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WRAPPING UP THE MIDTERM ELECTION COVERAGE
By Tom Danehy
NOW THAT IT’S OVER, A FEW final words on the election:
During the presidential election of 1988, there was a skit on “Saturday Night Live” about a debate between the two candidates — Democratic Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis and sit ting Vice President George H.W. Bush.
As the guy playing Bush was bumbling and mumbling and spouting nonsense, the guy playing Dukakis looked into the camera and said, “How am I losing to this guy?”
I have no doubt that Oath Keepers and Trumplickers and Professional Radio Rednecks are positively shocked to learn
that there are more of us than there are of them. They probably go to bed at night thinking, “How in the world could some body not vote for Mark Finchem? His fas cist bona fides are impeccable and if he were secretary of state, people in Arizona wouldn’t even have to waste time voting anymore.”
But incredulity is not an acceptable ex cuse for insurrection.
Back in the early 1970s, noted tax cheat Spiro T. Agnew was the U.S. vice presi dent. Some intrepid paparazzo took a photo of Agnew digging in his nose. The photo became a popular poster in college dorm rooms — buffoonish booger-pick ing Agnew with the giant caption “Keep Nixon Alive!”
Along those same lines, I sincerely
hope that Donald Trump continues to stomp around in the American politi cal garden, crushing fragile sprouts and Republican dreams as he goes. It truly sucks that our nation had to endure his four years of racist nonsense in the White House. At least now, we can recoup some of our national dignity as he thrashes about in an ever-increasingly desperate attempt to remain relevant.
Let’s hope he continues to squash all opposition in his quest for the Republi can presidential nomination and keeps on hand-picking really terrible candi dates to run for governor or the senate in a variety of states. Seriously, just about any reasonable Republican could have
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A MUSICAL COUNSELOR
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski Tucson Weekly Executive Editor
Following in the footsteps of his late father, reggae DJ Papa Ranger, Jahmar Anthony has an affinity for music and education.
His Detroit-bred father — known as Tucson’s first reggae DJ — also shared with him his Midwestern work ethic.
“Don’t stop” said Anthony, who spins and produces under DJ Jahmar. “That was the thing with my dad. He said, ‘Jah mar, if you’re going to do this, go harder than anyone else.’”
The plan worked. Anthony has reaped the rewards of his father’s advice, win ning Tucson Weekly’s Best DJ and Best Reggae Artist prizes.
“It’s hard being a Jamaican DJ,” he said. “People want to put you in a box.”
Anthony has fought the stereotypes. Clubs have told him, “Your style isn’t go ing to work here.”
“I’m like, ‘Bro, I play hip-hop, rock, pop, EDM, R&B,’” Anthony recalled. “I have to break that down to them.”
Early years
Anthony was raised in a “real Jamai can household” with high expectations. When Anthony came home from school, his father told him to change his clothes, as it’s disrespectful to play in his school uniform. His father was strict and serious about education.
“That was the one thing he did not play about,” he said.
“We’re Rastafarian. In our culture, cer tain music, like X-rated hip-hop, wouldn’t play in our household. He really believed that words are powerful. When I was growing up, Cardi B would not have been played in my household, for sure.
“It was a real pro-Africa movement in our house. We learned about post-Amer ican slavery, the Black kings and queens, apartheid in South Africa.”
His father schooled him about Booker T. Washington, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. and others who fought similar struggles.
“I guess I was ahead of my peers,” he said. “I am teaching a lot of my peers about these people. For a person who didn’t finish high school, my father was very cultured. He would teach himself what he wanted to know about. He really pushed education.”
Anthony started DJing in clubs at age 15. He ad mitted the first year and a half was hard, with club owners doubting his di versity. He resorted to per forming for free to prove his point.
“I play open format,” he said. “I don’t really have a genre of music that I play. I play to the crowd. It could be country. I just like music. I like music.”
Now 38, Anthony has tried other occupations,
including short-lived stints as a bank tell er and a call center operator. But music won.
“When I’m DJing, sometimes I don’t see the crowd there,” he said. “Every body’s just gone, and it’s me in the music and I’m having a dance. Music makes me happy.”
Opening for acts like Sean Paul, Greg ory Isaac, Snoop Dogg, Jon B., Beenie Man, J. Holiday, Mavado, Fetty Wap, Tory Lanez and Ziggy Marley, DJ Jahmar has become synonymous with Tucson night life. He once served as the DJ for Safaree, formerly of VH1’s “Love and Hip Hop.”
“What I do is not traditional with Tuc son DJs. They’re into beat matching. They don’t engage the crowd. They just play music,” Anthony said.
Meanwhile, Anthony hypes up the crowd, engages them and shares stories.
“At the same time, they fell in love with me as a person and a DJ,” he said. “I’ll have events where I won’t DJ. I have oth er members of my team do it. But (fans) just want to talk to me, take pictures with me, tell me a story. They just want to be around me.”
He gives back, too. Anthony founded Deejays Against Hunger, which aims to help food deprived families who are
homeless. The Tucson mayor dubbed Dec. 21 the official Deejays Against Hun ger Day. Through the charity, he has helped more than 3,000 people.
In his spare time, he mentors children and travels to reservations to donate school supplies and speak about the mu sic business. He has provided more than 1,000 backpacks to students on the Toho no O’odham Reservation.
“I’m nothing without my fans and sup porters,” he said. “People who really be lieve in me, they believe in Jahmar not only as a DJ, but for my charity work.”
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DJ Jahmar Anthony has become synonymous with Tucson nightlife and also is known for his charity work. (PHOTO BY NOELLE HARO-GOMEZ)
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beaten stroke-damaged John Fetter man for the senate in Pennsylvania, but Trump-anointed Mehmet Oz was an ab solute disaster as a candidate. And there was probably only one Republican in the entire state of Arizona who could have lost to Katie Hobbs, and that was the bit ter and eminently unlikeable Kari Lake.
Donald Trump — the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaking of Kari Lake, I heard some mindless woman on the Sean Hannity’s show spouting her own brand of befud dlement when she remarked that it was very curious that, in Arizona, treasurer candidate Kimberly Yee got more votes than Kari Lake. “I mean, that’s kinda sus picious, don’t you think?,” the woman asked of no one in particular.
No, it isn’t at all. Yee is a generic Re publican candidate, someone who a Re publican voter could feel comfortable in voting for. As the campaign went on, Lake became more and more strident, ly ing and belittling people as she fell deep ly in love with the manufactured image of her as Donald Trump in heels.
As I have mentioned, I listen to all the crackpots on the radio — the Trump fe tishists, the white supremacists, the elec tion liars and the anti-vaxxers. Hannity is especially bad. He lies all the time, and he knows he’s lying. He’s supposed to be a good Catholic. At the end of his show each day, he probably goes from the stu dio right into the confessional. He’s prob ably got a priest on retainer.
It’s really too bad that the Cochise County Board of Supervisors caved and certified the election results. It would have been fun watching Juan Ciscomani lose his narrow margin of victory in the race for the seat in the house of represen
tatives when the votes he got in Cochise County were thrown out. You could just hear him. All those years I had to be the “Good Mexican” and suck up to Doug Ducey only to have the rug pulled out from under me by a couple backwater rednecks!
Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby probably envi sioned themselves as heroes, standing strong against the pernicious encroach ment of enlightenment and racial justice (not that either of them would ever use words with that many syllables).
Judd is a real piece of work. She took her grandkids to the Jan. 6 insurrection. “OK, kids, first we’re going to engage in seditious activity as we try to overthrow the American government … and then Meemaw will take you for ice cream.”
The other guy, Crosby, regurgitated ev ery conspiracy theory he had ever heard and made some up of his own, but after the court ordered him to do his damn job, the gutless wonder didn’t even show up to vote. He’ll probably go to his grave proud of the fact that he didn’t do his sworn civic duty. Loser.
It’s just too delicious that Abe Hama deh, the anchor baby son of a guy who was in this country illegally for decades, lost his bid to become the raging border warrior. Keep filing those frivolous law suits, Abe.
Quick question: If Kari Lake had man aged to “find” an extra 20,000 votes, would Wendy Rogers and her on-air sy cophants still be ranting about counting machines and voter fraud?
Word is that Blake Masters is think ing of running against Kyrsten Sinema in 2024. When it comes time to vote in that race, I’ll have to remember to include that extra “e” when I write in Megan Thee Stallion.
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CURRENTS
EXPERT: ECONOMY OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT, NO RECESSION
By Hope Peters Tucson Weekly Staff Writer
DR. CHRISTOPHER
THORNBERG
told an audience of bankers, homebuilders, real estate and other business professionals that there is no recession.
