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New initiative aims to improve education with data–driven strategies KATHY TAYLOR // 8 10 // Words with friends

12 // Losing his religion

Ray Pearcey, reader & writer

Barry Friedman, disappointed Dem

Nimrod Conference unites language lovers cityspeak

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POLITE POLTERGEIST Former midtown residents find that sometimes a haunted house is a tidy house

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Cheyenne Butcher, conjurer

Tulsa Voice critics on their favorite frightful films

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f you haven’t figured it out already, we like Halloween, and this issue is jam-packed with it.

We’ve got a rundown of the best Halloween events around Tulsa (pg. 28), a tale of the friendliest haunted house you’ve ever heard of (pg. 25), an intimate glimpse at Dia de los Muertos (pg. 32), a discussion of the all-time great horror movies (pg. 24), a rumination on decorating etiquette (pg. 34), spooky local theater (pg. 36), and more. Seriously, Halloween is covered.

But I wanted to mention a couple other things: First, we’re excited to announce a new partnership between The Tulsa Voice and the fine folks at TulsaFood.com.

Check out Brian Schwartz’s review of Cumin, the new Indian joint out south, accompanied by typically great photography from Valerie Grant (pg. 16).

Finally, I want to thank Kathy Taylor for being generally awesome. She came to our office to tell us about her latest public service venture, Impact Tulsa, and graciously agreed to tell all our readers about it too (pg. 8). Her continued public service to Tulsa is inspiring.

Thanks, Kathy.

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>SHOUTOUTS & SHUTUPS< SHUT UP: The United States Supreme Court rejected a case, effectively legalizing gay marriage in Oklahoma and a handful of other states. For all those who greeted that news by plastering social media feeds and internet comment sections with some variation on “What’s next? Can I marry my dog?” Shut up. Just please shut up. While we’re at it, Gov. Mary Fallin, who decried the court’s action as thwarting the “will of Oklahomans,” you shut up, too. When the will of the ma jority is to deny equal rights to a minority, it’s a comfort to know we have enough checks and balances for justice and equality to prevail every now and again.

SHOUT OUT: The Tulsa World’s ongoing coverage of the exoneration of Michelle Murphy, who was wrongly accused and convicted of murdering her infant son and spent nearly two decades in prison, is a shining example of why daily newspapers matter. Cary Aspinwall and Ziva Branstetter dug in and presented the case from multiple angles—the history, the investigation, the trial, the mistakes made throughout, and the questionable handling of it all by prosecutor Tim Harris and others. The system failed. A team of journalists shed light on that truth.

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Collective impact

New initiative aims to improve education with data-driven strategies

by KATHY TAYLOR

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or decades, compassionate people who care about education have worked tirelessly to increase student success in order to keep America competitive in a global economy. We have added a multitude of programs and private resources, yet we are still disappointed with the pace of change. We are program rich but system poor. We loudly rail against dismal schoolhouse grades but fail to produce data that can be used as a flashlight to diagnose opportunities for improvement. Despite our well-intentioned efforts, too many children are falling through the cracks.

The old way of doing things is simply not working. Collectively, we are missing the mark. Kindergarteners are too often entering school unprepared, and sadly, they never catch up. Far too many third graders aren’t reading at grade level.

Each year, more than 2,400 kids in the Tulsa area drop out of high school. This drastically limits their opportunities in life and negatively impacts the economies of the cities in which they reside.

Enter ImpactTulsa, an unprecedented regional partnership with a new way of working together to address what we believe is the calling of our time: working as a community to improve education results and student success.

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of leaders—from superintendents, school board members and university presidents, to local funders, CEOs, ministers, parents and concerned citizens—came together under the ImpactTulsa umbrella to declare their commitment to work with one another in a new way. Already, the results are exciting and a growing energy has emerged the desire for changeand the genuine belief this will work.

Why is ImpactTulsa different?

It is locally driven with grassroots buy-in and commitment. It uses relevant data to build a road map for continuous improvement, not a reason to point fingers. It identifies best practices and develops plans to spread those practices at the local level, by individual districts and schools—the practitioners on the ground. ImpactTulsa is data-driven action at its best and most sustainable—not a one-size-fits-all strategy.

Together, we have developed a community partnership that has: • Agreed on a common set of measurements meaningful in determining the success of a student from birth to employment.

• Joined to combine data, identify best practices and share that information with partners.

• Agreed to align resources to spread what works across our region, with a common vision

that guarantees ever y child in our community has a pathway to a quality education.

ImpactTulsa relies on the proven theory of continuous improvement through the use of relevant and reliable measurement to drive decisions. It utilizes an approach of shared accountability an “all hands on deck” community approach with collaboration and no excuses. It calls for putting individual agendas aside to focus on the best outcomes for kids. It asks donors to give less emotionally and more intentionally, based on what the data shows is working.

This new approach has been launched in communities across the country, and it’s working. The philosophy behind this movement fits perfectly with how the Tulsa region has always stepped up when faced with challenges— whether it was implementing a nationally acclaimed early childhood education program, increasing focus on STEM education or ensuring every kid in the area achieves a postsecondary degree without debt.

Tulsans always rise to the occasion when presented a challenge, and now they are doing it once again. This is an unmatched opportunity to join together, not to assign blame, but focus

on solutions, arm in arm. Our attention is laser-focused on’ kindergarten readiness, literacy and math, high school graduation and post-secondary enrollment and completion. We will use shared measurements to ensure strategic data-driven investments that provide the best path to success for our kids and our economy.

We invite you to join this partnership today by signing our partnership pledge at impacttulsa. com, sharing the message and coming to Tulsa Community College’s Center for Creativity, Oct. 21 at 5:30 p.m. ImpactTulsa partners will share our first community impact report—which shows our regional education attainment and identifies areas where we can begin to make positive change.

If we want to move forward faster and with better education results than ever before—we must do it together. Join our Partnership. Join ImpactTulsa. a

Kathy Taylor is the former mayor of Tulsa, former Oklahoma secretary of commerce and tourism, has served as Oklahoma’s Chief of Education Strategy and Innovation, and currently serves as CEO of Impact Tulsa.

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Allen Chapman Activity Center, University of Tulsa Schedule, registration and more info at TheTulsaVoice.com/nimrod

Words with friends TU’s annual Nimrod Conference brings together lovers of language

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ne of the things that we’re most proud of in regard to the conference is that it offers a warm, welcoming , and thought-provoking way for writers to connect with the larger writing community. Writing is so often a solitary craft, but coming together with other writers—both our published workshop leaders and our conference participants—allows writers to expand their skills in ways that they otherwise might never have thought of. And, frankly, it’s a lot of fun to meet people who love books and writing as much as you do.”

—Eilis O’Neal, editor in chief, Nimrod Journal Books are very much alive, and, despite the strikingly powerful energy of film, TV and the net, books remain a big, abiding force in our society.

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Journal crew for their annual conference for writers and readers.

Book power It’s a bit of a paradox, but the most striking recent reminder of the transcendent lure of great books and compelling writers, for me, came not from a book but from a film—an absolutely stunning new documentary on HBO from legendary director Martin Scorsese and his compadre David Tedeschi. “The Fifty-Year Argument” is an electrifying chronicle of American writing culture viewed through the prism of the now 50-year-old New York Review of Books (NYRB), a publishing venture devoted to fabulous books, and the ideas, the currents, the passions, the roiling issues that have charged our times.

When I was a young adult, NYRB was a continuous “school between stables,” something almost magical for me, on why people such as novelists Norman Mailer,

Mary McCarthy and James Baldwin; writers and intellectuals such as Susan Sontag, George Kennan and Bishop Desmond Tutu; and scientists Freeman Dyson, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin were such riveting figures in our world during the ’60s, ’70s and thereafter. The women’s movement; radical ideas in design, architecture and planning; the early and later facets of the civil rights movement; Vietnam; Malcolm X; John Coltrane; Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon; lucid tendencies in the art world; wild thinking trajectories like postmodernism; deconstruction and its excesses; reimagining classical art and music; revolutionary changes in science and medicine—all were put on the table, unpacked, autopsied and painted in neon by a small army of writers at NYRB. If you’re interested in books, ideas and arguments, you absolutely have to see this grand, 93-minute piece.

Meeting of minds But if you want a heavy, local dose of the neural sparks associated with provocative writing and compelling authors, show up on Saturday, Oct. 25, for the latest rendition of the Nimrod Conference for Readers and Writers at the University of Tulsa. The conference is managed, as usual,

by Eilis O’Neal, the journal chief and an award winning young adult/fantasy writer. As usual, the legendary Dr. Fran Ringold will contribute to the event; she was editor-in-chief of Nimrod for more than 40 years. Having completed two terms as Oklahoman’s Poet Laureate. Ringold’s books include The Trouble With Voices: Poetry and Every Other One. This year’s conference is headlined by an enormous talent, international writer Chris Abani of Nigeria. Abani is a winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award, an uber-competitive prize given to a (continued on page 14)

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Losing his religion Doomed Silverstein panders to GOP instead of calling Inhofe on the carpet

by BARRY FRIEDMAN itting on a plane next to a beautiful woman who’s reading a magazine, a man asks, “So what are you reading?”

“It says here,” she says, “the best lovers, the best kind of men are half Jewish, half Indian.”

“Let me introduce myself,” he says. “My name’s Tonto Goldberg.”

Stay with me.

Months ago—and for full disclosure purposes—I was invited to a fundraiser (I didn’t contribute) for Democratic Senatorial Candidate Matt Silverstein.

Before his prepared remarks, he made a joke about his Jewish/ Choctaw heritage.

I’ll get back to that.

As regular readers of this column know, I have a special place in my heart for Sen. James Inhofe. Nobody makes me more meshuga—nobody except Matt Silverstein.

I’ll get back to that, too.

First off, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it’s not really a race. Most polls have Inhofe up 30 percent, and it probably won’t end that close. And although Silverstein is right on the issues of choice, ACA, marriage equality, and global warming, his campaign is a muddled, phumphering mess.

Like a lot of lazy Democrats who chase down GOP members for an unrequited bipartisanship hug, Silverstein has a peculiar affinity for Tom Coburn. Silverstein has put forth a three-point plan to fight the deficit, including freezing automatic pay raises, curtailing earmarks, and creating something called the Office of Debt Reduction and Public Integrity, which will have … absolutely no effect on the deficit.

Odder, still, are his attacks on Inhofe, who is wrong on every-

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That’s all you got? That’s your way of denouncing the carnage?

I’m sure the pigeons that got away will be touched.

(Bonus points if you can tell me which Oklahoma 2nd District congressman who owns a plumbing company with red trucks was also there.)

Back in July, during a mostly watchable interview with KOKH TV-25 in Oklahoma City, Silverstein read from a cheat sheet, extolled his work as an independent investment planner—where he says he makes sure Oklahoma families are investing “conservatively”—yeah, we get it, you’re as subtle as a management fee—and then told anchor Mike Brooks, “Regardless of our differences, Senator Inhofe and I are brothers in the Lord.”

Jesus wept. And the rest of us got pissed.

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thing—everything—and criminally wrong on climate change. What, then, in the name of rising sea levels is Silverstein doing spending even one campaign dollar (that, judging from his email requests for money, he doesn’t have) trying to convince voters that “Inhofe’s wasteful spending in Washington is devastating our economy”?

Missed opportunity, line one …

In the Top 100 reasons not to like Jim Inhofe, that’s coming in at 117.

Missed opportunity, line two …

Inhofe’s Democratic opponent in the November election, Matt

Silverstein of Bixby, said he supports the Second Amendment and the right of Oklahomans to hunt, but that the pigeon shoot didn’t appear to be hunting.

“That was more like shooting fish in a barrel,” Silverstein said. “Personally for me, I enjoy hunting, but I don’t think I would have enjoyed that.”

For the love of Wayne LaPierre, your enjoyment of hunting and support of the Second Amendment has fuck-all to do with Inhofe’s barbaric slaughter of birds a few weeks back.

I don’t think I would have enjoyed that?

Sen. Inhofe and his political supporters slaughtered more than 1,000 live pigeons, while spectators drank beer under a tent and a mariachi band played. The fundraiser was to support the “Friends of Jim Inhofe and the Fund For A Conservative Future.”

He then joked they still had blood on their clothes from last year’s event.

This is your ‘Brother in the Lord,’ pal.

Another thing: Jews do not say “Brothers in the Lord.” It’s not in our rhetorical rhythm. It is a Christian construct, so, his use of it reeks of calculation— a cynical sop to audiences who might be leery of the Silverstein surname— leery of Jews.

“He is not my enemy,” he said of Inhofe, “he’s my opponent.” (continued on page 15)

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(continued from page 10) superb first-time fiction or short story writer. Abani, who has lived in the U.S. since around 2001, is best known for his prolific fiction past. He has written five novels and several poetry volumes over the past 10 years, including GraceLand and the fantastic The Secret History of Las Vegas. I’ve read the latter; it’s a strange brew of mystery, sci-fi and police procedural packed with lurid musings on the contrast between American culture, Las Vegas style and the social and cultural landscape of South Africa.

Here is an excerpt: “Sunil knocked on Brewster’s door and entered without waiting. An older, often offensive, and unpleasant man, Brewster had founded the institute thirty years before. His early work had been in the area of group dynamics, a term that was a catchall for all kinds of work and that made Sunil in particular deeply worried. When it came to Brewster, everything sounded like a euphemism for something darker. There were five other projects housed there, all sponsored by the Department of Defense—Psychological Research; Weapons and Applied Tactics; Information Extraction and Analysis; Robotics and Organic Intelligence; and Planetary Resource Management.”

