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N E W S & C O M MEN TA RY 10 // Trespassing with a salad

NEW MEDIA, OLD SCHOOL REPORTING

Ray Pearcey, eyewitness

Militarized law enforcement threatens citizens, community c i t y s p e a k 12 // Whose faith is it anyway?

Barry Friedman, interfaith observer

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n the past month, Tulsa has become a fascinating media case study: The World lost some of its strongest reporters just as they were breaking one of the city’s heaviest international news stories ever, Berkshire Hathaway now owns the vast majority of local print products, and a historic new media experiment goes live later this month. In this issue, Joshua Kline talks with Bobby Lorton and Ziva Branstetter about that last part, The Frontier. Their team has the potential to effect serious change in our community, and I’m thankful they agreed to let us “do journalism” to them.

In addition to this issue’s guide to upcoming festivals, don’t miss Ray Pearcey’s story on re-thinking the way we police our streets. Ray boldly shares his personal experiences with law enforcement over his decades in Tulsa.

A few more things on my mind lately:

SHOUT OUT // A May 1 Instagram post documented Mike Wozniak (@asoundpony) pausing from a ride to remove a walnut-sized turtle from his path. I didn’t interview Wozniak about the rescue, but he said in an Instagram comment, “I never pass one up unless I’m in a race.” Thanks, Mike, for your inspiring act of kindness toward a fellow sentient being.

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR // Lately, it stings a little when I drive down Main Street to the intersection at M. B. Brady. However cowardly the “M.B. Brady” name change from a few years back, it’s not hard to see why the spot won Best Street Corner in our 2015 Best of Tulsa awards. Prime real estate during First Friday Art Crawls, it’s spitting distance from some of the best dining, drinking and listening spaces in town. At the time readers voted, the northeast corner featured seven of the only robust, mature trees in downtown Tulsa.

Each of those trees was cut down in the past month, and the site now just makes me feel parched and depressed. Matt Bendel, a project manager with Manhattan Construction, told me the building owner had the trees removed, but that it wasn’t because of GKFF’s overhaul of the block (something about bird poop). Bendel said they’d planned to work around the trees to restore the Fox Hotel building. Whatever the reason, perhaps in the future we’ll exercise more discretion before removing all the existing non-human life forms from our growing downtown. a

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Protests continue after TCSO shooting BLUE BELL EXPANDS RECALL // Blue Bell Ice Cream announced a recall of all of its products April 20 after multiple samples of its Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream tested positive for listeria. The Texas-based company had recently closed its Broken Arrow facility due to the bacteria and issued a voluntary recall of all products made there.

Once exposed, the people at highest risk for listeriosis include pregnant women, adults 65 and older and people with weakened or compromised immune systems. Miscarriages and stillbirths are possible side effects among pregnant women infected by the bacteria. At least 10 cases across four states have been tied to the outbreak. Three people have died from it.

SPOTLIGHT THEATER MAKES ENDANGERED PLACES LIST // Tulsa’s iconic Spotlight Theater has been named one of Preservation Oklahoma’s 2015 Most Endangered Historical Places. Officials are hoping to use the designation as a springboard for additional fundraising efforts to keep the building in working order.

Designed by Bruce Goff in 1928, the Spotlight Theater was placed on the national historical registry by local architect Herb Fritz in 2001. Located at 1381 Riverside Drive, the theater has hosted America’s longest continuously running play, “The Drunkard,” since November 1953 and the Spotlight Children’s Theatre since 1997.

Larry Cochran, president of the Tulsa Spotlighters Board of Directors, said the theater’s Tulsa Community Foundation account is “open and ready to receive building restoration funding.”

SCOTUS TO REVIEW STATE’S EXECUTION METHODS // April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Oklahoma’s preferred death penalty methods constitute cruel and unusual punishment. The arguments came one year to the day after the botched execution of death row inmate Clayton Lockett. Lockett writhed on a gurney for more than 40 minutes after receiving the drug cocktail meant to kill him.

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RECURRING PROTESTS IN downtown Tulsa have called for the resignation of Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz in the aftermath of the shooting death of Eric Harris by Robert Bates, a reserve deputy. In addition to Glanz’ resignation, the ACLU of Oklahoma has called for an independent criminal investigation of Glanz and the sheriff’s office. Glanz told the Tulsa World he does not plan to resign but won’t seek re-election in 2016.

Wed., May 6, a protest march will begin at 7 p.m. at 2nd and Elgin and end at the sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s second-in-command, Undersheriff Tim Albin, resigned effective May 1 after the release of a 2009 internal affairs report that he allowed Bates—a longtime friend of Glanz and donor to the sheriff’s office—to receive special treatment during his training.

April 30, the sheriff’s office announced the suspension of part of its reserve program while member records are reviewed. In the interim, reserve deputies may only be used for law enforcement if they are partnered with a certified deputy.

Bates pleaded not guilty and is currently out on bail. At his initial court appearance, he was granted permission to go on a previously scheduled month-long family vacation to the Bahamas. Joseph Byars and Michael Huckeby, the other deputies in the video of Harris’ shooting, have been reassigned to another department.

ative component of the cocktail, midazolam, is unsuitable for executions because it can’t achieve the level of unconsciousness required for surgery.

A ruling is expected in late June and could affect states that use similar methods to carry out death sentences. Earlier this year, in advance of the Supreme Court case, Gov. Mary Fallin signed legislation naming the gas chamber as the state’s official back-up execution method. Other states in a similar predicament have considered bringing back the electric chair and firing squad as sanctioned alternative capital punishment methods.

TULSA TANKS OZONE TEST // The American Lung Association has flagged Tulsa as having some of the worst air quality in the country. In a survey of 220 metropolitan areas, the Tulsa area ranked 12th for the number of high ozone or smog days in 2014.

Tulsa had 57 ozone alert days last year, compared to 76 ozone alert days for Los Angeles, the biggest offender. Oklahoma City and Shawnee were 15th on the list.

However, the study ranked Tulsa among the cleanest metropolitan areas for 24-hour particle pollution.

NORTHSIDE WALMART ABRUPTLY CLOSES // The Walmart Supercenter near Admiral and Memorial closed April 13 after giving its employees and customers just a few hours’ notice.

Corporate representatives claimed the building had chronic plumbing problems.

The store’s 400 employees were given the option to transfer to an area Walmart or Sam’s Club if eligible but were told they would have to re-apply for their jobs when the store eventually re-opens. Employees who did not qualify for a transfer are receiving regular pay for 60 days.

The Tulsa closure was one of five announced that day nationwide due to alleged plumbing problems. The store will be closed for at least six months.

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cityspeak Tiring of the exchange and wondering how it would end, I must have shifted my stance slightly.

Wildly, my interrogator became loud and animated.

“What are you doing!?” he exclaimed.

“Are you trying to get to my back?”

The entrance to the path Pearce y took, looking from Elgin Avenue toward Gre enwood Avenue // Photo by Ray Pearce y

Trespassing with a salad Militarized law enforcement threatens our citizens and community

by RAY PEARCEY

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ome Tulsans think the recent tumult between cops and black males—in Ferguson, New York City, Baltimore, South Carolina and now here—is hyperbolic and unrepresentative.

As skewed treatment and excessive force by police come into focus nationally, we must also grasp how these absurd and often life-shattering run-ins corrode our communities and flout reconciliation and justice.

Mountains of statistical evidence1 align with my personal reality as a black male and alert observer in Tulsa. I’ve had more than a dozen disturbing encounters with law enforcement over my decades here. Before we go big-picture, I’ll share a very recent experience—a traumatic one that’s bugged me for days now.

On April 17, I was crossing a concrete path in downtown Tulsa.

The walkway runs from Elgin to Greenwood beside the new GreenArch apartments that front Archer. Drillers fans will know the spot; many regularly traverse it in the hundreds en route to the stadium. I was carrying a fabulous

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Mexican veggie medley from my friend Vincent Gonzales, a food trucky who operates in the area.

It was about 11:30 on a Friday morning.

As I exited the path, a white SUV pulled up alongside Greenwood. Two men popped out of the vehicle wearing “commando light” style outfits. Apparently sporting bulletproof vests under their shirts, both were heavily armed with guns, Tasers, mace canisters, extra bullets, handcuffs and a passel of communications gear.

The men were Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) rail cops. They walked briskly toward me as the lead officer loudly asked if I knew was trespassing on rail property. I apologized; I was only vaguely aware of this, as the path wasn’t roped off. In a cynical tone, he asked why I had ignored the BNSF signs and pointed toward one of two concrete pylons on either side of the walkway. These “signs,” like the two at the Elgin entrance to the path, were a little over 2 feet high and not terribly salient. I told the officer that it would help if the signs werehigher

and more prominently lettered.

Clearly irritated, he asked if maybe the signs should be neon. I replied that same would be over the top, but that I had worked in planning at City Hall, and if you want people to comply with your wishes it’s best to have effective signage.

He then began to lecture me.

Tiring of the exchange and wondering how it would end, I must have shifted my stance slightly.

Wildly, my interrogator became loud and animated.

“What are you doing!?” he exclaimed. “Are you trying to get to my back?”

As evenly as I could manage, I told him I was doing no such thing and that he was being paranoid. He angrily said he would now photograph me for the BNSF database and demanded my name, age and address. I told him I didn’t like responding to arbitrary demands but that I’d honor his request with deep reluctance and revisit it later.

Deciding to end the encounter, I stepped off into Greenwood Avenue proper—presumably beyond BNSF’s jurisdiction—and com-

menced a 150-foot march across Greenwood and a parking lot to my office at the Oklahoma Eagle Publishing Company.

The face-off was humiliating and rife with the potential of being shot in the ass for doing exactly nothing. Why couldn’t the officers have simply told me I was trespassing and asked me to stay away? What’s next? One day, while I’m flying out of London or Phoenix or OKC, will an airline or TSA operative ask if I’m a railroad “disruptor”—a suspect person?

You don’t have to be paranoid to wonder how BNSF and their myriad IT/security contractors exchange info with other private entities and government agencies.

Another unforgettable event took place about 18 months ago.

After I was hit by a small truck while walking downtown, a Tulsa police officer asked me if I’d just been drinking at a nearby bar (I hadn’t and would rather eat a frozen dog than drink in the morning). Decades ago, I was visiting a terminally ill friend at Saint Francis when a nurse asked if I was carrying a gun (it was a cell May 6 - 19, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

phone). Shortly after I’d entered my friend’s room in the oncology ward, hospital cops and police officers had surrounded the nurse’s station. They backed down only after the nurse intervened.

My experiences in Tulsa and the police overreach coming to light nationally might not all point to the exact same phenomena.

But they share a racially tinged, arbitrary and monstrous disproportionality. In Tulsa, Eric Harris’ death bears an uncanny resemblance to the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant—a 22-year-old black cook—by BART transit cop Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale BART Station near San Francisco. As in Hains’ killing, Mehserle claimed to have visualized grabbing his Taser but instead fired his gun. The outrage was powerfully dramatized2 in the 2013 film “Fruitvale Station,” and Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Both the Harris3 and Grant4 shootings have been attributed to “slip and capture”— but some experts say that blaming the error on a syndrome is junk science5.

Federally collected data6 show that, compared with white males and females and black women in often-identical police encounters, black males are at far greater risk of being injured or killed by police. In addition to increasing police militarization7 and digital audits of police work, many experts single out our reckless war on drugs as fueling the rash of recent police brutality. In our modest-income communities— and most heavily in our neighborhoods of color—the drug war has normalized a dysfunctional web of tactical operations, sting and informant practices, entrapment troupes and improvisational drug raids. These ops would be unthinkable in whiter, wealthier parts of our cities.

In addition to an overhaul of the war on drugs, the heightened use of force in policing highlights a dire need for greater transparency. Bates wore a body camera when he shot Harris, and another officer in the sting was outfitted with video-augmented glasses that Bates had donated. In several cities8, preliminary findings about body borne video suggest it can dramatically reduce citizen complaints as well as the number THE TULSA VOICE // May 6 - 19, 2015

of irregular/brutal encounters between citizens and officers.

Before Tulsa voters rubber-stamp another $15-$30 million annually for policing with the Vision 2025 renewal vote (probably in November), let’s consider ways to make Tulsa policing a more community-oriented, responsive service. Funding body borne video9 to record every police encounter is a critical first step. We must also improve police engagement skills, implement structured citizen oversight and diversify recruitment.