He spoke during the Nov. 9 Tucson Economic Forum, presented by Alliance Bank of Arizona.
“We’re here to talk about Arizona, we’re here to talk about Tucson, we’re here to talk about the economy,” said Thornberg, founder of Beacon Economics. “We’re here to talk about what the hell is going on out there.”
Thornberg, a nationally recognized economist, pointed to media headlines on a big screen.
“It’s pretty dismal,” he said. “If you look at the headlines, Wall Street Journal, their next recession survey (shows) 60% chance of recession in the next year, that’s moderate; this other company, (says) 98% (chance) of global recession.”
He said Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody’s Analytics, “just called a fullblown housing market correction.”
Housing is a big concern in Tucson and Phoenix due to the increase of rents and median home prices seen in both cities.
“The housing market has been another strength of Arizona’s economy over the last two years. However, rising interest
rates and stretched prices have led to a notable slowdown in 2022,” according to Alliance Bank of Arizona.
“Within this context, home prices in Arizona continue to increase rapidly. From July 2021 to July 2022, the median home price rose 21.2% in Phoenix, reaching $480,567. In Tucson, median home prices rose to $347,157 in July 2022, a 17.6% increase from a year earlier.” For Tucson and Phoenix, home prices “grew at a faster pace than the United States, where median prices rose by 13% over the same period.”
Also, as seen in this chart, the demand for apartments in both Tucson and Phoenix has surged.
In Phoenix, the apartment vacancy rate fell to 4.2%, a 1.0 percentage point decline from last year. Vacancy rates for apartments in Tucson saw a decline at 3.7%, rates are down 0.2 percentage points from a year earlier.
“In addition, the average asking rent grew by 21% in Phoenix and by 26.2% in Tucson,” Alliance Bank noted. The pace of growth puts Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas ahead of the 16.7% growth seen across the United States.
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However, despite significant price appreciation over the last year, average asking rents in Tucson is $1,152 and rent cost on average is $1,494 in Phoenix. However, Tucson and Phoenix rents are still lower compared to the U.S. average of $1,724.
“Construction permit activity has also slightly increased over the last year in Arizona. During the first eight months of 2022, residential permitting activity in Arizona is up 0.7% over the same period in 2021.” It is noted, the “growth is being fueled by a 28.6% increase in multi-family permitting and slightly offset by a 9.1% decrease in single-family permitting.
“Some of this I can kind of get. It’s been an odd year so far,” Thornberg said. “First half of the year the economy contracted, consumer confidence is going down pretty dramatically.”
Thornberg said immediately after the first half of the year, newspaper reporters were saying, two quarters of negative growth, is a recession.
“Now, that’s a newspaper’s definition of recession,” he said. “Basically, what happens with newspapers is they simplify everything to the point of stupidity. … Two quarters of negative growth, no credible economist has ever used that definition to define recession, for a couple reasons.”
Thornburg explained, “First of all, if that’s your definition of a recession, it turns out the pandemic was not a recession, because that was about four weeks of negative growth. Mind you, that was a lot of negative, but after that it started growing.”
He said a better definition of a recession is an economy that is not living up to its potential.
“That is to say, it can produce more in goods and services, but because of some
sort of market failure in the economy, it is not able to live up to that potential output.”
The best way to see a recession is to look for slack resources, he explained.
“For example, when people want to find jobs but can’t get them, that’s a hike in the unemployment rate,” Thornberg said. “Or if factories want to sell products but can’t find buyers, that’s reduced capacity of utilization.”
The October unemployment rate in the United States is 3.7%. However, over the last 50 years, “the unemployment rate has been below 4%, about four years out of it,” Thornberg explained. “That’s a pretty tight labor market.”
As for how industrial production goes, capacity of utilization is back up to 80%, he said.
“And industrial production is currently at an all-time high,” Thornberg said. “If this is a recession, long live the recession. But, of course, it’s not a recession; what’s going on in our economy is not that.”
Thornberg said even with the negative headlines, he pointed to earlier, one has to be a little cautious about them.
“But the same folks that told us those negative headlines about where our economy is right now, were the same ones who two years ago in the beginning of the pandemic, told us the pandemic is going to cause a depression,” he said.
“Remember those scary headlines? Thirty percent of Americans are going to stop paying their home loans, 30 to 40 million people are going to be evicted, home prices are going to fall any second now.”
He said when you start to see this pattern, where every “headline is just telling us how horrible and awful everything is, you have to start realizing there’s something amiss, not so much with the economy but with the headlines.”
Thornberg referred to a book, “Nar-
rative Economics” by Robert Shiller, in which the author points a finger at the economics community, saying economics is missing the boat. Shiller writes in the book economists are too obsessed with models, data and the assumption of rational behavior.
“In the world of modern mathematical economics, we believe that people internalize the information they can and make the best decisions appropriately,” Thornberg said. “But it’s hard to think that, when really over the last decade, what I’ve noted over and over again, is no matter how good the data is, the headlines get worse and worse.
“When you think about where our economy is today, it’s not because there’s anything fundamentally wrong with our economy. Rather, it’s our policymakers who don’t seem to understand what’s happening inside our economy.”
To clarify, Thornberg said to look at our economy in 2019. Even with all its negative headlines, horror stories and tales of woe and decline, the reality was the economy was about as good as it has ever been.
“But don’t let reality intrude on a good narrative,” he said. “When the pandemic hit, these ridiculous calls of depression came up. It caused the federal government, our policymakers to vastly overrespond. The amount of stimulus they threw at this economy in response to the pandemic was insane.
“So, what happens when you throw too much money at the economy? You over-
heat the economy. When you overheat the economy, what happens? Inflation. There is no mystery here — except for the mystery as to why suddenly the federal reserve is not recognizing inflation as a consequence of their own actions.”
Thornberg again told the audience that there is no recession.
“We’re not in a recession. We really aren’t. There’s no way this is going to turn into a recession,” Thornberg said. “Yes, I know interest rates are up. Yes, I know real estate markets on the asset side are really starting to flinch. But, the dominant source of growth in the U.S. economy is the U.S. consumer, and the consumer is alive and well.”
Thornberg, founding partner of Beacon Economics, is one of the nation’s leading economists. He is the director of the Center for Economic Forecasting and Development at the University of California Riverside and an adjunct professor at the school. He also serves on the advisory boards of Paulson & Co. Inc., a Wall Street hedge fund, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.
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WINTERHAVEN
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
The Winterhaven Neighborhood lights up the season of caring, and the darkest nights of winter, with an invitation to gather among its gleaming lights. Charming, sentimental and hilarious tableaus spread across its lawns. Its towering evergreens sparkle all along their branches. Architectural features, shrubs and desert plants blink and sparkle in every color. Party bikes, hayrides, trolley tours and, of course, kettle corn and hot dogs all add to the fun. Leashed and friendly dogs are welcome.
6 to 10 p.m. daily, Saturday, Dec. 10, to Monday, Dec. 26, winterhavenfestival. org, optional food item donation for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
‘DRAG QUEEN CHRISTMAS’
A delightful swarm of nationally renowned drag queens grace the stage, dressed over the top, just like we like it. It’s a chance to binge on ballsy humor, swaggering beats and all that glitters. Hosted by Nina West and Trinity the Tuck, the show includes fan-favorite queens, winners of numerous contests, and a “Miss Congeniality.” A $150 VIP ticket includes a meet and greet from 6 to 7 p.m. Organizers promise that the show’s stars will autograph your merch. 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, foxtucson.com, $38 to $78
BICAS ART AUCTION
Check this out if you’re a collector of unique experiences as well as distinctive fine art. BICAS is a nonprofit that operates in a nexus of bike riding, art, conservation and financial hardship. This annual event supports their efforts to shine a light on the possibilities in that overlap, while also offering education about bicycle safety, repair, maintenance and even bike building from their stockpile of old parts. When patrons build their own, they ride away with potentially life-changing mobility and maybe some fresh hope. The auction also features food, drinks and music.
