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or a while there, I couldn’t open the newspaper or check my social media feeds without seeing someone blast the decision by Tulsa Public Schools to appoint Dr. Deborah Gist as superintendent. I have friends who teach at various public schools in town, and they seemed uniformly opposed to

the hire. The teachers in attendance when her appointment was announced walked out en masse.

As if by osmosis, my mind just sort of went along with it.

I assumed if the ire was that high, something must be amiss with her. She must be wrong for Tulsa.

And, look, I don’t claim to be an education guru. I certainly don’t have the perspective of a teacher, whose massively underappreciated (and underpaid) efforts are constantly under fire with mandates from the latest education policy du jour.

But, I must admit, in her talk with The Tulsa Voice’s Ray Pearcey

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and Molly Bullock (pg. 16), Gist turned my thinking around. Did she convince me she’s going to solve all the district’s problems, or that Tulsa teachers are wrong to be skeptical of her? She did not. But she convinced me she’s a thoughtful leader with a genuine passion for improving education, that she’s interested in an inclusive, collaborative approach to strategic planning, and that she deserves a chance to prove herself before judgments are made about her capability to lead this city’s school system.

Gist does have at least one Tulsa educator in her corner— or, at least, willing to postpone such judgments—in Dr. Ebony Johnson, principal at Central Junior High & High School. With a relative outsider coming in to lead the district, we sought out a veteran TPS leader to get a view from the inside (pg. 22).

Setting aside matters of education, we also have a handy guide to the worldwide phenomenon that is “Fifty Shades of Grey”—Joe O’Shansky reviews the film adaptation (pg. 40), and then Joshua Kline rounds up some smarter, sexier films you should watch instead (pg. 41). And speaking of film, we’re coming up on the industry’s favorite night to pat itself on the back. We rounded up a panel of movie buffs to handicap the Oscars—and you can get in on the action for a chance to win dinner and a movie on us (pg. 38).

Finally, voting is still open for our first-ever Best of Tulsa awards. See all the finalists in each of 100 categories (pg. 24) and don’t forget to vote by March 1 at TheTulsaVoice.com/bot.

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by BARRY FRIEDMAN was going to let this one go by without comment—I swear on my desk-sized mock-up of The American—for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference1 has a right to hold an annual convention anywhere it wants—and better the SRLC hold it here, in Oklahoma, dropping large sums of money, than doing so in Charlotte or Dallas. Leave them alone, I thought, and let this loose affi liation of millionaires and Tea Partiers and global warming deniers stay in our hotels, eat our barbecue, hang with the reps from the reddest state in the land and buy our tchotchkes.

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And then, like an alcoholic at an open bar, I couldn’t resist.

For the love of P.T. Barnum, how is Trump still considered a “high-profi le Republican” and not just a foul-mouthed, thrice-married, failed casino mogul who’s part bigot, part carny? I wrote about him for Esquire a few years back when he trotted out his megalomania2 and played the GOP like a substitute teacher. Suffice it to say, he should never be allowed near the White House, even for a visit.

Back in January of 2013, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said, “We’ve got to stop being the stupid party. It’s time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults. We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I’m here to say we’ve had enough of that.”3 Great sentiment—except nobody, including Jindal, listened.

(The Louisiana Governor himself recently boasted about European No-Go Zones—where Muslims forbid others from entering—without being able to cite where any might be, and once told the American Family Association, “Our God wins.”)4 Not for nothing, but the first rule of decrying the stupidity in your party: stop saying stupid shit.

Bizarre is as bizarre does, Forrest.

State Representative Sally Kern: “We are a separate, independent state,” Kern said.

“We are not controlled by the courts.” 5

Welcome to Oklahomastan. No gays allowed.

Senator Jim Inhofe: “[M]y point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance

of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.”6

Stay thy carbon dioxide emission, in the name of Jesus!

But Inhofe and Kern—along with our own Bridenstine, Mullin, Ritze, Bennett and Lankford— are GOP role players, providing an occasional facepalm and cringe-worthy quote. The crazy we see in Oklahoma is usually laughed out of sub-committee (or court, or “The Daily Show”).

But in May, the mothership lands at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City with its A-team— much of its 2016 presidential field—and they bring with them some serious crazy.

There’s Rick Santorum, who once again reminded us that the debate is not about abortion and/ or the life of the unborn, but sex itself.

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“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.” And also, “Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that’s okay, contraception is okay.

It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” 7

I’ll wait.

What will ultimately be on display at the Cox Convention Center in May is a robust party— confident, greedy, sanctimonious—yet, like its minor league affi liate here in Oklahoma, astonishingly clueless. a 1) srlc.gop: Welcome to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2) esquire.com: Would God be so good?

3) nydailynews.com: Louisiana Gov.

Bobby Jindal tells GOP: ‘Stop being the stupid party.’

4) thedailybeast.com: Bobby Jindal Wants to Fistfight Your God 5) tulsaworld.com: State Rep. Sally Kern says anti-gay bills are an effort to support traditional values 6) newrepublic.com: Why Do Evangelicals Like James Inhofe Believe That Only God Can Cause Climate Change?

7) salon.com: Rick Santorum is coming for your birth control 8) washingtonpost.com: Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’ 9) crooksandliars.com: Gov. Scott Walker Cutting Medicaid To Fund Tax Cut For Rich

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

How things are supposed to be?

Oy. There’s Dr. Ben Carson (and what is it with Republicans and crazy doctors?), who said this: “You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” Carson, who is African American, said Friday in remarks at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. “And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.”8

Right. During slavery, families were ripped apart, men were humiliated, women raped, children abused, and the Affordable Care Act expands healthcare to poor people—so, of course, that’s exactly the same thing.

If Jindal was right in his assessment—and he was (even if, as mentioned, he can’t help but drink from the stupid trough)—what do we make of this GOP, an almost uniformly anti-science, anti-choice, pro-gun crowd, beholden to big business and its own sepia-toned America? Where are the moderates on May’s list of speakers? At the moment, speakers also include failed California senatorial candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who has as much chance of being the GOP presidential nominee as I do, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is cutting spending on Medicare and increasing taxes on businesses but lowering them for the top 1 percent9. Find me one who will decry voter suppression, trumpet a sane position on guns and insist on the health of public education.

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left my teens, I was a regular diner at the fabled pizzerias on Wooster Street in New Haven, Connecticut.

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York. But we all know a perfect pizza when we see and taste it. I would’ve fallen off my chair in unhinged laughter if you had told me a month ago that I’d find one in Tulsa. But now I have.

Jeremy New, executive chef at the recently opened East Village Bohemian Pizzeria, didn’t grow up in an apartment above a Brooklyn pizza shop; he grew up in a local

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he’s tackling one of the world’s most challenging and polarizing culinary feats: the perfect pizza.

The right moves Dug into a brick wall, the wood-fired oven is as complex, moody and intractable as a mule.

Early each morning, New lights a fire in the middle to burn off the creosotes accumulated the previous night. Then he shifts the wood to the left and lets the oven heat. It eventually reaches 900 degrees, and it’s temperamental.

Watching him work is like watching a frenetic ballet dancer.

“At any given time, only one third of the pizza is facing that fire on the left,” New said. “… I have to rotate the pizza one third of the way, let it sit, rotate it again and so on. Then I lift it to the top of the oven to brown the cheese, and out it comes.”

New makes his dough fresh every night to give the yeast and sugars time to activate.

“That gives me a flakier crust and a crisper bottom,” he said.

The flour comes from Italy— the top choice for pizza aficionados—and just about everything else is either locally sourced or imported from Italy, New said.

Most places use complicated secret sauce blends, but New keeps it simple with San Marzano tomatoes grown near Naples that he crushes by hand. That’s the sauce.

The Margherita Bohemian starts with sauce, a sprinkling of imported extra virgin olive oil and a dash of Mediterranean sea salt and cracked pepper. New adds halved cherry tomatoes marinated in spices and garlic, then the cheese—a buffalo mozzarella imported from Naples. He drizzles olive oil over a few fresh basil

leaves, and the pizza is ready for its dance in the oven.

It’s glorious—you’ll only find better in Naples. But New is even prouder of his other pizzas, which are all his own creations.

“We’re not slaves to tradition,” he said. “We want to have chef-driven pizza. We’re putting a Bohemian twist on things, and that’s why you’ll get toppings like

asparagus or baked potato or over-easy eggs. Have you ever had a potato pizza?” Not until today.

The pie is made with roasted red potatoes, caramelized onion, sea salt and goat cheese. No sauce, no tomato. And yes, I loved it.

Another highlight is the Tre P. Pancetta, prosciutto and pepperoni top tomato sauce and buffalo mozzarella. It’s rich, salty and

delicious. If you like a traditional pizza with quality meat toppings, this one’s for you.

Try all the Bohemian creations, but whatever you do, don’t deprive yourself of the Margherita Bohemian. It’s a pizza you’ll remember for the rest of your life, and it qualifies East Village Bohemian Pizzeria as world-class, right here in Tulsa. a

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February 18 – March 3, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

Incoming Tulsa Public Schools superintendent DR. DEBORAH GIST is a policy innovator with a proven track record.

But some Tulsa educators fear her approach is too heavy-handed. { b y r ay p e a r c e y a n d m o l ly b u l l o c k | p h o t o s b y m e l i s s a l u k e n b a u g h }

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I want for Tulsans to know I’m pouring my heart and soul into this opportunity.

I believe in this city, and I believe in public schools.

This is my home, not an opportunity I’ve decided to take on for a minute.”

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hether you’re a parent, an educator or just an observer, the appointment of Dr. Deborah Gist as the incoming superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools affects you.

The superintendent has a huge impact on the school system. Public schools shape our kids’ lives and help us attract world-class workers and companies. According to urban economics and city dynamics research, our school system matters more than the condition of our streets, our tax rate or our company relocation efforts.

Gist, a Tulsa native, accepted the position by phone during a Feb. 2 school board meeting, prompting a mass walkout by the teachers in attendance. Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association President Patti Ferguson-Palmer told the Tulsa World the teachers walked out because they felt the board had ignored their concerns in appointing Gist.

Educators in our state face staff shortages, wages far below national averages and the specter of continued cutbacks. In such a climate, it’s no wonder teachers are leery of Gist, whose past reform efforts have included more rigorous teacher evaluation and heightened student achievement standards—policies some view as anti-teacher. But is the fear surrounding her appointment warranted? One thing is certain—Gist hasn’t shied away from addressing the concerns.

Battle tested Gist is the first Tulsa Public Schools leader to come from the hot national landscape of school reform wars. Currently Rhode Island’s education commissioner, she has also served as state superintendent of education in Washington, D.C. In 2010, Time named Gist among the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and The Atlantic recognized her as a Brave Thinker.

She’s also a leader in teacher development circles for her support of the still-evolving “teacher autonomy” movement, which affords educators more independence in what they teach and how they teach it. And nearly a decade before she held any administrative or leadership post, Gist spent eight years in the classroom.

As Rhode Island’s education commissioner, Gist promptly (and controversially) raised incoming teachers’ minimum test score requirements, which had been among the most lenient in the nation.

Rather than caving in to accusations of elitism and threats of teacher shortages, Gist voiced confidence in future teachers’ ability to rise to the challenge. She also agreed to ease into the new standards and waive the requirement for low-scoring candidates who were otherwise excellent. She received no waiver requests over the first three years of implementation, and the pool of teaching candidates diversified.1

Gist advocates for technology that enriches teaching and learning. In Rhode Island, she led a statewide Wi-Fi initiative that provided every school employee and most kids in the state with essential unlimited wireless access to school servers and desktop systems.

She also helped secure two highly competitive grants from the Obama administration’s embattled $5 billion “Race to the Top” contest, which seeks to elevate school standards, teacher accountability, technology and school innovation with multi-million-dollar prizes. Rhode Island received a $75 million general-purpose grant and $50 million for an early learning challenge initiative Gist and her colleagues developed.

Collaborate and listen Gist plans to start July 1 and work with the board on a smooth transition that includes her predecessor, Dr. Keith Ballard. She said her first move as superintendent will be initiating an inclusive process to build a new Strategic Plan for the district. The current plan expires this year.

