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Exiting innocence By Shonto Begay

My summer roads, 1970

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t the age of 15 I broke through the horizon of the familiar. From a remote sheep camp, with $5 in my pocket, I left home. I remember that day as I packed a few pieces of clothing and exited innocence. I offered a quick farewell to my family; leaving them thinking I was just going overnight at some distant relative’s place. A thick sheep camp tortilla and cooked meat with a chunk of government cheese (the best and tastiest kind) was my provision in a knapsack. I left home that hot day with not a single cloud in the thick blue sky. Dressed to be seen easily by motorists I wore my white jeans and solid red shirt, cowboy boots, a shiny belt buckle and a straw Stetson with the brim low to shade my curious eyes.

I walked four miles of dusty wagon trail out to Highway 160. It was four miles on a trail of thoughts and expectations. I watched my shadow move alongside me and I spoke out to it, seeking reassurances, finding courage and a newfound sense of adventure—and no sheep camp responsibility was going to hold me back.

The sheep camp that summer had enough help with my brothers and my sisters, some cousins and adult relatives. There were plenty of hands to help maintain the camp. I felt like my absence wouldn’t be noticed as much and, besides, it was one less mouth to feed. I smiled at the latter reasoning for I thought it to be a good contribution. The years prior I spent each summer being a shepherd and felt that I would miss the sheepdogs the most. Spooky, Spunky and Dusty. They would watch well the sheep with my younger cousin. I knew they would look out toward the highway expecting my return. I held back the tears, feeling the lump in my throat. I felt a need to get out and see what was awaiting me. I had no clue, just freewheeling senses. I fingered the pollen bag and its contents of a small white arrowhead.

It was summer break again from school and the heat intensified my need to walk off into a new and cooler world. I did not know the cities and towns of the American West except for Flagstaff and the other Rez communities such as TubaCity and Kayenta. Beyond that it

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was all enticing images from magazine books I’d read on the sheep trail. Distant places beyond my horizons were like mythical places holding sweetness and new magic. They held names I heard from the lips of elders who worked the railroads decades before. Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angles and Bakersfield. That was only toward the west—the holy direction of AbaloneShellMountain and the great unforgiving desert beyond. From the stories of the great journey of mercy to the home of Whiteshell Woman, my Goddess, the journey that produced my Clan’s name, from the bitter and alkaline water that saved the walkers. The staff of Bull Snake that found water gave name to my clan, “Bitterwater.” I tossed a handful of care into the wind and stepped into a new chapter of my youth. My little transistor radio streaming out Lobo’s “Me and You and a Dog

Named Boo,” Daniel Boone’s “Beautiful Sunday,” Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime” among many other forms of music from the cheering crowd.

The thread that strung all these beads of living was and still is the Grateful Dead.

I find great detail that I can relate to in these days of wandering in film: Into the Wild without the Alaska part. I take that to heart—a stranger in a strange land, and loving its new sounds, images and taste.

Some walkabouts took me to other parts of the West over the Rocky Mountains to the East. At times I had to make that decision as to what direction I would go simply by seeing which direction my boot landed there on the shoulder of the blacktop.

I tasted freedom and all that is open before him as much as a young man raised in a sheep camp can taste. The gentle breeze caressed its approval as I stuck out my thumb.

Rides came much easier than I anticipated. I rode those beautiful summers of my teen years on the kindness of strangers and weirdoes. I rode in the warmth of the conversations, mostly filling in an “exotic” life of mine to their middle-American drudgery, unwittingly becoming both a teacher and student. It was in these conversations that I learned more about myself and my Dineh’ world views. I spoke giving vocabulary to my life from an esoteric origin. I taught myself about me those summers.

I rode with Brady Bunch-like families in motor homes being catered to with milk and cookies.

I rode in Cadillacs and VWs, even a highway patrol car at one time. I rode with another group of “tribes” in converted school buses where the brand new, sweet aroma of cannabis hung heavy all about, but I never partook at the time.

I was 15, 16 and17 in those summers. I saw a lot of music and desert gatherings in Nevada and the Mojave Desert. Yes, I had my SlabCity. It was good to be a young man with a carefree smile and falling in lust occasionally beneath the fat summer moon. I heard music and felt the love that reverberated deep into my interior. I spent days traveling with Dead Heads onto another venue. I do not remember being asked where it is I was going. I just felt so alive with the rush of wind in my face. I learned of new places. I learned of history and the passions of the modern day Gypsies of the road, the fireflies in the Summer of Love.

I always managed to come home sometimes before the summer was out just to readjust and get my mutton fix at the next summer ceremonies, and maybe a fight or two. A change of clothes and I was on the road again—the last bit before school resumed.

My mother and my aunt missed my company as they looked up occasionally from their cornfield to gaze intently into the horizon toward the highway, expecting to see me slowly approaching the sheep camp again and coming home. The stories of the summer from fellow students involved attending rodeos, fairs, going to Phoenix with families and fights at the Kayenta Field House. In the end, my high school concentration suffered simply because I was bored. My body was held in the uniformed desks in the classroom, but my mind and my heart were still out there roaming the desert—my real teacher. I was 15 when the first stirrings to break out broke out. Those are the summers I remember, and respect the time I really came into being.

A professional artist since 1983, Shonto Begay spends his time painting, writing and speaking to audiences of all ages. With an Associates of Fine Art degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California College of Arts and Crafts, his artwork has been featured in more than 50 shows in galleries and museums across the country.

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his is a column in defense of the Xbox.

And the PS4, Game Cube and even Nintendo 64. It is also in defense of the iPod, iPhone, iPad and just about iAnything. And, of course, let’s not forget the classic: good old fashioned television. Why, you may ask, am I defending these things? Well, it is summertime, and that means that all of these devices are getting more use than usual, and therefore are under more attack. In other words: more attack = more defense. (I think I read that on the back of the Call of Duty box.)

It’s not that these devices particularly need me to defend them. After all, they seem to be having a pretty good run on their own without my help, which is fine, because I’m really not defending them at all; I’m defending the people who use them. I’m defending the teenagers of the world. And, to be fair, some under-employed 20-somethings, but those people are not my concern. Not yet, at least.

There has never been a single summer of my life that has passed without at least one person foretelling how the current generation of teenagers is “doomed” because of the amount of time we (or they) are spending staring at a screen. And yet, somehow, miraculously, we are all still here. And not only are we all still here, but we have managed to produce the next generation of writers, scientists and over-achieving entrepreneurs. Not only that, but we’ve also managed to produce

The power of shutting off the brain the first generation of computer geniuses, and all with Gilligan’s Island on demand. Actually, that was a little after my time—the “on demand” part. Back in my day, we had to wait until TV shows actually came on to watch them, and fill in the intervening hours with watching whatever else was on instead. Pets on Parade, anyone?

That’s right: when I was a child I was so shiftless I couldn’t even be bothered to turn off the television between The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Beverly Hillbillies. (When I was a kid the rerun pool was pretty shallow). Still,

here I am today, a semi-respectable, semiresponsible, semi-adult. And I think that Gilligan’s Island (and the rest) had something to do with that.

There is just something to be said for occasionally turning off your brain. And although we might like to think that it can only happen during long, meditative nature walks, the truth is that it more often happens (for us, at least) during Netflix binges. Or Call of Duty marathons. Or even extended Tumblr sessions.

I’m not saying there isn’t a moment when someone has officially watched way too much

There is just something to be said for occasionally turning o�f your brain. And although we might like to think that it can only happen during long, meditative nature walks, the truth is that it more o�ten happens (for us, at least) during Net�lix binges.

TV. I’m just saying I think that moment tends to occur a good couple of hours after a lot of parents officially freak out about it.

It’s OK to occasionally be unproductive. To have moments when you are doing absolutely nothing of value to anyone but yourself— moments when you aren’t actively engaged in learning something. (I say actively because it’s impossible not to be learning something all of the time, even if that something consists of the most efficient ways to push the buttons on the remote.)

Two hundred years ago parents were fretting over the fact that their children couldn’t seem to get enough of this new thing called the “novel.” They were worried that by spending so much time reading without a “purpose” their children weren’t going to have enough time to keep current with their Latin and Greek.

Two hundred years in the future parents will probably be worried that their children are too busy playing with their new brain implants to give their iPads the proper amount of attention.

And yet, somehow, we will all still be around.

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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When Joel and Luke Smallbone were growing up in Australia, they discovered two things they have anything but small bones for: Jesus and music—in that order. The rhythmically-inclined duo, known as For King and Country, left their homeland to settle in Nashville and kick off what has become a rather star-studded career so far.

