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A new cookbook collects recipes inspired by Day of the Dead | Page 11
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Beer Benefit Hockey & Hops | Page 8
After more than a year off stage, the non-profit Oro Valley Theatre Company presents the play “Steel Magnolias” at the Gaslight Music Hall this week. Read more on Page 10.
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arana Town Council unanimously hiked the town sales tax by a half-center per dollar on Tuesday, Oct. 19, to build a multi-generational recreation and aquatic center. The tax increase, which begins
on January 1, 2022, will remain in effect until the project’s financing, design, and construction are completed. Town officials estimated that will take seven years. Marana previously used a temporary sales tax increase to fund other municipal projects, including the new police headquarters at the municipal complex, as well as the Twin Peaks overpass.
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“We heard something loud and clear from our community and they felt underserved in a particular area relative to recreational facilities and aquatic centers,” Town Manager Terry Rozema said during the meeting. The Town Parks & Recreation Master Plan 2020-2030 included a survey with community input
t’s no surprise Marana is growing. Just look at the expanding municipal complex, multiple housing developments, and the real estate market throughout the Tucson area. But now official census numbers can be attached to that growth. Although Marana’s new official population count is in line with predicted growth, the latest census results include a number of important details. Marana’s official population now stands at 51,908, up from 34,961 in 2010 for a 48.5% growth. This growth rate is more than four times as high as the Arizona average of 11.9% in the same time frame.
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Desert To-Dos Birding at the Zoo. The Reid Park Zoo is joining up with the Tucson Audubon Society volunteers for a guided bird walk through the zoo. This all-ages event will help you observe and identify the native birds that call the zoo home. Binoculars and field guides are recommended. 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 18. This program is free with paid Zoo admission. Advance registration is required as space on tours is limited. reidparkzoo.org/event/ birding-at-the-zoo/ Creepy Coffin Workshop. The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures is hosting miniaturist and videomaker Ara Bentley for a beginner-level workshop to make and distress a 1:12 scale miniature coffin. Each student will receive a matboard kit to assemble, paint, and distress with customization options to make it as creepy or whimsical as desired. $45 per student / $40.50 for Museum Members. Advance registration is required for this program. 1 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3. $45. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. theminitime machine.org/event/ creepy-coffin-workshopwith-ara-bentley/ Mujeres Nourishing Fronterizx Bodies:
Resistance in the Time of COVID-19. Have you seen this exhibit over at the Museum of Contemporary Art yet? This multiyear project, in the artists’ words, “explores food security, self-representation, and self-determination through a series of new works that examine what it means to nourish brown bodies alongside the U.S./Mexico border during a global pandemic.” It documents the work of a collective of women who tend to a communal garden, make clothing, raise livestock and even construct adobe bricks. See their story through photography, prints and film in this exhibit, on display through Jan. 30. MOCA, 265 S. Church Ave. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m Thursday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. $7 adults, $4 students and seniors. Elf ’d. The Gaslight Theatre is embracing the Christmas season starting on Nov. 11 with a parody musical of the movie Elf. If you’ve never been to the Gaslight Theatre, trust us, it’s as charming as it is goofy, with special effects, jokes, show-stopping musical numbers and fun for the whole family. Nov. 11 through Jan. 2. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. www.the gaslighttheatre.com
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Pandemic increased challenges for domestic violence prevention Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media
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he Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse is facing new challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nonprofit organization assists victims of domestic violence— whether women or men— by finding them shelter, providing crisis intervention and teaching safety planning. These services continued during the pandemic, but Emerge had to adjust quickly to continue providing them to people experiencing domestic violence, which increased in some households because families were struggling with stayat-home recommendations, school closures and other stress brought on by the pandemic. “We had to review and revise all of our pol-
icies and procedures very quickly, to make sure that we were responding in a way that maximized participant safety and staff safety,” said Lauryn Bianco, Emerge vice president of operations and philanthropy. Bianco said the organization had to change everything about delivering services. Hotline employees needed to take their phones home with them and set up a secure line. In-person appointments became Zoom meetings and Emerge had to close its shelter. In order to accommodate families that needed to be relocated for protection, Emerge managed to rehouse families in different places. This led to a surprising realization. “During the pandemic, we were able to provide services in independent spaces for families, and we learned
that actually mitigated a lot of different trauma that families experienced when they came into our shelter,” Bianco said. The current shelter usually places families together, which is why strategies had to change when COVID hit Arizona. Officials are finding that housing families separately helps start the healing process for survivors more quickly than shared housing. While there is no quick process to healing trauma, separate housing got extremely positive feedback from their clients. After seeing how well clients reacted to independent housing units, Emerge began asking for funding from local governments to build a bigger shelter. “Any expansion of shelter capacity is necessary now, not just for Emerge, but for all of the social service agencies
that we’re dealing with,” Tucson City Councilmember Steve Kozachik said. The City of Tucson is expected to match $1 million in funding that was approved by the Pima County Board of towards an expansion for Emerge. The nonprofit’s leadership said they would speak publicly about the expansion as soon as plans have been finalized. In the meantime, the Emerge team was busy with educational and fundraising efforts throughout October, which is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. “Prevention efforts can really look like educating yourself about the root causes of domestic abuse, not just the warning signs and the red flags,” Bianco explained. “We really want people to dig into understanding why abuse even exists in our culture, and in our community.”
