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LETTER FROM HOME
Feasting on years of yes I’m glad I was saved from no
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he driveway to the front door of the cabin where I live is a steep 50-yard lunge off a dirt road. Much of the year I goose my old truck up it without incident, but sometimes the travel of the gravel results in wavelike potholes that require a head start to gun through. Last week with gritted teeth I clutched the steering wheel of my old truck and felt the eyes of my passenger get wide as groceries bounced around the cab and tires spun a tower of dust cloud into the afternoon air. After unloading, I checked under the hood and discovered the battery had moved because a J-bolt Jean had gone missing. Not a big Rukkila job to replace it and cinch down the nut. Pleasant, really, to do such small tinkering and reaching with a wrench gave me an unexpected surprise. I suddenly felt through my bones quite a nice memory of my father who has been gone so very many decades. I could feel him standing nearby again, just like in the mid-’70s when I was leaning under the hood of my ’64 Volvo to bleed the brake master cylinder, or was I replacing the gasket on the mechanical fuel pump that had such a pretty glass inspection bowl? Maybe I was scraping metal to add goo and gasket. My father who had fixed cars his entire life watched without comment, willing to depress a pedal to help. He didn’t interfere or make suggestions, he just watched his daughter, a gal in her early ’20s trying to get her car ready to go up a mountain to be on a fire crew. I’d asked him the night before what he thought of me wanting to fight fire. Was it a good idea? I’d already ridden my 10-speed to my old high school to ask a teacher I knew who patrolled in the woods in a green truck most summers up by Payson. That teacher paused his game of handball to look me over and say, well, yes, he’d heard they were hiring women now and he guessed as I was handy with hiking, I’d keep up alright. If I really wanted to do it, he guessed I could do it and it would certainly be interesting for all. So even without my father’s opinion I’d pretty much decided to give the job a try. My father’s response? A mix of chuckle and wry smile. He worked regularly in outdoor Arizona building gauging stations and 4 | flaglive.com | May 12-18, 2016
Smokey and the author swap stories of the old days. Photo by Pez Owen tracking stream flow as an engineer with the U.S. Geological Survey. I think he probably had a pretty good idea what I might find out there, both what kind of country waited along dirt roads and what quirks of character I might find in the company of firefighting fellows. I’ve always wondered what he really thought but didn’t say. And as it turned out, we never got around to swapping stories of working outdoors for the government, as he passed away not long after my first season. I was not actually that bold in pursuing Forest Service work. I was studying for a degree in journalism from ASU after all. But one spring a friend mentioned she’d seen an ad in the newspaper for jobs on the Kaibab National Forest. We drove all the way from Phoenix to Williams to get more information and maybe apply, but then I got shy at the last minute and stayed in the car while she bravely went into the office. I studied the dashboard, eager but confused. The next year my friend Bruce Grubbs, who had multiple fire seasons under his belt, confirmed the plausibility of women
working and so I applied for fire lookout. Early in June when the Forest Service called me at the Camelback Inn where I was a payroll clerk, the fire management officer said, “Would you consider fire crew?” “Do you know how short I am?” I asked, surprised. “Well why not come on up?” he suggested. “Meet some people and see what you think.” So I did make the left turn past Rock Springs to drive the dirt curves to Crown King and I liked it. I liked the neat moustache of the man hiring and the scruffy trailers that served as quarters and the look of the saloon and so I spent the next two summers on fire crew with fellows and another gal who were all nearly as short as me, all of us wearing the same size pants. “30-inch jeans of the line-building machine,” we joked. Certainly chasing all over the district to build line around lightning-struck trees gave me a good education in the resource, so when I finally did become Horsethief Lookout in 1979, I knew how to be a good one.
True, I would work elsewhere for decades at a time, teaching writing and doing massage. But lookouts kept reeling me in. And now, 24 Forest Service seasons and one Park Service season later, I’m a retired fire lookout. I won’t be on a peak this summer. Instead of looking from a catwalk with binoculars in hand, I find myself looking back, way back in time at a young gal wiping grease off of her hands, holding her breath at what her father might say. He didn’t say no. If he felt no, he held his tongue in the face of the yes beaming out of my eyes, the yes caught in the determined actions of my car-tinkering hands. Saved from the chill of a no, I went up a dirt road with confidence and didn’t look back much, until now. And now I’m more grateful than ever at the forces known and unknown that let yes into my young life, helped yes become a habit in my outdoor-rich life. Arizona-born introvert Jean Rukkila writes from fire lookouts and her travels between Flagstaff and the mid-coast Maine farmhouse her grandfather bought in 1917. See more of her writing at www.flagstaffletterfromhome.com.
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Five-finger discount What to do about Prop 123? Dear Governor Ducey, When I lived in Portland, Ore., I had a VW Jetta. It wasn’t like my ex-boyfriends’ Volkswagens, round microbuses and beetles. The Jetta was square and gray and perfect. And then I moved myself and the Jetta to Portland where the stereo was ripped straight out of the dash. The thieves broke the window, too. This whole smashand-grab led to me and my best friend Misty to ride our bikes to Fred Meyer because we would not let some hooligans kill our Nicole dream of buying a kiddie Walker swimming pool to fill with hot water so we could manufacture a hot tub-like situation in our college dorm. We hoped to find an inflatable tub but could only find the fully formed plastic blue kind with pictures of orange fish painted on the bottom. We bought it. And then we went back to the parking lot. And then we thought, Hmm. How can we get this home? Misty is intrepid. “We’ll carry it,” she said. And she did, pedaling down 40th Avenue with a swimming pool for a hat. Not to be out intrepided, I said, “I’ll take a turn.” But then the wind kicked up. It lifted the pool like wind lifted Mary Poppins’ umbrella. The wind and the pool took me with them for a bit. And then deposited me where I belonged, on the ground, elbow broken. Later, Misty successfully installed the hot tub, but I could never partake because I couldn’t get my cast wet.
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By the end of the year, the painted orange fish had turned green with mildew. It took 12 people to throw it off the dorm room balcony. Look out below. Falling swimming pools. Falling mildew. Unseeable-orange fish. Also in Portland, the Jetta’s fuel injectors got stolen. I’d replace them. They’d get stolen again. I’d replace them. $1,500 worth of fuel injectors later, I finally got a new car. Prop 123 is like this Jetta. This is a car We the People own clear out. But the legislature stole our car stereo and would like to sell us a new one. The legislature stole our fuel injectors and would like to sell us some new ones. They stole them again and again even though the courts have told them to give us our damn fuel injectors back. They won’t. Now, they’d like us to borrow some money against a car we already own.
The State Trust Land is not the legislature’s. It is the land of the state. That means us, not them. It is our car. We shouldn’t need to borrow against it to raise the amount of money for education, especially since A) there is a $600 million budget surplus, B) the money we need already exists as long as we stop giving business tax breaks to the prison business, and C) we already own the car, the fuel injectors, and the stereo. We shouldn’t have to buy them again. Just stop taking them away. But listen. It’s tricky, I know. It is our car, but if we don’t replace the fuel injectors, we can’t drive the thing. Teachers and students need money now. And, how will it look to the legislature if we abandon our car on the side of the road just to make a statement that says, look, you already owe us this money? The courts say you have to pay it!
Prop 123 is like this Jetta. This is a car We the People own clear out. But the legislature stole our car stereo and would like to sell us a new one.
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The thieves who stole the Jetta’s fuel injectors didn’t care what the courts had to say, either. My ballot sits on the counter. I already sent it in once but I forgot to sign the envelope. I am conflicted. I want students to have lots more money. But Prop 123 has these horrible triggers that say if in a recession, no money. If unemployment goes up, no money, and it amends the constitution to say we can never spend more than 48 percent of the budget on education. The triggers scare me. They’re like saying you will own this Jetta forever. The thieves know how to crack the hood, pull the plugs. The triggers are like saying, we’ll give you this car you already own and let you borrow money against it and then if we want, we’ll take the car away. We can leave you carless, fuel injectorless, broken elbowed, with nothing but a mildewed old hot tub with fish on the bottom you can’t even see. I know I have to decide soon but I’m having a hard time. I really do love that car. 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 May 9, 2016.
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he Haim sisters—Alana, Danielle and Este—are accustomed to attention. And rightfully so; they’re talented musicians on a three-part harmonious rocket to stardom. But they are like, super-duper soaked in the waters of fame. So much so, in fact, that turning to local media outlets at this juncture of their star-studded career, they do not. But whatevs, HAIM, like Tupac once said, we ain’t mad at cha. So touché, ladies we’re presuming have no relation to the late Corey, you don’t need little old us to let folks know you’re musical juggernauts. But we’re gonna do it anyway! HAIM has technically been a band for quite some time, but really stepped up its game in 2012 with South by Southwest exposure and a full-length record, Days Are Gone (2013). With drummer Dash Hutton (not a Haim, but at least they didn’t have to re-do the monogrammed tour towels), the sisters scaled global music charts like King Kong, and even landed a nomination at last year’s Grammy Awards for Best New Artist. And this is where we admit Haim snubbed us: because they’re soaking up studio time with the hope of a new record. And if their history is any indication, we’re all ears for the danceable, rockable follow-up. See what they’re up to at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen, with Cameron Avery opening. Doors to this all-ages event open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $27. To learn more, call 556-1580 or visit www.haimtheband.com.