It took me days to fully recover from the micro-aggression I experienced with the rail cops.

But our challenge is much greater than these individual run-ins happening daily across the U.S. We know that rogue policing and racial inequality affect child development10 and the mental health of young black and Hispanic people11. A dysfunctional police force erodes our social fabric and stifles our collective creativity. We won’t realize our immense potential as a city without ensuring that our law enforcement protects and serves all Tulsans. a

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1) ACLU: New ACLU report finds overwhelming racial bias in marijuana arrests 2) The Daily Beast: ‘Fruitvale Station,’ Sundance’s Hottest Film, Comes to Theaters 3) CNN: Video released of deadly shooting in Tulsa after police chase 4) PoliceOne.com: Force Science explains “slips-and-capture errors” 5) AP: Questions, answers about police officers who confuse weapons 6) ProPublica: Deadly Force, in Black and White 7) Salon: Radley Balko: “Once a town gets a SWAT team you want to use it” 8) Vice News: Reports Suggest Body Cameras Are Only Effective When Cops Can’t Turn Them Off 9) Police Officer Body - Worn Camera: Assessing The Evidence / Michael White, PhD 10) Robert Coles: Children of Crisis 11) Public Health Law Research: Study shows New York City stop and frisk experiences associated with symptoms of trauma and stress among young men

Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.

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Whose faith is it anyway?

From right to left, Christians wrestle with the rulebook

by BARRY FRIEDMAN

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ust when we think we’re out, they pull us back in. But it wasn’t politics this time; it was faith. Two stories before we begin.

1) What seems like a million years ago, I was flipping through the cable channels and heard Jim Bakker—yes, that Jim Bakker— preaching about a Baptist pastor who had humiliated a young girl for dancing.

He was incensed.

Fundamentalist Baptists frown on such things, something Bakker wasn’t backing away from; yet, this incident bothered him because the pastor had the girl in tears.

“If that’s Christ,” screamed Bakker, “I don’t want Him!” 2) In a homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1998, The Archbishop of New York, Cardinal John O’Connor said,1 “I categorically denounce the hypothesis that to kill an abortionist is justifiable in order to save babies. I have consistently denounced violence against persons based on their sexual orientation.”

Later, he told a New York City newspaper, “Let me make this clear: if anyone feels the need to kill an abortion doctor, kill me first.”

If that’s Christ…

Why bring this up?

As much as anything, what happened in Indiana last month— what is still happening there (and in other states2, including Oklahoma3)—is a battle for the parameters, language and meme of Christianity in America. Remember 12 // NEWS & COMMENTARY

Fund Raises $840,000 for Memories Pizza After Attacks Over Gay Marriage Views

The Ripple Effe ct choir at Memories Pizza in Walker ton, Indiana

that pizza place4 at the center of the controversy? “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no,” Memories Pizza’s Crystal O’Connor said.

“We are a Christian establishment.”

“That lifestyle is something they choose. I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat over the head to go along with something they choose?”

Let Elizabeth Loring of The Ripple Effect5, a choir dedicated to bridging differences, pick up the story. When she first heard about Memories Pizza, Loring believed the O’Connors were cultural stereotypes, almost “cartoon characters,” she said.

“I like Rosie O’Donnell’s remark that even lesbians wouldn’t have pizza at a wedding—chili, maybe.”

Any other time, any other place, that’s funny.

The Ripple Effect founder Sherry Klinedinst—a church pianist at Southside Christian Church in South Bend, Indiana—decided, instead, the choir should go to Memories Pizza.

“I’ve been up all night thinking about these people,” Klinedinst wrote members, “and my heart goes out to them. Bottom line is that if we say we celebrate diversity and embrace our differences, then we should show them our support by showing them love. Who’s in?”

“My heart goes out to them”—?

The group was in, including Loring, even after this news6:

“My heart is slightly less heavy now,” Loring wrote Klinedinst.

“I’m pretty sure they can stay in business if they choose to.”

“I can understand how you would feel that way,” Klinedinst responded. “I do, too. But if everyone could see the horror of the barrage of FB posts, it would be easier to see that those people would truly benefit from being shown that hate must be met with love. What would Jesus have done?”

The group went. Though the O’Connors weren’t there and Memories had closed down, the choir sang out front—hymns including, “In Christ There is No East or West” and, “They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love.”

A trucker drove by and yelled “God Bless America;” a retiree told them, “Get a job!” After about an hour, they headed back to South Bend for Good Friday services.

“By the time we got to town,” Loring said, “the hateful comments were starting to pile up.”

From every side.

“Most of them were initially from the right, thinking we were protesting,” she said. “Later, we also got angry comments from people from the left, incensed we would show sympathy to the restaurant owners.”

If it seems that no good deed goes unpunished, it might also ring true that no bad one goes unrewarded.

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All told, Memories Pizza received almost $1 million in contributions; The Ripple Effect received this7: “Now I’m getting gay fatigue to go along with my race fatigue.”

“Everyone of these gay ‘Christian’ choir members are liars.”

“The place is shutdown because of death threats from gay Nazis. How about these idiots go sing to them?”

If this is Christ…

Garrett Epps—author of To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial, Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore, and Supreme Court correspondent for The Atlantic, warns about oversimplifying: “Listen, for heaven’s sake, let’s not fall for the hokum that ‘Christians’ are homophobes or that ‘Christians’ support discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, because you must know, if you think it through, how many Christians have taken risks and pushed their denominations in the name of equality for LGBT,” Epps said in email. “The claim that immunity from civil rights laws is ‘Christian’ is a trap, because the corollary

is that favoring legal equality is ‘anti-Chrisitan.’ Don’t fall into it.”

“It’s the fall that’ll kill you”— Butch Cassidy Marlin Lavanhar, senior minister at Tulsa’s All Souls Unitarian Church, also sees the rhetorical traps.

“Who gets to define Christianity?” Lavanhar said. “That’s been a question for 2000 years.

If someone were to say, ‘Christians or Christianity rejects LGBT people or lifestyles,’ they would have to explain why Evangelical Lutherans, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and a number of other smaller Christian denominations accept them.”

Last year, after Gov. Mary Fallin said Oklahomans are religious and do not want gay marriage, All Souls hosted an engagement party of sorts.

“Twenty-seven clergy (Christian, Jewish and Unitarian) publicly stood with our LGBT neighbors,” Lavanhar said. “These kinds of efforts are needed to remind the country and those who think they define Christianity that theirs

is not a Christian consensus on LGBT issues and ethics.”

Loring says victory is incremental.

“We can’t change every heart, so why should we try?” she said.

“The whole idea was to try to create a small space where there are no sides. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, ‘But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.’”

Memories Pizza has reopened, and the O’Connors say they will remodel and give the rest to charity.

There’s a story: Walking on a beach, a man and his grandson discover hundreds of starfish beached and dying. The boy starts throwing them back into the water, one by one. The man says gently, “You can’t save them all.

There are just too many. You can’t throw enough back to make any difference.” But the boy continues, saying, “But grandpa, it makes a

difference to this one, and this one, and this one.” a 1) Eternal World Television Network: Response to violence at abortion clinics 2)LGBTQNation: Indiana GOP rejects extending civil rights protections to LGBT residents 3) NewsOn6: Oklahoma House, Senate Pass Religious Freedom Legislation 4) The Tulsa Voice: Beliefs sincerely held 5) Facebook: The Ripple Effect-Choir 6) NBC News: Fund Raises $840,000 for Memories Pizza After Attacks Over Gay Marriage Views 7) Addicting Info: Conservatives Furious That Gay Christians Sang In Front Of Bigoted Indiana Pizza Joint

“Views from the Plains” appears each issue and covers Oklahoma politics and culture—the disastrous, the unseemly, the incomprehensible … you know, the day-to-day stuff.

Barry Friedman is a touring standup comedian, author and general rabble-rouser.

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n the Voice’s 2015 Best of Tulsa awards, readers voted Blue Rose Café the Best Patio in town. The Penthouse at the Mayo Hotel snagged Best View, Guthrie Green won Best Picnic Spot (and a bevy of other awards), and the Soundpony patio took home Best “Unofficial” Public Art. Those favorites alone are enough to take your dining and drinking from lunch to an afternoon hang, into dinnertime and even up late. But whether you’re sticking close to home or looking for a pit stop in an unfamiliar part of town, it sure never hurts to have options. From south city to downtown, here’s TulsaFood’s official patio list for 2015.

71ST AND YALE The French Hen has delivered top-shelf French/American

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cuisine and a stellar wine list to Tulsa for more than 30 years.

One of south Tulsa’s best-kept secrets, the patio is shaded by a vine-wrapped pergola that makes the high-traffic surroundings feel far away.

McNellie’s South City has the epic beer selection and all the pub fare you’ve come to love at the original 3rd and Elgin location (which won Best Beer Selection and Best Bar Food in the Voice’s 2015 Best of Tulsa awards). South City’s lively patio is the perfect spot for brews and a round of corn hole.

BROOKSIDE Cafe Olé’s intimate old-world patio near 35th and Peoria is just off the Restless Ribbon but low-key enough for a relaxed conversation over fresh margaritas. With a cozy

outdoor fireplace and rich Mexican food, it’s also a go-to patio when the weather’s brisk.

Neighboring Cafe Olé in the Consortium building, the cave-like patio at Ming’s Noodle Bar has unmatched ambiance and enough coverage to keep you dry during a long Oklahoma thunderstorm.

PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART To enjoy world-class art and a peaceful walk through breathtaking gardens—and dine on a patio—go with La Villa at the Philbrook.

Expect nothing short of the most peaceful patio dining in town.

Readers voted Philbrook the Best Art Space and Best Museum in the Voice’s 2015 Best of Tulsa awards.

UTICA SQUARE The tulips, the fountain, the dog-walkers, the promenading

families—the Wild Fork patio has it all, and it never gets old for us.

For a no-frills option in the heart of Utica Square, try Queenie’s Cafe and Bakery. A part of Tulsa foodie history, Queenie’s has been doing the whole fresh, local, organic thing for 32 years and counting.

CHERRY STREET The Pint’s alley patio has turned a cold concrete thoroughfare into a warm and inviting dining space.

Expect a quality $4 pint special and friendly, professional service.

Across the street is Tucci’s Cafe Italia. It’s hard to find quality Italian food on a patio in Tulsa, but Tucci’s delivers the goods.

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Readers voted Dalesandro’s Best Italian in the Voice’s 2015 Best of Tulsa awards.

DOWNTOWN The East Village is packed with sweet patios—Girouard Vines (Tulsa Deco Wines) carved out a nook there a few years back, followed by Hodges Bend at 3rd and Lansing. Now, Bohemian Pizzeria has anchored the district as a well-rounded, only-in-Tulsa destination. A guiding concept behind “Boho” was building a strong patio dining clientele, and it’s already taken off. Patio seating represents more than half of the available space to enjoy their authentic and delicious wood-oven pizzas.

Experiencing the intimate patio of Girouard Vines is almost as tricky as snagging a dinner

table at Boho on the weekend.

Follow their Facebook page for updates on their periodic dinners.

They’re currently hosting “The Local Chef Dinners”—once a month, a top local chef prepares a 5-course wine dinner benefitting the chef ’s charity of choice.

For something new and completely different, visit the Saturn Room in the Brady Arts District.

The Saturn Room comes to us from the folks behind Hodges Bend (including Noah Bush, who won Best Bartender in the Voice’s 2015 Best of Tulsa awards). It’s hard to compete with a Tiki bar patio designed to transport you to a tropical paradise.

Last but certainly not least, we can’t overlook the patio that’ll make you feel like a kid again.

