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Jan. 7 – Jan. 20, 2015 // vol. 2 no. 2 NEWS & COMMENTARY 8 // A new day Ray Pearcey, soothsayer

Five issues that should be on Tulsa’s radar c i t y s p e a k 10 // Fickle fighter Barry Friedman, truthsayer

Oklahoma attorney general favors states’ rights, except when he doesn’t c o m m e n t a r y

FOOD & DRINK

FRESH FUSION Korea meets Mexico on a plate, and the results are revelatory

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OVATION THE LIGHTS ARE FLASHING; HURRY TO YOUR SEATS

ARTS & CULTURE 32 // B ut seriously, folks ...

Ashley Heider Daly, comic relief

How I learned to do magic at the Comedy Parlor dalystyle

30 // L ife and art, Joshua Kline, stage setter Theatre Pops tackles its most ambitious production to date with ‘August: Osage County’ f e a t u r e d

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34 // Adopted genius Jeff Martin, chronicler

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T

he interminable dregs of winter have arrived. New Years Day until opening day of March Madness—that’s how I’ve always marked the time.

Your clock may vary. I like wearing sweaters and eating hot soup and delighting in the occasional snow flurries as much as the next person, but mostly I spend this stretch of the year longing for the first patio brunch, the first riverside stroll, the first Sunday concert at Guthrie Green.

Alas.

But take heart, dear Tulsan, because—whether by coincidence or by cunning design—the slate of performing arts offerings on tap in Green Country during these frigid, non-Green months is as good as it gets. (Indoor

entertainment for the win.) Most notably, the touring Broadway production of the multiple Tony Award-winning “Once,” based on the impossibly charming film of the same name, makes its Tulsa debut; and Theatre Pops presents the first all-local production of native Tulsan Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County.”

And those are just the tip of the frosty, bone-chilling iceberg.

We’ve got a comprehensive guide to the best things to see on stage in Tulsa this winter and into spring (pg. 17), which includes a closer look at the triumph and tragedy of Theatre Pops’ “August” undertaking (pg. 30); a chat with upcoming Tulsa Town Hall guest Fareed Zakaria, the noted journalist and

One more thing: Open this issue directly to the middle (pg. 24) and you’ll find a ballot for our first ever Best of Tulsa awards. Vote for stuff you like and you could win things, including tickets to see a certain music icon’s triumphant T-Town return.

With that, I wish you a happy and healthy new year. a

foreign policy expert (pg. 26); and one woman’s quest to demystify the magic of standing on a stage with a microphone and making people laugh (pg. 32).

Rounding things out, Ray Pearcey zooms in on issues Tulsans should keep a close eye on in the coming year, including the failure of city officials to implement and embrace the planning and land-use guidelines set forth

by PlaniTulsa (pg. 8); and Barry Friedman wearily shakes his head at Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt’s hypocritical litigious shenanigans (pg. 10)—if you’re scoring at home: he’s strictly for states’ rights, as long as those states share his affinity for assault weapons and his disdain for pot-smoking mountain folk.

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A new day Five issues that should be on Tulsa’s radar in 2015

by RAY PEARCEY 1 // RE-RATIFY “PLANITULSA”—OR TOSS IT Overwhelming evidence suggests that a superior sidewalk network supports healthier kids and adults, adds appreciable value to residential subdivisions (when properly designed) and increases options for people with limited access to cars. These notions are foundational to PlaniTulsa, which resulted from an intensive citizen engagement process and consequently has extraordinary moral standing. With careful execution, appropriate funding and inventive private engagement, PlaniTulsa would make Tulsa profoundly better, healthier and more connected.

In addition to the Gathering Place sidewalk debate, there was an earlier fracas over downtown parking and the execution of PlaniTulsa elements in the Pearl District. With the exception of three city councilors, PlaniTulsa support from city leadership has not been great, despite that the plan has been formally adopted by the City Council and the Metro Planning Commision.

Public policy should be clear— if foundational aspects of the new comprehensive plan are going to be routinely trashed, why not formally “un-adopt” it?

If our elected officials want to throw out the work of thousands 8 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

of Tulsans and disregard ideas from national innovators in planning and design, why don’t we just say so and be done with it?

2 // A CRITICAL RIVER REVIEW We need sensible, achievable, affordable objectives for making the Arkansas River a greater asset. We also need clarity on the cross-impacts of the damming/engineering schemes under consideration, particularly as they affect Tulsa’s ever-present floodplain management challenge. Veteran engineer and former Public Works director Charlie Hart is also a hydrologist.

Prior to his tenure at City Hall, Hart spent much of his career in engineering, consulting for flood management in U.S. cities.

Along with land-use planner Ron Flanagan and writer and public policy expert Ann Patton, Hart has played a major role in Tulsa’s decades-long flood management efforts. Patton wrote the book, “The Tulsa River,” an extremely thoughtful meditation on Tulsa’s intimate and longstanding connection to the Arkansas River, which I highly recommend. Recently, Hart has spoken publicly about the dangers of over-developing the river.

His conclusions are sobering and ought to play a hefty role in the ongoing deliberations about the

future of the river and the various capital projects being discussed.

3 // CREATURE-FRIENDLY PLACES Recall a scene in the first “Star Wars” movie: Luke and company’s droids (the cuddly robots) are told they’re not welcome in a drinking establishment. Our heroes are told explicitly by the barkeep that “we don’t serve their kind here.” These events take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away—but a reconsideration of this sentiment is in order.

Pets are an obsession in the U.S. and certainly in Green Country. Statistics suggest that people in the U.S. have at least 80 million dogs and up to 90 million house cats. Of course, it costs billions to keep these animals happy, healthy and well-fed.

But for reasons historical and inertial, when it comes to most shopping, dining and entertainment opportunities, these legions of companions must stay at home or in the car while their human compadres “go in.” In part, this rigid separation stems from from longstanding conceptions about the hygienic necessity of keeping animals—even fully vaccinated and well-kept animals—away from food and other items. The actual role of domestic cats and dogs in

food poisoning and related maladies should be re-examined. Many food, health and epidemiology experts have argued for years that inadequate worker training, careless agricultural practices and lax retail and grocery display and storage practices are the real vectors of food poisoning and contamination episodes in America.

In any event, our obsession with animal companions is bringing about a healthy reconsideration of their exclusion that might lead to some imaginative “co-habitation” rules to welcome animals into more human spaces. A host of high-end retail and commercial spaces encourage people to bring their animals. Home-improvement operations like Lowe’s and Home Depot are “open,” but there’s also activity up-river. Oklahoma City’s Bleu Garden—a vibrant hub for food truck operators, allows patrons of the outdoor entertainment emporium to bring their animals, which are mostly dogs, of course. Bleu Garden is in a downtown peripheral area with what I suspect are minimal zoning constraints, but the experiment is an interesting one that could easily be replicated in Tulsa.

Many health concerns can be relieved with affordable technology; in conjunction with compliance databases, we could equip

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vaccinated pets with smart tags that can be easily scanned by storefront devices. Experts in the U.S. service animal movement— which has helped to spark this reconsideration of animal exclusion—might be valuable guides for health officials, planners, designers and venture operators.

Conversations between the Tulsa Health Department and some adventurous entrepreneurs might result in an awesome new dimension of “mixed use development.”

4 // ASSISTED THINKING A new movement to link high-performance computing and artificial intelligence software very tightly to highly skilled or immensely creative human beings is afoot. In professional chess, worldranked players are making use of supercomputers to contend with solo players and other so-called “centaur” competitors.

A November 2014 story in Wired Magazine gives an exciting glimpse into this world. Kevin Kelly writes that once chess computers’ edge over human players became evident in the late ’90s,

IF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WANT TO THROW OUT THE WORK OF THOUSANDS OF TULSANS AND DISREGARD IDEAS FROM NATIONAL INNOVATORS IN PLANNING AND DESIGN, WHY DON’T WE JUST SAY SO AND BE DONE WITH IT? master player Garry Kasparov pioneered “man-plus-machine matches, in which AI augments human chess players rather than competes against them.” The concept is now called freestyle chess, and it’s “like mixed martial arts fights, where players use whatever combat techniques they want,” according to Kelly.

“A centaur player will listen to the moves whispered by the AI but will occasionally override them—much the way we use GPS navigation in our cars.

In the championship Freestyle Battle in 2014, open to all modes of players, pure chess AI engines

won 42 games, but centaurs won 53 games. Today the best chess player alive is a centaur: Intagrand, a team of humans and several different chess programs ...”

It would be surprising if energy industry players and folks in science, medicine, engineering, industrial design and even music and animation are not exploring this. I’ll be checking in with the pros who run Tulsa’s Community supercomputer at new City Hall early next year on prospects for “centaur”-like applications.

5 // RECODING THE COPS The routine indignities and violence against people of color by law enforcement embody dysfunction and injustice. A police overhaul is necessary to create the unity America needs in a hyper-competitive world. Following the high-profile deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, policing practices are almost certainly in for a revisiting this year. Tulsans are having some constructive discussions to rethink community engagement with police, neighborhood patrols, police training

in nonviolent conflict resolution and more. Reforms in these areas might dramatically improve police relations in Tulsa’s minority communities and across the board.

Tech solutions should be included in any city capital package connected to Green Country policing. Body-born video is a great tool for police transparency. The Tulsa Police Department would also benefit from gunshot detectors—distributed sensors that triangulate the origin of gunshots. This technology speeds up response times and provides a powerful data stream for city officials, police and interested citizens.

The New York City Police Department reportedly plans to invest in this technology under Mayor Bill De Blasio. Tulsa would do well to follow suit. a Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.

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by BARRY FRIEDMAN Devon Energy happens to be invol ved in helping fund a group called the Republican Attorneys General Association, which recentl y p aid for [Okl ahoma Attorney General Scott] Pruitt and his peers to spend a weekend meeting at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, where a small room with a king bed can run you $489 a night. 1

Recently, Pruitt joined Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning in fighting—wait for it—Colorado’s new drug law, which legalized marijuana.2

If you were there at the Fontainebleau last year and could have put your ear close enough to the doors of Glimmer Ballroom for the Devon Energy Meet & Greet, you would have heard the dulcet tones of a quid pro quo.

But we’ll get back to that.

First, while we still can, let’s get high.

For the love of Bob Marley, why is this Pruitt’s business?

Kids in Colorado getting stoned (legally) at some house party puts as much stress on the federal or Oklahoma drug-control system as TU football put on OU last year.

More maddening than the waste of resources is the wafting hypocrisy. Pruitt, who sues the

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The l awsuit from Nebraska and Okl ahoma, where marijuana is still outl awed, argues that Colorado has “created a dangerous gap” in the federal drug-control system.

federal government before breakfast most mornings, is now enlisting it to help him fight Colorado’s legal prerogative?

We’re Gobsmacked.

If New York went to federal court to stop enactment of, say, Oklahoma legislation requiring doctors performing abortions to have hospital admitting priveleges (and we can only pray it will), Pruitt would don a powdered wig, pick up a musket, wrap himself in a Gadsden flag and call in the National Guard to protect the borders.

This lawsuit against Colorado is a fight he can’t win, financed by Oklahoma taxpayers.

It’s a pattern.

Pruitt recently joined with other states’ attorneys general, as

well, in fighting Maryland’s3 gun ban, which restricted some types of assault weapons, because, in Pruitt’s mind, Oklahomans have a vested interest in whether Maryland allows its residents to carry an AR-15 into Annapolis shopping malls.

Pruitt is what is known in Yiddish as a Yakhne (busybody).

But it’s not just his Away record; he’s abysmal at Home, too.

Getting back to the $489 hotel suite …

But Mr. Pruitt left out one critical point. The threep age letter was written by l awyers for Devon Energy, one of Okl ahoma’s biggest oil and gas comp anies, and was delivered to him by Devon’s chief of lobbying.

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The above concerned new EPA regulations (Bureau of Land Management stuff) imposed on the energy industry and Devon Energy’s unhappiness with them. The company wrote a letter of protest.

And guess who signed and sent the letter on its behalf ?

“It should com e as no surprise that I am working diligentl y with Okl ahoma energy comp anies, the people of Okl ahoma and the majority of attorneys general to fight the unl awful overreach of the EPA and other federal agencies.” 4

(Author’s note: Notice the order—“Oklahoma energy companies” and then “the people of Oklahoma.”)