“What I’m not planning on doing is coming in and, the minute that the wheels hit the ground, to start telling everyone what’s going to happen,” Gist said. “I want all of us together, as a city, to say, ‘This is what we’re going to do together.’ Because we’re going to be more effective when this plan

CAUSE FOR CONCERN? Wh y s o me e d u c at o rs a re The knock: SHE’S A CORPORATE PUPPET. Those who see Gist as a “Bill Gates robot”

suspect she’s compliant with the corporate reform model of school change. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a major hand in a movement toward more accountability in public schools, more rigorous teacher evaluation and re-designing public schools to accommodate U.S. geopolitical challenges and the work world ahead. Gates critics sometimes overlook the fascinating pilot work the foundation has sponsored, including tiny experimental high schools of 100 kids or fewer. The foundation also backed the teacher evaluation program implemented in Oklahoma over the past few years. It’s research-based and resulted from an inclusive teacher-engagement process.

The knock: SHE’S A LEFTY REFORMER. Another set sees Gist as an under-the-radar,

left-wing schools crusader beholden to U.N. protocols for a “world education agenda” of some kind. They believe her association with Obama’s education administration and the Common Core curriculum (formally rejected by Oklahoma) is evidence enough to make this case.

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The Central Falls School District superintendent (not Gist) involved the teachers union and other stakeholders in creating a plan to turn the school around and retain existing staff. The options were either to jointly agree on the plan with the union or use the turnaround model prescribed by No Child Left Behind.

“As required by federal law [with the turnaround model], you have to replace the leadership, and you can only hire back up to 50 percent of the teachers,” Gist said, noting that this requirement was later waived by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. To complicate matters, Rhode Island law requires an additional year of pay for employees pending potential termination who are not notified by March 1 of preceding the school year.

“Because of that law, they had to notify everyone that they might not come back, so they could decide who was going to come back.” Gist said. “A lot of times people say everyone was fired, and it was like we blamed them or something like that. It was actually that they were all notified, and then they were reapplying.”

After the staff was notified, the teachers union agreed to the original plan.

“The superintendent was thrilled,” Gist said. “I brought in a mediator, they sat down, they worked it out. Everyone got their job back. Today their graduation rate is 70 percent. … Things have really changed at the school,

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is widely supported, people are aware of it and know about it— and have had their voice as a part of the work.”

Gist said her visit to Tulsa schools was eye-opening about the challenges that await her when she moves home later this year.

“I was aware that there were issues related to teacher salaries and teacher morale, and the challenges around retention and recruitment,” Gist said. “But I think the volume of those challenges is something that has really been brought to my attention very clearly this week, in terms of the number of vacancies that still remain in the district, the number of teachers that need to be hired every year, some of the turnover, some of the challenges at schools with not having a qualified teacher.

I was just at McLain, and they’re missing some math teachers. And that’s a huge problem in February.

I’m leaving to go back to Rhode Island with a very clear awareness of the fact that that’s going to have to be pretty high on the priority list.”

Gist’s involvement in the 2009 turnaround of Rhode Island’s chronically struggling Central Falls High School is a source of anxiety for some Tulsa educators.

The short of it is that Gists’s role probably isn’t quite what many have heard or feared, and also that turning around a struggling school demands some drastic measures that aren’t always easy to swallow.

Here’s the long version, as Gist tells it:

e oppo s ed t o Gist ’s appo int ment.

The knock:

HER APPROACH IS MISGUIDED. Though they’re willing to give Gist a chance in Tulsa, some in this faction—mostly comprised of dedicated local teachers and public school advocates—are concerned she’s stuck in the millennial notions of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind legislation. To complicate matters, Oklahoma has forfeited some features of No Child Left Behind under penalty from the feds after pulling out of the Common Core State Standards, and the legislation might change radically under the new Republican Senate.

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and it’s because that team came together.

“So people don’t always hear the whole story, and they don’t understand that the decision was actually made by the teachers union president. It’s not what the superintendent wanted, not what the school board wanted, not what that community had planned to do. They had a different plan. But they couldn’t carry it out without the teachers union as a partner. So that’s what happened at that school.”

As for requiring staff to reapply, Gist said “that’s actually something that happens pretty regularly” in failing schools.

“It isn’t about assuming the people there aren’t doing what they need to do, but it’s about making sure that it’s the right fit for each of them—that if you have new leadership coming in, they need to be able to choose a team that’s going to buy into this shared goal of turning the school around.”

Don’t hold your breath for reassurances—Gist was noncommittal regarding specific plans for TPS reorganization. But she

emphasized inclusiveness and collaboration on any trajectory.

“I can’t promise anybody right now what we are or aren’t going to do in terms of [staff changes], but I want people to know that I’m not the type of person who assumes that people aren’t doing what they’re supposed to do,” Gist said. “I’m not the type of person who assumes that if there’s a problem at a school that it’s anybody’s fault. There are a lot of things that can contribute to a school’s struggling over a period of years.

“I have every intention to do this together.

“It is fairly scary, because people don’t know me, or all of the context included in it. There’s a lot of misinformation out there. I’m not suggesting that the actual information isn’t also scary, I’m just saying that there’s a lot of stuff out there that doesn’t have all the information included.” a

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WHAT IF?

Mathematica Policy research recently looked at results from a radical teacher compensation/ charter school experiment in New York City.

Imagine a school that pays all teachers $125,000 to start.

The Equity Project (TEP) charter school of 480 students opened in 2009 with a focus on the centrality of teacher quality to student performance. Early student achievement results were dramatic. TEP operates with a skeletal teaching staff of about 25.

Public schools in Tulsa are funded overwhelmingly by taxpayers and property owners. But there is another avenue. In 2001, Oklahoma City secured voter approval for “MAPS for Kids,” a $700 million sales tax package for new schools, computers and buses. Tulsans have funded such improvements via bond issues, including the largest package in state history (more than $350 million) a few years ago, and voting on a $415 million bond issue is slated for March 3. Perhaps we could emulate OKC but use the sales tax dollars to dramatically raise teacher salaries.

What if TPS administrators and union officials mapped a model to increase teacher pay by $25,000 to $35,000? It wouldn’t match TEP’s $125,000, but it would enable our master teachers to rise above the $50k that comes only after a 25-year tenure and a doctorate.

CONGRATULATIONS… Dr. Deborah Gist on your selection as the next Superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools. And welcome back to Tulsa!

We salute the TPS committee and board for a job well done.

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“We need to be mindful to equip our teachers and our staff members to get the best out of all students, no matter what their race, no matter what their background.”

—Dr. Ebony Johnson

o complement this issue’s feature on incoming Tulsa Public Schools superintendent Dr. Deborah Gist, I went looking for a strong, clear voice to speak authentically on how we’re educating our kids in Tulsa. Teacher friends emphatically pointed me toward Central Junior High & High School Principal Dr. Ebony Johnson, so I made three trips to her school to track her down.

In addition to being extremely busy, she’s extremely awesome, so she agreed to be interviewed at her daughter’s Saturday morning basketball game. As Johnson watched the game over my shoulder—periodically pausing to yell “D-up! D-up!” and other encouragements—she gave me the lowdown: it’s a Christian league, and the kids aren’t allowed to steal the ball. She herself can’t quite relate—Johnson played basketball from childhood on up and at one point was nicknamed Bam Bam. Coaches put her in when they needed to turn the ball around.

She’d hustle for the turnover, and then they’d blow the whistle and sub her back out for a scorer. The parallels with her career as a powerful change agent and educator aren’t lost on her. Before Central, she led north Tulsa schools Academy Central Elementary and McLain High School and served in other teaching, consulting and administrative capacities in the district.

The Tulsa Voice: You’ve made improvements everywhere you’ve worked. People hate change. How do you manage that?

Ebony Johnson: It’s a very intense process. You have to know what the current weaknesses and strengths are of every building

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and figure out a way to operate within that. The bona fide challenge is trying to not negate the work that has been started by existing educators, but to draw from what has already been done and then figure out what second-order change can you put in place to take it to the next level. I mean going in and saying, “We’re going to do something completely different, because what we’ve been doing in the past has not rendered what we’re looking for,” but validating the educators who had believed that they were doing things right. You’re giving them a different frame to do things better.

Coupled with that is relationships. Until you understand the population you serve—especially if you’re talking about high-poverty, high-needs schools—they must have relationships built from the top all the way down. It’s kind of like Maslow’s hierarchy. If you’re not taking care of their social, emotional and physical needs and building off of that, the success that you’re looking for academically is very hard to attain.

TTV: Can you give me an example?

EJ: One of the things I incorporated in all my schools was something called the conflict resolution card, and that is just an acknowledgment that our students sometimes struggle with how to handle conflicts. So it allows students to ask this card of a teacher, and then once you get that card, you can go to someone you trust in the building and let them know what you are having a difficult time with.

TTV: Kind of like, I need a minute—

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EJ: I’m in brainstem. And so before I lash out at you—whether that’s a student or a teacher— before I continue to get upset with myself, I need a moment to step out. And that has drastically decreased our suspension and disciplinary problems in our building.

So it’s just creating a culture that’s so all about kids.

Another component was progress monitoring. Every single week, I met with testing teachers—teachers who would be giving the actual tests to students, so they’re getting students prepared. I met with them weekly to ensure they were aligned to the Oklahoma state standards. We track data, looking at who’s proficient in what, what’s happening when they’re not proficient, what [they’re] doing to re-teach. Bringing in social workers to figure out, “Is it an attendance issue? What’s going on here?” Bringing in families, and then ultimately bringing in students to say, “What more can we do in order to support you?”

And that’s at every level—elementary, high, middle—sign this contract that states that you’re going to give it your all, you’re going to do your best.

TTV: The kids sign a contract?

EJ: Oh yeah. So, just drilling down through all levels of accountability, and then providing teachers with everything that they need. I structure a lot of things around providing support for my testing teachers, because they carry the weight.

TTV: Schools are criticized a lot for “teaching to the test,” but what you’re describing sounds a little bit like that.

EJ: You’re not teaching to a test.

What you’re doing is teaching the actual standards and curriculum that may show up on the test.

The standards and curriculum are statewide; that’s not anything you can deviate from. What you couple with that are strategies for students who wouldn’t necessarily know how to be successful on a test. But the bulk of it is actually teaching the curriculum.

TTV: Dr. Gist told the Voice that her first priority is to begin developing a new Strategic Plan for the district (the current plan expires

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this year). What are some things you’d like to see in the new plan?

EJ: The existing plan has some great pieces in it—where we’re talking about being financially and fiscally responsible, ensuring that we have great teachers and quality instruction happening in every classroom, cultural competence—those are definitely pieces we can continue to work, just to be a lot more intentional about the population and the students that we serve. Specifically, how do we meet the needs of high-poverty children in 21st-century teaching and learning? … Leadership at every level [needs to be] collaborating and connecting around this idea that every student, no matter what, can actually make it.

[Gist] has a lot of background working with high-needs populations and coming up with strategic plans to work with all students.

I think that’s going to be a good contribution to our district.

TTV: What do you mean by cultural competence?

EJ: Our Hispanic population is the largest population of students in our district at this time. We need to be mindful to equip our teachers and our staff members to get the best out of all students, no matter what their race, no matter what their background. And then taking components of their culture and incorporating that.

There’s research out there—there are schools that are incorporating culturally relevant pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching methodologies. And I think it’s time we move in that direction.

TTV: Do you feel like the district is ready to do that?

EJ: We’ve done some of that work before. What would help us is to sustain that type of work and even

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dig deeper. … We probably just need to get some small groups of folks to start having and generating conversations about next steps. As a principal I see many, many times where teachers come in with great intentions—they truly want to see students do well and make it. And what they find is that they have not had the full preparation for some of the issues they encounter.

TTV: Where do you see Oklahoma’s outstanding early childhood education programs playing a role in what you do?

EJ: Our critical missing piece would be figuring out how to continue to encourage our families to support that work that’s been started. No matter what the educational background you have, there are certain things you can definitely do, like going over flash cards with your students at night or creating a word wall in their bedroom, so they’re constantly seeing the words and the expectations around that.

As a city—stop, drop, turn off all electronics in your home to provide for quiet time—making that a fullblown movement.

TTV: Teaching is hard. I did a lot of substitute teaching after college, and I’ve been in more than a few classrooms where the kids pretty much just ate my lunch and very little learning went on. It was really discouraging to watch that chaos become a brick wall, even for the kids who very clearly wanted to learn.

EJ: That’s right. [It’s critical] that whoever steps into a school, they’re armed, so to speak, with how to communicate with students effectively [and] have processes and protocols in place so students can acclimate themselves. And when they choose to not assimilate to your structure,

you know what next steps are, and you stay very consistent. Those are the things that will get all of our students to a point where they’re in a safe, healthy environment.

