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Features OCTOBER

2018 Oklahoma Magazine Vol. XXII, No. 10

42 Medical Advancements

Oklahoma physicians, hospitals and medical groups are on the forefront of treating a variety of diseases, such as stroke, breast cancer, brain tumors and lupus.

52 The Last Straw

The movement away from single-use plastic straws gains momentum in Oklahoma.

A Period of Transition

Kitchens and bathrooms have transformed from utilitarian to elaborate. Join us for a journey through several uniquely modern kitchens and baths.

WANT SOME MORE?

Oklahoma’s medical marijuana law has gone into effect, but its implications and interpretations are hazy.

78 Haunted House Preview

If you love to get scared each Halloween, this list will guide you to horrific Halloween haunts. Put on your big-kid breeches

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The Last Straw The movement away from single-use plastic straws

A Doobieous Future

OKLAHOMA’S NEW MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW AND ITS HAZY IMPLICATIONS

Medical Advancements

OKLAHOMA PHYSICIANS AT THE FOREFRONT OF NEW TECHNOLOGY

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Scissortail Park in OKC will extend downtown’s reach with nature trails, athletic fields, concert venues and thousands of trees.

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Halloween, highly realistic (and sometimes disturbing) creatures dubbed ‘Okie Babies’ make a lasting impression.

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Interiors With an emphasis on life in and around the kitchen, a renovation breathes new life into a south Tulsa residence.

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how to adjust to the ever-evolving world of digital photography.

Health Hidden Gems Scene

Two Oklahomans happen to meet in an LA tavern. From there, their ideas germinate into Bar Arbolada, a go-to joint in OKC.

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A hot-button issue that recently saw a major breakthrough – or setback, depending on your outlook – is State Question 788, regarding the legalization of medical marijuana. Our feature – cleverly titled ‘A Doobie-ous Future,’ I may add – gives you a look at both sides of the issue, plus an easy-to-swallow Q&A for people looking to get a license or wanting to know how it all works (page 74).

October means our annual medical issue is back. This year, we touch base with a handful of hospitals and health systems to get the latest on medical advancements (page 42). Read about laser ablation techniques, ground-breaking lupus prevention trials, pediatric stroke protocols and other developments that improve the lives of Oklahomans every day.

Notice the drinks at your favorite watering hole are now arriving sans straw? That’s because some eco-conscious joints are attempting to diminish their utilization of single-use plastic. Get the scoop on page 52.

Luxury and functionality combine in our annual Kitchens and Baths feature (page 57). Enjoy a visually sumptuous spread of the state’s most opulent, modern and upscale bathrooms and kitchens that will have you running to the nearest home improvement store.

Enough with the heavy – if you’re a Halloween fanatic, you’ll want to peruse our spooktacular feature, Haunted House Hellions, for a guide to the scariest attractions around Oklahoma (page 78). Some of these places may leave you petrified – you’ve been warned.

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Scissortail Park will extend downtown’s reach with nature trails, athletic fields, concert venues and thousands of trees.

hen the north section of Scissortail Park opens next year in Oklahoma City, visitors will have a multi-use venue that has the makings of an aborist’s dream.

“With almost 1,000 trees, it will be almost like a botanical garden,” says Maureen Heffernan, who, as CEO and president of Park Management Company, oversees the Scissortail Park Foundation and the Myriad

Gardens Foundation, which operate the two downtown parks. “It’s going to be fantastic … really beautiful.”

The nearly $150 million Scissortail Park, under construction since June 2017, will have nature trails, areas for concerts and special events, sports fields, a cafe, a roller-skating rink and a three-acre lake with paddleboat rentals.

Also planned are a dog park, woodland and flower gardens, playgrounds “and a huge interactive fountain,” says David Todd, program

director for the Metropolitan Area Projects Plan, known as MAPS 3.

Todd says the park will be an important green space for the growing numbers of downtown residents, but also a civic gathering place.

“The great lawn can hold up to 15,000 people for concerts,” he says.

The park – near Chesapeake Energy Arena, a streetcar stop, and the convention center and Omni Hotel, under construction – will attract visitors as well as locals.

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ergy back and forth,” says Heffernan, adding that groups might consider booking events at the convention center because of Scissortail’s location.

She says the nearby Myriad Botanical Gardens will complement, not compete with, the park.

The core mission of Myriad is to showcase collections of plants, Heffernan says. It also features the Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory.

“The scale of Myriad Gardens is sort of a boutique park,” she says. “At 15 acres, it’s more intimate in a way. It lends itself to a different feel.”

The Myriad holds about 4,000 people on its large lawn, where people gather for summer movie nights, twilight concerts and other programming. Seasonal offerings include Pumpkinville and an ice-skating rink.

“We won’t plan competing festivals,” Heffernan says. “The way the city is growing, I think there are plenty of people to go both places.”

Everything at Scissortail Park will be free, except for paddleboat rentals, roller skating and private events, such as weddings. Myriad Gardens charges for some programming, such as horticulture classes, but offers discounts to members, which Heffernan says might lead to a joint membership program for the two parks.

Heffernan says the north section of the park should be ready in June, with tentative plans for a three-day grand opening featuring a festival and concerts over Labor Day weekend.

The 40-acre north section will extend south from the new Oklahoma City Boulevard to Interstate 40, between Hudson and Robinson avenues.

The 30-acre south section, scheduled to open in 2021, will extend from I-40 south to Southwest 10th Street between Walker and Robinson avenues and to Southwest 15th Street between Harvey and Robinson. Part of the southern section will be on the north bank of the Oklahoma River.

“It will be more of a landscaped area, with soccer [fields] and basketball and tennis courts,” Heffernan says.

The Skydance Bridge, symbolizing the scissor-tailed flycatcher (the state bird), spans I-40 and will connect the north and south sections of the park.

The Social Order Dining Collective will manage the cafe, says Jim Vidmar, vice president of marketing and communications for the Myriad Gardens and Scissortail Park. The group has introduced OKC restaurants such as the Jones Assembly, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Texadelphia and Seven47.

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ment with Oklahoma City have raised money through grants, corporate donations and income from rentals and tickets to events.

“Our goal is to lower the city’s share of the annual operating costs,” she says. “Our goal is to earn about half of the operating expenses.”

Scissortail Park already has a Facebook page, which features construction photos and showcases the park’s logo, a colorful image of a scissor-tailed flycatcher. Heffernan says a webpage should launch this month.

MAPS 3 is a capital improvements program in Oklahoma City that uses a one-cent sales tax to pay for debt-free projects that improve quality of life. It was approved by Oklahoma City voters in April 2010 and ended Dec. 31 after raising more than $777 million. MAPS 3 construction projects are scheduled to continue through 2021.

MAPS 3, in a brochure, says visitors to Scissortail will “invest their most memorable moments in settings both active and tranquil.”

Heffernan adds that Tulsa’s Gathering Place, which opened in September, and Scissortail will raise “the quality of life in Oklahoma by a lot.”

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er creations are highly realistic, but they’re not your average baby dolls because Julia Lane, the genius behind Okie Babies, has a different perspective in mind.

Lane’s dolls feature fangs, wonky eyes, repulsive teeth, horns atop their heads or even a sickly glow.

“I have always loved dolls, babies and anything strange,” the Muskogee resident says. “I stumbled across this art form one day while browsing online and was completely amazed at the detail and realism of it.”

Lane says she first made human-like dolls to grasp how to achieve realism, but then quickly moved to making fun little creatures that “come from both my imagination and things in fairy tales. I get my inspiration from everything – emotions, dreams, world affairs, movies, my kids, memories, other artists, tales, colors, friends, family, fans and even my supplies.”

Some dolls resemble vampires, zombies or ghouls, with a recent creation looking as if he would be at home in the movie Avatar. Regardless, each looks as if it were alive.

The foundations of Lane’s creations are blank vinyl kits, some sculpted by other artists and some created using 3-D scans of real babies. She says she uses a range of paints and media to make her dolls look alive; she primarily uses a heat-set, oil-based paint to create depths of complexions.

A single doll can have up to 40 layers of paint, Lane says.

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“Often, I either burn into the vinyl to reshape it or sculpt extra bits and pieces before I even start painting,” Lane says. “I’ve adhered discarded flesh, teeth and bone of ethically sourced animal remains in quite a few of my creations. The fantasy creatures I make give me a wide range of artistic leeway and continue to challenge me in new ways every time.”

These extra bits and pieces often induce strong reactions to her dolls, especially when she posts photos of them on social media.

“I’m sure there are neutral reactions to my work, but it seems that people only care to go above and beyond with their comments if they feel very strongly,” Lane says. “Sometimes my work even shocks me, so I’m not terribly surprised over the reactions. I am, however, honored and sometimes humbled by them.

“People have taught me not to care so much about their reactions because, no matter what is done, someone will either love or hate it. I’d rather be true to myself than worry with all that.”

Lane says it can take 40 to 60 hours to complete every detail on a single doll.

“Each individual hair and every vein are meticulously placed in order to achieve the final result,” she says. “I make as many babies as my time, imagination, fingers and mental well-being will allow me to, and I am elated to do it.”

The price of one of Lane’s creations can vary from $300 to $1,200 due to supplies, time spent on the creation and outsourced services. Find her work at facebook.com/okiebabies11.

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Spirited Affairs

Get spooky (and educated) with ghost tours and paranormal activity found across Oklahoma.

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TERI FRENCH OF THE TULSA SPIRIT TOUR INFORMS GUESTS ON GHOST STORIES, URBAN LEGENDS AND THE SORDID HISTORY OF TULSA. PHOTO BY JOSH NEW

any tours have words such as ghost and haunted in their titles, and people buying tickets want to hear about these spirits that go bump in the night.

The spirit tours that happen every autumn across Oklahoma are also a good way to learn about the state’s history, because the stories are mostly about real people, organizers say.

The Haunted History Tours at Three Rivers Museum in Muskogee are led by historians, says operations director Angie Rush, adding that tour participants visit “historical places that involve the paranormal,”

such as cemeteries, buildings and houses.

The tours are for ages 12 and older and limited to about 25 people.

Ticket are $15, and the tours sell out every year, she says. For a schedule and reservations, go to 3riversmuseum.com or call 918.686.6624.

In the state’s first capital, Stacey Frazier is in the fifth year of hosting her year-round Guthrie Ghost Walk.

Interest picks up in September and October, so she adds dates and times, sometimes even midnight tours.

Guthrie is so rich with stories that she’s been able to offer fresh tales every year, Frazier says.

“I keep uncovering stories,” she says. “I do a lot of the research

through newspapers.com. And I talk to the older residents of the town.

Even without the paranormal element, they are interesting stories.”

Tickets for the 90-minute walking tours are $10 for those 15 and older, $7 for ages 7 to 14 and free for kids younger than 7. Go to guthrieghostwalk.com or call 405.293.8404.

The Tulsa Spirit Tour features haunted places and a serial killers tour in October, says Teri French, who created the attraction in 2003.

She has conducted paranormal investigations since the 1990s and is the founder of the Paranormal Investigation Team of Tulsa.

“People are always curious about what they don’t understand, about stuff that defies logic,” says French, who narrates most of the two-hour bus tours.

Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult for the bus tours, which feature “ghost stories, urban legends and the sordid history of Tulsa.” French says her walking tour is more kid-friendly.

The serial killers tours are scheduled for Oct. 4, 11 and 24.

Go to tulsaspirittour.com or call 918.694.7488 for the Haunted Tulsa dates. Tours are added based on demand. Tickets are $40.

For those 18 and older, French also offers Ghost Hunting 101, a five-week course that meets on Tuesdays in October and costs $65.

Back in central Oklahoma, author and English professor Jeff Provine offers the Oklahoma City Ghost Tour and Norman Downtown Ghost Tour during the two weeks before Halloween. He charges $10 for the walking tours, which, he says, are “upper PG-rated” in fright factor.

Provine tells true stories “about people who have had some very strange, otherwise unexplained experiences.”

Go to jeffprovine.com or call 405.343.1305.

In El Reno, the Fort Reno Historical Spirit Tour comes with a bean supper, says Wendy Ogden, director and curator the U.S. Cavalry Association Museum. Tours are on two or three nights in October, depending on demand, and tickets are $15 for adults, $14 for seniors and $7 for kids. Call 405.262.3987.

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The State ISSUES

Orphaned Oil Wells

Plugging and cleaning abandoned sites throughout the Osage Nation cost millions of dollars.

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LEAKING WELLS THROUGHOUT THE OSAGE NATION POLLUTE GROUNDWATER, EMIT DANGEROUS METHANE GAS AND DAMAGE THE SURROUND SURFACE ENVIRONMENT.

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he oil pump jack is a symbol of Oklahoma.

Found throughout the state, moving up and down, the pump brings oil to the surface and money to the state.

Idle pumps are a symbol of Oklahoma in a different way: dried up, abandoned, orphaned wells.

The Osage Nation has experienced the ups and downs of the oil jack. Active wells have brought untold wealth to the nation since the 1890s; orphaned wells bring commensurate sorrow.

Ideally, when a well runs dry or a company ceases operating the well, the operator plugs it, usually with concrete, to ensure against leaks of gas, oil or water. But in a time of financial crisis, and sometimes because of shear ineptitude, a well is not plugged properly. This has happened often on Osage land.

According to a recent report by the American Geosciences Institute, “orphaned wells are often abandoned without any plugging or cleanup, but even plugged wells may leak, especially those plugged in the past,

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when plugging procedures were less rigorous and used less durable materials.” Leaking wells can pollute groundwater, emit dangerous methane gas and damage the surrounding surface environment – all of which pose a threat to Osage families.

Since 1906, a tribal council has overseen oil fields in the Osage Mineral Estate, under the supervision of the Osage Agency of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Some orphaned wells have been cleaned up by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board, but hundreds of others need plugging, and this requires Bureau of Indian Affairs dollars.

Last year, Cynthia Boone of the Osage Minerals Council addressed a U.S. House appropriations subcommittee with a report from Department of the Interior’s inspector general that faulted the BIA Osage Agency for mismanagement of oil and gas resources.

“Unfortunately, and similar to other energy-producing tribes, development of the Osage Mineral Estate has been obstructed by the BIA Osage Agency’s lack of sufficient

staff, expertise and resources to effectively manage and oversee energy development,” she said.

The Osage Agency declined to comment for this article.

Boone said administrative flaws had resulted in up to “several thousand unplugged and abandoned wells in the Osage Mineral Estate, of which the BIA has identified roughly 1,400 wells as a priority for plugging.” Boone and the Osage Minerals Council asked Congress for a $5 million budget increase in 2019 for identifying and plugging orphaned wells.

Bill Lynn, director of the Osage Minerals Council, says Congress probably won’t appropriate the full amount, but any money would help.

The council awaits $3 million budgeted by Congress for 2018.

Funds are also needed to verify a working list of 1,602 possible orphaned wells. When cataloged, those orphaned wells will be ranked in terms of danger to the public.

Only then will the work of pouring concrete and cleanup begin.

RUSSELL LAWSON

HISTORY

Rational, Ethical Passion

Marian Opala, with resourcefulness and guile developed in war-time Poland, landed on the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

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MARIAN OPALA IS SWORN IN AS AN OKLAHOMA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.

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n Sept. 1, 1939, Marian Piotr Opala was an 18-year-old student living with his parents in Lodz, Poland, when he heard that Germans had invaded his homeland and were headed toward the city from the west.

A law student, Opala soon discovered a resourcefulness and a will to live that would take him through years of Nazi occupation, relocations, resistance fighting, a concentration camp and immigration. Eventually, he wound up in Oklahoma, where he joined the state Supreme Court in 1978.

Opala told his story for a Voices of Oklahoma interview by the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities just four days before his death in 2010. Opala was also the subject of a documentary by Polish filmmaker Andrew Sikora.

“Among many dignitaries and historical figures I have had privilege to interview, Justice Opala stands out as a uniquely rational and highly ethical individual,” Sikora says. “Those two characteristics often can spark quite opposite reactions in times of dehumanizing

events like World War II and the to translate from Polish to English Holocaust. The rational assessment and they were relayed to British of hopelessness during the German forces. On other occasions, he fought occupation prevented many to stand directly against the occupiers; he up to the occupier, but others made twice participated in the assassination the ‘irrational’ decision to fight back of German officials. The whole time, and risk everything they had, like he recalled almost 70 years later, he Marian Opala did during the war.” was “scared to death each inch of Germany had lost western Poland the way.” Opala did not believe the after World War I, but annexed that Germans could be beaten, yet he region in 1939 to set off a new war. fought against them anyway.

Opala and his family awaited England The Polish underground then sent to liberate them, but that never Opala to join British troops in Istanbul. occurred. Antony Opala, Marian’s He stayed with them for several years father, initially thought the Germans and fought in Italy, Ethiopia and would not be as brutal as they turned Egypt. In 1944, soon after D-Day, out to be.

Opala parachuted into Nazi-occupied By 1940, however, the elder Opala Poland. He was captured and sent to realized that Germany wanted to the Flossenburg concentration camp eradicate all Polish culture from near the Czech border. He recalled it as that western area, so he reluctantly “a plain murder camp.” He and 1,500 allowed his family to leave Lodz others were liberated April 23, 1945, in January 1941. The Opala family by the U.S. Army. surreptitiously walked to Warsaw Opala, seriously ill, was taken to in eastern Poland, where they lived a British camp in Germany, where for a time with Marian Opala’s he recovered. Gene Warr, an Army uncle in an apartment. The teenager captain from Oklahoma, agreed to witnessed violence, oppression and sponsor him in obtaining a visa to arbitrary arrests because, as he told America, and, in 1947, he ended Sikora later, “the Germans planned up in Oklahoma City, where he the war and the occupation to resumed his law studies. Opala perfection.” was admitted to the Oklahoma bar In Warsaw, and served as the Polish “Justice Opala was a lawyer and Home Army judge before his without a doubt – also known Court the most worldly Supreme as the Polish appointment. supreme court Underground, a During the war highly organized, justice Oklahoma and afterward in resistance has ever had, but America, living organization through utter in my eyes the operating by fear and tragedy, combination of subterfuge – Opala developed a conscripted moral compass of his rational with Opala, 19 at this and wrong, ethical character right time. Working based on pain and made the biggest suffering after with the British, the Polish Home impression on me.” experiencing the Army developed oppression of one a network in which most members against another. His resistance of Nazi knew little of general operations. repression preceded his fights against Opala received orders from people governmental oppression in any form, in disguise, and he never knew who as signified by repeated rulings and his compatriots were. He lived at declarations upholding citizens’ First home, pretended to be a normal Amendment rights. citizen and never told anyone, “Justice Opala was without a doubt not even his parents, about his the most worldly supreme court justice resistance activities. If he had been Oklahoma has ever had, but in my discovered, they and he would have eyes the combination of his rational faced death. with ethical character made the biggest The underground organization used impression on me,” Sikora says.

Opala mostly as a translator, because To hear Opala, in his own words, he was one of few in the group fluent visit voicesofoklahoma.com. in English. He was given messages RUSSELL LAWSON OCTOBER 2018 | WWW.OKMAG.COM

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BUSINESS

Not a Baaaaad Treat A Stillwater ice cream manufacturer brings goat milkbased ice cream to the nation.

