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Sept. 13, 2013 • Issue 17 • Volume 2

FILM & TV One has to wonder what rich stars do wheneverthey retire - and retirment has many meanings orcelebrities, as we see here.

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SPORTS TALK Sooner ootball has a new quarterback. What doesthis mean or other players and what’s the state o theshoes Trevor Knight must ll?

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FEATUREThis issue continues Shelby’s investigation o theconstruction mess o o I-35. This time she is talking tothe Oklahoma Department o Transportation (ODOT)and the interview is ... quite interesting. Read on ...

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THE ART OF MANLINESSWelcome our new manly article to Main Street magazine! This issue’s topic? Man’s constant sear chor the ultimate toy and the value o antasy ootball.

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CRUISING MAINWhile some o us are clinging on to the nal days o summer heat and others have beensick and tired o it since May, we all have to admit that it’s almost time or all. There hasalready been one OU game and another one coming up while this magazine gets on theshelves!

Check out this issue; we have some great a rticles. Lacey talks about her experience withGary England, Jordan writes about the local animal shelter needing adoptions (go readit!), Chris talks about the sports happening in Norman and Shelby nishes up her eatureon I-35.

Two changes have been made to the magazine. First, we are sa d to announce that ouramazing lm writer, Jen, is moving out o the country and will no longer be writing or us.Wish her luck on her uture endeavors! Second, we have a new article! So give a warmwelcome to the “Art o Manliness”! Go have a look around!

xoxo,

EdITOR-IN-CHIEF• Kelli Smith

ART dIRECTOR Kelli Smith

COPy EdITOR

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PHOTOGRAPHy Mark Doescher

Carey Flack

CONTRIbUTORS Jordan Attebury Jen HerrmannChris Joseph

Richard MoormanShelby Simpson

Lacey Swope

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MAIN ATTRACTIONSave a lie. 20 dogs and 10 cats need to beadopted or ostered within two weeks or theywill be euthanized because Norman’s AnimalShelter will be renovated into a new, biggeracility. This issue we spotlight some o the cutieswe need to save.

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As I got ready or work, it is started to sink in. It was going to be the nal day that I woGary England give the orecast in a way that only he could. We were paying tribute toat News9 in all o the shows. The 10 PM newscast would be his last.

Gary took a chance on an awkward, lanky girl rom a s mall town in Oklahoma and gainternship in 2009. In college, I just hoped to meet him one d ay but never actually thouwork or him. Gary worked with me on the weather wall, at times standing behind the chaving me tell him the orecast. Talk about nerves! I had never b een more nervous in mygiving a orecast in ront o the man I look up to the most. At the same time, I had nevergrateul. He has never missed an opportunity to share his endless knowledge with anyoand when something goes wrong, he’s there to tell a “Gary joke” or share one o his h

In 2011, Gary took another chance on me and hired me ull time to be a member o hi you know the rest! I am one o countless new meteorologists who have had the honor toand learn rom him. For that, I am orever grateul!

My entire generation has never lived in a world without Gary England telling us what this about to do. August 28, 2013 was truly the end o an era, yet the beginning o a newGary will no longer be giving daily orecasts, but he is sticking with News9. He is nowcompany and will be spending a lot more time out in the public, giving talks and makinappearances.

Our new chie is now the one and only David Payne! He has been keeping Oklahomanor over 20 years and I a m so honored to be a member o his team. His passion and demeteorology inspires everyone around him. I am so ver y blessed to learn rom the best and can’t wait to see what the uture holds!

One thing we can always count on in Oklahoma is a very dynamic atmosphere. With aaround the corner, even more beautiul and exciting changes (much cooler temps) are aus all. Current projections are or normal temperatures and above-average rainall this amake or spectacular all oliage!

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More than 20 dogs and 10 cats could be euthanized i they are not adopted thisweekend as the rst phase o demolition begins at the Norman Animal Shelter.A special adoption event will be held on Saturday, September 14 to encouragepeople to adopt or oster an animal beore it’s too late.

