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inside COVER P.4 The Jones Assembly, 901 W. Sheridan Ave., is a top-tier destination, creating a one-of-a-kind dining and entertainment venue for OKC’s Film Row district and beyond. The 225-seat eatery transforms into a 1,600-capacity music hall to host upcoming tours for Willie Nelson, Cut Copy, Matisyahu and more. It’s an anchor in a district primed for renewal.

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Tapping success The Jones Assembly is the next cornerstone for burgeoning Film Row. By Laura Eastes

Around the turn of the new millennium, two Oklahoma-born friends in their early 20s dropped into Dallas music venues three to four times a week. Over the course of those nights, after listening to various acts and taking in the atmosphere and ambiance, Brian Bogert and Graham Colton would let their minds wander and attention shift to a place of their own.

Those conversations, which usually began with “One day …,” included ideas for a music venue. Since the 20s are prime years for launching careers, Colton went on the road to pursue his passion as a singer-songwriter and Bogert, along with college friend Manny Leclercq, chased their restaurant dreams to the Oklahoma City metro.

Even so, what Bogert and Colton dreamed was not forgotten.

More than a dozen years later — Colton a well-known national recording artist and Bogert a successful restaurateur — both were ready to meld their interests and passions with their experiences.

After touring a boarded-up twostory 1930s warehouse — once part of The Fred Jones Manufacturing Company complex — in OKC’s burgeoning Film Row, the conversation graduated to a business proposal. With help from partners chief Brittany Sanger and brothers Fred and Kirk Hall of Hall Capital, The Jones Assembly was born.

There are a lot of great, energetic Oklahomans contributing to the energy that we are proud to be a part of.

Graham Colton

New destination

The Jones Assembly, 901 W. Sheridan Ave., is a dining and entertainment destination with refined regional cuisine and handcrafted beverages. On the entertainment side, the 225-seat restaurant transforms into a 1,600-capacity music hall when national acts like Willie Nelson, Cut Copy, JJ Grey & Mofro and Matisyahu perform there later this year.

The Jones Assembly is a top-tier attraction, from dining to concerts, creating a one-of-a-kind venue for Oklahoma City and beyond.

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venues that we’d seen around this country and international,” Colton told Oklahoma Gazette. “Never was there something with all-in-one. It was a challenge and an opportunity, with a big bet made on Oklahoma City.”

When The Jones Assembly opened July 13, it quickly delivered on its praiseworthy food and spirits, music events calendar and a spectacular view of the west side of downtown OKC. Even before it opened, it already was the city’s hottest destination, between private events honoring Oklahoma-born actor Gary Busey and recently signed Oklahoma City Thunder basketball AllStar Paul George to invitation-only soft openings.

The Jones Assembly’s path to success expands beyond its brick walls. Two blocks east is the Film Exchange District listed on the National Register of Historic Places — one of two surviving film exchange districts in the country. A once-vibrant commercial home to operations for the top studios, the area — after three decades of blight and vagrancy — is now a blossoming arts and innovation district known simply as Film Row. “You can see it and feel it,” Colton said.

“It’s not just the [21c Museum Hotel] and The Jones Assembly. It’s the brewery around the corner. Its Film Row with all the businesses that supported a local street festival that first brought people down here. It’s Okay Yeah Co. and the Plant Shoppe, which is an ambitious and forward-thinking concept. … There are a lot of great, energetic Oklahomans contributing to the energy that we are proud to be a part of.”

Historic charm

Around the time Bogert and Colton first imagined their music venue, OKC developer Chip Fudge was turning his attention to a long-blighted downtown strip tucked in OKC’s central business district.

Gone was the business of film as it had been decades since movie theater owners went in and out of the Art Deco brick buildings to screen and lease films for their theaters. Populated largely by vacant buildings with vagrants sleeping on the doorsteps at night, the area was bleak and had adopted the unofficial moniker skid row.

Fudge, among others involved in the Oklahoma City Film District Task Force, saw a bright future beyond the blight. The strip along W. Sheridan Avenue had historic charm and revival potential.

“It seemed to make sense that if we could buy it, start developing it, even with the homeless and skid row chal-

Patrons of The Jones Assembly make a toast during the dinner hour on July 13. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

Partners Brian Bogert, Graham Colton, Fred and Kirk Hall and Brittany Sanger opened The Jones Assembly (pictured) in Oklahoma City this month as a dining and entertainment destination at the corner of W. Sherdian and Fred Jones avenues. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

lenges, we might have something,” Fudge said.

In 2006, Fudge did just that when he and his wife bought several historic buildings and made plans for rehabs.

As his projects moved forward, so did task force efforts to establish a Film Row business district and bring a cityfunded streetscape project to the area.

A decade later, Film Row is home to thriving businesses — from law firms and architecture firms to eateries and fine arts venues — in historic buildings and a walkable commercial corridor along W. Sheridan Avenue, which includes intersection markings reflecting the area’s historic role in the film industry.

“We’ve done a really good job of getting creative commercial,” said Fudge, who relocated his company Claims Management Resources to one

of his developed properties, The Hart Building, 726 W. Sheridan Ave., in 2013.

Early on in the development of Film Row, Fudge saw the potential for nightlife and residential offerings.

“With the Jones Assembly, the 21c Museum Hotel and the apartments, there is no question in my mind that it has come,” Fudge said.

Early urban pioneers

In 2010, timing and appeal led Irena Kendrick Kezic to relocate Joey’s Pizzeria from a small shop near the intersection of N. Classen Avenue and NW 18th Street to the newly rehabbed Sheridan Avenue Film Exchange building.

“It was a risk,” Kendrick Kezic said.

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Okay Yeah Co. Coffee & Eatery, 705 W. Sheridan Ave., opened inside Film Row’s The Plant Shoppe last fall and offers coffee and treats and an open dining room. | Photo Gazette / file

a half-dozen businesses and organizations, including deadCenter Film Festival and Caeli’s Sweets, Eats & Bar, residing in the two-story buildings.

“When you go to the Plaza District, there is a definite vibe that you recognize when you are there,” Harms said.

“Same is true of the Paseo Arts District.

I feel the Film Row district is still finding itself. It is a collaborative group of professional businesses, performance venues and small local businesses. It is very diverse people who make up this district.”

FlashBack RetroPub, which mixes a bar with an arcade, opened at 814 W. Sheridan Ave., Suite A, in Film Row in 2015 as one of the first bars in the upand-coming district. | Photo Garett Fisbeck / file

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business serving surrounding residential neighborhoods. The Film Row property allowed for growth into a fullfledged restaurant in an area poised for revitalization.

“If I can survive buying a business during an economic recession, I will survive this too,” she eventually decided.

As Joey’s Pizzeria began to fill tables, Jenny Mae Harms — a staffer with KOSU, a public radio station operated

by Oklahoma State University — garnered an early tour of the former Hart Industrial Supply Company building.

As she walked on the dirt floor, she heard about Fudge’s vision for a mixeduse workplace that included a spot for the radio station.

“I remember there being a lot of excitement about what was going to take place,” Harms recalled. “It has been really interesting to watch the journey.”

KOSU began broadcasting from Film Row’s Hart Building in September 2013 but continued to maintain a station from OSU’s Stillwater campus. These days, the public radio station is one of 6

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If I can survive buying a business during an economic recession, I will survive this too.

Irena Kendrick Kezic The district comes with a neighborly vibe, said David Smith, board president of IAO Gallery, one of the first organizations to arrive in Film Row. Part of the appeal was the potential for foot traffic, which has only increased as new businesses and organizations moved in along W. Sheridan Avenue.

“People will stop in at Joey’s or the Plant Shoppe, then they come see us,” Smith said. “There are a lot of people that come in just to say hi because they are in the neighborhood.”

During efforts to find a central business district locale to house intellectual property law firm Dunlap Codding, attorney Douglas Sorocco was shown a 1920s warehouse, once an icehouse, at 609 W. Sheridan Ave. in Film Row. “It was the overlooked, not-quiteshiny penny,” Sorocco explained about his first visit to the property nearly a half-dozen years ago. “The more we looked at it, we looked at the opportunity. When we thought about what might happen in the area, we couldn’t turn it down.”

After an extensive transformation from a warehouse to a law office, Dunlap Codding joined Film Row in February 2013. Within a few months, lawyers and legal staff were meeting closely with other Film Row tenants to plan monthly art walks and events for the district.

With the law firm’s event space, which includes a kitchen and outdoor courtyard and known as DC on Film Row, district-sponsored events have included entertainment or activities in the law firm’s office.

Over the past four years, Sorocco has come to see the area as a blank canvas, offering anyone the chance to come be part of molding the district into its own unique urban district.

“People can come and create something new that they might not be able to in a more established district with a distinct identity,” he said.

Two years ago, Jose Rodriguez arrived in Film Row with a bar arcade concept.

“It was a new concept for the city, and it perfectly paired with this up-andcoming district,” Rodriguez of FlashBack RetroPub, 814 W. Sheridan Ave., explained. “Film Row already had an established daytime crowd. Being the first bar, we helped pave the way for what else could come in the district.”

‘Camelot’ enters Act II

Revitalization efforts in Film Row picked up following the announcement of a 21c Museum Hotel to operate from the former Fred Jones factory. Last summer, the 135-room, full-service hotel with an upscale restaurant and contemporary art exhibit space opened its doors along Main Street.

Fred and Kirk Hall’s Hall Capital partnered with the Kentucky-based boutique hotel chain to bring its concept to Oklahoma and locate in their legendary grandfather’s assembly plant, which Fred Jones referred to as his “Camelot.”

The 21c Museum Hotel was the first of a three-part master plan to revitalize the west side of downtown. The Jones Assembly makes up the second part, followed by the West Village, developed

by Mark Beffort, Andy Burnett and Zach Martin in addition to Hall Capitol. The West Village will deliver housing, retail and office in the under-constructed areas east, south and north of 21c.

As The Jones Assembly settles in, it finds good company along W. Sheridan Avenue, where there is a common desire to build a better city and where aspirations, and even daydreams, have been realized again and again.

“Everybody involved in The Jones Assembly, from the partners to our staff, they are all people that love Oklahoma City,” Colton said. “A majority of us had essentially moved away but came back.

I think that represents where this city is headed. I hope people can look at this and people with other forward-thinking ideas will do them. Bet on the city. Bet people will come home. Bet people will stay.”

Film Row through the years 1907-1971 The birth of the motion picture industry took hold in the early 1900s, and according to the Oklahoma Film Society, the first film exchange business opened in Oklahoma in 1907.

Film exchanges served as the starting point for theater owners to rent or trade motion pictures to show in their theaters. In the early years, Oklahoma City’s film exchanges scattered around the city before consolidating along Grand Avenue, now known as Sheridan Avenue.

Given the area’s audience of theater owners, theater supply showrooms and supportive businesses located along the street. Major film studios, including Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Metro-GoldwynMayer and Fox Film all operated film exchanges in Oklahoma City. By the 1960s, distribution practices began to change, causing the exchanges to close. In 1971, Columbia Pictures, the city’s final film exchange, shut its doors for good.

The 1970s-early 2000s The mostly deserted downtown strip became known as a skid row as vagrants and the homeless congregated in the area not far from local shelters. Film exchanges, boarded up and left to deteriorate, were eyesores to city and community leaders; however, development efforts were mostly reserved for the suburbs, leaving little done in the inner city.

2004 to present day Property owners, preservationists, community members and government leaders came together in the Oklahoma City Film District Task Force, laying out the vision for a Film Row business district that would revitalize the derelict area. In 2007, the Film Exchange District was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

New businesses and organizations began to move into newly rehabbed buildings. The addition of 21c Museum Hotel, followed by The Jones Assembly, ushered in the next wave of revitalization.

In the early 1900s, the Paramount building housed Paramount Pictures’ Oklahoma film distribution office. | Photo Garett Fisbeck / file

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Frontier Airlines, which bills itself as an ultra-low-price carrier, is all set to start direct flights from Oklahoma City to Denver and Orlando this fall, with service to San Diego added in the spring.

Both OKC’s Will Rogers World Airport and Frontier officials delivered the air service announcement last week. OKC is one of 21 new destinations added to the carrier’s network. With that, the number of carriers flying in and out of Will Rogers rises to seven.

The airport is currently served by Alaska, Allegiant, American, Delta, Southwest and United airlines with nonstop service to 23 cities.

“We spend a significant amount of time developing air service for the community here at Will Rogers World Airport,” said airport director Mark Kranenburg. “It is always a pleasure when we get involved in an exciting air service announcement.”

Frontier Airlines brings with it new destinations, “which are great for our community, and … a history of low fares,” Kranenburg said. “Anytime we have more options for our passengers in the community and lower prices, that is a good deal.”

Beginning Nov. 1, Frontier will offer daily flights to Denver with flights to Orlando operating four days of each week.

The OKC airport serves Denver with nonstop flights from discount carrier Southwest Airlines and United Airlines.

Allegiant Air, another low-cost airline, offers seasonal flights to the Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford; however, Frontier will fly Will Rogers to Orlando International Airport.

No other Will Rogers World Airport carriers provide nonstop flights from OKC to San Diego.

Frontier’s decision to once again

offer service to OKC is heavily tied to efforts to expand air service across the country, said Frontier director of stations Sean Morahan.

We offer low fares done right. It is more than a tagline for us. It is our promise to deliver a good experience to the customers.

Sean Morahan The company found Oklahoma City “through a review of airports in looking for underserved communities where fares have been high,” Morahan said.

Frontier previously offered flights from Oklahoma City as late as 2015.

“We saw an opportunity to bring customers good fares and good service,” Morahan said.

The company’s announcement was largely met by praise from OKC travelers. Tickets can be more expensive to and from smaller markets, like Will Roger s . D a l l a s/ For t Wor t h International Airport, a hub for American Airlines, and Dallas Love Field, the corporate headquarters of Southwest, are a three-hour drive from the Oklahoma City metro. Dallas residents and tourists can land cheap airfare to either location.

Frontier’s expansion to OKC adds another option for OKC travelers seeking low fares. The carrier is known for offering discount fares, sometimes as low as $39 one way.

“People typically discover Frontier through its low fares, but we are more than low fares,” Morahan said when speaking at the Will Rogers airport. “We offer low fares done right. It is more than a tagline for us. It is our promise to deliver a good experience to the customers. We win by delivering safe, friendly, dependable and affordable travel.”

Since the Denver airport serves as Frontier’s hub, the Oklahoma City to Denver flight was chosen to connect passengers where they want to go.

Frontier also holds a significant presence at the Orlando airport. Once completed in spring 2018, the expansion puts Frontier in 82 cities with a total of more than 1,000 routes nationally.

Morahan said OKC travelers can tap into those routes.

“We recognize that flying should be affordable for the Oklahoma City community and for others across the United States,” he said.

Sean Morahan announced Frontier Airlines’ arrival at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport last week.

The discount carrier will offer service to Denver, Orlando and San Diego. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

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OKC approves an $85.4 million subsidy to help fund Omni convention center hotel development. By Laura Eastes

In three years, Oklahoma City will be home to a $288 million, state-of-the-art convention center with more than 275,000 square feet of event space.

Adjacent to the venue will be the 70-acre Scissortail Park as the Oklahoma City Streetcar glides by with service to popular downtown destinations, including Midtown, Automobile Alley and Bricktown.

