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I don’t know about you, but this time of year I am always torn. I find myself torn between resisting the commercialization of another greeting card holiday and indulging in all the sweet excuses to enjoy the season. To do a Valentine’s Day date out or enjoy a cozy night at home? To buy a card or just say a kind word? I usually land somewhere a little in between. We’ll each arrive at different answers based on our preferences and personalities, but what we hold in common is an opportunity to make sure those around us know we love them. And regardless of how you choose to celebrate, we hope the pages of this month’s magazine will help you do just that as we celebrate and highlight what’s to love in your local community. While we teeter between the chill of January Winter and the excitement of Spring, we hope you’ll be inspired to take a moment to come together with the people in your life. The ones in your home and on your street. In your neighborhood and your community. “Love local” means your local businesses, those in your community - but it also means loving what is near. Those under your own roof included. We’ve always believed what we can do together is so much more than what we can do apart. And we continue to see that demonstrated through the many stories told in these pages month after month. Thanks for letting us be a part of the life you’re building, whatever that may look like. Our hope is that we inspire you to love it just a bit more than you did before. Happy February!

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16 Art of Touch

Lifestyle Letter

Business Monthly

Expert Help

Healthy Lifestyle

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Culinary Creations

Artist’s Palette

Hometown Hero

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18 Love is in the Air

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22 Wild at Art

Tulsa artist Josh Stout injects new energy into the Historic Red Fork District

28 Sixty-Nine Years & The Spotlight Still Shines On

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Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum Political Poster Exhibit

The 38th annual Tulsa Women's Expo With A Cause

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See more than 150 years of political posters at the Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum from Feb. 3 through Mar. 10. The museum's new exhibit, Sign of the Times: The Great American Political Poster, 18442012, is free and will showcase the evolution of persuasive techniques, printing technologies, and more. Visit the museum at 9 E Broadway in Sand Springs.

Enjoy Joy Coach and Author Robin Shear, meet Travis Brorsen Animal Planet's Pet Expert Trainer & TV Host, be entertained by country music artist Bailey Rae and Talk of Tulsa Show Chorus. Shop 190 booths, enjoy yummy tastings, and talk to Home Experts. There are fashion shows and beauty makeovers, and enter to win a $2,500 Valentine's Vendor Gift Card Giveaway! Visit our partner Dr. Mayer with LifeStyle Medicine at Booth # 211.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: CIVILITY, DEBATE AND AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. The world knows actor Richard Dreyfuss from his films Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus and more. Less well known are Dreyfuss’ efforts to revitalize civics education. He shares his passion for educating Americans about government and discusses the importance of developing the critical thinking skills young people will need to become effective leaders. The event will be March 3 at the Tulsa PAC. tulsatownhall.com

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WHAT IS CONCIERGE MEDICINE? Concierge medicine is a medical care delivery model providing patients with direct access to physicians and personalized care. The model has been around since the mid-1990s, and medical practices who use this approach typically have smaller patient panels. A typical primary care physician may have 3,500 patients in their panel while a concierge panel may be 400 to 500 patients. A smaller number of patients allows physicians to offer longer office visits, same-day or next-day visits, and after-hours care. It also gives physicians more time to address multiple concerns, provide patient education, and coordinate patient care. While different models are emerging, the traditional concierge practice has a yearly upfront fee in addition to a patient's regular health insurance to allow for these extra benefits.

HOW DOES LIFESTYLE MEDICINE'S DR. RENAE MAYER APPROACH CONCIERGE MEDICINE? LifeStyle Medicine, Inc. is the private practice of Renae Mayer, M.D. in Tulsa. She developed this personalized primary care concierge practice with an emphasis on preventing, identifying, and reversing chronic disease using lifestyle medicine techniques. Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as the primary means to treat chronic conditions. At LifeStyle Medicine, Dr. Mayer places a special emphasis on brain and gut health. As a board-certified internal medicine physician, Dr. Mayer also values her conventional medical education. When working with patients, she employs functional medicine techniques, looking for underlying root causes of symptoms or diseases. Dr. Mayer's practice is also enhanced by her training in integrative treatment. She completed graduate work in pharmacology and provides patients with nutrient and supplement therapy. She also completed acupuncture training at Harvard University and offers it to concierge patients for a number of conditions.

