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ontrary to what the cover might have you thinking, there is good news in this issue. Even the banner itself is a sign of that—indigenous women speaking truth to power, art mixed with action, and the nearing end of Mary Fallin’s time as governor.

I spoke with Ashley McCray, an organizer behind the alreadyinfamous banner drop at Fallin’s final State of the State, about why she and two other women chose that moment and message (pg. 18). I don’t make a habit of calling out the Tulsa World—they do good and different work—but writer Wayne Green’s label of “incivility” for these indigenous women, followed by a suggestion

that they paint a self-portrait with “froth around the lips”—a phrase that conjures rabid animals—is inexcusable. I’ll let McCray explain why. (Barry Friedman took issue with it, too (pg. 8).)

None of the three women on our cover live in Tulsa. But their concerns about the policies, people, and organizations responsible for ruining our state’s budget, environment, and educational and health opportunities are concerns all Oklahomans should share. It’s their hope that you do.

We also hear from writer Zack Reeves, who spent a week attending the trial of Stanley Majors earlier this month (pg. 22). Some of the details of his story are

chilling, others uplifting. The point is, ultimately, positive—Majors was convicted, and a murderer has been removed from the public.

Perhaps next time the state will act earlier so an unsurprising hate crime like this one doesn’t occur in the first place.

But I promised more good news. Marshall Brewing Company is turning ten years old (pg.

14). The Cintheez Family Bread business is growing (pg 12). New Genre Arts Festival is morphing and condensing—and it’s still free (pg. 26). Casii Stephan and Faye Moffett are collaborating for an evening of music (pg. 40). “Black Panther” is changing the way moviemakers think about super-

hero films and their audiences (pg. 44).

We’ve also begun collaborating with Mvskoke Media, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s media outlet. Jessica McBride’s article on Murphy v. Royal, a landmark case that has the potential to change Oklahoma as we know it today, marks the first joint-publishing effort between our two publications (pg. 30). Check out their other work at mvskokemedia.com. a

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THE SCORES ARE IN Oklahoma slips in new economic rankings

by COURTNEY CULLISON

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he annual Prosperity Now Scorecard uses the most recent data available to offer a comprehensive look at Americans’ ability to save and build wealth, escape poverty, and create a more prosperous future. For Oklahoma in 2018, the scorecard paints a picture of families struggling just to make ends meet. Oklahoma’s ranking of 40th among all 50 states continues our decline from 37th last year and 34th the year before. On just about every measure in Oklahoma, things are getting worse.

Oklahoma did rank fairly well for businesses and jobs (13th). We had a smaller-than-average gap in the value of businesses owned by people of color and women and an increase in the percentage of employers offering health insurance (52 percent). However, the percentage of jobs in Oklahoma classified as low-wage increased to 29 percent, indicating that many jobs still don’t pay enough to support a family.

Oklahoma also scored relatively well in homeownership and housing. We saw a decline in the percentage of delinquent mortgage loans and a small reduction in the percentage of Oklahomans spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs.

However, for the rest of the areas examined by the scorecard, Oklahoma ranked among the worst in the nation. We scored 45th for financial assets and income. Our poverty rate still tops the national average, and our income inequality has widened.

Three in ten borrowers are using over 75 percent of their credit card limit. One in five Oklahomans are at least 90 days past due on a debt.

We ranked 44th for health care, and basic health care access remains a challenge. Our uninsured rate (16 percent) outpaces the national average (10 percent), and it’s twice as high for Oklahomans of color. Too many of us report forgoing a visit to the doctor because of cost (15 percent), and

one in five Oklahomans report poor or fair health.

In previous years Oklahoma scored near the middle of the nation for education, but we’ve lost significant ground and now are ranked 45th. Early childhood education enrollment has declined, and the percentage of youth who are neither enrolled in school nor employed went up. More than 20 percent of Oklahomans have student loan debt, and one in five of those are at least 30 days past due.

We can do better. There are good policy solutions to address Oklahomans’ difficulties building wealth, escaping debt, and accessing health care.

For example, the Earned Income Tax Credit has a proven history of lifting families out of poverty. But to be most effective, it must be refundable—families must be able to claim the credit even if the amount exceeds their income tax liability. That’s why it’s important that legislators restore the refundability of our state EITC. Oklahomans use payday loans at a higher rate than residents of any other state, and these predatory loans trap working families in a cycle of debt that can be nearly impossible to escape. Oklahoma needs stronger policies to protect against the harms of predatory lending.

Health is vital to a full and productive life. But for too many Oklahomans, a lack of access to health care puts them at risk of debilitating illness and massive debt. Oklahoma must stop cutting funds for care and instead accept all funds available to expand affordable, quality health care.

The scorecard should be a wake-up call that Oklahoma must do more to help families achieve financial stability and a more prosperous future. a

Courtney Cullison is a policy analyst with Oklahoma Policy Institute (www.okpolicy.com).

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efore we get to the State of the State, let’s look at the State of the World.

The Tulsa World.

From the paper’s Feb. 4 frontpage editorial: For months, many of the most important issues for the state’s future have been building to a climax, which all Oklahomans should pray will be resol ved quickly …

But our purpose today—in this very unusual setting—is not to argue about how you should think about any particular issue. Our purpose is to urge you to think about these issues and express your will to your legislators directly and forcefully. 1

Not your purpose?

Considering there was one party that cut funding to education more than in any other state in the nation, one party that cut the gross production tax to laughable levels, one party that turned down free money from the Affordable Care Act that could have made health care accessible to hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans,2 and one party, ultimately, that made Oklahoma a financial and cultural punchline and a repository for wing-nuts and hypocrites— that should have been precisely your purpose.

For the love of Bobby Lorton, moral equivalence, and that prayer you mentioned earlier, conflating the damage done by both political parties and holding the likes of Republican John Bennett and Democrat Jeannie McDaniel equally responsible is irresponsible and lazy, especially when there were barely enough Democrats in Oklahoma City the past 8 years for a minyan.

I bring this up now not to take shots at a Tulsa World editorial— though that’s always a pleasure— but to remind us how and why we got here and who was driving the bus.

It wasn’t the economic downturn; it wasn’t dropping energy prices; it wasn’t Obama that caused deficits and special sessions.

It was the state GOP. Full-stop.

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tax systems, raise revenues, eliminate structural deficits, and have economic growth.”5

THE STATE WE’RE IN

California’s deficit went from $27 billion to a surplus of $6.1 billion in eight years.

Here’s another: Between 2011 and 2015, Gov. Dayton added 172,000 new jobs to Minnesota’s economy—that’s 165,800 more jobs in Dayton’s first term than Pawlenty added in both of his terms combined.

Even though Minnesota’s top income tax rate is the fourth highest in the country, it has the fifth lowest unemployment rate in the country (3.6 percent). According to 2012–2013 U.S. Census figures, Minnesotans had a median income that was $10,000 higher than the U.S. average, and their median income is still $8,000 more than the U.S. average today.6

Part V: the end of an error

by BARRY FRIEDMAN

In the governor’s State of the State, she, too, glossed over history and embraced pablum: The basic truth is this: When the hardest challenges come, when a crisis threatens, that’s when Oklahomans, as one, rise up to show our state, our nation, and the world what we have always loved and called the Oklahoma Standard. 3

Well, that’s one way of looking at it. Here’s another: So, on the whole, while Republicans in Washington won’t be able to turn the entire country into Oklahoma overnight, they’re going to give it their best shot. And they’ll keep saying that if we just cut taxes for the wealthy and slash social spending, everything will work out great. No matter how many times they’re proved wrong.4

The floor became the ceiling.

During the governor’s State of the State address last year, she got an applause break when she urged representatives to fund schools so they could all return to five-dayper-week instruction.

Return.

How bad was 2017?

Something resembling a catastrophe. Revenues plummeted, requiring brutal cutbacks in social services. The state’s bond rating was downgraded. The promised growth didn’t materialize—in fact, the state grew at a rate lower than the rest of the country through the recovery of the Obama years.

Job growth in Oklahoma between the time the tax cuts were enacted and when they were scaled back in 2017—after saner Republicans in the state revolted against the governor—was at less than half of what it was in the rest of the country and lower than every one of Kansas’s other neighbors.

There was another way to run a state.

Here’s one: With a stiff cocktail of budget cuts and hard-won new taxes, Brown has not only zeroed out the deficit, he’s also begun paying down the debt. “Jerry Brown’s leadership is a rebuttal to the failed policies of Republicans in Washington,” says Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress. “California is proving you can have sane

Not to put too fine a point on this, but Brown and Dayton are both Democrats. And what was our Republican governor doing during this time?

Gov. Mary Fallin says her long-term goal is to do away with the state income tax and alter Oklahoma’s tax structure to pay for essential government services.7

This wasn’t just mismanagement. This was a planned economic pogrom.

In California and Minnesota, they used math. In Oklahoma, we used ideology.

We starved the beast and then blamed it for being lethargic.

Since the middle of last decade, the tax rate has been cut from 6.65 percent to 5 percent, resulting in $1 billion fewer dollars to fund a fully-functioning government, meaning less money for schools, prisons, mental health, the future.

The budget shortfall for 2018 is expected to be in the area of $600 million.8 Had we never started cutting taxes, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

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There was something in 2017 called The Step-Up Plan, legislation supported by a coalition of public and private concerns, which proposed to lower the supermajority threshold required in the legislature to pass revenue-enhancing measures from 75 percent to 60 percent.9 It also would have generated $700 million in recurring revenues, but it failed because—wait for it—representatives couldn’t overcome the 75 percent threshold. Under the plan, teachers would have received an additional $5,000 per year over a certain period of time, and the gross production tax would have risen to 4 percent.

What comes next? Financial Dunkirk is most likely.

The energy industry supported the 4 percent raise—and will support whatever comes next— not because it finally found a soul, but because if it doesn’t, there will soon be a measure on November’s ballot for returning the rate to 7 percent.

Regardless of the disappointment regarding Step-Up, David Blatt, executive director of Oklahoma Policy Institute and someone who knows more about this than is probably healthy, is still somewhat gobsmacked by the recent turn of events.

“Things have gotten so desperate for Republicans that they are willing to increase taxes by over $700 million so they can get teachers a pay raise and be seen doing something to fix the budget, while Democrats are just savoring the Republicans’ disarray,” he said.

“It’s like that old joke where the masochist says, ‘hit me,’ and the sadist says, ‘no.’”

If there is any optimism out there—a big if, as the fringe of the fringe on both sides hates compromise more than it loves a functioning state10—it is because, to paraphrase Richard Fariña, we’ve been down so long, everything looks like up. The failure of this GOP can be seen in every fifth-grader in Newcastle who’s not in school on Fridays, in stacked inmates in state prisons, in closed nursing homes and hospitals, in teachers and young professionals who leave the state, and seen, most surprising of all, in the rash of recently elected Democratic candidates to the state House and Senate (though some

of this may be because GOP reps keep finding better gigs or getting caught in sex scandals).

Towards the end of Fallin’s remarks, women in the gallery unfurled a giant banner that read “Oklahoma State of Despair,” which, to my mind, wasn’t as much a protest as it was a review. There was some hand-wringing about, as the Tulsa World’s Wayne Greene put it, the “incivility” of it all.11 But considering we have a president of the United States who questions the loyalty and integrity of law enforcement officials, criticizes the independence of the judiciary, attacks private citizens on Twitter, and dismisses a foreign power’s interference in our very own democracy—and a state GOP apparatus that largely (and blindly) supports the president in these endeavors—maybe incivility in the face of tyranny is a welcome thing.

Governor Fallin took a victory lap, as is her right, with this, her last speech. But for all the talk of unity and the Oklahoma Standard, she, too, never mentioned the political party responsible for the state we’re in—nor did she include the one thing she and state Republicans most owe it and us: an apology. a

1) Tulsaworld.com: Oklahoma is at a crossroads, and it’s time for the people to speak up 2) okoha.com: The Uninsured in Oklahoma 3) kgou.org: Audio: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin’s 2018 State of The State Speech 4) washingtonpost.com: Republicans want to turn the entire country into Oklahoma 5) rollingstone.com: Jerry Brown’s Tough-Love Miracle: How He Turned Around California 6) huffingtonpost.com: This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage — Now, His State’s Economy Is One of the Best in the Country 7) kswo.com: Okla. governor wants to do away with income tax 8) newsok.com: Next year’s budget shortfall unknown, Oklahoma officials say 9) Stepupoklahoma.com: STEPUPOK 10) tulsaworld.com: Key piece of Step Up Oklahoma plan stalled on House floor 11) tulsaworld.com: Wayne Greene: State of the State protesters go from fervor to froth, hurting their own causes

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amily stories are wonderful, says genealogist André L. Head, but they are not always accurate.

