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If Sinclair Broadcast Group’s planned purchase of Tribune Media goes through, it will own half the commercial television stations in OKC.

By Laura Eastes, George Lang, Ben Luschen and Jacob Threadgill | Illustrations by Jim Massara

Three and a half years ago, in a much dif ferent time, the Federa l Communications Commission (FCC) issued a public notice for a new regulation, one that was designed to maintain an even playing field for ownership of local television stations. The rule was in response to “an increasing number of proposed broadcast television transactions involving both agreements to share facilities, employees and/or services.”

Concerned that media corporations were engaging in anti-competitive practices at the local level, the FCC stated in the notice that whenever a company tried to accumulate multiple stations in any given market and consolidate their operations, it would “closely scrutinize any application that proposes that two (or more) stations in the same market” would share facilities and employees or use its marketplace power to sell joint advertising.

This was a pro-consumer ruling by the FCC that also received strenuous objections from media conglomerates, which saw the regulation as a barrier to increased growth. It was also unpopular with one of its commissioners. Ajit Pai, a conservative commissioner with strong pro-business, deregulatory views, was outspoken about his opposition to the rule.

According to The New York Times, Pai met with David Smith, chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., on the eve of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, just days before Pai became the new FCC chair. Two weeks later, Pai rescind-

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ed the rule, and three months later, on May 8, Sinclair announced plans to purchase Tribune Media Co. The sale of Tribune’s 42 local stations in 33 markets is expected to go through by the end of 2017, pending approval by Tribune stockholders, the FCC and the antitrust wing of the Department of Justice (DoJ).

While this feels like yet another tale of D.C-based palace intrigue far removed from the television studios on the east side of Oklahoma City’s Broadway Extension, it hits close to home.

Oklahoma City could soon find out what it’s like when one company owns half the TV stations in town.

Potential shakeup

As the homepage launches for Baltimore, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, a graphic illustrating the company’s foothold in the country’s broadcasting market ticks up to the number 173. The company currently owns or operates 173 television stations across 81 markets, almost three times the number it had in 2010.

Should Sinclair’s $3.9 billion bid to buy Tribune Media Co. win the approval of the FCC, Tribune stockholders and the DoJ, the television empire would gain two stations in the 41st largest TV market, Oklahoma City.

In 1998, Sinclair bought Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate, KOKH-TV Channel 25 — two years after it purchased its WB (now CW) station, KOCB-TV Channel 34. If the Tribune deal goes through, Sinclair would acquire NBC affiliate KFOR-TV, “Oklahoma’s News 4,” which recently completed an extensive rebuild of its studio and weather center, as well as its sister station, KAUT-TV, “Freedom 43.”

Plenty of questions have surfaced on both a national and local level since the Sinclair-Tribune deal became public.

Opponents believe the deal could hurt media competition and consumers.

Specifically, the expansion of Sinclair has led to speculation that the company could consolidate newsrooms in markets with more than one station.

Consolidation often results in less local news coverage. Additionally, Sinclair could gain advantages over its competitors by owning more stations in a single market. Advertisers could get airtime on KOKH and KFOR as well as Freedom 43 and CW 34 with a single ad purchase.

Across the country, local television news is big business, as the public has an

appetite for local news, weather, sports and entertainment programing.

“The majority of news viewing is local news,” David Griffin, president of Griffin Communications, told Oklahoma Gazette. “Fox News, which is the No. 1 cable news channel, doesn’t even come close to the local broadcast stations, even the No. 4 local broadcast station. People realize we cover their communities.

People want to be involved in their communities. They want to know what the weather will be and with OU playing Ohio State this weekend — they want to know what’s going to happen. It is relevant, local content. ”

The question is, will Sinclair, if the purchase goes through, find a way or be allowed to keep two of the big four networks.

David Griffin Griffin Communications, which owns Oklahoma City’s CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9 and KOTV Channel 6 in Tulsa, is among a few privately held media companies in the country. Oklahoma City’s television media landscape is also home to ABC affiliate KOCO, which is under the ownership of New York-based Hearst.

The Sinclair-Tribune deal also raises the question on local television ownership rules, which limit station owners from owning more than one of the top four television licenses in a market.

“The question is, will Sinclair, if the purchase goes through, find a way or be allowed to keep two of the big four networks,” Griffin said. “If they can find a way around it or get approval to own an NBC and a Fox, they will obviously be merging the two stations together and running them basically as one station or one group of people running two differ-

ent networks.”

Under a filing to the FCC, Sinclair officials acknowledged they might need to divest in 10 markets where Sinclair and Tribune both own local TV stations. Oklahoma City is one of the markets the company might be forced to sell to comply with FCC rules. Earlier this year, FCC’s Pai also reinstated the UHF discount to allow broadcasters to discount by 50 percent the reach of local stations that use ultra-high-frequency (UHF) TV signals — basically, any broadcast station using channel 14 or higher.

Sinclair consistently dismisses opponents’ concerns. The company said in a media statement that the “proposed merger will advance the public interest by helping shore up an industry buffeted by well-known economic challenges.”

Sinclair said it would invest in local news, sports and entertainment programming and increase viewers’ access to reports from the U.S. Capitol through its Connect to Congress segments.

A company spokesperson did not return Oklahoma Gazette’s request for comment.

At News 9, Griffin and his staff are mostly unfazed by the potential SinclairTribune merger. No matter the outcome, the station remains the only locally owned and operated station. Griffin said that is an advantage is a highly competitive market.

“Our strategy is to serve Oklahoma, and that’s it,” Griffin said. “All of our competitors are big national companies.

At the end of the day, they just don’t really care about Oklahoma, except for how much money is being made here.”

Local focus?

As part of its on-air programming, Sinclair produces content such as its Terrorism Alert Desk, a segment focusing on terrorism throughout the world, and Bottom Line with Boris, a commentary featuring former Trump campaign spokesperson Boris Epshteyn, who left his White House position as assistant communications director in March to become Sinclair’s chief political analyst.

These national conservative-leaning packages are considered “must-run” features; Sinclair requires its local stations to run the segments within 24 to 48 hours. Each of Epshteyn’s segments lasts two minutes, or the amount of time that would otherwise be given to one or two local stories.

So what happens when a long-trusted local news station can no longer be counted on as purely local? That’s a question viewers across the country will have to answer for themselves if the Sinclair merger gets approved.

Yosef Getachew is one of the people actively resisting the transaction.

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Knowledge, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that focuses on open and affordable access to all communications technologies.

Public Knowledge is petitioning the FCC to deny Sinclair’s merger with Tribune. The organization is concerned about the potential merger for a number of reasons, including what it fears would be the company’s excessive hold on local news markets across the country and correlated concerns about the effect it would have on the price of cable subscriptions.

Getachew said Sinclair’s “must-run” national programming packages dilute the primarily local focus most broadcast stations currently hold. At a time when changes in the print journalism industry are straining hyper-local coverage of school board and city council meetings, broadcast news is left with an even larger role as public watchdog.

“Now more than ever, consumers really rely on local broadcast stations to get news — whether it’s local news, politics, sports or weather,” he said. “They’re really tailored to the needs of that community and what they need to have a well-informed community.”

Getachew said by requiring national news packages to receive airtime on these local stations, Sinclair has the leverage to push aside local viewpoints, which might not be in the best interest of main-

should be held to a different standard than national bodies that do not have a bind to any one particular constituency.

“This is a local issue,” he said, “and those local stations should be focused on what the community needs.”

The average news viewer might not know much about who owns their local news station, but Getachew said viewers are sure to notice a difference in the tone and content of news broadcasts after Sinclair takes over.

Added national perspectives and commentaries could also taint viewers’ perceptions of a station’s existing local coverage to a degree. Getachew encourages those who disagree with the merger to leave comments on the Sinclair and Tribune merger docket, which can be found on fcc.gov, and contact their local and national legislators.

In July, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver devoted an episode to the proposed Sinclair/Tribune merger. | YouTube.com / provided

taining a locally informed viewership.

Others argue that all news carries an inherent slant. Columnist Kyle Smith wrote in a National Review piece responding to a Sinclair-themed segment on HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that “the left still owns and operates Hollywood, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, nearly every major newspaper and virtually every glossy magazine from Time to Teen Vogue.”

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“I think a lot of people will notice these must-carry segments that are being run and wonder why their local broadcaster is talking about this national issue that they’ve never talked about before or giving me this strong viewpoint that he or she has never given before,” he said.

Anatomy of a takeover

Seattle has become a flashpoint in the discourse over the proposed Sinclair acquisition of Tribune, which would add the city’s second-largest station, Fox af-

filiate KCPQ-TV, in addition to the city’s most-watched channel, ABC affiliate KOMO-TV, which Sinclair purchased in 2013.

Sinclair’s involvement in Seattle has become the subject of pieces on the aforementioned Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and The New York Times, the latter of which cited multiple KOMO employees who said they enacted their own form of rebellion against their parent company by airing the “must-run” segments at times with low viewership or leading into an advertisement.

The proposed Sinclair takeover has an impact on the workforce producing new content and the affected stations’ advertising clout.

“One owner with four stations might be able to drive a bargain; advertise on all four with one rate and it becomes something that resembles a one-stop shop,” said Patrick Meirick, director of University of Oklahoma’s Political Communication Center. “You might encounter increasing sharing and less original content being developed, which would mean less overall public service to the market.”

The Seattle Times reports that KOMO laid off nearly 20 employees after Sinclair’s purchase in 2013. In January of this year, KOMO eliminated its investigative team.

KOMO photographers are unionrepresented and have yet to sign a contract in the four years since Sinclair took over the station, according to Crosscut, a nonprofit media organization based in Seattle.

Crosscut reports that Sinclair offered its photographers a 1.5 percent raise while competing stations in the area gave photographers a 2 percent raise. The dynamic of union and non-union photographers comes into question with pending acquisition of KCPQ, which staffs non-union employees.

It remains unclear if Sinclair will try to bust the union by only retaining nonunion photographers or if they will work together.

“The concentration of media under a handful of owners allows stations to save money by pooling resources,” said Tyler Johnson, an associate political science professor at the University of Oklahoma.

Johnson said Sinclair’s consolidation allows stations to cut back on local news, like Seattle’s loss of an investigative team, which goes against the local news trend of leaving national and international stories to cable and national nightly broadcasts.

“It will be fascinating to see if their formula changes, if longtime viewers are repelled from (a more national format) or if competing stations try to leverage this takeover in terms of attracting viewers,” Johnson said. “There is a claim to be made that ‘we’re more local than someone else.’”

Conservative media outlets have downplayed the Tribune acquisition. A column on National Review said that

Patrick Meirick, director of University of Oklahoma’s Political Communications Center | Photo University of Oklahoma / provided

Sinclair’s reach, which would top 2.2 million viewers, wasn’t a lot because it’s less than 1 percent of the population of the United States.

However, national midterm elections average about 30 million people for turnout, and Johnson said there is a positive correlation between media consumption and voter participation.

“It is a counter-narrative to the conservative viewpoint that the media are the liberal media because Sinclair is not,” Meirick said. “For that matter, when conservatives are talking about crooked media, they’re talking about MSNBC and New York Times — national organizations — and not talking about who gives them their sports and weather at night.”

Both Johnson and Meirick said that local television news consumption is higher among viewers over the age of 50, which also have the highest turnout at the voting booth.

“The potential implication in the concentration of ownership and the diversity of voices further declining is potentially quite problematic,” Meirick said. “If you combine that with Sinclair demonstrating willingness to push a political viewpoint with its stations, it should raise some concerns.”

Time will tell if these actions come to pass in Oklahoma City. But on Nov. 9, the day after Trump’s election victory, Sinclair chairman David Smith expressed his hopes at an investors’ meeting. As reported by TheStreet.com, Smith said Trump’s win presented a “really serious opportunity to seek complete deregulation in the broadcast industry.”

“If Donald Trump is as deregulatory as he suggests he is, to wipe away regulations, we’re going to be the first industry in line to say, ‘We are the most overregulated industry that exists in the United States,’” he said.

Within a few weeks, it was a lot less regulated.

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The fight for permanent legal status will take Dreamers and their allies to Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation. Efforts are already underway. By Laura Eastes

Brisa Ledezma spends her days preparing lessons, grading papers and teaching sixth-graders at Santa Fe South Schools in south Oklahoma City. Ledezma was born outside the United States, and her journey to teaching has been a long and winding one. As an undocumented immigrant youth, there was no path for someone like her — brought to the United States as a young child and educated in the public school system — to legally get a job, drive a car or travel internationally.

In 2012, under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Ledezma and thousands of other immigrant youth earned temporary resident status and started to do things they previously couldn’t.

For Ledezma, that included obtaining a social security number and a driver’s license as well as earning a bachelor’s degree and entering the classroom as an educator. Perhaps more importantly, she no longer lived in what she called “the shadows” — the constant threat of deportation.

Now the threat of deportation is felt once again by Ledezma and others.

Hours after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of DACA program, which was in response to several conservative states’ attorneys general’s lawsuit threats, Ledezma delivered a fiery speech to hundreds at a press conference and rally in support of DACA recipients at Santa Fe South High School.

“Now, I am here,” said Ledezma, standing beside two other Oklahoma DACA recipients, “trying to give back to my community and help those that were once like me. Now, this can be taken away. I wouldn’t give up. I am a Dreamer, and I will keep fighting.”

Eyes on Congress

Similar scenes unfolded across the nation last week, as DACA recipients — often called “Dreamers” — stood with immigration advocates, civil rights groups, community and faith leaders and allies calling on members of Congress to pass immigration reform providing DACA recipients permanent legal status. Without DACA, about 880,000 people nationally will lose their protected status, which includes about 7,500 Oklahomans, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

In revoking DACA, the Trump administration called on congressional leaders to enact a legislative solution for Dreamers.

