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When executives from Devon Energy and Hobby Lobby get together to break bread and discuss new natural gas-based crafting solutions, it doesn’t matter if they’re ordering steak or lobster or a big plate of sushi. What they’re really paying for is the building, tablecloths, quality service and highly trained chefs. In other words, if you want to eat like a rich person, you need to learn to cook.

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Slow progress A variety of proposals highlight an urgent need to better fund public schools and education initiatives.

Elizabeth Ejtehadi made up her mind as a second-grader: She wanted to be a teacher. “I had a second grade teacher that created a wonderful and loving environment in her classroom,” Ejtehadi said. “I had a desire to bring that same environment to kids in my future.” The daughter of a preschool teacher, Ejtehadi began her career early. As a youth, she dragged her brother to a make-believe classroom in their backyard and instructed him on different things she learned at school. Six years ago, Ejtehadi officially commenced her career as a third-grade teacher at Wilson Elementary School, part of Oklahoma City Public Schools. Her 8-year-old dreams came true as she created innovative lessons and welcomed each student with warmth and understanding. “At our school, we have children from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. We have some children that live in homeless shelters and we have some children whose parents are law professors,” Ejtehadi explained. “Our school is a safety net, the one place [where] all children know they are encouraged and loved.” Ejtehadi sees her role as a differencemaker in the lives of children, and she’s concerned about the future of the profession. Throughout her career, state lawmakers haven’t budged on base teacher salary. Oklahoma teachers now rank among the lowest paid in the nation, and average salary is $44,549, according to 2013-2014 data from the Oklahoma Education Association.

Lack of support

At the start of this academic year, the Oklahoma State School Boards Association reported that 1,000 teaching vacancies remained after slashing 600 teacher positions over the summer. That prompted the State Board of Education to approve a record number of emergency teaching certificates. Education leaders believe teachers are leaving Oklahoma — some for different careers and others for higherpaying educator jobs in neighboring states. Those who stay often struggle. When Ejtehadi and her colleagues talk,

they share tales of dipping into savings accounts to take an out-of-town sister to dinner or hire a babysitter for a muchneeded night out. “You can’t afford to have a family, support a family and be a teacher, which is heartbreaking,” Ejtehadi said. “We should be able to.” Others agreed. Within her first month in office, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister revealed a five-year plan to raise educator pay to the regional average. Called #OKhigh5, the plan would cost $150 million in its first year and provide a $2,000 pay raise and two additional days of instruction. The proposal requires the blessing of the Legislature and the governor, which didn’t happen during the most recent legislative session. Faced with a $611 million budget shortfall, Oklahoma lawmakers approved a budget that left no room for raises or increases to fund classroom instruction.

Root problem

Ryan Owens, co-executive director of the Cooperative Council for Oklahoma School Administration, said lawmakers are aware of education needs, including teacher shortages. His staff, as well as members from other state education groups, advocate for changes in funding. The dialogue often begins with the facts. In 2009, the state appropriated more than $2 billion to public schools at a time when Oklahoma had 641,721 students. Six years later, state appropriations were $1.877 billion to schools with 688,306 students enrolled. That’s a difference of about $160 million, which placed Oklahoma as the nation’s leading state to cut per-student spending, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “It is not like this is a problem that developed overnight,” Owens said. “We have been taking these steps towards a crisis for six years. Sadly, it is a mess and it needs cleaned up … We are on a path that is unsustainable.” Alicia Priest, president of the Oklahoma Education Association, agreed. She became involved in the group, which represents 35,000 retired and current school employees, after

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Alicia Priest, president of the Oklahoma Education Association

You can’t afford to have a family, support a family and be a teacher, which is heartbreaking. — Elizabeth Ejtehadi

seeing best classroom practices diminish in the wake of the state budget cuts. “We are at a critical crossroad, and there is no way you can turn a blind eye,” said Priest, who taught at Yukon Public Schools for 16 years before leaving for the presidency post.

New proposals

Owens wasn’t surprised by two different proposals that surfaced after the start of this school year. In August, Woodward Sen. Bryce Marlatt called for a ballot measure to divert funds from the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust to produce an acrossthe-board teacher pay raise. About a month later, University of Oklahoma President David Boren, also a former Oklahoma governor and U.S.

senator, proposed a one-penny sales tax to fund common education as well as higher education. For a sales tax proposal to appear on the November 2016 ballot, the secretary of state would review and, potentially, approve language. Then, a petition would circulate over a period of 90 days to collect signatures. Owens is optimistic about finding alternative revenues for public education funding; however, he mentioned the timing coincides with cuts to a revenue source. Beginning Jan. 1, the personal income tax rate will drop from 5.25 percent to 5 percent, which was decided by lawmakers in April 2014. The tax cut, along with plunging energy prices, is predicted to carve an even larger budget hole, around $1 billion for fiscal year 2017, according to recent reports. “Last year, the governor made comments that we had one of the fastest growing economies in the nation and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, but we cut the budget and did not invest in our core services,” Owen said. “I just don’t think those messages fit. If you have a strong continued on page 6

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environment, you should have a very strong investment in core services.” Priest said it will take a longterm solution to make a meaningful impact in public education funding. She doesn’t support the Republican lawmaker’s proposal to take funds from a state trust, which has a balance of nearly $1 billion. The TSET board of directors denounced the plan, as those funds are delegated toward the prevention and reduction of tobacco use and supporting cancer research. “We are encouraged by the 1-cent sales tax conversation because it talks about a new revenue stream that is dedicated to public education,” said Priest, who advised that any proposal would take time to implement. Hofmeister, who oversees the common education budget, views Boren’s plan as auspicious but said she will review the proposal before pledging support. Boren has not provided specific plan details. “I applaud President Boren for advancing the dialogue on how best to strengthen public education in Oklahoma. We need more ideas, not fewer,” she said in a statement to Oklahoma Gazette. Lawmakers have shown some efforts to improve education. Earlier this year, an enacted law called for relaxing testing requirements when hiring experienced teachers from outof-state. Education leaders are hopeful progress again will be made when the legislative session convenes in February. Some believe it is positive sign when bill proposals are announced at the Capitol months before the December request date. At Wilson Elementary School, Ejtehadi can only wonder what it would be like if the Legislature enacted policies to attract young professionals to education, provided adequate funding to create smaller class sizes and boosted teacher pay. “I appreciate the new plans crafted,” Ejtehadi said. “I am very grateful that people are starting to talk about it, look into it and take teaching pay seriously.”

Tax pitch

Last month, University of Oklahoma President David Boren pitched a sales tax increase for funding common and higher education. The group, Oklahoma’s Children — Our Future, wants voters to decide whether a state sales tax should boost education funding, including raising teacher pay. Boren has not officially unveiled his initiative or declared if the sales tax would be a statutory or constitutional change. The former governor wants to see it on the November 2016 ballot. Impact: Directed by the Oklahoma Policy Institute, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reviewed the proposal, finding the sales tax would have the most damaging impact on the poor. “The education initiative is sorely needed, but the decision to fund it exclusively through a sales tax increase means that it will hurt the pocketbooks of those families who are already struggling,” said Oklahoma Policy Institute’s Gene Perry in a statement about the proposal.

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Sen. Bryce Marlatt declared he will push for legislation that would give teachers pay raises. His efforts include moving funds from Oklahoma’s Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) into the common education budget. Marlatt believes with smoking rates decreasing, the funds could be redirected. The Republican wants voters to make the ultimate decision, as his legislation calls for a ballot measure. Impact: Voters created the trust to preserve tobacco settlement money with the purpose of improving the heath of Oklahomans. “Voters certainly have the power to voice their preference and priorities at the ballot box,” said Casey Killblane, TSET board member, in a media statement. “Taking funds from ongoing successful efforts that improve health is not the answer.”

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Seeking justice Is the murder of a former Oklahoman in southern California a hate crime? By Laura Eastes

Shayan Mazroei was wise beyond his years, a quality Mandi Legaard first noticed when mutual friends in Edmond introduced them four years ago. Mazroei was devoted to his brood, possessed a strong work ethic and helped his family start and build a successful used car dealership. He wasn’t outgoing, but he was kind and friendly in a way that made strangers feel comfortable. That was how the young IranianAmerican, a graduate of Deer Creek High School, made new friends at Patsy’s Irish Pub in Laguna Niguel, California, an affluent community located between Los Angeles and San Diego. About two years ago, as a new resident of that state, Mazroei stumbled upon the neighborhood bar and, after his first visit, began shooting billiards. He dropped in every week to play pool and hang out with friends. It was a ritual Legaard joined when she visited him. “We would eat dinner, and I would watch him play pool,” said Legaard, who traveled to southern California six times a year to visit Mazroei. “It is a well-known place for locals to go. I always felt safe there.” Laguna Niguel neighbors Irvine, which was named the safest city in America in 2013 and 2014, according to FBI violent-crime statistics. Southern California is a diverse community, one many Iranian-Americans call home — more than 100,000 live in the greater Los Angeles area. Legaard believes Mazroei, 22, never Mandi Legaard

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feared for his life at his favorite local spot, despite a recent spark in prejudice against Iranian-Americans in reaction to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known as the Iranian nuclear deal. Like most Americans over Labor Day weekend, Mazroei savored his time away from work and his studies at Saddleback College’s engineering program. He went to Patsy’s to shoot pool. As he left, he was fatally stabbed just outside the pub’s doors. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department caught the suspect days later at a motel. Craig Tanber is a documented white supremacy gang member and a convicted murderer who was recently released on parole. One of his tattoos peeks above his collar line and reads PEN1, short for Public Enemy Number One, described as a “hybrid racist skinhead street group and prison gang” by Southern Poverty Law Center.

Charge filed

Before the stabbing, Tanber and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Thornberg, were unruly customers of Patsy’s. Thornberg allegedly called Mazroei a “terrorist” and shared her dislike of Iranian-Americans openly to other customers, according to witnesses interviewed by media. Orange County prosecutors charged the accused 37-year-old with murder, but not with a hate crime, which fueled outrage by Legaard and the victim’s relatives. Iranian-American groups, members of the southern California community and many with access to the Internet insist that the act was a hate crime based on Tanber’s documented gang membership and criminal history. An online petition on Change.org that demands the Orange County District Attorney’s office press hate crime charges and investigate Thornberg as a co-conspirator has more than 6,300 signatures. “It hits home for people, especially those that have kids Shayan’s age,” said Legaard when discussing the support. “Many people are taking it personal.” Oct. 2, Tanber entered a not guilty plea to the murder charge and now awaits his December court date in a detention facility. Orange County prosecutors do believe Tanber and Mazroei exchanged comments at the bar but Mazroei’s

A memorial inside Mandi Legaard’s home features an informal portrait of Shayan Mazroei with a skateboard taken by Mandi Legaard, with signatures and messages from friends, a propped-up yard sign for justice and a vase of flowers. ethnicity had little, if anything, to do with the attack that followed. “It’s not even close to [having] enough evidence to charge it as a hate crime,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Larry Yellin told ABC affiliate KABC.

Far-reaching response

Family-hired attorney Neama Rahmani believes otherwise and is collecting witness statements and other evidence to prove a hate crime was committed. “Our clients lost their only child to a heinous act of racism and violence,” Rahmani said. “We will not rest until we obtain justice against those responsible.” The National Iranian American Council also advocates for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office to “acknowledge the racial motive in the case.” The council, along with several civil rights, faith and advocacy groups, submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to open a federal hate crime investigation. “The tragic incident reflects the broader problem of bigotry and racism in our country and highlights the rise of discrimination and hate crimes against people of Middle Eastern descent,” said Elham Khatami, the council’s national outreach director, in a press statement. Oklahoma City became Mazroei’s home when he was 6 years old, after his family emigrated from Iran. Mazroei and his parents lived here for 14 years before moving to California to start their business. The United Iranian American Society of Oklahoma (UIASO) expressed shock over the senseless act. “UIASO expresses its deepest condolences and sorrow to the family and friends of Shayan Mazroei,” UIASO wrote in a statement to Oklahoma Gazette. “We request the District Attorney of Orange County, California, to conduct a thorough and detailed investigation of Shayan Mazroei’s murder, extending the investigation to include other individuals who might bear responsibility for this murder. UIASO also urges the authorities to provide a detailed response to all concerns that have been raised in this case.