Local flavor The Nimrod conference, now in its 36th year, is famous for the wide range of local writers who participate in the event’s carefully crafted workshop sessions—including panels on improving one’s writing, techniques for fiction work—giving voice to characters and a host of other topics. This year’s local cadre includes Nimrod chief O’Neal; Henry Cribbs, who has served as fiction editor for the Black Warrior Review and the Chicago Literary Review and teaches English at Union High School; Nimrod poetry editor Cynthia Gustavson, a psychotherapist and poet; and Nimrod editor Britton Gildersleeve, who has lectured on the use of poetry in healing at Phillips Theological School in Tulsa and the Univeristy of Oklahoma School of Medicine.

Coda The annual Nimrod Conference is a direct indication of Tulsa’s continuing role in the essential worlds of writing and writers—and you can still sign up by visiting TheTulsaVoice.com/nimrod. a Ray Pearcey, a technology, public policy and management consulting professional, is managing editor of The Oklahoma Eagle and is a regular contributor to The Tulsa Voice.

RAY’S PICKS Here’s a sample of the offerings slated for Saturday, Oct. 25, the first formal day of the conference: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN: 5 WRITERS’ BEST ADVICE Mary-Alice Daniel, W. S. Di Piero, Britton Gildersleeve, Shobha Rao, Roxana Robinson. 10 a.m.

EDITING AND PUBLISHING: Q&A Chris Abani, Geffrey Davis, Cynthia Gustavson, Malinda Lo, Jill Logan, Eilis O’Neal, A. J. Tierney. 10 a.m.

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(continued from page 12) Sound familiar?

“I have said this before, but it bears repeating in this instance: as brothers in Christ, Congressman Lankford and I are competitors, not enemies.” 7 That was T.W. Shannon speaking about his opponent James Lankford last June.

Silverstein pinched a GOP/ Christian Kumbaya talking point and made it his own.

Lovely.

What kind of Democrat does that?

News flash to Oklahoma Democrats: you run as a Democrat in Oklahoma, you’ll lose; you run as a Republican, you’ll lose. So how about, since it doesn’t matter anyway, run with integrity—stop sucking up to people who aren’t going to vote for you anyway?

On that point, and do with this what you will, Silverstein no longer even mentions his Jewish heritage on his website.

This is what you’ll find on MEET MATT 8 today …

Matt’s grandmother was a Choctaw Native American who was thrown in to a government boarding school where she was beaten if she spoke her native Choctaw language.

Her stories shaped his philosophy that government cannot be allowed to become too big or too powerful and that’s why he is a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.

But click through the News link on the site and you’ll find this, dated July 22, about a speaking engagement in Grove9: A member of the B’nai Emunah Jewish Synagogue in Tulsa, Silverstein said his Jewish faith, along with his Choctaw Native American, gives him a unique perspective on government – including the second amendment. One side of his family escaped the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, while another side was removed from their lands and forced to walk along the Trail of Tears to the Indian

Territory. Because of his ancestors’ experience, Silverstein said he “cherishes individual rights including the right to bear arms.”

What happened, we break up?

Did Native American score higher than Jew with the focus groups?

Did they like the idea of an armed Pokni standing up to government language bullies more than they did Polish Jews traipsing across Europe to avoid murderous Nazis? Look, you want to jettison Judaism from the campaign, jettison it, but you can’t use our stuff anymore, so no more Holocaust references. Defend your cockamamie Second Amendment rationale some other way.

Oklahoma candidates talk about faith too much, anyway, and, worse, get rewarded for such nebulosity. The Tulsa World,10 for instance, in endorsing Representative James Lankford for Senate said, “He is also an individual of faith and unquestioned family values.” (Great, but he also voted to cut SNAP benefits11 which a lot of families value.)

Lankford, at least, doesn’t play Three-Card Monte with his faith, doesn’t adopt another religious persona to attract voters. Silverstein cops to being Jewish at a fundraiser, but not on his home page; he highlights it in a press release, but not during an interview on an OKC FOX affiliate. It’s obvious, it’s troubling, it’s part of the reason his campaign is deader than one of Inhofe’s pigeons. He can’t decide if he wants to be Tonto Goldberg, or just Tonto. a READ THE FULL VERSION, INCLUDING FOOTNOTED REFERENCES, AT THETULSAVOICE.COM/BARRY

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

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A sele ct ion of Indian dishes at the newly opened Cumin // Valerie Grant

Straight from the Punjab Newly opened Cumin will comfort your belly with authentic Indian cuisine

by BRIAN SCHWARTZ

“I

’m eating the best Indian food I’ve had in my life!” I was digging into a pile of lamb chops strewn with green leaves and covered with a fiery red sauce mottled with specks of brown.

“I can’t name all these incredible flavors, I’ve never even tasted these flavors. So how on Earth can I write about them?” “Well,” Cathe said, “begin with that.”

I spent a year on the Indian subcontinent, trekking from the lunar landscape and Tibetan monasteries of Ladakh in the Himalayas to the palm-fringed beaches of Tamil Nadu. I ate in many restaurants along the way.

But you don’t find good food in restaurants in India, the best food is cooked in private homes, served behind closed doors the tourist can never enter. (And when I did enter those doors, spending weeks in tiny villages, I was too ecstatic to notice the food.) So my dream now would be to go back to a tiny village somewhere in India and eat a meal prepared by a village wom-

an who learned traditional recipes from her mother, as handed down by her mother before her. But as of a month ago, anyone in Tulsa can have this dream come true.

Just go to Cumin.

Chef Shifali Bhullar is a graduate of Union High School, but spent her first fifteen years in her family’s ancestral home in the Punjab northwest of Delhi. If you’ve read “Kim” by Rudyard Kipling, you’ve read about the Punjab — and that was, Shifali said, “pretty much a village.” Her father was an officer in the Indian Air Force and her mother was a schoolteacher.

And they all love to cook.

“My dad cooks, my mom cooks, my brother cooks, everyone cooks in my family,” she says. Growing up, she watched, fascinated, and she started cooking when she was six. Mostly, she learned from her mother, a formidable personality.

“She’s a great cook,” Shifali said.

“She’s a lady who does not stop.

If anyone comes to our house, they do not leave without eating.

Even now, she still won’t sit. Each night she waits up for me to come home from the restaurant so she can cook me a meal, and each night I say, ‘Mom, I just came from a restaurant.’ We’re a close family,” Shifali added with evident affection.

Cooking is her passion. As sometimes happens in Oklahoma, in Punjab she “grew up with all veggies growing in the back garden, and if not there were always street vendors,” she said.

Unfortunately her gardens can’t supply the restaurant, but she does a lot of shopping at Sprouts and Whole Foods—“expensive but worth it,” she said, heading back to the kitchen. I was lucky to get a chance to talk to her. She cooks all the dishes herself and takes no shortcuts.

You’ll see a lot of her husband.

He manages the front of the house. Ask him anything about the food, and he’ll know. Surprisingly, you’ll see many of the same dishes you see in just about any

Indian restaurant in town—butter chicken, lamb saag, tandoori chicken tikka. But that’s because these dishes all originate from Shifali’s home region of Punjab.

Go to many Indian restaurants and you’ll get the Americanized version. Go to Cumin and you’ll get the real thing. (To be fair, the owner of India Palace is also from the Punjab, and Desi Wok is above average, too, for authenticity.) Of course, the rich, creamy dishes are not everyday village fare. They are served on special occasions, Shifali said, on holidays and especially for weddings.

While you study the menu, you get a free bowl of papadum, Indian potato chips. They are served with three sauces—a mild tamarind, a chutney with chopped onions and a spicy sauce with mint and coriander. They are beautifully presented, as is the other freebie, the delicious rice studded with peas that comes with every meal.

When you order, Mr. Bhullar will ask you how spicy you want the

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Chef Shifali Bhullar // Valerie Grant

food. If you order mild, be sure to stress that you want the full range of Indian spices but that you don’t want hot chili pepper, capsaicin.

Now, I’ve always enjoyed telling people that in India, people don’t use much heat in their cooking, that chili peppers were brought by the British and real authentic Indian food doesn’t have them, except in Goa where the Portuguese imported them. But Shifali said I’m wrong. “Chili in cooking?

It depends on the family,” she said. “Some families don’t use it, and some families like it really hot.

Our family, we love spicy food.”

The first dish we tried was Butter Chicken, and it turned out to be a delight. The chicken is cooked in a traditional Punjabi Tandoor clay oven (as is all the chicken served at Cumin) and then marinated in yogurt and spices. It’s a complicated process. According to one source, “the gravy is made by first heating fresh tomato, garlic, and cardamom into a bright red pulp which is then pureed after cooling, then the chef adds butter, Khoa (an Indian cheese) and various spices, often including asafoetida, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, coriander, pepper, fenugreek and fresh cream.” “I don’t use asafoetida,” Shifali said.

“That’s more of a South Indian thing. But fenugreek… that’s my favorite secret ingredient.” She also uses ground cashews to give a rich, nutty flavor. The brown sauce was rich, flavor-packed and impossibly complex. I couldn’t identify by taste any of the ingredients. I loved it.

There are several other dishes I’ve tried that look just like Butter Chicken. These are Chicken Shahi Korma and Paneer Pasanda. But

in each the brown gravy has a totally different flavor. It goes without saying that Shifali doesn’t use curry powder. Instead, she takes exotic ingredients such as cumin and coriander seeds, toasts these seeds separately in a hot pan and then grinds them. This “gives a whole new aroma” to the food, she said. You can tell that just by looking at the Lamb Kadahi, served in a shiny miniature wok called a karahi. It’s made with very little sauce, and you can see the different spices studded on the meat alongside sliced bell peppers and bright red tomatoes.

Another dish that just exploded with flavor was the Lamb Saag, bright green from the spinach that gives it its name. (Saag can also refer to mustard and collard greens, and Shifali said she’s thinking of using these. I assured her that Oklahomans can appreciate these greens.) It had a bright, vibrant citric flavor totally unlike the other dishes.

But how can I say that Saag was the best when I was eating those lamb chops? Shifali especially recommended that dish for its distinctive and totally Punjabi flavor.

It was wonderful. The chops were meaty and tender but the bright red sauce—rich with the taste of the lamb drippings it was cooked with—stole the show. It had more of a mellow, toasty flavor, but it was as complex as any.

I should have sneaked into the kitchen to watch Shifali cooking our meal. She cooked all four dishes herself on the stovetop at the same time, hopping from pan to pan. That would have been a sight to see. a

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Scenes from “A Serbian Film,” “The Thing,” “The Shining,” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

The horror!

Voice critics go back and forth on their favorite frightful films

by JOSHUA KLINE & JOE O’SHANSKY

J

OE: October is my favorite month. And even though I don’t dress for it anymore, Halloween is, without a doubt, my favorite holiday. That has always had something to do with the season and its iconography of death.

The weather turns colder. The first hints of wood smoke begin wafting across ever more leaden skies, accentuating the scent of failing life. The trees and shrubs turn to skeletons as the ebbing colors magnify the sense that a deeper ritual is at hand—something pagan and necessary to protect us from gods and monsters that wait within the long, ascendant night.

Plus, I love pouring some adult libations and settling in for some shocking selections culled from the decades of cinema dedicated to things that go bump in the night.

Sure, there are standards like “The Shining” or “The Thing” (Carpenter’s version, of course) but each year brings a new crop of potential classics like “You’re Next” or “The Conjuring.” This year is depressingly slim on big horror releases (it’s the red-headed step-genre, after all), but thanks to Netflix, that doesn’t mean you can’t make every day a new adventure in fear. Are you a 30 days of horror kind of guy, Josh?

JOSH: I am in theory. In practice, not so much. I watch a lot of horror movies anyway, but I have trouble committing to watching one every single night for a month straight. I do end up binging on horror for one or two days leading up to every Halloween. And I have a few titles I watch every October like clockwork. Namely, “The Shin24 // FEATURED

ing” and “The Thing.” It might be a cliché, but in my opinion there are no two greater Halloween films.

There may be better horror films (though I can’t think of any), but in terms of evoking a mood that gets me excited about fall and Halloween, those are it. Both movies are heavy on mood and atmosphere; they create this hazy, almost narcotic feeling of blissful nostalgia and melancholy. For me, that’s October in a nutshell.

I’d also include Tobe Hooper’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Let the Right One In,” “Cabin Fever” and “Suspiria” as titles I usually try to revisit in October.

This year is kind of unique for me, though; I’ve somehow already exhausted my usual go-to titles for Halloween, so I’ll probably try to change it up. Maybe I’ll do a Fulci marathon, or gorge on the French shockers. What about you, Joe? JOE: As much as I can, but like you it’s more in theory than in practice. Kind of like when I don’t dress up and vow to do something special next year instead. Never happens. But it is easier to honor the occasion with time as opposed to money spent on a costume (authentic Stormtrooper outfits are not cheap). Also, horror needs a crowd. So while I might pick out some old favorites in the middle of the night, really, it’s about getting together with friends, booze, and— if we’re doing it right—themed food offerings. Splitting chorizo sausages in half for a chili inspired by “I Spit on Your Grave”? Sure.

Spaghetti and meat sauce for a “Day of the Dead” dinner? Why not? There’s fun to be had in pairing culinary delights with cinematic

mayhem—like a filet with a fine wine (which would make a nice match for “Let the Right One In”).

I do like your list and I’m glad you mentioned the French because goddamn if they haven’t been distinguishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with in international horror (what does one eat while watching “Inside”?) In the realm of sick puppies, even the Japanese stand in awe of what’s been coming out of France in the past decade.

Which I guess begs the question: What is the most hardcore horror film you’ve ever seen?