Speaking of snubs, we received another just last week with sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith, also known as Rising Appalachia. To be fair, cell reception is a bear in Texas, so we ain’t mad at cha either, Smith sisters! Backed by Arouna Diarra—a griot from the Mandingue culture of West Africa—the two-part harmonious ladies tear into sound with sensual prowess, igniting internal and external revolutions the world over. Shoot, their last show at the Green Room was packed to near-capacity as all in attendance sought to build a lyrical campfire in their souls. With song on banjo and fiddle, they strike up duets and poetic harmonies, accompanied by their full-time band with Biko Casini on percussion and David Brown on upright bass and baritone guitar. With messages of hope in the face of political adversity, listeners can expect a taste of jazz- and hip-hop-laden instrumentals and folk standards to New Orleans soul, Smokey Mountain traditionals, and activist anthems—all swirled around the sisters’ hometown culture born of Atlanta, Ga., in a style that redefines folk music as a truly living art. Using sound as a tool to spark a cultural revolution and birth a new movement, the Smith sisters will bring you to the brink of that new road at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show kicks off at 8 p.m. All ages. Tickets are $14 in advance and $20 the day of the show. 5561580. www.risingappalachia.com.
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Let’s play a little word association game. I say peanut butter you say … of course you say, “fluff!” Or jelly—whatever floats ya. What about if I say Austin? That last one’s a bit of a trick question. Sure, natural inclinations could lead you to country, or maybe even rock ‘n’ roll. But for the musical mecca that is Austin, Texas, any genre can find a home in the big state’s blue island. Sharks in the Deep End have been learning this treasured truth. The new wave/indie outfit has set out full steam ahead since the six members got together, and finally released their debut record in April. Killin’ Machine represents a well-drawn sound that explores the cavernous human mind for all its quirks and anxieties—all intricately woven between a sonic tapestry with synth-driven fibers, heavy and harmonious
Hot Picks vocal delay and loopy strings. The record also got top-tier treatment from some of the best producers and engineers in the biz these days, who harnessed lead singer and guitarist Tucker Jameson’s vision to face his fears along with Chris Konte tickling the keys; Sam Thompson fiddling with lead guitar and Matt Shearon on drums. Clayton Lillard tackles percussion and everything else while Mason Hankamer hammers the bass. Tune in for a full sound with Mrch joining in at the Green Room, 15 N. Agassiz, with this free ages 21-andover show beginning at 9 p.m. 266-8669. www.sharksinthedeepend.com.
» Friday | 5.13 LIVE LIKE MALIBU Under the surfside sun of Mohave Beach, Tiki Bandits have been punishing ear drums and dancing feet with speedy sounds for a few years. Frank Voodoo, of Glow Skulls fame, takes lead on the mic while Becca Parks, formerly of Arizona’s Safewerd, strokes the strings and belts beach-bound beauty. Aaron McCart hangs ten on groovy bass and Cuca Escobar, a veteran of Vegas Beach rockers the Broads, punches out the backbeat like a barroom brawler. Recently adding Dennis Stephen on piano, Tiki’s full sound resonates through amped-up oldies and sweaty surf-punk covers. They’re bringing in Phoenix’s Surfside IV to round out the night and shoot the curl with fuzz and reverb-soaked sounds of sun and surf in the desert, where the closest wave rips at Sun Splash, but who’s counting? Nuclear Beach Party is also packing in their ska from the Valley of the Sun while Flag’s western-surf-psych outfit, Barrels, gets down and out with punchy tunes to make your neck hurt from all the hunkered down shuffle steps. And for fans of the latter, get your rocks off with the dudes for the last time, as this will be their final show for the foreseeable future. Come party like Malibu would want you to—healed by Mother Nature, brewskis and babes at the Green Room, 15 N. Agassiz, at 8 p.m. There is no cover for this ages 21-and-over show. 226-8669. Peep the Facebook event page for more.
» Fri-Sat | 5.13–5.14 THE STUFF AND MOVEMENT Have you ever wondered what a festival combining every single dance company in town would look like? If you answered “no,” then hang up and try again. In fact, dial up Canyon Movement Company‘s annual Spring Dance Festival. With performing groups Canyon Movement Company, Human Nature Dance Theatre, Velocity Dance Company, Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy, CMC’s Dance for Parkinson’s program with Flag Aerial instructors, two evenings of non-stop dance will blow you away with Flag-born talent. Filmmaker Amanda Kapp is also on deck to spin special dance magic on screen while the steppers on stage present innovative and contemporary moves—all to the tune of original and fresh out the box. This year’s event is sponsored by the Arizona Community Foundation, with Canyon Movement Company awarded a grant to bring youth and seniors together with students from FALA working with senior dancers to create choreography for this show and during the Dance for PD/ Seniors program. The Gala Festival concert strikes up at 7:30 pm at the Clifford E. White Theatre, 1115 S. Knoles Drive, on NAU’s north campus next to Ardrey Auditorium. Suggested donations are $15 for adults and $10 for children and students, and are accepted at the door. 774-3937. www.canyonmovementcompany.org.
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With all the sad music news churning out like ill-meaning butter, some of us here at Flag Live recently took inventory of the legends still kicking for our collective benefit, particularly in the home of the blues. On the old school ticket, Taj Mahal and Buddy Guy still tour regularly (Mr. Guy will appear at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe on June 3 for all interested parties— and you should really be interested). But there are a few young bucks and does worth their salt, climbing the ranks to fill voids as best they can—many even learned at the feet of the greats themselves. Enter Jake La Botz. At 47, the Chicagoland native has seen the road from both sides, having dropped out of school at 15 to pick up a guitar and never look back. He’s shared stages with Taj and Guy, Jr. Wells, Ray Charles and David “Honeyboy” Edwards—one of the last of the pre-war Delta bluesmen who passed in 2011—to name a few. With grit and a timbre that runneth over with notes of leather and rich mahogany, La Botz has spliced honkytonk blues with rockabilly and soul across seven studio cuts, and on screen as an actor in films like Animal Farm (2000) from Steve Buscemi and Sly Stallone’s 2008 Rambo. Otherwise, he’s on the road, touring “Tattoo Across America” at fine ink establishments. He’ll even land in Flag at the State Bar, 10 E. Rte. 66, courtesy of Birch Avenue Tattoo. Raffles, auctions and door prizes all benefit tattooer Brian Randal. No Rising Appalachia. Courtesy photo cover. Music kicks on at 8 p.m. 266-1282. www.jakelabotz.com. PET OF THE WEEK
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ometimes all it takes to spark a forgotten memory are a few words, maybe even just one. A couple weeks ago, that’s exactly what happened to me. One day at work the topic of HAIM— who plays the Orpheum on Wednesday night—came up and whether or not I was planning on covering them. The answer to that was yes, unfortunately, they later declined an interview. Whatever the case, in the course of our conversation, one of my colleagues, Seth Muller, jokingly referred to them as “the modern female Hanson,” and all of a sudden my mind went back to my freshman year of college and the now defunct Nita’s Hideaway. And while it’s not really a word, if it were, it might as well have been Andrew MMMbop. Wisniewski One of the things I absolutely love about this strange world we live in is that we never really know where we might end up. And, fortunately, over the course of my life I’ve been lucky enough to find myself in a lot of great places, and on occasion, places with famous (or once-famous) people. Like the summer of 2009 when I beat rapper DMX in dominoes not once, or twice, but thrice! at a house warming party. Or like the time, while mountain biking in Telluride a few years back—after getting launched over my handle bars on a downhill, bloodied and covered in mud from ripping up a trail full of puddles—in a crowd of people, I locked and held eyes with Jon Stewart, who was there promoting Rosewater at the town’s big annual film festival. I wanted so badly to say hello and pay my respect to his work, but I was a wreck. He looked at me as if to acknowledge my work that day, we waved, and that was that. Another one of those little gems that I rarely dust off was when I ended up on Hanson’s tour bus in 2003. For those who don’t remember Hanson, they are a trio of brothers who skyrocketed to music fame in 1997 with their hit single “MMMbop” which, at the time and much to everyone in the world’s chagrin, was played everywhere and got stuck in heads for far too long. Like most people, I couldn’t stand them, and then I met my high school crush and, you know … really pretty girl. Once, to show that I liked her, I penned a hand-written letter asking
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them if they’d be kind enough to sign a photo and address it to her for her birthday. And believe it, they did. Several years later she and I ended up at the same college, and I saw that Hanson was coming to town. Still good friends, I decided to surprise her with tickets. She was over the moon, even all those years later—and yes, I’m putting in print that I willingly purchased tickets to see Hanson and, yes again, went. Now, in the on-going pursuit of a beautiful girl, and not at all thinking about music, I was a little beside myself when they turned out to be good. Like, really good. They didn’t turn me into a fan or anything, but I was impressed. After the show, with my head still spinning at the fact that I had actually enjoyed a Hanson concert (also in print), I thought to myself: I’m going to get her on that bus so she can meet them. She went to the merch table and I quickly cycled from roadie to tour manager and back again to anyone I could find that might grant my wish. No luck. Then, just as I was about to give up, a guy came up to me and said that they had agreed to meet us. I assumed it was out of pity for my relentlessness. I later found out they saw her during the show. Either way, we were on. As if the surprise of them being good musicians wasn’t enough, they turned out to be really cool guys. Alongside my friend who could barely breathe, we made small talk, and then I reached, asking if they remembered receiving a letter years back requesting an autographed birthday pic (with the underwritten intention of helping a guy win the girl, per se). They did! And then they offered us pizza and beer and asked us to hang out. Never ones to turn down either of those free things, we said yes. We talked about the insanity that was Hanson mania and what that was like, they asked what our stories were, and the whole time my friend gushed non-stop. They even asked her if she wanted to travel with them to San Diego. And because I needed another surprise that night, she respectfully declined—after much internal struggle I assure you. A few slices and a beer later, we re-entered the real world, my friend with a ton of signed schwag, and both of us with that memory. “Mmmbop, ba duba dop/Ba du bop, ba duba dop/Ba du bop, ba duba dop/Ba du, yeah.”
