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now was as appealing to me as to any kid growing up in the Chicago suburbs. In those preInternet days we huddled eagerly around the radio, listening to the long list of school districts that had canceled classes. In memory, at least, ours closed down only rarely, but when it did, that was occasion for celebration. ‌And then we’d have to go shovel the damn driveway.

Which was long—the lots and lawns were big back there, our house set particularly far back from the street, and we had one of those elaborate semicircular driveways that ensured you never had to back out.

Other parents might have allowed that yes, it was OK to ignore the longer part of the semicircle on heavy snow days—other people managed to back out of their driveways, after all—but our dad with German meticulousness insisted that the whole thing be wholly shoveled, every time. I think it wasn’t until I reached high school age—and the Chicago area suffered two or three big snow years in a row—that he got a snowA meditation of scraping and lifting and revealing what lies beneath. Photo by Liam Friederici blower to help with the whole affair. warm kitchen for thin gingersnaps and hot and ageless all at the same time. She’d lost her So there we were, three kids, chocolate, knowing that she’d each time pay husband some time before. To me she seemed two adults, shoveling a seemingly endless me a munificent fee—five dollars, I think, old enough that I half-thought he must have expanse of asphalt, not so sure anymore that which went a lot farther back then than it been the captain of one of the sailing ships this snow thing was such a good idea. whose paintings graced her living room—which does now.

The suburbs were well to do. Most of It’s funny the way priorities and pleasures she probably called her parlor, or sitting room. the neighbors hired some guy with a pickup both change. Now I live on the side of a hill So one white morning I found myself nerto plow out their driveway. Some didn’t even in Flagstaff and love shoveling for nothing. vously ringing her bell asking if I could shovel bother, trusting instead in the quality of their It’s because as a keyboard worker I love the her driveway. snow tires—they really earned my father’s physical activity. It’s because Flagstaff snow is For money. It was my first job. scorn. A whole family out clearing a huge spectacularly beautiful, so often illuminated I could, she said, smiling sweetly. driveway with a motley collection of snow by warming sun and shocking blue sky rather I had to wait until after the home driveshovels was … weird. than Midwestern grey. It’s because we usually way was done, but from then on I’d shovel It was Mrs. Olson who gave me at least take the trouble to pile all the snow from the eagerly, knowing that once ours was done I one solid purpose in shoveling. She lived two sidewalk onto our single tiny patch of lawn, could head over to Mrs. Olson’s refreshingly houses down in a sturdy Colonial, and every the better to create a giant snow fort for the short, straight-shot driveway, knowing that time I ever saw her she had her white hair 10-year-old. after I was done she’d invite me into her small curled up in a tight bun. She looked ancient

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But mainly it is the democracy of snow shoveling that thrills me.

We see more of our neighbors after a heavy snow than on the most beautiful summer evening. There’s our great friend across the street out shoveling her walk—we’ll go help her with the berm the grader piled up during the night. There’s one of the local teenagers helping a neighbor push an inadequate front-wheel-drive car from the parking spot where it’s gotten stuck. There’s the neighbor from down the block who I haven’t talked to a great deal, but we can all trust that he’ll walk up and down the block with his snowblower, clearing the sidewalk of anyone who hasn’t shoveled it yet.

Most of the driveways are short, and I don’t know anyone of the neighbors who hires the work out. Snow shoveling: community in action.

My dad would have liked it too.

He’d have liked seeing so many folks engaged in vigorous outdoor activity.

He’d have appreciated the tidiness and the sense of completion. And he’d have loved the way that nature and human action so clearly go hand in hand in the Flagstaff climate.

He might have viewed it as a sort of moral judgment.

What I mean is this: if you clear your sidewalk in Flagstaff, the sun will almost inevitably come out and dry off the pavement. If you don’t, the pounded-down snow will melt and refreeze and melt and refreeze and result in the most interesting and treacherous combinations of ice.

The payoff is clear. Our job is clear. And if we perform it right, so is the sidewalk.

Peter Friederici is a writer and a former itinerant field biologist and tour guide. He teaches journalism at Northern Arizona University in between bouts of camping, gardening, and fixing up an old house.‌

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DEAREST VIOLA: BRING US THE LIFE SPICE‌

As many of us are aware, variety is the spice of life. Such a potent spice, so alluring, so … different. For this reason, it’s a good plan to check out the Viola Award Nominee Showcase, which takes all wild manner of creative forces and throws them together in one meaty and aromatic stew. The gathering involves a menagerie of talent from the list of nominees from the 8th annual Viola Awards (winners get announced at the banquet March 5). Some examples on the roster include the 2015 Emerging Artist, Tow’rs, which will provide a mini concert. The group was nominated again this year for Excellence in the Performing Arts for their newest record, The Great Minimum. Current Emerging Artist nominees, Erin Brinkman and Suzanne Stebila, will indulge the crowd with live painting. Representing the Excellence in Storytelling category, Holt Hamilton will screen clips from Legends from the Sky. And James Q Martin will show pieces of his film, Drawn, that combines National Geographic artist and mountaineer Jeremy Collins’ animations to retell the story of his quest to spread the ashes of his mentor, Jonny Copp, on four mountains. Guests to the event will also enjoy Justin Bigos reading excerpts from his story, Fingerprints. The story was selected for Best American Short Stories last spring. Check out the buffet of creative goodness at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7.

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ove over Beethoven—well maybe not Beethoven. But with one of the most influential frontrunners of the “nuevo flamenco” movement, Jesse Cook, comin’ to town, someone’s gonna be stepping side to side and back again. And with this Parisianturned-Canadian standing in breathing testament to world music’s many forms from flamenco to rumba and jazz, the occasion is ripe for unbridled dance. This six-string chef has honed his sound the world over, picking up award after award and continually improving his signature sound over dozens of records both as an accompanist and solo, most recently with the 2015 cut, One World. And all the while, Cook’s fanbase has swollen thanks to his immersive style that compels him to trot the globe searching for new styles, sounds and musicians to hang out and jam with. From Cairo to Barcelona, the world is one massive studio for this aficionado, so who knows what inspiration he might gather from this neck of the largest-contiguousponderosa woods. Drop in on a listen to his Flagstaff stop at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen. Doors to this all-ages event open at 7 p.m. and the strings start reverberating at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $22 in advance and $35 the day of the show. To learn more, call 556-1580 or visit www.orpheumflagstaff.com

Hot damn, David Michael Miller, that’s a mighty fine a-pickin’ and a-singing’! Sometimes solo and other times one of many, this guitarist and bluesman through and through is never truly alone in his musical world. Evident with his group, Miller and the Other Sinners, players on a stage have a propensity to reach up to 12 high.

