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NEWS left Cynthia Garcia, United We Dream deportation defense manager, said she wants more elected officials who fight for black and brown constituents. center Danny Honeycutt, sheriff’s general counsel, characterized ICE’s role at the jail as clerical because they do not actively seek undocumented individuals. right Sara Bana, a local activist, organized a coalition of individuals to show up to jail trust meetings. | Photos Miguel Rios

officials continue to see us as uneducated in politics, and I think that is offensive to everyone who puts in so much work. But also it’s also offensive to the constituents. … We have some overturning to do as far as who represents us.”

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Trust discussions

A coalition of activists continues to advocate for the removal of ICE officers at the county jail.

By Miguel Rios

Immigration advocates continue pushing for conversations on the roles law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serve locally. Several community members attended the two most recent Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority (jail trust) meetings to request trustees kick ICE out of the county jail.

Since 2015, two ICE agents have been stationed at the county jail on alternating shifts Monday-Friday. Activists say the practice does not make the community feel safe and contributes to the “deportation machine.”

“The conversation was a step forward in the right direction for the community. Considering how the Oklahoma County jail is already a very toxic place for Oklahomans, to be able to dissect that and still bring up the ICE agents there, it was great,” said Cynthia Garcia, United We Dream deportation defense manager.

“It was pleasantly surprising to see so many community leaders from different backgrounds come together and call out that the Oklahoma County jail does not need to have two active ICE agents.”

The jail trust, which was created about two months ago, is expected to sign an official lease with the county in the next few months. Until then, it can only gather information and make recommendations to county commissioners; it cannot make official decisions itself.

Ben Brown, one of nine trustees, added the discussion regarding ICE officers at the jail to the July 22 agenda, citing mayor David Holt’s July 14 tweets in which he asserted Oklahoma City was diverse and welcoming to all people.

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jail,” he said at the July 22 meeting.

“That seems counter to the kind of welcoming city that the mayor wants, and it’s even counter to the welcoming city that I would want.”

Sheriff P.D. Taylor’s general counsel Danny Honeycutt, along with two jail administrators, characterized ICE’s role in the jail as “clerical.” Honeycutt said the jail does not have a 287(g) agreement, which allows ICE to deputize local officers, and does not participate in another similar program in which it would hold individuals for 48 hours at ICE’s request.

“The ICE individuals in the office are strictly for identification purposes.

They facilitate it quicker, the identification process, for anyone that’s booked into the facility, and so we don’t take it a step further than that,” Honeycutt said. “Once the citizenship status is identified, then we complete the booking process. ICE at that point will make a determination whether they want to place a hold or not. … Once the state charges are completed with whatever that remedy is, we will notify ICE if there’s a detainer and they’ve got until we cut that guy lose to come get them.

We will not hold that individual longer than necessary.”

Though he could not cite it during the meeting, one of the jail administrators referred to a statute requiring “reasonable effort shall be made to determine the citizenship status of the person so confined.”

Official response

District 1 commissioner Carrie Blumert told Oklahoma Gazette she is against having an ICE presence in the county jail.

“What I want to prevent is just sending people to ICE custody,” she said. “Having ICE agents in our jail just creates more fear, more mistrust between the com-

munity and law enforcement, and I want to build trust between community and law enforcement.”

District 2 commissioner Brian Maughan and district 3 commissioner Kevin Calvey both support having ICE agents at the county jail. Maughan made a post on his personal Facebook account stating his support.

“The ICE agents working with the Sheriff’s Office are not there to nab jaywalkers for immigration violations,” he wrote. “Where they initiate deportation action, it is linked to crimes committed here by illegal immigrants. Do these protestors really think it makes sense to allow burglars, robbers and others who pose a danger to our community to remain here with impunity? I am also concerned with the ongoing effort by some on the extreme political left to demonize ICE and with their calls for its abolition, which would result in an irresponsible and costly open borders policy.”

Calvey, who also serves as a trustee on the jail trust, said July 22 that he has empathy for people fleeing violence to other countries but still supports ICE presence. He asked for more feedback via his Facebook page, where he responded to most comments. In one he wrote, “These protesters just hijacked the Trust meeting to make a forum out of it to get media.”

Garcia said both posts aim to “other” and discredit the “political left” while highlighting and mirroring the national rhetoric surrounding immigrants — that they are criminals.

“It’s the othering of people as a way to discredit the hard work that comes from organizing families that are affected,” she said. “That’s another instance of, ‘How do I trigger a reaction of people who continue to be in alignment of white supremacy and nationalism?

Because ‘hijacking’ is a terrorism term.

But I think Oklahoma spoke for itself this last weekend. We’re tired of elected officials that tiptoe around the same language as the federal narrative.

Oklahoma is tired of being seen as a dumphole of racism, especially when there’s several organizations locally that do heavy lifting to push for more fair and equitable conditions for everyone regardless of status. … I think our elected

At the July 22 meeting, about 20 people signed up to speak, all of whom requested the jail trust remove ICE agents from the jail. Though ICE presence at the jail was not on the July 29 meeting agenda, more community members attended to speak on the topic. This time, about a third of the speakers expressed their support for ICE agents, saying they should receive the same respect as police officers and that laws need to be enforced.

Sara Bana, a community activist, organized the coalition of speakers who took to the microphone. When it was her turn to speak July 22, she said she was disturbed by the sheriff’s representatives, who were unprepared to answer questions about immigration hold numbers and a federal statute.

“Their lack of awareness in the reality of what is happening to people like me, people in my family, people within my neighborhoods and people within my communities, people of color being segregated and separated from their families, being put in cages,” she said. “To have those three gentlemen come up here without having done their homework to know and give you the numbers that you’re asking for and to try to create this façade that everything is normal, it’s disturbing to someone like me.”

While holding her naturalization papers, Bana spoke about her 15-year process to become a legal citizen. She said she carries her documentation with her so she is not accidentally put into detention centers, which recently happened to Dallas-born U.S. citizen Francisco Erwin Galicia, who was detained for three weeks.

“Sheriff Taylor, I’ve got a lot of respect for you. I know the conditions there aren’t well, and I know it’s almost impossible to do well with the conditions that you’ve got going on. But I beg of you, I plead with you, get those ICE officers out of your county jail now,” she said. “Remove them. We don’t need them doing clerical work as … your representatives called them.”

On July 29, the jail trust also passed a motion for trust chairwoman Tricia Everest to request $100,000 from Board of County Commissioners for independent financial analysis, legal services and consulting services.

The next jail trust meeting will be a facilitated planning session 1 p.m. Aug. 5 at Oklahoma City University School of Law, 800 N Harvey Ave.

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The announcement of the new bank president had been just 10 days prior to the signed stipulation.

The order indicates the corrective action was the result of a report of examination (ROE) dated Sept. 17. Per FDIC rules, ROEs are not a matter of public record.

According to Section 15.1 of the FDIC’s Manual of Examination Policies, a consent order is a type of cease-anddesist order against an insured bank when facts reasonably support that the bank has engaged in unsafe or unsound practices and/or if it has violated a law, rule or regulation.

The manual further explains that the purpose of such an order is to remedy unsafe or unsound practices or violations and correct those conditions.

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Profligate spending and indiscriminate loan practices led to the downfall of a young Farmers Bank executive. By Peter Brzycki

Less than a year after opening a branch in Oklahoma City’s Midtown district and reporting state-leading growth, Farmers Bank of Carnegie quietly removed its president after a bank examination resulted in a corrective order from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Oklahoma State Banking Department.

In addition, the bank and its former CEO have been named as defendants in a new lawsuit containing serious allegations, while the bank itself has brought action against its former chief executive.

and extolling his ambitious vision.

Johnson was featured prominently in Farmers social media promotions and extensive marketing efforts, including a self-produced video of the bank president driving around Carnegie in an expensive Audi and flashing a gold Rolex watch.

Then, suddenly, on Feb. 11, Farmers posted a short video to its Instagram account of Johnson introducing David Braly as new president and CEO of the bank. No details were given for the abrupt change or regarding Johnson’s future.

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After decades of operating as a small community bank in Carnegie, Farmers opened a branch at 1300 N. Walker Ave. in April 2018, an unusual and high-style facility with custom pingpong tables, electric scooters, a coffee bar and décor more closely resembling a downtown loft than a traditional bank.

A full-page story featuring the bank’s new CEO, Aaron Johnson, graced the front of The Oklahoman’s Sunday business section on May 27, 2018, and the same publication posted a video to its website, a 6-minute monologue delivered by Johnson seated at the new Farmers coffee bar, showcasing the expensive new Midtown bank offices 6

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A month later, on March 21, FDIC formally disclosed a 25-page consent order demanding a long list of corrective actions including specific restrictions and changes regarding properly qualified management personnel, board supervision, loan policy, reporting of charged-off loans, capital increase and a “realistic, comprehensive budget” as part of a larger profit plan.

The consent order included this as background: “The Bank, by and through its duly elected and acting board of directors, has executed a ‘Stipulation to the Issuance of a Consent Order’ dated February 21, 2019 that is accepted by the FDIC and the State.”

Johnson became president and CEO of Farmers Bank at age 34, succeeding his father in that role and becoming the fourth generation of his family to helm the institution.

Although the bank was based in 1,672person Carnegie, Johnson lived in Oklahoma City dating back to 2006, when he took his first official role with Farmers.

County records show that starting in 2014, Farmers began to make a number of multi-million-dollar loans for commercial and residential real estate projects, many signed by Johnson. By September 2015, Johnson was promoted to executive vice president and chief lending officer and elevated to the role of CEO in May 2016.

Dozens of large OKC-area loans followed, and Farmers was soon lauded as the fastest-growing bank in the entire state for 2017, nearly doubling the growth rates of the second-place finishers in terms of assets, loan and deposit growth and besting all of the state’s more than 200 banks.

In 2017 alone, Farmers reported between 80.29 percent and 86.09 percent increases in all three categories, a remarkable feat for what had been a sleepy small-town bank.

By mid 2018, the examination had begun that led to the existing consent order. By February 2019, Braly had been quietly introduced as the new head of Farmers and Johnson was no longer listed as an officer.

Public records reveal that new lending activity declined sharply after Johnson left the bank. Quarterly reports filed with FDIC show that after significant declines from 2011 to 2015, for the period between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2018, Farmers grew its total assets, loans and deposits by 143.4 percent, 177.2 percent and 175.2 percent year after year.

Yet corresponding net income over the same period took a sharp downturn, culminating in a reported loss of $698,000 in 2018 after recording a bad loan allowance of over $1.2 million.

Suit filed

Several months before Farmers replaced Johnson as its chief executive, the bank engaged an independent accounting firm to investigate staggering sums charged to an American Express card.

In a lawsuit filed last month, Farmers claimed Johnson made personal charges in the amount of $398,389.49 in a 12month period beginning in June 2017 and the bank paid these charges on behalf of Johnson.

Although the suit indicates Johnson ultimately repaid $371,000, Farmers claims an unpaid balance of $47,948.13 with interest still accruing.

The bank also alleges that Johnson breached his fiduciary duty as CEO by utilizing the card for personal use and having those charges paid by Farmers.

The FDIC’s consent order contains over a full page devoted to new restrictions regarding expenses paid on behalf of employees and directors, including limitations on spending, complete documentation and proper and timely review.

In an answer to the filing, Johnson’s attorney denies money is owed the bank or that it was damaged in any way by the American Express charges.

The matter is still pending in Oklahoma County District Court.

In addition to the FDIC and state regulatory issues, two existing shareholders in Farmers Bank recently filed a legal claim alleging they had been fraudulently induced into lending money to Johnson and his father, Lawrence Johnson. The suit identifies the Johnsons as majority shareholders of the bank.

The action filed by brothers Gary S. and Robert D. Smith asserts they were intentionally misled by Johnson when the pair loaned substantial sums to Farmers Bank, which is also named in the suit. The Smiths claim $1.5 million in promissory notes were executed on July 24, 2018.

The filing states the original due date was extended at the request of the Johnsons after Aaron offered assurances of bank profitability and full payment in mid March. The Smiths filed their lawsuit in early July after no payment was tendered.

The suit includes several additional allegations. In early 2018, bank regulators directed Farmers not to borrow funds without consent, which was not obtained in regard to the subject promissory notes. The Johnsons also allegedly misused assets of the bank, imperiling its ability to repay the notes, and they allegedly defrauded the Smiths and others in conjunction with the sale of stock in Farmers. The stock sales will be the subject of a separate lawsuit.

The Smiths are the principals behind Corsair Cattle Company, a real estate investment and development firm that has sold and renovated a great deal of property in and around the Midtown district.

Johnson and Braly did not return calls from Oklahoma Gazette and OKC Talk.

