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Karin Leimbach, a prevention coordinator with DCCCA, educates the community on the dangers of prescription painkillers. | Photo Laura Eastes

Damaging drugs

Oklahomans remain addicted to opioids, but efforts continue to stop misuse. By Laura Eastes

During a nationwide epidemic in which one American dies every 19 minutes from opioid or heroin overdose, few Oklahoma County residents are aware of just how big the problem really is. Data from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN) shows that prescription opioids, also known as painkillers or pain pills, were responsible for more than half of Oklahoma’s drug overdose deaths in 2015. In Oklahoma, deaths related to opioid use have surpassed those of illegal street drugs, such as methamphetamine and cocaine. “People don’t know it’s an issue,” said Karin Leimbach, a prevention coordinator for Oklahoma City nonprofit DCCCA (formerly Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism). “They don’t know it’s happening, and they don’t know about the efforts to stop it.” A recent local survey conducted by the Coalition Against Rx Drug Epidemic found a majority of respondents said they were unfamiliar with the issue and the risks of addiction, Leimbach said. It’s surprising because Oklahoma’s problems related to prescription opioid use, misuse and addiction are nothing new. Just seven years ago, Oklahoma had the highest prevalence of painkiller sales in residents age 12 and older. In 2013, one in 4

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and, in turn, develop an addiction. An addiction to opioids doesn’t always start with a prescription. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 75 percent of all opioid misuse starts with people using medication that wasn’t prescribed to them. Often, the drugs were obtained from a friend, family member or dealer. The drug is used simply to get high. It’s a mistaken thought that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs, explained Mark Woodward, OBN spokesman. “Oftentimes, parents are worried about their kids getting into alcohol or marijuana, but it doesn’t dawn on them that prescriptions drugs are a target,” Woodward said. At OBN headquarters in Oklahoma City, prescription drug misuse is considered epidemic. The state law enforcement agency targets drug trafficking and drug manufacturing and tracks drug overdose deaths. To protect the public, OBN requires physicians and other health care providers to have an OBN registration number, which must be in good standing for writing prescriptions for painkillers and other addictive prescription drugs. In addition to investigating alleged pill mills, narcotics officers are reporting a growing number of incidents in which middle and high school students raid their parents’ or grandparents’ medicine cabinets for selling or trading pills for cash, marijuana or something else. “People have a habit of leaving it in a medicine cabinet,” Woodward said. “If it’s not locked up, it’s not safe.”

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12 Oklahomans abused painkillers, according to statistics published by the state. That year, prescription opioids comprised four of the top five medications related to unintentional overdose deaths in Oklahoma. The troubling data prompted a fiveyear statewide plan to prevent and reduce the abuse through steps taken by law enforcement, the Oklahoma Legislature, community organizations, state health agencies and health providers. Ultimately, the plan Gov. Mary Fallin signed in 2013 works to save lives. Like the signs of someone who is becoming addicted to prescription pills, the problem and the progress appear to go unnoticed. “Prescription drugs is the hardest addiction to see in another person,” Leimbach said. “We’ve all seen the faces of meth addicts after a year. You don’t see that with prescription drugs.”

The issue

Opiate or opioid drugs are used to treat acute severe pain following trauma or surgery or to aid patients with painful terminal diseases, like cancer. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, morphine and fentanyl are opioids. Patients can easily misuse pain medication when taking more than prescribed to get a higher level of relief from the pain

Up to 50 times more potent than heroin, synthetic opioid fentanyl was added to law enforcement watch lists across the county. In March, federal drug enforcement officials issued a nationwide alert on fentanyl as a threat to public safety after the opioid was found responsible for a sweeping number of deaths on the East Coast. Months later, officials issued a second alert to law enforcement, specifically stressing proper handling of fentanyl, which can be dangerous if not properly handled. While the threat is real, Woodward advises Oklahoma has yet to see fentanyl mixed with heroin, a deadly combination sold on the streets and causing the nationwide alerts. “[Dealers] cut it or add it to heroin to strengthen the value of the high; therefore, it can gain more value on the street,” Woodward said. In 2015, fentanyl was responsible for taking 70 Oklahomans’ lives. The deaths came from misusing prescribed fentanyl, which often comes in patch form and is used by patients with severe pain. Like other opioids, patients must take it as prescribed. “It can be so dangerous because it can affect the areas of the brain that control the breathing rate,” Leimbach said. “With high doses of opioids, especially fentanyl, it can cause the brain to stop completely, and that’s when people overdose.” A solution to fentanyl and other painkiller overdoses is naloxone, a medication

used to reverse the effects of an overdose. The state’s plan prompted the Naloxone Project, overseen by two state health agencies, that trains first responders how to use the injection or nasal mist reversal drug. Last year, naloxone became available to pharmacies across the state without a prescription.

Public role

Everyone has a part to play in reversing the trends of Oklahoma’s prescription drug abuse epidemic, explained Leimbach. As a coalition member for Substance Use Prevention Alliance Oklahoma County, Leimbach and others preach a message of safe use, safe storage and safe disposal. At community events and in local schools, the coalition speaks about the dangers that come from opioids and other prescription medicines when patients don’t follow physicians’ orders or allow the medications to fall into the wrong hands. When someone shares they take unneeded prescriptions to take-back events or drop them at local law enforcement agencies, Leimbach congratulates them for being part of the solution. “You are making a difference,” Leimbach said of the message she shares with the public. Since 2011, OBN has placed those pharmaceutical take-back boxes in the lobbies of law enforcement offices across that state. Currently, Woodward said, there are 178 boxes that have collected more than 120,000 pounds of pills. “Everyone can do their part, and that’s locking up the medicine and disposing it when it’s not needed anymore,” Woodward said. “We certainly don’t want someone to live with the guilt that a loved one dies because of something that should have been thrown away years ago.” Mark Woodward says Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN) has seen cases of youths bringing prescription pills to school to trade for marijuana, alcohol or cash. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

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Education officials report encouraging results for concurrent enrollment programs. By Laura Eastes

When Terrance Grayson sits down with high school juniors and seniors at Rose State College, he lists a variety of benefits for pursuing the concurrent enrollment program. Through the program, high school students enroll in college courses and earn credits for high school and college at the same time. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education views it as a tool for increasing college-going rates. The state’s goal is about the furthest thought on the minds of students who meet with Grayson, Rose’s concurrent enrollment coordinator. Students want to talk about completing their degree in less time and taking advantage of the state’s tuition waiver program. Now in his seventh year working with concurrent students, Grayson sees getting students college ready as the program’s strongest asset. “They get the chance to get baptized without getting thrown into the water,” Grayson said as he explained concurrent students transition into college life easier than their peers. In the concurrent enrollment program, students learn to balance academics and socializing, pick up time management skills and meet those college-level expectations. This fall semester, nearly 425 high school students enrolled concurrently at Rose State College (RSC). The program grew by more than one-third when compared to a year earlier, college officials report.

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Growing program

The number of Oklahoma students who earned college credit while still in high school has continued to rise since the state began the tuition waiver program in 2005, according to data from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the agency that oversees the state’s public universities and colleges. Last year, officials report 11,722 enrolled students took a combined 103,125 credit hours at community colleges, regional universities and research universities across the state. Ninety-seven percent of the students passed or satisfactorily completed the courses. Since 2005, data has shown students who dually enroll are more likely to succeed in postsecondary education than their peers. Concurrent enrollment programs work in Oklahoma, said chancellor Glen Johnson, CEO for the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, who shared the data during a recent Oklahoma Senate interim study. As the program has attracted more students, it’s no longer just high-achieving students who benefit from the challenging coursework, but students looking to jumpstart degree programs. “We have some great stories,” Johnson said. “We have situations where students — before they physically ever step foot on a college campus — have 30 hours toward their college degree.”

Brent Fisher oversees the interactive television courses from Rose State College’s Midwest City campus. The system allows the college to broadcast live courses into rural and small high schools. | Photo Laura Eastes

Rural schools

Generally, concurrent enrollment refers to high school students who also are taking college courses, but how those students take them varies from institution to institution. Some students travel to the college campus. In some cases, a professor travels to a high school to offer a college class. Jan Bugby, RSC director of academic outreach, said high school students from Del City, Carl Albert High School, Midwest City and Star Spencer High School travel to the community college campus. However, in the early 2000s, the college developed an instructional television system to reach rural and smaller schools outside the Oklahoma City metro area. Instructors teach in front of cameras while high schoolers participate in the course as it’s broadcast into their classroom more than 30 miles away. The system, known as Interactive Television (I-TV), has improved over the years with advances in technology. This year, Perry, Holdenville and Maud high school students joined RSC’s program through I-TV. All three schools are more than 50 miles away from Midwest City. “This allows a lot of kids that wouldn’t be able to come to our college [to] take classes,” Bugby said. Adding new high schools helped increase RSC’s enrollment, but students frustrated by a lack of advanced offerings at their home high schools spur interest in the program, she said. With public college and university tuition cost increases, students and families view the tuition waiver as a deal. The state covers the cost of up to six credit hours per semester. Concurrent students must meet eligibility requirements, like earning a score of 19

or higher on the ACT. Bugby said it takes a dedicated, driven and mature high school student to succeed in college-level courses. One goal of RSC’s program is to establish relationships with the concurrent students. It’s not uncommon for Bugby to chat with a student over the phone and recommend tutoring options or let them know that a professor will host a review before a big test. Additionally, Bugby and her team communicate students’ progress with their home high school. Rarely does the academic outreach office come across a concurrent student struggling and unable to pass a class, Bugby said.

Program future

Before Oklahoma established the tuition waiver, many institutions offered concurrent enrollment, but high school students paid the college tuition and fees. The program costs $8.3 million for the 2016-17 academic year, and state funding covers 62.8 percent. For the remaining balance, the Oklahoma Board of Regents passed plans to invest reserve funds, and individual institutions have found funding sources to plug in the remaining balance. The Oklahoma Legislature has fully funded the program once since 2008, when state appropriations covered the program at $2.9 million for 6,825 students. Despite state regents taking a $153 million budget cut for the current fiscal year, the Legislature will be asked to fully fund the program next year, Johnson said. “We believe it is one of those game changers that moves the needle as far as degree competition,” he said.

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The success of a convention center is measured by its ability to generate economic benefit for the city. Will a hotel assist? By Laura Eastes

When Oklahoma City leaders first began discussions about replacing aging Cox Convention Center with a modern and twice-the-size event space for local, regional and national conventions, the conversation included a “headquarters hotel.” In late 2009, Oklahoma City voters approved a sales tax initiative to fund a variety of quality of life projects, including a new convention center, through the MAPS 3 proposal. Now, the city is investing $288 million into a facility with a 200,000-square-foot exhibit hall, a 45,000-square-foot meeting space and a 30,000-square-foot ballroom. The convention center, located in an area that stretches from SW Fourth to SW Seventh streets between S. Robinson Avenue and S. Shields Boulevard, is expected to open before the end of the decade. Despite the linking argument that the success of a convention center relies on a convention center hotel, the two are separate projects in Oklahoma City. After years of talks about pursuing a convention center hotel, the Oklahoma City Council moved closer toward such a facility when it agreed to enter negotiations with Omni Hotels & Resorts in late September. “The hotel makes the convention center

as successful as it can possibly be,” said Cathy O’Connor, who leads the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority in efforts to develop a convention center hotel. “It is a choice about economic development, economic growth, tourism and taking Oklahoma City to the next level.” While negotiations between the city and Omni officials are just getting started, estimates from the luxury hotelier suggest a $235.5 million, 600-room convention center hotel is coming to OKC. Omni could request $85.4 million in public money toward making the hotel a reality. With the city potentially investing millions of taxpayer dollars into a private project, it begs the question Will Oklahoma City see the return it’s after? It’s a question mulled by Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid, who raised concerns and believes taxpayers weren’t fully told a subsidy would be required to attract a headquarters hotel. Shadid hosted Heywood Sanders, a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a leading expert in convention centers, at a town hall event two years ago. “As I’ve looked around the country, some things are very clear,” Sanders told Oklahoma Gazette. “The amount of convention center space measured by the

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amount of exhibit space has grown substantially from 2000 to 2015 — 37 percent — and its still growing. … There are a lot more cities adding new or expanding convention center space. … The end result is the convention center market is largely overbuilt.” Sanders made similar comments during his Oklahoma City visit in 2014 and in his book Convention Center Follies, which mentions the city’s quest to build a new center. While cities have embarked on an arms race of sorts to build convention centers, Sanders said, the business

isn’t there to fill the space. Large conferences like those of The American Dental Association have slipped in attendance numbers. A 2006 conference in Las Vegas brought out 40,220 dental workers, but just over half that attended last year’s conference in the nation’s capitol, Sanders said of his research. “The really big centers are no longer competing for big trade shows. There just aren’t that many of them,” Sanders said. “They are competing down market, and that has been a competitive market. They are competing for medium-sized shows, and that has put increased competing pressure on Oklahoma City.” Convention construction or talks of construction are underway in Louisville, Kentucky; Kansas City, Kansas; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Charlotte, North Carolina. Survey results from Meetings & Conventions, a magazine for event professionals, paint a brighter future for OKC’s convention center future. A majority of survey respondents reported their budgets for conventions and meetings increased from 2015 to 2016 due to large attendance. The survey also found that a hotel was the top reason for selecting a convention site. The message of Meetings & Conventions falls in line with that of supporters of a local convention center hotel. A full-service convention center hotel with the ability to offer 400 or 500 room blocks will attract and drive business to the convention center and the hotel. Visitors to both facilities will plug money into local restaurants, shops, attractions, transportation and more. Originally, experts suggested OKC would require a 650- to 735-room headquarters hotel, but Omni has suggested 600 rooms, O’Connor said. Beyond the money coming from outof-towners, O’Connor sees a convention center hotel serving residents through the restaurant offerings and meeting space for events. “[Omni] really goes to a great deal of effort to learn about the communities they are in, and they will develop a property that is uniquely Oklahoma City,” O’Connor said. “Their restaurants in their other properties are very popular destinations. I hope we will see that, especially since it will be across from the new park and become a place where people stop in for the restaurant or the coffee shop.” Negotiations are expected to wrap up next month with an offer presented to the council, which will have to decide how to fund a subsidy. Options include public borrowing, increasing the hotel-motel tax, initiating a rental car tax or financing through tax-increment financing, known as TIFs. “It is going to take several of those money sources to come up with a sufficient amount of money to fund through public participation,” O’Connor said.

