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From obnoxious statement socks to quirky handcrafted bowties, this year, men’s fashion dominates holiday trends. In this issue, discover Slim in Deep Deuce, where to find locally made men’s accessories and which pop-up shops have grown into brick-and-mortar favorites. It all starts on P.34. — Jennifer Chancellor, editor-in-chief

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Boulder, Colorado; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and San Francisco consistently rank high as some of the best places to launch tech-based companies. They are also cities with access to some of the fastest Internet speeds in the nation. Oklahoma City, which has also seen a boost in startups over the past several years, has some of the slowest Internet speeds in the nation, according to data compiled by the website Gizmodo.com. “Fast and easy access to the Internet is critical for anyone who has built their company online,” said Danny Maloney, CEO and co-founder of Tailwind, an OKC-based tech company that assists sellers with enhanced social media data. With average download speeds of 14.6 megabits per second, OKC is at a competitive disadvantage to cities like New York; Tampa, Florida; and Baltimore, which have download speeds twice as fast. Internet speeds vary from city to city, especially as various providers are rolling out new services like Google Fiber and Cox’s Gigabit service. Cities like Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; Phoenix; and Atlanta have seen increased Internet speeds in recent months through new enhancements, and Cox says additional cities will see upgrades in the coming years, although no specifics have been announced for the OKC market. With many tech companies starting in homes, Maloney believes fast residential Internet service can be a critical component in a start-up’s success. “It makes a big difference,” Maloney said.

Net neutrality and politics

But while infrastructure for faster Internet speeds could boost the success of local technology companies, the ongoing debate over net neutrality could slow down any potential growth. “If the Internet was filtered, it would add another level of complexity when it comes to us providing our customers with the best service possible,” said Chris Doe, who, with his brother, Taylor, founded CareNotebook, a state-based company that developed a Web application to help health workers organize information. Internet providers have proposed higher prices for faster Internet speeds, and it has created a debate at the federal level. President Barack Obama recently expressed his support for net neutrality, which would extend “common carrier” laws used for traditional utilities, such as telephone service, to Internet providers. “It would be a big burden for a small company like us,” Chris said about higher rates for faster service. “We have limited funds as it is. The greatness of the Internet is that is allows everyone to be on a level playing field.” Net neutrality has become a partisan issue in recent years, and Oklahoma’s Republican delegation has consistently criticized any attempt to regulate Internet providers. In 2010, following the Federal Communications Commission move toward net neutrality, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, decried it as government intrusion. “This is yet another example of the federal government over-regulating,”

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Inhofe said at the time. “I am disappointed with today’s unnecessary decision ... it will jeopardize billions of dollars of future investment into broadband networks, costing jobs. Today is the first step toward Internet regulation.” Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, likened net neutrality to censorship of the press in a letter he authored this summer. “Regulating the Internet is no different than regulating the press,” Bridenstine wrote. Liberal politicians have responded with support for tighter net neutrality laws. “There shouldn’t be one Internet for deep-pocketed corporations and a separate Internet for everyone else,” said Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota. The Federal Communications Commission has said new net neutrality rules are likely to be imposed soon, especially after Obama’s show of support. But utility companies like AT&T have threatened lawsuits if new rules are officially announced. Internet providers say net neutrality would limit their growth and ability to make money. However, small tech companies say regulating Internet providers would boost economic activity, as more companies would have an opportunity to launch. “A lot of talk about net neutrality is about the big tech companies like Netflix, but this could very easily see its way to smaller companies,” Maloney said. “There are a lot of startups right now that are building their business on the cloud.

Danny Maloney, Tailwind founder, said Internet speed and access impacts businesses large and small. We use Rackspace at Tailwind, which is a large company, but you can imagine that if Rackspace sees an increased fee, it would have to be built into our cost.” Maloney said the impact of Internet access goes beyond just tech companies. “You should also think about how it impacts all local business,” Maloney said. “I think we have all been in a restaurant or a retail store when all of a sudden, their [register] system freezes up. At this point, pretty much every business is online in some way.” The Doe brothers say they rely on cheap access to Internet, especially as they build CareNotebook in their spare time with limited funds. “We launched a few months ago, and we both work after hours on it,” Taylor Doe said. Beyond just the benefit equal Internet access can provide companies, supporters of net neutrality say it is in the best interest of everyday Web users. Companies like Netflix and YouTube — which account for half of all broadband use in America — say net neutrality would result in lower fees for consumers and faster download speeds. Then again, those claims are just one side of the argument between giant corporations that are looking to make as much money as possible. “I am a tech guy, not a policy or political expert,” Chris Doe said. “But I know that better access to the Internet is good for us and almost everyone.”

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Freedom from steering wheels

However, while OKC has seen increased investment in non-car infrastructure in recent years, the average local citizen is actually driving more miles today than at any point in history. Increased driving miles locally could be a result of continued urban sprawl and an economy that is growing much faster than most other metro areas. But while the car might still be king in OKC, momentum is building to free people from behind their steering wheels. “People have literally said to my face that you have to have a car to live here, but John and I are living proof that that’s simply not true,” wrote Elizabeth Tankard about her family’s decision to live car-free in OKC. The couple also authors a blog on the subject, and while they advocate for using public transit, walking and biking, their blog is often filled with reports on how difficult it can be to live without a car in OKC, even when living in the urban core. Car-free residents like the Tankards might face daily challenges when it comes to commuting to work, the grocery store or the doctor’s office, but the environment in OKC is better than it used to be. The Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority, which manages OKC’s bus system, reported ridership gains last year, and the Oklahoma City Council has committed

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If there’s a war on cars in America, Oklahoma City is one of its toughest battlefields. Automobiles remain deeply rooted in the American experience, and living without a car continues to be an oddity reserved for the most adventurous urban dweller. But there is no denying the fact that there is a cultural pushback on cars and a desire by many to see communities built around other forms of transit. The average American drives 7.4 percent fewer miles today than in 2004, and public transit ridership and cycling is hitting peak levels in many cities. Forty-six percent of today’s young adults say they would give up their car if there were reliable public transit available, according to a survey by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Danny O’Connor, transportation director for ACOG, speaks about the value of community partnerships to help develop alternative forms of transit in the metro area at a recent Association of Central Oklahoma Governments public hearing. more funding to help support increased frequency and the addition of Sunday service. Funding for public transit from the state government also has increased by 10 percent from 2000 to 2010, according to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

Regional transit system

But beyond small increases in public transit ridership and a handful of citizens who have decided to live without an automobile, the biggest sign of a cultural shift toward alternative transit might be the continued progress on a regional transit system that could bring a network of commuter rail and streetcar lines to the metro in several years. The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) developed a proposed transit system to connect OKC with surrounding cities. While the project requires more planning and a public vote on funding, city and business leaders are promoting the concept. “We plan in the next five years to be

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leading the charge in this discussion,” said Roy Williams, president of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. “It’s a commitment our leadership wants to put into our next strategic plan to move the transit dialogue to a higher level.” While Williams said the chamber has not officially endorsed any specific transit plan, he believes it is crucial for the region to dramatically increase its public transit options in coming years. The chamber’s support for such a plan could be crucial, especially given that voters in parts of OKC, Edmond, Norman, Midwest City, Moore and Del City could be asked to approve a sales tax increase to pay for a network of transit lines. “What has always gotten our voters to do things here, which includes MAPS, is they saw value and they saw enhancement of the quality of life and they felt that it was in the best interest of the community,” Williams said. “It might not have been in the best interest of the individual, but they could see it was in the best interest of the community.” Williams said his hope is that commuters — even those who have no desire to give up their cars — will realize the value of having an excellent transit system. A lack of high traffic congestion is often taken for granted here, Williams said, but more cars are coming, especially considering the city’s continued growth rate and estimates that predict another 400,000 metro residents by 2050.

Regional transit plans are not easy to develop; just ask the metros of Denver and Cleveland, where networks of light rail and commuter rail took decades to build due to a lack of trust between municipalities. However, transit advocates believe our city has an advantage. “What has been a real success is that this has been a joint study, a partnership,” said Danny O’Connor, ACOG transportation director. “There were six cities that really wanted to take a hard look at these corridors. We have that momentum, and they want to continue that dialogue on how do you turn a plan into something that is real.” Decades of building highways and sprawling subdivisions, along with the absence of sidewalks and biking infrastructure, has OKC playing catchup during a time when many cities are expanding non-car options. Local residents love their automobiles, but a growing number are looking for a change. A series of public meetings this summer, hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, found that the top priority for attendees was a safe highway system and wider shoulders on rural roads. However, the next highest priorities for citizens were bus transit and passenger rail. Highways and cars aren’t going away, but work is underway to give some residents ways to avoid them if they choose.

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Sarah McLean pauses for a smile during an annual family potluck and support gathering for cancer survivors at Integris Cancer Institute of Oklahoma. Fortunately for Sarah, her husband was determined to help. “There is no back to normal; it’s a new normal,” Steve McLean said. “But we couldn’t do it on our own. We didn’t know what to do, and we didn’t have the tools on our own.”

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It took Steve nine months to find a counselor equipped to help Sarah, and it ended up making all the difference in helping the couple survive together. Out of that process, Sarah developed a passion for helping other survivors navigate the emotional and mental aspects of breast cancer. That is how she got connected with Wilson and the two launched Project31, a support group of breast cancer victims and survivors. A couple of years old, the group

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Meeting at the Integris facilities came about when Wilson called the health system to inquire about a doctor’s availability to come speak to the group. That call spurred a conversation with a hospital employee and an eventual invitation to use the facility for the monthly meetings. “They have rolled out the red carpet,” Wilson said. Visitors to the group can include women who have been diagnosed less than 24 hours ago and those who have been battling breast cancer for years. Project31 hosts events designed to help a woman navigate the complicated world of breast cancer, but it is also a network of friends that offer a shoulder to lean on. “We have really had a passion to serve the breast cancer community and allow them to be empowered and embraced,” McLean said. “This is also a group of friends.” Steve, Sarah’s husband, said

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Wilson and McLean would like to see Project31 expand to other parts of the city. The group has gained notoriety beyond the metro, including McLean recently being named Survivor of the Week by The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which highlighted the work of Project31. “I had some really good advice from one doctor who said you just have to be really aggressive,” Wilson said. “It’s easy to not know what to do, but we want other women to know there is hope and a community that can help them through it.” During her treatment, Wilson decided to go back to college in an attempt to find a distraction. “I had to have something else to think of besides cancer,” Wilson said. Her senior thesis was a report on the benefits of journaling, prayer and meditation for breast cancer survivors. She later turned that report into a book called A Jar for My Tears. “Giving back is the best part of this,” Wilson said.

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Oklahoma City is home to an estimated 100,000 Hispanic residents, which is double the population of just 10 years ago. David Castillo, president of the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, says the Hispanic community’s growth is transforming the chamber’s role in the local economy. “We are starting to see the [Hispanic] community evolve,” Castillo said. “Before, what we had was landscapers working for other companies, many Hispanics working for roofing companies and in construction trade, stuff like that. Now they are becoming owners [of their own businesses], and that is the next step. We feel like the Latino community is starting to take the next step.” Castillo and the Hispanic chamber celebrated the opening of a new office last week in south OKC, the hub of the city’s Latino community. “The best part [of the new building] is the presence is right in the middle of the community,” Castillo said. The Hispanic chamber works with many Latino businesses and offers business training services, including free seminars on permits, licenses and financing each Tuesday.