Emerge has made it its mission in the last few years to train employees on normal job duties while also doing extra training on racial disparities and social dynamics that may affect their clients. “Since 2015, we’ve really gone down the journey of becoming an anti-racist organization,” Bianco said. Emerge has also uploaded videos to its website showcasing the personal experiences of employees who continued to provide services to clients during the pandemic. Bianco said the nonprofit is extremely grateful to the employees who came in every day trying to find services for their clients during the pandemic. Tucson residents can help out by donating supplies, which are always appreciated. The public is asked to donate new
items that would help a survivor and their children start over at a new home (think toiletries, clothes, reusable water bottles, kitchen supplies and linens). A full list of possible items is available on the Emerge website under the DVAM tab. Amazon Smile allows you to buy a product from their wish list and send it to Emerge’s administration office. “Domestic abuse can happen to anyone,” Bianco said. “It is not one group of people who experience it and so, in order for us as a community to end abuse we all have to participate in understanding how we can take a stand and or take an action to help. Visit the Emerge website for information on domestic violence prevention at emergecenter.org.
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Continued from P1 revealing recreational preferences. The prospect of a new community center and aquatic facility was most popular among the respondents. Rozema said during the council meeting the center would not only provide more recreational opportunities for community members, but it will also spur economic development in an area Marana planners see as a developing downtown, creating more jobs and encouraging businesses to set up shop in the area. Economic development is important for Marana’s rapidly increasing population. The
Town of Marana’s population has increased 4,000% since 1970, according to the Arizona Commerce Authority. “Eventually, the downtown area will be the center of our community,” Rozema said. The community and aquatic center would be built on the northwest corner of Bill Gaudette Drive and Marana Main Street on land that the Town already owns near the Marana Road exit on Interstate 10. The 55,000-square-foot community center would include an indoor gym, weight rooms, meeting rooms, pools, sport fields and more. Rozema said community members expressed an
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interest in “sunsetting” the tax increase. This means the increase would go specifically towards the proposed projects and end after all the bills were paid. After much discussion between council members, they agreed the sunset would continue Marana’s traditions around community outreach. Anytime the Town would like to increase sales taxes for a specific project, they go to community members to educate, discuss, and receive feedback. “I don’t think that’s too much work, what’s wrong with telling our citizens what we’re doing and why?” Vice Mayor Jon Post said during the meeting.
Census: Pima gains 60K
Continued from P1 “In all honesty, not that much was surprising from this latest census,” said Heath Vescovi-Chiordi, assistant to the town manager for the Town of Marana. “We saw a huge jump in our permits, even during the pandemic. We saw a massive influx of single-family residence permits, and with that, we knew our population was increasing rapidly. We’ve been on that trajectory for the last five to 10 years. So when we saw the census numbers, they were actually a bit lower than we were anticipating.” Vescovi-Chiordi says the Town was assuming a population closer to 54,000, and says the population may still be higher than the official
number due to the difficulty of taking the census during a pandemic. On average, Marana sees around 100 single-family residence permits per month these days. Over the last decade, this resulted in 6,795 new housing units in the town. This has also resulted in demographic shifts in Marana: The Hispanic population increased from 22% to 25% of Marana’s total population. Black residents increased from 2% to 3%. Asian residents stayed the same at 4% and Native American residents also stayed the same at 1%. Those identifying as two or more races increased from 2% to 5%. Residents identifying as white was the only race category that decreased in percentage;
in 2010, Marana was 69% white, and that number is now down to 63%. “With Arizona being a hotspot for people to move from throughout the country, I think it’s just part of the migration pattern for a lot of people,” Vescovi-Chiordi said. “And there are a lot of reasons: economic development, good housing opportunities, lovely quality of life and more.” As Marana grows, it receives more state-shared revenues thanks to a 1972 voter initiative. These dollars—from state income-tax payments—are based on a city or town’s population. Breaching the 50,000 mark also registers Marana as “entitlement community,” and means the town can receive
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Community Development Block Grants directly, rather than having them distributed through Pima County. “As we continue to grow, we will see more state shared revenues coming our way, which is always great. They can be used for infrastructure like road maintenance and economic development,” Vescovi-Chiordi said. “We don’t exactly know what those numbers will look like because this is all so fresh, and we’re still under contract for Pima County to act as a pass-through until fiscal year 2023. So we wouldn’t see new, direct monies until fiscal year 2024. But we’re excited about them, because those monies are for community development projects that can help lower socio-economic households.” Although these are some substantial changes, Vescovi-Chiordi says this census data does not change Marana’s immediate plans. The Town’s 2040 General Plan was built with these growth trajectories in mind. “Having this new data and more people doesn’t necessarily affect our planning in a significant way, but we’re always making tweaks,” Vescovi-Chiordi said. “It really just helps us identify where the growth is happening and how much growth is happening, so we can plan accordingly with natural resource management, planning and zoning, and more.” Overall, Arizona gained more than 750,000 people over the past decade. Pima County alone gained more than 63,000 residents. This latest census indicated Pima County’s population grew 6.8% over the last decade, which is nearly half the Arizona average and more than five times smaller than Marana’s growth.
Analysis finds COVID-19 was leading cause of death in AZ Jerod MacDonald-Evoy Arizona Mirror
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new report found that COVID-19 was the leading cause of death in Arizona during the pandemic, unlike in other similar states that had more aggressive mitigation measures. More than 20,700 people have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. The report, by the Arizona Public Health Association, examined how those deaths compared to the 15 leading causes of death between March 17, 2020—the date a state of emergency was declared because of COVID-19—to Oct. 14, 2021. The report compared that to mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control’s Wonder Online Database in 2019, as detailed data for 2020 is still not available. The researchers noted that data for certain mortality rates have remained relatively constant over the past decade, the report states. Heart disease has long been the top cause of death for Arizonans, taking the lives of more than 12,500 Arizona residents in 2019, followed closely by cancer, which trailed heart disease by a mere 84 deaths. COVID-19 cases reached their first peak in Arizona on June 29, when 5,480 cases were reported. Just a few weeks later on, July 17, Arizona would report its single highest reported death count for the virus at the time: 107 deaths. As the summer months ended amid more mitigation measures implemented by Gov. Doug Ducey, cases fell and so did deaths. By October, cases began rising again, accelerating rapidly in November.