JOSH: First, you eat poached eggs with hollandaise and sriracha when watching “Inside.” Obviously. As far as hardcore goes, I don’t know if I can pick just one (though “Inside” is certainly a candidate).

More recently, Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” and Gaspar Noe’s “Irreversible” really got under my skin. Both are beautifully shot, with top-notch performances from actors willing to travel to very dark places. Both are pornographically explicit in their depictions of sex and violence. And both are relentlessly bleak and pessimistic about humanity, and marriage/parenthood in particular.

On the trashier side of things, I watched the original “I Spit on Your Grave” when I was way too young. That movie ruined my life for a week. “Cannibal Holocaust” disturbed me well after I thought I’d been fully desensitized. Both have the feel of an illicit snuff film discovered in Jeffrey Dahmer’s basement; they’re mean-spirited, nasty little trash masterpieces that feel genuinely dangerous.

“Holocaust” in particular, with its

un-simulated animal slaughter and surprisingly sophisticated practical effects work, feels so real. It’s no wonder the director, Ruggero Deodato, was arrested and charged in Italy with making a snuff film. He actually had to prove that he didn’t kill anyone on camera.

Am I correct in assuming “A Serbian Film” is at the top of your list?

JOE: Many films that push the envelope in their own unique ways, and usually the boldest come from outside the U.S. German freak Jörg Buttgereit’s “Nekromantik 2” with its necrophilia and bloodgasms, the Hungarian-produced “Taxidermia” which—while not strictly a horror movie—is so off-putting and bizarre that it might as well be (while having the gall to submit itself for Oscar consideration in 2007). “Irreversible” isn’t a horror film per se, either, but again is so stomach-churning in its construction and intent that it qualifies.

Of course, as you mentioned, “Antichrist” is kind of scarring for men due to yet more penile trauma and bloodjaculation, while “Cannibal Holocaust” is borderline reprehensible—not so much for the reasons you mentioned, I just thought of it as a clumsily made film. Fact is, I have a pretty bad memory for such things, so you know these must be pretty awful because they stuck with me as memorably and disturbingly pushing the envelope.

But, yes Josh, “A Serbian Film” takes that envelope, wipes its ass with it, adheres the postage with semen and mails it to your mom. (continued on page 36)

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POLITE POLTERGEIST

Bad girls and bloodlust Former midtown residents discover that sometimes,

Pulling the curtain back on terror, tricks and treats around T-Town a haunted house is a tidy house

by GEORGE ROMERO

By Molly Bullock | Photo by Evan Taylor

Some media critics argue that stories of the paranormal distract the public from more pressing news topics and indicate a decline in media standards. We at the Voice tend to agree that sensational coverage of any topic sells our readers short. But, given nature’s vast “unknowns” and human history’s longstanding catalog of supernatural reports, we thought it worthwhile to direct at least a little straight-faced curiosity toward the subject, especially given the season. Our house is divided between those who brush off every ghost story as hogwash and those cautiously skeptical but reluctant to discount them. That’s the balance we’re striking as we dip a toe into this realm.

Informal polling of friends and acquaintances turned up nearly a dozen stories of paranormal experiences. People of all ages and walks of life reported hearing ghostly voices or eerie music, witnessing items toppling over and falling off shelves or observing a darkness lingering in a corner.

The most detailed, compelling account is we found retold here.

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Rose Mary Winget

is a longtime

family friend of mine who now lives in Arizona. The last house she and her husband, Larry, owned in Tulsa was a 2-story midtown Tudor, probably one of the original homes in that area, Winget said.

About a year after the couple moved in, their oldest son, Tyler, came home on leave from the Army. They were out the day he arrived but told him to make himself at home. Winget said that when Tyler entered the house, he heard the shower running upstairs.

“So he hollered at us and said, ‘Hey, I’m here. I thought you were gone,’” she said.

When he didn’t get a reply, he took his bags upstairs and noticed that the sound of the shower had stopped. In the bathroom, he found the shower curtain, walls and tub wet.

“He was totally freaked,” Winget said. “ … He was a big tough military guy, but he was totally freaked out. So he ran outside and stayed in his car and wouldn’t come back in until we got home. We’ve always laughed about that, and of course we couldn’t explain the situation, but I figured he suffered from an over-active imagination.”

Winget is a precise, orderly person, so she was concerned when one diamond earring from her only set went missing a few months later. After cleaning out her jewelry drawer and conducting a thorough search, she gave up. A few weeks after it went missing, Winget was startled when she opened a drawer in her bathroom and found the earring.

“That was totally weird,” she said. “We did not have a housekeeper at the time, so it’s not like someone else found it and stuck it in there. Larry knew I was distressed. He didn’t know where it was, either. But there was my little earring.”

After giving it some thought, the Wingets each began to wonder whether Tyler might have been onto something.

“I didn’t just immediately say, ‘Oh, there is a ghost,’” Winget said. “But the more I thought about it and tried to find out who might have done that—put my earring in the drawer—I never came up with anything.”

A few months later, Winget left for work before her husband

Photog rapher Evan Taylor’s daughter capt ured this image of the Winget’s former house with her phone’s Ghost Hunt ing app // Jessie Taylor

got out of bed—“and Larry does not make up beds,” she said.

After work, she came home to find the bed beautifully made with tailored tucks and precise folds.

“Very neat and clean,” Winget said. “You could bounce a penny off the bed, it was just so tight and nice and beautiful. And when he got home, I thanked him for making the bed for the first time in his life.”

Larry said he hadn’t made the bed, and they went upstairs together.

“And there it was, still just gorgeous and beautiful,” Winget said. “And he said, ‘I swear to you I did not make it, and even if I had made it, it wouldn’t have been to that precision.’ It would have been just covers kind of tossed up. And this was a perfectly made bed.”

At that point, they both started to get “weirded out,” Winget said. Other odd things happened upstairs over the next few years; they found bath mats inexplicably turned over and items on bookshelves that didn’t belong there. Then, the pets started acting up.

Sparky, a cat that usually roamed the entire house, “took to sitting at the bottom of the stairs, looking up, and would not go upstairs and would kind

of howl … ” Winget said. “We couldn’t even entice it upstairs.

We could pick it up and carry it up ok, but it would not go up anymore. And it never did again.”

After their dog, Nixon, started sitting at the foot of the steps and groaning, he stopped going upstairs, too.

“He used to always come up and sleep with us in the bedroom, and he would not come up,” Winget said. “He would sleep downstairs.”

Winget said the pets’ behavior “throws it into a whole new category.”

“There’s no way to change what an animal does like that,” she said. “And that is what they did. They did not return to the upstairs.”

Graduall y, the couple came to just accept that a ghost lived with them. They didn’t speak publicl y about it except to their close friends, but Winget suspects their experience isn’t that uncommon. One of their friends in Chicago disclosed to them a few years ago that his house has been haunted for years.

“As we swapped stories, I realized he actually does believe us,” Winget said, laughing. “He doesn’t think we are full of crap.

And we believe him.”

Before these events, Winget had never accepted the concept of paranormal events.

“It opened my mind, when these things happened, to that dimension,” she said. “And I realize that right now, I believe that there is that dimension. I don’t understand it; I don’t particularly study it or puzzle over it or anything.

I just know that it’s there, and I don’t pooh-pooh when I hear other people’s stories about it anymore. Depending on the source, of course,” she said, laughing.

Winget sold the house in 2001, and it sold again in 2002 to the present owner, who did not respond to the Voice’s inquiries.

“Of course, there was nothing revealed in the sale information that [the owners before us] had ever had a ghost,” Winget said.

But then again, when we sold it, we didn’t reveal that we had one, either.”

A woman who lived in the home during the ‘90s declined to have her name published but shared two experiences in the house. Once, she was reading to her toddler son downstairs in the living room when he looked over toward the front door and said, “Who’s that?”

She didn’t see anything and asked him what he was talking about.

“That man,” he said.

When she asked where, he said, “Oh, nevermind.”

Her son seemed to have “some ability to perceive, and see things, like young children often do,” she said.

Prior to that event, her son was upstairs in the bath (the same bathroom where Tyler Winget had his scare) when he picked up a toy and spoke the French word for it. She had never spoken French with him.

“I don’t know that that’s anything to do with the house, but then again, who knows,” she said. “… It’s French, at the age of one.”

When the Wingets moved to Arizona for better weather, they wondered if the ghost would When the Wingets moved to Arizona for better weather, they wondered if the ghost would follow. They wouldn’t have minded if it did; whoever it was kept things tidy and never frightened the couple. But it didn’t seem to travel with them.

“It was a ghost at the house,” Winget said. “It wasn’t a ghost of the Wingets, unfortunately.” a

Got a supernatural story you’re dying to share? Give us the details at TheTulsaVoice.com/ghosts. We’ll round up the most startling submissions and let readers vote on their favorites. The winner will trick-or-treat for the good stuff with a $50 gift card to Glacier Confection plus two free tickets to Spiderball, a Halloween dance party blowout Oct. 25 at the adjoining Enso, Electric Circus and IDL Ballroom.

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spooky spaces A SELECTION OF TULSA’S MOST NOTORIOUS HAUNTED LANDMARKS // PHOTOS BY JEN HOPPA

TULSA GARDEN CENTER J. Arthur Hull purchased the Tulsa Garden Center shortly after its completion, and his wife, Mary, died of an illness soon after. Her body was displayed in the arboretum prior to the funeral, and visitors say the room retains a distinct chill to this day.

BRADY THEATER The epicenter of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, the Old Lady on Brady has seen its share of ghastly happenings, but the legend of its haunting was born a year earlier. Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso came to town for a sold-out show, and while touring the surrounding area, his car broke down and he had to walk back to the Brady Theater in the rain. He died shortly thereafter of complications from a throat infection, and is said to haunt the building in revenge.

WILL ROGERS HIGH SCHOOL In the ’70s, Will Rogers High School band director Dr. Carl Barnett died of a heart attack while conducting Bach’s “Come, Sweet Death” in a performance at the school’s auditorium. Ghost stories do not come more neatly wrapped than that one.

His spirit is said to roam the theater in a white tuxedo.

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LET’S GET SCARY Halloween is a rare beast of a holiday—no one can ever agree on the best day to celebrate it, so we all end up celebrating it multiple times. It’s more like Halloween Week. (And that’s fine by us.) Are you the the sort of Halloween reveler who likes to get decked out in lavish costumery and party the night away? Is a quiet famil y trick-or-treat parade more your speed? Whatever your pleasure, Tulsa’s got you covered, and we’ve rounded up our spookiest suggestions so you can make Halloween Week 2014 a memorable one.

Hex House

The 13th Ward

9/26–11/1 Inspired by a true story of Tulsa’s past involving hypnotic or occult mind control, the goal at the Hex House isn’t entertainment, it’s to show whar sheer terror really feels like. You’ll be submerged into an altered reality much darker and less predictable than anything you’ve seen in a movie.

8314 E 71st St, Tulsa, OK $20-$32, tulsahexhouse.com

10/3–11/1 Under the guise of a rehabilitation facility, Dr. Thaddeus munck subjected some of the world’s most disturbed criminals to experiments and torture that turned them into horrible, insane monsters! They wander the 13th Ward, exacting revenge on any poor soul who wanders into their domain.

2300 E Kenosha St, Broken Arrow, OK $15-$20, the13thward.com

Haunted Castle Halloween Festival 10/3–11/1 Halloween Village at the Castle of Muskogee offers 10 activities ranging from not scary to very scary, each individually priced or available in packages ranging from $15-$25. Activities include a medieval torture chamber (scary AND educational!), a haunted maze and hayride, and the scariest of them all Casa Morte, Domus Horrificus, Trail of Blood, and The Dark Castle Zombie Hunt.

At The Castle of Muskogee 4300 W Fern Mountain Rd, Muskogee, OK okcastle.com/halloween/

Psycho Path 10/3–11/1 You’re on a narrow path in the foggy woods. Each step takes you deeper into the woods where creatures lurk behind every turn. Adjacent to the Psycho Path is The Shadow Box, where you’ll discover the results of experiments by a crazed funeral home director who is trying to create a family of his own out of the bodies he works with. Also at Psycho Path are The Dark Ride through the haunted woods on a Scareage; a cage-like maze known as the Rage Cage; and The Last Ride, a coffin simulator where you can feel what it’s like to be buried alive.

1517 E 106th St N, Sperry, OK $10-$30, psychopathhaunt.com

The Wrong Turn Ranch 10/3–10/31 A corn maze by day and a haunted maze by night.

During the day until 6pm, the maze is free of ghouls and frights. Starting at 7pm, things get spooky.

25166 W 281st St S, Bristow, OK $8-$15, thewrongturnranch.com 28 // FEATURED

A’CROP’ALYPSE Haunteed Hayride 10/17–10/24 Take a hayride through the Flying M Ranch’s woods and see why the ranch hands never go out after dark.

Or, for the brave, take the Field of Fright Wooded Path.

Each step takes will take you deeper into the woods and the evils its hiding. The Flying M also offers activities to unwind after a good scare, including festival games, bon fires, music and more.

At Moore’s Flying M Ranch 20707 E 540 Rd, Inola, OK $5-$12, mooresflyingm.com

Scream Country Haunted Forest 10/24–10/31 The zombie apocalypse is upon us. You’re among the few survivors who haven’t been infected, and your car just broke down outside the old saw mill on the edge of Spivey Forest.

Your only chance of survival is to make it through the forest.

What you’ll find on your way is unknown but most likely UNDEAD. At Scream Country 51853 W 101st St S, Drumright, OK $10-$24, lastchanceproductions.com

Evil Dead: The Musical 10/24–10/25 Song! Dance! Blood! The cult classic horror films Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness are combined in this hilarious stage show.