We continue.

But Pruitt told The Okl ahoman he signs his name to a lot of letters he didn’t draft.

Lovely. Pruitt’s due diligence consisted of, “Hey, who’s got a pen?”

More problematic.

Records also show that Devon contributed $125,000 to an association led by Pruitt on March 31, two days b efore Pruitt wrote another letter to the EPA protesting a proposed fracking regul ation.

But only a cynic would say there’s a connection.

Call me a cynic.

For the contribution to the Republican Attorneys General Association, Devon received special access to attorneys general during four annual conferences and other perks.

Devon is Geppetto to Pruitt’s Pinocchio. “ When you use a public office, pretty sham elessl y, to vouch for a private p ar ty with substantial financial interest without the disclosure of the true authorship, that is a dangerous practice.”

That’s David B. Frohnmayer, a Republican, who served as Oregon’s attorney general for the past ten years.5 “The puppeteer behind the stage is pulling strings, and you can’t see. I don’t like that. And when it is exposed, it makes you feel used.”

And exhausted.

Pruitt has sued the president over immigration6, fought for an insane Sharia Law7 and, most famously, used the Affordable Care Act as his own personal chew toy.

Described on his own website as “ingenious”8 in his fight against ACA, he simply will not rest until uninsured Oklahomans—all 637,000 of them—are back in the warm, loving and affordable embrace of private insurance carriers.9 “We as a state brought this to the Cour t’s attention from the very beginning, being the first in the nation to challenge the legality of the l aw.

Congress empowered the states with the decision of whether to establish an exchange but the IRS has tried to circumvent that intent by allowing billions in illegal subsidies to be p aid out.”

Forget for a constitutional moment that the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the law legal, Pruitt now counters that residents of states that didn’t agree to set-up staterun health exchanges, like Oklahoma, are not eligible to receive subsidies for buying insurance, even if there is a federally run exchange in the state.

If Okl ahoma’s l awsuit is successful, millions of people in 34 states could be denied the governm ent subsidies designed to help low- and middle-income people p ay their heal th-insurance premiums star ting next year. 10

Think about that. People in Oklahoma—poor people, those struggling in the middle class, people who can now for the first

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time afford to go to a doctor—will lose health benefits because the Oklahoma attorney general found an ‘ingenious” way to exploit a misplaced comma.

And if that weren’t enough— and it really is—those who have been receiving the subsidies might actually have to pay back the government.10 This is your attorney general at work.

As is this: During last April’s botched execution of Clayton Lockett, Pruitt did everything but run down to the CVS for strychnine, arsenic and a rubber mallet.

Director Rober t P atton confirmed in inter views with DPS that the lethal drugs were not chosen by (Warden) Trammell: “The previous general counsel (Oakley) and the Attorney General’s Office” chose the drugs, he told investigators.

When supplies of Okl ahoma’s usual execution drug ran shor t, the AG’s office and DOC’s general counsel cobbled together a new drug protocol, the filing shows. They used online research such as “Wiki leaks or whatever it is” and testimony from an exper t who testified in Florida whom they did not meet with, Oakley told investigators. 11

“Calling Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry, Dr. Curly!”

Scott Pruitt is for states rights, unless the state wants to ban assault weapons or allow its citizens to get high; he’s a champion of individual liberties, unless the individual wants an abortion or to marry someone12 of the same sex; he’s pro-life, unless the life at stake is a bad man who must be executed, proper protocols be damned; he’s pro-family, unless it’s a family of Latinos where the children are legal but the parents are not; he’s against the influence of religion in society, unless that religion is Christianity and espoused by a company that sells arts and crafts13; he’s for the safe exploration of energy, unless

energy companies are burdened by independent safety criteria; he’s for homeowners, unless it costs the banks any money14, and he’s for health care, unless he has to help pay for anyone else to have it.

This, too: Pruitt, who won a second term as Oklahoma’s Attorney General last November—he ran unopposed—is well-equipped to lead the state forward.

Just ask him.

“Perhaps there will be a day in the future when the need for my service and leadership shifts elsewhere.”

Can’t wait15. a 1 slate.com: Oklahoma’s Attorney General Had an Oil and Gas Company Write a Letter to the EPA For Him 2 nytimes.com: Nebraska and Oklahoma Sue Colorado Over Marijuana Law 3 baltimore.cbs.local.com: La. Attorney General Joins 20 Others In Opposing Maryland’s Gun Law 4 publicradiotulsa.org: Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt Says ‘Alliance’ With Energy Industry Wasn’t Secret 5 news-jornal.com: Are state attorney generals, big energy companies too cozy?

6 mccarvillereport.com: Pruitt Sues Obama Over Unilateral Immigration Actions 7 conservativedailynews.com: 10th Circuit Says Oklahoma’s Anti-Sharia Law Un-Constitutional 8 scottpruitt.com: On Obamacare, Oklahoma Leads.

9 insurancenewsnet.com: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt Files Petition for Certiorari with U.S. Supreme Court on ACA 10 talkingpointsmemo.com: 4.7 Million Could Lose Obamacare Subsidies After Huge Court Decision 11 tulsaworld.com: Botched execution described as ‘a bloody mess,’ court filing shows 12 Ktul.com: Attorney General Scott Pruitt Statement on Same-Sex Marriage Decision 13 oag.ok.gov: Attorney General Pruitt Files Brief in Support of Hobby Lobby’s Religious Liberty Fight 14 observer.com: Did Oklahoma A.G. Scott Pruitt, Mortgage Settlement Holdout, Sell Out His State for Wall Street?

15 okieblaze.com: AG Scott Pruitt Announces that He Will Not Run for U.S. Senate.

“Views from the Plains” appears each issue and covers Oklahoma politics and culture—the disastrous, the unseemly, the incomprehensible … you know, the day-to-day stuff. Barry Friedman is a touring stand-up comedian, author and general rabble-rouser.

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Gogi Gui Korean Grill’s banchan

Fresh fusion Korea meets Mexico on a plate, and the results are revelatory

by BRIAN SCHWARTZ | photos by VALERIE GRANT

“A

re you sure it’s the right place?” one of my dinner companions asked.

No, I wasn’t.

It was the kind of strip mall you could cruise by a thousand times without bothering to take a second glance. Though sparkling clean and brightly painted, the row of stores seemed forlorn and dejected. A carpet cleaner. A beauty salon. A bar. A gun shop.

No restaurants in sight.

“It’s got to be here,” I said.

“Let’s drive to the end of the row.”

And there it was, a hidden road, a second row of stores, a brightly polished plate glass window with a discreet sign: “Korean Grill.”

“We have an appointment to see the owner,” I said to an eager young server as we entered the sleek, modern space at Gogi

Gui. A moment later, out stepped Samon Xiong—burly, confident, his bulging arms covered in bright, intricate tattoos.

He overheard us talking about galbi—a traditional Korean dish made of barbecued beef short ribs marinated in soy sauce and sugar.

“Ah, but our version is different,” he said. “We use natural pears and bee honey instead of sugar. The pears help tenderize the beef.”

It’s the sort of subtle yet dramatic improvement that only a skilled chef, steeped in tradition, is equipped to make. And Samon’s brother Saya is just such a chef.

“He’s had 10 years’ training, cooking in Korean restaurants in Los Angeles—” places that were extremely strict and very

traditional, Samon said. Saya initially spent three or four years as an apprentice, during which time he cooked just one dish (bulgogi), over and over, until he got it perfect. He then graduated to rice, very important in Korean cuisine and difficult to get just right, Samon said. After mastering the proper method for rice, he was ready to tackle kimchi, a pungent fermented cabbage dish that’s the signature of Korean cuisine.

“It takes him days and days to make a batch,” Samon said. “Days of hard work. But I don’t know how he does it. He won’t tell me.”

As we enjoyed a dish of Korean tacos, Samon told us about his inspiration to bring this cuisine to Tulsa.

“We were born in Boston but grew up on the coast; Seattle,

Portland, then L.A.,” he said. “In L.A. there’s a big Mexican section near Koreatown, so KoreanMexican fusion just seems a natural.

I didn’t see any of that in Tulsa, so I thought, why not give it a shot?

“We got a guy named Christian Cortez to help out. His family owns Mexican restaurants in California. That’s real Mexican queso in the tacos.”

And it’s superb. The Mexican cheese and funky corn tortilla are the perfect marriage for the Korean beef bulgogi filling, which TulsaFood photographer Valerie Grant proclaimed the best dish of the evening—though she was equally thrilled with another house specialty: the bubble tea.

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But I’m getting ahead of myself. The first (and, many say, the best) part of any Korean meal is the banchan—an array of appetizers, a lot like mezze but much more intricate.

The kimchi was wonderful.

Saya is truly a master of kimchi preparation. The rest of the banchan—seared tofu with a sweet chili sauce, kongnamul (seasoned bean sprouts) and sesame cabbage

tossed with a ginger dressing— were also excellent.

As for the rest of the meal, the galbi ($14)—those pear-and honey-marinated short ribs—were a rich and juicy delight. The pork donkatsu ($14) is a reimagined Japanese dish of pork, battered in panko and deep-fried until golden brown, drizzled with a special Katsu sauce. Served with Kimchi fried rice and a sunny-side-up egg, it’s another winner.

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The lowdown: “I wanted it to be a good winter cocktail—fall and winter,” Fairchild said. “It was named after my girlfriend—I actually made it for her when we were broken up, and now we’re back together. So maybe the drink had something to do with it, I’m not sure. (laughs) But, I wanted to make something that balanced bitter and sweet because the chocolate bitters and the rum give it that sweeter flavor, and the Averna really balances it out with the bitterness.”

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January 7 – January 20, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

dininglistings DOWNTOWN Abear’s Baxter’s Interurban Grill The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Fat Guy’s Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch The Greens on Boulder Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli Lou’s Deli MADE Market in the DoubleTree by Hilton

Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Oneok Café Oklahoma Spud on the Mall Seven West Café Sheena’s Cookies & Deli Steakfinger House The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Bistro at Atlas Life Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Trula Williams Center Café

EAST TULSA Al Sultan Grill & Bakery Big Daddy’s All American Bar-B-Q Birrieria Felipe Bogey’s Brothers Houligan Casa San Marcos Casanova’s Restaurant Charlie’s Chicken Cherokee Deli Darby’s Restaurant El Centenario El Gallo Loco El 7 Marez El Refugio Azteca Super Taqueria Fiesta Del Mar Flame Broiler Frank’s Café Fu-Thai Garibaldi’s The Gnarley Dawg Hatfield’s

Jay’s Coneys Josie’s Tamales Kimmy’s Diner Korean Garden Lot a Burger Maria’s Mexican Grill Mariscos Costa Azul Mariscos El Centenario Mekong Vietnamese Pizza Depot Porky’s Kitchen Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili RoseRock Cafe Señor Fajita Seoul Restaurant Shiloh’s of Tulsa Shish-Kabob & Grill Stone Mill BBQ & Steakhouse Tacos San Pedro Taqueria la Cabana Timmy’s Diner

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Caz’s Chowhouse Chimera Draper’s Bar-B-Cue Gypsy Coffee House Hey Mambo The Hunt Club Laffa Lucky’s on the Green Mexicali Border Café Oklahoma Joe’s

Albert G’s Bar & Q Dilly Deli El Guapo’s Cantina Fassler Hall Joe Bots Coffee Joe Momma’s Pizza Juniper

Prhyme Downtown Steakhouse The Rusty Crane Sisserou’s Spaghetti Warehouse The Tavern Z’s Taco Shop Zin Wine, Beer & Dessert Bar

I-44/BA INTERCHANGE Big Anthony’s BBQ Bill & Ruth’s Subs Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Chop House BBQ D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s In & Out Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Monterey’s Little Mexico

Nelson’s Buffeteria Pho Da Cao Pickle’s Pub Rice Bowl Cafe Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Royal Dragon Sezchuan Express Shawkat’s Deli & Grill Speedy Gonzalez Grill Spudder Steak Stuffers USA Tacos Don Francisco Thai Siam Tokyo Garden The Tropical Restaurant & Bar Viet Huong Villa Ravenna Watts Barbecue

NORTH TULSA Admiral Grill Bill & Ruth’s Christy’s BBQ Evelyn’s Golden Saddle BBQ Steakhouse Hank’s Hamburgers Harden’s Hamburgers