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Charting education Oklahoma Gazette looks at what exactly makes a charter school amid scandals surrounding one of the biggest in the state. By Miguel Rios

Charter schools were envisioned as institutions of innovation where teachers could have freedom to test new ways of educating students. However, many contend that the vision was lost when charter school proponents started promoting them as competitors for traditional public schools.

As of May 2019, more than 7,000 charter schools existed across 44 states and the District of Columbia.

“Originally, charter schools were supposed to have a charter with the local public school, and the charter school was to practice out innovations that would then eventually — ones that were really good and worked well — would then move into the public school system.

That was the original intent,” said Alicia Priest, president of Oklahoma Education Association. “People thought they could make profit off of public schools, so it quickly became something that it wasn’t intended to be.”

They are considered public schools and cannot charge tuition or teach religion. Charter schools must also comply with the Oklahoma Open Meetings Act and Oklahoma Open Records Act.

Alicia Priest, Oklahoma Education Association president, said if traditional public schools were funded more adequately, there would be no need for charter schools. | Photo provided

Oklahoma Charter Schools Act (OCSA) was passed in 1997 to improve learning and opportunities, encourage innovative teaching methods and provide academic choices. There are about 32 charter schools in the state with a combined enrollment of 38,425 students across virtual charters and brick-and-mortars.

“Charter schools automatically, when they set up their school, deregulate from different laws and requirements that public schools have,” Priest said. “They don’t have to hire certified teachers.

They don’t have to follow the state minimum salary schedule and they don’t have to pay into teacher retirement. They don’t have to follow — depending on how they set up the charter — the general standard that public schools follow.”

They siphon money away from the entirety of public schools.

Alicia Priest OCSA requires charter schools to comply with “federal regulations and state and local rules and statutes relating to health, safety, civil rights and insurance.” But they are “exempt from all statutes and rules relating to schools, boards of education and school districts.”

Pros and cons

Charter schools are not allowed to levy taxes or issue bonds, which means they are not as funded as traditional public schools. However, they are still funded through the state, which Priest said hurts traditional schools.

“They siphon money away from the entirety of public schools,” Priest said.

“If we focused our attention on making sure our public schools were funded appropriately, making sure that our public schools had the stuff they need to reach, teach and inspire all children, then there wouldn’t be a need for a charter school. But with funding cuts to public education, it incentivizes sometimes people to say, ‘Hey, my public schools have class sizes of 45 and this charter over here has a maximum class size of 17, so I’m going to do what I see or what I think is best for my student.’”

Chris Brewster, superintendent of Santa Fe South Schools — a charter school with a predominantly Hispanic student population — said the pressure charter schools can put on traditional schools is a positive for education.

Brewster, who also serves as Oklahoma Public Charter Schools Association president, made the analogy of fast-food places or churches chastising competitors for stealing their customers.

“It’s odd to me that in our society, we sort of said, ‘You have choice in all these areas, but you shouldn’t be allowed to

have choices in public schools,’” he said.

“If I was a superintendent of a district where charter schools were operating, I would focus on making certain that the students I was serving were pleased with the traditional public school that they were in so that there would be no need for them to consider going anywhere else.”

Brewster said one of the main benefits of a charter school is that it allows low-income and underserved communities to have a choice.

“I’m pro-charter, but more than that, I’m pro-opportunity for kids to have a great school to go to,” he said. “Everyone who either works here or is a parent or a student has chosen to be here. So from the outset, there’s a dynamic that we don’t see in schools that are mandatory attendance zones. The power of being able to choose where your child goes to school usually resides with those of means who can afford to live in a particular district or afford to go to a private school. … Charter schools exist to shift the equation in favor of the family from the institution.”

However, Priest argues many traditional schools already provide choice and charter schools tend to be more selective with students and can expel them for minor infractions.

“There’s open transfers. Most every public school has an opportunity for virtual or blended learning, so public schools offer choice. What public schools don’t offer is a big advertising budget and things like that,” Priest said.

“School choice is a great buzzword, but we have choice. We have school choice in Oklahoma. Charter schools can say, ‘We’ll only allow students who make this grade on the test to be a part of our school. We’re not going to offer transportation, so, parents, you have to be able to afford and have time to take your child to school. Or you’re expected to donate 20 hours a month in service to the school.’ The parents don’t necessarily have the choice; it’s the charter that has the choice because the charter can accept or decline or send back an enrollment of a student.”

Charter schools exist to shift the equation in favor of the family from the institution.

Chris Brewster Priest said when students move away from traditional schools to charters, it creates a cycle that leads to budget cuts that can make more parents transfer students to charter schools, which can result in even more budget cuts.

“The reality is if we’re funding our public schools and allowing those teachers to teach the way they know is needed, then our public schools handsdown win,” Priest said. “Among virtual schools with blended models, district-

operated schools perform better than charter operated.”

A cost-effectiveness study conducted by CF Educational Solutions between 2014 and 2016 contends that charter schools are more cost-effective than traditional public schools. However, the data also shows that the percentage of students passing academic tests at traditional schools has remained steady while charter schools saw a decline.

Chris Brewster, Santa Fe South Schools superintendent, said charter schools give underserved populations school choice. | Photo provided

“We receive significantly less dollars and do more with less dollars,” Brewster said. “By recent studies, we’re somewhere close to 67 cents on the dollar compared to a traditional public school, so they already receive more money.”

News outlets have recently reported scandals surrounding Epic Charter Schools, mainly dealing with potentially falsified enrollment records and embezzlement, which are being investigated by Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Gov. Kevin Stitt and state superintendent Joy Hofmeister are also calling for an investigative audit of Epic.

However, Brewster maintained that the school is “innocent until proven guilty.” He said he extends an open invitation to anyone interested in seeing the work educators are doing at Santa Fe South Schools.

Despite having different opinions on charter schools, both Priest and Brewster assert that the bottom line is giving children a good, well-rounded education.

“The Oklahoma Education Association believes in having the best public schools for our kids taught by highly qualified teachers with high-quality support staff there to make the whole education process beneficial for every child in the state of Oklahoma,” Priest said. “We believe in making sure that the funding is there for those students, that we offer professional development and support to teacher ands support professionals so they can create those great public schools for kids.”

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It has been a turbulent offseason for Oklahoma City Thunder fans, but a man claiming to be from Virginia left a pair of unhinged voicemails on the team’s main answering service, threatening violence against members of the organization and that he might bomb the entire city — as if that doesn’t strike enough of a chord here.

Early in the morning on July 6, shortly after Paul George was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers but before Russell Westbrook was sent to the Houston Rockets, a man left the first of two voicemails with the team, according to search warrant published on Deadspin.

After calling the organization the dumbest [expletive] organization in the league, he said “First off, bruh, y’all let go of Melo [Carmelo Anthony] … y’all traded Paul George but you keep Raymond Felton.”

First off, how dare you disrespect Felton! He’s a human teddy bear that gives hope to many people who look like him that they might be able to help the team as a veteran off the bench.

“I ain’t even graduate from school [and] I’m smarter than everyone in the front office,” the first voicemail says, as if he needed to clarify that he has not graduated. He wonders why they signed George to an extension only to trade him — even though the team got a record number of assets for him, rather than watching him walk away in free agency for nothing, like Kevin Durant.

“I wanna spit on y’all mummas / I will piss on y’all’s kids,” the voicemail transcript says before including the parenthetical, “(sounds like the male is beginning to cry at this point),” followed by giggling and a threat to bomb the city if he ever comes to Oklahoma.

The man called back a few minutes later to say that he called with some “disrespectful” words only to go on another harassing rant that singles out Sam Presti and calls Westbrook a bum minutes after he lauded the former MVP. The whole transcript is quite the rollercoaster. It reads like the words of a man that is under the influence and likely no actual threat. Local authorities are investigating the calls. Our only complaint is that the organization is too classy to print T-shirts with the phrase, “I wanna spit on y’all mummas.”

Damonic justice

In June, sightings of actor Matt Damon (EuroTrip, Mystic Pizza) temporarily exceeded sightings of Bigfoot in Oklahoma, and for good reason: Damon is apparently filming a movie here. According to Variety, Stillwater, written and directed by Oscar winner Tom McCarthy, will star Damon as an “American oil-rig rough neck from Oklahoma … who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit” and is “confronted with language barriers, cultural differences and a complicated legal system.”

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termines that a key prosecution witness was coerced into giving false testimony, but then, in a feel-good Hollywood ending, discovers she might be eligible for up to $6,250 for each year of her life spent behind bars? “Too feel-good,” you say? Then how about, much like Tondalao Hall, Damon’s daughter is sentenced to 30 years in prison under a failure-to-protect law because she was unable to prevent her abusive husband from severely injuring their 3-yearold daughter, but — get this — in an M. Night Shyamalanesque twist, her abusive husband gets off with probation?

Oops. A quick Bing search shows that the film’s setting, Marseille, is actually located in France. Far be it from us to tell Hollywood how to Hollywood, but it sure seems like if they want a truly high-stakes legal nail-biter, they should set it in Oklahoma and cast people of color. Just do not expect a happy ending.

Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) sure loves to ruin its inmates’ weekend plans.

Last Friday, officers at Clara Waters Community Corrections Center were watching surveillance cameras, as they do, when they spotted someone jumping the perimeter fence. After investigating the grounds twice, an officer found four bottles of Seagram’s Apple Twisted Gin in the trash, giving a different, sadder meaning to the term “trash can punch.”

Thankfully, the bottles were full, so no inmates were caught calling their exes from their contraband cellphones.

“An alert Correctional Officer may have spoiled someone's weekend party plans at Clara Waters Community Corrections Center last Friday,” Oklahoma DOC gleefully boasted on Facebook.

That would have been some party, but we cannot help but feel like DOC actually saved their weekend because four bottles of gin sounds like a continuation of their punishment. Joe Costello, one of the officers who was on duty, told Oklahoma Gazette it is

not uncommon for inmates to group up to bring contraband into the facility and for officers to intercept it, though the contraband is typically not Seagram’s Gin. DOC did not report whether it caught the smuggler but was quick to remind the public that bringing alcohol into correctional facilities is a felony — even if it is apple-flavored. A comment on DOC’s Facebook post by another correctional officer states that four total officers were responsible for the bust. The comment, however, did not go into detail about how much of a rager their staff party was that evening.

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After stumbling out of the gate, Slapfish finds its footing in Nichols Hills. By Jacob Threadgill

Slapfish 1125 NW 63rd St., Nichols Hills slapfishrestaurant.com | 405-242-4398 WHAT WORKS: Slapfish’s overall commitment to sustainability comes through with fresh fish and well-seasoned rice throughout the dishes.

WHAT NEEDS WORK: The shrimp ceviche lacked citrus.

TIP: A second location is coming to Chisholm Creek.

Founded in California by a chef with a background in Maine lobster restaurants, Slapfish is a growing fast-casual chain focused on providing sustainable seafood.

When business partners Mechelle Petty and Natalie Neal talked about opening a restaurant, Petty suggested seafood. The duo went to California to sample items and eventually secured a franchise agreement with founder Andrew Gruel to bring three Slapfish restaurants to Oklahoma.

“We really liked it and thought it would work in Oklahoma,” Neal said. “We’re a landlocked state, so when you get fish, it’s either fast food or more of a white tablecloth sit-down where you spend two hours. There’s not a lot in between.”

Slapfish opened its first Oklahoma location at 1125 NW 63rd St. in Nichols Hills this spring. It is the 23rd Slapfish location in the country, and it is reported

by QSR magazine that there are 150 locations in the works. Petty and Neal are bringing a second Slapfish to Oklahoma City that will open in Chisholm Creek later this year or early 2020.

The Slapfish rollout in Oklahoma did not come without hiccups. It had a soft opening at the end of March and was open for a week but then shut down and reopened in early April.

“We wanted to step back and maybe do some rehiring,” Neal said. “We were open for a week and it was new; we had a lot of business. So when we did close

down, we did probably lose some of those people and some of that excitement.”

Getting too much business early can be difficult for a new restaurant, especially for a new concept. During a recent visit, everything appeared to be running smoothly at Slapfish since its rough soft opening, but it is clear there are some folks in the market who wrote it off or forgot about it during its spring retooling.

“Everyone that comes in likes our food,” Neal said. “But we have to get our name out there; we still have people coming in for the first time.”

Neal said Slapfish’s traditional lobster roll, fish taco, poke bowl, appetizer ceviche and fish and chips are among its best sellers. I did my best to sample as much of the menu as possible and came away impressed with the chain’s commitment to serving sustainably sourced seafood.

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When you walk in, there is a chalkboard listing the types of fish available at the store that day and a placard for the nonprofit Seafood for the Future that promotes protecting the dwindling fish population and allowing it to recover.

