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LETTER FROM HOME

Farm food 911

Cook as if somebody’s life depended on it

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wo weeks ago when I visited my friend Tony Norris in the intensive care unit at Flagstaff Medical Center he was on life support. His large and loving family gathered around him shell-shocked while machines kept him alive, and I tried to imagine how I could help. In the intensive care unit you can’t even bring fresh flowers. Besides trying to sing him back from beyond, the only kind of life support system I know how to activate is to cook a homemade meal. During moments when I feel most helpless, rolling up my sleeves to make something Kate always provides some kind Watters of Bycomfort. Kate Watters I went back to my house and grabbed the last Cinderella pumpkin from the summer’s harvest on the U.C. Santa Cruz Farm that had been decorating a shelf in my living room. Also called “Rouge vif d’Etampes,” after a little town in France, they are a unique heirloom variety, which was popular in French markets in the 1800s. There is something magical about them (besides the fact that the seeds are still in circulation), owing to the fact that they bear a strong resemblance to the one Cinderella’s fairy godmother transformed into a carriage to take her to the ball. This pumpkin was also supposedly cultivated by the Pilgrims and served at the second Thanksgiving dinner. I was hoarding this pumpkin because it held the essence of my farm experience. All the memories of joy and celebration around the food we grew, cooked and enjoyed together were locked up in the tasty, orange flesh. Winter squash is a hearty, meaty vegetable, packed with nutrients and calories. To me it was yet another wonder of farming—plant a plain, flat white seed into moist ground and soon sprawling vines with vivacious tendrils are creeping everywhere, giving life to giant globes that can then be stored indefinitely through the winter to provide nourishing meals. When I left the farm in mid-October my Subaru was jammed to the hilt with my belongings and the trappings of my summer: seeds, dried flowers, pillow cases and burlap bags filled with dried corn, herbs and beans, flower essences and herbal tinctures. Due to lack of space I could only fit a 35-pound 4 | flaglive.com | April 21-27, 2016

Cinderella pumpkin. Photo by the author

The author in the Farm Center kitchen with homeade cheese. Photo courtesy of Evan Domsic blue Hubbard squash, and had to leave behind samples of the other winter squash and pumpkins we grew. To my delight, when a fellow farm apprentice, Chelsea, stopped through for a visit on her way from California back to her homeland in Tennessee, she brought me a box of produce from the farm, and this exquisite pumpkin we grew. As I set to work breaking down Cinderella’s carriage so it would fit in my oven and become soup for the Norris clan, my mind drifted back to the Farm Center kitchen. Each month this summer we were required to team with another apprentice and prepare all three meals for our 50-member community improvised with the veggies that were in season, plucked fresh from the ground minutes before. Those were the most exhausting days of work on the farm. You were on your feet all day stirring enor-

mous pots of simmering stews, chopping mountains of kale, mandolin slicing cucumbers, and roasting enough chilies to feed hungry farmers without meat or cheese. But they were also some of the most intimate; as I began to realize that the kitchen is a place where you connect to the roots of your food traditions, whether they are associated with neuroses, joys or sorrows. In my family home cooking is equated with love. To this day, my mom cooks her special homecoming chicken-broccoli casserole when we return, a tradition that began when we left for college. Over the years, the meals I have cooked and shared with my sisters have been like therapy sessions. We wept tears of joy and sorrow into our piecrusts, applesauce and soups as a way to reconnect and heal each other after time apart.

I know that farm fresh food is a staple in the Norris Household. Sue’s Doney Park garden is a beautiful, productive oasis that feeds their family and the community. The day I delivered the pumpkin soup there was a palpable feeling of relief as Tony had regained consciousness. Each day he improves, and is now able to enjoy the food we make him. I know the love infused in it will heal him. The food we grew at the farm was some of the best I have ever tasted and I believe it came from being intimate with the effort and delight of taking a seed to its full potential and then transforming that energy into nourishment for a community of farmers who appreciated it wholeheartedly. In my experience, cooking with community and feeding the people we love is the medicine that we need the most. To get on board Tony’s meal train and help support he and his family during his recovery with home-cooked meals and live music, please visit www.mealtrain.com/ trains/39yly8. Kate Watters is a plant enthusiast, writer, artist and musician. She has been a resident of Flagstaff for almost 20 years, and recently took a hiatus to Santa Cruz, Calif., where she was farm apprentice at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. She is now armed with hand pruners and a harvest knife and intends to apply her newfound knowledge and passion to growing all kinds of plants in northern Arizona.


LETTERS TO DUCEY

On reconsideration

Sometimes you just have to listen first Dear Governor Ducey, We don’t have a microwave in our kitchen. It’s not because I believe microwaves irradiate our food with nuclear particles. I’m a slightly better scientist than that. But it does take up space on my counter and microwaves do encourage me to cook more processed foods like frozen burritos and Hungry Man Fried Chicken dinners. At least if I have to cook those things in the oven, I usually realize it takes just about as much time to make them Nicole from scratch. But it does Walker suck not to be able to defrost frozen foods. I’m OK at planning for dinner around noon the day of; not so much the day before. But recent research has shown that contrary to earlier guidelines that you should only thaw food in the refrigerator (which takes forever), or in a cold water bath (which isn’t much faster), that now you can defrost small cuts of meat in a warm 100-degree water bath, at least according to Harold McGee, a food scientist featured on ASplendidTable.org. I am currently defrosting a small steak for dinner. It took five minutes to defrost it most of the way. Once, I asked my students to write an essay about something they were sure was true but found, using Google, the facts to show the opposite. The best reconsideration? Eating your boogers is actually good

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for you. Scott Napper, a scientist at the University of Saskatchewan, found that introducing pathogens from your own mucus can help build your body’s natural defenses. I love the idea that with an open mind, we can ask questions that we wouldn’t have even thought to ask—that received knowledge was the only knowledge. This American Life broadcast a show about a research study that showed that a particular kind of political canvasser when going door-to-door, if they sat down with their door-opener, could get them to change their minds by telling their personal story. One woman changed her door-answerer’s mind about abortion by telling the woman about her own abortion and how hard it had been to tell her family about it but how it was right for her. The door-answerer went from 100 percent

against abortion to 100 percent for abortion in the span of an 18-minute conversation. Sadly, this study was summarily dismissed. The abortion story is on record but other evidence of these amazing canvassers couldn’t be verified. The researcher invented the data. But then, two new researchers tried to replicate the study and found that the actual findings from the first study had been accurate, at least in some cases. People’s minds could be changed, even permanently. Talking one on one to people in Florida about transgender issues about transgender rights changed their minds when researchers told them personal stories. I can only tell you my story, and maybe the story of my kids, my fellow teachers, my students, and hope that you will listen. I’m willing to listen to you. I would be willing to sit down and hear how you

I can only tell you my story, and maybe the story of my kids, my fellow teachers, my students, and hope that you will listen. I’m willing to listen to you.

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think public education isn’t necessary for Arizona. I would listen as carefully and open-mindedly as I could if you would do me the same favor. If I could tell you about the students who won’t be joining the MFA program this year because the cost of outof-state tuition is too high, or the students who won’t be able to join us because the number of teaching assistantships is so low, or the undergraduate who had to drop out because his parents couldn’t afford to send him anymore, or the student who can’t continue her studies because she has maxed out her student loans. My 6-year-old, Max, sits in front of me, reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. My 10-year-old daughter Zoe just finished a book report on slavery. These kids, not just mine, all these kids, should have access to small classrooms and well-supported teachers and the promise of a college education that won’t leave them with debt as big as a mortgage on a house. I will tell you. Person by person. Individually. If you would listen, maybe you would reconsider. Nicole Walker is an associate professor at Northern Arizona University, and is the author of Quench Your Thirst with Salt and a collection of poems, This Noisy Egg. She edited, with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction, and is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment from the Arts. The thoughts expressed here are hers alone and not necessarily those of her employer. This letter is from April 13, 2016.

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hen hip-hop rose up out of New York City block parties during the 1970s, it came from a cavalier place that spoke to, well … not much. More or less it was fun and focused on life’s up and downs, and relatively free of negativity or judgment. But then the ’80s happened, and artists started using the genre as a political platform. Among the heaviest hitters that changed the game was Public Enemy, who infused social activism with music and spoke to the frustrations of the African American community. And they didn’t just put it on vinyl for everyone to hear, they grabbed you by the collar and made you listen. Since those golden years, the message in the music has unquestionably changed, but many of those same struggles of inequality and the way the world sadly works still exist today, stir up conversation, and need to be addressed. And who better to grip tight and carry that torch than Chuck D? You heard correct, as part of NAU’s Third annual Hip-Hop Week, the “Hard Rhymer” himself will give a lecture titled “Rap, Race, Reality & Technology” and impart the conscious and corrective as only he can do. The two-hour event will take place at Prochnow Auditorium, 326 W. Dupont, on the NAU campus. Brooklyn-based black/trans/queer poet and founder of AwQward, J Mase III, will open the night up in style at 7 p.m. and the night will wrap up with a Q&A session with Chuck D at 9 p.m. The lecture is free for NAU students and $2 for the public. Tickets are available at the University Union or online at www.nau.edu/cto. For more about HHW3, which runs from April 25–29, call 523-8134 or check out www.nau.edu/hip-hop-week.