No matter what school, in any part of this city, the challenges vary. But we’re talking about young people here. So shame on us for not being prepared for the type of student that we’re going to serve. And then how about this, if in fact they do decide to use profanity, or they decide to walk out of class, shame on us for taking it personally. It’s so not about us. … Look at the fact that this is a hurting person who truly needs to have a consistent, structured, caring, academic and motivating set of people and structures around them so they can have a chance to make it. That’s families, that’s teachers, that’s principals, that’s everyone.

My background, of course, lends itself to me having to believe in that, because that is my story. I grew up in north Tulsa and went to McLain High School. I had to believe in the fact that no matter what the background is, and no matter what things seem like right now, there are opportunities and possibilities for me beyond.

TTV: There seems to be a climate of fear surrounding Dr. Gist’s selection. What are you thinking about all that?

EJ: I absolutely have no fear, because I’ve been in the district long enough to know that leadership changes. And then with Dr. Gist being the first female superintendent, I’m all like, “Girl power. Let’s rock this out.”

But I will say this: My hope would be that when we have community members come to the board meetings, and they’re very concerned about what’s happening in north Tulsa schools specifically, and [asking] what we can do to ensure that there’s equity and excellence in education—and consistent leadership and just more support—I hope that becomes a serious priority for her. Then we can know … that all schools are being taken care of, no matter where you are—Tulsa Public Schools has owned the responsibility of excellence in education for every single school in this district. a FEATURED // 23

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BEST OF TULSA READERS’ CHOICE 2015

Tens of thousands of individual votes were cast in the nomination round for The Tulsa Voice’s first-ever Best of Tulsa awards.

We’ve whittled the nominees down to the top five vote-getters* in each of 100 categories, and now the cream of the crop will rise to the top.

Cast your ballot (it’s multiple choice this time—less thinking!) at TheTulsaVoice.com/bot and you’ll be entered to win some fine prizes, including the grand prize of $500 CASH. (You’re welcome.)

Tell us your Tulsa favorites. Voting runs Feb. 4-March 1

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B est Burger Brownie’s Fat Guy’s HopBunz McNellie’s Ron’s The Tavern

B est Bakery Ann’s Bakery Antoinette Baking Co. Heirloom Baking Co. Ludger’s Bavarian Cakery Merritt’s Bakery

B est Chef Michelle Donaldson Trevor Tack Justin Thompson Michael Minden Grant Vespasian

B est Bar Fo od The Brook Fassler Hall Kilkenny’s McNellie’s R Bar

B est Coffe e House Chimera The Coffee House on Cherry St. The Phoenix Shades of Brown Starbucks

B est Barbecue Albert G’s Billy Sims BBQ Burn Co. Elmer’s BBQ Rib Crib

B est Craft Cocktail Cosmo Cafe Hodges Bend Mixed Company Valkyrie The Vault

B est Late-Night Dining Andolini’s IHOP Joe Momma’s Kilkenny’s Phat Philly’s The Tavern Village Inn

B est Bartender Ma jda Al-Amoudi The Fur Shop /The Max and Yellow Brick Road

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B est Blo ody Mary Cosmo Cafe Dilly Deli Kilkenny’s McNellie’s SMOKE

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B est Brunch 624 Kitchen & Catering Brookside By Day Lucky’s R Bar SMOKE

B est Hangover Bre akfast Brookside By Day Dilly Deli IHOP Tally’s Cafe Village Inn

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B est Indian Cumin Desi Wok Himalayas India Palace B est Italian Dalesandro’s Mary’s Italian Trattoria Mondo’s Ti Amo Villa Ravenna B est Japanese/Sushi Fuji In the Raw Osaka Sushi Train Yokozuna Zanmai

B est Mexican El Guapo’s El Rio Verde El Tequila Elote Los Cabos Best Spot for Day Drinking Arnie’s Blue Rose Cafe Fassler Hall McNellie’s R Bar B est Ste ak Fleming’s Mahogany McGill’s PRHYME SMOKE B est Vegetarian/He althy Big Al’s Cafe Samana Chimera Elote Zoes Kitchen

B est New Restaurant Calaveras Mexican Grill HopBunz Sisserou’s STG Pizzeria & Gelateria Tallgrass Prairie Table B est Patio Blue Rose Cafe El Guapo’s Los Cabos R Bar The Rusty Crane

ENTERTAINMENT B est All-Ages Music Venue BOK Center Brady Theater Cain’s Ballroom Guthrie Green Vanguard B est Annual Festival Blue Dome Arts Festival Center of the Universe Festival Easter Island Festival The Hop Jam Mayfest Oktoberfest Tulsa Tough

B est Pizza Andolini’s Hideaway Joe Momma’s Pie Hole Savastano’s Umberto’s B est Place to Watch the B ig G ame Buffalo Wild Wings The Brook Fassler Hall Leon’s R Bar

B est Art Space Hardesty Arts Center (AHHA) Gilcrease Living Arts Mainline Philbrook B est Casino for Live Entertainment Hard Rock Osage River Spirit

B est Restaurant for Locally Sourced Ingredients Cafe Samana Elote Juniper SMOKE Tallgrass Prairie Table The Vault

B est DIY/Underground Venue Cellar Dweller Comedy Parlor Hillman’s Garage The Shrine Soundpony Vanguard

B est Se afo od Bodean Bonefish Grill Red Lobster S&J Oyster Bar White River Fish Market

B est Fre e Entertainment First Friday Art Crawl Guthrie Green Mayfest Ok, So…Tulsa Story Slam Soundpony

B est Service Charleston’s Kilkenny’s Mahogany Polo Grill Redrock Canyon Grill SMOKE Tallgrass Prairie Table

B est Jukebox Caz’s The Colony Fassler Hall Mercury Lounge Yellow Brick Road

B est View El Guapo’s In the Raw On the Hill The Penthouse at The Mayo Zanmai

B est Karaoke Elote Fassler Hall Lot No. 6 The Market Pub The Warehouse Bar & Grill

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B est Large Music Venue BOK Center Brady Theater Cain’s Ballroom Guthrie Green The Joint @ Hard Rock

B est Record Store Best Buy Blue Moon Discs Holy Mountain Starship Records & Tapes Vintage Stock

Best Picnic Spot Chandler Park Guthrie Green Mohawk Park River Parks Woodward Park

B est Place to Pe ople Watch Guthrie Green River Parks Tulsa International Airport Tulsa State Fair Woodland Hills Mall

B est Local Band Name All About a Bubble Bitchcraft Hanson Mid Life Crisis We The Ghost Who & The Fucks

B est Small Music Venue Brady Theater Cain’s Ballroom The Colony Mercury Lounge The Shrine Soundpony Vanguard

B est Place for Cycling Avery Drive Creek Turnpike Trail River Parks RiverWalk Turkey Mountain

B est Place to Promenade with Your Dog Biscuit Acres Dog Park Guthrie Green Hunter Park River Parks Utica Square

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B est Movie The ater AMC Southroads 20 Cinemark Circle Cinema Eton Square 6 Warren Theatres B est Museum Hardesty Arts Center (AHHA) Gilcrease Museum Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa Air and Space Museum Tulsa Children’s Museum Woody Guthrie Center B est Night Club Caravan Cattle Co. Club Ma jestic Electric Circus Enso Legends B est Open Mic The Colony Comedy Parlor Cypher 120 Gypsy Coffee House The Loony Bin Ok, So…Tulsa Story Slam B est Party of the Ye ar 80’s Prom Brady Theater Halloween Center of the Universe Festival Cry Baby Hill Oktoberfest Best Performing Arts Space Brady Theater Comedy Parlor Guthrie Green Living Arts Nightingale Theater Tulsa Performing Arts Center Best Place for a First Date Brady Arts District Guthrie Green Juniper Riverside SMOKE Best Place for Local Music Cain’s Ballroom The Colony Guthrie Green Mercury Lounge Soundpony Best Place to Gamble Hard Rock Osage River Spirit

AROUND TOWN B est Kept-Secret Back In My Day Cellar Dweller Center of the Universe The Fur Shop Ok, So…Tulsa Story Slam Group Making Tulsa Better George Kaiser Family Foundation Guthrie Green Junior League of Tulsa McNellie’s Group Tulsa’s Young Professionals Person Making Tulsa Better Dewey Bartlett Blake Ewing Elliot Nelson George Kaiser Kathy Taylor Best Landmark Center of the Universe Golden Driller ORU Praying Hands Route 66 Turkey Mountain Best Local Gift Anything from Dwelling Spaces Anything from Ida Red Glacier Confection I <3 Tulsa shirts/items Prairie Artisan Ales Best Local Media Personality Julie Chin Kristin Dickerson Lori Fullbright Chera Kimiko Travis Meyer LeAnne Taylor Best Hair on a Local Media Personality Kristin Dickerson Lori Fullbright Chera Kimiko Travis Meyer LeAnne Taylor Best Local Politician Dewey Bartlett GT Bynum Blake Ewing Kathy Taylor None B est Place for a Stroll Brady Arts District Downtown River Parks Turkey Mountain Utica Square Woodward Park

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B est Place to Buy Your Special Some one a Gift Dwelling Spaces Ida Red Moody’s Jewelry Utica Square Woodland Hills Mall B est Place to Camp Out Chandler Park Grand Lake Greenleaf State Park Keystone Lake Turkey Mountain B est Place to Fe el Like You’re Not In Tulsa BOK Center Chandler Park Guthrie Green The Mayo Hotel/Rooftop Turkey Mountain B est Place to Hike Chandler Park Oxley Nature Center Redbud Valley Nature Preserve River Parks Turkey Mountain Best Place to Make Something Hardesty Arts Center (AHHA) Fab Lab Pinot’s Palette Purple Glaze Tulsa Glassblowing Studio B est Place to Me et Your Next Mate Cain’s Ballroom Church Guthrie Green River Parks Soundpony B est Bullshit Caller Back In My Day Blake Ewing Barry Friedman Michael Staub B est Che ap Thrill Center of the Universe Cheap Thrills Drillers games Guthrie Green Tulsa State Fair Turkey Mountain B est He alth/Fitness Center Sky Fitness & Wellbeing LifeTime Fitness Planet Fitness YMCA 10gym Best Organized Foot Run/Race Color Run McNellie’s Pub Run Route 66 Marathon Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure

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B est Place to Shop Gre en Cherry Street Farmers’ Market Dwelling Spaces Natural Grocers Sprouts Whole Foods B est Place to Spot a Famous Person BOK Center Cain’s Ballroom Chimera The Mayo Hotel Tulsa International Airport Utica Square

B est Public Restro om BOK Center The Fur Shop Guthrie Green LaFortune QuikTrip River Parks Te Kei’s B est Re ason to Rise Early on a We ekend Brookside By Day Cherry Street Farmers’ Market Flea Markets River Parks B est Stre et Corner 2nd & Elgin 6th & Peoria 15th & Peoria 18th & Boston Main & M.B. Brady B est Suburban Oasis Bixby Broken Arrow/Rose District Jenks/Main Street Owasso Turkey Mountain B est Tatto o Artist Tony Carrera Jason Franklin Lollie Moore Jacob Rachal Jose Sanchez Squiggy

B est Place to Strike a (Yoga) Pose Be Love Yoga Studio Inner Peace Yoga Guthrie Green Salt Yoga The Yoga Room B est Place to Take Out-of-Towners Blue Dome District Brady Arts District Center of the Universe Downtown Guthrie Green Philbrook

B est Thing That’s Changed in Tulsa in the Last Ye ar Brady Arts District growth Breaking ground on A Gathering Place Completion of I-44 construction Downtown revitalization Marriage equality

B est Place to Update Your Lo ok ARCS The First Ward Ihloff Salon Sterling Salon Utica Square

B est Hide out During the Zombie Apocalypse Cellar Dweller Downtown tunnels Mayo Hotel Sam’s Club Soundpony

B est Place You Wish Was Still in Business The Alley Bell’s Amusement Park Blue Dome Diner Casa Bonita Metro Diner Steve’s Sundry White Owl

B est Tulsan to Follow on Social Media Mary Beth Babcock Natasha Ball/Tasha Does Tulsa Steve Cluck Biker Fox Barry Friedman Chera Kimiko Michael Staub

B est Public Art Gilcrease

Best Vintage Clothing Store Cheap Thrills Goodwill Must Stash Vintage Vault Volupté

Living Arts/Day of the Dead murals

Mayfest Philbrook River Parks sculptures Woody Guthrie Mural Best “Unofficial” Public Art Clean Hands murals Grafitti under 21st Street Bridge Mad Dog Liquor Soundpony patio Train car graffiti B est Public Park Chandler Park LaFortune Guthrie Green River Parks Woodward Park

B est Worthy Cause Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma DVIS: Domestic Violence Intervention Services John 3:16 Mission Tulsa Area United Way Youth Services of Tulsa B est Thing about Tulsa Downtown “It’s home” Music scene The people

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Ride Thru the Riot Sun., March 1, 2:00 to 5:00 PM Greenwood

Learn about Tulsa’s most tragic moment while visiting key locations involved in the massacre of 1921.