Since their 2012 debut, Crave, they’ve racked up accolades including American Songwriter describing them as “Australia’s answer to Coldplay.”

Since Coldplay is British and Australia and England are basically the same place, maybe the two groups are really one in the same and Chris Martin’s just had the best make-up artist in the biz. Digression aside, the brothers are probably one of the few contemporary artists to cite film scores, such as Braveheart and Gladiator, as musical influences, otherwise tacking on U2 and Switchfoot as Billboard-seeking catalysts along with “the heart, hope and passion of the gospel,” as they’ve said. The charts may note For King and Country as “soft frock,” but these guys have been known to put on one h-e-double-hockey-sticks of a live gig. The production values are heavenly, what with lights dipping in and out, setting the venue ablaze. Take that, Chris Martin. It’ll be a spectacle at Pepsi Amphitheater, Exit 337 off I-17 at Ft. Tuthill County Fairgrounds. Gates open at 4:30 p.m. and the show starts at 6. Tickets are $34–$50. 214-6485. www.pepsiamp.com.

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f you’ve ever thumbed through a copy of Flag Live and found yourself on this very page, you’ve more than likely read “News Quirks.”

Compiled by Roland Sweet, he’s been with us as a syndicated contributor for more than a decade, offering up a steady dose of some of the more oddball and head-shaking storylines to cross news wires, channels and various publications around not only the country, but the globe.

Each week, on this page and the one jumping across the fold I’m sure he has, on more than one occasion, left readers wide-eyed and in fits of laughter at the ridiculous and unthinkable things we humans do. ‌On Monday morning when I turned my computer on and started sifting through emails as is protocol to get the week’s production train rolling, one of the first emails to catch my eye read: “News Quirks by Roland Sweet” in the subject line, but it wasn’t the normal Word doc for the week I’m used to receiving. Upon opening it I learned that Sweet, one of our most on-point and reliable voices had unexpectedly passed away the Friday prior. As you might imagine, myself and the rest of our staff were left somewhat shook.

In the conversation that followed, we realized none of us really knew a thing about Sweet, only that for so long he had been a part of our weekly grind and we regularly reveled in his words.

The next day I received the following obituary that put many of our questions to rest: Roland S. Sweet, 69, of Mount Vernon, Va., died on July 24, 2015, at Mount Vernon Inova Hospital, of heart failure. Born Roland Saunders Sweet II in Panama City, Fla., on Aug. 2, 1945, he was the son of Col. Harold L. Sweet and Mary Sue Sweet.

He graduated from Suitland High School (’63).

From 1965 to 1971, he served in the U.S. Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller, including a tour of duty in Thailand. After his time in the service, he graduated with honors and a B.A. from the University of Maryland (’72), and later an M.S. in Public Communication from Syracuse University (’84), earning the Newhouse School’s Wolseley Award for outstanding academic merit.

Most recently, he was the editor-in-chief of Log Home Living magazine, which he helped launch in 1989. Over the years, he was also editor of Log Homes Illustrated, Timber Homes Illustrated and Distinctive Wood Homes magazines.

He authored Log Home Secrets of Success (2010) and 100 Best Log Home Floor Plans (2007). He developed and presented log home seminars all

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BY ROLAND SWEET

‌Strange Cargo U.S. customs agents searching a vehicle belonging to a 56-year-old Arizona man crossing the border from Mexico at the Port of Nogales unzipped one of the man’s suitcases in the backseat and discovered a 48-year-old Thai woman hiding under his clothes. Their relation-

over the country. He began his career as an editor at The Syracuse New Times, a weekly newspaper, and wrote for a number of newspapers and special interest publications.

He was also the co-author, with Chuck Shepherd and John J. Kohut, of several volumes of the popular “News of the Weird” series, and continued his interest in human folly with a weekly syndicated column, “News Quirks,” which appeared in 16 U.S. and Canadian newspapers.

He won three Ozzie Awards for Publishing Excellence, the Syracuse Press Club’s Lifetime Achievement award and, perhaps most proudly, the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia’s Outstanding Tutor/Teacher Award for tutoring a Guatemalan immigrant in spoken and written English.

At the age of 52, he earned his Private Pilot’s license, and was qualified to fly singleengine light, complex, and tailwheel aircraft.

He is survived by his wife, Theodora T. Tilton, brother Samuel D. Sweet (Anne Corbett), and many nieces and nephews.

He loved his family, a succession of grateful rescue dogs, most recently Pippa, four foster elephants—Kibo, Shukuru, Ashaka, and Mbegu—the Washington Nationals, time spent with his wife at their getaway in the Shenandoah Mountains and laughter shared with his legion of friends.

It turns out that Sweet was a man to be respected. If not for his dedication to family, service to our country or his love of canine friends, then surely for his advocacy of log homes—which I’m sure many of us here in northern Arizona can get behind. Or, for fostering elephants! Who knew?

As for what’s next to fill the void of his page-long residency, we’re not yet sure. In the coming days we’ll sit down, rub some stones together, and hopefully have something of equal value (no easy task) for our readers.

In this week’s “News Quirks” are some oldies from our crazy state of Arizona along with a few we submitted on behalf of Flagstaff over the years. We have more on deck, so plan on seeing at least one more week of Quirk’s before we make the transition to new content.

We only knew him through his words, but we are forever grateful that he allowed us to continue to run them for so long. And one thing’s for sure: we’ll miss having his voice in the fold.

ship was unclear. (Phoenix’s KNXV-TV)

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 posts appeared on her news feed, Schelling thought other men were sending messages directly to her. Every time Schelling read a post, he would hit her. The attacks, which lasted nearly four hours, included sexual assault, punching, slapping and pulling out clumps of hair.

(The Arizona Republic)

Next Year Try Evian After the U.S. Drought Monitor declared northern Arizona to be “abnormally dry,” Flagstaff decided to allocate 440,000 gallons of drinkable water to make snow for the city’s third annual Urban Ski and Snowboard Festival. Flagstaff official Kimberly Ott defended the plan, citing “the economic benefit to the community.” The city rejected using reclaimed water to make snow, arguing that potable water is cleaner and more comfortable for snowboarders and skiers. “There would be people upset if it was reclaimed water,” downtown business owner Kevin Collins insisted. (Phoenix’s KTVK-TV)

First Amendment Follies Arizona’s Maricopa Association of Governments ordered Dianne Barker, 65, to “immediately cease performing cartwheels at MAG meetings.” Officials said they had warned Baker repeatedly not to perform cartwheels because doing so disrupts meetings. “You have from time to time suggested that MAG cannot prevent you from performing cartwheels during your comments,” their letter to her states. “That position is incorrect.” Barker called the letter “intimidating, threatening and defaming,” and said the agency has infringed on her right of free expression. Michael LeVault, who chairs MAG’s Regional Council, denied the ban is an attempt to shut down public comment but “a safety issue.” (Phoenix’s The Arizona Republic)

Toyland Someone threw a large rock through the window of the I Do! I Do! Wedding Boutique in Flagstaff, according to police, who reported the only item stolen was a 2-foot-long, 20-pound rubber adult toy modeled after a woman’s torso. It sold for $600. (Flagstaff’s Arizona Daily Sun)

Ride of a Lifetime A boy and girl were injured in Tucson after a strong wind lifted a bounce house the children were playing in, carried it across three lanes of traffic and dropped it on a median.

