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MARCH 23, 2017

MARCH 23-29, 2017 | VOL. 32, NO. 11

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Celebrate Brian Smith

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Journalist and author Evan Thomas talks about his latest book and today’s politics

CHOW

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Contrary to some random misconceptions, no, PJ Subs is not a gas station and, yes, they are open for business

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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Ryanhood and Artifact Dance Project create a music-dance piece about Tucson’s favorite

CINEMA

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This love-action Beauty and the Beast is Hermione on auto-tune, but it’s all good

MUSIC

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Austin Counts on soul, Lonesome Desert and Pima County Jail

Casey Anderson, Ad Director/ Associate Publisher, Ext. 22 casey@tucsonlocalmedia.com Grace Heike, Sales Admin, Ext. 21 grace@tucsonlocalmedia.com Kate Long, Accounting, Ext. 13 kate@tucsonlocalmedia.com

I know many of us go away for a while. Leave Tucson for love or work, or a need to escape.

There’s always a handful who return. I came back almost 10 years ago to be closer to family, and well, because at that time in my life I felt like I needed to be in a place that—even with family demons and an assortment of bad memories—has always felt like my true home. A year or so ago, Brian Smith did the same for his own reasons and you know, almost every day I go to my office, I am so damn grateful he did.

Those who love his column Tucson Salvage already understand his brilliance as a writer, and his obvious love of Tucson and all of what I’ve always called its weird, ugly and beautiful, which are never mutually exclusive. Brian gets that, and that is one of many things I love about him. But what I knew immediately when he first reached out to tell me he was moving home and then again when he reached out to pitch the column idea and yet even more when he joined our staff as arts and culture editor—he’s a hell of a human.

There isn’t a lot of pretentious bullshit when it comes to Brian Smith. Instead, there’s a huge open heart. That’s probably why I love seeing him in the office, and why he has become such an important part of making life around here tolerable on those really bad journalism days.

This month, Spent Saints, a collection of Brian’s short stories was published by Ridgeway Press. Reaction to the book is phenomenal. The first print of 1,500 copies, only out

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two weeks, sold out. Don’t worry. There are more, good people.

The cover this week is an excerpt from Brian’s book, a Tucson story of sorts, accompanied by Brian’s almost always heart-rending photos.

I hope you support Brian as a writer and buy his book, but I also hope you help us celebrate Brian and Spent Saints starting with a launch party on Saturday, March 25 at the Owls Club (236 S. Scott Ave.), 7:30 p.m. The night is lovingly hosted and DJ’d by Clif Taylor and DJ Steven Ramshur. Brian will read from and sign copies of his book, but other writers will join him: Tucson’s Isaac Kirkman and Billy Sedlmayr, and Michigan author John Freeman. Brian’s brother Barry Smith will play psych violin, and demented piano with Nick Letson. Plus screenings of the 11 short films by various directors inspired by Brian’s stories stories. There is also going to be a screening of the first in a web series (which was just green-lit) on Spent Saints. Go to spentsaints.com for more info.

If you can’t make it to the Owls Club, here are other Tucson events we hope you attend: Sunday, March 26, Bookmans, 6230 E. Speedway Blvd., 2 p.m Friday, April 7, Antigone Books, 411 N. 4th Ave., 7p.m.

Sunday, April 23, Barnes and Noble, 5130 E. Broadway Blvd., 2 p.m.

—Mari Herreras mari@tucsonlocalmedia.com

YOU WRITE Send letters to Tucson Weekly, 7225 N. Mona Lisa Road, Suite 125, Tucson, AZ 85741 or to mari@tucsonlocalmedia.com. Guest opinions at 750 words are also welcome and due Thursdays, Noon. Dust Devil, 70-word short stories or poems, are due Friday, Noon. Get busy, Tucson.

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Sheryl Kocher, Receptionist, Ext. 10 sheryl@tucsonlocalmedia.com EDITORIAL Mari Herreras, Managing Editor, Ext. 36 mari@tucsonlocalmedia.com Jim Nintzel, News Editor, Ext. 38 jimn@tucsonlocalmedia.com Brian Smith, Arts & Music Editor, Ext. 37 brian@tucsonlocalmedia.com Contributors: Ally Booker, Rob Brezsny, Brett Callwood, Max Cannon, Rand Carlson, Zion Crosby, Tom Danehy, Sherilyn Forrester, Bob Grimm, Jim Hightower, Danyelle Khmara, Joshua Levine, Nick Meyers, Andy Mosier, Adiba Nelson, Xavier Omar Otero, Dan Perkins, Linda Ray, Margaret Regan, Tom Reardon, David Safier, Billy Sedlmayr, Will Shortz, Eric Swedlund, Jason P. Woodbury PRODUCTION Chelo Grubb, Production Manager/Web Editor, Ext. 32 chelo@tucsonlocalmedia.com Louie Armendariz, Graphic Designer, Ext. 28 louie@tucsonlocalmedia.com Edgar Mendoza, Editorial Graphic Designer, Ext. 18 edgar@tucsonlocalmedia.com Oliver Muñoz, Graphic Designer, Ext. 26 oliver@tucsonlocalmedia.com CIRCULATION Laura Horvath, Circulation/Special Events Manager, Ext. 17, laura@tucsonlocalmedia.com ADVERTISING Kristin Chester, Account Executive, Ext. 25 kristin@tucsonlocalmedia.com Candace Murray, Account Executive, Ext. 24 candace@tucsonlocalmedia.com Lisa Hopper, Account Executive Ext. 39 lisa@tucsonlocalmedia.com Stephen Myers, Account Executive, Ext. 19 stephen@tucsonlocalmedia.com Tyler Vondrak, Account Executive, Ext. 27 tyler@tucsonlocalmedia.com Tamaron Wright, Account Executive, Ext. 23, tamaron@tucsonlocalmedia.com NATIONAL ADVERTISING VMG Advertising, (888) 278-9866 or (212) 475-2529

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POLICE DISPATCH

By Anna Mirocha, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com LUCK OF THE DEVIL East Park Avenue Feb. 25, 5:21 p.m.

A University of Arizona student experienced the epitome of luck when he not only rec ouped his lost wallet—with everything apparently still inside—but also avoided jail despite the fact that everything was apparently still inside … including a baggie of narcotics, according to the UA Police Department report.

The young man’s wallet was found by one of his co-residents in a local communal-living spot. Unable to reach the subject through social media, this kind spirit then went to the UAPD for help in returning the wallet. Even UA officers had trouble actually meeting the wallet’s owner—when they first called him he was at a basketball game, and subsequently he simply didn’t answer his phone for awhile—but eventually they met with him at a frat house and gave him the wallet.

At first officers didn’t tell him that tucked inside the wallet they’d located a baggie containing .5 grams of a white, powdery substance testing positive for cocaine—they merely asked him “if he knew anything about what was inside the wallet,” to which he responded, “Uh, maybe, no.”

Since the officers had never seen the subject in physical possession of the baggie, they proceeded not to arrest him, instead warning him that if the cocaine had indeed belonged to him, he’d better change his ways, since “continued use could have serious implications and get him arrested.”

The undoubtedly much-relieved young man said he understood and “would not do anything like that again” (still avoiding arrest even after this implicating statement). Officers gave him back his wallet, complete with his IDs but minus the cocaine (which was destroyed).

THAT GUY HAS AN “ARREST WISH” Foothills Area Jan. 4, 7:45 p.m.

Through words and actions, a man was pretty much asking to go to jail—and he got the appropriate “answer,” whether he wanted it consciously or not, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report stated.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to a north-side business, outside of which a strange man in an orange backpack had been suspiciously—and rather ostentatiously—pacing back and forth for quite some time.

While pacing in this odd manner in this public space, he had made no effort to conceal the fact that he was holding a knife in his hand.

When deputies stopped him, he immediately told them he had warrants out for his arrest, adding that he had a “rig” (a kit used for injecting drugs intravenously) in his backpack—which deputies found he did indeed (six syringes, two pieces of an aluminum can, a tourniquet and numerous cotton balls). After confirming that he also had two warrants against him, deputies brought the subject to jail without facing a bit of resistance. ■

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NIXON DIVIDED

Journalist and author Evan Thomas talks about his latest book and today’s politics

By Jim Nintzel tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com LONGTIME WASHINGTON journalist Evan Thomas is the author of Being Nixon: A Man Divided, a biography of former president Richard Nixon that was named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year by Time Magazine and was praised as a “fully rounded portrait” by the New York Times Book Review. Thomas was recently in town for the Tucson Festival of Books.

Your subtitle is “A Man Divided” and you talk a lot about the dichotomy with Richard Nixon. He was very shrewd politically, he wanted to do good in the world, but he was also consumed by a darkness in the form of paranoia and fear and an impulse to strike back at his enemies. How did you find this different aspects played out for him?

Well, I’m sorry to say the dark side won. In the end, he did succumb to it. You can hear it on the tapes. But it was a long time coming and he had provocations. I’m sympathetic to him for a lot of reasons. He was a shy, awkward guy. Amazingly shy for politics, when you think about it. He had to overcome a lot just to be in politics at all. The hack cliché is that even paranoids have enemies. He did have enemies. The East Coast press was tough on him. And I think unfairly, at least at first. Nixon was no innocent. There is plenty to criticize here. I don’t absolve him.

I think he should have been driven from office. But he wasn’t as bad as he was made out to be, certainly. He was subjected to some dirty tricks himself. In the 1960 election, for instance, the Kennedys played pretty hard.

You credit him with creating the modern-day Republican Party by siphoning off disaffected Democrats with the lawand-order themes in his campaigns. Did you see something similar with Donald Trump’s campaign last year?