Neal said the local Slapfish works with the California headquarters and relies on its research for suppliers for the right kinds of seafood. Of course, we are pretty deep into the 21st century, and all fish is flash-frozen after being caught, even the stuff you eat at sushi restaurants. No matter where you are in the country, unless you watched the fish get caught and brought into the kitchen, chances are that it is all about the same quality. There are a few programs like the ones used at high-end restaurants Ludivine and Osteria that can get items shipped within 24 hours of being caught, but I am sure that does not fit with Slapfish’s lower overhead.

Upon a recent visit to Slapfish, I started the meal with the shrimp ceviche. Since the shrimp is cooked prior to going into the marinade, it does not rely on the lime or citrus juice to “cook” it like other raw preparations. I thought that showed in Slapfish’s version, as it was heavy on tomato juice and I did not get much citrus.

The shrimp was tender and had some bursts of cucumber atop tortilla chips for an otherwise refreshing opening to a big meal.

I thought Gruel’s background working at lobster restaurants in Maine showed in Slapfish’s lobster roll and brought me back to my lone visit up there last decade. The lobster is drawn in butter and lightly tossed in mayonnaise and lemon; the key is that it’s not swimming in mayo or served with lettuce and tomato.

You want the lobster to be the star, and in this case, I thought it was tender. It was honestly better than the lobster roll I ate at a renowned lobster spot in Boston last year.

Next up in the marathon meal was the Power Bowl, which is a mixture of seafood (depending on the day; in this case, it was tilapia, shrimp and salmon) served over brown rice with a nice mixture of red leaf lettuce, spinach and cabbage for crunch. There was also sautéed squash, cucumber, carrots, radish, pickled onion and tomato served with a lemon vinaigrette. The rice was nicely backed with fresh herbs, and the fish filet was not overcooked. It is a large bowl packed with a ton of protein that can easily feed two people.

Similar ingredients can be found in the poke bowl, but it is served with ponzu sesame dressing; I only got a few bites, but the tuna tasted high quality and I liked that you can add your own sauce.

The Epic Shrimp Burrito is a massive meal. Each half of the burrito is stuffed with shrimp, fries and tomato-seasoned rice that was a nice touch. I had to hunt for the shrimp — as is the case with a lot of burritos, there tends to be uneven distribution of protein. It was not my favorite menu item, but it certainly lives up to its name and embraces the San Diego tradition of putting fries in a burrito.

Off the Hook Seafood & More’s Britton Road location is the only other contender in the fast-casual seafood space in Oklahoma City, but its service is a little longer than Slapfish and its menu is more dedicated to heavy options. You can eat a lot at Slapfish and not feel like you need to take a nap afterward.

Visit slapfishrestaurant.com.

from top Slapfish’s lobster roll; Slapfish poke bowl; the Epic Shrimp Burrito; the daily offering of fish in the Power Bowl included salmon, tilapia and shrimp; shrimp ceviche. | Photos Alexa Ace

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Fried pepperoni pizza at the closed Sussy’s Bricktown location | Photo Jacob Threadgill

Edible innovations

As regional foods get more national attention, the Oklahoma City area has entrees, drinks and desserts that deserve the spotlight. By Jacob Threadgill

Over the past decade, regional food preparations started to become mainstream. Poke, once a Hawaiian specialty, is now one of the fastest-growing restaurant concepts in the country. It joins city-signature dishes like Nashville hot chicken and Minneapolis’ Juicy Lucy cheese-stuffed hamburger among the former regional favorites that can now be found nationwide.

Which unique Oklahoma City regionalized food innovations could be next? There are a few Oklahoma traditions that we might take for granted, like the Club Special drink and Aunt Bill’s Brown Candy, that could blow up.

Of course, Oklahoma has plenty to contribute in the hamburger realm, but it goes beyond the onion burger and even in the crowded pizza market. Oklahoma City offers innovations that cannot be found elsewhere.

Fried pepperoni pizza

Detroit-style pizza, which is twice baked in a well-oiled, deep rectangular pan to become extra crispy, has started to go national. The style that was once a Motor City staple can now be found alongside Neapolitan-style pizzerias in New York and makes its Oklahoma City debut with the opening of Providence Pizza at Parlor in late August or early September.

Oklahoma City’s own pizza innovation is the fried pepperoni, and its exact origins date to the city’s first restaurant serving pizza. Jake Samara and Jack Sussman brought Oklahoma City its first pizza place, Sussy’s Italian Restaurant, inside Nomad Club in 1947.

The item followed Samara and went to Sussman through a variety of concepts over the years, according to Mike Sills, Samara’s nephew. Rick Bailey — who 12

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purchased Nomad II from Sussman in 1980 — takes credit for updating the pizza concept after taking inspiration from a meal at The Palm in Dallas in the mid ’80s.

“They fried these onion rings superthin [at The Palm], and we came back to the Nomad and started playing around with different fried items and threw some pepperoni in there, put it on a pizza and it was on the menu a week later,” Bailey said.

Nomad II closed in 2016, and Bailey opened a Sussy’s concept with the fried pepperoni pizza in Bricktown in 2017, but it closed in 2018. Bailey is looking to bring another Sussy’s location to northwest Oklahoma City in the future.

The fried pepperoni concept has lived beyond Sussy’s. Wheelhouse Pizza Kitchen, a short-lived concept on N. May Avenue, featured the fried pepperoni as a nod to Nomad II, but it lacked the distinct crispness of his predecessor.

“There is a trick to get them how you want, the pepperoni,” Bailey said. “When done right, it gets almost a bacon flavor.”

Ned’s Starlite Lounge, which operates in Nomad II’s former location at 7301 N. May Ave., includes a Nomad burger on its menu with fried pepperoni, sautéed peppers and onions, mozzarella and a roasted garlic tomato reduction.

Sparrow Modern Italian, 507 S. Boulevard Ave., in Edmond has taken the fried pepperoni concept to an exponential level. Pizza is baked with cheese, sauce and a layer of pepperoni. It is then topped with a tower of fried pepperoni.

Sparrow owner Pete Holloway said he was aware of Bailey’s version of fried pepperoni, but Sparrow has a different presentation.

“Chefs Joel [Wingate] and Jeff [Holloway] were playing around about

maybe putting the fried pepperoni as an appetizer and came up with idea to stack it high on the pizza,” Holloway said.

The fried pepperoni seems to be another iteration of a new pepperoni craze that comes from Ohio and is taking New York pizzerias by storm: the cupped pepperoni in which small discs of pepperoni bubble on the pie in the oven, forming crispy edges with a pool of grease in the center. Locally, The Jones Assembly and Hideaway Pizza locations offer a version of the cupped pepperoni.

On the vast expanse of the internet, there are no returns for a restaurant outside Oklahoma serving a deep fried pepperoni pizza.

“As far as I believe, my father and I are the first that have ever done fried pepperoni on a pizza anywhere,” Bailey said. “We think we are the inventors. I can’t prove it, but I can’t find any place that did it before us.”

Theta burgers

Rumors of a national burger chain entering the Oklahoma City metro market seemingly pop up every year. The most

recent example came from Moore city councilman Mark Hamm, who issued a false statement that Wahlburgers — the chain founded by actor brothers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg — would be coming to his district.

After a corporate spokesperson corrected Hamm that there are no plans to enter the market, it gave flashbacks to the elaborate 2018 April Fool’s Day prank that placed an “In-N-Out Burger coming soon” sign along Northwest Expressway.

It begs the question, Why does Oklahoma City need these chains when it already has one of the most unique and robust regional burger histories in the country?

According to national hamburger scholar George Motz in his book The Great American Burger Boom, it was long-forgotten Hamburger Inn in Ardmore that invented the fried onion burger — the sandwich most synonymous with the Sooner state — as a Depression-era necessity. These days, El Reno is the country’s onion burger capital, where Sid’s Diner, Johnnies Hamburgers & Coneys and Robert’s Grill carry on the tradition.

In Oklahoma City, Nic’s Grill, Tucker’s Onion Burgers and S&B’s Burger Joint, among others, have taken the onion burger beyond the metro thanks to expansion — or in the case of Nic’s, an appearance on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

It is University of Oklahoma sorority chapter Kappa Alpha Theta that led to the popularity of another regional favorite. According to The Oklahoman’s Dave Cathey, when Ralph Geist opened Town Tavern in what is now Campus Corner in 1937, a burger topped with hickory sauce, mayonnaise, pickles and cheese became so popular among the sorority and fraternity crowd that Geist began writing the name Theta Special on order tickets.

The Theta burger made its way on the menu at the Split-T under owner Vince Stephens, who opened The Joint in Oklahoma City on Western Avenue in 1953. Stephens hired Johnnie Haynes to manage the Split-T until Haynes went

A cheese Theta at Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler with a side of onion rings | Photo provided

out on his own to found Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, where the Theta is the No. 9 on the menu.

Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler has taken the hickory sauce, which Cathey wrote was originally known as Comeback Sauce and served at Ralph and Amanda Stephens’ Dolores Restaurant as early as 1925, and made it its own. The tomato-heavy sauce is sold by the bottle at Johnnie’s, and its secret is closely guarded by the Haynes family, who will not even allow high-level employees to know what goes into the recipe.

The same goes for another signature,

so I’m told — I don’t drink, but everyone says they’re good.”

Twin Hills always serves the drink over ice, but the bar Good Times, 1234 N. Western Ave., offers a frozen version made with vodka, sprite and sweet and sour.

“My whole life, I thought [the Club Special] was a regular cocktail, but if you went to another state to order it, they would have no idea what you’re talking about,” said Good Times coowner Claire Hampton.

Aunt Bill’s Brown Candy

A frozen club special at Good Times | Photo Alexa Ace

the Caesar burger.

The Theta burger has drifted into Texas and across Oklahoma, but many imitators opt for a sweeter barbecue sauce over the more savory hickory like the original.

“There are a lot of wannabes, and I don’t mean that the wrong way, that don’t make their own dressing,” said Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler co-owner Rick Haynes.

“There are a lot of Theta burgers out there that don’t use hickory sauce. They use barbecue, which is fine. Someone copying you is the best compliment.”

Club Special

A refreshing adult concoction of vodka, limeade, Sprite, club soda and lemon and lime wedges is the best way to beat the heat during the Oklahoma summer, whether you are on the golf course, by the pool or finding a reprieve in the air conditioning.

Oklahomans instinctively know the drink as a Club Special — but you’ll get blank stares from bartenders if you try to order it anywhere else in the country.

The drink’s origins belong to Twin Hills Golf & Country Club, but an exact date might be lost to time. Longtime bar manager Clarence Casteel and bartender Charlie Clemmons helped popularize the drink in the 1960s, said Twin Hills general manager Paul Hughes.

“We’ve been open since 1921, and I’d think we’ve been serving it almost that long,” Hughes said. “I started working a Oak Tree [Country Club in Edmond] in 1979, and they served the Club Special there back then. Everyone has their own version and puts a twist on it, but Twin Hills’ is the best. The drink remains very popular. It goes down smooth, or

A holiday tradition in Oklahoma is the finicky brown fudge Aunt Bill’s Brown Candy that dates to a 1928 column by The Oklahoman’s food columnist Edna Vance Adams, who wrote under the nom de plume Aunt Susan. According to Cathey, the newspaper published the recipe every year for the next 15 years, and it started to become Oklahoma heritage.

The nut-filled sugary confection has the temperament of an Oklahoma springtime weather pattern. Perhaps it comes as no surprise that it takes the same fortitude to withstand surprised thunderstorms sweeping down the plains without the warning of modern weather radar that is required to wrestle Aunt Bill’s Brown Candy into a perfectly smooth mixture.

Woody Candy Company, which was founded by Lucille and Claude Woody in 1927, remains the only commercial operation committed to producing the candy on a commercial level.

“It’s legendarily difficult to make because the labor is tough and you need to get the atmospheric conditions and chemistry right,” said Woody Candy co-owner Brian Jackson.

Woody Candy Co. sells Aunt Bill’s Brown Candy from its storefront at 922 NW 70th St. as a commitment to Oklahoma history, even though it is not the best from a business overhead perspective. Jackson said they have to donate portions to local food banks because batches do not always meet the company’s standards.

“If you mess up one of those three or four variables in the slightest bit, it’s going to ruin the batch,” Jackson said.

“It takes four to five man hours of labor plus ingredient cost before you have the first indicator of whether or not the consistency came out right, but there are many checkpoints [for something to go wrong]. You won’t know until the next morning if it came out correctly.”

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Oklahoma City native Isabel Orozco-Moore has turned Isabel Eats into one of the internet’s most successful Mexican food blogs. By Jacob Threadgill

Before Isabel Eats became one of the most successful Mexican food blogs on the internet, its founder had to leave Oklahoma City to appreciate her roots.

