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Bob Ingersoll has worked with hundreds of captive primates throughout his career and describes himself as a tireless champion for them. | Photos Bob Ingersoll / provided

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A local animal rights activist advocates for better treatment of primates and other wild animals. By Miguel Rios

Bob Ingersoll has rescued primates from bad conditions and looming executions to place them in sanctuaries, but his dream is for those very sanctuaries to go out of business. Sanctuaries provide lifetime care for primates raised in captivity because they lack basic wilderness survival skills. “You can’t just bring these animals back to the wild. It just wouldn’t work,” he said. “It’s very difficult to undo the damage we’ve already done. As best we can, we integrate them in with other chimps. We try to give them as many choices as we can and make those choices meaningful to them.” Ingersoll has worked with and helped rescue hundreds of primates since 1975 when he was a student at University of Oklahoma. He even appeared in Project Nim, a documentary that chronicles a research project based around determining whether a chimp could be raised as a human and learn sign language. “In the last 40 years, things philosophically have changed in terms of how we not only just treat primates — chimpanzees in particular — but all animals,” he said. Today, Ingersoll serves on advisory boards for various primate sanctuaries in and out of state including Center for Great Apes in Florida, which he calls “the gold standard for sanctuaries.” “We built almost a half a million dollar new night house and outside enclosure, which I’ve seen and I’ve seen them all in. It’s just incredible,” he said. “It’s a phenomenal facility. It’s not the wild, and unfortunately captivity is what it is. Once chimps are in captivity, they’re pretty much stuck, and that’s a shame. … We don’t breed. We don’t perpetuate the problem, so to speak. Ultimately, what we want to do is put ourselves out of business, but unfortunately, that’s not going to happen in my 4

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lifetime because chimps live for 50 or 60 years. These chimps deserve our support and our financial support is what keeps the center going.”

Animal rights

Center for Great Apes cares for about six Oklahoman chimpanzees that were rescued from Arbuckle Wilderness and Joe Exotic’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. “Two chimps, whose names are Bo and Joe … were just recently acquired from Arbuckle Wilderness, and their brother is also there,” Ingersoll said. “His name is Murray. He’s also from Oklahoma, and he was acquired through a convoluted path before he ended up at Center for Great Apes.”

It’s embarrassing that humans care so little about something so important. Bob Ingersoll Murray was born and lived at Arbuckle Wilderness and was predominantly used as an attraction for the park, Ingersoll said. One day, Murray bit a child, which caused officials to file an execution order for Murray to test him for rabies. But Ingersoll and other experts convinced them to avert the order. Instead, Murray was sold various times before he ended up as a couple’s pet. “They had Murray for a number of years, along with another female chimp, but they came to the realization that, ‘Wow, this is really wrong.’ That’s how Murray ended up at the Center for Great Apes,” Ingersoll said. “Murray is now thriving there and has been for at least 10 years, and he and I are pretty good friends. I can tell

you straight up that he’s one of the coolest chimps I’ve ever met. He’s a joy to be around.” But the biggest feather in Ingersoll’s cap, he said, was helping Dr. James Mahoney get more than a hundred chimps out of the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates. “We got 109 out. It took us two years to plan it and to make it happen. I didn’t do that much. I introduced him to the people he needed to be introduced to and the sanctuary directors,” Ingersoll said. “To me, that’s the crown jewel on my career because I was able to help a lab guy pretty much steal 109 chimps out of a lab.” After developing a reputation for helping primates and some monkeys, Ingersoll said he now gets approached often by people who have the animals as pets and want to place them in better conditions. “It’s a real problem because people see imagery of people dressing up monkeys or holding chimps and they assume that it’s cool, but it’s anything but cool,” he said. “Besides being extremely dangerous, they have needs that go far beyond a human infant. When you deprive them of their right to be what they are, then you impose yourself on their lives, and you have to take care of everything. I just don’t think people realize that or, for the most part, I think they wouldn’t do it.” Ingersoll calls himself an animal rights activist but said he doesn’t take an all-or-nothing approach with his activism, instead opting for compromise to help as many individual animals as possible. “There needs to be some sort of national legislation to ban the breeding of non-human primates in a non-sanctuary setting or a non-zoo setting, which I’m not for breeding at all, but you can make some compromises in order to get something good done,” he said. “We’ve got to slowly change. Our culture is changing. We’re slowly moving in a direction I think is positive, but I don’t think it’s wise for anybody to draw a line in the sand and say, ‘It’s either this way or the highway.’” At the same time, Ingersoll said people should be more cognizant and willing to speak out for animal rights, which interconnect with other environmental concerns. “You can’t save the forest without saving the animals, without helping the people that live underneath those trees,” he said. “Humans and animals ought to be considered at the same time. … The planet is not going to be able to sustain itself. I mean, several species of great apes — orangs and chimpanzees

and gorillas now — are on critically endangered list. That doesn’t bode well for us in the long run. It’s embarrassing that humans care so little about something so important. Those are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. We can’t even protect them, never mind the elephants and all the other animals.” World Wild Life’s 2018 Living Planet Report found that populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians have declined by 60 percent in just over 40 years. A 2019 study in the journal Biological Conservation found that more than 40 percent of insects species are also in decline. “To me, it’s criminal, but I pay close attention to these things,” Ingersoll said. “I’m affected by them deeply because I know animals personally. They’re my friends. Murray and Bo and Joe and all the chimps and orangs that live at the Center for Great Apes, I know them personally. I know their personalities. I also know their caregivers. Supporting those caregivers and the work they do is critical. This work is very important.” Ingersoll said his philosophy on animal rights has evolved, but his dedication to helping animals is stronger than ever. He credits much of his career to working with the chimps learning sign language at University of Oklahoma in the ’70s.

Murray now lives at Center for Great Apes with his brothers after being rescued from Arbuckle Wilderness. | Photo Center for Great Apes / provided

“I want to honor their legacy and their memory by doing everything I can to help their brothers and sisters,” he said. “It makes no sense not to speak up. This is no personal attack on anyone; it’s an attack on all of us. We’re all responsible, every one of us.” Ingersoll said there are also various local sanctuaries people can support, including Oliver and Friends Farm Sanctuary in Luther and Oklahoma Primate Sanctuary in Oklahoma City. He said if people can’t support the facilities financially, they can still share their social media posts or spread the word. Visit centerforgreatapes.org.

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Tasneem Al-Michael said Dream Action Oklahoma laid the foundation for the person he is today. | Photo United We Dream / provided

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As DACA heads to the Supreme Court, a local immigration nonprofit doubles down on its decade of work helping Oklahomans. By Miguel Rios

The future of thousands of Oklahomans is at stake. Nov. 12, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which gives roughly 700,000 immigrants work permits, social security numbers and relief from the threat of deportation. Plaintiffs are suing president Donald Trump’s administration over its decision to rescind DACA. In 2017, the administration tried to end DACA altogether, but federal judges ordered that renewal applications continue to be processed. However, this leaves out thousands of immigrants since new applications are not granted. Along with 50 other organizations, United We Dream, a national nonprofit and network of immigrant youth, filed an amicus brief with stories of DACA recipients. “Their stories of resilience, generosity and accomplishment epitomize the American dream,” the brief reads. “Yet, the government’s effort to rescind DACA, which has given hope to so many, would put these young people in grave danger of deportation and threatens to cause massive disruption to their lives, tearing apart families and uprooting productive members of society from the networks that rely on them. If allowed to stand, the cancellation of DACA will have devastating ripple effects that extend well beyond the DACA recipients into every 6

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community in the United States.” United We Dream also launched five of those stories as short video documentaries, marking the first time a video amicus brief has been filed in history. Two of the five videos feature Oklahoma Dreamers Angelica Villalobos and Tasneem Al-Michael.

It was important to be able to share my story with the Supreme Court. Angelica Villalobos “I’ve been part of United We Dream for about eight years, and this is not the first time that I’m part of an amicus brief or that I’m a plaintiff on a case against the administration or the state,” Villalobos said. “It’s very important because in my case, I faced rejection from people thinking that Dreamers are only high school kids or freshmen in college. In my case, I have already gone to college. I have a family. … Some people don’t think about that kind of a Dreamer, so it was important to be able to share my story with the Supreme Court.” Villalobos, a local business owner and Department of Justice accredited Angelica Villalobos said sharing her story with Supreme Court of the United States was important to humanize DACA recipients. | Photo United We Dream / provided

immigration representative originally born in Mexico, said she participated in the video because she felt it was crucial to share her story. However, as a mother of five, she still worries about what the response might be and how it could affect her family members who appear in the video. “You have to think about the consequences when you go public like that, especially with your family because we’re dealing with children,” she said. “Regardless of what’s going on out there, I want to make sure my kids still manage to have a normal life, if you can call it a normal life. I don’t want them to worry about the rhetoric of Mexicans being criminals but still making them aware of what’s going on.” In the video, Villalobos said she was a person before DACA and will still be a person no matter what happens. “I don’t think that our documents define who we are,” she says in the video. “The dream would be to have an automobile plaza with a mechanic shop in it, a detail shop, tires and wheels. Knowing that DACA will still be there, it gives me

the ability to have those dreams.” Al-Michael, a College Democrats of Oklahoma president from Bangladesh, said watching the finished product felt surreal because of how well-produced it was. The video follows Al-Michael having dinner with his mother, going to school, praying, studying and going to the fair with friends. “The intention behind filming me was to show many of us live a very American experience,” he said. “Each of the things I was doing throughout the day [in the video] could be things that you were doing as well. … We’re so similar, and the idea that we would hate somebody just because of a status or something like that is so dumb. I think that’s what this video is trying to say, that these folks are just as American as everybody else and that they’re human above anything.” In the video, Al-Michael mentions that young people leave Oklahoma at high rates because of a lack of opportunities. But he said that when somebody sees a lack of something, they can build it here. “I still want to live here more than anything. With my DACA, I’m going to graduate college, I’m going to apply to law school. I’m going to do the best to take care of my parents because they left everything that they had to give me everything that I have now,” he said at the end of the video. Looking ahead to the SCOTUS hearing, Al-Michael is experiencing a mixed bag of emotions, but Villalobos doesn’t know what to expect. “I don’t want to lose hope,” she said. “I still want to believe in the democracy, and I still want to believe that there are people out there looking out for the rest of us. But given the political environment we’re in right now and what has led to the program to be going to the Supreme Court, it makes me realize that this is huge. There’s a lot at stake.” DACA recipients’ stories help underscore the arguments in favor of the program, which center around the role it played in improving the lives of “promising young individuals, their families, local communities and the nation.” One of the biggest fears about the upcoming hearing is the possibility of losing DACA

and people’s information going to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “By any measure, DACA has been an unqualified success. The lives of both DACA recipients and American citizens are inextricably interwoven. DACA’s beneficiaries have come from all over the world and live across every State in the nation. They have brought with them their exceptional talents, drive, entrepreneurial spirit, and commitment to their local communities and the country. They call the United States

their home — and, for the countless DACA recipients who arrived as babies or young children, it is the only country they know,” reads the amicus brief.