PHOTO COURTESY CHOATE HOUSE

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he familiar “I scream, you scream” chant applies here – frozen dessert lovers across the country scream for Billy Goat Ice Cream Co. In a few years, the Stillwater business has grown from a handful of college-town accounts to a nationwide distribution of ice creamy goodness.

Rashaun Robinson, Billy Goat’s founder, president and CEO, was inspired by the health benefits of goat’s milk to appeal to a wide variety of tastes, with flavors like bourbon vanilla bean, coffee cacao chip, dark chocolate, garden mint, salted caramel, blueberry ginger and roasted strawberry balsamic.

“By using goat’s milk instead of cow’s milk, we’ve created a succulent experience that’s perfectly suited for those with lactose sensitivity,” Robinson says. “By using all-natural ingredients and supporting our local farmers, we’ve created a dessert that’s good for the body, the belly and the planet.

“Goat’s milk has more vitamins and is much lower in lactose, and I thought we needed to carry all of this into making America’s favorite dessert.”

A vacuum existed in the marketplace between traditional dairy ice cream and what the Food and Drug Administration classifies as a frozen dessert, made from such ingredients as almond milk and coconut milk but in which the primary ingredient is actually water, he says.

“We fill that void as an option for those sensitive to cow dairy or who are lactose intolerant,” Robinson says. “We fall in the middle, while bringing that familiar taste and texture of ice cream, but with added health benefits and being lower in calories than traditional ice cream.”

Robinson says the steady success of his product also comes from the “simple, superior, clean ingredients prominently listed on the package” to demonstrate the lack of questionable or chemical-laden additives.

From its first sale in Stillwater’s Hampton Inn four years ago to its placement across Oklahoma at Sprouts Farmers Markets, Whole Foods and Natural Grocers, Billy Goat Ice Cream has grown to include distribution in California, Florida, Colorado, Texas and, most recently, Michigan.

“The growth has been astounding in a short time and I think it speaks to the demand,” Robinson says.

Three or four employees, depending upon the season, produce the ice cream, and everyone – including friends and family – are eager to try out flavors as they’re developed.

“We’ve got some new flavors to release next year, but it’s top secret at this point,” Robinson says with a laugh. “That is a fun part of this – the research and development where creativity factors in. And pallets continue to change … so it’s lots of fun to try variations. And yes, there are always a lot of volunteers for the taste trials.”

The business derived from the entrepeneurship program at Oklahoma State University.

“We are really proud of being from Oklahoma because we offer something for those who want a different selection and those who take a lot of value in the health realm,” Robinson says. “We get great feedback – like a recent call from a mother in Kansas thanking us for creating a product their lactose-intolerant child can enjoy.

“Making this ice cream is pure fun – it’s bringing something wonderful to the masses. We’re here to show that an alternative to traditional dairy doesn’t have to be coconut or soy. Goat’s milk is a better option … and it’s locally made.”

TRACY LEGRAND

SPORTS

A Mile-High Hurler

Shawnee-born, Chandler-raised Jon Gray has found his niche in Denver with the Colorado Rockies.

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JON GRAY PLAYS AT HOME IN DENVER AT COORS FIELD. PHOTOS BY KYLE COOPER COURTESY COLORADO ROCKIES

onsidering that Jon Gray is 6-foot-4, it seems fitting that the towering pitcher throws for the Colorado Rockies in Denver, the city with the highest elevation in Major League Baseball.

Born in Shawnee, Gray grew up in Chandler, which for four decades had a renowned baseball school before closing in 1999. The affable right-handed starter says the camp is something people ask him about upon learning where he’s from.

“Yeah, I never attended the camp but, everywhere I go, people ask me about Chandler,” says Gray, 26. “I don’t think they will have

heard of Chandler, a town of 3,000 people, but the old baseball camp there [and] the cabins used to be so hot. I heard all these stories about it.

That’s what it’s famous for.”

Since debuting with Colorado in 2015, he has been a fixture in the Rockies’ starting rotation. Six years earlier, as a freshman, he pitched for Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton before transferring to Norman for his final two collegiate seasons at the University of Oklahoma. He earned national Pitcher of the Year and the Big 12 tournament’s Most Outstanding Player honors for the Sooners before Colorado selected him third overall in the 2013 draft.

Playing two seasons at OU was nothing short of a dream come true for the hard-throwing Oklahoman.

“Growing up, I always wanted to go to [the University of Oklahoma] to play football,” he says. “It was the biggest thing in the state. All my heroes I watched growing up played OU football. But baseball panned out, not football, but that’s OK. I’m glad it turned out that way.

I don’t really feel I could handle all that beat-down [from football].”

Gray plays half his games each

season at Coors Field, which redefines a hitter-friendly park because a batted ball travels further than normal through thin mountain air – 5,249 feet above sea level to be exact. He makes some tweaks while pitching at Coors, but he doesn’t let the unique environment be an excuse when he struggles.

“It’s just a bigger yard,” he says of the stadium. “It plays really big.

You’re more than likely going to give up a lot more hits or homers there. It can get in people’s minds a little bit. If you acknowledge it, you can unconsciously back away from being yourself, being aggressive and sticking to the game plan.”

Besides pitching, Gray’s other notable claim to fame is being a ghost hunter, a passion that led him to spend a few nights at the hotel which inspired The Overlook in the Stephen King horror novel The Shining.

“I went to the famous Stanley Hotel in Colorado after the season,” he says. “I just wanted to stay there a couple nights because I was a big fan of the movie. I took a thousand pictures there because it was so haunted. People loved it. It ended up being a good story. Now I’m an everyday ghost hunter, I guess.”

STEPHEN HUNT

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The State PEOPLE

The Ranch Lady Dallas Mayer paints and lives the same life: on a working spread with cattle in Oklahoma’s Panhandle.

ABOVE: WESTERN ARTIST DALLAS MAYER SELECTS HER SUBJECTS FROM EVERYDAY LIFE ON HER WORKING RANCH IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA. PHOTO COURTESY DALLAS MAYER

“RANCH LADY” DALLAS MAYER PAINTS IN PALO DURO CANYON. PHOTO BY JIM MAYER

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estern artist Dallas Mayer is a selfdescribed ranch lady with the requisite horse, boots, 10-gallon hat and Oklahoma twang that comes with a life lived close to the land and nature.

She, her husband, Jim, their son, Tyler, and his wife, Naomi, run a 10,000-acre spread near Hooker in the Panhandle. The ranch has been in the family for five generations.

Dallas Mayer’s canvases appear in galleries throughout the Southwest.

She follows a tradition of noted artists Charles Russell and Frederic Remington in that her paintings depict a timeless story of the American West in subject, color, drama, love of the land, its people, history and nature.

“My art studio is outside my back door,” Mayer says. “The brush is my voice as I strive to paint a narrative connecting emotion to art.”

Ranch life and western Oklahoma’s unending vistas provide inspiration.

One of seven siblings, she grew up with a love of history, art and ranching as a farm girl south of Hardesty on Hackberry Creek. She married Jim

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Mayer in 1979 when she was 17 and still a senior in high school. Jim Mayer is the great-grandson of James Beasley, who homesteaded nearby Wild Horse Canyon along the Beaver River in the 1880s. That area is now part of the historic Mayer Ranch.

Much of the authenticity of Dallas Mayer’s art is that she lives it. Ranching is a family affair. Come roundup, she heads out on horseback. During spring branding, Mayer transforms into a branding lady in charge of applying the hot iron.

Life on a working ranch is not always tranquil. One year, a herd of calves developed a condition called scours (diarrhea). Mayer cranked up the ranch’s flatbed truck and headed out in low gear to doctor them. When an ailing baby fled, she pulled the truck alongside it, geared down into what she assumed was neutral, and bailed out to wrestle the calf to the ground.

However, she missed neutral when she leaped from her vehicle. The truck headed toward a nearby ravine. She chased on foot. Exhausted, she caught up and managed to stop it just before it went over the edge.

On another occasion, a bison that escaped from a neighboring ranch

charged her when she got out of her truck to open a gate. Fortunately, she had left the driver’s door open. She dived to safety inches ahead of the enraged animal.

Yet, in another context, she cheerfully disputes the stereotype that artists must suffer for their passion.

“You have to be happy to be an artist,” she says. “I am a happy Oklahoma ranch lady.”

Shortly after the Mayers married, the groom’s mother, Anna Mayer, recognized her daughter-in-law’s talent and arranged for her to take art classes from George “Dord” Fitz, who traveled throughout Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas like an old-time, circuitriding preacher.

Since 1992, Jack Sorenson – the Amarillo, Texas, artist of “Leaning Tree” Christmas card fame – has been Mayer’s art teacher, mentor and primary influence on her work.

“He taught me light and colors,” she says, “and how to look for the unexpected.”

About 10 years ago, as she painted the portrait of a bucket calf named Buzzy, Mayer decided it was time to sell her paintings professionally.

“I just suddenly knew,” she says. “It was like I could almost see my subject on canvas even before I began.”

She soon produced more than 50 paintings a year, and her work appeared in galleries throughout the state, such as Graceful Arts in Alva, and elsewhere, like Fechin House in Taos, N.M., and Canadian River Art Gallery in Canadian, Texas. She has won numerous people’s choice and best of show awards at art fairs and festivals. She also blogs Life in My Boots about her adventures as the “ranch lady.”

She recently opened the Dallas Mayer Gallery of Fine Arts at Amarillo’s Studio 15, where she shows her work the first Friday of each month during Friday Art World. Her works and blog are available at ranchpaintings.com.

In addition to ranching and her art, Dallas serves on the board of directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

She anticipates being inducted into the National Western Heritage Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.

CHARLES W. SASSER

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Dracula’s Ghost

A little of this old horror flick, a little of that monster movie … and Craig Lamb has a new, scary mash-up.

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LIONEL ATWILL (ABOVE) AND DWIGHT FRYE (RIGHT) ARE PART OF CRAIG LAMB’S DRACULA’S GHOST. PHOTOS COURTESY C.S. LAMB

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’ve written in this space before about monster kids, those baby-boomer boys (mostly) who grew up immersed in the golden era of escapist horror movies from the late-1950s through much of the ’60s.

Those years saw the great old creature features from Universal Pictures find new life in late-night television packages, often hosted by locals taking on weird personas (and gaining their own followings).

At the same time, small but feisty studios like American International and Allied Artists had discovered that the burgeoning, young, movie-going audiences didn’t want stars as much as they wanted thrills; in response, filmmakers got busy knocking out dozens of low-budget scare flicks that filled both hardtop theaters and drive-ins.

And there to chronicle it all were magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland and Castle of Frankenstein, celebrating past, present and future fright films with articles and photos (in those pre-home video and cable/ satellite days, reading about a film and looking at still photographs were often the only ways to experience it).

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ever changed. And for some of us, the experience was so powerful that we’ve spent at least a part of our adult lives doing something related to horror … or monsters … or the nostalgia we feel for that era.

That brings us to “monster kid” Craig Lamb of Claremore, who’s combined all three of those elements – horror, monsters and nostalgia – into a new feature film, Dracula’s Ghost. Maybe “newly constructed feature film” would be more accurate because he has taken elements from old horror pictures that have fallen out of copyright and edited them into something new – a lowtech movie that has the look and feel of something you might have caught at 3 a.m. on a low-power UHF channel back in the old days. Horror-fan favorite Bela Lugosi is featured in this picture – his brief appearances cleverly cobbled together from pieces of disparate films.

“One of the reasons the title, Dracula’s Ghost, came to me was that I treat the character as a ghost throughout the movie,” Lamb says. “He makes these fleeting appearances and then disappears. He doesn’t interact with the other characters. He’s not your typical Dracula. He’s a monster who comes to kill.”

Lamb, whose other work includes the locally lensed VHS feature Curse from the Mummy’s Tomb (1996), actually got the idea to do Dracula’s Ghost some three decades ago, when the home-video explosion led to the release of many old features on tape. The copyrights on some of those pictures had expired and hadn’t been renewed, which meant they were in the public domain and anyone could copy and sell them without having to pay for the privilege. A horror number called The Vampire Bat, released by the tiny Majestic Pictures in early 1933, was one of those.

“It was, let’s see, 30-plus years ago that I first saw The Vampire Bat,” Lamb says. “It didn’t play a lot on the late-night television horror shows, so I didn’t see it until I picked up a copy on VHS. And the instant I watched it, I thought, ‘Well, gosh, that’s just an inch away from being a vampire movie, a Dracula movie.’

I mean, there are lots of bats in it, and a lot of superstition, but it’s a murder mystery. It’s a throwback to an earlier period when the monster always turned out to be some guy in a mask. In this case, it wasn’t a mask, but a killer who was going about convincing the peasants that a vampire was afoot, when in reality he was killing people for his scientific experiments.”

Somewhat stagebound, like many early talkies, Vampire Bat sets itself apart from other horror pictures of the period. First, it was shot on sets owned by Universal (which Vampire Bat’s producer rented). Second, it had some notable stars: Fay Wray, who was already a presence in the genre (her most famous picture, King Kong, would come out a few months after Vampire Bat); Lionel Atwill, a reliable screen menace; Dwight Frye, who’d made a big impression as the fly-eating madman in Dracula a couple of years earlier; and future big-studio leading man Melvyn Douglas. That cast was another reason Lamb thought it would make a good candidate for reworking.

“I thought about it for many years, but I just never got around to it,” he says.

Then, one slow weekend not long ago, the idea popped unbidden back into his head, leading him to

wonder how much public-domain footage of Bela Lugosi in vampire togs he could find.

The short answer is: not a lot, but enough.

Lamb ended up finding an ancient theatrical short in the Hollywood on Parade series and a couple of trailers, one for 1935’s Mark of the Vampire and another for the 1951 re-release of Dracula. (Many trailers are in the public domain.) From those, he gleaned enough images of a Dracula-esque Lugosi to, he felt, alter Vampire Bat into a real vampire

picture. (Other footage came from publicdomain spookers like 1935’s Condemned to Live, 1932’s White Zombie and 1940’s Devil Bat, the latter two also starring Lugosi.)

Amazingly, he says he put the whole film together in two days. But it was two hard days.

“It was pretty much around the clock,” he says. “I don’t think I slept at all in-between.

When I get on a kick like that, I go until it’s done.”

The hardest part of the process, he adds, was doing some single-frame animation to make the added footage work.

“There’s one scene where Bela Lugosi walks across a dark background, and that was taken out of the Hollywood on Parade, where, in the original footage, he’s got a wax museum behind him. So I had to go in and literally cut him out, one frame at a time, with my [computer] art program, and put him over the black background. Of course, each frame had to be aligned exactly, so he’s not jittering around.

“I also had to go in and artistically touch up the edges. Then I’d take that frame, pop it into the editing program, and repeat the process; each frame was 1/24th of a second. It’s a five-second clip, which doesn’t seem very long, but it’s five seconds at 24 frames per second – with each frame having to be artisti-

cally fooled with to make him look right.”

Lamb doctored another scene – replacing Atwill with Lugosi – that proved just as challenging.

“I had to split the frame that originally had Lionel Atwill in it and put in a new background, which included a new pillar to replace one that was beside the door,” he says. “Originally, Fay Wray came out of the doorway and her arm crossed the original pillar. Since I had replaced that one, her arm disappeared in front of the new pillar. So I had to cut her arm out and put it where it should be. Sometimes, I had to kind of draw it in because it was blurred or whatever. And that was all one frame at a time, too.”

After offering a preview of Dracula’s Ghost online to the horror-fan community, Lamb put the 54-minute feature for sale on eBay. The cost is $20, plus $3.50 postage and handling.

“When I previewed it for the monster crowd, I thought they were going to eviscerate me because they don’t take well to anyone messing with their heroes,” he says with a chuckle. “But I had very favorable comments. The only problem with the monster kids that I could see is they might just want more Bela.”

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Carving Out Her Niche YOUNGBLOOD USES FEW MATERIALS TO CREATE HER HYPER-REALISTIC PUMPKIN CARVING OF OKC THUNDER STAR RUSSELL WESTBROOK. PHOTOS BY JOSH NEW

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Karrah Youngblood uses a plastic knife, thumbtack and screwdriver to create wildly popular pumpkin creations.

f you stare too long at the Russell Westbrook jack-o’-lantern Karrah Youngblood created in the Oklahoma Magazine studio, you might get a bit spooked at

its striking likeness to the Oklahoma City Thunder superstar … but that’s just the point.

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YOUNGBLOOD, HARD AT WORK IN THE OKLAHOMA MAGAZINE STUDIO, CREATES ONE OF HER HIGHLY POPULAR PUMPKIN CREATIONS.

Brains, discovered her passion for carving pumpkins through a curious combination of family and fear.

“I grew up on a horse farm in Liberty Mounds,” she says. “Horses scared me, so I learned to play piano and starting learning graphic design at age 11. My mom, who died of early onset Alzheimer’s in 2016, was always very festive on all holidays, and made sure my sister and I always had a pumpkin to carve on Halloween. I just got better every year.”

Youngblood got serious about the art form

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about a decade ago, when she started buying kits and templates to practice her skills.

Still, something felt off.

“As a graphic designer, it killed me to pay for someone else’s designs,” she says.

So she created her own. After several failed attempts at two-tone templates, she discovered what would put her work above the competition.

“It hit me there are three shades to a pumpkin,” she says. “Cut all the way through is a color, the skin peeled off is a color, and the skin left alone is a color. My

failure in Adobe Photoshop turned out to make killer pumpkins.”

These three-tone templates made Youngblood’s work spread worldwide for its impressive realism – with some critics cementing her talent.

“I love it when one of my pumpkins goes viral and I get to see all the comments about it being photo-shopped or fake,” she says. “I take them as the biggest compliments.”

Youngblood’s received her fair share of praise, from local TV stations and the Tulsa World to TMZ and appearances at Comic-Con in San Diego. She says “carving William Shatner for William Shatner” was a definite highlight.

Raw talent is an element to her success, but so is striving to improve. She encourages everyone interested in carving to go for it.

“Just like with in anything in life, have a lot of try,” she says. “Go buy the PumpkinMasters kit at Walmart and surprise yourself. I carve my pumpkins with a $1.97 plastic knife, a thumbtack and a flathead screwdriver, but if you want to be fancy with your tools, cool.”

Although Youngblood’s talents reach far beyond those of an average carver, she doesn’t hesitate to help others achieve impressive results.

“I think I’ve figured out how to make it so everyone can up their pumpkin game like I did,” she says. “While I still appreciate a good triangle-eyed jack-o’-lantern, those days are over. There’s going to be portraits of grandma pumpkins lighting up everyone’s porches one year soon … you’ll see. It’s in testing phases, but I’ll be putting out a book in the next couple of years making it so anyone can carve Russell Westbrook on a jack-o’-lantern.”

Each pumpkin commissioned at Pumpkin Brains costs around $125 and comes handcarved with a bleach bath to extend the life of the gourd, plus a special light, calibrated specifically for the design.