He says the key to accuracy is documentation, and it’s a gospel he preaches to people across the state who want to learn about their ancestors.

Head, a retired firefighter, founded the Oklahoma Citybased Black Genealogy Research Group of Oklahoma in 2016.

Last year, the Oklahoma Genealogical Society invited him to serve on its board.

Head’s maternal grandmother, who lived to be 105, was the primary storyteller in his family. Nearly 30 years ago, a cousin put together a family history book that placed one of his forebears in an historical context: A great-great-grandfather was a member of the Louisiana Native Guard and was among those who joined the 73rd and 74th regiments of U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. “I read it, and I was so excited about it,” he said. “I wanted to get the actual documents.”

He had the enthusiasm but lacked the skills. So he and his wife, Jessilyn—both living in Seattle at the time—joined the city’s Black Genealogy Research Group.

“As I continued to research, I got more involved in history, genealogy, and the historical black towns of Oklahoma,” Head said.

After returning to Oklahoma in 2014, the Heads went fulltime with The Coltrane Group, a nonprofit they founded while in Seattle that has a mission of revitalizing the 13 remaining historically black towns of Oklahoma.

It’s named for the Oklahoma City street on which Head’s storytelling grandmother lived for many years, Coltrane Road.

“We saw the need to give the black towns of Oklahoma a sense of collaboration and partnership,” Jessilyn said. “And we want to help the towns galvanize volunteers.”

The Coltrane Group’s bus tours have visited Langston, Boley, Rentiesville, Grayson, Brooksville, Lima, Clearview, and Tulsa’s

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GALVANIZING GENEALOGISTS Genealogist André Head’s great-great grandfather, George Washington Merrit, a member of the Louisiana Native Guard and among those who joined the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War

A husband and wife team teach how to discover African-American ancestry

by KIMBERLY BURK Greenwood Cultural Center. Another trip to the Cultural Center is scheduled for April 28.

The Group also partners with the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oklahoma City will be the first to be featured in an exhibit at the Center chronicling the role black churches play in the lives of their members. The exhibit will likely open in 2020.

In another partnership with the history center, Coltrane Group volunteer Beverly Kirk created quilts representing all 13 towns, which was showcased at a September banquet honoring leaders from eight of the towns.

Since 2015, the Coltrane group has partnered with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and several African-American churches to offer genealogy classes and information about

the Freedmen’s Bureau records, a database of former slaves’ records created by the government after the Civil War. The project has resulted in digitized records for 1.76 million of the estimated 4 million former slaves.

The records have helped people push past obstacles they encounter when seeking their ancestors.

“I love telling people that you can go to the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, and we have just knocked down that wall,” Head said.

In December, he taught a genealogy class at the Rudisill Regional Library in Tulsa.

“I showed them how to get started,” Head said. “I taught them common terms and resources and how to find vital records.”

“We had a great turnout,” said Alicia Latimer, the African-American Resource Center coordinator

for the Tulsa City-County Library system. “It was a very effective class.”

Latimer said her programs are planned well in advance, so it will be a while before another class can be offered.

She said Head also talked about DNA testing, something she has experience with.

“A lot of people think they have Native American ancestry,” she said. “It’s my family lore, and I’ve believed that all my life. I did a DNA test and found out I have none.

“I was aligning myself with Native American culture,” Latimer said, explaining the extent to which she accepted her family’s stories.

In reality, her lineage is from Rwanda, Kuwait, East Timor, Ireland, and Scotland.

“It’s important not to assume where your ancestry is,” Latimer said.

The ProQuest African-American Heritage database at Rudisill offers such resources as census records, slave records, church records, U.S. Colored Troops records, and AfriGeneas, a social networking site for African-American genealogists.

Many people who come to Head’s classes know family stories but don’t know how to find the paperwork.

“It’s the same thing I went through,” he said. “I knew it was not going to be easy to get into those slave records.”

He said a cousin has found the name of a Virginia slave master who owned one of his ancestors, and records for at least one relative are on the Freedmen’s Bureau website. But he said he’s been too busy with teaching right now to delve into the new discoveries.

To request a genealogy class or register for the April 28 tour, call André Head at 206-948-8852.

The Coltrane Group’s website is currently under construction.

For more information on Tulsa Library’s African American Resource Center, visit tulsalibrary. org/aarc. a

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THE RISE OF CINTHEEZ FAMILY BREAD From power breakfasts to dinner rolls, Cynthia Zachary is a Kitchen 66 whiz

by MASON WHITEHORN POWELL

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Cintheez Family Bread owner Cynthia Zachary | GREG BOLLINGER

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itting with me in Kitchen 66, Cynthia Zachary of Cintheez Family Bread said she started baking cinnamon raisin loaves to give as gifts when she was 18. Later, in the mid ‘90s, she left loaves behind and baked cloverleaf dinner rolls and cinnamon rolls. But she worked in the same spirit as she did before, sharing rolls with friends and family and selling them at fundraisers for her church.

With an increased local demand for her rolls, Zachary began to see her skill in a different light, though developing her business was a long time coming. Zachary went to school at OSU Institute of Technology in Okmulgee, enrolling in culinary training and business courses, which helped get her food “from the back road onto the freeway,” as she puts it.

“While I was there,” Zachary said of OSU, “I fell in love with cooking meats, because they teach you everything … Before I finished there, that’s when I started thinking, ‘You know, I can do something with this. I can sell my bread and cinnamon rolls.’”

Towards the end of 2015, having graduated with associate degrees in both culinary training and business, Zachary saw an advertisement for Kitchen 66. Halfway through the application process she considered not applying.

“But for some reason I just picked it back up, and then I got a call,” she said.

Zachary was part of the first group enrolled in Kitchen 66’s sixmonth program in 2016, designed to help food entrepreneurs develop and launch all aspects of their businesses—from perfecting the food itself to design and marketing. Each company had to pitch

their product in an ABC Shark Tank-like of environment, during which time mentors pushed Zachary to fully realize her vision.

Kitchen 66 is located downtown in the Sun Building (907 S. Detroit Ave.). We stood in the industrial-size kitchen space, where Zachary pulled two trays of cinnamon rolls out of an oven.

Other Kitchen 66 companies were working all around us, cooking and baking, producing their products just like Zachary. She applied butter to the rolls with a brush, then drizzled heaps of icing onto them. The rolls were placed into containers marked with her logo and contact information.

She handed one to me. I’m not exaggerating: I’ve never had a cinnamon roll like hers.

And there’s more to her story.

In addition to making her rolls, Zachary now uses her culinary skills nearly once a week for breakfast and lunch takeovers at Kitchen 66. She cooks breakfast classics like sandwiches and sausage and gravy, as well as dishes like her asparagus “power breakfast.” For lunch, she serves home-style meals like country ribs, pot roast, hamburgers, and grilled chicken, as well as newer dishes, including Philly cheesesteak sloppy joes and sandwiches with grilled eggplant and Swiss cheese. a

CINTHEEZ FAMILY BREAD will be at Kitchen 66 on March 9, 23, and 30, from 7:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Watch out for Cintheez frozen cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, biscuits, and sausage and gravy at retailers soon. Follow Cintheez on Instagram (@cintheez_family_bread) or Facebook (facebook.com/ cintheezfamilybread) for updates.

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Marshall Brewing on the eve of its 10th birthday

by BRADY WHISENHUNT “MAN, IF YOU’D HAVE BEEN HERE AN HOUR ago you’d have seen a grown-ass man in a cupid outfit delivering some donuts,” said Eric Marshall, Marshall Brewing Company founder and brewmaster.

Tap room manager Kyle Johnson deadpanned, “Just another day at the brewery.”

It’s hard to overstate the impact of Marshall Brewing on Tulsa beer drinkers.

Ten years ago, there was no such thing as local craft beer, and today there are several breweries, taprooms, and festivals here.

Ten years ago, the closest thing to a local beer was Choc, which was brewed quite a clip down the road in Krebs, Oklahoma.

Ten years ago, then-26-year-old Marshall dreamt up one of the craziest business ideas in Oklahoma history: to brew and sell craft beer, just like they did in almost every other U.S. state.

The story of Marshall Brewing’s growth is intimately bound to the state’s restrictive policies on selling and serving beer.

“For eight years of our existence, people couldn’t come here and buy one of our beers from us,” Marshall said. “We have that ability now. And now, several of these new breweries are focusing solely on people coming into their front door to buy their product.”

Marshall, along with the Craft Brewers Association of Oklahoma, was at the forefront of the fight to reform the state’s liquor laws. Marshall helped found the CBAO as a way to mobilize the Oklahoma brewing community so they would share a common voice with regards to legislation.

Fast-forward to present day. The business precedent set by Marshall, along with the legislative changes, planted the seeds for a strong craft beer culture in Tulsa.

New breweries and tasting rooms, like

Cabin Boys Brewery, American Solera, and Heirloom Rustic Ales, are opening at an increasing rate.

Marshall is also acutely aware that the very brewing scene he set the groundwork for has, as a result, created fierce competition for market share. So his brewery is digging in with new offerings on the eve of their 10th birthday. Marshall has started by updating its labels and packaging with a new visual theme.

They have also recently started bottling their Dunkel, a dark-hued, light-bodied, quaffable beer with notes of caramel, butterscotch, and vanilla. Marshall explained that their Dunkel has long been a favorite of Tulsa beer drinkers, but until now it had only been offered on tap.

For the birthday celebration later this spring, Marshall will be producing a bottle release of four varieties of an English old ale that will be aged in rum, port, rye whiskey, and Islay scotch barrels. They will also break ground on a much bigger taproom, which they hope to open in mid-summer.

The occasion makes for good reminiscing.

“I remember the first time I saw somebody I didn’t know at Sam’s wearing our t-shirt,” he said. “To be able to create something that people in this town are proud of is pretty awesome.” a

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BOOED BY MARY Ashley McCray on why indigenous activists unfurled a banner of protest at Fallin’s State of the State

BY LIZ BLOOD

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ear the end of Gov. Fallin’s final State of the State address on Feb. 5, three indigenous women in the gallery unfurled a large sheet banner. On it was painted Fallin’s face, the word “Oklahoma” scrawled in red across her eyes and nose, and “State of DESPAIR” written below her head.

The banner was held by Ashley McCray, who is of the Oglala Lakota and Absentee Shawnee tribes, Sydne Gray (Muskogee (Creek)), and Madison Lovell (Kiowa). McCray is a co-founder of Indigenize OU, a collective at the University of Oklahoma that seeks restored justice for Native American OU faculty, staff, and students, and a co-founder of Stop Plains All American Pipeline collective, a mobile resistance group that opposes the Plains All American Pipeline Company, pipeline construction in Oklahoma, and other issues concerning the oil and gas industry.

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LIZ BLOOD: Who made the banner?

How did you choose the wording and design?

ASHLEY MCCRAY: My partner Jake made it. His tag name is Wanm. We wanted to send a clear message. At first we wanted it to be an indigenous face, but a lot people have issue with the failings of the state, the current affairs in Oklahoma. So we decided it should be more inclusive so everyone could relate to it in some way or another, so other people could use it to address the issues facing their communities.

“Despair” has such strong connotation. It imparts the message we wanted to share about the serious and failing state that we’re in right now.

It’s not just indigenous or people of color communities that are enduring the despair. Even our teachers are panhandling for supplies—all while the oil and gas industry is virtually unregulated and destroying our earth.

We are in a state of despair. We didn’t want Fallin to walk away feeling like she’s accomplished a lot when it is her administration that has put us in this situation. “Despair” elicits a real, tangible understanding for a lot of people for how bad things really are here.

Across the board.

BLOOD: What did you think when people in the gallery booed you?

MCCRAY: Mary Fallin was the first one to boo us. I think that kind of made us feel good, actually, because we knew that the people in the building weren’t friendly to us in any way, even when we went there using respectability politics. We weren’t really concerned about their response because they haven’t listened to us and still aren’t listening.

Seeing Mary boo the banner—I felt like that was a success. She recognized and acknowledged the message we were sending, which was directly pointing at her. When she booed, it elicited more boos, but that’s okay.

BLOOD: What do you hope to see from the next governor?

MCCRAY: The state of despair we’re in calls for a strong-willed governor who isn’t bought out by big oil and gas. We need someone who is against the established status quo. We’re not big on voting, but we wholeheartedly support Connie Johnson. We believe her vision, leadership, and history show she will be here for the people. She cares about the environment, indigenous commuTHE TULSA VOICE // February 21 – March 6, 2018

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nities and communities of color, people affected by police militarization and our industrial prison complex.

She came to our Oka Lawa camp and camped with us and listened to our concerns and stories. She cares about the people. We think hers is the only platform that will help Oklahoma.

