Print News for the Heart of our City. Volume 57, Issue 5 May 2019 Read us daily at www.city-sentinel.com Ten Cents Page 3 Page 4 Page 7 Page 10 TSET putting nightclubs ahead of doctors? Micah Awards recognize St. Charles Students Letter Carriers’ Canned Food Drive “Carmen” will conclude Painted Sky Opera’s season 43rd Annual Paseo Arts Festival returns Memorial weekend to OKC By Darla Shelden ing, ceramics and photography ros, Asian food, monster wraps, City Sentinel Reporter to woodworking, sculpture and grilled sirloin on a stick, fried jewelry. tacos and new additions of fried Oklahoma City residents and The Historic Paseo Arts Dis- catfish, Indian tacos and roasted visitors will gather for the 43rd trict is located between North- corn. Annual Paseo Arts Festival on west 27th and 30th Streets and Three new craft beers will be Memorial Day weekend, May 25 Walker and Lee Avenues. available on tap at the festival - 27. Festival hours are Saturday Participants will be enter- this year: Anthem Golden One and Sunday from 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., tained by more than 50 musi- and Rye’D or D’IPA and Kar- with live music both evenings cians and live performers on bach Tasty Waves, served by the until 10 p.m. On Monday, the Fes- two stages who donate their south stage. Also available will tival runs from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. time and talents to support the be the featured Budweiser prod- More than 100 nationally ac- Paseo Arts District. ucts including Karbach Love claimed visual artists are sched- The food court will feature Street, and Estrella Jalisco. uled to gather during the three- 20 food and drink vendors with Other beverages offered will day festival with original art- traditional and not-so-tradi- include lemonade, ice tea, and work in every media, from paint- tional festival treats such as gy- continued on page 10 Hosted by A New Leash on Life Inc., the 2019 Oklahoma River Run & Dog Jog will be held on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. Facebook photo. River Run & Dog Jog set to raise funds for A New Leash On Life, Inc By Darla Shelden with or without their dog. All Leash On Life, Inc. “It is a City Sentinel Reporter dogs must be leashed and have fun event for the entire fam- current rabies vaccinations. ily, whether you have an ac- The 2019 Oklahoma River Awards will be given for Best tive Fido or a couch potato that Run & Dog Jog will be held on Trick, Owner-Dog Look Alike, would rather ride in a wagon. Memorial Day, Monday, May Most Enthusiastic, and Best It begins early and is over by 27, hosted by A New Leash On Dressed. noon so it doesn’t interrupt the Life Inc. The event will take All River Run or Dog Jog par- entire day.” place at Wiley Post Park, 2021 S. ticipants will receive a finisher Race packets can be picked Robinson Avenue, on the Okla- medal. In addition, awards will up on Saturday, May 18 and 25 homa River Trails in Oklahoma be given to the top 3 male and from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. at A New City. top 3 females in standard US- Leash On Life, 3420 N. Porter, The 5K sanctioned River ATF age groups. in Norman or on race day at Run begins at 8 a.m., and the “This is the fourteenth year the event. 3K Dog Jog steps off at 9 a.m. for our Oklahoma River sanc- T-shirts will be available at Official artists of the Paseo Arts Festival will display a lime green Paseo Arts Association flag, indicating their selection The Dog Jog is for run- tioned run and Dog Jog,” said the packet pick-up while sup- through a competitive juried process. ners and walkers of all ages, Barbara Lewis, CEO of A New continued on page 2 Photo by Paige Powell. Perhaps the best writer Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble plans among us: May 23, John Summer Music Festival June 6, 8, 9 and 11 J. Dwyer launches newest Staff Report The Brightmusic Cham- novel (‘Mustang’) ber Ensemble will present its By Patrick B. McGuigan tainment. Along the way Lance eighth annual Summer Cham- Editor feels the tug of love a couple of ber Music Festival June 6, 8, 9 times as he manages to meet an and 11 at the historic St. Paul’s John J. Dwyer, one of the all-star cluster of heroes and Cathedral in downtown Okla- Sooner State’s most honored villains in the tumult of the homa City (127 N.W. 7 St. at writers and author of seven years 1933-1943. Robinson). books (both fiction and non- An emotional and power- This four-concert festival fiction) will in May release ful conclusion in ‘Shortgrass’ will explore that most celebrat- “Mustang,” the widely antici- has set the stage for this new, ed aspect of chamber music — pated sequel to his unforgetta- second book. Each work will its intimacy. Intimate Portraits The Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble will come together again for the widely an- ble “Shortgrass.” undoubtedly stand the test of in Chamber Music gets up close ticipated June Festival. Works from a range of the world’s most beloved compos- time in its own right. of ‘The Oklahomans: The Sto- and personal with classical ers will be presented on June 6,8,9 and 11. Visit brightmusic.org to learn about ‘Mustang’ seems layered ry of Oklahoma and Its People, music’s most intimate expres- ticket prices and group rates. For more information, call Sara Grossman at (405) with complexity. Even as Dw- Volume I.” sion: sonatas, trios and quar- 550-1484 or email saragrossman100@ gmail.com. yer deftly honors the brave Dr. Bob Blackburn, execu- tets, featuring works by Haydn, for Clarinet, Cello & Piano, Op. Astor Piazzolla, John Mackey, audacity of Americans who tive director of the Oklahoma Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorák, 40 and Antonín Dvorák. fought in the air against the History Society (my classmate Piazzolla and others. Parking is The third concert (4 p.m., Musicians appearing will in- powerful Luftwaffe, he peels at Oklahoma State Universi- free just south of the cathedral. Sunday, June 9 - Trios with clude Gregory Lee and Katrin back layers of patriotism and ty in the 1970s) asserts confi- Concert No. 1 (7:30 pm, Strings) is the beloved Mae Stamatis (violin), Mark Neu- fond remembrance of a “good dently that “The Oklahomans” Thursday, June 6 - Sonatas) Ruth Swanson Memorial Con- mann (viola), Zachary Reaves war” to understand the 1940s is “The best Oklahoma Histo- will focus on the works of Fran- cert and will highlight com- (cello), Parthena Owens (flute), equivalent of post-traumatic ry book ever.” Blackburn also cis Poulenc, Johannes Brahms, positions from Ludwig van Lisa Harvey-Reed (oboe), Chad John J. Dwyer stress syndrome. has explained simply and di- and Richard Strauss. Concert Beethoven, Ingolf Dahl, Franz Burrow (clarinet), Amy I- That earlier work brought to Dwyer’s main character – rectly why Dwyer stands head No. 2 (7:30 pm, Saturday, June Joseph Haydn, and Ernö Lin Cheng, Sallie Pollack and life Dwyer’s best-yet fictional true child of those beloved pac- and shoulders above the rest 8 - Duos and Trios) will include Dohnányi. Concert No. 4 (7:30 Ruirui Ouyang (piano). creation, Lance Roark, raised ifists – is caught in the depths of us scribes: “The difference works from Bohuslav Martinu, pm, Tuesday, June 11 - Quartets) Brightmusic Chamber En- by Mennonites who lived in of armed conflict in the most between John Dwyer and oth- Ludwig van Beethoven, and brings to the fore works form semble, Oklahoma City’s own love and friendship with neigh- consequential and important er historical authors is that he Carl Frühling, Trio in A Minor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, continued on page 9 boring Comanche in early war of the Twentieth Centu- doesn’t just tell what happened, statehood days. ry. Roark is complex, a man he shows why people did what Dwyer’s efficiency as a writ- of flesh and blood the read- they did.” er in all his works, including er comes to know, or want to The national release book A note to advertisers and that stirring novel, might make know, even as the hero is given party for Dwyer’s new novel, most readers unaware of being to bouts of introspection and “Mustang,” will be held Thurs- potential advertisers pulled into a compelling nar- faith-challenging uncertainty. day, May 23 from 5 - 7 p.m. at Here is The City Sentinel print edition production schedule rative of strength and deeply The new book takes Lance to Full Circle Bookstore (1900 for next 2 months. affecting nostalgia – yearn- a break point over Dresden, the N.W. Expressway, Oklahoma June 2019 edition ing, even – for a long-gone German city devastated in a City, 73118). That time at Full Ad space reservation: Tuesday, May 21 world. “Unaware,” that is, un- firestorm as the conflict comes Circle will feature swing mu- Ad content deadline: Thursday, May 23 til time has passed and reflec- fully home to those who never sic, good food and the oppor- tion yields understanding and understood the full horror of tunity to engage with one of July 2019 edition awareness of what the word Adolf Hitler’s hateful regime. the best writers in the western Ad space reservation: Tuesday, June 25 “masterpiece” means. Anticipating a book like this United States. Ad content deadline: Thursday, June 27 In “Shortgrass,” the hero one, perhaps, William Mur- Complete information on the August 2019 edition Roark faced life-changing chison of The Dallas Morning book follows: “Mustang -- A Ad space reservation: Tuesday, July 23 choices as his horizons expand- News reflected, “John Dwyer Novel of World War II,” John J.