In 2009, Oklahoma City voters backed the third installment of MAPS (Metropolitan Area Projects), MAPS 3, to further transform and improve the city, mostly downtown. In coming months and years, residents and visitors will begin to experience eight qualityof-life projects developed for an estimated $777 million. Some smaller MAPS 3 projects like Riversport Rapids and the fairground’s Bennett Event Center are already complete and operational.

Three years from now, a 600-room, $235.5 million hotel by Omni Hotels & Resorts will rise across the street from the convention center, located within the boundaries of SW Fourth and SW Seventh streets between S. Robinson Avenue and S. Shields Boulevard. Last week, the Oklahoma City Council approved an $85.4 million public financing agreement with the luxury hotel chain, sealing the future of a headquarters convention center hotel.

While it has taken years to get to this point with the convention center — architecture firm Populous delivered 60 percent of the project final plans to the council July 18 — it has also taken just as long to land a convention center hotel.

Despite the importance of their coexistence, the two are separate projects.

Discussion about the need for a new convention center to replace aging Cox Convention Center led to hotel talks

between city and economic development officials.

The debate is now over. Oklahoma City has officially joined a growing list of cities not only building a convention center, but also handing out millions to ensure the development of a neighboring full-service hotel in efforts to attract conventiongoers and spur city tourism revenue.

Omni Hotels & Resorts and the City of Oklahoma City reached a public financing

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In addition to improving the quality of life in Oklahoma City, MAPS projects spur private investment, which is evident from the original MAPS projects, like the improvements to the Oklahoma River and the construction of Bricktown Ballpark. A key negotiator in the deal with Omni, Cathy O’Connor, who leads Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority, said private investment follows the city’s proposed streetcar system, downtown urban park and convention center.

A 600-room hotel across from the convention center that is connected by a sky bridge will also spur the local economy, O’Connor said.

“This project is designed to create new economic impacts and benefits to Oklahoma City,” O’Connor said as she spoke in favor of a headquarters hotel when addressing the council at its regular July 18 meeting. “It will generate increased tourism to Oklahoma City, which is one of the fastest-growing components of our local economy, it will provide job creation and increased employment opportunities both as the hotel is constructed and as the hotel continues operation.

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In addition to tax increment financing (TIF), the public financing package includes lease payments from past public assistance that was provided for the development of The Skirvin Hilton Oklahoma City and Bass Pro Shop and land payments for the hotel site. City officials said more than half of the public assistance comes from the operations of the hotel.

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Under conditions in the 45-year agreement, Omni will pay $200,000 a year for 25 years, beginning the fifth year after hotel completion. Omni will make a minimum annual tax payment of $1.4 million for 30 years.

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be Oklahoma City’s “convention center hotel.”

The city must move forward with the build and operation of a parking garage to serve Omni and convention center guests. Under a parking easement agreement, Omni will have access to 450 parking spaces, which access at the market rate.

Oklahoma City Council has estimated the parking garage building cost will be $37 million, and it has been suggested to use some funds from the MAPS 3 contingency fund to complete it. The council has not reached any final decision on a funding plan for the garage.

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Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School, part of a network of 32 Catholic schools serving over 10,000 students in 21 states, is scheduled to open in Fall 2018 on the Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City campus.

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Renee Porter, president of Cristo Rey OKC, said the school came about when a group of volunteers in the archdiocese reached out to Archbishop Paul Coakley about launching a feasibility study. The goal was to determine whether there would be a sufficient interest and need for such a school.

“There is a network that oversees this group of schools that have been established across the country,” Porter said. “They don’t necessarily go out and start pitching schools to cities — it’s more that a city would express interest to Cristo Rey.” The feasibility study identified key attributes of a possible Cristo Rey com-

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munity: interest from students and families, a potential building, private fundraising and corporate partners for fifth-day employment.

Porter said that all the prerequisites were met, with about 35 corporations signing on to sponsor the school and employ the students.

She characterized the environment as intensive college prep instruction with longer classroom days and lengthier school years.

“It’s going to be a lot,” she said. “We’ll push them hard, but not farther than any student is capable of learning. If they’re interested in all those things, then we’re certainly interested in having them apply.”

Beyond the benefit of being able to cover much of their tuition, Porter said the fifth-day work study program gives the students the opportunity to discover what it’s like to work in a corporate setting and possibly inspire them toward future careers.

“I’ve heard some other Cristo Rey students say, ‘I would absolutely never work in this kind or that kind of company,’” Porter said. “But it often results in them finding a career that hooks them — it might be health care, for example.”

Academic focus

Last month, Cristo Rey OKC hired Cody Yocom as its principal. Yocom comes to Cristo Rey from Uplift Heights Preparatory, a Dallas charter school. In 2016, Uplift Heights led the district in reading and math score improvement.

Prior to Uplift Heights, Yocom was co-principal at New Orleans’ KIPP Renaissance High School. During his tenure there, Yocom helped transform a once-underperforming school, raising its “good” or “excellent” test scores by 16 percent.

Under the Cristo Rey system, Yocom’s duties as principal will focus on classrooms, curriculum and effectiveness. As president, Porter will preside over the operations and development side.

“That allows him and his team of teachers and educators to focus on the academic piece, because we do know we’re going to have students coming in who are one to two grade levels behind where they should be,” Porter said. “So there’s a lot of intensity and a lot of focus that needs to be placed on those students, and this kind of structure allows this to take place.”

Porter said that the president-principal system can place the principal in an unusually good position to respond to students’ needs.

We’ll push them hard, but not farther than any student is capable of learning.

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Future success

Cristo Rey OKC will have a full complement of students, freshman through senior classes, by the 2021-22 school year. As such, it will take a few years before the school can boast its own track record of scholastic excellence.

However, since the first school was founded in Chicago in 1996, over 7,000 students have earned their undergraduate degrees or are in the process of completing their studies.

Porter said she recently visited the Cleveland school as part of her preparations for the Oklahoma City location.

She said that she met one student who started out with low expectations for her education and discovered there was much more in her future.

“One of their seniors this year, who I had a chance to actually sit down and have lunch with, she was making a decision for college between Vanderbilt [University], Washington University in St. Louis, Georgetown University and Harvard,” Porter said. “And she’s going to be a freshman at Harvard this fall. She said, ‘I didn’t think these kind of options or opportunities would ever be available to me.’”

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Crowbar caper

The popularity of big-box stores is understandable even if their buying/ selling power does force some small businesses to close. Who doesn’t appreciate stopping by just one store for laundry detergent and the latest blockbuster movie to come to DVD — or picking up a crowbar and a wad of cash — in the same trip?

One Oklahoma City thief saw the convenience in targeting one of the metro’s Walmart Supercenters.

The Oklahoma City Police Department posted a video of the suspect taking a crowbar from a shelf and then using it to break into the cash register in the automotive section. We at Chicken-Fried News don’t consider ourselves to be detectives, but we’ll take a wild guess and assume he found the crowbar in the home improvement section, next to the hammers and nails.

In any case, KFOR.com reported that the unidentified bandit made off with just under $1,195 in less than 30 seconds.

The amazing thing is the department was unmanned and no customers or employees saw anything as the suspect perpetrated the alleged crime about 8:30 p.m. However, Walmart surveillance cameras caught it all on tape — or digital video files.

“If an area is not manned, it can be easy to walk in there and simply take something and walk out,” Oklahoma City Police Department assistant public information officer MSgt. Gary Knight said in a media briefing. “I don’t know that he realized that there were so many cameras there that captured images of him.”

Knight said police are hopeful that someone will recognize the suspect and call the police department’s CrimeStoppers hotline at 405-235-7300.

Testing, testing …

If you’re hoping that his test scores can explain why little Jimmy’s so … unique, you’ll have to keep waiting to find out.

During the Oklahoma Department of Education’s traveling conference, EngageOK, officials informed schools that there will be no U.S. history test for this upcoming school year and high school juniors will take a new science test alongside either the ACT or SAT to meet state requirements. Schools also were advised that the results of some state assessments won’t be released until Oct. 11.

State superintendent Joy Hofmeister told Tulsa World that a new U.S. history test has been in the works for over a year.

“The Oklahoma State Department of Education and content experts/practitioners are in the process of developing a U.S. history assessment that more accurately reflects the breadth and scope of the subject to assure students are college- and career-ready,” Hofmeister said.

Instead of continuing to administer the test as-is, the Department of Education has evidently decided that, instead, just having no test at all will somehow serve students better this year.

The newest development in Oklahoma education comes as a shock to all of us at Chicken-Fried News since the Sooner State has done exemplary work to prioritize its students

for, like, ever.

Oh, we’re not kidding anyone.

Oklahoma’s still ranked No. 49 in education, and it doesn’t look like we’ll be moving up any time soon.

State education officials have provided the results of third-grade assessments related to the Reading Sufficiency Act, but teachers are still waiting on the rest of their test results. Without official knowledge on which kids made the grade, educators cannot plan their classes or evaluate which third-graders can move on to fourth grade.

Tulsa World reports that the state has “encouraged school districts to use other tools” than the assessments that thoroughly evaluate the question. And while we’re at it, Oklahoma, we’d like to encourage you all to throw out your frying pans. We think a brick covered in aluminum foil will work just as well to meet your frying needs.

Garth’s gift

What better way to embark on the storied road to matrimony than with the blessings of the greatest-selling American music artist in recorded history? There are marriage proposals, and then there are the show-stopping question poppings like the one Drew Bargsley pitched to Chelsea Townsend during Garth Brooks’ July 15 concert at Chesapeake Arena.

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During Brooks’ performance of “Unanswered Prayers” (one of Tulsa-born and Yukon-raised country megastar’s seemingly endless selection of bona fide hits), Bargsley dropped to one knee and asked for Townsend’s hand in marriage.

It is a good thing she said yes, because the commotion caught Brooks’ eye and he congratulated the couple from the stage. He asked Townsend where she wanted to go on her honeymoon. She shouted that she did not know. We forgive her. She was certainly still caught up in the moment.

“No idea?” Brooks asked. “Well, I tell you what, if you pick Hawaii, Miss Yearwood and I will pay for it, OK?” The proposal happened during the final concert in the two-day, multipleshow Oklahoma City homecoming stop of Brooks’ world tour with wife Trisha Yearwood.

Hopefully Townsend is a fan of the ocean, beaches, black coral, mid-80s temps, Spam musubi, gorgeous sunsets, mountains, coffee and vanilla farming, luaus, shave ice and lush flora. Still, we’re pretty sure the best honeymoon is usually a free honeymoon, especially

when a Country Music Hall of Famer is footing the bill.

Of course, a generous gift like this always needs to be cleared with the Mrs. So, a few songs later, after Yearwood appeared on stage to perform, Brooks told her about the earlier proposal and his offer to the couple.

“Sure. Absolutely.

Congratulations — but nobody else can get engaged tonight,” she added. “We’ll talk about my vacation later.”

Although we’re sure the couple probably have room in their spending budgets to fit in an additional gift vacation or two — Brooks and Yearwood’s combined net worth comes out to about $350 million, according to celebritynetworth.com — we here at Chicken-Fried News would like to compromise by proposing the more economic option of simply letting us tag along on the country crooners’ to-be-determined trip.

Justin Case

Do you know the motto of Yukon Rep. John Paul Jordan? We at Chicken-Fried News think we know!

Our guess: “Do it for Justin!” You know, Justin Case. Just-in Case. Get it?!

Our second guess: “Be prepared.”

Jordan, a Republican attorney first elected in 2014, is so on it when it comes to State Question 788, an initiative petition to create new laws for Oklahomans who wish to allow marijuana use for medical purposes.

While Jordan had nothing to do with efforts to collect signatures to put it on the November 2018 ballot — that was Oklahomans for Health — he wants to review the impacts of medical marijuana legalization and get some important questions answered.

Earlier in the summer, Jordan requested an interim study on State Question 788, which was approved by Republican House Speaker Charles McCall.

“It could have a lot of variables and ramifications that I think we as a state need to be prepared for, should it pass,” Jordan told NewsOK. “I want to make sure that we’re being proactive in the Legislature and proactive as a state for all the possibilities so that we don’t have problems afterwards.”

Jordan’s motto has to be, “Be Prepared.”

So what are some of the questions that need to be reviewed on State Question 788?

In Jordan’s study

request, he listed nine questions, including: What policies and procedures need to be put in place? What practices have other stated adopted?

What agencies will regulate? Should it be taxed?

Now, you ask, “Who might present?”

No confirmation just yet; however, Colorado Department of Revenue–Marijuana Enforcement Division, Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission, Louisiana State Sen. Fred Mills, Oklahomans for Health, Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association, Oklahoma Department of Corrections and District Attorneys Council are just some of the citizens and organizations to be notified on the study, according to Jordan’s interim study proposal.

So “Be Prepared” Jordan is getting the state prepared for a future with medical marijuana?

Not so fast.

“This is to make sure that folks know what the consequences are and for us to be able to prepare for them as a state,” Jordan said.

Better change that motto to “Be Prepared for the Consequences!” or, as we say, “That Justin Case dude can be a real jerk sometimes.”

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NEWS Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com.

Include a city of residence and contact number for verification.

Essential resource

A mistake that many conservatives make is to confuse Planned Parenthood with abortion clinics, which is not the case at all. Planned Parenthood serves as an important medical resource for millions of women who lack the many services they need.

Planned Parenthood is trusted by women everywhere. I know because I used its services when I was in my 20s, when I was just starting out in the real world but with no access to health care. Planned Parenthood helped me heal what ailed me at the time and provided me with followup recommendations to a qualified OBGYN. It never once suggested abortions or recommended anything aside from the quality care I needed and deserved.

That fact that study after study proves access to contraceptives is the key to min-

imizing abortions is ignored by antiPlanned Parenthood crusaders. They also ignore that diligent care of women’s bodies is critical to preventing future diseases and infections — which leads to lower health care costs for taxpayers. The main goal of these crusaders is to simply control the freedom and availability of choices that women should have to make informed decisions about their own bodies.

Defunding Planned Parenthood would be a grave disservice to the millions of women who rely on its care. Anti-Planned Parenthood crusaders must look beyond imposing their values and morals and focus instead on what they were elected to do: work in the best interest of the people.

I demand that our politicians continue to fund Planned Parenthood.

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99 percent

I am asking Oklahomans to stand up to the Republican stranglehold on our state.

We are again experiencing a major budget deficit. Our representatives have served big oil to the detriment of our schools, our health, our environment and our jobs We do not educate our citizens to be part of the new economy. We cannot keep good teachers because they are so vastly underpaid.

However, the leadership of this state

spends its time and political capital on creating restrictive laws for women and tax breaks for big oil.

It is time for us to back candidates that will look out for us and not just the 1 percent.

Virginia Green Duncan

Get a life

The Oklahoman recently did a full-page piece on massage parlors and how they’re giving more than massages. And my question to that is: So what?!

Isn’t that better than legalizing prostitution? And you know Oklahoma in no way, shape or form is going to do that. I say so what if a guy wants to get some relief in a legitimate, clean environment that doesn’t do any harm to anyone.

Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. There’s no way you’re going to stop it. And right now, we have people all over the country being robbed, bank accounts hacked and people being murdered; do we not have more important things to be concerned about than a guy getting “a happy ending”? Come on, critics! Get a life!

