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Portrait of a free-spirit, cutting-edge rabbi

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BEST OF YOUR LOVE I LOVE THIS TOWN—AND I AM going to miss celebrating it in our most anticipated issue of the year, Best of Tucson®. But this is my penultimate issue as TW’s editor as I prepare to follow my bliss to new horizons, so I won’t be here to oversee our annual love letter to the businesses that make Tucson such a great place to live—our museums, our galleries, our theaters, our restaurants, our cafés, our bars, our bands, our playgrounds and, most especially, all of our people who make all those places so doggone great. But we can’t do it unless you share the best of your love. Voting starts at TucsonWeekly.com on Friday, July 1, and continues through Aug. 20, so you have plenty of time to cast a ballot, but don’t miss your chance to be part of this year’s BOT, hitting stands on Oct. 20. In our feature story this week, Tucson Salvage columnist Brian Smith profiles Stephanie Aaron, a free-spirited Rabbi who came to the Jewish faith in her teen years. She’s a remarkable woman who oﬃciated at the wedding of Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly and who also aided in Gabby’s recovery from the 2011 mass shooting at Congress on Your Corner. As we were going to press, Aaron lost her stepson. Our condolences to her.

Elsewhere in the book this week: Columnist Tom Danehy wonders if state lawmakers will ever stop trying to dismantle public education in Arizona; arts writer Margaret Regan reviews the annual celebration of women at downtown’s Raices Taller Gallery’s Mujeres Mujeres Mujeres show; Laughing Stock columnist Linda Ray looks at two new comedy showcases in downtown Tucson and up in Catalina; calendar editor Emily Dieckman shares where to have a good time (often after the sun goes down); XOXO columnist Xavier Omar Otero finds some sweaty rock ’n’ in the sweet summer sun; and Tucson Weedly columnist David Abbott looks at the collapse of a major cannabis bill that just couldn’t get sparked in the last days of the session. Plus, we have Our Best Friend, a special session highlighting all the love we have for our pets. Staff reporter Nicole Feltman introduces you to a retiree who discovered a hidden talent for sketching all creatures, great and small, while staff reporter Katya Mendoza profiles the people behind a nonprofit that aims to make service dogs more affordable for veterans with PTSD and other challenges. Love to you all! Jim Nintzel Executive Editor

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DANEHY STATE LAWMAKERS HAVE PASSED UNIVERSAL VOUCHERS, EVEN THOUGH VOTERS REJECTED THE IDEA IN 2018 By Tom Danehy

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AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER IN HIS life, dumbass Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets has stated that he believed that the Earth is flat, that Man never landed on the Moon, and that the COVID vaccine would make him sterile and/or Bill Gates’ B-word. But, in Kyrie Irving’s defense, not even he is stupid enough to believe that even one Republican in the Arizona State Legislature gives even the slightest crap about education. Over the past 15 years, the record of Arizona Republicans when it comes to education has been boneheaded, shameful, and (I contend), for an extended time, criminal. Would-be lawmakers were willing lawbreakers. When the Great Recession hit in 2008, Republicans in the Legislature went to school leaders, hat in hand, begging for a one-year pass from having to live up to constitutionally mandated funding for schools. “Oh please,” they pleaded,

“just this one time! The national economy is in the polluted aquifer that’s under the foaming septic tank that’s under the overflowing toilet. We simply don’t have enough money to keep all the rich white people happy AND pay for the schools. So, please, just this once, okay?” The educators, foolishly believing in crazy ideas like shared sacrifice and the integrity of one’s word, said OK to the one-year deal. Then, one year turned into five and then 10 and then…we’re still counting. The legislators, having duped the teachers, used the severely slashed (“one-time only”) education budget as the new benchmark. They shirked their responsibility, flipped off Arizona’s school kids, and dared anybody to try to do something about it. Finally, a huge majority of Arizonans from across the political spectrum said, “Enough!” They told the Legislature, in no uncertain terms, that our schools are

more important than tax cuts for the country clubbers. This, of course, did not go over well with those who believe that they know so much more than the people whom they are supposed to be representing. (The dead giveaway for these toads is when they chant the brain-dead mantra of “this isn’t a democracy; it’s a representative republic.”) Well, it is that until the People get tired enough of the jackasses in the State Capitol and start bringing forth petitions and propositions and referendums and changes to the State Constitution, effectively going over the heads of the “lawmakers.” That, of course, really makes the elected members of the Goldwater Institute Claque angry. They don’t like being told what the People want. They already know what the People NEED! And so they have now come again with the Vouchers For Everybody routine, which got slapped down by the People by a 2-1 margin in a direct democracy vote. Vouchers are stupid, they’re selfish, and (I hate to tell them this) they go against everything that the Republican Party used to stand for. Some of us remember when the Republican Party was the party of self-reliance. Now it stands for (or perhaps kneels before) the concept of welfare for the rich. Someone once said that NFL team owners (who share almost all revenue) are “32 Republicans who vote

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Socialist.” The Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature talk Republican, but vote Socialist when it suits their narrow purposes of putting money in certain people’s pockets. The whole idea that vouchers can help low-income people send their kids to private schools is preposterous. Tuition at a decent private school is probably in the $20,000 a year range. What good is a $7,000 voucher going to do? There are only two types of people who will benefit from the universal vouchers—those who can already afford private school tuition and private school operators. Here’s how it works: The private school has the tuition set at $20,000 a year. Jonathan Smythe can afford that amount and happily sends his kid to the school. Then, the Republicans in the Legislature tell everybody that there’s an extra seven grand to be had for nothing. The school raises its price by $5,000 to help keep the riffraff out (and to substantially increase its bottom line). Mr. Smythe passes the voucher money along to the school and ends up making money on the deal as he now only has to pay $18,000 in tuition. Arizona’s voters saw through this scam when the Legislature passed similar leg-

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Rabbi Stephanie Aaron: “I think it would be a dishonor to actually debate a Holocaust denier.”