It took going to Saint Vincent College, a small Catholic university in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for Isabel Orozco-Moore to begin to appreciate her Mexican heritage.

“I was one of maybe three minorities at the school,” Orozco-Moore said.

“Everyone I met, they were like, ‘Oh, you speak Spanish? That’s so cool.’ Everyone was interested in what I ate growing up and were like, ‘You can make tortillas?

That’s amazing.’ I would make tortillas for friends.”

She graduated from Santa Fe South High School in 2006, the charter school’s second graduating class, after matriculating through Oklahoma City Public Schools surrounded by kids with similar backgrounds.

“I went to this small school (Saint Vincent has student population under 1,900) with almost no diversity, and the only other minorities were basketball players,” she said. “Having to explain to people that I spoke Spanish or the fact they would think it was cool I had that background was really weird to me.”

Cooking tortillas for friends was the first step into what would ultimately become a full-time job. Growing up, she actually didn’t get involved in the cooking process at home, mostly watching her parents in the kitchen from afar.

Orozco-Moore really started to cook

in earnest when she moved to Pittsburgh to attend graduate school. While working a full-time job for the university as a researcher for a data journalism project, she began to dabble in a lifestyle blog in 2015 that included everything from gardening to lifestyle and a few recipes.

In 2016, she wanted to get serious about the blog and see if she could monetize it enough to become her job. In order to do so, she realized she needed a niche and felt most comfortable dedicating her website to recipes inspired by her family.

“I was away from home and I was missing my family, and it was a way to connect,” Orozco-Moore said. “Pittsburgh doesn’t have a lot of Mexican food, and it was another selling point. I wasn’t eating a lot of Mexican food [in Pittsburgh] until I started to do this.”

After making the focused content switch on the website, she began pursuing paid sponsorship opportunities by signing up for social networking and marketing companies like Social Fabric and Collective Bias that connect brands with blogs that fit into targeted demographics. She joined as many Facebook groups as possible for other dedicated food bloggers and began to learn how to make money on her website.

“My very first sponsored post was for $200, and I was like, ‘I can’t believe someone is going to pay me for a recipe,’ and then after connecting with people, I realized that I can make a lot more than $200,” she said.

Isabel Orozco-Moore started Isabel Eats in 2016. | Photo Alexa Ace

To strengthen her posts, OrozcoMoore took online courses for photography and Adobe Premiere Pro to post recipe videos. After about nine months of trying to see how much money she could make on the website, she took the leap of faith and made it her fulltime job.

“Everything you need is out there on the internet,” she said. “I’m just a girl who created a website and put recipes on there.”

After more than two years of working with Isabel Eats full-time, it is the No. 5 search answer for the Google query “Mexican food blog.” She recently crossed 15,000 Instagram followers and makes enough money to pay two parttime employees to run Isabel Eats’ Facebook and Pinterest pages while she handles Instagram posts.

Isabel Eats allows users to search for recipes by course, diet (paleo, low-carb, vegan, vegetarian) and type (30-minute meals, freezer-friendly meals, holiday, slow-cooker, tacos). Unlike many other food blogs, there is no overindulgent story and paragraphs of text before the recipe begins. She sticks to Isabel Eats’ tagline, “easy Mexican recipes.”

Each recipe includes full nutritional information.

In January, OrozcoMoore moved back to Oklahoma City with her husband after 12 years away.

“It’s exciting because I feel like I’m seeing the city grow,” she said. “Moving back here has given me more ideas. I can go over to my parents’ house and they will tell me to make things. What has helped me is coming back to the city and knowing only a handful of people. It’s forced me to go out into the city and try new places, meet new people. It’s made me think outside of what I was doing in Pittsburgh. There weren’t many Mexican restaurants in Pittsburgh, so I couldn’t go there for inspiration, or if I did, it was a generic Tex-Mex. Whereas here, there are some interesting things.”

Visit isabeleats.com.

Chile verde and Baja fish tacos from Isabel Eats | Photo Isabel Orozco-Moore / provided

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Catfish cavalcade

Oklahoma is a landlocked state, but it is also home to many catfish farms. Dig into the succulent freshwater fish at these seven establishments when you have the craving.

By Jacob Threadgill with photos provided and Gazette / file

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5816 NW 63rd St. thecajunking.com | 405-603-3714

While Cajun King is known for its overabundant buffet of Louisiana classics, its catfish won’t be found under a heat lamp because it is cooked to-order and brought to your table. The Catfish Almondine is covered in a light batter made with almond flour that is crisp and provides a little resistance to dig into the melt-inyour-mouth catfish center.

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There are few deals better than Vesa’s catfish that comes wrapped in a smoky and spicy batter. Two pieces of fish with two sides and a sweet cornbread muffin will only run you $8.50 at lunch and $10.50 at dinner. Pair it with some sweet potatoes and it will be a meal on your mind for weeks to come.

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Why keep the catfish all to yourself when you can order the crispy catfish appetizer at The Shack and split it among friends?

But if you’re looking for an entrée portion, it offers a few preparations not found elsewhere in the metro. You can order it grilled or blackened and have the option to stuff it with blue crab and shrimp, and the Cajun stuffed version fries the filet stuffed with crabmeat and serves it atop a bed of dirty rice topped with blackened catfish.

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For more than 10 years, Grill on the Hill has brought customers to Capitol Hill, and one of its signature dishes is fried catfish. It offers whole filets served with a choice of sides, and it has a spicy version on the menu that puts the heat in both the batter and the red-hot ranch sauce. The only downside is that Grill on the Hill is only open Monday-Friday, so you can’t get a weekend fix.

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Off the Hook has a pairing that no other catfish place can offer: lobster cream sauce. Enjoy the crispy catfish with spicy rice, fries or cheesy grits for a meal that will quickly convert any new member into the #GetHooked church.

You can also get a po’boy at Off the Hook’s original Britton Road location or as a sandwich at its south side spot.

Friday is the day of the week many people eat fish, and catfish specifically, partly from Catholic tradition but also because it’s the start of the weekend, and what better way to get the party started than tender, fried catfish. Olde Orchard offers catfish every day, but 5-8 p.m. Fridays, you can eat all your heart desires for $10.99.

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Chef and owner Ken Mills brought the taste of New Orleans to the Oklahoma City metro, where he operates three C’est Si Bon locations that also include Edmond and Midwest City. Enjoy its signature catfish with a side of spicy tiger sauce in one-pound options or get a combination with a half-pound on a nice French roll in the form of a po’boy.

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Sculpting history Norman artist Paul Moore earns unprecedented honors at Prix de West as his Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument nears completion.

By Jacob Threadgill

This year is shaping up to be one of the most memorable years for prolific Norman-based sculptor Paul Moore.

Not only is his massive, 45-piece Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument set to complete installation in November — a year ahead of schedule after 20 years of work — Moore became the first artist to be awarded two of the top honors at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition, which ends its run at the museum Sunday.

Moore’s 300-pound bronze sculpture “The Procession” depicts a religious ceremony outside a pueblo in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Moore lived for 13 years before returning to Oklahoma to revive University of Oklahoma’s figurative sculpture program. It was honored with the Purchase Award, the top honor at Prix de West, and becomes part of the museum’s permanent collection.

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award. Oklahoma natives Allan Houser and Wilson Hurley previously won the award in Prix de West’s 47-year history.

“To be in their company is quite the honor,” Moore said.

This marked Moore’s 10th year at prestigious Prix de West, and all five of his pieces sold on opening weekend, part of $2.94 million in total sales from some of the world’s preeminent Western art collectors.

Moore’s other four pieces — “Navajo Country,” “The Wood Gatherers,” “Yagui Deer Dancer” and “Shalako and Zuni Girl” — were honored with the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award, which is voted on by all 98 displayed artists at Prix de West.

Entering the opening night’s award ceremony, Moore thought he would have the opportunity to win the James Earle Fraser sculpture award, which went to 26-year Prix de West veteran Steve Kestrel, whom Moore considers one of his icons and the best stone carver in the country. He said he nearly did not attend the closing ceremony where he was honored, initially wanting to stay home and ice his back, until his wife talked him into going.

“To have all of your heroes, present-day artists to give you that award — to me, you can’t hardly top that,” Moore said.

“Then I won the Prix de West [Purchase Award], and no one had ever won both. It came as a total shock. I was rather speechless and didn’t know what to say. I was in shock and, in many ways, still am.”

Moore said wanted to honor Santa Fe’s native population, which he noted is being pushed farther out Paul Moore and his sculpture “The Procession” were honored with Prix de West’s 2019 purchase award. | Photo provided

from the city as it becomes gentrified, with the immense piece “The Procession,” which looks like a painting from a distance until the viewer gets close and realizes it projects in solid bronze onto a green desk.

“I wanted to show how important the religious procession is to their culture,” he said. “The challenge was to compact going from low relief to high relief and compact 60 yards within a 6-inch space and make it believable.”

Multiple honors

The two awards from 2019 Prix de West are waiting to be framed and added to Moore’s immense collection of honors at his studio, Crown Arts Inc., 118 W. Main St., in Norman.

In 2013, Moore was honored with the state’s Governor’s Arts Award, one year after his bust of President John F. Kennedy was placed in the collection at his Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Moore’s portrait of animator Chuck Jones, which is surrounded by characters Jones created for Warner Bros., is on display at Smithsonian Institution.

Moore is considered by many of his peers in the industry to be the most prolific sculptor of his generation. He said that on average, many sculptors do about 30 commissions in their lifetime, but he recently completed his 154th commissioned work, Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument. One

Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument in downtown Oklahoma City is one of the largest sculpture works in the world. The final two of 45 pieces will be installed in November. | Photo provided

of the largest bronze sculptures in the world, it features 45 life-sized pieces that will span 365 feet in downtown Oklahoma City when it is installed this fall at 200 Centennial Ave. “The Land Run [alone] is more than most people do in their career,” he said.

Moore’s career reflects being an autodidact. He credits his father for instilling a prolific work ethic. Moore was born in Oklahoma City in 1957, but his father was a minister who specialized in taking over small churches, so the family moved from towns throughout California and Oklahoma every few years. He said the works of Auguste Rodin and Jo Davidson inspired him.

Moore is making sure that work ethic stays in the family. His sons Ryan and Todd have grown up and worked side by side on the Land Run monument with him as it was completed over 20 years.

His 13-year-old grandson Ian also now pitches in at the studio. The final two pieces for the monument were sent to Deep in the Heart Art Foundry in Bastrop, Texas, where Moore’s sculptures will be cast in bronze and readied for final installation to join the other 43 pieces on display in November.

The project is financed through the city, state and federal government.

Moore credits the city for stepping up to cover rising bronze costs over its 20-year creation and said the only way to complete such a large project was to focus on it one piece at a time.

“It’s been a struggle,” Moore said.

“Within three years, I lost my hair and went gray because of how intense it was, especially at the very beginning.

Oklahoma City has been incredible at taking on the brunt of it, the cost increases, and I’m pleased that they’ve had the integrity to hold in there and continue until the very end. I’m looking forward to the first of November and getting installed.”

Visit crownartsinc.com.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Greased lightning

Oklahoma Victory Dolls skate fast and hit hard.

By Jeremy Martin

Almost as soon as she started practicing, Cheyenne Riggs wanted to quit roller derby.

“After, like, day two, I was like, ‘Fuck this shit,’” said Riggs, head of the public relations committee for Oklahoma Victory Dolls Roller Derby. “I was like, ‘I’m done. I am never going to be able to skate like those girls over there.

Whatever they’re doing is magic. They sold their souls to Satan. I can’t even stop. I can’t turn around. I can’t stop.

I can’t go. I’m just standing here.’”

The Outlaws face the Lightning Broads in the 2019 Oklahoma Victory Dolls Roller Derby championship Sunday at Star Skate, 2020 W. Lindsey St., in Norman. Riggs, who started competing in January 2016, said she continued to skate despite her initial difficulties thanks to a “very encouraging new recruit coach” who kept her motivated until she started enjoying it.

“Once you do learn how to do a few things and you actually have fun executing those things or you do it well, it’s encouraging,” Riggs said.

“And a lot of the other skaters, really all of them, went through the same thing. Hardly any of us came to the sport knowing how to skate — very, very few. So every person who’s there, no matter how good they are, started the same way you are, which is stumbling around like Bambi on ice and just not having any control over your body at all, so you get a lot of encouragement from the other skaters and a lot of help.

And that, I think, is what keeps you going until you’re able to do things well enough to actually have fun at it.”

Cheyenne Riggs skates for the Outlaws under the name Professor Flex. | Photo KC Derby Digest / provided

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Dating back to the 1930s, roller derby pits two teams of five skaters against each other on a circular track.

Each team has a jammer, designated by the star on their helmet, who attempts to lap the competing team in order to score. The other four team members are blockers.

