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Indeed, while Arizona residents wa gered close to $3 billion on sports bet
Is sports betting and new gaming technology threatening the Arizona Lottery?
junkie himself (his Twitter avatar shows him sharing drinks with Michael Jordan at Phoenix Raceway last November). “It’s a different kind of person that gets into sports betting, which is all about small bets placed frequently with some skill and some knowledge that can give you an advantage. Whereas the lottery is en tirely random and played for fun by ev eryone. You know, there’s a much lower skill requirement to playing the lottery than to sports betting.”
Turns out, they have been. “I can’t say that it has changed the lottery in terms of the money we’ve seen coming in, be cause sales have steadily increased de spite the appearance of sports betting,” said Gilliland, a considerable sports
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The package took more than five years to negotiate and required the support of the tribal casinos as well as the state’s pro sports teams, who were all granted per mission to run betting operations at their venues.Atthe time, however, the gambling expansion was seen as a potential finan cial drain on the Arizona Lottery, which annually channels about $400,000 of its revenue to charitable programs. Would Arizona’s betting men and women still plunk down their hard-earned dollars on lottery tickets with so many new and heavily hyped betting choices popping up on their smartphones?
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along with daily fantasy sports contests, keno games and a statewide mobile lot tery draw game.
ting during the first six months of the program (generating around $8.5 million in state tax revenue and over $18 million for the sportsbook betting sites), the Arizona Lottery has seen little negative impact on its own sales. For the previous fiscal year that ended June 30, 2021, the Arizona Lottery achieved record sales of approximately $1.4 billion.
It’s had some competition in Arizo na since legal sports betting launched throughout the state in September 2021. That previous April, Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law the so-called “gambling expansion bill,” House Bill 2772, which legalized wagering on sporting events
During the fiscal year ended in June 2022, in which the lottery weathered the first nine months of legalized sports bet
“There’s a communal feeling to buy ing a lottery ticket during the big jack pot weeks. It’s what everybody’s talking about: ‘What would you do with all that money?’”Bigjackpot days are also the days when the all-American lotto, once again, becomes the biggest game in town.
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IT’S THE DAY OF THE $1.02 BILLION Mega Millions lottery, only the third time in 20 years that the jackpot for the multi state game has surpassed the billion-dol lar mark. And John Gilliland, public in formation officer for the Arizona Lottery, is feeling the excitement—even working from home, stuck waiting on the extermi nators.“We love these days,” Gilliland said.
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS will now be properly funded. It will be able to upgrade its technology. It will be able to hire enough people to get the job done, and it will be able to go after those who consider paying taxes to be a burden for lesser beings.
skilled individuals is basically at the same level as it was at the end of World War II, when America had one-third as many citizens as it does today.
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This has Republicans reacting like they
• Many claim that it is a waste of money. However, the IRS estimates that for every extra dollar spent on enforcement, it brings in an additional $5. Many economists believe that there would be no budget deficits if people would simply pay the taxes that they owe.
When it comes down to it, the question I ask myself is, would I be willing to pay slightly higher taxes if it meant that the likes of Donald Trump and other tax cheats would have to pay…taxes?
It seems the vast majority of Americans would agree with that. There will always be the outliers — the vulgar rich, the Cliven Bundys, and those who can’t imagine doing something for somebody else. But for most of us, paying taxes is what we do. It’s patriotic and it’s American.But
Oh, hell yes.
• Speaker of the House wannabe Kevin McCarthy lied through all eight sides of his mouth when he said the 87,000 armed IRS agents would be coming after people who make less than $75,000 a year. The IRA has already set a threshold of $400,000 and they intend to stick to it. The IRS has lost nearly half of the individuals who conduct complex tax audits. The number of those highly
The Republicans like it this way. It allows them to disparage a government entity and, more importantly for them, it allows their fattest cats to escape their responsibility as Americans. Thus has it always been, but perhaps no more.
• As for the armed part, the IRS does, indeed, have a small staff of armed agents. They must undergo a six-month training period and they only deal with people who have already been determined to have committed a tax-related crime. And it’s not as though the IRS guys are the only ones with guns. Several other government agencies have armed agents on their staffs. The Food and Drug Administration has armed agents. “That ground beef was only 79, not 80. Stick ‘em up!”
And how about the service part of the IRS? My son is an engineer, but he’s not married and doesn’t own a house. When he gets his W-2, he files his basic return online and he’s done. That’s in early February. Then, he has to wait until August for his tax refund. That shouldn’t happen. Theoretically, with a large enough computer system, the transaction should take seconds, not months.
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now it’s an evil boogeyman, a monster created by Democrats to ruin our country. To hear Ted Cruz (and Arizona’s own “Ted Cruz,” Blake Masters) tell it, 87,000 armed government thugs are coming after every mom-and-pop business, after which they will come for mom and pop. It is a really stupid political stance to take, but in these bizarre days,
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stupid is as MAGA does.
For decades, the Republicans in Congress have been trying to starve the IRS of oxygen. They cut the budget and refused to allow for staffing to even stay at 2010 levels. Not surprisingly, this has kept the IRS from keeping up with new technology and has harmed the agency in numerous ways in the public’s eyes. Have you tried to get somebody from the IRS on the phone? Because of severe understaffing, it’s basically impossible.
Wendell Holmes Jr. was known as “The Great Dissenter.” (He was on the court 100 years ago, back when conservatives hadInintegrity.)the1927case of Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal, Holmes (in a dissent, naturally) wrote “Taxes are what we pay for civilizedThissociety.”isthe only verifiable version of that sentiment, although the phrases, “I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization,” and “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization,” are also widely attributed to him. Many years earlier, his dad, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a physician and a poet, had said, “I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me.”
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had slid down a bannister full of razor blades into a giant vat of vinegar. And it has given birth to the latest Big Lie. Here’s how Ted and Blake and all the others are lying:
• There will not be 87,000 new IRS agents, as often claimed. That’s a made-up number, one that sounds ominous. In a report by the U.S. Treasury, the $80 billion infusion into the agency would allow for the hiring of more than 86,000 new employees over the next 10 years. They would do so in annual increments of between 7,000 and 12,000 per year. Hardly an onslaught. While some of the new hires would conduct audits of those earning more than $400,000 a year, most would work on improving informational technology and enhancing customer service.
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Still, despite of all the cautionary tales and the competition from other gaming platforms, Arizonans continue playing the lottery, and dreaming of those mega-million bonanzas.
Gilliland’s point about a “different kind of person” playing the lottery also applies to the way lottery tickets are sold. While much of sports betting is done online, through web-based sportsbooks and apps, you still have to walk into a retail store to buy an Arizona Lottery ticket.
“We’ve only recently been authorized legislatively to develop a mobile game, but we’re still sorting out how we want to do that,” Gilliland said. “At the moment, we are still only doing in-person sales at licensed retailers.”
couple of retirees discover a loophole in the big multi-state game and begin using their windfalls to improve their own lives along with those in their small town — a script based on a true story.
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Recently that communal vibe got another boost from Hollywood in the movie “Jerry and Marge Go Large,” where a
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Of course, there are also scores of true stories concerning people who won big in the lottery only to see their lives fall apart, including one of a Pennsylvania state lotto winner whose own brother hired a hitman to kill him for the $16.2 million payout. “Everybody dreams of winning money, but nobody realizes the nightmares that come out of the woodwork, or the problems,” said William “Bud” Post just five years after his big win. “I wish I’d torn that ticket up.”
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“We’re just grateful to everybody that steps up and buys a ticket, because they’re helping us to do a lot of good in the state – whether or not they win that big jackpot,” said Gilliland. Of course, it’s even better when they do. “Whenever someone in Arizona claims a really big prize, that’s money that’s being brought into their community, those are taxes that are being paid to the state and the federal government. That’s money that’s coming into local businesses and charities in their communities. All kinds of good things come from a big win in the Arizona Lottery.”
Some wager that old-school brick-andmortar limitation adds to the lottery’s enduring appeal. You’re more likely to run into your neighbors buying Mega Millions tickets at the local convenience store or bond with your coworkers pitching in on an office lottery pool than you are placing a bet on your FanDuel or DraftKings app.
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ting in Arizona coupled with a rising inflation rate that limited consumer spending nationwide, it still took in close to the same amount: $1.368 billion in sales. That broke down to nearly 178 million tickets sold for the two multi-state draw games Arizona participates in — Mega Millions and the Powerball — and another 85.6 million tickets for in-state games, like The Pick and Fantasy 5.
Donations go directly toward helping get therapy dogs trained and out into the world.“When people donate, it means that they understand that there is a financial need to keep the program going and to maintain the quality of the program that we have,” Alexander said.
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TUCSON AND MANY OTHER CITIES around the United States will participate in the fifth annual World’s Largest Pet Walk to benefit Pet Partners on Saturday, Sept.
lectual disabilities and seniors with Alzheimer’s.Every year, Pet Partners hosts this event to raise funds and awareness for its therapy animal program. In Tucson, the Pet Partners of Southern Arizona is working hard to exceed its goals. They’re expecting a huge turnout.
“The idea is to interact with your animal, have a good time, and you’re doing it for a good cause,” said Diane Alexander, a Tucson walker and community coordinator for the Tucson partners.
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“I teach our handlers workshop along with another instructor, and in going through all of that material, it reinforces for me how strong this organization is in terms of its research, its development of programs, its development of teams, and its working with the human-animal bond that takes money to keep it going. This is not a program with glamorous buildings or highly paid executives; The money
Ella is retired after working with Alexander as a therapy dog and has a new mini Australian labradoodle sister, Bindi. Both are registered to walk with Alexander for this month’s event. It is Bindi’s first time participating with Alexander.
“We’refriends.infour counties as the Pet Partners of Southern Arizona, so you can walk wherever you like, however you like. If your dog is not a walker and you want to play ball in the backyard or just hang out on the couch together and watch some college football that day, that’s great.”
goes back to the program, and that’s what is important to me.”
Pet Partners’ goal is to raise $100,000. So far, the Pet Partners
“I have a good friend who’s had a long career in behavioral health,” Alexander said. “When I adopted Ella from Arizona Poodle Rescue, my friend came to meet her. Ella is very interactive with people, loves being with people, and has this wonderful demeanor about her. Because of her experience, my friend said Ella would make a great therapy dog.”
in the 1970s, Pet Partners is a nonprofit that helps people through the love of animals. They register dog handlers to serve as a team to visit various communities to assist patients, including those in recovery, those who have intel-
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“People will group based on where they are geographically. We encourage that or even walking with family members. However, they want to do it.”
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Alexander has been involved with the nonprofit since 2011. Around the time she started, she became a team with Ella, a standard poodle dog.
The walk does not have a set location and wants people to have that quality time with their fourlegged
of Southern Arizona team has raised 177% of its goal of fundraising $1,500 with a total of just over “Fundraising$2,600.efforts have been pretty good so far. We had a goal of $1,500 for the community partner, and I’m really pleased about where we are at. I think as we get closer, we’ll even top that, and it would be great to hit $3,000.”
7:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 25, The Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, foxtucson.com, $30.25 to $82.50.
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, Hops Sports Grill, 120 S. Houghton Road, Unit 174, $15, $20 for a couple on a single bike, cash only.
7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, no show Saturday, Oct. 1, extra show 3 p.m. on closing day, Saturday, Oct. 8, Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road, livetheatreworkshop.org, $17 to $30.
A down-home, soul-stirring guitar and harmonica spree is in store when Blues Hall of Famers Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite take the Fox stage next week. The duo will riff through blues history and geography as recorded on their new “100 Years of Blues,” just released on legendary blues label, Alligator Records.
Long-time Tucson burlesque dance artist, teacher and costume maker Lola Torch has for years nurtured a volunteer collaboration to revive and update the playful spirit of burlesque variety shows.
9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, 191 Toole, tucsonlibertineleague.com, $24
Tucson’s no-kill animal shelters and rescue organizations will benefit from this fun, social motorcycle run around some of Tucson’s favorite watering holes. It kicks off at Hops Sports Grill, then visits Monkey Bar and The Mint before lunch at The Red Garter. Then it’s off to American Legion Post 109 and a last leg to Thunder Mountain Moose Lodge where there’s a 50/50 drawing and a raffle.
“Reveal” includes music, dance and comedy as well as performances that may pique a tasteful, turn-of-the-century lasciviousness.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, The Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, foxtucson.com, $32.50 to $62.50.
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7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, Kino North Stadium, 2817 E. Ajo Way, fctucson.com, $12 to $20.
Stephen Frankenfield plays a church groundskeeper in this Pulitzer-prize- nominated one-man play by Heather McDonald. The role is described as one of “cathartic narration” tinged with humor sieved from a life of divots, ditches, darkness, showers, light and brilliant color. Sometimes, humanity is like a garden.
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CULT CLASSICS: “SHREK”
11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, to Sunday Sept. 25, Tucson Greyhound Park, 2601 S. Third Avenue, southtucsonfest.com, free admission includes five drink tickets, VIP passes start at $99.99.
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Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers features in the Tucson Symphony’s season debut. With José Luis Gomez conducting, she and the orchestra perform “Fandango,” a concerto written for her by Arturo Márquez and introduced last year with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tucson composer Robert Muczynski’s “Charade” and Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 5” round out the concert. Tucson Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, 260 S. Church Avenue, tucsonsymphony.org, $18 to $90.
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“Shrek” changed everything. In 2001, its CGI was cutting edge. The script was loaded with easter eggs to lure adults in and inspire trivia references for decades. A few edgy twists made teens feel OK about watching a kids’ movie. The storyline generated five sequels with a princess who was no Disney layabout and a hero who, in today’s parlance, was marginalized in the tradition of charming princes. “Shrek” and its spinoffs abide on every new platform created in the last 20 years, but it’s still best seen in a movie theater.
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TUCSON LIBERTINE LEAGUE PRESENTS “REVEAL”
After a season that held some disappointments, FC Tucson rallied to defeat Union Omaha, considered the best team in the league. So it will be an exciting game when the home team takes on Chattanooga for a shot at a playoff run.
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10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, and Sunday, Sept. 25, The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Boulevard, loftcinema.org, $6 to $8.
Twelve hours of music, dancing, food, magic, art and craft sales, a petting zoo, robotics and agricultural demonstrations, car racing and a gathering of elaborately modified cars from all over the Southwest and Mexico celebrate South Tucson’s vibrant community and unique cultural mix. More than a dozen Entertainment highlights include Tito Puente Jr., Rezcoast Grizz, the Barbea Williams Performing Company, Ballet Folklorico Tapatio de Tucson and Gertie and the T.O. Boys. Four DJs keep the beats going throughout. We suggest wearing good shoes.
We can all be inspired by music from Led Zeppelin’s catalog of recorded work when Get the Led Out takes to The Fox Theatre. GTLO stress that they’re not like impersonators who imprint their own flourishes. Instead, they faithfully recreate the studio recordings.
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“But it’s not,” he said. “It is so rowdy andPandemoniumwild.” is what you’d expect from an intimate party of 1,200 close friends who’ve waited for years to meet in person. All the hospital break rooms are abuzz with excitement.
quality of his listening. Maybe not even Disney could imagine a nurse so comfy as a blanket fresh from the warmer.
“In 2015, the FDA ended the lifetime ban on gay males from donating blood,” Lynch said. “That’s when I realized that even as a nursing student, I had a voice to create change.”
as comedian Nurse Blake, says a lot of theaters think his performance is going to be a TED Talk.
get through our long shifts,” Lynch said. “Everything people hear in the show, they’re all true stories that happened.”
“Even before the pandemic, nurses are working short staffed, and I needed an outlet and a community to connect with. So I started my Facebook page just for fun and it’s kind of grown into this.”
His worldwide fans are all in the same virtual Mercy PreternaturallyShip.chipper, Lynch has a perpetual smile, as earnest as a 10-yearold’s. He’s as bright and open in a Zoom interview as he appears in his videos. And we want all of his skin products.
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How is he adjusting to the transition to live performance? “It was so surreal,” Lynch said, adding, “Now I feel like I’m helping nurses in a way by giving them a night to let loose and have fun. I do get a little nervous, but I can take the energy from the crowd and just use it to give them a great experience.”
Laughter is the best medicine with Nurse Blake at the Rialto Theatre.
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That smile barely puckers when he’s slinging the snark. In his show, he’s occasionally an Avenger excoriating hypocrites, bureaucrats and poseurs in the medical field. He’s been a force for good even in real life. His 2013 project, “Banned4Life” attracted his earliest fans and made them a force to be reckoned with.He was in nursing school at the time and a very sick friend needed blood. At the time, gay men could not be blood donors. Lynch mustered friends and fellow nursing students to protest the policy. “Banned4Life” mushroomed as part of a nationwide movement.
Nurse Blake: The PTO Comedy Tour comes to the Rialto Theatre with two shows on Thursday, Sept. 29.
Nurse Blake: The PTO Comedy Tour, 6:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, The Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, Tucson, rialtotheatre. com, $32 to $58.
Joel Martin remembers the exact date of his first open mic: Feb. 5, 2009. “It was Laff ’s open mic,” he said. “I had always wanted to do comedy, but I never realized how accessible it was in my own city.” Martin remembered when he and his cousin Jared Martin were kids and watched their cousin, touring comedian Sam Griesman, at Laff ’s. “We were still underage, but they got us in because we were family.”
“I feel like, as nurses, we are some of the funniest people because we see life and death and we have to use humor to
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Now, he hopes his show encourages health care workers to make an impact in their community. “I always try to balance the humor with professionalism and inspiration,” he said.
Lynch’s almost rocket-like ascension to the public consciousness is partly a phenomenon of its time. While Facebook and YouTube opened to the public in the mid-aughts, the popular mash up of messaging and video, TikTok, didn’t emerge
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All that and continuing advances in user-friendly, personal and home-based technology, not to mention target marketing, coincided to generate “influencers” and launch them to global notoriety overnight.Lynch’s first step into social media was in a dark night of the soul in 2018. “I was coming home from a really long shift, and I had something like a panic attack,” he said. “I thought it was me because nursing is so hard and challenging.
“This” has grown from Facebook to TikTok, YouTube and a podcast channel, plus at least a presence on every other social media platform. His podcast with husband, Brett Donnelly, “Me, Myself and My Husband” is entering its second season, and he’s just started a new podcast, “Breakroom Gossip,” that will feature conversations with friends and other influencers in the health care field.
“I never thought I would be doing comedy, ever,” he said. “When I graduated nursing in 2014, it was never on my bucket list. But when I was starting nursing school, I did work at Disney at the Magic Kingdom and in Orlando,” And there it is — the welcoming smile, the charisma, the
until 2016. Meanwhile, podcasting, which had been growing steadily since at least 2005, surged when national media and entertainment producers started climbing on board around 2017.
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Martin hosts a mic at 7 p.m. Monday nights at On the Rocks, a new bar and restaurant in the former Famous Sam’s spot at 7930 E. Speedway Boulevard, Suite 170. Martin’s brother Paul is general manager there.
Joel and Jared became regulars in Tuc son’s growing comedy community. “It’s grown astronomically,” he said. There are so many more opportunities to get on stage. I couldn’t tell you how many active comedians there are right now. Over 150, I’d say.
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He was always a fan of TV comedy shows but he took the stage only after a bad breakup of a long-term relationship. “I hear that’s a common thread,” he said.
The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress Street, 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, screen ingroomdowntown.com, $20. Will Fos key and Kylie Vincent. Just for Laughs tapped Foskey as one of its “New Faces of Comedy”.
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Catalina Craft Pizza, 15930 N. Oracle Road, Suite 178, 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, “Comedy in Catalina,” $8 or free with a donation of food or clothing. Phoe nix comics DeVonte Easby and Phyllis Voren. Brady Evans and Kenny Shade guest and Allana Erickson-Lopez hosts. Reservations recommended, 520-8250140.
Unscrewed Theater, 4500 E. Speedway Boulevard, unscrewedtheatre.org, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, Family-friendly im prov; 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, “Improv Blox” Showcase; 7:30 p.m. Family-friendly improv, 9 p.m. Uncensored Improv Com edy with NBOJU and “The Big Daddies;” $8, live or remote, $5 kids
Chuckleheads, 41 Brewery Avenue, Bisbee, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, chuckleheadsaz.com, $20. Kylie Vincent and Will Foskey. Fresh from the Edin burgh Fringe Festival, Vincent recently
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Bumsted’s, 1003 N. Stone Avenue, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, “Lady Ha Ha” open mic, facebook.com/LadyHahaOp enMic, free. Five minutes stage time with priority for marginalized folks. First show in its new venue.
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He will host his first showcase in the venue, Ice Cold Comedy on Saturday, Sept. 24. Rebecca Fox headlines, Roxy Merrari features and Sylvia Remington, Ashley Tappan and Anthony Jenkins round out the lineup.
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toured 18 cities with her solo show, “Bird.” Laff’s Comedy Caffe, 2900 E. Broadway Boulevard. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and Saturday, Sept. 24, laffstuc son.com, $15, $20 preferred seating. An drew Rivers, a hit on YouTube and “Dry Bar Comedy,” assures a good time with his winning, storytelling humor.
“So, I went to one open mic at Laff’s with Jared. I thought we could do it the following week and maybe be in the mid dle.” They did, and they were. “It’s been fun ever since,” Martin said.
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Arte Bella, 340 N. Fourth Avenue, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, $10. “Blazed and Amused” 420-friendly comedy showcase with music by Lew Lepley, hosted by Re becca Fox and Paul Fox, featuring Cory Lytle, Levi Hernandez, Rory Monserat, Allana Erickson-Lopez and Ashley Tap pan.
parently, 34% of the American people don’t trust their government. I get that, but this is for everyone’s health, schmuck. It’s separate from government. Government, politics and freedom are three different things. That’s why they’re spelled differently.”
work in front of an audience consistently. I write in front of an audience. I reached the point where my audience knows that’s what I’m doing, and they’ve been really generous to give me the space to do it.”