While the group was born of the musicians sitting in on his record, Poisons Sipped (2014), the frontman himself was born in the Deep South— of Buffalo, N.Y., that is. Miller has been singing since he was knee high and all that, surrounded by gospel hymns that still run deep as Lake Erie in his cuts that highlight his soulful timbre and multi-instrumental background that does well to blend R&B with funk and rock. Across these fields of grain and gaining ground in the scene, current line-up of four MATOS players has taken this style on the road with 2015’s Same Soil and more, and even camped out in Flagtown the last week. They are bringing it back for an encore at the State Bar, 10 E. Rte. 66, beginning at 8 p.m.

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Examining the curious bylaws of sibling rivalry, one understands how pleasantries devolve into near blows. The oldest keeps the peace while the others vie for attention. But something eventually has to give. Such is the case with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the main stage opener of Theatrikos‘ 2016 season. Christopher Durang’s witty work takes a page from iconic Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s playbook with “Easter egg” hints scattered throughout.

The play revolves around the three sisters. Vanya and Sonia, played

by Rosemary Groves, are well into their middle-age, and have dug themselves quite a rut as homebodies. Masha is an aging star, played

by Virginia Brown, and returns to Bucks County, Penn., after their parents’ death. With Masha bankrolling her siblings, she vows to settle the estate, and possibly sell the family home. Three more characters complete the chaotic coterie with Cassandra the cleaning woman who can, at least she says, predict the future. Rob Barnes is Spike, Masha’s hunky arm candy prone to shedding his clothes.

Get in with some Chekhov love and check out this latest comedy at Doris Harper-White Community Playhouse, 11 W. Cherry. The play runs through Feb. 14. Friday and Saturday night performances start at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday matinee starts at 2 p.m. Tickets are $16–$19 for evening shows and $13 to $17 for matinees. 774-1662. www.theatrikos.com

Who among us doesn’t love chocolate? OK, people with allergies and odd quirks in their DNA have an aversion to one of the greatest confections on planet Earth, but the rest of us are usually on board for some action from the dark sweetness. Well, what if we told you there was an event that has you walking around and sampling chocolate? As a perfect start to the mother of all chocolate holidays, Valentine’s Day, the Flagstaff Visitor Center is hosting the Second annual Flagstaff Chocolate Walk. The Flagstaff Chocolate Walk is a one-day chocolate tasting adventure where you can enjoy all different varieties of chocolates; exploring downtown businesses in a unique and flavorful way. Dozens of busiMiller and the Other Sinners. Courtesy photo nesses are involved and Matt Bingham will bring some tunes to sweeten the deal. Those international renown. And the spring season kicks off with a who sign up will receive a chocolate passport, which includes a bang, a loadbang that is. That’s the name of the New York-based map of participating locations. Passport in hand, participants new music chamber group that’s building a new kind of music for then set out to explore downtown, sampling chocolates and mixed ensemble. Since their founding in 2008, their unique, lungchocolate-based treats like kids set loose in Wonka’s factory. At powered instrumentation has provoked diverse responses from each tasting location, people can get a stamp and collect points towards the grand prize drawing. The event runs from 10:30 a.m. composers, resulting in a stylistic palette ranging from whistled to 2:30 p.m. Registration opens at 10:30 a.m. at the Flagstaff Brazilian rhythms and microtonal jazz standards to the decoupled Visitor Center, 1 E. Rte. 66, in the train station downtown. It’s and deconstructed sounds of the second modernity. Carlos $5. 213-2951. www.flagstaffarizona.org/chocolatewalk Cordeiro is on bass clarinet, Jeff Gavett brings the baritone voice, Will Lang handles trombone and Andy Kozar is on trumpet. As it turns out, loadbang has premiered more than 200 works by leading composers including Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Wuorinen and David Lang, Guggenheim Fellowship winner Alex Mincek, GET A LOAD OF THESE DAYS‌ Eve Beglarian, Nick Didkovsky, Reiko Füting, Andy Akiho and The Northern Arizona University’s Horizons Concert Series is a Alexandre Lunsqui. Check them out at Ashurst Hall on the NAU favorite stop on the musical merry-go-round of incoming concerts campus. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general on campus. Horizons has long been a place to go out on a melodic limb, to catch intriguing musical acts that have some level of admission and free for students. 523-5661. www.loadbang.com

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Plugged in, tuned out By Andrew Wisniewski

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y life is filled with music. ‌In the morning when I wake up, I listen to music. On my way to and from work, or wherever I’m headed next, music sounds in every inch of my car. Throughout the day at work and on the days I visit the bouldering gym after punching out, I plant those iconic white Apple earbuds firmly in my ears. While I cook dinner, music. Before bed, more music. Music is everywhere like the air I breathe. It’s always in my world. On my laptop. On my iPad. On my smartphone. And the program that functions as the primary source of my listening experience? Spotify.

In fact, right now, through Spotify, while I pen this, Kishi Bashi is singing to me while violins rifle back and forth—something about Mr. Steak, grade A meat, dancing, one, two, three and four-on-the-floor and loving to move. It’s just swell! But I digress.

Spotify was launched out of Sweden in 2008, and has completely changed the way people listen to and consume music ever since. Operating on a “freemium” business model that, for free (Free Spotify) or the ridiculous price of an album per month (Spotify Premium), gives listeners instant fingertip access to the commercial music streaming program’s 30-plus million tracks.

You can build endless playlists, share music with friends, and download music for offline listening on portable devices among numerous other features. It even boasts a weekly Discover playlist compiled specifically for individual users based on music preference and what they’ve listened to recently—which tends to be quite good. It’s a great and brilliant way to share and discover new music.

If you regularly use Spotify, well ... I am no doubt preaching to the choir. If you don’t, my only question is: Why not?!

However, as great as it is, there are a few thoughts that constantly swirl through my mind along with the music.