Oklahoma action

One of the biggest proponents of DACA in the state is Dream Action Oklahoma (DAOK), a local nonprofit that provides resources and informational events to local immigrants. The organization celebrated a decade of work through a fundraising gala last week. Founders gave a keynote speech on the history of the organization, which was created at Tulsa Community College and moved to Oklahoma City in 2011. Since then, DAOK has assisted nearly 700 people with DACA applications and granted about $70,000 in scholarships for filing fees. “Our work as Dream Action Oklahoma and directly affected individuals is to uplift stories that humanize our community and communities of color,” said Serena Prammanasudh, DAOK executive director, at the organization’s gala. Prammanasudh discussed some of the things DAOK does for the community like DACA workshops, panels and scholarships. Two of the organization’s biggest events this year were a rally at

Fort Sill when the base was expected to become an immigrant detention facility and We Are Familia, a drag show hosted in collaboration with other local groups to raise money for families affected by deportation orders. “We have to hold each other accountable to our community,” said Judith Huerta Morfin, DAOK board president, at the gala. “This isn’t just about us. This work can only continue because of the community. Our goal is to raise enough money to obtain a physical office. … It’s

Dream Action Oklahoma recently celebrated 10 years of local immigration advocacy work. | Photo Stephanie Montelongo / provided

been 10 years; we’re ready to have an office space, and our goal this year is to raise $20,000.” Several elected officials attended the gala, including county commissioner Carrie Blumert; councilwomen JoBeth Hamon, Nikki Nice and Amanda Sandoval (Bethany); and State Rep. Forrest Bennett. “People like to think that immigration is only a federal issue. It’s not. It’s local. It’s those mothers, fathers, sons, daughters who are living right next to you,” Al-Michael said. “Even locallevel policies can help these communities who are disadvantaged.” Al-Michael said Dream Action Oklahoma changed his life. After speaking out on University of Oklahoma’s campus in 2017 about his immigration status, a member of the organization reached out to him to be in a short documentary about DACA. After that, Al-Michael got involved with the organization through various roles. “That organization was and still is continued on page 8

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like family to me. It really laid down the foundation of who I am. It taught me how to be an effective organizer, how to tell my story and how to have an impact in the real world using our story,” he said. “It made me who I am. … For the first time in my life, being somebody undocumented, when I did my work with Dream Action Oklahoma, I felt proud of being undocumented. It helps show that we have the right to be proud of working with strife.” Villalobos has volunteered with DAOK since 2012 and said the celebration was emotional for her. “We’ve come a long way. There’s a lot of things within the organization that happen in the background that people don’t see, especially the fact that we’re all volunteers,” she said. “Part of any travels, we have to pay out of my pocket and sacrifice time with the family. It’s been 10 years and it’s always been all volunteer. It’s a great accomplishment.”

‘Be an accomplice’

While the Supreme Court could take months deciding the fate of DACA, Villalobos and Al-Michael said there’s always ways to advocate for immigrant communities: donate to pro-immigration organizations, volunteer with those

organizations and elect pro-immigration officials at all levels of government. “I’m quoting [Black Lives Matter] activist T. Sheri Dickerson, ‘Be more than just an ally; be an accomplice.’ Put your bodies on the line whenever it comes to defending community members. It isn’t just about an immigrant; it is about a member of your community being threatened and taken away. … No longer is only voting the way that we can get things done. We have to make sure that we can contribute more resources. If you can’t contribute resources, contribute

your time. If you can’t contribute your time, contribute your ideology,” AlMichael said. “People think the idea of a sanctuary city is far off. It’s really not. Or the idea of getting ICE out of [Oklahoma County] jail. We have a county commissioner who doesn’t believe in having ICE in jail. … I’m so jealous that Tulsa actually has an immigrations affair office and they help get people their citizenship. What is Oklahoma City doing? We can be better.” Villalobos said even just getting to know people’s stories goes a long way.

Since 2017, DAOK has granted 141 filing scholarships amounting to nearly $70,000. | Photo Stephanie Montelongo / provided

“We’re part of the community,” she said. “As an ally, you don’t want to get your facts just from the TV or just from social media. You want to meet the real human behind the stories. I want allies to know I welcome them to be part of our events, not just the social events, any events that are going on, especially with Dream Action Oklahoma.” Visit daok.org.

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The historically heated rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma football teams began fuming early at this year’s Red River Showdown, requiring officials to intervene and call unsportstmanlike conduct penalties on both sides a half hour before kickoff. Associated Press (AP) reporter Schuyler Dixon wrote that a few players “got too close and started jawing at each other” while practicing punts before the Oct. 12 game, held in Dallas’ Cotton Bowl Stadium, even began. A noisy pressure-release valve pitting the University of Oklahoma and University of Texas football teams against each other, the mostly annual Red River Showdown (née Shootout), began in 1900, probably in an attempt to keep Oklahomans and Texans from having an actual shootout over who has bigger belt buckles or whatever. AP decided not to repeat whatever trash talk might have led to this year’s scuffle, probably in an effort to keep it classy, but Chicken-Fried News, having no such restrictions, would like to take a few guesses. “Oklahoma has the world’s highest incarceration rate, while Texas only has the seventh highest!” “Texas spends $9,015.87 per pupil on education, but Oklahoma only spends $8,097.02 per pupil. We’ll be sure and say, ‘Hi,’ to all your teachers who moved here to get a slight pay raise!”

“Oh yeah? Well, in terms of women’s economic and social well-being, Oklahoma recently ranked slightly higher (43) than Texas (44)!” “If you’re citing the study WalletHub released in March, Texas ranked 38th in women’s health and safety, while Oklahoma was 50th!” “At least Oklahoma has legal weed!” Oklahoma went on to beat Texas 34-27, officially making Oklahoma the better state to live in — at least until next year’s game.

Party crashers

The GOP controls every statewide elected position and body of government with level of domination that the state hasn’t seen since conservatives still voted Democrat (before civil rights got in the way) and Oklahoma was part of the Solid South. Despite the success at the voting booth, the Oklahoma Republican Party is about $25,000 in debt, according to Tulsa World, and the party’s leadership is split on its undying support of our Dear Leader president who is facing an impeachment inquiry. Party Vice Chairman Mike Turner is accusing President David McLain of using party funds to take trips to Washington, D.C. and the Republican National Committee in North Carolina. “Our job is to fund raise [sic], take punches so the elected official don’t have to, and strike back at the Democrats,” Turner wrote in an email. “Our state party instead chose to pay for on-the-job training, and brought in individuals with marked histories of being antiTrump, and also fanatically hostile to elected Republican leaders.” According to Tulsa World, Turner’s intimation of “hostile” leadership appears to be referencing McLain’s connection to political consultant Holly Gerard, who worked for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign. If working for a candidate that ultimately endorsed and fundraised for Trump during the 2016 election — even though Trump called Cruz’s wife ugly and said that his father assassinated JFK — counts as being “fanatically hostile,” than that pretty much sums up the state of the Republican Party in Oklahoma. McLain didn’t comment for the story, turning over those duties to the party’s lawyer, A.J. Ferate, who said that the party is hamstrung with its ability to fundraise in large part due to those pesky state ethic rules that ban corporate contributions to fund party operations, even though those can be funneled through a political action committee.

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amount of white powder substance that I believed to be cocaine based on my training and experience," said the arresting officer who could benefit from additional training. "The white powder inside the baggy later tested positive for cocaine and was a total package weight of 45.91 grams of cocaine.” In 2016, The New York Times and ProPublica found that “tens of thousands of people nationwide were being jailed each year based on the results of finicky roadside drug tests that frequently proceeded false positives.” Things like doughnut glaze, drywall dust and now powdered milk have been misidentified as drugs, yet police departments continue to rely on them. Hell, bird poop tested positive for cocaine in South Carolina just last month, so be sure to clean those windshields.

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In advance of the new season of Thunder basketball, Cheseapeake Energy Arena debuts new concession options. By Jacob Threadgill

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The Thunder roster isn’t the only thing that got a makeover during the off-season. Chesapeake Energy Arena debuted most of its new concession and restaurant options available at the arena for all events that debut at the Thunder’s first regular season game Friday against the Washington Wizards. Andrew Murin is the executive chef for SMG/Savor Catering that handles food for Chesapeake Energy Arena along with Levy Catering that coordinates items in the suite and club levels of the arena. “We’ve got a new team, and we’ve done a lot of new items to keep people coming down here,” Murin said. The most ambitious change for the food menu resides in the Taco Camion concession stand that is located in sections 107 on the lower level and section 330 in the upper level. The Taco Camion stall has been retrofitted to look like a mock taco truck, and the quality of the tacos it is serving is on the upper tier of taco trucks in the city. During a media event, I got to try a lot of the new offerings, and the al pastor taco from Camion is in contention for below Chicken roulade from Budweiser Brewhouse is stuffed with sundried tomato pesto. right Country-fried Rumble Theta burger from Budweiser Brewhouse | Photos Jacob Threadgill

favorite new item. The al pastor is cooked on a spit, and hunks of the spicy pork are sliced to-order. The taco is topped with a choice of raw onion, cilantro and a pair of fresh salsas. I tried a portion that had been cut and sitting in a warm skillet for a few minutes and was still very pleased with the overall execution, and I think a fresh version would be even better. Savor m a n ages Budweiser Brewhouse, which is a full-service restaurant located on the arena’s first floor, and has received recognition by the Made in Oklahoma program for the restaurant’s commitment to sourcing local ingredients. My favorite new item at Budweiser is a chicken roulade that is stuffed with sun-dried tomato pesto and served over mashed potatoes with sautéed local rainbow chard and drizzled with a pesto cream sauce. Murin said the chicken is raised at Oklahoma State University and processed in Perkins by Ralph’s Packing Co. The chicken is succulent and has a great burst of flavor and acidity from the pesto. “That chicken is phenomenal,” Murin said, and I have to agree. The Brewhouse is also offering a kale salad made with local kale, pecans, pickled onions, strawberries, roasted beets, apple and Lovera’s cranberry goat cheese and finished with a strawberrybasil vinaigrette. The Okie Crab Cake is a twist on the traditional that adds local catfish with the crab mixture and is served with lemongrass dijionaise. The crab cake was fresh, and there were nice chunks of crab; I didn’t even realize