»Friday | 4.22 SHAVER AND A HONKY TONK HAIRCUT‌

He’s had a hard go of it, starting when he was just knee high to a pig’s eye and all that, but Billy Joe Shaver, is hanging tough at 76-years-young and writing songs to rival any two-bit country punk. He wrote in his autobiography that the first night his father tried to kill him, he was still in his mom’s belly. That night, Shaver imagines, is why he started writing country songs. He’ll grab ya with long-time hits like “Georgia on a Fast Train” and “Hero”, but Shaver’s newest collection Long in the Tooth (2014) marks the outlaw picker’s songwriting skills brought to light for the first time since 2008. This go ‘round, he spins yarns of his time as a young buck growing up in northeast Texas and even belts a rap-style ditty proving he’s no onetrick pony. The Honky Tonk Hero calls this “dangerously good” album the best he’s ever done. Now that’s setting the bar far above a pig’s eye. Enjoy the Lone Star stud in the utmost comfortable and dance-worthy log cabin around at the Museum Club, 3404 E. Rte. 66. Doors for the show open at 7 p.m. and the tunes get going at 9 p.m. Ages 21 and over. Glimpse life on the range for just $15. 526-9434. www.billyjoeshaver. com.

» Fri-Sat | 4.22-4.23 TIME TO GIVE SCOUT A SHOUTY SHOUT-OUT‌

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird stands as one of the most enduring American novels ever written. Like ever, ever. And it’s coming-of-age story—rife with themes of social justice and personal integrity and including the cool and elusive Boo Radley—makes it such a perennial classic that, if you haven’t read it, well, you might not be all the way American. As it turns out, 24 Northern Arizona University students, including five African-American actors who have stepped into key roles, will breathe life into some of the most iconic characters of one of the great works of literature. Professor Bob Yowell directs this epic cast—along with a 20-person


Hot Picks crew—as they ready for the big finale of the NAU Theatre season. NAU actor extraordinaire Rob Barnes takes on the role of Atticus Finch while Day Disch fills the small shoes that are actually really big shoes of Scout Finch. The five African-American actors will help elevate the power of this provocative and engaging play, with Marco McKay stepping into the role of Tom Robinson. So, for all you lit and theatre lovers out there, To Kill a Mockingbird the play will perform in the Clifford E. White Theatre in the NAU Performing Arts Building on Fri and Sat at 7:30 p.m. It picks up a second set of performances Thu–Sat, April 28–30 at 7:30 p.m., with a Sun, May 1 matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and NAU employees, and $8 for youth and NAU students and. 523-3781. www.nau.edu/cal/theatre.

» Monday | 4.25 STRIKE THE FLINT‌

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» Wednesday | 4.27 A FEW GOOD WOMEN‌

One presidential frontrunner has surged in the polls with the “Make America Great Again” mantra. But many are hopping on the Trump train, too, with his secondary It’s been a hot minute since Flint, Mich., country star Whitey tagline: “The Silent Majority.” The term itself finds a Morgan saddled up to the Peaks, but fresh on the heels of a new space in the spotlight during such campaigns, including record, he’s seeing fit to kick off his Western tour right here with Nixon’s in 1968, as people who refuse to espouse their his band the 78’s. Since Morgan blasted on the gritty country scene with his baritone timbre and shimmering instrumentation, views in public until a wildly inflated identifying figure emerges. Investigative journalist Amy Goodman he’s been working his butt off to breakthrough to pop-country has flipped the narrative with her latest book written minded listeners. With depth and truth, Morgan’s tunes set with Denis Moynihan, The Silenced Majority, which ilthemselves a world apart from the Stetson-wearing pretty boys dominating country radio, singing songs about Corona’s piss-like luminates corporate media and governmental powers silencing information pertaining to the well-being of flavor that somehow remains unoffensive to their taste buds nor the global population like climate change and the effects to the women they attempt to woo with the piss-like taste. But, of nuclear disasters like Fukushima. Goodman, the host alas, Morgan remains unaffiliated with the former, and instead and executive producer of the nationally syndicated, chooses to maintain relevance, and sure, still the good stuff, award-winning daily news show, Democracy Now!, will but hey, he ain’t drunk, he’s just been drinkin’. The Museum Club, 3404 E. Rte. 66, welcomes Morgan for an over-due encore speak about her processes and the dangers trailing from the information she’s uncovered in her storied career. performance with Cody Jinks hangin’ out on the front burner Take a knee at Cline Library Assembly Hall, on NAU’s to kick off the gritty jams. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the guinorth campus, at 7 p.m. This is a free event, but a ticket tar-driven tunes start swinging at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25. Booth is required. Call 523-3163 to learn more, and visit www. reservations are $125 and include five tickets plus a place to sit all nau.edu /cto to reserve tickets. night. Ages 21 and over. 526-9434. www.whiteymorgan.com.

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KEEN ON COUNTRY‌

In his 30-odd years coursing the pro music circuit, Robert Earl Keen has established himself as one of the Lone Star State’s acclaimed and cherished ambassadors. Touting proficiency along the ways of guitar and mandolin, the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame welcomed his down-to-earth word wrangling, too. And with his band stacked with greats like longtime guitarist Rich Brotherton, Bill Whitbeck on bass, Tom Van Schaik at the kit and Marty Muse workin’ the pedal steel, the quintet strips country to its core with cutting lyricisms and expertly-woven melodies that venture into the history and depth of bluegrass and beyond. Keen’s winding road roots through six live cuts and a dozen studio collections, most recently with 2015’s Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions, which topped U.S. –grass and country charts, and continues barreling ever forward all along the highways and byways of these ol’ States. The Keen country train chugs into the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen, station when doors to the all-age show open at 7 p.m. and the music takes off at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22 in advance and $30 the day of the show. 556-1580. www. robertearlkeen.com.

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EDITOR’S HEAD

Journey through the German Forest

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t running the risk of sounding redundant, this week’s column sort of parallels that of columnist Adrienne Bischoff, one page over. With that said, people who experience the same thing rarely ever walk away all the same. And the hope is that people leave whatever experience that might be impacted in various and valuable ways. Like Adrienne, roughly two weeks ago I found myself in the crowd for Radiolab host Jad Abumrad’s multi-media lecture, “Gut Churn.” A longtime fan of the radio show and podcast, for months I eagerly awaited his arrival. When all was said and Andrew done, I left with a new Wisniewski perspective on work and my personal life. Much of what he said I’d either never realized or on some level deep down had always known but never really thought all that hard about. In fact, as I sat there, hanging on Abumrad’s every word— this time not just listening to him but also seeing him—I thought to myself, anyone who does any sort of creative work should be hearing this. His presentation focused on the creative process, and perhaps what resonated with me the most was this idea of the German Forest. In short, according to Abumrad, the German Forest is this metaphorical place one sometimes travels through during the course of the creative process. It is here that freakouts tend to happen, when that feeling of impending doom creeps up your neck as it starts to tighten with the fear that a project is not going to get finished on time or, perhaps worse, it will end up total crap. He talked about navigating one’s way out of the Forest, and that the more you travel through it (disclaimer: it’s never a fun journey), the easier it becomes—because every other time, you’ve found your way out unscathed and more often than not, learned. In my case, as a journalist who works on a weekly deadline, this foreboding forest is a place I’m all too familiar with. Last week, admittedly, I found myself in the deepest, darkest part of that Forest I’ve ventured through yet. With the recent passing of three well-known and highly respected local artists, it was a no-brainer

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that we had to honor them—but I couldn’t choose just one over the others. So, the logical thing to do was honor them all at once. Great idea, right? Naturally, yes. The plan was to run as many photos as possible, a series of short bios, and quotes from close friends and colleagues. However, already on a short turnaround from the week before and with multiple contacts offering up help, the night before deadline I found myself with way more info than I knew what to do with and, yet, still feeling like something was missing. My plan all of sudden felt like it was unraveling. In the several years I’ve been doing this, I’ve never felt that unsure about a feature not turning out. Partially because I knew it was so important to so many, and partially because I felt like I needed more time. But mainly because of the importance. Fortunately, it ended up coming together; we regularly joke in the office that somehow it always does. Then over the weekend I started reflecting on quality. In hindsight, had we actually had more time, it may have come together differently. And that’s not to say it was bad or we were unhappy with the final product; it’s more of a comment on our staff’s desire for perfection, and feeling like time holds us back. But quality comes at a cost. When people ask me how big our staff is, I say roughly two people—not including our three graphic designers, ad rep and stringers—and they typically can’t believe it. Unfortunately, that seems to be the way of the world anymore—the idea that quality and efficiency can stem from less human bodies, minds and hands, replaced by more programs, and thus implementing more unnecessary steps to get from A to Z to get a result. The thing is: it doesn’t. Anymore I find myself walking through the German Forest because of this very reason. Not because a job or story is difficult by nature (though that does happen), but because outside forces cut into the creative process and force a rediscovery of a sliver of quality that already existed in the first place. And somehow, against all odds, I seem to find my way out before inevitably journeying back in. And each time I learn something new. The key, I’m discovering, is finding a way to get out and engage with the world outside of the studio or office, German Forest and all.