While federal lawmakers, including Oklahoma City’s U.S. Sen. James Lankford, echoed the president’s call, locals responded with plans to ensure lawmakers do just that.

We don’t want them to say one thing but do another.

David Castillo

“We need to keep the pressure on them,” said David Castillo, Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce president and CEO. “We don’t want them to say one thing but do another.

We don’t believe it will happen this time.”

Dream Act Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, an affiliate of the United We Dream national advocacy network striving to empower immigrant youths and their families, gathered 1,200 postcards from locals encouraging Sens. Lankford and

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DACA recipients Alejandro Raigoza Munoz left and Judith Huerta right comfort Brisa Ledezma as she speaks during a demonstration to defend DACA at Santa Fe South High School last week. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

Jim Inhofe to protect immigrant youth.

“Now more than ever, we need our members of Congress — Republicans and Democrats — to pass legislation that will keep immigrant youth safe,” Judith Huerta, co-director of Dream Act Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, said. “There should be no gap in protection.”

Local pressure

In the days leading up to the Trump administration’s decision on DACA, given the speculation that the president was considering revoking the program, local immigration attorney Ryan Patterson asked one of Oklahoma’s U.S. senators what they would do to ensure DACA wasn’t eliminated. Speaking at a town hall on the campus of Oklahoma Christian University, Lankford responded, “We don’t hold children accountable for the actions of their parents. We also don’t blanket give people citizenship.”

The conservative Republican went on to discuss pending bills addressing legal status to DACA recipients.

His constituents would soon repeat his words.

At the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Castillo and his staff are organizing meetings between federal officials and community leaders. The chamber is advocating for passage of a “fair and just immigration reform law” pertaining to the DACA enrollees. It is imperative that Congressional leaders view an accurate profile of DACA recipients in Oklahoma City — some are students in the local schools and colleges while others are employed or leading local businesses and nonprofits.

“We are talking about 7,000 participants in Oklahoma,” Castillo said.

“These are some of the brightest students in our school system. We’ve started to see these young leaders more and more. It has been incredible. They are educated. They are vibrant.”

Lankford and U.S. Rep. Steve Russell, who serves Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District that includes a majority of Oklahoma County and Pottawatomie and Seminole counties, have each issued statements in support of Congress finding consensus on a permanent solution for DACA recipients. The chamber plans to lobby all of Oklahoma’s Congressional delegation to ensure their statements

align with their actions and votes in Washington, D.C. If Congress doesn’t act, the end of DACA will affect far more people than just those who participated, said Castillo, who noted no solution would break apart families.

“Imagine taking 7,000 Oklahomans out of the economy,” Castillo posed to Oklahoma Gazette in an interview. “As a state, we are already having budget problems, and tax collections will be down. It also has a ripple effect. You would see fewer people buying cars and homes, purchasing items at Walmart and all retail shops. Of course, tax collections.”

Making sense of uncertainty

Waiting for Congress to act is easier said than done. DACA took effect by executive order in 2012 and was never seen as a permanent answer for providing citizenship for children brought to the United States by their parents in violation of immigration laws. In the months ahead, as the spotlight turns to the U.S. Capitol and potential legislation, immigration attorneys and advocates will be faced with tough questions.

“This is a lot we don’t know,” Patterson, who serves as legal advisor to Dream Act Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, told Oklahoma Gazette. “Actually, the question I am getting right now is, ‘How can I help?’ To which my response is to speak to your representatives and ask them to swiftly pass a clean DREAM Act bill.”

Immigration services no longer accept initial requests to join DACA, but renewal requests will continue to be accepted through Oct. 5. Patterson advises that DACA holders speak to qualified immigration lawyers or organizations like Dream Act Oklahoma about renewal or other immigration benefits.

Patterson said the deportation fears that DACA enrollees and their families are feeling are real and justified. In a White House memo called “Taking Points — DACA Rescission,” one bullet point suggests DACA recipients “use the time remaining on their work authorization to prepare for and arrange their departure from the United States.”

“It is disheartening that on top of the uncertainty many already face coming from mixed status families,” Patterson said, “Dreamers now face an existential crisis that they have not really known until now.”

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Discussions on the county jail and criminal justice reform continue with the newly created Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Advisory Council.

By Laura Eastes

Overcrowding in Oklahoma County Detention Center, where jail officials incarcerate people awaiting trial and hold others serving short sentences, has long been a problem. About 15 years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice began its investigation of jail conditions for civil rights violations. Ever since, the detention center, more commonly referred to as the jail, has come under immense public scrutiny surrounding its overcrowded conditions, inmate-on-inmate violence and facility challenges.

Two years ago, when the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber assembled a task force of business leaders, local government officials and law enforcement stakeholders, a new approach emerged for addressing the issues plaguing the jail.

The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber Criminal Justice Task Force would devote its time to studying the systematic issues afflicting the local criminal justice system, as the jail crisis would not be solved by only building a new jail. With the aid of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization focused on criminal justice policy and practice reforms, the task force issued six recommendations after a year of study. One way to reform the criminal justice system would be to create the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Advisory Council, a council staffed with representatives from four government entities and four community representatives providing datadriven recommendations to reduce the jail population and recidivism and increase community and public safety.

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as law enforcement, judicial members and a mental health official will take “a major step in beginning to put real focus on revamping the criminal justice system in Oklahoma County,” according to Roy Williams, CEO/president of the Greater OKC Chamber and council member.

“We anticipate this advisory board to continually strive to look at best practices nationally,” Williams said. “It will create this never-ending dialogue between the players in the criminal justice system to make the system more efficient and effective.”

The council will set a budget, and its first major expense will be the salary of a full-time staff member. Officials estimate an annual budget at $300,000.

Oklahoma County has agreed to pay half of the costs. Oklahoma City will cover 40.6 percent of the budget, with Edmond contributing 5.8 percent and Midwest City covering the remainder at 3.6 percent.

Responsible implementation

As an Oklahoma County Commissioner first elected in 2006, Ray Vaughn has spent countless hours on efforts to reform the county jail system. When he joined the chamber’s task force in late 2015, he and others learned very quickly that data would play a role in tackling the issue. At each stage of the criminal justice system, Vaughn said, there are entities keeping records. There is no single data system for identifying, isolating and crafting solutions to the misuse.

“The first thing we need is accurate data,” Vaughn said. “How do we get that?

That is one of the things Vera ultimately identified. … Without the data, you really don’t know where you stand. We know we have issues, but trying to identify them and figuring out a corrective force is something of a challenge.”

Improving data collection and thus using data-driven solutions to reduce incarceration and rethink the way local jurisdictions look at and use the jail will be a priority of the council, said Vaughn.

The council does enter its discussions with some data, as detailed in Vera researchers’ 2016 report.

According to researchers, the county jail’s average daily population is 2,581 people. When the county built the facility in the early 1990s, it was built to hold 1,200 inmates. Additionally, Vera estimated 80 percent of jail detainees were being held pretrial. While almost half of the people who entered the jail in 2015 were released within three days, the average length of stay for other detainees was 41 days.

In addition to the recommendation of a local justice advisory council, Vera researchers offered other recommendations like improving the process for cases moving through the court system, creating alternatives to jail for people with mental illness or substance use and addressing jail admission for those who violated low-level municipal and traffic violations.

“Vera will soon be gone, and they leave behind a number of great recommendations,” Vaughn said. “It is up to us to implement them. That is this council. It will look at not only incarceration rates, but it will go back and look at the initial arrest, charges and how a case moves through the court.”

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Community response

Since local leaders embarked on reforming the criminal justice system, the public has responded, turning its passionate attention toward the issue with support, Williams said.

The original chamber task force, for instance, has been split into subcommittees focused on things like public engagement and facilities. They now now have members representing the faith community, nonprofit sector and health organizations connected to the criminal justice system.

The public’s call for action on the issue is focused on concerns for mass incarceration, a result of past “tough on crimes” policies, and its impact on governments’ bottom line as well as changing attitudes toward mental health and substance abuse. Among low-level offenders, it is common for mental health, substance abuse and chronic homelessness to drive criminal behavior.

“There are very few projects that we have undertaken where there has been such a response from the community,” Williams said. “People are much more open to criminal justice reform. They’ve seen how the system impacts individuals. … They will tell you that is not a good experience and it needs to be fixed.”

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Remember how happy you were when you heard cold full-strength beer and wine were going to be available in grocery stores beginning in 2018?

It felt like Oklahoma’s alcohol laws were finally rocketing into the late 20th century. After a federal judge dismissed a challenge presented by a trade group representing liquor store owners, we don’t have to worry about State Question 792 getting struck down.

Liquor store owners claimed they will lose a large portion of business to grocery stores under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause, but when isn’t the Fourteenth Amendment cited in such cases?

Besides, it’s not like it is time to break out a small violin for liquor stores. They’re still the only places to buy spirits, and they’ll have the better selection of beer and wine. Concessions were made in SQ 792 to allow liquor stores to be open on Sundays and supplement income by selling non-drink options like cheese, limes and other accoutrements.

Many of those same liquor storeowners enjoy shopping at Trader Joe’s and might like a Costco Wholesale in Oklahoma. Though Trader Joe’s has never acknowledged it publically, it’s highly unlikely that they would’ve moved into the Oklahoma market without the prospect of changed legislation. We need our “two-buck chuck”!

It’s rumored that Costco has balked at not being able to sell its Kirkland brand wine in Oklahoma. With smooth sailing for the law to go into effect in October 2018, we can hope that a Costco joins Trader Joe’s and expands into OKC, helping us further enjoy the freedom to buy booze in many places that others have been enjoying for awhile.

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Do you hear that? It’s the low rumble of outraged community members wondering why Oklahoma City schools have buildings named after Confederate generals.

You might have seen a large, amorphous blob resembling a mosh pit going down Classen Boulevard a couple weeks ago. Superintendent Aurora Lora said that the Oklahoma City School Board will begin consulting with the community to see if they support changing the names of four elementary schools: Lee, Jackson, Stand Watie and Wheeler.

Well, it turns out that two of those schools, Wheeler and Lee, might not be named after Confederates after all.

According to Larry Johnson, a local researcher for Oklahoma City libraries, Wheeler Elementary is more than l i k e l y named after OKC businessman James B. Wheeler, not Joseph Wheeler.

As for Lee Elementary, Johnson told National Public Radio (NPR) that there is nothing definitive that says the school is named for Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson’s name is engraved above

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the door at Jackson Elementary, and Watie was a Native American Confederate general.

Lora has said the board will not make a final decision until after meeting with the community, citing a similar process to rename the Capitol Hill High School mascot from Redskins to Red Wolves in 2015.

Funding fiction?

You know those reported massive cuts to education funding Oklahomans have been hearing about for years? Well, no need to fear!

There’s a state representative out there who wants you to know these reports are another example of that gosh-darn “fake news.”

In an email to fellow state lawmakers, Rep. Michael Rogers, R-Broken Arrow, cited data from the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System (OCAS) to argue that the state has actually increased per-pupil funding in recent years.

Rogers’ email was published by KFOR and other state media outlets.

“I know there is a lot of talk about educational funding and the massive cuts we have caused education (fake news), but numbers don’t lie,” Rogers writes. “I have included a link to the OCAS system (for verification) and you can see how we have increased

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funding per pupil every year since 2010.”

Rogers links lawmakers to the page in question, which shows that the 2015-2016 per-pupil expenditure was $8,093.38. That’s an increase of — drumroll, please — a whopping $15.44 from the 2014-2015 school year! Looks like it’s time to order some Papa John’s Pizza!

The chart he links to includes all sources of funding, including federal sources. State allocations set by the Legislature have dropped by more than $180 per student since 2008.

In a statement response, Steffie Corcoran, executive director of communications with the Oklahoma State Department of Education, said Rogers’ data does not take into account the steadily rising costs of education, which have easily outpaced raw per-student spending.

“Without question, the funds that remain for students continue to diminish,” Corcoran’s statement reads. “Oklahoma’s average per-pupil expenditure is the lowest among our neighboring states.”

Sure, it would be nice to simply wish away our state problems as the

crafty work of weirdly vindictive journalists: “Overcrowded prisons?

Rampant statewide heart disease?

Fake news, I say!”

But while numbers might not lie, they can easily be used out of context to mislead. And that’s some news on which you can comfortably depend.

The eagle has landed!

Tulsa’s U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine has impressive credentials.

Education? Bridenstine holds bachelor’s degrees in economics, psychology and business from Rice University.

He later earned a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University.

Military experience? Bridenstine served as a pilot in the U.S. Navy Reserve for nine years.

Leadership? In addition to serving Oklahoma’s First Congressional District for the past five years, Bridenstine is the former executive director of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium.

When Bridenstine’s resume landed in the hands of the current commander in chief, President Donald Trump thought Bridenstine was another one of the “best people” to add to his staff.

Eight months after coming into office, the president announced his intent to name the Republican politician to head

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), according to NewsOK.com.

The NASA administrator serves as the senior space science adviser to the president and leads the federal agency and manages its resources, according to Newsweek.

Is Bridenstine the best man for the job? Given that most past administrators have been scientists and not politicians, the appointment raises a few eyebrows. As a cabinet-level official, the NASA administrator must receive Senate confirmation.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, R-Florida, told Newsweek Bridenstine “could be devastating for the space program.”

“It’s the one federal mission which has largely been free of politics, and it’s at a critical juncture in its history,” Rubio told Newsweek. “I would hate to see an administrator held up — [on grounds of] partisanship, political arguments, past votes or statements made in the past — because the agency can’t afford it and it can’t afford the controversy.”