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Google Sees the Future
Google filed a U.S. Patent Office application on April 28 for a vision-improvement device in liquid form that once inserted, i.e. injected directly into the eyeball, solidifies into not only a lens replacement for the eye but an instrument that carries its own storage, radio and wireless power supply. The idea, according to inventor Andrew Jason Conrad, is to better focus light onto the retina. The patent process does not assure that the device will ever come to fruition, but it might indicate that Google’s parent, Alphabet, is concerned that other inventors might be doing similar work.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit!
Entrepreneur.com reported in April the surprising success of “Ship Your Enemies Glitter,” in which, for about $10, the startup sends an envelope full of glitter that, when opened, scatters, irritating or enraging the recipient. The concept was an overnight sensation, but quickly petered out and was seemingly worthless— until a prescient businessman offered $85,000 for its two assets: 1) a valuable list of customers who might buy similar pranks (such as a cupcake that’s really horse manure), and 2) an opportunity at additional waves of customers newly discovering the original glitter product. The $85,000 purchaser now reports sales “in the high six figures.”
Compelling Explanations
Peter Jensen of Athol, Idaho, filed a lawsuit against the state transportation department in April after his driving privileges were revoked because his car had no license plate. For the inconvenience, he believes he deserves $5.6 million in damages (gold and silver only, please) because, for example, there is nothing about “license plates” in the Ten Commandments.
Simple as That
Bingham County, Idaho, Sheriff Craig Rowland told reporters in March that the state legislature had no reason to improve the statewide administration of “rape kit” evidence because the majority of local rape accusations are, he is certain, consensual sex. Scout Hodge, 20, angry at his mother, was charged with arson in Austin, Texas, in January for setting fire to her rug. He told police he did it as a “political” statement and to prove he isn’t a “loser.”
Modern Problems
Sophia Sanchez, 27, was charged with intentionally crashing her car into her boyfriend’s vehicle in April in Riverside, Ill. According to police, the couple had been arguing the night before, and Sanchez said she felt she had to disable his car so that he would talk to her. William Timothy Thomas, 25, was arrested for vandalizing a home in Largo, Fla., in April. He told police he needed to go “destroy” stuff because he “listened to too much music and masturbated too much.”
Leading Economic Indicators
As China’s real-estate construction boom fades, tempers have flared, and according to a local government officer in Hebei province, two companies’ officials angling for a contract wildly dueled each other in their bulldozers in an incident captured on video. The losing driver was seen running from his toppled machine. Italy’s top appeals court ruled in April that a homeless man stealing cheese and sausage from a grocery store in Genoa, and who received a six-month jail term for it, was actually not guilty of criminal behavior at all. The court set him free using
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Least Competent Cops Motorist Rebecca Musarra was stopped for speeding in October 2015 by state troopers in New Jersey, and dutifully handed over her license, insurance and registration, but declined to answer the troopers’ “do you know why we stopped you” questions. Annoyed at her silence, troopers Matthew Stazzone and Demetric Gosa threatened several times with increasing aggressiveness, according to dashboard video obtained by NJ Advance Media, to arrest Musarra for “obstruction.” Musarra pointed out that—as nearly every American knows—she has the right to remain silent. The troopers nonetheless arrested her then recited, of course, her “right to remain silent.” After nearly two hours back at the station, a supervisor offered a weak apology and released her. Musarra, an attorney, unsurprisingly has filed a federal lawsuit.
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Cavalcade of Weird Animals The species Acanthonus armatus first showed up in waters near Vancouver, B.C., 10 years ago, generating ichthyological excitement—in that it is widely known as the a**fish. The Royal BC Museum in Victoria, B.C., put one on display in January with its bulbous head and flabby skin resembling a “glorified tadpole,” said a museum curator, who declined to guess at the origin of the a**fish name (bypassing a chance to link it to the fish’s large mouth and tiny brain.)
Cliches Come to Life The British broadcast censor Ofcom declined to punish a January edition of The Jeremy Kyle Show on which a guest used a “well-known swear word”—because the speaker has a Scottish accent and, Ofcom said, probably no more than two or three people thus comprehended what he was saying. The body of Peter “Petey Crack” Martinez, 28, who had a long rap sheet, washed up on a beach in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 23 with his feet encased up to his shins in a bucket of hardened cement. It was the first time veteran New York detectives could ever recall seeing actual “cement shoes” though they have, of course, been icons of true-crime stories for decades.
Chutzpah! Ricardo Ruiz, 26, was arrested in March on complaints from women that he had groped them at parks in Davie and Cooper City, Fla., but the case got easier afterward when police were tipped to a YouTube video that they believe is of Ruiz, addressing the camera while driving a car and extolling his groping habit. “Man, today was a good … day, touching a**,” he says. “If you don’t touch a**, you’re crazy. That’s all I got to say.”
A News of the Weird Classic (March 2012) Louis Helmburg III filed a lawsuit in Huntington, W.V., in February (2012) against the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and its member Travis Hughes for injuries Helmburg suffered in May 2011 when he fell off a deck at the fraternity house. The reason he gave for falling was that he had been startled, and toppled backward off the rail-less deck, after Hughes attempted to fire a bottle rocket “out of his anus”—and the rocket, instead, exploded in place. The lawsuit did not refer to Hughes’ injuries.
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action, humor and good storytelling that is necessary to create a top-notch blockbuster. Obviously big budget, computer-generated extravaganzas are becoming par for the course when it comes to tentpole summer fare. Still, I think we’ve all sat through our share of Captain Sam Mossman CGI snooze fests that don’t enthrall like they hen an Avengers’ mission results America: should. It’s just further in unexpected collateral damage, Civil War proof that you need it invites a new level of governDirected by something more than ment scrutiny for the superhero team. expensive effects to Despite having saved the world a couple of Anthony & make a movie great, and times already, the Avengers have run out of Joe Russo Civil War has a big dose leeway when it comes to running around Rated PG-13 of those other things. without supervision. They are asked to eiThere is a great onther sign a set of peacekeeping accords and HARKINS THEATRES screen dynamic becomply with a multi-national council or tween Tony Stark and accept early retirement. Captain America Cap, and the rest of the (Chris Evans) believes any government incast performs admivolvement will come with a hidden agenda while Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) doesn’t rably. We’ve seen all of these characters before in other Marvel films and we are want the Avengers to be able to continue definitely getting to know them by now, so without oversight. The whole affair leaves the Avengers split and on the verge of tear- it’s great to see that they are still getting quality time onscreen as the Marvel Cineing each other apart matic Universe continues to expand. Not to Captain America: Civil War is a real mention the fact that seeing Spider-Man summer treat. It’s got that perfect mix of
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on the same screen as the Avengers is long overdue. If you haven’t been keeping up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe this may not be the best place to start, but if you have enjoyed the story so far, Civil War won’t disappoint. My only real compliant is that Captain America has to share so much of his screen time. It’s no secret that I have really been
enjoying what Disney has done to bring the Marvel Universe to the silver screen. However, Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Winter Soldier (2014) were shining gems in an already outstanding franchise. While I still really enjoyed Civil War, the large ensemble cast makes it feel more like another Avengers film and less like a new Captain America story.
and The History Boys (2004) makes an appearance at the end. Jim Broadbent, Frances De La Tour, Roger Allam and Deborah Findley offer good support in the film.
Maggie Smith has been a great actress for so many years. Seeing her star in a challenging role confirms that greatness. The Lady in the Van is not a perfect film, but it does have a perfect leading lady.
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Camden Town who allowed Miss Shepherd to park her van in his driveway, but only temporarily of course. She stayed Erin Shelley for 15 years. The film gives us a tale of these two loners forming a bond while aggie Smith, now 81 years old, also serving up a mystery. Who is Miss started her film career in 1958. Shepherd? Where did she come from? She’s won two Oscars for The She can speak French, says she was a Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and nun, and hates music. It’s a mystery that Plaza Suite (1971), she had a recurring Bennett (Alex Jennings) role in the Harry Potter films, and she slowly solves as he puts was a highlight of the series Downton Ab- The Lady up with Shepherd’s bey with her role as the Dowager Counin the Van arrogant attitude and tess. Her career is remarkable, and she is cranky manner. still showing us why it’s been a long and Directed by Smith is wonderful in rewarding one, especially when she gets a Nicholas Hytner the role of Miss Sheprole like Miss Shepherd in The Lady in the Rated PG-13 herd. She gives life to a Van (2015). The movie never showed in Flagstaff Amazon Prime character that could be too sweet and quirky in when it was first released; after all, it’s a other hands. Instead, small British film that did not get a lot of though Miss Shepherd attention. Yet it earned a Golden Globe is interesting, she is not easy to like. nomination for Smith—and you can see Even Bennett has difficulty helping her. why when watching the film. The wonJennings is effective as the beleaguered derful Smith gets a chance to shine as a Bennett. He plays two parts of himself cantankerous old woman who is, well … in the film; many of his scenes have him not quite homeless. After all, she has a van she can live in, but no place to park it. discussing Miss Shepherd with himself. The real Bennett, who would go on to This is a true story, written by Alan write The Madness of King George (1995) Bennett, who was the one person in
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You can’t handle the tooth! Dan Stoffel fter almost 15 years of coordinating the Flag Live Screen section, I sometimes struggle to come up with ideas. It can help to look inward, and this week I only had to look as far as Tooth #19—or the void it used to occupy. Yes, dear readers, it’s dental implant time! And there’s nothing like a little oral to inspire one’s writing. Oral surgery, I mean. Sheesh. Probably the most famous movie dentist is the great Laurence Olivier’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of Szell, the Nazi war criminal who goes to town on Dustin Hoffman’s mouth in Marathon Man (1976). I’m a certified dentaphobe, and nothing reinforces that fear more than watching a death camp dentist dig into a cavity; every time my Mom dragged me to the dentist, she would mutter “Is it safe? Is it safe?” on the way there. If you prefer crappy B horror movies, there’s Corbin Bernsen (postL.A. Law) as the sadistic cuckold Dr. Alan Feinstone in The Dentist (1996). And yes, it’s as painful to watch as an actual trip to the chair. On the lighter side of agonizing aperture infiltration are both versions of not-sonice tooth doctors in The Little Shop of Horrors. In the original 1960 film directed by Roger Corman, John Shaner stars as the cruel dentist who seeks excruciating revenge on Seymour (Jonathan Haze) for messing up his flower arrangement. After accidentally killing the dentist, Seymour has to take his place when masochist patient Wilbur Force (a very young Jack Nicholson) shows up to get his—err—tonsils
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off. After the movie was adapted into a successful musical in the early ’80s, that in turn was adapted into a 1986 movie starring Rick Moranis as the bumbling Seymour. Steve Martin chews up the scenery, channeling Elvis as Dr. Orin Scrivello, the violent boyfriend of Seymour’s love interest Audrey (Ellen Greene). There’s a great mouth’s-eye-view of Scrivello at work, and things get even juicier when Bill Murray shows up as the pain-loving patient who can take everything Scrivello dishes out. It’s one of the great scenes in Modern American Musical Dental Comedy Cinema. Wow, that’s a mouthful. Looking for a romantic drama to fill your oral fixation? The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002) stars Campbell Scott and Hope Davis as David and Dana, husband-and-wife dentists whose marriage is in jeopardy. Denis Leary plays the gruff patient who becomes David’s sounding board. How ‘bout ’60s comedy farce? Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn star in Cactus Flower (1969), for which Hawn took home a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Matthau plays a dentist, Bergman his secretly-adoring nurse, and Hawn the adorable girlfriend Toni. It’s all great fun, but avoid at all costs the 2011 Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston remake Just Go With It. It’s awful … but I already mentioned it stars Adam Sandler, so I repeat myself. There are good ways to spend two hours in a chair, and there are bad ways. If you can escape to film instead of suffering through the real thing, I highly recommend it. Now: rinse, spit, and open wide.