On Nov. 23, the state reported more than 6,000 cases, the most it had ever seen in a single day, and intensive care unit capacity was dwindling. The numbers then skyrocketed in December and early January, and the state repeatedly broke records for the number of confirmed cases and deaths: • Nov. 30, 7,971 cases reported • Dec. 21, 9,078 cases reported • Dec. 28, 11,533 cases reported • Jan. 4, 11,929 cases reported • Dec. 10, 107 deaths reported • Dec. 17, 130 deaths reported • Jan. 5, 137 deaths reported According to the research by APHA, Arizona’s death rate is also much higher than some of its similarly sized states. Researchers compared Arizona to two different states that have similar population sizes: Colorado and Washington. Washington has a population that is the most similar to Arizona, but researchers found the state had reported 8,234 deaths, only two-thirds of the number of deaths here. Colorado has about 1.5 million fewer people than Arizona, and saw only 7,917 COVID deaths during the same time frame. Arizona, Colorado and Washington had similar rates for other causes of death. “You can split hairs on the demographics, but the big differences are the policy changes,” Will Humble, executive director of APHA and a former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, told the Arizona Mirror when asked if comparing the states was a fair comparison. Humble said that the report showed that Arizona’s failure to enact tougher
COVID-19 mitigation policies led the pandemic to be worse—and more people to die—than in Washington and Colorado. Both of those states enacted mandatory masking, and in Washington, all public employees are now mandated to get the vaccine. “They have thoughtful governors who put forward evidence-based policies,” Humble said. Ducey’s office did not respond to a request for comment. Ducey’s stance on masking has made him a target of political advocacy groups who have deemed him “anti-science” for his approach to the pandemic. Ducey has also continued to fight with cities and towns over their authority to man-
date vaccines for workers, threatening contempt and legal charges. “While we aren’t in a position to review this report’s methodology and thus comment on its assertions, we’ll note that ADHS has consistently recommended that Arizonans use masks, distancing and other mitigation measures to protect themselves from COVID-19, as per CDC guidance,” Steve Elliot, communications director for AzDHS, said in a statement to the Mirror about the report. “Arizona enacted strong measures involving high-risk businesses such as gyms, bars, movie theaters, and water parks. Bars that couldn’t operate as dine-in restaurants had to remain closed until conditions warranted lifting those re-
strictions. Masks and occupancy restrictions were some of the mitigation measures required for these high-risk establishments, with ADHS maintaining a complaint and inspection system to follow-up on reports of noncompliance.” To Humble, the report he and his colleague authored proves a point. That COVID in Arizona will continue to spread to those who chose to not protect themselves and that mitigation measures are the best approach. “The length of that line represents people that are no longer here,” Humble said, referring to a red line in the report representing COVID deaths. This article originally appeared on azmirror.com, a nonprofit news site.
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all it a power play for the palate. I wasn’t much of a hockey fan until my friend and local hockey maven Danny Plattner hosted me for my first Tucson Roadrunners game in 2018. The team was in first place, maximizing the thrill of the moment with what appeared to be a near-capacity crowd at the Tucson Arena, but it was the mere speed and spirit of the game that kept me on my feet. Another expression of the game’s spirit is the
Roadrunners’ commitment to community causes which will be evident in suds—er, spades—three hours before faceoff at the Nov. 13 home game. It’s called Hockey and Hops, a beer garden with 11 regional brewers that will pop-up outside the Tucson Convention Center prior to the game. Event proceeds will go to Roadrunners Give Back, a foundation that supports local non-profit organizations that promote healthcare, education, and cultural arts programs for children, servicemen and servicewomen in Southern Arizona. Local beer executive Tristan White has partic-
ipated in this event every year since its inception and is eager to return following the event’s pandemic-forced hiatus last year. “I think we’re really good at making beer, but the thing we’re even better at is getting in front of our customers and telling our story, and we’ve missed doing that over the past year and a half,” said White, general manager of Dragoon Brewing Company, 1859 W. Grant Road. “Our greatest strength is giving people an interaction with both our product and our brand, and the Hockey and Hops event checks a lot of boxes for us in that
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Julie and Ben Vernon of Crooked Tooth Brewing will be serving up their unique craft beer at Hockey and Hops. it’s Tucson, it’s community focused, it’s the perfect time of year, and it’s just plain fun.” White and his team will be pouring the flagship Dragoon IPA, the newly released and easy-drinking Dragoon Pils, and possibly the Palomino IPA, a limited-edition beer made with galaxy hops. As he approaches his brewery’s fifth anniversary, Ben Vernon also looks forward to engaging his customers at an event that he says brings our community together. “To be part of what the Tucson Roadrunners are doing to build our community up is the reason that we’re involved here,” said Vernon, co-owner of Crooked Tooth Brewing Company, 228 E. Sixth St. “Bringing sports to town is only going to make this community better, and we’ll always be a part
of any event that’s about bringing Tucson together and giving us all something to celebrate, in a shared space, in this cool town.” Crooked Tooth will be pouring three beers at the event—a Mexican lager, a sour made with tamarind, and a sour made with grapefruit, in the Paloma cocktail tradition, served in a glass with a salted rim and lime wedge. Other brewers participating in the event include Barrio Brewing Company, BlackRock Brewers, Borderlands Brewing Company, Buqui Bichi Brewing, Catalina Brewing Company, Dillinger Brewing Company, Grand Canyon Brewing Company, MotoSonora Brewing Company and Ten55 Brewing Company. Hockey and Hops is on Nov. 13 from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Individual tickets are $50 each, or $30 as an add-on
for Tucson Roadrunners season ticket holders. Your ticket includes access to the pre-game beer garden, 10 beer garden drink tickets, a Tucson Roadrunners commemorative shot glass, and a ticket to the game against the visiting Ontario Reign that starts at 7:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased at www.tucsonroadrunners. com/tickets/2021-hockeyand-hops/. I’m certainly not a hockey expert but I do know beer, and this event promises to be one heck of a beer barnburner. Contact Matt Russell, whose day job is CEO of Russell Public Communications, at mrussell@ russellpublic.com. Russell is also the publisher of OnTheMenuLive.com as well as the host of the Friday Weekend Watch segment on the “Buckmaster Show” on KVOI 1030 AM.
