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Big bird sunflowers in my back yard By Darcy Falk

An homage to yellow

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his week’s Letter from Home is brought to you by the color yellow: egg yolks from free-range chickens, aspen leaves in the fall, and sunflowers that bloom along roadsides in August in northern Arizona, in fields and yards all over town, playing against the clear blue sky and swaying when the wind comes up. And tiny goldfinches and pine siskins perching on those tall stalks, hanging upside down and helping themselves to the seeds.

All this yellow makes my heart sing. And also sink, knowing that those sunflower blossoms signal the beginning of the end of summer, a precursor to the brilliant transformation of aspen leaves. Around here, people used to predict the date of the first frost when the native sunflowers began to bloom: six weeks until fall, we’d say.

When I was in my 20s I wanted bright yellow kitchen countertops. I saw them once in the 1970s, in a house my parents were looking to buy and thought they were the most cheerful and lovely things I’d ever seen. I relished the idea being greeted every morning by a sunny kitchen, even on the gloomiest winter days. Back then laminate countertops were de rigueur, having supplanted porcelain, metal and hardwood, and long before granite became king.

For several years in a row, every December I made a piece that was predominantly yellow, craving those particular wavelengths around the winter solstice. In the ’80s and ’90s it was tough to find much of a selection of yellow fabrics, until I discovered the satisfaction of dyeing my own range of yellow cottons and silks.

The earliest oil painters used ochre minerals to make yellow paints, and then lead- and arsenic-based pigments came along. Indian yellow was derived from the urine of undernourished cows (fed only mango leaves and water) in India until 1883, when the process was banned as inhumane. Synthetic yellow pigments weren’t developed until the early 19th century.

During the Renaissance, the robes of Judas Iscariot were almost always portrayed as yellow to symbolize betrayal, envy and duplicity.

In 1888, around the same time he painted Sunflowers, Vincent Van Gogh waxed eloquent about yellow in a letter to his sister: “The sun, a light that for lack of a better word I can only call yellow, bright sulfur yellow, pale lemon gold. How beautiful yellow is!”

My great grandmother’s sewing book advised “blonds should never choose harsh strong colors, and they should shun yellow and orange.” My Aunt Nina thought it fitting to give me that book last summer after she discovered that my greatgrandmother had used the volume the way other families use the family bible. She kept notes in the front detailing the dates of her marriages and children’s birthdates:

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Printers developed four-color process printing in the late 1800s, allowing newspapers to more easily add color images to their publications. According to Wikipedia, “The Yellow Kid (1895) was one of the first comic strip characters. He gave his name to a type of sensational reporting called Yellow Journalism.”

Historian and journalist Frank Luther Mott defined yellow journalism as using:  Scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news  Lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings  Faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudoscience, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts  Emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips  Dramatic sympathy with the “underdog” against the system.

One of the author’s winter solstice pieces, Lightheaded. Stitched textile collage, 20” x 14”. © 2000 Darcy Falk.

Married to John M. Kapp on March 25, 1905 First borned Teresa C. Kapp Jan. 4, 1906 2 borned Charles E. Kapp, Sept. 18, 1909 John M. died April 14, 1912 I was a widow 9 years married Walter Cunningham in 1921, June 18 Married 4 years when Jack was borned in Sept 7, 1926 None of her children had yellow hair. Great-grandmother also wrote in the back of the book: “Went to the 5 and 10 cent store. Be back in a while. Mom.” The note reads like a belated telegram from 1945 from a woman I never met. I imagine her walking to the dime store for thread or buttons wearing her sensible shoes and a yellow dress printed with tiny flowers.

Parts of that list could be applied to some so-called news channels these days.

There’s the dark side of yellow, too. Yellow can be toxic like yellowcake uranium, or the mustard yellow mine waste (containing cadmium, lead, zinc and arsenic) now flowing down the Animas River, then towards the San Juan River, Lake Powell and the Colorado River. Yellow six-pointed stars of David were sewn to the clothing of Jews in Nazi Germany to designate their marked status.

Yellow may not be everyone’s favorite color, but it’s useful to attract attention: a yellow caution light, a yellow school bus, a yield sign, a yellow cab, the saffron- or turmeric-dyed yellow of a monk’s robe.

More flowers are yellow than any other color, the better to attract pollinators. The yarrow in my yard is a paler, cooler yellow than the sunflowers. The coneflowers are more saturated and warmer—almost orange—like the sun on a day when smoke filters the sky. Columbine flowers look benign enough, the palest yellow of their spurred petals gradating to buttery yellow at their centers, but the seeds and roots contain cardiogenic toxins that can cause deadly heart palpitations and gastroenteritis.

In the spring, the yellow-green dusting of ponderosa pine pollen can set off our allergies.

Yellow is also the color assigned to the chakra at our physical center—the solar plexus—from which a complex network of nerves radiate. Love yellow or hate it, I say trust your gut.

Darcy Falk is a textile artist and writer who has made Flagstaff her home for almost 30 years. The best sign in her studio says, “Don’t Give Up,” and she takes that advice often. See more of her writing and artwork at www.darcyfalk.com.

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Lone fork

By Kelly Poe Wilson

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ell, it’s finally happening. My daughter, Clementine, has started to pack for college. And, proving at last that the apple really doesn’t fall that far from the tree, she has started this process by compiling multiple lists of what she will need to buy and what she will need to bring from home. On the list of what she will need to buy is, at the very top, COFFEE MACHINE and COFFEE. The list of what she needs to bring from home is a little more extensive. Sheets. Pillows. Towels. Clock.

Nothing, I figured, we would miss, especially as we’ll have one less person around using said items. And then I got a little further down the list, and saw something that gave me pause.

There, right after “plate,” was written, plain as day, “fork.”

No way. Not on my watch. No way is she getting away with taking the fork out of this house. We need the fork here. The fork stays.

Yeah, that’s right, I said fork. As in one, singular fork. As in the last one in the house.

It’s at this point that I might have to admit that my fork plan isn’t working.

The plan, at first blush, seemed no different than any of my other “brilliant” parenting plans: let people suffer the (non-lethal) consequences of their own actions. This means that while I never let my kids run into the street or play with fire, I have made them walk around in mismatched shoes and sent them to school even on days where they stayed up to four in

Tines keep slipping away the morning playing League of Legends. (Sorry about that, teachers of the world.)

In that spirit, I have also refused to mitigate the pain that comes from them losing the family’s forks. In other words, I have refused to buy new ones to supplement our fork supply.

To answer your question of “how does someone lose a fork?” I can only respond by saying “I DON’T KNOW.” It’s not like they’re walking to school and enjoying a bowl of pasta at the same

time, or eating a Caesar salad while browsing at the dollar store. The loss of forks in my household has been one of the enduring mysteries of our family—right up there with who keeps leaving the empty plate in the refrigerator and why is it so hard to just flush the toilet?

For a while I really believed that the mutual suffering involved in the slow decimation of the fork population would change people’s fork losing habits. I thought that once

The loss of forks in my household has been one of the enduring mysteries of our family—right up there with who keeps leaving the empty plate in the refrigerator and why is it so hard to just �lush the toilet?

they saw what a pain it was to have to first search out, and then wash the few remaining forks, they would learn to take better care of them. And, who knows, I might eventually have proved this theory right; given enough time, I might have broken them of the habit. Of course, now with Clementine leaving, I’ll never really know—especially if she takes the last fork with her.

I’ll never know at what point they would have finally broken. At what point they would have seen the light, confessed that they were nothing but pathetic fork losers, and sworn to go forth and sin no more (with forks). Maybe they would have even become proselytizing Fork Revivalists, going door to door preaching the joys of a fork-filled life. (“Brother, at my lowest point, I only had one fork left to lose—and I lost it.”) But like I said, now I’ll never know.

Of course, at this point you’re probably thinking that my lack of progress is due to the fact that, even if there are no forks left at all, then a spoon will still suffice in most situations.

And you would be right, except for one small detail: the spoons went a long time ago.

Kelly Poe Wilson has lived in Flagstaff since 1985. She lives with her wonderful husband, Jim, and her dreadful children, Clementine and Clyde. More of her work can be found at www. kellypoewilson.com.

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Our neighbors to the south harbor one of the most fascinating, boundary-pushing troupes to reach new heights, and they’re back again for another round of debauchery, clowning, comedy and artful showmanship. The Mystic Circus out of Phoenix is hitting the road for a visit with new clowns, new feats and more of the adult-themed fun circus spectators have come to lust after and appreciate as the performers present the Rag Tag Rebel Circus. Ring leader and Mystic Circus founder, Rush Hicks, will blow minds with his natural abilities in the realm of skin stretching and contortionism alongside fire eating and sword swallowing with assistance from one clowning lady, Lydia Wilts, animal enchantress Katrina Rainsong, the fire-eating Croalia and the newest entertainer to enter the ranks, MeeZee. With each together on stage, minds are guaranteed to leak right out of skulls and visitors will leave the Green Room, 15 N. Agassiz, with a greater appreciation for the art of performance. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $5.

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nce upon a time, there was a music venue on the south side of town. The layout was wonky and the sound was so horrific, no matter if it was a squealing metal group or an all-acoustic crooner, every band sounded better from outside and across the street.

Still, some rad music rolled through there about once a week. Not quite a decade ago, one of those enjoyable music nights came in with the storm known as Guttermouth. The night went as planned until it was time for the headliners to play. Singer Mark Adkins tipped too many back and was kicked out of the club until he finally managed to convince the bouncers he was in the band—and continued with the show, spitting, with security glaring up from his feet.

The Huntington Beach, Calif., natives have a track record of wacky behavior in the name of punk rock, and not too much has changed. But 27 years later they still pump out a high-energy show, delivering the hits they’ve amassed over 10 studio recordings that have etched their way into the upper echelons of modern punk lovers. For the second time in less than a year, Guttermouth is gracing the Museum Club, 3404 E. Rte. 66, where they will shred through the Zoo. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show gets going at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10. 526-9434. www. xxx-guttermouth-xxx.com.

It’s been a journey of a lifetime for Japanese artist Sei Saito, and now she is hosting one last artist talk as her eponymous solo show comes to a close. The ideas behind these massive paintings were first born in her native Japan as Saito first raised her daughter and then, only 10 years ago, concentrated on her work in acrylic paint after moving to the U.S. The brightly-colored and highly intense results rest at the Coconino Center for the Arts for just a few more days before making way for September’s exhibition, The Fires of Change.