Hero’s Subs & Burgers Ike’s Chili Los Primos The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market

WO ODLAND HILLS Lambrusco’z McNellie’s S&J Oyster Company Tallgrass Prairie Table White Flag Yokozuna

UTICA SQUARE Brownies Gourmet Burgers Fleming’s Goldie’s Patio Grill McGill’s Olive Garden P.F. Chang’s China Bistro

Pepper’s Grill Polo Grill Queenie’s Café and Bakery Starbucks Stone Horse Café Wild Fork

SOUTH TULSA BBD II Baja Jack’s Burrito Shack Bamboo Thai Bistro Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders Bodean’s Seafood Restaurant The Brook Camille’s Sidewalk Café Cardigan’s Charleston’s Cimarron Meat Company Dona Tina Cocina Mexicana El Samborsito Elements Steakhouse & Grille The Fig Café and Bakery First Watch Five Guys French Hen Gencies Chicken Shack Gyros by Ali Hebert’s Specialty Meats

Helen of Troy Hideaway Pizza India Palace La Flama Mahogany Prime Steakhouse McNellie’s South City Mr. Goodcents Subs & Pastas Napa Flats Wood Fired Kitchen Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Nordaggio’s Coffee OK Country Donut Shoppe Pita Place Redrock Canyon Grill Ripe Tomato Ron’s Hamburgers and Chili Sushi Hana Japanese Fusion Thai Village Tres Amigos Mexican Grill & Cantina White Lion Whole Foods Zio’s Italian Kitchen

BROOKSIDE Antoinette Baking Co. Biga Billy Sims BBQ Blue Moon Bakery and Café The Brook Brookside By Day Café Ole Café Samana Charleston’s Claud’s Hamburgers Cosmo Café & Bar Crow Creek Tavern Doc’s Wine and Food Egg Roll Express Elmer’s BBQ Fuji La Hacienda The Hen Bistro Hibiscus Caribbean Bar and Grill HopBunz In the Raw Keo

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TU/KENDALL WHITTIER Big Al’s Health Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s BBQ Brothers Houligan Capp’s BBQ Corner Café Duffy’s Diner El Rancho Grande Freddie’s Hamburgers Guang Zhou Dim Sum Jim’s Coney Island Las Americas Super Mercado & Restaurant Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant

Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Nelson’s Ranch House Oklahoma Style BBQ The Phoenix Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza

Atlas Grill Billy’s on the Square Boston Avenue Grill Deco Deli

Elote Café & Catering Mod’s Coffee & Crepes Tavolo The Vault

CHERRY STREET 15 Below Andolini’s Pizzeria Café Cubana Chimi’s Mexican Food Chipotle Mexican Grill Coffee House on Cherry Street Daylight Donuts Doe’s Eat Place Full Moon Café Genghis Grill Heirloom Baking Co. Hideaway Pizza Jason’s Deli Kilkenny’s Irish Pub & Eatery

La Madeleine Lucky’s Restaurant Mary’s Italian Trattoria Mi Cocina Oklahoma Kolache Co. Palace Café Panera Bread Phat Philly’s The Pint Qdoba Mexican Grill SMOKE. Te Kei’s Tucci’s Café Italia Zanmai

WEST TULSA The Hutch Pantry Main Street Tavern McHuston Booksellers and Irish Bistro Romeo’s Espresso Cafe The Rooftop

MIDTOWN Albert G’s Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse

Jay’s Original Hoagies Keo Kit’s Takee-Outee La Roma Lanna Thai Logan’s Road House Louie’s Mandarin Taste Marley’s Pizza Mekong River Mi Tierra Napoli’s Italian Restaurant Oliveto Italian Bistro Ri Le’s Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Ridge Grill Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili Savoy Shogun Steakhouse of Japan Siegi’s Sausage Factory & Deli Ti Amo Italian Ristorante Wrangler’s Bar-B-Q Yasaka Steakhouse of Japan Zio’s Italian Kitchen

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Asahi Sushi Bar Baker Street Pub & Grill Billy Sims BBQ Bistro at Seville Bluestone Steahouse and Seafood Restaurant Brothers Houligan Brothers Pizza Bucket’s Sports Bar & Grill Charlie’s Chicken Chuy’s Chopsticks El Tequila Fat Daddy’s Pub & Grille Fat Guy’s Burger Bar Fish Daddy’s Seafood Grill Fuji FuWa Asian Kitchen Firehouse Subs The Gaucho Brazilian Steakhouse Haruno Hungry Howie’s Pizza In the Raw on the Hill Jameson’s Pub Jamil’s Jason’s Deli

Felini’s Cookies & Deli Golden Gate Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Steve’s Sundries Trenchers Delicatessen

Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken Go West Restaurant & Saloon Jumpin J’s Knotty Pine BBQ Hideaway Pizza

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winter/spring 2015 performing arts guide

THE TULSA VOICE // January 7 – January 20, 2015

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the drunkard and the olio

Voice’s choices are highlighted in blue

shaping sound

varekai

ra strelli cello quartet

JANUARY Oklahoma Dance Film Festival Installation

1/2-3/22 Hardesty Arts Center Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa

Once

1/6-11 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Celebrity Attractions

August: Osage County

1/8-18 Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC Theatre Pops

The Giver

1/10-11 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Tulsa Youth Opera

The Drunkard and The Olio Every Saturday Spotlight Theater

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guys & dolls

Flamenco Guitar Recital

1/15 Meinig Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

Kevin Nealon

1/15 The Joint, Hard Rock Casino

Simply Classical

Anything Goes

Junie B. Jones

Shaping Sound

1/18 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Tulsa Children’s Museum

Second Wednesday of each month Enso Bar

Fareed Zakaria: America in a New World

Varekai: Tales of the Forest

1/16 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Town Hall

1/21-25 BOK Center Cirque du Soleil

Coming Home featuring Jessica & Daniel Fellows

Rastrelli Cello Quartet

1/17 Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra

1/24 VanTrease PACE

MATUTO

1/20 Cox Business Center Assembly Hall Literature LIVE!

Ok, So... Tulsa Story Slam

Signature Symphony Classics Concert

1/17 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Symphony

1/25 Broken Arrow PAC The Spotlight Series 1/29 Chapman Music Hall, PAC

David Gonzalez’s Sleeping Beauty

1/30 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC PAC Trust

Lee Blessing – The Hourglass Project – A New Play Reading

1/24 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Choregus Productions

1/30-31 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU Department of Theatre

Featured Poet: Phil Estes

Dancing with the Stars Live!

1/24 Living Arts

1/31 Brady Theater DCF Concerts

January 7 – January 20, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

FEBRUARY Guys & Dolls

2/2 Bartlesville Community Center Brodway in Bartlesville!

Jaimee Paul

2/3 Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville Community Concert Association

Dearly Departed

2/6-14 Muskogee Little Theatre

Arsenic and Old Lace

2/6-15 Sapulpa Community Theater

Signature Symphony Pops Concert 2/6-7 VanTrease PACE

Pecha Kucha 11 2/7 Living Arts

Danish String Quartet 2/8 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Chamber Music Tulsa

TU Orchestra Concert 2/9 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

Concerts with Commentary

2/12 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

Send Me No Flowers

2/13-22 Broken Arrow Community Playhouse

Love Song: An Evening with John Sawyer 2/13 Broken Arrow PAC UPCLOSE Concert Series

Romeo and Juliet

2/13-15 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Opera

Love and Lust 2/14 Living Arts

Signature Classics Concert 2/14 VanTrease PACE

Chicago: The Musical

2/13-21 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Theatre Tulsa

Nice Work If You Can Get It

2/17 Bartlesville Community Center Broadway in Bartlesville!

The Taming of the Shrew 2/20-3/1 Henthorne PAC Clark Youth Theatre

Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello 2/20 Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC Choregus Productions

The Sleeping Beauty

2/20-22 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Ballet

Peter and The Starcatcher

2/24 Broken Arrow PAC The Spotlight Series

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

2/24-25 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Choregus Productions

ORU Jazz Ensemble in Concert

2/24 Timko Barton Performance Hall, ORU ORU Music Department

Bela Rozsa Memorial Concert

4/2 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

Eunju Chang

2/27 Broken Arrow PAC UPCLOSE Concert Series

James Bradley: Doing the Impossible 2/27 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Town Hall

The Lost Pages of Wonderland

COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU Theater Pops Presents: August Osage County January 8-11 and 15-18, Tulsa PAC Theater Tulsa Presents: CHICAGO February 13-22, Tulsa PAC Tulsa Community College Presents: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein February 27-March 8, TCC SouthEast Van Trease PAC

UPCOMING AUDITIONS The Lost Pages of Wonderland, Encore! Tulsa January 11 & 12, Tulsa Little Theater Sleeping Beauty, Tulsa Spotlight Theater January 19, All Day Pop-Up Players Improv January 28, 7 pm Philcade Building Disney’s The Jungle Book, Henthorne PAC February 21, 3 pm

2/27-3/1 Tulsa Little Theater Encore!

Young Frankenstein

2/27-3/8 VanTrease PACE TCC Performing Arts Division

THE TULSA VOICE // January 7 – January 20, 2015

FEATURED // 19

once THROUGH JAN. 11 TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CHAPMAN MUSIC HALL $20-70 FOR TICKETS, VISIT TULSAPAC.COM.

The winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, “Once” charms with unvarnished sincerity. Called “a play with music,” the understated modern-day love story evolved from the film written and directed by John Carney. In 2004, Carney was touring in the Czech Republic with bandmate and fellow Irishman Glen Hansard when they met talented young pianist and guitarist Markéta Irglová. Hansard and Irglová formed The Swell Season, and two years later the couple wrote the score for (and starred in) Carney’s film “Once.” Hansard and Irglová are no longer together as a real-life couple, but almost a decade later, The Swell Season still performs in concerts around the globe.

The stage version of “Once” stars Dani de Waal and Stuart Ward. The entire cast sings and plays instruments, and they create a party atmosphere in the theater even before the performance begins. Evoking an Irish pub setting, the “Once” musicians play Irish folk tunes at an onstage bar, which is part of the set. Adult audience members are invited to come onto the stage pre-show and between acts to purchase drinks.

ONCE

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January 7 – January 20, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

January 5, 2015 2:34 PM

soledad barrio & noche flamenca

the 39 steps

March Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Winds

3/2 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

ORU Orchestra in Concert

3/2 Timko Barton Lobby, ORU ORU Music Department

Camelot

bartle sville symphony orche stra

Same Time, Next Year

Simply Tragic

Little Women

Superior Donuts

Dual Pianos Ragtime Concert: Kirby & Majchrzak

The Three Musketeers

3/6-15 Charles E. Norman Theatre, PAC Tulsa Project Theatre

3/6-14 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC American Theatre Company

Bach to Bluegrass

3/7 Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra

3/3-8 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Celebrity Attractions

Monster Jam

South Pacific

ORU Wind Ensemble in Concert

3/5-8 Howard Auditorium, ORU ORU Theatre

Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty Sexy Funny

3/5 The Joint, Hard Rock Casino

OK Avant-Garde 3/5 Living Arts

Sleeping Beauty

3/7-8 BOK Center

3/17 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Ragtime for Tulsa

Shen Yun

3/17 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Falun Dafa Association Oklahoma

The 39 Steps

3/26-28 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU Department of Theatre 3/27-29 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Ballet

Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance!

3/27-29 Cox Business Center Arena

Opera Workshop Performance

3/20-29 Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC Theatre Tulsa

3/27 Meinig Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

Psychic John Edward

Broadway!

3/10 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers/OSU-Tulsa

Harmonica Summit

Click, Clack, Moo

Concerts with Commentary

Takács Quartet

3/9 Howard Auditorium, ORU ORU Music Department

Neil Gaiman

3/5-15 Spotlight Theater Spotlight Children’s Theater

3/12 Meinig Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

Holcombe Waller: Surfacing

Cornet Chop Suey

3/6-7 Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC Living Arts: New Genre Arts Festival XXII

3/14 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Symphony

3/13 Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville Community Convert Association

Signature Pops Concert – Big Band 3/13-14 VanTrease PACE THE TULSA VOICE // January 7 – January 20, 2015

3/21 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC JEE Corp.