Asada and al pastor tacos from the new Taco Camion concession stand | Photo Jacob Threadgill

there was catfish in the dish until reading the description, but it was a very good execution. The country-fried Rumble Theta burger combines a pair of Oklahoma traditions: the country fry and Theta sauce. Sourced using Akaushi beef, which is a pure Japanese breed that made its way to the States thanks to Texas ranchers in the ’90s, the patty is battered and deep-fried. It’s topped with the usual lettuce, tomato, red onion, housemade pickles and a light red Theta sauce that is a little more sweet than its smoky inspiration. “I lived [in Oklahoma City] since 1997 and everything has always been ‘country fry, country fry, country fry,’ and people still like it,” Murin said of his inspiration for the burger. “I figured that frying it speaks to Oklahoma more. It’s a healthy burger (Akaushi contains monounsatured fats), but I had to deepfry it, so it all evens out.” Full Court Press in section 102 features a Philly cheesesteak that, in accordance with real Philadelphia tradition, smothers the beef, peppers and onions with Cheese Whiz and is served on La Baguette bread baked at Super Cao Nguyen. I’m not a fan of Cheese Whiz, but I have to commend them for authenticity. Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Club has

tempura-battered vegetables that are a nice vegetarian option, but I was less enamored with the cheeseburger egg rolls that feature cheesy dijioniase and Sriracha ketchup. The concourse level features a new dessert option in section 109, Top-AWaffle, which comes from the owners of the Mighty Corn Dog food truck. The Rubbles waffle is a Belgian-style waffle topped with white chocolate, Fruity Pebbles and marshmallow drizzle. The Lemon Drop is white chocolate, Golden Grahams and lemon pie filling. The cookie remix is white chocolate, Oreo chunks and marshmallow drizzle. I tried the Lemon Drop, and it’s a fun dessert item that is portable, but the lemon was quite overpowering. I couldn’t really discern the other flavors. I’d go with Cookie Remix next time. My overall favorite new item is the sweet tea fried chicken from Saucy Chicken in the 223 section of the clublevel concourse. Levy Catering executive chef Dan Wade said he has worked on the recipe in different iterations over the years and found the right mixture. The fried boneless chicken thigh is the perfect balance of savory, crunchy, juicy and a little sweet. “It’s a 12-hour brine with sweet tea and milk,” Wade said. “It’s a little bit different than usual and holds that juice in really well and doesn’t dry out.” From Baseline, located in section 216, comes loaded enchilada fries, which were another favorite. Chicken is simmered in a green, tomatillo-based sauce for 7-8 hours before it’s topped on fries with enchilada sauce, shredded cheese and green onion. I usually do a chicken tinga at home with both chipotles and tomatillos, but this preparation made me want to experiment with a green version. Baseline is also offering a threepound nacho grande that is meant to serve 4-6 people, which is actually a steal when you consider its $24 price split among a group is cheaper than a lot of items in the arena. I’m always impressed with the quality of food turned out in Cheseapeake Energy Arena, and it’s nice to have some new options in advance of a basketball season that has so much intrigue. O KG A Z E T T E . C O M | O C TO B E R 2 3 , 2 0 1 9

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Fresh nostalgia Right-A-Way Burger Joint returns with an emphasis on family-friendly fresh food in a nostalgic setting. By Jacob Threadgill

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Equipment failure forced popular Right-A-Way Burgers to close its original location on the border of Guthrie and Edmond almost two years ago, but chef Jimmy Johnson is back with a new location serving inventive burgers in a nostalgia-laced restaurant. Right-A-Way Burger Joint is located at 1333 N. Santa Fe Ave., Suite 118, in Edmond. Johnson is relying on his background in corporate and high-end dining to bring exciting flavors to the most bluecollar meal, the good-ol’ American burger. Native Edmondite Johnson’s career

as “magic dust.” “People are always tasting and trying to figure out what’s in it,” he said. “I was raised around chefs, and we were trained to entice tastebuds.” The Zen Burger is crafted to release flavors and create an experience that is like eating a spring roll on a burger. A layer of Sriracha is on the bottom bun while the burger is topped with a Thai slaw made with shaved Brussels sprouts, daikon, carrots and sweet a chili sauce. Crunchy peanut butter slathered on the top bun adds richness and texture to the burger.

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has taken him to work at the governor’s mansion, overseeing catering for arenas and at Guthrie’s Dominion House, but he is most comfortable taking fine dining flavors to a wider audience. “I was raised in Oklahoma, and I want to bring the experience from higher end eating and bring it to a modern level where everyone is able to enjoy what I’ve experienced and added to my tool belt,” Johnson said. Right-A-Way is the only restaurant in the state serving Iowa Premium ground beef. Johnson said the product is normally used for steakhouses, and it is the basis for one of the base entrée options. Beef, pork and one-pound baked potatoes can be topped with 11 popular combinations or built to the customer’s liking at 75 cents per topping. The eponymous Right-A-Way burger has honey bacon, cheddar, fried onions, coleslaw and a house sauce with blonde barbecue sauce that’s made with house seasoning in a barbecue sauce mixed with mayonnaise, mustard and brown sugar. Tables have a shaker of the house seasoning Johnson lovingly refers to

“I’m all about texture; I don’t want anything soggy,” Johnson said. The Zen Burger is the product of a customer creation that made its way to the permanent menu after receiving the most votes during online polling. Johnson said they will continue the tradition of having customers vote to add burgers and toppings to the menu. The new Right-A-Way Burger Joint debuts with a new full-time burger option, the Flamango, which has grilled mango, jalapeño, honey bacon, red onion, sweet chili slaw and cilantro. Mango will be added to the list of available toppings for its build-your-own burger that includes nontraditional items like roasted red peppers, grilled green chili, fresh avocado, smoked provolone and many more. There is no vegetarian patty available at open, but Right-A-Way does offer what Johnson terms a “veggie stacker” that includes a double portion of vegetable toppings cooked in a separate sauté pan to prevent cross-contamination with meat. “We’re more than a burger joint and a place to bring friends where you’re excitedly becoming an advocate,” he said. “People are planning their next

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burger while they’re still full. That’s the ultimate compliment.” Sides include home fries, traditional fries, curly fries, onion rings, baked beans with crumbled bacon and burger meat and either regular or green chili mac and cheese. Dessert options include a variety of cinnamon rolls that range from traditional to s’mores and cherry cheesecake.

New Beginning

The original Right-A-Way was located at the intersection of E. Waterloo Road and N. Coltrane Road, at the border between Edmond and Logan County leading into Guthrie. Johnson said the restaurant was popular and did well for four years until November 2017, when the hood motor in the vent went out and sent the fan blade spinning, cutting through the air duct and destroying the grill top below. It forced the restaurant to close during its four busiest days. “After the repairs and everything, I didn’t have enough to open the doors again,” Johnson said. After nearly two full years, Right-AWay reopened thanks to Johnson’s business partner Trevor Chapman, who combined with fellow partner Nathan Howard to turn the former Papa Dino’s location into a family-friendly restaurant chock-full of memorabilia and nostalgia. Johnson said Chapman was instrumental in securing memorabilia like signed Indiana Jones, Wonder Woman, Tombstone and Young Frankenstein images and a Daniel Radcliffe-signed copy of the screenplay for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Howard helped build out the space, installing phone-charging stations across bar

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seating and a table-top arcade system featuring 60 vintage games like Pac-Man and Galaga. “If the games are popular, we’re going to add two more,” Johnson said. “I’m not trying to kick people out the door like most places.” Johnson wants friends and families feel like it’s a place they can spend some time, which is why he decided not to serve alcohol. “I’d rather have a family come in here and enjoy it,” Johnson said. “We’re not a sports bar. We’ll have sports on, but if there’s not a game, we’ll mostly be showing Food Network and Me TV with shows like Bonanza.” The original location had an oil and gas theme, but Johnson is laying on the nostalgia and family atmosphere to create a space people want to spend time, almost like a museum of memorabilia. He’s turning it into a family restaurant, as his wife Keisha will be at the restaurant along with his two older sons who will work with a trained staff. “Coming back to it after we closed comes with apprehension, but you have to ignore the nerves,” Johnson said. “The idea of failure makes you watch your p’s and q’s; I know what I did wrong last time, and I know what I need to do right this time. I sat down with my wife and sons and asked if it’s something they wanted to do too. … It’s not part of a big corporation, and I can leave them something that my kids can watch grow.” Visit right-a-wayburgerjoint.com.

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Right-A-Way chef and founder Jimmy Johnson | Photo Alexa Ace

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Pumpkin spiced

Pumpkin spice is traditionally a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, clover and allspice, depending on the recipe. Of course, every establishment has its own take on the mixture. These seven establishments allow you to enjoy all things pumpkin spice. By Jacob Threadgill with provided photos

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You don’t have to worry about the joy of adding pumpkin spice to your drink at Stella Nova also giving you the guilt of adding sugar. The pumpkin spice syrup is one of its eight sugar-free varieties, and you can enjoy it in an array of preparations. Get it steamed as a latte (oat milk makes the best dairy-free latte), cool as a pumpkin spice frappe or as a traditional pumpkin steamer.

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The Baked Bear

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This national chain has swept into Oklahoma with locations in Norman and Yukon. Customers get to build their own ice cream sandwiches made with cookies, brownies or a combination of the two with their choice of ice cream and toppings. October’s cookie flavor of the month is pumpkin spice that pairs with the seasonal butter brittle ice cream special of the month.

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331 White St., Norman crimsonbakery.com | 405-307-8990

If you can think of a baked good that can get the pumpkin spice treatment, Crimson and Whipped Cream owner Ashleigh Barnett can make it happen. It’s Barnett’s favorite season, and she puts an emphasis on fall treats. Crimson offers everything including pumpkin snickerdoodles, pumpkin bread and pumpkin whoopie pie. Be on the lookout for other treats like applesauce cake, apple cider doughnuts and a pumpkin latte blondie.

Johnnie’s Sweet Creations 8603 S. Western Ave. johnniesbakery.com | 405-616-3255

This longtime southside bakery is a go-to for all of your elaborate cake needs, but it also produces a daily amount of baked goods at its storefront. With the turning of the season, it’s the best to get holiday-designed cookies and cupcakes, such as pumpkin-flavored bars, muffins and brownies.

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With two locations, one also in Yukon, Buttersweet is the go-to for fall-themed cupcakes. In Yukon, it offers the sweet and savory option of pumpkin maple bacon with a pumpkin maple cake base, maple brown sugar frosting and a strip of bacon. In Edmond, it offers pumpkin snickerdoodle-flavored cupcakes that include a piece of cookie as garnish.

This 24-hour, 7-day-per-week national franchise has swept into Oklahoma with a lot of fanfare for its inventive toppings for yeast and cake donuts. You can stop in this month and get a bevy of pumpkin options, including pumpkin streusel, caramel pumpkin s’mores and pumpkin cheesecake. It also offers a spookythemed DIY doughnut to-go kit perfect for parties and creating your own holiday treats.

Green Goodies celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year, and part of the reason the bakery has staying power is that it offers gluten-free and vegan options for its sweet treats. Through November, Green Goodies offers pumpkin spice cupcakes that can be ordered traditional, gluten-free or vegan. It also has an excellent pumpkin spiced coffee drink of your choice.

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Invisible guests

Locally produced podcast Tales Unveiled uses a fictional frame to share supernatural stories from real Oklahomans. By Jeremy Martin

Dennis Spielman and Jeff Provine play fictional ghost hunters on their podcast Tales Unveiled, but the people who share their ghost stories are (mostly) real. Now in its second season, the podcast follows reporter Sam Saxton (voiced by Uncovering Oklahoma producer Spielman) and professor Geoff DeRoot (Haunted Oklahoma City author Provine) as they interview Oklahomans about local urban legends and personal encounters with the supernatural. Some of the more outlandish characters are also actors, but the interviews feature real people. While season one, recorded in 2018, explored legendary local haunts such as Overholser Mansion, the Skirvin Hotel and Tower Theatre, season two broadens its scope to include statewide supernatural hotspots such as Medicine Park, El Reno and the Parallel Forest in the Wichita Mountains. “All the places we’ve visited had some sort of little creepiness to them in their own special way,” Spielman said. “It seems like the more we dig, the more we’ve found. We’ve also found stories that weren’t published. For example, in our second season we were doing Route 66, and we were just kind of traveling along the road and visiting businesses and asking them, ‘Hey, do you have any ghost stories?’ We found some places that happen to have ghost stories that weren’t really shared or widely known outside Dennis Spielman and Jeff Provine interview Oklahomans about their supernatural encounters for their podcast Tales Unveiled. | Photo Greg Elwell / provided

the community that we were pretty much the first to report on.” Though Provine and Spielman both remain skeptical about the supernatural, they try to keep an open mind during interviews.