For those who want the full experience, there is a splatter zone where audience members will be covered in blood.

At Scream Country 51853 W 101st St S, Drumright, OK $29-$34, evildeadtour.com

Chuck Cooley’s 6th Annual Halloween Bash 10/24 Featuring the Heaviness of Chuk Cooley and the Demon Hammers, Severmind, Black Summer, Burning Tide, and a screening of Chuck’s short film “Descension.”

At The Shrine 112 E 18th St, Tulsa, OK $5, tulsashrine.com

Trunk or Treak with the Tulsa Revolution 10/25 Get the kids in costumes, head to the Tulsa Revolutions game against the Mexican National Indoor Team and go Trunk or Treating for a great haul of candy!

At BOK center 200 S Denver St, Tulsa, OK tulsarevolution.pointstreaksites.com

6th Annual Spider Ball 10/25 Dance til you die to the music of Darku J, KrewX, Steve Cluck and the Panic! Crew at Spider Ball. And put some thought into your costume!

Prizes will be awarded in six categories including a cash prize for Best in Show.

At IDL Ballroom 230 E 1st St, Tulsa, OK $10 ADV, $12.50 DOS, ensobar.com

OK Chive Masquerade Ball 10/25–10/26 OK Chive presents a Masquerade Ball benefitting Special Olympics Oklahoma. The evening will include a performance by Me, the Hero?, art by Price Jones, a DJ, food truck, raffle and more activities.

At Tulsa Event Center 2625 S Memorial Dr, Tulsa, OK $15-$30, okchive.com

Boo Ha Ha in Brookside 10/26 It’s the 24th year of Oklahoma’s largest Halloween celebration! A full day of family-friendly fun includes Trick or Treating, a children’s costume contest, a pet costume contest, multiple kid zones, and of course, the Boo Ha Ha Parade.

On Brookside Peoria between 31st and 41st, Tulsa, OK brooksidetheplacetobe.com

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Witch & Moan

Scary Sage

10/26 Don a costume and head to Turkey Mountain for a three spooky runs. The evening begins with a costume contest, followed by the one-mile Zombie Chase, and the twomile Witch & Moan­—both of which will feature zombies, ghosts, vampires, witches, werewolves, and other spooky characters running along with participants. Bring trick-or-treat bags because there will be plenty of candy around! The final run is Terrifying Turkey, a four-mile run through the naturally spooky phenomena of Turkey Mountain at night. Attendees are also encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets to watch scary movies outdoors, and kids can bob for donuts!

At Turkey Mountain 69th & South Elwood, Tulsa, OK $5-$20, eventbrite.com

10/30 Clary Sage College hosts an evening of Trick or Treating, carnival games, face painting, a Kid’s Spook Tour and more.

3131 S Sheridan Rd, Tulsa, OK clarysagecollege.com

Halloween Extravaganzaaa 10/31 The Max Retropub presents DJ P’s and DJ SpeedBump, including costume contest with cash prizes.

114 S Elgin Ave, Tulsa, OK No cover

Dustin Pittsley Halloween Bash 10/31 The winner of a costume contest will receive a Dustin Pittsley Band CD and a $25 bar tab!

At Centennial Lounge 1109 E 6th St, Tulsa, OK

Richie Ramone’s F’n Halloween Party!

10/31 The former Ramone’s drummer hosts a concert party

with The Fabulous Minx, The Riot Waves, For the Wolf and Madewell.

At The Vanguard 222 N Main St, Tulsa, OK $15-$50, thevanguardtulsa.com

A Circus Halloween Bash 11/1 A circus-themed party with costume contests, music from DJ Ziploc, drink specials and more.

At The Shrine 112 E 18th St, Tulsa, OK, $5

HallowMarine 10/27–10/31 Trick or Treating at Oklahoma Aquarium. See mermaids and pirates diving in the Coral Reef, get grossed out in the Creepy Crawly Corner, take part in the costume contest and more.

At Oklahoma Aquarium 300 Aquarium Dr, Jenks, OK $7-$10, okaquarium.org

HallowZOOeen 10/27–10/31 Trick or Treat at the Zoo! Activities include Goblin Stops full of treats, carnival games in the Pumpkin Patch Playroom, special activities in both the Royal Castle and Pirate Island, a Haunted Train Ride and more.

At Tulsa Zoo 6421 E 36th St N, Tulsa, OK $7-$8, tulsazoo.org

A Very Maud Squad Halloween IN RAINBOWS Live 10/31 A Halloween costume party featuring the music of Radiohead. Shane Gilley starts the evening off, followed by a Radiohead tribute led by Robert Hoefling, then Maud Squad plays their “reenactment” of Radiohead’s seventh album, IN RAINBOWS. At The Colony 2809 S Harvard Ave, Tulsa, OK THE TULSA VOICE // October 15 – November 4, 2014

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thehaps StoryCorps in Tulsa 10/16-11/15, Guthrie Green storycorps.org Public Radio Tulsa and StoryCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of people from all backgrounds and beliefs, bring the MobileBooth, and Airstream trailer/recording studio, to Tulsa to record interviews from 10/16 to 11/15. MobileBooth interviews are conducted between two people who know and care about each other. A trained StoryCorps facilitator guides participants through the interview process. At the end of each 40-minute recording session, participans receive a complimentary CD copy of their interview, and with participant permission, a second copy is archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

“Public Radio Tulsa is excited to bring this renowned national history project back to Tulsa to capture the oral histories of Oklahomans,” said Frank Christel, Director of Broadcast Services at TU. “The MobileBooth recording studio, parked in the middle of the vibrant Brady District will make it easy for folks from all walks of life to capture their stories for future generations.” Interview reservations can be made by calling StoryCorps’ 24-hour reservation line at 1-800-850-4406 or visiting storycorps.org.

Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa 10/16-19, $6-$100 River West Festival Park ZICKE ZACKE ZICKE ZACKE! HOI HOI HOI! It’s the 35th year of Tulsa’s Oktoberfest and the first for it to be called Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa. Tulsa’s Oktoberfest has been recognized as one of the best in the country, and as always, Oktoberfest will feature delicious German food, live entertainment (find the music schedule in our music listings), carnival rides and games, and of course, beer—49 varieties of beer to be exact, many of them German.

Food Truck Throwdown 10/17, $30-$60 OU Tulsa, tauw.org Five local food trucks compete in the 1st Food Truck Throwdown, benefiting the Tulsa Area United Way. Bohemia, The Dog House, Mangiamo, Pita Place, and Stella Reauxs will compete for People’s Choice and Judges Choice. Judges include Tulsa Area United Way CEO Mark R. Graham and TTV Associate Publisher Matt Cauthron. TTV columnist Barry Friedman will emcee the event.

OKC Thunder vs Minnesota Timberwolves 10/19, $22-$327 The Thunder comes rolling down I-44 for their annual preseason game at the BOK Center, taking on the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Thunder had a 3-1 record against the Timberwolves last season, and lost the last preseason game at the BOK Center to the New Orleans Pelicans, 105102. Thunder fans of Tulsa, it’s time for redemption. Thunder Up. 30 // ARTS & CULTURE

An Evening with Walter Mosley 10/23, Greenwood Cultural Center booksmarttulsa.com Booksmart Tulsa and the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation bring Walter Mosley, the crime fiction author of the best-selling Easy Rawlins mysteries, the first of which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into an award-winning film starring Denzel Washington. Mosley has received many accolades for his writing, including an O. Henry Award, an induction into the New York Writers Hall of Fame, and a Grammy Award for his liner notes for Richard Pryor’s ...And It’s Deep Too!

Carmina Burana 10/31-11/2, $20-$110, Chapman Music Hall Four of Tulsa’s performing arts companies come together in Tulsa Ballet’s reprisal of Carmina Burana. Carl Orff’s cantata, based on a collection of medieval poems, will be performed live by the Tulsa Opera, Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, and the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, as Tulsa Ballet brings Ma Cong’s choreography to life. This interpretation was first performed as part of Tulsa Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Season in 2006.

Dia de Los Muertos Arts Festival 11/1, $5, Living Arts A celebration of Hispanic heritage honoring loved ones who have passed away. Living Arts will be filled with dozens of colorful and touching altars to loved ones and public figures who have died. The festival also includes live music and dancing, art for sale, and delicious authentic Mexican food.

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THE BEST OF THE REST EVENTS Grills & Grilles // The Rose District in Broken Arrown hosts this annual car and motorcycle show that includes food, live entertainment, art, and craft vendors. // 10/18, 10:00 am-5:00 pm, The Rose District, rosedistrict. com/events/grilles-and-grills-cookoffand-car-show Transforming Hate: Changing Focus // Join artists Marianne Evans-Lombe and Jessica Davenport in transforming cultural symbols, examining privileges and connections, and creating a visual representation of them to gain a broader perspective. // 10/24, 7:00 pm, Living Arts, livingarts.org/ transforming-hate-changing-focus Booksmart Tulsa Poetry Night with Rose McLarney // An evening of poetry with Rose McLarney in celebration of her National Poetry Series-winning book, Its Day Being Gone. // 10/28, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, Mainline Art Bar, booksmarttulsa.com Return on Inclusion Summit // Tulsa Area Human Resources Association presents Oklahoma’s largest professional diversity and inclusion conference. The half-day conference includes a morning keynote, “Beyond Diversity Rhetoric,” presented

by Williams Companies, an interactive workshop, “Turning Barriers into Bridges,” presented by Zayo Group, and a keynote luncheon, “The Diversity Advantage,” presented by ONEOK. // 10/30, 9:00 am-2:00 pm, DoubleTree Hotel Downtown, tahra. org/roi-summit_id139.html

PERFORMING ARTS All We Ever Do Is Talk About It // Theatre North presents a new original play by Dr. Rodney L. Clark, in which a community is outraged by the state of education in its local school district and fights for students in low socioeconomic areas. // 10/16-10/19, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $12.50$15, tulsapac.com Brain Storms: New Works by Young Writers // An evening of one-act plays written by the winners of the Tulsa City-County Library’s 2014 Young People’s Creative Writing Contest, One-Act Play category.

The plays, written by young writers ages 10-18, are directed by Michael Wright, director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. “The very fact that the Tulsa Library creates an opportunity for young people to write theatre is phenomenal,” said Wright.

“Add to that the respect shown for their work by the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust to have the pieces staged, and you’re looking at a genuine celebration of theatre and a new generation of theatre-makers.

The pieces we’ve been privileged to work on range from out-and-out whimsy to quite serious. These short plays are full of joy about life and concerns for the quality of life. I feel very fortunate to have a topnotch cast to work with; we are reveling in the fun of bringing the plays to life.” // 10/18, 7:00 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $10, tulsapac.com

Dual Pianos Ragtime Concert featuring Dowling & Hodges // Frederick Hodges and Richard Dowling present an evening of Ragtime piano duets, including pieces from the album they recorded together, Gershwin for Two Pianos. // 10/21, 7:00 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $5-$25, tulsapac.com Cinderella // Tulsa Opera presents Rossini’s romantic comedy in which a poor, mistreated girl takes control of her own destiny to escape her life of torment. // 10/24-10/26, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $25-$105, tulsapac.com Twolips Burlesk - BootyCon // Twolips Burlesk presents a loving tribute to the derrière. The women of Twolips bring their favorite butt-shaking songs to life in original burlesque routines all about the noble badonkadonk. The show will be hosted by comedian Hilton Price, and will feature games and giveaways. // 10/25, 8:00 pm, Tulsa Little Theater, $15-$25, twolipsburlesk.com Koresh Dance Company // Philadelphia’s Koresh Dance Company returns to Tulsa, displaying incredible athleticism in performances that shift seamlessly between classical, folk, and pedestrian movement styles. This year the company juxtaposes Middle Eastern music with classical favorites, with music from Turkish and Israeli composers as well as works by Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, and more. // 10/28-10/29, 7:00 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $40, tulsapac.com

Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 10/19, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

TU Women’s Soccer vs ORU // 10/15, 7:00 pm, Hurricane Stadium, $5, tulsahurricane.com

The Sandman // Hypnosis // 10/22, 8:00 pm, Loony Bin, $9, 10/23, 8:00 pm, Loony Bin, $9, 10/24, 7:30 pm, Loony Bin, $12, 10/24, 10:00 pm, Loony Bin, $12, 10/25, 7:30 pm, Loony Bin, $12, 10/25, 10:00 pm, Loony Bin, $12, loonybincomedy.com

TU Women’s Volleyball vs SMU // 10/15, 7:00 pm, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com

Tulsa Comedy Massacre // Sketch // 10/23, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, 10/24, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, 10/25, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Show and Tell with Peter Bedgood // Talk Show // 10/23, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Crayons // Improv // 10/24, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Toby Morton Presents… // Stand Up & Sketch // 10/24, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Squeaky Clean Stand Up // Stand Up // 10/25, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Stan Silliman // Stand Up // 10/25, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 10/26, 8:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Mark Poolos/Tulsa’s Funniest Person Semi Final Showdown // Stand Up // 10/29, 8:00 pm, Loony Bin, $7, loonybincomedy.com Beth and Anna // Improv // 10/30, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

Harold and the Purple Crayon // Enchantment Theatre Company of Philadelphia brings Crockett Johnson’s book series to life, in which a young, imaginative boy creates a world to explore with only his purple crayon. // 10/24, 7:00 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $10, tulsapac.com

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Mark Poolos // Stand Up // 10/30, 8:00 pm, Loony Bin, $2, 10/31, 7:30 pm, Loony Bin, $10, 10/31, 10:00 pm, Loony Bin, $10, 11/1, 7:30 pm, Loony Bin, $10, 11/1, 10:00 pm, Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy.com

