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OVAC welcomes new executive director Holly Moye.

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ON THE COVER

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC), a statewide nonprofit committed to supporting artists, recently selected Holly Moye as its new executive director. “One of our goals at OVAC is to increase public awareness surrounding Oklahoma’s visual artists,” Moye said. “Through arts education, we can continue to promote an enhanced understanding and appreciation of the arts statewide.” Read more from writer David Dean. P. 55 — Jennifer Chancellor, editor-in-chief

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LIFE

LIFE

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City: downtown living

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OKG picks

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Elections: Democrats are “on the road to the majority.”

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Food & Drink: Wings & Things, Shartel Cafe, MOB Grill food truck, food briefs, OKG eat: Italian

Visual Arts: Holiday Gala on the Paseo, Red Dot fundraiser

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Performing Arts: Josh Lathe, Progressive Wildness, Austrian & German Masterworks for Winds

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Sudoku / Crossword

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Sports: OKC Barons roundup

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Music: JD McPherson, Matt Jewett, event listings, Flaming Lips review

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Film: Oklahoma Cine Latino Film Festival, Interstellar review

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Astrology

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Classifieds

Elections: Might millennials, Hispanics, sway this red state?

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Downtown in December

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Metro briefs

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History: Woody Guthrie’s OKC

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Chicken-Fried News

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Health & Beauty

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Letters

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Community: Woven app Kickstarter

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okc.BIZ: Forty Under 40

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Fashion: Weldon Jack anniversary

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Community: Jesus House

MISSION STATEMENT

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Oklahoma Gazette’s mission is to stimulate, examine and inform the public on local quality of life issues and social needs, to recognize community accomplishments, and to provide a forum for inspiration, participation and interaction across all media.

Books: National Novel Writing Month

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Cover: OVAC executive director

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NEWS CITY

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City dwellers

Residential development booms as more people rush to make downtown home.

Construction continues at The Edge at Midtown, 1325 N. Walker Ave.

BY BEN FELDER

Gary Caplinger has a list of clients who are waiting to buy an apartment or loft in downtown Oklahoma City. But right now, the demand is bigger than the supply.

“It’s kind of frustrating for us because we have several clients that are waiting for things to come up,” said Caplinger with Urban Living OKC, a real estate firm specializing in urban properties. “There is only a handful of properties that are for sale [downtown].

Almost all of the new construction you are seeing is for lease.”

Options for downtown living have exploded over the past several years as both large and small developments have popped up in areas like Deep Deuce, Midtown and the downtown core. The trend is likely to continue as several more residential projects, including a new high-end apartment building across the street from Myriad Botanical Gardens, are in the works.

However, almost all of the new units to be built in the coming years will be for rent.

“It will be important for us to get the for-sale residential market going in downtown like you are seeing in other places like Austin,” said Cathy O’Connor, president of the Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City.

O’Connor views growth in units for sale as a way to provide more options for downtown residents, but she also believes the trend toward downtown living, whether its for sale or for rent, will only grow.

“I think Austin, Indianapolis and Salt Lake City are 10 years ahead of us,” O’Connor said. “They have a lot of residential development going on downtown, and I think that is going to be really important [in our future].”

apartment building on the south half of the former Stage Center theater complex.

The Milhaus proposal is a 20-story high-end apartment building, bringing a type of luxury residential option that is not available in the core of downtown.

Another residential development has been proposed by Clayco for the same site and would include two high-end residential towers.

Both developments would be for lease and do not include units for purchase.

Expanding infrastructure

Ben Sellers of Wayne Properties visits with former Oklahoma City mayor Kirk Humphreys during a recent open house at The Edge at Midtown.

Rapid growth and affordability

America’s downtowns expanded at double-digit rates over the past decade, according to the U.S. Census. Cities like Austin, Indianapolis and Louisville have downtown populations in excess of 50,000. While those numbers can include single-home neighborhoods built in close proximity to downtown skyscrapers, they also include a lot of medium- and highrise developments.

The International Downtown Association reports that there are 27,000 people living within a one-mile radius of downtown OKC, which includes several thousand living in new apartments within the downtown core.

Theoretically, more units in OKC should also mean more affordability, although purchase prices and rents remain much higher than the regional average.

Level Urban Apartments and The Edge at Midtown, two apartment buildings that have opened or plan to open shortly downtown, both have starting rents close

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to $1,000 for a one-bedroom. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment across OKC is $668, according to the website rentjungle.com.

Two-bedroom units for sale in Deep Deuce often start at $500,000, and a two-bedroom condo in a proposed development near Civic Center Music Hall starts at $354,000. Those price points are well above the average home sale price of $150,000 across the city.

“What [the downtown] market is going to need to do, and what some of those other markets have done fairly well, is provide an affordable component to downtown housing,” O’Connor said. “It’s got to be affordable for the people who work in the hospitals and the teachers and people like that.”

While affordability might be a goal, the downtown market is poised to see continued growth in high-end units.

“Oklahoma City is ready for this type of development,” said Jeremy Stephenson, president of Milhaus Development, one of two firms proposing a high-end luxury

The growth in jobs downtown has helped boost demand for downtown living, along with growth in entertainment and retail options. Schools, grocery stores and other neighborhood features will also play an important role in spurring future growth.

“I think it was so critical to downtown,” Jane Jenkins, president of Downtown Oklahoma City, Inc., said about the new John Rex Elementary school that opened this year in downtown. “[A school] really is the definition of a neighborhood and community.”

O’Connor also sees developments like a grocery store as critical to making the downtown community a true residential neighborhood.

“We may be years away from one,” O’Connor said about a downtown grocery store. “But it would be an important development.”

More service-oriented retail, affordable housing and purchase options are needed downtown, but there is already a large demand from area residents who want to call downtown home.

“I get contacts from people almost every day who are looking for something downtown,” Caplinger said. “I think the demand is only going to continue to grow bigger.”

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NEWS ELECTIONS

Republicans continued their statewide dominance in this year’s elections.

Mary Fallin celebrates her win during an Election Day watch party last week in Oklahoma City.

It was a Democratic slaughter with red all over the ballot.

Republicans held onto every statewide seat, retained supermajorities in both the House and Senate and continued to play well in races where changing demographics threatened to flip seats.

“Democrats are on the road to the majority,” said Rep. Richard Morrissette while encouraging a disappointed crowd at Joe Dorman’s watch party.

If that’s true, it’s going to be a long road for a party that held control of the statehouse just a few election cycles ago.

“There’s really only one candidate in these elections tonight,” said Jennifer Jensen, a Gov. Mary Fallin supporter, on election night last week. “The Republican Party.”

Fallin was expected to win last Tuesday’s vote, but Dorman surprised many with strong poll numbers leading into the election. Democrats hoped for a victory, but a tight race could have offered some momentum headed into the future. Instead, Fallin cruised to a 15-point clincher.

“Tonight’s election was a victory for the conservative policies that have made Oklahoma a more prosperous place to live, work and raise a family,” Fallin said in a statement following her win.

Republicans remained in power by not just championing conservative policies but also playing to the state’s deep distrust of the federal government and the president.

“We don’t need Washington to come fix us,” said Republican James Lankford after winning his bid for U.S. Senate. “In fact, we are sending Oklahoma to fix Washington.”

Flipping seats

Taking back control of the state House and Senate was never a possibility headed into Election Day, but Democrats felt there were a few seats in OKC that could be flipped. However,

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Joe Dorman lost in a close race on Election Day.

Republicans held off challengers in three northwest districts and a southside Senate race.

“I love that the people of District 40 have spoken,” said John Handy Edwards, who lost by 10 points to Ervin Yen in Senate District 40.

Yen’s victory kept District 40 in Republican control as he became the state’s first Asian-American legislator.

In House District 85, Rep. David Dank has held the seat since 2006, and his wife, Odilia, represented the district for 12 years before.

Previous elections had shown that the northwest district could be in play for Democrats, although the latest round of redistricting made it tougher.

Cyndi Munson, the Democratic challenger, lost by 13 points.

House District 87 was another urban district Democrats had hopes for, but incumbent Jason Nelson held on with 53 percent of the vote against Collin Walke’s 47 percent.

Besides flipping some urban districts, Democrats also were hopeful for a strong showing in the 5th Congressional race between Republican Steve Russell and Democrat Al McAffrey. Republicans have held the seat since the 1970s, but it has trended more Democratic in recent years and reaching 40 percent of Tuesday’s vote

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total would have been a sign of growth in the district that includes OKC and most of its suburbs.

Instead, McAffrey won just 36 percent, a point lower than Democrat Tom Guild, who lost in 2012.

Low turnout

The people of Oklahoma spoke, or at least less than half of them did.

Voter turnout was projected around 40 percent, reported nonprofit impact journalism website Oklahoma Watch.

For comparison, it was almost 51 percent in the 2010 elections.

The turnout rate was the lowest on record for a gubernatorial election since 1962. Out of Oklahoma’s eligible voting population, just 29 percent made it to the polls, which was the sixthlowest rate in the nation.

“We know what the problem is,” said state Representative-elect Jason Dunnington, who did not have a challenger on the ballot last week. “Low voter turnout. So, [Democrats] need to change that.”

Same-day voter registration, online voter registration and other ideas have been floated to make voting an easier process, but Republicans across the country have opposed those efforts.

New environmental chairman

Following the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate, Sen. James Inhofe is expected to be placed in charge of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Following his election night victory, Inhofe presented a list of new committee chairs to his supporters and ended by saying he expected to be the newest chairman of the environmental committee.

“If you just look at who will be chairing the committees ... we are going to make our contribution to saving America,” Inhofe said.

Say what?

Here is a collection of quotes from voters and politicians following last week’s election: » “We lose our freedom when we allow the government to be the dad of every family. Let’s let dads be dads again,” said James Lankford, who was elected to the U.S. Senate. » “I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.

It almost makes you not want to live here anymore,” said Brett Gaines, a Democratic voter. » “We knew we were up against tough odds,” said Joe Dorman after losing his campaign for governor. “We just need to fortify ourselves. We’ve got a lot of work to do.” » “This election is very important,” said Republican voter Paddy Penwell.

“We really need to get our standards back. And after tonight, we need to continue to support all Republican candidates and elect people who will take care of our future.” » “Although the outcome did not play in our favor, we are not defeated,” said Cyndi Munson, the Democratic challenger for House District 85 who lost to Rep. David Dank. “Hard work and dedication do not always result in a victory over another, rather a victory in ourselves.”

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NEWS ELECTIONS

Not yet State Democrats have been unable to fully tap into OKC’s changing demographics in order to sway Election Day voters.

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Democrats perform well in urban areas while the Republican base is in rural communities. That’s the general principle that seems to play out when you look at most national election maps.

But here, one of the nation’s most Republican states, the GOP’s dominance covers all communities and neighborhoods, whether urban, rural or suburban.

In statewide races, Democrats performed the best in Oklahoma City, but still not good enough to sway any elections.

Democrat Joe Dorman, who lost his bid for governor with just 41 percent of the statewide vote, captured 46 percent in Oklahoma County. Cathy Cummings, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, grabbed 31 percent of the statewide vote. In Oklahoma County, she did better with 39 percent.

In races for superintendent of public instruction and U.S. Senate, the Democratic candidate had some of the party’s best returns in Oklahoma County, but still not nearly enough to be able to call the state’s largest city a liberal bastion.

“It’s comforting to us because over the long run, I think people are going to continue to see that conservatism makes a positive difference and that a liberal approach to governance is a losing matter,” state GOP chairman Dave Weston said about his party’s success in OKC. “You don’t have to look any further than Detroit to see that.”

The Republican’s dominance in this city is no surprise considering the city’s reputation as one of the most conservative cities in America. Pew Research Center ranked OKC No. 2 on its list of the most conservative cities this year, behind only Mesa, Arizona. In fact, OKC was just one of 11 of the 50 largest cities that lean conservative.

However, Democrats hope that changing demographics here will benefit the party in the near future.

“Oklahoma City could see a tremendous growth in its population density over the next three or four decades, and with that increase in density, I think you are going to see a lot more millennials,” said Jason Dunnington, Representative-elect for House District 88, one of the state’s most Democratic districts, located in central OKC. “I think we are going to see more of this shift to our urban areas becoming more Democratic and more progressive,

that just being when you look at the younger demographic and where they fall on a political spectrum.”

In addition to a growing population of young residents, Democrats have hope that OKC’s growing Hispanic community will help put several seats in play.

However, this summer in a Democratic primary, Mary Sosa, a Hispanic candidate for House District 89 in south OKC, which is home to the city’s largest population of Latino residents, lost to fellow Democratic candidate Shane Stone.

Last week, Michael Brooks-Jimenez, another south-side Hispanic candidate, lost to Republican Ralph Shorty by 10 points in Senate District 44.

“We are trying to get more representation,” Carlos Ortiz, editor of the weekly Spanish-language newspaper, El Nacional, told Oklahoma Watch last month. “People have to vote. The

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above Raymond York cheers during a Republican watch party at Tower Hotel Oklahoma City last week. at right Sarahi Wilson of the Oklahoma Republican Party gets ready during an Election Day watch party in Oklahoma City last week. community must participate.”

The state’s Hispanic population more than doubled since 2000, from 4.3 percent to 9.7 percent, according to U.S. Census data. However, Hispanics make up 4.5 percent of eligible voters here, which is far fewer than the 27.4 percent in Texas.

“The political atmosphere over the next two years on both the state and federal level will definitely be frustrating and ugly for progressives,” wrote Kurt Hochenauer, a liberal blogger in Oklahoma and English professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. “It’s also possible the Oklahoma electorate will grow tired of the conservative extremism in state government by [the next election], but frankly, a significant shift might be ten or more years

away, and even that is uncertain to me.”

Cassie Peters, a partner at Skyfire Media political consulting firm, which managed several Democratic campaigns this year, also believes the climate is too tough right now for Democrats.

“This cycle, I saw some of the best legislative campaigns run in Oklahoma since I have been doing this, and I’m not just talking about the campaigns that my team was a part of. But as a whole, we Dems stepped up our game with field, fundraising and media this cycle,” Peters said. “Regardless, I think most of our races were decided ... before we even had candidates running in those districts.”

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Art, park The celebration of downtown’s new 802-space parking garage demonstrates that pragmatic projects, while not as sexy as skyscrapers and streetcars, have an important place in the function of a city.

The new garage also demonstrates the importance of design, especially in Oklahoma City’s growing core.

“We continually raise the standards for what we do,” said Mayor Mick Cornett last week at the grand opening of the Arts District Garage located south of City Hall between Hudson Avenue and Main Street. “We are raising the standards of the projects where the city is involved.”

The 10-story garage is lined with vertical glass panels drawing inspiration from the Federalist Deco style of the 1930s, said architect Anthony McDermid.

“We are going to find that every single day … you get a chance to see it means something different to us,” Ward 6 Councilwoman Meg Salyer said about the structure’s glass panels, talking about it as a piece of art.

The first floor of the facility includes 18,500 square feet of retail space where a medical clinic for city employees and a coffee shop are already planned. Built at a cost of $24.5 million, the Arts District Garage will be managed by Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority (COTPA) and is the first new building for the department in 20 years.

“Our goal was to have a garage that blended parking with office and retail in a highly pedestrian environment and also complemented the current architecture in the area,” COTPA director Jason Ferbrache said.

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Michael Scroggins holds Embark signs to be installed in Oklahoma City.

Bus system honored Embark, the city’s public transit operation, earned high praise last month for its marketing and branding efforts.

The transit system renamed itself Embark this summer and unveiled a new logo, advertising and promotional material around the new name. Embark received five first-place AdWheel Awards and the grand prize from the American Public Transportation Association for its marketing and communication efforts.

First place awards for Embark were given for its radio and television ads and its system map.

Convention center plans The least popular and most expensive MAPS 3 project will receive more funding after the Oklahoma City Council voted for an expanded version of a proposed convention center.

“I don’t know why this is the only project out of all of them that feels empowered (to ask for more money),” said Ward 4 Councilman Pete White, who joined Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid in voting against the larger convention center. “This was the lowest

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percentage of favorite on the (MAPS 3) ballot, yet it’s the one that we’re going to try and put more money in.”

The council voted to increase the price tag by $30 million, which actually replaces money that was taken out of the project budget a few years ago to pay for the relocation of an electrical substation. After it was determined that the substation would not need to be relocated, city staff recommended the $30 million be added back in.

An Oklahoma Gazette poll in 2009 found that just 26 percent of citizens support the convention center, the lowest favorability of all MAPS 3 projects, which also includes a whitewater facility, a downtown streetcar system and senior wellness centers.

The city’s current convention center has 153,000 square feet of rentable space, while a new convention center would have 235,000 square feet. However, the expanded version approved by the council increases the

Despite several complaints, the Oklahoma City Council is moving forward with plans to build a new convention center downtown. building to 275,000 square feet.

“Based on the number of businesses we can call on right now with our current size, the expanded version increases that potential by 22 percent,” said Mike Carrier, president of the Oklahoma City Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Shadid, who has regularly criticized the convention center project, said he was unconvinced that a bigger convention center would bring in more

business, or at least not enough to warrant the additional cost.

He also believed it was unwise for the city to commit extra funds before a judgment is made on the price to acquire the land.

At $280 million, the convention center is the most expensive MAPS 3 project and comes at a time when other cities have experienced lower-thanexpected revenue from new convention centers. However, OKC’s price tag is also much lower than those built in other cities and will be paid for without debt.

Despite opposition from some council members, the convention center has been approved by voters and is moving forward. However, the council is expected to discuss public funding options for a convention center hotel in the coming months, which is expected to create more debate.

“It’s obvious that this council would agree to whatever,” White said, referring to the debate surrounding the convention center.

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By the numbers 14. That’s the number of new curriculum director positions added at the Oklahoma City Public School District this year.

“Typical school districts have between 40 and 80 in their curriculum department, and we only had five,” said Aurora Lora, associate superintendent of student achievement and accountability.

Lora presented the new organizational chart to the school board last week and said each new employee came from the central office or outside the district.

“No teachers were removed from the classroom,” Lora said.

Lora was one of the first hires of new Superintendent Robert Neu this summer, and she spent the first few months of the school year interviewing principals, administrators and other workers involved in curriculum development.

Lora said the increased staff will also help the district decrease the money it spends on outside consultants.

Terry Clark, Ph.D. UCO Professor of Journalism

Mentors Matter On her first day at Central, Heide Brandes met a MARK H AN COCK / FILE

I don’t know why this is the only project out of all of them that feels empowered (to ask for more money).

kind professor who took time to stop a wandering journalism student and introduce himself. That same professor would later memorably challenge her class to “show, don’t tell” by describing a rock without using the word “rock.”