Once you start digging, everywhere has got stories. Jeff Provine “There’s so many different people with so many different experiences that definitely something is going on,” Provine said. “I have no counterevidence, so I just listen and see it from their perspective.” They’ve discovered that many Oklahomans, when asked, have a supernatural tale to unveil. “Once you start digging, everywhere has got stories,” Provine said. “You can even look at my family members. I come from a pretty quiet family when it comes to spooky stuff like that, and then one day I was chatting with my mom on the phone, telling her I was working on the Haunted Norman book, and she said, ‘Your greatgreat-grandmother used to come back after she passed away.’ … I got this whole family story about how as an old farm wife, she’d come back and check on people and make sure they were OK. It’d be weird if you just brought that up at a party or something, but once people start telling ghost stories, everybody’s got something to share. It’s been great to get

these stories recorded since so many of them are just oral history. There’s not much chance that they would last more than a couple of generations.” Though they often conduct interviews in purportedly haunted spaces, Spielman said that he and Provine usually go during the day, so they haven’t collected many spooky stories of their own in recording the podcast. However, Guthrie’s Stone Lion Inn, featured in episode eight of season one, is an exception. “I wanted the sound of the door opening because it’s an older door that makes this creepy sound,” Spielman said, “so I have my hands on the equipment. Jeff’s opening the door for me, and we go inside. A moment later, there’s a knock on the door, and [a woman] was outside, and apparently the deadbolt had been turned and she got locked out. I had my hands full, and Jeff was opening the door for me. There’s no way he could have accidentally turned that deadbolt and

Manvel Avenue Coffee Co. in Chandler is featured in the fourth episode of season two.| Photo Dennis Spielman / provided

locked her out. That was probably one of the creepiest things.” Spielman attributes another incident at the inn to an electrical wiring issue. “We were trying to talk to the ghosts, and it wasn’t happening,” Spielman said. “I was sort of provoking it like, ‘Oh nothing’s going to happen. Nothing’s going to happen,’ and eventually, they agreed and decided to turn on the lights, and the moment they turned on the lights, one of the light bulbs popped and kind of burnt out.” Other guests at the inn report closer encounters with the supernatural, Provine said. “Several people have claimed they’ll be spending the night there, and they’ll wake up in the middle of the night and they’ll see this little girl standing over them, petting their hair,” Provine said. If that type of tale keeps you up at night, Spielman said you can rest assured most of the spirits they hear about seem relatively harmless. “One of the more common things is how friendly some of the ghosts are,” Spielman said. “Few people on our podcast have very malicious ghost stories. I think we’ve had one or two people who’ve told us some malicious ghost stories, but for the most part, a lot of the ghost stories are rather playful. They’re not nearly as scary. A lot of them are more playful or annoying in a way, like turning on radios, pushing things down, locking doors, stealing coins … more like, ‘Just stop it. You’re driving me nuts.’” Visit talesunveiled.com

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Haunted haunts

Halloween provides an increase of historic and spooky haunted tours around Oklahoma City metro area. By Jacob Threadgill

From Edmond down to Norman, the metro area is full of opportunities to simultaneously get into the spooky holiday spirit and learn some history during various ghost tours. Author Jeff Provine has been helping lead ghost tours around Norman for a decade, but as his historical expertise has expanded after writing four books for Haunted America (two for Norman, and one each for Oklahoma City and Guthrie), Provine’s tour expanded into Oklahoma City in 2016 and later Guthrie. With a mixture of historical facts and paranormal research from investigator of co-author Tonya McCoy, Provine leads tours in Oklahoma City and Norman monthly between March and November but adds extra tours around Halloween. Provine has Oklahoma City tours for 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, and Nov. 1. Tickets are $12 and begin outside the west entrance of the Kingman Building, 142 S. Oklahoma Ave. Provine said that the Kingman Building is an interesting place to start because of a botched robbery of the Kingman Agricultural Implement Company in the 1910s. “Apparently the specter is still attempting it and is a repeating phantom that walks into the kitchen and then disappears,” Provine said. The Oklahoma City tour goes north into Bricktown to discuss haunted sites such as the current locations of Bricktown Brewery and TapWerks Ale House, goes in depth about the mystery surrounding the first death in Oklahoma City in 1889, over to Myriad Botanical Gardens, which was the site of the city’s original Chinese district that was home to underground tunnels before finishing outside of the famously allegedly haunted Skirvin Hotel. Provine said the tour lasts approximately and hour and 18

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Haunt the Harn includes hayrides around the grounds. | Photo provided

a half. “My favorite part is the overall reaction of, ‘Wow, I had no idea,’” Provine said. “It’s kind of been the goal of the tour all along is to tell the tales we didn’t get to hear all along.” Provine will lead tours in downtown Norman Tuesday at 8 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Nov. 2 that will begin outside the old Santa Fe Depot at 200 S. Jones Ave. with the stories of buried treasure on the site that date to pre-statehood. The Norman tour goes down Main Street to discuss the Sooner Theatre, barber shop and the old post office to talk about its secret passage, and the tour includes ancedotes on Murray Humphreys, who was one of gangster Al Capone’s top lieutenants. “On our last tour, someone said that they knew [Humphreys] and said that he as a friendly guy, so as long as you didn’t cross him or have something he wanted, you were good to go,” Provine said. Provine said he’d like to write more books on Oklahoma City because the first only scratches the surface of haunted cases, but that Norman is uniquely positioned to be home for spooky stories. “There is something about a university campus because there are so many people moving through, and they like it and decide to come back and stick around,” he said. Visit jeffprovine.com.

Edmond Historic Ghost Tours

6 p.m. Friday and Saturday $7 405-715-1889 Tour guides will be dressed in late 19th-

and early 20th-century period-specific costumes to bring historical figures back to life. The tour begins at the corner of Hurd Street and Broadway Avenue and also includes horse-drawn wagon rides, and a s’mores fire pit. The tour lasts about 45 minutes and leaves every 15 minutes between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

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Haunt the Harn

Thursday 6:30-8:30 p.m. Harn Homestead Museum 1721 N. Lincoln Blvd. harnhomestead.com | 405-235-4058 $7-10 Harn Homestead Museum executive director Melissa Gregg said that the event started to provide a safe trick-ortreating option for neighborhoods around the museum but now attracts people from all over Oklahoma. The event provides trick-or-treat stations at the museum’s historic buildings as well as a petting zoo, hayrides, cupcake walk and other events.

Scary Tales at the Overholser Mansion

405 NW 15th St. overholsermansion.org | 405-525-5325 Tickets for the annual Scary Tales at the Overholser Mansion are sold out for Thursday through Saturday, but there’s always next year. The event offers a rare after dark look inside the historic mansion that is home to a lot of history.

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Ghoulish gatherings

Whether it’s with scary stories, costume parties, trick-or-treating or all of the above, Oklahoma’s going all out to celebrate Halloween. By Miguel Rios

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Ready your hounds of hell for All Paws Rescue’s annual Muttster Mash. The dogfriendly event assures Halloween fun for pups and people and has been such a success, it outgrew its previous venue. Now in its third year and at Fassler Hall for the first time ever, organizers promise the Mash (the Muttster Mash) will be bigger and better than ever. So dress up your pups in the cutest or scariest costume you can find and let them in on the Halloween fun with trick-or-treating and a costume contest.

Haunt the Zoo

7-11 p.m. Friday (All Grown Up | 21+ only) 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden 2000 Remington Place okczoo.org 405-424-3344 | $22-$33 Forget family-friendly, leave the children at home and dress up Friday to enjoy the “All Grown Up” version of Haunt the Zoo. Labeling itself as “OKC’s biggest and best 21+ only Halloween event,” Haunt the Zoo offers two haunted experiences (childhood nightmares and a haunted forest), specialty cocktails and beers, outdoor grills, food trucks, games and prizes. Sea lions will even give a special, spooky presentation and international DJs Brothers Griiin performs. But adults don’t get to have all the fun, though, as the zoo’s premier Halloween event is back to familyfriendly business Saturday and Sunday. Parents can buy the little ones

trick-or-treat bags for the zoo’s candy trail or purchase the Boo-It-All wristband passes ($22-$33), which include admission, trick or treat bags, rides and attractions.

Hotel Habana Halloween Festival 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday-Saturday Hotel Habana parking lot 2200 NW 40th St. hotelhabanaokc.com 405-528-2221 | Free

Get your scary on at a brand-new event in Oklahoma City’s own gayborhood. Promising an outdoor Halloween festival like the city has never seen before, Hotel Habana hosts a two-day celebration with food trucks, vendors, giveaways, a local DJ, dancers and midnight costume contests with $1,000 prizes all in the hotel’s parking lot. The event will also give patrons a chance to learn about Habana’s new management and future plans for its restaurant and clubs.

Boo ’n Brew and Boo Bash 1-5 p.m. Saturday Classen Curve, near Cafe 501 5825 NW Grand Blvd. classencurve.com 405-902-2505 | Free

Join Oklahoma’s very own SuperFreak as it plays live music for Classen Curve’s premier fall event, Boo ’n Brew. The events features lawn games and college football on a big screen in a large, covered patio as well as a fall makers market in the adjacent parking lot. Food and drinks are available for purchase from Cafe 501. While parents are enjoying the brews, children can have fun at Boo Bash, which encourages the little ones Calle Dos Cinco in Historic Capital Hill hosts Haunt the Hill to provide a safe environment for families to trick or treat. | Photo provided

Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden invites children and adults to Haunt the Zoo. | Photo provided

to wear their costumes and enjoy a petting zoo, pumpkin painting, inflatables and other fun events.

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4 p.m.-midnight Saturday Various downtown bars crawlwith.us/oklahomacity $20-30 This tour of downtown OKC bars is definitely not family-friendly. Tickets get you two free drinks, entry into a “crazy after party,” drink/food specials at select locations and professional photography, not to mention there’s a costume party with a $1,000 prize. Bars include Coyote Ugly Saloon, Anchor Down, Pretty Please Social Room and Michael Murphy’s Dueling Piano Bar for the after party. Check-in starts at 4 p.m., so pace yourselves.

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7 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday Vanessa House Beer Company 118 NW Eighth St. vanessahousebeerco.com 405-724-7955 | Free Put on your best Demogorgon costume and step into the upside down at Vanessa House Beer Company’s Stranger Things-themed Halloween celebration. We can’t confirm Eggo waffles will be readily available, but the party will be complete with pineapple upside down cake IPA, Will Byer’s living room, beer ice cream floats, a costume party and live music by Foxburrows and Audio Book Club.

Monsters & Margaritas 8 p.m.-midnight Saturday Dunlap Codding 609 W. Sheridan Ave. monstersmargaritas.com $50-$1,500

Come for the Witches’ Kiss and Zombie Brains and stay for the fortune telling and fire dancing at this “horrifying gathering.” Freakish ghouls and fiendish goblins from OKC Girls Art School invite you to their second Monsters & Margaritas, an adult costume party with, well, monsters and margaritas. Only 150 people can get in, so snatch up your ticket fast.