Joe Wright Oklahoma City

Supporting Article V

I recently listened to Tom Coburn, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, talking about a Constitutional convention, or an Article V Convention, which includes a way to establish term limits on Congress and the courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court.

If for no other reason, this should be supported because it’s time to get many of those in Congress — both Democrats and Republicans — out of the game as well as too many leftist liberal judges making their own law.

There are other reasons for supporting this, but this is a good start.

Don Porter Oklahoma City

Fund it

I am writing to express my support for Planned Parenthood. I have contacted U.S. Senators from Oklahoma James Lankford and James Inhofe more times than I can count about the important services it provides toward women’s health care. I am a volunteer clinic escort for patients because no one should be intimidated when seeking health care, especially for services that are wholly legal.

I hope our senators listen to Oklahomans and do not defund Planned Parenthood, a vital resource for our community.

Sarah Hoss McLoud

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of his restaurant with an aquarium coupled with a pair of French doors that Pelican’s uses for parties and meetings.

The owners also began to close a little earlier on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays.

“Tim and I scrapped traditional-type advertising and we started going doorto-door,” Dolezel said. “You never tell people that your business is dying; you say ‘Hey, why don’t you have your retirement party with us?’ Just last week, we had 70 or 80 people for the Midwest City High School class of ’77, and we’ll have another group today.”

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Tasty treasure

In today’s struggling casual dining market, this Midwest City hot spot finds long-term success by simultaneously scrapping and refocusing on community and tradition.

owner Tim Thelin.

As he let go of his other restaurant properties throughout the years, Dolezel held tightly to his pride and joy. He enclosed a private dining area in the back

Many of the patrons that have eaten at Pelican’s since its 1980 opening will recognize its commitment to quality and longtime employees.

Dolezel said he always envisioned creating an intuition-type restaurant where parents brought their kids and they still come back with their own children a generation later.

“We had a couple recently come in that worked at Tinker [Air Force Base] and got transferred to San Antonio 20 years ago,” he said. “‘We used to come in here all the time; it was the last place continued on page 18

By Jacob Threadgill

The shadow cast by the vacant Heritage Park Mall nearly obliterated Pelican’s Restaurant, Midwest City’s longestoperating family-owned eatery.

Even as the mall’s Sears readies for its planned September closure, Pelican’s sales are rising.

The pub and restaurant tucked in the corner of the mall parking lot eschews a national decline for similar casual dining eateries like Applebee’s, Chili’s and Olive Garden and instead has become a focal point for Midwest City’s movers and shakers, according to city economic development director Robert Coleman.

“It’s an institution in eastern Oklahoma County,” he said. “You’ll see people from all walks of life in there — senators, city councilmen and regular folks.”

But that hasn’t always been the case.

As the movie theater and stores fled the indoor mall in 2009 and 2010, Pelican’s co-owner Jim Dolezel was unsure how much longer he could keep his restaurant open.

He said business declined 35 percent with the loss of late-night moviegoers that often kept the kitchen open past its scheduled 11 p.m. closing time.

Pelican’s has done exceptionally well.

There are not many restaurants that can survive for 37 years with the same ownership and management.

Robert Coleman

Bouncing back

“We bottomed out in 2010. I remember thinking, ‘I can’t keep going like this. If it stays like this another month, I think I’ll just close it,’” he said. “That December, things shot up, and it’s just kept going like that. Now our sales are exactly where they were when the mall and theaters were full.”

Originally from southern Michigan, Dolezel said he has operated more than 45 restaurants throughout his career.

He moved his family from Dallas to Midwest City to oversee the Pelican’s property when it was part of the Pelican’s International Corporation franchise.

He bought out the Midwest City store’s franchise rights and now independently operates the eatery with co-

Jim Dolezel has operated more than 45 restaurants in his lifetime, but his one true love is longtime Midwest City favorite Pelican’s Restaurant. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

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we ate. … Is that Judy? She waited on us last time we were in here.’

That’s a neat feeling for people to know who you are.”

It continues with other longtime employees like Thelin, whose mother was one of the eatery’s first employees. Thelin began babysitting Dolezel’s children while in high school.

“One day, [Dolezel] called and said, ‘Do you want a job? Come in with your mom tonight.’ By the time I was a junior in high school, I was pretty much running the kitchen,” Thelin said.

Today, Thelin is Pelican’s co-owner and head chef. His menu focuses on fresh fish, steaks and chicken.

The beer-battered shrimp holds its coating well without a hint of frozen aftertaste because it is never frozen.

Dozelel said the fresh house tilapia is ordered at the highest quality, and it shows with a flavor that is missing from lower-grade fish that usually ends up fried for fish tacos at other restaurants.

Hawaiian chicken, steaks and chicken tenders are other menu favorites that can be paired with a fresh salad bar, and Coleman endorsed Dolezel’s claim that it’s the best in the state.

“When you go to the major chains, they buy bag salads, which you can get at the grocery store,” Dolezel said. “The only way to keep that good is to put sulfites or nitrogen in there. We don’t use preservatives.”

Quality counts

Dolezel said that during a blindfolded taste-test between Pelican’s and similarly priced casual dining chains, you’d immediately taste the difference in quality.

Midwest City is one of the top cities in the state for per capita retail sales, according to Coleman, who said Oklahoma is one of the top states in the country for fast-food spending, which is a fact backed up with 2012 Intuit

Consumer Spending Index data.

“Because it’s a fast-food market, people used to think we were a highpriced restaurant, but then you see the prices Chili’s and Logan’s-type of places have now, and they’re right in line with us,” Dolezel said. “We don’t cut corners, though.”

Pelican’s success comes as national casual dining chains are struggling, and media headlines like Business Insider’s “Millennials are killing chains like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee’s” warn of impending doom.

Restaurant Industry tracker TDn2K put the blame on casual dining franchises like Buffalo Wild Wings, where its 2.4 percent same-store sales drop mirrors a drop in the national average.

That’s a neat feeling for people to know who you are.

Jim Dolezel Dolezel said Pelican’s sales have increased six percent each of the last two years, paving the way to anchor what the city hopes is a revitalization of the Heritage Park Mall property.

Coleman said the city is working with the property owner to refurbish the site and recruit stores for the indoor mall.

“Obviously, enclosed shopping malls across the country are in decline, but we’re trying to work it out in one fashion or another,” Coleman said. “Pelican’s has done exceptionally well. There are not many restaurants that can survive for 37 years with the same ownership and management. They have a great staff and a very homey feeling. We’ve got a number of mom-and-pops that have survived, but they’re the oldest.”

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Edmond’s The One Cafe packs plenty of variety onto its fresh-to-order menu.

By Ben Luschen

Owner Benny Fong said the question is not why Edmond’s The One Cafe is named what it is, but why not.

“Well, you want to be No. 1,” Fong said in a recent Oklahoma Gazette interview.

The small restaurant nestled between Sunlight Donuts and a military recruitment office at 122 E. 15th St. is certainly a contender for best of the best when it comes to range of selection.

The One Cafe has a colorful and diverse menu that includes sandwiches, salads, crêpes, pasta and poke sushi bowls.

Fong said the restaurant primarily serves the lunch crowd, but it also sells breakfast crêpes and smoothies all day.

The cafe is open 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday, closing for Sundays and major holidays.

Looking at the menu, one probably would not expect to find sports memorabilia hanging from the wall, yet small

plaques dedicated to Dallas Cowboys football legends stand out in the otherwise clean and simple decor.

Fong said he does not watch the Cowboys as much as he used to, but he was a huge fan of the early “America’s team” squads of the late 1970s that featured players like running back Tony Dorsett and defensive lineman Ed “Too Tall” Jones.

If you want fries, there’s McDonald’s.

Benny Fong Fong opened The One Cafe in September 2011 with co-owner wife Jessie. It is the first establishment he has owned, but he has worked in the food industry all his life, beginning as a boy working for his uncle’s Chinese

Husband-and-wife co-owners of Edmond’s The One Cafe Benny and Jessie Fong opened the restaurant in September 2011. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

restaurant in south Oklahoma City.

His uncle has since retired from the restaurant business.

Other than a desire to be the best, Fong said The One Cafe was so named as the answer for the common question, “Where are you going for lunch?” “‘Oh, you know, The One place,’”

Fong explained.

With a menu this diverse, it is easy to make The One Cafe the answer to hungry patrons’ lunch questions for the whole week without any redundancy.

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Many choices

The eatery began mostly as a sandwich and salad shop and grew its menu from there.

Fong said its diverse selection is all tied together through its fresh and health-conscious philosophy.

Another goal is to offer menu items that are hard to find elsewhere.

“If you’ll notice, a lot of our sandwiches are kind of unique,” he said. “A lot of our items are unique and not available anywhere else. We want to be different.”

The One Cafe’s sandwiches are served on the customer’s choice of sourdough bread, wheat bread or crêpe wrap and include garlic aioli, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle and a side of chips.

Its most popular sandwich is the more traditional bacon ranch chicken club ($6.59), which includes pulled chicken breast, bacon, ranch sauce and cheddar cheese.

More adventurous options including honey chicken ($6.59) — a sweeter option with pulled chicken, honey, honey mustard, barbecue sauce and provolone

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cheese — are also on the menu.

Crêpes are wonderful in that they can be used in a number of ways. The One Cafe offers breakfast, savory and dessert versions of its staple feature in addition to its role as a sandwich vessel.

There might be no better way to cap off a day than with The One Cafe’s Sweet Old Friend dessert crêpe ($5.49).

Bananas, strawberries and Nutella are folded inside a delicately crisp crêpe and elegantly topped with whipped cream and chocolate sauce.

In terms of filling meal options, it is hard to beat the poke sushi bowl ($10.99).

Introduced to the menu in early 2016, the Hawaiian traditional raw fish salad has quickly become one of the cafe’s best-selling options.

“If you like sushi, you will love it,” Fong said.

The One Cafe’s version of the poke bowl is always customizable and made fresh to order.

The process of assembling the meal resembles the assembly line model many guests will recognize from their favorite sub sandwich or fast-casual burrito stop.

First, customers select a base of

either salad or white rice. On top of that is a layer of avocado ($1 extra), crabmeat ($1.50 extra), cucumbers or onions.

Choice of fish comes next. Fong said salmon is by far the most popular, but other options include scallops, tuna and spicy tuna.

A variety of other toppings and sauces can be added to finish it off.

Fresh popularity

Fong said The One Cafe thrives in striking a balance between traditional and less common menu items, like the poke bowls.

“A lot of our newer items are for the newer style — for the more progressive folks who want to try something a little different,” he said.

Fong and his wife are always thinking of new ways they can tinker with or add to the menu.

A lot of our items are unique and not available anywhere else.

We want to be different.

Benny Fong The poke was inspired by a trip Jessie took to Hawaii.

She noticed while many restaurants had the fish salads on their menus there, hardly anyone in Oklahoma City offered it.

Considering the popularity of raw fish in sushi form, Fong said he knew poke bowls would not be too much of a leap for his customers.

Being in Edmond, The One Cafe draws heavily from the college crowd with students from the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma Christian University.

Fong said they also see a lot of business from young professionals who work nearby and visit during their lunch break.

Poke, which is found on few other menus in Central Oklahoma, has fans near and far.

“We have people come in from Del City, Norman, Yukon, Mustang,” Fong said. “They come up here.”

Its diverse menu keeps frequent guests engaged, but the flavors are what really keeps them coming back.

Bold taste comes from the Fongs’ insistence on freshness.

“Everything is made-to-order,” he said. “Nothing is premade.”

In a lunch market saturated with fatty, greasy or fried options, Fong said his customers can leave his restaurant knowing everything they ate was made with care from wholesome ingredients.

“If you want fries,” he said, “there’s McDonald’s.”

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Oklahoma Craft Beer Summit returns Aug. 4 to OKC. By Megan Prather

It’s the time of year for craft beer lovers to rejoice, as Oklahoma Craft Beer Summit returns for its second year Aug. 5 at Tower Theatre.

The summit features an array of craft beers — from barrel-aged brews to strong ales — by 20 breweries across the state.

“It’s a great event for people who want to support local craft beer because all of the funds after expenses go to the Craft Brewers Association of Oklahoma,” said Oklahoma Craft Beer Summit founder and owner of Oak & Ore craft beer bar Micah Andrews.

Craft Brewers Association of Oklahoma’s goal is to educate and create awareness about the issues the state’s craft brewing industry faces. It also promotes an economic environment of choice and access for consumers and brewers.

The event is intended to be informative and features sessions, panels and guest speakers.

Special keynote speaker Damon Scott, technical brewing projects coordinator at the national Brewers Association, will discuss craft brewing trends across the country.

“We didn’t really have a voice or a way for the public to really understand what they’re working on,” Andrews said. “So as [Oklahoma Brewers Association has] gotten more organized, we’ve tried to be an outlet for them, and the summit really allows for the breweries to come together and have a voice to the public and to legislators.”

Oklahoma Craft Beer Summit kicks off 5-9 p.m. Aug. 4 with a pre-conference party at Stonecloud Brewing Co., 1012 NW First Street, where attendees can tour the city’s newest brewery, learn more about the revitalization of the Sunshine Laundry building and, of course, try some Stonecloud beer.

Summit registration begins 9 a.m.

Aug. 5 at Tower Theatre, 524 NW 23rd St., and a breakfast and stout beer tasting follows at 9:30 a.m. featuring Anthem Brewing Company’s Coffee Domestique, Twisted Spike Brewing Co.’s Black Snake and 405 Brewing Co.’s FDR. It continues with a panel featuring speaker Bernardo Alatorre, production manager at Avery Brewing Co., who will discuss upcoming challenges in the industry and quality assurance.

The State of the Brewnion address begins at 11 a.m. with key members of the Craft Brewers Association of Oklahoma discussing how recent liquor law changes have affected the outlook for the industry.

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The day moves onward with more beer tastings, a draft systems demonstration, a hops and malt panel and a lunch sponsored by Hideaway Pizza.

The tasting floor is open 1:30-4 p.m. and features Oklahoma breweries including Skydance Brewing Co., Angry Scotsman Brewing, Frenzy Brewing Co. and OK Cider Co. “We want to show the public and legislators the support there is for local craft beer,” Andrews said.

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Chillin’

Snow cones are a sweet summer treat, especially in Oklahoma, where average July temperatures are in the upper 90s. They come in different shapes and sizes, but whether you’re a casual shaved ice fan or a devotee forever in search of that perfect flavor combination, Oklahoma City offers an array of spots to snow cone and chill.

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Shimmers Sno Cones Multiple metro locations shimmerssnocones.com 405-471-1464

This is a little stand with a big flavor selection. Enjoy classics like cherry or grape or expand your lip-smacking repertoire with something from its specials menu like the Thunder (tangerine, Silver Fox and Polar Punch), Batman (banana and bubblegum) and Pistol Pete (orange, Silver Fox and cream). Cutting your sugar intake? Good! For you, we suggest trying sugar-free versions of black cherry or the ever-popular tigers blood.

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8000 NW 39th Expressway, Bethany facebook.com/alohashaveicecoffeeshoppe 405-633-7778

This family-owned shave ice shop serves up freshly ground, locally roasted coffee and espresso as well as smoothies, tea, soups and sandwiches, bagels and muffins.