Oklahoma U.S. Sens. James Lankford and Jim Inhofe don’t see it that way.

“As a former administrator of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium, Jim Bridenstine’s lifelong passion for space, combined with his work in Congress on modernizing our nation’s space program, will serve him well at NASA,” Inhofe, R-Tulsa, told NewsOK.com.

Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, added, “His background in aviation and space, coupled with his commitment to fiscal responsibility, make him an excellent choice for NASA administrator.”

No one can deny that Bridenstine comes from an impressive background, which does include authoring bills related to the space sector. In confirmation hearings, should senators ask the 42-year-old congressman about his qualifications in science or engineering, they wouldn’t get much of an answer.

Perhaps senators’ next questions should be on global warming, as NASA is the world’s leading climate research agency.

Will Bridenstine join former Oklahoma Attorney General and current Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt in dismissing climate change as a hoax? It’s practically written in the stars.

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EAT & DRINK The exterior mural at 116 Farmstead in downtown Luther depicts the town’s history. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

the conclusion after the birth of their first child that “there is something to raising your children ‘in the dirt.’”

“We drove down to Luther on a whim,” Winton said. “ We came through downtown and were amazed that there were old buildings but nothing going on.”

The Wintons raised their first herd of cattle 10 years ago with All Hat Cattle Co., a play on the joke that some cowboys are “all hat” — just for show. Winton went to law school at the University of Oklahoma and works as a real estate lawyer, still retaining an office in Edmond.

Winton wanted to give back to Luther, the town that helped realize his dream of becoming a cattle rancher and where he and his wife raise their four children. He negotiated to buy a space downtown from the town without the idea of opening a restaurant.

“Talking to people around town, they resented having to leave for goods and services,” Winton said. “We didn’t open this place for financial reasons. There are some decisions you make, like going into ranching or opening a business in Luther, that aren’t for economic reasons. This is a heart commitment to the community.”

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116 Farmstead Market & Table aims to spark downtown revitalization in Luther.

By Jacob Threadgill

The mural above 116 Farmstead Market & Table depicts the history of the town of Luther from its founding as a farming community nine years after the land run of 1889 to entering the now-bygone modern era with steel beams and a resident holding the local newspaper, The Luther Register.

The bustling life of Luther, much like many smaller communities after the end of World War II, very much began to dwindle as population trends sent people closer to city life.

The newspaper shuttered its doors in the 1950s, and many of the downtown businesses followed suit. Thanks to a new exit off the Turner Turnpike, one-time city residents are making their way out to eastern Oklahoma County and spearheading a revival in downtown Luther.

the country; they also decided to become first-generation cattle farmers.

Raised in Fort Worth, Winton grew up visiting his grandfather in the country. After reading agricultural philosophy writers like Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson, he and his wife came to

Downtown commitment

Making the move

Matthew Winton and his wife Jennifer decided to leave the suburbs of Edmond behind for more rural life outside Luther more than a decade ago. Not only did the Wintons make the transition to

116 Farmstead opened in May 2016 and serves as a communal place for residents and visitors to dine at the large, shared dining table, but also to buy local Oklahoma products, like beef from Winton’s ranch or other goods such as Oklahoma-made mustard and honey.

The artwork of local artists hangs for sale on the walls.

“The beef that’s in that freezer, I tagged that calf within 24 hours after it was born,” Winton said. “I watched it grow; it ate from my hand and came to my voice. I took it to the butcher to be killed. This is as close to ‘know your farmer’ as it gets.”

116 Farmstead is part year-round farmers market, part coffeehouse and part farm-to-table cafe open 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 8 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Saturday.

Luther native Amy Clowers runs the kitchen, which has daily breakfast and lunch specials of a Southwestern and Southern vibe, like a Soul Sandwich with local ham, collards and mac and cheese.

Fixed menu items include quiche, breakfast burritos, sandwiches, salads and a bevy of bakery options like whole pies and a French toast casserole that serves 10-12 people.

Matthew Winton opened 116 Farmstead in May 2016. | Photo Jacob Threadgill

Winton is the first to admit that opening a restaurant isn’t a move to make money.

116 Farmstead is one of three operating businesses in downtown Luther.

“You see towns where there has been a flattening of the economy; something

sparks interest, and you see other people who are on the fence — ‘Maybe we can do this too.’ The idea is to have a nice restaurant, but that it will spark others to come in and pretty-up downtown.”

Dawn Shelton moved from Oklahoma City’s Gatewood community out to Luther a few years ago, and she works at 116 Farmstead but also resurrected The Luther Register in a digital format.

Shelton felt compelled to keep up with board meetings and other needs for the good of the community though she’s not a journalist by training. She will spend hours live-streaming trustee meetings without pay.

“It’s been a great journey to leave the urban backyard for lots of land,” Shelton said. “It’s been great for my family. I decided to start the Register as an homage to the original and because no one else was going to do it.”

There are some decisions you make like going into ranching or opening a business in Luther that aren’t for economic reasons.

This is a heart commitment to the community.

Matthew Winton Winton said he has seen a change among the town’s board of trustees that is more focused on economic development.

“Under the prior leadership, they would’ve wanted the town to look as it did,” he said. “You have to help change the perception of Luther. There are people that have lived in Oklahoma County their whole life and don’t even know we’re here. It kills me and it thrills me at the same time.”

At the town’s Pecan Festival held on Main Street on Nov. 18, Shelton is organizing an effort to create the world’s largest praline to be certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. It’s another step in trying to pull the town of Luther together, one that started around the long communal table at 116 Farmstead.

“Everyone in Luther knows each other, but they still want their space.

People will go to the outside tables and then slowly fill in the large table,” Winton said. “On Saturday, people reluctantly have to sit close to each other, but by the end of the meal, they’re talking over each other and sharing conversations.”

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An upcoming board game lounge invites Edmond to unplug. By Jacob Threadgill

The brick-lined streets of downtown Edmond, where it’s common to see kids playing Pokémon GO, will receive a new way to play an entirely different kind of game when Edmond Unplugged opens later this year.

Modeled after Toronto, Canada’s cafe Snakes and Lattes, Edmond Unplugged, 117 N. Broadway, will be part retail space, part cafe and part gaming center where customers can pay a $5 fee to have access to a library of board games while also enjoying food and drinks.

Owner Mike Shipp has worked in information technology (IT) for over two decades and has become all too aware of the technology creep into everyday lives.

“I’m plugged in all the time,” Shipp said. “I’ve got kids, and I see them on their devices, and other people can’t put their cell phones down. Board games are something that force you to have face-to-face interaction.”

Shipp said he began playing board games in elementary school when he got into Dungeons & Dragons. It carried

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Miniature figurines at Edmond Unplugged | Photo Garett Fisbeck

through college, when he traveled the country to play in Magic: The Gathering tournaments.

Board exposure

Shipp said board games, collector games and miniatures have all become more intricate in recent years. They’ve also become more expensive. He hopes Edmond Unplugged will expose people to new games and allow them to try them out before shelling out hardearned money on something that would otherwise be a mystery.

“Some of these games are cost-prohibitive,” Shipp said. “A millennial gets out of college and can’t afford to buy a $150 game every week. You can pay $5 and have access to our full library of games.”

Oklahoma City’s board gaming culture has been centered at Game HQ at 9118 S. Western Ave. for more than two decades, and Shipp said it’s one of the nicest gaming stores in the country.

“It’s primarily geared to hardcore gamers and not just casual gamers,” Shipp said. “You miss out on the college crowd or a family coming in to play games when that is the case. There is not a place that is family-oriented, which is what we want this to be.”

Craft beer will be served at Edmond Unplugged, but Shipp said Edmond Unplugged will limit the hours alcohol is served and will not serve before 5 p.m. on weekdays. The menu will consist of what Shipp referred to as “upscale concession food” with flatbread pizzas, sausages from local Schwab & Co. and soft-baked pretzels with a variety of toppings and dipping sauces.

Mike Shipp shows off some games that will be featured at Edmond Unplugged. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

Edmond commitment

Shipp, originally from Midwest City, but an Edmond resident since he was 24, is committed to the Edmond location for his store because of the walkable downtown area.

Edmond’s access to two colleges and four high schools made it a desirable location to debut his store. He has had to go through a series of setbacks in order to do so.

After taking the space of the former Scruples antique store in February, he hoped to have the store open by July’s LibertyFest, but setbacks caused by access to underground gas lines have pushed the tentative opening date to October.

“I think people are looking for something to do other than going to the movies or playing video games at home,” Shipp said. “The response we’ve gotten from the public so far has been awesome.”

Shipp recently partnered with food trucks The Hall’s Pizza Kitchen and Katiebug’s for a game night and said over 300 people attended in Edmond.

Edmond Unplugged will have a variety of games available for play. The shop will feature family-oriented classic games like Monopoly, Candy Land and Battleship but also intermediate and immersive experiences like Pandemic: Legacy, which is an example of a consumable game that is lengthy and usually only played

through once.

“Splendor is my favorite to get people into gaming,” Shipp said. “It’s easy and fast-paced. There is no dice, so it’s not up to chance. It’s a cool game using cards to generate tokens that designate gems and use gems to purchase more cards.”

Collecting power cards is the object of other games like Star Wars: Destiny, which has sold through its first two runs in a matter of weeks since it debuted last year. Shipp will have multiple copies of the game at Edmond Unplugged.

He hopes to have more than 100 games available in the store, which will also be for sale outright. He said he will wait to see which games become requested to fill out the store’s collection.

There will be a room in the back of the store where groups can schedule to play consumable games and those that use miniatures, like Warhammer and Star Wars: X-Wing. An entire section of Edmond Unplugged will house accessories needed to play roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons.

“I want to provide games that people otherwise might not have access to,” Shipp said.

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The 11th annual ZOObrew features Oklahoma beers in one place. By Jacob Threadgill

When Oklahoma City Zoological Park and Botanical Garden’s fundraising event ZOObrew began in 2009, it only featured beer from a handful of Oklahoma breweries.

As state laws have allowed for the establishment of more breweries, the Sep. 29 ZOObrew event is one of the best places to find many breweries from all over Oklahoma all in one place.

More than 20 breweries as well as home brewers will be on hand to pour samples of their products among the zoo’s animals.

“I’m excited because there are so many breweries wanting to participate,” Brianne Hinojosa, the zoo’s special events manager, said. “The majority of new [brewers] are local Oklahoma brewers.”

First-time ZOObrew participants include OK Cider Co. and Angry Scotsman Brewing, the latter of which will be on-hand to distribute its brew even though its Oklahoma City beer garden and taproom is not yet open to the public.

OKC standard-bearer Anthem Brewing Company returns for the event, as does Tecumseh’s Skydance Brewing, Tulsa’s Cabin Boys Brewery and Stillwater’s Iron Monk Brewing Company.

Edmond’s Frenzy Brewing Co. and Norman’s Crossed Cannons Brewery are among other first-time participants.

“The atmosphere is very relaxed,” Hinojosa said. “It’s like an outdoor bar scene where you can enjoy the sights and music. It’s rain-or-shine, but knock on wood, we haven’t had rain yet.”

The Blend, which includes three members from popular tribute band Superfreak, will provide live music.

ZOObrew tickets are available at zoofriends.org. Pre-brew tickets for $75 allow guests early access 5:30-7

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p.m. to try craft beer before it’s gone.

Pre-brew guests also receive complimentary food and a T-shirt that sells for $25. Regular tickets are $40-$50 for the main event 7 to 10 p.m. Food will be available for purchase from the zoo’s on-site vendor.

Designated drivers are able to enter both the pre-brew and main section of the event for $5.

“We ask that people drink responsibly, and we are partnering with (ridesharing app) Lyft,” Hinojosa said.

Net proceeds from the event go to the zoo’s animal enrichment projects, which Hinojosa said includes everything from making new activities in each animal’s habitat to buying them new food.

The zoo will debut its tiger cubs to the public later this fall. The cubs were born and arrived in Oklahoma City in July and can be seen on an online at okczoo.org/tigercam.

The zoo will also debut its newest expansion project, Sanctuary Asia, in 2018. The $22 million project broke ground earlier this year and will be home to red pandas, Asian rhinos, langurs, Komodo dragons and more, while adding an additional 3.5 acres to the elephant herd’s habitat.

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Even in a state known for beef and barbecue, Oklahoma City has plenty of options for vegetarian diners or for carnivores looking for a refreshing break from the meat grind. From vegan-only to Ethiopian and Thai food, there are plenty of options to eat your veggies.

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Bistro 38 Thai Green Cuisine

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This Thai restaurant has served the metro area since 2007, first in Edmond and since 2013 in Oklahoma City. Every entree on its menu comes with a choice of crispy tofu.

The city is full of wonderful Thai places, but Bistro 38 gets a nod for its volcano tofu, which tops the protein with a four-flavor chili sauce, red bell pepper, yellow onion and sweet basil leaves.

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Vegetarian and vegan icons on the Picasso Cafe menu guide hungry guests and account for nearly half the items at the Paseo District restaurant. Quinoa tacos are gluten-free and vegan. Jackfruit mimics pulled pork that is topped with pineapple chutney, and Picasso makes its own spin on Nashville hot chicken by substituting Maitake mushroom.

Ethiopian cuisine caters to a vegetarian diet, and Queen of Sheba is the city’s only Ethiopian restaurant. Lentils, greens, chickpeas and green beans come stewed in spicy — but not hot — preparations. Each dish is served with Injera, the national dish of Ethiopia. Entrees are often served on top of the sourdough flatbread so it’s like having an edible plate that is warm, spongy and delicious.