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Portrait of a Free-Spirit, Cutting-Edge Rabbi HER LIVING ROOM IS HYPER-COZY, crammed with books. They’re everywhere, on shelves, on tables, towering in piles on the floor and in boxes. She apologizes, explaining they are in the middle of a home renovation. The affair, inside this ranchy, mid-century home, which she has shared with her husband Jack for 31 years, is overseen by lovely fine art and photography. One piece, a black, charcoal and graphite abstract by Tucson artist Josh Goldberg dominates the room. The work is telling, all murky crevices, unreal tusk-like arches. A quick study offers a manifestation of deep melancholia, or emotional trauma. I say this aloud and she agrees. For her it’s a reminder of the Holocaust, some connecting and consistent nature passing through generations, and how it assumes shapes of necessity. It’s almost circular that way. “Isn’t that the dilemma of life?” she says. “Sometimes I just sit and stare at it.” She relaxes into a deep reading chair, wearing a black tunic and long black skirt, yarmulke, and a coral red beaded necklace. Her chestnut bob features bangs, which match her youthful-sounding voice and expressive eyes, a whimsical balance to her refinement. So it is no surprise when she prefaces topics with “You’ll love this, this is great!” Or, “I have to tell you something interesting, I still can’t get over it.” I’m to the side of her peculiar collection of artful snow globes on the coffee table before me. Within minutes I learn a conversation with Rabbi Stephanie Aaron never clots into meaningless din. She’s effusive, to be sure, sometimes it’s as if her burst of sentences cannot contain the theories and thoughts that went into their construction. Art, literature, geography, morality, world religions and Judaism as foci pile atop each other, and circle back con-

nected, often as metaphors placed into a larger human context and peppered with self-deprecation. At one moment I wonder if ever there is an off lever to her running monologue. I later ask her husband Jack about this, and he laughs. His response comes after a long thoughtful moment: “Well, everything she says is interesting!” Aaron is obviously an educationalist who communicates through storytelling. In this almost peculiar, intuitive way, she can soothe your center with an understanding worthy of a good therapist, and in show-not-tell narratives, her theses often ignite with personal meaning. An example: She relates a story of helping a kid years ago whose aunt was a Holocaust survivor who’d been cremated. “One of the kids said to me, ‘This is illegal. But my aunt was a Holocaust survivor and I wanted to bring her.’” They were in Warsaw, Poland and walked over the Vistula River with the aunt’s ashes and released her out over the river. “I knew right then,” Aaron says. “I felt her peace. That was the first time it was a Holocaust survivor … It was unexpected. But I came to understand. Others have said, ‘This is what happened to my parents and I want this for me. They’d say ‘My parents didn’t choose that, I want to be in death, the same as they were.’ It is not a Jewish custom to cremate,” she adds. “Other rabbis don’t do it.” To hear the rabbi explain it, her words widen any context of cremation, and it becomes a story of reclamation, telling of a wider family, of parent-child relationships. Had me grateful for the tender tentacles of dead family members, whomever that family may be, friends, aunts, parents; how they drift around in the recesses of daily life, orbiting houses, inhabiting trees barely in sightline, an energy that

never slackens. She salvages people, places, things, even the actual Torah used at her synagogue was rescued from the Nazis and is still being restored from WWII. As a rabbi, she’s had her hand in myriad projects, an endless cycle of human services, all of which she deflects back to those served: from building a house with Habitat for Humanity, to connecting wayward offspring of Holocaust survivors to bigger families, to placing food and water on migrant routes from Mexico to helping displaced families from other countries find sanctuary. There is the Butterfly Trail, a remembrance of the million and a half Jewish children who were murdered during the Holocaust, which Aaron helped to connect in Tucson. Holocaust survivors I’ve met in Tucson revere her, their partners, children and grandchildren too. The salvaging has extended to Nazi paraphernalia. “Listen to this!” she says. “I’m a third-generation Rotary. Yes, I’m a Rotarian. Maybe 10 years ago, a non-Jewish woman tells me she had been cleaning her mother’s attic and found a huge Nazi flag.” The woman’s father helped in a liberation of Cologne, Germany. “She asked me, ‘What do we do with it? My brother wanted to sell it on eBay.’ I said, ‘I’ll take it.’” She took it home and spread it out with her husband Jack, also Jewish. “It felt like pure evil,” she continues. “If you could’ve seen the workmanship. The gold tinge, the multi-colors. The contrast of this magnificently crafted flag to such

mass-destruction, the death and the slave labor that went into creating it. It was all there.” It made them sick to have it in the house. The flag wound up in the Jewish Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. Salvaging extends to literature. In a culture where so few read anymore (“we don’t read books, we read excerpts”), in an act she calls “subversive,” she started a book club through her synagogue. The book club’s first assignments involved going back 100 years and reading Jewish authors by decade, fiction, non-fiction, the gamut. “Appreciating literature, that’s an underlying theme of my work.” Rabbi Aaron is the spiritual leader of congregation Chaverim (means “friend” in Hebrew), a small Tucson synagogue whose membership boasts 100 families. It is an impartial, liberal Reform congregation, LGBTQ+-friendly. She has been there 30 years, working in a rabbinical capacity until she was oﬃcially ordained in 1998, the first female Rabbi in Tucson. (Sally Priesand became America’s first female rabbi in 1972.) “I don’t think I really realized how ground-breaking that was here.” She laughs. “A lot of time I wasn’t allowed to oﬃciate weddings and funerals. I didn’t fit the … I mean, I wasn’t a man. She pauses, maybe as a way to soften thousands of years of Jewish history, adds, “There is my temperament … Maybe I have more of a free-spirit.”