Oklahoma, it’s a double whammy. Not only did we not consent to being Americans—we did not consent to being Oklahomans.

BLOOD: Why are you not big on voting?

MCCRAY: It is anti-indigenous and racist to refer to the actions of indigenous people and indigenous women as uncivilized. That language comes from settler terrorism, when settler terrorists illegally conquered Oklahoma after the discovery of oil. So, we see that as a racist reaction to what we did—and very anti-indigenous. But we also understand that respectability politics is pretty racist. It was important for us

MCCRAY: As indigenous people, we don’t feel like we are Americans, that the American regime was forced upon us. I am Oglala Lakota and Absentee Shawnee. If I vote I am complicit in the genocide committed against my ancestors and future generations. I think voting ignores the injustice perpetrated on this land. Especially in

BLOOD: A Tulsa World editorial used the word “incivility” to describe your actions. How do you respond?

to interrupt that narrative. We go to meetings, we meet with Republicans and Democrats, we meet with people in politics regularly—but we’re not being heard. So when people criticize us for being uncivil, that’s part of a legacy of settler terrorism that our people have been dealing with for hundreds of years.

But, also, how is it uncivil? Unfurling a banner? What about the legacy of environmental destruction, or our teachers not being able to afford school supplies? We question what is civil.

Oklahoma is an illegal state. It was set aside for indigenous people by treaty. So it’s ironic that we’re referred to as uncivil when settler terrorists came in and ignored tribal sovereignty and destroyed our space. a FEATURED // 19

Under treaty MURPHY V. ROYAL COULD DEFINE INDIAN COUNTRY, OKLAHOMA

BY JESSICA MCBRIDE

Editor’s note: The original version of this story appeared at mvskokemedia.com, Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s news media.

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COUNCIL OAK PARK, LOCATED AT 18TH AND CHEYENNE STREETS IN TULSA. THE STATUE IN THE FOREGROUND COMMEMORATES THE FIRE BUILT IN A CEREMONY PROCLAIMING THE MUSCOGEE PEOPLE’S ARRIVAL AND ESTABLISHING THEIR NEW HOME IN 1836. | MVSKOKE MEDIA 20 // FEATURED

ne Muscogee (Creek) citizen’s court case might have the ability to affect not only the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, but the state of Oklahoma and Indian law as we know it.

The landmark case known as Murphy v. Royal will decide which court has the authority to try Patrick Murphy for committing murder within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation jurisdiction, but not on MCN-owned or trust land.

At the heart of the issue, and what the courts could decide, is the definition of Indian Country.

The U.S. Code Title 18, titled “Crimes and Criminal Procedure,” Section 1151 defines Indian Country as all land within the limits of a reservation as well as allotments that still hold their Indian titles.

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs website defines a federal Indian reservation as “an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe.”

It also states reservations “are generally exempt from state jurisdiction, including taxation, except when Congress specifically authorizes such jurisdiction.”

In the latter half of 2017, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Congress had not disestablished the MCN reservation created by an 1866 treaty, and therefore the State of Oklahoma lacked the jurisdiction to try and sentence Murphy for murder because he is a Muscogee (Creek) citizen and the crime occurred in Indian Country.

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fenders with similar cases are waiting for the potential to have their cases retried in tribal or federal court.

A quick look at the case acknowledges that the decision could affect the Five Civilized Tribes that make up almost the entire eastern half of the state (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Muscogee Nations). But many questions about the case’s influence on other issues still remain to be answered.

For example, how would this affect the non-Native population residing in the areas? Would crimes committed by non-Natives on the MCN reservation have to be tried in a federal court? Would the U.S. need to look at expanded judicial resources for tribes to handle non-Native cases?

What could this mean for the State of Oklahoma authorities? Would state entities continue to function alongside tribes?

What are the civil implications? Would MCN be able to collect sales and property taxes? How does that affect entities funded by taxes such as local schools?

Would it mean the Nation would have more compacts with the state similar to tobacco and gaming?

How would this affect businesses?

What might this mean for other tribes in Oklahoma that may have different treaties than the Five Civilized Tribes? What about tribes outside of Oklahoma? How do we define Oklahoma?

Will the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress fight a Supreme Court decision by repealing the MCN reservation status?

Does that matter for the definition of Indian Country?

It seems there are more questions than answers at this point in the story.

What lies ahead

“In the 11 years that I have been practicing here in Oklahoma, I’d say this is the most important case to come down out of the 10th Circuit,” Adjunct Professor Steve Greetham said in a University of Oklahoma Master’s of Legal Studies of Indigenous Peoples Law webinar Sept. 28, 2017.

He estimated there are around 3,000 Native Americans incarcerated in the Oklahoma state prison system but was unaware how many of those crimes could be affected by the ruling.

“From the perspective of the State of Oklahoma, this case represents a holding that the state lacks criminal jurisdiction over crimes involving American Indians, essentially in half of the state,” Greetham said.

A court’s jurisdiction is currently decided by analyzing if the offender is an enrolled citizen of a federally recognized tribe, if the victim is an enrolled citizen of a federally recognized tribe, the type of crime, and where the crime occurs.

The U.S. Department of Justice even has a chart to determine what court will try the crime.

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determination of what constitutes Indian Country.

Right now, everyone seems to be waiting to see if the Supreme Court’s nine-justice panel will take on the case.

If they decline, the appellate court’s decision that Congress never dismantled the MCN reservation stands. If they hear the case, the justices will decide what the future holds.

According to the Supreme Court’s website, approximately 7,000-8,000 new cases are filed with the court each term, and only around 80 of those cases make it for review with oral arguments.

In his denial to rehear the case, U.S. 10th Circuit Court Chief Judge Timothy Tymkovich stated, “In sum, this challenging and interesting case makes a good candidate for Supreme Court review.”

Perspectives

“We think that the case should be reviewed by the Supreme Court because of the critical nature it would have for Oklahoma and not just tribes, but Oklahoma at large,” Tulsa County First Assistant District Attorney Erik Grayless said in an interview with Mvskoke Media.

He said the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office does not have a side in the case, but their most critical concern is to have a complete understanding of where a case is headed when a crime occurs.

“What we can’t have, you know, is someone gets killed at 61st Street and Peoria Avenue in Tulsa and the question is, ‘Well, is he Native American?’ That won’t work,” Grayless said. “We have to know where that case is going to go so who can investigate it and who is going to get it.”

An amicus brief filed by the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resource Division Oct. 10, 2017 for a rehearing in the case said upholding the decision would strain federal resources.

“We estimate that the United States could be required to investigate and prosecute hundreds (or even more than a thousand) new cases every year, increasing its caseload by a factor of ten or more.

Neither the local United States Attorney’s nor the FBI Field Offices currently have the resources to fulfill these new obligations; the FBI, in particular, has the equivalent of just seven agents for all of eastern Oklahoma,” the document states.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma Trent Shores said in an interview with Mvskoke Media that his office has been in communication with state and tribal partners.

“Whatever the outcome of this or any other case, we will continue to rely on and enhance our relationships within the law enforcement community so that we can fulfill our oath to enforce federal law and uphold our federal trust responsibilities to Indian Country,” he said.

TCDA is also watching the case. Grayless said they have started identifying cases that might have to be reviewed if the current decision is upheld.

“Well, implementation will be a mess,” he said. “There’s no question about it because jurisdiction does not have a time limitation. So there’s no statute of limitations on challenging jurisdiction.”

During a Nov. 30, 2017 public meeting on the case, MCN Attorney General Kevin Dellinger disagreed with concerns over law enforcement resource challenges and caseload issues that could arise.

“There have been a lot of arguments made in amicus briefs; a lot of issues have been brought up that just aren’t substantiated, aren’t supported by data, by evidence, and I think the message we want to get out to the community is we’ve got the resources, we’ve got the personnel, we have the ability to address this issue,” he said.

Dellinger said there would not be lawlessness and chaos.

“There’s nobody more than us that wants to see the success of law enforcement and public safety and ensure that that continues,” he said.

MCN Lighthorse Tribal Police Department Chief Robert Hawkins said in a previous interview with Mvskoke Media that LTPD would need to increase personnel and facilities.

“We are going to need the manpower,” he said. “Right now we have 47 sworn [officers], but to have a sufficiently staffed department for a reservation we’re going to be looking at a good 200 to 250 more officers.”

Dellinger said MCN has a history of working with the state and the federal governments and would continue to collaborate with these entities in regards to Murphy v. Royal.

The State of Oklahoma filed a petition Feb. 6 to the Supreme Court to hear the case.

“All of this creates intolerable uncertainty for over 1.8 million Oklahomans who may now live on an Indian reservation, with all the civil, criminal, and regulatory consequences that could flow from that determination,” the document states.

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THE TRIAL OF STANLEY MAJORS Found guilty of murder, a hate crime, and other charges, Majors’ years of terrorism come to an end

BY ZACK REEVES

ILLUSTRATION BY JARED RUDICHUK

IN THE FALL OF 2016, I LIVED IN BROOKLYN. Every morning I’d walk across the street to One Yemen, a 24-hour bodega, to buy an orange and a banana. The proprietor and the men who worked there spoke hard, workmanlike Arabic with one another as I placed the fruit on the counter.

Sometimes I’d go with a friend from Lebanon. When she spoke on the phone with her family in Beirut, she used a softer Arabic; it sounded less in the throat and more on the lips. She peppered her English with it, and when I needed comfort, she called me “Habibi”: my darling, my love.

Like a pet name. Like “baby.” Ha-bee-bee.

During this time in Tulsa, on a hot August day, Stanley Majors and his husband Stephen Schmauss were having an argument.

Majors suspected that the person Schmauss was talking to on his cell phone was not, as he claimed, a VA nurse, but instead a secret lover. Majors stole the phone and mimicked Schmauss, but the nurse didn’t buy it. Finally, he hung up.

Majors picked up a gun. The couple had owned a Smith & Wesson .45 for less than a year, and neither knew how to use it. Regardless, he shot Schmauss’s cell phone and fired into a trash can, then he struck Schmauss with the butt of it.

Schmauss fled, telling his next-door neighbor, Khalid Jabara, to call the police, which he did.

When the police arrived, Majors peered through the blinds at them, then disappeared. After the officers left, he picked up the gun, went next door, and entered into a physical struggle with Khalid Jabara, ending with Jabara shot in the back.

Jabara died, killed for his real heritage and what Majors imagined was his religion. Majors constantly accused the

Jabaras, a family of Lebanese immigrants, of being Muslim, when in fact they are Orthodox Christians. (“They throw gay people off rooftops,” Majors said of them, confusing his next-door neighbors with the terrorist organization ISIS.) Majors was found hours later behind the Hardesty Regional Library, pretending to be homeless.

For more than a year the case dawdled, coming to trial at January’s end. I attended.

Last year, I wrote about the Khalid Jabara Tikkun Olam Memorial Library, a children’s library created in Jabara’s honor. This year, I wanted to see what—if any—justice would be done.

Murder trials are not as we imagine them. The objections are not loud or abrupt; they are often predictable and quiet, so quiet that the judge reprimands the attorneys for failing to speak loudly.

The opening and closing arguments are not wild or passionate. They’re precise and methodical.

Majors pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity (schizophrenia) to three charges: murder in the first degree, malicious intimidation and harassment on basis of identity (Oklahoma’s hate crime law), and threatening with a handgun. (According to a neighbor’s testimony, when she ran to the scene that night, Majors said to her, “Get out of here, or I’ll shoot you, too.”)

The prosecution suggested Majors killed Jabara, in part, due to jealousy of his friendship with his husband. “Steve [Schmauss] loved computers,” Haifa Jabara, Khalid’s mother, said in court. “My son understood his language.”

“Did you suck his cock every day?” Majors asked his husband in a call from David L. Moss. “I bet you guys worship Satan together.”

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SIBLINGS VICTORIA, RAMI, AND KHALID JABARA AT THEIR FAMILY’S MOST RECENT GATHERING BEFORE KHALID’S DEATH IN 2016. | COURTESY

Schmauss, who died before the trial, said in testimony, “I feel sorry for him. I want them both back.” The testimony revealed an increasing tendency, in the years leading up to the murder, for Schmauss and Majors to shout and fight.

Sometimes these fights led to physical abuse. “I don’t want you telling them I gave you a black eye,” Majors told Schmauss in another jail call. “The way you got the black eye is I was grabbing the cell phone from you, it slipped and hit you, and you got a black eye. That’s what I want you to say.”

Throughout the trial, Majors sat still as a frozen lake—probably, as the court later learned, due to the maximum-recommended dose of haloperidol, an anti-psychotic medication, which he was prescribed.

During those seven days, I only saw Majors move twice.