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debilitating, insidious myth that we all know what we’re doing. Second, he decided to take gut churn as a sign that he was on the right path and should keep going, instead of giving up. And after explaining “gut churn,” Abumrad described each stage of his process with would earn you nasty remarks.) And not only one vivid image after another, using figurado we rarely speak literally, but we use figutive language to speak frankly about our unrative language for important topics: e.g. the spoken commonalities. Was this the birdsbirds-and-bees talk, speaking of someone being “in the family way,” or “passing.” When and-bees talk for art? Are metaphors the ultimate lifehack? (Or is it using a colander to you put it literally—they had unprotected sex avoid a crumby bowl of cereal?) and then they died—the person had a pretty Whatever reason we don’t speak plainly cool life. Metaphors help us understand difficult top- and simply about common and important isics or discuss uncomfortable ones; Abumrad sues, I thought I’d succinctly—and accurately I’m sure—summarize a few of Abumrad’s was particularly creative with metaphor in metaphors: his talk, “Gut Churn,” a term his Radiolab co-creator coined when Abumrad couldn’t find the words to describe their creative pro- Bertha the Flying Squirrel Sometimes your greatest breakthroughs cess. For Abumrad and co-host Robert Krulwich, “gut churn” embodies those feelings of happen only after you’ve felt most uncertain. uncertainty we all face with any endeavor. It’s that visceral feeling that comes from slogging Pot Odds Don’t let a low chance of success stop you through an effort despite feeling wholly infrom doing something, particularly if the risk competent. After labeling this experience— that you could also call “life”—Abumrad did is comparably low. (Who cares if you won’t be the next Louis C.K.? That’s no reason not to two important things. First, he shared this join the local open-mic.) feeling with others in order to attack that

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n Sat, April 9, Jad Abumrad, host of the Radiolab podcast, visited NAU. His talk, entitled “Gut Churn,” used animation, sound and metaphor to, paradoxically, clarify the creative process. As a writer, I found Abumrad’s talk helpful and inspiring. But even better, it was genuinely entertaining, and not just by NPR standards. The talk reminded me of how, a few months back, two other teachers and I talked Adrienne about the confusion we heap Bischoff upon international students when we use metaphor. We imagined them visiting us during office hours to discuss their papers and hearing, “I can’t make heads or tails out of your argument here, but that’s no reason to make a mountain out of molehill; just put your nose to the grindstone and you’ll come out on top.” Rarely do we speak literally. (A literal response to “Do you know what time it is?”

Chase the Antelope The process of getting what you want may feel laborious, time-consuming, and slightly idiotic. Keep going. The Gap This American Life host Ira Glass, via Abumrad, talked of the dissonant gap between our tastes and our talent. And until we produce enough work so our talent catches up to our tastes, we just need to hang in there. (Abumrad actually countered that the gap never closes because as our skills get more advanced, so do our tastes.) OK, I admit I failed at conveying the magic of Abumrad’s talk with my summary. The problem with speaking literally is that it’s kind of forgettable and boring. And given that April is National Poetry Month and Shakespeare’s birth- and deathday is right around the corner, I must concede that metaphor is the ultimate lifehack. (Or is it using nail polish to personalize your phone charger?) Adrienne Bischoff is part of NAU’s MFA Creative Writing program, and is a regular film reviewer for Flag Live. She wishes she could aptly describe in words the sound of footsteps.

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You know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby

to such hits as “The Bare Necessities” and “I Wan’na Be Like You,” remembering and re-imagining scenes from the movie, wishing I had a big goofy talking bear or powerful black panther to hang out with (the cartoon kind, not the Huey Newton or Bobby Seale kind … I wasn’t that militant). ‌So it caused me angst several years ago when it was announced that The Jungle Book would be coming back to movie screens, Jungle Book Dan Stoffel this time as a live action Directed by Jon adventure featuring had the vinyl album Songs from The Favreau computer-animated Jungle Book and Other Jungle Favorites animals playing against (1967) as a kid. Back in late ’60s and Rated PG a live kid. How dare early ’70s, soundtrack albums were the HARKINS they try to re-create best way to “re-watch” our favorite movTHEATRES that magic, wonder, ies; we couldn’t wait a few months and and sense of friendship watch it on iTunes or Amazon Prime, or and belonging with a even VHD or DVD. Since none of those bratty Hollywood kid things existed, you were one-and-done at the movie house. It would eventually show and a bunch of CGI? Well, Disney and director Jon Favreau have up on Sunday night’s Wonderful World put my mind at ease, as The Jungle Book is of Disney (also haircut night!), but if you an extremely entertaining movie combining missed it, you blew your only chance for the magic and wonder of the 1967 animated several years. So I played the album over and over on our huge RCA console, running movie with a little more Kipling thrown in for (slightly darker) measure. The story is basiaround the living room and singing along

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cally the same—young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) was adopted by the panther Bagheera (voiced by Ben Kingsley), and given over to wolf mother Raksha (Lupita Nyong’o) to raise. But the nasty tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba) doesn’t think a human belongs in the jungle, and vows to kill the boy. Along with a faithful and exciting story and excellent voice performances (especially from Elba, and from Bill Murray as

the personal comfort-loving bear Baloo), the animation is top-notch. Seemingly insignificant gestures like the flick of a panther’s ear imbue the characters with a realism that adds to the audience’s suspension of disbelief. Thanks to this cast and crew for helping me overcome my intense fear of childhood-shattering remakes; sometimes they can be just as good as the original, even while being quite different.

But writer Tim Heidecker, from the comedy duo Tim & Eric, must have intended to make us feel as miserable and pointless as the main character. To call it a black comedy is to stretch the definition of “comedy” paper-thin, but there are a few glimmers: Reilly sings that one famous song from Wizard of Oz, which he recalls as “Away in a Manger.” That elicits a lat-

eral eye movement from Neil, the equivalent of a cartwheel from anyone else. And Neil’s comedy bit is a real knee-slapper compared to his real-life misery routine. But the film’s lacking feels purposeful and thus, justified: sometimes we don’t change, sometimes that’s life. I just don’t know if that’s entertainment.

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businessman, provides useless business advice; Michael Cera plays a young man who corners Neil in a public restroom and asks him to keep him company; he spends some time in a light therapy booth; and, oh yeah, he delivers a stillborn baby. (In a Adrienne Bischoff different public restroom.) Meanwhile, nobody finds him funny. his movie is about as exciting as Apart from those highlights, the film watching the ECG monitor of a dead person. But while it’s a total flatliner, is essentially different shots of him heavy-lidded, slack-jawed, slumped over it’s a well-executed flatliner. and glum. Seconds ‌Gregg Turkington stars as “Neil,” who coincidentally shares the same name, Entertainment feel like hours as you realize he will persona and creator as Neil Hamburger, Directed by Ryan never change deTurkington’s insult comic alter ego. Neil spite offerings of Hamburger’s jokes aren’t suitable for print, Alverson help from his cousin but imagine Andy Kaufman’s alter ego, Rated R and his opening act, Tony Clifton, and you have Hamburger in a NETFLIX a hobo clown that nutshell. STREAMING air masturbates. Neil has clearly done something karmiNot only does Neil cally wrong because: A) his daughter Maria never change, but refuses to return his daily calls and B) he’s he never reveals touring the comedy circuit of the Mojave why his daughter is angry with him or Desert. When he’s not performing, he’s why he’s even a comic in the first place. either walking through the glaring desert, Sure, maybe it’s to find another way to feel taking pictures of random machinery, or miserable, but there are many easier ways he’s glum. Just glum. 100 percent glum. to hate life, including, possibly, watching Interesting things do happen to him: his cousin played by John C. Reilly, a successful this movie.

