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Hear that vacuum suck from 1010?
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TUSD superintendent resigns under pressure from new board majority
CHOW
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SAZ Creole Kitchen & Cocktails serves up New Orleans inspired modernist fare
CITY WEEK
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Read our top things to do in Tucson and where to do them
ARTS & CULTURE
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The Rogue lifts Enda Walsh’s mythology of male
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It’s doubtful anything forthcoming from X-Men franchise will top Logan
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Foxx Bodies on the ‘Tucson wall,’ SleaterKinney and a life in L.A.
Watching Tucson Unified School District implode again and again hurts. I can’t help but wonder what the late Judy Burns would think of all this mess. Known for being at times a bit of a superintendent pain in her own right as a governing board member, I wonder if TUSD would be in this current mess if Burns was, well, still around. The current mess of having a board majority go out of its way to get rid of a superintendent wouldn’t have happened, I believe, if the last board majority did their job properly: questioning H.T. Sanchez more and not dismissing critics as either being haters, Grijavalistas or ignorant of the bigger picture. I understand why they stood in his corner so fervently at times. No matter what this new board majority says, Sanchez worked tirelessly for the board and the five-year plan he put together was finally seeing traction through some closure of the achievement gap and seeing important processes take root to address the district’s 40-plus year desegregation order. Even if I didn’t always like Sanchez, I happened to like the fact he went up to Crazyland to check in with the Legislature. It was about time a superintendent from our belittled district did exactly that. The new board majority could have worked with Sanchez, but they didn’t. And now, no matter how Mark Stegeman spins this, there is a real leadership vacuum at TUSD and another crisis unfolding with the people Sanchez left behind. There are some whose opinions I’ve respected in the past who wholeheartedly support the new majority’s methodology in ousting Sanchez. How sad. Thinking Michael Hicks and Stegeman offer the district real leadership is forgetting a past that, frankly, I can’t forget. During the height of the Mexican American Studies fight, I remember a Hicks who’d go outside during the governing board breaks and taunt students and community members
standing outside in protest. I saw Stegeman, as president of the board, allow important meetings to go on in the small 1010 boardroom rather than move to a larger space. I saw him lose absolute respect and control at a meeting while professor and activist Guadalupe Castillo was escorted out of the board room by four riot-gear wearing Tucson Police Department officers. I saw Stegeman at a state administration hearing, describe MAS classes as cults endangering students. Oh and don’t forget Hicks on the Daily Show earnestly describing bean burritos shared with MAS students as a way to brainwash them while they learned about Mexican-American history. No, these are not real leaders. To be fooled into thinking so means history is pointless. I’m hoping Burns can reach through the other side with some board lessons of her own to newcomer Rachael Sedgwick: Think for yourself rather then being pulled into majority think. It didn’t help Sanchez last year and it isn’t going to help the district now. The whispers coming out of 1010 may not be singing the praises of Sanchez, although many have shared with me that they respected him. The five-year plan was only two years in, they reminded me. It would have transformed the district, they’ve said. Maybe. I also understand resumes are being typed up as we speak, because a vacuum has been created by this severe lack of leadership on our governing board.
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POLICE DISPATCH
By Anna Mirocha, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING San Xavier Beat Feb. 16, 7:08 p.m. A man digging through a southwest-side Circle K dumpster was found wielding a car’s bumper as a weapon and yelling at everyone around him (apparently not due to the earplugs he was wearing), a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated. A customer told sheriff’s deputies that the man had been screaming obscenities and racial slurs at passers-by, also trying to fight customers and even threatening to injure them by throwing at least one heavy object he had in his hands. He was also apparently in possession of a big part of a metal car bumper, which he’d been waving around. The reportee said he personally hadn’t felt afraid of the man, but his “extremely odd behavior” made him worry for others’ safety. Deputies located the subject nearby in a wash, carrying “a coffee mug in one hand and a piece of a metal square tubing in the other.” Dropping these things, the man heeded their call to approach, but as he identified himself, he yelled, saying he’d been “just trying to go about his business, but people were messing with him.” Seeing that the man was wearing earplugs, deputies asked him to remove them—but the man kept yelling even after doing so. After he agreed to let them search him, on his person deputies found an empty cigarette pack containing a piece of a McDonald’s straw that one deputy identified as the sort of thing commonly employed to smoke heroin—but looked unused. Then, in a pocket of the man’s purple backpack, deputies found a black plastic bag containing a glass pipe with a bulb at one end, commonly used to smoke meth—but this, too, appeared to have never been used. The man said he didn’t use narcotics but had the pipe because “he just liked to look through it.” He was brought to jail for disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. LIPSTICK VANDAL? Foothills Area Feb. 9, 3:19 p.m. A woman who’d been evicted from an apartment complex was accused of using lipstick—not once, but three times—to mark up the car of someone else in the complex she apparently had beef with, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies were called to the apartments by the victim and his wife, who showed them the husband’s lipstick-besmirched vehicle. The reportees said the suspect was a young woman who’d recently been evicted from that apartment complex but still came by periodically to visit her parents. They said she’d actually admitted to vandalizing the husband’s car in a previous incident (though apparently not with lipstick). The suspect happened to be at the complex that day, so deputies were able to interview her, at which point she adamantly denied the vandalism, saying she didn’t even own lipstick—and indeed, she wasn’t wearing a speck of makeup on her face, nor did deputies find any lipstick in her car or purses, which she volunteered to let them search. The woman therefore wasn’t arrested, but she was told it would be illegal for her to ever return to the apartment complex, since she’d already been trespassed from the property when she was evicted. ■
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community, the faith-based community, the legislature and community leaders. Frequent traveling to the Arizona legislature in Phoenix was one of the things Sedgwick previously cited as being an issue she had with Sánchez. Sánchez seemed to foster those relationships Sedgwick finds important. Among his supporters were Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, who sent the board an email in support of Sánchez prior to the resignation, and Mike Varney, CEO and president of the Tucson Metro Chamber, who spoke at the Feb. 21 board meeting. Varney listed things he believed Sánchez achieved, including reducing class sizes, enH.T. Sanchez rollment declines, dependence on desegregation funds and administration costs while DANYELLE KHMARA raising graduation rates. He ended with a bit of advice to the board. “It is easy to nitpick and find fault,” he said. “How about doing some real work by coming together and uniting instead of constantly shuffling the deck?” The board will have an interim superTUSD superintendent resigns under pressure intendent very soon, said Board Member from new board majority Mark Stegeman, who voted for accepting By Danyelle Khmara Sánchez’s resignation. tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com “Time is of the essence,” he said. “People need clarity.” TUCSON’S LARGEST SCHOOL He said there’s no absolute list of qualifidistrict accepted Superintendent H.T. Sancations a candidate for superintendent must chez’s resignation at the governing board’s have but that knowing about the district, the Feb. 28 meeting after two highly contentious schools and the people is important. weeks. These are also qualifications Sánchez The Tucson Unified School District’s seemed to have down. Many supporters at newest board member Rachael Sedgwick the meetings leading up to his resignation brought the superintendent’s future with recounted times they saw him at school the district into question with a last-minute events and times he had personally helped agenda item on Feb. 13. It gathered enough their children. attention to pack the board’s meetings for TUSD employees threw a party in his three consecutive weeks. honor, four days after he resigned. There Community members voiced their concerns for and against Sánchez, with notably more people speaking in his support. It became clear, after the resignation was accepted with a 3-2 vote, that the board had no immediate plan as to who would replace Sánchez. They’re collecting names of interim and long-term candidates, Sedgwick said. “People have been reaching out, letting me know they’re interested, and they know of other people who are interested or qualified,” she said in an interview on March 3. She wouldn’t specify who these people were or what fields they’re in, but said that they’re very familiar with TUSD. Sedgwick said they’re looking for someone who will focus on “instruction,” which she clarified to mean raising student enrollment, student achievement levels and the percentage of TUSD funds spent on the classroom. The qualifications she’s looking for in a candidate includes being a “superstar” and “fabulous instructional leader,” as well as fostering strong relationships with the business
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were only three out of the district’s 87 school principals not present at the party where he received a standing ovation, said Board Member Kristel Foster, one of his vocal supporters. Foster called losing Sanchez “a tragedy.” “We were making such progress, and to cut it short right now—it’s a disaster,” Foster said. “It makes no sense why any elected official would do this to the district. As part of the resignation, Sánchez received a payout of $200,000, about half of what the district would have paid him if he’d stayed until the end of his contract in June 2018. The district was not achieving as it should be, said Stegeman. But he doesn’t blame Sánchez. He blames the board. “The board is ultimately responsible for everything,” he said. “The buck stops with the board.” Some of the things he sees as issues include overspending on central administration, over-management of schools, low student achievement, student discipline problems and poor customer service. The number of TUSD students who pass state assessment tests fell drastically since Sánchez became superintendent, as have the statewide test scores, according to the Arizona Auditor General. In that same time, classroom spending had a slight decrease and administration costs saw a slight increase. Stegeman would like to see an interim superintendent in place by March 14, and ultimately find someone who has “institutional, cultural values that align with the board.” “In six months, the district will be in a better place,” he said. ■
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U.S. Rep. Martha McSally is no fan of Planned Parenthood. McSally is a staunch opponent of abortion rights, opposing the procedure except in cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or if the mother’s life is in danger as a result of the pregnancy. And while federal funding for abortion services is already against the law, McSally has voted repeatedly to block the ability of low-income women and men to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic for any of the other services that Planned Parenthood provides, whether it’s treatment for STDs, birth-control prescriptions, regular checkups or what have you. Those votes haven’t had much impact yet because under current federal law, Medicaid patients are allowed to see whatever qualified healthcare provider they choose. That’s why efforts in Arizona and elsewhere to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics have been blocked by the federal courts. But with Republicans now in charge of both the White House and Congress, GOP lawmakers are pushing forward with plans to change the law to block any Medicaid dollars from going to Planned Parenthood or any other healthcare organization that provides abortion services in addition to other healthcare. That would mean that low-income patients—and we’re
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talking to anyone below 138 percent of the federal poverty level in Arizona who qualifies for AHCCCS—would no longer be able to go to Planned Parenthood. In her recent town hall, McSally defended her support for legislation that cuts off any funding for Planned Parenthood by repeating a line she and other Republicans have adopted: The funding will move to community health centers that can provide the same services that Planned Parenthood now handles. As McSally spokesman Patrick Ptak told the Weekly via email (shortly before he left McSally’s office and moved on to a similar gig with Gov. Doug Ducey last week): “There are only two Planned Parenthood facilities in Southern Arizona, while there are 28 community health centers. These centers offer all of the non-abortion services that Planned Parenthood offers, such as family planning and birth control services, and many services Planned Parenthood does not, such as mammograms. They also provide mental health care, WIC programs, children’s health care, vaccinations, pap tests, and more. In Southern Arizona these facilities provide care to nearly 160,000 people, significantly more than Planned Parenthood. Likewise, around the country, community health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities 18 to 1.” Given McSally’s push to shut down Planned Parenthood clinics in favor of community health centers, the Weekly asked her office on Monday, Feb. 27, to put us in touch with someone from a local community health center who would support the idea of taking funding from
Planned Parenthood clinics and taking over the job that Planned Parenthood does. As of Tuesday, March 7, McSally’s office had not responded to that request. From what we hear (and the reps from community health centers we spoke to wouldn’t go on the record because they are also fighting for their financial lives as GOP lawmakers work on repealing the Affordable Care Act—and to her credit, McSally has been supportive of maintaining elements of the Affordable Care Act that helps keep their doors open), that’s because community health centers don’t want to cannibalize Planned Parenthood, which plays an important role in the healthcare system. Here’s the reason that many women and men choose to go to Planned Parenthood for their sexual health needs: Planned Parenthood has a reputation for specializing in those areas. And often, people don’t feel comfortable using their primary-care physician to deal with questions about sexual health. Some are embarrassed, some are ashamed, some had one-night stands they’d rather not tell their primary-care doctor about. Planned Parenthood provides confidential testing and counseling that people trust. As high school student and Planned Parenthood patient Deja Foxx, who asked McSally about Planned Parenthood funding at her town hall, later said in a prepared statement: “The answer I received concerning Planned Parenthood was, essentially, that I should go somewhere else for the care I need. This answer is ignorant of the close bond Planned Parenthood has with the
young people in our community. Planned Parenthood is where many of my peers and I feel comfortable and encouraged to ask questions; it is the care provider of choice for many Arizonans, especially young people. In not supporting Planned Parenthood, Martha McSally is doing the youth of Arizona a great disservice. The actions of GOP lawmakers surrounding defunding Planned Parenthood concerns me not only in that they are threatening to take care directly away from me and so many others, but also in that they clearly are not listening to the voices of my generation.” Planned Parenthood’s most recent online annual report, covering 2014-2015, showed that the organization provided 4.5 million tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, 3.6 million contraception related services, 935,573 cancer screenings including breast exams and Pap tests and 1.1 million pregnancy tests and prenatal services. And the organization remains popular, according to polling data: A January 2017 Quinnipiac survey showed that 62 percent of 1,190 voters nationwide opposed cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, while 31 percent supported cutting off funding. When pollsters asked if voters knew that none of the federal funding went to abortion services, support for funding Planned Parenthood jumped to 80 percent. Polling has shown similar support in Arizona. Planned Parenthood released the results of a December poll of Arizona voters that showed 60 percent had a favorable view of Planned Parenthood, while 30 percent did not. The Global Strategy Group survey of 600 likely 2018 voters had a margin of plus or minus 4 percent. “People don’t go to Planned Parenthood to make a political statement,” said Jodi Liggett, vice president of public affairs of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, in a prepared statement. “They go there for affordable, quality health care. In Arizona alone, more than 33,000 of people are provided with health care services. Without Planned Parenthood, thousands in Arizona would be left with nowhere else to go. Our supporters aren’t going to let that happen.” ■ After a brief paternity break, Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel returns to the airwaves this weekend. The programs air at 5 p.m. Sundays on KXCI, 91.3 FM and at 1 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. Sundays on KEVT, 1290 AM.
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By Gustavo Arellano, themexican@askamexican.net
Dear Mexican: A Mexican man recently broke up with me. We had great sex, but a somewhat distant relationship. Anyways, the reason he left me: his immigration status. He says he can’t “be with me mentally” because he’s somewhere else mentally—that’s to say, not knowing where he might be living in the next days and months is really bothering him. Aside from the fact that he can’t find work now because of Efile. I’m trying to find closure. It’s only been a few days since he left me but I’m struggling with finding peace in myself. My friends say things like, “You’re better off without him” and “Things happen for a reason.” I miss him, miss the great sex (adventurous, great oral, got very close to anal) and most of all, I miss the idea of him. He’s liberal politically, helps his family here and in Mexico, he’s a good person, helps others and he’s very organic. I forgot to mention he has beautiful long hair and is “como un tren,” which means he’s solid like a football player and made me melt when I touched his “guns.” Please help me deal. —La Heina No More Dear Ya No The Chick: Man, you know Trump is destroying lives when Mexicans can’t even have sex with gabachas anymore without deportation on their mind (quick thought, gents: Think of 45’s blobbish physique to hold out just a bit more). It seems like the two of you had a great relationship outside of el sexo, and he’s obviously concerned about the livelihood of him and his fellow undocumented friends and family, so don’t take it personal. The most important thing right now is for you to be there for him, even if he’s unavailable physically. Protest whenever the inevitable migra raids inflict terror on the barrios in your city. Bombard your congressman and senators demanding they oppose Trump’s wall of shame. Donate to nonprofits designed to help out people like your hombre. Remember: The most important body part of his to have right now is his back. Oh, and #fucktrump This past Thanksgiving weekend for me was a bit surreal. I’m born and raised here in the beautiful city of Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles and decided to visit my mother in Arkansas, where she recently moved with her new husband (her husband is from the state of Guerrero!). Before my boyfriend
(who is white) and I arrived my mother, told me that they (her husband’s family and friends) were going to kill a goat in honor of me and my boyfriend’s arrival and have a huge fiesta on Saturday. I thought she was pulling my leg. Thursday, we had the traditional turkey; come Friday evening, there was a weird stench coming from the back yard of the house. My boyfriend and I noticed that my mom’s husband and his friends were preparing the goat. Mind you, my boyfriend and I only eat three meats in our diet—chicken, beef, and a little bit of pork. Someone told me that this tradition happens in many places in the world and the type of animal they kill in your honor depends how important you are. So do Mexicans really do this, or am I just super special with my family? —Turning Vegetariana Very Soon Dear Gabacha: I have always maintained that only the world’s superior cultures go crazy for goat. That means that the GOATs of the world are Jamaicans, Vietnamese, Korean, Pakistanis, and, of course, Mexicans. If your ‘billy mom is now with a guy who’s immersing her in the art of cabrito, consider yourself blessed. That he and his compas slaughtered a goat in your name is nothing but respect. “Weird stench”? Watch your manners—and be glad they didn’t make you a taco bowl. ■ Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican.net. be his fan on Facebook. Follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano or follow him on Instagram @gustavo_arellano!