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Almost everyone has heard the recording featuring Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about women. On Oct. 8, The Washington Post released a 2005 video and audio recording in which Trump, speaking to Access Hollywood co-anchor Billy Bush, admitted he had made moves on a married woman “like a bitch,” according to a New York Times transcript of the recording. “[I’m] automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. … I don’t even wait,” Trump said. “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” The story quickly went viral. Even Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin reacted to Trump’s recorded statements. “Both of our nation’s presidential candidates are very flawed and have made mistakes. … I am disappointed and offended by the comments made by Mr. Trump 11 years ago. His comments about women were totally unacceptable,” Fallin said in an Oct. 9 media statement. The governor went on to say she hopes Trump’s apology is sincere and that he “takes the opportunity to demonstrate he has the character and lead-ership skills to be president.” “May God heal our land,” she added. The Washington Post reported Oct. 8 that Trump publicly apologized but also said, “I’ve said some foolish things, but there’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people,” before deflecting his focus onto alleged past behaviors of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s husband.

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Open praise

Practically every church offers worship in the form of song, but one local couple is literally singing to the heavens. NewsOK.com recently wrote about a relatively new, 30-minute informal worship service held every Thursday at the open-air Heartland Chapel outside First United Methodist Church, 3700 N. Walker Ave. Morgan and Ridge Kennedy have been leading the guitarbacked service since early September. The chapel was not previously used for worship services. Across the street from the chapel is the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museu m. Rev. Ma rk McAdow said part of the reason for the service is to draw in visitors from across the street to share in fellowship and song. Ridge Kennedy was recently hired as the church youth minister. His wife came up with the idea to utilize the chapel. Morgan said she most cares about serving people as they take time to reflect at the memorial. “One of my favorite things is being outside and singing of God’s creation,” she

told NewsOK.com. “If they don’t come in this place, that’s OK. … At least it’s being heard.” The chapel was built not long after the bombing by church members Frank and Donna Sisson, who say the altar there is made of native stone and granite rescued from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The couple viewed the pavilion as a testament to local strength and the power of faith.

Flag etiquette

Ever catch a Toronto Raptors NBA game? Before tipoff, as the only Canadian team in the NBA, the Canadian anthem is played, even when the Raptors are on the road. Non-Canadian players simply stand with their hands by their sides. While there might not be official etiquette or protocol for when you hear another nation’s anthem played, we at Chicken Fried-News take cues from the NBA players. Stand and remain quiet. In the recent case of the Chilean citizen thrown out of a Sept. 18 Rayo OKC home game for sitting during the national anthem, we can only assume the visitor hadn’t caught any Raptors games on TV. According to NewsOK.com, Francisco Espinoza, the Hispanic leader of the Rayo’s Red Army fan group, didn’t stand for the national anthem before the match. A Yukon police officer providing secu-

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Student protests

rity during the match approached Espinoza and asked why. The newspaper reported Espinoza told the officer he wanted to rest after setting up sponsorship sign boards before the game. Espinoza told the newspaper reporter that the officer told him, “You are a piece of crap.” NewsOK.com said Franklin declined the newspaper’s request for an interview. The incident resulted in a heated discussion, and Espinoza was ejected from Yukon’s Miller sports stadium. The Rayo OKC organization and police

Last week, University of Oklahoma stu students protesting what they believe to be school president David Boren’s perpetu perpetuation of rape culture called on him to resign if he couldn’t fulfill their list of demands. The students held a protest last week following comments Boren made in an Oct. 3 Oklahoma Daily story about a campus report showing 19 percent of sur surveyed students said they “had been sexually as assaulted at OU.” Boren responded with statements many students believe perpetuated victim blaming and rape culture. “We try to really train students about (sexual violence), and you try to also say, ‘Don’t get yourself in a situation where you’re incapable of saying no,’” OU Daily quoted Boren from the Oct. 3 article. “Can we eradicate the problem? Not any more than we can eradicate human nature.”

During the Oct. 11 protest, students demanded “a sincere and public apology regarding both his comments in the OU Daily and the university’s poor handling of sexual violence on campus.” Further, Boren’s apology must include the phrases “I believe you,” “It’s not your fault” and “I am sorry.” Demands also included instituting sexual violence education programs, among other things. It’s telling that these things must still be demanded at all, from anyone, ever. Boren missed the protest (and apologized for that) because he was out of town supporting State Question 779, but he met with students for

“more than two hours” Oct. 12, OU Daily reported. While student press wasn’t allowed in that meeting, according to OU Daily, Boren told the paper afterward, “I appreciate the concern of our students about what I view as one of the most serious problems we have in America, and that’s sexual violence on campuses across the country, including, regrettably ... on our own campus.”

Quote of the week

“Stop being an entitled spoiled Edmondite.” — Words in a handwritten anonymous note left the windshield of on an 8 1/2-month pregnant Edmond woman after she parked in a grocery store spot reserved for women “with child.” The letter chided the soon-to-be mother for not actually having a child, saying “When you park in this spot, it is when you actually have a small child with you. Learn to read the signs and if you can’t understand what the sign means, ask someone to explain it to you.” The mom-to-be called the store manager, who assured the woman she parked appropriately.

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Warming to reality

In dismissing global warming and environmental concerns as the imaginary theories of hysterics (Opinion, Letters to the Editor, “Chicken Little dunces,” Sept. 28, Oklahoma Gazette), Mickey McVay has summarized the perspectives of the fossil fuel industry and America’s Republican Party. The Republican Party platform extols coal, oil and gas production for energy independence and economic growth and pledges to accelerate coal mining and pipeline construction. Nevermind that leaders of 195 nations at the Paris Climate Summit in December agreed to formulate national plans to reduce emissions of CO2 and methane, the two leading gases implicated in the greenhouse warming of the atmosphere.

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The Sixth Great Extinction ridiculed by Mr. McVay has begun due to growing human numbers and growing human consumption of resources on our small and finite planet. Humanity is well on the way to seriously damaging the living systems that sustain life on earth. On this, 95 out of 100 scientists agree. Nathaniel Batchelder Oklahoma City

Special interests

Please vote no on all state questions this November. They are all designed by special interests for special interests. They are

promoted by corporations and big businesses and special interests and just make their noose tighter around our necks. For example, the question on liquor (I apologize for not knowing offhand these question numbers.) is just a way for WalMart to take over the liquor/wine/beer business in Oklahoma and ship all its profits out of state while leaving state mom-and-pop businesses in the lurch. The farm bill allows further takeover of farming in the state by the corporations. The question to raise our sales tax is a way to let the state’s right-wing legislators off the hook for destroying education by decreasing taxes on the rich.

I agree teachers need a pay raise! David Boren has said the education system is broken but we do not have time to fix it. Before I vote yes for a 1-cent sales tax increase ($600 million per year), I think taxpayers should see a spreadsheet on how much the Oklahoma Legislature, lottery funds, casino funds, federal funds, grants and any other sources of funding go to education. Then break down all school districts and how many schools and students each has, as well as colleges and universities, and see how the money is distributed. Let’s find the waste and correct that before handing a blank check to the Legislature. A six-month tax increase would pay for teacher pay raises; are they going to get $5,000 raises every year? I do not think so. Where is all the money going to go? I hope the voters of Oklahoma are smart enough to stop this emotional issue and hold the Legislature accountable to correct the problems in the education system and give teachers a raise without putting the burden on the taxpayer. Ken Seibel Oklahoma City

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Vegan vengeance A confirmed meat-eater finds OKC’s vegan scene thriving during a three-week challenge. By Greg Elwell

“See that barbecue place?” Those were the fateful words that did me in. Driving past Smokey’s BBQ, 2410 N. Portland Ave., I remembered that owner Jerry Coles said the restaurant was safe for vegetarians and vegans because many of the sides are meat-free. When I told my friend, she scoffed. Sides, she told me, do not a meal make. She and her husband were vegans for a few years, and the complete bafflement with which people treated them was infuriating. “Have you ever been vegan?” she asked. “When is the last time you ate vegan for even one meal?” It was a good question.

As the staff writer in charge of reporting metro restaurant news and reviewing eateries, vegan meals are few and far between, especially in a state known for its love of beef. It was during that pause, contemplating the last vegan meal I’d eaten, that she issued a challenge: Try being vegan for three weeks. “Sure,” I said. “How hard could it be?”

What’s vegan?

There are several definitions and divisions among vegans, but the basics of a vegan diet is that one doesn’t include meat, fish or birds or any byproducts that come from animals,

cluding cow and goat milks, eggs and honey. Also taboo are foods made with animal products, and there are a lot of them. Some vegans take the diet to the next level and eschew any clothing made from animals or including animal byproducts, so say goodbye to that leather jacket. The most maddening part of the vegan diet is also one of the most beneficial: To ensure they aren’t consuming any animal byproducts, many vegans stick to fresh, plant-based foods. It’s pretty healthy, but it means cutting out most convenience foods. Gelatin comes from boiling leftover parts of pigs and cows, including skins, horns, tendons and bones. Beef and chicken broth are out, as are lard and tallow. Looking over the ingredients in a package of veggie burgers from a local grocery chain revealed an unfamiliar substance: casein. Casein is a protein derived from animal milk that is used in all sorts of products, including paint and some plastics. It acts as a binding agent, which is why it ends up in some otherwise-vegan products. It was the first of many “Is this vegan?” searches on my phone.

Vegan Valhalla

Like an idiot, I chose to start my three weeks of vegan eating on Fourth of July weekend, when the entire state smells like grilled burgers and corn on the cob slathered in butter. Getting through the day was difficult. Some people take great pleasure in teasing others about the food they can’t have. Without many groceries or options, much of Independence Day was spent celebrating a short-lived freedom from satisfaction. Well before embarking on the challenge, I began compiling lists of local “vegan musts.” The metro might not be a vegan paradise, but it’s pretty nice for those willing to look around.

Cheever’s Cafe quinoa avocado salad | Photo Garett Fisbeck

Not everything on the menu at Elemental Coffee Roasters, 815 N. Hudson Ave., is vegan, but with Elena Hughes leading the kitchen, there are plenty of animal-free options. Tofu, like any other protein, is only as good as the person cooking it, and Elemental’s staff knows its way around a soybean. The tofu scramble breakfast burritos have an eggy texture with a delicious curry seasoning. Anyone with a busy day planned should consider ordering a vegan Smokie Dokie, a barbecue tofu banh mi, or a Joan Rivers, which is smoked tempeh with sauerkraut and local mustard on German rye, to go. Green Goodies, 5840 N. Classen Blvd., was another revelation. The vegan veggie wraps and bowls are filling and flavorful — two things most meat eaters mistakenly associate with vegan diets — but the vegan cupcakes are the real draw.

Change coming

“Oklahoma City really has made some serious progress in the last three years, not only with vegan options, but with a plethora of other specialty foods and diets,” said The Loaded Bowl owner Tevin Grupe. One of the area’s first vegan food trucks, The Loaded Bowl plans to open a brick-and-mortar venue in OKC Farmers Market District soon, Grupe said. Part of the concept’s goal is to make eating plantbased foods easier. “When setting out to eat less meat or dairy, your aim should be to adopt a diet that you can enjoy long-term, because your preferences don’t change overnight. If you start out thinking you’re going to radically change everything about the way you eat, it will be really hard to stick with it,” she said. “A lot of The Loaded Bowl recipes are created with that in mind.” With a menu inspired by comfort foods, continued on page 14

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the food truck serves “totally new dishes that are still familiar,” she said. One of the most popular is cashew mac and cheese, which hits all sorts of satisfaction buttons at once. The community’s laid-back food culture also is reflected in other vegan menus. The Wedge Pizzeria, 4709 N. Western Ave., has long fed plant eaters. After a recent menu refresh, the eatery made The Brandon (a pizza with pesto, roasted onions and bell peppers, spiced walnuts and pepperoncinis) an official item. General manager KC Ortega said vegan pizzas have always been available for those who asked, but she wanted to make sure everyone can order them.

Mainstream customers

It’s becoming much more commonplace for restaurants to focus on vegan fare. Diners can almost always find Cheever’s Cafe, 2409 N. Hudson Ave., at the forefront of the local food scene. Though it’s well-known for its meaty jalapeño chicken-fried steak, the chef-driven concept added a quinoa avocado salad to the menu in recent years to offer a tasty meatless option. When Jeff Chanchaleune and Rachel Cope opened Gorō Ramen + Izakaya, 1634 N. Blackwelder Ave., Suite 102, in July, vegan yasai ramen and tofu nikuman steamed buns were prominent menu items. Their philosophy is similar to that espoused by Picasso Cafe director of culinary operations Ryan Parrott, who said the key to creating great vegan dishes is simply to concentrate on making great food. Though the menu predates Parrott’s tenure with the venue at 3009 Paseo Drive, Picasso Cafe is a favorite with vegans because of its focus on sating customer hunger with plant-based versions of Oklahoma favorites. Quinoa tacos and “chicken-fried” portobello mushrooms have all the spice of their traditionally meaty counterparts. Three weeks into being a vegan, it became abundantly clear metro restaurants understood the need for more meatless options and filled it. 14

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Moving up Del City staple Korean House is changing locations while keeping the menu that diners love. By Greg Elwell

The only problem is that galbitang is served with some of the meat still on the bone. 4813 SE 29th St., Del City It’s delicious meat on the Soon: 4716 SE 29th St., Del City bone, because Korean cuisine facebook.com/koreanhouseokc 405-677-3215 is full of ingenious ways to cook beef, but it is still difficult to wHat worKs: Chuksuk bulgalbi is a feast eat. It comes with a side of rice, for two. but with long glass noodles already in the bowl, that wHat NeeDs worK: Let goon mandu cool seemed like starchy overkill. down before devouring them. “There’s no wrong way to eat it,” the server said, “but we tIp: Check online or call before going to ensure which location is open. usually dump the rice in the bowl. That makes it easier.” He was right, of course. The There is this fear that rises in my throat rice soaked up some of the broth and gave each time a new dish is ordered at an austructure to the soup, making it much thentic ethnic restaurant. easier to pry the sweet, tender meat off “Will this be the time?” I wonder. “Is the bones. this the time the waitstaff and the cooks It’s time to get to know Korean cuisine come out to gawk at the customer who better. Meats, including beef, pork, doesn’t know how to eat what he ordered?” chicken and fish, show up a lot on the menu It reminds me of a sketch from BBC along with tofu and vegetables. Most comedy series That Mitchell and Webb dishes are served with rice or noodles, and Look in which a posh waiter dresses down banchan (a side dish) is standard. Though customers who dare to eat at his restauthere are some spicy foods, Korean cuisine rant. He hands a woman a vichyssoise fork isn’t all that hot. In fact, the spiciest foods on the table (which does not exist) to eat her soup while are often the banchan, including kimchi, her boyfriend is told to eat a whole crab a fermented vegetable side dish that also while using only a ladle. happens to be the national dish of Korea. To whatever degree someone self-describes as a “foodie,” there’s always someEach meal at Korean House includes a thing to learn. The best restaurants are delivery of tiny bowls with a variety of those where guests feel OK asking quesflavorful contents that can be eaten as a snack or paired with dishes. tions, which is what I did at Korean House, 4813 SE 29th St., in Del City. Much like the galbitang, there’s no wrong way to eat banchan, unless you “Excuse me,” I said to the kindly waiter. “How do I eat this?” count not eating it. Mildly spicy Korean It was galbitang ($11), which is a beef short pickles, pajeon (thin pancakes with scalrib and noodle soup. If you’re saying “with a lions), marinated bean sprouts and tiny spoon” out loud right now, you’re not wrong. seasoned potatoes are a few of the avail-

