its statement, OF+MO emphasized that it does not condone any form of harassment or hostile environment.

“Recent reports of intimidating behavior by individuals who have authority or influence over those who are working with them, which create an environment that threatens an individual sense of security should not be tolerated,” the statement reads. “Any such events should be brought to the attention of the appropriate authorities.”

Set presence

Actress Cait Brasel had a role on the 2017 locally made horror film Hells Belle, a film that she said Scamehorn had a role in producing. There were several death scenes in the film, three of them women.

Brasel said Scamehorn was insistent upon being present for all three.

“That entire film set was pretty toxic,” she said.

Terry Spears, the film’s director, could not be reached for interview. An official web page associated with Hells Belle could not be found online, but Scamehorn’s public Facebook page depicts several photos he took from the set. Hells Belle was filmed after Pax Masculina.

Brasel said Scamehorn hired a photographer to shoot behind-the-scenes images of the filming but gave him very specific instructions about shooting the death scenes. The photographer was a friend of Brasel, and she said he quit the film and returned Scamehorn’s money after discovering several disturbing photos on the memory card Scamehorn had given him to shoot with.

Brasel recalls another instance in which Scamehorn was present for the shooting of the film’s hanging scene of a female actress. (Pax Masculina also contained a lengthy hanging scene.)

During the scene, Brasel said Scamehorn mentioned to her how he had been watching videos of women being stoned the night before and found them interesting. When Brasel asked him why he was watching videos of specifically women being stoned, the former uni-

Scamehorn often made cameo appearances in the films he helped fund. His role as Colonel Tom Parker in Mickey Reece’s Alien — a locally made, fictionalized account of Elvis Presley’s life filmed in 2016 — is perhaps his most substantial role.

Reece, the film’s director, told Gazette that Scamehorn earned a speaking role in Alien through a $1,000 donation (about a quarter of the film’s total budget) he made to the project.

The director said he had heard Scamehorn had a sexist reputation but did not know much about him before his involvement with Alien.

“It wasn’t until these allegations surfaced that I had realized what I had done by including him in our movie,” Reece said. “I made a mistake by not listening.

Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.”

Scamehorn had a walk-on appearance in the 2014 thriller Electric Nostalgia. He became involved in the project through its online Indiegogo fundraising campaign. Director Jacob Leighton Burns said Scamehorn donated $3,000 to the project in exchange for a speaking role. Burns believes Scamehorn was trying to build up as many film credits as possible to quickly establish validity in the community.

“I heard [Scamehorn] say multiple times that he wanted to be supportive, but he wants to be involved and he wants something he can see himself in later,” he said.

Neither director heard reports of wrongdoing by Scamehorn during his short time — a couple of hours on a single day — on their respective sets.

Brasel, who also appeared in Electric Nostalgia, said while it is often said that one should not judge a book by its cover, she believes the film community could have saved itself from a lot of Scamehorn’s involvement by taking the initiative to question his motives.

“I think [the film community could benefit from] being more diligent and knowing when someone has crossed a boundary and maybe not being afraid to offend them but instead just asking them what is their purpose,” she said.

Brasel also said a person’s personal fetishes should not leak into a professional environment, which is what these film sets were to the actors and actresses involved.

“Consent is a big thing,” she said. “I think that’s something to keep in mind going forward: knowing exactly where we stand if someone is taking our project and skewing it for themselves.”

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Dozens gather for the weekly Vigil for Immigration Justice, a multi-deonominational show of support for immigrant communities.

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Speaking up

Outrage over family-separating immigration policies leads to renewed local advocacy.

By Ben Luschen

Michelle Stearnes was unable to attend a rally earlier in the week outside of U.S. Sen. James Lankford’s Oklahoma City office, but she could not let the week go by without being heard.

Stearnes, carrying a red sign reading “FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER,” was one of several dozen people who showed up for June 20’s Vigil for Immigration Justice. The multi-congregational vigil — organized as part of the national New Sanctuary Movement by more than 800 faith communities in support of immigrants facing deportation — have been held weekly since January outside an alleged, unmarked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office near the intersection of NW 56th Street and N. Portland Avenue.

While the vigils — which include hymns, prayer and words of encouragement from several faith and community leaders — have been going on for the past six months, there was a renewed sense of urgency among those who gathered June 20 related to reports of undocumented immigrant parents being separated from their children on the country’s southern border. Many of those children were kept in immigration detention centers.

“We need massive crowds now,” Stearnes said. “We need to fill this parking lot up with people who are upset about it.”

A few hours after the vigil, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting border family separations.

However, in accordance with a 1997 court settlement, the order only applies to the first 20 days of parents’ incarceration, and Congress will need to find a permanent fix. The order also does not describe how or whether children

currently in detention center will be reunited with their parents.

Both Lankford, R-OK, and U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, have voiced their support for the Keep Families Together and Enforce the Law Act, which would keep children with their parents as they progress through their legal proceedings.

Turning out

Stearnes, who grew up in a farming community with exposure to several migrant families, said her initial reaction to hearing of the family separations was sadness and intense anger. She has long been against Trump’s harsh public stances against immigrants but is disturbed by the most recent developments. Stearnes committed to work on the weekend so she could take off to attend the vigil.

“It’s gotten so much worse, if that was even possible,” she said. “I was just like, ‘I’ve got to come down here.’”

The crowd gathered for the vigil was larger than had been gathered in previous weeks, but Stearnes said she would like to see an even stronger presence going forward.

“I think everyone needs to get out here and let it be known how they feel about this,” she said. “It’s not right, it’s not acceptable and it needs to stop right now.”

HollyAnne Weaver, a deacon-elect from Holy Spirit Eastern Christian Church (Orthodox), offered a prayer at the gathering. She said Hispanic people were being unfairly targeted by the policy and other groups who enter the country illegally are not subjected to the same treatment.

“It’s a policy that is completely flawed,” Weaver said after the vigil. “These children are going to be raised with separation anxiety and abandonment issues.”

Before the executive order was signed, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the biblical passage Romans 13 as justification for the separations while speaking with law enforcement officers in Indiana.

According to the New International Version translation, the first verse of the chapter reads, “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” Weaver took issue with Sessions’ scripture citation, saying that scripture also indicates that the law should not violate the will of God and that the separation of children from their parents is not Christ-like. She said she has no tolerance for the use of the Bible to justify inhumane acts.

“That’s what blasphemy is,” Weaver said, “and they’re doing it every day.”

We know there are families who are being torn apart right under our noses in our neighborhoods.

Serena Prammanasudh

Work to do

Trump’s executive order might have put a momentary stop to family separations at the border, but Dream Action Oklahoma (DAOK) executive director Serena Prammanasudh said the move left the local immigrant empowerment organization with lot to be desired.

“We don’t think the E.O. absolves the government from implementing an inhumane policy that separates children from their parents,” Prammanasudh said, “and it doesn’t change the fact that due process is a constitutional right for citizens and non-citizens.”

DAOK is organizing a Keep Families Together rally 1 p.m. Saturday inside the state Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd.

The rally was planned before the executive order as part of a national day of action by the national MoveOn advocacy group, and Prammanasudh said it will continue as planned because the order does nothing to reunite detained children with their parents or acknowledge a non-citizen’s right to seek asylum at the border. In addition to DAOK, the event is being locally co-sponsored by March On Oklahoma, Black Lives Matter OKC and Indivisible Oklahoma.

Prammanasudh said DAOK has not been contacted by any families affected by the family separating policies. She

has heard rumors that some detainees might be moved to a facility somewhere in Tulsa, but DAOK had not been able to confirm that by deadline.

Still, Prammanasudh believes the impact is just as local. Many local migrant families live in fear of having their own family lives suddenly uprooted.

“We know there are families who are being torn apart right under our noses in our neighborhoods,” she said. “That’s just less visible to the American public, and that’s actually one of the main messages we want to get across at our rally.”

The highly covered and highly unpopular (only 28 percent of respondents approved in a local CNN poll) family separations moved a lot of people to demand action. Prammanasudh is happy for the fresh wave of momentum in support of immigrants but wishes it could have come in another way.

“These cries and the audio recordings of children crying out for their parents are definitely pulling at the heartstrings of Americans,” she said, “but it took that immorality and inhumane treatment for people to realize that it’s time to stand up for the immigrant community in this country and in this state.”

Staying focused

DAOK hopes increased interest in immigration can be channeled into interest in extending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that gives those brought to the United States illegally a two-year renewable permit granting them the opportunity to apply for a work permit and avoid deportation. The future of DACA has been in doubt since President Trump announced last September that the program would be ending, and the president’s requests that Congress find a solution have not made much progress so far.

Prammanasudh remains focused on DACA renewals at the local level. In fact, the Keep Families Together rally had to be scheduled at 1 p.m. because DAOK has Know Your Rights and DACA clinics already planned for earlier in the day.

Despite uncertainty in the future, Prammanasudh is optimistic about immigration issues going forward.

“I think that’s really the only option you have as a concerned resident of this country,” she said.

While it might seem like immigration issues are things that can only be hashed out in Washington, D.C., DAOK wants Oklahomans to realize that progress starts at home.

“That’s really what we want to highlight, that immigration is a federal issue,” Prammanasudh said, “but it can be attacked at the state level.”

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Fans of Pixar’s Ratatouille have been clamoring for a sequel to the loveable tale of the anthropomorphic rat that dreams of becoming a chef since it raked in over $600 million at the box office in 2007.

It appears a Wendy’s franchise in Catoosa might have been taking those claims a little too seriously. Video of a mouse running through a package of hamburger buns was posted online after employees told KJRH that management did nothing to rectify the health code violations.

“The managers, they’re just like ‘Yeah, we’ll get to it; yeah it’s not really that big of an issue,’ employee Skylar Frame told the news station.

Another employee, Samantha Niebelink, said she got video of another rat about a month earlier.

“The next time, I found an actual live mouse in there, crawling around, eating all the burger buns.

[The manager] told me ‘Just take a new rack and get buns underneath.’ That was just disgusting because last time there was rat feces it was dribbling underneath every other rack,” Niebelink told KJRH. Both employees said they planned to quit if management doesn’t make improvements, but by talking to the media, we imagine that they might’ve already forced their hand.

KJRH reports that the health department did not find any violations when they followed up after the videos, which means someone did an elaborate job of cleaning up or maybe trained the mice to make the best dang spicy chicken sandwich you’ve ever tasted.

Un-Trumped?

Is it possible that U.S. Rep. Steve Russell, a staunch conservative with an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association, is making tentative steps toward leaping off the Trump Train? Well don’t worry, you Glock girls and Beretta boys; the gunmanufacturing Oklahoma congressman and owner of Two Rivers Arms isn’t out to repeal the Second Amendment and take your God-given right to bear arms away.

But on June 20, in a speech given on the House floor before a failed vote to curtail legal immigration, Russell spoke up for immigrants and stood as a defender of all that Emma Lazarus promised in her famous poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty. For a bright and shining moment, Russell sounded like — let us all clutch our pearls in unison — a liberal!

Well, maybe not a liberal, but a rational American from days of yore.

“Lady Liberty must continue to raise her arm and keep her torch burning brightly, rather than exchange it for a stiff arm and a middle finger,” Russell said in a speech reported by The Oklahoman. “The words inscribed in her base must not say, ‘Send me only your physicians, your scientists and

your Nobel laureates.’ If we use our passions, anger and fear to snuff out Liberty’s flame by xenophobic and knee-jerk policies, the enemies of liberty win and what makes America exceptional dies.”

Then, he dropped some Biblical wisdom, specifically Proverbs 29:12: “If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants become wicked.”

