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that teach singing and dancing. The songs match the popular beats of hip-hop songs, but the lyrics preach a positive message.

Children ages 4-18 participate in the Stop the Violence camps, which preventatively educate youth on topics such as gangs, bullying, sexual abuse, drugs and suicide.

“We hear a host of different success stories,” Rucker said. “Some parents tell us their children were having issues at school with bullying before coming to camp.”

The camp’s message resonates with the children past the final day, Rucker explained. One camper shared with Rucker about a time when he was asked if he wanted to use drugs. The camper replied no and within seconds, a police car drove by. The situation could have ended very differently for the camper.

“He heard my voice in his head,” Rucker said. “Stories like that is what we want to hear. Our program is working.”

Rucker believes Stop the Violence’s success comes from its ability to morph arts with a needed message.

The next camp runs 6-9 p.m. July 18-23 at Douglass High School, 900 N. Martin Luther King Ave. “This program is open to everyone,” Rucker said. “It’s not just for at-risk youth or kids from certain neighborhoods.

Violence happens everywhere. It doesn’t matter what neighborhood or school you come from. We try to prepare the youth to get them ready for anything.”

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Stop the Violence volunteers present a positive message of violence reduction to youth through summer camps and educational programs. | Photo Erick Perry

OKC’s struggles A solution lies in truly understanding violence and educating youth. By Laura Eastes

Violence erupted at a local teen club on the night a young Ronnie Johnson decided to stay home. As a teenager growing up in northeast Oklahoma City, violence was part of everyday life for Johnson.

The urban area’s high rate of crime and violence contrasted Johnson’s daily activities, such as high school sporting events, socializing with friends and simply taking after-school walks.

“It was always the same thing,” Johnson described. “When you went out, you knew someone was going to fight, someone was going to shoot.”

One day, violence and adolescent angst culminated after a Northeast High School basketball game. It was typical for students, some from neighboring high schools, to go socialize at a club after games. After a difficult loss, Johnson didn’t join his teammates or the others. The next morning, Johnson learned a friend was killed during a dispute involving a girl.

“It really dawned on me,” Johnson said, “that people were losing their lives over something that shouldn’t happen. … I lost friends to nonsense.”

Surviving the teenage years doesn’t guarantee a clear path to escaping violence, explained Johnson, who continued to lose friends from Oklahoma City’s northeast side to gun and knife violence.

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friend. Jalen Ware was killed last year during an armed robbery in northeast OKC. This violence, and the trauma that follows, is a terrifying reality in some urban communities. Homicide is the leading cause of death among African American youths, and the second leading cause of death for all young people ages 15-24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

What is violence?

Violence is not limited to a terrorist attack, shooting or bloody uprising. In fact, violence is defined by the World Health Organization as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation.”

According to the CDC, the Sooner state holds a slightly higher homicide mortality rate than the national average. Oklahoma’s firearm mortality rate is 15.6 per 100,000 people, compared to the national rate at 10.2 per 100,000 people.

In a recent study, Oklahoma was named one of the most dangerous states in the nation. It ranked No. 50 on a survey reviewing home and community safety, road safety, workplace safety, financial safety and safety from natural disasters, according to personal finance website WalletHub. Violence is preventable. In a state

On Mother’s Day 2010, 21-year-old Kruz Laviolette was shot in the back after breaking up a fight in northeast Oklahoma City. The 21-year-old man died in front of his family, including his younger brother and sister.

Troubled by his cousin’s murder, Kuinten Rucker decided to be a force for change.

“I didn’t want to go out and hold up a sign that read, ‘Stop the Violence,’” Rucker said.

“I wanted a way to really engage the youth.

Get their attention and say, ‘Hey, there are other options.’”

Months after the tragic loss of Laviolette, Rucker created Stop the Violence, an organization dedicated to working to reduce violence in schools and neighborhoods. Each year, Stop the Violence hosts youth camps

Kuinten Rucker founded Stop the Violence after the tragic death of his cousin. | Photo Erick Perry

Following a community meeting discussing the rate of violence and support systems established for victims, Sara Bana and Dwain Pellebon created Ending Violence Everywhere (E.V.E.), a non-partisan citizens’ coalition demanding change in the culture of violence by promoting education, prevention, treatment, intervention and love.

“Violence is not a natural mode for people,” Bana explained. “We can love. To have love and compassion in your life makes you a more whole and complete person. It also makes the world a more beautiful place.

We have to respect one another.”

Less than a year after the nonprofit’s inception, a white police officer shot unarmed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The incident touched off more violence, protests and national debate.

People feared Ferguson could happen anywhere. Pellebon and Bana saw an opportunity for E.V.E. to play an important role in strengthening the police relations of the community.

“We didn’t want something to happen in Oklahoma City or central Oklahoma that was happening nationally,” Pellebon said.

“That mobilized us.”

Community leaders and law enforcement representatives participated in a public forum on police and community relations hosted by E.V.E. in March 2015. The nearly five-hour gathering allowed the public to ask questions and share personal stories.

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Norman, Midwest City and two sheriffs’ departments, listened to the concerns and tried to address them.

The forum gave rise to the Police and Community Trust (P.A.C.T.) Initiative and Summit, which included involvement by local police chiefs, sheriffs and community leaders. In late January, the initiative approved 20 action items for the community, including stronger law enforcement presence and engagement at community events, educational brochures on interacting with police and implementing anti-bias training.

Now, Bana and Pellebon co-chair the initiative and are tasked with studying the success of the action items.

Additionally, E.V.E. produces a local radio show that explores the causes and contributing factors of violence.

“We’ve focused on passive violence issues, like poverty, because we feel those issues are the conditions that lead or cause violence,” Bana said. “If we can act in that situation, then we may be able to prevent future incidents of violence.”

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Those fighting to prevent violence in OKC recognize that it takes everyone involved to reduce violence.

To tackle violence, there must be positive youth programs available for children, Rucker explained.

Public schools cutting or reducing fine arts programs are a danger for the community. Speaking from his own experience, Rucker contends that music programs, marching band and dance classes offered him a positive and creative outlet, leaving little time for juvenile crime.

Johnson believes that everyone — parents, teachers, family members, coaches, etc. — has an important role in stopping violence before it starts.

“Where it starts is telling the kids they can achieve greater than what they see,” Johnson said.

“Don’t let something stop you. Dream as big as you want,” Johnson said. “Once you understand about what is really out there, you are not going to have time to be violent.”

Johnson argues contemporary capitalism breeds a destructive society with rampant with unhappiness, the breakdown of the family, poverty and violence.

Both Bana and Pellebon see poverty, as well as mental health, education and politics as underlying causes of violence.

While some might conceive the issue of violence as too big to tackle, individuals like Johnson and groups like Stop the Violence and E.V.E. know how to enact solutions. By mobilizing youth, concerned community members and listeners, they help shape public and government agendas and create an important force for reducing violence in the OKC area.

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A local nonprofit provides youth-focused support groups to teens battling addiction. By Laura Eastes

Denise White and her teenage son, Addison, had run out of options when they arrived at the Teen Recovery Solutions office.

For the past few years, White had tried every course of action to treat her son’s drug addition. He started smoking marijuana in middle school, but his drug use escalated to abusing synthetic marijuana and prescription pills in high school.

They tried new school settings as Addison enrolled in alternative, military and homeschooled programs. He checked into an out-of-state treatment program, with White flying in on parent weekends.

Teen Recovery Solutions (TRS), with its private recovery high school and youth and parent-focused groups, proved to be the change they both needed.

“This is a place where they meet kids where they are,” White said. “It’s not just sobriety on a recovery level, but academic, social and spiritual support that helps the kids move forward.”

For nine months, Addison has attended classes at TRS Mission Academy High School. In the afternoons and weekends, he and his peers stay after school for youthfocused support groups run by three recovery coaches.

TRS clinical director Mike Maddox said the group meetings, called alternative peer groups, blend a church youth group, afterschool program and recovery program into one. Some days, the teens play video games or volleyball. The next day, they might travel across the Oklahoma City metro to attend music festivals or check out bowling alleys and laser tag venues.

“Recovery has got to be more fun than using or they will go back to it,” Maddox explained.

Intermingled into the outings and activities are teens being real with one another, providing each other mutual support by sharing their experiences, strengths and hopes.

“With teens, their social life is pretty

important to them,” Maddox said. “We try to create a new one. We create a safe and healthy community to make it easier for them to let go of those unhealthy and destructive relationships. It’s not easy, and it’s not immediate.”

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Next month, TRS enters its fourth year of providing alternative peer groups for clients. The school, founded by a group of parents, traces its roots back a decade and is one of 40 recovery schools in the nation.

Since TRS added alternative peer groups, the nonprofit’s abilities to serve teenagers and their families have amplified. Teenagers and their parents are part of a distinctive community, one that is sincere, judgmentfree and dedicated to support. Additionally, the alternative peer groups allow the nonprofit to reach more teenagers, as the groups are open to those not enrolled at the school.

“A recovery high school can’t do what it does on its own,” explained Maggie Brown, TRS director of development. “So much of the addiction takes place after school and on weekends. We want to accommodate their social needs and their desires to have a community.”

Research supports successful outcomes among teens and their families through the alternative peer group model, which was developed in Houston more than four decades ago. According to research by Baylor College of Medicine, teens that enroll in alternative peer groups are less likely to relapse then those of teens who go through treatment alone. Relapse rates of teens participating in alternative peer groups are between 8 to 11 percent, according to the Baylor study.

In a separate study conducted by Vanderbilt University, about 85 percent of teens who went through addiction treatment and returned to their original schools started using drugs again within a year.

Those numbers don’t surprise Maddox or

those in the recovery community. Anyone in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction tends to perform better in a new environment and away from those they used drugs with before.

TRS shows teens that they can have enjoyment and friends without drugs or alcohol involved.

“It is so important that they learn to have fun without getting high or drunk,” Maddox said. “That’s the challenge. For so many, that’s what they did.”

A parent involved in their teen’s recovery is a crucial component to TRS, Maddox explained. The multifamily group meets Monday nights. Parents and teens discuss their struggles, conflict resolutions, healthy boundaries and enabling. TRS also facilitates a parent support group, mom’s Al-Anon group and mom’s prayer group.

“This disease will take your life,” Maddox said as he discussed addiction.

“Many of these teens have had second, third or fourth chances. You see the light come on for the teens, and you see the parents get it. Eventually, the parents trust again. … To see the healing process take place is pretty cool.”

This spring, TRS launched its first satellite alternative peer groups at Oklahoma City’s All Souls’ Episcopal Church. The new relationship brings larger facilities — such as the church’s gymnasium, game room, kitchen and fields — for TRS to use in its programs.

Additionally, the organization can reach more teens as it offers an open 12 Step meeting and parent support group each Monday night.

TRS hopes to grow the satellite groups with meetings in the south, north and western areas of the OKC metro.

“We want to help more families,” Maddox said. “We know what we do works, and it works well.”

Not a day goes by that White and her son are not grateful for TRS and Mission Academy. The program has helped them develop a stronger and healthier relationship and form deep friendships with other teens and their parents in the program.

“The number one thing is you’ve got to find help,” White said as her advice to parents with a child that struggles with addiction. “You’ve got to walk the journey with your kid, and that means being involved in a supportive community for kids and their parents.”

Support An open teen 12 Step meeting and parent support group runs 6-7 p.m. Mondays at All Souls’ Episcopal Church, 6400 N. Pennsylvania Ave. Teens or parents may call Teen Recovery Solutions to schedule a free assessment. To learn more about TRS and Mission Academy High School, visit teenrecoverysolutions.org or call 405-843-9100.

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Teaching solutions A leadership program transforms educators to see beyond their classrooms. By Laura Eastes

In August, when Jones Elementary School students are busy on a constellations activity or working through a science lab assignment, teacher Lisa Pitts plans to snap a photo.

The veteran educator will upload the snapshot to Twitter with a simple 140-character message explaining the activity. Before posting it to social media, Pitts will tag her school’s state legislators and add a #repinclass hashtag.

Pitts anticipates the simple action will encourage direct communication with lawmakers, launching an opportunity to field questions and give decision makers a glimpse into an eastern Oklahoma County classroom.

As a member of the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s OKMath/ OKSci Leadership Program’s third class, her keystone project received nods and applause from a crowd of 50 educators when presented last week in Oklahoma City. As part of the program, each member chose a keystone project aimed at solving a problem faced by Oklahoma educators, like the disconnect among teachers and policymakers.

“We are creating a network of people who can change education in this state,” said Levi Patrick, who serves as a facilitator for the leadership program. He also is the state’s director of secondary mathematics. “They are creating the change they want to see.”

Success story

This spring, as Oklahoma Teacher of the Year, Shawn Sheehan underwent intense interviews in Washington, D.C., as a finalist for the 2016 National Teacher of the Year award. The Norman High School educator eagerly shared his keystone project, Teach Like Me. Just three years ago, Sheehan was one of 31 teachers in the inaugural OKMath/ OKSci class. As a special education and math teacher, Sheehan applied for the program and hoped to grow his math curriculum skills.

“I came to find it wasn’t what I was expecting,” Sheehan said. “We weren’t just going to talk about math and science; we were talking about solutions for our state.”

In 2014, Oklahoma superintendents reported teachers retiring early.

Additionally, teachers handed in resignation letters as they left for higher-paying jobs in fields outside of education. The primary problem wasn’t recruiting new teachers; it was retention mixed with low morale, Sheehan explained.

“I had overheard a colleague discourage a child from becoming a teacher,” he recalled. “She told the kid, ‘Don’t do this job.

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ing to all the veteran teachers.”

Sheehan easily found others who were passionate about their careers and the role they play in helping students. He began recording their messages and uploading them to a Facebook page called Teach Like Me. “If you teach third grade, own it and be proud,” Sheehan said. “What non-educators are saying about this profession is what they see on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. If all they see is 10 reasons why teachers burn out in three years or reasons why teachers should go to Texas, are we surprised we are in the situation we are in?”

Teach Like Me grew from a Facebook page and activity within Norman Public Schools to a full-blown movement. Now, videos showcase the nation’s top teachers taking about their time in the classroom.

“This program, OKMath/OKSci Leadership, is what set me on a trajectory for finalist for top teacher of the year,” Sheehan said. “This is the way we change education. This year, I’ve met the best educators in the country. Oklahoma’s teachers are on par with them. Actually, I bet some of those teachers would have a tough time making it in this state with the challenges and barriers we face.”

In August, many Oklahoma teachers will return to their schools to find increased class sizes, few dollars allocated to classrooms, no new textbooks and staffing cuts, such as fine arts teachers, classroom aids and administrators. Regardless, they are focused on their lesson plans to ensure student learning needs are met.