The Red Cup has been an institution in Oklahoma City for decades, but under chef Patrick Clark, it has recommitted to a vegan theme with a recent menu overhaul. The vegan options range from “GMO-free toe pie” to its take on Korean barbecue with vegetable bibimbap or vegetable jambalaya. The breakfast menu includes vegan biscuits and gravy, bagel and (carrot) lox and Mt. Saint chorizo, which tops corn tortillas with plant-based chorizo, black beans, veggies and fried egg.

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A SEASONAL GUIDE TO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

There is a lot to do and see throughout Autumn, and Gazette gives its readers direction on where to find the best festivals, shows, foods and more!

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ARTS & CULTURE “Will was one of those rare instances of just concentrated kindness,” Thornbrugh said. “When I was with Will, I felt like it was so much easier to relate to everyone else because everyone liked Will.”

Ogletree left each creative community closer together than before he arrived.

Thornbrugh hopes the relationships he helped cultivate will continue to grow.

“I loved him very dearly,” he said. “He’s one of the best people I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and being friends with.

I hope the relationships in the communities that Will helped to build continue to exist. I’m going to miss him a lot.”

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‘Didn’t hold back’

‘He was my home’ Oklahoma City’s creative community mourns the loss of Will Ogletree.

By Ben Luschen

When local musician, comic and open-mic host William Ogletree died in late August, it was a loss felt by a broad swath of Oklahoma City’s entertainment community. The far-reaching sense of loss is a testament to Ogletree’s creative tenacity and warm, friendly nature.

A devoted fan of professional wrestling, Ogletree died in an accident while participating in an unsanctioned amateur match at Blue Note Lounge.

Friend and roommate Alex Sanchez said while the loss is tragic, there was nothing that could have kept Ogletree away from the ring.

“Will died maybe the best way I’ve ever heard of anybody dying,” he said. “He died doing his favorite thing surrounded by people who love him. We can only aspire to that. He was my home, and I’ll miss him.”

‘Incredibly well liked’

As Sanchez first met Ogletree around five years ago while both were attending the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma (ACM@UCO), he had the same thought so many others who encountered Ogletree through the years have shared: “I have to make this guy my best friend.”

“He was really positive, high-energy and so funny — just really, really funny,” he said.

Sanchez ultimately succeeded in growing a close-knit bond with him. The two became roommates just two months after meeting. (They also roomed with mutual friend Aaron Rodgers — no rela-

Will Ogletree was an active contributor to Oklahoma City’s comedy and music communities. | Photo Edson Ochoa / provided

who ever had a bad thing to say about him. He was the good twin.”

A ‘doer’ tion to the football player.)

“I hadn’t met a ton of friends at that point,” Sanchez said, “and after meeting Will, I didn’t have to make a ton more.”

Sanchez and Ogletree did many things together and were almost as inseparable as a pair of twins. A few years later, they started attending comedy open mics together. Both of their comedy careers started about three years ago at the public access open mic at The Venue OKC. Ogletree at first just went to support Sanchez, whose life dream was to become a comic. But only a few shows later, Ogletree started delivering his own material at the open mic. Sanchez immediately noticed he was a natural.

“His comedy was real high-energy, very silly,” he said. “It was just an infectious joy that you don’t get a ton of in comedy.”

About a year ago, Sanchez and Ogletree began cohosting The Venue’s open mic. It was a role almost custommade for someone as warm and positive as Ogletree.

“He was so welcoming,” Sanchez said. “That was the way everyone always described him. He was so nonjudgmental, and whatever anyone wanted to do, he was here for it. He was supportive and just had the biggest smile.”

Ogletree was not only strongly committed to participating in local creative scenes but encouraging others to do the same.

“He was incredibly well liked,” Sanchez said. “There was no one I met

When British alternative rock band This Town Needs Guns was set to play the ACM@UCO Performance Lab in 2013, The Hitt Boyz was destined to be on the bill. Ogletree made sure of it.

Adam Thornbrugh, a founding member of the former OKC-based post-rock band with Ogletree and current member of Tallows and Wildings, said his bandmate sent constant tweets to the promoter until Hitt Boyz was finally added as an opener.

Ogletree was always one to take matters into his own hands when possible.

“He was a goddamn doer,” Thornbrugh said. “When he wanted to do something, he did it, and he did it well.”

Thornbrugh met Ogletree at ACM@ UCO and became friends with the gifted guitarist after he noticed him wearing shirts from Modest Mouse and other bands of which Thornbrugh was also a fan.

Songwriting with Ogletree was one of Thornbrugh’s favorite activities. He said Ogletree was naturally good at music and had an innate ear for melody. The guitarist was known for coming up with unorthodox musical arrangements that always seemed to somehow work.

“Writing with him was one of the easiest things in the world,” Thornbrugh said. “I would write something and show him, and he would make it 10 times better. Or he would write something and show me and I would make it two times better.”

Ogletree also worked to encourage the work of fellow musicians and build personal relationships within the music community — often acting as a conduit of friendship.

BradChad Porter took Ogletree on his first stand-up road gig, a small show in Woodward, more than a two-hour drive northwest of OKC. Porter, co-founder of local comedy promoter OKC Comedy, is often seen as an approachable elder statesman of local stand-ups, particularly among the scene’s younger comics.

On the long drive home, Porter was surprised to hear Ogletree use the time to discuss ways to get other young comedians opportunities out of town.

“His thing wasn’t, ‘Hey, how can I get booked on some more of this stuff?’” Porter said. “It was, ‘How do we get these other guys on things like this?’ That was the conversation that we had, and that’s just the sort of guy he was.”

Ogletree’s drive to promote the work of young artists could be seen in his duties hosting The Venue’s open mic — one of the few, if not only, places in the metro for comedians under 21 to test their stand-up chops.

“What he did in hosting that open mic with Alex [Sanchez] is so huge,” Porter said.

“That they kept that going and provided a place for those kids to come and do their poetry and music — if there is a legacy to be had in OKC comedy, it’s that Will gave those kids a place to get up and tell jokes.”

A lot of stand-up has a tendency to get dark because many comics use laughter as a sort of self-therapy. Porter said Ogletree’s work often represented a change of pace that celebrated silliness and pure joy.

Aside from just comedy, Porter and Ogletree also bonded over a shared love for professional wrestling. Like everything else in his life, it was a matter of when, not if, Ogletree would ever step into the ring himself. He was not one to view life from the sidelines or the stands.

In every pursuit, Ogletree wanted to become part of the action.

“When I tell people about Will for the rest of my life, it will be that he flung his whole body at life,” Porter said. “He didn’t hold back. If something made him happy, he pursued it. He died playing music and being a comic and being a wrestler. He did everything that made him happy.”

A few memorial concerts and fundraisers have already occurred. Porter said OKC Comedy’s official tribute will be scheduled soon.

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Recovery road

The mother of OKC artist Spencer Mellow helps raise funds for the state’s only high school dedicated to sobriety. By Jacob Threadgill

The Oklahoma City art community suffered an irrevocable loss with the death of Spencer Mellow in 2015 following his lengthy battle with addiction and mental illness.

His mother Patti is making sure the memory of her son is not forgotten while ensuring other families have access to the kind of treatment and counseling the Mellows never received.

Mellow is co-chairing a fundraising luncheon for Teen Recovery Solutions, the state’s only sober recovery high school, which has become a model other

facilities across the country are following.

“Spencer started having difficulty in high school, which is an environment that makes it difficult to recover,” Mellow said. “Once Spencer would start drinking, he couldn’t stop. At school, it was an environment where you were made fun of if you didn’t drink. To have a sober high school where kids don’t have to have shame makes a huge difference.”

National model

Teen Recovery Solutions opened its doors in 2006 and is an accredited school for 20 teens with room for their families. It was originally established a scholarship so teens could get residential treatment.

“There weren’t a lot of residential treatment options in Oklahoma City, so people were having to send their kids out of state,” said Maggie Brown, Teen Recovery Solutions’ director of development. “Once they’ve returned home from treatment, they didn’t have continual support, so they were relapsing into even deeper abuse and treatment wasn’t good long-term.”

The school was modeled after Houston’s Archway Academy, which Spencer Mellow and his mother Patti | Photo Patti Mellow / provided

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The work of late artist Spencer Mellow is memorialized on postcards for guests of a fundraiser for Teen Recovery Solutions. | Photo Patti Mellow / provided

combined clinical treatment that involved families with providing a positive and sober environment for teens among their peers.

Teen Recovery Solutions took all of Archway Academy’s programs and put them under one roof, which Brown said is now a model for the rest of the country’s 40 sober high schools.

It’s hard for people to understand that it is a disease and not a choice.

Patti Mellow “The science behind treatment and counseling also shows that if you give students fun things to do, their mind is occupied and they have a positive social network,” Brown said.

Mellow was not able to enroll her son into the program; he was too old when it was founded. The family pursued treatment outside of the state, but it did not involve other members with discussions of mental illness, and once Spencer came back to Oklahoma City, it was a similar cycle.

“If you just throw money at alcohol addiction without realizing the mental health issue, you’re missing the point,” Mellow said. “Had we had that kind of counseling [at Teen Recovery Solutions,] we might have understood

what he needed. … It’s hard for people to understand that it is a disease and not a choice.”

Mellow said her son was not diagnosed as bipolar until after graduating high school at an out-of-state rehabilitation facility. She said the disconnect between treatment and the family impacted how they helped in his recovery.

“He just knew that he couldn’t stop drinking and didn’t feel comfortable in his own skin, Mellow said. “It was how he would self-medicate, to keep himself from feeling terrors of the disease.”

The power of storytelling will be on display during the Reclaimed 2017 fundraiser luncheon 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Thursday at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. Mellow will chair the event along with Dr. Susan Chambers and keynote speaker Marianne Trigg, Teen Recovery Solutions original executive director.

Mellow will pass out notecards emblazoned with one of her son’s works, a bright and colorful buffalo that he affectionately referred to as “puppy.”

“I want to do things like that more and more,” Mellow said. “I want to keep his work alive. The day of his first gallery opening, he was drunk and crying in his truck because he couldn’t accept success. It was so frustrating to have such a talented person not believe in themselves.”

Mellow will share her story, and other members will provide details of empowering stories of recovery during the fundraiser for the school, which does not receive state or federal funding.

“It takes a lot of guts to get up there and share something so personal,” Brown said. “But that’s what makes it so special and impactful.”

Mellow said she hopes the fundraiser will fund scholarships for Teen Recovery Solutions to help other families in need that would not have access to the program otherwise.

“It’s Oklahoma’s best-kept secret,” Mellow said of the school.

Teen Recovery Solutions is housed in a building donated by Chesapeake Energy Corporation. Brown said the school’s enrollment is currently capped at 20 students, which also includes room for their families.

“Our space can be limited, and we’d like to grow beyond,” Brown said.

“We’ve been sustainable in this model, but we have to increase the amount of fundraising to grow. It’s why these events are so important.”

Tickets are $150, and sponsorships are available. Visit teenrecoverysolutions.org or call 405-843-2402.

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Quirky quilts

A local collector traces hippie history in a quilt exhibit at OCCC. By Penny Snyder

A new exhibition in the Inasmuch Foundation Gallery at Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S. May Ave., takes a unique perspective on the history of American quilting.

Quirky to Modern Art Quilts: Hippie at Heart mines the rich history of quilting in America to explore the enduring creativity and ingenuity of quilting as an art form.

Focusing on unique, idiosyncratic and sometimes even rebellious quilts, the show stitches together a legacy of historical and contemporary quilting that defied expectations and birthed new traditions.

Each quilt in the exhibition has a distinct and compelling story. A casket quilt from the 1800s commemorates a Civil War soldier’s death, a contemporary quilt depicts a garden scene with a 3-D movable winged butterfly and a Victorian crazy quilt stitches together rich fabrics of silks and velvets into a dizzying tapestry.

“It’s really a quintessential American story, a symbol and expression of what we value,” Oklahoma quilt collector and the exhibition’s organizer, Judy Howard, explained.

Quirky to Modern Art Quilts: Hippie at Heart is on display 1-5 p.m. MondayFriday or by appointment through October 20.

Quilts in the exhibition are available to purchase. The majority of proceeds will go to Peppers Ranch Foster Care Community, a long-term residential care facility for Oklahoma foster children located near Guthrie.

Quilted art

Howard is an Oklahoma-based quilt collector and historian who has been collecting and selling antique quilts for 41 years at Buckboard Antique Quilts.

She views quilts as works of art and quilters as artists.

Howard said quilting has been and is an evolving movement.

Quilt collector and author Judy Howard organized the exhibition inspired by her book. | Photo Inasmuch Foundation Gallery / Oklahoma City Community College / provided

“Not your grandma’s bedcovers, but art for the wall and a lot for the bed,” she said.

Howard’s Quirky to Modern Art Quilts exhibition, sourced almost entirely from her collection of quilts, seeks to tell a nearly unknown corner of the story of American quilting, one of the artistry, ingenuity and perseverance of quilters throughout time.

The exhibition is based on her extensive historical research on the quilts that she finds and sells that culminated in her authoring the book Quirky to Modern Quilts: Hippie at Heart.

In the book, Howard finds a connection between the hippies of the height of the Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury and the hardscrabble pioneer days on the prairie through what she terms a “rebel sensibility” or a rejection of mainstream styles and the creation of new ones.

Although they are from different eras and have distinct styles, the 50 quilts that make up the show share similar characteristics of creativity, craft, imagination and a healthy dose of rule-breaking.

For Howard, there is nothing new in quilting.

“These quilts from the 1800s through today have aimed at changing the world by leaving a legacy of creative kindness, love and story that only quilts can provide,” she said.

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ARTS & CULTURE Luke Eddy stars in Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s season-closing production of Hamlet. | Photo Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park / provided

political statements with this play; he just thinks the story of chaos relates well to the reality of today.