(Tucson’s KNXV-TV)

Quirks News Mistakes Were Made Adam Kwasman, an Arizona state representative who favors stronger border controls, joined a group of people protesting the arrival of undocumented immigrant children in Oracle. When a yellow school bus approached, Kwasman tweeted, “Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law.” He also claimed to see fear on children’s faces. Informed that the children on the bus were actually YMCA campers, Kwasman deleted his tweet and apologized. (Reuters)

End of an Error When the Arizona Department of Transportation announced plans to replace about 400 aging signs along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 19 with new ones showing distances in miles, not kilometers, opposition stalled the project. The kilometer-only signs were part of a pilot program by the Carter administration to convert the United States to the metric system. That effort failed, but the Arizona road signs have remained for nearly 40 years. Local business owners point out that new signs in miles would change the highway exit numbers they advertise, especially for tourist-related businesses. The Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce added that many area businesses consider the metric signs a hospitality measure for metric-savvy Mexican visitors, who spend about $1 billion a year in Pima County. (Associated Press)

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zone” on their community center. “It’s not a joke,” homeowner association president John Melling said, noting Ebola is in the forefront of the news. “It goes beyond vandalism.” He accused youths, noting, “People pay a lot of money to live in an area like this, and they’re destroying it.” (Phoenix’s The Arizona Republic)

College of Electoral Knowledge After unsuccessful campaigns for Congress and the Phoenix City Council, Scott Fister, 34, changed his name to Cesar Chavez and declared his candidacy for retiring U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor’s seat in Arizona’s largely Hispanic 7th Congressional District. “It’s almost as simple as saying Elvis Presley is running for president,” said Chavez, who not only changed his name to that of the late revered farm-labor leader, but also switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. “People want a name that they can feel comfortable with. If you went out there running for office and your name was Bernie Madoff, you’d probably be screwed.” (Phoenix’s The Arizona Republic)

Overstayed His Welcome After Martin Batieni Kombate, 44, was released from the Coconino County Jail, he refused to leave. Officers asked him to leave four other times, and each time he refused. When he finally declared he had no intention of departing, he was arrested and charged with trespassing. (Flagstaff’s Arizona Daily Sun)

Too Tempting to Ignore While Arizona state prison inmate Dyan Castorena, 40, was assigned to an off-site job detailing cars at an auto auction in Tolleson, she stole a Toyota Camry from the auction and drove away.

Authorities searched for six days before Salt River Pima Tribal Police nabbed her at a Scottsdale casino. (Phoenix’s KTVK-TV)

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Still waters run deep—and boring Reviews by Adrienne Bischoff

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Gyllenhaal’s other films: cowboy love, kooky oming straight outta leftfield is Jake rabbits and naked women with spiders for Gyllenhaal’s latest vehicle Southpaw, heads, etc. I was expecting a twist. Southpaw the story of Billy Hope, a kid from the doesn’t have that, so I wish Eminem hadn’t projects who rose to stardom as a champion dropped out of the film. At least then I light-heavyweight boxer. But just as his would have been able to see more wife Maureen (Rachel McAdams) of his acting skills, which were implores Billy to take a break pretty solid in 8 Mile (2002), the from all that sustained head SOUTHPAW film about the rapper’s rise damage, she gets herself Directed by Antoine Fuqua to fame. murdered, sending Billy Rated R In fact, not only was into a tailspin. After resortHARKINS THEATRES Southpaw supposed to star ing to drugs, booze and an Eminem, but it was inspired attempted suicide, Billy loses by him. Screenwriter Kurt everything: his house, his Sutter felt Eminem’s story was career and his little girl, Leila. worth re-exploring but changed After hitting rock bottom, Billy the character from a rapper to a finds hope—wink, wink—in the embitboxer. But without starring Eminem, this story tered but wise coach Tick Wills, played by the doesn’t feel biographical as so much universal. always superb Forest Whitaker.

It certainly doesn’t shed any more light on the If you’ve ever seen a movie, then you rapper’s talents and hardships. likely are familiar with the story, and ending, Gyllenhaal’s performance, possibly a of Southpaw. What took me most by surprise dead-on impersonation of Eminem, is as comwas the Trojan Horse-like casting of Jake Gylpelling as it is frustrating. As Hope, he avoids lenhaal, one of today’s most complex actors, in eye contact and mumbles, barely opening his a very straightforward film originally intended mouth to speak. While short-tempered, Hope to star Eminem. I was expecting elements from

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is otherwise expressionless, the still water that runs deep (and sometimes boring). In a scene between Hope and his ruthless manager Jordan, played by 50 Cent/Curtis Jackson, Hope is nearly comatose, so weighed down by depression and drugs. By contrast, Jackson’s portrayal of Jordan is polished and professional. Jackson

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the series utterly gripping. By the time I was into the first few It wasn’t meant to last. The peace is shattered as the titans episodes I knew I was going to be watching it with every spare return, breaching the wall and wreaking havoc on the remnants moment I had until all 25 episodes had been consumed. of the human race.

The downside of all of this wonderful storytellAs Attack on Titan unfolds it follows a group of ing? One is the ever lengthening production young recruits, drawn to the military for varying ATTACK schedule. Season two of Attack on Titan has reasons and taught to fight the giant monsters been pushed out to 2016, marking a three from these swinging cable rigs with razor sharp ON TITAN year wait since season one appeared in 2013. swords. Sounds kind of silly saying it like that, (SEASON 1) While the first season stands relatively well but onscreen it works. I suppose that is what I Written and Illustrated by on its own, there are storylines that are was expecting when I decided to check out the Hajime Isayama dying for resolution. The other downside is series, some cool high flying action as plucky Rated TV-MA that Attack on Titan is anime. For me that young soldiers fight for the fate of humanity.

FUNIMATION and NETFLIX isn’t really a detraction, but it definitely puts What I got was something more. There is a the show outside the wheelhouse of many depth to the storytelling here that is hard to find potential viewers. Anyone with an interest in in any genre. Somehow, Attack on Titan feels peranime has likely already seen it. For everyone else, I’ll sonal while still having some pretty heavy subtext about just have to say that Attack on Titan adds a second entry to what it means to be free, to fight for a cause, vengeance and my very short list of anime I will happily recommend to the duty. I assure you this not just some fanciful cartoon. Included masses (along with Samurai Champloo (2004–05) for anyone’s are a few really great plot twists, engaging characters, and who’s interested). some gut-wrenching Game of Thrones-style moments that make

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umanity is on the brink of extinction. Giant humanoid monsters, the titans, have come with a ravenous hunger for human flesh. Those few of us that survived the initial onslaught have taken refuge behind a series of massive walls and have managed to create an uneasy peace for 100 years.

proves not only a capable actor, but a respite from Gyllenhaal’s sulking Hope.

But as difficult as it was to watch Gyllenhaal, he seemed real. As did the pain he endures both as a boxer and a man suffering.

I just wish the story could have matched the caliber of its performances.

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Young and the restless Some YA novels crying out for big-screen treatment

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ecently, the John Green young adult novel Paper Towns made it to the big screen, the second of Green’s books to become a film after Fault in Our Stars (2014).

As a fan of the beautifully evolving YA genre, I’m always excited to see the strong titles like Green’s get turned into movies to grow their notoriety and fan base.

With this in mind, here are a few that I think deserve (well executed) cinematic treatment.

By Seth Muller

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart | (2014) E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars is primed for Hollywood. It has been optioned and could make the leap soon. Cadence comes from a wealthy New England family—only a dark cloud falls over the island where they summer.

The twist at the end is devastating. The trick will be translating Lockhart’s poetic prose to film.

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer | (2002) Arizona author Nancy Farmer’s House of the Scorpion has to get its cinematic due. It tells the story of a boy named Matt who is the clone of a drug lord in a speculative future world where said drug lord rules his own carved-out country. Scorpion has been optioned, but waits for the big-screen green-light.

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell | (2012) The 1986 love story set in Nebraska deserves the big-screen treatment. It tells of the awkward Eleanor and quiet Park as they fall in love on the bus. The novel mixes humor and drama and captures the strange world of teenage love. Like Liars, this has been optioned for a film and (hopefully) will make it to the theaters someday.

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac | (2005) The Navajo Code Talkers did get a film in 2002 called Windtalkers starring Nicholas Cage. It was an abomination. These American heroes deserve better. Author Joseph Bruchac has a powerful version of the story with his YA novel Code Talker, told through the eyes of Ned Begay. It’s a killer take on the World War II secret code created by Navajo soldiers.

It would make a great film not starring Nicolas Cage.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | (2008) Neil Gaiman is a lover of the fairytale and a keen storyteller who needs all of his books turned into movies. While it looks like his American Gods is heading to the small screen on Starz, The Graveyard Book so far has not risen from the production dead.

The story is about Nobody, a boy raised by ghosts and the man Jack who wants Nobody dead. Let’s hope this story is brought to cinematic life.

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Music

BY SETH MULLER

Vibewaves A reissue, a soundtrack and a freebie While some of the songs are lilting, others have rock-anthem moments. A couple of tracks have a beautiful and steady drive to them, such as “The Sleeping Prophet.” It’s like a mountain stream in the way it tumbles and moves. As Tyler stretches out a rhythmic line on his guitar, a hum builds in the background before Tyler moves into a plucky, breezy transition reminescent of Leo Kottke. A soft pedal steel guitar meets up with with the fingerpicking, and it all moves like warm honey.

