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Is anyone going to this?

I would really like to go tonight and see One Republic. But the possibility of a mass amount of people trying to crowd around the little Guthrie Green is kind of off putting.

http://centeroftheuniversefestival.com/

My wife is intent on us going tonite. I was there last night and it is going to be very cool. I especially like what they are doing with laser lights and the Universe logo projected onto the intersections. Streets blocked off will mean lots of room for humans but I doubt all of the 40,000 expected will be there at one time.

The Greens stage is at one end of the district and the other stage is over by SoundPony so the crowds will be spread out. I am excited.

Of course as Guido often points out..."the downtown entertainment district is way over blown"  :D

I walked around over lunch and I this bustling over there.  Stages. Food trucks. Kiosks. Venders. Pop up water park.  Really busy place.

I plan on going, pending wife and company approval.

/isn't Guido that south Tulsa guy that doesn't come downtown to be entertained?

We are going to the Shock tonight but will go tomorrow. My wife is a really big OK Go fan.

They have the coolest videos.

This might be the best ever
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w[/youtube]

They are all shot with one camera continuously. Very hard to do and cool.

I like this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA

and this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY&list=PL0FB9262CF878A34A

Guido doesn't do "districts"

I'd entertained the idea of going, but getting up at 4am to go do climbing repeats on Cavanal Hill near Poteau dictates otherwise.  I need to quit entering ridiculous bike races.

Sounds like it's about time for another Burnco lunch....  :o

Cavanal Hill. The tallest Hill in the World. Nice

Not for another four weeks, then all bets are off ;)

I get to climb it six times tomorrow and eight times next Saturday on my mountain bike.  I've never seen it, I hear I'm in for a lot of, ahem, fun.

It's about the only place in this region you can get 2000 feet of climbing in one stretch.  That's still about 1300 feet short of the longest single climb I have to do at Leadville, but anything helps...especially the O2 down here ;)

I forget, how many feet short of being a mountain is it?

I think a mountain qualifies at 2000 ft.  I believe it's within 200 of it.  I keep getting conflicting data.  Some places say the gain is 1750 or so, others say 1950+.

Enjoy the climb.  Do you get to ride back down too?  I remember seeing a bunch of "bicyclists" coasting down Haleakala on Maui.  Looked like fun.  Well, except for the pace guy keeping everyone from getting killed by going too fast.

Well, I was wrong. There were fire marshall estimates of 50,000 people in attendance at the One Republic performance at the Cox stage by Cains tonite.

They were really great, the skyline with the moon and clouds was gorgeous and the whole festival seems pretty smooth for a first time event.

We parked in the Blue Dome area with no difficulty.

Downtown was packed last night, Traffic was really bad. In downtown Tulsa, at night. Think on that. What a change from 10 years ago.

But Swake, haven't you heard?  All the cool people think downtown sucks, so it must be true!

Not bad for an over-rated downtown entertainment district. Arena was active, Blue Dome was a little slow.

The crowds were very young with sprinklings of boomers and gen-x'ers. We walked from the Cains, across Brady, across the tracks over to Blue Dome by McNellies. Never felt any danger, saw any craziness and saw little security presence.They were there, just not overpowering.That bodes well for the future of downtown.

  Well, our weekend sucked lol.  Seems to be the pattern when there is a festival or event in another part of downtown, our area is dead as a doornail.  We had around 10 people in our shop... on a Saturday.  Saturday is usually one of our busiest days/evenings pulling in around 60-80+ people and our income unfortunately reflected that.  Friday, was super slow as well.  We thought of having a booth at the Festival but the price was too high (would have to sell $700 just to reach the break even point.  We can do that if we plan for it but that might be hard for a lot of artist type booths. ).  Will try to do a booth next year and just close the shop and have a sign on it (Gone to the Center of The Universe) lol.  But will have to make sure we have enough of the kind of product that that crowd might buy.  It is interesting to see how events in one area can cannibalize business from other areas. But it makes perfect sense, Why would you go to our part of downtown when all the action is in another?  But when you hear the news say "Looks like it was a great boon to downtown restaurants and businesses."  Well... not all of them, some of them were hurt.  Perhaps we will return the favor when the Deco District has Chalkfest in Sept  ;)   

Ummm not all of downtown lol.  Slower than usual in other parts.

Yeah, I ran into the owner of the Rusty Crane at the festival and he said they were pretty slow over at his place. We ate at The Tavern and they were pretty slow inside but that was close to 10.

I will say, I got a room $100 at the Fairfield and it was just about perfect and a great time. Ok Go had a great show and a good crowd. We didn't really watch Neon Trees but they had a huge crowd.

I've done the ride down Haleakala.  IIRC, it was about 39 miles, 37 of that was coasting.  That was before disc brakes were developed for bikes, which are still mainly only used on mountain, cyclocross (hybrid of mountain & road), and touring hybrids though it's touted as the next great thing for road bikes. They had drum brakes on the bikes as you would have burned up rubber pads pretty quickly.  It was an interesting study in aerodynamics, tuck in and you'd fly past other riders, sit up and it was like deploying a parachute. 

Highest speed my computer recorded Saturday at Cavanal was 45.1 MPH on one of the descents.  The road is a little rough in areas and there's some spots with loose asphalt and gravel, as well as many switchbacks.  It was wise to keep the speed in check.  It was nice and cool with a little rain and lots of cloud cover. Quite unusual for late July!

I was at the Crane at 12:30 for Klondike 5, there was a good crowd then.

Speaking of "Carnival" Hill.  (I had to search for "hill" to find this thread)
for some reason this is news:
http://www.newson6.com/story/22921622/woman-grandson-found-safe-after-spending-night-on-leflore-county-hill