There’s tremendous overlap there. Nixon, because he himself had suffered at the hands of snobs like me, had a feeling for what it was like to be scorned and mocked and left behind and shunned by elites. And Nixon put that to good advantage in his political career. It is very, very significant that Nixon discovered Roger Ailes. He was a booker for daytime TV for housewives, in a suburb of Pennsylvania and Nixon found him and hired him in ’68. Ailes was a genius but it takes a genius to know a genius. And

I think that’s careless. He wants to use the media as a foil. Nixon did this. Remember the nattering nabobs of negativity with Spiro Agnew? This is a page right out of Nixon’s playbook. And it works because it’s fun to hate the press. So I understand from a political point of view and the press walks into Trump’s trap pretty easily by getting too hot and bothered about Trump and they’re playing into Trump’s hand. Having said that, I do think Trump is playing with Now you have the Trump Democrats. But fire a little bit. Trump seems to be heedless of the Constitution and kind of careless while Nixon had a strong grasp on interabout checks and balances. Trump can national affairs, some of Trump’s critics sound like a proto-tyrant. You can overdraw say he doesn’t have the same knowledge these analogies and I don’t want to go too and he’s kind of winging it. There are far here but it’s careless. When you say the these questions about the Russian influpress is the enemy of the American people, ence, but beyond that, Republicans like that’s incendiary. That’s not true, for one John McCain are questioning if Trump is committed to NATO and the European thing, and I understand the politics, but it’s a little dangerous and it may be dangerous for Union and the whole idea of “The West.” him. What’s the cliché? You shouldn’t pick The biggest difference is that Nixon read incessantly. He was shy and so smart, but he fights with people who buy ink by the barrel. didn’t like to talk to human beings, he’d rath- Picking a fight with the Washington Post er read. Trump apparently has read nothing. and The New York Times was not a good idea for Richard Nixon and it’s maybe not a I think Trump watches TV and doesn’t even like to read briefing papers. Nixon had good idea for Donald Trump. a very sophisticated world view. He and But the media landscape has changed a lot Kissinger could stay up all night talking. I since Nixon’s day. don’t think Trump does that. Having said That’s a good point, and that’s why these that, playing this Russia card—I think Trump analogies get a little rocky. Technology does may be trying to do intuitively what Nixon did methodically. And I don’t know that change things. The Times and the Post are not the central players that they were. Back Trump is all wrong. People say we have to enemies with Russia. Well, do we, really? But in Nixon’s day, 90 percent of the American I think Trump does seem to be winging it. It people had their TV sets on at 6:30 watching three channels. ... That’s just not true now. doesn’t seem to be very well thought out.

People get it from all over, including, unfortunately, fake news, Breitbart, all that. The What do you make of Trump calling whole fake news thing I find frightening. ■ the media “the enemy of the American people”?

Ailes’ genius, for which he made billions of dollars for Rupert Murdoch, was to attack the liberal media for having a bias. People in my business never want to admit we had a bias. I used to get in trouble for saying on TV occasionally that the media did have a liberal bias. I used to get into hot water with my liberal friends for admitting the truth.

Ailes had some problems, but he was a genius and Nixon was able to see that.

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THE SKINNY

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By Jim Nintzel jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com

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THE $250 MILLION ASK

Citing progress across the board, Tucson Mayor Rothschild makes the case for voters to approve sales tax //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild got a big standing ovation when he took to the stage at last week’s State of the City speech.

Rothschild celebrated the city’s partnerships with other local jurisdictions in a speech that built the case for voters to support a temporary half-cent-per-dollar in a May 16 election.

Rothschild talked up the city’s efforts with the federal government, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the Regional Transportation Authority, local school districts, the Tucson Metro Chamber, Rio Nuevo and Mexico. He cited a number of wins for the city in areas of economic development, noting that Bloomberg News reported that Tucson had the third-fastest job growth rate

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of U.S. metro areas. He praised the increase in tourism and highlighted the construction of new hotels in downtown and near campus. He talked up changes that the city has made to streamline permit approvals and bring the budget into a structural balance. And he pointed out that the city has put the 2012 bond dollars that voters approved to good use, fixing more streets than promised ahead of schedule.

Toward the end of his speech, Rothschild asked: “Why am I telling you all this?

Because now, as funding from the streets bond ends, we’re going to the voters with a new five-year plan.”

That five-year plan will be funded with the half-cent sales tax that expires in 2022.

The proceeds would be directed toward improving Tucson’s streets and providing equipment and facilities for the Tucson Police Department and Tucson Fire Department.

The tax is expected to raise roughly $50 million a year, or $250 million over five years. An estimated 30 percent of that would go to the police department, 30 percent to the fire department and 40 percent to the roads.

The money wouldn’t go to salaries; instead, it would be directed toward new police cars, new fire trucks, bullet-proof vests and a whole bunch of other equipment the city has been too cash-strapped to afford in recent years.

The sales tax has the support of the Tucson Metro Chamber, the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, the Tucson Association of Realtors, the Pima County Democratic Party, the Tucson Police Officers Association, the Tucson Fire Fighters Association and Tucson Medical Center.

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THE WHITE STUFF

U.S. Rep. McSally remains silent on Rep. Steve King’s expression of anglo supremacy

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lines last week with a tweet that celebrated the philosophy of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom got knocked down by voters in last week’s election in the Netherlands. In subsequent interviews, King has stood by his tweet.

Some Republicans have been critical of King’s statement, which comes on the heels of other expressions of white supremacy by the controversial lawmaker. Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan), whose parents immigrated from the Middle East, tweeted

in response: “I’m an American no less than you are. I love our Constitution and traditions. Am I ‘somebody else’s’ baby because my parents are immigrants?”

But King told The Hill newspaper that many of his fellow Republicans have been supportive.

“My colleagues have generally been coming by and patting me on the back,” King said. “And a surprising number have said that they pray for me. And, meaning they support me and they agree with me, a surprising number.”

Whether U.S. Rep. Martha McSally (RAZ02) is among those critical of King or patting him on the back remains a mystery.

Her office did not respond last week to two requests for comment on King’s tweet and comments.

Southern Arizona’s two Democratic congressmen condemned King’s remarks.

Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ03) said that King’s tweet was a “wakeup calls for all Americans about the Republican Party’s true motivations in pursuing immigration reform. King was an early supporter of Donald Trump; he is a trusted advisor of the president on immigration reform; to characterize these views as anything other than mainstream in today’s Republican leadership would be false. The deafening silence from each and every one of King’s GOP colleagues only further conveys their silent approval of the hate he’s spewing.”

Grijalva added: “There was a time when virulent racism was considered appalling fringe behavior by both parties—now it’s clearly become the driving narrative for Republican leadership under Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.”

Congressman Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ01) that the United States is “a nation rich in culture and diversity, and we are stronger for it.”

“To say we would better off as a homogenous society insults the generations of immigrants who have fought to defend our country, make it a better place, and all who call it home,” O’Halleran said. “This kind of hatred and animosity toward peaceful people who believe, look, think, or act differently has no place in America. These statements now, as there are increased threats and attacks on people who are or look Jewish, Muslim, and others.” ■ Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel airs at 5 p.m. Sundays on community radio KXCI, 91.3 FM, and at 1 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m.

Sundays on KEVT, 1210 AM.

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ASK A MEXICAN!

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By Gustavo Arellano, themexican@askamexican.net

Dear Mexican: The other day, I witnessed a young gordita retrieve a bag of Fritos, open it, then walk over to the chili station and pump in two steaming piles of 7-11 chili into the bag. At that point the Frita Bandita then shook the bag and started comer those nasty, now-hot, chili-soaked Fritos. Needless to say, I was appalled. And enfermo. Why not just buy a bag of Chili Cheese Fritos? Do most Mexicans shamelessly mangle foodstuffs like this? What other foul comida are Mexicans shoving past their mustaches?

—Señor Roast Dear Gabacho: You mean chili billies? The first time I had chili ladled over Fritos or tortilla chips were at Sage Park in Anaheim during my time riding the bench for the La Palma Little League Senior Minor division.

Gabachos went crazy for the dish; us Mexicans shrugged, bought a bag of Fritos, and drowned it in Tapatío. Twenty-five years later, we pour Tapatio on Tapatío-flavored Doritos—and? Spare me your mock shock: the most famous dishes buried under chili, the Coney Island dog and Cincinnati chili five way (spaghetti, chili, cheese, onions, and beans) are favorites of poor gabachos in the South and Midwest. They’re great dishes, and fulfill the working-class dream of filling your gut for cheap and offending precious pendejos like yourself.

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OPINION SHAME ON YOU, SENATOR FLAKE. SHAME ON YOU.

By Pat Maisch, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com categorizes as “current use” Parrots! Each and every time there is a mass shooting in our (and this is not country, our lawmakers sound like parrots. First they offer including tenses and obsolete heartfelt thoughts and prayers, which are meaningless without words) while the action.

Real Academia Esweek. This legislation weakens the Then, because they are owned by pañola estimates about 100,000. That said, ability to keep guns out of dangerous the gun lobby, they oppose comMexicans do learn how to speak English, hands and widens the loophole that mon-sense gun safety legislation that if slowly: A 2016 study by the Migration makes it easy for dangerous people to helps keep fi rearms out of dangerous Policy Institute (MPI) showed 69 percent buy guns in our country. hands.

They use their, loud parrot of Mexican immigrants “reported limited Senator Flake should be ashamed. voices and say, “We should enforce English proficiency [LEP], compared to 50 On the one hand, he crows about enpercent of all immigrants.” That might seem the laws already on the books,” Or, forcing existing laws and addressing “The problem is mental illness, not high, but compare that to another immimental health instead of guns – yet he grant group that came from similar poverty: guns.” voted to repeal an existing law that Exactly what I heard after I witVietnamese. The MPI showed 67 percent of did just that. He has helped undernessed six people dead and ConVietnamese report LEP, but I don’t hear peomine the enforcement process and gresswoman Gabby Giff ords nearly ple freaking out about them. Maybe because mental health issues he has previously dead with a bullet in her head at her they historically voted Republican?

Congress on Your Corner event in Tuscon. Because two good guys withYears ago, in response to some political out guns tackled the shooter, I was bullshit heaved by Shrubya and his ignoble Cabal of Curs, I remember seeing long lines able to take a loaded magazine from his hand. of people outside Mexican consular offices Our Senator is a pro at those tropes. waiting to get a Matricula Consular card.

U.S. Senator Jeff Flake continues to I know matricula means “enrollment” but hide behind gun lobby talking points what exactly was the purpose of the cards? in a cowardly effort to justify his votes And why was it so important that people against common-sense gun safety would stand in line all day to get one? P.S. laws. Flake displayed his hypocrisy, #fucktrump and his loyalty to the gun lobby, yet —Gringo Wants to Play Bingo again with his vote last month to weaken enforcement of existing laws Dear Gabacho: You said it, loco. All those The sentiment among most U.S. citizens is aimed at keeping guns out of the cards do are serve as a form of ID for that new Mexican arrivals in the US of A hands of people with severe mental undocumented folks that allow them to do should immediately learn to speak English illnesses that are danger to self or everything from open bank accounts to buy (the least that they could do). How easy alcohol at clubs to apply for a driver’s license others. would that be for the Mexicans? Would it I say: Shame on Senator Flake; in certain states. Know Nothings, of course, be easier for us to learn to speak Spanish? shame on you.