This reissue is going to be one that vinyl fanatics are going to want to grab and music lovers in general will want to dig into. It’s a record of beautiful music, plain and simple. And it begs for the needle to be dropped on that perfect, waning summer day. ‌ illiam Tyler, Deseret Canyon W ‌Grade: AThe music of William Tyler first caught my ear in 2013 with his breakout record Impossible Truth. A lush and explorative instrumentalist, Tyler is mostly known for bringing his fingerpicking guitar style and blending it with beautiful background tones and adding to that an evocative recording style. As Pitchfork said of Truth, “Tyler’s lines resonate a sonic space that sounds cavernous and chilly, like he’s recording in a drafty, empty church.”

That album included this one incredible track that I could not help but listen on repeat: “Cadillac Desert.” The name comes from the Marc Reisner book about the disappearing water in the American West. In the scope of the six-minute track, it feels as if it’s tracing the lines of drying rivers and wandering its way through the desert.

This year, Tyler reissued an interesting kind of long-lost album of his called Deseret Canyon.

He first offered it up in celebration of Record Store Day, and last month it was released in more formats and services. It originally came out in 2008 under the Paper Hats moniker, Tyler’s oneman-band name. But it fell into obscurity before the re-release. It’s great to have it ressurected.

The seven-track album (its title a nod to the state of Utah) features prominently Tyler’s acoustic and electric guitars, with the lusher instrumentations sometimes seen on later albums pulled back somewhat (save for the fuzzy, loopy “Hermit Kingdom.”) The 12-minute second track “Parliament of Birds” is a major highlight, a song that would pair well with a canyon-country sunrise.

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Field Music, Music for Drifters Grade: B One of the more curious album releases this summer comes from Field Music, a band from which I have dispensed some singles to fill out musical mixes and personal soundtracks and playlists over the years. And their 2012 album Plumb showed the band as it hit a high-water mark. It remains one of their best reviewed and most interesting. Overall, they are a pretty solid alt-rock outfit that mixes soaring vocals, crashing keyboards and songs that are sometimes driving, other times idiosyncratic.

Their music reminds me of another favorite band, The Dodos, in their ability to push experimentation while always finding a way to hook

listeners. It’s like the songs teter on the edge of dissonance, but somehow the harmony and rhythm hold together in just the right way. The core of the Sunderland, England band is formed by brothers David and Peter Brewis, and they always seem to be up for a good musical challenge—pushing boundaries and pressing buttons.

Enter the curious: a special commission from the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. The fest folks there tasked Field Music to create a cinematic score to the 1929 film Drifters by John Grierson, the Scottish filmmaker who coined the term “documentary.” The film chronicles the challenges of a herring fishing fleet as they sail from the Shetland Islands into the battering North Sea. It’s like an early version of The Deadliest Catch.

As for the music, it’s all a fascinating collision of instrumentals that blend jazz and rock and offkilter beats. At times the tracks feel atmospheric and detatched. Other times the music is bombastic and chaotic, pushing toward this idea of cacaphony but holding onto some kind of structure.

The trouble is that I have no clue how the music syncs with Grierson’s film, and I struggle to picture herring fishermen sailing off into hostile seas to some of these songs. At times I feel distracted trying to imagine how this record and the 1929 film work together.

Still, the brothers Brewis have a keen musicality and sense of craft that makes each of the 20 tracks of the record both substantively part of the whole and in certain ways unique. It’s difficult to pick the highlights, but some of the better music comes from the cooler titles: “Destroyers of the Deep,” “The Storm Gathers,” “The Ships Ride Through” and the closer, “Ends of the Earth.”

Wilco, Star Wars Grade: BI have a hypothesis that Wilco and Radiohead have experienced the same creative arc.

Both bands released promising debut records.

Both bands improved on the debut with their sophomore effort, Being There for Wilco and The Bends for Radiohead. Later, the bands took their creativity to Icarus-like heights with backto-back masterpieces. Radiohead did it with OK Computer and the more experimental Kid A. Wilco astounded with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and the more experimental A Ghost Is Born.

Then, each of them came back to earth with the next record, as seen on Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky and that other band’s Amesiac. The rest of the

efforts from each band has been steady but not near to the standard of the Two Big Albums. In that time, Radiohead did a pay-what-you-want gift to the fans with In Rainbows. And now Wilco has done something similiar with the free album download Star Wars.

The albums are in certain ways comparable.

In Rainbows is Radiohead feeling as if it was settling into a we-just-do-what-we-feel groove. With Star Wars, Wilco does not appear to be doing what it did before—that is craft and hone the songs toward some sharp or diffused perfection.

Instead, it’s like the bandmates messed around in the studio and half-baked the batch.

For the album (almost review-proof when it’s free), this is both good and bad. In some ways, it’s refreshing to hear Wilco having a good time. They don’t appear to be subjecting themselves to great pain to make their art, as they did on, say, Foxtrot.

The result is a still mixed bag. I don’t hear that classic Wilco track, like “The Late Greats,” “A Shot in the Arm” or “War on War” surfacing. If there are standouts, it’s likely “Random Name Generator,” “The Joke Explained,” (both with some nice cheekiness in the title—going with the cover art of a white Persian cat that blinks on the website) and “King of You.” Each channels fuzzy guitar and stompy styles of ’70s alt-rock.

The humor and slack is refreshing, though.

Sometimes when Wilco cracks a joke or slips in satire, it is kind of like when that serious uncle made the deadpan joke and you did not know whether to laugh. Here, Wilco seems to be giving us a pat on the back and telling us to loosen up.

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Portrait of author and environmentalist Edward Abbey, whose The Monkey Wrench Gang turns 40 this year. The Orpheum Theater will host a screening of ML Lincoln’s 2014 film Wrenched on Thursday night, a fundraiser for the upcoming Northern Arizona Book Festival in September. Courtesy photo

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By Douglas McDaniel

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he first time I met Ed Abbey, he monkeywrenched a perfectly good draft beer, a Heineken, by taking the light and dark versions and pouring the two bottles into one glass. In my view, one of the more unnecessary acts of eccentricity I’d ever seen him perform … and it’s a long list. I had met him in Tucson for an interview for the University of Arizona campus newspaper, The Arizona Daily Wildcat, where I was a reporter who preferred to ditch a class than miss a story. Abbey’s included. We met at the Big A, an offcampus burger joint that he always used for interviews. A strange fact by itself, in many ways, since it was a sports bar and he thought football was a pox on the earth (but then, what wasn’t a pox on the earth, as far as Abbey was concerned?). Yes, he’d done many, many interviews at the Big A, and I can’t tell you how many times I cringed whenever the next reporter described Abbey’s iconoclastic persona with the following observation: mixing light and dark drafts of Heinekens.

I had just discovered Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, the fictional story is about a group of misfit saboteurs operating in

the Four Corners region, while working the previous summer at the El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon Village. I read many chapters with my feet hanging over the edge of a cliff while I drank boda bags of wine. I had already read Desert Solitaire and made a habit of bringing a notebook with me on hiking trips.

The second time I saw Abbey was on the first night of class at the U of A in 1982. The creative writing department had snagged the writer to teach his wannabe writer fans how to write non-fiction. A few years after I graduated, I asked Abbey about his teaching methods, and he was pretty self-deprecating about the whole topic.

“It’s gotten worse,” he said. “I still feel I’m a lousy teacher, but I make the students work hard, so I don’t know if they have time to realize how bad I am. I’m a little dubious about this whole creative writing business as something to be taught in college. I’m not sure whether it does more harm than good.”

On that first night in Abbey’s non-fiction writing class in the Language Arts Building, he taught me one of the only things I can remember about so many of such classes. Well, actually, three.

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1. Write right; 2. Write wrong; 3. Write on.

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— Edward Abbey

They are, as he wrote on the chalk board that first night after being about 10 minutes late: “1. Write right; 2. Write wrong; 3. Write on.”

Short and sweet, it was, and the same could be said for that first night à la Abbey. A few minutes later the grizzled, jeans-clad author was distracted, as we all were, by something going on at the plaza. He rushed over to the second floor window of the classroom, and after seeing a bunch of anti-nuke protesters go by with candles, exclaimed, “Hey, I gotta go see that!” And with that, he rushed out the door and did not return. We wannabe monkeywrenching writers sat there at our desks for just a short, stunned moment. We were all probably wondering if perhaps a lesson on how to write about cactus and coyotes might be included on the syllabus. But he was in the classroom only a moment, and then was gone.