3/21 Jazz Depot Route 66 Harmonica Club 3/22 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Chamber Music Tulsa

ORU Music Technology Student Showcase 3/24 Timko Barton Performance Hall, ORU ORU Music Department

TCC Community Band & Orchestra Concert

3/29 Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville Choral Society 3/31 Cox Business Center Assembly Hall Literature LIVE!

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca

3/31-4/1 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Choregus Productions

ORU Guitar Ensemble in Concert 3/31 Timko Barton Performance Hall, ORU ORU Music Department

3/24 VanTrease PACE TCC Music Dept.

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April Godspell

4/3-11 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Tulsa Project Theatre

ORU Jazz Combos in Concert

4/6 Timko Barton Performance Hall, ORU ORU Music Department

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike 4/10-22 Broken Arrow Community Playhouse

Of Mice and Men

4/10-12 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Opera

Ring of Fire – The Songs of Johnny Cash 4/10-18 Muskogee Little Theatre

ORU Chamber Singers & University Chorale in Concert 4/10 Timko Barton Lobby, ORU ORU Music Department

Keely & Du

4/10-19 VanTrease PACE TCC Theatre Dept.

Modigliani Quartet

4/12 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Chamber Music Tulsa

ORU World Music Series 4/12 Timko Barton Performance Hall, ORU ORU Music Department

ORU Orchestra & Wind Ensemble in Concert 4/13 Timko Barton Lobby, ORU ORU Music Department

Guest Artist

4/15 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

The Phantom of the Opera

4/15-25 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Celebrity Attractions

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Concerts with Commentary

Young Composers Concert

The Midtown Men

TU Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds Concert

4/16 Meinig Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

4/19 Living Arts

4/16 Bartlesville Community Center Broadway in Bartlesville!

4/20 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center

Bard Fiction

Landscape (a MUSICAL Bullet to the Brain) – original musical workshop

4/16-19 Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC Theatre Pops

The Midtown Men 4/17 Broken Arrow PAC The Spotlight Series

4/22-24 Studio Theatre, VanTrease PACE TCC Student Theatre Association

Will Shortz: A Morning with the Puzzle Master

TU Jazz Bands

Disney’s The Jungle Book KIDS

ORU Dance Performance

4/17 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Town Hall

4/23-25 Howard Auditorium, ORU

4/17-26 Henthorne PAC Clark Youth Theatre

TCC Music Department Ensembles in Concert

Charlotte’s Web

4/17-19 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC The Playhouse Tulsa

ORU Music Department Faculty Recital 4/17 Timko Barton Performance Hall ORU Music Department

4/23 VanTrease PACE TCC Music Dept.

Theatre X

4/24-25 Chapman Theatre, Kendall Hall, TU TU Department of Theatre

Treasure Island

4/24-26 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Theatre Tulsa Family

A Doll’s House

4/17-26 Sapulpa Community Theater

TU Orchestra President’s Concert

Emerging Choreographers Showcase 4/17, 19 Studio K Tulsa Ballet

4/27 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

J. Donald Feagin Concert

TU Jazz Day

4/18 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

Poetry Slam

4/28 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center University of Tulsa

TCC Music Department Concert 4/28 VanTrease PACE TCC Music Dept.

4/18 Living Arts

Verdi Requiem

4/23 Gussman Concert Hall, Lorton Performance Center TU School of Music

4/18 VanTrease PACE Signature Symphony Classics

TCC Music Department Concert 4/30 VanTrease PACE TCC Music Dept.

January 7 – January 20, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

SIMPLY CLASSICAL JAN 17 2015 7:30 PM CHAPMAN MUSIC HALL, TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Beethoven, Symphony No. 8 in F major, op.93 Mozart, Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626 James Bagwell, guest conductor Tulsa Oratorio Chorus Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano Wesley Morgan, tenor Paul An, bass

rin g of fire – the song s of johnny ca sh

This concert is in recognition of the generosity of the Allergy Clinic of Tulsa

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Tulsa Symphony presents…

the phantom of the opera

FRIDAY, JAN. 23, 2015 @ 7 PM

Love Triangles Music of Clara Schumann & Johannes Brahms

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Modigliani Quartet THE TULSA VOICE // January 7 – January 20, 2015

Join us for music, wine and conversation in a classically casual atmosphere.

Doors open at 6:30 PM for wine and appetizers and the music begins at 7 PM. The FlyLoft is located at 117 N Boston Ave, across from Hey Mambo.

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May

Simply Cinematic

The Gruffalo’s Child

5/1 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC PAC Trust

Woody Guthrie Center 2nd Anniversary Celebration 5/1-3 Guthrie Green

5/1-10 Charles E. Norman Theatre, PAC Tulsa Project Theatre

The following is an excerpt from Barry Friedman’s interview with upcoming Tulsa Town Hall speaker Fareed Zakaria for Intermission magazine. A writer, editor and CNN host, Zakaria is widely known for his foreign policy expertise.

The title of your book — The Post-American World — is it pejorative? The first line of the book says, “This is not about the decline of America, but rather the rise of everyone else.”

It has gotten a great deal of attention, but I wonder if they’ve all read that line. The world has changed by the fact that countries that were for a long time so poor as to be dysfunctional or inactive on the world stage have now become politically stable, economically vibrant, culturally proud and, as a result, have become much larger actors. … So now these new powers are not going to passively attend to American foreign policy or even agree with it, and those disagreements will be felt. And that’s the new world we’re living in.

Was it inevitable or did we blow it? That’s a great question. A large piece was inevitable because it was structural change that, by the way, we had put in place. We wanted the rest of the world to grow. … After World War II, we got Europe back on its feet, we got Japan back on its feet. There was a piece, however, where we did blow it. I think the manner in which we exercised that hegemony clearly produced a certain amount of pushback. We could have handled our great and enormous power with greater wisdom and greater sophistication.

See the rest of Barry’s interview with Zakaria in Intermission magazine, available free at all Tulsa Performing Arts Center shows.

Tulsa Town Hall Speaker Series with Fareed Zakaria, Jan. 16 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center; $75 season subscription 26 // FEATURED

5/2 Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra

Wendy Whelan: Restless Creature

5/2 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Choregus Productions 5/5 Brady Theater DCF Concerts

Million Dollar Quartet

5/26-31 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Celebrity Attractions

June West Side Story

6/11-14 Spotlight Theater Spotlight Children’s Theater

5/5 VanTrease PACE TCC Music Dept.

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

9 to 5: The Musical

5/8-17 Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC Theatre Tulsa 5/8-17 Lorton Performance Center Tulsa Ballet 5/8-23 Nightingale Theater

5/21 BOK Center

One-Actstravaganza

TCC Community Band & Orchestra Spring Concert

God of Carnage

Glenn Miller Orchestra

6/5-14 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC Tulsa Project Theatre

Garrison Keillor

XX (Twenty)

5/15 Brady Theater DCF Concerts

Travis Pastrana’s Nitro Circus Live

The Ultimate Symphonic Rock Show

COURTESY OF JOURNALIST FAREED ZAKARIA

Kathleen Madigan

5/17 Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville Community Concert Association

Plaza Suite

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE,

5/9 Chapman Music Hall, PAC Tulsa Symphony

6/12-21 Broken Arrow Community Playhouse

Starlight Concert Band Summer Series

Every Tuesday during summer, starting 6/16 Guthrie Green

Blue Whale Comedy Festival

6/18-21 Multiple venues downtown

Night Watch

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2015 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS JANUARY 6-11

Once Celebrity Attractions

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Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello Choregus Productions

20-22 The Sleeping Beauty Tulsa Ballet Talking Bones Theatre North

8-18 August: Osage County Theatre Pops

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10-11 The Giver Tulsa Youth Opera

24-25 Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Choregus Productions

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Fareed Zakaria Tulsa Town Hall

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Simply Classical Tulsa Symphony

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Matuto Tulsa Children’s Museum

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Rastrelli Cello Quartet Choregus Productions

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Shaping Sound

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David Gonzalez’s Sleeping Beauty PAC Trust

FEBRUARY 8 13,15

Danish String Quartet Chamber Music Tulsa Romeo and Juliet Tulsa Opera

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James Bradley Tulsa Town Hall

MARCH 3-8

Camelot Celebrity Attractions

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Holcombe Waller: Surfacing Living Arts of Tulsa, New Genre Festival

6-15 Same Time, Next Year Tulsa Project Theatre 6-14 Superior Donuts American Theatre Company 10

13-22 Chicago: The Musical Theatre Tulsa

Neil Gaiman Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, OSU Tulsa

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Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 in A minor Tulsa Symphony

15-25 The Phantom of the Opera Celebrity Attractions

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Dual Pianos Ragtime Kirby and Majchrzak Ragtime for Tulsa

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Shen Yun Falun Dafa Assn.

Oklahoma

20-29 The 39 Steps Theatre Tulsa 21

Psychic John Edward JEE Corp.

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Takács Quartet Chamber Music Tulsa

27-29 The Three Musketeers Tulsa Ballet 31-Apr. 1 Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca Choregus Productions

APRIL 3-11 10,12 12

Godspell Tulsa Project Theatre Of Mice and Men Tulsa Opera Modigliani Quartet Chamber Music Tulsa

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Bard Fiction Theatre Pops Will Shortz Tulsa Town Hall Charlotte’s Web The Playhouse Tulsa

24-26 Treasure Island Theatre Tulsa Family

MAY 1

The Gruffalo’s Child PAC Trust

1-10 Plaza Suite Tulsa Project Theatre 2

Wendy Whelan: Restless Creature Choregus Productions

8-17 9 to 5: The Musical Theatre Tulsa 9

Simply Cinematic: Music of John Williams Tulsa Symphony

26-31 Million Dollar Quartet Celebrity Attractions

Photos: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Co., The Phantom of the Opera, 39 Steps, Once, Wendy Whelan: Restless Creature and Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello.

Tickets for individual shows go on sale at a time set by the presenter. Schedules and artists are subject to change.

Downtown at 3rd and Cincinnati, 110 E. Second Street | Ticket Office: 918.596.7111 | Tickets at TulsaPAC.com and MyTicketOffice.com

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venue directory Bartlesville Community Center 300 SE Adams Blvd, Bartlesville bartlesvillecommunitycenter.com woodyguthriecenter.org

BOK Center 200 S Denver, bokcenter.com Brady Theater 105 W Brady St, bradytheater.com

February 4 – May 24, 2015 VIP Private Opening February 3, 2015

Broken Arrow Community Playhouse 1800 S Main St, Broken Arrow, bacptheatre.com Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center 701 S Main St, Broken Arrow, brokenarrowpac.com Cox Business Center 100 Civic Center, coxcentertulsa.com Guthrie Green 111 E M.B. Brady St, guthriegreen.com Hardesty Arts Center 101 E Archer St, ahhatulsa.org

address 102 EAST BRADY STREET, TULSA, OK

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phone 918.574.2710

email INFO@WOODYGUTHRIECENTER.ORG

Howard Auditorium and Timko Barton Performance Hall Oral Roberts University, 7777 S Lewis Ave, oru.edu The Joint 777 W Cherokee St, Catoosa, hardrockcasinotulsa.com

Returns to the PAC!

Kendall Hall University of Tulsa, 601 College Ave, utulsa.edu Living Arts 307 E M.B. Brady St, livingarts.org

March 6, 2015 – March 15, 2015 • Norman Theatre (with Tulsa Symphony) April 3, 2015 – April 11, 2015 Williams Theatre

Lorton Performance Center University of Tulsa, 550 S Gary Pl, utulsa.edu Muskogee Little Theater 325 E Cincinnati Ave, Muskogee, muskogeelittletheatre.com Nightingale Theater 1416 E 4th St, nightingaletheater.com Tulsa Little Theatre 1511 S Delaware Ave, tulsalittletheatre.com

May 1, 2015 – May 10, 2015 Norman Theatre

Tulsa Performing Arts Center (PAC) 110 E 2nd St, tulsapac.com Sapulpa Community Theater 124 S Water St, Sapulpa

(with Tulsa Symphony) June 5, 2015 – June 14, 2015 Williams Theatre Learn More at tulsaprojecttheatre.com 28 // FEATURED

Spotlight Theater 1381 Riverside Dr, spotlighttheater.org Studio K 1212 E 45 Pl, tulsaballet.org th

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onstage

The cast of Theatre Pops’ product ion of ‘Aug ust: Osage Count y’

Life and art

Theatre Pops tackles its most ambitious production to date with “August: Osage County”

by JOSHUA KLINE with addit ional repor t ing by GEORGE ROMERO

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eghan Hurley didn’t know what she was getting into when she casually suggested during a brainstorming session that “August: Osage County” should be the next production for local drama company Theatre Pops. She hadn’t seen or read the play (nor seen the 2013 film adaptation), but she knew its reputation and was aware of its Oklahoma roots.