Now, President Donald Trump isn’t exactly a ruler — I mean, his taste in interior décor is pretty much in line with Nicolae Ceaușescu’s aesthetic and he’s all into commanding this and that and there’s this whole issue with kidnapping and confining children at the southern border – but when the Chicken-Fried News staff heard Russell say this, we looked over at our Scott Pruitt voodoo doll and we could swear that we saw its eyes glow.

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families bringing along relatives as they pursue a new life in an ostensibly free country.

“The idea of family migration, now demonized as chain migration, was originally conceived as a way to ensure immigrants arriving had a supportbased structure, negating or reducing the need for government assistance,” Russell said. “It has largely achieved that aim.”

We at CFN are practically huffing the smelling salts to keep from setting a land speed record for hitting the fainting couch.

Now, cynicism is practically the coin of the realm these days and we don’t like spending it profligately. We thank Rep. Russell for speaking up for real American values that aren’t stitched on the ass of late-night mail order staple Trumpy Bear, and for reminding us all that there should be more that unites us than sets us apart.

Still, Oklahoma’s 5th district seems more competitive than it has in years.

Could it be that Russell is seeing the writing on the wall and thinking that it might be best to run left of Trump on what is his most egregious policy and consequently take some wind out of his competitors’ sails?

Like we said, pretty cynical, huh?

Instead, we’d like to think that the writing on the wall that Russell saw

was etched in the floorboards of a closet and it said, “nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”

Yes, maybe Russell has been binging The Handmaid’s Tale and is now going to take a hard line against Gilead.

Sitting pretty

The park itself won’t be open to visitors until next year, but 70-acre, $132 million Scissortail Park is beginning to feel more and more like a real thing.

Mayor David Holt, MAPS 3 Citizens Advisory Board chair Tom McDaniel and Myriad Botanical Gardens and Scissortail Park executive director Maureen Heffernan gathered June 21 to unveil the park’s new logo, a colorful and somewhat abstract representation of its namesake.

The park, to be located downtown just south of Chesapeake Energy Arena, earned its scissortail moniker after a public poll in 2017. If there is one certain thing about Oklahomans, it’s their undying love for the state bird.

“The Scissortail Park logo is significant for a number of reasons,” Heffernan said at the announcement ceremony. “As an icon, it represents our state bird, but more importantly in the brand development process, Scissortail Park was voted on and chosen by local residents, which in many ways repre-

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sents the community’s first step toward taking ownership of what will be an amazing public space for all to enjoy.”

The esteemed Chicken-Fried News panel fancies itself as a peak source of snark, but even our skeptical eyes are having a hard time finding much wrong with the branding. Sure, it’s not exactly the Nike swoosh, but the bird logo is distinct and colorful. Frankly, it represents this city in a more appealing way than, say, the Oklahoma City Thunder logo, which could not be any safer or generic.

If there is one teensie weensie observation to be made about the Scissortail Park logo, it is that the bird’s yellow-topped head bears an uncanny likeness to President Donald Trump’s iconic golden locks.

Is this bird here to tell us about how this park is the most beautiful and tremendous and “yuge” park among all other parks in the land? Is this bird here to

make parks great again? Coincidentally, Mr. Scissortail here looks like he could be a close cousin of NBC’s amazing technicolor peacock, which happened to brand the bottom left corner of Trump’s The Apprentice (Celebrity and otherwise) for 14 seasons.

Kidding aside, perhaps the most exciting news to emerge out of the announcement was that The Social Order Dining Collective will operate the park’s café. The group is known for the delicious powerplayers The Jones Assembly, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Texadelphia and Seven47.

With a track record that strong, you can bet your flycatchin’ dollar that the CFN brain trust will be frequent diners.

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The Paseo benefits from El Fogoncito, but it doesn’t quite hold up to early experiences.

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El Fogoncito 3020 N. Walker Ave. | 405-225-1583 What works: Pork belly, barbacoa and fish tacos are finished with interesting and tasty toppings.

What needs work: Queso fundido becomes a rock-hard mass of grease and cheese within minutes.

Tip: Check the menu for good lunch and daily weekday specials.

In the discussion of factors that influence housing prices, easy access to a quality taqueria should go right up there with the quality of the education system and crime rates.

The Paseo Arts District got a boost last year as owner Emilio Granja converted the location at the corner of N. Walker Avenue and NW 30th Street into El Fogoncito, a Mexican eatery that harkens back to his time spent in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, after growing up in Chicago.

With the colorful mural depicting a fire (el fogoncito means “little fire” in Spanish), and even more eye-grabbing artwork inside, El Fogoncito is a welcome aesthetic addition to Oklahoma City’s oldest art district. But is the food on par with the district’s offerings that have expanded with the Paseo development (Scratch, Buttermilk) and construction of Shaun Fiaccone and Ryan Parrott’s (Picasso Cafe) Frida underway?

The thing that originally caught my attention at El Fogoncito is its commitment to cook al pastor with care. Al pastor — which made its way to Mexico by way of Lebanese immigrants — marinates pork in chilies and spices before staking the meat and cooking it on a rotisserie, just like gyro or shawarma.

Chicken flautas with sides of rice and beans | Photo Jacob Threadgill

The fat drips through the meat spike to create a juicy finished product with a crunchy exterior.

The photo of the al pastor rotisserie is on the outside of the restaurant, but when I arrived for my review, my first visit in a few months — it was not in its original location near the counter.

“Maybe they moved it to the kitchen or the rotisserie is getting serviced,” I told myself, with al pastor stuck on my mind.

I tested out the al pastor by ordering the queso fundido ($10.99), which is one of El Fogoncito’s signature dishes and graces its cover photo on Facebook. The dish originally served with chorizo when it first opened now pairs al pastor with mushrooms and sirloin steak over a bed of bubbling cheese.

It’s a combination of two types of meat, cheese and mushrooms ­— what could go wrong? Well, it’s a better idea in concept than in execution. The dish arrives in a cast iron skillet with cheese bubbling, but you only have a few minutes before the cheese starts to harden.

But you’ve still got two kinds of meat and those tasty button mushrooms, right? The mushrooms had the most flavor of the three ingredients. The al pastor was dry and not up to the standard by which the restaurant set in an earlier experience. I regretted spending $11 ($9.99 as recently as April) for something that was difficult to eat (chips broke off in the cheese as it cooled) and was a plate full of grease.

I hoped that the al pastor could redeem itself in taco form ($3.25 per taco), but I was once-again disappointed. I liked the accoutrements of pineapple and radishes on the al pastor, but the meat was still dry, even after mixing and matching the three above-average tableside salsas. I also tried the fish

taco ($3.75), which was probably my favorite on my most recent visit. It was nice to get a fish taco that isn’t fried, and the accompanying mango salsa is good, but I would’ve preferred the meat be placed at the bottom of the taco.

I realize that there is no perfect way.

Fish and salsa at the bottom of the taco could cause the tortilla to become soggy and lose structural integrity, but with cabbage on the bottom, it’s a bitter entry into a delightful taco, instead of a crunchy addition.

I was excited to try the barbacoa taco because it is topped with shaved Brussels sprouts in addition to cilantro and cheese.

While the barbacoa is nowhere near as good as Iguana Mexican Grill’s version that uses the impossibly tender beef cheek, it’s a solid taco. From previous experiences, I will also recommend the pork belly taco and its tomatillo sauce.

My dining partner tried the chicken flautas, and I found them to be an adequate version of the dish with good rice, beans and a healthy salad. Once again, the chicken, like the al pastor, was on the dry side.

El Fogoncito offers a few dishes that aren’t readily available in the city: molletes and pozole. The mollete is an openfaced sandwich that hollows out some of the interior of the bread so that it can be filled with your choice of meat, cheese and pico de gallo and then baked and topped with sour cream. It’s hon-

Fish, al pastor and barbacoa tacos at El Fogoncito | Photo Jacob Threadgill

estly a dish I can’t remember encountering before, but it intrigues me enough to want to return.

Pozole is one of my favorite dishes because it reminds me of trips to New Mexico, and I love the big chunks of hominy. Once the weather begins to cool, I will be there for the pork-based stew.

I’ve got to give it to the kitchen for using Brussels as a topper for barbacoa and pork tacos and tortas. We’ve probably been overexposed to Brussels over the past decade, but I’ll never get enough. Slicing them thin and using them as a cabbage or lettuce replacement is inspired.

El Fogoncito offers good lunch and weekday daily specials. It’s a warm location in which to enjoy a drink from the bar, especially with the lively murals surrounding the dining room.

There’s no doubt it has been a welcome addition to the Paseo. I just hope the al pastor returns to form.

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The power of word of mouth was seen in full effect after the opening of Tsubaki Szechuan last November.

The restaurant, located between Military and Western avenues at 1117 NW 25th St. and connected to Super Cao Nguyen, quickly gained an audience of people flocking to the off-the-beatenpath restaurant for its authentic food from the Szechuan region of China.

“The pace has been a lot better than I would’ve expected, especially at the beginning. It started really quickly, and I didn’t think the word would travel that fast,” said manager Bao Nguyen.

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The Lius are native to the Szechuan region, where they grew up and lived for some time before moving to New York City last decade, where they met Yang. The Lius stayed in New York after Yang moved to Oklahoma City, where they operated a Szechuan restaurant in a part of the city that was insulated from tourists and frequented by international students at a nearby university, Nguyen said.

The restaurant had a falling out after problems with an original business partner led to too many investors, and the Lius felt it was being pulled in too many different directions.

“They didn’t like how things were going, and they had heard from Henry on how things were more open down

The authentic Szechuan fish filet is swai, greens, bean sprouts and chili peppers. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

here and thought about making the move,” Nguyen said.

They secured the location that is owned by Super Cao Nguyen, which serves as the restaurant’s main food and produce vendor. Super Cao coowner Ba Luong said that he loves the restaurant because it is “unapologetically authentic.”

“It’s so easy,” Nguyen said of the relationship with Super Cao Nguyen. “If we run out of something, we just run over real quick. Most of the things we need, we just get it there because it’s so fresh. We don’t have to wait for a truck.”

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In the soup

One of the dishes that led to so much wordof-mouth buzz is the soup dumpling.

“I don’t think another restaurant in the city does soup dumplings,” Nguyen said. “That word caught very quickly.

People are like, ‘How the heck do you get soup in a dumpling without it spilling out?’”

Cooking the broth in advance and allowing it to cool so that the fats rise and turns it into a gelatinous mixture creates the soup effect in the finished product.

When the dumpling steams, the broth returns to complete liquid form.

The key to Szechuan cooking is the reliance on a variety of peppers, chief of which is the eponymous Szechuan peppercorn. Instead of being spicy like a traditional black peppercorn in United States cuisine, the Szechuan variety is heavy on floral overtones and creates a tingly and numb feeling on

the tongue caused by the chemical hydroxy alpha sanshool.

“The numbing sensation that is supposed to open up your taste buds so that the actual spice level can hit in a flavorful spot,” Nguyen said. “Some people take a while to get used to it, and some people feel like they’re at the dentist.”

The numbing and tingling effect can be felt after a few bites when the guest takes a sip of water. One of the restaurant’s most popular entrees is the dry spicy tasty beef with ginger and peanuts ($15.95) and showcases the tingling sensation in full effect.

“It’s definitely one of my favorites also just because, with a nice cold beer, it is always pretty great,” Nguyen said.

The authentic Szechuan fish filet is a soup filled with swai, greens, bean sprouts and tons of chopped chilies in a red glow of a broth ($18.95) that is to be poured over rice. The mapo tofu earns regards from Nguyen for its heartiness.