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TUCSON SALVAGE OLD PUEBLO MURALIST ROCK ‘CYFI’ MARTINEZ ON GRAFFITI CULTURE IN 2017 AND THE DISMAL GLINT OF CELEBRITY By Brian Smith tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com
WHEN BEYONCÉ PIMPS YOUR work on her socials and when Apple appropriates your imagery, you’re into a heightened cultural pop lexicon. It’s what happened after muralist/ graffiti artist Rock “Cyfi” Martinez created a Prince mural on red brick in Minneapolis last year and pics of it went viral. He’d said his purple-hued, white dove stunner—done in streetweaned spray-can art—was “a gift to Minneapolis.” It certainly was. He remembers turning around at one point while he was working on it to a sea of people watching him, like he was some global DJ. A pop star on a pop star. “It was insane.” Clearly Martinez is uncomfortable talking about this. Not the work—he grew up a Tucson b-boy, and Prince (and Michael Jackson) were two of his main musical figureheads as a kid— more the whole idea of a graffiti artist as a star. Graffiti is about anonymity by tradition partially because it’s mostly illegal. No matter how evolved an artist he is, or how much adoration is showered upon him, Martinez says emphatically that he “lets the art speak for itself. There are already way too many people with their bullshit selfies …” He nods at the contextually vital and nearly completed mural he’s working on on Stone Avenue in Tucson, which he calls Electric Desert, and explains his work in two simple sentences: “As a graffiti artist, letters are the most important. This is graffiti without the letters.” It’s a Thursday afternoon and Martinez is standing in a middle lane of Stone Avenue wearing Nikes, a zip-up sweatshirt, jeans, four-day growth and black-rimmed specs. There’s a rare afternoon lull in traffic. He’s focusing on the bright desert flora in his mural, which is awash in the brassy, bleak afternoon sun. He tilts his head, shakes the spray can like habit, and nods slightly to some internal conversation, and says, “You’re gonna flip.” He bounds back over the curb to the sidewalk, scales the ladder and with exacting precision sprays trails of grayish paint onto the surface, and the
Belton paint smells briny and sweet before the wind gets it. Martinez is entirely engrossed in his work rhythm yet talks of grace and beauty of “long Arizona shadows” and how if you take time to discover them you’ll actually see this city and desert differently. After a minute, he hops from the ladder, steps backward to the curb, and as a city bus passes within inches, he says, “See?” I do kind of flip. The Spanish-colonial façade of this old flower shop built in the ’30s, which is part of Plants for the Southwest nursery, is utterly transformed. It’s illusionary; the shadows Martinez just added are unnoticeable unless you look specifically for them, but the new depth is certain. It’s realism on a lovely, deliberate frieze. Such touches are Martinez hallmarks. He darts across the street for another angle. “Booyah!” he shouts. Then he begins talking of triadic colors and personal palettes, but I ignore all that because it’s his work that gets me. This colorful collage involves brightly hued, psych-out desert succulents and flowers, a skull, a black widow, agave, saguaro, even peyote. Like others Martinez has done in Tucson, it offers spectacular little vortexes of light, or the impressions of light, which Martinez creates off stems and tentacles with shadows, and they soothe yet sort of soar off the concrete three-dimensionally and settle into your unconscious. There’s heft and subtle strength and you remember it well. It shows why Martinez is so damn desirable, in Tucson and all over the country, and, lately the world. This particular mural was commissioned by the nursery, and co-owner Gene Joseph tells me they gave Martinez little guidance, because “they wanted him.” They were fans of his work. People who don’t know him fall in love with his art so often he averages three commissions from each single piece of work. Owners of the Shift Performance car tune up place across from the nursery hit up Martinez while I’m there. They want a mural to grace three up-sliding industrial doors. Martinez is so busy he’ll likely decline the offer, which would be lucrative. The artist is flying to Philadelphia in a week or so, and then Paris and then North Dakota. He’s got one
Rock “Cyfi” Martinez at his mural on Stone Avenue.
due for the City of Tucson too, and an art show in Minneapolis, “inside where the Prince mural is.” And, he recently returned from Mexico, where he was invited to represent the U.S. to paint graffiti there. artinez’ work is not so-called “street art”—that overly branded, Madison Avenueized faux graffiti that’s been used to sell everything from burgers to cars—and he’s careful to make the distinction. “That’s why you have people pulling Banksy’s off walls,” he says. “I don’t hate Bansky. I hate Banksy followers. Or some mural artist who puts his name on his T-shirt. That shit is the wackest fucking shit because you’re promoting who you are, you’re not promoting what you’re producing.” His murals and the field of graffiti arts is similar to filmmaking. Because film studies have been around so long everyone’s a genre expert. Highly literate auteurs are able to reference countless on-point filmatic allusions to the giants who’ve come before, but are also trapped by the rules—whether they follow or defy them—and recent releases are telling: John Wick 2 with action, Nocturnal Animals with noir,
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Split with horror, La La Land with musical. Martinez’ work is rich in tradition: In the post Exit Through the Gift Shop world where Haring and Basquiat and Banksy are household names, graffiti artists face the kind of dilemmas of following or defying, or at least acknowledging in some way the innovators who came before. Martinez understands this, struggles with the illegal/ethical aspects of tagging but understands how it beautifies. Like Haring, Basquiat and Banksy, he struggles with the celebrity aspect. Graffiti DNA is New York City and subways; it’s black America, not ancient Greece. His reveals bits of Mexican mural art too, tracing back to the ’20s, when murals were created with messages to be understood by underprivileged populations. Martinez is a graffiti artist by tradition and proud of it. He knows the rules well enough to push beyond them. The boyish 36-year-old has been graffiting long enough—and he’s skilled enough—so he doesn’t come off sounding pretentious when talking about the work. But he takes it seriously.
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Rock Martinez’s Electric Desert mural at Plants for the Southwest nursery on Stone Avenue.
He’s accommodating in conversation, articulate in an autodidactic way; he’s super self-aware and says only what he wants to say, is deceptively intuitive, picks up on my next question sometimes before I ask it. He listens closely, politely, never interrupts. Instantly likeable. When I try to call him out on the seriousness I realize he’s too sincere to be called out on anything; dude’s refreshingly unironic. He never talks of his work as “his vision.” He just laughs and shakes his head at that thought— he’d never be so gauche. His is the antithesis of Trump life, of social-media cacophony, of an on-demand, it’s-an-all-me world. Art defines us still, he believes. It must, “now more than ever.” He pulls from the world right here, and he finds beauty in desolation, in places people aren’t even looking, in desert wildlife and vegetation too, managing to paint the feminine and the soft into unforgiving desert scenes and parables. He sweetens the harsh. There’s conflict in his choices of certain images, too, or how you see those choices; the skulls, black widows, peyote, UFOs. His is often about seeing the undersides to things, discovering some other narrative that no one else is paying attention to, or seeing, or feeling. His crowning achievement in Tucson is its largest mural, the 55-foot high “Mayahuel (Goddess of Agave)” on Seventh Avenue on the west side of the historic Tucson Warehouse
and Transfer building, part of Martinez’ Cactus People series. There’s the 1,500-square foot Dia De Los Muertos mural of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, south of Mercado San Agustin near Cushing Street, which also stuns. The self-described perfectionist gravitated young to graffiti writing and art, came up spraying illegally. He got popped once tagging trains and had to cough up $11K in fines. He had to rethink his program. “I didn’t study in my studio very safe,” he says. “I risked everything for my artwork. And I learned how to scale things by applying myself. We’re out there painting trains, we’re out there painting billboards. But we’re trying to produce something beautiful, not destroy anything. “If you didn’t earn your stripes on the street, you’d get beat up,” he continues. “And if I didn’t paint trains I wouldn’t know how to do this. I might be old-school now—some kids might not respect me—but I’m remaining relevant. I’m old-school because I’m using a spray can. I’m not using stencils or a straight edge. I have no projectors. This is all in the traditional way of painting, and murals. I remain true because I’m not trying to sellout a culture and seeing what I can get for it. I don’t have to paint my name for somebody to pay me.” If he did I’m guessing it’d mess with his integrity, sort of like a great singer resorting to Auto-Tune for the hit. Martinez avoids talk about the mon-
ey he commands for legal murals, but says he no longer worries about food on the table and so neither does his 12-yearold son Ezekiel. Martinez talks of his son as often as he talks of his father, which is a lot. Fatherhood’s a theme. Graffiti was all about getting up in the most highly visible areas. Now he’s much more particular about where he paints, and what the images are saying, what the message is saying to a city as a whole, and to himself as a man, as a father, and a son. “Tagging is expression,” he says. “Is it wrong? Yeah. So is driving a car too fast. If I ever get busted doing graffiti, fuck it, I’ll take BRIAN SMITH it like a man. And if my son saw me in jail he would know it’s because I was doing something I believed in.” Martinez was born to a white mother and an Aztec and Yaqui dad, and has six siblings, and three more little ones who were adopted. Dad works blue-collar for the City of Tucson, and Martinez talks of his father often in conversation, says “he’s the best Martinez there is—he’d give his shirt off his back.” Credits his old man for instilling in him a work ethic. Dad’s a traditionalist, in his work and life. He works hard, and tries to contribute to a greater good. Martinez has certain pride: “I like that I’m deep-rooted Tucson,” he says. Rock (yes, Rock is his birth name) Martinez was mostly a nerdy breakdancing kid who “drew pictures all the time” and grew up in Hispanic neighborhoods in Tucson. He got picked on often, once getting tied to an ice-cream truck. “Look, I have a lazy eye, I wear glasses. Weirdos and freaks are my people.” For a number of years earlier in the aughts Martinez brought local kids, gangbangers and nationally known graffiti artists together in Tucson for his yearly Winta Fresh fest (and sometimes corresponding Summer Fresh). The city gave him so much shit it wasn’t worth it. “I was bringing all these people together for one day to create art. Nobody got shot. Nobody got hurt. Know what I mean? I was doing it for the city of Tucson.”