Journey tells the story of Saito’s innermost concerns, fears and deep-seeded love. Largely, these works are massive in scale, some towering, at eight feet, much taller than Saito herself. As visitors appreciate and explore her work, the artist will explain a little about what went into these paintings with an intimate artist talk from 7–8:30 p.m. Saito will guide visitors through her paint-backed memories from Japan to Michigan, family to strangers draped throughout the gallery, and will answer questions afterward. See it all at the Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Ft. Valley.

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The Appleseed Collective out of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a band full of surprises. They tow the line zig-zagging between indie, classical and add a bit of old-time country for good measure—though they call their tunes “progressive string swing.” Sometimes singer and guitarist Andrew Brown forgoes lyrics entirely and scats along with the scales he plucks on his six-string acoustic instrument. Brandon Smith’s sultry violin and mandolin and Eric Dawe’s upright bass round out the group with Vince Russo’s percussive washboard while the group drifts between a single mic and individual plug-ins. And for only four members, the Appleseed Collective highlights the musicianship of each member and the fact they make an incredible amount of sound and exude pure confidence in their self-described tunes that are guaranteed to get the crowd in a tizzy. Ya know, that kind of stuff rubs off from the band to the audience and back again because if they’re having

form of the Dragonfly Fund. The love and light take hold at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen, beginning at 5 p.m. There is a $10 suggested donation. 556-1580. www.orpheumflagstaff.com.

For those of us who are done and over school (minus loan bills), how often does the opportunity to learn from one of Barely two weeks ago, the Flagstaff community Flag’s preeminent directorial educators present lost a dear friend and supporter in Karla itself? Shush, it’s rhetorical. Kathleen Williams, who was pivotal in the estabMcGeever, the chair of NAU’s theatre lishment of the Orpheum Theater department is facilitating a hands-on and Pine Mountain Amphitheater workshop for those interested in (now Pepsi). For many years, she brushing up on the skills required was the friendly face behind to stage and direct a full-on the bar at the old Monsoons theatrical production. The and had developed indelible Director in Action: The relationships with many Rehearsal Process will bands—local and tourtackle the director’s ing—that would set up formula for bringing a play on Flag stages night after to life. And McGeever has night. Now, these musical friends she’d assembled quite the canon under her are hosting a celebration belt, having directed more of life and fundraiser at the than 50 plays across a range venue she helped create. A of genres from classical to Night of Love and Light for contemporary. The four-hour Karla will feature the music workshop will focus on the of her friends and local greats “working” phase as McGeever in Tommy Dukes, members of guides actors to explore the local groups Limbs Akimbo, Wazoo inner workings of a play, discovering Peach Pitters and the Spokes. Some the characters, their needs and their radical raffle prizes—including two My s t ic motivations. This workshop comes to you oto tickets to the sold-out Modest Mouse show C irc y ph us’ Ru rtes u from Theatrikos’ artistic committee, as the o C s . h s k H c i at the Orpheum on Aug. 19—are already up for group seeks to bolster the multi-faceted theatrical grabs at Altitudes Bar & Grill, Biff’s Bagels, Rainbow’s skills in Flagstaff. Pluck out your inner director at NAU’s Studio End and Flagstaff Brewing Co. Karma Sushi will provide light Theatre, 1115 S. Knoles Drive, in the Performing Arts Building fare to all coming together in celebration of an integral commu(bldg. 37). $15. 774-1662. www.theatrikos.com. nity member. All proceeds benefit Karla Williams’ family in the

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than 18,000 acres of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest by firing a shotgun at a bachelor campout with four other men. The round was an “incendiary shotgun shell” whose packaging promises, “Shoots 100 feet of fire, setting everything in its path ablaze. Warning: Extreme

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he last few days, I could not stop myself from looking at photos and videos of two very different events shared across news sites and social media. One of the events was the toxic spill of contaminants from the Gold King Mine into the Animas River. Reportedly Environmental Protection Agency contractors accidentally pulled the plug on the mine, dumping three million gallons of mine waste into the Cement Creek tributary. It turned the Animas River orange.

A particular photo of three kayakers floating in the turmeric-colored waters was posted across the country and on at least two dozen friends’ Facebook pages. It was, as everyone noted, devastating.

The second event happened this past Sunday. A storm cell burst wide open along the Vermilion Cliffs and dropped two inches of rain in less than an hour. This full-force deluge sent house-size boulders rolling across U.S. 89A and torrents of mud gushing. Some of the 15-foot-in-diameter boulders were possibly carried as far as two miles by the raging flood. Video footage shows that beautiful warm chocolate-infused flooding that I’ve seen a dozen times before around the Arizona-Utah border. And I dreamed of seeing that silt rolling out into the usually chilly and emerald green waters of the Colorado.

That latter thought has the feeling of setting things in order. It is this second event that I watched and felt my heart swell with a perfect kind of awe. Yes, sometimes nature rages, sometimes it shuts down roads.

Sometimes it forces us to remember that it is in charge. And flash floods in the desert are just one of those things I can’t help but watch again and again.

I’ve been lucky to see major flash floods in person, the massive gushing and churning so stunning that I have to stop and bask in the chocolate waters. One Paria River flood I caught at the confluence kicked off a wondrous brown mist that coated me and everything else. I thought of that famous bumper sticker, “Silt Happens!” The line comes from a quote by Gary Esslinger, manager of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District in southern New Mexico. And river runners know the phrase well.

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FIRE HAZARD.” (The Smoking Gun) In going back to the first event, the images brought the opposite effect. They filled me with that deep, unnerving melancholy that comes on when beautiful rivers are ruined. There is something so primal about my—and our—connection to rivers.

They mimic our own streams and tributaries—our bloodstreams. We recognize rivers as transporters and nourishing forces, just as our own inner flows move and feed us. So, to see a river so obviously poisoned also ruins a part of us—because we understand its nature in a deep-down way. We want rivers to flow clean and free. It only feels right.

I speak of this having spent many years in threatened-river-and-stream country.

While I attended West Virginia University in the 1990s, I was pulled into an organization called Friends of Deckers Creek by my friend at the time, Adam Polinski. Deckers was spoiled by the runoff from something called acid mine drainage. I only had a brief involvement in the organization, but I check in from time to time and see that FDC is still rolling.

Major funds have come in to help with the cleanup and the group has a pledge to make the 25-mile-long creek swimmable by 2020.

This would be a stunning turn of events.

And, around this time I was getting all into watershed issues, a West Virginia river called the Cheat had—guess what?—a massive release of mine water in the spring of 1994. As news reports shared, it “turned the river orange for miles.” It reportedly came from an illegally-sealed major underground coal mine that blew out the hillside and poured into the Muddy Creek tributary.

A second blowout happened in 1995 and the Cheat became one of the 10 most endangered rivers in the country.

River runners and enthusiasts, though, are a hardy and passionate breed. That same year, the Friends of the Cheat launched the Cheat River Festival. The fest just rocked its 20th anniversary and the Friends are going strong. I know in a similar way people will rally for the amazing, 126-mile wonder that is the Animas—the River of Souls.

They will let it know it has friends.

And they will fight for the river to heal and for the beauty to return.

Way to Go Blair River, the 575-pound spokesperson for the Heart Attack Grill, a restaurant in Chandler, that specializes in huge burgers, milkshakes and fries cooked in lard, dropped dead at age 29. “Cynical people might think this is funny,” restaurant founder Jon Basso said, “but people who knew him are crying their eyes out.” Having a big man promoting it was part of the restaurant’s tongue in cheek “glorification of obesity,” but Basso said the 6-foot-8 River was more than a caricature, pointing out, “Even if he was skinny, we would have given him the job. We would have just put a fat suit on him.” (The Arizona Republic)

Guilty by Proximity Authorities in Glendale charged Gabriel Aguilera, 19, with murder after he drove a stolen car through the gates at Luke Air Force Base, apparently by mistake while fleeing from law enforcement. A security guard opened fire on the vehicle as it drove through the base, wounding Aguilera and killing his 16-year-old male passenger. “They were probably just trying to get away,” said police Officer Karen Gerardo, who explained Aguilera was charged with murder because his passenger died during commission of a felony. (The Arizona Republic)

Avoirdupois Follies Ads and catalogs using plus-sized models don’t work with their target audience, according to a study investigating the link between model sizes in ads and the self-esteem of consumers looking at the ads. “We believe it is unlikely that many brands will gain market share by using heavy models in their ads,” said Naomi Mendel of ArizonaStateUniversity, who worked with researchers from Germany’s University of Cologne and ErasmusUniversity in the Netherlands. Not only does the lower self-esteem of overweight consumers lessen their enthusiasm to buy products touted by people who look like them, she explained, but also “normal-weight consumers experienced lower self-esteem after exposure to moderately heavy models.” (Arizona State University News)

Change of Plans After convicted killer TracyProvince, 42, escaped from an Arizona prison, he decided to end what he called the fear and panic he experienced while on the lam by overdosing on heroin at YellowstoneNational Park and letting bears eat him. He told Mohave County Detective Larry Matthews after his capture that as he was preparing the drug, a voice told him to abandon his suicide plan. “He called it divine intervention,” Matthews reported. Province also told Matthews he’d been in prison so long he’d forgotten how to drive. “Everyone drives too fast now,” Matthews quoted Province as saying. “When he went to prison, the speed limit was 55.” (Associated Press)

Quirks News Problem Solved As part of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s “Pull Aside, Stay Alive” campaign to promote safe driving during haboobs—severe dust storms that occur in desert areas, especially around Phoenix and Yuma, during the summer—the agency invited residents to tweet haikus about dust-storm safety. (Associated Press)

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Suspicions Confirmed Police arrested Edward Rodriguez for drug possession after he aroused suspicion by hiding in a ditch behind a vacant home in Mesa. A neighbor reported the man to police, who approached the man and noticed he was shirtless and wearing women’s pants with a hole in the crotch exposing his genitals. The man was also wearing his underwear around his neck.