“It makes you feel like you’re not eating tofu because it gives you a hearty flavor,” he said. “It’s like ‘Wow! I’m eating tofu,’ something that is flavorless by itself.”

For all of the dishes on its menu that have garnered fans, Nguyen said that Tsubaki Szechuan offers off-the-menu items and Peter Liu is always able to make a dish happen if it is requested and the ingredients are available.

One of the most popular off-themenu items is the taro chicken. Taro is a purple sweet potato that is slightly more saccharine than its U.S. counterpart. The chicken is stewed in a chili broth with chunks of taro.

“The broth retains the taro flavor, but it works well,” Nguyen said. “It’s a sweet and savory taste with a decent amount of salty. It’s a weirdly good taste. It’s wild to explain.”

Tsubaki Szechuan is open 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5 p.m.-9 p.m. and is closed on Wednesdays. Call 405-609-6606.

Peter Liu is co-owner of Tsubaki Szechuan. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

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After working around the city, baker Sara Miller opens La Confection in her Capitol Hill neighborhood. By Jacob Threadgill

Sara Miller grew up in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of south Oklahoma City with a dream of returning someday with a bakery of her own. That dream was realized last week with the opening of La Confection at 213A SW 25th St. Before Miller could achieve her dream,

she had to gain experience and worked at some of the city’s most successful restaurants and catering companies.

“I’ve always been into food and cooking, but I got into baking when I was little,” Miller said.

After graduating from Capitol Hill

High School, Miller matriculated through Platt College’s culinary arts career training program, where she said that she got a rounded education in savory cooking techniques, food pairings and pastry.

“I like to do stuff that wouldn’t normally go together,” she said. “I do a strawberry basil éclair that pairs well.

I did a watermelon and rosemary sorbet.

I like earthy flavors with the savory balanced with sweet.”

After graduation, Miller became a baker with Ned’s Catering, where she made breads and desserts for private events as small at a 10-person lunch or 500-guest dinner. She then created pastry for Western Concepts’ Vast at the top of Devon Tower.

Miller was then recruited by chef Andrew Black to open his since-closed Meatball House in Norman. After some time in private dining, Miller felt it was time to completely round out her experience by learning front-of-the-house operations through a general manager position with Coolgreens.

“I’ve tried to soak up as much as I can,” Miller said. “Each job has been slightly different enough to get complete perspective on things.”

When it came time to look for a location, she wanted to return to Capitol Hill. It was a move that was facilitated by a loan through the Oklahoma City Planning Department’s Commercial District Revolving Loan Fund.

Capitol Hill’s main street is one of 14 sections in the city eligible for the fund that starts at $20,000 for a microenterprise that employs up to five people.

“I wouldn’t have even known about the program until my friend told me about it,” Miller said.

At Ned’s Catering, she learned how to plan and prepare in advance of large orders. Working with Andrew Black, she experienced the fast-paced life on the cooking line, and with Coolgreens, she learned more about financials, marketing and how to manage customer flow. It is her time with Vast that gave her inspiration for the daily menus changes at La Confection.

“Having my own bakery has been my dream since I went my own culinary route. I figured it was time and that I was ready to do my own thing,” Miller said.

“I wanted something a little more upscale pastry, something that is just now getting to Oklahoma. Most bakeries tend to do a lot of cakes, which are really popular — especially cupcakes are crazy.

I wanted something different, and bring my background from Vast, I wanted bigger city pastry-type shops here.”

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“We want to offer some stuff that you can pick up on the way home from work to go with dinner, either bread or dessert,” Miller said, noting that they offered a focaccia as well as garlic knots that pair well with dinner in its opening week.

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“I get a sweet tooth every now and then, and I’ll take one bite and think ‘That’s enough.’ I can’t do a whole lot of sugar, so the fruit tart is sweet but not overly so, and the fresh fruit on top gives it that extra natural sweetness,” she said. “You have the creaminess, crunch from the tart shell and the bite from the fruit is a good combination.”

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Hatch has been a breakout success since opening in Automobile Alley in 2016, and it earned Food Network’s recognition as having the best pancakes in the state earlier this year. The opening of the second location in Chisholm Creek hasn’t exactly alleviated the wait at either spot, but it does mean more pancakes, and that’s a win for everyone.

After finding success with the Asian fusion concept in Tulsa, McNellie’s Restaurant Group brought the restaurant to anchor Chisholm Creek as one of its first tenants. The menu spans all types of sushi — including poke salads — ramen and Chinese- and Thaiinspired rice and noodle dishes. The tempura-fried Hot Mess roll features chipotle cream cheese, jalapeño, spicy tuna and crab.

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A love story that started in Argentina by way of Italy and France is Oklahoma City’s gain. Owners and husband-andwife duo Matti Ruggi and Laura Szyld bring their European training to Chisholm Creek for the city’s most delectable desserts. The cheesecake is encased in a layer of mousse, and the croissants are worthy of museum gallery space and taste as good as they look.

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Slice of life

An Oklahoma City artist is the secret behind Hideaway Pizza’s signature large-scale collages.

By Jacob Threadgill

All of the furniture in artist Jessica Petrus’ house — save for a small couch — has wheels on it. She never knows when everything will have to be moved to make room to work on a giant collage that has become a trademark at many of the 18 Hideaway Pizza locations across Oklahoma and into Arkansas.

“My family doesn’t even mind,” Petrus said. “My son was a baby when I started, and it’s been so long that it’s a lifestyle. They’ll come home and I’ll say ‘Hey, I need you to move this,’ or ‘You can’t come through this doorway,’ and they don’t even think about it.”

In total, Petrus has created more than 30 collages for Hideaway that began with an entry into the company’s millennium collage competition in 1999.

Petrus is a self-taught artist with experience in painting and jewelry making and entered the competition on the advice of a friend. She took home a $2,000 prize and developed a relationship with Hideaway that has turned art into a full-time career.

“I feel like a secret,” Petrus said. “I’m blessed to have the continued support of Hideaway Pizza, and that they still like my work. Being a working artist is a tough thing to do.”

Petrus is also the set designer for the city-run Northwest Optimist Performing Arts Center, an instructor at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and a member of Oklahoma Arts Council’s prequalified artist pool for her work in largescale installation work.

Collage connection

Hideaway Pizza’s connection to collages dates back to its original Stillwater store.

When Richard and Marti Dermer purchased the Stillwater location in 1960, they were college students, just like the ones they were serving at the hole-inthe-wall location, so they didn’t have much money, according to Hideaway’s marketing director Janie Harris.

The Dermers needed to decorate the space with whatever they could find: cutouts of old Life and National Geographic magazines and whatever else they could find. “[The collage] was famous to anyone who went there because you never knew what you were going to sit next to,” Harris said. “When they moved to a new Stillwater location, they had to make a new collage because it was so popular.”

The Dermers sold the rights to Hideaway Pizzas outside of Stillwater to former Hideaway dishwasher Gary Gabrel, who made a fortune after developing and selling the board game Pente to Hasbro.

A sports collage was included in Oklahoma City’s first Hideaway Pizza in 1997, and in honor of the upcoming millennium, Hideaway started the collage competition as a way to give back to the community. The Oklahoma Centennial Project got involved and extended the competition for the state’s 2007 Centennial, ultimately ending in 2010. Each year, Hideaway gave away $10,000, often to Oklahoma public education departments, whose art students supplied many of the selections.

“We started hanging them in our restaurants because they’re beautiful and some of them are mind-bogglingly intricate, fascinating and artistically creative,” Harris said. “As a result, we liked the idea of a [large] custom collage for each restaurant as we started growing the company.”

With Hideaway’s first Edmond and Norman locations set to open, management kept coming back to Petrus’ submission.

“Her collage totally broke all the rules,” Harris said. “It made me crazy because it was a really great collage, but she did it in the wrong direction and used the wrong wood with a different finish.”

Petrus was hired to create a 24-foot collage featuring the history of Oklahoma jazz musicians for the Edmond store and another 24-foot piece with University of Oklahoma athletes in Norman. Petrus is the artist behind the scenes of every large-scale collage.

“Her work is meticulous,” Harris said of Petrus. “She does a great job with the research and brings a fresh look to the ideas.”

The collages take different forms.

There are some dedicated to athletes, others are filled with historical photos — like ones in Moore, Bartlesville and in Conway, Arkansas. There are also the “faces” collages, comprised of photos taken of customers or submitted from the community.

“I can easily identify people,” Petrus said. “It is the weird thing about doing these collages and seeing so many faces is that I’ll be out and about, and I’ll want to wave to someone because I recognize them from photographs in the collages.”

Harris said that the faces collages are among the most popular with customers.

“There is one up in Edmond, and we took it down when we remodeled and people were like ‘Where are our faces?

I got my picture taken when I was six and show it to people every time I come in.’ It’s so fun to have something people can relate to,” Harris said.

A collage at Hideaway Pizza in Norman | Photo provided

New Western location

A collage at a Hideaway in Tulsa | Photo provided

The “Faces of Western” collage will move from the original Oklahoma City location at the corner of NW 66th Street and Western Avenue to its new twostory, 244-seat restaurant at the intersection of NW 50th Street and Western Avenue, which is set to open July 11. The original Western location will close for good July 8.

Petrus will have a second collage in the new Hideaway and an updated version of the sports collage that survived the 2012 fire at the original Western Avenue location. Petrus added more Thunder players and converted the 24-foot piece into a two-sided 4-foot by 8-foot collage that will hang in the waiting area.

The first 57 groups at the new Hideaway location will receive a gift bag with $57 worth of gift cards (in honor of its 1957 founding), and one bag will have a gift card for a year’s worth of pizza. The first 200 takeout orders with two large pizzas will receive an insulated heat bag.

Jessica Petrus won Hideaway’s inaugural collage contest in 1999 and became the restaurant’s main artist, creating its signature collages at 18 locations. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

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Break-ups Carpenter Square’s My Brilliant Divorce takes aim at the broken heart’s club. By Heather Warlick

Angela calls a Suicide Helpline just for someone to visit with. She’s not suicidal, just lonely and looking for conversation with a human rather than her dog Dexter. Angela places a “lonely hearts” ad, takes solo vacations and even makes an awkward visit to a sex shop.

Angela is suddenly single after her husband announces he has met another woman and is leaving. Who hasn’t been there? OK, so it might be a “girls-nightout” play, but many men will be able to relate to as well.

Don’t get depressed. Divorce is hilarious in the hands of Oklahoma actress Lili Bassett in Carpenter Square’s latest production, My Brilliant Divorce.

Written by Geraldine Aron, the comedy follows Angela, an American in London dealing with her new “single lady” status.

The three-actor play features Laurie Blankenship and Richie Rayfield portraying more than a dozen characters each alongside Bassett’s Angela.

“The two other actors play all the men and women she interacts with during the three years following the divorce,” said Rhonda Clark, artistic director at Carpenter Square Theatre and director of My Brilliant Divorce.

Blankenship and Rayfield take on Angela’s lawyer, mother, doctor, cleaning women, relatives, husband’s lovers and estranged husband.

The part of Angela spoke to Bassett

partly because she could relate to Angela’s plight.

“Oh, that’s so sad … that’s tragic,” is a common reaction when Bassett tells her friends about the play, which runs Friday to July 21. “But it’s actually, it’s a comedy. There are so many parts of it that are so inspiring and heartwarming, and anybody who’s ever had a broken heart and bounced back will definitely be able to relate to this story because I know I certainly can.”

Bassett is no stranger to opening her emotions and wounds on stage. She has been performing around central Oklahoma and particularly at Carpenter Square for more than two decades.

“It’s challenging and it’s exciting and just one of the best things I’ve ever had the opportunity to do,” Bassett said.