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EXTRA BUTTER

Big shoes to fill Adrienne Bischoff lowns are like Easter bunny costumes: no matter how pretty they are, they’re downright repulsive. A recent viewing of 2015’s Entertainment (see the review on page 10 of this issue) reminded me of this icon’s indelible presence in cinema. Below is a painfully incomplete list of films that feature clowns in all of their uncanny glory.

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Stephen King’s It | 1990 Except for the spider bit, this madefor-TV movie is pretty decent. A group of adults—oddly portrayed by several sitcom stars at the time—returns to their hometown to fight Pennywise the Clown, who tried to kill them as children. As Pennywise, Tim Curry set the bar for evil clowns and, together with Dr. Frank-N-Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975), created two of pop culture’s most unforgettable characters. Shakes the Clown | 1991 Bobcat Goldthwait’s directorial debut is a sincere little comedy about a guy struggling with alcoholism and colleague rivalry. And he’s a clown. Goldthwait plays Shakes, who struggles to take control of his life when he loses his job and then is framed for murder by a rival clown. But because he’s a good guy at heart, his friends and girlfriend help him turn his life around. Goldthwait stars alongside comics like Adam Sandler, Julie Brown, Kathy Griffin and Robin Williams.

Funny Bones | 1995 Seriously, in one of his best roles, Jerry Lewis plays George Fawkes, the legendary comedian under whose shadow his aspiring comedic son, Tommy, flounders. Oliver Platt plays Tommy, who returns to his family’s roots in Blackpool and looks for vaudeville talent to help him reinvent his act. The story’s magical realism captures the spectacle of the circus and imbues its clowns with a dignity and beauty that Tommy eventually gains after learning to take risks in performance and life. The Day the Clown Cried | unreleased Nothing could be more perfectly wrong than this film’s premise: Jerry Lewis is Helmut Doork, a German clown who accidentally leads children to the showers in a Nazi death camp. (OK, so maybe there is a clown worse than Pennywise.) Lewis was surprisingly reluctant to take on this project in the early ’70s but capitulated after considering the potential emotional impact. He should have reconsidered. But even if Lewis wanted to show the film, he lost the rights to the screenplay. However, the Library of Congress recently acquired the film and can show it as early as 2025. Get your advanced tickets now to the film Harry Shearer described as “so drastically wrong.”

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‌La Strada | 1954 Italian for “The Strada,” Fellini’s film stars Giulieta Masina as an adorable, but abused, traveling clown. Masina is so expressive that she rightfully earned comparisons to Charlie Chaplin. As Gelsomina, she travels with strong man Zampanò (Richard Burton), who brutalizes her. She stays with him because it gives her pathetic life meaning and in the end, her innocence wins, although tragically so.

Honorable mentions Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) features evil clown doctors who operate on, then eviscerate, Pee-Wee’s beloved bicycle. Poltergeist (1982) reminds us why you never, ever give a clown doll to a child.

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Surviving the game Flagstaff’s Randy Champagne goes at it Alone

Emery Cowan all was beginning to set in and Randy Champagne was alone on the northern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Most of the edible plants were beginning to die off and fish, rats and game were difficult to hunt and catch. ‌So when Champagne saw a squirrel as he was walking through the forest, he immediately pulled out his bow and zeroed in on the potential meal. He was about to pursue the animal until he remembered one thing. First, he had to film himself. Champagne was on the island as a contestant on the History Channel’s Alone series. As one of 10 “survivalists” on the show, the part-time Flagstaff resident was dropped in the middle of the dense northwestern forest with minimal supplies and the sole goal of lasting out there the longest to take home $500,000. The premier of the second season debuts on Thursday night at 9 p.m. The 29-year-old Champagne is the picture of a wilderness buff. He spends half the year teaching primitive survival courses in Boulder, Utah. Then in the winter he heads down to Flagstaff where he plays rugby and does odd jobs like tanning hides. His connection to the outdoors began as a child, Champagne says. He grew up just south of Detroit but in the fall the men in his family would go up to the family’s cabin in northwest Michigan. Over a long weekend the group would go bow hunting for white tailed deer. Champagne loved waking up with the sunrise, spending hours outside and connecting with the process of hunting his own food. The wilderness calmed him, he says. His path out west started in 2006 with a primitive skills and wilderness survival course in New Jersey. After that, he craved something even more experiential, which led him to Boulder, Utah, where he took a two week wilderness survival course through the Boulder Outdoor Survival School. “It was amazing being out on the land and pushing myself, being hungry and being thirsty,” he says. “I was like ‘this is something I was searching for.’” Now he has a long-term gig at the school and for the past nine summers he has taught week- to month-long courses.

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“It was amazing being out on the land and pushing myself, being hungry and being thirsty. I was like ‘this is something I was searching for.’” — Randy Champagne to set up shots to film himself completing various tasks during his day. If he was walking through the forest, searching for animals to hunt, he would have to set up his camera, walk by the camera, then pack it up and keep going. If he saw something interesting, he would have to set up his camera again to show viewers what he was seeing. In the instance that he saw the Part-time Flag resident Randy Champagne will compete on the new season of the squirrel, by the time he was done filming, History Channel’s survival series Alone. Photo by Brendan Meadows the squirrel was nowhere to be seen. Other times though, filming himself proved therapeutic. He would set up the he normally eats. The entire time, he ate a Flagstaff is his home from October through April. A love of the town and a core couple of crabs, a couple of fish, a couple of camera and talk about the challenges he was going through, how much he missed group of friends draws him back every year, mice and “that was essentially it.” his family and his home. It took him days to figure out how to he says. “It gave me something to talk to,” he recatch a fish, which bait to use and how to The opportunity to be on Alone came calls. sink a line to the right depth, he says. For when the show’s production company There were moments when life was shelter, he constructed a structure out of a called the Boulder Outdoor Survival miserable, but overall the experience was School. The rawness of the show appealed tarp and trees. To catch animals, he fashpositive, he says. The experience also reafto him and he had the skills and training to ioned traps out of local materials. The show’s other catch? The contestants firmed his own life path. compete, so Champagne decided to go for “It was one of the most beautiful, amazhad to film the day to day of their lives in it. the wilderness—there were no cameramen ing experiences of my entire life,” ChamFast forward to September and Chamor producers shadowing their every move. pagne adds. “It put a lot of things in perpagne was in a bush plane being flown to spective and continued to sort of engrain Each person was equipped with six camVancouver. He was allowed to bring 10 that I’m doing the right thing with my life.” eras. items that included his bow, a knife and a Season 2 of Alone airs on Thu, April 21 The task of filming himself constantly sleeping bag, as well as a backpack and the at 9 p.m. on the History Channel. To learn was both a blessing and a burden, Chamclothes on his back. more about the show and catch up on pagne says. Survival was a challenge. Champagne Season 1, visit www.history.com /shows/ There were times when that task was estimated his food intake was “in the sin“super frustrating” because he would have alone. gle digit percentages” compared to what


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n an art-centric town, monumental murals coexist with emphatic, canvas-backed marks made in oils that both question and interpret reality. Ceramic and metal sculptures provide a pedestal of understanding while highlighting diverse techniques and motivations. And through it all, career artists join those just emerging on the vanguard of disparate yet invariably intertwined breakthroughs that represent the storied emotional balancing act of the human condition: the violence, love, understanding and flawed search. As these artists explore their separate mediums and prismatic styles in

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studios or classrooms around Flagstaff, they all support the crux of a community that lives, eats and breathes art. The Coconino Center for the Arts’ biannual exhibition, Local Color, does its due diligence collecting the strongest examples of Flagstaff artists’ varied styles and mediums regularly espoused in local galleries, restaurants and walls across the Painted Desert—while involving the community that supports it. The only rules are the artists must be locally based and were not involved with the first Local Color exhibition in 2014. 

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strongest works and line the indoor gallery and outdoor walls. Inside the gallery, established painters like educators Alan Petersen and Bruce Aiken display their landscapes and an example of expressive use of color, respectively, alongside Emma Gardner’s skeleton portraits and Bruce Horn’s moments about town with Terry Samples’ and Robert Dalegowski’s far-off landscapes. Ceramicists Erin Gooch, Jason Bonhert, Rena Hamilton and Natalie Reed-Goehl juxtapose utilitarian forms to ceramic abstractions from Steve Schaeffer and Candice Methe-Hess, and complementary multi-media sculptures from Geoffrey Gross, Leancy Rupert, Brian

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broad scope as she displays examples of her portraiture and a lithographic print all worthy of a double-take. Dankert describes each medium’s influence on her style and technique, from organized woodcuts to lithography’s graphic and realistic amalgamation that, she explains, assume the look of a vintage photograph. “I take that appearance and instead replace the imagery with contorted realities that carry heavy and provocative thematic content. It ultimately works to bleed the idea of memory into illusion,” she says. The two oil-based portraits Dankert is exhibiting in Local Color build on the artist’s intuitive approach to her work as well as the idea of contorted reality.