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He also rants about anti-vaxxers. For a nation who’s “scarfing down” supplements, he doesn’t understand why folks are afraid to have the “‘Vaccine?vaccination.I’mnot going to take this one!’” he said, mimicking anti-vaxxers. “Ap-
“I think no matter what you think about guns, I think that article will make you laugh. If it doesn’t, then you don’t have a sense of humor.”
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“It’s pretty much the happy-go-lucky comedy fun stuff, complete with a lot of knock-knock jokes, a couple of songs,” he said“I’llsarcastically.beinteresting.
“Here in New York, polio is making a comeback,” he said. “Yessiree that’s what I want to Knownsee.”as the “king of rant,” Lewis said touring again has been a blessing. The pandemic was hard on Black, as he stopped doing“Icomedy.wasjust really trying to maintain my sanity and make sure that my anger didn’t boil over,” he said. “I tried to maintain my faith in my fellow man, too.
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Of course, he’s kidding. He’s angry about everything from gun violence to the resurfacing of polio in New York. At the show, he’ll share a story he read four years ago about a gun that went off at a church that was hosting a gun safety talk.
He’s pretty annoyed with the resurgence of polio in New York.
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his Sept. 30 Fox Tucson Theatre show can expect the “typical” gig.
“But I stopped doing comedy. I don’t work with Zoom or the rest of it. I need to
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The way things are rolling.”
The podcast, “Lewis Black’s Rantcast,” kept him busy during the pandemic. To create it, he shares fans’ rants. He’s doing so now after his performances.
“If I’d written it as a fictional article, it would have been really brilliant,” he said. “It’s better that it’s not fiction. It puts things in perspective, I think, about gun safety.
“It’s really important for those coming to those shows that I do an hour show and then immediately come back on stage and do a livestream throughout the world,” he said.“I
read the rants by people who have showed up from Tucson, Phoenix or Scottsdale, Arizona. Stuff comes in from Canada. I read stuff from Switzerland, Germany and England. I take some of the rants and put them together in the Rantcast. People can listen anytime.”
said. “As we prepare to open this gorgeous show, I would say to potential audience members that it is a show about love, loss, healing and having the courage to follow your dreams.”
Milne’s level of detail doesn’t surprise Art Express Theatre Executive Director Karen Wiese.
Milne had the cast during early rehearsals talk about what might have happened to the older characters between the present and the flashback to help form their onstage personalities. She also used period costumes to clarify when the shifts happen.
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“I think that that’s a really fun way to do it,” she said. “I told the cast that it’s like we’re playing basketball in L.A. or New York, and we’re on a concrete court and there’s a fence on the outside. If you’re outside of the fence,
“She had that spark of being 17, which is something that I audition for,” Milne explained. “Playing 17, I think, is a breeze for her. Being 50 is harder, because it’s easy for a person to say, ‘Well, this terrible thing happened to me, so I’m shutting down and I’m going to become an older, darker me.’ But that’s not really what happens. She’s sarcastic, she’s witty and she displays all of those things at 17 that are still there, but they don’t come out as frequently.”
The musical only played a few months on Broadway, but the reviews were mostly positive, and she believes it fits well in the current“Weseason.had ‘Guy and Dolls,’ a classic, and ‘Bring it on,’ which is pop music, and we knew we wanted ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ for October,” Wiese explained. “So, bluegrass seems pretty different from all that. It was the contrast that made it interesting. You don’t hear a whole lot of blue grass in Tucson. I wish you heard more.”
Though the show deals with some strong emotions, Jensen said there’s much more than sadness for the characters who inhabit “Bright
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“AlthoughStar.” there is a shared pain and loss between Alice and myself, there is a healing quality of this show that has helped me,” she
When she auditioned for the Tucson premiere of Broadway’s 2016 musical “Bright Star,” she felt a connection to the show’s main character, Alice, because they shared something deeply personal.
Inspired by a true event, the story set in 1945 North Carolina centers around the people associated with a literary magazine run by the now-hardened Alice — including a young newcomer she advises.
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“I have four children. But in between my third and my fourth, I was about halfway through my pregnancy, and I lost that baby,” Jensen said. “Once you’ve gone through that, you never forget it. There’s a line in the show, ‘That had to have been the worst day of your life,’ and the line that she says is, ‘It was … and it is.’”
Kevin Orduno, left, Drew Milne and Venus-Tyane Kuya from the cast of “Bright Star,” a true story featuring the Tony-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. The sweeping tale tells a story of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the 1920s and ’40s American South. (MICHAEL C. SULTZBACH/CONTRIBUTOR)
While there’s sadness and regret, Martin also filled many scenes with humor, and he and Brickell wrote several bluegrass songs to fit the time and era.
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“To not have a real banjo or a real fiddle for a bluegrass show like this would not be right,” she said.
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That was Wiese’s mandate, to use live music to enhance the production’s authenticity.
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“Bright Star” takes place in two time periods, with several flashbacks to 1923. That means Jensen must quickly and seamlessly move from sophisticated woman to naïve
FOR TIFFANY JENSEN, IT WAS more than feeling comfortable with the bluegrass music or the comedic writing.
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Like Alice, Jensen has lost a child, and it’s a feeling, she explained, that stays with you.
To Milne, “Bright Star” is about memories. To visualize that concept, she places the story in an attic. The cast is always present to either be in the action or to help set up the scene.
you’re just like anybody who’s watching basketball. You’re commenting on the action, but you are not in the action. And if you’re in the playing space then you are only engaged in the replaying of the memory.”
“As I was putting together the season, I started floating shows by various directors,” Wiese said. “I threw out the name ‘Bright Star,’ and she said, ‘I want to do that show, and it was like she was immediately on it. She knew it well and had a vision for it right away.”
Written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, “Bright Star” opens at Art Express Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 22.
teen, which she does by recalling her youth and imagining her, or, rather, Alice’s — future.The authenticity Jensen displays in both time periods was a major reason director Dana Milne knew she had the right Alice almost immediately.
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Although best known as a vocalist, Christopher Cross can shred as a guitarist. In 1970, when Ritchie Blackmore fell ill shortly before a Deep Purple concert Cross was tapped to fill in. His prolific chops once led to an unfulfilled invitation to play with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, the gold standard in rock pretentiousness. Born Christopher Charles Geppert, Cross burst into mainstream consciousness with the release of his 1979 self-titled debut album. Cross made history at the 23rd annual Grammy Awards, taking home gilded gramophones in the most prestigious categories: record of the year, album of the year, song of the year and best new artist. A feat not replicated until Billie Eilish won all four awards 39 years later. Post1984, with the rise of MTV and an edgier new wave sound dominating the music scene, Cross’ star began to dim. Despite that, Cross’ yacht rock anthems “Sailing” and “Ride Like the Wind” remain mainstays on adult contemporary radio. This year, Cross is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his breakthrough debut album. “This tour celebrates the first chapter in what has been my life’s journey.” Christopher Cross sails into the dry dock at the Rialto Theatre… Trapsman/producer Pete Swan presents saxophonist Mike Moynihan. Guitarist Ed DeLucia, double-bassist Scott Black and Swan join Moynihan for two sets of edgy jazz at The Century Room… ¡Vamos a bailar! Noche de Verano Sin Ti is a dance party celebrating the mu-
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Vogue has called post-“Urban Cowboy” country artists Midland “equal parts heartthrobs and fashion risk takers.” Since coming together in 2013, bonding over common influences when the trio convened at bassist Cameron Duddy’s wedding — in which lead vocalist Mark Wystrach and guitarist Jess Carson were groomsmen — Midland have been on mission to reintroduce “the Western plains, Laurel Canyon-cum-Bakersfield and Lone Star juke joints to country music.” After more than a year away, Midland has returned to touring. “The crowds have been absolutely feverish,” Wystrach said. To prepare for a run of dates, and grueling two-hour sets, the band trained like olympians for the next leg of their retro-nuevo journey. Out in support of “The Last Resort: Greetings From…,” these road warriors have a “Longneck Way to Go,” and then some. Kings of Saturday night, Midland brings its “Drinkin’ Problem” to the Tucson Arena. Special guests Flatland Cavalry come along for the ride… From the start, Habstrakt’s distinctive production style caught the attention of EDM heavyweights Diplo and Skrillex, who remixed his tracks. His latest single “High” is a high-octane bass house speaker
scorcher. From the South of France, DJ/producer Habstrakt detonates bombs on the dance floor at Gentle Ben’s… The progeny of a jazz giant, pianist Dave Brubeck, bassist/ trombonist and composer Chris and drummer Dan Brubeck’s lives have been immersed in music from as far back as they can remember. The brothers cut their first record together in 1966. Today, with the addition of guitarist Mike DeMicco and keyboardist Chuck Lamb, the quartet’s 2012 release “Lifetimes” — integrating elements of funk, blues and world music — remained on the Jazz Week’s radio airplay charts for an impressive five months. Tucson Jazz Fest presents the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. They embrace the spontaneous spirit of jazz at the Rialto Theatre… The Pete Swan Quartet hosts a Brubeck Brothers preshow soirée. And, trumpeter Max Goldschmid keeps the party going into the Late Night with an afterparty at The Century Room… Led by maestro José Luis Gomez, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra open their season with Arturo Márquez’s Fandango: A concerto for violin. Featuring esteemed violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, Fandango was written especially for her and premiered in 2021 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The program also features works by late Tucson composer Robert Muczynski and comes to a crescendo with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. This fandango fabuloso unfolds at The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall… From humble beginnings performing with his jug band in Ann Arbor High School’s senior talent show — a notable affair that also included the future Iggy Pop on the program — to touring the world with Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and ostensibly birthing Americana with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, guitarist Bill Kirchen’s top-shelf chicken pickin’ has elevated his status to that of honky-tonk god. Telecaster-master guitarist Bill Kirchen performs solo sets — electrified and acoustically — on the Hotel Congress plaza… Revered for over 20 years as one of
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sic of Bad Bunny. DJ Ruido Suave spins a set on the Hotel Congress plaza… Radiating their signature soulful, funky grooves, Miss Olivia & the Interlopers tell “Tiny Tales” at Tap & Bottle Downtown… Sweeter than a song, Tucson-based multi-instrumentalist and storyteller Sunny Gable & the Whiskey Machine mix bluegrass, country, blues and rock ‘n’ roll into a concoction they call “SoulGrass” at Monterey Court…
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“I had made a birthday dinner for (a boyfriend),” he said. “Well, he never showed up, so I decided I’m going to go to Rocky Point. I got myself all liquored up, bought myself a new Frank Sinatra CD and (pointed) my Lincoln (toward) Rocky Point.”Something was wrong with the cruise control so he pulled over and started fid dling with it while enjoying the company of a bottle of vodka he tucked under the seat.He got back on the highway, still fool ing with the cruise control, still intoxi cated, and sped up to about 70 mph. The front wheel veered off the pavement, Ha ver overcorrected, and the car rolled three
It’s been a hard life with some hard lessons, but he keeps go ing, and going with hope and a certain amount of peace, too. This is a little bit of his story.