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Grass Is Always Greener Increasing numbers of Arizona residents are painting their lawns green to avoid high water bills and fines from homeowners associations that can amount to thousands of dollars. An average-size lawn costs $200 to spray with a vegetable-based dye that lasts three months before turning blue. Although painting lawns keeps the grass green, it still needs watering so it doesn’t die. Besides fear of citations from homeowners’ associations, the biggest boost to the grass-spraying business has been the housing crisis, which prompted real estate brokers to find cheap ways to enhance the curb appeal of available properties. (The

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Game of Drones The world’s first university licensed to grant doctorate degrees in unmanned systems said its students can learn to fly an unmanned aerial vehicle in less than three weeks. Instruction at Arizona’s UnmannedVehicleUniversity consists of three phases, Provost John Minor said. The first two allow students to learn at home, using a flight simulator. Phase three requires students to travel to one of the university’s flight schools around the country and work with an experienced flight instructor. The school charges students $3,500. (The Washington Times)

Slightest Provocation Travis Schelling, 35, assaulted his girlfriend, police in Phoenix, said, because he didn’t understand how Facebook works. According to investigators, whenever one of her friend’s

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the jokes are sweetly charming, while others n a weekend when a revamped group are hilarious. of superheroes returned to the movThe audience for this kind of film is ies in Fantastic Four and Meryl Streep younger children. They can laugh when Shaun appeared in a Jonathan Demme film, Ricki and decides a vacation from the daily the Flash, what movie did I have to go schedule is in order, and he tricks see? Shaun the Sheep Movie, of the farmer. Adults can giggle course. A movie about a flock of as things go drastically out of SHAUN THE sheep may not win over other control while the farmer in films, but anyone who enjoys SHEEP MOVIE the hospital with amnesia Aardman Animations films Directed by Mark Burton and Shaun is determined to will want to see Shaun the and Richard Starzak set things to right.

Sheep in action.

Rated PG The jokes are simple, Based on the British HARKINS THEATRES but the animation makes television series, Shaun things visually entertainand his friends get the big ing. Like the silent stars of screen treatment. The charm comedy, Shaun has to overcome about Shaun, the rest of the multiple problems to have a happy flock, Bitzer the dog, and the farmer ending, and the animators give Shaun, a is that we do not have fast-talking characters sheep unused to the city, plenty of unusual voiced by celebrities. Instead, the Shaun the situations. Of course, Shaun is smart, Sheep series and movie harkens back to the and he handles the pratfalls and jokes comedies of the silent-film era. The humor with aplomb. relies on visual gags and situations. Many of

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Some of the fun scenes include a trip to a restaurant where Shaun and the rest of the flock try to pass themselves off as humans.

Shaun’s internment in an animal containment center in the big city alludes to many prison films and even Silence of the Lambs (1991).

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kind of silliness that both the movie and TV n 2001 a silly movie was released to little series exude. acclaim. Taking place in early 1981 and lovInstead of the movie’s last day of camp, ingly spoofing summer-camp movies, Wet we now can see how that first day went at Hot American Summer won me over the Camp Firewood. The eight 30-minute first time I saw it, and has added episodes offer multiple storylines, other fans since its release.

WETXHOT and if you find one plotline a We fans can now enjoy new dud, another one will keep you entries in the stories of Camp AMERICAN giggling. The first day of camp Firewood with the new NetSUMMER: FIRST is a busy one. It includes the flix series Wet Hot American DAY OF CAMP camp counselors putting on Summer: First Day of Camp.

Directed by David Wain a musical, a wedding, a huge Instead of making a Rated Unrated trial, first crushes, an undersequel with a new cast of NETFLIX STREAMING cover journalist, the snobbish characters, First Day of Camp rich kids at the camp across takes the original characters the lake, President Reagan’s best played by the original actors assassin, and more. No, it makes no and sets them up in a prequel sense at all, but if you liked the movie, that takes place eight weeks prior to then you will love the series. the movie’s happenings. The fun begins with The returning cast includes Janeane Garoseeing the original cast, who were already folo, Paul Rudd, Marguerite Moreau, Michael too old to play teenage camp counselors, now Showalter, Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, playing those same characters, even though Chris Meloni, Molly Shannon, Elizabeth Banks, the actors are now 15 years older. That is the

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Shaun the Sheep Movie is a charming movie.

Children will like it, and though some sections of the movie move slowly, adults can enjoy the movie too. It may not have Meryl Streep nor have any superheroes saving the world, but it does have one amazingly cute flock of sheep.

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Michael Ian Black and more. Josh Charles, Jason Schwartzman, Lake Bell, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Michael Cera and John Slattery join on as new characters.

I laughed out loud multiple times and at the most unlikely moments. The plot does better with the older characters, as the storyline with the young campers was not as engaging, but young Thomas Barbusca as a bullying kid earned plenty of laughs. As in the movie, Paul Rudd steals his scenes, but Elizabeth Banks and her mysteriously-appearing typewriter made me laugh every time.

You can stream the original movie on Netflix and then check out the TV series (I recommend seeing the movie first, even though it takes place after the TV series). If you are a real fan, you can watch the documentary The Making of Wet Hot American Summer: A Hurricane of Fun on Netflix. Seeing Bradley Cooper excited about his first film is worth it. All three—the movie, series, and documentary— provide us fans with a ridiculous good time.

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hey (whoever “they” are) say that this is the Golden Age of Television (or at least another Golden Age). TV quality is better than ever, with smart shows, high production values, and the kind of quality that can attract major Hollywood movie stars and directors to the small screen whence many of them spawned their careers. Though the proliferation of channels available via cable, satellite and pay services means that many shows premiere any damned time they please, and some choose to dump their entire loads all at once (à la House of Cards), the fall season is a make-orbreak opportunity for many new shows. To that end, here are a few of the new shows I’ll probably program into my DVR so that I can give them a chance: Blindspot (Sept.

21, NBC) A woman shows up in Times Square clad only in complicated tattoos, one of them being the name of an FBI agent. This mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma tattooed on a beautiful body leads to conspiracies, thrills, and perhaps some hepatitis shots … but what a hook! It has me curious enough for at least an episode or two.

The Muppets (Sept. 22, ABC) Sure, we know who they are and they’ve had shows before, but our fine felted friends find a fresh format as a mockumentary will take the audience behind the scenes of the ABC show Up Late with Miss Piggy, while also giving us a deeper look into their off-camera

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lives. If the writers and performers keep that same blend of fun-for-adults-too humor that made their ’70s–’80s series so much fun, we could be in for a treat.

You, Me, and the End of the World (TBA, NBC) Reboots of British comedies have met with some success in Amurica; just ask Jenna Fischer, who made it big on The Office. In You, Me, and the End of the World, Fischer returns to television in a joint British-American venture. She’ll share the show as one of an ensemble including Rob Lowe and Megan Mullally who face the chaos that ensues when it’s announced that a comet is headed toward Earth.

The Player (Sept. 24, NBC) The premise is just interesting enough to make me curious: Wesley Snipes (remember him?) plays a Las Vegas pit boss who organizes wagers wherein rich folks gamble on a former soldier’s (Philip Winchester) chances of stopping major crimes from happening (ones they orchestrate, I imagine?). This kind of high-concept idea can fail miserably if it settles for being only a crime-of-the-week story; its success will hinge on whether there are more interesting backstories.

Ash vs. Evil Dead (Oct. 31, Starz) Bruce Campbell is back as Ash to battle the Deadites, with Lucy Lawless along for the ride, premiering on Halloween. Need I say more?

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Words that Work Lost at sea with a rake and a dud

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few years ago, I taught a course on early American novelists. All the books we read were by women writing within a few decades of the Revolutionary War. They’re exciting books, full of lust and vengeance, betrayal, incest, ripped bodices and ruined women. Sometimes, there are pirates and explosions. It’s all the great stuff English teachers skip over because they’re too busy teaching yawners like Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fennimore Cooper. ‌There was a formula to many of the novels.

Always, there’s a woman being pursued by two men. One is a rake. He’s charming, handsome, attentive, and running some kind of con in search of sex or money. The other is a dud. He’s reliable, forthright, old and/or ugly, and boring as hell. The woman must choose her husband from these two. Her decision will shape the rest of her life. There’s no real way for her to choose wisely.

I thought about these old books when I read Diana Wagman’s latest novel, Life #6.

It tells the story of Fiona, a woman in a deteriorating marriage who learns she has breast cancer. The discovery spins her into a crisis in which she relives a nearly-fatal boat trip from 30 years ago and contemplates reigniting the love affair with her boyfriend from the boat trip. Fiona’s husband, Harry, is a dud. He’s an unemployed journalist with anger issues. He undoubtedly loves Fiona and wants to be with her. He just doesn’t make a very good partner.

Luc, her three-decades-ex-boyfriend is the rake.

Wagman writes him as such a charming character that even I was swept up in his wake while I read it. Fiona has no chance.

Half of the novel follows Fiona from the news of her cancer diagnosis through her possibly-adulterous trip to New England to visit Luc for the first time in 30 years. The tension doesn’t really lie in whether she’ll cheat on Harry. It has more to do with deeper questions Fiona’s crisis brings about, like, are our self-destructive tendencies hardwired in us? How much of our relationships with people are real, and how much are the fantasy we project on them? Do we ever really get to know our lovers or ourselves?

Where’s the meaning in life if we don’t?

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Novelist Diana Wagman with her dog Henry at her home in Echo Park, Calif. Photo by Katie Falkenberg

Fiona and Luc on their disastrous boat trip in 1979. These sections draw on a whole different American literary tradition: the sea voyage with a madman in charge. Like The Sea-Wolf (1904) or Moby Dick (1851), the characters find themselves out to sea with a man dead-set on destroying himself and/or everyone around him. The boat’s owner, Nathan, is a narcissistic brain surgeon who thrives on the misery of his shipmates. Their voyage— for which Luc is hired as a mate and Fiona is hired as cook—takes a miserable turn almost instantly as the sailboat steers straight into a hurricane. It reminds me of an absurd statement attributed to studio executive Samuel Goldwyn: “I want a film that begins with an earthquake and works up to a climax.” Wagman sticks her characters into a hurricane not

even a quarter of the way through the novel, and, as readers, we have to trust her to write more than 100 pages of seasickness and misery that are interesting.

I trusted Wagman to do this because I’d read her previous novel, The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets (2012). In that one, a woman is kidnapped by a man with a 13-foot-long iguana in his kitchen. Wagman keeps us in that house with the woman, the iguana, and the kidnapper far longer than should be enjoyable. It’s tense and absurd, but I found myself caring for the protagonist so much that I was willing to vicariously live through her trauma with her. Likewise, in Life #6, Fiona and Luc are such compelling and fully realized characters that I wanted to live through all their foolish and near-fatal choices with them.