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Town’s eye 4 Flag TV showcases Flagstaff’s best qualities and quirks Taylor Haynes mall mountain towns usually don’t have their own local video web series. Flagstaff is an exception—with 4 Flag TV, local events, artists, non-profits and athletics are showcased and shared with the world. This project, created and produced by Nicholas Geib, celebrates northern Arizona with short documentary-style videos. Viewers might recognize local eateries, familiar faces, their favorite trails or a local event they attended. While 4 Flag TV is directed toward a younger audience, all generations may find a video that piques their curiosity. People of all ages, backgrounds and interests are profiled or interviewed, and one thing is certain: northern Arizona has a culturally vibrant, diverse community that deserves attention. After living in Los Angeles, Geib returned to Flagstaff, his hometown, and wondered if his skills in filmmaking could be utilized to give back and create connections in the community. He has a background in narrative fiction short films, a style on the opposite side of the cinematic spectrum from the documentaries he makes today, but lends to the program’s approachability and eye for storytelling. “Ever since leaving and coming back, I’ve had a renewed appreciation for what this town has to offer. I just want to reflect that: the weirdness, the arts, the young people and the community,” Geib says. He spoke of the difficulties with start-up project like his—many people thought his ideas would not be viable—but 4 Flag TV has been steadily gaining more attention and fans since its inception on June 15, 2015. Most people wouldn’t expect a small videography company to be successful in a relatively small town, but the project’s Facebook page boasts more than 2,300 likes and posts new content almost daily. 4 Flag TV has defied odds and is nearing its first anniversary. Most recently, on May 9, the company released a sleek new website, entirely dedicated to local coverage. On the website, people can catch up on local events, learn more about their fellow Flagstaffians and, generally, be inspired by rad, interesting and adventurous people. Video topics range anywhere from local non-profits like Feeding Northern Arizona’s Future to exhilarating mountain biking along Sedona’s Hiline Trail. Viewers can navigate the website through tags, such as “Flag,” “arts” or “community,” to hone the selection to their individual preferences.
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Geib says. “And I just think our generation is like any other generation—we like anything, as long as it relates to us and isn’t condescending.” Most videos are interview based—Geib tends to avoid narration—allowing for the subjects to speak for themselves. The videos present the subjects comfortably and without pretension, lending a sense of authenticity. Geib’s primary host, Dapper Dre, is personable and helps subjects open up about their lives and work. The camera (or GoPro or drone) seems to blend in with the scene, letting the voices and atmosphere create the story. Geib will place the camera in the middle of a sweaty dance floor at a crowded house show; he will attach a GoPro to the front of someone’s mountain bike. Watching the videos, the viewer has a sense of what the event or activity was like, vicariously experiencing the adrenaline rush of a wild concert or ex4 Flag TV’s Nicholas Geib. Photo by J. Daniel Hud treme sport. “I’ll just do interviews, as the context for the audience,” Geib says. “The videos are created to feel like you’re there, with a group of people. That’s the vibe that I want to capture. Instead of just showing a guy biking, I want to make people want to try it.” There’s never “just a guy biking” in the videos. Instead, Geib goes deeper. How does the individual feel in that moment, on the precipice of a steep and rugged decline? What is it like to emerge on a plateau, with a dramatic panorama before your eyes? “Flagstaff is unimpressed by false statuses,” Geib says. “Locals are generally unimpressed by wealth, celebrity, or how good of a climber you are. They just care if you’re down to show up and have a good time. I try not to make things too flashy or impressive.” In a way, 4 Flag TV is impressive: it has filled a niche that is not easily filled. Geib and the crew have brought the Flagstaff community closer and have provided a platform Nicholas Geib (left) on the job with host (and shoeless) Dapper Dre. Courtesy photo for those who usually do not receive media coverage. In the future, Geib hopes to broaden the enjoyable, humorous and able to be watched The videos are most often viewed through Facebook; social media has truly provided an on the run, its content is anything but shallow program’s content. He hopes to keep the videos relevant and exciting, without losing the or bland. Geib estimates 25 percent or more opportunity for the project to blossom. The newness that has attracted its returning fans. company follows the trend of shorter, snappy of the audience is between 18 and 24 years 4 Flag TVis a media outlet intent on preold—Millennials, who like convenience, but videos to get the message across, similar to senting Flagstaff in its truest, quirkiest, those produced by Vox, Attn:, and NowThis. can easily detect BS. wackiest and best light. “I think people are like, ‘Oh, young kids This format forces stories to be conveyed in To check out all of 4 Flag TV’s videos, past only like pop-culture, funny irreverent stuff concise and simpler terms, but doesn’t reand they don’t want things to be too serious,’” and present, visit www.4flagtv.com. strict the subject matter. While 4 Flag TV is
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t the nadir of the alternative scene of the 1990s, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton were looking for something different. Based in Washington, D.C., they had met in 1995 at a popular lounge co-owned by Hilton, an entrepreneurial sort who had been producing parties for the hotspot known as the Eighteenth Street Lounge, which was located in an old mansion with three floors renovated for DJ-driven music events. The duo decided to use the venue, drawing from the musicians it attracted, to create a collective entity that has been known for 20 years as Thievery Corporation. What they were looking for back then, recalls Garza during a recent telephone interview from his home of seven years in San Francisco, was something new to inject into the electronic dance music scene. New hip-hop acts and ultra-hip sampling processors such as Fat Boy Slim and the Chemical Brothers were
replacing the heroes of Pearl-Jam-landia. Digital drums leapt to the front like mighty hammers, smashing the primacy of grunge and noodling guitar solos to bits. The appropriation of beats and found sounds was all the rage, and Garza and Hilton, after rummaging through the record stores in Baltimore, bought old bossa nova albums, dub records and soundtrack music, and began incorporating those inspirational elements into recordings made at Hilton’s studio. Garza says it got to the point that they realized their love for Brazilian bossa nova from 30 years before might be updated with the new production values and the trance-like electronic vibe of the emerging age. The duo drew attention with their first two 12inch offerings, “Shaolin Satellite,” a dark, intense, bass-driven and danceable electronic track, and “2001 Spliff Odyssey,” where dub meets a kind of spacey, atmospheric jazz. With their 1997 debut LP, Sounds
from the Thievery Hi-Fi, the duo showed a desire to break into more and more of what had at that point been known as world music. “In ’95 we were really just doing it for the fun of it, but then people really responded to the music,” Garza says. “After the first two singles, people from all over were into us. It was at that point that we decided to create a business that was sustainable. The music we were creating had a trippy quality where you couldn’t be sure if it was from the future or the past.” What they were doing has since been labeled “lounge” or “downtempo,” but Garza says at the time the easy listening labels of those early years were just fads. What they wanted to do was put some old roots music on steroids, borrowing from Bollywood to Buenos Aires, especially from the bossa nova movement in Brazil in the 1960s, “and get a different take on some of this different music,” Garza says.
