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Dec. 3 – Dec. 16, 2014 // vol. 1 no. 24 NEWS & COMMENTARY

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DISPATCH FROM FERGUSON:

A holiday road trip to America’s latest snow globe JENNIE LLOYD // 10 8 // Power play

12 // Tank goodness

Ray Pearcey, Mr. Roboto

Barry Friedman, satirical sniper

Bridging the divide between screen time and quality time

Gov. Fallin brings out big guns to celebrate re-election

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OUTSIDE THE BOX Downtown development is casting a spotlight on homelessness, but what are we doing about it? // BY DEJON KNAPP

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D

oes it feel to you like Tulsa is at a crossroads?

It does to me. Maybe the whole world is at a crossroads.

I went to that public forum about the sidewalk. I listened to the impassioned, reasoned, supremely intelligent pleas of folks who want that sidewalk built, and all the reasons why. I also listened to Mayor Dewey Bartlett give a typically milquetoast, forgettable spiel that essentially boiled down to, “Why don’t we just do nothing? Maybe later we’ll do something. But, for now, definitely nothing. Cool?”

When I say it feels like a crossroads, I mean those two paths.

Tulsa has been on an upward trajectory, but now it seems the old guard is balking, trying desperately to rein in, to resist the kinds of sweeping changes that would truly send Tulsa to the heights of which it’s capable. Meanwhile, the new

guard is champing at the bit, boiling with energy and excitement and ready to go, go, go—questioning the old guard at every turn, stirring up conversations, demanding to be heard.

DeJon Knapp is one of those people. She works for Youth Services of Tulsa, and she’d been gathering all kinds of information about homelessness, particularly how the development boom downtown has raised so many new conflicts and challenges, and the ways Tulsa addresses homelessness in general as compared to some other cities—ones where the new guard is winning.

Those cities, the ones unafraid of new, creative ideas, are not only reducing homelessness, they’re saving taxpayer money and creating a better community for all in the process. We told DeJon she should write a story about it, so she did (pg. 22).

Another new-guard hero is Carlos Moreno, he of the Community Action Project, TulsaNow and Code for Tulsa—all organizations busting their asses to put creative, progressive ideas to work for making a better Tulsa. Listening to him talk about all the ways we could improve this city, if we’d only try, is genuinely inspiring. But I’ll let him speak for himself, as he does in a Q&A with Molly Bullock on pg. 20.

Rounding out the issue, Barry Friedman has a chuckle at our state’s esteemed governor, who celebrated her re-election by crushing a Japanese car with a tank and firing off a few rounds with automatic weapons (pg. 12).

Ray Pearcey looks at the kind of toy that would expand your child’s mental capacities this holiday season (pg. 8). Joe O’Shansky runs down what is and is not worth your movie-going dollar as the

season of Oscar Bait and Family Tripe commences (pg. 45). And I myself try to convert you to the cult of “Serial,” the true-crime podcast sensation, if only so I can discuss it with you if I ever run into you at a bar (pg. 44).

One last thing: At the end of DeJon’s story on homelessness, you’ll find a list of some area nonprofits that could use your help this holiday season to make life a little easier for the less fortunate among us. Go find it (pg.

30), pick one (or several), and do a good deed.

Do it right now. a

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Power play Bridging the divide between screen time and quality time

by RAY PEARCEY any profound challenges of our time spring from a passel of vexing disconnects. Take for example the frightening obesity epidemic in Oklahoma, especially among kids.

It’s a result of the wide chasm between our need to get more exercise, eat better and live healthier vs. the overwhelming convenience of the car, our auto-centric cities and the ubiquity of cheap fast food. It’s part of the reason a cadre of T-Town planning advocates (including yours truly) are obsessed with sidewalks, neighborhood connectivity and mixed-use development in Tulsa.

Consider another staggering asymmetry: the growing imbalance between screen time (the hours we spend staring at computers, smart phones, tablets, televisions, etc.) and the quality time we spend engaging with our physical world. This disconnect is especially powerful with kids.

Some believe a big part of our failing school dynamic is the inability to lure children away from the seductive “screen world” to the sometimes dull-as-dishwater real world. MIT’s Seymour Papert and his “constructionist movement” believe American kids are not fully motivated because they often can’t see the visceral, living nexus between abstract instruction and the world of race cars, hospitals, spaceships, factories, robots and computers.

Steven Johnson’s new book and PBS series, “How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World,” features some of the most important figures in American science, industry and business. Johnson reveals a cross-section of folks who got their hands dirty as children— mucking around with engines,

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The Wonder Workshop’s new line of toys, Dash and Dot, teaches kids concepts of robot ics and computer coding

farming, early-stage computers, plants and animals and the agile mathematics that show how these phenomena work. Conventional classroom instruction and even video games can give kids grand insight into the “real world,” but there’s no substitute for playing with a small machine, sitting in an airplane cockpit or seeing the giant tools that bio-engineers and particle physicists gen up to do their magic.

Super toys In the late ’60s, award winning UK science writer Brian Aldiss wrote “Super Toys Play All Summer Long.” It’s a wild imagining of a future with a largely sterile humanity aching for kid champions. The need is filled with a new line of human-like robot children.

Aldiss’s short tale later became the first, very evocative chapter in Steven Spielberg’s “AI,” an underrated, propulsive meditation on what it really means to be human.

I recently stumbled upon a fascinating new venture called Wonder Workshop, a fabulous toy company based in San Mateo, Calif. Wonder has produced early-stage products that exploit what some call “phys-

ical computing.” Their novel new toy line, Dot and Dash, blurs the line between the physical world and digital space and pulls kids into the realm of programming. Unlike some of the earnest (but limited) kinetic games pioneered by the PlayStation and Xbox folks, the Wonder experience requires kids (and adults) to actively learn how to control robot-like objects and on-board/situational sensors that scope out the real world. When the new Wonder bots are properly commanded, they can walk around, play tunes, even engage with pets.

But the user has to learn the rudiments of programming to get the thing to go.

“We want to draw kids out of a two-dimensional screen, to blend a hands-on physical experience with an app, and make something new come to life,” Vikas Gupta, co-founder and the chief executive of Wonder Workshop, told the New York Times.

Making a connection In the early ’90s, I served as a technology consultant to Tulsa’s then-new Mayo Demonstration School—an elementary school for curious kids interested in science, engineering and the

emerging digital world. I taught an after-hours class on simple robotics at the school. Mayo had purchased a series of motorized Lego accessories and some simple BASIC programs that worked with their cutting edge Apple III. I worked with highly energized, awesomely engaged kids who wanted to master every facet of the Lego/robotics kit—the kinds of kids who complained when their parent came to pick them up after the assigned hour because they wanted to hang around to get more exposure to coding and robotics. Somehow, they got my cell phone number, and the kids called me for weeks after the class was over to get additional insight into how to play around with the package.

The whole episode was a wonderful, electric instance of how inspired kids can become when they grasp the link between the screen world and the real world—how it all fits together.

Wonder Workshop exploits the major increases in processing speed, sensor capability and powerful but simple computer programming conventions and mobile apps that make my adventure at Mayo seem neolithic.

The company boldly exposes kids to the screen world and its real-world applications. If we’re to foster the next generation of innovators, we need to embrace this new conflation. a

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

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Dispatch from Ferguson A holiday road trip to America’s latest snow globe

by JENNIE LLOYD [Ed. note: Jennie invited me for a beer the day before Thanksgiving; she had an idea to pitch. “I want to drive to Ferguson,” she said. “Right now.” I asked what kind of story she thought she might get in Ferguson. She said she didn’t really know, didn’t really care. She, like all of us, had seen the sensational coverage on television news.

She’d seen the riots and the fires. “I just want to go see what’s really going on there,” she said. “I want to walk around and talk to people, see the town with my own eyes. I want to see what’s happening in places the cameras aren’t pointed.”

The following is not an incendiary exposé. It’s a travelogue: Jennie spends Thanksgiving Day in the most talked-about town in America. Read the full account at TheTulsaVoice.com/ferguson.

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At 10:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving, Ferguson is not the run-down, fiery hellhole from TV. It’s a charming suburb with gas lamplights, neighborhoods of stately ’20s mansions set back from tree-lined streets. This is clearly not the part of Ferguson where Michael Brown was shot and killed in the street.

The trees disappear and industrial buildings crop up as I get closer to Canfield. Half a mile from the complex in front of which Mike Brown was shot on Aug. 9, Ferguson police SUVs are parked crossways along W. Florissant Road. Three officers are out in bulletproof vests across from a Family Dollar store, waving off a steady stream of cars.

I make a U-turn and drive slowly, thinking of what to do next. A Ferguson Police Department SUV pulls up close behind me. I turn into the closest driveway. An officer motions for me to roll down my window.

“THIS IS BIGGER THAN MIKE BROWN. THIS IS ABOUT ALL THE MIKE BROWNS NOBODY EVER HEARD ABOUT.” — A FERGUSON CITIZEN WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF ONLY AS MIKE BROWN I open the car door. She is smiling. “You were driving on the shoulder.”

“I’m so sorry, I’m not from here—I’m just… press?”

She nods sympathetically. The area will be blockaded, possibly through the weekend, but the press hangs out at Marley’s Bar on South Florissant Road, she says; she gives me good directions and tells me to park in their lot.

“They’re painting murals on all the boarded up storefronts today,” she says. “It’s really something to see.”

Marley’s is closed for Thanksgiving. Mine is the only car in the parking lot. One block up, a cameraman follows a group of four girls. He lines them up in front of a boarded-up storefront. The girls sing part of “Where is the Love?” by the Black-Eyed Peas as he trains his camera on them.

“People killin’ people dyin’ Children hurt and you hear them cryin’…”

The girls’ a cappella refrain of “Where is the love, the love, the love,” echoes along the street. The cameraman asks the girls to do another take, and they start from the top.

Two blocks farther, more cameramen. A few women supervise their young sons as they finger-paint a big red dragon on the plywood covering a Chinese restaurant.

“What made you want to come out here and paint?”

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Becky and her family have lived in Ferguson since 1999 and often got Chinese takeout from this place, now closed indefinitely. Her son, Ethan, climbs down from a ladder and shows her his splayed hands, covered in red paint. He grins.

“That’s enough,” Becky says.

A TV reporter asks Becky if Ethan will get back on the ladder. “Could we get just one more shot?”

Ethan scrambles back up again for another take. The dragon’s smiling mouth plumes with orange fire across whitewashed plywood.

*** A young girl and her mom walk toward us carrying trays of McDonald’s coffees and boxes of doughnuts. Zuri is six, and the tray of coffee is too heavy for her little hands, her thin arms in a puffy coat. She asks if I’d like a coffee. I thank her and take one.

Still warm.

Zuri and her mom, Pastor Gladys, are from Marion, Ind., and are spending Thanksgiving offering warm drinks and snacks to the people out in Ferguson today.

On the next block, a wroughtiron fence is knotted with hundreds of colored ribbons.

A satin black ribbon reads “Stop Killing Us” in thick gold marker.

A royal blue one is painted with the word PEACE in block letters and three pink hearts.

A thin, tattered white ribbon reads “Justice Courage Love Faith PEACE” in slanted script.

A half-dozen peaceful protesters walk back and forth alongside the ribbons. They pray; some quiet, some loud. They all hold bibles in their hands.

“Bibles up don’t shoot! Hands up don’t shoot!” a tall man in a black hoodie calls out as he walks by.

“Mind if I take a picture of you?” I ask.

“Bibles up don’t shoot!” he says again.

“Shoot pictures?”

He laughs. “Naw, bullets.”

“I don’t have any of those,” I say. “What’s your name?”

He pauses. “I am Mike Brown.”

It’s nearing noon, the sun is out now, the clouds have faded. At the other end of the ribbon fence

an older black woman preaches to the cars driving by. “This is a beautiful day of Thanksgiving!” she shouts. “The day we give thanks to the Lord for he is gonna change this mess.”