6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, preview party and early bidding; 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, Silent Auction Night, SAACA Catalyst Arts and Maker Space, Tucson Mall, 4500 N. Oracle Road, Suite 110, bicas.org, free
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‘IRISH CHRISTMAS’
This celebration of Irish family and community customs features the Kerry Traditional Orchestra and award-winning dancers from the casts of “Riverdance,” “Lord of the Dance” and “Celtic Wings.” The show incorporates traditional dances inspired by daily activities like butter making or chasing the wren on St. Stephen’s Day. The Kerry Voice Squad sings traditional Christmas carols. 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, The Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, rialtotheatre.com, $32 to $50
TUCSON REGIONAL BALLET: ‘A SOUTHWEST NUTCRACKER’
Nobody forgets their first “Nutcracker.” The spellbinding story, with fanciful costumes, a fantastical storyline and a relatable leading character has enchanted children since its 1892 debut. Tucson Regional Ballet’s “A Southwest Nutcracker” levels up the relatability with Sonoran Desert surroundings. The Snow Queen is on hand, but so are chili peppers, Mama Piñata and her Dulces, and the Prickly Pear Fairy.
2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, and Sunday, Dec. 11, Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, 260 S. Church Avenue, tucsonmusichall.org, tickets start at $30
‘JACK AND THE BEANSTALK AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN FOLKLORE’
MAVIS STAPLES AT THE FOX TUCSON THEATRE
A Kennedy Center honoree, Mavis Staples is also a firework of fun facts, like her inspiring a Wilco album and turning down Bob Dylan’s marriage proposal. Professional music was her destiny. She was born into the legendary Staples Singers, a family ensemble that took her voice and her amazing spirit from gospel music to jazz, soul, blues, doo-wop, pop and rock. For all that she can be summed up in two words: Righteous Woman. We can’t wait to see her.
7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street, foxtucson.com, tickets start at $22
RHYTHM AND ROOTS: ‘TUCSON OPRY HOLIDAY EDITION’
Hosted by Tucson favorites Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin, this holiday variety show includes bilingual poet and DJ Logan Philips (Dirty Verbs) and Davis Elementary School’s Mariachi Las Aguilitas de Davis. Emmy-nominated fiddler and singer-songwriter Laurie Lewis tops the bill, along with nationally renowned pedal steel impresario Jon Graboff. The house band includes the versatile Arthur Vint, Matt Mitchell, Nick Coventry, Colin McIlraith and Marco Rosano. 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, Hotel Congress, Plaza Stage, 311 E. Congress Street, hotelcongress.com, $25
In a holiday special show, a puppet named Rowby shares offbeat versions of familiar folktales. Along with “Jack and the Beanstalk,” he delivers a hip-hop version of the “Three Little Pigs” and more. Lisa Sturz, owner and artistic director of Red Herring Puppets, has worked with Jim Henson, creator of “The Muppets,” and with Walt Disney Imagineering, Lucasfilm, PBS and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among other clients.
2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, and 2 p.m. Sunday Dec. 11, Red Herring Puppets, Tucson Mall, 4500 N. Oracle Road, upper level, redherringpuppets. com, $8, reservations recommended
TUCSON GIRLS CHORUS: ‘SOUNDS OF WINTER’
The Tucson Girls Chorus performs in a half-dozen shows this time of year, but these are our favorite. Across two performances, at least seven girls choirs perform for friends and family. Comprising girls from kindergarten through high school age, they sing their hearts out. Along with their guests, they glow with pride in what they’ve learned about musicality and their own abilities. It isn’t all Christmas music, but it’s all uplifting in spirit and true to the season.
2 p.m. junior choirs, 5 p.m. senior choirs, Sunday, Dec. 11, Crowder Hall, University of Arizona, 1017 N. Olive Road, tucsongirlschorus.org, $15 or $20 each performance.
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THE BEST YET: DAVID FITZSIMMONS AND THE GANG AT THE ARROYO CAFÉ
By Linda Ray
DAVID FITZSIMMONS SAYS,
“The Old Pueblo Holiday Radio Show” at the Rialto Theatre is going to be the Ar royo Café’s best show.
“We finally feel like an ensemble,” said the editorial cartoonist, comedian, writer and all-around funnyman.
The insanely talented posse of comedi ans and musicians hit the stage at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18.
The show’s format was inspired by Fitzsimmons’ fondness for the “Prairie Home Companion,” whose own produc ers acknowledged a debt to Nashville’s long-running Grand Ole Opry.
“I have always been a fan of ‘Prairie Home Companion,’ and I wanted to do something with that tone, but with a Tuc son flavor, because Tucson is such a dis tinct, wonderful, unique, diverse place,” he said. “Flavorful. So I enjoy a sort of a ‘Powdermilk Biscuit Hour’ with a dollop of salsa and some perhaps livelier mu sic.”
He’s also a fan of “groaners,” he said, and is happy to confess he likes some Borscht (Belt) with his tamales.
A Christmas Eve gathering of patrons at the Arroyo Café provides the backdrop for ongoing gags around the show’s reg ular characters — a couple of snowbirds, a weatherman, a “trailer park queen,” a loveable hostess and a grumpy conserva tive. There’s also a newscaster who serves as a narrator, integrating the show’s many parts.
“They discuss the news and issues of the day,” Fitzsimmons said. “Occasional ly our narrator takes us out of that setting and we’ll just do a news broadcast or a sketch or parody or other ‘variety show’ entertainment.”
Wilbur Wildcat always makes an ap pearance and The Grandsons of the Pi oneers, a subset of the Reveille Men’s chorus, provides an interlude of songs including holiday favorites. Attorney and comedian Elliott Glicksman and
Gaslight Theater alum Bob Seivert, who performed professionally for years as the stand-up duo Bob and Bob, reunite in an act saluting Bob and Ray and the great comedians of vaudeville.
Of Seivert, Fitzsimmons said, “He’s funnier than any of us.”
Glicksman and Seivert are among the klatch of funny, talented, experienced and beloved Tucson entertainers who gather to write, rehearse and finally perform as cast members in The Arroyo Café. The cast also includes the impossibly charm ing KXCI host Bridgitte Thum, come dian and comedy writer Mike Sterner, and longtime stand-up comic and mari achi teacher David Membrila. Legendary broadcaster Marty Bishop is the show’s narrator and what Fitzsimmons calls “the velvet voice of the Arroyo Café.”
New to the group, and according to Fitzsimmons among the show’s great est assets, are Gaslight Theater pianist, writer and parodist Rob Resetar and cool jazz vocalist and avowed “ham” Sheryl Ann McKinley. Fitzsimmons said, “Sher yl Ann will perform a gorgeous duet with Rob, ‘Baby it’s Warm Outside,’ and ‘Twisted,’ an Old Pueblo holiday parody she wrote just for our show.”
Of Resetar, Fitzsimmons said, “It’s so fun to do comedy with this wonderful music underneath the dialogue. And he’s funny. He’s written some wonderful song parodies, and he’s also going to perform a couple of holiday classics.” Resetar also plays in the Arroyo Café’s house band, the Cadillacs.
Sketches lined up for this year’s show include an improbably funny and still poignant interview of Glicksman in the role of the last drop of water in Lake Mead. More lighthearted are two sketch es based on two terrible events that befell Fitzsimmons earlier in the year. Within just a few months of each other he had a heart attack that required a stent, then a bicycle accident that required a trip to
the emergency room.
“Two of my favorite bits in the show are self-involved,” Fitzsimmons said. “One is about my cardiac event. I go to see Dr. Arthur’s Scle rosis (played by co-writer Glicksman), and it’s a great Borscht Belt bit … like the Sunshine Boys. It will leave you laughing so hard you’ll clutch your chest like I did back in May.
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MUSIC MARK DALY’S CAREER HAS BEEN ONE FOR THE BOOKS
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski Tucson Weekly Executive Editor
MARK DALY WAS PLAYING AT A small pub in Ireland when a woman asked him if he was playing original songs. He said yes, and she suggested singing more of them.
The woman was Susan Tate, the wife of Queensryche lead singer Geoff Tate, and that led to his breakthrough.
“People don’t usually ask for original music in a pub,” he said. “I told her, ‘No problem!’ So, we played some original tunes.”
The two chatted after the set and, by the end of the conversation, Daly was touring with Queensryche, “which is crazy,” he said.
“That was back in 2011,” Daly added.
“That’s what kick-started my career. Our first show was the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. It was a sold-out crowd. I couldn’t believe we went from a pub with 10 people in it to that. It was like night and day.”
Since then, he has toured with the likes of Candlebox and Tate’s supergroup, Operation: Mindcrime. At 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, and Sunday, Dec. 11, he’ll open for Tate at his “Geoff Tate’s 2022 Big Rock Show” at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix and the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, respectively.
Daly is touring to support his foursong EP, “Nothing to Lose.” He’ll showcase those songs as well as those from
“Peace in the Panic,” an album set for release early next year.
The EP and album were produced by Avantasia guitarist Sascha Paeth. Daly’s friend Clodagh Kearney provided backing vocals on “Nothing to Lose” and “Bottled Up.”