Comfort Creatures // Improv // 10/31, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Tulsa Comedy Massacre // Sketch // 10/31, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

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Michael Mann Scares You! // Stand Up // 10/17, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

Nick Swardson // Sketch // 11/2, 8:00 pm, The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino, $35-$45, hardrockcasinotulsa.com

Spontaniacs! // Improv // 10/18, 7:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Back In My Day // Improv // 10/18, 8:30 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Josh Lathe & Brett James // Stand Up // 10/18, 10:00 pm, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

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SPORTS ORU Men’s Soccer vs Memphis // 10/15, 7:00 pm, Case Soccer Complex, oruathletics.com

TU Softball vs Labette CC // 10/17, 3:00 pm, Collins Family Softball Complex, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Soccer vs Memphis // 10/17, 6:00 pm, Hurricane Stadium, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Women’s Volleyball vs East Carolina // 10/17, 7:00 pm, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com ORU Men’s Soccer vs IUPUI // 10/18, 7:00 pm, Case Soccer Complex, oruathletics.com TU Football vs USF // 10/18, 11:00 am, H.A. Chapman Stadium, $15-$40, tulsahurricane.com ORU Women’s Soccer vs IUPUI // 10/19, 1:00 pm, Case Soccer Complex, oruathletics.com TU Softball vs OSU Doubleheader // 10/20, 5:00 pm, Collins Family Softball Complex, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Men’s Soccer vs SMU // 10/22, 7:00 pm, Hurricane Stadium, $5, tulsahurricane.com TU Softball vs Crowder CC // 10/24, 4:00 pm, Collins Family Softball Complex, $5, tulsahurricane.com ORU Volleyball vs South Dakota // 10/24, 7:00 pm, Cooper Aerobics Center, oruathletics.com Tulsa Revolution vs Mexican National Indoor Team // Tulsa’s Professional Arena Soccer League team takes on Mexico’s National Indoor Team at the BOK Center. It also Trunk Or Treat night, so families are encouraged to wear their costumes and go Trunk or Treating for candy with the Tulsa Revolution. // 10/25, 7:00 pm, Cox Business Center, $5-$10, coxcentertulsa.com Tulsa Oilers vs Wichita Thunder // The Oilers Season Opener vs. Wichita. Stick around after the game to skate at the BOK Center! // 10/26 Tulsa Oilers vs Missouri Mavericks // $1 Beer Night // 10/31, 7:35 pm, BOK Center, $15-$55, bokcenter.com ORU Women’s Soccer vs North Dakota State // 10/31, 7:00 pm, Case Soccer Complex, oruathletics.com ORU Volleyball vs Western Illinois // 10/31, 7:00 pm, Cooper Aerobics Center, oruathletics.com TU Men’s Soccer vs UCF // 11/1, 7:00 pm, Hurricane Stadium, $5, tulsahurricane.com ORU Women’s Basketball vs Rockhurst // 11/1, 2:00 pm, Mabee Center, $8, oruathletics.com TU Women’s Basketball vs Rogers State // 11/1, 2:00 pm, Reynolds Center, $5, tulsahurricane.com Extreme Fight Night 21 // 11/1, 7:00 pm, River Spirit Events Center, $42$105, riverspirittulsa.com Tulsa Oilers vs Wichita Thunder // 11/2, 4:05 pm, BOK Center, $15-$55, bokcenter.com ORU Women’s Soccer vs IPFW // 11/2, 1:00 pm, Case Soccer Complex, oruathletics.com ARTS & CULTURE // 31

artscene

Dead among us

Dia De Los Muertos allows space to grieve and honor lives well-lived

by CHEYENNE BUTCHER

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fter college, DeJon Knapp began making shrines for her mother in vintage suitcases.

“When I was living somewhere else, if I came home for Thanksgiving, I could open up a suitcase at my grandmother’s house, and there’s mom,” Knapp said smiling.

“And she can have Thanksgiving with us, or on her birthday my grandmother, my sister and our mom in a suitcase could get together and hang out.”

This is the fourth year Knapp has built an altar for the Dia de los Muertos event at Living Arts. Latin American cultures celebrate Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) as a time each year when the gates of heaven open at midnight and the spirits of the deceased reunite with their loved ones. Families build altars—including personal items, candles, salt, candy, tequila, food and incense—to remember those they’ve lost. According to the tradition, in exchange for these gifts, the happy spirits provide protection, good luck and wisdom to their families. The event brings the families and community together to grieve and celebrate the deceased.

Knapp and her sister, Ashley, take part to honor the life of their mother, Dee Wells, who died in 2000. Their grandmother Libby Long helped guide the girls through their grief. They had grown up around small shrines Long created in memory of other family members.

“My grandmother actually had four children, and only one of them was still alive when my mother died … “ Knapp said.

“There were all of these pictures of dead people and their clothing; … it was always so normal.”

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Desjon and Ashle y Knapp with the shrine the y built to their mother, De e Wells, at the Dia de los Muer tos celebrat ion at Living Ar ts in 2013

Francis Xavier Church said that in Mexican culture, the grieving process is more open for sharing tears and talking about when loved ones were alive. On Dia de los Muertos, living family members welcome the deceased back among them.

“I DO THINK THAT IF IT WEREN’T FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE DAY OF THE DEAD IN THIS WAY, I WOULDN’T BE WHERE I AM AT IN THE GRIEF PROCESS OR IN CELEBRATING THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER.” “There is that sense that by burying them, that’s not the end of the relationship,” Medina said.

“We can continue the relationship, because some day we will expe-

rience that death. The more we talk about our painful experience, the more we heal. The process of building or just thinking about building the altar is therapy.”

In the U.S., expressions of grief are often met with anti-depressants and expectations like, “Why are you not over this yet?”

Knapp said. But it’s okay to keep talking about the deceased and even bring joy into the celebration of their lives.

“It really is healthy for my sister and I to pull out all those pictures of her and cry about things and laugh about things and make her favorite foods and hear other people talking about her,” she said. “…They really are brought to life, in a sense, that night. To have complete strangers say their name again, it’s really bizarre.”

For Knapp, the shrines also help bridge a disconnect between the past and present.

“It’s weird when you have someone that meant so much to you and shaped so much of who you are, and then they’re not here anymore,” she said. ” And for the rest of your life suddenly there are more people in your life who have no idea, maybe even that you had a mom that died, much less who she was as person or how she influenced you.”

In March, Long passed away from lung cancer. Knapp’s family had talked openly about death and even joked about what items would be included in her grandmother’s altar. Although they’d hoped for a different outcome, Knapp and her sister are including both their mother and grandmother in the altar this year.

“It will be this cool experience where they’re together, finally,” Knapp said.

Knapp tries not to get hung up on the fact that we’re all going to die, but she wonders how people will remember her. She knows it’s not everyone’s style to build shrines and talk about death. But for her, Dia de los Muertos adds up to something transcendent of the iconic face paint and flowers on the surface of the celebration.

“Every year, it’s a little more closure and a little more acceptance,” she said. “I do think that if it weren’t for participating in the Day of the Dead in this way, I wouldn’t be where I am at in the grief process or in celebrating the memory of my mother. It definitely has served as a valuable tool for how to process this.”

The Dia de los Muertos altars are available to view Oct. 27 through Nov. 1 at Living Arts, 307 E. M.B. Brady Street. The Dia de los Muertos Arts Festival takes place Nov. 1 from 3 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Admission is $5, and kids 12 and under get in free. a

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For all seasons Choose your level of decorating zeal—and stick with it

by ASHLEY HEIDER DALY

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he holidays are no time to fuck around. They are happy times that deserve to be marked by tinsel and fake trees or skeletons and pumpkins. There should always be a wreath. Wreath presence is tip number one, and here are a few more: No middle ground I’m going to give you a choice of what type of holiday decorator you can be. You can be like me and only have one decently large plastic tub full of all your holiday items for the entire year; or you can be like my mom, who has a storage unit or two full of decorations. You go all out or you give a polite and festive shout out. These are the only two appropriate ways to decorate.

Why? Imagine looking a holiday in the face and telling it how you store all its clothes.

“I keep them in a clean tub, perfectly edited to reflect my love of you.” (Yes.) “I rent an entire storage unit to house the physical manifestation of my joy for your presence in my life. I love you so much I want

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to display every decoration ever imagined to show it.” (Yes.) “I feel like I need to and I really do want to show my love for you, so I keep several rotting cardboard boxes of your things in my garage, and I have to catch myself from cursing your annual celebration because I am afraid of spiders living in your fake gourds, and, also, I hate lifting boxes.” (No.) Stylistic cohesiveness If there is one way to earn holiday decorating disdain, it’s to not keep your decorations stylistically the same. You don’t want to have cartoony Halloween ghosts in the same vicinity with super creepy and realistic skeletons covered in blood. Carrying a theme helps marry the new decorative flourishes with your home’s existing décor—like a good color scheme.

Let’s get practical I’m a one-tub-girl born of a storage-unit woman. Every holiday my mom would pack us kids in the car, and we’d take a magical ride to the storage unit to load our SUV sleigh with a bounty of decorations. We’d watch Ferris Bueller

and deck our halls. It was wonderful. Then we grew up, and Mom had to beg us to help put up and take down decorations. I remember thinking I didn’t want to have a shitty kid like me who wouldn’t help make the holidays bright.

CONSIDER THE AMOUNT OF TIME, ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM YOU HAVE AND COLLECT DECORATIONS ACCORDINGLY. DON’T MAKE SEASONAL DECORATING YOUR CROSS TO BEAR. THAT’S JUST POOR FORM. Turns out, I’m a different type of person, and that’s ok. My mom carried on without grinchy me, rediscovering within her a boundless love of holiday merry-making.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the holidays, but I don’t ever want to decorating to feel like a burden. So I keep it simple. I’ve made a meditation of picking which pieces most fully announce my appreciation for the holidays. Consider the amount

of time, energy and enthusiasm you have and collect decorations accordingly. Don’t make seasonal decorating your cross to bear.

That’s just poor form.

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Bad girls and bloodlust Pulling the curtain back on terror, tricks and treats around T-Town

by GEORGE ROMERO

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rom the idyllic American era of the “nuclear family” to Victorian Europe, theatre companies in Tulsa’s suburbs are exploring stories where cravings have a body count. As the nights grow darker this month, chill-seekers can test out local theatre’s versions of two epic tales of psychological horror.

The Bad Seed October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 Broken Arrow Community Playhouse www.bacptheatre.com

When young Martha Cherbini first saw the film version of The Bad Seed—a twisted tale of a young murderer—she was terrified.

Although she’s directing the stage production for Broken Arrow Community Playhouse, things haven’t changed that much.

“What has surprised me is how intense my emotional reaction is,” she said. “I think the audience is going to be totally engaged in the story, just like they were with the movie.”

The novel by William March was very quickly taken from page to screen and stage in the 1950s, (continued fr om page 24) It is wrong on almost every level, and there are sequences that I wish I could unsee but never, ever will. I can’t even describe them in this space. Its diabolical sadism is an endurance test after the first act, and by the end you’ll wonder if there is something wrong with you for finishing it (yes, there probably is). What’s worse is that it’s not even a bad film. It has subtext, is well-made and is actually trying to say something about corruption in the country in the post Miloševic era. Even if 36 // ARTS & CULTURE

when debates about “nature versus nurture” were increasingly used in attempts to explain children’s behavior. Connecting the story of tiny murderer Rhoda Penmark to that time and our own, Cherbini explains why wicked acts by troubled offspring spark such fascination from the public. “[The 1924 murder by university students] Leopold and Loeb had already happened, so we knew that children were capable of cold-blooded murder, but they were older than Rhoda, and they were boys,” Cherbini said. “The idea of an 8-year-old girl as a calculating killer was new, exciting, and intriguing for audiences.”

On the surface, Rhoda exhibits the charm and grace of a proper little lady. Scratch off a layer and she becomes a monster capable of killing on a whim. In searching for someone to cast as Rhoda, the director sought a girl who could appear extremely young but have the maturity to understand the script.

“She will absolutely give you the creeps,” Cherbini said with a smirk.

It’s this sort of tension that culminates in a revealing struggle.

As Rhoda’s mother begins to realize her daughter’s dark reality, her ambivalence forces her to grapple with her own role in the murders.

“There’s something so weird about a child committing murder,” Cherbini said. “I think audiences will relate to her mother’s gradual understanding of just what her daughter has done, her despair, and her guilt that somehow she is the cause.”

you consider yourself a glutton for this kind of punishment, I would still fervently warn people not to watch “A Serbian Film.”

Except you, Josh. You totally need to see it.

was just awful—a quick cash-in prequel to the far-superior “The Conjuring,” with a few scary moments but a clichéd, boring story.

JOSH: Let’s leave my mom out of this particular discussion.

One last question: any new horror films you’re excited about this season? I recently saw “Horns” and “Annabelle.” “Horns” was awfully fun. It reminded me of an ’80s Joe Dante flick, though it was a bit of a letdown in the end. “Annabelle”

Dracula Oct. 23-25 Central Ninth Grade Center Auditorium www.pageplayers.com

Originally published in 1897, “Dracula’s” iconic tale of the undead remains as intriguing as ever.

The clash between the title character and his enemies has been analyzed for years, but the subtext of the fray keeps the story fresh and compelling.