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She did officiate State Rep. Gabby Giffords’ marriage to ex-NASA astronaut, now-U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly in 2007. She later visited her in the Houston hospital, prayed with her and her family, after Giffords survived a gunshot to the head in Tucson while meeting with constituents outside a grocery store. (The shooter, you’ll recall, shot 18 others, killing six, in 2011.) Giffords’ injuries led her to resign from office. Last year, after 20 years of study with Rabbi Aaron, Giffords became a bat mitzvah at Chaverim, at age 51. At least one other rabbi calls her a mystic. Yet, when she leads a service, her presence borders that of an entertainer, with accompanying acoustic guitar and singer offering Leonard Cohen poppy versions of klezmer folk songs, kaddishes (prayers), and proverbs, all under an appointed theme of kindness toward others. And when the rabbi sings and chants in Hebrew, her tone tempers the melodies, the harsh edges more mellifluous. (She is a Beatles fan). Even the mundane becomes interesting to an atheist non-Jew like me. (Days later I gathered around a Torah with other confirmation attendees at Chaverim synagogue, an act not exactly kosher in certain Jewish circles.) For a Jewish rabbi, Aaron is pretty cutting edge. Without diving into a theological history of religion and the three main branches of contemporary Judaism (Orthodox, Reform and Conservative, all of which sort of evolved from ancient Judaism traditions when Jews began to matriculate into the European world after the French Revolution.) What Aaron offers often flies in the face of Jewish orthodoxy. As my Jewish wife points out, she is willing to adapt the religion to the participants instead of making the participants feel guilty for falling short of the religion. She officiates cremation burials, interfaith and same-sex marriages, allows people to become b’nai mitzvah in their chosen gender. In short, what I understand from Rabbi Aaron’s words and actions is that humanism, a steadfast egalitarianism, centers her life and work, equal parts empathy and awareness. And as a rabbi that also includes environmentalism, feminism, and so many other isms. It comes down to this, we are all — race, nationality, sexual orientation or gender

much. They’re a permanent part of my soul.” At 18, she went with a Jewish boyfriend to hear author-Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel speak. “It was his testimony, and inner sense of peace,” she says. “I felt like he was only speaking to me. I recognized that I shared his story, it became my story. He’s telling my story, he’s telling our story. That’s it. I had to serve God and the Jewish people. At 18, the seed was planted.” She graduated Rincon High School and the University of Arizona (English lit major). Fresh out of school, Aaron volunteered for the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and taught Holocaust history at Tucson junior highs, brought survivors in to speak to kids. She later married that boyfriend and had two children. “He was my first love. I had the luck of the draw,” she laughs. “I had a lot of Jewish friends. We met at 13.” She spent all of her 30s studying to become a rabbi, she couldn’t easily leave Tucson to study because she had two children. She chose the Aleph program, which she calls “a yeshiva without walls.” She mastered Hebrew. Sometimes she’d have to travel to Los Angeles, New York City and other cities, for study and testing, often bringing her children with her. “You have to learn, and then you’re tested, and you have to go to where that person is,” she says. She is a product of the Aleph program’s so-called “Jewish Renewal” movement, which rose in the late ’60s counterculture, and is an attitude more than anything. Yes, it focuses on spirituality and the more mystical Jewish traditions, but incorporates nontraditional actions, more socially progressive values and social justice. It is called a “transdenominational movement,” which, Aaron says, means “not being rigid. This is the Jewish people, this is our history. It means this is our way of an exotic life, a beautiful, caring life.” Among other rabbis, Aaron studied under Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a pioneer of the Renewal movement who dropped LSD with Timothy Leary and coined the term transdenominational. He

Rabbi Stephanie Aaron communicates through storytelling and conversational flair.

notwithstanding — one. Basic tenets for all to live by, which is her point, regardless of any religious beliefs, or none at all. She recognizes that hers is not the only authentic path to God, whatever one’s God may be. Or one does not have to believe in God at all.

RABBI AARON’S PARENTS WERE not Jewish; protestants, sporadic churchgoers. “My father was a man of God,” she says. “He had direct access to God in that he found God in nature and acts of loving kindness. That’s very Jewish.” Her parents did lots of volunteering too, and it trickled down. “I was a candy striper, a teen volunteer, helping the sick in hospitals. It really did help me prepare who I didn’t know. Still, I was a 16-yearold kid, I wanted to drive around in my Chrysler.” She was born in Indianapolis while dad was serving in the Korean War and spent her first six years in Phoenix before the family moved to Tucson. Dad worked for the family business, started by his father, mom a homemaker, “a volunteer person,” taught kindergarten. Her youngest brother was adopted. This boy’s biological mother died of alcoholism and the father, an Air Force man, was drinking himself to death. “In my family, he is tall. We are not tall,” Aaron laughs. “We are all still very close.” The adoption, already a stretch for a family with five kids, was an act of pure love. It taught a huge lesson in empathy. “Empathy, that was part of it; that’s who they were,” Aaron says of her parents, who are now deceased. “I miss my parents so

taught Aaron to daven, to pray. He taught her the power and depth of stories. In the meantime, the first marriage, she says, choosing words carefully, “just didn’t work out.” I ask her if there ever was a sense that your own children felt neglected because you work so much to others? “I don’t know the answer to that,” she says. “I don’t know the answer. I’ve always been really close to my kids. I know they spent a lot of time in the synagogue. It’s like this job that you’re doing.” Her husband Jack is a well-read guy, with gray hair and quiet demeanor. He is an ophthalmologist and Rabbi Aaron and they met when she was his patient and have been married more than three decades. (She has accompanied him on many of his altruistic medical missions to developing countries in Latin America and Africa, helping the needy end preventable blindness.) They each brought two kids to the union and together they had one. They have grandchildren now.