“I recorded the whole EP in Germany,” he said. “We released it first — before the album — because we decided it would be crazy to go to the U.S. with nothing new to show. So, we rushed through the four-track EP. Two of the singles, ‘Gotta Run’ and ‘Crying Shame,’ have already been released.
“So, when it comes out, half of the EP has already been heard and the other half hasn’t.”
Daly describes his sound as raw and energetic, influenced by classic and modern rock bands. He enjoys moving on stage to really connect with the audience, with whom he meets at the merchandise table after gigs.
Paeth clearly understood Daly’s direction with his music, which was a hard rock slant. His previous album was more laidback.
“I really wanted to get into the hard rock stuff,” he said. “That’s where my passion is. That’s my style of choice. He played guitar and bass on the record with
me as well. It turned out to be everything I wanted it to be. Working with Sascha was a dream come true, to be honest.”
Geoff Tate w/Mark Daly
WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9
WHERE: Celebrity Theatre, 440 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix
COST: Tickets start at $15 INFO: 602-267-1600, celebritytheatre.com
WHEN: 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11
WHERE: Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, Tucson
COST: Tickets start at $30 INFO: 520-740-1000, rialtotheatre.com
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Mark Daly opens for longtime friend Geoff Tate at two Arizona shows. (RONNIE YONKER/CONTRIBUTOR)
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DAVID ARKENSTONE CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski Tucson Weekly Executive Editor
David Arkenstone remembers waking up on Christmas morning as a child in Geneva, Illinois, playing in the snow, making snow angels and sledding.
“Winter is beautiful — everything sparkles, the lights on the houses and the trees,” Arkenstone said.
“The world is not in the best shape right now. The Christmas season gives us a little hope; the spirit of it and the brotherhood. I love trying to be a part of that. We need healing in a lot of areas.”
David Arkenstone & Friends will bring A Winter’s Eve Concert to Yuma, Phoenix, Sedona and Tucson, Wednesday, Dec. 14, to Saturday Dec. 17.
Arkenstone’s A Winter’s Eve Con-
certs feature chart-topping favorites and surprises, including the debut of some of his neoclassical compositions featuring strings, flutes and percussion. Get a glimpse of the concert at https:// youtu.be/zihbfwuIm4g.
“I’ve done a lot of Christmas wintery music and a lot of original songs that are inspired by winter,” he said.
“And then we do a bunch of songs that people will recognize with my own arrangement style. We have wintery sets to bring a mood to the people. There are four musicians with me — a violinist, a flutist, a cellist and percussionist. It’s a pretty cool combination. They really enhance the songs, and there are moments
when they individually shine.”
Arkenstone plays the keyboards, guitar and handpan, “which is kind of like a steel drum but the opposite side. If it bulked out, it would be a handpan. I got this one last year, and I love using it,” he said.
Arkenstone has more than 60 albums
to his credit, plus numerous film and game score compositions, and themes for NBC (The Kentucky Derby, U.S. Figure Skating, Premier League soccer and more).
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a new album, tentatively called “Winterlude.” He’s also penning an opera with his brother.
“We played in the summer in Arizona,” Arkenstone said. “I wasn’t planning on going back there, but we had requests, and I couldn’t really pass that up. I go to the Grand Canyon as much as possible. I just love Arizona.”
A Winter’s Eve Concert with David Arkenstone & Friends
WHEN: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14
WHERE: Historic Yuma Theatre, 254 S. Main Street, Yuma COST: Tickets start at $45 INFO: 928-373-5202, yumaaz.gov
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BALLET TUCSON, TSO COLLABORATE ON ‘THE NUTCRACKER’
By Veronica Kuffel Tucson Weekly Contributor
During the holidays, Ballet Tucson dancers don their ribboned pointe shoes to perform “The Nutcracker” with re markable prowess.
But unlike other years, this perfor mance welcomes a match made in Tuc son arts heaven. Their upcoming winter show is a partnership with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, thanks to the ef forts of the James H. and Frances R. Al len Family Foundation.
The company has a long tradition of performing the show, and for many of those years, they used professional re cordings to back up their dancers. As a School of Ballet Tucson alum and an accomplished former dancer, Artistic Di rector Margaret Mullin said the orches tra’s involvement enhances the show.
“Energetically, it’s so much more pow erful to have life onstage and life in the pit all radiating out to the audience,” Mullin said.
Tucsonans can expect the same show, with just a few choreographic updates and live music. To Tucson Symphony Orchestra CEO and President Paul Mee cham, it was the perfect way to change things up for the holidays.
“It was serendipity,” Meecham said regarding the initial conversation. “We were looking for things to do that per haps were different to what we were do ing before the pandemic.”
The partnership would not have formed without the collective efforts of the Allen Family Association, longtime supporters of Ballet Tucson and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. James H. and Frances R. Al len endorse the show in memory of their daughter, Kimberlee Allen. They under stood and appreciate the element of live music with ballet and want to see their family tradition go further.
“We feel that it is important that the performing arts organizations here in Tucson collaborate to bring world-class performances to Tucson,” the Allens said
in a statement.
“That is why we are sponsoring both Ballet Tucson’s holiday performances of ‘The Nutcracker’ at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall and also the Tucson Sym phony Orchestra to play Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score to accompany the danc ers and create the magic only live music can provide.
“It is important to note that all of our performing arts organizations here in Tucson rely not only on ticket sales but also the generosity of the community, individual contributors and sponsors to thrive and greatly enrich our lives here in our beautiful and very special small des ert community.”
Mullin added that the foundation’s contribution, however, has another spe cial reason.
“They’re not just sponsoring ‘The Nutcracker’; they are sponsoring our partnership with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra,” Mullin said. “They believe it is important for arts in our communi ty to be collaborative and for all of us to be coming together to provide inspiring arts experiences to Tucson.”
Ballet Tucson’s “The Nutcracker” is its biggest production of the year. The com pany is adding some new choreography and is working behind the scenes on ex travagant sets and props and elaborate costumes. Ballet Tucson prides itself on a more traditional take of the show, follow ing the 19th century German timeline.
Every element is upheld to historical ly accurate standards — the party scenes and the adults and children in them are rooted in the 1800s. The land of sweets is whimsical but, in the spirit and tone of its traditional design.
Generations of thespians have helped the company put on this show, most with a history of performing with Ballet Tuc son. Many of the costumes, including the nutcracker, rat king and sugar plum fairy, were made and remade “out of love” for
decades.
With the design elements in check, everything is appropriately “tied into the musical tone” of the dances, and the or chestra will guide audiences further into the realm of “The Nutcracker.”
“It’s a dream for us to not only have live music but to partner with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. They’re a wonder ful organization, their musicians are very talented,” Mullin said.
The organization is the first profession al symphony orchestra in the Southwest and the oldest art institution in Arizona. Tucson Symphony Orchestra performs highly skilled and award-winning shows and engages the community through ed ucation and outreach.
A big part of this includes working with other organizations to bring something extra special to Tucson. To Meecham, it’s a way to help audiences explore artistic expressions.
“It’s that cross-pollination of audienc es, which I think is very exciting,” he said. “It can lead to those audiences pursuing each company separately or further col laboration.”
While Ballet Tucson practiced “The Nutcracker” for months, TSO had a much shorter timeline. Preparation for
the show began well in advance, but the rehearsal was condensed into a week.
This is common for the orchestra, es pecially with music it has played before.
For TSO, “The Nutcracker” is, as Mee cham put it, “in our fingers.”
“These kinds of partnerships are cru cial to expanding the impact of what we as individual organizations can do. I think that’s good for the quality of the arts in Arizona,” Meecham said.
This will be the first year of a multi year partnership between Ballet Tucson and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for “The Nutcracker.”
“To be responsible for creating a mag ical moment in people’s lives and to do so in a community-minded way is really a gift,” Mullin said. “I’m very grateful to be a part of this exciting new partnership and to share this beautiful tradition with my hometown of Tucson.”
“The Nutcracker”
WHEN: Various times Thursday, Dec. 22, to Saturday, Dec. 24
WHERE: Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, 260 S. Church Avenue, Tucson
COST: Tickets start at $60 INFO: ballettucson.org
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FORMER TUCSONAN STUDIES THE 1960S IN DEBUT NOVEL
By Norah Booth Tucson Weekly Contributor
WRITING A BOOK ABOUT THE 1960S
is a sure gamble: Everyone who survived those raucous times has a story and probably wouldn’t mind hearing another. Betting he can get an audience, former Tucsonan Paul Justison has penned an intriguing ’60s tale, “Lost and Found in the ’60s.” Tucson should embrace Justi son’s book, as it provides an accurate de scription of life back then.