Continued dialogue

Earlier this month, 37 members of the most recent OKMath/OKSci leadership class graduated. The members gathered for eight days over the last school year, and the connections made bred collaboration and networking throughout the year.

Patrick expects members to continue to reach out to one another. “[Keystone projects] are a key part of the program,” he said. “What we also see coming from this is a network of teachers working on education solutions in our state. They extend the conversation to others when they return to their districts.”

Megan Cannon, a sixth- and seventhgrade Sapulpa Public Schools STEM teacher, sought out the program to develop her leadership skills. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math.

Cannon, who recently completed her fifth year of classroom teaching, sees herself picking up a leadership role in the science curriculum department come August.

“This program, if it was sustainable and offered year after year, would change the face of education in Oklahoma and the country,” Cannon said. “Shawn Sheehan is a product of this leadership program. That is proof right there of what this program can do. … I can help lead other teachers and discover other leaders in my district. There is a confidence I gained through this program, and I feel like a rock star.”

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Larry Batten and Rev. John Malget founded Chain Reaction Ministries at Restoration Church at the Dome. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

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A local bicycle donation program offers Oklahoma City’s homeless population dependable transportation and hope for the future.

By Candice Macis

The big, white egg of a church on Northwest 36th Street and Walker Avenue is not just a 126-year-old architectural landmark; it is also home to a very important Oklahoma City charity. Restoration Church at the Dome (formerly First Christian Church), a Disciples of Christ congregation, also runs Chain Reaction Ministries.

The nonprofit repairs bicycles and gives them to homeless people in the community so they will have reliable transportation to and from work.

Since its inception in 2013, the Oklahoma City branch has given away over 1,800 bicycles. Chain Reaction Ministries (CRM) donates bikes mainly through referrals from other homeless support agencies. The Department of Veterans Affairs, The Curbside Chronicle and Homeless Alliance are a few of the organizations coordinator Larry Batten and founder Rev. John Malget regularly hear from.

“We’ve become the transportation wing for many agencies,” Malget said.

He brought CRM to OKC after serving at the original Houston branch for over three years. Malget saw a need here due to the city’s lack of a strong public transportation system. Local church elders were surprised to find he was right; Oklahoma City has since surpassed the success of the other ministries in 12

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Bentonville, Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Houston, Texas.

“When I got here, I had the bicycle ministry in the back of my head,” he said, “but the whole idea of outreach is: What is a need here in Oklahoma City that is not being met?”

‘God’s plan’

He found his answer by simply looking around the city.

“The transportation in Oklahoma City is not great, and the buses don’t run, you know, when poor people need to get to work,” Malget said. “Sometimes they’re getting to work in the middle of the night, or they’re leaving for work in the middle of the night.”

Because of his experience in Houston, Malget had modest expectations for CRM when it launched here. Houston’s homeless population is more than four times larger than OKC’s, with comparable square miles of land, but it gives away considerably fewer bikes per year.

“His goal, when we started this, was 100 bikes a year,” Batten explained.

“That’s what Houston was doing. Our first year, we blew Houston away.”

Organizers couldn’t have predicted the extent of the need in OKC. “God had a whole lot more planned,” Malget said. “We’re here at over 1,800 two

and a half years later.”

He went on to attribute the difference to Houston’s better public transportation system.

He also talked about how the CRM church in Houston is not in the easiest location for people who need transportation to get to.

Houston, of course, is more densely populated than Oklahoma City and utilizes sophisticated rail and bus transit systems that run frequently in high demand areas. Still, OKC’s recently reenvisioned and rebranded EMBARK metro transit system has received accolades. This year, Oklahoma Transit Authority gave EMBARK two awards for marketing excellence and innovations such as Wi-Fi and real-time route information. It also added lighting and bus stop shelters. EMBARK increased night ridership six months ahead of schedule with the help of marketing and public education campaigns.

The Federal Transit Administration honored it for effective grant management, as well.

One night route runs from Reno and MacArthur avenues through uptown, Midtown and OU Medical Center. All service ends at midnight. As an example of OKC’s need, Malget explained that a nighttime warehouse job might not be located near that night route. Or the shift might start or end after midnight.

Stability, hope

Restoration Church at the Dome has a full-time custodian who started working at the bike shop to pay it forward, Malget said. He volunteered in the shop four nights a week. He also worked temporary night jobs and lived in a tent.

Many people who receive bikes from CRM express gratitude and a commitment to continue improving their lives.

On a large bulletin board posted in the church, Malget and Batten proudly display numerous thank-you letters.

One recipient wrote to say he uses the bike to get to work and that he’s looking for a second job since he knows he can now arrive on time. All CRM bike mechanics have been recipients but one.

They said they feel touched by the ministry and want to help continue the program.

“I guarantee you, most people in this city are two paychecks from being homeless, and that’s the truth,” Battan said.

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“Oh my gosh. Die hard fan right there,” read one of countless tweets to a 22-year-old Canadian man after he posted a picture of himself in the hospital May 31. According to TasteofCountry.com and confirmed by the man’s Twitter account, Bern (aka @liveasong4)’s lung collapsed from singing too hard during a recent Carrie Underwood concert in Ottawa.

Underwood, a born-and-bred Okie, has been killing it with her Storyteller tour and attended a recent Celebrity Fight Night for Muhammad Ali and his Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center before his death, according to Rare Country.

The beauty made Bern a sensation after she responded to his tweet, which read, “@CarrieUnderwood SLAYED me so hard in Ottawa. I sang along to every word and my lung flopped. #YOLO #LoveHer.” You only live once is right.

“What the what?! I hope you’re alright! It was great to get to see you! Thanks for risking your life to be there!” read the Checotah native’s response.

Bern retweeted the superstar’s response, along with numerous others giving him a combination of sympathy and grief.

His Twitter profile proudly displays a snap he took with Underwood before the concert: “@CarrieUnderwood slayed me so hard she sent me to the hospital. She literally took my breath away on May 27, 2016. What an honor.”

Bern even ran a survey asking which song did in his lung. Over a hundred people voted on either “Renegade Runaway,” “Blown Away,” “Choctaw County Affair,” or “Something in the Water.”

The culprit appears to be “Blown Away,” though “Something in the Water” is a close second in vote count. Bern also confirmed he is feeling much better.

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Coburn burn

Almost five years ago, Westville’s Markwayne Mullin, a candidate for Congress, told The Associated Press he planned to serve no more than three terms if elected.

Sen. Tom Coburn, who previously represented Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district, cheered. Like Mullin, he took that same pledge and served no more than three terms in the U.S. House. Later, Coburn served as a U.S. Senator.

Now, Congressman Mullin, a Republican serving his second term representing the state’s 2nd District, says he’s open to a third and fourth term. He and wife Christie Mullin will “seek the Lord’s guidance” on the notion of a fourth term, according to Tulsa World.

Asking God about serving more than six years in Washington, D.C., was not the answer Coburn wanted. After all, a pledge is a pledge.

In late May, Coburn announced his support for the other guy in the Republican primary.

“I am proud to endorse Jarrin Jackson, a combat veteran who understands and has fought for our Constitution,” Coburn said in a statement published in Tulsa World. “He will stand up for us in Washington and not go along to get along. He also will honor a six-year, self-imposed term limit.”

Mullin was burned by Coburn, but U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe

and James Lankford stepped up with a glass of cold water. Both endorsed Mullin.

“Markwayne is unique in Congress, a businessman who has created jobs and knows how to run a successful company,” Lankford said in a written statement released by Mullin’s campaign. “He’s a relentless fighter against government regulations, higher taxes and the unconstitutional executive orders that threaten our freedom.”

At Chicken-Fried News, we recommend Mullin’s camp not concentrate so much on a Dr. No endorsement. The former lawmaker was the only member of Congress to endorse perennial candidate Alan Keyes for president in 2000. Earlier this year, Coburn picked U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio for prez.

Given Coburn’s track record on endorsements, Mullin might be better off.

Dry land

Oklahomans already have over 55,000 miles of shoreline to enjoy, but this city is located in America, and as Americans, dang it, we deserve more!

And we’re getting more.

A new attraction, Bricktown Beach, opens later this month near Mickey Mantle Plaza at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

Events, including a movie and a concert, already are scheduled for the plaza.

Bricktown district manager Mallory O’Neill said although the beach will host events from time to time, the area is mainly for people to relax, hang out and soak in the sun. Admission is free.

“We’ve been looking for a couple of years what a good location would be here,” O’Neill told NewsOK.com. “Now we’ve partnered with the Dodgers and put it on the plaza, which is a space that is very active for games or when there’s 5Ks or runs, but it stays empty during normal weeks when there’s not events going on.”

Yay, America!

The beach is organized by Downtown Oklahoma City Inc., the Oklahoma City Dodgers and J.E. Dunn Construction Group Inc. The Bricktown-based construction group designed the beach and is building it.

Planned events include a performance

by New York band The Hollows 9 p.m. June 23 and a screening of Finding Nemo 9 p.m.

July 14.

Cowboy queen

Oklahoma is a lot of things. It’s where the wind comes sweeping down the plain. It’s where the waving wheat sure smells sweet.

It’s also the namesake of the Queen of England’s favorite song.

BBC Radio 2 celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday with the program Our Queen: 90 Musical Years and revealed her 10 favorite songs. At the top of the list is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic “Oklahoma!” from the musical of the same name.

Other favorite tunes include “Anything You Can Do” from the musical Annie Get Your Gun and Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek,” performed by Fred Astaire.

The old gal “enjoys a rousing singsong,” said radio show host Eve Pollard. But we at Chicken-Fried News wonder if her choice of our state song might reveal some leftover colonial leanings. After all, its lyrics say, “We know we belong to the land, and the land we belong to is grand.”

If America used to be the property of England, including the land to which we belong, perhaps Elizabeth the Second — by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen,

Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith — would like to add Ruler of the Okies to her extensive list of titles.

Mob mentality

A trial began May 16 for Oklahoma City’s gruesome “Cathouse” murders, which happened seven years ago. The crime was named for one of the pregnant victims, a sex worker featured in the HBO reality TV show Cathouse about a legal brothel in Reno, Nevada.

The events are still impacting current affairs. According to NewsOK. com, Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel said the Oklahoma County Jail was locked down for two days recently due to concerns about gang violence.

Allegedly, threats to “harm jail staff across the state” originated from the Irish Mob, which was triggered by the crime and current trial.

Denny Phillips and Russell Lee Hogshooter, the last defendants in the case, are charged with six counts of first-degree murder. The Indian Brotherhood Gang has been linked to the two defendants.

Prosecutors allege Phillips used his authority as an Indian Brotherhood “war chief” to order Hogshooter and another suspect, David Allen Tyner, to murder one of the

victims, who was Hispanic.

The connections between the Irish Mob, the trial and the jail lockdown are still unclear. Whetsel provided no clarification for why the trial would appeal to the Irish Mob, most often considered a white supremacist gang.

Winner, winner!

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been sued ... a lot.

Chicken-Fried News knows this because USA Today told readers about it earlier this month. The news company reported Trump has been identified in thousands of legal actions through his long real estate and business career.

We also know this because it was cited in a June 4 syndicated newspaper humor column by columnist and comedian Argus Hamilton, born in Poteau, which mentions Trump has won 450 lawsuits against him and lost 38.

“Americans have waited a long time for a president with a better win-loss record than Barry Switzer’s,” he wrote.

Hamilton is funny, but not entirely correct. A more careful look at the USA Today piece reveals that record only reflects cases in with clear outcomes. An additional 500 cases were dismissed, and in hundreds more, the record is “unclear” on the outcome. USA Today said Trump’s name appears in at least 3,500 legal actions.

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Oklahoma City is beginning to embrace public art in a new way, and quickly.

Artists, citizens, nonprofits and city leaders are coming together to make it easier to create and install new pieces.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a surge in murals, sculptures and creative lighting appearing around Oklahoma City — some permitted, some not.

But it’s a beautiful thing, and it has forced a conversation about what constitutes public art, who should have a say in the concept, and if there are limits on what is displayed.

The result has been that we are now seeing more organized public art competitions, artist trainings, more fundraising efforts for public art and groups like DowntownOKC and the City of Oklahoma City’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs providing assistance with permitting and promotion.

Public artworks along Western Avenue and in the Plaza District, Automobile Alley, Midtown and many other areas are garner-

ing national attention for our willingness to let artists have full creative freedom.

Let’s not let this momentum stall out.

Art is meant to be intellectually and emotionally provocative, and the more of that we can provide to residents and visitors in our city, the better.

Recently, the city’s planning department, under the advisement of Bricktown Urban Design Committee, lifted decadesold language from an ordinance regarding murals in Bricktown. Before this month, all artistic graphics in the district had to be “historically, architecturally or culturally significant to the Bricktown area, the city of Oklahoma City or the State.”

But when that line was removed, Bricktown’s playing field was leveled, and it showed the entire community that our city supports these efforts.

We will definitely start to see a fresh approach to what happens in Bricktown, including the first project to appear before the Oklahoma City Arts Commission under this new ordinance, Jack Fowler’s

“Bricktown Octopus,” a proposed mural for the outside back wall of Chevy Bricktown Events Center — currently, a drab concrete wall.

Hopefully, this will be the first of many pieces that will invite and inspire even more creativity.

Restrictions and ordinances often come from a good place, but sometimes they outlive their usefulness. It’s now time to move away from that model and allow for more personal expression. There are plenty of blank walls in this town and room for as much diverse art as we can squeeze into it.

Public art helps create a distinctive sense of place, builds community pride and gives visitors incentive to continue exploring. In many cases, art also provides a comfort or educational function, and it always sparks more curiosity and creativity.

Art can also have a positive economic impact on surrounding businesses, help prevent vandalism and create opportuni-

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Smart money

In this current political season, there have been a number of speeches and interviews stating “Make America Great Again!”

America is and will continue to be a great nation, but as with all great nations, there are refinements to be accomplished.

One of the most important areas to address is American manufacturing.

Americans have been wooed with lower and lower prices on products as the only inherent reason to make purchases. We have sacrificed American manufacturing in the process.

On an international scale, American manufacturing has played second fiddle to primarily Asian countries that unduly regulate their currencies against the U.S. dollar, ignore environmental regulations and concerns, operate in unsafe conditions and pay their workers less than international standards.

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markets also fool the American buying public into “bargain-hunting” tactics of prices being 50 percent, 60 percent, 70 percent and 80 percent off. Rest assured that these retailers continue to make substantial profits with their perceived values and pricing!