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Tim Haver admits he made bad decisions, but he learned no matter what, God loves everyone. He’s lived a hard life, with hard lessons, but he rose above it and, now, his HIV is undetectable.
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Michael Haliziw has stood with Haver during some of his worst times during their decade-long friendship. For that reason, it hasn’t always been an easy friendship, standing on the side, watching Haver’s downward journey.
He lost a beloved partner to AIDS-relat ed cancer and following that, found com fort getting high around people he does not name. He’s been a drug dealer and he’s been homeless. Then there’s the stuff he’s ashamed of and won’t talk about, and the unwise, doomed decisions he’s made to earn another man’s love.
The 61-year-old Haver was born the week of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. “I think that’s a good sign,” he said.He lives a sober life with Armani, his little dog, and is waiting for a second hip re placement. In fact, it is during one exam for his hip that he saw himself in a new way.
“In high school I got a job as a recycling attendant at the Coors distributorship,” Ha ver said. “I could get beer; I was 16 years old. I became the hit of the party. All of a sudden, Tim was popular, so I equated alcohol with popularity. Alcohol solved all these problems.”
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It hasn’t always been like this, of course.
“For the first year, I stayed drunk,” he said. “Drunk, drunk, drunk.”
“It is very painful, especially since Tim is such a good friend,” he said. “You’re losing somebody from your life.”
Haver said his story begins when he test ed positive for HIV in 1986. He didn’t see another doctor for 10 years, “because in 1986 everyone was dying anyway. What was the point?” he said. “I was living the high life, had just moved to Denver from Los Angeles. I knew what the story was. I knew what safe sex was, but I was an alco holic, a functioning alcoholic.”
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im Haver is a real-life miracle.
The youngest of five, Haver was raised in Colorado and attended Catholic school, where he was the best and the brightest, through the sixth grade. After that it was off to public junior high. There, a very dif ficult time awaited him because of his ho mosexuality.“That’swhen the name calling started,” Haver said. “They spit on me. They threw rocks at me. They chased me home. They beat me up, tossed me into dumpsters for six years, junior high and high school.”
“I made some really poor decisions, based on love, or what I thought was love,” Haver
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He tells this story, which began one ordinary day, as these things do.
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Even when Haver was deep into addic tion, though, Haliziw still saw the good in him.“Tim wants to do good; his addiction took him off course but even then, he want ed to do good,” Haliziw added.
But maybe the problems began before the diagnosis. Maybe the alcohol issues began in childhood.
past is the reason he will tell you with everything inside of him that there is always hope, that help is out there no matter how difficult the circumstances, that no matter what, God loves you.
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“When they went in to mea sure me for the new hip, the nurses were in the room; they were talking about me, one to the other,” he said. “One nurse said, ‘He’s young and he’s healthy,’ referring to me, and I said, ‘Will you say that again, except a lit tle bit louder?’ You know, when somebody else says it, it has a different impact. I’m a young man…I just love it.”
The bullying set him up for a life of al cohol abuse.
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is just one of a lifetime of life-threat ening incidents. By any account, Haver should be dead several times over. He’s survived crashes and other car episodes, meth addiction, alcoholism, hepatitis C and even an HIV-positive diagnosis.
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Eighteen months later, addicted, sick and homeless, Haver found help, “again, I say through the grace of God,” Haver said.
“I was introduced to crystal meth, and I’m an alcoholic and I was tootin’ coke every now and again,” he said. “Oh man, the people who I’ve met, the things that I’ve done, I shudder…I still had the house, and I was a friendly, grieving, stupid, dumb idiot. I let people take advantage of me. I could have been in a lot, a lot, a lot of trouble.”Hemoved out of the house.
“I went to visit him the next day; I found him at St. Mary’s,” Haver said. It was cancer.“I’d only known him for a couple of days at that point and he was so distraught,” he said.When the nurse brought Sotero’s medications, Haver knew they were HIV meds,
Friends stuck with him, and he found Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network and Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation.
Haver will tell you he has had multiple rounds of sobriety and of addiction. He said with conviction it is not how many
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After his dad died and his mother moved into assisted living, Haver continued to work, get in trouble and burn through relationships, making a 60-day stopover in jail for more than a couple of DUIs along the way.Then one Friday night he was at a bookstore Downtown and met Sotero Gonzalez Cruz.“Something clicked,” he said.
The best part about telling his parents?
At 10:05 p.m. Friday, May 26, 2006, cancer got the better of him.
He guesses he would have graduated either valedictorian or salutatorian but as a junior, he started drinking vodka. Still, he graduated from high school and went to restaurant management school. He began a relatively successful career managing restaurants. Partying after hours is a part of restaurant work, and that includes alcohol and drugs. Haver said of himself that he was a functioning alcoholic even in hisIntwenties.1994,his parents, who by then had moved to Tucson, asked Haver to come and help take care of them. He did, “because they got Vicodin in Tucson, so why not?” he said.
He did not stay sober.
After Sotero’s death, life moved on, as it does. Haver stopped taking his HIV meds. He had no job and no prospect of a job. He decided he could make ends meet by renting out rooms. It didn’t go well.
“When you find somebody who loves you as much as you love them, oh, my God, there’s nothing else in the world like it,” he Theysaid.built a house and a life together.
“They were so loving and supportive, and these are two people from the south,” Haver said.
Sotero came to this country from Hermosillo. He had an advanced degree in accounting from the University of Sonora but learned English here. At one time he worked as a dishwasher at Caruso’s on Fourth Avenue and then at H&R Block, where he was able to employ his accounting and bilingual skills. Haver said he was one of the smartest people he ever knew.
Then Sotero died.
He gave up crystal meth.
On Saturday, Cruz was going to the hospital for surgery.
“and that was another connection we had,” he“Thatsaid. night we cried and held each other well past visiting hours, and he told me something that night I’ll never forget. He said, ‘I don’t have anybody to love me,’ and I said, ‘I’ll love you.’” Haver said with emotion, “and I love him as much right now as I did then.”
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They did not know he was gay nor that he was HIV positive. Still, although he had figured he’d never have another romantic relationship, Haver was not without company.“By this time, I had taken a hostage of a boyfriend, and moved him in with us,” he said. “I told (my parents), came clean and went to rehab.”
“I can’t get a credit card; I can barely get a library card,” he said, “but I don’t worry about my next meal.”
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“We’ve tried to inform the community as best as we can over time,” said Joyce Bolinger, board secretary for Southern Arizona Senior Pride. “It’s part of our advocacy mission and programming, which we take seriously, and we would also like to expand and broaden.”
“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down, the one number that counts is how many times you get back up,” he said. “And there’s help. There’s help. Whether you call it the universe, the power of the universe or God, something is out there that has made it possible for me to be here this long.”
“I think (about) how brave he is in facing his demons, and that he took it very seriously becoming sober,” Haliziw said. “He’s someone who will give you the shirt off his back. He sees a homeless person, he worries about him. He’s one of those people who legitimately cares.”
Southern Arizona Senior Pride offers activities, support groups and programs for LGBT seniors. (Southern Arizona Senior Pride/Courtesy)SEE SENIORS PAGE 6
Several times a year, Senior Pride hosts speakers to discuss issues important to LGBT senior community. One author recently shared his book about his experience of growing LGBT in Douglas.
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The organization will have a presence at this year’s Tucson Pride Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1, when they will share information about its mission, upcoming activities and programs like walk and rolls, holiday parties, writing workshops, museum tours and speaker series.
With the meds available today he has been cured of hepatitis C, which he feels he got when he was homeless and sharing needles. He has also, amazingly, beaten the odds with HIV.
vive but to live, too.
times you fall.
They talked about the recent Arizona legislative session and the national landscape, as well as what community mem-
On Wednesday, Sept. 21, the organization hosted a special talk called “The Fight for LGBTQI+ Rights-What’s Ahead?”
“I say, ‘By the grace of God,’ a lot, but it’s friends and the support people who God has put in my life that, really, when I say it’s through no effort of my own, that I’m sitting here today,” Haver said. “I was carried by a lot by people that knew me when things were (bad).”
Remember the car rollover?
“The next thing I remember is I’m lying in the dirt away from the car,” he said. “There’s this woman, kind of like an Indian princess dressed in white, standing over me and she said, ‘Help is on the way,’ and sheHaverdisappeared.”isconvinced his survival is miraculous.“Isaw that car (after the accident),” he said. “All four tires were blown out, the hood was up, the whole compartment was full of dirt. I don’t know how I got out. I escaped with one little scratch on my arm. ‘Help is on the way,’ and it was.”
“With the HIV, I’m undetectable, which means that I can’t transmit it through sex,” heAlso,said. he knows how blessed he is to have friends.
With help he’s been able to not just sur-
For the event, they brought in Lambda Legal Western Regional Office Staff Attorney Kell Olson and Rep. Andrés Cano, LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund director.
Now that Haver is sober, his friends can see the best in him — and admire him.
Senior Pride provides support for older LGBT adults
By LaUra LatZKO
any LGBT seniors feel isolated from their community, and COVID-19 has only amplified this problem.
Southern Arizona Senior Pride tries to ensure these individuals can connect with others while having access to important resources and programs.
In November, the organization will offer a guided tour of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, which is hosting the youth art exhibit “Mapping Q: Still Here/Still Queer.” The artwork came out of virtual workshops for LGBT youth, led by LGBT artists.
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For men and women, there are support groups for grief and loss, which meet regularly.The Community Cares program helps elderly people who feel isolated, especially those who are homebound and in assisted or independent-living facilities.
Once a year, the organization brings in speakers to talk on state and national policy issues, such as the Equality Act.
“I think it’s telling that people stay with the program, whether they’re volunteers or
rights. Young people think that’s it. They’ve taken it for granted. Well, we need to be Socialvigilant.”and educational activities are important to bringing together the elderly LGBT“Ourcommunity.missionisto celebrate, support and unify LGBTQI+ older adults,” said Lavina
Southern Arizona Senior Pride is trying to encourage people of different ages to get involved, whether it’s by writing their state and national legislators or by voting during the midterm elections.
“One of the things that I love about Senior Pride is it’s everyone in our community. Often, there’s men’s groups, women’s groups and trans groups, and they’re not
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“It’s really important for them to have a group where people have shared a certain life experience. Of course, it’s always unique to the individual, but we have all gone through certain rites of passage and certain ways of coping.”
