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The general election is still weeks away and we Arizonans have a chance to show the MAGA crowd and the rest of the country that we don’t buy into that racist, sexist, undemocratic nonsense. After the election, we should round up Finchem and Lake and the rest and in vite them to stay in a rehab facility where they can learn what being an American is really about. We can put them all in one building and call it the Kelli Ward. Welfare for the rich It is absolutely infuriating when pol iticians ask the people what they want and when the people make it crystal clear what they want, the politicians turn around and do the opposite, claiming that they know better. Such was the case a few years ago when Republicans in the Arizona Legislature, holding a slim ma jority, passed the Welfare for the Rich voucher program despite knowing that it was vastly unpopular. A measure was drawn up and put on the next year’s ballot. By a whopping 2-1 margin, Arizona’s voters smacked down the voucher scam. That should have been that.But just four years later, this time with the absolute slimmest of margins (31-29 in the House and 16-14 in the Senate), the screw-you Republicans in the state Legislature pushed through an even-big ger Free Money for the Already Wealthy voucher program. It’s vile and craven, and reaction has been swift. Word is that petition ers have been gathering signatures at
Ever since the primary election, my out-of-state friends are asking, “How can you live in a crazy state like Arizona?”
AS RICHARD PRYOR ONCE SAID, “It’s the politics, Baby…” Blake Masters I had to go to Phoenix last week and I saw a sign on the side of the road that said, “Blake Masters will prosecute Fauci in the Yeah,Senate.”andhe will also have Popeyes Chicken coupons fly out of his butt. You have to wonder just how stupid some body would have to be to believe that. Actually, it would be the intersection of Stupid and Ignorant on the MAGA Venn Diagram.EveryAmerican should know that the U.S. Senate has zero power to prosecute anyone. Even during impeachments, it is the House of Representatives that brings the charges. During the trial before the Senate, it is House members who do the “prosecuting.” The Senate merely acts as jury.Iread that Masters’ kids are all being homeschooled. That’s probably for the best. That way, the limited information that flows the kids’ way can be strictly controlled. They may never learn about the poisonous nonsense that their dad and his handlers are pushing. Plus, being homeschooled, they’ll nev er have to meet any actual African Amer icans. Because, you know, their dad iden tified the source of gun violence in the United States as being “Frankly, Black people.”
After Roe v. Wade was struck down by the Gilead Supreme Court, some politi cians have been taking unearned victory laps. Even some members of the House of Representatives are trying to share in the credit, even though the House has zero to do with the confirmation of judg es and Mostjustices.disgusting of all is Florida mag got Matt Gaetz, who has been spouting off about how he thinks that the women who show up at pro-choice rallies won’t ever need access to an abortion. No one will impregnate them because they’re all “overweight and disgusting.” Yeah, well, maybe the females who Gaetz has been dating might someday want to have authority over their own reproductive rights…you know, after they’ve gone through puberty.
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My response is, “Oh, you mean Ari zona; the state that has two Democratic senators, where five of the nine mem bers of the House of Representatives are Democrats, and the state in which Joe Biden won the 2020 election, the recount, and the audit?” Most Arizonans — of all affiliations — are decent, normal people. It’s just that our fringe people are fringe-ier than Howard Keel’s jacket in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” (That’s an obscure ref erence, but you can take a few seconds to Google it and you’ll see what I mean.)
The goal is to make the ceremony meaningful while also helping people remember those lost in the attacks so they do not fade away.The registration fee is $50, and all proceeds go to benefit the event’s selected charity beneficiaries. The 2022 beneficiaries are the 100 Club of Arizona and Basecamp for Veterans Inc.
The 911 Tower Challenge Foundation has donated more than $320,000 to charities serving law enforcement, first responders, military personnel and their families.
Buehler-Garcia said most people enlisting into the military now were not yet born or do not remember the Sept. 11 attacks. To help bring awareness, the Tower Challenge opening ceremony features new recruits taking their oath of enlistment.
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On the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the group hosts the 911 Never Forgotten Tower Challenge, a 2,071-step climb that represents the 110 floors of the Twin Towers.This year’s 911 Tower Challenge is set for 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, at Tucson Arena, 260 S. Church Avenue. Doors open at 6:30 a.m. A virtual registration option is also available.Anyone climbing the stairs must be 16 or older. The concourse walk is also available for all participants during the event and younger children. The first 911 Tower Challenge was held in 2011. Since then, it has grown to include over 4,000 participants. Police, military, firefighters and other first responders attend and often wear full gear. During the climb, participants see the photos and names of those who lost their lives that day. “The attack on Sept. 11 was the Pearl Harbor of our generation,” said Ben Buehler-Garcia, vice president of the 911 Tower Challenge Foundation. He hasn’t served in the military or worked as a first responder, so he said he feels it’s his duty as a civilian to support those who have. “When you talk to someone from World War II, all of them remember Pearl Harbor. When the 20th anniversary of 911 hit, it struck me that it might be fading from people’s memories. I think we, as a society, should never forget that.”
He survived the Sept. 11 attacks, but lost 93 friends overall, including his two best friends. He also responded to the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and was dispatched in 1995 to assist with rescue operations in the Oklahoma City bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Robert Brandt helped found the 911 Tower Challenge Foundation in 2011 when the 10th anniversary was approaching. Working at the Tucson Police Department, Brandt said he was disappointed that Sept. 11 remembrances were falling by the wayside.They came up with the idea of doing what would become the first 911 Tower Challenge.“Whenwe set up the first 911 Tower Challenge, it had about 100 participants and imagined it as a one-time thing,” Brandt said. “The feedback we got from everyone was it was great, and we should continue to do it. Eleven years later it’s grown from 100 participants to last year over 4,000 statewide. We have people all over the country and even the world participating.” Brandt said everyone should take a few minutes every Sept. 11 to remember those who were lost. He also hopes, especially with the current climate of the country, it will remind Americans how to come together in times of difficulty.
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Margo Price shared on Twitter: “I was just thinking of a memory of Luke Bell and his dog, Bill, hitching a ride in our van on the way to wildwood revival in Georgia in 2015. Bill was ripping these terrible dog farts and we were all laughing so hard we cried. We swapped stories, listened to music and got drunk as skunks with no plan of where we were staying and ended up sleeping on a hardwood floor.” She also stated: “I don’t always have the right words when something tragic happens. But I do feel deeply for Luke’s
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THE COUNTRY WORLD just lost one of its rising stars.Luke Bell, a country singer known for “Jealous Guy,” “Where Ya Been? and “Sometimes,” was found dead after missing for a week. According to Officer Frank Magos of the Tucson Police Department, the 32-year-old was found dead in the 5500 block of East Grant Road in Midtown Tucson on Aug. 26. No further information was available, as the investigation is still ongoing. Per Sgt. Richard Gradillas from the Tucson Police Department, his cause of death was yet to be determined as of Aug. 31. His death was initially reported by his close friend and fellow country artist Matt Kinman in the blog Saving Country Music.Bell, who was born in Kentucky and raised in Wyoming, suffered from bipolar disorder.According to the blog post, Kinman and the Wyoming native had been in Arizona playing music when he disappeared during a food stop. During his life, Bell lived and played in Texas, Wyoming, New Orleans and Nashville. He also worked as a ranch hand. His breakout self-titled album was released by Nashville label Thirty Tigers in It2016.was his third overall album. He also recorded another self-titled album and a second album called “Don’t Mind If I Do.”His single “Sometimes,” off his 2016 album, was heralded by NPR and Rolling Stone.In2016, Rolling Stone named him as one of the “10 Country Artists You Need to BellKnow.”also collaborated with Martha Spencer on a cover version of Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues” in 2021. Bell opened for artists such as Dwight Yoakam, Hayes Carll, Hank Williams Jr. and Willie Nelson and collaborated with Margo Price, the Alabama Shakes and Langhorne Slim. He was known for his traditional “honkytonk” style that paid tribute to the past.On social media, his friends and colleagues shared stories and condolences.
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The U.S. Open, held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, is the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the season. Playing in a major tournament is a tennis player’s dream, and Keatseangsilp’s perseverance has made it aAsreality.oflate August, Keatseangsilp was ranked No. 36 by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) out of approximately 450 men’s wheelchair tennis players in the world. He reached a
The only difference in rules between able-bodied tennis and wheelchair tennis is the second ball bounce allowed in the latter circuit. The physical and mental adjustment to wheelchair tennis was tough, but Keatseangsilp dedicated himself to the sport he loves.
Tucson’s Jason Keatseangsilp received wild card entry in the men’s wheelchair draw at the U.S. Open this year. His entry aligns with the tournament’s historic expansion of its wheelchair player field and the addition of a junior wheelchair event, the first at any of the Grand Slams. (JASON KEATSEANGSILP/SUBMITTED)
“No one, including myself, would have guessed I was going to play a Grand Slam at any point,” he said. “One of my dreams was always Paralympics, but playing a major was kind of out of the question because I didn’t think I would be able to get to that level. I’m so grateful and blessed to have this Keatseangsilpopportunity.”playedwheelchair tennis a few times a year from 2012 to 2016, committing to full-time training mid2017. He competed in his first wheelchair tournament in November of that year, and jumped into the international circuit the following summer in 2018. He was actively involved in able-bodied tennis growing up, playing for Catalina Foothills High School until his senior year and planning to continue his tennis career at a Division 3 college. His aspirations were abruptly interrupted, however, by a rappelling accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury when he was 17. After intensive rehabilitation, undergoing major surgeries and graduating from the University of Arizona in 2017 with a degree in biomedical engineering, he decided to pick up his racquet again and give wheelchair tennis a shot.