All the while, American manufacturers are suffering. But why should we care?

American manufacturers support American ideals: environmental standards, quality products, living wages, a stronger economy, improved infrastructure and most importantly, jobs for U.S. workers.

In March, we attended the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago, where, of the more than 2,000 exhibitors, less than 10 percent offered products made in the USA. We cannot continue to be a strong nation without a strong manufacturing base. Let’s

support the freedoms and the independence of the USA by purchasing products manufactured in the United States.

John Seward Oklahoma City

Dangerous option

I recently read your article about ESAs (“Debating ESAs,” Feb. 10, Laura Eastes, Oklahoma Gazette). I have to say that I do not feel as though this is a viable option because it would take away from the education funds. Not all students would be treated equally, and tax dollars should go to public facilities, not individuals.

The education system is having problems with budgets. Taking from the tax dollars that public schools get in order to allow students to go to private schools or have other educational benefits would hit many public schools hard because every

ties for collaboration and unique partnerships.

We all should be proud that Oklahoma City has begun to embrace the importance of public art. It’s an indicator that these areas are thriving.

And to stay relevant and maintain our attractiveness as a great place to live and to visit, we must continue advocating for progressive changes.

We talk a lot about quality of life here, and part of that is the high value we place on artistic expression.

Art in our city can celebrate history, reflect the present and promote our future.

It also could just be stunning and fantastical. The point is all art, but especially public art, is about freedom — freedom to create, freedom to change, freedom to think and examine, and even freedom to critique.

Jill Brown DeLozier is vice president of Downtown Oklahoma City, Inc.

dollar counts in our current situation. This could shut down many public schools.

Because this system would be using the family’s income to decide how much will be given in the vouchers, this system would be unfair to middle-class students. These students would get little to no help even though their family still couldn’t afford private education. And with the inevitable shutdown of many public schools, these students would find it difficult to get a quality education.

Tax dollars should not go to individual use. Because tax dollars are paid by everyone, everyone should benefit, and that would not be the case in this situation.

Joy Hofmeister, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, explains that budget cuts can be a bad thing, but they can also push schools to more efficiently spend the money they have. Maybe instead of cutting out public schools, we should just run the schools we have more efficiently.

Monica Davis Oklahoma City

Corrections

• The May 25 Oklahoma Gazette Gazedibles food feature “Burger time” by Greg Elwell misidentified Nic’s Grill. It is no longer associated with Ice House OKC. • A photo caption in the June 8 story “Air time” (News, Mark Beutler, Gazette) incorrectly named the radio station for which Jack Elliott and Ron Williams now work. They work for FUN 96.9 FM.

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Cellar’s market

The OKC Cellar gives serious wine lovers a place to keep and share their best bottles. By Greg Elwell

If you want something that doesn’t exist, you either wait for someone else to make it or you do it yourself.

Hunter Merritt is a do-it-yourself kind of guy.

When he wanted locally made spirits, he started the Prairie Wolf Spirits distillery in Guthrie. Now the company sells vodka, gin, coffee liqueur and (soon) whiskey.

When he wanted to find a place to store high-end, “cellarable” wines in Oklahoma City, he found there wasn’t anywhere for him to go. So he created The OKC Cellar, 7801 N. Robinson Ave. “I went to school at [Southern Methodist University] in Dallas, and there was a facility like this that was very popular,” he said. “Every time they opened a new one, it would fill up immediately.”

Growth has been slow but steady at The OKC Cellar, with a few new members joining each week. The business has yet to advertise, but word is spreading as wine distributors and collectors began bringing friends in to see the operation.

Buzz in the front door and you’ll soon be standing in The Club Room. The multipurpose area is a laid-back lounge with tables and cushioned chairs, a 70-inch TV on the wall and vintage wine ads hung tastefully around the room.

But in a snap, Merritt said, it can be converted to a dining room. Recently, the fine-dining club La Chaîne des Rôtisseurs had a dinner for 30 with chef David Henry of The Hutch (the soon-to-be successor to The Coach House) in the room. Several wine distributors have held tastings there, as well.

But usually, it’s just a place where members stop by to pop open a bottle or two with friends during Thunder games or get away from the office.

“It sometimes turns into a game of who has a better bottle,” Merritt said.

Patting the long, wooden table, he explained that one of the club’s rules is that any open bottle placed on top of it is game for all to try.

Out cold

The Club Room at The OKC Cellar is a selling point for members who want a place to share wine with other oenophiles. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

However, the main draw of the facility is behind the next door.

Inside the cellar, the whir of air conditioners raises the volume of the room, and the walls are lined with wooden lockers of various sizes. Merritt pulls out his keys to unlock a few of his units.

The humidity-controlled room stays at 55 degrees Fahrenheit, and a backup generator is there to ensure power outages don’t affect the quality of the storage space.

The smallest locker can hold just under 70 bottles and costs $33 a month. A full locker can hold almost 400 bottles for

$198 a month.

Access to the clubhouse is a bit more — $90 for those with lockers and $142 for those without lockers each month — but membership comes with benefits. In addition to using the space for private events, The OKC Cellar plans to bring in tasting events for wine and wine pairings throughout the year.

The Club Room also boasts a full kitchen, Riedel stemware and free Wi-Fi. More than anything else, though, it’s a place for oenophiles to hang out and share some “cellarable” wines at a fraction of the cost they might encounter in a restaurant.

Merritt said he’s planning an event called Open that Bottle, encouraging members to find that vintage they’ve been dying to try but haven’t found a reason to pop the cork.

Growing scene

Edmond Wine Shop sommelier Amie Hendrickson said the cellar is a good omen for Oklahoma City’s wine scene.

“Anything that helps consumers enjoy wine more is always a good thing,” she said. “Hunter is providing people a safe place to store their wine.”

There are many reasons customers might choose to store wine off-site, she said. Especially for frequent travelers, having a spot that is temperature- and humidity-controlled is important for maintaining the integrity of fine wine.

Some might assume Oklahoma City is a small fish in the wine scene, but with a growing number of sommeliers like Hendrickson, the metro is seeing an influx of excellent vintages that are harder to find in some larger cities.

“I’ve been to events [at The OKC Cellar], and I’ve been asked to help with events there,” she said. “I’ve recommended his location because it’s an easy place for people to meet and it’s a good size for these kind of events.”

Hendrickson said those still scared of dipping their toes into the wine scene should be on the lookout for more opportunities to taste and learn about wine.

Sommeliers all over the city are putting on more low-key, casual events to help introduce customers to new bottles.

“Half the battle is trying something new,” she said. “Hunter knows what he’s doing. I think there’s a lot of promise there.”

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Chicken-fried steak dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

Bovine university

Chuck House’s menu proclaims it has the best chicken fry in the universe. It might be right.

By Greg Elwell

The smell of chicken-fried steak fills Chuck House Restaurant, 4430 NW 10th St., like a savory fog. If this were a cartoon, the wafting odor would penetrate your nostrils and lift you up, floating your body through the door and into one of the wellworn booths.

Grab a seat wherever you like and peruse the provided menus.

The only thing more powerful than the alluring scent of fried foods is the gravity-like effect of Chuck House’s prices on the human jaw, even for its signature dish.

Perhaps you are not a meat eater or you have a medical condition that prevents you from enjoying yourself. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere for sustenance.

really have no choice but to order chickenfried steak. The dinner, which includes a choice of potato, is a whopping $6.76.

If that seems like a lot of money, then welcome to the future. How did you get here from pre-colonial Connecticut? Did Ben Franklin build a time machine? In the future, $6.76 is about as cheap as a date comes.

This isn’t some pre-made, homogenous chicken-fried steak that comes in a box.

These are rubbed with a special blend of seasoning, breaded and fried right there for a flavor that is overwhelmingly nostalgic. The employees won’t tell you what goes into that steak seasoning, but I can guess that there’s onion, pepper and an extract made from wringing joy out of the wings of angels.

The chicken-fried chicken sandwich ($6.24) is pretty Chuck House Restaurant good. It’s not the chicken-fried steak, and thus, it is inferior, 4430 NW 10th St.​| 405- 942-0852 but if you don’t dig red meat, this is a commendable option.

What works: The chicken-fried steak is The flavor is milder — you wonderful. know, like chicken is milder than steak — but still a tasty What needs work: The catfish had a choice. muddy flavor.

I love catfish, but the catfish dinner ($5.90) did not Tip: Remember salad bars? They still have one! flip any of my happy switches.

Depending on which part of the fish is used, catfish can But if you like golden-brown crispiness, taste clean or muddy. This batch tasted a pepper flecks in your cream gravy and little muddy. Tartar sauce helped. Perhaps fried ham, then sit down and pick up the it was a bad day or a bad fish, but I saved the rest of my appetite for the fried ham phone. That’s right — you get to order sandwich. through an old-school phone.

On the menu as “fried ham on a bun,” Now, when the menu says “Home of the this is as simple as it comes and so much Best Chicken Fry in the Universe,” you 20

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better than it has any right to be. And at $2.99, I don’t know how anyone could resist.

When I say it’s simple, I mean it is a buttered, toasted bun with a thick slice of griddle-fried ham on it. A little lettuce, tomato and mayo round it out, but c’mon.

Put away your Bunsen burners and trigonometry books. Call off your highly paid cadre of investigators. It’s the Occam’s razor of sandwiches.

Why is this so good? The simplest answer is the right one: because they fried a slab of ham and put it on bread.

Though I enjoyed the chopped sirloin burger with cheese ($5.69), it cost nearly twice as much as fried ham on a bun and

delivered half the flavor. If you simply can’t abide swine, then I recommend the chopped sirloin burger. But if you’re already getting beef, then just go whole hog, er… cow and get the chicken-fried steak.

I cannot, in good conscience, say Chuck House has the best chicken fry in the universe. Maybe there’s some quasiimmortal forging a better chicken-fried steak in the heart of a black hole.

But if your universe is largely centered in Oklahoma City, especially for the price, Chuck House’s chicken-fried steak is something you need to experience for yourself.

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Painting Paseo Picasso Cafe’s renovated kitchen is just one step in the continuing culinary evolution of the Paseo District.

By Greg Elwell

Picasso Cafe took a break from serving the hungry denizens of the Paseo Arts District to do something owner Shaun Fiaccone said should have been done before it opened in 2009.

He tore out the kitchen.

After the Paseo Arts Festival wrapped up May 30, culinary director and partner Ryan Parrott and his crew went to work stripping the kitchen of the restaurant, 3009 Paseo St. The next day, a construction team ripped down the walls of the kitchen to the studs, Parrott said.

Picasso stayed closed until Friday while workers rebuilt the kitchen. As soon as they were cleared to go back into the renovated space, the chefs began cooking for two catering jobs and the usual robust Friday night clientele.

“The whole kitchen gained 50 percent capacity,” Fiaccone said. “We had reached critical mass.”

Fiaccone said the building that houses Picasso has been leased consistently for the last 42 years. While some repairs and housekeeping took place, the kitchen needed a top-to-bottom makeover to keep up with the restaurant’s popularity.

The work added more refrigeration, fryer space, burners on the stove and storage.

Parrott said the overall flow of the kitchen is better and should help with

preparation of sandwiches, salads and some appetizers — all of which had been happening at one very overworked station.

Viva Picasso

While Picasso Cafe continues reorganizing the kitchen, Fiaccone and Parrott are also eagerly awaiting the beginning of a couple other projects.

The long-awaited construction of a Mexican concept at NW 28th Street and Walker Avenue is still on track, with financing, building permits and plans ready to go. In March, they even took a research trip to Mexico City to bring more culture back to the new enterprise.

The menu will feature moles, but the restaurant isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel ... or the taco.

“It will just be a great neighborhood spot,” Parrott said. “Every restaurant has a burger, but they try to make their burger better. We’ll have tacos and enchiladas because that’s what people want, but we’re going to focus on making it better.”

Those with more adventurous palates will have plenty to choose from, but familiar or funky, he said the new concept should appeal to all.

Fiaccone offered up another new business he’s hoping to unveil soon: doughnuts.

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storefront where we decided to do a little doughnut shop,” he said. “We’re not quite going to be Voodoo [Doughnuts, based in Portland, Oregon], but we’ll probably be open longer hours, like midnight to noon.”

Paseo strong

Though other districts have made great strides in recent years, Fiaccone said he’s happy to continue developing businesses in the Paseo.

He expects the new Mexican food venture and doughnut shop, like Picasso Cafe, to be timeless.

“We’re creating a legacy of restaurants that won’t go out of style in 10 years,” he said.

The comfortable, laid-back vibe of the district is perfect for him. Business is still great, and there’s more on the way. The most important things right now are being authentic to who they are and continuing to make quality food.

“I like dressing up as much as the next guy, but who wants to eat hip and trendy?” he said. “That’s not who we are.”

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•Dead hungry The Hall’s Pizza Kitchen food truck recently turned 3 years old. | Photo Gazette / file

•Hall-y birthday

Proof that time is, indeed, passing faster came June 8 when The Hall’s Pizza Kitchen food truck celebrated its third birthday.

The family-run truck sold $3 slices for a birthday celebration at The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St. “It’s been an incredible three years rolling around OKC, making pizza,” said director of operations Molly Hall. “People ask us all the time if it gets hot in our truck, and we like to joke that we’re not sure if a wood-fired oven in a truck in Oklahoma was a great or a silly idea. But honestly, when we think about all of the incredible people we’ve met, we know it was one of the best decisions we’ve made. We’re so thankful for all of the support these past three years and are really excited about the next year and some fun ideas we have.”

Musical history

Deep Deuce is looking to strengthen its connection to its musical heritage with a weekly event called Deuce Days/Jazz Nights and a quarterly show called Legends Night.

District shops and restaurants will offer deals during the day each Tuesday, followed by live jazz at local bars and restaurants at night. Tuesday, Native Roots Market, 131 NE Second St., hosts live jazz 6-8 p.m.

Slaughter’s Hall, 221 N. Central Ave.; WSKY Lounge, 228 NE Second St.; and Urban Johnnie Bar & Grille, 121 NE Second St., plan to rotate jazz artists, as well as food specials, 7-10 p.m.

This quarter’s Legends Night is 7-10 p.m. June 25 and features musicians Walter Taylor III, Morris McCraven, JoBob Nelson, Beatrice Cole, Garrett Jacobson and Michael McKinney.

McKinney and Taylor toured and recorded with Michael Jackson, and Cole is in the Pioneer Woman Museum as one of Oklahoma’s leading women artists.

