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Oklahoma City Council’s two outgoing members are encouraged by the next generation of city leaders who will take their seats next week. By Miguel Rios

James Cooper and JoBeth Hamon are anxious and excited to take their city council seats April 9. After winning their respective elections without a runoff, Ward 2’s Cooper and Ward 6’s Hamon have had time to participate in forums and orientation meetings.

JoBeth Hamon will take her seat as Oklahoma City Ward 6 councilwoman April 9. | Photo Alexa Ace

“My campaign manager kept telling me, ‘We won; no runoff.’ And I was like, ‘That can’t be right. Can you go run some numbers again?’” Hamon said. “But because there was no runoff, both James and I have had the opportunity to meet with city staff and do a lot of introductions and orientation meetings.”

‘Historic moment’

Though several meetings have been in preparation for their first council meeting, Cooper said there has also been a lot of interest to talk with him, Hamon and Ward 7 councilwoman Nikki Nice about the “historic moment we’re living in.”

Hamon, a mental health advocate with a degree in family and community services, will be the city’s 11th woman to serve on the council; she will sit beside Nice, the 10th woman elected and a former radio show host. Cooper, a middle school teacher, will be the first LGBTQ+ and biracial representative; with him and Nice serving, Oklahoma City will have two black council members for the first time.

“This moment,” Cooper said, “when you have people who come from the backgrounds that you don’t normally see winning city council elections, serving in public office — and by that I mean people who aren’t wealthy, people who aren’t well-connected, people who know 4

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what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck — I hope that leads to more people at every level of government saying, ‘Wait a second. How can I get involved?’”

An avid movie buff, Cooper echoed Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben in terms of what this new representation means for the future of OKC. “With great power comes great responsibility,” he said. “This moment in history is going to call for some pretty big things, I think, especially when it comes to the next MAPS.” The city council has gone decades without a teacher’s voice, which Cooper said is a crucial perspective.

“It’s really important we address the systemic problems that have resulted from a lack of properly funded public education,” he said. “That means wraparound services, whatever we can do through endowments to address homelessness and mental health and addiction and domestic violence and daycares. … So many of my students, no matter how brilliant they are and no matter how dedicated they are, are confronting those problems, and it keeps them from focusing in the classroom.”

Though Hamon describes herself as an introvert and feels pressure under the spotlight, she is excited to be part of a more balanced council.

“It’s exciting … just having a bit of a different perspective on what the community looks like and even recognizing that, yes, a lot of our demographics have been changing,” she said. “But part of it is that the voices that have been less involved or less empowered are feeling a little more empowered to be part of the conversation. The exciting thing for me is that I think it can bring more James Cooper won the five-person Ward 2 election with 53 percent of the votes. | Photo Alexa Ace

balance to the conversation we have at the city leadership level about how we grow as a city.”

Hamon plans to pursue her campaign goals.

“We kept talking these really big ideas during my campaign, and so getting a little bit more of a taste of what potential steps are to achieve some of those things is a little overwhelming,” she said. “The things that I really talked about during the campaign were public transit, particularly our bus system, and improving service, exploring different funding options for public transit operations, investment in our neighborhoods, particularly how we build our streets and thinking about sidewalks and bus lanes and finding ways to build more people-centric neighborhoods.”

Cooper’s neighborhood goals are similar.

“We need those complete streets with those bike lanes with those crosswalks with those street lamps connecting people to their schools, to their parks with recreation,” he said. “This is kind of nonnegotiable for me anymore. … I think that’s going to involve looking at those historic parts of town that, for too long, were really left behind in the urban core. … We have to look very closely at their history and what makes each district unique from the other, the character of those places, and make that character as vibrant as possible.”

Things to come

Outgoing council members Ed Shadid and Meg Salyer served on the council for eight and 11 years respectively; they are encouraged by the next generation of leaders, who they said will have to continue to address many of the same issues they faced.

“If I go back up to a 30,000 squarefoot view, the city has come a long way, but we have a lot of pressing issues. And many of them involve those less fortunate in the community, and many of those issues surround the common themes of mental health, substance abuse, health and wellness and homelessness,” Salyer said. “But I am also hopeful. … I’ve been here for 35 years, and it is a totally different place beginning with this sort of wonderful can-do attitude of our people.”

In closing statements during his final city council meeting March 26, Shadid said mental health and addiction, climate change adaptation and helping the city’s less fortunate are areas the council still needs to focus on.

“I do think things are getting better, but that’s not good enough to say things are getting better because you’re starting at such an outlier,” he told Oklahoma Gazette. “You have to do more than just get better; you have to really make up ground quickly. … But I am incredibly excited about JoBeth Hamon and James Cooper coming on the council, and I think that they and Nikki Nice will help propel the city forward at an accelerated rate.”

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Outgoing Ward 2 councilman Ed Shadid is hopeful the council’s newest representatives will propel the city forward. | Oklahoma City Council / provided

referred to as “Dr. No” for his questioning and repudiation of many projects, said the newest council members must continue pressing for answers and stand their ground on important topics.

“We all, as people of Oklahoma City, need to have people questioning. I think our greatest hope lies with James and JoBeth and Nikki,” he said. “I believe that, while I was in a super minority position, I’m only the harbinger of things to come; that each subsequent generation is going to speak louder and with more urgency than I have because these issues are all going to progress.

And so the councils I served on will ultimately, historically appear to be the radical ones. I’m very confident that I’m on the right side of history.”

Both outgoing council members said that serving the city and representing their respective wards has been one of the most fulfilling things they have done.

They both plan to stay civically engaged.

“This was one of the greatest honors of my lifetime,” Salyer said. “If you asked 27-year old Meg if I would ever serve in that role, I would’ve absolutely said no. So to have the privilege of doing that is really special. ” “I have a lot of sadness leaving the council but also contentment because I gave the city everything I had,” Shadid said.

Outgoing Ward 6 councilwoman Meg Salyer said the most fulfilling part of the job was getting to help a citizen every single day. | Photo Alexa Ace

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Figures of speech Two state legislators are running a bill that purports to protect free speech on college campuses. By Miguel Rios

Sen. Julie Daniels, R-Bartlesville, and Rep. Mark Lepak, R-Claremore, have coauthored Senate Bill 361, which protects “any lawful verbal, written, audiovisual or electronic means by which individuals may communicate ideas to one another.” Both lawmakers were invited to the White House by President Donald Trump because of their work on the bill.

Many critics have asked why the bill is needed when the First Amendment already provides for freedom of speech.

This should be the first reaction, Lepak said, since people expect the First Amendment to be fully observed, but in recent years, he feels universities have shifted away from that.

“I was at the White House [March 21], and in the room were probably, by my count, 140 college students from all over the U.S.,” he said. “Every one of them seemed to have a story regarding their problems with free speech on their campus. They’ve been disciplined.

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They’ve been prevented from doing something. If they started to do something, maybe it was shut down. … They actually thanked Sen. Julie Daniels and I for running the bill.”

Though Lepak said this has not happened in Oklahoma to the same extent as in other states, he wants to prevent it from happening altogether. In fact, Lepak said it might be even more important now that Trump signed an executive order requiring colleges to protect free speech or risk losing federal research funding.

“Trump has issued his executive order, which basically says, ‘You allow free speech on campuses or there’ll be consequences because I have some authority to withhold funding through the grant process in research dollars,’” Lepak said. “Well, that’s even more reason to pass this bill because then it provides a framework in Oklahoma for which these universities can settle in under and comply with, and then you

can turn around to the Trump administration … and say, ‘Look. We did this in Oklahoma; we put this in place.’”

While Lepak said conservative views tend to be the ones more likely to be objected and regulated, he emphasized the bill is not “about left and right” ideologies.

“Other things that maybe are more left and left of center don’t get quite the regulatory hand, so I’ll acknowledge that,” he said. “But the way the bill is written is intended to be contentneutral about these kinds of things. So on the same day, in the same place, you could have students expressing one view and another set expressing the exact opposite. I think that’s part of a higher education and really what we ought to be expecting and teaching our children to expect in preparing them for life in this country.”

Speech not currently protected by the First Amendment would still be prohibited, Lepak said, but it is impor-

Rep. Mark Lepak, R-Claremore, is the coauthor of Senate Bill 361. | Photo Oklahoma House of Representatives / provided

tant to expose yourself to a variety of worldviews.

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balance there. The problem with free speech is also its greatest strength; you may not hear things or see things or observe things that you like, and you may be offended. … You kind of have to accept that risk in order to have a marketplace of ideas and exchange of ideas.”

Lepak said he understands that minority students might be more concerned about white supremacy or prejudiced language.

“I’m 62 now, and in my time, I think when you see extremes reveal themselves for who they really are, it really hurts their cause. What they’re looking for is the confrontation, but if you try to push it back, you end up giving them exactly what they want,” he said. “If you let them do their thing, you see how extreme they are. It stands alone, and in my view, it isolates them. Now, that doesn’t mean you don’t voice your opinion. … I think the line people don’t need to cross is the one where you’re provoked into doing something you shouldn’t do.”

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The bill states that all outdoor areas of campus are deemed public forums and prohibits universities from creating “free speech zones.” The bill emphasizes that a person’s conduct must be lawful and states that universities retain the ability to enforce reasonable time, place and manner restrictions that are narrowly tailored.

Bob Nelon, a Hall Estill attorney specializing in First Amendment law, said he would oppose the bill if he were a legislator. While he said campus “free speech zones” generally tend to restrict rather than promote free speech, he wonders if the bill is a solution in search of a problem.

“At first blush, SB361 would appear to prohibit a speech-restricting rule or practice and, thus, foster expressive speech,” he wrote in an email to Oklahoma Gazette. “If the use of such zones is pervasive and their use has resulted in restricting expressive speech, the bill may serve a useful purpose. On the other hand, if universities and colleges don’t often use ‘free speech zones’ or there is no documented and repeated experience where speech has been unduly limited, I

wonder why the bill is needed.”

The bill requires universities to publicize policies, regulations and expectations in handbooks, websites and orientation programs and develop materials and procedures to make sure those in authority understand the policies. It also requires universities to submit an annual report to the state Legislature and governor “that details the course of action implemented to be in compliance” with these provisions as well as post the report on their websites.

Nelon wrote that these requirements are of “questionable value.”

The bill states that any person or student organization “aggrieved by a violation” of the provisions may sue the university and its employees responsible for the violation. If a court finds a violation took place, “it shall issue an award of at least” $5,000.

However, the bill requires that people must bring a suit within “one year after the day the cause of action occurs” and each day a policy is in violation constitutes a new day.

“The wording of SB361 is complicated and may contain traps for the unwary or have unintended consequences,” Nelon wrote. “Moreover, the bill would create a new statutory cause of action and a somewhat unusual definition of the statute of limitations.

At present, if someone’s expressive activity on campus is unconstitutionally hindered or restricted, remedies already exist. I’m not sure why this statute is necessary to protect speech interests that are already protected.”

Nelon also wonders if the bill was introduced in thinking the measure would allow conservative voices like Milo Yiannopolous to speak on campuses. The former Breitbart News editor was blocked from speaking at several universities in the past few years through student protests.

The bill passed in the state Senate 36-9. It now moves to the state House of Representatives and will be heard in the judiciary committee.

Visit oklegislature.gov to view the bill.

Attorney Bob Nelon said he would oppose the bill if he were a legislator. | Photo Hall Estill Attorneys at Law / provided

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Jilian Larimore, Impact Oklahoma executive director, said the organization’s grants remove the burden of funding for local nonprofits. | Photo Valerie Sebestyen / provided

High impact

At least two nonprofits will receive $100,000 grants for new or existing programs that benefit specific populations of the community. By Miguel Rios

Impact Oklahoma has given more than 40 grants in 13 years, and the membership is now preparing to choose this year’s beneficiaries. The organization, a network of women who aim to make the “community stronger and better for everyone,” pools membership fees and donations to create a sizable grant fund.

“I don’t have the ability to give a nonprofit that I care about $100,000 every year. ... But I can come up with $1,000 a year, and I have 99 friends,” said Jilian Larimore, Impact Oklahoma executive director. “When we can aggregate those together into $100,000 gifts that make entire programs possible, we’re moving women from just being a donor to a program into being a philanthropist.”