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7-8:30 p.m. Sunday 51st Street Spekeasy 1114 NW 51st St. facebook.com/theokcstoryslam Free The theme is Stranger Things. Think paranormal activity, hauntings, the unknown and crazy, unexplained shit that keeps you up at night. That’s what organizers of this monthly open-mic event encourage storytellers to do. To participate, you need to tell a story in 7 minutes or less without notes. The audience will vote on their favorite story, and the winner will get a vintage trophy.

7th Annual Haunt the Hill

5-7 p.m. Oct. 31 Calle Dos Cinco in Historic Capitol Hill SW 25th Street, between Hudson and Robinson avenues historiccapitolhill.com 405-632-0133 | Free This family-friendly event helps provide ease of mind through a safe trick-ortreating environment in Historic Capitol Hill’s business district, Calle Dos Cinco. The event features more than 20 decked-out trucks and storefronts with plenty of candy to give away and, of course, a costume contests with cash prizes. Local businesses and organizations can join the fun by setting up a table, booth or car and pass out goodies from your trunk.

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Arts patrons and partiers will have the chance to help diversify Oklahoma’s film scene by participating in a murder investigation. Murder at the Juke Joint, a Prohibitionera-themed interactive party game, begins 7 p.m. Saturday at Ice Event Center & Grill, 1148 NE 36th St. Proceeds from the evening benefit the Oklahoma Black Film Festival taking place Dec. 13-15. Unlike a traditional dinner theater murder mystery, Murder at the Juke Joint features a cast of characters made up of ticket buyers. The minimal script for the game is adapted from Murder at the Juice Joint by the party game provider Night of Mystery. “With the passing of prohibition and organized crime on the rise,” reads Night of Mystery’s description, “a swanky speakeasy run by Rosie Marie has been nothing but jumping. To celebrate its success, Rosie is planning a party to remember at the exclusive nightspot... and you are invited! However, one of the names on the guest list is also on another’s hit list and no one is safe from the consequences. … From major mobsters and their molls to the swanky singer with her hopes at Hollywood. The cigarette girl with a temper that sizzles to the crooked police chief with nothing to lose — no one is safe from murder ... but everyone will have a chance at solving it.” Lazara Gonzalez — who is helping Anthony Crawford Jr. organize Oklahoma Black Film Festival — is adapting the script. She explained how the party guests will know how to get into character. “Your little piece of paper, which is your script, is literally one page, one to two paragraphs,” Gonzalez said. “Two paragraphs is only the murderer pretty much, and as the murderer, your paper tells you what to do and not to do. You don’t even know you’re the murderer until the second part because there’s two pieces of paper that you get, each a para-

graph at a time. You’re given a back history. Maybe you and [another player] fought for the same girl two years ago and he swore to get back at you, then you find out you are the one that’s murdered.” Other characters might receive instructions to retrieve specific props from the bartender or to gather information by interviewing other characters or secretly monitoring their behavior. And like any good private detective in a film noir, players will have the chance to grease the gears with a little old-fashioned bribery. “When you come to the event, you get fake money and you have to buy information, so the whole murder mystery is based on two things: if you can solve the murder and who’s raised the most money if you have intel or you make people feel like you have intel,” Gonzalez said.

I don’t care how shy somebody is; everybody will end up getting involved. Lazara Gonzalez Though the unscripted results can be chaotic, Gonzalez, who oversaw a similar fundraising event for Purcell’s Grand Canadian Theater in 2018, said the chaos and the unpredictable responses to it were part of the fun. “The disaster is what makes the night because some characters found themselves at a deadlock,” Gonzalez said. “One found themselves without money, so she actually resorted to committing a crime and stole money. I watched her. Somebody put their pile of fake money down, and she was helping her husband, with his little bow tie, and the woman just went and grabbed half of that money from the

person and kept on walking.” Upon discovering the crime, the victim, who earned her sizable stack of money through skillfully brokering information, created a little chaos of her own with a prop gun she’d gotten from the bartender. “The woman who got robbed, she happened to be very good at what she was doing,” Gonzalez said. “So she was mad. She was like, ‘Give back my money! That is not fair!’ and I’m like, ‘You’ve got to stay in character,’ so she goes, ‘Oh yeah?’ and she took out her little pistol … and was like, ‘I’m not playing up in here!’ and her husband had to talk her down. We had a blast.” The friendly competition and room for improvisation encourages participants to get into character. “People make it fun when they come to the event and they’re open-minded,” Gonzalez said. “I don’t care how shy somebody is; everybody will end up getting involved. … People were flirting with each other’s husbands to get information.” A failed poisoning attempt eventually led to an unintended outcome, Gonzalez said, and one woman accidentally disclosed to a whole group that she was the murderer. Fortunately for the game’s mystery, the would-be confessor was wrong. “Not everything will always go according to script,” Gonzalez said, “but the one thing that will always go according to script is who killed who.” Gonzalez offered participants a few words of advice for maximizing the evening’s entertainment value. “Come open-minded, ready to let go and have fun, to really experience the moment,” Gonzalez said. While getting people involved in the game is easy, Gonzalez — who is currently writing a feature film about Oklahoma civil rights activist Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, the first black student to attend University of Oklahoma’s law school — said finding support for African American arts is more complicated. “Getting people to invest in our culture is hard,” Gonzalez said. “I’m finding it very difficult even to get sponsors at the moment. … Our culture is a lot different, and there’s a lot of different challenges that we’re facing.” Tickets for Murder at the Juke Joint are $15-$45. To register for the event or to learn about sponsorship opportunities for Oklahoma Black Film Festival, call 405-458-4548 or visit okblackfilmfestival.org.

Murder at the Juke Joint 7 p.m. Saturday Ice Event Center & Grill 1148 NE 36th St. okblackfilmfestival.org | 405-458-4548 $15-$45

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BOOKS Brunching with Books a book club meeting every other week, with reading selections chosen by group preference, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays. Buttermilk Paseo, 605 NW 28th St., 405-605-6660, buttermilkokc.com. SAT Haunted Oklahoma authors event Tanya McCoy, Whitney Wilson and Jeff Provine will discuss their experiences collecting ghost stories from Oklahomans, 3-4:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. SAT Horror Writing Tips authors Kim Ventrella, Jeff Provine and Steven Wedel will offer advice for aspiring horror authors and sign copies of their books, 7 p.m. Oct. 24. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU

James Verini book signing the author will sign copies of They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphatte, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. MON Last Sunday Poetry Reading a poetry reading followed by an open mic, 2 p.m. last Sunday of every month. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. SUN Laura Sook Duncombe book signing the author will autograph copies of A Pirate’s Life for She: Swashbuckling Women Through the Ages, 3-4:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. SAT Local author book signing writers vehoae, Wayne Harris-Wyrick and Betsy Randolph will autograph copies of their latest books, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 23. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. WED Noah Milligan reading the author will read from his new novel Into Captivity They Will Go, 2 p.m. Oct. 27. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-3079320, pasnorman.org. SUN Sheldon Russel book signing the author will sign copies of A Forgotten Evil, a novel set in postCivil War America, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com. THU What Lies Between Us activist and journalist Ayanna Najuma discusses the societal implications of Know My Name: a Memoir by Chanel Miller, 6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 29. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

program and Oklahoma’s aerospace industry at this second-annual forum, Oct. 30. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 405-602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com. WED PAMBE Ghana Global Market shop for handmade and artisanal crafts, clothing and other items at this holiday pop-up shop benefitting bilingual education, Oct. 29-Dec. 24. 50 Penn Place Gallery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-848-5567, 50pennplacegallery.com. TUE Pooches on the Patio bring your best friend to this dog-friendly happy hour with drink specials, appetizers and free pet treats, 4-7 p.m. Saturdays. Café 501 Classen Curve, 5825 NW Grand Blvd., 405844-1501, cafe501.com/. SAT Pumpkinville more than 16,000 gourds transform the Children’s Garden into a New England-inspired pumpkin town with crafts, train rides and more festive fun, through Oct. 27. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens. com. FRI-SUN Scary Tales hear ghost stories as you take a tour of the mansion after dark, 7 p.m. Oct. 24-26. Overholser Mansion, 405 NW 15th St., 405-525-5325, overholsermansion.org. THU-SAT Scissortail Park Fall Market shop for local food, craft beer, flower bulbs and more at this weekly farmers market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 26. Scissortail Park, 300 SW Seventh St., 405-4457080, scissortailpark.org. SAT SMO 21: Wizard Night School learn about almost magical science at this 21-and-older event, 6:30-10 p.m. Oct. 25. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. FRI

Fil Michael Naranjo Touchable Art Experience and Panel Discussion Visually impaired sculptor Michael Naranjo is visiting Oklahoma City to touch James Earle Fraser’s famous 1915 plaster sculpture End of the Trail, an event that will be filmed for a documentary on the artist. Other visually impaired visitors are invited to experience a touchable exhibit featuring a scaled-down replica of End of the Trail and three of Naranjo’s own sculptures. A panel discussion with the sculptor, his wife Laurie and daughter/documentarian Jenna Winters is also scheduled. The exhibit is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and the panel discussion begins 1 p.m. Thursday at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St. Museum admission is free-$12.50. Call 405-478-2250 or visit nationalcowboymuseum.org. THURSDAY Photo provided

YOUTH Brick-Or-Treat parents are invited to bring their children to this Halloween event featuring pumpkin painting, costumes, and candy and sponsored by area businesses, 4-7 p.m. Oct. 28. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-2181000, okcballparkevents.com. MON Elizabeth Wein book signing the author will autograph copies of her books, including her most recent title, A Thousand Sisters, a young adult non-fiction book about female Societ combat pilots during World War II, 5 p.m. Oct. 25. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. FRI Kids Halloween Mask Workshop children 8 and older can learn to print their own textured masks at this workshop taught by Emma Difani, 1-4 p.m. Oct. 26. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-8159995, 1ne3.org. SAT Magic Lantern Celebration children can create their own costumes and lanterns at this celebration of “light instead of fright,” now in its 19th season, 3-6 p.m. Oct. 27. Paseo Arts District, 3022 Paseo St., 405-525-2688, thepaseo.org. SUN

Paw Patrol Live: The Great Pirate Adventure rescue! Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, Rocky and Zuma seek a hidden treasure in this stage show based on the popular children’s series, Oct. 25-27. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 405-6028500, coxconventioncenter.com. FRI-SUN Sankofa Chess Club children 7 and older are invited to learn chess in this club meeting weekly, 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Nappy Roots, 3705 Springlake Drive, 405-896-0203, facebook.com/pg/nappyrootsbooks. WED ScissortTales a bilingual story hour for children ages 5 and younger with singalongs and craft projects, 10-11 a.m. Saturdays through Oct. 26. Scissortail Park, 300 SW Seventh St., 405-445-7080, scissortailpark.org. SAT Signing Time Sign Language Class children can learn American Sign Language at this class taught by Mrs. Stacy, 4-5 p.m. Thursdays through Dec. 19. We Rock the Spectrum, 64 E 33rd St., 405-657-1108, werockthespectrumoklahomacity.com. THU

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Demetri Martin the comic and actor performs on his Wandering Mind tour, 8 p.m. Oct. 26. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com. SAT Divine Comedy a weekly local showcase hosted by CJ Lance and Josh Lathe and featuring a variety of comedians from OKC and beyond, 9 p.m. Wednesdays. 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., 405-463-0470, 51stspeakeasy.com. WED Evil Dead: The Musical a stage adaptation of the cult horror film with music and a designated splash zone, through Nov. 2. The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., 405-282-2800, thepollard.org.