Along with carving and corporate graphic design work, Youngblood is a single mother, piano teacher and advocate for survivors of domestic violence. To see more of her works or commission one for yourself, visit pumpkinbrains.com.

MARY WILLA ALLEN

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A Home for Generations

With an emphasis on life in and around the kitchen, a renovation breathes new life into a south Tulsa residence.

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By M. J. Van Deventer

ulia Kirkendall remembers when kitchens were hidden in the back of a house.

“There was usually a swinging door into the dining room and food just seemed to appear,” she says.

As an interior designer, Kirkendall is pleased that kitchens have become a vital part of today’s family lifestyle.

“Kitchens are taking center stage in our homes,” she says. “Now they are totally exposed to the living areas, making these spaces more livable and functional, whether the kitchen is designed for a large family that loves to cook or empty-nesters who enjoy entertaining.

“Everything flows from one space to another. We’ve seen this trend coming for a long time. With two people working full time and raising a family, cooking has become a culinary event where everyone participates together.”

That’s what happened to a 3,500-square-foot, rambling, 1980s ranch-style home in south Tulsa. It was much more than a cosmetic remodeling project for the Kirkendall Design firm, established in 1992 and specializing in modern, classic and transitional projects.

“I would call it a renovation,” Kirkendall says. “The kitchen had dark woods [and] was situated away from other rooms, and there was a free-standing bar in the family room. The before and after is dramatic.”

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IMMEDIATE RIGHT: TO LIGHTEN UP THE INTERIORS, SHADES OF PURE WHITE AND GRAY NEUTRALS WERE USED IN WHAT THEY CALL THE “GREAT ROOM,” AND A CUSTOM FLOOR STAIN SET THE GROUNDING TONES THROUGHOUT THE HOME. FAR RIGHT: EVEN THE COFFEE TABLE IN THE GREAT ROOM REFLECTS AN ELEMENT OF DESIGN. THE PATTERNED RUG ANCHORS THE VIGNETTE. A BOOK WITH AN ENTICING TITLE AND A TROPICAL PLANT AND OTHER SMALL ACCESSORIES MAKE THEIR OWN DESIGN STATEMENT.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: THE POOL TABLE ADDS A TOUCHY OF WHIMSY TO THE SITTING AREA, AND DOUBLES AS A BUFFET FOR GUESTS. CLEAN, SOOTHING LINES MARK THE MASTER BATHROOM. THE DARK CABINETS, PROVIDING ABUNDANT STORAGE, COMPLEMENT THE CRISP LOOK OF THIS ROOM, DESIGNED TO PROVIDE A SETTING FOR RELAXATION. THE MASTER BATHROOMS WAS DRAMATICALLY UPDATED, ESPECIALLY THE SHOWER. SIMILAR TO THE KITCHEN, KIRKENDALL SAYS PEOPLE SEE A BATHROOM AS A SPA. A PRISTINE WHITE KITCHEN FEATURES AN EXPANSIVE CENTER ISLAND THAT IS A GATHERING PLACE FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES. ACCENTS OF PALE GRAY COMPLEMENT THE ISLAND CHAIRS’ UPHOLSTERY, THE SILVER TOUCHES IN ACCESSORIES AND THE DISTINCT LIGHTING. THE ISLAND INCLUDES A WORK SINK, MAKING THIS A MULTI-PURPOSE

Changes had many technological advancements, such as USB outlets installed in the island for smart phones, laptops and tablets.

The 13-month project, contracted by Terra Nova Properties, involved gutting the house, including a sunken living room typical of 1980s trends. There were also steps up or down to other rooms. Those were eliminated. Large stone columns throughout the home were also removed.

“We made the main living area, including the kitchen, all one level,” Kirkendall says.

“We also brought in more natural light by enlarging many windows.”

To lighten up the interiors, shades of pure white and gray neutrals were used, and a custom floor stain set the grounding tones throughout the home.

“It was fun to add splashes of color in accessories and art,” Kirkendall says. “The wife is of Cuban descent and gravitates to

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ward a bright, tropical color palette. Among the hues are orange, red, green, bright blue – shades that are especially evident in the art and rugs chosen for accents.

“Our design plan meant cutting through the original foundation to take out walls and relocate plumbing to achieve the renovation.

We also minimized the use of the Tulsa native stone that made a huge visual impact on the original interior.”

The master and guest bathrooms were dramatically updated. Similar to the kitchen transformation, Kirkendall says people see a bathroom as a spa.

“Whether it’s the master bath, a children’s or guest bath, they want a clean, open experience that renews and energizes them,” she says. “And the more natural light the better.”

The owners bought the house after their children were grown, with the anticipation they would live there 10-20 years. They intended this to be their last home. They also

wanted it to be a good investment for any future owners to add their own style.

Kirkendall desired to give this home another generation of life by making changes that match today’s lifestyle while adding the clients’ signature touches. Kirkendall’s design features are classic, open, modern and ideal for a couple who love to entertain in the updated kitchen and relax in the luxurious bathroom.

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A Holiday Escape Big Cedar Lodge has buffets, shopping and outdoor activities for those wanting to get away for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

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othing ushers in the fall and winter festivities like a visit to Big Cedar Lodge in the Ozarks.

The resort in bucolic Ridgedale, Missouri, is ideal for late October, Thanksgiving break or Christmas. Big Cedar Lodge is adorned with foliage, ornaments, gourds, pumpkins, Christmas trees, sleighs and gingerbread houses.

Cocooning in this wilderness retreat recharges you and gets you into the spirit of the season. Mornings are mysterious and calming with dew and occasional fog over Table Rock Lake. The tranquil, ensconced valley is also why guests long to return to this resort just north of the Arkansas line. It’s 3 ½ hours from Tulsa and 5 from Oklahoma City.

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your buffet reservation long in advance. Top of the Rock restaurants serve • Make the same buffet at each location. lodging. Consider scheduling a trip with others and imagine playing • Reserve board games and bonding. nearby excursions. In addition to resort activities, drive to nearby • Schedule Silver Dollar City or Dogwood Canyon Nature Park, which have roller coasters and wildlife tram rides.

the Cedar Creek Spa and Salon. Indulge yourself while family members • Visit are on excursions.

Fun Mountain. This game center gives you a jolt of youth with its rock • Enjoy climbing wall, laser tag, arcade, flip-and-spin bumper cars and bowling.

Dining

Thanksgiving and Christmas buffet reservations can be made at the Osage Restaurant, Buffalo Bar or Arnie’s Barn at Top of the Rock.

Or you might prefer private dining in your cabin, where the spread is brought to you. The earlier the reservation, the better. The resort has many restaurants, including the kid-friendly Buzzard Bar in the Devil’s Pool restaurant basement with live entertainment.

Other restaurants are Truman Cafe and Custard, Worman House and Frosty’s.

Lodging

Options range in size from cottages, cabins and lodges to condos and luxury cabins.

The resort is close to wilderness trails, which lead to the main village

and marina. Both Big Cedar Lodge and the Wilderness Club have courtesy shuttles, but the walks are relatively easy.

Activities

The recreation included in the lodging price makes the resort an ideal destination. Boats, fishing, hiking, miniature golf, sports and playgrounds keep you active.

The Wilderness Club’s Brushey Creek Clubhouse has a heated pool and hot tub. (Enjoy tubing on the Lazy River in the summer.)

Top of the Rock is the paradise bluff of restaurants, along with shopping, whiskey and wine cellars, patios and firepits, all overlooking the impressive golf course. Lost Canyon Trail – a tour of a fourstory, cascading waterfall through a cave and over an Amish wooden bridge – is a must. The Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum has many pre-Colombian artifacts.

Walking the trails of Big Cedar Lodge, you hear peals of laughter from people ice skating and playing shuffleboard. Enjoy waterfalls and the Devil’s Pool bridge and savor touches of Americana in the decor. Night hayrides are magical as you traverse the illuminated resort and participate in campfire sing-alongs and s’mores.

Part of the resort’s charm is that you can ask many experienced travelers about their favorite trips and many respond that Big Cedar Lodge is at the top of their lists.

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“TWO THINGS THAT MAKE ME THINK OF JAPAN ARE THE TORII GATES AND MAPLE LEAVES. THIS SHOT FOCUSED ON THE LEAVES AND BLURRED OUT THE BRIGHT RED GATE INTO A SOFT BUT STILL DISCERNABLE PATCH OF COLOR TO MAKE THE IMAGE VERY DRAMATIC YET SIMPLE,” NEW SAYS. PHOTO BY JOSH NEW

your camera preferences and turn on the grid setting. This will help in leveling and framing your images.

Second, learn how to adjust your exposure on your phone. Generally, this can be done by selecting your subject and holding your finger on the screen and sliding your finger up or down.

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A Changing Art Professionals advise how to adjust to the ever-evolving world of digital photography.

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ou may have received a digital camera as a gift or bought a new mobile phone with enhanced photographic features. But you don’t know quite what to expect with these fancy options. Natalie Green, Nathan Harmon and Josh New, contributing photographers to Oklahoma Magazine, discuss today’s photography culture and offer tips on taking the best photos with whatever device you use.

Basic rules and skills

Natalie Green: Composition and focus are two important factors in

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all photography – proper cropping (look at all four corners of your image before hitting the shutter), point of view (look at the same subject at different angles) and using the “rule of thirds,” which offsets the subject matter.

Josh New: I’m always telling people to find your light source and have the subject face it. One of the biggest mistakes rookies make is putting the light behind the subject.

Also be aware of the negative space; so many people put the subject’s face in the center of the frame and that leaves a ton of room above their head.

Nathan Harmon: First, go into

NG: I am thrilled to see so many people taking an interest in photography, even if it is with a cellphone.

I recently taught a “cellphoneography” class and was excited to see so many people of all ages attend.

JN: iPhones are amazing cameras and I pretty much exclusively use mine to document my life. As awesome as they are for selfies and pictures of your fancy dinner, iPhones can’t control and manipulate light the way a professional camera (and photographer) can. So I always encourage everyone to experiment and be creative … but there are some demands that only a photographer with the right gear can accomplish.

NH: I’m not sure if I would label anyone as an “amateur photographer,” moreso a person with their phone documenting their lives.

We are in a visual society and it’s becoming more prevalent every day.

I don’t think iPhones are the death of true photography. I think it has changed the way we communicate.

We can jump on Instagram and see what someone with a similar interest is seeing or looking at instantly.

Printed photographs

NG: I preach that a digital image is not a photograph until it is printed. What good are thousands of images on your phone that are not printed for family documentation from generation to generation?

In printing your images from your

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phone, the most important aspect is to send the image as the actual size.

Many cellphone users do not realize how important this is to the integrity of the image for printing.

NH: When you have a great photo that has a good memory attached to it, I suggest printing it. Don’t think about it – just do it. Frame it or put it on your refrigerator. Make those vacation photos last longer than just the week you posted them on Facebook.

good news is that once you outgrow a camera, the lenses stay with you.

NH: First, I would ask: “Do you need a professional camera? Do you make a living as a photographer?

Or are you photo enthusiast?” I’m a Nikon guy and always have been; they have always created a quality professional product. I would suggest the purchaser of professional camera equipment look at the cost and the quality of glass in the lenses.

Shooting outdoors

NG: The best time to photograph outdoors is before 10 a.m. and after 2 p.m. The light between these hours is very harsh – overhead sunlight which can create deep eye-socket shadows if you’re doing a portrait. Dawn and dusk – pre-light and twilight – produce soft light.

JN: A good rule of thumb is to hold out your hand and look at the shadow. If you can clearly see your shadow and the outline is sharp, it’s a bad time to shoot. If you can’t see it at all, you’ll get some great shots.

NATHAN HARMON

Taking the plunge

NG: DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) cameras come in many models and vary in price. A portrait photographer does not need the FPS (frames per second) of a sports photographer.

Budget is also important in purchasing a camera. A full-frame camera can cost thousands of dollars but is made of more metal than plastic, so it should hold up better for daily use. An APS-C (advanced photo system type C) camera is more affordable, but less durable.

JN: I was told that you don’t buy a camera – you buy a brand. All the accessories that go along with the camera only work on that brand, like Canon, Nikon or Sony. Once you drop $500 on a lens, you’re kind of stuck with that camera family.

Lenses are often much more expensive than the actual cameras, but the

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Reduce Stress, Less Mess Booze, prescriptions and food shouldn’t be the main calming agents in your life.

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tress visits us all from time to time, and many of us have enough of it to look for ways to reduce its harrowing effects.

There are the obvious, unhealthy ways to numb our feelings: alcohol, over- or undereating, sluggishness. And, at a certain point, a doctor may prescribe medication to help. But there are ways to reduce stress and anxiety without harming our health or turning to prescriptions.

Emily White, a primary care physician with St. John Clinic in Bixby, says stress is often a natural reaction to the world around us.

“A stressful situation can trigger a cascade of stress hormones, resulting in an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate and muscle tension,” says White, adding that this is a normal part of our alarm system to danger.

But, over time, this stress can wreak havoc if it continues without cause.

“Even if it seems we’re building a tolerance to stress, our nervous system is still dealing with an overload, which

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can seriously affect overall health,” says Juli Johnson, an advance-practice nurse in medical oncology and integrative medicine at INTEGRIS. Both White and Johnson recommend lifestyle changes such as switching to a healthy diet, exercising and getting enough sleep to reduce stress. Some other activities also add to the relaxation process and support a calm lifestyle longterm. Many of these options can be used to create a peaceful bubble ... even in a stressful environment.

A first step should be to spend some time examining our lives. Johnson suggests that self-reflection, and taking a mindful approach to the day, can go a long way toward identifying ways to reduce stress.

“Is there room for a little meditation or movement in your day? Turn off the screens for just a few minutes and pay attention to your breathing,” she says.

Once we’ve slowed down to reflect, concentrating on breathing can also help in several ways. “[Deep breathing] can activate the parasympathetic nervous system or the ‘rest and digest system.’ When this

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Johnson also has a specific recommendation for a way to unwind that can be part of a daily routine: using the soothing power of water by steeping a hot cup of chamomile tea. The calming effects of chamomile can also be taken in a supplement for those who don’t like tea.

“If anxious thoughts and feelings tend to follow you, or if irritability and bouts of mild depression are a struggle in your life, give the humble chamomile flower a closer look,” she says.

Yoga may be another activity to consider fitting into your routine to stay calm. White says that multiple studies have shown that engaging in exercise or yoga several times per week can be comparable to other anxiety treatments.

Finally, White says we might want to look at what is going into our minds to identify causes of stress and anxiety.

“What we fill our minds with has a profound effect on us. Make sure you fill your mind with the right things – replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts,” she says.

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The health of your digestive system is critical in fueling your body with the nutrients it needs to survive and thrive. When it’s not working properly, your physical and mental health can suffer.

Cece Davis Gifford, a licensed dietitian, encourages people to have literal gut checks to remain strong. As the owner and founder of Nutrition Consultants of Tulsa, Gifford is also a certified specialist in sports dietetics and a certified therapist in the dietary protocol called Lifestyle, Eating and Performance.

“We need regular screenings by a board-certified gastroenterologist to check for pathology, but other steps that people may not know about is to consult with a registered dietitian,” she says. “That health professional can check for nutritional disorders or deficiencies and food and food chemical sensitivities which are a great part of digestive health.”

When assessing the digestive system, Gifford emphasizes inflammation and dysbiosis (the imbalance of good to bad bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract). An important tool she uses is a mediator release test (MRT) of a patient’s blood.

“The MRT tests for non-allergic, non-celiac food sensitivities that cause mediators to be released from the white blood cells,” Gifford says. “These mediators, in turn, cause inflammation in the intestinal tract. The idea is to identify what food or food chemicals are causing that inflammation. It’s a huge piece of the puzzle when it comes to helping those … having symptoms such as gas and distention or conditions such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or irritable bowel syndrome.”

Both inflammation and dysbiosis cause malabsorption of nutrients, immune system distress and a lack of serotonin production, which has been linked to anxiety and depression. Serotonin, a neurotransmitter, is believed to help regulate mood and behavior and contributes to feelings of well-being and happiness. It’s estimated that 90 percent of the body’s serotonin is made in the digestive tract.

Gifford adds that dysbiosis has also been linked to obesity, risk of cancer and reduced effectiveness of cancer treatments.

“Taking a research grade probiotic, getting lots of high fiber fruits or vegetables, which are called prebiotics, and staying active will all help in avoiding dysbiosis,” says Gifford, adding that refrigerated probiotics are the best.

Gifford also uses the SpectraCell Micronutrient test, which measures the function of 35 nutritional components, including vitamins, antioxidants, minerals and amino acids within white blood cells.

She says these tests eliminate guesswork when trying to identify causes of poor digestive health.

“These are tools in my toolbox that allow me to help people decrease inflammation and have a better nutritional status as a result of improving their digestive health,” Gifford says.

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Diatonic Bliss

Two siblings in southeastern Oklahoma help to make tiny Bennington (arguably) the Dulcimer Capital of the United States.

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he harmonies – angelic, spiritual, tranquil – produced by a hammered dulcimer evoke many passions, especially by those who play or build it.

A hamlet in southeastern Oklahoma supplies much of that musical ambrosia. About a dozen professional makers of the instrument exist in America … and two are in Bennington, arguably the dulcimer capital of the United States.

Russell Cook, owner of Master Works, says the hammered dulcimer (“the great-great-grandfather of the piano”) originated in the Middle East more than 2,500 years ago.

Annette Lindsey, Cook’s sister and whose husband and daughter operate David’s Dulcimers, reminds that the instrument’s name derives from dulce melos, Latin for sweet melody.

“It’s the sound you’ll hear in heaven,” Lindsey says. “It’s a soothing sound.”

Her brother says the hammered dulcimer “stirs something in people’s hearts, in their souls. It’s like love at first sound.”

The siblings became interested in the instrument in 1978, but they have different experiences and don’t see the companies as competitors.

Lindsey’s husband, David, and their daughter, Cara, handcraft about

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80 dulcimers yearly. Their retail instruments are heavy and suited to quick songs requiring what dulcimer players call a short sustain – the brief sound lingering after the note is struck by the hammer.

“We play old-time dances and re-enactments with fast songs, so you don’t want the sustain to go into the next note,” Lindsey says.

Cook’s company, with national and international sales on the wholesale level, produces about 325 handcrafted dulcimers annually. His are light with a long sustain, appropriate for ballads and hymns.

“You don’t have to play it a mile a minute,” he says. “It has rich overtones.”

Lindsey is a driving force in the Red River Valley Dulcimer Club, which has its 17th annual Winter Creek Reunion on her farm Oct. 4-7.

She says the club and the festival came about unexpectedly.

She, her husband and daughter moved to Bennington in 1999. After a performance, they posted a ledger for people interested in their music. More than 30 actual dulcimer players signed up, and the club was born.

In 2002, the Lindseys converted a building into a production facility on their farm along Winter Creek; they called a few dulcimer friends to help.

“Others found out and wanted to come, too,” Lindsey says. “They’d

say, ‘What’s going on at your place that we don’t know about?’ About 20 people showed up. We’d work some, then play some, and that’s how the reunion came about.”