She gets a round of “Amens” and “Hallelujahs” from the peaceful protesters along the fence line.

I take off my sunglasses and put them in my pocket. Now we can see each other.

“We are praying that the Lord will bring peace to this city,” she

says. “Open the doors of the hearts of the people. Stop all the violence. Stop all the confusion.”

The protesters sing a hymn as they walk.

The man who calls himself Mike Brown says he isn’t surprised by the grand jury’s decision not to indict policeman Darren Wilson.

“It’s what they do,” he says.

“When it’s all said and done, those rioters and looters and stuff ? They’re heroes. They did

what they were supposed to do.

“That was the voice of the voiceless,” he says. “It’s nothing they chose to do or wanted to do. They were forced to do it by a system that has traditionally served them injustice.”

“Is it ever gonna change?” I ask Mike Brown.

“The question is,” he says, “Will I ever live to see it? This is bigger than Mike Brown. This is about all the Mike Browns nobody ever heard about.” a

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Tank goodness Gov. Mary Fallin brings out the big guns to celebrate re-election

by BARRY FRIEDMAN This is why we can’t have nice things.

Gov. Fallin even rode a

Chieftain military tank over a comp act car and fired a Gatling gun at targets .

Oy. So, ten days after her 14.8-percent victory over Joe Dorman, Governor Mary Fallin apparently thought it would be a splendid idea to attend the Grand Opening of Wilshire Gun in Oklahoma City1—the only gun range in Oklahoma that serves alcohol—and to ride in a tank, crush a Toyota Camry and then fire off a few rounds.

Forget the demolition derby/ monster truck/WTF! angle to this for a moment. Who was the Mensa graduate who thought it would be a splendid idea to combine guns and alcohol in the same place in the first place?

“We’re the only range in Oklahoma that has a liquor license to serve alcohol,” Larry McAlister, a spokesman for Wilshire Gun, told CNN2 last summer.* The marketing gauntlet has been thrown down. There are 61 shooting ranges3 in the state—61!—and how long before they all decide to open bars—or maybe, who knows, one or two will double down on the full gun-range experience and open licensed pharmacies on the premises?

Before we go any further, though, let’s take a moment to celebrate the journalistic stylings of KFOR News Channel 4 in OKC. It is Governor Mary Fallin like you’ve never seen b efore: in the p assenger seat of a 60-ton tank.

To see the governor like I’ve never seen her before, I’d have to see her not embarrassing the state.

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Gov. Mar y Fallin rides in a tank as it cr ushes a Toyota Camr y at the g rand opening of Wilshire Gun in Oklahoma Cit y

during its grand opening kickoff Friday with a special appearance from Gov. Mary Fallin.

Nice—bull’s-eye—I see what you did there.

In addition to firearms, the gun range event featured fl avorful food, a bar, free demos and giveaways.

Nothing says hard-hitting reporting more than distinguishing between the ranges with just so-so nachos and the ones that don’t scrimp on the jalapeños.

(And what’s the OKC police department doing with an armored tank4 anyway?)

We continue.

The morning zoo of a local radio station should have done a remote here and handed out koozies. This was not a gig for the governor to come bearing pablum. Moreover, smashing a 3100-pound compact with a 60-ton tank is about as impressive as crushing an empty can of Diet 7-up with one hand, so what was the point? To like an event like this, you have to first like the sound of crushed Japanese imports and bad metaphors; still, even among those who think a gun range with a Happy Hour is what the framers had in mind when they penned the 2nd

Amendment, does such a fatuous display of toughness really work?

Forget it, Jake, it’s Oklahoma.

This was a sop, yes, to Fallin’s supporters and the NRA, who were a little broyges (Yiddish: annoyed) with her over some truly cockeyed piece of legislation5 she wisely vetoed (she signs all the garden-variety insane bills the group fancies), but it was also a way for her to tell the 5,002 Oklahomans6 killed by firearms in the last decade, the parents who lost children because someone left a loaded gun on the coffee table when the kids were playing, the victims of violent crime (Oklahoma ranks 11th in the nation), and, mostly, those Oklahomans who think combining hooch and firearms in one location is a needless dip in the deep end of the crazy pool … You. Don’t. Matter.

If you’re an elected official, you only go to a gun range in a tank, smash an import, and shoot an M134 —because there’s no reason on God’s increasingly warming earth to go otherwise—to taunt those who didn’t vote for you.

This was Mary Fallin’s post-election end zone dance, right before spiking the ball.

“Well it was interesting being able to ride in this tank and crush a car, and what an exciting way to

open up the Wilshire Gun range today,” she said.

Maybe next time you can take out an entire neighborhood.

Curiously, on the same day Fallin went to the only gun range in Oklahoma that serves liquor, she also launched an initiative7 aimed at reducing the number of people in Oklahoma who drive while under—wait for it—the influence of alcohol.

The mind, it boggles.

Fallin could have spent the day reading to children at Apple Creek Elementary in Moore, handing out groceries at Hope Center of Edmond, or playing pinochle with residents at Heritage Assisted Living in Yukon, but, no, she came to Shots ’N Shots for a photo op.

“It’s going to be a great fun place and a great new attraction to Oklahoma,” she said.

Check that. The mind, it doesn’t boggle—it seizes up. a 1 kfor.com: It’s Governor Fallin like you’ve never seen before 2m oney.cnn.com: Opening soon: Gun range with a bar 3 r angelistings.com: Shooting ranges in Oklahoma 4o kcfox.com: Police add mine resistant military vehicles to fleets around Oklahoma 5n raila.org: Oklahoma: Overwhelmingly Supported Pro-Gun Bill Vetoed by Governor 6h uffingtonpost.com: The States With The Most Gun Violence: 24/7 Wall St 7k gou.org: Governor Announces Plan To End Impaired Driving *According to Wilshire Gun’s website, patrons are required to secure all personal firearms in designated areas prior to consumption of alcoholic beverages. Consumption of alcohol requires Driver’s License scan which then denies guest access to any range for the remainder of the day.

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

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alaveras Mexican Grill has only been open a short while but has quickly gained popularity mostly by word of mouth alone. The same couple that gave Tulsa the cult favorite El Rio Verde has delivered another authentic Mexican concept at the corner of Admiral and Lewis (just North of Circle Cinema).

“We felt very confident in opening Calaveras because people here have been trying authentic places,” said owner David Molina, who opened Calaveras with wife Angelica. “When we first started, there was nothing truly authentic [in Tulsa], not even a tortilla. But nowadays people like to try new things.”

David and Angelica wanted to create a large and diverse menu featuring dishes not found anywhere else in town. They use all local produce and meat and source their fresh seafood from Dallas.

To top it all off, David himself grows 50 different varieties of peppers to spice up the dishes at Calaveras.

The restaurant has a colorful, festive feel—appropriate for the vibrant, fresh flavors found in the food. In addition to the items you would expect to find on a Molina-created menu (wet burritos, enchiladas, street tacos) the couple prepare and serve dishes permeating with the distinct Jaliscan flavors not available anywhere else in Tulsa. Their specialties include mole, sopes, gorditas, enmoladas (“mole enchiladas”), carnitas (fried pork), el bracero ranchero (assorted meats) & el bracero marinero (assorted seafood).

We began the meal, of course, with chips and salsa. Calaveras has a fully stocked salsa bar featuring a house standard salsa, a taco salsa for topping entrees, and a zesty tomatillo salsa verde, which was my personal favorite.

The menu features quite a few seafood dishes. We started with the tostada de ceviche de mixta, a crispy flat tortilla topped with fresh raw seafood cured in citrus juices, chopped onion, salt, and cilantro. It is tangy, fresh, with

abundant citrus, and finishes with a satisfying crunch from the tortilla. The seafood is of noticeably high quality and the combination of shrimp, bass, and octopus was unique and made for the best ceviche we’ve ever had.

INSIDER TIP: WHENEVER YOU FIND A GENUINE MEXICAN RESTAURANT THAT SOURCES FRESH SEAFOOD, ORDER THE DAMN FISH TACOS. Next came the fish tacos, and here’s an insider tip: Whenever you find a genuine Mexican restaurant that sources fresh seafood, order the damn fish tacos. Each soft tortilla holds a mound of tilapia topped with pico de gallo, pickled cabbage, and a tangy, creamy chipotle aioli.

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Finally, our main course was the El Bracero Ranchero, which translates to “ranch hand.” Truly a working man’s meal, it includes ribs, carne asada, chorizo links, potatoes, grilled green onion, pickled cactus & roasted tomato salsa, all served in a mini portable charcoal grill to keep it hot at the table. This shareable entrée is served with warm tortillas and all the usual fajitas-style toppings on the side. The ribs were delicious and prepared with a homemade barbecue sauce made with brown sugar, mulato pepper and spices.

The pickled cactus was simply prepared with salt and had a unique but pleasant bitter savoriness. A unique play on your typical fajitas entree found at most every Mexican eatery, this dish seems destined to become the restaurant’s claim to fame.

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

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

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

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Q&A

Jumping the lizard Solving some of Tulsa’s weightiest issues requires long-term perspective

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arlos Moreno grew up in San Jose, Calif., and got his start in a computer lab during the early years of the Silicon Valley boom. He moved to Tulsa in 1998 to be with his future wife and later opened Toy Drum, a graphic design company that developed websites for several successful Tulsa businesses, Kathy Taylor’s 2006 mayoral campaign, Vision 2025 and other government-related topics. His work on Taylor’s campaign set Moreno on track to become one of the sharpest civic-minded young people in Tulsa. He’s now a graphic designer for the Community Action Project, president of the grassroots organization TulsaNow and a leader of Code for Tulsa.

CM: It’s about who’s welcome in this neighborhood. We’re growing, and these are growing pains.

TTV: Speaking of growing neighborhoods and who’s welcome in them, we seem to be at a crossroads with how to address homelessness—especially downtown.

TulsaNow president Carlos Moreno // Photo by Mat t Cauthron

The Tulsa Voice: First, tell us more about Code for Tulsa.

lyze it, and help the city make an informed decision?”

Carlos Moreno: We’re a local brigade of Code for America.

It’s all about taking public data and making it more accessible for everyone. And when you get to start thinking about that, that’s a lot of stuff. It’s fire, it’s police, it’s infrastructure, it’s water, it’s sewer, it’s land, and everything that land entails. And it’s pollution, and recycling, and mental health, and homelessness, and benches and sidewalks and parks and—just keep goin’.

For example, the mayor said [at the Nov. 24 sidewalk forum], “Let’s make an informed decision [about the Gathering Place sidewalk] rather than a decision based on speculation.” So, if you take the mayor at his word, then the next question is, “OK, if you want to make an informed decision, what data do you need? And how can someone like Code for Tulsa help provide that data and ana-

TTV: So Code for Tulsa is a resource for the public, the media, city officials—anyone?

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CM: All of the above. And it marries very nicely with TulsaNow, because TulsaNow is also about civic engagement. The things that we fight for at TulsaNow are transportation, which is one of the No. 1 issues that face low-income families. Housing choices. Homelessness. Social justice. TulsaNow tries to look at the bigger picture.

How can we as a city improve these things? Same with Code for Tulsa—what information can citizens access, or what government services can be made easier, to help the people who need it most?

TTV: On top of those two volunteer involvements, you work full-time at the Community Action Project. And the depth of analysis you’re doing on the

TulsaNow blog requires a lot of brainpower. How do you have time for all this stuff ?

CM: I don’t play video games [laughs] and I don’t watch sports.

I read the 400-page City of Tulsa budget for fun. That’s—I don’t know— TTV: You’re into it.

CM: I’m into it. Yeah. So you make time. You find the time.

Because you love it.

TTV: Between the sidewalk and homelessness, Turkey Mountain and issues of land use, it feels like Tulsans are dealing with some really fundamental questions right now. These issues appear to be separate, but— CM: It’s all connected.