Its shaved-ice snowballs are served with ice cream on the bottom and cream on top, making this an authentic Hawaiian-style treat, in flavors from cherry to German chocolate cake. Sizes range from kids to an 80-ounce pail. Yes, we just said a pail.

Katiebug’s Trailer Park 103 N. Broadway, Edmond facebook.com/katiebugsokc 405-397-4812

This mother-daughter duo run a food truck trailer park at 103 N. Broadway, and their vintage 1958 Cardinal “canned ham” travel trailer truck serves shaved ice and hot chocolate year-round. Everything Katiebug’s makes is natural or organic, from the shaved ice’s syrup to the hot cocoa’s artisan marshmallows.All the syrups are handcrafted using pure organic cane sugar, fresh fruit, local herbs and locally blended teas. If you’re want it on the go, check its social media accounts.

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Raspados Hawaiian

This local food truck offers s’mores, craft coffees and, of course, its shaved ice served in a ball as big as your head. While the flavors offered do rotate, a must-try is its signature S’more Cone, a classic graham cracker, marshmallow and chocolate campfire treat with a chilledout summer twist. You’ll find this truck just about everywhere, from Edmond’s Heard on Hurd monthly street festival to Midtown OKC’s The Bleu Garten.

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From Hawaiian burgers to Dorielotes, Raspados Hawaiian serves up a little bit of everything; however, its shave ice steals the show. The 40 flavors it serves are allnatural and made with fruit. Obispos are made with fresh fruit and come in four flavor varieties — mango, strawberry, pineapple and banana — and are topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. If Warr Acres seems like a bit far to drive (hey, it’s closer than Hawaii), check out Raspados at 6041 NW 23rd St. in OKC.

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Open daily, this tiny Mr. Chills Snow Cones stand offers 50 flavors with tantalizing names like Peppermint Patty, tamarindo, Super Hero, Cry Baby, dill pickle, Maui Wowee, Pink Mermaid and Red-Hot Cajun.

For 50 cents more, top it off with your choice of gummy bears, Skittles, whipped cream, ice cream, chili lime, cream, sprinkles, chamoy or Nerds. Visit its walk-up window during happy hour 2-4 p.m.

Monday-Thursday for 50 cents off any snow cones (excluding extra small).

City Flavors brings authentic Philadelphiastyle water ice to OKC-area shave ice fans.

Now, you might be wondering, “What the heck is water ice?” “My editor would probably tell me that seems a little redundant,” and/or “Is that just a clever name for snow cone?” A traditional snow cone has syrup poured over the ice, where water ice is made in more like ice cream and the ingredients are frozen while being mixed in. With 16 flavors to choose from, we bet you’ll discover a new favorite frozen summer treat.

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In a story thousands of years in the making, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum celebrates 30 years as ‘the dinosaur museum.’ By Rachel Schaub

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has gone by many names since the institution first began.

From Zoology Museum to Stovall Museum to Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, the state’s official natural history museum landed on its current moniker after a generous donation from the Noble family as it moved to its current permanent facility, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., in Norman on the University of Oklahoma (OU) campus.

The institution celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, though museum director Michael Mares admitted that number is a little misleading.

It has existed in some form since 1899.

“It started in the mid-’80s to try to get the state to recognize the museum as the official natural history museum for the state of Oklahoma, being really the only natural history museum in the state,” he said. “And we worked with the Legislature to do that, and in 1987, they passed a bill. … Around that time, they recognized the state fossil [Saurophaganax Maximus, also called the ‘king of the dinosaurs’], which is the dinosaur we have and some other things. So we started to get that 28

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statewide recognition although we had served the state at that time for 80 years.”

‘Rocky road’

This year’s anniversary commemorates the institution’s official recognition by the state and its subsequent name change from Stovall Museum to Oklahoma Museum of Natural History to Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. It had been named for J. Willis Stovall, a paleontologist and the first director of the combined natural and cultural history museum.

These days, it’s colloquially called “the dinosaur museum,” and for good reason.

Stovall oversaw the organization’s acquisitions during the Great Depression.

“The museum itself had sort of a rocky road — it had burned down a couple of times in the university’s history, and the collections were restarted,” Mares said.

“Then, during the Great Depression, the collections really grew enormously because so many people were out of work and the federal government hired researchers.

“Stovall had a big crew of 30 to 40 people. That’s when we got the fossilized dinosaur and a lot of other fossils. …

Between these curators and researchers, they brought in millions of items.”

Mares arrived at OU in 1981, when the institution was housed in about 10 campus buildings.

“None of them [were] very good buildings, and some of them [were] terrible buildings,” Mares said. “Some of them were barns and stables; others were temporary barracks that were built in World War II.” The piecemeal museum faced an issue other than accessibility with its 1981 organization: protection from Oklahoma’s weather.

The museum has a very positive effect on a lot of areas that people don’t know much about.

For example, our scientists, our curators and their graduate students are publishing research that’s known around the world.

Michael Mares “Most of [the buildings] had a very rapid burn-down time, measured in minutes, actually,” Mares said. “I estimated the collections at the time as about 5 million objects, but no one really knew how many objects there were.”

‘Popular project’

Mares became director in 1983. He and others at the institution worked to pack

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History celebrates 30 years as a state-recognized institution this year, although it’s been around in some form since 1899. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

and move the collections and spoke with the state Legislature about gaining formal recognition. With the state’s official seal of approval, thoughts turned to funding a new facility.

“We had been trying to get museums over the previous [years], and all of them had failed,” he said. “The market crashed, or the Great Depression, or the governor was fighting with the president of the university, and one thing after another.”

Mares said GI Bill funding in Oklahoma came from funds that would have financed building the natural history museum years before construction began.

“The town of Norman passed the first bond bill [in 1991] to provide $5 million for a new museum,” he said. “Norman doesn’t usually do these kinds of things; I believe the last time they did it was to help found the University of Oklahoma in Norman. So we got the $5 million — that allowed us to use state funding and we increased our private funding, and ultimately we raised $45 or $50 million for the new building and for the operations of that building.

“A lot of help [came from] the people of Oklahoma, from numerous legislators, from our local delegation from the town, the people of Norman and the mayor, so it was a very popular project — maybe the most popular project the state ever had.”

Construction of today’s Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History broke ground in 1996 and was completed by 2000.

“In a way, we were fortunate, I think, that we didn’t lose anything by fire or storm, which is always a great worry in Oklahoma, and we got a building that was designed to protect the collection on into continued on page 33

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the future,” he said. “It’s a beautiful building; it’s well designed. It was built as a museum, and it protects those 10 million objects, which are pretty priceless when you get into all that they cover not only in Oklahoma history and science but in world cultures.”

Curating celebration

To commemorate more than three decades of preserving Oklahoma natural history, Sam Noble now publishes its newsletter, Tracks, in a classic, almost retro style. This year’s exhibits are a part of the celebration, as well.

“I know we have some exhibits that have come in that are celebrating this — the Great Balls of Fire exhibit is part of our 30-year celebration.”

Sam Noble partnered with Will Rogers World Airport for a natural history-inspired mural near the airport’s baggage claim. Local artist Nick Bayer created the installation, which remains on display until February.

The museum has much more than an anniversary to celebrate — it has also been collecting impressive awards on the national level.

“We won the National Medal for Museums (in 2014), which is the U.S. government’s highest award,” he said. “I got a chance go to the White House and meet [First Lady] Obama, which was great; I had never been to the White House. We also won in 2003 the National Heritage Award, which was shared that year with the National Archives, which stores the Declaration of Independence.

So that’s the group we were in that year, and we did it for saving Oklahoma’s heritage and the new building, funding, conservation and the preservation of the collections.”

Mares said the institution’s digitized collections are used worldwide for research and reference.

“The museum has a very positive effect on a lot of areas that people don’t know much about. For example, our scientists, our curators and their graduate students are publishing research that’s known around the world,” he said. “I think our collections alone last year were sampled by museums around the world to the tune of 1 billion data points.”

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Wherever he drives in Oklahoma City, David Castillo sees new, Hispanic-owned businesses cropping up, far beyond Commerce Street. Increasingly, he said, the Latino community has thrived beyond the confines of a few square blocks on the city’s south side, which makes Saturday’s ¡Viva Oklahoma! Hispanic Chamber Expo and Career Fair, a business expo focusing on the growing Hispanic market for goods and services, so timely.

“It used to be just 25th or 29th Street,” said Castillo, Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, about the community’s success. “Now, you drive down 44th or 59th Street, and you’re seeing new businesses opening up everywhere, so it’s incredible growth. And that’s just the south side. If you go to Bethany, if you go to Warr Acres, the Guatemalan community is growing tremendously over in that area.”

The expo runs 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads, 7000 Crossroads Blvd., and features more than 150 vendors, including retailers, universities, health services and hospitals and banks and credit unions, reaching out to the metro area’s growing Latino community.

Organizations do not necessarily have to be Hispanic-owned to be members of the chamber, which means that companies such as El Nacional Media Group share space on the roster with Lowe’s Home Improvement. ¡Viva Oklahoma! Hispanic Chamber Expo and Career Fair also hosts a career fair, creating an opportunity for companies to recruit from the community.

Castillo said the career fair also is a prime

hiring opportunity for businesses needing bilingual employees.

Saturday’s event also includes a talent contest, two live bands, mariachi performers and folkloric dancing. Oklahoma City Thunder and Oklahoma City Energy Football Club also will host sports activities for young attendees.

The Hispanic community’s power on a population level is now being felt on a political level. On July 11, immigration attorney and Democrat Michael BrooksJimenez won the state Senate seat for District 44, which is located in southwest OKC. Castillo said Oklahoma’s demographic shifts are being felt on many levels, including increased buying power for Hispanics in the state.

“It’s actually $7.8 billion across Oklahoma,” he said of the economic impact. “We have over 400,000 Hispanics in Oklahoma, and [the demographic is] continually growing. Just look at Oklahoma City Public Schools — it’s about 55 percent Hispanic now, which is about a 20 percent increase in 10 years.”

The actual increases in Latino-owned business ownership help to raise the commercial power of the demographic.

Castillo said the energy of the marketplace is reflected in the sheer number of people inquiring with or joining the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

“We’ve seen big increases in Hispanicowned businesses in recent years,” he said.

“Recently, Oklahoma City was No. 2 in the nation for new Hispanic business growth, and Tulsa was No. 1. There are over 10,000 Hispanic businesses, and it’s growing every

Latino culture and community is celebrated at Saturday’s ¡Viva Oklahoma! Hispanic Chamber Expo and Career Fair at Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads. | Photo Tango PR / provided / file

day. We see five to 10 people a week in our offices wanting to open new businesses.”

At the center of all this vibrancy is the Historic Capitol Hill district, located on SW 25th Street near Robinson Avenue.

In 1996, the area was designated the Capitol Hill Urban Design District. One year later, Capitol Hill became an official Main Street community.

In the ensuing decade, the area that was a major commercial destination in the mid20th century but lost much of its businesses to the growing popularity of malls like Crossroads Mall started repopulating its storefronts with over $15 million in private and public capital investment.

Now, the investment is accelerating.

Earlier this year, developers Steve Mason and Aimee Ahpeatone acquired the former Yale Theatre for redevelopment.

In many ways, Plaza Mayor represents a full-circle development for the Latino community. Castillo said the former Crossroads Mall was nearly dead when it was rechristened Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads.

Now, Capitol Hill and the mall that displaced much of its business, Plaza Mayor, are being revitalized largely by Latino investment. Castillo said he welcomes the infusion of activity and funding in both locations.

“The more traffic you get, the more business you’re going to get,” he said. “And you don’t have to be Latino to buy in a Latino store. It opens the market for everybody.”

¡Viva Oklahoma!

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The Craft Room owner Cathy Sabin uses her background to bring art classes to the Paseo.

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Cathy Sabin, founder of The Craft Room, was born crafty, and throughout her childhood, her craftiness grew. The Chicago native spent many happy hours building 3-D models with her father. In high school, she took every art class her school offered, from etching to basket weaving.

“My junior and senior years, I went to a commercial art technical school, and since then, I’ve done everything from making gingerbread houses to jewelry making,” she said.

Her multimedia arts and crafts classroom space reflects her love of all things creative. At The Craft Room, adults and children enjoy a variety of projects and events led by instructors from across the metro, including private and group art classes, birthday parties and group outings.

Humble beginning

The Craft Room got its start in 2012, when Sabin and her husband moved to Oklahoma City from Dallas. An insurance-industry accountant, he had been laid off in Texas, and the pair decided

Cathy Sabin has been teaching art classes at The Craft Room in the Paseo Arts District since 2012. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

to head north, in large part because their adult children live here.

They moved temporarily into the Casa Rosa apartments in The Paseo Arts District, and because the dwelling was tiny, Sabin began looking for space to store her gigantic stash of supplies.

“I was at the Paseo Festival and noticed a ‘for rent’ sign in the Chardonnay building” Sabin said.

“That’s how I found our room. The first room I rented was full, and the artist who had the room next door moved out, and that room became our classroom.”

The Craft Room was a logical progression.

“In Texas, I taught art to home schoolers, and then I began to teach art to private students and some of our neighbors’ kids. Also in Texas, a friend and I started a program for people with special needs called Stepping Stones.

It’s still running and meets twice a month and is designed for post-highschool special needs people and allows

During the holiday season, Sabin teaches gingerbread house classes at The Craft Room. | Photo The Craft Room / provided

them to make things,” she said. “I’ve done holiday gingerbread house classes since my son was 12. He’s 33 now. My first class in The Craft Room was a gingerbread class.”

Community classes

She has formed collaborative relationships with Oklahoma City arts mainstays like St. Luke’s United Methodist Church’s teen program, Studio 222, where she taught an after-school arts program for junior high school students. She volunteers her time and talent in the Paseo area, helping run the kids’ crafts area at SixTwelve. She also offers free crafts through The Craft Room during the Paseo Arts Festival and hosted free puppy paw prints for Pups at Paseo.

Sabin plans to continue her work in the Paseo district, at 3017 N. Lee Ave., Suite F, for the foreseeable future.

“I am always looking for new ideas and teachers to expand the variety of classes we offer,” Sabin said. “I have wanted to add wreath-making classes and am currently meeting with potential teachers. Look for those to be scheduled starting in the fall, along with other beautiful creations and social crafting opportunities “I am also product testing a few new classes that I want to teach. I am also considering some kind of creative contest using everyday items that usually get thrown out. I love sparking creativity in others.”

Learn more about The Craft Room and its classes on its Facebook page.

Classes The Craft Room | 3017 N. Lee Ave., Suite F 817-455-2972

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The Craft Room’s upcoming classes offer many jewelry-making projects. | Photo The Craft Room / provided

Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977). Randerson Romualdo Cordeiro (detail), 2008. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm). Private collection, Golden Beach, Florida, courtesy of Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California. © Kehinde Wiley. (Photo: Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy of Roberts & Tilton)

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A Plaza Mayor mural co-op combines cultures and enriches the community. By Jessica Williams

Local artists are cementing our state’s history in inconspicuous places.

Red Dirt Gallery and Studio’s new muralist co-op is revitalizing Oklahoma City’s Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads (formerly Crossroads Mall) one wall at a time.

Painting significant subjects from Oklahoma’s past and present, the co-op at Plaza Mayor is making colorful waves in the south OKC community.