Award-winning journalist and local historian Lee Roy Chapman leads this 8-mile bike tour in and around Greenwood and Downtown Tulsa, teaching the history of the Tulsa Race Riot and offering insight into the moment that changed Tulsa forever.

Once held only on the anniversary of the race riot, Ride Thru the Riot will now be held on the first Sunday of every month. The 8-mile ride includes steep inclines. Riders are responsible for their own safety.

The Ride begins at Greenwood Cultural Center.

Scotch School

Darryl Starbird’s National Rod & Custom Show

Wed., Feb. 18, 7:00 PM, $35, Centennial Lounge, facebook.com/centenniallounge577

Fri., Feb. 20 - Sun., Feb. 22, $15-$25, River Spirit Expo, starbirdcarshows.com

Educate your palave on a variety of scotches with instructors Rick Ewing, president of the Scottish Club of Tulsa and David Marshall of Marshall Brewing Company. Kilts are optional but strongly encouraged.

Black Mesa ES-ESB Release Thurs., Feb. 19, 5:00 PM, R Bar, blackmesabrewing.com OKC-based microbrewers Black Mesa will release their first barrel-aged creation at this event at R Bar. The ES-ESB, or Extra Special Endless Skyway Bitter was created by aging Black Mesa’s Double ESB in Rémy Martin Cognac barrels for seven months. Brewmasters Chris Sanders and Brad Stumph will be onsite to drink with fellow beer lovers and to answer questions. Pouring begins at 5:00 PM, with brewers’ toasts at 6:00 and 8:00.

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In 1964, Darryl Starbird hosted his first custom car show, a gathering of local and regional hot rod and custom car builders in Tulsa. Thanks to Tulsa’s central location, Starbird’s show became a gathering place for enthusiasts from all corners of the country and quickly began to rival more well-known and established events on the coasts. Now, 51 years into its existence, Darryl Starbird’s National Rod & Custom Show is the largest indoor rod and custom car show in the country and one of the premier events of its kind in the world. This year, the show will feature more than a thousand automobiles and crazy creations in (and for the first time, outside) River Spirit Expo. Over the course of the weekend, Starbird himself and the Star Kustom Shop team will be chopping the top off a 1956 Lincoln Mark II. It’s a chance to see this revered customizer in his element. For the first time in almost 30 years, Flat Track Racing will be part of the show, with mini sprints, quad, motorcycle and lawnmower races and a demolition derby. Other highlights include some of the best pinstripers in the country at the Pinstriping Panel Jam, Cirque-style burlesque performers The Flaunt Girls, a Pinup competition and performances by Terry Lee and the Rockaboogie Band and local musicians.

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THE BEST OF THE REST EVENTS Vintage Tulsa Show // Billed as “the largest, most diverse antiquing event in America’s Heartland,” Vintage Tulsa Show features more than 250 dealers from 18 states. You’ll find historical artifacts, architectural remnants, furniture, estate jewelry, antique advertising and more. Rare book dealer Sonny Ideker will be in attendance with his collection of over 2,500 antiquarian books found on his travels around the world.

Ideker’s booth presents an opportunity to step back in time and to see and touch works of literature you might never find again. // 2/20-2/22, Exchange Center at Expo Square, $3-$12, kids 8 and under free, vintagetulsashow.com

PERFORMING ARTS Venus in Fur // Theatre Pops presents the Oklahoma debut of this smash Broadway hit. When Vanda arrives several hours late to her audition for a play based on a nineteenth-century erotic novel, the director, Thomas, is less than impressed. But Vanda’s masterful performance flips the script on Thomas’ expectations and turns the session into a tango for dominance between actress and director, woman and man. Hailed as “seriously smart and very funny” by The New York Times, Venus in Fur is a laugh-out-loud study of the politics of sex and power that’s guaranteed to charm and mesmerize. // 2/19-21, 8:00 PM and 2/22, 2:00 PM, $15-$20, IDL Ballroom, theatrepops.org Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School // Dr. Sketchy presents another night of “drinks, dames and drawing!” at the Fur Shop. // 2/21, 7:00 pm, The Fur Shop, $5-$10, drsketchy.com/branch/ tulsa Tulsa Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty // Tulsa ballet performs the classic tale of a slumbering princess with music

by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Tulsa Ballet Artistic Director Marcello Angelini. // 2/20-2/22, Chapman Music Hall, PAC, $36-$120, tulsapac.com The Taming of the Shrew, as adapted by Dan McGeehan // Clark Youth Theatre presents a new version of Shakespeare’s classic love story.

Award-winning Tulsa playwright Dan McGeehan has added material from two other plays from the same time period and with the same characters.

The added material illuminates the husband/wife relationship in new, funny and poignant ways. // 2/20-3/1, Henthorne PAC, $7-$10 Talking Bones // In this play by Shay Youngblood, presented by Theatre North, three generations of women hear the voices of their ancestors in their heads. Ruth,the matriarch, interpretes the voices to have special meaning in her life. Her daughter BayBay, looking for a way out of a life trapped taking care of her mother, often ignores or misinterpretes the voices she hears. Ella, BayBay’s daughter, wants to build a bridge of understanding between the two women and the voices they hear. // 2/21-2/28, Charles E. Norman Theatre, PAC, $12.50-$15, tulsapac.com

The Drunkard and The Olio // This old timey melodrama, the longest-running play in America, has been performed every Saturday at Spotlight Theater since 1953! // 2/21, 7:00 pm, Spotlight Theater, $12-$18, spotlighttheater.org Peter and the Starcatcher // A cast of a dozen actors play over a hundred unforgetable characters in this hilarious romp throgh the Neverland you never knew. Based on the best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatcher is the origin story of one of the popular culture’s most enduring characters, Peter Pan. See how Peter became the Boy Who Never Grew Up in this prequel, the winner of five Tony Awards, that the New York Times called “the most exhilirating storytelling on Broadway in decades. // 2/24, 7:30 pm, Broken Arrow PAC, $20-$60, brokenarrowpac.com/peter.html James Bradley: Doing the Impossible // James Bradley’s bestselling book “Flags of Our Fathers,” later made into a critically acclaimed film directed by Clint Eastwood, is the true story of the six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima in 1945. Bradley’s father, Josh Bradley, was one of the men shown in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of that moment.

Inspired by his father’s courage and perseverance, Bradley challenges others to engage in the impossible and watch how ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. // 2/27, 10:30 am, Chapman Music Hall, PAC, Available by subscription to Tulsa Town Hall, tulsapac.com

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Eunju Chang // Classical pianist Eunju Chang received a Bachelor of Music at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea before moving to rome to study at the Pescara Conservatorium. There, she completed the Pescara 10-year diploma program in less than eight years.

She has performed as a soloist in concert halls across Europe and Asia as well as with the Saint Cross Philharmonic of Kielce, Poland andthe Korean Philharmonic Orchestra among others. // 2/27, 7:30 pm, Broken Arrow PAC, $20, brokenarrowpac.com/upclose.html The Lost Pages of Neverland // Encore! Tulsa presents an original play written and directed by Tulsa natives Joshuan Branson Barker and Mindy Barker. Their “Lost Pages” series follows Phantom, who wants to become the greatest villain of all time, as he weaves his way through familiar and beloved fairy tales. In Wonderland, Phantom embarks on a zany adventure with Alice, the Queen of Hearts and many other familiar characters from Wonderland and beyond. // 2/27-3/1, Tulsa Little Theatre, $20-$45, encore-tulsa.com Camelot // King Arthur, Queen Guinever and Sir Lancelot develop a love triangle for the ages in Lerner and Loewe’s ma jestic musical. // 3/3-3/8, Chapman Music Hall, PAC, $15-$50, tulsapac.com

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THE BEST OF THE REST (continued) COMEDY

Noir Night with Lou Berney Thurs., Feb. 10, 7:00-8:00 PM, This Land Press, booksmarttulsa.com Booksmart Tulsa presents an evening with Edgar Award finalist Lou Berney. His book, The Long and Faraway Gone chronicles two 1986 tragedies in Oklahoma City. First, six movie theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably survived, then a teenage girl vanished from the Oklahoma State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Berney’s book explores the mysteries of memory and the impact of violence on survivors—and the lengths they will go to to find the painful truth of the events that scarred their lives.

Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello Fri., Feb. 20, 8:00 PM, $25, Liddy Doenges Theatre, PAC, jzcello.com In 2013, after eight years with the internationally celebrated and boundary pushing contemporary classical ensemble The Kronos Quartet, Jeffrey Zeigler stepped down to focus on new pursuits.

Since leaving the quartet, Zeigler has released a solo album, Something of Life, collaborated for various projects with many musicians, including Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, and taught at Mannes College The New School For Music in New York City.

Zeigler’s solo performance at the PAC will include the premiere of a commissioned work by composer and guitarist for The National Bryce Dessner and other contemporary works with projections.

And My Spirit Said, Yes! Sat., Feb. 21, 1:00 to 3:00 PM, tulsahistory.org Tulsa Historical Society and Museum Tulsa Historical Society and Museum hosts author and award-winning photographer Don Thompson. Thompson will discuss and read from his new book, “And My Spirit Said, Yes! The African-American Experience: Visions of the Past and Present,” which features over thirty men and women who have made significant contributions to the history of the North Tulsa, Tulsa and Oklahoma communities. Barbara Seals Nevergold, Co-founder of Uncrowned Queens Institute praised the book, saying, “For too long Historians have ignored the importance of documenting the histories of the everyday man and woman who have contributed to the historic records of their communities...Mr. Thompson has made a significant contribution by collecting, preserving and creating an accessible file of regional African American history that otherwise might be lost.”

Thompson’s photography has been selected to appear in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., which will open in 2016.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Tues., Feb. 24 and Wed., Feb. 25, 7:00 PM, $40 John H. Williams Theatre, PAC, nainichen.org Nai-Ni Chen fuses the freedom of American modern dance with the grace of traditional Asian art. Her repertoire seamlessly blends ancient rituals and modern concepts, engaging the audience with the ma jesty of martial arts and the rhythm of poetry as dancers glide across the stage with intensity, color and a whisper of Chinese tradition.

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Tracy Smith, Kurt Green // 2/18, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, 2/19, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $2, 2/20, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 2/20, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 2/21, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 2/21, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy. com/tulsa T-Town “Famous” // Improv // 2/20, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10-$12, comedyparlor.com Presdents of Comedy // Stand Up // 2/20, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Comfort Creatures // Improv // 2/21, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Keg’s Man Cave // Improv // 2/21, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 2/22, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com The Revolver Comedy Tour w/ Tyler Ross, Shannon Noll, Dylan Scott, Rachel McCartney // Stand Up // 2/23, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Centennial Lounge Comedy Night // Stand Up // 2/24, 8:00 pm, Centennial Lounge, https://www.facebook.com/ centenniallounge577 Todd Yohn, Trenton Davis // 2/25, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $9, 2/26, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $9, 2/27, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $12, 2/27, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $12, 2/28, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $12, 2/28, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $12, loonybincomedy.com/tulsa Comfort Creatures // Improv // 2/27, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Unusual Suspects // Stand Up // 2/27, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Back In My Day // Improv // 2/28, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

TU Women’s Basketball vs Uconn // 2/21, 2:00 pm, Case Tennis Center, $5, tulsahurricane.com ORU Women’s Tennis vs Omaha // 2/21, 8:30 am, Case Tennis Center, oruathletics.com ORU Women’s Tennis vs UTPA // 2/21, 1:00 pm, Case Tennis Center, oruathletics.com ORU Baseball vs SIU Edwardsville // 2/21, 2:00 pm, J.L. Johnson Stadium, oruathletics.com Tulsa Revolution vs Wichita B-52s // 2/21, 7:05 pm, Expo Square Pavilion, $7-$25, tulsarevolution.com TU Men’s Basketball vs Temple // 2/22, 5:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $15-$44, tulsahurricane.com TU Women’s Tennis vs Stephen F Austin // 2/22, 10:00 am, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com TU Women’s Tennis vs ORU // 2/22, 2:30 pm, Case Tennis Center, tulsahurricane.com ORU Baseball vs SIU Edwardsville // 2/22, 1:00 pm, J.L. Johnson Stadium, oruathletics.com Tulsa Revolution vs Wichita B-52s // 2/22, 3:05 pm, Expo Square Pavilion, $7-$25, tulsarevolution.com ORU Baseball vs Missouri State // 2/24, 3:00 pm, J.L. Johnson Stadium, oruathletics.com TU Men’s Basketball vs Tulane // 2/25, 7:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $15-$44, tulsahurricane.com ORU Men’s Basketball vs North Dakota State // 2/26, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, oruathletics.com Liquid Nitro Arenacross // Two nights of dirt and high-flying arenacross action in Ford Truck Arena. // 2/27-2/28, :00 , Ford Truck Arena, Expo Square, $12-$23, nitroaxtour.com

