2 URBAN TULSA WEEKLY • NOVEMBER 15-21, 2012 NOVEMBER 15-21, 2012 • URBAN TULSA WEEKLY 3 CAINS idared 4 URBAN TULSA WEEKLY • NOVEMBER 15-21, 2012 contentscoes UTW | November 15-21, 2012 | Vol. 22 ISSUE 20 FROM THE EDITORS... 14 Payment Pulse What has always set the Tulsa community apart is the fact that the people who live here like Tulsa, but we have a hard time expressing Tulsa struggles to make online payment system. CITY why. We don’t have our own local dish. No one has ever heard of 15 From Tulsa, With Love (& Logic) Tulsa-style pizza or Tulsa cheesesteak. But we do have steakfi ngers! CITY See Katharine Kelly’s review of the Steakfi nger House, P22. Gift from local company StatSoft an effort to jumpstart European economy. We also have our very own music (even if you haven’t heard of it). 16 Beyond Blues New Tulsa Sound, a development of the Tulsa Sound from the 1970s, Dustin Pittsley exemplifies the New Tulsa Sound as he pays homage to the greats. COVER STORY is sweeping the city. Our music reporter, G.K. Hizer explores this genre and other issues in the local music scene in his profi le of Dustin 32 Cheers: Chocolate, Children, and Chamber Music Pittsley. See P16. Tulsa’s classiest fundraiser and getting ready for Christmas. ARTS EXPERIENCED During National Adoption Month, UTW highlights one couple who chose to adopt locally, even if that meant a special set of challenges. 34 No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Rock Read the heart-breaking and heart-warming story of a heroic family in Skyfall rocks, but not as hard as Miami Connection. CINEMA “A Family for Thanksgiving,” P19. Speaking of heroes, Terry Simonson sings the praises of EMSA, 40 Fan the Flames perhaps the most overworked and underappreciated group of people The Secret Post reemerges once again and adds to its mystery with Fields of Fire. SOUNDCHECK in town (except for newspaper editors…obviously). See Insider, P9. Finally, in case you’ve been living under a rock, Barack Obama was re-elected this month…and Vision2 failed. For the challenges and opportunities we now face, see Cityscape, P7. It’s not Thanksgiving yet, but if you fi nd yourself unproductive at work anyway, UTW is always here to fulfi ll your information and entertainment needs. CHARLES D. BEARD, EDITORIAL MANAGER FEATURES 13 DYLAN SPAULDING 14 HEATH SHARP COURTESY OF ALLMOVIEPHOTO.COM OF COURTESY DYLAN SPAULDING Corrected Vision. It’s back to the eye chart for Vision2, but signs remain up all over Tulsa. 34 If you still have a sign, take it down to the MET. And read Recycling Resolve, P13. Cover: Casey Hanson T-TOWN AROUND upfront... columns... food... happenings... arts... classifieds... 12 News Updates 6 Letters 22 Restaurants 38 7+1 32 Arts Experienced 48 Employment 13 City 7 Cityscape 24 Cuisine Scene 41 Live Music 34 Cinema 50 Real Estate 16 Cover Story 8 The Capitolist 27 UrbanSpirits 45 Events 40 Soundcheck 54 Service Directory 9 The Insider 55 Back Row 10 Rant ‘N’ Rall 11 Pugilistics NOVEMBER 15-21, 2012 • URBAN TULSA WEEKLY 5 NOVEMBER 15-21, 2012 • VOL. 22 NO. 20 ISSUE #878 Editorial Editor & Publisher KEITH SKRZYPCZAK Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill like you anymore if you speak out against all of (North Shore). A good food truck can rival any Editorial Manager CHARLES D. BEARD, these things, things that people in other countries restaurant any day. [email protected] are justifiably mad at? Will you still call people Reporter JAIME ADAME, Dear UTW: –Tracy Heller Clark [email protected] In Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210 (1990) who protest these things impractical, “emotional progressives,” or worse? Music Writer GARY HIZER, & FOUCHA v. LOUISIANA, 504 U.S. 71 (1992) You Can Run from Your IQ, but You [email protected] the Supreme Court essentially held that a person Will you sit there, pensively waiting for Obama to become the man he promised he would be in 2008? Can’t Hide! Cinema Writer JOE O'SHANSKY, has no intrinsic right to counsel during a mental [email protected] health evaluation. This article by Roberson on Here’s a hint: he won’t. false confessions by ordinary people without any You don’t have to be an anarchist to see that the Dear UTW: Administration mental illness shows why it should reconsider. man you elected, while ostensibly “better” in a couple It’s IQ, IQ, and IQ. Director of Operations JULIE ANN BRAUN The Tulsa Center for Behavioral Health fills its of arguably important ways than the man he was You are born with this number marking your Office Manager SAMANTHA TOOTHAKER beds, based upon these mistakes. running against, is still no one to write home about. intelligence and it never changes. Administrative Assistant LAUREN MCANULTY