Princess the musical duo explores toxic masculinity through a sci-fi themed concept album and animated video, Oct. 23, Wed., Oct. 23. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. WED

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, USA, Jim Sharman) an interactive screening of this cult-classic sci-fi musical sex comedy, through Oct. 30. The Boom, 2218 NW 39th St., 405-601-7200, theboomokc.com. FRI-WED

The Rocky Horror Show naive Brad and Janet find themselves stranded at mad scientist Dr. FrankN-Furter’s in this groundbreaking musical by Richard O’Brien, through Nov. 2. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 405-524-9310, lyrictheatreokc.com. WED-SAT

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The Simon & Garfunkel Story a concert-style stage show based on the famous folk duo’s career, featuring live band performances of hits “Mrs. Robinson,” “Cecilia,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and more, Oct. 25-26. Hudiburg Chevrolet Center, 6000 S Trosper Place, 4052972264. FRI-SAT

Bone Bash enjoy dinner, cocktails, a silent auction, entertainment and a costume contest at this Halloween party benefitting the Arthritis Foundation, Oct. 26, Sat., Oct. 26. Sheraton Hotel, 1 N. Broadway Ave., 405-235-2780, sheratonokc.com/. SAT

The Tempest Prospero the magician shipwrecks his enemies on an enchanted island in this fantasy by William Shakespeare, through Oct. 26. Shakespeare on Paseo, 2920 Paseo St., 405-235-3700, oklahomashakespeare.org. THU-SAT

Good Vibrations: Sound Immersion & Meditation Experience meditate to the soothing sounds of vibrational instruments, 10 a.m.-noon Oct. 26. Norman Cultural Connection, 1017 Elm Ave., Norman, 405-201-9991. SAT

Oklahoma Aerospace Forum former NASA astronaut General Thomas P. Stafford and other speakers will talk about the history of the space

Death Arias & Party Songs local professional opera singers perform spooky and celebratory arias, 5-7 p.m. Oct. 27. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., 405359-7989, ucojazzlab.com. SUN

Macabret: A Spooktacular Halloween Revue University of Central Oklahoma School of Music students perform a showcase of pop and rock hits with a Halloween twist, 6:30-9 p.m. Oct. 24. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., 405-359-7989, ucojazzlab. com. THU-SAT

Lucy in the Sky (2019, USA, Noah Hawley) a life-changing experience in outerspace makes an astronaut (Natalie Portman) lose touch with reality on earth, Oct. 25. Rodeo Cinema, 2221 Exchange Ave., 405-235-3456. FRI

Mineral and Gem Show view and shop for jewelry, gemstones, crystals, fossils, tools and more, Oct. 26-27, Oct. 26-27. Oklahoma State Fair Park, 3220 Great Plains Walk, 405-948-6700, okstatefair. com. SAT-SUN

Bandstand six soldiers return home from World War II and form a band in this musical by Tonywinning choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, Oct. 25-26. OCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater, 7777 S. May Ave., 405-682-7579, tickets. occc.edu. FRI-SAT

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40 Minutes or Less: Spooky Shorts see short films by Richard McGuire, Josh Tanner, Toni Kristian Tikkanen and more at this Halloween-themed screening, 6 p.m. Oct. 24. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-9995, 1ne3.org. THU

Lighting of the Fireplaces an annual ceremony featuring traditional Native American flute music and a sage burning, noon-1 p.m. Oct. 26. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. SAT

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Michael Pink’s Dracula An adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 horror novel, Michael Pink’s Dracula premiered at England’s Northern Ballet Theatre in 1996 — nearly a century after its source was published — but a good story, like the immortal titular count himself, never really dies. Featuring a score by composer Philip Feeney, Pink’s Dracula has been critically acclaimed for infecting the ballet with a bold bloodlust that’s equal parts blood and lust. Sink your teeth into Oklahoma City Ballet’s production Friday-Sunday in Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $20-$77. Call 405-594-8300 or visit okcballet.org. FRIDAY-SUNDAY | Photo Shevaun Williams / provided

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To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch attempts to defend Tom Robinson from a racist legal system in the Depression era South in screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic novel, presented by Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, Oct. 23-27. The Burg Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave. WED-SUN The Wolves University of Oklahoma theater students perform Sarah DeLappe’s play set during warm up exercises for an adolescent girls’ indoor soccer team, Oct. 25-Nov. 3. Weitzenhoffer Theatre,

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Boot camp a workout class led by Gold’s Gym instructors; bring your own mats, dumbbells and water, 9-10 a.m. Saturdays through Oct. 26. Scissortail Park, 300 SW Seventh St., 405-445-7080, scissortailpark.org. SAT Monster Dash a 5K and 1-mile Fun Run to benefit community organizations including Baby Steps and Food for Kids, 2p.m. Oct. 27. Reaves Park, 2501 S. Jenkins Ave., Norman, 405-366-5472, visitnorman. com. SUN Yoga class instructors from Gold’s Gym present a free weekly yoga class; bring your own yoga mat and water, 6-7 p.m. Mondays through Oct. 28. Scissortail Park, 300 SW Seventh St., 405-445-7080, scissortailpark.org. MON Yoga Tuesdays an all-levels class; bring your own water and yoga mat, 5:45 p.m.-7 p.m. Tuesdays. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405445-7080, myriadgardens.com. TUE Yoga with Art workout in an art-filled environment followed by a mimosa, 10:30 a.m. Saturdays. 21c Museum Hotel, 900 W. Main St., 405-982-6900, 21cmuseumhotels.com. SAT

VISUAL ARTS Between Pastures & Skies: Art from the Ranch, 2014-2019 view mixed-medium works, paintings, drawings, installations, photos and videos created by Irmgard Geul and Skip Hill, through Nov. 16. MAINSITE Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., 405360-1162, mainsitecontemporaryart.com. FRI-SAT brown, carmine, and blue an exhibition of visual, installation and performance art about blackness, queerness, and femininity by artist Le’Andra LeSeur, Oct. 24-Nov. 21. Melton Gallery, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-525-3603, uco.edu. THU Denise Duong artist talk the artist and muralist will discuss her working methods, 7-9 p.m. Oct. 25. 21c Museum Hotel, 900 W. Main St., 405-982-6900, 21cmuseumhotels.com. FRI Fall Night Carving Series learn to carve wood to create a variety of printmaking projects at this workshop led by Emma Difani, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Nov. 12. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-9995, 1ne3.org. TUE Figures & Landscapes: The Art of Carol Armstrong an exhibition of works by the Oklahoma Governor’s Art Award winning painter, through Nov. 2. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-3079320, pasnorman.org. FRI-SAT Oklahoma Red Dirt Artists an exhibition of paintings and photographs by Jack Fowler, Rea Baldridge, Joseph Mills and Romy Owens, through Oct. 31. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com. FRI-THU Thoughts on Africa an exhibition of Don Nevard’s photographs of native African wildlife, through Oct. 31. Inasmuch Foundation Gallery at Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S. May Avenue, 4056827579. SAT-THU The Wounded Eye an exhibition of works by photographer, singer, poet and guitarist Cherryl Seard, through Nov. 2. Nappy Roots, 3705 Springlake Drive, 405-896-0203, facebook.com/pg/nappyrootsbooks. FRI-SAT

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Gwar’s Use Your Collusion tour brings cosmic horror and gallons of fake bodily fluids to OKC. By Jeremy Martin

Gwar isn’t afraid of cancel culture. “How can you cancel something that can’t die?” asked Jizmak Da Gusha (aka Brad Roberts), Gwar’s dog-headed, war hammer-wielding drummer. Considering the self-described “Scumdogs of the Universe” have survived many existential threats — real (obscenity charges, the 2014 death of frontman and mastermind Dave “Oderus Urungus” Brockie) and, uh, fanciful (vengeful genetically modified penguins, the theft of Urungus’ animatronic penis by the Morality Squad) — since Gwar first formed in 1984, this offhanded dismissal of social media scolds seems like the most genuine moment of our in-character interview with Jizmak. With new frontman Blothar the Berserker (Michael Bishop, who originally played in the band as bassist Beefcake the Mighty) Gwar’s Use Your Collusion tour lands 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S. Eastern Ave. Claiming to be obscene, cracksmoking Lovecraftian horrors banished from their homeworlds, the polystyrene-outfitted rock band takes metal’s obsessions with sex, death and violence to a cartoonish extreme, dismembering politicians and celebrities in effigy onstage and leaving the audience soaked in fake blood and other bodily fluids. Released in 2017, The Blood of Gods takes on Trump in “El Presidente,” curses earth in “Fuck This Place” and eulogizes Brockie in “Phantom Limb,” which says, “The road is long and the road is hard / On a monster in a band / But the toll it took was so much more / Than we had ever planned / The world has never looked so dark / Gwar’s Use Your Collusion tour lands 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at Diamond Ballroom.| Photo provided

The pain has never felt so bad / Is it wrong to try to go on / When it’s all we ever had?” In our phone conversation with Jizmak, we discussed the tour, the band’s evolution and why you should take livestock to the show. (Note: Probably don’t do that.) Oklahoma Gazette: Who or what is Gwar colluding with? Jizmak: We’re being tried for crimes against humanity, and I guess if you really need the answer to that you’re going to have to come see a Gwar show on our Use Your Collusion tour this fall all over America. We’re not really sure who’s after us, but it’s all revealed at the show. If there’s an excuse for us to get off this miserable planet, we will certainly take our punishment, if we’re banished from earth or whatever. Basically, Gwar has been plaguing and ravaging the earth, trying to rid you humans of it for years and years and years — almost 30 million years at this point, and it seems like we’re getting closer every day. OKG: In your time behind the kit, what do you think you’ve seen in Gwar that you wouldn’t have seen as a drummer for a different band? Jizmak: A lot of naked asses. That’s usually what you see from back there on the kit, is a lot of butts. Gwar is scantily clad space marauders, but there are some interesting deaths at these sacrifice blood orgies that we throw — you humans call them rock ’n’ roll shows or whatever, but it’s big, cannibalistic death blood

Jizmak Da Gusha, aka Brad Roberts, began playing drums in the band in 1989. | Photo provided

orgies, and you will see all kinds of humans writhing in pain, happiness, death, covered in spew, urine and jizz. I don’t imagine you would see that in any other band. OKG: Has the political climate in modern America changed your approach at all? Jizmak: The political climate of human beings and your plight are the least of Gwar’s concern. Gwar’s concern is crack, rocking out and trying to get off this miserable place, which you humans seem hell-bent on trying to destroy. You’re just a parasite. You’re a plague on the planet. You all must be wiped out. I think our approach now is being minimized by the fact that human beings have sort of taken as even sicker and more vile and destructive, even more so than Gwar, which is really hard to do, but apparently, with social media, you humans can hate one another from far away, which is something that Gwar has never been able to do. So basically, we’re trying to reclaim our throne from you. OKG: Is there ever a temptation to just sit back and let us destroy ourselves? Jizmak: We’re just too interactive. We don’t shoot from far away like a gun or a pistol. We like to get up close and jam a sword in you. We want to make it personal.