(Left) Rep. Andrés Cano is the LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund director. (Right) Kell Olson is the Lambda Legal Western Regional Office staff attorney. (Southern Arizona Senior Pride/Courtesy)
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The program serves disabled people of different ages by scheduling phone calls or in-home visits. Some volunteers and participants have forged friendships after four years together.
Bolinger said events draw people of different backgrounds and interests.
Tomer, a board member for Southern Arizona Senior Pride.
bers can do in response.
The organization tries to build community, especially for those going through tougher times in their lives.
“We want our community to be informed and to hopefully take some steps to work against this, to rally our supporters, our allies and our community,” Bolinger said. Bolinger said she is concerned that the country is moving backward.
“Our generations came into adulthood in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s,” Bolinger said. “We paved the way for some of the breakthroughs that our community has experienced, like same-sex marriage and various protections. Here we are looking around, and it’s happening all over again. And it’s happening for the same reason. It’s political“We’vefootball.gotten used to having these
together. In our activities, they are together,” Bolinger said.
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“People get to be themselves, they get to be visible in the community,” Myers said. “With being Downtown, there are a lot of different places people can go after the pa rade and make a night of it.”
or 45 years, Tucson Pride has hosted the Annual Pride in the Desert festiv ities, opening with the Pride Parade and following with a Pride in the Park Festival.Thefestival returns this year after being virtual in 2020 and postponed in 2021 be cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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have a block party alongside the parade, but this year inflated costs from the pan demic undercut the feasibility and cost-ef fectiveness of such an event.
This year’s parade is 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, in Downtown Tucson and Armory Park. The Pride Festival begins at noon Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Georges De Meester Outdoor Performance Center at Reid Park and runs until 10 p.m.
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Tickets to the Saturday festival are $15 general admission and $5 for young adults ages 13 to 17. Valid ID is required for young adult tickets. Children under 13 are free.This
Going forward, Myers said they hope to
Tucson Pride Parade 2016. (Submitted/Facebook)
The parade is returning to the evening
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time rather than Saturday morning so it is cooler. It moved Downtown, in part, be cause they outgrew the staging area. So far, the parade has 30 groups registered as walkers or with floats. Some groups have upward of 100 participants.
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year’s festival has more than 100 exhibitors, vendors and sponsors coming out from across the community. Among them are organizations and nonprofits, as well as the health department who will be giving COVID-19 and monkeypox vac cines shots. Other vendors include small, locally owned merchants that are selling rainbow and other merchandise. There are also artists who will be exhibiting and sell ing their Headlinerswork.to this year’s event include
Tucson Pride President Stephen Myers said after two years away, people are ready to “Thiscelebrate.will be our year of coming out of the pandemic and getting everyone back together again,” he said.
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“There’s going to be drag talent and dance, just about anything you can imagine in terms of entertain ment,” Myers said.
be accompanied by a parent or
The event is expected to attract 5,000 attendees with around 100 local vendors and sponsors. In addi tion to the headliners, there will be DJs, guest drag queens, food trucks, and a full bar.
On Sunday, events wrap up with a Tucson Pride Drag Brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at HighWire, 14 S. Arizona Avenue. The brunch buffet ($39.99) features prime rib, a ham carving station, custom om elets, eggs Benedict, biscuits and gravy and a pastry and desert bar. Sponsors Smirnoff and Jack Daniels will offer specials. While all ages are welcome, those under 21 must
The four teens were charged with first degree murder, but the judge re duced it to involuntary manslaugh ter and then allowed them to be tried as juveniles. Their eventual sentence was probation until they turned 21, what most considered a “slap on the wrist.”The outraged LGBT community formed Tucson Pride and their work led to some of the earliest LGBT an
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Tucson Pride Parade 2016. (Submitted/Facebook)
Theguardian.drag brunch was an event started in 2019 by HighWire, which is a sponsor. Performances this year will be by Allonna Dee, Trouble and Onika Grande.
Tucson Pride was formed a year after an openly gay man visiting Tucson was murdered after leaving the Stonewall Tavern in June 1976. A group of 13 teens aged 15 to 17 be gan harassing him with four of them assaulting him, including a punch to the neck that caused hemorrhaging. He died from brain injuries.
“It was really popular,” Myers said. “It was drag entertainment. They had really good food catered in. Obviously, the typical brunch drinks, mimosas and stuff like that. HighWire recently expanded so they have their own kitchen and brunch menu now. I think a lot of people will enjoy coming in to see the en tertainers, but I think HighWire has a lot to offer in terms of really deli ciousTucsonfood.”Pride, the oldest LGBT+ organization in Arizona, is com mitted to outreach, support and advocacy. The all-volunteer non profit supports LGBTQ+ organiza tions throughout Southern Arizona through donations, volunteering and participating in community events.
The organization’s official name is the Tucson Lesbian and Gay Al liance and it promotes cultural, ed ucational and recreational events for the LGBTQ+ community in Tucson.
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services ranging from HIV/AIDS assistance to youth services. It also gives local entertainers a chance to showcase their“It’stalent.asafe space for our community to come together,” Myers said. “They get to really have that safe space once a year. It doesn’t matter where they fall within the community, it’s an event that appeals to everybody and they can just come out and be themselves for the day.”
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The event provides a platform for many people and organizations, Myers said, to come to the event and get their mission out to the community and share the services they provide, with
ti-discrimination legislation in the U.S. Tucson Pride’s first community event was the Gay Pride Festival & Memorial Picnic which was held in Himmel Park on June 26, 1977.
Since that time, the event has grown and now thousands of people are expected to turn out with colorful floats, many performers and a sea of rainbows as attendees celebrate their community.In2017, the attendees numbered 3,095 while in 2019, they were just short of Myers6,000.said he hopes the numbers will grow this year, though it is hard to predict after two years away.
“We’re hoping that people are anxious to get out and that number will go up,” Myers said.
Tucson Pride Events Parade: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 30, Downtown Tucson Festival: Noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, Georges DeMeester PerformanceOutdoorCenter, Reid Park Drag Brunch: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, HighWire, 14 S. Arizona Avenue, Tucson Info: tucsonpride.org
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The Gaymber, which is committed to promoting the success and growth of the
focused more on support for businesspeople, and exclusively for gay men. Now they are an open and public group that is focused on economic empowerment, inclusion, community, equity and intersectional diversity. They engage in advocacy, have welcomed allies and give out scholarships through the Tucson LGBT Chamber of CommerceMembersFoundation.ofthechamber can participate in networking opportunities, access a loyal and dedicated consumer niche, take advantage of marketing and advertising opportunities and become more empowered through contact with Tucson’s LGBT and straight allied community.
“We are doing the work to be a safe space
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“It was just indescribably refreshing to be able to go network and be a professional businessperson without having to worry about mentioning my girlfriend at the time or having to navigate the weird space of should I not come out in this conversation?” Minot said.
ber of Commerce will also have a table at the Tucson Pride Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1.
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oining the Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce was what their current president calls “indescribably refreshVeraing.”Minot joined the chamber, which members name the Gaymber, in 2018 after moving here from central Texas. Her business partners invited her to join.
“We want to bring in as many LGBTQI+ people as possible, but we really want to make clear that we are very friendly to allies, because it’s a special place of learning,” Minot said.
The Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce calls itself Gaymber. It is committed to promoting the success and growth of the LGBT+ and allied business community in Southern Arizona. (Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce/Submitted))
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“That’s just awkward to feel that all the time. So, the minute I felt that (acceptance) in the Gaymber, I was like, ‘Wow, this is special.’”Theorganization will walk together during the 2022 Tucson Pride Parade on Friday, Sept. 30. The Tucson LGBT Cham-
LGBT+ and allied business community in Southern Arizona, was formed in the early 1990s.Itwas then called the Community Business Association and it was a private group
LGBT Chamber builds a safe space to conduct business
Other monthly Gaymber events include their “out and abouts,” which are less structured and more social. It’s a form of after-hours mingling, often at places that serve alcohol.
documents and then inform them on how to register their documents in the State of Arizona. We do all of those steps with people, either in a workshop setting or one-onone,” Tomer said.
An important part of the organization’s mission is making sure elderly LGBT individuals are informed. The organization partners with other agencies, such as the Pima Council on Aging, to educate seniors on topics such as fall prevention.
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recipients. It matters that they have contact. Sometimes, it’s the only contact that they have with the LGBT community,” Tomer
The breakfasts feature a program speaker who will talk for about a half hour educating those present on either something related to business or LGBT advocacy.
The organization is looking for volunteers of different ages to help with office administration, programs and events. Those interested can inquire at upcoming events or on the organization’s website.
for our trans siblings as well as the BIPOC community…doing the work we need to do to make it a safe space for everybody.”
“Networking on its own, for an introvert, is just hard because it’s like, ‘Oh, what do I do? Do I interrupt that group? Do I talk to them? Oh, God, I don’t know anybody,’” Minot says. “So, we put a lot of effort into creating an agenda and some structure that will make as many people feel as safe as possible as fast as possible.”
At a recent meeting, everyone was asked, “What’s something that you could just talk off the cuff about for 2 straight minutes?” It was designed as a glimpse into what they were passionate about.
“Sometimes we all just need to have a beautiful human story told to us so that we leave feeling uplifted,” Minot said. “Sometimes it touches the heart. We try and do the balancing act of not too super business-y and boring, it’s not too downyour-throat advocacy. It’s not always going to make you cry, but there’s a little bit of that sprinkled in.”
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After the speaker, they have small-group
Minot said they start the small groups by practicing sharing their pronouns as not everyone is yet comfortable with that.
which Minot finds important. Something she learned in Texas was that if she gave people the opportunity to get to know her, it changed their minds about some of the preconceived notions that they had about LGBT
“Onepeople.ofthe things that’s cool about the breakfasts, and that I’m personally really passionate about, is giving that space for allies to practice being around queer folk, for cisgender people to practice using pronouns and everybody doing the work of inclusion,” Minot said.
“Theysaid.may have been out all of their lives, have had friends and met people, but now they are vulnerable. They can’t get out and may have lost their partners or lost some of their friends, and they really need support from our community,” Bolinger added.Through the senior pride organization’s Advanced Medical Care Planning program, adults 18 and older can get assistance with documents such as powers of attorney and living wills.
“We educate them about why it’s important. We provide the documents, explain the documents, can even witness the
Minot said the organization’s meat and potatoes event is the monthly breakfast — billed as “the most important meal of the month.”Asaleader of the chamber, Minot said she’s made some changes to the trademark event, in part because she’s an introvert in charge of a networking organization.
“If we can give people that space to practice so that they are a little bit more experienced by the time they are interacting with somebody to whom it’s deeply important and a matter of identity, that is worthy work. I’m proud to be involved with doing that.”
breakouts, something they found was effective when they were having to do the breakfast on Zoom during the pandemic. People group with others elsewhere in the room and discuss their business.