“I said, ‘We should do “August: Osage County,” nobody else (local) has done it yet!’” Hurley said. “Then I read it and was like, ‘Oh…’” The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Green Country native Tracy Letts is an emotionally sprawling three-hour ensemble featuring 13 characters interacting on a multi-level set. Based on the contentious relationship between Letts’ mother (late author Billie Letts) and grandmother, it tells the story of the Weston clan, a dysfunctional, fragmented Oklahoma family forced to reunite at the family home outside Pawhuska after the disappearance of its patriarch, Beverly Weston. The

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profane, acerbic script vacillates between comedy and tragedy, with meaty, challenging characters prone to colloquial digression.

“WE JUST WANT TULSA TO BE PROUD OF THIS PRODUCTION. THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF KUDOS THAT WOULD BE BETTER THAN THAT.” — MEGHAN HURLEY, DIRECTOR

Hurley, a Theatre Pops board member since 2013 and event planner by day, immediately saw both the challenges and rewards of mounting such an ambitious production. She convinced Pops President Randy Whalen that they could pull it off. Whalen responded by offering Hurley the role of director, which she accepted. That was nearly a year ago.

Casting began over the summer; rehearsals were in full gear by fall. “It went from, ‘Oh, this

sounds great,’ to ‘Oh my god, this is really happening,’” Hurley said.

“With a three hour show, there are so many things to consider. How do we transition back and forth so quickly from a moment of humor to screaming at one another and keep those levels true while staying on pace? How do we navigate this amazing set? It’s a three-story house in the Doenges Theatre, a black box made for smaller shows, and it truly works.”

Hurley tapped veteran Theatre Pops thesp Lisa Wilson to lead the cast as Violet Weston (previously portrayed by Estelle Parsons on Broadway and Meryl Streep in the film), the pill-popping, pot-stirring wife of Beverly and matriarch of the family. Rounding out the cast is a mixture of new and veteran Tulsa talent, including Angie Devore-Green, Liz Masters, Craig Walter, George Nelson, Sterling McHan, Angela Adams, Leslie Long, John Cruncleton III, Chris Williams, Shanna Postoak and Tony Shanks.

Whalen—the protective, reassuring leader of Theatre Pops for

25 years—passed away in November. He was loved and trusted by his company and his death cast a mournful pall over the initial stages of the production.

“His absence is very tangible,” Hurley said. “He was basically the patriarch of Theatre Pops. You feel it, that he isn’t here. It shifted a lot of things in the initial stages of rehearsals.”

As opening night at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center looms, Hurley is spending every spare moment monitoring the play’s moving parts—from performance rehearsals to set construction and sound design—confident that when the curtain goes up, the cast and crew will be ready.

“We just want Tulsa to be proud of this production,” she said. “There is no amount of kudos that would be better than that.

We were really excited to see how enthusiastic people were about this show—not just in Tulsa, but all over Oklahoma. The cast is constantly saying how they wish Randy could see this.

“I want Randy to be proud of this production, and I think he is.” a

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Ashley Heider Daly practices the art of stand-up comedy

But seriously, folks …

How I learned to do magic at the Comedy Parlor’s stand-up class

by ASHLEY HEIDER DALY

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don’t know what it says about me that I wanted to try standup comedy. But I think it says something about stand-up comedy that I wanted to explore this intimidating arena first by taking a class—peeking behind the curtain before stepping on stage.

Comedy writer Peter Bedgood runs the stand-up class at the Comedy Parlor. He wears a sketchy fuzzy coat, is borderline late a lot and seems tired. But he makes writing comedy feel noble, like the salve to all of life’s problems. The class is more of a workshop. Bedgood asks us if we wrote that week, then each person takes a turn on stage talking through any new material. He gives feedback while we’re on stage and, as the class progresses, we also give each other feedback. “That’s funny!” “Switch those lines.” “What if you said it this way?” Everyone gets behind the mic—everyone is vulnerable— it feels like the safest place to say anything, funny or not.

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Before I attended my fi rst class, stand-up seemed like magic to me—comedians create laughter where there wasn’t any.

I couldn’t wait to hear all the tips, tricks and gimmicks on how to be funny. The eight-week class was two hours each Sunday and—if we wanted to learn and grow faster—a few more hours after class at open mic. During that time, I’ve learned that the magic lies mostly in showing up.

Show up to your writing desk.

Show up to class. Show up to perform.

However, in the first 20 minutes of the first class, Bedgood shared a few get-started secrets: 1 // People are more willing to laugh with someone they know, so get the audience on your side immediately.

You start by saying your name and something about yourself.

The audience wants to like and relate to you. My set starts with

a story about my mom saying something pretty weird. Everyone has a mom, and most moms say weird things.

2 // An integral part of standup writing happens onstage at open mic.

There is no better way to find out if something makes people laugh than to get onstage and say it. It takes some of the edge off your first open mic when you remember that this is part of the creative process. All comics adjust and edit their jokes after seeing how they work in a real performance.

3 // If you have any weird hangups, dig into them. Anything painful or humiliating; that’s the meat of comedy.

I talked about depression. Other students worked with losing a medical license because of drug abuse, experiencing post traumatic stress disorder after returning

from Afghanistan, DUIs, death, the indignities of dating in your thirties, poverty and wedding planning.

This secret builds on the first secret of being relatable. If you are honest and brave, people respond to you. When people go to see stand-up, they go to see victory over tragedy or strife.

Relating a painful experience with levity is a win for humanity.

At the very least, you can step off stage proud you grappled with material that could bring catharsis or meaning to someone, even if it’s only you. a

Ashley Daly writes about home decorating for The Voice, owns a vintage furniture store and from time to time overshares at Comedy Parlor’s Sunday night open mic. Follow her on Instagram @ahdaly

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oklahomacool Moving beyond Woody & Will in search of the new Oklahoma canon

Roger Miller

Adopted genius Texas-born singer-songwriter worthy of Oklahoma pride

by JEFF MARTIN ou don’t have to be born in Oklahoma to be an Oklahoman. From artist Ed Ruscha to author Michael Wallis, examples abound. They claim us; we claim them. One of the most celebrated (yet perhaps still underrated) non-Okie Oklahomans is the late, great singer-songwriter Roger Miller (1936-1992).

My first encounter with Roger Miller’s particular brand of genius came in the early 1980s upon my first viewing of Disney’s 1973 animated version of “Robin Hood.” I couldn’t have been older than five. The film opens with the endlessly catchy earworm, “Whistle Stop.” You know the piece. Miller served as both narrator (a rooster) and primary songwriter. Looking back, it’s hard to imagine how this strange and beautiful collaboration came to pass (American country music + classic British folklore), but we’re all the better for it. The

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centerpiece ballad of the film is the decidedly melancholy, “Not in Nottingham,” a song worthy of any great midcentury tear-in-mybeer roadhouse.

Every town Has its ups and down Sometime ups Outnumber the downs But not in Nottingham

Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth on Jan. 2, 1936. After the death of his father not long after, Miller’s mother sent Roger and his three brothers to live with relatives outside the Southwestern Oklahoma town of Erick, Okla.

The town (pop. 1,051) is now home to the 3,000-square-foot Roger Miller Museum. Between that cold January day in 1936 and the 2004 opening of the museum, Roger Miller became a legendary singer and songwriter, winning 11 Grammy Awards and a Tony Award for penning the

hugely successful 1985 musical “Big River.” He’s in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and of course, the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Not Texas.

“IT’S ONE THING TO HAVE TALENT. IT’S ANOTHER TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE IT.” –ROGER MILLER

These are the facts, and they’re impressive by any standard. But it feels as if Roger Miller’s legacy is beginning to fade a bit. Many people know the semi-novelty hits, “Dang Me” and “King of the Road,” but Miller’s deep and deeply affecting catalog remains largely ignored.

Here’s my advice, for what it’s worth: Listen to “The 3rd Time

Around” (1965) and “Words and Music” (1966). Some humor, some heartache, all truth. Consider the song “Husbands and Wives”: The angry words, spoken in haste Such a waste of two lives It’s my belief, pride is the chief cause and the decline In the number of husbands and wives

Roger Miller means a lot to me.

His words, music, and voice have been part of my life for longer than I can remember. A year or so ago, while driving to work one morning, a familiar melody came bursting through the speakers via Pandora. The voice was not as familiar. I’ll be damned. Those banjo-wielding Brits Mumford & Sons recorded a cover of “Not in Nottingham.”

I prefer the original, but if that’s what it takes to get new ears for Roger Miller, so be it. a

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Runway Run – Jan. 10

Whistler and the British Etching Revival – Jan. 11

Tulsa Youth Opera – Jan. 10

Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals – Jan. 13

Runway Run

Whistler and the British Etching Revival

Sat., Jan. 10, 10:00 AM, $24 Tulsa Air and Space Museum, tulsaairandspacemuseum.org

Sun., Jan. 11 to Sun., April 5.

Philbrook Museum of Art, philbrook.org

Be among the first people ever to run on the runway at Tulsa International Airport in this 5K run/walk benefitting Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium. Spectacular planes will be parked along the runway for participants’ viewing pleasure, and registration includes admission to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum. The flat surface of the runway will be perfect for runners looking to beat their best times.

Etching had fallen out of fashion as an art form by the earl y nineteenth century. Engraving had become the more popular form of printmaking for its level of detail and precision. Brothers-in-law James McNeill Whistler and Francis Seymour Haden, inspired by the etchings of Rembrandt and of French colleagues, sparked a new enthusiasm for the medium. This exhibition features a selection of prints

by Whitler and Haden, along with works by several artists of the next generation. The show explores the innovative practices that account for etching’s resurgence in the mid19th century, and for its continued appeal in the following years.

The Giver Sat., Jan. 10 at 2:30 and 7:30 PM, and Sun., Jan 11 at 2:30 PM, $12 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC, tulsapac.com Tulsa Youth Opera presents composer Susan Kander’s adaptation of Lois Lowry’s novel, “The Giver,” in which a seemingl y utopian community is revealed in fact to be a dystopia barren of emotion, memory and even color.

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THE BEST OF THE REST EVENTS Second Saturday Walking Tour // Learn about downtown Tulsa’s beautiful buildings in this monthly tour presented by the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture.

Tours depart from Topeca Coffee at the Mayo Hotel. // 1/10, 10:00 am, Downtown Tulsa, $10, tulsaarchitecture.com Dr. Martin Luther King Soul Food CookOff // Some of the best local soul food cooks will compete in five different categories paying out over $10,000 in cash and prizes at this 10th annual event. Attendees will be able to vote for their favorites, so be sure to try all the delicious soul food offered. // 1/17, 12:00 pm-4:00 pm, Muskogee Civic Center Turkey Mountain Clean Up/Trail Repair Day // Help keep Tulsa’s urban wilderness beautiful! Volunteers are welcome and appreciated at this event, which is sponsored by the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition and Oklahoma Earthbike Fellowship. // 1/17, 9:30 am, Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, turkeymtn.com

Kevin Nealon – Jan. 15

Kevin Nealon Thurs., Jan. 15, 8:00 PM, $35-$45 The Joint at Hard Rock Casino, hardrockcasinotulsa.com “Saturday Night Live” cast member of the 80s and 90s (Subliminal Man, Hans and Franz, Weekend Update anchor) and “Weeds” star Kevin Nealon comes to town for a stand-up show at the Joint!

Fareed Zakaria: America in a New World Fri., Jan. 16, 10:30 AM, $75 season subscription Chapman Music Hall, PAC, tulsapac.com Host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” columnist for The Washington Post, bestselling author and frequent “Dail y Show” guest Fareed Zakaria will speak at the PAC as part of Tulsa Town Hall’s current season.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade Mon., Jan. 19, 11:00 AM Greenwood Historical District, mlktulsa.org Tulsa organizations and businesses come together to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The theme for this year’s parade is “Celebrate Change.” The parade will begin traveling east on John Hope Franklin Blvd at Detroit, then turn south onto Greenwood Avenue, then west on Archer Street, and end at Elgin.