Art professor, co-op leader and prolific muralist Bob Palmer recently spoke with Oklahoma Gazette about how the group invites new crowds to an old space.

“Crossroads is a unique place because it isn’t your typical shopping mall,” he said. “It’s been around for decades. There are quite a few vacant spaces there right now, so I saw that as an opportunity for artistic growth.”

Blank slate

In early 2016, Palmer rounded up a distinct team across the state to join the Red Dirt co-op, intending to revive Crossroads’ blank walls. The collective effort resulted in two large murals by a team of 12.

“Artists love a good deal, and Crossroads has been continuously generous in letting us use about 4,000 square feet of their space for our work,” he said.

“Our co-op group ranges from young to old, with varying experiences, careers and skills. ... We’ve all fallen in love with this space in south OKC.” Among the 12 artists in the co-op, each has a unique presence in the art world.

One artist works full time at Lowe’s, one is a retired Edmond elementary school teacher and another works full-time for Southwest Airlines. Their styles and

media span from surrealism to silk, and combining their talents makes for an outof-the-box experience.

“This is a working gallery, so we encourage artists to create new works and build their portfolios each time they use the space,” Palmer said. “Collective murals get artists out of their comfort zones and really innovate.”

Made by a community for a community, the co-op’s murals convey the city’s cultural diversity and historical events through vibrant colors and unique subjects. The co-op’s first project was a bilingual mural that introduces guests to the mall in Spanish and English, with images celebrating the meshing of Hispanic and American cultures.

Palmer described the group’s latest project, “Legacy Mural,” as images and symbols from African, Asian, American and Hispanic holidays commonly celebrated in south OKC. “We’re using icons and familiar images to show the public the rich culture down here,” he said. “One of the first things I noticed about Crossroads is that there’s not a lot of color on the walls. We want people to see these murals and feel alive.

“People love murals because they are a collective effort; no one person created a specific portion or figure on the wall.”

Southside programming

Downtown OKC’s recent cultural proliferation came with an abundance of emerging artists and contemporary galleries, but in one of the largest U.S. cities by area, Palmer said, it’s easy to overlook Red Dirt Gallery’s southside placement.

“This whole thing started last year

Red Dirt Gallery and Studio co-op muralists Alexander Tomlin and Colton Fields work on a new mural at Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads. | Photo Cara Johnson

because I realized there was an abundance of space available at Crossroads,” he said. “In the ’70s and ’80s, this was the mall to visit. Now, I think a lot of people don’t even know it exists. I call it the mall that’s been forgotten.”

Palmer wants to change that. In addition to group murals, the co-op runs education programs for children, teens and adults, inviting an array of individuals from the community to create art.

“We serve much of the local Hispanic community with our educational programming,” he said. “Because the state is cutting back on art programs in schools, we really want to provide after-school programs that wouldn’t otherwise exist.”

This philanthropic approach to Red Dirt Gallery entails the co-op artists teaching silk painting, acrylic work, oil painting and more to students of all ages.

Palmer said all artists are encouraged to teach classes regularly.

“Art is a universal language,” he said.

“Even if our teachers and students can’t understand each other through one language, they can communicate visually.

Artists have the ability to communicate by showing rather than telling, and that’s really something special.”

Palmer hopes Red Dirt co-op’s murals also speak to this visual universality, communicating our rich local history to art students and mall walkers alike.

“Crossroads has so many functions. It has classrooms for school groups, space for sports practices, flea markets, different cultural food places, and now our co-op,” he said. “This place truly has potential to enhance so many people’s lives.”

Red Dirt Gallery and Studio is open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and 10 a.m.-12 p.m. on Sundays.

Visit facebook.com/reddirtartgallery or call 405-623-0711.

ARTS & CULTURE Roots rock band Oklahoma Uprising helped organize and will perform during Songs & Short Films: An Evening of Oklahoma Film and Music. | Photo Sarah Boling Photography / provided

about the project and helpful about facilitating the screenings.

“I’ve learned a lot,” he said, “and I think the next time we do it, I’ll try to get some more people onboard.”

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Oklahoma film and music combine for an evening of unifying togetherness in Harrah. By Ben Luschen

Though Joel T. Mosman can be seen nights and weekends playing music and attending shows in Oklahoma’s larger urban areas, during the day, he makes his living driving a tractor-trailer across rural Oklahoma, delivering feed to various agricultural outposts in the state.

Mosman, vocalist and guitarist for roots rock band Oklahoma Uprising and second place winner in the 2017 Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest, sees a divide between the two types of settings.

He believes art and local culture are key to bridging the gap between them.

“I see the best in both worlds, and I can identify the common denominators,” Mosman said. “The guys in my band are the same way. We’re seeing this and we’re like, ‘This is the answer.’”

Mosman and Oklahoma Uprising, in partnership with Shawnee’s The T. Hodge Lodge recording studio and sound production company, unite with local filmmakers for a unique music and film screening event. Songs & Short Films: An Evening of Oklahoma Film and Music features original music from Oklahoma Uprising paired with four locally made shorts.

The event begins 7 p.m. Aug. 5 at The State Theatre, 1961 Church Ave., in Harrah. Advance tickets can be purchased for $6 online at ticketstorm. com. Admission is $8 at the door.

Popcorn Fharmacy will provide free gourmet popcorn.

The films to be shown include 2017’s Writer(s), directed by Dominique McCollum and Arvin Sepehr, which chronicles a man’s battle against writer’s block; ’17 science fiction short The Briefcase, directed by Sam Staudt; the hilarious ’15 Charlie’s Angels spoof The

Bra’d Squad, directed by Patrick Kirk; and ’16’s adventure-comedy Nothing Depends On This (or Venus in Transit), directed by Aaron Souders and Stephen Tyler of the WAFTI Show podcast and featuring several recognizable landmarks around Oklahoma City.

The screenings will be interspersed with live performances by Oklahoma Uprising. Some of the films contain strong language, but admission is open to all ages.

Mosman said he wants the show to be something that gets attendees excited about the art and music being made in their own state. He said much of what is being created in Oklahoma passes under most people’s radar. Mosman is attempting to change that.

“A live show or concert experience can be about more than just music or a band,” he said. “It can be about Oklahoma culture and celebrating that.”

Fostering culture

Mosman has been performing music in Oklahoma since 2007, but he started Oklahoma Uprising last year as a way to make music with a purpose that served more than his own ego. The band’s name goes along with its mission: to raise the state up by promoting the culture and art found within it.

Oklahoma Uprising released its first EP Bridges & Borderlines in June. Songs & Short Films is the band’s first of a list of planned attempts at highlighting local creativity.

Mosman said it is also the first time he specifically has ever organized anything like this. He found most of the films being screened by searching video site Vimeo.

Most of the participating filmmakers, Mosman said, were very enthusiastic

Mosman wanted to hold Songs & Short Films at The State Theatre for a number of reasons.

For one, he has a love for performing and seeing shows in older theaters. He remembers playing with Oklahoma Uprising at a show in the freshly renovated Burford Theater in Arkansas City, Kansas.

“It’s gorgeous with beautiful architecture and stained glass on the ceiling with a beautiful stage and everything,” he said.

“We played there, and I was just like, ‘Man, I could just go all theater gigs from now on.’”

Hosting the event at a theater also seemed like the best and most appropriate place to merge music and film. Travis Lodge, another one of the event’s sponsors, runs sound for The State Theatre.

Another facet is the opportunity to spread the cultural wealth. A lot of cool events happen in Oklahoma City and some of the state’s larger urban areas.

Areas like Harrah do not see quite as many unique, art-focused offerings.

“You hear a lot of people saying, ‘Oh, there’s nothing to do in Oklahoma’ or ‘Oklahoma is lame,’” Mosman said. “But they don’t realize all these cool things that are going on in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.”

The songwriter feels passionate about promoting local culture because of all the negative news headlines the state seems to be associated with. Mosman said Oklahoma seems polarized — split between urban and rural, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican.

Culture, he said, can be a useful tool in mending that divide.

“Music is the universal language,” he said. “It’s what joins everybody together.”

Art and entertainment bring people together. When people interact with each other, they are forced to confront their differences and, in some cases, tear down walls of separation. Mosman said he hopes events like Songs & Short Films will help people find they have more in common with each other than they would have previously guessed.

“That’s when we’re able to overcome these things and grow as a state,” he said.

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Danny Gordon’s Comical Canines take a starring role in his art education mission. By George Lang

Every day, Danny Gordon finds himself surrounded by packs of dogs. In his Comical Canine Studio and School at 7918 NW 23rd St. in Bethany, every wall is filled with comic-style dogs. Beagle puppies poke out of laundry baskets, a Yorkshire terrier wears a T-shirt declaring, “The World Revolves Around Me,” and a dachshund lets its owner know, “I left you a present.”

Gordon, who has created over 300 images of about 70 dog breeds, found his calling after years in commercial art, but now he uses his self-taught skills to make art accessible to thousands of public school students each year.

He has taught classes in Moore, Edmond and Norman public schools as well as groups such as Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma, Oklahoma Children’s Theatre and Woodward Arts Theatre in Woodward.

Defying the W.C. Fields advice to “never work with animals or children,” Gordon devotes his time to both. It is a long way from his early days as a commercial artist.

“One of my favorite things to do at schools is to show the kids how my work has evolved over the years,” Gordon said.

Taking out some plastic-sheathed samples of his earliest work, Gordon displays the figurative illustrations he

made for C.R. Anthony Co. until 1997, when the stores were bought by Stage.

They were exquisitely detailed fashion illustrations that accurately depicted the products but studiously avoided emotion.

I liked the response of laughter when people saw this new work.

I loved that, and it told me where I needed to be.

Danny Gordon “That kind of work is not very interesting to me these days,” he said.

Given the chance to relocate to Houston and continue working for Stage, Gordon declined and chose to go out on his own, first as a caricaturist and then as a children’s book illustrator.

But his Comical Canines series started taking off and signaled the direction he needed to follow.

“You know, there are movies designed to make you cry, make you laugh or make you excited,” Gordon said. “I

Former commercial artist Danny Gordon now uses his whimsical animal art to teach children. | Photo provided

liked the response of laughter when people saw this new work. I loved that, and it told me where I needed to be.”

Around the same time, in 2000, he started sharing his art in public school settings. With funding for arts instruction at a low ebb, Gordon found that his skills as an artist helped fill an everwidening void.

When he visits schools, Gordon often uses simple demonstrations that help take some of the intimidation out of making art. In one instance, Gordon quickly draws a Nike swoosh and selects a student and asks their name.

He divides the swoosh into the number of numbers in the child’s name and creates letters from each section.

Every time, he said, the students gasp when they realize they can do these things themselves.

Gordon’s slogan is “Think it, draw it, use it.” He said the children he teaches are only limited by their lack of exposure to art.

As a self-taught artist who began working with colored pencils and markers at age 5 and still prefers them to all over media, he said that such instruction can make a huge difference in how children develop their individual creativity.

“When they start, it’s like having water turned on and not being able to shut it off,” he said. “I consider working with kids to be a gift. I want to make sure that kids are having fun. If they’re having fun, you can hold their attention forever.”

from left Chad Reynolds and Alexis Orgera formed Penny Candy Books in 2015. |

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Penny Candy Books publishes books with big ideas for young readers and their parents. By Ian Jayne

Sometimes they have few words, and sometimes they have none at all.

Sometimes they address themes that might seem larger than their sparse page range. Yet for Chad Reynolds, poet and co-founder of Penny Candy Books, it is precisely these qualities of children’s books that provide new ways of connecting for both parents and children alike.

In April 2015, Reynolds and longtime friend and poet Alexis Orgera, author of Dust Jacket and how like foreign objects, met up in Oklahoma City.

Reynolds, fresh from a business trip to Germany and France, had returned with foreign children’s books. Seeing his children’s enthusiasm for stories they would otherwise never have encountered, Reynolds had an idea.

“I would just love to have a children’s book press where we get books from overseas and bring them here to America so our kids can see the kinds of books that don’t get published here,” Reynolds recalled saying to Orgera.

Orgera agreed, saying she had always wanted to publish books under the moniker “Penny Candy.”

“Penny Candy Books was born on that day,” Reynolds said.

Over the coming months, Reynolds, based in Oklahoma City, and Orgera, who lives in Savannah, Georgia, communicated to plan the direction of their

press, which remains split between the two cities. Penny Candy Books incorporated in July 2015, a time when police brutality directed against AfricanAmericans came to the forefront of our cultural consciousness. A cultural climate that framed stories of minorities in only certain ways, if at all, informed the genesis of Penny Candy, whose mission Reynolds said is to represent diverse realities at home and abroad.

“We were noticing in the news all of this stuff about a power imbalance,” Reynolds said.

It’s really important for kids of color to see books in which there are people who look like them Chad Reynolds They also gathered information about the diversity gap in children’s literature from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

According to the CCBC’s 2015 survey of the 3,400 books it received, AfricanAmericans authored only 105, and 243 were about African-American charac-

ters. The numbers for American Indians, Asian-Americans and Latinos were similarly low.

“It’s important for white kids to see books that feature characters of color doing all manner of things, and it’s really important for kids of color to see books in which there are people who look like them,” Reynolds said.

In 2016, Penny Candy also published A Gift from Greensboro, a poem written

by Quraysh Ali Lansana and illustrated

by Skip Hill. It shows two friends, black and white, living “blissfully unaware” of history’s prejudice a decade after the Civil Rights Act was passed, Reynolds said. The two friends dine at the historic Woolworth’s lunch counter.

Reynolds said the book is about friendship, the power of memory, both about race and larger than its limitations.

“It encourages people to step in somebody else’s shoes for a little while,” he said.

The Not in Here Story written by Oklahoma author Tracey Zeeck and illustrated by David Bizarro, chronicles a couple’s adoption journey. | Image provided

Family reading

As parent, poet and publisher, Reynolds said he knows the transformative capabilities of books, especially when parents read to their children.

“With kids’ books, it’s a special thing,” Reynolds said. “It’s a genre that has resisted electronic books … because of how special it is to sit in your kid’s room and read him or her a book at night.”

In 2016, Penny Candy published The Not in Here Story, written by Tracey Zeeck and illustrated by David Bizzaro. The story follows the Seeks, two people who want to have children but can’t, so they decide to adopt.

Reynolds said the story’s focus is on parental awareness and overcoming adversity make it an especially helpful tale for adoptive families and their children.

“It’s not just useful. It’s beautiful, it’s moving,” Reynolds said. “There are all sorts of questions that kids have when they read this book, and that’s great. It leads to conversations.”

Penny Candy established an imprint, Penelope Editions, for books that fall outside its stated mission but still offer compelling ideas. The first Penelope Editions book, Nuveau: The Future of Patterns, is an adult coloring book created

by Tiffany McKnight that reframes art nouveau designs through the lens of African textile art.

The book also is part of Penny Candy’s Caring Communities Project, an initiative that donates a portion of the proceeds of one book a year to a nonprofit organization. The profits from Nuveau benefit SixTwelve, an arts-based education center located in The Paseo Arts District.

Penny Candy Books published adult coloring book Nuveau: The Future of Patterns

by Oklahoma artist Tiffany McKnight in January. | Image provided

Powerful pictures

As Penny Candy moved into 2017, having completed its first year as a press, Reynolds said a motto developed: small press, big conversations.