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At Art of Touch, a massage isn’t just an Enya-filled, lavender-scented 30 minutes on a table. It’s an hour - or more - of carefully targeted tension relief and relaxation. “It’s an experience where my clients are able to shut down from the outside world,” Art of Touch massage therapist Carolyn Adelaide says. Massage therapy wasn’t Adelaide’s first career, but she says it was her first truly fulfilling one. After working in fields like behavioral health and public service, Adelaide became a massage therapist nine years ago. And in January 2019, she opened her own practice, Art of Touch. She says at Art of Touch, clients aren’t just numbers.

“Every client feels important and heard,” she says. “It is a constant joy to serve them.” At clients’ first appointments, Adelaide spends time pinpointing clients' key issues by palpating the body, a technique massage therapists use to evaluate muscle health. She says massage has more benefits than many realize. From increasing range of motion and muscle definition to releasing stress-reducing endorphins, massage can provide many of the same benefits of strength training without all the work. Adelaide is focused on providing clients with real, impactful results like these that take time to achieve. “An hour is the minimum it would take to accomplish real relief,” she says. Adelaide has put in her own time, too. She spent months studying topics like anatomy and pathology as she trained to

become a massage therapist and still takes courses to serve her clients with the latest techniques. She even traveled to Thailand in 2017 to learn more about Thai massage therapy, an experience that inspired her to incorporate stretching into every massage session. Adelaide says massage is for everyone: people with chronic pain or circulation issues, those struggling with depression or even difficult experiences like trauma, and people who just need an escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. “It gives someone the ability to receive therapeutic touch in a safe environment,” she says. Art of Touch is located at 4835 S Fulton in Tulsa, OK. To schedule a massage visit www.massagebook.com/Tulsa~Massage~ArtofTouch1 or call 918.900.8816.

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Love is in the Air PAMPER YOUR SWEETHEART WITH DELICIOUS DESSERTS FROM DBK ASIAN BAKERY ARTICLE BY DEBRA LAIZURE PHOTOGRAPHY BY CINDY ALVAREZ

Kou See Vang grew up baking for her friends and family. As the oldest of seven children, and a mother herself, baking for others is her love language. That’s why she left her career as an educator last year to open Desserts by Kou See, an Asian bakery in Broken Arrow. She says, “My husband Chris and I wanted to share a piece of our culture and our love of Asian desserts with the community.” There is no need to feel guilty about indulging in DBK Bakery’s treats. The cakes are made with a third of the amount of sugar which gives the confections a light, fluffy texture. She uses fresh fruits such as kiwi, mango, melon, and berries, as well as beautiful edible flowers and fragrant herbs to adorn her desserts. For Valentine’s Day, Kou See and Chris have created a decadent selection of heart-themed desserts, such as cookie fruit tarts, chocolate-covered strawberries, and heart-shaped macarons. The Asian sponge cupcakes, beautifully layered crepe cakes, and ganache-filled cream puffs are customer favorites, along with Korean Bbang, which looks like the prettiest taco you will ever eat. Kou See is a talented cake baker with flavors such as lemon curd, red velvet, chocolate, strawberry, coconut, ube (purple sweet potato) and pandan, a tropical flavor from Asia that has a coconut honey tea flavor. Her showstopper is a Japanese cotton cheesecake that looks simple but takes years to master and four hours to make! But the dessert that is closest to her heart is a wedding cake. She made her first wedding cake for her sister in 2008. Since then, she has created hundreds of wedding cakes that are devoured at every ceremony. She says, “My wedding cakes are light and fluffy and bursting with flavor. I always tell my brides to order extra because their guests will be going back for seconds!” DBK Asian Bakery is located at 949 N. Elm Pl., Broken Arrow. For information, call 918-307-8376 or visit DessertsByKouSee.com.