That was the beginning of a mentorship with Dr. Terry Clark that endures today. At Central, our class sizes allow professors to put teaching first. Students develop personal relationships with our faculty and staff, who commit each day to transforming lives.

“I would not be where I am today without the lessons I learned from him or the support I continue to receive. It was his recommendation to The Wall Street Journal that’s led to me becoming a writer for a national news service. He’s a teacher and a friend.”

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Our religious freedoms will afford you the right to do many things, but smoking meth isn’t one of them.

After spotting a broken taillight, Duncan police pulled over Lori Potarf — a witch — and her acquaintance Richard Lee Henderson — who might also be a witch but probably isn’t — for a seemingly routine traffic stop. Both Potarf and Henderson possessed one of those multipurpose Crown Royal bags (the fanny pack of drug users), and each contained meth paraphernalia.

But only Potarf stood up for her Godgiven Wiccan rights by claiming that ingesting meth was a super important part of her religion. (Stand up for your liberties, Henderson!)

This, of course, was not a legitimate defense, and Duncan police charged Potarf with drug and paraphernalia possession anyway. Little did they know, however, that upon her

release, Potarf might torment them with her quirky witchy ways. Let’s imagine her parading around the station atop a broomstick, casting spells on unsuspecting officers and conjuring ghosts of the police station’s past.

Grave decision

Before his current role as Oklahoma County District Judge, Bill Graves was a state legislator who authored dozens of anti-abortion measures and was vocal in his anti-abortion views.

So it probably comes as no surprise that he recently denied a doctor’s challenge to a new anti-abortion law in Oklahoma that requires doctors who perform

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abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

“I’m against murder. Does that mean that I shouldn’t hear a criminal case?” Graves said when asked by The Oklahoman if he should have recused himself from abortion cases due to his personal beliefs.

Unlike murder cases, legal issues involving abortion are not typically asking a judge to decide if the act was actually committed. Besides, murder is illegal in Oklahoma, and abortion is not.

It’s now legal in Oklahoma to …

Since November began, our weather has changed and the holidays are quickly approaching — oh yeah, and more than 250 laws on the books came into effect in Oklahoma.

(Some actually make sense!)

The other laws, well, we aren’t sure about them because there are 250 of them and we kept falling asleep trying to read them all.

One law made dash-cam videos in Oklahoma Highway Patrol cars available as a matter of public record.

Other laws are meant to keep gun licensees up to date. Right now, according to KFOR.com, there are 200,000 Oklahomans registered to carry, and those renewing or getting a license now have three years to do so or they have to start the process over and retake a class.

Oh, and part of the changes in the law allows anyone with a gun license to enter public school property with a weapon, kfor.com reported.

Another law makes the soulsucking process of a divorce (when a minor child is involved) even more depressing by forcing the two parties to attend a class on how divorce impacts children.

Also, workers across the state: Relax! Your online world is now safe from the judgmental eyes of your bosses, thanks to Rep. John Trebilcock, R-Broken Arrow. His law

bans employers from requiring or forcing would-be/could-be employees to turn over his or her social media accounts, user names and passwords — which is kind of a weird thing for the employer to demand in the first place, right?

However, House Bill 2372 does allow an employer to try to get the information if any computer system or device is subsidized by the employer or used for business purposes. So keep your Second Life world off your work computers.

Through the haze

Though hazing at universities has made news headlines for years, antibullying campaigns are just now taking over social media and bullying, long considered a normal part of childhood, is now a serious offense.

Four football players at Oklahoma

Union High School in South Coffeyville might face legal consequences after an unspecified incident in a locker room.

According to an Oct. 23 story on News9.com, the students were expelled and are under police investigation until it is determined whether a crime was committed.

The head football coach, Rich Giesen, has been asked to resign, though he claims he had no knowledge of the hazing incident. However, he will continue teaching math at Union.

But this isn’t the first time Giesen has suffered consequences due to incidents involving students under his care.

Oct. 24, The Tulsa World reported finding a story in the Colorado Springs Gazette about Giesen losing a coaching job at Field Kindley Memorial High School in Coffeyville, Kansas, due to another incident in a locker room.

Though questions of background

checks and what is happening to students Giesen is responsible for come to mind, Oklahoma Union High School is doing something about it. It announced plans to bring in a bullying specialist — yes, those exist now — to help deal with the problem.

Dogs, gone

In the gladiatorial arena in ancient Rome, the emperor gave a thumbs-up or thumbs-down indicating whether the fighter should live or die. The dog version of that same tense drama played out in a Bethany courtroom this week.

Luckily, the two dogs, Brutus and Athena, survived, but not without a price.

According to KOCO.com, the two American bulldogs greeted the wrong neighbor, wife of Bethany police chief Phil Cole, too enthusiastically.

It should be noted that the dogs were

puppies that, according to the family, are always happy to see a familiar face. Upon seeing Cole’s wife, Athena and Brutus ran and jumped on her, most likely administering a near-fatal amount of glee and licking.

In what we guess might be a bit of an overreaction, Cole’s wife asked that the dogs be put to death. She did admit that the two pooches had never hurt her before but she believed them to be dangerous.

A judge ultimately disagreed, and the dogs were granted a stay of execution.

However, the terrible twosome can never set foot in their home again.

The judge banned them from Bethany for life.

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Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com. Include a city of residence and contact number for verification.

Small, bold moves

Since writing the poem “A poem to Progressives plotting mass exodus” (originally published Nov. 18, 2010, in Oklahoma Gazette) there is this slightly uncomfortable but oh-so-sweet thing that happens where strangers come up to me at shows or email me and say things like, “I love your poem about not leaving Oklahoma and staying to do the work, but I really can’t take it anymore and I have to get out. I’m sorry,” or, “I know you said not to go, but my husband got a job in Seattle and …,” as if I am the Red State Liberal Border Patrol or the Confession Booth for Weary Progressives.

I feel flattered at any of those notions.

(For the record, I support any and all choices to live a full, nourishing life, and gobs of Oklahomans are doing vital work all over the country.) Mostly what I get is folks who say, “Hey. That poem. It really helped. Thanks,” which is more than I could have ever hoped for.

I wrote that poem four years ago, the day after the election that banned the use of Sharia Law, elected Mary Fallin as governor, instituted voter ID requirements and made English the official language, among other swell things. I wrote the poem while crying at my desk.

At the time, I worked for the State Election Board. I had just worked a heavily casseroled 16-hour Election Day shift and spent the last several months talking to voters across the state about such lovely topics as What Will Happen When the Muslims/Gays/Mexicans Take Over, Who Do I Talk to About These Illegals and, my personal favorite, Why Didn’t You Check Obama’s Birth Certificate?

When my boss asked why I was crying, assuring me that it is just the political tide, Democrats will have it back in a few years, I said, “I’m not crying because Republicans won; I am crying because I live in a state who just spent a ridiculous amount of time, energy and money to send the message that we are the most racist state in the nation.” He shrugged. “Oh that? That really didn’t take much time. That was like 30 minutes in the Senate and a few phone calls.” I slumped down in my chair and vowed to move as far away as possible.

But suddenly, it was like I could hear good ol’ George Dubya whispering pearls in my ear, “If you’re scared, the terrorists

win. If you refuse to be scared, they lose.”

Basically, if all the cool people leave, Oklahoma will become a herd of Sally Kerns storming the HiLo Club, putting Vince Gill on the jukebox and playing earthquake drinking games until Kelly Ogle is the only drag queen in town. Or something.

Look. I am a fifth-generation Okie.

My family is part Creek-Seminole and part Irish preachers who moved here to “convert the savages.” My father’s mother was the first director of the ACLU in Oklahoma. My mother’s mother fought the City of Nichols Hills to allow people of color to live there. I’ll be damned if I am going to just pack up and move to Portland.

Too many people have died on this red dirt to allow right-wing fundamentalists to dismantle every smidge of progress we’ve made. I wrote the poem to convince myself to stay but also to remind myself of all the small ways that we create change.

Because Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin were willing to wait 9 years to have their court case heard, I can now marry my partner in the state of Oklahoma. Because Muneer Awad sued the State Election Board for religious discrimination, the ban on Sharia Law was ruled unconstitutional. Because Dr. Larry Burns and the Center for Reproductive Rights challenged the 2010 law requiring an ultrasound prior to an abortion, that law was struck down.

Because Ms. Stellman picked Ms. Holster up and took her to the polls yesterday, Ms. Holster was able to vote for Connie Johnson, the first African-American woman to be nominated for the US Senate. If Paul Thompson had not been the first gay man to stand up for himself court in 1969 after another gay bar police raid; if Angles hadn’t sued Oklahoma City in 1983 after one too many police beatings in the parking lot, maybe Al McAffrey and Paula Sophia would not have become police officers and would never have run for office. If Native women didn’t speak up against their attackers, maybe the Violence Against Native Women Act would not have been signed.

The truth is, each time our state policymakers become the butt of a joke on MSNBC, tons of other Oklahoman citizens are doing some overlooked courageous thing. A Chickasha mom introduces her trans child with his proper name and pronoun. The mayor of Waynoka feeds pigs in the morning with his nails painted purple, and in the afternoon, he refuses a contract to a racist businessman. A father of two drives around town in a van powered by vegetable oil, delivering local produce to restaurants. A Latino student organizes a voter registration drive at her high school. A hair stylist decides to build an off-the-grid house and teach people about urban gardening. A 10-year-old kid learns

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how to say thank you in four different languages so he can swap treats with the other kids at the lunch table.

I don’t know if I will always live in this state, or even in this country for that matter, but I know I want to die here.

I know I want to be some part of what makes this state great. When I’m old, I want to sit under a redbud tree with my grandchildren and say, “Can you believe the things we had to fight for back then?

My, how things have changed. My goodness, how things have changed.”

— Lauren Zuniga Oklahoma City Editor’s note: Oklahoma City resident Lauren Zuniga is an internationally touring poet, educator and activist. She has been featured on Upworthy, BoingBoing, MoveOn.org, Autostraddle and Everyday Feminism. She is a three-time national slam finalist and one of the top-ranked female poets in the world. In 2012, she was voted Best Local Author in Oklahoma Gazette’s Best of OKC poll.

Read Zuniga’s Nov. 19, 2010, poem on the Gazette website: wp.me/p4DEDr-5ZW Teach youth proper manners

Answer to Ed Lake’s question (News, “Deadly Battle,” Nov. 5, Gazette): Why are we raising young men that do not have respect for women?

“We all have to look at what we are doing in raising young boys that contributes to this problem,” Lake said.

Chris Ross said, “It is kind of baffling to me why” we have such violence against women in Oklahoma. As a 45-year married father of three, grandfather of eight, with 45 years of studying the Bible and observing others, I believe I can answer that question: To raise a boy, you have to have a good dad, not one who is unfaithful, abuses drugs or alcohol or gambling, or is selfish and violent.

Then you need a dad who takes an active interest, spends time with his son and teaches him how to respect others and women in a particular, gentlemanly way. This dad also must have a caring and respectful relationship with his wife for his son to see how to treat a woman.

This dad must know how and when to discipline. These things are basic. The state can’t make good fathers happen. The

state can only punish the man or father who becomes deadly violent.

But even if all of the good things happen between a father and son, there are things we, the public and the media, are doing that, if not corrected, will still result in our boys becoming violent men.

As long as schools teach that there is no difference between boys and girls, boys will resentfully prove them wrong.

As long as there are repeated examples of solely sexual oriented relationships, bitchy women and violent, disrespectful men and bullies depicted in the media and music, boys will see and imitate media as real life.

In the ’50s and early ’60s television, we had Ben Cartwright, Andy Griffith and Matt Dillon to teach us how a man should raise sons and treat ladies. Then Archie Bunker and others taught us how to be disrespectful. Now fathers are pictured as idiots and doormats. No boy wants to end up like that, so he adopts the boorish violence of the rap singer and the twisted dark side of the hero/villains. Add to that the substance abuse lifestyle and the easily viewed surreal sex acts on the internet, and you end up with a boy who is selfish, disrespectful, defensive and who expects sexual results from a relationship that no man can ever perform, and no woman can ever be expected to enjoy without pay or substance abuse.

And recently, boys listening to the radio are bombarded with the false claims of porn star performance from expensive “men’s clinics” (women must hate those commercials).

When women are unable to satisfy the selfish expectations learned by these boys, bitterness, resentment and unfaithfulness are the results. If the woman complains or is bitchy, the boy can become violent. If the woman also has violent tendencies learned from parents and media, the boy will react on an even higher level of violence.

But the question, “Why are we raising young men that do not have respect for women?” will remain, answered as long as there is no censorship in the media and as long as schools ignore the differences of the sexes and teach political correctness in place of correct manners.

We are already well down the slippery slope of hedonistic license. The Bible tells me so.

— Michael Moberly Oklahoma City

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Introduction This year’s class of Forty Under 40 is bold, inquisitive, creative and committed. Why? Most of its members are millennials born between the late 1970s and mid-1990s. To quote authors Neil Howe and William Strauss, who coined the word, “The millennial generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alienated to upbeat and engaged — with potentially seismic

consequences for America.”

These individuals are civic-minded, techno-savvy, environmentally conscious and creatively driven and live in an everchanging and sometimes revolutionary social media environment. This distinct blend drives millennials to invent and refine multiple platforms that drive ideas, solutions, innovation, growth and social change.

We wanted to get this illustrious group’s thoughts on happiness and what they would do if they were given unlimited resources?

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Aaron Soward Age 38 | CEO | Provision Concepts

“Happiness for me is being with my family and loved ones.

It’s having the ability to fulfill my aspirations in life, to create things that will leave a mark of my existence.”

Adam Sampson Edwards III Age 38 | Chairman and Brand Ambassador | Waters Edge Winery

“Over the years, I’ve grown into what I term ‘my happy place.’

I accomplish this by making small, positive changes in my life on a daily basis and by chasing big dreams.

By adopting these simple principles, I’ve learned to be very thankful for what I have and not obsess over what could be.”

Amanda Bradway Age 32 | Owner, Curator, Product Designer | DNA Galleries

“I’m very passionate about urban renewal. If resources were not an object, I would create tiny affordable homes and live/work spaces in concentrated areas that would allow artists to sustain creative careers and enjoy the same neighborly qualities we have in the Plaza District.”

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“Happiness to me is an attitude rather than a feeling. Feelings and emotions are ephemeral, but happiness is derived from both personal and professional fulfillment.”

Ana Herrera

Age 31 | South Oklahoma City Community Organizer Neighborhood Alliance of Central Oklahoma

“I would support and provide resources to organizations that fight to eradicate hunger and promote education around the world. I would love for every country to have educational systems that support all types of learners and maximize the potential of every student.”

Britt Gotcher Age 37 | Regional Manager of Strategic Partnerships | Feed the Children

“If I had unlimited resources, the possibilities for making a difference in the world would be infinite. But my passion is feeding hungry children. I would use my resources to create sustainable sources of nutritious food around the world to make sure no child ever has to know the feeling of hunger.”

Charles Martin Age 38 | Creative Director | Literati Press Comics & Novels

“[Happiness is helping] build the culture I want to exist rather than searching for it on distant shores. Though writing is still a fundamental driver in my life, Literati’s ability to find and propel other emerging artists and writers is equally gratifying.”

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Forty Under 40 Class Stats

Attended College

other 20%

OU

29%

OCU 9%

UCO 24%

OSU 18%

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Relationship Status

single 29%

other 8%

engaged 6%

married 57%

Elena Troya Age 39 | Adult Instructional Coordinator | Metro Technology Centers

“[With limitless resources] I would assist new business owners, providing low-interest loans like the ones that the Grameen Bank or Kiva provide.

My biggest dream would be to provide means for people to help themselves.”

Elizabeth Newton Age 26 | Development Officer | Children’s Hospital Foundation

“Cheese. I’m only (partially) kidding. Happiness is being surrounded by my family and friends. Whether we’re on vacation, preparing Thanksgiving dinner or simply watching a movie on the couch, time with family is what I crave.”

Emily Frosaker Age 29 | Owner and Creator | Dry/Shop Blow-dry Bar and Boutique

“With a little inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert combined with my life experiences so far, happiness equates to holding myself accountable, being true to my aspirations and accepting my journey as my own while constantly striving to make the most of it, stumbles and successes included.”

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Emily Rothrock Tate Age 33 | Contractor | Access Midstream

“Happiness means everyone is okay. There is enough food in the pantry, everyone is healthy, our love-cups are full and we have something to look forward to on the calendar. It’s the joy of creating or because of my involvement, an organization, work process or an event is now better, stronger or more efficient than it was before.”

Emily Williams Age 35 | Young Adult Services Coordinator | Metropolitan Library System

“I would open an art studio/ dog rescue. I’d blanket the city with books. I’d have a way to support all those great organizations that I admire, which do so much for the community already.”

Erin Rosas Age 32 | Interior Designer and Project Manager | Krittenbrink Architecture

“I believe happiness is when, at the end of the day, you can go home and enjoy what you have because you know you work hard for it and no matter what, there is always someone there who loves you for you. Happiness is that feeling of accomplishment, no matter the size.”

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Forty Under 40 Class Stats

Prepared for Retirement

nowhere near prepared

very prepared

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23%

somewhat prepared 65%

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Birth Order oldest 33%

middle 24%

youngest 34%

only child 9%

Estela Hernandez Age 37 | Owner/Director of Integration Services | Lone Star Construction LLC/ Age 37 | Owner/Director of Integration Services STAAR Foundation Lone Star Construction LLC/STAAR Foundation

“[With boundless resources] I would start by donating to organizations whose purpose is to strengthen families. Secondly, I would reform our education system by giving more control and resources to our teachers.”

Gilbert Magdaleno Age 29 | Festival of the Arts Director | Arts Council of Oklahoma City

“To me, happiness means enjoying my everyday life, whether it be a day at the office, at home trying out new recipes or an afternoon with family and friends.”

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Jacqueline Sit Age 33 | Account Executive | Candor Public Relation

“I would open a 24/7 food resource center and cafeteria to ensure that no child would ever have to go to bed hungry.

It would mean the world to me if I had the unlimited resources to feed every child in need.”

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somewhat optomistic 64%

Jeff Kline Age 26 | Associate Attorney | Bays Law Firm, P.C.

“I would work to develop better programs for America’s youth.

I believe if young boys and girls become more active in community organizations, including the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, team sports, etc., our society would raise a better young generation of more civic-minded individuals.”