The figure examines the tracers disappearing into the ether her hands create—an image inspired by the artist’s own experience. “I want to communicate the motions of depersonalized states, both the discomfort and confusion as well as the beauty in letting go; engaging, and disengaging,” Dankert explains. “Ghostlike imagery and double exposure is something I really became interested in when I tried out pinhole photography my first semester here at NAU. I have explored that concept over the years and have really narrowed it down stylistically as a means of voicing these themes of the human condition and different mental states.” And as the subject herself seems to question her place in the spectrum of reality, as does Dankert who notes art is her method of coping as it is for many who practice and hone their craft. But, for her, it is also a 20

dialogue with the self that pushes her work forward, and connects with viewers, too. “The double-exposed hands in the two paintings at Local Color stem from personal experiences of looking at my hands and not recognizing them as my own. It’s me telling the story about disconnecting from and reconnecting with myself,” Dankert says, though she didn’t see the need to use herself as the model. “It’s something I find important to explore and expose, but not something I see as completely unique to me.” Beyond gallery walls Outside the gallery, Chip Thomas’ work lends a platform for a people with a smaller microphone. Thomas has pasted murals across the world from South America to the Four Corners region and in Flagstaff in his three decades as an artist and physician on the Navajo Nation. But his latest Flag-area paste, titled Spirit Line,

has provided a platform for personality and a new voice to the CCA’s formerly drab carport wall. The 14-foot by 21-foot black and white image makes a monument of JC Morningstar atop her horse, Pa, with Copper the dog chasing his hooves. Pa’s neon pink bit and reigns add a pop of hand-painted color as the five-yearold girl smiles against a backdrop of the windswept wintertime desert. Thomas has switched to a sturdier acrylic gel to secure these massive photographs to walls around the country instead of the boiled flour wheatpaste he once employed, ensuring their faces will cling to their new home largely safe from the elements until Mother Nature decides otherwise. With JC and Pa shot from an upward angle, Thomas says this very young, yet strong, Navajo female is portrayed in a position of authority in tune with her

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Vibewaves

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Willie Cross ‌M83 Junk ‌Grade: B The first inkling of new music from Anthony Gonzalez’s solo project M83 was a YouTube video for the single, “Do It, Try It.” The video and the accompanying song were an altogether confounding return for M83. It featured the floating head of a dog that lip-synched the lyrics to the song playing. Little could it be known that this was a suitable appetizer to M83’s new album, Junk. Belying the album’s unassuming title, Junk is Gonzalez asserting his deceptively deep notions of the music industry and the pretenses surrounding his back-catalogue of releases. The end-product is, in so many words, hard to grasp. The album clocks in at nearly an hour with fifteen tracks that span a spectrum of 1980s dance club nostalgia and the pulp of Gonzalez’s past influences. The first three tracks are vaguely familiar M83 pieces. The fourth track, “Bibi the Dog,” lightspeeds the album into an entirely 18 | flaglive.com | April 21-27, 2016

different dimension. It sounds like a synth-obsessed Francophile alien produced a funk song. Somehow … it works. The album becomes even more confusing with the next track, “Moon Crystal.” The song is a remarkably well put-together signifier for the television theme songs of the ’80s. If nostalgia is Gonzalez’s strongest driving force, “Moon Crystal” is the blaring roadside billboard to Junk. Nearly every song on the record is equally as confounding as it is intriguing, including the most throwback M83 track, “Solitude.” M83’s Junk may be the answer to Daft Punk’s navel gazing on 2013’s Random Access Memories. Where Daft Punk took themselves way too seriously, Gonzalez acknowledges the ridiculousness of a world in decay and distills that into a synthesizer-driven string of anthems. Whether Junk will have the cultural impact that Random Access Memories did is questionable, but I’m almost positive that Gonzalez is not at all concerned with such trivialities.

Deftones Gore Grade: A For a band that has been around for nearly 30 years and gone through their fair share of trials and tribulations, Deftones are a picture of resilience. On their eighth studio album, Gore, the band once again seats themselves far ahead of the nü metal genre with the gorgeous complexity and gritty heaviness that has defined their tenure. I would be wrong to not mention the passing of Deftones’ original bassist Chi Cheng in 2013, after a 5-year coma. When Cheng entered the coma after a car accident in 2008, lead singer and lyricist Chino Moreno made it a point to inject Deftones’ music with positivity instead of dwelling on somber memories. Gore is the first release after Cheng’s passing, but the band’s trademark penchant for progression characterizes the entire release. Moreno continues to explore lyrical themes that border on esoteric, and his vocals reach new extremes throughout the record. His singing can hypnotize, then bludgeon while he screams over a verse

or two. Moreno’s lyrics weave in and out of the natural world, such as on the track “Hearts/Wires,” which exudes a discomforting ambiance of romance: “Cut through this razor wire/and dine on your heart, mine ‘til the end.” But the instrumentation throughout the album, led by guitarist Stephen Carpenter, is equal parts soothing and crushing. “Phantom Bride,” the album’s second-tolast track, finds the band and guest guitarist Jerry Cantrell mesmerizing the listener for most of the song. The reverb-soaked guitars rise and fall throughout the song before the unexpected final passage arrives to crush the listener under its weight. Moreno has been open about the band’s position at this point in time. Deftones have reached a point where they are free to experiment as they see fit, and their fans will generally be receptive to their efforts. Luckily, the band has yet to let almost anyone down. Gore is another masterpiece on the heels of the fantastic Koi No Yokan in 2012. As Moreno sings on Gore‘s closing track, “Rubicon”: “Embrace the power we have/the record is ours to break.”


The Lumineers Cleopatra Grade: C+ The Lumineers’ new album, Cleopatra, may be one of the most confusing records that I’ve tried to grasp for quite some time. The two primary members of the group, Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, have been performing together since 2002, but Cleopatra is only their second proper fulllength release. Their first record, 2012’s self-titled album, strapped the band to a rocket that sent them into the stratosphere of pop music. Barring some other projects and a minor lawsuit from a former member, one would expect a fairly regular release from a band capable of writing such a record as their self-titled effort. If you can detect my contempt for that record, you’re on the right track. So, after such a long stint without releasing virtually any new material, what does Cleopatra have to offer? Well, that’s the confusing part. First and foremost, Cleopatra immediately exudes a fresh air of honesty from The Lumineers’ sound. Where their first record mostly

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suggested the sing-along open mics they would frequent in Denver, Cleopatra sounds more like a stripped-down exploration of just how much damage love can do to a person. The Lumineers aren’t afraid to be mellow on this record. They let the core lineup of instruments—a guitar, piano, cello and modest percussion—air out a bit. Where their self-titled record, and many of the popular folk records of its time, were boisterous and borderline aurally offensive, Cleopatra is mostly quiet and understated. But, besides the shimmering and shortlived single “Ophelia,” the record passes with hardly a whisper. It’s a remarkably sad record that operates hardly above the status of folk-y elevator music. Cleopatra‘s quietude is to folk as Mumford and Sons’ 2015 Wilder Mind‘sunruliness is to the genre. There may be a time and place that Cleopatra is really suitable to listen to, besides as background music. Unfortunately, we may have to wait another four years to see if the Lumineers really have anything else to contribute.

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REAR VIEW

Secret cash stash ‘Panama Papers’ reveal scandalous hypocrisy

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t’s said that there’s nothing more vicious than a wild animal that’s cornered, but I’d add that there’s nothing more devious than a top corporate or political official caught in a scandalous hypocrisy. Witness the huge menagerie of political critters who’ve recently been backed into a corner by the “Panama Papers.” This is a trove of thousands of Internet documents leaked to global media outlets, revealing that assorted billionaires, rich celebrities, corporate Jim chieftains, and—yes—pious Hightower public officials have been hiding their wealth and dodging the taxes they owe by stashing their cash in foreign tax havens. Of course, we’ve known for a while that tax dodging is a common plutocratic scam, but the details from the leaked files of an obscure Panamanian law firm named Mossack Fonseca now gives us names to shame. One is David Cameron, the ardently conservative prime minister of Britain, who has loudly declaimed tax sneaks in public. But—oops!—now we learn that his own super-wealthy father was a Mossack Fonseca client, and that David himself has

profited from the stealth wealth he inherited from the elder Cameron’s secret stash. Trapped by the facts, the snarling, privileged prime minister used middle-class commoners as his shield, asserting that critics of his secluded wealth are trying to “tax anyone who [wants] to pass on their home … to their children.” Uh-uh, David— we merely want to tax those who try to pass-off tax frauds on the public. One of Cameron’s partisans even claimed that critics “hate anybody who has a hint of wealth in them.” No, it’s the gross, self-serving hypocrisy of the elites that people hate. Yet now, doubling down on their hypocrisy, Cameron & Company have announced that they’ll host an anticorruption summit meeting to address the problem of offshore tax evaders! As Lily Tomlin says: “No matter how cynical you get, it’s impossible to keep up. 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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Arts Connection: 14th annual Recycled Art Exhibition: One Man’s Trash is Another’s Treasure. Runs through May 1. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat, noon-7 p.m. and Sun, noon-6 p.m. Free. Located in the Flagstaff Mall. 4650 Hwy 89. 522-6969