PERFORMING ARTS All Is Fair In Love and Poetry // Share original poetry, stories, or music at this Poetry Slam at Centennial Lounge // 1/7, 8:00 pm, Centennial Lounge Ok, So…Tulsa Story Slam // Each month, brave Tulsans show up at Ok, So… to share true stories based on a monthly theme. A winner is chosen each month who will then compete in the annual Grand Slam in April. January’s theme is Transforming Hate, in conjunction with the exhibits, events, and workshops of the same name at Living Arts. // 1/14, 8:00 pm, Enso Bar Tulsa Symphony: Simply Classical // James Bagwell conducts the Tulsa Symphony in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F ma jor and Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor, featuring Tulsa Oratorio Chorus. // 1/17, 7:30 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $25-$70, tulsapac.com COMEDY Vince Morris, Jake Baker, Collin Bullock // Stand Up // 1/7, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, 1/8, 7:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $2, 1/9, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 1/9, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 1/10, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 1/10, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy.com Pop Up Players // Improv // 1/8, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Crayons // Improv // 1/9, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com The Interview // Stand Up/Sketch // 1/9, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Comfort Creatures // Improv // 1/9, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Improv Over/Under // Improv // 1/10, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Southern Stupidity of Gains Kelly // Stand Up // 1/10, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Kelly’s Treehouse // Improv // 1/10, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

An Evening with Graeme Simsion

Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 1/11, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

Mon., Jan. 19, 7:00 to 8:00 PM Circle Cinema, booksmarttulsa.com

The Comedic Distraction // Stand Up // 1/12, 8:30 pm, The Shrine,

The Australian author and former data modeller will discuss his new novel “The Rosie Effect,” the highl y anticipated sequel to his international best-selling comedy “The Rosie Project,” in which a sociall y awkward genetics professor designs a survey to find his perfect partner, and then hopelessl y falls for a woman who, despite meeting none of his criteria for “perfection,” might just be perfect for him.

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LaughLocal for Veterans // Stand Up // 1/13, 8:30 pm, Centennial Lounge, B.T., Jack Merrywell // Stand Up // 1/16, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 1/17, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 1/16, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 1/15, 7:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $2, 1/14, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, loonybincomedy.com B.T., Jack Merrywell // Stand Up // loonybincomedy.com Laughing Matter // Improv // 1/15, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

Crayons // Improv // 1/16, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Comfort Creatures // Improv // 1/16, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Unusual Suspects // Stand Up // 1/16, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Michelle Van Dusen // Stand Up // 1/17, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Travis Cagle, Tyson Lenard, Ryan Green, Cam Porter, Peter Bedgood // Stand Up // 1/17, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Cian Baker says, Laugh It Up, Tulsa // Stand Up // 1/18, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com The Green Room // 1/20, 8:00 pm, Fur Shop SPORTS ORU Men’s Basketball vs IUPUI // 1/7, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, $10-$40, oruathletics.com ORU Women’s Basketball vs South Dakota // 1/8, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, $8, oruathletics.com TU Women’s Tennis - Hurricane Invitational // 1/9-1/11, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Women’s Basketball vs Memphis // 1/10, 2:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Basketball vs Connecticut // 1/13, 8:30 pm, Reynolds Center, $15-$44, tulsahurricane.com ORU Men’s Basketball vs Omaha // 1/14, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, $10-$40, oruathletics.com TU Women’s Basketball vs East Carolina // 1/14, 7:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Tennis vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff // 1/15, 1:00 pm, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Tennis vs illinois State // 1/15, 7:00 pm, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com ORU Women’s Basketball vs IUPUI // 1/15, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, $8, oruathletics.com TU Men’s Tennis vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff // 1/16, 9:00 am, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Tennis vs Texas // 1/16, 6:00 pm, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com ORU Women’s Tennis vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff // 1/17, Case Tennis Center, oruathletics.com TU Women’s Tennis vs ORU // 1/17, 9:30 am, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane. com ORU Men’s Tennis vs Illinois State // 1/17, 12:30 pm, Case Tennis Center, oruathletics.com TU Women’s Tennis vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff // 1/17, 9:00 am, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com ORU Women’s Basketball vs Western Illinois // 1/17, 2:00 pm, Mabee Center, $8, oruathletics.com ORU Men’s Basketball vs IPFW // 1/17, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, $10-$40, oruathletics.com TU Women’s Basketball vs Houston // 1/17, 2:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Tennis vs Incarnate Word // 1/18, 10:00 am, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Women’s Tennis vs San Jose State // 1/18, 3:00 pm, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Tennis vs TBD // 1/18, 5:00 pm, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane. com ORU Men’s Tennis vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff // 1/18, 5:00 pm, The Grand Health & Racquet Club, oruathletics.com ARTS & CULTURE // 37

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1 // TRULY PAN-AMERICAN On a trip to Brazil, South Carolina native Clay Ross found a kinship between the folkloric music he heard there and the straightforward songs of his native Appalachia. He recorded an album to explore this relationship and titled it “Matuto” after a Brazilian slang word referring to a man from the backcountry. Ross gathered a handful of talented New York City musicians from the city’s jazz, roots, and world music scenes to bring his sound to life. Matuto (the band) plays North American folk songs like “Home Sweet Home” and “John the Revelator” over the South American rhythms Maracatu, Forró and Coco, and vice versa. Matuto makes the lines between these divergent genres and the geographical distance between their homes blur and fade away. 1/18, 2 and 4 PM, $10, John H. Williams Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center

WED // JAN 7 Cimarron Bar – Garrett Heck

Fur Shop – Paul Benjaman – 10:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Hunt Club – Billy and Bobby Moore

THURS // JAN 8

Elephant Run – The Boogie Grumpy’s Tavern – Open Mic w/ Cash Ross – 8:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Shawna Russell – 7:00 pm Soundpony – The Taylor Machine The Colony – Chris Lee Becker

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Groove Yard

The Hunt Club – Mark Gibson

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Runnin’ On Empty – 8:00 pm

Woody’s Corner Bar – Scott Hand & Band

Cain’s Ballroom – Parmalee, Backroad Anthem – 8:00 pm – ($20-$35) Centennial Lounge – Peter Banfield – 8:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Harry Williams and Friends 38 // MUSIC

Yeti – Ride, Who & The Fucks, Swap Meat

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2 // MOVING SIDEWAYS TO THE TOP In 1968, a psychedelic band from Houston called The Moving Sidewalks opened a few dates for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. As rock and roll legend would have it, Hendrix would later proclaim the Sidewalks’ guitarist, Billy Gibbons, to be the greatest in the world. The next year, after two members of the Sidewalks were drafted into the Army, Gibbons formed ZZ Top, and for more than 45 years he’s continued to dress sharp, grow his beard, and burn arenas and concert halls to the ground with incendiary licks. 1/16, 8 PM, $60-$70, The Joint 3 // LIKE...RAD Let’s go back, shall we? Back to the golden age that was the 1990s. My So Called Band is a tribute to that dopest of decades, playing all your favorite 90s hits across an incredible range of genres and styles. You’ll hear Oasis, Pavement, Dr. Dre, Alanis Morrisette, Third Eye Blind, Chumbawumba, Spin Doctors and everything in between, all played with uncanny faithfulness to the OGs. This band is indeed all that and a bag of chips. 1/17, 10 PM, $10, The Vanguard

FRI // JAN 9

BOK Center – Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood – 7:00 pm – ($70) C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Uncrowned Kings – 9:00 pm

Fur Shop – Heavy Jones Grumpy’s Tavern – Darrell Lee Mercury Lounge – The Vine Brothers – 8:00 pm

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Joe Worrel – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Clutch, Torche, Lionize – 8:00 pm – ($20-$35) Centennial Lounge – Don White – 9:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Dirty Crush, The Joint Effect – 7:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Dirty Crush

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Lost On Utica – 9:00 pm NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – Stars Peppers Grill - South – Jennifer Marriott Band Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Jump Suit Love – 9:00 pm

Dusty Dog Pub – Steve Pryor Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Laron Simpson Fifteen Below – 4Going Gravity – 9:00 pm

Four Aces Tavern – David Dover – 9:00 pm

Smitty’s 118 Tavern – Rusty James Porter – 8:00 pm The Colony – Stone Trip The Gypsy Coffee House – John Ratliff

January 7 – January 20, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

The Hunt Club – Brandon Clark

The Gypsy Coffee House – Terry Aziere – 9:00 pm

The Shrine – Swan Lake Gentlemen’s Society – ($5)

The Hunt Club – We the Ghost

Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin – 9:30 pm

The Vanguard – Hands Like Houses, Too Close to Touch, Fairbanks, Bring Your Finest, Goodfella – 8:00 pm – ($13-$15)

Yeti – The Dirty Mugs, Vagittarius, Johnny Badseed and the Rotten Apples

SAT // JAN 10

BOK Center – Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood – 7:00 pm – ($70)

Cimarron Bar – Terraplane Highway, The Boogie, The BlueZ’s, The Kevin Pharriss Band – 3:00 pm

BOK Center – Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood – 10:30 pm – ($70)

Cimarron Bar – Kevin Phariss

C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Uncrowned Kings – 9:00 pm

Fur Shop – Darku J, Heavy Jones – 6:00 pm The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Cimarron Bar – War Pony Dusty Dog Pub – Luxtones

The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton

TUES // JAN 13

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Hyde

Downtown Lounge – South City Troubadors – 8:00 pm

Four Aces Tavern – Under the Gun

Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm

Fur Shop – DJ Robbo & Friends

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – The Tiptons – 7:00 pm

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Lost On Utica – 9:00 pm

Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm

NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – Stars

WED // JAN 14

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 5:30 pm

Crow Creek Tavern – 4Going Gravity – 8:30 pm

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Those Party Bros – 9:00 pm

Fur Shop – Paul Benjaman – 10:00 pm

Soundpony – Feral Future, Bitchcraft, Who & The Fucks

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FRI. 9

Cimarron Bar – Timbo Kelly

Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm Soundpony – Wild Honey, Power Pyramid The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project

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The Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm

Peppers Grill - South – Scott Musick

Soundpony – Noun Verb Adjective - Happy Hour Show! – 5:00 pm

WEEKLY DRINK & LUNCH SPECIALS

MON // JAN 12

Fur Shop – Cypher 120 Experience - Open Mic and Jam

Elephant Run – Jump Suit Love

GOOD TIMES

SUN // JAN 11

BOK Center – Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood – 7:00 pm – ($70)

Centennial Lounge – Don White – 9:00 pm

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Yeti – HIP Dance Party

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Crossland

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Rivers Edge – 9:00 pm

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SEVEN OF A KIND, PLAYIN’ FOR A FULL HOUSE This must be a low place, because Garth Brooks evidently has a lot of friends here. When the Tulsa-born country music superstar announced that his comeback world tour would include a threeshow run at the BOK Center, the mad rush for tickets was so intense, so mouth-foamingly rabid, that he almost immediately announced three additional shows.

Still, we Tulsans were not sated. Six nights of Garth would not satisfy our Garth requirements. So Garth added another. And Green Country rejoiced.

WIN TICKETS GARTH BROOKS WITH TRISHA YEARWOOD JAN. 9-11 // JAN. 15-17 BOK CENTER, 200 S. DENVER AVE. BOKCENTER.COM

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But if you don’t want to support the scum-sucking scalpers, good news: We’re offering two chances to win a pair of tickets. Either vote in our Best of Tulsa poll by Jan. 13, or take our short reader survey

by Jan. 11, and you’re automatically entered to win.