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able banchan options. But if those intensely tasty sides aren’t enough, please consider ordering goon mandu ($7.75). Have we, as a nation, yet come to grips with how delicious dumplings are? Delicately wrapped pouches of seasoned ground pork and chopped vegetables are dropped into bubbling hot oil to create goon mandu. Please remember to let these still-sizzling bite-sized delights cool slightly before popping them into your mouth. I learned that one the hard way. A mild burn isn’t enough to divert attention from chuksuk bulgalbi ($38, including soup for two). It’s a showstopper of a meal, and not only because a customer can’t really get too distracted while he cooks his own dinner. Despite copious online searching, Korean House is the only place I could find chuksuk bulgalbi, so the best explanation I can muster is this: The server brings out a tabletop stove and cranks it up so diners can cook their own specially marinated beef short ribs. It was a meal with two lessons. One: It’s easy to let marinated beef accidentally burn. Two: Even burned, Korean beef short ribs are better than most other meats. The beef chars easily because of the sugar in the marinade, but the fattiness of the meat gives a little more leeway when pulling it off the grill. While this is an exotic dish that would be great for a date night, make sure it’s a third or fourth date, because some of that meat needs to be gnawed off the bone. Anyone who lets food this tasty go to waste isn’t really a keeper. For a less-boney version, the bibimbab ($10) is a good bet. The warm, boneless short rib arrives with a variety of pickled vegetables and is topped with an overmedium egg. Contrasting temperatures give each bite a different feel, and the range of textures is enticing. The beef is slightly chewy, the vegetables are crisp and moist and the egg adds tenderness and a fatty quality. Mix in brick-red gochujang sauce to boost heat and give the entire mix a more flavorful depth. Resist the temptation to dump all the rice into the bowl at the same time, though. The temperature of the rice helps warm the dish, so adding it in stages keeps bibimbab from cooling off before the meal is finished. Kimchi chigae ($10) is becoming more desirable as the weather outside turns cooler. The stew gets its heft from pork, but the taste is pure kimchi. Sometimes referred to as Korean sauerkraut, kimchi is a dish of spicy, fermented chili peppers and vegetables, usually cabbage. Good kimchi is great as a topping or alone. My predilection is to eat it straight from the banchan bowls. Adding rice to kimchi chigae gives it more body and makes it easier to eat, soaking up some of the intense heat of the peppers. It’s a powerfully warming dish. Korean House will soon relocate down the street to a newer, updated building, probably in the next month.

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Belle Kitchen caramel pecan doughnut | Photo Garett Fisbeck / file

•Bakery buzz Belle Kitchen owner Cheryl Davenport is abuzz about the online accolades her restaurant receives. Earlier this month, Buzzfeed.com’s The Best Doughnut Shop in Every State list named Belle Kitchen home of Oklahoma’s best doughnuts. Davenport, who used her experience as a science teacher to perfect her dough recipe, said she is “super jazzed” by the honor. Belle Kitchen, 7509 N. May Ave., also recently opened a Deep Deuce location at 30 NE Second St. Though it was doughnuts that landed the eatery on Buzzfeed, the shop is also known locally for experimental ice cream flavors and gourmet macarons. Visit belle-kitchen.com. Photo Terri Took It Photography / provided

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Whodunit Dinner Theater joins Waters Edge Winery and Foodie Foot Tours for wine and murder 6 p.m. Nov. 3 at the winery, 712 N. Broadway Ave. W hodunit performs Victim of Retirement, a tale about a love triangle gone wrong at Sunnydays Retirement Village. Tickets for the 6 p.m. show and dinner with Foodie Foot Tours are $60, available at foodiefoottours.com. Guests will tour Automobile Alley with cocktails and appetizers at Sidecar Barley & Wine Bar, 1100 N. Broadway Ave., and a dinner sampling at Broadway 10 Bar & Chophouse, 1101 N. Broadway Ave. Guests who want to skip dinner can purchase show tickets for $27 with a 7:30 p.m. start time. Those tickets include two glasses of wine or equivalent bar drink from Waters Edge. Visit whodunit.net or call 405-4203222 for tickets.

Wine time

Napa Valley Then & Now author Kelli A. White visits Oklahoma City on Saturday for a wine dinner hosted by Thirst Wine Merchants with food from local guest chef Kurt Fleischfresser. The recently published book covers the history of the people in California’s Napa Valley and explores the various wines produced. The dinner 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the downtown Petroleum Club of Oklahoma City, 100 N. Broadway Ave., includes a signed copy of the book and a sampling of Napa Valley wines, including Blackbird Vineyards Arriviste rosé, Lail Vineyards Blueprint Sauvignon Blanc and Vineyard 29 CRU Cabernet Sauvignon, with a fivecourse meal prepared by Fleischfresser. Tickets are $99 plus tax and gratuity. Call 405-232-1184 or email vj@petroleumclubokc.com for reservations.

Author Hank Shaw said learning to hunt helped him develop the “core competency of being a complete human.” | Photo Holly A. Heyser / provided

deserts of Lebanon. In Hokkaido, Japan, hunters find the same kind of deer that run wild in Alaska. “There are whitetails all the way to the Andes and Yucatan,” he said. “A great deal of these recipes are from the countries of origin.”

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Hungry hunter Cookbook author Hank Shaw brings a bevy of wild game recipes to Oklahoma City this week. By Greg Elwell

Hunting for his own meat was the final step in a journey Hank Shaw began as a young boy with his mother. Shaw’s new cookbook, Buck, Buck, Moose: Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Deer, Elk, Moose, Antelope and Other Antlered Things, is a testament to the principles of self-reliance he learned. His book tour visits Oklahoma City 8-10 p.m. Monday at The R&J Lounge and Supper Club, 320 NW 10th St., and 6-10 p.m. Tuesday for a guest chef venison dinner at Ludivine, 805 N. Hudson Ave. He came to the sport of hunting at age 32 after a friend from Minnesota gave him a needed push to “complete the cycle” of becoming wholly self-reliant. “We are the only species on earth that doesn’t know how to feed ourselves,” he said. “If the grocery stores and farmers markets went away tomorrow, how many people would be able to fend for themselves?” Shaw doesn’t think that future will happen anytime soon. “I’m not a doomsday prepper or anything,” he said. “It’s really about the core competency of being a complete human.” He hasn’t purchased meat in 11 years. Instead, he eats what he can hunt, grow or forage with the seasons. There is a kind of meditation to breaking down hunted quarry, Shaw said. Animals are all generally built the same, so preparing one four-legged mammal isn’t that different from another. It’s work he

did as a restaurant cook years ago, but it’s more meaningful now. “When you get to a larger animal, like a deer, the cool thing about butchering it — this may sound macabre — it’s like opening a present,” he said. “The process of going from animal to meat is very zen. It finishes the hunt.”

Life lessons

“Mom taught me how to fish and about edible plants in our area,” Shaw said. “She thought it was very important for her children to know the names of things.” That sense of discovery was integral to the research and writing of Buck, Buck, Moose, he said. Most people are “green blind.” They look at the world around them and don’t differentiate one plant from another or know what kind of tree is in front of them or what type of berries grow from different bushes. “One of the most exciting things about the book for me is its global nature. Every culture around the world eats something like deer or has a history of it,” he said. “That is fascinating.” Shaw said his wild game recipes were drawn from around the globe, giving the book a more interesting palate of flavors. One came from his banker, Omar, who told him about gazelle hunting in the eastern

Shaw met Oklahoma City residents Russ Johnson and Jonathon Stranger in 2011 during the tour for his first cookbook, Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast. “They cooked one of the best meals of that entire tour,” he said. “We came back again in 2013 to do a dinner for [my second cookbook] Duck, Duck, Goose: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Waterfowl, Both Farmed and Wild.” Tuesday’s dinner is a collaboration as the chefs prepare their takes on recipes from Shaw’s newest book. “Those guys know what they’re doing,” he said. As fun as it is to experience their interpretation of his dishes, Shaw said the book was not written for chefs. “All the recipes were tested by regular people at least three times,” he said. “I didn’t let chefs anywhere near my recipes.” Buck, Buck, Moose provides readers with well-tested, accessible recipes that go beyond the basics. Wild game steaks are delightful, but he said that’s a minor portion of the animal. His book addresses the unusual cuts and gives step-by-step instructions on preparing parts that are less frequently used, including offal, or internal organs and entrails. “There are already 14 million deer hunters in the U.S., and double that for what I call the ‘venison diaspora,’” he said. “If you’re a big game hunter, you’re not going to be able to eat more than one big elk a year. You have to find an outlet for that venison.” Visit honest-food.net to learn more.

Photo Holly A. Heyser / provided

Hank shaw Meet and Greet 8-10 p.m. monday the R&J Lounge and Supper club 320 NW 10th St. rjsupperclub.com 405-602-5066 | Free

Guest Chef Dinner 6-10 p.m. tuesday Ludivine 805 N. Hudson ave. ludivineokc.com 405-778-6800 | $80-$120

Deer and elk hunting season archery: now-Jan. 15 primitive arms: Sat.-Oct. 30 Gun: Nov. 19-Dec. 4 Holiday antlerless: Dec. 16-25

buy it Buck, Buck, Moose author Hank Shaw said the recipes in his book also work well substituting buffalo or grassfed beef instead of freshly hunted venison. For those interested in trying the dishes with venison, it’s available for purchase from several metro butcher shops. wheeler’s Meat Market seasonally available venison 1524 SE 44th St. wheelersmeatmarket.com 405-677-6281 Cusack Meats venison by order 301 SW 12th St. cusackmeats.com 800-241-6328 the Meat House elk loins and ground venison 2249 W. Danforth Road, Edmond themeathouse.com 405-509-2900 Natural Grocers ground elk Five metro locations naturalgrocers.com Honey Hill farm whole deer By appointment only oklahomafood.coop/honeyhill-farm 405-341-5499

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Attention, heroes! There are wines trapped in bottles across the metro in need of rescue. Be the savior we deserve by visiting these wine-rich venues, ordering a bottle (or two and an Uber) and setting free some of Oklahoma City’s best wines. Heroism never tasted so sweet. By Greg Elwell Photos Garett Fisbeck and Gazette file

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Pelotón Cafe

Opus Prime Steakhouse

Pelotón Cafe in Automobile Alley definitely is bicyclist-friendly, but it welcomes guests who arrive by car, too. With more than 30 wines available and light fare for lunch and dinner, Pelotón is an ideal spot to meet friends while honing your selfproclaimed oenophile skills. Its wine list largely focuses on California wines, but it has some European and South American varietals, as well.

There’s Optimus Prime, DC’s Earth Prime, Prime from Malibu Comics, and in the quest to discover the best bottles around, Oklahoma City has Opus Prime Steakhouse. With more than 1,000 wines available by the bottle, Opus Prime Steakhouse has been recognized since 2008 as a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winner. That’s a pretty heroic achievement.

900 N. Broadway Ave. pelotoncafeokc.com | 405-605-0513

800 W. Memorial Road opusprimesteakhouse.com 405-607-6787

Blu Fine Wine & Food

201 S. Crawford Ave., Norman gldining.com/blu | 405-360-4258 Norman’s Blu Fine Wine & Food helpfully breaks up its expansive wine list — which includes dozens of varieties — by whites, reds and bubblies as well as by taste (light and smooth, medium and complex, full and rich, or bold, or spicy … you get the picture) to help diners discover the right bottle for the occasion. Bottle prices start at $20, and glasses can cost between $6 and $11. More experienced wine lovers should check out the “for the captain” list of rarer vintages. Those bottle prices start at around $70.

Bin 73 Wine Bar

7312 N. Western Ave. bin73.com | 405-843-0073 For live music and lively company, it’s hard to best Bin 73. The menu offers small plates, including queso rojo and the house cheese plate, that are great for sharing. If you desire variety in your varietals, Bin 73’s by-the-glass offerings allow customers with wandering palates the opportunity to traverse the globe one sip at a time, from California and Washington to Argentina, Italy and New Zealand.

Flip’s Wine Bar & Trattoria

5801 N. Western Ave. flipswinebar.com | 405-843-1527 Many metro merrymakers first fell in love with Flip’s Wine Bar & Trattoria when they discovered the restaurant keeps its kitchen open late. The bar is open until 2 a.m. nightly, and the waitstaff happily brings customers nosh from its late-night menu until 1 a.m. So anyone who’s enamored with Flip’s extensive wine collection can still order manicotti, Flip’s Italian nachos and a pescatore salad.

Museum Cafe

Patrono Italian Restaurant

Oklahoma City Museum of Art is where cinephiles and art lovers find award-winning and critically acclaimed masterpieces. The same goes for Museum Cafe’s menu, which includes selections of critically acclaimed imported and domestic wines. France’s Chateau Lafite Rothschild comes in at $929 per bottle, but the wine list with more than 360 wines offers plenty of fine vintages by the glass, half-bottle or full bottle in the $6-$90 price range.

Italian food is best paired with Italian wine, said Patrono owner and chef Robert DeCoste, which is why his beloved menu of dishes, inspired by his travels across Italy, is accompanied by a wine list from the old country. Not sure what pairs well with orecchiette calabrese or chicken al mattone? Ask the expert staff for a recommendation. Those feeling very adventurous might ask for grappa, an Italian brandy made from grape seeds, skins, stalks and stems.

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Wicked fun Pumpkins, goblins, zombies, murder mysteries, terror trails, candy, cocktails, costumes, bar crawls and more haunt the metro this season. With two weekends in which to celebrate the coming of All Hallows’ Eve this year, our city offers dozens of activities for adults and families alike. Heeeeere’s Oklahoma Gazette’s list of things to do and see this Halloween season. By Gazette Staff

Eat & Drink Creatures & Cocktails 7-11 p.m. Friday Oklahoma City Zoo, Botanical Garden + Aquarium 2101 NE 50th St. zoofriends.org/events 405-425-0613 $15-$45 | 21+

Let out your inner animal at Creatures & Cocktails, a Halloween party benefiting Oklahoma City Zoo, Botanical Garden + Aquarium. Organized by ZOOtroop young professionals representing Oklahoma Zoological Society, Creatures & Cocktails is a scary good time. This party is a 21-andolder event with cocktails, food, dancing and a costume contest. Take a terrifying tour of the haunted herpetarium. Proceeds benefit zoo conservation initiatives.