Early in the novel, Fiona observes that humans are fundamentally survivors. We tend to live through multiple events that should’ve killed us. Forget cats, it’s humans who have nine lives. So, interspersed between the boat trip and the cancer crisis are stories of all the times when Fiona should’ve died and didn’t. In “Life #1,” she flies through a windshield. In “Life #2,” she barely escapes being run over by her friend’s mother’s station wagon.

In Life #6, she survives the sailboat in a hurricane. The cancer scare is her eighth life. If she only gets nine, she’s running out. And so the stakes are high.

For Fiona’s sake—and maybe ours, and maybe her own—Wagman turns to the tradition of early American novels to face the big questions. Decisions between a rake and a dud take on new implications. The madman at sea comes to live inside us. And the novel becomes a meditation on how we survive and why.

Sean Carswell is the author of the 2013 novel Madhouse Fog and a few other books.

He is an assistant professor of writing and literature at California State University Channel Islands. To learn more, visit his website at www. seancarswell.org.

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On a quiet evening the sun dissipates below the horizon revealing the forest’s crooked teeth and storm cloud tongue. I reach for a record. Of the endless stacks, one in particular finds its way to my fingers. The smooth jacket, bowing slightly with its 180-gram contents, smells clean with faint plastic notes. I lift the lid of the turntable and gently ease the firm wax onto the slip mat before carefully dropping the needle.

Any sadness, smoldering fire or stress hovering over the day evaporates. Well, so long, farewell, goodbye—welcome to Modest Mouse’s world. Slamming around in a dizzying fit, laughing at the candle I tipped in the frenzy 1997’s The Lonesome Crowded West and its inaugural track, “Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine,” has dumped on my house is everything I could ever hope for in any given day, and more.

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Facial outlines featuring members of the current Modest Mouse lineup.

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Isaac Brock’s anger, weirdness and flaming passion emblazoned with the conviction to tell a story worth telling speaks to the millions of listeners Modest Mouse has amassed in 23some years. Since Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and original bassist Eric Judy famously formed their band in “The Shed” in Issaquah, Wash., the results have been equal parts wild instrumentation and lyricism. That truth still rings as the band continually morphs in size and scope, parting with members and gaining others (Russell Higbee now plays bass, Tom Peloso is back on

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everything, Jim Fairchild adds guitar and Lisa Molinaro takes care of strings.)

This newest offering spotlights Brock’s wish for humans to live in tandem with the world and not just on top of it. Released March 17, Strangers to Ourselves marks the sixth studio cut from the band that evolved into and out of the Seattle post-grunge scene. After 2000’s Epic debut shook listeners to the core with The Moon & Antarctica, they reminded us we all “Float On” and went on to receive two Grammy nods for 2004’s Good News for People Who Love Bad

News. Three years later, Brock and Co. followed up with We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and the 2009 EP featuring B-sides to their two top-selling records and a couple new tracks on No One’s First, And You’re Next! Brock has hinted to HMV. com that Strangers is the first of two parts, and the band will release its companion “as quickly as it’s legally allowed to be.”

Over decades, through the frenetic assemblage of highly modified equipment that pushes the boundaries of what could be musically possible,

fans matured with the songwriter’s words that put into perspective life’s wistful moments wrenched between human misery. They’re impossible to ignore over Brock screaming into his guitar’s pickups.

Those who dove into their albums, whether the journey started in the beginning or along the way, uncovered a world existing between the player and his instrument entwined in electric arteries. Fans found a voice with which to identify, regardless of if a wild pack of family dogs really did come running through

the yard one day (like that one time in the summer of 2005) or not. The greatest lessons latched to ears, especially the desert dwellers who understand just how lonesome and crowded the West really is.

Months ago, word found its way to the Flag Live factory that the Orpheum Theater was working on booking one of my top-three favorite bands to ever plug in. Though tentative and unconfirmed, I welled up like someone sucker punched me in the nose. Like other loyal listeners, I have formed relationships through

Lead singer and guitarist Isaac Brock. Photo by Chelsea Lauren

ratcheted-up speakers—selected the soundtrack to my life and death— with a handful of bands unafraid of feeling passion. But above all, there is Modest Mouse.

I launched into thought as to what I would say to Isaac Brock: Why is Strangers to Ourselves’ album art an aerial shot of a Mesa RV park? What was going through your mind writing every song you’ve ever written? And “Pistol”, what the hell? How much of the older records can we count as truth, or should they be taken with a grain of white powder? Is there a hidden snap of music in the center threads of The Moon and Antarctica?

Because I swear I hear it.

And though I’ve dreamed of the day when replaying these albums became a part of my job, I wasn’t granted an interview despite my dozen-or-so requests. Historically, Brock just does not speak with journalists, typically unless the interview is part of a pre-sanctioned media blitz like Daily Beast and Buzzfeed were privy to in March when

fees), but the state’s antiscalping laws do not protect buyers against gougers.

The venue took every available precaution to ensure a fair buying experience, Smith explains. While the Orpheum’s layout allows for events of varying scales, a show of this popularity saw 1,000 tickets release into the world. They even capped web host Ticketfly from selling more than four tickets per buyer, greatly reducing the chances of scalping.

Tickets still vanished almost instantaneously.

Smith offers one comforting figure. They’ve tracked sales, and the vast majority was purchased locally or in Phoenix as buyers opted to pick up their tickets at the box office. “We definitely

Strangers was released. That month, he told Arun Rath of NPR’s “All Things Considered” he doesn’t hate doing interviews, just hates thinking about them afterward. Speaking as a fan, not as a reporter, I completely understand.

Particularly on the East Coast, where my fandom began 18-or-so years ago, timing has never been on my side. When tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. local time on May 8, I had my finger on the computer mouse, determined not to have my guaranteed spot slip away like the others.

I snagged two without issue (for once), but many weren’t so lucky.

Some reported tickets evaporated in two minutes; others said six. Flagstaff concertgoers, to the chagrin of promoters city-wide, are notorious for waiting until the last second to commit to a ticket. How do bands— even the likes of Modest Mouse—sell out the show so fast?

Charles Smith, talent buyer for the Orpheum, spoke to me recently and said the venue has been on the cusp of booking Modest Mouse

numerous times, but they all fell through for one reason or another.

“We felt like we were always a bridesmaid, never a bride at some point,” Smith says with a laugh. “This is a thrill for me. I’ve been working on this for years, so it’s a culmination of work and fandom.”

Modest Mouse favors intimate venues, and booked Flagstaff as the single Arizona date. Add that to sporadic touring schedules that usually swoop into Phoenix—they haven’t graced a Flag stage in 10 years, once shredding The Alley downtown (Firecreek Coffee Co.’s current location)—and you have a perfect storm of a sell-out situation as far as ticket sales.

Over the course of the band’s career, countless would-be concertgoers have fallen victim to the secondary-sale market. As of a week until show time, the secondary-sale website Stub Hub lists less than a dozen tickets to the Flag show. Each registers at more than three times the ticket’s original value of $47 (plus

anticipated this based on the buzz. With that said, folks can still purchase tickets for the shows on either end of our date,” Smith says, noting Las Vegas and Albuquerque dates aren’t sold out yet. “It was a situation where the lightning strikes in Flagstaff.”

Weather aside, for the 1,000 headed to the Orpheum’s cozy confines searching to embrace the thrill of Modest Mouse’s live set, the lightning will strike all night.

Modest Mouse performs Wed, Aug. 19 at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen. Portland, Oregon-based Mimicking Birds will open things up. Doors for the all-ages show open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Once again, the show is SOLD OUT. For more info, call 556-1580 or visit www.modestmouse.com.

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Preserving skills of the past Two local luthiers keep the art of making stringed musical instruments alive and well

Violin maker Jeffrey Robinson and his many works of art. Photos by Larry Hendricks

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heir work spaces smell of fresh wood.

Sawdust is ever present. Clamps, chisels and saws adorn the walls. Sandpaper, paint brushes and varnishes fill nooks and crannies. ‌Ryan Elewaut devotes himself to guitars.

Jeffrey Robinson concentrates on violins. Both men spend as much time as they can in an effort of preserving skills of the past by creating art in the present.

They are luthiers.

The passion A luthier (pronounced loo-tee-er) is a maker of stringed musical instruments. The calling goes back hundreds of years.

“It was something that came really naturally to me,” says Ryan Elewaut, owner of Custom Sound Instruments on South Beaver Street.

He makes acoustic and electric guitars under the brand “Robertson.”

When Elewaut was a teen, a friend of his father’s gave him a book on guitar building.

“I just devoured it,” Elewaut says.

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shop. At the same time, he started asking questions of the staff at the guitar shop in Laguna Niguel, Calif., where he was taking lessons. Two years later, when he was 17, he had completed his own classical guitar.

“That was my resume,” Elewaut says. “I ended up working in the shop.”

After high school, he came to Flagstaff to study at NorthernArizonaUniversity, but he’d go back to the shop in the summers to work and learn. He first opened up shop in 2004 on South San Francisco Street, where the current Sugar Mamas bakery now exists. He moved to the current building on South Beaver Street in 2010.

“We do a lot of repair work, restoration work and custom builds now,” Elewaut says, adding that his dream is to devote more time to building.

That is Robinson’s dream, too. Robinson also does repair work and sells brands of violins that are not his own to students and people interested in playing the violin, but his heart is in the building.

Robinson, a physicist by education, needed something to do after he left the U.S. Air Force.

His hobbies were woodworking and music, so he

Ryan Elewaut, owner of Custom Sounds Instruments on South Beaver Street, holds one of his hand-made guitars.

tried his hand at making musical instruments. He eventually went to the Violin Making School of America, taught there, apprenticed with some shops in New York and set off on his own. He opened shop in Flagstaff in 1995 after his wife Marin was hired as a chemistry professor at NAU. “I just like working with my hands,” Robinson says. “I like carving.”

Elewaut says, “It’s interesting when your passion becomes your profession. If you’re up for it, then it can work out. It’s definitely not for everybody, but if you’re willing to put in the work and absorb compromises, it can be really rewarding.”

The art Building and repairing called to Elewaut even more so than the playing. He could hear the tones in the woods, the feel for how pieces would work together.

“It was almost like, ‘Yeah, I already knew that,’” Elewaut says. “It was almost like it was made for me, I guess.”