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Oklahoma’s kooky for green bean casserole. A recent study called the Del Monte Green Been Index shows we’re No. 11 (68 percent of us claim to love the stuff), just behind Kentucky (78 percent), Wisconsin (77 percent), Missouri (76 percent), Iowa (75 percent), Maine (74 percent), New Hampshire (73 percent), Florida (72 percent — we’d assume the home of sunny retirees would score way, way higher. We’re shocked. Shocked!), Colorado (71 percent), California (69 percent) and Mississippi (68 percent). Whew. Del Monte interviewed 1,500 people to get the results. Green beans apparently unify the North and the South like nothing else in history. Just think, if Abraham Lincoln had this dish before the Civil War, maybe it wouldn’t have happened. Spoiler alert! The survey also discovered the top “secret” ingredient in these things is bacon. (37 percent of people nationally use it.)

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Once the downtown boulevard opens, motorists will have extra appreciation after dealing with the closure of E.K. Gaylord Boulevard for nearly a year. The city of Oklahoma City announced last month that E.K. Gaylord between Reno and SW 4 is

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now closed while utility crews work on a rail overpass in preparation for the new downtown boulevard. The closure of E.K. Gaylord is expected to create traffic problems for downtown commuters exiting from Interstate 40, especially during Thunder games at Chesapeake Energy Arena. The traffic problems are especially troublesome because motorists who might arrive late to Thunder games will miss their best chance to see winning basketball that is shown in the pre-game video.

You wouldn’t know it by his nice-guy demeanor, but Kevin Durant has one mode: competitor. KD takes no prisoners on the hardwood, status, stature or age be damned. In fact, footage leaked just last week of Durant swatting the everloving crap out of a poor, overmatched toddler’s jumpshot at a

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youth basketball camp, something The Durantula, sadly, has a history of doing. Really, though, these are little guys we’re talking about here — no more than four feet tall — so one can only conclude that Durant was taking out frustrations against his arch-nemesis: Lil B, The Based God. Speaking of, in a recent lecture at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the rapper confirmed that Durant’s injury and the Thunder’s Season from Hell is a direct result of the Based God’s curse, which he cast on the NBA’s reigning MVP after Durant essentially called him a whack rapper on Twitter in 2011. That sneaky Based God. He was supposed to have lifted the curse in 2012, granting permission to the Thunder to win the NBA Championship, but we all know how that turned out. So it appears the Based God’s curse is alive and well, and we are all beholden to its wrath and exiled to a season of injury and suffering until the rapper deems otherwise.

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20 more years!

It has been 20 years since David Boren took over as president of the University of Oklahoma (OU). Really? Time really does fly when you’re having fun. We can’t imagine the university as anything but the center of excellence that it is today, but it wasn’t always that way. Twenty years ago, Boren left his Senate seat with two years left on his term to run the college and was excited to do it. The man has always been a bit of a trailblazer, being the state’s youngest governor who went on to be elected to three terms as a United States senator. People were more than a little surprised when he left his senatorial seat with two years left. They were also surprised at his choice of jobs, but the state regents asked him to come, and he answered. According to Newson6.com, Boren said, “I thought, ‘You know, I could do more if I went home.’” And that’s just what he did. He fled the hopeless gridlock of Capital Hill

for the university and traded in the title of senator for president. OU has flourished under his leadership, developing a national and international reputation for excellence and growing fundraising efforts to the tune of almost $1 billion. He was also quick to credit his wife, Molly Shi Boren, for the esthetics of the university, including art, gardens and 20,000 new trees.

Yeah, we rule

If you want to take the best trip of your life next year, National Geographic Traveler magazine recommends that you hit Oklahoma City. “To look at, it’s been more like the beer-gut metropolis spilling across the Great Plains. But things have changed,” the magazine trumpeted. The article then mentions kick-ass modern-day developments including Automobile Alley, Midtown, The Thunder, The Bleu Garten, Myriad Botanical Gardens and even Embark, our

public transit service. But we knew all of this, didn’t we? The writers? Not so much. “This is Oklahoma?” the publication asked. But Hunter Wheat, owner of The Blue Garten, totally schooled everyone. “We’re such a blank canvas that even people from Austin are moving here,” he said. Indeed, they’re moving here from everywhere, and we love it.

Pepper spray

The one thing that your should never say to anyone — let alone a child — is, “Don’t push that button!” But we’re guessing a student at James L. Capps Middle School in Warr Acres did just that when showing a pal his contraband. And by contraband, we mean pepper spray. Yes, it went off, and koco. com reported that a teacher and students were quickly evacuated from one classroom

while things settled down. An ambulance responded to check up on a student who suffered breathing problems, but everyone’s OK. Our prediction for next school accident: Ms. Smith yells to a pupil, “Don’t put your hand inside that stapler!” Or, “Jessica, stay away from that Bunsen burner!” Updates to follow, we’re sure.

It’s happening!

Last week, the NCAA announced that both Oklahoma City and Tulsa made the list of preliminary sites to host rounds of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. That’s right; according to newsok.com, the Big 12 Conference is headed to Chesapeake Energy Arena on March 18 and 20 of 2016. The New York Times reported that Tulsa will host first- and second-round matches in 2017.

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COMMENTARY

Critical crossroad BY JULIA KIRT

For a child’s education to be complete, it must include the arts. Arts education — music, dance, visual arts and drama — prepare students for school, work and life. Oklahomans for the Arts strives for a state where each child participates in highquality arts learning experiences in school and the community. The State Board of Education announced plans to draft new Oklahoma standards that “reflect Oklahoma values and principles.” We must ensure those values and principles include access to arts education for all students. Research repeatedly demonstrates that participation in the arts boosts learning and achievement, including critical thinking skills, collaboration, problemsolving ability, self-confidence and other positive impacts. Low-income students who are highly engaged in the arts earn bachelor’s degrees at more than twice the rate of their peers

with minimal arts involvement. Also, artsengaged youth find jobs faster and engage civically at higher levels, according to James Catterall’s 2009 study Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art. Moreover, 72 percent of employers say they seek creativity in new hires, but 85 percent of those employers cannot find the creative applicants they seek, according to the 2008 study Ready to Innovate from The Conference Board, Americans for the Arts and the American Association of School Administrators. However, the amount, type and quality of arts education vary greatly for students across the state. The State Department of Education’s policy allows each of the state’s 535 school districts to decide how — and if — arts learning will be implemented. Students in rural and/or underserved urban communities are, therefore, much less likely to receive consistent classroom arts instruction.

The State Department of Education adopted new fine arts standards last year, but resources and accountability make their implementation challenging and arts standards must be prioritized as an essential parts of the broader state standards. We have the opportunity to improve high-quality arts education through state policy. Americans for the Arts chose Oklahoma as one of only 10 states for the three-year State Policy Pilot Program. Led by Oklahoma Arts Council, a state agency, the program focuses on expanding states’ support and funding of arts education policy and increasing the availability of arts programs at the local level. A collaborative team with representatives from multiple state agencies, elected officials and advocacy leaders will write an action plan and

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manage the three-year grant. First steps will include building coalitions and mapping current arts education resources. To kick the process off, Oklahoma Arts Council convened the first statewide Forum on Arts Education last month. With art educators, community art leaders, artists and civic leaders participating, the forum confirmed the manifold individuals and institutions interested in improving our students’ access to arts education. Amid the tumult of curriculum changes and continual financial restraints, we also should be empowering our students to be college and career ready through the arts. Julia Kirt is the executive director for Oklahomans for the Arts, a statewide arts advocacy nonprofit organization. She’s also a parent of an OKCPS Cleveland Elementary School first-grader and is thrilled the school emphasizes science and the arts. Kirt is a recipient of the 2014 Governor’s Arts Award.

LETTERS Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@ okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette. com. Include a city of residence and contact number for verification. Influence vs. wisdom

Corporations and nations the world around are making adjustments to the science predicting dire consequences if CO2 emissions are not reduced. On the other side, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe’s 2012 book The Greatest Hoax claims that the consensus of world scientists on CO2 emissions is wrong. Republicans in Congress speak and vote in apparent agreement. In January, when Republican majorities take over both houses of Congress, there will no doubt be bills introduced to curtail or eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency. Republicans clearly look forward to voting for the pipeline across America that will accelerate the mining of Canada’s toxic tar sands. These policies will leave undisturbed the fossil fuel industries that profit from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

At the crossroads where world scientists warn that global warming does threaten life as we know it, corporate influence might prove more influential than environmental wisdom. — Nathaniel Batchelder Oklahoma City “Liberal” bias

I realize that your publication is a liberal-oriented weekly serving the local community. In spite of the high cost per copy, I, as a conservative, usually enjoy periodically scanning the contents to see what “the other side is doing.” Your Aug. 13 edition, however, went way over into the MSNBC miasma. In “Standard (influential) deviation” (Chicken-Fried News, Aug. 13, Oklahoma Gazette) you state that Gov. Mary Fallin ranked No. 15 in a list of most influential GOP women in a poll “by a right-leaning media outlet” (Newsmax). Is that supposed to be a working version of Common Core math or an inside liberal bon mot? The math continues, informing us that 37 percent of American women identify themselves as Democrats, undoubtedly answering to “Julia,” and 24 percent as Republicans equating to 4.5 women in the Republican Party. Does that then result in 6.935 democrat women? (Editor’s note: Some women identify with neither party.)

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You also use the sexist sobriquet “chick” to describe a woman “from Fox News.” However, when that poll was released, that “chick” [sic] was the only sane person on The View. The next CFN piece, “I hate this law; enforce it” (same issue date) goes after Rep. James Lankford and Republicans in general for opposing Obamacare and for “suing” Obama. First, Republicans claimed that Obamacare created a burden on business owners five years ago. The burden on business is now a proven fact. Second, the Republicans are not suing Obama; the House of Representatives voted to initiate a lawsuit — but of course it was a partisan vote just like Obamacare was. The madness continues in the Letters section (same issue). Wanda Jo

(Peltier) Stapleton whishes ill on the citizens of Oklahoma and bemoans the refusal of the Obama bribe of “federal funding” to expand Medicaid and retaining the current minimum wage. It is becoming evident that the Obamabribe will cost the states dearly very soon. It is a demonstrated fact that raising the minimum wage results in increased unemployment, especially in the minority segment. Steven Goldman (Letters, “Let’s talk about human rights,” same issue) asserts that “No church is going to be required to perform gay marriages.” Just as no baker, florist, photographer, etc., will be forced to support a gay wedding. — Pete Lepo Edmond

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BOOKS OCU Holiday Bookfest, evening celebrating authors with ties to Oklahoma City University, 6:30-8 p.m., Dec. 8. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. MON An Evening with Oklahoma Authors, surprise guest authors to sign books that will make great Christmas gifts, 5:30-7 p.m., Dec. 9. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Rd., Edmond, 340-9202, bestofbooksedmond.com. TUE

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Force Majeure, (Sweden, 2014, dir. Ruben Ostlund) a family is on vacation in the French Alps when they experience and avalanche, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4; 5:30 p.m., Dec. 5; 8 p.m., Dec. 6; 2 p.m., Dec. 7. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa. com. THU-SUN Life of Riley, (France, 2014, dir. Alain Resnais) a group of friends find out one of their own has only months to live, 8 p.m., Dec. 5; 5:30 p.m., Dec. 6. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI-SAT A Christmas Carol & Christmas in Connecticut, these holiday classics return to the big screen for one night only, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m., Dec. 7. Cinemark Tinseltown, 6001 N. Martin Luther King Ave., 424-0461, cinemark.com. SUN