Grant process

The process begins each fall and culminates at the group’s annual meeting in April. While nonprofits prepare their grant application, the organization actively recruits women who contribute $1,000 as a membership fee to the grant pool.

“Anyone that has their dollars in the pool, when the application process starts, can volunteer to be a part of one of five focus area committees,” Larimore said. “Those focus areas are community, culture, education, health and wellness, and healthy families.”

Nonprofit applications are split into each of those focus areas, and women on each committee narrow down the applicants to three finalists. Committees then visit the finalists and declare one finalist in each category.

“Those five finalists will come in front of our entire membership and guests at

[our annual meeting], and anybody that’s interested in our work or wants to see the process is welcome to join us at the event,” she said. “They’ll come together April 25 at the Will Rogers Theatre, where they will have a portion of the evening to present materials.”

Every woman with dollars in the grant pool votes on the project they think should receive the grant. The number of $100,000 grants given out each year depends on the grant pool, Larimore said, but since all funds are allocated, residual dollars are awarded as smaller grants. This year, at least two $100,000 grants will be awarded.

Finalists

“These grants are rocks that are thrown in the middle of a pond,” Larimore said.

“Yes, the rock hits the water and there is the initial splash, but we continue to see those ripples in in all kinds of ways. … We just feel like all five [finalists] are projects that just mean so much more than where the money is spent. Many of them, if not all of them, represent coalitions between nonprofits where we really are acting as a safety net; we really are providing support to the communities.”

Central Oklahoma Humane Society, in partnership with Palomar, would use grant money to fund its animal advocacy program to address domestic violence and animal welfare at the same time. A person fleeing domestic violence would receive help from Palomar while their pet is taken care of by OK Humane. Funds would help build “a safe kenneling, transportation and fostering solution for the animals coming into Palomar.”

“The grant from Impact Oklahoma would truly create an entirely different way in which the city of Oklahoma City and animal welfare handle animals from domestic violence situations,” said president and CEO Dana McCrory. “OK Humane is the first animal welfare nonprofit in the nation to have an animal advocate housed at a family justice center. ... What we’re trying to do is give the victim the opportunity to seek safety for themselves by promising them we will take care of their animals.

The outcome is selected by the victim.”

OKC Metro Alliance would use funds to improve Women’s Firstep, a sober living recovery program that houses up to 56 women at a time. Connie Schlitter, the organization’s executive director, said the grant would help it expand its kitchen and provide more opportunities for the people it serves. The organization is in talks to partner with Oklahoma State University to collaborate and develop products that could be produced and sold out of its future kitchen. “[Women’s Firstep] was founded 30 years ago in just a home — a big home but really a very small kitchen, and that’s still what we have today for 56 women; it’s this tiny kitchen that’ll seat maybe 16 people at one time,” she said.

“We’re working with a foundation to build us a new kitchen, and we’ve asked Impact to fund the equipment so we can have a commercial kitchen, dining area and seating for 64. But also where we can have a place where we could start businesses out of the kitchen.”

Putnam City Schools Foundation would complete the creation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) labs in every district middle and elementary school. Up to 84 percent of students are economically disadvantaged, so the foundation aims to expose them to enhanced educational opportunities.

“We are asking for a grant that will enable us to bridge a gap that we have between the elementary schools, which do have some STEM labs. We want to finish those out and build labs in each of the middle schools so that they’re ready for the classes that are available for them in high school,” said Jennifer Seal, president of the foundation.

“Putnam City is an amazing district. A lot of our children come from limited means. Being able to provide them the exposure to careers to ideas and concepts that they had never considered before will allow them to succeed academically and socially and really be prepared for the 21st century.”

Sooner Theatre is asking Impact to “Light the Way” by helping it buy lighting and sound equipment, which it currently rents for up to $50,000 a year.

With a 20-year lifespan, the equipment could save the theater a million dollars, which it plans to use to improve its programming, offer more classes and

provide more opportunities for people who do not receive them. It has classes for children with Down syndrome, said Nancy Coggins, the theater’s spokesperson and development director, but would also like to offer specialized classes for those who are hearing impaired, sensory-sensitive or physically challenged.

“Currently, we offer about 55 different school year classes and summer camps for kids ages 3 all the way through high school,” she said. “We want to expand our offerings for special needs kids. … We want to make sure that we are offering those things so that those kids have an opportunity to experience the arts just like any other kid because they want to be just like any other kid.”

Variety Care would expand its Healthy Expectations program, which provides health services to pregnant women until their child turns 5. The program has been successful at its Britton Health Center, said Carol Martin, Variety Care chief operating officer, and now officials want to expand it to Straka Family Center, 1025 Straka Terrace. Money would cover startup costs and help pay the salary of its Healthy Expectations coordinator, who would be on call 24/7.

“It’s a combination of centering pregnancy and healthy steps. Centering pregnancy is kind of a group pregnancy concept where women come in as a group and they meet as a group, and then they go and get their individual assessment, but they’re with this group throughout their entire pregnancy,” she said. “Healthy Steps is a child-readiness program, so making sure they’re immunized, making sure that they’re reading-ready, making sure that they’re hitting all of the well-child checks and the developmental areas are where they need to be.”

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Unbridled hate Oklahomans should voice their opposition to new legislation that would protect hate speech on campus. By Josiah Daniel

Oklahoma Senate Bill 361 claims to “protect free speech” on Oklahoma’s public college campuses by requiring administrators to allow all lawful expressions of speech — regardless of content — while simultaneously forbidding any responsive protests or opposition. The bill passed the state Senate March 13 on a 36-9 vote and has now been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. While the hypocrisy of this bill’s limitations on some people’s speech in the name of others’ free speech should be enough to kill it, the bill would still be a bad idea without it.

Whether SB361’s advocates intend to or not, their bill would allow hate groups to make public college campuses more hostile toward people of color, certain religious groups and the LBGTQ+ community while also allowing hate groups to more easily recruit new members. By permitting undue and disproportionate infliction of harm on certain members of our community,

SB361 violates our state constitution and represents bad public policy.

SB361 violates Section II-22 of the Oklahoma Constitution: “No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech.” Additionally, SB361 violates Section II-36A, which states we “shall not … discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin in operation of … public education.” Permitting and protecting hate speech on our college campuses does the opposite. SB361 also violates the precepts of our state constitution that “all persons” — not just citizens — “have the inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

SB361 will harm more people than it will help. While those who voted for SB361 might not be aware of the historical weaponization of “free speech advocacy” for the cause of white nationalism and supremacy, it is important to note that “free speech on college cam-

puses” advocates have historically used the term as a euphemism for the belief that there should be no limitations, opposition to or consequences for hate speech directed at non-whites.

First Amendment principles and campus restrictions on hate speech are compatible and warranted. Hate speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. But this fact is separate and unrelated to the policy debate about whether we should allow white supremacists to openly gather in our publicly funded spaces for recruitment of youth and unrestricted normalization of hateful ideologies.

Recent press reports indicate that white supremacist groups see college campuses as fertile recruiting grounds.

Local news reports also revealed that some Oklahoma college students use racist, misogynistic and homophobic memes and rhetoric, demonstrating that some of our youth are prime targets for radicalization.

These hate groups believe that we should be more concerned about a perceived violation of their right to hate speech than we are about the real consequences of such rhetoric for people of color. Those consequences range from engendering systemic fear and devaluation of people of color to outright violence against them via mosque, synagogue and church shootings.

We should not allow our commitment to freedom of speech to be misused in furtherance of spreading ideological hate at the expense of the life and liberty of people of color, religious minorities, the LGBTQ+ community and others.

We must reject the false choice presented to us between First Amendment speech protections in general and campus-specific hate speech restrictions.

We should also ensure that unwitting state legislators know the bill violates the state constitution.

Josiah Daniel is an attorney living in Oklahoma City. | Photo provided

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If Gov. Kevin “Oklahoma is open for business” Stitt is the manager of our government’s metaphorical Kmart (hey, we gotta start somewhere), somebody should tell him we need major cleanup on aisle number All of Them. On March 17, ChickenFried News’ arch beer pong rival The Oklahoman published a report on the lousy conditions of several country roads, describing potholes, steep drop-offs with no guard rails, illegally dumped machinery and other issues that would surely show up in snooty one-star Yelp reviews if the state were an actual business. The late John Denver would be appalled.

The report linked these conditions to incidents of drivers running off the road, sometimes into water, and in some cases — such as that of former Putnam City West High School students Jordan Vladimir Chaj Gonzales, 19, and Kelvin PerezLopez, 18, whose bodies police discovered in Lake Overholser near a submerged vehicle on March 7 — never making it back out. A study published in October of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System data concluded that Oklahoma State Highway 9 is the second mostdangerous highway in the United States, with the majority of the 50 reported fatal accidents that occurred between 2010 and 2016 happening in Cleveland County.

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. According to Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s report on highway system conditions, cuts to the department’s budget since 2010 amount to $880 million and the decreased funding has delayed “many necessary pavement improvement and congestion mitigation projects” while increased traffic and severe weather mean that “highway pavements will continue to deteriorate rapidly.”

Uh-oh. Looks like that light belongs to a tractortrailer wildly careening on loose gravel, and OMG it is coming straight at us!

Hail and high water

If you do not want every local meteorologist, highway patrol troopers and even The Weather Channel to call you out, stay out from under overpasses during storms.

If you are not familiar with the trend, during storms – particularly with hail – people think it is a good idea to wait it out by parking under an overpass. This is a bad idea for tons of reasons, one being that you could get hit by a semi truck or an ambulance.

But hey, at least your car will not get hail damage.

And while it is not illegal to pull over on the shoulder, blocking traffic on the highway obviously is. It is obvious, right? It should be.

During severe weather late last month, people formed a parking lot under a bridge on Interstate 44, lining up from edge to edge because that is totally going to protect you from a tornado.

“If severe weather strikes when you are in your vehicle,” wrote Weather Channel’s Brian Donegan, “do not seek shelter under an overpass or bridge, as drivers in Oklahoma did.”

A lot of national reporting tells people not to do what “Oklahoma did,” so we really should not be surprised, but you would think drivers from a state with weather like Oklahoma would be more adept during storms.

“These selfish drivers then left the dozens of cars and trucks behind them in harm’s way,” wrote Donegan, who might get an invite to join the Chicken-Fried News staff.

Some of the state’s most prominent meteorologists took to Twitter with their caps lock on to urge Oklahomans not to do this. KFOR’s Emily Sutton even said it was “more dangerous than large hail and damaging winds.”

“Hail is the least of what could happen,” said Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Kera Phillipi. “If you get 20 vehicles that are going to try to cram in under an overpass, first of all, that’s not going to prevent a tornado from getting to your vehicle anyways. … It’s not worth it.”

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Cab death

There are few businesses and buildings left in Oklahoma City from the 1930s, thanks to overeager city planners during urban renewal. The latest venerable loss for the city was not by way of bulldozer, but rather with the unlocking of a cell phone.

After 75 years in business, Yellow Cab Co. of Oklahoma abruptly announced its closure March 24 with a statement on its website and left employees to find out they were out of jobs with a sign on the door.

For most people, traditional taxicabs have been replaced by ride-sharing mobile phone apps like Uber and Lyft.

Chicken-Fried News says good riddance to Yellow Cab. Who needs bonded drivers that have gone through a thor-

ough background check when a teacher working a side hustle can drive you around?

We find that it is much safer to get from point A to point B when we have got a driver that is worried about paying for health care or is still tired from their day job because it means the passenger has to stay alert as well.

What is better than one set of eyes on the road? How about two?

Yellow Cab Co. began operations in Oklahoma City in 1930, and it might as well still have been operating by horse-drawn carriage as far as we’re concerned. What do you mean I have to call to get a ride? Our anxiety is too high to have unnecessary phone interactions, especially when you can book through an app.

We welcome the future because it’s inevitable that Uber and Lyft will one day use autonomous vehicles and we can get back to not having to pay attention while we’re in the car.

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Mr. Mack’s edibles began popping up on dispensary shelves months ago, but the co-founders are ready to debut their first storefront. By Matt Dinger

A familiar face in the medical marijuana edibles market is soon to open its first store.