Jeremiah Rivers Age 30 | President/CEO | Rivers’ Edge Countertops, Inc.

“Happiness to me is knowing who I am and pushing myself every day to be a better person than I was the day before. Then using my abilities to add value to lives of those around me.”

Jessica Gwinner Age 30 | Director of Sales and Marketing | Gwinner Studios Ltd. Co.

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“Happiness means to have positive relationships with others and be at peace with myself. This happens not only when I overcome great obstacles, but in the simplicity of enjoying life.

I am happiest when I invest in my relationships.”

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Confidence in the Economy

not very optimistic 7%

extremely optimistic 29%

somewhat optimistic 6 4%

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Thank you for the positive example you set for young leaders at the University of Central Oklahoma and throughout the Oklahoma City metro. It’s one of the many reasons why you are one of the okc.BIZ Forty Under 40!

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libertarian

Political Affiliation

3%

independent 12%

none

democrat

12%

41%

republican 32%

Jonathan Fowler

Age 32 | Vice President of Operations | Fowler Holding Company

“If I had unlimited resources, I would make sure arts education was a part of every Oklahoma student’s curriculum.”

Joshua Hinkle Age 30 | Assistant Vice President | First American Bank

“I would make sure every school in the state of Oklahoma had a budgetary surplus. All programs, equipment needs, field trips, teacher workshops, media centers, classrooms, fine arts programs and early childhood development programs would never have to look for another dime to keep their activities at the highest possible level.”

Julia Adame LaGace Age 32 | Senior Bilingual Loan Officer | Bay Equity LLC

“I would spend my life giving back to my community. My children’s involvement would be of utmost importance to me. I would invest my time and money serving others in my hometown and also venture out to other places around the world.”

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Kay Robinson Age 37 | Director of Student Engagement | University of Central Oklahoma

“Happiness for me is relationships. It is my No. 1 value, and I feel most alive, happy and myself when I’m working on cultivating and growing relationships with my family, friends, colleagues and new people.”

Lindsay Laird Age 30 | Vice President | Saxum

“[With unlimited resources] I would work with a team to solve Oklahoma’s foster care challenges so every child has a loving home.”

Matthew McLarty Age 37 | Intern Architect/Designer | Bockus-Payne Associates Architects

“I would start a design and development firm that would concentrate on New Urbanism principles, it would have a side that would be a cross of architecture for humanity and bcWorkshop. I would also work on veterans’ issues and become a strong state advocacy partner.”

Forty Under 40 Class Stats

How many children do you have?

none

42% 18% 18% 16% 6%

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How many hours a week do you work?

right around 40 18%

40 plus

less than 40 2%

80%

Nancy Perdomo Age 25 | Community Outreach Specialist | Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma

Russell Johnson Age 34 | Chef/Owner | Ludivine LLC/J3 LLC

“I think happiness means different things to us at different points in our lives. Right now, I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to get up every day and do something that I truly love for a living and to feel that in doing so, I get to play a small part in this remarkable revitalization that our city is experiencing.”

Sara Cowan Age 37 | Director/Co-Founder | Deluxe Oklahoma City Freelance Fact-checker | Oklahoma Today

“I would create an agency that helps girls getting out of the juvenile justice system to get back on their feet by providing them with a safe and healthy environment to live in. Many young girls have no choice but to go back to unsafe environments.”

“[With unlimited resources] I’d fund arts programs in public schools and raise all teacher salaries. Funding education is a great way to show we’re serious about progress in Oklahoma.”

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Sarah Bytyqi

Age 35 | Assistant Vice President | Republic Bank & Trust

Age 37 | Owner, Managing Broker and Real Estate Agent | Verbode

“I would invest my unlimited resources in the development of my community to its maximum potential. I would accomplish this by seeking the right people to constantly improve education, businesses and quality of life.

Once a successful model was in place, I would expand that model to surrounding cities, states and across the globe.”

Robert Ruiz Age 35 | Marketing Manager | Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads

“I would figure out how to make sustainability a reality in order to make resources abundant for everyone. I feel like this is the root of most of our problems in the world and the solution is within our grasp.”

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“If I had unlimited resources, I would travel the world with my family for a few months every year to learn about cultures and people. My husband Andi and I would start a foundation in Kosovo to help feed, clothe and shelter families in need.”

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Where do you live?

Yukon 0%

Edmond 19% north OKC 19% west east OKC 3% OKC Midtown 16% 18% Downtown 9% south OKC/ Moore 6%

other 1%

Norman 9%

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yes

Do you plan on staying in Oklahoma?

96%

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no

undecided

2%

2%

Seth Cavin Age 39 | Founder and Principal Owner | Spur Design, LLC

“We are responsible for our own happiness. No other person or situation, good or bad, should make that determination for us. Our attitude and response to situations in life is key to maintaining happiness.”

Shane Jewell Age 34 | Executive Director | Oklahoma City Ballet

“I have learned as an adult we do not have the capacity for happiness as children do.

We have learned too much to just enjoy the feeling.

Standing in the lobby of The Nutcracker and watching all of these children about to see this classic production with Christmas right around the corner, that is happiness.”

Sheena Karami Age 30 | Vice-President, Office of the Chief Operations Officer Ackerman McQueen

“Happiness to me has so much to do with inner self. It’s about having a positive outlook and making a conscious decision to be present in the moment each and every day. Keep it simple; look for the good in every situation, be kind, do good work, smile, laugh and you’ll rarely be disappointed!”

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Religious Affiliation

Baptist

not religious

9%

26%

other 17%

Catholic 9%

Christian

Jewish

36%

3%

methodist 0%

Trent Willis Age 34 | Senior Vice President | RCB Bank

“[In regard to limitless funding] My desire would be to build upon those resources and provide opportunities for others, creating jobs allowing people to be more self-sufficient. People with great ideas are plentiful, and by giving these individuals a platform to build upon their specific ideas, I could help them succeed.”

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Tyler Johnson

Age 34 | Founding Member and Co-CEO | OKCcomedy

Age 37 | Vice President of Casino Operations | Remington Park Racing and Casino

“I would hire extremely bright and motivated people from all of the best companies in the world.

My new company would solely focus on solving macro problems that trouble humanity, such as fresh water, education, human rights, clean air and fuels. I cannot imagine having unlimited resources and not attempting to improve humanity.”

“Happiness is laughter, a sold-out crowd’s worth of laughter. I’m happiest when I’m making others laugh.”

Stacey Pezold

Yenni Vance

Age 35 | Executive Vice President of Operations | Paycom Software

Age 37 | Digital Communications & Social Media Director Remington Park Racing and Casino & Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie

“Happiness to me means living a life of passion and purpose. I’m happiest when I am engaged in activities that are in line with the person I strive to become.”

“[Happiness is] To love and be loved. To be free. To love what I do. To have faith and dreams.

To be the protagonist of positive changes in this life. To see the ones I love be successful. To be able to enjoy the little joys in life that really matter far more than tangible stuff.”

T.O. Bowman Age 29 | Interim Sustainability Director | City of Oklahoma City

“In terms of unlimited funding, I would likely create a regional, rail-based transit system in the metro area and a high-speed connection to Tulsa. Then hire Steve Martin to get all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.”

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Where do you work?

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Edmond 20% north OKC 6% west east OKC 3% OKC Midtown 13% 6% Downtown 19% south OKC/ Moore 6%

other 12%

Norman 9%

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‘Tis the season for

Ton Papier’s Holiday Open House

OKG picks are events

recommended by Oklahoma Gazette editorial staff members.

For full calendar listings, go to okgazette.com.

BOOKS

Thursday & Friday November 13 & 14 9am to 5:30pm

New INK, discover newly released books, 3-5 p.m., Nov. 15. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. SAT Mary Coley Book Signing, author of Ant Dens, 2-3:30 p.m., Nov. 16. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. SUN

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Shop ‘til you drop

Gwendolyn Hooks, children’s author will host storytime and sign copies of her books Cat Food Mystery and The Noisy Night, 11 a.m., Nov. 15. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Rd., Edmond, 340-9202, bestofbooksedmond. com. SAT

FILM Art’s Underground Movie Night, showing of Jean Luc Baillet’s movie Black Night along with James Cullen Bressack’s 13/13/13, 8-10 p.m., Nov. 13. Dig It, 1739 NW 16th St., facebook.com/shopDigIt. THU

At the Montgomery

500 W. Main, Suite 105 Downtown OKC

405-272-0838

Allan Houser: Unconquered, (U.S., 2008, dir. Bryan Beasley) highlights the life of Allan Houser, an influential Oklahoma Indian artist and his works, 3-5 p.m., Nov. 15. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 5212491, okhistory.org/historycenter. SAT Found Footage Festival, live comedy show and screening of comedic clips from VHS videotapes found from thrift shops and other places of the sort, 9 p.m., Nov. 18. Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman, opolis. org. TUE

International Festival Do you consider yourself cultured? Well, you’re not — unless, of course, you attend the University of Central Oklahoma’s 39th annual International Festival, a gathering of international student organizations representing different parts of the world with various cuisine, performances and informational booths. The fest is 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Nigh University Center Ballrooms on the UCO campus, 100 N. University Drive, in Edmond. Admission is free. Visit uco.edu.

Thursday

HAPPENINGS Hip Hop on the Plaza, live performances from emerging local artists, 6-11 p.m., Nov. 12. Dig It, 1739 NW 16th St., facebook.com/shopDigIt. WED

exotic lawns into beautiful landscapes, 9 a.m.-noon, Nov. 15. The Nature Conservancy, 408 NW 7th St., 858 8557, nature.org. SAT

The Pocket Prairie Garden, Jamie Csizmadia, landscape architect and ecoregional specialist, demonstrates the quickest, easiest and most sustainable way to convert

Statehood Day Festival, celebrate Oklahoma’s 107th birthday with food trucks, lawn toys, games, a sidewalk sale, crafts for families to enjoy, free admission and performances by The Sugar Free All-Stars, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Nov. 15. Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Blvd., 235-4458, oklahomaheritage.com. SAT Gorgeous Gourds, create arrangements for your fall table alongside the Whole Foods Floral Design Team, 10-noon, Nov. 15. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. SAT Holiday Gala in the Paseo, find holiday gifts, free carriage rides and view the street decorations, galleries, and a presentation of “Something Merry This Way Comes” by Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, noon-5 p.m., Nov. 16. Paseo Arts District, 3022 Paseo St., 5252688, thepaseo.com. SUN

FOOD

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Chili Bowl, handmade chili bowls from the OU ceramic students and members of the Red Clay Faction along with all-you-can-eat chili. The Lightwell Gallery, 520 Parrington Oval, Rm. 202, Norman, 325-2691, ou.edu.

WED

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas

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It’s officially holiday season, so get ready for long lines, fighting with in-laws and draining your bank account. Er, wait. Those are the bad things. The good things include shows like Chip Davis’ Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, a holiday season staple featuring modern takes on some of the best tunes Christmas has to offer.

“Jingle Bell Rock” your way to the show 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $25-$75. Call 800-869-1451 or visit celebrityattractions.com.

Sunday

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Merry Marketplace, food demos and tastings along with hair and make-up demos for the upcoming holidays, 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Nov. 14. Wings Event Center, 13700 N. Eastern Ave., Edmond, wingsok.org. FRI Dutch Oven Cooking, learn new recipes and learn how to use a dutch oven, 1-5 p.m., Nov. 15. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 521-2491, okhistory.org/ historycenter. SAT Wisconsin Cheese Soup Throwdown, soup cook-off, 3-6 p.m., Nov. 15. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Rd., Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. SAT Cooking for Company-Holiday Food Safety, join Karen Massey, RD, LD, for a quick refresher on how to prepare foods safely, 10 a.m., Nov. 19. Integris Third Age Life Center, 5100 N. Brookline Ave., 951-2277. WED

YOUTH Building Buddies, interactive village where children can build, decorate, paint, construct and tile. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. WED-WED Fall Literacy Festival, literacy activities and educational entertainment; meet PBS KIDS characters, sing-a-longs, story time and handson learning, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 15. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. SAT Holiday Craft, reindeer-painted canvas event; supplies included, 10 a.m.-noon, Nov. 15. Michaels, 5012 N. May Ave., 942-8920, michaels.com. SAT Free Crafts for Kids, make your own family picture tree, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 15. Lakeshore Learning Store, 6300 N. May Ave., 858-8778, lakeshorelearning.com. SAT Interactive Thanksgiving Display, learn about traditional Thanksgiving foods and plants and how they’ve transformed over time, Nov. 17-19.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 4457080, myriadgardens.org. MON

PERFORMING ARTS

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Outlaws and Villians, a variety of opera scenes and concert pieces performed by outlaw and villain characters from seven different operas, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 12-14. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St., Edmond, 359-7989, ucojazzlab.com. WED-FRI

Mary Lynn Rajskub You might know Mary Lynn Rajskub from her roles in such films as Safety Not Guaranteed and The Kings of Summer. Or perhaps you know her from TV’s 24 and Arrested Development.

Either way, her live performance is as worthy of your admiration as her lovable onscreen performances.

See Rajskub’s offbeat comedy show 8 p.m. Sunday at Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd. Tickets are $25-$29.

Cal 951-0000 or visit ticketstorm.com.

Sunday

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OKC Thunder vs. Houston Rockets Sure, the Thunder might be down a Kevin Durant, a Russell Westbrook and who knows who by the time you’re reading this. But they’re still your team, dammit.

And you’re still going to support them when they face James Harden and Western Conference foe the Houston Rockets. Tipoff is 6 p.m. Sunday at Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave. Tickets are available at nba.com/thunder.

Sunday

Marc Rubben, stand-up comedy and ventriloquism, 8 p.m., Nov. 12-13; 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m., Nov. 14-15. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 239-4242, loonybincomedy.com/oklahomacity. WED-SAT

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LOSS MITIGATION PLAN ADMINISTRATORS

Responsibilities include providing assistance to customers who are struggling with their mortgage payment and providing solutions to resolve delinquencies. Duties include inbound and outbound telephone contact with customers.

Individuals with excellent communication and PC skills, the ability to multitask, and who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment are successful in these positions. Candidates must be dependable, possess a positive attitude, have a desire to help others, and be adaptable to change.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES

Candidates must possess a work history that includes excellent customer service and communication skills along with strong PC/data entry ability. Enthusiastic persons, who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, are good listeners, detail oriented and interested in providing customer service are most successful in this position. Experience in customer service, the financial industry, real estate, legal, or mortgage servicing is helpful but not required. Preference will be given to candidates with call center experience. Scheduled hours are from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Spanish bi-lingual skills earn additional compensation.

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Little Women, play based off the novel by Louisa May Alcott performed by Oklahoma University’s Helmerich School of Drama, 8 p.m., Nov. 14; 3 p.m., 8 p.m., Nov. 15; 3 p.m., Nov. 16. Weitzenhoffer Theatre, 563 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-7370, ou.edu/finearts. FRI-SUN Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Tony Awardwinning play is a comedic story of step-siblings who never left their childhood home get a visit from their movie-star sister and her boyfriend who turn the quiet home upside down, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 13-14; 1:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15; 1:30 p.m., Nov. 16. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 297-2264, okcciviccenter. com. THU-SUN Brian Regan, stand-up comedy performance, 7 p.m., Nov. 16. Rose State College, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 733-7673, rose.edu. SUN Austrian & German Masterworks for Winds, performance by Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble is a musical panorama featuring compositions for wind ensemble from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 17. All Souls’ Episcopal Church, 6400 N. Pennsylvania Ave., 842-1461. MON

ACTIVE OKC Thunder vs. Detroit Pistons, NBA basketball game, 7 p.m., Nov. 14. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 602-8700, nba.com/thunder. FRI

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The Super Duper Fun Run, 5K and 1 mile fun run/walk for runners as young as 8 years old, 8 a.m., Nov. 15.

Stars & Stripes Park, 3701 S. Lake Hefner Blvd., 2972756, okc.gov/parks. SAT

Devon Ice Rink, ice skating rink, music and fun for the whole family, Nov. 14-19. Devon Ice Rink, 100 N. Robinson. FRI-WED Werdum vs. Hunt Live, live broadcast from the sold out fight in Mexico, 8 p.m., Nov. 15. Cinemark Tinseltown, 6001 N. Martin Luther King Ave., 4240461, cinemark.com. SAT National Veterans Day Run, a 5K and 1-mile family and supporter walk/run in honor of Veterans Day, 3 p.m., Nov. 16. Stars & Stripes Park, 3701 S. Lake Hefner, 297-2756, okc.gov/parks. SUN OU Sooners vs. Lamar Lady Cardinals, women’s college basketball, 7 p.m., Nov. 18. Lloyd Noble Center, 2900 S. Jenkins Ave., Norman, 325-4666, soonersports.com. TUE

VISUAL ARTS As Yet Untamed, showcase of art by O. Gail Poole, one of Oklahoma’s most influential and accomplished artists. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd St., 815-9995, artspaceatuntitled.org.

Bill Hensley Exhibition, Oklahoma artist who incorporates native Chickasaw culture in his paintings using unique techniques. Exhibit C, 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Ste. 100, 767-8900, chickasawcountry.com.

Collaborative Self, photography exhibit by Eyakem Gulilat rooted in a quest for belonging. North Gallery, State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 521-2931, arts. ok.gov.

Connie Seabourn, contemporary artist known for her watercolors and bright, bold screen printing. Paseo Gallery One, 2927 Paseo St., 524-4544, facebook.com/ paseogalleryone.

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION MONTH

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Thanks Giving!

Come in Saturday, November 15 for Customer Appreciation Day! Horsehair Pottery Exhibition, exhibit of horse hair pottery by White Antelope highlights the beauty of Native American art form. The Summer Wine Art Gallery, 2928 B Paseo St., 831-3279, summerwinegallery.com.

Lotus Flowers & Butterflies, display of Oklahoma native Rick Sinnet’s colorful, larger-than-life paintings.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 4457080, myriadgardens.org.

Melton Legacy Collection, a collection spanning more than 500 years of European and American oil paintings and drawings. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 974-2000, uco.edu.

Neon Ouroboris, series of paintings by Pop Alchemy creator/artist Eric Heckert with food, refreshments and DJ Jack Acid of Pirate Audio Sound System, 7 p.m., Nov. 15. Graphite Elements & Design, 1751 NW 16th St. SAT Play Time, Draw the Line, chalk exhibit featuring Josette Simon-Gestin. Nault Fine Art, 816 N. Walker Ave., 642-4414, naultfineart.com.