Hand building requires knowledge of craft to fashion something that approaches art, and

hand building requires skills and techniques handed down from luthier to apprentice for centuries, Elewaut says.

Robinson talks of European woods—maple and spruce—for the density and flexibility to make a better sound. He mixes old with new and uses scientific measurements for speed of sound through the wood, searches for perfect strings for each particular instrument. He’s constantly fiddling with the sound to get it the best it can be. His process of staining and aging his violins can best be described as “complicated.” Beauty of the instrument is important to Robinson, but not as important as flexibility and density of wood for the perfect sound.

A well-made instrument has staying power, Robinson says, just like a piece of art. He makes three violins a year, but his goal is to make a dozen a year, putting in about 200 hours on each instrument.

“They should outlive me by several centuries,” Robinson says, adding that violins made in the 1600s and 1700s, like Guarnerius or Stradivarius, are still played by musicians today and are worth millions of dollars.

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Like good art, the musical instruments are not cheap. Elewaut, who has built about 20 guitars in his career so far, said that his electrics, the least expensive, sell for around $1,800. He sold one of his acoustic guitars for $4,000, but handmade guitars can sell for up to $10,000 depending on the quality of the woods used to build them.

Robinson says his hand-made violins sell between $15,000 and $20,000. He sells his on consignment in larger cities because Flagstaff doesn’t have much of a market for his instruments.

“You have to be a pretty serious musician,” Robinson says.

A dying way?

What’s the number-one quality of a good luthier?

“To listen to the customers and the guitars,” Elewaut says. “They’re all different, every single one.”

Guitars and violins are mass produced now, in factories. They are affordable and they are well made.

But there’s nothing like a hand-made instrument, Elewaut and Robinson says. Ask any musician. They’ll know. There’s the attention to detail. They’re one-at-a-time creations that are more “nuanced,” Elewaut adds.

“Each guitar is thought of in and of itself,” Elewaut says.

That attention to detail, Robinson says, makes it difficult for him to figure out when he is finally done with an instrument.

“It’s complicated,” Robinson says. “I never quite know when I’m done … but I do send them

away. When I do send them away, I’m happy they’re gone and have a life of their own.”

When a customer chooses a build, Elewaut says he finds the pieces that go together—tap tuning and listening for the tonalities that fit through a hand-selection of materials. In the world of hand-made instruments, one size does not fit all—from construction to set up and adjustments. It’s the focus on the details and moving beyond a “disposable world.” The last thing a hand-crafted guitar can be is “disposable.”

Elewaut says that “nuance” will keep the craft alive into the future, but Robinson doesn’t know. Robinson says now automated, computerized machines can make exact duplicates of masterful hand-made creations of the past.

“The individual craftsmen, unless they are really good, are getting replaced by machines,” Robinson says.

Elewaut passes down his knowledge to others, and Robinson occasionally will teach at workshops at OberlinCollege in Ohio. Yet, they maintain dedication to what they do.

“The only thing that got me into this in the first place was that first guitar,” Elewaut says.

Robinson says, “I plan to die with a tool in my hand. What would I retire to? I’m not a golfer. If Stradivari could be 93 building violins, why not me?”

To learn more about Elewaut’s guitars, check out Custom Sounds Instruments, 23 S. Beaver, or see www.customsoundinstruments. com. For more info on Robinson’s violins, his shop is located at 2777 N. West St. in the Sunnyside neighborhood, or visit his website at www.jsrobinsonviolin.com.

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REARVIEW Charades, anyone?

‘Non-candidate’ campaigns dominate 2016 presidential race

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nce upon a time in our Good Ol’ USofA, presidential contenders and their political parties raised the funds needed to make the race. How quaint.

For the 2016 run, thanks to the Supreme Court’s malicious meddling in the democratic process, corporations and billionaires have taken charge of the electoral game. These very special interests, who have their own presidential agenda, now put up the vast majority of funds and run their own private campaigns to elect someone who’ll do their bidding.

So far, of nearly $400 million raised to back candidates of either party in next year’s race, half of the money has come from a pool of only about 400 people—and two-thirds of their cash went, not to candidates, but into corporate-run SuperPACs. For Republicans, 77 percent of the funds have gone to SuperPACs. The reason is that the Supreme Court decreed in its reckless Citizens United decision that these “non-candidate” campaigns can take unlimited sums of money directly from corporations. Therefore, a very few wealthy powers can pour money into these murky political operations and gain unwarranted plutocratic power over the election

By Jim Hightower

process. Of the $37 million in the PAC backing Ted Cruz, for example, $36 million was pumped in by only three interests—a New York hedge fund operator, a corporate plunderer living in Puerto Rico, and the owners of a fracking operation who’ve pocketed billions from the explosive use of this destructive drilling technology.

But one of these new players assures us that they’re not buying candidates for corporate and personal gain, but “primarily [for] a love of economic freedom.”

Sure, sweetheart—all you want is the “economic freedom” to pollute, defraud, exploit, rob, and otherwise harm anything and anyone standing between you and another dollar in profit.

Jim Hightower is a best-selling author, radio commentator, nationally syndicated columnist and editor of The Hightower Lowdown, a populist political newsletter.

He has spent the past four decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers that ought-to-be: consumers, working families, small businesses, environmentalists and just-plain-folks. For more of his work, visit www.jimhightower.com.

Why do birds suddenly appear? Whenever you are near? Does it have anything to do with the fact that I always catch you coming off your shift at the bird food factory? Whatever it is, I want be close to you, you know, like they are.

Getting magical ballads stuck in your head since 1994.

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Northern Arizona’s Daily Event Listings

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | THU 8.13

Coconino Center for the Arts: New exhibition, Journey, by local artist Sei Saito.

Prescott artist Jan Marshall’s watercolor exhibition, The Space Between, will show concurrently in the Jewel Gallery. Both run through Aug. 15.

Gallery hours are Tue-Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

2300 N. Ft. Valley Road. 779-2300 Coconino Center for the Arts: Artist talk and gallery tour with Sei Saito detailing her newest exhibition, Journey. 7 p.m. Free.

Exhibition ends Aug. 15. 2300 N. Ft. Valley Road.

779-2300 Downtown Flagstaff: Flagstaff Eats. Walking food tours in downtown Flag. Two-and-a-half hours of walking and sampling food from seven different restaurants. Tours offered every weekend Thursday through Sunday. $40 per person. Sign up on www.flagstaffeats. com. 213-9233 Flagstaff CSA and Market: Weekly harvest from local, pesticide-free farms.

Spaces open for the summer share. Prorated rate: $450 for full (weekly) shares and $240 for half (bi-weekly) shares. Runs through October. Come in Thu 1-7 p.m. for CSA pick-up. Open Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sat-Sun 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with fresh, local produce. 116 Cottage Ave. 213-6948 Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Continuing Taoist tai chi and beginner class. Every Thursday. 5:30-7:30p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org.

400 W Aspen. 288-2207 Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Weekly Mindfulness Meditation every Thursday.

Room 24 upstairs. 6:30 p.m. instruction, 7-8:30 p.m. sitting and walking meditation.

8:30 p.m. discussion. Come and go anytime. Free and open to all. 400 W. Aspen. 814-9851 Freeman Huber Law Offcies: Nature Exposed Photography presents the finalists of this year’s Youth Lens: High School Photography Contest. Featuring 26 entries. Runs through Sept. 4. Free. 19 W. Birch. (480) 398-3108 The Green Room: Mystic Circus Presents: The Rag Tag Rebel Circus.

Performing arts group and freak show from Phoenix. 8:30 p.m. $5. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Hozhoni Art Gallery: Larry Linhardt @ Large. Featuring the work of premiere Sedona found-object artist. Runs through Sept. 11. Opening reception from 5-7 p.m. on Aug 28. Gallery hours are Mon-Wed and Friday 11 a.m.4 p.m. Closed Sat and Sun. 2133 N. Walgreen Blvd.

526-7944 Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Individualized kung fu instruction in xingyi, bagua and taji. Every Thursday. 6-8 p.m. www. flagstaffkungfu.org. 4 W. Phoenix. 779-5858 Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center: Hour-long small group guitar classes. Ages 13 and up. Two sessions every Thursday from 3-5 p.m.

Flexible format, multiple styles. Registration required. $30 for five classes, and $4 materials.

245 N Thorpe. (505) 614-6706 Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center: Guitar for absolute beginners. Short-term class teaches tuning, terminology, basic chords, melody and simple notation. Meets first three Thursdays of each month. $25 for three classes, and $4 materials. Ages 13 and up. Registration required.

245 N Thorpe. (505) 614-6706 Lanning Gallery: “Summer in Sedona.” Showcasing the gallery’s warmest and brightest artworks. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Runs through Aug. 16. 431 State Rte. 179. Hozho.

Sedona. (928) 282-6865 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Tap World. One night only. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members.

2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177

AUG. 13–19, 2015 The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday and Thursday night from 6-7 p.m. $3. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 The Museum Club: Flagstaff Swing Dance Club presents dance lessons every Thursday night from 7-8 p.m. Different dance style taught each month. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

526-9434 Museum of Northern Arizona: Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe.

Juxtaposing old and new by identifying historic sites and making new contemporary photographs via re-photography. Runs through Nov. 1. Museum hours are Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Regular museum admission rates apply. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 and under are free. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 Museum of Northern Arizona: Roundball Religion. Ongoing series and new exhibition by Flag photographer Joe Cornett.

Featuring homemade and improvised basketball hoops and their backstories. Runs through Sept.

30. Museum hours are Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Regular museum admission rates apply. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 and under are free. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road.

774-5213 Museum of Northern Arizona: Thirsty Thursdays. New after-hours series celebrating the Museum’s recent National Medal win.

Featuring music, dance, storytelling, and hands-on activities. Cash bar and food vendor on-site. 5 p.m. $5. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 Red Rock State Park: Guided nature walk at 10 a.m. Guest speaker or a ranger/naturalist gives a 45-minute talk at 2 p.m.

Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Partnered dance night. Featuring salsa, zouk, West Coast swing, East Coast swing, kizomba, bachata and more. Hosted by Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective and Grand Canyon Salsa Festival.

Every Thursday. 7 p.m.-midnight. Free. Every Thursday. 101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 Simply Spiritual Healing: Thursday night meditation. Every Thursday.