Once was to look at the Jabara family. During a break, he turned his head and stared at them for minutes at a time. Of all the blank stares I’ve seen in my life, that was the blankest. Both menacing and mawkish, it seemed to ask for leniency while threatening punishment if mercy was withheld. In that stare I saw a white man crumbling.

Stanley Majors might be the whitest man I’ve ever seen. His skin, hair, and mustache are all ghostly. Some of this is age, some lack of sunlight, and much of it is his unadulterated racism. In jail calls between Majors and Schmauss, he expressed fears that Muslims were taking THE TULSA VOICE // February 21 – March 6, 2018

over the country. “It’s distressing,” he also said. “I don’t like Lebanese.” He celebrated getting a white cellmate.

In addition, Majors benefited from a huge bundle of what can be seen only as white privileges—privileges that left him a clear path to murder Khalid Jabara. After a felony case and restraining order in Los Angeles in 2009; after, according to Haifa Jabara, he made racist and aggressive remarks at least once a week before the protective order in 2013; after he was arrested that same year for driving with a suspended license, without insurance, and with a felony hold from California; after he was, according to records, released to the California court system as a fugitive from justice that same year; after violating his protective order once in 2015; and after hitting Haifa with his car while facing a warrant for his failure to appear for the previous violation (within that charge: assault and battery, leaving the scene, violation of a protective order, and public intoxication), he was still allowed to live next to the Jabaras.

Terence Crutcher was killed for trying to reach inside his SUV. Philando Castile was killed for following the law. Eric Garner was killed for selling single cigarettes.

According to police testimony, not a single cop pulled their gun on Majors after he hit Haifa with a car or after he killed Khalid with a Smith & Wesson. He was, as white people generally continue to be, innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law, unlike the aforementioned individuals and

countless others. But Majors was already guilty, in several ways. And he was still allowed to move back home, next to the Lebanese family he raged against.

Much of the onus of responsibility to keep Majors away from the Jabaras fell to the state. The Frontier reported in 2016 that, after hitting Haifa with his car, Majors offered to move away while in court with Judge William LaFortune. LaFortune said that such a move would make him “feel a lot better about the situation.” He must not feel well, because such a move never happened and was never mandated.

LaFortune even turned down an ankle monitor for Majors. The justice system failed the Jabaras over and over.

At the end of the trial, on February 7, the jury disappeared and came back within two and a half hours. The foreperson handed the verdict to Judge Sharon Holmes, who asked Majors and his attorneys to stand.

This was the second time I saw Stanley Majors move.

Guilty to the first, Holmes read. Guilty to the second. Guilty to the third. And, when a short trial was performed afterwards to ascertain his guilt for possessing a handgun after his felony in California, guilty to the fourth. They gave him the maximum sentence: life without parole. It was justice, but Khalid Jabara was still dead.

“I learned so much from him,” Khalid’s brother Rami said after the trial concluded. “I tried to be like him in many ways. He was so unique to so many people … Trying to convey that to someone who didn’t know him is extremely difficult.”

“We just want to feel safe again,” Khalid’s sister Victoria said. “We just want to try to move forward and do our part to tell Khalid’s story and to let the community and the world know what an amazing human he was. Someone in court said that he would give the shirt off his back, and that is 100 percent true. We have to find ways to continue to honor him.”

Every month I go back to the children’s library dedicated in Khalid’s honor for Social Justice Story Hour. The kids sing “Salaam, salaam” (“peace, peace”). They sings songs about building the world from love and about being made of light. They act like children—they speak over people, they cry and cough and fart, they crawl up to the storyteller and tug on her dress. After all, they’re babies. But you should hear them and the languages they sing in—English, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi, and Arabic.

They have neither the growl of the Brooklyn shopkeeper nor the lilt of my friend from Beirut. Really, they barely understand what they’re saying. But they will someday, when it’s time again to remember why peace and justice are ideals not only worth singing for, but worth fighting for. They’re learning how to prevent the wounds of injustice and, when that’s impossible, how to balm them.

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TOP ROW: MICHAEL ROBY-WALLACE SR., THEO MANUEL, AND TONISHA HOOD; BOTTOM ROW: MAREO JOHNSON, CHASTITY WILLIAMS, LA RUE LUKE SIMMONS

DIALOGUE, EMPOWERMENT, CHANGE Pastor Mareo Johnson leads the local Black Lives Matter chapter, mentors ex-inmates, and works to better North Tulsa

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“BLACK PEOPLE, I LOVE YOU. I LOVE US. WE MATTER. OUR LIVES MATTER.” — ALICIA GARZA, CO-FOUNDER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

Those words were written on July 13, 2013, the day George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The quote would serve as inspiration for the name of the soon-to-be Black Lives Matter movement. The group formed in response to Zimmerman’s acquittal and was propelled quickly to the national stage after the police killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent uprising in Ferguson, Mo. With the support of the national chapter, organizers from 18 cities left Ferguson and started their own BLM chapters founded on 13 guiding principles including loving engagement, collective value, globalism, and diversity. Since their formation, BLM has won a lawsuit for 92 plaintiffs against the Baton Rouge Police Department, they sat down with President Obama in 2016, they met with both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to discuss racial justice and policing reforms, and they were awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2017. The Toronto chapter traveled to the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle border in Canada to support Haitian immigrants. Co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors wrote a book called “When They Call You a Terrorist.” The list goes on.

BLM may not be dominating headlines like they did in the recent past, but the movement continues to grow. After almost five years in existence, BLM has expanded all over the world, with at least 30 chapters in the United States and others in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Locally, the Tulsa BLM chapter was created on July 6, 2016, after the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

Pastor Mareo Johnson, president of BLM Tulsa, was central to its formation. After attending marches in downtown Tulsa following the shootings, Johnson wanted to see the marching continue, as a way for the community to continue to come together in solidarity.

“There [were] quite a few showing up—it was growing as we marched, [there were] people on motorcycles, kids on bikes—they would just join. That’s when I said it’s in my heart to start something; we need a chapter,” Johnson said.

From there, Johnson took a trip to Tennessee, where he met with representatives from various BLM chapters around the country to consult on starting one here.

Johnson also is the senior pastor at Seeking the Kingdom Ministries, Inc., is the workforce chair of the nonprofit organization North Tulsa Economic Development Initiative (NTEDI), serves on the Legal Redress Committee for the Tulsa branch of NAACP, and makes regular visits to the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center and transitional houses like Tulsa Re-entry One-Stop and Tulsa Transitional Center to help men reintegrate into society.

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sponsibilities, it’s difficult to envision what a day in his life looks like.

“My day-to-day is dealing with each aspect of my roles. It all connects, being a part of NTEDI, being a minister, being an activist; each entity complements the other and it ties in. That’s how I know it’s [my] purpose.”

The types of calls Johnson receives range from social justice issues, such as discrimination on the job, to those from people requesting prayers.

“That’s my passion, to help people,” he said.

Johnson’s influence and leadership qualities were both obvious and helpful when an angry crowd gathered outside the courthouse the night officer Betty Shelby was acquitted of manslaughter for the shooting of Tulsan Terence Crutcher.

“I told them this is not the time [for violence], and that is not the way,” Johnson said in an interview with the Tulsa World.

Johnson described Crutcher as a close friend who worked sound for him at his services.

“We used to talk quite a bit. He was always encouraging me with BLM. When I first wanted to start a group here, he was one of the people I was talking to. Terence was one of my main supporters and encouragers as far as ministry [goes].”

While the death of Crutcher and the acquittal of Shelby served as a painful

blow to the community and the movement, Johnson said it motivated more people to get involved.

“He really inspires a lot of people,” said Eric Reynolds, the assistant vice president for BLM Tulsa. “As far as him getting BLM together, he’s doing an excellent job. I see change, I see forwardness that wasn’t there before BLM. He tries to listen to everyone.”

Johnson wasn’t born a leader. It was a role he grew into. Years of gang life and two stints in prison eventually led to his spiritual transformation. For Johnson, his past isn’t something he looks back on with shame or regret; he sees in his history invaluable experiences that give him strength, perspective, and purpose.

“I know now, when I look back on everything, that it was all God’s plan. Because I was there to see [and experience] what happened to me, personally and right here,” he shared.

Johnson lifted his shirtsleeve, running his hand across a number of cavernous scars that appeared to be from teeth marks.

“A police dog,” he explained. “That night, I had surrendered and [the officer] just let the dog go on me: ‘Get him!’ So this dog is eating my arm up and I’m hollering, screaming. The meat was showing, and I leaned up against a fence. I was huffin’, I was tired, and he kicked me in my private

parts, the policeman, and said ‘You’re not hurt, n-----!’ I have experienced personally how crooked that system can be, the injustice on the inside, the mistreatment of inmates, the racism.”

In an effort to stop violence, BLM Tulsa also extends their message to local gangs.

“If we say black lives matter, then black lives have to matter to black people. They have to matter to us, too,” Johnson said.

According to Johnson, gang members are willing to hear his message because many of them want to change.

“I’ve mentored a few guys. I ran into a person a few years back, he’d seen my change and it inspired him because he told me if it could happen for me it could happen for him. Now, he’s doing good.”

“I once didn’t care about killing another black man in a rival gang. I didn’t really care if they were black. It was just hate,” Johnson said.

He has also written rap with positive messages as a creative way to engage his community.

Other components of Johnson’s work as president of BLM Tulsa include empowering and lifting up young people—he visits Edison High School to meet with students who formed a BLM group there, and he also speaks to youth at Langston University.

Johnson hopes to bring to Tulsa Public Schools a movement called “Black Lives Matter Week of Action,” which started in Philadelphia and has spread to Seattle, New York, and Chicago. This year, the event was held during the second week of Black History Month, where educators across the country taught lessons on structural racism, intersectional black identities, and black history, with the intention of continuing the dialogue throughout the school year.

“Mareo helps us stay motivated and engaged in the community by being involved with different organizations and bringing that knowledge back to us,” said Bee Deville, a member of BLM Tulsa. “Being that bridge from organization to organization helps us stay motivated.”

Through his work around Tulsa, Johnson hopes to change the opinions of those who view BLM as an anti-police terrorism group and values the allies here who believe in their nonviolent mission of peace and unity.

“My mother always told me growing up, [in] a lot of situations in black movements and struggles there were white people there helping, assisting in the freedom.

She always made sure I understood that.

So when I see the solidarity that’s what I think of. BLM as in solidarity with white organizations, too. That’s a beautiful thing,” Johnson said.

“Mareo is strictly for change, he’s strictly for correcting the corruption that’s in Tulsa,” Reynolds said. “I think Tulsa should give this organization and this man the opportunity to continue to fight for change; that’s what we came together to do. I just want Tulsa to know that. Let’s fall behind him, not fight against him.” a FEATURED // 25

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f you’ve seen Marina Abramovi´c on YouTube, sitting at a table at the Museum of Modern Art and sharing a silent gaze with guests (around 1,500 of them, including her former lover), you’ve seen performance art.

Well, not quite. What you’ve seen is documentation of performance art. Probably you’ve been in your own space as you watched, your pause button under one finger, in control of a one-sided situation. The real thing is two-sided, immediate, personal; it requires you to be in the room with it.

Performance art can be unnerving, intense, hilarious, moving, subtle. It’s not quite theater, not quite dance or visual art or spoken word. It’s a live art practice in its own right, said Jessica Borusky, a performance artist and artistic director of Living Arts. Borusky is reconceptualizing and restructuring New Genre Arts Festival—in its 25th year as the organization’s flagship event—as an invitation to a human experience on a very human scale.

Instead of being spread between the gallery and the PAC over two weeks as they have been in the past, this year’s performances, installations, and educational events will all happen in the Living Arts space over the course of a single weekend.

The first performances will happen from 5–9 p.m. during First Friday on March 2, followed on Saturday from 1–3 p.m. with a panel discussion by the artists, then a different set of performances on Saturday evening.

For those who want a hands-on experience, workshops led by artists Sichong Xie and Roz Crews will take place March 4. Thanks to a wide array of sponsors, every one of these events is free—a barrier-busting initiative launched under former director Steve Liggett in 2016.

The new format means a potent concentration of experiences chosen and orchestrated with both artists and audience in mind.

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Empathic spaces NEW GENRE ARTS FESTIVAL RESTRUCTURES

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A site map will be provided that tells who’s performing where and at what time.

“People can take their own pathway through,” Borusky said.

“It’s not unlike how one might curate a sculptural show. There are about 25 national and international artists in total over the course of these two days, some back to back and some overlapping. You’re here for the whole time, but your understanding of time/space/

body is a little bit different than in a theater where there are certain social expectations.”

The restructuring encourages viewers to interact with artists outside of the performances as well.