Relatively new to the local arts scene, The Page Players at Sand Springs Community Theater took on “Dracula” in an ambitious move to ramp up their efforts. Board

JOE: Yes, there were, until many got pushed back to the early 2015 dumping grounds or were reset for limited release and VOD. Eli Roth’s “The Green Inferno” was supposed to be out this year, and the latest “Paranormal Activity” entry, “Ghost Dimension,” as well as the James McAvoy/Daniel Radcliffe feature, “Victor Frankenstein,” two of which I was looking forward to.

President Patty Dixon said the company has had all hands pitching in to realize the production.

“Sidney Nelson Hunt has been wanting to direct this show for several seasons and finally got her wish,” Dixon said. “However, the week after auditions, she had knee surgery, and so Mollie McBride [Rogers] stepped in until she recuperated—which was a month into the show.”

Bram Stoker’s novel has been adapted in this iteration by American playwright Steven Dietz.

Breathing life into the world’s most infamous vampire, the stage version capitalizes on the creepy but steers clear of the campy.

The joint directorship requires the cast to be adaptable, and the show is “very heavy on props, sound effects and lights,” Dixon said. But production hasn’t been without its moments of levity.

“In the beginning of rehearsals, there was so much joking around with the lines that I thought we were definitely producing a comedy,” Dixon said. The flexibility and humor keep this group together and prepared for opening night. a Speaking of Radcliffe, I very much enjoyed the flawed but imaginative and fun “Horns” (Editor’s note: see Joe’s review on pg. 42). While I loved “The Conjuring,” James Wan is clearly tired of the low-key spookyshtick he’s mastered, if “Insidious 2” were any evidence. “Clichéd and boring” applies to most of the mainstream frightfests of late—but than sequelitis is an affliction that effects all genres. I think that’s why the films we’ve picked here stand out. They’re all grotesquely unique.

Let’s hope we’ve influenced readers to get more adventurous. a

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In the same way computers have seeped into nearly every aspect of our lives without quite turning us into cyborgs, they pervade nearly every sound of alt-J’s music without letting it become “electronic music.” Maybe that’s the reason for their quick rise to fame following the release of their 2012 debut, An Awesome Wave. They can appeal equally to people to whom alt-J are the most electronic music they can stand and those who have never been to a concert where there’s not a laptop on stage.

Guitarist Pete Bernhard, bassist Lucia Turino, and banjo player Cooper McBean infuse a good dose of raucous, punky energy into the old timey sounding music they play. With the release of last year’s I’m a Stranger Here, the band finally has a studio album that lives up to the sound and feeling of their live shows.

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RUN THE JEWELS The in-your-face aggro-rap collaboration between Killer Mike and El-P, Run the Jewels is playing a free show at the Yeti, just days after the duo releases their much-hyped second album, RTJ2. To get a taste of the album listen to the newly dropped single, “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” which features a rare (and great) appearance

by Rage Against the Machine’s Zack De La Rocha.

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Wed // Oct 15

Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin Downtown Lounge – Romantic Rebel – 7:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tony Ward – 6:00 pm On the Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Soundpony – The Depaysement The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Dirty Knuckle – Jam Night The Vanguard – Outline in Color, Sleepwalking Home, An Effigy of Me, Crazy Love Hawk, Don’t Weight – 7:00 pm – ($10-$12)

Thurs // Oct 16

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – David Chamberlain – 8:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Old 97’s, David Wax Museum – ($18-$33) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tony Ward – 6:00 pm Lanna Thai – Scott Musick Linde Oktoberfest - BierStube – Chardon Polka Band, The Polkatimers – 5:00 pm Linde Oktoberfest - Lufthansa BierGarten – Dorfrocker, Allgäuer AlpinCats, GAST Sänger, Volkstänzer and Blaskapelle – 5:00 pm Linde Oktoberfest - SpatenHouse – Alpine Express, The PolkaMeisters – 5:00 pm 38 // MUSIC

A band of hard-drinking, long-bearded good ol’ boys from Arkansas stand in a line picking banjos and sawing fiddles. If that sounds like an outtake from “Hee-Haw” to you, fine. Go to your EDM show and leave the foot-stomping booty-shaking to us country folk.

The current influx of “Newgrass” string bands on the scene have put a dancier, 21st century spin on the old pick-and-grin twang, and Mountain Sprout may be the most fun of them all.

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Linde Oktoberfest - Warsteiner EssZelt – Die Wilderer, Matt Stansberry and the Romance – 5:00 pm Pickles Pub – Steve & Sheldon Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Bill Holden – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Depth and Current, Knifight, Nervous Curtains The Colony – Jared Tyler and Friends The Hunt Club – Ego Culture Woodys Corner Bar – Robby Vanvekoven Yeti – Turnt Up

Downtown Lounge – FreakTulsa - Billy Joe Winghead, TeddyJackEddy, Adolescent Apes, Sun & Stone – 8:00 pm – ($5) Elwood’s – Daniel Jordan – 8:00 pm Fassler Hall – Dustin Pittsley Band Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Gypsy Coffee House – Andrew Michael Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tony Ward – 6:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – First Class – 10:00 pm Linde Oktoberfest - BierStube – Brave Combo, Fuzed, Mark Gibson Band, Steve Liddell, GAST Blaskapelle – 11:00 am Linde Oktoberfest - Lufthansa BierGarten – Dorfrocker, Die Wilderer, Mach Schnelle Blaskapelle, The PolkaMeisters, DJ Moody – 11:00 am Linde Oktoberfest - SpatenHouse – Alpine Express, Desi and Cody, The 66, Aaron Pierce, The Polkatimers – 11:00 am

Sat // Oct 18

C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – nighTTrain – 9:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Justin Smith Band – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Chris Robinson Brotherhood – ($20-$35) Cimarron Bar – Joe Elliott – 8:00 pm Crow Creek Tavern – 4Going Gravity

Fri // Oct 17

727 Club – Bryce Dicus, Bo Phillips Band – 8:00 pm C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Kinsey Sadler – 9:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – River’s Edge – 9:00 pm Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm

Linde Oktoberfest - Warsteiner EssZelt – Allgäuer AlpinCats, Chardon Polka Band, Sepp Diepolder, GAST Dancers – 11:00 am Mercury Lounge – Ten Foot Polecats, Cannibal Ramblers Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Kinky Friedman – 8:00 pm – ($17-$49) Peppers Grill - South – Gumbo Poets Pickles Pub – G-Force Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Jump Suit Love – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Traveler – 9:00 pm Smitty’s 118 Tavern – Rusty James Porter – 8:00 pm Soundpony – Super Cereal Killers, Bitchcraft, Who and the Fucks The Colony – Rae Fitzgerald The Hunt Club – RPM The Shrine – The Whiskey Shivers – ($7) The Vanguard – The Devil Makes Three, The Cave Singers – 9:00 pm – ($17.50-$50) The Vanguard – Fall Back w/ DJ Spencer LG – 11:00 pm Woodys Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Jealousy Mountain Duo, Skeleton Farm

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musiclistings Downtown Lounge – FreakTulsa Subsanity, Reigns, In Ten Cities, Chainmail, Justice Keeper, Constant Peril, Forever in Disgust, Ethera, and more – 8:00 pm – ($5) Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Fassler Hall – Yawpers Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Guthrie Green – SONiA, Eliza Gilkyson, Mike Stinson, Bill Miller – 1:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Superdarren65 Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Stars – 10:00 pm Lambrusco’s - South Location – Randy Brumley – 12:00 pm Linde Oktoberfest - BierStube – Brave Combo, FM Pilots, The Dusty Pearls, Kelli Lynn and the Skillet Lickers, GAST Blaskapelle – 11:00 am Linde Oktoberfest - Lufthansa BierGarten – Dorfrocker, Allgäuer AlpinCats, Die Wilderer, The PolkaMeisters, DJ Moody – 11:00 am Linde Oktoberfest - SpatenHouse – Alpine Express, Nicnos, Red Wood Rising, David Castro Band, The Polkatimers – 11:00 am Linde Oktoberfest - Warsteiner EssZelt – Die Wilderer, Chardon Polka Band, klodike5, Empire, GAST Dancers, Sepp Diepolder, Irish Club Dancers – 11:00 am Mercury Lounge – John Moreland, M. Lockwood Porter Peppers Grill - South – Scott Ellison Pickles Pub – Craig Vaughan Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Audio Crush – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – The Dropouts – 9:00 pm Sandite Billiards & Grill – JC Hopkins Band – 9:00 pm Soundpony – Ancient River, Psychotic Reaction The Colony – Erin O’Dowd w/ Kalyn Fay The Hunt Club – Daydream Empire The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – ($45-$50) Woodys Corner Bar – Brandon Jackson Yeti – Run the Jewels, Baby Baby, The Outfit, TX

Linde Oktoberfest - BierStube – We the Ghost, Jason Swanson, GAST Blaskapelle – 12:00 pm Linde Oktoberfest - Lufthansa BierGarten – Die Wilderer, Allgäuer AlpinCats – 12:00 pm Linde Oktoberfest - SpatenHouse – Full Flava Kings, Alpine Express Power Trio, Steve Ham’s Jambalaya Jazz Trio – 12:00 pm Linde Oktoberfest - Warsteiner EssZelt – Chardon Polka Band, Sepp Diepolder, GAST Dancers – 12:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Kayla Ray Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Count Basie Orchestra – 5:00 pm – ($5-$20) Pickles Pub – Open Mic, Chris Lynch Soundpony – FreakTulsa - JorDAN, Creepozoidz, TeddyJackEddy, Grass Crack, Hon Dos, Danny, Adolescent Apes, Along Came Paully, Skeleton Farm – 3:00 pm Tallgrass Prairie Table – Dean DeMerritt Jazz Tribe The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Hunt Club – Preslar Sunday Showcase The Shrine – Tauk – ($5 ADV, $10 DOS) The Vanguard – This Legend, Right Place Right Time – 7:00 pm – ($5-$7) White Flag – The Vibrators, The Shame, Dead Shakes, Merlinmason – 8:00 pm Yeti – FreakTulsa - Constant Peril, Charnal, Iron Born, Hollow Breath, Stay Indoors, Blunt Splitter – 9:00 pm

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Four Aces Tavern – The Boogie – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Charlie Parr Soundpony – Von Stomper The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton Yeti – Don Morgan

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Tues // Oct 21

Cain’s Ballroom – Of Montreal, Pillar Point – ($16-$31) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz Jams – 5:30 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Blues Jams – 8:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darrel Cole – 7:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Colony – Marc Ford

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Sun // Oct 19

Cain’s Ballroom – Dan + Shay, Cam – ($16-$25) Downtown Lounge – OLDMAN, Machine in the Mountain, Mortuary Science, Savage Spawn – 8:00 pm Downtown Lounge – FreakTulsa Savage Spawn, Oldman, Surfacer, Machine in the Mountain – 10:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Guthrie Green – Cornmeal, Grazzhopper, Coyote Hill Bluegrass – 2:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 am

Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tom Basler – 6:00 pm On the Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Pickles Pub – Billy Snow Soundpony – Runonsentence Happy Hour Show – 5:00 pm Soundpony – Prom Date, Mike DEE, I Said Stop The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Dirty Knuckle – Jam Night CONT I NUE D ON PAG E 4 0

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musiclistings Thurs // Oct 23

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Runnin’ On Empty – 8:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Kip Moore, Charlie Worsham, Sam Hunt – ($30-$34) Crow Creek Tavern – Jake Martin Enso – Daydream Empire Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tom Basler – 6:00 pm Lanna Thai – Scott Musick Mercury Lounge – Dirty River Boys, Reverend Deadeye Pickles Pub – Skinny Mini Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Darren Ray – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Domino Kings – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Mumblr - Happy Hour Show – 5:00 pm Soundpony – Spook Troop Tour Kickoff w/ The Daddyo’s, Who and the Fucks, Cucumber & The Suntans, Annabelle Chairlegs The Colony – Beau Roberson and Friends The Hunt Club – A Job for Tomorrow The Shrine – Zach Deputy – ($7.50 ADV, $10 DOS) The Vanguard – Hellion, Scattered Hamlett, The Plums – 6:30 pm – ($12-$35) Woodys Corner Bar – Kaitlin Butts Yeti – Turnt Up

Fri // Oct 24

Baker St Pub & Grill – Drive – 9:30 pm C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Scott Ellison – 9:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Wilbur Lee Tucker – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – New Politics, Bad Suns, SomeKindaWonderful – ($17-$34) Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm Fassler Hall – My So Called Band Four Aces Tavern – Dirtboxwailers – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Gypsy Coffee House – Onyx Owl Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tom Basler – 6:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Imzadi – 10:00 pm Krystal Palace Event Center – Hip Hop Halloween Bash w/ Slick Rick – 9:00 pm – ($25) Mercury Lounge – The Derailers, The Dirty Okie Peppers Grill - South – The Living Room Project Pickles Pub – RPM Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Kidd/ Ray – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Marvin – 9:00 pm Soundpony – Tamagawa, Oldine The Colony – Bowlsey The Hunt Club – All About a Bubble The Shrine – Chuk Cooley’s Halloween – ($5) The Vanguard – Summit, societysociety, Clementwine, The Capital Why’s, Icarus Account, Chase Coy – 7:00 pm – ($8) Yeti – BLT Party

Sat // Oct 25

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Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Joe Worrel – 9:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Seven Day Crash – 8:00 pm Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Infuzion Ultra Lounge – The Jumpshots – 10:00 pm Magoo’s – David Dover – 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Michael Leonard Witham, CowGirl’s Train Set Peppers Grill - South – Tery Cooper and Brea Anderson Pickles Pub – Craig Vaughan Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Kidd/ Ray – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Marvin – 9:00 pm Sandite Billiards & Grill – Mike Barham & The Honky Tonk Prophets – 8:00 pm Soundpony – Bacon Beats The Colony – Ego Culture, Pidgin The Hunt Club – Dante and the Hawks The Shrine – Freaktoberfest w/ So Gen, Machine in the Mountain – ($5) The Vanguard – Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line, Honeylark – 8:00 pm – ($8-$25) Woodys Corner Bar – Lower 40 Yeti – The Danner Party