Red Dot 2014, event showcasing and auctioning new works by 71 Oklahoma artists with refreshments provided by local artists and businesses. IAO Art Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 232-6060, iaogallery. org.

Roots, exhibit of freestanding and wall-mounted metal sculptures made of found objects by Jim Dodson, Jr. Governor’s Gallery, State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 521-2931, arts.ok.gov.

Satellite Space, three-dimensional sculptures by visual artist Morgan Robinson. Kasum Contemporary Fine Arts, 1706 NW 16th St., kasumcontemporary.com.

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Art of Toys Back in the good ol’ days, you gave a kid a toy car or a Barbie doll and he was happy. But toys have significantly evolved over the years, and the creation of toys has become an art form of its own. See some of the craftiest, most visionary toys being made today in the Art of Toys installation, which opens 6-10 p.m. Friday at Istvan Gallery, 1218 N. Western Ave. Admission is free. Call 831-2874 or visit istvangallery.com.

No purchase necessary.

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Denise Duong & Timothy Chapman, exhibit of these talented painter’s works of art. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 528-6336, jrbartgallery.com.

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Friday

Scavange, FRINGE art show featuring Jeanne Turnage, Van Lango and Debra Ashley, who all used found objects to create art. AKA Gallery, 3001 Paseo St., 606-2522, akagallery.net.

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Somewhere In Between, exhibit by sisters Betty and Rose Refour featuring paintings of vibrant textural abstracts and whimsical characters. The Project Box, 3003 Paseo St., 609-3969, theprojectboxokc.com.

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BOOK YOUR HOLIDAY PARTIES NOW!

Gallery Talk with Rick Sinnett They might as well call Rick Sinnett the Mural Man. Take a drive down Route 66 and you’ll encounter many of his works. His most recent — a 13,000-squarefoot piece dubbed “This Land” — can be seen on the north facade of Rocktown Climbing Gym in south OKC. Sinnett will discuss his work and methods in a gallery talk 4-5 p.m. Saturday at Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave. The talk is free with admission to For OKG the garden. Call 445-7080 or visit myriadgardens.org.

Saturday

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Hot wings Wings & Things offers up Cajun twists on everything from chicken to po’boys and eggrolls.

BY GREG ELWELL

Wings & Things 608 W. VANDAMENT AVE., YUKON 265-3232 WHAT WORKS: GREAT HOT WINGS WITH TASTY SAUCES AND PO’BOYS GALORE. WHAT NEEDS WORK: THE EGGROLLS ARE A LITTLE TOO FRIED.

What kind of sauce should you get? The most popular flavors are Honey Flames and garlic Parmesan.

Garlic Parmesan wings at Wings & Things

TIP: DO YOURSELF A BIG FAVOR AND CALL AHEAD.

Everybody should break down a chicken at least once.

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts have long ruled the supermarket shelves.

Ground beef. Filleted fish. There are a ridiculous number of foods you can buy without ever knowing they were once part of an animal.

I’m not trying to make a bunch of vegetarians. I like meat. But I think it’s important to know where it comes from.

Which is, I suppose, a very roundabout way to get to this incredibly urgent point: Traditional hot wings are better than boneless hot wings.

“Oh, I don’t eat things with bones!”

Why not?

“I don’t like to think about how it

was alive.”

Well, you need to get over that. Not just because it’s dumb, but if you’re not over it before you visit Wings & Things, 608 W. Vandament Ave. in Yukon, you’ll miss out on the traditional hot wings, which are juicy and hot.

Boneless hot wings are fine, I guess, but they’re usually breast meat, which is missing the fat and skin that fry up so tasty. Besides, the bones slow you down so you can savor the flavor.

The wings are $7.99 for a 10-piece order all the way up to 50 for $35.99.

What kind of sauce should you get?

The most popular flavors are Honey Flames and garlic Parmesan. I got the mild Buffalo and relished the vinegary

Catfish and hushpuppies

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pop without all the heat. The garlic Parmesan are wonderful as well, with lots of butter and cheese and crunch.

When I go back, I’m going to have to try the jerk wings. Or the zesty Italian Parmesan. Or any of them. (But don’t order the original unless you want no sauce. Just a word of advice.)

What about the Things? I’m glad you asked. There are a lot of things that aren’t wings, and most of them are good.

The three-piece fish meal ($7.79) is a ton of food: three big pieces of fried fish, a side and two hushpuppies. This isn’t Long John Silver’s fried fish, either.

This is a nice, tight crust on a thinner piece of fish. I’d like it better with more seasoning in the breading, but you can certainly supplement with the available tartar sauce.

On the side, you have quite a few options, including an okra stew that is probably pretty healthy.

But I know you. C’mon. You’re going to choose the fries. These are hand-cut and battered before being fried. That makes them big and a little awkward to eat, but when they’re hot, they’re good. The potato salad is also homemade (almost everything at Wings & Things is), but I thought it was a little too mustardy. That said, your opinion might differ.

The owner of Wings & Things is from New Orleans, and it shows when you try the po’boys. My choice is the fried fish and shrimp ($7.49), which come on a soft roll with traditional toppings. It’s familiar and filling. Maybe

toss on some hot sauce. I bet hot sauce would be good on there.

There is also a pork chop sandwich ($4.99), which comes grilled or fried.

So I asked, “Which is better?”

Unsurprisingly, the answer was fried.

Now, this is a bone-in chop, so be careful how you attack this one. But Wings & Things knows how to fry, and the pork chop was no exception.

I liked the Philly Cheesesteak eggroll ($1.79 a piece or 3 for $4.99), but I think the wings and po’boys are much better.

For dessert, there’s yam cake ($3.25).

What is yam cake? That’s a good question. It’s kind of like a pound cake that, I assume, has some yams in it.

It’s sweet and comes with some cream cheese frosting that helps it go down.

Wings & Things also now has gumbo on its menu. Soon, the owner plans to add more Louisiana cuisine, like jambalaya, to the fare.

Now the bad news: It’s in Yukon.

Now the worse news: It’s to-go only.

So if you don’t have a good spot to land with your food, it’s a long drive before you get to eat. (And if you think you can eat this food on the road, you should know that it would be both dangerous and messy.)

But if you’re in Yukon or you just really want some good hot wings, then I think you might find yourself heading west on Interstate 40 and looking for a little bitty restaurant next to the 7-Eleven and ordering up a whole mess of food. And you better get those wings on the bone.

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1. Devon Ice Rink 2. Devon’s Saturdays with Santa 3. Chesapeake Energy Snow Tubing 4. SandRidge Tree Lighting Festival 5. SandRidge Santa Run 6. Free Water Taxi Rides 7. Automobile Alley Lights on Broadway 8. OneMain Financial’s Bricktown Canal Lights 9. Deluxe Winter Market 10. Sonic Segway Santa (various locations) 11. Continental's Free Movie Mondays 12. Film Row Holiday Party 13. Little Willie's Triple Dog Dare 14. Santa's Adventures on the Oklahoma River 15. Holiday Pop-up Shops 16. OKC Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” 17. OKC Philharmonic's "The Christmas Show" 18. Holiday Events at Myriad Gardens 19. Winter Shoppes at Myriad Gardens 20. Reduxion Theatre

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AN ANNUAL COLLECTION OF

Holiday

EVENTS DEVON'S SATURDAYS WITH SANTA

AUTOMOBILE ALLEY'S LIGHTS ON BROADWAY

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owntown in December, presented by Devon, is a series of holiday events and attractions in the heart of Oklahoma City starting Nov. 14. It’s a one-ofa-kind winter experience that features thrilling outdoor ice skating, snow tube rides down a 150-foot slope, afternoon visits with Santa Claus, a festive 5K run, free water taxi excursions, and a 2-day winter market, all surrounded by twinkling holiday lights. Most events are free of charge, and there is an open invitation for all to attend.

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DEVON ICE RINK AT THE MYRIAD BOTANICAL GARDENS

The Devon Ice Rink returns for its fourth season at the Myriad Botanical Gardens. Join us for another great winter of outdoor ice skating at Downtown in December's premier attraction.

Open seven days a week, the Devon Ice Rink hosts daily public skating, private parties and special events all winter long. The rink provides friends and families with a unique annual tradition that creates memories to last a lifetime.

RATES:

› $12 per person for all ages, includes skates › $8 for guests who bring their own skates › $7 for Gardens members HOURS OF OPERATION: Nov. 14 to Feb. 1

› Monday-Thursday: 3-9 p.m. › Friday: 3-11 p.m. › Saturday: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. › Sunday: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

The Devon Ice Rink is in the Myriad Botanical Gardens at the corner of S. Robinson and W. Sheridan avenues. Private parties and gift certificates are available. Call (405) 708-6499 to schedule your event.

SONIC SEGWAY SANTA

DEVON'S SATURDAYS WITH SANTA

Visit Devon Energy Center and the Myriad Botanical Gardens this holiday season during Devon’s Saturdays with Santa. The company, in partnership with Downtown in December, will offer a variety of holiday entertainment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Saturday Nov. 29 through Dec. 20.

Write letters to the North Pole, create holiday crafts, enjoy live entertainment, and share the spirit of giving with your children through an on-site volunteer activity for local nonprofits.

Weather permitting, holiday trains will transport families to and from the Myriad Gardens and two weekends will feature a few of Santa’s live reindeer. Visits with Santa are first come, first served. The event is open to the public.

GINGERBREAD VILLAGE Nov. 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

WHOVILLE Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

THE NORTH POLE Dec. 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

WINTER WONDERLAND Dec. 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

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CHESAPEAKE SNOW TUBING

Cruise down one of the country’s largest man-made snow-tubing slopes at Chesapeake Energy’s Snow Tubing at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. This snowy adventure is one of the most popular events during Downtown in December.

“Over the field we go” will have new meaning as riders slide from the ballpark’s upper deck all the way down to the field on a hill of manmade snow – even in sunny weather! For those seeking less of an adrenaline rush, a second, smaller slide will have children and moderate thrill-seekers dashing through the snow.

RATES:

$12 for a 90-minute session. Purchase your tickets at the door or online at Ticketmaster.com HOURS OF OPERATION:

› Sessions begin every 2 hours: noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. › Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13 and 14 › Open daily Dec. 20 through Jan. 4. (Closed Christmas Day.) FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Call the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark ticket office at (405) 218-1000.

SANDRIDGE SANTA RUN

SANDRIDGE TREE LIGHTING FESTIVAL

CHESAPEAKE SNOW TUBING

SANDRIDGE TREE LIGHTING FESTIVAL

Join us at the SandRidge Tree Lighting Festival from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28. Guests will enjoy live music, food and fun as Mayor Mick Cornett lights the tree for the season.

Santa will be at the festival to take free professional photos with the kids, which are printed on-site immediately. Local band Banana Seat will provide live music for the evening as guests snack on free popcorn and cookies. There will even be a face painter for the kids! This event is free and open to the public.

The SandRidge Christmas Tree serves as the centerpiece for Downtown in December. It will be on display on Mickey Mantle Drive, outside the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, until Jan. 1.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Call (405) 235-3500.

SANDRIDGE SANTA RUN

Jingle all the way through the streets of downtown Oklahoma City in the SandRidge Santa Run on Saturday, Dec. 13. As part of Downtown in December, the SandRidge Santa Run includes a 5K race, a one-mile fun run and a free kid’s dash, plus a warm-up with the Thunder

Girls and Rumble.

All runs begin and end at Leadership Square, 211 N. Robinson.

All runners are invited to dress up in their most festive holiday costumes for the races.

Registered 5k runners who dress up in holiday costumes may qualify for the costume contest.

After the race, show off your costumes to the SandRidge Santa Run panel of judges, and the top three picks will win cash prizes.

HOURS:

› 9 a.m.: 5k run › 9:30 a.m.: 1-mile fun run › 10 a.m.: kids’ dash REGISTRATION FEES:

› 5k: $35 › One-mile Fun Run: $20 › Kids’ Dash: free (Ages 8 and under.

No registration required.)

Registration is now open, so sign up online today at DowntownInDecember.com.

DEVON ICE RINK LED lights will drape the buildings along eight blocks of N. Broadway, making for a magical holiday wonderland. It’s free of charge and open to the public.

Downtown Business Improvement District.

Guests can board the boats at canal level, just west of Oklahoma Ave. near Zio's.

LOCATION:

Thursdays through Sundays, Nov. 28 - Dec. 28 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m. (Closed Thanksgiving night.)

N.W. 4th to N.W. 11th streets on Broadway Ave HOURS OF OPERATION: Nov. 20-Jan. 1, dusk to dawn.

ONEMAIN FINANCIAL'S BRICKTOWN CANAL LIGHTS

OneMain Financial’s Bricktown Canal Lights will brighten your Bricktown experience from Nov. 28 through Jan. 1. As you stroll the canal, enjoy the dining and shopping along downtown OKC's premier entertainment district under the gorgeous holiday lights.

The display is free to the public every night from dusk until dawn.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Call (405) 235-3500.

AUTOMOBILE ALLEY'S LIGHTS ON BROADWAY

See the historic buildings of Automobile Alley in a whole new light! More than 180,000 colorful

FREE WATER TAXI RIDES

HOURS OF OPERATION:

DELUXE WINTER MARKET On Saturday, Nov. 29 and Sunday, Nov. 30, the Deluxe Winter Market will take place in Leadership Square. This event will offer an opportunity for guests to do their holiday shopping at more than 6

0 vendor booths. Featuring only local and handmade goods, crafts, home decor, art, food and other specialty items, the market will be sure to have that perfect, unique gift.

In addition to an abundance of holiday shopping opportunities, the market will feature food trucks and music.

HOURS:

All aboard for an adventure cruise on a Bricktown Water Taxi. On designated evenings during December, all ages are welcome to enjoy a fun-filled float down the beautifully adorned Bricktown canal free of charge, courtesy of the

Saturday, Nov. 29: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 30: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

LOCATION:

Leadership Square FOR MORE INFORMATION:

visit deluxeok.net

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SONIC SEGWAY SANTA

Keep an eye out for Santa as he tours downtown OKC on his Segway and delivers goodies for both kids and adults. You never know when Santa might be just around the corner with special holiday giveaways and treats, including Sonic, America’s Drive-In gift cards! Follow @ downtownokcinc on Twitter to learn when and where Santa will be cruising around downtown.

is hosting this party, complete with food, drinks, live music, visits from Santa, photos and other activities. This party is open to all ages and admission is free! Dunlap Codding, 609 W. Sheridan Ave. For more information, call (405) 607-8600.

Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m.

LITTLE WILLIE'S TRIPLE DOG DARE

Back for its third year, Little Willie's Triple Dog Dare is a stair climb like no other! Scheduled for 8 a.m. on Dec. 6, this stair-climbing event is open to all ages. It even includes a 'Puppy Dog' division for kids under 16 (based on age at race day) and a firefighters’ division.

DARE: Climb Leadership Square North Tower’s 22 floors DOUBLE DOG DARE: Climb Leadership Square North Tower’s ONEMAIN FINANCIAL'S 22 floors plus Oklahoma Tower’s BRICKTOWN CANAL LIGHTS 31 floors TRIPLE DOG DARE: Climb Leadership Square North Tower’s 22 floors, Oklahoma Tower’s 31 floors plus Leadership Square South Tower’s 16 floors!

CONTINENTAL'S FREE MOVIE MONDAY AT HARKINS THEATRES

DO THE TRIPLE DOG DARE X2:

Continental Resources will get you into the holiday spirit by hosting a free screening of Elf at Harkins Bricktown Theatres, 150 E. Reno, Monday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. To register, check downtownindecember.com

Do the Triple Dog Dare twice!

Remember you have to come down each tower, too! This is a timed event by DG Productions.

Athletes will start in a “time trial” format with climbers being sent every five seconds. Awards will be given to the top three overall male and female participants, as well as age-group divisions.

FILM ROW HOLIDAY PARTY

LOCATION:

The 2nd annual Film Row Holiday Party is fun for the whole family! Dunlap Codding

Leadership Square, 211 N. Robinson For more information: Visit LittleWilliesTripleDogDare.com

SANTA'S ADVENTURES ON THE OKLAHOMA RIVER

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Add some zip to this year’s holiday season.

Head down to the Boathouse District to find all kinds of adventure, including the North Pole Climb, SandRidge Santa Zip, Candy Cane Rock Wall and much more!

HOURS OF OPERATION:

› Opening Day: Friday, Nov.

28, 1-8 p.m. › Open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-8 p.m., Nov. 28 - Jan. 4

› Thursday, Dec. 4: 7:30 p.m. › Friday, Dec. 5: 8 p.m. › Saturday, Dec. 6: 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

FOR TICKETS:

Call (405) 552-4040 or visit BoathouseDistrict.org

Call (405) 842-5387 9 a.m.-5p.m. weekdays, or visit okcphilharmonic.org

HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOPS AT MIDTOWN

Shop ’til you drop at more than 35 local, independent shops at 10th and Hudson, Thursdays through Sundays Nov. 28-Dec. 21.

Each shop will be hosted in a glowing geodesic dome nestled amid a Christmas Tree Lot. The pop-up shops will be an experience enjoyed by all ages and interests with new entertainment and activities each weekend.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit OKCpopups.com

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ARTS COUNCIL OF OKC'S OPENING NIGHT

Ring in the New Year at Opening Night — OKC's favorite family-oriented New Year's Eve celebration. Opening Night takes place in nine venues in downtown OKC, with 16 stages full of the state's best talent — beginning at 7 p.m.

Stake your claim in Bicentennial Park by 11:30 p.m. to enjoy the finale show and fireworks that will officially launch 2015!

An Opening Night wristband allows attendees into all the venues all night long. Wristbands are $8 in advance or $10 at the event, with children 5 and under admitted free. Wristbands are available at 7-Eleven Stores of Oklahoma, MidFirst Bank locations, metro Homeland stores and Science Museum Oklahoma and are available beginning Dec. 3. Opening Night is produced by the Arts Council of Oklahoma City.

The holidays are not complete without this beautiful production for the whole family. Called "fresh and exciting, a true accomplishment" by FOR MORE INFORMATION: The Oklahoman in 2012, Oklahoma City Ballet's Visit artscouncilokc.com/opening-night version of the holiday classic stays true to the original libretto inspired by the E.T.A. Hoffman story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King." The Nutcracker brings visions of sugar plums, dancing DELUXE snowflakes and a host of other WINTER fanciful characters to the child MARKET in us all. Tchaikovsky's enduring score is performed live at every performance by the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.