“At any time of great change and great upheaval and great uncertainty, great art finds a way to speak to us,” he said. “I couldn’t think of a better play, and it doesn’t have to do with Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. It has to do with a time of great upheaval and change and how we deal with that.”

Of course, the play did not suddenly become relevant or relatable in the last few years. It is known as one of history’s most important works, and generation after generation has found meaning in it, even if those meanings sometimes vary.

“I’ve often described Shakespeare’s plays as a mirror for a generation, or even a Rorschach test,” Marsh said. “ Ever y generat ion look s at Shakespeare’s plays, looks at Hamlet, and finds themselves in it, because that’s what great art does.”

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Existential crisis

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s Hamlet holds a mirror to contemporary chaos. By Ben Luschen

Hamlet has not been performed by Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park in eight years, but its return to close the 2017 season feels timely.

The classic William Shakespeare tragedy premieres 8 p.m. Thursday on Myriad Botanical Gardens’ Water Stage, 301 W. Reno Ave. The production, directed by Oklahoma City University acting professor and Shakespeare in the Park (OSP) associate artistic director D. Lance Marsh, runs through Sept. 30.

Hamlet, in its entirety, runs for about four hours on stage. Most theater reproductions of the play are abridged.

Marsh said just about any classical production one sees in modern theater is going to be abridged in some way, but he made sure this production’s two-anda-half-hour runtime stuck to what has made the play an enduring favorite over hundreds of years.

“It’s cut with a mindset to clarity,” Marsh said. “If you’re a Hamlet lover, we’ve kept everything you like about the show, but we’ve put it in a slightly more sensitive span of time.”

The character Hamlet faces one of fictional history’s most famous existential crises, and Marsh said that dilemma plays particularly well to the audiences of today. The play, at its core, is about living in a world where things don’t make sense to you anymore and ques26

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tioning one’s own mortality. Hamlet faces a reality as chaotic and complex as anything faced today.

“All of these things, I think, are very contemporarily relevant,” Marsh said.

Traditional telling

Hamlet is one of history’s most wellknown and replicated tales. Its tropes and themes pop up across stage and cinema.

Many theater companies also attempt to twist or modernize the play in some way, setting it in a different time or place.

“I saw a production of it set on a spaceship once,” Marsh said. “I’m still not quite sure why.”

Rest assured OSP’s production will utilize a traditional setting in its telling of Danish Prince Hamlet’s painfully indecisive quest for vengeance in his kingly father’s death by the hand of Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius.

The production’s cast features 12 performers. Actor and OCU theater staff member Luke Eddy is revisiting the Hamlet role, a part he first played on a yearlong tour 10 years ago. Marsh said Eddy has developed into a very different actor since that time.

“He was like a kid when he played it before, and now he’s a husband and a dad,” he said. “He’s got all kinds of different perspectives on the role now, which I think is pretty cool.”

OSP artistic director and founder Kathryn McGill plays Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother and queen of Denmark who goes on to marry Claudius, played

by Jeffrey Ambrosini, not long after the king’s death.

Several of Marsh’s former OCU students have roles in Hamlet. Julia Waits plays Hamlet’s potential wife Ophelia, and Daniel C. Brown is her brother Laertes. Isaiah Williams is in the role of Hamlet’s friend Horatio.

Marsh, like many others involved in classical theater, has some personal history with the play. He played Claudius during OSP’s last production of the play eight years ago and has acted in different parts for other companies several times in his career. He also directed a cutdown version of the play set in an Amish community six years ago at OCU. “So I actually have been one to play with the setting in the past,” he said with a laugh.

Reflective drama

Marsh has been working as OSP’s associate artistic director for the last nine years. In the last several years of directing with the company, Marsh said the productions he has led have gone back and forth between style comedies that aren’t Shakespeare and Shakespearean tragedies, which means Hamlet fits within his wheelhouse.

But the play was not something that was just relegated to Marsh. He was itching to do Hamlet.

Marsh said it is not hard to tell that the United States is currently at a political tipping point as tensions ride high between opposing sides. The director is not planning on making any overt

Marsh said some of his favorite past iterations of Hamlet have included the 2009 David Tennant-starring television film version and the recent 2015 stage production by London’s Barbican Centre featuring Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role.

Despite the fact that many have held the role in the past, Marsh does not believe there is a best way to play the character. Instead, he is impressed by actors who can find their own way.

“Hamlet is such a big role,” he said, “that I don’t think any actor will have trouble spreading out and finding a way to do that role that is their own personal way to do it.”

The director had a mentor many years ago who told him there were two basic kinds of Hamlets: sweet ones and power ones. Marsh said he thinks that is an interesting way of looking at the character, but he sees each historic version of the prince as a sort of combination of the two.

“Hamlet is so big, he experiences so much, he has to make choices about so many things,” Marsh said. “There isn’t another character like it in Western literature. Because of that, I think he defies that kind of categorization.”

The character’s complex nature and running existential crisis is a big reason the play has endured through the years.

“We keep coming back to it,” he said, “because there is nothing more core than, ‘To be, or not to be.’”

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ARTS & CULTURE Julie Johnson portrays crossover singer Patsy Cline in CityRep’s latest production. | Photo

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Walking tribute CityRep presents a two-person musical about the life of Patsy Cline. By Jessica Williams

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre introduces A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline to Oklahoma Sept. 14-24 at Civic Center Music Hall’s Freede Little Theater.

Dean Regan’s musical centers on late singer Patsy Cline and extends her 20th-century stardom into 2017 with an intimate, absorbing two-actor performance. Donald Jordan, CityRep’s artistic director, spoke to Oklahoma Gazette about the show and Cline’s enduring appeal.

“This is a biographical journey through one singer’s extraordinary life,” Jordan said. “Patsy Cline influenced multiple generations of country music singers. Music would not be where it is today without her voice.”

A nostalgic tribute to Cline’s legacy, A Closer Walk retells the singer’s life through her music, showcasing her unprecedented transition from country to pop.

“She was most certainly one of the first women in music to take the reins of her career,” said Jordan. “Country music was a man’s world before Patsy Cline entered the scene, and she truly paved the path for hundreds of successful female artists.”

Rising to fame in the 1950s for her distinctly Nashville sound, Cline was one of the first American artists to cross over to pop music with songs like “Crazy,” “Sentimentally Yours” and, of course, “A Closer Walk with Thee.” The singer’s career spanned under a decade, but Jordan said A Closer Walk captures her powerful influence on American music.

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music. The play is really very moving because of its focus on her journey, trials and triumphs depicted equally.”

Starring Julie Johnson as Cline and Steve Barcus as multiple figures in Cline’s life, the small but mighty musical has captured the nation’s attention.

While Johnson emulates Cline’s heartfelt vocals and unique ability to adapt to different genres, Barcus plays the piano live onstage while switching from role to role. The show also features a live band.

“This is widely known as the ‘the biggest small musical’ due to the twoperson cast size but a larger-than-life story,” Jordan said. “It’s the combination of a really fresh play and amazing talent that draws people to the theater.”

Dedicated character

A longtime friend of Johnson, Jordan attests to her affinity for dynamic vocal abilities throughout her career — she has covered a vast range of territory.

“Alongside all of the Broadway, offBroadway and national shows and tours, she actually used to be the voice of Baby Bop on Barney & Friends,” he said. “I might be biased, but Julie is truly one of the most versatile singers I’ve ever met.”

Johnson herself revealed what made Cline such a tour de force in the music industry, despite the singer’s brief time in the spotlight.

“She had a rich, deep alto voice that emoted through every single note,” she said. “You simply cannot replace or replicate that kind of talent. Patsy was truly the best country singer, and I’d be lying if I said she still wasn’t today.”

So dedicated is Johnson to her role as Cline that she even demonstrated

the singer’s ability to make each note a new experience through a striking vocal run. That commitment to character won Johnson the role.

“I was the only one dressed up as Patsy in the audition, which was embarrassing at first,” said Johnson. “On the day of the audition, I walked in the room with a fringe vest, Western hat, red boots and full makeup. I didn’t regret it at all once I got the part.”

Performing in Broadway productions and national tours for several decades, Johnson has gained wide acclaim for her multiple renditions of Patsy Cline, playing the singer in two different theatrical productions. Along the way, Johnson said she has seen a cross-generational connection to Cline.

“Naturally, you have older folks who remember listening to Patsy Cline when she was on the radio, but these folks are also bringing their children and grandchildren to performances,” she said.

“I’ve come to realize that Patsy Cline as a figure is just as compelling as Patsy Cline as a singer.”

Cline overcame many obstacles that might have set her career back. Thanks to A Closer Walk’s emphasis on her life alongside the music, Cline also lives on as an empowering figure for women.

“Patsy Cline started her career as a teenager from very humble beginnings and fought to establish herself as a solo act,” said Johnson. “I think this show is a tribute to her legacy as a strong woman above anything else.”

I’ve come to realize that Patsy Cline as a figure is just as compelling as Patsy Cline as a singer.

Julie Johnson An American ethos of hard work and perseverance outlines A Closer Walk, ultimately celebrating Cline’s ability to poignantly convey collective emotions, circumstances and dreams.

“It’s a privilege to experience this production,” said Jordan. “You’re up close and personal with an incredibly talented cast that brings the 1950s and ’60s alive through Patsy Cline. This is a very universal story of struggle and success — much like a country song.”

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A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14-15, 21-22 and 24, 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16-17 and 23 Freede Little Theatre | Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. cityrep.com | 405-848-3761 $37-$42

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Wiggle again

Wiggle Out Loud celebrates five years with its return to Myriad Botanical Gardens. By Ben Luschen

After five years of existence, Wiggle Out Loud is now technically old enough to join a large portion of its most enthusiastic guests in kindergarten.

The “kindie rock” family music festival started in 2013 as the brainchild of Sugar Free Allstars, Oklahoma City’s Grammy-featured, youth-favorite rock duo consisting of keyboardist and frontman Chris “Boom” Wiser and drummer Rob “Dr. Rock” Martin.

Wiser said he could not be a prouder father to Wiggle Out Loud, which is now organized by The Children’s Hospital Volunteers nonprofit group.

“I’m glad that ‘he’ made it this far,” Wiser said, “because if it was us [organizing the festival], we would not have made it past the second year. It’s just too big.”

Wiggle Out Loud returns 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday to Myriad Botanical Gardens’ Great Lawn, 301 W. Reno Ave. The event originally made its home in Bicentennial Park before moving to the gardens last year.

Wiser was more than happy to pass the official organizer baton over to The Children’s Hospital Volunteers in 2015.

The festival was a true passion for him, but the project was too large in scale for him to pull off alone with the help of just a small group of volunteers. Instead of running around frantically the day of the fest, he can now enjoy the event at his own relative leisure.

“A friend of ours said the irony of it is that I was so busy trying to organize a family event that I wasn’t spending time with my own family,” he said. “But now my kids and my wife come and I’m like, ‘Let’s go do some squirt gun art or go play on the obstacle course.’”

Fun times

The headlining musical performer at this year’s event is singer-songwriter

Sarah Lee Guthrie, granddaughter of Woody and daughter of Arlo.

Guthrie performs for more than just children’s audiences, although she is often booked for family shows, including several performances with OKC’s Metropolitan Library System.

Wiser said Wiggle Out Loud often looks for a featured performer who has a following outside of children’s music.

The Verve Pipe, a Michigan-based postgrunge band most known for the 1997 Billboard hit “The Freshman,” headlined the festival’s first musical lineup.

“Our goal when we were getting a headliner for the festival was to look at acts that have a show for families and kids but also have a name outside of that world to draw in more than just kids and families,” Wiser said.

Other scheduled performers include Sugar Free Allstars (of course), California-based Latin Grammywinning Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, Latin folkloric duo Alegria Real, R&B/soul couple Adam & Kizzie and local favorite banjoist and television personality Lucas Ross.

“I like to call him a Steve Martin for kids,” Wiser said. “He does the banjo and it’s just off the top of his head. He’s hilarious, and kids love him. He’s a cartoon character in and of himself.”

Wiggle Out Loud has a lot more than music to offer. The festival is bringing in more food trucks this year, and Hideaway Pizza is sponsoring a misting tent.

Children can create squirt gun art, play a giant game of Connect Four and run through a fun obstacle course.

Microsoft is partnering with the fest this year and will let children create original works of art on a tablet using its Fresh Paint program. The art can then be directly posted onto their parents’ Facebook page.

The stage backdrop is a giant video

screen that will allow children and families to keep engaged with what’s going on no matter where they are on the Great Lawn.

Wiser said he is always struck by the visual appeal of Wiggle Out Loud.

“You look around, and it’s just like, ‘This looks awesome,’” he said.

Wiser said he has seen photos of other festivals that resemble tents set up around a large campsite. In contrast, he said, everything at Wiggle Out Loud looks vibrant and exciting.

“It just looks awesome,” Wiser said.

“People see pictures and are like, ‘I want to be there.’”

Perfect match

When organizing the first Wiggle Out Loud, Wiser was so frantically busy making sure the whole thing went off without a hitch that any good attendance numbers just seemed like icing on the cake.

“That was our goal the first year,” he said, “just, ‘I hope nobody gets hurt.’”

Sugar Free Allstars’ partnership with The Children’s Hospital Volunteers, the nonprofit activities group housed in The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center, was serendipitous.

Sara Jacobson, Hospital Volunteers executive director, said the hospital had been sponsoring some 5K community events for several years, but those were lightly attended and eventually fizzled out. The Hospital Volunteers was also looking into organizing a family-friendly art and musical festival of its own — something a lot like what Wiggle Out Loud already was.