Hammered! A drunk improv show // Improv // 2/28, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

TU Women’s Basketball vs Tulane // 2/28, 3:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $5, tulsahurricane.com

Rick Shaw’s Commedy Showcase // Stand Up // 3/1, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

ORU Men’s Tennis vs Denver // 2/28, 11:00 am, Case Tennis Center, oruathletics.com

SPORTS

ORU Women’s Basketball vs IPFW // 2/28, 2:00 pm, Mabee Center, oruathletics.com

TU Men’s Basketball vs East Carolina // 2/18, 6:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $15$44, tulsahurricane.com ORU Men’s Tennis vs Kansas City // 2/20, 9:00 am, Case Tennis Center, oruathletics.com ORU Baseball vs SIU Edwardsville // 2/20, 3:00 pm, J.L. Johnson Stadium, oruathletics.com Tulsa Revolution vs St. Louis Ambush // 2/20, 7:05 pm, Expo Square Pavilion, $7-$25, tulsarevolution.com TU Women’s Tennis vs Oklahoma State // 2/21, 1:00 pm, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com

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Balance of power Brian Whelan goes solo with a unique brand of pop Americana

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rian Whelan has spent the past four or five years as guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for Dwight Yoakam, whose extensive touring schedule has brought Whelan through Tulsa on multiple occasions. Prior to that, he was a member of the California power-pop band The Broken West for about five years.

Whelan will perform solo for the first time at a special show on Feb. 28 at the Woody Guthrie Center.

Touring with Yoakam’s band allowed Whelan a certain level of comfort and accommodated the recording of his solo debut, Decider, which was released in November of 2012. So what prompted him to set out on his own as a full-time solo artist?

“I just thought it was time,” Whelan said. “I had been in Dwight’s band for two years when the record came out. I had planned on playing more shows to support it, but my priority was with Dwight, so I didn’t get as much time to do that. This has allowed me to make a little bit more of a full-time commitment to pursuing my own thing.”

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Those who expected a country album from Whelan were in for a surprise. Although it contains some distinct country tinges, Decider crosses boundaries into pop and rock territory, drawing from the ’70s California vibe and melodic space of The Eagles, Gram Parsons and Linda Ronstadt while remaining grounded in the classic rock of Buddy Holly, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley.

I called it “garage-based Americana,” a term Whelan said he hadn’t heard before but thought was pretty accurate.

“My foundation is really in ’50s rock ‘n’ roll and artists like Buddy Holly, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis,” he said. “I’ve always considered what I do to be power-pop.

“The Beatles were really the originators of power-pop. That label has other connotations that some people shy away from now, but what it really means is music that’s influenced by the Beatles more than The Rolling Stones.

The Beatles were more cerebral, where The Stones were more from the loins.”

Even though Whelan is currently touring behind Decider, he’s completed a follow-up album planned for release this summer.

“On the first record there were Americana songs and power-pop songs, and they were one or the other,” he said. “I think the fusion is more complete on the new record. It’s maybe more representative of my music and a little less fragmented.”

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A sneak preview of what’s to come revealed a record that certainly fuses the elements more completely. Even tracks like “Americana” hit with a sharper snap and punch from the snare drum, pulling the rock elements forward, along with the melodies that define Whelan’s take on Beatles-influ-

enced power-pop. It’s fitting that his first solo performance is at the Woody Guthrie Center, which is currently home to the “Ladies and Gentlemen... The Beatles!” exhibit, curated by the Grammy Museum.

“I’ve been coming to Tulsa for a long time with Dwight, and I really enjoy the city,” Whelan said.

“My girlfriend’s whole family is in Norman, so it’s kind of like coming home, but Texas and Oklahoma have always been the most open-armed to me and my music.”

When Whelan started setting up the current tour, he looked to the cities where he felt most welcome.

This current run of shows features acoustic performances in listening rooms and more intimate venues in order to lay a foundation to return later in the year with a new record and more rock-oriented show.

If you love power-pop, rootsrock and great songwriting, you won’t want to miss Brian Whelan’s show at the Woody Guthrie Theater on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 2 p.m. Whelan’s concert is free with admission to the center, which includes entry to the Woody Guthrie archives and the Beatles exhibit. a

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Mastering simplicity The Wood Brothers bring stripped-down folk and blues to Tulsa

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rothers Oliver and Chris Wood have been making music since childhood.

You might recognize them separately—Chris is the “Wood” in the acclaimed jazz trio Medeski Martin and Wood, and Oliver made a name for himself playing guitar for Tinsley Ellis before starting the blues outfit King Johnson. Yet despite a shared musicality, Chris and Oliver didn’t begin collaborating until the mid-2000s, when Oliver’s band played alongside Chris at a show in North Carolina.

After a fantastic performance, it became clear to both brothers that their collaboration should continue. A decade later, after several albums and iterations of Americana-blues, and with the addition of third band member Jano Rix, the Wood Brothers continue to hone their unique blend of simple songwriting and instrumental mastey. They’ll put it on display at the Vanguard on Feb. 24.

It’s a real treat when a band can consistently evolve without straying too far from its roots.

Fans familiar with The Wood Brothers’ catalog will notice a

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slight difference in style and approach on their most recent album, “The Muse.” It’s possibly their most stripped-down work to date—produced without tracking, featuring songs recorded with the three bandmates huddled around a shared microphone. Even so, the same vocal quality (tender, soulful, simple) and lyrical storytelling shines through. It’s elements like these that make The Wood Brothers’ songs feel so familiar.

Oliver’s bluesy guitar strumming, Chris’ toe-tapping bass lines, and reticent, whiskey-soaked lyrics give The Wood Brothers’ Americana sound a funky, backwoods quality that isn’t easily forgettable.

Their songs sound plucked right out of a greatest hits album and often leave you wondering where you’ve heard them before. Maybe you have, or maybe it’s just a testament to their roots.

In between touring, The Wood Brothers have been working on a new album. It’s the first time they’ve been able to write material for the band together in the same city.

“We’ve really gotten into the collaborative thing and learned sort of how to let each other deconstruct ideas that we have,” Oliver says. “There may be songs where one of us dominates the lyrics or music, but we always finish these things together.”

Creative deconstruction aside, the benefit of proximity in the songwriting process can’t be overlooked.

“It’s certainly a lot easier for Chris and I to write together,” Oliver said. “We lived apart for our entire adult life. It always made it challenging to write. So now we’ve got all our families here and just sort of converged in this hotbed of music.”

That “hotbed of music” is Nashville. Oliver moved there in 2012, and Chris soon followed.

Living in a city steeped in musical tradition has its perks, Oliver said. The city breeds creativity, and with the likes of Jack White, Buddy Miller and Emmylou Harris around, it’s a musician’s paradise.

“The environment of Nashville, we really love it,” he said.

“We don’t get super involved in

the local scene, but we do love just being surrounded by all these amazing, creative people. I get a thrill out of knowing there are people in my neighborhood in their studios writing music.”

With the Wood brothers deep in their own writing and recording phase, Tulsans might get a taste of new music. Oliver doesn’t give up too much about what they’re working on but promises it’ll be a slight departure from the norm.

“We are consciously trying to do some different things than we’ve done before,” he said. “Like, Chris might play electric bass on a few songs. And he’s a fantastic electric bass player.

“Sonically, we’re trying to make something quite different than what we’ve already made—maybe a little more of a bigger sound. A little louder.” a The Wood Brothers with Kristina Train 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 The Vanguard, 222 N. Main Street Tickets and info at thevang uardt ulsa.com

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JEFF AUSTIN BAND The creative force behind “new-grass” sensation Yonder Mountain String Band, mandolin shredder Jeff Austin has struck out on his own. I’m not exactly sure why, but who cares? It means you get to see him in a more intimate venue. Old Salt Union opens the show. A limited number of tickets will be sold, so get them before they’re gone. The Shrine, 112 E. 18th Street, Saturday, Feb. 21 TRAVIS LINVILLE Just between you and me, the music scene in the center of our fine state doesn’t hold a candle to what you’ll find out here in the northeast. But there are exceptions. Hosty. Moreland. Millsap. Linville. A true Oklahoma voice, the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist stops in Tulsa on a short regional tour before joining up with Hayes Carll’s tour next month. Mercury Lounge, 1747 S. Boston Ave., Saturday, Feb. 21 BEASTIE BOYS TRIBUTE The last time Chris Combs and Jeff Porter assembled some of Tulsa’s finest to play the Beastie Boys’ “Check Your Head” in its entirety, they turned Fassler Hall into a magical musical freakout party where the crowd melded into a single organism, bouncing and writhing on every inch of dance floor and tabletop. Naturally, they have to do it at least one more time. Only miss it if you’re dumb.

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Wed // Feb 18

Cain’s Ballroom – David Cook, Luke Wade – 8:00 pm – ($18-$58) Centennial Lounge – Don Who? Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin – 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Mipso – 10:00 pm On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Sandite Billiards and Grill – Patrick Winsett and The Foolish Pride Band – 8:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project

Thurs // Feb 19

Baker St. Pub – The Hi-Fidelics Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – The Tiptons – 8:00 pm Centennial Lounge – The Salty Dogs Crow Creek Tavern – Jacob Vashni Downtown Lounge – Kingshifter, Hangman’s Joke – 8:00 pm Elephant Run – Johnny Paul Band – 8:00 pm Enso – Ripple Green – 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge – The Dirty Creek Bandits, Hey Judy – 10:00 pm Pickles Pub – Fingers Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Scott Ellison – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – nighTTrain – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Rockford, Roots of Thought, Day Dream Empire The Colony – Alex Culbreth The Hunt Club – Travis Kidd Woody’s Corner Bar – Kaitlin Butts, Elaina Kay Yeti – Turnt Up

Fri // Feb 20

Baker St. Pub – Crossland Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Kinsey Sadler – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Cody Johnson Band, Mike Ryan Band, Chance Anderson Band – 8:30 pm – ($13-$23) Centennial Lounge – Rebecca Ungerman 34 // MUSIC

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Crow Creek Tavern – RPM Dusty Dog Pub – Forgotten Friday, Luxtones Electric Circus – Havoc: Flirt ft. KJ Sawka, Darku J, J KREWX Fassler Hall – My So Called Band Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Brandon Clark Foolish Things – Brian Payne, Zach Winters – 5:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Eric Strickland and the B Sides – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Another Alibi – 9:00 pm NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – Imzadi – 9:00 pm Peppers Grill - South – Sea of Time Pickles Pub – Mike Barham & The Honkey Tonk Prophets Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Jay Falkner Duo – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Fuzed – 9:00 pm River Spirit Event Center – Eddie Money – 7:00 pm – ($25-$45) The Colony – Paul Benjaman Band The Fur Shop – Mark Gibson – 9:00 pm The Hunt Club – Clockwork, Dante and the Hawks The Vanguard – Empires, Carnegie, Echoes & Angels, Neoromantics – 8:00 pm – ($10) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Gravity Feed

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Chris Clark Four Aces Tavern – Dane Trout and the 420 Project Four Aces Tavern – The Truck Stop Betties Lambrusco’z To Go – Randy Brumley – 12:00 pm Magoo’s – Wharp Drive – 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Travis Linville – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Another Alibi – 9:00 pm NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – Imzadi – 9:00 pm Peppers Grill - South – Scott Musick Pickles Pub – Moving Co. Pineapple Palace – Fairest, Lizard Police, Sun Vow, Riot Waves Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Thomas Martinez – 9:00 pm Soundpony – DJ Sweet Baby Jaysus The Colony – Pidgin The Hunt Club – Nicnos The Shrine – Jeff Austin Band (formerly of Yonder Mountain String Band), Old Salt Union – ($20.50-$25) The Vanguard – Rocco Deluca, Stelth Ulvang (of The Lumineers), Jonathan Thomas Wright, Old Man – 8:00 pm – ($15-$160) Yeti – The Danner Party