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Blues Jams – 8:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Brian Capps – 7:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm Soundpony – Lazy, Bitchcraft White Flag – Better Off Inc, The Fossil Youth – 7:00 pm

Wed // Oct 29

Cain’s Ballroom – Shovels & Rope, Willie Watson – ($17-$32) Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tom Basler – 6:00 pm On the Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Pickles Pub – Billy Snow The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Dirty Knuckle – Jam Night

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Sun // Oct 26

Cain’s Ballroom – Ani DrFranco, Eric Himan – ($30-$60) Cimarron Bar – The Boogie – 4:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Guthrie Green – Red Dirt Rangers, Mischievous Swing & more – 1:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 am Mercury Lounge – Brandon Clark Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Talk of Tulsa Chorus w/ Sue Warwick – 5:00 pm – ($5-$20) Pickles Pub – Open Mic, Chris Lynch Soundpony – Otonana Trio, Band of Aliens, 100 Onces The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Shrine – Agent Orange, The Architects – ($10) White Flag – Thunderosa – 8:00 pm Yeti – The Phuss

Mon // Oct 27

Cain’s Ballroom – Jimmy Eat World, MINIBOSSES – ($25-$40) Soundpony – Bad Luck The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton Yeti – Don Morgan

Tues // Oct 28

Cain’s Ballroom – YelaWolf, Rittz, Big Henry, DJ Klever – ($20-$75) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz Jams – 5:30 pm

Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Audio Crush – 8:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – David Nail, Native Run – ($20-$35) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Jenny Labow & Mac Ross Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Joe Callery – 6:00 pm Lanna Thai – Scott Musick Pickles Pub – Bryce Dicus Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis LeDoyt – 7:00 pm Soundpony – ROXY ROCA The Colony – Heavy Jones The Hunt Club – Fine as Paint The Vanguard – Kick Tree, Skytown, Bruce Flea, Benny’s Little Weasel – 7:00 pm – ($6-$8) Woodys Corner Bar – Ben Neikirk Yeti – Turnt Up

Fri // Oct 31

C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Chad Lee – 9:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Beer & Chicken Band – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – The Floozies, Freddy Todd – ($14-$25) Crow Creek Tavern – David Dover Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm Fassler Hall – Nuns, We Make Shapes Four Aces Tavern – Black Kat Benders – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Gypsy Coffee House – Marilyn McCulloch Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Tom Basler – 6:00 pm Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Sea of Time - Beatles Tribute Mercury Lounge – Barnyard Stompers Peppers Grill - South – Jennifer Marriott Band Pickles Pub – Sucker Punch

Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Stars/ Almost Kiss – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 9:00 pm Soundpony – DJ Sweet Baby Jaysus The Colony – Maud Squad The Hunt Club – Deacon The Shrine – Halloween Party w/ DJ Ziplock – ($5) The Vanguard – Richie Ramone’s Fuckin’ Halloween Party! w/ The Fabulous Minx, The Riot Waves, For the Wolf, Madewell – 8:00 pm – ($15-$50)Woodys Corner Bar – DJ Spin Yeti – Jbrown

Sat // Nov 1

BOK Center – Eric Church, Dwight yoakam, Brandy Clark – 7:00 pm – ($25-$59.50) Cain’s Ballroom – Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Induction and Concert – ($30-$125) Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs – 3:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Dueling Piano Show Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Dueling Piano Show Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Mass FX – 10:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Blind Pets, The Fabulous Minx, Okie Mirage Peppers Grill - South – Scott Ellison Sandite Billiards & Grill – Bryce Dicus, Zane Williams – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Steel Cranes Happy Hour Show – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Soul Night w/ DJ Soul Fingaz, DJ Sweet Baby Jaysus The Colony – Kalyn Fay The Hunt Club – Nicnos The Shrine – Mountain Sprout – ($10) Yeti – Fuck Your Ego

Sun // Nov 2

71st Street Depot – Griffin House – 12:00 am Cain’s Ballroom – CAKE – ($37-$52) Full Moon Cafe - Cherry Street – Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher Infuzion Ultra Lounge – Myron Oliver – 10:30 am Mercury Lounge – The Urban Pioneers Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Dave Pietro w/ The NSU Jazz Ensemble – 5:00 pm – ($5-$20) Soundpony – Otis the Destroyer The Colony – Paul Benjaman’s Sunday Nite Thing The Vanguard – Miss Fortune Rock – 6:30 pm – ($10-$12)

Mon // Nov 3

Cain’s Ballroom – City and Colour, Clear Plastic Masks Soundpony – Manik Mondays w/ DJ Rdubb The Colony – Open Mic w/ Cody Clinton

Tues // Nov 4

Cain’s Ballroom – alt-J, Lovelife – (SOLD OUT) Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Jazz Jams – 5:30 pm Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Depot Blues Jams – 8:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm –

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Devil in the details

Daniel Radcliffe makes magic in Alexadre Aja’s odd but satisfying “Horns”

by JOE O’SHANSKY

I

’ve had affection for director and writer Alexadre Aja for more than a decade, since his ruthless and uncompromising “High Tension” broke out in the States, heralding a sort of new French New Wave of horror that raised the bar for merciless storytelling combined with uncompromising violence. What that movement brought to the genre was a humorless, no-holds-barred brutality which, if you like that sort of thing, was deeply satisfying.

The success of “High Tension” earned Aja his first English language film, the equally fucked– up remake of “The Hills Have Eyes,” which not only improved on Wes Craven’s B-rate original, but proved Aja to be an insatiable director who could put a boot to the audience’s throat and never let up. It’s the kind of movie that makes you feel like you just got your ass kicked.

Simple and straightforward, no-bullshit shockers were a good place to start, but Aja has grown since he made “High Tension.”

After his under-seen “Mirrors” and the schlocky blast of “Piranha 3D” (the MPAA must have taken a coffee break for that to get an R-rating, and thank God they did) Aja has taken a distinct, delightfully imaginative left turn with his latest, the flawed but kind-of-brilliant “Horns.”

Daniel Radcliffe is Ig Perrish, who we learn, after an idyllic opening sequence with the love of his life, Merrin Williams (Juno Temple), is the only suspect in her murder. He hasn’t been charged, but the townsfolk seem to have already convicted him of the crime, committed under the couple’s childhood treehouse retreat in the verdant forest. Ig’s musician father (James Remar), mother (Kathleen Quinlan) and older brother, Terry (Joe Anderson), are all outwardly

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Daniel Radcliffe in “Hor ns”

supportive, while his steadfast best friend and lawyer, Lee (Max Minghella), has begun mounting his defense for the inevitable trial.

When mourners, led by Merrin’s father Dale (David Morse), hold a candlelight service under the treehouse, the tortured and bereaved Ig—unbeknownst to them—hides in the branches above, drinking away his pain. Once they depart, he savages the shrine they’ve built, pissing on the candles and smashing the Virgin. He’s “rescued” by Glenna (Kelli Garner), a childhood friend like Mirren, whose promiscuity is a seeming reaction to her unrequited love for Ig. But when Ig wakes up in her bed, regret over booze-fueled sex becomes the least of his worries when he inexplicably sprouts demonic, ram-like horns from his forehead. And when he discovers that his new protuberances seem to inspire the people around him to reveal the worst of their deepest secrets and indulge their most hidden desires, Ig finds himself falling into deeper trouble but also realizes that, with his new found ability to get the truth, he might find who killed his true love.

“Horns” (adapted by Keith Bunin from the dark fantasy novel of the same name by Joe Hill) finds Aja mixing multiple genres into an uneven but ultimately satisfying whole that isn’t quite like anything you’ve seen before. A blend of horror, comedy, fantasy, spiritual romance, coming-of-age and mystery thriller that comes off like the weirdest X-Files episode never made, the film’s uneven construction doesn’t subvert its agile creativity and vital sense of imagination.

Tonally, it’s all over the place. A Twin Peaks-esque first act vacillates between black comedy and supernatural drama that gives way to backstory-filling flashbacks as Ig learns he can see into people’s minds when he touches them. They inform each other and eventually snowball into something compelling, but it isn’t until the first act is in the rearview mirror and the detective work begins that the story starts to come together (due to some annoying sleight-of-hand that hides the ultimate mystery). It feels like Aja is wrestling the script into cohesion (Bunin’s sole screenwriting credit was for several episodes of HBO’s “In Treatment”) and just barely pins it to the mat.

The comedy is often satirical. Ig convinces jackal news reporters to beat the shit out of each other for an exclusive confession, he has to listen to what his parents really think of him (hint: it’s brutal), he plays on the closeted desires of two cops he’s trying to get off his back (“Wouldn’t you two guys really rather just go down on each other?”—turns out they would), and when he finds his first clue, in the form of a diner waitress (Heather Graham) who lied to the police, it turns out she only lied to get on TV as a possible celebrity witness. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, but weirdly it doesn’t come off as totally incongruous to the overall tone of the film, mainly because it never seems to settle on one tone for too long.

But “Horns” becomes more fantastical and fascinating as it progresses. And what begins as a narrative salad coalesces into a sweet mélange of amusing, violent, heartfelt and sincere storytelling, a trippy fable that rewards patience and is surprisingly hard to shake. It’s unique.

That patience is largely afforded due to Radcliffe’s performance. It’s honest, visceral and a million miles from Harry Potter. He runs the gamut from broken and sardonic to sympathetic and vengeful, wrapped in a formidable screen presence, selling every scene he’s in with an underlying mirth that would be lost with a lesser actor. Joe Anderson also shines, and Juno Temple is ethereal and ultimately heartbreaking. Along with Max Minghella and Kelli Garner, “Horns” is wellserved by a fine cast.

I can see “Horns” achieving a cult status, but it won’t be successful now. It’s a strange dichotomy that one of the most memorable films of the year isn’t also one of the best. a

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‘It’s the freakiest show’

‘American Horror Story’ returns, this time with killer clowns and musical numbers

by JOSHUA KLINE

S

ince the premiere of “American Horror Story” in 2011, co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have made sport of pushing their show to the most graphic, terrifying extremes a basic cable channel like FX will allow.

(Season Two, “Asylum,” is among the most disturbing, batshit-crazy seasons of television I’ve ever witnessed.) And because the show is an anthology, Murphy and Falchuk get to completely reset each year and imagine brand new ways of scaring the pants off their viewers while engaging with and often subverting the tropes and traditions of campfire storytelling.

Season one, “Murder House,” injected new life into the tired haunted house story; “Asylum” followed, exploring the grotesqueries of a mid-century insane asylum (with Nazi doctors, alien abductions and demonic possession thrown in for good measure).

Based on fans’ responses, season three, the witch-themed “Coven,” seemed to be less successful. I only watched a few episodes but found its lightness and humor refreshing after the relentless suffering in “Asylum.”

Over the course of the premiere of “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” directed by Murphy and co-written by Murphy and Falchuk, we’re introduced to a handful of circus performers who exploit their own physical abnormalities for entertainment.

It’s 1952 in Jupiter, Florida (a real town, terrifying for its name and for the fact that it’s Florida). Just outside of town is an ailing circus, home to one of the country’s last remaining freak shows. The matron of these freaks is Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange, once again overacting her heart out and owning a goofy accent), a legless eastern bloc immigrant who desperately wants to save her circus. To that end, she recruits conjoined twins

Kathy Bates in ‘American Hor ror Stor y: Freak Show’

Bette and Dot Tattler (Sarah Paulson) to join her motley crew, which includes bearded lady Ethel Darling (Kathy Bates), Ethel’s syndactyly-afflicted teenaged son Jimmy (Evan Peters), and Ma Petite, the World’s Smallest Woman (played by actual world’s smallest woman, 20 year-old, 24-inch-tall Jyoti Amge).

Of course, because this is “American Horror Story,” the Siamese Twins are homicidal, having killed their own mother after years of forced isolation. Because this is “American Horror Story,” Ethel is a pimp who forces Jimmy to pleasure repressed housewives with his large, animal-like paws. Because this is “American Horror Story,” you know that at some point in the near future, the Twins and Jimmy’s paw will likely have a very twisted, very graphic sex scene. And because this is “American Horror Story,” you know that the absolutely terrifying, nightmare-inducing, givesme-goosebumps-just-typingthis-sentence killer clown, Twisty (John Carroll Lynch, buried under a bone-chilling makeup job that’d make Pennywise piss himself), will at some point torture and kill a leading character you’ve grown

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to love. Probably the world’s smallest woman.

The premiere features plenty of horrific sequences involving violence and foreshadowing of future depravity, but its most shocking moment is an upbeat musical number—a signature Murphy move— that shouldn’t be nearly as successful or moving as it is. Elsa and the freaks close their routine for their only two patrons (a dysfunctional, wealthy mother and son played

by Frances Conroy and Finn Wittrock) with a hilariously anachronistic rendition of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars.” It’s at first jarring, then laughable—Elsa dressed like a glam queen from the 70s, covering a song that hasn’t yet been written, presumably chosen by Murphy and Falchuk for its forehead-slapping connection to Elsa’s last name and on-the-nose lyrics (“It’s the freakiest show”). But Lange kills the performance, playing it straight and tragic while Murphy directs the hell out of her. By the end of the song, I was reminded of why I love “American Horror Story” so much: the operatic, kitchen-sink approach to storytelling, the stylized tangents, the over-the-top, go-for-broke emotional peaks and valleys. This is a show incapable

of saying “no,” that makes a virtue of gluttonous excess, that refuses to pause for self-assessment, as if derived straight from the ids of its creators.