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He had his own shop too, Art Terrain, and it moved locations before shuttering. Once a drunk driver smashed into it. (“I never saw any money.”) He met people he really looked up to through his shop, like Chris Rush, Titus Castanza, Luis Mena, David Tineo. Folks who “pushed my boundaries.” He taught art to atrisk kids for years in a City of Tucson program. (“Those kids were awesome, and I learned through my teaching.”) He’s done countless Old Pueblo murals—from tattoo parlors and flower shops and brewers and walls and sides of buildings. “When Michael Jackson died, I painted illegally on the Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins location, I pulled my cans out of my trunk and wrote ‘Who’s Bad.’” Shit did get bad: his business dried up, he split with the mother of his son, he got a DUI. He was depressed. With a son to raise and no one showing interest in his art, Martinez bailed for Oakland. Three days later he got a call to do a book cover in Los Angeles, which led to a tour, and soon was painting for High Times’ Cannabis Cup. He painted murals in Boston, Baltimore, all over the east coast, and that led to lucrative commissions, and when he came home to Tucson the work was rolling in. Now he splits time between Minnesota (where his girlfriend Brandi Kole lives) and Tucson where Ezekiel lives with mom. He’s consistently traveling, commission to commission, and we talk of Tucson and the little money here for work in arts. Contrary to city boosters, Tucson isn’t doing all that well, and Martinez says he can’t earn the money here like he can in Minnesota and elsewhere. “But,” he adds, “I can paint the city. And the world.” t’s the first Sunday evening in March and I stroll past Martinez’s finished 20’ by 40’ mural on Stone Avenue, and ideas pop out unexpectedly, images I’d missed too. It demands attention. A purposefully leaning saguaro of gentle jade calms. Shades of pink and cerise blend into tips of desert flowers and melancholy rises. A green skull tall as a five-year-old with purple shadowed eyes reminds me of Martinez’ ideas of the circle of humanity and how his Tucson family lineage traces back to the 19th-century people of Fort Lowell. I think of these things now that I see them, even though I stared long and hard at this mural as Martinez was creating it—him moving with that kind of quickness that only inspiration can dictate. ■
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U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
Author Hernandez solves the mystery of the unknown deportees lauded in famous Woody Guthrie song
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uthor Tim Z. Hernandez had heard the haunting Woody Guthrie song “Los Gatos Canyon (Deportee)” all his life, but he never paid it much mind. “It’s one of those American songs that’s always there in the background,” he says by phone from Fresno. He started to pay attention to it in 2010 when he doing research for his last novel, Mañana Means Heaven. “I was looking into Woody Guthrie,” the award-winning author explains. “I was looking for the atmosphere of the ’30s and the Depression.” But it was a 1948 news article, buried in an archive, which caught his attention. “32 Killed in Los Gatos Airline Disaster Yesterday,” screamed the headline in the Coalinga Record. The story recounted that on January 28, 1948, a flight carrying 28 deportees, three crew members and an immigration agent, had exploded in the air. Burning bodies and pieces of plane fell onto the rocky floor of Los Gatos Canyon in the remote mountains east of Big Sur. Not one of the 32 people on board survived. While the four dead Americans—the pilot and co-pilot, the stewardess (the pilot’s wife) and an immigration officer—were named in the article, the 28 Mexican farmworkers who died on their way back home were not. As Guthrie, inspired by the news coverage of the tragedy, would write in his lyrics,
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“You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane/All they will call you will be deportees.” Like Guthrie before him, Hernandez was struck by the papers’ nearly universal omission of the dead farmworkers’
names. For Hernandez, the question was personal. He was the grandson of Mexican farmworkers, and he felt a connection to these people who had labored in America’s fields. Who had they been, he wondered. Where were they born? Who did they love? “I thought, if someone could find those names, it could be a book, fiction, with one chapter for each person.” He wasn’t thinking that that someone would be him, but he was nudged into the project when he discovered that the 28 Mexicans were buried in a graveyard near his Fresno home. “Holy Cross Cemetery is practically in my backyard. I went there and stood over a mass grave. It was so moving.” Even the cemetery officials hadn’t bothered to find out who they were burying back in 1948. In the cemetery register, instead of names, a clerk had handwritten the words “Mexican National”—28 times. “I thought oh my God, an anonymous marker was all they had,” Hernandez says. The story of how Hernandez tracked down the names of the dead and found their families ultimately became the author’s fifth book, All They Will Call You, published in January by the UA Press. Described as a documentary novel—a blend of oral history, historical research, music history and Hernandez’s fictionalized imaginings of the lives of the plane crash victims—the book has met with critical acclaim. Hernandez has made appearances on NPR, C-span and other outlets, and he’ll speak at four
Tim Z. Hernandez at the Tucson Festival of Books Giving Voice to the Unheard UA Library - Special Collections 10 a.m., Saturday, March 11 Book Signing University of Arizona Press, Booth #241 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saturday, March 11 Collective Amnesia Pima County Public Library/Nuestras Raíces/Presentation Stage 1 p.m., Saturday, March 11. Race in America Koffler Room 204 10 a.m., Sunday, March 12 Workshop: Gathering Stories -Turning Testimony Into Books (Writing with Tim Z. Hernandez) Workshop on gathering stories from our own families, friends, and communities, and turning these stories into fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Integrated Learning Center, Rm. 151 1 p.m., Sunday, March 12
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different panels at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. Most poignantly, Arlo Guthrie, Woody’s son, wrote that the “names— now etched in stone in a far-off graveyard—have become friends who will travel with me as long as I am walking.” The book, which took six years to research and write, was a long slow slog of detective work, says Hernandez, a professor of creative writing at University of Texas at El Paso. Several cemetery workers helped him early on by getting the names from the bureau of vital records, only to find that the list was rife with errors. It wasn’t until two years in that Hernandez has his first real breakthrough. “I was looking naively,” he says. “I had no investigative journalism experience.” Finally, Juan Esparza, a reporter at Vida en la Valle, a bilingual paper in Fresno, wrote a story about Hernandez’s search, and implored readers who had information to contact the author. It wasn’t until three weeks later that Jaime Ramírez emailed Hernandez. His grandfather Ramón Paredes González and his great-uncle Guadalupe Ramírez Lara, he said, had both died in the crash. Hernandez was thrilled. “Even just his email answered many of my questions,” he says. “The family did know about the crash. Jaime grew up with its history.” Hernandez sat down with Ramírez and his brother Guillermo, and they told him all they knew about their hardworking forebears and their lives on the California farmworker circuit and back home in Guanajuato. They even gave him a love letter that Ramón had written to his beloved wife, Elisa, not long before his death. They also provided what would become Hernandez’s Rosetta stone: an accurate list of the dead published in 1948 by a Spanish-language newspaper that also gave places of origin and names of family members. With that information, Hernandez tracked down families and friends. In California, he learned about the genial baseball player José Sanchez Valdivia, who would toss balls after a day of picking sugar beets. In Mexico, he met the children of the dead, now grown old. Guadalupe’s elderly son Fermin fondly remembered how his father always held his hand when he was a little boy. The ancient Casimira Navarro López wept
as she told of losing her sweetheart, Luis Miranda Cuevas, to the airplane crash al Norte, just days before their wedding was to take place. Hernandez wrote just as fully about the Americans who died. A lengthy section is devoted to the young pilot, Frank Atkinson, a World War II hero flyboy, and his bride of eight months, Bobbie Atkinson, the daughter of a refugee mother who’d fled Poland. And Frank Chaffin, the 63-year-old immigration agent, descended from someone a lot like the migrant farmworkers who were his prisoners on that plane. Chaffin’s ancestor was John Howland, a lowly English laborer who came over on the Mayflower as an indentured servant to work in America’s fields. “We’re all immigrants at one stage,” Hernandez says. “It’s almost like we have amnesia when we forget that. “This book is an opportunity to cut through the immigration rhetoric we drown in every day. It’s an opportunity to speak about the people behind the abstraction. These people are human beings. They have names. These are men and women who loved people and had families, people who had hopes and dreams.” **********************
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The Witnessing The first telling of it would come from the locals. Even before the Coalinga Record’s managing editor, F. J. McCollum, arrived on the scene and began taking interviews, the people of Coalinga had already begun the telling. There was a ten-party phone system. “All ya had to do is pick up the receiver and listen in, and you’d get a scoop of the details,” said one old-timer. The lines were blazing with first- and secondhand accounts of the crash. The Coalinga Record reported: “Long-distance telephone lines from San Francisco, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the state were overloaded into Coalinga. . . . The first call, within a few seconds after the crash, came from the farmer line to the Prison Camp. As soon as the call came in to Coalinga for the ambulance and the fire equipment, a representative of the Coalinga Record and Henry Stuart of the Stuart Photo Shop departed immediately for the
scene—” From the Hernandez Valley, through the canyon, and into downtown Coalinga, the ice-cream parlors, knitting circles, and rowdy crowds on Whiskey Row were recounting the details as they were unfolding. The first reporters were oilmen and cattle ranchers, schoolteachers and farmworkers. Word of mouth was the original broadcast. And then came the cameras. The first one on the scene belonged to a man named Henry Stuart, a hired eye for the Coalinga Record. Stuart was a Canadian immigrant who’d set up his photo shop in Coalinga. He heard the call come in on the ambulance line and, along with McCollum, was on the scene almost immediately. Stuart photographed the wreckage up close, while the embers were still ascending. Then he went and stood atop the ridge and panned out as far as he could, in an attempt to capture the totality. He did his best to adjust the aperture delicately to document the angle of light just right, so that someone viewing these stills, six decades later, would get an idea, not only of the images, but of the sensory reality whole. But his heart was racing. His hands trembled. The work was compromised. Some of the images are nothing but smoke, as if in a cloud. Photographs taken too close. Strange abstractions. Blobs of black and gray. Empty spaces. Gaps that invite the mind to make their own meaning. If you look close, closer yet, you find shapes, objects amid the shadow and light. Like a Rorschach test, you come to discover the darkest recesses of your own imagination. A scrap of the engine’s propeller, at first glance, suggests a human appendage. But no, it’s a propeller after all. A skeletal gear. A bone of skyship. Stuart’s camera doesn’t shy away. Later that afternoon, before the darkness settled in, Stuart retreated to his office in downtown Coalinga. Alone, he reviewed the details of what his trusty camera captured. And then he made choices. Which ones would go to print that evening. Which would be sent off to the United Press International’s San Francisco office. And then, which ones would never, ever see the light of day. It was from these images that F. J. McCollum’s article, the first media report of the plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, would soon unfold. But there was still one more eye. The second camera on the scene was actually not on the scene, per se. It belonged to the Fresno Bee, and was partnered with a staff reporter sent
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from the main office. The Bee assigned their ace writer, Joe Smith. While Joe kept his feet firmly planted on Los Gatos Canyon soil, he convinced cameraman Lew Hegg to get a bird’s-eye view of the crash. Remarkably, only a few short hours after Los Gatos Canyon had devoured an airplane whole, Lew Hegg went flying over the canyon in an airplane. He boarded with cameras slung around his neck and from only a few hundred feet up he pressed his equipment against the window, adjusted his lens, and fired off round after round. “There,” he pointed to the pilot, “get me over there, lower.” The pilot dipped lower still, tilted the plane, and circled back. Those on the ground kept looking upward, nervous at the sight of yet another skyship making loop-the-loops overhead. The pilot did this maneuver several times, until Lew was satisfied he had gotten all the shots he needed. “Home,” Lew said. “That oughta do ’er.” And from these two cameras, the right and left eye, the images would make way for the media’s telling of the story. F. J. McCollum was the media. A tall, brawny man, he was a robust character, whom locals referred to as Mr. Mac. The grandson of Scottish immigrants, he was a take-charge kind of reporter with the grip strength of a bull rider. It didn’t surprise anyone when thirty years before he purchased the Coalinga Record and made himself the editor and publisher of the town’s only source for news. To read the entire excerpt, go to tucsonweekly.com.
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You can’t make history alone: Juan Felipe Herrera on poetry rallies, villages and more By Teré Fowler-Chapman | tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia
Award-winning poet, professor and children’s book author Juan Felipe Herrera is the first Latino U.S. Poet Laureate. His work addresses the multidimensional plight of migrants, of class and of language. Tere Fowler-Chapman talked with Herrera ahead of his appearance at this weekend’s Tucson Festival of Books. What’s your favorite thing to remember? My favorite thing to remember is singing Mexican ballads with my mom.These were songs about the Mexican Revolution.There was one we always sang called “El Corrido del Contrabando del Paso” (The Ballad of the El Paso Contraband). It’s an early song she taught me when I was a child. It’s a song about Mexicans getting apprehended at the border, has a great melody of course, and has a lot deep messages.You know, Mexican ballads are just like distributing the newspaper. It’s a story. I checked out your NPR interview where you said your mom would break into poem. Do you have a poem from your childhood that shaped you into the son you are today? I don’t remember the lines but it was a poem about starting life in a little brown house underneath an apple tree and then the story takes you through a journey and you end up coming back to that little brown house. It was a very sweet poem. It was so sweet that in sixth grade I had memorized it and was going to read it instead of a project report that everyone had to do. I got tangled up though. I thought I had to wear a tux to read it. So I went to downtown San Francisco and looked around and found a tuxedo shop
on Market Street. I stood across the street in front of the tuxedo shop trying to figure out how I was going to rent a tuxedo with $10, which is all I had in my pocket. The farthest I got was across the street, staring at the shop. So I went back to the default project and read a report instead of the little brown house poem.This was back in 1961. I had the intention of doing it [reading the poem], I just got tangled on that tuxedo idea. Those darn tuxedos. I wanted to look sharp. Imagine wearing a tuxedo? That would’ve been cool. Definitely. It’s still a mystery ... the poetry tuxedo. “The Poetry Tuxedo.” I love that. I wanted to take this opportunity to personally congratulate you on your first and second terms as U.S. Poet Laureate. What a time. You and Barack Obama creating history in the same breath. Overdue history, but history nonetheless. Thank you. I was a part of it.You are a part of it.You can’t make history alone. So, I have to ask, in your opinion how did we get here? From the nation working together to make history to the Trump Administration. Well ... you know without making a comment about Trump, let me just say you are right.You’re right about things changing in the last year. How did we get here? We all got here by agreeing on many things.We always end up where we end by the choices we have made for a long time.
Speaking of here. At the Festival of Books. Let’s talk about “Because We Come From Everything”— a space addressing the relationship between language and human migrations. How can we support undocumented folks in our communities? We have to get into action.We have to speak up and reflect on what we can actually do.What can you actually do? Writing, having discussions, going to the most urgent area of what’s taking place. Sanctuary is a very key thing right now. Hearing this makes me think of my favorite poem of yours, “Almost Livin’, Almost Dyin’”. Besides the rich truth that is your poetry, what can the people expect from you at the Tucson Festival of Books? They can expect a feeling of community.We used to say poetry readings. I feel like they
Juan Felipe Herrera On Saturday, March 11 at the Tucson Festival of Books, Herrera will be reading throughout the day: 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. University of Arizona Press Booth #241 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Social & Behavioral Sciences Tent, Booth #241 (Seats 100, Wheelchair accessible); 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Pima County Public Library/ Nuestras Raíces/Presentation Stage (Seats 150). are becoming poetry rallies and poetry villages where there is a lot of nurturing and strengthening of our sense of community. Teré Fowler-Chapman is a gender non-conforming poet, educator and founder of Words on the Avenue. Find out more about his/her/their work at terefowlerchapman. com
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By Juan Felipe Herrera
19 Pokrovskaya Street My father lights the kerosene lamp, his beard bitten, hands wet from the river, where he kneels to pray in the mornings, he sits and pulls out his razor, rummages through a gunnysack, papers, photos of his children in another country, he cries a little when he mentions his mother, Benita, and his father, Salomé, who ran a stable in El Mulato, Chihuahua, eyes cast down then he points to the mural on the wall, the red angels descending to earth, naked mothers with bellies giving birth, lovers in wrinkled green trousers, and a horse with the figures of children laughing on its back, a goat floats across the night, a flank of tawdry farmers unfurl into a sparkling forest moon where elegant birds sit on snowy branches, here is a miniature virgin where the yellow flames light up the village one dancer carries fishing poles and easels with diamonds and other jewels as colors, my father is silent when he sees these things cut across my face. Let Me Tell You What a Poem Bringsfor Charles Fishman Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries, yes, it is that easy, a poem, imagine me telling you this, instead of going day by day against the razors, well, the judgments, all the tick-tock bronze, a leather jacket sizing you up, the fashion mall, for example, from the outside you think you are being entertained, when you enter, things change, you get caught by surprise, your mouth goes sour, you get thirsty, your legs grow cold standing still in the middle of a storm, a poem, of course, is always open for business too, except, as you can see, it isn’t exactly business that pulls your spirit into the alarming waters, there you can bathe, you can play, you can even join in on the gossip—the mist, that is, the mist becomes central to your existence. The two above poems are excerpted from Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera. Copyright ©2008 Juan Felipe Herrera. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Arizona Press. This material is protected from unauthorized downloading and distribution.
Say blood man You telling me everything is all right, the church in progress, the state in process our army with ant noses, the forced potato bridal cake without pubis, the altar smelter this language in the sausage, this remedy with razors, that is, with plutonium, this atomic ventricle going into a rap about love you know, the All, the Hood, the Rule, my constant pouring urinal machine, astute vested, armed to the lung, one nerve shows your nipple dangle, shoo-bop, is that you telling me, with you ripped mandible at the newsstand stomping on a baseball a bit of sugar, a wafer found on the way you say, this cube little crystal theory big bang from Kentucky beheaded, on the road she was, you do say, she was, as always inside a five-gallon jug, stuffed, the confession in regalia, bluegrass anthems, the crime sublime, dandy. Excerpted from Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream by Juan Felipe Herrera. Copyright ©1999 Juan Felipe Herrera. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Arizona Press. This material is protected from unauthorized downloading and distribution.