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Oro Valley Theatre Company returns with ‘Steel Magnolias’
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he arts continue to take center stage in the northwest with Oro Valley Theatre Company’s upcoming performance of the beloved play “Steel Magnolias.” This will be OVTC’s first live performance in more than a year and a half. But if you think this means they’re rusty, it’s quite the opposite — OVTC rehearsed weekly for “Steel Magnolias” over video calls for months, and returned for in-person rehearsals in September. All this rounds up to “Steel Magnolias” being one of the most anticipated, and
welcome, shows OVTC has ever put on. “We wanted to keep our cast feeling connected, which is what the play is all about anyway,” said OVTC director Judi Rodman. “We choose shows because we try to appeal to a general audience. And we’re sensitive to the fact our demographic is a little bit older, so we pick what we think they and a general audience would like to see.” “Steel Magnolias” is a play by American writer Robert Harling, and follows the comedy and drama of a group of Louisiana women. As the title implies, the female characters are both delicate as
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starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, as OVTC’s return to the stage because it’s focused on people coming together, bonding and friendships, saying that it “reflects how we’ve survived, and it’s what we need right now.” The show will have four performances throughout early November. In addition to the central cast of six, the play will also be put on by OVTC’s props designer, costume designer, tech director, light and sound, and sets designers. Since opening in 2017, OVTC has hosted six shows, all of which were held at the Gaslight Music Hall, except for one at Tohono Chul. OVTC was planning to present the play “Barefoot in the Park” when COVID hit, and they plan to return it in 2022. “We’ve had grand success working in partnership with the Gaslight Music Hall,” Rodman said. “They have very few stage
plays, so we are one of their links to the comedy and drama of traditional Broadway plays.” Director Judi Rodman has a long history with theatre, having previously started a theatre company more than 40 years ago in Illinois. She even met her husband during her first directorial job with the company. They still work together in theatre, as he acts in OVTC’s plays. Rodman moved to Oro Valley in 2007, but didn’t set up OVTC for a decade. “For the first few years, I was busy getting acclimated and meeting new people. Then it occurred to me that we live in a town that is dedicated to the arts, yet there was no theatre company,” Rodman said. “My first passion was theatre, and since there was kind of a vacant spot for theatre in Oro Valley, I actually approached town officials and colleagues, and everyone was enthusiastic about starting a theatre company here.” The non-profit OVTC works with a number of community members and groups, including the Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Gaslight Music Hall. In addition, they are always looking for auditions for their plays, and volunteers to help set the shows up. “Our goal is to nourish the heart and soul of Oro Valley and Marana by bringing theatre and arts to our community, for people both on stage and off-stage,” Rodman said.
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“Our mission has always remained the same. We’ve never changed that mission, but we are expanding with new sponsors and board members that represent other northwest communities.” Rodman points to a quote by American author Robert Fulghum for her selection of “Steel Magnolias,” and for the importance of bringing theatre to the community: “And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.” “It was such a tough year for everyone to get through this pandemic, and I will say as an avid entertainment buff, I’ve been to a few shows recently and the gratitude that emanates from the stage to the audience, and the mutual gratitude from audience to stage, is palpable,” said OVTC member Sasha Case. “I think when people can be together again and experience a story, song or human talent, it will be healing to the world.”