For Cook, the hammered dulcimer has allowed him to perform throughout North America after he won the national title in 1981 in Winfield, Kansas.

“That’s when I decided I was going to make a go in the dulcimer business,” says the former science teacher and credit manager, who has sold hundreds of thousands of albums over the years.

He teaches and plays at venues nationwide, and Master Works is one of three companies allowed to sell instruments at the Winfield event.

Lindsey and Cook say the hammered dulcimer has contradictory appeals.

“It’s a simple instrument,” Lindsey says. “It’s diatonic, not chromatic like a piano. You just have sharps and flats.

We can teach someone a song in five minutes. I’ve done it lots of times.”

Cook admires its complexity.

“It has a composite of sound that no other instrument has,” he says. “It has percussion, sustain, overtone, volume and attack. It’s the only instrument that has all those elements.

“That’s why it’s been around forever.”

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By Rebecca Fast

Medicine always evolves. Each year, new research, tools and drugs give those with serious illnesses improved chances for better lives. Oklahoma physicians, hospitals and medical groups are on the forefront of treating a variety of diseases, such as stroke, breast cancer, brain tumors and lupus.

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DESTROYS BRAIN TUMORS

Visualase at St. John Medical Center offers an alternative to traditional craniotomy. Introducing a tool to treat brain

tumors, St. John Medical Center offers Visualase – an MRI-guided, minimally invasive laser ablation system – as an alternative to a traditional craniotomy.

With Visualase, a laser is used to destroy unwanted soft tissue. A small incision is made in the skull and a laser applicator is inserted to deliver light energy to the target area. The temperature in the target area begins to rise and is observed under real-time imaging, allowing surgeons precise control of the tissue ablation.

“Laser ablation can be used on individuals with metastatic brain tumors, primary brain tumors – recurrent, not first line of treatment – and radiation necrosis– abnormal tissue caused by previous radiation therapy,” says neurosurgeon Tyler Auschwitz, St. John director of neuro-oncology. “Laser ablation can also be used where there is a focus for seizure activity.”

Benefits of laser ablation include minimal invasiveness, a shorter hospital stay (often one day), little or no hair loss, and a small suture to close the incision.

“A craniotomy is much more invasive with a larger incision, longer recovery – minimum of two-to-three-day hospitalization and usually longer – and a greater chance of post-operative complications due to the invasive nature of the procedure, such as infection, hemorrhage, stroke, weakness and speech difficulties,” Auschwitz says.

He describes the technology as “one more tool in the arsenal” to treat patients with brain cancer.

“With every new and additional treatment option we can provide, we … offer patients extended overall survival with improved quality of life,” he says.

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DR. TYLER AUSCHWITZ, ST. JOHN DIRECTOR OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY, UTILIZES VISUALASE, WHICH OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL CRANIOTOMY. PHOTO BY JOSH NEW

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IMAGING SOFTWARE HELPS STROKE PATIENTS Mercy Hospital has added Rapid to its

MEMBERS OF THE STROKE TEAM UTILIZE RAPID, AN IMAGE-PROCESSING PLATFORM TO HELP IMPROVE THE LIVES OF PATIENTS. PHOTOS COURTESY MERCY HOSPITAL

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protocol. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stroke kills about 140,000 Americans each year and is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability. Recently, the guidelines involving the early management of strokes changed.

It was previously thought that for stroke patients to benefit from certain treatments, they had to begin within six hours of symptoms becoming present. Now, studies have shown that stroke patients may benefit up to a day after the onset of symptoms. Supporting these changes is a new technology called Rapid, a fully automated, image-processing platform. Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City recently added the program to its comprehensive stroke protocol.

“Rapid is a software program utilized in conjunction with a CT [scan] to help determine how many brain cells have died and how many are at risk of dying,” says Amber Elliott, Mercy’s director of neurosciences. “The software was utilized in [previous] trials. The data the software provided to these studies is now guiding stroke treatment up to 24 hours in our hospital.”

She says Rapid allows providers to screen more patients for potential treatment and treat more of them based upon the protocols used in the recent medical trials.

“Additionally, it is very fast and a standardized algorithm, which ensures that we are getting accurate information in a timely manner,” Elliott says.

“Combining these aspects, Rapid and the 24-hour stroke window have the potential to drastically improve stroke survivors’ lives by decreasing the severity of disability – possibly even eliminating disability in some cases.”

She emphasizes that it’s important to know the signs and symptoms of a stroke and know what nearby hospitals are comprehensive stroke centers, which can treat all forms of stroke.

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A scarce pool of specialists expands at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa.

Gynecologic cancers are fairly common; more than 107,000 women in the United States and about 1,000 women in Oklahoma will be diagnosed with one of these diseases in 2018, according to the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To expand clinical offerings for patients with gynecologic cancers and add to Oklahoma’s short list of specialists in the field, Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa added David McIntosh as a gynecologic oncologist. There are only about a dozen such specialists in Oklahoma, and McIntosh is one of six in metropolitan Tulsa.

“Gynecologic cancers may be complex. That is why seeking medical advice from a physician … trained in gynecologic oncology is so important,” says Daniel Nader, chief of staff at the Tulsa hospital.

“Dr. McIntosh is trained in robotic surgery and has performed close to 100 cases over the past two years. He is dedicated to using evidence-based cancer treatments to fight gynecologic malignancies on multiple fronts.”

McIntosh provides patients with continuity of care throughout their cancer journeys by performing complex surgeries and guiding treatment, which may include chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

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FIRST LUPUS PREVENTION TRIAL BEGINS IN OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is a leader in treating this autoimmune disease. Lupus – a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage skin, joints, organs and

other parts of the body – affects about 1.5 million Americans, according to the Lupus Foundation of America.

Scientists at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation gathered data from decades of studies and identified elevated blood markers in individuals with a high risk of developing lupus. To test whether prevention of the development of full-blown clinical lupus is possible, they have begun a clinical trial at the Oklahoma City-based foundation. The initiative represents the world’s first clinical trial aimed at preventing lupus, which has no known cure.

The trial, known as SMILE (Study of Anti-Malarials in Incomplete Lupus Erythematosus), first uses biological testing to identify people at high risk for developing lupus. Foundation physicians then give these individuals an immunemodifying medication with the hope that it will prevent the disease from developing, delay its onset or lessen its symptoms if it does develop.

“For some time, our lab has been interested in understanding the first things that go wrong in the body that lead to lupus,” says Dr. Judith James, the foundation’s vice president of clinical affairs and leader of the trial. “Now we want to find ways to identify people at high risk so we can offer help before the damage starts.”

For those interested in participating or learning more about the trial, call 405.271.7221.

OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION PHYSICIANSCIENTIST JUDITH JAMES LEADS THE GROUNDBREAKING LUPUS PREVENTION TRIAL.

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DETECTION OF

RECURRENT

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CANCER

Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Center is the first in the state to offer a new imaging agent. For anyone who has survived cancer, there’s always a

concern that the disease will return. To support prostate cancer survivors, the Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute in Tulsa became the first in the state to offer Axumin, an FDA-approved diagnostic imaging agent (or tracer) that helps to determine if and where prostate cancer has returned.

According to the Axumin website, up to a third of men treated for primary prostate cancer will experience a biochemical recurrence within 10 years, and a third of those will develop metastatic disease within eight years. The Axumin exam is for men with suspected prostate cancer recurrence, based on elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels after treatment.

Once a patient receives the Axumin injection, he undergoes a combined positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) scan.

The Axumin website states that the agent, like many tracers, includes a radioactive element (fluorine 18) used to produce images of the body and its internal organs and tissues. Over time, fluorine 18 becomes non-radioactive and much of it leaves the body through urine.

Approximately one in nine U.S. men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and an estimated 164,690 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in 2018, according to the American Cancer Society. However, despite these numbers, the society reports that most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die and that more than 2.9 million American men who have had prostate cancer are alive today.

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LIFE SUPPORT THERAPY SAVES LIVES

ECMO is now used for longer periods on adults at INTEGRIS.

Oklahoma City’s INTEGRIS has given patients on the brink of death a fighting chance. As part of a specialized life-support program, the hospital offers extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, known as ECMO, as a lastresort, lifesaving technique.

ECMO technology isn’t new – it’s traditionally used to support underdeveloped hearts and lungs in premature babies – but medical advancements have led to increased adult usage and longer periods of use.

INTEGRIS reports that a severely ill patient, Adrianne Ayers, was recently dependent on ECMO for 119 days, setting a hospital record for a person benefiting from this technology.

ECMO provides both cardiac and respiratory support to patients whose hearts and/or lungs are so severely diseased or damaged that they can no longer function – perhaps after a heart attack, cardiac surgery, pulmonary embolism, near drowning or lung-related issues from flu or pneumonia.

“The old ECMO technology didn’t allow us to run ECMO long enough to give a patient time to recover,” says Aly El Banayosy, a transplant and acute circulatory support critical care physician with the INTEGRIS Advanced Cardiac Care team. “It would be used for two days previously; now we can use it for much longer than that for the heart and lungs to recover or to prepare for any necessary surgery.”

The therapy continually pumps blood from the patient via a tube inserted into the groin vessels or neck vein. The blood is pumped through an artificial lung that imitates the gas exchange process of the lung by removing carbon dioxide and adding oxygen before returning the blood to the patient. The goal is to allow the heart or lungs to rest and recover while the machine does the work. When the heart or the lungs have healed and can work on their own, the lifesaving support of the ECMO artificial heart/lung machine is weaned, then removed.

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FIVEFRACTION RADIATION EASES CHEMO’S SIDE EFFECTS

Stephenson Cancer Center unveils a targeted, shortened breast cancer therapy. Working to lead the

state in breast cancer care, Stephenson Cancer Center in Oklahoma City has introduced five-fraction radiation as part of its advanced treatment options. A candidate for this therapy must have a relatively low-risk breast cancer and require a lumpectomy.

“Five-fraction radiation is a type of partial breast irradiation,” says Christina Henson, a radiation oncology specialist at Stephenson and an assistant professor with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. “This means that rather than doing the traditional treatment of the entire breast, we focus our treatment just on the area where the tumor was. This is done in five treatments – 5 to 10 minutes each – over the course of a week and a half. It is noninvasive and the patient feels nothing – much like getting a CT scan.”

In comparison, she says the more common, traditional type of radiation treatment after a lumpectomy for breast cancer is daily treatment for a month to the entire breast. This frequency is often inconvenient and, for some women, causes fatigue and significant irritation of the skin. With five-fraction radiation, a smaller area is treated, thus minimizing skin irritation and fatigue and lowering the risk of lymphedema (uncomfortable swelling of the arm.)

Additional parameters for eligibility include that the patient should be at least 45 years old with a tumor measuring no more than 3 centimeters.

“She cannot have cancer in her lymph nodes, and the surgeon needs to have gotten the entire tumor out,” Henson says. “We also ask that the surgeon place a marker in the lumpectomy cavity at the time of surgery so that we can better target the area.”

She also notes that the largest trial comparing this type of treatment to the more traditional treatment resulted in the same recurrence rate but side effects and cosmetic outcomes were significantly better with the shorter course of radiation.

“An overarching goal right now in the field of cancer treatment is ‘less is more,’” Henson says. “If we can provide the same or better outcomes with fewer side effects, and convenience as a bonus, we want to do so.”

DRS. KAMNA JAISWAL, JENNIFER JENKINS, PHIL BARTON AND ROOPA THUKARAM WORK AS PEDIATRIC INTENSIVISTS AT THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AT SAINT FRANCIS.

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PEDIATRIC STROKE TEAM MAKES EVERY

MINUTE COUNT

Saint Francis Health System has created a pediatric stroke protocol that saves lives.

Stroke is often considered an elderly condition, but this life-threatening condition has no age requirement. Stroke is one of the top 10 causes of death for children between 1 and 19, according to the National Stroke Association. To provide specialized care for these patients, the Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis and Saint Francis Hospital created a pediatric stroke team last year.

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stroke, and pediatricians specializing in emergency medicine, critical care medicine, radiology, neurology and neurovascular surgery.

“The phrase ‘Time is Brain’ applies at any age,” says Kelly Kennebeck, the clinical process improvement supervisor at the children’s hospital. “A delay in recognizing the signs and symptoms of stroke and initiating appropriate interventions when it occurs can result in greater neurologic impact for kids, just as it can in adults.”

Kennebeck says physicians and nurses assessing the possibility of stroke within pediatric patients must acknowledge developmental milestones and capabilities so that they can recognize abnormal conditions of those children.

“Sometimes, using interactive techniques, such as making a game out of a neurological assessment, can help to calm a frightened child and yield better insight into any cognitive or physical deficits that may exist,” she says.

Using the National Institutes of Health’s pediatric stroke scale, the Saint Francis team, on average, completes a pediatric stroke screening within 9 minutes of seeing the child.

“This prompt evaluation has facilitated the rapid initiation of a pediatric stroke protocol, more rapid completion of radiologic and laboratory diagnostic studies, and more timely initiation of needed medications and interventional therapies, if indicated,” Kennebeck says.

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The

Last Straw

By Tara Malone

Across the country, restaurants have taken a stand against plastic straws.

Starbucks has vowed to up its straw-less lid game by 2020 as many other companies also try to address environmental concerns.

“Generally speaking, the impact of single-use plastics and Styrofoam – or any other non-biodegradable product – is rather significant,” says Erin Hatfield, communications director for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. “As these products do not break down, they ultimately find their way to landfills or, unfortunately, our lakes, streams, rivers and oceans. It is important to also remember that storm drains don’t receive any treatment; therefore, anything

that washes off city streets goes directly into our natural bodies of water.”

Hatfield says her department’s Land Protection Division recently had a cleanup at Lake Arcadia and found a shocking amount of straws, plastic foam and other plastics in the water and on surrounding land.

“Switching to other types of straws, be it paper, glass or other reusable materials, could have a positive effect on the environment,” she says. “Any time you replace single-use, non-biodegradable items with reusable, degradable products, you are diverting material from the waste stream and potentially reducing litter.”

Many consumers assume that an easy

The movement away from single-use plastic straws gains momentum in Oklahoma.

answer is to recycle plastic straws. Shavara Johnson, recycle facilitator for Keep Oklahoma Beautiful, says this isn’t a viable, long-term option.

“Plastic straws are very hard to recycle because of their size and … that they are so lightweight, which causes them to drop through the sorting screens,” she says. “My biggest issue with plastic, and what should be everyone else’s, is … that it does not ever fully biodegrade. Single-use plastic breaks into tiny and tinier pieces, but never fully goes away. Then it is ingested by marine and land animals, which eventually we eat. Even if someone isn’t a meat eater, the plastic particles get into our soil, affecting plant OCTOBER 2018| WWW.OKMAG.COM

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growth and slowly working their way into our water.”

A Tulsa business taking the plunge toward sustainable drinking options is the McNellie’s Group. Jessica Gibson-Conlon, training and hospitality coordinator, says McNellie’s always looks for ways to reduce its environmental footprint and eliminate waste. She says several staff members have specific concerns about the impact of plastic straws on wildlife.

“Plastic straw waste is bulky, potentially dangerous and essentially permanent,” Gibson-Conlon says. “We need healthy oceans to offer diverse menus in our restaurants.

Significantly cutting down on this pollutant is an investment in tomorrow, not today.”

Restaurants in the McNellie’s Group offer straws only upon request. The hope, Gibson-Conlon says, is to secure access to paper straws – difficult because of increased demand across the country. She says McNellie’s has received positive feedback.

“This is a new initiative for us, so we’re not yet certain of the long-term impact,” she says, “but the support we’ve seen from the community and our peers in the industry suggests this is a trend we’ll see around for a long time.”

Meanwhile, she says many customers act on their own to reduce the use of plastic straws.

“We’ve started to see a lot more guests bringing in their own reusable straws, which are inexpensive and widely available,” she says.

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Johnson approves of this approach.

“The benefit of switching to long-term use materials is crucial,” she says. “Regarding the plastic straw debacle, there are so many cool, new alternatives like paper straws and bamboo straws, both of which are fully compostable. There also are the options of glass straws and steel straws, which are longer lasting and can be cleaned and carried around.”

“Just to put into perspective how many plastic straws we use … in North America alone: 500 million per day.”

Slowing consumption of single-use plastic straws is essential if humans are to prevent further damage to the planet, she says.

“If more people switch to items that are not plastic-based and created for single use, we can slow the amount of plastic that is still going into production and lessen our impact on our earth by not adding to the … plastic that is already here to stay,” Johnson says. “Just to put into perspective how many plastic straws we use … in North America alone: 500 million per day, which is enough to wrap around the earth’s circumference 2.5 times a day.

That’s insane. The plastic straw specifically is to blame for the death of 1 million seabirds

and 100,000 marine animals per year.”

Some groups have concerns about how eliminating single-use plastic straws can affect certain consumers, such as those with disabilities. Reusable straws made of silicon and steel, along with temporary solutions like paper straws, pose dangers to some disabled consumers. In addition, some people with disabilities cannot consume any liquids without straws.

Gibson-Conlon says restaurants such as McNellie’s make sure that all patrons have safe, convenient drinking options.

“We will always do everything we can to meet the needs of our guests, including keeping a stock of plastic straws on hand for any guest who needs one,” she says.

“We’re also happy to make accommodations regarding ice [and] drink temperatures for anyone inconvenienced by the absence of a conventional straw.”

The plastic straw presents a problem requiring compromise, and it isn’t as simple as swapping for another method or doing away with it completely. Johnson says collaboration and resolution can happen.

“We as a community, state, nation and world need to continue to stay informed, desire information to be shared, and be comfortable with making changes,” she says. “Plastic is going to be here longer than we are, and some may say it’s ‘not their problem,’ but it truly is everyone’s problem.

Only together can we really find and create a long-lasting solution, one that will beat out the 500 years plastic will be here.”

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Kitchens and bathrooms have transformed from utilitarian to elaborate. Once cloistered away from a home’s living areas, the kitchen is now the family centerpiece. With amenities for dining and entertaining, today’s kitchens are often dressed in stylish tones of gray and white. "Smart" appliances with voice-activated devices assist with chores. Pantries, with ample storage room, can feature nooks for informal dining. Meanwhile, bathrooms have become more than just functional spaces.

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‘Warm and Inv The kitchen, master bath and pool bath are definitely stars in this home in northeast Oklahoma City. Paige Sheller of A-Line Designs, an interior design firm in Edmond, remembers the project well.

“Our clients’ goal was to build their dream home as a perfect place for entertaining family and friends,” she says. “They asked us to help with the millwork [and to] finish selections, lighting and area furnishings.”

The soft beige, stucco and stone exterior, with cedar and iron accents, is a clue to the home’s interior.

With 8,600 square feet and three levels to work with, the design firm made magnificent contributions.

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The home features a large basement, the main floor and the upper level. A double patio, the width of the home, provides a view of a secluded wood, adding to the property’s charm.

The living area’s mammoth fireplace, made of Eldorado stacked stone, extends to the open kitchen.