Are there more Spanish words than English take the document as further proof Mexico In December 2016, President is trying to Reconquista the United States, words? Is it fair to even ask that question?

Obama finalized a rule to improve which is kinda like realizing you’re on fire —Tongue-Tied Gringo enforcement of existing laws to keep only when the flames expose your ulna. ■ guns out of the hands of people with Dear Gabacho: All’s fair in love and etymolsevere mental illness who are already Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexogy, son! Gabachos don’t realize how pinche prohibited from having guns. ican.net. be his fan on Facebook.

Follow him hard it is to learn how to speak English. The Under that rule, the Social Security on Twitter @gustavoarellano or follow him Oxford English Dictionary currently has Administration would submit records on Instagram @gustavo_arellano!

171,476 words in its Second Edition that it into the national background check system for recipients who are proIsn’t he a billionaire hedge-fund huckster hibited from possessing guns due to on Wall Street? Trump’s whole “jobs” panel severe mental illness. Before the rule is made up of Wall Street banksters and was put in place, those records were FLIMFLAMMING corporate powers. missing from the background check Thus, the so-called “job-creation plan”

By Jim Hightower system. The rule didn’t change who is announced by Trump and his corporate By gollies, The Donald delivers! allowed to buy guns in our country – Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of cohorts doesn’t create any jobs, but calls but it did fix the reporting of records working-class champions have announced instead for – Ta Dah! – deregulating Wall for people who were already legally Street. a bold initiative to create millions of Do they think we have sucker wrappers prohibited from owning guns.

American jobs. A spokesman for the panel, Just recently, U.S. Senators inaround our heads? Trump’s scheme will let Steve Schwarzman, praised Trump as a cluding Jeff Flake brazenly voted to banks make a killing, but it doesn’t require leader who wants to “do things a lot better repeal this rule – and President Trump them to invest in jobs – so they won’t. in our country, for all Americans.” signed the repeal making new law this There’s a name for this: Fraud.” ■ Wait a minute… Steve Schwarzman?

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claimed to support.

Just two months after the Sandy Hook shooting where 26 were murdered by a man with firearms, Senator Flake said, “We need more effective and broader background checks.” And he subsequently claimed, “…(W)e need to strengthen the background check system, particularly when it comes to the mentally ill.”

Concerned Arizonans and gun violence survivors like me shake our heads and ask ourselves: Whose side is Senator Flake on? The gun lobby’s or ours?

Senator Flake’s true colors will come shining thru in the coming months as National Rifle Association lobbyists push to lift restrictions on firearm silencers and advance their top policy priority – making it legal for dangerous people to carry concealed, loaded weapons everywhere.

As an Arizonan, a gun violence survivor and a volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, I’m ashamed of the way Flake is voting in Congress.

I say, Senator Flake, will you finally show some courage by standing up for safety and standing up to the leadership of the National Rifle Association as it seeks to further advance a dangerous agenda of more guns for anyone, anywhere – no questions asked? ■

Patricia Maisch survived the 2011 mass shooting at Congresswoman Giffords’ Congress on Your Corner event in Tuscon and helped disarm the shooter. She is a resident of Tuscon.

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THE GRAND PRIX An excerpt from Tucson Weekly columnist Brian Smith’s new collection of short stories

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is foot clipped into the pedal and the pedal was connected to the crank and his leg pushed down and perspiration stung razor burns on the tops of his shins. His 17-pound, custom-made, salmon pink Andy Gilmour hummed beneath him. It was warm out, overcast and murky.

After a few warm-up miles and many stoplights, he spun back around and headed to the team van, where Freddie Z. stood waiting for him. Julian unclipped from his right pedal, rolled to a stop and looked up at his coach, who was holding out a water bottle and a towel draped over his forearm.

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“Julian,” Freddie grinned, “You look ready.”

Julian took the water bottle, drank from it, and placed it in the holder on his bike. “Just water and sodium,” Freddie said. “That’s all you need for today.”

Julian nodded and used the towel to wipe sweat from his face.

When Julian first met Freddie Z., he thought the coach was just some giant Ukrainian with a mean face who maybe beat people up for a living or loaded trucks. He had a blocky jaw and a big red nose. Julian learned quickly that Freddie not only offered keen insights into advanced methods of sports medicine and science but he’d already nurtured more than a dozen Eastern Bloc cyclists to Olympic gold medals and lucrative professional cycling careers.

Freddie stared straight into Julian’s eyes and said, “Remember, this race is not important.”

But it is, Julian thought.

To Freddie, Julian was more than just a teenager with an inexplicable shortage of self-confidence. He was a kid who had little understanding of who he was and who he was going to be. He was just learning to navigate adolescence, one weighed down heavily, and quite importantly for any future world champion, Freddie thought, by his 24-hour-a-day obsession with bike racing. Freddie, of course, wouldn’t waste his time on any cyclist who didn’t show a will, no, an actual desire, to suffer extremities, to live and die on the bike like a madman.

Most riders, even the good ones, didn’t possess that will, nor did they expect to come up against it in someone else. Freddie saw in Julian potential world domination. Freddie’s concern was Julian’s low self-esteem. It played against type.

Freddie continued. “Julian, you are going to be a huge cycling star.” Freddie had been telling Julian that for more than a year now, since naming him, at 14, to the U.S. Junior National Team, a spot reserved for a few elite national cyclists under the age of 18. He added, “Don’t forget that.”

Because Freddie’s command of English wasn’t too good, he’d often relay what Julian interpreted as sincere instruction mostly through eye contact, which was stealth-like. Once his dark eyes connected to Julian’s there was no escaping them.

“Just stay to front of the field for safety,” Freddie said. “It’s very dangerous today. Do your best in sprint, and stay away from crashes. Tomorrow is Nest Mountain race. You go for that win tomorrow.” He felt Freddie’s huge calloused hand come to rest on his back. The hand felt like it belonged to someone’s dad, and it comforted him. “This today you need for experience.”

Julian believed his every word.

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same freeway and streets, on the same day, the difference was the bike racecourse was shorted to a one-mile circuit, from its nearly two-mile route used for the autos. The cyclists were to race 65 laps in the evening after the Formula One. Julian had no teammates his age because there wasn’t anyone else in the race under 18. Because he was on the U.S. Junior National Team he was accepted to race among the older guys, the Category One racers and pros, a field limited to 100 of the classiest in the United States. But because Julian was a junior, he had a gear restriction, meaning he couldn’t use the giant gears the others had when the race got fast. He’d have to pedal faster to maintain speed, a big handicap on a flat course in a fast race. Julian had to stay in the slipstream of others to even have a chance, staying an inch behind the wheel in front of him. (Slipstreaming offers a slight sensation that you’re being pulled along, and can save a third of a racer’s energy).

Julian knew many of the adultage National Team guys from the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where he lived on and off in the dorms there. Those guys hailed from far-off lands like Wisconsin and Florida and California and Vermont, and they stressed uniformity, had the same arrogance and everything seemed to come easy to them. They laughed at the same jokes, wore the same clothes, saw the same movies, listened to the same music, had the same haircut. The world was designed for them. They scared him.

They’d taken to calling him Dickweed because he listened to stuff like Johnny Thunders and cut his own hair into a fuckedup spiky mess. He

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was forced to listen to his blaster after his Walkman had died—on The Clash’s “Death or Glory”—and that’s when he discovered punk rock rankled the big, tough, world-class racers in the dorms, even at low volume in the middle of the day with doors closed. Julian never understood enmity from other cyclists; especially those who understood the suffering this sport required. Why make it worse, Julian wondered, on a fellow National Team member?

After Dickweed began dropping those older guys in the mountains outside of Colorado Springs, they regarded him with a kind of gapejawed contempt and lobbied to have him tossed out of the OTC. Julian left his coach and hit the racecourse to warm up. The crowds that hadn’t dispersed looking for overpriced hot dogs and beer sat bored or drunk in temporary stands erected along waterfront streets. Palm trees and glass buildings rose behind concrete blockades and tall chain link fences topped with barbed wire.

The race circuit began a on flat section of closed-off freeway. Two right-hand hairpins, each decreasing in radius, followed slightly curved straightaways including four lanes of Shoreline Drive, and the six-lane freeway, whose midpoint was the start/ finish line.

These streets were not his streets in his desert town. These streets smelled mainly of Formula One roadkill and racecar excrement—seared fiberglass and rotisserie meat, and motor oil, pit stops and armpits. Crash soot on freeway walls looked like big calla lilies.

The race organizers didn’t clean the course too well after earlier racecar crashes, which spewed oil and gasoline everywhere. Bike racers called these long oily slicks “invisible death,”

and the little dome dividers between lanes were even more deadly from it. If you happened to clip one, forget it, your front wheel would skitter out from under you, a dozen riders would slam into you and asphalt would sear thighs, torsos and faces. Scarred for life.

Julian watched bike-racing stars from dreamland burbs like Menlo Park or Newport Beach or Los Altos pull up in Volvos and Audis. The surfer-blond untouchables with perfect skin, concrete bodies and celebrity grins, who grew up admired by others and enjoyed parents who supported them through teen cycling years with money and love, invested time and energy, and the best pro racing bikes and coaching. Each had the physiological swagger of dudes who knew they were enviable to others and regularly traveled well beyond any measured biological constraints. Many had frightening beauty on their arms, women with bewildering bodies and wrist tattoos and modeling contracts who cheered their winners on at races and adored them and gave themselves over to them. There was a vast psychic and economic distance between Julian and them, and they were fast.

He was outclassed before landing in Long Beach. Outclassed on the drive in to Southern California two days prior as a passenger in a car driven by an older racer from his Arizona hometown, a desolate, impoverished blip called Sierra Vista. The moment they hit that run of sprawling cities and bloated houses and giant malls and beautiful mountains and lush foliage and churning industry, which begins at San Bernardino if you’re heading west on I-10, they knew they’d entered a kingdom full of promise and hope accessible only to others.

Julian was still wearing shirts that once belonged to his older brother.

His bike-racing gear—the jerseys, shorts, bibs, wheels and tires and bikes were professional standard, provided by his team sponsors because he was great at racing road bicycles.