First, is how we got here. From Thomas Edison’s phonograph to flat-disc records and vinyl to radio to 8-track and cassette tapes and Walkmans to CDs and Discmans to the digital age of MP3s and iPods and now the streaming revolution, it’s been a fascinating technological journey. And aside from vinyl’s resurging popularity over the years, I imagine a lot of folks out there remain true to some

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of those earlier formats. Personally, I will never forget the days of my youth when my Discman and booklet of CDs were some of my best companions.

Second, and far more importantly, is the impact it has on the artists. This is an area where Spotify has come under a bit of fire. Early on, Spotify laid strong claim that artists were being compensated fairly, but it was later revealed that those payouts were lower than expected and the deals Spotify was making with record labels left little on the table for those actually performing the music, which, as a music fan, hurts to hear. As a result, bigger artists, such as Taylor Swift, have removed their collections from Spotify entirely.

On the flipside, there are those independent artists who argue its value through exposure. It helps put their music in the hands of a wider audience. A great example is Flagstaff’s own Tow’rs, who has found new listeners around the world through Spotify. I’m also left thinking about Dispatch, who back in the Napster days gained a cult following of hundreds of thousands of new fans through MP3 file sharing. But if not financially, at what cost?

Nowadays, the primary source of an artist’s income is through live shows.

Before the invention of the phonograph, the only way to hear music was to see it performed. And while that’s obviously no longer the case as we tirelessly navigate endless amounts of songbooks, it’s as if— in some small, strange way—we’ve come full circle. But instead of concerts being our main avenue of music intake, it’s how we support the artists we love.

Does this mean we should scrap Spotify altogether? I don’t think so. It’s one of the best sources of connecting people through music discovery. I do know some folks who won’t use it for various reasons, but the more intriguing question: What happens if it’s no longer free and we don’t want to pay for it? There goes a music library we can’t retrieve. But as long as it is and we have access to it—like people have proved they are so accustomed to doing—I imagine we will continue to listen on, no matter who it impacts outside of our own worlds—earbuds in, or out.

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y husband, Dave, and I live in a tiny house. Not a small house of 600 square feet, but one of those little-bitty 200-square-foot DIY houses on a travel-trailer frame. Some call it cute; others ask what tragedy befell us that brought us to this point. My favorite question is what we do when we are angry at each other. We don’t have 1,000 square feet of carpet, drywall, and objects to keep us from each other in our fury, so what on earth can we possibly do? Flee? Fight? ‌One of my coworkers showed me an article where the woman literally seemed enraged at those who choose tiny house living. We (tiny home dwellers) have been relegated to a small group of silly, anti-establishment Millennials who are making poor decisions because they want to be cool.

‘Real life’ in a tiny house One of her first questions was about flatulence in small spaces—how can one get away? Stop eating beans? Run outside quickly before the inevitable “thing” happens? Many of life’s pressing issues seem to revolve around unpleasant bodily odors.

Although I have never seen the TV shows about Tiny Houses, it seems as though some of these very pressing questions are not addressed.

Even online, there is a mysticism surrounding the movement like it is the answer to all of life’s problems. You pay less in the long run and you have more time because you are living a simpler life. But there are problems as well. One of our biggest struggles has been finding a place to park. The idea is so new, many people are shocked and uncomfortable with it. We are lovingly chalked up to silly kids and their ideals.

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We have moved the house six times in the year-and-a-half since we built it, each time bringing balls of panic to our stomachs and the expectation that our livelihood will internally combust as it rolls down the highway, leaving us with nothing but maybe some singed personal belongings. Once, we moved to a neighborhood that had an HOA. This was a poor idea. Doing weird things like living in a sustainable tiny house that was built using primarily reused materials and looks like a groovy shack is apparently not the type of thing most retired folks in an HOA neighborhood want to look at. The HOA president visited us two days after we got there, asking us to leave by the end of the month, but he was awfully nice about it.

I get it; we are total oddballs to a lot of people. I kind of like that. I can imagine the conversations that must have come from seeing our home: “Dear, did you see that pile of wood on a trailer? It looks like it is going to fall apart! I swear, I think people are living in it.

Can you imagine?” No ma’am, I cannot. What an atrocity. But at the same time, HOAs have rules because the homeowners don’t want trailer trash in their backyard, and I say trailer trash lovingly because we have lived in a quite delightful trailer park.

Our first trailer/RV park made me feel like royalty. We were the million-dollar mansion in the Midwest! One little girl, probably around five years old, riding her pink bike with plastic, sparkly tassels on the ends, literally stopped and stared at it for a good minute before saying, in hushed tones, “I hope I can have one when I grow up.” I kid you not. Do compliments get better than that?

We made some great friends, having lots of valuable conversations with our hippy, isolationist next door neighbor and an older woman who lived up the street and gifted us a mini rose bush “from Safeway for $5” before we left, which we still have on our deck to this day. I have gotten to know more people and more of my surroundings from this tiny living choice than I ever have before. There’s something about the smallness of inside that makes me appreciate the vast space and people outside even more. Isn’t that what “real life” is all about after all?

Kristen Edge is currently pursuing her Masters of Rhetoric degree at NAU. She has taught high school English, been a social worker, and struggled with yoga and Krav Maga; however, naps and excellent books are what she likes most of all.

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Cranston) finds him and convinces Po to o matter how much a film lover wants return home with him. Po hopes to learn how to see intelligent movies about serious to use chi from the pandas to help defeat subjects, sometimes interjecting a mindthe newest villain, Kai (J.K. Simmons). Kai has less movie is what is needed. The Kung Fu escaped the spirit realm by stealing the chi Panda films fit that need perfectly. They are of all the great warriors and is now far from serious and require little instealing the chi of all the great depth thinking. The latest entry in warriors in the mortal realm. the series, Kung Fu Panda 3, is like KUNG FU The writing for Kung Fu the others. There are silly jokes, PANDA 3 Panda 3 sometimes goes for the basic plotting, and comfortable Directed by Alessandro lowest common-denominator characterization. It may not be Carloni & Jennifer Yuh joke, but it also creates some the greatest film ever made, Rated PG fun scenes, especially between but Kung Fu Panda 3 is fun HARKINS THEATRES Po and Kai. Kai is one of the to watch. more entertaining bad guys in the If you have not seen the Kung Fu Panda films. Also, any movie first two films in the series, they that includes a character like Mei Mei bring us the story of Po (voiced by (Kate Hudson), a female panda whose confiJack Black), a panda who has become the dent belief in her own talent and sex appeal mighty Dragon Warrior. Taking place in is not necessarily warranted, makes for some an ancient China, the movies are a stylish good laughs. mish-mash of comedy, action and talking Besides Black, Cranston, Simmons and animals—a formula often seen in other Hudson, the movie brings back Dustin Hoffanimated films. In this movie, instead of one man, Angelina Jolie, David Cross, James Hong, panda, Kung Fu Panda 3 throws in an entire Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen and Lucy Liu as Po’s village of pandas when Po’s father Li (Bryan