It adds a rustic touch to the clean lines of the interior, which mixes traditional and contemporary design elements. The color palette blends soft whites and grays. The all-in-one space – with a continuous, vaulted ceiling – is spectacular. Four floor-to-ceiling stone columns serve as space dividers in the kitchen.

“Like the rest of the home, the kitchen is warm,

welcoming and inviting,” Sheller says. “We chose casual finishes throughout the home, so it is not too formal.”

The pantry is a cook’s dream – a galley measuring 12 feet deep by 8 feet wide and adjacent to the kitchen, with custom floor-to-ceiling cabinets.

A mud room was essential for a home of this size.

Sheller calls it “the drop zone.” Equally as important, it’s home for the family dog, pampered with custom food bowls.

Sheller calls the master bath “absolutely stunning.

It has a free-standing tub, recessed into its own private alcove, with a beautiful tile surround.”

The master suite includes his and her custom closets. In her closet, ladders on rollers make it easy to reach clothing and accessories.

Another design element of the home is the pool bathroom, nestled between the patio and workout room.

“The client really wanted an industrial, concrete sink vanity which was custom made here in Oklahoma, and millwork that would be classy and efficient for storage,” Sheller says. “The large walk-in shower has a stone tile running floor to ceiling to highlight the veining in the stone. That pattern floor tile was a playful design decision to make the pool bath pop.”

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: THIS VIEW OF THE KITCHEN REVEALS HOW THE FIREPLACE IS A DOMINANT FEATURE. A NOOK IN THE KITCHEN IS WHERE THE FAMILY’S DOG DINES FROM CUSTOM-MADE FOOD DISHES. THE DIAMOND-SHAPED CABINETRY IN THE POOL BATH, ACCENTING THE WALL CABINETS, ADDS AN ARCHITECTURAL PATTERN. THE CONTEMPORARY COLOR PALETTE OF PALE GRAY AND WHITE IS EVIDENT IN THIS LUXURIOUS SPALIKE MASTER BATH.

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A Re-Purposing THE ENORMOUS CENTER ISLAND IS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE NEWLY EXPANDED KITCHEN. AMPLE SEATING IS INVITING FOR THIS FAMILY AND THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN. PHOTOS BY SCOTT JOHNSON, HAWKS PHOTOGRAPHY

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To tear down or restore – that was the challenge Tim Yardy faced when he was commissioned to rehabilitate a 1940s-style home in midtown Tulsa.

“It was a difficult decision,” says Yardy, who went with demolishing the neighboring property and saving the small home to make room for a magnificent renovation where the kitchen is the queen.

Yardy often has the foresight to look at a difficult property, envision the possibilities and restore it to a level of functional elegance.

“The homeowners wanted a new, transitional space,” Yardy says. “They wanted to double the size of the home to 7,000 square feet, including a master and guest suite. The original home, resembling a bungalow, had lots of small, chopped-up, impractical rooms. The dining room had old plaster detailing we restored. I felt the existing home had enough redeeming qualities to make the project worthwhile.”

One of those endearing details was the home’s original dark-stained floor.

A FREE-STANDING TUB IS A SPECIAL TOUCH IN THIS SPACIOUS MASTER BATH.

CUSTOM CABINETS ARE TAILORED TO SUIT THE FAMILY’S BATHROOM NEEDS.

Renovation “This was a bloody big project,” says the London native, who saw it as a worthwhile endeavor for the homeowners and their three young children. “I could see certain elements of the home that were similar to the house where I grew up in England.”

Working with Tulsa architect Mark Nelson, Yardy raised the ceiling to create a kitchen that has become the central living area for this family. The walls were painted light gray, a hot color for 2018.

Working with Woodstock Cabinet Co., Yardy chose

white walnut cabinetry that was warmer than what had existed in the small, cramped kitchen.

Yardy then designed a Carrara marble center island that is 18 feet long. A special seating area was designed for the children.

“It was one of the biggest islands we’ve ever built,” Yardy says.

The centerpiece of the kitchen is the custom vent hood, fabricated by a Tulsa shop. From the kitchen, the family also has an ideal view of the outdoor living

area and swimming pool.

In the master bath, Yardy repeated the Carrara marble as the major material. The spa-like bathroom opens to the master suite and luxurious closets. The renovation of two powder rooms – one for guests, another in the husband’s study – are other examples of massive renovation.

“We created comfortable living spaces for the family to grow,” Yardy says. “We re-purposed spaces for the way people live in 2018.”

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COMPACT STORAGE AREAS WERE CREATED TO PROVIDE AN EFFICIENT KITCHEN. THIS STORAGE AREA WAS PLACED NEAR THE RANGE FOR COOKING CONVENIENCE.

A Gath THE THERMIDOR APPLIANCES AND CUSTOM DESIGN ALL ADD TO THE EFFICIENCY FOR A KITCHEN THAT IS INVITING TO THE COUPLE, WHO ENJOY COOKING TOGETHER. THE FRESH, LIGHT COLOR PALETTE OF LIGHT GRAYS, WHITES AND WARM WOODS COMBINE FOR A KITCHEN THAT IS A JOY FOR COOKING AND DINING.

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It was dreary and dated in this 15-year-old Edmond kitchen. The woods were dark; the space was crowded. The work island – a mere 2 feet by 3½ feet – begged for more space.

So, the homeowners sought the expertise of Brenda Helms at Edmond Kitchen and Bath.

“They needed a more open plan with a better flow, to avoid the frequent traffic jams that hindered kitchen entertaining,” Helms says. “A beautiful, functional space that suited the needs of a couple who truly cook was the order on this project.

“There also was the challenge of bringing their styles together. She desired a classic, more timeless

hering Spot kitchen look; he favored a modern, transitional look.

Neither wanted a cookie-cutter-style kitchen. We combined their preferences, proposing an unusual design at the rangetop’s focal point.”

A full suite of Thermador appliances highlights the project. Tower refrigeration at 60 inches provides enviable storage while double dishwashers keep pace with the workload in the expanded 10-foot island.

The renovation took eight months. Helms used a light blue-gray on the cabinets with white countertops to brighten the space. Contemporary lighting creates a transitional design mix that overlooks the back lawn and pool.

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Helms made several other significant changes.

“There are fewer cabinets,” she says. “We don’t have to line every wall with cabinets any more.

People are paring down to a more casual cooking lifestyle. Breathing room in a kitchen is now more important than an excess of cabinets.”

The color palette is subtle.

“Kitchens are now featuring a lot of neutrals,” Helms says. “Whites and grays complement the warm wood floor tones.”

The greatest change is additional room for everyone. Family and friends gather around – you guessed it – the center island.

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Sleek, Modern, THE KITCHEN’S STRIKING VISUAL APPEAL IS ENHANCED BY A BANK OF WINDOWS OVER THE APRON SINK, PROVIDING A GRAND VIEW OF THE PATIO. PHOTOS BY NICHOLE MOORE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Jodie DeArmon believes the sleek, industrial look is the future for kitchen and bath design.

That’s the style the homeowners chose for their new 18-room, 4,700-square-foot, two-story farmhouse.

The home’s exterior – white painted brick with black window trim – contrasts the interior’s color story. An unusual glass-andsteel garage door, leading to the wife’s photography studio, adds to an overall first impression.

DeArmon, of Tulsa’s Heatwave Supply Co., and Marcia Richards, managing partner of Upside Interiors, created a kitchen and master bath that they describe as “clean, architectural and timeless.” The

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black-and-white color scheme complements the charm of the kitchen.

Art, fabrics and accessories add dashes of color to the calm setting.

The kitchen, large and rectangular, has an oversized island seating six. It anchors the room, which flows easily into the adjacent dining and living areas. The kitchen’s striking visual appeal is enhanced by a bank of windows over the kitchen’s apron sink and provides a grand view of the patio.

Lighting is as contemporary as the color palette – LEDs illuminate the kitchen with a sliding sconce near the double sink.

Modern, drum pendant lights enhance the island.

Quartz countertops define the work spaces. A Jenn-Air range

THE MODERN SPHERE PENDANT LIGHT IS CENTER STAGE IN THE MASTER BATH.

, Timeless with double ovens is another high-end amenity.

The master bathroom is a study in serenity. The herringbone, porcelain tile floor accents a free-standing tub and twin vanities.

The vanity walls are accented with a horizontal shiplap paneling.

The spacious walk-in shower has two shower heads, a rain head and body sprays. Countertops in this area are also quartz, and plumbing fixtures are black matte, which Richards and DeArmon say “look amazing.”

“The homeowners had a clear direction for their dream home,” Richards says. “With a cohesive design, we created a timeless, modern home.”

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Imagine a brand new kitchen that has a trendy, large center island on wheels. And no, it’s not controlled by a robot.

Ralph Lackner, a certified kitchen and bath designer and president of Tulsa’s Jay Rambo Co., says that’s exactly what the homeowner ordered for this kitchen, which measures 19 feet long and 17 feet wide in her family’s new 4,000-square-foot home in midtown Tulsa.

Working with Mike Anderson of Insight Homes, J. Collins & Associates Architects and certified interior designer Carolyn Nierenberg, Lackner created a kitchen fulfilling all the homeowner’s functional and aesthetic needs.

“She loves to cook,” Lackner says. “She enjoys the flexibility the movable island provides. She knew exactly what she wanted in her

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new kitchen. When the client has specific wishes, that’s a dream job for me.”

The “must haves” included all stainless steel, commercial appliances. That mobile island, set on sturdy rollers, features a counter top of stainless steel with butcher block inserts, which the homeowner uses for food preparation. The center island is both a heavy duty work station and the kitchen’s casual dining center. It includes storage, especially for cooking utensils or serving dishes for counter top entertaining.

“Because she enjoys cooking, a completely modern kitchen was a necessity, where entertaining is a frequent occasion,” Lackner says.

The kitchen’s appliances are complemented by rustic white

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Contrasting the steel and wood is a Mont Claire, 3-centimeter marble countertop and backsplash.

The soft color palette of off-white and pale gray is popular in kitchen design.

This allows for accessories to make the boldest color statement. Heavy wood beams and a painted brick and stone fireplace provide contrasting textures.

Lackner notes the homeowner also had specific needs regarding the kitchen cabinets, the firm’s specialty. She wanted drawers on the lower cabinets to house utilitarian items and the open, upper cabinets to provide complementary accents for colorful accessories.

Another feature is a secondary kitchen, doubling as a full-service pantry.

“This is where she keeps spices, and other kitchen condiments. It has a rolling ladder to help her access kitchen necessities,” Lackner says.

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For Tulsa architect Brian Freese of Freese Architecture, this kitchen and bath project was a true first.

This is the inaugural project of a series he dubs "Midwest Modern," in Tulsa’s burgeoning midtown.

Each home will be designed with sizes and amenities appropriate to the neighborhood and current market trends.

“This home was designed for singles, smaller families or empty-nesters,” Freese says.

So, maximizing the square footage – making every inch functional and visually pleasing – was crucial to the overall design aesthetics. Throughout the home, a light, neutral color palette creates an expansive

impression.

Freese had 3,750 square feet in a two-story space to design. The biggest challenge was to create a modern home that was appropriate to the neighborhood in terms of scale, proportion and materials, yet striking and unique.

“Because of the space available, the kitchen needed to be highly efficient, yet give the impression of being roomy and spacious,” Freese says. “We accomplished that by designing the north cabinets so the refrigerator and freezer didn’t protrude into the kitchen space but faced outward, becoming an interesting design feature.”

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He also took the wasted space under the stairway and used every available inch for hidden cabinet storage.

“That was the first time I’ve done that,” Freese says.

“Challenges are opportunities.”

The focal element of the kitchen is its center island, featuring a generous working and entertaining area with ample seating. Another challenge was the range hood – an issue Freese met head-on.

“We disguised the range vent by incorporating it within a simple rectangle and cladding it with the same solid surface backsplash material. So often, the range hood takes center stage. It shouldn’t,” he says.

Ceiling lighting is a stellar kitchen feature, punctuated

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for drama with modernistic pendant lights over the center island.

“I wanted to make sure the kitchen was well lit,” Freese says. “The lighting is consistent from the kitchen area into the public space.”

In the master bath, Freese used LED strip lighting, emphasizing the sculptural quality of the sinks and cabinetry.

The roomy yet functional bathroom is a haven for relaxation.

Overall, Freese credits the entire team’s work for a stellar renovation.

“The contractor did an excellent job of execution,” Freese says. “The new owner has had many large group events. It has provided a wonderful entertainment space.”

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Worthy of a Wow TWIN, CEILING-HIGH CABINETS FLANK A COMPLEMENTARY CENTER CABINET OF RUSTIC KNOTTY OAK. THE CABINETS ACCENT THE COUNTERTOP WORK SPACE BELOW. PHOTOS BY DAVID COBB PHOTOGRAPHY

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The mission for this kitchen renovation was to increase space and cabinetry and give it a fresh, modern look.

During the three-month process, Brenda Helms of Edmond Kitchen and Bath created an environment that the family and friends call worthy of a wow.

“This home had a very common, dated and restrictive layout,” Helms says. “The sink was in a corner with a high bar on the back side. We called it the ‘Edmond swing.’”

In the transformation, the sink, ovens and refrigerator were moved. Kitchen space doubled.

The breakfast nook gained a new purpose, and the expanded U-shaped kitchen now looks into the home’s beautiful den and dining area.

The kitchen has a new face and greatly improved work and storage areas, but it retains a traditional look.

Two different styles of tower cabinetry, reaching to the ceiling, feature a mix of inset and overlay doors with transitional-style hardware. The cabinets

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are fashioned of rustic, knotty oak with impressive grain. White accent cabinets provide contrast. The different door treatments add visual interest and help with space allotment, Helms says.

The bottom area of the peninsula contains what Helms calls “an appliance garage.” These shelves house a variety of implements, like a toaster and coffee maker. The door lifts to reveal easy countertop

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access to these items.

A vintage barnwood tile graces the floor. A creative tile pattern in the backsplash enhances the cabinets and counter surfaces.

A 10-foot peninsula, a great gathering place for the family and friends, includes a large granite-composite sink. The area serves as the heartbeat of this revamped kitchen, the centerpiece of the home.

ONE OF THE KITCHEN TOWER CABINETS FACES THE PENINSULA. THE CABINET DISPLAYS SOME OF THE HOMEOWNER’S FAVORITE KITCHEN COLLECTIBLES, INCLUDING SEVERAL CRYSTAL PIECES THAT MATCH THE CRYSTALS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PENDANT LIGHTING. THE “GARAGE APPLIANCE” IS ALSO IN THE PENINSULA.

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Oklahoma’s medical marijuana law has gone into effect, but its implications and interpretations are hazy.

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Oklahoma issued its first patient license for medical marijuana

Aug. 25 and about 1,600 other applications were received that first day – the opening of a movement that has been combative at best and, at times, has rivaled soap operas for drama.

Emergency rules enacted by the state health department – banning smokable products and requiring a pharmacist on site at dispensaries – were quickly reversed after a general backlash in the summer. A state health department employee received death threats, which turned out to be a hoax.

And let’s not even touch the allegations of bribery involving the former director of the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy.

The side show of medical marijuana legalization has often detracted from what’s really at stake: the parameters of State Question 788. In short, any person with a state-issued medical marijuana license may legally consume marijuana; possess certain amounts of marijuana and marijuana plants (3 ounces of personal possession and 8 ounces in the home); and possess concentrated and edible marijuana products.

In addition, the law affords caregivers of patients with medical marijuana licenses the same rights as patients; protects doctors who prescribe medical marijuana from discrimination; and authorizes marijuana growth and sales.

A person who thinks marijuana could be medically beneficial should visit a physician, who could then recommend that the patient receive a medical marijuana license. The patient must then provide the recommendation to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority to obtain a license, at which point that person may legally purchase marijuana from a licensed dispensary.

An important distinction in Oklahoma’s law, compared with those in some other states that have legalized medical cannabis, is the complete freedom given to physicians regarding recommendations. However, many doctors are not on board.

“The way the law is written leaves a number of concerns as well as problems for the doctors,” says A.W. Rousseau, an Oklahoma City psychiatrist and chairman of the Oklahoma State Medical Association’s legislative committee.

Rousseau says some of these issues are tied to the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug, putting it in the same class as heroin or LSD. Because of this designation, research on the medical benefits of marijuana is not as copious as many physicians would like to see. The Schedule I designation also limits how physicians may recommend medical marijuana as a potential treatment.

“I would add that it is the recommendation of the medical community to put marijuana into a Schedule II [designation], which would allow doctors more flexibility in prescribing the drugs for medicinal purposes,” Rousseau says.

Research is still out on many dosage recommendations, so no methods exist on monitoring patient usage, Rousseau says. He adds that the Oklahoma law is problematic for physicians who might also be concerned about drug interactions – always a dangerous issue in medicine. There also seem to be no clear indications regarding physician liability after a recommendation to treat with medical marijuana is made.

Rousseau also takes issue with assertions that marijuana is neither harmful nor addictive. Overall he says, the law is just too broad.

“Although there are some diseases that the medical community feels could benefit from marijuana, Oklahoma’s law does not identify which ones and allows [marijuana] to be utilized in basically any disease process,” he says. “Oklahoma’s marijuana law is the only law that is like this. All other states with marijuana laws have specific diagnoses that the doctor can utilize marijuana in its treatment.”

Not everyone views the open playing field of Oklahoma’s new medical marijuana laws as a drawback. Perry Jones III, chief operating officer and owner of Tulsa’s Higher Care Clinic, sees great potential for patients with a variety of conditions.

“Oklahoma did not pass a qualifying conditions list in our legislation,” he says. “Doctors are to use best practices, continuing education and clinical studies from around the world to best determine if cannabis is a viable treatment option for their clients.”

Jones also believes that in addition to providing medical relief to those in need, the new law clears the way for economic benefits to communities and the state – a prediction which may bear out, given that about $1.5 million in application fees were collected on the first day licenses were issued.

“The economic impact for states and cities is immense,” Jones says. “They will benefit from the sales tax, the tourism and the marketing, and by having a healthier community thanks to the medicinal values in the cannabis plant.”

Jones seems undeterred by the controversy surrounding the new law and the businesses that have erupted in its wake, such as the Higher Care Clinic.

“Once Oklahoma gets the program implemented, the legislature irons out their regulations in the spring and we all adjust to those new regulations, I believe this program is going to have a revolutionary impact on Oklahoma medicine, agriculture, tourism, business and our criminal justice system,” he says.

Advocates and adversaries of SQ 788 may make compelling arguments, but one reality remains: Oklahomans still have a lot of questions about the future of medical marijuana and how it will impact the state.

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Medical Marijuana Q. Can I buy medical

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A. No. Despite the state law, marijuana remains a Schedule I, illegal drug, according to the U.S. government, and is not available at your local Walgreens.

A. The Oklahoma market may ultimately differ from its Rocky Mountain neighbor, but Colorado prices range from $10 to $18 per gram for conventional marijuana. Edibles, oils and derivatives range from $7 to $50.

How much will marijuana at a pharmacy? medical marijuana cost?