TTV: I felt that at the sidewalk forum. Sure, it’s about the sidewalk, but it also seems to be something much deeper we’re talking about.

CM: [Some organizations estimate] there are roughly 4,000 homeless people in Tulsa. That’s a manageable problem. You can solve that for about $20 million, I think. [With the Tulsa Housing and Recovery Program in 2009] we threw $2 million at the problem, building permanent supportive housing. And it worked really well. So, if we can build houses for a few dozen homeless people, then let’s just multiply—let’s just scale that. It can’t be that hard.

TTV: Say you have $20 million.

What’s the first step?

CM: I would put at least $15 million into permanent supportive housing. Don’t have a house?

We’ll build it for you. I mean, how do you solve homelessness?

Give people a home. I know that sounds like something that my 7-year-old came up with, but it works. And it’s proven. And you can look at reports and statistics and data and all that stuff that says that it works. And I’d take at least the other $5 million, if not more, and increase the services that we have for mental health, and probably combine the two programs.

So, if we can get you better, great. If we can’t, we’ll support your housing. This is an open book test. We know the answers.

We know what works.

TTV: Well, what are we doing?

CM: I don’t know what we’re

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doing. We’re spending $647 million on streets. That’s what we’re doing. $36 million of that $647 million is for one mile of road. It’s between 81st and 91st on Yale. So what’s our priority as a city? One mile of a road, or solving homelessness? I vote solving homelessness. I know the people on that road probably would say the road. But, you know, the nine people who are in Maple Ridge don’t want a sidewalk. I don’t know—it’s the tail wagging the dog.

we’re sunk.” And the organization that is the organization to attract and retain young professionals says we want a frickin’ sidewalk. I’m hoping that resonates with whoever’s pulling the strings. Maybe not the Mayor, but— TTV: Based on the similarity of his closing remarks to how he opened the forum two hours earlier, I’m not sure he was listening.

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TTV: Are you hopeful?

CM: I am. I think these are conversations the city hasn’t had in decades that I’m seeing more and more of. I think five years ago TYPros might have been too afraid to step into that conversation [at the sidewalks forum], and now [they] were the first people to speak. They voted unanimously in support. I don’t know how many thousands are in the TYPros, but these are the people that ONEOK and BAMA and Williams and QuikTrip and everybody is saying, “If we don’t attract and retain these people,

OPEN BOOK TEST. WE KNOW THE ANSWERS. WE KNOW WHAT WORKS. CM: He wasn’t. Right. So, what’s it going to take? I don’t know. But, the conversation happened, and it was an incredibly well-reasoned, informative, multi-faceted discussion. And we’re seeing more and more of that.

TTV: Young people—and people of all ages—are starting to take

more of a seat in Tulsa and talk about what kind of city we want to be. It feels like an important moment.

CM: I think it is. I wrote this blog post last January called “Believe,” on TulsaNow. And it was kind of about that. It was about, do we believe that we can be all the things that we say? Do we believe it?

We’re saying that Tulsa can be this great place. We have the answers.

We have the policies. We have the staff—the planning staff and the staff at INCOG are phenomenal brains—we have it. We have everything. We just have to want it.

TTV: What do you say to people who are getting discouraged?

CM: I think that these conversations end too quickly. After the 24-hour news cycle, everybody sort of forgets, and it’s on to the next big hot flaming topic. And what we lose in that is, if we hadn’t given up, we’d have probably accomplished what we set out to do. We just gave up too quickly.

And so to the person who’s watching what the mayor said [at the the sidewalk forum] at 6 o’clock and then watching what the mayor said at 8 o’clock, it’s not over. That meeting wasn’t the end. It was the beginning. The Gathering Place is going to be under construction for three years. We’ve got three years.

And more. It is discouraging that you kind of need to think about the long haul, about the long term, and keep going. But you do.

TTV: That cycle of knee-jerk emotional responses is pretty strongly conditioned in us.

CM: You have your lizard brain, your mammalian brain and your human brain. That’s what’s you learn in Psychology 101. So all the media stuff, all the stuff that’s on CNN and your Facebook feed is back here—it’s your lizard brain, the visceral reaction. When we start thinking [from the human brain], we think long-term, and we think how all these things are connected, and we think about creative solutions. a

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THE BOX DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT IS CASTING A SPOTLIGHT ON HOMELESSNESS, BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT? STORY AND PHOTOS BY DEJON KNAPP THE TULSA VOICE // December 3 – December 16, 2014

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“WHEN ELECTED OFFICIALS HEAR FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS THAT ‘SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT THE [VISIBLE] HOMELESS PROBLEM IN OUR COMMUNITIES,’ THEY ASSUME THAT THE BEST OR ONLY THING THEY CAN DO IS TO CRIMINALIZE HOMELESSNESS, WHEN IN REALITY IT’S THE LEAST EFFECTIVE AND COST-EFFECTIVE OF A WEALTH OF OPTIONS.”

— ERIC TARS, SENIOR ATTORNEY AT THE NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY

AS BUSINESS, LEISURE AND CAPITAL THRIVE IN downtown Tulsa, a growing tension between haves and have-nots is bubbling to the surface. Downtown development has been a boon for Tulsa’s economic vitality, but gentrification is a complex process.

Although many of the changes it brings are desirable, they most often benefit newcomers and marginalize established residents.

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asking for change, the kid sleeping in the entryway and the bags of clothes left behind the dumpster for safekeeping. No matter where you go downtown, you’re only ever a few steps away from a crisis service center, a jail, one of the three homeless shelters, a DHS office, a drop-in center for homeless youth, a soup kitchen or any of the various agencies offering case management and emergency services. Some of these centers have been downtown for decades. But, as more money and traffic has flowed into downtown, homelessness has become a hot-button issue. Many downtown goers and business owners view the homeless living downtown as vagrants, bums, vandals and thieves. But is this accurate?

December 3 – December 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

HOMELESSNESS SNAPSHOT

First, no matter their circumstances, homeless people are human beings with basic rights. The Charter of the United Nations recognizes “equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family” as “the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world.” These rights are derived from the “inherent dignity of the human person.”

Tulsa organizations participate in a national onenight “point in time” homeless consumer survey each January. In 2014 the survey was administered to 1,315 individuals in Tulsa—and more than 600,000 nationally—though experts note that the counts reflect an underreporting of homelessness. Across the country, homeless individuals reported a vast range of experiences; each had a unique story. For instance, in Tulsa nearly 150 of the respondents were veterans, and more than 200 were homeless families.

Major Travis Yates, a 21-year member of the Tulsa Police Department and the Gilcrease Division commander, said the issue of homelessness downtown involves a convergence of several challenges: • tough economic times • increased visibility of homelessness • criminal activity • outdated laws that are difficult to enforce • increased flow of downtown patrons • pressure from business owners trying to protect their investments Some people on the streets face chronic and severe mental health challenges. Some are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Some are not homeless, but are there specifically to engage in criminal or predatory activity.

“Where there are businesses, where there are people, they will be preyed upon by the criminal element,” Yates said. “That is what we’re concerned with, is the criminal element.”

Despite the evident complexity of these challenges, many simply treat homelessness as bad for business, and the desire to remove homeless people from certain areas often results in a call to police. Yet, when responding officers choose not to make an arrest, they often receive calls from community members or business owners wanting to know why. Of course, sometimes people need to be arrested. But when calling the police becomes our “plan” for dealing with homelessness, a huge problem emerges.

THE TULSA VOICE // December 3 – December 16, 2014

RIGHTS AND WRONGS The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty has found that laws criminalizing homeless individuals for doing life-sustaining activities violate constitutional protections: • Freedom of speech under the 1st amendment: anti-begging/ panhandling laws • Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th amendment: anti-sitting/standing/ sleeping/food sharing laws • Right to due process under the law under the 14th amendment: access to justice without financial means, transportation or permanent address; homeless persons are incarcerated more often and longer than others In March, the United Nations Human Rights Committee reviewed the U.S.’s record on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The committee raised concerns about the criminalization of everyday human activities; discrimination toward the homeless; and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. The committee urged the government to: • Abolish state and local laws and policies criminalizing homelessness • Coordinate resources to find human rights solutions to homelessness • Incentivize alternative policy approaches • Withdraw funding for local entities that criminalize homelessness The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination made these same recommendations in August.

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DOWNTOWN BOOM, HOMELESS BUST

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The number of homeless people incarcerated in Tulsa has more than doubled in the past five years, according to 2014 point in time survey findings.

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“WE’VE TRIED BUILDING FENCES AROUND PARKS, WE’VE TRIED IMPOSING A CURFEW, WE’VE TRIED PUTTING UP MEAN AND DEHUMANIZING SIGNS, AND WE’VE TRIED TAKING AWAY BENCHES. NONE OF THESE EFFORTS ARE COMPASSIONATE. ALL OF THEM ARE PUNITIVE IN NATURE AND INSTRUCT CITIZENS, IN TURN, TO BE MEAN, COLD, AND DISTANT. IF THAT’S NOT THE CITY WE WANT, WE NEED TO THINK OF SOLUTIONS THAT REFLECT COMPASSION.” — CARLOS MORENO, TULSANOW PRESIDENT

A VICIO US CYCLE

Research shows that criminalization is the most expensive and least effective method of addressing homelessness, and wastes limited state and local resources. Yates said arresting and incarcerating people who are homeless is unproductive; it’s a temporary fix for a much more complicated problem.

National estimates suggest that between 8 and 25 percent of incarcerated individuals have previously experienced homelessness. These figures are vastly disproportionate to the number of people facing homelessness nationwide, which is estimated at less than 1 percent of the population. This disparity can be attributed in part to the fact that many cities, Tulsa included, create and enforce laws that effectively make homelessness illegal. This includes criminalizing basic human behaviors such as sleeping, eating, and merely existing in various places. Nearly every citizen engages in these activities, but only certain people have the laws enforced against them. These laws target people without homes to remove them from parks and public spaces and to boost economic development in specific areas. Some people view the laws as discouraging people from “choosing” to be homeless.

Many communities are criminalizing homelessness while simultaneously defunding social services.

Our police force, funded by taxpayer dollars, is vital to Tulsans’ safety and wellbeing. It’s essential that this resource is dedicated to areas of greatest need—real crime concerns—rather than responding to someone sleeping outside a business or bathing in a fountain. Yates said we need a long-term solution.

“Throwing people in jail for a night will not solve the issue,” he said. “The criminalization of homelessness, so to speak, will not solve the issue. Laws need to be enforced against criminals, and people that are truly homeless and truly in need, need help. And that is how we solve it, long term.”

Cycling people through jails, court systems, shelters, emergency rooms, crisis centers and back to the streets

costs millions in funds and resources, and it doesn’t address the root cause of homelessness. The cycle is nearly impossible for those stuck in it to escape: Criminal records can be a barrier to housing and employment, and barriers to housing and employment cause homelessness. The “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality is inadequate for this population. If you don’t have bootstraps—and you can’t access any due to a criminal record or lack of education, social support and resources— it’s hard to pull yourself up. Criminalizing homelessness locks the epidemic in place, and it ultimately costs taxpayers far more than other proven alternatives.

A growing body of evidence consistently shows that housing people instead of jailing them is the most successful and cost-effective strategy for addressing homelessness. The “Housing First” approach prevents homelessness and recidivism and reduces emergency shelter stays by providing homeless people with free housing, followed by treatment programs and services. When Utah initiated a Housing First model, state spending decreased 34 percent, saving an average of $5,670 per formerly homeless person annually. Housing First in central Florida saved an average of $21,000 per person annually.

Eric Tars, senior attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, said criminalization is communities’ biggest mistake and a major missed opportunity when addressing homelessness in growing downtown areas.

“When elected officials hear from their constituents that ‘something has to be done about the [visible] homeless problem in our communities,’ they assume that the best or only thing they can do is to criminalize homelessness, when in reality it’s the least effective and cost-effective of a wealth of options,” Tars said in an email to the Voice. “It just takes a little education … and for the community to show them the success of housing rather than criminalizing in meeting everyone’s (homeless persons, business, other community members) needs.”