OKG: In the two years since your last album, have the songs changed or evolved as you’ve played them live? Jizmak: Of course. When you do something multiple times long enough, it gets better, you refine it, you get more comfortable with it, but the initial music created spontaneously at that moment is the greatest. So it’s not better because you play it more. It’s already great from its inception with Gwar. It just gets easier. It’s like killing. After your first kill, it just gets easier and easier to kill. OKG: Have you settled into a rhythm with Blothar at this point? Jizmak: He’s an old scumdog. I mean, there’s nothing to settle into. Scumdogs are all family. We’re all from the same place, outer space. You guys are the ones we have to settle into. You’re the thing we don’t understand. That’s why we’re trying to kill you. If we can’t fuck it, we fight it. Most of the time, we do both with the humans. OKG: You’ve been to Oklahoma a few times in the past year. Jizmak: Yeah, we just played Rocklahoma. It was excellent. We did a lot of drugs and sex with Steel Panther at Rocklahoma. It was a great day. OKG: Is there a special strategy for destroying people from Oklahoma? Jizmak: I don’t think there’s a special strategy at all. I don’t think so. I don’t like that question anyway. Oklahoma could probably destroy itself. It’s got enough tornadoes and cows to run amok, so I don’t know. I don’t understand that. Next question. OKG: Is there anything you want to add? Jizmak: That’s a good question. … I want the people of Oklahoma to bring all their cattle to the Diamond Ballroom to see the Gwar show. We’re a little bit hungry, and we’re tired of eating goats, so we need some good prime beef. Bring them to the show and you get in free. But definitely come out and see Gwar. It’s going to be a real, real fun time, a very big surprise. We’ll see what happens to the fate of Gwar on the Use Your Collusion Tour. Who knows? Maybe this is it. If you don’t have a cow, tickets are $22. Sacred Reich, Toxic Holocaust and Against the Grain share the bill. Call 405-677-9169 or visit diamondballroom.com.

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OKG: How does being undead change your relationship to music? Has your musical style evolved over the decades? Are there any mortals you consider influences? Drac & the Swamp Rats: Being alive forever really lets us cut through the bullshit. You can tell right away if a band is for real or not. Like that Beethoven guy? Total bitch. Body Count rules, though. Ice-T is a true monster.

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Drac & the Swamp Rats brings “classic monster rock” to Blue Note Lounge on Halloween. By Jeremy Martin

At Oklahoma Gazette, we typically try to avoid email interviews in favor of more personal interactions. But if there’s one thing we try even harder to avoid, it’s getting too close to a group of weirdoes claiming to be a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy, a Frankenstein’s monster and a … whatever lab assistant/ Theremin player Igor is, so this interview with self-described “classic monster rock” band Drac & the Swamp Rats is a time when we were more than happy to keep our distance. Drac & the Swamp Rats terrorize OKC 8 p.m. Oct. 31 at Blue Note Lounge, 2408 N. Robinson Ave. Featuring a lineup straight out of Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s “Monster Mash,” the Swamp Rats plays Misfits and Cramps informed pop-punk with a surf rock swagger. Songs such as “Dead of Night,” “Bite Down” and “I Want You Dead” provide a playlist for a raucous haunted house party, and the band’s fake-blood-soaked live shows are appropriately ferocious. On raucous nightlife anthem “Fuck the Sun,” Drac snarls “I drank myself to death, but I can’t die / Smoked all your weed, but I ain’t high” before commanding “you little middle school girls” to “get those chubby middle fingers in the air.” Having seen Interview With the Vampire (and heard the Swamp Rats “Watchin’ U Die”) we declined Drac’s suggestion to invite him into our offices in the dead of night for “drinks” and opted instead to communicate with the

band in the most fangs-off way we could think of. What follows is a transcript of our electronically transmitted conversation, lightly edited for clarity and (hopefully) scrubbed of all vampiric hypnotic suggestions. Oklahoma Gazette: How did this lineup come together? Where did the name Swamp Rats come from? Drac & the Swamp Rats: One hundred years ago, Dracula brutally murdered Dr. Frankenstein with a siq [sic] decapitation and took his castle. He then ordered his newly acquired Igor to: build him the best drummer to ever exist, Franky; find a young, hunky guitarist and infect him with the werewolf virus, Wolfë; and last, but not least, wrap up a dank Mummy and strap a bass to him (easier said than done, mummies are a very powerful breed). Welp, the idiot Igor fuckin’ did it, so here we are. Also we used to live in a swamp that was full of rats, so... OKG: As such a disparate group of monsters with different dietary restrictions and rules for survival, what kind of requirements do you have on your tour rider? How do you find food on the road? Drac & the Swamp Rats: We eat our audience, other bands, bookers, people who suggest that we are not actually monsters, and journalists. Our rider is mostly Four Lokos and Cherry Sours from 7-11 and zero mirrors in the fucking green

OKG: What equipment modifications do you have to make to have a Frankenstein’s monster playing drums and a wolfman playing guitar? Drac & the Swamp Rats: The drums are pretty much normal. Igor bloodproofed them for him, obviously. They are pretty much like the inside of a Nissan Xterra. And Wolfers ironically plays silver strings. He loves ’em. Likes the sting. OKG: Have you received any ceaseand-desist letters from Universal Studios? Drac & the Swamp Rats: We’ve actually sent several to them. OKG: How does Drac make sure he’s looking good before a show without being able to see his reflection? Drac & the Swamp Rats: He uses a Wooly Willy. OKG: Do you have any upcoming releases or other news that we should mention? Drac & the Swamp Rats: We got exclusive tour tapes with new shit on them (old shit too) thanks to Sexy Tornado Recordings. [They’re] only for sale in person, so you have to talk to Igor, no way around it. Good luck. [We’re] also currently working on a vinyl we hope will be big enough to block out the sun. OKG: Is there anything else you would like to add? Drac & the Swamp Rats: What kind of fucking question is that? Ask us something! This your interview! (Drac turns into a bat and flies the fuck away.) Admission is $10. Local monsters LCG & the X and Net share the bill. Call 405600-1166 or visit facebook.com/bluenoteokc.

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Marilyn Manson/Bad Wolves/Candlebox, The Zoo Amphitheatre. ROCK Rainbows Are Free/Grim Gospels, The Deli. ROCK

SUNDAY, OCT. 27 AJR/Michael Blume, The Criterion. POP Dusk/Lacey Elaine/Tim Buchanan Band, The Forge. SINGER/SONGWRITER Hosty, The Deli. ROCK

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Artists for Choice In a less-than-encouraging explanation of why Oklahoma ranked dead last in women’s health in the 2013 report The State of Women in America, Oklahoma Policy Institute clarified: “It’s not that Oklahoma was the absolute worst by all of the health indicators. It typically wasn’t – but that no other state consistently did as badly as Oklahoma.” In other words, the organizations that actually offer health services proven to improve areas in which Oklahoma consistently struggles — infant and maternal mortality rates, for example — need all the help they can get. This art sale and concert featuring performances by local luminaries Samantha Crain, Spinster (pictured), Bad Jokes and Stepmom raises money for Planned Parenthood, which was recently forced to decline federal Title X funding to provide birth control, STD testing and cancer screenings to low-income patients because of a gag-rule that would have prevented it from also offering abortion information. A healthier and more humane Oklahoma is a choice. Let’s start making the right one. The show is 7:30 p.m.-midnight Nov. 1 at 51st Street Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St. Admission is $5. Call 405-463-0470 or visit 51stspeakeasy.com. NOV. 1 Photo Alexa Ace / provided

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Kent Fauss Trio/Humdingers Duo, Brewers Union. COUNTRY The Killings/Dresden Bombers, HiLo Club.

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Licensed Oklahoma medical cannabis patients now exceed 200,000, smashing the first-year prediction for patients. By Matt Dinger

Oct. 7, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) announced it had licensed its 200,000th patient. That is an average of 3,500 patients each week since OMMA started accepting patient applications. Based upon the state’s estimated population of 4 million, that means more than 5 percent of all Oklahomans are now card-carrying cannabis patients. In addition to the boom of dispensaries, processors and growers that have come with the burgeoning cannabis industry, dozens of businesses that specialize in getting patients their doctor recommendations have also opened in the past year. A popular place for patients to acquire their licenses in the Oklahoma City metro, Green Hope Wellness Clinic, 2309 S. Interstate 35 Service Road, has seen a big slowdown in patients seeking recommendations a year later but are still seeing hundreds of patients a week, Ford Austin and Shayna Marino are the owners of APCO Med. | Photo Alexa Ace

owner Renee Harper said. “Compared to a year ago, it is super slow, but compared to a year ago, we were doing a hundred patients six, seven days a week, so that will come again when we have to re-up,” Harper said. OMMA told her that there are now about 600 doctors writing medical cannabis recommendations in the state.

In order to really get people access, we’re going to find locations wherever we can. Ford Austin “It’s just word-of-mouth now, so everybody here, your grandma or your uncle or somebody who’s just been debilitated with pain and stuff like that and taking all these opioids, they’re beginning to see people get results and going, ‘Maybe they’re onto something here. This is not such a bad thing,’” Harper said. “I think we will just annihilate everybody [a s patient numbers go] because that’s just the way things work around here. We can’t convince people, but other people can convince people sometimes.” Harper is adopting her model to other states with medical cannabis programs coming online. She will soon be operating clinics in Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri. Dr. Steven Ross operates MMDOKC, 2220 N. Classen Blvd., Suite A.

Renee Harper and her family operate Green Hope Wellness Clinic in Moore. | Photo Alexa Ace

He opened MMDOKC in February and has also seen a slowdown in patient numbers, though he handles individual recommendations by appointment only. “Most of the people we were seeing were using cannabis for various reasons and were getting the card to kind of be legal and formalize it. Now we’re seeing more people who have heard how it’s helpful and are coming in to get to try it and see if it helps them,” Ross said. “It’s definitely slowed, and the patient volume has decreased probably at least half. This is exactly what I thought would happen, and so I’m not surprised at all. I am pleased that it’s continued to improve where people, through word-of-mouth, are saying, ‘I haven’t used cannabis since I was in college in 1982. But my friends are telling me it’s really helping their pain and they look happy and better, so I want that too.’” Ross does both basic and lengthy appointments with patients to help them determine what course of cannabis treatment is right for them and answer any of their questions when it comes to how the plant works to help them, so he said it is very rare that he sees someone seeking a recommendation that does not have a strong medical reason for seeking one. “It’s very rare that I see someone that I think just wants to get high. I mean very rare,” Ross said.

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While the fees for patient recommendations have decreased at many businesses, all patients are still required to pay the state fee for a two-year license that is set by statute at $100. That means the entire licensing process in the early stages could easily cost more than $250 per patient. While one of every 20 Oklahomans legally uses the plant for one purpose or another, that price barrier often prevents those who would use or who are already using cannabis for treatment to afford the license itself. To that end, APCO Med is doing its best to get patients recommendations free of charge. It held its first free patient drive in Tulsa last week and 250 people received their recommendations. Owners Ford Austin and Shayna Marino hope to continue those free drives in Tulsa as well as in

Oklahoma City. Due to state law, they were not able to host the drive at their dispensary but instead got access to a nearby space. “We just decided that in order to really get people access, we’re going to find locations wherever we can, where people are willing to donate their spaces and anybody that can donate seating and support, tables and chairs,” Austin said. “There’s a girl limping in and out of here. … There’s people here on walkers. Definitely a movement where you don’t have stoners coming out here. I’m putting a call out to doctors to try and find more physicians to do them for free. There’s 200,000 licenses now, but people come out in droves when they realize that they’re not being forced to pay to get access to their medication. We’re hoping to expand this other physician to get other physicians to do this for free. There’s five people coming every 10 minutes, and there’s no sign of it slowing down. It’s flooded. If we were going to stay here until 9 o’clock, we probably would get close to 500 or 600 people. … People are foregoing getting their cards because of their other bills right now. People are foregoing taking care of their health care because of fucking bills. This is why we need to talk to more doctors and get them included in the conversation.” OMMA anticipated 80,000 licensed patients in the first year of operation. Now, before the one-year anniversary of patients being able to legally purchase cannabis products containing THC, it has licensed two and a half times that number. There is no telling where the ceiling is on the number of legal cannabis patients in Oklahoma, but people like Austin, Harper and Ross are continuing to meet the ongoing needs. “Some people call it competition. I just call it inspiration. W hen you’re talking about helping patients, that’s all it is, inspiring each other to do a little better every time,” Austin said.