6-7 p.m. $20. All are invited. 105 E. Birch. 779-6322 Turquoise Tortoise Gallery: New exhibition featuring summertime art and jewelry. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Runs through Aug. 16. 431 State Rte. 179. Sedona. (928) 282-2262

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | THU 8.13

Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m. Every Thursday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 Heritage Square: 2015 Summer Concert Series. Featuring Heartwood. Americana, folk and bluegrass from Flag. 5-7 p.m. Free. Downtown Flagstaff on Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco.

Main Stage Theater: Second Thursdays with the Christopher Robin Band.

8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke with Ricky Bill. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Old Town Center for the Arts: Live at Studio B. Featuring Larry and Leslie Latour.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m. $10 at the door. Cash only. Every second and fourth Thursday with a new artist. 633 N. 5th Street.

Cottonwood. (928) 634-0940 The Spirit Room: Tim Young. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809

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VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | FRI 8.14

Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. Every Friday. 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff. az@taoist.org. 423 N. Beaver. 774-2911 Flagstaff Elk’s Lodge: Weekly all-you-can-eat Fish Fry. Fish fry begins at 6 p.m. and bingo starts at 7 p.m. $10. Must be 18 or older to participate in bingo. All proceeds benefit Elks Children Charities. Every Friday. 2101 N. San Francisco. 774-6271 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Infinitely Polar Bear. (4 p.m. Fri and Sat; 7 p.m. Sun, Tue and Wed.) Listen to Me Marlon.

(7 p.m. Fri and Sat; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177

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Altitudes Bar and Grill: Viola and the Brakemen. 5-8 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver.

214-8218 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Roan, Zizza and Cathedral. 10 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442 The Green Room: The Appleseed Collective. Progressive string swing from Michigan. 8 p.m. $5. 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Main Stage Theater: Acoustic Happy Hour with Cheap Sunglasses.

4-7 p.m. DJ Johnny K. 9 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Monte Vista Lounge: Invincible Grins. Funky folk from the Verde Valley.

9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 The Museum Club: Guttermouth. Punk rock from Huntington Beach, Calif. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. $10. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: decker. 8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona.

(928) 204-1300 Orpheum Theater: The Cover Up: Bob Dylan. The music of Bob Dylan performed by local musicians. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. $10 suggested donation. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Skoolboy. Laid back house music all night long.

7 p.m. Free. Every Friday. 101 S. San Francisco.

774-3523 The Spirit Room: Nathan Payne and the Wild Bores. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 State Bar: John Scott Band. Blues and classic rock from Arizona. 7 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | SAT 8.15

Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 Galaxy Diner: Swing Dance Club every Saturday. Lessons from 7-10 p.m. Free. 931 E. Historic Rte. 66. 774-2466 Heritage Square: Movies on the Square: Double feature: The Goonies (1985). Pre-show entertainment at 5 p.m.

by Dutch Holly. Movie at dusk (7:30-8 p.m.). Free.

Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco downtown. 779-2300 James Cullen Park: Continuing Taoist tai chi. Every Saturday 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. Bonito/Hopi and Apache. 288-2207

AUG. 13–19, 2015 Kinksters: X-CHAIN-G Party. Theme: spanking and impact play. Alcohol and drug-free event. Please bring soda and munchies. Doors open at 7 p.m. and close at 8 p.m. For more info and directions, call 853-1600 or email railman3@hotmail.com Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Infinitely Polar Bear. (4 p.m. Sat; 7 p.m. Sun, Tue and Wed.) Listen to Me Marlon.

(7 p.m. Sat; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Murdoch Community Center: Zumba class. Every Saturday at 9 p.m. $5. 203 E. Brannen. 226-7566 Red Rock State Park: Saturday and Wednesday daily bird walks. 7 a.m.

Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | SAT 8.15

Altitudes Bar and Grill: Delta Blues Band. 6-9 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver.

214-8218 Cruiser’s Café: John Carpino. Singer-songwriter from northern Arizona. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Every Saturday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Western Plaza, Ash Cashmere and DJ Marty.

10 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442 The Green Room: Live hip-hop featuring the Stakes, Boom Box Bros, Paper Foxes and beats by Galore. 8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Main Stage Theater: Dueling Pianos. 8 p.m. $5. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Monte Vista Lounge: Fish Out of Water. Funk, folk, rock and hip-hop from California. 9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Optimistic Chaos. 3 p.m. Free. Open mic with James Turner. 8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Drive.

Sedona. (928) 204-1300 Orpheum Theater: A Night of Love and Light for Karla. Celebration of the life of Karla Williams. Featuring live music, a silent auction, raffle and more. 5 p.m. $10 suggested donation. All proceeds benefit her family.

All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Live @ 5. Featuring Jane Brooks with weekly special guests. 5 p.m. Free. Every Saturday. 101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 The Spirit Room: Rhythm Dragons. 2 p.m. Free. BeckyFest. 9 p.m.

Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 State Bar: Sir Harrison Band. Blues and funk from Arizona.

8 p.m. $5. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Wanderlust Brewing Co.: Franklin Hoover from Flag Americana and bluegrass band the Regrettables. 4-6 p.m. Free.

Taproom open from 4-9 p.m. 1519 N. Main Street, Ste. #102. 351-7952

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | SUN 8.16

Arizona Snowbowl: 19th annual NAU Wine and Dine in the Pines.

Featuring the finest wines from around the world and culinary delights from the best restaurants in northern Arizona. Benefit. $85-$95. 2-5 p.m. 523-0639 Canyon Dance Academy: Flag Freemotion. Ballroom dance lessons and dancing every Sunday. Learn social and ballroom dancing. 5-7 p.m. No partner needed. $8, $5 for students. 853-6284. 2812 N. Izabel. 814-0157

AUG. 13–19, 2015 Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy: Flag Freemotion. Conscious movement/freestyle dance. Moving meditation to dance-able music. Minimum instruction and no experience required. Every Sunday. 10:30 a.m. www.flagstafffreemotion.com. 3401 N. Ft Valley Road. 225-1845 Flagstaff City Hall: Flagstaff Community Market. 8 a.m.-noon. Free.

Runs through Oct. 18. www.flagstaffmarket.com.

Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Weekly Flagstaff Zen Sangha Meditation.

8:30 a.m. Free. Every Sunday. Sutra service, walking meditations (kinhin), and two 25 minute sitting meditations (zazen). First time come at 8 a.m. for orientation. 4 W. Phoenix. 773-0750 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Infinitely Polar Bear. 7 p.m. Sun, Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Sedona Faith and Family Film Festival Presents: Do You Believe? 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. $5 ticket donation. Call or text (928) 300-1477, or email faithandfamilysedona@gmail.com to reserve a spot. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Monte Vista Lounge: Sunday Night Trivia with Lindsay and Savanna.

Theme: The Circle of Life. Free dinner for participants. Every Sunday. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 NAU Studio Theatre: Director in Action: The Rehearsal Process. Handson workshop with Kathleen McGeever, chair of NAU’s theatre department, for those looking to brush up on skills required to stage and direct a full-on theatrical production. 1-5 p.m. $15. In the Performing Arts Building (bldg. 37). 1115 S. Knoles Drive. www.theatrikos.com. 774-1662.

Orpheum Theater: New Belgium Brewing Clips of Faith 2014. 7 p.m. $3. Tickets available at the door. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Game Night in the Whyld Ass Restaurant and Zumba with Jimmy on the rooftop. 7 p.m. Free.

Every Sunday. 101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 State Bar: Poetry Night hosted by Barley Rhymes. Every first and third Sunday of the month. 8 p.m. signup.

Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Tranzend Studio: Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. Lessons: beginner and all level fundamentals, technique and musicality. 7 p.m. Open dancing in main room with salsa, bachata, merengue and cha cha; side room with zouk and kizomba until 10 p.m. Every Sunday. $10 drop-in, $8 for students. 417 W. Santa Fe. 814-2650 Upper Lake Mary: 31st annual Mountain Man Triathlon. Sprint: swim 700 meters, bike 10.6 miles, run 3.1 miles; Olympic: swim 1,500 meters, bike 24.9 miles, run 6.2 miles. Spectators free. 6:30 a.m. www.trifind. net or www.mountainmanevents.com. Lake Mary Road at mile post 333. 526-8761

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | SUN 8.16

1899 Bar and Grill: Vincent Z. Acoustic world music. Every Sunday.

6:30-8:30 p.m. 307 W. Dupont. 523-1899 Altitudes Bar and Grill: Jimmy Deblois. 3-6 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver.

214-8218 Cruiser’s Café: John Carpino. Singer-songwriter from northern Arizona. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Every Sunday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Mars Hillbillies. 2-5 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66.

773-1442

The Green Room: Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Sunday. 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Josephine’s: Vincent Z for brunch every Sunday. Acoustic world music. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 503 N. Humphreys. 779-3400 Mountainaire Tavern: High Mountain Joe. 3 p.m. Free. 110 Mountainaire Road. 525-1137 The Museum Club: Los Rehenes. Renowned traditional Mexican music. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show starts at 10 p.m. $30. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 The Spirit Room: Cheap Sunglasses. 2 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | MON 8.17

Charly’s Pub & Grill: Game night. 5-8 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731 Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. Every Monday. 10:30 a.m.-noon. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 423 N Beaver. 288-2207 Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Monday. 6 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 The Green Room: Weekly trivia night hosted by Martina. Every Monday. 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Tango classes. Fundamentals: 6-6:30 p.m. $5.

Figures and Techniques: 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. (Both classes for dancers having completed a beginner dance series). Practica: 7:30-9 p.m. Practica included in price of class. 4 W. Phoenix. 773-0750 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Tangerine. One night only. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members.

2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | MON 8.17

Campus Coffee Bean: Open Mic night. Every Monday. 6-8 p.m. ccbopenmic@gmail.com. 1800 S. Milton Road. 556-0660 Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m. John Carpino. Singer-songwriter from northern Arizona.

5:30-9:30 p.m. Every Monday. 233 Historic Rte. 66.

Williams. 635-2445 The Green Room: Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Monday. 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Hops on Birch: Open mic night. Every Monday. 8:30 p.m. sign-up.

9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 Main Stage Theater: Karaoke Service Industry Night. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 The Museum Club: Open mic night. Every Monday. 8 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Olde Sedona Bar and Grill: Jam session/open mic every Monday. 9 p.m. 1405 W. Hwy. 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-5670

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | TUE 8.18

Firecreek Coffee Co.: Speak Up: Bridging the gap between local people and local politics. Forum for Flag residents to connect with local politics. 5 p.m. Free. Every Tuesday.