Mr. Mack’s, 7220 S. Western Ave., Suite 109, is set to open later this month, co-founder Erick Almaguer said.

Almaguer has teamed up with cofounder Greg Wilson to bring patients another method of administering their medicine.

“Mr. Mack’s started as a company just looking to help people find a smokeless option,” Wilson said. “There are so many patients that have different conditions — emphysema, COPD, lung disease, various issues, even down to more common issues like asthma and things like that. They’re looking for relief, and pharmaceuticals just aren’t the way they want to go. With cannabis, it’s been a stigmatized product for a really, really long time. Even though it’s legally medical, it still has that black eye to it, and a lot of people, through different focus groups and research, they prefer the edible dosing versus smoking because it gives them that alternative to carcinogens. My mom, she had some health issues, and just finding her some relief, that’s how I got into actually breeding strains. I guess that’s where the foundation of the brand itself came from.”

Wilson has been growing cannabis for other markets under his breeder name, Chilly Mack, but he and Almaguer started laying the foundation for the Mr. Mack’s edible line years ago. They have also recently introduced their new brand of THC-infused lollipops, PotPops.

“A lot of people think we’re an edible company, but it was really started on flower and breeding and genetics,” Almaguer said. “Right now, it’s just what’s out in the market for us, so we kind of also want to put that out there that we’re not just edibles.

T he good stuff is coming. The edibles are good, but that’s not our top product.”

“For us, the edibles was the way to fill the gap in the industry,” Wilson said.

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hospitality and food service, so we recognized that there was that gap there and that was a product for us that was easy to make on a commercial level and be consistent with it while we grew out our flower to create concentrates, get retail-ready and all that good stuff.”

Almaguer estimates the Mr. Mack’s edibles are already in about 80 dispensaries across the state, and Wilson has licensed genetics to other farms in outside states, but the storefront will be his Oklahoma debut on the flower front.

“We’re Leafly listed, Weedmaps listed,” Wilson said. “I would say about ten of our flagship strains are listed on Leafly, have their own tiles, information profiles and photos and all of that good stuff. Our brand pages are on both of those platforms as well.”

The storefront will also have an open kitchen where patients can watch current and future products being made.

“Products that we launched with were the rice crispy treat, the fruity pebble treat, gummies, caramels and the hard candy,” Wilson said. “The rice crispy and fruity pebble treat come in a singleserving pack. All the others come in a five-serving pack, and our dispensary will be launching our topicals, which are pain balm, lotion, bath bombs, and we’re also going to be launching a tincture as well. Because we do have the commercial kitchen, we’re going to do fresh-baked goods, on-site infused, and we’ll have daily specials. One of the things with the pastry background is shelf life, and that’s a really, really big problem with people that are trying to do edibles. They’re not really up to par when it comes to shelf life. They’re usually used to making it for them, their friends, one of their buddies or something like that, and it usually gets consumed in a day or two — nothing that’s been prepared to be

packaged over time — so we wanted to offer a different selection of things that would be infused that would be daily specials that you can only find at a Mr. Mack’s location.”

Many edibles currently on shelves have limited information on their packaging, and Mr. Mack’s is attempting to set the standard.

“On the new, revised packaging, the expiration dates will be on them,” Wilson said. “We do have production date, batch numbers, packaging date, all the compliance information. We list all of our ingredients because there’s still people that have food allergies and things like that, so we try to be as transparent as possible. Shelf life is going to vary product to product. We will normally cut whatever the recommended shelf life is; we like to cut that number in half. We want our people to have the freshest possible product, so on hard candy, normal shelf life on that is going to be two years; we like to cut that down to one. On items that are like your fruity pebble, rice crispy treats, you’re looking at about six weeks.

Products like your caramels, you’re looking at about six to nine months.

A product like your gummy, you’re looking at about 12 weeks. We like to keep that within a nice, tight timeframe that you won’t have freshness issues, but you also won’t have like the product getting old or mildewing or Mr. Mack’s co-founders Erick Almaguer and Greg Wilson are trying to set the standard with product labeling for its line of edibles. | Photo Alexa Ace

Mr. Mack’s store includes an open kitchen where patients can watch edibles being made. | Photo Alexa Ace

molding or anything like that.”

Careful planning

If it seems like Mr. Mack’s appeared overnight on dispensary shelves, it is because Almaguer and Wilson started planning the launch nearly three years ago, in July 2016.

“We preplanned and just prayed that everything fell into place, so once there were rumors of [SQ]788 and things like that, we started to visit various markets and learn what worked, what didn’t work, what people like, what people didn’t like,” Wilson said. “So when everything was a go here, we had that extra step ahead of everyone because we had already looked into packaging, we had already looked into what products were effective and what products were not, what products were in high demand and what products were not. We did all of that market research well before everyone else even thought about going that route.”

“When everybody was trying to put together recipes, we were trying to figure out our marketing plan,” Almaguer said. “All of that’s been done.

When people started trying to figure out what to put out, we were trying to figure out when to put it out. That was all done. We were trying to get together some content for the social media, but the actual production of it has already been completed long ago. This is years in the making.”

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Bud Scott, executive director of Oklahoma Cannabis Industry Association, said much of the backlash after HB2612 passed could have been avoided. By Matt Dinger

Oklahoma Cannabis Industry Association executive director Bud Scott knows what the major issues are with House Bill 2612 because he authored the 400-page bill that became much of the architecture of the “unity bill.”

Scott said he expects many concerns to be addressed before the legislative session closes, but not all of them.

“We have to be realistic. It’s politics, so you know it’s all a game of compromise and identifying what is possible,” he said. “I think that the major stuff can be done this legislative session, a lot of the cleanup stuff on [HB]2612.”

There are myriad issues that need be resolved, such as building codes and taxation. Scott said much of the confusion currently surrounding the industry could have been avoided if lawmakers had gotten ahead of them as he had suggested. “[HB]2612 came out of the language that I had originally drafted for 2018’s legislative session because we were trying to put a program in place during legislative session preempting the vote on [SQ]788,” he said. “So once the election happened, then we would have a whole program ready to go. And that 60-day time period set up for under

Bud Scott is the executive director of Oklahoma Cannabis Industry Association. | Photo Alexa Ace

[SQ]788 would have been no problem.

We’d have had it all set and ready. Well, the Legislature thought that they were going to beat it. And I told them, I was like, ‘Look; we’re confident on this and we’re running the campaign, so I think we’re going to succeed.’ But they opted not to do anything and the whole teachers strike had happened, so their appetite for really doing much was pretty low.”

A lawyer by trade and experienced in politics, Scott has positioned himself as the go-between for the more than 200 businesses the OCIA represents and the lawmakers governing the medical cannabis market as it matures.

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“I tried to cut out as much as possible because I understood the Legislature did not want to do a giant bill,” he said. “Well, then the working group decided they weren’t going to do a special session and what we told them publicly and privately was, ‘If you do not take substantive action before issuing commercial licenses in August, then we’re not going to want most of this because, at that point, you’ve opened up a total laissez-faire kind of free market program and we go to legislative session in 2019. That means there will be some six, seven, eight months of business operations under this fairly loose program, and if you come back and try to implement this stuff that we were proposing, a lot of it wouldn’t make sense.’

“For example, the provision that grants the health department/OMMA the ability to revoke your license, suspend or not grant a license ‘for any reason determined by the agency.’ Well, that’s an issue. No agency is really granted that kind of unilateral authority. But this could easily be fixed because one amendment to that language would be ‘for any identified violation of the laws or regulations.’ It’s very straightforward. It’s what was meant by that.

But that granted an enormous amount of authority that’s really unseen with other agencies. So, you know, that’s an issue that will get addressed. Won’t be a problem.”

We have to be realistic. It’s politics, so you know it’s all a game of compromise and identifying what is possible.

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Well-laid plans

The Legislature had initially planned to break up cannabis regulation postSQ788 into a series of about 20 bills with each addressing a specific issue, but just before the legislative session, lawmakers decided to craft HB2612 and introduce it early in the session.

Scott compared what the Legislature did to excising random chapters from a novel and then publishing it.

“They basically cherry-picked sections from our previous proposal and then added language in as well and so you were left with this hodgepodge,” Scott said. “So they took chapter one,

and chapter five, and chapter seven and chapter 32 and then added stuff, so you had a lot of inappropriate definitions that weren’t referenced anywhere else in the document.”

That is why issues have arisen after HB2612 was signed into law, like residency requirements for dispensary owners and management with no language about grandfathering in business owners who have invested thousands, and in some cases millions, of dollars into their enterprises.

“I’m not sure if it was because of the rushed nature or the fact that there weren’t a whole lot of eyes on this document as it was moving forward, but there was an agreement between the members of the working group and between the House and Senate leadership that [HB]2612 would not be amended in either chamber. Once it came forth from the working group, that was that,” he said. “The unfortunate part of that is we had been providing red lines, edits and comments addressing all of these issues. And very few of them were addressed. I’m not talking as a lobbyist here; I’m talking as an attorney who has a commitment to wellwritten legal work. So I wanted to make sure that all of these documents were done right. And unfortunately, they aren’t. There’s a lot of these just kind of editorial and statutory reference issues.

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There was no emergency clause on it, so the bill doesn’t even go into effect until probably August.”

Moving forward, Scott hopes to broker conversations with lawmakers before they codify law that places burdens on hundreds of cannabis industry players but also affects the millions of dollars they have at stake in the state’s newest industry.

“So a lot of the things that we as the industry, as well as the regulatory bodies, were asking for are still an issue because it’s not law yet. So that’s a big problem,” Scott said. “There’s efforts now to go back and identify certain sections that we can basically restate and add emergency clauses on. But this is where we would just encourage policymakers at any level — city, state, federal agencies — to take their time with this and make sure it’s done right so we don’t have to go back and fix it. Because it’s much harder to fix policy than it is to develop in the first place.”

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During the height of the foodie movement, nearly 20 percent of Oklahomans are food-insecure.

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The pain shooting up Moore resident Terri Marshall’s foot is a constant reminder for her to keep going, against her doctor’s wishes, but she doesn’t know what else to do.

Marshall is in the beginning stages of neuropathy associated with the diabetes that has prevented her from continuing her job in the bakery department at GFF Foods, the only grocery store within more than a mile of her apartment, near the border of Moore and Oklahoma City.

As she continues the process for approval for disability benefits, which has already taken over a year, she makes due with monthly Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits while caring for herself and her 3-year-old granddaughter.

“The doctor wants to put me in a wheelchair, but you’re not going to put me in one,” Marshall said. “My grandbaby keeps me going. I had all boys, so when she came along, she took my heart.

I manage the [SNAP benefits] real good, but they don’t last, especially when you have a little girl that wants to eat.”

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When the benefits run out, she walks or gets a ride to nearby Moore Food & Resource Center, 2635 N. Shields Blvd., which is one of 14 food and resource centers that partner with Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma (RFBO), which covers 53 counties in the western part of the state, but is the only one owned and operated by RFBO. Opened in 2014 to help in the after-

math of the 2013 Moore tornado, the resource center allows clients to use a shopping cart to walk down aisles of fresh produce, canned goods, shelfstable items, fresh meat, milk, eggs and pre-mixed salad containers provided by both RFBO and retail partners like Walmart, Aldi, Sprouts Farmers Market and others.

“They’ve been here when I needed them,” Marshall said of Moore Food & Resource Center. “They don’t have a snobbiness like some other places.

When you see [unwelcoming behavior], you walk away because you’re already feeling bad about yourself.”

Marshall said the one time per month she is allowed to get food from the resource center is the only time each month that she eats fresh produce.

“I walk to the convenience store because it’s the closest thing to me,” she said.

Food deserts

Marshall is not alone. Over 50 percent of the population in Cleveland County has low access to quality food, and 13 percent of the county lives in a food desert, which is determined by t he U. S. Department of Agriculture using census tracts of low access to fresh produce within more than a mile.

Even in the largest county in the state, Oklahoma, 10 percent of the population is classified as living in a food desert, and nearly 20 percent of the state’s population is classified as having low access to quality food, according to Katie Fitzgerald, chief executive officer at RFBO. “We are living in a time in Oklahoma City and throughout the country where there is a wonderful celebration of food,” Fitzgerald said.