4th Friday at the Market Trick or Treat Party 6-10 p.m. Oct. 28 Delmar Gardens Food Truck Park

Sports & Social on the Glo-K-C Halloween Bar Crawl. Starting at Angles, 2117 NW 39th St., the costumed procession also hits Copa, The Boom and Finish Line with a signature drink served at each. Revelers receive a bar crawl koozie, a shot at prizes and “more glowsticks than your grandmother would deem prudent.”

Asylum at Aloft 3 p.m.-1 a.m. Oct. 29 Aloft Oklahoma City Downtown-Bricktown 209 N. Walnut Ave. aloftoklahomacitybricktown.com 405-605-2100 Free-$10 | 21+

1225 SW Second St. delmargardensokc.com 405-445-9435 Free | All ages

Farmers Market District gets into the seasonal spirit with 4th Friday at the Market Trick or Treat Party at Delmar Gardens Food Truck Park. The Loaded Bowl, That Pie Truck and Murphy’s CookShack will be on hand for skeletons looking to put some meat (and veggies and dessert) on their bones. The all-ages party features pumpkin painting, a mask-making booth and a costume contest as well as live music from Hannah Denny and Groovadox.

Glo-K-C Halloween Bar Crawl 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Oct 28 Angles 2117 NW 39th St. ossosports.com 405-418-6776 $25-$30 | 21+

While the neighborhoods are taken over by princesses, pirates and Power Rangers, adults can spend Halloween with OSSO

It would be mad — mad we say! — to miss the fun of Asylum at Aloft. Costumed revelers are admitted free and can join the costume contest that offers prizes to first-, secondand third-place winners. The adults-only shindig starts at 3 p.m. with scary movies, and the ghouls really come out at night with drinks, food vendors and costumes aplenty on the hotel venue’s top floor.

The Dinner Detective Halloween Costume Show

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Nightmare on Film Row 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Oct. 29 FlashBack RetroPub 814 W. Sheridan Ave. flashbackretropub.com facebook.com/flashbackretropub 405-633-3604 $5 | 21+

Most arcades can snap up $5 from gamers in a matter of minutes, but FlashBack RetroPub has them playing all night at Nightmare on Film Row. The screams start at 9 p.m., and guests can play vintage arcade games, break it down to ’80s hits on the dance floor and enjoy the full bar and a bevy of specialty drinks. A best costume contest also offers $100 to the winner.

arts & CulturE The Rocky Horror Show 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 26-27, Nov. 3; 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 28-29, Nov. 4-5; 9 p.m. Oct. 31; 11:59 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28-29, Nov. 4-5 Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma

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Halloween isn’t fun until somebody gets killed, which is why The Dinner Detective Halloween Costume Show promises to be a frightening good time. For guests age 15 and older, this dinner includes a show in which anybody could be the victim, as cast members are hidden among the audience, waiting to get whacked. Dress up, drink up and brush up on your detective skills, because the guests figure out who committed the murder most howwwl.

Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma only presents its production of The Rocky Horror Show every three years, making it an event worth the antici ... pation for both Rocky faithful and first-timers. Two years before Tim Curry appeared in the 1975 film adaptation, he starred as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Richard O’Brien’s groundbreaking 1973 musical. Lyric’s “glam-rock” musical remains true to the original. Austin, Texas-based actor J. Robert Moore stars as Frank in the musical directed by Michael Baron.

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Heathers: The Musical 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Oct. 27-29, 2 p.m. Sunday The Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie thepollard.org 405-282-2800 $15-$30

For those who may have missed out on Rocky Horror’s cult appeal, then this eerily foreboding stage adaptation of Heathers, the late-’80s R-rated dark comedy flick starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty, will be a better bet. The rock musical is an even campier version of its predecessor without sacrificing the original’s dark and relatable punch.

The Woman in Black 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Oct. 27-29, 2 p.m. Sunday Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave.

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reduxiontheatre.com 405-297-2264 $22-$37

This two-man ghost story has haunted London’s West End theater district since 1989. The Victorian-era story based on a 1983 novella of the same name opens Reduxion Theatre Company’s ninth season, also its first season with artistic director Tonia Sina. Matthew E. Ellis and David Fletcher Hall are the sole actors in the production about a man engrossed in the tragic history of a small English town. When he hires an actor to help reenact past events, he invokes the spirit of the mysterious woman in black, whom they ultimately hope to vanquish.

season should attend Adèle Wolf’s annual holiday burlesque and variety show. The event’s fifth year features burlesque shows by Wolff, Apathy Angel (New York City) and Nikki Knockout (Houston) and performances by belly dancer Jahara Amar, cabaret vocalist Renee Anderson and a Knockout aerial display. Participate in a costume contest as well as win door prizes from Aalim Bellydance Academy, Adèle Wolf’s Burlesque & Variety Show, Bad Granny’s Bazaar and Dig It! Boutique. Dress to impress and guests must be at least 18 years old to enter and 21 to drink.

Adéle Wolf’s Burlesque & variety Show 5th Annual Halloween Spectacular

2016 Midwest Horror Shorts Film Festival

9-11:30 p.m. Saturday

Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO)

Oklahoma Contemporary

706 W. Sheridan Ave.

3000 General Pershing Blvd.

individualartists.org

adelewolf.com

405-232-6060

405-445-1696

$15

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7 p.m.-midnight Oct. 28

Frightful films are classic Halloween fare, but how many times can horror fans watch the same old monster or slasher flicks? Instead of Frankenstein or Dracula, consider attending the second installment of Midwest Horror Shorts Film Festival, featuring original content created by local and regional filmmakers. This year’s event welcomes Oklahoma film icon Count Gregore (actor John Ferguson), who hosts the awards ceremony. The film submission deadline has passed, but those interested in screening passes can contact Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO).

Day of the Dead Festival 1-8 p.m. Oct. 30 NW 16th Street between Classen Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue plazadistrict.org 405-367-9403 Free adÈle wolF | Photo adèle WolF Productions / Provided

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Thousands of guests are expected to attend Plaza District’s third annual Day of the Dead street festival. Día de los Muertos, or

ANTI-AGING SERvICES Legend has it that a strange old lady lives in a house on 10th Street. Nobody is exactly sure what goes on there, but stories of horrible things happening in the house have been told for the past 11 years. Experience the terror for yourself.

KATT’s Haunted Forest 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Oct. 31 Lost Lakes Amphitheatre and Water Park 3501 NE 10th St. 405-702-4040 $10-$35

OKC’s Haunted Forest has seen its share of horrors since statehood. Not all its settlers were sane, law-abiding people, after all. Guests can take a 20-minute journey through the Haunted Forest in Lost Lakes Amphitheatre and Water Park and experience its hidden frights or fight the zombie apocalypse with laser tag guns or paintballs and win concert tickets, T-shirts and other KATT swag.

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Guthrie Haunts ScareGrounds features an interactive experience with creepy clowns, psychotic patients, ax-wielding maniacs, machines of terror and more. Barbecue food truck Rolled Up will be on hand for those with iron stomachs who are still hungry after witnessing the horrors of the ScareGrounds. On Thursdays, guests who bring a nonperishable canned food get $3 off admission. Canned goods collected will be donated to God’s Food Bank.

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Day of the Dead, is a Mexican holiday honoring and remembering dead friends and family members. Unlike Halloween’s focus on terror, this holiday is usually joyful. Guests can enjoy art, food, vendors, music, youth activities, dancing and a La Catrina parade, a walking procession of festive, skull-faced revelers resembling the traditional annual march held in Mexico City. The procession begins at 4 p.m. and is expected to last a half-hour. It starts at the corner of Indiana Avenue and ends in front of Lyric Theatre after a winding course through and around NW 16th Street.

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Zombie Hunt at Battle Park 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 28-29 and Nov. 4-5 Battle Park 14805 W. Industrial Road, Guthrie battleparkok.com 405-433-2223 $20-$21

The zombies are hunting for brains, and it’s up to you to save humanity. Do your part in the zombie war at Battle Park by taking a seat on the battle wagon. Each zombie hunter uses a mounted paintball gun with 200 paintballs on a 15-20-minute ride through a zombie-infested area. Soldiers may purchase extra paintballs in Battle Creek’s clubhouse or during the ride. Tickets may be used a second time for a half-price ride and free open play any Saturday or Sunday through Dec. 4.

Terror on 10th Street Haunted House 7-11 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Oct. 26-Nov. 1 2005 NW 10th St. facebook.com/terroron10thstreet 405-232-1816 $10

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graveyard. Find yourself entangled in the Widow’s Web, combat evil at Camp Carnage and avoid becoming a permanent resident at Eternal Slumbers Cemetery. Embark on a Zombie Hunt hayride as you use your 200 paintball pellets to protect yourself from an undead horde. The ticket booth is open 7:30-11 p.m., or buy tickets online.

Oct. 29tH & 30tH H 9am to 6pm Saturday 9am to 5pm Sunday $6.00 at the door Children under 12 free.

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Frontier City Fright Fest 7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Oct. 29-30 11501 N. Interstate 35 Service Road frontiercity.com $26.99-$44.99

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Charles Labrie began building The Sanctuary as an institution for the socially discarded and mentally ill in 1913. Little did he know he had built it on the grounds of an ancient temple and hired a maniacal doctor who performed horrible experiments on his patients and fed them a strange green liquid from a lagoon in the temple grounds. Sanctuary guests tour the hospital and interact with its insane inmates.

Adult Haunt the River Cruise 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Oct. 28-29 Exchange Landing 1503 Exchange Ave.

Touted as the largest haunted attraction in the state, Thunderbird Trail of Fear Haunted Scream Park includes The Rotting Dead: Reckoning’s interactive storyline, Hackensaw Haunted Hill’s hungry and mysterious family, The Magic Guild’s unimaginable feats, The Apothescary specialty souvenir shop and The Gut Hut dining destination. The onsite ticket booth is open 6:30-10 p.m., or purchase tickets online.

Newcastle Nightmare 8 p.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday and Oct. 28-29 900 N. Portland Ave., Newcastle newcastlenightmare.net 405-488-5274 $10-$25

Outdoor terror has a name, and it’s Newcastle Nightmare haunted trail and

okrivercruises.com 405-702-7755 $35

Cruise the Oklahoma River in this adultsonly haunted cruise featuring chanteys to spooky tunes, a holiday-decorated clipper filled with like-minded old salts where everyone splices the mainbrace with light snacks and rum (or any other cocktail) at the cash bar. Seating is limited, and reservations are required. Round-trip cruises last about an hour and a half.

Edmond Historic Ghost Tours 6-8 p.m. Oct. 28-29 edmondhistoricpreservationtrust.com 405-715-1889 $7

Tour guides dressed in period costumes from the late 1800s and early 1900s guide guests through downtown Edmond as they discuss the city’s history and important founding figures, bringing them back to life along the way. Newcastle Nightmare | Photo biGstock.com

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The legend of Jeepers Creepers comes alive as local farmers fight off a flesh-feeding killer at Field of Screams. The 3 Little Piggs invite unsuspecting guests to dinner as other attractions await. Festival of Fright Parade raises spirits 6:30 p.m. each night with music and lighthearted merriment, and kids can enjoy a Booville trick-or-treat trail 4-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Most attractions are included with paid park admission. Nightmare Haunted House tickets are an additional $5.

Family Pumpkinville 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday through Oct. 23 Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno Ave. myriadgardens.org 405-445-7079 Free-$6

As you would imagine, Pumpkinville is filled with orange gourds — more than 16,000 of them, in fact. Be sure to pick out your pumpkin from the patch, and then slide over to the painting station. Inside the Children’s Garden are a number of youth activities. Plan your visit on a Friday for old-fashioned cider press demonstrations and tastings on the Pavilion Lawn. Related events such as a Garden Monster Bash, pumpkin carving classes and more also take

Halloween fun for the whole Family! Shoot approaching zombies from the safety of our double-decker battle wagon! Friday and Saturday nights from September 23rd to November 5th. Get tickets at BattleParkOk.com or call 405-433-2223 for info. FroNtier city Fright Fest | Photo Provided

place during Pumpkinville.

Monster Dash 5K and Fun Run 9 a.m. Saturday Reaves Park 2501 Jenkins Ave., Norman runsignup.com/Race/OK/Norman/ JLNMonsterDash $15-$40

Like the Monster Mash, Norman’s annual Monster Dash is a graveyard smash. Just ask frequent participants Wolfman, Dracula and his son. Each October, Junior League of Norman hosts this 5K and fun run and “strongly” encourages runners and walkers to dress in costumes. As witches, superheroes, goblins, nurses and Ghostbusters run through Reaves Park, they will be raising funds for the league’s community projects.

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Storybook Forest 5:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday through Oct. 30 Spring Creek Park 7200 E. 15th St., Edmond edmondok.com $6-$10

Once upon a time, in a park in Edmond, not far from Arcadia Lake, well-known storybook characters gathered to share their tales with children and their parents. It was called Storybook Forest, and people arrived from all over to meet the characters in areas decorated as scenes from their stories. This event only gets better as the characters read their tales and share candy. Plan time to enjoy the game area and the campfire.

Brick-or-Treat 4-7 p.m. Tuesday Bricktown, corner of Reno Avenue and Mickey Mantle Drive downtownokc.com 405-235-3500 Free | 14 and younger

Get a jump-start trick-or-treating at Brickor-Treat, hosted by Bricktown Association. Like going door-to-door in a neighborhood, kids and their parents visit businesses across the entertainment district for treats and sweets. While there, youngsters might meet OKC Thunder mascot Rumble the Bison and OKC Dodgers mascots Brooklyn and Brix.

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Orr Family Farm Bonfire and The Great Pumpkin

Will Rogers Gardens

8-9 p.m. Oct. 29

Drop-In Art: Model Magic Mini Pumpkins

3400 NW 36th St.

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1-4 p.m. Oct. 29

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14400 S. Western Ave.

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415 Couch Drive

405-297-1392

405-799-3276

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Will Rogers Gardens is the perfect place to celebrate fall with your kids. Although its main October event is called Halloween on the Green, it’s very much a fall event. Add some foliage to your own home garden with the plant potting station. Next, learn about sugar skulls and Día de Los Muertos and decorate your own to take home.