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from home a generation ago. The look of SAZ exudes New Orleans but it is the food and drinks that will send you into a time when we moved a little slower and enjoyed life with a while-away ease and aplomb. One thing that Tiffany and Robert want to be clear on is the difference between Cajun cuisine and Creole. SAZ likens itself to the Creole factor, meaning elevated food for the more well to do folk hailing influences from the Caribbean, Ireland, West Africa, Spain, Portugal and, of course, France. Creole food has a refinement for it where Cajun has a more down home appeal coming from setters with limited means and having to use what the land and rivers provided. Without pretention, but rather with a calm confidence, SAZ radiates genteel Louisiana charm. Eldridge, who originally hails from Salt Lake City, cut her bartending teeth by learning from her older sister who has helped open wildly successful bars and high-end speakeasies in New York and Philadelphia. After opening a popular cocktail lounge here in Tucson, she eventually paired up with JAM Culinary Concepts with a vision to create a bit of a time warp for the senses. With the help and skills of chef Iaccarino, they transport you to an era when it was okay, if
not necessary, to savor the better things a quaint neighborhood establishment can provide. SAZ opens at 8 a.m. daily and serves breakfast till 11. If you have ever been to New Orleans, then you must have had a beignet. No, of course you did. Those puffy fritters made from deep fried dough are a staple and they are done to perfection here. Dusted lightly with sugar, they are the one item that has the Arcadian background served but you can’t call yourself a Louisiana influenced spot without serving beignets. You also need to try their selection of benedicts and pancakes, in particular the pecan option that is served with a vanilla bean glaze and cream cheese which is an early morning decadence after possibly imbibing in too many of the restaurant’s namesakes. For lunch, one should start things off right with their fried green tomato plate that comes paired with a delicious bronzed baby shrimp sauce which is tart and sumptuous before diving into one of SAZ’s imaginative takes on the infamous Po’ Boy sandwich, either fried shrimp of oyster, that is finished with a Creole remoulade. There is also a selection of inventive salads as well if you are gearing towards a bit of lighter fare. At night, while sipping on one of the house specialty cocktails, you can nibble on oysters with three different finishes of your choice, a hearty shrimp or vegan gumbo, spicy jambalaya and their signature dish, Chicken Royale, which is seared in a well-seasoned cast iron skillet and completed with the chef’s creamy Creole béarnaise sauce and served with tasso ham infused Barabant potatoes. The food, of course, is extremely delicieux but it is the cocktails that make the whole SAZ experience a heady necessity. If you are looking for something boozy, order the Fan Boat, crafted with Jamaican rum, which is copper pot distilled giving it a slight metallic, yet tongue hugging good, flavor, mixed with lime, mint and the Italian bitter Aperol. A very grown up and spirited drink. If you are patient enough and are craving something sweet, there is Tiffany’s take on the Ramos Gin Fizz, infused with lemon, cream and orange blossom water. The snowy peak of refinement, is a perfect example of New Orleans attitude to remind us how good life can get. ■
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BEER CELEBRACIOUS The good folks at Tucson Hop Shop came on top at the Great American Beer Bars competition. Conducted by CraftBeer.com, this local favorite was recognized as the Best Beer Bar in Arizona. Readers chose Tucson Hop Shop based on atmosphere, staff, beer selection and events. More than 7,000 votes were cast nationwide during the voting period. Got to http://bit.ly/2m8G6X9 to read each bar’s profile. The bar, beer garden and bottle shop opened in 2015 at Metal Arts Village and owners David and Jessie Zugerman are throwing a party to celebrate the recent honor on Saturday, March 11, from 5 to 11 p.m. “Our customers are the best. They come in to meet with their families and friends, they bring their puppies, and even their records to play on the turntable, and they just make all the hard work worthwhile,” Jessie says. “We owe them a great deal of gratitude for making this award happen for us.” The party coincides with Metal Arts Village’s monthly Full Moon Open Studio nigh. There will be live music with Titan Valley Warheads on the main stage, as well as folk-duo Melody Pond in the beer garden. They will even have commemorative glassware available and $2 off all growler fills. Tucsonhopshop.com BEES, GLORIOUS BEES If you love food, especially growing it, most like you’ve always had a love for bees and maybe a secret desire to keep a hive or two in the back yard to support these important, as well as endangered pollinators. And honey. Don’t forget the honey. If you’re ready to make the commitment, but don’t know where to start, you can sign up for a class on Saturday, March 11, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Southern Arizona Workspace (403 N. 6th Ave.). The Basics of Beekeeping with David Benton, teaches the basics and goes over the two main beekeeping hives: langstroth and top bar. There will be a honey tasting. All levels of experience are welcome. Ticekts are $20 and are available on Eventbrite. FOOD TRUCK FUSION Tortas, the delish Mexican sandwich tradition, has been taken to new heights with Gigi’s Fusion Food Truck. Our favorite is the Choriqueso with chorizo, avocado and jack cheese. This food truck wonder brings Mexican and Peruvian flavors together along with other Latin treats. Give them a try at Arizona Beer House (150 S. Kolb Road) on Friday, March 10, from 5 to 10 p.m. We are certain the Choriqueso goes well with an IPA and probably any of the dozens of beers this beer spot has on tap. ■
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CHOW SCAN Chow Scan is the Weekly’s selective guide to Tucson restaurants. Only restaurants that our reviewers recommend are included. Send comments and updates to: tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com or call 797-4384.
KEY PRICE RANGES $ $8 or less $ $ $8-$15 $ $ $ $15-$25 $ $ $ $ $25 and up. Prices are based on menu entrée selections, and exclude alcoholic beverages. FORMS OF PAYMENT V Visa MC Mastercard AMEX American Express DIS Discover DC Diner’s Club Checks local checks with guarantee card and ID only TYPE OF SERVICE Counter Quick or fast-food service, usually includes takeout. Diner Minimal table service. Café Your server is most likely working solo. Bistro Professional servers, with assistants bussing tables. Full Cover Multiple servers, with the table likely well set. Full Bar Separate bar space for drinks before and after dinner. RESTAURANT LOCATION C Central North to River Road, east to Alvernon Way, west to
Granada Avenue downtown, and south to 22nd Street.
NW Northwest North of River Road, west of Campbell Avenue.
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CONTIGO COCINA LATINA NW 1745 E. River Road. 299-1730. Open MondaySaturday 5-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Contigo adds a touch of class and chic to Tucson’s restaurant scene with delicious Spanish, South and Central American-inspired dishes and inventive cocktails. Serving up twists on classics from these regions, Contigo puts a focus on sustainably sourced ingredients. With lots of seafood and vegetarian options, there’s something for every palate. (8-19-10) $$$ DON PEDRO’S PERUVIAN BISTRO S 3386 S. Sixth Ave. 209-1740. Open Monday-Saturday 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Bistro. Beer and Specialty Drinks. DIS, MC, V. Don Pedro’s, a transplant from Rocky Point, Sonora, is a big part of the growing Peruvian-cuisine scene in Tucson. With mild flavors and quick, friendly service, it’s a tasty vacation for your palate from the sea of southside Mexican-food restaurants. (3-3-11) $$ INCA’S PERUVIAN CUISINE NE 6878 E. Sunrise Drive. 299-1405. Open TuesdaySunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. DIS, MC, V and checks. Inca’s is the place to go for a twist on the usual meat and potatoes. Warmly decorated with friendly service and delicately spiced food, Inca’s offers dishes that are truly unique. The pollo entero (whole roasted chicken), the ceviche mixto and the pisco sour are can’t-miss hits. Make sure you make a reservation. (4-1-10) $-$$ TUCSON TAMALE COMPANY C 2545 E. Broadway Blvd. 305-4760. Open MondayFriday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The Tucson Tamale Company offers a great origin story: Intuit executive decides to follow a dream by starting a tamale business in the middle of a heinous economy. The Tucson Tamale Company also offers some delicious food: Try the Santa Fe tamale, with pork loin, green chiles, cheddar, tomatoes and garlic. Vegans and those with gluten allergies have plenty to eat here, as the masa is gluten-free. Get a dozen tamales to go; they reheat easily and quickly in the microwave. (3-12-09) $
NE Northeast North of River Road, east of Campbell Avenue. E East East of Alvernon Way, south of River Road. S South South of 22nd Street. W West West of Granada Avenue, south of River Road.
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KIMCHI TIME C 2900 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 186. 305-4900. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Sunday 4-9 p.m. Café. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. As you would expect from the restaurant’s name, kimchi is the star at Kimchi Time—and it’s good stuff. Adventurous diners will love the bibim bap and the kimchi chigae (kimchi soup with pork and tofu), while unadventurous types will love the katsu and the bulgogi. Go there; the five complimentary kimchi plates served with each meal are worth the trip in and of themselves. (9-27-12) $$ KOREA HOUSE E 4030 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-4377. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9:30 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Bulgoki of fire and flavor, and mouth-watering grilled beef ribs, Korean-style. Good noodle soups, also. $-$$ SEOUL KITCHEN E 4951 E. Grant Road. 881-7777. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.9:30 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. Seoul Kitchen dishes up quick, affordable and authentic Korean food with a smile. The crab puffs are a can’t-miss item, and be prepared to be overwhelmed with tasty side dishes and banchan plates. Portions are generous, and the food is delicious; you definitely won’t leave hungry. (2-11-10) $-$$
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5 POINTS MARKET & RESTAURANT C 756 S. Stone Ave. 623-3888. Restaurant: Open daily 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Market: Open daily 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/ Beer and Wine. MC, V. This quaint, quiet place south of downtown provides a spot for neighbors to grab a few groceries as well as a tasty bite to eat. Serving brunch dishes, sandwiches, soups and salads, all from locally sourced ingredients, the owners are bringing sustainability to a neighborhood that is in the throes of gentrification. The food is tasty and the service is friendly, but it can get busy and they don’t take reservations. Be prepared for a wait if you’re with a large group or it’s a weekend morning. (5-8-14) $$ EUROPEAN MARKET AND DELI E 4500 E. Speedway Blvd., No. 36. 512-0206. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. A smattering of EasternEuropean beers, wines, sweets, liquors and other groceries makes this market/deli unique. Fast, friendly service and tasty classics round out the menu along with a wide selection of deli meats and cheeses. (1-29-09) $ LEE LEE ORIENTAL SUPERMARKET NW 1990 W. Orange Grove Road. 638-8328. Open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. . Lee Lee Oriental Supermarket is far more than an average grocery store. With thousands of products that span the globe, along with fresh produce, meats and seafood, you’re sure to discover some new favorites. Thuan Kieu Vietnamese restaurant (open daily, 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., café) has an extensive selection with really fresh, tasty ingredients, and Nan Tian BBQ (open Wednesday through Monday, 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., counter) serves up all kinds of barbecued delicacies, from chicken and duck feet to whole roasted suckling pigs. (5-6-10)
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Tucson Festival of Books. Readers, rejoice! The Tucson Festival of Books is back with more than 350 authors, panel discussions, science talks, cooking demonstrations, activities for kids and so much more. Among the big stars this year: The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, T.C. Boyle, J.A. Jance, Craig Johnson and Luis Alberto Urrea. Come find out why people flock from all over the country and even the world for this festival. The two-day event is 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11 and Sunday, March 12. University of Arizona. Free.
Theater
Kinky Boots. Zip up your own thigh-high boots and strut to the UA campus to watch this iconic Broadway play. See how a new shoe factory owner and a drag queen realize they’re not so different after all, set to the tune of music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. Ages 10+ recommended. March 14-16: 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 17: 8 p.m., Saturday, March 18: 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday, March 19: 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. $30-$100.
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A day at the races. Feeling lucky? Spend the day at Rillito Downs, the birthplace of quarter horse racing some 74 years ago. It’s the sport of kings, so why not be king for a day? Gates open at 10 a.m., races begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 11, and Sunday, March 12. Rillito Park Race Track, 4502 N. First Ave. General admission is $5, clubhouse admission is $10. Free for active-duty military and vets on Saturday; free for first responders on Sunday.
Cinema
Daughters of the Dust. With the 25th anniversary of this film’s premiere, it’s the perfect time to show off its restoration here in Tucson. This highly praised drama on African tradition and the lives of African American women was a major influence on Beyoncé’s latest video album, Lemonade. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14. The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. Free.
Beekeeping
The Basics of Beekeeping. It’s no secret that bees are vital to our ecosystems, but with the influx of aggressive Africanized bees, homeowners have plenty of anxiety when a hive is established in their backyards. If you want to learn what to do when a colony lands in your yard or have a hankering to learn more about beekeeping in general, this should hit your sweet spot—as should the honey tasting. Catch the buzz from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, March 11. Southern Arizona Workspace, 403 N. Sixth Ave. $20.
Running with the Irish 5K. Get into the St. Patrick’s Day spirit early this year by participating in this race—and don’t forget your green running shoes. Participants will run along the Aviation bike path and the top 100 runners receive a commemorative mug. Proceeds benefit the Kick Cancer for Stephen Foundation, an organization that supports pediatric cancer research and helps children and their families affected by the disease. Enter by March 4 to receive a free T-shirt. Register on race day or online until March 9. The starting pistol goes off at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at the intersection of East Ninth Street and North Fourth Avenue. Registration fee is $30.
Music
Blackalicious. In this age of Trumped-up liars, we turn to the hard-earned wisdom of the street corner prophets, seek solace in the Church of Hip-Hop. And who better to preach than Gift of Gab, with his spiritual themes, bringing rap back to its mid-’90s positive vibe shit. “Never let life’s troubles block your flow/Have faith, and get where you’re trying to go/Like a winding river in search of the ocean/you must keep your faith in motion.” You can roll a phatty and envelope yourself in Chief Xcel’s feel-good production, augmented by the African rhythms of “Imani” or the simple and direct groove of “The Blow Up.” Or you can listen stone sober (it’s very possible), and try to follow Gab’s dense and prodigiously spit lyrics, “While I’m all well what a wise wordsmith just/Weaving up words, weeded up on my work shift.” Testify! Friday, March 10 at Hotel Congress. 8 p.m. $15. 21+. The Regretts. What if a band could capture the glam of the Supremes, irreverence of L7 and the dust-kicking honesty of early Liz Phair and shake it like a can of Old Milwaukee? Picture that and you might have the Regrettes, an L.A.-based quartet starring three perfectly imperfect women and one lucky dude. Standing barefoot in a sequined dress, frontwoman Lydia Night calls it off: “Sometimes I’m pretty
Cultura Nights, International Women’s Day. Come celebrate the cultural, political and social contributions all women make to our society with this night full of food, music, dance and art. Speakers will also present on the many beautiful intersections of what it means to be a woman today. Girl power! 6-9 p.m. Thursday, March 9. Global Justice Center, 225 E. 26th St. Donations appreciated.
and sometimes I’m not.” The chesty pop-punk hooks and throwback production recall late great Exploding Hearts. The band nails its harmonies, craft a comely blow-up doll of a three-minute pop only to revel in poking her full of holes. They’re more excited to show off their pimples than their pretty, flawless cover-up. “I’ve got … an ass full of stretchmarks and little boobs and a nice full belly that’s filled with food.” Yeah! Celebrate the kickass honest distaff fun on Sunday, March 12 at PoMoRo, 933 N. Main Ave. With Broken Field Runner, The Otos, Bummer and Spider Cider. 7 p.m. All ages. Roselit Bone. Like a rickety chair, Roselit Bone pulls you in with lilting, dust-bowl melodies. The off-kilter rhythms and eerie minor harmonies make you rock back so far you might lose balance and slam your head on the cold, hard ground. More Americana gothic than new grass, the pedal steel and flute accompanies throwback-and-hollah vocals that offer an uncanny nostalgia for the desolation and danger of life on the range. Reminiscent of Colorado’s 16 Horsepower, or that old Tillie Olsen novel (oh, go read a damn book!), Roselit Bone are unafraid to cram nine folks onto a shoebox stage, the horns and piano filling out their often menacing revival sound. Monday, March 13, at The Flycatcher. With Sweet Ghosts and Ex Cowboy. 9 p.m. Free. 21+. Maszer. If you leave Temple service humming, or you love post-Dimebag Darrell headspin riffage, or maybe you just want to watch a woman summon the spirit of Lane Staley (we mean that in the best possible way) with the grace of Mazzy Star, Maszer is not to be missed. A stellar hybrid of Israeli and American influences, with Tel Avivborn guitarist Tomer-David Rapaport and Seattle frontwoman Katie Blackstock, this heavy pop quartet hammers home repetitive melodies and hypnotic (yes, hypnotic) drum fills that harness essences of Jewish music, while inviting you to get lost in the fuzzy buried chants of Katie’s fromthe-gut vocals: “Here, have no fear/Angels on the earth, they will surely come.” Tuesday, March 14 at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress. With Foxx Bodies and The ExBats. 8 p.m. Free. 21+. AZ Jazz Week. In a jazzy mood? Come catch the last couple days of this event featuring “Mezzo Monk” and “A Night with Terell Stafford.” The first concert will be performed by the Dave Valdez Chamber Ensemble, featuring Angelo Versace, Brice Winston & Chris Finet. The final night, acclaimed trumpet player and music educator Terell Stafford will share the stage with the UA Studio Jazz Ensemble and UA faculty. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9 and 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 10. Crowder Hall, 1017 N. Olive Road. Mezzo Monk is free; A Night with Terell Stafford is $15-$35. So You Think You Can Mix? Can you create a sweet mix of killer beats so good it could alter the rhythm of heartbeats in an entire audience? Think you’re badass enough to tap into emotions of listeners? In other words, can you mix up the musical medicine? If you think you can, then ply your DJ skills against other Tucsonans and see what happens. The rules are easy: submit a 20to 30-minute mix by your alias and judges will evaluate all the work and choose five finalists to perform at this event. Each finalist will have 45 minutes to show their DJ skills, and a winner will be chosen. Big cash prizes and a Numark NS6 DJ controller are at stake. You’ll also get a second time slot as the main headliner. You must be 17 or older to participate or attend. 7 p.m. Saturday, March 11. Solar Culture Gallery, 31 E. Toole Ave.