As the story begins, teenager Mark Stenrud, in a broken relationship with his mother, has problems at school for his Vietnam War protesting and troubles juggling girlfriends. His solution is to get high across the border, gleefully prank the John Birch Society, and drop out of Javelina High to escape to California.
Justison spent 10 years in Tucson, where he did drop out of high school and made his way to the California Bay Area. After retiring from a career in hospital and research facility management, Justi son took up writing and published short stories in several magazines. “Lost and Found in the ’60s” is his first novel.
“It was an iconic time in American his tory, and it was a crucible for me,” Justi son said about the time period.
“So, I had a lot of drama to draw on. I wanted to show the joy of Haight-Ash bury, along with its descent. I wanted to expiate my own sins of those days.”
In the book, Stenrud heads for the free love and psychedelic capital of the uni verse, Haight-Ashbury. Justison gets the tempo, the jargon, the food, drugs, sex and rock ’n’ roll of the times just right. In this excerpt from his novel, protagonist Stenrud describes his first take on the fa mous street:
“I was too awestruck to touch or feel anything, as if it were all behind glass. … Hipsters, unaffiliated revolutionaries, heads, and freaks leaned on cars, walls, and each other all along the street. I smelled pot every half block and saw smoke a few times but never spotted a joint. … Fliers posted on a telephone pole caught my eye. ‘Julie, please come home. We love you. Your sister misses you. Call us.’ Two more like that. One had a lot of white space, and I wrote, “Oh, Mother, Mother. Wish I’d had another.”
Justison said he and Stenrud escaped to Haight-Ashbury.
“I struggled a lot at first, but I found my footing and got a job with the post of
fice,” Justison commented. “I filled my free time with sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Eventually I realized that this was not what I should be doing, and I tried to get out. That didn’t go quite as planned, but I survived to tell the tale.”
Stenrud takes chances with his life, in the same way Justison takes chanc es with his readers. Justi son doesn’t spare readers the embarrassingly accu rate, cringeworthy treat ment of seemingly plentiful “chicks,” nor the dangerous possible out comes involved in turning on, tuning in and dropping out. The book is an unlike ly hero’s journey. The pace matches the beat of the times and there are plenty of odd twists to keep the reader engaged.
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TUCSON OPRY SPOTLIGHTS PERFORMANCES, ORGANIZATIONS
By Laura Latzko Tucson Weekly Contributor
A NEW VARIETY SHOW IN
Tucson is showcasing national and local entertainers, who are brought together on the same stage.
Following its first variety show in May, the second Tucson Opry — which has a holiday twist — is Saturday, Dec. 10, at Hotel Congress. The show is inspired by Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry.
The Tucson Opry will be hosted by Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin, longtime duo partners who have per formed together for more than 30 years.
Brashear is a singer-songwriter who plays the fiddle, mandolin and guitar, and McLaughlin is an acoustic guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.
The two first met shortly after Brashear moved to Tucson in 1992, when his wife was in graduate school at UA.
“We met through musician networks and started playing together,” said Brashear, who splits his time between Tucson and Massachusetts.
“We’ve been playing together ever since. We have a lot of common inter ests. We are residents at the Museum of Northern Arizona. We’ve done record ings together and lots of river trips to gether.”
They will open the show with a per formance backed by the house band.
Brashear said the Tucson Opry variety shows provide opportunities for perform ers on all levels.
“We want to make it a regionally fo cused variety show but that also includes some touring artists,” Brashear said.
Brashear wants the show to follow the format of “Prairie Home Companion” or eTown, where artists interact with the hosts and audience.
“It has to retain a community feeling and a welcoming, friendly atmosphere and make people feel like they are a part of something,” Brashear said.
Brashear organizes the event with the help of Hotel Congress and the Rhythm and Roots Concert Series, as well as oth er participating musicians. The event will feature internationally renowned artists Laurie Lewis and Jon Graboff.
Laurie Lewis is a pioneering fiddler player, producer, singer and teacher. She is best known for bluegrass but spans genres with her music, including country, jazz and early rock ’n’ roll.
She has been nominated for several Grammy Awards for her work and been part of other artists’ Grammy Award-win ning projects. She won an International Bluegrass Music Association Song of the Year award for her rendition of “Who Will Watch the Home Place.”
A pedal steel guitarist, Graboff has worked with Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Carrie Underwood, Joan Osborne and David Byrne. He is best known for per forming with Ryan Adams & the Cardi nals.
Lewis and Graboff have recently re corded holiday-themed albums in the last few years.
During the event, audiences will also see local groups and performers. One of the featured local groups will be Ma riachi Las Aguilitas de Davis, a group of first through fifth graders from Davis El ementary. The band regularly performs at nursing homes, schools and public events.
Bilingual poet Logan Phillips, a DJ, teacher and author who co-directed the youth arts and social justice organization Tucson Youth Poetry Slam, will also hit the stage. Phillips recently won a Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Po ets.
Throughout the night, the Tucson Opry Players, a house band of local musi cians, will accompany the visiting artists and other local musicians.
“That’s the idea for the show. We want to have professional people up there that can back up a lot of people and insert some traveling artists into that lineup,” Brashear said.
Brashear said that with the show, it is important to bring in an assortment of performers.
“We are trying to have some depth to
our community connections,” Brashear said.
During each variety show, a local orga nization is spotlighted. This winter, it is Mission Garden, a living agricultural mu seum that is committed to the preserva tion of the region’s agricultural heritage.
The first show featured the Arizona Trail Association.
“We are trying to find people doing good work in the community,” Brashear said.
The Tucson Opry: Holiday Edition
WHEN: Doors open 5 p.m., house band at 5:30 p.m., show at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10
WHERE: Hotel Congress Plaza, 311 E. Congress Street, Tucson COST: $25
INFO: rhythmandroots.org
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The first Tucson Opry variety show in May featured a variety of different types of performers.
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(Above) The Tucson Opry variety show highlights local and international artists. (TIM FULLER/CONTRIBUTOR) (Right) Singer, songwriter and fiddler Laurie Lewis will perform during The Tucson Opry: Holiday Edition. (IRENE YOUNG/CONTRIBUTOR)
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Buckcherry arrived on the scene during the drab days of the post-grunge era. They developed a following pushing a decidedly old school hard rock aesthetic. Since then, frontman Josh Todd has been the only constant. At an AA meeting after a DUI arrest in Orange County, Todd had a moment of clarity. “I knew this was the last stop. I was heading to jail, institutions or death,” Todd said, pensively. “I had been doing crystal meth and drinking for three days straight. At one point my hands were paralyzed. It scared the shit out of me.” Now, 28 years sober, Todd stated, “Staying sober isn’t the hard part. The hard part is managing your mind. The mind of an addict is the problem.” Keeping the torch of ’80s Sunset Strip sleaze burning brightly, Buckcherry play the Rialto Theatre. Moon Fever and Fading Point kick things off… Ready to set the world ablaze, rising country singer Tyler Braden knows a thing or two about fire. Braden moonlighted as a firefighter in Nashville while getting his career off the ground. In 2020 he introduced himself to the world with a rendition of Needtobreathe’s 2014 hit “Brother,” offering the song as a tribute to first responders fighting on the front lines during the pandemic. Braden is at The Maverick: King of Clubs. Tucson’s Billy Shaw Jr. Band opens… In a continuing series, Pete Swan presents a new jazz-fusion quartet. Featuring keyboardist Richard Katz, saxophonist Gary Love, bassist Evan Arredondo and Swan behind the trap kit, they return in an encore performance at The Century Room… Since 2020, while studying jazz performance at the UA, Karly Villocino has served as the guitarist for the UA Experimental Ensemble and UA Concert Jazz Band. With this performance acting as their senior recital, the Karly Villocino Quintet — saxophonist Victor Gutierrez, guitarist Ricardo Garcia, bassist Colin McIlrath, and drummer Rylande Dodge — lead the descent into the dead of the Late Night at The Century Room… Delivered in a snarling, at times screamed, male/female call and response vocal style — that, somehow, melds into harmony — Shehehe’s frenzied, autobiographical songs rail about everyday life, the things that drive them crazy, and the things they love. Guitarist Noelle Shuck describes their latest effort, 2020’s “Pet Songs,” as “the culmina-
tion of years of chemistry and evolution of our makeup and sound. It’s pretty much one big barn burner.” From Athens, Georgia — uncompromised, unabashed, uninhibited, female-fronted punk rockers — Shehehe make landing at the House of Bards for an all-ages bonanza…
FRIDAY, DEC. 9