The Pacific Ocean was a few blocks west and visible over barricades, and its cool brackish breeze only reinforced his unease that Southern California was wholly disinviting in its beauty and impossible to roll into and take part of. Nothing about this coastland calmed.

Before heading to the start/finish, Julian stopped at a table in the sign-in area and leafed through a race program. He read several bios of the day’s top contenders, which only magnified his lowliness. He was their Dickweed at the OTC: Al “Deluxe” Box Team: Strada-Ford Automobiles. Box is two-time U.S. Criterium Champion, placed second at last year’s Pan American Games in Men’s Team Sprint.

The cyclist has countless domestic road and track wins, including the Tour of Redlands, the Grand Prix of Trexlertown, and the California Criterium. Box turned professional this year, is 22 years old and splits his time between Ghent, Belgium and Holmby Hills, California. He is a member of the U.S. National Team.

Barry Howard Team: Monte/Molteni-Campagnolo The 23-year-old Howard is a rare breed who can sprint, time trial and climb. He does well on both the road and on the track. He came up on the Junior National Team, took 2nd in the UCI Junior World Championship road race and won the Madison race on the track. Last year he won both the Winston

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Salem Cycling Classic and The Glencoe Gran Prix and placed second in the Bob Cook Memorial Mount Evans Hill Climb.

He spends his downtime perfecting violin skills. Howard hails from Neenah, Wisconsin. He is a member of the U.S. National Team.

Chris Springerville Team: LeMond-Taco Bell Ostensibly a track specialist, Manhattan Beach’s 25-year-old Springerville is a monster in the final sprint, and has won more than two-dozen top U.S. criteriums in the last two years. He placed second only to Al Box in last year’s U.S. Criterium championship.

Note that Springerville is the current World Track Champion in the Men’s Sprint category and today he’ll be wearing the vaunted rainbow jersey, which can only be worn by the one who has proven that he’s the best on earth this year.

Julian tossed the program aside, mounted his bike and zigzagged carefully to the start line through noisy throngs of spectators, fans, teams and associates.

The entire peloton was lining up under the roadway-spanning banner that read “Long Beach Grand Prix” in large block letters alongside a dozen corporate-sponsor logos of sports drinks, beer and motor oil.

Jittery with palms wet on brake levers, Julian wheeled slowly through the assembling cyclists and managed a position in the second row, near the podium and beneath the elevated announcer’s booth. He’d soon be rubbing shoulders and elbows at high speeds with these men, careen-

ing into corners and praying everyone kept their line. He felt tiny and terrified alongside giants.

He kept both feet locked into his pedals and stayed upright by touching the handlebars of an acquaintance named Lon lined up on his right side. Julian figured he’d gain a bike length or two on those around him when the gun sounded because they’d be clipping their shoes to the pedals. He’d be at the front of the group when the pace picked up. Like Freddie said, you don’t ever want to be caught at the back of the peloton on a fast, slick course like this one because if the group splits you’ll likely never make it to the front and you’ll be fighting constantly for the wheel— the slipstream—of the rider in front of you.

And if you’re caught in the back during a crash, you’ll most likely go down too.

Julian knew Lon from the OTC. He was a classic rising Southern California star with golden locks and a hot girlfriend. He even smelled sweet, like wintergreen oil and oranges. Lon looked over at Julian, and shook his head.

“Yeah, hold yourself up,” he said. “You shouldn’t even be in this race.

You won’t last two laps.

Dickweed.”

Sometimes you’re able to see yourself from outside yourself and Julian could see himself from the elevated vantage of the start/finish podium, his team’s colors and sponsorship logos, pink bike and fuckedup complexion. He was just a teenager known to some for his abilities in the mountains, not on closed flat courses that

go around and around, these “criteriums,” which favor the broad-shouldered sprinters with fast-twitch speed and fearless bike-control skills. Julian’s spindly legs resembled weed stems next to the few hundred oiled hypertrophic legs around him.

Julian heard but ignored the distorted mumble of last-minute race instructions from the racecourse referee and reached down and took a swig from his water bottle and returned it to its holder.

He trembled and longed to be anywhere else on earth and he needed to puke.

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ulian was barely 12 years old when he first shaved his legs, and there was blood all over the bathtub. A trail of blood he’d hoped would lead all the way to the European pro cycling ranks, five thousand miles away. His sisters weren’t allowed to shave their legs until they were 15. His parents had no idea Julian shaved his legs, and anyway, they never really knew what their kid was up to most of the time. They knew he rode his bike, but they didn’t exactly approve of competitive cycling.

His parents’ marriage had gone off the rails before Julian was born.

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as mushroom soup over thawed waffles from the freezer. Mom rarely made it home after work. She’d occupy any number of mid-town barstools and hotel rooms with her married boss from the downtown office where she worked.

By never congratulating his racing or even acknowledging it—like when he was named to the U.S. National Junior Cycling team—his mom and dad discounted his every living moment. By then he’d traveled to races all over the United States.

Dreams just don’t work out, son. You’ll wind up flipping burgers.

That way of teaching violence, from father to son, filled the living room with fear, rage and dread. The knuckle-to-bone terror that only a father can administer to his son. But the beatings served a greater, deeper purpose. They were a reward, an offering, a lesson in silent vengeance, and therefore strength, which served to feed Julian’s bike-racer fantasies of becoming hard as rock and tough as fuck and fast as the speed of sound.

It meant freedom. The only rules were those dictated by the amount of suffering Julian could tolerate. The suffering cured despair. He’d complete 80-mile solitary training rides on desert and mountain roads before 9:30 a.m. eighth-grade homeroom class.

When word traveled through junior high that the playground-detached Julian shaved his legs and dug punk rock he stomached interminable torment from confounded jocks and cheerleaders and nerds and teachers. It was the same abhorrence reserved for the one lisped kid in school who smelled like piss and made a habit of reaching into his pants and fiddling with his dick.

Fiddler was Julian’s only school friend, and they had zero to talk about. But quiet lunches and the smell of piss helped with the isolation and loneliness.

One day an oversized seventh-grader, a Little League baseball hero named Kenny O’Hanion, caught Julian near the tetherball courts on the far edge of the playground. Kenny’s dad was a mean alcoholic fireman with forearm tattoos—in an era rare for dads to sport tats unless he served his country or did prison time. Kenny was growing into his dad and in a few years they’d be the same guy.

The punches landed hard and fast. The black eyes didn’t fade for a week.

The shit-giving continued in high school and Julian’s unruly hair and pimples didn’t help. He’d endure faces of students, girls and boys, moving toward him in hallways, watch their heads shake and mouths twist into sinister smirks as they approached, and hear contemptible snickers and names like “faggot” and “buttfucker” as they passed. He’d shortcut home through private desert land to avoid schoolyard punches and hassles, but he’d never run or even jog because his legs and body were in endless recovery mode from train-

ing—he was either suffering on the bike or recovering from the suffering—and he couldn’t upset that delicate physiological balance. No champion ever would. But he’d walk fast, and the distance between home and school wasn’t too bad, maybe less than a mile.

Julian dropped out of school in tenth grade. His parents had given up on themselves.

Julian had heroes not parents. This was the age of bike-racing innocence, before Lance Armstrong’s exceedingly macho and drug-stained American boot stomped so much power and beauty out of the sport. Nine years old back in his bedroom, imitating everything his bike-racing big brother did, and through pictures he cut carefully from old Euro cycling magazines and plastered over his bedroom walls and ceiling, he longed to take on and beat the world’s all-time greats.

Julian’s heroes were mostly the spindly Spanish cyclists who consistently placed Top 5 in the grand world tours like the La Vuelta España, the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. Real-world champs from tiny villages with tomato farmer dads who Julian read about when he was barely strong enough to pedal up a hill.

Big-lunged and power efficient, they were obstinate and reserved, with zero body fat. They earned sulcate sinews and graceful form after having pushed their bodies 100,000 miles. Julian dreamed into their skin and into battles on the Alps and the Pyrenees and the Dolomites. These Spanish crown princes had mad fans throughout Europe, but they suffered for that adoration, some leveraging their bodies far beyond championships and into early graves.

He was 15 when the U.S. Olympic cycling coach informed him he was to be, without question, a true cycling star. Said to just keep his head down and trust him. By that time the kid had already cultivated his darkly competitive attitude and developed scary physical traits. His metabolic efficiency was through the roof, superhuman for a teen. His resting heart rate was 30, and his lung capacity matched older cycling superstars.

His young body burned its fat stores first and preserved its limited carbohydrate stores so he could motor faster, harder and longer on races with sustained mountain passes, dropping top racers a decade older and in their physical prime.

It’s an addict’s need, this yearning and learning to live on risk and pain. Winning teaches you how greatness lurks down deep inside, and quells childhood beat downs that said you don’t ever belong anywhere. And that joy of winning—there’s something about that kind of joy, it’s hard-earned because it rises from a place of pure agony. Hums like the perfect song, the perfect prose, the perfect painting, and your shoes can hold you up above the earth and you’re able to walk like that.

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Brian Smith reads from and signs his new collection of short stories

With music by Nick Letson, violinist Barry Smith and Clif Taylor (Chick Cashman) spinning glam, punk and soul. Readings from John “Cal” Freeman (Detroit), Isaac Kirkman, and Billy Sedlmayr 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 25 Owl’s Club, 236 S. Scott Ave. 520-207-5678; owlsclubwest.com Free. All Ages EXTRA: They’ll be screenings of the 12 short films by various directors inspired by Smith’s stories.

For more information on Spent Saints, and to watch the microshort films, go to spentsaints.com. ********************************** 2 p.m., Sunday, March 26 Bookman’s 6230 E Speedway 520-748-9555; bookmans.com Free. All ages EXTRA: Violinist Barry Smith will also perform and they’ll be screenings of the 12 short films by various directors inspired

by Smith’s stories.

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An Island Plate Lunch poke bowl

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Island Plate Lunch 5575 E. River Road #141

A family by way of Honolulu is bringing big island ono to the ’opu of Tucson

By Mark Whittaker tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com

OF COURSE TUCSON IS A LAND locked city, but that does not mean you should be afraid to eat fish here. The advent of proper refrigeration and the notion of overnight delivery allows us to enjoy some of the best quality product from the sea or river and, luckily for us, we have some skilled and resourceful chefs that offer up pure miracles from underwater provisions.