SEVEN YEARS AGO, JASON Keatseangsilp was a spectator in the stands at the U.S. Open. This year, he’s on-court in one of tennis’ most prestigiousTucsontournaments.bornand raised, Keatseangsilp, 28, is one of two players to receive wild card entry to the 2022 U.S. Open Wheelchair Championships. His success comes at a time of monumental growth for wheelchair tennis, as the tournament expanded its player field this year to the largest in Grand Slam history. Keatseangsilp embarked for his Grand Slam debut on Sept. 4. Men’s and women’s wheelchair match play begins during the second week of the U.S. Open, with draws revealed Sept. 6.
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“Tennis is an individual sport, but it’s a group effort. My family and my friends, all my networks — I couldn’t have done it without the combination of everyone,” he said. “So, I’m stoked for New York now and hopefully it’ll be a good time.”
“I’m so thankful. This is what I’ve been doing for the last five years. All the training, all the travels, all the efforts have been completely worth it to get to this point,” he Keatseangsilp’ssaid. achievement aligns with wheelchair tennis’ most recent milestone of fielding its largest draw at a majorThetournament.U.S.Open expanded its men’s and women’s wheelchair singles draws from eight to 16 players and its doubles draws from four to eight teams. This year also sees the introduction of its Junior Wheelchair Championships, the first junior wheelchair event at any of the majors.“I’m really glad the United States, our home Grand Slam, got to be one of the innovators in trying to push for more
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card admission to the U.S. Open, he has played around 15 tournaments over the past year. He swept the Janco Steel Wheelchair Tennis Classic in Canada for his first international singles title a few months ago, adding to his trophy collection of 14 international doubles titles. His resume also includes playing for Team USA in three international flagship events.
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BELL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 family and all of his friends who knew him well. I hope one day we can shake the stigma surrounding mental health problems and addiction and let people know they aren’t alone.” Catlin Rutherford of Mike and the Moonpies tweeted: “So sad to hear the news tonight our buddy, Luke Bell. I don’t really know what to say. Thank you for the friendship and great music.” Country singer/songwriter Kelsey Waldon expressed on Twitter: “I have been heartbroken to hear about the passing of Luke Bell. A bunch of us met in Nashville when we were so young and obsessed with country music-those years were so formative. He was extremely gifted & Loriespecial.”Liebig, editor of The Boot and a contributing writer for Taste of Country, tweeted: “When I first moved here in 2014, I saw Luke Bell as part of the cool crowd of artists trying to bring traditional country back to Nashville, back when Santa’s was still smoky wood paneling and tourists hadn’t found the Legion yet. What a heartbreaking loss.” Saving Country Music tweeted: “This is a hard one. He was one of the most authentic and magnetizing artists to grace the country music art form in the modern era.” growth by adding the junior divisions, and then also increasing the men’s and the women’s draws,” Keatseangsilp said. This expansion not only presents the opportunity for more players across the globe to compete on a major stage, it offers more ranking points and prize money. Keatseangsilp believes that these additions are a “huge incentive” for those with disabilities looking to play wheelchair sports. “I think wheelchair tennis has been one of the most professional, if not the most professional wheelchair sport, because we’ve got a lot of integration with the Grand Slams, with the ITF, and then also a lot of the top international players have corporate sponsors, and we have an international tour,” he said. “With the U.S. Open draw size increasing, I think that’s going to pave the way and open up more opportunities for players to be competing at the highest level.”
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By Clay Jones a much-faster rate than they did for the 2018 ballot measure. (We need to have some of those mass petition gatherings here in Tucson.) If enough signatures are gathered and verified, the measure won’t go on the ballot until the 2024 election and the vulgar voucher program won’t be allowed to be implemented until after that vote. That means it won’t be allowed to be implemented.Nowcomes word out of Phoenix that a shadow group that goes by Decline to Sign is stalking petitioners and trying to interrupt the petition process, even surrounding would-be signers and telling them not to sign. I really hope they try to do that to me when it comes time for me to sign. They’re all going to have to go home and use the Urban Dictionary to look up the new words they just learned. Doug Ducey Doug Ducey waited until the last possible moment to sign the bill in a clumsy effort to limit the number of days that the petitioners have to gather the necessary signatures.Atafake signing ceremony, some guy got up and compared voucher whore Ducey to (wait for it) Abraham Lincoln. At first I scoffed, but then I saw it. At this point in time, both Doug Ducey and Abraham Lincoln have the exact same amount of measurable brain activity.
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Within the next five to 10 years, Keatseangsilp said that he can see the overall number of internationally ranked players increase, with more players seeking corporate sponsorships or pushing for their national government’s investment.
He also hopes that the other three Grand Slams, Wimbledon, Roland Garros and the Australian Open, will follow the U.S. Open’s suit and incorporate junior divisions.
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As all eyes turn again to UA athletics, the Arizona Historical Society offers a panel of sports writers to assess the depth and range of popular sports’ evolution from their origins to the present day. Beginning with the Border Conference in the 1930s, the discussion will cover desegregation and the advent of women’s teams, Mexican American baseball players, female bulldoggers and female sports journalists. An audience discussion follows. Source material for the event is a collection of related sports articles we can read for free at muse.jhu. edu/issue/47140 through Friday, Sept. 30.
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7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Sept. 30, Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. with Tucson-based Up with People. For the concert, she will sing four of Linda Ronstadt’s hits with new arrangements by Dodge. Also featured is three-time Emmy-Award winning arranger, conductor and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Haskell, and the debut of “Western Suite for Orchestra III Rowdy,” a new work by Betsy Morgan. In keeping with the Old West theme, the Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum will exhibit vintage horse wagons. Bring a blanket or a folding chair because seating is limited and fills up quickly. 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center, 900 S. Randolph Way, tucsonpops.org, free
You have just three more weeks to take your fur baby for a sniff through the Tucson Botanical Gardens at a bow-wow price, Stop for treats at the café. The gardens thoughtfully provides a “good manners” video to make sure all its guests have the best time at “Dog Days.” Take a look before you go: tucsonbotanical.org/ event/dogdays.
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‘GREASE’ SINGALONG Here’s a cool thing to do with all those outgrown COVID-19 locks. Pull them into a ponytail and go party with a movie theater full of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John wannabes. T-birds? Raked ‘rods? Poodle skirts? Bobby socks? Beauty school dropouts? The Loft says, “You’re the ones that we want!” You’re in for onscreen lyrics, Grease Goodie Bags filled with fun interactive props, a Rockin’ Rydell Costume Contest and more surprises. It’s also a timely tribute. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre.
7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Boulevard, loftcinema.org, $6 to $10
JAY COWBOYDUSARD:WITH A CAMERA Etherton Gallery features an exhibit of Jay Dusard’s iconic and influential photographs of the American West through Saturday, Sept. 17. The works, featuring cowboy portraits mostly made between 1980 and 1982, can be describes as monumental in scale. After having been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Dusard traveled 25,000 miles photographing cowboys and women of North Ama erica with an 8-inch by 10-inch view camera. His travels covered 45 ranches in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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Sergio Mendoza is having a sensational year. Long the Calexico multi-instrumentalist most likely to inspire the query, “Who is that guy?,” Mendoza stepped up to the producer role for Calexico’s 2022 release, “El Mirador.” With his own band, Orkesta Mendoza, he had toured 25 European cities behind its 2017 release, “Vamos a Guarachar.” This Saturday “Orkesta Mendoza Salvador Duran and Friends” hopes to add a symphony audience to its ever-expanding fanbase by kicking off the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s ”¡Celebración latina! Specials” series. The evening includes works by Mexican composers reflecting a range of Mexican and related indigenous cultures, past and present. José Luis Gomez conducts. Throughout, the audience experience will be amplified by a video presentation of Mexican landscapes by photographer and multimedia artist Nicholas Bardonnay. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, 260 S. Church Avenue, ticketmaster.com, $29 to $49
The annual bike ride Cyclovia, which encourages street activity for safer neighborhoods, shows how we can use that asset for good as well as for sport. The monthly Bici y Burros Ride through Tucson neighborhoods south and west of Downtown keep the momentum going. Hosted by Familias Unidas Ganando Accesibilidad (FUGA), the ride is part of an effort to advocate for safe streets and mobility for the communities there. 8 to 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, Ward 1 City Council O ce, 940 W. Alameda Street, facebook.com/FUGATucson, free MUSIC UNDER THE STARS: CELEBRATE TUCSON Under the direction of its new conductor, Khris Dodge, The Tucson Pops Orchestra launches its 68th fall season with a concert featuring Mindy Ronstadt, Linda Ronstadt’s niece and a next-gen member of that “royal family” of Tucson musicians. Mindy grew up singing and, after high school graduation, she toured
Next time you listen to your favorite murder podcast, ponder for a moment the fate of the victims, the unsettled spirits that can’t break free of this mortal coil, their unwilling dissociation unresolved. Amy Bruni is here for you. Paranormal investigator, author, podcaster and star of The Travel Channel’s “Kindred Spirits” and a “Ghost Nation,” Bruni shares hair-raising tales from her countless hours hunting ghosts at America’s most haunted locations. She also hosts the “Haunted Road” podcast and owns Strange Escapes paranormal excursions. 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, Rialto Theatre, 318 Congress Street, ticketmaster. com, $27 to $75 Alvernon Way, tucsonbotanical.org/ event/dogdays/, $13 to $15, $3 per dog ASK THE AUTHORS: ARIZONA SPORT HISTORY ROUNDTABLE LIVE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM
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Generally, Acosta will do the initial ar ranging, but the whole group will work together on music. He said that they are all open, creative and committed to creat
By Laura Latzko ing the best music possible. “It’s something that I’ve always loved with the musicians I’ve worked with. We don’t take it personally if it’s like, ‘I don’t know if that riff’s working. Let’s try this.’ We actually try to build great songs. That’s something I try to install cul ture-wise in the groups that I work with,” AcostaMasonsaid.started his career in 2015 as more of an alternative rock band but around 2017 switched to more of a bluesrock style. “It was too cerebral. It was Tool meets Foo Fighters. Rock has changed a bit. People want something more accessi ble, more familiar. I knew with blues, in America, there’s a big blues history,” Acosta said. With Mason, Acosta has stretched himself as a musician, doing more lead playing and soloing. Acosta has been with different groups, including the indie rock/shoegaze band Race You There and the acoustic rock trio Roll Acosta. He has now recorded 16 studio albums in indie-shoegaze, blues rock, pop, house, Americana and folk styles, both under his own name and with bands. Other bands he has performed with in clude Mason, Burning West and HYTS. He has collaborated with Jody Wister noff, Sasheen, David Hohme and Desert Raven.Acosta has sung in Spanish, German, Latin and French, and done throat sing ing. He has also created jingles for FOX, ESPN and Ford. Acosta says that as an artist, he is con stantly evolving and taking his music in differentDuringdirections.hiscareer, he has gone on three national and eight coastal/West Coast tours.The artist started in music in third grade. He played the tenor saxophone through high school. While in college in New Jersey, he picked up the guitar and started singing and writing his own songs. His main instruments are guitar, piano and saxophone, but he has also played trumpet and timpani on albums. After playing music for most of his life, Acosta continues to have passion for and pursue his music. He also works in real estate, which helps to support his musi calTheendeavors.upcoming release party will be more of production, with a photographer andThevideographer.bandmembers plan to dress in psychedelic ’70s-themed clothing. Acos ta will wear shiny red shoes and a rain bow-colored, fish-scaled jacket.