“I’m just so grateful to Rhonda for giving me the opportunity for doing this particular role because a lot of the things that Angela is going through I have gone through not too long ago. So it’s exciting for an actress to get that … to have a role that is so close to your own real life.”

It’s a sort of method acting and therapy at once for Bassett.

“Yeah, yeah, that’s exactly it. I mean, you just put yourself in. You just take from your life what you can apply to the role and it just comes,” she said. “I mean, it’s genuine. In fact, there are still ... there

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The play is one woman’s story and has been presented as a one-woman show, but her estranged husband is the main counterpart as well as her patient doctor, who has been dealing with her hilarious hypochondria for years.

Taking the three-actor approach to the show gives the play the added dimension of seeing the characters Angela bemoans, and the job for Blankenship and Rayfield means constant popping in and out of wigs, quick costume changes, prop changes and keeping track of what might be clinically classified as dissociative identity disorder outside the acting world.

The gender choice of the show’s premise might seem a bit trite, but Clark said you could flip genders and the show would still work.

“Wives leave their husbands, too,” Clark said. “I would say that [Bassett] nails what happens when anyone gets divorced, rather than stereotyping it.”

My Brilliant Divorce moves quickly, in and out of mini-scenes, which keeps the pace of the show fluid. The story is told with a modern approach (presentational and theatrical, Clark said), and Angela’s optimistic gullibility causes her to say things she doesn’t even know are hilarious.

“It’s never too late to bloom and discover who you really are,” Clark said.

Bassett has been blooming as a local actress for years, having performed often at Carpenter Square Theatre. In August, she and Clark were the leads in Ripcord.

“When Carpenter Square chooses their season, they may not be the most well-known plays, but they always have wonderful women’s roles,” Bassett said.

“And I think they have figured out the talent pool here, that there are a lot of actresses in a lot of age ranges that are talented, have been well-trained, that are very disciplined and willing to work.

So I think that’s very wise of them.”

Being a bit beyond the ingénue roles for young women, Bassett joked, you move to the mom, then you graduate into a Golden Girl.

“I’m kind of between the mom roles and the Golden Girls roles,” Bassett said.

My Brilliant Divorce runs 8 p.m. June 29-30 and July 6-7; 7:30 p.m. July 12, 8 p.m. July 13-14 and 2 p.m. July 15; and 7:30 p.m. July 19 and 8 p.m. July 20-21.

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The OKC metro offers multiple ways to celebrate Independence Day right. By Jeremy Martin Park, 3001 General Pershing Blvd.

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Liberty & Lasers

For those that like their Independence Day soundtrack with more drop-beats than John Philip Sousa could have ever imagined, Liberty & Lasers features EDM acts BoomBox, Russ Liquid, Artifakts and more. All ages are welcome. The show starts 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday at Lost Lakes Amphitheater, 3501 N.E. 10th St. Admission is $25-$35.

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Last week, the US withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council while images of refugee children locked in cages were virtually inescapable on every media platform. So packing a picnic and passing out sparklers to commemorate living in the “land of the free” might feel funny this Fourth of July.

But there is this.

“To be an American is to have a shared commitment to an ideal,” wrote President Barack Obama recently in a Facebook post, “that all of us are created equal, and all of us deserve the chance to become something better.”

Maybe that ideal, that chance to be better, for which so many have fought and died and lived, is still worth celebrating.

So let’s do it.

Red, White, and Boom!

Join the Oklahoma City Philharmonic in remembering America’s 242nd birthday with fireworks and a concert conducted by Alexander Mickelthwate and featuring the Pops Chorale and Mayor David Holt. Hear “America the Beautiful,” “Stars and Stripes Forever” and more. Red, white and blue clothes are recommended, and blankets and chairs are welcome; however, pets, glass bottles and alcohol are not. The concert starts at 8:30 p.m. and the fireworks begin at 10 p.m. Tuesday at State Fair

A Celebration in the Heartland

City of Moore hosts an all-day celebration featuring local food trucks, a volleyball tournament, kids’ activities such as face painting and inflatables, and live music, culminating in a large fireworks display. No pets, glass containers or alcoholic beverages are allowed. Festivities begin 10 a.m. Wednesday, and fireworks start at dark (about 9:45 p.m.) at Buck Thomas Park, 1903 NE 12th St., in Moore.

Visit cityofmoore.com.

Tribute to Liberty

Bring lawn chairs or a blanket and a picnic dinner — or purchase one from your choice of several food trucks. Listen to live music by Dr. Irv Wagner’s Concert Band, and finish the evening watching a City of Midwest City-sponsored fireworks display. The event begins at 6 p.m., and fireworks are scheduled to start at dark (about 9:45 p.m.) at Joe B. Barnes Regional Park, 8700 E. Reno Ave., in Midwest City. Admission is free. Visit midwestcityok.org.

Oklahoma City Dodgers vs. Round Rock Express

Baseball is the only sport American enough to give Mom and apple pie a run for their money, so why not celebrate Independence Day with the Dodgers?

A five-game series against Round Rock

begins on the Fourth, and the first three nights all end in fireworks, the way Major General Abner Doubleday might well have intended if he had actually invented the sport. The game begins 7:05 p.m. Wednesday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive. Tickets are $8-$26. Visit ticketmaster.com.

Norman Day

Live music, pony rides, moon bounces, food trucks and the ever-popular baby races await celebrators at this annual event that bills itself as “Norman’s best fireworks show.” The festivities begin at 3 p.m., and the fireworks start 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at Reaves Park, 2501 Jenkins Ave., in Norman. Admission is free. Visit normanok.gov.

Bethany Freedom Festival

Now in its 59th year, Bethany’s Fourth of July celebration starts with a patriotic parade through downtown followed by a party featuring live music, pop-up shops and food trucks and, of course, ending with a fireworks display. The parade begins 10 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of NW 39th Street and College Avenue and proceeding to Rockwell Avenue before ending at Eldon Lyon Park at 7400 NW 36th St. in Bethany, where the rest of the festivities take place beginning at 4 p.m. Fireworks start at 9:55 p.m. Admission is free. Visit cityofbethany.org.

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Spend the day at Frontier City amusement park and brave the Diamondback and Silver Bullet rollercoasters. Put your kids on the Grand Carousel and ride the Tornado and the Grand Centennial Ferris Wheel as a family.

Take in a show like The World of Magic, The Wild-West Gunfighter Stunt Show and Two John’s Saloon Revue. Then finish out the evening with fireworks.

The park opens at 10:30 a.m., and the fireworks begin around 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday at Frontier City, 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road. Tickets are free-$39.99. Call 405-478-2140 or visit frontiercity.com.

Red, White, and Boom! begins 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at State Fair Park. | Photos provided

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by Hi-Fi Hillbillies, Irv Wagner’s Concert Band, Mike Black & The Stingrays, Superfreak and the Oklahoma City Philharmonic provide the party soundtrack. Festivities begin 5 p.m. Tuesday at Chisholm Trail Park, 500 W. Vandament Ave., in Yukon, culminating in a fireworks show beginning at 10 p.m. Festivities continue 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday at Yukon City Park, 2200 S. Holly Ave., and then move back to Chisholm Trail Park at 5 p.m., ending in the grand finale fireworks show beginning at 10 p.m. Admission is free.

Visit yukonok.gov.

LibertyFest

Named by CNN and USA Today as one of the top 10 Independence Day celebrations in the nation, Edmond’s LibertyFest draws more than 100,000 visitors each year and features a car show, a concert, a rodeo, a road rally, a kite festival, a food tasting and a parade in a weeklong schedule of events leading up to a fireworks display synchronized to music played on University of Central Oklahoma’s radio station KZUC 99.3. The band concert begins 7:30 p.m.

Thursday at UCO, 100 N. University Drive, in Edmond. The rodeo begins 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday at Carl Benne Rodeo Grounds, 300 N. Kelly Ave. Tickets are $5.

The car show takes place 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Saturday at Hafer Park, 1034 S. Bryant Ave. Admission is free. The Kite Festival is from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday (weather permitting) at Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell Road.

Admission is free. Registration for the Road Rally begins at 10 a.m. Sunday at Earl’s Rib Palace, 212 S. Broadway. The entry fee is $10, and helicopter rides will also be available for $40. Taste of Edmond takes place 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday at Edmond Festival Market Place, 30 W. First St. Wristbands are $12 from official vendors, $14 online, or $20 at the event.

The parade begins 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 4, on a 1.5-mile route through downtown Edmond beginning at the intersection of Ayers Street and University Drive.

Admission is free. The fireworks begin 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 4, at Hafer Park.

Visit libertyfest.org.

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Strong spines Nappy Roots Books stocks great literature for a diverse community. By Jeremy Martin

Maybe you can’t get everything from Amazon — like connections and understanding.

“Most bookstores — cool bookstores at least — are much more than just a place to go and buy a book,” said Camille Landry, who recently reopened Nappy Roots Books with her husband, Banbose Shango. “It’s a place to hang out. It’s a place to talk. And it’s definitely something that the AfricanAmerican community in Oklahoma City lacks, just a place where people can go and think big thoughts and have big conversations about big issues, or small issues for that matter, in a space that’s safe and empowering.”

Advertised as “Oklahoma’s only black bookstore,” Nappy Roots originally opened in the New Black Wall Street Marketplace in 2017 but closed after a few months. Realizing the ongoing need for such a business, Landry and Shango decided to re-open the store in a new location at 3705 Springlake Drive earlier this month.

“Bookstores do not make a lot of money. It’s not something that’s going to let me retire to a Caribbean island,” Landry said. “One of the primary goals in opening this bookstore wasn’t just to sell books and promote literacy, it’s also to be a place where communities who maybe don’t have as much of a voice as they need to can do their thing in a safe space.”

She soon realized that the black community wasn’t the only minority population in Oklahoma in need of a safe space for sharing their experiences.

“The LGBTQ community is marginalized, and the whole genre of literature is developing,” Landry said. “There’s some really awesome works by authors, and I

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realized that I knew a lot of people in Oklahoma that were writing. It’s a community’s voice that needs to be heard.”

Pride-Ful Books, a reading and panel discussion featuring local LGBTQ+ authors, will take place 6-8 p.m. Saturday at Nappy Roots. Asa Leveaux, one of the authors scheduled to appear, said spaces like Nappy Roots are vital to people trying to find a connection to the world around them.

“I believe that bookstores are important because nerds like me still exist,” Leveaux said. “We get a bit of total, unnatural excitement from the smell of pages, and it is real, and there is not an iPad or Kindle that will erase that or replace that. ... There’s nothing that makes you feel more like you’re not alone in the world than to read the words of someone else that maybe looks like you, feels like you or loves like you.”

Understanding identity

Helping marginalized people realize their importance was Leveaux’s main objective for writing I Am Man Enough: 365 Affirmations for Men and collecting essays from female writers for its companion book, I Am Woman Enough.

Most bookstores — cool bookstores at least — are much more than just a place to go and buy a book.

Camille Landry “My entire reason for doing most of the work I do is so that people really do know that they are enough, because a lot of times we’re doing things because we don’t feel like we’re enough because someone before told you that you were not pretty enough, not beautiful enough, not handsome enough, not skinny enough,” Leveaux said. “There are so many things that someone once told us about ourselves that we then believed, and now we have this preoccupation with self and we do a lot of things so that we can be seen in different lights. Even as a veteran, I’ve seen people get into the military just because their dads felt like they weren’t man enough. So to prove their dad wrong, here they are at basic training.”

Leveaux, who also founded the online educational resource Queer School, said growing up as a bisexual

African-American made him appreciate reading the works of people with struggles similar to his own.