A percentage of the proceeds from Legends Night benefit the Deep Deuce Railroad Sign & Lighting Project, which is raising funds for new signage and lighting on the bridge and underpass at EK Gaylord Boulevard and NE Second Street.

Whodunit Dinner Theater interactive comedy/murder mystery returns with two summer shows. | Photo provided / file

Whodunit Dinner Theater is back for another round of intrigue and intake with performances at V2 at Vast, Cattlemen’s Steakhouse and Ted’s Cafe Escondido.

The comedy/murder mystery dinner theater presents a pair of shows that run through the summer.

Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow plays June 23 at V2, 333 W. Sheridan Ave.; July 22 and Sept. 23 at Cattlemen’s, 1309 S. Agnew Ave.; and Aug. 26 at Ted’s, 6900 N. May Ave. Victim of Retirement runs June 24 and Sept. 16 at Ted’s and August 19 at Cattlemen’s.

Tickets for the V2 show are $65 — available at eventbrite.com — and include two drink vouchers, a three-course meal and, of course, a murder.

Tickets for the other shows are $48. Visit whodunit.net or call 405-420-3222. At Cattlemen’s, the dinner is a buffet with steak, chicken, catfish, sides and a dessert. The meal at Ted’s is also a buffet featuring makeyour-own fajitas, bean and cheese burritos, chips, salsa and rice.

and grapefruit bitters topped off with an imperial IPA. The light, crisp flavor strays from the heavy pine needle taste of many gin drinks.

Left Hook Lucy ($11) is like an alcoholic Arnold Palmer, with tea-infused vodka, lemon, honey, mint, soda and St-Germain.

But the real farmers market-in-a-glass drink is Sergeant Pepper ($10) with a blend of red bell pepper puree, gin, agave and lemon. The cocktails are available at Oklahoma City’s Whiskey Cake location through the summer.

• Seasonal sips

Though its food is a big part of its reputation, Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar, 1845 Northwest Expressway, definitely puts an emphasis on “Whiskey” and “Bar” with its new seasonal cocktail menu.

The season is very much the reason for the bevy of new beverages that focus on fresh local produce and herbs — some of which are grown at the restaurant.

The Royal Shandy ($9) embraces spring and summer with a mix of gin, honey, lemon

Strawberry Wyne and Spring Thyme cocktails from Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar. Photo Garett Fisbeck

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OKCMOA’s role as an important museum is cemented with the only North American exhibition of Matisse in His Time. By George Lang

Through his groundbreakfectly meshed with the gallery design on ing art and social nature, Matisse in Henri Matisse spearheaded OKCMOA’s second floor, His Time: entire artistic movements making for an ideal situation. and continually pushed his Masterworks contemporaries forward.

“We have a flexible of Modernism space,” Anderson said.

With Matisse in His Time: from Masterworks of Modernism “What we did for this exthe Centre from the Centre Pompidou, hibition that’s unusual is Pompidou, Paris, a limited exhibition we installed it on the encapturing the character and tirety of our second floor, Paris so it’s about twice the size dynamics of Matisse’s artistic community that makes of our normal special ex10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdaysits only North American hibitions. Then, the stars Saturdays, 10a.m.-9 p.m. stop in Oklahoma City, aligned in this case: There Thursdays, noon-5 p.m.

Matisse could have the same are about eight or nine [disSundays Saturday-Sept. 18 effect on Oklahoma City tinct] sections in the exhiOklahoma City Museum Museum of Art (OKCMOA). bition, and we have eight of Art “It takes this museum to galleries on the second 415 Couch Drive the next level,” said Michael floor. So it really fit nicely, okcmoa.com a section per gallery.

Anderson, director of cura405-236-3100 torial affairs at OKCMOA. “A lot of European inFree-$12 “This is not the sort of scale stitutions are in really old or scope of exhibition that people are used to buildings, so they have smaller spaces and seeing at this museum or in this city. … This they do have to shoehorn it into spaces where will make it possible to do more exhibitions they don’t fit. ... We have room for the exhibilike this in the future.” tion to breathe here.”

In some ways, the arrival of Matisse in His Time, showing Saturday-Sept. 18, is the culArtistic ‘dialogue’ mination point for a museum with a growing Matisse in His Time, curated by Cécile Debray, reputation as a favorable fine art venue. The scans like an epic conversation between open-concept gallery design and large spaces Matisse and his colleagues in fauvism, his lend themselves to large, ambitious exhibicubism experiments and his bold push into tions and paved the way for Matisse’s arrival. modernism. It contains nearly 50 of his paintMondoMostre, which handles logistics of ings, drawings, prints and sculptures from traveling exhibitions, contacted OKCMOA the late 19th century to his death in 1954. It about the developing Matisse exhibition. also includes an additional 50 works from After multiple talks between President Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay in Paris and CEO E. Michael Whittington and staff and OKCMOA by contemporaries whose work at Centre Pompidou, which houses the seceither commented on Matisse or influenced ond-largest collection of modern art in the him. Featured artists include Pierre-Auguste world, and visits from MondoMostre and Renoir, André Derain, Georges Braque, Joan Centre Pompidou curatorial teams, OKCMOA Miró, Amedeo Modigliani and, perhaps most became one of only three museums exhibitimportantly, Pablo Picasso. ing Matisse in His Time. After the Art Gallery “It’s really about Matisse in relation to of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, passed on the other artists throughout his lifetime,” exhibit due to a change in leadership, Anderson said. “It’s Matisse at the center of Oklahoma City became the sole stop for the these various movements of European modexhibition on the continent. ernism in the first half of the 20th century.

Anderson said that OKCMOA received The exhibition starts in the studio of Gustave the contract based on the footprint of its galMoreau, who led the most radical studio leries and its growing reputation for firstagainst the salon in the late 19th century, and level presentation.

Matisse was one of his students, as were a “What we always do really well with our number of artists Matisse would be close to throughout his lifetime.” exhibitions — and we’ve already gotten feedback that this is the case again with Matisse The works from this time period veer close — is that our exhibitions always look really to being collaborative. In one series collected good,” Whittington said. “We do a really good for the exhibit, Matisse and Albert Marquet job of presenting the exhibitions … we’re rented fellow fauvist Henri Manguin’s studio always one of the venues that’s highlighted in Paris and hired a female model to pose as where the exhibition looks the best, plays nude. The session resulted in two similar the best.” works from Matisse, “Marquet Painting a The requirements of the exhibition perNude in Manguin’s Studio” and “Nude in the 28

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“Woman Lying on a Bue Sofa (Femme couchée sur un divan bleu),” Pablo Picasso | Image Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris. MNAM-CCI. Gift of Louise and Michel Leiris, 1984. AM 1984-639. © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photograph © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM/Dist. RMN-GP

“Still Life with Book (Nature mort au livre),” Juan Gris | Image Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle, AM 1984-520. Photograph © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Bertrand Prévost/Dist. RMN-GP

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Studio,” and Marquet’s “Matisse in Manguin’s Studio,” all of which depict the other artist hard at work.

Matisse in His Time then moves forward through the genres that Matisse helped define as the center of French and European modernism, including fauvism, cubism and surrealism. Works such as “French Window at Collioure” from 1914 show how Matisse’s newfound friendship with Picasso spawned his cubism experiments, while other works such as 1909’s “L’Algérienne” show how far

ahead of his contemporaries Matisse could be. That work, which adorns OKCMOA’s Matisse in His Time catalogue, predates the odalisques Matisse painted in the 1920s, depictinga Moroccan harem. “L’Algérienne” is also the subject of what Anderson refers to as an artistic conversation between Matisse and Picasso. In its posture and subject matter, Picasso’s “Nude in a Turkish Hat” from 1955 comments on “L’Algérienne,” and 1960’s “Woman Lying on a Blue Sofa” does similar work with Matisse’s erotically charged “Odalisque with Red Pants.”

The relationship between Matisse and Picasso often gets depicted as a rivalry

between the leader of the fauvist movement and the greatest cubist. But Anderson said that Matisse’s death in 1954 devastated Picasso, who considered Matisse his only real peer. For years, Picasso created homages like “Nude in a Turkish Hat” to honor his friend.

“One of the artists would paint a work, the other would see it and then respond by painting a work that would dialogue with the previous piece,” Anderson said. “They were friends, but it was a friendship that was also a fierce competition. They were frenemies.”

Once Matisse in His Time closes, many of the works will return directly to the Centre Pompidou and will rarely leave Paris’ 4th

Arrondissement again. It is a rarity Anderson said should be appreciated during its Oklahoma City summer vacation.

The impact of the exhibition will likely linger for years, if not decades. After the pieces are removed and most of them shipped back to Paris, there will likely be an assessment from the world’s art community regarding OKCMOA as a potential destination for great works. Anderson said he believes Matisse in His Time represents a paradigm shift for his museum.

“Once you show you can do it, that’s the first step,” he said. “It’s a game-changer for us as an institution.”

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In the year 2071, bounty hunters track criminals across the solar system as they hide among the rocky moons of planets.

During downtime, the hunters hang out at bars infused with jazz and blues music, waxing philosophically about the state of themselves and society.

It’s not often an art show chooses a theme based on an animated series, much less one the average American might not recognize. Then again, Hardboiled Space Boogie: A Cowboy Bebop Art Show isn’t your typical exhibition.

“These art shows, to me, are mini festivals,” said comedian and show creator James Nghiem.

The event is June 25 at 51st Street Speakeasy and includes art, live music, costuming and food themed after Cowboy Bebop, a late 1990s anime show.

Hardboiled Space Boogie is the latest

in a series of themed art shows produced

by Nghiem. The first, H-O-R-S-E, was based on the basketball game. In October 2015, he created Fierce Punch, an exhibition influenced by Street Fighter, a popular gaming franchise. Last February, A Very Wes Anderson Art Show had most guests dressed liked characters from Wes Anderson-directed films.

“There were so many Margots,” Nghiem said, referring to Margot Tenenbaum, Gwyneth Paltrow’s character in The Royal Tenenbaums.

Cowboy Bebop aired in Japan from September 1997 to June 1998. The series’ 26 episodes chronicle a space bounty hunter crew led by protagonist Spike Spiegel. A former member of the Red Dragon crime syndicate, Spiegel faked his death to escape the organization after falling in love with Julia, the girlfriend of Red Dragon’s leader, Vicious.

The series explores the philosophy and meaning of life’s emotions as the squad battles lethargy and feelings of cynicism toward society and the past. Cowboy Bebop hints at Western drama styles, including pulp fiction, film noir and American Western.

“It’s a very eclectic series. It’s transcendent,” Nghiem said. “There’s not a lot of Japanese humor in it. It’s a lot of whiskey drinking; it’s a lot of jazz.”

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The event includes live music performed by alt-country rock act Tyler Hopkins & The Rebellion, soul rocker Caleb McGee & The Underdogs, synth pop act Beach Language and more.

Nghiem said not all of the participating artists are thoroughly familiar with anime.

“I told them to create art through this lens,” he said. “I tried to get people out of their comfort zones. Even the artists. I’m trying to pull people in different directions.”

Mim’s Bakery & Nosh food truck offers Cowboy Bebop-inspired vegan treats. One room at 51st Street Speakeasy will be devoted to stand-up comedy.

“It’s going to be a very intimate setting,” Nghiem said of the comedy show. “Maybe 15 seats.”

Nghiem encourages guests to dress in Cowboy Bebop-influenced costumes.

New beginnings

Nghiem was inspired by an exhibition he attended while living in Los Angeles in which all the work was influenced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. His only qualm with the event was that it was only

an art show.

After moving back to Oklahoma City, he staged H-O-R-S-E. In hindsight, the show was a glorified test run. Nghiem returned with Fierce Punch at 51st Street Speakeasy. Around 150-200 guests attended, and Nghiem’s style began to fall in place.

“I wanted to do it different from them, to where it wasn’t just an art show,” he said.

“I wanted it to feel like a festival, like an experience. So I had DJs, I had cosplayers show up, I had retro video games going on.”

Nghiem believes 800-1,000 guests attended A Very Wes Anderson Art Show. He said his purpose behind the events is to have a good time and to bring people from different backgrounds and areas together to create.

“I see people out on festivals and shows, and it seems like everybody is closed off in certain bubbles,” he said. “This [event] is my way of taking people out of those bubbles.”

Nghiem said Oklahoma City should take advantage of what it is: a metropolitan area with a wide array of people and interests, yet not overcrowded. In the end, he wants to entertain people and feels this is the perfect place for that.

“LA doesn’t need guys like me,” he said.

“Here, when I put on a show, it matters more to people. It amps people up.”

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A 1957 Tony Award-winning musical is being brought back to life, thanks to a local theater. Norman’s Sooner Theatre produces Meredith Willson’s The Music Man June 22-26 as a part of its annual summer camps.

The Music Man is a play about a con man who tries to put one over on an Iowa town by convincing people to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band. He plans to skip town with the money he robs, until he has his heart stolen by a local librarian who, by the show’s end, steers him back onto the straight and narrow.

“We chose The Music Man because we wanted to offer this age group a classical musical,” said Jennifer Baker, Sooner Theatre executive director.

Baker works directly with students on this production. She enjoys escaping the business side of the theater and returning to directing and choreographing.

“The theater is what I do, and I love the show,” said Gracie Hughes, a camper who portrays librarian and piano teacher Marian Paroo.

Another camper, Jack Baldwin, said he decided to join the production because it would look good on a resume.

This summer, the theater will see around 300 campers during 23 different camps. Students from third to eighth grades are participating in this camp.

“Our production camps, The Music Man and Into the Woods, actually take campers through the entire process of

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mounting a show, from audition to blocking, music and choreography, costuming, learning about hitting marks for lighting, sound,” said Nancy Coggins, Sooner Theatre public relations and development director, “everything it takes to put together a show from beginning to performance.”

Sooner Theatre lets children participate in full-scale productions all year on a first come, first served basis. However, summer programs require an audition.

“I think it’s important that we offer the experience of having to prepare for a real audition as well as holding the actual audition itself,” Baker said.

Coggins said some attend the camps in hopes of stepping out of their comfort zones, while others simply join to spend time with friends. For some students, the camps can even help develop skills they can use in pursuing a future career.

The camp offers mentoring, training and experience for kids and young adults interested in performing but often also serves as a learning center for other things.

“The benefits of working with these young people are never-ending. We see kids gain confidence, learn to find their voices, face their fears [and] try new things,” Baker said. “Seeing just one life changed for the better from being part of a musical is all it takes to keep our small staff going. That’s why we do it. ” However, working with youths can sometimes be challenging. Baker said the rehearsal schedule was a struggle.

Although some scenes only required a set amount of actors, she wanted to make sure all students experienced the camp’s activities.