Mason will be releasing their second full-length album “My Kind of Trouble” on Sept. 9.
Another song called “Hey Sally” hon ors Acosta’s grandmother. “She was probably one of the most loved and respected people in my fami ly,” Acosta said. “She was the matriarch… She took care of six kids on her own. She helped raise me. So, it’s a song that’s an ode to her and herManyspirit.”of the songs on this album are meant to leave audiences with a positive, cathartic“There’sfeeling.alotof things on this new al bum that allude to having fun, enjoying the playfulness of life, whether it’s ro mantic, whether it’s throwing caution to the wind,” Acosta said. “My Kind of Trouble” is the follow up to 2017’s full-length collection “Midnight Road.”Mason is led by Acosta on vocals and guitar and also features drummer Andre Gressieux and bass player Barry Young. Acosta has played with Gressieux since 2009 in different bands.
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“‘Electric Kisses’ is an illusion to, ‘Hey, you think you’re a tough man here. Watch out here comes a woman who will blow your mind and run things.’ It’s a lit tle bit of look what’s coming. Things are going to change. That’s my hope. Let’s pay attention to all the amazing people that exist,” Acosta said.
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“I feel like that’s something that’s really powerful these days at shows, to be able to play as well as the album sounds or better,” Acosta said. “If you listen to the recording, you will hear the cymbal count in here just lightly in the background. This is like how they did in the old days. They would roll in the studio, knock out 10 or 11 tracks, and then they were on the market.” The first album had a blues rock vibe, blending ’60s and contemporary sounds and paying tribute to Robert Johnson with its focus on storytelling.
AS AN ARTIST, JACOB ACOSTA of Mason has crossed genres and brought newThissounds.ishow he and his bandmates have approached their newest album, “My Kind of Trouble,” which will be released Friday, Sept. 9. They’ll celebrate the same night with a show at Hotel Congress with Arizona Blues Hall of Fame harmonica player Tom“MyWalbank.Kindof Trouble” was recorded at Tucson’s Waterworks Studio, mixed by Chris Robinson and mastered by Jason Livermore at the Blasting Room Studios. Many of the songs on the album were recorded live, although mixed to sound like a studio album. Acosta is a huge pro ponent of recording music live.
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The group recorded its first album with Jason Allen on bass. He will perform with the band during the release show on backupAcostaguitar.said Young, who is inspired by The Beatles, has brought a different sound to the band. “I think he added a new element with a lot of cool bass pedals. You will notice that in our group, me and him do a lot of pedal work to get a lot of cool, different sounds,” Acosta said.
Acosta said “My Kind of Trouble” taps into surf, reggae and progressive/alter native.“Sometimes, we sound like Led Zep pelin. Sometimes, we sound like George Thorogood. It just depends on where we wanted to go,” Acosta said. “This new one is a lot more diverse. It’s almost like listening to The Jimi Hen drix Experience where song to song, they have different feelings. Even though we still keep to the blues, there’s a lot of dif ferent styles in the album.” The group also recently dropped its music video for “Electric Kisses,” which is meant to empower women.
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“Things are very expensive,” she said. “So to be able to give a give back to our customers and kind of give them a break for a day and having people save money is important to us.” Also on Friday, Zia and Wren House Brewing Company will launch a.m. to 10 p.m. Sept. 9, Sept.
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In addition to the T-shirt, first 100 customers to purchase at each Zia Records location will receive a Zia Goodie Bag which could include a $50 gift card among other prizes. Zia is rounding out the weekend by offering customers triple points on all purchases and trade-ins, which can eventually be redeemed for half off on items. In addition to offering deals on merchandise all weekend long, Zia Records will also be accepting direct donations for the Arizona Humane Society, and Papenhausen teased that fans could also have the opportunity to get their hands on a new exclusive vinyl as early as Saturday. She said two exclusive vinyl records will be announced for pre-orders that week. Nomatter which day customers flock in and out the door of Zia Records’ eight stores, Papenhausen relishes the opportunity to give back to Zia’s customers.
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Place” — an ode to the Talking Heads song. On Saturday, customers can score swag as Zia will sell a fan-voted T-shirt of a devil draped in a black cloak with an old-school logo printed below. With the T-shirt comes a free Zia super pack, which includes a tote bag, temporary tattoos and a sticker sheet.
Mary Papenhausen of Zia Records with a rack of Zia exclusives, as they prepare for Zia Dayz.
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ZIA RECORDS HAS BROUGHT BACK its Zia DayZ sales for a second consecutiveFromyear.Friday, Sept. 9, to Sunday, Sept. 11, Zia’s eight stores that span Phoenix, Las Vegas and Tucson will host a day of deals ranging from 20% off of almost everything in-store and online, goodie bag giveaways, triple Zia Rewards Points, limited edition Zia merchandise and exclusive vinyl “There’sreleases. aholiday for everything, it seems,” said Zia Records spokesperson Mary Papenhausen. “We wanted to celebrate our staff and our amazing customers. So, it was the day to stop and recognize them and say, thank you for everything they have done and for supporting us over the last 42 years.”
“I just really love how good it makes people feel and I just love the feeling that everybody’s excited,” she said. “To be able to be a business for 42 years and celebrate the people who made it happen, it’s always fun to be around people and get engaged.
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Top: The Black Moods headline Rialto on Oct. 14. (Jim Louvau/Submitted)
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Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sept. 21 Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Sept. 23 Harry Rollins: Good to See You, Sept. 28 (spoken Nurseword)Blake, the PTO Comedy Tour, Sept. 29 Apocalyptica: Cell-O Tour, Sept. 30
Cuevas and Mariachi Aztlan, Oct. Graham Nash: An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories, Oct. 18
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA For locations, visit the website tucsonsymphony.org Orkestra Mendoza & The Magic of Mexico, Sept. 17 Fandango Fabuloso, Sept. 13 and Sept. 25
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FOOTPRINTS AT THE FOX NEW WORKS CONCERT
‘THE NUTCRACKER’ This cherished holiday ballet will be even better: for the first time in years, the beauti ful music of Tchaikovsky will be performed live for Ballet Tucson as a part of a new part
On Your Feet Ballet Tucson’s season reveals new faces
Next is “Pas de Deux” from “Klein Per spectives,” a work by Andrea Giselle Scher moly, with music by Olafur Arnalds. The dance is a short series of vignettes inspired by the French artist Yves Klein.
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at Fox Tucson The atre FALL CONCERT The fall concert’s four dances launch the company’s new direction.
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7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11; 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, and Sunday, Nov. 13, Leo Rich Theater.
Justin Peck’s “In Creases” brought him to national attention in 2012. The 15-minute modernist piece, with eight performers, shows off “his mastery of geometry with dancers,” Mullin says. The music is by Phil ip Glass, and Peck was the choreographer for Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.”
This fun annual show gives the troupe’s dancers the chance to try choreography on for size. The dancers create original works and teach their creations to the eager young apprentices. After the final bow, audience members get to vote for their favorite bud ding choreographers. The winner gets to reprise their dance in the spring concert.