They introduce who they are and what they do for a living and make connections with eachTheother.chamber has been inviting allies to get to know the LGBT community,
Their advocacy committee is attempting to focus on the issues they really want to champion.Second, she wants to hire an executive director as membership grows. The cham ber is made up of all volunteers, except for one part-time administrator. It was an idea inspired by a visit to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce confer ence this Sometimesyear. she encounters people who ask why a LGBT Chamber of Commerce needs to exist — why the members can’t just belong to other chambers of com merce. In response, Minot shares some facts.“LGBT businesses bring $1.7 trillion to the U.S. economy,” Minot said. “Today’s youth identify increasingly as somewhere on the LGBTQI+ spectrum.”
“It usually brings out a slightly different crowd,” Minot said. “We have our morning people and our evening people. There’s a little bit of overlap, but not much. Every body just gets to unwind together.”
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Another activity is a program they call the coffee club. Minot said, by default, ev eryone is enrolled, but they can unenroll.
The Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosts a slew of events annually and will make an appearance at the Tucson Pride Festival on Oct. 1. (Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce/Submitted)
Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce
Minot has two goals
And discrimination still exists. As re
cently as 2020, when Minot and her wife were trying to buy a house, they were turned down because — they and their straight Realtor believes — they were two women. So they started using her wife’s middle name, which was more androgy nous.“There is very much still a need to edu cate people about why LGBTQIA+ folks are just normal people not worthy of scorn, hatred and discrimination,” she said.
— advocacy and creating a paid executive director staff position.
Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce volunteers say they believe there is still a need to educate people about why LGBTQIA+ folks are “just normal people not worthy of scorn, hatred and discrimination.” (Tucson LGBT Chamber of Commerce/Submitted)
Each member gets paired up with another member. Every month they send out the pairings and encourage them to meet up, do something fun together and get to know each“It’sother.one-on-one get-to-know-you time,” Minot says. “We say coffee club, but it’s whatever you want to do. You could go bowling for all we care.”
Whenever a chamber member has something going on or if there are events in the LGBTQ+ community, they put that in their Instagram sto ries and try to interact a lot. Their Instagram has grown this year from 200 to 1,200 followers.
https://tucsonlgbtchamber.org/
In 2022, they have been emphasizing so cial media, recognizing that millennials are on In stagram and moving into decision-making posi tions at companies. They maintain their Facebook for older folks and try to do a lot of cross-posting.
“In my book, inclusive business is the best business — the only business, because it’s going to be on the right side of histo ry. It’s going to be inclusive of all and I’m really glad that we’re helping make that happen.”
“Let me say first, I’m delighted by the path that we’re on,” Minot said. “I think that we’re doing some beautiful work. We’re in the process of figuring out what is our North Star in terms of our advoca cy efforts. What is the thing that we can come back to that really guides us? We all care very much about everything and ev erybody and if you’re not careful, you can lose your messaging.”
“You can make the business case for it. If you can’t be on board with the human case of we’re all just people here and it’s the right thing to do, then the business case is we exist and we’re going to continue to exist forever and we bring so much to the U.S.Parteconomy.”oftheirtagline, she said, is that in clusive business is good business. It’s part of what they are trying to promote and the message that they want to share.
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After the AIDSWALK, Vallery said High Wire at 14 S. Arizona Avenue, is hosting a brunch. Desert Diamond Casinos is the title“Wesponsor.areso proud to be partnering again with our title sponsor Desert Diamond Casinos,” Vallery said. “They have been such a longtime supporter of AIDSWALK, for decades.”SAAF’s mission is to promote health,
WHERE: Jacome Plaza Park, 101 N. Stone Avenue, Tucson
“We have never missed a walk, even if we had to do a virtual type of walk,” she
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day of Tucson Meet Yourself, which runs from Friday, Oct. 7, to Sunday, Oct. 9.
The first AIDSWALK was in 1988 and has been running annually.
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5. Participants start their walk at AIDSWALK 2021.
“For the three days of Tucson Meet Yourself festival, we get to be doing outreach and education as part of the festival,” she“Thatsaid.is so important to help continue to educate and connect with the community that’s attending TMY and for TMY to give us such a platform to recognize true community partnership, it’s crucial.”
said, referencing the 2020 event.
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onique Vallery of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation is proud of the community’s support.
Vallery said SAAF’s goal this year is to raise $100,000 for the AIDSWALK.
AIDSWALK is a family- and pet-friendly walking (or running) fundraiser scheduled to increase awareness and support for people living with or affected by HIV/ AIDS.Registration is open via its website, https://bit.ly/TucsonAIDSWALK. Participants can also sign up starting at 7 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 9; a fun run follows at 7:30 a.m., with the opening ceremony at 8 a.m. The walk/run starts at 9 a.m. and the Reading of the Names Quilt Ceremony is at 10 a.m.Quilt panels from the Tucson AIDS Quilt and the National Names Project Foundation will be on display.
This year’s AIDSWALK is 7 to 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at Jacome Plaza Park at 101 N. Stone Avenue. It is a highlight of the last
2. AIDSWALK Tucson participants are welcome to bring their dogs.
“And all of the money that we raise stays here,” she said. “Locally, for our programs and support and services; and we are really proud of that. So, the money we raise is going right back into our community here.”
6. Volunteers and participants prepare the quilts for display at the Reading of the Names Quilts Ceremony 2021.
AIDSWALK Tucson 2021 (See Right)
“We still honored that day, and we did a drive thru AIDSWALK at the height of the pandemic. It was different, but we still did it. And we are proud of that.”
1. Mayor Regina Romero joins last year’s AIDSWALK.
“We are so proud of the support that we have from the community. And the fact that we are able to keep walking, 34 years later, and we’re still walking, and we will continue to walk.”
“This year is going to be the 34th annual AIDSWALK. It’s now one of the oldest walks in Tucson,” said Vallery, SAAF’s director of development.
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3. Young walkers carry signs and encourage others to
WHEN: 7 to 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 9
This is the ninth year SAAF is partnering with“ToTMY.hold space with TMY, for me it is just phenomenal,” Vallery said. “For our agency to again, really get to outreach, educate…we will have our 25 local AIDS memorial panels on display all that weekend.”
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
AIDSWALK Tucson
375 S. Euclid Avenue, Tucson 8520-628-7223a.m.to5p.m. Monday to Friday
Last year, the organization raised approximately $80,000 with 200 participants and volunteers participating in its AIDSWALK Tucson.
well-being and social justice for those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ individuals and communities marginalized by society. Recently, it launched its telehealth program and will soon open the doors to its free brick-and-mortar health clinic.
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show was that Frankenfield left before the audience could give him a standing ovation.While the story is about a minister and he talks about his relationship with God, Trout said that it is not at all a religious story, which is why it can appeal to people regardless of their faith.
Frankenfield plays the role of Samuel, a former minister who is now the church’s groundskeeper. He tells a story of his life’s journey, from hearing God’s call to the ministry, to the death of nine children in a bus crash and the birth of his daughter Ariel, who has a rare genetic disorder that causes her to grow golden hair all over her body.
It’s something she hopes Tucson folks will make it to before Live Theatre closes out its
For her, the right actor is Stephen Frankenfield because he is, she said, a gifted comic actor. This script demands some-
Samuel starts the play by saying there are three experiences that have shaped his personal idea of God, but he is not trying to change anyone else’s idea.
“There’s an element of the story that is about exploring whether a person wants a relationship with a higher power, and if so, what their personal idea of a higher power is and what solace they do or do not gain from that relationship with a higher power,” Trout said. “But it is certainly not a commentary on religion, on organized religion, on the church, on God. It is not directive about religion in any way, shape or form.”
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Trout said this show has one of her favorite sets in 17 years of running the theater. She said it is gorgeous, huge, beautiful and has a very high production value. The set was designed and built by Marli Ray, who is in his final semester at the UA and is a technical director for Arizona Repertory Theater.
LIVE THEATRE’S ONE-MAN SHOW REFLECTS ON BIG IDEAS
that life has some pretty big questions, and the answers aren’t always easy to find.So, they’re closing out their 2021-2022 season with “An Almost Holy Picture” on their main stage. Running through Oct. 8, the one-man play by Heather McDonald explores ideas of faith, humanity, growth andIt’ssuffering.aplaythat director Sabian Trout has wanted to do since she saw Kevin Bacon in it in 2002. Also the Live Theatre artistic director, Trout said she was waiting for right time and actor to be available.
“I think it’s part of why the play has not been produced, or if it has been produced,
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“He really leans into the parts of the story that are relatable, that are light-hearted, that make the show — I won’t say funny, because I don’t think it’s a funny piece — but what makes the show accessible and affirming as opposed to watching someone struggle with some difficult things that happened in their life. Instead, he narrates the story in a way that makes you cheer for him,” Trout said.She said he is not showing the events of the past, he’s telling them as a story, directly connecting with the audience.
On opening night, the director said the audience was intensely engaged in the play. She sat in the back and watched as people were on the edge of their seats, mesmerized the whole times.
“You’llseason.walk out feeling uplifted,” Trout said. “It’s just a really exciting, dynamic, engaging, uplifting, affirming 85 minutes in the theater.”
At this production, she said the audience did not move for 85 minutes. The only complaint she received after the
In switching vocations, Samuel goes from tending people to tending a garden.
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Rather than call it “meditative,” Trout preferred to say extremely dynamic. She’s pleased with what Frankenfield has done with the role.
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While others have described this play as meditative, Trout warned that producing the piece that way is a trap and misses much of the beauty of the play.
Stephen Frankenfield’s Samuel shares the story of what has shaped his life and relationships. (RYAN FAGAN/LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP)
“If someone takes the approach with this play that it is heavy, that it is reflective, that it is cathartic, it doesn’t really sizzle the way it can. The story doesn’t really come to life and become resonant to its full potential.”
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I would say not fully realized in the past — even in the Broadway production that I saw,” Trout said.
one who can find comic deliveries in what is often very serious and sometimes heart-renching material.
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the leading purveyors of the slam genre, New York death metal act Pyrexia unleash the cataclysmic fury of “Gravitas Maximus” at The Rock… Rising from a nanoscopic subterranean rehearsal space to playing the mainstage at Dusk Music Festival in 2021, The Basements — five Theta Delta Chi frat brothers from the UA — along with Bummer Girl, Kulululu and Rosemonte, are part of The Back to Toole Show at 191 Toole… Including members of The Flaming Lips, “retro-futurist dream rockers” Spaceface harness “the transcendent pulse of the spacetime continuum into catchy songs that twist and stretch.” The band’s 2022 release “Anemoia,” charged by the Sun, shines like “a glow-in-the-dark Slime Science Lab kit.” Spaceface — along with rising alt-folk outfit Soda Sun — bend time and space at Club Congress… Latin-fusion specialists Santa Pachita is at Chicago Bar… Led by guitarist Steve Shell, veteran rockers Shell Shock keep the classics alive at Monterey Court…
& The Peacemakers bring their trademark mariachi horn-laden sound to the Rialto Theatre. Special guests Desert Fish add a touch of reggae-rock to the fiesta… Akin to a shaman-led ayahuasca ceremony, traversing a surreal desert landscape, since the band’s first EP, “Shift and Shadow,” XIXA have been on a mystic quest to decipher the mysteries of an unwritten language. The band’s latest LP “Genesis” delves into the age-old battle between good and evil. “That’s a thematic cloud throughout the entire album and surely a relevant topic in today’s current affairs,” said co-frontman Brian Lopez. “I get out into the desert and it’s insane and prickly and fierce. There’s beauty to it. But it’s bleak out there, and ruthless.