“If you’re a little boy in Oklahoma, don’t be a little black boy,” Leveaux said.

“And you’re gay, or having effeminate traits? Yeah, you’re probably pumped full of ideas that you don’t matter. Your identity is being dismissed, and so you’re looked over. No one actually sees you.

It’s like they just stomach you, but they don’t celebrate you. They just deal with you and allow you to be, but you need to remember your place, and you need to remember that you need to be quiet. So the fact that LGBTQ people are writing is totally counter to that because you are showcasing the voices of LGBTQ people.”

Another author scheduled to appear is Sharon Bishop-Baldwin, who, along with her wife, Mary, wrote Becoming Brave: Winning Marriage Equality in Oklahoma and Finding Our Voice about their successful decade-long legal battle for the right to get married. BishopBaldwin said that holding an LGBTQ+ event in an African-American bookstore will hopefully give the two disenfranchised groups, which in many cases overlap, a chance to better communicate.

“In 2018, I think anything we’re doing as marginalized communities to improve intersectionality, to understand each other, not only our historic plight but our current frustrations and challenges, I think that’s a good thing,” Bishop-Baldwin said, “because if you took all of the marginalized communities and you put us together as allies for one another, there’s more of quote ‘us’ than there are of quote ‘them.’

When your own government is targeting, like in our case, where you see that the legislature is repeatedly targeting the LGBTQ community, and certainly the federal government is doing some of that, and I know people of color, especially like right now, you’re seeing they’re facing huge challenges. They’re being targeted by the government, so I think if we all realized, ‘I’m not a Muslim, but I certainly can understand

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the Muslim’s plight, and I certainly understand the immigrant’s plight. …

Despite what I’m not, I can be an ally.’

I think a bookstore, where people naturally seem to gravitate for information and enlightenment, I think that’s a perfect place to say, ‘You know, this is primarily a book store for black people, but LGBTQ transcends race.

There are people who are in the African-American community who are also gay. … I think it’s really good if we’re increasing opportunities for people to find fulfillment regarding both of their identities or all of their multiple identities in the same places.”

Other authors include Lauren Brazzle, Sara Cunningham, Paula Sophia Schonauer, Riley Ross and Jacqueline Downing. Landry said she’s considering hosting an LGBTQ+ writers’ workshop and meetup at Nappy Roots. The store will also host Happy Nappy Storytime for children age 2 and older 2 p.m. July 7.

“It’s an opportunity to bring kids in, turn them on to books and let them have fun,” Landry said. “It’s also really, really important for children of color to have access to literature where they see themselves reflected in it.”

When school starts in the fall, Nappy Roots, affiliated with the nonprofit Youth Uplift, will begin offering homework help after school and reading clinics on the weekends. Landry has also begun collecting literature by Native authors in Oklahoma and plans on hosting spoken-word poetry slams and events for children’s authors.

The store is currently seeking donations of new and gently used books to send to children held in U.S. government detention facilities.

“There are a lot of underserved communities when it comes to literature,” Landry said. “I don’t think I can do it all, but I can whittle away at pieces of it that are accessible to me.”

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Open opportunity The all-ages Public Access open mic finds a new home in The Paseo Arts District. By Ben Luschen

Every healthy, vibrant creative community needs its ground level — a gateway into live performance with little to no entry threshold where musicians, comedians and artists of all levels of experience can practice their craft and express themselves.

In Oklahoma City, that foundation is found at local open mic events around the metro area. In particular, the best place for beginners to flex their creative muscles or work their way through new material is the Public Access open mic, the city’s only allages open mic event.

While the event has welcomed performers of all types for years, there was a time earlier this year when its future appeared foggy.

Formerly held in 16th Street Plaza District at The Venue OKC, Public Access was without a home as recently as early June. For a while, host Alex Nicole Sanchez was unsure if or when he would find a new home for the event, but he secured a home recently at The Paseo Plunge, 3010 Paseo St., in The Paseo Arts District. Free signup begins 7 p.m. Sundays with performances starting around 7:30 p.m.

Sanchez, who is also a local standup comic, said finding a new home for Public Access was a huge deal for the significant population of performers who would rather not play another event somewhere that is not all-ages.

“It’s insanely important,” Sanchez said. “These kids need somewhere to go that’s not a bar.”

Before moving to The Venue, Public Access was formerly held inside the neighboring District House coffee shop.

Sanchez said Paseo Plunge, which also houses Holey Rollers and Literati Press, reminds him of the layout that used to fit so well with the open mic’s format.

“I couldn’t be happier,” he said. “I love it because it’s the same setup. It’s tables along the right side, it’s chairs up here with the coffee table. It’s great.”

Sanchez said Public Access has grown into something separate from

Local comic Alex Nicole Sanchez hosts the Public Access open mic every Sunday evening inside The Paseo Plunge. | Photo Ben Luschen

the local music and comedy communities. It is its own scene, and while there are no content restrictions, it is a wholesome and accepting environment open to people of all backgrounds. For some people, it is the place they feel the most free.

“It’s the one that’s for weirdos,” Sanchez said. “All the weird art kids like to come to this [open mic], and I’m proud of that. It’s fostered a real community.”

At home

A first experience performing in front of a crowd at an open mic has all the makings of a terrifying experience. But Sanchez, who first tried his standup material out in front of the Public Access crowd in September 2014, found a place of comfort his first time behind the microphone.

“Everyone was really nice to me about it, so I kept coming,” he said.

“That sort of became my home.”

Sanchez has always been comfortable as a performer, be it as a comic or a musician. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma (ACM@UCO), which is where he met his late friend Will Ogletree, a fellow comic and musician who was Sanchez’s Open Access co-host before his death in summer 2017.

Sanchez always imagined himself ending up in comedy. His first open mic appearance actually felt more like a fulfillment of destiny than setting foot in unfamiliar territory.

“I’m comfortable on stage,” he said, “and even my first time, I was more comfortable doing comedy than I was doing music.”

Comedy and stand-up were a vital part of Sanchez’s upbringing. He was exposed to the work of many comedians through his father and always aspired to someday try his own material.

“My dad, he was a big comedy head,”

Sanchez said. “My brother and I were kind of bred in a comedy dojo.”

Better fit

Public Access existed in harmony with District House for several years, but when management changed, they were told to move into The Venue next door.

Sanchez said the open mic was grandfathered into the space’s programming lineup and always felt out of place on the big stage.

In late April, The Venue’s management approached Sanchez and told him they were shifting their programming focus.

“They were like, ‘Hey, man, they’re making some changes. I don’t think we’re going to be able to do it,’” Sanchez said.

Management offered Public Access use of another space it owned, but Sanchez felt it would be better to find a new, cozier home closer to the environment that existed at District House.

“It was nice at The Venue,” he said.

“I liked having a big stage, but it didn’t feel the same.”

After striking out with attempts to move the open mic to some other places, Sanchez was eventually approached by longtime Public Access attendee Michael Martin, whose father Charles Martin manages The Paseo Plunge.

Michael asked Sanchez in late May if he thought The Plunge would be a good location, and the host loved the idea.

Things moved quickly from there, and within a week, they had already set up their first show in the new location.

Martin began attending the open mic as a way of satisfying his itch for standup comedy. He had been working on some jokes but had nowhere to perform them — at least until he became aware of Public Access. He has since taken a break from his comedy work but still made a point to attend Public Access to watch the other performers.

Martin is happy the all-ages event has found a community-centric space to continue offering a platform to those who need it.

“Our goal really isn’t to make money,” Michael Martin said. “It’s to provide a space for anyone who’s weird and has an urge to perform to get five minutes to do whatever he or she wants. We’re going to try and keep this going for as long as we can.”

Sanchez hopes the event attracts many newcomers in its new location.

He wants anyone with creative energy to be able to express it in an accepting environment. No one should feel limited by lack of opportunity.

“I would like to see more people come to it,” he said. “I would like for us to have to put more chairs back there.

I would like for it to be tough to fit everyone in here.”

Public Access open mic 7 p.m. Sundays The Paseo Plunge | 3010 Paseo St. paseoplunge.com | 405-315-6224

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Books 20 Years of Harry Potter celebrate two decades of the young-adult book series with a costume contest, games and prizes, 5-7 p.m. June 29. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. FRI

Doggie Kissing Booth smooch a pooch for charity, with proceeds from photos and drink specials benefitting Underdog Rescue, 6-9 p.m. June 27.

The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., 405-879-3808, bleugarten.com. WED

Alexandra Ott and Kim Ventrella the children’s authors will autograph their latest books: Ott’s Rules for Thieves and Ventrella’s The Skeleton Tree, 1-3 p.m. June 30. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. SAT

Fiesta Friday: World Cup Fever this soccerthemed block party features human foosball, demonstrations from Futbol Factory OKC, live music, taco trucks and kids’ activities, 7-10 p.m. June 29.

Historic Capitol Hill, 319 SW 25th St., 405-632-0133, historiccapitolhill.com. FRI

English Queens - Fact & Fiction compare and contrast two books, one fact and one fiction, about British monarchs at this monthly book club, 10-11:30 a.m. Thursdays. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU Reading Wednesdays a story time with naturethemed books along with an interactive song and craft making, 10 a.m. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com. WED

Film A.I. / Minority Report (2001/2002, USA, Steven Spielberg) the nature of humanity and reality is disrupted and altered by technology in this double feature of Spielberg sci-fi films, 6 p.m. June 30.

Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., 405-708-6937, towertheatreokc.com. SAT Dick Tracy (1990, USA, Warren Beatty) Actor-director Beatty plays the iconic comic strip detective in this stylish action-adventure, 7-10 p.m. July 2. OKC Film Society, 1757 NW 16th St, facebook.com/ OkcFilmSociety. MON Film Screening and Toy Sale screen local artist Allin KHG’s films and view the repurposed toys in his Muses for a Nightmare collection, 6-8 p.m. June 27. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-8156665, 1ne3.org. WED Little Pink House (2017, USA, Courtney Balaker) a working-class neighborhood led by nurse Susette (Catherine Keener) fights to save their homes from corporate developers in this film based on a true story, Wed., June 27, 8:30-10:30 p.m. Cinemark Tinseltown, 6001 N. Martin Luther King Ave., 405424-0461, cinemark.com. WED Sonic Summer Movies: Little Giants (1994, USA, Duwayne Dunham), American family sports comedy film with Rick Moranis and Ed O’Neill coaching rival pee-wee football teams, 9 p.m. June 27. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens. com. WED

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The Clean Party this event features a DJ, door prizes and free photos, but no drugs or alcohol, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Fridays. Ocarta, 2808 NW 31st St, 405848-7555, ocarta.org. FRI Deep Deuce Sessions a monthly concert and artwalk series in the historic neighborhood, 7 p.m.

Saturday. Urban Johnnie, 121 NE Second St., 405208-4477, urbanjohnnie.com. SAT

Dr. Brian King Book Signing the author will autograph copies of The Laughing Cure, a book about the healing power of a sense of humor, 4-6 p.m.

July 3. Barnes & Noble, 13800 N. May Ave., 405-7551155, stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2725. TUE

Isabelle de Borchgrave, Marie de’ Medici, 2006, based on a 1595 portrait by Pietro Facchetti in the collection of the Palazzo Lancellotti, Rome.

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel.