Sat // Feb 21

Sun // Feb 22

Baker St. Pub – Mayday By Midnight Barkingham Palace – Juicy Karkass, Worse Than Before, The Big News, Overdoze – 9:00 pm Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Brady Theater – Casey Donahew Band, Clayton Gardner – 8:00 pm – ($19-$24) Bull and Bear Tavern – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe, Midnight Jam Session – 10:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Joe Worrel – 9:00 pm Crow Creek Tavern – Johnny E Band Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Electric Circus – DJ Falkirk, DJ Kylie, Dedboii Fassler Hall – Stone Trio, We Make Shapes

Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark – 9:00 pm Peppers Grill - South – Young Performer Showcase feat. Students from Butler Music School – 2:00 pm Pickles Pub – Bill Hoy Sunday Showcase Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Uncrowned Kings – 5:30 pm Soundpony – Engine, Grazzhopper The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing

Mon // Feb 23

727 Club – Johnny Paul Band – 8:00 pm Juniper – Dean DeMerritt, Frank Brown and Shelby Eicher – 6:30 pm Soundpony – Mike Adams at his Honest Weight

The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton The Fur Shop – Cypher 120 – 8:00 pm The Vanguard – Kingdom of Giants, Indirections, Outlands – 7:00 pm – ($10-$12)

Tues // Feb 24

6th Street Entry – Phluf -N- Stuph – 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams – 5:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Great Big Biscuit – 7:00 pm Scotty’s Lounge – Billy Snow Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Colony – The Sidemen The Vanguard – The Wood Brothers, Kristina Train – 8:00 pm – ($18-$50)

Wed // Feb 25

Mercury Lounge – Low Cut Connie – 10:00 pm On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm Soundpony – Mijo The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Shrine – Jelly Bread, James Groves Blues Machine - ($5)

Thurs // Feb 26

Baker St. Pub – Zodiac Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Brady Theater – Gordon Lightfoot – 8:00 pm – ($37-$57) Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Paul Bogart – 8:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Sneaky Pete Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin – 8:00 pm Dusty Dog Pub – James Groves Blues Machine – 7:00 pm Elephant Run – Johnny Paul Band – 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge – The Stockyard Playboys – 10:00 pm

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musiclistings Pickles Pub – Fingers Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Reverse Reaction – 9:00 pm Soundpony – DJ Nasty Navi The Colony – Adrienne Gilley Melodious Music with Mike Williams The Hunt Club – Fine as Paint The Joint – Styx – 8:00 pm – (SOLD OUT) The Shrine – Earphunk, Zoogma – ($8-$12) Yeti – American Shadows, Okie Mirage, Tangled Fucking Mess

Fri // Feb 27

Baker St. Pub – Uninvited Guest Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Jason Young Band – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Paper Diamond, gLAdiator, Buku, Falkirk – 8:00 pm – ($18-$33) Centennial Lounge – Steve Pryor Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover Band Dusty Dog Pub – Danny Baker Band Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – Moonlit Highway Fassler Hall – Beastie Boys Tribute Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Ben and Nick Four Aces Tavern – Black Cat Benders Mercury Lounge – Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy, Dumptruck Boyz – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – The Hi-Fidelics – 9:00 pm NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – SeXtion 8 – 9:00 pm Peppers Grill - South – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe w/ Sarah Maud – 8:30 pm Pickles Pub – Rockfisch Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Scott Ellison – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Imzadi – 9:00 pm Soundpony – Pageant The Colony – Little Joe McLerran The Hunt Club – Brandon Clark The Shrine – Phil Marshall CD Release Party – ($5) The Vanguard – Mobiusdisco EP Release w/ Old Town, Summit – 8:00 pm – ($7) Woody Guthrie Center – SONiA disappear fear – 7:00 pm – ($12-$15) Yeti – The Dirty Mugs, Violent Affair

Sat // Feb 28

Baker St. Pub – Uninvited Guest BOK Center – Miranda Lambert, Justin Moore – 7:30 pm – ($39.75-$54.75) Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Bull and Bear Tavern – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe, Midnight Jam Session – 10:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – River’s Edge – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Steve Pryor Cimarron Bar – Seven Day Crash – 8:00 pm Crow Creek Tavern – The Sellouts Dusty Dog Pub – Oklahoma Stew, The Salty Dogs Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Fassler Hall – Algebra - Oklahoma Dope 36 // MUSIC

Fat Daddy’s Pub and Grille – Laron Simpson Four Aces Tavern – JustNCase Lambrusco’z To Go – Gypsy Twang – 1:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Dirty River Boys – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – The Hi-Fidelics – 9:00 pm NINE18 Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – SeXtion 8 – 9:00 pm Peppers Grill - South – Pete and Jennifer Marriott Pickles Pub – T4 Quad Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Stars – 9:00 pm Sandite Billiards and Grill – Casper McWade and the HonkyTonk Rebels – 8:00 pm Soundpony – DJ Falkirk The Colony – Dustin Pittsley Band The Hunt Club – FM Pilots, Kayfabe, I Am Jet Fuel The Shrine – Eric Sardinas - ($10$12) The Vanguard – All About a Bubble, Sleepwalking Home, Roots of Thought, Summit, Skytown, Hardie Avenue – 7:00 pm – ($10) Woody Guthrie Center – Brian Whelan – 2:00 pm Yeti – Fractal Sky, Dalton Richmond

Sun // Mar 1

BOK Center – Winter Jam w/ Skillet, Jeremy Camp, Francesca Battistelli, Building 429, For King & Country, Family Force 5, Tony Nolan, Blanca, About a Mile, VERIDIA – 5:00 pm – ($10) Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – The Myron and Booker Variety Show – 5:00 pm – ($15-$20) The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Good Ground Yeti – Vagittarius, Bitchcraft

Mon // Mar 2

727 Club – Johnny Paul Band – 8:00 pm Juniper – Dean DeMerritt and Frank Brown – 6:30 pm Soundpony – Frogbelly and Symphony, Burning City Orchestra The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton The Fur Shop – Cypher 120 – 8:00 pm

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THINK YOU KNOW BETTER? Prove it. Tulsa Voice film critic Joe O’Shansky will predict the Oscar winners in all categories, and if you can beat him, we’ll give you six free movie passes at Circle Cinema and a $50 McNellie’s Group gift card.

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WILL WIN: Birdman

WILL WIN: Boyhood

WILL WIN: Birdman

WILL WIN: Birdman

SHOULD WIN: Boyhood

SHOULD WIN: Birdman

SHOULD WIN: Boyhood

SHOULD WIN: Boyhood

SHOULD WIN: Boyhood

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Gone Girl

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Inherent Vice

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Selma

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Inherent Vice

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: A Most Violent Year

WILL WIN: Alejandro Iñárritu, Birdman

WILL WIN: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

WILL WIN: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

SHOULD WIN: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

SHOULD WIN: Alejandro Iñárritu, Birdman

SHOULD WIN: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Damien Chazelle, Whiplash

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Ava Duvernay, Selma

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice

WILL WIN: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

WILL WIN: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

WILL WIN: Michael Keaton, Birdman

WILL WIN: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

WILL WIN: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

SHOULD WIN: Michael Keaton, Birdman

SHOULD WIN: Michael Keaton, Birdman

SHOULD WIN: Michael Keaton, Birdman

SHOULD WIN: Michael Keaton, Birdman

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Tom Hardy, Locke

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: David Oyelowo, Selma

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel

SHOULD WIN: Michael Keaton, Birdman

WILL WIN: Alejandro Iñárritu, Birdman SHOULD WIN: Richard Linklater, Boyhood SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Tie—Ava Duvernay, Selma and David Fincher, Gone Girl

WILL WIN: Richard Linklater, Boyhood SHOULD WIN: Richard Linklater, Boyhood SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Ava DuVernay, Selma

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: David Oyelowo, Selma

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Tie— David Oyelowo, Selma and Miles Teller, Whiplash

WILL WIN: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

WILL WIN: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

WILL WIN: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

WILL WIN: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

WILL WIN: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

SHOULD WIN: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

SHOULD WIN: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night

SHOULD WIN: Reese Witherspoon, Wild

SHOULD WIN: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

SHOULD WIN: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Kristen Wiig, The Skeleton Twins

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Carla Juri, Wetlands

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Carla Juri, Wetlands

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Carla Juri, Wetlands

WILL WIN: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

WILL WIN: Edward Norton, Birdman

WILL WIN: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

WILL WIN: Edward Norton, Birdman

WILL WIN: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

SHOULD WIN: Edward Norton, Birdman

SHOULD WIN: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

SHOULD WIN: Edward Norton, Birdman

SHOULD WIN: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

SHOULD WIN: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Tyler Perry, Gone Girl

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Joaquin Phoenix, The Immigrant

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice

WILL WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

WILL WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

WILL WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

SHOULD WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

SHOULD WIN: Emma Stone, Birdman

SHOULD WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Rene Russo, Nightcrawler

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Stacy Martin, Nymphomaniac

SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Anne Hathaway, Interstellar

WILL WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood SHOULD WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Mia Wasikowska, Only Lovers Left Alive

WILL WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood SHOULD WIN: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood SHOULD BE NOMINATED: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

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Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dor nan in ‘Fift y Shades of Gre y’

Don’t submit ‘Fifty Shades’ adaptation aims for erotic and exotic, lands on boring

by JOE O’SHANSKY

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n advance of seeing “Fifty Shades of Grey,” I actually started reading the novel. The well-known and hugely successful Twilight fan-fic from writer E.L. James, the first in an inexplicable trilogy, Fifty Shades is everything I would have expected Twilight to be—had I bombarded myself with four books of moping, sparkly vampires and characters as empty as the soul of a men’s rights activist. The only major difference is that Fifty Shades swaps out the abstinence metaphors for bondage/domination sex via a particularly boring Harlequin novel. I got about a hundred pages in before I gave up.

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descriptions of the Adonis-like beauty of its protagonist, Christian Grey—it’s absurd. The frothy perspective of a 16-year-old living in a 21-year-old girl’s body—it reads suspiciously like a Penthouse Forum letter written by a Mormon.

You’re not supposed to yell at your laptop while reading something sexy. Say what you want about Anaïs Nin, but she never made me facepalm while reading about the nature of female sexual ecstasy. At least she writes more erotically-charged lines than, “Two orgasms… coming apart at the seams, like the spin cycle on a washing machine, wow.” It’s like porn for Dan Brown fans.

I didn’t have much hope for “Fifty Shades of Grey” on the big screen. Weirdly, it was an improvement for a couple reasons. Mainly

because I’d never be able to finish the book in less than two hours, and now I don’t have to.

Dakota Johnson is Anastasia Steele, a 21-year-old English Lit student on the verge of graduation from Washington State (more shades of “Twilight”), whose roommate, Kate (Eloise Mumford), writes for the student paper. Kate catches a cold or something and sends Anastasia to interview a billionaire entrepreneur in her stead.

Either the coldly charismatic—one might say vampiric—27-year-old Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan).

Upon meeting Grey, a chiseled, quasi-Aryan Sun god, Ana finds herself quickly swept off her feet by him. He pursues her in subtle ways—like buying her a first-edition set of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles worth more

than her tuition. He’s eminently controlling, a man who gets what he wants. Ana wonders why he wants her while confronting her own desires for the first time.

Grey is the ultimate stalker (tracking her phone, showing up at work unannounced). The rich get to be eccentric, I guess. Or at least do things that would completely creep most women out.

He passive-aggressively pulls her in only to push her away, teasing hints of a dark secret behind his extravagantly tentative advances.

What girl could resist?

But when Ana—whose nascent conceptions of sex with Grey are as vanilla as a virgin’s (yet more shades of Twilight), discovers he has an NDA, or a non-disclosure agreenment for (see SHADES on page 43)

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Clock wise from left: Maggie Gyllenhaal in ‘Se cretar y;’ Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in ‘Last Tango in Paris;’ Rocco Siffredi in ‘Anatomy of Hell’

Hotter tickets Skip ‘Fifty Shades’ and fire up any of these smart, sexy erotic dramas

by JOSHUA KLINE

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ow that Universal’s “Fifty Shades of Grey” has owned the box office with a record-breaking Valentine’s weekend, it’s safe to assume (and hilarious to think) that the erotic romance’s BDSM themes are providing grist for awkward dinner table conversations across middle America.