By demolishing what is currently the Denise Miles Adoption Center, it will allowthe shelter to rebuild with more room or the animals, better kennels, a saer and

more humane environment or both animals and sta, the ability to isolate animalswho are ill and space or both meetings and dog training. However, the renovationwill temporarily remove 30 kennels, and the Friends o the Animals o Norman, orFAN, is urging the community to step orward and adopt or oster a pet.

“Our long-range vision is to eliminate the need or euthanizing animals and tocreate a uture in which all animals live in humane, loving environments,” saidBelinda McCoy, who, along with our other individuals, makes up the board o FAN, a charitable nonprot volunteer organization.

One o the dogs waiting or a home includes an 8-month-old gray pitbull mixwho McCoy said is extremely calm and “the sweetest dog ever.” The puppy, Lola(A007318), is scared inside her cage, but loves to lie in the grass, get petted andgive kisses. She has been there since July 25.

Another dog that desperately needs a home beore the demolition is Bonnie, a2-year-old Border collie mix who loves other dogs. Also known as A006959, shehas beautiul blue eyes and is a “tripawd,” meaning she only has three legs.So, how can you help? First, adopt and encourage everyone you know to visit the

shelter. You can meet and greet all the animals to nd one that will be the perectmatch or you. The shelter is located at 3428 S. Jenkins and is open Mondaythrough Friday rom 9 AM to 5:45 PM There is also a special adoption eventhappening at the shelter on Saturday, September 14 rom 11 AM to 4 PM It costs$60 to adopt (cash only), and the ee includes spaying or neutering, all shots anda microchip or identication.

FAN also accepts volunteers to walk and bathe the dogs, socialize with the cats,assist the shelter sta and volunteer at monthly pet adoption events at PetSmart,which are held the second Saturday o each month rom 9 AM to 2:30 PM. I you’re interested in becoming a volunteer, email [email protected].

The community can also assist by visiting area businesses during special undraisingevents. FAN recently worked with S&B Burger Joint in Norman and received 10% o the day’s proceeds, and there’s another event scheduled at both Chipotle locationson October 15. In addition, donations are always accepted and can be mailed to3200 Pocasset Circle.

Donations will be used to develop anemergency medical und, create an animal

playground, provide additional landscapingor the new acility and support adoptionevents. Recently FAN received a donationrom the Sara Maisano Cat Porch Fund, whichwill help to create a cat porch on the newshelter. For more inormation, visit acebook.com/FriendsotheAnimalsoNorman.

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Above on top is A006959, aBorder Collie mix, and below is A007220, a Brindle mix.

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Heading into the Cross-Town Clash, people questioned i theTigers could ll the void o seniors lost last year. Questionanswered. The Tigers used a swarming deense and a solidground game to beat Norman North 38-31.

Jakcob Dean stepped into the quarterback roll a nd playedas i he was starting his ourth clash under center and not hisrst. Making smart decisions in the option game and havinga near-perect night throwing the ball, Dean led what is still avery dangerous oense.

The oensive line is big and can open holes as they did allnight or new stars Darius Manning and Dupree Young. TheTigers’ ground game scored on runs rom 67 and 72 yardswhile amassing 205 yards on the ground. With Dean, Youngand Manning, the Tigers’ ground game will not slow downrom the production o over 4,000 yards last year.

The real story o the game was the Tigers’ deense. Led byCade Parker, who played like a man possessed totaling veo the Norman High nine sacks, Parker was the deensivestandout. The biggest play o the game was probably theinterception returned 36 yards or a touchdown by KierstanPendleton that sparked the Tigers and tied the game at seven.

Tigers make the playos again, BOOK IT!

Last year the Norman North Timberwolves won the Cross-TownClash that jumpstarted their year and made a run to the statetitle game. On September 5 at Owen Field, the Timberwolvesdropped the opening game o the season to their cross-townrivals 38-31.