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The Green Room: Mystic Circus. Circus, burlesque and sideshow act from Phoenix. Doors open at 8:30 p.m., Downtown Flagstaff: Flagstaff Eats. Walking food tours show starts at 9:30 p.m. $5 at the door. Ages 21 and over. in downtown Flag. Two-and-a-half hours of walking and 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 sampling food from seven different restaurants. Tours Hops on Birch: Jay Meyer. Americana from Flag. 9 p.m. offered every weekend Thursday through Sunday. $55 Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 per person. Sign up on www.flagstaffeats.com. 213-9233 Main Stage Theater: Weekly “Bottom Line Jam” with Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Continuing the Bottom Line Band. 7 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. CottonTaoist tai chi and beginner class. Every Thursday. 5:30- wood. (928) 202-3460 7:30p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 400 W Aspen. 288-2207 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke. Hosted by Ricky Bill. Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Weekly Every Thursday. 9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. Mindfulness Meditation every Thursday. Room 24 upstairs. 779-6971 6:30 p.m. instruction, 7-8:30 p.m. sitting and walking meditation. 8:30 p.m. discussion. Come and go anytime. Free Orpheum Theater: Katchafire. Reggae from New Zealand. Opener: Mystic Roots. Doors open at 8 p.m., show and open to all. 400 W. Aspen. 814-9851 starts at 9 p.m. $12 in advance, $18 the day of the show. The Green Room: Science on Tap. “Medicinal Plants: Phy- All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 tochemistry & Symbiosis.” Presented by Derek Whorton. 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Ages 21 and over. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Raven Café: Sean Farley. 7-8 p.m. Free. 142 N. Cortez. Prescott. (928) 717-0009 Hozhoni Art Gallery: Autistic Expressions with Sharin Jonas. Annual Autism Awareness exhibit. Runs through April 29. Gallery hours are Mon-Wed and Friday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Clifford E. White Theatre: NAU Theatre Presents: To Closed Sat and Sun. 2133 N. Walgreen Blvd. 526-7944 Kill a Mocking Bird. Performances Fri and Sat at 7:30 p.m. Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Individu(Second round of performances April 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. alized kung fu instruction in xingyi, bagua and taji. Every and Sun, May 1 at 2 p.m.). $14 general public, $12 seniors Thursday. 6-8 p.m. www.flagstaffkungfu.org. 4 W. Phoenix. and NAU staff, $8 children and NAU students with ID. On 779-5858 the NAU campus. www.nau.edu/cto. 523-5661 Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center: Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. Every Hour-long small group guitar classes. Ages 13 and up. Two Friday. 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 423 N. Beaver. sessions every Thursday from 3-5 p.m. Flexible format, 774-2911 multiple styles. Registration required. $30 for five classes, Flagstaff Elk’s Lodge: Weekly all-you-can-eat Fish Fry. and $5 materials. 245 N Thorpe. (505) 614-6706 Fish fry begins at 6 p.m. $12. All proceeds benefit Elks ChilMary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Medicine of the dren Charities. Every Friday. 2101 N. San Francisco. 774-6271 Wolf. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12, $9 Sedona Film Fest Members. Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Love Thy Nature 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 (Earth Day encore event). 3 p.m. $12, $9 Sedona Film Fest The Museum Club: Shadows Benefit Comedy Night. Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Featuring Jack Willhite and Eli Nicolas. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m. $10. Ages 21 and over. Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Born to Be Blue. (7 p.m. Fri, Sat and Mon; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 Se3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 dona Film Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday and 282-1177 Thursday night from 6-7 p.m. $3. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Orpheum Theater: Earth Day Film Celebration. Featuring The Museum Club: Flagstaff Swing Dance Club presents Damnation (2014), Bears Ears (2015) and Half Life (2013). dance lessons every Thursday night from 7-8 p.m. Different Doors open at 7:30 p.m., films start at 8 p.m. $9. All ages. dance style taught each month. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Museum of Northern Arizona: David Christiana’s Portraits of Petrichor. Examining the Wupatki-Sunset National Monument Loop. Runs through May 30. Museum hours are Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Regular Altitudes Bar and Grill: Darius Lux. 7-10 p.m. Free. 2 S. museum admission rates apply. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 Beaver. 214-8218

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youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 B.E. Yoga: Secret basement show. Featuring Sol Drop, and under are free. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 Playboy Manbaby, Heebie Jeebies and Like Mind. Doors Red Rock State Park: Guided nature walk at 10 a.m. open at 7 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m. $5. Enter through Guest speaker or a ranger/naturalist gives a 45-minute the side alley gate. 9 N. Leroux. 440-5444 talk at 2 p.m. Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle. Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Rats in the Cage. 10 p.m. Free. 16 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442

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The Spirit Room: Dog of the Moon Friday. 1 p.m. Free. Altitudes Bar and Grill: Brad Munns and Deb Hilton. The Scorched. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 7-10 p.m. Free. 2 S. Beaver. 214-8218 634-8809 Firecreek Coffee Co: Muskellunge. Bluegrass from State Bar: Raillery. Americana, bluegrass, blues and rock Flag. 8 p.m. $8. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266 from Flag. 8 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Rafe Sweet III Benefit. 10 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442

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Clifford E. White Theatre: NAU Theatre Presents: To Kill a Mocking Bird. Performance Sat at 7:30 p.m. (Second round of performances April 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. and Sun, May 1 at 2 p.m.). $14 general public, $12 seniors and NAU staff, $8 children and NAU students with ID. On the NAU campus. www.nau.edu/ cto. 523-5661 Coconino Center for the Arts: Local Color 2016. New exhibition featuring a diverse range of styles and media from local artists, including ceramics, paintings, sculpture, large murals, and more. Before the Myth Makers, paintings by David Lash in the Jewel Gallery. Public opening reception from 6-8 .pm. Free. Runs from April 19 through May 28. Gallery hours are Tue-Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 2300 N. Ft. Valley Road. 7792300 Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468

The Green Room: Soulective. Featuring Govinda. Gypsy dubtronica from Austin, Texas. Openers: Soulular, Ancient Mermaids, Jei Christo, Clay and Atom. 8 p.m. $8 in advance, $10 the day of the show. Ages 21 and over. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Hops on Birch: The Impressionalists. Rock from Flag. 9 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 Main Stage Theater: Adrian Conner of Hell’s Bells. 9 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Monte Vista Lounge: The Mods. Sixties style rock from Flag. 9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 7796971 The Museum Club: Micky and the Motorcars. Alt-country and Americana from Austin, Texas. Opener: Strangetown. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. $10. Ages 21 and over. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434

Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Darius Lux. 3-6 p.m. Free. Galaxy Diner: Swing Dance Club every Saturday. Open mic with James Turner. 8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Lessons from 7-10 p.m. Free. 931 E. Historic Rte. 66. Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300 774-2466 Orpheum Theater: Northern Arizona Blues Review. Heritage Square: Earth Day 2016. Featuring a com- Featuring Hans Olson, Eric Anderson and Arizona Hired munity clean-up (supplies and map provided) from Guns. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. $11. 9-11 a.m., workshops from 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., enter- All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 tainment from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., an Earth Day Passport with discounts to 18 downtown businesses. Raven Café: Trailer Bride. 7-8 p.m. Free. 142 N. Cortez. Downtown on Aspen between Leroux and San Fran- Prescott. (928) 717-0009 cisco. For details, visit www.flagstaff.az.gov/earthday

The Spirit Room: Combo Deluxe. 2 p.m. Free. The TravMarshall Elementary School: Continuing Taoist tai eler. 9 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 chi. Every Saturday 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff.az@taoist. State Bar: Cadillac Angels. Blues and rock ‘n’ roll from org. 850 N. Bonito. 288-2207 Arizona. 8 p.m. $5 at the door. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282