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SOUTH TULSA

Big Al’s Health Foods Bill’s Jumbo Burgers Billy Ray’s BBQ Brothers Houligan Calaveras Mexican Grill Capp’s BBQ Corner Café Duffy’s Diner El Rio Verde Freddie’s Hamburgers Guang Zhou Dim Sum Hoot Owl Coffee Company Jim’s Coney Island Las Americas Super Mercado & Restaurant

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

Lot a Burger Maxxwell’s Restaurant Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts Mr. Taco Oklahoma Style BBQ Philly Alley Pie Hole Pizza Pollo al Carbon Rib Crib BBQ & Grill The Right Wing Route 66 Subs & Burgers Tacos Don Francisco Tally’s Good Food Cafe Umberto’s Pizza

PEARL DISTRICT El Rancho Grande The Phoenix Café Lola’s Caravan

Ike’s Chili Papa Ganouj JJ’s Hamburgers

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

Keo Lambrusco’Z To Go Leon’s Brookside Lokal Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Ming’s Noodle Bar Mondo’s Ristorante Italiano Old School Bagel Café Pei Wei Asian Diner R Bar & Grill Rons Hamburgers & Chili Señor Tequila Shades of Brown Sonoma Bistro & Wine Bar Starbucks Sumatra Coffee Shop Super Wok The Warehouse Bar & Grill Weber’s Root Beer Whole Foods Market Yolotti Frozen Yogurt Zoës Kitchen

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

WO ODLAND HILLS

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

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

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

Lambrusco’z McNellie’s S&J Oyster Company STG Pizzeria & Gelateria Tallgrass Prairie Table Yokozuna

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

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

DOWNTOWN 624 Kitchen and Catering All About Cha Stylish Coffee & Tea Baxter’s Interurban Grill Bohemian Pizzeria The Boiler Room The Boulder Grill Café 320 Casa Laredo Coney Island Daily Grill Foolish Things Coffee Grand Selections for Lunch The Greens on Boulder Lassalle’s New Orleans Deli

Lou’s Deli MADE Market in the DoubleTree by Hilton Mazzio’s Italian Eatery Naples Flatbread & Wine Bar Oneok Café Oklahoma Spud on the Mall Seven West Café Sheena’s Cookies & Deli Steakfinger House The Sushi Place Tabouli’s Ti Amo Topeca Coffee Williams Center Café

TERWILLEGER HEIGHTS Bill & Ruth’s Blue Rose Café Burn Co. BBQ The Chalkboard Dalesandro’s

Elwoods Mansion House Café Ron’s Hamburgers & Chili La Villa at Philbrook

GREENWOOD Abear’s

Fat Guy’s

MIDTOWN Albert G’s Bangkok Thai Super Buffet Bravo’s Mexican Grill Bros. Houligan Celebrity Restaurant Daylight Donuts Supershop Eddy’s Steakhouse Felini’s Cookies & Deli

Golden Gate Lambrusco’z Mary Jane’s Pizza My Thai Kitchen PJ’s Sandwich Shoppe Phill’s Diner Trenchers Delicatessen

I-44/BA INTERCHANGE Big Anthony’s BBQ Bill & Ruth’s Subs Billy Sims BBQ Binh-Le Vietnamese Chop House BBQ D’Oro Pizza Desi Wok Fiesta Cozumel Gogi Gui Growler’s Sandwich Grill Hideaway Pizza Himalayas – Aroma of India Ichiban Teriyaki Jumbo’s Burgers Las Bocas Las Tres Fronteras Le Bistro Sidewalk Cafe Mamasota’s Mexican Restaurant & Bar Mazzio’s Italian Eatery

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

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

Harden’s Hamburgers Hero’s Subs & Burgers Los Primos Moonsky’s Cheesesteaks and Daylight Donuts The Restaurant at Gilcrease White River Fish Market

WEST TULSA

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Arnold’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers Burger House Charlie’s Chicken Jumpin J’s Knotty Pine BBQ Hideaway Pizza Linda Mar

Lot a Burger Monterey’s Little Mexico Ollie’s Station Rib Crib BBQ & Grill Sandwiches & More Union Street Café Westside Grill & Delivery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ROSE DISTRICT BruHouse Daylight Donuts Family Back Creek Deli & Gifts Fiesta Mambo!

Hideaway Pizza In the Raw

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

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FOOD FROM TRUCKS Catch these and other Tulsa food truckies at the festivals in our guide on p. 25

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Lick Your Lips Mini Donuts lickyourlipsminidonuts.com, facebook.com/lickyourlipsminidonuts, @gourmetgooch If you haven’t tried Laken Gooch’s gourmet mini donuts then you aren’t a true Tulsa foodie. Yeah, I said it. Her adorable vintage food truck, Lick Your Lips, continues to create new and exciting donut recipes that will have you dreaming of donuts long after your last bite. I ordered the cinnamon sugars, which ran me $4—a food truck steal, in my opinion. The rest of the menu is sprinkled with playfully themed toppings. Catch Lick Your Lips at the Blue Dome Arts Festival, Guthrie Green Food Truck Wednesdays and Freedom Fest.

The Meltdown 918.906.9546 meltdowngrilledcheese.com facebook.com/ meltdowngourmetgrilledcheese There’s something to be said of a food truck that can take southern comfort food and make it more delicious and even more fun. I couldn’t resist The Meltdown’s easy to eat $8 Conewich, a large homemade flour cone filled with Frito chili pie—hot chili and melted cheese, topped with a scoop of Fritos. It comes with a fork, but if you’re a relentless eater like me, you’ll toss it. Catch The Meltdown at Guthrie Green Food Truck Wednesdays and the Blue Dome Arts Festival.

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Lone Wolf 918.804.1345, lonewolftruck.com facebook.com/lonewolftruck @lonewolfbanhmi Readers voted Philip and Danielle Phillip’s famous Lone Wolf Best Food Truck in our 2015 Best of Tulsa awards, and I couldn’t agree more. My first taste of their $5.95 Kimchi fries—topped with spicy aioli, fermented cabbage and sliced jalapenos— made me feel things I didn’t know I could feel toward food.

The plate of fries is big enough to share but good enough to make you not want to. Catch Lone Wolf at The Fur Shop, Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, the Blue Dome Arts Festival and Guthrie Green Food Truck Wednesdays.

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New media, old school reporting Forme r Wo r l d s t a ff t a ke a g a m b l e w it h The Fro n ti e r

by JOSHUA KLINE

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n April 20, a series of earthquakes shook Tulsa’s media landscape.

That afternoon, Tulsa World Enterprise Editor Ziva Branstetter and Staff Writer Cary Aspinwall were named Pulitzer Prize finalists for their reporting on the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

That same day, it was announced that Branstetter and Aspinwall, along with World staff writers Dylan Goforth and Kevin Canfield, had abruptly resigned from the paper to join a new media start-up. Branstetter and Goforth were in the middle of covering the fast-evolving Tulsa County Sheriff ’s Office scandal stemming from the killing of Eric Harris. Jumping ship in the midst of such an important unfolding story made little sense.

Fueled by a poorly framed Talking Points Memo story on the resignations, idle speculation circulated that Branstetter and Goforth had been given the boot over their TCSO reporting.

But they had been planning their departure for months. Once the World editors learned that the rumors of an eventual mass exit were true, they had little choice but to escort them to the door.

The timing was unfortunate.

So how were four of the state’s best journalists wooed away from Tulsa’s paper of record for an unproven Internet news site?

To start, the publisher behind the project is former World CEO and Publisher Bobby Lorton.

I spoke with Lorton and Branstetter early this month about their plans for The Frontier, which launches later in May (they’re publishing on medium. com in the interim).

Lorton’s family owned the World for 96 years before selling to Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Media Group in 2013. (Coincidentally, the day after plans for The Frontier were made public, BH Media announced its purchase of seven weeklies from Tulsa-based Community Publishers Inc., including Tulsa Business and Legal News and The Broken Arrow Ledger.)

After the World sold, Lorton took a job at Prosperity Bank and assumed his days as a publisher were done.

“I like being a banker, but I definitely felt a tug to get back into the news business,” he said.

That tug became more pronounced as Lorton watched the continued decline of the traditional daily model.

“Surface news always has to happen—it’s the shooting down the street, the house fire, the sports scores,” he said. “But long-form journalism is starting to take a backseat to that. … It’s not the paper’s fault; it’s at the mercy of the financial model.”

Lorton’s solution is bold. The Frontier is experimental: a web-only, in-depth newsgathering service

with a strong investigative bent that will be ad-free and available only to subscribing members for $30 a month, with certain stories available for purchase a la carte to non-subscribers, along with podcasts and blogs from the writers.

They hope to publish three to four stories a week initially, with additional contributions from freelancers.

“Will the reader support really good journalism?” Lorton said.

“That’s what I’m trying to see and prove. And I’m confident that it can work.”

Some corporate sponsorships will help support the project, but the sponsors will be listed on one dedicated page rather than splashed all over the site.

“A website that’s cluttered with ads, it’s distracting from the news story; it makes the website clunky and slow, and it irritates the reader,” Lorton said. “I wanted a website with no ads, that’s clean and loads fast and is focused on the story. Plus, I didn’t want a website that has 15 stories you have to sift through in order to figure out what’s the important story of the day. We wanted to have a model that’s quality over quantity—fewer stories, but deeper stories.”

“We don’t have to feed the beast of the daily paper,” Branstetter said. “This is no knock on the World—they have a paper to fill every day. I ran the enterprise team, and they were very good about letting me take the time I

needed to do big projects. But in the mean time I didn’t feel like I could go off in the corner and work for three months on a death penalty project without producing. We always needed something in the Sunday paper. It’s hard to juggle all of that.”

Lorton said his financial model is based primarily on what it will take to pay the salaries of his writers. The first year, he hopes to accrue 1,000 subscribers, which he said will be more than enough to pay the bills.

The Frontier will operate with a skeleton crew for the first phase of its rollout; they won’t even have office space until November. With little overhead and a team of seasoned reporters with name-recognition and credibility in the community, Lorton is comfortable with the gamble—though his decision to roll the dice hinged on Branstetter’s participation.

“I said I wouldn’t go forward unless Ziva would consider thinking about it,” he said.

Branstetter, now The Frontier’s editor-in-chief, said Lorton’s enthusiasm helped sell her on the idea.

“Bobby has a lot of energy, and that’s one of the things that really excited me about doing this, that convinced me to take this leap,” she said. “And everyone in this town knows how much his family cares about Tulsa, and to me that opens a lot of doors.” a

To read Joshua’s extended Q&A with Lorton and Branstetter, view the story online at TheTulsaVoice.com.

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May 14-17, Downtown • tulsamayfest.org • Free Mayfest returns to downtown with artists and vendors from around the country and music on three outdoor stages. Headlining the main stage will be Bradio (The Brady Orchestra), acoustic good-vibe purveyors Nahko and Medicine for the People and Austin Tex-rockers Band of Heathens. Also on the bill are Chicago soul band JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound (check out their cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”) and KALO, fronted by fiery blues guitarist Bat-Or Kalo. Expect plenty of local flavor from klondike5, Brujoroots, Sam & The Stylees and many more.

May 22-24, Pryor • rocklahoma.com • Single Day: $79.50 Weekend: $159 (will increase to $189 closer to the festival) VIP: Sold Out SLAYER. That’s right. If you go to Pryor over Memorial Day Weekend, you will be slain and you will like it. Also playing the heaviest fest in the state will be another of the Big Four thrash metal bands, Anthrax, as well as Queensryche, Tesla, Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts, Godsmack and Papa Roach, among many more.

B L U E D O M E A R T S F E S T I VA L May 15-17, Blue Dome District • bluedomearts.org • Free Blue Dome Arts Festival showcases the talents of Tulsa artists, musicians and food truckies. More than 200 artists will be showing and selling their work. Among the dozens of performances gracing Blue Dome’s stage are Erin O’Dowd, Dirty Creek Bandits, Kelli and the Skillet Lickers, The Movetet and comedy acts presented by the Comedy Parlor. See music listings for the full lineup. The festival will also feature the Art Play Center, where kids can create their own works of art, ArtCars (a kids’ ArtBOXCar Parade) and yoga and Zumba demonstrations.

T H E H O P J A M C R A F T B E E R A N D M U S I C F E S T I VA L May 17, Brady Arts District • thehopjam.com • Free-$45 With last year’s inaugural Hop Jam, Hanson provided a fantastic end to an already great weekend. The one hiccup was that the beer ran dry in the first few hours of the all-day event. This year’s lineup (twice as large) includes several out-of-state and international—some of which have never been available in Oklahoma. But that’s just half of it. Hanson will once again headline the concert, along with the incredible Polyphonic Spree, Black Joe Lewis (who brought heaps of electric soul to last year’s Mayfest), Jamestown Revival, Horse Thief and a local band to be selected in Hanson’s Awesome Music Contest. Passes include Unlimited Hop (all-you-can-taste beer, Hop Jam tasting glass, lanyard) and Hop Head VIP (same as above plus early entry and Hop Head hat).