Burden of proof

When incidents of senseless crimes take place — ones in which characteristics such as a victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity are obvious — many community members and those far removed from the crime push for prosecutors to bring hate crime charges. Dee Patty, an Oklahoma City University criminal justice professor, said proving bias often poses a challenge for prosecutors. “Prosecutors have to be able to prove bias to file a hate crime charge. Proving bias is sometimes extremely difficult,” Patty said. “Hate crimes or bias-motivated crimes are like any other crimes. Not everyone is going to come forward and report them because of fear, retaliation or they fear nothing will be done.” Based on his prior criminal history, if Tanber is found guilty of murder, he will be sentenced to a minimum of 76 years in prison. If he is convicted of a hate crime, it will ensure a life sentence and be documented as such. Legaard wants the murder recognized as a hate crime to send a message that prejudice should not be tolerated. If this can happen to her young boyfriend with Persian features in Orange County, she said, it can happen anywhere. “It is heartbreaking to know these people had so much hate for no reason,” Legaard said.

Hate and bias crimes

>> In 2013, 5,922 single-bias hate crime incidents occurred nationally; ethnicity bias accounted for 11.1 percent of incidents. >> 35 hate crimes were reported to law enforcement in Orange County, California.* Hate crimes motivated by ethnicity bias accounted for seven offenses. (*In Orange County, police departments in Anaheim, Brea, Fountain Valley, Seal Beach, La Palma and Tustin did not report to the FBI.) >> 12 hate crimes were reported to law enforcement in Oklahoma City; hate crimes motivated by ethnicity bias accounted for one offense.

Source: FBI data collected for 2013.

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Students and staff at Harding Fine Arts Academy recently received the National Blue Ribbon School designation for 2015 and was recognized as one of the top 500 high schools for low-income students in the U.S. on Newsweek.com’s Beating the Odds list. The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes schools based on their academic excellence or progress in closing achievement gaps among students, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s website. The student poverty levels and academic disadvantages they endure prior to attending the school have made winning this award even more unique. Approximately 60 percent of the school’s student body are eligible for free and reduced lunches, which is determined by the poverty level of each student’s family, according to principal Barry Schmelzenbach. Schools at that level of poverty are not usually expected to receive such high academic awards. “We have students coming to us from very high achieving middle schools, and we have students who are coming to us from schools that are struggling,” he said. The school has managed to find the right combination of nurturing and provocation for students who come from a broad mix of races, economic classes and educational backgrounds. When Oklahoma Gazette visited

Harding recently, students expressed their love for the school and the strength of its students’ differences. “I like the diversity more than anything else,” said Rianna Brooks, a senior. “We have people from different arts. We have different ethnicities, like black, white, everything. I can help them, and they can help me.”

Blue Ribbon

Just five public schools out of the 1,806 in Oklahoma won the Blue Ribbon School designation this year: Harding Fine Arts Academy in the Oklahoma City Public School District, Schwartz Elementary School in the Midwest City-Del City School District, Carnegie Elementary School, Flower Mound Elementary School and Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences in Tulsa. Nationally, 285 public schools and 50 private institutions received the standing. There are 98,328 public schools in the U.S., according to the most recent count by the National Center for Education Statistics. Harding ranked No. 112 on Newsweek.com’s Beating the Odds list. The media organization has recognized the achievements of the best public high schools in the U.S. for college readiness for more than 10 years and has been ranking low-income schools in a separate list since 2014. The company awarded Harding Fine

Freshman English students at harding Fine Arts Academy Arts with a gold star, meaning the school “help[s] low-income students score at or above state average on state assessments.” Harding Charter Preparatory High School, Norman High School, Newcastle High School and Boswell High School also made the list, and all except Boswell earned gold stars.

Engaged students

The engagement of the students at Harding Fine Arts is obvious, no matter the subject. The piano class might seem disconcertingly quiet to first-time visitors. Gone are the acoustic pianos from the previous era, so the class no longer resonates with the sound of multiple practicing students. The teacher, Michaela de Brugge, uses digital keyboards that allow students to hear their own playing through headphones. The instructor is also able to tune in at any time to listen to their practice without disturbing the rest of the class. Dance student Izzy Dillingham said her favorite type of dance is contemporary, and she spends most of the afternoon in dance classes at Harding, only to go to private lessons later in the day.

Academics

Fine arts schools emphasize the arts as equally as academics, if not more so. However, Schmelzenbach said Harding offers more Advanced Placement courses than most high schools twice its size. He said it is important for the school to push students in the arts to do well in their education because they need that academic rigor to do well in college. Freshman English at Harding attempts to get students beyond the fiveparagraph essay and into more metaphors and figurative language, teacher Anna Kinder said. A spoken-word poet herself, Kinder encouraged student Rhea Brown-Bright to further develop her poetic talents last school year, which helped the 17-year-old become Oklahoma’s first Youth Poet Laureate (Life, “Wordless wordsmith,” Alissa Lindsey, Oklahoma Gazette, Jan. 28). Kinder is helping Brown-Bright edit her book of poetry. Over the last six years, the institution has become a rallying point for students and faculty who care about each other and the skills and knowledge that they gain, which is how it earned its Blue Ribbon status. Many of the students have strong feelings about the school. “I love it,” Dillingham said. “I would like to stay here all day if I could.”

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Today, Texas lawmakers and other elected leaders, with help from Texas Public Policy Foundation, continue reforming its criminal justice system and have seen positive results. At the end of 2014, Texas’ prison population was 166,043, its lowest since 2002 and down from an all-time high of 173,649 set in 2010, according

to The Texas Tribune’s Sept. 25 story “Dip in Texas Prison Population Continues Trend.” Since 2007, the state has closed three adult prisons and numerous juvenile housing facilities. Now, Texas Public Policy Foundation brings its effort north of the Red River to help Oklahoma lawmakers and elected leaders accomplish similar results. Its project point man is one who already knows about this state’s earlier reform efforts and said he is eager to pursue it further. As a graduate student in Harvard University’s public policy program, Broken Arrow native Adam Luck returned to Oklahoma in 2014 to look at its Justice Reinvestment Initiative. After interviewing numerous players in the state’s criminal justice system, he wrote a report for Fallin that outlined ways to move the effort forward. For his graduate thesis, he also wrote about Texas’ criminal justice reforms and what he thought Oklahoma could learn from them. Luck admitted he wouldn’t blame anyone for being skeptical about reform. But he said the timing seems right, from the halls of Oklahoma’s Capitol to localities such as Oklahoma City, where he met with government officials and business and faith leaders about overcrowding and violence at Oklahoma County Jail. “They are asking whether or not building a new county jail might really address the problem and whether there are things we could do to actually address some of the root causes of the growth we have experienced [there],” Luck said. Michele Deitch, an attorney who studies criminal justice and is a law school senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, agrees root causes need to be examined as part of any jail improvement effort. Deitch works with numerous counties on overcrowding issues and said each must carefully consider its own situation in order to develop the best alternatives to incarceration. Oklahoma County should start, she said, by learning who its inmates are and whether they can instead enter diversion programs.

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Michele Deitch is a law school senior lecturer at the University of Texas. “If citations could be used rather than arrests for low-level offenses, that wouldn’t tie up nearly as much jail space or court time,” Deitch said. For example, she said the county might consider taking an intoxicated person to a detox center rather than jail or using law enforcement crisis intervention teams to de-escalate situations with mentally disabled people and get them into treatment. Deitch described them as “system-type solutions” in which law enforcement officers, courts, prosecutors and attorneys work together to develop and implement diversion programs. Also, a county must find ways to efficiently release segments of its jail population. Thought should be given to whether bail schedules are reasonable and if bail hearings are held in a timely manner, Deitch said. A detainee who can’t make bond should be brought before a judge to determine if there is a way to help them. “If the only pretrial release game in town involves bail bondsmen, you’ve got a problem,” she said. She added that there are many effective and public safety- conscious ways to release detainees. For example, inmates with homes,

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jobs or families might only need ankle monitors before court dates. Others diagnosed with alcohol or drug problems could be referred to treatment programs that require them to report to pretrial services officers. Some might only need daily check-in or court date reminders as they look for work or receive other social services. Deitch believes a robust pretrial release program could make those evaluations and release people into minimal or intensive supervision programs. “There are only two reasons people should be held in jail before their trial. One is there is a serious risk they won’t re-appear for their court date; the other is they are charged with an offense that is so serious they pose risk to the community’s safety,” she said. “If they are not being held for one of those two reasons, then the county should be looking for ways to get them out. … Until you’ve done that jail population analysis, you are putting the cart before the horse when you are talking about building something new.” When it comes to state prisons, committees working as part of Fallin’s task force are likely having similar discussions. The four committees examine policing, prison and re-entry programs, sentencing and inmate drug and alcohol treatment programs. They began meeting in May and will report to Fallin in November. The task force as a whole also is putting together a plan for Oklahoma’s Legislature to consider in 2016. Luck will be there to help, armed with information about programs proven to work in Texas.

For example, Texas requires counties to develop alternative programming to keep people out of jail and state prisons and uses a carrot-and-stick approach to limit the number of persons counties can send to prison. Counties within allowed guidelines are awarded additional state dollars to fund alternative programs, and counties that don’t meet guidelines must pay the state for their additional prison beds. “It creates accountability because it lets the state know what counties are sending more people every year to state prisons without developing alternative resources,” Luck said. “And it gives the counties incentive, both positive and negative, to begin to change how they think about bringing people into their jails and send them to state prison.” Another significant piece, he said, is rewriting Oklahoma’s criminal code to redefine many of today’s felonies in which punishment only requires a fine as misdemeanors. “You have to change your statutes, and you have to provide some amount of resources. But you also have to provide a reason for the counties to actually implement these changes,” he said. “That is probably what you will have to see happen here.” In Oklahoma, Luck said, reforms can be made if county and state leaders work together. Committees have eight to 15 members each from across party lines and throughout the state, many work for a county and each has expertise in the area being studied. “They all are focused on how their area affects criminal justice in the state and how can we change it for the better,” Luck said. “That’s huge.”

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CHiCKEN CKEN Consecrated copulation

Well, that’s one way to do it. An Oklahoma City bicycle cop came upon a religious ceremony of sorts as Latoya Jewel Gaede, 23, and Christopher Eugene Randles, 24, attempted to convert part of Film Row to “Indian land” through the ancient art of copulation, OKCFOX.com recently reported. During a routine patrol, the officer observed the somewhat less routine sight of Gaede and Randles allegedly having sex about 10 feet from the road near the 800 block of W. Sheridan Avenue. Upon approach, the blessed pair hastily attempted to dress, though the officer spotted Randles’ underwear not-so-carefully hidden inside a metal pole. Gaede allegedly told police, “I am Indian and consecrating the ground, as this is now Indian land,” according to OKCFOX.com. They were arrested

FRiED NEWS on complaints of disorderly conduct. Hopefully they were processed into different cells, or else the Oklahoma County Jail might also be consecrated “Indian land,” too.

Restroom rights

Here at Chicken-Fried News, we admire the courage of Meggan Sommerville. The name might be unfamiliar, but she is fighting the fight against well-known Oklahoma-based craft retailer Hobby Lobby. Sommerville joined the staff of the Aurora, Illinois, store in 1998. Nearly a decade later, Sommerville began her transition to becoming a woman. She began presenting herself as a woman in 2010, switched her nametag to “Meggan” and dressed as a female. Hobby Lobby had no qualms until Sommerville made her way to the restroom marked “Women.”

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Store managers pointed her to the men’s room. That action sparked a fiveyear battle, which resulted in a recent state administrative judge ruling that the arts and crafts franchise violated the Illinois Human Rights Act, according to Windy City Times. It is also important to note that Sommerville also has fibromyalgia, which increases her need to visit the bathroom. With her only choice to use male facilities, Sommerville would monitor her food and drink intake before work. She reportedly would wait for a meal break to use the restroom. After working six hours, Sommerville would clock out and rush to a nearby fast-food restaurant to visit the lavatory. Once, Sommerville visited the shop’s women’s room as a customer. Think Progress reported that management saw Sommerville leave the bathroom and gave her a warning for utilizing the facility as a shopper. In 2014, store management constructed a single-use restroom at the Illinois store and instructed Sommerville it was all hers.

That is the restroom that Sommerville visits today. Five months after the judge’s ruling recommendation, Sommerville still awaits an Illinois Human Rights Commission ruling, which would end the case. Through it all, she continues to come to a job she loves. “Why should I quit?” she proposed during an interview with Windy City Times of Illinois. “I’m good at what I do. I love what I do … No one should be forced to quit where they’re being harassed and discriminated against. This case is bigger than me.” “Bigger than me?” Isn’t that what Hobby Lobby attorneys argued to win their infamous Supreme Court case in 2014? The decision allowed for-profit businesses to opt out of the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Go get ’em, Sommerville. Stand firm for your rights.