Happenings

Friday Evening Glow take in the OKC skyline at sunset from the bank of the Oklahoma river with at this weekly patio concert, 6-11 p.m. Fridays. RIVERSPORT Rapids, 800 Riversport drive, 405-552-4040, riversportokc.org. FRI Fuzzy Friday a monthly happy hour meet-andgreet hosted by the Bears of Central Oklahoma, 5:30 p.m. Fridays. Apothecary 39, 2125 NW 39th St., 405-605-4100. FRI Governor’s Club Toastmasters lose your fear of public speaking and gain leadership skills by practicing in a fun and low-stakes environment, noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Building, 2501 N. Stiles Ave., 405-523-2300, okfarmbureau.org.

WED

Hotdogs for the Homeless Volunteer Day pack lunches to distribute to the homeless population in Downtown OKC, 10:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays.

Old School Bagel Cafe, 10948 N. May Ave., 405286-2233. SUN Incorporating Handwork into Quilting learn about embroidery stitches and other sewing techniques from Vicky Beasley at a lecture and workshop sponsored by Central Oklahoma Quilters Guild, lecture 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. June 28; workshop 9-11 a.m. June 29. Clarence E. Page Building at Wiley Post Airport, 5810 Tulakes Ave, 405-603-7726.

THU-FRI

Mindful Yoga Happy Hour practice mindful meditation with Bhante Santhapiya, followed by coffee, tea and conversation, 5-7 p.m. Fridays.

Oklahoma Buddhist Vihara, 4820 N Portland Ave., 405-810-6528, okbv.org. FRI OKC Spirit Fair learn about metaphysical and new-age topics such as tarot cards, energy healing, crystals, auras and more, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. June 30-July 1. Wyndham Garden Oklahoma City Airport, 2101 S Meridian Ave, 405-685-4000. SAT-SUN OKC Vintage Flea Market get your shopping done at the flea market with antiques, collectibles, vintage, crafts and more, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Dec. 9. Crossroads Event Center, 7000 Crossroads Blvd. SAT Oklahoma City Dodgers Pride Night the first-ever Dodger Pride Night features fireworks and free hats for ticket holders, 7 p.m. July 27. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000, okcballparkevents.com. WED

Floating Films: Jaws It looks like you’re going to need a bigger floaty. The classic shark slasher film that kept everyone afraid to go swimming until the Reagan Administration only gets scarier if you watch it on the water. Keep an eye out for emerging fins and an ear out for iconic two-note themes. The film starts at dusk (about 9:15 p.m.) Saturday at Riversport Rapids, 800 Riversport Drive. Sit along the banks of the pond for free or rent a tube or raft for $10. Call 405-552-4040 or visit riversportokc.org. saturday Photo Provided

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A SeASonAl Guide to CentrAl oklAhomA Youth Find Waldo in Edmond participate in a live-action local version of the popular children’s book series at business throughout Edmond by picking up a passport listing participating locations and having it signed for each Waldo spotted; passports with 20 or more signatures will be eligible for a prize drawing, through July 1-July 28. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. SUN Intensive Annual Summer Dance Camp children age 7-17 can participate in a variety of dance classes offering instruction in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop and more along with lessons in music and dramatic and visual arts, Through June 29. Metropolitan School of Dance, 414 NW 7th St., 405-236-5026. MON-FRI Library Day join the Pioneer Library system for story times throughout the day with complimentary admission, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., June 30. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-325-4712, samnoblemuseum.ou.edu. SAT

Derrick C. Brown Book Release Party Including poems such as “Love Is a Midnight Thunderstorm” and “You’re Stewed, Buttwad,” Hello. It Doesn’t Matter is the latest collection from paratrooper-turned-award-winning poet Derrick C. Brown, who has read poetry on cruise ships and The Tonight Show and toured with Cold War Kids and David Cross. Brown will read from his works, and musicians Beau Jennings and Cardioid are scheduled to perform. The party starts at 8 p.m. at Commonplace Books, 1325 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $5. Call 405-534-4540 or visit eventbrite.com. saturday Photo Provided Open Fiber Night a weekly crafting meet-up for knitters, crocheters, spinners and weavers, 5-8 p.m.

Thursdays. Yarnatopia, 8407 S. Western Ave., 405601-9995, yarnatopia.com. THU Re-connecting to Earth Medicine: Herbs and Healing Properties an introductory herbal healing workshop providing information on identifying medicinal plants and effectively using their curative properties, 11 a.m.-noon June 30. CommonWealth Urban Farms, 3310 N. Olie Ave., 405-524-1864, commonwealthurbanfarms.com. SAT Second Chance Prom take a do-over on prom with a DJ and dance floor, a silent auction and a cash bar, 6-10 p.m. June 30. The Studio at Sooner Theater, 110 E. Main St., 405-321-9600, soonertheatre.org. SAT Sewing: Block of the Month Class make a different block each month to create quilt; bring your own scraps of fabric, a sewing machine and more, 6 p.m. Thursday. Mustang Parks & Recreation, 1201 N. Mustang road, 405-376-3411, cityofmustang.org. THU Title Night OKC reigning World Super Middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez will defend his title and OKC’s own Alex Saucedo will attempt to continue his undefeated streak in this boxing doubleheader, 7 p.m. June 30, Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W Reno Ave., 405-602-8700, chesapeakearena.com. SAT

Food Live Trivia bring your friends for an evening of trivia, fun and food, 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Hudson’s Public House, 1000 NW 192nd St., 405-657-1103, henryhudsonspub.com. TUE The Lost Ogle Trivia for ages 21 and up, test your knowledge with free trivia play and half-priced sausages, 8-10 p.m. Tuesdays. Fassler Hall, 421 NW 10th St., 405-609-3300, fasslerhall.com. TUE Paseo Farmers Market shop for fresh food from local vendors at this weekly outdoor event, 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays. SixTwelve, 612 NW 29th St., 405-208-8291, sixtwelve.org. SAT Surf and Turf this weekly all-you-can-eat feast in the Bricktown Brewery features prime rib, snow crab legs, shrimp and more, 4-10 p.m. Thursdays.

Remington Park, 1 Remington place, 405-424-9000, remingtonpark.com. THU Wednesday Night Trivia put your thinking cap on for a night of trivia, beer and prizes with Geeks Who Drink, 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Anthem Brewing Company, 908 SW Fourth St., 405-604-0446, anthembrewing.com. WED

Oklahoma! Performing Arts Day Camp children 6-17 can learn theatre basics in preparation for a live performance of the popular musical, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. NW Optimist Performing Arts Center, 3301 NW Grand Blvd., 405-841-2414, okc.gov. WED-FRI Summer Explorers: Down in the Dirt dig into the earth to learn more about snails, worms and other creatures that live in the dirt, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. June 25-29. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-325-4712, samnoblemuseum.ou.edu. MON-FRI Summer Camp Contemporary children in grades K-9 can learn about clay, robotics, hip-hop, and many other artistic topics in a variety of camps, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. through August 10. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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Summer Explorers: Animal Babies kids can learn about their favorite baby animals and how they survive in the wild, 2-4 p.m. June 25-29. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-3254712, samnoblemuseum.ou.edu. MON-FRI Summer Explorers: Cool Critters discover the critters that live in the world and see how many different ones you can find, 8-10 a.m. June 25-29. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-3254712, samnoblemuseum.ou.edu. MON-FRI

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Summer Jazz Camp music student age 14 and older can receive a weeklong intensive training and practice in jazz history, theory composition and more, with onsite housing and private lessons available for additional costs, Through June 29. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., 405-359-7989, ucojazzlab. com. SUN-FRI

Summer Special

Summer Thursdays presented by the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, this free family event features movie screenings, story times and crafting projects, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. through Aug. 30. Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen drive, 405-235-4458, oklahomaheritage.com. THU Tiger Theater Tiger Cub Scouts can complete the requirements to earn their Tiger Theater adventure loop at this nature-themed workshop, 10 a.m.-noon July 2. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-325-4712, samnoblemuseum.ou.edu. MON

No Cover For Ladies!

Western Explorers Summer Camp Campers age 8-15 can explore trails, view museum exhibitions and participate in crafts, games and art projects in week-long sessions, June 18-July 27., Through July 27. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (3), 1700 NE 63rd St. MON-FRI

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Weekly Walkups each day has a different theme from crafts, reading, scavenger hunts and more, 10 a.m.-noon June 25-August 10. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com. MON-FRI

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Performing Arts

June 28 – Stars June 29 – The Weekend All Stars June 30 – HOOK

Always...Patsy Cline a tribute to the legendary country singer’s friendship with a fan, featuring many of Cline’s best-known songs, ThursdaysSundays, 8-10 p.m. through June 30. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., 405-282-2800, thepollard.org. FRI-SAT The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Theater eat a four-course dinner while attempting to solve an interactive murder mystery, 6-9 p.m. Saturdays. Skirvin Hilton Hotel, 1 Park Ave., 405-272-3040, skirvinhilton.com. SAT Divine Comedy a weekly local showcase featuring a variety of comedians, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., 405-463-0470, 51stspeakeasy.com. WED Freaky Friday a stage adaptation of the film about a mother and daughter who swap bodies and must figure out how to switch back for mom’s big wedding, Through July 1. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter. com. TUE-SUN

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Funny AF Fridays hosted by Dope Astronauts, this weekly comedy showcase features a nationally touring headliner and local standups, 9 p.m. Fridays. Ice Event Center & Grill, 1148 NE 36th St., 405-2084240, iceeventcentergrill.eat24hour.com. FRI

Jersey standup comedy from “The Haitian Sensation,” 8 p.m. June 27-30. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. WED-SAT The Wizard of Oz a stage play recounting Dorothy’s fantastic adventures in the merry old land of Oz, 2 p.m. June 30-July 1. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 405-524-9310, lyrictheatreokc.com. SAT-SUN

Active Yoga in the Gardens bring your mat for an alllevels class with Lisa Woodard from This Land yoga, 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens.com. TUE

Visual Arts Sketches New work from Norman Artist Todd Jenkins.

Contemporary Metal Sculpture., Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. through June 30. CMG Art Gallery, 1104 NW 30 Street, 405-808-5005, cmgartgallery.com. FRI-SAT

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July 13

Juneteenth Celebration Concert On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union Army assumed command of Texas and declared that all slaves were free. Join African-American Renewing Interest in Spirituals Ensemble (ARISE) to celebrate this historic anniversary with some of the traditional stories and songs that helped African-Americans survive and maintain a culture and identity during one of the most shameful periods in American history. The concert starts 2 p.m. Saturday at Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive. Admission is free, but donations to the Shirley Ballard Nero Endowment funding projects related to Oklahoma’s AfricanAmerican population are encouraged. Call 405-521-2491 or visit okhistory.org.

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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. THU-SUN

Oklahoma Illustrators features the work of illustrators Arjan Jager, Jeff Sparks and Greg White, June 7-July 9., Through July 9. DNA Galleries, 1709 NW 16th St., 405-525-3499, dnagalleries.com.

Beyond ART: Artist Talk with Jack Fowler the Oklahoma pop-artist behind the Bricktown Okctopus mural will discuss his working methods, 2-3 p.m.

June 30. JRB Art at the Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com. SAT

Quilt-As-You-Go Workshop local fiber artist Sarah Atlee will lead this interactive workshop teaching quilters to construct their own decorative table runners, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 30. $75.

[Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-6665, 1ne3.org. SAT

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

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The Bearded Open Charity-AM Golf Championship It’s well known that beards and golf go together like … um, wait; what? Maybe the extra weight on your chin helps you keep your head down on the follow-through or something, but whatever the connection that inspired the Bearded Open, the charity event seeks to raise awareness of and money for local homeless youth. And whether you’re into beards or golf or both or neither, the event offers food, wine and beer tastings, live DJs, an auction, cash prizes and more. Tee time is 10:30 a.m.

Monday at Oak Tree Country Club, 700 W. Country Club Drive, in Edmond.