David Cornwell made his debut in class 6A, and while hethrew or over 220 yards and had two touchdowns, a pick-six and nine-sacks tell the story on how Cornwell was nevercomortable in the pocket the entire game.

Z’quan Hogan and Payton Prince both tallied two touchdownsin the night, both scoring on the ground and catching passes.The oensive line, while big, is very young and showed someo the inexperience in the game against the Tigers.

The deense played very well in the rst quarter, holding theTigers scoreless, but it gave up some big plays on the groundand never really re gained its ooting the rest o the game.

While losing to your cross-town rival is never un, goals are stillahead or the Timberwolves to reach. North is the deending6A-3 district champion and can still win the district, and I stillhave them in the playos. The Timberwolves must becomebetter on the oensive line and play more soundly on deense.

Chris Joseph

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Like anyone else, people in the lm industry s ee their work as a job. So, like anyone else,when the time comes they head or retirement. Retirement as an actor, though, doesn’talways mean staying at home to weed the tomatoes.

When actors leave the studios, it can be or any number o reasons. It may be becausetheir bankroll is enough to keep them comortable, their age has pushed them toward thedoor or because they simply want to tr y something new. Usually, though, we don’t hear

as much about the careers o our avorite stars once they stop headlining the marquees.Here’s some samplings o things to do behind (and ater) the scenes.

Find Your Advocacy Lots o retired actors and actresses dedicate their time to non-prot organizations orsocial justice causes once they leave the screen. Their ame gives them access to lots o networking opportunities. Though some are able to do this during their careers, others slipinto retirement and work quietly. Doris Day, who let the lm and music studios, spent mucho her retirement advocating or animal rights organizations.

Claim You’re a Millionaire For some screen retirees, this might be true, but no current article about retired screenstars can pass over Amanda Bynes’s recent claim to retirement as well as claim to millions.Many stars, though, have joined the “claim” game, mostly in claiming to retire – and thenreturning. The next Brett Favre o Hollywood might be out there, waiting or an opportunityto come back to the screen.

Represent the United StatesShirley Temple, who retired rom the screen at a young age ater a childhood o stardom,tried the political route or a little while but ended up as an ambassador to Ghana andCzechoslovakia. She also sat on the board or several major corporations. Keep on using

that starhood ace!Run the United StatesWhy settle or ambassador when you can go straight to president? Ronald Reagan wentrom the silver screen to the Oval Oce. Other actors, notably Arnold Schwarzenegger,have also gone into politics ater their time onscreen has ended.

O course, this is just a small sampling o retirees. Many others take dierent paths or never“retire” at all. Take Sean Connery — he claims to love retirement but is still hard at workwith voice acting and bit parts to pay or that helicopter pad that he shares between shootswith the King o the Netherlands. O all the retirees here I’d like to model ater, that mightbe the one I’d choose.

Jen Herrmann

After the Credits Roll What Happens When Actors Leave the Set Forever

Film & TV

The Family September 13

A maa bossdecides tosnitch on themob, whichlands thewhole am-ily in Franceas part o the WitnessProtection

Program.The amily,though, can’tget themselves

to simply disappear. When confictcomes, they handle it the way theyalways have – which just drawstheir enemies to track them down.Michelle Peier, Robert De Niroand Tommy Lee Jones are all part o the star-studded cast.

PrisonersSeptember 20

Hugh Jack-man and JakeGyllenhaalstar in thisthriller abouta missing seto young girls.Kelly Dover,

the ather, triesto track themdown withDetective Loki,but justice canonly take him

so ar. He soon comes up to the linebetween saving his daughter andsticking to the law and has to ques-tion what he wants most.

Baggage ClaimSeptember 27

MontanaMoore can’tbear to bethe single bigsister at herlittle sister’swedding.Using her con-

nections as afight atten-dant, she goeson a 30-daytravel blitz tomeet up with

her ex-boyriends and eligible othersto see i she can nd the right manin time to use her plus-one.