“It creates a porous third space between artists and audience,” Borusky said. “Come as you are.

If that means you take a break and return, if you want to be quiet and reverent, if you want to chat with someone or talk to an artist—it’s

all okay. It’s important that art asks us questions about ourselves and that we ask questions about art.”

A new element of this year’s festival is the Artist Engagement Dinner on March 1, where guests can talk more intimately with artists over a festival-inspired, family-style dinner created collaboratively by chefs from The Reserve at Grogg’s Green Barn, Amelia’s, and Red Thistle Catering Co., all within an analog sound and video installation by Austin, Texas artist Bug Davidson. (Tickets support the festival and are tax-deductible.)

“It’s really important for us as human beings to have brand-new experiences,” Borusky said. “Both for viewer involvement and for how Living Arts takes care of our local artists, it’s so important to see work you never thought was possible from artists you may never have gotten a chance to see before—and you don’t have to travel, and you don’t have to pay.

We want people to just have direct access to the work.”

In a time when vulnerable bodies are coming forward in testimony and resistance, experiences of bearing witness, like those performance art delivers, are more critical than ever.

“This kind of art reminds us that we are all embodied, not only in that moment, but where our past bodies have been and where our future bodies can go,” Borusky said. “With performance art, especially when we have our audience not seated in the dark, we open a pathway to practicing empathy here in the gallery.

“There’s tons of bad performance art, bad dance, bad music.

Just because it’s weird doesn’t mean it’s good, well thought-out, or critically engaged. I think the stuff that sticks is the stuff that engages vulnerability.”

You’ll find that at New Genre. a

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by TRENT GIBBONS FEBRUARY 26 MARKS THE START OF National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA), whose theme for the year is “Let’s Get Real,” hopes to ensure that those who suffer from eating disorders don’t have to do so in silence and to help those victims start on the road to recovery by raising awareness, challenging negative stereotypes, and getting people screened.

Founded in 2008 to give sufferers and their families a central location for recovery resources and access to providers, the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Association (OEDA) is hosting a slew of events across the state throughout the week. In Oklahoma City, they will screen the film “Embrace,” a documentary following a body image activist’s exploration of body-loathing around the world. Additionally, high schools and colleges will host panel discussions, speakers, screenings, and other events. Locally, OSU-Tulsa and OU-Tulsa will have information tables in their student unions throughout the week.

The main event in Tulsa for Eating Disorders Awareness Week will be the NEDA Walk on Sunday, Feb. 25 at Southern Nazarene University. The

walk, in its fourth year, began in 2015 when Grace Evans, a therapist for adolescents in the Laureate Eating Disorders Program at St. Francis, was approached by OEDA. The event intends to raise $15,000. Like many of the walk’s participants, Corina Holtzhauer, who heads a walk team, struggled with an eating disorder herself.

“Almost losing my life and feeling that I was alone is one of my top reasons for advocacy,” Holtzhauer said. “My family was lost in knowing how to help me. My hopes are that raising awareness can create more support groups for families that suffer from a loved one having gone through this.”

An estimated 30 million Americans will suffer from eating disorders at some point in their lives.

“The misrepresentation that everyone and every body is the same is such a hard thing for a young child or young adult to understand,” Holtzhauer said.

“I continue to advocate for those in hopes that they will soon believe that they are not defined by a number.”

Tulsans looking to participate in the NEDA Walk can register online before Friday, Feb. 23, or at the event itself.

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CLASSICS V: MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 4

SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2018 | 7:30 PM

TUL SA P ERFORM ING ART S CEN TER On this final Classics Series concert of the 20172018 season, Daniel Hege will lead the Tulsa Symphony in John Adams’ Chairman Dances and Edward Elgar’s In the South (Alassio). The lovely Sarah Coburn is the featured soprano soloist for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.

ADAMS: Chairman Dances ELGAR: In the South (Alassio), op.50 MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 Daniel Hege, Principal Guest Conductor Sarah Coburn, Soprano * Pre-Concert Conversation | 6:30 PM * Pre-Concert Student Recognition Concert | 6:45 PM * Post-Concert Reception – All Welcome * Childcare Available

For Tickets, Call 918.596.7111 or www.tulsasymphony.org

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rom February 16–25, The Tulsa Project Theatre will perform “Four Chords and a Gun,” produced by “The Big Bang Theory” cast member John Ross Bowie. The play focuses on the Ramones’ infamous recording of their fifth album, End of the Century.

The infamy surrounding the recording session was produced mostly by Phil Spector. Known for his “Wall of Sound” recording techniques and notorious for his perfectionism and violence, Spector made the Ramones repeat single licks for hours on end, racking up a $500,000 price tag.

He also allegedly held them at gunpoint.

Bowie used that perhaps-true story of the gun as a starting point in his historical revisionist punk rock non-musical. The conflicting nature of the real-life Ramones’ biographies, interviews, and oral history contributions inform the “Wait, did this actually happen?” fluidity of the play’s handling of history.

Most people who know Bowie as Barry on “The Big Bang Theory” might be surprised to learn of his punk roots.

“It’s funny because I’m into my 40s now and must look very much like a middle-aged guy on a sitcom,” Bowie said. “But that means I was a teen when the Circle Jerks were touring, or the Adolescents or the Ramones. That was my classic rock … going to see those bands when they played New York.”

Bowie says his introduction to punk “was the Ramones.”

“I bought a cassette of theirs at Tower Records, East Lincoln Center when I was 14,” he said.

“That led me to a pretty huge record collection and a collection of punk history books, like ‘Please Kill Me’ and ‘I Slept With Joey Ramone.’ They’re as decadent as

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ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR! Tulsa Project Theatre’s production of ‘Four Chords and a Gun’ keeps pace with a Ramones song

by MITCH GILLIAM any rock book, but the stakes are higher because no one has any money.”

“Four Chords and a Gun” is the culmination of the actor’s decades-long obsession with the Ramones. So far it has only been performed in Los Angeles, but it will play in Tulsa as a test before moving to larger markets.

Why Tulsa?

“Tulsa came to us!” Bowie said. “I wasn’t familiar with Tul-

sa Project Theatre, but the more I look into them, the more I realize it’s the perfect place for this play.

They’ve done ‘Rent,’ they’ve done ‘Tommy.’ Our director played Hedwig at one point … they’re clearly interested in the intersection between rock and theater, and so am I.” The director who played Hedwig (in a production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) is Matt Brown. Brown serves as the artis-

tic director for Tulsa Project Theatre. “Four Chords and a Gun” was originally shopped to a theater friend of Brown’s in Oklahoma City, who promptly turned it over to TPT, which they believed was its proper home.

“This play maintains the sensibilities of what we’re trying to do without being a musical,” Brown said.

“You know when you pick up a book and see an opening line that just lights the dynamite?”

Tulsa Project Theatre Executive Director Denny Mask asked. “The first time I read this play’s opening monologue, I felt that.” (Mask also plays Joey Ramone.)

That opening monologue serves as one of Dee Dee Ramone’s eternal “One, Two, Three, Four!”s and sets the stage for a 100-minute show that, according to Brown, “has the pace of a Ramones song.”

Brown and Mask say the play features minimal glue-sniffing and eschews the more lurid aspects of the punk pioneers to highlight their dynamic as a group who put aside heated differences to punch the clock together as coworkers.

Bowie says this aspect sparked his original interest in the Ramones.

“I loved the family dynamic, and I love the way that was heightened by everybody sharing the same stage name,” Bowie said. “I loved how the band—particularly Johnny—viewed the band as a job.

So much of their career, particularly about the recording of this album, is about the relationship between art and work.” a

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Voices in your head A conversation with writer Brandon Hobson

by NATHAN KNAPP

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first met Brandon Hobson in 2012, when we shared an office as graduate creative writing students at OSU. I was a wet-behind-my-ears first-year Master of Fine Arts student and Brandon was finishing his doctorate. Since then, he’s published two critically acclaimed novels, “Deep Ellum” (Calamari Press, 2013) and “Desolation of Avenues Untold” (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015), with a third, “Where the Dead Sit Talking,” released by Soho Press on February 20.

Hobson’s new novel, narrated by fifteen-year-old Sequoyah, is a strange and powerful Native American bildungsroman. The novel tells the story of what happens after Sequoyah’s mother is jailed, and he is taken to a foster home in which the foster parents’ motivation for fostering is, well, slightly less than altruistic. Set in the fictional Oklahoma town of Little Crow, a place described by one character as a town where “everyone would rather be dead,” this novel breathes with a dark, pulsing life of its own.

Hobson will be reading from his new novel at Magic City Books on February 21 at 7 p.m.

A longer version of this interview appears at thetulsavoice.com.

NATHAN KNAPP: You have a family, a full-time teaching job, and you write. How do you get anything done? Any pointers?

BRANDON HOBSON: Well, I mean, it’s cliché, but it all comes down to time management. Everybody has 24 hours in a day, and we choose what we can do with those 24 hours. What that means is that I don’t watch a lot of TV; I don’t have any kind of priorities for movie-watching, although I do 30 // ARTS & CULTURE

son’s head, even if you’re not at the machine writing. You’re still in their head. So, walking around the house or something, you might be still working through things.

KNAPP: Do you have a sense of what you want to have accomplished by the time you’re done— by the time you’re, say, 75—as a writer?

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watch the Thunder every chance I can. I teach in the morning, leave in the afternoon, and then I go home, spend time with my family, and reserve the later hours. Usually I do a lot of my writing as a project in the evening—usually stay up late. Managing time is really not that bad.

KNAPP: How is “Where the Dead Sit Talking” different from your previous books—or what’s particularly exciting about this one for you?

HOBSON: This one for me is exciting because it’s an Oklahoma book, first of all, and I’m an Oklahoman. It also comes from the voice of a strong youthful narrator—technically a man looking back at his youth. But we’re getting this period of time while he was living in foster care, and so I’m able to write a little bit about—I’m Cherokee—I was able to write a little bit about Cherokee traditions and culture, which I hadn’t written about before.

KNAPP: What’s the hardest thing for you, in terms of writing a novel, or the thing that you least

enjoy? And what’s the thing that you enjoy the most?

HOBSON: I really like drafting.

Banging it out.

I don’t like any kind of ideas or expectations that creep their way into my head that become very self-reflective—as in, “Is this something that people would fine too offensive?” The whole process of what David Foster Wallace called the “fun” nature of writing, just having fun with it … you can drive yourself completely crazy if you start worrying about what other people [will] think when they read it.

KNAPP: I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. Getting all those voices out of your head is important, I think.

HOBSON: It’s pretty much you and your head for long periods of time. It’s a really strange lifestyle.

In a way, it’s like … acting. You’re getting inside the character’s head and then having to stay there. What would this person say? What would this person do? Walking around, you might still be inside the per-

HOBSON: Not to sound super depressing, but a lot of times I just think, “Fuck, I’m glad to be alive.”

I also try not to focus too much on ego. And that’s weird, because we want to publish, as writers, which is a kind of look-at-me [impulse]. But I don’t necessarily think that’s a healthy way of living, always worrying about how other people perceive your work or perceive you.

KNAPP: And that goes back to what you were saying about other voices getting in your head while you’re trying to work.

HOBSON: I just want to create. To do the best work I can, whether that continues to be stories, novels.

Right now I see myself continuing to write; I just don’t see that as something I’ll ever quit because I love it so much. It’s not something I’ll ever stop doing. I’ll always be working on something, while I’m mentally and physically able to.

KNAPP: One of the great things about it is you don’t have to retire.

HOBSON: Exactly. The key is to stop putting the pressure on yourself and start letting yourself do it. a

BRANDON HOBSON AT BOOKSMART TULSA Wednesday, Feb. 21 | 7:00 p.m.

Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer St. | Free

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CONTACT SHEET: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY photos and words by MAKAILA MCGONIGAL

When roaming the streets, I usually look for lines, symmetry, or interesting characters. Bright people; people who have a story in the way they walk. I look for moments that would have otherwise been overlooked, but after capturing them I find there’s more to the story and the moment itself. You can read it how you like and that’s what I really love about pictures. a

You can follow Makaila McGonigal on Instagram at @thisistulsa and hear more about her work at Tulsa Photo Night (see pg. 34). Contact Sheet is a place for local photographers to share their projects. If you’re interested in submitting, write to voices@langdonpublishing.com.

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Participating artists will hold a panel discussion on March 3 at 1 p.m., and artists will lead workshops on March 4.

Find more information on pg. 26.