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By Margaret regan Tucson Local Media The city’s only professional ballet company has made of lots of changes thisButyear.the future looks great. The new company director, Margaret Mullin, danced for years at the revered Pacific Northwest Ballet and rose to the coveted role of solo ist. She’s young and energetic, a Tucson na tive who studied at Ballet Tucson as a child. She’s already created her own works, and she knows star choreographers. For the November concert, just for exam ple, she has lined up Justin Peck, the cho reographer at The New York City Ballet, to mount one of his pieces. Mullin has brought in a pair of married dancers, Danielle Fu and Liang Fu, who have danced for years in Kansas City and at Cincinnati before that. Liang has hit stages around the world. The two of them will take the stage as principal dancers and serve as co-directors of the school. Chieko Imada, long a main stay of the company, now also holds the title of choreographer in residence, in addi tion to associate artistic director. With the company now 31 dancers strong, the troupe is raring to dance. They will have plenty of chances in the compa ny’s three concerts this fall. Here’s a brief list of the shows.
Left: Artistic director Margaret Mullin. Right: School directors Liang and Danielle Fu. (Ed Flores/Submitted)
In the final piece, “Felicity Found,” Mul lin has reimagined and expanded a digital piece created for film only that she choreo graphed for the Kansas City Ballet during the pandemic. The work is an affirmation of joy and beauty, and its 22 dancers are immersed in the splendid music of Vivaldi.
Associate artistic director and resident choreographer Chieko Imada. (Tom Spitz/Submitted) Ruby Mather. (Ed Flores/Submitted) see DANCE
“Raymonda Variations” is a 19th century classical ballet choreographed by Chieko Imada, after Marius Petipa. Danielle Fu and Liang Fu play lovers who dance the famous pas de deux. The dance has with a big cast of dancers in fluffy white tutus.
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FALL ARTS PREVIEWTUCSONWEEKLY.COM8 SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 — fall exhibition schedule — Now Showing Trenchard and Steep Street in Victorian Bristol, U.K. Now Showing Japanese Netsuke: Upholding Cultural History of Japan September 27 Buzzard Creek Ghost Town October 6 Tales from Min‘Umbra November 8 Tucson Miniature Society’s Show and Sale, Best in Show November 22 Holidays Around the World and Through Time 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive theminitimemachine.org520-881-0606 FEATURED NETSUKE Ono No Tofu and the Frog Unknown Artist and Date, Ivory Collection of Patricia Arnell MUSCARELLOMICHAELPHOTO:
Various times Thursday, Dec. 22, to Saturday, Dec. 24, at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.
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Madeleine Kuebler. (Ed Flores/Submitted) and Liang Fu.
Every year in September, hot jazz swings onto the UA campus. But that’s not all. The student dancers showcase their chops in modern dances and tap as well. The organizers promise nationally recognized choreographers in a fast-paced show. Stay tuned for more shows later in the fall.
nership with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. The Snow Queen, the Sugar Plum Fairy, Clara and all will usher in the joyous season at the newly christened Linda Ronstadt Music Hall (and how sweet that name is!).
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(Ed Flores/Submitted)Niamh Perrins. (Ed Flores/Submitted)
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The lovable gallery in the middle of a beautiful garden is blazing with fiery art.
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“The Elements: Fire” has gorgeous works. Check out Anne Muñoz’s quilted “Perfect Storm” raging flashes of golden lightning against a blue sky. Carrie Seid’s silky work simmers in orange red and Brian Hooker’s blackened sky is pierced with strings of Iturbide, silver print,
Known especially for photography, the revered gallery provides a spectacular launch to the fall art season. Famed Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide is coming to Tucson in honor of her first major show in the city. The exhibition, “Sueños, Simbolos, y Narración (Dreams, Symbols and Storytelling),” will be showing some of her greatest pics, Her beloved “Mujer Angel, Desierto de Sonora” is just one treasure among the 35 gelatin silver prints on view. Born in 1942, Iturbide will give a lecture at the Center for Creative Photography at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23. It’s free but you will need go early to get a seat. The next night, Saturday, Sept. 24, Iturbide will attend the opening reception; the fun will be at the gallery from 7 to 10 p.m. Some of her books will be for sale. The show runs through Nov. 26. Coming up in December, artists Alice Briggs and Albert Chamilard will grace Etherton’s gallery in Barrio Viejo. ethertongallery.com
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FALL ARTS PREVIEWTUCSONWEEKLY.COM10 SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 Throughout October Call for (520)Appointment884-7814 Explore the magic of glass Experience live glassblowing Create your very own glass pumpkin Pumpkin Fiesta 633 W. 18th Street, Tucson www.sonoranglass.org By margaret regan Tucson Local Media From a famed Mexican photographer’s first major show in Tucson to the return of a stolen painting, the art season is chock full of landmark moments.
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The vibrant glass gallery in the happening 5 Points neighborhood is getting ready to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The proprietor since 2019, Alison Harvey will showcase sparkly works by giants in the field: gallery founder Tom Philabaum, Michael Joplin, Carole Perry, Dan Enwright and Louis Via. All are “legendary Arizona artists,” Harvey says. In the meantime, she’s adding new artists to the gallery, including Joseph Ensno and his glistening wall works. The festive party rocks on from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. philabaumglass.com
Potpourri of Events: Art season is blooming with color see EVENTS page 12 1221 N Rancho Robles Rd., Oracle, AZ 85623 520-820-3454 • lifeunderoaks@gmail.com www.lifeundertheoakslavenderfarm.com Come celebrate our Autumn opening of The Lavender Farm Annual Bluegrass & BBQ SeptemberDinner24th OPEN FARM Oct 1st & 2nd featuring a Painting Workshop & Breakfast at the Farm (pumpkin pancakes)(pumpkin pancakes) Lavender Dinners! Hot Cider! Fall Festivals! Go to our website for all upcoming events Graciela
FALL ARTS PREVIEW TUCSONWEEKLY.COM 11SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 STOLEN. RECOVERED. RESTORED. HOME. RESTORED T he Return of Woman-Ochre Willem de Kooning, Woman-Ochre, 1954–1955, Oil on canvas, Gift of Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. © 2022 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Restored: The Return of Woman-Ochre Opens October 8, 2022 The University of Arizona Museum of Art azart.fyi/WomanOchre See a free screening of the related documentary The Thief Collector at Centennial Hall on October 6.
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light. The show of 70 pieces by 50 artists is the third in a series of artwork mixed with science and the environment; the first shows examined earth and air. The fire show runs through Nov. 9. Water is still to come. tohonochul.org
Organized by photographer Alejandra Platt-Torres and gallery director David Andres, the show features 31 female pho tographers from both sides of the border, primarily northern Mexico, Mexico City andTheTucson.reception is 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2. A panel discussion will begin at 6 p.m. in the recital hall. Show runs from Oct. 24 to Dec. 9. pima.edu/arts CONTRERAS GALLERY
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LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY The excellent art gallery at Pima Collage West begins the season with “A Tribute to Clay.”The nine ceramic artists in the show in clude the late Marcy Wrenn, an award-win ner who taught at the college and got this show in motion, as well as the late Maurice Grossman, another beloved Tucson artist. The reception is 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8. Aurore Chabot, a UA prof, will give a lec ture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Joy Fox McGrew, an artist at Rancho Vista speaks at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. The show runs through Oct. 7. Next comes “Invisible Borders: Women Photographers from Fotógrafas del Norte and MAPA, Mexico City, and BorderLens Southwest”
Frances Murray and Harold Jones, two photographers formerly of Tucson, are being feted in their old stomping grounds with a year-long exhibition of their work titled “Simpatico.” The pair were part of a 1970s wave of notable photography in Tucson. Murray is known for her striking nudes and still lives. And Jones, the found ing director of the Center for Creative see EVENTS 14
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This collective gallery typically exhibits its own artists’ work in the Steinfeld Ware house. This time around, for a show called “Still,” they’ve invited more than 40 guest artists who work in a variety of mediums. untitledgallerytucson.com
“Hole in the Fence” is an exhibition of five artists at Everybody, a young, con temporary gallery at 437 E. Grant Road. Standouts among are stoneware by zenas proa, and colored pencil on paper by Drew Miller. The show runs until Sept. 17. In Oc tober, they’ll open up a show named “Flor.” everybody.gallery
The big news at the museum is the re turn of “Woman-Ochre,” the Willem De Kooning painting that was a stolen from the museum in 1985. This is the first time Tucsonans will get to see it after its recov ery in Silver City and its restoration at The Getty in Los Angeles. A new movie about the heist will screen on Oct. 6 at Centenni al Hall on campus. The painting itself goes on public display on Oct. 8. The galleries will also display other mid-century abstract works in the museum’s collections, includ ing a precious painting by Mark Rothco.