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a film that just focuses on a few things hat if you had a machine that would offer you a and does a good job of making those static picture of your living room from 24 hours in things engaging. the future? It’s a pretty limited view, just a snapshot.

For example, Time Lapse is not There is no context, no idea of what is happening outside trying to wow you with science, in of the frame, or what has led up to that moment, just a fact quite the opposite. The photo. That’s the situation three friends find themprotagonists in the film really selves in when they realize that their neighbor TIME don’t understand how the has invented a machine that spits out a photo time camera works, or each night that depicts the future. There is, of LAPSE even how to adjust it. Nor course, the initial trepidation and the natural Directed by Bradley King are they plucky theoretiinstinct to use knowledge of the future for Rated Unrated cal physics students that personal gain, but what happens when the NETFLIX STREAMING have theories on what images become more bizarre and out of place? effects tampering with the Time Lapse is a pretty good feature length timeline might have. They’re debut for director Bradley King. It’s not the kind just young people who find of thing that skyrockets a career, but good enough a machine that offers them brief to get him more work in the future. Perhaps the best snapshots of the future and then make thing about Time Lapse is it seems to know its own limits. On a series of increasingly bad decisions. It makes the film sort one hand that might make it seem rather tame compared to of realistic in that the characters are kind of believably naive the big budget fare that tries to do everything at once since and foolish, even if the whole picture of the future thing is that’s what most of us are used to seeing come out of Holclearly a work of fiction. lywood anymore. On the other hand it is refreshing to see

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Time Lapse certainly isn’t that fantastic hidden gem that everyone needs to see right now. Still, I found that it was certainly one of the most rewarding “I guess I’ll watch this movie I never heard of and hope for the best” experiences I have had in recent memory.

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The Coen Brothers’ mixed and wild filmography

By Dan Stoffel

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hile many movie fanboys salivate to the next preview for the summer’s batch of a dozen or so superhero and space opera sequels, prequels, reboots and spinoffs, I’ve been giddy with glee ever since I saw the first trailer for Hail, Caesar!—George Clooney in Roman warrior garb, Scarlett Johansson as a rough-talking Esther Williams type, Channing Tatum dancing in a sailor uniform, and Josh Brolin as an exasperated studio executive. Yes, the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan, are back, and you never know quite what you’ll get from the triple-threat writer/director/producer siblings. Skipping from dark crime to somber period piece to comic farce to traditional Western (well, as traditional as these guys are likely to go), their refusal to mire themselves into any particular genre has served them and their fans well.

I still remember sitting down with my mother in the summer of 1985 to watch Blood Simple on VHS. I was visiting while on college break, and Mom, who loved crime fiction and movies just like me, had heard of this quirky little noir that had wowed some critics under the box office radar. Starring John Getz and introducing Frances McDormand (who married Joel), it’s a twisty little tale of murder and demonstrates the Coens’ love of colorful characters and intricate camera shots. I was hooked, but one never knows … one good movie can be a fluke.

Two years later Joel and Ethan released Raising Arizona, a frenetic and hilarious kidnap caper featuring a fantastic Nicolas Cage (How often can we say that?) and Holly Hunter.

In 1990 they switched gears again with the Prohibition gangster film Miller’s Crossing, an absolutely beautiful movie full of double- and triple-crosses. Then, a year later was Barton Fink, winner of the Best Actor (for John Turturro), Best Director, and Palme D’or at Cannes. Writer’s block has never been depicted so uniquely.

In 1994, the Coens released the somewhat underrated The Hudsucker Proxy, making some think that the brothers were on a downswing. But in 1996, Fargo sent McDormand home with an Oscar for Best Actress along with Best Screenplay for the brothers, along with five other nominations including Best Picture. Just two years later, The Big Lebowski came and went from the theaters without much noise, though it would later cement itself as one of the biggest cult movies in cinema history.

Since then the Coen Brothers have continued to enjoy critical and box office success with such films as O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), with 2004’s The Ladykillers being their only dud. At 55%, it’s their worst performance on the Tomatometer. With 16 features under their belts before this weekend’s Hail Caesar!, that ain’t a bad record.

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BY DOUGLAS MCDANIEL

Hallowed sound Saintseneca returns to Flagstaff to extend the aural spectrum

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ac Little, leader of the Columbus, Ohio, post-punk folk outfit Saintseneca, is a tad evasive about trying to define his creative process, as well as his band’s sound, and he even keeps their overall direction close to his chest, perhaps because he doesn’t want to ruin or jinx the magic.

Also, the words and music are sufficient statements in themselves, and he’ll just leave the descriptors to the fans and the critics. ‌The band’s evolution from a mainly acoustic act into a full-fledged rock band due to the material from their latest album, Such Things (2015), Saintseneca’s third full-length effort, is the product of Little getting out of his “comfort zone” to begin with, he says.

“It [the new album] exists in the same continuum of everything else I’ve made, but I do think it’s better,” Little says prior to his band’s show in Seattle. “Certainly there was a decision I made to push myself outside of what I’ve done before. This time there’s more of a groove. This came as a result of a challenge to myself.”