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Day of the Dead cookbook combines culture and cuisine for a spooky borderlands feast By Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media
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nyone who’s participated in a Day of the Dead parade knows how plentiful and unique the festivities are. In Tucson, the holiday is even more specialized. So in order to capture the various sides of Day of the Dead, a book would have to draw on numerous sources and cultures—and that’s exactly what a cook and photographer couple have done. In their new book “Dining with the Dead: A Feast for the Souls on Day of the Dead,” Mariana Nuño Ruiz and Ian McEnroe gather more than 100 recipes and variations to show the complexity and history of one of the Southwest’s favorite holidays. “Dining with the Dead” is both a cookbook and a cultural journey, teaching about food and drinks, but also the traditions, history and stories passed on by individual families. Research for the project took Ruiz and McEnroe throughout Mexico and they gathered recipes and history from libraries, local cooks, cultural historians and native
families. “The theme of the cookbook came from our editor Aaron Downey, who contacted us after stumbling upon our blog post about Día de Muertos,” Ruiz said. “Because Día de Muertos involves so much more than food, we knew the book needed to be structured differently from a regular cookbook. So we proposed a book that contained all the aspects of the tradition; from its history, origins, culture, and how Día de Muertos is celebrated today in Mexico.” Ruiz and McEnroe are currently based out of Austin, but Ruiz grew up in Mexico and drew on her own family’s traditions for much of the book. The couple began their work in 2016 with a trip to “the source” of Day of the Dead, Michoacán in western Mexico. Ruiz is a cook and McEnroe is a photographer, making them a team to collect and document the many dishes and recipes of the holiday. “For me, many of the recipes were like family heirlooms,” Ruiz said. “In Mexico, each place has its own customs and celebra-
tions. It’s very regional. For example, in Yucatan there’s a special tamal called pibipollo that is especially made for Dia de Muertos. In Oaxaca they use mole negro, and in Michoacán they use tamales with seasonal produce. Every state has its own celebratory food, and each family has its own traditions… For example with mole poblano, there can be more than 100 or 1,000 different recipes just in the city of Puebla.” Their research involved attending festivities at multiple cemeteries and cities throughout Mexico, as well as the Latin American Collection library at the University of Texas at Austin. “It was also amazing to have the opportunity to learn more about my own culture,” Ruiz said. “The most important thing for us was to ask people who were living the traditions. And that while we were there, we were able to experience it and learn more from them.” McEnroe and Ruiz worked on the book through 2019, cooking and photographing every one of the recipes. Ruiz also included her personal stories related
to the food and the holiday. However, just as they were preparing to print the book, the pandemic obstructed the process. McEnroe estimates the book would have been printed more than a year ago if not for the delay. As a result, the publisher created a successful Kickstarter campaign to support the book, released on October 15. “It’s hard to specify which of the recipes are my favorite. But if I had to pick a few, I’d say cochinita pibil from Yucatan is my favorite savory recipe. It’s a very delicious pork recipe with unique seasoning. And pan de muerto is my favorite sweet recipe. The pan de muerto recipe leaves you with something tasty that can be enjoyed on its own, or accompanying coffee or cocoa,” McEnroe said. “Those are the ones I come back to a lot, and I think other people would do well to try them at home.” Ruiz hopes that the book helps reconnect Mexican people currently living in the United States with their roots, saying that if they see a recipe in the book that their families used to prepare, it may help restart the tradition or maybe even form new ones.
“I think the overall concept of the book is important to understand. It’s really a journey through Mexican culture,” McEnroe said. “It’s certainly a cookbook first and foremost, but it’s been shaped and restructured to help an individual who is curious to take a journey into a culture that is beautiful. You can better
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understand how this tradition originated and how it resonates with the people of Mexico today.” “Dining with the Dead: A Feast for the Souls on Day of the Dead” is now available from Tucson-based Rio Nuevo Publishers. For more information, visit rionuevo.com
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Tech Talk: Unleashing copper’s antibacterial properties Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media
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ith a major research university right in our backyard, a strong military presence and innovative companies throughout the metro region, there’s often a plethora of interesting science, medical and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Here’s a breakdown of the most interesting recent developments. Copper Cure. The star in the center of the Arizona flag represents our
state’s history of copper mining, and now research coming out of the University of Arizona further solidifies the metal’s importance. In a paper recently published in the journal Microbiology Spectrum, UA assistant professor of immunobiology Michael Johnson describes copper’s advanced antibacterial properties. Of course, copper has long been known to be antibacterial. But this latest research shows how a special compound can be bound to copper to kill even antibiotic-resistant pathogens. The compound N,N-dimethyldithiocar-
bamate (DMDC) can be chemically bound to copper in order to kill streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacteria that commonly causes pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis. Pathogens like streptococcus pneumoniae rely on bodily metals as a source of nutrition, and have defense mechanisms in place to avoid metal toxicity. But binding DMDC to metals like copper prevents the pathogens from overcoming the toxicity. “As antibiotic resistance has risen, antibiotic development has fallen. As people are trying to
find more therapeutics, we can combine what we know about metals and what we know about certain antibiotics, and maybe find some great synergy,” Johnson said in a UA release. “We were looking for compounds that can bind to metal and act as a kind of toxic warhead to kill bacteria. It’s like a Trojan horse mechanism.” According to UA, researchers observed the effect in laboratory and animal models, but it has yet to be studied in humans. Copper, which is found naturally in vegetables and supplemented in vitamins, is well-tolerated by the human body. The amount of copper consumed is not important to fighting off infections. Rather, the goal is to “deliver the copper to the right place to rid the body of the bacteria.” “We are far away from a cure-all,” Johnson said. “There is a lot of research that needs to be done, which is why we’re trying to dig more deeply into the mechanisms to better understand how it works. This is a nice marriage between basic science and translational research that we hope has a big impact down the road.” Aerial Awareness. Universal Avionics, an aircraft technology company headquartered in Tucson, recently announced a new suite of sensors for flight crews.
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Researchers at the University of Arizona are studying how to use copper’s antibacterial properties to combat antibiotic resistant pathogens, including those responsible for pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis.
Titled “Aperture,” Universal Avionics reports that the family of products can process a variety of video and sensor inputs to deliver real-time content analysis, such as visual positioning, obstacle detection, taxi guidance and traffic awareness. Aperture works as a fusion of video and computer graphics, and is slated for delivery near the end of next year. “At Universal Avionics, we are continually leveraging the deep pool of technology and culture of innovation of the greater enterprise to advance our systems,” said Universal Avionics CEO Dror Yahav in a press release. “The Aperture suite of capabilities will establish a new benchmark in sen-
sor fusion, AI-powered augmented reality, and ultimately aircraft safety.” According to Universal Avionics, Aperture is planned to eventually expand to include additional video and sensor channels and low latency video aggregation and manipulation, large recording capability, and real-time data analysis and augmented reality for pilots and mission specialists. This capability will be powered by Universal’s proprietary Artificial Intelligence-based algorithms and is in active development in our research and development laboratories, with first generation boards and algorithms undergoing trials.