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THURS // JAN 15

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Fuzed

C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 9:00 pm

Sandite Billiards & Grill – The Rogues Five

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Brandon Clark

BOK Center – Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood – 7:00 pm – ($70)

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer & Chicken Band – 9:00 pm

Soundpony – In Rooms, Oklahoma Cloud Factory, Indian Giver

Fur Shop – DJ Robbo

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – JP Kross – 8:00 pm

Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa Playboys – 7:00 pm – ($6-$7)

The Colony – Wink Burcham

Cimarron Bar – Harry Williams and Friends

Centennial Lounge – Bootleggers Union – 9:00 pm

Dusty Dog Pub – Chuck Dunlap and High Desert Riders

Cimarron Bar – Octane Blue

Elephant Run – The Boogie Grumpy’s Tavern – Open Mic w/ Cash Ross – 8:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Reverse Reaction – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Ripple Green The Colony – Steve Pryor

Dusty Dog Pub – Creeler Electric Circus – DJ NvS – 10:00 pm

The Gypsy Coffee House – Andrew Michael – 9:00 pm

The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – ZZ Top – 8:00 pm – ($60-$70)

NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – Imzadi

Elephant Run – Stars Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Clark

Yeti – Daddyo’s, Trash Pops, Merlin Mason

Pickles Pub – David Dover – 9:00 pm

Four Aces Tavern – Dane Trout and the 420 Project

SAT // JAN 17

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 5:30 pm

Fur Shop – DJ Falkirk

BOK Center – Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood – 7:00 pm – ($70)

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Diversity Band – 9:00 pm

Peppers Grill - South – Terry Cooper and Brea Anderson

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Replay

The Shrine – Steve Hixenbaugh – ($5-$10)

Mercury Lounge – Foleys Van – 10:00 pm

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer & Chicken Band – 9:00 pm

The Vanguard – Raw: Natural Born Artists Presents: Visionary – 7:00 pm – ($15)

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Mustard Hearts – 9:00 pm

Cain’s Ballroom – Riverfield Rocks – 7:00 pm – ($12)

NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – Imzadi

Centennial Lounge – Revecca Ungerman – 9:00 pm

Peppers Grill - South – Barton and Long

Cimarron Bar – Thomas Martinez

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Scott Ellison – 5:30 pm

Dusty Dog Pub – Scott Ellison

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Annie Up – 9:00 pm

Elephant Run – Stars

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Safira BOK Center – Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood – 7:00 pm – ($70) 40 // MUSIC

Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Mustard Hearts – 9:00 pm

The Shrine – First Class Friday w/ Koolie High, The wise Men, DJ MIB – ($10-$15)

Grumpy’s Tavern – Cody Woody

FRI // JAN 16

Martini’s Lounge – Bryce Dicus – 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Elsa Cross – 10:00 pm

The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks

The Hunt Club – Ego Culture

Woody’s Corner Bar – Jake Moffet

Grumpy’s Tavern – Matt Breitzke

Soundpony – Swap Meat, Merlin Mason, Cat Dead, Details Later The Colony – Jacob Tovar & The Saddle Tramps The Gypsy Coffee House – SuperDarren65 – 9:00 pm The Hunt Club – Fine as Paint The Vanguard – My So Called Band – 10:00 pm – ($10) Yeti – Johnny Polygon

January 7 – January 20, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

John Moreland

SUN // JAN 18

The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton

Cimarron Bar – Kevin Phariss

The Vanguard – Knocked Loose, Neoromantics, Shadow and the Mountain, Iron Born, Hollow Breathe – 6:30 pm – ($8-$10)

71st Street Depot – Meg Hutchinson

Fur Shop – Heavy Jones, Darku J – 6:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Mercer and Johnson – 10:00 pm

TUES // JAN 20

Baker St. Pub & Grill – Dan Crossland

Soundpony – Shirin

Centennial Lounge – Open Jamuary! – 8:00 pm

The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm

The Shrine – Yojimbo – ($5)

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Carl Acuff – 7:00 pm

Tulsa Performing Arts Center – Matuto – 2:00 pm – ($10)

Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm

Tulsa Performing Arts Center – Matuto – 4:00 pm – ($10)

okie folkies

A couple dozen of Oklahoma’s finest folk and Americana bands and artists will put on a five-day showcase in the “Oklahoma Room” at the 27th Annual Folk Alliance International Conference, Feb. 18-27 in Kansas City, Mo. To help get these musicians to the conference, three separate fundraiser shows are planned for the coming weeks.

For more information, visit Facebook.com/OklahomaRoom.

JAN. 11: Red Dirt Rangers, Jacob Tovar, Chuck Dunlap, Little Joe McLerran, Levi Parham, Rachel LaVonne, Beau Roberson, Chris Lee Becker, Cody Brewer, Wink Burcham.

Old Church Center, 780 N. Main Street, Perkins, Okla. $15 donation at the door JAN. 24: Desi & Cody, Robert Hoefling, Jesse Aycock, Kyle Reid, Levi Parham, Cody Brewer.

The Chouse, 717 W. Boyd Street, Norman // tickets $20

Soundpony – Two Houses The Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm

FEB. 8: John Moreland, Samantha Crain, John Calvin Abney, Jesse Aycock, Dylan Golden Aycock, Scott Aycock.

Woody Guthrie Center, 102 E. Matthew B. Brady Street, Tulsa // tickets $25

MON // JAN 19

Fur Shop – Cypher 120 Experience - Open Mic and Jam

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Soundpony – Jordan Kirk, Doll Parts - Happy Hour Show! – 6:00 pm

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Diana Bang, Seth Rogen and James Franco in ‘The Inter view’

Carry a big shtick

Real-world drama aside, ‘The Interview’ is exactly what you’d expect

by JOE O’SHANSKY

W

ith all that’s been said about “The Interview,” actual reaction to the Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy has been drowned out by the media cacophony surrounding the unprecedented Sony Pictures hack. In the feeding frenzy since October, we’ve seen the inner workings of the movie sausage factory laid bare. Troves of embarrassing emails revealed everything from petty politics and power struggles to borderline racist jokes about the president (not to mention the personal information of thousands of Sony employees). Whole movies leaked onto torrent sites—“Annie” being the most high-profile case—and geeks slavered over plans to get Spiderman and The Avengers back together and even a “21 Jump Street/Men in Black” crossover.

Because “The Interview” portrays an attempted offing of North Korean president Kim Jong-un, the hackers demanded

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it be pulled from release; suddenly, seeing the latest low-brow bromance became an act of patriotism and a moral obligation (even more so when threats led ball-cupping national theater chains to drop out of showing the film at all. But, thanks to hundreds of independent theaters, including our own Circle Cinema and RiverWalk Movies, the film opened on schedule at Christmas to packed crowds. Like Jack Burton said, “May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.”

Still, it turns out “The Interview” is just a perfectly passable, if hit-and-miss, lighthearted comedy from the guys who were in “Pineapple Express.” I can’t imagine why people would have expected anything else.

Franco plays sensationalist talk show host Dave Skylark, and Rogen is his best friend and producer, Aaron Rappaport. When Aaron begins to feel bad that they aren’t doing more substantive news stories, Dave suggests

interviewing the dick-waving North Korean despot because apparently he likes their show (episodes include Joseph Gordon-Levitt communing with puppies and Eminem coming out as gay). When they land the interview, a CIA agent (Lizzy Caplan) persuades the hapless dudes to attempt to assassinate dear leader.

And it’s intermittently pretty funny. I have a low bar for comedies. Make me laugh a few times and keep me in a good mood, and you’ve won. The gags come one after the other, a Zucker Brothers, kitchen-sink tactic of throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but the ratio was good enough for me. Like all things comedy, your mileage might vary.

Seth Rogen’s goofy stoner shtick remains intact, while Franco is mostly devolving into a parody of himself—his Gollum imitation is cringe-inducing, as are many of

his choices. The film reminded me most of those mid-‘80s Cold War comedies like “Spies Like Us” and “Deal of the Century,” and I would be surprised if Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg— who also direct—weren’t thinking of those a little bit.

But it’s already clear that “The Interview” would have just come and gone were it not for all the history taking place around it.

Its portrayal of Kim Jong-un as almost disconcertingly likeable seems more offensive than the idea of his assassination—espesically if you’re starving in North Korea. The film’s conceit plays KJU as the joke many see him as, rather than a despot whose sheltered tyranny is responsible for very real, ongoing human rights abuses. That feels misguided the more you think about it.

Besides, imagine if another country put this movie out there and replaced Kim with Obama.

We would all be outraged.

On second thought… a

January 7 – January 20, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

Joaquin Pho enix and Re ese Witherspoon in ‘Inherent Vice’

The new black

PT Anderson crafts another cinematic milestone with ‘Inherent Vice’

by JOE O’SHANSKY

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aul Thomas Anderson is a god of homage and reinvention. I’ve always found shades of Scorsese and Altman bubbling underneath his superb film craft—the way he cuts to the music in “Boogie Nights,” which itself has the vibe of “Goodfellas” set in the porn world, and his use of ensemble and narrative complexities evoking Altman’s “Short Cuts.” But Anderson alone weaves these influences into singular, signature masterworks.

With his latest, “Inherent Vice,” Anderson takes something of a left turn from his opaque and Kubrickian “The Master,” back to the familiar waters of Altman-tinged idiosyncrasy. He adapts Thomas Pynchon’s noir homage to The Long Goodbye into a hypnotic, funny and vibrant mélange—and a landmark of modern American cinema.

Synopsizing the plot defies the point, but here’s the nutshell: Joaquin Phoenix’s Doc, a perpetually stoned private investigator in 1970 Los Angeles, takes on a case brought to him by a beautiful ex-girlfriend, Shasta (Katherine Waterston). Her married lover

(Eric Roberts), a real estate magnate, has been sent to a sanitarium by his wife after he gets the delusional idea that people should be able to live rent-free. Doc— still carrying somewhat of a torch for Shasta—finds himself pulled along by her siren charms. At least that’s where it starts out, but true to noir form, complications wait in the shadows, red herrings litter the path and nothing is quite what it seems.

“Inherent Vice” comes off as almost mainstream compared to the narrative and thematic subtleties of “The Master.” Almost.

Anderson has little interest in tying up any (and by that I mean most) loose ends, and though nothing about the plot is particularly unclear, it is sketched with a light hand, flowing into myriad tributaries that likely never meet again. But, as the saying goes, it’s about the journey, not the destination—and it’s a gorgeous ride.

Anderson masterfully distills Pynchon’s prose (and is the first director to do so on screen) through whimsical narration, stunning visual panache, expertly calibrated performances and a

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score from Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood that anachronistically mirrors the dripping atmosphere. “Inherent Vice” strikes a seemingly effortless balance between the unfolding mystery, forlorn love story and pleasing notes of slapstick stoner comedy. Anderson infuses the film with nods to Altman’s “Goodbye” and hat-tips to “The Big Lebowski,” yet creates his own world, unique unto itself.

Phoenix is a natural as Doc. His shaggy, Jim Morrison-esque looks and hazy, laid-back demeanor are a hilarious counterpoint to Josh Brolin’s Detective “Bigfoot” Bjornsen, a stick-up-his-ass, walking civil rights violation who becomes Doc’s unlikely partner. Meanwhile, Waterston is ethereal and nearly haunting as Shasta—perhaps most of all because she seems captured in a place in time instead of imitating being in one. Martin Short steals just about every scene he’s in as a coked-out dentist that might or might not hold the key to Doc’s investigation.

Benicio del Toro delightfully plays Doc’s not-so-Gonzo lawyer, Sauncho Smilax, and Owen Wilson pops in from time to time, more or less

being himself as Coy Harlingen, an undercover cop who’s too deep into his job. Time will judge that casting decision accordingly.

“Inherent Vice” is convoluted (what great noir isn’t?) and sometimes confounding, but it’s also powerfully magnetic. Its gravitational force ensures our inevitable return—as if you can already see that it’s something we’ll still be watching in 50 years, marveling at how much better movies used to be. a “Inherent Vice” opens everywhere Jan. 9.

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ACROSS 1 Once around the sun 5 Like Hermes’ sandals 10 Original “Cosmos” host Carl 15 Win for Kasparov 19 “___ Want for Christmas” (1991) 20 First name in gymnastics history 21 Choose 22 Verbal 23 Chicken ___ 24 1-Across, to a Londoner 26 Many paintings 27 Bad day for Caesar 29 Tiresome 30 Bit 31 Hidden 34 Country lodges 35 “. . . ___ he drove out of sight . . .”