We caught up with him at the candlelight vigil in front of the old ROTC building at the center of the university. He was singing with the anti-nuke protesters. That was Abbey, the spontaneous one, holding a candle, and I can still see the light flickering on his beard and in his eyes. He was performing, for us, for his students, for those who had not known he was the latest campus celebrity. Certainly, no foe to publicity of any kind, Abbey well understood the necessity of being an outlandish personality. His greeting card was his frequent call at public gatherings to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam. But that was just part of the performance.

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I believe he took an interest in me.

Once we were given an assignment to write something on the “wild side.”

Everybody else assumed that meant practice writing about cactus and coyotes and the call of the lone wolf student writer. Always one to color outside the lines, I decided to write about downtown Phoenix as viewed from a general walk around the Greyhound Bus station. In the course of my study of the terrain, I went by the Phoenix Convention Center and discovered a couple who had slipped off into some bushes to have sex. This, of course, was too good to be true, considering my idea for the assignment, and I turned it in as a metaphor about Eden and life in the city.

Nobody in the class believed it happened, though. My classmates, during another one of those awful group critiques (always to be taken with a grain of salt), told me it was non-fiction we were supposed to be writing, not fiction. But Abbey believed me. He even came to my defense, saying, “This is all just an exercise. All of this is.”

There was, in fact, one item distributed at his second class in mimeographed form that proved to be a great boon. The Edward Abbey reading list: Barry Lopez, John McPhee, Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson. Two natureloving Luddites, a city slicker, and the patron saint of the New Journalism. But there was one other name that took me years to appreciate:

16th century author Michel de Montaigne.

The French writer was one of the first to try to express himself, via highly literary means, by writing about himself, and it was he who popularized the term essayer, as in essay. It means “to try.”

In hindsight, remembering those classes with clarity, still, after 30 years, I’d have to say Abbey was a better teacher than he knew. The benefit of being his student wasn’t just getting a chance to rub elbows with a literary legend at regular intervals. He was a true authentic. And it was more than the after-class get-togethers at the local pubs, or the parties at his home.

He was, in fact, a rigorous critic when it came

to grading the essays written for the class.

In that regard, he was as tough of a teacher as they come. I can remember one particular essay I’d written as a kind of imitation of Abbey, about a hike down Hermit Trail, in which the teacher had eviscerated my copy with red ink.

Indeed, he wanted students to write like themselves, not their hero. He frequently made all kinds of interesting comments on assignments that were turned in. Once, I wrote an essay about how the right wing and the left wing could come together on the political spectrum, and he had penciled in, “Hey, I believe that, too!” But another essay on the anniversary of the death of John Lennon was

ripped apart for its sentimentality. His classes were a mix of vindication and shame. He wanted people to be real, just like he was. His favorite student, I recall, was a man who lived part-time in a cave who wrote with a rugged honesty.

The last time I saw Abbey was in Prescott, where I was a reporter for The Prescott Daily Courier. The novelist had been invited to read from his upcoming novel, which would eventually be published as The Fool’s Progress. Reading from his opening chapter, Abbey set the packed house at the Hassayampa Inn into roaring laughter with his incredibly honest tale about breaking up with a girl and, in anger, shooting his refrigerator with a shotgun. Afterward, someone called the reading “portrait of an artist as a dirty old man.”

Just a few years before his death in 1989, Abbey was still game for making outrageous statements. Among American authors he, like Norman Mailer, knew the importance of being a notorious character in real life, keeping his name out there. By then, perhaps, he had mellowed. For example, during that trip to Prescott, I saw him tell a little old lady that he was sorry about his legendary threat to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam because people might get hurt by the act.

Then, he said, “All environmentalism is a defensive action.”

And one might wonder how he might fit in with today’s political divisions. Perhaps his beliefs these days would be called libertarian. To call him a bleeding-heart liberal would be a mistake.

At our last meeting, he said, “On many issues I’m on the same side as [Arizona Governor] Evan Mecham and Sam Steiger [a conservative Arizona congressman], I suppose.

That puts me in some pretty unpleasant company. But I never felt I joined any particular group or faction. If they [the right wingers] started welcoming me with open arms or inviting me to conventions, I might get a little worried. I might think, God, maybe I have gone too far the wrong way.”

In the time since his death Abbey’s legend has only grown and the appreciation of his writing has blossomed. In the time since his death, I can’t count the number of times I’ve met people in the Southwest who had met him and remember him well. By my own evidence collected as a student, I would have to say he wasn’t all that comfortable in the university laboratory of civilization.

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book,” he once said. But I’d also say the best thing about having a class with Abbey was the profound memories that linger. Many times over the years, especially in terms of where and how I have decided to work and live, I have asked myself, “What would Edward Abbey do?”

There are teachers and then there are those who teach. Abbey was the latter. Who knows how many people have dangled their legs off a cliff with a notebook in hand because of him. Considering this has led me to realize how so many of us are walking on Abbey’s road.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen, is hosting a film screening of ML Lincoln’s Wrenched (2014), which captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation in the 21st century. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the film starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $9 and can be purchased at the Orpheum’s website (below) or at the box office the night of the show. Proceeds benefit the upcoming Northern Arizona Book Festival on Sept. 7–13. For more info, call 556-1580 or visit www.orpheumflagstaff.com.

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MUSIC

BY MYKEL VERNON-SEMBACH

In orbit Helioscope’s westward expansion through Flagstaff native Katie King

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mid skyscrapers in an endlessly growing city, Bushwick, Brooklyn’s industrialized landscape still echoes sunset deserts and cactus skeletons. Erratic traffic noise at 4 a.m. collides with harmonized doves eight city blocks apart; somehow they are eerily representative of the youthful experimental folk of Helioscope, a three-piece band rooting from the immense experiences of lyricist and vocalist Katie King. King’s Flagstaff origins have been influential in the manifest destiny of New York’s predetermined surfaces, allowing oneself to exist among a seemingly endless darkness, blindly trusting hope to emerge with time. ‌At 27 years old, King has an earned wisdom as lengthy as the lifetime of the sun; her early 20s were tumultuous. King struggled with a strenuous divorce, the death of her brother in a vicious police brutality incident, the ever-constant movement from apartment to apartment—King moved 10 times within the span of her two years in Brooklyn—and was finally graced with her son, Ivan. While she has had her struggles, King explains that Helioscope’s debut album, There Is a Way. I Cannot Yet See It., (2014), is an acknowledgment that hope may not always be present, but knowing it exists somewhere beyond the emotional mind’s horizon.

“I think [this album] is mostly an encouragement. I took a flight once. One of those last-minute trips you didn’t think you’d ever be taking, but take to save your life kind of thing,” King says. “I left a sad situation without notice, packing only one suitcase and a guitar, to arrive to an entirely different life 16 hours later. All I had was the back of an envelope and I remember writing the phrase ‘There is a way. I cannot yet see it.’ When I got to Brooklyn, I remember having that envelope and putting it on my wall.

It was this that got me through.”

Much like King’s flight, most of HelioFrom left: Helioscope’s Katie King, Yuko Pepe and Lydia Velichkovski. Photo by Lindsay Frey scope’s existence follows a pattern of being in “the right place at the right time”. While it had been King’s dream to move to New York, struggled to create a presence for herself as an people, two dogs, two cats and a dove. That it did not begin with the intention of creating actress, it seemed that the musical world was was my first experience living in Brooklyn.”

Helioscope. much more relaxed. But without the help of She explained that while music had “I always wanted to move to New York to Lydia Velichkovski and Yuko Pepe, these lyrics always come easily to her, she did not think it pursue theatre and Bushwick was the cheapwould still sit quietly beneath pages and pages was a direction she wanted to go. But as she est place. So I moved into a basement with 12

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of King’s notebooks. Helioscope’s creation— much like most of their music—was quite happenstance: Velichkovski was King’s Brooklyn neighbor of three months and Pepe appeared as an opening act to a stand-up comedian King frequented.

“I was hitting my head against the wall for years not having anyone to make music with,” King says. And without her bandmates, these tracks would only be “half-songs.” To King, Velichkovski is “the great friend and the best editor. And Yuko simply, makes us.”

This languid, conversational interaction is heard all throughout There Is a Way. I Cannot Yet See It. While King’s vocals provide rooted experience in her lyrics, Velichkovski’s Casio accompaniments and harmonies echo in a sense of reminiscence, empathetic to a sudden blindness to one’s future. Pepe’s percussion emulates soft city sighs that don’t always fall in time, but are always just right, lulling the audience into the asymmetrical. This is truly how Helioscope is defined as a band. Pepe’s percussion is the Trans-Continental telephone wire between Velichkovski and King; organically off-beat to an entirely different dimension, yet oddly reflective to Helioscope’s reality.