Given the great stress the festival was piling on Wiser’s plate and the healthylifestyles theme Wiggle Out Loud had been promoting from the beginning, a partnership between Sugar Free Allstars and the Hospital Volunteers could not have been more perfect.

Jacobson said the nonprofit’s goal is to help children in the hospital forget where they are — at least momentarily — and prevent children outside the hosWiggle Out Loud is designed to be a good time for the entire family. | Photo Wiggle Out Loud / provided

Sugar Free Allstars performs during last year’s Wiggle Out Loud. This year, the festival returns to Myriad Botanical Gardens. | Photo Wiggle Out Loud / provided

pital from needing treatment through promoting healthy living.

“What we’re doing are art and music programs,” Jacobson said. “Really, anything normal and fun that is happening outside of the hospital we want to bring to them.”

Since Hospital Volunteers has taken on the lion’s share of organizational work, Wiser said the growth he has seen in Wiggle Out Loud has been fantastic.

“There’s more activity on our social media now than I’ve ever seen in five years,” he said, “which is amazing.”

Name brand

Jacobson was at a birthday party for a friend of her young child when another mother came up to her and asked if she had heard of this great event called Wiggle Out Loud, not knowing she was talking to its chief organizer.

“Yeah, I think I might be there,” Jacobson said with a smile.

Both Jacobson and Wiser are excited that Wiggle Out Loud’s branding has become something many families are starting to recognize. That recognition will likely grow in the future. Jacobson said there are preliminary plans in development to take the Wiggle Out Loud concept directly to local schools.

Wiser said he is excited to see how Wiggle Out Loud will grow in the future.

He likes seeing family members out creating bonds with one another while also forming bonds with other families in the community.

“It’s a family event,” Wiser said. “It’s not a kids festival. Everybody comes as a family. They all enjoy the music. They all enjoy the activities.”

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YogaFest 2017 introduces the poses and promises of flexibility. By Megan Prather

Exercise your mind, body and spirit at YogaFest 2017 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday on the lawn at Whole Foods Market, 6001 N. Western Ave. Yoga instructors Martha McQuaid and Christina Forth founded YogaFest four years ago.

“We were looking for a way to bring our yoga community together because yoga has grown tremendously in the past five years,” McQuaid said. “It’s nice to celebrate what everybody’s doing in town and to bring the yoga community together and working together to make it better.”

YogaFest 2017 offers classes for all skill levels as well as demos, a yoga marketplace, kids yoga, food trucks and music.

The festival has expanded over the past four years, moving to a larger venue each year. The first YogaFest was held in the Paseo Arts District during the Paseo Arts Festival in 2013. The second year, it moved to Coles Garden and the third was held at YogaLAB, one of McQuaid’s two yoga studios.

In 2004, McQuaid founded Spirit House Yoga, 5107 N. Shartel Ave., the oldest yoga studio in Oklahoma City, and two years ago, she opened YogaLAB, 1745 NW 16th St. McQuaid began doing yoga 20 years ago as a form of integrated exercise.

“I was a professional musician before this, and you spend three hours in a chair practicing every day, and it’s very much intellectual and mental, so I needed a way personally to get into my body and feel better,” McQuaid said.

There are 12 recognized yoga styles, and YogaFest will give attendees an opportunity to sample these with different local teachers.

“I’m not comfortable saying that it’s the best form of physical exercise there

YogaFest 2017 features classes, music and food trucks. | Image bigstock.com

is, but it’s very integrated physically.

Its physical, it’s mental; it’s mind, body and spirit, McQuaid said. “It’s a different experience than any kind of exercise I’ve ever done.”

Oklahoma City area yoga instructors will teach the classes.

“We’re just trying to celebrate everything we have to offer as a local yoga community,” McQuaid said. “Rather than bringing in a rock star yoga teacher from New York City or something like that, we’ve got a lot of great teachers here.”

Two tents will feature various forms of yoga, including Kundalini, Zendo, and Hatha. Other sessions include Girovita, an Indian science of health.

Parents can drop their children off with the Yoga Fairy in the kids’ yoga venue so they can relax and enjoy the festival.

Children can learn about yoga through music, crafts, story time and anatomy.

At 7 p.m., guitarist Edgar Cruz will play during the yoga class while painter Samantha Carlton does a live painting based on the vibe of the class.

“In my mind, it’s a great opportunity to see what’s available here in Oklahoma City,” said co-organizer Ashley Glenn.

McQuaid and Glenn also think it’s a great way to instill a sense of community amongst Oklahoma City’s yogis, which happens to be the theme of YogaFest.

Tickets are $10-$60. Visit yogafestokc.com.

YogaFest 2017 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday Whole Foods Market | 6001 N. Western Ave. yogafestokc.com $10-$60

CALENDAR Community Spirit, providing an after-work locale for people to meet their neighbors and discuss events and ideas in an artistic environment, 5-7 p.m.

Sept. 14. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405815-6665, artspaceatuntitled.org. THU

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Confluence Conference, a regional digital marketing conference where marketing professionals listen to presentations by industry innovators hailing from all over the country in SEO, social media, SEM, branding, content marketing and more, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 14-15.

Chevy Bricktown Events Center, 429 E. California Ave., 405-236-4143, chevyeventscenter.com. THU - FRI

BOOKS Oklahoma Observer Newsmakers Series, join publisher Arnold Hamilton and special guests as they engage in lively political discussion. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and beer, wine and coffee from the Full Circle cafe, 6 p.m. Sept. 14. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU Read for Adventure, the OKC Zoo and Metropolitan Library Systems have partnered to publish the children’s book Our Day at the Zoo to create a community Read for Adventure program enabling readers to check out the new book from any of the 19 Metro Library locations, through March 31, 2018.

Metropolitan Library System, 300 Park Ave., 405231-8650, metrolibrary.org. MON

FILM Western Movie Matinee: In Old Oklahoma, (USA, 1943, Albert S. Rogell) In 1906, on Oklahoma’s Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men’s hearts, 1-3 p.m.

Sept. 13. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED Solaris, (Czechoslovakia, 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) a psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane, 7 p.m. Sept. 14 and 16. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-2363100, okcmoa.com. THU Stalker, (Netherlands, 1979, Andrei Tarkovsky) a guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes, 7 p.m. Sept. 15. and 2 p.m. Sept.

17. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, (USA, 2012, Ben Shapiro) a documentary shot over a decade with unprecedented access to photographer Gregory Crewdson that bares the artist’s process, 8 p.m. Sept. 15. 21c Museum Hotel, 900 W. Main St., 405-982-6900, 21cmuseumhotels.com. FRI Western Movie Matinee: Big Jake, (USA, 1971, George Sherman and John Wayne) in 1909, when John Fain’s gang kidnaps Big Jake McCandles’ grandson and hold him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy, 1-3 p.m. Sept. 20. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED

HAPPENINGS

Guthrie Flashbacks Annual Road Celebration Car Show, stroll among beautiful and classic cars and bring the family for face painting, food, drink and music, 8-11 a.m. Sept. 16. Mineral Wells Park, 901 S. Division St., Guthrie, 405-282-7343, facebook.com/ Guthrie-Flashbacks-Car-Club. SAT

Taste of Asia Experience Asia while enjoying cultural performances and a variety of cuisine from 10 countries.

View the highlighted event and crowning of Miss Asia, Junior Miss Asia and Little Miss Asia competing for the coveted title, giving them the honor of representing the Asia Society in community events throughout the year.

Proceeds benefit Asia Society of Oklahoma Inc. Scholarship and programs. The event is 5:30-8 p.m. Saturday at Mayfair Church of Christ, 2340 NW 50th St. Admission is free-$20. Call Asia Society of Oklahoma at 405-819-3652.

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shopping, food and fun, 12-7 p.m. through Sept.

17. Oklahoma Designer Showhouse, 13300 Hickory Hill Road, Arcadia, 405-361-5006, oklahomadesignershowhouse.com.

Annie Oakley Society Luncheon, honor the Queen of Suspense and New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, who is the recipient of the 2017 Annie Oakley Society Award, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 14. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. THU Gender and Sexuality in the Latinx Communities, bring forth issues in the Latinx communities while hosting a forum for dialogue over gender and sexuality within the communities. Discuss the topics of gender identity, the Latinx movement, sex and inclusivity, 12:30-1:30 Sept. 14. Heritage Room, Nigh University Center, University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405974-2000, uco.edu. THU

3rd Annual Oklahoma Designer Show House, presenting the artistry behind interior design and benefiting Free to Live Animal Sanctuary.

Enjoy thirteen design firms in one house,

Gynecologic Cancers Survivor’s Workshop, providing patients, survivors and caregivers with the basics of gynecologic cancers as well as in-depth information on targeted therapies and treatments provided by The Stephenson Cancer Center, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 16. OU Children’s Hospital, 700 NE 13th St., 405-271-1253, stephensoncancercenter.org. SAT 90s Prom, dance the night away with My So Called Band, commemorate the night with a classic prom photo, find out who will be crowned Prom King and Queen and more, 8 p.m. Sept.

16. Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23rd St., 405-708-6937, towertheatreokc.com. SAT WaTER Conference, join the fifth Biennial event and International Water Prize Award Ceremony during two days of meetings and presentations followed by optional workshops, Sept. 18-20. OU WaTER Center, 202 W. Boyd St., Norman, 405-325-5913, ou.edu. MON -WED 2017 Emergency Management Summit: Observations from Ground Zero, bringing national FEMA directors to the stage to share their experiences during the biggest disasters of the last 25 years.

Gain insight into the behind-the-scenes of major emergency management responses as well as how those events shaped the profession of emergency management, Sept. 18-20. Rose State College, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 405-736-0201, emergencymanagementsummit.org. MON-WED Oklahoma Venture Forum Speaker Series, join Chad Jordan, CEO of Arrow Global Capital to foster the growth of new and existing small business ventures by creating the setting for entrepreneurs, investors, service industries, incubators and collegiate organizations to generate the relationships necessary to promote economic growth in Oklahoma, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 13.

University of Oklahoma PHF Conference Center, 655 Research Parkway, 405-604-4775, ovf.org. WED Brown Bag Lunch Series: Jerome Tiger: Sport, Spirit, Spokesman, join Eric Singleton, curator of ethnology, as he speaks about the life and legacy of Jerome Tiger and explores the subjects and concepts that he painted during his life, 12-1 p.m. Sept. 20. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED Stillwater Ukulele Association Meeting & Jam, enjoy a group of ukulele players who enjoy playing music together in an informal and supportive group whose goal is to jam, learn and have fun, Sept. 19-Oct. 18. Daddy O’s Music Company, 115 N. Main St., Stillwater, 405-624-0333, stillwaterukuleleassociation.com.

Oklahoma State Fair, celebrate the end of summer with endless carnival rides, delicious fair food and a wealth of agricultural, artistic and commercial exhibits. Enjoy a variety of live performances, major attractions and countless competitions, through Sept. 24. Oklahoma State Fair Park, 3221 Great Plains Walk, 405-948-6700, okstatefair.com.

OECU Book Drive, donate books to the school or classroom of your choice for a chance to win a gift card to Full Circle Bookstore, through Sept. 29.

Oklahoma Educators Credit Union, 4001 Northwest Expressway, 405-722-2234, oecu.com.

She Builds OKC Community Revitalization Project Join Rebuilding Together OKC’s first ever women-led community impact event series. Help revitalize homes for senior women living in Midwest City’s McGregor Heights neighborhood. Attend the 8 a.m. kickoff at Church of God, 1420 N. Christine Drive, with a T-shirt pickup, coffee, doughnuts and site assignments. Lunch is provided, and the day concludes by 4 p.m. Connect with the national movement of empowering women to become change-makers in the community. Visit rebuildingtogetherokc.org/she-builds-okc or call 405-607-0464 for more details. Visit myriadgardens.com or call 405-445-7080. Saturday Photo Rebuilding Together OKC / provided

Jason and the Argonauts Fans of cinematic history, fantasy and special effects will enjoy a film and lecture series of Ray Harryhausen films. At 7 p.m., you can view a special screening of Jason and the Argonauts as a part of the Mythical Menagerie exhibit. It contains original models, prototypes, bronzes, sketches and storyboards of the fantasy films and of the stop-motion animation pioneer exclusive only to the museum. Tickets are $10. Visit sciencemuseumok.org or call at 405-602-6664. Friday Photo Science Museum Oklahoma / provided

Mushroom Cultivation and Application Course, learn to grow mushrooms and how to integrate fungi into any sustainable urban or rural lifestyle.

Use an easy to follow format and an emphasis on practices that minimize waste, cost and complexity, 6-7 p.m. Sept. 15-17. SixTwelve, 612 NW 29th St., 405-208-8291, sixtwelve.org. FRI Boots & Bourbon, dust off your cowboy boots and be prepared to taste a variety of premium bourbons for Bricktown Rotary’s major annual fundraiser with all proceeds benefiting local charities through the Bricktown Rotary Foundation. Enjoy musical entertainment, a silent auction and the finest bourbon brands in the market, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15.

Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-706-4526, bricktownrotary.org. FRI Eats on 8th, food truck festival with various food vendors and family friendly events, 12-8 p.m. Sept.

16. Midtown OKC, NW 8th St., 405-234-7960, facebook.com/eatsoneighth. SAT Bourbon/Whisky Tasting, join the Museum Cafe and try diverse brands of popular spirits with hors d’oeuvres and experience a relaxing evening downtown, 6-8 p.m.