If you are fortunate enough to meet up with a talented cook that hails from an island territory, you just might be treated to dishes that will transport you to a beachfront food stand where the fish you are about to eat reeks pleasantly from the salty waves and tastes of fleshy, briny repute.

If you cannot afford to travel to a tropical getaway at present but are craving a bowl of marinated ahi over rice and have a few bucks in your pocket, all you have to do is get to a cozy place on River and Craycroft that is nestled between a Whole Foods and library branch to experience real Hawaiian cooking.

“The poke bowl also comes with a rich crab salad, two different kinds of tobiko, a seaweed salad, fresh avocado, nori, and then I finish it with some edamame and my own secret sauce that I can’t tell you about right now,” says Island Plate Lunch’s chef and owner Renee Eder, who smiles wide and giggles as she describes the epicness, and secrecy, of their signature dish, which is a tower of color and big island flavor. In fact, the namesake of her restaurant comes from a Hawaiian term for grabbing a quick bite.

“A plate lunch is just something someone gets on their way to somewhere when they’re hungry, like some chicken over rice or even a Spam musubi, which is a delicacy from where I come from in Honolulu.”

Spam masubi is basically a chunk of the popular canned salted meat over a block of rice and then wrapped in nori (seaweed). It may sound weird to land lubber mainlanders such as ourselves, but somehow the simplicity of it all totally works. And, yes, you can get some Spam masubi at Island Plate Lunch amongst a boat load of other dishes from Renee’s home turf.

“It was my grandmother that got me into cooking,” Renee notes as she plates up her Loco Moco, a flavorful volcanic eruption consisting of a juicy burger patty over rice then generously ladled with a thick brown gravy before getting topped with two, sometimes more if you’re super hungry, sunny side eggs. “My husband, Justin, was an architect so we traveled all over, eventually ending up in Las Vegas. At the time I was doing admin work and was a stay at home mom…I was very bored. So, he enlisted me in culinary school and from there I got to work with chef Pierre Gagnaire at his restaurant Twist in the Mandarin Oriental hotel and casino. I even got to help cater Steve Wynn’s wedding which was very cool.”

It was Renee and Justin’s daughter that brought them to Tucson as she enrolled in the UA. Missing the food from their island home, they noticed pretty quickly the lack of Hawaiian fare in the Sonoran desert.

When the space they currently reside in opened up they took the plunge and have been gaining a lot of local fame for their cuisine and laidback social hospitality.

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They even installed a large communal table in the small space which is very important to the Eder family.

“We want this table to bring people together,” Justin says with a smile. “Everyone here seems to be in a big hurry, not talking to each other. In Hawaii eating usually means family time and we want everyone who comes here to be part of our family, our ‘ohana.”

It’s the family recipe for their chicken katsu that will bring us all together, an entirely uncomplicated yet wholly complex dish of perfectly fried boneless chicken served with rice and drizzled with their own take on the island BBQ inspired sauce. And if it isn’t any of the chicken, sausage, egg, fish, beef, pork or Spam dishes that will give Tucson island fever, their peanut butter and jelly banh mi just might become an incurable, and welcomingly so, sickness.

“I make my own pepper jelly, which is a little hot, and a peanut butter sauce,” grins Renee, knowing and coyly impish. “It pairs really well with the pork belly. You think it would be strange but it is actually really delicious.”

Island Plate Lunch opens at 7 a.m. and serves breakfast until 10:30 a.m., which a lot of people don’t know about. But if you are in the area, stop by and try one of their liege waffles, which are denser and sweeter than the ones we are used to due to the caramelization from the pearl sugar they use. Put their chicken katsu on top of one of them and you’ll happily drift into a savory reef of deliciousness never wanting to return to life on the mainland again.

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GROWING FOOD SECURITY The Food Resilience Project kicks off on Saturday, March 25 with a community potluck, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at 3342 E. 28th St. The goal of the project is to build community and increase food security in our region.

Any delicious potluck items is welcome, but folks attending are encouraged to bring dishes made with locally sourced ingredients. So get out the casserole pan and join in the discussion on how to create a new model to promote more local food and a stronger community in Tucson.

For more details, go to the Facebook event page Kickoff Community Potluck - Food Resilience Project.

MORE GOOD DEEDS Not that anyone needs an excuse to eat good pizza, but if you do, how about supporting the Tucson Lobos Wheelchair Basketball team on Monday, March 27, 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.?

MOD Pizza, 6351 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite 129, will donate 20 percent of proceeds that day to help the Lobos raise the funds needed to help them get to the National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament in Louisville on Thursday, March 30.

Go to the Facebook event page, MOD Pizza Day March 27 for more details. Go Lobos!

BEER PAIRING LOVE If you’re into serious beer pairing, or just seriously good food and beer, then the Dove Mountain Brewing Company has a special night just for you (for us). Their Craft Culinary Series continues Thursday, March 23, 6 to 9 p.m., 12130 N. Dove Mountain Blvd., Marana with the Barrio Brewing Company. Chef John Pratt has four dishes planned to pair with Barrio’s award-winning beers.

The four-course menu will feature sweet & spicy calamari with Barrio Blonde; citrus swordfish skwers with Barrio Citrazona IPA, steak with a Bario NCAA Dark Ale. Hey, there’s desert, too: Raspberry and chocolate with, of course, the Barrio Raspberry.

For reservations, call 579-899. Cost is $55 per person.■ For more food and beverage news in Tucson, check out our blog on The Range at tucsonweekly.com/ TheRange/archives/chow/.

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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.

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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MAYS COUNTER CHICKEN AND WAFFLES C 2945 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2421. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Mays Counter offers Southern-style eats in a spot that could be described as collegiate sports-bar chic. The fried chicken is juicy, fresh and about 1,000 times better than the stuff you’ll get at a chain joint. The service is friendly; the prices are reasonable; and the waffle skins starter is one of the tastiest appetizers around. (12-23-10) $-$$$ MOTHER HUBBARD’S CAFE C 14 W. Grant Road. 623-7976. Open daily 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Summer hours: Open daily 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Diner/ No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This old-school Tucson joint is still serving inexpensive and tasty breakfasts and lunches—now with a few new twists, including a series of dishes centered on chiles. The tasty corned beef on reuben (Cactus Jack) is brined in-house, and the corn bread waffle is a treat you should not miss. (6-30-11) $ NATIVE GRILL & WINGS NW 8225 N. Courtney Page Way, No. 115. 744-7200.

Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-midnight. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 3100 E. Speedway Blvd. (325-3489). With wings, pizza, hoagies, spaghetti, calzones, stromboli, hot dogs and burgers, Native New Yorker seemingly has it all. This chain sits right in the heart of all that’s happening in Marana, yet it stands out from the other chain joints nearby. It’s a great place to meet friends, watch a game or bring the family. The wings come in

flavors from the traditional buffalo-style to strawberry to asiago-parmesan. (10-2-08) $-$$ OMAR’S HI-WAY CHEF RESTAURANT S Triple T Truck Stop, 5451 E. Benson Highway. 5740961. Open 24 hours. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The Tucson Truck Terminal, affectionately known as the Triple T, has been around since the ‘50’s. While you can get all sorts of services here, including having your truck washed, we’re here for the food. Omar’s is the place to go for big breakfasts, bottomless coffee and friendly service – all at reasonable prices. Breakfast runs the range from biscuits and gravy to the Big Omar with enchiladas, shredded beef, eggs, refried beans, tortillas, your choice of potatoes and salsa. Dinners include all the usual suspects and also entrées such as rainbow trout and lasagna. Save some room for one of Omar’s world famous deep dish pies; they’re big enough for two or three. (6-6-13) $-$$ PASTICHE MODERN EATERY C 3025 N. Campbell Ave. 325-3333. Open TuesdayFriday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. seven days a week. Full Cover/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. If you are looking for a lovely, spacious dining room, quirky art and an experimental and adventuresome menu, try Pastiche, featuring live jazz Friday and Sundays evenings. (10-5-00) $-$$ PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE C 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691. Open Monday-Friday 4 p.m.-2 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.

Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. A nightclub and bar first, Playground has an excellent selection of upscale bar food that’s definitely meant to be shared, if you can bear to do so. Don’t miss the meatballs in “angry sauce.” (10-17-13) $-$$ PREP & PASTRY C 3073 N. Campbell Ave. 326-7737. Open MondayFriday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Prep & Pastry, affectionately called P&P, brings fresh flavors and a fun vibe to the eateries that line Campbell Avenue. Offerings are interesting takes on comfort food. The duck hash, for example, could change the minds of those who think duck is too greasy. The soups reach levels of heavenly bliss. And with sandwiches like the “Dip,” even your crabby Uncle Moe will like it here. A word on the pastries: Yum! The scones are just what scones should be and the cookies are almost better than homemade.

(4-10-14) $-$$ RISKY BUSINESS NE 6866 E. Sunrise Drive. 577-0021. Open daily 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 8848 E. Tanque Verde Road (749-8555) and 250 S. Craycroft Road (584-1610). (Hours vary per location.) It’s tough to devise a restaurant scheme that will keep everyone in the family happy, but somehow, Risky Business has managed to pull this feat off admirably.

Lots of goodies for the kids are in this spacious, colorful spot, and parents will enjoy a menu that caters to their palates with food that has real taste and character. It doesn’t hurt that numerous premium beers are on tap, either. $$-$$$ ROBERT’S RESTAURANT

C 3301 E. Grant Road. 795-1436. Open Monday-

Saturday 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Closed mid-July to mid-August.

Diner/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V, checks. A friendly, neighborhood diner with outstanding homemade breads and pies. The staff is genuinely glad you came. The prices can’t be beat, especially if you’re watching the old budget. (6-24-04) $ SAWMILL RUN NE 12976 N. Sabino Canyon Parkway. 576-9147. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Café/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Sawmill Run is a welcome addition to Summerhaven’s limited culinary scene. There’s a wide array of smoked and barbecued meats. The food is tasty, and the service is friendly. Oh, and the pie? Divine. (7-19-12) $$-$$$ THE STATION PUB AND GRILL

NW 8235 N. Silverbell Road, No. 105. 789-7040. Open

Sunday-Thursday noon-midnight; Friday and Saturday noon-2 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The Station Pub and Grill is a friendly neighborhood restaurant with inexpensive pints, large portions, good food and quick service. With almost a dozen TVs scattered throughout the restaurant, there isn’t a bad seat in the house for taking in the game. The inviting ambiance makes you feel comfortable whether you’re grabbing a brew with friends or dinner with the kids. A great addition to the northwest side. (10-11-12) $$

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Cinema But I’m A Cheerleader. Natasha Lyonne is probably best known for her role as Nicky Nichols on Orange as the New Black, where she plays a heroin-addicted inmate known for her wild hair, mischievous smile and lady killer charms.