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If the Olympics have piqued your curiosity, attend Tulsa Curling Club’s Learn to Curl Open House for a free lesson in the basics of the sport. Feb. 24, 8 p.m., Oilers Ice Center, tulsacurlingclub.com

All-ages DIY venue Barkingham Palace will celebrate five years of hosting concerts with a show featuring The Riot Waves, The Dirty Mugs, Loose Wires, Taillight Rebellion, and Søaker. Mar. 3, 8:30 p.m., facebook.com/barkingham.palace.902

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Tulsa Photo Night II (ages 21+) will celebrate the work of Makaila McGonigal, who documents city life at her Instagram handle, @thisistulsa. See some of her work on pg. 32. Feb. 26, 6:30 p.m., Tulsa Press Club, tulsapressclub.com

Bestselling author and the Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle will speak about his latest novel, “Universal Harvester.” Mar. 4, 7 p.m., Magic City Books, magiccitybooks.com

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Greenwood Cultural Center will host the first Greenwood Film Festival, which will feature a screening of the documentary “Priced Out” and short films from around the country. Feb. 26– Mar. 1, greenwoodculturalcenter.com

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LEGENDS OF THE LOST CAUSES BOOK LAUNCH // Join Oklahoma author Brad McLelland for the launch of his new young reader series. // 2/24, Magic City Books, magiccitybooks.com FUEL 66 OLYMPICS // Teams of four will compete in such events as giant beer pong, cornhole, flip cup, Fireball Shotski, and more. // 2/24, Fuel 66, fuel66tulsa.com 58TH ANNUAL HOLLAND HALL BOOK FAIR // 2/24, Holland Hall School, hollandhall.org NATUREWORKS ART SHOW AND SALE // Browse paintings, sculptures, and wood carvings by top wildlife, western, and landscape artists from around the country. // 2/24–25, Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center, natureworks.org DISCOVER THE DINOSAURS - TIME TREK // Travel back to the Jurassic period and walk among the dinosaurs! // 2/24–25, Cox Business Center, discoverthedinosaurs.com MUSED. POETRY NIGHT // Hear readings of new poems by local writers, as well as classics. // 2/25, Magic City Books, musedorganization.org NATURE TRAIL FULL MOON HIKE // Hike Tulsa Botanic Garden’s Cross Timbers Nature Trail under the full moon, sip rum cider, and toast marshmallows for s’mores. // 3/1, Tulsa Botanic Garden, tulsabotanic.org

BÉLA RÓZSA MEMORIAL CONCERT // Featuring compositions by winners of the Béla Rózsa Composition Competition, as well as music composed in the 20th and 21st centuries. // 2/22, Lorton Performance Center - Gussman Concert Hall, lpc.utulsa.edu J PARLÉ RELOADED: IN LIVING COLOR // See performances by local poets, singers, musicians, and comics. // 2/23, Retro Grill & Bar, facebook.com/jparlellc SHE LOVES ME // Based on the same Hungarian play that was the basis for the movie “You’ve Got Mail.” // 3/1–4, Howard Auditorium, facebook. com/ORUTheatre THE ROAD TO ELLINGTON // A vocal jazz tribute to Duke Ellington. // 3/1, Tulsa PAC - John H. Williams Theatre, tulsapac.com CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY // 3/2–4, Tulsa Little Theatre, encore-tulsa.com FINDING NEVERLAND // 3/6–11, Tulsa PAC Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com

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ARNOLD’S ANNUAL CAR SHOW // 3/3, Arnold’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, facebook.com/green. country.classic.mustangs ROCK IT LIKE ROYALTY PURIM PARTY // The Jewish Federation of Tulsa will host this Purim party, with themed drinks, games, prizes, and free entry for those dressed like royalty. // 3/3, Inner Circle Vodka Bar, jewishtulsa.org

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ORU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS OMAHA // 2/21, Mabee Center, oruathletics.com

WE ARE TULSA MUSIC AWARDS // This awards show celebrates all genres of local music and will feature performances by Barrett Lewis Band, Jeremiah Kerby, and more. // 3/4, Whiskey 918, wearetulsamusic.com

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DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD LIVE: KING FOR A DAY // Daniel Tiger brings the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to Tulsa. // 2/21, Tulsa PAC Chapman Music Hall, tulsapac.com 1984 // TU Theatre presents a multimedia production of George Orwell’s dystopian story 36 // ARTS & CULTURE

in which a totalitarian government controls what its citizens thing, believe, and remember. // 2/22–25, Kendall Hall, facebook.com/ events/1016655878475793

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musicnotes

Gimme danger The Shelter People’s quest for rock ‘n’ roll immortality

by BRADY WHISENHUNT

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our years ago Dakota Hurley and Garon Burch went down to the crossroads in Glenpool to sell their souls to the devil. It was midnight, and they went to make a deal. Seriously.

“We completely believed in it,” said Hurley, lead singer and guitarist for The Shelter People, as we sat listening to doom metal in the band’s living room. “I brought my guitar. We played the best song we’d written at the time.”

But the devil wasn’t buying.

“I was playing it, and we were like, ‘Alright, dude, when’s the devil gonna show up?’”

Burch, their bassist, chimed in, laughing. “It was past our bedtime.”

“Yeah, dude, your mom was pissed when we got home,” Hurley said.

The average age of their three-person band is 21.3, and they’re obsessed with rock ‘n’ roll mythology. They’ve studied the legends of bluesmen like Robert Johnson and the later masters, and they’ve formulated their own theories about what’s behind the curtain. They’ve created a plan for their band, and it’s working.

“I wanna conquer the damn world,” Hurley said with a straight face. “I wanna live in a castle in Ireland.”

The Shelter People is a power trio, and their command of their craft is scary. The band kills it locally, knocking out diamond-solid sets of spot-on early Led Zeppelin-style candlelit electric blues rock interrupted with lengthy psychedelic Black Sabbath stoner freakout metal interludes. Their take on early ‘70s proto-metal is simple but intuitive, layered, and eerily authentic.

Their original songs have a sonic character evocative of tunes

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Adryon Dasilva, Mac Fears, Garon Burch, and Dakota Hurley | GREG BOLLINGER

from a long-lost Nuggets comp, rhythmically rooted in elements of Fun House-era Stooges, early The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the almighty throb of Black Sabbath. Like a leaner version of The Doors, the band and their music is hypnotic, dark, and heady. They toss nods left and right to seminal rock bands going back to the mid ‘60s and earlier: The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, The Who. They do a cover of “Train Kept A-Rollin’”—as every serious rock ‘n’ roll band since the dawn of man has done and will continue to do.

The band’s four-song self-ti-

tled EP, recorded on analog gear by “Cucumber” Mike Gilliland at Auggy Reed Studios in Tulsa, is a raw, distant, trippy listen. Reverb-drenched, ragged, and heavy, it’s a teaser for things to come.

The Shelter People plan to record their first full-length album themselves, entirely to cassette. After that, they say they have three more albums to record—each is already written with its own unique theme, vibe, and message.

This April they’ll tour as the opening band for doom metal giants The Sword for approximately 30 dates. (See them before they leave town—Feb. 22 at Soundpo-

ny.) How does a relatively new band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who has never toured before, score such a coveted gig—one that literally hundreds of bands would fight tooth and nail to land?

There are two reasons. The first is that their live show slays. On a typical night The Shelter People are jaw-dropping. The three dudes are locked into each other musically with a tightness the majority of bands never achieve, much less as 21.3-year-olds.

The second reason is Mac Fears.

“Mac’s the fourth Shelter Person,” Burch said. “He does photography … and a whole bunch of secret stuff.”

Fears was the one who first made contact with J.D. Cronise, lead singer of The Sword, on Instagram. Several months later a talent agency from Beverly Hills asked The Shelter People if they’d be interested in doing the tour.

And just like that, the tour was a thing. Right now they’re strapping in for a wild ride, and they want to do it right, every ludicrously ambitious step of the way.

Drummer Adryon Dasilva, who joined the band two months ago, is pumped to be onboard.

“It’s super exciting, and it’s kinda nerve-wracking at the same time. This is something that nobody we know in Tulsa has ever gotten to do. I just want to go out there, kick ass, and put on for Tulsa.” a

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Faye Moffett and Casii Stephan at The Colony | GREG BOLLINGER

Two sounds together Casii Stephan and Faye Moffett on bridging the gaps between genres

by DAMION SHADE

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asii Stephan and Faye Moffett are singers who have had vastly different musical journeys, but ones that ultimately led them both to perform and create in Tulsa.

They’ve become leading voices in the city’s music community over the past few years. Moffett fronts her own project and collaborates with Verse and the Vapors and Henna Rosso—a group that’s also a nonprofit dedicated to fighting food insecurity in Oklahoma.

Stephan produces her own music, as well, and in 2017 helped found MisFEST, a local multi-genre female music festival. Moffett writes soaring melodies of personal but anthemic neo-soul and rhythm and blues, while Stephan’s voice is more reminiscent of modern, luminous, female rock-crooners like Florence and the Machine or St. Vincent. On February 24, the two singers will share their unique voices at an intimate event at The Colony.

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DAMION SHADE: How did you two meet?

CASII STEPHAN: I think we actually met in the bathroom … at the artist tent at MisFEST. Branjae was with us getting ready, and I think she introduced us. I’d heard lots of things about Faye. People had been telling me, “You’ve got to listen to this girl. She’s amazing.”

FAYE MOFFETT: Yeah. I’d just gone into the artist tent to grab some snacks with Branjae, and she couldn’t believe that we didn’t know each other. I think that was the first time I ever saw Casii play, too. Her band was playing on the main stage when I walked up.

SHADE: Your styles are so different.

What brought you two together?

MOFFETT: We’re definitely bringing our own individual sounds and styles, but I’ve heard about [Casii] a lot, too. I never thought we’d be

performing together, but it’s nice to just experiment, bringing our two sounds together. The crowd I bring has probably never heard Casii live and vice versa. People get accustomed to what they’re used to, and a lot of people don’t want to step out of the box to give something different a chance. Fortunately, I think a lot of people are finally branching out in Tulsa.

STEPHAN: I think it’s part of doing MisFEST and wanting to bridge gaps between genres. Not having just genre-specific shows. Sometimes it can feel really closed. In music, people love all different genres—especially today when you can have a playlist that goes from pop to rap to rock. Our shows should start reflecting that more and be inclusive. I think it’s fun for our fans to hear different types of music happening here.

SHADE: Faye’s been in Tulsa for

some time now, but you moved here more recently, right, Casii?

STEPHAN: Yeah. I’ve only been here for three years. I’m from Minnesota. I’m still in the process of getting to know people. But the true story of how I ended up here is that my cousins joked that they could get me married in six months. Seriously. That’s what they said. We can get you married in six months. I was like, “That’s ridiculous. I’m not going to move to Tulsa.” “We’ll get you married.

It’ll be great.” I was like, yeah, no.

But I thought it might be fun to move just for a change. I wasn’t playing music in Minnesota nearly to the extent that I am in Tulsa.

SHADE: What made you stay?

STEPHAN: I had opportunities, job and music opportunities. It kind of snowballed. One door opens and then another, and you’re like, why would I move back? It’s not

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like the Twin Cities have a horrible music scene, you know? It was one of those things nobody would expect, that if you want to pursue music more that you should move from the Twin Cities to Tulsa, but that’s what happened.

SHADE: It feels like a lot more collaboration is happening in Tulsa right now. What’s changed?

MOFFETT: You really get to know people chasing opportunity, and then you kind of fall in love with them and become lifelong friends. That’s just the truth of it.

I’ve collaborated with Verse and the Vapors. Me and Branjae have collaborated. We both have our own ventures. Same thing with Tea Rush. She’s been helping me tremendously with background vocals. Last night we sat down at my house and came up with all the background vocal parts. Now we’re getting into the writing and co-writing area. I used to be scared to ask people to sing background vocals with me. It felt everybody was on their high horse, not wanting to do background.

It’s fun to play with Henna Rosso and Verse and the Vapors. It spreads and keeps growing. Then you have this big family of music junkies.

think they are making that effort.

It just takes time, like it took us time to get to this place.

MOFFETT: Where are the people going from the BOK after they’re done with their show? Are they just going back to their room, or are they getting back in their plane and going back home? Where do we find these people? We have some good acts that are coming down to the BOK, and I want

to know where they’re gonna be.

Because hopefully Bruno Mars is not boujee and he will come down here and try and see the city and we can bump into him.

There’s just so much talent here. That’s the thing that makes me love Tulsa so much. I kind of grew up in the music scene here.

That’s what’s made it worthwhile.

I like nothing here besides the music sometimes. Then I see all these people popping out of no-

where, and it’s like, when did Tulsa become this? But I look back over the last few years and realize it’s been happening all the time. a

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SHADE: What does Tulsa need to do better to keep the music scene growing?

STEPHAN: Tulsa needs more connections to the national scene.

You go to Nashville, you know to go to the Bluebird Cafe, right?