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HAPPENINGS Chickasha Festival of Lights, walk or drive through a sea of beautiful Christmas lights, carriage rides and pictures with Santa, 6-10 p.m., Dec. 3-Dec. 10. Shannon Springs Park, 2400 S. 9th St., Chickasha, 224-9627. SAT Holiday Pop-Up Shops, shop local stores during this weekly holiday shopping village in Midtown, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Dec. 4-6; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Dec. 7. OKC Pop-Ups, 399 NW 10th St., okcpopups.com. THU-SUN

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Wednesday, Dec. 10 Deck Your Yard with a Holiday Container, join owner of Adorn, Elizabeth Richardson, as she teaches how to fashion a seasonal container for your garden during the winter months, 1-3 p.m., Dec. 6. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens. org. SAT

Holidays in the Crystal Bridge, view the crystal bridge adorned with lights for the holiday season. Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, 301 W. Reno Ave., 2973995, myriadgardens.org. SUN

FOOD Healthy Gluten-Free Living, learn the basics for the healthiest approach to gluten-free living; shopping and cooking tips, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Dec. 3. Natural Grocers, 7001 N. May Ave., 840-0300, naturalgrocers.com. WED Whodunit Dinner Theater, dinner and a comedic murder mystery play involving the audience, 6:30 p.m., Dec. 5. Cattlemen’s Steakhouse, 1309 S. Agnew Ave., 236-0416, whodunit.net. FRI Weekly Farmers Market, shop goods from local produce, bakers and artisans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 232-6506, okcfarmersmarket.com. SAT

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Holiday Entertaining Show, ideas for dinner parties and entertaining, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Dec. 6. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Rd., Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. SAT

Winter Shoppes If you’re going to be outside in December, it better be for a good reason. With rows of boutique-style venders, ice-skating, a carousel and a dazzling array of lights, the Winter Shoppes are as good a reason as any. Soak in the scenery 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday–Sunday at Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave. Admission is free. Call 445-7080 or visit myriadgardens.org.

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Coupon Class, learn the art of couponing, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Dec. 9. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Rd., Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. TUE

YOUTH December Drop-Ins, make ornaments to take or or give as a gift, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Dec. 3. Children’s Garden, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. WED Holiday Happening, family-friendly activities, story time and other entertainment including Santa Claus mingling with dinosaurs, 5-8 p.m., Dec. 4. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu. THU Deck the Halls, holiday activities and a chance to meet a variety of historical Mr. and Mrs. Clauses, 10 a.m.-noon, Dec. 6. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 521-2491, okhistory.org/historycenter. SAT Children’s Book Fair, opportunity to meet some of your favorite children’s book writers, 2-4 p.m., Dec. 7. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. SUN

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Santas of the World Santa isn’t just a fat, bearded white dude, you know. Different cultures have their own interpretation of St. Nicholas, and Chisholm Trail Museum is offering a glimpse of the various iterations of Santa that exist across the globe. Santas of the World will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the museum’s 122-year-old A.J. Seay Mansion, 605 Zellers Ave., in Kingfisher. Admission is free. Call 375-5176 or visit ctokmuseum.org.

Sunday Art Adventures, experience art through The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds; ages 3 to 5, 10:30 a.m., Dec. 2. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm Ave., Norman, 325-3272, ou.edu/fjjma. TUE

PERFORMING ARTS A Christmas Carol, classic holiday story of Scrooge highlights the universal truths of redemption and kindness to one’s fellow man, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 3-4; 8 p.m., Dec. 5; 2 p.m., 8 p.m., Dec. 6; 2 p.m., Dec. 7; 7:30 p.m., Dec. 9-10. Lyric Theatre, 1727 NW 16th St., 524-9312, lyrictheatreokc.com. WED-SUN, TUE-WED Valarie Storm, stand up comedy, 8 p.m., Dec. 3-4; 8 & 10:30 p.m., Dec. 5-6. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. WED-SAT The Christmas Show, Beth Leavel, John Sawyer and Vince Leseney headline cast of musicians, singers and dancers to get you into the Christmas spirit, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4; 8 p.m., Dec. 5; 2 p.m., 8 p.m., Dec. 6. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. THU-SAT Songs and the Season, performance by Grammywinning singer Kathy Mattea, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4. Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S. May Ave., 682-1611, occc.edu. THU It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, the American holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast, 8 p.m., Dec. 4-6; 2 p.m., Dec. 7. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org. THU-SUN Meet Me in St. Louis, Broadway classic based on the MGM movie presented by the Sooner Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5; 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6; 2 p.m., Dec. 7. Sooner Theatre, 101 E. Main St., Norman, 321-9600, soonertheatre.com. FRI-SUN

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OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE REBATE. Canterbury Christmas Much like a nice smoked ham and, if you’re like us, heavily spiked eggnog, Canterbury Choral Society’s annual Christmas concert has become a holiday tradition. And for the second consecutive year, Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and Christmas Connection will be on hand to accept canned nonperishable food and unwrapped toy donations. The 125-member concert is 7 p.m. Sunday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $5-$55. Call 232-7464 or visit canterburyokc.com.

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Hip Hop Nutcracker, twist on traditional Nutcracker with contemporary and hip-hop dance, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5-6; 2 p.m., Dec. 7. Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, 801 NW 50th St., 842-6638. FRI-SUN

Celebrations, exhibit showcasing acrylic painters Sue Hale, Dana Powell and Mary Howard along with glass artist Nicki Albright. In Your Eye Studio & Gallery, 3005-A Paseo St., 525-2161, inyoureyegallery.com.

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Christmas at the Elms, drawings and prints by artist Timothy Chapman and other talented artists. JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., 528-6336, jrbartgallery.com.

Guided Meditation Classes, classes designed for people interested in connecting to the divine through the art of mindful meditation, 7-8 p.m., Dec. 3. Labyrinth Temple, 417 NW 25th St., facebook.com/ LabyrinthTempleOKC. WED Tai Chi: Moving for Better Balance, informative and interactive class to help reduce falls and improve physical function and balance, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Dec. 5. PACER Fitness Center, 5520 N. Independence Ave., 949-3891. FRI Little Willie’s Triple Dog Dare, stair-climbing race to the top and back down to the bottom, Oklahoma Tower and Leadership Square South Tower, 8 a.m., Dec. 6. Leadership Square, 211 N. Robinson Ave., 235-0877. SAT Oklahoma Sooners vs. OSU Cowboys, college football, Dec. 6. Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, 180 W. Brooks St., Norman, 325-8200, soonersports.com. SAT OKC Thunder vs. Milwaukee Bucks, NBA basketball, 7 p.m., Dec. 9. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 602-8700, nba.com/thunder. TUE

VISUAL ARTS Art in Recycled Trash (A.R.T.) Show, features pieces of recycled and upcycled art turning trash into treasures. Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, 900 W. Main St., 235-3700, oklahomashakespeare.org. As Yet Untamed, showcase of art by O. Gail Poole, one of Oklahoma’s most influential and accomplished artists. Artspace at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd St., 815-9995, artspaceatuntitled.org.

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Connie Seabourn, contemporary artist known for her watercolors and bright, bold screen printing. 50 Penn Place Gallery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, Ste. 119-R, 848-5567, 50pennplacegallery.com. espongo i miei sentimenti, exhibition of new work by OKC-based artist, designer, architect and builder Larry Dean Pickering. Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery, NW 27th St. and Blackwelder Ave. Journey of a Self-Taught Artist, exhibit by Joeallen Gibson demonstrates the evolution of techniques and the changes in his style of works as he matures over the years after becoming a full time artist. Paseo Art Space, 3022 Paseo St., 525-2688, thepaseo.com. Melton Legacy Collection, a collection spanning more than 500 years of European and American oil paintings and drawings. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University, Edmond, 974-2000, uco.edu. OKC125, 125 artists were given a disposable camera and 125 minutes to take photos of anything they wanted within the boundaries of downtown Oklahoma City. The Underground, 101 Park Ave., 235-3500, downtownokc.com. Roots, exhibit of freestanding and wall-mounted metal sculptures made of found objects by Jim Dodson, Jr. Governor’s Gallery, Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 521-2931, arts.ok.gov. The Animal Kingdom, clayboard etchings by Linda Hiller on Masonite board with a layer of clay, covered with ink and then etched by hand. The Summer Wine Art Gallery, 2928 B Paseo St., 831-3279, summerwinegallery.com.

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Dodger Day It’s a new era in Oklahoma City Redhawks baseball. Rather than being affiliated with those stinky Houston Astros, the local AAA minor league team is now a subsidiary of one of baseball’s most storied franchises: the Los Angeles Dodgers. To celebrate, the organization will hold Dodger Day, featuring a handful of Redhawk-themed activities and guest appearances. The event kicks off at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive. Admission is free. Call 218-1000 or visit okcredhawks.com.

Wednesday, Dec. 3 These Are Not Your Grandmother’s Florals, artwork by Jerry Piper features oil and water paintings. The Purple Loft Art Gallery, 514 NW 28th St., Suite 400, 412-7066.

Urban Sketching Class, artist Natalie Kent leads you in creating a charcoal sketch of the Crystal Bridge, 10-11:30 a.m., Dec. 9. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, myriadgardens.org. TUE

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but I also think it’s the most indulgent. Do you need some food to jumpstart your brain and body for the day ahead? Absolutely. But what does your day ahead really look like? If you’re like me, you probably spend more time sitting in front of a computer than you do on your feet. The heaviest thing I have to lift most days is my butt off a chair. The farthest I have to walk is from the car to the office and back. How many calories does that really require? But there are folks who need a stick-to-your-ribs breakfast. The kind of people who are going to burn off the kind of calories you get from a big plate of biscuits and gravy, fried eggs and hash browns in their daily jobs are exactly the ones who need to know about breakfast at Cattlemen’s Steakhouse, 1309 S. Agnew Ave. “Cattlemen’s Steakhouse,” you say to your friend who is not reading the paper. “Isn’t that a place for steak?” Yeah, that’s why the owners call it a steakhouse. It’s in Stockyards City, where you can find many western-wear stores and also cows. Have you ever eaten at a steakhouse? It doesn’t just serve steaks. “OK. No need to get hostile,” you say as your friend silently sets up an

intervention for you. Well, I’m sorry that I flew off the handle. Cattlemen’s is a different kind of steakhouse. It’s informal, so it doesn’t really shock me to find that it makes a mean sausage gravy and knows its way around an omelet. That said, if you’re at Cattlemen’s right now, you are probably considering steak and eggs for breakfast. You can go crazy and get a porterhouse or any of its other big steaks, or you can get a smaller breakfast steak with eggs for just $9.50. Unlike many diners, Cattlemen’s knows how to treat a steak right, so you’re going to get a cooked-toorder piece of meat that is tender and flavorful. It’s a hell of a deal. There are also some standards you ought to try. The pancakes and bacon ($5.50) are perfect. Two nice, big flapjacks come to your table golden brown and piping hot. Take some butter and watch it melt and soak in, and then go over the whole mess with warm syrup. You won’t be sorry. And the bacon — thank Snouty, Pagan God of Pigs — is done just the way I like it: crisp, but still with a nice, meaty chew. A little less traditional, at least for me, is calf brains and eggs ($7.75). Yes. That’s a thing. “How do brains taste, Greg?” They don’t. They’re scrambled in

Take some butter and watch it melt and soak in, and then go over the whole mess with warm syrup.