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CITY WEEK SPECIAL EVENTS EVENTS THIS WEEK
2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN Free events take place throughout downtown from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., the second Saturday of every month. The main stage on Scott Avenue just south of Congress Street features an eclectic mix of music and dance performances. A free concert also takes place on the roof of the Pennington Street Garage, 100 N. Scott Avenue; and, at 5:30 p.m., a family-friendly film is shown in the kids area in the historic train depot. Jazz fusion, African, hip-hop and soul music are featured in La Placita Village, 110 S. Church Ave. Street activities include mimes, buskers, stilt-walkers, living statues, car clubs, food trucks and vendors. Visit 2ndsaturdays.com for more information including an entertainment schedule and site map. Second Saturday of every month, . ECOBREAKS SPRING BREAK CAMP! Tucson Audubon Mason Center. 3835 W. Hardy Road. 209-1811. Immerse your 8-12 year old in a fun and educational outdoor Spring Break camp with live raptors, games, and hiking. 9am-4pm March 13-20 and 20-24. Lunches and snack provided. March 13-24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $165. 262-1314. http://www.tucsonaudubon.org/what-we-do/education/476-ecobreaks.html abennett@tucsonaudubon.org GATHER A VINTAGE MARKET Gather: A Vintage Market. 657 W. St. Mary’s Road. 780-6565. Gather A Vintage Market’s theme for the March market is “The Elements of Spring.” This is a 4 day, once a month event. Thu., March 9, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Fri., March 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat., March 11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sun., March 12, 10 a.m.-3:15 p.m., 0. 878-7215. http://www.GatherAVintageMarket. com GatherAVintageMarket@gmail.com GREAT DECISIONS IN TUCSON Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Eight-week foreign policy program to encourage thoughtful discussion relating to current global challenges. The first session is a meet and greet orientation. Attend one or all. Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Continues through April 6, 0. http://www.library. pima.gov/locations/BCN/ LUCK BE AN ADDY TONIGHT - THE 36TH ANNUAL TUCSON ADDY AWARDS GALA Casino del Sol Event Center. 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. Start Spreading the News! If Advertising’s your bag, have a ring-a-ding time at the 2017 Tucson ADDY Awards® as we turn Sin City into Win City! Sat., March 11, 5 p.m.-12 a.m., Rates vary, please see event description for details. 326-1060. http://aaftucson.org/meetinginfo. php?id=120&ts=1485806068 membership@aaftucson.
org MIND, BODY, SPIRIT FAIR Mystic Candles & Metaphysical. 6546 E. 22nd St. 7211011. Afternoon of readings and reiki healing-there will be a variety of different Psychic Readers, Reiki Healers, and Locally Crafted Items. Visit website for list of vendors @ www.mysticcandles.org Sat., March 11, 1-7 p.m., $20 per reading/session. http://www.mysticcandles.org mystictucson@gmail.com OPEN HOUSE - CLASS A COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE CLASSES HDS Truck Driving Institute. PO Box 17600 800-2185825. Class A CDL Open House every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. Also, test drive a Big Rig! 6251 S. Wilmot Rd. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Free. 877-205-2141. http:// www.hdstruckdrivinginstitute.com/tucson-cdl-trainingopen-house/ train@hdsdrivers.com REBELLION PRO WRESTLING’S CALL OF THE DEMON Midtown Bar and Grill. 4915 E. Speedway Blvd. 3272011. On March 11th Rebellion Pro Wrestling holds its fifth pro wrestling event at Midtown Bar & Grill, located at 4915 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85712. Sat., March 11, 6:30-9 p.m., $7. https://www.facebook.com/ events/735685293254297/ bookings@rebellionpro.info SATURDAY TOUR & TASTING Hamilton Distillery. 2106 Forbes Blvd #103 628-9244. Visit Hamilton Distillers every Saturday at 3 pm for a tour of the distillery and malthouse, plus tastes of all 3 whiskies! Tickets are required to reserve a spot. Saturdays, 3-5 p.m., $20. 628-9244. info@hamiltondistillers.com SECOND SATURDAY VINTAGE POP UP SHOP Flash In The Past Studio. 43 S 6th Ave 304-0691. Second Saturdays in Downtown Tucson just got a lot more swell! Our Vintage Pop Up Shop will feature vendors each month selling all things vintage, pin up and retro! Second Saturday of every month, 3-8 p.m., Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/1691942934453241/ flashinthepast@live.com SOCIETY OF MILITARY WIDOWS Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. 2600 S. Craycroft Road. 228-1110. monthly meeting,luncheon of society,military widows at noon wednesday march 15 ,ironwood club,davis monthan air force base. reservations,informations 10days prior date of event 520-574-6628 Wed., March 15, 12-2 p.m., $12.00. 574-6228. tknitezinaz@webtv. com TUCSON ROCKS THE ROE The Studio Space. 4648 E. Speedway Blvd. 520.891.3981. Come and join your local LuLaRoe Consultants for a PoP Up! We will have styles that you can try on! Door prizes! Wardrobe Giveaway! And More!
Sat., March 11, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., $0-$70. 240-4315. https://www.facebook.com/events/1829469164000413/ rebecca0619smith@gmail.com USA NATIONAL MISS ARIZONA STATE PAGEANT DoubleTree Hotel at Reid Park. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200. You could represent Arizona at the 2017 national finals! Join us for an amazing pageant weekend at the USA National Miss ARIZONA State Pageant where we will crown 6 winners March 11-9, Email for details!. arizona@usanationalmiss.com
BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW) FEATURE POLYNESIAN CULTURE AND THE INFLUENCE IN THE DESERT WITH LIVE DANCERS YWCA’s Frances McClelland Community Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave 5208847810. Make luncheon checks payable to AAUW-Tucson Branch, P.O. Box 40822, Tucson, AZ 85717. Non-members should E-mail: programaauwtucson@gmail.com or call619-654-7509 for luncheon cost. Sat., March 11, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., $20 members. 622-0905. http://tucson-az.aauw.net maxie4350@ gmail.com AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW) TO HOLD POLYNESIAN CULTURE LUNCHEON SAT. MARCH 11 YWCA Tucson. 525 Bonita Ave. 884-7810. AAUW Tucson Branch will feature Polynesian culture,desert influence with dancers. Checks to AAUW-Tucson Branch, P.O. Box 40822, Tucson, 85717.Non-members E-mail: programaauwtucson@gmail.com for luncheon cost. Sat., March 11, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., $20, Members. 622-0905. http://tucson-az.aauw.net maxie4350@gmail.com CARIDAD CULINARY TRAINING PROGRAM Caridad Community Kitchen. 845 N Main Ave 8825641. Free culinary training program for qualified individuals. Committed to learning, working hard and changing? Consider our program. Ongoing application process. Learn more and apply online. Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Free. , ext. 7404. http://www.caridadtucson.org caridad@communityfoodbank.org CONQUISTADOR TOASTMASTERS Tucson Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000, ext. 106. For over 90 years Toastmaster clubs have provided a supportive environment to increase communication and leadership skills. Find out what Toastmasters can do for you. Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., Free. http://5858.toastmastersclubs.org DEMOCRATS OF GREATER TUCSON
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Democrats of Greater Tucson. 400 N Bonita Ave 6097641. The Democrats of Greater Tucson is Arizona’s only weekly forum for Democrats. Every meeting has speakers addressing subjects of political interest. Frequently, Democratic candidates and electeds are in attendance Mondays, 12-1 p.m., $10 for buffet $3.50 for drink only. http://www.pimadems.org/clubs-and-caucuses/democrats-of-greater-tucson/ jaylasher82@gmail. com ELDER CIRCLE, THE WISDOM JOURNEY St. Francis in the Foothills. 4625 E. River Road. 2999063. A safe, respectful place to harvest your life. Second Friday of every month, 10-11:30 a.m., Free will offering. 298-6542. deljonesaz@cox.net FAIR TRADE COFFEE & TEA’S BENEFITING UNICEF UNITED NATIONS Assoc. CENTER. sw corner SPEEDWAY & WILMOT (between BeyondBread & Bookmans ) 881-7060. Support unicef’s work with life-saving vaccines, clean water & food, along with the coffee farmers & their families, by enjoying this wonderful offering of fair-trade coffee & teas Mondays-Sundays, moderate. JACOBS JESTERS SENIOR CLUB Jacobs City YMCA. 1010 W. Lind St. 888-7716. Seniors 55 & over. Thursdays in the Community Center at Jacobs YMCA next to Jacobs Park off of Fairview. Cards, games, potluck, exercise, on going special events. Contact: Kathy-292-2666 Wednesdays, Sundays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Free. 292-2666. O’ODHAM LANGUAGE STUDY GROUP Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. O’odham Language Revitalization Group. Conversation, grammar, literacy, culture. Saturdays, 12-2 p.m., Free. 444-7610. controlledfollyproductions@yahoomail.com THURSDAY DRUM CIRCLE Rhythm Industries. 1013 S. Tindal 609-9528. Fun, inspiring drum circle. Animated facilitator. All ages and abilities welcome at Rhythm Industries, 1013 S. Tindal. Bring drum. Join our community with a donation on Thursdays at 10AM. Thursdays, 10-11 a.m., Donations: $3-$5. TUCSON CAPOEIRA KID CLASSES Studio Axé - Axé Capoeira Tucson. 2928 E Broadway Blvd 990-1820. Bring children ages 5-12 yrs to have fun learning the fundamentals of kid Tucson Capoeira. In these classes children will begin to learn the basics of capoeira! Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m., $5. http://www.tucsoncapoeira.com/kid-capoeira-classes/ axesombra@gmail.com
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The Rogue lifts Enda Walsh’s mythology of male By Sherilyn Forrester tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com
I LOVE THIS ROGUE. Explosive. Smart. Funny. Fearless. Bright. This Rogue recognizes what possibilities challenging material present, and takes it on full out. This Rogue is not afraid to wander into realms of the ridiculous, even as it plumbs impressive depths. This Rogue has staged a wild and woolly Penelope, a play by Enda Walsh, a madly eloquent Irish playwright unafraid to not only to step out of the box, but to toss it to the recycling bin. And maybe while poking around in there, he might discover another recyclable to triggers his mad skills. Here, that recycled material is Homer’s Odyssey, the classic story of a mighty warrior who, leaving his beautiful wife to wait for his uncertain return, knows that hundreds of would-be suitors will court her with all their manly tools. Strutting, competing, showing off, maybe even destroying themselves with their compe-
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tition for her attention, these men will test his wife’s fidelity. Walsh doesn’t mess around with trying to update the tale or even re-interpret it. He takes the basic idea of Penelope as the object of men’s desires and shows us this assortment of men who’ve made it to the final four suitors. They’ve been hanging around for a couple of decades, seeming to have lives elsewhere but obviously ignoring them, meeting everyday in the tiled cavern of a drained swimming pool, one wall of which is streaked with a ghostly smear of blood. They’ve gotten nowhere with Penelope and have achieved nothing except their status as what’s left of Penelope’s multitude of suitors. But in persisting with their goal, they are court not only Penelope, but their own destruction. Their competition leads them to damage each other physically and emotionally, and if an angry Odysseus returns to find one of them consorting with his wife, the winner’s prize is his own doom. Walsh gives us plenty to chew on in a wonderfully wacky package. From the first moment, presented with an odd scene where we are made aware of the mysterious artifact around which the men gather—a shiny gas grill—we are sucked in to his rowdy vision. There is plenty there to keep us intrigued. Walsh takes a classical story of mythological proportions and re-imagines it as the mythology of the Male. (How great is his choice of an outdoor grill as a symbol of manly expertise?) His focus is not on the virtuous Penelope, who has been extoled as the epitome of female loyalty. Here, her presence is merely as a shadowy, silent and distant siren. When her presence is detected, each of the men take a turn wooing her by offering their pleas of varying eloquence and sense. They stand at a microphone in a pool of light, facing the audience; Penelope’s form is visible to us behind a screen. Walsh’s focus on this company of men spending their lives gathered in a non-functioning swimming pool is not a pretty picture, but it is a fascinating and rich one. And oh, the words of courtship are exalted and fanciful and strained. But how utterly empty can be their utility, their effect. After their initial joyful, pretty noise, their echo ultimately disappears into silence. The suitors’ words go up in flames, as might they, on the altar of the mysterious silver grill. Rogue’s production, directed by Christopher Johnson, is captivating in so many ways. His passion for the theme shows, and he and his cast have discovered a credible course through this utterly funny and thoughtful story. It helps, of course, that he has a fine cast. Matt Bowdren plays Quinn, a preening
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specimen of a man, always working on, and showing off, his taut body. (By the way, if you have issues with staring at men in Speedos for an hour and a half, you might want to resolve those before you come, or at least check them at the door.) He’s a bully and can be cruel and officious when dealing with his cohorts, especially Burns (Eric Du), who is rather soft and temperate, an outsider. Ryan Parker Knox plays Dunne, a man who, when given the stage to woo Penelope, explodes into a such a feverish spouting of words that he literally breaks into song. And Joseph McGrath is Fitz, the senior of the group, who begins his one-way conversation with Penelope tentatively, but his rambling soliloquy gradually finds wise and tender insights. Together director and actors find a way to interpret all that Walsh coughs up, sometimes a bit too extravagantly, onto the pages of his script. They are courageous in allowing themselves to be vulnerable in their strange world and they skillfully find and communicate the humor—and sometimes the rank absurdity—of their, and our, lives. As in all Rogue productions, the design elements are carefully imagined and executed. Also a critical part of all their productions is music. Here, regular Jake Sorgen creates electronic sounds and effects that provide both context and texture for Walsh’s story. His contributions are always interesting. There a few things that makes one wonder about different choices. For example, a choice to use older actors in a couple of the roles would give us a different, and perhaps fuller, dimension of all that Walsh gives us here. If some of these guys have been around for 20 years, their courtship would have begun when they were children. And although there is great hilarity when Quinn puts on his show for Penelope’s sake, it seems a bit out of character, although with these guys, who knows? But these things hardly cast a distracting shadow on all that is delivered so well. Walsh’s script is playful and funny and yields both a ridiculous and thoughtful vision. Rogue’s production finds that playful and funny and interprets that vision with invention and vitality. I love this Rogue. ■
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HUMOR? OR COMEDY? DON’T ASK US. “People ask me, ‘What’s the difference between a comedian and a humorist?’” Michael Perry says, “and I always say, ‘I don’t know, but I think it has something to do with NPR.” It’s no surprise that Perry’s fans often suggest that he should do standup. His books, newspaper column, blog and podcasts are often funny. But his book readings, storytelling and one-man show are hilarious. Perry, a Wisconsin native and New York Times best-selling author, joins Tucson’s Dave Fitzsimmons and NPR’s Amy Dickinson in the “Humor” category of events at the Tucson Book Festival this weekend. The schedule can be found at http://tinyurl.com/HumorTFB. “I write humorous things, and I write heartfelt things,” Perry says. “But for my live performance. I tell stories. There are payoffs and punch lines, just not in the standup comedy sort of way. People laugh just as hard and I do have people laughing and holding their sides and that sort of thing. But he wants to stress, “Standup comedy in my mind is the single hardest form of performance there is. I’m cheating because if you show up at a book reading to see an author and he or she turns out to be funny, that’s a lovely surprise.” Perry’s background sounds like a setup for a “fishout-of-water” improv scene. He put himself through nursing school by working as a cowboy, having been born to the horse-and-cow business on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. He still raises a pig now and then, but after a long career in nursing he gave up the day job in 1992. By then he had discovered writing was his passion. His first book, Population 485, established him as a chronicler of small town and country life, in the context of big ideas and literate prose. His latest, which he’ll be pitching at the book festival, is Roughneck Grace, a compendium of his newspaper columns. Perry says his comedy LP, Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow, is named from personal experience. So is his website, sneezingcow.com, where we find his blog, his bio and all nine of his books for sale. There are also links to his weekly Tent Show Radio show, which includes special guests and monologues based on his newspaper column. A recent episode featured, Kris Kristofferson and a live performance by Taj Mahal. ■
CITY WEEK LITERATURE “HEALING: A CONVERSATION” BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR ANNETTE CRAVERA GOGGIO Tucson Festival of Books. UA Mall 621-2426. Soul evolvement expert and author Annette Cravera Goggio will be giving away signed copies of her new book “Healing: A Conversation” at the Author Solutions tent, Booth No. 175. Sat., March 11, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., General admission is free. 480-998-2600. https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/ ldickerson@lavidge.com “THE SPECIAL ONES” BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR S.B. WHITE Tucson Festival of Books. UA Mall 621-2426. Mesa based author and grandmother, S.B. White, is holding a book signing for her latest young adult sci-fi novel, “The Special Ones” at the Author Solutions booth. Sat., March 11, 1-2 p.m., General admission is free. 480998-2600. https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/ ldickerson@lavidge.com ANTIQUE, VINTAGE & COLLECTIBLE BOOK FAIR University of Arizona. No Address Antique, vintage, and collectible book sale benefitting Tell Me A Good Story educational nonprofit. March 11 and 12th on the U of A Mall at Tucson Festival of Books. Free. Sat., March 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun., March 12, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $0. 975-2904. http://tellmeagoodstory.org/ hawkeye@tellmeagoodstory.org COFFEE WITH THE AUTHOR Unity of Tucson. 3617 N. Camino Blanco. 577-3300. Patricia Lee shares S/he dragon: How I Found My Wings. Her story of discovering the inner strength and courage to heal herself from depression inspires others who struggle. Public welcome. Sun., March 12, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., $0. 322-0832. http://www.unitytucson. com/calendar/ rpeel@earthlink.net ECLECTIC WRITERS’ GROUP Eclectic Writers. 2060 N Painted Hills road 207-5704. Join other writers and share your literary work. Critique and receive critiques. We provide only positive and helpful critiques. We have been meeting for over 20 years. Mondays, 7-9 p.m., Free. rajendrasrivastava@outlook. com SECOND SUNDAY (FICTION) BOOK GROUP: INHERITING EDITH Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Join us to discuss Inheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman. The book is 10% off at Antigone Books the month prior to the discussion. Sun., March 12, 2-3:30 p.m., Free. info@antigonebooks.com WHY NOT BOOK CLUB Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. Join us on March 15th at 7 Pm for our Why Not Book Club. We will be discussing V. E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic. (18 and up) Wed., March 15, 7-8 p.m., Free. http://www.mostlybooksaz.com/why-not-book-club