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C H A R L I E C H R I S T I A N I N T E R N AT I O N A L M U S I C F E S T I VA L May 28-31, Lawton • charliechristianmusicfestival.com $10-$20, several free events During the late ‘30s, OKC guitarist Charlie Christian redefined what the electric guitar could do with his unmatched improvisational abilities (without Christian, there would be no Jimi Hendrix). For 30 years, this jazz festival has paid tribute to Christian and his legacy. Artists at this year’s festival include Grady Nichols, Eldredge Jackson, Landon Torbett, Chris Arnold, Shortt Dogg and Brothers Dupree & Sista Sara Wade.

TA L LG R A S S M U S I C F E S T I VA L June 5-6, Skiatook • tallgrassmusicfestival.com Free admission, $10 parking Kick off the summer with a short drive up to Skiatook for some bluegrass, gospel and folk music. The lineup features Nu-Blu, Monroe Crossing, Scenic Roots, Coyote Hill, Blue Pearl and more.

O K M O Z A R T I N T E R N AT I O N A L M U S I C F E S T I VA L June 6-13, Bartlesville • okmozart.com • Prices vary for performances Bartlesville hosts eight days of classical concerts, including a performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. As always, the orchestra in residence will be Amici New York, which is comprised of top New York City musicians and conducted by Maestro Constantine Kitsopoulos. Featured artists include violist Andria Benjamin, “Kitchen Fiddler” Louise Owen, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, 20-year-old violin prodigy Chad Hoopes, the Aeolus Quartet and the Canadian Brass.

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June 18-21, Blue Dome District and Circle Cinema Prices for performances vary Blue Whale is back for its second year, and it’s seriously stepped up its funny game. Michael Ian Black and Natasha Leggero will headline the festival, and you can also see Nick Thune, Johnny Pemberton, Maronzio Vance, Bendon Walsh, Sarah Schaefer, Brody Stevens, Dan St. Germain, Chris Cubas, Aparna Nancherla, Randy Liedtke, Alan Starzinksi, the return of Tulsa native Josh Fadem and more. This year, the fest has also added a short-film fest at Circle Cinema, a movie night at Guthrie Green, a charity celebrity bowling event at Dust Bowl, Okie shows at Dwelling Spaces and after-parties at The Fur Shop. Perhaps most exciting of all—a fortunate few will call bullshit on the man you, dear readers, named Best Bullshit Caller in the Voice’s 2015 Best of Tulsa awards—Blake Ewing, in a roast hosted by our favorite lounge lizard, Vincent Carbone.

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June 25-28, Okmulgee • creekfestival.com • Free The 41st Muscogee (Creek) Festival weekend is packed with activities including Creek hymn and gospel singing, sports tournaments, traditional Creek arts and crafts, a parade and more. Fans of classic R&B, take note: The festival will include free performances from Kool & The Gang and The Commodores as well as the electronic/First Nations group A Tribe Called Red. Country act Sawyer Brown and Little Texas will round out the headliners.

OKC FEST June 26-27, Oklahoma City • okcfest.com Single Day: $55 • Weekend: $95 • VIP: $450 Last year’s inaugural OKC Fest featured country acts exclusively. This year there will still be plenty of country, but the festival has expanded its offerings. Headliners include Hand Williams Jr., Grace Potter, Rascal Flatts, Better Than Ezra, Drive-By Truckers, Sammy Hagar and The Circle and Graham Colton.

W O O D Y G U T H R I E F O L K F E S T I VA L July 8-12, Okemah • woodyguthrie.com • Single Day: $30 at the gate Weekend: $50 before May 13, $60 from May 13-June 25, $75 at the gate Celebrate Woody Guthrie’s 103rd birthday with nearly 100 folk acts from around the world and just around the corner. Among them are Sam Baker, The Black Lillies, David Amram, John Fullbright, John Moreland, Jared Tyler, Travis Linville, Red Dirt Rangers, Ali Harter and Randy Crouch.

C E N T E R O F T H E U N I V E R S E F E S T I VA L July 24-25, Brady Arts District • centeroftheuniversefestival.com Single Day: $30 • Weekend: $60 • VIP: $210 Back again with a unique set of headliners, it’s COUFest! Headlining the main stage will be Panic! At The Disco, Three Days Grace, Kongos, American Authors, Misterwives, Minus the Bear and Tycho. Headlining at Guthrie Green will be Bear Hands, Big Sam’s Funky Nation (a must-see), Chappo, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Milo Greene, Mother Mother and Roxy Roca. Yet to be announced are more than 100 bands, most of which will play the 10 club venues (where you want to be).

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September 4-6, Stroud • backwoodsmusicfestival.com Weekend: $99 (will increase to $149) • VIP: $199 (will increase to $249) Yes, Backwoods is moving away from its roots at Keystone Lake. But along with the move, the festival will be much bigger than ever before.

Pay attention festy-heads, this year’s lineup includes Porter Robinson, Infected Mushroom, BoomBox, The Floozies, Keller Williams, Lettuce, Andy Frasco & The U.N., Com Truise, Tea Leaf Green and Washed Out. Expect plenty of Okie acts, including Helen Kelter Skelter, Ego Culture, Kalyn Fay, Movetet (formerly The Move Trio), Freak Juice and Ego Culture—with many more acts yet to be announced.

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OKC • June 25 vanswarpedtour.com The long-running traveling festival makes a stop in OKC with more than 90 acts in tow.

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CLAREMORE BLUEGRASS & CHILI FESTIVAL September 10-12, Claremore facebook.com/ClaremoreBluegrass Free admission, • $10 parking Hot Seat Pass: $40 Just as the dog days of summer are ending and you feel that first bit of chill in the air, it’s time for Bluegrass and Chili. The 36th annual festival will have three stages with performances by Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Dailey & Vincent, The Cleverlys and many more yet to be announced. Last year, the festival expanded to two International Chili Society cook-offs, so be sure to go with an empty stomach.

HOUND DOG BLUES FESTIVAL September 12, Chandler Park facebook.com/hounddogblues Free admission, $10 Parking Ironically, this all-day, outdoor blues festival is great for curing the blues. Hound Dog offers plenty of local and regional blues acts as well as headlining sets from award-winning guitarist and singer Albert Castiglia and Israeli blues singer Eleanor Tallie.

STONE RIVER MUSIC FESTIVAL September 18-20, Chandler stonerivermusicfestival.com Stone River’s Oklahoma music showcase and family-friendly camping festival takes place on land owned by the family of local guitarist Dustin Pittsley. Information for the 6th annual festival hasn’t been announced yet, but you can bet the weekend will feel like The Colony moved outdoors.

OKLAHOMA INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL October 1-3, Guthrie • oibf.com Single Day: $25-$40 3-Day: $70-$80 OIBF means business with that “I” in its title—Bluegrass is no longer just an American tradition.

Returning this year is Japanese act The Blue Side of Lonesome, who played amazing sets at OIBF and a packed show at The Colony last year. Rounding out the international offerings are Totte Bergstrom and the Bluegrass Vikings from Sweden, Beppe Gambetta from Italy and Calvin Vollrath from Canada. Stateside acts include headliner Suzy Boguss, John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band, Byron Berline Band, Hunt Family Bluegrass and several others. a

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remember when OKC’s Plaza District was yarn bombed a few years back. Such audacious playfulness was hard to ignore, let alone forget. More recently, I’ve been sweetly surprised to see the art form popping up around Guthrie Green.

Oklahoma’s largest knit bombing project to date began last fall and is scheduled for installation around Thanksgiving. The Unbearable Absence of Landscape, a statewide knitting collaboration, will ultimately swallow the façade of 108 Contemporary to show how the site might look if it was just as nature intend-

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he beauty of Brief Kingdom, the much-anticipated recent work of Tulsa Modern Movement (TuMM), is that it didn’t start and end with its April shows. The performances and community outreach associated with Brief Kingdom were funded by a Kickstarter campaign, and the central message of the project is connection. Based on the story of the princess and the frog, the work studies the imperfect but vital role of interaction in personal transformation.

TuMM Dance Theatre’s expansive network of artists collaborate to create modern pieces for audiences from all walks of life. The process for Brief Kingdom began as a partnership between Artistic Director and Choreographer Alicia Chesser and poet/translator Amy Paige. The two met while attending The University of Tulsa, and when they reconnected many years later, a marriage between their talents came naturally. Paige wrote a poem based on the fairytale of the princess and the frog, fleshing out flat characters into complex, rich protagonists. Inspired by the poem, Chesser began working with 32 // ARTS & CULTURE

the incredibly intuitive dancers of TuMM to bring the imagery to life.

They called upon local artist and sound engineer Scott Bell to create a musical experience that encircled the piece and further articulated the choreography to the audience.

Local artist Michael Christopher created the simple, elegant set at FabLab. The Brief Kingdom outreach project will address the need for dance as a community art by engaging educators, parents, artists and others about using movement as a tool in multifaceted learning.

The project challenges participants to tap into their creative potential and expand their developmental processes across disciplines.

“Every person can connect to that expressive potential in their body,” Chesser said.

TuMM’s other educational project, RIDE (Rigorous Instruction and Dance Education), serves second and third grade students at Emerson Elementary.

A weekly program, RIDE teaches dance techniques to students with demonstrated interest and ability.

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ed. Emily Oldham, executive director of 108 Contemporary, approached OKC-based artist Romy Owens to lead the project shortly after Owens finished a knit room installation last year at AHHA. Knitting circles across Oklahoma are sending in blue and green squares for the project, and Owens welcomes anyone with a knitting needle to contribute.

Owens said it’s an honor to be connected with so many knitting circles, which she described as “a sacred space where people come together and share what’s going on in their lives.”

The power of the knitting circle is definitely gaining relevance here in Tulsa. Students from Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences are contributing to the project, as are some participants of Women in Recovery. 108 Contemporary hosts a knitting circle every third Saturday from noon to 2:30 p.m.

The Unbearable Absence of Landscape has already reached 25 percent of its goal, and Owens said the large-scale project will likely gain nationwide attention—a potential bright spot amidst our state’s dismal recognition in other spheres.

To learn more, visit 108contemporary.org.

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Intertwined, Stories of Splintered Pasts Fri., May 1 through Sun., July 5 Hardesty Arts Center (AHHA), ahhatulsa.org Weaving requires careful cultivation and planning to transcend the limitations of the original material.

Bound in measured and intertwined parts, weavings can hold great burdens within their supportive walls.

This is the nature of Intertwined, Stories of Splintered Pasts. Shan Goshorn and Sarah Sense have brought together their shared love of weaving to examine Native Americans’ complex political and social history.

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Fri., May 8 through Sun., May 17, Lorton Performance Center, tulsaballet.org

Fri., May 8 through Sat., May 23 Nightingale Theater, nightingaletheater.com

XX celebrates Tulsa Ballet Artistic Director Marcello Angelini’s 20 years with the company. The program will begin with Val Caniparoli’s Going for Baroque, which was the first of 30 works Angelini has commissioned for the company.

A world premier of Blue Flame will follow—a new piece by Ma Cong inspired by the anonymous poem “A Reason, A Season or a Lifetime.” The program will close with Age of Innocence by Edwaard Liang, a piece that, according to Angelini, “showcase[s] the growth Tulsa Ballet has experienced during my time.”

After a fight between two 11-year-old boys leaves one missing some teeth, the parents of both meet to discuss the matter in this black comedy presented by Odeum Theatre Company. The couples begin the meeting diplomaticall y, but tensions emerge and eventuall y, the night devolves into chaos. Originall y written in French by Yasmina Reza, The New York Times called this winner of three 2009 Tony Awards “a study in the tension between civilized surface and savage instinct.”

6th Annual Hasty-Bake Owners BBQ Contest

Tulsa Botanic Garden’s 3rd Annual DIG

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Since opening in 1948, Hasty-Bake Charcoal Ovens has become a Tulsa institution by creating some of the best outdoor grilling, smoking and baking appliances on the planet (Burn Co. BBQ exclusively cooks on a fleet of dozens of Hasty-Bakes). Hasty-Bake’s annual contest will feature 40 teams of Hasty-Bake owners vying for a 257 Gourmet, one of the company’s top-end models.

The competition takes place in the Hasty-Bake parking lot, so park in the nearby Oklahoma Heart Institute lot and take the free shuttle to and from the event.