Breakfast is served at Cattlemen’s, including a sausage and mushroom omelette with home fries.

with the eggs and impart a slightly watery texture but no discernable flavor. If you get this, I assume it’s just because you want to tell people you ate brains. Add salt and pepper to make it better, Tabasco if that’s your thing. On the side, you get hash browns or home fries (get the hash browns) and a choice of toast or biscuit and gravy (get the biscuit and gravy). For something a little more portable, the toaster sandwiches are a good choice. The egg, ham and cheese ($5.25) slaps scrambled eggs, some real seared ham and cheese between two pieces of toast. It’s simple but satisfying. I was probably most impressed with the sausage and mushroom omelet ($6.75). I mean, aside from a great little steak, I thought this was the standout dish of the menu. This is a true diner omelet, not the French kind, so get ready for an egg pancake folded

over some toppings. In this case, the mushrooms are sautéed, giving them a meaty flavor and texture. The sausage is crumbled and cooked, draining away most of the grease and leaving you with a very tasty breakfast treat. You also get your choice of potatoes and bread, of course, though you know where my heart lies. If you’re in the mood for more food, and I know you probably are, there’s a breakfast buffet 8-11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. It’s your standard fare: scrambled eggs, meats galore, fruit and cinnamon rolls. I saw a man take down at least a half dozen buffet cinnamon rolls when I ate there. These are not small cinnamon rolls. R.I.P. Cinnamon Roll Guy, because you are absolutely dead by now. “That’s kind of unfair, Greg.” You’re right, but there’s no time to discuss that now. Your friends are here to take you to mental health facility. Ask them to stop by Cattlemen’s on the way, though. Everybody deserves a good breakfast.

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Yes, it’s true. Oklahoma has an official state meal. Approved in 1988 by the 41st Legislature, it includes muchloved Southern home-cooked favorites. The official dishes are fried okra, squash, cornbread, barbecue pork, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, black-eyed peas, chicken-fried steak, strawberries and pecan pie. In the 1800s, pork and corn were staple foods on the frontier. Native American staples included corn, squash and black-eyed peas, a variety of cowpea. Okra has possible African origins and is believed to have been brought over by 17th-century slaves. These and other foods reflect the culinary mélange over time in the American South. The list of much-adored dishes comprising the state meal is what tugs at the heartstrings of Oklahomans and their appetites. The Tuesday and Sunday specials menu at The Boulevard Cafeteria, 525 NW 11th St., offer a hearty chicken-fried steak with buttered potatoes and gravy ($8.80). It’s served from a serving line — cafeteria-style — and you can pair it with buttered sweet corn. Everyday items include green beans, Harvard beets, glazed carrots and buttered spinach. This family-run restaurant has been in business since 1947 and has a menu that reads like a grocery list for

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A half-rack of barbecue pork ribs at Kd’s Southern Cuisine, served with mashed red potatoes and black-eyed peas. grandma’s Sunday dinners, and its menu items are prepared fresh daily. Its signature dessert, the pecan pie, is dense and sweet in a melt-inyour-mouth pie crust. Whole pies also can be ordered in advance for special occasions. If you’re hankering for chicken-fried steak for lunch, Good Gravy Diner, 8014 N. Western Ave., will serve it to you. Its chicken-fried steak sandwich ($9.99) is enormous. True to tradition, the chicken-fried steak is three times the size of the sandwich bun and eating it requires a knife and fork. The steak, generously cloaked in peppery, breaded comfort, comes with lettuce, tomatoes and french fries on the side. And as a topping, expect gravy. Depending on the day of the week, there can be up to 47 varieties available, from sausage to veggie jalapeño bacon. (An additional small side of gravy is only $1.29 if you can’t make up your mind.) And lunch specials include dessert. To honor part of the official state meal at breakfast, order the Good Gravy! ($9.99). This is a hearty start to your day: large biscuits covered with gravy, sausage, hash browns and two

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Stuck at the office during a lunchtime meeting? Let’s Do Greek, 120 N. Robinson Ave., 228-0017 caters. Order and pick up early to feed your crew a fine meal, even if that crew demands finger food. A dozen spanakopita, or spinach pie, wedges cost $10.99 and are made with fresh, sautéed spinach, scallions, olive oil, feta and egg in phyllo dough. For the vegetarians, dolmas, or grape leaves stuffed with rice, herbs and veggies, are $7.99 a dozen. Oregano chicken is breaded and tossed with grilled onions, herbs, lemon juice, virgin

olive oil and its spice sauce for $10.99 a pound. For heartier eaters, gourmeh sabzi beef stew includes simmered, braised meat, sautéed herbs, shambalileh leaves and lime at $6.99 a pint.

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Cafe 501 just got a little more cozy. “We have changed our Saturday breakfast and Sunday brunch menus to provide more cold weather options and guest favorites specials,” said Margaret Holloway, manager of the Classen Curve location, 5825 NW Grand Blvd. New items on the breakfast and brunch menus include biscuits and debris with sausage gravy, grilled ham, crispy potatoes and cheese and chicken and waffles. For lunch, the menu includes a meatloaf sandwich and green chile sour cream enchiladas. Sound good? To find out about hours and reservations, visit cafe501.com. Nonna’s closes

In order to spend more time with her family and her devotion to nonprofit work, Avis Scaramucci, owner of Nonna’s Euro-American Ristorante & Bar, is closing the restaurant at the end of the year.

This is after almost a decade in Bricktown at 1 Mickey Mantle Drive and 19 years since she opened her shop The Painted Door on N. Western Avenue. Scaramucci will continue to operate The Painted Door, but the adjacent restaurant and bar will close. According to a newsok.com report, the owner gave staff members severance packages to ease the transition. In 2005, when Nonna’s moved into the warehouse in Bricktown, most of the surrounding real estate was unoccupied. With Nonna’s elegant food and uncompromising quality, Scaramucci helped transform the neighborhood. Nonna’s was an anchor for the rest of Bricktown, giving owners confidence to move in and try something new.

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This longtime resident of downtown OKC is a blend of classic Greek food and Americana, diner style. The food is tasty, fresh and affordable. The gyro plate with a Greek salad and house-made baklava will leave you more than satisfied, which is perfect because you also can burn off the extra calories downtown by snow tubing or ice-skating.

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Buck the trend of eating only what’s new and revisit La Luna, founded in 1983. We promise you’ll be happy you did. For starters, you’ll get complimentary queso, a rarity these days. The fajitas are excellent: tender, with a hint of sweetness served sizzling hot. There is nothing on the menu that we wouldn’t recommend. And look up once in a while, as there are plenty of interesting things to see on the walls.

This barbecue joint knows the best way to eat and serve barbecue. Combine those with great customer service and a relaxed atmosphere and you’re at Blu’s. Grab plenty of napkins and relax in the chill environment that also serves some of the best burgers town. The brisket is fork-tender, and the hot sauce doesn’t mess around.

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Like gold at the end of the proverbial rainbow, this tiny bistro is hidden in the concourse in the system of tunnels underground downtown. Although there is a menu, the star is the buffet. It is a great value with tasty, fresh items replenished regularly. You might also have fun exploring the tunnels when you’re done; the concourse is like a time capsule filled with art and snippets of OKC history.

This is a lovely part of the local Sweis brothers’ empire. It was rebuilt after a fire destroyed most of the restaurant in 2008. Now the eatery has a brisk breakfast and lunch business with its share of regulars. The gyro plate is easily one of the best in town. Add a side of hummus and slather it on your gyro and dip your extra pita in it. You won’t find a fresher pita either; they are made down the street at the Sweis’ Pita Bakery.

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This unusual joint is a clever ploy to attract sushi lovers and sports lovers alike. The food is delicious, varied and well-prepared. There are also housemade pretzels at the bar. If you’re not comfortable eating sushi in public, just ask the sushi chef or your server for some tips. We promise they won’t laugh at you, and you might even learn some new tricks.

Founded in Stillwater in 1957, the smalltown, family-owned pizza joint is the pride and joy of Stillwater (and OKC). It just added a prime rib pizza to its line of specials. This one is a dreamy combination of garlic glaze, prime rib, mushrooms and bleu cheese crumbles — there are no subtle flavors in this pizza. Another favorite specialty is the Big Country, with polish sausage, pepperoni and Canadian bacon. It was named one of the 50 best pizza pies worth traveling for by The Food Network.

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Poetic residence Skirvin Hilton Hotel provides a place for a poet and artist to find peace and produce work. BY ADAM HOLT

Along the west side of the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City, you will find a spacious room naturally lit by six large windows below striped awnings, inviting the peering eyes of the public. Inside sits a table with a black tablecloth underneath colorful, handmade journals. Hanging from the edge of the table is a poster board sign reading “Free Poems.” It is flanked on its right by another sign that says “Poetry Stand.” Both are written in colored markers. On the wall behind the table are marbled wood panels, each scrawled with poetry. There is an innocence to the setup, much like a child’s lemonade stand or something you might find at an elementary school festival. It is here where Kerri Shadid, the hotel’s newest artist-in-residence, will create work with help from the hotel patrons and community. Shadid, a 30-year-old poet and freelance writer, uses a blend of unusual syntax, interactivity and spontaneity in her art. It all began with the simple idea of a poetry stand. “A lot of my work is about surprising the viewer,” Shadid said. “I ask someone if they would like a free poem. They give me a word, and I write the a poem in three minutes.” The poetry is often based in word play and absurdism, an idea that the

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Artist Kerri Shadid works on poetry in her new studio at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel. Shadid will have a one-year residency there. tendency of humans to find meaning in life will ultimately fail due to the vast information and realm we will never know. Shadid’s take is to enjoy life rather than look for answers that are impossible to know. She has taken the stand to events such as the Oklahoma City Storytelling Festival, Live on the Plaza and the Paseo’s First Friday gallery walk. It was extremely popular. She was encouraged by another artist to apply for the residency at the Skirvin. The program, which began in 2012, is the result of a partnership between the Skirvin and the Paseo Arts Association. Both parties take part in choosing the resident artist. Brett Sundstrom, general manager of the Skirvin, believes the residency not only elevates patrons’ experience but also helps the city’s arts community. “This program is very important to the Skirvin. We are proud to be supporting local artists,” Sundstrom said. “Also, it’s not very often you can come to a hotel and visit with an artist. It provides some soul to the hotel.” Shadid is the third artist-inresidence at the Skirvin. The first was

By Kerri Shadid For the Paseo Arts Awards Dinner Nov. 12, 2014 On the map they trace their way from New York to LA— They may miss that we are more than a Cultural fly-over state. But those of us who make our art In this red-dirt land Know that culture is fertile here, Grows like wheat from our skilled hands. In this state those who Create never are left in the cold, We support each other here, Weave a blanket to help us be bold In our decision to embrace a role Filled with scary uncertainty, But one we know is necessary To keep society thinking free. Thank you for overseeing the arts Organizations—Our greatest assets— That make possible life as an artist here

Romy Owens, an Oklahoma Citybased multimedia artist. During her tenure, she created abstract mosaics by hand-stitching photographs together. Arsenios Corbishley, a local musician and luthier who spent his residency building stringed instruments, followed Owens. Owens, who is friends with Shadid, was the artist who encouraged her to apply. “I think Kerri is talented and very personable,” Owens said. “Her poetry stand has been a huge hit at public events, and she’s making visual art that compliments it well. The Skirvin and downtown community will love Kerri.” The visual aspect of Shadid’s art

With less financial and emotional distress. Thank you for bringing in films that help us Question the human condition, And open the door for conversation And teach us how to truly listen. Thank you for giving us ballet and dance That lifts spirits in a presage for the heart, Each of your gifts add bright new strands To our cultural blanket of art— That grows and changes every year as New threats connect each innovative part. And thank you Paseo for making a home For decades past and decades to come For all of us who would rather create Than live a life accepting the humdrum. Working together we keep on building A more vibrant, imaginative city, Those fly-by planes can’t stand not to land With the force of our creativity.

will be a large part of the Passing Through project she will create during her tenure. The work will be composed of books, marbleized wood panels and collages resulting from the poems she writes for patrons who “pass through” her studio. Shadid is eager to begin the project and her stay at the studio. “I’m thrilled. You don’t know what can happen,” she said. “Things I can’t even foresee. I’m excited.” below Kerri Shadid, Skirvin Hilton’s artist-in-residence, creates poems on paintings, shown here on the wall of her Skirvin studio.