December 3 – December 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program redirects low-level drug and prostitution offenders to social services—including emergency assistance and long-term support— instead of the criminal justice system.

PORTLAND, OREGON In addition to plans for a development of tiny houses, Portland is home to Street Books, a nonprofit, bike-powered pop up library for people experiencing homelessness.

The project has three salaried employees and was funded by a Kickstarter campaign and a grant from the Awesome Foundation.

MADISON, WISCONSIN Occupy Madison, Inc. is building and developing a cooperative village of tiny houses and a day labor program as a dignified, sustainable solution to homelessness.

WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Police officers take a 40-hour Crisis Intervention Training, and a mental health police squad diverts people in crisis away from jail and into treatment. San Antonio and Bexar County saved $50 million over five years and alleviated jail overcrowding with this model program.

T U L S A’ S R E S P O N S E

Recent local responses to homelessness include imposing curfews in downtown parks, removing places to sit and posting signs about panhandlers.

Carlos Moreno—president of TulsaNow, an advocacy group for smart, sustainable development and preservation of green space in Tulsa—said such policies set the tone for our community. Creating park curfews and removing park benches robs all Tulsans—including people without homes—of the chance to enjoy public spaces.

“We’ve tried building fences around parks, we’ve tried imposing a curfew, we’ve tried putting up mean and dehumanizing signs, and we’ve tried taking away benches,” Moreno said in an email to the Voice. “None of these efforts are compassionate. All of them are punitive in nature and instruct citizens, in turn, to be mean, cold, and distant. If that’s not the city we want, we need to think of solutions that reflect compassion.”

The city has hired three security officers—called Public Safety Ambassadors—to patrol the Inner Dispersal Loop on behalf of the Downtown Coordinating Council.

In addition to reporting trash, vandalism and criminal behavior, they respond to low-danger concerns in order to make business owners and patrons feel safe and supported. The PSAs appear to have a good relationship with the Tulsa Police Department, but it’s hard to say whether these officers are making our streets safer or just marginalizing homeless people and pushing them out of downtown.

Experts in urban design and public health emphasize that the built environment reflects a community’s values.

Forcing homeless people out of public spaces—the “out of sight, out of mind” philosophy—further marginalizes a vulnerable population, pushes them into other areas THE TULSA VOICE // December 3 – December 16, 2014

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA Vendors who are homeless or have low income sell street papers on public land. Half the content in The Curbside Chronicle is written by homeless writers or about poverty issues. The vendors invest in the model and receive help finding housing and new job opportunities.

of the city and raises questions about our collective compassion, creativity and culture.

Tanya Moore directs finance and administration at Iron Gate, downtown Tulsa’s soup kitchen and emergency grocery pantry. Moore said Tulsa laid the groundwork for the current conflict with homelessness years ago when most homeless-serving agencies were pushed into the then-undesirable downtown area.

“Truthfully, I think you can tie it back to the race riots and the healing that didn’t happen,” Moore said. “We have yet to fully accept, as a society and in Tulsa, and a culture, the damage that was done and created. We are very comfortable in Tulsa having our little ghettos and our don’t cross the tracks, and homeless people defy that, because they can walk anywhere.”

We have a lot to learn, but some bright spots are emerging in Tulsa. Several local programs—A Way Home for Tulsa, HUD Continuum of Care Homeless Program, Pathways and others—are working to implement Housing First initiatives. And in May, the city’s Special Services Court held its first jail diversion docket for people facing homelessness or extenuating circumstances. The court is championed by Chief City Prosecutor Bob Garner, and it’s a promising step toward more effective practices. Once someone is placed on the Special Services Docket, that person works with a case manager to complete agreed-upon goals. As long as certain conditions are met—attendance at court dates and achieving set goals, the case is dismissed.

The process usually takes about 6 months to complete, but it saves people from jail time and costly court fines and provides a path out of the cycle. The program gives opportunity, responsibility, and autonomy to people often denied such privileges by the system.

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T H E WAY F O RWA R D

Representatives of city and community agencies meet regularly to discuss Tulsa’s collective challenges with homelessness, mental health and substance abuse. One such meeting focuses on the downtown response to these issues and has resulted in the following proposed solutions: • Develop a coordinated inter-agency response and an organized continuum of services to prevent people from “falling through the cracks” • Create a centralized call center • Train Tulsa Police and the Public Service Ambassadors in mental health response • Update Tulsa’s anti-panhandling ordinances Tulsa can also take cues from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. In addition to several of the above solutions, the agency recommends state and local governments take the following actions: • Cease enforcement of criminalization laws and stop creating new ones

• Adopt a Housing First Model and create innovative new and affordable housing solutions • Create transition plans from jail/prison/hospitals • Enact a homeless bill of rights A variety of circumstances lead to homelessness, but when it comes down to it, homelessness is caused by a shortage of affordable and appropriate housing.

Punitive and discriminatory measures are expensive, ineffective, dehumanizing and unconstitutional—they violate the basic human rights of the most vulnerable in our community.

At least among experts who spoke with the Voice, there is motivation and optimism to foster a safe, vibrant and compassionate downtown.

“I think we actually have, in Tulsa, the pieces to make that work,” Yates said. “We have enough caring groups, organizations and individuals to make it work. I think now it’s really on us to come together and to figure out how all that works together for the common good.” a

FIXING IT what can you do?

• Build political and community will to end homelessness.

Make a phone call, send an email, start conversations with your friends and community leaders.

• Learn more about existing community resources and efforts to end homelessness in Tulsa (The sources cited in this story are a great place to start).

• Read the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty’s No Safe Place report for the full picture on the criminalization of homelessness in the U.S. at TheTulsaVoice.com/homeless • Learn from other communities’ successes and failures in addressing homelessness.

Start with the infographic on page 29.

Read an extended version of this article, including extensive footnoted sources and more information on the organizations working to address homelessness in Tulsa. THETULSAVOICE.COM/HOMELESS

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December 3 – December 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

A SNAPSHOT OF HOMELESSNESS IN TULSA

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SERVICES IN NEED 21-30 – 18.2%

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9% – PAYEE SERVICES TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN

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AFRICAN AMERICAN 20.2%

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TULSANS SUPPORTING TULSANS • Books and/or DVDs for our Caregiver Library (visit giveALZ.org for complete list) • Volunteer with Drawing on Memories Art Program • Speakers Bureau and Support Group volunteers • Office volunteers • Sponsor a Care Consultation = $50

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To donate contact Sarah Klein at 918-392-5003, sklein@alz.org or visit www.alz.org/oklahoma.

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Storage containers in various colors and sizes Early education activity workbooks Art supplies – markers, pencils, paper, etc.

Light weight bath & hand towels Monetary donations

To donate contact Kelly Schneider at 918-446-4194 ext. 213, kelly.s@camploughridge.org or visit www.camploughridge.org.

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Diapers Formula Coats (size NB- size 7) Toddler new and/or gently used clothing Monetary donations To donate contact Mary Ellen Opstein at 918-592-BABY (2229), maryellen@eistulsa.org or visit www.EIStulsa.org

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• Donated gently used clothing & household items for our Bargains Resale Shop • Fax machine • Copier Paper • Fine tipped black sharpie pens • Paper grocery bags, bubble wrap, tissue paper To donate contact Kathleen Moss at 918-832-8832, alotulsa@gmail.com or visit www.altulsa.org.

To donate contact Carly McKeon at 918-477-5428, carly.mckeon@cancer.org or visit www.cancer.org.

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To donate contact Karie M. Jordan at 918-592-3333, kjordan@thebridgesfound.org or visit www.thebridgesfound.org.

• Gift cards to purchase supplies for the Outdoor Classroom • Volunteers • Gas cards • Donations to help sponsor campers with Autism • Monetary donations

Gas cards for our free transportation services Small coffee table New children’s hats Bottles of water Monetary donations

Kid-friendly, healthy snacks Pop-up, 8’x8’ or 10’x10’ canopies First aid supplies Office & Craft supplies (paper, markers, etc.)

Monetary donations, gift cards (Home Depot, Lowe’s, Wal-Mart)

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To donate contact Amy Hilligoss at 918-592-2267, ahilligoss@tulsacampfire.org or visit www.tulsacampfire.org.

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5 x 65cm exercise balls Small electric drill Computer head phones (no ear buds) Stained glass soldering irons Copy paper To donate contact Erin Jacobs at 918-794-4514, ejacobs@tulsacenter.org or visit www.tulsacenter.org.

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$10 = 40 meals Peanut butter Canned soup, stew and chili Canned fruits or vegetables Volunteers

To donate contact Maggie Hoey at 918-936-4551, mhoey@okfoodbank.org or visit www.okfoodbank.org.

Canned fruits and vegetables Shampoo, bar soap, toothpaste/toothbrushes Blankets, sheets Diapers (size 4 & 5) Monetary donations, gift cards To donate contact Lindsay Hughes at 918-949-HOPE (4673) ext. 115, lhughes@cctulsa.org or visit www.catholiccharitiestulsa.org.

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New toys New dog and cat food New winter coats and gloves New stuffed animals Monetary donations

To donate contact Caroline Devonshire at 918-508-2709, cdevonshire@dvis.org or visit www.dvis.org.

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$15 - Girl membership $25 - Uniform and Membership $50 - Girl at Daycamp $100 - Uniform and Membership for 4 girls $250 - Resident Camp for a girl To donate contact Susan Kenny at 918-745-5202 or visit www.gseok.org.

December 3 – December 16, 2014 // THE TULSA VOICE

Our city has a wealth of options when it comes to better addressing homelessness and other areas of need, but we’re not going to solve the problem in a day. In the meantime, consider donating needed items to these nonprofit organizations in the spirit of the holiday season.

Space donated by The Tulsa Voice

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Paper and plastic bags Jars of peanut butter Socks Monetary donations Keep the hungry and homeless in your thoughts

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To donate contact Jane Rohweder 918-492-9474, jrohweder@oklahoma.wish.org or visit www.oklahoma.wish.org.

To donate contact Meghann Ray at 918-359-9038, mray@irongatetula.org or visit www.irongatetulsa.org.

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Gas cards to help transport children Individually wrapped snacks or juice boxes To-go boxes and plates 8’ plastic tables Volunteers

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Peanut butter, pineapple, or peaches Canned tuna or chicken Diapers Volunteers Monetary donations

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Home sponsors Volunteers Monetary donations ReStore donations To donate contact Jane Dunbar at 918.592.4224, jdunbar@tulsahabitat.org, or visit www.tulsahabitat.org

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Monetary donations Toys (ages 8-12) New clothing (newborn-12 years) Sports equipment Volunteers

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YOU! Your time!

Your talent!

Your treasure!

Gifts, gift cards, and white 8½”x11” paper for certificates to recognize volunteers like YOU! To donate contact Allison Freeman at 918-447-1888, volunteer@volunteertulsa.org or visit www.volunteertulsa.org.

Winter coats Blankets Gloves, hats, scarves, socks Athletic shoes or work boots Monetary donations

To donate contact Elizabeth Edwards at 918-382-2409, eedwards@mhaok.org or visit www.mhaok.org/donate.

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Yoga mats New or gently used children’s books Toiletry items Gas cards Monetary donations To donate contact Debbie Gordon at 918-587-3888, dgordon@resonancetulsa.org or visit www.resonancetulsa.org.

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Winter coats Twin size sheets & blankets Household items - dishes, cookware, bakeware Chapstick Monetary donations To donate contact Sharon Catalano at 918-556-6425, scatalano@tulsadaycenter.org or visit www.tulsadaycenter.org.

To donate contact Carrie Salce at 918-587-7801 ext. 121, carrie_salce@uss.salvationarmy.org or visit www.salarmytulsa.org.

To donate contact Jeff Jaynes at 918-582-5766, rhm@restorehope.org or visit www.restorehope.org.