Dec. 13-14 and Dec. 19-22 FOR TICKETS:

Call (405) 848-8637 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, or visit okcballet.com

OKC PHILHARMONIC'S THE CHRISTMAS SHOW Let the sleigh bells ring and the herald angels sing because we are ready for music, dance and fun for the holidays! See conductor Joel Levine lead the Oklahoma City Philharmonic in this fantastic show for the whole family.

LIFE FOOD & DRINK

Homestyle sustenance

Chef and owner Patrick Nault sits behind an order including the Oh, My Reuben! sandwich, traditional eggs and bacon, biscuits and a blueberry muffin at Shartel Cafe.

raspberry, strawberry and blueberry and a Strawberry Fields with strawberry and banana.

Grab a fork and plenty of napkins for the Chili-Chez Burger ($7.75); it’s hugely huge. Forget picking it up; it’s an openfaced burger sandwich cooked the way you like, topped with cheddar and jack cheese and chili. Pair it with an Italian cherry cream soda (2.75) for a perfect balance of sweet and savory.

Vegetarians will find happiness with the Veggie-Veggie ($6.50) wrap, served with a side of potato salad. The wrap includes cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes and roasted red pepper hummus. The hummus is delightful, and the wrap would be faultless with at least twice the hummus to balance the vegetable flavor.

There is also the lentil roast vegetable soup special ($3.50 cup, $4.50 bowl). It’s warm and hearty, perfect for a fall day.

If you find yourself in the city center, craving Shartel Cafe fare, try its second location, The Shartel Underground Cafe, at 201 Robert S. Kerr Ave. It’s underneath Bank of Oklahoma, on the concourse. While there, order the focaccia pizza ($7.50) exclusive to that location. It’s spectacular with a spinachand-pesto topping and mozzarella, Parmesan and feta cheese.

Shartel Cafe offers small-town bistro fare, from breakfast to sandwiches and smoothies, right here in the big city.

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There are times when you just want to settle in at a local neighborhood cafe for a quick breakfast or lunch without much fuss. Shartel Cafe, 5116 N. Shartel Ave., is the perfect nook for hometown food with a small-town atmosphere.

First: breakfast coffee. You want morning coffee ($1.75) that’s going to get you to greet your day saying, “Yes, bring it on.” This is the good, hearty coffee you need. It is also sold by the pound here, whole bean or ground.

Next: breakfast fare. The Early Bird ($6.25) is a traditional breakfast of two

eggs and bacon, sausage or ham with hash brown potatoes and a choice of toast or biscuits. For a gluten-free option, fresh sliced tomatoes or fruit can be substituted.

The cinnamon rolls ($1.95) deserve a separate mention. They are huge; breakfast-worthy, with a buttercream frosting; and remind me of my childhood. I used to unroll the spiral, eating as I went along to expose the sticky, sugary goodness inside. (OK, I still do this.)

On weekdays, lunchtime hums. By 12:15 p.m., the line is almost at the door.

However, it moves quickly, with staff efficiently preparing orders. Place yours at the counter, take a seat and listen for your name to be called. That’s it.

Try the Quiche of the Day ($5.95) special served with a fruit cup. I’m not an ardent fan of this open-faced pastry dish, but I loved the bacon cheddar jalapeño quiche. It was light and baked in a savory grated potato crust. Other daily specials include a homestyle meatloaf, green beans and mashed potatoes ($8.50) — a meal straight from the 1950s.

It has been difficult to find an authentic Reuben sandwich in

Oklahoma City, but now there’s hope: The Oh, My Reuben! ($7.25) is the real deal. The Swiss cheese, corned beef and sauerkraut trifecta plus Russian dressing sandwiched between two pieces of rye bread is the closest to Manhattan that anyone can get.

Shartel Cafe really excels with its freshly made smoothies ($3.50), including the Fuzzy Monkey, a refreshing peach-and-banana concoction.

There is also a Purple Rain made with

A Fuzzy Monkey smoothie piled high with whipped cream

Muffins and other baked goodies

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MOB Barker A new ’20s-era, gangster-themed burger truck takes over the town.

BY DEVON GREEN

Not too long ago, Seth Barker and Marco Morrow were just a couple of guys working in the pharmaceutical industry.

They didn’t love it, and they didn’t hate it; it was a living. Then, when the economy took a nosedive, both men lost their jobs.

When they realized they didn’t have to go back to those day jobs, well, they didn’t.

“Marco had been making these burgers for over 10 years for cookouts and tailgates. Everyone who tried them said that he could make money making them, so we decided to give it a shot,” Barker said.

Within three months, they pooled their resources, put together a business plan and bought a truck … in Florida.

The two took off for a long drive to the Sunshine State, and by the time they arrived home with a freshly painted truck, MOB Grill had three events lined up for the following week.

The name comes from the two playing around with Marco’s Onion Burgers, but they wanted panache. They couldn’t ask for more than the glamour and the style of zoot-suited gangsters with fedoras and Tommy guns.

Once they had the theme, the pair hired local designer Adam Headrick, owner of AC Creative Studio, to create a logo and design concept.

“We were thrilled with it, and he’s a friend of Marco’s. I call Marco the mayor because he knows everyone in town,” Barker said.

Baker calls himself capo, or captain.

(In case you are wondering, the pictures on the truck are of actual mobsters from the Roaring ’20s.)

“It’s awesome. It’s the hardest work I have ever done in my life,” he said of the business endeavor. “There have been more 18-hour days, days you just don’t go to sleep because you have to be back out to get ready in three hours. But nothing beats it.”

The concept is simple; the men serve three things — well, really, when you get down to it, only two: burgers and fries.

above MOB Grill food truck.

“Ours is a fresh, quality ground beef with the marinated onions. Those are the secret; they’re cooked right into the burger,” Barker said.

The onions are hand-cut and marinated in a proprietary recipe that takes out the sting and sweetens them just enough. The fries also are hand-cut, and Barker recommends you get the cheesed-up version.

“I put a half pound of American and [Monterey] Jack cheese on them. I had a lady ask for more fries with her cheese the other day. What a great complaint,” he said.

It’s awesome. It’s the hardest work I have ever done in my life.

— Seth Barker

The third thing MOB Grill offers is dessert, and that part of the menu hasn’t been decided yet.

The duo isn’t having any problem booking events. The truck was a regular at this season’s H&8th Night Market and rolls to Stillwater for Oklahoma State University games and for Stillwater’s monthly food truck festival, Fridays Food Trucks and Tunes, which ran through September.

Barker said he has had to turn down some requests due to time limitations, but there are worse problems to have.

“I tell you, the best part is when people eat your burger and say that’s the best burger they’ve ever had in their life.

That’s some feeling,” Barker said.

Learn more at mobgrill.com and on Twitter at @MOBgrill.

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Ve-gone?

Exclusive vegan restaurant Tamazul appears to be closed for good.

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Tamazul, 5820 N. Classen Blvd., has closed.

It was the only local restaurant with a full vegan menu and was a celebrated attraction for vegans and non-vegans alike.

Last week, a sign was posted on its door that read, “We regret to inform you that Tamazul is closed indefinitely … It was a privilege serving you and your family.”

Owner Matthew Kenney, a superstar chef with restaurant concepts nationwide and in Mexico, originally partnered in 2009 with attorney Dara Prentice Olsen to open 105degrees and 105degrees Academy at the same location. It was rebranded as Matthew Kenney Cuisine in 2012 and Tamazul in 2013.

The property has been vacant since early October.

NewsOK.com reported that Classen Curve (Glimcher Realty Trust), the property owner, moved to evict the restaurant in late October. Kenney, Olsen and Glimcher could not be reached for comment by deadline.

Tipsy for history The Edmond Historical Society Steering Committee will hold its annual fundraiser Wine through Time event 6 p.m. Thursday in the Edmond Historical Society & Museum gallery, 431 S. Boulevard in Edmond.

Now in its sixth year, the party raises funds for the nonprofit museum and society’s education and preservation projects. The building itself was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in 1936 as part of the New Deal public works construction.

The permanent collection there spans prehistoric prairies to the present.

Guests can sip wine and sample food from several local restaurants, including Alvarado’s Mexican Restaurant and Cafe 501.

Entertainment includes DJ Mark Burney and guests can take home a souvenir wine glass after sampling up

above An empty Tamazul restaurant sits on Classen Curve.

to 16 wines. Tickets are $50-$300 and are available at edmondhistory.org.

There will be a limited number of seats available for walk-ups, but organizers said reservations are encouraged.

All your trucks Local food truck app Truck It OKC is no longer leaving Android users hungry and alone. App developers Josh DeLozier and Travis Stephens said the Android app comes with other improvements as well.

The app, which tracks your location and the food trucks close to you, released its Android version in September and then upgraded the whole shebang Oct. 31 with new features, including a special section devoted to The Bleu Garten’s unique food court design and vendors.

“It took a little longer than we expected, and we were just excited at the feedback and to have it up and running for Android,” Stephens said.

Stephens said that the app has been downloaded about 10,000 times and it gets used about 400 times a day.

“The response has been pretty remarkable. We’re really pleased,” he said.

Download Truck It OKC for Android through the Google Play Store or the iPhone version through Apple’s App Store. Learn more at truckitokc .com.

Goodbye to a legend At press time on Monday, VZD’s, 4200 N. Western Ave., announced it was closing. It’s showcased live music and local recipes for more than 30 decades.

Owner of 24 years, Chad Bleakley called Oklahoma Gazette Monday with confirmation that the venue was closed, in part, by the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Look for updates and more online at okgazette.com.

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Mambo Italiano It’s time to pack on that winter weight, people. Things that are on the way out: dining al fresco, salads and watching your bikini body. What’s in: putting on a little padding to keep you warm through the Okie winter, heavier fare and romantic dinners. As the Italians say, molto bene, very nice.

— by Devon Green, photos by Mark Hancock, Shannon Cornman

Stella Modern Italian Cuisine

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Benvenuti’s Ristorante

9622 N. May Ave. caffepranzo.publishpath.com 755-3577

105 W. Main St., Norman benvenutisristorante.com 310-5271

Founded in 2010 by Lori Tyler, Stella appeared before the Midtown boom and carved out its own niche. The atmosphere is relaxed and elegant, with the warmth of a brick oven radiating from its center.

The cuisine is modern Italian without pretension. Old flavors take on new twists, and it’s a visit you’ll savor for months afterward. For a stellar seasonal treat, try the butternut squash gnocchi. Return for the pizza and the desserts and — well, you get the idea.

This well-kept secret has kept its in-theknow regulars well-fed and happy for years. The quiet, casual restaurant is open for lunch and dinner. Its lunches feature large, reasonably priced portions and sandwiches. Its chicken salad sandwich is one of the tastiest we know of, with grilled chicken, Roma tomatoes and salad greens on a flaky croissant. For a romantic dinner by candlelight, try the creamy, dreamy chicken and portobello risotto.

This beautiful eatery is compelling for both its ambiance and its food — it’s an excellent special-occasion restaurant.

We recommend the mushroom rigatoni made with pink sauce and local mushrooms, but we’ve never been even the slightest bit disappointed in anything, especially the service. The restaurant is open for dinner only, and reservations are recommended, as it fills up quickly.

1201 N. Walker Ave. stella-okc.com 235-2200

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Primo’s d’ Italia

1215 Garth Brooks Blvd., Yukon primositalian.com 350-9090

This casual Italian eatery has been going strong for 13 years for two reasons: Its staff and its recipes. Its traditional lasagna is layered to high heaven with a tangy sauce and then baked to perfection. In our experience, everything on the menu is delightful.

Fontana Italian Restaurant

Bella Vista Italian Kitchen

Sergio’s Italian Bistro

Its charming brick façade and unassuming interior conceals one of the best casual Italian joints around.

Its dishes are fresh, hot and served with house-made bread. Each entree includes a crisp, green salad. Its menu is filled with pasta dishes, pizzas and calzones.

Try the chicken cacciatore with just the right amount of sauce over tender chicken and penne pasta.

The last thing owners Milt and Dina Korkolis would like you to do is leave hungry. Their menu features a unique combination of Italian and Greek choices. We love the spaghetti and homemade meatballs served with two four-ounce meatballs prepared daily and baked four hours before they’re simmered in a special marinara recipe and served atop pasta and even more sauce.

This is just the place for a quiet, delicious meal with hot garlic bread. The extensive menu features calamari, Caesar salad, focaccia sandwiches, seafood and specialties like pasta primavera and ziti.

We recommend the baked eggplant stuffed with zucchini, squash, bell peppers and onions.

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LIFE HISTORY

Woody’s OKC This 1913 panoarama of Oklahoma City is similar to the one that the Guthrie family would have seen when it moved to the area in the 1920s.

Volumes have been written about this musician’s extraordinary life, from his time in his small hometown to his legendary days in California and New York City. However, little has been written about the year he spent living in OKC.

BY ANGELA BOTZER

COU RTE SY WOODY G UTH RIE ARCHIVES, TULSA.

from left Woody, Nora, Charley and George Guthrie at their Okemah home in 1924.

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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie has been long associated with Okemah, his birthplace. Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912, and four days later, his father Charley was quoted in The Okemah Ledger saying ever since Woody had arrived, he had been “hollering for Wilson,” namely the newly nominated Democratic presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson.

Little is known about the troubling time in his family’s history when they moved from Okemah to Oklahoma City, July 1923-July 1924, even after searching public records, archives and interviews with surviving family members.

In Woody’s 1948 manuscript High Balladry (part of the Woody Guthrie manuscript collection housed at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa), he wrote of the move: “It was my birthday, to be right truthful about it, July the fourteenth, Bastille Day over in France.”

He had just turned 11 years old.

“We moved all of our stuff in an old Model T truck up to Oklahoma City, 76 miles to the west of us, and lived in the shackiest house there was to be found out on West Twenty Eighth Street,” Woody wrote in High Balladry.

In the summer of 1923, the ride in a Model T from Okemah to OKC with household belongings and a young family in tow would have taken at least three hours at about 30 miles per hour.

But finding the exact location of Guthrie’s childhood home hasn’t been easy, despite his description; local and national historians agree there isn’t enough substantive data available to pinpoint the address.

Also, communications and research with the Library of Congress, Oklahoma City Public Schools, the Guthrie family, Woody Guthrie Publications in New York, the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, local churches, Okfuskee County Historical

Roy Guthrie, Woody’s older brother, worked in a service station along the Belle Isle trolley tracks, shown here.

Society, Oklahoma History Center, and the Freemasons (Charley Guthrie was a member) produced a wealth of background literature but no exact address.

To further confuse things, research shows that “West Twenty Eighth

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Street” could have meant NW or SW 28th Street, as nothing in the existing literature is clear on that point.

Deduction, description, records from the Oklahoma History Center and OKC public schools and text in Woody Guthrie: A Life and Ramblin’ Man

indicate the family lived on NW 28th Street, near N. Classen Boulevard.

What was discovered were school enrollment records in OKC and Okemah public schools. In September 1923, Charley enrolled Woody in the fifth grade and his 5-year-old younger brother George in kindergarten in OKC. While here, all family members pitched in to make ends meet.

“I delivered milk for a lady. Papa delivered groceries for a store for a dollar’s worth of trade a day,” Woody wrote in High Balladry. “Roy (Woody’s older brother) worked in a service station down along the Belle Isle trolley tracks on Classen Boulevard.”

At the time, Classen Boulevard was a two-lane road along the Belle Isle trolley tracks, which led to the popular Belle Isle Recreational Lake and Park, where Penn Square Mall is located today.

Records show that Roy Guthrie worked at a service station along the bustling trolley on Classen Boulevard, also making it more likely that the family lived closer to N. Classen Boulevard.

A look back

What led the Guthrie family to OKC was a series of misfortunes.

In earlier years, Charley Guthrie was a prosperous, prominent and sometimes controversial citizen in Okemah.

He won an election as the new district court clerk and sold auto licenses, insurance and real estate. The walls of his seven-room house were lined with law books. Charley joined a Masonic lodge in Okemah and became a member of the Methodist Church.

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Multiple reports show that Charley also was a fervent anti-Socialist.

The movement was on the rise in Oklahoma and the Midwest, and he wrote often about the topic in local newspapers and self-published a booklet about his beliefs.

“The purpose of this little book is to give the reader an idea of the dangerous and poisonous fangs of the tempting serpent which is lurking behind the advancing claims of socialism,” he wrote in the booklet.

Woody’s father’s views would starkly contrast his own social leanings during and after the Great Depression.

However, Charley was a powerful influence in Woody’s trajectory as a musician and activist for civil and workers rights.

As a youth, though, Woody’s family bonded through music; his parents sang to him often, and Charley sometimes performed as a square dance caller. And Woody’s mother, Nora, would sing songs, including old ScotsIrish ballads, hymns and spirituals, which she would accompany on their upright piano.

When Woody was young, Nora was already showing signs of Huntington’s disease, the genetic disease that would later claim Woody’s own life in 1967.

Undiagnosed, she showed frequent erratic behavior, such as throwing objects, sometimes drifting off to an imaginary world and involuntary arm motions. The books Bound for Glory, Ramblin’ Man and Woody Guthrie: A Life report that her behavior was noted by the townspeople.

Then, more misfortune followed after a series of fires.

First, their home burned to the ground, and then another fire claimed the life of Woody’s sister Clara. In 1919, under questionable circumstances, Clara’s clothing quickly caught fire while she was filling a coaloil stove. The fire burned all of her clothing and most of her skin; records show that she tragically died the following day at age 14.

When the price of wheat collapsed, the Guthrie family found itself almost broke. Looking for a fresh start for Nora’s health and the children, the family moved to OKC. Charley’s mother’s half-brother Leonard Tanner offered him a job

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Woody Guthrie left and the Pampa Junior Chamber of Commerce band.

Pampa, Texas, 1936. at Ace Motorcycle Company as a statewide sales agent based in OKC. With the promise of a comfortable salary of $200 per month, it appeared that the family’s luck would turn.

However, shortly after their arrival, Charley read in the newspaper that Tanner was killed in an automobilemotorcycle wreck in Chickasha on his way to OKC. Family members and historical documents confirmed that he sustained a fractured skull and died instantly.

After the tradgedy, the Guthries took any job they could and tried to make a go in their new home.

“When we moved into an old house out there on 28th Street, she felt better.

She cooked. It tasted good. She talked.

It sure sounded good. She would go for days and days and not have one of her spells,” Woody wrote of his mother in his semi-autobiography Bound for Glory.

However, they were not destined to stay here long.

“We never did get a rug laid down on the bare floors in the Oklahoma City house. No paint outside or inside.