“The main person to watch is the jammer,” Riggs said. “They’re the one scoring points. It’s often confusing to people at first because there’s no ball and most sports have some sort of ball or puck or thing you are moving from place to place. That’s what sports do, and so the easiest way to think of it is the jammer is the ball, and the jammer is trying to get around the track, and the

The Outlaws face the Lightning Broads in the 2019 Oklahoma Victory Dolls Roller Derby championship Sunday at Star Skate Norman. | Photo Keith Ridge / provided

blockers are trying to help their jammer and stop the other jammer. … Most of the strategy comes with the blockers, but it’s harder to keep track of.”

The championship will be the last home game this season. In 2019, the Outlaws and Lightning Broads faced off four times, and each team won twice, Riggs said, making the game a tie-breaker as well as a championship. Though the Victory Dolls are divided into two teams for local competition, the skaters are reorganized into the All Star Squad and Tornado Alley, comparable to a high school’s junior varsity, when they compete with out-of-town teams.

Riggs, an instructor at University of Oklahoma, skates for the Outlaws and Tornado Alley under the name Professor Flex. Skating under a pseudonym is a tradition that dates back to “the old days” when roller derby was similar to professional wrestling, with scripted storylines and even fixed outcomes. While the theatricality of an old-school bout originally drew Riggs to the sport, she said she continued to compete because of the athleticism and teamwork required in new-school roller derby.

You can hit as hard as you want, but there’s legal ways to do that because we’re not trying to intentionally hurt each other.

Cheyenne Riggs “For me, personally, I think what drew me and what kept me around are very different,” Riggs said. “I saw a bout in Austin that was much more of the old style, with the theatrics and stage makeup and tutus and fishnets and stuff, and I’d always done theater as a kid and liked to perform. And I kind of saw it as more of a performance, you know? Hang out with some friends and put on a show and whatever, whatever. I didn’t end up doing it then. I was too busy. But when I moved to Oklahoma in 2015, I looked into it again and joined the league kind of thinking that that would be the style of roller derby I would be playing — the banked track with the crazy costumes and this and that and basically having a persona when you’re out there, and that’s not what I ended up joining.

“I didn’t really realize that initially, so I think what kept me around was the fact that it wasn’t

like that. It’s the fact that it is much more serious and athletic, and there’s training schedules and tournament preparation and strategy talk. It’s a sport for adults who aren’t able to play a professional sport, people that played sports in high school or college and wanted to continue the team aspect and the training aspect and the competition aspects but want to do it at a higher level than a recreational sport like adult softball or adult kickball or something.”

More than three years in, Riggs said she has put in close to the average time for an amateur roller derby career.

“People’s lives change,” Riggs said.

“They get married; they move away; they get pregnant. It’s a team full of women, so you get pregnancies all the time, or fairly often anyway. Some injuries, people come back from; some they don’t. Some people retire because their bodies are just over it. We had a skater recently retire. She was the longest running member of the team, and she’d been skating for 10 years.

That’s very unusual. I would say the shelf life is probably three to five years. … It might be a little different if it was the kind of sport you start playing as a kid, but most people don’t start skating until they’re an adult. It’s just a little harder to teach your body to do something when your body’s already approaching 30 or past 30. It’s possible, but the injury rate goes up.”

Depending on their commitment level, skaters meet for practice multiple times a week. They also discuss strategies and view game films before facing out-of-town opposition. Riggs said the most common misconception about roller derby is that the bouts are basically mindless violence.

“You can hit very hard in derby,” Riggs said. “You can hit as hard as you want, but there’s legal ways to do that because we’re not trying to intentionally hurt each other. I think that’s part of it. There’s a difference between tackling somebody and stomping on their head. There’s a difference between hitting somebody with your hip and, like, smashing backwards into their face or whatever. There’s a big difference. … That’s, like, the main question: ‘Oh you play derby? Do you elbow girls in the face?’ I’m like, ‘No. Nobody would want to play that sport if you got elbowed in the face every day.’”

The championship bout will be followed by an open gender mashup for derby skaters from any league. Bring your own chair.

Tickets are $10-$15. Visit oklahomavictorydolls.com.

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890). Daisies, Arles (detail), 1888. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. Photo: Travis Fullerton. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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

BOOKS Brunching with Books a book club meeting every other week, with reading selections chosen by group preference, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays.

Buttermilk Paseo, 605 NW 28th St., 405-605-6660, buttermilkokc.com. SAT

screening where audience participation is encouraged, 7-9 p.m. first Wednesday of every month. The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-8873327, theparamountroom.com. WED

HAPPENINGS 39th Street District Community Meeting join the discussion about the future design of the district and street, 5:30-6:30 p.m. July 31. 39th Street District, 2215 NW 39th St., 405-237-9037, 39thdistrictokc.com. WED Afro Beats a dance party featuring hip-hop, Caribbean, dancehall and more with DJ Sinz, 11 p.m. July 5. Glass Lounge, 5929 N. May Ave., 405-835-8077, glasshouseokc.com. FRI

Kris Lackey book signing the author will autograph copies of his Oklahoma-based crime novel Greasy Bend, 6:30-8 p.m. Aug. 1. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU

Bags for Bethesda compete in a cornhole tournament with proceeds benefitting Bethesda, Inc., a non-profit providing care for child victims of sexual abuse, 5-9 p.m. Aug. 3. 405 Brewing Co., 1716 Topeka St., 405-573-2668, 405brewing.com. SAT

A Long Walk to Water book discussion adults and teens are invited to discuss Linda Sue Park’s novel about water shortages in the Sudan, 4:30-6 p.m. Aug. 5. Norman Public Library East, 3051 Alameda St., Norman 405-217-0770, pioneerlibrarysystem.org. MON

The BCP Variety Show an evening of comedy and music featuring Heath Huffman, Alex Sanchez, Jarvix, Queen Caution and more and benefitting SISU Youth Services, 8 p.m. Aug. 3. The Banquet Cinema Pub, 800 NW Fourth St., banquetcinema.com. SAT

Oklahoma Voices hear featured poets read from their works at this monthly event, 2 p.m. the first Sunday of every month. IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-232-6060, iaogallery.org. SUN

Banquet Cinema Bingo Night buy a card for a chance to win cash prizes, 7-8:45 p.m. Wednesdays.

The Banquet Cinema Pub, 800 NW Fourth St., banquetcinema.com. WED

What Lies Between Us with Ayanna Najuma the journalist and activist leads a discussion on the book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie JonesRogers, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 6. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. TUE

Drag Me to Bingo bingo night hosted by Teabaggin Betsy, 9 p.m. Tuesdays. Partners, 2805 NW 36th St., 405-942-2199, partners4club.com. TUE

Massive Moving Sale In preparation for its imminent move to a new location (watch Oklahoma Gazette for more information in coming months), Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is unloading large amounts of art supplies, office equipment, lights, fans, frames, easels and even looms and pianos. Many art supplies are free to educators, and everything else is available to everybody at a discounted rate. Bring a pickup, or maybe a U-Haul. The sale is 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 6-9 at Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd. Admission is free. Call 405-951-0000 or visit oklahomacontemporary.org. TUESDAY-AUG. 9 Photo provided

FILM

Drip Irrigation Workshop learn the essentials of installing and operating a drip irrigation system at this workshop combining outdoor demonstrations with classroom presentations, 10-11:30 a.m. Aug. 3.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405445-7080, myriadgardens.com. SAT

At Eternity’s Gate (2018, Ireland, Julian Schnabel) Willem Dafoe stars in this biopic about the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU

Elite Rockstar Connect a business networking event hosted by Tim Lowe of Edmond Elite Networking, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 1. Sidecar Barley & Wine Bar, 13230 Pawnee Drive, Suite 200, Edmond, 405-2869307, sidecarbarleyandwine.com. THU

Ladies Love Trap & Paint Party sip wine, listen to trap music and paint, 7-10 p.m. Aug. 3. Reasons Lounge, 1140 N. MacArthur Blvd., 405-774-9991. SAT

Cat Video Fest view a compilation of cat videos curated from the internet and user submissions, 7-10 p.m. Aug. 3. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens.com. SAT

The Git Up line dance lessons learn the popular dance combining western and hip-hop styles, 8-9 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 21. Chisholm’s Saloon, 401 S. Meridian Ave., 405-949-0423, facebook. com/ChisholmsSaloon. WED

Localites OKC Second Anniversary Party celebrate the anniversary of the local podcast hosted

by Kayla Coffey and Anna Farha with live music from Cavern Company, 7-10 p.m. Aug. 2. The Yard, 21 NW Seventh St., 405-290-7080. FRI

Floating Films: The Incredibles 2 (2018, USA, Brad Bird) a new mission requires Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) to watch the children while his wife Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) fights to save the world; watch from a blanket on the riverside or rent a tube or raft, 9-10:30 p.m. Aug. 3. RIVERSPORT Rapids, 800 Riversport drive, 405-552-4040, riversportokc.org. SAT

Hairy Pawter Blankee Night learn to make a Harry Potter-themed scarf and blanket for your pet at this event benefitting All Paws Rescue, 6-8 p.m.

July 31. Put A Cork In It Winery, 115 E. California Ave., 405-605-6656, putacorkinitwinery.com. WED

Norman’s Water Universe: Indirect Potable Reuse learn about the City of Norman’s future plans for sustainable water use at this informative presentation, 6-7 p.m. Aug. 2. Norman Public Library East, 3051 Alameda St., Norman, 405-217-0770, pioneerlibrarysystem.org. FRI

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019, USA, Quentin Tarantino) a television actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt) cope with their fading relevance in 1969 Hollywood, through Aug. 11. The Banquet Cinema Pub, 800 NW Fourth St., banquetcinema.com. THU-SUN The Third Wife (2018, Vietnam, Ash Mayfair) a 14-year-old discovers the harsh realities of her life as the third wife of a wealth landowner, through Aug. 16. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI VHS and Chill: Blockbusted Video riff along with comedians and film fans at this monthly movie

Harry Potter Trivia Night test your knowledge of The Boy Who Lived for a chance to win prizes, 6 p.m.

July 31. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. WED In-Depth IEP Workshop learn about developing your child’s individualized education program at this workshop led by Melanie Berry from the Oklahoma Parents Center, 9 a.m.-noon Aug. 3. Down Syndrome Association of Central Oklahoma, 600 NW 23rd St., 405-600-9981, dsaco.org. SAT Influences: Combining Visual Art & Classical Guitar a collaborative musical performance and live art demonstration by Claire Holloway and Colin Holloway, 7-9 p.m. Aug. 3. Oklahoma Academy of Classical Art, 12 Burton Place, Edmond, 405-822-1011, classicalart.org. SAT

Oklahoma Meth Labs: Decades of Chaos a photo exhibit chronicling the impact of methamphetamine labs on the state, through Aug. 9. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond. THU-FRI Oklahoma Native Plant Society Jona Tucker will discuss the plants and animals documented on Thomas Nuttall’s 1819 expedition through the Arkansas Territory, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 1. OSU-OKC Campus, 900 N. Portland Ave., 405-947-4421, osuokc.edu. THU

FOOD Oktoberfest Release a German-themed celebration of the COOP Ale Works Oktoberfest beer with food and drink specials; lederhosen encouraged, 4-7 p.m. Aug. 3. Fassler Hall, 421 NW 10th St., 405-6093300, fasslerhall.com. SAT Paseo Farmers Market shop for fresh food from local vendors at this weekly outdoor event, 9 a.m.noon Saturdays, through Oct. 19. SixTwelve, 612 NW 29th St., 405-208-8291, sixtwelve.org. SAT Tropical Tea Party enjoy tea sandwiches and savories, piña colada scones and more at this tropical-inspired event, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 6. Inspirations Tearoom, Coffeehouse & Eatery, 2118 W. Edmond Road, Edmond, 405-7152525, inspirationstearoom.com. TUE

YOUTH

OSSO Outreach Beer Games an evening of competitive drinking games benefitting MakeA-Wish Oklahoma, 6-10 p.m. Aug. 3. Lighthouse Beach Bar, 3330 NW 112th Terrace, 405-245-3163, lighthousebeachbar.com. SAT

Early Explorers toddlers and preschoolers can participate in fun scientific activities they can repeat later at home, 10-11 a.m. Thursdays. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. THU

Renegade Poker compete in a two- to three-hour tournament with cash prizes, 3 p.m. Sundays. Bison Witches Bar & Deli, 211 E. Main St., Norman, 405-3647555, bisonwitchesok.com. SUN

Jurassic Art Camp campers will learn about different dinosaurs and create prehistoric projects using paint, oil pastels, air-dry clay and more, Aug. 5-8. Artsy Rose Academy, 7739 W. Hefner Road, 405-603-8550. MON-THU

Teacher Open House teachers are admitted free and given information on field trips and an owl pellet dissection kit, Aug. 4-10. Museum of Osteology, 10301 S. Sunnylane Road, 405-814-0006, museumofosteology.org. SUN-SAT Time Management learn about time management skills at this lecture by Debbie Davis from Quest Executive Services, 11 a.m.-noon Aug. 6. Norman Public Library East, 3051 Alameda St., Norman, 405217-0770, pioneerlibrarysystem.org. TUE Train Rides take a ride on the museum’s train and see motor cars, locomotives, passenger cars and railroad equipment, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 3, 17 and 31.