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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 and the Martin-Springer Institute Present: The Mitzvah Project. Three-part event comprised of a 25-minute one-act, one-person drama, a 27-minute lecture, and a 30 to 40-plus minute audience discusDoris Harper-White Community Playhouse: Thesion/talk-back. 6:30 p.m. $14 adults, $7 students and atrikos and the Martin-Springer Institute Present: The Mitzvah Project. Three-part event comprised of a youth. Large group discounts available. Ages 14 and 25-minute one-act, one-person drama, a 27-minute lec- older. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos.com. 774-1662 ture, and a 30 to 40-plus minute audience discussion/ Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. talk-back. 2:30 p.m. (Again on Mon at 6:30 p.m.) $14 Every Monday. 10:30 a.m.-noon. flagstaff.az@taoist. adults, $7 students and youth. Large group discounts org. 423 N Beaver. 288-2207 available. Ages 14 and older. 11 W. Cherry. www.theatrikos. Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every com. 774-1662 Monday. 6 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 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

Gopher Hole: Game night. 9 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731

Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Hamlet. Big screen premiere from the Stratford Festival in Canada. 3 p.m. $15, $12.50 Sedona Film Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177

Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Tango classes. Fundamentals: 6-6:30 p.m. $5. Figures and Techniques: 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. (Both classes for dancers having completed a beginner dance series). Practica: 7:30-9 p.m. Practica included in price of class. 4 W. Phoenix. 773-0750

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Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Country: Portraits of an American Sound. 7 p.m. Sun and Wed; 4 p.m. Mon. $12, $9 Sedona Film Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Country: Portraits of an American Sound. (4 p.m. Mon; 7 p.m. Wed.) 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Born to Be Blue. (7 p.m. Mon; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, Monte Vista Lounge: Trivia with Lindsay and Savanna. $9 Sedona Film Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. SeEvery Sunday. 9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779- dona. (928) 282-1177 6971 Uptown Pubhouse: Narrow Chimney Reading Series. Orpheum Theater: A Celebration of the Life & Work of Shelly J. Taylor and Renee S. Angle. For a complete list Ed George. Featuring a night of film, music and mem- of series authors, see Facebook. 7 p.m. Free. 21 and over. ories. Doors open at 5 p.m., event starts at 6 p.m. Sug- 114 N. Leroux. 773-0551 gested donation. All proceeds support the “Ed Fund” and the completion of Ed’s unfinished film project Born to Rewild. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Tranzend Studio: Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. Les- Campus Coffee Bean: Open Mic night. Every Monsons: beginner and all level fundamentals, technique and day. 6-8 p.m. ccbopenmic@gmail.com . 1800 S. Milton musicality. 7 p.m. Open dancing in main room with salsa, Road. 556-0660 bachata, merengue and cha cha; side room with zouk The Green Room: Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Monday. and kizomba until 10 p.m. Every Sunday. $10 drop-in, $8 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 for students. 417 W. Santa Fe. 814-2650 Hops on Birch: Open mic night. Every Monday. 8:30 p.m. sign-up. 9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011

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1899 Bar and Grill: Vincent Z. Acoustic world music. Every Sunday. 6:30-8:30 p.m. 307 W. Dupont. 523-1899

Main Stage Theater: Karaoke Mondays. Hosted by Red Bear. Every Monday. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460

Flagstaff Brewing Co.: The Sundowners. 2-5 p.m. Free. The Museum Club: Whitey Morgan. Honky tonk from 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442 Flint, Mich. Opener: Cody Jinks. Doors open at 7 p.m., The Green Room: Sunday Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every show starts at 9 p.m. $25. Ages 21 and over. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Sunday. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Main Stage Theater: Speakeasy Sundays: Electro Swing Union Outdoor Amphitheater: Third annual HipNight. Classic cocktails. Classic movies. 7 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main Hop Week. How Hip-Hop Works-Shop. Featuring live demonstrations by local graffiti artists, b-boy and St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 girling, along with a DJ and MC, as well as BrookSouthside Tavern: Mother Road Trio. Americana and lyn-based poet J Mase III. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Kicks blues from Flag. 8 p.m. Free. 117 S. San Francisco. 440-5093 off the week’s events. Runs from April 25-29. On the The Spirit Room: Combo Deluxe. 2 p.m. Free. 166 Main NAU campus. More info at www.nau.edu/hip-hopSt. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 week. 523-8134

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Cline Library Assembly Hall: NAU’s College of Arts and Letters Classic Film Series. “Cinematographers: British Academy of Film and Television Award Winners and Nominees.” Atonement (2007). Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey. Directed by Joe Wright. 7 p.m. Free. NAU campus. 523-8632

Cline Library Assembly Hall: An Evening with Amy Goodman. Broadcast journalist and host of the award-winning daily news show Democracy Now! 7 p.m. Free, but tickets are required. Visit www.nau.edu/cto to reserve tickets. On the NAU campus. 5238632

Granny’s Closet: Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. Prizes for Firecreek Coffee Co: Poetry slam. Every Wednesday. Signup at the top two teams. Every Tuesday. 7 p.m. Free. 218 S Milton 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m. start. $2. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774-2266 Road. 774-8331 Flagstaff CSA and Market: Weekly Wednesday Meditation. Hops on Birch: Trivia night with Eric Hays. Every Tuesday. Guided meditation and open discussion. Anyone is welcome to join. Every Wednesday. 9-10 a.m. 116 Cottage Ave. 213-6948 8:30 p.m. sign-up. 9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 Jim’s Total Body Fitness: Line dancing. All levels. 5:306:30 p.m. First class free. Every Tuesday. 2150 N. 4th St. 6061435

Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class.Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468

Gopher Hole: Team Trivia. 9 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731 Jim’s Total Body Fitness: Yoga for Absolute Beginners with Lumberyard Brewing Co.: Yard Bingo. Play Bingo for prizes inSabrina Carlson. Six-week class. Tuesdays 6-7:30 p.m. $97. cluding a rollover $50 grand prize (for the blackout game). Free. Yoga mat and props provided. Signup at www.sabrinacarl- 10 p.m. 5 S. San Francisco. 779-2739 sonyoga.com/store/beginners. 2150 N. 4th St. 863-5002 Main Stage Theater: In-House Dart and Pool Leagues. 6 p.m. Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Born to Be Blue. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 4 p.m. Tue and Wed. $12, $9 Sedona Film Fest Members. 2030 Majerle’s Sports Grill: Trivia night. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. 102 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 W. Rte. 66. 774-6463 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: New York Film Critics Series. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015). Hosted live, via satellite, by Rolling Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Born to Be Blue. 4 p.m. Stone Magazine’s Peter Travers. Q&A with the director and Country: Portraits of an American Sound. 7 p.m. $12, $9 Sedona film’s stars following the screening each month. 7 p.m. $12. Film Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Murdoch Community Center: Zumba class.Every Wednesday The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday. at 5:30 p.m. $5. 203 E. Brannen. 226-7566 6-7 p.m. $3. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 The Peaks: Beginning ballroom dance lessons. 7-8:15 p.m. Every Ponderosa High School: Beginner Taoist tai chi. Every Tues- Wednesday.Free.No partner needed.Different dance starts each day 5:30-7 p.m. Followed by continuing Taoist tai chi. Every month and builds through the month. Next to the Museum of Tuesday. 7-8:30 p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 2384 N. Steves. Northern Arizona. Held in the activity room. Dance calendar at www.flagstaffdance.com.3150 N.Winding Brook Road.853-6284 288-2207 Taala Hooghan Infoshop: Dharma Punx meditation group Prochnow Auditorium: An Evening with Chuck D.Lecture“Rap, every Tuesday. 8:15 p.m. 1700 N. 2nd St. www.taalahooghan.org Race,Reality & Technology”featuring the iconic leader/MC of Public Enemy. Followed by a Q&A session. Part of the Third annual International Pavilion: Third annual Hip-Hop Week. Film Hip-Hop Week. 7 p.m. Free for NAU students, $2 general public. screening: Shake the Dust (2014). Inspiring tribute to break- On the NAU campus. www.nau.edu/hip-hop-week. 523-8134 dancing. Q&A with filmmaker Adam Sjöberg after the film. 9:30 p.m. Free. On the NAU campus. www.nau.edu/hip-hop- 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 week. 523-8134 Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 Uptown Pubhouse: Poet’s Den. Bi-weekly poetry and literary night. Hosted by Brittney Kay. Featuring the collective Uptown Pubhouse: Team trivia with Carly Strauss. 7:30 p.m. works of a new poet with each go ‘round. Signup at 7:30 p.m. Free. 114 N. Leroux. 773-0551 followed by readings of the featured poet and an open mic. Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Free. 114 N. Leroux. 773-0551 Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m.