22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266 Hops on Birch: Trivia night with Eric Hays. Every Tuesday.

8:30 p.m. sign-up. 9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch.

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VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | TUE 8.18

Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Listen to Me Marlon. (4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) Infinitely Polar Bear. (7 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members.

2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday. 6-7 p.m. $3.

3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Ponderosa High School: Beginner Taoist tai chi. Every Tuesday 5:30-7 p.m.

Followed by continuing Taoist tai chi. Every Tuesday. 7-8:30 p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 2384 N. Steves. 288-2207 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Cult Circus. ’80s movies. 6 p.m. Black Box talks with guest speakers. 8 p.m. Free. Every Tuesday.

101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 Taala Hooghan Infoshop: Dharma Punx meditation group every Tuesday.

8:15 p.m. 1700 N. 2nd St. www.taalahooghan.org State Bar: High Bar Stand-Up Comedy Night. Hosted by Barley Rhymes’ Davey Latour. Flagstaff’s finest and funniest take the stage for an evening of stand-up comedy. Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday. All are welcome to participate. 7 p.m. signup, 8 p.m. start. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Temple of the Divine Mother: Unplug and Recharge Meditation: Come join us to unplug from stress and recharge your being by learning moving, sound, & guided meditation.

Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. Ongoing from 7-8:30 p.m. by donation.

Vino Loco: Words & Wine hosted by Barley Rhymes. Spoken word and poetry night. Every third Tuesday of the month. 6 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch. 226-1764

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | TUE 8.18

The Green Room: Honky Tonk Tuesdays. Featuring DJ MJ. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Main Stage Theater: Open mic with D.L. Harrison. 8-11 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Mia’s Lounge: Jazz Jam. 9 p.m. Free. 26 S. San Francisco.

774-3315 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke with Ricky Bill. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Drumz and Dance Party. Free. 6:30 p.m. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300

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Charly’s Pub & Grill: Team trivia. 7 p.m. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731 Firecreek Coffee Co: Poetry slam. Every Wednesday. Signup at 7 p.m., 8 p.m. start. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266 Flagstaff CSA and Market: Weekly Wednesday Meditation. Guided meditation and open discussion. Anyone is welcome to join. Every Wednesday. 9-10 a.m. 116 Cottage Ave. 213-6948 Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468

AUG. 13–19, 2015 Heritage Square: Dancing on the Square. Free lesson from 7-8 p.m., followed by open dancing until 10. Lessons taught by volunteers, alternating between Latin and swing each week. All ages welcome. No partner needed. 7-10 p.m. Free. Runs through Aug. 26.

Downtown Flagstaff on Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco.

Jim’s Total Body Fitness: Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. Six week salsa dance fundamentals. 6-7p.m. $15 drop in, $20 for couples. Every Wednesday. www.latindancecollective.com. 2150 N. 4th St. 814-2650 Lumberyard Brewing Co.: Extreme Wednesdays. Showing extreme sports videos. Free. 10 p.m. 5 S. San Francisco. 779-2739 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Listen to Me Marlon. 4 p.m.

Infinitely Polar Bear. $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Main Stage Theater: In House Dart and Pool Leagues. 6 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Majerle’s Sports Grill: Trivia night. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. 102 W. Rte. 66. 774-6463 Murdoch Community Center: Zumba class. Every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. $5.

203 E. Brannen. 226-7566 Red Rock State Park: Saturday and Wednesday daily bird walks. 7 a.m.

Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 The Rendezvous: Classic Horror Movie Wednesdays. This week: Body in the Web (1960). 8 p.m. Free movie and popcorn. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 State Bar: Wings and Wine. Pairing Pillsbury Winery from Cottonwood with Wil’s Grill from Flag. 6 p.m. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Wanderlust Brewing Co.: Film screening: This Is Your Day. Film premiere featuring local Rob Krar and other top ultrarunners in the Western United States. Two showings: 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. $5 dollars at the door. Taproom open from 5-9 p.m. 1519 N. Main Street, Ste. #102. 351-7952

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | WED 8.19

The Green Room: Soulective. DJs spinning funk, dance, hip-hop and EDM. Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. Free 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Mia’s Lounge: Open mic night. 9 p.m. Free. 26 S. San Francisco.

774-3315 Monte Vista Lounge: Optimistic Chaos with Mike Jung. Electronic dance rock from Jerome. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Orpheum Theater: Modest Mouse. Indie and alt-rock from Washington. Opener: Mimicking Birds. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. SOLD OUT. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Encore Karaoke. 7 p.m. Free. Every Wednesday.

101 S. San Francisco. 774-3523 The Spirit Room: Johnny Ziegler hosts open mic. 2 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809

To have an event included in the Pulse calendar e-mail calendar@flaglive.com or mail info to Flagstaff Live, Attn: Pulse Calendar Submissions, 1751 S. Thompson St., Flagstaff, AZ 86001. The deadline is every Friday by 5 p.m. for the following week’s issue. All events are subject to change, subject to editing, and may have to be cut entirely due to limited space in Flag Live. For more info, call 779-1877.

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Gifford died. So sad. I didn’t know much about his football days, but I really got to know him through his marriage with that perky, plucky Kathie Lee Gifford. What a pair!

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May sweet, sweet Carol never know of my wild tryst with Kathie Lee Gifford.

May no one on planet earth ever know. Ever, ever. And definitely may people never find out that we frolicked naked on the banks of the Hudson River by the George Washington Bridge, hand in hand, spinning around, so full of each other’s love after a long romantic evening wandering I just the city streets. Please may that be a secret heard that Frank forever and ever. Amen.

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Classifieds

Classifieds APPLIANCE REPAIR Appliance Repair in your home. Best in Flagstaff w/23 yrs Exp & Insured. Call Russ @928-863-1416

CONCRETE Accel Construction Group offers The Best Concrete Work for the Best Price. Free Estimates. ROC# 219882. 928-527-1257 QUALITY CONCRETE Free Est. Chris 928255-3548. Not a Licensed Contractor

EQUIPMENT

MASSAGE

Natural Touch Massage: LCMT Sports, Swedish, Relaxation, Deep Tissue. Call Sue 928-606-5374 Receive a Massage or Reflexology session in the comfort of your home. Call Gudi Cheff at 221-7474.

MISCELLANEOUS

• CANCER • Compensation www.cancerbenefits.com Or call 800-414-4328

MOVING

Annual Equipment Service Special Service most makes of Farm, Construction, & Lawn Equipment Pick up/Delivery Available 7741969 www.flagequip.com

Professional Moving Service call Quick Move Local/long distance or labor only.

928-779-1774

FIREWOOD

“Nick the Painter”, 25 yrs exp. Top Quality, Low Prices Small Jobs OK. Ref Avail.

Interior/Exterior 928-310-1862. Not a licensed contractor.

ROMANO’S PAINTING Interior & Exterior, residential painting. Free over the phone estimates. 928-600-6261 Instagram: @ romanopaintingaz Licensed & Bonded ROC#224346

Clean, barkless aspen $150, hard pinon $160, ponderosa $125, mixed $145, juniper avbl.

All wood buy 2 cords save 15% Full cords 16” split & delivered (928) 587-8356 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Juniper $170 & Oak $240 cord. Jose (928) 863-0147 Andy (928) 600-4618 Ramirez FIREWOOD FOR SALE Call 928-310-0012

HANDY PERSON Full Remodel, Carpentry, Roof, Tile, Drywall, Concrete, Landscaping, Painting, Plumbing, Doors & Windows, Electrical. 928-221-4036 Not a licensed contractor A1 Handyman! Call Mike’s Tool Box Decks, tile, doors/windows, paint. Mike, 928600-6254 Free Estimates Not a Licensed Contractor All Home Repair & Remodeling. (928)-3109800. Carpentry, decks, drywall, stone & tilework, painting, roofing, flooring, landscaping & maintenance. Not a licensed contractor Licensed Contractor/Craftsman Can tend to all your Home Remodel or Repair needs. No job too small. ROC# 265086. (928)-5254072 AZ NATIVE HANDYMAN Major/Minor home repairs, decks, roofing, drywall, fencing, welding, storage sheds & auto repairs.

Quality Assured. Free local estimates. 928814-0497 Not a licensed contractor

HAULING Flag Hauling, Yard Clean Up, Haul Off Misc Debris, Metal, Wood, Batteries, etc. Fast, Reliable & Reasonable Rates, Lic/Ins 928-606-9000

HOUSE CLEANING Hassle Free House Cleaning Detailed Reliable Service. Lic & Ins Laura @ 928226-0349 Housecleaning, Services Not Limited. I have Tools & 25 Years Experience. Please call 853-2874

LANDSCAPING HANDY SAL Complete Yard Clean-up, Hedges & weed wacking. 928-221-7931 Not a Licensed Contractor AFFORDABLE LANDSCAPE. ALL PHASES OF LANDSCAPE, PAVERS, & MORE. OVER 25 YRS EXP. CALL 928-606-9000 Peak Prop. Maint & Landscape LLC ROC#297647 ALL-N-LANDSCAPING, Paver Patios, Walkways, Edgers, Planting, Clean-up, Irrigation Main’t Free Est. Not a licensed contractor Call Juan & Betty@ 928-526-2928.

Kikos Landscaping Pine Needles, Yard Clean-up Francisco Valdez 928-221-9877 or 814-4787 message Not a licensed contractor

MASONRY Brick, Block, Stucco, Stemwalls, & Repairs.

44 yrs Exp! 853-3310. Not a Licensed Contractor.

PAINTING

PERSONAL SERVICE

CERTIFIED CAREGIVERS Available For In Home Care Call Us 928-225-9780

PEST CONTROL

High Country Pest Control LLC Spraying For Ants, Spiders, Bees, Wasps & other Pests. Humane Animal Removal - Skunks, Squirrels etc. Lic. & Ins. #9184. App#110560.

Don: 928-221-3324

PLUMBING

Plumbing Needs, Repairs, Add-ons & Remodels. (928)-890-8462 Not a licensed contractor.