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Let’s All Go Back to the Lobby After a year on hiatus, the Loft Film Fest welcomes Tucson back to the movies Matthew Singer Tucson Local Media
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or Jeff Yanc, the best part of going to the movies is going to the movies. In other words, it’s not just about seeing a movie, but the communal experience surrounding it— gathering with strangers in a dark room, gazing up at the same screen, reacting in real time to whatever pops up on it and discussing its merits in the lobby afterward. It’s the guiding principle behind the Loft, Tucson’s premiere independent cinema, and especially its titular annual film festival, for which Yanc serves as co-director. And so, last year, when a certain global health crisis made gathering in any enclosed space inadvisable, he and the other organizers faced a hard choice: follow the lead of many other festivals and go virtual, or go dark completely. They chose the latter. “Our goal with the festival, in my mind, has always been about connecting audiences with each other and with film,” says Yanc, who also programs films at the Loft year-round. “That in-person component is really the driving force of the fest, because it’s not just about watching movies, it’s about being around people, which you can’t really replicate virtually. You can do Zoom discussions and
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“Holy Frit” tells the story of Tim Carey, who wins a bid to build the largest stained glass for a megachurch—and then has to figure out how to work in stained glass. chats and things like that, but it’s not the same thing, and we didn’t really want to do that. So we just skipped it entirely.” It was, in retrospect, the right decision, Yanc says. But for the local film community, the cancellation left a significant void. Since it started in 2010, the Loft Film Fest has sought to bring the best of the festival circuit to Tucson, culling from the likes of Sundance, Venice and Cannes and screening indie and foreign films that may otherwise never make it here. Again, though, it’s not just about the movies—the city has other film festivals, after all. Most of them, however, are dispersed among multiple venues, or aimed at niche audiences. Concentrated under a single roof, with a lineup ranging from intense dramas to light comedies to bizarre genre mashups, the Loft Film Fest is, for a week every year, the center of Tucson’s cinematic universe. To lose that, even temporar-
ily, stung, not just for the city’s hardcore cinephiles but the international filmmakers who rely on festivals to drum up buzz and get their work onto more screens. For that reason, this year’s installment, taking place Nov. 10-18, carries a bit more weight. While the Loft itself resumed indoor screenings in May, the return of the festival feels like a true homecoming—a confirmation that, after a year stuck watching movies from the couch, we can start actually going to the movies again. “It certainly has emotional significance, because it is a sign for us who work here of getting back to what we were doing before the pandemic,” Yanc says. “But I think it’s also just a signal that the industry of movie theaters and festivals is getting back. It’s a sign of health for the whole industry.” And when he says the festival is back, he means all-the-way back, not the half-in-person, half-digital
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“Chameleon Street” is more than three decades old, but its daring approach to Black film making is more relevant than ever. model adopted by many of the festivals Yanc attended this year. All 41 selections will screen exclusively at the Loft, either inside the theater or in the parking lot at its Open-Air Cinema, which the theater devised in order to stay afloat during the pandemic. Of course, given that the pandemic isn’t actually over, the festival won’t operate exactly the same as it has before. Capacity for the indoor screenings will be halved, and entry requires either proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test; masks must still be worn in the lobby and bathrooms as well. And then there’s the lack of bigname guests. In the past, the festival has managed to book several high-profile actors and directors, including Rita Moreno, John Waters and Roger Corman, for live introduc-
tions and post-screening Q&As. This year, the only person you’re likely to see onstage is Yanc. “In a normal year, a guest will drive what films we show,” says Peggy Johnson, the Loft’s executive director. “It’s really an interesting year to have it just be about the quality of the films.” That isn’t to say there aren’t any marquee names involved, however. The festival is bookended by two major draws: Parallel Mothers, the new melodrama from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar, and Julia, a crowd-pleasing documentary on beloved chef Julia Child. In between, there’s Kubrick on Kubrick, a film about the legendary Stanley Kubrick constructed around previously unheard audio recordings; The Humans, an adaptation of Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning play, starring Richard
Jenkins, Minari’s Steven Yeun and, uh, Amy Schumer; A Hero, from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012 for A Separation; and a screening of the Buster Keaton classic Sherlock Jr., featuring a live score from the American Harp Society and Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. But the best part of any film festival are the movies you never saw coming— those unexpected discoveries you would have otherwise never thought to see that end up sticking with you. Here are eight under-the-radar films that we’ll definitely be making time for. CHAMELEON STREET If the reviews quoted on its Wikipedia page are any indication, See The Loft, P14
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Chameleon Street just wasn’t made for the times it was made in. Sure, it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1990, but critics couldn’t wrap their heads around the movie’s digressive structure, and it struggled to find distribution. It eventually faded into a cinematic footnote, and Wendell B. Harris, Jr., who wrote, directed and starred, never got the chance to make another feature. But with daring, off-kilter examinations of the African-American experience now de rigeur at the multiplex, the world may finally be ready to embrace the story of a Black con artist who takes the concept of “code switching” to absurd new levels. This 4K restoration threatens to make Chameleon Street the next Sorry to Bother You—nevermind that it originally came out 28 years earlier. Open air screening at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10. HOLY FRIT Speaking of con artists, meet Tim Carey, an actual artist who, in 2013, effectively conned his way into a commission to create the world’s largest stained glass window for a Kansas megachurch, despite having no idea how to work with stained glass. Whoops. To get it done within the three-year deadline, he brings in the