“You want to make sure that everyone is actively engaged in the rehearsal process the whole time; it’s how they learn,” Baker said. “I’m always impressed with our camp staff and how much they squeeze into a short rehearsal.”

Learn more at soonertheatre.com.

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OKC’s SoonerCon, an annual multi-genre convention, turns 25.

By Alissa Lindsey

You are what you geek at Oklahoma City’s sewing machine goes to a best-in-show SoonerCon, and for three days in June, winner.

“We have people costume and cosplay about 2,000 of them celebrate 25 years of SoonerCon fandom. all weekend long,” Burrows said.

SoonerCon 25: The Silver Age runs 10 “Costuming is one of the creative arts, and a.m.-midnight June 24-25 and 11 a.m.-5 people get super excited about it. We want p.m. June 26 at Reed Conference Center, people to feel comfortable, and the cos5750 Will Rogers Road, in Midwest City. tuming community is so body-positive and “SoonerCon started out as literary a very accepting, warm culture.” convention with a hardcore nerd factor With 3,000 square feet of indoor going on, and over the years, we have gaming space, guests can participate in evolved more into a pop culture expo,” Nerf wars, Muggle Quidditch and stick said Aislinn Burrows, SoonerCon 25 vicehorse jousting as well as tabletop rolechairwoman. “It’s defiplaying and board games.

This year, members of nitely more of an oldschool convention vibe. the Oklahoma Space Alliance will present a It’s a full three-day SoonerCon year-in-review talk weekend experience, so about space, and an it’s complete immersion 10 a.m.-midnight June 24-25 into whatever your Oklahoma geologist and and 11a.m.-5 p.m. June 26 fandom is.” meteorologist will tagReed Conference Center Last year, the entireteam a panel called 5750 Will Rogers Road, ly volunteer-run con Quakenado: The Earth Midwest City donated $3,000 to the Science of Oklahoma. soonercon.com National Alliance on In the exhibitor hall, Free-$75 Mental Illness (NAMI). more than 60 vendors Now, SoonerCon is will sell everything from seeking nonprofit status swords to comic books.

“One of the things that’s really imporso it can expand its charitable giving footprint. tant to us is to support the regional cre“There is such a need for those serative community,” Burrows said. “In fact, vices — particularly in our community we have over 140 panelists.”

— and we’ve been proud to partner with NAMI for the last couple of years,” Geeky guests Burrows said. “The whole point of Voice actor, composer and producer Vic SoonerCon is to be community-focused Mignogna — known for roles in more than because community is about developing 300 animated series and video games and relationships; friendship is magic, and we for creating Star Trek Continues — will all want to be a wizard.” hold a Q&A and autograph session.

A Saturday costume contest is divided “One of the things I cherish most about into seven categories, including historical doing convention appearances is it gives you the opportunity to connect with fans and fantasy. There are first-place awards in each category, and a Bernina OKC and hear what they felt about work that

from left Gena Ford, Julian Ventus, R2-D2 and Ian Sinclair strike a pose at SoonerCon 24 in 2015. | Photo SoonerCon / provided

from left A Ghostbuster, Stormtrooper, the 10th Doctor and Riddler attended SoonerCon 24 in 2015. | Photo SoonerCon / provided

from left Alexander Crowley, Leo Gasai, Bailey Hooten, Rylee MacFarlane, Steven Jackson, Kayla Brasel, Alexis Perry, Toki Moriarty and Jessica Chase dressed in cosplay at SoonerCon 24 in 2015. | Photo SoonerCon / provided

I’ve done,” he said.

Mignogna grew up in western Pennsylvania and then lived in Texas for 20 years before moving to Los Angeles.

He’s best-known known for roles as Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist and Tamaki Suou in Ouran High School Host Club.

“One of the many wonderful things about voice acting is that you are afforded the opportunity to play characters that you would never be cast as on-screen,” Mignogna said.

He has released six episodes of Star Trek Continues with a seventh to follow this fall. The award-winning Web series has earned almost 5 million views.

“The episodes look and feel and sound exactly like the original series,” he said. “I was a very, very big fan of the original series back in the ’60s, and it was canceled in its third season. My desire was to rebuild the entire soundstage and then continue to make episodes as if the series had not been canceled, and we’ve gotten an amazing response.”

SoonerCon offers one of the largest art shows in the region with 3,000 pieces. Its

charity live auction, one of NAMI’s primary donation sources, is June 25.

Lon Chaney Jr., who played the titular character in 1941’s The Wolf Man, will be inducted into the Oklahoma Speculative Fiction Hall of Fame, which SoonerCon established to recognize speculative fiction creators who are native to Oklahoma or have strong ties to the state.

Since SoonerCon runs on volunteer power, there are many volunteer jobs — including logistics support, hospitality and setup — available for ages 16 and older.

A one-day membership is $20 in advance or $25 at the door, and a three-day membership is $45 in advance or $50 at the door.

SoonerCon offers free membership to active duty military members June 24, and children ages 12 and younger are admitted free with the purchase of an adult membership.

To watch episodes of Star Trek Continues, visit startrekcontinues.com.

For more SoonerCon information, event schedules and memberships, visit soonercon.com.

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An Oklahoma-based sportswear company aims its designs at female fans and hits its target.

By Bailey Chambers

A Tulsa-based wholesale clothing company snagged a spot on ABC’s Shark Tank in December 2014 and has flourished ever since. Unlike some sports clothing brands, Gameday Couture focuses on mixing team spirit with feminine trends such as floral prints, laser-cut shorts and tribal-inspired fringe tunic tank tops.

In 2010, husband and wife Shawnna and Kurt Feddersen developed a highquality, moderately priced brand after noticing a gap in the fashion market. At first, the two ran the company, but they have since hired a small staff of designers and sales representatives to keep things running smoothly while working directly with retailers.

For years, many sports-loving women settled for generic-looking t-shirts that hardly, if at all, differed from men’s styles.

Gameday Couture changes that.

“We previously owned other businesses,” Shawnna said. “I didn’t necessarily know [that I wanted to get into fashion], but I’ve always had a lot of interest in fashion and sports. The passion grew with it.”

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Gameday Couture designers work meticulously with universities to ensure their creations coincide with the school’s image. No matter the body type, personality or college, the Feddersens said their goal is to offer something for everyone.

The couple began creating fabulous game day clothing about six years ago.

After they showcased their femalefriendly sports brand on Shark Tank, a reality show in which entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to industry leaders, things only improved. Their creative yet simple designs earned the support of Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban, who in-

vested $500,000 in their Oklahoma-run company.

From there, a new business plan was born and put into action.

In late April, ABC aired a follow-up segment on the show. It featured Gameday Couture’s expansion, its recent NBA partnership and how the company plans to continue growing in ways the Feddersens haven’t expected.

“We wanted to stick within the NCAA; we didn’t think we’d do pro,” Shawnna said. “We are very happy with it.”

On-trend fashions

In addition to offering private labeling, Gameday Couture offers several style collections with color schemes to match just about anyone’s favorite team and features shirts with color-coordinated elbow patches, tees with beaded sleeves and quilted vests. The collections are available in more than 700 department stores, boutiques, gift shops, sporting goods stores and fan shops across the nation as well as via its retail website, gameday-couture. com. The Feddersens’ business plans don’t end there; they want to expand internationally, too.

“Our next step may be overseas and looking at the European market,” Shawnna said.

The staff also offers a fashion look book-style blog at gamedaycouture. tumblr.com. The looks are completed head-to-toe with Gameday Couture tops, bottoms and accessories as well as shoes and jewelry from other brands.

Shawnna said they are appreciative of Cuban’s guidance, endorsement and assistance and for the opportunity to work in sports and fashion. Perhaps, she wondered, the NFL might be conquered next.

For more information, visit gamedaycouture.com.

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Holy help

Catholic Charities’ new facility helps the organization run its programs more effectively.

By Brett Dickerson

It’s not unusual for people to call Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to say, “There’s a drunk passed out on your bench out front.”

A life-sized, realistic bronze cast of a homeless man lying huddled under a blanket on a park bench sits on the Classen Boulevard side of Catholic Charities’ new facility, which opened May 3.

The piece is Homeless Jesus by Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz.

While many organizations install statues of great people striking heroic poses, Catholic Charities instead chose this humble depiction of Jesus Christ as a symbol of its mission to treat all people in need as though they are Jesus.

“He is a silent call to what we do and a tie back into Mother Teresa, who said that Jesus is present in the distressing face of the poor,” said Sonny Wilkinson, senior director of mission advancement for the archdiocese in Oklahoma City. “So this is that silent witness to us that this is who we serve every day.”

The new structure at 1232 N. Classen Blvd. is the OKC organization’s fifth home.

The local branch was founded in 1912, and the first one built specifically for Catholic Charities. It incorporates many features informed by those years of experience.

The building is the culmination of planning and a 10-month campaign led

by Judy Love and Bob Ross, both local civic leaders. The campaign raised $10.5 million. Individual contributions ranged from $1 to $1.5 million.

Needs met

The 33,860-square-foot building has a large, colorful, comfortable lobby for those waiting to see caseworkers.

The rest of the first floor is devoted to services for those who seek various types of help. About 65 staff members run

family counseling, adoption and pregnancy services, refugee resettlement, immigration legal services and disaster relief programs.

Wilkinson said the legal assistance to immigrants program is the least understood of Catholic Charities’ services.

“We have attorneys and staff that help immigrants interface with immigration law,” he said. “We don’t determine their status. We don’t advocate their status. We say, ‘You need to come out of the shadows because there are benefits that you are eligible for,’ tie them into the court system, help them go through that process. And it ends in everything from deportation to getting their citizenship on the other end.”

The structure’s second floor features a chapel, a conference center, a staff break room and a veranda available for conference attendees.

It also includes administrative offices and a large room that can be fitted for short-term needs such as disaster relief coordination.

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Disaster relief was not always a part of Catholic Charities’ portfolio. When 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building occurred, the group developed its response as the situation unfolded.

And multiple years of devastating tornadoes have given the organization even more experience.

“We have continued to develop a more and more effective response,” Wilkinson said. “People come in from all across the country to find out what we have learned about disaster relief.”

Catholic Charities helped about 18,000 Oklahomans last year, 90 percent of which were not Catholic, leaders said.

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Volunteers in Lowe’s Heroes program helped renovate Telstar Elementary School. | Photo Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County / provided

Neighborly caring

Recent Telstar Elementary School renovations reveal how large-scale organizations can positively impact the local quality of life. By Ian Jayne

The 2016 Women’s College World Series might not seem like the obvious impetus for Telstar Elementary School’s recent renovation, but the efforts of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Lowe’s and Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County culminated in the school’s long-needed refurbishment.

According to Jane Sutter, president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County, the NCAA wanted to initiate an Oklahoma City-based Legacy Project in advance of softball tournaments earlier this month.

“The children at Telstar are definitely among those who need us most,” Sutter said in regard to the renovation’s origins.

Vanessa VanTrease, principal at Telstar Elementary and a representative for the county’s Boys & Girls Club, also voiced the necessity for the renovation.

“This is where the need is,” she said of Telstar. “We have a 99 percent poverty level out here.”

VanTrease said that the school’s Boys & Girls Club after-care program provides a place for students to participate in sports, arts activities and homework tutoring.

As store manager at Lowe’s in Moore, Raymond Cooper served as the logistical point man for the renovation and organized 40 Lowe’s Heroes volunteers.

Cooper said he and his employees also have a personal interest in public schools such as Telstar.

“We have multiple employees that go to these schools,” Cooper said. “Their children went to these schools, and some of their grandkids are now going to these schools.”

Cooper differentiated the Telstar renovation from other endeavors only by the project’s grand needs.

“It was a multifaceted project,” said Cooper, as the renovation took place across multiple areas of the Telstar facility.

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Lowe’s provided the school with a fence and gate to increase child safety. The renovation project also included new playground toys and a paved walking trail.

Refurbishments inside the school building included fresh coats of paint and new refrigerators and cabinets.

Working together

The symbiosis achieved by Telstar, the NCAA, Lowe’s and the Boys & Girls Club allowed for the school’s much-needed updating to go smoothly (aside from Oklahoma’s fickle spring weather and a few minor logistical challenges). Although initial talks for the Legacy Project began in early January, VanTrease noted that actual construction began May 18 and steamrolled over the following weeks While the project’s opening ceremony took place June 1, Sutter said that the renovated facility would not be used extensively until August. She said that significant budget cuts by Oklahoma City Public Schools deterred plans for a summer Boys & Girls Club program in the renovated facility, which will remain closed until school begins.

VanTrease said that the vital role of organizations like the Boys & Girls Club has now become critical.

“Regardless of what the State of Oklahoma can do with money,” she said, “we can’t let the children down.”

She said that community support could prevent children from feeling the impact of educational budget cuts.

Come August, long after the Women’s College World Series has played out, Telstar students will continue to reap the tournament’s benefits. Were it not for a softball tournament, none of these positive changes might have happened.

“Every single person in our community needs to think about how we invest in our children,” Sutter said. “It sounds cliché — [children] are our future — but it’s the gosh-darn truth.”

television

First blood Shawn Barfield hopes art- and story-heavy series In the World of the Long Breath helps revitalize modern storytelling.

By Ben Luschen

Oklahoma filmmaker Shawn Barfield is over feature-length films. Why limit storytelling to one 90-minute chunk?

In the World of the Long Breath is a noirfantasy film project informed by the bingewatch era. The series is in pre-production, but Barfield hopes to have a 15-minute pilot ready by August or September, depending on funding. His ultimate goal is to have the series picked up by a cable network or streaming service.

Yes, it is a vampire story, but it’s no Twilight. Barfield favors a darker and more stylistic telling rooted in Albanian folkloric tradition.

“I’m reinventing the concept of a vampire,” he said. “Doing some research on it, vampire myths came from an older myth known as shtriga.”

The pilot follows photographer and artist Tom, who comes across a big, dark secret online and becomes a target of a mysterious group.

Eventually, Tom finds himself trapped by nine shtriga vampires. He escapes and passes what he learned to Owen Westwood, the main character of the series. It is a classic setup inspired by The X-Files. Viewers are drawn into the mystery in the first five minutes before meeting the characters.

Barfield said Long Breath is inspired by elements from The X-Files, Lost and 1994 film The Crow.

The filmmaker said he plans to begin shooting the pilot by late July. Local actors, including Adam Hampton of Outsider Productions, Laurie Cummings, Edna Garcia and singer-songwriter Ashley Getz, have been selected.