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WILD AT ART TULSA ARTIST JOSH STOUT INJECTS NEW ENERGY INTO THE HISTORIC RED FORK DISTRICT

Josh Stout Gallery is housed in a 120-year-old building.

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Josh puts some finishing touches on a painting.

“I had no intention of doing any of this,” artist Josh Stout confesses as he gestures to the open space around him. We are standing in his gallery at the heart of Tulsa’s Historic Red Fork District. Large, colorful paintings on the walls depict abstract scenes – scissortails taking flight, a solitary figure atop a horse – while a few tables and chairs provide quiet nooks for conversation. The fact that it exists at all is a wonder to Josh. Until three years ago, he was a traveling artist, roaming the country in an old school bus and a 1977 Airstream with his family. “We like being free-spirited, going where the wind takes us,” he reminisces wistfully. “It's a weird lifestyle to some but we love it.” Yet, fast-forward to the present, and you’ll find Josh splitting his time between creating paintings and sculptures in his distinctive style, managing a gallery and other businesses with his wife Amanda, and sitting on city planning commissions and boards for the development and preservation of Red Fork and historic Route 66.

What follows is an inspiring story of how an artist fell in love with a place and, in return, the place fell in love with the artist. When Josh and Amanda bought the 120-year-old building on West 40th Place, they were visiting family for the holidays and had no intention of staying long-term. On a whim, they took a tour of the newly-listed space and put in an offer the same day. “It just felt right, and we immediately fell in love with the Red Fork area,” Josh recalls. The Stouts are fully committed to investing in the area. They now own the entire city block, which consists of the Josh Stout Gallery, Wasp Nest boutique, and Art Emporium 66. Out of these spaces, local artists are showcased, events are held, and new energy is being injected into an all-but-forgotten piece of Tulsa history. Red Fork District was the home of Tulsa’s first oil well as well as the railway that brought the booming oil business to Tulsa more than 100 years ago. The area had languished for years, however, until efforts to revitalize it began in the early 2000s. It now boasts the Route 66 Historical Village, the $3.5 million replica Red Fork Train Depot, and countless new businesses like Josh Stout Gallery that are bringing new life to the area. Even before settling in Red Fork District, he had a unique connection to it. When Red Fork Distillery began crafting spirits nearby in 2015, they called on Josh to create custom artwork for the labels. His paintings still adorn every bottle, the most recent of which is a botanical vodka created in collaboration with Tulsa Botanic Garden.

Though he never intended to be a force of change in Tulsa, Josh Stout has taken up the banner with earnestness. “I’ve watched successful artists move out of state to pursue larger markets, but I want to stay here and reinvest in my hometown,” the artist explains, citing an unparalleled drive to bring artists, collectors, and community together. “It is a part of who I am.” CONTINUED >

Josh Stout Gallery showcases natural elements alongside his artwork. Josh takes a break during viewing hours at the Gallery.

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“WE LIKE BEING FREE-SPIRITED, GOING WHERE THE WIND TAKES US. IT’S A WEIRD LIFESTYLE TO SOME BUT WE LOVE IT.”

Josh says the next phase for Red Fork District is encouraging investors to take on projects in the area and continuing to build it up to match its pre-statehood glory. The next phase for the Stout Family will be a months-long artistic journey to the Caribbean later this year, where the family will pursue artistic endeavors along with some research in collaboration with the Oklahoma Aquarium.

Josh signs bottles of Botanical Vodka by Red Fork Distillery that features his artwork. Photo: Dana Hoey, Red Fork Distillery.