Up the stret from Contreras, Raices Tall er has reopened after a long pandemic hi atus. The new show, running from Sept. 10 to Oct. 15, is all about paper. But paper can take different forms. There are draw ings and photos, of course, but you will also find paper sculptures, paper paintings and mixed media using — you guessed it — pa per. The hybrid show will have every piece on view in the gallery, but some will also be online. raicestaller222.com
In the Arts Warehouse District just north of downtown, Contreras has mounted a show of 17 artists who make all kinds of fine art prints. At least nine types of prints are on view, including woodcut, etching, engraving, and more. Among the cavalcade of artists you can find are Jo Andersen, Ju lia Andres, David Andres, Neda Contreras and Glory Tacheenie Campoy. Show runs through October 22. contrerashousefineart.com
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A luxury van will then take participants to the Dunbar where the concert will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. The concert will feature about 18 songs that are jazz and R&B classics and stan dards. Austin said she will likely sing songs from Billie Holiday, Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Wilson and even some stylistic interpreta tions of Marvin Gaye. Austin has a long history in Tucson. She began singing as a child with Mount Cal vary Baptist Church choir. Then, when she was 11, she competed in a talent contest at the Dunbar — the site of this month’s event. She took first place. In the 1980s and 1990s, she sang jazz and R&B at jazz festivals, benefit concerts and community events. She’d pack the house at the former Obsessions night club. She even performed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and was filmed for the series “Showtime at the Apollo.” She and the band she sang with per formed for the NAACP and the Urban League. “We got top-notch gigs,” Austin said. “Never enough, they were few and far be tween and they didn’t pay a lot. We did it because that’s what I loved to do. It’s a gift that God gave me.” She even sang twice for then-governor Bruce Babbitt.
By Bridgette m. redman Tucson Local Media Ada Redd Austin has come a long way since the days of singing songs from Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson into her hair brush.The Tucson jazz artist is looking forward to packing the house on Saturday, Sept. 10, at The Dunbar Pavilion when she’ll per form the R&B songs that made her famous in a concert titled “An Evening of Beautiful Music.”Theevent is a fundraiser, produced by Jennifer Davis-Paige, the founder of Boom Goddess Radio, Tucson’s top Black wom an-owned podcast company. The bene ficiary is KRDP Radio, a public station of Desert Soul Media. The two women have a lot in common. Both have blazed trails for women of color and pursued their dream with passion and perseverance. They met a year ago when Davis-Paige was doing a podcast on June teenth. Austin, in addition to being a musi cian, is a retired schoolteacher with plenty of knowledge about the holiday celebrating the day the last enslaved people in Texas got word of their liberation. “When I was looking for people to inter view to talk about it, her name came up,” Davis-Paige said. “I have a four-part inter view and that’s how she and I met. At that time, she told me she was a singer. I went to a couple afternoons that she was perform ing, and I loved her voice. Then COVID came and nobody could go anywhere or do anything.”Whenthe opportunity came up for this fundraiser both jumped at the chance to make it a concert featuring Austin.
An exhibition of wonderful photo graphs by Alanna Airitam, “The Golden Age,” continues until Oct. 29. An African American who moved to Tucson, Airitam makes richly colored photographs of Af rican Americans. She pointedly dresses them in fine aristocratic clothing, cleverly appropriating imagery from the old Dutch masters’ portraits to celebrate the power and beauty of contemporary Black women and men. ccp.arizona.edu
KRDP launched after years of effort on the part of the found ers, Kaja Brown and Calvin J. Worthen, who are also the top executives for Desert Soul Media. They re cently secured their FCC license. “I would like (Tuc son residents) to know how important it is that there hasn’t been an African Ameri can-owned and -op erated radio station in Arizona for over 20 years,” Davis-Paige said. “These two young men have been working on getting a station for four years. This has been their goal and their dream.” The benefit evening will have two parts and patrons can buy tickets for either just the con cert or the concert and VIP event. The con cert will be $30 in advance and $35 at the door and the VIP event is $250. The VIP event starts at Urban Grove at 4 p.m. with wine and hors d’oeuvres.
“He came up and shook my hand and said, ‘If I ever make president, you’re going to sing at my inaugural,’” Austin said. “That was a great compliment.” Then family needs called, and she moved to Houston to live with her son for sever al years. Upon returning to Tucson, she landed her first gig within a week when the president of the Tucson Jazz Society heard she was in town and wanted her to sing for
One-Woman Show Ada Redd Austin croons her way into the city’s soul
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Ada Redd Austin is thrilled to be performing in the city where she made her career serenading Tucson’s jazz lovers. (Noelle Haro-Gomez/Contributor) see ADA page 16
The Tucson Jazz Institute is sending over African American twin brothers who are in 11th grade. One plays the sax and the oth er the bass and they have agreed to donate their music for the VIP reception. The pres ident and vice president of KRDP Radio will talk about the studio’s history and goals.
Davis-Paige’s podcast is carried on the station every Sunday from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Her podcasts are also broadcast in Tucson Sundays at 3:30 p.m. on KXCI.
MOCA continues with a potpourri of exhibitions that opened earlier in the year. They range from the big, colorful canvas es of Grace Rosario Perkins, a Diné and Akimel O’odham artist (until Oct. 16), to the playful video art of Kenneth Tam on about immigration and masculinity in the Amer ican West (Feb. 5). Intimate watercolors of the great outdoors by the Tucson Plein Air Group (Feb. 5) nicely fill another corner of the museum. moca-tucson.org ART from page 12
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Photography, created, among other works, hand-colored photographs. The museum is also featuring a dramat ically different exhibition devoted to a sin gle painting from the early 19th century. It’s a portrait of a well-off young woman, painted by José Gil de Castro, a celebrated artist with an unlikely pedigree in time of racial conflict: he was an Afro-Peruvian born to an enslaved mother. tucsonmuseumofart.org
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a Valentine’s Day gig at the Tucson Museum of Art. However, for the next couple years she struggled to find the number of gigs she wanted, despite her se ries of sold-out shows. It was then she decided to take a different track with her career. “I decided maybe I can produce my own show,” Austin said. “I had never thought of doing that at this late state in my life. I prayed about it, and everything just started falling in place.” She approached Doug Martin, her longtime band leader and pianist, and he was on board. His wife, Cheryl Martin, helped to publi cize her first self-organized event that took her back to the Dunbar.
WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10
Jennifer Davis-Paige is the founder of Boom Goddess Radio, Tucson’s top Black woman-owned podcast company. (Noelle Haro-Gomez/Contributor)
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“The night of the show — it was standing room only,” Austin said. “It was packed. I was so grateful for the community. I’m a people person, I’m a retired schoolteach er. I taught kids in sixth grade and love to interact with the audience. I have them singing. I talk to them and serenade them. I love on them.” It was the start of her launching her own series of concerts, often as fundraisers or celebrating events like Juneteenth. Like Austin, Davis-Paige grew up listen ing to the great female jazz stars such as Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. “Ava reminded me of those women’s voices,” Davis-Paige said. “She’s got won derful followers in Tucson. This will be her first concert since COVID.”
The Dunbar has been remodeled since Austin last performed there in 2017, but she said it will build a smaller stage for her designed in a crescent so that she can be closer to the audience. “I don’t like to be way up,” Austin said. “I don’t want to be looking down at the audi ence. I want to be looking at them the way they’re looking at me. I like that intimacy.”
An Evening of Beautiful Music with Ada Redd Austin and musical director Doug Martin
WHERE: The Dunbar Pavilion, 325 W. Second Street, Tucson COST: $30 in advance; $35 at the door INFO: krdp-quarterly-fundraiser/https://listen2krdp.com/
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ANYONE WHO IMAGINES puppets as cute, cuddly, child-friendly characters like ly will be stunned to meet the one sitting on Jordan Ross Siebert’s hand — a tooth-bear ing, foul-mouthed piece of cloth that goes by the name Tyrone.Tyrone, who has been scene-stealing since the small theater premiere of “Hand to God” in 2011, which made an improbable move to Broadway a few years later, is making its way to Tucson. Directed by Kevin Johnson, founder of Ar izona Onstage, “Hand to God” opens a six-performance run starting Friday, Sept. 9, at the Cabaret Space at the Temple of Music and Art. Siebert, who this spring rocked Tucson as the lead in the Johnson-directed “Hed wig and the Angry Inch,” is portraying both evil Tyrone and his troubled teen pup peteer Jason. “Hand to God,” written by Robert Askins, centers on a conservative Christian puppet ministry run by Jason’s mother.Charles Isherwood wrote in his posi tive New York Times review that the show “exposes the base impulses, the sexual, self-destructive, potentially violent ones, that just about everyone harbors to some small degree.” It’s a play Johnson has been wanting to stage since he first saw it off-Broadway. “At first glance it’s just pretty sick,” he said. “But it’s so well written. And there’s so many layers of character development. I was born and raised in a very, very strict religious family in Texas, near where the playwright was born. And so a lot of the characters that he writes, he knows these people. You can laugh at all the raunchy stuff, but at heart it’s a pretty amazing commentary of what faith is, but also how faith can be there to control our lives and to control everything in the, quote, name of AsGod.”a producer, Johnson tries to cre ate work that will bring in an audience, but he doesn’t play it safe by choosing proven works that have been seen many times. He said the well-attended run of Hedwig showed that Tucson theatergo ers want something different. In both Hedwig and “Hand to God,” a primary key to moving ahead with the production was finding the right lead, which, in both cases, was Siebert. The ac CONTINUES
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Actor Jordan Ross Siebert and his foul-mouthed puppet Tyrone. “Hand to God” appears at the Cabaret Space at the Tempe of Music and Art starting Friday, Sept. 9. (STEVE VANMETER/SUBMITTED)
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It was partly that she wasn’t ready to go out on her own after graduation. “I was 18 and never left the house before. I was scared. But when I got to (boot camp) at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, it was a bunch of other 18-year-olds who had no idea what we were doing. So I was, like, ‘OK, I can do this. We can all be lost to gether!’”Lyonga-Farrington said her time in
To this day, she said kids, including her own two, are her favorite, and easiest, comedy targets. Yet she tells even family stories with the attitude, vocabulary and volume of a master sergeant. All that, she said, she learned in the Army.