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Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Join Arizona Pathfinders as we enjoy an entertaining and educational talk by Alan Kruse. This is a pot luck dinner so bring a dish to share. Free parking. Tue., March 14, 6-8:30 p.m., Free. 625-8365. KruseArizona@cox.net LIVING WITH THE DESERT Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Each week discover and uncover a different aspect of our desert home! Thu., Feb. 9, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and Thursdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Continues through March 16, $79 members / $89 general public. https://tohonochulpark.org/event/living-with-the-desert MArmstrong@ tohonocul.org
ART OPENING THIS WEEK ART WALK THURSDAY MARCH 9TH ARTIST LORI FAYE BOCK Jane Hamilton Fine Art. 2890 E. Skyline Drive, No. 180. 529-4886. Meet Lori Faye Bock whimsical artist from a farm in Abiquiu , NM where her animals & birds are focused in art. Meet & greet Thursday eve. Demonstration Friday 11am. Thu., March 9, 5-7 p.m. and Fri., March 10, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Free. BEGINNER’S TILE MAKING WORKSHOP Santa Theresa Tile Works. 440 N. 6th Ave 5206238640. Our beginner’s tile making workshop is designed as a perfect introduction to Santa Theresa-style tile making. It covers all the basics of cutting, glazing and firing clay. Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Continues through March 30, 440. 623-8640. http://santatheresatileworks.com/product/beginners-tile-making-workshopmarch-2017/ customerservice@santatheresatileworks. com GUEST ARTIST, MARIA LEE, TO SPEAK AT PAPERWORKS MONTHLY MEETING St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Artist Maria Lee creates artist books, collages, prints and paintings inspired by her external world of travel and her internal imaginings. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Thu., March 9, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., $0. 818-6724. http:// www.paperworks.info wilsonbobbie@hotmail.com
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OPENING THIS WEEK BENEFIT SALE AT ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. Peruse Southwest Native pottery, jewelry, baskets, and more. The inventory is always different. 400 pieces of jewelry this year! Proceeds benefit ASM’s collections division. Sat., March 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free. 626-8381. http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu dfl@ email.arizona.edu OPEN HOUSE Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. Come get to know your State Museum! You’ll have the opportunity to meet curators, visit laboratories, and tour collections areas in the largest state-run archaeological repository in the nation. Sat., March 11, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., free. 626-8381. dfl@email.arizona.edu THE DAZZLED EYE Tucson Desert Art Museum. 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road, No. 16. 202-3888. Navajo Textiles from the Getzwiller Collection. Featuring Navajo eyedazzlers and optical textiles from world renowned collectors Steve and Gail Getzwiller. The dazzled eye contrasts these works with op art. Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Continues through May 28, $4 - $10. kentucsondart@ gmail.com INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT - “I AM TUCSON” Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 6285774. I am Tucson is an exhibit that invites you to share your impressions and experiences of living in Southern Arizona. This non-traditional exhibit tells the story of Tucson in the words and drawings of those who live here both past and present. Add your voice to this exhibit today! Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesdays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Mondays, Fridays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Free - $8, depending on age.. http://arizonahistoricalsociety.org ahstucson@azhs.gov
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RAGE LOGAN, RAGE
It’s doubtful anything forthcoming from X-Men franchise will top Logan By Bob Grimm tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING completely different. Hugh Jackman (allegedly) says goodbye to Wolverine with Logan, a total shocker of a superhero movie that lays waste to the
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X-Men and stand-alone Wolverine movies that came before it. Director James Mangold, who piloted the decent The Wolverine, revamps the character’s mythos, and pulls along Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) for the gritty, bloody, nasty and awesome ride. It’s the future and the X-Men are gone. A mutant hasn’t been born in a quarter of a century, and Logan isn’t looking too hot. He’s driving a limo to make ends meet, coughing up blood, and basically not aging well. He’s doing a lot better than Xavier (the mutant formally known as Professor X), who is prone to seizures and suffering from some sort of degenerative brain disease. Lo-
gan has to keep him in a big empty tank to shield the world from his spells, which can cause major physical distress to those in the vicinity, including Logan. He’s assisted in caring for Xavier by Caliban (comedian Stephen Merchant), an albino mutant with mind powers. In short, the days of X-Men glory are way, way over, with Logan and Xavier having a shit time in their autumn years. Just when it seems as if Logan and Xavier will waste away in their miserable existence, along comes Laura (a dynamite Dafne Keen). She’s a genetically engineered and created mutant equipped with the same retractable claws and viciously bad temper as Logan. When her life becomes endangered, Logan throws her and Xavier in the back of his vehicle, and they are off on one wild, dark road trip. To say this movie is violent would be an understatement. On the heels of Deadpool and its R-rated success, Mangold and company have let the flesh and profanity rip with this one. Mangold brings some of his western chops (he directed 3:10 to Yuma) to the proceedings, even making direct references to Shane. It’s remarkable the liberties he’s been allowed to take with an otherwise family-friendly franchise. People die hard in this one. Nobody is sporting any fancy uniforms. The action scenes are flawless, top-notch enterprises, a marvel of special effects and awards-worthy editing. There is a scene in this movie that is one of the best scenes I have ever seen in an action film. The sequence involves Xavier having an especially bad seizure. That’s all I’m going to give away. Believe me, you’ll know it when you see it. Jackman has always been a terrific Wolverine. Of all of the “superhero” performances through the years, he goes into the Hall of Fame with the likes of Reeve, Keaton, Bale and Downey, Jr. He’s all in for this picture, and he’s finally allowed to take Logan a.k.a. Wolverine to his most violent, sadistic extremes. There’s no holding back with his work here; it’s a fitting conclusion to his run with the character.
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There’s a long way to go in the film year, but Stewart should already be getting some Oscar buzz for his turn in this movie. While Jackman takes Wolverine to an extreme some of us geeks might expect, Stewart is allowed to explore the sad, broken side of Xavier, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. He honestly has some of the greater moments of his career in this film, and the same can most certainly be said for Jackman. All elements of this movie are Grade A spectacular, and we’ll just make the call right now. Logan is one of the very best comic book films ever made, and if you were to call it the all time best, you probably wouldn’t be met with much opposition. It’s an example of a great idea delivered with stupendous results. So, it’s only March, and the last two weeks have given us Get Out and Logan. The movie year is off to one of its better starts in many years. As for the X-Men franchise, it’s doubtful the accomplishments of Logan will ever be topped, but it will be interesting to see somebody try.. ■
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LEVINE BELLYACHES ‘DESERT ROCK,’ BUT SECRETLY ADORES IT. By Joshua Levine tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com For decades now, general associations from outside of Tucson about what this town’s musical exports sound like has been pithily summed up under the ridiculously vague, narrow and oversimplified term “desert rock.” I don’t know who originally coined it but it does have all the hallmarks of the overzealous British music press, whose interest in the face of a mostly collective 30-year yawn from these United States is nonetheless appreciated. (A notable exception is the mid-’90s semi-breakout sub-Nine Inch Nails act Machines of Loving Grace, whose ties to the local club scene is tenuous, to put it kindly. But that’s for another day.) By the time Machines had their spotlight moment, due to an inclusion on the soundtrack of the hit 1994 Brandon Lee film The Crow, desert rock as a term and a genre of watered-down alt-country married to the watereddown post-grunge popular in mainstream alternative rock circles at the time was peaking locally and nationally as a viable style, mostly due to the national and international success of Phoenix’s Gin Blossoms and Refreshments and, earlier, Tucson’s Sidewinders and Sand Rubies. While these Arizona bands skipped boring roots-music trappings and stuck with an updated palatable form of power pop, by the new millennium, desert rock was creatively exhausted. Local bands started to namecheck desert rock mostly to declare that they were decidedly not part of that lineage. A surprising thing then occurred in 2014 or so: young and local underground rock ’n’ roll acts, who just prior to that time would’ve pledged their allegiance to garage and psychedelic rock began advertising themselves as desert rock without a trace of irony or smirk, perhaps unaware of the connection to local desert-rock figureheads Greyhound Soul, who had little in common with this new crop of bands. One of the most distinctive of the new bunch even called themselves the Desert Beats, even though that name could easily be confused for a weekend event round-up column in a Southwestern U.S. newspaper circular. The Desert Beats, comprised mostly of singer and songwriter Randall Dempsey and a rotating cast of supporting musicians, or as he likes to phrase it, “friends,” released a self-titled debut album on Baby Tooth Records back in January and an accompanying video in the last couple of weeks. Both are very good, if not straight-up great. The album is consistently fantastic, with a captivating architecture of sound that actually belies its Tucson origins (although Dempsey is originally from Phoenix) with manic energy, sharp songs and tons of confidence, the latter of which really lends the record an almost transcendent infectiousness, a trait usually in short supply on local debut albums. Dempsey’s songs and style have a pleasantly surprising connection to certain stripped down new wave era rock bands, with old-wave dance beats, rabid vocals and blurred echoing guitars. But it’s those vocals—haunted and screaming—that lend the whole package weight and a line back to the likes of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. The Desert Beats might even, gasp, bring desert rock back to its former glory. ■
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genres gets me amped up. We’re all really influenced by early ’90s riot grrl movement stuff.” The guitarist lights up as she talks about one of her faves. “Bella, Adam, and I all really like Sleater-Kinney,” she says. “We kind of Foxx Bodies (from left): Mathew started the band with that kind of mindset. Vanek, Adam Becholz, Bella Vanek A lot of the music Matt and I were making by ourselves was much more like a ’50s MELISSA WAX, COURTESY OF KXEP doo-wop, western-style band. We kind of combined those songs with the songs Adam, Bella, and I were making and out came this weird blend.” Foxx Bodies on the ‘Tucson wall,’ Sleater-Kinney and a life in L.A. Before Foxx Bodies, Matthew had not guitar to it and all the instruments were in By Tom Reardon picked up a bass guitar, but his playing and Matt’s room, so when he came home we tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com ability to follow both Moses and Becholz were just like (in a deadly serious and dead- shows a band strength. Matthew provides, pan voice) ‘Learn bass,’ and we just kind of THERE IS A SENTIENT CUP OUT in a way, the heartbeat of Foxx Bodies with there right now wondering about the mean- jammed and we made ‘New Recording 25’ his stripped down, unassuming style that’s ing of its life. Like a character in a Tom Rob- and ‘Annie’ right away.” always there where it needs to be. He’s a tall Those two songs are the third and bins book, the cup can’t get beyond whether drink of water, and has one of those decepfourth ones (respectively) on Foxx Bodies’ it is really half full or half empty and is too tive onstage personas that makes it seem eponymously titled 11-song affair, which wrapped up in the quandary to see the big like he’s not really doing much, but when is as good of a debut album as any you’ll picture. The cup, sadly, may never finally you listen closely, he’s almost secretly tying realize it is actually empty and full, half and likely ever find. They’re powerhouse tunes, everything together with bass runs. reflective of everything that make the band whole, at the same time. “Everything I know about bass is really For Tucson’s Foxx Bodies, there is a sim- (and record) ridiculously listenable. The just learning to play with Bailey. I love nimble mix of fuzz-punk-surf guitar, explo- rhythm now,” he says. ilar argument to be made. Do they belong to Tucson or the world? One thing for sure sive drums and in-the-pocket bass throbs Foxx Bodies is a true collaboration, a sum is that their particular cup is more than half uphold thrilling, unpredictable vocals. And of parts. That fact is not lost on Becholz, “Annie” features this stunner of a line (one who moved to Tucson about six years ago. full. Foxx Bodies are practically over-flowing with talent, luck, charisma, catchy tunes, of the best lyrics this digit heard in all of “I’ve been playing drums since I was 15,” 2016): “All I know is every time I get a payand just about every other ingredient that he says, “and I’ll be 30 this year. Always check I lose my mind.” makes a band great. being a drummer, I’ve learned to listen to Bella, who resembles a young Penelope It’s both easy and hard to believe Foxx everybody else. I write my parts by taking Bodies have only been a band for little more Houston (of first-wave San Francisco punks pieces from everybody and just sort of The Avengers), demands listener attention, mesh them together.” than a year. They’ve the fresh-faced optimism of a baby band but rock like seasoned either on record or live. The diminutive Moses, the Vaneks, and Becholz played blond singer reels you in with a charming vets, and they have no figurehead—each their first show not long after that first member is integral to the overall sound, and half-smirk—facially and vocally—while the fateful practice that produced their first two they know it. We’ll say it: the band—siblings band builds a killer blend of early ’80s punk, recorded songs. They opened for Tucson ’60s garage surf, and ’90s riot grrl into a Bella (vocals) and Matthew (bass) Vanek, rapper Lando Chill at Club Congress, where catchy, clever, and intricate roar. Her words they will play one of their few Tucson shows guitarist Bailey Moses and drummer and are filled with intense yarns and you feel Adam Becholz—are one Tucson’s most before moving to Los Angeles in May, compelling bands to come along in a long, the psychotic breakdowns, but not in a bad which is definitely the “cup is half-empty” way. It’s more of a “I don’t give a shit if it is long time. bit of this story. half full, I’m still going to pour it down my According to Bella, it was necessity that “There is a wall that you hit in Tucson,” throat or throw it in your face” kind of a way. Bella says. “We want to get out and do more. brought them together. No, the band ain’t fucking around. While We want to get out and do what we want to “I kind of had a little bit of a psychotic breakdown and I didn’t really know what to they sound familiar at times, they’re not do. We’re trying to press our luck and see aping any one band or genre. do except sing about it,” Bella says. “But I what we’re capable of.” Moses, who, during the day, can also lathe don’t really play any instruments. I worked Moses chimes in: “We love Tucson, but cut a record, breaks it down: “Dick Dale, with Adam at a movie theater and I lived we just want to try it.” with Matthew and Bailey, so I asked Adam (pauses) and Shannon and the Clams are “It’s building opportunities,” Matthew really influential to me,” he says. “Acorn if he wanted to come over and play drums says, fittingly. Because, if you want to beBcorn, Katterwaul, Lemon Drop Gang … while I screamed.” long to the world … ■ Punk, surf, and ’50s stuff. Anything in those Bella continues: “Bailey started playing
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KNOW YOUR PODUCT STARS PICK THEIR TOP 5!THIS WEEK: SICK PUPPIES By Brett Callwood tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com
Sick Puppies like The Beatles. COURTESY PHOTO
TWO DECADES INTO A HUGELY successful career, Australian hard rockers the Sick Puppies put out its fifth studio album, Fury, last May. The record is the first to feature new singer Bryan Scott, who replaced original Shimon Moore in fall 2014. The band hasn’t let the personnel change slow down their fat, melodic, charging rock din, and the trio is the middle of an extensive U.S. tour right now. They hit Tucson on Tuesday, so we spoke to all three of them about the five albums that changed their lives …
With Devour the Day, Tuesday, March 14 at 6 p.m., The Rock, 136 N. Park Ave. $18-$20. All Ages. Mark Goodwin: 1. Beastie Boys— Check your Head: This album came out around the time I started playing drums as a kid. Mike D was a drummer and rapper who I looked up to a lot. The way they could play punk and rock and rap all in the same album fascinated me. Their songs had relatively simple beats that allowed me to play along when I was learning to play drums. I still listen to that album, and all their albums, to this day and it’s still so good and timeless. Emma Anzai: 2. Silverchair— Frogstomp: This album literally
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changed my life. I was about 15 when I heard it, I was living in Japan at the time (I had just moved from Australia) and had never really heard anything quite like it. I knew the band members were about my age at the time so I took more notice. And it was then that I realized kids our age could play music like that. This album inspired me to play and made me want to be in a band. 3. Green Day—Dookie: This was the second album I ever bought. It was quite different from Silverchair but I loved it just the same. This album was full of that punk attitude that I wasn’t used to at the time because I was living in Japan, and it felt very cathartic to listen to it. I absolutely loved Mike (Dirnt)’s bass lines and how melodic they were. It made me want to play bass.