Horse sense

A man was arrested during the Oklahoma State Fair for an incident involving a cop and his horse, KOCO.com recently reported. Destri Keith Wood was enjoying a can of beer when the 23-year-old saw a mounted officer and asked if he could pet the pony. The policeman declined, as they were working. That’s when he heard Wood cuss and felt his horse spin. KOCO.com quoted the patrolman’s statement in the affidavit, saying he then saw Wood perform a “downward striking movement of his right arm and hand with an open palm.” When asked how much he had been drinking, Woods allegedly said, “I don’t (expletive) know.” Woods was arrested on a complaint of public intoxication and booked into the Oklahoma County Jail.

Wicked Westboro

Today’s issue of Things Westboro Baptist Church Hates Now features a

bubbly, blonde sprite with a powerful voice: Oklahoma native and Broadway icon Kristin Chenoweth. The “church”/hate group — well, less than 10 of them anyway — protested at Chenoweth’s Oct. 2 concert at Kansas State University. In a press release shared on BroadwayWorld.com, Westboro quoted the Bible and accused Chenoweth of teaching fornication because “not one of [her] 10 uber-public ‘relationships’ was with [her] husband” — apparently it’s now a sin to have boyfriends. That’s not the way you will probably find someone you might want to marry, after all. The press release also said that it’s the entertainment industry’s fault that “America bows down to the fags” and

same-sex marriage is legal. Someday, maybe Westboro will learn that it’s almost impossible to humiliate people who are better at writing insults than you are. BroadwayWorld.com writer Michael Dale stood up for Chenoweth and responded to Westboro’s attack by quoting musical greats Fred Ebb, Cole Porter and “the prophet Ira Gershwin” who “preached” about communication, understanding and using a critical eye when reading. “You write, ‘God Hates Proud Sinners,’ so why does God allow Gypsy to get revived so often?” he asked. Dale also said the Westboro members should Christians a go see The Christians, play by Lucas Hnath about a megachurch and its pastor’s malleable mind. “It’s all about good people having contrasting views of what The

Bible means. You’ll hate it,” he wrote. The followers of Westboro obviously don’t know that Chenoweth rose to stardom after originating the role of goody-two-shoes Glinda and singing “No One Mourns the Wicked” on Broadway for nearly a year.

Quote of the week

“We understand that the execution process is complicated and we do not fault the Oklahoma Department of Corrections: they are simply doing their jobs,” said Rev. Adam Leathers, spokesman for Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, in a media statement following the decision to indefinitely stay executions in Oklahoma. “The fault lies with our state’s leadership, who insist on wasting vast amounts of our resources trying to do the wrong thing the right way. Nothing as evil, expensive, and so horrendously flawed as the Death Penalty should be allowed to exist.”

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An open letter to David Boren BY JOHN THOMPSON

To University of Oklahoma president and former Gov. and U.S. Sen. David Boren: Teaching is an act of love. Teacher’s salaries are secondary to student needs. Their working conditions are our kids’ learning conditions. The best incentive for educators is providing us the opportunity to teach well. Until now, I’ve deferred to leaders like you in terms of education funding, limiting myself to what I know, which is inner-city schools and policy. I focused on the failure of test-driven, competitiondriven “reform” and why we must shift gears and restore teachers’ autonomy so we can once again provide engaging and holistic instruction that respects our students. I was wrong. It’s bad enough that corporate school reform undermines teaching and learning. Now, underfunding education is creating a perfect storm that could overwhelm our schools. So, Mr. Boren, thank you for

leading the campaign for a $608 million tax increase to dig Oklahoma out of our budget crisis. We also can use the initiative to start a conversation about science-based school policy. We can’t merely ignore the understandable but misguided claim that “money doesn’t matter.” Since No Child Left Behind, tens of billions of dollars have been wasted on “output-driven” micromanagement. As Oklahoma schools endured years of bare-bone budgets, many also received federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) and other risky experiments. At a cost of $5 million per school, SIG largely failed, just like the alphabet soup of policies incentivizing test, sort, reward and punish. Locally and nationally, they failed in precisely the same way that educators and social scientists predicted. Mr. Boren, I assume you know the work of Jack Jennings, author of the definitive analysis of education policy. He debunks the claim that accountability-

free, progressive educators failed. He shows that the old-fashioned (Title I) approach of funding student supports improved student performance more than post-2002 test-driven mandates. “From the 1970s to the early 2000s, achievement generally rose and achievement gaps generally narrowed, which would seem to refute the Title I evaluation results used to support the shift to test-driven reform,” he said. Moreover, since 2008, the much more expensive use of incentives and disincentives has almost completely killed America’s long-term increase in student performance. Teachers are exhausted by reforms that deputized them as the agents for overcoming the legacies of poverty on the cheap. Oklahoma teachers are doubly tired of wrestling with higher levels of poverty despite funding cuts in excess of 20 percent. This state ranks fourth from the bottom in teacher pay, and our school-to-prison pipeline flows almost

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unabated. Rather than worry about the cost of a sales tax increase, let’s consider what it will cost if our public education systems collapse (especially in urban areas). To save our schools, we must unite and commit ourselves to the process you are leading. We must also engage in evidence-based planning so that increased money is soundly invested. We must lay the groundwork for highquality early education and full-service community schools. We must be toughminded in aligning and coordinating student support services. Oklahoma can’t continue to separate classroom instruction, public health and mental health, nutrition and physical fitness and higher education into silos. Mr. Boren, if we pull this off, it will create a pipeline to the University of Oklahoma, which you have ably led, and to other universities and a state that can compete in the global marketplace. Dr. John Thompson’s A Teacher’s Tale, chronicling 20 years in Oklahoma City schools, will be published this fall.

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

Nate Batchelder’s, director of The Peace House, endorsement of the despicable practices of Planned Parenthood (PP) is nonsensical, specious statistics according to me, Tom Furlong, director of the Victory House (Opinion, Commentary, “The right to choose,” Sept. 30, Oklahoma Gazette). He doesn’t realize that dollars are fungible; any of my tax dollars directed to PP means that many more dollars that can finance an organization that kills more humans than heart disease, breast cancer and smoking combined. If choice is the currency he adores, how about we let the baby in the womb have a choice. — Tom Furlong Oklahoma City

Chicken-Fried hogwash

Inasmuch as you are a liberal paper and I, being a conservative, don’t agree with many of the articles but use the data to reinforce my viewpoint. I have penned letters expressing my disagreement, and you have published many of them. Because I was so stunned to read two articles in CFN (“Planned patriarchy” and “Security concerns,” Aug. 5, Gazette), both akin to the journalistic garbage spewed out by the likes of the Daily Kos and Media Matters, that I felt obligated to respond. Except for the word “crusade,” the first sentence of “Planned patriarchy” is the only legitimate comment in the article. You allege that “a right-leaning group” has films that prove that Planned Parenthood (PP) harvests fetal tissue. And they do have said films, and they are horrific. You chide Sen. James Lankford’s Google search ability, but you can’t even locate these videos, nor find what has actually been proposed, nor find any facts except the debunked PP talking points. Your hoplophobic rambling in CFN “Security concerns” is a non-sequitur conundrum of straw men. It goes from “conspiracy theorists” to “packing heat”

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to “security concerns” to an accidental shooting incident to “armed troops within the United States” to invading Texas. Is it real or a satire? Then we get to the core element of this disingenuous article: “U.S. forces used to not carry guns when they are on military bases or not in combat because ‘Pentagon officials are sensitive to any appearance of armed troops within the United States.’” Perhaps those pencilnecked, Viagra-taking, egg-sucking, motherless, bumbling sycophantic bureaucrats have their heads so far up their collective anal orifices they need a Plexiglas bellybutton to see where they are going. And you concur with them. Why

should we even consider allowing our military personnel to be able to protect themselves? After all, they are in gun-free zones, and everyone knows that works really well! The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. — Pete Lepo Edmond Correction

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Adult Invertebrate Fossil Field Trip Steve Westrop, invertebrate paleontology curator at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, leads guests on a trip of discovery 6:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday at 2401 Chautauqua Ave. in Norman. Friday kicks off with a close-up look at the museum’s finest specimens, and Saturday launches with a trip to a site to find and collect fossils over 400 million years old. Attendance costs $60-$70. Visit samnoblemuseum.ou.edu or call 325-4712.

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Life In Color, grab your friends and don your goggles and neon tutu because the world’s largest paint party is coming to OKC; join thousands of other dancing, moshing, paint-spattered youths along with live DJs and musicians such as DallasK, Slander, and The Chainsmokers, 8 p.m., Oct. 17. Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 602-8500, coxconventioncenter.com. SAT Drop-In Art, go figure-foam figures, that is; join OKC MOA this weekend for a fun and educational craft time where you

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Sunday can make your very own foam figures, 1 p.m., Oct. 17. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, 2363100, okcmoa.com. SAT Archaeology Day, flintknapping, atlatl, and cordage don’t even sound like real words to some, but not only can archaeologists use them like the professionals they are, they’ll be demonstrating them for all to see at Archaeology Day; if you or your youngster always dreamed about unearthing the past, there is no better day for a trip to the museum, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Oct. 17. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 325-4712, snomnh. ou.edu. SAT Kicklahoma Shoe Convention, do not walk, run to the Farmer’s market so you can kick it at the biggest shoe and sneaker show in the South; come see major collectors display their favorite pairs and maybe even sneak some sneakers for yourself, or simply stand around and marvel that this is a thing, noon-5 p.m., Oct. 18. Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 2326506, okcfarmersmarket.com. SUN Dance Lessons at Friends, country dance lessons and live country band. Friends Restaurant & Club, 3705 W. Memorial Ave., Suite 604, 751-4057, . TUE Through the Eyes of the Lynx: Galileo, Natural History and the Americas, The Academy of the Lynx was one of the world’s earliest scientific societies, whose star pupil happened to be Renaissance artist and scientist (among other vocations) Galileo Galilei; this exhibit celebrates the contributions of Galileo and the Academy of the Lynx in the areas of natural science and history, through Jan. 18. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, 325-4712, snomnh.ou.edu. SAT continued on next page

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Live on Stage! Alllllviiinnnn! is back with his pals Simon and Theodore. They join the Chipettes in two interactive, live, music-filled shows 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at Cox Convention Center Arena, 1 Myriad Gardens. Tickets are $22-$57. Visit coxconventioncenter.com/events or call (800) 745-3000.

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FOOD Local Vendor Fair, Whole Foods brings you Third Thursdays once again this month, with local vendors galore so you can shop responsibly, 1 p.m., Oct. 15. Whole Foods Market, 6001 N. Western, 879-3500, wholefoodsmarket. com. THU Saintoberfest Beer Tasting, have fun, sample beer, cider and snacks, enjoy live music, and give your conscience a boost by supporting the St. Anthony Foundation in the heart of Midtown, 6:30 p.m., Oct. 16. Midtown, NW 9th St. and Walker Ave. FRI Saturday Cooking Class, you’ve heard Sir Mix-a-Lot’s dire dietary warnings, don’t let red beans and rice miss you too; get going like a turbo 'Vette to Buy For Less and learn the recipe for Cuban rice and red beans, 1 p.m., Oct. 17. Buy For Less, 3501 Northwest Expressway, 946-6342, buyforlessok.com. SAT Uptown Cooking Class, if you love cheese so much you think it may as well be pasta sauce too, then this week’s class is just for you; learn to cook everyone’s favorite garlicky, buttery, lactose intolerant-unfriendly pasta dish: chicken fettuccine alfredo, 10 a.m., Oct. 10. Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W. Covell Road, Edmond, 509-2700, uptowngroceryco.com. SAT Weekly Farmers Market, shop goods from local produce, bakers and artisans, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m., Jan. 3. Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave., 232-6506, okcfarmersmarket. com. SAT

YOUTH Great Pumpkin Float, you may be asking yourself what exactly a pumpkin float is, and the answer is simple: it is an aquatic parade of pumpkins, and you can bring a pumpkin to have its moment in the sun- er, water; just bring a carved medium sized pumpkin to the Lower Lake at 3:30 p.m. for your chance to participate, 8 p.m., Oct. 16. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. FRI Crafts For Kids, based on a survey we didn’t actually take, fall’s third most popular mascot, right behind oversized sweaters and the pumpkin spice latte, is the owl; come celebrate and show your autumn spirit by letting your young ones make an owl out of a paper plate, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Oct. 17. Lakeshore Learning Store, 6300 N. May Ave., 858-8778, lakeshorelearning.com. SAT Storytime at Pumpkinville, enjoy spooky, ghostly, scary stories at the Pumpkinville Library… but not TOO scary, of course; this week’s terrifying tale will be A Witch Got