Frontman Zac Little (center) and Saintseneca play Saintseneca, after eight years of rotating players and a lot of touring in thick with lyrics about life, death and whatever the U.S. and Europe, is known for diverse instrukind of quantum science has been running mentation such as balalaika, mandolin, dulcimer, through Little’s head lately. Recently he was Turkish baglama and floor percussion, as well quoted as saying, “Physics and studies of conas impertinent uses of synthesizers and electric sciousness are big influences around the new guitars to offer edgy Wilco-like dissonance (“I record.” He describes Saintseneca’s most recent like them,” Little says). The band’s previous effort as “a way of extending the spectrum of record Dark Arc (2014) offers a wall-of-sound the sounds I can get.” technique for dense, rich musical textures, as The source of what Saintseneca is starts well as a brilliant harmonic palette. Many of the with Little growing up on a beef cattle farm in songs contain numerous pieces or sections and a sparsely populated Appalachian community the fusing of multiple instruments to the quirky in southeastern Ohio. He was among a small purposes of Little’s meandering songwriting cadre of friends who shared the love of bands style to produce a progressive goth-folk feel. At such as Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground its best, it all sounds like it’s coming from some and the Beatles like it was a closely guarded place of distant antiquity. Little agreed that he secret in the boonies. Then, when he went to likes his music to sound classically old. attend Ohio State University in Columbus, he The more recent recording, Such Things, found himself invigorated by his surroundings: pushes the envelope into more electrified altera huge college crowd with numerous venues nativeland, with a lot more heavy bass, ringing for all kinds of music, and people who will pay guitars and bigger drums, without losing the to listen. “Moving to Columbus was the first twisted nursery rhyme quality of the melodies 12

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time I had access to a music show, with a real audience, in a real city,” he says. This was a liberating idea for Little, who pursued a talent for collecting and playing odd instruments, or, reconstructing his own. He says he got heavily into the “DIY punk house show scene” and it was in those social engagements that he found the many future participants of his recording efforts, musicians who became the “nebulous” founders of Saintseneca. Now he has a core of players including Steve Ciolek, Jon Meador, Maryn Jones and Matt O’Conke.

The first song on Such Things, the title track, has an old-time piano intro and then breaks out into a rave-up that might make one think of Oasis, as Little declares: “I defy the stars above to bash our milky heads in/Throw themselves against the wind/Then pick apart the heavens.”

In fact, Little says others have commented on some of his English-style phrasing, as if his

love for the Beatles were shining through. But he says he doesn’t do it consciously.

“I never want to attempt an effect on a particular vowel sound,” he says. “What I do I don’t really think about.”

The following song on the album, “Sleeper Hold,” really kicks into gear with a bright harmonic chorus that might make you think of the jubilation of the early Beatles singles, but that’s about as far as all of the Beatlemania goes. Little can sound like a cranky Violent Femmesstyle busker in “How Many Blankets Are in the World,” singing: “Everyone everywhere all the time/Waiting on a soft messiah/Everyone everywhere all the time/Waiting on a simple sigh of relief.”

Or he can purr his way softly through a song on one of the standout tracks from the previous album, Dark Arc, where on “Only the Young Die Good” he rolls his voice like an immigrant Welsh miner in the backwoods of Ohio singing songs of the old country. As both a maximalist or a minimalist, depending on the tune, there is an energized unpredictability in the variety of Little’s vocal approaches, and a taste for the Donny Darko-esque absurd, to boot.

So is it goth-folk? Acoustic angelism?

Chamber rock for the hipster set? Just what sort of muse is Zac Little?

“For me, I’m not necessarily considering or thinking too much about what I’m inspired to do,” he says. “That makes it more honest for me. I don’t want to place that kind of burden on myself.”

Catch Saintseneca at the Green Room, 15 N. Agassiz, on Sat, Feb. 6 with openers Des Ark and Blessed Feathers. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance and $14 the day of the show, and can be purchased in person at the Green Room or online at www.greenhouseproductions.net. For more about the show, call 226-8669. To learn more about Sainteseneca, visit www.saintseneca.com.

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BY DIANDRA MARKGRAF

On the Wall When nature calls

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irst Friday ArtWalk may have taken a little chill pill in January, but now the largest walking tour of all things artistic in Flagstaff is heating up again for the month of l-o-ve. Whether that’s for your homies, partners or even just for yourself, love is truly all you need.

‌A new comfort zone Just as one relishes the tiny bubbles of a wellcrafted beer dancing on the tip of the tongue, or lets a lover’s kiss linger—to know is to savor.

But at least one subject that has studded the artistic landscape from the moment a humanoid plucked up the first drawing utensil has been relegated to seldom appreciation before larger local audiences. To remedy this Eva Rupert, General Manager at the State Bar, has called on a handful of renowned Flag-based artists to contribute their visions of what she describes as one of the most celebrated and taboo themes in art history: the nude.

Savoir—a play between the French infinitive “to know” and the English word savor—does just that. Savoring the contrast and complement of their media, the exhibition features photographers like CM Wolett and Tamara Hastie, drawings from Shawn Skabelund and Bruce Aiken.

Emma Gardner, Suzanne Stebila and many, many more will lend testament in their media, too.

Amorell Demmert has been painting and drawing the nude female form since college.

Hopping around from University of Dayton, Ohio, to New York University before completing her fine arts education at Kent State University, Demmert relocated to Flagstaff seven years ago. Following another degree pursuit, the artist has found herself diving back into paint.

Demmert says her desire to depict locals’ strength has found a fitting avenue in Savoir.

To be nude is to be exposed, she adds, but by portraying women in ways that reinforce their powerful natures helps the artist convey more about her subjects as they gain confidence.

This artist describes her body of work built on the challenge of flipping the formerly maledominated profession that depicted women in sexually objectifying fantasy into working as a female artist representing her subjects as they are: powerful women. But in order for more women to experience this boost, the idea of the female nude would need to break boundaries locally.

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Photographer Amy S. Martin in a scene from The World Beneath the Rims. Image courtesy of James Q Martin

Earth and simultaneously the most threatened. The World Beneath the Rims, the brand new film by local film and photo wonders James Q Martin, Andrew Paffrath and Meredith Meeks, explores three artists’ relationships with the Wonder of the World in tandem with the issues surrounding its threatened watershed.

In anticipation of the film’s screening at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Martin, Paffrath and one of A drawing in a brand new series by Amorell Demmert the film’s characters, photographer Amy Martin, are focusing a Above and below First Friday series of images around this The Grand Canyon has been described precious resource. as one of the most protected spaces on “I’d like to get the female nude more acceptable,” she says.