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Dubbed “The Springsteen of the Southwest,” in 2019, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers joined legends Alice Cooper, Linda Ronstadt, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Stevie Nicks and Waylon Jennings when they were inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. Heady stuff, to be sure. But just what was Clyne’s early motivation to pursue a career in music? “It was to meet girls,” Clyne said. He used his experience performing in the school choir to land the gig. Moreover, he found something else. “I stood in front of a microphone and went, ‘Wow, this is a new kind of power.’” At that moment a metamorphosis took place. Straddling the fence, with one dusty Converse sneaker smeared with the grime of rock ‘n’ roll, while the other remains stuck on the sharp leaf-tip spines of an agave plant, Roger Clyne
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rock, cowboy folk and windswept desert blues” at The Century Room… Fronted by firebrand vocalist Connie Brannock, Lil’ House of Blues stoke the fire for the latest installment of the Congress Cookout on the Hotel Congress plaza… Performing a repertoire of original country with a melancholic twang and a handful of old school anguished covers, singer-songwriter Little Cat purrs and yowls in a twilight serenade on the patio at Che’s Lounge…
On a mission to bring the studio recordings of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin to life once again on the concert stage, Get the Led Out: A celebration of “The Mighty Zep” is at the Fox Tucson Theatre… Copping their name from the title of a Clive Barker novel, Canadian darkwave ensemble The Birthday Massacre incorporate elements of electronica, goth and new wave into their ambient sound. They present their post-lockdown release “Fascination” at Encore. Openers LA electro-rock outfit Dead Posey rail against the establishment… In a special acoustic performance, XIXA perform two sets of “psych-rock, cumbia, goth
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I think about the music we’re making like that.” Like a desperado from a Robert Rodriguez film charging with two handguns ablaze, Tucson’s own mystic cumbia rockeros XIXA perform on the plaza at Hotel Congress… After slogging through the trenches of the Tucson music scene for over 40 years — casting aside desert rock tropes — honkytonk/ hard country-blues provocateur Hank Topless & The Dead Horsemen are still making music their way on the patio at Che’s Lounge… The jazz guitar-driven sounds of the Ed DeLucia Quartet lead the descent into the Late Night at The Century Room… Absorbing the musical influences of German immigrants, polka, Spanish missionaries and Mexican norteño music, waila — also known as “chicken scratch” — originated with the Tohono O’odham people. Gertie and the T.O. Boyz will have you dancing for Oktoberfest: A Sonoran-style beer festival at MotoSonora Brewing Company…
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Foregoing his usual high-octane parodies — no costumes, no props, no video screens — for his latest tour “Weird Al” Yankovic, instead, is selecting original pieces from his 14-album catalog. Songs that have largely escaped the pop culture radar. “Weird Al” Yankovic comes around again with “The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour” to the Fox Tucson Theatre… Following in the footsteps of the real Queen — whose first public shows were held at London University — Killer Queen made its debut on the same stage decades later. Lead singer Patrick Myers reflected, “We thought our band would last maybe a summer at the most.” But as the concerts grew and grew they ended up selling out the same arenas that Queen played at their zenith. “It’s been quite a surreal ride.” Killer Queen: A tribute to Queen is at the Rialto Theatre… This musician, artist, composer and producer has spent her adult life perfecting her unique cocktail of jazz-tinged pop, folk and orchestral rock. Now, Katie Haverly debuts a new piano project at The Century Room… What began as the musical fumblings of a 14-year-old tinkering with GarageBand on his iPhone, morphed into a real band as other like-minded musicians fell into place. On “Flower Moon” — rife with throwback drum machine beats and synth-pop grooves — the Dallas indie rockers reflect on past regrets and daydreams about future possibilities. “It feels like we’re taking part in a blissed-out night of conversation among friends.” Luna Luna is at Club Congress… Flowing in on a saccharine stream of “Watermelon Sugar,” DJ/musician Miss Abysmal spins eclectic selections — funk, soul and rock with sprinkles of new
Living blues titans, guitarist Elvin Bishop — a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band — and harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite — who paid his dues in South Side Chicago clubs working with Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Big Joe Williams and John Lee Hooker — are out on the road performing music from “100 Years of Blues.” This first collaborative project represents blues at its deepest and most compelling. The Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite Duo are at the Fox Tucson Theatre… “Diatribist, confessor, provocateur, humorist, even motivational speaker,” punk rock icon Henry Rollins presents “Good to See You,” a spoken word tour, at the Rialto Theatre… Their sound defies categorization. Frontman Keith Roberts explains, “The sound was intended to be a hybrid because we all come from different backgrounds.” To an extent, the Young Dubliners can be seen as Ireland’s answer to Los Lobos, with a similar mix of traditional acoustic folk music, raucous electrified rock ‘n’ roll and a penchant for blurring the lines. Two of their songs — “Caroline” and “(I Don’t Think I’ll) Love Anymore” — have been featured in the biker noir series “Sons of Anarchy.” “Sinners and Saints,” the Young Dubliners wrestle with moral dualism at 191 Toole… Erik Alejandro Iglesias Rodríguez, known professionally as Cimafunk, is a Cuban musician known for mixing funk and hip-hop with Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music. On a quest to create “One Nation Under a Groove,” Cimafunk became a household name in Cuba with his 2018 hit “Me Voy.” Subsequently, he was christened “Artist of the Year” by Vistar Magazine. Recognizing Black music’s power to eclipse borders and cross-pollinate, Cimafunk has created something special, not only musically, but culturally, by redefining contemporary Cuban music as well as Afro-Latin identity and the fusion of Black cultures. Parliament’s George Clinton said, “He is the one, the next one.” KXCI, Arizona Arts Live and Best Life present Cimafunk. He brings “El Alimento,” his monumental sophomore release, to the Hotel Congress plaza…
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“We’re performing community service at this point, at least in theory,” Sun Valley Health co-founder and CEO Dustin Klein said. “We might as well be a nonprofit.”
RECREATIONAL CANNABIS SOARS, MEDICAL MARIJUANA STRUGGLES
During its heyday in the years after voters passed the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act in 2010, the number of “qualifying patients” in the state reached more than 295,000 by the end of 2020.
The seeds of the decline of the medical marijuana program began in June 2019, when Gov. Doug Ducey signed Senate Bill 1494 into law. Among other things, SB1494 was intended to streamline the certification process by creating an electronic card system and lowering patient costs by extending the life of a card to two years.In2020, the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown led to record sales — Arizonans purchased nearly 106 tons of various forms of medicinal cannabis, a significant increase from 2019, which weighed in at almost 83 tons — and a boon for the retail end of the business.ButCOVID-19 proved to be both a blessing and a curse to the cannabis business. On the positive side, for several months during the shutdown, sales spiked in the waning days before recreational sales began. But the pandemic also kept many winter residents away, leading to an additional loss of revenue for the certification businesses serving transient populations.
business has had to deal with economic and legislative dynamics beyond its control, leaving dispensary owners seeking ways to strengthen the flagging sector.
Since that time, the number of people applying for new medical marijuana cards or renewing previously issued cards has
What Betweenhappened?2012,when ADHS authorized the first dispensaries and patients were legally able to purchase medical marijuana, and 2019, the Arizona medical marijuana market blossomed and grew quickly. Patients were required to renew certifications for $75 to $150 annually, and doctors charged additional fees, generally in the same price range.
The first Arizona effort to legalize recreational marijuana, 2016’s Proposition 205, was narrowly defeated at the polls, leaving the market stable. But voters in 2020 overwhelmingly approved Proposition 207, the Smart and Safe Arizona Act, making Arizona one of 15 states, two territories and Washington, D.C. to legalize marijuana for recreational use. (Adult-use, recreational is now legal in 18 states and the District of Columbia and medical marijuana is legal in 36 states.)
fallen nearly by half: In its latest monthly report, the Arizona Department of Health Services shows just 158,154 active cards.
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ARIZONA’S COMMERCIAL MARIJUANA market has gone through a seismic shift since 2021 began. Adult-use and recreational sales have overtaken medical marijuana, as cardholders abandon certifications and established businesses wrestle with the need to change with the times.
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Recreational sales began on Jan. 28, 2021. Though recreational sales didn’t im-
Throughout 2022, the Arizona Mirror has tracked a 7-month downward trend in medical marijuana sales, while the recreational market continues to set records.
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mediately overtake the established medi cal market, they had done so by Decem ber — and they haven’t looked back since.
Taryn Tia, the Arizona operation man ager for Dr. Reeferalz, said the company was seeing 25 to 40 new or returning pa tients a day at each of its five clinics at the height of the medical marijuana market. That number dropped to about 15.
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According to Klein, medical patients spend 30-50% more than recreational cus tomers. Medical patients average $3,500 a
year, while recreational customers spend an average of about $2,000.
“I probably spent a total of $300, not more than $350 that entire first year,” he said. “It cost me $150 to spend that amount of money. I did renew the second year and got to checking and thought, ‘What am I doingKnowles,here?’”who received his card for chronic pain, learned a lot about the program from the employees at Hana Dispensary and settled on low-dosage gummies. He appreciated having his card when recreational became legal be
He said there has been a 30-50% drop in revenues for certification businesses since 2020.
Dr. Reeferalz has a calculator on its website that estimates how much medical patients can save over recreational costs, given the higher taxes paid by the latter.
“It helps being able to understand if it’s worth it,” Tia said. “If you’re not spending that much a week, you don’t need delivery, you don’t care about any of that, then it makes sense to buy recreational.”
Medical marijuana patients can grow up to 12 plants, but without a card, per sons 21 years of age and older can grow six plants per adult in an individual’s pri mary
Green Valley resident and former med ical cardholder Greg Knowles first got a card in December 2018, but recently let it expire because he does not purchase enough to make it worth his while.
At one point, according to Klein, Sun Valley certified 30,000 medical marijuana patients in Arizona — nearly one in every four who got a medical marijuana card — per year at its five locations.
EFFECTS ON THE CERTIFICATION BUSINESS
Over the course of 100 days, everything changed for Sun Valley Health.
Dr. Reeferalz now has four clinics, three in the Phoenix area and one in Tucson.“Weprobably saw a 35% to 45% decrease in busi ness between the start of two-year cards and the start of recreational sales,” she said. “But we’ve seen an increase in 2022 since thatThedip.”increase has come from a concerted effort to reach out to renewal pa tients and partnering with dispensaries and pain clin ics for Therereferrals.hasalso been an increase in certifications for 18 to 21 year olds, since adult-use is only legal for those over the age of 21.