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on At Paddington Station by Dyan Sheldon, 1 p.m., Oct. 17. Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave., 445-7080, oklahomacitybotanicalgardens.com/events. SAT

PERFORMING ARTS Triple Feature Week, it’s three comics for the price of one; triple the toppings on your comedy pizza with this trio of funny dudes, featuring Justin Berkman, Keith Terry, and Brad Tassell, 8 p.m., Oct. 14 &15; 8 & 10:30 p.m., Oct. 16 &17. Loony Bin Comedy Club, 8503 N. Rockwell Ave., 239-4242, loonybincomedy.com. WED-SAT Dial M for Murder, made famous by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1954 film adaptation of the same name, Dial M answers the question of what happens when a murderer accidentally becomes the victim; it’s a tale of blackmail, betrayal, and the perfect crime … until the perfect crime turns out not to be so perfect after all, 8 p.m., Oct. 15-17; 2:30 p.m., Oct. 18. Lyric Theatre, 1727 N.W. 16th St., 524-9312, lyrictheatreokc. com. THU-SUN Whodunit Dinner Theater: Showdown at Madam Yahoo’s Saloon, Oklahoma’s longest running dinner theater presents: Showdown at Madam Yahoo’s Saloon, an old west watering hole where they serve up beer and rotgut, and for an unlucky few murder’s on the menu., 6 p.m., Oct. 16. Cattlemen’s Steakhouse, 1309 S. Agnew Ave., 430-3222, whodunit.net. FRI Tom Segura, hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Tom is the creator of one Netflix comedy special, and is the co-creator of award-nominated podcast Your Mom’s House and one human child, both with his wife Christina Pazsitzky; if he’s good enough for Conan, he’s probably good enough for you, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 16. ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave., 974-4700, acm.uco.edu. FRI Ragtime, join the University of Oklahoma for their production of Ragtime, a musical which follows three early 20th century groups in the United States, African Americans, the suburban white upper-class, and Eastern European immigrants, and which also features such historical figures as Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, and J. P. Morgan, 8 p.m., Oct. 16 & 17; 3 p.m., Oct. 18. Rupel Jones Theatre, 840 Asp Ave., Norman. FRI-SUN LMAO Comedy, meet the man behind the prank phone calls; Rickey Smiley is a master emcee and improviser, having appeared on television multiple times in both standup and hosting roles, and this week you can see for yourself why he’s one of the funniest people on the mic today, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 16. Rose State College, 6420 SE 15th St., Midwest City, 733-7673, rose.edu. FRI Art of Murder, meshing mystery and mayhem with laughter, this story about a painter who must perfect a

different kind of art if he wants to get revenge on a man who is supposed to be his art dealer, but who has wronged him, 8 p.m., Oct. 16 & 17. Carpenter Square Theatre, 806 W. Main St., 232-6500, carpentersquare.com. FRI Sick and Tired Comedy Show, join Ben Flint for this brand new show featuring comedy by parents, for parents; featuring local fellow comedians Brett James, Bradchad Porter, Wampus Reynolds, Jenny Godwin, and Brian Stephens, this show is the latest in Flint’s Sick and Tired series, and is guaranteed to make you laugh your dad jeans off and still make it home to tuck in the little ones, 8 p.m., Oct. 17. Bistro 46, 2501 NE 23rd St. SAT Cuddle Party Comedy, join Opolis for its one and only altweekly Sunday night comedy show all October long; this week check out local comedy legends Josh Lathe, Heather King, Harper Botorff, & Steven Patchin, 9 p.m., Oct. 18. Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman, opolis.org. SUN

ACTIVE OKC Thunder vs. Denver Nuggets, a storm is coming, and it is loud, proud, and bringing a crowd; join the OKC Thunder as they challenge the Denver Nuggets to a little pre-season match between friends, 6 p.m., Oct. 18. Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., 602-8700, chesapeakearena.com. SUN CROP Walk to Stop Hunger, join Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty to support their annual three mile charity walk where proceeds will benefit Norman’s Food & Shelter, Inc., which provides housing and food assistance in local communities, and Church World Service, which fights hunger and poverty worldwide; registration is open to individual participants, church groups, and other organizations, 2 p.m., Oct. 18. Food and Shelter, Inc., 104 W. Comanche St., Norman. SUN

VISUAL ARTS All in All, you don’t make it onto the wall of the Chesapeake Arena Thunder Family VIP Lounge for nothing; boasting a BFA from State University of New York College, Christie Owen’s organic abstract and modern impressionist acrylic works are displayed all over Oklahoma draw inspiration from natural and industrial textures, from both the organic and the inorganic. Verbode, 415 N. Broadway Ave. #101. America the Beautiful, Freda de Odis Flatt has spent her life documenting in paint the beauty of the American wilderness, often en plein-air, the French term for painting out in the open air; in this way Flatt is able to capture most truly not only the sight of the landscape but also the energy present in nature not immediately perceivable to the naked eye. Oklahoma State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., 521-3356, ok.gov.

DNA Anniversary Show feat. Colby Bowers, local artist and musician Colby Bowers doesn’t shy from color in his bright, streamlined depictions of insects and animals, which often seem to pop right off the canvas thanks to his use of solid background and singular subject; join DNA for their anniversary show and experience a slice of truly unique local art. DNA Galleries, 1709 NW 16th St., 5253499, dnagalleries.com. Landscapes, merging the avant garde with the abstract to create a cacophony of crazed and confusing images that speak at once of everything and nothing- just kidding, this exhibit is essentially exactly what it sounds like: landscapes in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Jann Jeffrey Gallery, 3018 Paseo St., 607-0406. Mystical Menagerie, Katie O’Sullivan and Diana J. Smith’s abstract creature creations are a marriage of the whimsical and the bizarre in this collection of acrylic paintings and handmade clay sculpture; Smith’s clay sculptures are delightful animal wizard characters, while O’Sullivan’s paintings depict a plethora of animal creatures who border on human shrouded in a psychedelic frenzy of color. Kasum Contemporary Fine Arts, 1706 NW 16th St., 604-6602, kasumcontemporary.com. News from the Woods, Debby Kaspari’s plein air drawings and acrylic paintings portray how time and nature transformed the abandoned places she found during a residency in Massachusetts’ Harvard Forest. The Depot, 200 S. Jones Ave., Norman, 307-9320, pasnorman.org. Playground of Curiosity, imagine falling down a rabbit hole and into a magical world where everything is weird and wonderful and looks like the abstract offspring of microbes and paisley and you’ll have a decent idea of what it’s like to stroll through the works of Kerri Shadid, poet and paper marbler extraordinaire. The Project Box, 3003 Paseo St., 609-3969, theprojectboxokc.com. Robert Peterson Exhibit, all at once realist and surrealist, Oklahoma painter Robert Peterson immortalizes figures of media, sports, and music in gorgeous brighter-than-life portraits; in his short time as an artist, Peterson has already garnered worldwide fandom and recognition with his supernatural and highly detailed depictions of pop culture icons. 50 Penn Place Gallery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, Suite 113-R , 848-5567, 50pennplacegallery.com. Tarot Card Art Show, come, High Priestesses, Magicians, and Fools, and see what the cards have in store for you; Tarot divination has been used for over two centuries to tell the fortunes of ladies and gentlemen from all walks of life, and for one mystical evening all are welcome to witness the beautiful creations of 22 local artists paying tribute to the Tarot as Black Mint Collective celebrates its 1st birthday, 7-9 p.m., Oct. 16. Black Mint Collective, 800 W. Sheridan Ave. FRI

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Bert Seabourn: American Expressionist, a full-time painter since 1978, Seabourn brings a unique approach to color and line in his postmodern expressionist works which are on display all over the world; of Cherokee descent himself, Seabourn often uses Native subjects and imagery. Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, 235-4458, oklahomaheritage.com.

Cale Chadwick, exhibit of artwork by artist Cale Chadwick who creates pieces of art using her drawing, painting and photography skills; the natural, organic elements found throughout the original Chickasaw allotment that her family still resides on, plays a role in her artwork. Exhibit C, 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Ste. 100, 767-8900, exhibitcgallery.com.

Ugetsu Oklahoma City University Film Institute series continues its 34th year with a presentation of Japanese film director and screenwriter Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu 2 p.m. Sunday in Kerr McGee Auditorium in Meinders School of Business, NW 27th Street and McKinley Avenue. This black-and-white ghost story, based on Ueda Akinari's eponymous book, is often considered a masterpiece of Japanese cinema. Admission is For okg free. Visit okcu.edu/film-lit.

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Fine dining is possible at almost every price range if you know how to cook. We share tips and tricks from local chefs. david Henry carefully plates a dish at The Coach House.

By GreG elwell

The most expensive part of fine dining is paying the rent. So when executives from Devon Energy and Hobby Lobby get together to break bread and discuss new natural gas-based crafting solutions, it doesn’t matter if they’re ordering steak or lobster or a big plate of sushi. What they’re really paying for is the building, tablecloths, welldressed men and women bringing them their food and highly trained chefs in the kitchen putting it together. In other words, if you want to eat like a rich person, you need to learn to cook.

Tastemaker

David Henry knows how to cook. As chef de cuisine at The Coach House, 6437 Avondale Drive, he’s adept at preparing almost any ingredient and meticulously assembles each dish so that it is as pleasing to the eye as it is the taste buds. He’s a proponent of “fussy” food, tending to each ingredient, choosing the best and consciously designing the plate. The result is works of art he knows will be destroyed by hungry diners. Attention to the look of food is one signifier of a gourmet meal, which is easy to see as Henry gingerly clears stray crumbs from a plate and places Jackson Pollock-like dots of green and brown sauces amid the seared cubes of sweet potato in his salad. That’s what rich people eat: small portions, artfully presented. More time for less food might not be

throw the livers back in with a little balsamic vinegar. Put it all in the food processor with a knob of butter and then run it through a sieve.” That makes a chicken liver mousse that Henry said can be used as a spread or seared in slices and has a foie gras taste and tinniness.

Make it sing

Chef david Henry prepares a dish at The Coach House.

the ideal meal, he said, so he recommends looking for ingredients that require a little time and effort for a lot of flavor.

Affordable luxury

“[Beef] short ribs used to be the best inexpensive cut of meat out there, if you know what you’re doing,” he said. “Now, it’s so posh that it’s expensive.” But short ribs, a narrow cut of beef near the breastbone that includes the ends of the ribs, are no longer a secret. Check the menus at Viceroy Grille, where you can get short rib braised into tender submission as sauerbraten, or Kitchen No. 324, where you can dine on a sweet ragu sauce atop pappardelle pasta. With a price fluctuating around $8 per pound, it’s still not a bad choice for those on a budget, but it does require careful treatment to extract the most from

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the meat. Try roasting or braising to get very tender beef, and be sure to use the bones to make stock. Henry said one of his favorite lowbudget, high-flavor dishes is one that mimics a high-priced ingredient: chicken livers. At The Coach House, he’s a fan of using foie gras, or fattened goose or duck liver, as an ingredient, a garnish or its own entree. It’s luxurious specifically because of how fatty and flavorful it is. Chicken livers, on the other hand, are $3.99 for a quart and take little work to make them delicious, Henry said. “My father and I used to cook them on Thanksgiving. We’d saute the livers with butter and shallots or garlic and blend it,” he said. “You can also brown them really hard, but not 100 percent cooked; saute shallots and garlic; and

Forward Foods cheese monger Katelyn Polly said cheese is another ingredient that signifies class without breaking the bank. A night out at Vast or Ludivine reveals menus of cheese tasting plates with toast points, dried fruits and sauces. Polly said those are easy to replicate at home. “Cheese is a great place to start, and Forward Foods tends to carry a good selection,” she said. “I usually start people out with our alpine cheeses. Those are very snackable, but you can also use it in a cheese sauce or to make a really nice grilled cheese sandwich, so you can get more use of out it.” Offering fresh or dried fruits, honey or good mustard gives guests more options and more tastes to the cheese. Another type of cheese that is often overlooked is Brie, which can be made with sheep or cow’s milk and yields many different flavor notes. With almost all of Forward Foods’ cheeses, Polly said staff is happy to let customers sample them to make sure they’re happy with them before buying. She also recommends elevating dishes with olive oil or flavored vinegars. Sometimes those small touches give

Katelyn Polly checks a cheese display at Forward Foods.

dinners an unexpected flavor boost that tastes more expensive than it really is. And because you don’t have to use much to get a lot of flavor, those are ingredients that can be used plenty more times before the bottle runs out. “Buying pre-prepared jars of pasta sauce can get expensive,” she said. “It’s a lot cheaper to make your own with canned tomatoes and put the savings into oil and vinegar that will make the sauce taste better than store-bought.”