AARON’S MADE HER FIRST TRIP to the Polish concentration camps with her husband and stepson just after 9-11. She calls the event life-altering, her story of Buddhist Jews sitting and meditating at Auschwitz, “bearing witness.” They read names aloud of the murdered. “By the time we left we read 10,000 names in a week.” She remembers some names to this day. “That first time I was fiercely angry. The reality of it.” She has since made many sojourns with area Holocaust survivors to the annual March of the Living (MOTL), which happens on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), a tribute to all Holocaust victims, and includes a march in southern Poland from Nazi death camps Auschwitz to Birkenau. “I know survivors who wouldn’t go to Poland or Germany, because it is too painful. It takes an amazing courage. On the other hand, it is a march of the living. You’re a living Jew, it can be strengthening. Once you go on the March of the Living, you’re never the same. There is an awakening inside you.” A major thesis in Aaron’s work so often involves carrying the burden of the Holocaust for the Jewish people, how that TUCSON SALVAGE

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connecting and consistent nature passing through generations will always teach. As with Holocaust survivors for whom she has provided guidance, whose families are still broken. “Other survivors became their family,” Aaron says, “aunts, uncles, they didn’t have that. That is another type of family. “We cannot do it alone,” she continues. “It’s all of our tasks, a sacred duty. What we are doing here is taking this harrowing time, and adding this question: How did it happen?” She adds, “I’m such a pacifist. But I ask myself, what if the United State hadn’t entered World War II. I do still wrestle with the thought.” I ask if she has ever been face-to-face with a Holocaust denier. She pauses. “I haven’t. I’m intrigued by the idea.” She pauses again. “I don’t know how I would react. I think it would be dishonor for the Jewish people to actually debate one. Holocaust denial is another form of anti-Semitism.” The rise of anti-Semitism in the last several years, aided with years of hatred simmering along the surface inside Donald Trump’s White House, and recent vandalism at Arizona synagogues. Hatred is easy, lazy. “I would never take it off my kippah or yarmulke after leaving the synagogue to go to the grocery store. I’ve been very much more aware now. Is it fear? I think so. I mean just to have that thought process of that kind of hate in the world.” These days there is an armed guard pacing the front of Chaverim during events.

THERE IS A GUN VIOLENCE Awareness event called “Wear Orange,” on a Saturday in June in the courtyard at

the Southside Presbyterian Church. More than 100 souls, mostly all wearing orange shirts, create a deceptive sugary glow of sherbet ice cream, a juxtaposition not lost on one attendee, a crusty gent I overhear who said, “This all looks so happy!” The tone is quickly shattered when the audience, assembled in portable chairs amid trees and plants, are asked: “Who here are relatives of someone who was murdered?” Many hands reach toward the sky. Here are parents and brothers and sisters of loved ones murdered with guns. Here are folks tethered to a need to stop gunning down innocents and children, to stop the violence. Rabbi Aaron waits. Darkness falls and she steps up to the mic after all others have spoken. The long wait is not in vain because she begins with the grace of a true orator, paced, measured, dramatic arches. She hems in thoughts of those in attendance with a nearly musical, five-minute soliloquy that’d do Maya Angelou proud; a mix of prayer and storyteller poetics upholding a topical monologue of murder and gun violence. “We murder each other by the names we use to reduce people to less than human, to not human, to not us.” Her words have resonated far more than mere concerned gestures of some well-chosen speaker, and in the final seconds she nails her personal oeuvre. Quoting Lincoln in Hebrew, she offers a religion-transcendent line, which she also translates: “We can fly … with malice toward none, with charity toward all.” Note: As this story was going to press, Rabbi Aaron suﬀered the loss of her stepson Joshua Aaron. There are no details to reveal. With respect to the family, we send condolences.

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islation in 2017. A ballot measure was drawn up, petitions were circulated, and in 2018, voters killed the voucher expansion by a two-to-one margin. Now, it looks like we have to do it all over again as the Arizona Legislature last week passed an even larger expansion of vouchers than it did in 2017. Pastor (and voucher advocate) Drew Anderson of the Legacy Christian Center is quoted as saying that what voters did just four years ago doesn’t matter. He points out that Donald Trump won Ari-

zona in 2016, but lost the state four years later. With Arizona’s leftward shift, the voucher giveaway will probably go down by a 3-1 margin next time. There is a slang move in Spanish that involves the right index finger being slammed down into a cradle in the left hand, accompanied by the shouting of the word “toma!” It basically means “f--you.” By odd coincidence, the push for universal vouchers is being led by House Majority Leader Ben Toma. Yeah, Toma, indeed.

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Summer Safari Nights: Spots and Stripes. There’s something about the spotted and striped animals that tends to get kids—and, let’s face it, plenty of adults too—excited. Whether it’s the geometric shapes on a giraffe, the fashionable print on a cheetah or the clean lines of a zebra, the patterns of nature are just worth getting excited about! Come visit the Reid Park Zoo in the cool of the evening and visit all the animals, with a special focus on these patterned pals. You can also enjoy food and cold drinks, take a ride on the Cox Jungle Carousel, play games, and hear live music by the Cornerstone Band. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2. Reid Park Zoo, 3400 Zoo Court. $10.50 adults, $8.50 seniors, $6.50 children, free for members and kids under 2. Cat Video Fest 2022. There was a time when, if you watched your cat do something really cute or weird, you’d just have to hold that memory in your heart forever, never to be shared with anyone. (Unless you want to try awkwardly verbally explaining it until you’re forced to mutter a defeated, “I guess you had to be there.”) But, thanks to the wonders of technology, we are living in an era in which cat video content is abundant. Come to the Loft to see more than 100 cat videos, curated by Will Braden, creator of the Henri, le Chat Noir videos. This show is produced specifically for this festival and can’t be seen

online, so don’t miss out. (Don’t miss meowt?) 2 p.m. Sunday, July 3, and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 7. Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $10, or $8 members and children. AZ Indoor Artisan Market. Tucson is a great place for artisan markets, and in the summer, it’s best to just keep events indoors where it’s air conditioned. We don’t want all those handmade candles melting! Come check out this small group of local businesses offering handmade products including crystals, paintings, jewelry, baked goods, toys, knits, embroidery and herbal items. It’s never a bad time to support local artists. 10 a.m. Sunday, July 3. Spark Project Collective Events Center, 4349 E. Broadway Blvd. Wilde Meyer Gallery July Tucson Art Walk. Evening strolls in Tucson, during which you feel like you’re walking through a landscape painting, can be hard to beat (and bonus points if everything smells all monsoon-y). This monthly art walk hosted by Wilde Meyer Gallery is in the Foothills Art District at Skyline and Campbell, and features artists including Dana Hoopers, Judith D’Agostino, Sherri Belassen and plenty more. So, not only will you enjoy the feeling you might be walking through a landscape painting, but you can actually buy some paintings as well, should any strike your fancy. 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 7.