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If there were one place the Great Pumpkin would rise in OKC, it would be Orr Family Farm. According to Linus from Peanuts, each year, the Great Pumpkin rises from the patch he finds most sincere. For years, Orr Family Farm has welcomed children and adults to a bona fide pumpkin patch surrounded by farm adventures. Children can trick-or-treat around the farm before finding a seat near the bonfire to watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Free-$12

Those who enjoy painting and carving pumpkins but who have always wanted to go beyond should check out Model Magic Mini Pumpkins, Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s Oct. 29 Drop-In Art event. White model magic, which is similar to putty, is modeled into a pumpkin shape and decorated with markers. Next, embellish with wiggle eyes, pipe cleaners, sparkles and more. After drying, the mini pumpkins are ready to become Halloween decorations.

1721 N. Lincoln Blvd.

Magic Lantern Celebration

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Spooky Pooch Parade

405-235-4058

Paseo Arts District

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 29

$5-$7

3022 Paseo St.

Myriad Botanical Gardens

thepaseo.org

301 W. Reno Ave.

405-525-2688

myriadgardens.org

Free

405-445-7079

Harn Homestead is the perfect place to step back in time and imagine the territorial life of Oklahoma. It’s also a great place for trickor-treating. That’s right; youngsters and their families can trick-or-treat inside the historic Land Run home in OKC. Each year, the venue welcomes goblins, witches, action heroes, Disney characters and princesses to its historic grounds for candy, games, face painting, balloon animals and more. A highlight of the event is the hayride.

A night of light instead of fright, Paseo Arts District’s Magic Lantern Celebration welcomes children and their parents to use their imaginations and creativity for an afternoon of making art. The event highlights are buliding paper costumes and parading on a painted path in the shape of a jack o’lantern in the streets.

Haunted Hikes Begins 6:30 p.m. Oct. 29

$10-$12

Halloween can be a fun time for the entire family, including four-legged friends. With more dog owners purchasing costumes for Fido, Myriad Botanical Gardens invites dogs (and their people) to join the Spooky Pooch Parade at the Great Lawn & Band Shell. Dogs that don killer costumes could saunter away with new toys, treats and other prizes.

Martin Park Nature Center

Haunt the Phil

5000 W. Memorial Road

2 p.m. Oct. 30

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Civic Center Music Hall

405-297-1429

201 N. Walker Ave.

$10

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Ever wanted to combine hiking and trickor-treating? Or when trick-or-treating, do you find yourself distracted by creepy creatures like bats as they fly through the sky? Then Haunted Hikes at Martin Park Nature Center is for you. This family-friendly event at OKC’s hub for nature exploration and education becomes a hiker’s Halloween paradise. While walking along the center’s trails, they can also learn more about spiders and snakes. For those who still believe candy is the best part of Halloween, 28

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Civic Center Music Hall is not haunted, but come Oct. 30 when Oklahoma City Philharmonic takes the stage, spooky sounds will fill the concert hall. This year’s Haunt the Phil offers music lovers a chance to get into the Halloween spirit. Arrive an hour before the show and show off your costume before heading over to introduce yourself to the performers.

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OKC cycleway

open streets okc links the north and south sides of the city with its street festival. By Tyler Talley

For the fourth time this October, Open Streets OKC inspires metro residents to ditch their cars for a few hours of healthy, nonmotorized activities. The open streets concept began in Colombia in 1974 as ciclovía, “cycleway,” and slowly made its way to and across the United States. The health and wellness project invites all in attendance to walk, bike, skate or board while they meet local

business owners and take in the unique flair of the year’s selected OKC neighborhood. Open Streets OKC 2016 is 1-5 p.m. Saturday on S. Robinson Avenue to SW 29th Street, spanning Wiley Post Park and the Oklahoma River. Carrie Blumert, community partnership liaison for Oklahoma City-County Health Department, has filled various roles with Open Streets since its 2014 inception, but

2016 represents her first as its organizer. in Open Streets, she elaborated, the attenThe purpose of Open Streets is physical dance and community engagement inactivity such as bicycling, basketball, jump creases and it benefits the business as well roping, pingpong and more. This event also with increased foot traffic the day of the offers soccer in the park and water activities event. through partnerships with the OKC Energy “We are very excited about this location FC soccer team and OKC Boathouse because it links the south and north sides of the city while staying true to the Open Foundation. Streets concept,” she said. “Public health is all about prevention and creating an environment that supports Local businesses set to participate in health,” Blumert said. “The 2016’s festivities include more opportunities we can Oklahoma Employees provide for the community Credit Union, Latino to be physically active and Community Development Open Streets make healthier choices, the Agency, Tyler Media, OKC Fall 2016 Family Builders, Open closer we move toward a Options Inc., Natural healthy OKC.” 1-5 p.m. Saturday The first event in March Grocers, Oklahoma City S. Robinson Avenue 2014 was held on NW 23rd University, Variety Care, from Wiley Post Park to Street between Western and EMBARK, Oklahoma City Historic Capitol Hill Robinson avenues, and atParks & Recreation, openstreetsokc.com Nor t hC a r e , R iv us tendance surpassed initial Free Wellness & Research expectations. I n s t it ut e , Fa m i l y “While working at our first Open Streets event three years ago, I Expectations and more. remember thinking to myself, ‘I would love Blumert said the event provides a to organize this event someday.’ And here number of volunteer opportunities. I am,” she said. “There are a variety of things volunteers “Each year since then, on our 23rd Street can do, from setting up the event, monitorlocation, we have increased our attendance ing the crowd during the event or tearing from 20,000 the first year to almost 40,000 down,” she said. “We have had great volunin 2016.” teer participation in the past and hope to again this fall.” She said this year’s area was selected Visit openstreetsokc.com. due to its status as a growing business community. When local businesses are involved

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Pitch perfect Straight No Chaser achieved unexpected YouTube fame and then transcended it. By George Lang

Straight No In 2006, 10 former members on iTunes. Chaser of a 1990s Indiana Straight No Chaser University vocal group signed a “360 deal” with 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 Atlantic, which gives the called Straight No Chaser Thelma Gaylord company a percentage of were well into their adult Performing Arts Theatre recording sales as well as lives and careers, having put Civic Center Music Hall the past glories of a cappella touring and merchandising 201 N. Walker Ave. competitions behind them. revenues. The members reokcciviccenter.com But after a former member alized they had to decide $27.50-$47.50 whether to quit their day posted an eight-year-old video on YouTube, Straight jobs in order to devote more No Chaser returned for another round. time and effort to the group. “It was a huge risk for all of us,” Chase Just to stir up some memories among his former a cappella mates, Randy Stine said. “Some of the original guys actually uploaded a 1998 video of the group performdecided to stick with their professional ing “The 12 Days of Christmas.” The jobs.” Straight No Chaser version took a classic Since Holiday Spirits, Straight No Chaser vocal arrangement from the 1950s and inhas released four studio albums and is precorporated “I Have a Little Dreidel” and paring to release its sixth collection, I’ll topped it off with cheese — Toto’s “Africa.” Have Another … Christmas Album. It is the The result became one of the first major group’s third holiday album since reuniting, viral successes on then-fledgling YouTube and the Christmas season is a prime activand took all the members by surprise. ity period for the singing act. Chase said “By the end of that first month, it was up that because of the demand, October is the beginning of Straight No Chaser’s holiday over 7 million views,” said Walter Chase, who was working as a financial advisor for tour, so fans who see the group perform 7:30 Deloitte in Manhattan. “A lot of us were p.m. Oct. 27 at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 talking about what would come from this.” N. Walker Ave., should prepare for much Thousands of a cappella groups exist on jingling all the way. While there has been more turnover in American college campuses, but Straight No Chaser’s original 1996-’99 collegiate run the group, its membership still comes from achieved unusual heights. The group perthe alma mater. For years, both the comformed the national anthem at Wrigley mercial group and the University of Indiana Field and Comiskey Park in Chicago and group used the name Straight No Chaser, eventually made it to Carnegie Hall in New but starting in 2012, the college group York City. Many of the members, including changed its name to Another Round. Chase Chase, hoped to eventually return to music. said that while a cappella groups continue When “The 12 Days of Christmas” took off, to proliferate, Straight No Chaser has a they had to make some decisions. secret ingredient. Craig Kallman, Atlantic Records CEO, “The things that make us stand out, called Stine to see if the group would reunite though, are our arrangements,” he said. to record a new album. Members convened “We take songs people like and arrange in 2008 to record Holiday Spirits in them with what we call the ‘Straight No Bloomington, Indiana. As the holidays apChaser twist,’ adding just a little bit of personality to the song that fits us and fits our proached, Straight No Chaser racked up performances on programs like NBC’s audience. … It’s not easy to dissect. If it was, Today, propelling Holiday Spirits to No. 1 there’d be a lot more Straight No Chasers out there.” Straight No Chaser | Photo Nick DuPlessis / provided

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The Hit Men bring their nostalgic show to OKC on Friday. By Adam Holt

The Hit Men perform hits from the 1960s-’80s. | Photo provided

The Hit Men are no strangers to the annals songs that we were part of the tour, part of of pop music history. Many might not recthe recording or part of the act.” Shapiro is most known for his time as ognize Lee Shapiro, Jimmy Ryan, Larry Gates, Russ Velazquez or Steve Murphy keyboardist and music director for individually, but the acts they worked, orFrankie Valli and the Four Seasons in the chestrated and recorded with are a different 1970s and 1980s. Shapiro said he first tossed the idea of matter. Their resumes include legends such The Hit Men to Valli in the late 2000s. as the Ramones, Elton John, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and Carly Simon. “I’m still friendly with Frankie Valli,” he “Everyone in the band has an extensive said. “About six years ago, I went to a recordlegacy and resume of either being a feaing session that he was on, and through the tured artist, performing success of Jersey Boys, I told with featured artists or him I was thinking about recording with them,” doing this because he always The Hit men said keyboardist and voasked me why I didn’t keep calist Lee Shapiro. performing after Frankie.” 8 p.m. Friday After parting ways with The quintet tours and Visual and Performing performs hits spanning the group, Shapiro entered arts center theater the 1960s to the 1980s. the recording industry and Oklahoma city “One thing we do is we created music for television. community college don’t just pick our favorite He also worked for Fisher7777 S. may ave. songs for our show,” said Price toy company and intickets.occc.edu Shapiro. “We only play hit vented Rock ’N Roll Elmo. 405-682-7579

“I told Frankie five, six years ago, ‘Hey, all the hit music I was a part of — ‘[December, 1963] (Oh What a Night),’ ‘Who Loves You,’ ‘My Eyes Adored You’ — what would you think if I put together some guys and do a group?’” Shapiro said. “He was very supportive and said, ‘Go give it a shot.’” He reached out to friends who shared similar backgrounds: talented musicians who worked with headlining talent. “So we put it together and we did a rehearsal and decided to play ‘Oh, What a Night,’” he said. “We looked around the room afterward, and it was like, ‘Gee. Wait a minute. That was really good. Maybe we should give this a shot.’” An agent caught an early show and convinced The Hit Men they had an audience. “Now we play all over the country, all year long,” he said. “It has turned into something that really hit a nerve with baby boomers.” Shapiro is adamant that The Hit Men is not a costumed cover act. “We’re not a tribute band; we’re not

actors from a show,” he said. “When we play songs from hit records, we tell stories about the making of a hit record, it’s because we were there.” Shapiro said what makes The Hit Men experience unique is the power of memory and quality music. The musicians share stories about the songs and musicians they worked with and project past performances in time with the live show. “It’s really a kind of time transporting, nostalgic event, in that you are seeing the people who played on the hits, playing the music the way you remember the hit, then you see images of them doing so,” he said. “What we really provide to people is time travel. We guarantee people that they will leave the theater happier and younger than when they got there.” The Hit Men perform 8 p.m. Friday at Oklahoma City Community College. Tickets are $35-$45. Visit tickets.occc.edu.

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Inside Jokes Mike Birbiglia performs his one-man show, Thank God for Jokes, in Weatherford. By George Lang

mike Birbiglia Typical career paths do physically act out their dreams while they’re not exist in modern 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 standup comedy, but sleeping. It was something Pioneer Cellular Event even at a time when cohe lived with but did not Center medians can rise through seek treatment for until Southwest Oklahoma the ranks via any combiJanuary 2005, when a lifeState University nation of YouTube, club threatening dream took 900 N. Seventh St., work, podcasting, improv over during an overnight Weatherford and Netflix specials, stay in Walla Walla, stubwire.com Mike Birbiglia’s career is Washington. 877-990-7882 exceptional. “I have a dream that $10-$25 Birbiglia earned his there is a guided missile reputation telling stories headed toward my room that happen to contain jokes. He performs and there are all these military personnel his one-man show Thank God for Jokes in the room, and I jump out of bed and I 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Southwest Oklahoma say, ‘What’s the plan?’” Birbiglia wrote in State University’s Pioneer Cellular Event a 2013 piece for The Guardian. “And they say: ‘The missile coordinates are set speCenter, 900 N. Seventh St., in Weatherford. Thank God for Jokes, which Birbiglia cifically on you.’ And I decide in my dream performed for four months in an off-Broadand, as it turns out, in my life, to jump out way production earlier this year, strings a of my window. There are two important series of relatable and ridiculous stories details here. One is that I was staying on into a performance that looks at the nature the second floor. Two, the window was of what makes people laugh. Jokes, closed. So I jumped through the closed Birbiglia says in the show, are “just your window.” side of the story.” Birbiglia sought treatment from a sleep “Birbiglia is hiding some serious ideas specialist after doctors pulled the glass beneath the laughter,” Neil Genzlinger shards out of his legs. The event transwrote in his Feb. 12 New York Times review formed his career. After he refined the incident into standup material, This of Thank God for Jokes. “This isn’t just an American Life used the story in a 2008 enjoyable performance; it’s also an admirable piece of writing.” episode titled “Fear of Sleep.” Birbiglia At 16, Birbiglia saw comedian Steven became a regular on the popular public Wright perform his uniquely absurdist set radio show and adapted the story into a and was inspired to make a career in one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me, which standup. While Wright specializes in formed the basis for his 2012 directorial bizarre one-liners, a typical Birbiglia joke debut, which became a critical success. is a multi-liner. A few years later, Birbiglia This summer, as he toured Thank God for Jokes in preparation for an upcoming began performing standup while studying at Georgetown University. His early success Netflix special, Birbiglia debuted his led to a Comedy Central special and a pilot second film, Don’t Think Twice. A look into for CBS, which did not air. The experience the backbiting, highly competitive world of making the sitcom emboldened him to of improv comedy, the film stars Birbiglia go for something more fulfilling. alongside Keegan-Michael Key and Gillian But first, Birbiglia had to jump out of a Jacobs. Birbiglia is expected to film Thank second-story window. God for Jokes this month, but the best way In 1998, Birbiglia discovered that he to thank Birbiglia for his jokes and stories had rapid eye movement (REM) behavior is to do it in person. disorder, a condition that causes people to 32