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And as long as you’re making a good sauce, Polly said, buying a good pasta, like locally made Della Terra Pasta, will change dishes for the better. (It’s a lot more work, but the very cheapest pasta is the kind you make yourself — water, flour and eggs are cheap, but it does take much more time and effort.) Henry said that, much like oils and vinegars, investing in a better quality ingredient can make a ho-hum meal seem high-class. “Get to know your farmer,” he said. “When you know the people who raise your food, you’ll know you’re getting a good product.” Certified Organic foods require an

expensive certification process, he said, but plenty of farmers are raising organic foods without labels. When Henry buys chicken, he’s interested in getting a good product that tastes better than mass-produced supermarket chickens. Those cost more, yes, but the difference is on the plate. And when the whole chicken is purchased, there are lots of ways to wring more meals out of it than just getting boneless, skinless chicken breasts at the store. “Farm to table, farm to fork, that’s good. But just because you’re going to Whole Foods doesn’t mean it’s the best,” he said. “I prefer sustainability. That’s a bigger thing for me. Supporting our Oklahoma farmers means better food in the long run.” Henry believes that sometimes, all it takes to make a meal special is one exotic element. “Octopus is cheap, but you need to know how to cook them,” he said. “Octopus might be the next big thing.” As daunting as it might seem, think about the splash — pun intended — it’ll make when you serve octopus to your guests. That’s a great meal and a story to tell. But for those determined to serve beef at their fancy meals, Henry said it’s worth it to buy a vacuum sealer and sous vide immersion cooker. “Sous vide is the ultimate tool for taking an inexpensive cut and making it posh,” he said.

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Fancy flights This annual event offers six rounds of top-name Scotch whiskey to raise funds for Rainbow Fleet. By Greg Elwell

Get a little drunk and a little smoky for the children. For the last eight years, Mark Mann, Steve Cortes and Bill Hickman have hosted the Oklahoma City Charity Scotch Tasting with proceeds going to charities that help local children, said event coordinator Nicole Thomas. The ninth annual event runs 7-10 p.m. Oct. 22 at a private home in Nichols Hills and benefits Rainbow Fleet, a local nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, families and childcare providers. Carrie Williams, Rainbow Fleet executive director, said the organization takes a holistic approach to childcare by working with parents to find financial aid and the right provider, as well as continuing education for those working in childcare and one-on-one mentoring. “We go into home childcare facilities and teach them about safe sleep, behavior and guidance,” Williams said. “We help make sure their facilities are arranged the best way to be conducive to learning.” The organization also has a child and adult care nutrition program to teach facilities to serve meals that meet U.S. Department of Agriculture standards so they can be reimbursed, a savings for the facility and a benefit

When you sip Scotch in Nichols Hills on Tuesday, the community wins.

Oklahoma City Charity Scotch Tasting 7 p.m. Oct. 22 Peter and Simone Fulmer’s home 7209 Waverly Ave. 706-7484 $100

for kids. “Not every childcare environment is right for every child,” Williams said. “Some kids thrive in big centers. Some do better in small homes.” She said that the right care sets children up to succeed when they get to school and gives parents peace of mind. Rainbow Fleet also offers a toy library; a $40 annual membership allows members to check out childhood development toys and lesson plans. Tickets to the Scotch tasting are $100, and guests receive a commemorative Scotch glass and get to try six flights of Glenmorangie and Ardbeg Scotch whiskeys donated by Glazers and Diageo, a cigar bar from ZT Cigars, food from Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse and drink service by Hooters. Dan Crowell, ambassador of Scotch whiskey, will make a presentation, calling out notes on the liquor and providing background on each blend. Thomas said it’s an interesting and informative way to learn more about Scotch. The Highlanders of Oklahoma City will perform on pipes and drums. For more information and tickets, call Epic Events at 706-7484 or email nicole@epiceventsok.com.

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Boozy bacon Oklahoma Pork Council has a mission: Remind people that bacon is awesome. That’s why it’s holding its annual Bacon and Bourbon Dinner 6:30 p.m. Friday at Vast, 333 W. Sheridan Ave., atop Devon Energy Center. Each year, chefs create a five-course dinner highlighting the perfect pairing of bacon and bourbons. This year’s menu features bourbons from Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark and Basil Hayden’s paired with fried green tomatoes, roasted garlic gnocchi, pork tenderloin and lots and lots of cured pork. Tickets are $125 and can be purchased by calling the Oklahoma Pork Council office at 232-3781.

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Yukon district After years of suffering, the good people of Yukon finally have something to celebrate: Hideaway Pizza opened at 1701 Shedeck Parkway last week. The new location seats 192 and has a full-service bar, big-screen TVs and a carryout section for call-in orders. Unique to the store will be a 10-foot “History of Yukon” collage commissioned by the restaurant with the advanced placement art class at Yukon High School.

The last Heard on Hurd of 2015 invades downtown Edmond on Saturday at the corner of Broadway Avenue and Hurd Street. Through September, it brought more than 76,000 guests to the area. According to a study by Oklahoma Arts Council, arts and cultural event attendees spend an average of $26.35 per person per event, meaning the monthly event generated over $2 million in local economic impact so far this year. Saturday, the festival features music from alternative pop duo The Lunar Laugh, singer-songwriter Emily Hearn and blues and R&B rock act KALO. Food from more than 30 food vendors — including 2 Brothers Bistro, Big O’s Pork and Dreams, Big Truck Tacos, Café Bella on Wheels, Czech Delights, Epic Pops and others — will be available. Visit facebook.com/heardonhurd.

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Bark and bite Celebrity chef and Oklahoma City native Rick Bayless returns to the city to be head judge of the Tree to Table Benefit, 6:30 p.m. Monday at Oklahoma City Farmers Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave. The event puts creativity to the test by asking more than 15 top local chefs to create a sweet or savory dish highlighting ingredients from trees, such as apples, chocolate, almonds or olives. Tree to Table is a fundraiser benefiting Tree Bank Foundation’s Oklahoma Orchards and Tornado Re-Leaf programs. A VIP reception begins at 5:30 p.m. with an opportunity to meet Bayless, a special “swag” bag, open bar and reserved seating for the main event. Event tickets start at $75 and include food samples and one drink ticket. Visit thetreebank.org.

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Delaphene’s city When George Epperly bought the 160-acre chunk of earth that would someday become Del City, he probably didn’t know there would be good restaurants there one day. But we like to think his daughter Delaphene did and that’s why she asked the small municipality be named for her in 1948. Smart thinking, Delaphene. You probably got a lot of free meals back then. — by Greg Elwell, photos by Mark Hancock

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Legally, you aren’t required to be hungry when you enter Hungry Howie’s. But morally, philosophically, if you’re not hungry, you must ask yourself, What am I doing with my life? Because when you enter this pie piazza, this dojo of dough, there is but one thing you can do: Order a pizza and take it down like a champ. Howie’s is known for flavored crusts and individual pan pizzas. And you shall be known as “the guy who ordered two.”

A warning for the ladies: We have reports of a guy named Tom taking dates to the Tom-Yum Thai Kitchen and trying to convince them that he owns the place. He’s also been telling women that the name came from his “delicious kisses.” He’s not telling the truth, and his moustache is rough to the touch. Instead, go there without Tom and enjoy a variety of Thai delicacies, such as fish with chili and basil or the aptly named Volcano Chicken.

How would you like your steak? Chickenfried? Smothered? Chucked? These are some of the options for meat preparation at Del City’s famed Back Yard Grill. (Don’t let the name fool you; it is an indoor restaurant.) While it also offers sirloins and chicken, this slice of local heaven is best known for its delightful burgers and excellent, almost suspiciously good customer service. What are you hiding, Back Yard Grill? Why are you so nice?

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Escondido means “hidden,” which is sort of hilarious given Ted’s long reign as an Oklahoma City Tex-Mex favorite. If you like your tortillas fresh, fluffy and made with flour and your salsas quickly refilled, then Ted’s Cafe Escondido is certainly worth a stop. Its gooey, cheesy entrees haven’t been hidden for quite a while. In fact, if you’re having trouble finding Ted’s, just look for the long line of people patiently waiting for a table.

If you think about it, “grub” is kind of a derogatory way to talk about food. Pigs grub for food by digging their snouts in the ground to find roots and such. But if you order roast chicken, hand-cut fries, mac and cheese or a lovely salad at this scratch kitchen restaurant in Del City, you might find yourself doing a pretty decent swine impression as you pig out to your heart’s content. Maybe this is an accurate name after all.

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“Shhhhh,” he said, gently laying a tzatziki-dipped finger across your lips. “You don’t have to pretend.” You’ve looked over the menu and acted like you were considering the dolmadakia (stuffed grape leaves) or the loukaniko (Greek sausage) dinner. And maybe, another day, you’ll get them. But he knows. You’re getting the Akropolis gyro.

Don’s Alley 4601 SE 29th St., Del City 677-9049

Step inside Don’s Alley and prepare to enter a time warp. The wooden tables, the standing glass pie case, the friendly waitresses who call you “hon” and “sugar” — this is where your parents ate and where your grandparents ate. And when a piping-hot plate of Salisbury steak or a pork cutlet sandwich with a giant dollop of mashed potatoes is placed gingerly on the table, it’s easy to see why everybody in Don’s is smiling.

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Anchoring Row The Paramount Building blends the old with the new and houses a wealth of diverse businesses.

Oklahoma City’s Film Row was described as a Skid Row less than ten years ago. Now, the stretch is booming, and one of its most treasured structures is continuing to evolve. The Paramount Building, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., is one of the original film distribution houses that gave the district its name. It houses a movie screening room, a performing arts space and an eatery that will soon re-open as Noir Bistro & Bar. Film Row follows the lead of Plaza District and Automobile Alley as it fosters an eclectic community of artists, musicians, designers and planners. Despite the area’s cinema-related history, the Paramount is one of the few places that regularly screens movies and cultivates film culture. “We wanted the building’s character to be preserved,” said Melodie Garneau, one of three partners who own the building. “There are a lot of people working on properties in this area, for retail or apartments, but nothing filmrelated. We started early on subleasing to people working on films.” WeerNProduction and Indian Head Pictures, two production companies, are housed in the Paramount. Documentary filmmaker George Adams bought the restaurant and the film screening business from Garneau

and her partners and is now renting those spaces within the venue. “We want to bring art and entertainment back to Film Row,” Adams said, pointing out that Carpenter Square Theatre and Civic Center Music Hall are close. “We can make Film Row a destination for people to come get a bite to eat, have a drink, see a movie or a play and have an evening of entertainment all within walking distance.” Adams promised there will be several film festivals at its screening room next year and deals are in the works to bring theater groups into the performance space. Noir Bistro & Bar, formerly The Paramount OKC, was set to open this fall, but the opening was pushed back due to ongoing renovations. Adams said its menu focuses on local ingredients and offers sandwiches, salads, entrees and Sunday brunch. Businesses in the district include IAO Gallery, Joey’s Pizzeria, KOSU Radio, OddFab Design Lab and Dunlap Codding, a law firm.

Architectural history

Inside the Paramount, there is a heavily riveted steel door leading underground. It secures a vault where reels of film were stored when the structure was used as a distribution warehouse between the 1920s and ’50s.

Blake Behrens screen prints shirts at The Okay See shop in the Paramount Building.

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The Paramount Building at 701 W. Sheridan Ave.

It’s a very creative environment. — Catherine Montgomery The nitrate film used before the 1950s was highly flammable. Most distribution houses like this one used fireproof vaults to safeguard the dangerous material. These architectural touches highlight Film Row’s rich history. The district is listed in the National Register of Historic Places because of its significance. It was one of 35 hubs around the country where big Hollywood studios shipped movies for distribution to local theaters. Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Entertainment had buildings on W. Sheridan Avenue, and theater managers could watch the latest studio offerings in screening rooms. “The Paramount still has its screening room intact, which makes it really special,” said preservationist Catherine Montgomery, who has worked on projects like the Ambassador Oklahoma City hotel, 1200 N. Walker Ave. In June, she moved her business, Preservation and Design Studio, into the venue after outgrowing space in Midtown.