Expect BBQ samples and on-site cooking demos from Ken Shafer, owner of Boston Deli Grill and Market and 3 Guys Smokin.

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Tulsa Botanic Garden hosts this Day In the Garden (DIG) to raise awareness and funds for its new Children’s Discovery Garden. The Botanic Garden broke ground on the feature last month, and it’s planned as a whimsical 2-acre environment offering experience-based learning opportunities for kids and families. The event will include a picnic, music from klonkide5 and Paul Benjaman Band and activities including Lawn Twister, pony rides, face painting, a chance to pot and decorate a plant for Mother’s Day and more. The Botanic Garden’s scenic grounds will also be open for exploration. Tickets are $50 for one adult and $75 for two. Kids get in free with purchase of an adult ticket.

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Simply Cinematic Sat., May 9, 7:30 p.m.

Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa PAC, tulsapac.com Tulsa Symphony pays tribute to one of the best film composers ever, John Williams. Fans of Williams’ work who attended Signature Symphony’s February tribute to his work will be happy to know this program will include some different selections, including “Liberty Fanfare”— written for the centennial celebration of The Statue of Liberty, and pieces from “Jurassic Park,” “Seven Years in Tibet,” “The Terminal,” “Harry Potter,” “Superman” and an entire second act dedicated to the music of “Star Wars.”

RED Sat., May 9 through Sat., May 16 PAC John H. Williams Theatre, tulsapac.com The winner of six Tony Awards, this play by John Logan follows abstract expressionist master Mark Rothko as he works feverishly for two years on the biggest commission in the history of modern art—a series of murals for New York’s Four Seasons Restaurant. The play is a raw and provocative portrait of an artist’s ambition and vulnerability as he strives to create a definitive work.

David Liebe Hart Mon., May 11, 8 p.m., $10 Comedy Parlor Known for his strange and wonderful appearances on “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!”, David Liebe Hart is a musician, puppeteer and comic who might just make you question your place in the universe.

Sea of Dreams Art Auction Sat., May 16, 3-5 p.m.

Northside Health & Wellness Center The Northside Health & Wellness Center is hosting a silent and live auction to benefit Tulsa Lighthouse Charter School, an arts-infused school in Turley. The event is free to attend and features works by local artists and items donated by local businesses. All proceeds will help fund school field trips and other needs.

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THE BEST OF THE REST EVENTS The Good, The Bad and The Crazy // Oklahoma Policy Institute Executive Director David Blatt will discuss the state’s budget shortfall, its impact on the state and what options there are to remedy it as part of TulsaNow’s May forum. Oklahoma Policy Institute, founded in 2008, is a non-partisan independent policy think-tank that promotes adequate, fair and fiscally responsible funding of public services.

TulsaNow is a grassroots organization focused on the intelligent and sustainable development, preservation and revitalization of Tulsa. // 5/6, 5:30 pm, Up With Trees, tulsanow.org/ Second Saturday Walking Tour // Learn about downtown Tulsa’s beautiful architecture in this monthly tour led by Tulsa Foundation for Architecture. The tour departs from Topeca Coffee in the Mayo Hotel. // 5/9, 10:00 am, Topeca Coffee, $10, www.tulsaarchitecture.com/ Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School // Dr. Sketchy’s Tulsa branch presents another evening of the worlds of performance and visual art colliding. This month, the event will feature burlesque performers Jill Pickle from Tulsa and Holli Would from OKC, and host Hilton Price. // 5/16, 7:00 pm, The Fur Shop, $5$10, www.drsketchy.com/ 2nd Annual Rose Festival // In the 1920s-50s, Broken Arrow was known as “The City of Roses and Sparkling Water.”

The Rose Festival, fittingly taking place in downtown BA’s Rose District, celebrates that history. The event will include an art show sponsored by BA Arts & Humanities, music by The Begonias, Farmers’ Market vendors and a grassroots rose show which encourages all rose growers to bring their best blooms. // 5/16, The Rose District, www. keepbrokenarrowbeautiful.org/ Adam Richman: Meals, Memories and Mouthfuls // The “Man vs Food” and “Food Fighters” host returns to Tulsa to read from his new cookbook/memoir, “Straight Up Tasty.” Presented by Booksmart Tulsa. // 5/17, 7-9 pm, IDL Ballroom, booksmarttulsa.com

PERFORMING ARTS Imani Winds // Imani Winds, North America’s premier wind quintet (featuring flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon) comes to town performing concerts for Tulsa Public School Students. While they’re here, they will also give two free public performances. The first will be May 6 at 7pm at All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S Peoria Ave, and the second will be May 7 at 7pm at Rudisill Regional Library, 1520 N Hartford Ave.Presented by Chamber Music Tulsa // 5/6-5/7, All Souls Unitarian Church and Rudisill Regional Library, www. chambermusictulsa.org/ 9 to 5: The Musical // Three women working for a “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” of a boss get even by holding him hostage and taking control of the company in this musical adaptation of the hit movie starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. The musical, featuring new songs by Parton and of course her 80s hit “9 to 5,” debuted on Broadway in 2009. // 5/8-5/17, Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa PAC, $28, tulsapac.com Comedy: Madrigal Style // Madrigals were the most important and popular secular music of the Italian Renaissance.

The often humorous, sometimes double entendre-laced songs dominated courts, theaters and taverns across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Tulsa’s long-time early music ensemble, Pro Musica Tulsae, will perform excerpts from Orazio Vecchi’s

1594 play “L’amfiparnaso.” The madrigal comedy style of theatrical performance enjoyed a brief but exceedingly popular reception in Italy just as the newest musical form, the opera, was gaining momentum. // 6/15, 7:30 pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, $10-$15, https://www.facebook. com/promusicatulsae

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Chris Killian, Raanan Hershberg, Steven Baucom // 5/6, 7:30 pm, The Looney Bin, $7, 5/7, 8:00 pm, The Looney Bin, $2, 5/8, 7:30 pm, 10:00 pm, $10, 5/9, 7:30 pm, 10:00 pm, $10, The Looney Bin, www.loonybincomedy.com/ Pop Up Players // 5/7, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com/ Crayons // 5/8, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ The Mic Drop // 5/8, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Southern Stupidity of Gains Kelly // 5/9, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Comfort Creatures // 5/9, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Bill Engvall // 5/9, 7:00 pm, River Spirit Event Center, $60-$90, www.riverspirittulsa.com/ Sunday Night Stand Up // 5/10, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com/ World Series of Comedy // 5/13, 7:30 pm, $9, 5/14, 7:00 pm, $9, 5/15, 7:30 pm, 10:00 pm, $12, 5/16, 7:30 pm, 10:00 pm, The Looney Bin, $12, www.loonybincomedy.com/ Laughing Matter // 5/14, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Comedy presented by Comedy Parlor // 5/15, 11:20 am, 2:00 pm, 5/16, 7:05 pm, 8:15 pm, 10:50 pm, Blue Dome Arts Festival, bluedomearts.org/ Kathleen Madigan // 5/15, 8:00 pm, Brady Theater, $29.50-$35, www.bradytheater. com/ Army of Stand Ups // 5/15, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Squeaky Clean Stand Up // 5/16, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com/ Cian Baker says Laugh It Up, Tulsa // 5/17, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor. com/ Haha Stand Up Comedy // 5/18, The Shrine, www.tulsashrine.com/

SPORTS Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 5/6, 11:05 am, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 5/7, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Arkansas Travelers // 5/8, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Springfield Cardinals // 5/9, 7:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Springfield Cardinals // 5/10, 2:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Springfield Cardinals // 5/11, 11:05 am, ONEOK Field, $5-$35, tulsadrillers.com Tulsa Drillers vs Springfield Cardinals // 5/12, 4:05 pm, ONEOK Field, $2-$35, tulsadrillers.com ARTS & CULTURE // 35

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riginally from Iowa, Rachel La Vonne came to Tulsa four years ago to get away for a few weeks. She never left, and she told us that musically, she feels like she’s grown up here. Rachel got her start opening for Desi & Cody and Grazzhopper, and she’s settled in well enough that we thought she was a Tulsa native.

She played a recent Courtyard Concert with friend and frequent collaborator Brian Payne.

A folksy singer-songwriter and native Tulsan, Payne splits his time between T-town and Boulder, Colorado. If you’ve been around these parts long enough, you’ll probably remember Xanadu, Payne’s much-adored high school folk/jam band. Check out TheTulsaVoice.com/video for highlights from our Courtyard Concert with Rachel and Brian.

RACHEL LA VONNE Currently listening to: Susan Tedeschi. I’ve been stuck on her and Tedeschi Trucks Band. She’s got such a soft voice when she talks—which usually, that’s what people get from me. And so far in my music, I have some things 36 // MUSIC

where I belt, but I don’t feel like I’ve fully let go yet. She’s fearless with whatever she does. Instead of thinking about it so much, I think she just does it, and I want to get there. And she can play.

Favorite local hangout: I go to Woodward Park like every day. There are two trees that I sit under always. I write—not necessarily music—but I write almost every day.

Three albums I’d need on a desert island: The Beatles’ White Album, Ray LaMontagne’s Trouble, and anything by Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Current project: I’m making an EP with Cody Clinton. I’m really excited about that, because I’ve been waiting for him specifically—I feel like he hears what I hear. Or at least, I have a sound in my head, and I feel like he knows someone in town who can do it.

You might be surprised to know: La Vonne is not my last name (it’s Hendren). It’s my middle name—I was named after my great grandmother, and when she passed, I started going by La

Vonne. My family calls me La Vonne—they don’t call me Rachel.

tasty brews and listening to some good folk music with my family.

My tattoos: I have “ahava” on the inside of my left wrist. It’s Hebrew for love. I got Hebrew because I just thought it was pretty. And as a reminder—I tend to forget that I’m surrounded by it. I think everyone does, but I needed a reminder at that time. And then I have a feather on my back for my grandmother. She fed birds every day.

Currently listening to: Sylvan Esso—I guess technically considered electro-pop, but her voice is just really amazing. And a whole lot of Gregory Alan Isakov and Shakey Graves.

Favorite Tulsa music moment: Playing at The Church Studio with Wink [Burcham], Jacob Tovar, John Moreland and Robert Hoefling for Wink’s Comfortable Shoes release.

What’s next: I want to play electric, and I’m going to have my first guitar lessons from Paul Benjaman. I’m excited.

Music is therapy.

BRIAN PAYNE Best way to spend a Saturday: Definitely hangin’ out on a beautiful day like today, preferably around a fire or chiminea, drinkin’ some

Favorite local hangout: We’ve just recently been hitting up The Fur Shop more. Got a friend bartending there and another friend that works for the Lone Wolf truck. Real nice spot.

Best concert I’ve seen in Tulsa: Béla Fleck with Keller Williams and Yonder Mountain down at the old amphitheater on the river. Seeing all of them in Tulsa, on the river, that was it. That was a really cool show.

Three albums I’d need on a desert island: Paul Simon’s Graceland, Gregory Alan Isakov’s Weatherman, and hmm—something funky, something danceable.

Let’s go with some James Brown, just The Best of—solid all around.

If I’m gonna be on an island, I’m gonna be dancin’.