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Ghostly history

Ghosts of Fort Reno Tours share the storied past and paranormal present of the expansive El Reno compound. By George Lang

Possibly due to the deadly nature of war, “When I talk to military people, they military installations seem to have an abunsay that a lot of military bases are haunted, dance of paranormal activity reports, and so I didn’t get a lot of flak for thinking Fort at Fort Reno, reports involving ghost sightReno is haunted,” Overholser said. ings or otherwise unusual During tours, paraevents are very common. normal activity experts “In our visitor center, armed with electromagwe have furniture upnetic field meters guide ghosts of fort stairs that moves,” said visitors through various Reno Tours Sarah Overholser, Fort structures as they explain each facility’s Reno director of operaSaturday and Oct. 29 tions. “Also, one of my function and recount the Fort Reno volunteers told me there spooky events known to 7107 W. Cheyenne St., is ‘someone’ who likes to take place. Overholser El Reno visitors could come to imitate my voice. [The fortreno.org Fort Reno each month volunteer] called me once 405-262-3987 and not experience the and asked, ‘How did you $5-$10 sneak past me? I heard same tour twice. Note: Call for With the exception of you upstairs.’ I told him, reservations and tour ‘I’m not upstairs; I’m in the fort’s chapel, which is start times. Texas.’” considered a “safe place” She stayed on the by the paranormal experts, nearly every quadrant of Fort phone with him as he locked the visitor center’s doors and headed upstairs to Reno has a story about emanations from check for voice-throwing interlopers. the shadow realm. At the U.S. Cavalry Nobody else was in the building. Museum behind the visitor center, secondSo many reports came from both Fort floor workers often report hearing tuberReno workers and visitors that the facilcular retching and coughing coming from ity started inviting paranormal experts the area of the front desk, but when they check on the employee, she reports she’s to take families on ghost-related walkfine and disease-free. abouts on the compound, exploring buildings and areas where sightings and pecuAnecdotal reports of a girl named liar phenomena regularly occur. Emily Ann being murdered and buried Overholser said Ghosts of Fort Reno under the Victorian home at Fort Reno events become more popular each year, have never been fully confirmed, but many and tours happen monthly during spring visitors report seeing the child standing and summer and almost weekly in in one of the windows. Recently, one guest October. The next tour is Saturday at Fort witnessed something that did not look Reno, 7107 W. Cheyenne St., in El Reno. human at all. An Oct. 29 event is sold out. “One kid took a picture on our last ghost tour, and there was something A quick look at Fort Reno’s history weirdly lizardlike in the picture,” puts it squarely in the category of places where spirits might have a few unreconOverholser said. “I don’t really know how ciled beefs over their mortal fate. Named to explain that one, but that’s the only for Gen. Jesse L. Reno, the U.S. Army nonhuman-looking thing I’ve seen in one established Fort Reno to protect the of the pictures. Darlington Agency during the American “The paranormal team was sitting there, looking at the picture, because Indian uprisings that led to the Red River War of 1874. After the war, Fort Reno’s whenever they get a picture like that, they mission was shifted toward protecting study it to make sure it isn’t a fake. So now area Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and I have to get a priest or something.” then policing the 1889 Land Run. Learn more at fortreno.org. Ghosts of Fort Reno tours examine paranormal activity at Fort Reno’s expansive grounds. | Photo Garett Fisbeck

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DeadCenter Film Festival launches its inaugural Circus Cinématique Halloween carnival and fundraiser. By Adam Holt

DeadCenter Film Festival, the host of Oklahoma’s best-known and largest independent film festival, adds a taste of the peculiar to its new fall fundraiser. Circus Cinématique, a Halloweenthemed carnival, lands in the Wheeler District, 1701 S. Western Ave., 8 p.m. Saturday. The event represents the nonprofit organization’s first autumn fundraiser, and proceeds benefit the group’s year-round education programming. “We are making it a creepy, circus sort of theme,” said Kim Haywood, deadCenter director of programming and education. Centered on the district’s recently installed Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel, Circus Cinématique taps into the excitement of the big top. “We love Halloween,” Haywood said. “We just want to create an event where grown-ups can go back and dress up and live that nostalgia.” The celebration includes a DJ and dance party, a bar and roaming performers whom Haywood expects will be dressed like fortunetellers and gypsies. Guests must be age 21 or older. The event dress code is casual, though guests are encouraged to dress in costume, and a contest will award prizes for best individual, couple and group. Though the annual film festival is the organization’s primary focus, Haywood said the organization also has an ongoing mission to educate about and foster filmmaking across the state. The funds raised by Circus Cinématique directly support these endeavors. “People know deadCenter the film festival, but what they don’t know about deadCenter is that we have a huge education program,” Haywood said. “We travel around the state in the fall and teach filmmaking workshops and seminars to high schools, technology centers and some universities.” The nonprofit’s prior fundraisers sup-

ported the annual film festival. Circus Cinématique represents an expansion in fundraising efforts as well as the continued growth of the organization and its educational priorities. “We are also starting something called the deadCenter Institute, which is education focused for adults,” Haywood said. “We are starting that in November.” DeadCenter also strives to inform young Oklahomans about filmmaking history and industry job opportunities. This often results in deadCenter traveling to students across the state, rather than vice versa, to work with an estimated 3,000 people each fall. “We really like to go to rural communities where, specifically, film education and film art education is not available,” Haywood said. “I think that’s the most important thing for these students in rural communities to understand: Just because they are one of two or three kids in their school who are interested in film, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a network of other like-minded students around the state.” She said students meet one-on-one with filmmakers and network with other students around the state. “We see these students going on to film school locally, which is real exciting. We also see them working on projects together,” Haywood said. “That just helps us as well because our film base, our crew base, is here in Oklahoma.” Haywood said deadCenter receives positive feedback for its education efforts. “People are grateful that we’re doing it,” she said. “Film education, and just art education in general in our state, we’ve lost [state] funding, and lots of these school districts are losing art. So the fact that we’re able to travel for them, to bring this program to them, they’re thankful.” Learn more at deadcenterfilm.org.

cALENDAr are events recommended by Oklahoma Gazette editorial staff members For full calendar listings, go to okgazette.com.

BOOKS Book Signing, Oklahoma Book Award winners and poet laureates Nathan Brown and Ben Myers read and sign their works; Brown’s books include: To Sing Hallucinated, My Salvaged Heart, Karma Crisis, Two Tables Over and Gypsy Moon, among several others, Myers’ books are Elegy for Trains and Lapse Americana, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-8422900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU Artspace Forum: Meet & Greet, author Quraysh Ali Lansana signs and reads his children’s book, A Gift from Greensboro, as well as a discussion between author, illustrator Skip Hill and publisher Chad Reynolds, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 20. [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE Third St., 405-815-6665, artspaceatuntitled. org. THU Nothing Daunted Women’s Book Club, discuss Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, 7 p.m. Oct. 20. Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway, 405-842-2900, fullcirclebooks.com. THU Garrison Keillor, author, storyteller and radio personality brings his performance to Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Hudson Performance Hall, 2820 N. May Ave., 405-7218066, hudsonperformancehall.com. THU Meg Cabot book presentation, author of several

3100, okcmoa.com. THU The Lovers and the Despot, (UK, 2016, dir. Robert Cannan and Ross Adam) the story of South Koren actor and film director who were kidnapped and reunited by dictator Kim Jong-il, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 21-22, 2 p.m. Oct. 23. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI -SUN Miss Hokusai, (JP, 2015, dir. Keiichi Hara) film of the life of Japanese artist and painter Katsushika Hokusai from the perspective of his daughter, 8 p.m. Oct. 21-22, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 23. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI -SUN

HAPPENINGS Pasport to Global Korea Wednesday Lecture Series: Characteristics of South Koreans, Dohwon Kim and Anish Peringol, Dohwon and Anish bring a unique perspective on their travels through Korea and America, and the teaching of language and culture, 1 p.m. Oct. 19. Pegasus Theater UCO Campus, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, 405974-2000, uco.edu. WED Frack Fest, underground multimedia festival featuring films, comic books, gaming and more, Oct. 20-23. The Paramount, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-517-0787, theparamountokc.com. THU -SUN Adult Invertebrate Fossil Field Trip, join invertebrate paleontology curator Steve Westrop for an exciting journey into Oklahoma’s Paleozoic past; explore life in Oklahoma’s ancient oceans on Friday evening with a close-up look at some of the museum’s finest invertebrate specimens followed by a field trip on Saturday to the site where you will find a variety of marine fossils that you can take home, 6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 22. Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 405-325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu. FRI An Affair of the Heart, clothes, jewelry, art, accessories, foods and more from many different vendors, Oct. 21-23. Oklahoma State Fair Park, 3221 Great Plains Walk, 405-948-6797, okstatefair.com. FRI -SUN 4th Annual Battle of the Brains Trivia Night, compete in 10 rounds of trivia for prizes and the ultimate bragging rights; all proceeds from Battle of the Brains benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and its mission to wipe out blood cancers, 6-11 p.m. Oct. 21. Credit Union House, 631 E. Hill St., 405-445-1513, creditunionhouseok.com. FRI OPUS: Club Cabaret, Allied Arts’ largest fundraising event and biennial gala including a cabaret-style variety show with local performers, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21. The Criterion, 500 E. Sheridan Ave., 405-308-1803, criterionokc.com. FRI Pop Up Shops, local shops, food trucks, inflatables, face painting, crafts, petting zoo, arcade bus and more, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 22. Mitch Park, 1501 W. Covell Road, Edmond, 405-359-4630, edmondok. com/parks. SAT

Off the Grid Let’s hear it for all the audio purists. Saturday’s Off the Grid all-vinyl DJ showcase marks the first installment of a planned yearly series of events backed by local DJ collectives Damn Haze and Carte Blanche. Soul, funk, disco, deep house and other dance music subgenres will be featured with an ultimate goal to bring awareness and funding to the local arts community. The all-ages showcase starts 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Power House, 1228 SW Second St. Admission is free. Visit facebook.com/ powerhouseokc or call 405-702-0699. SATURDAy Image Carte Blanche / provided books at the top of The New York Times’ best-seller list discusses her two most recent titles, 7 p.m. Oct. 25. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Drive, Edmond, 405-974-2000, uco. edu. TUE

FILM Western Movie Matinees: The Misfits, (US, 1961, dir. John Huston) a divorcee falls for a cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle, 1 p.m. Oct. 19. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd St., 405-478-2250, nationalcowboymuseum.org. WED The Academy of Muses, (ES, 2015, dir. Jose Luis Guerin) a university professor teaches a class on muse in literature and art as means of romancing his female students, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-

Talk with Shannon Lucid, astronaut Shannon Lucid comes to the Bethany Library to talk with visitors about her astronaut career and life, 2-3 p.m. Oct. 22. Bethany Library, 3510 N. Mueller Ave., Bethany, 405-789-8363, metrolibrary.org. SAT The Gathering, food, fashion and football extravaganza; enjoy the latest fashions displayed on a big screen, live music and delicious food and beverages, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Junior League of Oklahoma City, 6-11 p.m. Oct. 22. Republic Gastropub, 5830 N. Classen Blvd., 405-286-4577, republicgastropub.com. SAT Wildcrafting Wreath Class: Taught by Kenton Peters, create a wildcrafted wreath from scratch by weaving willow, vines and other natural items together, 1-3 p.m. Oct. 23. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SUN

FOOD Carne Diem, featuring more than 50 different chilis, live music and more with proceeds benefiting United Way of Central Oklahoma, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Oct. 21. VI Marketing and Branding, 125 Park Ave, 405-525-0055, vimarketingandbranding.com. FRI

Slaughterhouse It’s not often a Halloween attraction hosts a red carpet event. Members of the cast and crew behind slasher-thriller Slaughterhouse make two Oklahoma stops to promote the film while touring the country’s haunted houses, trails and cinemas. The first immersive screening is 7 p.m. Oct. 26 at Dead Woods Trail of Fear, 20100 NE 178th St., in Luther. The second is 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at Trail of Fear Haunted Scream Park, 11101 SE Lee Blvd., in Lawton. Single tickets are $12, and screening and haunted trail bundle passes are $20. Visit slaughterhousefilm.com/ roadshow. OCT. 26 AND 28 Photo Slaughterhouse Productions / provided

YOUTH Red Dirt Dinos, following a journey around the state and across the world, the dinosaurs that once roamed over Oklahoma’s red dirt landscape return to Science Museum Oklahoma; three interactive, lifelike robotic dinosaurs and a variety of hands-on components help visitors explore Oklahoma’s dinosaurs. Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St., 405-602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. Creative Costumes, scare up artistic costume fun just in time for Halloween; little artists make original costumes using paper, paint, fabric and other materials, Oct. 17-21. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. MON - FRI Fall Art Camp: Fundamental Hip-Hop, camp providing a basic understanding of the history and early cultural influences of hip-hop and its effect on modern society; encourages teamwork, open-minded explorations, creative problem-solving and self-confidence, Oct. 17-21. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. MON - FRI

Janice Callaway Book Signing, local children’s author signs and reads from her book during a special storytime, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 22. Best of Books, 1313 E. Danforth Road, Edmond, 405-3409202, bestofbooksok.com. SAT Hoopapalooza!, celebrate the completion of the new urban hoop house; family-friendly event with live music, farm tours, potluck lunch, silent auction and plenty of fun activities for the kids, noon-3 p.m. Oct. 22. CommonWealth Urban Farms, 3310 N. Olie Ave., commonwealthurbanfarms.com. SAT Nighttime is the Right Time for Scorpions, join Doug Gaffin, biologist from the University of Oklahoma, as he shares his knowledge about scorpions and shows them off to visitors in a new light, 2 p.m. Oct. 22. Martin Park Nature Center, 5000 W. Memorial Road, 405-297-1429, okc.gov/

Fall Art Camps: Spook and Scare Video Production, students make a fun and spooky short video inspired by the Halloween season; campers work as a team to make a suspenseful visual story combining different camera angles and shots and then learn how to edit the shots, create unique special effects and add haunting music to complete the video, Oct. 17-21. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. MON - FRI Ed”Zoo”cation Live! Series: Crawly Critters, for all the fans of the cool, weird and uncommon critters at the Zoo, this program, Crawly Critters, is for you and includes interactive learning experiences and up-close encounters with animal ambassadors; ages 4+, 2-3 p.m. Oct. 20. Oklahoma City Zoo Botanical Garden + Aquarium, 2000 Remington Place, 405-424-3344, okczoo.com. THU School’s Out Day Camp, a unique adventure during the holidays; fun and safe day camp for children to connect with animals and nature, Oct. 20-21. Oklahoma City Zoo Botanical Garden + Aquarium, 2000 Remington Place, 405-424-3344, okczoo.com. THU - FRI Fall Break Day Camp, each day consists of new games, making creative crafts and having fun with awesome activities, Oct. 20-21 and 24. Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405606-7003, oklahomachildrenstheatre.org. THU -SAT

Pickle Practically Anything: Introductory Class, informative class showing you how many things you can pickle; discuss the process, taste test and pickle your own jar of vegetable relish, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 22. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 405-445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SAT

deadCenter Fall Break Seminar, open to high school-aged students and covers every aspect of the filmmaking process, including choosing topics for films, writing screenplays, acting, auditioning, production and more, 9 a.m.-noon Oct. 21. IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-232-6060, iaogallery.org. FRI

Tapped: The Ultimate Craft Beer Festival, sample over 100 beers, wines and ciders; live DJ, games and fun, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Oct. 22. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, 405-218-1000.