Cool Summer Nights at the Desert Museum: Creatures of the Night. In a sense, all Tucsonans become creatures of the night during the summer, because that’s when leaving the house is the most bearable. Tonight at the Desert Museum, join some of your fellow night creatures, including bats performing aerial maneuvers, beavers splashing around, and scorpions glowing green under blacklights. You can learn more about the desert from docents all night long, check out art exhibits in the museum galleries and pay a few extra bucks to touch the stingrays. You can even set your kid loose in the Packrat Playhouse for half an hour while you sip on the night’s specialty cocktail, the “Lions Gaze.” 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 2. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road. $24.96 adults, $22.95 seniors, $13.95 youth 3 to 12 and free for members and kids under 3. Sunset Historical Tours at the Mescal Movie Set. If you’ve seen a Western movie, like Tombstone or The Quick and the Dead, you’ve probably already seen the Mescal movie set on screen. But this month, you can reserve a slot to take a historical tour of the set right at sunset. Grab a cowboy hat and boots and come check out this 1800s cinematic town, where you can pretend you’re hanging out with Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Sharon Stone, Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio. Tours at 6:30 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 2 and July 16. 1538 N. Mescal Road in Benson, AZ. $15. Kitty Haha Comedy Night for Cats, Performed by Cat People. Comedy nights are fun, but did you know the No. 1 complaint by attendees is simply, “There weren’t enough cats”? Our local cat lounge, El Jefe, is finally here to remedy this age-old problem. Haven’t you always wanted to have a cuddly kitty on your lap while you you’re watching a comedy show, feline relaxed and loving live? This is your night. They’ll also be awarding a prize to the lucky person with the best crazy cat lady costume. 7 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 1. El Jefe Cat Lounge, 3025 N. Campbell Ave. $18.

Marana’s Star Spangled Spectacular Car Show. There’s something about a car show that feels distinctly American, so what better way to celebrate Independence Day than with Obsessions Car Club? This car show event blessedly has covered parking, and there is plenty to do to keep the thousands of attendees entertained. The Civic Orchestra of Tucson presents a musical instrument petting zoo, the kids can enjoy a playground full of inflatables and a splash pad, and more than 30 food tucks are at the ready to get you some grub. And don’t miss the fireworks show at 9 p.m.! 4 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 3. Crossroads Park, 7548 N. Silverbell Road. Camping. If you’ve ever spent extended periods in the great outdoors with your loved ones, you may now refer to them as your loved/hated ones. Part of Live Theatre Workshop’s Etcetera Late Night Series, this show is about what nature’s beauty brings out in us: the good, the bad and the ugly. Actors Ally Tanzillo and Allison Talavera both play multiple roles in this late-night comedy, which is also directed by Tanzillo. 9:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays July 1-9. Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road. $10.

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ASHLEY TAPPEN SAYS SHE doesn’t remember ever not wanting to be a comedian. “I just really enjoy making people laugh,” she says. “Some things I say that I don’t even think are funny, they crack people up. So I thought spreading joy was the way I would like to make a living.” When she graduated from high school in her New York City suburb, she took a job that offered profit sharing after a minimum number of years. Cashing out as soon as she could, she left home for Chicago to take classes at The Second City. “I drove with my Honda and my dog to the middle of the country,” she says, “and I had never even been past Massachusetts.” Tappening excelled through Second City’s improv curriculum, but ensemble work wasn’t her thing. “I found I needed the punch” of standup. Next she embarked on a life working for vendors at large music and comedy festivals around the country. But in a few years, she wearied of the road. “Some of the best times of my life happened, but I just needed, like, an underwear drawer or a house plant or somewhere to lay my head at night, except for in a Honda or, or Motel 6.” So she settled in Tucson, where she’d made some friends and found what she called “a decent standup scene.” This weekend, she’s both producing and headlining in her first comedy showcase, The Tappening, at 8 p.m. Friday, July 1, at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress. Tickets are $10. Tony Bruhn hosts, and the lineup includes special guest Jess Toussaint; Steph Farrington; Dominic DiTolla, co-host of The Sports Experience podcast; Rebecca Fox, co-host of the Home Room Sunday open mic and the monthly Blazed and Confused comedy showcase, both at Arte Bella; and Allana Erickson-Lopez, Unscrewed Theater musical improv cast member and co-producer of the popular Screening Room sketch show, Keep Tucson Sketchy.

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TONY SCHIED DESERVED A laugh. A single father of three, he had been commuting two hours a day for work, moving up the wardens’ management ladder at the federal prison on South Wilmot Road. And he has MS. Luckily, when he’d lived in Chicago a decade ago, he had that one friend nearly every successful comedian has. The friend said, “You’re funny! You should do an open mic.” Schied went up, people laughed, he was hooked. Life happened and a move to Arizona ensued. When he finally retired on disability a few years ago, Schied tried his hand at Laff’s Comedy Caffe at an open mic. It went OK for a while, but he got tired of LAUGHING STOCK CONTINUES ON PAGE 14

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Downtown gallery Raices Taller 222 once again brings us ‘Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres’ By Margaret Regan WAY UP NORTH AMONG THE forests of Flagstaff, the artist Debra Edgerton makes art that honors the multiple cultures of her family. A longtime senior lecturer at Northern Arizona University, Edgerton was born to an African American father and a Japanese mother. The couple met in Japan during the American occupation after WWII. When they married and moved to the States, they were discriminated. As a child, Edgerton was taught not to speak about her parents’ background. As a result, she told a campus magazine, “I didn’t know enough about my heritage.” Her work clearly makes up for lost time. Her web pages are filled with photos of her glorious watercolors, a difficult art form that is prized in Asia, particularly in China and Japan. Her portraits seem to resonate with her parents and with her own life. There is a woman in a colorful Asian dress, an elderly Black man and a Japanese woman shopping for vegetables together, and, finally, a close-up painting of a woman who could represent Edgerton: the woman, like her, is part Asian, part Black. In 2019, Edgerton won a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She proposed a series of paintings called “By the Grace of God. The series, she said, was to be “a reimaging of the notion of grief and loss for women of color.” One of those pieces is “Saving Grace,” an extraordinary watercolor about a troubled Black woman. Clad in a shimmering white dress, she reaches up to a helping hand. The pigments are as rich as the oils in paints; and the woman seems real and deeply alive. The piece is in “Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres,” the online exhibition currently on display, thanks to Raices Taller 222 Gallery. It’s a highlight of the show. We can, I suppose, thank COVID. John Salgado, who runs Raices Taller with his partner Ceci Garcia near downtown, has continued to show art ever since the pandemic began more than two years ago.