“People take pictures of their meals and we have this wonderful appreciation for food, clean eating, nutrition and all these things, but there is a good portion of our population — 16 percent — that if they wanted to, they couldn’t.”

Six percent of the state’s population is classified as very low food security — not having enough to eat — and another 10 percent are those who have low food security and are not getting access to enough nutrients and rely on heavily processed food available at fastfood drive-thrus, convenience stores and dollar stores.

Director Skyler Parker said Marshall’s situation of needing the center following a major health crisis like worsening diabetes is common.

We have this wonderful appreciation for food ... but there is a good portion of our population — 16 percent — that if they wanted to, they couldn’t.

Katie Fitzgerald “A lot of people are choosing between hospital bills, fixing their cars and buying food,” Parker said. “We had a woman who came in recently that had no home and no money. The reason was that she had a flat tire. When she couldn’t afford to fix the car, she couldn’t go to work, lost her job and got evicted.”

Parker said a lot of the clients at the center are senior citizens living on fixed incomes, and he highlighted an elderly couple who came in for the first time because the husband had a stroke and they were paying $500 co-pays at the pharmacy.

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma provides fresh produce at Moore Food & Resource Center. | Photo Alexa Ace

“Through our partnerships, we were able to get those co-pays down to $20,” he said of the center’s resources that include physician screenings, job placement and cooking classes, among others.

“We have professionals in the community that come here and shop, including some single-parent teachers. The stigma and stereotype is not what people think.

We’ve had oil executives that lost their jobs and couldn’t find work for six months, and their savings were gone.”

Moore Food & Resource Center is one such center in the metro area; others include The Urban Mission, 3737 N. Portland Ave.; Skyline Urban Ministry, 500 SE 15th St.; The Salvation Army, 1001 N. Pennsylvania Ave.; and Project 66 Food & Resource Center, 2612 S. Kelly Ave., in Edmond.

In OKC, the neighborhoods determined to have the least access to grocery stores include Culbertson’s East Highland and Capitol View in the northeast part of the city and Capitol Hill on the south side, according to the city’s Strong Neighborhoods Initiative (SNI).

Oklahoma City-County Health Moore Food & Resource Center partners with retail grocers to provide items like poultry, fish and packaged salads. | Photo Alexa Ace

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Department, in partnership with SNI and RFBO, launched a mobile market in late 2018.

A converted Coca-Cola truck has been retrofitted with shelves lined with fresh fruit and produce, and the group gives away bags of items, including recipe cards, to residents in the three neighborhoods.

The truck has served more than 700 people since launching full-time in November 2018, according to Shannon Entz, SNI program planner.

Ward 7 councilwoman Nikki Nice | Photo Gazette / file

The mobile market is parked at Christ Temple Church at 27th Street and Kelly Avenue in Capitol View, John F. Kennedy Park in Culbertson’s East Highland and Capitol Hill Library in Capitol Hill one Saturday per month.

“All of these areas are lacking access to fresh fruit and vegetables,” Entz said.

“When you’re trying to decide what to purchase, sometimes fruits and vegetables are not going to be the first thing if you have other vital necessities like medication or something for your kids.”

Unfulfilled promises

The mobile kitchen serves the community in the 73111 ZIP code, which is the unhealthiest in the city, according to City-County Health Department data, and is located two blocks south of the now-closed Save-A-Lot grocery store on 36th Street, which opened in 2017 and is the latest in a string of failed attempts to supply better access to fresh produce on the city’s east side.

“The conversation has technically been happening for northeast Oklahoma City to have an adequate grocery store since 1993,” said Ward 7 councilwoman Nikki Nice.

Nice’s predecessor John Pettis Jr. tried to bring an Uptown Grocery Store to NE 23rd Street and Martin Luther King Avenue, but when development costs increased, Uptown Grocery Store’s owner Buy For Less opted to open a discount grocer Cash Saver instead.

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a grocery store, and they ended up downsizing into a discount store where you get taxed 10 percent on your bill even before you get your grocery rung up,” Nice said. “That’s not what the community wants, and the community deserves better.”

The Save-A-Lot remained in business for little more than a year before it closed. Its proximity to a Dollar Tree highlighted the decision many consumers choose to make.

“I talked to a lot of people, and [the Save-A-Lot] was not what many people wanted in some aspects, especially when you have a next-door option of a Dollar Tree to get a dollar product that is a brand name with a smaller serving size compared to an off-brand product next door with a larger serving size,” Nice said. “A lot of the community would rather have that smaller serving size because they want a brandname product.”

Tulsa city councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper led a protest that led to the six-month delay of the construction of a Dollar General next to a Family Dollar and highlights the proliferation of discount stores that offer smaller serving sizes and little fresh produce and meats in the communities that need them most.

“As a product of northeast Oklahoma City, I recall having more grocery options, but with those things leaving, it’s very hard to tackle how to make the numbers work and for grocers to understand that even though their numbers aren’t adequate, that the community has a need,” Nice said, noting that getting a grocery store in her ward is one of her top priorities but it is only getting more difficult with the recent decision to close more schools under Oklahoma City Public Schools’ recent Pathway to Greatness plan. “When you’re looking at density in the communities and you have people closing these schools, your communities suffer drastically from that, and it’s helped create a decline in numbers to where it’s harder to make the numbers work for the grocers.”

Legislative response

Oklahoma Legislature passed Senate Bill 506 in 2017 and established the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), a public-private partnership designed to address food insecurity by providing grants for the construction of new grocery stores and small food retailers in the areas most in need.

Though passed in 2017, the initiative has yet to receive funding from the Legislature, but HFFI’s main lobbying firm, American Heart Association, is making a push now that the state is running

a $600 million budget surplus.

“In 2017, the budget picture was a lot different than it is now. We’re in a better place. We feel like now is the time that would be appropriate gratis funding because it’s really a way that the state can’t lose,” said AHA lobbyist Jordan Endicott. “Not only do get access to healthy food, but you’re also creating new jobs, investing in communities. So you have new development, new property taxes all happening for the state.

So it’s really a good investment for the state to pursue.”

Endicott said they are advising for $3 million in funding for HFFI. Fitzgerald and RFBO are advocating for HFFI during legislative meetings, and Fitzgerald said the food bank’s funding allocation is driven ultimately by filling the gaps not filled by a private market solution.

“I would love to see us do more with it moving forward,” Fitzgerald said. “It does have the potential to be a win-win, where private industry that’s trying to advance retail establishments and grocery stores is also attracting their approach in areas that are in need.”

As the state is operating at its first budget surplus in years, she runs into hurdles while advocating for funding for

Moore Food & Resource Center provides fresh produce to clients once per month. | Photo Alexa Ace

programs that will help food insecurity.

“We know for a fact that people are working and still hungry,” she said. “We have seniors who’ve worked their whole life and are still hungry, children and families who are very low-income who are hungry and that there are a lot of myths out there that people are just lazy or not applying themselves are working. And that is just not the reality of the vast majority of people who need supplemental food. …

There are a huge amount of people that are doing the best that they can. The reality is that wages across our country have stagnated over the last 40 years.”

Fitzgerald also noted that she is confronted with myths surrounding SNAP, like the idea that people can buy tobacco and alcohol with EBT cards or that work or job training requirements are strict enough.

“SNAP is probably the most successful federal program we have for keeping people out of desperate poverty,” Fitzgerald said. “It provides 12 times the access of food that the food banks Katie Fitzgerald is CEO of Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. | Photo Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma / provided

collectively across the country provide.

A lot of folks think that we can get rid of these government programs and just look to the faith-based community or food banks. While we’re super proud of the work we and the faith-based communities do, but we don’t believe at all that we could fill that gap.”

Childhood hunger

Fitzgerald and RFBO are advocating for a change in the rule that requires students on the federal free and reduced lunch program to meet in a centralized area like a local church or recreation center to have access to the summer feeding program.

Fitzgerald said Oklahoma ranks 51st in the country (which also includes the District of Columbia) for the percentage of children who participate in the summer feeding program.

“It’s a total transportation issue,” she said.

Sixty-one percent of Oklahoma public school children are eligible for the free and reduced lunch program, but only 9 percent participated in the

The bus painted neon blue and green goes to schools on Fridays stocked with donated fruits and vegetables and a staff of volunteers. Blacknoll said the organization has a waiting list for schools requesting a visit from the bus.

“Many of the kids, as the teachers get to know them and know, you know, their families, they know that those kids are suffering in silence, they know which kids don’t have food at home,” she said. “And the kids will confide and deal with a trusted adult.”

Fitzgerald, who worked with neglected and abused children before joining RFBO, said that lack of proper nutrition for children has lasting physical, emotional and cognitive impacts.

“Kids who had long histories of food insecurity would horde and gorge food for years after they were in a better environment because their brain and their trauma was so deep that they never really could trust that food would really be there the next day,” Fitzgerald said.

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Helping feed Oklahoma City’s schoolchildren was the driving force for Lisa Blacknoll when she helped establish the nonprofit Filling Tummies, which converted an old school bus into a mobile pantry focused on feeding school kids.

“As a mom, I started the organization because I didn’t want children going to bed hungry, and the statistics were just outrageous,” Blacknoll said.

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Even if you are not a baseball fan, it is always worth a trip to Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark to indulge in the unique culinary experience that is concessions.

Executive chef Will Fenwick and his staff’s offerings go beyond the ubiquitous hot dogs, burgers and nachos with the yellow cheese sauce that oozes out of a pump.

Of course, the ballpark offers standard variants of those items that are nearly as synonymous with baseball as bats and gloves, but I was impressed with some of the new full-time menu options that will be available starting with Thursday’s 7:05 p.m. opener against the San Antonio Missions that kicks off a five-game homestand.

The item about which I was most wary turned out to be one of the most enjoyable: the taco dog ($6.25), a hot dog topped with seasoned ground beef, cheese, pico de gallo and sour cream in a crispy corn tortilla shell that is layered with refried beans and wrapped in a flour tortilla. Maybe it’s because I Oklahoma Gazette food reporter Jacob Threadgill tries to get his mouth around a Dodger Burger. | Photo Alexa Ace

was partial to Taco Bell’s double-decker taco as a kid, but this item’s ground beef had exponentially more flavor than the fast food version. The sour cream and pico all brought it together. The taco is available at the Franx concessions stand, which is now located closer to home plate.

The taco dog is an example of one of the “homestand specials” last season that the kitchen staff adds during each weekly set of home games but has found its way on the full-time menu.

“We have 15 Dodgers staffers that come down and test them all and give feedback,” Fenwick said. “The taco dog ended up being more popular than we imagined, so that’s why we put it on the menu.”

Macaroni and cheese on a pizza certainly isn’t new, but it definitely seems to be having a moment. The Pi Pizzeria stand is serving a mac and cheese pizza ($28 whole pizza, $5 per slice) topped with hot dogs. The pizza features a marinara sauce as a base, which I thought was a good decision. If it had a cheese sauce, that would have been like putting a hat on a hat. The acidity of the tomatoes helps cuts through the heaviness of the cheese and noodles.

“We tried it both ways, and it was close [between cheese and marinara sauce], but other places don’t do it this way,” Fenwick said.

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One of my favorite new items is the COOP bratwurst ($6.75) that includes items cooked with COOP Ale Works’ verypopular F5 IPA. The bratwurst is boiled in the beer, and the red cabbage is braised in the IPA, and there is a housemade stoneground mustard that features the brew as well. If you’re looking for a more sophisticated version of the ballpark dog, look no further. The mustard was the standout and is the bite I remember most from my ballpark tour.

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The Pi Pizzeria stand now serves a mac and cheese pizza topped with hot dogs. | Photo Alexa Ace

all domestic beers are $2, and all COOP draft beer is $3. The Margaritaville stand also added a Dodger blue margarita and alcoholic strawberry lemonade.

The Burgertopia stand is adding a smoked Gouda burger ($8.50) that tops bacon, bourbon onions and Theta sauce in addition to the aforementioned cheese.