Homeschool Art: 3-Dimensional Adventures, three-session class, learning more about 3-D art, and view sculptures in the galleries along with creating your own 3-D works of art; ages 6-13, 10 a.m.-noon, Oct. 21. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 405-236-3100, okcmoa.com. FRI

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games and activities for children, snacks and entertainment; children are encouraged to wear costumes if they wish, 4-8 p.m. Oct. 21. Downtown Bethany, NW 39th Expressway and Asbury Ave., Bethany. FRI

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Fermenting 101 Peter Piper never picked a peck of pickles as palatable as the pickles people will learn to pickle at Fermenting 101 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday at Oklahoma County OSU Cooperative Extension Service, 2500 NE 63rd St. The $10 workshop includes demonstrations on making sauerkraut, pickles and yogurt from OSU Master Wellness volunteers. Guests get to sample the foods and take home recipes to create their own. Visit oces.okstate.edu/ oklahoma or call 405-713-1125. SATURDAy Photo OSU Oklahoma County Cooperative Extension Service / provided

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PErFOrMING ArTS Triple Feature Week, three funny dudes, one killer show; variety of comedy styles and limitless number of topics, 8 p.m. Oct. 19-20, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Oct. 21-22. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 405-239-4242, loonybincomedy. com. WED -SAT Next to Normal, Sooner Theatre presents threetime Tony Award and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning

colonial cities of Bolivia, and Cusco, Peru; and on concert tours of Germany and Austria, 8 p.m. Oct. 25. Oklahoma City University, 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., 405-236-3100, okcu.edu. TUE

AcTIVE 24 The Hard Way, athletes have their choice of a 24, 12 or 6-hour race on flat asphalt or a technical trail, 6 p.m. Oct. 21-23. Bluff Creek Park, 4551 W. Hefner Road. FRI -SUN A Run Down Scarey Place, 5K run and fun run; a Halloween run down haunted Carey Place, 10 a.m. Oct. 22. Plaza District, 1618 N. Gatewood Ave., 405367-9403, plazadistrict.org. SAT

VISUAL ArTS Child Labor in Oklahoma: Photographs by Lewis Hine, 1916-1917, exhibit highlighting a collection of 25 powerful photographs taken by Lewis Hine while he was in Oklahoma 100 years ago. Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, 405-521-2491, okhistory.org/ historycenter. Color, Connections, Constellations, photographer Caroline Cohenour finally releases her debut collection of original watercolor works. In Your Eye Gallery, 3005 Paseo St. #A, 405-525-2161, inyoureyegallery.com. Fall Adult Classes, from budding talents to seasoned creators, artists of all skill levels can find their creative home with Oklahoma Contemporary this fall; develop your skills and explore your creativity in ceramics, 2-D and 3-D arts, fiber arts and photography, Oct. 3-Nov. 3. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org.

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Flying Solo, mixed-media exhibit by Diane Coady incorporating silk, clay and paintings that tell stories of the self and weave together a personal narrative. IAO Gallery, 706 W. Sheridan Ave., 405-232-6060, iaogallery.org.

The Shining Fans of director Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece will scream “Redrum!” if they miss The Shining on the big screen and in the filmmaker’s original aspect ratio format. Rewatch Jack Nicholson become unhinged as frustrated writer Jack Torrance when winter sets in at the secluded Overlook Hotel. The Shining says “Heeeeeere’s Johnny!” to audiences 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Oct. 26 at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial Road; Cinemark Tinseltown USA, 6001 Martin Luther King Blvd.; and Norman’s Regal Spotlight Stadium, 1100 N. Interstate Drive. Tickets are $4.40-$16.26. Visit fathomevents.com. SUNDAy, ONGOING Photo

Gayle Curry, showcase of new works and an installation by artist Gayle Curry. Mainsite Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main St., Norman, 405360-1162, mainsite-art.com. Melvin Edwards Exhibition, a pioneer in the history of contemporary AfricanAmerican art and sculpture returns for his first solo exhibition in Oklahoma in 25 years; Edwards creates new, site-specific, complex welded sculptures from chains, tools and steel found in Oklahoma scrap yards along with works from his noted Lynch Fragments series, Oct. 20-Dec. 27. Oklahoma Contemporary, 3000 General Pershing Blvd., 405-951-0000, oklahomacontemporary.org. Open House: World Organization of China Painters Museum, see exhibits of porcelain art from all 50

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Frank Calliendo, comedian, actor and impressionist known for his impressions of famous actors including Morgan Freeman, Al Pacino, Robin Williams and many more, Oct. 22. Riverwind Casino, 1544 State Highway 9, Norman, 405-322-6000, riverwind.com. SAT Brad Bennight, Dallas-based harpsichordist Brad Bennight has been featured soloist and continuo player on three continents: at early music festivals from Boston to Berkeley; Mexico’s inaugural Festival de Musica Barocca in San Miguel d’Allende; at the International Festival of Early Music in the

states and nine foreign countries, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 22. World Organization of China Painters, 2700 N. Portland Ave., 405-521-1234, wocporg.com. SAT Russell Hughes, oil paintings. 50 Penn Place Gallery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, Suite 113-R , 405-848-5567, 50pennplacegallery.com.

Women at War, works of three renowned artists: Ebony Iman Dallas, Gay Pasley and Edward Grady. Owen’s Arts Place Museum, 1202 E. Harrison Ave., Guthrie, 405-260-0204, owensmuseum.com.

Bye Bye Birdie, presented by Rose State College Theatre; satire telling the story of a rock and roll singer who joined the army, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21-22, 2 p.m. Oct. 23. Rose State College Hudiburg Chevrolet Center, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 405-733-7960, rose.edu. FRI -SUN

yakov Smirnoff, stand-up comedian teaches the audience how to put the spark back into relationships through love and laughter, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22. Oklahoma City Community College, 7777 S. May Ave., 405-682-1611, occc.edu. SAT

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Where the Roads Lead, beautiful paintings by artist Cletus Smith that result as he finds inspiration in scenes. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 405-307-9320, pasnorman.org.

musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness, 8 p.m. Oct. 20-22, 2 p.m. Oct. 23. Sooner Theatre, 101 E. Main St., Norman, 405-321-9600, soonertheatre.com. THU -SUN

Rodeo: A Triple Bill, with its world-famous score by Aaron Copeland, Rodeo is Agnes de Mille’s most beloved and most frequently presented ballet, Oct. 21-23. Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., 405-297-2264, okcciviccenter.com. FRI -SUN

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The Sweetest Swing in Baseball It is not known if former professional baseball player Darryl Strawberry knows much about fine art, but his swing was a thing of beauty. Carpenter Square Theatre presents the Rebecca Gilman comedy-drama The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, the story of a struggling female artist who takes on the persona of the former major leaguer in the midst of her anguish, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28-30 and Nov. 4-5; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 and Nov. 3; and 2 p.m. Oct. 30 at Carpenter Square Theatre, 800 W. Main St. Tickets are $15-$20. Visit carpentersquare.com or call 405-232-6500.

Knights on Bikes Love Run The fifth annual Knights on Bikes Love Run happens Friday-Sunday in Lawton and benefits Center of Family Love 24-hour adult care facility in Okarche. Events start 7 p.m. Friday with a Casino Night at Holy Family Catholic Church, 1010 NW 82nd St., in Lawton. Saturday, registration is 8-11 a.m. at Wind River Harley-Davidson, 301 SE Interstate Drive, in Lawton before a scenic ride through Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge with stops in Medicine Park and Meers. Visit Oklahoma Knights on Bikes on Facebook or call 405-623-3289. FRIDAySUNDAy Photo Oklahoma Knights on Bikes / provided

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MUSIC Sivan said. He said he enjoys developing a video concept in his head as much as creating the music. “A lot of the time, when I’m writing songs, I’ll have a clear picture in my head of where the song is taking place and what world it lives in,” he said. Sivan and Lamar are far from the only musicians to value visual concepts. They both represent of a wave of performers who realize the importance of fully engaging fans with visual storytelling.

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Seen and heard

Australian pop singer Troye Sivan proves himself among a wave of new visionary artists.

Neighbourhood peaked at No. 7 nationally on the Billboard 200 chart. It was universally lauded by critics and named the Associated Press album of the year, coincidentally beating out Lamar’s powerhouse To Pimp a Butterfly.

Visual aid

By Ben Luschen

In some respects, singer, actor and YouTube celebrity Troye Sivan has a lot in common with internationally known rapper Kendrick Lamar. The South African-born, 21-year-old Australian who first grabbed a wide-scale audience as a 14-year-old version of Hugh Jackman in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine comes from a starkly different background than the 29-year-old Compton, California native. There might not be much overlap between their respective electronic pop and hardcore hip-hop audiences, but maybe there should be. Sivan performs Oct. 27 at The Criterion,

500 E. Sheridan Ave. The young star spoke with Oklahoma Gazette after a recent rehearsal for his latest United States tour Suburbia, which he promised would be his most engaging yet. “I really tried hard to make this show something really special and something bigger and better than I’ve ever done before,” he said. “Based on rehearsals and how everything’s looking, I’m really, really excited about it.” Both Sivan and Lamar turned introspective, layered, enlightening music from their early careers into commercial and critical success. Sivan’s 2015 debut studio album Blue

I think very visually a lot of the time, and the visual is so important to me. Troye Sivan

More than creating pleasant-sounding songs, both artists demonstrate a masterful understanding of visual storytelling. Lamar released a series of expensively produced and cinematically styled videos in 2015, including “Alright,” which was nominated for a 2016 Best Music Video Grammy. Before Sivan began touring the U.S. as a musician, he made a name for himself in the video realm. His vlog, which he began in earnest in 2012, is the fourth most popular YouTube channel in Australia. However, his conceptually driven trilogy of music videos for Blue Neighbourhood is in a league separate from YouTube confessionals. The videos for “Wild,” “Fools” and “Talk Me Down” follow the evolving and ultimately tragic relationship between two childhood friends turned same-sex lovers. The projects are beautifully shot and dramatically told. “I think very visually a lot of the time, and the visual is so important to me,”

Just as Lamar has valued insight about the inner-city Compton experience, Sivan has emerged as a strong voice in global LGBTQ youth culture. The third video in Sivan’s Blue Neighbourhood trilogy ambiguously ends with an apparent suicide and the bonechilling fade of an ocean rolling into silence. It is an impactful moment for anyone to take in, but it likely especially resonates with gay and queer youth who feel bombarded by sometimes negative, outside opinions on their identity or love interests. “I have those albums for myself, you know? You hear a song later in life and it takes you back to a time or a specific experience in your life,” he said. “That’s what music is to me. It’s like a companion through life. To hear my music is that to someone else is really awesome.” Sivan publicly came out as gay in 2013, a decision he recently told RollingStone.com was “the best thing [he had] ever done.” He told Gazette that part of his U.S. tour planning included making sure almost every venue he stopped at has genderneutral bathrooms. (The Criterion has family restrooms open to all genders.) A portion of the tour’s ticket sales benefit The Ally Coalition, a coalition formed by the band fun. and designer Rachel Antonoff to encourage and equip artists and all supporters of equal rights to help end discrimination against LGBTQ community members. “I really, really value having this platform to share my music and to share what I’m passionate about creating, but on top of that, I just feel so lucky to have this platform to do things like help out wherever I can,” he said. “I think it’s the most important work that I get to do.” One area Sivan and Lamar still differ in is fame. Sivan is known more in Australia than in the U.S., despite great praise here for his music. He said he still doesn’t feel famous — at least not in mixed company. “I feel like life is crazy,” he said, “but I can still go out and get a coffee and everything without it being a crazy mess.” If Sivan’s career continues at this trajectory, he would be wise to enjoy his quiet coffee while he still can.

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Dope returns Sunday to OKC.