“Saving Grace,” by Debra Edgerton, is on display as part of downtown gallery Raices Taller 222’ online exhibition “Mujeres Mujeres Mujeres,” continuing through July 16. SUBMITTED PHOTO

The trick is that he mounts these exhibitions online, not hung in the gallery. But there’s a silver lining. With the help of tech, artists around the globe can enter their work into the gallery’s shows. Nowadays many more far-flung artists are sending their work digitally to the Old Pueblo. And we get to see exciting new works by artists who have not heard of. This is the 17th round for the annual Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres show, which ironically arrived just weeks before the Supreme Court officially crushed the liberties of American women. None the less, the show honors the talents and powers of 43 female artists who have provided a whopping 98 works of art. Plenty hail from Tucson, but many come from around the U.S. And one is from India. Fans can look at all 98 artworks pieces in the comfort of home, but here are thoughts about some of my favorites. Quite a few works this year are abstractions swimming in exquisite colors. For instance, in “A Garden Imagined” by Nancy Drigotas of Tucson, a dazzling array of colors turned the garden into an abstract beauty. Her swirling sea blue is partnered with gold and pink and green. Another piece, “Untitled #072,” is ablaze in orange, violet and red. Diana Creighton of Oracle’s work is the opposite of Drigotas’s. Longing for water in the desert, Creighton recreates California-style pools in a trio of lively oil paintings. With shades of David Hockney, their bright colors and bold lines seem to radiate the summer heat. Lisa Marie Barber, a former Tucsonan, molds ceramic installations in Wisconsin, where she’s an art professor. In the elaborate sculpture “Alegria,” a large, seated indigenous woman is surrounded by a treasure trove of small, colorful objects—a pig, a hat, flowers. Her work, Barber says, is inspired by the Mexican folk art and Catholic shrines she knew as a child in southern Arizona. Other outstanding pieces include lovely landscapes by Betina Fink; color-

ful abstracts by Mary Theresa Dietz, an interesting shift for the artist; and paint, ink and acrylic images of women by Varsha Kharatmal of India. As a deaf and mute artist, Kharatmal says that her art speaks for her. And for a little bit of hope, you can peruse “KJB,” a portrait of an optimistic Ketanji Brown Jackson, the soon-to-be Justice of the Supreme Court. Thanks to artist Robyn Duenow for a few minutes of respite. In addition to mounting the Mujeres show, Raices Taller and friends now are showing their own art in person at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon. It’s the first time that Raices has gotten an exhibition the respected museum. And they are thrilled, “We have the entire first floor,” Salgado says, and the 16 artists in the show are displaying 55 paintings and sculptures. The curator, Eric Kaldahl, invited the artists to supply art about “where we come from,” Salgado explains. “It’s art inspired by our roots, and about our families and communities.” Raices’ Ceci Garcia, for instance, created a typical borderlands shrine for a woman she calls “Madre del Desierto”— Mother of the Desert. Other artists include the likes of Alfred Quiroz, Rachel Running, Cristina Cárdenas, Juan Enriquez and Salgado. Meantime, Raices is planning to “revitalize” the gallery. Through the time of COVID, the gallery has been hosting drop-in Saturdays for people to come in and do art. That will continue. But in late

summer or early fail, the doors will once again open for art shows. “We will do one day a week, Sunday,” Salgado says. “We will start with an exhibition like a small work show. We’ll have a lot of different artists.” The gallery will certainly celebrate the homecoming with music and food. It will hit its 25th anniversary this fall and, naturally, another of the legendary Raices parties will ensue. And if COVID roars up again? “We’ll have to watch it,” he says.

Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres WHAT: All-women online art show mounted by RaicesTaller 222. Go to the gallery page on your computer; follow the designated link to view exhibition. Click on artist names to see art. See gallerist John Salgado’s Facebook for bio info on artists WHEN: Extended run through July 16 COST: Free INFO: For info on Saturday art workshop call 520-881-5335. Raices Taller 22, 218 E. Sixth St.

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, JUNE 30 Despite frontwoman Gabi Montoya relocating to Seattle two years ago during the lockdowns, the “mutual desire to be absolute putas chingonas” remained a constant, as bassist Isabella Rodriguez eloquently states on IG. Chicana-powered garage/glam street rioters Taco Sauce return. At Club Congress… In pursuit of redemption— or merely to cash in on the 10-cent container refund on a pile of beer cans amassed in the backyard—specialists in high octane countrified Americana and twang-pop Mark Insley and the Broken Angels spill out gut-wrenching truths upon the threshing room floor. At Tap & Bottle - Downtown… This country-tinged singer-songwriter/guitarist takes the listener on a journey of love, heartache and hope, with sultry guitar work to spare. Armando Moreno & The Revival. At Thunder Canyon… Country singer Jack Bishop serves up toothsome classic and modern country music with a side of classic rock. At St. Philip’s Plaza… Led by veteran NYC double bassist, the Lee Gardner Trio performs reconceptualized jazz standards into the Late Night. At The Century Room…