Barfield said he also is proud of the musical score provided by Cory Perschbacher. In Long Breath’s teaser trailer, 1980s digital synths eerily mesh with jazz instrumentation, the auditory embodiment of the visually dark series.

The art department will be the focus of the project’s estimated $6,000 budget.

Barfield said art and traditional special effects carried the great films of the ’80s.

“A lot of the filmmakers right now, all of the focus is on technology — this camera or this equipment or this drone,” he said.

“There’s all this focus on the technology and it’s like there’s this loss of the art department.”

He hopes a shift from a technological viewpoint will help the series stand out and

Shawn Barfield plans to begin filming his series, In the World of the Long Breath, in late July. | Photo Robby and Savannah Doland / provided

further emphasize the storytelling.

“We want to create new conventions and look at old conventions in terms of storytelling,” he said. “It is a darker, more mysterious, almost Twilight Zone type of feel.”

I’m reinventing the concept of a vampire.

Shawn Barfield

Getting inspired

Barfield has always been interested in film.

In high school, he and friends dabbled in multiple projects. Later, once he became exposed to the work of state filmmakers, he became serious about his craft.

His storytelling journey started in earnest about a decade ago at deadCenter Film Festival.

“Me and my wife kind of got a wild idea and said, ‘Hey, let’s go to a film festival; we’ve never done that,’” he said. “We checked it out, and we were both very interested in the fact that you could have local people putting together these projects.”

The event moved him so much that the following year, he submitted a short film. It was accepted.

Barfield lives in Elgin, near Lawton.

However, he does most of his film work in Oklahoma City, where he has created around 200 music videos and commercials.

He received formal training at Oklahoma City Community College. Its

digital cinema production program was new at the time, so he was a little skeptical about what the school could offer. Any doubts were quickly allayed.

“When I checked it out, I was just blown away,” he said. “It’s an incredible program, and I would consider it top 10 in the nation as far as film production goes.”

The equipment is professional-grade, and his teachers included Oscar-winning producer Gray Frederickson, known for Apocalypse Now and The Godfather film series. He said Frederickson still uses Barfield’s capstone project, Dancing in the Chamber, to teach his classes.

Staying home

Barfield hopes all of his future narrative projects feature episodic work. Ideally, he would like to structure Long Breath like his favorite series, House of Cards, with 12 to 20 episodes per season.

He feels many viewers want more character development than feature films can offer.

“Everyone’s used to, ‘Hey, I want to spend more time than an hour and a half with these characters,’” he said. “All my projects now are geared toward providing that because one, the audience wants that now, and two, that creates two, three, five years of work right here in Oklahoma.”

Barfield has watched friends move to California to continue their film careers.

He would rather stay in Oklahoma. He said he owes it to the people of the state.

“Peter Jackson, he made it happen in his area,” he said of the New Zealand director.

So did Texas-based director Robert Rodriguez.

“With the way technology is right now, you can make it happen anywhere,” he added.

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Commander Anduin Lothar defends himself against an orc from The Horde in Warcraft. | Photo Legendary Pictures / provided

Cramped tale

Even with a two-hour runtime, Warcraft can’t escape the suffocating weight of complexity.

By Tyler Talley

There is a conflict at the center of Warcraft, and I’m not just referring to the war between orcs and humans.

The film presents the inner turmoil of director and co-writer Duncan Jones, who must appease two major studios that invested years (and millions) in a hopeful franchise while delivering a film that is rich in theme and character. And it must be done while entertaining longtime fans of the video game as well as newbies.

That’s a major order for any director, even one like Jones, who precluded Warcraft with successes like Moon and Source Code.

Where J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin built mythologies through multiple books and adaptations, Jones and his team have the near-herculean task of cramming over a decade of storytelling and world-building into a standalone movie while laying groundwork for sequels if the project is successful.

When boiled down to its basic elements, Warcraft revolves around the first meeting between the realms of men, or The Alliance, and orcs, also called The Horde. Spoiler alert: Things go less than exceptionally.

It’s up to respected orc chieftain Durotan (Toby Kebbell) and the king’s right-hand man Lothar (Vikings’ Travis Fimmel) to formulate a plan that prevents both groups’ mutually assured destruction.

This comprises the story’s backbone as a number of subplots and side stories concerning a cavalcade of other characters fill out the action.

The sheer level of detail on display

throughout Warcraft is staggering and begs for multiple viewings to soak in everything, whether crafted by computer or built practically. The orcs are some of the best CGIrendered characters committed to film, and their plight to escape their dying home world is perhaps the best element the movie offers as far as its story is concerned.

Much like the gaming and entertainment franchise from which it is adopted, Warcraft presents a world of moral grays.

Not every orc is bad, just as not every human is good.

In presenting both sides of the conflict, the film almost achieves a rare balance in vying for audience sympathies.

However, there are so many other story elements throughout its two-hour runtime, the film ends up playing tug-of-war with viewers’ brains.

This is exacerbated as the story continually jumps from location to location, giving viewers little time to register what happened in the previous scene. On multiple occasions, I felt lost, confused by numerous locations and characters.

For every well-developed personality, there are four or five more characters that are flat.

Ultimately, Warcraft is a bit of a mess, but it isn’t without merit and certainly isn’t worth the critical beating it’s receiving.

Warcraft takes commendable risks by showing palpable enthusiasm for its source material. It’s just unfortunate that material wasn’t granted more room in which to soar.

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AMA Pro Flat-Track Racing zooms into Remington Park. By Alissa Lindsey

AMA Pro Flat-Track Racing returns to Warrior interactive exhibit, and dareOklahoma for the first time in 16 years devil riders ride two at a time in a round during Father’s Day weekend. steel cage called the Insane O Riders Globe The gates open for the OKC Mile event of Death. Food trucks offer funnel cakes, kettle corn, gourmet burgers and tacos.

1 p.m. Saturday at Remington Park, 1 Remington Place, in Oklahoma City.

Major manufacturers like HarleyAMA Pro is a national professional Davidson, KTM, Triumph Motorcycles, traveling series of flatDucati, Kawasaki Motors track motorcycle racing Corp. and BMW are reprethat travels from coast to sented in the AMA Pro races; AMA Pro coast during the Marchessentially, the mechanics Flat-Track to-September season. use a production motor, but Racing OKC “It’s the original everything else — frames, Mile extreme sport,” said suspension, wheels and tires Shawn Brassfield, a pro— are from outside manu1 p.m. Saturday moter with BrassMonkey facturers.

Remington Park Promotions LLC. “FlatAMA Pro racing took a 1 Remington Place break in this part of the track racing started in okcmile.com country in the 2000s the ’20s. It was real easy 877-990-7882 because the sport was for people to take whatFree-$42 relying heavily on the ever motorcycle they could come up with and tobacco industry for spongo race around a dirt circle track.” sorship.

While the basics of motorcycle riding “When that money dried up literally apply to flat-track racing, riders wear a overnight, it left them scrambling,” Brassfield said. “So it’s been through special steel shoe that straps to the bottom of their left boot, and they slide their foot growing pains and revisions on the naacross the ground to decrease their speed tional level, and it seems to be gaining a lot and balance in order to make the turns. of momentum now.”

Bret Sowders, No. 81G, from OKC is an About 3,000 motorcyclists will ride in up-and-coming racer, and Gary Ketchum, from Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and No. 11G, from Tulsa is an old pro who reKansas, and Brassfield expects a crowd of turned to racing in the last year or so. about 10,000 people.

Both will compete in GNC2 class until “It hasn’t been in this part of the they earn their way into GNC1 class. country in so long that there’s a lot of buzz,” A timed racing practice starts 3 p.m.

Brassfield said. “There’s a lot of older motorcyclists that remember AMA — then it Saturday, and the opening ceremonies start at 6:30 p.m. About 100 racers will was called Camel Pro, like Camel cigarettes compete at speeds up to 140 mph.

— and they’re hungry for it.”

Kids and their families will have the General admission tickets are $35 in opportunity to walk through the open advance or $42 at the gate, and children 12 paddock at 5:15 p.m. to meet the racers and and under get in free with an adult ticket. look at their bikes, and the racers will sign Fans can meet AMA Pro injured riders, autographs for free. current professionals and former pros, like To round out the event, there is a Fun national No. 1 Chris Carr and national No. Zone designed for young kids that offers 16 Ronnie Jones from OKC, at Pole Position face painting, bounce houses and an Raceway, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday at 2905 Adventure Zone to teach 2- and 3-yearNW 36th St. olds to ride. Ninja Warrior Danny Manuel For more information or to purchase signs autographs at the American Ninja tickets, visit okcmile.com.

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calendar Darla, and his “he-man-woman-hating” friends attempt to sabotage the relationship, 8 p.m. June 22. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens. com/events. WED

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HAPPENINGS Hot Rod Power Tour, high-end automotive tour in the world, offering the viewers the chance to view a variety vehicles, June 15. Remington Park, 1 Remington Place, 405-424-9000, remingtonpark. com. WED Focus on Oklahoma City Blues Scene, Oklahoma Historical Society executive director Bob Blackburn hosts an Inside the Actors Studio-style interview with “Miss Blues,” Dorothy Ellis, about her interesting life and music, and musician Walter Taylor gives a presentation on the Oklahoma City blues scene, 6:30 p.m. June 16.

Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter. THU Zoobilation, wildest party in town hosted by Oklahoma Zoological Society; no-tie gala with food from some of OKC’s favorite restaurants, drinks, silent auction and live music, 7-10 p.m. June 16. The Oklahoma City Zoo, 2000 Remington Place, 405424-3344, okczoo.org. THU

Local Love Run Red Coyote gives city residents extra motivation to put on their running shoes. The Local Love Run begins 6 p.m. Thursday on the Fassler Hall patio, 421 NW 10th St. Runners can collect raffle tickets at designated locations along the route. A drawing after the run includes free Red Coyote merchandise and other prizes. Entry is free, and the event is kid-, stroller- and dog-friendly. Visit redcoyoterunning.com, or call 405-840-0033. thursday Photo Bigstock.com

BOOKS Stephen King, author will talk, read and do a Q&A with the audience; each ticket holder receives one copy of End of Watch, 6 p.m. June 15. Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., Tulsa, 918-584-2306, cainsballroom.com. WED Book Signing, Ann Sherman signs Car Collections of Oklahoma, which makes a great coffee table book, 6:30 p.m. June 16. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU Nothing Daunted Women’s Book Club, discussion over West with the Night by Beryl Markham, 7 p.m.

June 16. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com.

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Rob Bell Book Signing, New York Times bestselling author signs How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living, 5:30 p.m. June 17. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. FRI New Ink!, Oklahoma’s newest and brightest authors sign their books, 3 p.m. June 18. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. SAT

Summer Movie Fun: Minions, (US, 2015, dir. Kyle Balda) Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited

by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world; $2 movies and concession discounts, 9:45 a.m. June 20-24. Harkins Theatres, 150 E. Reno Ave., 405-231-4747, harkinstheatres. com. MON - FRI Tuesday Night Classics: Fight Club, (US, 1999, dir. David Fincher) an insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life crosses paths with a devil-may-care soapmaker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more, 7 p.m.

June 21. Harkins Theatres, 150 E. Reno Ave., 405-231-4747, harkinstheatres.com. TUE Movie Night at the Market: The Royal Tenenbaums, (US, 2001, dir. Wes Anderson) an estranged family of gifted siblings comes together after receiving the news that their father is terminally ill, June 22. The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., www.bleugarten.com. WED Sonic Summer Movies: The Little Rascals, (US, 1994, dir. Penelope Spheeris) Alfalfa is wooing

FILM Summer Movie Fun: Home, ((US, 2015, dir. Tim Johnson) an alien on the run from his own people makes a new friend and tries to help her on her quest but can be a bit of a nuisance; $2 movies and concession discounts, 9:45 a.m. June 13-17.

Harkins Theatres, 150 E. Reno Ave., 405-231-4747, harkinstheatres.com. MON - FRI

True Grit, (US, 2010, dir. Ethan Coen) a tough U.S. marshal helps a stubborn teenager track down her father’s murderer, 1 p.m. June 19. B&B Theater, 4623 NW 23rd St., 405-917-2299, bbtheatres. com. SUN Beauty and the Beast, (FR, 1946, dir. Jean Cocteau) thoroughly magical adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beamont’s classic fairytale, 5:30 and 8 p.m. June 16, 2 p.m. June 19. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU/SUN

FOOD Splendor in the Gardens, one-of-a-kind, farmto-table gala dinner served at the Great Lawn at Myriad Botanical Gardens, 6-10 p.m. June 16.

Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/ events. THU Art After 5, enjoy the OKC skyline along with live music, friends and cocktails on top of OKCMOA, 5-11 p.m. June 16. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. THU Craft Beer Festival, beer tasting event focused on craft beer from the U.S. and around the world; access to over 200 beer samples, a commemorative tasting cup and food from some of Oklahoma City’s best food trucks, June 17-18.

Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 405602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com. FRI -SAT Un-Wine, enjoy samples of over 50 fine wines, champagne and high-end spirits paired with delectable food, live music, prizes and more, 6-8 p.m. June 17. Rapp Foundation Conference Center - Saints Medical Plaza, 535 NW Ninth St., 405-2727383, saintsok.com. FRI

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Children’s Music Clinic, improv class for ages 4 to 10, 11 a.m.-noon June 18. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org. SAT Drop-In Art: Tangram Portraits, join guest artists each Saturday as they interact with families to create extraordinary works inspired by museum collections, exhibitions and special occasions, 1-4 p.m. June 18. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT Art Adventures, young artists experience art through books and related projects for children

Weekly Farmers Market, shop local produce, bakers and artisans, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. June 18. OKC Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 405-2326506, okcfarmersmarket.com. SAT Tasting & Grilling Event, featuring the specialty food line Terrapin Ridge Farms, which includes gourmet condiments, sauces, meal starters, dressings, jams, dips, mustard and dessert sauces, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 18. Gourmet Gallery, 2820 NW 122nd St., 405-751-7700, thegourmetgallery. com. SAT Heard on Hurd, enjoy food trucks, live music and shopping, 6-10 p.m. June 18. Downtown Edmond, 32 N. Broadway Ave., Edmond. SAT Taste of Oklahoma Outdoor Dinner, chefs Kamala Gamble and Barbara Mock guide guests through how to make their own appetizer from locally grown foods that they could grow in their own backyard; chefs treat guests to a farm-to-table dinner, 7-9 p.m. June 18.