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Office furniture Lowes and Home Depot gift cards 2” or larger paint brushes Drop cloths Recurring donations through justgive.org

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To donate contact Kelly Hall at 918-742-6241, kelly@rebuildingtogethertulsa.org or visit www.rebuildingtogethertulsa.org.

To donate contact Lindsay Fry-Geier at 918-359-9024, lindsay@newhopeoklahoma.org or visit www.newhopeoklahoma.org.

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Copy paper Toys or gifts for kids 3 – 18 Restaurant gift cards Walmart gift cards Toys R Us gift cards

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Sleeping bags/tents Bus passes Backpacks Winter coats - adult sizes Montetary donations To donate contact Suzy Sharp at 918-382-4401, ssharp@yst.org or visit www.yst.org.

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

Jesse Ed Davis

Abbreviated session Rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle caught up with acclaimed Native guitarist

by JEFF MARTIN ore than likely, the name Jesse Ed Davis doesn’t mean that much to you. Don’t worry about it. Just because you’re not familiar with the name doesn’t mean you’re not familiar with the work.

In his tragically short 43 years (1944–1988), the Norman-born guitarist played alongside some of the greats—including Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Leonard Cohen, Taj Mahal, John Lennon, and Bob Dylan, to name a handful. We talk and hear a lot about the “Tulsa Sound,” but in the late 50s and early 60s there were one or two interesting things happening in Oklahoma City. Some of Davis’ early OKC bandmates went on the road with Emmylou Harris, Donovan, and other major acts of the era.

Thought mostly known as a great rock guitarist, Davis was equally adept in the worlds of country (Conway Twitty, Willie Nelson) and blues (Albert King, John Lee Hooker). The 1970s were a strange time concerning the depictions of Native Ameri-

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cans in popular culture. Not that things have improved much since (see current NFL controversy).

There were some serious and impactful moments surrounding the American Indian Movement, but more exposure for Sacheen Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando’s Oscar, Felipe Rose singing/dancing for The Village People, and Iron Eyes Cody (100% Italian) crying about litter in the ubiquitous public service announcement. With a Kiowa mother and a father of Muscogee Creek and Seminole descent, Jesse Ed Davis was obviously Native. He looked Native. He didn’t

try to hide his heritage. But at the end of the day, he let the music speak for itself. Widely accepted as one of the essential session guitarists of his or any other time, Davis did have a small but vital solo output. Start with Jesse Davis (1971). Trust me. Download and enjoy.

Like too many other rock stories, the end of Davis’s is sad one. He died of an overdose in a laundry room on June 22, 1988.

Rock stars aren’t role models.

They prove that time and time again. Comedian Bill Maher once joked, “I would never recommend heroin, but it hasn’t hurt my record collection.” The fact is, we find a lot of enjoyment through a great deal of music created from a painful place. But the name of this column is “OK Cool” not “OK Role Models.”

And there’s no doubt whatsoever that Jesse Ed Davis was one of the coolest cats to ever emerge from our fair state. The best way I know how to give thanks is to spread the word (and music). I hope you’ll do the same. a

DAVIS DETAILS Perpetuating the longstanding OKC/Tulsa divide, Jesse Ed Davis first came into contact with Leon Russell through a mutual friend, Levon Helm (The Band). Russell then helped Davis gain session work. They later played on each other’s albums. A true 918-405 connection.

Confession time. I loved The Monkees as a kid. I watched reruns religiously on Nickelodeon and couldn’t get enough of the music.

I still dig it. But when I watched Mike Nesmith play guitar on “Last Train to Clarksville” I had no idea that they were a fake, a sham. It was Jesse Ed Davis. I also liked pro wrestling at the time. What can I say? I was an easy mark.

On December 11, 1968, The Rolling Stones organized an event known as “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.” The show included a variety of performers. While playing with Ta j Mahal, young Jesse Ed Davis met John Lennon. They hit it off and later collaborated, with Davis handling Lead Guitar duties on Lennon’s fifth album, Walls and Bridges.

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KEEPING IT CLEAN I become less stressed by just looking at Drew’s house. It’s so clean. He doesn’t have a lot of extra clutter—something we can all aspire to. My mom always says everything needs a home in your home or it will never be put away.

Listen to my mom. Follow Drew’s example. You’ll have less anxiety.

COLLECTIONS/HOBBIES I recently wrote about the importance of attractively containing and displaying your collections. Drew displays his vintage green pottery collection like an elegant art installation.

Somehow, he makes a ton of one thing look organized and streamlined. Let this be a game-changer for you and your masses of coins or busts or beanie babies (I’m kidding; beanie babies can never look good).

DOING VINTAGE RIGHT Drew’s dad refinishes all of his vintage furniture pieces. That we could all be so lucky. I asked, but he won’t hand out his dad’s number for us all to have our vintage things redone.

And so we whose dads do other things, we turn to YouTube. Refinishing, reupholstering or just buying in good condition are essential when shopping vintage. There’s something respectful about restoring an old piece of furniture to its full glory.

But exercise restraint. A few pieces with patina add character to a home; a room full of worn vintage can look junky. Knowing when to rescue a piece and when to pass it up is part of doing vintage right. a Ashley Daly would gladly take your keys and enter your home alone with her camera. Drop them off at her vintage home store, Retro Den. Follow her on Instagram @ahdaly.

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STUDIO: New Works by AHHA Studio Artists

Fri., Dec. 5 to Sat., Jan. 4

Hardesty Arts Center, ahhatulsa.org Studio is an exhibition that brings together five Tulsa artists with a variety of backgrounds, artistic goals and aesthetics. The group is inspirations vary from vintage video games, to the human condition, to the bright colors of the American Southwest. Each artist brings a clear voice to his or her specific media. This diverse group is based in studios on the fourth floor of the Hardesty Arts Center and are the inaugural group of AHHA Studio Artists.

The AHHA Studio Artist program fosters visual art-making, direct engagement, collaboration and partnerships.

Meaningful connections between AHHA and diverse audiences are nurtured and supported. All Studio Artists are considered a vital part of the AHHA community and its programming.

The artists featured in this show are John Bryant, Brooke Golightly, John Hammer, Sharyl Landis, and Daniel Sutliff.

SAGE TULSA Art Show Thurs., Dec. 4–31 Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, okeq.org Oklahomans for Equality features the combined works of SAGE TULSA. SAGE (Service, Advocacy for LGBT Elders) is a program for LGBT older adults, a vital yet often overlooked group in the LGBT community. The show will feature works in several media, including oil and acrylic painting, sculpture, drawings, and even a Vaudeville show.

Many SAGE-ers have been featured artists in galleries across the country or are published authors. Most pieces in the show have been donated by the artists and will be for sale. The show runs through the month, beginning with a reception at 6 PM on 12/4. The SAGE Vaudeville show will begin on the same evening at 7 PM.

The Nixon Tapes: 40 Years Later Thurs., Dec. 4, 7-8:30 pm Tyrell Hall, University of Tulsa President Nixon’s voice-activated taping system caught 3,700 hours of recordings between 1971 and 1973. 40 years after Nixon’s resignation, questions remain unanswered. Join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Booksmart Tulsa and special guest Luke Nichter for a fascinating exploration of the infamous tapes that ultimately brought down Nixon.

Nichter is a noted expert on the Nixon tapes and has a petition before the District Court for the District of Columbia to open Watergate-related government records still sealed in the National Archives.

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The Mockingbird Next Door Sat., Dec. 6, 6:30 pm, Circle Cinema, facebook.com/officialbooksmarttulsa Booksmart Tulsa and Circle Cinema join forces for a celebration of Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and more.

Acclaimed author Marja Mills talks about her bestselling memoir, “The Mockingbird Next Door,” about her eighteen months living next door to the reclusive Lee and her sister, Alice. Lee, known to her friends and family as Nelle, shared with Mills her love of history, literature and the South. The presentation will be followed by a screening of the Oscar-winning film adaptation.

Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Tulsa presents: Drinks, Dames, Drawing Sat., Dec. 6, 7 pm, $10, The Fur Shop Artists, photographers, and art enthusiasts are encouraged— and all are welcome—to attend this evening of performance and life drawing presented by the Tulsa Chapter of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, an alt.drawing movement with branches in over 100 cities worldwide. OKC burlesque performers Lily Deathstarr and Eva Aphrodisia will each perform a burlesque routine, followed by several timed poses for artists and audience members to sketch, photograph and enjoy. Some art supplies will be provided. Also performing is the winner of The Loony Bin’s “Tulsa’s Funniest Person” contest, Michael Zampino. The evening will be hosted by local comedian Hilton Price and Poppy Pie of Tulsa’s own TwoLips Burlesk.

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THE BEST OF THE REST EVENTS

Champagne and Chocolate // Living Arts hosts its annual fundraiser/ fashion show/new music and dance performance/art auction, all to be enjoyed with champagne, gourmet chocolates from Glacier Confection and signature beverages provided

by Mix Co. // 12/4, 7:00 pm-10:00 pm, Living Arts, $35-$45, livingarts.org/ champagne-and-chocolate

Tulsa! A Christmas Radio Spectacular Fri., Dec. 5–8, $10-$15 Tulsa Performing Arts Center tulsapac.com In this original play by Cody Daigle, it’s Christmas Eve 1949. If KMOK—Tulsa’s fourthmost popular radio station— can’t get enough listeners for their annual Christmas show, the station will have to close on New Year’s Eve. When everything starts to go wrong, it will take nothing short of a Christmas miracle to save the station. “Tulsa!” features original songs written and composed by Rebecca Ungerman.

AHHA Holiday Festival and Market // The Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa holds its first ever Holiday Festival and Market. This holiday shopping experience features local art, “make and take” art activities for kids and adults and pop-up art classes and activities in the AHHA gallery. Admission is free, but some activities are paid. // 12/11-12/12, Hardesty Arts Center, ahhatulsa.org/holiday Tulsa Christmas Parade // Celebrate the holiday season downtown with the newly re-renamed Tulsa Christmas Parade. // 12/13, 6:00 pm-7:00 pm, Downtown Tulsa, tulsachristmasparade.org Candy Cane Lane - Christmas Bazaar // Support veterans while doing your holiday shopping! The Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 577 host an all day holiday shopping event featuring local vendors. // 12/13, 10:00 am-7:00 pm, VFW Post 577, $5, vfwpost577.org

VISUAL ARTS

James Gaar // Recent paintngs by abstract artist James Daniel Gaar. // 12/11, 6:30 pm-9:00 pm, Tulsa Girls Art School, facebook.com/ events/1649648621928488

PERFORMING ARTS

Tulsa Festival Ringers // It’s Christmastime in the city, so ring in the holiday cheer at this annual concert with Tulsa’s only auditioned handbell choir. And oh, how those bells, sweet silver bells, all seem to say, “Throw cares away.” // 12/3, 11:30 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, tulsapac.com

7th Annual Ms. Center of the Universe Pageant Sun., Dec. 13 Nightingale Theater, nightingaletheater.com Local feminists redefine the beauty pageant in this respectful yet brutal competition. A promo for the 2011 pageant describes the ideal Ms. Center of the Universe thusly: “She holds bake sales in war zones and can negotiate with zombies … She flosses her teeth with String Theory and plays drums like a motherfucker ... When she arm wrestles Mother Nature, she always lets her win...

She is stern, flexible, modest, omnipotent, and she tends to exaggerate for effect. She is Ms. Center of the Universe.”

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever // A nonchurchgoing family lands the lead roles in their town’s Christmas play.

After an initial bout of intimidation, the family and the town come together and discover a new understanding of the holiday season. // 12/5-12/14, Henthorne PAC, $7-$10, cityoftulsa.org Rags to Riches // A young shoe-shiner’s life is turned upside down when he dashes into a burning building to save a boy who proves to be the heir to a great fortune in this play by Aurand Harris, directed for Spotlight Children’s Theater by Bill McCright. // 12/5-12/14, Spotlight Theater, $8-$10, spotlighttheater.org/tspot2.htm Tulsa Symphony: Simply Romantic Holiday // Tulsa Symphony performs music by Romantic Era composers, including Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 in G minor (“Winter Dreams”) and selections from “The Nutcracker.”