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Can I drive after smoking marijuana if I have a medical cannabis license?

A. Not unless you want a DUI.

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Can my employer drug test me?

A. You bet. However, the employer cannot discriminate against you based on a test that comes back positive for medical marijuana.

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A. Only if you want to get fired.

Q. Where do I apply

for a medical marijuana license?

A. Visit the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority at omma.ok.gov.

Q. How much does a

license cost?

A. $100 and it will last for two years.

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What is the minimum age for becoming a licensed commercial grower?

A. 25.

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What types of products will be available to buy?

A. Marijuana and its derivatives, oils and concentrates.

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How can marijuana be used?

A. By way of smoking, eating or drinking.

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Q.

How long does it take for medical marijuana to take effect?

A. It depends upon your body size, your tolerance, your metabolism and the intensity of the product. It could be within a few seconds to an hour or more.

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How long does the high last?

A. With marijuana that’s smoked, 1-2 hours; with edibles and derivatives, 3-5 hours.

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Can you overdose with marijuana?

A. It is possible, especially with large consumption or inhalation. Bigger dangers lie in using other drugs or undertaking risky activity while high.

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How long does marijuana stay in your body?

A. Drug tests can reveal traces of marijuana for up to 90 days.

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What are negative effects of marijuana?

A. It can affect brain development, pregnancy and mental states. It can lead to increased heart rate and lung problems when smoked.

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How do you grow your own medical marijuana?

A. Seeds can be free or cost as much as $200, depending upon the strain. You can grow marijuana with dirt, hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaponics and processed fibers. Lighting can range from simple to elaborate. Overall, you can spend a little or invest thousands of dollars.

Q.

How do hemp and marijuana compare?

A. Both are part of the cannibis family, but that’s where similarities end. Hemp has zero psycho-active properties; you can’t get high from it. There are more than 25,000 commercial and industrial uses for hemp. The two plants got lumped together as illegal in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 during thenPresident Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

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Where can I find more information on medical marijuana?

A. Despite marijuana being illegal at the federal level, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has a wealth of information on medical marijuana research at drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuanamedicine. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, part of the National Institutes of Health, has a host of information at nccih.nih.gov/ health/marijuana.

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38368 S. COUNTY ROAD, WOODWARD Opens at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus Oct. 31, Nov. 2-3 ADMISSION: $10 per attraction (there’s four) or allaccess for $30 The Manor boasts over 4,000 square feet of terrorinducing rooms: Toxic, with mutants, monsters and zombies; Carnevil of Fear, with Dr. Sinister and his minions; The Manor with Dr. Merrifield and his victims; and the Weepingville Asylum and its grounds. All impose spine-tingling, bloodcurdling fears on visitors.

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Alarming. Chilling. Supernatural. Creepy.

Formidable. Ghostly. If you love to get scared each Halloween, this list will guide Haunted Feed Mill you to horrific Halloween haunts. Put on your big-kid breeches and hold on tight.

101 S. THIRD ST., MORRIS 7-10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus Oct. 31 ADMISSION: $20 The mill has two extreme attractions for one admission fee. The Grind House and Lost Cabin take visitors on bizarre, hair-raising adventures – not for the faint of heart.

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Guthrie Haunted Scaregrounds

4524 RIVERSIDE CIRCLE 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through October, plus Oct. 28-31 and Nov. 2-3 ADMISSION: $20 This half-mile adventure introduces you to the insane, murderous employees of the Dead and Breakfast, quite possibly the scariest guest house in town. The tour takes about 30-40 minutes, and with a $5 upgrade you can amp up the fear factor.

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House of Thorn

WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, 1109 N. DELAWARE ST., DEWEY 7:30-11:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through October, plus 7:30-10:30 p.m. Oct. 30-31 ADMISSION: $20 for adults, $10 for children 10 and under This attraction, in its 12th season, promises visitors a “frightfully good time” to undoubtedly scare your hair straight.

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Carpenter’s Mortuary Spook House

136 E. MAIN ST., GENTRY, ARK. 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus Oct. 31 ADMISSION: $13 Located in an 88-year-old building that once housed Gentry’s mortuary and a chapel, this haunted adventure immerses you in terror, thrills and chills – but only for victims … er, uh … guests 13 and older.

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The Maize

614 REDING ROAD, CHICKASHA 6-10 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m-10 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 27, with the Haunted Hayride at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays ADMISSION: $20 Ride a cow train, go on traditional hayrides, experience the Haunted Hayride, play in the sandbox, wander through a pumpkin patch and get lost in the corn “maize.” This one is definitely family friendly.

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The Castle of Muskogee Halloween Festival

3400 W. FERN MOUNTAIN ROAD 6-10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October ADMISSION: free to enter, with each haunting activity costing $3 to $15 This family-friendly extravaganza features 11 haunted attractions, including Domus Horrificus, Casa Morte, the Zombie Hunt, a torture chamber, hayrides, the Trail of Blood and a train ride, along with the Haunted Village, shops, pubs and loads of entertainment from mildly frightening to seriously scary.

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5610 W. SKELLY DRIVE, TULSA Opens at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus Oct. 31-Nov. 3 ADMISSION: $25 for both haunts Hex House and Westside Grim are not typical haunted houses; there are no barriers between you and the terror around you. You are grabbed inside the attraction … and no mercy is shown to the frightened. Enter at your own risk.

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900 N. PORTLAND AVE. 8-11:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October ADMISSION: $10 for the Haunted Trail, $20 for the Zombie Hunt and $25 for both See if you can escape the Widow’s Web, survive Camp Carnage or end up as another victim buried in Eternal Slumbers Cemetery. If you can’t slay the walking dead (with paintballs), you might leave your brains behind on the Zombie Hunt. Come to find out.

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572 N.W. AIRPORT ROAD, CACHE 7-11 p.m. Oct. 20-21, 27-28, 31 ADMISSION: $5 This is the world’s only Porta Potty maze – frightening enough on its own, but with a Spooky Dooky Baby Clown to throw a wrench in your haunted evening. As you walk through a creepy, abandoned airport, you see eerie creatures – except in the pitchblack tunnel. Then you just squeeze your eyes shut, hope there’s nothing there and try not to scream.

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12101 N. I-35 SERVICE ROAD, OKC 8-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus Oct. 28-30 ADMISSION: $25 Edge close to insanity at this spooky attraction.

State-of-the-art special effects only heighten your fright as you get stuck inside a horror movie with no escape.

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1517 E. 106TH ST. N., SPERRY 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus Oct. 19 and 26 from 7 to 10 p.m.

ADMISSION: $15 The pale moonlight sets the scene for a viscerally frightening time, complete with three attractions: the Dark Ride, which includes 20 minutes of scene-afterscene scares; the Shadowbox, where you venture into a haunted house; and Quarantine, where you and 17 others fight zombies with paintball guns.

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The Nightmare

4300 S. 91ST E. AVE., TULSA 7 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in October ADMISSION: $15 This graphic walk-through haunted attraction has a number of disturbing scenes that reflect real-life issues. Enter at your own risk.

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F O O D, D R I N K A N D O T H E R P L E A S U R E S

Woodland Serendipity Two Oklahomans happen to meet in an LA tavern. From there, their ideas germinate into Bar Arbolada, a go-to joint in OKC.

A SIGNATURE COCKTAIL AT BAR ARBOLADA IS LA FELIZ, WHICH CONTAINS ILEGAL MEZCAL, ESPOLON TEQUILA, CHILI-HIBISCUS AND BLOOD ORANGE SHRUB. PHOTOS BY BRENT FUCHS

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ou may have wondered what a tiny seed has to do to become a thriving tree. In the physical realm, it’s a matter of biology. On the figurative plane, that seed comes full of ideas, structure and beauty that

produce a magical standing creation.

In both cases, the seed lands in a spot where it germinates, roots into the ground and becomes a sapling. It eventually welcomes other lives into its branches and gives us a masterpiece of life and community.

Bar Arbolada – spanish for wood-

land – grew from a seed that started in the City of Angels with the chance meeting of two central Oklahoma natives. That seed eventually floated east along the jet stream and landed in the fertile soil of downtown Oklahoma City’s booming Arts District.

Edmond native and University of Oklahoma graduate Riley Marshall, half of the team that created Bar Arbolada, recalls the day he met

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business partner Dustin Lancaster (of LA’s An Eastside Establishment restaurant group).

“I was living in Los Angeles and popped into a bar, struck up a conversation with the bartender, and we both discovered we were from Oklahoma,” Marshall says. “Dustin grew up in Deer Creek and I was from Edmond. We even discovered that we lived on the same street in LA … Arbolada Road.”

From there grew the idea to create a space free of pretense by offering some of OKC’s most thoughtful bites and a cocktail/wine program that up-and-comers crave and polished patrons expect. Arbolada’s decor speaks of

Los Angeles and trendy, gentrified European neighborhoods rolled into one. The bar touts a boutique vibe: Old-World patterned tiled floors; an expansive bar with seating; high back, tuck-and-roll, camel-colored booths; and architectural lighting, from barrel pendants to brass-and-black spotlight sconces.

Introducing food to their concept meant keeping the menu within the realm and atmosphere of Arbolada, without making the bar into a full-fledged restaurant. Securing the help of another LA transplant via Oklahoma, the guys offered Tehra Thorp a job.

“I couldn’t have done the food without her help,” Marshall says, “and it was perfect.

Tehra got to come home to her roots and knock out this menu, meet with purveyors, and get our kitchen set up.”

Thorp crafted savory dishes familiar to OKC patrons, but as large snacks instead of entrees. Must-try plates include a quick sauté of shishito peppers and chorizo, or deep fried heirloom potatoes, smashed then dusted with smoked paprika, crunchy salt and fresh lemon. The corn fritters with honey are divine.

Indulge yourself with the shrimp cocktail with romesco sauce. The ham-and-cheese toast with quince and egg comes through, too.

The bar is the star when it comes to quenching your thirst. Bar Arbolada’s wine list, by the glass or bottle, has some of the best addresses with a French AOC (appellation d’origine contrôlée) as well as North American standouts from the West Coast. The joint offers everying from white and rosé to bubbly and Bordeaux with varying degrees of body and charm. House cocktails are artfully concocted and poured, along with classics like the Tom Collins, paloma and sazerac. If beer is your choice, Arbolada has some of the finest IPAs, stouts and pilsners created locally and nationally.

OKC’s Arbolada, a forest of many flavors and a neighborhood sanctuary with tall ceilings and cast light, is rooted at the corner of Main Street and Lee Avenue. Venture in, pull up a seat, and grab a bite and a sip. Bask in a new experience for the bar scene and look forward to seeing what these guys come up with next.

SCOTTY IRANI

CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: THE DEEP-FRIED POTATOES ARE GARNISHED WITH SMOKED PAPRIKA, SALT, GARLIC, PARSLEY AND LEMON. DEMI CLOSE CREATES A KENSINGTON AND CLASSEN COCKTAIL WITH TOWNSHEND’S WHITE ROSE AND GIN, BLUEBIRD ALPINE LIQUEUR, CUCUMBER, DILL AND LIME.

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ECUADORAN CUISINE IN TULSA

The husband-and-wife team of Fernando Serrano and Carla Meneses say the Tulsa community created an opportunity for them to open Que Gusto. By being in the right place at the right time, the natives of Ecuador have fulfilled a dream of bringing their flavorful menu to downtown.

The couple’s dishes and platters represent their homeland and its variety of landscapes and cuisine. Que Gusto serves everything from savory to sweet – and it’s all made from scratch.

“This is the food I grew up with, everything fresh, everything handmade, recipes of my family with my personal touch,” Meneses says.

Signature dishes include arroz con pollo (rice and chicken) with plaintains, yucca bread (cheese bread) and pork sandwiches. The star of the menu is the empanada, a stuffed pastry with a variety of fillings (pork, beef, chicken, mushrooms or cheese). 105 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Tulsa, quegustotulsa.com.

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Planning the Perfect Party

October marks the onslaught of holiday festivities.

Caterers weigh in on how to make yours a success.

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hether they’re celebrations of weddings, holidays, friends or family, the cooler weather brings with it endless party options. Before driving yourself up a wall with the planning, take a moment to consult catering experts.

With many diets and the possibility of picky eaters, Maggie Howell at Aunt Pittypat’s Catering in Oklahoma City says a few choices can work well for everyone.

“Both low carb and gluten-free options are very popular for many types of diets right now,” she says. “So avoiding heavy breads and starches is something we accommodate by offering skewered and mini versions of items presented in fun vehicles like jars, ramekins and even shot glasses.”

Liz Woodson of the Red Rooster Bistro and Bakery in Wagoner also recommends keeping the appetizers portioned – and champions sitdown dinners – because variables can cause a party host undue stress.

“You don’t have any control over how much people are grabbing, and you may have only allowed four appetizers per person,” Woodson says. “There’s a greater chance of running out of food. So, what we do are grab-and-go veggie cups – a quarter-cup of ranch dressing with veggie sticks in it. This helps the buffet line go faster. It’s a little more work on the preparation side for us, but, when someone’s on a tight budget, that’s a great way to save money and do some portion control.”

As for what to serve, the upcoming months provide opportunities for squash and gourds, warm soups and bisques, grilled cheese and other comfort foods. Woodson enjoys throwing a Thanksgiving twist on some of her popular dishes.

“For an event in November, we’re stuffing chicken breasts with pecan-and-cranberry dressing,” she says. “It’s festive, zesty and seasonal.”

When choosing foods for your event, Howell says knowing your audience creates the best results.

“Matching your menu to your crowd is a must,” she says. “If you have a room full of foodies, let your caterer’s creativity and trendy ideas shine. If your guests are less adventurous, stick with wellexecuted, fresh, seasonal items.”

Regardless of the event, Woodson and Howell agree that communication and trust are key ingredients to a great gathering.

“You need to let the caterer lead the way – we understand the business,” Woodson says. “Communication with your caterer is also important; I need to know what’s expected of me and what I need to supply.”

Howell says: “Let your experienced caterer guide you to a well-balanced event. And don’t try to please everyone. Decide on a direction and stick with it. Otherwise, too many choices – from food to bar options – can become muddled and overwhelming.”

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TRY CITRUS SHRIMP CONES WITH MANGO SALSA AND FRISSEE AT YOUR NEXT PARTY. PHOTO BY JESSICA TUCKER PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC

A POPULAR DISH IS SEARED SALMON WITH PARSLEY GREMOLATA, FARRO AND ROOT VEGETABLES. PHOTO BY JESSICA TUCKER PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC

A HEALTHY HOLIDAY OPTION FROM AUNT PITTYPAT’S IS CAESAR SALAD CONES WITH SHAVED PARMESAN AND PRESERVED TOMATO. PHOTO COURTESY AUNT PITTYPAT’S CATERING

IN SEASON

FALL FRUITS & VEGGIES

RECIPES

TOASTY, TASTY PUMPKIN SEEDS As autumn rolls around, we offer a recipe that’s a favorite to generations of families. These toasted treats are simple to make.

1 cup 4 cups 2 tbsp.

1 tbsp.

1 tbsp.

raw pumpkin seeds water salt vegetable oil Old Bay seasoning

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

Separate seeds from flesh and strings by putting them in a colander, rinsing them well and using your hands.

Rinse cleaned seeds.

Mix water, salt and cleaned seeds

into a saucepan.

Bring to a boil, reduce heat and

simmer 10 minutes.

Drain seeds.

Cool briefly and blot dry.

Combine seeds with oil and Old Bay seasoning in a bowl. Mix well.

Spread seeds one layer thick on a

four-sided baking sheet or pizza pan coated with nonstick cooking spray.

A bevy of fall fruits and veggies is at your disposal this month, so get in the holiday spirit and try out some fun recipes with fresh produce.

Although apples are available yearround, October is the time you’ll get the cream of the crop. Try an apple crisp or pie as a special treat to warm you up as the weather cools down.

Pears are an ephemeral, succulent delight most readily available in fall and winter. Get creative in your next baking endeavor and try out a pear pie, crisp, cake or even a salad.

We’d be remiss to exclude gourds – most notably, pumpkins and squash. Try your hand at pumpkin breads and pies, bars and cookies. For a savory treat, whip up some pumpkin or squash soup, pasta or piquant squash bread. Yum!

Bake 30 to 40 minutes until seeds

reach desired brownness and stirring every 5 to 10 minutes. (This may require more frequent stirring toward the end of baking.)

Cool before eating.

Source: Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

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OKLAHOMANS AREN’T EATING ENOUGH VEGGIES

Several studies reveal that Oklahoma residents, among the most obese people

in the nation on average, are also the least likely to eat at least five servings of vegetables four or more days a week. Of those surveyed, 52.3 percent report they consume the weekly minimum amount of vegetables. The national average is 57.7 percent. Among the most likely to eat plenty of veggies are Vermonters at 68.7 percent and Montanans at 63 percent. Vermont also leads the nation with the most farmers markets per 100,000 people (14.9) while Oklahoma is 42nd (1.8). Oklahoma ranks ninth in adult obesity and seventh in teen obesity.

Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Where & When

G R E AT T H I N G S TO D O I N O K L A H O M A

Down the Rabbit Hole The Oklahoma City Ballet brings a beloved fairytale to the stage for a state premiere.

PHOTO BY KENNY JOHNSON COURTESY KANSAS CITY BALLET

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ewis Carroll’s fable Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland comes to life with the Oklahoma City Ballet in its newest production, Alice (In Wonderland). With magical choreography, a stunning score and larger-than-life costumes and props, you’ll be whisked away to Wonderland in seconds flat.

Since a major part of the magic in Alice comes from the sensational characters, one may wonder how a story this colorful can be conveyed without dialogue. OKC Ballet’s artistic director, Robert Mills, says it won’t be an issue.

“Once ballet transformed from a social dance to a performing art, it began its evolution on the stage by telling stories,” he says. “The human body and face can convey incredible emotions without words.”

The stage production brings all the characters you’d expect to see to the forefront – the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts and White Rabbit – with accompaniment from the OKC Philharmonic and students from the OKC Ballet Yvonne Choteau School.

“Students ... appear in the production as miniature doors, baby flamingos and other colorful characters,” Mills says. “They audition to take part in the production, they have their own separate rehearsals, but also rehearse with our professional dancers, allowing them an incredible stage experience.”

Originally debuted in Washington, D.C., the show has traveled across the nation and even to Hong Kong, where Mills says it was received very well. This run is an Oklahoma premiere.

“I wanted to bring the production to Oklahoma ... because it has challenging dancing for our company, it is whimsical and fun, and accessible to both the ballet novice and the balletomane,” he says. “Septime Webre’s version stays true to the original Lewis Caroll story but uses dance, pantomime, music composed

by Matthew Pierce – who will also travel to OKC to conduct – colorful costumes designed by Cirque du Soleil designer Liz Vandal, and sets designed by New York City designer James Kronzer to great effect,” Mills says.

Can’t-miss additions include “flying” characters (with the help of ropes and harnesses), plus stunning puppetry, complete with a massive Jabberwocky controlled by several dancers at once.