The “lesser evil” is still evil. You can over-achieve or under-achieve with high Ombudsman MATT F. SKRZYPCZAK –Don Baker All we are asking is that you remove your head or low IQ but nothing beats its ability to help or hinder Free Spirit ELIZABETH C. SKRZYPCZAK from your collective behind and, at the very least, help your progress. Executive Vice President JOHN P. SKRZYPCZAK In, er, Praise of Obama us make sure that his evil doesn’t grow. All the state’s report cards on our public schools tell You don’t need Adbusters to tell you to take to us is something we already knew. Design & Production Editor’s note: Just for the record, although we do the streets. Just do it. Schools with the most high IQ kids got the As, Bs, Production/Creative Manager JASON TYREE and Cs. Graphic Designer TINA CRAWFORD have our opinions, UTW did not make any candidate –Trevor Hultner endorsements for the 2012 general election. Schools with the most average and low IQ kids got Writers Armed People are Free People—a the Ds and Fs. Dear UTW: In the D-rated and F-rated schools, the students, BRAD ANDREWS, NICCI ATCHLEY, GEORGE DARKOW, Congratulations. Your preferred candidate won a feminist perspective teachers, and principals must wear the state’s JESSICA DAVID, ANGELA EVANS, ARNOLD HAMILTON, second term as president. I’m sure y’all are too busy “Scarlet Letter.” ART HADDAWAY, KATHARINE KELLY, JENNIE LLOYD, dancing in the streets and smile-crying and stuff right Dear UTW: Much of the grade was determined by how BRADLEY MORRIS, MATT NELSON, RAY PEARCEY, now, but this will be here when all that is done. About 30 years ago, a Miami TV station, with students performed on one test on one day. JESSICA RENDER Now that Obama has got himself a second term, some news slots to fill, followed several women Test scores don’t tell us whether a student is being who had signed up for a pistol instruction course Photographers you and I need to have a chat. I just have a couple educated. Test scores only pit school against school, MORGAN CLEMENTS, CASEY HANSON, BRANDON SCOTT, at a local gun range. There were at most three questions I need to ask, and then you can be on your principal against principal, and teacher against teacher. HEATH SHARP, AARON STEPHENSON, GARRETT TALLY merry Democrat way. short segments on the local news. In the months The law forbids schools from exposing student 1. Now that this is no longer an “election year,” after that interesting news filler, assaults on women test scores to anyone other than the parents of the Retail Advertising will you now pay attention to the drone strikes, kill in the area dropped — brace yourself — 90%! student tested. [email protected] lists, allowance of indefinite detention, and mass So the more the bad guys know people might The state has just done it with their “Scarlet Advertising Sales Director SERENE ROGERS deportation of undocumented immigrants? be packing, the better! Letters,” which give our kids a low self-image. Senior Account Executive JOSH KAMPF 2. Now that Obama is safe in the White House –Anatoly Arutunoff Gov. Mary Fallin and State School Superintendant Account Executives CHRISTINA APOSTOLIDES, until 2016, will you pay attention to the continued Janet Barresi had better hire a good lawyer because CARL CUNNINGHAM, SHANE OLIVER incarceration of Private Manning? Food Truck Fun they should be sued for breaking this law by releasing 3. Now that your dude has won, will you look school grades based test scores. Classified Advertising critically at his connections to the parasitic financial Fallin and Barresi have kicked our troubled schools [email protected] institutions that sent our economy spiraling out of (Re: “Street Treats,” Nov. 8-14, Vol. 22, No. 19) when they are down, held it against them, and that Classified Coordinator MEAGAN STICE control in 2008? makes it more difficult for them to get up. Classified Account Executive JAKUB KRZYZOSTANIAK Dear UTW: 4. Now that there will never be another But what else should we expect when we put Circulation Obama campaign, will you protest with us against What a fun read! Thanks, Angela Evans, for a two dumb blondes and the Legislature, the biggest all of the above? refreshing article on the greatness of food trucks. aggregation of nincompoops on record, in charge? Drivers JIMMY BIRKES, KAYLAH CARTER, RON RIES, Or will you stay home, wring your hands and I have long been a fan, my absolute favorite KEN TAYLOR, SCOTT RALSTON, ANGELA RAMSEY sit there looking worried that your friends won’t being Mackey’s shrimp truck in Hale’iwa, Hawaii –Virginia “Blue Jeans” Jenner Interns MARIAH HARNISH, DYLAN SPAULDING, NICOLE VANCE UrbanTulsaWeekly is produced weekly by Renegade Publishing, Inc., 1924 E.