amazingly named Narcissus Quagliata, described as the Michael Jordan of glass work, to assist, and their strained, intergenerational mentor-student relationship forms the center of Justin S. Monroe’s documentary. It looks like mad fun, but paired with Chameleon Street, it also sparks a conversation about who in society gets labeled a “scammer” and who is simply a “charming rogue.” That’s probably not the intent, but unexpected discussions are what all film festivals should aim to start. Open air screening at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11. THE NOVICE In this study of competitive drive gone way the hell overboard, writer-director Lauren Hadaway wrings white-knuckle tension from one woman’s obsessive desire to advance up the ranks of her school’s rowing team. Isabelle Fuhrman stars as a college freshman who essentially wakes up one day and decides to become a varsity-level athlete, pushing herself to physical, psychological and presumably ethical extremes to get there. Yanc singles out The Novice as one of his favorites of the festival, comparing it to other portraits of sociopathic striving such as Whiplash and Black Swan. It doesn’t have a trailer yet, so you’ll have to take his word for it, but if you’re a regular at the Loft, you already know you can trust
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him. Screening at 7:30 p.m. lows three women on the verge of breaking into the Thursday, Nov. 11. business, and while each subject has a different AFTER BLUE reason for doing so, just All film festivals need a stepping in the ring serves dose of madness, and this to challenge the toxic mabonkers-looking French chismo of the culture that production certainly surrounds them—a parseems dosed with some- ticularly bold statement thing. “An erotic sci-fi in Ciudad Juarez, a city acid western” is Yanc’s best notorious for its high rate shot at a neat description, of murder among womalthough from the looks en. It seems reductive to of it, “Nicholas Winding call this documentary “the Refn remaking Babarella true-life GLOW,” but the using the leftover catering sociopolitical overtones budget from Drive” might and beautifully shot grapalso work. In any case, as pling sequences should much as we all love Ar- appeal even to those viewgentinian family dramas ers who don’t know a tope and heartwarming com- suicida from a hurricanraedies about gardening, a na. Screening at 1:30 p.m. hallucinatory fever dream Friday, Nov. 12. featuring intergalactic bounty hunters searchFREELAND ing for a killer on a planet that’s inhospitable to male If the Loft gave out DNA is always a welcome acting awards, Yanc says diversion, particularly for the betting odds would a rowdy late-night screen- be on Krisha Fairchild, ing. A good deal of re- who stars in this mediviews note that the plot is tative drama as an aging tangential to the glittering, pot farmer struggling to lo-fi set design, throbbing adapt her business to the synth score and general legal use era. Indeed, the aura of stylish weirdness, trailer shows glimpses of and honestly, that just a performance so natumakes it sound even bet- ralistic it’s easy to mistake ter. Screening at 10 p.m. for a documentary at first. It might as well be one: Thursday, Nov. 11. Shot clandestinely on acLUCHADORAS tual illicit cannabis grows in Northern California, As any longtime fan Freeland tells a deeply of professional wres- relevant story, especialtling knows—this writ- ly for a newly legal state er’s hand is raised—the like Arizona. Yes, it’s great sport-cum-performance that weed prohibition is art can be a vehicle for gradually ending. But just more than campy enter- because the War on Drugs tainment, especially in is letting up, doesn’t mean Mexico, where lucha libre there aren’t still casualties. is part of the folk tradition Open air screening at 8 and not just a geek sub- p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13. culture. Luchadoras fol-
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STRAWBERRY MANSION If After Blue is like dropping acid with Alejandro Jodoworsky at the edge of space, Strawberry Mansion appears to be like ’shrooming with Michel Gondry inside a child’s playhouse. Set in a candy-colored alternate reality—or perhaps notso-distant future—where the government is allowed access to people’s dreams, an auditor visits a reclusive artist and starts rooting around in her subconscious, and what follows looks something like an ’80s Jim Henson production inceptioned into Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In the trailer alone, there’s a werewolf, giant talking rats in sailor outfits, a frog playing saxophone, a large caterpillar inching across the desert, comets with human faces and some kind of blue horned sea demon. The tone is more whimsical than wigged-out, but it’s still plenty psychedelic, so plan your “enhancements” accordingly. Screening at 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13.
CATCH THE FAIR ONE According to Yanc, an unofficial theme of this year’s festival slate is women fighting against the patriarchy, and no film takes that idea more literally than this revenge thriller from director Josef Kubota Wladyka and executive producer Darren Aronofsky—although in this case, “fighting” might be too weak of a word. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say it’s a movie about “beating the everloving piss” out of the patriarchy. Real-life boxer Kali Reis stars as a former Native American boxing champion in search of her missing sister, who ends up infiltrating a sex trafficking ring and punching a bunch of shitty dudes very hard in the ribs. Despite that synopsis, the intense, grim pallor of the trailer suggests something much heavier than a female-fronted flip on the Taken formula...but if it was just a female Taken, would that really be so bad? Screening at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17.