Integrating its love for British pop songcraft with crunching power chords, Cheap Trick — whose name came about at a Slade concert, where bassist Tom Petersson commented that the band used “every cheap trick in the book” — provided the necessary links between ’60s pop and ’70s punk and metal. They stand as an American institution — with three original members still in the fold, frontman Robin Zander, guitarist Rick Nielsen, and Petersson — revered around the globe since the band’s inception in 1974. And they are still going strong. In 2021 the Rockford, Illinois, quartet released “In Another World,” its 20th studio album. Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Cheap Trick are at the Desert Diamond Casino… Known for the quality of his live and recorded musical performances, Grammy and Emmy award winner Harry Connick Jr. — having charted seven top 20 albums and 10 No. 1 jazz albums, more than any other artist in U.S. jazz chart history — is one of the bestselling musical artists and composers working today. Connick’s 1993 album “When My Heart Finds Christmas” — his bestselling record to date — has become the soundtrack to Christmas for a legion of fans. As 2022 draws to a close, Connick Jr. and his band return to The Old Pueblo for A Holiday Celebration — with a program packed with Christmas classics and original compositions — at Centennial Hall… During the mid-1980s — as torn leather jackets, face piercings, liberty spikes and mohawks began to proliferate — Tucson speed punks Useless Pieces of Shit (UPS), fronted by Larvae E. Kudish (aka Lenny Mental), ran riot and were as ubiquitous as the graffiti that they spray painted about town. A motley crew of locals — The Besmirchers, Freezing Hands, Napalm Strike, Standard Deviance and The Allstar Mormons — circle the wagons to toast Mental. Punk’s Not Dead Yet: Lenny Mental’s Birthday Bash pops off at 191 Toole… Throughout the 1960s and ’70s TV specials by Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, and The Osmonds were a distinctive feature of the holidays. In The Christmas Mood: A Holiday Music Spectacular — starring Katherine Byrnes, Brian Levario, Chach Snook and
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Crystal Stark — brings timeless treasures and holiday remembrances to bear at the Fox Tucson Theatre… Raised in the teeming metropolis of Mexico City, Jessica Audiffred has pushed a future-forward style of EDM that has propelled her rise to prominence. Dubbed “one of the hardest players in the game,” Audiffred brings The Ryoko Tour to Gentle Ben’s. Special guests Blank Face, Wrld Cyphr, Demise and ADM provide support… Continuing to reach far beyond their folk roots, acclaimed singer-songwriter Sophia Rankin & The Sound share the stage with Remi Goode — a trained classical guitarist and choral singer turned alternative folk/pop singer-songwriter — at Club Congress… LA punk/rockabilly power trio The Rocketz, Tucson rockabilly/psychobilly band with Native American roots The Reztones and Mesa punkabilly band The Devillains form a triumvirate at the Surly Wench Pub… Tucson-via-Los Angeles drummer Tim Rachbach & Night Dreamer pay tribute to the music of saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter at The Century Room… A night with Armando Moreno & The Revival charges the night air with their signature country-tinged rock ’n’ roll at Sky Bar… El Tambó celebrates the rich cultural diversity of the borderlands on the dance floor outdoors on the Hotel Congress Plaza while DJ Hump House keeps the Friday night vibe lit indoors at Club Congress…
SATURDAY, DEC. 10
“Nobody puts the Feliz in Navidad quite as jubilantly as The Mavericks.” Featuring selections from their 2018 holiday album “Hey! Merry Christmas!” — from
the rollicking opening track “Christmas Time Is Coming ’Round Again” to the sultry blues of “Santa Wants to Take You for a Ride” — alongside hits from their acclaimed 30-year career, The Mavericks’ Very Merry Christmas Tour redefines what the sounds of Christmas can be at the Fox Tucson Theatre. Special guest JD McPherson opens this sold-out holiday event… The Jons — vocalist Jon Villa, drummer James Peters, bassist Javier Gamez , guitarist Charlie Rodriguez, keyboardist Paul Jenkins and trumpeter Michael Carbajal — present the second A Very Jons Christmas at the Rialto Theatre. Along with special guests Drew Cooper, Natalie Merrill, Sophia Rankin and Jim Dalton, surely the spirit of Christmas will be kidnapped and held for ransom… Spending much of the past few years on the road — rocketing from playing backyards and bars to massive festival stages — “Renaissance artist” Alejandro Aranda (aka Scarypoolparty) has seemingly thrived in chaos. Featuring 12 songs with Emmy and Tony Award-winning composer Rob Mathes’ orchestral arrangements, singer, musician and “American Idol” alum Alejandro Aranda presents his sophomore release “The Act of Forgiveness” at 191 Toole. Haiden opens… Modeled after the longest-running broadcast variety show in the United States, the Tucson Opry: Holiday Edition — featuring performances by Laurie Lewis, Jon Graboff, Mariachi Las Aguilitas de Davis, poet Logan Phillips y mas — unfolds at Hotel Congress Plaza.
Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin host… Funky Bonz and Barnaby & The Butcher form an alliance at Monterey Court… Resident DJ Posi plays the latest club bangers indoors at Club Congress while DJs Bex & Halsero detonate sonic bombs, keeping the dance floor radiating heat outdoors on the Hotel Congress plaza… Reggae rock powerhouse The Resinators present “Vacation,” the San Diego-based trio’s latest EP, at The Rock. Special guests Desert Fish and the Riddims share the stage…
SUNDAY, DEC. 11
Among Mavis Staples’ numerous distinctions, she is a Blues and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and a civil rights icon. Hailed as “one of America’s defining voices of freedom and peace,” she marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., performed at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and sang in Barack Obama’s White House. “I’m the messenger. That’s my job. And I can’t just give up while the struggle is still alive. We’ve got more work to do.” Staples’ 2022 release “Carry Me Home” — a collaborative album with legendary musician Levon Helm, recorded at his studio in 2011, shortly before his death — is a clarion call to justice, brotherhood, equality and love. The mighty Mavis Staples brings her commanding voice to the Fox Tucson Theatre. Special guest Kam Franklin of The Suffers opens the show… The title track to Queensryche’s 1990 album “Empire” warns of an unstoppable, dystopian future, rife with violence, in which drug trafficking leads to societal collapse. Fueled by the chart-topping success of hit single “Silent Lucidity,” “Empire” stands as Queensryche’s greatest commercial success, garnering the “thinking man’s
progressive metal band” critical acclaim. In 2012, after being fired by his Queensryche bandmates, vocalist Geoff Tate unsuccessfully sued the band to prevent them from using the name. While the judge ruled against him, she also ruled that Tate could legally use the name as well. Operatic vocalist Geoff Tate brings theatricality and a four-octave range for 2022’s Big Rock Show at the Rialto Theatre. Mark Daly opens… Boasting Arizona Blues Hall of Famer Mike Blommer on guitar and force of nature “Hurricane” Carla Brownlee on saxophone, this Sunday’s installment of the Congress Cookout finds Tucson blues institution Bad News Blues stoking the fire on the Hotel Congress Plaza… A musical wunderkind, equally adept at performing on both brass and woodwinds, composer and multi-instrumentalist Max Goldschmid hosts the Jazz Jam Session at The Century Room…
MONDAY, DEC. 12
Chasing the ever-fickle muse, DJs Bonus and PC Party return with Club Whutever at Club Congress…
TUESDAY, DEC. 13
Sublime’s Rome Ramirez and Dirty Heads’ Dustin “Duddy B” Bushnell invite everyone to escape under a “Cannabis Tree,” in a place where the sand meets the sea. The Rome & Duddy project was born in 2008 with the release of “Lay Me Down,” a collaboration with Dirty Heads featuring Rome. The single peaked at No. 1 on Billboard’s alternative rock chart; the first song from an independent label to reach the No. 1 spot. Now, at a time when the world may need it the most, the Win-
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ter Moon Tour brings Rome & Duddy’s stony, feel-good vibes to the Rialto Theatre. Channing Wilson opens… In early 2022, as a complement to his critically acclaimed album, Chuck Prophet — an adopted son in the hearts of Tucsonans as an erstwhile member of first-wave desert rockers Green on Red — released “The Land That Time Forgot Revisited,” a foursong live EP recorded at the Make Out Room in San Francisco with his band, the Mission Express, and a string quartet (dubbed the Makeout Room Quartet). “I know a little bit about how to craft a studio LP,” Prophet said. “But recording live with a string quartet on a linoleum floor on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in an empty barroom in San Francisco’s Mission District is something altogether different.” Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express continue to explore the tension
between romance and cynicism with a novelist’s pen on the Hotel Congress Plaza. The venerable Joe Peña opens…
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14
Bay Area guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Yvette Young grew up playing piano and violin. She would eventually take elements of both instruments — incorporating different approaches from classical music and math rock — in the process developing a fluid two-handed technique on guitar. After uploading videos of herself performing online, Young began to amass a following. In 2014, she released her debut EP, “Acoustics.” A trio coalesced later that year. Covet brings “Technicolor,” its 2020 release, to life at 191 Toole… Following in the tradition of Louis Armstrong, Sydney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton and other early jazz innovators that came out of New Orleans and Chicago in the early 20th century, the Mysterious Babies perform at The Century Room…
Until next week, XOXO…
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mons’’ super safe inflatable bicycle helmets, which makes fun of my bicycle accident.”