Honoring its commitment to bring international stories to the United States, Reynolds and Orgera recruited their polyglot friends to help scour the internet for interesting children’s books published abroad.

This year, Penny Candy published The Hunt by Margaux Othats, a French writer and illustrator. The wordless book offers a story that poses no language barriers and whose message transcends culture.

“This is a book about a little girl who refuses to be cowed by men with guns,” Reynolds said.

To him, Penny Candy Books represents opportunities to tell one-of-a-kind stories between families.

“To create a company that could create an object that would lead to those moments is really gratifying and really amazing,” Reynolds said.

Visit pennycandybooks.com.

A Gift from Greensboro, written by Oklahoma poet Quarash Ali Lansana and illustrated by Oklahoma artist Skip Hill | Image provided

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What began as a plan to build one rocking horse for her child has grown into an internationally shared love of a vintage classic. By Jessica Williams

You’d be hard-pressed to find many Oklahomans who can claim a former U.S. president has commissioned their work, but Jackie Wilson beats those odds.

The founder and owner of Wilson Rocking Horses creates one-of-a-kind heirloom pieces for new generations to enjoy. Recently featured on the master craftsman- and craftswoman-centered PBS documentary series A Craftsman’s Legacy, the Luther-based woodworker spoke to Oklahoma Gazette about her love for the craft.

“I’ve always loved horses — their grace, strength and beauty inspired me to sketch them from an early age,” she said. “I never imagined that I’d be working out of a woodshop because of my fascination with horses.”

Life never occurs how we envision it, but Wilson said her early years contributed to her woodworking skills.

“My dad had a woodshop in our basement, and he would always ask us to bring up tools from the shop,” Wilson said. “I naturally learned to use tools by helping my dad out with different house projects.”

An infant’s inspiration

Wilson grew up riding horses, but her hobby dwindled with time. Later, however, both her artistic proclivities and familiarity with the manual nature of woodworking culminated into a

single project from a magazine.

“Back when I was pregnant with my daughter, I saw a step-by-step guide in Early American Life to creating a rocking horse,” Wilson said. “When I saw that article, I was so excited to create this for my child to enjoy. I never had any intention of making any others.”

Several years after her first creation, the Wilson family moved to a large plot of land in Oklahoma. She appreciated the extra space but felt uneasy about its lack of use.

“We acquired five acres of land, and our home was built on some of it,” she said. “I didn’t want the rest of the land to just sit there. I remembered I built a pretty sturdy rocking horse for my daughter, so I decided to build about five more.”

With that, she was ready to showcase her talents to the public. After featuring her rocking horses at the annual Edmond Arts Festival, all signals in her life pointed her toward continuing her craft.

“Even when I ignored my calling, I had dreams about creating rocking horses,” she said. “I knew this was my purpose.”

Child’s play

As of this year and most likely into the foreseeable future, Wilson Rocking Horses is one of few businesses in the

Jackie Wilson has built rocking horses for royalty and everyday folks under her Wilson Rocking Horses banner for years. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

U.S. that handcrafts the wooden pieces.

Wilson admitted such a niche takes time and patience to cultivate.

“In 2012, after a year of trying to sell my pieces, I had to close my storefront in downtown Edmond,” she said. “It wasn’t the easiest time, but it was an opportunity to grow and gain knowledge from other woodworkers from the community.”

Sticking it out through the good and bad and recruiting a little marketing assistance eventually yielded Wilson’s distant connection to England’s royal family.

“I received a phone call from a woman saying she was with the State Department and that they were interested in my rocking horses for an undisclosed client,” she said. “I couldn’t tell anyone for the longest time!”

Wilson’s creation — a gift from President Barack Obama to Prince George (son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife, Duchess Catherine “Kate” Middleton) celebrating his birth in 2014 — was also featured in a 2014 exhibition at Buckingham Palace. Despite the international accolades, Wilson ultimately attributes her talents to a higher power.

“I believe God guided me to where I needed to be, which just happened to be inside of a woodshop,” she said.

“Creating these objects gives me the most fulfillment. People have asked me how many rocking horses I work on simultaneously, but I’ve never thought to keep track of that. I’ve given away as many as I’ve sold.”

Visit wilsonrockinghorses.com or call 405-227-6417.

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Oklahoma Railway Museum offers visitors a ride into the past. By Adam Holt

While much of the movement of the country’s information switched from mail carriers and couriers to the internet with the digital revolution, a significant portion of the nation’s physical product still rides the rails. Trains continue to be a major player in transporting freight and passengers.

Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM) celebrates these steel powerhouses and how they changed the nation and life in Oklahoma. Located at 3400 NE Grand Blvd., the organization hosts a treasure trove of train engines, train cars and historical memorabilia, much of it accessible to visitors.

Opening Aug. 31, 2002, ORM started on three acres just south of NE 36th Street but has continued to expand.

Along with the train engines, cars and equipment found throughout the outdoor museum, it’s also home to a playground and gift shops.

Oklahoma Railway Museum’s passenger train runs over four miles of track in Oklahoma City. | Photo Oklahoma Railway Museum / provided

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The museum runs a 1940-’50s passenger train along four miles of mainline track between NE 10th Street and Martin Luther King Avenue and NE 50th Street.

Four train rides are scheduled for the first and third Saturdays during operating months. The excursions replicate the experience of rail passengers during the mid-20th century.

The passenger train is served by an actual 1905 depot from Oakwood and runs on a significant set of rails.

“The main line we run on is actually the historic Missouri-KansasTexas Railroad, also known as the KATY,” said ORM administrator Anne Murray Chilton. “The KATY ran from Parsons, Kansas, down into Oklahoma City, and then there was another line

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playing cards as well as equipment such as phones. One car is host to a model train set that runs the length of the car and houses countless examples of toy trains.

The museum celebrates a number of special days throughout the year. The most popular event is Day Out with Thomas, which takes place over two weekends. This year’s event is Sept.

29-30, Oct. 1 and Oct. 6-8.

that went out into Texas.”

Established in 1865 originally as the Union Pacific Railway, Southern Branch, the tracks were later renamed to Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, using “M-K-T” as its reporting mark, from which the nickname KATY was born. It ran freight and passengers.

“KATY was one of the first railroads to run into the Oklahoma territories,” Murray Chilton said. “The KATY was in the northeast corner of the state before statehood.”

Passenger train tickets are free-$12.

In addition to the depot and passenger train, ORM possesses over 50 engines and rail cars, including four operational engines and eight rolling stock. The cars range widely in age from a CB&Q caboose from 1878 to train cars manufactured in the mid-1970s.

The engines and cars are continuously being restored, often taking years to do so.

Many of the cars are open to the public with some operating as display cars full of memorabilia like advertising signage and

The main line we run on is actually the historic MissouriKansas-Texas Railroad, also known as the KATY. Anne Murray Chilton Murray Chilton said the weekends feature a full-size Thomas the Tank Engine pulling the train and Sir Topham Hatt.

There will also be magicians, singers, ventriloquists and other stage performers along with face painting, temporary tattoos, arts and crafts and storytelling.

The museum runs 10 trains a day for the

Thomas event.

Other major celebrations include festive Halloween and Christmas trains.

The holiday celebrations and Day Out with Thomas make up the bulk of the museum’s fundraising efforts each year.

Turning expansion

ORM will soon begin a capital campaign for an expansion focused on a 100-foot Frisco turntable donated to the museum years ago.

“It’s like a giant Lazy Susan, so you can drive a locomotive or cars on it and turn them around and get them facing the right direction,” Murray Chilton said.

The museum plans on using a small portion of the turntable to park and work on engines and cars as well as build two climate-controlled museum rooms with displays for visitors.

“This is a big, ambitious, probably 20-year plan,” Murray Chilton said.

ORM is run by an all-volunteer staff, and like many museums, it’s always looking for a few helping hands.

“We couldn’t do anything without our volunteers,” Murray Chilton said. “They built this. They make us what we are.”

Oklahoma Railway Museum operates 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fridays-Sundays April through August. Admission is free, and donations are welcome.

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Mental and emotional health care is as important as physical health care, and one longtime Edmond clinic helps youths, adults, families and couples in a spectrum of ways. By Mark Beutler Founded in 1974, Edmond Family Counseling clinic has expanded to include a premier family counseling center serving clients from across the state. | Photo illustration bigstock.com

It began as a youth center for Edmond teens back in 1974. Known then as The Looking Glass, it was a place where youth gathered for fun and fellowship. Later, a counseling component was added and what is now Edmond Family Counseling became a reality.

The center has grown to become a premier family counseling center in the state, serving thousands of individuals.

EFC is a fully accredited, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to mental health and community outreach.

“We are a community-based counseling center providing individual, family, group and marriage counseling services on a sliding scale fee for service basis,” said EFC clinical director John Goetz.

“We facilitate prevention-based programs and groups in elementary, middle and alternative school settings.”

experienced struggles in life and has benefitted from telling their story.

Seeing a counselor is an appropriate response in dealing with our life’s struggles in a healthy way,” Goetz said. “Early therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists learned if one listened to a client with empathy, unconditional positive regard and genuineness that people would often have insight into what their struggles are. Other early therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists learned that this insight often needs to be supported with behavioral change. These two components working together form the foundation of current therapeutic approaches.”

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The center provides Alcohol and Drug Substance Abuse Courses (ADSAC) or DUI assessments, 10-hour and 24-hour ADSAC or DUI groups to those in need and drug-testing services. It also works collaboratively with the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs, City of Edmond, Edmond Public Schools and the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

Things have changed considerably since 1974, but giving an individual a private setting to discuss personal issues remains as relevant as ever.

“Every person I have ever met has

The center is located in the heart of Edmond at 1251 N. Broadway and serves clients from Guthrie to Moore and Wellston to Piedmont. What began as a center primarily for Edmond youth now serves clients ages 7-107.

Much like a person visits their doctor when they feel sick, Goetz said mental and emotional health is equally worth treating.

“Depression and anxiety are like an old married couple — when you see one, you see the other,” he said. “Left untreated, depression and anxiety may lead to social isolation, substance abuse, dys-

functional coping strategies, failed relationships and even suicide.”

So when does someone know when to reach out for help? Goetz said the warning signs are there and should not be ignored.

“Well, obviously if they are in crisis, experiencing increasing negative consequences to decisions they are making, or if they are feeling alone and isolated, they need help,” Goetz said.

Goetz said he always recommends that a person keep a daily journal noting the who, what, when, where and how of their everyday lives. In three months, they can review their thoughts and feelings with added perspective.

“If your thoughts and feelings do not match the events of the past three months,” he explained, “you may want to go talk to someone about these incongruences.”

Every person I have ever met has experienced struggles in life and has benefitted from telling their story.

John Goetz Over the past 43 years, EFC has grown and evolved, but its mission has always been to be of service and to be responsive to the community.

“We continue to be a voice for eliminating stigma surrounding mental health,” Goetz added. “Even with massive cuts to this and other nonprofits’ efforts, we will remain because we are needed. If people would like to join us, please connect and work with us to keep local mental health services affordable and accessible.”

Visit edmondfamily.org or call 405341-3554.

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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, (UK, 2016, Steve James) a small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States’ 2008 mortgage crisis, July 28-30. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SUN

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Hermia & Helena, (USA, 2016, Matias Pineiro) a story of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern digital life, July 28-30. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SUN Western Movie Matinee: What Was Ours, (USA, 2016, Mat Hames) a Shoshone veteran, a teenage powwow princess and an Arapaho journalist discover their purpose on the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1-3 p.m. Aug. 2. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED

Vintage Black Heroes: The Chisholm Kid Exhibition July 21 – September 17, 2017

HAPPENINGS Poetry and Chill Rest assured knowing Poetry and Chill promises not to sneak its arm around you on the couch during a brutal and less-than-seductive killing on your favorite zombie show. Unlike “Netflix and chill,” Poetry and Chill brings together some of the area’s greatest spoken-word artists, including Anthony Crawford, Gregory II (pictured) and Stank Thee Goddess. The event runs 8 p.m.-midnight Saturday at The New Black Wall Street Marketplace, 1800 NE 23rd St. Admission is free. Visit facebook.com/newblackwallstreetmarketplaceokc or call 405-593-8343.

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Cartoons & Comics: The Early Art of Tom Ryan July 21, 2017 – April 1, 2018

Museum Films Present: French Film Month, a monthlong showcase of the best of classical and contemporary French cinema screening each Thursday during July. Enjoy an original retrospective of newly restored masterworks by French New Wave filmmaker Jacques Demy and a hand-curated festival of new French films, 7:30 p.m. through July 27. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU

Intersectional Feminist Book Club, ask questions, suggest how to take action in related causes and discuss themes from Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, 5:30-7 p.m. July 26.

Sandalwood & Sage, 322 E Main St., facebook.com/ intersectionalfembookclub. WED

FILM Sonic Summer Movies: The Jackie Robinson Story, (Australia, 1953, Alfred E. Green) biography of the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues, 9 p.m. July 26. Great Lawn & Bandshell Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, myriadgardens.com. WED

Reframing Beauty: Intimate Visions Lecture by Deborah Willis, focus on artists and photographers who are looking at the past, recreating portraits through the camera’s lens while others re-stage beauty as a performative act. Explore gender and desire; humor and apathy; child games and toys while playing with the imaginary through dreaming and projecting, 6-7 p.m. July 26. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. WED IAO Member Meeting & Artist Social, members and nonmembers alike join for an informative meeting about upcoming programming while meeting local artists in the community, 6-8 p.m. July 26. Individual Artists of Oklahoma & IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-232-6060, individualartists.org. WED Art After 5, enjoy a late-night art gallery experience and live music on the roof terrace with the best views of downtown OKC and a relaxing atmosphere, 5-9 p.m. July 27. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU Odyssey & Oracle Summer Pop-Up Market, enjoy shopping from 15 vendors featuring vintage and handmade goods from Monoxide, Broad Shoppe, Dottie Clothing, Loaf & Puddle and many more. Music is provided by Hyane, Casual Hex and Sensitiv Southside Boy, 7 p.m.-midnight July 29. 51st St. Speakeasy, 1114 NW 51st St., 405-463-0470, 51stspeakeasy.com. SAT

FOOD Microgreens & Shoots: Grow A Mini-Garden On Your Windowsill, learn how to grow highly nutritious, tasty greens in a tiny space with a demonstration to plant and grow pea shoots, kale, radishes, dill and basil microgreens, 11 a.m.-noon July 29. CommonWealth Urban Farms, 3310 N. Olie Ave., 405-524-1864, commonwealthurbanfarms.com. SAT Outdoor Beer & Yoga, join 405 Yoga OKC, where yoga and beer unite. Bring your own yoga mat for a no-pressure, all-levels, feel-good yoga, 10-10:55 a.m.