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hillip Steward is chiseled out of stone and is all the more imposing with the polo shirt that he apparently has painted on before each game. The Marana football coach patrols the sidelines from start to finish of the game—exhorting, cheering, teaching—as his surprising Tigers display, week in and week out, that they are one of the top two or three teams in Southern Arizona. He is originally from Missouri City, Texas, a Houston suburb. An all-around athlete, football came first, but he was also an accomplished basketball player. During the spring, he competed in track AND field, participating in the strange combination of the 100 meters, 200 meters and the shot put. Most sprinters who do field events will do the long jump, triple jump, and/
or high jump. Meanwhile, throwers are usually built like…well, throwers. Steward must not have gotten that message because he enjoyed throwing the shot and was good at it. “The one thing I couldn’t do was throw the discus. I wanted to throw it like a Frisbee and it wobbled all over the place.” His high school team, the Hightower Hurricanes, had a monster season his junior year, making it all the way to the state championship game. He was named All-District and All-State. He attended the University of Houston, where he was a four-year starter at linebacker for the hometown Cougars. He earned a degree in kinesiology and then it was on to pro football. He was with the St. Louis Rams organization for a time and then moved on to the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. His high-school teammate, Alonzo Highsmith, Jr., had played a year at Phoenix
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College before moving on to the University of Arkansas. After college, he went three straight years of making it to the final cuts before being released by the Dolphins, the Chiefs, and the Washington Football Team, respectively. He then decided to try something else and ended up the football coach at Willcox High School. Highsmith asked Steward to join him in the truckstop town that straddles I-10 in eastern Cochise County. Steward helped coach the football team and then was hired to coach the girls basketball team. “That was an experience,” says Steward. He doesn’t elaborate. When Steward’s fiancée was admitted to the University of Arizona Pharmacy School, they decided to move into Tucson. Steward got a gig teaching at Marana and volunteered to help with the Tiger football program. Marana struggled through a COVID-shortened, three-
game season. With its star player, Isaiah Roebuck, heading off to play college football and baseball in North Dakota, the future looked anything but bright. But then, Marana’s head coach left to take a job in Scottsdale and the position was open. “I was working out in the weight room and a bunch of the guys came in and said that they thought I should apply,” Steward remembers. He got the job and then got to work immediately. “We had to start by changing the culture,” he explains. “Change expectations and change the way we do things.” The summer was crucial. After losing most of the previous year to COVID lockdowns, the kids were antsy to get out and do something… anything. The entire month of June, they gathered by the dozens at the Marana football field. Beginning at 6 p.m. due to heat restrictions (and even then with the tempera-
ture still in the triple digits), they ran sprints, worked on technique, and began to raise the level of Tiger football. That work has carried over into the regular season, as Marana is one of the top-scoring teams in Southern Arizona, averaging more than 40 points a game. Steward is cautiously excited about his team that stands at 6-1 as of Desert Times’ Friday deadline and ranked in the Top 10 in the state in 5A. He wants more. If the Tigers can reach the eighth spot (or higher) in the AIA Power Points rankings, they will have a home game in the first round of State. (The AIA runs an open division tournament for the state’s top eight teams, regardless of classification. Right now, the top 5A team, Horizon, would be in that tournament, meaning that the Tigers would only have to reach the ninth spot.) The focus is clearly on running the table and finishing the regular season with a
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). One of the kindest things you can do for yourself is to tell everyone, with words and actions, “I’m busy and I don’t want to be interrupted.” It has been a while since you could do what you wanted to do for an extended period without reporting to anyone or being on the hook to solve their problems. Make it happen.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Motivation ebbs and flows -- a test. Push through the slump and you’ll show your motivation who is boss. Once you’re in motion, energy will build as you go. Soon, fickle feelings will be irrelevant to your process. You’ll get rooted in something deeper, and you’ll work when you tell yourself to work.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are worthy of connection even when you don’t feel particularly attractive or deserving. Feelings can lie. Try not to let all that striving for perfection you do keep you from experiencing the love and appreciation around you. It’s there whether you notice it or not. You’re loved just as you are.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Everyone has flaws. Your flaws, if you can accept them, pave the pathway to love. If you are afraid of being revealed in some way, consider bringing it into the light. You are not alone in your fears or quirks. By speaking them, you become impervious to isolation caused by secrets and silence.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your intensity is a gift that sometimes occurs to you as a curse. This much energy is difficult to manage, but you’re constantly gaining skill in the matter. This enormous need inside you can occur as a void when in fact it is an entity -- a possession along the lines of a vacuum or magnet, pulling in the vibrance of life.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The cost of a bigger perspective is giving up your footing in the current dynamic. You’ll have to decide which game you want to play and at what level you should play it. Unfortunately, you can’t have it all; you’ll have to choose. There are benefits to each side. So, what’s at stake? Is it worth making a change?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A good magician does not repeat tricks to the same crowd in the same show. A good comedian does not say a joke more than once. And you should not have to echo yourself either. Though you will be asked to perform like a circus seal this week, this will not reduce your artistry if you stay in charge of your act.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s better to have hopes delivered on than be imposed on by an unexpected circumstance you don’t know what to do with, even if the situation would be categorized by most people as favorable. The surprise of the week will not be fully unforeseen, which is what makes it all the more delightful.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You could be happier, but adding new elements is not the way. So, you’re relieved of the duty to wish, grasp, propose or ask. This week, the way to greater joy will be very easy because it is a process of subtraction. Say goodbye to clutter and the superfluous. Simplify down to the most fulfilling things you already have.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Everyone feels vulnerable at some time. Most people feel a degree of vulnerability every day. So the question is not whether or not you feel vulnerable; it is whether you consider your vulnerability to be a liability. Could you just accept it? If so, you’re also accepting a connection with others in similar straits.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). While there are luxuries you wish you could afford, the truth is, you most appreciate the bounty you already have. In fact, with a little planning, you could fill your days with your favorite simple luxuries. This week, you’ll be constantly thinking of how you can set yourself up for maximum enjoyment.
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