Our stuff stayed packed in little boxes like we were out camping inside the old house,” Woody wrote in High Balladry.

“Our family was topsy-turvy during those years,” said Mary Jo Guthrie Edgmon, Woody’s sister, age

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92, in a recent interview in Shawnee.

She was only one year old when the family moved to OKC, so she has no clear recollection of it.

“Papa tried to start a new business there, but it didn’t work out,” Edgmon said. “Papa never complained, ever, even when he didn’t have anything.”

Edgmon credits Woody’s second wife Marjorie for pushing Woody to complete Bound for Glory.

“He had the most beautiful full head of curly hair, that Guthrie hair,” Edgmon said in remembrance of Woody — it’s also reflected in Edgmon’s own beautiful white locks of thick curls.

Returning to Okemah

Fortunes did not improve in OKC for the Guthries. They packed up the Model T and went back to Okemah again on July 14, 1924, Woody’s 12th birthday, exactly one year after their arrival.

A 1924 notice in The Okemah Ledger noted the Guthrie family’s return. Charley was quoted as saying he “probably did not make a mistake by moving away from Okemah, but did make a mistake by not moving back any quicker.”

“Mr. Guthrie is receiving a warm welcome back to the old home town,” the notice said.

They settled into a house in Okemah, “the rottenest and wormiest and the dirtiest, dustiest house in the whole town,” Woody wrote in High Balladry.

By September 1924, Woody was again enrolled in school.

Charley worked at commissioning automobile licenses. However, Nora’s health declined and she was finally institutionalized in Norman in 1927.

Woody was 14 years old.

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The city was rapidly growing during 1923-1924, bustling and thriving.

New neighborhoods with elegant houses were being platted. Trolleys linked neighborhoods to downtown.

Research shows that Charley might have delivered groceries to these new neighborhoods.

The Belle Isle Recreational Lake was not far away and offered a small zoo, a bathhouse, a boat dock and a carousel, most likely not far from where Roy worked at the service station on Classen.

Woody must have sensed and observed the growth, energy and excitement in the relatively new capitol city.

Over the years, Woody traveled the country and helped carve out a singularly American niche as an activist, singer, songwriter, artist, painter, poet and writer, and even rose to fame as a clog dancer, mandolin and guitar player and fiddler.

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“Ramblin’ Round” copyright: Words by Woody Guthrie, Music based on “Goodnight, Irene” by Huddie Ledbetter & John Lomax © Copyright 1936, 1962, 1972 (copyrights renewed) Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI).

Author note: Special thanks to Mary Jo Guthrie Edgmon, the Guthrie family, the Library of Congress, Oklahoma City Public Schools, Woody Guthrie Publications in New York, The Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, the Okfuskee Historical Society and the Oklahoma History Center. All excerpts by Woody Guthrie, used with permission of Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. All rights reserved.

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Network of friends An OKC organization needs donations to create an app mapping a nationwide network of LGBT-friendly businesses.

BY TREVOR HULTNER

Woven, an Oklahoma City-based organization that provides legal and financial education and services to the national gay and lesbian community, is looking to expand its reach. Right now, it is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a smartphone app that accesses a national directory of LGBT-friendly businesses across several industries, including health and wellness, real estate, event planning, retail and more.

Woven’s newly appointed president, Allison Cofer, believes that this app will fill a market need in the LGBT community.

“I know that there’s a great wordof-mouth in the community for business services and professionals,” she said. “I think that something like this nationwide, there’s a definite need for it, and it’s something that’s affordable.”

Woven’s goal through this Kickstarter campaign is to raise $15,000 for the development and release of the app by next spring. According to the campaign, “[the app] will utilize the user’s GPS information and provide a map showing the nearest businesses or service providers of a selected category. Then the user will be able to contact his or her selected business or service provider.”

Cofer said that user feedback will also be a major component of the app.

“We talked about that, and we absolutely will have an area for feedback,” she said. “We have a group of people right now that are on the Woven board who will go through some sort of judgment on what qualifies as ‘Woven appropriate’ and who we want to represent us and who we want to be An example of resources on the new app being developed through a Kickstarter campaign.

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Allison Cofer, president of Woven. a Woven provider or business. So if [a business] does continuously get negative feedback, then we’ll not be continuing to work with them.”

Cover said the perks of donating to the Kickstarter range from a listing on the app’s credits to a chance to meet the Woven development team next spring.

“For one dollar or more, you have our sincerest gratitude,” Cofer said. “For $5 or more, you’ll be listed on the credits for the app. [For] $10 or more, you get listed on the credits for the app and you receive a set of Woven stickers.”

For those who donate $50 and higher, the rewards get sweeter: a package of Woven “swag,” including a T-shirt and a thank-you note; $500 gets you personal updates on the app’s development; and for two donors, $1,000 will get them a “backstage pass” to the launch party at Woven’s office in OKC. But the app is not all that Woven is focused on.

“Our goal is to have a network that reaches all 50 states, with a growing collection of LGBT-friendly services and businesses that cater to that community,” Cofer said. “So I think it will take a little time to establish that and get our word out there.”

Donors have until Nov. 19 to contribute to Woven’s $15,000 goal. Find out more at kickstarter.com.

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(No) junk in the trunk (show) A men’s aesthetic shop celebrates its one-year anniversary with food, music, booze and a preview of merch.

BY JOSEPH BROOKS NICKELL

Weldon Jack One Year Anniversary & Trunk Show 6-10 p.m. Saturday Weldon Jack 3621 N. Western Ave. weldonjack.com 241-5660 Free

Weldon Jack, a coed barbershop and modern-day general store featuring a variety of merchandise related to art, motorcycles, grooming products, home goods and apparel, is holding a one-year anniversary trunk show.

It will feature new provisions available at Weldon Jack. Weldon Jack screams retro, and owner Jerrod Smith said that his product lines and atmosphere is a hat-tip to an era forgotten, when men aspired to be well-groomed and the products they purchased stood the test of time.

“I think the biggest thing for us is that quality counts. If you have quality products, you can provide legacy in the products that you have,” Smith said. “If you were to buy a pocketknife from me, it’s going to last a hundred years and you’ll be able to pass that down and have some legacy in that pocket knife.”

The shop was birthed when Smith had studio space in the Plaza District.

The Society was a working studio where he created art. He also rented the space to other artists.

“There was kind of a missing component for craftsman in the work we were doing,” Smith said. “We wanted our mission to be a community-driven collective art space giving young artists an opportunity to show their work.”

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Weldon Smith, the store encompasses the man his grandfather was — it’s also a play on the phrase “Well done, Jack.”

Weldon Jack gives local craftsmen a place to sell their products but also offers a service in the barbershop that might help drive the retail side of things.

“About seventy-five percent of the products that we carry are made here locally,” Smith said.

As for the trunk show, Smith hopes that aside from showcasing new wares, he can bring to light some misconceptions about Weldon Jack while helping to inspire a greater sense of community.

Danner Boots out of Portland, Oregon; Frost River outdoor waxed canvas backpacks; and Silver Piston hobo nickel jewelry out of Atlanta are a few products to be showcased during the event.

“A lot of people see us as just a men’s shop where a bunch of dudes are sitting around, drinking beer and cussing. That’s not what we are,” Smith said. “It’s a family-friendly place with products that are providing a simpler lifestyle for men, which makes home life, relationships and spending time with family easier. We are always pushing these communal events and the idea that community happens around jobs like this.”

The trunk show is Saturday at Weldon Jack, 3621 N. Western Ave., and it is open to all ages. The event will start at 6 p.m. and run until 10 p.m. following the stores regular business hours. Idabel, Mont Lyons and Jose Hernandez will perform, and food will be available from Kaiteki Ramen and G’s Chili Company.

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A local outreach is accepting donations for its annual Thanksgiving food baskets.

BY ALISSA LINDSEY

Jesus House, an Oklahoma City Christian outreach center, is collecting donations for its annual Thanksgiving food basket distribution campaign.

“We’re more than just a shelter. We’re a shelter with a mission, and we’re to help the needy and the homeless and lowincome families,” Jesus House executive director Mike Bateman said.

Throughout the year, Jesus House provides shelter, meals, furniture and clothing to people in the Oklahoma City community who need a little extra help.

But during the holidays, Jesus House brings in 400 to 500 volunteers to hand out 2,000 food baskets to low-income families. These donations will feed about 8,000 people. Bateman expects that the shelter will give out 1,500 Thanksgiving food baskets and 500 Christmas ones.

The Thanksgiving baskets are stocked with items like frozen turkeys, frozen hams, boxed stuffing mix, chicken broth, turkey or chicken gravy mixes, instant mashed potatoes, canned cranberries or cranberry sauce, canned yams, canned vegetables, dessert mixes and pie fillings.

Jesus House welcomes donations of all of these items from the community in order to make the food basket distribution campaign a success.

Thanksgiving provides an opportunity for meaningful family time and a balanced meal, he said.

“Some of these families may not have a complete meal throughout the week … I think [the food baskets] makes it a relaxing and enjoyable time,” Bateman said.

The Thanksgiving food baskets will be handed out beginning at 8 a.m.

Nov. 24-26, the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Baskets will be distributed each day until the allotted supplies for that day run out.

Last year, Jesus House handed out 1,300 baskets in three days. So this year, it’s expanding its efforts to reach even more families.

Jesus House aims to create ministry relationships with the community members it serves through the holiday and regular food baskets; the soup kitchen; the clothing and used furniture donations; the street ministry; and the Adopt-A-Block program, which offers gardening and repair services.

The shelter also offers a recovery program for the homeless who are addicted to drugs or alcohol and have a mental diagnosis.

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Mike Bateman, executive director at Jesus House, places a frozen turkey with other items that will be in the food baskets from Jesus House.

In order to receive a Thanksgiving food basket, the family member in line must present proof of residence and identification, but no pre-registration is necessary.

Jesus House is taking donations until 7 p.m. Nov. 25 at its offices, 1335 W. Sheridan Ave. Those who are interested in volunteering to hand out the baskets or learning more about Jesus House can visit jesushouseokc.org.

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National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, is a nonprofit that values creativity and community, and that’s exactly what several libraries in the Metropolitan Library System are offering through workshops with published authors and a writer’s lounge for peer collaboration. “[NaNoWriMo] gets people into the libraries. Libraries have books.

Books are written, and it encourages them to just write more. A lot of people who have a love of books, they love to write, and this just encourages them to come in and write and gives them the space and opportunity to do this,” said Kim Terry, director of marketing and communications for the Metropolitan Library System.

The Edmond Library is offering EdMoWriMo for Teens with Sonia Gensler, author of The Dark Between and The Revenant, a NaNoWriMo project. Based on the students’ individual progress with their writing projects, Gensler will cover topics like character and plot development.

Students are encouraged to attend all four workshops from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. each Tuesday in November because the writers will be tackling the basics at the beginning of the month. Registration is required.

“For the teens in particular, we’re just hoping to encourage big dreams for them. Schools offer creative writing here and there, but I think this is gonna be more of an intensive opportunity to build their craft and work on it with peers who are of a like mind,” Edmond Librarian Meaghan Hunt Wilson said.

From 1p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sundays at the Edmond Library,

adults and teens can gather together in the writers’ lounge. Along with a quiet place to concentrate, the library also offers coffee, snacks and a collection of books on finding agents and publishers.

The Northwest Library is offering two workshops for adults taught by local Surviving Henry: Adventures in Loving a Canine Catastrophe author Erin Taylor Young. In the two-part series, Young will offer tips on getting started with a novel and how to stay motivated. The programs give writers the chance to brainstorm and share ideas. Part one, Write In, was Nov. 6, and part two, Write On, will be 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 Thursday. No registration is required, and those who did not attend the Nov. 6 session may still attend Thursday’s.

“If they’ve never written, it’s those kind of classes that I think would be so beneficial. You’re learning from someone who has been there, someone who has written, someone who may have suffered through writer’s block, and they kind of tell you how to get over that,” Terry said.

The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000-word novel during November.

The Metropolitan Library System is registered with NaNoWriMo as an official Write In location to provide a special writing community.

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Community outreach With a new executive director in tow, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition has an ambitious new vision for the community.

BY DAVID DEAN

Oklahoma City just won big by adding Holly Moye to the ongoing list of wonderful people impacting our city in the arts and culture. Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC), a statewide nonprofit committed to supporting artists, has announced the selection of Moye as its new executive director.

Moye is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston with a B.A. in art and art history along with an M.A. from Boston University in art history. Most recently, she served as the director of summer and external programs at ArtsBridge, a Bostonbased multidisciplinary consultancy connecting students and performers with educational and growth opportunities in visual and performing arts. Previously, Moye worked with a political campaignconsulting firm.

Through arts education, we can continue to promote an enhanced understanding and appreciation of the arts statewide.

Her strategic vision includes expansion opportunities to Oklahoma’s visual artists, and according to OVAC Board President Renee Porter, that resonated with the OVAC selection committee.

“She has immediately embraced our role as a statewide organization and was in Tulsa on her first day,” Porter said.

In her role as executive director, Moye will lead the growth of the organization and ensure success in programming, finances and operations.

Her experience in arts education will help OVAC enhance programs for artists and the public.

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Holly Moye is Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s new executive director.

Educational offerings at all levels ensure greater participation and support within the arts community, and OVAC’s goal is to support Oklahoma’s visual arts and artists and their power to enrich communities.

“One of our goals at OVAC is to increase public awareness surrounding Oklahoma’s visual artists,” Moye said.

“Through arts education, we can continue to promote an enhanced understanding and appreciation of the arts statewide.”

One of Moye’s foremost goals, however, is to learn everything she can about Oklahoma. She has been out every day, gathering feedback about how OVAC can continue to serve artists throughout the state. From listening to supporters and artists to experiencing Oklahoma culture firsthand, she has gained a better understanding of the community’s needs.

In 2015, Moye will launch a Cheers to Careers table-talk series that will unite practicing artists and OVAC

supporters for a lively conversation about Oklahoma’s artistic future. She also plans to make greater outreach efforts to some of Oklahoma’s underserved communities, as she feels they are just as pivotal to the discussion.

“Ultimately, this is how I’m building the foundation for my vision of OVAC: with the guidance of those most invested in our organization’s mission and success and in the future of the arts in Oklahoma,” Moye said.

While Moye jokes about the Thunder being the reason for her relocation, OVAC is what actually drew her attention to Oklahoma.

“Our mission is strong, our staff and board are dedicated and our programming offers some of the most innovative opportunities I’ve seen to date,” she said. “When I finally came to visit, that sealed the deal.”

Moye is most impressed by how supportive the community is in its commitment to the arts. Recently, she was sitting at the Oklahoma Arts Conference luncheon and grew tearyeyed thinking about how lucky she is to have been accepted into such a wonderfully inspiring group of people who come together each year to grow, learn and bring art and positive change to the lives of Oklahomans.

“I think Oklahoma City and many other places throughout the state are making rapid growth in support of arts,” Moye said. “It’s clear that Oklahoma is at the forefront of creative cultivation.”

That excitement is contagious — for the community, for the state and for the arts. It takes time for someone to adjust to a new state, but Moye brings a passion for Oklahoma arts like she has been here her entire life.

In OKC, a thriving arts community is a sign of cultivation, demonstrating an acceptance of traditional and progressive ideas. It also shows the city cares about its aesthetic environment.

OVAC members and supporters are invited to meet Moye and learn about upcoming OVAC programs. A reception will be held 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Istvan Gallery, 1218 N. Western Ave. For more information or to RSVP, call 879-2400 or visit ovac-ok.org.

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Paseo treats Sleigh bells will be ringing to the tune of holiday-themed deals at Sunday’s Holiday Gala on the Paseo.

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The holiday shopping season is fast approaching and The Paseo Merchants Association wants to help you get a jump on holiday shopping in the fun and funky atmosphere of the Paseo Arts District.

“We really want to make guests aware that there are a wide range of gift options in the Paseo,” said Amanda Bleakley, Paseo Arts District executive director. “A great example is the shops at The Avalon Building (514 NW 28th St.), which is a little out of the way, and it’s a great place to discover all kinds of neat things at places like Bone Dust Gallery and MJ Alexander Photography.”

This is a great chance for people to discover the Paseo and get a jump on holiday shopping.

— Amanda Bleakley

The Paseo was established as a shopping district in the 1930s and revitalized in the ’50s as a home for jazz clubs and small businesses. In the ’60s, the counterculture that continues to influence the district’s vibe and color began to take hold. It has grown exponentially since then, and the area

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now boasts more than 35 galleries, boutiques and restaurants.

For five hours on Sunday, Paseo businesses will demonstrate just how many treasures can be found.

“This is a great chance for people to discover the Paseo and get a jump on holiday shopping in the casual atmosphere of the district,” Bleakley said.

Hoping to show the community that the district offers so much more than art that hangs or paint on canvas, several merchants banded together to create The Paseo Merchants. In cooperation with The Paseo Arts Association, they hope to bring the event to the district every year.

Visitors will be able to peruse all the shops and galleries, and there will be several special attractions to make it festive and fun. There will be children’s activities with an opportunity for them to make their own ornaments. It’s a perfect chance for one parent to sneak away and do some solo shopping.

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, which recently moved its offices to the Paseo, will perform Something Merry This Way Comes, a collection of holiday songs and stories to get everyone in the holiday spirit. As a special treat, Santa will make an appearance during the festivities.

There will also be local food trucks stationed at the ends of Paseo Street. Katiebug’s has switched over to its winter menu, which includes hot chocolate topped with organic, gluten-free, salted caramel marshmallows, a rich reward for finishing a good portion of your holiday shopping early.

Meanwhile, Jann Jeffrey Gallery, 3018 Paseo St., carries glass earrings, and Craig’s Curious Emporium, 3004 Paseo St., is full of unusual items.

Get your shopping done early this Sunday in the Paseo Arts District.

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The work of Oklahoma’s most talented artists will be available at this year’s Red Dot fundraiser.

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BY GREG HORTON

Red Dot 7-11 p.m. Saturday Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO Gallery) 706 W. Sheridan Ave. individualartists.org 232-6060 $35-$40

The 23rd annual Red Dot fundraiser will spotlight 71 of Oklahoma’s established and emerging artists.

The event is the primary fundraiser for Individual Artists of Oklahoma, a nonprofit arts organization that, among other things, uses the funds to sponsor community-oriented programs and education in Oklahoma.

Red Dot has represented as many as 71 artists, and Carie Antošek Benton, Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO) executive director, said that number was a direct result of intentionally “casting a wider net.”

“The cities are low-hanging fruit,” Benton said. “We wanted to reach out to outlying communities as well.”