Because you could possibly get discovered. You go to LA and you know the Hotel Cafe is a great place for people to come listen to your music. The Colony has that to some extent, but it’s so much smaller. There needs to be some connection where somebody whispers to someone important, “You need to check out this band’s new album.” That said, there’s a lot of work already happening. Downtown Tulsa, especially the Tulsa Arts District, is becoming a hotspot. I talk to Abby Kurin about that all the time. The South by Southwest Tulsa showcase— they’re working hard to get headlines for that … I THE TULSA VOICE // February 21 – March 6, 2018

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musiclistings Wed // Feb 21 Cain’s Ballroom – SoMo, Caye, Kid Quill – ($20$299) Lefty’s On Greenwood – Soul Cool Mercury Lounge – Jared Tyler & Seth Lee Jones Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Eicher Wednesday River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jacob Dement Soul City – Don & Stephen White Soundpony – Deerpaw The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project The Pit Stop – DJ MO Vanguard – Sweet Ascent, Out of Sink, Lights Out on Sheridan, Second Glance – ($10) Wyld Hawgz – Open Mic

Thurs // Feb 22 Blackbird on Pearl – A.C. Pierce and The Arrows Crow Creek Tavern – Randy Brumley & Joesf Glaude Greenwood Cultural Center – PhillipsFest w/ Guy Davis, Mark Bruner & more – ($20-$100) Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Runnin’ On Empty Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Danial Jordan, Squad Live Lefty’s On Greenwood – *Branjae Acoustic Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jake Flint Soul City – The Begonias Soundpony – *Psychotic Reaction, The Shelter People, S. Reidy, Acid Queen The Colony – *The Soup Kitchen w/ Dane Arnold The Hunt Club – Benny Bassett Yeti – *Oklahomans for Cannabis Get Out the Vote Show w/ Pete Hess, The Girls Room, Music Genius Crew, Chance Siribandan

Fri // Feb 23 Bad Ass Renee’s – DJ MO Blackbird on Pearl – Stinky Gringos – ($5) Blue Rose Cafe – Larry Cagle Cain’s Ballroom – Pasadena Roof Orchestra – ($60) Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – *Kevin Price, Sloppy Joe Fiasco, Acid Queen Fassler Hall – *Combsy, A Love Electric George’s Pub – Weston Horn Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Bobby D Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Miracle Max, Stolen Winnebagos Lefty’s On Greenwood – EverFade Magoo’s – Jennifer Marriott Band Mercury Lounge – Dane Arnold and the Soup Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – Drive River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Tipton’s River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – Brothers Osborne – ($40-$60) River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Vashni Duo Soul City – Scott Musick & Friends, Susan Herndon Soundpony – The Stranger, Mom The Colony – Higher Education – ($5) The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks The Run – Stars The Venue Shrine – Kashmir Wyld Hawgz – RPM Yeti – Cucumber Mike’s Happy Hour Yeti – The Penny Mob, The Uncouth, Loose Wires

Sat // Feb 24 Barkingham Palace – *Noggy, Crackrock, Junfalls Blue Rose Cafe – Josh Yarbrough 42 // MUSIC

Cain’s Ballroom – Orange Peel: Tulsa w/ The Great Divide, Red Dirt Rangers, Chance Anderson – ($45-$65) Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – Follow the Buzzards Dixie Tavern – Had Enough Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – EverFade El Coyote Manco – Pepe Tovar & Sus Chacales, Le Reunion Norteña, Los Vendavales De Adán Melendez Fassler Hall – Darku J George’s Pub – Doctor’s Orders Hard Rock Casino - Cabin Creek – Chad Lee Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Chad Lee, FM Live IDL Ballroom – Poppy Pie’s Burlesque Roulette Heartbreakers w/ Lost On Utica – ($30-$100) Lefty’s On Greenwood – Chris Hyde Mercury Lounge – *American Shadows, Carlton Hesston, Motion Hotel Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – Usual Suspects River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Hi-Fidelics River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – *Flo Rida – ($20-$35) River Spirit Casino - Volcano Stage – Jake Flint Band Soul City – The Randy Brumley Band Soundpony – Pleasuredome The Colony – *Faye Moffett, Cassi Stephan & The Midnight Sun – ($5) The Hunt Club – Dustin Pittsley Band The Pit Stop – DJ MO The Run – Stars The Venue Shrine – Joyride Blues Band – ($10) Tin Dog Saloon – Glam ‘R Us Vanguard – Crazy Town, Davey Suicide, Loaded Guns, Mudd Flux – ($15) Wyld Hawgz – PosterChild Yeti – *Mixed Genre Show w/ Kaito Gigantia, Dismondj, Captain Jack, Bumble Bee Baby

Sun // Feb 25 East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – 26th Annual Keyboard Concert w/ Scott McQuade, David Horne, Tim Shadley, Chuck Gardner, Stephen Merrick, Donald Ryan – ($5-$20) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Brent Giddens Soul City – Bruner & Eicher The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Pit Stop – DJ MO The Starlite – *Ramona & The Phantoms Album Release w/ Spacehorse, Casual Cal Wyld Hawgz – Exposure Rock Jam

Mon // Feb 26 Blackbird on Pearl – The Portal Brady Theater – *St. Vincent, Tuck & Patti – ($35$39.50) Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – Dave Les Smith, Papa Foxtrot, and Friends Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Chris Blevins River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts The Colony – Seth Lee Jones The Run – Monday Jam Yeti – The Situation

Tues // Feb 27 Blackbird on Pearl – The Pearl Jam Brady Theater – Steve Aoki, Desiigner, Deorro, Grandtheft, Party Pupils, Bok Nero – ($32.50$39.50) Cain’s Ballroom – Ganja White Knight, Dirt Monkey, Subtronics – ($18-$37) Hard Rock Casino - Riffs – Cumberland Run Lefty’s On Greenwood – Oliver, Brown & Bates Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham & Jacob Tovar Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz & Blues Jams River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Dane Arnold Soul City – Dustin Pittsley & Friends The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night Yeti – Yeti Writers Night

Wed // Feb 28 Mercury Lounge – Jared Tyler & Seth Lee Jones Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Eicher Wednesday River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jacob Dement Soul City – Don & Stephen White Soundpony – Big Ro TV The Colony – Tom Skinner’s Science Project The Pit Stop – DJ MO Wyld Hawgz – Open Mic

Blue Rose Cafe – Zachary Ryan Cain’s Ballroom – *Bob Wills Birthday Celebration w/ The Texas Playboys, The Round Up Boys – ($23-$38) El Coyote Manco – Los Cardenales De Nuevo Leon, La Tropa Vallenata – ($30) George’s Pub – Weston Horn IDL Ballroom – Slaughter, Rocket Science, Eddie Trunk – ($30-$100) Lefty’s On Greenwood – DJ Harvey Mercury Lounge – The Matchsellers Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – Annie Up River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – *Steve Winwood – ($45-$65) Soundpony – Soul Night The Colony – *Damion Shade, Surron the 7th, St. Domonick The Hunt Club – RPM The Pit Stop – DJ MO The Run – The Rumor The Venue Shrine – Old Man, Harnish – ($5)

Sun // Mar 4

Thurs // Mar 1 Cain’s Ballroom – Matisyahu, Eminence Ensemble – ($26-$41) Lefty’s On Greenwood – Dane Arnold and the Soup Lot No. 6 – Dan Martin Mercury Lounge – Paul Benjaman River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Jake Flint Soul City – The Begonias Soundpony – Those Far Out Arrows, The Dull Drums, The Mules The Colony – Tovar’s Western Night The Hunt Club – Brandon Clark Yeti – *Packing for Pluto, Magic Munchbox, Zunis

Fri // Mar 2 Bad Ass Renee’s – DJ MO Blackbird on Pearl – Dirtbox Wailers – ($5) Cox Business Center – The Avett Brothers – ($42$52) Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – EverFade George’s Pub – Lost On Acoustica Hard Rock Casino - The Joint – Easton Corbin – ($25-$35) Lefty’s On Greenwood – Jeremiah Kerby Mercury Lounge – Porter Union Osage Casino Tulsa - NINE18 Bar – Str8ght Shot River Spirit Casino - Paradise Cove – Earth, Wind & Fire – (SOLD OUT) Smitty’s 118 Tavern – The Blue Dawgs Soul City – Scott Musick & Friends, Susan Herndon Soundpony – DJ Why Not The Colony – Dan Martin Band – (6%) The Hunt Club – Rosy Hips The Venue Shrine – *Whiskey Misters, Seven Feathers, Robert Hoefling Yeti – Cucumber Mike’s Happy Hour

Sat // Mar 3 Barkingham Palace – *Barkingham Palace 5 Year Anniversary w/ Riot Waves (album release), The Dirty Mugs, Loose Wires, Taillight Rebelion, Søaker

East Village Bohemian Pizzeria – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – *Pearl Charles, Acid Tongue, Golden Ones Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Cole Porter Revue – ($5-$20) River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Brent Giddens Soul City – Bruner & Eicher Soundpony – 6 Turntables and No Microphone Lessons in Fresh DJs - Happy Hour Show The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Pit Stop – DJ MO The Starlite – *Carlton Hesston, Echoes & Copycats, Hey Judy Vanguard – As We Are, Host of Hosts – ($10) Whiskey 918 – Out of Sink

Mon // Mar 5 Blackbird on Pearl – The Portal BOK Center – P!NK – ($47.45-$207.45) Centennial Lounge at VFW Post 577 – Dave Les Smith, Papa Foxtrot, and Friends Hodges Bend – Mike Cameron Collective Mercury Lounge – Chris Blevins River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – The Marriotts The Colony – Seth Lee Jones The Hunt Club – Stinky Gringos Reggae Jam The Run – Monday Jam Vanguard – Moth Wings, Willows Field, Steelyface, My Heart and Liver are the Best of Friends – ($10) Yeti – The Situation

Tues // Mar 6 Blackbird on Pearl – The Pearl Jam Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham & Jacob Tovar Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz & Blues Jams River Spirit Casino - 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar – Dane Arnold Smitty’s 118 Tavern – Scott Ellison Band Soul City – Dustin Pittsley & Friends The Colony – Singer/Songwriter Night The Venue Shrine – Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein – ($15) Tin Dog Saloon – Jake Flint Vanguard – Samsara, Devil in the Details, Solid Ground, Lights of Alora, Spook – ($10) Yeti – Yeti Writers Night

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NETFLIX ROULETTE MAKES UP YOUR MIND FOR YOU “TOO MANY CHOICES, AMERICA. IT’S NOT healthy.” That’s George Carlin, during a rant on consumerism unsurprisingly dubbed “Free-Floating Aggression.” He was talking about Reagan-era conspicuous consumption, but the point isn’t lost in our current entertainment bacchanal: a sea of decisions where you can waste almost as much time trying to choose what to watch as you would spend actually watching something.

It was different even just a decade ago.

Cord-cutting wasn’t really an option yet.

A dedicated cable package, where you’d likely watch a dozen channels out of 200, was inconvenient if you wanted to get your money’s worth. Until DVRs became common, you pretty much had to plant yourself in front of your square-shaped CRT at the appointed hour to catch that new episode of “Friends.”

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Going to the video store was its own brand of frustrating, but at least you were out of the house, walking the stacks with a friend or significant other, making a decision about what you wanted to drunk-watch.

Now it’s apps and graphical interfaces with rows of tiny cover art and banal synopses, a wilderness that requires frustrating effort to traverse. Barely lifting a finger to shuffle through a century’s-worth of film and television is amazing if you’re a cineaste or have an abiding love of “Fraiser,” but it also has the inverse effect of trivializing everything.

While hardly the only guilty party, Netflix ushered in this binge mentality. So it seems fitting someone came along and started Netflix Roulette, a website that randomizes content from the streaming channel—and other sources, including Hulu, Amazon Prime, and HBO—and spits out a suggestion. You can customize some parameters to your tastes, but the result is mostly agnostic. You’re as likely to get something terrible as something good or great, not to mention the tundra of weird, cool, forgotten, and mediocre-to-awful shit in between.

I lucked out on my first spin, 2014’s “Rage” with Nic Cage as a pissed-off excon who gets the old crew back together to rescue his kidnapped daughter from the Russian mob. That’s my kind of bad.

Other clicks yielded actual favorites like the sublime FX animated comedy “Archer” and the recently available “Godfather” trilogy. Still others reveal direct-to-video tripe that keeps a whole microcosm of z-listers in work.

The game is to commit. Sure, that can suck. But the lure of losing yourself in an unexpected surprise is all too enticing.

– JOE O’SHANSKY

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FIGHT THE POWER ‘Black Panther’ is a watershed moment for Marvel AGES AGO, AN ALIEN METEORITE LOADED with vibranium crashed in Africa, permeating the land with its borderline magical properties. After gaining superpowers through the ritual ingestion of a vibranium-infused flower, the mystical leader Black Panther unites a quintuplet of ancient tribes to form the country of Wakanda.