OITNB won’t have a new season out until June, but you get your lesbian cinema fix when the Loft screens But I’m a Cheerleader. The film stars (you guessed it!) Natasha Lyone as a young woman named Megan whose parents ship her off to a gay-to-straight conversion camp hoping she’ll be able to focus on back handsprings instead of boobs during cheerleading practice. We don’t want to spoil anything, but those camps never work. Michelle Williams, RuPaul (out of drag) and the guy who played Rufio also show up in this cinematic delight. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 26. Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $6..

The Brain. Sure, watching television is probably “bad” for couch potatoes who have been known to binge an entire Netflix series in one weekend (Hello, Santa Clarita Diet)—but at least the risk is limited to bad eyesight and antisocial tendencies instead of, say, mind control. It’s mind over matter in The Brain, an ’80s film about a mad scientist/television host and a giant space brain teaming up to take over the great white north through the airwaves. Don’t miss out: This is the last of the BAD BRAINS movies this month at the Loft. 8 p.m. Monday, March 27. Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $3.

Forbidden Planet. Space nerds, this is the movie event for you. Participate in National Evening of Science on Screen with Astronomer/longtime UA professor Chris Impey is coming to the Loft Cinema to discuss all things space travel and developing human colonies on other planets— fittingly tied in with a viewing of the 1956 classic sci-fi flick Forbidden Planet, where the crew of the starship C-57D have to uncover the mysteries of Dr. Morbius and the alien Krell. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 28. Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $9.50.

Movie Poster Sale. Take a second and look around at your walls. A little blank, eh? Surround yourself with sceens from your favorite flicks by purchasing movie posters from the Loft Cinema.

Here’s what the theater is promising at their poster sale which takes place the last Saturday of every month: Current posters of films that have ended their run during the month; miscellaneous Film posters of films the Loft did not show; and more than 100 posters (at least 50 titles) from their current poster inventory. At the end of the sale, the remaining posters will be donated to a local arts program. 8-11 a.m. Saturday, March 25. Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. $5 per poster.

Fun in General Odyssey Storytelling. The past 13 years, Odyssey Storytelling has created community through monthly live storytelling events. Founder Penelope Starr celebrates the release of her book The Radical Act of Community Storytelling: Empowering Voices in Uncensored Events during a fundraiser emceed by David Fitzsimmons from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 24. YWCA Southern Arizona, 525 N. Bonita Ave. $10 suggested donation.

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Con-Nichiwa. If you’re a fan of Dragonball Z,

Himura Kenshin or Yagami Light, you’ll want to get to the Con-Nichiwa this weekend. The American anime convention returns to Tucson on Friday, March 25 through Sunday, March 27 at the Tucson Convention Center. It’s three days of anime fun with actors, animators and even performers such as Chii Sakurabi, a J-POP singer and recording artist from Tokyo, Japan known for her high-energy music, angelic voice, and kawaii style. And there will be plenty of lessons on how to get your cosplay right. Full weekend membership is $45.

find yourself completely identifying with the poor, unfortunate souls in The Office? Binge watch the whole show to experience some catharsis, then put your “research” to good use by dominating at trivia night. Teams can have one to six people, and you should probably pick your team based on which of your friends squeal with delight when you yell, “Dwight, you ignorant slut!” in their direction. 7-10 p.m.

Tuesday, March 28. Casa Video Film Bar, 2905 E. Speedway Blvd.

Community American Friends Service Committee-AZ Centennial. This group takes on Arizona crazyland, challenging the state’s private prison love affair and taking on mass incarceration and immigrant detention. Help them celebrate their 100th birthday on from 5 to 10 p.m.

Tuesday, March 30, at La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave. Tucson desert rock icon Billy Sedlmayr will perform alongside poetry readings from the North Star Collective. There’s also a silent auction to raise funds for the program’s ongoing work. La Cocina will donate 10 percent of all sales this night. afscarizona.org

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Lukie D. From the moment the strident horns sound and the hyper recording pops its 2/4 groove, the music is obviously authentically Jamaican. Although at its worst, Lukie D sounds cheesy and his emotional range often appears more limited than his vocals, there’s something guttural and compelling about his pristine croons. His tracks may sound more at home on the Cool Runnings soundtrack than the Harder They Come, yet there’s so much damn sweetness below the sheen. It makes us want to give in to his catalog of love songs just a little bit. Unlike other reggae-lite acts like Maroon 5 or even UB40, Lukie D grew up in the third world and his music betrays some resulting depth in spite of itself. His too-perfect covers have an undercurrent of poverty and its resultant longing for a better life that makes Lukie D a sympathetic and relatable character. God, and his AC/DC cover! Saturday, March 25, Grand Luxe Hotel Event Center (Africa Night Dance Fusion), 1365 West Grant. 9 p.m. $25. All ages.

Dr. Strange at the Drive In. We’ve been around this town long enough to remember

those high-school days of squeezing into the trunk to sneak into the much-missed De Anza Drive-In—and we sure wish this cowtown still had a drive-in that was regularly open. There is a group of drive-in fans trying to make that happen with the nonprofit Cactus DriveIn Theatre Foundation, but while the hunt is on for a permanent home for those massive screens, the group is hosting the occasional drive-in flick at the Tanque Verde Swap Meet.

This weekend, the group is screening Marvel’s most recent blockbuster, Dr. Strange. Catch a little movie magic at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 26, in the swap meet’s north parking lot, 4100 S Palo Verde Road. Organizers advise that you should only enter the north lot to get to the flick. Also, they’ll be directing larger vehicles and hatchbacks to park in the back or on the far right and far left side so as to not screw up the view for everyone else, so try to show a bit of courtesy if you’re behind the wheel of one of those. The suggested donation is $15 per vehicle.

Succulent Bowls with Mimosas. All the best gardening clubs involve a little bit of drinking.

Green Things got that memo and thought, “If we offer mimosas, they will come.” Get that drink in your hand and learn how to construct a beautiful little desert haven at this Saturday morning gardening class. The $5 class fee includes your drink, but no other supplies. Plan-

ets and pots will be available for purchase, but you can also bring supplies of your own. Don’t forget to RSVP on Facebook so they bring enough booze. 10 a.m. to noon. Saturday, March 25. Green Things, 3384 E. River Road.

The Office Trivia Night. That’s What She Said Edition. Have you ever gotten a new job, only to

KFMA Day. Powerhouse local alt-radio station KFMA trips the day electric with the fattest punk-metal-pop flourishes on earth.

You’ll hear unyielding fist-jacking choruses, youthful balls-to-walls guitars, as well as heavyweight vets like Blink 182 (who, make no mistake, to this day, turn pop-punk force into precision-tuned rock ’n’ roll) and A Day to Remember. Sharing this killer bill is one of our current faves here at TW HQ, Goodbye June.

This suitably hirsute combo hails from the great American south and sounds in tradition with that, and boy can they write good songs with hammering riffs, the likes of which hasn’t really been heard since Buckcherry was good.

So slam Monster-in-a-can until your heart-rate levels out at a good 120 BPM and dig some of the other bands too, like the heavy-menacing money riffs of Islander and the super-melodic metalist pop of Highly Suspect. What a fun, glorious day of briny push-tits and ear-ringing, shout-out madness. Sunday, March 26 at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, 2500 E Ajo Way. $40. Doors at noon. All ages.

Ozomatli with Squirrel Nut Zippers. Anyone who’s been to an Ozomatli show knows it’s nigh impossible not to dance. We’ve seen totally wiped EDM kids summon up their last legs to skank, old-school vatos start the set by nodding their heads only to end up passing their cane to a homie and ducking in and out of the pit. Frat boys drop their solo cups to raise the roof and get down and there’s always that universal thought bubble after the first few songs—“So this is what Sublime was getting at.” One of the only acts that can energetically hold a candle to Ozomatli live is the Squirrel Nut Zippers, with their frenetic jump-jive dancehall, one part homage, one part parody. And now thanks to Trump, two of the loudest, proudest Latin American and so-called “Americana” outfits have teamed up for six shows. There’s no way this won’t be smokin’ caliente and chido al misma vez. Tuesday, March 28, Rialto, $35, 6:30 p.m., all ages.

CITY WEEK SPECIAL EVENTS EVENTS THIS WEEK

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW) TO HOST SCHOLARSHIP TEA Rincon Congregational Church. 122 N. Craycroft Road.

745-6237. AAUW Tucson Branch will hold a Virginia Palmer Scholarship Tea to honor scholarship recipients.

Bring a special teacup. Flute ensemble. Prizes. Checks to P.O. Box 40822, 85717. Sat., March 25, 1-2:30 p.m., $10. 886-0810. maxie4350@gmail.com AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (AFSC) CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar. 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. Live music from Billy Sedlmayr, poetry readings, and a silent auction to support AFSC’s work of ending mass incarceration. La Cocina’s “Tuesdays for Tucson” will be donating 10% of sales.

Tue., March 28, 5-10 p.m., $0. 623-9141. https://afscarizona.org/2017/03/02/afsc-celebrates-100-years-ofspeaking-truth-to-power/ rfealk@afsc.org

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/ SONORAN SPRING GALA Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Let the Tohono Chul gardens charm you with fantastic fare by the Garden Bistro, refreshing libations, live music by Michael Salerno and Domingo DeGrazia, and most importantly, good company. Sun., March 26, 4-7 p.m., $130. http://tohonochulpark.org/gala marketing@ tohonochul.org WHO LET THE DOGS OUT, A BENEFIT FOR PET RESCUE The Gaslight Music Hall. 13005 N Oracle Rd 5291000. “A Doggone Great Show” Don’t miss this all-star revue of the talents of Saddlebrooke, featuring the much-loved Saddlebrooke Cloggers! Mon., March 27, 7-9 p.m., 10. 529-1000. http://www.gaslightmusichall. com heather.gaslight@gmail.com

COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATIONS Grand Luxe Hotel & Resort. 1365 W. Grant Rd. 6227791. Come have fantastic cocktails and share enthralling conversations at Cocktails and Conversations. Sat., March 25, 7 p.m.-2 a.m., $20 to $25. 777-3455. http://www.diasporashowcase.com diasporashowcase@ juno.com

BULLETIN BOARD

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

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

FELLOWSHIP SQUARE TUCSON DEDICATES VETERAN’S MEMORIAL Fellowship Square. 8111 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-5537.