Dope frontman Edsel Dope releases Blood Money, Part 1, the band’s first album in seven years, next week. | Photo Dope / provided

By Ben Luschen

Edsel Dope wants to make sure fans have release. Edsel said he does not feel any more the right idea. Though his eponymous ineager to get the new music out, despite dustrial metal band’s recent U.S. tour has project delays and the several years that been billed by many fans as a reunion tour, have passed since No Regrets. the founder and vocalist said he has kept “I’m a patient guy,” he said. “I’ve been busy the last several years. doing this a long, long time. I wouldn’t have minded it if it came out sooner, but life got “People assume that reunion lineup means that for the last seven years, we in the way. When you’re not able to commit haven’t been doing anything,” he said. “But to touring and the things you need to do to promote a record, plans change, and that’s perception, it doesn’t matter to me. ... We’re what happened with this.” happy to be back, promoting the record, and Edsel said Blood Money is a record longit’s cool to be with my old friends.” time fans will love, but also one that might Dope the man was born Brian Charles Ebejer in 1974 in New York City. His stage need to grow on some people. The single moniker and band name are inspired by the “Hold On” features a more commercially group’s early days in Chicago, when it sold viable metalcore vibe sometimes compared drugs to finance the music. Dope the band to Bullet for My Valentine and different than brings its early-2000s lineup to Oklahoma “Die Motherfucker Die.” Edsel is prepared to shrug off any negaCity 7 p.m. Sunday at 89th Street Collective, tive reactions. 8911 N. Western Ave. The Die Motherfucker Die Reunion Tour “Haters are going to hate,” he said. features Edsel with guitarists Acey Slade “They’re always the loudest in the beginand Virus and drummer Racci Shay, all of ning, and then they go away. It’s like anywhom performed on the band’s 2001 sophthing else in life.” omore full-length album Life. The record Still, it is not as if Dope is reinventing features the popular, heavy, chest-pounding itself 17 years into its existence. The album’s nu-metal single “Die Motherfucker Die,” title track features the band as heavy and still a fan favorite. sinister as it has ever been. Edsel said while this is what he calls the “One of the reasons this tour is ending band’s classic lineup, there are many roster right when this [album] is coming out is iterations that stand out. because once the next touring cycle begins, “They’re all classic people will have had the lineups,” he said. “This just chance to live with the record happened to be an instance for a while before we start Dope where the guys involved in going out and playing those with Flaw, this one just haven’t all played songs night after night in Motograter, together in a significant front of them,” Edsel said. Soul Crisis and period of time, which put kind The Dope frontman said Curse the Fall of a cool cherry on top.” much of the material for Part Dope is using the tour as a 1’s follow-up project is re7 p.m. Sunday corded and should see a prelude to Blood Money, Part 89th Street release soon. In the mean1, its first album release since Collective 2009’s No Regrets. Blood time, he did say he is excited 8911 N. Western Ave. Money is due out Oct. 28. to finally have a full project 89thstreetokc.com Fans have long anticipated to offer fans. 866-966-1777 the album. The first edition “I’m stoked for fans to $16-$20 of the two-part project was hear it,” he said. All ages initially scheduled for a 2014 38

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Andrew W.K. fuses The Power of Partying with deep truths on his national speaking tour. By Ian Jayne

Andrew W.K. 7:30 p.m. Friday Opolis 113 N. crawford ave., Norman opolis.org 866-966-1777 $20 21+

If you need a reason to party, Andrew W.K. will give you one. In fact, the singer-songwriter, musician, producer and entertainer will give you enough to justify the idea of partying as a philosophy, a way of finding inner truth. “I’ve never done a full lecture tour like this,” W.K. recently told Oklahoma Gazette. The tour’s scope presented a “formidable odyssey” for W.K., and after only a handful of dates, he said the experience has already been both rewarding and challenging. “I’ve experienced new highs and also new lows, very much in keeping with the themes that we’re engaging with each night,” he said. “This needs to be me … all of us, in that room, tearing away, with humility and exposing ourselves to this intense thing called being alive.” Ten years after speaking about life to a crowd of 600 at New York University, he has forged a career as a motivational speaker and master of the party life. “Ever since then, this has become an unexpected activity, a new opportunity to party with people,” W.K. said. Since mid-September, he has traveled to promote The Power of Partying, a speaking tour across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Each show combines pep rally elements with question-and-answer sessions in which guests can pick W.K.’s brain. The Power of Partying speaking tour comes to Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., in Norman on Friday. W.K. views himself as a facilitator, providing the right context for people to celebrate and experience life. “I don’t think anyone is going to come into this necessarily and learn some mind-blowing new idea. I actually feel more fulfilled if those inclinations, those inklings in each of us, were confirmed by this event,” he said. “Partying is a very one-dimensional topic, but within that one dimension, within that seemingly trivial or shallow texture, actually the whole universe can be found. The deeper we dive into these ideas that are so simple they almost seem

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shallow, the more we encounter these paradoxes.” While some have doubted W.K.’s methods, he has been encouraged by the diversity of people who attend his shows. “To have people in their 50s, people almost my parents’ age, attending this … that is surprising and really meaningful,” he said. Tour stops create spaces that are free from political tension. Instead, W.K. said he prefers to focus on the unifying truths common to human existence. “Nobody can actually do the hard work of living for another person, but we do have this gift to support each other in doing the work individually. Developing an understanding of yourself allows you to understand other people, have more empathy,” he said. “It’s essentially trying to develop an overarching transcendent mindset that allows us to embrace as much of life as possible, meaning even the painful, challenging, darker aspects.” Although he acknowledges the oftenuncomfortable realities of life, W.K. has refused to grow cynical. “I don’t want to ever come to a conclusion, really of any kind, if I can help it, other than that life is good,” he said. “All other conclusions, I’m happy to leave as mysteries. … I just want to be around that as much as I can.” Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the show begins at 8:30 p.m. Learn more at andrewwk.com.

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WEDNESDAY, 10.19 Amarillo Junction, JJ’s Alley. COUNTRY Cherub/Frenship/Boo Seeka, OKC Farmers Public Market. ELECTRONIC Cody Hassell, Vices Bar & Venue, El Reno. COUNTRY Maurice Johnson, The R&J Lounge and Supper Club. JAZZ Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Ed VanBuskirk, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER Secrets, 89th Street Collective. ROCK

THURSDAY, 10.20 7 Minutes In Heaven/Assuming we Survive/ Coldfront/Marina City, 89th Street Collective. ROCK Adrian Legg/Edgar Cruz, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. ACOUSTIC

Bum Wagler, Red Brick Bar, Norman. COUNTRY Radney Foster, The Blue Door. SINGER/ SONGWRITER

Russian Girlfriends, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

Saucedfest Like toppings on a supreme pizza, Sauced on Paseo wants to give local music fans a little bit of everything during its fourth annual music festival. The weekend features 25 bands from multiple genres. Saucedfest begins 5 p.m. Friday and runs through 11:30 p.m. Garage-country act Porch Mice headlines. Smooth indie fourpiece Tasty Bang headlines Saturday, and the event runs 4-11:30 p.m. Folk-Americana duo Scissortail headlines the final day, which runs 3-10 p.m. Sunday. All shows can be watched on the outside patio stage at Sauced on Paseo, 2912 Paseo St. Admission is free and all-ages. Visit facebook.com/ saucedpaseo or call 405-521-9800. FRIDAYSUNDAY Photo Sauced on Paseo / provided

Stars, Baker Street Pub & Grill. COVER Steve Crossley Solo, Margarita Island. VARIOUS

Saint Monroe/The Big News/Zero 2 Panic, Red Brick Bar, Norman. ROCK

FRIDAY, 10.21

The Last Ten Seconds of Life/Traitors/Spite/ Foxhound, 89th Street Collective. ROCK

Brian Lynn Jones and the Misfit Cowboys, Remington Park. COUNTRY

The Suede Panther, Wormy Dog Saloon. ROCK

Corey Kennedy, Jazmo’z Bourbon St. Cafe. VARIOUS

Wino Browne, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK

Culture Cinematic/We Make Shapes/Pretty Foxes, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

SUNDAY, 10.23

Dance Gavin Dance/The Contortionist/ Hail The Sun, Diamond Ballroom. ROCK Five Finger Death Punch/Shinedown/SIXX:AM/As Lions, Chesapeake Energy Arena. ROCK Gene Watson, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COUNTRY Jim Lord, Red Brick Bar, Norman. FOLK Kyle Park/Hunter Hutchinson, Wormy Dog Saloon.

Blake Lankford, JJ’s Alley. COUNTRY Dope/Flaw/Motograter/Soul Crisis/Curse the Fall, 89th Street Collective. ROCK Kikagaku Moyo/Anvil Salute, Opolis, Norman. VARIOUS

Scott Lowber/Will Galbraith/Rick Toops, Friends Restaurant & Club. COVER

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Teach Me Equals, Blue Note Lounge. POP

Martha Stallings, Lottinvilles Restaurant. VARIOUS

MONDAY, 10.24

Mojo Thief, Vices Bar & Venue, El Reno. ROCK Raina English and the Edmond Jazz Orchestra, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. JAZZ Reed Brothers, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. ROCK

Jonny Craig/Kyle Lucas/Whitney Peyton, 89th Street Collective. SINGER/SONGWRITER True Widow/Low Lands, Opolis, Norman. ROCK

Romi Mayes, The Blue Door. COUNTRY

TUESDAY, 10.25

Stars, Baker Street Pub & Grill. COVER

Druids/Turbo Wizard, Blue Note Lounge. ROCK

The Chad Todd Band, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COUNTRY

The Remedy OKC Band, Oklahoma City Limits. ROCK

TwisterFest Artist Awareness Weekend, Muscle Car Ranch, Chickasha. VARIOUS

Life Lessons/Mariner/Hazing/September Stories/Carvist, 89th Street Collective. ROCK

Parachute/NEEDTOBREATHE, The Criterion. ROCK

WEDNESDAY, 10.26

SATURDAY, 10.22

Amarillo Junction, JJ’s Alley. COUNTRY

Aaron Woods Band, Newcastle Casino, Newcastle.

Tim Elliot, Vices Bar & Venue, El Reno. ACOUSTIC

COUNTRY

Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots/Lindsay Ell/Caitlyn Smith/DJ Buff, Diamond Ballroom. COUNTRY

Brian Lynn Jones and the Misfit Cowboys, Remington Park. COUNTRY Bruce Benson, Jazmo’z Bourbon St. Cafe. BLUES Chase Haberland, Full Circle Bookstore. ACOUSTIC Drive, Riverwind Casino, Norman. ROCK Jay Statham, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. COUNTRY Old Bulldog Band, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. ROCK

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free will astrology Homework: Describe what you’d be like if you were the opposite of yourself. Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com. ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the 1980s, two

performance artists did a project entitled *A Year Tied Together at the Waist.* For 12 months, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh were never farther than eight feet away from each other, bound by a rope. Hsieh said he tried this experiment because he felt very comfortable doing solo work, but wanted to upgrade his abilities as a collaborator. Montano testified that the piece “dislodged a deep hiddenness” in her. It sharpened her intuition and gave her a “heightened passion for living and relating.” If you were ever going to engage in a comparable effort to deepen your intimacy skills, Aries, the coming weeks would be a favorable time to attempt it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In the coming weeks

would you prefer that we refer to you as “voracious”? Or do you like the word “ravenous” better? I have a feeling, based on the astrological omens, that you will be extra super eager to consume vast quantities of just about everything: food, information, beauty, sensory stimulation, novelty, pleasure, and who knows what else. But please keep this in mind: Your hunger could be a torment or it could be a gift. Which way it goes may depend on your determination to actually enjoy what you devour. In other words, don’t get so enchanted by the hypnotic power of your longing that you neglect to exult in the gratification when your longing is satisfied.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) When the wind blows at ten miles per hour, a windmill generates eight times more power than when the breeze is five miles per hour. Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect there will be a similar principle at work in your life during the coming weeks. A modest increase in effort and intensity will make a huge difference in the results you produce. Are you willing to push yourself a bit beyond your comfort level in order to harvest a wave of abundance?

By Rob Brezsny

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Cuthbert Collingwood

(1748-1810) had a distinguished career as an admiral in the British navy, leading the sailors under his command to numerous wartime victories. He was also a good-natured softie whose men regarded him as generous and kind. Between battles, while enjoying his downtime, he hiked through the English countryside carrying acorns, which he planted here and there so the “Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.” (Quoted in *Life in Nelson’s Navy,* by Dudley Pope.) I propose that we make him your role model for the coming weeks. May his example inspire you to be both an effective warrior and a tender soul who takes practical actions to plan for the future.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Eighteenth-century musician

Giuseppe Tartini has been called “the godfather of modern violin playing.” He was also an innovative composer who specialized in poignant and poetic melodies. One of his most famous works is the Sonata in G Minor, also known as the *Devil’s Trill.* Tartini said it was inspired by a dream in which he made a pact with the Devil to provide him with new material. The Infernal One picked up a violin and played the amazing piece that Tartini transcribed when he woke up. Here’s the lesson for you: He didn’t actually sell his soul to the Devil. Simply engaging in this rebellious, taboo act in the realm of fantasy had the alchemical effect of unleashing a burst of creative energy. Try it!

Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. Years before all that glory poured down on her, she met playwright Charles MacArthur at a party in a posh Manhattan salon. Hayes was sitting shyly in a dark corner. MacArthur glided over to her and slipped a few salted peanuts into her hand. “I wish they were emeralds,” he told her. It was love at first sight. A few years after they got married, MacArthur bought Hayes an emerald necklace. I foresee a metaphorically comparable event in your near future, Libra: peanuts serving as a promise of emeralds.

Have there been times when you “punished” those you cared about by acting cold and aloof? Can you remember a few occasions when you could have been more generous or compassionate, but chose not to be? If you answered yes to any of those questions, the next three weeks will be an excellent time to atone. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can reap maximum benefit from correcting stingy mistakes. I suggest that you make gleeful efforts to express your most charitable impulses. Be a tower of bountiful power.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Welcome to the

English army defeated French forces at the Battle of Agincourt in northern France. Essential to England’s victory were its 7,000 longbowmen -- archers who shot big arrows using bows that were six feet long. So fast and skilled were these warriors that they typically had three arrows flying through the air at any one time. That’s the kind of high-powered proficiency I recommend that you summon during your upcoming campaign. If you need more training to reach that level of effectiveness, get it immediately.

Painkiller Phase of your cycle. It’s time to relieve your twinges, dissolve your troubles, and banish your torments. You can’t sweep away the whole mess in one quick heroic purge, of course. But I bet you can pare it down by at least 33 percent. (More is quite possible.) To get started, make the following declaration five times a day for the next three days: “I am grateful for all the fascinating revelations and indispensable lessons tht my pain has taught me.” On each of the three days after that, affirm this truth five times: “I have learned all I can from my pain, and therefore no longer need its reminders. Goodbye, pain.” On the three days after that, say these words, even if you can’t bring yourself to mean them with complete sincerity: “I forgive everybody of everything.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) For the

in a curious pattern. I interpret it as meaning that you have cosmic permission to indulge in more selfinterest and self-seeking than usual. So it won’t be taboo for you to unabashedly say, “What exactly is in it for me?” or “Prove your love, my dear” or “Gimmeee gimmeee gimmee what I want.” If someone makes a big promise, you shouldn’t be shy about saying, “Will you put that in writing?” If you get a sudden urge to snag the biggest piece of the pie, obey that urge.

foreseeable future, you possess the following powers: to make sensible that which has been unintelligible . . . to find amusement in situations that had been tedious . . . to create fertile meaning where before there had been sterile chaos. Congratulations, Sagittarius! You are a first-class transformer. But that’s not all. I suspect you will also have the ability to distract people from concerns that aren’t important . . . to deepen any quest that has been too superficial or careless to succeed . . . and to ask the good questions that will render the bad questions irrelevant.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In the course of her long

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In the past eleven

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The planets have aligned

career, Libran actress Helen Hayes won an Oscar, an

months, did you ever withhold your love on purpose?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In 1415, a smaller

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Let’s imagine your life

as a novel. The most recent chapter, which you’ll soon be drawing to a close, might be called “The Redemption of Loneliness.” Other apt titles: “Intimacy with the Holy Darkness” or “The Superpower of Surrender” or “The End Is Secretly the Beginning.” Soon you will start a new chapter, which I’ve tentatively dubbed “Escape from Escapism,” or perhaps “Liberation from False Concepts of Freedom” or “Where the Wild Things Are.” And the expansive adventures of this next phase will have been made possible by the sweetand-sour enigmas of the past four weeks.

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