HELP WANTED

NEW POSITIONS AVAILABLE HVAC Technician Laundry Supervisor Sakura Teppanyaki Chef Swing Shift Laundry Attendant Competitive Pay, Benefit Eligible, Prior Experience Preferred Come to hotel to fill out application 1175 W. Route 66 Flagstaff, AZ 86001 928-773-8888 READY MIX DRIVERS Class B CDL Lic. Req. EOE CEMEX 5200 E. Railhead Ave. Mike 928-526-5250 Northern Arizona Radiology ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE REP: Candidate must be detail oriented, organized, and possess strong communication skills. Medical billing or medical insurance processing experience would be helpful. Duties include but not limited to insurance follow-up, denial follow-up and various monthly reports. We offer competitive salary and benefits to commensurate with experience. If you are looking for a challenge and a promising opportunity this is it. Send resume:vasquezj@narpc.com Regional Program Manager-Behavorial Health: Essential role in the development & coordination of wellness centers and articulation w/ other departments and programs.

Requires recovery and wellness knowledge and experience. Send resume to dhorn@ nazcare.org or Fax: (602) 535-3229 Cottonwood, AZ independent insurance agency is seeking a Commercial Insurance-Account Manager/CSR. The ideal candidate must be P&C licensed in AZ with a strong background in commercial insurance. The right candidate will receive an aggressive salary and benefits package.

Please email resumes to Ron@DraxlerInsurance.com Flagstaff Golf Maintenance Company seeks individuals for F/T & P/T general golf course maintenance duties. Competitive wages & golf privileges. Apply in person @ 2461 N. Oakmont, Flagstaff, AZ

ADMINISTRATIVE

HOMES UNFURNISHED

A fast growing company is seeking an Efficient Data Entry Specialist/Admin Assistant. Basic job duties include: Perform basic clerical and data entry duties for the department.

Respond to customer inquiries and complaints received via e-mail, incoming mail, fax and any other venue. Cover letters should be sent to: pcole1706@gmail.com for consideration for an interview

Ponderosa Trails, 4 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage, 2100sq.ft. This beautiful home backs private forest land in one of Flagstaff’s favorite neighborhoods! Available August. (928) 6074895 $2100/mo.

Parks Area 3+2 mfg. home on almost half acre, fenced, Next to RR crossing, Income producing water well, Owner carry preferred MLS#162865 Mark O/A 928-856-1144 $975/ mo. markjcooper1@gmail.com 4Bed/3bath 2700sf Shadow Mtn House for rent, Avail. 9/16, Sechrist School District, Pets considered w/ additional deposit. $1700/month + deposit. (928) 699-6180

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM Experienced Housekeepers Hilton Garden Inn, Flagstaff MUST APPLY IN PERSON 350 W. Forest Meadows

MISC FOR SALE 2015 John Deere Riding Mowers Are Now In Stock! As Low as $1499 + tax OAC. Call for Details & Fincg. Specials Flag Equipment 928-774-1969 www.flagequip.com Sig Sauer P226 .22LR w/case & (2) 10 rd mags. $400 OBO (928) 607-3982 Stacked Kenmore washer/dryer. Great Condition $450. Complete PA system $500 OBO. 928-226-1126

BICYCLES Kestrel “Iron Man Limited Edition” Triathlon.

Great Condition-nice, $500 OBO 928-2660288

FEEDS HAY FOR SALE. Grass, alfalfa, & grass/alfalfa mix hays. Located on farm 50 min. west of Page. 3835 N. Johnson Cyn Rd. Kanab UT 84741 (435) 644-8936

SMALL MACHINERY Honda Generator Sale Save 20% off select Honda Generators in stock Flagstaff Equip 928-774-1969 www.flagequip.com

SPORTING GOODS Shooting, Reloading, Hunting. Life long collection at Silver Saddle Swamp Meet. Hwy 89. August 15th

HOMES FOR SALE 3272 S. Little Drive $449,000 Spacious home in University Heights, listed @ $139/ sq.ft. 4bd, 3.5 ba including in-law quarters w/ potential for 5th bdrm. Large lot w/ plenty of parking. Potential for student housing?

Gardners delight-greenhouse included.

Linton R.E. 928-606-5096.

10 acre horse property by owner adjoins Coconino National Forest; roping arena, cutting pen, 8 large horse pens w/ loafing sheds, 4 stall horse barn, tack barn, 30’x60’ hay & equipment barn. 2400 sq ft cedar & malapais rock home - $745,000. 602-524-8162 or 928-526-3323

MFG HOMES SALES MFG Townhome on W Rte 66-2Br, 1B, small/ smart living, private, quiet adult park.

Landscape, yard, patios, terrace, big carport; Architecture and details, lighting, glasswork, cabinetry, tile-work, flooring-one of a kind! By owner, $65K Cash. (928) 221-3234

MOBILE HOMES FOR SALE 1BR/1BA custom prefab on 36 acres; solar & wind off grid. $$$ views. Fenced. Horses OK. Metal bldg/garage. 17miles N of Williams. $149K cash. 602-999-3009. PhoenixGreenHomes.com $149,000 cash

COMML & INDUST PROPERTIES 8000 sq ft old charter school building, 2301 N. 4th St. Selling for appraisal price of $750K. 928-526-0300

HOMES FURNISHED Quiet cul de sac in Munds Park on the forest line. 1 br + loft, fully furnished w/pool table, washer & dryer. Available 9/1/15. For more info: (928) 221-3981. $1400/mo.

TOWNHOME UNFURNISHED 3bed/1ba, 1100 sq. ft. Duplex, Avail 08/08, appliances incl. 2315 N Center #2, $1125/ mo. 1 yr lease Do Not Disturb Tenant. Call John 928-527-3787

STORE AND OFFICE RENTALS Various Retail Store Front Space & Office Space on 4th St & 7th Ave, some w// utils incl. 526-0300.

Old jewelry store 2300 N. 4th St 2600 sf, $1,700/mo Water & garbage provided Call 928-526-0300

ELECTRIC AUTOS Golf Cart ‘07, EZGO Freedom TXT, inclds golf related equipment, street legal, white, charger, ex. condition $1975.00 Call 928-284-4163

TRUCKS

RV TRAVEL TRAILERS

2013 Monte Carlo 44’, 2 bdrm, patio doors, 2 slides, large appliances W/D, garden tub, lots of cabinets, power awning; Exc. Condition NP NS, Must See to Appreciate! (in FLG) 618-708-1583 $29,900 obo.

5TH WHEELS

2010 Cyclone 3010 Toy Hauler, Full Amenities, Load Dampening King Pin, Furnace/AC, 5.5 kw Generator, $37,000. For more info/details, call (928) 660-1980.

BARGAIN CORNER

New Craftsman Drill Press, 12” 2/3hp, $150; Alesis Monitor One MK2 passive monitors/ stereo speakers, like new $100. Call 928310-3190 96 Pontiac Grand AM, 4 cyl, runs but needs engine work; $300. Call 928-255-3189 Guitar: Ovation Altra Series USA with custom case; sun burst finish, like new, $299 OBO; 774-7114 Flagstaff Classic mahogany, curved front, buffet/credenza, real wood, 58” long, very nice condition, $225; 928-525-1814 Sig Sauer Mosquito .22 LR w/case and 10 rd. mag., $300 OBO. 928-607-3982 NEW Craftsmen 1.5hp router w/ table, guide & bit set, $160. Dell XP laptop, $30. Pair of Hodgman waders sz 8, $25. (928) 527-1121 Brand new, mens, Brahma cowboy boots, never put on feet, perfect condition, size 12, spotless. 1st $50 takes them. 928-774-0023 Gas Lawn Trimmer $50 OBO. New Women’s Bike $50 OBO. Like New Fridge with Ice Maker $99. CASH ONLY 928-607-1082 Mitsubishi 55” Projection TV. HDTV, loaded with features. Excellent Condition. Only $99. 928-637-8849

3 New Route 66 Bar Stools. Black with White Writing. $300 (602) 920-9971 Small Pet Lovers! 16” x 39” x 18” cage. Good for rabbits or other small animals (orig. $120) NEW only $60. 928-607-0432 Seat Covers, Front (Bucket) & Back, Gently Used, fits Jeep Liberty $10. Bike Rack, Fits over Spare Tire Mounted in Back, $30.

928-853-6051 Custom fit blk trunk liner & 4 blk floor mats for 2012 Honda Accord $50. New tailgate for ‘70 Ford stepside truck $75. 2 Filson 42sz wool vests. $40ea. 928-699-3067 Mini refridgerator. Works Great! $50. Shark steam mop in unopened box $75. Standard wheelchair, good condition $45. Never used paper cutter $10. 928-440-3637 2 African drums (djembe) $125 ea. Blue Diamondback Bike $100. 928-607-7274 Smith & Wesson SD40 40cal Semi-auto 2 extra magazines. Like New-In Box $300 928-600-2528 MOVING BOXES! 7 Boxes of Bubble Wrap, 4 Wardrobe Boxes, 4 Boxes of Packing Paper. $50 (928) 440-3558 Queen Bed Honey Oak. Headboard 56” H, Footboard 28” H. Excellent Condition. $225.00 (928) 533-6769 (Will email photo) Upright Piano - good condition; $300 firm. Call 928-853-8279 LIONEL 027, Misc Cars, Track, XFormer $35.

928-266-0871 Fitness Flyer Exercise Equipt w/ video $50.

Large wood desk-6 drawers w/ middle drawer that locks all drawers. $100. 5 shelf bookcase w/ doors on bottom 2 shelves. $30 928-526-2107 or 928-699-6828 Chair and Ottoman, Blue Plaid Fabric, Comfy, $50. 928-526-5156

1978 Dodge Power Wagon P/U 400 Big Block Engine, Clean Lift Kit and Winch, $7800.

Steve 928-525-4183 or Dorothy 928-5260300 Cell 928-266-2884 1971 PUMPER FIRETRUCK American La France - Use for Fire Management, Parades, Advertising, or FUN! On Lake Mary Road $5500. 928-284-4226

4 WHEEL DRIVE 1986 Jeep Wrangler Soft Top High performance transmission 350 Big Block Engine, $6800 Steve 928-525-4183 or Dorothy 928-526-0300 or cell 928-266-2884

AIRCRAFT 1946 Cessna 120, fresh annual, 2252 TT/443 SMOH, tie down Flagstaff, Must sell - lost eyesight, $14,000 (928)-525-1814

ATV’S & UTV’S 2014 Red Polaris Ranger 900XP EPS, Excellent cond. 2,700mi. $15.5k fully loaded OBO or $13k stripped. Call (928) 600-4609

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