5. The Beatles— The White Album: Even though “Eleanor Rigby” will always be my favorite Beatles song, this album as a whole was my favorite. My Pops had almost all of their records and I would love to pull them off the shelf and spin them. When I heard The White Album, I was floored. Every song is amazing. The main thing I loved about the Beatles was that they wrote the simplest songs, but yet the music and melodies would haunt you for years to come. ... I wore this album out!
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THE FLOATING HOUSE BAND LP– TAKOMA RECORDS C1029, 1970 As the ’60s ended, Tucsonan and Stone Poneys founder Bob Kimmel created the legendary Concert Series at McCabes Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California, featuring a diverse roster of performers such as Jackson Browne, Tom Waits and Chet Atkins, along with hundreds of others. The series gave McCabes the reputation as being the top acoustic and folk venue in the country. Also after the Poneys breakup, Kimmel teamed up with The Dearly Beloved’s Shep Cooke, also from Tucson (he played on the final Stone Pony’s tour) along with L.A. local Kit Alderson and formed The Floating House Band, releasing one album on guitarist John Fahey’s independent Takoma Records label. Wow! The album is full of marvelous vocal harmonies, similar to what Cooke was doing with the Beloved and it combines folk and country with a tad of psych. And, as was to be expected on the Takoma label, some fancy acoustic guitar picking. Fans of CSN&Y, The Dead’s Workingman’s Dead, Laurel Canyon, and that debut album by the band America, and anyone who loves the sound of an honest, earthy, low-cost production, will enjoy this album. ■
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Lee Joseph grew up in Tucson. He’s a DJ (Luxuriamusic.com), marketer of cool shit (Reverberations Media) and founder/CEO of internationally respected Dionysus Records, an indie that has long specialized in releasing super-rare music, and more. He came of age in the first wave of Tucson punk rock and is an expert on Tucson music. He now lives in California.
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THU MAR 9 CAFÉ Á LA C’ART Connie Brannock and Swingset “Sittin’ on the Front Porch” Jazz, Pop and Blues. 6:30 8:30pm, Free. CHICAGO BAR Neon Prophet & DJ Papa Ranger Tucson’s best Reggae Band performing live with DJ Papa Ranger on the breaks.9:45 9:30pm, $5. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ Touch of Grey with Kat Breid Classic Rock from the Doobie Bros. to the Dead. Stones to Eric Burden. 710pm, no cover. THE HUT The Mockingbirds Every Thursday Night Free on 4th Ave Outdoor Concert Series. The Mockingbirds play the best of popular Indie and alternative rock hits every Thursday at Tucson’s only free weekly outdoor concert series and outside stage on 4th Avenue. 10pm- 2am, Free.
FRI MAR 10 CASCADE LOUNGE Jazz Fungibles Live Jazz with Mike Moynihan, Jack Wood and a variety of Tuscons’s top jazz artists811pm, Free. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR Country Club at La Cocina A weekly event hosted by country singer/songwriter, Freddy Parish, to showcase Tucson’s great country musicians. Each week, Freddy
will perform, followed by a special guest. 9pm- 2am, Free. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ Giant Blue Anna Warr brings her powerhouse Blues Band Giant Blue to the Monterey once again. 710pm, $5. THE SCREENING ROOM Friday Night Live Music Live, local bands every Friday Night! Starts at 9pm, $5 cover. Enjoy beer, wine, and pizza all night. All ages. Must show valid ID for alcohol. 9pm- 1am, $5. THE EDGE Machete Sauce Machete Sauce is a Tucson based Rock n’ Roll band that plays mostly covers with some well received originals mixed in. 9pm- 1am.
SAT MAR 11 SAGUARO CORNERS ICE HOUSE Priority One Band Enjoy the music of Priority One playing rock, country and blues on the patio at Saguaro Corners. Great food and drinks. Remember, the party starts when you get there. 6 9pm. SEA OF GLASS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Glenn White Quintet Progressive jazz is made accessible for once as the genre’s wild experimentation is tempered with sleek craftsmanship and an actual point. Atmospheric, Compelling, and even Playful! 7:3010pm, $15-$20. THE EDGE Velocity Velocity the Band is one of Tucson’s premier rock bands. You will hear rock music from the 80s, 90’s and all through today’s harder rock songs. 9pm- 1am.
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BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. The classic sci-fi/noir thriller in a definitive Final Cut that gave director Ridely Scott full artistic control to include extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. Fri., March 10, 10 p.m. and Sat., March 11, 10 p.m., $6. 322-5638. https://loftcinema.org/film/blade-runnerthe-final-cut/ info@loftcinema.org
BOULES IN THE PARK Reid Park. 900 S. Randolph Way. 791-4873. Learn and play the French game of petanque (boules) at 2 pm in Reid Park, Sundays through the end of April. For directions and information, visit TucsonPetanqueClub.wordpress.com or call 520-664-41 Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Continues through April 9, Free. 664-4133. https://tucsonpetanqueclub.wordpress.com/
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Acclaimed filmmaker Julie Dash’s landmark drama follows a Gullah family (descendants of West African slaves) on the eve of its migration to the North. Tue., March 14, 7:30 p.m., Free admission. 322-5638. https://loftcinema.org/film/daughters-of-the-dust/ info@ loftcinema.org
LEAPIN’ LIZARDS Pima County Agua Caliente Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 724-5000. We are sure to find several varieties of lizards as they hunt for insects in the underbrush and on tree trunks. Learn about the unusual habits and adaptations of lizards. Sat., March 11, 9-10:30 a.m., Children free. Adults free with Membership, Non-Member Adult $5 fee. Online registration required.. 615-7855. http:// www.pima.gov/nrpr eeducation@pima.gov
DONALD CRIED Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Director/writer/star Kris Avedisian’s pitch-perfect debut feature is a hilariously dark twist on the family-reunion melodrama and the classic buddy comedy. Mon., March 13, 7:30 p.m., Regular admission. 322-5638. https:// loftcinema.org/film/donald-cried/ info@loftcinema.org FLASHBACK FILM SERIES The Screening Room. 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Your favorite cult films ‘flashback’ on our 23’ wide screen! Every Saturday there’s a FREE raffle for a framed poster of that film. The series starts January 9-10 with Pulp Fiction, Jan 16-17 Chicago, Jan 22-24th Public Enemy, Jan 31-Feb 1 Groundhog Day. Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m., $5. http://www.screeningroomtucson.com I THINK YOU’RE TOTALLY WRONG: A QUARREL Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Don’t miss this special screening of the acclaimed new documentary directed by and starring James Franco, and featuring a post-film Q&A with best-selling author David Shields! Sun., March 12, 7:30 p.m., Regular admission. 322-5638. https://loftcinema.org/ film/i-think-youre-totally-wrong-a-quarrel/ info@loftcinema.org PARIS, TEXAS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Wim Wenders won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and had a major arthouse hit with this moody existential odyssey across the epic landscapes of the American Southwest. Thu., March 9, 7:30 p.m., Regular admission. 322-5638. https://loftcinema.org/film/paris-texas/ info@loftcinema. org THE SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN SING-A-LONG! Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. What a glorious feeling to be singing-a-long to one of the happiest, splashiest, most unforgettable Hollywood musicals of all-time, Singin’ in the Rain! Wed., March 15, 7:30 p.m., $10. 322-5638. https://loftcinema.org/film/thesingin-in-the-rain-sing-a-long/ info@loftcinema.org
OBSTACLE AND TRAIL COMPETITION Tucson Equestrian Center. 8405 N. Via Socorro. 3493455. Open ($65), Intermediate ($65), and Novice ($50) division courses will consist of 10 natural and manmade trail obstacles. Sat., March 11, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., $50. https://www.facebook.com/ events/243605666088004/ tucsonequestriancenter2017@gmail.com PEDAL THE OLD PUEBLO! Tucson Bike Tours. 215 N Hoff Ave - Suite 101 4884446. Tucson’s historic neighborhoods are best experienced by bicycle! Small groups, quiet streets, no hills, knowledgeable guides. Use promocode “TucsonWeekly” for 20% off. Bring two guests and returning locals ride free! Sept. 1-April 30, 6-9 p.m., Sept. 1-May 31, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and Oct. 1-April 30, 1:30-4:30 p.m., $48. http://www.tucsonbiketours.com tucsonbiketours@ gmail.comn
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EVENTS THIS WEEK ACRO YOGA AND INVERSIONS Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. Acro yoga is partner acrobatics that is yoga inspired. The class is designed to accommodate all ages and skill levels. No partner is required! Fridays, 5-6:15 p.m., $5. 300-0836. ninjabodies1@gmail.com BOA VIDA BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU Boa Vida Brazialian Jiu-Jitsu. 1116 S. Pantano Road (520)250-9684. “Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” Adult Class: Tuesday and Thursday 6 pm-7:30 pm and Saturday 7:30 am - 9 am Kids class: Tuesday and Thursday 5 pm-6 pm and Saturday 9 am-10 am. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 7:30-10 a.m. and 5-7:30 p.m., Individual Class $50/5 or $90/10, $80/ month single; and $150/month family. 250-9684; 4004215.