Sept. 20. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. WED Modern Sous Vide, join the executive chef for Carlton Landing, Josh Valentine, to explore the world of sous vide with a menu of pumpkin soup with sage, candied pumpkin seeds, turkey three ways, leek bread pudding, roasted kale and Mississippi mud cake, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 20. The International Pantry, 1618 W. Lindsey St., Norman, 405-360-0765, intlpantry.com. WED

Masters at Work: Woodturning Competition and Exhibition, woodturning clubs compete in a twoday event for the title of master woodturner. Watch as artists compete in four different bowl-turning categories to raise awareness and funding for area food charities, through Oct. 15. Forest Heritage Center Museum, North US Highway 259, Broken Bow, 405-522-6158, forestry.ok.gov.

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When the Earth Shakes, learn about the science of earthquakes, tsunamis and tectonic plates while being immersed in interactive exhibits explaining the science behind earthquakes, Sept. 17-Jan. 2.

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, samnoblemuseum.ou.edu.

Urban Neighbors 10th Birthday Party, celebrate the 10th year of Downtown Oklahoma City’s neighborhood association. Enjoy cake, beer and wine while raising money for Positive Tomorrows.

Purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win prizes donated by various downtown businesses, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Broadway Wine Merchants, 824 N. Broadway Ave., 405-633-2878, urbanneighbors.org. THU

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YES, a radically inclusive LGBTQ+ youth group for ages 13-21 featuring movies, music, dinner, monthly fandom nights with positive, knowledgeable staff and peers, 7 p.m. Sept. 14. Expressions Community Center, 2245 NW 39th St., 405-570-1638, bethechange.org. THU

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CALENDAR identity, through Dec. 30. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

PERFORMING ARTS The Rocky Horror Picture Show, join The Boom for an interactive sing-a-long version of your favorite Halloween themed performance, 8 p.m. Sept. 15-Oct. 31. The Boom, 2218 NW 39th St., 405-601-7200, theboomokc.com.

Community Theater Interest Meeting, 45 years after its incorporation, the Norman Community Playhouse starts up again, ending a 14-year hiatus.

Those interested in attending or participating in community theater are invited to a meet contributing creativity and energy to a community project, 2-4 p.m. Sept. 16. West Wind Unitarian Church, 1309 W. Boyd St., Norman, 405-364-4049, westwinduuc.org. SAT OKC Improv, Oklahoma’s premiere showcase of the best local and regional improvisational comedy and theater, you will never have the same experience twice, 9:30 p.m. Sept. 15-16. The Paramount Theatre, 11 N. Lee Ave., 405-637-9389, theparamountokc.com. FRI -SAT Mark Twain Re-enactor Performance, learn how characters from Mark Twain’s books explored the natural world and became inspired to find their own wild outdoor adventures, 6:30-8 p.m. Sept 20.

Edwards Park Lake, 1515 N. Bryant Ave., 405-2971429, okc.gov. WED Ripcord, at the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility where a bet over some prime real estate and a sunny room with a view leads to a hilarious, but dangerous, game of one-upmanship in a Golden Girls meets The Odd Couple performance by David Lindsay-Abaire, through Sept. 30. Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St., 405-232-6500, carpentersquare.com.

ACTIVE Yoga to Empower, join Jasper House Haiti and This Land Yoga for a fundraising event benefiting women who have been a victim to sexual trauma in Haiti, 6 p.m. Sept. 13.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens.com. WED Co Ed Open Adult Vollyball, play volleyball with your friends in a competitive, but friendly, game.

Lots of fun for couples and a great way to make new friends, 6-8 p.m. Sept. 13, Jackie Cooper Gymnasium, 1024 E. Main St., Yukon, 405-3541895, yukonok.gov. WED Outdoor Beer & Yoga, join 405 Yoga OKC where yoga and beer unite. Bring your own yoga mat for a no-pressure, all-levels, feel-good yoga, 10-10:55 a.m. Sunday. The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., 405-879-3808, bleugarten.com. SUN

Cartoons & Comics: The Early Art of Tom Ryan, the drawings of acclaimed Western artist Tom Ryan are displayed showcasing his creativity, talent and humor from his teenage imagination, high school and coast guard years and his school paper’s sports page, through April 1, 2018. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum. org.

Janet O’Neal, Jim Keffer and Gayle Singer The Paseo Arts District’s First Friday Gallery Walk is not the only time to take in works at JRB Art at the Elms or the area’s other great galleries. JRB is currently highlighting the works of New Mexico mixed media artist Janet O’Neal (pictured), Southwest primitive painter Jim Keffer and ceramic artist Gayle Singer. Their shared exhibit remains on display through Oct. 1 at JRB Art at the Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave. Viewing hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. The gallery is closed Mondays. Visit jrbartgallery.com or call 405-528-6336.

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atmosphere, 5-9 p.m. Sept. 14. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU Art Gone Wild, featuring original paintings created by the animals of the OKC Zoo with little assistance from their caregivers. Each animal develops their own unique method of painting and purchased artworks benefit the zoo’s conservation initiatives, through Sept. 30. Myriad Botanical Gardens, Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens.com.

VISUAL ARTS

Bodies Revealed, exhibition showcasing real human bodies preserved through a revolutionary process allowing visitors to see themselves in a fascinating way like never before, through October.

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

Art After 5, enjoy a late-night art gallery experience and live music on the roof terrace with the best views of downtown OKC and a relaxing

Body, curated to examine how the body has been used to address the themes of movement, fragmentation and mechanization, geometry and

Fluvial Terra and Book Arts, featuring paper and installation work by Megan Singelton that was inspired by her travel west from Missouri to Oklahoma and Kelly Campbell Berry, who resurrects beauty in salvaged books, through Oct. 28. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-6665, artspaceatuntitled.org.

Hidden Messages, investigating identity and place through ceramics and mixed media featuring artists Marilyn Artus and Amy Sanders, through Nov. 25. Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Gaylord-Pickens Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, 405-235-4458, oklahomahof.com.

Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined, a Mid-America Arts Alliance Tour featuring art of George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Karl Bodmer and others from the years 17991890. Included are hand-carved lithographs, wood engravings with watercolors, aquatint, engravings and etchings, through Oct. 21. Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, 1000 Chisholm Trail Pkwy, Duncan, 580-252-6692, onthechisholmtrail.com.

Life and Legacy: The Art of Jerome Tiger, one of Oklahoma’s most celebrated artists, Jerome Tiger, produced hundreds of works of art and won numerous awards throughout the country.

Celebrate the life and legacy of this remarkable painter, through May 13, 2018. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Lynden Wilcoxson Exhibition, view the works of Lynden Wilcoxson and experience his sense of humor that is obvious in his reinterpretation of found objects as well as in his acrylics and watercolor paintings, through Oct. 1. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

Morgan Robinson’s solo exhibition, view sculptures created by the artist, carpenter and designer who makes nature-inspired pieces and wall ornaments that are both calm and chaotic, through Sept. 23. Kasum Contemporary Fine Arts, 1706 NW 16th St., 405-604-6602, kasumcontemporary.com.

Our Saurian Tales, past photography techniques collide with modern imagery in featured photographs by artist Steven Wilson’s during the show exploring people’s projections of bias and uncertainly based on perception, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 15. Individual Artists of Oklahoma-IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-232-6060, individualartists.org. FRI The Secret Paintings, a series of 26 large canvases recalling Renaissance and pre-Raphaelite masters in their ambitiousness, complexity and scale.

View the works of California artist Michael Pearce, through Oct. 20. Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-208-5229, okcu.edu/ visualart/gallery.aspx.

Sole Expression: The Art of the Shoe, featuring the creations of 25 local, national and international shoe designers and artists; guests examine how the shoe has been interpreted in art throughout history and the science and engineering behind specific shoe designs, through December. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Spring show exhibit, enjoy the works of oil painter Phebe Kallstrom and handmade jewelry artist Whitney Ingram, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. through November.

The Studio Gallery, 2642 W. Britton Road, 405-7522642, thestudiogallery.org.

The New Art: A Controversial Collection Fifty Years Later, enjoy the 150-piece permanent collection purchased from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art that is dedicated to the collection of contemporary art and features abstract expressionism, post-painterly abstraction, color field painting and pop art, through May 13. 2018.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

Classics 1 Guest pianist Richard Goode (pictured) brings his expressive interpretations of classical and romantic music to Oklahoma City’s first Classics concert of the season. Joel Levine conducts the performance featuring Johannes Brahms’ “Symphony No. 2,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 20” and “Invitation to the Dance” by Carl Maria von Weber and Hector Berlioz. The show begins 8 p.m. Saturday at Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $19-$68. Visit okcphil.org or call 405-8425387. Saturday Photo Steve Riskind / provided 32

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The Power of Children: Making a Difference, experience a stirring exhibit that will move and inspire you with remarkable stories of Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges and Ryan White examining how the power of words and actions can make a positive difference in the face of hatred, racism and discrimination, through Oct. 20. Edmond Historical Society & Museum, 431 S. Boulevard Ave., Edmond, 405-340-0078, edmondhistory.org.

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The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s final play, the farcical comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, is coming to The Bethany Stage.

The production stars Justice Wickstrom as John (Jack) Worthing and Alex Bolerjack as Algernon Moncrieff. The show runs 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Southern Nazarene University’s Cantrell Hall, 3930 N. College Ave., in Bethany. Tickets are $10-$15. Visit thebethanystage.com or call 1-866-9678167. Thursday-Saturday Photo provided Vintage Black Heroes: The Chisholm Kid, featuring panels from the original comic strip, the namesake hero of The Chisholm Kid was portrayed as a positive black character equal to contemporaries like Hopalong Cassidy, Dick Tracy, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon a full decade before the Civil Rights Movement in America, 10 a.m-5 p.m. through Sept. 17. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-4782250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

We the People: A Portrait of Early Oklahoma, enjoy a selection of Henry Wantland’s photography from his family’s arrival to Stillwater in 1891. Images documented over a two-decade span can be viewed during a temporary exhibition, through January 2018. Will Rogers World Airport, 7100 Terminal Drive, 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

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Examples of art bringing a community together can be found all over the city and state. Johnson said anyone who shares a similar collaborative mindset is welcome to join them.

“All these artists and creators have built this,” she said. “Our generation is a huge portion of it.”

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Indigo Fest music and camping festival promotes spiritual and environmental consciousness in eastern Oklahoma. By Ben Luschen

Art and music festivals around the country come as richly varied in look and style as the many people who organize them. But most of them look pretty much the same after the fun is over.

“Whenever you’re done, it’s just a field of trash,” said Kerry Myers, a local booking agent, musician and yoga instructor. “There has to be some sort of self-accountability for the trash that you use instead of just destroying the space.”

Myers is one of the organizers behind the inaugural Indigo Fest, which is advertised as a “music, art and healing” camping festival hoping to promote and practice “green” or sustainable habits.

Indigo Fest runs Sept. 22-24 at Blue Doors at Tenkiller, an environmentally self-sustaining camping ground and retreat in eastern Oklahoma near Gore and Lake Tenkiller.

Though out-of-state bands will participate in the festival, the bill resembles a who’s who of local performers. Singersongwriters Ali Harter and Chelsey Cope, Latin-infused synth-pop vocalist Lincka, rapper Jabee, neo-soul quartet Bowlsey, former Okies and current Nashville folk-rockers Twiggs and experimental indie rock quintet Wildings are among the many scheduled acts.

As eclectic as Indigo’s music lineup is, participating artists and festivalgoers are united under similar self-awareness and passion for personal growth.

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Indigo will come to represent a change in the paradigm.

“We really wanted to shift that around and show that you could leave a space better than when you got there,” Johnson said.

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Indigo Fest is an extension of the conservation and sustainability ethos already in place at Blue Doors. The site grows much of its own food, including organically raised poultry and beehives.

Its cabins are energy-efficient.

Guests at the inaugural festival will be asked to bring their own trash bags and stay accountable for their own waste. Attendees will also be provided

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with additional trash bags on-site.

Recycling and compost bins will be available for depositing appropriate materials.

Myers hopes that increased awareness of the personal trash guests produce over the few days will lead them to an epiphany.

“Hopefully, over the weekend, people might realize how much they’re left with that they can’t recycle or compost and they realize their personal carbon footprint,” she said.

Waste reduction is one of the reasons Indigo Fest decided not to sell alcohol.

Beverage consumption is one of the biggest causes of post-fest garbage.

“We won’t have a million plastic cups floating around the property,” Myers said.

To be clear, alcohol is not prohibited at Indigo Fest — it just won’t be sold there.

“That’s a moneymaker for events,” Johnson said. “We were like, ‘OK. We’re going to take that chance by not doing that.’”

Guests are free to bring their own alcohol, but large quantities of booze that could be independently sold on the grounds are not allowed.

Indigo Fest is about more than just waste reduction — it’s a mindfulness retreat. Be Love Yoga Studio will provide on-site yoga workshops. It is popular for many multi-day music and camping festivals to offer yoga classes, but few are as holistically engaged as Indigo, where guests can receive Reiki massage, Tarot readings and natal chart interpretations.

Indigo takes its name from the type of spiritual auras that are said to dwell around those who feel a deeply rooted connection to everyone and everything around them.

Johnson said Indigo does not cater exclusively to those with spiritual interests. The fest is about the oneness people feel with others through art and Earth-consciousness.

Though the participating bands represent a wide range of styles, Indigo Fest was looking for a very specific type of performer when it booked the event.

“It’s the people who are trying to change how we connect with each other and are sharing good vibes instead of just stuff about money or material objects,” Johnson said. “We found an amazing lineup of people who we feel hold those values.”

Johnson wanted artists who were as excited about the fest’s concept as they were. The music application for the festival included questions like, “Do you speak on self-confidence?”

Johnson said music without meaning is not just one of her personal pet peeves. She believes superficial songs are becoming a music industry relic.

“There’s going to be a time when that ends — the surface catchiness,” she said.

Every Indigo Fest artist is getting paid, but mostly just enough to travel to and camp at Blue Doors. Myers has noticed enthusiastic support of the fest’s message from scheduled performers.