“I think it is, but I was concerned to submit my work for First Friday ArtWalk because I wasn’t sure how many places would be comfortable with putting up the female nude.

I’m happy Eva is having a whole show of nudes. And I love that I’m bringing Flagstaff into it by using strong Flagstaff women.”

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“I think it’s really intended to capture water as it really exists in the place as far as it being not only the thing that sculpted it, but I think one of the elements that creates the mystique and really the wonder around the Canyon and how it can look 100 million different ways,” Paffrath says.

Just as those famous rock layers were etched, the multimedia artist behind Lantern City Media formed a relationship with the Canyon over time since relocating to Flagstaff in 2004, one that has evolved from overwhelmed to awe-inspired. “I think this is mirrored through the characters in the film that we’re working on. It really just pushes you to the very forefront of your creative and introspective experience,” he adds.

The film’s three characters—all artists in their own right—include renowned Grand Canyon painter, Bruce Aiken, writer and narrator Kevin Fedarko and photographer Amy Martin.

The film retells their respective stories, the way the Canyon grabbed them and reshaped who they were, redefined their ethos and vaulted them into the artist they would become today, Paffrath explains.

Benefitting this conversation, this film project was created in partnership with American Rivers. With the Colorado topping the list of the most endangered rivers in the U.S., Paffrath notes this exhibition is intended to pique people’s interest about the film and the issues that are currently threatening the greater Canyon area.

“Throughout the film we talk with Kevin, and his story aligns with the Grand Canyon Dories,” he says, naming Havasupai and Deer Falls. “And those boats are named after these places that have somehow been altered or destroyed at the hands of man, which is a very interesting and ironic juxtaposition between the subject matter of the film and what we’re trying to raise around, and this story that’s already unfolded that we’re already aware of.

But in the interest of progress we’ve let it slip our minds for just a moment.”

Rediscover the Grand Canyon at Criollo Latin Kitchen, 16 N. San Francisco, beginning at 6 p.m. The World Beneath the Rims screens at the Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen, during the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival’s Session 8 Celebration of the Grand Canyon on Sat, Feb. 13 from 7–10 p.m.

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taring at the precipice of a canvas-backed abyss, hunched over an easel for hours until time starts to stretch toward that Scary Door, the marks march away from the figure like little ants out of sync and entirely out of line. In the world of portraiture, diving head-first into pragmatic organization and expressing everything that needs to be said in paint, sometimes it’s necessary to revisit the beginning.

This oil painter is one member of the local artistic coterie qualified to underscore that designation. After all, she has painted enough faces to account for a dent in the world’s population: all her children’s boyfriends and girlfriends, all the friends they ever knew and friends of those friends. The largescale visages of many former models peek back at her from the walls of the tidy home she shares with her husband and fellow artist, John Stebila, brimming with carefully-curated artwork.

“If you want to do figure painting you have to paint it over and over and over again Suzanne Stebila is sitting at the granite so they don’t look flat and they don’t look countertop in her kitchen, waving her arms big-headed. Like a nose, where’s the nose? in vivid description of her working process.

Up here, coming right out of the eyes,” she “Exactly,” she exclaims with an outstretched imagines. finger. She is working on the mock-up for the It is this approach that sets her work piece she will live paint at the Viola Nominee apart: coming from the point of view of Showcase at the Orpheum Theater on Thu, graphic design rather than traditional Feb. 4. As a contender in the Emerging Artist portraiture, she explains. But each distills category at the annual Viola Awards, she the essence of the human before her. Some will create on canvas right in front of the are so familiar one could swear they’ve seen audience alongside fellow nominee and those very same big green eyes and bright Artist Suzanne Stebila. painter, Erin Brinkman. red hair somewhere. And many figures in “You have to get down to exactly what you want to say— these frames share at least one quality as some never saw even if it’s one little red mark,” Stebila says, sending a brush tip their reflections in the way Stebila envisioned the same. She scurrying across the painting splayed on the counter. The artist sees only beauty. is famous for adding little hash marks of serendipitous chaos to She asserts, “You have to make mistakes. Mistakes are the a newly finished piece. And in a flourish of excitement, it just so best part of the painting. It’s like my friend always said, 'If you happens, with one stroke, she swipes a knee for the upside down can’t hide it—feature it.' I go for whatever the oddities and the aerialist in her image. “Then see, look at that—it’s perfect!” mistakes are. I just don’t try to hide it.”

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Mistakes are a given, but preparedness is the converse of the same coin. Born in Connecticut, Stebila relocated to the then-upstart Lake Havasu City, with her family where she met her future husband and flourished in the burgeoning business scene. Now retired, the couple can afford the luxury of time to explore their art.

For John, he can scour forgotten items to repurpose into imaginative assemblage.

And Suzanne, she journeys past the foundations of her portrait-based style.

Her latest series, Companions, that will take shape in her Aspen Loft studio, 12.12., on February 12, is an experiment in exploration of form and focus, collaboration and artful representation of an all-too-often taboo subject.

Ideas bouncing from her brain, through her hands, and onto her sprawling notebook pages, Companions started to take shape last January. The two-part installation assembles comparative canvasbacked and photographic portraiture in the nude. With Havasu-based photographer, Mitch Tarr, behind the lens and Stebila at the canvas—whether cloth or copper—

Companions presents dual visions of the same image that, Stebila explains, reflect the landscape of the female form for all its valleys, dips and crevices.

“The satin is implied in the copper,” Stebila notes of her image, Torso, clad in blue atop a large plate of patina-speckled circuit board. “I wanted to go with a cool feeling because the copper is so warm. I want to have that contrast of the cool skin and the warm copper. Most of the pictures Mitch has done are going to be paired in this way. We’ve brought it down to the bare essentials of what we want to show: lights and darks, shadows, the outlines and landscape of the body.”

She circles back to maintaining a raw image of what laid before her and Tarr that day in her living room as the professional nude photographer posed their model across black bubble wrap and crimson satin. Working with a minimallyretouched photograph Tarr spared from Photoshopped brushes, the two worked together to pare the image down to suit their needs and accentuate the body in all its humanness.

“Both have their positive aspects because you look at a photograph and it’s so beautiful,” she says of this joint work. “All the information is there. When you look at a painting you fill in the blanks because I can’t make every mark.”