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musiclistings Wed // May 6

Barkingham Palace – *Straight Shooter, Rundown Kreeps, The Riot Waves Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective Full Moon Cafe - BA – Ayngel & John – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Steve Tombstone On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Hunt Club – The Brothers Moore

Thur // May 7

Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Boulevard Trash – *Roddy Radiation (of The Specials), The Scotch Bonnets, The Last Slice, The Big News Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Paul Bogart – 8:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Taria, Mark Gibson Duo – 7:30 pm – ($10-$12) Centennial Lounge – Don Who? – 8:00 pm Downtown Lounge – Antique Scream, The Harlis Sweetwater Band – 8:00 pm Enso Bar – Fool Me Twice Full Moon Cafe - BA – Piano Man Tom Basler – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Toast & JAM w/ C. Redd & Cynthia Jesseen – 10:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Kayla Ray Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 7:00 pm The Colony – Wink Burcham The Hunt Club – Daniel Jordan The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – *Tony Bennett, Antonia Bennett – 8:00 pm – ($65-$80) The Shrine – Zach Myers, J.R. Moore, Zack Mack – ($12-$80) The Vanguard – Hinder, Searching for Sanity, Nicnos – 8:00 pm – ($15-$30) Yeti – Moonshine

Fri // May 8

BOK Center – *Rush – ($48-$128) Boulevard Trash – Cottonmouth, Life Lessons, Hex, Colourful Hill, Holy Void Brady Theater – Randy Rogers Band – 8:00 pm – ($24) Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Wilbur Lee Tucker – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Nico & Vinz, Jason French, SirenXX – 8:00 pm – ($20-$35) Centennial Lounge – Markham & Tuberville – 9:00 pm Four Aces Tavern – David Dover – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Pianos – 9:00 pm Magoo’s – Wharp Drive – 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge – *Dirty River Boys, Jacob Tovar and the Saddle Tramps Peppers Grill - South – The Lingroom Project Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Annie Up – 9:00 pm THE TULSA VOICE // May 6 - 19, 2015

Soundpony – DJ Falkirk The Colony – Adrienne Gilley & The Musical Melody Makers w/ Jared Hinkle The Hunt Club – Swampfox The Shrine – First Class Friday – ($10-$15) The Vanguard – The Capital Whys, Capitol Cars, The Bourgeois, La Lune, Also With You – 6:30 pm – ($7) Yeti – Tulsa Poets Collective

Sat // May 9

Baker St Pub – Drive Blue Rose Cafe – Bryce Dicus BOK Center – Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance – ($53.50-$63.50) Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Bull and Bear Tavern – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe w/ Olivia Duhon Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Runnin On Empty – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – James Keith – 9:00 pm Downtown Lounge – John Corabi, Fist of Rage, Subject to Loss – 7:30 pm – ($20-$25) Dusty Dog Pub – Scott Ellison Band – 9:00 pm Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Elwood’s – Forgotten Road – 7:00 pm Foolish Things Coffee – *Eric Himan EP Release Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Pianos – 9:00 pm Lennie’s Club – David Dover Mercury Lounge – Folk Family Revival, Dylan Stewart Peppers Grill - South – Scott Musick Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Members Only – 9:00 pm Soundpony – *Jabee, Verse, Earl Hazard, Alan Doyle The Fur Shop – Billy Joe Winghead, FIRE BAD! The Hunt Club – Deacon The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – *Bob Dylan – 8:00 pm – ($115-$135) The Vanguard – Those Who Fear, Good Morning Gorgeous, Fault Lines – 8:00 pm – ($10-$12) Yeti – *Rock n’ Roll Prom w/ La Panther Happens, Hey Judy, The Loaded Dice, The Fabulous Minx, DJ Dilation – ($5)

Sun // May 10

Elwood’s – Hammer Down, Miles Williams – 3:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 pm Los Cabos - Jenks – The Fabulous Two Man Band – 5:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Kelley Mickwee Soundpony – Afistaface The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Dirty Knuckle – The Blue Dawgs – 3:00 pm The Fur Shop – Darku J The Vanguard – Psychostick, Downtown Brown, Urizen, Volition – 7:00 pm – ($13) Yeti – When The Clock Strikes, Had Enough, We Shall Remain, King High

Mon // May 11

Juniper – Dean DeMerritt and Frank Brown The Colony – Open Mic hosted by Cody Clinton

The Vanguard – War of Ages, Phinehas, Death of an Era, Even the Dogs, Enslaved by Fear, Mouth of the South, Ethera – 7:00 pm – ($12-$15) Yeti – rozellrox

Tue // May 12

Cain’s Ballroom – Hollywood Undead, Cane Hill – 8:00 pm – ($20-$35) Centennial Lounge – Open Jam – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Preslar Music Showcase – 6:30 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Chad Lee – 7:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Shrine – Quiet Company, The Rocket Boys – ($5) The Vanguard – The Relationship, Gringo Star, Panhandle – 8:00 pm – ($1.45-$25)

Wed // May 13

Boulevard Trash – Keeper, Variants, Null, The Clear Perception, Jack Boysel Brady Theater – Pink Martini, Storm Large – 8:00 pm – ($29.50-$59.50) Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin – 8:00 pm Dusty Dog Pub – Scott Ellison Band – 6:30 pm Full Moon Cafe - BA – Ayngel & John – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 7:00 pm Main Street Tavern – Cynthia Simmons, Scott McQuade – 6:30 pm Mercury Lounge – Tyler Gregory On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Chicago – 8:00 pm – (SOLD OUT) The Vanguard – The Lone Bellow – 8:00 pm – ($15-$18)

Thur // May 14

BOK Center – Kenny Chesney, Jake Owen – ($35-$79) Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Chad Lee – 8:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Chase Bryant, Justin Adams – 8:15 pm – ($13-$23) Centennial Lounge – Gypsy Cold Cuts – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - BA – Piano Man Tom Basler – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Toast & JAM w/ C. Redd & Cynthia Jesseen – 10:00 pm Mayfest - 4th Street Stage – Dante and the Hawks, Mass FX, Doctors of Replay, Teresa Hofferver, Jubal Lee Young & Amanda Preslar – 11:30 am Mayfest - Bartlett Square Stage – Steve Liddell Band, Jay Falkner, The Taylor Machine, Mark Gibson, Randy Brumley – 11:30 am Mayfest - Williams Green Stage – Bradio, Grooveyard, The 66, Somerset West, Theatre Arts, Eric & The Blasters – 11:00 am

Mercury Lounge – Amasa Hines Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Scott Ellison – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Lost On Utica – 7:00 pm Soundpony – *Brujoroots The Colony – Beau Roberson The Hunt Club – Meggie McDonald The Shrine – Super Bob, Sleepwalking Home, Sever the Feeling – ($5)

Fri // May 15

727 Club – Scott Ellison – 9:00 pm Blue Dome Arts Festival – *Nehemiah Akbar, The Hi Fi Hippies, Larkin, Kelli & The Skillet Lickers, Gypsy Fire Belly Dance, Spaghetti Eddie, The Agenda, La Lune, Dirty Creek Bandits, Lowland, Randy Brumley – 11:20 am Boulevard Trash – monkeysphere, The Last Slice Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Rivers Edge – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Garrett Heck – 9:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Amped – 9:00 pm Downtown Lounge – The Midnight Ghost Train, Centaurius – 8:00 pm Elwood’s – The Boogie – 7:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Pianos – 9:00 pm IDL Ballroom – Assimilation w/ DJ Bone, DJ DeathJest, DJ Axis vs. DJ Vixx Secundus, DJ Techzombie, DJ SYNapse, Provision – ($6-$10) Lennie’s Club – David Dover Mayfest - 4th Street Stage – Jared Deck and The travelers, Blake Pettigrove, Amy Kay, Charis Music Studio, Jaime Highfill, Grace Ann Production, Roland Bowling Band, – 11:30 am Mayfest - Bartlett Square Stage – Electric Rag Band, klondike5, Johnny Badseed and the Rotten Apples, Daniel Jordan, Lem Shepard – 11:00 am Mayfest - Williams Green Stage – *Nahko and Medicine for the People, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, Alaska & Madi, Red Wood Rising, Owasso HS Show Choir, Eric & The Blasters – 11:00 am Mercury Lounge – Lucky Tubb and The Modern Day Troubadours Peppers Grill - South – The Jennifer Marriott Band Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Chad Lee – 9:00 pm River Spirit Event Center – Kansas – 7:00 pm – ($30-$60) Soundpony – Treatment, Creepozoidz The Fur Shop – Native Lights, Senior Fellows The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks Yeti – Johnny Polygon

Sat // May 16

Blue Dome Arts Festival – Jay Coop, Serafem, Black Kat Benders, Cheyenne Roberts, Sugar Free All-Stars, Erin O’Dowd, Belly Dance Academy, Cairede na Gael, Outcold Band, Herrold Sisters – 11:00 am Boom Boom Room – DJ MO Boulevard Trash – Silver Screen Monsters, One Finger Discount, Situation Critical, Gutter Villain Bull and Bear Tavern – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe MUSIC // 37

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Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer and Chicken – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Pilgrim – 9:00 pm Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Elwood’s – Scott Musick, Restless Spirits – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Pianos – 9:00 pm Lennie’s Club – David Dover Mayfest - 4th Street Stage – Eric Himan, All About a Bubble, Leif Nevener Band, L.T. Mason, Blake Lillard, Preslar Music, Kelly Diggs, Everett Music Studio, Amanda Foyil, Inspirations Dance Company, Anna Massey, Foyil Music Studio, Whitney Fenimore, Honey – 11:00 am Mayfest - Bartlett Square Stage – Sam and the Stylees, Scott Ellison, Nicnos, Kinsey Sadler Band, The Stockyard Playboys, Annie Oakley, Wayne Humbyrd Quintet ft. Richard Bruton, The Wild Daisies, Charlie Hill, – 11:00 am Mayfest - Williams Green Stage – *Band of Heathens, Cory Branan, KALO, The Capital Why’s, Cheyenne Gagner, Rhythmic Notions, Tulsa Children’s Chorus, Tulsa Opera – 11:00 am Mercury Lounge – Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition Peppers Grill - South – Pete and Jennifer Marriott Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – The jumpshots – 9:00 pm Soundpony – Shivery Shakes The Colony – Stone Trio The Fur Shop – Dirty Creek Bandits, Von Stomper The Hunt Club – *Steve Pryor Tulsa Raceway Park – We The Ghost, SocietySociety – 8:00 pm

Sun // May 17

Blue Dome Arts Festival – *The Movetet, Jane Lyon, Charlie Hill, Coyote Mountain Orchestra, Queens of Chaos – 11:00 am Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 6:30 pm Los Cabos - Jenks – The Fabulous Two Man Band – 5:00 pm 38 // MUSIC

Mayfest - 4th Street Stage – Jeff Shadley Quartet, Leon Rollerson & Friends, Turtle Creek Cloggers – 11:30 am Mayfest - Bartlett Square Stage – Something Steel, Brujoroots, Shadia’s Purple Roses Belly Dancers, Acoustic Freight Train – 11:45 am Mayfest - Williams Green Stage – Theatre Arts, A Touch of Aloha, Footprints Dance Studio, Oklahoma Performing Arts, Patti Parrish Dance Company, The Dance and Performing Arts Academy, Jasinski Dance Academy,The Herrold Sisters, Mollie Lewis, South Tulsa Dance Company, Admiral James Bridges – 11:00 am Soundpony – Engine The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Dirty Knuckle – The Blue Dawgs – 3:00 pm The Hop Jam – *Hanson, The Polyphonic Spree, Black Joe Lewis, Jamestown Revival, Horse Thief – 3:00 pm Yeti – Sint Holo, Cucumber and the Suntans

Mon // May 18

The Colony – Open Mic hosted by Cody Clinton

Tues // May 19

Brady Theater – *”Weird Al” Yankovic – 7:30 pm – ($29.50-$69.50) Cain’s Ballroom – Mat Kearney, Judah & The Lion – 8:00 pm – ($24$39) Centennial Lounge – Open Jam – 8:00 pm Downtown Lounge – Faster Pussycat, The Normandys, BlackWater Rebellion – 7:30 pm – ($15) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Preslar Music Showcase – 6:30 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Los Cabos - Jenks – Daniel Jordan – 5:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz and Blues Jams – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Carl Acuff – 7:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Colony – Rachel Dean, Jesse Aycock May 6 - 19, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

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Tom Hardy in “Mad Max: Fur y Road;” “Inside Out;” Br yce Dallas Howard in “Jurassic World”

Summer shade Love and reluctance for the most anticipated films of the season

by JOE O’SHANSKY 5 Flights Up // Starring Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton, “5 Flights Up” is the story of a married couple beset by late-life complications when they decide to sell the New York apartment they’ve lived in for decades. This looks like a charming confection just in time for Mother’s Day. Opens May 8.

Mad Max: Fury Road // Stop right here, go to YouTube and watch the trailer for this thing.

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were wearing SPF 5000, because otherwise your face just melted off. This long-awaited continuation of the legendary “Mad Max” trilogy swaps Mel Gibson for Tom Hardy as the iconic anti-hero, who’s having yet another bad day in the post-apocalyptic desert. I don’t even care what this movie is about; it’s already a thing of heart-breaking beauty that has me far more excited than “Star Wars.”

Opens May 15.

Tomorrowland // There isn’t a Brad Bird movie I don’t like.

“The Iron Giant” is still one of the best animated films of the past 30 years. “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille” cemented his Pixar bonafides, and he made the most enjoyable “Mission: Impossible” film since De Palma’s. “Tomorrowland,” his latest, finds a troubled girl named Casey (Britt Robertson) in possession of a pendant that transports her between the real world and a strange alternate reality where one person can change anything.