But the movie only flirts with transgression; lest it offend its core demographic, the story has been filtered, sanitized and scrubbed of any excitement, spontaneity or edge. The danger and messiness of Christian Grey’s “singular tastes” have been rendered onscreen with an obsessive, clinical focus on not alienating the soccer moms. The resulting outcome is boring, sad and regressive.

On the other hand, a movie about BDSM is number one at the box office! Good job, America. But where to go from here? You’ve read the book and watched the movie. Your husband is sore and a little frightened, your kids are embarrassed and your pastor has stopped taking your prayer requests. Your life is falling apart, but you need your next fix. Allow me to introduce you to several movies that do it better than Christian Grey.

1 // Belle de Jour, 1967 available to stream on HuluPlus

Spanish Surrealist Luis Bunuel’s first color film stars Catherine Deneuve as a repressed French housewife whose sexual frustration leads her to a Parisian brothel, where she takes up work as a

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daytime prostitute. Though tame by today’s standards (there’s very little onscreen sex or nudity) the movie’s sustained erotic charge puts E.L. James to shame.

screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson (working from a short story by Mary Gaitskill) treat the characters like human beings, not objects of fantasy.

2 // Secretary, 2002

3 // Last Tango in Paris, 1972

available for rent on iTunes and Google Play

available for rent on iTunes and Google Play

“Secretary” is the smarter, funnier cousin to “Fifty Shades.” Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lee, a fragile young woman whose search for work leads her to the law office of Edward Grey (James Spader, playing who I can only imagine is Christian Grey’s weird uncle).

Edward quickly recognizes a kindred outsider in Lee, and soon the two are engaged in their own master-servant game. The parallels to “Fifty Shades” run strong, but director Steven Shainberg and

Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider play damaged souls brought together by a mutual need for intimacy in Bernardo Bertolucci’s controversial X-rated classic. Paul (Brando) and Jeanne (Schneider) are strangers who, while apartment hunting one day, meet in an empty Paris loft and have rough, spontaneous sex. The tryst turns into an affair. Paul—grieving the recent suicide of his wife—dictates the rules of engagement: they must (see HOTTER on page 43) FILM & TV // 41

Home, video Five questions with Tulsa native filmmaker Todd Lincoln

by JOE O’SHANSKY

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fter the release of his feature debut, “The Apparition,” Tulsa-native writer and director Todd Lincoln returned to town to shoot his next project, the experimental horror short “Gorgeous Vortex.”

“Vortex” is the final segment of the video release of “V/H/S: Viral,” the third entry in the popular horror anthology franchise. Avant-garde in conception and shot with a mostly local crew, the film has a dream-like quality unique to Lincoln’s imagination.

I caught up with Lincoln to talk about how the film came to be, his hopes for the Tulsa film scene and his dream of Claud’s Hamburgers staying open till 2 a.m.

How did “V/H/S: Viral” come to be?

I was in L.A. walking in the Topanga Canyon mall eating cookies when I ran into one of the “V/H/S” producers. He and I started talking, and he asked me if I’d be interested in directing a segment for the new “V/H/S” film for Magnolia Pictures. I went home and quickly fleshed out three different concepts that I sent

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so damn few hours in the day. My dream is to keep them open till at least 2 a.m. every night and really bring the “Restless Ribbon” of Peoria back full-force.

A scene from Todd Lincoln’s (inset) new hor ror shor t “Gorgeous Vor tex”

to him and the other producers.

Happily, they chose “Gorgeous Vortex.”

inal score. He just released the soundtrack album on vinyl and digital download.

I got a David Lynch meets Clive Barker vibe from “Gorgeous Vortex”. “The Apparition” owed a debt to Carpenter and found-footage ghost stories, but what were your influences for this?

I love those filmmakers, but I didn’t consciously have them in mind while I was making this. I had been interested for a while in smashing together visual elements of fashion photography and horror films, and this story was the perfect opportunity. “Gorgeous Vortex” is an experimental, high-fashion horror film. It’s like an evil puzzle or strange transmissions from an interdimensional fever dream—purposely disruptive and divisive. I felt it was time to burn the forest for regrowth and maybe push the horror genre forward a little bit. My composer, Joseph Bishara (“The Conjuring,” “Insidious” 1 & 2”) really elevated and enhanced “Gorgeous Vortex” with his haunting orig-

Between the return of Overground Film Festival [which Lincoln resurrected with partner Jeremy Lamberton], and shooting “Vortex” here, you clearly have affection for Tulsa. Is that part of an effort to bring L.A. here, or is Weber’s root beer just that awesome?

It was important to me to bring this film to my hometown and use a mostly Tulsa crew. I made my longtime friend and Tulsa Overground Festival collaborator Jeremy Lamberton a co-producer on “Gorgeous Vortex.” He did amazing work on this as a second-unit director of photography, art director and location manager. Tulsa has such cool, unique, untapped locations for filming. There’s so much scope and built-in production value. And yes, easy access to a cold frosty mug of Weber’s root beer doesn’t hurt. Neither does a hamburger from Claud’s. But those historic establishments are open

Did you get any help from the Oklahoma Film and Music Office?

A little. They and the Tulsa Film and Music Office were helpful with permitting locations for us.

But to be honest, myself and other filmmakers have been frustrated and disappointed for a long time by many aspects of how things work or don’t work at the OFMO. There are massive missed opportunities. Taxpayers and filmmakers deserve better. I look forward to sitting down with them and the Tulsa mayor’s office to have an honest, constructive conversation about how they can dramatically advance things and move Tulsa forward in a quicker, cooler, more efficient way.

Given the nature of the machine, life, and everything else; what film do you want to make next?

Right now I’m hiding out in research/development mode. I’m writing a new feature script that I can’t talk about yet, but it’s kind of a psychosexual sci-fi thriller.

I’m also exploring new forms of storytelling and world-building in other mediums, such as real-time mobile augmented reality. In the meantime, you should keep checking up on gorgeusvortex. com for additional side-story micro-films that tie in with “Gorgeous Vortex.” a

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(S HADES, from page 40) her to sign and a Red Room of Pain, all that flies through the proverbial looking glass.

Adapted by Kelly Marcel and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (of 2009’s acclaimed “Nowhere Boy”), “Fifty Shades of Grey” is shockingly boring. Those first hundred pages of the book were the first act of the film, which feels perfunctory and empty on screen despite the abscence of Ana’s vacuous internal monologue. “Fifty Shades” could have benefitted from some breathy narration just to make it funnier, since the prose has so many meme-worthy, what-the-fuck moments. But, no. This is serious.

Instead, the film avoids forcing E.L. James’ fevered dialogue from its actors’ pursed lips by relying on Vaguebook looks for erotic suspense and expositional character development worthy

(HOT TER, from page 41) remain anonymous and refrain from sharing anything personal about themselves (including their names) with each other. In her most famous review, film criticism goddess Pauline Kael celebrated the film’s release as a historic event that would change the face of cinema. Unfortunately, she was only half-right. The movie introduced complicated, dark sexuality to film’s mainstream, but its successors have rarely treated the subject with the same level of respect or intelligence (See: “Fifty Shades of Grey”).

4 // Nymphomaniac, 2014 available for streaming on Netflix

Seasoned provocateur Lars von Trier (“Antichrist”) tells the story of Jo (played at different ages

by Stacy Martin and Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-confessed sex addict whose needs grow more complicated with age. With a 5-hour runtime (the movie is split into two volumes), von Trier gives himself ample opportunity to explore the nooks and crannies

of a Chrysler ad. It’s kind of a bummer because I was looking forward to seeing these actors try and make some of the more vapid, head-scratching dialogue.

But the film sidesteps those issues by largely re-writing most of it—adding another layer of flaccidity to the proceedings. The equally slick, Cronenbergian visual aesthetic is almost as cold and Canadian as “Crash,” but without the feeling that you’re watching something actually filthy.

I’m not versed in the BDSM life (though there’s always hope), but I’d think actual adherents would be left feeling incredibly underserved, misrepresented or even contemptuous of the Disney version of what they do.

After all, most dominants don’t fly their submissives to a Fortress of Solitude in their own helicopters. In real life, isn’t it just people meeting on Tinder?

THESE CHARACTERS ARE CYPHERS FOR PENT-UP MOMS WHO FANTASIZED ABOUT BONING EDWARD CULLEN WHILE TAKING THEIR TWEENS TO SEE “BREAKING DAWN.” These characters are cyphers for pent-up moms who fantasized about boning Edward Cullen while taking their tweens to see “Breaking Dawn.” Sam Taylor-Johnson does the best she can to make them interesting. Her use of frame is one of the only strong suits of “Fifty Shades.” Dornan and Johnson look great naked, but you never get the sense they’re baring themselves beyond the physical. Their characters are too shallow for any real emotion, and their lack of chemistry subverts the eroticism—if there was ever any to begin with.

Charlot te Gainsbourg and Jamie Bell in ‘Ny mphomaniac;’

of Jo’s psyche. She approaches sex like a buffet, trying a little of everything, and the camera never flinches or judges. This is explicit, heavy stuff tempered by a thoughtful, nuanced approach to female sexual agency and anchored by Gainsbourg’s absolutely fearless performance.

5 // Anatomy of Hell, 2004 DVD purchase available on Amazon

In another life, French filmmaker Catherine Breillat might have

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been a women’s studies professor. Her films are ideologically dense, and rich with metaphor and characters who act more as philosophical archetypes than human beings. Based on Breillat’s own novel “Pornocracy,” was largely derided by critics upon release as joyless art porn. That’s pretty much what it is, but it’s also beautifully shot, and Breillat conveys her heady ideas about gender conflict with clarity and confidence. The movie is by de-

The sad thing is that America needs a film like “Fifty Shades,” just one that does it better—a film that breaks through cultural taboos and starts an open conversation about the state of sexuality in our puritanical, patriarchal society. “Nymphomaniac” tried (check out Josh’s column for more on that), but was never going to capture the zeitgeist like these books, which have mainstreamed faux-literary porn in a way unseen since “Deep Throat” nearly legitimized actual porn in theaters decades ago.

I didn’t even feel uncomfortable watching this with a crowd.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” is the MPAA-approved version of kink.

Ironically not violent enough, but still a place where—typically—the female orgasm is shunned, veiled thrusts must be kept to a minimum and no real boundaries are pushed. a

sign a body horror film that dares viewers to look away.

An unnamed woman (Amira Casar) attempts suicide at a gay nightclub but is saved by an unnamed man (Rocco Siffredi). As a corollary to her existential suffering, the Woman hires the Man to spend several nights at her apartment observing her in her most intimate private moments. The most basic version of Breillat’s thesis is that misogyny is rooted in men’s fear of the female anatomy, and she uses her camera to test the point—exploring the terrain of Casar’s nether regions in long, unbroken takes. The escalation between the two characters from observation to interaction culminates in one of the most beautifully nauseating moments I’ve ever witnessed on film, when the Man and Woman share a cup of tea brewed from Casar’s actual used tampon. Understandably, most people won’t have the stomach for “Anatomy of Hell,” and I can’t blame them. But for the most adventurous viewers, it’s a memorable, challenging experience. a FILM & TV // 43

free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

AQUARIUS

(JAN. 20-FEB. 18):

How many desires do you have? Take a rough inventory. Identify the experiences you continually seek in your quest to feel relief and pleasure and salvation and love and a sense of meaning. You can also include fantasies that go unfulfilled and dreams that may or may not come true in the future. As you survey this lively array, don’t censor yourself or feel any guilt. Simply give yourself to a sumptuous meditation on all the longings that fuel your journey. This is your prescription for the coming week. In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, it is the medicine you need most.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope you have someone in your life to whom you can send the following love note, and if you don’t, I trust you will locate that someone no later than August 1: “I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.” (This passage is borrowed from author Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Everything Is Illuminated.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We assume that others show their love in the same way that we do,” writes psychologist Amy Przeworski, “and if they don’t follow that equation, we worry that the love is not there.” I think you’re on track to overcome this fundamental problem, Taurus. Your struggles with intimacy have made you wise enough to surrender your expectations about how others should show you their love. You’re almost ready to let them give you their affection and demonstrate their care for you in ways that come natural to them. In fact, maybe you’re ready RIGHT NOW. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’d like to bestow a blessing on you and your closest ally. My hope is that it will help you reduce the restlessness that on occasion undermines the dynamism of your relationship. Here’s the benediction, inspired by a Robert Bly poem: As you sit or walk or lie next to each other, you share a mood of glad acceptance.