The result is a collection of artists from 16 Oklahoma towns and cities, including Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

While Oklahoma City contributes the overwhelming majority of the artists, towns like Piedmont, Depew, El Reno and Ada are also represented.

Because of the wealth of artists, Red Dot will feature a variety of media as well. Benton said the submissions included expected media like oil, acrylic, mixed media and sculpture, but jewelry and poetry are also represented. All of the art at the event will be for sale, and the minimum bid for the show is $150, although some pieces have a higher minimum.

“We wanted to start the bidding

at a number where the artists feel their work is valued,” Benton said. “The artists covet that red dot that signifies ‘sold,’ and once it does sell, the artists and IAO split the proceeds 50-50.”

Many of the artists will be present for Red Dot, and Tulsa artist James Gaar — now 70 years old — said he plans to make the trip. Gaar’s piece “Invasion Front” is a 30-by-40-inch acrylic on canvas abstract piece. Gaar said he prefers to work with acrylics and “Invasion Front” represents one pole of his preferred styles.

“I’ve always enjoyed the work of Franz Kline and Andrew Wyeth,” Gaar said. “They exist as far apart on the spectrum as two artists can be; one is photorealism and the other is abstract expressionism.”

Calling Gaar an emerging artist seems absurd at his age, yet his work is not well-known in Oklahoma City.

Still, he has been creating art since he was about 8 years old, so he has been painting for a little more than 60 years.

Gaar said supporting himself in Oklahoma as a professional artist has been difficult, so he has taken the other jobs to pay the bills while he and his wife, an artist he met in grad school at East Central College (before it was a university), have continued to create.

Gaar will join local household names like Bert Seabourn, Regina Murphy, Suzanne Mears and BJ White for Red Dot. The show runs from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday at IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door.

More information is available at individualartists.org.

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BY ALYSSA GRIMLEY

Josh Lathe Album: That Never Fit Available now robotsavescity.com

Josh Lathe is awkward, but it’s all fuel for the Oklahoma comic’s stand-up routine.

Lathe opens his new live album, That Never Fit, with a healthy dose of self-deprecation that pays off in spades later on.

“I’m terrible with women,” he admits.

“I get kinda nervous … ’cause I know what I look like. We went over it earlier.”

His stand-up has a distinctly college flavor, his topics ranging from awkward sexual encounters to his peers’ overuse of the word gay. His work is bound to resonate particularly well with 20-somethings, who always appreciate a

well-placed Pokémon reference. (I know I did.) Lathe is also wont to burst into incredulous shouts mid-story, adding to the ridiculousness of his various tales.

The vignette that inspires the name of his album begins with a simple phrase: “I ordered a jacket online, and I shouldn’t have done it.” What should have been a routine visit to the tailor to alter an illfitting — but very cool-looking — jacket ends with a demoralizing account of Lathe being ridiculed by the shop owners, an account that he frequently interrupts with a series of world-weary sighs.

Lathe is at his best when he’s at his most observational, commentating on the ample amount of absurdity in his life. In his set, he muses on the nature of Oklahoma’s origins, cat behavior and his awful roommates’ penchant for lending

their pot paraphernalia bizarre nicknames.

(Their bong is named Snorlax and their grinder is Super Shredder.) All these vignettes require Lathe to perform goofy, thoroughly enjoyable impressions. (As a cat owner, I can confirm that his persistent feed-me-at-3 a.m. meowing is incredibly spot-on.) From the cat vignette also comes what I think is the best simile of the set, in which he likens a cat trying to open a door to the T-1000 from Terminator 2.

Some of his material can occasionally come across as more awkward than hilarious. In his segment on dating difficulties, Lathe admits to saying offensive things at random, describing his mouth as having “R-rated Asperger’s.”

This is evident in some weaker moments, when what seems to be random observation turns uncomfortable.

That Never Fit However, Lathe manages to offset even the most cringeworthy moments of his set with a well-timed Lord of the Rings reference.

Through November, all profits from Lathe’s album sales will be donated to the Epilepsy Foundation of America as a thanks to Sofia Esteve, who provided the album’s cover art. Appropriately enough, That Never Fit includes a segment about this neurological disorder.

When one of his roommates offers a decidedly unhelpful take on how to handle an encounter with someone having an epileptic seizure, Lathe sums up the disorder pretty well: “It’s when your brain goes, ‘Uhhh, fuck it!’ and hard-resets.” Not a fun time for anyone, to be sure.

String theory Philippe Quint

BY ERIC WEBB

Progressive Wildness 8 p.m. Saturday Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. okcphilharmonic.org 842-5387 $19-$65

The Oklahoma City Philharmonic will take audiences on a journey of Progressive Wildness with a soundtrack provided by three Russian composers.

The concert opens with Sergei Prokofiev’s upbeat and rapturous “Symphony No. 1,” inspired by the works of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart before taking a tempestuous turn into Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Francesca da Rimini,” the story of damned lovers from The Divine Comedy.

The evening culminates with a

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performance of Aram Khachaturian’s fiercely dramatic “Violin Concerto in D Minor,” featuring world-renowned violinist Philippe Quint. This will be the Grammy-nominated musician’s second performance with the OKC Phil.

Like many classical soloists, Quint came to music early. Growing up in the former Soviet Union, his grandparents had the idea of creating a family trio with his mother playing the piano and his uncle on the cello.

“At the time, I was convinced that violin was going to be my new toy that I was going to play with, break and move on to the next thing,” he said. “But my grandparents had plans for me I wasn’t aware of.”

Quint did take to the instrument, studying with famed Russian violinist Andrei Korsakov. With Korsakov’s untimely death at the age of 44 and

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the worsening economic and cultural situation in the Soviet Union, Quint’s family decided it was time for a move.

Upon arriving in America, Quint began studying with Itzhak Perlman’s former teacher Dorothy DeLay at The Julliard School, where he would eventually earn Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.

A testament to his ability, Quint has been performing since 2005 with the 1708 “Ruby” Antonio Stradivari violin.

“For me, an instrument is a bit like a time machine,” he said. “I feel that I can sense the energy of performers that have played on Ruby before me, one of them being the great Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate.”

Quint has performed all over the world and participated in numerous critically acclaimed recordings.

Earlier this year, Quint made

his own recording of Khachaturian’s “Violin Concerto” with the Bochumer Sinfoniker, allowing him to study the piece in depth.

“I am always fascinated by composers that were not violinists and did not care about the challenges a violinist might have with an un-violinistic writing,” he said. “For me, it is just another adventurous challenge of how to make it work.”

Quint described it as a magnificent — if somewhat underrated — work that is unique in how it explores and integrates Armenian folk themes into a traditional classical concerto form.

“It boasts a unique music language, tonal palette and extreme pyrotechnics with Paganini-like virtuosity,” Quint said. “It is a brilliant work that I am extremely excited to bring to the audiences in Oklahoma.”

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Gust of Winds Often underappreciated by the masses, wind instruments take center stage at a couple of Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble performances.

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BY ERIC WEBB

Austrian & German Masterworks for Winds 7:30 p.m. Monday All Souls’ Episcopal Church 6400 N. Pennsylvania Ave. brightmusic.org $15 (free for students) 7:30 pm Tuesday St. Paul’s Cathedral 127 NW Seventh St. brightmusic.org $15 (free for students)

When it comes to musical instruments, the wind section is often overlooked.

Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble shines a spotlight on wind instruments in its second concert of the season, Austrian & German Masterworks for Winds.

“I think, historically, there may be a kind of bias of string music in favor of wind music,” said Chad Burrow, co-artistic director of Brightmusic.

“If there is a bias for string music, it usually comes from a kind unfamiliarity with the great music that is out there for winds.”

Burrow said that while every instrument has its own unique expressive potential, the color possibilities with mixing the wind sounds are almost limitless. The use of wind and breath also gives them a special vocal quality not achievable on bowed or keyboard instruments.

The two concerts will feature some of the most outstanding compositions for wind ensembles from the last 300 years performed by six musicians: Parthena Owens on flute, Lisa HarveyReed on oboe, Chad Burrow on clarinet, Rodney Ackmann on bassoon, Kate Pritchett on horn and Amy I-Lin Cheng on piano.

The performances will begin with two chorale preludes by Bach, “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” and “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.” Burrow said

the arrangement utilizes the multiple colors of the wind instruments to imitate the sound of an organ, but it then goes beyond what an organ is capable of, breathing fresh air into these minimasterpieces.

Next up will be Paul Hindemith’s “Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2,” which Burrow described as a driving, melodic work with catchy motifs that make it one of the composer’s greatest works. “[Sigfrid] Karg-Elert is quite possibly the best composer that you have never heard of, unless you are an organist,” Burrow said.

Karg-Elert’s work “Jugend, Op. 139a” is a compelling work so varied in its sounds and influences that it defies stylistic categories.

“The work has the craft and complexity of musical lines that we would expect from an early 20th-century German composer,” Burrow said, “yet it is filled with gestures that Romantic composers would have loved and a sense of color that is more akin to [Claude] Debussy than any German composer.”

Meanwhile, Alexander von Zemlinsky’s wind quintet “Humoresque” — which Burrow said is in the vein of Gustav Mahler, but bite-size — comes in at around 5 minutes.

The concert will close with Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 16.” Modeled on Mozart’s quintet with the same instrumentation, Burrow said Beethoven’s “Quintet” is a jewel in the crown of his early works and has long been a favorite among both performers and audiences.

At the end of the night, Burrow hopes audiences will have a better appreciation for wind instruments and their unique capabilities.

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Top-shelf team The Barons have started their season strong with plenty of muscle to keep them on top.

BY JOSH HUTTON

OKC Barons vs. Charlotte Checkers 7 p.m. Friday Nov. 21 Cox Convention Center 1 Myriad Gardens 232-4625 $10-$45

The Oklahoma City Barons hockey team may be out for vengeance, or maybe its benefiting from dumb luck.

Either way, its strong start this year is undeniable.

Ranked second in the Western Division of the American Hockey League, the Barons have won five of their first eight games, two of those against the Texas Stars, the team that iced OKC in the first round of the playoffs last season.

The 2013-14 season found the Barons nursing their worst win-loss record, 36-29, since the team debuted in OKC in 2010. With their less-thanstellar record came less-than-stellar crowds. The Barons ranked 28th out of the AHL’s 30 teams in attendance, averaging 3,348 hockey fans per game, team management said. The team spent the last few months increasing its social media presence and running special promotions in an attempt to bring in more fans.

Social media aside, a major incentive for larger crowds has come in the form of a three-part cocktail, as the Barons started the season with three standouts: a veteran with extensive NHL experience, a rookie from Finland with something to prove and a brutal enforcer just looking to body-check whomever gets in his way.

This season marks Jason Williams’ 15th in professional hockey. Williams

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The Oklahoma City Barons defeated Iowa Wild 4-2 in an American Hockey League game at Cox Convention Center on Nov. 2. played in more than 450 National Hockey League games for six different teams. He even won a Stanley Cup in 2002 while playing with the Detroit Red Wings.

At 34, the Barons center moves with grace and precision. He knows where to be, how to get there and how to score once he has arrived. Williams comes here after a two-year contract with Swiss pro team Ambri-Piotta.

“I’m just going to come out here and have fun and help the young guys,” Williams said.

He leads the team with five goals and six assists.

Iiro Pakarinen, the 22-year-old from Finland, was inspired. The right wing knocked in five goals and earned three assists before getting the call from Barons’ NHL affiliate, the Edmondton Oilers. At the time of his recall from OKC, he was the team’s leading scorer.

Pakarinen will leave an offensive void on the team that may be filled by strong shooters, left wing Ryan Hamilton and right wing Andrew Miller.

The Barons, however, won’t worry about a defensive void: Enter 6-foot, 4-inch, 233-pound Luke Gazdic. The left wing performed strong in his last few years of Triple-A play.

Last year, the Edmonton Oilers picked up Gazdic. He appeared in 67 games but his aggressive play landed him with 15 major penalties, the third highest number in the NHL, and a shoulder injury.

The next Barons next home game is against the Charlotte Checkers at 7 p.m.

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Signs point to yes After a breakthrough debut and some high-profile endorsements, JD McPherson is primed for stardom.

BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

JD McPherson with The Cactus Blossoms 7 p.m. Friday Cain’s Ballroom 423 N. Main St., Tulsa cainsballroom.com (918) 584-2306 $17-$32

Oklahoma’s native son JD McPherson is on the edge — the edge of something really good.

He has always been a talent, one Oklahomans readily have adored since his early days with The Starkweather Boys in the mid-2000s. His taste for the music of yesteryear is matched only by a knack for making it feel vital and new. More people are taking notice of that gift every day now, but not just more people — bigger people, important people.

Upon rereleasing his debut, Signs & Signifiers, on Rounder Records (home of Alison Krauss) in 2012, he got to step up and play for millions on Late Show with David Letterman and Conan, introduced with obvious admiration — not complicit obligation — by each namesake host. Josh Homme (leader of Queens of the Stone Age) was so impressed by McPherson that he invited him to open the band’s massive Halloween show in Los Angeles

earlier this year (“It was a shot in the arm, for sure,” McPherson said of the “surreal” experience), and he’s just days away from being greeted with praise by one of his musical heroes, X singer Exene Cervenka, after a California gig.

And then you have Sherlock himself wearing McPherson’s band shirt in pictures snapped by paparazzi.

“Benedict Cumberbatch really is the nicest person ever,” McPherson said of his encounter with the Sherlock star around the filming of August: Osage County. “He still wears that dadgum shirt. We need to get him a new one, because it’s getting pretty worn out.”

Hair near-perpetually slicked back, McPherson himself would be excused for being worn out after the near-relentless touring over the past four years, but he has big things on the horizon perking him and his bandmates right up.

Signs & Signifiers has been available to most since 2010, and the prospect of his follow-up — due in early 2015 — and the new opportunities (and set lists) it will afford is a welcome change. Creatively, the material promises to show that McPherson & Co. are more than pure revivalists.

“The first record was the record I always wanted to make: a rock-and-rollwith-all-three-words-underlined sort

If I can turn a kid onto Bo Diddley and David Byrne at the same time, then I’ll have done my life’s work.

— JD McPherson

of record. The new record is one that I wanted to make but never knew I could,” McPherson said. “You want to expand the language a little. Those sounds morphed and changed into other things, and I wanted to explore that.”

The sophomore album won’t depart from the artistic era Signs was born from, but it will have some weirder “psychedelic” tones behind it.

“I wanted to breathe more life into the music as opposed to just recreate it,” McPherson said. “That’s my mission in life; if I can turn a kid onto Bo Diddley and David Byrne at the same time, then

I’ll have done my life’s work.”

But right now, he’s shining a light on Vee-Jay Records, the influential label on Chicago’s Record Row that put out records by John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Reed that helped introduce The Four Seasons and The Beatles to America.

Rounder Records acquired the label, and in no time, McPherson knocked out The Warm Covers EP (out now digitally and sold-out on vinyl), doing what he has always done best: digging in the dirt to find the precious treasures that American music had almost left behind.

“Rounder told us about the acquisition, and five seconds later, we decided to do a full 45 (RPM record).

We geeked out,” he said. “Sometimes, the pizza gets delivered, and it’s obvious what you are supposed to do.”

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BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

Shut Up Matt Jewett with Chumped and Lotta Tuff 9 p.m. Saturday Blue Note Lounge 2408 N. Robinson Ave. thebluenotelounge.com 600-1166 $8

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Sometimes I use humor to disengage from it being so serious.

Playing live is a matter of life or death for Oklahoma folk-punk troubadour Matt Jewett — sometimes, quite literally.

“It’s not an irregular occurrence for me to have an asthma attack on stage,” Jewett said. “That’s not hyperbole; I’ve had to call out and ask the audience if anyone had an inhaler because I was about to die. I should probably start carrying one.”

Jewett — along with bandmate and drummer Baylor Judd — can’t help but get wrapped up in the moment. Their impassioned performances have been honed and sharpened through years of playing American Legion and VFW Halls in straight-ahead punk and indierock bands. No need for amplification; just the raw, personal narratives he’s weaving in lyrically.

Violent Femmes, Say Anything, David Bazan and Kris Kristofferson all have proven essential to Jewett’s musical approach and aesthetic at various points in various years. It’s soul-baring, existential stuff just heavy enough to demand a little levity in the finer touches.

“I couldn’t get away with saying the things I say in some of our songs without my tongue being firmly planted in my cheek,” Jewett said, referring to a song titled “It’s Not That I Hate You, I Just Want You to Die” on his new EP, I Wish That I Liked You. “It’s like, I understand this is way too much of a heart-on-your-sleeve emotion.

Sometimes I use humor to disengage from it being so serious.”

That streak of dark humor has been alive since he first started writing songs

about girls and hating his parents at 15 years old on a bass guitar. Now, it goes deeper and broader than that, more the whys and hows of emotion and not just the what.

But there’s a fine line between sappy and heartfelt, between simple and elementary, and for the past two years, Jewett has been focusing his creative energies on being on the right side of each of those.

“I’ve figured out what my wheelhouse is,” Jewett said. “I know what kind of songs I write — the songs I’m good at writing, anyway. I want them to be taken seriously enough, but not enough to have people be like, ‘Who is this douchebag?’”

A sensitive guy unafraid to crack a joke or let out a roar, Jewett files nicely alongside the genre-straddling likes of Kevin Devine or Jesse Lacey. He has found a niche for himself on a local scale thanks to Jake Morisse (Black Canyon) and Red City Radio introducing Jewett to their respective fan bases.

He’s looking to expand that sooner rather than later, not only locally but across the Midwest. I Wish That I Liked You — comprised of songs that he has been wanting to release for well over a year — is being celebrated at Saturday’s release show with Brooklyn pop-punk act Chumped and Oklahoma rockers Lotta Tuff.

Jewett’s eyes will then be set on extensive national touring — at the very least up to Chicago and back, but ideally up to 70 dates through 2015.

That is, if Jewett doesn’t die on stage before then.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12 Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

John Calvin Abney/Idabel/Stranded at the Station, Stash, Norman. FOLK Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO Mike McClure/Johnny Cooper/Austin Allsup, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COUNTRY R.J. Ballard, The Paramount OKC. SINGER/SONGWRITER Roy Lee Scott & The Flying Cowboys, Sliders. COUNTRY

Kelsey Waldon/Johnny Appleseed, Prairie Gothic, Guthrie. COUNTRY

Shakers of Salt, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. COVER

Mike Hosty, Baker St. Pub & Grill. BLUES

Shane Smith & The Saints, Wormy Dog Saloon. FOLK

Savoy/Bright Lights, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK

Slowvein, Oklahoma City Limits. POP

The Friends No BS Jam, Friends Restaurant & Club.