Thievery Corporation keeps the thrill in ‘chill’ for two decades
Thick as Thieves By Douglas McDaniel
From left: Rob Garza and Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation. Courtesy photo
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Thievery Corporation performing at All Good Festival (2015) in Summit Point, W.V. Photo by John Shore
Those early efforts were basic experiments. In the years since Moby’s Play became a permanent monument on the radio and television landscape, beyond the gogo Internet days of 2000, electronic dance music has taken over the night club scene in urban America. The recordings of this century by Thievery Corporation have shown the willingness to move into indefinable directions of sound accompanied by the voices of many nations. And more than having fun with samples, which got them into the game to begin with, their music has taken on themes of political and social immediacy on a world-wide scale. Playing dub, acid jazz, space rock to the chill side of Pink Floyd, as well as a fusion of reggae, Indian classical and Middle Eastern styles, all to the
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“Having music that is coming from a global perspective opens people’s minds, gives them a broader view of the world.” — Rob Garza
predominant, insistent beat of hip-hop, Thievery Corporation is a politically progressive act intent on opening listeners’ minds to foreign sounds so they no longer feel foreign. Remarkably, during their career they have created songs with lyrics in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian and Hindi. Ranging from a kind of romantic elegance to dark and perilous tracks full of intricate details caught in a minimalist web, each album is a kind of urgent trek across many musical horizons, often to a dub or bass beat, then jumping into reggae or a cosmic jazz suite: music that can be played at low volumes but still
make you feel like you are living on the edge. “Having music that is coming from a global perspective opens people’s minds, gives them a broader view of the world,” Garza says. “It makes you think a little bit. I don’t think our music is necessarily political. It is inspired by music from bands like Public Enemy, Fugazi, the punk stuff, bands like the Clash. There’s something liberating about being able to say anything.”
If recent records have contained—from track to track—multiple styles of music, the most recent album, Saudade, released in 2014, sticks to the Brazilian and bossa nova side of things. Garza says it was a way of going full circle after 20 years. “For us, we have always been influenced by Brazilian music and for that record, rather than jumping from style to style, we would take a break, choose one particular form,” he says. “With the next album we are going to release later this year, we recorded it at Point Antonio in Jamaica. There’s a Jamaican theme throughout and we are very excited about it.”
Of course, to keep all of those musical influences under one band’s roof, Thievery Corporation has grown beyond Garza and Hilton into a larger band of supporting musicians including Rob Myers, Loulou Ghelichkhani, Natalia Clavier, Frank “Booty Lock” Mitchell, Mr. Lif, Jeff Franca and Ashish Vyas. “We have great musicians from all over the country, people from Argentina, Iran and Jamaica,” Garza says. “It really feels like a circus with a great cast of characters” But don’t ever think it’s chill or downtempo or lounge music, he adds—if you come to see it live. “I hope people see it as Thievery Corporation music,” Garza says. “A lot of songs might seem chilled out when
you play them at home, but get it pumping into a live sound system, really gets the heart going.” Join Thievery Corporation during their 20th Anniversary Tour on Sat, May 14 at the Pepsi Amphitheater, Exit 337 off I-17 south of Flagstaff at Ft. Tuthill County Fairgrounds. The Emancipator Ensemble and Drunken Immortals will kick things off. Gates open at 5 p.m. and the show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $45 (plus fees) online at www.pepsiamp.com. They can also be purchased for $49 (straight up) at Rainbow’s End downtown. The day of the show tickets bump up to $55 (plus fees) at the door. For more info about the show, call (866) 977-6849. To learn more about the band, visit www.thieverycorporation.com.
Photos by John Shore.
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Former Flag writer, Jim Ruland, chases the dark and weird at Thunderclap Emily Hoover ady Luck has blown on her last pair of dice at the Thunderclap Casino, just east of San Diego on the Yukemaya Indian Reservation, where the soap in the bathroom “smells like fake cheer.” Only Alice, one of the casino’s many somber slot techs; Lupita, a gambling addict; and Pemberton, a good ad man with a bad drug problem, don’t know it yet. Inside Thunderclap, the most desperate—employees and patrons alike—find a force that haunts them; it seeks to trap them in the smoke-clouded, artificially lit, low-ceilinged tribal casino because, well, is it not easier to spin again than face one’s demons? Fiction writer Jim Ruland probes this very question in his 2015 novel Forest of Fortune. It follows these three protagonists and a wide array of supporting characters—from Ayurvedic healers and Armenian trading post clerks to Vegas casino bosses, outlaw bikers, and Native American rap-metal bands—as they succumb (or pull away from) the neon light that shackles them to their pasts. 2015 was a big year for Ruland, a U.S. Navy veteran and graduate of Northern Arizona University’s former MFA program in creative writing. He published a short story collection, Big Lonesome, and co-authored two memoirs: Giving the Finger (2014) with Scott Campbell, Jr. of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and My Damage with Keith Morris, founding member of the punk bands Black Flag and Circle Jerks (which will be released this summer). He also writes book reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books and is the book columnist for San Diego CityBeat. While these fun facts are impressive, they are somewhat expected for a widely published writer. What’s most impressive about Ruland is his other work experience: he still serves as the monthly gambling and casino columnist for Eephus and, in the past, has worked as a copywriter for advertisement agencies and tribal casinos. All writers have had jobs they hope to write about, but not all writers have been as skillful as Ruland. Because Forest of Fortune defies genre— Ruland mixes equal parts modern noir and neo-Gothic literary fiction with a pinch of supernatural ghost story—it creates space for characters that are both pop-fiction sympathetic and highbrow complex. When
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to better capture Lupita’s voice, is both culturally responsible and authentic to the narrative. Despite Ruland’s reliance on weak similes—he makes up for it with lines like “O’Nan replied with a smile full of crooked tombstones”—he extends his talent for characterization to setting descriptions. That is, the decaying casino, with its “weathered Author Jim Ruland. Courtesy photo and wind-scraped walls,” musty carpets, rich food, and rows of slots is “reminiscent we first meet Alice, she’s just had an epilep- At the beginning of the novel, he is home- of a budget hotel: pleasant but forgettable,” complete with a “floor-to-ceiling mural of tic seizure on the casino floor while repairing less and jobless, running to Thunderclap from a relationship “that’s on life support.” a waterfall.” He blends this cheesy casino the most popular machine, appropriately By the (necessary but unexpected) ending, environment with the desert of southeastern called the Loot Caboose. As coworkers and California, where “rock formations decoinconvenienced gamblers surround her, Al- he’s saving lives with a war ax. No matter rated the landscape, but the vegetation was how outlandish Pemberton appears, his ice comes to, realizing “her underwear was withered, the soil eroded, revealing concrete character change is both satisfying and only somewhat damp, thank God, but the posts where the fake rocks were anchored to shame clung to her.” We soon learn Alice has realistic. Similarly, we first meet the widthe earth.” In marrying the man-made with owed Lupita at the slots. It’s where she been having seizures since she was a child, the natural—and in fashioning real characgoes when she’s lonely even though she she has trust issues with fellow casino emters to a surrealistic landscape—Ruland sucdoesn’t like to think of herself as “some ployees who “kiss her a** until they figure ceeds in creating a lost-in-time feeling that pinche bingera with nothing better to do out she [is] a different breed of Indian with is hard to shake off. Readers can bet they’ll no clout at the casino,” and she still thinks of with her time.” Her feelings for the casino hit the jackpot with this darkly comic, comher deceased alcoholic mother “in the hours are “as primal as sex, only better” and passionate debut novel. when “she [is] feeling so good, she turn[s] before dawn” even though it’s been years since she’s been tasked with worrying about off her phone … she [doesn’t] want to talk to anyone. She [doesn’t] want to eat … All her. These details, while intriguing and Emily Hoover is a widely published journalist, poet, poignant, are only the beginning, for Alice’s she [wants] is just one more score.” As this and fiction writer living in the Southwest. She passage shows, Ruland is apt at entering characterization is never cliché. earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern the mind of the gambler (or any addict for The same is true for copywriter PemArizona University in 2015. Her book reviews have berton, who is sort of like Don Draper’s (of that matter) in order to preserve suspense been most recently featured in Southern Literary Mad Men) coked-out, whisky-sick cousin. and tension; moreover, his use of Spanglish, Review, Fiction Writers Review and Ploughshares.
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Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Regular museum admission rates apply. $12 adults (18 and up); $8 Beasley Gallery: Bachelor of Fine Arts Show: Spring 2016. youth, students with ID and American Indians; children 10 Free entry. Runs through May 13. Located on the second and under are free. 3101 N. Ft. Valley Road. 774-5213 floor of the Performing and Fine Arts building. Gallery hours Red Rock State Park: Guided nature walk at 10 a.m. Tue, Thu and Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 1115 S. Knoles Drive, on the Guest speaker or a ranger/naturalist gives a 45-minute NAU campus. 523-4612 talk at 2 p.m. Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehicle.