Medicinal products have a state sales tax rate of 6.6%, with an additional 2% to 3% local tax, depending on the jurisdic tion. Recreational sales are charged a 16% excise tax plus the TPT and local taxes, meaning the average recreational canna bis user can pay up to 25% in taxes.
Cardholders in the medical marijuana program enjoy many benefits not availa ble to recreational users. They pay lower taxes on cannabis, can possess more mar ijuana, have legal protections in housing and employment, can grow more canna bis at home and have legal access to athomeMedicaldelivery.patients can possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis “flower,” while recrea tional users are limited to one ounce and five grams of concentrates or extracts. Ed ible products, such as gummies, are limit ed to 10mg THC per serving and 100mg packages for recreational, but medical pa tients can purchase products with much higher THC dosages.
While there are likely many reasons for patients to leave the program, the cost of certifications and the added inconven ience of the process have been cited.
It all came crashing down for Sun Val ley. The company is down to just a single Arizona location. On the worst day, Klein said he had to lay off 43 employees, some of whom had been with the business for more than five years.
She also believes the novelty of legal pur chases has worn off.
“A lot of our patients were discouraged by long waits [at retail outlets], low-dos age products and high taxes,” Tia said.
While some have been able to weather the storm, Sun Valley Health has strug gled. The company at its height had eight locations in three states — Arizona, Ne vada and Florida — had 66 employees, including 22 doctors, and a $2.2 million annual payroll.
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In an attempt to revitalize the business, Sun Valley has added new services such as ketamine therapy, as well as other alter native therapies such as naturopathy and chiropractic.Notallcertification centers have suf fered as badly as Sun Valley, though.
But one of the most important aspects to reviving the certification business for Dr. Reeferalz is educating patients on the benefits of possessing a medical card. Benefits of the medical program
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He “got his calculator out” and decided he would have to buy at least $1,000 of marijuana a year in order to justify keep ing his card.
draws to maintain ing a medical card, though, is savings on commercially available marijuana.
“The savings is unbelievable: If a pa tient spends $77 a month, the card pays for itself,” he said.
CARDHOLDERS CITE COSTS, INCONVENIENCE AS REASONS FOR LEAVING THE PROGRAM
cause of the initial lines and wait times for service, but said now that “the shine has worn off” of legal sales, he doesn’t have to invest so much time anymore.
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“We’re making some slight changes (because) we’re seeing it not only on our retail side, as far as people coming in our store, but it’s also what’s being purchased (from) PURE throughout the state,” he said. “We’re absolutely seeing it and making some adjustments to our product portfolio moving forward.”
“I don’t think the medical program will go away and we’re going to do everything we can to not only keep it, but strengthen it,” he said. “There’s certainly some goals in line with (AZNORML) on trying to strengthen the program and get numbers backUdellup.”said
Hermansky, his brother Brandon and partner Doug Daly, opened in June 2013 as Greenhouse of Flagstaff and is one of the remaining original licensees in the state.“We’re very aware of these declining numbers happening, I think, far faster than anybody expected,” he said. “Now
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As to the long-term costs, Udell said it is easier to think more immediately, even if over time recreational purchases end up costing more, but it is in the patient’s best economic interest to remain in the program.“Human nature is that we value immediate costs more than we value distant costs,” he said. “If I spend $80 at the dispensary, I pay $12 in taxes—$12 is a lot less than $300, so I’m gonna pay less money, right? Then we discount the fact that, every single month, we’ll be paying $12 or more than. I’m guilty of that as well.”
it is in dispensary owners’ best interests to shore up the medical program and welcomes conversations that can accommodate more consumer-friendly laws and ultimately lower prices for patients and recreational users alike.“This is a very big concern of many people who are either industry adjacent, or CEOs of dispensaries,” he said. “It’s in their own economic self-interest to expand the medical program, and there’s been a variety of interesting conversations that have been happening.”
Arizona NORML acting Executive Director Jon Udell said he has procrastinated getting his medical certification renewed because of the time involved and the easy availability of recreational cannabis.“Ihave strong support for the medical marijuana program,” he said. “But for me, there’s no certification centers close by: The closest one is like 45 (minutes) to an hour-long round trip. That’s a significant chunk of my day.”
Ryan Hermansky, founder of Flagstaff’s Noble Herb dispensary, PURE Edibles and president of the Arizona Dispensary Association has seen many sides of the economic dynamics play out over his nine years in the industry. Dispensary owners, he said, are aware of the need to maintain a strong medical market.
“People are finding the same thing that I found out, that it’s an absolute rip-off,” he said. “I can go in there as a private citizen, buy what I need, pay the 24%, but I’m never going to reach that threshold to breakInconvenienceeven.” can be another reason people are walking away from the program, or at least delaying renewal.
He said that higher-dosage products have become something of a niche market, but he is convinced the need for medical-grade products will always be there.
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The company intends to roll out a new product in the fourth quarter of 2022 that will be 10mg in 100mg packages, the maximums allowed for recreational sales.
Hermansky added that the Arizona Dispensary Association is strategizing and reaching out to potential partners, including AZNORML, to find a way to revitalize the sector.
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there’s going to be a big focus on what we can do to strengthen the program and keep it strong in Arizona. We’re all founded off of a strong medical program and I think as we move forward as a marijuana state, it’s important to have a strong medical program as well as a strong adult use program.”Despite his belief in the medical program, Hermansky’s PURE edibles has begun to tailor its products to the recreational market by focusing on low-dose gummies, as are other edible producers in the state.
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PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) In a poem to a lover, Pablo Neruda wrote, “At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined.” I suspect you Pisceans could have similar deepen ing and interweaving experiences some time soon—not only with a lover but with any treasured person or animal you long to be even closer to than you already are. Now is a time to seek more robust and resilient intimacy.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) In 1946, medical professionals in the UK estab lished the Common Cold Unit. Its goal was to discover practical treatments for the familiar viral infection known as the cold. Over the next 43 years, until it was shut down, the agency produced just one useful innovation: zinc gluconate lozeng es. This treatment reduces the severity and length of a cold if taken within 24 hours of onset. So the results of all that research were modest, but they were also much better than nothing. During the coming weeks, you may experience com parable phenomena, Taurus: less spec tacular outcomes than you might wish, but still very worthwhile.
you the credibility to make even better mistakes in the future.) 5. Inspire other people to love being themselves and not want to be like you.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Cap ricorn poet William Stafford wrote, “Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing.” Those ideas are always true, of course, but I think it’s especially crucial that you heed them in the coming weeks. In my oracular opinion, you need to build your personal power right now. An im portant way to do that is by being dis criminating about what you take in and put out. For best results, speak your truths as often and as clearly as possible. And do all you can to avoid exposing yourself to trivial and delusional “truths” that are really just opinions or misinformation.
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proud as you teeter charismatically on the fence. Relish the power that comes from being in between. 2. Act as vividly congenial and staunchly beautiful as you dare. 3. Experiment with making artful arrangements of pretty much everything you are part of. 4. Flatter others sincerely. Use praise as one of your secret powers. 5. Cultivate an open-minded skepticism that blends discernment and curiosity. 6. Plot and scheme in behalf of harmony, but never kiss ass.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Tips for mak ing the most of the next three weeks: 1. Be
animals and wrapped in soft, thick blankets with images of bunnies and dolphins on them. Your head phones are on, and the songs pouring into your cozy awareness are silky smooth tonics that rouse sweet memories of all the times you felt most wanted and most at home in the world. I think I see a cup of hot chocolate on your bedstand, too, and your favorite dessert. Got all that, fellow Cancerian? In the coming days and nights, I suggest you enjoy an abun dance of experiences akin to what I’ve described here.
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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) “Love your mistakes and foibles,” Virgo astrologer William Sebrans advises his fellow Vir gos. “They aren’t going away. And it’s your calling in life—some would say a superpower—to home in on them and fi nesse them. Why? Because you may be able to fix them or at least improve them with panache—for your benefit and the welfare of those you love.” While this counsel is always relevant for you, dear Virgo, it will be especially so in the com ing weeks.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) Poet Mary Oliver wrote, “There is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eter nity.” During the coming weeks, Scorpio, I will be cheering for the ascendancy of that self in you. More than usual, you need to commune with fantastic truths and transcendent joys. To be in maxi mum alignment with the good fortune that life has prepared for you, you must give your loving attention to the highest and noblest visions of your personal des tiny that you can imagine.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) Here’s a sce nario that could be both an invigorating metaphor and a literal event. Put on roll erblades. Get out onto a long flat sur face. Build up a comfortable speed. Fill your lungs with the elixir of life. Praise the sun and the wind. Sing your favor ite songs. Swing your arms all the way forward and all the way back. Forward: power. Backward: power. Glide and coast and flow with sheer joy. Cruise along with confidence in the instinctive skill of your beautiful body. Evaporate thoughts. Free yourself of every concern and every idea. Keep rambling until you feel spacious and vast.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) I’m getting a psychic vision of you cuddled up in your warm bed, surrounded by stuffed
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) Even when your courage has a touch of foolhardi ness, even when your quest for adven ture makes you a bit reckless, you can be resourceful enough to avoid dicey consequences. Maybe more than any other sign of the zodiac, you periodically outfox karma. But in the coming weeks, I will nevertheless counsel you not to barge into situations where rash bold ness might lead to wrong moves. Please do not flirt with escapades that could turn into chancy gambles. At least for the foreseeable future, I hope you will be pru dent and cagey in your quest for interest ing and educational fun.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) For 15 years, Leo cartoonist Gary Larson created The Far Side, a hilarious comic strip featuring intelligent talking animals. It was syn dicated in more than 1,900 newspapers. But like all of us, he has had failures, too. In one of his books, Larson describes the most disappointing event in his life. He was eating a meal in the same dining area as a famous cartoonist he admired, Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family. Larson felt a strong urge to go over and introduce himself to Addams. But he was too shy and tongue-tied to do so. Don’t be like Larson in the com ing weeks, dear Leo. Reach out and con nect with receptive people you’d love to communicate with. Make the first move in contacting someone who could be important to you in the future. Be bold in seeking new links and affiliations. Al ways be respectful, of course.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Use your imagination to make every thing seem fascinating and wonderful. 2. When you give advice to others, be sure to listen to it yourself. 3. Move away from having a rigid conception of yourself and move toward having a fluid fantasy about yourself. 4. Be the first to laugh at and correct your own mistakes. (It’ll give
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) You are an extra authentic Aquarius if people say that you get yourself into the weird est, most interesting trouble they’ve ever seen. You are an ultra-genuine Aquarius if people follow the twists and pivots of your life as they would a soap opera. And I suspect you will fulfill these potentials to the max in the coming weeks. The up coming chapter of your life story might be as entertaining as any you have had in years. Luckily, imminent events are also likely to bring you soulful lessons that make you wiser and wilder. I’m excited to see what happens!
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