Vague though that sounds, Bird is a master, and this will surely be an out-of-the-box, quasi-sci-fi action

fable. I’m all ears (no Disney pun intended). Opens May 22.

Aloha // Cameron Crowe was a Linklater-esque wunderkind once.

Time capsules “Say Anything,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Almost Famous” were suffused with iconic characters, great humor and unapologetic nostalgia for their eras that didn’t feel maudlin. Fast forward to the 21st Century, and thanks to the Sony e-mail hack, we already know his latest, “Aloha,” is awful. But then, I didn’t need an e-mail to tell me “We Bought A Zoo” was going to suck, either. The man is not in his prime. “Aloha” stars Bradley Cooper as a military contractor who gets laid a lot. Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams and John Krasinski co-star. Opens May 29.

Insidious: Chapter 3 // Each installment of “Insidious” has its relative merits. But even as the films sometimes excel at unnerving atmospherics, the franchise seems to continually burn itself out. “Insidious 3” is a prequel that explores the origin story of Lin Shaye’s character, Elsie Ranier, a

psychic who can contact the dead and helps a family protect their daughter from a malevolent entity.

Longtime “Saw” writer Leigh Whannell makes his directorial debut. Your mileage may vary. Mine sure has. Opens June 5.

Jurassic World // Years ago, John Sayles penned a “Jurassic Park” sequel script that had talking, machine gun-toting raptors who killed drug dealers and rescued kidnapped kids. Though the upcoming “Jurassic World” probably won’t, that trailer shot of Star Lord (Chris Pratt) riding a motorcycle with a phalanx of raptor buddies out to kick some ass certainly seems like a hat-tip. Director Colin Trevorrow (of indie darling “Safety Not Guaranteed”) picks up the story 22 years later with a fully-functioning Jurassic Park. The shit hits the fan when a genetically altered, serially killing dino goes on a rampage.

Because no one saw that coming.

Vincent D’Onofrio and Bryce Dallas Howard co-star. Opens June 12.

Inside Out // Weirdly, “Inside Out” adopts the premise of the last segment of Woody Allen’s May 6 - 19, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

“Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex… But Were Afraid to Ask” (which posits there’s a team of people in your head guiding your actions) and applies it to the relationship dynamics of a family that’s just moved into a new home. Though Tony Randall and Burt Reynolds aren’t trying to get anyone laid, “Inside Out” is still the first Pixar film I’ve been jazzed about in a while. Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Kyle MacLachlan and Diane Lane lend their voices. Opens June 19.

Ted 2 // Seth MacFarlane is douchey, “Family Guy” sucks, and I’d sentence someone I truly hated to watch “A Million Ways to Die in the West” for eternity. But “Ted” was an amiable and funny directorial debut from MacFarlane—in the gutter, but inspired, if for no other reason than its love of “Flash Gordon.” For the apparently raunchier sequel, Marky Mark returns as John, from whom Ted needs a sperm donation so he and his new bride Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) can legally have a kid.

Amanda Seyfried co-stars, and one hopes Giovanni Ribisi out-weirds himself. Opens June 26.

Terminator: Genisys // Arnie is inexplicably in it. Alan Taylor has been one of the better directors on “Game of Thrones.” The trailers look fun enough. I don’t know why I can’t muster more than an “Okay, it exists now,” level of excitement for what’s still regarded one of the better action franchises ever—and one I’ve loved for decades. My hope is that lowered expectations will be rewarded with unanticipated greatness. Jai Courtney and Emilia Clarke (Khaleesi!) star as the time-hopping Kyle Reese and Sarah Conner in a reset timeline, making it a “Star Trek”-like reboot and sequel all at once. Opens July 1.

Minions // Some of you assholes loved the Minions so much they got their own movie. Thanks.

Opens July 10.

Ant-Man // Paul Rudd is Scott Lang, a con artist who becomes a superhero with the help of his mentor, Hank Pym (Michael THE TULSA VOICE // May 6 - 19, 2015

Douglas), and Hank’s miniaturizing technology, which shrinks a man to ant-size while exponentially increasing his strength and speed. Edgar Wright of “Shaun of the Dead” wrote the film seemingly forever ago but bowed out just as he began directing it. He clearly had a passion for a Marvel character as yet unknown to most people, and I’m achingly curious to find his fingerprints here. But as “Guardians of the Galaxy” proved, unproven Marvel characters can still clean up in the right hands. Evangeline Lilly co-stars.

Opens July 17.

Poltergeist // I’m not going to complain about a remake of one of my favorite films. The seminal charms of the original “Poltergeist” have already been tainted by lesser sequels, so there’s no reason not to give this a shot (despite it being pushed back almost a year).

Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt are the Bowens, and their family of four discovers their new home is a portal to the afterlife guarded by an evil spirit that kidnaps their daughter through the television. The import of that metaphor is probably lost now, but the solid cast, including Jared Harris (taking the Zelda Rubinstein role) still piques my interest.

Opens July 24.

Mission: Impossible—Rouge Nation // Tom Cruise is the last movie star. Scientology’s dumb, but whatever. Say what you will about his clear insanity—he’ll not only get asses in seats, he’ll cling to the side of an actual airplane on takeoff to do it. I don’t get the hate. His previous Brad Bird-directed “Mission: Impossible” film was a blast, 2012’s “Jack Reacher” even more so. And last year’s “Edge of Tomorrow” was the most under-appreciated genre film of 2014. You’ll miss this guy when he’s gone. The latest entry of his long-running franchise finds Ethan Hunt bringing the band back together to take down The Syndicate. Sounds basic, right? Judging from the trailer, I wouldn’t sell it short. Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames return. Opens July 31. a

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THE FUZZ The Tulsa Voice shelter spotlight of local animals

BANDIT A 35-pound Beagle mix, Bandit has been a shelter pup for nearly all of his first year of life. He has lots of energy and would love a friend who’s ready to play and go on walks. Bandit hasn’t been tested around cats.

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To ask about fostering or adopting a rescued animal, contact: Animal Aid of Tulsa, 918.951.6138, animalaid.org or Woodland West Animal Hospital, 9360 S. Union Ave., 918.299.1208

STEVE A chunk of love sure to steal your heart, 2-year-old Steve is full of personality and pretty darn hard to put down.

OZZIE Ozzie’s bright eyes and dramatic markings make him look “v” exotic. Don’t be fooled; he’s just a laid-back guy looking for a jailbreak. Ozzie’s been in the shelter for most of his first year on Earth. Before that, we’re pretty sure he lived in outer space.

JANE Jane is an ultra-soft, super mellow gal with that unmistakable older kitty charm. Her chubby cheeks melted us. We love Jane.

During May, Animal Aid of Tulsa is offering free adoptions to law enforcement, firefighters and ambulance workers. The no-kill rescue group recently closed its adoption center but continues to partner with Tulsa area veterinary clinics to house Animal Aid rescues.

Find the friends below at Woodland West Animal Hospital, or visit AnimalAid.org to view all available animals. Each has been micro-chipped, vaccinated and spayed or neutered. Unless otherwise noted, all featured animals are housebroken and work well with cats, dogs and children.

LARRI A petite 30 pounds, Larri is a well-mannered, submissive Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix. Like Bandit, she’s spent nearly her entire first year of life in the shelter.

XENA A quirky 4-year-old Siamese mix, Xena didn’t stop moving during our entire visit. But if she must be cooped, at least she’s hanging with her BFFL, Vegas. A fluffy 10-yearold with kitty diabetes, Vegas requires regular vet visits and insulin. Xena and Vegas are available to adopt individually, but we’re betting a generous diabetic-kitty-enthusiast will happen upon this page and decide to take them both home.

LIZZIE A loving, energetic lab mix, the 60-pound Lizzie’s primary objective is to find the children in the room and plop down next to them with a toothy grin. Maybe it’s because she’s 3 and they’re 3. Either way, she loves kiddos.

As for other animals, Lizzie would be best as an only pet.

DIAMOND A regal hound mix, Diamond went home with a family last year but was returned to the shelter due to financial hardship. Past her puppy stage at 4 years old and 70-80 pounds, Diamond has a well-balanced demeanor.

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news of the weird

by Chuck Shepherd

Compelling Explanations California Law: A jury in Atascadero, California, having already convicted Mark Andrews, 51, of murder, concluded in March that he was legally sane at the time he shot his neighbor to death even though he claimed she was a vampire and that he himself had been, for 20 years, a werewolf. (A month later, a judge in San Francisco acquitted Santino Aviles, 41, of robbery and other felony charges after he claimed that the apartment he broke into was a spaceship that would take him to safety before the imminent explosion of the Earth. His lawyer called his condition a “meth-fueled psychosis,” and he was convicted only of misdemeanors.)

Wait, What?

A Catholic priest (unnamed in news reports) in Taranto, Italy, was removed recently after reports that, while attempting to minister to an unemployed laborer, he arranged for online role-playing in which the man was Judas and the priest dispatched him to gay orgies to be punished (for betraying Jesus) by members of the Vatican security force.

Paulo Silva, 51, facing bestiality charges in April in Framingham (Massachusetts) District Court, insisted that the charges be reduced to only attempted larceny.

Yes, he was caught fondling the male purebred pit bull, but he had no sexual motivation, his lawyer explained. Actually, he said a friend of Silva’s owned a female pit bull and Silva had asked the male’s owner if the two dogs could mate, but when the owner declined, Silva said he was simply trying to collect the sperm himself. Judge Jennifer Stark was unmoved and set the case for trial.

Unclear on the Concept At Australia’s sixth annual National Disability Summit in Melbourne in March, all of the speakers except one were able-bodied. That person, in a wheelchair, had to be lifted up to the stage because there was no ramp. Furthermore, disabled activists in attendance told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that the “disabled” section’s 44 // ETC.

table was at the back of the room, the food tables were elevated to accommodate standers, and one accessible toilet was being used as storage space.

Bright Ideas German high school student Simon Schrader, 17, preparing for the all-important “Abitur” advanced-level tests to identify top-performing students, filed a formal request in April, under North Rhine-Westphalia state’s generous freedom of information law, for an advance copy of the test. “I just wanted to see what they would say,” he said. (He filed a little late, in that the state’s deadline for responding came after most of the testing.)

In preparation for the National Union of Students Women’s Conference in Solihull, England, in March some attendees requested that clapping for any of the speakers be discouraged, but that approval from the audience be expressed by “jazz hands” -- open hands, palm directed to the stage, and the fingers extended wildly.

Using “jazz hands” would show compassion for attendees who have anxiety and other disorders, and for speakers who might be distracted by the din of approval.

Readers’ Choice No charges were filed in the April incident in Lee County, Georgia, even though a 74-year-old woman was shot by her son-in-law. Depu-

ties accepted the explanation that Larry McElroy shot at an armadillo with his 9mm handgun, killing it, but that the bullet ricocheted, traveled about 100 yards, first off of a fence and then through the woman’s mobile home, hitting her in the back. She was not seriously hurt.

Robert Abercrombie became the most recent practitioner of DIY tooth extraction when he yanked out a front tooth of his 8-year-old son, Jason, by tying the tooth to his Camaro and driving away. Jason was perfectly cool with the stunt, which was captured on video and posted on the Internet. “It came out!” Jason is seen shouting joyously (and bloodily) into the camera.

Recurring Themes Too Much Information: The most recent fatwa, announced in April by the Directorate of Religious Affairs in Turkey, declared that “toilet paper” is now acceptable for pious Muslims. The directorate had previously decreed that only water could be used for such cleaning (or, if none was available, the left hand). (Toilet etiquette, called “Qadaa al-Haajah,” which obviously predates the invention of the actual “toilet,” requires entrance by the left foot, exit by the right, a post-ablution prayer and, most challengingly, “no reading.”)

frequency that they must be retired from circulation: Desperate thieves steal what’s handy, and after a botched attempt on April 8 to steal a truck, the perp grabbed the only item he could take with him as he fled. The owner told the Des Moines, Iowa, police it was a bag of to-be-discarded dog feces.