Movie Reviews

TV Review - Under the Dome Brian Vaughan, comic and TV writer, is working with Stephen Spielberg tobring Stephen King’s novel to the screen. Under the Dome ocuses on thecharacters o a small town call ed Chester’s Mill. The town suddenly ndsthemselves cut o rom the world by a strange, impenetrable barrier. Theunusual cast o characters – who are not all as they seem – have to nd a

way to live with each other until they can uncover the mystery o the barr ierand break ree. The show premiered this summer and has quickly jumpedto one o the most popular on television. It has been renewed or a second

season next summer.

The Credits: You can add my name to this list of retirees! This will be my last issue withBoyd Street/Main Street. I wish I could make claim to millions and start running the

country, but you’ll have to put me instead in the “represent” category. I will spend thenext year in Ukraine under the Fulbright program, talking culture and media with students

there. Thank you for your readership over the years!



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The Trevor Knight era began or the Sooners with a 34-0 shutout o the LouisianaMonroe War Hawks. While the passing numbers were not what Knight, the Soonercoaching sta or the Sooner ans wanted to see, Knight still led the oense to34 points and threw three touchdowns, tying Sam Bradord or most touchdownspassed in a debut by a reshman.

Knight is the best running quarterback the Sooners have had under center since Jason White rst burst on the scene. Trevor became the rst OU quarterback to rush

or 100 yards with his 103-yard total since White did in 2001 against the Kansas Jayhawks.

It has been many moons since the Sooner oense had such a big dierential intheir running and passing stats. The Sooner oense gained 305 yards on theground while only throwing or 124. Knight struggled early with the short temposwing passes but I attribute that to nerves. The Sooners had chances to score morethrough the air, but Knight overshot a ew open receivers.

The strong stable o running backs with Damien Williams, Roy Finch, Brennan Clay and Trey Millard, along with Knight,give the Sooners a potent ground attack. As ar as through the air, I eel Knight and the Sooner receivers will nd theirrhythm and be just as dangerous. Wide outs Jalen Saunders, Sterling Shepard, and Trey Metoyer will only get better, andSooner ans can expect those passing numbers to only go up.

The oensive line started a little sluggish, but as the game went on, they used their size advantage over the War Hawksand made holes or the Sooner r unners to have a big night. Knight only saw minimal pressure and we shall see i that willcontinue as the opposition talent gets better as well .

The real big story out o the home opener was the return o a stout, ast and tackling Sooner deense that pitched a shut out

on a very good veteran oensive team. Corey Nelson, Frank Shannon and Charles Tapper stood out as guys that will leadthis side o the ball or the Sooners.

For deensive coordinator Mike Stoops, having his deense per orm like they did on week one is a promising sign. Fansremember the last ew games o last year against teams like West Virginia, Oklahoma State and o course Texas A&M, anda shut out was something not many i any Sooner ans were expecting.

The deense has a chip on their shoulder as the season began and they wanted to prove to the nation and their ans that last year is the past and the uture is bright or the Sooner deense with a return to the high-speed, hard-hitting deenses o theearly Stoops era.

The Sooners ace West Virginia and Tulsa beore an o week, as well as a trip to South Bend to take on the Fighting Irisho Notre Dame. By the time the rst road game o the year arrives, we will know more about this team and whether thedeense is back, i Knight is as special as everyone thinks he can be and i the Sooners really a re contenders.

Enjoy the ride, Sooner ans. This looks like another exciting year o Sooner Football! BOOMER SOONER!