Representing one of the most important genres in all of art history, Companions stands testament to the opportunities for full nude shows in a local setting—something the artist hopes to see more of in Flagstaff galleries. One chance will reveal itself this First Friday ArtWalk with the Savoir exhibition at the State Bar where Stebila will present her additions to the all-nude, multi-artist show. (Read more on page 14 of this issue).

“Every once in a while there’s a little political undertone. We can be separate from whatever they think is not appropriate for certain people, and it doesn’t have to be Maplethorpe. It doesn’t have to go to that extreme. But I would love to see a full frontal crotch painting if it’s tastefully done and done well,” she explains with a laugh. “Let’s push the envelope a little bit.”

With projects piling up amid a ceaseless compulsion to paint the off-centered elements in this artist’s world, Stebila contemplates what brought her to the point of gaining ground at the Violas and in the scene. When she arrived in Flagstaff three years ago, she joined the Artists' Coalition of Flagstaff and sold three paintings in one day—a far cry from her modest beginnings at a single Havasu gallery. For her, she narrows this progress to the Flagstaff Arts Council’s initiative, ArtBox Institute, which she completed last May.

“It was so much fun. It was like everything clicked in my head,” she says of her time incubating in the business training course for artists. “It’s almost like I got out of my way and said, ‘I gotta get this done!’ I’m gonna paint and this is what I’m gonna paint!’ I just grew up that day—I don’t know what it was. Everything changed.”

Joining ArtBox, Stebila explains, was not only a way to meet other artists and establish deadlines, but the group’s required exhibition, Flow, had them all wondering how to fill that vacuous space.

Luckily, she is one artist fearless when it comes to size. Using images that would later become Companions, she painted two large nudes to decorate the Flagstaff Modern and Contemporary Gallery. This uninhibited study of her craft pits Stebila on an even keel, one she straightened within her studio, practicing and practicing.

“Then I started developing,” she explains of all these adventures in oils.

“And you really don’t develop as an artist, I don’t think, until you can really put all your heart and soul into it.”

Join the artist this First Friday, Feb. 5, at the Aspen Loft Artists, 7 E. Aspen, Ste. 12. Companions opens Fri, Feb. 12 from 6–9 p.m. at the studio. RSVP at www. companionsrsvp.com. If you just can’t wait that long, check out Suzanne Stebila’s piece in Savoir at the State Bar, 10 E. Rte. 66, during ArtWalk starting at 6 p.m. To learn more about the artist, see www. stebilastudios.com.

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REARVIEW

Everyday patriot Underdogs fighting the good fight

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he dictionary defines a patriot as, “One who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests.”

Supports authority? Hooey. An American patriot is one who supports the egalitarian ideals of our country, and is willing to challenge authority every time it devolves into authoritarianism. We see staggering levels of corporate authoritarianism asserting control over us in the Walmart-ification of our economy, Koch-ification of our government, Murdoch-ification of our media, Exxon-ification of our environment, Monsanto-ification of our food supply, and so on.

Just keeping up with all the assaults on our people’s democratic idealism can sometimes lead to an emotional overload that social commentator Marty Kaplan has dubbed “Informed Citizen Disorder.” Symptoms include an outbreak of hives when you see Fox News and a nagging compulsion to “Flee to the woods!”—which is exactly what plutocratic powers want all dissidents to do.

There is, however, a revitalizing antidote to the tragedy of ICD: Periodic exposure to America’s mavericks and mutts, free thinkers and greed whackers, who refuse to conform to the corporate order. They receive little media or political attention, but these are

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our nation’s everyday patriots—wholly imbued with a stalwart spirit of fairness and justice. They are underdogs battling big money and power, yet they commonly win.

This populist spirit is flowering today all across our country, from dozens of battles against Big Oil frackers to numerous actions against the unconscionable labor practices of Walmart. Forget the overstuffed, business-as-usual politicians who keep running games on us for the preservation of the status quo. Our true history is not about “The Great Men,” but about the grassroots people. Just as in the original revolution, the democratic future and populist potential of America is in the heads and hands of rebels.

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.

Sadly, the man who played Schneider on One Day at a Time, has passed away. Thankfully, I still have my Schneider action figure that inspired me to become the man I am today. We will have a ceremonial raising of his moustache to the rafters on Saturday.

Telling readers that this is it. This is it. This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball since 1994.

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rite now and be read! Flag Live invites you to submit your free-write for consideration for publication. With the first issue of each month we post a writing prompt followed by a 3/4 page of blank lines. You write (legibly, please!) a story, poem or creative non-fiction piece on the form or in a one-page, double-spaced Word document typed in Times New Roman, size 14 font.

(Please note: submissions that exceed or do not meet the outlined criteria will not be accepted.) ‌You can use your smartphones, digital cameras or scanners to create an image document of your writing and send it—or your one-page, double-spaced Word doc to Andrew Wisniewski at andyw@flaglive.com by Fri, Feb. 19 at 5 p.m. Author and writing mentor Mary Sojourner will read submissions and choose a writer to be featured in Flag Live the last week of the month. The cycle will continue with a new prompt and new winner each month. Watch for it … and Write on!

Round 24 Prompt: This one is for writers under 18. Three people are talking—maybe an argument, maybe planning something, maybe just hanging out. One of them looks up (out a window) and sees something that scares them.

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Featured Films At the Orpheum, we have aselection of films from Patagonia’s The New Localism hits our screens for Environment Night. Featuring the incredible Jumbo Wild, we are taken on a backcountry epic on skis and boards deep into the Purcell mountains of British Columbia.

Local filmmaker Justin Clifton presents Bears Ears: Preserving our Cultural Heritage, a follow up to his important conservation piece “Our Canyon Lands”. Join us at Flagstaff Bike Revolution for the jaw dropping kick off of our Outdoor and Adventure Film Series, featuring, The Rider and the Wolf, the compelling story of the life and strange disappearance of Hall of Fame mountain biking pioneer ‘Mike the Bike’, Mike Rust.

FILM FESTIVAL

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 VIP Filmmakers Reception – 4 – 6:30 PM Cuvee, 6 E. Aspen Ave.

Meet the filmmakers who have come to attend the festival and other VIP pass holders. A great way to get an inside perspective to the film community locally and beyond. Enjoy complimentary food and drinks.