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Ronald D. Jordan II knows how to make an entrance. No one would ever accuse him of trying to blend in and go with the flow. That’s why we found ourselves talking outside a neighborhood 7-Eleven for nearly half an hour. It was his tie that started it. It was red plaid and stood out like a holiday light bulb. Jordan makes them by hand in his house. And for a very reasonable price, he’ll make you one, too. “I got my start because what I was seeing, everything was really plain. I couldn’t find it, it wouldn’t fit and they were very general, very plain. And that’s not me. I don’t walk the line,” he said. He hatched a plan to make his own and primarily help other big and tall men as well. He didn’t know how to sew, but most of his family was handy around a sewing machine and he figured it couldn’t be too hard. “It just clicked, and I figured it was something I could do and help out the community. What I’ve learned is that more average or normal size men order bow ties, but big and tall is still something that is a passion of mine,” he said. It started when people started complimenting him on them. Then they would ask where he got it. So he called it Knotted Bow Ties and printed up business cards, and then the custom orders started rolling in. Now that the holidays are here, his orders have increased. He also has an Internet storefront, and just about everything you see is ready to ship. You can shop there, or you can get ideas about what you want. He also makes a women’s and a children’s line of bow ties. When it comes to seeking out the fabric, he’s all over the map. He seeks out home interior fabric and sweater knits along with other unexpected patterns and colors. “I go to fabric shows, and I’ve picked up some unique pieces that people wouldn’t think would make a good bow tie, but it just works,” he said. The quality of workmanship is immediately noticeable, which is something that has also become very cool to appreciate. “Everybody has gotten back into the notion of being an individual — people are absolutely loving, that they can

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Ronald D. Jordan II finishes tying one of his custom-made bow ties. contact me and say they like this but can they get it like that,” he said. Jordan is also working on a stock of ready-made ties. However, everything is in limited quantities because there is so much that he wants to do and he still wants to provide a unique product for his customers. For custom orders, there is typically a seven- to 10-day turnaround. How does he find the time for this labor of love? He just does. “Outside of being my day job, my job of being a coach, being a father, being a husband, it takes up all the other hours in my day, but my girls are my cheerleaders,” he said. He has a larger clientele outside of OKC right now, so he ships the majority of them, but when it’s possible, he likes to deliver them. He has had recent hotbeds of orders in Atlanta, Dallas, Michigan, Ohio and Albany, New York. “I also just shipped my first international piece to China, and they found out about me on Instagram,” he said. For a custom piece, the easiest way to start the conversation is to email knottedbowties@gmail.com. To visit the storefront, go to knottedbowties. storeenvy.com.

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With a burgeoning reawakening in men’s fashion across OKC, an unlikely necessity might reign as king of the wardrobe. BY CARISSA STEVENS

Men’s fashion in Oklahoma City has undergone a renaissance. Overnight, men have turned from scruffy bohemians into sophisticated gentlemen. Yesterday’s wadded-up cargo short/tank ensembles have been thrown to the wayside. Instead, men are opting for well-tailored suits, jackets and properly fitting pants. “It’s just simply a more dapper look these days for men,” said Taylor Hanna, local designer and co-founder of The Clad Stache located in The Shop on 8th and thecladstache.com. “Women like men who look good and look like they take care of themselves.” With sophisticated digs come sophisticated accouterments — like classic bow ties, neckties or pocket squares in a playful floral or camouflage pattern. However, one item that is gaining popularity is the dress sock. But these aren’t your dad’s dress socks; these socks come in luxurious cashmere or a brightly patterned hue. “From simply throwing on a pair of socks that compliment our suit or outfit, it lets us look different than our fellow co-workers and friends,” said Hanna. “Socks, for example, used to be a mundane men’s accessory that have gotten an incredible boost in style lately. No longer is it just enough to wear a pair of plaid or solid black socks. Companies like Richer Poorer and Happy Socks have shown us that we can put anything on them ... and that our feet can look just as good as the rest of our bodies.” Hanna specializes in unique, custom-made bow ties, neckties and pocket squares. But he said he has a couple of sock orders in the works for the shop.

Stylish men’s socks are trending right now and you can find them at various boutiques throughout the metro area, including Blue Seven, where these socks are located. He realized the need existed for more unique accessories after he first started getting into the dapper look several years ago. Now, it’s 2014, and things have changed. Shops like Spencer Stone Company, 6492 Avondale Drive, or Steven Giles, 5850 N. Classen Blvd., have a wide selection of brightly colored socks and other accessories, as do many stores around the metro. Inside OKC’s Blue Seven and Local OK boutique, 7518 N. May Ave., socks occupy their own stand-alone rack between the denim room and the women’s section. It’s not an easy area to miss with each side displaying a sock in every possible color or pattern. “Right now, we carry close to 300 different styles of socks,” said Jacob Peregrin, Blue Seven’s menswear and denim buyer. “The majority of sock sales do come from men.” Peregrin said the trend has steadily increased over the last three years. For every 10 pairs of men’s socks sold, he estimates they sell one pair of women’s. This explained the mini women’s sock wall situated toward the back. Although there were several designs and colors to choose from, it is no question that socks are not a priority for women like they have become for men. Peregrin said the fan favorite is the timeless cashmere, sold for around $35. “They are like a massage for your feet,” he said.

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Pop to shop This exhibition has been organized by the Tampa Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg and curated by Barbara Pollack.

Holiday Pop-Up Shops give business owners opportunities to experiment. BY BEN FELDER

Birdhead (Chinese, founded 2004). The Light of Eternity No. 3 (detail), 2012. Black and white inkjet print. © Birdhead, courtesy of the artists and ShanghART Gallery Shanghai.

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For many independent retailers, the annual Holiday Pop-Up Shops in Midtown offer a chance to test products and experiment with a retail store. Each weekend through Christmas, dozens of businesses will set up inside geodesic domes at the corner of 10th Street and Hudson Avenue, giving shoppers a chance to support small and local businesses. “The Pop-Up Shop gave us a lot of confidence [to open an actual store],” said Carrie Parker, owner of Always Greener, 7316 N. Western Ave., which sells synthetic grass for yards, mats and other products. Parker said she did without a physical storefront during her first few years as a business, but she always thought a brickand-mortar shop would be beneficial. “There came a point where we were running all over and we thought we were losing out on business because we didn’t have a store that customers could visit,” Parker said. “We did the Pop-Up Shops last year, and it went so well for us that it gave us the confidence to open an actual store.” Sara Kate Huff, owner of Sara Kate Studios, is another business owner who decided to open a physical location after experimenting with the Pop-Up Shops. “Participating [in the Pop-Up Shops] for two years allowed me to grow slowly and test my pieces,” Huff said. “The first year, I was curious if someone in Oklahoma City would be interested in what I had to sell, and people were.” Huff said the Pop-Up Shops also allowed her to learn point-of-sale systems and how to track inventory. This summer, she opened her own studio in

Sara Kate Huff, owner of Sara Kate Studios in Automobile Alley, with a chair she brought in from New York. Automobile Alley. “I think that it’s a good experience for any start-up retailer to participate in,” said Pop-Up Shop organizer Allison Bailey. “Due to the limited space, shops have to focus their products for the audience that will be visiting the event, something they should be constantly considering even in a larger, more permanent space.” Bailey also works as a consultant for local independent retailers and believes the Pop-Up Shops give prospective retail owners the chance to see what it takes to operate a regular storefront. “Working a retail shop can be hard work, [and] participating as a pop-up might help make a decision on whether a shop concept should be a permanent establishment or something that is done on an occasional basis for events,” Bailey said. In the few years that the Pop-Up Shops have operated, several businesses have either launched physical stores or expanded after participating. In addition to Sara Kate Studios and Always Greener, Urbane Home & Lifestyle and Chirps & Cheers are other participants who have moved to larger locations. Business owners also say the PopUp Shops allow them to interact with customers who are interested in shopping local and appreciate unique items. “I think the cool people of Oklahoma City come to this,” Parker said.

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Deep swank GA RE TT FI S BE C K

A new men’s clothing boutique wants to be more than just a store where you can buy things.

BY CARISSA STEVENS

In a market abundant in women’s clothing stores, the modern-day haberdashery seems to be growing in popularity around the metro. From Weldon Jack and Trade Men’s Wares to Spencer Stone Company and Steven Giles, menswear-only shops might have found their niche as well as their market share in Oklahoma City. Slim, 1 NE Second St., is also staking its claim too, but it wants to be more than just a clothing store. Set to open in January, the shop is designed to attract the young working professional. “The pieces we carry will transition our clients from their office to their after 5 p.m. event or cocktail hour,” said Bono Stewart, co-owner of Slim. The shirts, for example, will come in classic colors and fits to highlight the individual’s physique. However, once

unbuttoned, they will show off pops of color and pattern under the collar or beneath the sleeves. All pieces are sourced from manufacturers in Italy or Montreal, Quebec. Other than one-of-a-kind shirts, suits and shoes, the boutique will also offer something unlike any other in the metro. Believing it isn’t about what you know but who you know, Stewart hopes to build the boutique into a space where clients can network, grab a drink, hang out and peruse the latest in men’s fashion and accessories. Stewart is a stalwart when it comes to networking, as he also manages Midtown After 5, a networking group for young professionals. When he took the role of lead organizer, the association had around 100 members. Now, it boasts more than 800.

Other retailers like April McLaughlin, owner of Flux Salon and Lumen Light Bar & Boutique next door, looks forward to the opening and Stewart’s vision of growing a tight-knit downtown business community. “We are especially excited to partner on some upcoming parties and events once they open,” McLaughlin said. Aside from the opportunity to network, clients can also choose to take part in a subscription-based program. For a monthly fee, a range of goods is delivered right to the member’s doorstep. From socks and pocket squares to suits custom-tailored to the member’s measurements, there’s sure to be something to strike any man’s fancy. The design of the store is also catered to suit its demographic. “Men tend to have a different approach

Bono Stewart, co-owner of Slim boutique, works in his Oklahoma City store, which is still under construction. to the shopping experience,” said Anh Weber, of HSEarchitects, who helped concept and design the project. Men generally don’t enjoy the shopping experience. The vision is to make it easy by making it simple. “It’s not only about style and quality but also efficiency,” Weber said. Weber noted that Slim will be different, as it will serve a dual purpose. “In addition to featuring retail, we envisioned a space that could be functional for specialty and private events. So it was important that the design be easily transitional,” Weber said.