Meinders Garden and Terrace, 301 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SAT

Pauline at the Beach, (FR, 1983, dir. Eric Rohmer) the story of two cousins on a summer holiday in Brittany: Pauline, a charming and bashful teenager with little romantic experience, and Marion, her bombshell older cousin who clings to the hope that she will fall in love at first sight, 8 p.m. June 17. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI Chevalier, (GR, 2015, dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari) six men aboard a yacht decide to play a game that will measure their every behavior in an attempt to determine who is “the best in general,” 5:30 and 8 p.m. June 18, 5:30 p.m. June 19. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. SAT-SUN

Vintage Country Market, featuring a variety of vendors with product selections ranging from junk and antiques to repurposed and industrial, June 17-18. Lazy E Arena, 9600 Lazy E Drive, Guthrie, 405-282-7433, lazye.com. FRI -SAT

Americana Fest American Banjo Museum brings traditional sounds back to Oklahoma City Saturday with its family-friendly Americana Fest. The event features performances from several bands, including Side Street Steppers, Willow Way and Bread and Butter Band. KAUT-TV’s Lucas Ross, crafts and summertime treats will entertain the kids. Guests can win a Deering Goodtime Banjo. Performances start 11 a.m. and go until about 5 p.m. in Your Father’s Mustache Special Event Room. Other events and activities will be outside.

Admission is $10 for adults. Youths under 15 years are admitted free with a parent. It is free for American Banjo Museum members.

Visit americanbanjomuseum.com or call 405-604-2793. Saturday Photo Side Street

YOUTH OKC Night Bazaar Get your grub on at OKC Night Bazaar. The Taiwanese-style showcase of pop-up restaurants debuts 6 p.m. Saturday with live entertainment, shopping and art in the OKC Farmers Market District. The street festival at 311 S. Klein Ave. will be a spectacle with openflame cooking and traditional Taiwanese food. Admission is free. Visit okcnightbazaar.com. Saturday-Sunday Photo Garett Fisbeck

Kids Summer Cooking Camp, each day features a new topic such as doughnuts, cookies, cupcakes and other delicious treats, June 20-24. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., 405-430-5484, bellekitchen.com. MON - FRI Jurassic Science, an epic journey unearthing the amazing creatures from the past, June 20-24.

Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. MON - FRI Summer Art Camp: Bigger, Bolder, Better!, 5- to 6-year-old campers learn how to take small ideas and turn them into big art, working with recycled materials, little artists construct large, free-standing sculptures, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 20-24. Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. MON

Dirty Dancing Party Generation X’ers, take note: ’80s bar FlashBack RetroPub, 814 W. Sheridan Ave., hosts a Dirty Dancing-themed party 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Friday. Come out and celebrate one of the greatest movies of the ’80s by sipping watermelon martinis and busting out the choreography to “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life.” We don’t recommend trying to recreate Johnny and Baby’s famous lift, but we wouldn’t be against writhing around on the floor to “Love Is Strange.”

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Okietales, dive into history with books and stories and explore a different topic from the wild West and cowboys to land runs and pioneer life, 10:30-11:30 a.m. June 15 and 22. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/ historycenter. WED/ WED Weekly Walk-Ups, make-and-take crafts on Monday, play with food on Tuesday, storytime on Wednesday, crafts focusing on the environment on Thursday and a scavenger hunt on Friday, 10 a.m.-noon, June 15-17 and 20-22. Children’s Garden, 301 W. Reno and Harvey avenues, 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com. MON - FRI

PERFORMING ARTS Tim Gaither, stand-up comedian blessed with natural timing and the ability to make up characters on command, 8 p.m. June 15-16, 8 and 10:30 p.m. June 17-18. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. WED -SAT Nghiem’s Fairy Tales, a storytelling show with funny people telling true stories; hosted by James Nghiem; storytellers include Ashley Watson, Andrew Rose, Julie Drake, Brian Gililland and Brian Berlin, 8 p.m.

June 18. New World Comics, 6219 N. Meridian Ave., 405-721-7634, newworldcomics.net. SAT

Much Ado About Nothing, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park presents The Bard’s classic, 8-10 p.m. June 16-18. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-4457080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events.

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Best of the West, exhibit showcasing artwork by Harold Holden and Christa Blackwood. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 405-528-6336, jrbartgallery.com.

Contemporary West I, large-format expressionist paintings by Mary Bechtol and Laurie Justus Pace.

Kasum Contemporary Fine Arts, 1706 NW 16th St., 405-604-6602, kasumcontemporary.com.

Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s most beloved love story comes to life on stage in a vibrant storybook production, 8 p.m. June 16-18. Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell Road, Edmond, 405-359-4630, edmondok. com/parks. THU -SAT

GeoEthics, Ying Kit Chan uses a range of media and employs environmental ethics alongside Taoist and Buddhist ideologies to examine our relationship with nature. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-6665, artspaceatuntitled.org.

In The Next Room, a comedy about marriage, intimacy and electricity set in the 1880s and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat hysterical women, 8 p.m. June 16-18, 2 p.m. June 19. CitySpace Theatre, Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2584, okcciviccenter.com. THU -SUN Green Day’s American Idiot, two-time Tony Awardwinning hit musical; Green Day’s powerhouse album is brought to life in this electrifying rock musical of youthful disillusion, 8 p.m. June 17-18, 2 p.m. June 19.

The Pollard Theatre, 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 405-282-2800, thepollard.org. FRI -SUN Summer Shows, improv presented by OKC Improv, 7:30 p.m. June 17-18. The Paramount Theatre, 11 N. Lee Ave., 405-637-9389, theparamountokc.com.

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Mandy Patinkin, a spectacular, one-night-only Broadway Concert event with Mandy Patinkin in his first appearance in Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. June 18.

Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S. May Ave., 405-682-1611, occc.edu. SAT

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Jazz in June, three-day festival featuring performances from Shelly Phelps & the Scarlet Street Players, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Harumph and more, June 16-18.

Brookhaven Village, 3700 W. Robinson St., Norman, 405-321-7500, brookhaven-village.com. THU -SAT

Into the Woods, University of Central Oklahoma presents the Tony Award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical; an exploration about wishes, family and the choices we make as told through several fairy tale characters, 8 p.m. June 17-18, 2 p.m. June 19.

UCO Mitchell Hall Theater, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco.edu. FRI -SUN

Okie Noodling Tournament, Festival and Fish Fry Embrace every Oklahoma stereotype possible with the Okie Noodling Tournament, Festival and Fish Fry this weekend at Wacker Park, 1007 N. Willow St., in Pauls Valley. The free, all-ages festival and fish-fry begins 6 p.m. Friday with a concert featuring Jason Boland and the Stragglers and Mike McClure Band.

Festivities continue 10 a.m. Saturday with vendor booths, live noodling demos, kidsonly catfish eating contests and a watermelon crawl and end with a performance

by BC and the Big Rig at 8:30 p.m. Entry fees for the noodling tournament are $45.

Visit okienoodling.com.Friday-Saturday

OKC Dodgers vs. Round Rock, minor league baseball, 7:05 p.m., June 21-24. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405218-1000. TUE

Classic Radio Theatre Live, performance presenting original radio shows from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, performed live by some of OKC’s best voice actors; special Father’s Day program includes episodes of Jack Benny, Bob and Ray, The Lone Ranger, Rocky Fortune, Lights Out, Life of Riley, and 5 Minute Mysteries, plus vintage commercial favorites, 2:30 p.m. June 19. Actor’s Casting & Talent Services, 30 NE 52nd St., 405-702-0400, actorscasting.com. SUN

ACTIVE OKC Dodgers vs. Omaha, minor league baseball game, 7:05 p.m. June 13-14 and 16; 11:05 a.m. June 15. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000. MON Drop-In Yoga, yoga class in the museum’s galleries, 5:45-6:45 p.m. June 16. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa. com. THU Beer Yoga, join Brooke Larson for a one-hour, beginner-friendly yoga class followed by a pint of beer, 10 a.m. June 17.

The Bleu Garten, 301 NW 10th St., bleugarten.com.

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POK White Party Dress in your best white outfit for a summer evening filled with historic beauty. Preservation Oklahoma celebrats the conservation of the 1903 Henry Overholser Mansion with a swanky party on the mansion’s lawn. Live music, dancing and a raffle fill the night at 405 NW 15th St. The fundraiser starts 7 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds go to POK preservation efforts. Tickets are $55-$65. Visit preservationok.org. Saturday Photo Gazette/File

Urban Camping, a night under the stars at Riversport Rapids; brings classic camping favorites like s’mores, stargazing and outdoor games together with whitewater rafting, June 18 and July 16 Boathouse District, 725 S. Lincoln Blvd., 405552-4040, boathousedistrict.org. SAT First Annual Quail Creek Run, 5K and 1-mile fun run with donations helping Quail Creek neighborhood, followed by a Party in the Park where participants and families can enjoy local food trucks, drinks and youth activities, 10 a.m. June 18. Quail Creek Park, 11180 Quail Creek Road, quailcreek.org. SAT Father’s Day 5K, celebrate Dad at the Myriad Gradens Father’s Day 5K and Fun Run; run with your father or in honor of someone important to you, 7 a.m. June 19. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SUN Full Moon Bike Ride and Run, a leisurely, moonlit run or bike ride though downtown OKC, 7 p.m. June 20. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens. com/events. MON Yoga in the Gardens, all-levels yoga class, 5:45-6:45 p.m. June 21. Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-297-3995, myriadgardens.com. TUE

Her and Me, after losing her mother-in-law, March Artus, to leukemia, Oklahoma City artist Marilyn Artus was inspired to create a body of work from the thousands of beads March collected during her lifetime. The Project Box, 3003 Paseo St., 405-6093969, theprojectboxokc.com.

In a Circle, Vikki McGuire creates a new way of looking at nature through her colorful works.

Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

Jerry Piper, mixed-media artist focuses on texture, design and manipulation of color. The Purple Loft Art Gallery, 514 NW 28th St., Suite 400, 405-412-7066.

Lowell Ellsworth Smith: My Theology of Painting, never-before seen exhibition from the museum’s vault explores the artist’s process and approach; featuring watercolor studies and Smith’s own observations. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org.

Then and Now, Lynden Wilcoxson recalls an image with a creative use of acrylics which has a watercolor look. Contemporary Art Gallery, 2928 Paseo St., 405-601-7474, contemporaryartgalleryokc.com.

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Shane Henry performs this weekend at Bricktown Blues Festival. | Photo provided

Bricktown Blues Festival showcases the various music styles that emerge from the blues tradition. By George Lang

Because of its status as a cornerstone of sessions with producers David Ryan Harris, who has performed with John American music, blues contains multitudes, and what was once a genre that could Mayer and Nick Jonas, and Justin Glasco. be categorized by its geographic origins While he is moving forward with a selfnow defies simple labels. Bricktown Blues release strategy, Henry said he expects to sign a distribution deal in advance of the Festival, a free, two-day event FridaySaturday featuring a diverse collection of album’s planned October wide release. His homegrown talent, shows that Oklahoma main focus for now, he said, is getting the comes to the blues from positive, hopeful songs on Light many different starting in the Dark heard by his fans. points.

“I want people to walk away Bricktown Saturday night headfeeling inspired and connecting Blues Festival — not just musically, but lyriliner Shane Henry, an Oklahoma blues wundercally — to these songs,” he said.

6-11 p.m. Friday and kind now based in Los 4-11 p.m. Saturday Angeles, proved his bona Blending history Corner of Reno and fides in 2003 when he Henry comes from the tradiOklahoma avenues, on opened for the late B.B. tion popularized by Texas the Bricktown Canal King on a 30-city tour. blues-guitar legends Jimmie bricktownokc.com With support from and Stevie Ray Vaughan, but Free like-minded acts such as Bricktown Blues Festival has Kenny Wayne Shepherd room for all varieties. and Double Trouble, Henry launched his Oklahoma City legend and Friday night recording career with his 2004 debut, headliner Otis Watkins & the Bushdoctors, Deliverance. After a foray into soul and Little Joe McLerran, Wink Burcham, Tyler R&B-styled guitar-pop on 2011’s Beauty in Lee, Justin Witte & the Horn Wreckers, the Struggle, Henry returns to full-time The Flat Land Band, Pilgrim, Dustin Pittsley, Evin Brady, Dirty Red & The guitar-slinging with his upcoming album, Light in the Dark.

Soulshakers and Paul Benjaman Band each “People had been saying that they bring distinctive points of view to the missed hearing me wail on the guitar, so I subject of blues. brought that element back into my show For Benjaman, who performs 9 p.m. more,” Henry said. “What’s cool is that it’s Friday, that comes from a uniquely Tulsan still connecting with people. We’re always vantage point. His two albums, 2010’s growing and evolving, and it usually comes Something and last year’s Sneaker, offer down to what you’re listening to and what sharp-eared revivals of the Tulsa Sound moves you.” that rose to prominence in the 1970s.

Henry, who will sell advance copies of “I think that’s always been a difficult Light in the Dark during his 10 p.m. slot, thing for people to pin down. The artists said he wrote about 35 songs in advance of associated with it are pretty wide-ranging,”

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he said. “Pretty much, the two biggest progenitors of it would be Leon Russell with his amped-up shows and J.J. Cale with his laid-back thing. But the Tulsa Sound is a rhythmic-based music. You have this certain groove that gets cooking, and it is blues-based and rhythm ’n’ blues-based in the 1960s sense.”

Benjaman said he draws a distinction between the Tulsa Sound and its neighboring Red Dirt cousin by going back to the godfathers of each subgenre. While Red Dirt players derive much of their style and viewpoint from the example set by Woody Guthrie, Tulsa Sound founding fathers based their style on the work of Chicago bluesman Jimmy Reed, whose landmark songs like “Big Boss Man” and “Baby What You Want Me to Do” were fueled by an unusual rhythmic intensity.

“Even though Jimmy Reed was a

Chicago bluesman, you won’t find anyone in the Tulsa Sound who doesn’t know a couple of Jimmy Reed tunes,” Benjaman said.

Reed’s full-force rhythm as refined by Cale gets its most prominent showcase on Benjaman’s “Your Music” from Sneaker.

As a testament to the importance of rhythm in Benjaman’s work, he said his final touch during that song’s final mixing phase was to turn up the beat.

While he’s fiercely loyal to his signature sound, Benjaman did not fully absorb Cale’s work until he was about 30 years old. Before that, he was heavily influenced

by Beck’s Odelay, and to this day, he sees a direct link.

“You know, Odelay was such a rhythmbased record, too,” he said. “Beck kind of had to know about J.J. Cale when he was making that.”