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Sixty-Nine Years & The Spotlight Still Shines On Tulsa is a city with many of these wonderful hidden secrets. Not secrets that are intentionally kept, but more like ones tacked up against the corridor walls we walk through over time as we meander through the years of our lives. The secrets are tacked up for anyone to see, but we rarely notice allowing them to become secrets we later wish we would have learned earlier. One of these secrets was uncovered this past summer in an interview about a Tulsa landmark that has made a very unusual mark on history. Inside what would become an article about this place was

another article, hidden in the details, about an incredible man who devoted his life to this place. His name was Jere Uncapher. The following article is as much about this man as it is the Tulsa Spotlight Theatre and its incredible run of “The Drunkard”, Jere was the hidden secret, the pleasant surprise, discovered during that interview. One story could not be told without telling the other. In many ways this man and this theatre were one as though a marriage created of fate. Unfortunately, Jere passed only weeks after the interview and would never know that his

TULSA’S SPOTLIGHT THEATRE HOSTS LONGEST RUNNING PRODUCTION IN US

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story would be told here. But it’s a story worthy of telling and a secret deserving to be shared. This article has been left in its original present tense format written while Jere was still alive. He spent 65 years walking through the corridors of that theatre while simultaneously walking the corridor of time. It would seem only fitting to leave his words alive here just as his legacy will remain so within the walls of Tulsa’s Spotlight Theatre. There is an aroma of the past as one walks into the small lobby at 1381 Riverside Drive in Tulsa. It’s almost familiar and yet foreign at the same time as though in our psyches there is a distant connection that is relatable, but a bit out of reach in this modern world around us. Its movie theatre carpeting and multiple layers of paint that have been rolled and brushed over the old walls first constructed in 1928 are welcoming in the same way an old screen door welcomes back an aging soul who darted through it as a child. It’s an attempt to bring the present from the past while also beckoning those who enter to step back in time for an entertainment experience of the past. But those old walls hold more than just the most recent coat of blue paint; they have stored echoes of laughter and remnants of talent from those who have graced the nearby stage since its inception in 1952. It would be only a short year later when “The Drunkard” at The Spotlight Theatre would debut and begin a long and winding journey into, not just local history, but all of history.

throughout his career that would eventually make it on the US National Register of Historic Places. His vision for the residence had a unique design equipped with a stage and an auditorium, as well as living quarters. Unfortunately, the piano studio would falter in 1932 when it fell victim to the Great Depression, like so many other businesses of the era. The bank took it over and rented it out to Holland Hall school from 1933 until 1938. A few years later in 1942, local well-known actor, Richard Mansfield Dickenson, bought the residence not only as his home, but also a speech and theatre school. Ten years later, he would conceive an idea to help his fellow thespians who were struggling financially in a time and place that didn’t offer much in the way of making a living in the arts. He conceived and then wrote “The Drunkard”, which is an adaptation based on the stage production of “Ten Nights in a Barroom” by William W. Pratt. Dickenson had seen the performance on the west coast and decided to write his own version - taking it from five acts to three and then converting his home into what was supposed to be a short-lived theatre run of his work. What was intended to run for eight performances continued far beyond with each weekend giving away another sellout crowd. He had achieved his goal of helping those starving artists at the time by giving them a venue to practice their art and make a few dollars as well.

Spending time with

Dickenson and the actors would be like a spectral transference that leapt into Jere’s soul keeping him happily roaming the rooms and tiny

backstage corridors for 65 years.

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN But before that history, there was another one which would set the stage, as it were, for what would become the location of the longest-running play in North America. The now iconic location was initially a piano studio/school built in 1928 by Patti Adams Shriner, who selected former student and young architect prodigy, Bruce Goff to design. He would go on to create many memorable structures

A LIVING HISTORY It has been 69 years since those local actors and friends of Dickenson first took the stage. Since that time, there have been many voices that have lingered on the air through the small audiences that gathered to participate in the drama and creativity unfolding on the stage. And within the midst of that stage art, there has been one voice that has been constant almost since the beginning. Not on the stage, surprisingly, but mostly behind the stage CONTINUED >

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“We were something different and had audience participation.”

during production and the operations. He is as much a part of this long-running story as are the many, many local actors, directors and musicians who have left their mark on the quaint and worn stage of almost 100 years. His name is Jere Uncapher and he first entered the building which would become his career home back in 1957. At that time, “The Drunkard” and “The Olio” (think variety show) had been gracing the stage for almost four years beyond its initially planned eight performances.