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A Territorial Christmas Carol

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Pollard Theatre’s long-running A Territorial Christmas Carol remains a pleasingly consistent Oklahoma staple. BY LARRY LANEER

A Territorial Christmas Carol 8 p.m. Thursday–Friday; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday Through Dec. 21 The Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie thepollard.org 282-2800 $27.25

It’s hard to believe this is the 27th year for Pollard Theatre Company’s A Territorial Christmas Carol, the adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic set in territorial Oklahoma, so this might be a good time to revisit the play and see how it’s doing. To paraphrase Dickens, the production is neither the best of times nor the worst of times. One wonders how director W. Jerome Stevenson and his creative team and cast keep the show fresh year after year. I noticed a few minor alterations since seeing it seven years ago, but in large part, the production seems unchanged. It’s still played on Gary May’s scenic design with a raked stage and two turntables that keep the action moving. Whether the production stands up to repeat viewing depends on if you prefer sticking with the familiar or like to be adventurous in theatergoing. The adaptation by Stephen P. Scott includes much local color. Scrooge’s office is in Guthrie. Boomers, Langston and Cottonwood Creek make appearances. Scott’s version of Scrooge is crueler than Dickens’ in his parsimoniousness. The Oklahoma Scrooge seems to relish foreclosing on widows and Civil War veterans for the sheer sport of it. He raises his cane, albeit in jest after being reformed, as if to strike his clerk, Bob Cratchit.

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In his estimated (no one at Pollard knows for sure) 15th year playing Scrooge, James Ong brings a grizzled gruffness to the part, which fits the setting. This Scrooge is not the businessman of Dickens’ London; he’s a pioneer eking out a living in a rough land. Ong tends to mug at times, but in this production, he, for the most part, stays in character. His Scrooge makes a credible transformation from curmudgeon to philanthropist. Ong is one of Oklahoma’s longtime actors who has played a host of leading and supporting roles. It would be interesting if Pollard could find another drama or comedy to feature him. Other actors give solid performances. Jared Blount plays the Ghost of Christmas Present and others ranging from sincere to creepy. Joshua McGowen is appealing as both Scrooge’s nephew and the undertaker who buries him. The reliable Gwendolyn Evans does a fine job as a widow plagued by Scrooge and the maid who steals the shirt off his dead back. Trinity Goodwin gives a solid performance as the Ghost of Christmas Past. Whether set in 19th-century London or territorial Oklahoma, A Christmas Carol contains certain universal truths. My favorite scene is when the Ghost of Christmas Present admonishes Scrooge (and, at the same time, the rest of us) to beware Want and Ignorance, especially the latter (personified by two child actors). Dickens’ words remain as relevant today as they were when he took his pen and set them to paper well over a century ago.

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Third Annual Winter Festivus 7:30 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday; 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday Broadway Theater 914 N. Broadway Ave. okcimprov.com 456-9858 $10

OKC Improv rings in the holidays with laughter at its annual Festivus celebration, now in its third year. The two nights of performances will showcase a variety of local improv comedy groups. Friday night will feature the highenergy physical comedy of Smack Smack Sniff, political satire from Red State Blue State, 400 years of accumulated wit of The Artful Codgers and Heel Turn, whose deft scene work earned them stage time at the Chicago Improv Festival earlier this year. This weekend also marks OKC Improv’s fifth anniversary. Managing Director Sue Ellen Reiman is proud of the scene that has been built in conjunction with hundreds of performers and students in dozens of groups, all putting their own unique spin on this impromptu art form. Reiman said that the biggest surprise has been the generosity of the improv community, whose work on stage and off has powered the local scene. “It’s impressive how much time and effort they have all given,” Reiman said. “Several of our performers and students are now teaching their own classes, both with OKC Improv and independently. More improv creates

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Comedy troupe Heel Turn will perform as part of OKC Improv’s Winter Festivus. better skills and more variety in everyone’s work.” One of OKC Improv’s longeststanding goals was realized this year when the organization was finally granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status from the IRS. After years of waiting in bureaucratic purgatory, Reiman finally received an acceptance letter this spring. Before they could celebrate, a second letter followed hours later, revoking the status on a paperwork technicality. Reiman quickly submitted the requested documents. After more months of waiting, she discovered that her efforts had been successful; the status had been reinstated, but the IRS never bothered to notify OKC Improv. Having successfully navigated the labyrinthine process, OKC Improv is now able to accept tax-deductible donations and apply for grants that will dramatically increase the scope of what it can do, including more public performances, doing more classes and workshops in local schools and eventually opening its own venue. While Reiman is responsible for the day-to-day running of OKC Improv, she still takes great pleasure in the work she does on stage. “As many other players will tell you,” Reiman said, “it’s incredible satisfying to work with a group of friends in front of a thoroughly entertained audience and create a temporary, but beautiful, piece of performance art.”

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As winter weather starts reaching an aching arm down the plains, Myriad Botanical Gardens has packed up its splash pad and opened up Devon Ice Rink. The Nov. 14 opening was the kickoff of the Downtown in December celebration, which offers many opportunities for winter wonder in the metro throughout the holiday season. “The rink is just one more thing that happens at Myriad Botanical Gardens that really establishes the gardens as downtown OKC’s yard. It’s just a great place to ... see others in the community, get some fresh air and a little bit of exercise, and have a great time together,” said Christine Eddington, director of communications and marketing at Myriad Botanical Gardens. From 6 to 9 p.m. every Friday night, the rink presents Rock N Skate. A live DJ will mix up the music so guests can show off their impressive moves on the ice. When the skating gets fancy, the crowd gets hungry, and that’s where The Park House restaurant comes in. It is open seven days a week, and guests can take a break while they watch the skating entertainment through the restaurant’s glass walls. The Ice Cube truck will also be parked by the rink to offer snack bar items.

Students with their parents and others from the John W. Rex Downtown Elementary School enjoy Devon Ice Rink at Myriad Botanical Gardens. The ice rink is made possible by Devon’s $42 million donation to renovate Myriad Botanical Gardens. When Devon Energy Center was under construction, then-CEO J. Larry Nichols set up the gardens as a beneficiary of the project. Skaters can visit the ice rink 3 to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 3 to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. It costs $12 for all ages to skate, including skate rentals. Myriad Botanical Gardens members receive a discounted price of $7. If guests bring their own skates, skating time only costs $8. From 6 to 9 p.m. on Sundays in December, guests can visit Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory for free. The bridge of tropical foliage is decorated with holiday lights, and ten-foot snowflakes dangle from the ceiling. Every Saturday until Christmas, visitors to the gardens can enjoy free admission through Devon’s Saturdays with Santa. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., families can experience performances, crafts, treats and displays located at Myriad Botanical Gardens. For customizable group skating party rates, call 708-6499. Myriad Botanical Gardens is located at 301 W. Reno Ave., and the rink will remain open until Feb. 1.

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10. Luna Moth – “67 Moons” Try as they might, countless bands have failed to emit a wistful and breezy tone without being overly sentimental about it. Luna Moth’s “67 Moons” is reminiscent of another Norman band, Evangelicals, in that it longs as much as it bounces — it’s an effervescent pop jewel that packs an unassumingly poignant punch. But when frontman Joey Paz sings, “You’re the one,” through his seemingly acerbic snarl, the song acquires a uniquely isolated slacker-rock aesthetic and the praise for his subject almost seems feigned. As straightforward as the composition is, it’s deceptively complex in other, less discernible ways. — Zach Hale 9. Glow God – “Numb” Tough but inviting is a fiendish combination to pull off, but local deities of grunge Glow God manage just that in “Numb,” a throbbing, sweaty jam splashed in Bleach-era Nirvana that practically smells like spilled beer and body odor. A head-banger to the nth degree, “Numb” — from the band’s album House of Distraction — isn’t just pure testosterone and adrenaline; there’s an intellect to it even as the brain rattles against its skull. It’s a purposeful release of pent-up steam and buried aggression that’s as cathartic to listen to as it must be to play. — Joshua Boydston 8. Elms – “Change My Mind” If you have a weapon like Chelsey Cope’s potently brawny voice in your arsenal, common sense suggests you pair it with an equally robust band, and her newly acquired mates in Elms are a logical fit for the Oklahoma City singer-songwriter. “Change My Mind,” however, finds Cope stripped down to

her compositional and emotional core. The song’s austere instrumentation is as delicate it is methodical, with lavish guitar strums and stately strings as expressive as Cope’s words. It’s her most meticulously crafted song to date, but it’s also her prettiest — an even more lethal combination. — ZH 7. Power Pyramid – “Blue” Power Pyramid has been masterful with its music all along; the band’s 2013 debut The God Drums was already on par with the work of a peer of My Blood Valentine and Slowdive, not someone who aspired to be them one day. Enraptured and blushingly sweet, the five-piece makes a massive leap forward with “Blue” all the same. When incremental refinement might have been more expected on its self-titled followup, Power Pyramid’s songwriting here is its most emotionally affecting work to date — it’s a song that channels in through your heart and streams through the veins, clear down to the fingertips. — JB 6. IndianGiver – “Deep Deep Deep” IndianGiver does a lot of things well, so it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what makes the Oklahoma City art-folk act so alluring. Between its captivating harmonies, whimsical arrangements, cavernous guitars, heart-melting horns and lyrical depth, “Deep Deep Deep” is in many ways the consummate IndianGiver song. An earthy, contemporary form of doowop, the opening track from the band’s Understudies EP taps into a wholly individualized sound, demonstrating with unbridled clarity how this young and technically proficient band is maturing at such a rapid pace. — ZH

5. Horse Thief – “I Don’t Mind” Fear in Bliss was a maturation for Horse Thief, an album built on nuanced, studied songwriting and subtle flourishes that fixated on the folk end of their freak-folk past. “I Don’t Mind,” though, is given the longest leash on that tightly controlled record, allowing it plenty of room to move. The most indulgent and dynamic album moment, the richly arranged and executed entry effortlessly skies high, plunges deep and sprints far and wide in a head rush of momentous, monumental natural beauty that leaves you breathless. — JB 4. Boare – “Playdatshit” While not without its experimental fringes, Oklahoma music has traditionally culled its inspiration from decades past. But Boare and his Safari Collective cohorts are trying to change that with music as forward-thinking as anything to come out of this state not named The Soft Bulletin. Foregoing your Merle Haggards and Woody Guthries, “Playdatshit” is instead informed by acts like Aphex Twin and Clams Casino — a swirling club banger designed to get the floor moving and woofers bumping. But despite its dance sensibilities, it’s also a heady, complex amalgam of sounds that resembles little else being made around these parts. — ZH 3. Skating Polly – “Alabama Movies” Punk duo Skating Polly has been fighting the novelty label since its inception. All the spiritual sisters and best friends needed was that one song that pushed them from “good for their age” to “good, period.” Off Fuzz Steilacoom, “Alabama Movies” is that song, an unrelenting, discordant uppercut composed of undiluted angst and frustration sublimated right out of that fight for respect. It’s a knockout punch at that, an undeniable piece of

work that pummels your rib cage into shrapnel shards for all its thunderous percussion, palpable tension and Kelli Mayo’s piercing, possessed vocals. Mission accomplished. — JB 2. Husbands – “Bois” After releasing such an impressively lush string of pop singles last year, you could excuse Husbands — the OKC/D.C. duo Wil Norton and Danny Davis — for taking some time to exhale. Although not as prolific in 2014, they did give us the melodically rich and compositionally dense “Bois,” a song best absorbed with a good set of headphones and your favorite mind-altering substance. With its reverbsoaked vocal hook, pounding percussion and vivid production, Husbands created arguably their best song, a work that recalls the ghosts of surf-pop past while exploring a hauntingly beautiful auditory realm. — ZH 1. Broncho – “Class Historian” Broncho was knocking on the door of a breakout with 2013’s excellent salute to ’70s punk Can’t Get Past the Lips. The band burst through it with “Class Historian,” a transcendentally great indie-pop song that retained the same vocabulary but expanded upon it. Bringing the same soul-satisfying bounce, bewitching energy and punk grit of “Try Me Out Sometime,” here comes a New Wave veneer, John Hughes sentimentalism and a now-near iconic “do-do-do” hook. “Class Historian” is endlessly catchy without appearing toothless — effortlessly modern without ignoring the past and thrusting the band into the national spotlight it has deserved all along. — JB Honorable mentions: Celadon City – “Let’s Be Friends, If That’s Okay”; Josh Sallee – “Garth Brooks”; Kierston White – “Alcohol”; Sex Snobs – “Sick as a Dog”; Tallows – “Sea Bitch”