July 30. The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., 405-8793808, bleugarten.com. SUN

Cartoon. Tom Ryan, circa 1945, drawing. 2002.032.6. Tom Ryan Collection. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

1700 Northeast 63rd Street Oklahoma City, OK 73111 nationalcowboymuseum.org

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Delmar Gardens Fourth Friday Food trucks and local vendors showcase their fare at Delmar Gardens Fourth Friday 6-9 p.m. Friday at Delmar Gardens Food Truck Park, 1225 SW Second St. Cutie Pies Concession and Rockin Rotolo will serve pies and pasta. Admission is free. Visit delmargardensokc.com or call 405-232-6506. Friday Photo Garett Fisbeck / file

demonstrations, 9 a.m.-noon July 26-28. Oklahoma County OSU Extension Service, 2500 NE 63rd St., 405713-1125, oces.okstate.edu. WED -FRI Theatre of the Imagination: Acting Workshop, join the Thelma Gaylord Academy for a one-week camp covering performing arts instruction in an atmosphere of fun and creativity, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through July 28. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 405-524-9312, lyrictheatreokc.com. WED -FRI

West Side Story Pride Night Sonja Martinez and Mike Stuart co-host Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s first Pride Night, 5 p.m. Thursday during Art After 5 at Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive. Enjoy drinks and live music on the museum’s rooftop terrace before heading over to the Plaza District to see Lyric’s production of Broadway musical West Side Story 7:30 p.m. at 16th Street Plaza District theater, 1727 NW 16th St. Tickets are $45-$96 and must be ordered by calling the Lyric Box Office at 405-524-9312. A limited number of Pride Night tickets are available. Visit lyrictheatreokc.com.

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YOUTH Youth Sewing Camp, children 10-19 years of age learn about the basics of sewing, the use of sewing machines, pattern preparation, layout, cutting and construction in group and one-on-one

Western Explorers Summer Camp, campers learn about photography, leathermaking, gardening, weaving and beading, nature and more while exploring the museum’s collections, exhibitions, gardens and trails providing the foundation for creative self-expression, through July 28. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-4782250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED -FRI Art Foundations: Ceramics, designed as a serious introduction to kiln-fired ceramics, students will learn about types of clay, glazing and how kilns operate, 2-4 p.m. through July 29. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

WED -SAT 2017 Youth National Championship Horse Show, enjoy eight days of exciting horse show classes, shopping, food vendors, workshops, behind-thescenes tours and Arabian horses, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. through July 29. State Fair Park, 3001 General Pershing Blvd, 303-597-8251, arabianhorses.org. WED -SAT TradeShare and ReFuse Summer Camp, weekly events imbued with theater, media and communication, visual arts, gardening, cooking, dance, sports, and more with daily instruction from guests spanning from circus performers, local farmers, food producers and visual artists, through July 29. OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-727-0977, roundaboutokc.org. WED -SAT Coded_Couture Classes, sketch and experiment with fashion designs, learn the basic steps in developing sewing patterns, see what makes your favorite apps and websites tick and create your own during your choice of any of the one-day classes, July 29. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-9510000, oklahomacontemporary.org. SAT

Fast Times at Ridgemont High Say it with us: “Brad, your sister’s turning into a fox!” Fast Times at Ridgemont High celebrates its 35th anniversary as Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies brings the ’80s classic back to theaters. The showings feature specially produced commentary by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

Screenings are 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial Road and Cinemark Tinseltown USA, 6001 N. Martin Luther King Ave. Additional screenings are 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Aug. 2 at both theaters. Learn it. Know it. Live it. Tickets are $4.25-$6 at Tinseltown and $13.55 at Quail Springs. Visit fathomevents.com. SUNDAY and Aug. 2 Photo Universal Studios / Fathom Events / provided OKC Thunder Youth Camp, basketball camps offering youth an opportunity to grow in the fundamentals of the game and engage in a hands-on, team environment, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. July 31-Aug. 2. Pioneer Cellular Event Center, 900 N. Seventh St., Weatherford, 580-774-3063, okcthunder. com/youthbasketball. MON-WED

Young Writers Camp, learn about the writing process, plot structure, tools for outlining and executing a short story, participate in writing games and more. Receive tools and tips in a relaxed environment and leave with a completed original short story or poem, 2-4 p.m.

July 31-Aug. 4. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405-340-9202, bestofbooksok.com.

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continued from page 49 SMO Summer Break Camp, spend a week with the educators at the Science Museum Oklahoma and explore the power of science. Make things that fly, play with water, recycle, upcycle, break things and learn the science of grossing people out, July 31-Aug. 4. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Ultimate Adventure Camps, giving kids a chance to try new adventures including zip lining, the SandRidge Sky Trail, high speed slides, kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding and whitewater rafting, through Aug. 11.

Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405-5524040, boathousedistrict.org.

Summer Camp Contemporary, keeping kids creative with learning camps featuring visual arts, music, hip-hop, fiber, clay, performance, robotics and more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. through Aug. 11. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Comets, Asteroids & Meteors: Great Balls of Fire, the threat of a catastrophic impact from an asteroid or comet is a staple of popular culture, learn about asteroids, comets and meteorites and where come from, through Sept. 10. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 405-325-4712, samnoblemuseum.ou.edu.

Bodies Revealed, exhibition showcasing real human bodies preserved through a revolutionary process allowing visitors to see themselves in a fascinating way like never before, through October. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Read for Adventure, the OKC Zoo and Metropolitan Library Systems have partnered to publish the children’s book, Our Day at the Zoo and to create a community Read for Adventure program enabling readers to check out the new book from any of the 19 metro library locations, through March 31, 2018. Metropolitan Library System, 300 Park Ave., 405-231-8650, metrolibrary.org.

Build A Better World, read for fun and earn badges all summer, log reading time and earn prizes, through July 31. Metropolitan Library System, 300 Park Ave., 405-231-8650, metrolibrary.org. WED -MON

PERFORMING ARTS Drinking Habits, two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent’s doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancees, are hot on their trail, through July 29.

Legacy On Main Street, 224 N. Main St., Eufaula, 918-605-7405, legacyonmainstreet.com.

Seussical the Musical Jr., the Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, bringing the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community, July 26-30. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org. WED -SUN Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, featuring 51 performers in contemporary and modern dance works by selected choreographers as well as performances from Meraki — a new professional modern dance company, Perpetual Motion Dance and PM2 Perpetual Motion Dance’s teen company, July 28-29. U.S. Grant High School, 5016 S. Pennsylvania Ave., 405-587-2200, okcps.org. FRI-SAT

Wine for the People If you’re globally minded when it comes to libations, Wine for the People at V2 whisks you away with its sampling of worldly wines.

Thursday’s event highlights California family winery Conclusion Wines. It runs 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday and includes hors d’oeuvres and dessert. The fun also comes with a view of the Oklahoma City skyline at 333 Sheridan Ave. Admission is $35. Visit vastokc.com or call 405208-4347. Thursday bigstockphoto.com

Twice Upon a Time, the wicked witch steals a book of Fairy Tales and decides to re-write all of the endings. Can the other fairytale characters come together and rescue their happy endings before it’s too late? 7 p.m. July 28-29. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org. FRI-SAT Sunday Twilight Concert Series, presented by the Arts Council OKC featuring music by The Lunar Laugh, 7:30-9p.m. July 30. Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-270-4848, artscouncilokc.com. SUN Mario the Maker Magician, experience the performer and inventor who creates his own props. Mario is known for his dedication to the Maker Movement, STEM initiatives and his clever integration of DIY electronics and robotics in his performance, 7-8 p.m.

Aug. 1. Bruce Owen Theater at OCCC, 7777 S. May Ave., 405-682-7579, occc.edu. TUE William Adam Trumpet Festival, enjoy a who’s who of the international trumpet world with free concerts, a weekend of music-making, learning and fellowship.

Meet, hear and be taught by masters of the trumpet and learn many of the techniques and methods taught to them by their mentor William Adam, July 27-30. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center, 500 W. Boyd St., 405-325-4101, ou.edu. THU-SAT

ACTIVE Sunrise Yoga, enjoy an early-morning yoga class while appreciating the beauty of the natural surroundings, mindfully moving your body and grow in a better direction, 6-7 a.m.

July 27. Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 NW 36th St., 405-593-4203, okc.gov/parksignup. THU

OKC Pow Wow Club Indian Hills Talent and tradition highlight the Oklahoma City Pow Wow Club Indian Hills Pow Wow Friday-Sunday. Festivities commence 5 p.m.

Friday with Gourd Dancing followed by Grand Entrance at 8 p.m. The pow wow is in its 67th year and takes place at 9300 N. Sooner Road. Admission is free. Visit facebook. com/oklahomacitypowwowclub or call 561-703-4659. Friday-Sunday bigstockphoto.com 50

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Baseball, OKC Dodgers vs Tacoma, July 29-Aug. 1.

Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000, milb.com. SAT-TUE Soccer, OKC Energy vs Reno 1868, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 2. Taft Stadium, 2901 NW 23rd St., 405-587-0046, energyfc.com. WED Bricktown Beach, a large sand-filled outdoor park area with umbrellas, lounge chairs, sand volleyball equipment and outdoor games, through Aug. 31.

Bricktown Beach, Sheridan and Two N. Mickey Mantle Ave., 405-235-3500, downtownokc.com.

VISUAL ARTS Art of The Nude, a celebration by more than 30 artists, depicting the sensual human body. The exhibition includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation works, through July 30.

JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-5286336, jrbartgallery.com.

Body, curated to examine how the body has been used to address the themes of movement, fragmentation and mechanization, geometry and identity, through Dec. 30. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., 405-325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma.

Book Arts Workshop with Kelly Campbell Berry, learn the basics of creating book art, which illustrations to feature, cutting techniques, layering illustrations and more. Each person walks away with their own unique book sculpture to display in their home or give as a gift, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 29.[Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-8156665, artspaceatuntitled.org. SAT

The Art of Speed: Oklahomans and Fast Cars, featuring 22 unique automobiles from the private collections of several Oklahomans.The exhibit is organized by eras and includes cars dating from 1900 to modern day, 10a.m.-5p.m. through Aug. 12.

Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter.

The Natural World, a group art show featuring a diverse spectrum of artists working with a common theme, exploring the different ways each artist communicates their relationship with the natural world, 6-9 p.m. through Aug. 6. DNA Galleries, 1709 NW 16th St., 405-525-3499, dnagalleries.com.

Unquenchable Search, an exhibit conveying how a group of Oklahoma City artists have been working for a lifetime, and yet they are still searching, pushing and working through their unique ideas through visual references to past conversations, July 27-Aug. 19. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-8156665, artspaceatuntitled.org.

Vintage Black Heroes: The Chisholm Kid, featuring panels from the original comic strip, the namesake hero of The Chisholm Kid was portrayed as a positive black character equal to contemporaries like Hopalong Cassidy, Dick Tracy, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon a full decade before the Civil Rights Movement in America, 10 a.m-5 p.m. through Sept. 17. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Camera Obscura, Art 365 artist Andy Mattern demonstrates a hands-on workshop using camera obscura to frame and view live images, 11 a.m. July 29. Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., 405-360-1162, mainsite-art.com. SAT Cloth as Community: Hmong Textiles in America, experience works that illustrate the profound relevance of textiles as infrastructure in the Hmong culture, an art form that shifted as it adapted to fit new realities, featuring textiles, flower cloths and embroidered story clothes by those in the Hmong community, through Aug. 11. Edmond Historical Society & Museum, 431 S. Boulevard, Edmond, 405340-0078, edmondhistory.org.

Coded_Couture, exhibition looking at the intersection of fashion and technology offering a new definition of couture, using computer coding as the ultimate design tool for customizing clothing and accessories, through Aug. 10. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Guerrilla Art Park, featuring six Oklahoma artists, ranging from emerging to well-established in the second edition of the public art display with mediums ranging from ceramics, to glass installations and metal work, through Sept. 4. Oklahoma Contemporary’s Campbell Art Park, NW 11th St. and Broadway Drive, 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, presenting an overview of the artist Kehinde Wiley’s career including sixty oil paintings, stained glass and sculpture, through Sept. 10. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com.

Nasty Women, join a nationwide movement demonstrating solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of threats to roll back women’s rights, individual rights and health care access for women, through July 30. Current Studio, 1218 N. Pennsylvania Ave., 405-673-1218, currentstudio.org.

Picher, Oklahoma: Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma, exploring the otherworldly ghost town and reveals how memory can be dislocated and reframed through both chronic and acute instances of environmental trauma, through Sept. 10. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., 405-3253272, ou.edu/fjjma.

Rachel Hayes Test Patterns, Oklahoma Contemporary kicks off its showroom series with the work of Rachel Hayes, a nationally recognized artist whose fabric structures explore painting processes, quilt making, architectural space, light and shadow, through Sept. 4. Oklahoma Contemporary Showroom, 1146 N. Broadway Drive, 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

Sole Expression: The Art of the Shoe, featuring the creations of 25 local, national and international shoe designers and artists; guests examine how the shoe has been interpreted in art throughout history and the science and engineering behind specific shoe designs, through December. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2020 Remington Place, 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org.

Spring show exhibit, enjoy the works of oil painter Phebe Kallstrom and handmade jewelry artist Whitney Ingram, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. through November.

The Studio Gallery, 2642 W. Britton Road, 405-7522642, thestudiogallery.org.

Reds, Whites & Brews Have a night out for a good cause at Reds, Whites & Brews 6-9 p.m. Thursday at Cattlemen’s Event Center, 1325 S. Agnew Ave. Sample wine, craft beer and delicious dishes knowing event proceeds benefit Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City’s Sanctuary Women’s Development Center. Tickets are $60, and frontier attire is recommended.

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Matchbox Twenty’s tour with Counting Crows celebrates two decades of music. By Ben Luschen

When Paul Doucette asked his daughter to illustrate a guitar pick design ahead of Matchbox Twenty’s co-headlining tour with fellow 1990s-2000s alternative rocker Counting Crows, she eagerly accepted the task and returned with an adorable portrait of her father within just three minutes.

The Japanese animation-inspired rendition of her guitar-toting father becomes even more impressive after learning Mathilda, Doucette’s daughter with former wife Moon Zappa (daughter of music legend Frank Zappa), is 12 years old.

A picture of the pick design can be seen on Doucette’s Instagram account, @repairmethod.

“My daughter is incredibly talented,” Doucette said in a recent Oklahoma Gazette interview. “She’s a really great artist, and watching that develop is a whole other experience.”

The majority of Matchbox Twenty’s (MB20) many hits were released years before Mathilda was born. Many of them, including 1996’s “3 AM,” 2000’s “If You’re Gone” and ’02’s “Unwell,” in addition to a broad selection of similarly nostalgic tunes from Counting Crows, will be part of the collaborative A Brief History of Everything Tour. The world tour makes a local stop 6 p.m. Aug. 6 at The Zoo Amphitheatre, 2101 NE 50th St.

Life changes

Parenthood is not the only thing that has changed for Doucette since the band’s turn-of-the-century heyday. Though MB20 — which also includes frontman, guitarist and independently successful vocalist Rob Thomas — was elevated to

arena-level shows early its career, these days during live gigs, band members see almost as many smartphone cameras as eyeballs during their acclaimed sets.

Doucette, MB20’s former drummer and current rhythm guitarist, said that what also has come with the intervening years is savvy wisdom.

“Life in general is different,” he said.

“We as people are different. But we’ve had 20 years of experience. When we walk onstage, we know what we’re doing.”

Doucette said Matchbox Twenty’s early popularity sometimes outpaced the growth of its bandmates’ maturity — both personally and professionally. The band’s ’96 debut album Yourself or Someone Like You was a smashing success, spawning radio hits and eventually earning diamond certification for more than 10 million sales from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Life in general is different. We as people are different.

Paul Doucette Great demand, Doucette said, put MB20 in front of huge crowds before it was fully prepared to put on a rock show.