Featuring guest conductor Steven Smith of the Richmond Symphony. // 12/6, 7:30 pm, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $25-$70, tulsapac.com A Christmas Carol // For over 30 years American Theatre Company has presented this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of redemption. Go with Ebeneezer Scrooge and a group of holiday ghosts on a journey through time to remind Scrooge of the importance of goodwill in hopes of saving his soul. //

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12/11-12/23, , Tulsa Performing Arts Center, $13-$26, tulsapac.com So You Think You Can Dance // The top 10 finalists of the 11th Season of Fox’s Emmy Award-winning dance competition come to town to shake their groove things at the Old Lady on Mathew B. Brady. // 12/12, Brady Theater, $29.50-$49.50, bradytheater.com

12/13, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, loonybincomedy.comRaw Meat // Improv // 12/11, 7:00, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Crayons // Improv // 12/12, 7:00, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Comfort Creatures // Improv // 12/12, 8:30, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

It’s a Wonderful Life // Spend Christmas in Bedford Falls with the Baileys as Encore! Tulsa brings Frank Capra’s classic film to the stage. It takes a guardian angel to save George Bailey when his business and the affordable housing project he created are endangered by the greedy Mr. Potter, played by FOX23 news anchor Ron Terrell. // 12/12-12/14, Tulsa Little Theatre$20-$45, encore-tulsa.com

Leroy’s Sketchy Xmas // Sketch // 12/12, 10:00, Comedy Parlor, $10, 12/13, 10:00, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

A Time for Christmas 3 // A “Branson-style” holiday spectacular featuring classic holiday music and a few surprises. // 12/13, 7:30 pm, Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center, $5-$20, thepacba.com/timexmas3.html

Jane’s Comedy Connection // Stand Up // 12/14, 8:00, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com

TwoLips Burlesk: A Christmas Quickie // The ladies of TwoLips Burlesk shake their rears for holiday cheers.

This holiday burlesque extravaganza will feature guest star Keaton Zane Paige and is hosted, as always,

by Hilton Price. Receive $5 off admission when you bring a toy donation, which will go to the Margaret Hudson Program, an organization that provides pregnant and parenting teen mothers an opportunity to continue their academic education with the support of child care and social and health services, and provides pregnancy prevention education for students and families. // 12/13, 8:30 pm, The Shrine, $15,facebook.com/twolipsburlesk

COMEDY

Cowboy Bill Martin, Quinn Patterson // Stand Up // 12/3, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $9, 12/4, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $9, 12/5, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $12, 12/5, 10:00 pm, 12/6, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $12, 12/6, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $12, The Loony Bin, loonybincomedy.com/tulsa Pop Up Players // Improv // 12/4, 7:00, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Crayons // Improv // 12/5, 7:00, Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com T-Town “Famous” // Improv // 12/5, 8:30, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Ryan’s Drinking Problem // Drinking Game Show // 12/5, 10:00, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Rumble-Ish: The Improv Competition // Improv // 12/6, 7:00, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com CR’s Variety Hour // Variety // 12/6, 8:30, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Back In My Day // Improv // 12/6, 10:00, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com Rick Shaw’s Comedy Showcase // Stand Up // 12/7, 8:00 , Comedy Parlor, $5, comedyparlor.com Soundpony Comedy Hour hosted by Andrew Deacon // Stand Up // 12/8, Soundpony, thesoundpony.com/events/ James Johann, Nat Baimel // Stand Up // 12/10, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $7, 12/11, 8:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $2, 12/12, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 12/12, 10:00 pm, The Loony Bin, $10, 12/13, 7:30 pm, The Loony Bin, $10,

Spontaniacs! // Improv // 12/13, 7:00, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor. com Kelly’s Treehouse // Improv // 12/13, 8:30, Comedy Parlor, $10, comedyparlor.com

SPORTS

TU Women’s Basketball vs Saint Louis // 12/3, 11:30 pm, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com/ot/all-sports-calendar.html TU Men’s Basketball vs Creighton // 12/3, 7:00 pm, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com/ot/all-sports-calendar. html Rumble on the River XI // 12/5, 7:00 pm, River Spirit Event Center, $35$60, riverspirittulsa.com Tulsa Oilers vs Allen Americans // During this game the Oilers will be holding a toy drive benefitting Toys for Tots. // 12/5, 7:05 pm, BOK Center, $15-$55, tulsaoilers.com Tulsa Revolution vs Mossiouri Comets // 12/6, 7:05 pm, Cox Business Center, $10-$35, tulsarevolution.pointstreaksites.com ORU Women’s Basketball vs Eastern Michigan // 12/6, 2:00 pm, Mabee Center, oruathletics.com ORU Men’s Basketball vs Missouri State // 12/7, 3:00 pm, Mabee Center, oruathletics.com TU Men’s Basketball vs Southeastern Oklahoma State // 12/10, 7:00 pm, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com Tulsa Oilers vs Brampton Beast // Bring a teddy bear for a Teddy Bear Toss benefitting The Salvation Army! // 12/12, 7:35 pm, BOK Center, $15-$55, tulsaoilers.com ORU Women’s Basketball vs Grand Canyon // 12/12, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, oruathletics.com Tulsa Oilers vs Quad City Mallards // Youth jersey giveaway! // 12/13, 7:35 pm, BOK Center, $15-$55, tulsaoilers. com ORU Men’s Basketball vs New Mexico State // 12/13, 7:00 pm, Mabee Center, oruathletics.com TU Women’s Basketball vs Arkansas // 12/14, 2:00 pm, Reynolds Center, tulsahurricane.com RunnersWorld Tulsa Half and Half Marathon // Runners have the option of running a half marathon on a trail through the woods, a half marathon on the road, or both combined! // 12/14, 9:00 am, Turkey Mountain, runnersworldtulsa.com

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This year, Dec. 4th is officially a summer day in Tulsa. Brian Wilson, the enigmatic genius behind the music of The Beach Boys, will be in town radiating with the warmth of endless summer and rich, lush sonic harmony.

From his beginnings in infectious surf rock tunes to boundary-pushing, genre-defying “pocket symphonies,” Wilson’s evolution as a songwriter shaped the future of rock and roll and redefined what a pop album could be.

Wilson is not just one of the greats of pop music. He’s among the greatest composers of the 20th century.

12/4, The Joint, $60-$75

Ryan Adams and Jenny Lewis’ recent albums have several important parallels. Both are firsts; Ryan Adams is Adams’ first self-produced album, and The Voyager is Lewis’ first album since the dissolution of her band, Rilo Kiley. Both feature some surprising (and not so surprising) guest appearances; Johnny Depp and (Adams’ wife) Mandy Moore appear on the former, Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr. and (Lewis’ boyfriend) Jonathan Rice are featured on the latter, and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench appears on both.

Both were produced by Adams. And finally, both are great. Catch Adams and Lewis in one night of indie bliss at the Brady.

12/6, Brady Theater, $29.50-$45

New Dream City makes hypnotic, evocative music that draws you in with spiraling melodies, complex rhythms, and a style culled from disparate genres. Sadly, we’ve had to endure the past several months without the band, because keyboardist/ guitarist/singer Zachary Cain moved away from Tulsa in the spring. Now he’s back in town for the holidays, and the band are playing its first show since April, supported by hip hop juggernauts Verse and the Vapors and sunblock-resistant psychedelics Cucumber and the Suntans.

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Cain’s Ballroom – K95.5 Unplugged w/ Jerrod Niemann, Josh Turner, Easton Corbin, Dustin Lynch, Brett Eldredge – 8:00 pm Cellar Dweller – Mike Cameron Collective – 9:30 pm Crow Creek Tavern – Dan Martin – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Ayngel & John – 9:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry St – Amanda Preslar w/ Mark Bruner & Shelby Eicher – 7:00 pm On The Rocks – Don White – 7:00 pm Sandite Billiards & Grill – Sideshow Drifters – 8:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm Soundpony – Ze Gran Zeft, Hell Rules Heaven The Colony – Tom Skinner Science Project The Hunt Club – Hump Day Happy Hour w/ Billy and Bobby Moore

Thurs // Dec 4

BOK Center – Trans-Siberian Orchestra – 7:30 pm – ($41.50$73.50) Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Runnin’ On Empty – 8:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – Netsky, Kove, Skanka – ($15-$18) Elephant Run – The Boogie Full Moon Cafe - Broken Arrow – Piano Man Tom Basler – 8:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry St – Toast & JAM w/ Charlie Redd & Cynthia Jesseen – 10:00 pm Lot No. 6 – Daniel Jordan Mercury Lounge – Monzie Leo & The Big Sky – 8:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Jenny Labow – 8:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Travis Kidd – 3:00 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Dante & The Hawks – 7:00 pm Soundpony – Nasty Navi 40 // MUSIC

The Colony – Chris Becker The Hunt Club – Travis and Tia The Joint @ Hard Rock Casino – Brian Wilson – 8:00 pm – ($60-$75) The Shrine – Sarampote Xmas Benefit w/ Jeff Martinson, Randy Patton, Jamie Patton – ($5) The Vanguard – Chris Duarte – 7:00 pm – ($8-$30) Undercurrent – Miles Williams & Hammer Down, Sideshow Drifters – 8:00 pm Woody’s Corner Bar – Ben Neikirk Yeti – Turnt Up

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Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center – Lee Ann Womack – 7:30 pm – ($20-$60) C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Chad Lee – 9:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Lyle Parham – 9:00 pm Centennial Lounge – Blues Society Christmas Party – 9:00 pm Daily Grill – Mike Cameron Collective – 7:00 pm Elephant Run – 4Going Gravity Full Moon Cafe - Cherry St – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Grumpy’s Tavern – Nathan Isaiah Hull Gypsy Coffee House – Elizabeth Jordan, Marilyn McCuloch – 6:00 pm Magoo’s – David Dover – 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Peewee Moore – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Groove Pilots – 8:00 pm NINE18Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – SeXtion 8 – 9:00 pm Pepper’s Grill - South – Creeler Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Reverse Reaction – 9:00 pm Soundpony – The Fabulous Minx, The Chloes The Colony – Dan Martin, Jacob Flint, Cody Woody The Hunt Club – Musiclynx Showcase

The Shrine – LJ Echols and The Neckbone Band – ($10-$15) The Vanguard – Those Who Fear, Barrier, 2X4, Every Passing Dream, Terra Firma, Adiaphora – 6:30 pm – ($10-$12) Woody’s Corner Bar – DJ Mikey Bee

The Shrine – The Big Tree Band (Allman Bros. Tribute) – ($5) The Vanguard – Aaron Carter, Dyllan Murray, Societysociety, Bryce Gilbertson – 7:30 pm – ($20-$70) Woody’s Corner Bar – Jason Savory – 10:00 pm Yeti – FYE

Sat // Dec 6

Brady Theater – Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis – ($29.50-$45) C:Note @ Hard Rock Casino – Chad Lee – 9:00 pm Cabin Creek @ Hard Rock Casino – Jason Young Band – 9:00 pm Cain’s Ballroom – ¡Mayday! and Murs, Ces Cru, Kap Kallous, KG Tha Phenom – ($15-$17) Centennial Lounge – Brujoroots – 9:00 pm Cimarron Bar – Seven Day Crash Ed’s Hurricane Lounge – The Salty Dogs Enerje Event Centre – The Not So Silent Night w/ White Collar Sideshow, Grave Robber, Far From Sanity, Chaotic Resemblance, Even the Dogs – 5:00 pm Full Moon Cafe - Cherry St – Dueling Piano Show – 9:00 pm Gypsy Coffee House – Josh Caudle – 9:00 pm Lot No. 6 – Cody Woody, Chloe Johns Mercury Lounge – Parker Millsap – 10:00 pm Mystic River Lounge @ River Spirit Casino – Groove Pilots – 9:00 pm NINE18Bar @ Osage Casino Tulsa – SeXtion 8 – 9:00 pm Pepper’s Grill - South – Scott Ellison Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Thomas Martinez – 5:30 pm Riffs @ Hard Rock Casino – Hi Fidelics – 9:00 pm Soundpony – Soul Night!! w/ DJ Soul Fingaz, DJ Sweet Baby Jayzus The Colony – Robert Hoefling & Friends The Hunt Club – JT and the Dirtboxwailers

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Gypsy Coffee House – Open Mic – 7:00 pm Mercury Lounge – Wink Burcham – 10:00 pm Silver Flame – Bobby Cantrell – 7:30 pm The Vanguard – Girl On Fire, Raw Fabrics – 7:00 pm – ($7-$10)

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This American murder ‘Serial’ podcast turns true-crime mystery into must-listen phenomenon

by MATT CAUTHRON [Ed. Note: We interrupt your regul arl y scheduled television column for a detour into the world of podcasts.]