“The whole process [of making music] has been really honest and straight-forward from the get-go,” King says. “We rehearsed in homes where my dogs slept on our laps and Ivan would nurse while we played. There was no impetus to make it something other than what it was.”

And yet there is still none as Helioscope quickly begins to coat itself thin across the country. From their birthplace in Brooklyn, both King and Pepe have moved west, now living in Flagstaff and Portland, Ore., respectively. Velichkovski is still in Brooklyn, but it certainly hasn’t put any obstruction on the constant communication between her and King’s creative spurts. King states that this hasn’t been the first time the band has had to operate on different time zones and, in fact, has been beneficial to the band. The time between performing the same songs with one another has created time for analysis and a long-lasting novelty for their works, a good habit for creating a long-lasting musical project.

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Helioscope performing at The Listening at the Gowanus Loft in Brooklyn. Photo by Athena Azevedo

Much like romance, Helioscope withhold themselves to preserve rather than combusting and promptly extinguishing.

There Is a Way. I Cannot Yet See It. is a deeply personal album, but holds a common theme of what King calls, “weird love” and its duality within herself and, ultimately, humanity. Its minimalist style allows a breath of empathy for those in the audience whose experiences opposite that of King’s. Since the album’s release, King has experienced much artistic growth.

“I found some comfort in taking life seriously while writing many of my first 30 songs before understanding that taking it seriously doesn’t make it any more meaningful than not.

Time passes, pain occurs and joy is found when it happens. Not because you felt particularly strong about it.”

Helioscope is defined as an instrument for observing the sun and sunspots. In affiliation with their debut album, There Is a Way. I Cannot Yet See It., Helioscope follows the glimmers of hope among seemingly destitute situations— both for its audience and band members.

Despite the album’s greyish tones, Helioscope narrows in on the few rays of sun that may not have crawled about the other side of the world to shine a brightness on suffering.

There Is A Way. I Cannot Yet See It. is humbling, it does not seek divinity nor worship, simply an appreciation as a collection of songs that they hoped to make into music someday. Like a full appreciation of the sun as it reflects brilliantly across the sea of panoramic windows, the moment is brief and quickly allowed to pass, not yet forgetting the warm feeling of beauty as it settles in one’s chest.

Helioscope will be touring Arizona in August with free performances in Flagstaff at Whyld Ass, 101 S. San Francisco, at 6 p.m. on Sun., Aug. 2; Headspace Salon, 217 S. San Francisco, at 8 p.m. on Mon., Aug. 3; and Firecreek Coffee Co., 22 E. Rte. 66, on Thu, Aug. 6. (As of press time, a show time for Firecreek had not been confirmed).). For more info about the band and to listen to There Is a Way. I Cannot Yet See It., visit their Bandcamp profile at www. helioscope.bandcamp.com.

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Willie’s reserve Picking out the seeds and stems first

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ith marijuana prohibition finally ending in states and cities across the land—including full legalization and/ or commercialization in Alaska, Colorado, Washington State, Oregon and Washington, DC—who better than our friend Willie Nelson to lead the way for weed quality and social responsibility?

The iconic musician and intrepid fighter for justice has announced that he will market his own marijuana brand, “Willie’s Reserve,” and open a group of stores selling top-quality pot and paraphernalia. “I feel like I was buying so much of it, it’s time to start selling it back!” Nelson said of his new weed venture. “I am looking forward to working with the best growers in Colorado and Washington to make sure our product is the best on the market.” A tireless champion of small farmers, civil liberties, the environment, common sense, and the common good, he plans to start rolling out his stores and products (including hemp goods) this year, and he’ll expand further as state laws allow. In the typical Willie way, the stores will be “the anti-Walmart model,” with a core purpose of helping expand the market for small, energy-efficient, environmentally sound growers.

By Jim Hightower

Over the years I have cited Willie’s work in calling for legalization and restoration of hemp farming in America.

I’ve also called repeatedly for an end to the Orwellian, Kafkaesque drug war that has criminalized the cannabis equivalent of cocktail hour—750,000 people are arrested each year for marijuanarelated offenses.

And now, I salute the innumerable grassroots activists who’ve steadily pushed America from the darkness of marijuana madness to being able to light up a Willie without getting busted! Find out more at Marijuana Policy Project (www.mpp.org), and also at NORML (www. norml.org).

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.

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The Write Now Musings from under a cypress tree

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t the beginning of the month we launched the 17th call for entries for our monthly Flag Live writing contest, The Write Now, and the river of good words floweth on. ‌The contest was once again blindjudged by Flagstaff author Mary Sojourner, who also gave us this prompt for writers to follow: “S/he/I poked through a dish of refrigerator magnets on the second-hand store counter. One of them read: “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” — Hafiz”

This month our winning submission comes in from Bob Malone, a The Write Now regular and multi-time winner. Of the winning entry Sojourner writes: “#2 is terrific.

The writing is clean and elegant; the form picked me up and carried me with the writer.

That’s when you know the writer is magic.”

For newcomers to The Write Now, we’ll have our next prompt next week (the first issue of every month). Submissions should be received no later than 5 p.m. the following Friday (Aug. 14 for our next round). Keep the good words coming. And good luck!

She pokes through a dish of refrigerator magnets on the secondhand store counter. A brightly colored one catches her eye. She picks it up …

(At the end of a long day at the bakery, he walks on the dusty road toward home, enjoying the light fading into evening. He shares the road with others—merchants mostly—also returning home, some pulling carts, the more prosperous leading oxen drawn wagons. This is the time of day for which he eagerly awaits; when his work is done, and he is not yet home and occupied with his mother and house duties. Now he has a few solitary moments to reflect, and to write.

He stops at a familiar cypress tree. Sitting beneath it, he removes from his goatskin bag a jar of ink, paper and reed. He gazes at the nearby mountains above which the sky is beginning to take on color, and delights in the balmy breeze gently moving the leaves of his tree. He balances the reed on his tongue in contemplation. Walking along he was musing on his love. He has seen her but a few times while bringing bread to her wealthy family, and on those occasions she barely acknowledged him. Yet, she has been the inspiration for many of his poems. At this moment he can think of nothing new to say of her. He is instead moved to reflect on what the absorption and gift of love does to oneself. He pulls the stopper from the ink bottle, dips the reed, and in his careful script writes …) … and holding it close to see the small print, she reads: “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” — Hafiz – Submitted by Bob Malone Our Round 17 The Write Now Winner

Northern Arizona’s Daily Event Listings

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | THU 7.30

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 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. 774-7383 Freeman Huber Law Offcies: Nature Exposed Photography presents the finalists of this year’s Youth Lens: High School Photography Contest. Featuring 26 entries. Prize-winners will be announced during next month’s ArtWalk on Aug. 7.

Exhibition runs through Sept. 4. Free. 19 W. Birch.

(480) 398-3108 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 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Harry & Snowman. 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 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, noon5 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

July 30–AUG. 5, 2015 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, noon5 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 Orpheum Theater: Film screening: Wrenched (2014). A Benefit for the Northern Arizona Book Festival. Doors open at 7 p.m., film starts at 8 p.m. $9. All ages. 15 W. Aspen.

556-1580 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. 864-7072 Simply Spiritual Healing: Thursday night meditation. Every Thursday. 6-7 p.m. $20. All are invited. 105 E. Birch. 779-6322

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Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m. Every Thursday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 The Green Room: The “Southwest” Run. Featuring Wake Self, Raashan Ahmad, Def-i and DJ Young Native. Hip-hop. 9 p.m.

Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Heritage Square: 2015 Summer Concert Series. Featuring Soul Country. Desert rock from Flag. 5-7 p.m. Free.

Downtown Flagstaff on Aspen between Leroux and San Francisco.

Hops on Birch: Jeff Nickell. Americana and folk from Flag. 9 p.m.

Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 Main Stage Theater: Acoustic Happy Hour with Kenny James. 4-7 p.m.

Last Thursdays with Desert Hot Tub Club. 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 The Museum Club: Stateline. 8 p.m. $5. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Blue Moon Party. 8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Drive.

Sedona. (928) 204-1300 The Spirit Room: Jeremiah Sammartano. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 Wanderlust Brewing Co.: Jeremiah and the Red Eyes. Americana and blues from L.A. 3’s in the Trees food truck outside.