FRIDAY, JULY 1 Starry eyed surprise. After climbing to the heights of international notoriety—amassing three Grammy Awards, two World Music Award nominations and being named the No. 1 DJ in the World twice by DJ Magazine—English record producer and trance DJ Paul Oakenfold pre-

sents Shine On (2022), his latest album. At Rialto Theater… “The moon has shown me I’m ready/My womb is pulled like the tide/And the path lit, it is selfless/And all my friends are bathing in its light.” In a statement on Facebook, Andrea Greenberg Connolly reflects, “I wrote this after me and Pete went through a traumatic miscarriage together.” She adds, “As a wild at heart artist it is very hard to wrap my mind around the fact that in our country I no longer have the freedom to make that choice for myself.” Birds and Arrows. At MSA Annex… This LAbased EDM DJ/producer’s groovalicious beats and quirky accents has been making revelers dance since 2017. OMNOM struts. At Gentle Ben’s… Local Love presents the return of Metal Fest, an unholy conclave of some of Tucson’s hardest hitting bands: Sleeping With The Witch, Demon Grass and AZ The World Burnz. At 191 Toole… Friday Night Live sees jazz trio What’s The Big Idea? performing in the open air. At Main Gate Square… Variety dance band Jukebox Junqies takes audiences on a nostalgic journey. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… El Tambó celebrates the remezcla of culture germane to the borderlands. Resident DJ Humblelianess keeps things lit. At Hotel Congress Plaza… Melding together sample-based electronics with soul and R&B influences, Tucson alt-poppers Nocturnal Theory make sunsets collapse. At Club Congress… Holding steady after 35 years, desert reggae legends Neon Prophet demonstrate just how the West was won. At St. Philip’s Plaza… Los Angeles guitarist Sid Jacobs & Hi-Fi Bossa Nova set off a night of sultry Brazilian bossa nova. At The Century Room… As part of a lineup that mashes together reggae

Mexicano hasta los huesos. The scion of titans—Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, two of the most prominent performers in Mexican musical history—Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Pepe Aguilar croons. At AVA Amphitheater… What began as a party, by two enterprising friends, in a tiny Echo Park dive bar has blown-up into a phenomenon. Emo Nite LA presents Emo Nite. At 191 Toole… Taking the road often traveled, Middle Lanes celebrate the release of their debut EP. At Club Congress… It’s gonna be a Wet Hot American Weekend. Turntablists Bex & Halsero curate the jams. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… Pushing Buttons: A monthly producer getdown returns. This installment features Topnax, 80Height, Bidegain Beats, DJ J.O.C.K. and Phat Soul. At Thunder Canyon… Driven by horns. The IV Covington Quartet make their debut, Late Night. At The Century Room… From Alabama to Wichita, Tony Frank & Friends embark on a junket. The AC Lounge presents Songs of My Country: A Jazz Journey of America. Franks adds, “It is my honor to celebrate America. Not politics or patriotism, but the love and spirit of this land that binds us all.” At AC Hotel… Local provocateurs, Lenguas Largas and indie rock power trio Weekend Lovers form an impenetrable phalanx. At Che’s Lounge… Mysteries of the desert. From South Phoenix, “champions of thrash” Blasphemous Inebriation and Theocide (progressive metal) top a heavy metal-laden bill. At The Rock… Drawing from a wide tonal palette: deep house to dubstep, trap to drum ’n’ bass. Miss Marie, Z-On, The Mener and DjEthan drop bangers. EDM Night: Stars, Stripes & Bangers. At Encore… Gigi & the Glow cover the 1970s and ’80s and a smattering of jazz. At St. Philip’s Plaza… “The

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Over the past year, Rafus has taken a step back from day-to-day operations, handing over the reins to his friends Brian Latta and Calvin Saylors, as co-chairs of the foundation. Latta met Rafus through the Combat Vets Motorcycle Association. It was a “no-brainer” for him to get involved with 1VF. “It’s just a handful of people trying to do this, just scratching at the surface,” Latta said, “We all have loftier goals and would like to see this grow into a much bigger organization.” Saylors is considered a “Cold War veteran” who served in the Air Force. He was and is still currently in a motorcycle riding club, STAR

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My partner and I are a heterosexual couple with a large age gap. He is the older one, and our sex life is amazing. We’ve been talking about the idea of having me fuck a new guy for about four years. However, because he is older and experienced more casual sex is his young adulthood, he felt it was only fair that I got to do that as well. (I was in my early twenties when we started our relationship and I’ve only been with two other guys.) At first, I told him I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything but over time, the more we talked about it, the more I realized I wanted to do this just for fun. And now we just got back from a vaca-

tion where I found a guy on a hookup app for a one-time meeting and (safely) fucked him while my partner watched. (He’s not a cuck and didn’t participate.) It was just plain fun for all of us! My question is about the “bonding hormone.” I’ve always heard that when a woman has sex, her body produces oxytocin, a hormone that causes her to emotionally attach to her sex partner. That has certainly been true for me in the past. But with this most recent fuck, I didn’t feel any emotional attachment at all! I’ve never had casual sex like this before, so I’m wondering if the “bonding hormone” only releases when you’re seeking an emotional attachment to a sex partner. Or did I fail to bond because my own partner was in the room? Honestly, I feel more bonded to my partner than ever now! —Curious Casual Newbie For some guys—for some cucks, for some stags—watching the girlfriend with another guy is participating. So, the fact that your partner “only” watched isn’t proof that allowing you to hook up with another guy was pure altruism on his part. As for your failure to romantically attach to that vacation rando… “Oxytocin alone does not create the bond,” said Dr. Larry J. Young. “There are brain mechanisms that can inhibit bonding after sex with another individual.” Dr. Young is a neuroscientist at Emory University, where he has extensively studied hormones and the roles they play in forming partner bonds. “It’s not correct to think of oxytocin as the ‘bonding hormone,’ although you will see that frequently in the media,” said Dr. Young. “Oxytocin amplifies—amplifies in the brain—the face, the smell, the voice of the person an individual is having sex with, so the brain can really sense those intensively. But it is the interaction of oxytocin with dopamine, which creates the intense pleasure of sex, that causes the bond—that is, the combination of the pleasure (dopamine) and the senses of the sexual partner (oxytocin) create a bond with a sexual partner.” And according to Dr. Young’s fascinating research—which focuses on prairie voles—you can safely enjoy all the pleasure/dopamine you want without fear of bonding with some rando, CCN, so long