Baltimore-area high school senior Hae Min Lee was found dead in 1999. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted of her murder, and is currently serving life in prison.

That’s the nutshell launching point for “Serial,” a podcast from the makers of NPR’s “This American Life” that has become a bona fide cultural phenomenon in recent months, breaking iTunes download records and spawning more water-cooler chatter and Reddit rabbit holes than a Westerosi wedding.

About a year ago, host Sarah Koenig, “This American Life” producer and former Baltimore Sun reporter, followed up on an out-of-the-blue tip that the details of Adnan’s conviction were fishy.

She looked into it, eventually got obsessed with it, and has been thoroughly reinvestigating the case with her team of producers. They pore through original case files, retrace steps, scrutinize evidence, and interview anyone and everyone remotely related to the case—including dozens of hours of phone interviews with Adnan from prison.

Koenig and her team (which includes editorial consultant Ira Glass) have been unspooling that investigation week by week with all the panache one would expect from radio’s greatest storytelling outfit. What might have been relegated to the finest 20-minute segment in the history of “This American Life” has thankfully, gloriously been given space to breathe, and has emerged as the most compelling and addictive episodic narrative in recent memory.

‘Serial’ host Sarah Ko enig and subje ct Adnan Syed (inset)

The story from Adnan and his supporters, who have maintained his innocence these past 15 years, goes like this: The smart, affable, well-liked kid couldn’t possibly have murdered anyone. The state’s case against him was entirely circumstantial; no physical evidence linked him to the crime. The defense’s star witness—really, their entire case—was the exceedingly shady Jay, who claimed Adnan killed Hae in a fit of jealousy.

As Jay tells it (although his story changes throughout the investigation), Adnan made clear his intention to kill Hae, orchestrated a plan to strangle her in a Best Buy parking lot, made it back to track practice to cement an alibi, and later buried her body (with Jay’s help) in a nearby park.

Despite a complete lack of damning physical evidence—no DNA, no fibers, none of the things the “CSI” team would hang a case on—the state convinced a jury of Adnan’s guilt because of a sketchy series of cell phone records and the testimony of his weed dealer.

You’d think by my skeptical tone that I’m a true believer in Adnan’s innocence. In many ways,

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the storytelling mechanics Koenig and her team employ are designed to make me feel that way. Some say the “Serial” crew is willfully misleading listeners, or that the disarming and charismatic Adnan is playing Koenig (and the rest of us), while she (and we) eat it up and ask for more.

I disagree with those characterizations. The team’s reporting has been thoughtful and measured.

Sure, the information they’re uncovering is parceled out to increase dramatic narrative effect, but it doesn’t lack objectivity.

The simple fact, which has been admitted by various legal experts, is that Adnan probably shouldn’t have been convicted of this murder. The case was paper thin, his lawyer wasn’t very good (she was later disbarred in scandal), and the police work was lazy at best, corrupt at worst.

The question is not whether Adnan should’ve been convicted. The question is whether he actually did it. That’s what has tantalized millions of listeners and made Thursday mornings the first instance of “appointment listening” since before the advent of television.

The show and its popularity also raise questions about our culture’s fascination (some may say perverse obsession) with crime and violence, and whether we should be ashamed of ourselves for obsessing over this horrible tragedy for the purposes of entertainment. Then again, there’s also the flip side: if Adnan really is innocent, the show’s popularity, and the renewed interest and uncovering of facts it has inspired, could give him back his life.

On the subject of Adnan’s guilt or innocence, I can say with 100 percent confidence: I have no fucking idea. His account of the events has plenty of holes— enough that twelve of his peers considered the evidence and returned a lightning-fast verdict that put him away for the rest of his life. The fact that he was a popular kid and is charming as hell in his phone calls with Koenig—that proves precisely zero about the case, even if it does make the whole thing that much more compelling.

In the coming episodes (as of this writing, nine have aired so far, and Koenig has estimated they’ll produce about a dozen) at least one question must be answered if this experiment is to have any satisfying resolution whatsoever: Does the MailChimp lady think the C-H is pronounced like a K and she’s saying Mail Kimp—or does she think the H is actually an A and she’s trying to say Mail Caimp?

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From left, Rosario Dawson and Chris Rock in ‘Top Five;’ James Franco and Seth Rogen in ‘The Inter view;’ and Re ese Witherspoon in ‘Wild’

Taking the bait Studios unleash Oscar hopefuls and family-friendly sap in equal measure

by JOE O’SHANSKY The Pyramid Despite the quasi-found footage of the goofy trailer and the no-name cast, the premise of the Alexandre Aja-produced “The Pyramid” compels me. Granted, I’m an old geek with a fondness for the mysteries of Egypt—born out of playing Dungeons and Dragons “Desert of Desolation” modules and an early text adventure game called “Pyramid.” A group of archeologists (obvs) discover a buried pyramid. In their zeal to explore, they become trapped and hunted by strange creatures that have been imprisoned under the sand for millennia. Will it be worth a damn? Aja’s name gives one hope for a genre romp that is likely not good, but perhaps inventive and fun. Dec. 5 Top Five Chris Rock writes, directs and stars in this ensemble comedy about a stand-up comedian turned film star (Rock) trying to reinvent himself as a serious actor, despite the media only being interested in his comedies and his impending celebrity marriage.

The cast is an amazing gathering of Rock’s besties—including J.B. Smoove, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, Tracy Morgan (in what might be his last role as we’ve known him), Jerry Seinfeld, Whoopi Goldberg, and a daunting roster of comedian cameos. The trailer scores 44 // FILM & TV

a couple of laughs, and it looks like Rock is bringing his trademark edge to the proceedings. Dec. 5 Exodus: Gods and Kings Uber-director Ridley Scott adapts the story of Moses in the somewhat lost tradition of expansive Biblical epics starring white guys speaking English. Christian Bale plays the telekinetic savior of 600,000 enslaved Israelites, leading them from under the yoke of Ramsses II (Joel Edgerton) to freedom. Plagues, locusts, storms, giant alligators and Ben Kingsley are splashed across the screen with all the aggressive, slickly ostentatious, multi-million dollar spectacle we’ve come to expect from the hand of Scott. Aaron Paul (“Locusts, bitch!”), Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro fill out a fine cast. Dec. 12 Inherent Vice Cinephiles will be rabid for the latest Paul Thomas Anderson, whatever it might be. The writer/director/modern master is catnip for those who find nutrition in iconic narratives, thematic complexity, deeply drawn characters (brilliantly acted) and vibrant film craft. “Inherent Vice,” Anderson’s loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 crimenoir novel, looks to be no different—if the trailer is any guide. A twitchy Joaquin Phoenix, a deeply

weird Josh Brolin, and Reese Witherspoon lead a stellar cast that includes Benicio del Toro, Martin Short, Jena Malone and Owen Wilson (redeeming himself for “Night at the Museum 3”). My ass is already in a seat for this one.

Dec. 12 The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies I might complain that the Peter Jackson adaptations of “The Hobbit” are self-indulgent, masturbatory, bloated and lack the charms of his original “Rings” trilogy. I can’t imagine that the guy isn’t burnt out by now. Aside from “King Kong” and his awful “The Lovely Bones,” Jackson hasn’t left Middle-Earth for much of the past 15 years. But despite all that, Middle Earth is still a place I like to visit. With this final entry in the second trilogy, everyone from the previous film who isn’t dead returns to face down the evil dragon, Smaug, and reclaim the Dwarven throne under the Lonely Mountain against a scourge of enemies. Dec. 17 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb If a monkey pissing on Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan in order to save them from a Pompeiian lava flow is your idea of comedy gold, then this flick is for you. It’s the third one of these things, so fans know

the drill. In a museum where the exhibits come to life at night, Ben Stiller’s mugging and director Shawn Levy’s hackery join forces with name recognition and undiscriminating audiences for the kind of family-friendly fun that cleans up around this time of year. Supporting roles from Ben Kingsley (as another Egyptian), Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney (joining the equally dead Robin Williams) mean this film is truly cursed.

Dec. 19 Annie Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) star in this re-imagining of the long running Broadway musical. Wallis is Annie, an orphan from a foster home, faithfully awaiting the return of her parents. She’s rescued from an accident by Will (Foxx), a successful businessman who’s running for mayor. Will takes Annie in to aid his political career, but instead gets some life lessons.

The trailer does a better job of explaining the entire damn movie than I can (it leaves nothing to the imagination). It also looks like an earnest, maudlin, candy-coated musical comedy that’s trying way too hard to please. I am kind of an asshole, though. Dec. 19 Unbroken Angelina Jolie’s latest directorial effort, if nothing else, serves as a reminder that the

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Japanese used to be some real bastards. And while the trailer for “Unbroken” seems to hammer that point home a bit heavily, Jolie’s past work in the chair, plus a script by the Coen Bros. and an uplifting, based-on-true-events tale also remind us that this is Oscar season. “Unbroken” tells the story of the famous Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and held in a brutal prison camp where his spirit presumably remains (wait for it) unbroken. It looks lovely, but blatant Oscar bait is always a little off-putting. Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson (“Frank”) and Garrett Hedlund star. Dec. 25 Into the Woods Rob Marshall’s lavish staging of the famed Stephen Sondheim play finds Meryl Streep as an evil witch who lays a curse on a Baker and his wife (James Corden and Emily Blunt).

In order to lift the curse the pair must find a series of mysterious objects and encounter fantasy characters from the Brothers Grimm—among them Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. The

film looks richly romantic and ambitiously theatrical, your basic on-the-nose holiday fare. It sports an eclectic cast, including Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracy Ullman and Johnny Depp. Dec. 25 The Interview Longtime comedic collaborators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (the two have written, between them, “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express,” “The Watch” and “This Is The End”) move into the director’s chairs for this contemporary satire that follows two tabloid journalists who land an interview with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Things are looking great for their ratings boon until the CIA contracts them to assassinate the despot. In the real world, it is entirely possible that the recent computer hack that shut down Sony might have been a direct retaliation

by North Korea, who apparently isn’t pleased with the film—which I guess means going to see this qualifies as an act of patriotism. Hopefully it’s funny, too. Dec. 25 The Imitation Game Did Steve Jobs come out as gay? Or was I just imagining that? Either

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way, Alan Turing was gay, so if you’re homophobic and are on a Mac or a PC, you’re benefitting from the brilliance of men whose loves dare not speak their name—so either get your bigoted heads out of your asses or go back to longhand and legal pads, Luddites. Benedict Cumberbatch (who’s made me consider switching teams myself) plays Turing, a brilliant mathematician, cryptanalyst, and inventor of the first “computer” who broke German codes and made the “single biggest contribution to Allied victory,” according to none other than Winston Churchill himself—though it never got any better for Turing. Keira Knightly, Mark Strong and Charles Dance (a Lannister no more) fill out the strong cast. Dec. 25 Wild Based on acclaimed writer Cheryl Strayed’s autobiographical best-seller of the same name, “Wild” stars Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, who, after years of self-abuse, a wicked divorce and the death of her beloved mother, decides to take a solo 1,100mile hike through the Pacific

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Northwest so that she might get clean and find herself amid the wreckage of her tumultuous life. Jean-Marc Vallée, who killed it last year with “Dallas Buyers Club,” directs a cast that includes Laura Dern, Cliff DeYoung and Gaby Hoffmann. And while it screams Oscar-bait, early word has been very positive, hinting that this is the opposite kind of “life-affirming” being peddled by the likes of “Annie”—a real-life hard-knock life. Dec. 25 a

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Can’t possibly be true Comprehensive Pentagon studies of America’s nuclear missile infrastructure released in November (following disturbing reports of readiness failures) included the revelation that nuclear warheads had to be attached with a particular wrench, even though the Air Force owned only one with which to service 450 missiles housed at three bases. Consequently, one official told The New York Times, “They started FedExing the one tool” back and forth. No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made” — typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”

Cultural diversity Various cogs in South Korea’s national machinery paused briefly on Nov. 13 so as not to distract the nation’s high-school-age kids, as 650,000 of them were sitting

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for the decisive university entrance exams (which are several levels more important than the SATs or ACTs for American students).