As a television producer, Murphy is ever the vigilant activist, always determined to shatter taboos, deeply concerned about equal rights and political to a fault.

He also lacks discipline and subtlety, and his storytelling is often unbearably preachy and sentimental (see: “Glee,” “Running with Scissors,” “The Normal Heart”).

It’s no coincidence that his two most artistically successful projects are “American Horror Story” and “Nip/Tuck;” Murphy’s most in his element when coupling his leftist sentimentalism with loud, transgressive narratives that dare the viewer to be offended. The dares in “Freak Show” come fast and furious; but despite it being first and foremost a horror show tailored for Halloween season, the secret to its success thus far isn’t just its violence and unsavory excesses.

The vividly written and realized characters, the care for humanity, the social themes cleverly interwoven through each narrative, all serve to make it one of the most entertaining and memorable series on television. a

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Brad Pit t in “Fur y”

by JOE O’SHANSKY PATH OF GLORY Brad Pitt plays an Army sergeant in charge of a Sherman tank in the Second Armored Division during WWII in the upcoming war drama, “Fury.” It’s late in the game, April 1945, when his band of warriors receives a deadly mission to get behind enemy lines and assist the final push to victory.

Tulsan and Second Armored veteran Paul Andert consulted on the film and worked intimately with the cast and filmmakers to ensure fidelity to historical detail.

Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña, and Jason Isaacs co-star.

Opens everywhere Oct. 17.

ACROSS 1 Big blowout 5 Far from finely ground 11 Poseidon’s call 14 Baby bird of prey 19 Colored part of the eye 20 High monks 21 Emulate a kangaroo 22 Egyptian capital 23 Ripped 24 The worst player wins it 26 Statistical predictor 27 Ones spewing silly talk 29 Without partiality, as a judge 31 One of the inn crowd 32 Angry Birds, for one 34 Franklin or potbelly 35 Glamour magazine kin 38 “SNL” offering 40 Friendly quality 44 Scandinavian war god 45 Part of a femme fatale’s outfit 50 “Eureka!” alternative 51 Places to gambol 52 Volcano’s shape 53 Moving company’s fleet 54 Greeting from Down Under 55 A lot of pounds 56 Barnes & Noble, and others 60 Ryan of “The Beverly Hillbillies” 61 Formicaries 63 Feature of some skirts 64 Enjoys a bubble bath 65 In the ’40s, many were big 66 Cold comparison 67 Seat-of-the-pants performance 44 // FILM & TV

69 Judgment payout 71 Shrek’s love 72 Those who transfer property ownership 75 Part-time employees, for short 76 Returned to where it came from, in a way 78 Gasp of delight 79 Cons’ opposites 80 First king of Israel 81 Make booties 82 French clergyman 83 “Long ___ ...”

84 Credits 88 Supermarket offering 89 Of inferior workmanship 91 Emergency vehicle’s alert 92 Jogs, to a horse 93 Ran at a red light 96 Chromosome pt.

97 PC character set 100 Unit in measuring population density 104 Lack of interest 108 A moving crowd 109 Speakeasy supplier 112 Shaving gel additive 113 Altar locales 114 Tokyo before it was Tokyo 115 Garfield’s girlfriend in the comics 116 “Apollo 13” grp.

117 Some impact sounds 118 Artist’s agent, informally 119 Matched up 120 Click with the fingers DOWN 1 Hit with the forehead 2 State under oath 3 “Buona ___” (Italian greeting) 4 Saturday night specials, e.g.

5 Couch potato’s choice 6 Easy-to-carry instruments 7 Cancel, to 116-Across 8 Belonging to actor Lowe?

9 Pig’s place 10 Psychic’s power 11 Blade in prison 12 Seeps 13 All in 14 Like standard music notation 15 Hollywood Bros.

16 Told a falsehood 17 Long-winged shore bird 18 Murderous barber Sweeney 25 Do 33-Down again 28 Payable on demand 30 Julia, Gordie and Elias 32 Associate of Tarzan 33 Plant 35 Upper ___ (now Burkina Faso) 36 “___ a Grecian Urn” 37 Panda’s dream meal?

38 Child’s winter vehicle 39 Rodless areas of the retina 41 Committed an error 42 Show gratitude toward 43 Helen or Isaac 45 Chide a child 46 Hammers and screwdrivers 47 Contents of some cartridges 48 Red deer 49 “Star Trek” rank (Abbr.)

54 It’s sometimes pulled while running 56 Finishes a book?

57 Kind of salt

58 Dress with a flare 59 Bygone Renault auto 60 Placed on Capri 62 Heavenly instruments 66 Garlicky sauces 67 Gum used as thickener 68 Tries to slim down 69 Mythical strongman 70 Step on the scales 71 Lou Gehrig’s number 72 The “A” in A.D. 73 Common sci-fi figure 74 Garage relatives 76 Vampire in flight 77 From the same tree 80 The current fashion 82 Somalia’s citizenry, e.g.

84 Noted Gettysburg event 85 Bathroom fixture, for some 86 Vase with a base 87 It gets hot in a bag 90 Royal headwear 92 Kind of badge, cup or horn 94 Glowing coal 95 The “D” in LED 97 Hot temper 98 Public display of 97-Down 99 Hollowed, as apples 100 Playwright George Bernard 101 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 102 Bear in the air 103 Aerobatic maneuver 104 Bad-looking fruit?

105 Spirited self-assurance 106 Santa ___, California 107 Kind of tide 110 PC site, perhaps 111 Stat for a pitcher

MADE IN OKLAHOMA Join the writers and some cast members of William H. Macy’s Oklahoma-shot directorial debut, “Rudderless,” which has a special advanced premiere on Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Circle Cinema.

The film, co-written by Oklahoma-natives Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison along with Macy, tells the story of a bereaved father (Billy Crudup) who finds a box of his dead son’s music and lyrics and decides to form a band in order to keep his son’s memory alive and give himself a sense of solace.

The event begins at 6 p.m. with live music from Honky Tonk Stepchild followed by the screen and a Q&A with the wrtiers and cast.

Opens at the Circle Oct. 16 For more information visit circlecimema.com

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by ROB BREZSNY

Libra (September 23 - October 22):

In 1936, Libran author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the “crack-up” he had experienced years earlier. It included this tough realization: “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even my talent.” Let’s use this as a seed for your oracle. Have you been a good caretaker of your talent? Have you been a good caretaker for other things you are responsible for? Look within yourself and take inventory.

If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to raise your game. If you’re doing pretty well, reward yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): On a late summer day in 1666, scientist Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, England.

An apple fell off a branch and plummeted to the ground. A half-century later, he told his biographer that this incident inspired him to formulate the theory of gravity.

Fast forward to the year 2010. Astronaut Piers Sellers got on the space shuttle Atlantis carrying a piece of Newton’s apple tree. He took it with him as he escaped Earth’s gravity on his trip to the International Space Station. By my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you undertake a comparable gesture or ritual, Scorpio. With a flourish, update your relationship with an important point of origin.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Most birds don’t sing unless they are up high: either flying or perched somewhere off the ground. One species that isn’t subject to this limitation is the turnstone, a brightly mottled shorebird. As it strolls around beaches in search of food, it croons a tune that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology calls “a short, rattling chuckle.” In the coming weeks, this creature deserves to be your mascot — or your power animal, as they say in New Age circles. Why? I doubt that you will be soaring. You won’t be gazing down at the human comedy from a detached location high above the fray. But I expect you will be well-grounded and good-humored — holding your own with poise amidst the rough-andtumble. As you ramble, sing freely!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s discuss that thing you are eyeing and coveting and fantasizing about. My operative theory is that you can enjoy it without actually having it for your own. In fact, I think it will be best if you do enjoy it without possessing it. There’s an odd magic at play here. If this desired thing becomes a fixed part of your life, it may interfere with you attracting two future experiences that I regard as more essential to your development. My advice is to avoid getting attached to the pretty good X-factor so as to encourage the arrival and full bloom of two stellar X-factors.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way,” said philosopher Alan Watts. You have either recently made a personal discovery proving that this is true, or else you will soon do so. The brain-scrambling, heart-whirling events of recent weeks have blessed you with a host of shiny new questions. They are vibrant replacements for the tired old questions that have kept at least one of your oldest dilemmas locked in place.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There is for everyone some one scene, some one adventure, some one picture that is the image of his secret life,” said Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I invite you to identify that numinous presence, Pisces. And then I urge you to celebrate and cultivate it. Give special attention to it and pay tribute to it and shower love on it. Why? Because now is an excellent time to recognize how important your secret life is to you — and to make it come more fully alive than it has ever been.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): New York City’s Diamond District is home to over 2,000 businesses that buy and sell jewelry.

Throughout the years, many people have lost bits of treasure here. Valuable bits of gold and gems have fallen off broken necklaces, earrings, watches, and other accessories. Now an enterprising man named Raffi Stepnanian is cashing in. Using tweezers and a butter knife, he mines for the rich pickings that are packed in

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the mud of sidewalk cracks and gutters.

“The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine,” he says. I’d love to see you get inspired by his efforts, Aries. Dig for treasure in unlikely places where no one else would deign to look.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1987, a college freshman named Mike Hayes was having trouble paying for his education at the University of Illinois. He appealed for help to the famous newspaper columnist Bob Greene, who asked each of his many readers to send Hayes a penny.

The response was tidal. Although most of the ensuing donations were small, they added up to over $28,000 — enough for Hayes to finance his degree. I encourage you to take a comparable approach in the coming weeks, Taurus: Ask for a little from a lot of different sources.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The word “abracadabra” is a spell that stage magicians utter at the climax of their tricks: the catalyst that supposedly makes a rabbit materialize from a hat or an assistant disappear in a puff of smoke. There’s no real sorcery. It’s an illusion perpetrated by the magician’s hocus-pocus. But “abracadabra” has a less well-known history as an incantation used by real magicians to generate authentic wizardry. It can be traced back to Gnostic magi of the second century. They and their successors believed that merely speaking the word aloud evokes a potency not otherwise available. I invite you to experiment with this possibility, Gemini. Say “abracadabra” to boost your confidence and enhance your derring-do. You already have more power than usual to change things that have been resistant to change, and intoning some playfully ferocious “abracadabras” may put your efforts over the top.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The 17th-century writer Rene Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy and the founder of rationalism. His famous catchphrase is a centerpiece of the Western intellectual tradition: “I think, therefore I am.” Here’s what I find amusing and alarming about the man: He read almost nothing besides the Bible and the work of Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas. He said that classic literature was a waste of time. Is that who we want at the heart of our approach to understanding reality?

I say no. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to instead adopt one or both of the following formulas: “I feel, therefore I am” or “I dream, therefore I am.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You can’t give what you don’t have. Here’s a corollary: You can sort of half-give what you half-have, but that may lead to messy complications and turn out to be worse than giving nothing at all. So here’s what I recommend: Devote yourself to acquiring a full supply of what you want to give. Be motivated by the frustration you feel at not being able to give it yet. Call on your stymied generosity to be the driving force that inspires you to get the missing magic. When you’ve finally got it, give it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I suspect that one of your allies or loved ones will get caught in his or her own trap. The way you respond will be crucial for how the rest of the story plays out. On the one hand, you shouldn’t climb into the trap with them and get tangled up in the snarl.

On the other hand, it won’t serve your long-term interests to be cold and unhelpful. So what’s the best strategy? First, empathize with their pain, but don’t make it your own. Second, tell the blunt truth in the kindest tone possible. Third, offer a circumscribed type of support that won’t compromise your freedom or integrity.

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Bionic Shoes

Continuing Crisis

Police in Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture raided a shoe manufacturer in July and commandeered a list of about 1,500 purchasers of the company’s signature “tosatsu shoes” — shoes with built-in cameras. Investigators have begun visiting the purchasers at home to ask that they hand in the shoes (but, out of fairness, said they would not cause trouble for customers who could produce a legitimate reason for needing to take photographs and video by pointing their shoe at something). The seller was charged with “aiding voyeurism” and fined the equivalent of about $4,500 under a nuisance-prevention law.

Ontario’s top court rejected Bryan Teskey’s complaint in August over how Roman Catholics continue to be discriminated against by the laws of British royal succession. Even though Ontario (along with many Commonwealth countries) recently removed some aspects of bias (ending the ban on the royal family’s marrying Catholics), Teskey pointed out that Canadian Catholics still do not have a fair shot at becoming king or queen (although Teskey did not claim that he, personally, had been a candidate).

Entrepreneurial Spirit Doris Carvalho of Tampa, Florida, is raising venture capital to expand her hobby of crafting high-end handbags from groomed, recycled dog hair (two pounds’ worth for each bag). With investors, she could lower her costs and the $1,000 price tag, since it now takes 50 hours’ labor to make the yarn for her haute couture accessory.

American scenes Staci Anne Spence, 42, was hauled to jail for assault in Sandpoint, Idaho, in September, but when the squad car arrived at the station, officers learned that during the ride, she had completely gnawed through the back seat — foam padding and seat cover.

(2) A 38-year-old man was taken, unconscious, to St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, in August.

After allegedly choking his mother-in-law and refusing to cooperate

with police, who used a stun gun and chemical spray on him to no effect, he dramatically KO’d himself with an empty beer bottle.

Just want to have fun An August West Virginia Board of Medicine report accused Martinsburg doctor Tressie Montene Duffy, age 44 and owner of a “weight and wellness” clinic, of over-prescribing drugs and repeatedly exposing herself to co-workers — including forcing one employee to “motor boat” Duffy’s surgically enhanced breasts.

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