B.E. Yoga Center: Mama Terra. New art exhibit from grad- 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 uates of 2016 ArtBox Institute. 5:30-8 p.m. Runs through Turquoise Tortoise Gallery: “Native American Narrative.” May 30. Free. 9 N. Leroux. 440-5444 Spotlighting Baje Whitethorne, Sr. and the esteemed artCoconino Center for the Arts: Local Color. New exhi- ist’s oil paintings of narrative realism and abstraction. Runs bition featuring a diverse range of styles and media from through May 15. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m. local artists, including ceramics, paintings, sculpture, large and Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 431 State Rte. 179. Hozho. Sedona. murals, and more. Before the Myth Makers, paintings by (928) 282-6865 David Lash in the Jewel Gallery. Free. Runs through May 28. Gallery hours are Tue-Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 2300 N. Ft. Valley Road. 779-2300 Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. Noon-2:30 p.m. Downtown Flagstaff: Flagstaff Eats. Walking food tours Every Thursday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Williams. 635-2445 in downtown Flag. Two-and-a-half hours of walking and sampling food from seven different restaurants. Tours Flagstaff Brewing Co.: BOGL,VNDMG and Roanz. 10 p.m. offered every weekend Thursday through Sunday. $55 Free. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442 per person. Sign up on www.flagstaffeats.com. 213-9233 The Green Room: Sharks in the Deep End. Indie rock from Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Continuing Austin, Texas. Opener: Mrch. 9 p.m. Free. Ages 21 and over. Taoist tai chi and beginner class. Every Thursday. 5:30- 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 7:30p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 400 W Aspen. 288-2207 Hops on Birch: Brian White. Americana from Flagstaff. Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Weekly 9 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 Mindfulness Meditation every Thursday. Room 24 upstairs. Main Stage Theater: Weekly “Bottom Line Jam” with the 6:30 p.m. instruction, 7-8:30 p.m. sitting and walking med- Bottom Line Band. 7 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. itation. 8:30 p.m. discussion. Come and go anytime. Free (928) 202-3460 and open to all. 400 W. Aspen. 814-9851 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke. Hosted by Ricky Bill. Every Flagstaff Modern and Contemporary Gallery: Create. Thursday. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Celebrate. New art exhibit from graduates of 2016 ArtBox Institute. Runs through May 30. Gallery hours are Thu-Sat, The Museum Club: Moonshine Bandits. Country rap duo from California. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. 215 S. San Francisco. 380-8654 $20. Ages 21 and over. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Individualized kung fu instruction in xingyi, bagua and taji. Every Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Bill Barns. 7 p.m. Free. 2050 Thursday. 6-8 p.m. www.flagstaffkungfu.org. 4 W. Phoenix. Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300 779-5858 Old Town Center for the Arts: Live at Studio B. Featuring Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center: Don Whitcher. Hosted by Joe Neri. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., Hour-long small group guitar classes. Ages 13 and up. Two show starts at 7 p.m. $10 at the door. Every second and sessions every Thursday from 3-5 p.m. Flexible format, fourth Thursday with a new artist. 633 N. 5th Street. Cotmultiple styles. Registration required. $30 for five classes, tonwood. (928) 634-0940
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and $5 materials. 245 N Thorpe. (505) 614-6706
Lanning Gallery: “Johnathan Harris and Howard Hitchcock.” Spotlighting Harris and his landscape paintings, as well as Hitchcock’s clever bronze sculptures. Runs through May 15. Gallery hours are Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 431 State Rte. 179. Hozho. Sedona. (928) 282-6865
Orpheum Theater: Rising Appalachia: World folk and soul from Atlanta, Ga. Opener: Arouna Diarra. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. $14 in advance, $20 the day of the show. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Raven Café: Drew Hall and Anton Teschner. 8-11 p.m. Free. 142 N. Cortez. Prescott. (928) 717-0009
The Spirit Room: Garrick Rawlings. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: The Reparation. St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12, $9 Sedona Film Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177
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The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday and Clifford E White Theatre: Canyon Movement Co. PresThursday night from 6-7 p.m. $3. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 ents: Spring Dance Festival Concert. Fri and Sat. 7:30 p.m. The Museum Club: Flagstaff Swing Dance Club presents Suggested donation at the door: $15 general admission, dance lessons every Thursday night from 7-8 p.m. Different $10 for children and students. On the NAU campus. www. dance style taught each month. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 nau.edu/cto. 774-3937 Museum of Northern Arizona: David Christiana’s Por- Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. Every traits of Petrichor. Examining the Wupatki-Sunset National Friday. 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 423 N. Beaver. Monument Loop. Runs through May 30. Museum hours are 774-2911
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Drumpf again How Donnie Trump saved America
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s this really happening? Is Donnie Trump really going to be the Republican Party’s nominee? More preposterous, try saying this: President Donnie Trump. Surely not. I was in Washington recently and went to the Lincoln Memorial. Looking up at the magnificent statute of Honest Abe, I swear I saw tears streaming down his face! Still, whatever you Jim think of The Donald, Hightower you’ve got to give the preening yellow-crested peacock credit for one important contribution he has made to America: He saved us from Ted Cruz. As Molly Ivins wrote during George W. Bush’s terrible tenure: “Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.” I’m channeling Molly’s spirit when I tell you that Cruz is seriously dangerous. He’s not merely an autocratic, plutocratic, theocratic extremist, but a conniving, lying, vainglorious egomaniac with dictatorial right-wing ambitions. He’s Joe McCarthy, without the charm or self-restraint. As a junior tea party senator, Cruz made his mark on Washington by throw-
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ing a silly temper tantrum that literally shut down our government. But that doesn’t mean he’s against Big Government. Au contraire, as we Texans say, Ted wants to head a monstrously-big, violent, and grossly-intrusive government. Again and again, he has revealed a harebrained, shoot-from-the-lip, chicken-hawk eagerness to start wars around the world and use invasive, unconstitutional police power here at home. In response to the Syrian refugee tragedy, for example, he said he not only would ban Syrian Muslims from entering the U.S., but he’d also have government authorities “patrol and secure” every Muslim neighborhood in America. Holy Thomas Paine! This un-American extremist shouldn’t be allowed to visit the White House, much less sit in the Oval Office. 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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Bartender Wisdom To brilliance
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e may not have been three sheets to the wind, but he had two sails up and the gales of whiskey were a-blowing. He said to me with the utmost sincerity, “Your dad is a brilliant man. It’s a gift to be raised by an intelligent man who loves you.” “Yes sir, it was. It is,” I replied, and in a packed pub in Dublin, Ireland I shook his hand. The man must have been around retirement age, but was still thick-framed, stout, and had a laborer’s grip. He wore a red Black Panthers shirt and the left sleeve concealed the top half of a Che Guevara tattoo on his upper arm. He was from Glasgow, Scotland, the hardworking backbone of English production of textiles and steel and just James about everything else durJay ing the height of power of the British Empire. He’d come to Dublin to celebrate to the 100th anniversary of the Proclamation of Irish Independence being read, to see the parades commemorating Irish Rebels of the past, and to champion civil rights and labor rights issues of the present. This was the same reason my brother, Robert Jay, and stepfather, Ron French, had flown to Dublin and found ourselves in the early afternoon in this pubhouse awash in colorful characters. Ron sat at the end of the bar talking with two more of these fellows from Glasgow. I ordered him another pint, leaned in and said, “These men seem to think you’re brilliant.” He paused, looked right at me, “That’s just because we agree on everything. If we didn’t I bet they wouldn’t find me to be so bright.” He laughed and went back to his comrades. The energy in the room matched the parade that had just passed outside, without all the lining up though. You could catch flags, ideas, rebels, historians and fresh-faced concepts coming in the door, waving their way up from a booth in back, hunkered onto a barstool. It was just a matter of opening up your mouth and saying hello. We all worked in and out of our various currents of conversation as an afternoon lunch gave way to the early dinner rush. Time to return to the city streets. We wound our way past old statues and new banners. On a street, quite by chance, we spotted a sign that read “Hodges &
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» Pulse continued from page 19 Figgis Bookshop.” I knew the name of the shop from James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses (1922), that made the longtime storefront a literary landmark to those beyond Dublin. While I’ve never finished reading Ulysses (I’ve read other of Joyce’s novels and loved them, but that big, beast of a book seems to need longer periods of reading than I’ve had in the last few decades—someday), I knew the name nonetheless and we popped in. So Ron, Robert, and I moved from pub to large, yet noticeably quieter, bookstore. We fanned out into our various aisles of interest. For poets and playwrights I looked through the shelves. Spotting a few Eavon Boland books that were new to me, grabbing a couple of names at random who I knew nothing about, and stopping to look at the swath of books by Irish playwright and essayist Brendan Behan. What to do with such an abundance of books? Behan was born in Dublin in 1923 and arrested for Republican activity (supporting an Irish free state) at the age of 16. He spent seven years in a couple of different jails. He barely made it into his 40s before he died, but in that small window of opportunity his genius and determination left a brilliant literary legacy. I tucked a few more books of his into my pile and headed to the register. Later that night I thought of the man from Glasgow, his red Black Panthers shirt, his Che tattoo—but mainly of his assertion that it’s a gift to be raised by an intelligent man. Indeed. That day we’d moved from parades and ceremony to a raucous pub overflowing with whiskey and a cacophony of conversation and seamlessly transitioned to a bookstore with a storehouse of thought that could keep one occupied for a lifetime. To feel equally comfortable in any of those venues, to know our minds were just fine in any setting, to feel confident in commotion or the quiet of our own head, that was what Ron gave to me and my brother. I can think of no better gift. Here’s a toast to that brilliant Glasgow man who reminded me. Slainte. For more than 20 years, James Jay has worked in the bar business from dishwasher, bouncer, bartender, bar manager to pub owner. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry and his poems have been selected for the New Poets of the American West anthology.