Large companies and government agencies told employees to commute later in the morning — to keep traffic lighter for students traveling to the 1,257 test centers — and “no-fly” zones reduced noise during the 40-minute period in which students tested aurally on the English language.

Latest spiritual messages “Santa Muerte” (Our Lady of the Holy Death) might be described as a cynic’s unauthorized byproduct of Roman Catholicism currently festering in drug-cartel-roiled Mexico and Central America and is, according to Vice Media, “the world’s fastest growing” religion.

“Saint Death” first appeared only 12 years ago, in the Mexico City barrio of Tepito, and is now a first line of protection for worshippers in danger zones. (Almost 80,000

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Pope Francis ordered an investigation in October of the Italian Riviera diocese of Bishop Mario Oliveri, 70, who is known for giving “second chances” to wayward priests from across the country.

Reports had surfaced that, among Mario’s priests was one who openly published nude selfies on Facebook, another caught publicly flirting with the wife of a port captain, another dismissed from a cruise ship for molesting passengers, and another revealed to have a full-body “tribal” tattoo that he had exhibited while posing with the tattoo artist in the local newspaper. The manager of a church charity in the diocese estimated that about half of the bishop’s 175 priests were delinquents.

American scenes Mmmm, omelets! A crash of three tractor-trailers on Interstate 24 near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Nov. 9 left a pileup of one truck’s load of eggs, another’s pallets of cheese, and the other’s boxes of meat. (2) “Drunken Trombone-Playing Clown Fires Gun From Garage, Police Say” (an Oct. 21 story on MLive.com from Grand Traverse County, Michigan, also reported that the man was wearing camo pants).

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rock and roll crossword Puzzle, What Are You Doing Here? by Todd Santos

Across 1 “Ratfinks, Suicide ___ & Cannibal Girls” White Zombie 6 Type of metal with low-tuned guitars 10 Graham of The Hollies 14 Linkin Park “___ step closer to the edge” 15 Kate & ___ McGarrigle 16 “Only a Fool” jazz singer James 17 Line in song 18 Def Leppard producer “___” Lange 19 Sublime “___ I Got” 20 “Glee” cast cover “Sweet ___” 23 Mother Mother song “___ Days” 26 Blind Melon “___ of Home” 27 Roger Waters “The Pros and Cons ___” 32 Neil Young album from ’82 33 Like crowd before big show 34 Billy Joel might have one in the “Attic” 35 “Bright Idea” band 36 Billy Joel “___ is the Time” 40 “Wishing Well” Terence ___ D’Arby 41 Trey Anastasio band 42 ’80 Rush classic “The ___” 45 Former Santana guitarist Neil 47 Warrant “Greatest & ___” 48 Mike Scott “The Whole of the Moon” band 53 What you tell your folks to make it to show 54 Eagles “Hell Freezes ___” 55 Blink-182 “___ of the State” 59 What REO Speedwagon will do “With the Changes” 60 “Diamond Life” band 61 ’80s “I Want to Be Your Man” Troutman 62 Got a “Kiss From a Rose” 63 Kings of Leon “Velvet ___” 64 What unoriginal musician did Down 1 Keith Urban “___ the Summer Comes Around” 2 Christian singer Grant 3 Billy Bragg “Rule ___ Reason” 4 What wardrobe might be found doing 5 Babyface “Never Keeping ___” 6 ___ Yankees 7 David Soul “Don’t Give Up ___” 8 A-ha “The Sun Always Shines ___” 9 Fellow member, slang 12/7

10 Las Vegas’ Wayne 11 Stevie Wonder “Don’t You Worry ’Bout ___” 12 Grammy winning soundtrack “Garden ___” 13 “She ___ Me” Puddle of Mudd 21 Curvy Pearl Jam song?

22 Johnny Nash “___ It Up” 23 Loads of CDs 24 Hairdo of LMFAO’s Redfoo 25 U2 “Even Better ___ the Real Thing” 28 Whitesnake “___ Go Again” 29 Eric Hutchinson “It ___ Been Long Enough” 30 Billy Joel “___ Extremes” 31 Block of Sister Hazel 35 “Stay the Night” singer Benjamin 36 Billy Joel “___ Her Style” 37 Kiss “___ Your Heart” 38 Second song off Bob Dylan’s “Desire” 39 Billy Joel “Big ___” 40 Tom Tom Club’s Weymouth 41 Duran Duran might “Save” them 42 Morphine song about a girl in Australia?

43 Drummed w/Emerson & Lake 44 “Low” ___ Rida 45 Successful rockers 46 Mother Love Bone’s “Dancer” 49 What you do to bad album 50 “Stop My Head” Dando 51 Completely make over in the studio 52 Cream “Strange ___” 56 It may be bruised, post-flop 57 Old-schooler Tillis 58 “I love you just the way you ___”

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free will astrology

by ROB BREZSNY

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

With both symbolic and practical actions, Sagittarius-born Pope Francis has tried to reframe the message of the Catholic Church.

He’s having public showers installed for the homeless in Vatican City. He has made moves to dismantle the Church’s bigotry toward gays. He regularly criticizes growing economic inequality, and keeps reminding politicians that there can be no peace and justice unless they take care of poor and marginalized people. He even invited iconic punk poet Patti Smith to perform at the Vatican Christmas Concert. You now have extra power to exert this kind of initiative in your own sphere, Sagittarius. Be proactive as you push for constructive transformations that will benefit all.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The limpet is an aquatic snail. When it’s scared, it escapes at a rate approaching two inches per hour. If you get flustered in the coming week, Capricorn, I suggest you flee at a speed no faster than the limpet’s. I’m making a little joke here. The truth is, if you do get into a situation that provokes anxiety, I don’t think you should leave the scene at all. Why? There are two possibilities. First, you may be under the influence of mistaken ideas or habitual responses that are causing you to be nervous about something there’s no need to be nervous about. Or second, if you are indeed in an authentic bind, you really do need to deal with it, not run away.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Science-fiction novelist Philip K. Dick has been one of my favorite authors since I discovered his work years ago. I love how he reconfigured my mind with his metaphysical riffs about politics and his prophetic questions about what’s real and what’s not. Recently I discovered he once lived in a house that’s a few blocks from where I now live.

While he was there, he wrote two of his best books. I went to the place and found it was unoccupied. That night I slept in a sleeping bag on the back porch, hoping to soak up inspiration. It worked! Afterwards, I had amazing creative breakthroughs for days. I recommend a comparable ritual for you, Aquarius. Go in quest of greatness that you want to rub off on you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you enjoy telling people what to do? Are you always scheming to increase your influence over everyone whose life you touch? If you are a typical Pisces, the answer to those questions is no. The kind of power you are interested in is power over yourself. You mostly want to be the boss of you. Right now is a favorable time to intensify your efforts to succeed in this glorious cause. I suggest you make aggressive plans to increase your control over your own destiny.

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Puzzle, What Are You Doing Here?

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The National Science Foundation estimates that we each think at least 12,000 thoughts per day. The vast ma jority of them, however, are reruns of impressions that have passed through our minds many times before. But I am pleased to report that in the coming weeks, you Aries folks are primed to be far less repetitive than normal. You have the potential to churn out a profusion of original ideas, fresh perceptions, novel fantasies, and pertinent questions.

Take full advantage of this opportunity.

Brainstorm like a genius.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I enjoy getting spam emails with outrageous declarations that are at odds with common sense.

“Eating salads makes you sick” is one of my favorites, along with “Water is worse for you than vodka” and “Smoking is healthier than exercising.” Why do I love reading these laughable claims? Well, they remind me that every day I am barraged by nonsense and delusion from the news media, the Internet, politicians, celebrities, and a host of fanatics. “Smoking is healthier than exercising” is just a more extreme and obvious lie than many others that are better disguised. The moral of the story for you in the coming week: Be alert for exaggerations that clue you in to what’s going on discreetly below the surface. Watch carefully for glitches in the Matrix.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Every one of us, including me, has blind spots about the arts of intimacy and collaboration.

Every one of us suffers from unconscious habits that interfere with our ability to get and give the love we want. What are your bind spots and unconscious habits,

Gemini. Ha! Trick question! They wouldn’t be blind spots and unconscious habits if you already knew about them. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in the next six weeks you can catch glimpses of these blocks, and make a good start toward reducing their power to distort your relationships.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now and then, it is in fact possible to fix malfunctioning machines by giving them a few swift kicks or authoritative whacks. This strategy is called “percussive maintenance.” In the coming days, you might be inclined to use it a lot. That’s probably OK. I suspect it’ll work even better than it usually does.

There will be problems, though, if you adopt a similar approach as you try to correct glitches that are more psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual in nature.

For those, I recommend sensitivity and finesse.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What feelings or subjects have you been wanting to talk about, but have not yet been able to? Are there messages you are aching to convey to certain people, but can’t summon the courage to be as candid as you need to be? Can you think of any secrets you’ve been keeping for reasons that used to be good but aren’t good any more? The time has come to relieve at least some of that tension, Leo. I suggest you smash your excuses, break down barriers, and let the revelations flow. If you do, you will unleash unforeseen blessings.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1662, Dutch painter Rembrandt finished The Oath of Claudius Civilis. It was 18 feet by 18 feet, the largest painting he ever made. For a short time, it hung on a wall in Amsterdam’s Town Hall. But local burgomasters soon decided it was offensive, and returned it to the artist to be reworked.

Rembrandt ultimately chopped off threefourths of the original. What’s left is now hanging in a Stockholm museum, and the rest has been lost. Art critic Svetlana Alpers wishes the entire painting still existed, but nevertheless raves about the remaining portion, calling it “a magnificent fragment.” I urge you to think like Alpers. It’s time to celebrate your own magnificent fragments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You now have a special talent for connecting things that have never been connected. You also have a magic touch at uniting things that should be united but can’t manage to do so under their own power. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that in the next three weeks you will be unusually lucky and adept at forging links, brokering truces, building bridges, and getting opposites to attract. I won’t be surprised if you’re able to compare apples and oranges in ways that make good sense and calm everyone down.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1989, Amy Tan birthed her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. Her next, The Kitchen God’s Wife, came out in 1991. Both were bestsellers.

Within a few years, the student study guide publisher CliffsNotes did with them what it has done with many masterpieces of world literature: produced condensed summaries for use by students too lazy to read all of the originals. “In spite of my initial shock,” Tan said, “I admit that I am perversely honored to be in CliffsNotes.”

It was a sign of success to get the same treatment as superstar authors like Shakespeare and James Joyce. The CliffsNotes approach is currently an operative metaphor in your life, Scorpio. Try to find it in your heart to be honored, even if it’s perversely so. For the most part, trimming and shortening and compressing will be beneficial.

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