Smoked Gouda is one of my favorites cheeses, one that melts well and has plenty of flavor. It was nice to see the addition of the Theta sauce, which is obviously an Oklahoma City staple. I would gravitate to ordering the burger over its All-American counterpart at the burger stand, but I should also note that there is a black bean burger (470 calories) available for vegetarians.

Vegetarians and those looking for a guilt-free snack at the ballpark will be excited for the expansion of the Fresh Market Cart, which debuted last year with a rotating menu of salads and wraps. They’ve kept those items and added housemade red and green salsas that come with organic blue corn tortilla chips and hummus that comes paired with Sun Chips or pretzels in addition to fresh fruit and vegetables.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is the city’s newest entry in its pantheon of food challenges. The Dodger Burger ($40) is a two-pound hamburger patty topped with a pound of pulled pork, cheddar cheese, grilled onions, french fries and barbecue sauce.

“That’s my baby,” Fenwick said jokingly. “It’s probably the equivalent to six or seven burgers, so it’s actually a pretty good deal [if it’s split between people].”

The Dodger Burger isn’t available at the start of the year. The staff is still working out the particulars of the challenge, but it will likely include a hat and T-shirt, if one person is able to eat the entire burger

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The taco dog is a hot dog topped with ground beef, cheese, pico de gallo and sour cream in a crispy corn tortilla shell layered with refried beans and wrapped in a flour tortilla. | Photo Alexa Ace

during a certain amount of time.

I was somehow able to fit the entire height of the burger in my mouth for one bite, and the french fries were a nice addition for texture. If you remember anything from my food challenges cover story in February, eat the protein first and finish with the bread and starch if you’re going to attempt the challenge when it is available.

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Factory Obscura’s Mix-Tape takes its artists’ music dreams into the physical realm.

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Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue” reminds Tammy Greenman of a Volkswagen.

“I have a very strong visceral memory of my mom driving around England in a yellow VW bug, listening to that song,” Greenman said. “I associate it with feelings of wind and freedom and sun, and for some bizarre reason, I think of bluebirds.”

Greenman, director of strategic creativity for Factory Obscura, said the artist collective’s latest installation, Mix-Tape, is inspired by ideas, memories and other sensations and experiences music creates for listeners.

“Everybody chipped in and picked a song that they felt really spoke to them on an emotional level, and we kind of worked through that,” Greenman said.

“We talked about how it made us feel, what kind of visuals or physical sensations we associate with that song. What time of the year do you associate with that song? How does it feel? How does it move you? Is there a movement that you associate with that? Is there a specific sound from that song that you identify with? We went through all of that. We go pretty deep on our design.”

Phase one of Mix-Tape, Factory Obscura’s third installation following Shift and Beyond, opened March 21 at Wayne Coyne’s psychedelic art gallery The Womb, 25 NW Ninth St. A gift shop selling items created by Factor y Obscura artists as well as mercha ndise f r om Coyne’s band The Flaming Lips and Santa Fe, New Mexico, artist col-

lective Meow Wolf is open on-site 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. The lobby also contains a tire swing-sized flora pod from Shift and The Flaming Lips’ interactive installation The King’s Mouth, which the band recently refurbished and improved.

“It’s a full experience,” Greenman said. “You get inside of it. There’s a music and light show that goes along with it and it’s pretty powerful.”

An interactive shop window partially inspired by Greenman’s background in creating retail window displays and designed to mimic a boom box cassette player can be operated by visitors even outside the gift shop’s operating hours.

“Since this is just phase one, we wanted to do something that the public have easy access to,” Greenman said.

“We started to talk about what it could look like if that window was interactive. … One part of it was, ‘How can we make this accessible to the public for long periods of time?’”

Nearly 1,000 visitors attended the phase one opening, Greenman said, many curious to see The Womb reopened.

“When The Flaming Lips had the space, it wasn’t open to the public, so you had to be invited to come to any sort of party or gathering that they had,” Greenman said. “And toward the end, they were few and far between. So I think that there was a real interest in seeing it, even though in reality, we completely changed everything.”

Visitors wanted to have a look, but Greenman said many had to be convinced it was OK to push the interactive installation’s buttons.

“One of the things that I enjoy is watching people interact with what we create,” Greenman said. “What I found interesting was people were hesitant to touch anything at first, which we find with our experiences in general. It’s something that we have to remind people — they are allowed to touch. So getting them to touch the buttons at first was interesting, and then when they did touch it, sometimes the idea that you could touch more than one was interesting. We do have some, if you push a few buttons at the same time, it does a whole new different thing. … What I loved about it, and what I love about what we do in general, is the joy and wonder that come across people’s faces and how excited they get when they realize, ‘Oh, it’ll do something,’ or ‘I can make it work.’ So that was super fun.”

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Another round

Phase two, scheduled to open Sept. 21, will expand Factory Obscura’s first permanent installation to 6,000 square feet, doubling the area of the collective’s previous installation, Beyond. In its expanded form, Mix-Tape might feature augmented and virtual reality elements, Greenman said, but the collective wants its creations to retain a “hand-crafted” feel.

What we wanted to do is introduce a little bit more technology because we really feel like that’s an important part of the experience also,” Greenman said. “But we always want to maintain a balance between those two things because the tactile and physical environment are just as important as the visuals and the auditory. … It’s really important that we engage as many of our participants’ senses as possible.”

The completed installation will use the characters featured in the phase one window display as “jumping off” points for an interactive exploration of music’s relationship to memory, emotion and creativity.

“The whole idea of Mix-Tape is to create, basically, an audio autobiography from the team of Factory Obscura and put that out into the public,” Greenman said. “So we’re taking songs that we would put in our own mix-tapes to kind of tell people who we are and interpreting those in a physical, 360 [degree] environment. … You won’t walk in and be like, ‘Oh, there’s a literal interpretation of this song.’ It’s more going to be the feelings that are associated with that song, and we’re going to try and create those feelings and these spaces. They’ll flow together. It’ll be similar to what we’ve done before, but we’re just going to step it up. … There are numerous aspects of it that are going to be things that we have never done before, that I have personally never seen before. I’m really excited to show that to the public and have people come in and participate in this experience with us.”

Founded by Greenman with Kelsey Karper, Laura Massenat, Laurent Massenat and Hugh Meade and sponsored by Mason Realty Investors,

Factory Obscura estimates more than 1,000 visitors attended the phase one opening of its interactive installation Mix-Tape. | Photo Todd Clark / provided

Characters in Mix-Tape’s interactive shop window display will be incorporated into the 6,000 squarefoot installation scheduled to open Sept. 21. | Photo Todd Clark / provided

Factory Obscura currently employs seven artists full-time with benefits and five part-time artists, Greenman said, and the collective plans to employ 85 people or more when it realizes its longterm goal of opening a 40,000-60,000 square-foot permanent space. In all of its installations, Factory Obscura wants to offer visitors a personal experience combining elements from art galleries and amusement parks.

“Within our larger spaces, we create smaller spaces,” Greenman said. “We want this to feel authentic and for there to be an organic-ness to it, in a way. All that stuff at Universal and Disney is super cool, but there is — and this is just me personally — there is a feeling of a plastic-ness to it that we would like to shy away from. We think that there’s room for everybody within this new experience economy, and this is just the route that we’ve chosen to go. That’s why there will always be that organic, kind of tactile, handmade, handcraftedness to our work.”

Admission during phase one is free.

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Beehive buzz

Pollard celebrates powerhouse women singers with Beehive: The ’60s Musical. By Jeremy Martin

Some beehives have more than one queen.

Featuring songs made famous by Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin and more, Beehive: The ’60s Musical runs April 12-May 4 at The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., in Guthrie.

“It’s basically the story of women in rock ’n’ roll from the 1960s,” said Timothy Stewart, the show’s director.

“It’s about women’s voices in the civil rights movement and the women’s movement for equal rights and equal pay. That’s where it all started.”

Pollard staged a previous incarnation of Beehive in 2008, which Stewart also directed. He is excited to be revisiting the musical because it was popular with the audience and the cast.

“I love the show,” Stewart said. “I love the music. I think it’s very empowering for women, and it’s just a good time for audience members just to come watch, sing along. It’s music that they know, so it’s a fun time.”

The cast includes Susan Riley, Megan Montgomery and De’Vin Lewis as well as Jennifer Teel and Stefani Fortney, who both starred in Pollard’s 2008 production.

“It’s what people would call a jukebox musical,” Stewart said, “so there is a framework surrounding one of the characters, and she is sort of actually the narrator, who will take you through the journey, so you can see it through her eyes. The character’s name is Wanda in the script, but the way this show is formatted, you use the actors’ real names, so in our production, it’s Susan Riley.”

Though Stewart said he missed growing up in the 1960s “by a hair,” the decade was still very present in his childhood and in American pop culture in general.

“I grew up listening to the music; it was a staple in our household,” Stewart said. “You have a basic understanding of the ’60s as a time period, and a lot of these women that are in the show themselves knew of these women in rock ’n’ roll. They know who Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark are; they know who Janis Joplin is.”

And 21st-century technology can be useful for researching the previous century.

“Of course, there’s YouTube videos out there that they can watch of the actual performers singing these songs, so they can get a sense of their voice and their movement from the period itself,”

Stewart said.

Working on Beehive has also offered an opportunity to research ’60s trivia.

“I learned new things, just personal details, about some of the individual women,” he said. “You know, Janis Joplin’s drink of choice was Southern Comfort and little things like that.”

Stewart is also credited as the show’s choreographer, but he said he “[uses] that term loosely because Beehive does not feature many elaborate or difficult dance routines.”

“It’s a lot of girlgroup choreography, so it’s step-touching and the arm movements of The Supremes,” he said.

“It’s not a high dance show.”

The biggest choreography challenge, Stewart said, has been figuring out how to recreate a performance of “Proud Mary” in the style of Tina Turner.

“Of course, you make it work for your show, and for your actors, and their skill level too, so I mean, all of them are very talented singers and actors and dancers, but something that looks good on Tina Turner’s body does not look good on someone else’s body, if that makes sense,” he said. “You try to pay homage to these women in rock ’n’ roll, but you’re not these women, so you give them the best imitation and salute that you can to honor them.”

Other songs featured in the show include “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Be My Baby,” “Son of a Preacher

Man,” “Me and Bobby McGee” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman.”

“When you’re putting them all together and back to back, it sends a powerful message,” Stewart said. “If you listen to one song, it’s just a fun song by itself, but putting it with another, you create a very strong show that’s a voice for women.”

Queens of soul

The show’s soundtrack is uplifting, Stewart said, but some of it is played for laughs. “‘You Don’t Own Me’ by Lesley Gore is delivered in a way that is more comedic than the power song that was in that era,” Stewart said. “We do go tongue-in-cheek with some of it.”

Mostly, though, Beehive is meant as a tribute to these ’60s pop icons and their continued influence. While none can be duplicated, Stewart said, some of the power of their presence can be captured by skilled performances in a live setting.

“The show itself is paying respects to these women in rock ’n’ roll and doing them justice and delivering it in a way that is accessible to your audience so they come to the show and have a good time themselves,” Stewart said.

“It’s finding that balance between honoring the women and making sure it’s just a fun time for everybody. We want to do our best person impersonation, but I’m not saying that these actresses are these women. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, or so they say, and you want to give

them the best imitation that you can, but you still want to be who you are because there was only one Tina Turner or Aretha or Janis. So you want to give the audience a taste of what they were or are, but you are still yourself. And just have fun because when you’re up there having fun, the audience is going to have fun too.”

I think it’s very empowering for women, and it’s just a good time for audience members just to come watch, sing along.

Timothy Stewart Whether or not audience members lived through the era, Stewart said almost everyone knows the music, and the personalities that created it are as timeless as the songs themselves.

“Younger people who knew the songs, who knew the music can come and enjoy it,” Stewart said. “My parents knew the music, and so I knew the music through them. So, yes, you’ve got the people who were there in the ’60s and knew these people, but some of these women have spanned past the ’60s. I mean, they’re not just from the ’60s. Tina Turner’s around, and she’s still rocking, and Aretha Franklin, everyone knows who she is. She’s the Queen of Soul, so it transcends just the era that it’s set in.”

Tickets are $15-$30. Visit thepollard. org.