Two decades and over 1,000 shows later, general unease has been replaced with veteran confidence.

“It feels way more comfortable than it’s ever felt before,” he said.

The band’s bond with its fanbase has also strengthened as time has passed.

Though the group has no doubt kept a large, devoted following throughout almost its entire history, it takes time — often years — for that relationship to mature from an obsession of the moment to a lifelong interest. Doucette said it never fails to impress him how many fans have stuck with Matchbox Twenty through the course of its on-again, offagain run.

“There’s a connection we have to [the fans] that’s definitely different than before,” he said.

‘Twenty’ years

The announcement that MB20 was heading out for a world tour might have surprised a few fans, though Doucette said bandmembers had been planning this run of show dates for a while.

The act went on hiatus in 2004 when former rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynor moved on to other projects. Doucette slid over from drums to replace Gaynor when the band reactivated in 2007 with a tour and the release of its compilation album Exile on Mainstream. Doucette actually slides back behind the drum kit for a few songs on A Brief History of Everything, momentarily relieving touring drummer Stacy Jones while revisiting some MB20 jams like “Back 2 Good.”

At the conclusion of the tour, the band again went into hibernation as Thomas focused on his solo career. MB20 began performing some shows together in 2010.

It released North in 2012 and embarked on a pair of tours in ’12-’13, including a co-headlining run with Goo Goo Dolls.

Lead guitarist Kyle Cook stated his intentions to depart from MB20 in April 2016 due to communication issues and general disagreements within the band.

His absence left some fans uncertain about whether MB20 would be able to tour in the near future. Less than a year later, however, it announced Cook (having apparently settled past differences) would

be joining MB20 on Brief History of Everything. The tour, which began earlier this month, is the first time the band has played together in four years.

“You kind of walk onstage and you’re like, ‘I don’t know if I remember how to do this,’ but it all kind of fell back into place,” Doucette said, “which was great.”

MB20 is also using the tour to celebrate the band’s 20th anniversary.

“We’re a band with a ‘Twenty’ in our name,” he said, “so it would be dumb not to acknowledge the 20th [anniversary].”

Touring bands fortunate enough to mature to two decades are often faced with a similar choice in commemorating the achievement. Some choose to perform their debut album in its entirety, but Doucette said it felt more appropriate to MB20 to honor the band’s entire catalogue. A Brief History of Everything means just that — a collage of the many songs that made MB20 one of the early 2000s most memorable bands.

“We just thought we would rather celebrate our whole career up to now,” he said.

Film work

Outside his work with MB20, Doucette has been composing music for a few recent film projects. Doucette has been composing for film for several years, beginning with a project his former wife was working on and picking up different offers from there.

“That’s sort of how that goes,” he said. “‘Oh, you worked on this?’ Now that person who was a producer works on this next thing and they call you. I always ended up falling into that, and I really enjoy it.”

Two films Doucette worked on premiered in 2017, including thriller The Archer and the romantic drama 1 Mile to You, which stars Billy Crudup, the lead in 2014 Oklahoma-filmed and William H. Macy-directed Rudderless.

Doucette said he enjoys the contrast between film composing and the songwriting he contributes to with MB20.

“When you’re doing a film score, your job is to musically tell a story or to tell a subtext of the story, but it’s not your story,” he said. “When you make a record, it’s your thing — it’s your voice. As a film composer, you’re trying to capture what the director is going for, so it’s really almost more of a service industry job in a way.”

Doucette said he is working on a few other uncredited projects for other films but has little time to work on anything outside of MB20 while he is on the road.

“For now,” he said, “the tour has all my focus.”

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Bronson Taalbi uses a fortuitous Breaking Bad appearance to kick-start his career. By Ben Luschen

There is a lot a teenage musician can gain from a summer spent busking streets. Playing experience and the chance at earning extra spending money are obvious reasons for doing so, but brothers Bronson and Preston Taalbi picked up more than change playing Latin acoustic guitar duets on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.

One never knows whom they might encounter on the streets. Sometimes touring bands pass by and ask buskers to play at their gig that night. And sometimes, with some extraordinary luck, someone with an in at one of the most celebrated television series in history hears you and helps get one of your songs broadcast into millions of living rooms across the planet.

Bronson Taalbi was only 16 when “Freestyle,” his Flamenco-inspired instrumental jam with brother Preston, then 14, first aired on an episode of the hit AMC drama Breaking Bad. The series earned acclaim for many of its creative aspects, including its score and song se-

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lection. “Freestyle” was used in the season four episode “Face Off” during a montage depicting main characters Walt and Jesse destroying the high-tech meth lab in which they had been working.

Bronson Taalbi, now 23, has ventured beyond the world of acoustic Latin music.

He brings his folk-rock and alternativecountry project Bronson Wisconsin to Oklahoma 8 p.m. Sunday at Red Brick Bar, 311 E. Main St., in Norman. Though the project is a duo with Preston, Taalbi is performing solo on this tour.

Getting a song on a major TV show pays well and leads to a spike in iTunes sales, Taalbi said in a recent Oklahoma Gazette interview. It also leads to other future TV opportunities. The Taalbi brothers had another song featured on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

“I don’t think I would have discovered that whole world of music, like licensing, until maybe a few years from where I am now — maybe my late 20s,” he said.

Taalbi grew up the second youngest in a Madison, Wisconsin, family that included nine total siblings. With Preston,

his younger brother, he spent Wisconsin’s snowy, frigid winters playing their older siblings’ hand-me-down instruments together in the basement.

Fans of “Freestlye” should not dive into Bronson Wisconsin expecting similar instrumental dance grooves, though it is unlikely the edgier rock project will leave them disappointed.

The duo released its Ugly EP in June, featuring the aggressive, upbeat title track in the vein of AC/DC as a bold take on the state of the music industry.

Taalbi’s vocals are ripe with passion and energy — impressive considering his instrumental-only background.

Working with Preston has been an

ideal arrangement for Taalbi so far. He said finding solutions for musical dilemmas is much easier with a family relation than it would be a friend or acquaintance.

The bond has led them to great things so far. That — and maybe a little more luck — will continue to carry them into the future. Visit bronsonwisconsin. bandcamp.com.

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EDM producer Zeke Beats hopes his championship turntable skills earn him new fans. By Ben Luschen

Australian electronic dance music (EDM) producer Zeke Beats has never been to Oklahoma, but he knows he already has fans here and in several other places he has yet to visit.

It is a surreal sensation.

“It’s such a thrill. Like, it doesn’t even seem real,” Zeke said in a recent interview with Oklahoma Gazette. “But I’m super thankful people actually know my stuff and make it out to these shows. It’s such a good feeling.”

The producer from Perth, Australia, released his latest Dispatch EP this spring.

Some local EDM fans might know him as a protégé of Oregon-based DJ Eprom.

Zeke’s 2016 Meltdown EP included a titletrack single that made it to the second round of Grammy Award voting.

His Oklahoma debut is set for Aug. 4 during Bass Stampede — a collaborative EDM concert and dance party presented

by Subsonix and Vibe Tribe — at Kamps Bar and Lounge, 1310 NW 25th St. Before he ever started producing music, Zeke was perfecting his scratching skills as a competitive turntablist. He grew up the youngest of four brothers in rural Australian seaside town Geraldton.

When he was 13, his music teacher in school was from the United Kingdom and had a passion for house music. Using money from his classroom budget, the teacher bought a pair of turntables and a mixer for his students to use. Zeke, whose older brothers were already into electronic music, said he would frequently come in during lunch and recess to experiment.

A few years later, he finally got his own set of decks, getting into competitive scratching at around age 18. He excelled in the field, winning the Australasian International DJ Association (IDA) championship in 2009 and climbing as high as fourth in the world rankings.

Getting into championship form took

practice, of course, but Zeke said it was never something he looked at as a chore — quite the opposite, in fact.

“From my perspective, I was having heaps of fun just fucking around,” he said.

After his IDA championship, Zeke began focusing on his music production skills. Still, he has not abandoned the turntable skills that earned him so much acclaim in the past. He regularly incorporates his scratching and pro-level turntable technique into his live sets.

“Having that prior DJ history definitely helps me now,” he said, “because when people come out to see me, a lot of times, they know me as a producer but they don’t know my DJ accolades from the past. It’s an amazing feeling to wow people with my production, but also my DJ skills.”

Zeke seems to excel at most of the music-related ventures he finds himself in. But the producer said it is not the success that motivates him.

“Even if I wasn’t doing well with my music, what’s important to me is that I do have a passion and I know what I enjoy,” he said. “I’m super thankful to have that and understand that.”

Zeke is not only eager to meet his Oklahoma followers for the first time, but make new impressions on those who come out to the show but have not heard his music yet.

“I can guarantee if they come out to the show, I will impress them,” he said.

“I’m confident in that.”

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THURSDAY, 7.27 Applied Music Program/Blake Lusk/Net, Opolis, Norman. VARIOUS Ashley Raines & the New West Revue/Jake Stanton, JJ’s Alley. INDIE Drive, Riversport Rapids. COVER Erin O’Dowd, Will Rogers World Airport.

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The Gathering of the Juggalos So you’ve watched clips of The Gathering of the Juggalos on YouTube and you’ve always thought to yourself, “Wow; all the face paint looks pretty gnarly. Someday I’m actually going to go.” Well, the time is nigh, friends. In addition to from music by Insane Clown Posse, Waka Flocka Flame and Vanilla Ice, enjoy sideshows, professional wrestling, stand-up comedy, carnival rides, rap battles, monster trucks, a water park and more. The Gathering runs Wednesday-Saturday at Lost Lakes Amphitheater and Waterpark, 3501 NE 10th St. Weekend event tickets are $190.

For those wanting to camp car or recreational vehicle/trailer passes are $100$160. Visit juggalogathering.com or call 248-426-0800. Wednesday-Saturday Photo provided

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Are you feeling as daring about romance as I suspect? If so, I’ve composed a provocative note for you to give to anyone you have good reason to believe will be glad to receive it. Feel free to copy it word-for-word or edit it to suit your needs. Here it is: “I want to be your open-hearted explorer. Want to be mine? We can be in foolishly cool drooling devotion to each other’s mighty love power. We can be in elegant solid-gold allegiance to each other’s genius. Wouldn’t it be fun to see how much liberation we can whip up together? We can play off our mutual respect as we banish the fearful shticks in our bags of tricks. We can inspire each other to reach unexpected heights of brazen intelligence.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

You still have a wound that never formed a proper scar.

(We’re speaking metaphorically here.) It’s chronically irritated. Never quite right. Always stealing bits of your attention. Would you like to do something to reduce the distracting power of that annoying affliction? The next 25 days will be a favorable time to seek such a miracle.

All the forces of nature and spirit will conspire in your behalf if you formulate a clear intention to get the healing you need and deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

In his poem “The Initiate,” Charles Simic speaks of “someone who solved life’s riddles in a voice of an ancient Sumerian queen.” I hope you’re not focused on seeking help and revelations from noble and grandiose sources like that, Gemini. If you are, you may miss the useful cues and clues that come your way via more modest informants. So please be alert for the blessings of the ordinary. As you work on solving your quandaries, give special attention to serendipitous interventions and accidental luck.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

For many years, the Tobe Zoological Park in China housed

a “praying panther” named Ato. The large black feline periodically rose up on her hind legs and put her paws together as if petitioning a higher power for blessings. I suggest we make her your spirit ally in the coming weeks.

I hope she’ll inspire you to get your restless mind out of the way as you seek to quench your primal needs. With the praying panther as your muse, you should be able to summon previously untapped reserves of your animal intelligence and cultivate an instinctual knack for knowing where to find raw, pristine satisfaction.

decisions are based more on love than fear. You’re not taking things too personally or too seriously, and you seem better equipped than everyone else to laugh at the craziness that surrounds us. And even if aliens don’t appear, I bet you will serve as an inspiring influence for more human beings than you realize. Does being a role model sound boring? I hope not. if you regard it as an interesting gift, it will empower you to wield more clout than you’re used to.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Do you really have to be the flashy king or charismatic queen of all you survey? Must all your subjects put on kneepads and prostrate themselves as they bask in your glory? Isn’t it enough for you to simply be the master of your own emotions, and the boss of your own time, and the lord of your own destiny? I’m not trying to stifle your ambition or cramp your enthusiasm; I just want to make sure you don’t dilute your willpower by trying to wield command over too wide a swath. The most important task, after all, is to manage your own life with panache and ingenuity. But I will concede this: The coming weeks will be a time when you can also probably get away with being extra worshiped and adored.

During the four years he worked on painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo never took a bath. Was he too preoccupied with his masterpiece? Modern artist Pae White has a different relationship with obsession. To create her fabric art pieces, she has spent years collecting more than 3,500 scarves designed by her favorite scarfmaker. Then there’s filmmaker James Cameron, who hired an expert in linguistics to create an entire new language from scratch for the aliens in his movie Avatar.

In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I approve of you summoning this level of devotion -- as long as it’s not in service to a transitory desire, but rather to a labor of love that has the potential to change your life for the better for a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Dear Hard Worker: Our records indicate that you have been neglecting to allot yourself sufficient time to rest and recharge. In case you had forgotten, you are expected to take regular extended breaks, during which time it is mandatory to treat yourself with meticulous care and extreme tenderness. Please grant yourself an immediate dispensation. Expose yourself to intensely relaxing encounters with play, fun, and pleasure -- or else! No excuses will be accepted.

If extraterrestrial beings land their space ship on my street and say they want to meet the creatures who best represent our planet, I will volunteer you Libras. Right now, at least, you’re nobler than the rest of us, and more sparkly, too. You’re dealing smartly with your personal share of the world’s suffering, and your day-to-day

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers,” wrote author James Baldwin. Even if you’re not an artist, I encourage you to make that your purpose in the coming weeks.

Definitive answers will at best be irrelevant and at worst useless. Vigorous doubt and inquiry, on the other hand, will be exciting and invigorating. They will mobilize you to rebel against any status quos that have been tempting you to settle for mediocrity.

You’re in a phase of your cycle when the most useful prophecies are more lyrical than logical. So here you go: three enigmatic predictions to help stir up the creative ingenuity you’ll need to excel on your upcoming tests. 1. A darling but stale old hope must shrivel and wane so that a spiky, electric new hope

can be born. 2. An openness to the potential value of a metaphorical death will be one of your sweetest assets. 3. The best way to cross a border is not to sneak across bearing secrets but to stride across in full glory with nothing to hide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Aquarian novelist James Joyce had a pessimistic view about intimate connection. Here’s what he said: “Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.” My challenge to you, Aquarius -- in accordance with the astrological omens -- is to prove Joyce wrong. Figure out how to make your soul virgin again so it can cast itself out into the ocean of another’s soul. The next eight weeks will be prime time to achieve that glorious feat.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Years after he had begun his work as a poet, Rainer Maria Rilke confessed that he was still finding out what it took to do his job. “I am learning to see,” he wrote. “I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to.” Given the current astrological omens, you have a similar opportunity, Pisces: to learn more about how to see. It won’t happen like magic. You can’t just sit back passively and wait for the universe to accomplish it for you. But if you decide you really would like to be more perceptive -- if you resolve to receive and register more of the raw life data that’s flowing towards you -- you will expand and deepen your ability to see.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes /daily text message horoscopes.

The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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