Across the hall from her office is the studio of violinmaker Arsenios Corbishley. “It’s a very creative environment,” Montgomery said. “We heard him playing the first day we moved in and I knew we’d made the right choice.” All of the structure’s useable space is currently rented, Garneau said. Even the metal extension that once served as truck parking in the ’50s was repurposed into The Plant Shoppe. Several offices and studios are tucked away on the third floor. That’s where Corbishley crafts and repairs stringed instruments. “Funnily enough, the space is very inexpensive for someone like me who doesn’t need a ton of room,” said Corbishley, noting that the location is close to his clients who play with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. “It’s exciting to be in this up-and-coming community.”

Architectural challenges

Elevator doors must be opened manually, making it all but useless for those with mobility issues. Montgomery has been helping restore parts of the Paramount, and her first order of business is to install a new elevator on its west side. “There’s always a balance to be struck,” she said. “What’s special here is that the owners have made a commitment to stay connected to art and the making of art.”

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Community values Pagan Pride Day celebrates a unique culture and delivers fun for everyone.

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Organizers of Oklahoma City’s Pagan Pride Day (PPD) want to educate the public about what paganism really is. Despite Oklahoma being a traditionally Christian state, Pew Research Center reports that it also is home to a growing number of people who do not identify with the religion. These alternatives to traditional religions are often defined as paganism, and many have accepted that label as a point of pride. OKC’s pagan community hopes to establish a firm standing in the state’s culture. Now in its third year, Saturday’s celebration serves to spread that feeling of solidarity and encourage awareness and education of the lifestyle. It kicks off at 10 a.m. at Oklahoma City West Side Lion’s Club, 4135 NW 10 St. “Pagans are as varied in their practices and philosophies as other spiritual traditions but have much in common as well,” said Emmah Eastwind, an event co-organizer. “Among pagans, you will find environmentalists, home-schooling parents, gardeners and musicians … who are strongly engaged in bettering the world through philanthropy … and grassroots socio-political activities.” Pew reports show 79 percent of Oklahomans identify with the Christian faith. Because of this, one might expect PPD organizers to experience some opposition to the event, but that is not the case, said Deanna Broadston, event co-organizer. “I think [Christians and non pagans] will be entertained and enlightened,” Broadston said. “It is a celebration of our spiritual paths and a way of sharing those beliefs in a fun, nonconfrontational way with the

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from left Kathy Caskey, Deanna Broadston and Emmah Eastwind, organizers of OKC’s Pagan Pride Day, in front of Oklahoma City West Side Lions Club. greater community.” Organizers also said that the atmosphere will not just be educational, but enjoyable. “With the music, belly dancers, drum circle, [people can] learn something new in one of the workshops or lectures or be a part of the co-creative process of our autumnal equinox celebration,” Broadston said. “[Guests] have an opportunity to ask questions, connect with resources and shop.” There will be live music, fire dancers and a large children’s area where kids can make crafts, hear stories and sing. Vendors will sell handcrafted items such as embroidery, soap, crystals and stones. Donations for the Lions Club; Other Options, Inc.; and The Bella Foundation also will be accepted. “We believe in giving back to the community,” Broadston said. Pagans feel that communion with a deity is a largely personal act that sometimes takes place in small groups and might include prayer, candle lighting, singing or chanting, meditation, dance and drumming, Eastwind said.

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Creating parity Some say a noticeable sparsity of female artists reflects our community’s larger social proclivities. BY JACK FoWLer

opportunities for female artists, but I do think there are fewer,” Cooper said. “I honestly don’t think anything I’ve ever seen or experienced has been conscious on anybody’s part. This city is not only full of really good artists, it’s full of really good people. Most of the male artists I know here are really good, considerate people. It’s just little things that you start noticing after awhile.” Cooper pointed to the recent explosion in the popularity of public art as an example of a system that’s slanted, intentionally or not. Depending on the size of the space to

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Oklahoma Aiukli, painted by Erin Cooper, Amanda Bradway and Lauren Miller Erin Cooper offered a challenge: Name three famous female painters without saying Frida Kahlo or Georgia O’Keeffe. Three might be too many, right? “Seriously, think about that,” said Cooper, a 36-year-old artist, graphic designer, wife and mother of two living in Oklahoma City. “I think most people wouldn’t have trouble naming the top three male painters of all time, or the top five or the top 10 if they’re involved in the art world, maybe. But the list of successful female painters? That’s not a list anybody knows. And the subset of that list that I belong to is even smaller — how many successful woman, mother artists are there?” She admitted that she can’t rattle off the names of dozens of female masters either (though it’s a sure bet she will top any national average), so she went to the public library and checked out a book, Great Women Masters of Art by Jordi Vigue. “I just wanted to know who they

were,” she said.

Mixed expectations

Cooper and her husband Tim, a prolific stone sculptor, each balance making art, raising their daughters and running CooperHouse, the graphic design firm they founded in 2011. This year, however, Erin decided to transition to a new schedule: She spends two days a week running CooperHouse and three days a week painting. Maybe it was one of the stunning financial realities with which new artists are often faced. Maybe it was a comment here, a snub there. Maybe it was just one too many group art shows with all-male names on the promotional poster. However it began, Cooper said the more she waded into the art world’s murky waters, the more she began to notice differences. “I’m not saying there aren’t

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be covered and the amount of time an artist has to complete it, a public art project often requires round-the-clock work. That can present difficulties for a woman that some male artists probably wouldn’t consider before accepting a bid. “OK, so I’d love to do more public art, right?” Cooper said when asked about some of the more recent largescale, public work completed by male colleagues. “But I immediately think about childcare. That’s incredibly challenging, and it presents inherent difficulties when you consider that a mural is an immersive experience …

I can’t just paint all day and hope my children feed themselves. It requires a great deal of planning and cooperation, if you even have someone to help you, which a lot of women don’t.” For Cooper, painting all night on a project, something required more often than not thanks to either short windows of start-to-finish time or artists’ legendary procrastination skills, isn’t even an option. “The obvious difference between a guy applying for that job and me applying for that job is that I won’t do that,” Cooper said emphatically. “I’m not going to stand alone under an overpass downtown all night with my back to the street without a bodyguard. Is that in your budget?” When asked whether she’d ever been excluded more directly, she said yes but clarified that she thought it was not only largely unintentional, it was probably a reflection of the art scene and American culture as a whole. Cooper listed the names of several prominent male artists in the city. “I don’t know all of those guys really well, but the ones I do know are good guys. The ones I barely know are still friendly to me at events, and I don’t think any of them would consciously do anything intentionally sexist, especially if they saw it that way,” Cooper said. “And I think it’s an easy thing to do, but when an opportunity comes along, it seems like it’s immediately pitched to one of their buddies. There does seem to be a core group of about eight or 10 of these prominent, male artists with influence in Oklahoma City, and they seem to always support and give opportunities to one another. And that’s great, but things like that can become exclusionary.” Cooper said she sees similar discrepancies in the national scene, and they’re even more disheartening. A fan of painters Britt Bass Turner and Michelle Armas, Cooper broke down their work by price-per-squareinch and was stunned at what she discovered. “Their price-per-square-inch is less than mine. How can that be? These are successful, well-known artists, and they still can’t charge more than I do? That’s terrifying,” Cooper said. “You

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The Project Box Paseo gallery owner Lisa Jean Allswede’s new mixed media pieces, hung in preparation for a recent First Friday Gallery Art Walk in the Paseo District. know, recently, somebody decided that one of Jeff Koons’ balloon dogs was worth $58.4 million. There is no female equivalent of that.” It bears mentioning here that Cooper is anything but (or maybe much more than) a squeaky wheel. An Oregon native, she enlisted and served for eight years in the Air Force’s visual information department. She moved halfway across the country to Oklahoma, a state where she knew exactly nobody, and dove into its art scene. She still signs up for drawing classes and painting workshops, honing her craft relentlessly through private lessons with local legends like Bert Seabourn. Last year, she spearheaded the team that created the winning Taste of Western mural. She and Tim have shown art together a few times, are both actively seeking solo exhibitions and are raising two curious and polite daughters while navigating the maelstrom that can sometimes pass for an artist’s life. Complaining about nothing is not this woman’s style. “When I see the playing field disparity, I feel like I’ve been smacked. I don’t need to be a rich and famous painter, but I do want to be a

successful one,” Cooper said. “And it’s hard because I need to feel like there’s something for me to aspire to.” Cooper’s own work brings to mind her previously mentioned inspirations, Bass and Armas. Light, ethereal and feminine, her abstract expressionist paintings recently have begun to demonstrate something it seems Bass and Armus haven’t explored as much: contrast. Cooper makes good use of stark, black lines that slice through soft fields of pastels and neon oranges with the eye of a much more seasoned painter. Furthermore, the progression of her portrait series (mostly of female friends and colleagues around OKC) makes it obvious that the drawing classes and sessions with Seabourn have paid off in a huge way, too.

Quality equality

So, is the Oklahoma City arts scene a bit of a boys’ club? If a hardworking, talented, focused painter like Cooper notices a difference in the number and quality of opportunities afforded to female visual artists, doesn’t the question at least bear examination? In an effort to at least begin exploring the issue, Oklahoma Gazette asked the owners of five local art galleries, In the last calendar year,

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how many female or mostly female art shows have been displayed in your gallery? Two of the galleries interviewed displayed one female artist between them since 2014, although the owner of the gallery where she showed said that exhibits are granted on a submission basis and she was the only female artist to ask. However, two other galleries geared more toward group shows said they had more female art shows than they could remember. Of those two, one gallery owner said there have been multiple group shows that were all women, though the show’s premise wasn’t always gender-specific. The other owner offered math to back it up and said 54.5 percent of the gallery’s shows had a female artist as its “forward feature.” The last gallery owner to be interviewed, Lisa Jean Allswede, has shown female artists exclusively in the Paseo Arts District’s The Project Box since it opened in May 2014. A working artist, Allswede uses The Project Box as her studio while overseeing what might be the most consistently rotating art gallery in town. “After my daughter was born, I really needed to be around people who understood where I was coming from,” Allswede said. “I do think it’s harder for us because of how society has pegged us as a gender. We’re still supposed to be caregivers, and men are still supposed to be hunters and doers. But that’s changing.” When asked what the end goal looks like, Allswede sounded eerily like Cooper. “The same playing field; that’s all we’re after,” she said. “I don’t want to be included in a show because I’m a woman. I want to be included in a show because I’m a badass.”

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Early artifacts Sculptures from ancient Rome are now on display in Norman.

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Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums, Rome 12:30 p.m. discussion oct. 22 1:30-5:00 p.m. symposium oct. 22 through Dec. 6. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 555 elm Ave, norman ou.edu/fjjma 325-3272 Free

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Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is now a temporary home for 20 ancient busts from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The exhibit, Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums, Rome, features sculptures of Roman emperors from the time of Augustus during the first century B.C. to the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. Samuel Huskey, associate professor and Department of Classics and Letters chairman at the University of Oklahoma (OU), said the school received the exhibit because Capitoline is undergoing renovation. “The museum needed a temporary home for the pieces while they carried out renovations,” he said. “Enel Green Power, an Italian energy company with business in Oklahoma, helped make this happen both to help establish business in the U.S. and to spread Italian culture.” Jason Houston, an associate professor of Italian at OU, said the artists are unknown but the figures were commissioned by Roman emperors. Immortales features three themes: the propagandistic aspects of the art, fashion and ideology. Built between the 13th and 15th centuries, Capitoline Museums take their name from their location on Capitoline Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome. The facility attempted to add an annex early in the 1930s when a portion of a building collapsed, Houston said. “World War II started shortly after, so pieces from different collections were stored in a subway tube throughout the war,” he said. “When they finally got back to the project, Enel Green stepped in to help,

Bust of Lucius Verus from Rome and that is how we ended up with the pieces.” In addition to the statues, Enel Green and Capitoline Museums also arranged for OU to receive four crates of inscriptions, primarily epitaphs and funerary etchings from the Roman Empire, all of which are unpublished. Students at OU are working with Houston to clean up and translate the engravings. “It’s a great opportunity for our undergraduate students to work in a hands-on way with 2,000-yearold texts,” Houston said. “There are no immediate plans to put the inscriptions on display, but their presence here means nine students get to spend an hour-and-a-half every week working on an important project that will eventually see international publication.” The 20 pieces on display in the Lissa and Cy Wagner Gallery are nearly one third of 67 carvings that are part of the permanent collection in Rome. Francesca Giani, a graduate student in art at OU, curates the exhibition locally. The display runs through Dec. 6. An Oct. 22 symposium and gallery discussion is open to the public. For the talk, Giani will lead a walking tour through the exhibition. The symposium features guest speakers from Yale and Johns Hopkins universities.