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The 46th Annual Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale features more than 300 Western paintings and sculptures by contemporary Western artists of landscapes, wildlife and illustrative scenes, Through Aug. 5. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. FRI-SUN Arjan Jager, Jeff Sparks, & Greg White an exhibition featuring the works of three OKC-based illustrators, June 7-July 8, Through July 8. DNA Galleries, 1709 NW 16th St., 405-525-3499, dnagalleries. com. THU-SUN The Art of Oklahoma Celebrate the 110th anniversary of Oklahoma statehood with a diverse collection of art created by or about Oklahomans–and the

The Experimental Geography Studio University of Oklahoma professor Nicholas Bauch and his Digital Geo-Humanities class combine new media art with scholarship in geography, ongoing. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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Ikbi opening reception named for the Choctaw and Chickasaw word for “create,” this exhibit features works by artists from both tribes attempting to express their history and culture through art, 5-7 p.m. June 28. GaylordPickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, 405-235-4458, oklahomaheritage.com. THU In the Principles Office: Tom Ryan the Art Student Learn the principles of art as Tom Ryan did with his instruction on “general illustration” with famed teacher Frank Reilly, April 7-Nov. 11., Through Nov. 11. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. SAT-SUN Ink & Draw a weekly meet-up for illustrators, artists and comic book creators, 4-6 p.m. Sundays. The Paseo Plunge, 3010 Paseo Plunge, 405-315-6224, paseoplunge.org. SUN 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., Through Jan. 13, 2019. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. FRI-SUN Irmgard Geul and Cheri Wollenberg an exhibition featuring the works of abstract painter Geul and Wollenberg, who paints farm animals and flowers, through July 18, June 28-July 18. Whispering Willows Art Gallery, 226 E. Main St, 405-928-5077.

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Jeff Tabor Recent Paintings features art by Jeff Tabor including media such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache and printmaking, through July 1., Through July 1. Norman Santa Fe Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org. FRI-SUN

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Reflection: An Exhibition of Glass and Light featuring works by artists Rick and Tracey Bewley using glass and light to creative reflection of colored geometric shapes mixed with metal structures., Through Aug. 24. Oklahoma City University School of Visual Arts, 1601 NW 26th St., 405-208-5226, okcu.edu/artsci/departments/visualart. WED-FRI Sojourning features fiber installations by Chiyoko Myose, a Japanese artist, expressing her experiences living in a foreign country, June 2-August 12. Free, Wed., June 27, 4 & 9 a.m., Thu., June 28, 4 & 9 a.m., Fri., June 29, 4 & 9 a.m., Sat., June 30, 4 & 9 a.m., Sun., July 1, Mon., July 2, 4 & 9 a.m., Tue., July 3, 4 & 9 a.m. and Wed., July 4, 4 & 9 a.m. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. SAT Space Burial an exhibit using satellite dishes as a burial object for a space-faring culture and facilitates the dead’s afterlife journey, through Sep. 2., Through Sept. 2. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. TUE-SUN Transitions features graffiti and street art that celebrates Native American culture by artists Yatika Starr Fields, Hoka Skenadore and Josh Johnico, through June 30., Through June 30. Exhibit C, 1 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-767-8900, exhibitcgallery.com.

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Mosaics, Oil and Jewelry an exhibition featuring gallery resident artists Jerron Johnston and Alice Baker and guest artist Katie Bixby, Through June 30, 12-5 p.m. In Your Eye Gallery, 3005 Paseo St., 405525-2161, inyoureyegallery.com. THU-SAT

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Undead reborn Goth Prom rises from the grave as its founders find new life at The Ruins Live.

By Jeremy Martin

Unlike Bela Lugosi, Oklahoma’s Original Goth Prom is back from the dead.

Started in the early 2000s (its creators have long since forgotten its birthday) Goth Prom returns to Oklahoma City Saturday after a multiyear absence.

Goth Prom was the creation of Bone Hampton, Colin Hutchins and Jesse Elkhair, three friends who met at Putnam City High School.

“It was a bunch of kids that couldn’t go out and drink, and they were just going to a dance club that they could get into because it was all-ages,” Hampton recalled. “We all got together and helped. It gave everyone a chance to dress up and go to prom and get a date and try to relive that moment, I guess, in their own little dark way, if I want to get cheesy about it.”

At Putnam City High School, Goth Prom’s creators skipped the actual prom. Hutchins said the idea of prom “never really clicked” with him.

“No, I absolutely, unequivocally did not go to my prom in high school,” Hutchins said. “When I was in high school, I was really part of a more alternative crowd, and it was a long time ago, before Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson were embraced as they were.

It wasn’t really as accepted. … We were all going out to clubs anyway, so going out to a dance was not a big deal.”

Putting the “Prom” in Goth Prom was simply a way to signify it as a big

annual event, different from more common dance nights.

“It’s really just more about trying to do something a little bigger than the normal events that we do,” Hutchins said, “and put a little bit more glamour on it, which is the worst word to use for a Goth.”

Calling it a prom also gave attendees a chance to, as the Facebook event page puts it, “dress to depress.”

“I remember the very first Goth Prom, I didn’t really dress up,” Hutchins said.

“I showed up, and I was like, ‘I’m the worst-dressed person here.’ I didn’t do anything special, prep-wise, and I really found out this is kind of special. There’s something happening here. Since then, I’ve made an effort every time.”

We can’t really measure moping very well, so we have to go by applause.

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Grave concerns

After several successful proms, Hampton said OKC’s Goth scene fell apart and they couldn’t find a venue.

“I don’t know if it had to do with the recession or what, but there was just a

lot of clubs around Oklahoma City — clubs, bars, everything — that just started shutting down for awhile,” Hampton said. “Just a bunch of them went under for one reason or another, and the ones that were around didn’t want to take a chance on the Goth scene at all. They wanted to stick with Top 40 and try to be more mass-marketable, I guess.”

The lack of venues prompted a move to Tulsa until 2014, where it was laid to rest until now. The recent success of Dark Dancing, the free monthly event they’ve been hosting at Sauced on Paseo, convinced Goth Prom’s creators that it was time for a resurrection, so the three misfits who skipped their high school prom will be hosting what they estimate is somewhere between their 12th and 15th prom-themed dance party.

Like its traditional inspiration, Goth Prom crowns a king and queen, who this year will receive handmade crowns from OKC Alchemy. In previous years, voters cast ballots to elect prom royalty, but this year, Hampton said the winners will be based on audience reaction to prevent people from voting more than once. Gauging enthusiasm might not be very Goth, but it’s a better way to ensure a fair election.

“We can’t really measure moping very well,” Hampton said, “so we have to go by applause.”

Also, like a high school prom, the elected monarchs will lead the crowd in a decidedly non-Gothic tradition.

“The first year we did a king and queen crowning, they thought they just got up there and walked off, but we made them slow dance,” Hampton said, “and everyone felt embarrassed who was doing it because they didn’t expect that to happen.”

The inaugural year’s king and queen had to dance to Journey’s “Open Arms,” but the most recent royalty were treated to the more thematically appropriate Ministry cover of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” The Goth Prom soundtrack — selected and spun

by Hampton, Hutchins and Elkhair — typically includes genre staples such as The Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and Concrete Blonde, but the DJs try to change things up by playing darkwave, industrial and synth-pop tracks and making an effort to include newer likeminded musicians such as Actors and Drab Majesty.

“It’s kind of colder, darker-feeling music, I guess,” Hampton said, “but it’s still not just droning on all night and sticking with one style that some people may get kind of bored of. We just try to change it up too.”

Hutchins said “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” by Concrete Blonde is a reliable dance-floor filler, but he’d rather leave Bauhaus’ signature hit, and arguably the most famous Goth song of all time, off his set list.

“There’s, of course, ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead,’” Hutchins said, “which I really hope someone else will play so I don’t have to. … It’s long. It’s got like, literally, a fourminute long opening. It’s just too much.”

Hutchins said he realizes that other people have different reasons for going to prom.

“I want people to be able to come out and just, overall, have a really great time,” Hutchins said, “even if that means that they never set foot on the dance floor and they’re going to be in one of the side rooms just having conversations with people that they haven’t seen in forever or that they’ve never met and do it in an open, friendly environment … something that is everything that we think is good and great about the whole culture.”

And though he might have felt out of place at his own high school prom, Hutchins wants everyone to know they’re invited to Goth Prom, Goth or not.

“You absolutely do not have to dress up,” Hutchins said. “I guarantee you there will be a fair amount of people that don’t, and 100 percent, it is not a criteria to show up. Anyone is welcome at this, they really are. You don’t have to wear an outfit. You don’t have to put yourself up to be the king or the queen.

You don’t have to get out on the dance floor. It’s good people and loud music and a lot of really OK DJs.”

Oklahoma’s Original Goth Prom 8 p.m.-2 p.m. Saturday The Ruins Live | 12101 Interstate 35 Service Road thesanctuaryokc.com $5-$7

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Life support Past Tiny Desk Contest winner Fantastic Negrito brings Please Don’t Be Dead to Norman. By Ben Luschen

Not many people would have pegged new-era blues vocalist and guitarist Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz as a logical opener for Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell.

In some ways, their backgrounds and styles of music are different, but perhaps their shared friendship and common bond is a sign that a lot of things have more in common than is often thought.

Finding that common ground is a theme on Please Don’t Be Dead, the new June 14 album by Dphrepaulezz, most known by his stage name Fantastic Negrito. He began touring with Cornell in 2016 and the new album’s ninth track “Dark Windows” is a tribute to the late grunge icon.

Negrito, a native of Oakland, California, first shot to national prominence after being named the first winner of NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2015. His 2016 album The Last Days of Oakland won a 2017 Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Local fans can see Negrito perform 8 p.m. Tuesday at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., in Norman. Admission to the all-ages show is $12-$17.

Please Don’t Be Dead is Negrito’s testament to the American dream’s beauty even in the face of ugly polarization.

The album cover, a photograph of Negrito in a hospital bed, was taken after a near-fatal car crash the musician suffered in 1999. The crash put him in a coma for three weeks, and a severely broken playing arm worried some that he would never play guitar again.

But, clearly, Negrito made a fantastic recovery. The artist joined Oklahoma Gazette in a phone conversation that spanned everything from the importance of comedy in the modern discourse to fashion as a superpower.

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it changed your understanding of the country or of people at all?

Fantastic Negrito: Of course. When I was doing Last Days of Oakland, I was in New Orleans and I was like, ‘Holy shit!

It’s going down!’ And I feel like I can reach across to the other [political] side easily because I have people on Twitter from the red states and the far right. I mean, maybe not that far, but they’re like Trump supporters, and I’m able to have dialogue with them, and I think that’s very important.

OKG: Your show in Norman is Tuesday, which seems like good timing to me, because Please Don’t Be Dead seems to be a lot about America.

F.N.: It’s a lot about America. I remember writing it when I was in Europe. I came up with the concept of, ‘Hey, wait a minute. America, please don’t be dead.

I think the world may still need you, actually.’ The idea of America is fascinatingly great and wonderful — different people coming and getting together and creating a nation. As dysfunctional as it is, I think it’s still a great idea.

As artists, it’s great to be able to sit up there and express that. It’s a great platform to be an artist. There’s no real leaders or politicians really filling those roles. They’re all bought and paid for — on both sides, by the way. Dave Chappelle, I like what he does; Trevor Noah. You’ve got to get out there and get into it. You can’t sit on the line.

OKG: One of the interesting things about the album is that there are several songs, like “Bad Guy Necessity” and “The Suit Won’t Come Off” that work both on a political level and a personal level.