Dr. Steven Ross | Photo Alexa Ace

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With the truncated Oklahoma autumn already upon us, cannabis patients will soon be looking for some indoor respite from Mother Nature’s icy fingers that patios and porches cannot provide. Fortunately for them, Club Med Lounge, 1304 Lindsey Plaza Drive, Suite A, is already operational in Norman. “The model will be a monthly private members only. That’s what I’m trying to get to,” owner Jerry Flowers said. “Right now, we have it available for events, private parties, stuff like that. On game days, I have it open. We’re doing a movie night Friday, and then we’ll do a Halloween costume party towards the end of the month as well.” For members, the lounge is always open during the normal business hours of UWD and stays open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. “If you’re a member and you come

in there, we’re going to open it up just for you,” Flowers said. There are three tiers of memberships: silver, gold and platinum. The silver package is $40 a month. Members get a T-shirt along with facility use. The gold package is $50 a month and includes a T-shirt, a small locker and the ability to bring a guest. The platinum package at $75 a month includes a polo shirt, large locker, guest privileges and two free hours a month in one of the club’s private rooms. The interior is set up like a 2,500 square-foot cigar lounge, with a 75-inch television in the main area with couches surrounding it and tables set up for board games and card games, an air hockey table, a couple arcade game cabinets, a dart board and video game consoles. Flowers said members can expect karaoke and bingo nights to be incorporated as well. There are three private rooms available to rent. They are $25 for the first two hours and $10 for each additional hour. “They’re good-sized offices with couches and tables inside. Each one of these private rooms has its own smoke eater and then outside in the main area, I’ve got two big smoke eaters that basically filter the air five times an hour or so so you don’t walk out of there smelling like smoke, like you’ve been smoking all day at a party,” Flowers said. “The turnout’s been pretty good. It’s been well received. Starting to get some memberships. I haven’t had anything negative about it.” The lounge is actually part of a larger space that also houses UWD, so there

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Club Med and UWD in Norman are just the latest of Flowers’ ventures. He opened the original Urban Wellness Dispensary on NE 23rd Street before splitting off and opening an Edmond location under the name UWD. Norman is its second location. UWD quickly developed Flowers’ reputation as one of the most medically minded dispensaries operating in the Oklahoma City metro. “When [NE] 23rd first opened up, there was Cannabis Aid down the street; there were a few other dispensaries that were selling at the time, and it was shooting fish in a barrel, so to speak. It was easy,” Flowers said. “But as more competition came on and you see the future, you just see how many licensed dispensaries there are, you have to be able to differentiate yourself and pick a lane. I chose to go the medical route and let everybody else go after the rec with a medical license.” UWD’s focus has remained strictly medical; it carries a large variety of specialty products like suppositories and tinctures, which are individually formulated to each patient’s needs.

The turnout’s been pretty good. It’s been well received. Jerry Flowers “We do a medical intake. First thing we do is we go through the list of prescriptions that you’re on, make sure we’re not going to have any interactions. Once we get past the safety protocol, then we go on to formulation. We make a five- to seven-day batch. We charge you a penny,” Flowers said. “Three days later, we get feedback. We know how to

do the next one and we do the process again. By the third or fourth batch is when we’ve got it down and we’re seeing the results that we want to see from our patients. We have success stories that bring tears to your eyes. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing. We’ve got a 12-year-old autistic male whose mother comes down from Tulsa that heard about the program. I talked to her the other day. Best summer he’s ever had in his life. He’s excelling at school.” Flowers also opened a joint venture on the southeast side of Oklahoma City called Dab & Go, 5 SE 89th St. “UWD is my medical side. Dab & Go is my alter-ego,” he said. “Max Patton is a processor. He has a processing company here. At UWD, we carry some of their products. He had the idea of a dispensary that basically concentrated on concentrates. I like that idea because it’s a niche program again. It’s not like the other stores out here. We’ve got the largest selection of concentrates in the state, bar none, and at prices that are ridiculous. Instead of just buying one gram at a time, if you like this particular thing, then you can get it in 3.5 grams or 7-gram slabs. Maybe five strains of flower, but all high-grade flower, but the rest is nothing but concentrates, glassware, the main accessories for dabbing, etc.” Flowers’ interest in medical cannabis is personal. “I can’t get enough, and it comes naturally. My interest in the plant came when my mother had pancreatic cancer back in 2012. Thank God she’s still with us. That’s one of the worst ones you can get. Her watching the stories of medical marijuana intrigued me,” he said. “And then when I learned more about the plant and the medical side, I can’t get enough. Taking online classes, going out and visiting with other doctors, learning more. We’re blessed to be in communications with Raphael Mechoulam. We correspond through email. I’ve studied this plant so much and know the potential if we can just crack open the potential of this plant.” Club Med Lounge recently opened adjacent to UWD in Norman. | Photo Alexa Ace

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Homework: You don’t have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into feeling. You are free to be who you want to be. FreeWillAstrology.com ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Singapore has one of the world’s lowest fertility rate. A few years ago, this state of affairs prompted the government to urge Singaporeans to have sex on an annual holiday known as National Day. A new rap song was released in the hope of pumping up everyone’s libidos and instigating a baby boom. It included the lyrics, “Let’s make fireworks ignite / Let’s make Singapore’s birthrate spike.” I have a different reason for encouraging you to seek abundant high-quality sex, Aries. According to my analysis, tender orgasmic experiences will profoundly enhance your emotional intelligence in the coming weeks—and make you an excellent decision-maker just in time for your big decisions. (P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

In the 1530s, explorer Jacques Cartier led expeditions from France to the New World. As Europeans often did back then, he and his team were rude and brutish to the indigenous folks who lived there, stealing their land, kidnapping some of them, and slaughtering herds of great auks in a bird sanctuary. Yet there was one winter when Cartier’s marauders got crucial help from their victims, who gave them vitamin C-rich pine needle tea that cured their scurvy. I suspect you Tauruses will embark on quests and journeys in the coming months, and I’m hoping your behavior will be different from Cartier’s. When you arrive in unfamiliar places, be humble, curious, and respectful. Be hesitant to impose your concepts of what’s true, and be eager to learn from the locals. If you do, you’re likely to get rich teachings and benefits equivalent to the pine needle tea.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Many software engineers have enjoyed The Pragmatic Programmer, a book that helps them develop and refine their code. One popular technique the book offers is “rubber duck deprogramming.” Programmers place a toy rubber duck in front of them, and describe to it the

problems they’re having. As they explain each line of code to their very good listener, they may discover what’s amiss. I recommend a similar approach to you as you embark on metaphorically debugging your own program, Gemini. If a rubber duck isn’t available, call on your favorite statue or stuffed animal, or even a photo of a catalytic teacher or relative or spirit. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Read the following passage from Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. “Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” I admire the romantic artistry of Gaston’s dramatic gesture. I applaud his imaginative desire to express his love in a carefully chosen sanctuary filled with beauty. I praise his intense devotion to playful extravagance. But I don’t recommend you do anything quite so extreme in behalf of love during the coming weeks. Being twenty percent as extreme might be just right, though.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

In his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” rapper Drake disparages tranquility and harmony. “I listen to heavy metal for meditation, no silence,” he brags. “My body isn’t much of a sacred temple, with vodka and wine, and sleep at the opposite times,” he declares. Is there a method in his madness? It’s revealed in these lyrics: “All that peace and that unity: all that weak sh-- will ruin me.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to practice the exact opposite of Drake’s approach. It’s time to treat yourself to an intense and extended phase of self-care.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

It’s a favorable time to refresh your relationships with your basic sources and to make connections with new basic sources. To spur your creative thought on these matters, I offer the following questions to meditate on. 1. If you weren’t living where you do now, what other place might you like to call home? 2. If you didn’t have the name you actually go by, what other name would you choose?

3. If you had an urge to expand the circle of allies that supports and stimulates you, whom would you seek out? 4. If you wanted to add new foods and herbs that would nurture your physical health and new experiences that would nurture your mental health, what would they be?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Mushrooms have spores, not seeds. They’re tiny. If you could stack 2,500 of them, they’d be an inch high. On the other hand, they are numerous. A ripe mushroom may release up to 16 million spores. And each spore is so lightweight, the wind can pick it up and fling it long distances. I’ll encourage you to express your power and influence like a mushroom in the coming days: subtle and airy but abundant; light and fine, but relentless and bountiful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

“Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it,” writes computer engineer Bill Joy. I invite you to consider the value of that perspective, Scorpio—even though you’re the least likely sign in all the zodiac to do so. Being naive just doesn’t come naturally to you; you often know more than everyone else around you. Maybe you’ll be more receptive to my suggestion if I reframe the task. Are you familiar with the Zen Buddhist concept of “beginner’s mind”? You wipe away your assumptions and see everything as if it were the first time you were in its presence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Is it always a bad thing to be lost? To wander in the unknown without a map? I’d like to propose a good version of being lost. It requires you to be willing to give up your certainties, to relinquish your grip on the comforting dogmas that have structured your world—but to do so gladly, with a spirit of cheerful expectancy and curiosity. It doesn’t require you to be a macho hero who feels no fear or confusion. Rather, you have faith that life will provide blessings that weren’t possible until you got lost.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

do it better.” I agree with him! And I think it’s an ideal time for you to learn how to worry more effectively, more potently, and with greater artistry. What might that look like? First, you wouldn’t feel shame or guilt about worrying. You wouldn’t regard it as a failing. Rather, you would raise your worrying to a higher power. You’d wield it as a savvy tool to discern which situations truly need your concerned energy and which don’t.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“Some wounds go so deep that you don’t even feel them until months, maybe years, later,” wrote Aquarian author Julius Lester. Pay attention to that thought, Aquarius. The bad news is that you are just now beginning to feel a wound that was inflicted some time ago. But that’s also the good news, because it means the wound will no longer be hidden and unknowable. And because you’ll be fully aware of it, you’ll be empowered to launch the healing process. I suggest you follow your early intuitions about how best to proceed with the cure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

If you’ve been having dreams or fantasies that the roof is sinking or the walls are closing in, you should interpret it as a sign that you should consider moving into a more spacious situation. If you have been trapped within the narrow confines of limited possibilities, it’s time to break free and flee to a wide open frontier. In general, Pisces, I urge you to insist on more expansiveness in everything you do, even if that requires you to demolish cute little mental blocks that have tricked you into thinking small.

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