Over a millennium, their society develops hyper-advanced technology that hides Wakanda’s futuristic mega-city capital in the guise of Third World Country while the tribes enjoy relative peace and prosperity—mainly because no one knows they, or the vibranium, are there. It’s kind of like the Amazonian-sisterhood home of Themyscira in “Wonder Woman.”

The Wakandans save all the vibranium for themselves, rationalizing that vibranium in the wrong hands is a danger to the outside world and that whitey is as big a danger to them.

We meet the latest in the lineage, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who upon his father’s death returns to Wakanda to assume the throne and become his people’s protector, known as Black Panther.

But between kill-crazy international mercenary Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), who has stolen a cache of the interstellar metal, and unrest at home upon the arrival of Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), T’Challa’s reign seems destined to be short-lived.

The importance of “Black Panther” bears a few similarities to that of “Wonder

Woman.” Competing publishers and movie studios aside, both films created watershed moments in terms of what might come next for female and black filmmakers. The millions they made for studios validated their tacit shift towards cultural diversity in a risk-averse business largely dominated by white dudes who aren’t much interested in making films that feel particularly different.

The reason “Black Panther” feels different from the bulk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has less to do with standard-issue Marvel action (though that has its moments) than it does with its writer and director, Ryan Coogler. His first two films, “Fruitvale Station” and “Creed”— both amazing, and both starring Jordan— are small, emotional films that highlight Coogler’s deftness with character and performance and his ability to wring every bit of authenticity out of a role and its actor.

Most importantly, he makes you feel like you’re standing right next to them.

In applying those talents to “Black Panther,” Coogler crafts a drama of Afrocentric royalty that’s worthy of Shakespeare, delivered on a great, often funny script (co-written with Joe Robert Cole), and electric performances from Boseman, Jordan, and Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, a fierce warrior whose cohort of wonder women make for one badass Pretorian guard.

“Black Panther” is still a Marvel movie on the surface—just one you’ve never seen before. – JOE O’SHANSKY

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A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CIRCLE CINEMA

HOMEGROWN TERROR German drama ‘In the Fade’ examines the tragedy of xenophobic violence

OPENING FEBRUARY 23 IN THE FADE See review at left.

Rated R.

the Wickedest Town in the American West.” Co-hosted by Magic City Books. (Sat. March 3, 2:00 p.m.)

HAPPY END From German director Michael Haneke (“Amour”), French legend Isabelle Huppert stars in this drama about an affluent family facing a variety of medical challenges and dark secrets, all set against the backdrop of the European refugee crisis. Rated R.

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS VIEWING PARTY This free event will be held in the gallery lobby, with snacks, ballots, trivia, and prizes honoring the best in independent film from 2017. Comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney host the 33rd annual gala, broadcast live from Los Angeles. (Sat. March 3, 4:00 p.m.)

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TERRORISM, NATIONALISM, XENOPHOBIA. The film may be foreign, but the issues aren’t.

Anxieties at the forefront of our own political unrest are also relevant around the globe, including in Germany. As much as any country in the West, it has experienced a major influx of immigration. With that come possible imported dangers that fuel domestic fears.

Those fears often result in citizens jumping to irrational conclusions. And, sometimes, with deadly results. “In the Fade” is a riveting German drama about the consequences of this paranoia.

Told in three chapters, “In the Fade” ratchets tension exponentially with each progressive act. The first follows familiar beats of homegrown terrorism and the devastating wake of loss, but the second act stages a riveting courtroom drama that is capped by a tense yet sobering third-act quasi-thriller.

Katja is the surviving widow of her husband Nuri, a Turkish immigrant. He and their son Rocco die when a backpack pipebomb explodes outside his small tax and accounting business.

Given the bomb’s specific, contained impact, Nuri was clearly the target, but the immediate mystery is who would want to kill him, especially in a fashion that instantly evokes radicalized terror.

Police start by looking into Nuri’s drug-dealing criminal past and his short stint in prison. Was he mixed up in radical Islam? Organized crime? Something else?

All options are on the table as Katja (Diane Kruger, who won Best Actress at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival) must start to wrestle with the possibility that her husband may not have been as rehabilitated as she thought, but her conviction never waivers.

In what first appears be nothing more than a slog about a grief observed and its depressive downward spiral, “In the Fade” takes swift dramatic turns. As the trial unfolds, the accused’s skilled lawyer plants doubts in a cut-and-dried case of damning evidence, turning a cruel microscope onto Katja herself, a key eye witness.

Writer/director Fatih Akin, a Turkish-German himself, translates his own unease into Katja, a native character more relatable to the white German majority.

With expansive empathy, Akin understands that the victims of violence aren’t only the survivors; they’re also the families of those who have embraced ideological brutality.

The former are burdened with sorrow, the latter with shame.

As the verdict sparks a retaliatory vengeance and Katja finds herself confronting the unimaginable, “In the Fade” becomes the antithesis of its title, crescendoing to a disturbing, tragic gut-punch. – JEFF HUSTON

THE TULSA VOICE // February 21 – March 6, 2018

2018 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS – DOCUMENTARY Two feature-length collections present the five Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary Short. Not Rated.

Parental discretion advised.

SPECIAL EVENTS CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: NT LIVE This London stage revival of the Tennessee Williams classic melodrama, set on a Southern plantation, stars Sienna Miller, Jack O’Connell, and Colm Meaney. Adults $18, Seniors $15. (Thu. February 22, 6:00 p.m.)

A SILENT VOICE (Anime Club) This Japanese animated comingof-age story follows the poignant arc of a relationship between a hearing-impaired girl and a school bully. (Fri. & Sat. February 23 & 24, 10:00 p.m.)

DODGE CITY BOOK EVENT Presented

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2018 OSCAR EXPERIENCE A red carpet reception hosted by KTUL’s Erin Christy will kick off the Circle’s celebration of the 90th Annual Academy Awards. This fundraiser will benefit the Circle’s “90 By 90” campaign, which is raising $90,000 for upgrades to Circle Cinema in its 90th year. The gala is also a salute to women in the motion picture business. $25 general admission, $20 for Circle members, $250 for a limited VIP experience that includes reserved seating (up to 5), food and beverages, swag bags, and more.

Sponsors include The Tulsa Voice, The Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture, Tulsa’s Channel 8, Rib Crib, Coney I-Lander, Pancho Anaya Bakery, Calaveras Mexican Grill, Heirloom Rustic Ales, and Queenies Plus. (Sat. March 4, 5:30 p.m.)

HAMLET: NT LIVE This encore presentation stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy. Adults $18, Seniors $15. (Thu. March 8, 6:00 p.m.)

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DEXTER is a big, fluffy ball of affection. He is a three-year-old cat who is extremely social and loves making new friends. Although Dexter has physical special needs involving his eyes and one of his front paws, he never lets those disabilities slow him down. This sweet kitty will never fail to provide you with companionship and compassion in order make your day a lot brighter!

ACROSS 1 Commotions 5 Bird with green feathers 8 Baby worm 12 Like runts, comparatively 19 Remarkable deed 20 Overnight lodge 21 Famous Mona 22 TV’s Steed or Mrs. Peel 23 Voice in a chorus 24 Apply oneself 25 PC and tablet maker 26 Adjust, as corporate earnings 27 Rice cooked in broth 29 Destroys, office-style 31 Sooner than tomorrow 32 Village relatives 35 European food fish 37 Nile slitherer 40 Show disdain facially 41 Stuff in many cosmetics 43 Computer networking concern 48 Cary Grant’s surname, really 50 Baby on the water 52 Like hard-tocomb hair 53 Attachment to mount or chute 54 Church area 55 Scott Joplin’s music 56 Scoring 100s on tests 58 U-turn from good 61 Carpet style 63 Baby oyster 64 ___ Rica 65 Knocked-over game piece 68 Active Italian volcano

SELENA is a six-year-old cat waiting to snuggle her way into your heart! If you need a little extra love in your life, Selena is definitely the girl for you. She is great with kids and other cats. Selena would fit well in a family of any size and of any age.

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70 Any theme baby, much later 77 Branch-stem angle 78 Breastbones 79 Battery terminal 80 Farm baby 84 Farm baby’s sound 86 Pest in the air 87 Barbershop sharpener 88 Like the jack of hearts 90 Wee building block 93 Barely cooked 94 Not witnessed 95 Young person, animal or bird 99 First ___ (second place, according to Earnhardt) 100 Italian food staples 101 Sign of what’s coming 102 Buckwheat cereal 104 Leaky soccer ball’s sound 105 King’s domain 107 Some distracted walkers 109 Reel for film 113 Suppress, as a yawn 116 Viggo Mortensen film 120 Preachers’ platforms 122 Distinctive style 123 NBA whistleblower 124 God Almighty 125 Property recipient, legally 126 Not all or none 127 Had pretzels 128 Spoken 129 Absorbers in the kitchen 130 “Check 1-2, check 1-2,” e.g.

131 By way of 132 “A Bug’s Life” extras

DOWN 1 Somewhere way out there 2 “Take a number” store 3 Stable foodstuffs 4 Display bad posture 5 Baby feline 6 Attired for judging 7 “ ___ more questions?”

8 Wine holder 9 Well-off 10 Tech support caller 11 With no frills 12 Ankle bones 13 Direct suffix 14 Baby bird 15 Put ___ words 16 “Yikes!”

17 ___ good example 18 Deuce superior 28 Butt 30 Barrel-bottom sediment 33 Romanian monetary unit 34 Tolkien monster 36 Layered Italian dish 37 Fleece source 38 Paddle-tailed creature 39 Local church community 41 Yodeling plateau 42 Fleur-de-___ 44 Little sewer dwellers 45 Tennis pro’s lesson 46 ___ mater 47 A magpie 49 Major part of a long poem 51 Some Muslim leaders (var.)

55 A couple of drum sounds 57 Party on the fancy side 58 Swirled in a whirlpool 59 Cotton fabric

Are you a family looking for a dog that loves to get active but that will also cuddle up and watch Netflix with you at the end of a long day?

EVA MARIE is a one-and-ahalf-year-old mixed-breed dog who fits these criteria perfectly! Plus, Eva Marie is kid- and dog-friendly.

Most of all, Eva Marie adores giving hugs and kisses.

60 “Mission: Impossible” org.

62 Auburnish hair dye 66 Fish trapper 67 Eugene is there 69 Anecdotal collections 71 It may be overhead 72 Greyish-brown eagle 73 Variety show opener 74 Land that sinks underfoot 75 Idolizes 76 Some shunned colonists 80 ___ de grace 81 Hiree of the King of Siam 82 Not as much 83 Mile portions 85 Most desirable, as a job 89 Baby racehorse 91 Woman one 92 ___ Xer (one born post-1965) 95 Emotional shock 96 White House nickname of the ’50s 97 Calif. airport 98 Lover of beauty 99 Shortening kin 103 Baby in a barn 106 Relatives of donkeys 107 Palindromic core belief 108 Condiment or dance 109 Mani-pedi spots 110 Meaty orange juice part 111 Mishmash 112 Admitting customers 114 Moving ice sheet 115 Beats it 117 Bank transaction 118 Sandpaper “sand” 119 Wagering concerns 121 Inexpensive shirt 123 Emulate Chance?

Find the answers to this issue’s crossword puzzle at thetulsavoice.com/puzzle-solutions.

THE TULSA VOICE // February 21 – March 6, 2018

The Tulsa SPCA has been helping animals in our area since 1913. The shelter never euthanizes for space and happily rescues animals from high-kill shelters. They also accept owner surrenders, rescues from cruelty investigations, hoarding, and puppy mill situations. Animals live on-site or with foster parents until they’re adopted. All SPCA animals are micro-chipped, vaccinated, spayed/neutered, and treated with preventatives.

Learn about volunteering, fostering, upcoming events, adoptions, and their low-cost vaccination clinic at tulsaspca.org.

CHARLOTTE is an active dog with a fun & adventurous spirit. She is quite the talented fence climber & jumper when she is left alone outside.

Charlotte could use some training, but this one-year-old German shepherd is one smart cookie and will catch on quickly!

STELLA is a strong mixed-breed dog who loves walks and hugs. She is only a year old and has a goofy personality that will always put a smile on your face. Stella will climb a chain-link fence if she is left outside alone, so a yard with a privacy fence would be best for her. Stella is very loyal to the people she connects with and will bond strongly with her forever family.

Universal sUnday Crossword BaBy, BaBy, BaBy

By Timothy e. Parker

© 2018 Andrews McMeel Syndication

2/25 ETC. // 47

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