Oklahoma Railway Museum, 3400 NE Grand Blvd., 405-424-8222, oklahomarailwaymuseum.org. SAT Trivia Night at Black Mesa Brewing test your knowledge at this weekly competition hosted by BanjoBug Trivia, 6:30 p.m. June 18. Black Mesa Brewing Company, 1354 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-778-1865, blackmesabrewing.com. TUE

Yes! Science! Pallas the Librarian hosts this talk show focusing on women and minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, and her scheduled guest this week is Lily Peppers, youth and school programs coordinator for Myriad Botanical Gardens who previously worked as a geophysics researcher studying earthquakes for the U.S. Geological Survey and Stanford University. In addition to a rousing intellectual discussion, the show promises experiments and book recommendations. The show is 1:303:30 p.m. Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave. Admission is free. Visit yesscienceshow.com. SATURDAY Photo provided

higher degree of awareness and empathy, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 3. Oklahoma Conference of Churches, 301 NW 36th St., 405-525-2928. SAT

Trivia Night at Matty McMillen’s answer questions for a chance to win prizes at this weekly trivia night, 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Matty McMillen’s Irish Pub, 2201 NW 150th St., 405-607-8822, mattymcmillens.com. TUE Water/Ways a traveling exhibit created by the Smithsonian Institution illustrating the many ways water impacts human life and civilization, June 29-Aug. 18, Through Aug. 18. Norman Public Library East, 3051 Alameda St., Norman, 405-217-0770, pioneerlibrarysystem.org. SAT-SUN White Privilege: Let’s Talk a discussion of racial bias and challenging assumptions to develop a

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Mary Poppins: “Step in Time” Musical Theatre Workshop students ages 9-16 will work to perform the chimney sweep song from the classic children’s musical, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 5. Edmond Fine Arts Institute, 27 E. Edwards St., Edmond, 405-3404481, edmondfinearts.com. MON OKC Zoo Camp children age 4-15 can learn about a variety animals at these weeklong themed camps, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays through Aug. 9. The Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Place, 405-4243344, okczoo.com. MON-FRI

PERFORMING ARTS All Shook Up a musical featuring the songs of Elvis Presley and featuring a cast of 8-12th-grade students, Aug. 1-4. Sooner Theatre, 101 E. Main St., Norman, 405-321-9600, soonertheatre.com. THU-SUN Dry Bar Comedy comics Shayne Smith, Jay Whittaker, Steve Soelberg and Alex Velluto perform clean comedy, 8-10 p.m. Aug. 6. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. TUE Hamilton the groundbreaking musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton with a score blending hip-hop, jazz, blues and R&B, July 30-Aug.18, Through Aug. 18. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. TUE-WED

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame a production of the stage musical adapted from Victor Hugo’s novel and featuring songs from the animated Disney film, Aug. 1-4. Kismet Arts Studio & Theatre, 12201 N. Western Ave., 405-367-7225, kismetartsokc. com. THU-SUN Ladies Night women are admitted free to this comedy show featuring DJ Sandhu, Mike Cronin and Ben Moore, 8-9:30 p.m. Aug. 1. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-2394242, loonybincomedy.com. THU

The Last Five Years a musical by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Jim Ryan and starring Lia and Colin Ryan, 8 p.m. Aug. 3.

The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-3079320, pasnorman.org. SAT Monday Night Blues Jam Session bring your own instrument to this open-stage jam hosted by Wess McMichael, 7-9 p.m. Mondays. Othello’s Italian Restaurant, 434 Buchanan Ave., Norman, 405-7014900, othellos.us. MON OKC Comedy Open Mic Night get some stage time or just go to listen and laugh, 7 p.m. Mondays.

The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405887-3327, theparamountroom.com. MON OKC Improv performers create original scenes in the moment based on suggestions from the audience, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

Oklahoma City Improv, 1757 NW 16th St., 405-4569858, okcimprov.com. FRI-SAT Open Mic at The P share your musical talent or just come to listen at this weekly open mic, 7 p.m.

Wednesdays. The Patriarch Craft Beer House & Lawn, 9 E. Edwards St., Edmond, 405-285-6670, thepatriarchedmond.com. WED Othello’s Comedy Night see professionals and amateurs alike at this long-running weekly open mic for standup comics, 9 p.m. Tuesdays. Othello’s Italian Restaurant, 434 Buchanan Ave., Norman, 405-7014900, othellos.us. TUE Paramount Open Mic show off your talents at this open mic hosted by musician Chris Morrison, 7 p.m. first Wednesday of every month. The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-887-3327, theparamountroom.com. WED

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Public Access Open Mic read poetry, do standup comedy, play music or just watch as an audience member at this open mic hosted by Alex Sanchez, 7 p.m. Sundays. The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-887-3327, theparamountroom.com. SUN Rebels & Royals Drag King Show hosted by former Mister USofA Damian Matrix-Gritte, this monthly show features local drag kings and special guests 10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. first Saturday of every month. Frankie’s, 2807 NW 36th St., 405-602-2030, facebook.com/frankiesokc. SAT Red Dirt Open Mic a weekly open mic hosted

by Red Dirt Poetry, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

Sauced on Paseo, 2912 Paseo St., 405-521-9800, saucedonpaseo.com. WED The Return of The Golden Girls a drag parody of the beloved sitcom about four senior roommates, Through Aug. 24, 8 p.m. The Boom, 2218 NW 39th St., 405-601-7200, theboomokc.com. FRI-SAT Rhyme in Reasons share your talent or just watch other artists perform at this weekly open mic, 7:30-10 p.m. Thursdays. Reasons Lounge, 1140 N. MacArthur Blvd., 405-774-9991. THU Ron White the standup and former Blue Collar Comedy Tour comic, aka Tater Salad, will perform, 7-10 p.m. Aug. 3. Riverwind Casino, 1544 W. State Highway 9, Goldsby, 405-322-6000, riverwind.com. SAT Sanctuary Karaoke Service don a choir robe and sing your favorite song, 9 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays and Thursdays. Sanctuary Barsilica, 814 W. Sheridan Ave., facebook.com/sanctuarybarokc.

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The Sorcerer & The Comedian Return an evening combining comedy and magic featuring performances by John Shack and Alex Sanchez, 8-10 p.m. Aug. 2. The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-887-3327, theparamountroom.com. FRI The Space Lab a monthly sketch comedy and improv variety show, 8-9:30 p.m. Aug. 3. The Paramount Room, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-887-3327, theparamountroom.com. SAT

Cooking for the Earth: Simple and Sublime Truly healthy eating is good for you and the planet. Learn about the joy of cooking simple dishes from homegrown ingredients at this workshop taught by Pat Hoerth. Bring a vegetable or fruit from your own garden or a farmers market and prepare a specially crafted dish. The class is 11 a.m.-noon Saturday at CommonWealth Urban Farms, 3310 N. Ollie Ave. Admission is $10 per person, $15 for couples. Call 405-524-1864 or visit commonwealthurbanfarms.com. SATURDAY Photo provided Red Coyote Half/Full Marathon Training Program work to meet your running goals at this training program focusing on hydration, nutrition, injury prevention, proper form and more,, 6 p.m.

Aug. 6, Red Coyote, 5720 N. Classen Blvd. TUE 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 Yoga with Art workout in an art-filled environment followed by a mimosa, 10:30 a.m. Saturdays.

21c Museum Hotel, 900 W. Main St., 405-982-6900, 21cmuseumhotels.com. SAT

VISUAL ARTS Advancing the Pencil Portrait, Part I learn how to create better pencil portraits at this class for all experience levels, Aug. 1-22. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. THU All My Sisters an exhibition of Janice MathewsGordon’s paintings of women, inspired by the feminist movement and her own childhood and family, Aug. 1-31. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com. THU-SAT Art Studio for Adults art instruction for adult students of all experience levels in a variety of mediums and techniques; taught by Gary Lennon, 7 p.m.

Wednesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 8. Edmond Fine Arts Institute, 27 E. Edwards St., Edmond, 405-340-4481, edmondfinearts.com. WED-THU Brenda Kingery: A Retrospective an exhibition of 23 paintings by the Chickasaw artist and Oklahoma City native, through Sept. 6. Oklahoma City University, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave, 405-208-5000. SAT-FRI

Leviathan I: The Aesthetics of Capital an experimental exhibition created by artist Pete Froslie exploring climate change, moral and political philosophy through electro-mechanics and game engine-based digital projection, through Dec. 31.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. WED-THU Paseo Arts District’s First Friday Gallery Walk peruse art from over 80 artists with 25 participating business for a night of special themed exhibits, refreshments and a variety of entertainment opportunities, 6-10 p.m. first Friday of every month. Paseo Arts District, 3022 Paseo St., 405-5252688, thepaseo.org. FRI A Room in Bloom an exhibition of floral photography by Oklahoma City artist Renee Lawrence, Aug. 2-Sept. 1. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

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Summer Night Print Series: Drypoint Etching learn about the printmaking technique at this workshop taught by Emma Difani, 5:30-8 p.m. Aug. 1. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-9995, 1ne3.org. THU The UNlearning a solo art exhibition featuring works by Andrea Martin, through Aug. 11. IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-232-6060, iaogallery.org. FRI-SUN Woman Revealed an exhibition of paintings by Oklahoma City artist Rebecca Wheeler featuring women working, playing, dancing and completing other activities, through July 31. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com. FRI-WED

Building on the Body: Identity, Materials, Jewelry an exhibition of jewelry created from corrugated cardboard, cement, steel and other building materials, Aug. 2-Sept. 22. 108 Contemporary, 108 E. Mathew Brady St., 918-895-6302, 108contemporary. org. FRI-SUN Cyanotype and Eco-print Workshop learn about two alternative print techniques incorporating leaves and other plant material at this workshop taught by Carol Ann Webster, 1-4 p.m. Aug. 3. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-9995, 1ne3.org. SAT Daniel Acuna: Living in Color an exhibition of the artist’s vivid Fauvist and Impressionist portraits, 6-9 p.m. Aug. 2. Little D Gallery, 3003 Paseo, 720773-1064. FRI

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Estate Paintings view “Tree Arbor” by Nan Sheets and Standing Nude Female” by Charles Apt, through July 31. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com. THU-WED

Botanical Balance an all-levels yoga class in a natural environment; bring your own mat and water, 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 9 a.m. Saturdays. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens.com. SAT-THU

Girls Club Art Show v. 2.0 an exhibition of works by female artists from Oklahoma City and Tulsa including Adrienne Wright, Faye Miller, Emma Difani and more, 6-9 p.m. Aug. 2. The Art Hall, 519 NW 23rd St., 405-231-5700, art.theriseokc.com. FRI

Mario Kart Fun Run a one-mile Mario Kartthemed run through Film Row benefitting Country Roads Animal Rescue, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 3.

FlashBack RetroPub, 814 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-6333604, flashbackretropub.com. SAT

INTEGRIS Art Show view a variety of art works created by people whose lives have been affected by cancer, through Sept. 6. Integris Cancer Institute, 5911 W. Memorial Road, 405-773-6400, integris.tv/ cancer. THU-FRI

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Unbearably Buff

Audio Book Club and Special Thumbs get jacked on riffs and laughs for a 51st Street Speakeasy show.

By Jeremy Martin

Audio Book Club’s debut EP, What If We Got Buff?, is meant to make you laugh.

“One day, I was talking with my wife, and it just turned into a conversation about what if, after all these years of not really caring or anything like that, we all just got, like, incredibly jacked and started playing shows as bodybuilders,” said the Oklahoma City band’s frontman, Zach Pearson, “and it eventually just turned into a big inside joke.”

Audio Book Club plays 9 p.m. Aug. 9 at 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St. Created by Pearson’s wife Elizabeth Newby, the album art for What If We Got Buff? features a retro-cartoon workout scene on an old TV, immediately indicative of both the album’s lighthearted sense of humor and what Pearson described as a “balls to the wall” sound inspired by ’80s new wave acts such as The Knack, Tears for Fears and Talking Heads. Audio Book Club — also featuring drummer Dylan Jordan, multi-instrumentalist Zach Zeller, bassist Derek Moore and guitarist Adam Thornbrugh — is also “a blend of all the bands [they] were in before,” Pearson said.