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THE CROWD ROARED AS Stephanie Lyonga-Farrington strode from the back of the room to the open mic stage at Laff’s Comedy Club, statu esque and every inch a queen in her leopard-print bathrobe. By the time she got there, she owned all the attention in the room. She took the mic and belted out her jokes like a boss — raw, salty and some times rude — poking fun, with a smile from here to yonder. At the end of her set, pretty much everyone wanted to be her best friend. It was 2016 and Lyonga-Far rington just performed her first 3 minutes of standup comedy.Now she’s ready to take charge of the whole Screen ing Room (at 127 E. Congress Street), at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, when she produc es her first comedy and musical variety show, “Sessions with Stephanie Presents: What’s Up Muth@&?@!” Tickets are $8 via ‘Youkidsstuffdullthere’sduringtalksignwouldgoodtoworkedgoadingmoreagrowingedy-and-music.screeningroomdowntown.com/comLyonga-FarringtonsaidthatasakidupinCameroon,Africa,shehadreputationasastoryteller.Butittookthanayearofaco-worker’sdoggedtogethertoacomedystage.“IforTUSD,”shesaid,“ShoutoutEricksonElementary!Imadeaveryfriendwithoneofthemonitors.Wegoacrossthestreetbythestopaonbreakandsmokecigarettesandaboutallthestuffthathadhappenedtheday.Atanelementaryschoolsomuchgoingon,there’sneveramomentwithchildren.“ShewouldjustbelaughingatalltheIwouldtellheraboutthedifferentcomingtotheoffice.Andshe’slike,know,there’saplacecalledLaff’s where you only go up there and do three minutes.’ and she’s like, ‘You need to go. You are hilarious. Just go tell one of these stories for three minutes.’”
Stephanie Lyonga-Farrington mixes things up with comedy and music in her shows, including the Screen ing Room gig on Saturday, Sept. 10. (STEPHANIE LYON GA-FARRINGTON/SUBMITTED)
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Following the release of his debut single, Georgia rapper B.o.B’s ascent up the charts was meteoric; “Nothin’ on You,” featuring Bruno Mars, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2009 and received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. But success hasn’t come without provocations. His controversial beliefs about people being cloned and the Earth being flat remains as much a part of his brand as his hook-laden hip-hop. B.o.B brings “Better Than Drugs,” his latest joint, to 191 Toole… In the first of a Thursday night series presenting some of his favorite artists, esteemed drummer and producer Pete Swan presents New York City vocalist Sarah Tolar. She performs two sets of jazz at The Century Room… Songwriter, poet and raconteur Billy Sedlmayr — accompanied by Gabriel Sullivan — spins yarns at Tap & Bottle Downtown… Influenced by the DIY ethos of The Pixies and PJ Harvey, Cedars is an electronic rock band from Texas who believes that beauty will change the world. They please the aesthetic senses at House of Bards… Pianist Marco Rosano tickles the ivories Late Night at The Century Room… In ways not unlike the functioning of the elusive Higgs-Boson particle that the band is named after, The Higgs blur boundaries by unifying different genres at The Rock… FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 In 1986, Dwight Yoakam’s watershed debut album, “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.,” paying dividends to rockabilly and punk, pioneered a style. Three decades later — after dipping his tin cup into the wellspring of bluegrass on 2016’s “Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars” — his most recent single “Then Here Came Monday” marks a return to the gritty “Streets of Bakersfield” sound. Yoakam brings his stripped-down honky-tonk to the Rialto Theatre… Originally specializing exclusively in traditional forms of Mexican folk, such as mariachi, ranchera and charro, Alejandro Fernández found success with pop music. In concert, he has been known to commence, besuited in traditional charro haberdashery, by presenting his ranchera repertoire then after removing his charro outfit to sing pop songs. The Amor y Patria Tour brings Fernández — one of the most successful Latin music artists — to the AVA Amphitheater… Hope For A Better Tomorrow: A fundraiser for Owl + Panther features performances by Santa Pachita, Miss Olivia & the Interlopers, The Appetite, Freddy Jay and more at 191 Toole. The nonprofit offers a safe haven for refugees who experienced traumatic dislocation… Mason’s sound is big, brash and powerful, tipping a reverent hat to the blues traditions it is rooted in. Capturing a workingman’s, hard-drinkin’ vibe with his gritty voice, it’s Jacob Acosta’s stinging guitar and cranked amp that set the tone, channeling guitar heroes from the 1960s and ’70s. Following up 2017’s “Midnight Road” — an homage to the mystique of Robert Johnson and the deal he struck with the Angel of Darkness — Mason fêtes the release of “My Kind Of Trouble” on the plaza at Hotel Congress. Blues harpist extraordinaire Tom Walbank adds to the celebration… A fixture in the Oregon country music scene for the past decade, Eli Howard & The Greater Good offer a taste of its incendiary country-fried Americana for all takers to sample when they present “End of the Line,” its debut album, at Club Congress… Saxophonist Jed Paradies and vocalist John Ronstadt’s musical collaborations span years. For this concert — accompanied by pianist Doug Martin and double bassist Scott Black — they perform a mix of blues, ballads and bop at The Century Room… SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 His hyper-traditional music — filled with accordions, strings, horns and acoustic guitars — has propelled singer-songwriter Carin Leon to the top of the Latin charts to become one of the most listened to regional Mexican artists internationally. He brings the Todo El Ano Tour to Tucson Arena… Local Love presents Sex Money Power Fest — featuring Lethal Injektion, Theocide, Pyrotechnica, Guardians, Like a Villain and Headrust — at the Rialto Theatre… The Fox Tucson Theatre’s monthly Music and Movies series pairs one-of-akind performances by local musicians with a music-themed film. This installment couples live sets by The George Howard Band and a screening of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s powerful 2021 film debut “Summer of Soul” — centered around The Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969 … Led and conceived by Jay Vance, San Francisco-based one-man and two-robot grindcore outfit Captured! by Robots has been touring the world since 1997, playing thousands of dive bars to hordes of drunken humans. Vance described their mission. “After a horrible accident involving many drugs and a chemical spill, the Bots became selfaware and captured the human, now renamed JBOT. It was decided that they would travel the country, rocking out while bent on world domination and humiliating the chained idiotic human in front of his human peers.” Captured! by Robots dominate the stage at Club Congress.
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Marc Maron thinks too much, but it’s to laugh in “Marc Maron: This May Be The Last Time” at The Rialto Theatre. (THE RIALTO THEATRE/SUBMITTED)
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During Vape Hours 12-2 & 6-8. boot camp was fun and easy. “I was learning inventory stuff, warehousing stuff. And then it was December of 2002, I believe, we got shipped to Fort Hood. We got orders to go to Iraq and I was excited at first, but when I told my dad, he said, “Honey, I don’t think you should be excited about going up there.” Then she laughed.“That’s when things really got real,” she said. “That was in 2003 when the war had just started. I’d never been in a war before, so I didn’t know what to expect. Right? So with all the, the hardcore training we were getting, I was like, ‘Okay, I don’t think anyone in this place that we’re going to is going to be friendly.’” Her grin belied the seriousness of what she was “Whensaying.wewere barely even descending to land at the airfield,” Lyonga-Farrington said, “they were shooting at us! And I remember I said, ‘What is that noise?’ And the higher-ranking officials that were riding with us – they had done this before. They’re like, ‘Oh, we’re just getting shot at.’ And I’m like, ’What? No, I didn’t sign up for this!” And she remembers how, no doubt because it was Lyonga-Farrington, everyone laughed. She doesn’t write her material, she said, partly because she doesn’t remember it, but mostly because she keeps thinking of other stories she wants to tell. There’s no telling what will occur to her on Sept. 10 when she gets to take over the Screening Room stage with a couple of squads of her own favorite local entertainers. Lyonga-Farrington is headlining a lineup that includes three of Tucson’s best: Cami Anderson, Charles Ludwig and Monte Benjamin. Musicians, DJs and rappers who will perform between comedy sets include Benny Forever, Freddy J Music, Seanloui, Rhythm Iz and Lyonga’s husband TR3 (Tre Farrington). Shy Dick (Coy Johnson) will host.
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Tucson Improv Movement/TIM Comedy Theatre, 414 E. Ninth Street, (presales at tucsonimprov.com) Thursday, Sept. 8, $5 show: 7:30 p.m., The Dirty Tees; 8:30 p.m., free open mic. Friday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m., Family-Friendly Improv Comedy; Saturday, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m., Family-Friendly Improv Comedy; 9 p.m., Ladies Night Uncensored Comedy with Nancy Stanley. Unscrewed Theater, (presales at unscrewedtheatre.org), $5 kids, $8, live or remote, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, Family-Friendly Improv Comedy; 9 p.m., Unscrewed After Dark. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, Family-Friendly Improv Comedy; 9 p.m. Uncensored Improv Comedy with NBOJU and The Big Daddies.
MORE WEEKEND LAUGHS La ’s Comedy Ca e, 2900 E. Broadway Boulevard, (presales, reservations and performer details are at laffstucson. com) $15, $20 preferred seating. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, and Saturday, Sept. 10.