You aren’t itchy or fidgeting, wondering if there’s something better to be or do. You don’t wish you were talking about a different subject or feeling a different emotion or living in a different world. You are content to be exactly who you are, exactly where you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Want to infuse your romantic interludes with wilder moods now and then? Want to cultivate a kind of intimacy that taps deeper into your animal intelligence? If so, try acting out each other’s dreams or drawing magic symbols on each other’s bodies. Whisper funny secrets into each other’s ears or wrestle like good-natured drunks on the living room floor. Howl like coyotes. Caw like crows. Purr like cheetahs. Sing boisterous songs and recite feral poetry to each other. Murmur this riff, adapted from Pablo Neruda: “Our love was born in the wind, in the night, in the earth. That’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know our names.”

Place the numbers 1 through 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once.

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act as if they had a great work to accomplish.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): About 2,600 years ago, the Greek poet Sappho wrote the following declaration: “You make me hot.” In the next ten days, I’d love for you to feel motivated to say or think that on a regular basis. In fact, I predict that you will. The astrological omens suggest you’re in a phase when you are both more likely to be made hot and more likely to encounter phenomena that make you hot. Here are some other fragments from Sappho that might come in handy when you need to express your torrid feelings: 1. “This randy madness I joyfully proclaim.” 2. “Eros makes me shiver again . . . Snake-sly, invincible.” 3. “Desire has shaken my mind as wind in the mountain forests roars through trees.” (Translations by Guy Davenport.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the TV science-fiction show Doctor Who, the title character lives in a time machine that is also a spaceship. It’s called a Tardis. From the outside, it appears to be barely bigger than a phone booth. But once you venture inside, you find it’s a spacious chateau with numerous rooms, including a greenhouse, library, observatory, swimming pool, and karaoke bar. This is an excellent metaphor for you, Scorpio. Anyone who wants your love or friendship must realize how much you resemble a Tardis. If they don’t understand that you’re far bigger on the inside than you seem on the outside, it’s unlikely the two of you can have a productive relationship. This Valentine season, as a public service, make sure that everyone you’re seriously involved with knows this fact.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Love and intimacy come in many forms. There are at least a billion different ways for you to be attracted to another person, and a trillion different ways to structure your relationship. Maybe your unique bond involves having sex, or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it’s romantic or friendly or holy, or all three of those things. Do the two of you have something important to create together, or is your connection more about fueling each other’s talents? Your task is to respect and revere the idiosyncratic ways you fit together, not force yourselves to conform to a prototype. To celebrate the Valentine season, I invite you and your closest ally to play around with these fun ideas.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there any sense in which your closest alliance is a gift to the world? Does your relationship inspire anyone? Do the two of you serve as activators and energizers, igniting fires in the imaginations of those whose lives you touch? If not, find out why. And if you are tapping into those potentials, it’s time to raise your impact to the next level. Together the two of you now have extra power to synergize your collaboration in such a way that it sends out ripples of benevolence everywhere you go.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anais Nin wrote the following passage in her novel A Spy in the House of Love: “As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.” I recommend that approach for you right now, Capricorn. A quest for tender, compassionate attention doesn’t always have to be at the top of your list of needs, but I think it should be for now. You will derive a surprisingly potent alchemical boost from basking in kindness. It will catalyze a breakthrough that can’t be unleashed in any other way.

Ask for it!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The poet Rainer Marie Rilke said that people misunderstand the role of love. “They have made it into play and pleasure because they think that play and pleasure are more blissful than work,” he wrote. “But there is nothing happier than work. And love, precisely because it is the supreme happiness, can be nothing other than work.” I’m sharing this perspective with you for two reasons, Virgo. First, of all the signs in the zodiac, you’re most likely to thrive on his approach. Second, you’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when this capacity of yours is at a peak. Here’s how Rilke finished his thought: “Lovers should

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The German word Nachkussen refers to the kind of kiss that compensates for all the kissing that has not been happening, all the kissing that has been omitted or lost. If it has been too long since you’ve kissed anyone, you need Nachkussen. If your lover hasn’t kissed you lately with the focused verve you long for, you need Nachkussen. If you yourself have been neglecting to employ your full artistry and passion as you bestow your kisses, you need Nachkussen. From what I can tell, Pisces, this Valentine season is a full-on Nachkussen holiday for you. Now please go get what you haven’t been getting.

MASTER

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ACROSS 1 On ___ with (equal to) 5 Like a tack 10 Coarse file 14 Indian state 19 Not false 20 Shire of “Rocky” 21 51, famously 22 Asian wild dog 23 Sondheim’s Sweeney 24 “Are you calling me ___?”

25 Dawn, poetically 26 Bob and Elizabeth 27 It’s free 31 The puck stops here?

32 Present-day Persia 33 Blanc, for one 34 Frolic, as a child 35 “Do as ___, not ...”

36 Data transmission speed measure 37 Suit-tag letters 40 Shopping binge 43 “There’s more than one way to skin ___” 44 Former German chancellor 45 What one earns 46 Grand ___ (vintage) 47 Like some churches 52 Participate in a 10K 53 Takes in a book 54 Sunrise direction 55 Cancels 56 “Corn” or “cycle” prefix 57 “Gotcha!”

58 Grandma 59 Whopper 60 Certain applied science

69 “8,” sometimes (Abbr.)

70 At the center of 71 Word on a dipstick 72 Classic introduction?

73 Cultured gem 76 Camera part 77 Abstain from 80 Coffee dispenser 81 It issues securities 85 “If ___ told you once ...”

86 Casual Friday casualties 87 As many as 88 Mosque VIP 89 Playful aquatic animal 91 Billboard displays 92 African plains grazers 93 Bakery appliance 94 Peepers or spheres 96 Court order 97 Accessible to everyone 98 Conspiratorial groups 101 Movie-watching machine of old 108 Farewell 109 Grizzly, for one 110 Zola or Griffith 111 Just a smidge 112 Uses a needle and thread 113 Toy buildingblock brand 114 Lack of laxness 115 Assist in the weight room 116 Old hat 117 Adam’s garden 118 Data and such 119 Brownish shades DOWN 1 Bering Sea island

2 Fork tine 3 Part of a sound system 4 Bureaucracy problem 5 Arrowhead and Yankee 6 WWII admiral nicknamed Bull 7 Came down to earth 8 Org. combating music piracy 9 They take sides 10 Chef Gordon 11 Mac’s attachment?

12 Bygone peasant 13 Tropics headgear 14 Either 2 in “2 + 2” 15 Definitely not tall 16 Unaccompanied performances 17 Baldwin of TV and film 18 Clifflike, flat-topped elevation 28 Talk show name 29 Bard’s inspiration 30 Lose feathers, in London 35 Topped a cake 36 Small oriental tree 37 Hindu noble 38 Archaic exclamation 39 Some hair products 40 Rugby formation 41 Wrinkled fruit 42 Mystical 43 Holly Hunter in “The Piano” 44 Wild ass of Asia 45 He goes a-courting 48 Arboreal ape 49 Soda brand 50 Intend 51 Like a Cub’s walls?

57 Does some trucking 58 Flanders on TV 59 Deceived 61 Hounds’ prey 62 Editor’s inserts 63 Type of acid 64 Grocery shopper’s helper 65 People of northeastern India 66 Alaska native 67 Signal carrier in the body 68 One lacking hope 73 Bread for a gyro 74 “National Velvet” author Bagnold 75 St. crossers 76 Subject to blame 77 Agitators 78 Yemen neighbor 79 Speed, to a DJ 82 Greek knee-length garment 83 Catlike creature 84 Roughneck, in London 90 Like old autocratic Russia 92 Pennsylvania state bird 93 Group of genes 94 Leopard look-alike 95 500 cars 96 Lawn intrusions 97 River in Missouri 99 Parkinson’s drug 100 ___ Hall University 101 Seductress in silent films 102 “What’s the big ___?”

103 Cacophonies 104 Thing to plant 105 Put out 106 Gulf of ___ (arm of the Baltic) 107 Charlie Brown exclamation

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news of the weird

by Chuck Shepherd

What researchers do “Entomologists are not like other people,” Wired.com reported in January, revealing that two of them had “proudly” issued “birth” announcements for the “Human bot fly” whose larvae one had let gestate beneath his skin for two months. Scientist Piotr Naskrecki and photographer Gil Wizen had been inadvertently bitten while on assignment in Belize and decided the egg-laying “attack” on a human was an important opportunity for research. After all, Naskrecki said, he had never seen an adult bot fly “crawl out” of its host.

Unclear on the concept Luis Moreno Jr., 26, was pursued by police in Fort Lee, New Jersey, after he entered the carpool lane approaching the George Washington Bridge in January because he appeared to be alone in his SUV. After ignoring several signals to pull over, he finally stopped and, when informed of his offense, told the officer, “I have two passengers in the back” and rolled down a window to show them (in the vehicle’s third row), apparently satisfying the officer. However, as Moreno pulled away, one passenger began screaming and banging on the back door. Moreno sped off with his hostages, but was subsequently stopped again and charged with kidnapping and criminal restraint (but no HOV violation!).

New world order Last year in Middle East school markets, the worldwide publishing giant HarperCollins was selling a popular atlas whose maps pretended there was no such country as Israel. The space that is Israel was merged into Jordan, Syria and Gaza. The company said it was merely honoring “local preferences” of potential atlas purchasers, whom HarperCollins presumed were Arabs wishing that Israel did not exist. (In January 2015, the company finally changed course, publicly “regretted” its decision and recalled all existing stock.)

Montanan John Abarr told the Great Falls Tribune in November that his Rocky Mountain Knights 46 // ETC.

of the Ku Klux Klan opposes the “new world order” pushing a “one government” system on the planet — but also stands against discrimination based on race, religion or sexual orientation. “White supremacy is the old Klan,” he said. “This is the new Klan” (except that, he said, robes and hoods will still be required, along with “secret rituals”).

The New Normal: In January, Mittens the kitten and Charcoal the Chihuahua mix made news as hermaphrodites whose veterinarians had recommended which gender the since-adopted strays should retain. Mittens, of the town of Heart’s Desire, Newfoundland, was scheduled for “gender assignment” surgery to become solely male, and Charcoal, of Boise, Idaho, is recovering from mid-January surgery to leave her exclusively female. News reports did not disclose why “male” was chosen for Mittens, but the doctor said correcting Charcoal’s pre-surgery problem, urination, would be less stressful as a female.

Fine points of the law The Supreme Court of Canada turned down Joel Ifergan’s appeal in January, leaving his winning-number lottery ticket from 2008 worthless. He had bought two tickets seconds before the 9 p.m. deadline on May 23 of that year, and the tickets had started to print on the store’s machine, but only the first one carried that day’s date. By the time the second one — with winning numbers for

the $27 million jackpot — had gone through the lottery’s central computer system and back to the store’s printer, the program had already kicked over to the following day and to the next week’s drawing.

to have sex — which provoked a heart attack, leading to emergency rescue and a five-day hospital stay (and, eventually, breakup with his then-girlfriend).

Undignified deaths

Urban Legend Come to Life: Too-good-to-be-true stories have circulated for years about men who accidentally fell, posterior first, onto compressed-air nozzles and “self-inflated,” to resemble “dough boys,” usually with fatal results. However, in May (2011) in Opotiki, New Zealand, trucker Steven McCormack found himself in similar circumstances, and had it not been for quick-thinking colleagues who pulled him away, he would have been killed — not as a “dough boy” but as the air, puncturing his anal cavity, began separating his body’s tissue from muscle. McCormack was hospitalized in severe pain, but the air gradually seeped from his body (according to a doctor, in the way air “usually” seeps from a body).

Police in Seville, Spain, reported in November that a 23-year-old medical student visiting from Poland accidentally fell to her death at the famous Puente de Triana bridge when she maneuvered herself into position on a ledge to take a “selfie.” It was the third “selfie” death on the Iberian peninsula in five months; in August a tourist couple (both also from Poland) fell to their deaths while posing for their photo at Cabo de Roca, Portugal.

In January, a tourist visiting the Spanish island of Ibiza with her boyfriend jumped up joyously as he proposed marriage to her, lost her balance and fell 65 feet off a cliff to her death.

A News of the Weird classic (July 2011)

Recurring themes Ultra-Expensive Trysts: The ones reported previously in News of the Weird involved celebrities ultimately nailed for high-ticket child support payments based on a single encounter (e.g., tennis star Boris Becker, who admitted conceiving a child in a restaurant closet rendezvous). British tourist Peter Cousins, 55, is now dealing with a medical bill of $250,000 after deciding that the middle of a Nevada desert was a good place

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