“It’s very incestuous, as far as that goes,” Pearson said. “We all played shows together before, so it just kind of worked out.”

All members of Audio Book Club were or are members of other local bands including Deerpeople (Moore), Larry Chin (Thornbrugh), Horse Thief (Zeller) and Wildings (Pearson and Jordan). Though Audio Book Club includes traces of all these other bands, Pearson said, the What If We Got Buff?

EP also benefits from clarity of purpose.

“We kind of take a different approach as far as songwriting and stuff goes,” Pearson said. “I think if you listen to those other projects, everybody’s younger and writing whatever it was they were feeling at the time and stuff like that. With this, it’s a little bit more calculated as

far as what we’re writing and putting out in that we want it to be more cohesive and not necessarily making people question what it is that they’re listening to, like, ‘Is it a rock band, or is it, like, an alternative band, or is it experimental, or what exactly is it?’ In the beginning, it was just kind of an experiment, like, ‘Let’s do something we haven’t done before, as far as just writing straight-up rock music that doesn’t necessarily have a lot of pretty things like Deerpeople have with the flute and violin and everything that’s going on — a little less ambiance and just a little bit more energy.’”

The EP release show in June featured a slideshow of the band members edited into weightlifting scenes and sports championships.

“By nature, we’re all kind of jokers,” Pearson said. “With this stuff, we definitely kind of wanted to make people forget about that heavy shit for the set and just have a show that they’re going to be into the whole time. … There’s really not a whole lot of seriousness to it whenever we come together. We’re just all cracking jokes and drinking beer and working the songs out. … We’re just trying to have a good time.”

Ironically, the band’s lighthearted attitude comes from a place of increased maturity, from “getting older and realizing in general that it’s not really that serious,” Pearson said.

“With this band, I think everybody’s just kind of seeing what we’re all growing up into,” Pearson said. “It’s really fun to see, actually. … Most of the band is married at this point, too. We all have jobs and wives and everything, so this is our fun stuff.”

Special Thumbs also shares the bill.

The band released “Rise” in June followed by an accompanying animated music video. “Guppy” will be released Friday. These two singles are the first of six to be released from So Who Do You Know, Special Thumbs’ full-length debut that the band plans to release later this year.

Vocalist, lyricist and guitarist Patrick Greene said the approach for the new album, recorded at Stowaway Recordings with engineer Michael Trepagnier, differed from previous releases Pollen and Advice because the band had more studio time.

“We got to go into the studio with all these guys and just record for like a week straight,” Greene said. “We’ve never really done it quite like that. … They had so much cool gear, stuff Audio Book Club’s debut EP, What If We Got Buff?, was released in June. | Image Elizabeth Newby / provided

Audio Book Club plays 9 p.m. Aug. 9 at 51st Street Speakeasy. | Photo Michael Steinman / provided

we had never seen. They had a Wurlitzer.

I played through a Penton amp that I was not even familiar with. … We had a ton of fun and got to play with a bunch of toys, basically.”

Vocalist, lyricist and keyboardist Joey Riley said the band demoed the album for about a year before taking it to Stowaway.

“We set out to have a well-produced album,” Riley said. “We were a little scared of the whole live-feel aspect, but what we ended up doing was recording drums, guitar, bass, keys, all live. Then we were able to add these extra components, and … we ended up with a really nice marriage of the live energy on top of it sounding well-produced.”

The album also features bassist Ryan Magnani, drummer Ryan McGuire and Audio Book Club’s Zeller, who Greene said helped transform the song “Last Dollar” from an “acoustic ballad” into a “soft piano song that is just really beautiful.”

“I had written a guitar part, and we all felt like it sounded too ’90s,” Greene began to explain.

Riley interrupted to clarify.

“Not ’90s, necessarily, but just buttrock,” Riley said.

In any case, Zeller transposed the offending guitar riff to the piano.

“It was pretty incredible just to witness it,” Greene said. “It just completely changed the way the song felt and sounded and gave it new meaning, which we really love.”

Special Thumbs plans to release full-length debut So Who Do You Know? later this year. | Photo Ryan Magnani / provided

Riley said the band worried a little bit about recreating the studio sound with its additional equipment and musicians live onstage, but modern technology alleviates most of those concerns.

“In the back of your mind, you’re just like, ‘How are we going to pull this off live?’” Riley said. “But I think that thought can be crippling. I don’t think you have to worry about that, especially in this day and age, man. Ableton Live is a real thing. If you want to do some backing tracks, you can do some backing tracks. There’s a lot of purists out there who are like, ‘No. Everything has to be done live,’ but there’s a lot of tricks.

Everything can be done live, but it’s not necessarily that you’re using a guitar to do it. …. We’re in the digital age. We’re at the beginning of this frontier, like the beginning of space exploration, almost.”

Admission is $5. Call 405-463-0470 or visit 51stspeakeasy.com.

Audio Book Club and Special Thumbs 9 p.m. Aug. 9 51st Street Speakeasy 1113 NW 51st St. facebook.com/audiobookclubokc 405-463-0470 $5

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Lion, tamer

David Bazan finds a kinder voice for selfexamination as he revives Pedro the Lion on Phoenix. By Jeremy Martin

Occasionally, the stuff people shout at the stage is more useful than “Free Bird.”

“I get helpful hints and advice through interactions at shows sometimes,” said Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan. “In San Francisco a year or two ago, maybe more now, I guess … I was sort of shrinking from my role as, you know, the put-er on-er of the show, and a woman’s voice that I didn’t recognize and have no idea who it is came out from the audience and yelled, ‘You’re the dom.’ … It was an affirmation, like, ‘You got this. You’re the dom,’ like ‘You’re the one who we’re all relying on to make this go and be safe and have us get our money’s worth and you’re engine of this thing.’ A light bulb went on, and it changed the way I perform because I kind of needed permission somehow, I felt, so I was kind of in this dance with the audience, always sort of seeking their permission in an ongoing kind of way, and she kind of cured me of that with three words she lobbed from the audience.”

Pedro the Lion plays Aug. 8 at Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St. Following 2004’s Achilles’ Heel, Bazan retired the band name and released several solo albums, but he has since realized the name’s usefulness to himself and his audience and revived it for Phoenix, released in January.

“On the one hand, it’s kind of frustrating that a rose by any other name just doesn’t get rated at all,” Bazan said, Pedro the Lion plays Aug. 8 at Tower Theatre. | Photo Ryan Russell / provided

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“but on another hand, I get it because you’re not even talking anymore about the risk that people are taking with their money. It’s the risk people are taking with three minutes of their time, and everybody has so many choices about how to spend every five minutes of their time that they need a reason to click.

That’s kind of fucked up. Pedro turned out to be an umbrella that I can put things under that would give people an opportunity to even decide if they even want it to show up on their radar. … That said, I didn’t feel like for my criteria that I could put Pedro the Lion on it and just make anything. It needed to reflect what Pedro meant to me, but I’m really grateful it’s an investment that I had made years and years ago that still had some value left. … I’m really grateful for that. And I’m a little bit of a dumbass for not recognizing those dynamics sooner because I wanted to make something new.”

The criteria Bazan has for Pedro the Lion’s music completely changed the way he made the album.

“It hadn’t been since Pedro the Lion in the 2000s that I tried to play any of the Pedro songs like they were Pedro songs; it was almost like I was doing a cover of them,” Bazan said. “It sounds weird, and that distinction might be a little bit wack, but I was always doing an interpretation. … When I came back to the band name, I started trying to do so-called faithful renderings of these original songs and getting the mood and

the tones right, at least as a starting place. And putting myself back through the material in that way reminded me of things that I cared about that I spent a lot of time understanding and making choices about that I had just discarded, and I was sort of bringing these things back to myself.”

Phoenix rising

The album is named Phoenix not after the mythological bird that rises from its own ashes, but for the Arizona city where Bazan grew up. The songs are based on memories of his childhood in the 1980s, but Bazan said he was not personally in a place where he could write about them until recently.

“There’s a sense in which the album is akin to a memoir, even though I hate that,” Bazan said, “but I think that there’s a certain point at which you’re just not really eligible to write your memoir just in terms of your own lack of perspective. There’s young people that can write memoirs because they just have that perspective sooner. It took me till my 40s to have enough perspective to even sort of turn this direction and start to mine this stuff. … What I lacked, really, beyond perspective and wisdom, was kindness for myself. I didn’t have enough kindness for myself to be able to start this process.”

In retrospect, Bazan said he has realized that earlier Pedro the Lion records served as an outlet for his “secret grief,” and solo albums such as Fewer Moving Parts, Curse Your Branches and Care find him “deeply struggling” to “keep [his] head above water.”

“Without any external pressure, I think all my songs would have been about 95 beats per minute and all basically about the same exact thing, which is just some form of relating to grief,” Bazan said.

“Looking back, I can see that Pedro the Lion records are pretty griefdriven. Looking at it from my perspective, I can see it very clearly and then, at a certain point, self-loathing and self-hatred started to come in. … Phoenix is my attempt at a shift away from self-loathing.”

The contrast between his new and old music became evident last year when he was putting together the set list

Phoenix, Bazan’s first album under the Pedro the Lion band name since 2004’s Achilles’ Heel, was released in January. | Image provided

for the band’s “self-selected best of” tour.

“It was just so much darkness at once,” Bazan said. “I was so grateful to flip over to this year where the basis of the show wasn’t going to be all this old stuff, and not because I didn’t like the old stuff. I very much loved it, but … it was a lot to balance. It was a lot of darkness. … It’s hard to find a space for them in my new headspace.”

Realizing that “people might be pissed” if he only plays material from his newest record, Bazan has made space for older songs such as “Penetration” and “Magazine” in what he considers the new set list’s second act. Though Phoenix standouts “Quietest Friend,” “Clean Up” and “Yellow Bike” reflect Bazan’s more compassionate approach to self-examination, he still finds it easier to write sad songs than happy ones.

“Real joy, I think, is just such an elusive and magical thing,” Bazan said.

“There’s something about grief which is profound. … It’s more easily captured because it’s something that we all have in common, and it’s easy to get that to resonate in people, but we don’t all have an experience with lasting joy or contentment. … It’s not a destination where it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s over there.’ It’s these little moments that you capture and hold and celebrate. I haven’t made a practice of doing that as a person, but I’m trying to do that more, and maybe from that will flow an ability to write about it and embody it. I don’t know. I hope.”

Tickets are $24-$38. Visit towertheatreokc.com.

Pedro the Lion 8 p.m. Aug. 8 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com | 405-708-6937 $24-$38

LIVE MUSIC These are events recommended

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

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Elizabeth Speegle Band, The R & J Lounge and Supper Club. JAZZ Fit for a King/Norma Jean/Perseus, Diamond Ballroom. METAL/HARDCORE John Carlton & Kyle Reid, The Winston.

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S. Reidy Across 12 mostly self-produced tracks on aptly named A Mixtape, released in May, S. Reidy raps, sings and sometimes screams about music, money, fame, anger, resentment, sadness, mental health issues, “Spiders,” “Carl Sagan,” Payless ShoeSource and more with no mumbling or AutoTune. See and hear the Norman-based MC recreate the album in its entirety live at this special event also featuring Young Readers, Randy Rulz and LoneMoon. The show starts 7 p.m. Saturday at Resonator Institute, 325 E. Main St., in Norman. Tickets are $5. Visit resonator.space. SATURDAY Photo provided

Jessica Tate & John Rouse, Bossa Nova Caipirinha Lounge. JAZZ

O.A.R./American Authors, The Jones Assembly.

Johnny Black & the Highway Walkers/Mary Harper, Frankie’s. COUNTRY/ROCK

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Koe Wetzel, The Criterion. COUNTRY

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Tower Theatre. HIP-HOP

Shaun Suttle, Othello’s Italian Restaurant.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 3 The Dead Aces/To Kill Porter/Midas 13, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK Kwiksand, Brewskey’s. ROCK Lacy Saunders, Othello’s Italian Restaurant.

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Rolling home

THC

Tyson Meade launches his signature line of luxury cannabis this fall. By Matt Dinger

Losing his bid for the U.S. House of Representatives might have been a blessing in disguise, as it will allow Tyson Meade to produce his own line of cannabis instead.

“It was so much fun to run, but it was also even more fun to lose and for Kendra [Horn] to win,” Meade said. “My run introduced me to so many people in the party. The chair and co-chair of the party, the Democratic Party, were really encouraging. I had the best experience for about one of the worst things anyone can do, which is running for political office.”

Meade Luxury Cannabis lands in dispensaries this fall.

Musician Tyson Meade launches his brand of Meade Luxury Cannabis in select Oklahoma dispensaries this fall. | Photo Alexa Ace

“If it’s not Meade, it’s just weed” is the slogan.