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Brian Eyerman takes a heartfelt approach to architectural renderings, including digital video. The style seems to work for Skyline Ink Animation Studios, his Oklahoma City-based firm, because it recently won two Telly Awards, one of the highest honors in the film and video production industry. “Animation typically attempts to give people a virtual tour of a building,” Eyerman said. “It is treated as a technical endeavor, and I prefer to treat them as an emotional or storytelling endeavor.” The goal is to create a video that is relevant even after clients have “the real thing,” he said. A promotional video for Midtown that Skyline produced in 2006 is still fascinating because it uses a car tour of Automobile Alley

and Midtown to relate a story about area development and can be viewed at skylineink.com. “I used a video game steering wheel to produce that video,” Eyerman said. “Computer animation is going to be perfect in terms of how things are rendered. But the world is not perfect, so we had to program in imperfection, and a human on the steering wheel made that possible.” Those touches helped make Skyline one of the most sought-after firms in the country. In addition to expo centers for Anaheim and Los Angeles, Eyerman also oversaw animation for a new stadium for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars in Florida, a rendering that landed the project on The Colbert Report.

Skyline Ink Animation Studio’s award-winning rendering of The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. “I got a call from a friend, and he said, ‘You’re on Colbert,’” Eyerman said. “Actually, Colbert was making fun of the swimming pools on top of an NFL stadium. I was just doing what the customer asked.” Eyerman is an OKC native and graduate of Carl Albert High School and the University of Oklahoma (OU). He entered college as an art major but switched to architecture. He took animation classes at OU and through a program at City Arts Center. “Pixar released Toy Story in 1995, and I was taking animation classes in 1994,” Eyerman said. “There wasn’t

much animation in Oklahoma in those days.” After a one-year internship at a local firm, he developed his own business. Clients were slow to call, so in 2000, Eyerman hauled his equipment to the Oklahoma State Fair and stayed all day, every day. “I just calculated that among those tens of thousands of people would be architects,” Eyerman said. He picked up more customers there than from any professional trade show he has attended. After that, his company grew, and in 2007, Skyline Ink moved to the Flatiron District at 17 Harrison Ave.

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Embarrassing pioneers Keith and the Girl plan to humiliate their producer in front of his mother at Sunday’s show.

BY Greg Horton

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Danny Hatch got an iPod for Christmas when he was 14 years old. His family was living in Edmond at the time, having moved to the metro when Hatch was only 5. “I found the Keith and the Girl (KATG) podcast on my computer and downloaded it to my iPod,” he said. “It was pretty raunchy, so when my mom found it, she freaked out and grounded me from listening.” As most teenagers would, he downloaded the podcast to his iPod and then deleted it from his computer so his mother wouldn’t know. He listened for years and moved to New York City shortly after graduating from Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School in 2010. “We were looking for interns at the time Danny got here,” said Keith Malley, host of KATG. “We hired him, and he did a great job for us.” Hatch did such a good a job that he became the associate producer of KATG in July. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the crew hit the road for a 10-city tour with a stop in Oklahoma City on Saturday. The edgy talk show decided to book Hatch’s mother Franny to appear on the live broadcast. “I think the main goal … is to embarrass me in front of my mom,” Hatch said. Cohost Chemda Khalili confirmed Hatch’s suspicion. “We booked his mom because we intend to embarrass the shit out of Danny,” she said. “That is the focus of the show.” Comedians Ray DeVito and Katherine Heller, as well as other personalities familiar to regular listeners, are also on the tour. The live format is slightly different than the regular production because the crew can interact with the audience, Malley said. It also

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will be more personal because Hatch’s family and friends will be there.

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Malley and Khalili are podcast pioneers. The two were dating for a while before they started the show in 2005. Malley said both had a “computer genius” brother who told them about RSS feeds, which were mostly used for delivering news at the time. “It could also be used to deliver content like a podcast,” he said. “I started the podcast and recorded five days a week at first.” The name of the show came from Khalili, who opted for some degree of anonymity. KATG now averages 50,000 downloads a day.

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“I was singing, and Surf Reality was this open-mic thing where you could do all kinds of stuff,” Khalili said. “Keith was there, doing standup. I didn’t like him at first. His material was offensive … but I laughed. It seemed like bad feminism to connect with him or his material.” Podcasting was a relatively new medium at the time, and the duo was unsure of the type of format they wanted. However, they knew they wanted it to be honest, so they adopted a talk show format combining news, commentary, humor and offbeat personalities. “Podcasting was different than regular radio because you could have an opinion and say what you want,” Malley said. “A quarter of the world is going through insane stuff at any given time, and you could talk about any of it.”

Shock jocks like Howard Stern and Don Imus made names for themselves by commenting on issues from porn to politics, interviewing and mocking guests, and created a free-flowing style. However, they still had some constraints because they were on the radio, which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission. Podcasting is different because there is far less oversight of content or language. Malley and Khalili understood the difference early and have been hugely successful. “Chemda has a producer’s mind,” Malley said. “It was her idea for me to do a live album, and I’ve done one on my birthday every year for 12 years.” Khalili eventually overcame her reticence to disclose her identity, but the name stuck anyway. The two eventually stopped dating, and Khalili’s husband tours with them. In addition to their own podcast, KATG helps other personalities launch shows through their VIP subscription service. Hatch launched his new podcast, That’s the Show With Danny. For now, it is an hour-long program with Malley and Khalili. Hatch calls it his first “non-openmic live show.” Before he left OKC, he performed open-mic shows at Sauced on Paseo. “It was awful,” he said. “I’m glad I can’t remember what I said. One night, the amp wasn’t working, so the manager encouraged me to go from table to table to tell jokes. It was so bad.” Catch Keith and the Girl at 8 p.m. Sunday at ACM@UCO Performance Lab, 329 E. Sheridan Ave.

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A new gala helps raise funds for Oklahoma City Orchestra League and OKC Philharmonic.

BY greg Horton

oklahoma City orchestra league maestro’s Ball 5 p.m. saturday meinders Hall of mirrors Civic Center music Hall 201 n. Walker ave. okcorchestraleague.org 297-1577 $100-$20,000

Oklahoma City Orchestra League (OCOL), an organization dedicated to music education, added another gala event to its schedule this year. The inaugural Maestro’s Ball combines a cocktail reception, dinner, concert and after-party with live music. It also features a magic show with Rob Lake performing. Events raise funds for OCOL’s educational programs, as well as the Oklahoma City Philharmonic (OKC Phil) programs. Maestro’s Ball will serve as the kickoff to each OKC Phil season beginning in 2016. It also will allow consistency in fundraising events, said Lisa Reed, executive director of OCOL. OCOL and OKC Phil help fund 18 education programs, including several for elementary-age children. One of those, We’ve Got Rhythm, is in 65 elementary schools across Oklahoma. “It’s an introduction to orchestra for kids in third grade,” Reed said. “The program reaches about 5,500 [students] all over the state. It’s so popular we have a waiting list of 25 schools.” It is rare that any school drops We’ve Got Rhythm, so the waiting

list changes very little year to year, Reed said. We’ve Got Rhythm puts an OKC Phil ensemble for a performance and a chance for students to get hands-on experience with instruments. “Fine arts in Oklahoma’s public schools are limited at best,” Reed said. “Programs like We’ve Got Rhythm fill a critical need, assisting schools to meet the third-grade Oklahoma Academic Standards for Music while giving budding Mozarts the chance to find their passion.” For kids who are more advanced, OCOL’s Music Competitions offer opportunities to win cash prizes and play in a winner’s recital. Reed said the competition this year was won by a 7-year-old pianist who competed against high school students. The programs also focus on adults, with concert previews, beginning orchestra and master classes. Another event provides funds for OKC Phil musicians working on educational development. The fundraisers make it possible for thousands of Oklahomans to experience orchestral music, either as fans, students or musicians. For Maestro’s Ball, participants can choose from several different options. Tickets are available for the entire evening, and packages feature the concert or concert and after-party. Guests must RSVP for dinner. Tall Tales, Magic and Majesty, OKC Phil’s second concert of the season, features numbers by Paul Abraham Dukas, Ralph Vaughn Williams and Richard Strauss. The guest musician is German violinist Augustin Hadelich, and he is making his OKC Phil debut on Jean Sibelius’ “Violin Concerto in D Minor.”

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LIFE ACTIVE

Neighborly love Open Streets OKC celebrates community and health on Sunday.

BY CHRISTINE EDDINGTON

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Open Streets OKC is back, and this time, it’s heading south. “Our goal is to gain more ground for reclaiming the streets for an active lifestyle,” said Emma Dean Kratochwill, Southwest 29th Business Improvement District Association executive director. Also known as La 29, the local nonprofit group promotes growth and improvement for the business corridor along SW 29th Street and surrounding community from S. May Avenue to S. Shields Boulevard. The first time Open Streets OKC took over a section of town, it was the Uptown 23rd District and more than 20,000 people showed up. This time, Open Streets is noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at S. Walker Avenue between SW Grand Boulevard and SW 29th Street and S. Robinson Avenue between SW 29th and SW 23rd streets. Admission is free. Health professionals and organizations will offer healthy lifestyle tips, and people can try out a variety of classes and activities. Although 18 food trucks will be on hand, organizers hope people also will try area restaurants, many of which are small, family-owned eateries that serve native cuisines. Community members’ countries of origin include Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States. “We think it’s important for both sides of the river to come together and see what’s great about each other,” Kratochwill said. While Open Streets gatherings have a festive, block-party vibe, its purpose runs deeper. When more residents choose active transportation like walking or biking, it increases the push

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Emma Dean Kratochwill near SW 29th Street. for accessible communities, which makes for healthier Oklahomans. This also provides a boost in foot traffic for local businesses and greater participation in shaping their communities, according to OpenStreetsOKC.com. Sunday’s event will include a crafts area for kids. Harold Hamm Diabetes Center will provide water bottles and offer motivational messages for walking. The Greater OKC Pickleball Club will play pickleball, a hybrid of tennis, badminton and ping-pong. Circle of Care will bring milk bottle carnival games, and Latino Community Development Agency will provide jump ropes, Frisbees and hula-hoops for kids and adults along with football for adults. OU Medicine will conduct free health screenings. Open Streets OKC is a project of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department’s Wellness Now Coalition, which organizes events twice a year with partner organizations like Neighborhood Alliance of Central Oklahoma, YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City and Association of Central Oklahoma Governments.

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The Bourgeois explores society’s ills and brings its punk-influenced Tulsa rock to Blue Note Lounge on Friday. By Adam Holt

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Tulsa rock trio The Bourgeois tends to look at the world from a middleclass point of view, and its music takes aim on subjects affecting American society. “A lot of the songs you listen to on the radio tend to be songs about girls and more songs about girls, and that’s not anything really interesting to write about,” said Zach Mobley, singer-guitarist and principal lyricist. “There are more interesting topics. We have songs dealing

with how income inequality affects America. Different things like that.” The band is influenced by late ’70s punk and ’90s indie and alternative rock, but it does not rely solely on those sounds. Here and there, an awkwardness resembling Talking Heads can be heard, but it all lies underneath The Bourgeois’ own style. “When I hear ‘rock music,’ I think of something really bland and corporate-sounding. We’re more edgy than most of what you hear on the radio,” Mobley said. The group’s first LP, We’re Still in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars, is a power chord- and unison bendheavy album. Mobley’s vocal styling is reminiscent of John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) and Lou Reed, and the album also includes a cover of Lorde’s “Royals.”

The group formed two years ago with Mobley and drummer Ty Clark. Early on, the pair played with a string of bassists who left for various reasons. Vance Young recently filled the spot full-time. The Bourgeois is partially a product of Clark’s new direction in life following a year and a half in prison. Clark started playing drums in bands at 12 years old and once opened for Papa Roach. In the early 2000s, he was injured on the job in a machine shop. His treatment included painkillers and led to drug addiction. “I stopped playing music because all I cared about was how I felt,” he said. For the next six years, drugs were his life. In 2009, he found himself behind bars. The prison where Clark did time included a band room with a drum set, and he delved back into music there.