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Euests take in a show at last year’s Twister Fest. | Photo Twister Fest / provided

Storm season

Muscle Car Ranch hosts dozens of music acts spanning rock to rap at this year’s Twister Fest in Chickasha. By Ben Luschen

More than 80 local and regional acts repRain man resenting myriad musical genres descend Hart’s shows had such a reputation for upon Curtis Hart’s historic Muscle Car getting rained out that locals would beg Ranch for Twister Fest, which runs Fridayhim to make bookings.

Sunday in Chickasha.

“I broke two droughts,” he said. “The As far as music and camping festivals farmers started making some jokes, saying, go, this one is a true value at ‘Oh, we’re going to start paying Curtis to have a $20 for day passes and $35 for festival passes. concert. We’ll get some rain.’

Twister Fest Ben Ellis, bassist and I wasn’t laughing though, backup vocalist for Lawtonyou know? When I did The Friday-Sunday based rock band Snake Oil, Grass Roots in ’92, it cost me Muscle Car Ranch performed at last year’s fes$20,000 for 60 minutes.”

3609 S. 16th St., tival and said it is one of the The most distinctive Chickasha best music events he has feature of Muscle Car Ranch twisterfest.com been to. likely is Hart’s vast collec405-222-4910 “It’s a great atmosphere tion of vintage restaurant, $20-$35 of just peace, music and sohotel and automotive signs from Oklahoma. cializing,” he said. “It was big on socializing last year. I’ve been to other “They basically had no value in the ’80s, festivals, and it’s cool. They have great when I was getting into them. Now, they’re musicians, and they get on and off the stage, kind of a big thing,” he said. “Fortunately, I saw that these would be gone soon, and I and then they leave. At Twister Fest, evgathered up quite a few of them.” eryone’s camping together, eating together or hanging out in spontaneous jamming Ellis said he fell in love with Twister sessions.”

Fest last year. He volunteered to help bands Ellis also helped organize this year’s and set up stages during Snake Oil’s first festival. He booked many of the bands, run at the event. This year, he insisted Hart including Oklahoma acts Skytown, Cutput him on the festival staff.

Throat Queens and Chief Peace. With five “He’s like me. He’s a worker, man,” Hart festival stages, Ellis said there is always said. “You just point him in a direction, something to see. and he gets stuff done.”

One of Twister Fest’s goals is to show“At any given minute, there’s at least two bands playing,” he said. case the state’s wide variety of talent.

Every other hour, three bands perform.

Organizers work tirelessly to promote the Hart started hosting large parties — and festival and its music lineup. Hart said he often inviting local music acts — at the printed thousands of flyers this year. Since ranch in 1978.

1990, he has printed more than 900,000.

Eventually, word spread about the “Nobody else goes through this locale and it became a popular party spot. trouble,” he said. “What I’ve gained from In 1990, he turned his ranch into a busiit is I’m getting calls constantly from other ness, collecting vintage cars and booking artists and bands who want to be here. I big-name acts from the past like The Byrds, think we’re building a fire. I really do.”

The Turtles, The Grass Roots, Firefall and For more information or to buy tickets, Steve Forbert. visit twisterfest.com.

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The Happily Entitled’s debut EP proves the group’s entitlement is deserved. By Adam Holt | Photo provided

A lot can be said about entitlement. The concept, defined by MerriamWebster as “the condition of having a right to have, do or get something,” fuels political wars, and the word is used to decry every younger generation by each older one.

E nt it lem ent o f t en doesn’t have a positive reputation.

Even so, Oklahoma City indie-pop outfit The Happily Entitled is forthright about what it believes it deserves. “[We’re] a group of musicians who are tired of having anything less than what we deserve as humans and artists,” the band states on its website, thehappilyentitled. com. “We want to spread a feeling of entitlement in people toward their art, love and equality. We believe as humans we should never have to apologize for creativity and love that is within us.”

The group oozes talent and demonstrates great understanding of multiple genres and how to weave them together.

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Well, arguments can be made about the meaning of that statement, but what cannot be argued is that the band, comprised of vocalist Mackenzie Pulse, drummer Dustin Fox and guitarist and vocalist Chris Lashley, deliver an interesting sound. Their debut EP, Preface, was released June 11 and features contributions from bassist Jonathan Garrett and keyboardist Holly Moorad.

The Happily Entitled blends rock, jazz and pop to create a sound all its own.

“Veruca Salt,” the second track, sets forth with a whirl of a drum fill and breaks into a melodic, engaging, pianodriven chord progression. Pulse’s voice complements the progression and sounds slightly girlish while she rants as the spoiled Willy Wonka & the Chocolate 50

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“I just want to be famous / I’m tired of being nameless / I just want the world / Diamonds and pearls,” she croons.

Of the five songs on Preface, “Veruca Salt” is the most thoroughly rock track.

The crescendo toward the end features a lively guitar solo that reaches its peak with Pulse’s vocals and a drumbeat flush with ride cymbal. The moment becomes the EP’s energy and volume climax, almost to the point of distortion.

If “Veruca Salt” is the EP’s rock peak, the initial impression of the following song, “Hands,” is the opposite. Piano, light drums and Pulse’s sultry delivery of lyrics about a complicated relationship give the impression of a jazz club filled with smoke and cocktails. However, the tone changes as her frustrations ebb and flow with the music, ending with a fit of rock.

If searching for a radio hit, “On the Fly” is what you sing along with while driving, the song you hum while working, the track you describe to friends as, “You know, that song that goes…” as you imitate the chorus’ catchy vocal melody.

It seesaws between guitar and electric piano jazz verses and pure, vocal-driven pop choruses. The chorus displays Pulse’s voice at its best. She eases off the accelerator of vibrato and vocal styling to showcase the clarity of her voice.

Lyrically, the track continues the relationship theme and she speaks to a boy who drives her to madness.

The Happily Entitled put forth a solid piece of work with Preface. The group oozes talent and demonstrates great understanding of multiple genres and how to weave them together. Good things will follow from these musicians. If you’re doubtful, just ask and they’ll tell you.

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Edmond’s Greyson Chance returns with a grown-up EP worthy of radio and club play.

By Brittany Pickering

Greyson Chance crashed onto televisions and streaming video outlets in 2010 after an amateur YouTube video went viral and earned him an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The clips showed him playing piano and belting out an impressive rendition of Lady Gaga’s hit “Paparazzi” during a sixth-grade school show in Edmond.

Now, 18-year-old Chance exists in a world of late-night calls, cigarettes, alcohol and complicated relationships. He released his second EP, Somewhere Over My Head, May 13.

Opening track “Afterlife” is a definitive summer jam. Verses burn slow while still feeling driven, and the chorus bursts in as a sun-soaked, hazy anthem backed by electronic dance beats, the perfect soundtrack for long drives with the windows down.

“Back on the Wall” features Chance’s signature falsetto, but it is more grown up.

The incandescent electro-pop dance beats of “Afterlife” brighten this track, accompanied by soulful vocals reminiscent of Justin Timberlake in his Future Sex/Love Sounds heyday. “Back on the Wall” contains the con-

fidence of a performer who sells out stadiums and makes fans swoon.

The EP’s third track, “Hit & Run” wouldn’t sound out of place in any Saturday night club mix. It’s a carefree banger that touches on an emotionally distant lifestyle that’s reincarnated, reinvented and fused into the youth of every generation.

The fourth track, however, “No Fear,” is Somewhere Over My Head’s cleanest, most radio-ready track and represents the flipside of “Hit & Run.” It’s a smooth number, filled with the bravado of youth and young love, a perfect sample of Chance’s developing maturity as a performer and as a young man.

His voice flows over bright tones and subtle drums as he promises a drama-free relationship. And he upholds that promise to his audience throughout this EP. Two days before Somewhere Over My Head’s release, the Oklahoma-raised musician told Teen Vogue the song represented a different version of himself.

“I’m a skinny, geeky kid, but this record, to me, kind of feels badass and kind of feels

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cool, and I think it’s a cooler version of myself,” he told the magazine.

Rather than projecting a fresh, edgy “persona,” this project showcases how he’s grown personally and professionally, and shows promise for how he’ll continue to develop as his career progresses.

The EP ends with “More Than Me,” a dark ballad about lost love and unmet expectations. Its lyrics — opening with “I lost my way on streets that I paved” and closing with “You weren’t looking at me; you were looking instead somewhere over my head” — could tell the story of an unsuccessful love affair

as well as it could the ups and downs of fame.

Though this project shows inspirations possibly borrowed by Timberlake’s swagger, British singer Maverick Sabre’s soulful vocal stylings of and the pop sensibilities and sweet-faced, boy-next-door appeal of South Africa’s Troye Sivan, Chance makes a name for himself and does a pretty good job of not pretending to be anyone else.

He might have started out as a prepubescent internet sensation, but Somewhere Over My Head features a more seasoned performer taking hold of a more secure, earned place in the spotlight.

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Local Man Ruins Everything/Giraffe Massacre, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Otis Watkins, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES Raina Cobb and Friends/Open Mic Night, Hillbilly’s. COUNTRY Shadowman Blues, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond.

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free will astrology Homework: If you could change your astrological sign, what would you change it to and why? Go to Freewillastrology.com and click "Email Rob." ARIES (March 21-April 19) The coming months

will be a favorable time to boost your skills as a cagey warrior. I don't mean you should push people around and get into lots of fights. Rather, the goal is for you to harness your aggressiveness constructively and to wield your willpower with maximum grace. In the face of fear, you will not just be brave, but brave and crafty.

You'll refrain from forcing storylines to unfold before they're ready, and you'll rely on strategy and good timing instead of brute strength and the decree "Because I said so." Now study this counsel from the ancient Chinese statesman Zhuge Liang, also known as Crouching Dragon: "The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Everything you do in

the coming days should be imbued with the intention of enhancing the Flow. It's high time to identify where the energy is stuck, and then get it unstuck. You have a sacred mandate to relieve the congestion . . . to relax the tweaks . . . to unravel the snarls if you can, or simply cut through them if necessary. You don't need to tell anyone about your secret agenda. Just go about your business with zealous diligence and unflagging purpose. If it takes more effort than you wished, so be it. If your progress seems maddeningly gradual, keep the faith.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) My long-term

predictions for the next 15 months are a blend of hopeful optimism and a reasonable interpretation of the astrological omens. Here we go: 1. You will have an excellent chance to smooth and soothe the rough spots in your romantic karma. 2. You will outgrow any addiction you might have to frustrating connections. 3. Unrequited love will either be requited, or else you'll become bored with the futile chase and move on. 4. You'll be challenged to either refresh and reinvent an existing intimacy, or else get shrewd enough not to repeat past mistakes in a new intimacy.

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5. You will have an abundance of good ideas about how to install the theme of smart fun at the heart of your strongest alliances.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Author Courttia Newland quotes the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno: "How will you go about finding the thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" In response to this riddle, Newland riffs on what it means to him: "Even more important than the journey itself, is the venture into the unknowable. The ability to find comfort moving forwards without quite knowing where you are going."

I nominate these to be your words to live by in the coming days, Cancerian. Have open-hearted fun as you go in search of mysterious and impossible secrets! I'm confident you will track them down — especially if you're willing to be lost.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your homework is to write a

story about the life you're going to live between now and next April. The length of this predictive tale should be at least three pages, although it's fine if you produce more. Here are some meditations to lubricate the flow of your imagination. 1. What three questions would you love to have answered during the next 42 weeks? 2. Of the numerous adventures that might be fun to explore, which are the two that would be most consistently energizing? 3. What is the one thing you'd most like to change about your attitude or revamp about your life?

4. What new privilege will you have earned by April 2017?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) According to an old

Chinese proverb, if you want to get rich, you must have a nickname. My meditations on your future suggest that this curious formula may have some validity. The next 15 months will be a favorable time to attend to the groundwork that will ultimately increase your wealth.

And your luck in doing this work is likely to be oddly good if you add a frisky tweak to your identity — such as a zesty new nickname, for example. I suggest you stay away from clichés like Ace or Vixen or Sharpie, as well as off-putting ironic monikers like Poker Face and Stonewall. Instead, gravitate toward lively choices like Dazzler, FluxLuster, Hoochie-Coochie, or FreeBorn.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) During the next 15

months, you will have an unprecedented chance to materialize a fantasy you've harbored for years.

Essential to your efforts will be a capacity to summon more ambition than you ever have before. I'm not talking about the grubby self-promotion that typically passes for ambition, however. Arrogant selfimportance and selfish posturing will not be part of your winning formula. Rather, the kind of ambition I'm referring to is a soaring aspiration that seeks the best and highest not just for yourself but for everyone whose life you touch. I mean the holy hunger that drives you to express impeccable integrity as you seek to master the tasks you came to Earth to accomplish.

Get started!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) During the next 15

months, composting should be a primary practice, as well as a main metaphor. If you have been lazy about saving leftover scraps from your kitchen and turning them into fertilizer, now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts. The same is true if you have been lax about transforming your pain into useful lessons that invigorate your lust for life. Be ever-alert for opportunities to capitalize on junk, muck, and slop. Find secret joy in creating unexpected treasure out of old failures and wrong turns.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Have you ever

made a fool of yourself while trying to fulfill your deepest yearnings? I hope so. If you haven't, your yearnings probably aren't deep enough. Most of us, on multiple occasions, have pursued our longings for connection with such unruly intensity that we have made foggy decisions and engaged in questionable behavior. That's the weird news. The good news is that now and then, the impulse to leave our safety zone in a quest to quench our deepest yearnings can actually make us smarter and more effective. I believe this is one of those times for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) During the next 13 months, what can you do to enhance your ability to be the boss of yourself? What practices can you

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engage in on a daily basis that will build your potency and authority and clout? How can you gain access to more of the helpers and resources you need to carry out your life's master plan? These are excellent questions to ask yourself every day between now and July 2017. It's time to find or create your ultimate power spot.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The prison population in the U.S. is over two million, more than twice what it was in 1990. In contrast, Canada keeps about 41,000 people in jail, Italy 52,000, and France 66,000. That's the bad news. The good news, at least for you and your tribe, is that a relatively small percentage of you will be incarcerated during the next 15 months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Aquarians all over the world will specialize in liberation. Not only will you be extra ethical; not only will you be skillful at evading traps; you will also be adept at emancipating yourself from your own delusions and limitations. Congratulations in advance!

It's time to start singing some new freedom songs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

The English word "catharsis" is derived from the ancient Greek katharsis, which was a technical medical term that meant "purgation" or "purification," as in flushing out the bowels. Aristotle converted katharsis into a metaphor that described how a drama performed in the theater could "clean out" the emotions of spectators. These days, catharsis may refer to any event that precipitates a psycho-spiritual renewal by building up and then releasing tension. I foresee at least one of these strenuous blessings in your immediate future.

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

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