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Richard MoormanThe Art of Manliness

Since the Dawn of Manliness: Mankind’s one pursuit Since the dawn o time, Mankind has incessantly exhausted Himsel in the pursuit o one unique goal and Hisgreatest obsession: to combine all o his avorite toys together into one singular and ultimate toy. This passionhas been the source o Mankind’s greatest eats o ingenuity and epiphany throughout the ages. Womankind,as well, has had Her goals … too many goals, really. Much to Her disadvantage, She spread Hersel thinthroughout the ages, worrying about a multitude o corporal aims, like, “How’s the baby doing?” and “Would

you like me to x you another plate?” That’s Her problem. Mankind’s problem has been a lotier one (i.e. theultimate toy).

In His quest or the ultimate toy, Man has ollowed a simple a nd direct ormula: Take two seemingly incompatiblethings He loves and combine them into one, more superior thing. For instance, He loved protection and He loveda good surprise, so He invented clothing.

He loved confict and He loved not getting killed, so he invented sports.

He loved getting around but He also loved sitting down, so He invented the automobile.

He loved being listened to but He also loved being by Himsel, so He invented the Internet.

For Man it hasn’t been easy. Then again, i it were easy, then He’d be doing something else because that’s howHe’s built. He loves a good challenge. Hehappens to make it look easy because He’s a man and I guess that’sjust the kind of Guy that He is.

Fortunately or Mankind, he can nally take a break or a bit and unwind because ootball season is nally athand, and that means one thing: it’s time or antasy ootball season.

Just like all o Mankind’s greatest inventions, antasy ootball embraces His struggle to combine two o Hisavorite yet incompatible things: 1) the love o sport and 2) the love o laziness. Proessional sport requires theutmost in physical and mental discipline. Fantasy sport, however, is based on a delicate balance o speculationand inconsequential (to low-consequential) ortune.

Fantasy ootball allows Man to eel like He is a part o the game without the tiresome rigmarole o physicaltraining (which is obviously quite bothersome). The physical commitment can then be exchanged or a lazySunday spent at the ba rs or home on the couch with a pizza and a p ersonal bar. Additionally, without the straino physical training, He has much more time or lengthy and convoluted analysis o probabilistically meaninglessstatistics. Ater all, there’s nothing sweeter than the having o the thing without the earning o the thing.

Fantasy ootball serves as a larger metaphor or Mankind’s lie purpose: to take reality, impose His antasy ontothat reality and in so doing create a new reality (rom which the antasy can make urther advances). Fantasyootball is the latest advancement in Man’s great plan, an advancement that ultimately ends at the point in timewhen antasy and reality together become one perect, singular thing with no dierence or separation betweenthe two: the great consummation.

And it will then be that Mankind and the universe come to this nal realization:that it’s all fantas … anthat’s the realit.



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Greetings and welcome back to the Main Street interchange debacle. I’ll start by giving you a little recap to get the par ty going.

In the last article about construction junction, I explained all those bulldozers and concrete mixers being part o I-35’s upgrade into asix-lane highway. This upgrade throughout the metro hit a little snag in Norman. All six lanes couldn’t t under the original Main StreetBridge. So the Oklahoma Department o Transportation (ODOT) started planning a acelit or the bridge, I-35 and the on- and o-ramps.These are collectively known in the road world as an “interchange.”

ODOT talked, crunched numbers and in the end decided on a SPUI (Single Point Urban Interchange) design or the shinier, brighter and

better way o getting on and o Main Street onto I-35. ODOT designed this SPUI in-house instead o contracting. They don’t do this a lot,but oh well.

In their design eorts, they got the height between the bridge and the roadway wrong. Oopsie. They caught their blunder aterconstruction on the bridge had started but b eore the I-35 construction began. So how do you x such a thing? Well, you can either raisethe bridge or lower the roadway. The price was better to lower I-35, so they began “the new phase.” Even with that olly, the estimatedcompletion date is the same. What’s dierent? The cost. ODOT: “Yeah, there will be an additional cost because there is more work to be done, but it’s about $2 million is what we’re estimating.Initially, beore the contract was bid, our engineers estimated there would be about a $35 million contract. The low bid was $28.9million. With the additional estimated $2 million o work, we’re still coming in under our initial estimate.”