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Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Yavapai College Film and Media Arts Student Film and Screenplay Exhibition. Free. 2030 Flagstaff Elk’s Lodge: Weekly all-you-can-eat Fish Fry. Fish W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 fry begins at 6 p.m. $12. All proceeds benefit Elks Children Mother Road Brewing Co.: Cadence. Husband and Charities. Every Friday. 2101 N. San Francisco. 774-6271 wife duo from Cave Creek. 7-9 p.m. Free. 7 S. Mikes Pike. Heritage Square: The Clothesline Project. Awareness campaign for sexual and domestic violence survivors and prevention workshops. Featuring resource tables and a display of survivors’ T-shirt art. Hosted by Northland Family Help Center. Display up from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Violence prevention workshops at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free. 233-4309
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Murdoch Community Center: Zumba class. Every Saturday at 9 p.m. $5. 203 E. Brannen. 226-7566
Orpheum Theater: Anger Management Stand-Up Comedy Night. Featuring the hottest comics from Arizona, California and Las Vegas. Two shows. Evening show: 7 p.m. Macy’s Coffee House: Baha’i Evening Program: “Drum All ages. Late show: 9 p.m. Ages 18 and over. Both shows Along with Songs of Unity.” Marcia and Carl Brehmer invite $10. Tickets available at the door. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 you to drum along as they play songs of love, unity and peace. Instruments provided or you may bring your own. Red Rock State Park: Saturday and Wednesday daily bird walks. 7 a.m. Park is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per vehi7 p.m. Free. 14 Beaver. 774-2243 cle. 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop. Sedona. (928) 282-6907 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Papa: Hemingway in Cuba. (4 p.m. Fri and Sun; 7 p.m. Tue and Wed.) Race. Sunnyside Market of Dreams: How to create a lacy (7 p.m. Fri and Sun; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 Sedona Film scarf workshop. Instructed by Liz Trushel. Noon-2 p.m. $7 Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 suggested donation includes materials. 2532 E. 7th Ave. 213-5900
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Sunnyside Market of Dreams: Hands-on leatherAltitudes Bar and Grill: Pat Berry. 7-10 p.m. Free. 2 S. Bea- working class with expert Dennis Chavez. All materials provided. Noon-3 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 2532 E. ver. 214-8218 7th Ave. 213-5900 The Green Room: Tiki Bandits. Punk from Mohave Beach. Openers: Surfside IV, Nuclear Beach Party and Barrels. 8 p.m. Free. Ages 21 and over. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Altitudes Bar and Grill: Bon Fiction. 7-10 p.m. Free. 2 S. Hops on Birch: The Regrettables. Bluegrass from Flag. Beaver. 214-8218 9 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 The Gopher Hole: Payback. Monthly soul, funk and oldMain Stage Theater: DJ Johnny K. 9 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. ies dance party. Featuring DJ Emmett White with special Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 guest DJs. 9:30 p.m. Free if you’re snazzy, $5 if you’re lazy. Monte Vista Lounge: Dave Logan Band. Folk rock and 23 N. Leroux. 774-2731 Americana from Flag. 9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. The Green Room: Pain Proof Punks and the DipS*** 779-6971 Sideshow. 8 p.m. Free. Ages 21 and over. 15 N. Agassiz. The Museum Club: Mike Reeves Band. Country rock from 226-8669 Flag. 9 p.m. $5. Ages 21 and over. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Hops on Birch: Ryan Biter and the Kitchen Sink. Folk from Oak Creek Brewing Co.: American Beauty. 8 p.m. Free. Flag. 9 p.m. Free. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300 Main Stage Theater: decker. Birthday Bash with the Raven Café: Britches. 8-11 p.m. Free. 142 N. Cortez. Prescott. Invincible Grins and Alex Duarte. 9 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. (928) 717-0009 Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 The Spirit Room: Dog of the Moon Friday. 1 p.m. Free. 166 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Anthony Mazzella in Concert. Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 7 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 the day of the show. 2030 W. State Bar: Rock Nine. Classic rock from Flag. 8 p.m. Free. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Monte Vista Lounge: Quel Bordel. Gypsy rock and ska from San Diego. 9:30 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 7796971
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Clifford E White Theatre: Canyon Movement Co. Presents: Spring Dance Festival Concert. 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation at the door: $15 general admission, $10 children and students. On the NAU campus. www.nau.edu/cto. 774-3937
Mother Road Brewing Co.: Deb Hilton and Brad Munns. 7-9 p.m. Free. 7 S. Mikes Pike. 774-9139 The Museum Club: Mike Reeves Band. Country rock from Flag. 9 p.m. $5. Ages 21 and over. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434
Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Satur- Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Bill Barns. 3-6 p.m. Free. Open day at 10:30 a.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 mic with James Turner. 8 p.m. Free. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Galaxy Diner: Swing Dance Club every Saturday. Lessons Sedona. (928) 204-1300 from 7-10 p.m. Free. 931 E. Historic Rte. 66. 774-2466 Old Town Center for the Arts: Sonoran Dogs. AmeriMarshall Elementary School: Continuing Taoist tai chi. cana, bluegrass, folk and Celtic music from Arizona. 7 p.m. Every Saturday 9-10:30 a.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 850 $18 in advance, $20 at the door, $25 priority. 633 N. 5th Street. Cottonwood. (928) 634-0940 N. Bonito. 288-2207
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The Green Room: Pato Banton and the Now Generation. World music and reggae from So Cal. Opener: Kill Babylon Pepsi Amphitheater: Thievery Corporation 20th Anni- Coalition. 8 p.m. $12 in advance, $15 the day of the show. versary Tour. Electronic and world music from Washington Ages 21 and over. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 D.C. Openers: The Emancipator Ensemble and Drunken Josephine’s: Vincent Z for brunch every Sunday. AcousImmortals. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at 6 p.m. tic world music. 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 503 N. Humphreys. $45 (plus fees) online; $49 (straight up) at Rainbow’s 779-3400 End; $55 (plus fees) at the door. Exit 337 off I-17 south of Flagstaff at Ft. Tuthill County Fairgrounds. (866) 977-6849 Main Stage Theater: Speakeasy Sundays: Electro Swing Night. Classic cocktails. Classic movies. 7 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main Raven Café: Keith Okie and Friends. 8-11 p.m. Free. 142 St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 N. Cortez. Prescott. (928) 717-0009 Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Kenzo. 3-6 p.m. Free. 2050 The Spirit Room: 11th Hour Band. 2 p.m. Free. Muskel- Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300 lunge. 9 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 The Spirit Room: Raven. 2 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. State Bar: Tommy Dukes. Arizona blues legend. 8 p.m. (928) 634-8809 Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 State Bar: Arizona Hired Guns. Blues and Southern rock Wanderlust Brewing Co.: Paul Miller. One man band. from Flag. 4 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282 Reggae and rock from Flag. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Taproom open from 2-8 p.m. 1519 N. Main Street, #102. 351-7952
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Some neighbors think the Flagstaff Public Works Yard should revert to parkland rather than become housing.
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Episcopal Church of the Epiphany: Taoist tai chi. Every Monday. 10:30 a.m.-noon. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. 423 N Beaver. 288-2207
Barefoot Cowgirl Books: Books About Here. Book reading featuring Nancy Bo Flood, Seth Muller, Anita Poleahla and Susan Olberding. Noon. Free. 18 N. San Francisco. Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Monday. 6 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468 440-5041 Canyon Dance Academy: Flag Freemotion. Ballroom Gopher Hole: Game night. 9 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux. 774dance lessons and dancing every Sunday. Learn social and 2731 ballroom dancing. 5-7 p.m. No partner needed. $8, $5 for The Green Room: Weekly trivia night hosted by Martina. students. 853-6284. 2812 N. Izabel. 814-0157 Every Monday. 6:30-8 p.m. Free. 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy: Flag Human Nature Dance Theatre and Studio: Tango Freemotion. Conscious movement/freestyle dance. Mov- classes. Fundamentals: 6-6:30 p.m. $5. Figures and Teching meditation to dance-able music. Minimum instruc- niques: 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. (Both classes for dancers having tion and no experience required. Every Sunday. 10:30 a.m. completed a beginner dance series). Practica: 7:30-9 p.m. www.flagstafffreemotion.com. 3401 N. Ft Valley Road. Practica included in price of class. 4 W. Phoenix. 773-0750 225-1845 Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Monty Python Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Papa: Hem- and the Holy Grail (1975) 40th Anniversary Sing-Along ingway in Cuba. (4 p.m. Sun; 7 p.m. Tue and Wed.) Race. Event. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12, $9 Sedona Film Fest Members. (7 p.m. Sun; 4 p.m. Tue and Wed.) $12, $9 Sedona Film 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Monte Vista Lounge: Trivia with Lindsay and Savanna. Every Sunday. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971
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Campus Coffee Bean: Open Mic night. Every Monday. Southside Tavern: Poetry Night hosted by Barley 6-8 p.m. ccbopenmic@gmail.com. 1800 S. Milton Road. Rhymes. Every first and third (and occasional fifth) Sun- 556-0660 day of the month. 7 p.m. signup. 7:30 p.m. start. Free. 117 The Green Room: Karaoke. 8 p.m. Free. Every Monday. 15 S. San Francisco. 440-5093 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Tranzend Studio: Flagstaff Latin Dance Collective. LesHops on Birch: Open mic night. Every Monday. 8:30 p.m. sons: beginner and all level fundamentals, technique and sign-up. 9 p.m. start. 22 E. Birch. 774-4011 musicality. 7 p.m. Open dancing in main room with salsa, bachata, merengue and cha cha; side room with zouk Main Stage Theater: Karaoke Mondays. Hosted by Red and kizomba until 10 p.m. Every Sunday. $10 drop-in, $8 Bear. Every Monday. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 for students. 417 W. Santa Fe. 814-2650 Vino Loco: RPG Night. Every Sunday. 4 p.m. $15. 22 E Birch The Museum Club: Open mic night. Every Monday. 8 p.m. Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Ave. 269.0624