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There has been no shortage of factors that have drawn Mama Sweet apart over the years. There have been moves across the country, new careers, new families, new interests, new projects. The members’ lives look entirely different than they did when the came together to form Mama Sweet in 2001, but that doesn’t matter. There’s a gravity that brought them together in the first place, and that gravity never lets them drift too far apart, even as that tenuous tether was tested more than ever in five mostly quiet years that followed their 2009 live album, Now. Here. This. On the edge of fading quietly into the night, the five-piece returned with 21 echo, a new album that is either an indomitable spirit or a blissful sense of ignorance … or maybe a bit of both. “In my mind, maybe I live in denial and not in reality,” songwriter

and lead singer Aron Holt said. “I don’t ever want to feel like we need to reunite, that we ever broke up. We just move at our own pace.” That has always been the case for the Oklahoma-bred band. In its 13 years as a group, it only has one proper studio album to its name — 2008’s Welcome to the Well — along with Now. Here. This., which showcases material from their unofficial releases 13 Tunes from Texas and Mama Mia from the band’s earliest days. Call it slow or call it deliberate, but it’s the only mode Mama Sweet has ever known. “Music was never something we wanted to force or consider rushing,” Holt said. “There’s that time to go back into hibernation for a while, like burning the fields down before the next crop.” The eclectic rockers tried to skip that part once. It didn’t go well. Uncharacteristically, Mama Sweet took some half-baked songs into an Austin studio they had won free time in back in 2009, and it was like pulling teeth, only exacerbated by strained friendships and exhaustion. By 2011, the band was, for all intents and purposes, “no longer existent.” Credit keyboardist Daniel Walker for stoking that fire that had nearly burned out, reinvigorating Holt and, soon after, the rest of the Mama Sweet crew — guitarist Alan Orebaugh, bassist Boyd Littell and drummer Giovanni Carnuccio III — finally

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booking studio time to record 21 echo in July. “We felt that there were some songs on there that would be an injustice if they weren’t recorded,” Holt said. “This album was in us, and we knew we’d eventually make it.” The songs — constructed with Mama Sweet’s signature blend of rock, country, alternative, psychedelia and soul — come from as late as 1998 and as recently as 2011. But all were given new life at Studio Litho, the iconic Seattle spot that has given birth to albums from the likes of Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and Soundgarden. “It’s like playing in fantasy camp,” Holt said. “You are walking down the halls your musical heroes did, step into the sound booths where they made some of their best records. It was special.”

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Those weeks spent in Seattle were a rebirth of sorts. Holt even penned a song as the rest of the band unpacked after the flight up there. But it was more about renewal than reinvention, the same subject matter (“There’s songs about partying, and there’s songs about mood disorders.”), the same influences and the same work ethic, but with energy and creative excitement that usually eludes bands that have hung around that long. As vital as that excitement is for the band, it’s twofold for the fans. So often, after more than 10 years together, it becomes more about nostalgia than a genuine desire for something new. But that was answered well before the release of the album or even the recording of it. The band netted its Kickstarter goal of $17,000 in less than three

It doesn’t matter if we put out a record every five years; we’ll always stick around. — Aron Holt

weeks, confirming that Mama Sweet fans wanted the return as much as its members did. “This baby is still going,” Holt said. “It’s not dead. It doesn’t matter if we put out a record every five years; we’ll always stick around.” Even on the eve of 21 echo’s release shows at The Blue Door and The Deli this week, the Sooner State mainstays have enough material for another album with plans to make it one day. But the band isn’t looking that far ahead. Things rarely go according to plan for Mama Sweet, so what’s the point in making one? Where the band is on its long, winding road is anyone’s guess, and even if they couldn’t point out the final destination on a map, they do know that they haven’t reached it. Not yet. “You can’t be afraid to say you don’t know. A lot of the times we’ve tried to predict what Mama Sweet would do, it’s done otherwise. It’s a horse I don’t like to kick too hard, for fear of what might happen,” Holt said. “What I will say is that from moment one, out of the five different corners of the earth these guys had come from, it was like spokes on a wheel, immediately moving to the same thing. Right now, that’s forward.”

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LIFE MUSIC REVIEWS

Musical matrimony BY JOSHUA BOYDSTON

Despite living over a thousand miles apart, Wil Norton and Danny Davis — the minds behind OKC/D.C. duo Husbands — are always on the same page. That’s no simple feat. Not when writing and recording your songs patchwork-style via email. Not when rarely in the same room. They’d be excused for building Frankenstein-like indie-pop jams that stagger along with a clubfoot, an uneven stare and blotted skin, but these ethereal little bursts of wild wonder and unbridled enthusiasm are airtight. Thanks to that, their EP Achin’ never sinks or bobbles, not once in its joyous voyage out to the edge of the earth — a siren song pulling you into a sun-soaked paradise. To call Achin’ Husbands’ Merriweather Post Pavilion or All Hour Cymbals wouldn’t be misguided, but Norton and Davis bring a lot more to the plate than effective Animal Collective and Yeasayer impersonations. This has character of its very own, breathing and thriving even outside the context of that scene of inventive indiepoppers. That’s an earned triumph, one that so often eludes young bands throwing their hat into that ring, failing to reach equal heights on the bars of experimental exuberance and fan-friendly hooks. To achieve that over a number of years would be impressive enough, but Husbands have been wildly prolific since they first peeked their heads from outside the covers last year with a string of singles in consecutive weeks and a Christmas album to cap the year off. 2014 has been quieter leading up to Achin’, — highlighted by stylized title track

“Aikin” — but the work shows. Husbands’ sound and approach is an immersive one. And as brightly as 2013’s singles shined, the material presented here is more captivating and engrossing than ever. There’s an attention to the details that gets glanced over in similarly exotic investigations to the most primal state of indie pop. But despite the telephone game applied to the creation these lo-fi sound collages, nothing is glossed over. “Aikin” and “TarBB” satisfy your gut, head and hips to equal measure: plenty to look at, plenty to think about and plenty to move you. Chaining a shoehorned shoegaze guitar line to a sweetly sincere chorus in “Bois,” Husbands especially hone in on something wholly unique to them: that marriage of rich, full emotion and lively whimsicality. “Bets,” too, is growth, bringing the nuance to its tribal rhythms and bubbly synthesizer washes that Terrence Malick would bring to a Donkey Kong biopic he was directing. There’s a funky spirit to it all, but it’s wistful, sweet and ethereal. “Marley” is the most expected take, gently imbuing the reggae tones and afrobeat rhythms so frequently co-opted in 2008. But it’s thorough and charming enough to succeed all the same, a relative weak spot that would be a highlight on most other records. That’s a testament to the strength of Achin’, an energizing collection of songs that are certainly some of the very best native Oklahomans have produced all year — and maybe even outside of that, borders and distance be damned.

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Helen Kelter Skelter/Locust Avenue/Sun and Stone, Opolis, Norman. ROCK Justin Timberlake, Chesapeake Energy Arena. POP

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Levi Parham, The Blue Door. FOLK

Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Lost on Utica, Remington Park. ROCK

Jerrod Niemann/Josh Turner/Easton Corbin, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. COUNTRY

Max Ridgeway, Full Circle Bookstore. ACOUSTIC

John Fullbright, The Blue Door. SINGER/SONGWRITER Saving Abel/The Revolutioners/Brother Grey, The Labyrinth, Norman. ROCK The Friends No BS Jam, Friends Restaurant & Club. VARIOUS Urban Addiction, Baker St. Pub & Grill. VARIOUS

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Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO

Moonlight Ford, Jazmo’z Bourbon St. Cafe. JAZZ Rick Jawnsun, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. COUNTRY The Clique, Friends Restaurant & Club. VARIOUS Tom Marshall, The Paramount OKC. SINGER/ SONGWRITER Warped Frames/Junebug Spade/Parker Cunningham, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

THURSDAY, DEC. 4

Whiskey Myers/Cole Porter Band, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

Avenue, Baker St. Pub & Grill. COVER

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Ben Marshal, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY Big Smo, Will Rogers Downs, Claremore. VARIOUS Bowlsey/Honeylark, 51st Street Speakeasy. VARIOUS Brent Saulsbury/Will Galbraith/Wayne Duncan, Friends Restaurant & Club. ROCK

Aguilar, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. POP Big G, Remington Park. R&B Chad Todd Band, Grandad’s Bar. COUNTRY

Brian Wilson, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Catoosa. POP

Conway Jackson, Wormy Dog Saloon. ROCK

Mama Sweet, The Blue Door. ROCK

Direct Hit/Pears, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

Netsky/Kove/Skanka, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. VARIOUS

Don and Melodee Johnson, Twelve Oaks, Edmond. JAZZ

The Dave Thomason Band, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COVER

Grant Stevens, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

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Karen Khoury, Legend’s Restaurant, Norman. PIANO

Ryan Adams

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Lucky, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. COVER

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Mary Catherine Reynolds & Louise Goldberg, Full Circle Bookstore. JAZZ

Dante & the Hawks, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. ROCK

Maurice Johnson, Avanti Bar & Grill. JAZZ

Electric Avenue, Baker St. Pub & Grill. COVER

Mayday x Murs/Ces Cru/Kap Kallous, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. HIP-HOP

Erik the Viking/Red Eye Gravy, Grandad’s Bar. COUNTRY Gary Johnson, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. PIANO

Melissa Etheridge, WinStar World Casino, Thackerville. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Ryan Adams with Jenny Lewis Saturday

Double bills don’t get much better than this. Singersongwriter Ryan Adams — who attained “legend” status with his debut album, Heartbreaker — and the golden-throated Jenny Lewis — Rilo Kiley vocalist turned acclaimed solo artist — are co-headlining what promises to be a night of Americana-tinged glory. See them 7 p.m. Saturday at Brady Theater, 105 W. Brady St., in Tulsa. Tickets are $29.50-$45. Call 866-977-6849 or visit protix.com. Mitch Casen, Friends Restaurant & Club. COUNTRY Moonlight Ford, Jazmo’z Bourbon St. Cafe. JAZZ Replay, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COVER Ryan Adams/Jenny Lewis, Brady Theater, Tulsa. SINGER/SONGWRITER

Justin Timberlake, Chesapeake Energy Arena, Friday, Dec. 5

The Electro-Lights, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK Willis Alan Ramsey/Alison Rogers, The Blue Door. SINGER/SONGWRITER

SUNDAY, DEC. 7 A Day to Remember/Royal Blood/Nothing More, Diamond Ballroom, Tulsa. ROCK Aaron Lewis/George Navarro, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa. COUNTRY Edgar Cruz, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. ACOUSTIC

TUESDAY, DEC. 9 In This Moment/Twelve Foot Ninja/Starset, Brady Theater. ROCK Lucky, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. COVER Mustard Plug/Voodoo Glow Skulls/Dan Potthast, Farmers Public Market. ROCK Steve Story, American Legion 40 and 8. COUNTRY

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Justin Young, Uptown Grocery Co., Edmond. JAZZ Melissa Etheridge, Brady Theater, Tulsa. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

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The Greencards, The Blue Door. FOLK

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Set high in the French Alps, Force Majeure brilliantly depicts a marriage at a crossroads.