In all, Fitzsimmons said, “It’s a great mix of wonderful sentimental, Old Pueblo-esque–flavored holiday celebrations mixed with satirical parody.”
Proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood and Southern Arizona’s American Heart Association.
1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, “Arroyo Café: The Old Pueblo Holiday Radio Show,” Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, rialtotheatre.com, $20
ADAM CAROLLA AT THE RIALTO
Comedian and radio personality Adam Carolla is best known for his long-running podcast “The Adam Carolla Show.”
In 2011, it set a Guinness World Record as the Most Downloaded Podcast. There were far fewer podcasts in 2011, but we’re guessing his would now be longest running. His podcast topics range widely, but he’s frequently guested on political talk shows and for a time hosted a weekly segment, “Rollin’ with Carolla” on “The O’Reilly Factor.”
8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, rialtotheatre.com, $29 to $48
MORE COMEDY THIS WEEK
Centennial Hall, The University of Arizona, 1020 E. University Boulevard, centhall.org, tickets start at $39.75, 7 p.m. or 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, Jim Gaffigan: The Fun Tour
Laff ’s Comedy Caffe, 2900 E. Broadway Boulevard. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, and 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, laffstucson.com, $15, $20 preferred seating. Charlie Wiener wonders how reality finally found him and what to do about it.
Tucson Improv Movement/TIM Comedy Theatre, 414 E. Ninth Street.
tucsonimprov.com. $7 each show, $10 for both shows, same night, free jam and open mic. Thursday, Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m. Improv 301 Showcase and OG women’s house team The Riveters; 8:30 p.m. TIM Pilots: Debut Shows. Friday, Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m. Improv Jam; 7:30pm, “The Soapbox” with Max Wingert; 9 p.m. Stand Up Showcase feat. Daniel Blancas, Morgan Keuhn, Nicolette DiMaggio, Matt Ziemak, Rich Gary. 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, “The Ugly Sweater Show.”
Unscrewed Theater, 4500 E. Speedway Boulevard, unscrewedtheatre.org, $8, live or remote, $5 kids, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, Family Friendly Improv, 9 p.m. Unscrewed Fridays After Dark; 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, ImprovBlox Crafting the Craft Showcase; 7:30 p.m. Family-Friendly Improv with Tempe’s Neighborhood Comedy Theater; 9 p.m. Uncensored Improv with NBOJU, The Big Daddies and Neighborhood Comedy Theater; 6:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 12, free, Improv Dropins, in person or online.
4-H HOLIDAY MARKET
An open market at Tucson Village Farm benefits the 4-H programs supported by the Pima County and University of Arizona Cooperative Extensions. There will be holiday gifts, farm-made crafts, and festive food and beverages. Tucson Village Farm is a working urban farm built by Tucson youth. The farm runs a seed-to-table program where youth learn how to grow and prepare healthy food. It’s not affiliated in any way with Village Farms International or its affiliates. 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, Tucson Village Farm, 2201 E. Roger Road, tucsonvillagefarm.arizona.edu, free
HOLIDAY CELEBRATION AT PRESIDIO SAN AGUSTÍN DEL TUCSON MUSEUM
Carillo Magnet School kicks this off with a Posada (a parade-like recreation of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem), then the kids sing traditional Spanish-language songs. Things heat up with cannon fire and a musket volley before settling down to readings of popular holiday stories. Throughout the event, visitors can make crafts and enjoy tamale dishes and beverages including eggnog and champurrado (Mexican hot chocolate), with or without alcohol. The party closes with a lantern-lit tour of the presidio. A concert follows by classical and flamenco guitarist Ismael Barajas performing in jazz, bossa nova and traditional Mexican folk music styles. 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Avenue, tucsonpresidio.com, $10, $7 Pima County residents, no reservations; concert, $5
SCOUNDREL & SCAMP THEATRE PRESENTS ‘POOH’
Scoundrel & Scamp commissioned a new adaptation of A.A. Milne’s beloved “Winnie the Pooh.” In it, we enter the hundred-acre wood with new companions, modern dilemmas and resonant insights. Adventuring with young humans Chris and Robin, Pooh, Piglet and their friends face new challenges that bind their friendship. They fi nd the courage to face their fears and the wisdom and trust to ask for help.
7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, through Sunday, Dec. 11; 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, and Sunday, Dec. 11, The Historic Y, 738 N. Fifth Avenue, Suite 131, scoundrelandscamp.org, $30 general admission, $15 student
WHISKEY DEL BAC BARREL RELEASE
A special private barrel selection of Whiskey Del Bac’s unique Sonoran American single malt whiskey will be cause for celebration for patrons of Good Oak Bar on Dec. 8. Guests will enjoy a flight of pours from a selection of Del Bac bottles, a Private Barrel whiskey cocktail and one free dish from the Good Oak kitchen. They will also be the first to be able to buy the limited new brew and 20% off additional food orders.
4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, Good Oak Bar, 316 E, Congress Street, Eventbrite.com, $50
CHRISTMAS CAVALCADE OF BARBERSHOP MUSIC
Barbershop groups from all over the Tucson area, including Saddlebrooke, to join in a concert of holiday music. Audience members’ donations at the show will benefit Old Pueblo Community Services’ work with our homeless neighbors. Hosted by The Tucson Barbershop eXperience, the show will include a range of barbershop genres, from comical to sentimental. This year is the 75th anniversary of the Tucson Sunshine Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society.
7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, Arts Express Theatre at Park Place, 5870 E. Broadway Boulevard, tucsonbarbershopharmony.org, donation
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HALO CANNABIS, A DIFFERENT KIND OF CULTIVATING OPERATION
By Hope Peters Tucson Weekly Sta Writer
HALO CANNABIS HAS EVERYTHING needed to produce cannabis and cannabis goodies. The 40,000-square-foot building boasts 10 flowering rooms, three bedrooms and one nursery.
At Halo Cannabis, quality is the priority. Cultivated by its tenured agriculture engineers, the Halo Cannabis facility produces only the finest of medicines for Arizona residents, according to staff.
“We are very different,” Halo Cannabis
owner George Roop said. “We are not a public company. We are a family-owned and -operated company. We have no investors. We have no debt.”
He said his company looks at its team members as the investors. “That’s what gets me and my wife (Chrissy) excited, to change people’s lives, our team’s lives,” Roop said. “Our goal is to create millionaires within our company.”
Sole owner
As the sole owner, Roop said Halo Cannabis has a “very different dynamic” than other dispensaries that often have multiple owners.
“Our family, we bootstrapped this operation,” Roop said. “We didn’t take any money from anybody. And with our cultivation, within a very short two and a half years we were able to take down our own license when we acquired the Halo
as well.”
Last September, Roop acquired what was the Green Halo dispensary. He said the Halo Infusions business operates under the Halo license as well.
“We were able to achieve that,” he said. “And buying a license, we took that license down for $30 million. It was the largest acquisition that’s ever happened
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in the state of Arizona for a license. That was an investment in our team.”
Purpose-built facility
Halo Cannabis has been in the same place for more than three years. It’s a purpose-built facility.
“It’s not a building we just did a TI (tenant improvement) on,” he said. “When we built this facility, we kept product flow in mind; it’s a very high-tech facility.”
They thought about the environment, as well, and decreasing their carbon footprint.
“We recycle 100% of our water,” Roop said. “It’s really an important thing moving into the future. Not that it’s a large bill for us, but just understanding our carbon footprint.”
Added Dominique Gamboa, Halo Cannabis’ communications and marketing director, “That (the facility) includes cultivation, our lab, our pre-packing and our trim room. Our whole building is filled … top to bottom, from seeds to production to pushing everything out.”