36 Publish anew 38 Thai pavilion 40 Weepy 44 Koran chapter 45 Dee-Donahue film 49 “___ Little Teapot” 50 William Tell’s canton 51 Fancy notions case 52 Headstrong 53 Sometimes it’s not taken 54 Come down 56 ___-Anne-deBellevue 57 Couch doctor 60 “Tootsie” star 61 Sea lettuce 62 Some poisonous snakes 64 Paquin in “Fly Away Home” 65 Forte 66 Permeate

68 Confidence 70 Jammed with the band 71 Corn tuft 73 Elvis ___ Presley 74 Cuts wood, in a way 76 Was in arrears 79 Was painfully sore 80 Fragrances 82 “___ Miserables” 83 Courteous 84 Christmas 85 FDR’s dog 86 Fabric for a Dior gown 88 Bert Bobbsey’s sib 89 Pit bull’s warning 90 BergmanUllmann film 94 Abruzzo bell town 95 Former 97 Dusseldorf duck 98 Hide 100 Nigerian city 101 Papa’s mate 103 Thundered 104 Numskulls 107 Clique 110 Long pass 111 Blue-pencil 112 Features of 1-Across 114 “Joy of Cooking” author Rombauer 118 Roll out of bed 119 Gilbert Grape’s brother 120 Hong Kong’s neighbor 121 Got 100 on 122 Approach 123 Goodbyes, across the pond 124 Go for ___ (take the boat out) 125 Alliance acronym DOWN 1 Tibetan draft animal

2 Old Testament judge 3 Heady brew 4 Nice locale 5 Rabbit ears 6 Ordinances 7 Suffix for “stock” 8 Slant 9 Roof overhang 10 Informative meeting 11 Crazy as ___ 12 Biological subdivision 13 Performs, in a way 14 Extreme degree 15 Anchored 16 “La Calunnia” is one 17 Nursery powder, once 18 Otherwise 25 Roman holiday official 28 Agnus ___ 30 False opposite 31 Andress of Hollywood 32 Nerve-related 33 Rodgers-Hart musical 35 Apiece 37 Nagana carrier 38 Dallas campus 39 “Jake’s Thing” author 40 Oct. 31 wear 41 O’Toole-Hepburn film (with “The”) 42 Mirror ___ 43 Consumers’ crusader 46 Lone Star State sch.

47 Lithographs 48 Turner of Hollywood 53 Allotment 55 Knight’s rescuee 56 Novelist Bellow 58 Spook

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by Chuck Shepherd

Cliche come to life

For her Advanced Placement World History class at Magnolia (Texas) West High School in December, Reagan Hardin constructed an elaborate diorama of a Middle Ages farm — which her dog ate on the night before it was due. Veterinarian Carl Southern performed the necessary scoping-out on Roscoe, extracting the plastic chicken head, horse body, sheep and pig, along with wire that held the display together. Warned Dr. Southern: “Don’t put anything past your dog.

We all say my dog would never eat that, and that’s the main thing he’ll eat.”

Entrepreneurial spirit Meg C Jewelry Gallery of Lexington, Kentucky, introduced a limited line of Kentucky-centric gold-plated necklaces and earrings in June (recently touted for Christmas!) — each dangling with genuine Kentucky Fried Chicken bones. All stems were picked clean from KFC wings, washed, dried, sealed with varnish and conductive paint, copper-electroformed, and then electroplated with 14k gold.

Small-bone necklaces go for $130 (large, $160), and earrings for $200 a pair — and according to Meg C, accessorize anything from jeans to a lady’s best little black dress.

“Ethical” fur designer Pamela Paquin debuted the first of her anticipated line of roadkill furs recently — raccoon neck muffs (“I can literally take two raccoons and put them butt to butt (so they) clasp neck to neck”) that will sell for around $1,000. Raccoons yield “luscious” fur, she said, but her favorite pelt is otter. The Massachusetts woman leaves her card with various New England road crews (“Hi, my name is Pamela.

Will you call me when you have roadkill?”) and does business under the name Petite Mort (“little death” in French, but also, she said, a euphemism for a woman’s post-orgasm sensations).

Not too long ago, “generous” job perquisites were, perhaps, health insurance and little more, but Silicon Valley startups now race to outdo each other in dreaming up luxuries to pamper workers.

A November Wall Street Journal report noted that the photo-sharing service Pinterest offers employee classes in the martial art “muay

thai” and in August brought in an “artisanal jam maker” to create after-work cocktails — a far cry from most workplaces, which offer, perhaps, a vending machine downstairs. (Several companies have hired hotel-concierge professionals to come manage their creative addons.) Not every perk is granted, though: Pinterest turned down an employee’s request to install a zip line directly to a neighborhood bar.

Chutzpah!

Jose Manuel Marino-Najera filed a lawsuit in Tucson, Arizona, in December against the U.S. Border Patrol because a K-9 dog had bitten his arm repeatedly during an arrest. Marino-Najera, illegally in the U.S., had been found sleeping under a tree near the Mexican border, holding 49 pounds of marijuana.

Ms. Emerald White, owner of four pit bulls declared “dangerous” by Texas City, Texas, after they mauled a neighbor’s beagle to death, filed a lawsuit in November against the grieving neighbor.

White said she had been injured trying to restrain her dogs in the skirmish, which had been facilitated by the neighbor’s failure to fix their common fence.

Not as sturdy as they used to be Some students at Harvard, Columbia and Georgetown law schools demanded in December that professors postpone final exams because those lawyers-in-training were too traumatized by the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City, which cost them sleep and made

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them despair of the legal system’s lack of integrity. (Critics cited

by Bloomberg Business Week suggested that lawyers who cannot function at a high level in the face of injustice might fare poorly in the profession.)

Fine points of the law Gregory Graf, 53, has apparently escaped eligibility for death row in Pennsylvania despite confessing to murdering his stepdaughter in an attempt to have sex with her (an “accompanying” felony, which ordinarily would qualify him for “capital murder”). However, since Graf had videotaped himself in the act (as evidence recovered in December shows), he proved that the sex occurred after she was dead and thus that he was guilty instead of an accompanying misdemeanor (desecration of a body).

Caitlyn Ricci, 21 and estranged from her divorced parents, availed herself this year of a quirky New Jersey law that requires divorced parents to provide for their children’s college educations (even though Caitlyn was a toddler at the time of the divorce, chose a more expensive out-of-state college, and already had a blemished community-college record). Mom Maura McGarvey (who claims to be especially hard-hit by the tuition bill) and Dad Michael Ricci are helping sponsor “corrective” legislation — because, generally, parents are not required to pay for college (but in New Jersey, divorced parents are).

of the “orgone energy accumulator” developed in the 1940s by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who thought it could stimulate orgasms for those who sat inside one. (The device is thought to have inspired the “Orgasmatron” in the Woody Allen movie “Sleeper.” Among 1950s-era “testers,” Albert Einstein is said to have panned it, but not author J.D. Salinger.) The museum’s curator tried to lower expectations — that visitors should expect a historic sex “education” and not a sexual experience.

A News of the Weird classic (March 2011) The Feral Professor: Tihomir Petrov, 43, a mathematics professor at California State University Northridge, was charged in January (2011) with misdemeanors for allegedly urinating twice on the office door of another faculty member with whom he had been feuding. (Petrov was identified by a hidden camera installed after the original puddle turned up.) Petrov is the author of several scholarly papers, with titles such as “Rationality of Moduli of Elliptic Fibrations With Fixed Monodromy.”

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

CAPRICORN

(DEC. 22-JAN. 19):

Even in normal times, you are a fount of regeneration. Your ever-growing hair and fingernails are visible signs of your nonstop renewal. A lot of other action happens without your conscious awareness. For example, your tastebuds replace themselves every two weeks. You produce 200 billion red blood cells and 10 billion white blood cells every day. Every month the epidermis of your skin is completely replaced, and every 12 months your lungs are composed of a fresh set of cells. In 2015, you will continue to revitalize yourself in all these ways, but will also undergo a comparable regeneration of your mind and soul. Here’s my prediction: This will be a year of renaissance, rejuvenation, and reinvention.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living,” says a character in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. If you have ever felt that way, Aquarius, I predict that you will get some relief in 2015. Your bones won’t be straining as much as they have in the past because you will be living at least one of the lives you have wanted to live but haven’t been able to before. How you will handle all the new lightness that will be available?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Erotomania” is a word for the erroneous fantasies people entertain when they imagine that a celebrity is in love with them. Laughable, right?

Just because I have dreams of Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey texting me seductive notes doesn’t mean that she genuinely yearns for my companionship.

And yet most of us, including you and me, harbor almost equally outlandish beliefs and misapprehensions about all kinds of things. They may not be as far-fetched as those that arise from erotomania, but they are still out of sync with reality. The good news, Pisces, is that in 2015 you will have the best chance ever to become aware of and shed your delusions — even the long-running, deeply-rooted kinds.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Most salamanders reproduce by laying eggs, but the alpine salamander doesn’t. Females of that species give birth to live young after long pregnancies that may last three years.

What does this have to do with you? Well, I expect you to experience a metaphorical pregnancy in the coming months. Even if you’re male, you will be gestating a project or creation or inspiration. And it’s important that you don’t let your the incubation period drag on and on and on, as the alpine salamanders do. I suggest you give birth no later than July.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Maybe you have had a dream like this: You’re wandering around a house you live in, and at the end of a long hallway you come to a door you’ve never seen before. How could you have missed it in the past? It must have been there the whole time. You turn the knob, open the door, and slip inside. Amazing! The room is full of interesting things that excite your imagination. What’s more, on the opposite wall there’s another door that leads to further rooms. In fact, you realize there’s an additional section of the house you have never known about or explored. Whether or not you have had a dream like that, Taurus, I’m betting that in 2015, you will experience a symbolically similar series of events in your waking life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Greek god Zeus had seven wives. Themis, Leto, Eurynome, and Hera were among them. Another was his older sister Demeter, and a sixth was his aunt Mnemosyne. Then there was the sea nymph Metis. Unfortunately, he ate Metis — literally devoured her — which effectively ended their marriage. In 2015, Gemini, I encourage you to avoid Zeus’s jumbled, complicated approach to love and intimacy. Favor quality over quantity.

Deepen your focus rather than expanding your options. Most importantly, make sure your romantic adventures never lead to you feeling fragmented or divided against yourself. This is the year you learn more than ever before about what it’s like for all the different parts of you to be united.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are three of my top wishes for you in 2105: You will have a clear, precise sense of what’s yours and what’s not yours . . . of what’s possible to accomplish and what’s impossible . . . of

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what will be a good influence on you and what won’t be. To help ensure that these wishes come true, refer regularly to the following advice from Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert: “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. That’s a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Robert Moss has published 27 books. When he talks about the art of launching and completing big projects, I listen attentively. There’s one piece of advice he offers that would be particularly helpful for you to keep in mind throughout the first half of 2015. “If we wait until we are fully prepared in order to do something, we may never get it done,” he says. “It’s important to do things before we think we are ready.” Can you handle that, Leo? Are you willing to give up your fantasies about being perfectly qualified and perfectly trained and perfectly primed before you dive in?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The fish known as the coelacanths were thought to have become extinct 66 million years ago. That was when they disappeared from the fossil record. But in 1938 a fisherman in South Africa caught a live coelacanth. Eventually, whole colonies were discovered in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa and near Indonesia. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening in your life during the coming months, Virgo. An influence you believed to have disappeared from your life will resurface. Should you welcome and embrace it? Here’s what I think: Only if you’re interested in its potential role in your future, not because of a nostalgic attachment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Nothing brings people closer than business,” said composer Arnold Schoenberg. You could be living proof of that hypothesis in 2015, Libra. Your drive to engage in profitable activities will be at a peak, and so will your knack for making good decisions about profitable activities. If you cash in on these potentials, your social life will flourish. Your web of connections will expand and deepen. You will generate high levels of camaraderie by collaborating with allies on productive projects.

MASTER

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Deathwatch beetles have a peculiar approach to the mating game. Their seduction technique consists of smacking their heads against a hard object over and over again. This generates a tapping sound that is apparently sexy to potential partners. I discourage you from similar behaviors as you seek the kind of love you want in 2015. The first rule of romantic engagement is this: Sacrificing or diminishing yourself may seem to work in the short run, but it can’t possibly lead to lasting good. If you want to stir up the best results, treat yourself with tenderness and respect.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a German composer whose organ music is still played today. He was a ma jor influence on a far more famous German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). When Bach was a young man, he decided it was crucial for him to experience Buxtehude’s music firsthand. He took a leave of absence from his job and walked over 250 miles to the town where Buxtehude lived. There he received the guidance and inspiration he sought. In 2015, Sagittarius, I’d love to see you summon Bach’s determination as you go in quest of the teaching you want and need.

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