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Behind The Scenes with Filmmaker Harlan Taney – 8 PM The State Bar, 10 Historic Route 66

Free to the general public (limited seating available)

Get a behind the scenes perspective of the logistical challenges that need to be overcome to make film in The Grand Canyon.

Harlan Taney is the owner and operator of 4 Corner Film Logistics, managing productions for National Geographic, Discovery, NBC and the BBC to name a few. Music by Raillery to follow and keep the party going into the night.

Featured Films At the Orpheum renowned filmmaker Josh Fox is back with the follow up to his Academy Award nomination “Gasland” with How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Change Can’t Change). Fox’s work was greeted with rapturous applause, standing ovations and had people dancing in the aisles at their Sundance Film Festival Premiere just three weeks ago. Local filmmaker James Q Martin screens the Flagstaff premiere of Mile

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for Mile, along with a touching tribute to a founding father of conservation Doug Tompkins. Join us at Flagstaff Bike Revolution for the second instalment of our Outdoor and Adventure Film Series featuring A Line Across the Sky a gnarly journey across seven jagged summits and 13,000 vertical feet of climbing earning Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold the Piolet d’Or.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13

Coffee Talk, Art of The Canyon – 10 - 11 AM Rendezvous, 100 N. San Francisco St.

Free to the general public (limited seating available)

The Grand Canyon has long inspired artists of all forms. Join filmmaker, James ‘Q’ Martin who will moderate a discussion with painter Bruce Aiken, writer Kevin Fedarko, and photographer Amy Martin. They will discuss their deep connection to the Grand Canyon, the lessons they have learned from this profoundly inspiring landscape and issues that threaten to alter one of the world’s greatest natural muses.

Encore Film Session – 4 - 6 PM Dark Sky Brewery, 117 N. Beaver St.

Free to the general public (limited seating available)

An array of films including Wind Vision and Winter Glow.

Food available from 3s in the Trees food truck.

with his spoken word performances from Telluride, to Wild and Scenic, to right here in Flagstaff. We are incredibly fortunate to have him strum his heart strings for us once again this year. First with his son Jasper in our Family Session at The Orpheum Theater on Saturday 2/13, at 10 am. Then again on Saturday night, where he and his backing the band ‘The Scatterlithics’ will close our ‘Celebration of The Grand’ program with his ‘Grand Canyon Rhapsody in Em’.

Featured Films At the Orpheum’s Saturday Night’s ‘A celebration of the Grand’ the audience will have the chance to weave between Pete McBride’s breathtaking homage to Martin Litton and the continued battle to preserve the Canyon in Martin’s Boat, and the quiet discoveries of family and life through reconnecting his father with the Canyon after 43 years in Forest Woodward’s The Important Places. Join us for for the third installment of our Outdoor and Adventure Film Series as Extreme Night takes to the Orpheum after the emergence from ‘the big ditch’. Featuring a series of fearless shorts from every corner of the world including; The Frozen Titans, at the leading edge of modern ice climbing, we celebrate those individuals who continually push the boundaries of their respective sports.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14

On this day of love we’ve got the movie part of the classic date covered and more! Join top Yard Dogs Zebu Recchia and Fletcher Fleurdujan as they present their film festival premiere of “Yard Dogs Road Show, The Movie!”. We’ll then keep the party going Cabaret Style with the Gypsy inspired Flag Film Hot Club!

Featured Films The winner of the first Peace & Sport Documentary Prize, Into the Sea, the story of three young sports women breaking gender boundaries in Iran, is our ‘Women in Focus’ feature at the Orpheum as we bring back a dedicated women’s session.

By rekindling this session, we pay homage to those females behind the camera and those sharing their stories in front.

Transgender issues are addressed in Mistranslated, and the magic of the Irish Wild Atlantic Way is brought to this mountain town in AiR. Local Flagstaff ultrarunning hero Rob Krar and our beloved Arizona trails are featured in This is your Day, reflections on the proposed Grand Canyon National Heritage National Monument is captured in Ed George’s North Rim Notes, and Amy Martin through her immense work, Identidad. Idantite. Identity. in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, shows us the power of photography. We present for the first time, Skyglow, the awe inspiring work of local lecturer, filmmaker and photographer Harun Mehmedinovic and his collaborator Gavin Heffernan.

Coffee Talk, ‘Ridiculous Stories from The River’ with Brad Dimock – 10 AM Rendezvous, 100 N. San Francisco St.

Free to the general public (limited seating available)

Walking The Grand Canyon National Geographic Preview by Kevin Fedarko & Peter McBride During our Saturday night Orpheum Program “A Celebration of The Grand” the dynamic duo of writer Kevin Fedarko and photographer/filmmaker Pete McBride will give us a sneak preview into their National Geographic sponsored 600 mile walk through the entire length of The Grand Canyon. With multiple book and film awards between the two of them for their work on the Canyon, there is no team better positioned to convey the joy and pain of this epic trek.

Reel Words by Craig Childs – 10 AM - NOON & 7 -10PM Orpheum Theater, 115 W. Aspen Ave.

VIP pass or attendance of session required for admission.

When he’s not penning Orion Award winning books, author and spoken word artist Craig Childs has dazzled film festival fans

ONGOING THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL The World Beneath the Rims Photo Exhibit Criollo Latin Kitchen, 16 N. San Francisco St. Brad Dimock has been a Grand Canyon boatman, boatbuilder, historian, and storyteller for 45 years. He tells a story like only someone who has stood around a thousand campfires can. Join us to hear tales so ridiculous that they can only be true.

Yard Dog Celebration of Passion Wrap Party with Flag Film Hot Club – 8 - 10 PM Orpheum Theatre, 115 W. Aspen Ave.

VIP pass or attendance of session required for admission.

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Local photographers Amy Martin, James ‘Q’ Martin & Andrew Paffrath join together to bring an exciting Grand Canyon photo exhibit from their film, The World Beneath the Rims.

Silent Auction A silent auction will take place every night at the Orpheum Theatre featuring an array of both local and national outdoor gear, art, services, and gift certificates. Proceeds will help fund the 2017 Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival.

Find Film Festival updates on FlagstaffMountainFilmFestival @flagmountainfilm #flagstaffmountainfilmfestival

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