Taproom open from 4-9 p.m. Music starts at 6 p.m.

1519 N. Main Street, Ste #102. 351-7952

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Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Theatrikos Theatre Co. Presents: The Full Monty.

Directed by Jan Rominger. Performances 7:30 p.m.

Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $25. Runs through Aug. 9. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.com. 774-1662

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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: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.

(4 p.m. Fri, Sat and Mon; 7 p.m. Sun, Tue and Wed.) Paulo Coelho’s Best Story. (7 p.m. Fri and Mon; 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: Jimmy Deblois. 5-8 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver. 214-8218 Arboretum at Flagstaff: 2015 Summer Concert Series. Featuring Julia Chacon Inspiración Flamenca. Featuring beautiful costumes and internationally-trained, professional flamenco dancers and musicians. Doors open at 4:45 p.m. and show starts 5:30 p.m. $14 for Arb and Flagstaff Arts Council members, $18 for nonmembers, $9 for kids ages 6-16, children under 6 are free. www.thearb.org. 4001 S. Woody Mountain Road. 774-1442 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Pork Torta and the Shindaggers. 10 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442 The Gopher Hole: Dark Skies. Featuring DJs Marty and Reymont with special guest DJ Kitty Sparkles. Spinning new wave, post punk, dark disco and goth groove. 9:30 p.m.

Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731 The Green Room: Culture Shock Presents: Zebbler Encanti Experience.

EDM. Openers: Roanz and Just Joe. 8 p.m. $5 in advance, $10 the day of the show. 15 N. Agassiz.

226-8669 Hops on Birch: Charles Ellsworth. Americana and folk from White Mountains. 9 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 Main Stage Theater: Acoustic Happy Hour with Mike Morris. 4-7 p.m. DJ Cleankut. 9 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood.

(928) 202-3460 Monte Vista Lounge: Three Bad Jacks. Rock ‘n’ Roll from Woodland Hills, Calif. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 The Museum Club: Three Chord Justice. 9 p.m. $5. 3404 E. Rte. 66.

526-9434 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Skoolboy. Laid back house music all night long. 7 p.m.

Free. Every Friday. 101 S. San Francisco. 864-7072 The Spirit Room: Al Foul. Rockabilly from Arizona. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 State Bar: R3 Blues. Featuring Rich Bowen, Ron James and Roger Smith. Blues combo from Flag. 7 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282

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Circus Arts Studio: Flagstaff Foundry. Monthly community comedy show presented by the Bacchus Arts Collective.

Featuring live music, aerial dance, stand-up comedy and more. 8 p.m. $5. Every last Saturday of the month. Submit your act at tinyurl.com/flagstafffoundry. 1311 E. Butler. 306-3200 Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Theatrikos Theatre Co. Presents: The Full Monty.

Directed by Jan Rominger. Performances 7:30 p.m.

Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $25. Runs through Aug. 9. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.com. 774-1662

July 30–AUG. 5, 2015 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: Back to the Future (1985) and Back to the Future II (1989). Preshow entertainment at 5 p.m. by Lucky Lenny. 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 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.

4 p.m. Sat and Mon; 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: Guitar wizard Anthony Mazzella live in concert.

7 p.m. $15. 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 Museum of Northern Arizona: 66th annual Navajo Festival of Arts and Culture.

Featuring the Hubbell Rug, the world’s largest single-loom, single-heddle Navajo rug ever woven, as well as more than 100 Navajo artists, musicians, dancers and cultural experts travel to the museum from all corners of the Navajo Nation to share their traditions through artistic expression. Aug. 1 and 2.

9 a.m.-5 pm. The rug will be on display at the Easton Collections Center across the street from 1-3 p.m. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 and under free.

3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 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 8.1

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.: Synergy Patio Party. Soul, roots and reggae from the West Coast. 10 p.m. $5 cover at the door. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442 The Green Room: Miss Lonely Hearts. Country and honky tonk from Santa Cruz, Calif. Special guest Tommy Ash. 9 p.m.

Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Monte Vista Lounge: Al Foul and the Shakes. Rockabilly from Arizona.

9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Mountainaire Tavern: Steve Estes. 3 p.m. Free. 110 Mountainaire Road.

525-1137 The Museum Club: Doug Stone. Country music from Nashville, Tenn.

Opener: Three Chord Justice. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. $25. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Orpheum Theater: Eighth annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash. Featuring Flagship of Fools, Deadwood, Keystone and Craig Yarbrough and Friends, as well as a fundraising auction. 7 p.m. Free. VIP experience show at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.). VIP tickets available Habitat ReStore and Rainbow’s End. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580

July 30–AUG. 5, 2015 Pepsi Amphitheater: For King and Country. International pop rock from Australia via Nashville, Tenn. Gates open at 4:30 p.m., show starts at 6 p.m. $34-$50. Exit 337 off I-17 south of Flagstaff at Ft. Tuthill County Fairgrounds. (866) 977-6849 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Live @ 5. Featuring Resident Artists, Twice In a Blue Moon and Jane Brooks with weekly special guests.

5 p.m. Free. Every Saturday. 101 S. San Francisco.

864-7072 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Big Gay Grand Opening. The ultimate coming-out party hosted by Queen Afeelya Bunz and friends.

Featuring music by DJs Soulece and Cool Handz Luke. 7 p.m. Free. 101 S. San Francisco. 864-7072 The Spirit Room: Los Guys. 2 p.m. Free. Johnny Lingo Trio on ArtWalk Saturdays. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 State Bar: Blues 66. Flagstaff’s newest blues band with saxophone and female vocalist Tracy Christ. 8 p.m. Free.

10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | SUN 8.2

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 Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Theatrikos Theatre Co. Presents: The Full Monty.

Directed by Jan Rominger. Performances 7:30 p.m.

Fri and Sat; 2 p.m. Sun. $25. Runs through Aug. 9. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.com. 774-1662 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: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.

(7 p.m. Sun, Tue and Wed; 4 p.m. Mon.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: National Theatre of London: Everyman. 4 p.m. $15, $12.50 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Monte Vista Lounge: Sunday Night Trivia with Lindsay and Savanna. Every Sunday. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Museum of Northern Arizona: 66th annual Navajo Festival of Arts and Culture.

Featuring the Hubbell Rug, the world’s largest single-loom, single-heddle Navajo rug ever woven, as well as more than 100 Navajo artists, musicians, dancers and cultural experts travel to the museum from all corners of the Navajo Nation to share their traditions through artistic expression. Aug. 1 and 2.

9 a.m.-5 pm. The rug will be on display at the Easton Collections Center across the street from 1-3 p.m. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 and under free.

3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 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.

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

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | SUN 8.2

1899 Bar and Grill: Vincent Z. Acoustic world music. Every Sunday. 6:308:30 p.m. 307 W. Dupont. 523-1899 Altitudes Bar and Grill: Gina Machovina. 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.: Jeremiah and the Red Eyes. Americana and blues from L.A. 2-5 p.m. Free. Coral Remains; Lord Nectar, But Time Flesh; Shmoaf; Fork Burn and Obsidian.

10 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 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Helioscope. Experimental folk from Flag and Brooklyn. 6 p.m. Free. 101 S. San Francisco.

864-7072 The Spirit Room: Los Guys. 2 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | MON 8.3

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. Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.

(4 p.m. Mon; 7 p.m. Tue and Wed.) Paulo Coelho’s Best Story. (7 p.m. Mon; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 for Sedona Film Fest members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | MON 8.3

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.

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MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | MON 8.3

Headspace Salon: Helioscope. Experimental folk from Flag and Brooklyn. 8 p.m. Free. 217 S. San Francisco.

440-5004 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: Jo Dee Messina. Country music from Nashville, Ten. 8 p.m. $40–$60. 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 8.4

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. 774-4011 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Paulo Coelho’s Best Story. (4 p.m.

Tue and Wed.) The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.

(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. 864-7072 Taala Hooghan Infoshop: Dharma Punx meditation group every Tuesday.

8:15 p.m. 1700 N. 2nd St. www.taalahooghan.org 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.