F.N.: Well, I wanted to write an album about what was going on around me,

whether that is some beautiful woman with a great ass that was in my view or something else.

OKG: So does it work in a way where you would see a beautiful woman and be inspired to write a song right then and there?

F.N.: All the time. I’m looking at one right now. ... She’s from Connecticut. I just spoke to her a little bit. As I’m speaking to you now, I’m doing one of the most important things, which is getting into the Negrito wear.

OKG: Well, that’s very important.

F.N.: It’s important as an entertainer.

I always want to make sure that when I get onstage I look good, you know?

OKG: Oh, yes. And your fashion is impeccable. I don’t know where you get that sense from.

F.N.: Well, I’m at Goodwill now. I like shopping at Goodwill, and then just other small designers that are important around cities and different towns. When you go to different towns you can find designers who help musicians look good.

Fashion is a very important part of what I do. Fantastic Negrito is like a

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superhero. I’m not always Fantastic Negrito. I think how you feel can really dictate how you perform. It can really dictate how you even write a song — the shoes that you’re wearing. I view that stuff as very important to me.

OKG: So it’s like stepping into your superhero costume with your cape and everything.

F.N.: Yeah, you’ve got to dress up. I used to feel that way when I was on the streets playing. I thought, ‘Yeah, you’re out here with your guitar; you’re like a superhero.’

People are trying to get home from a hard day’s work and you’re trying to relate to them, kind of. I think one of the best ways to test out your songs as a songwriter is to go out there in the street and play for people who don’t give a damn.

Fantastic Negrito w/ The Guestlist 8 p.m. Tuesday Opolis | 113 N. Crawford Ave. opolis.org | 405-601-5633 $12-$17

LIVE MUSIC These are events recommended

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

Cody Johnson/Casey Donahue, The Zoo Amphitheatre. COUNTRY

Los New Mexico Playboys, Sauced on Paseo. ROCK Pixies/The Wombats, The Jones Assembly. ROCK

Darian Sparks/Dropshop/Jnzo, The Venue OKC. ELECTRONIC

Sam Morrow/Wight Lighters/Ben Brock, Tower Theatre. COUNTRY

Don’t Tell Dena/Ciara Brooke, The Root. ROCK

Wednesday, Jun. 27

Giant Stride/Harold Bear & the Skin Rugs/Alumnus, Opolis. ROCK

Adam Miller/Ben Brock, JJ’s Alley Bricktown Pub.

Hudu Akil/Metabaron, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

SINGER/SONGWRITER

Celia Monroe, Bluebonnet Bar. FOLK The Lamps/The Lovebirds/Cherry Death, The Loaded Bowl. ROCK Shakey Graves/Paul Cauthen, Tower Theatre. INDIE

Rachel Lynch/Abbigale Dawn, Red Brick Bar.

Tuesday, Jul. 3

SINGER/SONGWRITER

Dani Carson, Red Brick Bar. COUNTRY

Buddy South/Jeff Scott Wood, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar. ROCK

Sunday, Jul. 1

Kesha Many of Kesha Rose Sebert’s private and professional hardships became incredibly public in the past few years. 2017’s Rainbow is full of gospelinflected catharsis: “Praying,” “Hymn,” “Learn to Let Go,” but also the Eagles of Death Metal-rocking “Boogie Feet,” the Dap-Kings-funky-fanfare-boasting “Woman” and a song about taking “Godzilla” to the mall. “Don’t let the bastards get you down,” indeed. The show starts 7:30 p.m. at The Zoo Amphitheatre, 2101 NE 50th St. Tickets are $35-$59.50. Call 800-514-3849 or visit thezooamphitheatre.com.

Brandy Zdan, Lions Park. ROCK

monday Photo by Jason Myers/ provided

Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks, The Blue Door. ROCK

Divided Heaven/Shut Up Matt Jewett, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

TRY

Dr. Pants, The Root. ROCK

Friday, Jun. 29

Heartbreak Heroes/Paper Saints/Lights Of Alora.

METAL

Cody + Jess, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewing Company. ACOUSTIC

FOLK

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Bad Jokes/Swim Fan/Giraffe Massacre, Classen Coffee Company. ROCK

Bad Wolves/From Ashes to New, Diamond Ballroom.

Dustin Cooper, Sean Cumming’s Irish Restaurant.

Ravens Three, Sean Cumming’s Irish Restaurant.

Corn Smut/JV’s Fillin’ Station/Robert Spencer, The Root. FOLK

Anchor the Girl/Turbo Wizard/Stone Machine Electric, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar. ROCK

Speak, Memory/Carvist/A Film In Color, The Root.

ROCK

Saturday, Jun. 30

Adam & Kizzie, Tower Theatre. HIP-HOP

Sawyer Fredericks/Chase Kerby, Opolis. FOLK

Jamie Lin Wilson Band, The Blue Door. FOLK

Thursday, Jun. 28

Mike & the Moonrise, The Weekend Saloon. COUN-

Monday, Jul. 2

ROCK

Kelli Lynn & the Skillet Lickers, Red Brick Bar. ROCK The Wailers/The Mammoths/Dollar 98, Legends Pub House & Venue. REGGAE

Burning Icarus/Los New Mexico Playboys, Sauced on Paseo. ROCK

Forming the Void/Oberon/Lucid Awakening, Blue Note Lounge. METAL

Kyle Reid, Scratch Kitchen & Cocktails. SINGER/

SONGWRITER

Negative Approach/Dayglo Abortions/ Gutter Villain, 89th Street-OKC. PUNK

Wednesday, Jul. 4 Shane Henry/Maggie McClure, Reaves Park. BLUES

Live music submissions must be received by Oklahoma Gazette no later than noon on Wednesday seven days before the desired publication date.

Late submissions will not be included in the listings. Submissions run as space allows, although we strive to make the listings as inclusive as possible.

Fax your listings to 528-4600 or e-mail to listings@okgazette.com.

Sorry, but phone submissions cannot be accepted.

free will astrology Homework: Describe the tree house you would like to build for yourself one day, and what pleasures you would like to pursue there. Write: Truthrooster@gmail.com.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Your best ideas and soundest decisions will materialize as if by magic while you’re lounging around doing nothing in a worry-free environment. So please make sure you have an abundance of relaxed slack and unhurried grace.

Treat yourself to record-setting levels of comfort and self-care. Do whatever’s necessary for you to feel as safe as you have ever felt. I realize these prescriptions might ostensibly clash with your fiery Aries nature. But if you meditate on them for even two minutes, I bet you’ll agree they’re exquisitely appropriate for you right now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

“It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment -- that explodes in poetry.” Taurus poet Adrienne Rich wrote that in an essay about the poet Emily Dickinson. She was describing the process of tapping into potent but buried feelings so as to create beautiful works of literature. I’m hoping to persuade you to take a comparable approach: to give voice to what’s under pressure inside you, but in a graceful and constructive way that has positive results.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Introductory offers are expiring. The bracing thrills of novelty must ripen into the cool enjoyments of maturity.

It’s time to finish the dress rehearsals so the actual show can begin. You’ve got to start turning big, bright fantasies into crisp, no-nonsense realities. In light of these shifting conditions, I suspect you can no longer use your good intentions as leverage, but must deliver more tangible signs of commitment. Please don’t take this as a criticism, but the cosmic machinery in your vicinity needs some actual oil, not just your witty stories about the oil and the cosmic machinery.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to dramatically decrease your Wimp Quotient. As the

perilously passive parts of your niceness toughen up, I bet you will encounter brisk possibilities that were previously off-limits or invisible to you. To ensure you remain in top shape for this delightful development, I think you should avoid entertainment that stimulates fear and pessimism. Instead of watching the latest flurry of demoralizing stories on Netflix, spend quality time summoning memories of the times in your life when you were unbeatable. For extra credit, pump your fist ten times each day as you growl, “Victory is mine!”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

It’s not so bad to temporarily lose your bearings. What’s bad is not capitalizing on the disruption that caused you to lose your bearings. So I propose that you regard the fresh commotion as a blessing. Use it as motivation to initiate radical changes. For example, escape the illusions and deceptions that caused you to lose your bearings. Explore unruly emotions that may be at the root of the superpowers you will fully develop in the future. Transform yourself into a brave self-healer who is newly receptive to a host of medicinal clues that were not previously accessible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Here’s my list of demands: 1. Avoid hanging out with people who are unreceptive to your influence. 2. Avoid hanging out with people whose influence on you is mediocre or dispiriting. 3. Hang out with people who are receptive to your influence and whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating. 4. Influence the hell out of the people who are receptive to your influence. Be a generous catalyst for them. Nudge them to surpass the limits they would benefit from surpassing. 5. Allow yourself to be deeply moved by people whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” Activist author Audre Lorde said that, and now, in accordance with your current astrological and psychological needs, I’m offering it to you. I realize it’s a flamboyant, even extreme, declaration, but in

my opinion, that’s what is most likely to motivate you to do the right thing. Here’s another splashy prompt, courtesy of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

André René Roussimoff, also known as André the Giant, was a French actor and professional wrestler.

He was 7 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 520 pounds.

As you might imagine, he ate and drank extravagantly.

On one festive occasion, he quaffed 119 bottles of beer in six hours. Judging from your current astrological indicators, Scorpio, I suspect you may be ready for a binge like that. JUST KIDDING! I sincerely hope you won’t indulge in such wasteful forms of “pleasure.”

The coming days should be a time when you engage in a focused pursuit of uplifting and healthy modes of bliss. The point is to seek gusto and amusement that enhance your body, mind, and soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

On her 90th birthday, my Great-Aunt Zosia told me, “The best gift you can give your ego is to make it see it’s both totally insignificant and totally important in the cosmic scheme of things.” Jenna, my girlfriend when I was 19, was perhaps touting a similar principle when, after teasing and tormenting me for two hours, she scrawled on my bathroom mirror in lipstick, “Sometimes you enjoy life better if you don’t understand it.” Then there’s my Zen punk friend Arturo, who says that life’s goodies are more likely to flow your way if you “hope for nothing and are open to everything.” According to my analysis of the astrological rhythms, these messages will help you make the most of the bewildering but succulent opportunities that are now arriving in your vicinity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

In accordance with the astrological beacons, I have selected two pieces of advice to serve as your guiding meditations during the next seven weeks. You might want to write them on a piece of paper that you will carry in your wallet or pocket. Here’s the first, from

businessman Alan Cohen: “Only those who ask for more can get more, and only those who know there is more, ask.” Here’s the second, from writer G. K. Chesterton: “We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Ecologists in Mexico City investigated why certain sparrows and finches use humans’ discarded cigarette butts in building their nests. They found that cellulose acetate, a chemical in the butts, protects the nests by repelling parasitic mites. Is there a metaphorical lesson you might draw from the birds’ ingenious adaptation, Aquarius? Could you find good use for what might seem to be dross or debris? My analysis of the astrological omens says that this possibility is worth meditating on.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

I suspect that sometime soon you will come into possession of an enchanted potion or pixie dust or a pouch full of magic beans -- or the equivalent. If and when that occurs, consider the following protocols: 1.

Before you use your new treasure, say a prayer to your higher self, requesting that you will be guided to use it in such a way as to make yourself wiser and kinder. 2.

When you use it, be sure it harms no one. 3. Express gratitude for it before and during and after using it. 4.

Use it in such a way that it benefits at least one other person or creature in addition to you. 5. See if you can use it to generate the arrival or more pixie dust or magical beans or enchanted potion in the future. 6. When you use it, focus on wielding it to get exactly what you want, not what you sort of want or temporarily want.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes /daily text message horoscopes.

The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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