Halo Cannabis makes its own concen-
trates from its flowers. The staff knows what it’s doing, Gamboa said.
“We are constantly hunting genetics, and right now we are in the process of hunting even more,” Gamboa said when asked about new flower strains. “We have probably 30 strains in production full time and maybe another 20 on the way. We are always updating our menu, because that’s what we’re all about. We like hunting genetics and finding what’s best. Our big thing is on quality and taste. That’s primarily what we look for.”
Gamboa added that the lab is working on making live resin cartridges and live hash rosin cartridges.
“So, we’re dialing in that kind of science behind that right now,” Gamboa said. “And we run our flower into concentrate. Everything we produce out of our building comes from our cultivation. So, we don’t outsource any product. It’s all us.”
The difference between live and hash rosin is the process in which it is extracted. Live resin goes through a solvent extraction, and hash rosin is a water and ice
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extraction, Gamboa explained.
Concentrates come in a variety of forms. Budder is a wax-like concentrate that is softer and oilier. Crumble is a brittle version of it.
Meanwhile, shatter is a common cannabis extract at most local dispensaries. Sugar wax is made similarly to shatter, through butane extraction. Crystallines are the purest forms of cannabis available from any marijuana dispensary. THC oil is a common name for all types of cannabis oil concentrates that are rich in THC.
On its website, Halo Cannabis has a “testing” section, but it is still under construction. Soon, shoppers will see the test results of Halo Cannabis’ plants.
“So, if someone wants information on the strain and the concentrate, they can pull up the test results of the plant,” Gamboa said.
“Typically, you can get that information from the dispensaries. Sometimes they upload that information as well, because it is all connected to the state.”
The testing is for the quality assurance of the plants.
“They check it for microbials and heavy metals, this, that and the other, to make sure there’s no fungus,” Gamboa said. “That way consumers know they are not ingesting something that’s potentially contaminated.”
All testing must be done through a third-party agency, per law, he explained. The Halo Cannabis lab is used only for making its concentrates.
The Halo Cannabis cultivation facility is not open to the public, and the products cannot be sold or purchased directly from the grow facility. However, they distribute their products to licensed dispensaries only, such as the Halo Cannabis dispensary, also known as the Green Halo dispensary, where the products can be purchased.
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DESERT BLOOM RE-LEAF CENTER
8060 E. 22nd Street, Suite 108 520-886-1760; dbloomtucson.com Open: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily Offering delivery
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221 E. Sixth Street, Suite 105 520-838-0492; thedowntowndispensary.com
Open: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday
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EARTH’S HEALING
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Open: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays; Offering delivery
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6464 E. Tanque Verde Road 520-886-2484, greenmedwellness.com
Open: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday
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7710 S. Wilmot Road
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1732 W. Duval Commerce Point Place 520-289-8030
Open: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday
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Open: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays
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112 S. Kolb Road
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Open: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily
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Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “To be free, you simply have to be so, without asking permission. You must have your own hypothesis about what you are called to do, and follow it, not giving in to circumstances or complying with them. But that sort of freedom demands powerful inner resources, a high degree of self-awareness, and a consciousness of your responsibility to yourself and there fore to other people.” That last element is where some freedom seekers falter. They neglect their obligation to care for and serve their fellow humans. I want to make sure you don’t do that, Aries, as you launch a new phase of your liberation process. Authentic freedom is conscien tious.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)
The term “neurodiversity” refers to the fact that the human brain functions in a wide variety of ways. There are not just a few versions of mental health and learning styles that are better than all the others. Taurus musician David Byrne believes he is neurodiverse because he is on the autism spectrum. That’s an advan tage, he feels, giving him the power to focus with extra intensity on his creative pursuits. I consider myself neurodiverse because my life in the imaginal realm is just as important to me as my life in the material world. I suspect that most of us are neurodiverse in some sense — devi ating from “normal” mental functioning. What about you, Taurus? The coming months will be an excellent time to ex plore and celebrate your own neurodiver sity.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)
Poet Jane Hirshfield says that Zen Bud dhism is built on three principles: 1. Everything changes. 2. Everything is connected. 3. Pay attention. Even if you are not a Zen practitioner, Gemini, I hope you will focus on the last two precepts in the coming weeks. If I had to summa rize the formula that will bring you the most interesting experiences and feel ings, it would be, “Pay attention to how everything is connected.” I hope you will intensify your intention to see how all the apparent fragments are interwoven.
Here’s my secret agenda: I think it will help you register the truth that your life has a higher purpose than you’re usual ly aware of — and that the whole world is conspiring to help you fulfill that pur pose.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)
Author Flannery O’Connor wrote, “You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.” I will add a further thought: “You have to cher ish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it and strive to trans form it into a better place.” Let’s make this one of your inspirational meditations in the coming months, Cancerian. I suspect you will have more power than usual to transform the world into a better place. Get started! (P.S.: Doing so will enhance your ability to endure and cherish.)
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)
Many sports journalists will tell you that while they may root for their favorite teams, they also “root for the story.” They want a compelling tale to tell. They yearn for dramatic plot twists that reveal enter taining details about interesting charac ters performing unique feats. That’s how I’m going to be in the coming months Leo, at least in relation to you. I hope to see you engaged in epic sagas, creating yourself with verve as you weave your way through fun challenges and intrigu ing adventures. I predict my hope will be realized.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)
Venus is too hot and dry for humans to live on. But if travelers from Earth could figure out a way to feel comfortable there, they would enjoy a marvelous perk. The planet rotates very slowly. One complete day and night lasts for 243 Earth days and nights. That means you and a special friend could take a romantic stroll toward the sunset for as long as you wanted and never see the sun go down. I invite you to dream up equally lyrical adventures in togetherness here on Earth during the coming months, Virgo. Your intimate al liances will thrive as you get imaginative and creative about nurturing together ness.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)
As far as I’m concerned, Libran Buddhist monk and author Thích Nhãt Hanh was one of the finest humans who ever lived. “Where do you seek the spiritual?” he asked. His answer: “You seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables and washing the dishes be come sacred if mindfulness is there.” In the coming weeks, Libra, you will have exceptional power to live like this: to regard every event, however mundane or routine, as an opportunity to express your soulful love and gratitude for the privilege of being alive. Act as if the whole world is your precious sanctuary.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)
A reader named Elisa Jean tells me, “We Scorpio allies admire how Scorpios can be so solicitous and welcoming: the best party hosts. They know how to foster so cial situations that bring out the best in everyone and provide convivial enter tainment. Yet Scorpios also know every one’s secrets. They are connoisseurs of the skeletons in the closets. So they have the power to spawn discordant commo tions and wreak havoc on people’s repu tations. But they rarely do. Instead, they keep the secrets. They use their covert knowledge to weave deep connections.” Everything Ella Jean described will be your specialties in the coming weeks, Scorpio.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)
Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sag ittarians are least likely to stay in one location for extended periods. Many of you enjoy the need to move around from place to place. Doing so may be crucial in satisfying your quest for ever-fresh knowledge and stimulation. You under stand that it’s risky to get too fixed in
your habits and too dogmatic in your beliefs. So you feel an imperative to keep disrupting routines before they become deadening. When you are successful in this endeavor, it’s often due to a special talent you have: your capacity for creat ing an inner sense of home that enables you to feel stable and grounded as you ramble free. I believe this superpower will be extra strong during the coming months.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
Capricorn author Edgar Allan Poe made this mysterious statement: “We can, at any time, double the true beauty of an ac tual landscape by half closing our eyes as we look at it.” What did he mean? He was referring to how crucial it is to see life “through the veil of the soul.” Merely us ing our physical vision gives us only half the story. To be receptive to the full glory of the world, our deepest self must also participate in the vision. Of course, this is always true. But it’s even more extra espe cially true than usual for you right now.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)
Aquarian theologian Henri Nouwen wrote, “I have discovered that the gifts of life are often hidden in the places that hurt most.” Yikes! Really? I don’t like that idea. But I will say this: If Nouwen’s theory has a grain of truth, you will cap italize on that fact in the coming weeks. Amazingly enough, a wound or pain you experienced in the past could reveal a redemptive possibility that inspires and heals you.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)
Piscean novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen says it’s wise to talk to yourself. No other conversational partner is more fascinat ing. No one else listens as well. I offer you his advice in the hope of encourag ing you to upgrade the intensity and fre quency of your dialogues with yourself. It’s an excellent astrological time to go deeper with the questions you pose and to be braver in formulating your respons es. Make the coming weeks be the time when you find out much more about what you truly think and feel.
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