bond and the other type inhibits. Unbonded individuals have more of the bonding type of dopamine receptors. After bonding, the inhibitory receptor become more prominent, thus inhibiting a new bond.” Which means, CCN, it’s safe for you to have sex with other men—with or without your partner present—so long as you still feeling bonded to your primary partner, who may or may not be a cuck. (I mean “safe” in the unlikely-to-catch-feelingsfor-someone else sense, not “safe” in the minimized-risk-of-STI-transmission sense.) There is, however, one important caveat… “This may not work 100% of the time,” said Dr. Young. “If the bond to the first partner has faded, this reader’s experience may not be shared by everyone.” To learn more about Dr. Young’s research, go to www.larryjyoung.com.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) It’s the Season for Expressing Your Love— and for expanding and deepening the ways you express your love. I invite you to speak the following quotes to the right person: 1. “Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.” —E. E. Cummings. 2. “Lovers continuously reach each other’s boundaries.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, 3. “You’re my favorite unfolding story.” — Ann Patchett. 4. “My lifetime listens to yours.” — Muriel Rukeyser.

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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) It’s your birthright as a Virgo to become a master of capitalizing on difficulties. You have great potential to detect opportunities coalescing in the midst of trouble. You can develop a knack for spotting the order that’s hiding in the chaos. Now is a time when you should wield these skills with artistry, my dear—both for your own benefit and for the betterment of everyone whose lives you touch. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) One of my heroes died in 2021: the magnificent Libran author bell hooks (who didn’t capitalize her name). She was the most imaginative and independent-minded activist I knew. Till her last day, she articulated one-ofa-kind truths about social justice; she maintained her uncompromising originality. But it wasn’t easy. She wrote, “No insurgent intellectual, no dissenting critical voice in this society escapes the pressure to conform. We are all vulnerable. We can all be had, co-opted, bought. There is no special grace that rescues any of us. There is only a constant struggle.” I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I suspect the coming weeks will require your strenuous efforts to remain true to your high standards and unique vision of reality. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) You now have the power to make yourself even more beautiful than you already are. You are extraordinarily open to beautifying influences, and there will be an abundance of beautifying influences coming your way. I trust you understand I’m not referring to the kinds of beauty that are worshiped by conventional wisdom. Rather, I mean the elegance, allure, charm, and grace that you behold in old trees and gorgeous architecture and enchanting music and people with soulful idiosyncrasies. PS: The coming weeks will also be a favorable time to redefine the meaning of beauty for yourself.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) In the coming weeks, make sure you do NOT fit this description articulated by Capricorn novelist Haruki Murakami: “You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.” If there is any goal about which you feel conflicted like that, dear Capricorn, now is a good time to clear away your confusion. If you are in some sense undercutting yourself, perhaps unconsciously, now is the time to expose your inner saboteur and seek the necessary healing. July will be Self-Unification Month. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) A Tweeter named Luxuryblkwomen articulates one of her ongoing goals: “bridging the gap between me and my ideal self, one day at a time.” I’d love it if you would adopt a similar aspiration in the coming months. You’re going to be exceptionally skilled at all types of bridge-building, including the kind that connects you to the hero you’ll be in the future. I mean, you are already a hero in my eyes, but I know you will ultimately become an even more fulfilled and refined version of your best self. Now is a favorable time to do the holy work of forging stronger links to that star-to-be. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) A blogger named Lissar suggests that the cherry blossom is an apt symbol for you Pisceans. She describes you as “transient, lissome, blooming, lovely, fragile yet memorable and recurring, in tune with nature.” Lissar says you “mystify yet charm,” and that your “presence is a balm, yet awe-inspiring and moving.” Of course, like all of us, you also have your share of less graceful qualities. And that’s not a bad thing! We’re all here to learn the art of growing into our ripe selves. It’s part of the fun of being alive. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be an extra close match for Lissar’s description. You are at the peak of your power to delight and beguile us. Homework: Make amends to a part of yourself you have neglected, insulted, or wounded. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology. com

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original songs.” When combined their voices blossom to tug firmly on the heartstrings. At Chicago Bar… “From California to the New York island, this land was made for you and me…” Aiming to inspire audiences with rousing renditions of flag-waving favorites, Tucson musician/actor Armen Dirtadian and international vocal trio The Manhattan Dolls—in classic USO fashion—star in a musical Salute to America. At The Gaslight Music Hall… Pull on those boots by the straps, one more time. With a setlist ranging from Marty Robbins to George Strait classics, the Jesse Colt Band in concert with OnesAll—a family of musicians who specialize in funk/rock/pop hits—provide the soundtrack for a Star Spangled Spectacular. At Marana’s Crossroads Park… More glitter than angst, Lesser Care (El Paso, shoegaze/new wave) and Don’t Get Lemon (Houston, synth pop/darkwave) create nihilistic bliss in cataclysmic times. At Club Congress… Hookworm Records presents Chrome Rhino (Phoenix, offbeat, campy rock & roll). With Sky Creature (NYC, art rock/postpunk). At Sky Bar…

MONDAY, JULY 4 Celebrate 4th of July in the shadow of A Mountain. DJ Herm mans the decks for IndepenDance Party. Flam Chen pyrotechnic theat-

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er company creates spectacle. At MSA Annex… Slippery when wet. Wet Hot American Weekend: 4th of July, a sodden affair replete with a water slide, games, dancing and libations. The Club Whutever crew soundtrack the festivities. At Hotel Congress (plaza)… One of the strangest musical acts to come out of the Valley of the Sun. In short order the sampled/live dance-rock mashups—and dazzling array of costumes—have audiences hip shaking atop tables, line dancing and chest bumping while acrobatic dancers dangle from lighting trusses or anything accessible. Treasure Mammal is a short-fused Fourth of July firecracker waiting to explode. At Templeton’s…

TUESDAY, JULY 5 This foot-stompin’ shindy is sure to kick up some dust. Bluegrass Jamboree returns. This installment finds The Buckjumpers (bluegrass/country/roots rock) and Johnny & Jack Ranch Band (classic country/Southern rock/gospel) embark on a devil-may-care musical junket. At The Gaslight Music Hall… Until next week, XOXO…

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