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March16th- Dance Gavin Dance W/CHON March 17th- Order 66 Spring Breakdown Tour Kick-Off March 18th- Desert Deathfest March 21st- Otep & Convalescence March 23rd- Carousel Kings
CAPOEIRA KIDS Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. Physical activity, creative and dramatic play, and music are key to lifelong academic and personal success. A rich combination of dance, acrobatics, self-defense techniques and music. Mondays, 4:305:30 p.m., $10. http://tucsoncapoeira.org besouro@ capoeiramalandragem.com NFL PACKAGE AND FOOD TRUCKS Danny’s Baboquivari Lounge. 2910 E. Fort Lowell Road. 795-1571. We have the NFL Package so you can watch every game on Sundays. And we have food trucks or potlucks every week so you can eat too! Sundays, 10 a.m.9 p.m., Depends how hungry and thirsty you are. 7953178. dannystucson@gmail.com RACE4LIFE 5K COLOR RUN/WALK Reid Park. 900 S. Randolph Way. 791-4873. SAVE A LIFE WHILE HAVING THE TIME OF YOUR LIFEThere will be a color party, activities for the whole family, entertainment, prizes and much more. Sat., March 11, 9-11:30 a.m., $20. 321-9765. https://www.givehopetucson.com/2017-race-4-life/ TUCSON CAPOEIRA Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. Don’t be fooled by the dance, acrobatics, and music of this Brazilian martial art. Capoeira is challenging and will get you in the best shape of your life. Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., $15. http://tucsoncapoeira.org besouro@capoeiramalandragem.com TUCSON CAPOEIRA BEGINNERS CLASS Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. Capoeira is a Brazilian art form which combines fight, dance, rhythm and movement. Capoeira is a dialog between players - a conversation through movement which can take on many shades. Mondays, 5:30-7 p.m., $15. http://tucsoncapoeira.org besouro@capoeiramalandragem.com TUCSON CAPOEIRA KIDS CLASS Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. The importance of Capoeira for children is not only in the historical and cultural aspect, but also in the physical qualities it helps develop; balance, motor coordination, speed, strength. It Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m., $10. http://tucsoncapoeira.org besouro@capoeiramalandragem.com TUCSON COMMUNITY CAPOEIRA CLASSES ALL LEVELS & LEVELS SATURDAYS Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. No experience is necessary and everyone of all ages and fitness levels are welcome. This is the perfect time to take a class if you’ve always wanted to try Saturdays, 4-6 p.m., $10. http://tucsoncapoeira.org besouro@capoeiramalandragem.com TUCSON, AZ WORLD ARMWRESTLING LEAGUE QUALIFIER Trident Grill II. 2900 N. Swan Road 396-4455. This is your chance to watch or come compete in one of the largest Arm Wrestling Leagues in the world.Pre-Register at www.walunderground.com/events Sat., March 11, 2-8 p.m., $0 For Spectators. http://www.walunderground. com/events untamedaz@gmail.com
VOLUNTEER EVENTS THIS WEEK
LOVE BOOKS? VOLUNTEER WITH FRIENDS OF THE PIMA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Friends Book Barn. 2230 N. Country Club Road. 7953763. Friends of the Pima County Public Library needs book-loving volunteers this summer, to help sell donated books. Many positions available. Must make ongoing commitment of at least two hours most weeks. infFor more info, see www.pimafriends.com, email info@pimafriends.com, or call 520-795-3763. Ongoing, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Free. http://www.pimafriends.com info@pimafriends.com UA STUDY ON CULTURE AND VOTING University of Arizona. No Address Did you vote in 2008 and/or 2012?If you did and are a white male between the ages of 25 and 65, live in Tucson in the second congressional district, and have a household income of $35,000/year or less, please participate in a non-partisan University of Arizona study. Ongoing, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Free. lvilahen@email.arizona.edu VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Literacy Connects. 200 E. Yavapai Rd. 882-8006. The gift of literacy is one that pays dividends for generations. You can pass on that gift to children and adults. Tue., Jan. 24, 10-11:30 a.m., Tue., Feb. 14, 5:30-7 p.m., Tue., Feb. 28, 10-11:30 a.m., Tue., March 14, 5:30-7 p.m. and Tue., March 28, 10-11:30 a.m., Free. http:// literacyconnects.org/volunteering/ info@literacyconnects. org VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Volunteer opportunities are available at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library. Fill out an application and bring it along. RSVP to Karen, 791-4010 or Karen.Greene@ pima.gov for further information. Sat., March 4, 8:309:30 a.m. and Tue., March 14, 2-3 p.m., $0. 7914010. http://www.library.pima.gov/wp-content/uploads/ sites/6/2015/04/PCPL-Volunteer-Application.pdf askalibrarian@pima.gov
DANCE
EVENTS THIS WEEK AFRICAN DIASPORA DANCE CLASS WITH YARROW KING AND LIVE DRUMMING! Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. In this class you will learn movement inspired by the dances of the African Diaspora (Brazilian, Cuban, Haitian and Caribbean) and Africa. All to the deep rhythms of live drumming! Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m., $10. 465-8856. yarrow.king@gmail.com
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Medical Marijuana HEMP IS HOT
Arizona legislature is ready to legalize hemp production By Nick Meyers tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com IT LOOKS LIKE ARIZONA WILL have new industrial opportunities as a bill to legalize the manufacturing and sale of hemp rolls through the state legislature without much opposition. Last month, SB1337 passed two senate committees and cleared the floor with a 26-4 vote in favor of passing the bill. Controversial bills will rarely see this kind of support, spelling out good news for hemp horticulture hopefuls. Though hemp gets a bad rap for essentially being a byproduct of marijuana, it actually has the potential to shake up the textile industry. Pima cotton has become something of a luxury in the national cotton industry, with Arizona producing for more than 66 percent. Last year, Arizona produced more than 400 million pounds of cotton on more than 130,000 acres. In a state like Arizona, where cotton is a cornerstone of the agricultural economy, hemp could help reduce water consumption and maintain healthy soil for year-round farming. Farmers often grow crops in cycles to maintain a variety of nutrients in the soil. With Arizona’s unforgiving desert environment, farmers would benefit from throwing hemp in between the hay and cotton harvests. Hemp can also be used to make rope, lotion, soap, dried seeds for a healthy snack and of course, rolling papers. The versatile fiber also uses roughly one-sixth of the water needed to grow cotton while producing twice as much product per acre. It requires fewer
pesticides, grows faster and uses less fertilizer, according to the legislators supporting the bill. When you look at the benefits, it’s hard to believe that it’s taken this long to bring hemp to Arizona, but Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, the bill’s sponsor, is trying to change that. “This is about rope, not dope,” he told the Arizona Republic. “This is another product that our farmers could use, make money on and stimulate the economy. We’re missing out on a multibillion-dollar industry.” Thirty other states have already legalized hemp production, and the group Vote Hemp estimates $600 million in profit for the national industry. Since Obama’s 2014 U.S. Farm Bill, making the distinction between hemp and marijuana, it seems even legislators who grapple with the idea of legal marijuana have no problem understanding its difference from hemp. SB1337 would limit the amount of THC to 0.3 percent. For reference, medical marijuana usually has between 10 and 15 percent THC. While you’re certainly welcome to try smoking hemp, it’ll make you more sick than high. The bill only has to make it through the House of Representatives before landing on the governor’s desk for approval. So far, the only sign of dissent has come from an attorney for irrigation districts that supply farmers with water. The bill is poised to be heard by two final committees in the House, in addition to the rules committee, before going to the floor for a final vote. With the end of the legislative session in sight, the bill should be decided within the next month. ■
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): As soon as you can, sneak away to a private place where you can be alone -- preferably to a comfy sanctuary where you can indulge in eccentric behavior without being seen or heard or judged. When you get there, launch into an extended session of moaning and complaining. I mean do it out loud. Wail and whine and whisper about everything that’s making you sad and puzzled and crazy. For best results, leap into the air and wave your arms. Whirl around in erratic figure-eights while drooling and messing up your hair. Breathe extra deeply. And all the while, let your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow freely through your wild heart. Keep on going until you find the relief that lies on the other side. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (18881935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nothing is ever as simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one hand, you will be closer than you’ve been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Seek intimacy with experiences that are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex -- and maybe even a sensational do-it-yourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet. Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on. LEO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re ripe. You’re delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. I think it’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let’s review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start. A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up. Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing. P.S.: If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let’s talk about a compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who practice this art don’t steal valuable things you love. Rather, they pilfer stuff you don’t actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological
crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evolved Scorpios don’t fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want. They may, however, experience urges to achieve TOTAL CUNNNG DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who won’t acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that’s best incited by music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously, and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. Its time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile, or apathetic. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you’ll be six years old for the rest of your life,” says author
Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity -- as well as conundrums, incongruity, and anomalies -- there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad! Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lichen is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers six percent of the earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis. Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You’re primed for some sterling symbioses. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I invite you not to do so for the next two weeks. Instead, try out an unembellished, what-you-see-iswhat-you-get approach to your appearance. If, on the other hand, you don’t normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I encourage you to embrace such possibilities in a spirit of fun and enthusiasm. Now you may inquire: How can these contradictory suggestions both apply to the Pisces tribe? The answer: There’s a more sweeping mandate behind it all, namely: to tinker and experiment with the ways you present yourself . . . to play around with strategies for translating your inner depths into outer expression. ■
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By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net
My wife and I have a decent sex life. Pretty vanilla, but we’re busy with work, chores, and life in general with two small kids, so I can’t complain too much. About a year after having our second kid, I went down on my wife. As usual, we both enjoyed it greatly. Unfortunately, about a week later she got a yeast infection. She attributed the YI to the oral, and since then I am strictly forbidden from putting my mouth anywhere near her pussy. I understand that YI are no fun, painful, and embarrassing. I understand her reluctance. But I’ve never heard of oral sex causing YI, although I realize I might be misinformed. How do I win back her trust to let me go down on her? No one is about to mistake me for Sting when it comes to my endurance during intercourse, so having the ability to pleasure her without penetration is important. —Dirty Mouth Guy
“Yeast is not an STI,” said Dr. Anika Denali Luengo, an ob-gyn in Portland, Oregon. “Yeast (candida) is a normal denizen of the vagina, and an infection simply means there is an overgrowth of it on the vulva or in the vagina.” People are likelier to get a yeast infection—or likelier to experience yeast overpopulation, since yeast is a citizen of Vagina City—when they’re on antibiotics, they have diabetes, or their immune system has taken a hit. “Oral sex can be a slight risk factor in transmission of candida,” said Dr. Denali Luengo, “but the frequency of candidiasis is not increased by the frequency of sex, so it may not happen next time. Also, if her symptoms developed one week later, it could have been pure coincidence.” A coincidence—that was my hunch when I read your letter, DMG. “Luckily, they are easy to treat—over the counter miconazole or the single-dose pill
fluconazole—and are basically just a nuisance and present no major health risks,” said Dr. Denali Luengo. I got divorced five years ago after a 15-year marriage that produced two children who are now 13 and 6. When their mother moved out, she left pretty much everything. I took the wedding mementos—dress, video, photo albums—and threw them in a trunk. I have not looked at them since. Last night, my girlfriend of almost a year told me she thinks it is “really fucked up” that I still have this stuff. Is it? —Box Of Mementos Bothers It’s not, BOMB. Your marriage is a part of your past—it shaped the man you are today, the man your current girlfriend claims to love—and your children are a product of that marriage. Even if you never looked at those items again, even if they held no sentimental value for you (and it’s fine if they do), one day your children might want
to see those pictures or watch that video or handle that dress. And any attempt to erase your first marriage—by stuffing those items down the memory hole—could be interpreted by your children as evidence that you would have erased them too, if you could have. Your girlfriend is a grown-up, and she needs to act like one. She’s free to think it’s fucked up that you still have those wedding mementos, of course, but it’s ultimately none of her business and she needs to STFU about it. I’m a 31-year-old gay man. I grew up in a conservative town and got a late start exploring my sexuality. I lost my virginity at 26, but I lacked the confidence to really allow myself to enjoy sex until I learned how to enjoy the present moment. I really hit my stride a couple of months ago, and now the floodgates have opened. I get on Grindr CONTINUED ON PAGE 30
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CITY WEEK BROADWAY JAZZ DANCE CLASS Floor Polish. 215 N Hoff Ave, Suite 107 333-5905. A fun musical theater-themed contemporary jazz dance class for all levels. Featuring tunes from new and classic shows like Chicago, Grease, West Side Story, Matilda, etc. Fresh choreography every week! Thursdays, 7-8 p.m., $6. CARDIO PARTY-O | DANCE WORKOUT Floor Polish. 215 N Hoff Ave, Suite 107 333-5905. High-energy Dancerobix. We romp through a party mix of styles: old school hip-hop, cumbia, disco, bollywood, & big hits. Each song has unique easy-to-follow moves. Come sweat and dance. Wednesdays, 5:45-6:45 p.m., $6. http://www.floorpolishdance.com FEMME IN HEELS Santa Rita Ballroom. 435 E. 9th Street 275-7931. Learn to dance more confidently in heels and pick up some sexy moves. Both men and women are invited to take the class and you don’t have to wear heels. Sundays, 2-3 p.m., $10. 275-7931. http://www.santaritaballroom.com/ femme-in-heels.html santaritaballroom@gmail.com SALSA MOVES Movement Culture. 435 E 9th St, Tucson, AZ 85705 603-8043. Come learn how to dance salsa/bachata starting at 7:45. Stick around for the next two hours of DJ’ed music and social dancing. No partner or experience required! Second Saturday of every month, 7:45-11 p.m., $5. michellekostuk@gmail.com SANTA RITA BALLROOM PRIVATE LESSONS Santa Rita Ballroom. 435 E. 9th Street 275-7931. Learn to dance Latin, Swing, & Ballroom, for social, competitive, and/or performance, with private lessons and/or classes at Santa Rita Ballroom, located Downtown. No partner necessary. Mondays-Fridays, 6 a.m.-4 p.m., $10$75. 275-7931. http://www.santaritaballroom.com/private-dance-lessons.html santaritaballroom@gmail.com TUCSON SWING DANCE CLUB, LESSON AND SOCIAL Shall We Dance. 4101 E. Grant Road. 327-7895. West Coast Swing beginner and intermediate lesson, and a social dance.No partner or experience is necessary. There is a wide arrangement of music and it is fun for all ages! Thursdays, 7-10:30 p.m., Free for the first time! Otherwise $7 for members and $5 for non-members.. http://tsdc.net
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“PENELOPE” BY ENDA WALSH The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 551-2053. A wild contemporary rendering of the suitors to Penelope in competitive courtship as they sense the impending doom of Odysseus’ return. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30-9 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m. Continues through March 20, $35. http://www.theroguetheatre.org ticket@theroguetheatre.org THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Arizona Rose Theatre. 4500 N Oracle Rd, Suite 329 (520)888-0509. The Tony winning musical, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee follows an eclectic group of six mid-pubescents as they vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. Fri., Feb. 24, 7-9 p.m., Sat., Feb. 25, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., Fri., March 3, 7-9 p.m., Sat., March 4, 7-9 p.m., Sun., March 5, 2-4 p.m., Fri., March 10, 7-9 p.m., Sat., March 11, 7-9 p.m. and Sun., March 12, 2-4 p.m., $8 - $17. 888-0509. http://www.arizonarosetheatre.com azrosetheatre@gmail.com ARIZONA CHORAL SOCIETY Catalina United Methodist Church. 2700 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-4296. ACS is looking for singers of all ages! Rehearsals run Jan 30 to Mar 20. Email Dr. Jonathan Ng at jng@pima.edu to set up an audition. Mondays, 6:30-9 p.m. Continues through March 26, $50 (free for students). http://www.azchoral.org/ jng@pima.edu
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and have sex up to three times a week. I feel in my gut that this isn’t a compulsion so much as an exploration, and something I need to get out of my system while I search for a monogamous relationship. As long as I’m safe, do you see any problem with me fucking around for a while? —Please Don’t Use My Name
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considered me boyfriend material. I want to see her again, but I’m not really available for a serious relationship. Knowing the kind of unbelievable shit trans people have to deal with, I feel like it would be unfair to string her along. She is not aware of my marital status. What should I do? —Can’t Think Of Funny Acronym
O brave new world that has such You’re on your cumspringa, PDUMN. Most straight-identified guys in it. Anyway, CTOFA, here’s what you should gay men have at least one. Be safe, get on do: Get in a time machine and go be comPrEP, remember that HIV isn’t the only pletely—what’s the word?—oh right, go be sexually transmitted infection (use concompletely straight with this woman before doms), enjoy yourself, and be kind to the you take her home from that bar. You’re guys you meet on your cumspringa (even married and doing the LDR thing and the those you don’t expect to see again). And marriage is open and you’re available for if a monogamous relationship is what you fun but nothing more. ultimately want—and monogamy is a fine No time machine? Then handle it the choice—telling yourself that sexual advensame way you would if you’d deceived some tures are something you have to get out of cis woman—excuse me, if you’d accidenyour system first is a mistake. People who tally gotten some cis woman’s hopes up convince themselves that serious commitby failing to mention the wife. Level with ment means the death of sexual advenher—you’re married—and let the nips fall tures—particularly people who enjoy sexual where they may. She might be angry or she adventures—will either avoid commitment might not give a wet squart (she may not entirely or murder the ones they make so be as interested as you think she is). If she they can have sexual adventures again. accuses you of making up a wife because I’m not saying you have to be nonmonogyou don’t want to date a trans woman, it amous, PDUMN. I’m saying a couple can shouldn’t be hard to prove your wife—and be exclusive and sexually adventurous at your marriage—exists. the same time. I’m also saying the person Finally, CTOFA, you say it would “be you are now—a person who enjoys sexual unfair to string her along” because of the adventures—is the person you’re likely to “unbelievable shit trans people have to be after your cumspringa is over and you’re deal with.” It would be unfair—it would be ready to make a commitment. wrong—to string a cis woman along, too. I’m a straight-identified guy in my early 30s. Stringing people along is wrong, period. ■ I am married, but my wife lives in another part of the country and we’re doing an open relationship until she moves to live with On the Lovecast, Slate writer L.V. Anderson me. Last weekend, I met a girl at a bar who on why we don’t have better condoms: ended up coming home with me, and she savagelovecast.com. turned out to be a pre-op trans woman. I’d never been with a trans person before, so mail@savagelove.net I decided to just roll with it and ended up having a pretty good time. Over the course @fakedansavage on Twitter of the weekend, I started to get the sense that she really liked me and maybe even
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