Beehive: The ’60s Musical April 12-May 4 The Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie thepollard.org | 405-282-2800 $15-$30

Cast members rehearse for Beehive: The ‘60s Musical, running April 12-May 4 at The Pollard Theatre in Guthrie. | Photo provided

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Rudy Love in the documentary This Is Love | Image The Love Story LLC / provided

Love story

The subject of the new documentary This Is Love is a favorite artist of your favorite artists.

By Jeremy Martin

You might have never heard of Rudy Love, but odds are good you have heard his music. Jay-Z and George Clinton are fans.

Love, born in Checotah and based in Wichita, Kansas, is the subject of the documentary This Is Love, which features interviews with Clinton, Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood (who also serves as an executive producer) and Jay-Z (who sampled Love’s “Does Your Mama Know?” on “Sweet” from American Gangster) discussing their admiration for Love, a former Motown studio vocalist who served for a decade as bandleader for Sly and the Family Stone.

“Rudy Love is definitely completely off the map and totally unknown relative to his peers, which are essentially household names,” said the film’s director, John Alexander. “The people that he’s worked with and mingled with over the years are the people that the public knows and respects, whereas Rudy Love, for whatever reason, is not on that list. … The driving question of the movie This Is Love is, ‘How can an artist who’s been so influential and is so respected by the people that people respect, how has he managed to be so off the map?’

It’s almost as if he would have had to try to be as off the map as he is considering his influence and his connections, and not to give away too much, but essentially, This Is Love is the story of an artist who turned down fame to make music with his family.”

Alexander said he was first introduced to Love, a well-known figure in the Wichita music scene, when Shawn Rhodes, the film’s executive producer, booked the musician to play with his 30

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band The Love Family at the wrap party for Alexander and Rhodes’ previous collaboration, Bender, a psychological thriller shot in Kansas.

“I was blown away when I heard Rudy Love perform, and it turns out that Shawn had been shooting footage of Rudy Love for many years prior to this party and always dreamed and hoped of putting together a feature documentary about this story,” Alexander said. “I think what first got me was the fact that his voice and his music seemed sort of strangely familiar to me, even though I had never heard of the name Rudy Love … but it turned out I was actually a Rudy Love fan for many years and I just didn’t even know it. I had heard his voice in music that I love to listen to, such as Sly and the Family Stone. I just had never known it was Rudy Love singing.”

Toiling in obscurity

The film, which premiered at London’s Raindance Film Festival and was named best feature documentary at Stillwater’s Red Dirt Film Festival, is currently on what Alexander described as an “extensive festival run” meant to put it “in front of as many people as possible in a theatrical space.” Following the film’s Raindance appearance, where it won the festival’s Spirit Award, Love and his band, featuring Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame guitarist Tony Mathews, played a sold-out show at London’s 100 Club, which previously hosted Louis Armstrong, The Sex Pistols and The Rolling Stones.

Alexander said Love’s story mirrors that of “many artists, many black artists in particular, who despite influencing

the hits for decades have just remained uncredited, undercompensated and unknown.”

In a 2018 interview with Kansas television station KSN, Love described having the rights to his music — and that of his father, Robert, who co-wrote oftencovered “Good Morning, Little School Girl” — “taken by forgery and that sort of stuff and all behind [his] back.”

“I’m running around the streets of Wichita, not knowing that somewhere Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart and a bunch of other people are singing my dad’s music or my voice was playing on radios over there under other people’s names,” Love said in the TV interview.

“It’s a real weird feeling.”

Though the film documents injustices and discouraging career setbacks, Alexander said Love told him he did not want it to become a pity party.

It’s an inspiring movie; it’s funky; it’s soulful; it’s upbeat; it’s incessantly energetic. It’s a funkumentary.

John Alexander “It’s a film with a happy ending,” Alexander said. “It’s an inspiring movie; it’s funky; it’s soulful; it’s upbeat; it’s incessantly energetic. It’s a funkumentary.

It’s a very positive message. People have come up to us all over the world with tears of joy in their eyes after seeing this movie. It’s not depressing. In fact, although it drags you through some of these artistic struggles, ultimately it’s a very uplifting and energizing story.”

Nonetheless, Alexander said making This Is Love made him think that navigating the music industry is even more

difficult than the movie business.

“Being in the film industry is a very rough road, like many people know,” Alexander said. “It’s very tough, but this film has made me realize that being a musician and being a singer is even tougher.

It makes my life as a film director seem easy compared to what I’m seeing that these artists have gone through.”

One of the “most painful trappings of being a performer,” Alexander said, is not having anyone who wants to hear about their troubles.

“Rudy says something in the movie sort of along the lines of, ‘You can’t let people know how hard it is because it’s your job as an entertainer to make it look easy,’” Alexander said. “If you make it look hard, it’s uncomfortable for people to watch. You don’t want to watch somebody work. … So as much of a struggle as it is, you actually can’t share it with anybody.”

Despite these difficulties, Love continues finding satisfaction making music with his friends and family, Alexander said, and that makes This Is Love an inspirational story relevant to the present moment.

“It’s about measuring success in a world where people are relying on metrics such as the number of Twitter followers or, of course, fame and fortune as sort of conventional metrics of socalled success,” Alexander said. “I think this film offers a different perspective on what it means to be successful and what it means to contribute to society in a way that’s not conventionally or commonly talked about or valued, especially in this day and age.”

This Is Love is scheduled to screen April 27 at Richmond International Film & Music Festival in Virginia and is an official selection of the Krakow Film Festival, which begins May 26 in Poland.

Visit thisislovefilm.com.

Rudy Love contemplates the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles in a still from the documentary This Is Love. | Image The Love Story LLC / provided

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Rustic 1773 Mercantile in Moore offers alternatives to bath bombs with tea-infused soaks. By Jo Light

Channing Winblad started seeking natural remedies for her back pain after a long career in cheerleading.

Winblad is allergic to many pain medications except for ibuprofen, but she was starting to see side effects from that as well. She decided to do some research on her own and learned about the potential for pain relief from bath soaks made with tea.

After making her own, she saw a noticeable change in her pain management.

“That’s why I kept using them,” she said. “And then [I] realized there are probably other people that are in the same position as me, that need something natural or can’t take the big pharma medicine or can’t afford the big pharma medicine. This is a really good alternative or additive.”

In August 2018, Winblad started Rustic 1773 Mercantile. The name is a reference to the Boston Tea Party.

Winblad said she aims to compete directly with other products like bath bombs. Bath bombs typically contain baking soda and citric acid, which can irritate some users’ skin. Some bath bombs contain proprietary perfume blends of unknown origins.

“A lot of people who’ve had to stop using bath bombs, they want something to pamper themselves with in the bath,” she said. “But because of the citric acid and the baking soda that are in bath bombs, it throws off your pH level.”

Winblad said her customers have also complained about the high cost of bath bombs.

“They’re spending $8 to $10 per bath for their kids to have 30 seconds of something that disappears,” she said.

“And then spending 30 minutes after bath time cleaning up the dyes out of the tub. Or their kids have a bad skin reaction. I just thought there had to be a better way to do bath time.”

After some exploration, Winblad settled on loose-leaf tea as a natural ingredient. Tea is popular worldwide and has been grown for thousands of years.

However, Winblad said, not many in Oklahoma are aware that tea can be used in therapeutic baths as well.

“Here, people don’t realize that you can soak in tea and that it’s actually good for you,” she said. “[Those are] the two things that they struggle with the most.

They’ll smell everything and go, ‘Oh, I just want to drink that.’ I say, ‘Buy the loose leaf and you can bathe and drink it at the same time.’”

Her teas come in several varieties, many of which have traditionally been promoted as having health benefits. For example, studies have linked tea to cardiovascular and metabolic health and a decreased risk of chronic illnesses.

None of Rustic 1773 Mercantile’s products contain artificial ingredients or preservatives, and Winblad promotes them as safer for more skin types.

“It’s absolutely more natural,” Winblad said. “And it really helps along with modern medicine. I have a lot of cancer patients who use this to help them get through chemo. I have a lot of new moms that use it for postnatal because they can bathe with baby.”

Winblad’s tea soaks come in two different sizes packaged in mason jars. The small size lasts about 10 baths while the large size should last for 35 baths. There are 14 varieties of tea soaks available, and each offers its own targeted health benefits.

Winblad pointed out a few in particular that she said will be popular in the spring months.

Sauna Soak is a ginger oolong blend that can purportedly help reduce nausea and inflammation. Winblad called it a “natural Ibuprofen.” Another soak is called Herbal Spa and contains chamomile and mint for relaxation and sinus relief. Winblad said Lemon Velvet is a popular choice for those wanting to treat anxiety.

Each comes with a reusable sachet that lasts the life of the jar. This aids with cleanup as well because tea does not get into the tub or down the drain.

Winblad said some of her customers have even used the soaks in hot tubs.

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Winblad also pointed out that customers cannot “overdose” on the soaks. You can use as much product in the sachet as you want. It is also safe to handle, like for children who enjoy tactile sensations in the bath. She said her 3-year-old loves to play with the sachet.

“And the more she plays with it, the more she’s actually just soaking up the essential oils from the tea,” she said.

“So it’s actually better.”

Rustic 1773 Mercantile also sells handmade soap bars with essential oils, tea scrubs and the loose-leaf teas for consumption. Winblad makes all the products herself, hand-shaking the tea soaks and getting help from her children to create the soap bars. She also sells handmade leather goods and CC Beanies.

Winblad serves as social media marketing director at Nosh Restaurant, 200 SE 19th St., in Moore, where owner Kim Torres encouraged her to run with the bath soak idea. Now the bath soaks and teas are sold at Nosh as well as neighboring Showplace Market, 2001 S. Broadway Ave. Products can also be found at the Rustic 1773 Mercantile website and through local trade shows like An Affair of the Heart. Winblad is planning to attend 20 trade shows this year.

Rustic 1773 Mercantile offers custom orders and gift boxes, and its de-stressing products are popular, especially with bridal parties. The online store ships its products around the United States.

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CALENDAR are events recommended

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

BOOKS Asa Dunnington book signing the author will autograph copies of his nonfiction crime book Selectively Lawless: The True Story of Emmett Long, an American Original, about his uncle, a reformed bank robber and moonshiner, 3 p.m. April 6. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. SAT Conversations with Poet Alberto Rios the poet and Arizona State University-Tempe professor will read from his work, discuss his writing and sign books, 7 p.m. April 3. Meinders School of Business, NW 27th Street and McKinley Avenue, 405-208-5351, okcu.edu. WED Nancy Jackson book signing the author will autograph copies of The Blood, a novel about two Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents searching for a murderer, 1-2:30 p.m. April 6. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405-3409202, bestofbooksok.com. SAT Robert Hunter book signing the Nashville-based author and singer/songwriter will sign copies of his novel Relapse: A Love Story and perform acoustic music, 6-7:30 p.m. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com.

THU

Storybook Project authors create children’s stories based on illustrations created by Breadcrumbs Ink, April 5-28. The Paseo Plunge, 3010 Paseo Plunge, 405-315-6224, paseoplunge.org. FRI-SUN

Oklahoma Arts Day learn to advocate for art access and education and enjoy live musical performances and visual arts demonstration 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

April 3. Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 405-521-3356, ok.gov. WED

FILM

Oklahoma Creativity Ambassadors 2019 ambassadors Ken Fergeson, Chip Fudge, Rob Lake and more will be introduced at this event hosted by Creative Oklahoma, 6-9 p.m. April 9. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. TUE

The Happening (2008, USA, M. Night Shyamalan) a mysterious environmental crisis sends a science teacher and his wife on a search for answers, 7-10 p.m. April 3. Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., 405708-6937, towertheatreokc.com. WED Queer Film Continuum a series of screenings highlighting the work of lesbian directors with a brief introduction and a post-film discussion, 7 p.m. April 6, May 4 and May 25. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. SAT The Wind (2018, USA, Emma Tammi) a woman is driven insane by isolation on the Western frontier in the late 1800s in this supernatural horror film, April 5. Rodeo Cinema, 2221 Exchange Ave., 405-2353456. FRI Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018, USA, Morgan Neville) a documentary about Fred Rogers work on public television, 7 p.m. April 9. Rodeo Cinema, 2221 Exchange Ave., 405-235-3456. TUE

HAPPENINGS Autism Awareness Day learn more about autism at this resource fair for family members, friends, service providers and individuals with autism, 8 a.m.-noon April 10. Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 405-521-3356, ok.gov. WED

Potatoes & Palette engage in therapeutic artmaking and eat potato dishes donated by local restaurants at this event organized by the Women’s Resource Center in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, 2-4 p.m. April 7.