Described as a “fast-paced whirlwind of color and action” by Mills, the production promises to keep audiences on their toes from start to finish.

The show runs Oct. 26-28 at the Civic Center Music Hall. Get tickets at okcballet.org.

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Where & When

IN TULSA PERFORMANCES BROWN BAG IT: LATIN HERITAGE MONTH Oct. 3 TULSA PAC Enjoy an

afternoon with La Gozadera at the PAC. tulsapac.com

PHOTO COURTESY TULSA SYMPHONY

TSO Kicks Off

The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s first official concert of the season is Oct. 6 at the Tulsa PAC. Classics I: Opening Night Gala Concert with Cellist Lynn Harrell presents works from Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the centennial of his birth, along with a lyrical cello concerto by Antonin Dvorak and performed by Harrell.

FA M I LY / K I D S

ART IN THE SQUARE

of media, including pottery, stained glass and sculpture. All of the 100-plus artists, selected

by Utica Square merchants and a judging panel in July, are on hand to answer questions about their work. Awards in an array of categories are given out at the end of the day.

While the event is a great opportunity to socialize and find new art, Cassandra Montray, property manager of Utica Square, says the event celebrates Tulsa’s long history with talented artists.

“This is the 24th year of Art in the Square,” she says. “Historically, Tulsa has had a rich culture of artistic expression and spawned world-class architects, painters [and] sculptors. Art in the Square was conceived to provide another platform for local artists to showcase their works.”

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 6. For more information, visit uticasquare.com.

PHOTO COURTESY UTICA SQUARE

Art is the shining star at an autumnal Tulsa tradition, Art in the Square, where scores of locals sell their works.

In the heart of midtown at Utica Square, the festival welcomes you to stroll winding trails and explore original works in a variety

The fun doesn’t begin and end with the show – the pre-concert dinner and postconcert party can add some whimsy to your evening.

The gala patrons’ dinner, at 5:30 p.m. on the Williams Green adjacent to the PAC, includes a full, sit-down meal provided by Amelia’s, an acclaimed Tulsa eatery. The after-party, also on Williams Green, includes craft cocktails by the bartenders of Valkyrie, plus hors d’oeuvres from Amelia’s. You can chat with Harrell and other TSO artists and enjoy live music.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. For tickets, visit tulsasymphony.org.

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TULSA BALLET PRESENTS: PETER AND THE WOLF

4U: A SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION OF PRINCE

STUDIO K , ZARROW STUDIO, TULSA AND BROKEN ARROW This

BOK CENTER The first and

Oct. 5, 12

PERFORMANCE

Award-winning composer John Williams has transported us beyond our imagination, to new worlds, through heart-pounding adventures.

family-friendly children’s series debuts with a brand new performance. tulsaballet.org

TULSA PROJECT THEATRE PRESENTS: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Oct. 5-7, 11-13 TULSA PAC One fateful

night, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss innocently set out to visit an old professor. tulsaprojecttheatre.com

DADDY’S DYIN’ WHO’S GOT THE WILL? Oct. 12-14, 19-21 BROKEN ARROW COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Del Shore’s play follows a dysfunctional Southern family as they squabble among themselves over the fortune.

bacptheatre.com

ROB LAKE Oct. 13 BRADY THEATER Magician Rob Lake hits the stage.

bradytheater.com

CHAMBER MUSIC TULSA PRESENTS: TESLA QUARTET Oct. 14 TULSA PAC Tesla’s concerts

are a revelation, featuring music by composers from three different continents.

chambermusictulsa.org

TULSA OPERA PRESENTS: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE

Oct. 19, 21

TULSA PAC Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is a relentlessly madcap pursuit of love through twists, turns, hidden motives and true intentions. tulsaopera.com SIGNATURE SYMPHONY PRESENTS: POPS 2 – STAR WARS AND BEYOND Oct. 19-20

TCC VANTREASE PACE The music of Academy

Oct. 20

only estate-approved Prince celebration, 4U presents the music of the late musician.

bokcenter.com

CHOREGUS PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: 10 HAIRY LEGS Oct. 20

TULSA PAC 10 Hairy Legs is

an all-male repertory dance company performing newly commissioned works as well as standards. choregus.org

WORLD OF DANCE LIVE! Oct. 24

BRADY THEATER See the standout stars from NBC’s World of Dance.

bradytheater.com

KEN JEONG Oct. 25 RIVER SPIRIT CASINO RESORT Actor, producer and

writer Ken Jeong, known for his scene-stealing abilities, has established himself as one of today’s top comedic stars. riverspirittulsa.com

TULSA BALLET PRESENTS: DRACULA Oct. 26-28 TULSA PAC Ben Stevenson’s

ghoulishly entertaining gothic ballet returns to Tulsa for the first time in six years. tulsaballet.org

KEVIN HART Oct. 28 BOK CENTER Kevin Hart

has become one of the foremost comedians, actors, authors and businessmen in the entertainment industry. bokcenter.com

CELEBRITY ATTRACTIONS PRESENTS: LOVE NEVER DIES Oct. 30-Nov. 4 TULSA PAC A passionate

love story continues in Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. celebrityattractions.com

CONCERTS LORD HURON Oct. 1 CAIN’S BALLROOM Indie

star Lord Huron hits the stage. cainsballroom.com

IRON AND WINE Oct. 2

CAIN’S BALLROOM The alternative, soft rock crooners of Iron and Wine perform. cainsballroom.com FLEETWOOD MAC Oct. 3 BOK CENTER Legendary,

Grammy Award-winning Fleetwood Mac begins another tour. bokcenter.com

BRUNO MARS Oct. 11-12 BOK CENTER Global

superstar Bruno Mars is on his XXIVK Magic Tour of the United States. bokcenter.com

AARON LEWIS Oct. 11 HARD ROCK HOTEL AND CASINO Rock and country

crooner Aaron Lewis performs. hardrockcasinotulsa.com

LAUREN DAIGLE Oct. 12 BRADY THEATER Enjoy the

Look Up Child Tour with Lauren Daigle. bradytheater.com

BORNS Oct. 4 CAIN’S BALLROOM Borns

BOB DYLAN Oct. 12 RIVER SPIRIT CASINO RESORT Bob Dylan and

cainsballroom.com

riverspirittulsa.com

performs with special guest Twin Shadow.

his band hit the stage.

JAMEY JOHNSON Oct. 18 HARD ROCK HOTEL AND CASINO Alabama-

THE FLOOZIES HALLOWEEN Oct. 27 CAIN’S BALLROOM

raised singer Jamey Johnson performs.

Celebrate this spooky holiday with the Floozies.

hardrockcasinotulsa.com

cainsballroom.com

PAULA ABDUL Oct. 18 RIVER SPIRIT CASINO RESORT A queen of

BRET MICHAELS Oct. 27 HARD ROCK HOTEL AND CASINO Bret Michaels is on The Party Starts Now 2018 World Tour.

1980s jams performs. riverspirittulsa.com

OZUNA Oct. 19 BOK CENTER Ozuna is on his Aura Tour. bokcenter.com

LAUV Oct. 28 CAIN’S BALLROOM For as

hard rock band Blue October.

much as he embraces modern musical innovations, Lauv picks up a thread that can be traced to timeless troubadours.

THE BIG MAD MORNING SHOW PRESENTS: GHOST

LANY Oct. 30 BRADY THEATER The

BOK CENTER Swedish heavy

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HALLOWEEN HAUNT WITH THE STRUTS AND MEG MYERS Oct. 31 CAIN’S BALLROOM Z104.5

BLUE OCTOBER Oct. 19 BRADY THEATER See bradytheater.com

Oct. 26

metal band Ghost performs.

BOZ SCAGGS Oct. 26 RIVER SPIRIT CASINO RESORT It’s appropriate

that Boz Scaggs’ new album is Out of the Blues, since the blues is what first sparked his five-decade musical career. riverspirittulsa.com

FACT MEETS FICTION

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heartthrobs of LANY perform.

The Edge presents Halloween Haunt, featuring The Struts, Meg Myers and Albert Hammond Jr. cainsballroom.com

ART

Oct. 4-Nov. 5

TULSA PAC The newest

exhibition at the PAC gallery begins. tulsapac.com

FIRST FRIDAY ART CRAWL

Oct. 5

TULSA ARTS DISTRICT

This year-round, monthly event features galleries, studios and museums in downtown opening their doors. thetulsaartsdistrict.org

VISIONMAKERS 2018 Oct. 5-Nov. 25

108 CONTEMPORARY

VisionsMakers is 108 Contemporary’s signaturejuried biennial exhibition.

108contemporary.org

TAC MEMBERS SHOW Oct. 5-Nov. 25

AHHA TULSA Enjoy the

newest exhibition at Ahha. ahhatulsa.org

BLAKE LITTLE: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE GAY RODEO Through Nov. 25 GILCREASE MUSEUM

Experience the grit, determination and community of the national gay rodeo circuit. gilcrease.org

BEAN DANCE: HOPI KACHINA CARVINGS

Through Jan. 6

PHILBROOK DOWNTOWN

Art has the power to connect the past and the present, the sacred and the secular, and people of different backgrounds. philbrook.org

THE EXPERIENCE Ongoing AHHA TULSA The Experience is an artist-driven, large-scale, fully immersive art installation that invites participants to explore through sight, sound, movement and touch.

ahhatulsa.org

Oct. 14 through Jan. 7

AMERICANS ALL! Ongoing GILCREASE MUSEUM

Bochner’s abstract and thoughtful work from the late 1960s to the present day.

gilcrease.org

AMAZING! MEL BOCHNER PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART This show explores

philbrook.org

JOHNNY LAGUARDIA’S TRINITRON MIXTAPE Oct. 19-20

LIVING ARTS OF TULSA

PHOTO BY SHANE BEVEL/SHANE BEVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

hardrockcasinotulsa.com

Living Arts’ new exhibition features work from Johnny Laguardia. livingarts.org

Americans All! includes scores of paintings and sculptures celebrating more than 200 years of American art by 26 immigrant artists.

JEAN RICHARDSON EXHIBIT Ongoing

ROYCE MYERS ART See

works from abstract painter Jean Richardson.

roycemyers.com

SPORTS TULSA ROUGHNECKS MATCHES Oct. 6, 13 ONEOK FIELD See the team

take on two competitors in the United Soccer League. roughnecksfc.com

OKC THUNDER VS. ATLANTA HAWKS Oct. 7 BOK CENTER Oklahoma’s NBA team returns to BOK Center for a preseason contest. bokcenter.com

UNIVERSITY OF TULSA FOOTBALL GAMES

EXPO SQUARE Majestic

Oct. 12, 27

H.A. CHAPMAN STADIUM

Arabian horses and their riders compete. arabianhorses.org

TU takes on South Florida and Tulane this month.

TULSA RUN Oct. 27 DOWNTOWN TULSA From

tulsahurricane.com

U.S. NATIONAL ARABIAN AND HALF-ARABIAN CHAMPIONSHIP HORSE SHOW Oct. 19-27

its humble beginnings in 1978 with a little more than 1,000 runners, the Tulsa Run has been a marquee event in the community. runsignup.com/ race/ok/tulsa/tulsarun

COMMUNITY UNIVERSITY OF TULSA PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS: JANNA LEVIN Oct. 2 DONALD W. REYNOLDS CENTER TU hosts

enlightening and captivating speakers who discuss a wide range of topics. utulsa.edu

AUTUMN IN THE GARDEN Oct. 4-Nov. 11

TULSA BOTANIC GARDEN

Oct. 5-6

GUTHRIE GREEN Gather on Guthrie Green for world-class jazz and top-shelf wines. tulsarootsmusic.org

ST. JOHN ZOO RUN Oct. 6 TULSA ZOO No matter your pace, everyone is welcome to run in one of the most family-friendly races in Tulsa.

tulsazoo.org

ART IN THE SQUARE Oct. 6 UTICA SQUARE This free

The garden transforms into an autumn paradise. The popular Pumpkin Patch and Scarecrows in the Garden are back. tulsabotanic.org

event celebrates art and the art of shopping as more than 70 local artists showcase their work. uticasquare.com

TULSA TOWN HALL PRESENTS: VICENTE FOX

KICKLAHOMA Oct. 7 COX BUSINESS CENTER

Oct. 5

TULSA PAC Former Mexican

Enjoy one of Oklahoma’s only events focused on shoes and apparel. coxcentertulsa.com

president Vicente Fox is a leading voice on geopolitics, immigration, trade and labor within the Americas.

TULSA STATE FAIR

TULSA INTERNATIONAL WINE AND JAZZ FETE

tulsastatefair.com

tulsatownhall.com

Through Oct. 7

EXPO SQUARE Family fun

awaits at this annual tradition.

SECOND SATURDAY ARCHITECTURE TOUR Oct. 13

TULSA FOUNDATION FOR ARCHITECTURE Join

the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture for the Tulsa Goes Mod! Tour.

tulsaarchitecture.org

MCNELLIE’S HARVEST BEER FESTIVAL Oct. 13 MCNELLIE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, DOWNTOWN Drink

up and enjoy a day of beer. mcnellies.com

SHALOMFEST Oct. 14

TEMPLE ISRAEL This

community tradition features tons of food, music, entertainment and a children’s craft and play area.

templetulsa.com

LINDE OKTOBERFEST TULSA Oct. 18-21 RIVER WEST FESTIVAL PARK This 40th annual event

celebrates authentic Bavarian culture. tulsaoktoberfest.org

OKLAHOMA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Oct. 21-25 CIRCLE CINEMA Enjoy films

that explore Jewish culture and identity. circlecinema.com

CHARITABLE EVENTS HUES FOR HOPE Oct. 5 PEARL DISTRICT BUILDING

Hues for Hope, put on by the Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders, includes original art created by Oklahomans. huesforhope.org

WINE FOR WATER Oct. 11 GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER JustHope’s annual

dinner and fundraising auction feature a variety of wines, lively conversation and premium auction items. justhope.org

SAVOR AND STROLL Oct. 11 KENDALL WHITTIER MAIN STREET This fundraiser

benefits Lindsey House, a transitional living program helping homeless women with children. lindseyhouse.org

SAN MIGUEL DANCING WITH THE TULSA STARS Oct. 20

COX BUSINESS CENTER

Enjoy dancing, drinks and dinner to support San Miguel School. coxcentertulsa.com

IN OKC PERFORMANCES LYRIC THEATRE PRESENTS: WHEN WE’RE GONE

Through Oct. 14

LYRIC AT THE PLAZA When

COMMUNIT Y

Aufgeregt for Oktoberfest?

Prost! Oktoberfest is back for its 40th anniversary.

This Tulsa tradition offers favorites we expect: delicious German bites; the adorable Dachshund Dash; bands flown in from Deutschland; and kegs upon kegs of Bavarian beer. New this year is the Karbach Games Arena, where competitions like the Bier Barrel Races and Bavarian Strong Stein Hoist take place, with plenty of room for spectators to line the edges and cheer participants.

Oktoberfest, all about bringing German culture to Tulsa, also highlights some of the city’s best attributes.

“The festival … takes place along the banks of the Arkansas River at River West Festival Park,” director Tonja Carrigg says.

“The park features an extensive trail system that carries festival goers near the historic Route 66 Mother Road and connects to the Tulsa Arts District.”

The event is open to the public Oct. 18-21, with corporate night Oct. 17. Visit tulsaoktoberfest.org for more information.

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ART

GET RADICAL

The second half of the 19th century brought new, rebellious artists to the forefront in Britain. These select few, dubbed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, championed an innovative social vision by inspiring and altering visual culture around the globe.

Their themed pieces explore class and gender identity, beauty versus industry, art and nature.

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art brings some of these pieces to the state for its newest exhibition, Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement. The collection comes from Birmingham, England, and showcases works never seen outside the United King-

dom. Artists include Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt and Elizabeth Siddal.

“Victorian Radicals [represents] the spectrum of avant-garde practices of the Victorian era, emphasizing the response of Britain’s first modern art movement to the unfettered industrialization of the period,” according to OKCMOA’s website. “These artists’ attention to detail, use of vibrant colors and engagement with both literary themes and contemporary life [are] illustrated through a selection of paintings, drawings and watercolors presented alongside outstanding examples of decorative arts.”

OKCMOA is the first to present this traveling exhibition. The show opens Oct. 13 and runs until Jan. 6. For more information, visit okcmoa.com.

THE STRUTS Oct. 30 DIAMOND BALLROOM

COWBOY CROSSINGS

The Struts perform with special guest Badflower. diamondballroom.net

ART

Oct. 4-Jan. 6

NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM The museum hosts an event and sale for two exhibitions.

nationalcowboymuseum.org

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY WALK Oct. 5 THE PASEO ARTS DISTRICT

More than 80 artists and 25 businesses, all within walking distance, stay open late the first Friday of every month. thepaseo.org

TICKET TO RIDE: ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND WESTERN RAILWAYS Oct. 5-Dec. 30 FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART Before the

widespread availability of the automobile, artists experienced and explored the American West by train.

ou.edu/fjjma

DAREN KENDALL: THRESHOLD WITH ME Oct. 16-Dec. 30

FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART Threshold with Me

invites viewers to mark their

passages through seven sculptural thresholds based on the seven levels of Dante’s purgatory. ou.edu/fjjma

MEGALODON: LARGEST SHARK THAT EVER LIVED

Through Jan. 6

SAM NOBLE OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Though the

megalodon vanished 2 million years ago, its fascinating story inspires lessons for science and shark conservation.

samnoblemuseum.ou.edu

MASTERWORKS OF BRITISH PAINTING Through Feb. 24 OKCMOA The OKC Museum of Art’s collection of British paintings is composed mostly of work from the Georgian and Victorian eras. okcmoa.com

AMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS: 20TH CENTURY MASTERS Through May 12 NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM As Lakota artist Oscar Howe wrote in 1958, “There is much more to Indian art than pretty, stylized pictures.”

nationalcowboymuseum.org

SPORTS Oct. 3, 9, 21, 25, 28, 30

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY ARENA The state’s only

professional team finishes its preason and begins its regular season. nba.com/thunder

GRAND NATIONAL AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MORGAN HORSE SHOW

Oct. 6-13

We’re Gone is a rock musical that follows Todd, an angstridden teen, in plague-ridden, 14th-century London and his desire to make great art in a time of great need.

lyrictheatreokc.com

OKC PHIL PRESENTS: CLASSICS 2 – WILD INDIVIDUALISM Oct. 6 CIVIC CENTER MUSIC HALL This concerts features two pieces representing expressions of individualism.

okcphil.org

DANNY GOKEY: HOPE ENCOUNTER TOUR Oct. 11 CIVIC CENTER MUSIC HALL Danny Gokey gears up for his first-ever headline tour. okcciviccenter.com

THE SECOND CITY: A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITTING CITYREP Oct. 11

TOWER THEATRE Chicago’s legendary sketch comedy theater delights audiences in a special fundraising performance for Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre.

towertheatreokc.com

OKC PHIL PRESENTS: POPS 1 – MELINDA DOOLITTLE Oct. 12 CIVIC CENTER MUSIC HALL Melinda Doolittle,

the Oklahoma-raised star of American Idol, wins over the hefs of her audience with stunning powerhouse vocals and personal charm.

okcphil.org

ARMSTRONG AUDITORIUM PRESENTS: TIME FOR THREE Oct. 18 ARMSTRONG AUDITORIUM

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MATT KEARNEY Oct. 2 THE JONES ASSEMBLY

See Matt Kearney with Atlas Genius. thejonesassembly.com

READ SOUTHALL BAND

Oct. 6

TOWER THEATRE The Read Southall Band combines rock and roll, Southern rock and ‘crunchy country’ for a unique sound. towertheatreokc.com

CAM: ROAD TO HAPPINESS TOUR Oct. 17 TOWER THEATRE Cam

writes country music to tell truths, especially those that help women understand themselves. towertheatreokc.com

ROD STEWART Oct. 18 CHESAPEAKE ENERGY ARENA Rod Stewart

performs with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo.