“That’s been really big to me the last couple of months,” she said, “seeing all of these people wanting to come together for this vision that we have. It’s beautiful.”

Cultivating growth

Usually environmentally conscious, self-aware music fans who want to go to a festival would be forced to put their convictions on hold for the duration of the weekend. Indigo Fest hopes to provide a long-term alternative for those people.

Myers said the festival will continue each year, hopefully growing to a scale where it can afford to book large national bands. She wants Indigo Fest to not only be an experience, but a way to change people’s mindsets toward conservation.

“It’s just about taking small steps to make this way of life easier for you,” Myers said.

Johnson she hopes Indigo Fest can turn any profits into a significant, tangible investment in the environment.

She also expects spinoff Indigo projects to emerge from the festival and promote conservation year-round.

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Violent affairs

OKC synthpop quintet Haniwa harnesses the power of the Sun on its newest album.

By Ben Luschen

We wake up every day depending on the sun, as humans have done for centuries. We need the sun. Its light, warmth and gravity are paramount to all of Earth’s existence. Yet, because few things seem as certain as a sunrise on the eastern horizon, we often take the star for granted. We grow accustomed to its presence, conveniently forgetting that the absence of its immense power would quickly end us all.

In a similar way, human life can seem bound to the unfathomable might of love.

We can grow comfortable and complacent in its presence but are left trembling in its wake.

An understanding of this metaphor is key to grasping the conceptual meaning of Oklahoma City-based Haniwa’s cryptic new album Violent Sun. But it also is not necessary for finding pleasure in the indie synthpop release.

Violent Sun is at times delicate and at others loud and abrasive. There is a lot to unpack and dissect lyrically and sonically. That is a compliment and a testament to the band’s talented roster, which includes guitarist and vocalist Shirley Sanders, keyboardist and vocalist Dylan Walling, guitarist Shawn Stafford, bassist Tyco Holloway and drummer Jake Jones.

Love’s cycle is both comforting and cruel.

The 11-song album leads off with “You Brute,” a hectic blur of guitars and vivid, disturbing lyrical imagery.

“Honey’s dripping from an angel’s backside,” Sanders and Walling sing. “I lap it up as it starts to pool.”

The opening tune underscores the central idea that choosing to become an active participant in love is to open oneself up to potential hurt. But the promise of finding joy again keeps us going. Love’s cycle is both comforting and cruel.

“You grab my cheeks and force me towards the sunrise,” the song’s lyrics go.

“That violent Sun you say is all for me. You brute.”

“Feels,” which forms a pretty blend of keys and guitar riffs made only more effective by Sander’s angelic voice, is a song that touches on inner struggle and one’s

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complex relationship with their own emotional duplicity. It’s the album’s most recognizable jam and a song the band will likely be playing for a long time to come.

For those who enjoy the nitty gritty work of sitting with a song for several listens and picking over its many levels of meaning, “Dodecahedron” is a gem. The song builds up to a loud and chaotic but beautiful mesh of everything the band the band has to offer, as if the Aurora Borealis was an auditory experience.

A personal favorite moment on the album is the pairing of songs “White Tower” and “Bone Flute.” The former features a steady beat over near-chanting from the group’s vocalists to form Violent Sun’s most evocative track. The song is the perfect segue into energetic “Bone Flute.”

The album’s fantastical imagery is splendid but might prove to be a challenging listen for some audiences. The skeptical should keep in mind that a perfect grasp of exactly what is being said is not as important here as how it is being said or how those words dwell within the band’s well crafted sonic landscape. And Haniwa has made Violent Sun an idyllic home for those words.

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LIVE MUSIC These are events recommended

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

WEDNESDAY, 9.13 Invoker & Reign/Aberrant Construct, 89th StreetOKC. ROCK Jon Dooly, Vices Bar & Venue, El Reno. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

MC Black Jesus, The Venue OKC. HIP-HOP Michael Kelsey/Edgar Cruz, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. ACOUSTIC Yeahman/P.Z.Y., Red Brick Bar, Norman. HIP-HOP

THURSDAY, 9.14 DJ Ku Rx, Coyote Ugly Saloon. DJ DRI/Deathwish/Justice Keeper and more, 89th Street-OKC. ROCK Hosty, Cultivar Mexican Kitchen. BLUES John Baumann, The Blue Door. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

John the Franklin, Oklahoma City Museum of Art. VARIOUS

Jose Hernandez/Wesley Jensen and the Penny Arcade/Gabrial Hancock, 51st Street Speakeasy.

VARIOUS

Shelly Phelps, Bourbon St. Cafe. R&B

FRIDAY, 9.15 737, Wicked Piston. ROCK Adam Aguilar Band, The Martini Lounge, Edmond. ROCK

Damien Jurado Seattle-based indie folk rocker and former Sub Pop signee Damien Jurado recently embarked on an ambitious 50-state tour. Jurado will actually be performing five shows in Oklahoma, beginning Sunday at Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Center. The best bet for metro-area readers is either his show 8 p.m. Tuesday with Samantha Crain at The Chouse, 717 W. Boyd St., in Norman or 7 p.m. Wednesday with Beau Jennings at 89th Street - OKC, 8911 N. Western Ave. Tickets are $25 for the Norman show and $15-$18 for the OKC performance. Visit damienjurado.com.

Sunday, Tuesday-Friday Photo Elise Tyler / provided

The Red Dirt Rangers with Terry Ware, The Blue Door. FOLK Tyler Lee Band, Brewskeys. COVER

SUNDAY, 9.17 Cristiana Pegoraro, All Souls’ Episcopal Church. PIANO

Asleep at the Wheel, Tower Theatre. FOLK Cody Johnson/Roger Creager, The Criterion.

Harumph, Scratch Kitchen & Cocktails, Norman.

Dariush, OCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center.

Metro Strings, Full Circle Bookstore. JAZZ

COUNTRY

SINGER/SONGWRITER

F.N.G., Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK Goldie Lahr, Full Circle Bookstore. FOLK Gum/Willow Way/Swim Fan, 51st Street Speakeasy. ROCK Hardin Burns, The Blue Door. BLUES McKee Brother Jazz Band, Bourbon St. Cafe.

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Oklahoma Virtuosi, Magnolia Room. CLASSICAL Tearful Moon/Wingtips/Kali Ra and more, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar. ROCK The Steve Miller Band/Eddie Money/38 Special, Lost Lakes Amphitheater. ROCK Tom Russell, The Blue Door.

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TUESDAY, 9.19

Okie Tramps, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COUNTRY

Austin Allsup, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon.

Old 97’s, Diamond Ballroom. COUNTRY Orchard Fire, Remington Park. COUNTRY

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Flatfoot 56, 89th Street-OKC. ROCK

Pepe Aguilar, WinStar World Casino, Thackerville.

Les Flanagan/Liz Avery, Sandy Bell Gallery, Norman. VARIOUS

Souled Out, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. POP

WEDNESDAY, 9.20

SINGER/SONGWRITER

Wild Heart, Cee Gee’s Club, Edmond. COUNTRY

SATURDAY, 9.16 100 Bones Band, Newcastle Casino, Newcastle.

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Dresdon Bombers/Zoot Suit/DJ Sub, Opolis, Norman. PUNK Drive, Remington Park. COVER

I Prevail/We Came As Romans/Escape the Fate and more, Diamond Ballroom.

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Martha Stallings, The R&J Lounge and Supper Club. POP Read Southall, The Blue Door. ROCK Suzanna Santo, Tower Theatre.

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Howard Brady, Full Circle Bookstore. ROCK Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires/ Helen Kelter Skelter/Cosmostanza, The Flea. ROCK Matt Cowell, The Paramount.

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Meanstreak, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK Rick Jawnsun, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon.

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Texas Hippie Coalition, Diamond Ballroom.

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The Grant Goldstein Quintet, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. JAZZ

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free will astrology Homework: Are you ready for an orgy of gratitude? Identify ten of your best blessings.

Tell me all about it at Freewillastrology.com.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Two animals are pictured prominently on Australia’s coat of arms: the kangaroo and the large flightless bird known as the emu. One of the reasons they were chosen is that both creatures rarely walk backward. They move forward or not at all. Australia’s founders wanted this to symbolize the nation’s pledge to never look back, to remain focused on advancing toward the future. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make a similar commitment, Aries. Is there a new symbol you might adopt to inspire your intention?

The current state of your fate reminds me of the sweet confusion alluded to in Octavio Paz’s poem “Between Going and Staying”: “All is visible and elusive, all is near and can’t be touched.” For another clue to the raw truth of your life right now, I’ll quote the poet William Wordsworth. He spoke of “fleeting moods of shadowy exultation.” Is the aura described by Paz and Wordsworth a problem that you should try to fix? Is it detrimental to your heroic quest? I don’t think do. Just the opposite, really: I hope you can hang out for a while in this pregnant mystery -- between the yes and the no, between the dark and the light, between the dream and the reality. It will help you learn what you’ve been too restless to tune in to in the past.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

The Simpsons is an animated sitcom that will soon begin its 29th consecutive year on TV. During its run, it has told over 600 stories. The creators of another animated sitcom, South Park, once did an episode entitled “Simpsons Already Did It,” which referenced their feelings that it was hard to come up with new tales because their rival had already used so many good ones. I bring this up, Taurus, because I suspect your life story will soon be spinning out novel plots that have never before been seen, not even on The Simpsons or South Park. You could and should be the Best Storyteller of the Month.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Love won’t exactly be free in the coming weeks, but there should be some good deals. And I’m not referring to risky black-market stuff obtained in back alleys, either. I mean straightforward liaisons and intriguing intimacy at a reasonable cost. So if you’re comfortably mated, I suggest you invest in a campaign to bring more comedy and adventure into your collaborative efforts.

If you’re single, wipe that love-starved look off your face and do some exuberant window-shopping. If you’re neither comfortably mated nor single, money may temporarily be able to buy you a bit more happiness.

The imminent future will be a favorable time for refurbished models and revived originals. They are likely to be more fun and interesting the second time around.

I suspect that this will also be an auspicious phase for substitutes and alternatives. They may even turn out to be better than the so-called real things they replace. So be artful in formulating Plan B and Plan C, Leo. Switching over to backups may ultimately bring out more of the best in you and whisk you toward your ultimate goal in unexpected ways.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In the coming weeks, you might want to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you take what I just said as a useful metaphor to apply in other areas. In general, it might be wise to surmise the probable outcomes of games, adventures, and experiments before you get totally involved. Try this fun exercise: Imagine you are a psychic prophet as you evaluate the long-range prospects of any influences that are vying to play a role in your future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

“Dear Dr. Astrology: I’m feeling lost, but am also feeling very close to finding my new direction. It hurts! It would be so helpful if I could just catch a glimpse of that new

direction. I’d be able to better endure the pain and confusion if I could get a tangible sense of the future happiness that my pain and confusion are preparing me for. Can you offer me any free advice? -Lost Libra.”

Dear Libra: The pain and confusion come from the dying of the old ways. They need to die a bit more before the new direction will reveal itself clearly. I predict that will happen soon -- no later than October 1.

funds in support of political prisoners, or to volunteer at a soup kitchen, or to donate blood at a blood bank. In fact, any charitable service you perform for people you don’t know will be excellent for your physical and mental health.

You can also generate vivid blessings for yourself by being extra thoughtful, kind, and generous toward people you care for. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when unselfish acts will yield maximum selfish benefits.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Welcome to “Compose Your Own Oracle,” a special edition of Free Will Astrology. Departing from tradition, I’m temporarily stepping aside so you can have the freedom to write the exact horoscope you want.

Normally, you might be in danger of falling victim to presumptuous arrogance if you imagined you could wield complete control over how your destiny unfolds.

But in the days ahead, that rule won’t be as unyielding, because cosmic forces will be giving you more slack than usual. Fate and karma, which frequently impel you to act according to patterns that were set in place long ago, are giving you at least a partial respite. To get the maximum benefit out of “Compose Your Own Oracle,” identify three plot developments you’d like to weave into a self-fulfilling prophecy for your immediate future.

Then start weaving.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Almost two-thirds of us confess that if we are alone, we might sip milk directly from the carton rather than first pouring it into a glass. Fourteen percent of us have used milk as part of our sexual activities. One out of every five of us admit that we have “borrowed” someone else’s milk from the fridge at work. Most shockingly, four percent of us brag that we have blown milk out our noses on purpose. I expect that in the next two weeks, you Sagittarians will exceed all these norms. Not just because you’ll be in the mood to engage in mischievous experiments and playful adventures with milk, but because you’re likely to have a loosey-goosey relationship with almost everything.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The coming weeks will an excellent time for you to raise

In his novel The Jungle, muckraker Upton Sinclair (18781968) exposed the abominable hygiene and working conditions of the meat-packing industry. The uproar that followed led to corrective legislation by the U.S. Congress. Sinclair remained devoted to serving the public good throughout his career. He liked to say that the term “social justice” was inscribed on his heart.

Drawing from his inspiration, Aquarius, I suggest you decide what your soul’s main motto is -- and imagine that it is written on your heart. Now is a perfect moment time to clarify your life’s purpose, and intensify your commitment to it; to devote even more practical, tender zeal to fulfilling the reason you were born.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

You know that “patch of bothersome weeds” growing right in the middle of your life? Is it really a patch of bothersome weeds? Or is it perhaps a plot of cultivated blooms that once pleased you but has now turned into a puzzling irrelevancy? Or how about this possibility: Is it a chunk of languishing beauty that might flourish and please you again if it were cared for better? Those are excellent questions for you to pose in the coming days, Pisces. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to decide on the future of this quizzical presence.

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

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

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