Resonator, 325 E. Main St., Norman, resonator.space.

SUN

Space Jamz a Space Jam-themed costume party with live music from Audio Book Club, LTZ, and DJ Tangerine, 7-11:30 p.m. April 7. Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., 405-708-6937, towertheatreokc.com.

SUN

Tickled Pink: 2019 Ballet Ball enjoy cocktails, dinner, live music from Squadlive and a special performance by Oklahoma City Ballet at this fundraising event, 6:30 p.m. April 6. Bricktown Events Center, 429 E California Ave., 405-236-4143, chevyeventscenter.com. SAT

FOOD Roughtail Brewing Company’s Sixth Anniversary celebrate six years of craft beers with local food, live music and 10 new brews, noon-9 p.m.

April 6. Roughtail Taphouse, 1279 N. Air Depot Blvd., 405-771-6517, roughtailbeer.com. SAT The Hangover Brunch sample food and drinks from several local eateries at this annual event, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. April 7. OKC Farmers Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 4054860701. SUN

YOUTH Academic Enrichment Reading Clinic children in grades 1-12 can receive free tutoring and homework help in reading, math and history and learn about nonviolent conflict resolution and successbuilding habits at this weekly clinic, 11 a.m. Saturdays through April 27. Nappy Roots, 3705 Springlake Drive, 405-896-0203, facebook.com/pg/nappyrootsbooks. SAT Linda Kukuk book signing the illustrator will host a story time and autograph copies of her book Wilma’s Way Home, the story of the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, 11 a.m.noon April 6. SAT

The Norman Medieval Fair Started in 1977, Norman’s Medieval Fair expanded from a one-day forum for the English department at University of Oklahoma to a three-day event filling one of Norman’s largest parks with jousters and jesters, knights and knaves, probably a whole bunch of people dressed like Game of Thrones characters and maybe a Storm Trooper or two. More than 200 vendors will sell handmade crafts, armor, weaponry and more, and actors, dancers, jugglers and musicians will provide live entertainment. Get medieval 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday-Sunday at Reaves Park, 2501 Jenkins Ave., in Norman. Admission is free. Call 405-325-8610 or visit medievalfair.org.

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Storm Safety Day special exhibits and live shows demonstrate the best ways to stay safe during severe weather, with appearances by the Fox 25 Storm Watch weather team, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 6.

Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. SAT

PERFORMING ARTS Contemporary Dance Oklahoma, a program of modern dance featuring the choreography of Merce Cunningham, April 5-14. Elsie C. Brackett Theatre, 563 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-325-4101, theatre.ou.edu.

FRI-SUN

Death Tax a wealthy elderly woman suspects her nurse of conspiring with her daughter to drive her to an early grave in this play by Lucas Hnath, through April 20.

Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St.,

Tarsus Prolific local director Mickey Reece’s 2013 film Tarsus has not been screened in OKC in six years, according to a post on Reece’s Facebook page, which stated he felt the movie was “cursed” in Oklahoma after a storm canceled its planned premiere. The story, written by Reece and Danny Marroquin, follows recently released ex-con Patricia Peters (Rebecca Cox) as she struggles with methamphetamine addiction with little help from her weak-willed Narcotics Anonymous sponsor Johnny McQuire (Marroquin). The film begins 6:30 p.m. Saturday at The Banquet Cinema Pub, 800 NW Fourth St. Tickets are $7-$11. Visit banquetcinema.com.

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405-232-6500, carpentersquare.com. FRI-SAT Electric Pizza enjoy free pizza and hear electronic compositions from graduate students Jonathon Edwards, Breck McGough and Santiago Ramones, 7:30-9:30 p.m. April 10. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., Edmond, 405-359-7989, ucojazzlab.com. WED JT Habersaat the Austin-based standup comic will perform with support from Jay Chanoine and local Steve “Wampus” Reynolds, 8 p.m. April 6. The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-887-3327, theparamountroom.com. SAT King Lear a monarch divides his kingdom among his daughters with tragic results in William Shakespeare’s classic play, April 5-14. Rose State College, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 405-733-7673, rose. edu. FRI-SUN Love, Lust and Laughs erotic poetry meets standup comedy at this event hosted by Proverb and Kenyetta Cole, 8-11 p.m. April 6. The Mayfair Center, 3200 NW 48th St., 405-949-1029. SAT Pacifica String Quartet a concert presented by Chamber Music in Oklahoma and featuring works by Beethoven, Bartók and Shostakovich, 4 p.m. April 7.

Christ the King Catholic Church, 8005 Dorset Drive, 405-842-1481, ckokc.org. SUN Terre Rouge Burlesque celebrate the one year anniversary of the OKC-based vintage burlesque company at this show featuring performances by

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Monday Clay Day! Roll, Squish and Shape, ages 4 – 12 Thursday Western Crafts, ages 4 – 12

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Monday – Friday Animal Tracks, ages 4 – 6 Best of the West, ages 7 – 12

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UCO

Theatre Arts Invites You To

A Students Stage Reading Of Three Sisters, A New Play By

Dr. Carolyn Dunn ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE In the Department of English

April 9, 2019 at 6:00 pm Mitchell Education Center, Room (211)

ists specializing in the trompe l’oeil method, in which pieces appear to be made from different materials such as styrofoam or rusted metal, through April 25. Melton Gallery, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-525-3603, uco.edu. MON-THU

Roxie Le Rouge, Bessie Bouttè, Mariah Webb and more, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. April 6. 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., 405-463-0470, 51stspeakeasy.com. SAT Tess & Friends University of Central Oklahoma professor of cello Tess Remy-Shumacker will perform works by Mozart, Weber, Nin and Colombier with fellow faculty members, 7:30 p.m. April 4. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., Edmond, 405-359-7989, ucojazzlab.com. TUE

The Studio Gallery’s Spring Show an exhibition featuring newest gallery member Janie Tigert as well as works by Lu Beard, Dodge Hill, Jodee Molina and more, April 4. The Studio Gallery, 2642 W. Britton Road, 405-752-2642, thestudiogallery.org. THU

University of Oklahoma Percussion Ensembles and Steel Band a modern percussion concert directed by Andrew Richardson, 3 p.m. April 7. Sharp Concert Hall, 500 W. Boyd St., Norman, 405325-4101, music.ou.edu. SUN

This Land, From Prairie to Desert an exhibition of watercolor and mixed-media works by Deborah Burian, April 5-28.

Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

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Young Artist Honors Concert a concert featuring the winners of University of Oklahoma’s 2019 OU Young Artist Competition, 8 p.m. April 6. Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd St., Norman, 405-3250538, musicaltheatre.ou.edu. SAT

ACTIVE Botanical Balance an all-levels yoga class in a natural environment; bring your own mat and water, 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 a.m. Saturdays. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens.com. SAT-TUE Open Streets OKC walk, bike and skate without fear of automobiles at this event that reclaims streets for non-motorized activities; pets are welcome, drugs and alcohol are not, noon April 7, noon. Uptown 23rd Street, Northwest 23rd St., 405-831-0177, uptown23rd.com. SUN

Turkish Food and Art Festival Learning is always better when combined with food, and this annual festival obliges, offering the opportunity to sample gyro kebabs, manti (ravioli), kibbeh (breaded meatballs), sarma (stuffed grape leaves), baklava and more and wash it all down with Turkish coffee and tea. After your stomach is satiated, feed your brain by watching demonstrations of the Turkish techniques for calligraphy and water marbling. The festival is 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturday at Raindrop Turkish House, 4444 N. Classen Blvd. Admission is free.

Call 405-702-0222 or visit facebook.com/raindropokc.

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Twisted Coyote Brew Crew a weekly 3-mile group run for all ability levels with a beer tasting to follow; bring your own safety lights, 6 p.m. Mondays.

Twisted Spike Brewing Co., 1 NW 10th St., 405-3013467, twistedspike.com. MON

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Gallery Talks: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Oklahoma is Black Michael Slavid, museum manager for 21c Museum Hotel will discuss his perspective on Fazlalizadeh’s work, 6 p.m. April 9. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. TUE

Against the Grain an exhibition of artful furniture created from salvaged and reclaimed wood by Zach True Hammack, through April 28. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriad-

Child’s Play an exhibition of sculptural works created by Norman-based artist Brett McDanel, April 3-28. Paseo Studio Six, 3021 Paseo St., 405-5280174, thepaseo.org. WED-SUN

Kathleen Morris, Larry Hefner and Diana Smith an exhibition featuring Morris and Hefner’s abstract expressionist paintings and Smith’s sculptures, through April 30. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com.

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The Love of Color an exhibition of paintings by Oklahoma City artist Nancy Junkin, Through April 28.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405445-7080, myriadgardens.com. THU-SUN Mo Faux an exhibition of ceramics created by art-

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Death Cab for Cutie plays Saturday at The Criterion. Tickets are sold out. | Photo Eliot Lee Hazel / provided

Cab calling Death Cab for Cutie enters its third decade with Thank You for Today. By Jeremy Martin

Death Cab for Cutie released Thank You for Today, its ninth studio album, in August, but bassist Nick Harmer said he likes it more now. After living and touring with the album for several months, Harmer said he has also gotten better at playing it.

“I’m continually finding I’m sincerely loving it and finding more to uncover and unpack in it,” Harmer said. “It’s kind of an odd thing, making records, I think. … You record the songs, and then you spend the next year playing them and sort of figuring out how to play them and uncover what the songs really are about and what they do and all that stuff.”

The band is scheduled to play Saturday at The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave. Tickets are sold out.

Thank You for Today is the first album Harmer, drummer Jason McGerr and frontman Ben Gibbard have recorded with new members Dave Depper and Zac Rae, who both play guitar and keyboard and joined as touring members after founding member Chris Walla left the band in 2014. Harmer said Depper and Rae have brought a new energy to 22-year-old Death Cab. “We are definitely now settled in with our two new members of the band, Zac and Dave,” Harmer said, “and the last new thing that we had to do with them was make a record, and that process was really fulfilling and really, I think, creatively invigorating for us. … Hearing them play the songs that they were a part of writing and recording, it really keeps things exciting on the road

for us and really fun.”

Harmer, McGerr, Depper and Rae, along with producer Rich Costey, helped choose the 10 songs for the album from the more than 30 rough demos Gibbard recorded.

You record the songs, and then you spend the next year playing them and sort of figuring out how to play them and uncover what the songs really are about and what they do and all that stuff.

Nick Harmer “When it comes to sort of weeding those demos down ... it kind of starts and stops with the lyrics and the melody,” Harmer said. “We listen to what Ben’s singing about and we kind of just allow ourselves to be affected emotionally by it, and then I don’t know how it happened, but that’s that kind of unknown magic that happens in bands where musicians get together, and as soon as we start playing music together, it just sounds like us. That’s just what happens when we all play music together. We try not to force that too much or think too much about that. We’re not

like, ‘Does this sound enough like us, or does this sound not enough like us?’

We just sort of play what we’re feeling and hearing in our heads and what makes us excited in the room.”

Album closer “60 & Punk” has become a staple in the band’s live set, Harmer said — a pleasant surprise considering the band was unsure about “exactly how it was going to come across live” even though he “thought of it as a really cool moment on the record.”

“Every night we play it, I’m really, really happy and also kind of blown away at how effective that song really is and how it really connects with people,” Harmer said. “That’s a song that’s got a lot of space in it, and it’s really quiet.

When you’re playing a lot of more uptempo, real sonically dense songs around it, you always wonder in your mind as a performer, when we go down to a piano and a single vocal and a little bit of drums and a little bit of bass and bring the tempo way down, you always hope people are captivated by this so they don’t think of it like, ‘Oh, this is the time where I can talk to my friends,’ but it’s kind of gone the opposite way. It’s really been able to hold people’s attention, and you can feel the emotion in the room, and it feels really powerful. I hoped that the song would do that. It’s nice to see it do that actually.”