“What I envisioned when we were coming up with the brand is Brian Ferry from Roxy Music smoking one of our joints,” Meade said. “They’re pre-rolled.

They’ll come in little packages. And George Salisbury, he’s gonna help me lay out the packaging.”

Salisbury is the art director and music video director for The Flaming Lips.

“I’m just such a perfectionist,” Meade said. “I just want to, like, grab the market because I feel like anytime I’ve seen packaging, even the packaging that people go, ‘Oh, well, look at this packaging,’ it’s all somewhat, to me, it all looks like craft beer. I don’t want craft beer.

If I want to drink craft beer, I’m going to go drink some craft beer. Not that

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there’s anything wrong with that. I just want a really nice cannabis experience, and I think that all of it put together, the whole thing, is so important. Of the three of the partners, I’m the visionary.

We’re still working on the actual strains we want. We want to do three. You know, an indica, a sativa and then a blend. I’ve got to sample a lot, and I’m like, ‘That’s what I want, this is what I want, that’s what I want and that’s what I want.

Make it happen with the grower.’”

Business partner James Spake said they have chosen Blueberry Haze as the sativa-dominant strain but are still deciding on the indica and hybrid flower for the line.

“We’re still kind of feeling out the other two just because we want to get the best quality product at the most affordable prices for our potential patients,” Spake said.

Each package will contain seven halfgram pre-rolls, which total one-eighth of an ounce of flower.

“We don’t want to vary too much,” Meade said. “We want to know our product. We have this all-or-nothing sort of feel right now, which is great.”

Meade said they are not ruling out selling pre-packaged raw flower, but it will not be in the near future.

“When we align ourselves with a special grower, it would have to be definitely maybe our own strains, and so that might be down the line,” he said.

The line will not venture into processing for cartridges or other concentrates at this point.

“I know people like the vape and stuff, and I know that’s like a big thing,” Meade said.

“And people were like, ‘Well, are you going to do vape?’ At this point, I think there’s so much vape out. We’re not trying to grab every

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cannabis smoker.

Myself, I prefer a joint, and I know there has got to be other people like me.

When you watch movies, you don’t see people vaping. You see them smoking joints.

To me, and not to be a jerk, but vaping, it just kind of leaves me cold.

Vaping just doesn’t speak to me, I guess.

There’s nothing wrong with it at all. I just enjoy the ceremony of lighting a joint and enjoying it and passing it to whoever you’re with.”

The price for a package of Meade Luxury Cannabis will be decided after deals with growers are finalized. Meade and his team are still in the research and development phase for the actual pre-rolls.

“We were looking at metal tips, and we don’t know if we’re able to do those or not,” Meade said.

The packaging will be a slide box with a child-resistant button placed inside a transparent childproof bag, Spake said.

The dispensaries the product will be sold in will also be carefully selected.

“We’re just going to have Tyson and I go around to different dispensaries in the metro area that are a little more geared towards music and art. We don’t want our product to be just in any dispensary. We kind of want it to reflect his company’s name, Tyson Meade Luxury Cannabis Enterprises. We want to be in upper-scale dispensaries,” Spake said.

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Meade and Spake met through music. Spake owns GreenLove Compassionate Care + Wellness Center in Norman and asked him to play in the store. Meade has curated all the art in GreenLove for 2019, and Spake will also be playing bass at Meade’s Aug. 2 show at Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St. Since opening as a CBD store in May 2018, GreenLove has also sponsored Norman Music Festival and Norman Film Festival and hosted live music during the monthly art walk.

“It’s the most social that it has ever been,” Meade said. “And maybe than it will ever be. So it’s like, why not have a joint? I was at the Norman Music Festival, and I loved having the freedom of just lighting a joint on stage and passing it around, letting everyone enjoy it. Everyone, I think, is just so excited that this is happening and that we’re not the last state, which we so often are.

I just love that there’s all this new energy in Oklahoma too and there’s so many millennials coming in. I’m like, God bless the millennials. We’re basically in the Garden of Eden of cannabis right now. Take advantage of it.”

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Smoked hens

The chefs at Guyutes have taken smoked hens to a new level by adding cannabis-infused oil to the recipe. By Matt Dinger and Jacob Threadgill

Summertime is the domain of the barbecue, and this month’s infused recipe falls within that realm.

Oklahoma Gazette has teamed up with the chefs at Guyutes, 730 NW 23rd St., to bring readers cannabis cooking recipes that stray from the beaten path.

This month, Jarrod Friedel and Matt Pryor have tried their hands at Thaistyle smoked game hen.

Friedel said to use kitchen shears to cut down and remove the backbone

from the hen.

“That just helps it cook better and gives it a bigger area to smoke,” he said.

Mix together all the herbs, spices and sugar in a processor to make a paste, rub it on the hen and let it marinate.

“Try to work it in as much as possible and, if you can, get it in the cavities. Do that but try not to break the skin because we’re gonna have to inject it with the butter,” Friedel said.

After marinating and injecting the

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oil, smoke the bird and peaches.

“It kind of varies on how many birds you do, how thick they are, but you need to at least put it in there for a good two hours and 15 minutes,” Friedel said. “I raised the heat just at the end to try to crisp up the skin a little bit because at 260 [degrees Fahrenheit], it really doesn’t crisp as much. As long as your smoke’s going, you’ll hit the internal temperature of 165 pretty easy in about two hours.”

Afterward, add more oil and mix the smoked peach sauce and apply it to the hen.

“We added a half cup of hoisin and then a quarter cup of brown sugar to it to add a little bit of sweetness, take out the heat because it was just super hot. It burned me,” Pryor said. “I just wanted to bring a different sweetness to the body of it, something that is more fusion-style than just going completely traditional.

And seeing how we were already smoking, it was just like an idea that I’ve had to do like smoke fruits into sauces.

Seeing how we’re already getting the smoke here, it’s not going to be as heavy as what you’re going to get on the hen, but I think it would accent it and then still get the sweetness. I wanted to go fruit wood just because stuff like hickory is just a little overbearing, so it was either going to be apple, peach, cherry wood, also kind of different, something that

Ingredients 1 cup canola or olive oil 7-10 grams of decarboxylated medical cannabis Directions 1. Mix the oil and cannabis and apply low heat (140-160 degrees Fahrenheit) for 90-120 minutes. Do not let the oil exceed 200 degrees Fahrenheit or allow it to boil.

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use for the infused oil for the recipe.

“As soon as I decided I was going to do Thai-style, I really wanted Thai landrace strain and the closest I could find was a hybrid of it,” he said.

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The decision to raise the temperature for the final 30 minutes of smoking pays off with a nice and crispy crust.

The marinade is so flavorful that it would be a tasty bird without the ad-

dition of the smoked peach kung “pow” sauce, but the sauce puts it over the top.

The decision to smoke the peach is inspired, and it comes through in the final product and prevents it from being too sweet. This was my first smoked game hen, and the smokiness helps mask its distinct gamey flavor.

Even though the bird was small, I ate about half of it and saved the rest for a second dosage that crisped in the oven for 10 minutes. There was no residual cannabis flavor from the oil, but it provided a mellow body high that does not make you sink into the couch.

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Thai Applewood Smoked Game Hen Ingredients 3 game hens — spatchcocked (butterflied with backbone removed) 1 1/4 cups cilantro 6 garlic cloves 2-3 Thai chilies 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons white pepper 2 teaspoons coriander 1/4 cup fish sauce 2 tablespoons cannabis oil Directions 1. Take poultry shears or a decent pair of scissors and cut the hen from the neck down along both sides of its backbone. Flatten the hens by pushing down on them with your palm on the breasts. Discard the backbone or use it for stock.

2. Wash the hen and pat it dry. Set it aside.

3. Add the cilantro, garlic, chilies, brown sugar, salt, pepper and coriander to a food processor. After processing, add the fish sauce and mix to a paste. Add the cannabis oil and mix thoroughly.

4. Rub the paste all over the hens and try to work as much of it as you can into any cavity possible. Avoid breaking the skin if possible.

5. Let the hens marinate for 8-12 hours.

6. Preheat a smoker to 260 degrees Fahrenheit and add the applewood. Place the hens breast-down in the smoker. Smoke the hens for 1 1/2 hours and then increase the heat to 275 degrees Fahrenheit for the last 30 minutes. After two hours, check the temperature of the chicken to make sure it has reached 165 degrees Fahrenheit internally.

Smoked Peach Kung Pow Sauce Ingredients 1 cup water 1 cup rice wine vinegar 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons minced ginger 1 teaspoon minced garlic 3 peaches, smoked 3 Thai chilies 2 teaspoons ketchup 1 cup hoisin 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 teaspoons cornstarch 2 teaspoons water

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Directions 1. Cut the peaches in half and smoke them for two hours.

2. In a small pot, add the water, rice wine vinegar and sugar. Cook the liquid until the sugar is dissolved. Next, add the ginger, garlic and Thai chilies.

Reduce the liquid by 25 percent. Add the peaches, hoisin and brown sugar.

Bring the liquid to a simmer and whisk in the cornstarch slurry.

3. Take the sauce off the heat and blend it for one to two minutes and then serve.

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“Dear Diary: Last night my Aries friend dragged me to the Karaoke Bowling Alley and Sushi Bar. I was deeply skeptical. The place sounded tacky. But after being there for twenty minutes, I had to admit that I was having a fantastic time. And it just got better and more fun as the night wore on. I’m sure I made a fool of myself when I did my bowling ball imitation, but I can live with that.

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Even if you’re an ambidextrous, multi-gendered, neurologically diverse, Phoenician-Romanian Gemini with a fetish for pink duct tape and an affinity for ideas that no one has ever thought of, you will eventually find your sweet spot, your power niche, and your dream sanctuary. I promise. Same for the rest of you Geminis, too. It might take a while. But I beg you to have faith that you will eventually tune in to the homing beacon of the mother lode that’s just right for you. P.S.: Important clues and signs should be arriving soon

CANCER (June 21-July 22) What would a normal, boring astrologer tell you at a time like now? Maybe something like this: “More of other people’s money and resources can be at your disposal if you emanate sincerity and avoid being manipulative. If you want to negotiate vibrant compromises, pay extra attention to good timing and the right setting. Devote special care and sensitivity to all matters affecting your close alliances and productive partnerships.” As you know, Cancerian, I’m not a normal, boring astrologer, so I wouldn’t typically say something like what I just said. But I felt it was my duty to do so because right now you need simple, basic, no-frills advice. I promise I’ll resume with my cryptic, lyrical oracles next time.

vision of that story. How do you do that? Hillman advised you to ask yourself this question: “How can I assemble the pieces of my life into a coherent plot?” And why is this effort to decode your biography so important?

Because your soul’s health requires you to cultivate curiosity and excitement about the big picture of your destiny. If you hope to respond with intelligence to the questions and challenges that each new day brings, you must be steadily nourished with an expansive understanding of why you are here on earth. I bring these ideas to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to illuminate and deepen and embellish your conception of your life story.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide,” wrote psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. I think that description fits many people born under the sign of the Scorpio, not just Scorpio artists. Knowing how important and necessary this dilemma can be for you, I would never glibly advise you to always favor candid, straightforward communication over protective, strategic hiding. But I recommend you do that in the coming weeks. Being candid and straightforward will serve you well.

Let’s check in with our psychic journalist, LoveMancer, who’s standing by with a live report from inside your imagination. What’s happening, LoveMancer? “Well, Rob, the enchanting creature on whose thoughts I’ve been eavesdropping has slipped into an intriguing frontier. This place seems to be a hot zone where love and healing interact intensely. My guess is that being here will lead our hero to breakthrough surges of love that result in deep healing, or deep healing that leads to breakthrough surges of love—probably both.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Virgo figure skater Scott Hamilton won an Olympic gold medal and four World Championships. He was a star who got inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and made a lot of money after he turned professional. “I calculated once how many times I fell during my skating career—41,600 times,” he testified in his autobiography. “But here’s the funny thing: I also got up 41,600 times. That’s the muscle you have to build in your psyche—the one that reminds you to just get up.”

In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, I’ll be cheering you on as you strengthen that muscle in your psyche during the coming weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

What’s the story of your life? Psychologist James Hillman said that in order to thrive, you need to develop a clear

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People who sneak a gaze into your laboratory might be unnerved by what they see. You know and I know that your daring experiments are in service to the ultimate good, but that may not be obvious to those who understand you incompletely. So perhaps you should post a sign outside your lab that reads, “Please don’t leap to premature conclusions! My in-progress projects may seem inexplicable to the uninitiated!” Or maybe you should just close all your curtains and lock the door until your future handiwork is more presentable. P.S. There may be allies who can provide useful feedback about your explorations. I call them the wounded healers.

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