Fellowship Square Tucson will dedicate its Veteran’s Memorial. located in the garden area. A Veteran’s Continental Breakfast will also be available on the day of the event. Thu., March 23, 8 a.m., free.

FRIDA AL FRESCO Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. On the fourth Friday of every month, the Gardens will be the center of all things Frida Kahlo!

There will be performances, food and festive refreshments. Included with admission. Fourth Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Continues through May 26, $13. 3269686, ex. 10. https://www.tucsonbotanical.org/event/frida-al-fresco/ info@tucsonbotanical.org

EVENTS THIS WEEK

DEMOCRATS OF GREATER TUCSON 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 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 wonder-

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ful 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 SPEAKER: DONALD BOOTY ON THE FIRST OFFICIAL UFO SIGHTING FROM 1947.

Tucson House. 1501 N. Oracle 320-5381. Speaker: Donald Booty on the First Official UFO sighitng from July 24, 1947 Sat., March 25, 2-5 p.m., $5.00. 724561-3718. dianaleeco@aol.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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EVENTS THIS WEEK AMADEUS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash Tue., March 21, 7:30 p.m. and Thu., March 23, 11 p.m., $15. 322-5638. https://loftcinema.org/film/amadeus/ info@loftcinema.org FLASHBACK FILM SERIES The Screening Room. 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204.

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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 FORBIDDEN PLANET Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. A special screening of the 1956 science fiction classic, Forbidden Planet, featuring an introduction by world-renowned astronomer, author and educator Chris Impey!

Tue., March 28, 7:30 p.m., Regular admission. 3225638. https://loftcinema.org/film/forbidden-planet/ info@ loftcinema.org GIRL CRUSH FILM SERIES: SYDNEY FREELAND’S DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST + THE DIRECTOR IN PERSON Exploded View Microcinema and ArtSpace. 197 E. Toole Ave. 366-1573. Top off Women’s History Month with this hard-hitting independent film about three young Navajos struggling with transphobia, gang violence, and interracial adoption. Director Sydney Freeland will join us for Q&A! Wed., March 29, 7:30 p.m., Free. https:// www.facebook.com/girlcrushfilms/ explodedviewgallery@ gmail.com RESERVOIR DOGS 25TH ANNIVERSARY Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777.

Catch Quentin Tarantino’s groundbreaking 1992 crime flick on the big screen in a brand-new 35mm print made especially for the film’s 25th anniversary celebration at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival! Wed., March 29, 7:30 p.m., Regular admission. 322-5638. https:// loftcinema.org/film/reservoir-dogs-25th-anniversary/ info@loftcinema.org SUPERBAD Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. High school seniors and best friends Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) want nothing more than to lose their virginity before heading off to college. Fri., March 24, 10 p.m. and Sat., March 25, 10 p.m., $6. 3225638. https://loftcinema.org/film/superbad/ info@loftcinema.org TUCSON CINE MEXICO 2017 Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18. 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. UA Hanson Film Institute presents Tucson Cine Mexico 2017, showcasing the best in contemporary Mexican cinema. This year’s line-up features award-winning thrillers, comedies and documentaries.

Full lineup announced March 1. Wed., March 22, 5:307 p.m., Fri., March 24, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Sat., March 25, 7-11 p.m. and Sun., March 26, 2-3:45 p.m., Free.

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That earnest tone, they thought, would be a mismatch for a work about a violent bank robber.

Nevertheless, she persisted.

“I’ve thought about this for a long time,” Bowman told them.

“You’re absolutely the right band.”

Bowman wanted to get at Dillinger’s heart, at why he became the man he did. Ryanhood, she declared, had the sensitivity to help her get there.

“With that much flattery,” Hood says, half-joking, “we said OK.” This Thursday, after two years in the making, Surrounding DilCameron Hood, Ryan Green (from Ryanhood), linger opens for a four-day run at Claire Hancock and Andrew Ranshaw in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre Surrounding Dillinger. on the UA campus.

Nine dancers will tell DilTAYLOR NOEL linger’s story through Artifact’s trademark blend of ballet and contemporary dance, dressed in period 1930s costumes, from trench coats and fedoras for the Ryanhood and Artifact Dance Project create a music- men, to dresses and high-waisted pants for the women. dance piece about Tucson’s favorite gangster Andrew Ranshaw, who danced lead pig Napoleon in last fall’s Animal Farm concert, will star as

By Margaret Regan the notorious Dillinger. tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com No fewer than five musicians will play live on stage with the dancers. Ryanhood A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, ASHLEY mainstays Hood and Green, both guitarists, Bowman, co-artistic director of Artifact will be joined by three other musicians, Dance Project, pitched an idea to the TucRyan Alfred on bass, Paul Jenkins on piano son music duo Ryanhood. and Nadim Shehab on drums.

“Ashley wanted to tell John Dillinger’s life The band, which just this month released story through dance,” Ryanhood’s Cameron its sixth album, Yearbook, will play a combo Hood recalls – and she wanted to set the of existing Ryanhood songs, a few new ones dance to Ryanhood’s music. penned for this show, and several covers Hood and musical partner Ryan David of songs by other Tucson bands, Carlos Green were dubious.

Arzate & The Kind Souls, Sweet Ghosts and “I told her we’re probably not the right The Great Collision (a Ryan David Green band to tell this story,” Hood says. “Our project). music is pop-rock, nothing like the musical “Their music is a perfect match for the forms of the 1930s. And we’re very earnest story,” just as she anticipated, says Bowman, in the songs we write and sing.”

a Ryanhood fan from way back. “It lends itself to telling a story.”

Tucsonans are fascinated with Dillinger, she notes, in large part because the Chicago gangster, sought by law officers nationwide, was arrested in the sleepy Old Pueblo in 1934. The Hotel Congress celebrates the capture every January in its Dillinger Days.

During a bad fire at the hotel, firefighters had tangled with a man who didn’t seem to want to be evacuated; seeing his picture in a true crime magazine a few days later, they realized he was a member of the Dillinger gang. In short order, the Tucson cops pounced on Dillinger and his men in a house in West University.

But “very little of the show takes place in Tucson,” says choreographer Bowman, who specializes in creating historic story ballets. “That was a small part of his life. The show is not so much about re-creating that historic moment.”

It focuses instead on formative events, from Dillinger’s loss of his mother when he was three to his sufferings at the hands of an abusive father.

“We set up the reasons Dillinger chooses this life,” she says.

The dance has no narration, and in a way, she says, Surrounding Dillinger is musically like Movin’ Out, the evening-length Twyla Tharp work with a score of preexisting Billy Joel songs. Joel and Tharp picked out songs in his rep to construct a girl-meetsboy tale set during the Vietnam War era.

When work on Dillinger first began, Hood was so busy with Ryanhood business—recording an album, performing and touring—that Ashley set about mapping out the scenes herself. But Hood was soon drawn in.

“It’s a life story being told with no dialogue, so it has to communicate clearly,” Hood says. “I started to study his life.

We created two lists side by side—a list of events in his life and a list of story points” that would follow a persuasive narrative arc.

Then he combed through the Ryanhood catalogue to figure out which songs might “coordinate with parts of his life—the young

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emotional level, or even how to have an emotional life. His extensive knowledge of language does nothing to help him connect with his wife, Mary (Leslie J. Miller), or with his associate who seems to be in love with him. He is completely surprised when Mary announces that she is leaving him; he has noticed her constant sadness but doesn’t know how to talk to her about it. Knowing his distance is impenetrable, Mary has taken to leaving cryptic notes in his books or tucked inside his slippers.

The play moves back and forth between scenes involving George’s research and his clueless attempts to figure out why his

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REINVENTING DILLINGER

A Quest for the Heart’s Esperanto

By Sherilyn Forrester tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com

JULIA CHO’S PLAY, THE LANGUAGE Archive, is a story about the connection between dying languages and dying love.

Despite being linguistic experts, the main characters struggle to communicate their feelings with one another; some even struggle to have feelings at all.

A respected linguist, George (Gabriel Nagy) researches languages that have disappeared or are on the verge of doing

so, attempting to record them before they vanish. George tells us that every couple of months, one of the world’s 6,500 existing languages dies, and he admits that he feels greater grief over those deaths than the deaths of family members. Language is his passion. It’s not only a system that allows us to communicate, but it also helps determine how we think—about love, and community and the rules for living.

Despite being a linguistic expert, George has no idea how to communicate on an

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husband, the bank robber,” and so on. “It was an interesting puzzle for me.”

Hood immersed himself so deeply in shaping the work that he gets credit as scriptwriter and co-producer. He even developed an eye for dance, Bowman says, came to almost every rehearsal and even made suggestions about movement.

“I’m hugely in awe of the dancers,” he says. “They’re artists and athletes and actors. They deepened and rose to the occasion.”

Bowman is not dancing in the show but her co-artistic director, Claire Hancock, dances the lead female role of Billie, Dillinger’s girlfriend. Logan Moon Penisten is Baby Face Nelson, a gang member, and Alan Gonzalez is Red Hamilton, Dillinger’s right-hand man.

Brendan Kellam plays Melvin Purvis, an FBI agent who pursued the bank robber. Ellie Housman is Anna Cumpanas, the owner of a Chicago brothel, who’s being pressured by the feds to rat Dillinger out.

Hood and Green, who met in the late ’90s at University High School, formed Ryanhood 14 years ago. But in this long period of working in music, Hood says, he’d never before been involved with dance.

“I didn’t expect to love this process so much,” he says. “I have fallen in love with story structure, and with dance and choreography. The process of telling the story through dance used 20 new parts of my brain that I didn’t know I had.” ■

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The Language Archive (from left): Peg Peterson, Leslie Miller, Seonaid Barngrover, Gabriel Nagy, and Roger Owen.