You may as well know it is impossible for this writer to report objectively about Marc Maron. She is overwhelmed with an unabashed crush on Sam Silva, cynical and borderline exploitative impresario of the hilariously florid, and game, women’s wrestling team “GLOW.” Queue it up on Netflix for a three-season binge. The real Marc Maron is a hair less cynical and much better-read. His standup material drills down on the existential crises we experience thinking about the news of the day. Any day. We just don’t know, he reminds us, and then he riffs on a range of causes and effects of our confusion. He’s no Sam Silva, and that’s a good thing. Instead, he is a thoughtful man. He takes us down rabbit holes most of us would rather trade for a beer and a round of “Cards Against Humanity,” but therein lies the comedy.
Christians: A short bit in the show might be uncomfortable, but all’s well that ends well, and it pretty much does. We can’t say the same for his evisceration of MAGAManyfolks.fans know Maron from his celebrity-packed podcast “WTF with Marc Maron.” He committed to a comedy career as a kid growing up in Albuquerque listening to ’70s LPs by George Carlin and Richard Pryor. He graduated from Boston University with a BA in English and film, then performed and worked in Los Angeles at the legendary Comedy Store. He later moved to New York City and became a fixture on the comedy scene. There he cultivated a brainier, more narrative comedy style. After visiting Israel in 1998, he staged a successful Off-Broadway show, “The Jerusalem Syndrome,” and wrote a book reflecting on his Jewish heritage. Then came a run of more than 30 appearances on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” and a tempestuous journey with his anger issues and the corresponding evolution of his “WTF” podcast. By 2013, “WTF,” then broadcast semi-weekly, was being downloaded between 2.5 million and 3 million times per month. In 2015, President Barack Obama traveled to Maron’s garage studio to be interviewed. In 2013, Maron published a memoir, “Attempting Normal.” That and “WTF” generated more demand for his standup shows. A comedy series followed on the Independent Film Channel and then came “GLOW.” Numerous other acting roles ensued. Netflix fatefully released his first hour-long special, “Marc Maron: End Times Fun” in February 2020.
The Rialto Theatre presents “Marc Maron: This May Be the Last Time” at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, at The Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, rialtotheatre.com, $39 to $65. Here’s some fair warning, though.
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“Which has made this whole intimacy coach thing so wonderful with doing this show,” he said. Siebert is referring to Matt Denney, an intimacy director brought in by Johnson to make sure the actors feel safe and comfortable in what Denney calls “spicy” scenes.Stilla relatively new position in theater, intimacy directors talk through emotional states of mind and specific actions the actors are asked to do.
After coming out to his parents as gay as a teen, he was sent to a church where he said he was assaulted by a teacher. “Hand to God,” despite its humor, deals with the repression in some churches and its damaging effects on vulnerable people.
WHERE: Hotel Congress Plaza Stage, 311 E. Congress Street, Tucson COST: $8 in advance online; $10 at the door INFO: hotelcongress.com, mason. bandcamp.com
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Mason’s “My Kind of Trouble” Release Party WHEN: 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9
WHERE: Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Avenue, Tucson COST: $20 for students and teachers, $25 for seniors, $27.50 general admission INFO: arizonaonstage.org
“I’m going to say I have an unhealthy obsession with theater fog,” Siebert admitted. “I love dry ice, I love low-flow fog, and I have a couple, more than I would like to mention, of fog machines.”
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WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Fridays Sept. 9 and Sept. 16, and Saturdays Sept. 10 and Sept. 17, and 3 p.m. Sundays Sept. 11 and Sept. 18
“If we really think about old Hollywood and entertainment mindset, it’s rooted in this idea that the director tells you something to do as a performer, and if you choose not to do that thing, you’re going to be fired and they’re going to find someone else who does want to do that thing,” Denney said. “It took a while for the entertainment industry to say, ‘You know what? That’s not really how consent works, when no is not an option, and yes is the only option. That’s not consent.’”
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Denney has helped Siebert and other cast members find ways to comfortably convey Johnson’s staging, as the play contains moments of both sex and violence.Despite the challenges of tackling a lesser-known play covering some potentially controversial topics, Johnson said it’s the kind of theater he wants to continue offering Tucson audiences. “If you’re looking for an evening of surprises, gut-busting laughter and shock, come and see it, because you’re not probably going to see this anywhere else around here,” he said. “And if they’re willing to take the plunge, and if they realize that there is extreme profanity and extreme excessive violence, and they know that going in and they still hate the show, come talk to me and I’ll give them credit for a future show.”
“As long as you perform well, everything matches up. People buy into it a little bit more,” Acosta said. After the live performances, a DJ will play for Acostaaudiences.saidthat with the show, he wanted to create more of a national tour feel.“I’ve done this so long now that I understand it’s all about the experience, the party, the connection with the audience,” Acosta said. “It’s a different market. You have to be a little more visual, paying more attention to people’s wants and desires when it comes to culture and art.”
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Siebert also has a long career in theater, starting when he was 4, and including a previous appearance as Hedwig in a production in Baltimore. Though he rarely does non-musicals, the darkly comical nature and subject matter of “Hand to God” intrigued him. To get into the duality of Jason and Tyrone, Siebert recorded each part to get used to talking to himself in the rapid-fire manner that is part of a few key scenes. As for the religious themes of the show, Siebert said it hit close to home.
tor and director met when Johnson was directing a fourth-grade play and he put out a call for someone with a fog machine.
Kryge opens the show… From 2016’s “Reverie” — her first solo recording while attending the Fred Fox School of Music — to 2021’s “Too Close To The Riptide,” singer/songwriter Sophia Rankin continues to reach far beyond her folk roots. Sophia Rankin & The Sound return to MotoSonora Brewing Company… One of the greatest Brazilian samba dancers of all time, Egili Oliveira in company with Samba Southwest and DJ Herm kiss summer goodbye with a dance spectacle on the plaza at Hotel Congress… Performing a blend of tiki and exotica mixed with a couple brimming jiggers of jazz lounge, Naïm Amor & the Cocktail Hours reel into The Century Room…
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While on a mission to fulfill a request by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, to record intermission music for Fare Thee Well — a victory lap celebrating the Dead’s final shows in 2015 — unbeknownst to guitarist Neal Casal at the time the seeds for his next band, Circles Around the Sun, were sown. For the oneoff recording project Casal assembled keyboardist Adam MacDougall, bassist Dan Horne and drummer Mark Levy to join him in the studio. They recorded five hours of spacey jams. Unexpectedly, the audience response — to their music being blasted between sets at the Dead farewell shows — was resounding. A newly formed Circles Around the Sun released those recordings as their debut album, “Interludes for the Dead,” to appease the demand for more. Fast forward to 2019. After wrapping up sessions for their third album, “Circles Around the Sun Meets Joe Russo” — a sleeker, shinier, dancier version of themselves — guitarist Neal Casal died by suicide. He left a note urging his bandmates to carry on. Recently, they announced guitarist John Lee Shannon as a permanent replacement. Instrumental space, disco, jam rockers Circles Around the Sun ascend to the stars at 191 Toole… Named after a vintage Gibson tube amplifier, guitarists Pat Faherty and Matt Stubbs formed GA-20 — born out of their mutual love of heavy traditional blues, R&B, and early rock ‘n’ roll — in Boston circa 2018. “We make records that we would want to listen to,” Stubbs said. “It’s our take on the song-based traditional electric blues we love.” For its latest album, 2021’s “Try It…You Might Like It!,” the band resurrects and reinvigorates the raw and downright dirty blues of six-fingered slide guitar legend, Hound Dog Taylor. Critics have heralded the album as “a new wave of blues for the next generation of blues fans.” GA-20 holds a new traditional blues revival on the plaza at Hotel Congress… SEPT. 14
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Francis immigrated to the United States when he was in his 20s. He lived and worked in Detroit before settling in InspiredTucson.topromote reggae culture in Arizona, Francis established Twelve Tribes Reggae Shop in late 1989. “At the time, Detroit had a lot of reggae shops, but it didn’t exist out here,” Jahmar said. “You had bands like Neon Prophet that were playing reggae, but you didn’t have any shops selling reggae music and reggae T-shirts.”Over the years, Dennis promoted thousands of reggae concerts, often bringing in artists from Jamaica, under the 12 Tribes Entertainment umbrella.
The product of two Christian ministers, raised in a household where God and Jesus and religion reigned unquestioningly supreme, not long ago contemporary worship/alternative rock artist John Mark McMillan went through a midlife crisis. He feared that his career — one built largely on the Christian belief system — would collapse like the biblical Tower of Siloam. “It made me afraid to say, ‘I’m not sure if I believe in God.’ I felt like I wasn’t allowed to ask those questions.” Finding his way out of the existential jungle — back to a reimagined form of Christianity, one that doesn’t hinge on fear of the eternal — he released his ninth studio record, “Peopled with Dreams,” in 2020. “Stepping away now from the white noise,” John Mark McMillan enters a “Re-Enchanted World” at 191 Toole, with special guest Gable Price & Friends Until next week, XOXO… Cheer of Arizona Marching Band Parade In Memoriam: Dennis Francis, aka Papa Ranger (March 9, 1956 – Aug. 22, 2022)
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Since arriving in Tucson, native Michigander Carra “Mamma Coal” Stasney — evincing a warm spirit and passion for performance — soon found a spot in The Old Pueblo music scene. Country singer Mamma Coal and her full-band tell stories of love, life and hard-lessons-learned at The Maverick King of Clubs… “My first step in being a professional musician was learning how to accept failure,” Eddie 9V said. “As a nobody, the music business is a dartboard. You just hope something sticks.” After working the blues clubs in Atlanta since his early teens, one day 9V powered up the guitar amps in his mobile trailer, with his brother, Lane, recording and turning knobs, to cut what would become one of 2019’s breakout releases, “Left My Soul In Memphis,” his debut album. Finally, something stuck. “Memphis was a total side project that ended up taking off,” Eddie recalled. Now, the 25-year-old guitarist is out on the road promoting “Little Black Flies,” his 2021 effort. Eddie 9V provides the juice for the latest installment of the Congress Cookout on the plaza at Hotel Congress… “If you haven’t gone two-steppin’ in a while,” Patrick Rayl & the .357 Band — a trio of military veterans performing country music — are “gonna set the floor on fire” at Whiskey Roads…
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A beloved figure on the Tucson music scene, Dennis Francis, aka Papa Ranger, died Aug.Francis22. was a noted DJ, concert promoter and avid exponent of reggae culture. After the cancer he previously battled returned aggressively, Francis made a compelling end-of-life decision. He told his sons, Jahron and Jahmar, that he did not want to spend his last days in a hospital room. Nor did he wish to die at home. Francis made arrangements to receive hospice care at the place he held dear: his Twelve Tribes Reggae Shop in central Tucson, surrounded by mementos — a vast collection of reggae concert posters and photographs with legendary artists — of a lifetime spent championing reggae music.