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The Green Room: Mad Tight ’90s Night. Every Wednesday. Main Stage Theater: Karaoke Tuesdays. Hosted by Red 8 p.m. Free 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Bear. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. Main Stage Theater: Bingo night. Hosted by Penny Smith. (928) 202-3460 7 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Mia’s Lounge: Jazz Jam. 9 p.m. Free. Every Tuesday. 26 S. Monte Vista Lounge: VeloValo. Alt-rock from Flag. 9:30 p.m. San Francisco. 774-3315 Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke with Ricky Bill. Every TuesOrpheum Theater: Robert Earl Keen. Americana, country and day. 9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 folk from Texas. Opener: Walter Salas-Humara. Doors open at The Museum Club: Karaoke. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. Free. 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. $22 in advance, $30 the day of the 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 show. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Drumz and Dance Party. Free. The Spirit Room: Llory McDonald hosts open mic night. 8 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300 Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809

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EQUIPMENT Annual Equipment Service Special Service most makes of Farm, Construction, & Lawn Equipment Pick up/Delivery Available 774-1969 www.flagequip.com

FIREWOOD Aspen & Juniper Firewood For Sale. Ready to burn. Call for info: 7790581

HANDY PERSON Licensed Contractor for all Your Home Remodel or Repair Needs. ROC# 265086. (928)-525-4072 All Home Repair & Remodeling. (928)310-9800. Carpentry, decks, drywall, stone & tilework, painting, roofing, flooring, landscaping & maintenance. Not a licensed contractor. A1 Handyman! Call Mike’s Tool Box Decks, tile, doors/windows, paint. Mike, 928-600-6254 Free Estimates Not a Licensed Contractor The Handyman Plumbing Repairs Electric. Call 928-221-4499 Insured Not a Licensed Contractor

Handy man, framing, roofing, repair, decks, tile & more. Reasonable prices. Call 380-4486 Not a Licensed Contractor AZ NATIVE HANDYMAN Major/Minor home repairs, decks, roofing, drywall, fencing, welding, storage sheds & auto repairs. Quality Assured. Free local estimates. 928-814-0497 Not a licensed contractor

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

LANDSCAPING ALL-N-LANDSCAPING Renew & Extend: Paver Patios, Walkways, Driveways & Walls. Irrigation Main’t. All Landscaping. Free Estimates 928526-2928 Not a licensed contractor. Kiko’s Landscaping Pine Needles & Yard Clean-up Francisco Valdez @ 928-221-9877 or 928-637-3723 leave message. Not a licensed contractor HANDY SAL Complete Yard Clean-up, Hedges & weed wacking. New # 928380-0831 Not a Licensed Contractor Raking, hauling, cinder & tree trimming, stonework - malapais, flagstone, cinder block & faux rock. 25+ yrs exp. Free Estimates 928-607-0525 or 928-699-3978

LAWN CARE 20+ yrs Local Lawn Care Exp. Lawn mowing, thatching, aeration, fertilizing, sprinkler start ups & repairs, cleanups, bobcat & tractor svc, many other svcs avail. Free estimates. Ask about Specials. Call Andy (928) 310-8929.

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

MISCELLANEOUS Illumina Life Coaching. Transform your

life! Sliding scale fees from $30-$60 and downtown office. Go to www. illuminalife.com or call 928-380-1016 Downwinders Cancer Cases www. cancerbenefits.com Flagstaff Office 928-774-1200

MOVING Professional Moving Service call Quick Move Local/long distance or labor only. 928-779-1774

PAINTING Dave Carter Painting Res. & Comm. Int. & Ext. Painting & Staining Licensed in Flag since 1999 Call anytime 928707-2698 ROC # 143913 “Nick the Painter”, 25 yrs exp. Top Quality, Low Prices Small Jobs OK. Ref Avail. Interior/Exterior 928-2552677 Not a licensed contractor.

PAVING & GRADING Stripe-a-Lot. Parking lot stripes and stencils. Call (715) 891-1315 or email stripealotaz@yahoo.com.

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

SEWING SEWING BY CATHY One Day Service Dressmaking, Alterations & Repairs. 779-2385

HELP WANTED Vet-Sec NOW HIRING PT/FT Security Officers for equipment watch in Prescott/Flagstaff/surr. areas. All start $11/hr, travel, per diem. Please call (800) 909-3628. Carpenters/Framers Wanted Need own tools and transportation CALL (928)774-1012 TSB Under Car Specialists technician with wheel alignment experience. Apply at 2710 E. Route 66, Suite B. The Grand Hotel & Canyon Star Steakhouse (Tusayan, AZ) has immediate openings for: *Bartender * Servers* *Housekeepers * Houseperson* *Skilled Maintenance Tech* Our employees enjoy interacting w/ people from around the world at this beau-

tiful hotel! If you enjoy a fast-paced work env. & are looking for career growth opportunities, APPLY NOW at: www.grandcanyongrandhotel.com FT, Ben. Elig. Positions Incl: Med, dntl, vision, 401k, vac, sick time & more! (Ask about emp. housing). ÒWe are an EOE, Female/Minority/Veterans/ Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender IdentityÓ

MISC FOR SALE Salvaged materials for sale from green demolition of Coconino CountyÕs 1920s Art Barn in Flagstaff; call Kinney Construction Services at 928.779.2820 for a list of materials. Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 Dobsonian Reflector telescope. Great condition, Includes extras. $175. Call 928-8908260

PETS Cute, Adorable, Purebred Pomeranians. Male and Female, 7 weeks, AKC registered. 928-606-4016 Double doodles puppies are goldendoodle X labradoodle, hyperallergenic non-shedding dogs, smart and loyal. Males and Females Red, Apricots and Creamy White (928)231-1365 $2500

HOMES UNFURNISHED Ponderosa Trails, 3 Bdrm/2 Ba, w/i closets, stainless steel apps, w/d. 2 car garage w/ small yard, 1400 sq ft. Wood/Tile floors. Near NAU (12 mo min lease). Email: kpm7@nau.edu 1600.00

APARTMENTS FURNISHED Ponderosa Trails, 1bd/1ba apartment, 750 sq.ft., near NAU, 1 floor, carpeted, carport, deck, washer, dryer, fully furnished, $950.00/mo, utils. incl., $950.00 dep., 12 mo. min. lease, no pets. Call 602-254-6000

TOWNHOUSE RENTALS Boulder Pointe Townhome 3bd/2.5ba, garage, w/d, gas FP, end unit. For Rent. Call: 928-221-7128

ROOM FOR RENT Upper Greenlaw: share house w/ homeowner, own bdrm/ba, kitchen and washer dryer use, direct tv/internet/util incld., driveway prkg, $600/ mo. Call Alan 928-607-7919

STORE AND OFFICE RENTALS 2223 A & B, 1 unit, a former literacy

program space, 2700 sq. ft. $2600/ month. Water & Garbage Provided. Call 928-526-0300. Various Sizes of Store and Office Space on 4th St & 7th Ave, Some with Utilities Included. 928-526-0300.

SUVS 2007 Ford Explorer - Has been a great family vehicle, very reliable. Fits 7 comfortably. 5 new tires in 2015. Have taken it in for all routine maintenance. Exc. Condition, $8500. Call 928-6999314

Sears Washer & Dryer, good condition, $50 for both. 928-774-4245. 4” Rockwell-Delta Jointer, $50 obo; Call 928-526-6364 Refrigerator, side by side, almond color, wood grain handle, $175. Call (928) 853-9077. Artley Flute, Excellent Condition, $300. Please leave message. 928-266-0251 Road Master Bike 26”, 18 speed, excellent condition, $65, Call Jim at 928-525-2355 or 928-607-5577

4 WHEEL DRIVE 2003 Ford F350 Lariat. 6.0 Diesel 4x4. Lifted w/ new tires. No longer need a big diesel. $14000 obo. Come take a look. 928-699-5997

ATV’S & UTV’S 1998 John Deere Gator, 6 wheel, 1354 work hours, very good condit, no leaks or rust, $2000. Call (515) 992-0604.

BOATS 17’ Lowe bass 70 HP, VHF, troll, electronics, livewells 3-bank charger, $3500. (928) 607-9015.

CAMPERS Aspen tent trailer for mc/small car/ etc, much storage, easy pull, halfprice: $2000. (928) 607-9015.

MOTORCYCLES 2011 Yamaha Star 250, 4085 mi., like new, $2950 obo. 928-526-4674

RV TRAVEL TRAILERS 2012 Chalet Takena 1865EX 18ft Excellent condition, 3Õx6Õ slide, Sleeps 5, fully loaded, added trekking package, slide motors replaced 2014, $19,500 obo Call 928-225-6200 for more info Ð serious inquires only please 1983 Jayco J-Series Remodeled inside & out over the years. Clean & well cared for. Everything operates in this 23Õ self-contained camper. 522-3273 $4,400.00 obo jnsgoode@live.com

BARGAIN CORNER (1) 1974 Bonanza 18’ travel trailer, tandem axle, needs work, everything works! Scrap price, $300. 928-6004520. Lovely oversized Twin sleigh bed and nightstand set with 3 built-in storage drawers, cream color, excellent condition, $300. Call (928) 779-2338.

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