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His grandparents were working at the Spotlight Theater and had since its inception. His grandfather was the house manager and his grandmother worked in the office in those days. Jere and his mother would visit every summer for a couple of weeks, allowing his mother to fill in so his grandparents could go on vacation. This gave Jere the opportunity to spend time backstage with Dickenson, and his mother and sister another opportunity to tap dance during the warmup show known as

“The Olio”, a series of Vaudeville acts to get the audience fired up and ready for the main attraction. Spending time with Dickenson and the actors would be like a spectral transference that leapt into Jere’s soul keeping him happily roaming the rooms and tiny backstage corridors for 65 years. By his own admission, he didn’t care much for acting, but loved the atmosphere and learning every aspect, including operating the spotlight, the rigging of the ropes backstage, and stage management duties and responsibilities. One fateful night after several years of working as a volunteer and assistant to the assistant stage manager, neither the stage manager nor his assistant showed up. He was immediately thrust into the role of stage manager. After that door swung open, he became the full-time stage manager. Now over 40 years later at the age of 77, he is still in that role. He has filled in a few times for one character when the actor failed to show up for the performance, but only so the show could go on. After all, it wasn’t as though he didn’t already know all the

dialogue from every character. But he always felt more at home behind the stage away from the attention of the audience. Admittedly, he doesn’t even like his photo taken. (not even for articles). In his time at the Spotlight Theatre, Jere has seen many people come and go and the ups and down of the theatre world. And he doesn’t regret a moment of the years he has spent in the Spotlight Theatre. He also enjoys the occasional chance meeting with those who played parts 30 and 40 years ago and their surprise and reaction of shock when they ask what he has been up to, “What?! Oh, you mean you’re still there.” It makes him chuckle every time, he said.

THE SHOW’S LONGEVITY As mentioned, the initial plan was to have eight performances which would allow the actors to make a little money. The first performance on November 14, 1953, was a full house as was the second performance and that trend continued. Dickinson was CONTINUED >

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on to something. He had tapped into something human and real that allowed audience participation and it was catching on. Jere explained that in those days, Tulsa had the Little Theater, Tulsa Ballet, and the Symphony Orchestra. In other words, not much in the way of performing arts. This added venue fit nicely to help fill that void. People just couldn’t get enough of the “Boos,” “hisses,” and applause that allowed them to become one with the actors on the stage. “We were something different and had audience participation,” Jere said. By the time he came on board in 1957 at the tender age of 12, it had become a regular show every weekend. Sixty-nine years later and it’s still going just as it was all those years ago in the beginning. There was a 16-month hiatus due to the pandemic. Boo, hiss! But we aren’t counting that little part of recent history since it resumed following the pandemic. Yay! “I got the bug so to speak,” Jere said about his longevity at the Spotlight Theatre. And it seemed many other Oklahomans have too, as is evident from its long run. This theatre and production are a part of Tulsa’s, and to an extent, Oklahoma’s identity. And

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to think that one man’s vision to help a few friends turned into something that would cast a large shadow is a testament to how the smallest of good things can become the largest of great things. Over the years, many people have been given an opportunity to express their creativity to others while bringing a bit of joy, laughter, and a lesson in the detriment over alcohol overindulgence wrapped in humor. Their contributions and this production are a timeless story in both content and execution that take us back to a simpler time and place. And as history has shown, that place is open every Saturday night for us to take a seat, gear up our “boos” and “hisses,” and lose ourselves in the greatest form of art, the art of humanity where everyone gets to play a part. I have intentionally left out specific details of the show’s particulars and its plot as a courtesy to those who have not yet experienced it. For more details about “The Drunkard,” their other productions, ticket prices, merchandise, and their other shows, please visit TulsaSpotlightTheater.com. To view a video about Tulsa Spotlight Theater by John D. Beasley visit youtube.com/watch?v=eoHqPRaptYg.

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