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | TUE 8.4

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

July 30–AUG. 5, 2015

VARIOUS ‌ EVENTS | WED 8.5

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 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: Paulo Coelho’s Best Story. 4 p.m.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet. 7 p.m. $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: The Satanic Rights of Dracula (1974). 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

MUSIC ‌ EVENTS | WED 8.5

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 Rainbow Rooftop Lounge: Encore Karaoke. 7 p.m. Free. Every Wednesday. 101 S. San Francisco. 864-7072 The Spirit Room: Don Cheek 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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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

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

FIREWOOD

Aspen & Juniper Firewood For Sale. Ready to burn. Call for info: 779-0581 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

HANDY PERSON

Father & Son Handyman Window Cleaning, Paint, Plumbing, Floors, Shingles & Yard Cleaning. Whatever You Want! 928-3807021 Not a Licensed Contractor All Home Repair & Remodeling. (928)-3109800. Carpentry, decks, drywall, stone & tilework, painting, roofing, flooring, landscaping & maintenance. Not a licensed contractor 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 Licensed Contractor/Craftsman Can tend to all your Home Remodel or Repair needs. No job too small. ROC# 265086. (928)-525-4072 AZ NATIVE HANDYMAN Major/Minor home repairs, decks, roofing, drywall, fencing, welding, storage sheds & auto repairs. Quality Assured. Free local estimates. 928-8140497 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

LANDSCAPING

Kikos Landscaping Pine Needles, Yard Cleanup Francisco Valdez 928-221-9877 or 8144787 message Not a licensed contractor 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.

MASSAGE

Receive a Massage or Reflexology session in the comfort of your home. Call Gudi Cheff at 221-7474.

Natural Touch Massage: LCMT Sports, Swedish, Relaxation, Deep Tissue. Call Sue 928-606-5374

MOVING

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

928-779-1774

PAINTING

“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

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

PET SITTING

I OFFER HOUSE & PET SITTING Dogs, cats, birds etc. Ref. available. Michael. 928-6999321. Thank you!

PLUMBING

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

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 Motorized Jazzy Power Chair Model 1100, $425. Call (928) 600-2616.

APPLIANCES

Maytag Stackable Washer/Dryer. White Color.

Excellent Condition. $875. 928-380-7661

AUCTIONS

Coconino Mini Storage Auction, Sat. 8/1. No prev. starts at 9 am. Various misc. items. 1450 Kaibab Ln. Info: (928) 863-0003 www. stuberauction.com

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

PETS

Queensland Heeler Puppies Males & Females, Tails are docked! $250 each. Call 928-713-9869

SMALL MACHINERY

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

HOMES FOR SALE

Best of Flagstaff 4 bdrm/3.5 ba, 3860 sq.ft., 1.5 acre lot, (largest in Amberwood); Front = mtns/Back = forest Heated driveway! 2nd home, barely lived in. 602-620-6969 FSBO-3Bdrm House on 1 acre bordering National Forest. Adjacent lot also available.

(928) 853-3692 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

CONDOS FOR SALE

1bd/1ba Arbors Condo. Fully upgraded, granite countertops, in-unit w/d. 1st floor unit w/enclosed porch. 1 mi from NAU and downtown.

Call/ text 623-221-4103 for showing. $139,999

MFG HOMES SALES Parks Area 3+2 mfg. home on almost half acre, fenced, Next to RR crossing, Income producing water well, Owner will carry OAC MLS#162865 Mark O/A 928-856-1144 markjcooper1@gmail.com $169,900 Started Remodeling...can sell “as is” now or later at a different price. 3 bd 2 ba on 2 lots, close to Oak Creek River. Call for “as is” price.

Call 928-853-5199.

1998 Cavco-Corner lot, fully furnished, additional room, large deck, AC/heat pump, Munds Park RV Resort #181. $51,900 602-684-9726 or 602-738-6093

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 3000 sq ft, 4 br 2.5 ba. 1/3 acre backing National Forest. 2-car garage. Clean, quiet neighborhood. Move-in date negotiable. Fully furnished. No smoking. No pets. Deposit required. $2600/mo. Contact Blaze Austin 256-283-3179

DOMESTIC AUTOS

5TH WHEELS

1983 Lincoln Town Car-Very Good Condition Inside and Out, Low Miles, (102K), New Fuel Injectors, Fuel Pump, Fan Clutch, Cold A/C, Well Kept, $2000 Firm. In Page, AZ (928) 640-3826

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.

TRUCKS

1940’s Nice red mahogany credenza/buffet, serpentine front, 58” long x 35” tall x 19” deep: $225 Call (928) 525-1814 Mitsubishi 55” Projection TV. HDTV, loaded with features. Excellent Condition. Only $99.

928-637-8849 Have several silver dollars, 2 Morgans, 3 American Eagles, & 1 Peace dollar. $40-$50 each or all for $240. 2 Eisenhowers for $60 (not silver) (928) 527-0113 BIKE STUFF! Ortlieb Panniers, Like New $80.

Kangaroo Baggs Panniers, Good Condition $40. Women’s size 38 Pearl Izumi Mtn Bike shoes, Worn Once $40. 928-774-0479 JACUZZI HOT TUB. FREE TO GOOD HOME! 928-526-5149 “ATTENTION FISHERMEN” Elect. downrigger.

Includes weight, release tab. Ready to fish. $75.00. 928-607-1701 Hunters, Fishermen, Gardeners- Do you need a place to store your food? For Sale: upright freezer (orig. $600) now only $150. Call (928) 607-0432

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

Steve 928-525-4183 or Dorothy 928-526-0300 Cell 928-266-2884

4 WHEEL DRIVE

1986 Jeep Wrangler Soft Top High performance transmission 350 Big Block Engine, $6800 Steve 928-525-4183 or Dorothy 928526-0300 or cell 928-266-2884

COLLECTOR & ANTIQUE AUTOS

1959 Morris Minor, white “project” car. Runs but needs TLC. Call Tim at (928) 853-2295.

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

BARGAIN CORNER

1986-S Statue of Liberty Proof Centennial dollar coin w/mint box: $25. Call (928) 266-0871.

Girls Bike, 22 inch, Blue, Good Condition $20 or best offer. Also, Pioneer House Swivel Chair, Oak, $10. (480) 440-9742 Qty 3 - 55 Gallon Rain Barrels. $25 each.

(928) 779-4222 2 Antique Toilets, $25 each OBO. Nearly New Snow Blower, needs transmission. $250.

Call (928) 774-6852.

(4) 37”x12.5”x17” Pro-Comp mounted tires on D/Cepeck classic lock, 6 lug wheels, 40% tread, $225. OBO. 928-600-4520 New Craftsman Drill Press, 12” 2/3hp, $150; New Craftsman Bench Grinder, 6” w/ leg set, $75; New Craftsman Bandsaw 11” 1/3hp,$75.

Call 928-310-3190 25 cu ft Almond Amana Refrigerator w/ ice maker $175. 25 cu ft White Whirlpool Refrigerator W/ ice makers$125. 928-606-6504 or 928-606-7500 Cordless Craftsman Drill w/charger. Battery not included. Only $7. Call (205) 530-0502.

21” 179cc Snowthrower (orig. $500) selling for $150, barely used. Playstation 2 w/3 controlers, 2 memory sticks, 30 games for $50. Call (928) 774-9384

HOMES UNFURNISHED Beautiful Munds Park 4Br 4Ba 2500sqft 2.5 car garage on .5acre, washer / dryer. Large private deck vaulted ceilings gas fireplace, small pet considered. $1700 / month. Andy at (928)890-4350 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.

Rent to Own: 10 Acres in Parks, 2br/2ba in vintage bldgs, also w/ bunkhouse & storage bldg. VIEWS! $1250 + deposit (928) 635-2011

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED Nice East Side, 2bd/1.5ba, deck/patio, $730/ mo.+dep & lease. 928-699-4775 2bdrm, all appliances, well insulated with dual windows and yard. Across from Killips School and near bus stop. $915/mo. 1yr lease. $1000 deposit. 928-853-7453 1 & 2 bdrm apt-house in Sunnyside $700$999/mo. Call Mary @ 928-526-7909.

2012 N. 2nd Street, Apt D 2 bdrm in a 4-plex, 2 resvd prkng sp W/D hookups, NP, NS, Rent $775, Dep $775. Call (928) 853-7573

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

FOR LEASE 5 Acres for Lease (or portion) HEAVY INDUSTRIAL. 3 miles from Winona Exit/off Hwy 40.

Contact 928-380-5000

ROOM FOR RENT 1 Rm Avail Now, $525mo Incl util, in 3bd/1ba furn house. W/D, CATV-Internet, N/P, N/S. 1 Mile FMC, 2 mi NAU, 9 mo lease. Call for appointments, Showing July 7th & 8th.

(520) 247-4961

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

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