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1899 Bar and Grill: Vincent Z. Acoustic world music. Granny’s Closet: Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. Prizes for the top two teams. 7 p.m. Free. 218 S Milton Road. 774-8331 Every Sunday. 6:30-8:30 p.m. 307 W. Dupont. 523-1899 Flagstaff Brewing Co.: Ryan Stigmon and Flag Funk AllStars. 2-5 p.m. Free. 16 E. Rte. 66. 773-1442
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
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Various Events | Tue 5.17
Flagstaff Recreation Center: Zumba class. Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. $5. 2403 N. Izabel. 779-1468
Jim’s Total Body Fitness: Line dancing. All levels. Gopher Hole: Team Trivia. 9 p.m. Free. 23 N. Leroux. 5:30-6:30 p.m. First class free. Every Tuesday. 2150 N. 774-2731 4th St. 606-1435 Lumberyard Brewing Co.: Yard Bingo. Play Bingo Jim’s Total Body Fitness: Yoga for Absolute Begin- for prizes including a rollover $50 grand prize (for the ners with Sabrina Carlson. Six-week class. Tuesdays blackout game). Free. 10 p.m. 5 S. San Francisco. 7796-7:30 p.m. $97. Yoga mat and props provided. Signup 2739 at www.sabrinacarlsonyoga.com/store/beginners. 2150 Main Stage Theater: In-House Dart and Pool Leagues. N. 4th St. 863-5002 6 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) 202-3460 Joe C Montoya Community and Senior Center: Drawing classes 101 and 202 by instructor Dee Brewer. Majerle’s Sports Grill: Trivia night. Every Wednesday. 9:30-11:30 a.m. $47.95 for four weeks. Includes project 7 p.m. 102 W. Rte. 66. 774-6463 work sheets. Every Tuesday. 245 N Thorpe. Enroll or get Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Race. 4 p.m. more info by calling 286-9088 Papa: Hemingway in Cuba. 7 p.m. $12, $9 Sedona Film Mary D. Fisher Theatre: Film screening: Race. (4 p.m. Fest Members. 2030 W. Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282Tue and Wed.) Papa: Hemingway in Cuba. (7 p.m. Tue 1177 and Wed.) $12, $9 Sedona Film Fest Members. 2030 W. Murdoch Community Center: Zumba class. Every Hwy 89A. Sedona. (928) 282-1177 Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. $5. 203 E. Brannen. 226-7566 The Museum Club: Line dance lessons. Every Tuesday. The Peaks: Beginning ballroom dance lessons. 6-7 p.m. $3. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 7-8:15 p.m. Every Wednesday. Free. No partner needed. Ponderosa High School: Beginner Taoist tai chi. Every Different dance starts each month and builds through Tuesday 5:30-7 p.m. Followed by continuing Taoist tai the month. Next to the Museum of Northern Arizona. chi. Every Tuesday. 7-8:30 p.m. flagstaff.az@taoist.org. Held in the activity room. Dance calendar at www.flagstaffdance.com. 3150 N. Winding Brook Road. 853-6284 2384 N. Steves. 288-2207 State Bar: High Bar Stand-Up Comedy Night. Hosted by Barley Rhymes’ Davey Latour. Flagstaff’s finest and funniest take the stage for an evening of stand-up comedy. Every first and third (and occasional fifth) Tuesday. All are welcome to participate. 7 p.m. signup, 8 p.m. start. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282
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 | Tue 5.17
Music Events | Wed 5.18
Uptown Pubhouse: Team trivia with Carly Strauss. 7:30 p.m. Free. 114 N. Leroux. 773-0551
Main Stage Theater: Karaoke Tuesdays. Hosted by Cruiser’s Café: World musician Vincent Z. NoonRed Bear. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cot- 2:30 p.m. Every Wednesday. 233 Historic Rte. 66. Wiltonwood. (928) 202-3460 liams. 635-2445 Mia’s Lounge: Jazz Jam. 9 p.m. Free. Every Tuesday. 26 The Green Room: Mad Tight ’90s Night. Every S. San Francisco. 774-3315 Wednesday. 8 p.m. Free 15 N. Agassiz. 226-8669 Monte Vista Lounge: Karaoke with Ricky Bill. Every Main Stage Theater: Bingo night. Hosted by Penny Tuesday. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 779-6971 Smith. 7 p.m. Free. 1 S. Main St. Cottonwood. (928) The Museum Club: Karaoke. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 202-3460 Free. 3404 E. Rte. 66. 526-9434 Monte Vista Lounge: Lounge Lizard D’s Retro Night. Oak Creek Brewing Co.: Drumz and Dance Party. Free. DJ from Sedona. 9 p.m. Free. 100 N. San Francisco. 7796:30 p.m. 2050 Yavapai Drive. Sedona. (928) 204-1300 6971 Orpheum Theater: HAIM. Pop rock from Los Angeles. Opener: Cameron Avery. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. $27. All ages. 15 W. Aspen. 556-1580 Firecreek Coffee Co: Poetry slam. Every Wednesday. Signup at 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m. start. $2. 22 E. Rte. 66. 774- The Spirit Room: Christy Fisher. 8 p.m. Free. 166 Main St. Jerome. (928) 634-8809 2266
Various Events | Wed 5.18
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
State Bar: A Blues Fundraiser for Brian Randal. Featuring music by Chicago blues musician Jake La Botz. Raffles, auctions, door Prizes. 8 p.m. Free. 10 E. Rte. 66. 226-1282
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 LOST AND FOUND FOUND: Earring, found on 3/27 at intersection of Jamison/Elder. Please email: lostandfound78@yahoo.com.
APPLIANCE REPAIR Appliance Repair in your home. Best in Flag w/27 yrs Experience! Insured. Call Russ @928-863-1416
EQUIPMENT Annual Equipment Service Special Service most makes of Farm, Construction, & Lawn Equipment Pick up/ Delivery Available 774-1969 www. flagequip.com
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HANDY PERSON 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 Jimmy’s Handyman Service Concrete, carpentry, painting, also landscaping. Call 928.853.6535 for estimates. Not a licensed contractor Licensed Contractor for all Your Home Remodel or Repair Needs. ROC# 265086. (928)-525-4072 A1 Handyman! Call Mike’s Tool Box Decks, tile, doors/windows, paint. Mike, 928-600-6254 Free Estimates 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
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LANDSCAPING Raking, hauling, cinder & tree trimming, stonework - malapais, flagstone, cinder block & faux rock. 25+ yrs exp. Free Estimates 928-607-0525 or 928-699-3978 Mountain Girl Landscaping Spring Clean-Up. Mowing, leaf & pine needle removal. Invasive weed control. (928) 699-1320 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 ALL-N-LANDSCAPING Renew & Extend: Paver Patios, Walkways, Driveways & Walls. Free Estimates. Call Juan & Betty 928-526-2928 Not a licensed contractor. HANDY SAL Complete Yard Clean-up, Hedges & weed wacking. New # 928380-0831 Not a Licensed Contractor
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. Lawn Mowing: weekly or one time. Affordable and dependable. Steve 928-774-1688
MISCELLANEOUS 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 “Nick the Painter”, 25 yrs exp. Top Quality, Low Prices Small Jobs OK. Ref Avail. Interior/Exterior 928-255-2677
Not a licensed contractor. ROMANO’S PAINTING Residential and Commercial Painting and Staining. Call (928) 299-0110 Instagram.com/ romanopaintingaz Licensed & Bonded ROC#224346
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
TREE SERVICE TREEWORK: Trimming, hand pruning, removals, hedges. We love small jobs! I cut, you clean, haul option, you save $. Not a Licensed Contractor John 928-380-7820 Exp Arborist
HELP WANTED Experienced Housekeepers Hilton Garden Inn, Flagstaff MUST APPLY IN PERSON 350 W. Forest Meadows The Grand Hotel & Canyon Star Steakhouse (Tusayan, AZ) has immediate openings for: *Restaurant Supervisor* *Front Desk Supervisor * Server* *Bartender * Housekeeping* *Maintenance Eng. II* Our employees enjoy interacting w/ people from around the world at this beautiful 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 NOW HIRING! McDonald’s is now hiring Managers and Crew in Bellemont, AZ! $10.00-$15.00/hour. Apply online at mylocalmcds.com/bellemont- pilot-mcdonalds/ or in person at the
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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.
GARAGE SALES SOUTH Yard Sale, Sat., 5-14, 2903 Toho Tr., Kachina. Office Equip. and supplies. Early birds welcome.
PETS 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 Purebred BOXER puppies for sale. Born 3/20/16. Dews and tails docked, 3 F, 5 M. Ready to go May 20th. Will have first 6wk shots. Call or text to reserve your puppy. 928-606-0625 $350 Cute, Adorable, Purebred Pomeranians. Male and Female, 14 weeks, AKC registered. 928-606-4016
SPORTING GOODS PAGE GUN SHOW 5/14-15 at the Page Elk Lodge, Antique and Modern Firearms, Ammo, Knifes, Military Surplus and lots more. Doors open 10a Sat. 9a Sun. Info call 928-310-8544 $2 off with ad. 809 Aqua Avenue Page Az. FFL
HOMES FOR SALE 5 acres w/ 2400 sq.ft. home borders Coconino Nat’l Forest, 8 large horse pens, w/loafing sheds, and tack barn. $565,000 by owner/Flagstaff, 602524-8162 Univ. Hts FSBO, 836 W. Coy, 4 bd, 2.5 ba, 2740 sq ft, lrg lot, near DeMiguel Elementary. $430,000. 774-2088 or 773-1465
HOMES UNFURNISHED Executive Home on the Continental golf course, 4 bd/4.5 ba + office, 2 lvg rms, 2 kitchens, 3 cg, a/c, deck & lrg patio. Avail 6/1 $4995/mo. 928-853-0761 HOUSE - 2bd, 1ba, fenced yard, Call 602-930-2616
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Single wide mobile home in Kachina Village. 2 bd,1.5 ba, small add-on, covered porch, storage shed, fenced side yard, energy efficient. Dogs okay, $750/ mo+dep. Eric at 928-525-1978
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.
DOMESTIC AUTOS 2000 Saturn S-L1,$1100 4 cyl 1.9L 125K mi. Gold/Beige, FWD, Dual Air Bags, Auto. Trans., Clean Title, Orig. Owner, no accidents, runs well. (928)554-7928. ImJustinFlagstaff-USA@yahoo.
SUVS 98 Ford Explorer Sport - 149000mi. Exc. condition, new transmission, $7000 in new parts this year. $4800 Call 928-600-3921
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MOTORCYCLES 2011 Yamaha Star 250, 4085 mi., like new, $2750 obo. 928-526-4674
BARGAIN CORNER Tamron 200-400 AF F/5.6 LD (IF) w/ Polarizer & Skylight Nikon Mount, $200. Call (928) 3016986. No text. Craftsman 10” lazer compound miter saw w/stand, $75. Call (928) 3809636. Two red microsuede couches for $300, like new. Williams. Call (928) 635-1178
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