I get it. This is a major under taking. With any construction project, whether it be tiling your bathroom foor or redoing a major interchangein a city, there will be problems. There will be cost changes and there will be oversights. That’s lie. ODOT has not done anything super-naughty to my knowledge. What bothered me about this whole thing was ODOT trying their hardest to not admit to making a $2 millionboo-boo in design. They were all about circular PR talk. Plus, it would have been nice to have ODOT know more acts about their ownproject when I showed up to interview them.

The bottom line is ODOT is now lowering I-35 under Main Street due to a mistake. BLAM. I said it.

Regardless o all the hoohaw, what’s important is where we sit now with the Main Street interchange construction.

Me: “So I-35 is being torn up and lowered by 5 eet?”

ODOT: “No, we’re talking inches. About a oot. “

Me: “Is the same thing going to happen under Lindsey?”

ODOT: “Um, no … we don’t have the plans or Lindsey yet.”

See, I’d visited the ODOTResident Engineer the daybeore. He told me all waswell and the only change tothe entire project (Main Street,Lindsey Street and Highway9) was lowering Lindsey by5 eet. Lindsey? The City o Norman had told me I-35was being lowered by about2 eet, not 1. It was gettingscrewy. I asked ODOT toplease help me with the jibba’

jabba’.

ODOT: “We’re not workingunder Lindsey Street and thecity isn’t really [trails o] ... ”

Me: “But you’re talking to theCity [o Norman], right?”

ODOT: “We work with the

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City, but the City is not a crediblesource.”

Me: “But Caleb [ODOT ResidentEngineer] is.”

ODOT: “I think so.”

Me: “You think so? But he’s yourResident Engineer ... ”

ODOT: “I know. We’ll have toclear that up with Caleb. Yeah,we’re not working at LindseyStreet at all.”

Me: “I know. That’s why I had tohave him repeat it ve times, and

it’s strange, yeah?

ODOT: “Sure. We need sometime to check why he would saythat … In the work … the laneson I-35 with the change is not going to aect drivers. They’re not going to see a ny change. There are still going to be two each direction at all times … Lindsey’s plans – not sure e xactly how those are going to go. But I know we are gonna do a Lindsey Street, but … we’re not going to do a SPUI there.”

Me: “On Lindsey?”

ODOT: “Right.”

ME: “Are you sure?”

ODOT: “Uh, airly certain, but maybe I should check into that?”

Me: “Yeah, ‘cause I’m airly certain you are. I’ve seen the plans.”

ODOT: “Hmm.”

A ew days later, ODOT ollowed up their “Hmm” with this email: “When we do the I-35/Lindsey Street project, I-35 will babout 5 eet at Lindsey Street and the bridge will be a SPUI.”

I guess the Resident Engineer does know what’s happening. Lindsey is being lowered 5 eet and a SPUI is being built theredesigned by ODOT this time (shocker). In the end, just know the construction is on its way to being nished. To look at the debacle with positive eyes, the oversight works out in our avor in one sense because Norman gets brand-new pavement uStreet instead o old lanes that would need to be xed sooner.

As or now, as ar as I know, this is where weactually sit:

• Estimated completion date of the MainStreet interchange is mid-2014, late spring,early summer. This was the original estimatedcompletion date and it holds.• Even with the design oversight on the MainStreet interchange by ODOT, the project isestimated to come in under budget.• Because of the design oversight, I-35under Main Street is now being loweredapproximately 2 eet.• I-35 under Lindsey Street is being lowered

5 eet. That was always going to happen andhas nothing to do with the Main St. designoversight.• Construction on the Highway 9 interchange isestimated to begin September 2014.• About nine months later, the Lindsey Streetinterchange construction is estimated to begin.• Main Street will be a SPUI. Lindsey Street willbe a SPUI. Highway 9 will be a cloverlea withbraided ramps. I all that just blew your mind,just Google it up.

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