“That’s when I decided I’m better than this, I have more to offer,” he said. Upon his release in 2011, he quickly procured a drum set and began looking for a band. He found a Craigslist post by Mobley and heard samples of his work. “I thought to myself, ‘I like that band. That guy has something in his voice that is very unique,’” Clark said. He reached out to Mobley, and the two soon became friends and bandmates. Their first album featured multiple bassists and a couple of songs Mobley recorded with studio musicians. However, their upcoming release, From the Darkest Corners of the Brightest Room, primarily features only Mobley, Clark and Young. Check out The Bourgeois with Freak the Mighty 9 p.m. Friday at Blue Note Lounge, 2408 N. Robinson Ave. Blind 7 photograph y / provided

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Crazed core Psychostick hits 89th Street Collective for a head-banging good time on Friday. BY greg horton

Psychostick with Dog Fashion Disco and Megosh 7:30 p.m. Friday 89th Street Collective 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com ticketstorm.com $15-$17 All ages

Sifting through the angst of contemporary heavy metal makes it difficult to believe there was a time when the genre did not take itself so seriously. Even band names evoke images of death, demons and a catalog of human suffering. But Chicago-based humorcore act Psychostick believes that metal can be performed with precision and humor. Matty Rzemyk plays bass for the

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outfit and wears moose antlers during its live shows. He chronicles the history of rock bands like KISS and Twisted Sister that believed having fun was what rock ’n’ roll was about. “The [Rolling] Stones were not about fucking stuff up,” Rzemyk said. “They were having fun. Somewhere, metal got really serious, but there were always elements of humor in bands like Korn and Coal Chamber.” Lead vocalist Rob Kersey and vocalist and guitarist Josh Key were high school friends in Odessa, Texas. From there, they moved to Phoenix, where Psychostick formed, and eventually moved to Kansas City and Chicago. Rzemyk said the final move was based on two factors: a studio in the home of a Patrick Murphy and a central location. “Murph is the fifth member of our

band,” Rzemyk said. “He does all our videos, and he offered to let us build a studio in the basement of his house. Just as Kansas City is centrally located for its region, Chicago is the same. It’s four hours from a ton of stuff.” A crowdfunded campaign helped build the studio, and the group has lived and worked in Chicago since 2014. The studio gives Psychostick a measure of autonomy rare in the music world. Rather than focus on albums and reserve time to record them, it is free to make and release music at its own pace. “We don’t charge for the music typically,” Rzemyk said. “We put [songs] online for our fans and then ask them to hit the merch store. That’s where we make our money.” An economic model like that is not viable for a lot of bands, but it works for Psychostick. It’s helped along because the

members are all in their 30s and it’s an “all-hands-on-deck” band, Rzemyk said. “I’m a bassist, but I study spreadsheets all day,” he said. “The other guys work on publicity, equipment, recording, engineering, all kinds of stuff.” Their age helps contextualize humor, too. The band can count Pantera among their earliest influences, but they also know The Simpsons and “Weird Al” Yankovic. “He’s squeaky clean compared to us,” Rzemyk said. “He made it okay to be funny. Nu metal and ‘Weird Al’ paved the way for Psychostick.” Alex Dontre rounds out the foursome on drums. It is an amusing band, but the comedy is not a gimmick. It is rock ’n’ roll, after all. It’s supposed to be fun.

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Crueligans, Oklahoma City Limits. COVER DJ Rodney Ladd, Colcord Hotel. VARIOUS DJ Six, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. VARIOUS

Caleb Fellenstein, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ACOUSTIC

Dog Fashion Disco/Psychostick, 89th Street Collective. ROCK

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Kristen Stehr, Remington Park. COUNTRY

Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club.

Micky & the Motorcars, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

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Smokey & The Mirror, The Blue Door. FOLK

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100 Bones Band, Tapwerks Ale House & Cafe. ROCK

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Chad Todd, Riverwind Casino, Norman. COUNTRY

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DJ View, Colcord Hotel. VARIOUS

Mud Flap Nichols & The Twisted Spokes, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES

Widowspeak, Opolis, Norman. INDIE

Don and Melodee Johnson, Twelve Oaks, Edmond. VARIOUS

Rachel Davis/Dominic John Davis, The Blue Door. COUNTRY

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Jeremy Johnson, Grady’s 66 Pub, Yukon. ACOUSTIC

Shadowman Blues, UCO Jazz Lab, Edmond. BLUES

John Arnold Band, Newcastle Casino. COUNTRY

Shinedown/Breaking Benjamin, Chesapeake Energy Arena. ROCK

Okie Soul Jam, Bourbon Street Bar. ROCK

Brad Good, Riverwind Casino, Norman. SINGER/ SONGWRITER Brandon Jackson, Fuze Buffet & Bar. COUNTRY Bread & Butter Band, St. Anthony Medical Campus. BLUEGRASS

Johnny Polygon/Bowlsey, Opolis, Norman. HIP-HOP

Stars, Russell’s, Tower Hotel. COVER

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Michael Kleid, Fuze Buffet & Bar. JAZZ Mike & the Moonpies, Wormy Dog Saloon. COUNTRY

Claire Piersol Trio, Uptown Grocery Co., Edmond. JAZZ

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Mike Hosty: One Man Band, The Deli, Norman. BLUES Tim Stanford & the Exclusives, Bourbon Street Bar. BLUES

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21 Drive, Baker Street Pub & Grill. ROCK Edgar Cruz/Jeff Nokes, Avanti Bar & Grill. ACOUSTIC Grant Wells, Skirvin Hilton Hotel. JAZZ Hotel Books/Bad Luck, 89th Street Collective. VARIOUS Maurice Johnson, R&J Lounge and Supper Club. JAZZ

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LIFE FILM

Tested bravery He Named Me Malala examines the life of an education activist who embodies endless love and courage.

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As Pashtun soldiers retreated from the invading British during the Battle of Maiwand in 1880, legend has it a lone female stood on the battlefield and watched it unfold. As she witnessed her people running for their lives, the girl climbed to a peak overlooking the battlefield and raised her voice to lift up and rally the troops to charge into battle with her at their side. Her name was Malala. Admitting that he knew giving his daughter the same name would make her stand out, Malala Yousafzai’s father could not have guessed that his daughter would suffer nearly the same fate as the legendary youth. Despite threats on her life by the leader of the Taliban regime in the Swat region of Pakistan, Yousafzai was a vocal proponent of education for young women in the Middle East. On Oct. 9, 2012, 15-year-old Yousafzai boarded her bus to go to school. It was like any other day until a gunman embarked, asked for her by name and shot her in the forehead. With a shattered skull, brain damage, an exploded eardrum and damage to her face, Yousafzai was left for dead. The Taliban didn’t realize this violent act and the young girl’s subsequent survival would spell doom

Malala Yousafzai in He Named Me Malala

for it and put a bull’s-eye on tyranny and oppression worldwide. Documentarian Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) once again makes education his focus with He Called Me Malala. Unlike his 2010 feature Waiting for ‘Superman,’ which centers on the trappings of the modern education system, this time, Guggenheim focuses on a single girl who became a champion for education. After the attack, Yousafzai was left with permanent nerve damage in her face, complete loss of hearing in one ear and a multitude of complications and physical rehabilitation. Yet, she refuses to be angry with her assailants or their leader, and displays a love for mankind that matches Gandhi and Mother Theresa. Yousafzai is now 18 years old. For the American people, the Middle East is a place that evokes images of suicide bombers and horrific battle scenes, but that hasn’t always been life for the residents of Swat Valley. Even in her short lifetime, there has been peace in her home region; school was attended, people went to their jobs and families raised children until the arrival of Taliban leader Maulana Qazi Fazlullah. With this film, Guggenheim illustrates that tyrants don’t always start out as such. Using footage and audio of Fazlullah talking through the radio and loudspeakers to the people of Swat Valley, the director shows that Fazlullah supported family, God and the rights of every citizen, including women, to be free.

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Then he slowly began to point out “sinners” in the community, and made sure people knew what their neighbors were up to. Yousafzai and her family were forced to flee their homeland and now live in England. The movie examines the difficulties they face as refugees. Her mother, Tor Pekai, has a hard time learning English and adapting to Western life, and her always-vigilant father is patient with the family as he tends to their needs. Knowing she can never return to Swat Valley for fear of assassination, Yousafzai also suffers from homesickness. He Called Me Malala demonstrates that the activist is also still a teenager struggling with the complications that come with age: fitting in at school, fighting with her brothers and her test scores. “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world,” Yousafzai said regarding educating all people even in the face of death.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Homework: In what part of your life are you doing less than your best? Why? FreeWillAstrology.com. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Here’s actor Bill Murray’s advice about relationships: “If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if, when you come back, you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.” In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest you make comparable moves to test and deepen your own closest alliances. See what it’s like to get more seriously and deliriously intimate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Some firefighters use a wetter kind of water than the rest of us. It contains a small amount of biodegradable foam that makes it ten times more effective in dousing blazes. With this as your cue, I suggest you work on making your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I mean the following: When your feelings arise, give them your reverent attention. Marvel at how mysterious they are. Be grateful for how much life force they endow you with. Whether they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” regard them as interesting revelations that provide useful information and potential opportunities for growth. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) *Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell* is a BBC TV min-series set in the early 19th century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult magic so as to accomplish practical works, like helping the English navy in its war against the French navy. Norrell is pleased to find an apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a course of study for him. Norrell tells Strange that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the study is a continual delight.” If you’re interested in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s available.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) We humans have put buttons on clothing for seven millennia. But for a long time these small knobs and disks were purely ornamental -- meant to add beauty but not serve any other function. That changed in the 13th century, when our ancestors finally got around to inventing buttonholes. Buttons could then serve an additional purpose, providing a convenient way to fasten garments. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening to dream up further uses for elements that have previously been one-dimensional. Brainstorm about how you might expand the value of familiar things. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You would be wise to rediscover and revive your primal innocence. If you can figure out how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication and a few slivers of your excess dignity, you will literally boost your intelligence. That’s why I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of childhood, where you can encounter stimuli that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. Your upcoming schedule could include jumping in mud puddles, attending parties with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun with wild toys, and drinking boisterously from fountains of youth. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) While still a young man, Virgo author Leo Tolstoy wrote that “I have not met one man who is morally as good as I am.” He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk for an hour every day.” Others were equally stern: “Go to bed no later than ten o’clock,” “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did provide himself with wiggle room, however. One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours during the day. Another specified that he could visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo. Now is a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. As you refine and recommit yourself to these fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself enough slack.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Many astronomers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang. An inconceivably condensed speck of matter exploded, eventually expanding into thousands of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy event, right? Actually, no. Astronomers estimate that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 decibels -- less than the volume of a live rock concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge of your own personal Big Bang, Libra. It, too, will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy it unleashes. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) For now, you are excused from further work on the impossible tasks that have been grinding you down. You may take a break from the unsolvable riddles and cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would also like to distance yourself from the farcical jokes the universe has been playing, go right ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that you have been as successful at weathering these trials as you could possibly be, even if the concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) One afternoon in September, I was hiking along a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my favorite grandmother oak, I spied a thick, six-foot-long snake loitering on the trail in front of me. In hundreds of previous visits, I had never before seen a creature bigger than a mouse. The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but its head looked more like a harmless gopher snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for the duration, then slipped away after I finished. What a great omen! The next day, I made a tough but liberating decision to leave behind a good part of my life so as to focus more fully on a great part. With or without a snake sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable breakthrough for you sometime soon. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Canadian author Margaret Atwood has finished a new manuscript. It’s called *Scribbler Moon.* But it won’t

be published as a book until the year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, along with the texts of many other writers who are creating work for a “Future Library.” The project’s director is conceptual artist Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to George Orwell’s question, “How could you communicate with the future?” With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: Compose five messages you would you like to deliver to the person you will be in 2025.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Every hour of your life, millions of new cells are born to replace old cells that are dying. That’s why many parts of your body are composed of an entirely different collection of cells than they were years ago. If you are 35, for example, you have replaced your skeleton three times. Congratulations! Your creativity is spectacular, as is your ability to transform yourself. Normally these instinctual talents aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts to recreate and transform your psyche, but they are now. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate everything about yourself, not just your physical organism. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The coming weeks will NOT be a favorable time to seek out allies you don’t even like that much or adventures that provide thrills you have felt a thousand times before. But the near future will be an excellent time to go on a quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom, or an answer to the Sphinx’s riddle. In other words, Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning toward experiences that steep your heart with a sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that degrades, disappoints, or desensitizes you. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes /daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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