“I saw my dad on Saturday,” Jahmar reflected. “And he was like, ‘Don’t cry for me; be happy for me. I’m going somewhere else.’” Dennis — Papa Ranger as he was known to many — was 66 years old.
Family aside, a large part of Dennis’ life was devoted to reggae.
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First gen L.A. punk legend Alice Bag says of Fea’s name, “The band has also made it into an acronym for “Fuck ‘Em All,” reinforcing their message. A message that echoes the words of Gloria Steinem, “The Women’s Movement is still necessary and more alive than ever.” Bag produced their sophomore album “No Novelties.” Ferocity and resistance have never sounded so infectious. From San Antonio, Fea inhabits the space where Chicana punk and social consciousness intersect. They are flanked by Bleach Party USA and Blotter Vision at Club Congress…
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By David Abbott MEDICAL MARIJUANA SALES IN Arizona continue to crater as recreational sales remain robust, according to tax and sales data compiled by the Arizona Department of Revenue. Sales of medical cannabis dipped to slightly less than $45 million in May, their lowest total since January 2021, when adults were first allowed to purchase marijuana for recreational use. Meanwhile, initial estimates from tax collectors peg recreational sales at $76.5 million, the fifth time adult-use sales surpassed the $70 million mark. And ADOR revised April’s sales upward to $81.2 million, up from the initial estimate of $75.5 million, making it the best sales month yet for recreational can-
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WEEDLY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 more months of reporting to come. Last year, the first year of recreational sales, Arizona consumers purchased more than $1.4 billion in legal cannabis products. The Arizona Department of Health Services reports steady declines in the medical marijuana program through July, with total sales in poundage drop ping from 9,273 pounds sold via nearly 600,000 transactions in January to about 5,600 pounds through roughly 350,000 transactions in July. The number of ac tive cardholders in the state dropped once again from 191,682 in June to 158,154 in July. ADOR has not released fiscal numbers beyond the preliminary June totals. Total tax revenues for medical and rec reational sales in May were reported at $24.3 million, with $13.4 million from the 16% marijuana excise tax imposed on rec reationalYear-to-date,sales. the recreational excise tax has brought $177.3 million into the state’s tax coffers, which is divided by statute laid out in Proposition 207, which legal ized adult-use, recreational cannabis in 2020. One-third of taxes col lected are dedicated to community college and provisional community college districts; 31% to public safety — police, fire departments, fire districts, first responders — 25% to the Arizona Highway User Revenue Fund, and 10% to the justice reinvestment fund, dedicated to provid ing public health services, counseling, job training and other social services for communities that have been adversely affected and restsimpacteddisproportionatelybymarijuanaarandcriminalization.
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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Author Jean Frémon says Cancerian naturalist Henry David Thoreau “always had two notebooks — one for facts, and the other for poetry. But Thoreau had a hard time keeping them apart, as he often found facts more poetic than his poems.” Judging from your current astrological omens, Cancerian, I suspect you are entering a time when facts will be even more poetic than usual. If you open yourself to the magic of reality, the mundane details of everyday life will delight you and appeal to your sense of wonder. Routine events will veer toward the marvelous. Can you bear to experience so much lyrical grace? I think so.
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LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) How to be the best Libra you can be in the next three weeks: 1. Make sure your cool attention to detail never gets chilly. Warm it up now and then. Invite your heart to add its counsel to your head’s observations. Tenderize your objectivity. 2. Always be willing to be puzzled. Always be entertained and educated by your puzzlement. Proceed on the theory that nothing ever changes unless somebody is puzzled. 3. Practice, practice, practice the art of moderation. Do so with the intention of using it as a flexible skill rather than an unthinking habit. 4. Applying the Goldilocks principle will be essential. Everything must be just right: neither too much nor too little; neither overly grand nor overly modest.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dream up creative solutions to problems that haven’t fully materialized yet. Then you can apply your discoveries as you address problems that already exist. In other words, dear Aquarius, I’m telling you that your uncanny facility for glimpsing the future can be useful in enhancing your life in the present. Your almost psychic capacity to foretell the coming trends will be instrumental as you fix glitches in the here and now.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) “What good is it if you read Plato but never clean your toilet?” writes author Alice Munro. To which I add, “What good is it if you have brilliant breakthroughs and intriguing insights but never translate them into practical changes in your daily rhythm?” I’m not saying you are guilty of these sins, Leo. But I want to ensure that you won’t be guilty of these sins in the coming weeks. It’s crucial to your long-term future that you devote quality time to being earthy and grounded and pragmatic. Be as effective as you are smart.
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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) “To love oneself is hard work,” declares Virgo author Hanif Abdurraqib. He adds, “But I think it becomes harder when you realize that you’re actually required to love multiple versions of yourself that show up without warning throughout a day, throughout a week, throughout a month, throughout a life.” Let’s make that your inspirational strategy, Virgo. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to refine, deepen, and invigorate your love for all your selves. It may be hard work, but I bet it will also be fun and exhilarating.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) In the coming weeks, logic may be of only partial use to you. Information acquired through your senses might prove less than fully adequate, as well. On the other hand, your talents for feeling deeply and tapping into your intuition can provide you with highly accurate intelligence. Here’s a further tip to help you maximize your ability to understand reality: Visit a river or creek or lake. Converse with the fish and frogs and turtles and beavers. Study the ways of the crabs and crayfish and eels. Sing songs to the dragonflies and whirligig beetles and lacewings.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) As a Taurus, you are always wise to be reverent toward your five senses. They are your glorious treasures, your marvelous superpowers, your sublime assets. In the coming weeks, they will serve you even better than usual. As you deploy them with all your amazement and appreciation unfurled, they will boost your intelligence. They will heighten your intuition in ways that guide you to good decisions. You will tune into interesting truths that had previously been hidden from you. I suspect your sensory apparatus will be so sharp and clear that it will work almost as extrasensory powers.
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CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) I have always felt you Capricorns are wise to commune with rocks, dirt, mud, sand, and clay. I think you should regularly touch the actual earth with your hands and bare feet. If I’m out hiking with a Capricorn friend, I might urge them to sniff blooming mushrooms and lean down to kiss the exposed roots of trees. Direct encounters with natural wonders are like magic potions and miracle medicine for you. Moreover, you flourish when you nurture close personal relationships with anything that might be described as foundational. This is always true, but will be extra true for you in the coming weeks. Your words of power are kernel, core, gist, marrow, and keystone.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) One of my favorite Sagittarians is practical mystic Caroline Myss, who was born with sun and Mercury and ascendant in Sagittarius. In accordance with current astrological omens, I’ve gathered six of her quotes to serve your current needs. 1. There isn’t anything in your life that cannot be changed. 2. When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. 3. Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you. 4. The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. 5. What serves your spirit enhances your body. What diminishes your spirit diminishes your body. 6. What is in you is stronger than what is out there to defeat you.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) When you Geminis are at your best, you don’t merely tolerate dualities. You enjoy and embrace them. You work with them eagerly. While many non-Geminis regard oppositions and paradoxes as at best inconvenient and at worst obstructive, you often find how the apparent polarities are woven together and complementary. That’s why so many of you are connoisseurs of love that’s both tough and tender. You can be effective in seemingly contradictory situations that confuse and immobilize others. All these skills of yours should come in handy during the coming weeks. Use them to the hilt.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) Ariesborn Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the greatest basketball players ever. He excelled at most aspects of the game. Some experts say his rebounding was only average for a player his size—7feet-2 inches. But he is still the thirdbest rebounder in National Basketball Association history. And he played for 20 years, until age 40. What tips might Abdul-Jabbar have for you now? Here’s a suggestion from him that aligns with your current astrological omens: “Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.” The implication is that you have a lot of strengths, and now it’s time to raise up the rest of your skill set.
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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) There are blessings in every abyss. You, of all the signs in the zodiac, have the greatest capacity to find those blessings and make them yours. Likewise, there is an abyss in each blessing. You, of all the signs, have the most power to make sure your experiences in the abyss don’t detract from but enhance the blessing. In the coming weeks, dear Scorpio, take maximum advantage of these superpowers of yours. Be a master of zeroing in on the opportunities seeded in the dilemmas. Show everyone how to home in on and enjoy the delights in the darkness. Be an inspirational role model as you extract redemption from the messes.
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