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SquadLive, Riverwind Casino, Norman. ROCK

The Great American Jug Band, The Deli, Norman. FOLK

THURSDAY, NOV. 13 The Antlers/Tallows, Oklahoma Memorial Union, Norman. POP Brent Saulsbury/Will Galbraith/Wayne Duncan, Friends Restaurant & Club. ROCK David Morris, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO DJ RnR, Chimy’s, Norman. DANCE Intronaut/Anciients/BREA, The Conservatory. ROCK Koffin Kats, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. ROCK Ripple Green/Sour Boy/Bitter Girl/Micah Schnabel, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Sleeping with Sirens/Pierce the Veil, Brady Theater, Tulsa. ROCK

Superfreak as The Blend, Remington Park. VARIOUS Tallows, The Deli, Norman. POP Teach Me Equals/Medicine Brothers/LavaLuxe, The Blue Door. ROCK Terry Phelps, Full Circle Bookstore. ACOUSTIC The Bourgeois/Helen Kelter Skelter/Gum, Opolis, Norman. ROCK The Clique, Friends Restaurant & Club. VARIOUS

The Antlers

The Souveneers, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. COUNTRY Trent Tiger, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. ROCK

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100 Bones, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. REGGAE 36 Crazy Fists/Skinlab/All Hail the Yetti, The Labyrinth, Norman. ROCK Aaron Newman Band, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe.

ACOUSTIC Ali Soltani, Full Circle Bookstore. SINGER/SONGWRITER

The Souveneers, The Deli, Norman. COUNTRY

Black Lillies/Guthrie Brown, Wormy Dog Saloon.

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Nobody does blissed-out indie pop quite like The Antlers.

The Brooklyn-based art-rockers broke through in 2009 with their devastatingly beautiful masterwork Hospice, evolving with grace in each subsequent release and culminating in this year’s critically acclaimed Familiars. See them with local stalwarts Tallows 9 p.m.

Thursday at the University of Oklahoma’s Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave., in Norman. Admission is free. Visit cac.ou.edu.

Chumped/Matt Jewett and the Rowdy Dow, Blue Note Lounge. FOLK

Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO

Don and Melodee Johnson, Twelve Oaks, Edmond. FOLK

Maurice Johnson, Avanti Bar & Grill. JAZZ

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Eric Taylor, Newcastle Casino, Newcastle. VARIOUS

Miss Brown to You, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. JAZZ

Grant Stevens, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Mitch Casen, Friends Restaurant & Club. COUNTRY

Hannah Wolff/Kali Ra, Voodoo Lounge. POP

Replay, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. COVER

DJ AB, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. DANCE

Hi-Def Howlers, JJ’s Blues Saloon. ROCK

Roy Lee Scott & the Flying Cowboys, Sliders. COUNTRY

Relient K/Blondfire/From Indian Lakes, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK

Don Williams, Brady Theater, Tulsa. COUNTRY

Horse Feathers/Sara Jackson-Holman, Opolis, Norman.

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Sierra Rose, The Paramount OKC. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Steve Story, American Legion 40et8. COUNTRY

Charles Scott Duo, Aloft Downtown Oklahoma City.

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Gary Johnson, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO Hosty Duo, Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery. BLUES

Hosty Duo, The Deli, Norman. COUNTRY

David Bruster, VZD’s Restaurant & Club. VARIOUS Lucky, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. COVER

Stout, Oklahoma City Limits. VARIOUS Superfreak as The Blend, Remington Park. VARIOUS

Jason Young Band, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COUNTRY

Tiger Lily/Thin Skin/Cottonmouth, The Conservatory.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19 Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, The Blue Door. COUNTRY Casey & Minna, First National Center. FOLK Drive, Baker St. Pub & Grill. ROCK

Dropkick Murphys/Blood or Whiskey/Bryan McPherson, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK

Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Edgar Cruz, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. ACOUSTIC Jamie Bramble, Uptown Grocery Co., Edmond. ACOUSTIC

The Friends No BS Jam, Friends Restaurant & Club.

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Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO MilkDrive, The Blue Door. JAZZ MoJo Men/Max Carl, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK Peter Mulvey, The Depot, Norman. FOLK

MONDAY, NOV. 17 Ali Harter, Blue Note Lounge. SINGER/SONGWRITER

The Bourgeois, Opolis, Norman, Friday, Nov. 14

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Slayer/Suicidal Tendencies/Exodus, Chevy Bricktown Events Center. ROCK

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Submissions run as space allows, although we strive to make the listings as inclusive as possible.

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Fwend or foe?

BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

There’s a scene in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the music biopic parody starring John C. Reilly, written by Judd Apatow) when the titular character — given a new creative direction by, fittingly enough, a fictionalized Beatles — is working on his LSDdriven masterpiece in a massive studio replete with a full orchestra, aboriginal percussionists, an army of didgeridoos and a live goat.

It’s a spoof of that Brian Wilson, do-whatever-it-takes-to-make-it-perfect studio experience that threatens the sanity of everyone evolved.

But most creativity does demand insanity, and over the past decade, The Flaming Lips have operated almost exclusively in this way. Grittier, yes, and the destination is reversed: Oklahoma’s freakiest native sons find their brand of perfection in pushing that fanatic process into the most absurd and ridiculous corners it can possibly go.

And what better avenue used to plow headfirst into the loony bin than to scale what is, perhaps, the most staggering entry into The Beatles’ legendary back catalog, the revelatory Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?

You don’t reinvent perfection.

You can’t. You won’t. A safe remake is wholly unnecessary, and for that reason, The Flaming Lips might be the only breathing group capable of covering such a significant album in its entirety and have it carry any value at all (as they have already done with Pink Floyd, King Crimson and The Stone Roses).

They leave the technical and artistic merits alone — unfettered by them, even — and sacrifice the shell for the spirit. At its core, Sgt. Pepper’s was as fun and playful as it was high-brow.

With A Little Help from My Fwends

is an album that serves diehard Flaming Lips fans more than The Beatles’, though, and is probably a mixed bag even for the Venn diagram overlap. Divisive in both construction and results, it plays out like a circus set in flames: colorful, violent, engrossing, repulsive and, most of all, surreal.

Because only in the Lipsverse would a Fwendly cast that includes Miley Cyrus, Tegan & Sara, Maynard James Keenan, Moby, Dr. Dog and more (including Oklahoma-tied acts Stardeath & White Dwarfs and Birdflower) make a lick of sense.

The pairings themselves speak to the album’s highs and lows. Cyrus is transformative in her appearances, which also happen to be highlights: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” has heavenly pockets — an especially angelic but engrossing verse by the Billy Ray offspring — but is more determined to thrust itself violently into the bowels of hell, especially in the earth-shattering, electrified choruses. It’s the good kind of transformative.

Foxygen and MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser play along great as Wayne Coyne & Co.’s little bros in the “(Reprise),” and Dr. Dog, Chuck Inglish and Morgan Delt find a way to coexist in the sunny “Getting Better.”

Yet the brightest offering might be the harmonious marriage of Phantogram, Julianna Barwick and Spaceface in the gentle piano ballad “She’s Leaving Home.”

But as stretched-out and overpopulated as the tribute was designed to be, there are ill-fitting jaunts in the more-dated-than-theoriginal “Lovely Rita” and “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” As caustic as the formula is, it’s a mostly loose and palatable affair. Leave it to The Flaming Lips to pull off such an insurmountable proposition and make it feel like it was done on a whim.

The Flaming Lips Album: With a Little Help from My Fwends | Available now | flaminglips.com

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Cine festival showcases craft, art, culture and stars of Latino film communities.

BY GREG HORTON

Oklahoma Cine Latino Film Festival VIP opening gala 6-10 p.m. Friday El Nacional Media Group 301 SW 25th St. $25 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday OCCC Capitol Hill Center 123 SW 25th St., Suite 100 historiccapitolhill.com 632-0133 Free

This weekend’s inaugural Oklahoma Cine Latino Film Festival includes over 20 films by Latino filmmakers, including feature films, documentaries, shorts and music videos.

Four local filmmakers have submitted projects for the event, which runs Friday and Saturday, but it has piqued interest from far south of the U.S. border, too.

“People who follow the film festival circuit have been finding us, so we have filmmakers from all over the U.S., Mexico, and Latin America,” said Rogelio Almeida, an Oklahoma Citybased filmmaker who helped organize the event.

The all-day portion on Saturday is free, and most films are family-friendly, Almeida said.

“Most film festivals charge for admission to the event and to different screenings,” Almeida said. “We wanted to make the festival free to the public so we could better showcase Latino filmmakers and encourage people to get involved in the industry.”

The festival mission is to showcase Latino filmmakers, create awareness for the industry in the state and inspire involvement from the community.

Included in the Saturday portion of the festival are workshops, family activities, age-appropriate short films, presentations and student film competitions. The guest juror for that contest is award-winning actress

Lymari Nadal (CSI: NY, Thieves and Liars, Battlestar Galactica). She might be best-known to U.S. audiences as the wife of Denzel Washington’s character in the film American Gangster.

Gray Frederickson, an Oklahoma City Community College professor and a member of the team that produced The Godfather, also will be a featured speaker.

Five feature films — including Nadal’s América, a film she wrote and in which she played the title character — will be screened during the festival.

América shows Friday night as part of the opening VIP reception at El Nacional Media Group, 300 SW 25th St. The Friday reception also includes food, drink, music and a Q&A with Nadal. Admission to Friday’s event is $25.

Student films are Saturday’s primary focus, and Almeida said the jury will evaluate films in two categories: high school and college.

“We want to separate them into categories so that the competition is more fair,” Almeida said. “Nadal is the main juror, but we are pleased that award-winning screenwriter Nora Contreras will also be on the jury.”

Almeida rounds out the judges’ panel.

Contreras is an actress, producer and writer. Her award-winning film Habitos Curiosos was recently screened in OKC and will be shown Saturday, along with Yveete, in which she was an actor and executive producer. The competition concludes with a Q&A with participating filmmakers, followed by a presentation of Cine Latino awards.

Almeida said that Instructions Not Included, showing Saturday, is the highest-grossing film in the U.S. that is written, produced and directed by a Latino team. The film has grossed over $100 million.

For a full schedule of events, visit historiccapitolhill.com.

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Lost in space Interstellar is big, spectacular and deeply flawed.

BY PHIL BACHARACH

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Christopher Nolan doesn’t mess around with little ideas. In films like Memento, the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, he explored memory, justice, dreams and the nature of reality itself. The stakes are high in Nolan’s universe, too. If you don’t leave the theater feeling a bit dazed, then the man hasn’t done his job.

Interstellar is standard Christopher Nolan fare: big, dramatic, chock full of ideas. But it’s also a little like being trapped in conversation with a selfimportant and slightly drunk professor of quantum physics. The chat is fascinating for a good while — until it isn’t.

The movie certainly doesn’t lack for plot. Earth is slowly dying in a not-too-distant future, with massive dust storms ravaging American farmlands. Among the impacted farmers is Cooper (a very good Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club), a widower raising his children Tom (Timothée Chalamet, Men, Women and Children) and Murph (Mackenzie Foy, The Conjuring).

Cooper, a former NASA engineer, suspects a message of some sort is being conveyed when Murph insists that a ghost in their house is knocking specific books off shelves. That mystery leads Cooper and Murph to a hidden NASA site where they run into the brilliant professor Brand (Michael Caine, The Dark Knight Rises) and his daughter Amelia (Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables). It’s a fortuitous meeting. Professor Brand enlists Cooper, a hotshot pilot, to helm a space mission to a wormhole near Saturn. On the other side of the universe, the professor tells him, are three planets possibly suitable to serve as humankind’s next home.

Cooper struggles with leaving his children for God-knows-howlong before eventually blasting off into space along with Amelia, a few

other scientists and TARS, a boxy robot (voiced by Bill Irwin) given to sarcasm. The journey slogs on for years. Cooper’s children grow up without him. Tom (Casey Affleck, Out of the Furnace) takes over the farm while Murph (Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) becomes a crackerjack physicist working with the professor.

Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan wrote the screenplay in close consultation with acclaimed astrophysicist Kip Thorne. While I cannot attest to the science of Interstellar, most of it seems feasible and I have no expertise to question it. Still, I wonder if the Nolans would have been better served to pare down the large chunks of expository gobbledygook that pass for dialogue.

The endless explanations weigh down the story even as they push it forward.

Obviously inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, the movie doles out generous amounts of spectacle in its nearly three-hour running time. From trippy black holes to the ginormous waves of a faraway planet, Nolan delivers breathtaking visuals worth seeking out on the biggest screen you can find. But at this point in cinema, just about any multimillion-dollar blockbuster conjures up mindbogglingly believable special effects.

Interstellar is more compelling when it probes the relationship between Cooper and the children he is forced to leave behind. In one memorable scene, Cooper and Amelia discover that 23 years have gone by during what they thought was only a couple of hours exploring a planet in another galaxy. Cooper sobs uncontrollably as he watches 23 years of videos made by his family rush by on a screen: marriages, births, deaths.

It’s an emotionally devastating moment in a film that doesn’t have quite enough of them.

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ARIES March 21-April 19 Someone on Reddit.com posed the question, “What have you always been curious to try?” In reply, many people said they wanted to experiment with exotic varieties of sex and drugs they had never treated themselves to before. Other favorites: eating chocolate-covered bacon; piloting a plane; shoplifting; doing a stand-up comedy routine; hanggliding and deep-sea diving; exploring the Darknet and the Deep Web; spontaneously taking a trip to a foreign country; turning away from modern society and joining a Buddhist monastery. What would your answer be, Aries? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to explore what you have always been curious to try. The risks will be lower than usual, and the results more likely to be interesting.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 Contrary to popular opinion, crime fiction author Arthur Conan Doyle never once had his character Sherlock Holmes utter the statement “Elementary, my dear Watson.” For that matter, Humphrey Bogart never actually said “Play it again, Sam” in the film *Casablanca.* Star Trek’s Captain Kirk never used the exact phrase “Beam me up, Scotty.”

Furthermore I, Rob Brezsny, have never before issued the following prophecy: “Deep sexy darkness and deep sexy brilliance are conspiring to bring you Tauruses intriguing pleasures that will educate the naive part of your soul” -- until now, that is. At this juncture in the ever-twisting plot of your life story, I am most definitely saying just that.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 Here are some thoughts from Gemini author Fernando Pessoa: “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd -- the longing for impossible things; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else.” Can you relate, Gemini? Have you felt those feelings? Here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, you will be more free of them than you have been in a long time. What will

instead predominate for you are yearnings for very possible things and contentment with what’s actually available to you. (Pessoa’s words are from *The Book of Disquiet,* translated by Alfred Mac Adam.)

CANCER June 21-July 22 The most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is learn how to take care of yourself better.

What? You say you’re too busy for that? You have too many appointments and obligations? I disagree.

In my astrological opinion, there’s one task that must trump all others, and that is get smarter about how you eat, sleep, exercise, relax, heal yourself, and connect with people. I can assure you that there’s a lot you don’t know about what you really need and the best ways to get what you really need. But you are ripe to become wiser in this subtle, demanding, and glorious art.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Naturalist Greg Munson says that many dragonflies are great acrobats. They are the “Cirque du Soleil” performers of the animal kingdom. Not only do they eat in mid-air, they also have sex. While flying, two dragonflies will hook up and bend into a roughly circular formation to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their reproductive organs, thereby forming a “mating pinwheel.” I don’t expect you to achieve quite that level of virtuosity in your own amorous escapades, Leo. But if you’re adventurous, you could very well enjoy experiences that resemble having sex while flying.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Born under the sign of Virgo, Yuriy Norshteyn is a Russian animator who has won numerous awards. His Tale of Tales was once voted the greatest animated film of all time. But he hasn’t finished any new films for quite a while. In fact, he has been working on the same project since 1981, indulging his perfectionism to the max. In 33 years, he has only finished 25 minutes’ worth of The Overcoat, which is based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. But I predict that he will complete this labor of love in the next eight months -- just as many of you other Virgos will finally wrap up tasks you have been working on for a long time.

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LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 “Every saint has a bee in his halo,” said philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Similarly, some Libras have a passive-aggressive streak hidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving persona. Are you one of them? If so, I invite you to express your darker feelings more forthrightly. You don’t have to be mean and insensitive. In fact, it’s best if you use tact and diplomacy. Just make sure you reveal the fact that there is indeed a bee in your halo. I bet you will ultimately be pleased with the consequences you stir up through your acts of courageous honesty.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Many people use the terms “cement” and “concrete” interchangeably, but they are not the same. Cement is powdery stuff that’s composed of limestone, gypsum, clay with alumino-silicate, and other ingredients. It’s just one of the raw materials that is used to make concrete -- usually no more than 15 percent of the total mass. The rest consists of sand, crushed stone, and water. Let’s regard this as a good metaphor for you to keep in mind, Scorpio. If you want to create a durable thing that can last as long as concrete, make sure you don’t get overly preoccupied with the “cement” at the expense of the other 85 percent of the stuff you will need.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice,” writes Louise Glück in her poem “The Wild Iris.” I think that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. There’s a part of you that is returning from oblivion -- making its way home from the abyss -- and it will be hungry to express itself when it arrives back here in your regularly scheduled life. This dazed part of you may not yet know what exactly it wants to say. But it is fertile with the unruly wisdom it has gathered while wandering. Sooner rather than later, it will discover a way to articulate its raw truths.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness,” said American humorist Josh Billings. I propose that we make that your motto in the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to liberate yourself from memories that still cause you pain -- to garner major healing

from past anguish and upheaval. And one of the best ways to do that will be to let go of as much blame and rage and hatred as you possibly can.

Forgiveness can be your magic spell.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Denmark has been a pioneer in developing the technology to supply its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to generate half of its electricity from wind turbines. Recently the Danish climate minister also announced his nation’s intention to phase out the use of coal as an energy source within ten years. I would love to see you apply this kind of enlightened long-term thinking to your own personal destiny, Aquarius. Now would be an excellent time to brainstorm about the life you want to be living in 2020 and 2025. It’s also a perfect moment to outline a master plan for the next ten years, and commit to it.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career. He has won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times in five different decades. But for his appearance in Jaws: The Revenge, he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed that his work in that film was not his best, and yet he was happy with how much money he made doing it.

“I have never seen the film,” he said, “but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Pisces, you have permission to engage in a comparable trade-off during the coming months.

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