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Early in Force Majeure, a young, goodlooking family — father, mother, son and daughter — is having lunch at an outdoor restaurant of a ski resort in the French Alps. The vista, a gleaming and snow-packed mountain, is almost overwhelmingly spectacular. A controlled explosion in the distance triggers an avalanche that commands the attention of the restaurant patrons, including the family we have been observing. Diners pull out their iPhones and record the wall of snow as it barrels down the mountain. The avalanche rumbles ever closer. Will it reach the diners? Panic erupts. Patrons scramble. Some of them scream; others run for their lives as a tremendous cloud of snow envelopes the patio. The mother and father react differently to the chaos. Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) grabs their children (real-life siblings Clara and Vincent Wettergren) and seeks cover. Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke), the family’s husband-father, is not quite so instinctively protective.

But the avalanche, which is part of the ski resort’s regular maintenance on the slopes, quickly fizzles as a wouldbe disaster. The brief whiteout at the restaurant, it turns out, is essentially snow dust. Normalcy resumes, but shame and hurt are palpable in the awkward silence that consumes the family as they regroup at the table. The lives of these four will never be the same. Like Force Majeure’s high altitudes and frosty climes, the scene is enough to cause vertigo. But it is that sense of being off stride — the potential dangers that arise from leaving comfort zones — that helps make this Swedishlanguage film so riveting. Force Majeure screens Thursday through Sunday at Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive. The almost-natural disaster spurs a disaster of the marital kind.

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This dark comedy plays out amidst a landscape of breathtakingly snowcapped beauty.

Writer-director Ruben Östlund is less interested in standard melodrama than he is in more squirm-inducing possibilities, slapping this pictureperfect family onto a glass slide and placing it under a microscope for further inspection. Ebba is floored by her husband’s action at the restaurant, Force Majeure

but her bewilderment becomes anger once it is clear that Tomas would rather revise history and downplay the matter altogether. The woman’s fury spills out over dinner with another couple she and Tomas have only just met. Östlund lets every excruciating moment unfold. His sensibility here reflects a marriage between Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and the enfant terrible of filmmakers, Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon). In other words, laughs — and Force Majeure actually has some — come with a chaser of existential dread. Caustic and bitterly insightful, the movie pokes perceptions of sacrifice, bravery and responsibility, teasing them through the filter of gender expectations. Östlund is particularly merciless on manliness. Tomas’ ostensible sin stings all the more because Ebba uses it to emasculate him. The self-doubts and recriminations they dredge up even infect another couple (Kristofer Hivju and Fanni Metelius) with whom they are friends. This dark comedy plays out amidst a landscape of breathtakingly snowcapped beauty. Set at the tony resort of Les Arcs and lovingly lensed by Fredrik Wenzel, Force Majeure boasts a crisp, uncluttered look unsurprising for filmmakers who hail from the same land that gave the world IKEA. But the similarities end there. The surface look might be sleek and orderly, but the emotional implications are anything but neat.

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The perils of overdramatization and cliché are so commonplace in biopics that the mere mention of these dangers is almost a cliché in itself. But despite some extraordinary acting, The Theory of Everything exemplifies this trend, reducing Stephen Hawking’s highly complex life to a series of emotional shills and dumbed-down platitudes. Based on Jane Wilde Hawking’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, the film follows the acclaimed physicist (Eddie Redmayne, Les Misérables) and his wife, Jane (Felicity Jones, The Invisible Woman), from their time together at Cambridge in the 1960s, when Stephen was diagnosed with motor neuron disease and given a life expectancy of two

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years. It’s a story right out of the Oscar playbook, if not a daytime soap opera, and it’s depicted in a way that oversimplifies and panders to those who are most easily coerced. With its tawdry storybook romanticism, the first act is enough to make even the sappiest softies cringe. The film begins its gradual turn toward the morose when Stephen takes a tumble, the precursor to his diagnosis, and it’s from this moment onward that the performances of Redmayne and Jones begin to take hold. As weird as it is to say it, the more suffering the two endure, the better the film becomes. Redmayne’s role required both physical and emotional precision, and through his bodily transformation,

slurred speech and surprisingly subtle expressiveness, his portrayal of the renowned scientist is likely to earn a Best Actor nomination at February’s Academy Awards. The same could be said for Jones, who shines as Stephen’s struggling yet sympathetic caretaker. Yet focusing on Stephen and Jane’s spiritual relationship is an auspiciously safe undertaking, and Anthony McCarten’s script and James Marsh’s direction neglect much of what made Stephen Hawking such a fascinating human to begin with: his science. Certain scenes depict the brilliant physicist in his pursuit of a single unifying equation, one to explain both the scope and origin of the universe. But curiously, the film focuses more

on the metaphysical and religious undercurrents of Hawking’s work — something there wasn’t a whole lot of to begin with. The emphasis on this stale, banal dynamic inevitably feels clumsy, unnecessary and even a bit preachy. That said, The Theory of Everything is not a bad movie. It is, by and large, an affecting and heartfelt character study that is sure to receive its fair share of admiration. But much like The King’s Speech and A Beautiful Mind before it, the film tries so hard to assuage the soul that it forgets to stimulate the brain. It’s precisely the type of mindless exercise that Hawking himself would denounce, one which devalues one of the greatest thinkers of our time in the form of a low-hanging, cliché-addled fruit.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Homework: Forget what Time magazine thinks. Who is your “Person of the Year?” Tell me at Truthrooster@gmail.com. ARIES March 21-April 19 Lord Byron (1788-1824) was an English poet who loved animals. In the course of his life, he not only had dogs and cats as pets, but also monkeys, horses, peacocks, geese, a crocodile, a falcon, a crane, and a parrot. When he enrolled in Trinity College at age 17, he was upset that the school’s rules forbade students from having pet dogs, which meant he couldn’t bring his adored Newfoundland dog Boatswain. There was no regulation, however, against having a tame bear as a pet. So Byron got one and named it Bruin. I think it’s time for you to find a workaround like that, Aries. Be cunning. Try a gambit or two. Find a loophole. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Whenever I lost one of my baby teeth as a kid, I put it under my pillow before I went to sleep. During the night, the Tooth Fairy sneaked into my room to snatch the tooth, and in its place left me 25 cents. The same crazy thing happened to every kid I knew, although for unknown reasons my friend John always got five dollars for each of his teeth -- far more than the rest of us. I see a metaphorically comparable development in your life, Taurus. It probably won’t involve teeth or a visit from the Tooth Fairy. Rather, you will finally be compensated for a loss or deprivation or disappearance that you experienced in the past. I expect the restitution will be generous, too -- more like John’s than mine. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Through the scientific magic of grafting, a single tree can be altered to grow several different kinds of fruit at the same time. One type of “fruit salad tree” produces apricots, nectarines, plums, and peaches, while another bears grapefruits, lemons, oranges, limes, and tangelos. I’m thinking this might be an apt and inspiring symbol for you in the coming months, Gemini. What multiple blooms will you create on your own metaphorical version of a fruit salad tree? CANCER (June 21-July 22): No other structure

on the planet is longer than the Great Wall of China, which stretches 3,945 miles. It’s not actually one unbroken span, though. Some sections aren’t connected, and there are redundant branches that are roughly parallel to the main structure. It reminds me of your own personal Great Wall, which is monumental yet permeable, strong in some ways but weak in others, daunting to the casual observer but less so to those who take the time to study it. Now is an excellent time to take inventory of that wall of yours. Is it serving you well? Is it keeping out the influences you don’t want but allowing in the influences you do want? Could it use some renovation? Are you willing to reimagine what its purpose is and how you want it to work for you in the future? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Arctic Monkeys are British rockers who have produced five studio albums, which together have sold almost five million copies. *Rolling Stone* magazine called their first album, released in 2003, the 30th greatest debut of all time. Yet when they first formed in 2002, none of them could play a musical instrument. I see the current era of your life, Leo, as having a similar potential. How might you start from scratch to create something great? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Alan Turing (19121954) was a British mathematician and pioneering computer scientist. After World War II broke out, he got worried that the German army might invade and occupy England, as it had done to France. To protect his financial assets, he converted everything he owned into bars of silver, then buried them underground in the countryside north of London. When the war ended, he decided it was safe to dig up his fortune. Unfortunately, he couldn’t recall where he had put it, and never did find it. Let’s draw a lesson from his experience, Virgo. It’s fine if you want to stash a treasure or protect a secret or safeguard a resource. That’s probably a sensible thing to do right now. But make sure you remember every detail about why and how you’re doing it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Even if you are not formally enrolled in a course of study or a training

program, you are nevertheless being schooled. Maybe you’re not fully conscious of what you have been learning. Maybe your teachers are disguised or unwitting. But I assure you that the universe has been dropping some intense new knowledge on you. The coming week will be an excellent time to become more conscious of the lessons you have been absorbing. If you have intuitions about where this educational drama should go next, be proactive about making that happen. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You now have a special ability to detect transformations that are happening below the threshold of everyone else’s awareness. Anything that has been hidden or unknown will reveal itself to your gentle probes. You will also be skilled at communicating your discoveries to people who are important to you. Take full advantage of these superpowers. Don’t underestimate how pivotal a role you can play as a teacher, guide, and catalyst. The future success of your collaborative efforts depends on your next moves. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Harper Lee was born and raised in Alabama. At the age of 23, she relocated to New York City with hopes of becoming a writer. It was a struggle. To support herself, she worked as a ticket agent for airline companies. Finding the time to develop her craft was difficult. Seven years went by. Then one Christmas, two friends gave her a remarkable gift: enough money to quit her job and work on her writing for a year. During that grace period, Lee created the basics for a book that won her a Pulitzer Prize: To Kill a Mockingbird. I don’t foresee anything quite as dramatic for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will receive unexpected help that provides you with the slack and spaciousness you need to lay the foundations for a future creation. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey, Odysseus’s wife Penelope describes two kinds of dreams. “Those that that pass through the gate of ivory,” she says, are deceptive. But dreams that “come forth through the gate of polished horn” tell the truth. Another

ancient text echoes these ideas. In his poem the *Aeneid,* Virgil says that “true visions” arrive here from the land of dreams through the gate of horn, whereas “deluding lies” cross over through the gate of ivory. Judging from the current astrological omens, Capricorn, I expect you will have interesting and intense dreams flowing through both the gate of ivory and the gate of horn. Will you be able to tell the difference? Trust love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your chances of going viral are better than usual. It’s a perfect moment to upload a Youtube video of yourself wearing a crown of black roses and a *V for Vendetta* mask as you ride a unicycle inside a church and sing an uptempo parody version of “O Come All Ye Faithful.” It’s also a favorable time for you to create a buzz for you and your pet causes through less spectacular measures. Promote yourself imaginatively. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): At age 80, author Joan Didion has published five novels, ten works of non-fiction, and five screenplays. When she was 27, she wrote, “I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” That wasn’t a good thing, she added: “We are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.” I recommend her counsel to you in the coming months, Pisces. Get reacquainted with the old selves you have outgrown and abandoned.

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