The first joyous “fertility” festival you heard about, where giant penis-float parades and candy souvenir phalluses are treasured by giddy children, was perhaps in Japan. Actually, several Asian nations have had their own, as News of the Weird has tried to keep up with, such as Jeju park in South Korea. Now, Taiwan is capitalizing, with the more subdued, underconstruction “Romantic Boulevard” park with gardens featuring statues of copulation (animal and human) and a giant stone phallus that children seem tickled to be photographed riding on. a 4/15 SOLUTION: UNIVERSAL SUNDAY

No Longer Weird Adding to the list of stories that once were captivatingly weird, but have since occurred with such May 6 - 19, 2015 // THE TULSA VOICE

ACROSS 1 Burrito filling 5 Certain undercover agents 10 Literary slips 16 Campaigned 19 Not a pretty sounding fruit 20 “We live in ___ of wonders” 21 Dance-hall instruments 22 Bonanza find 23 It lays out the dough 25 Put down stakes?

26 Fan setting 27 Metallic alloy 28 “Beetle Bailey” character 30 Big wheels at sea 32 Certain discriminator 34 Small cities 35 Scuttlebutt 37 Declares to be true 38 Instruct 39 Billy the Kid, for one 40 No-good 42 Like a newly laid road 44 Bit of financial planning 47 Humdrum life 48 It’s a wrap 50 “___ have to do” 51 Attempt 52 Hurting 54 Terminations 58 An advanced deg.

59 Like some grins 61 At full speed 62 VW model 63 Be loud, as a radio 64 Biblical measure

65 Boxer’s stat 66 Adjusts to new circumstances 68 Luxury auto for this puzzle 69 Postal workers 72 Nat and Natalie 73 Paint ingredient 75 Duel tool 76 Grasp 77 Easily swayed 78 Like some columns 80 Off-road vehicle 81 Make a boo-boo 82 Where one can go in circles 86 Persistent pest 88 Delphi figure 90 Door part 91 Reduces to bits 92 Earth-to-satellite connections 94 Full of fat from 1-Across 95 Actors Fiennes and Macchio 97 Insect sensors 98 High-born 99 French social philosopher Georges 100 Pitchfork-shaped letter 101 Canada’s capital 104 Breakfast cereal ingredient 109 When dark comes o’er the land 110 One causing great harm 111 False and Billy 112 Stole material 113 Greyhound, e.g.

114 Excellent 115 Bach composition 116 Affectedly creative

DOWN 1 Chestnut coating 2 It may be easily bruised 3 Building addition 4 Hazelnut 5 Mamas’ mamas 6 Feeling of anxiety 7 Vocalizes rhythmically 8 F/X field 9 Sultry 10 Large centerpiece 11 Finger decorations 12 Relay, for one 13 Santa ___ 14 Actor Arnold 15 Black tar 16 Copes with a tough situation 17 Appetite stimulus 18 Full of the latest 24 Places for pupils 29 Hard outer covering 31 Historical period 32 Declare the provable truth 33 Begin a project 34 It may be broken on a ranch 35 Kins of 29-Down 36 List ender 37 Rich tapestry 38 Dumpster filler 39 “Come here ___?”

41 Depths 43 Finger or toe 45 Commuter line 46 ___-bodied 49 Stairstep measure 51 Coin of the realm 53 Uttered a sharp bark 55 Lugs around

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Stroll Poker ploy Letter opener Butter squares Formerly divided city Richard of “The Godfather” Game delayer Advil target Revolver, sometimes Winchester, for one Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Sam Fixes a shoelace Searches Takes it easy In need of bleach, perhaps Darn it!

Made waves?

Kidnapping payments Dust-up Cambodian money Temporary period Commencement document Tombstone letters Hiked, as prices Leisurely walk Farmer, at times “Good Times” star Esther “Give it ___!”

Identify One-armed bandit’s “mouth” Fraternity “T” Diner’s calculation “Deep Space Nine” changeling Cause of inflation?

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by ROB BREZSNY

TAURUS

(APRIL 20-MAY 20):

Here’s one of the best things you can do for your mental and physical health: Withdraw your attention from the life that lies behind you, and be excited about the life that stretches ahead of you. Forget about the past, and get wildly inventive as you imagine the interesting future you will create for yourself. Forgive everyone who has offended you, and fantasize about the fun adventures you’ll go on, the inspiring plans you’ll carry out, and the invigorating lessons you hope to learn.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the children’s book The Little Engine That Could, a little blue engine volunteers to pull a long chain of train cars up a steep hill, even though it’s not confident it has the power to do so. As it strains to haul the heavy weight, it recites a mantra to give itself hope: “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” The story ends happily. The little blue engine reaches the top of the hill with its many cars in tow, and is able to glide down the rest of the way. As you deal with your own challenge, Gemini, I recommend that you use an even more forceful incantation. Chant this: “I know I can, I know I can, I know I can.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s a confession: I have taken a vow to foster beauty, truth, love, justice, equality, tolerance, creativity, playfulness, and hope. To do this work is one of my life goals. I approach it with the devotion of a monk and the rigor of a warrior. Does that mean I ignore difficulty and suffering and cruelty? Of course not. I’m trying to diminish the power of those problems, so I sure as hell better know a lot about them. On the other hand, my main focus is on redemption and exaltation. I prefer not to describe in detail the world’s poisons, but rather to provide an antidote for them. Even if you don’t normally share my approach, Cancerian, I invite you to try it for the next two weeks. The astrological time is right.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The hill where I take my late afternoon hikes is teeming with the six-petaled purple wildflower known as the elegant cluster-lily. Every one of them -- and there are hundreds -- lean hard in the direction of the sun in the west. Should I deride them as conformists that follow the law of the pack? Should I ridicule them for their blind devotion? Or should I more sensibly regard them as having a healthy instinct to gravitate toward the life-giving light? I’ll go with the latter theory. In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to ignore the opinions of others as you turn strongly toward the sources that provide you with essential nourishment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Am I reading the astrological omens correctly? I hope so.

From what I can tell, you have been flying under the radar and over the rainbow. You have been exploiting the loopholes in the big bad system and enjoying some rather daring experiments with liberation. At this point in the adventure, you may be worried that your lucky streak can’t continue much longer. I’m here to tell you that it can. It will.

It must. I predict that your detail-loving intelligence will paradoxically guide you to expand your possibilities even further.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to the three science fiction films collectively known as The Matrix, we humans suffer from a fundamental delusion. What we think is real life is actually a sophisticated computer simulation. Intelligent machines have created this dream world to keep us in suspended animation while they harvest our energy to fuel their civilization. Now as far as I can tell, this scenario isn’t literally true. But it is an apt metaphor for how many of us seem to be half-asleep or under a spell, lost in our addiction to the simulated world created by technology. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a favorable time to diminish the hold that the metaphorical Matrix has on you. What can you do to at least partially escape your bondage? (Hint: A little more contact with nature could do the trick.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, you may be as alluring and intriguing and tempting as you have been in a long time. I suggest you capitalize on this advantage. Proceed as if you do indeed have

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

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the power to attract more of the emotional riches you desire. Assume that are primed to learn new secrets about the arts of intimacy, and that these secrets will make you even smarter and more soulful than you already are. Cultivate your ability to be the kind of trusted ally and imaginative lover who creates successful relationships.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Physicist Frank Wilczek won a Nobel Prize for his research into quarks, the tiny particles that compose protons and neutrons. The guy is breathtakingly smart. Here’s one of his operating principles: “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” Let’s enshrine his advice as your meditation, Sagittarius. I think you’re strong enough and brave enough to go hunting for some new super-rich dilemmas. Yes, they may lead you to commit some booboos. But they will also stretch your intelligence beyond its previous limits, giving you a more vigorous understanding of the way the world works.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1934, Capricorn baseball player Dizzy Dean was named the Most Valuable Player after winning 30 games. It was a feat that no National League pitcher has repeated ever since.

After Dean retired, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Never shy about acknowledging his own prowess, he declared that “if you can do it, it ain’t bragging.” It is in this spirit that I invite you to freely expound on your talents and accomplishments in the coming week. You won’t be boasting. You will simply be providing information. And that will ultimately result in you being offered an interesting new opportunity or two.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There has rarely been a better time than now to refine the art of being your own mommy or daddy.

You’re finally ready to take over from the parental voices in your head and assume full responsibility for raising yourself the rest of the way. What do you want to be when you grow up? You may feel a giddy sense of freedom as it becomes clear that the only authority who has the right to answer that question is you.

MASTER

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The universe has always played tricks on you. Some have been so perplexing that you’ve barely understood the joke. Others have been amusing but not particularly educational. Now I sense a new trend in the works, however. I suspect that the universe’s pranks are becoming more comprehensible. They may have already begun to contain hints of kindness. What’s the meaning of this lovely turn of events?

Maybe you have finally discharged a very old karmic debt. It’s also conceivable that your sense of humor has matured so much that you’re able to laugh at some of the crazier plot twists. Here’s another possibility: You are cashing in on the wisdom you were compelled to develop over the years as you dealt with the universe’s tricks.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Benedictine monks observe the Latin motto Laborare est Orare. The 19th-century abbot Maurus Wolter interpreted these words to mean “work is worship” or “work is prayer.” He was trying to impress upon his fellow monks that the work they did was not a grudging distraction from their service to God, but rather at the heart of their devotion. To do their tasks with love was a way to express gratitude for having been blessed with the gift of life. I propose that you experiment with this approach in the coming weeks, even if your version is more secular. What would it be like to feel contentment with and appreciation for the duties you have been allotted?

No one can make you feel any emotion unless you agree to feel it.

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ACROSS 1 Burrito filling 5 Certain undercover agents 10 Literary slips 16 Campaigned 19 Not a pretty sounding fruit 20 “We live in ___ of wonders” 21 Dance-hall instruments 22 Bonanza find 23 It lays out the dough 25 Put down stakes?

26 Fan setting 27 Metallic alloy 28 “Beetle Bailey” character 30 Big wheels at sea 32 Certain discriminator 34 Small cities 35 Scuttlebutt 37 Declares to be true 38 Instruct 39 Billy the Kid, for one 40 No-good 42 Like a newly laid road 44 Bit of financial planning 47 Humdrum life 48 It’s a wrap 50 “___ have to do” 51 Attempt 52 Hurting 54 Terminations 58 An advanced deg.

59 Like some grins 61 At full speed 62 VW model 63 Be loud, as a radio 64 Biblical measure

65 Boxer’s stat 66 Adjusts to new circumstances 68 Luxury auto for this puzzle 69 Postal workers 72 Nat and Natalie 73 Paint ingredient 75 Duel tool 76 Grasp 77 Easily swayed 78 Like some columns 80 Off-road vehicle 81 Make a boo-boo 82 Where one can go in circles 86 Persistent pest 88 Delphi figure 90 Door part 91 Reduces to bits 92 Earth-to-satellite connections 94 Full of fat from 1-Across 95 Actors Fiennes and Macchio 97 Insect sensors 98 High-born 99 French social philosopher Georges 100 Pitchfork-shaped letter 101 Canada’s capital 104 Breakfast cereal ingredient 109 When dark comes o’er the land 110 One causing great harm 111 False and Billy 112 Stole material 113 Greyhound, e.g.

114 Excellent 115 Bach composition 116 Affectedly creative

DOWN 1 Chestnut coating 2 It may be easily bruised 3 Building addition 4 Hazelnut 5 Mamas’ mamas 6 Feeling of anxiety 7 Vocalizes rhythmically 8 F/X field 9 Sultry 10 Large centerpiece 11 Finger decorations 12 Relay, for one 13 Santa ___ 14 Actor Arnold 15 Black tar 16 Copes with a tough situation 17 Appetite stimulus 18 Full of the latest 24 Places for pupils 29 Hard outer covering 31 Historical period 32 Declare the provable truth 33 Begin a project 34 It may be broken on a ranch 35 Kins of 29-Down 36 List ender 37 Rich tapestry 38 Dumpster filler 39 “Come here ___?”

41 Depths 43 Finger or toe 45 Commuter line 46 ___-bodied 49 Stairstep measure 51 Coin of the realm 53 Uttered a sharp bark 55 Lugs around

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Stroll Poker ploy Letter opener Butter squares Formerly divided city Richard of “The Godfather” Game delayer Advil target Revolver, sometimes Winchester, for one Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Sam Fixes a shoelace Searches Takes it easy In need of bleach, perhaps Darn it!

Made waves?

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Identify One-armed bandit’s “mouth” Fraternity “T” Diner’s calculation “Deep Space Nine” changeling Cause of inflation?

Blasting stuff Blue hue

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