In the song, Gibbard sings about “a superhero growing bored with no one to save anymore,” and asks, “When you’re looking in the mirror, do you see / the kid that you used to be / broke and working in a record store / daydreaming about the upcoming tour?”

Cab ride

More than two decades after Gibbard and Walla recorded Death Cab’s 1997 cassette debut You Can Play These Songs With Chords, Harmer said the band is

still having fun together.

“It doesn’t take much effort,” he said.

“It always starts and ends with the people that you’re in the band with.

We’re all really good friends outside of playing music together. I think of Ben and Jason and Zac and Dave as extensions of my family now. And as long as we have that connection and that friendship and that respect for one another, I think that the music kind of flows out of that, and being on the road kind of becomes easy. It doesn’t really feel like it takes much effort to stay engaged and stay excited because we’re very lucky to be able to play music together and to be able to live our dream together. … I think we just try to take care of one another, check in, be friends.”

Finding that excitement and trying to translate it to audiences is one of Death Cab’s driving motivators, Harmer said.

“We always feel like if the five of us finish something and we look up at each other and think, ‘Man, that’s really fun, and that’s really exciting and we feel really good about that,’ then we can only hope that someone else will think that too,” he said. “So that’s kind of been our sort of guiding light the whole time. It’s just making music with each other that we’re happy with and proud of and just hoping that when we’re done with it and put out in the world that other people will feel that way too. Sometimes that works great; sometimes it doesn’t, but we just keep pushing ahead.”

Tickets might still be available through resell sites such as stubhub.com.

As of Monday, prices ranged from $40 for balcony general admission to $173.25 for premium pit access near the stage.

The band released Thank You For Today, its ninth album, in 2018. | Image provided

Death Cab for Cutie 7 p.m. Saturday The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. criterionokc.com | 405-840-5500 Sold out

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Bob DiPiero, Travis Hill and Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup perform at last year’s Oklahoma Songwriters Festival. | Photo provided

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Nashville and Oklahoma City songwriters perform and tell stories behind hits at the fourth Oklahoma Songwriters Festival. By Jacob Threadgill

Since Oklahoma-born musician and songwriter Zac Maloy moved to Nashville, Tennessee, nearly a decade ago, he has scored hits but also become immersed in the city’s unique songwriting culture.

The Bluebird Cafe might be Nashville’s most famous place to experience an intimate performance by a writer in the round; the cafe was portrayed on the television series Nashville, and it is where Taylor Swift got discovered and Maloy performed with the songwriter behind Tim McGraw’s No. 1 hit, “Live Like You Were Dying.”

“In some ways, it is more amazing to hear the guy who spawned the idea,” Maloy said of writer-in-the-round shows, where groups of songwriters take turns telling stories and performing the songs made famous by other musicians. “In Nashville, there are litZac Maloy introduces local songwriters at last year’s Oklahoma Songwriters Festival. | Photo provided

erally two shows a night at 10 different places like it. In Oklahoma City, it is more of a unique thing. I think it’s happening more [in OKC] locally, and we want to promote the culture.”

Maloy is bringing a little bit of Nashville while also highlighting Oklahoma City’s local talent with the fourth Oklahoma Songwriters Festival that culminates with a 7 p.m. April 13 showcase at Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St. Maloy is a founding member of The Nixons but has found success in Nashville, where he penned No. 1 songs for Carrie Underwood (“Temporary House”) and Skillet (“American Noise”) along with songs for many other artists such as Adam Lambert and Blake Shelton.

Other Nashville-based songwriters performing at the festival include Brett James, David Hodges and Marcus Hummon. James, who is a Del City native, is one of the most accomplished songwriters in the industry, winning 2010

songwriter of the year from American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). James has written No. 1 songs for the likes of Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Chris Young and many others. “[James] has had so many No. 1s that I won’t even go into it,” Maloy said. “The first year I moved to Nashville, I went to ASCAP when he was songwriter of the year. He had something like six or seven No. 1s in a six-month span, which is insane. I’ve known him since I moved to Nashville because people kept telling us to meet since we’re both from Oklahoma.”

Hodges is a founding member of Evanescence and has transitioned into songwriting since leaving the band.

Maloy and Hodges did writing sessions together in Los Angeles before they moved to Nashville and co-wrote a Tim McGraw song with Tom Douglas, “Words Are Medicine.”

“I might sing [“Words Are Medicine”] and [Hodges] might harmonize with me. He’s really the wild card of the show because I don’t really know what to expect with him singing Evanescence, but he’s going to sing some,” Maloy said.

“I think it’s crazy cool. Meanwhile, he wrote the Kelly Clarkson song ‘Because of You,’ which is just one of his Grammys.”

Hummon is performing at Oklahoma Songwriters Festival for the third time.

His credits include No. 1s for Rascal Flatts (“Bless the Broken Road”), Dixie Chicks (“Cowboy Take Me Away,” “Ready to Run”), McGraw (“One of These Days”) and Wynonna Judd (“Only Love”).

“Marcus has been to my show so many times that he feels like an Okie, and I tell people that because he wrote a musical about Jim Thorpe, he is one,” Maloy said. “The lineup this year, I’m not just saying this, it is the strongest and coolest one yet.”

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taking turns between each song and telling behind-the-scenes stories about their creation. Jabee and Tyson Meade also perform that night.

The night will open with local songwriters Tyler Hopkins, Graham Colton, Beau Jennings and Kinsey Charles, who will all perform two to three songs. Last year’s festival was the first to include local songwriters.

“I snuck into the back of the Tower and watched [the local songwriters performance],” Maloy said. “I thought it was so cool, and I had so many people come up to me after the show and say, ‘Yeah, it was cool to see you guys from Nashville sing songs that we know and hear the back stories,’ but I got so much positive feedback saying that was really cool to see these local people and understand that there are songwriters living among us.

“When I dove in and tried to find four local people, I listened to 30 or 40 local people’s music, and I’m blown away at the talent in Oklahoma that is still there.

People think about the talent that’s not there like Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, all these expatriates, but the whole reason for doing this event was to bring a little bit of Nashville back to Oklahoma and to expose the fact there is still a ton of talent [in Oklahoma].”

The festival begins Friday as local songwriters pair up with the counterparts from Nashville to work on collaborative songs. There is a $100-perperson dinner at Flame Brazilian Steakhouse at Grand Casino in Shawnee, the festival’s main sponsor, available for purchase through social media.

A free songwriting camp hosted by Oklahoma Film and Music Office is 11 a.m. April 13 at Castle Row Studios, 2908 Epperly Drive, in Del City.

Tickets to the Saturday night performance are $14-$40 and include a VIP option to meet and greet with the songwriters.

Visit oklahomasongwritersfestival. com.

Oklahoma Songwriters Festival Songwriting camp 11 a.m. April 13 Castle Row Studios 2908 Epperly Drive, Del City castlerowstudios.com | 405-429-4055 Free

Songwriter Showcase 7 p.m. April 13 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com | 405-708-6937 $14-$40

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Lost Highway Not to be confused with the local bar of the same name, OKC synthwave producer Lost Highway makes dark, cinematic music that seems equally inspired by John Carpenter’s ’80s horror soundtracks and the films themselves. Last year’s Cheerleader Death Squad plays more like a Robert Rodriguez exploitation flick than the CW pilot it’s presumably named after. The title track for follow-up Harlot, meanwhile, sounds like a Goblin giallo score played at 1.5 speed.

Celebrate the new album’s USB-drive release at a retro-futuristic dystopian dance party with support by DJ Bone. The show begins 10 p.m. Friday at Sauced on Paseo, 2912 Paseo St. Admission is free. Call 405-521-9800 or visit saucedonpaseo.com.

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A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of our ancestors. As for the word “amadou,” it’s derived from an old French term that means “tinder, kindling, spunk.” The same word was formerly used to refer to a person who is quick to light up or to something that stimulates liveliness. In accordance with astrological omens, I’m making “Amadou” your nickname for the next four weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them,” wrote novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “Life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves.” Here’s what I’ll add to that: As you mature, you do your best to give birth to ever-new selves that are in alignment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want to become. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t skilled at that task in adolescence and early adulthood, and so the selves we create may be inadequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn from our mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that are strong and righteous. The only problem is that the old false selves we generated along the way may persist as ghostly echoes in our psyche. And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly echoes. I tell you this, Taurus, because the coming months will be en excellent time to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts NOW!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

“When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir.

He quickly amended that statement, though, mourning, “The only thing that could spoil a day was people.” Then he ventured even further, testifying, “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” I bring these thoughts to your

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attention so as to prepare you for some good news. In the next three weeks, I suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people who are not “limiters of happiness”—who are as good as spring itself.

other gender. You have a potential to heal deeply if you get very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) It’s time to prove that Cancerians have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable, and being creative. Not that there’s anything wrong with those talents. On the contrary! They’re beautiful and necessary. It’s just that for now you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you’ll have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it possible for you to wield a commanding presence? Can you add a big dose of willfulness and a pinch of ferocity to your selfpresentation? Yes and yes!

Only one of Nana Mouskouris’s vocal cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the Libran singer has sold over 30 million records in twelve different languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvantage is key to her unique style. She’s a coloratura mezzo, a rare category of chanteuse who sings ornate passages with exceptional agility and purity. In the coming weeks, I suspect that you will be like Mouskouris in your ability to capitalize on a seeming lack or deprivation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

General Motors manufactured a car called the Pontiac Aztek from 2001 to 2005. It wasn’t commercially successful. One critic said it looked like “an angry kitchen appliance,” and many others agreed it was exceptionally unstylish. But later the Aztek had an odd revival because of the popularity of the TV show Breaking Bad. The show’s protagonist, Walter White, owned one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate his taste in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I suspect that something of yours may also enjoy a second life sometime soon. An offering that didn’t get much appreciation the first time around may undergo a resurgence. Help it do so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

“Of all the female sins, hunger is the least forgivable,” laments feminist author Laurie Penny. She’s referring to the hunger “for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love.” She continues: “If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings.” I’ve quoted her because I suspect it’s crucial for you to not suppress or hide your longings in the coming weeks. That’s triply true if you’re a woman, but also important if you’re a man or some

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Your tribe is symbolized by three animals: the scorpion, the eagle, and the mythological phoenix. Some astrologers say that the scorpion is the ruling creature of “unevolved” or immature Scorpios, whereas the eagle and phoenix are associated with those of your tribe who express the riper, more enlightened qualities of your sign. But I want to put in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy of all Scorpios. It is a hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its ability to survive—and even thrive in—less than ideal conditions. For the next two weeks, I propose we make it your spirit creature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Sagittarian novelist Gustave Flaubert declared that it’s “our duty is to feel what is sublime and cherish what is beautiful.” But that’s a demanding task to pull off on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel what’s sublime and cherish what’s beautiful for 30-35 days every year. Having said that, though, I’m happy to tell you that in 2019 you could get all the way up to 95-100 days of feeling what’s sublime and cherishing what’s beautiful. And as many as 15 to 17 of those days could come during the next 21.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Every language is a work-in-progress. New words constantly insinuate themselves into common usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to 1719 while remaining in your current location, you’d have trouble communicating with people of that era. And today linguistic evolution is even more rapid than in previous ages. The Oxford English Dictionary adds more than a thousand new words annually. In recognition of the extra verbal skill and inventiveness you now posses, Aquarius, I invite you to coin a slew of your own fresh terms. To get you warmed up, try this utterance I coined: vorizzimo! It’s an exclamation that means “thrillingly beautiful and true.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

One of history’s most audacious con men was George C. Parker, a Pisces. He made his living selling property that did not legally belong to him, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Statue of Liberty. I suspect you could summon his level of salesmanship and persuasive skills in the coming weeks.

But I hope you will use your nearly magical powers to make deals and perform feats that have maximum integrity. It’s OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though.

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make the wine and where on earth they were grown. I think that in the coming weeks you Capricorns should launch an effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity about any subject you care about. It’s a favorable time to become even more masterful about your specialties; to dive deeper into the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination.

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