CAFE TACVBA Oct. 7 DIAMOND BALLROOM Cafe

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Time for Three defies any traditional genre classification, happily and infectiously.

diamondballroom.net

JAMEY JOHNSON Oct. 19 RIVERWIND CASINO

WHY NOT? COMEDY SHOW

indie singer FJM with Broncho.

TOWER THEATRE Enjoy Gary Owen and OKC Thunder star Russell Westbrook at the Why Not? Comedy Show.

THOMAS RHETT Oct. 12 CHESAPEAKE ENERGY ARENA Thomas Rhett

armstrongauditorium.org Oct. 26

towertheatreokc.com

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: CRYSTAL Oct. 31-Nov. 4 COX CONVENTION CENTER

This show explores the artistic limits of ice for the first time in the company’s 34-year history. coxconventioncenter.com

CONCERTS

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Tacvba is joined by the Ruen Brothers.

FATHER JOHN MISTY Oct. 11 THE JONES ASSEMBLY See thejonesassembly.com

performs with special guests Brett Young and Midland.

chesapeakearea.com

CAMEO Oct. 13 RIVERWIND CASINO

Cameo has kept it funky for more than 40 years.

riverwind.com

Truth and tradition are nonnegotiable principles serving as the bedrock of the music of 11-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Jamey Johnson. riverwind.com

ST. LUCIA Oct. 25 THE JONES ASSEMBLY St.

Lucia performs with Arkells.

thejonesassembly.com

ANDY GRAMMER Oct. 28 THE JONES ASSEMBLY

Crooner Andy Grammer hits the stage. thejonesassembly.com

STATE FAIR PARK For

more than 35 years, this show has represented the pinnacle of achievement in the Morgan horse world. morgangrandnational.com

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL GAME Oct. 27 GAYLORD FAMILY OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL STADIUM See OU take on

Kansas State.

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COMMUNITY YOGA TUESDAYS Oct. 2-29 MYRIAD BOTANICAL GARDENS This is a great,

all-levels class led by Lisa Woodard from This Land Yoga.

myriadgardens.org

LEARN TO PICK A TUNE WITH LUCAS Oct. 20 AMERICAN BANJO MUSEUM Come learn how to pick a tune with Lucas.

americanbanjomuseum.com

PUMPKINVILLE Oct. 5-22 MYRIAD BOTANICAL GARDENS The popular

Oct. 20

myriadgardens.org

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OU AVIATION FESTIVAL

NATIONAL WEATHER FESTIVAL Oct. 20 NATIONAL WEATHER CENTER This annual event

Children’s Garden transforms into a New England-themed Pumpkin Town.

Oct. 13

MAX WESTHEIMER AIRPORT This event is

sure to be fun for everyone, especially plane enthusiasts. ou.edu/airport

OKC TOWN HALL PRESENTS: JIMMY WAYNE Oct. 18

OKC TOWN HALL Jimmy

Wayne is a former foster kid turned award-winning country recording artist. townhall.publishpath.com

WALK FOR FREEDOM 701 S. LINCOLN BLVD.

Every person made aware of human trafficking helps lead to a world where everyone is free.

highlights the many weatherrelated organizations and activities in central Oklahoma. nwf.ou.edu

FALLFEST AT LAKE OVERHOLSER Oct. 27 LAKE OVERHOLSER BOATHOUSE Kick off

the season with plenty of fun for the whole family. riversportokc.org

HENRY WALLIS, CHATTERTON (THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON), 1856-58. OIL ON MAHOGANY PANEL, 6 13/16 X 9 15/16 IN., BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST (1918P43). © BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST

OKC THUNDER GAMES

Oct. 28

offers youth and families a unique event. thepaseo.org

this annual Mexican-based holiday.

FALL FESTIVAL AT THE ORR FAMILY FARM

PLAZA DISTRICT Celebrate plazadistrict.org/festival

MAGIC LANTERN CELEBRATION ON PASEO Oct. 28

PASEO ARTS DISTRICT

Magic Lantern, described as “a night of light instead of fright,”

Through Nov. 10

ORR FAMILY FARM The

brisk fresh air, the brilliant orange of the pumpkins and the ever-sweet smell of kettle corn flowing through the farm make fall a special time. orrfamilyfarm.com

CHARITABLE EVENTS OPUS X Oct. 12 THE CRITERION OPUS X is

Allied Arts’ biennial fundraising gala. alliedartsokc.com

CIRCLES OF IMPACT Oct. 13 CHEVY BRICKTOWN EVENTS CENTER Circles

of Impact is a shopping and cocktail event celebrating Impact Oklahoma in central Oklahoma. impactok.org

STAND UP FOR KIDS Oct. 16 OKLAHOMA CITY GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB The Care

Center’s annual fall luncheon raises awareness and critical funds for child-abuse prevention education.

carecenter–okc.org

FREE TO LIVE BENEFIT AUCTION Oct. 19 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA The Free to Live

Animal Sanctuary is home to many of the state’s homeless cats and dogs. freetoliveok.org

Cocktails, dinner, entertainment and a silent auction await.

paintedskyopera.org

SMO 21 AT SCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA Oct. 19

SCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA Fun isn’t just for

kids. This event is an adultsonly night at the museum. sciencemuseumok.org

ARTONTAP Oct. 19 OKCMOA Sample more than 80 varieties of beer, enjoy delicious local fare and dance on the OKC Museum of Art’s roof terrace. okcmoa.com

OKC BEAUTIFUL FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL Oct. 21 DELMAR GARDENS

Celebrate the bounty of fall harvest with an afternoon full of favorite seasonal foods and activities. Delmar Gardens

ORCHIDS IN OCTOBER MYRIAD BOTANICAL GARDENS This special

SKIRVIN HILTON HOTEL

myriadgardens.org

luncheon honors Carl Shortt.

AROUND THE STATE PERFORMANCES SAPULPA COMMUNITY THEATRE PRESENTS: A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED Oct. 5-7, 12-14

SAPULPA COMMUNITY THEATER See Agatha

Christie’s novel come to life. sapulpatheatre.org

STEVE MARTIN AND MARTIN SHORT Oct. 6 WINSTAR WORLD CASINO AND RESORT, THACKERVILLE Two gods

of comedy come together. winstarworldcasino.com

THE COLEMAN THEATRE PRESENTS: MYSTERIOUS FOUR STATES Oct. 6 COLEMAN THEATRE, MIAMI This event explores the noir side of history and

legends in the area where Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas meet.

colemantheatre.org

POLLARD THEATRE PRESENTS: GHOST THE MUSICAL Oct. 12-27 POLLARD THEATRE, GUTHRIE This adaptation

from the hit film follows Sam and Molly, a young couple whose connection takes a shocking turn after Sam’s untimely death. thepollard.org

DUNCAN LITTLE THEATRE’S MIDNIGHT MASQUERADE Oct. 27 BUTTERFIELD BALLROOM Enjoy performances, masks, drinks and dancing, just in time for Halloween.

duncanlittletheatre.com

CONCERTS

CASINO AND RESORT, THACKERVILLE A legend

KINGS OF LEON Oct. 12 WINSTAR WORLD CASINO AND RESORT, THACKERVILLE Kings

of music takes the stage.

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THE ASSOCIATION Oct. 13 7 CLANS PARADISE CASINO, RED ROCK In

of Leon hit the Global Event Center stage.

BOB DYLAN Oct. 13 WINSTAR WORLD

Ready to Rock

edy show from Kevin Hart on Oct. 28.

OKC’s Chesapeake offers a handful of concerts to enjoy amid the frenzy of the Thunder’s NBA games. Thomas Rhett, a Georgia-born country crooner, visits Oct. 12.

Rod Stewart performs Oct. 18 with powerhouse guests Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo.

Marco Antonio Solis, a Latin pop idol, sings Oct. 20.

For tickets, visit bokcenter.com and chesapeakearena.com.

October’s on fire at the BOK Center and the Chesapeake Energy Arena, which bring some of the world’s hottest acts to Oklahoma.

Tulsa’s BOK hosts Fleetwood Mac on Oct. 3 for the band’s first show of a new tour. The lineup includes staples John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood, along with newcomers Mike Campbell and Neil Finn. Grammy-winning Bruno Mars visits Oct. 11-12 for back-to-back performances PHOTO COURTESY BOK CENTER on his XXIVK Magic Tour, followed by Puerto Rican star Ozuna on Oct. 19. The following evening, 4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince takes the stage. With accompaniment by the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, PHOTO COURTESY BOK CENTER this event is the first and only estate-approved Prince celebration showcasing the late artist’s most popular works, along with some obscure melodies. The PHOTO COURTESY BOK CENTER month rounds out with a com-

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PHOTO COURTESY CHESAPEAKE ENERGY ARENA

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Oct. 25

PAINTED SKY OPERA BLACK AND WHITE BALL

Oct. 19

CONCERTS

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DAY OF THE DEAD FESTIVAL

SPORTS

FEEL THE THUNDER

Another NBA season commences in October, with a handful of OKC Thunder home games to satiate your basketball appetite. Small forward Carmelo Anthony was traded, but All-Star guard Russell Westbrook remains and swingman Paul George signed a fouryear contract with the team, so the season should be anything but ordinary.

Preseason games kick off Oct. 3 at Chesapeake Energy Arena against the Detroit Pistons, followed by the only game in Tulsa, at the BOK Center, on Oct. 7 against the Atlanta Hawks. The Hawks boast Trae Young, the University of Oklahoma point guard who joined the team in June after only one collegiate season. Preseason games wrap up Oct. 9 at Chesapeake versus the Milwaukee Bucks.

The regular kicks off with a bang in Oakland against the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors on Oct. 16. The first home game, Oct. 21, sees the Thunder facing the Sacramento Kings. Other home games include Oct. 25 versus the Boston Celtics, Oct. 28 versus the Phoenix Suns and Oct. 30 versus the Los Angeles Clippers.

For tickets, visit nba.com/thunder.

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WINSTAR WORLD CASINO AND RESORT, THACKERVILLE This classic

RODNEY CARRINGTON

R&B group takes the stage.

CHOCTAW CASINO AND RESORT, DURANT Stand-up

ALICE IN CHAINS Oct. 21 CHOCTAW CASINO AND RESORT, DURANT Alice

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Oct. 19-20

comedian Rodney Carrington performs. choctawcasinos.com

THE TEMPTATIONS Oct. 21

ROMANCING THE ARTS

in Chains, a rock band from Seattle, Alice in Chains, performs. choctawcasinos.com

ART Oct. 3-5

SOUTHEAST EXPO CENTER, MCALESTER This fine art show and sale is the only event of its kind in Pittsburg County. travelok.com

NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ART SHOW Through Oct. 12 PRYOR MAYOR’S OFFICE

View authentic artwork created

by citizens of northeastern Oklahoma in junior and senior categories. pryorarts.com

SACRED LANDSCAPES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LORRAN MEARES Through Oct. 28 MABEE GERRER MUSEUM OF ART, SHAWNEE See Mabee Gerrer’s newest exhibition of photographs. mgmoa.org

SPORTS OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL GAMES Oct. 6, 27 BOONE PICKENS STADIUM, STILLWATER See the OSU

Cowboys take on Iowa State and Texas. okstate.com

OKLAHOMA CROSS COUNTRY RACING ASSOCIATION RACES Oct. 6-7, 20-21

NICHOLS PARK, HENRYETTA The Henryetta

Off-Road Trail and Track have a little bit of everything – from challenging hills to loamy dirt – for an exciting ride. occra.com

RAM PRAIRIE CIRCUIT FINALS RODEO Oct. 18-20 STEPHENS COUNTY EXPO CENTER, DUNCAN Watch

COTTONWOOD FLATS RECREATION AREA, GUTHRIE This festival has

featured great bluegrass music since 1996. oibf.com

FALL TRADERS ENCAMPMENT Oct. 5-6 WOOLAROC MUSEUM AND WILDLIFE PRESERVE, BARTLESVILLE Nestled

near the shore of Crystal Lake, this camp is the perfect setting for a historical retreat.

woolaroc.org

IDABEL FALL FESTIVAL Oct. 6

DOWNTOWN Visit this

fabulous fall festival. travelok.com

ELK CITY CHILI COOKOFF Oct. 6

FARM AND RANCH MUSEUM, ELK CITY Bring

At Home

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OKLAHOMA CZECH FESTIVAL Oct. 6 YUKON CZECH HALL The

first weekend in October marks this annual celebration of the town’s rich Czech heritage. czechfestivaloklahoma.com

PELICAN FESTIVAL Oct. 10-13

WOLF CREEK PARK, GROVE

This annual event celebrates the fall migration of American white pelicans. grandlakefun.com

WATONGA CHEESE FESTIVAL Oct. 12-13 DOWNTOWN Enjoy fun-filled

thewatongacheesefestival. wordpress.com

Oct. 12-14

NATIONAL INDIAN TACO CHAMPIONSHIP Oct. 6 MAIN STREET, PAWHUSKA

fall retreat’s focus is about letting go.

If you love fry bread and

SEQUOYAH STATE PARK AND LODGE, HULBERT The bigomyogaretreat.com

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BIG OM YOGA RETREAT

Indian tacos, then you’ll love this culinary festival.

the family and enjoy this annual festival. visitelkcity.com

The Tulsa American Film Festival offers personal touches and the right balance of feature-length and short works.

musical entertainment, wine-and-cheese tastings, an art show, a quilt show, a fiber arts show and children’s games.

COMMUNITY Oct. 4-6

An Ideal Local Mixture

It’s great to see Oklahoma exploding with film festivals. The most established is still Oklahoma City’s deadCenter Festival, begun in 2001, but many others have popped up in its wake. The Tulsa American Film Festival is an up-and-coming affair utilizing a format similar to deadCenter’s (lots of shorts and a local flavor) and promises exciting films from Oklahoma and around the country. In its third year, the festival runs Oct. 10-13.

Locally focused festivals appeal to people on several levels. One is the more personal feel; another is the right mix of feature and short films. Features tend to dominate the biggest festivals, so shorts get pushed aside. The OKC and Tulsa events are the perfect size (and sometimes offer the only opportunity) to see short films that won’t get released in theaters. The Tulsa festival also looks to pull in a diverse lineup by emphasizing local and student filmmakers as well as films focusing on Native American and Latino subjects.

exciting rodeo action.

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Three Identical Strangers was one of the more exhilarating documentaries at this year’s True/False Film Festival in March.

It had an extremely successful theatrical run (for a documentary) and comes out on DVD on Oct. 2. Even if you aren’t one who gravitates toward documentaries, you should check out this film, which has the momentum of a fictional thriller.

The movie focuses on three identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted by three

sets of parents. They reunite improbably and create a mild media buzz in early-1980s New York. But as they dig into their pasts, they discover that not everything is as it seems. The film seamlessly transitions from what appears to be a light, funny, human-interest story into something more troubling as it explores the boys’ adoptions. The movie will make you laugh and cringe and feel a righteous anger.

In Theaters

It’s hard to know what to make of the upcoming Venom. The title character exists in the gray area between full-on villain and anti-hero in a space that usually produces cringe-worthy attempts by filmmakers to be dark and gritty. Director Ruben Fleisher is responsible for the enjoyable Zombieland but also the unfortunate Gangster Squad.

Venom gets a recommendation on the strength of its cast, which is top to bottom excellent, from Tom Hardy (the brooding Venom) and Riz Ahmed (the villain) to Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams and Reid Scott.

Meanwhile, in the “so bad it’s good” category, keep an eye on Hunter Killer, the improbably named new submarine thriller with Gerard Butler, who will star in anything … if it’s bad enough. The presence of Casino Royale director Martin Campbell means the film should have solid action scenes and (hopefully) come complete with a ludicrous plot and awful one-liners.

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effrey Moore, executive director of the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture, or OKPOP, began his career with the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1994 as a collections curator. He created and supervised dozens of exhibits, worked on oral history projects and co-produced two Telly Award-winning documentaries. In 2010, Moore became OKPOP’S project director; in 2015, when the Oklahoma legislature authorized a bond issue to build the museum, he became executive director. We caught up with Moore and got his thoughts on …

… the museum’s origins and his job.

The development of the OKPOP goes back to a meeting with senior staff at the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2006. We were working on an exhibit covering the governors of Oklahoma. In discussing the life of former Gov. David Boren, we discussed that his aunt was Mae Boren Axton, an executive at RCA Records, and that she co-wrote Elvis’s first No. 1 hit, “Heartbreak Hotel.” I suggested we put together an exhibit on Oklahoma rock ’n’ roll and the executive director said, “Let’s do it!” During the last 12 years, along with my colleague Larry O’Dell, we began researching, collecting and creating exhibits on all aspects of popular culture. It was just a natural transition for me to move into this position.

We are working on the way we tell these stories. One concept that is shaping our approach is looking at Oklahoma as a place where collisions of cultures occurred.

Oklahoma is so diverse – with 39 American Indian tribes, African-American settlers and immigrants from all the other states and territories. These cultures mixed together, and it is reflected in the artistry, storytelling and music of the state. We want every visitor to leave OKPOP learning something new.

… the museum’s purpose.

Oklahoma is a crossroads of creativity; our vision is that OKPOP instills pride in what

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it means to be an Oklahoman and inspires new generations to be creative and make an impact on the world in their own way.

… OKPOP’s architectural concept.

The team started with the idea that there are many places in Oklahoma where Route 66 crosses Main Street. And the two ideas of Main Street and Route 66 represent the local and global aspects of creativity. Our lead architect, Chris Lilly, took that and came up with “grit” and “glitz.” Grit represents the Oklahoma work ethic and the glitz represents show business. Those became the concepts that drove the design effort.

… his duties before OKPOP’s 2020 opening.

Great projects happen because of great teamwork. So, during the development and construction phases, I am actively facilitating the creative process. When we make decisions, I ask the team to think about where OKPOP will be 10 years after opening.

We are already doing public programs and sponsoring events to help make the transition from design and construction into operations and programming as smooth as possible.

... the next two years.

We’ll have an official ground breaking in November, with excavation and construction following. We are looking at a two-year calendar to complete construction and exhibit installation. The opening week will definitely be a big celebration in Tulsa.

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… what the museum will showcase.

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