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wife has left him. Chiefly, he is excited that he has flown in two of the last speakers of Elloway, but they surprise him by railing at each other in English, which they claim is the perfect language for expressing anger. His assistant, Emma (Seonaid Barngrover), has sought the help of a teacher (Peg Peterson) who is trying to help her learn Esperanto— an academically attempted universal language—but the instructor sees that what Emma really needs is instruction about how to communicate love. We also see Mary’s reinvention as a baker, as well as a few brief

scenes of characters speaking with total strangers at train stations, often connecting more significantly with them than with those they know well.

The Language Archive presents numerous challenges, and Winding Road Theater Ensemble’s production, unfortunately, is just not up to them.

Several of the characters are not well-conceived nor competently portrayed, and the pacing made the thing feel leaden, bumping along like a flat tire. We witness moments of what might be of great import and vital to Cho’s vision, but it’s hard to

understand how they fit together. In short, the production never quite finds how to translate its story into the language of theater. It never finds a beating heart.

George is such a pivotal role, and although Nagy is earnest, we don’t really get a credible character with the depth we need to care about him. His passion for language is cerebral, which is hard to communicate dramatically. Miller is also earnest, but her characterization of Mary really hits just one note. We are sympathetic to her, but her lack of depth and dramatic energy result in a passivity that makes her hard to fully embrace.

Seonaid Barngrover as Emma, George’s assistant, also fails to be genuinely convincing. She is smitten with George, although it’s completely mystifying why.

Toward the end of the play, her character has a moment where she tries to put her story together, but Barngrover fails to evoke an honest depth.

Fortunately, Peg Peterson and Roger Owen lend

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Urban says, “Initially in 2012 (when she started doing stand-up) I had a bad experience. I didn’t feel comfortable just because I didn’t have a lot of women to connect with.

I didn’t feel safe having a voice, and I didn’t come back for a few years.”

Now, she says, “I’ve seen a huge shift. I think it’s a very supportive scene, but I also recognize that I can have a voice now, and I feel safe having a voice, whereas I did not before.” Urban points to the recent Tucson Women’s

By Linda Ray Comedy Festival, hosted by Tucson Improv Movement, as tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com an example of Tucson’s growing appreciation of women’s comedy.

TICKLING THE SURLY WENCH “Once we got the idea to do the show,” Merrari says, “First off, I love comedy,” says Surly Wench Pub founder “Every time a woman came to Laffs open mic we pounced and owner Stephanie Johnston of hosting the bimonthly on them!” Urban says, “We started asking ourselves, ‘Are we Comedy at the Wench. “I host a lot of burlesque shows, and just coming off weird?’ But the encouragement is working, making people laugh their asses off is the best feeling.” and several new female comics are now learning the ropes So when Roxy Merrari, long-time good Wench customer, at local mics.” and her pal Mo Urban approached Johnston about hosting Comedy at the Wench is a show-up-to-go-up open mic Tucson’s only female-run open mic, she jumped right on at 8:30 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month, and a board. “They’ve since broadened it to two nights,” Johnston hosted mic for invited comedians on the fourth Tuesday. says, “because it went over so well. Everyone seems to have Donations are $5, but no one is turned away. a great time, and the staff likes it, too.”

March 28 guests are March Dana Whissen of the Torch A regular on Tucson’s stand-up comedy scene, Merrari Theatre Company in Phoenix; the masked comedian Dick wanted to be able to do her favorite thing at her favorite Strangler; Southern California comedy scene transplant club. The idea got legs over a friendly breakfast with fellow Marilyn Lopez, aka MLo; Lilliya Souslova whose riffs often comic Urban. “We were talking about how all of our guy recall her Russian homeland and Arizona’s Funniest friends (in stand-up) were doing comedy around town, Comedian finalist, Conor Dorney. but we noticed there just weren’t many women,” Merrari The Surly Wench is at 424 N. 4th Avenue. “Like” Comedy says. “We said, ‘We need some more women. We can’t wait at the Wench on Facebook to receive reminders and inforaround for other people to invite us to their shows. Let’s mation about upcoming shows. ■

energy to their well-grounded multiple characters. As Elloway speakers Alta and Resten, they bring welcome comic lightness to the proceedings, as well as solid characterizations. Despite their intense expressions of anger, we believe they truly love each other, especially when Resten falls ill and is hospitalized. Peterson also breathes some vitality into Emma’s instructor, and Owen in the brief moments he has as other characters finds a way to make credible sense of them.

It’s hard to decipher what director Susan Arnold, a well-seasoned theater pro, wanted this piece to be. Did she have a difficult time trying to get her actors to find and communicate their characters’ depth? She was certainly not able to patch the mostly brief scenes together in a way that forms a dramatic arc. And she certainly should have insisted on finding more humor.

The sound design and execution was thoughtful,

and the setting worked well enough, although the rather short scenes required some logistical creativity.

Generally, what we get in Winding Road’s production are characters who represent the story rather than

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embody it, and that, in turn, keeps us at a distance. We want to care about them, but they never find their way into our hearts. Consequently, Cho’s vision is never clear. ■

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This love-action Beauty and the Beast is Hermione on auto-tune, but it’s all good

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Ewan McGregor as a CGI candelabra.

You are asking yourself, “Is this absolutely necessary?”

The answer: No. No it is not.

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They help distract me from all of this trivial shit in my head.”

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The answer: Why, yes, it is an enjoyable movie, even if it is completely unnecessary.

The movie isn’t a shot for shot remake of the original like, say, Gus Van Sant’s time wasting Psycho effort. However, it does follow a lot of the same plot points and incorporates enough of the musical numbers to give you that sense of déjà vu while watching it.

Thankfully, Watson makes it worthwhile. Hermione makes for a strong Belle. Since director Bill Condon retains the music from the original animated movie, Watson is asked to sing, and it’s pretty evident that auto tune is her friend. She has a Kanye West thing going.

As the Beast, Dan Stevens gives a decent enough performance through motion capture. The original intent was to have Stevens wearing prosthetics only, but he probably looked like Mr. Snuffleupagus in dailies, so they called upon the help of beloved computers.

Like King Kong last week, the CGI creation blends in nicely with his totally human, organic cast member.

The cast and crew labor to make musical numbers like “Gaston” and “Be Our Guest” pop with the creative energy of the animated version, but they don’t quite reach those heights. They are nicely rendered, for sure, but not on the masterpiece level that was the ’91 film.

As for the romance between Belle and the Beast, it has a nice emotional payoff.

In a way, the movie is a sweet tribute to the animated movie, rather than being a movie that truly stands on its own.

Where does Beauty and the Beast stack up with the other, recent redos of animated Disney classics? I would put it well above Pete’s Dragon, but below Cinderella and The Jungle Book, which were more solid efforts and felt a little more on the original side.

There are worse things to do in cinemas right now than watch a good enough retake on a Disney movie star-

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ring one of your favorite members of the Potter universe. Beauty and the Beast is good tasting, yet ultimately disposable, fluff. Let’s face it, Disney has the money to throw away on ventures such as this and, given their box office takes, this train is going to keep on rolling.

If you like Disney redo fluff, there’s more coming. The Lion King, Aladdin, Dumbo, Peter Pan and Mulan are just a few of the remakes in the pipeline.

Actually, pretty much everything they’ve done up until now is being remade. Universal has a Little Mermaid movie on the way, yet Disney still has plans to release their own live version of their animated gem. Winnie the Pooh and Cruella (the villain from 101 Dalmatians) are all current projects.

In short, with this juggernaut, Star Wars and Marvel all under their dome, Disney is so big, they will be governing the planet soon. Stay tuned for Disney Health Care, a Disney Missile Defense System, and Mickey Mouse for President.

Oh, wait…that last one has happened already.■

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By Joshua Levine tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com

IF NOT AS THE CREATOR, WHAT’S HIS LEGACY? Well, Berry emerged as an early rock ’n’ roll pillar, and more than any other contemporary—Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.—is still a majority contributor to the musical DNA of all of the rock and the roll that followed him and where it has ended up 60 years on. With his jump-blues backbeat and next-level guitar playing, he wrote the alphabet intrinsic to a half-century of culture. Culture that changed ideas and minds and politics. Culture that is so ingrained in all of us it would take lifetimes to sort it out.

As for Chuck’s lyrics, that’s another story. So perfectly articulate with the slightest turn of phrase he would make up his own words if dictionary ones weren’t cuttin’ it. The highways, burger joints and thrill-chasing teens that populate his songs are always in the foreground of the draconian social and civil politics of the time, like the shady police in 1956’s “Brown Eyed Handsome Man.” That tune was originally called “Brown Skinned Handsome Man,” which reveals plenty about the song’s intended meaning but even more about Chuck Berry the artist. He was an unabashed capitalist, a true product of his time. He considered his music product, had no interest in particularly evolving it and badly wanted well-deserved hits. Changing what would’ve been explicit lyrical warfare on despicable social mores at the time with “Brown Skinned” to subterfuge guerrilla tactics with “Brown Eyed” turned out to be the more effective idea for the movement Berry wasn’t really even a part of. The characters and situations he portrayed in his songs were adherents to basic western capitalism within the first mass-produced and marketed art form for teenagers ever brought to the marketplace. And Chuck Berry, with his music, foresight, artistry and vision, was a quintessential American.

All these years later, where is rock ’n’ roll? Well, it’s not a youth phenomenon, it’s not particularly commercially successful, whereas other forms of pop music that emerged since are both and more. It’s nostalgia. The idea isn’t to prop up a corpse or bring it back to life. If Chuck Berry dying is the symbolic act needed to put rock ’n’ roll in the ground and start over then his death will be just as meaningful as his life. Because in rock ’n’ roll, the whole idea is to keep moving, and outside of small regional scenes, that movement ended a long time ago. ■

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HAIL! HAIL! ROCK ’N’ ROLL.

No, he didn’t invent rock and roll music. “Invent” is such a terrible word when discussing the creation of art. As it is always an accident, an unforeseen set of circumstances colliding gloriously or horribly.

By 1955, when Berry released “Maybelline,” rock ’n’ roll had been implicitly brewing and gestating for a decade. “Rocket 88,” by Ike Turner, is widely acknowledged to be the first rock song, but he was preceded by others, notably Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Anyway, who can forget John Lee Hooker’s 1948 chestnut “Boogie Chillen,” which rocks harder than anything you can name.

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By Eric Swedlund tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com

SPREAD ACROSS AUSTIN COUNTS’ new record are songs of jealousy, sin and heartache, scenes of jail cells and barrooms, and if you look hard enough, even a bit of redemption.

In short, it’s a country-blues album through and through, the one-step-up-andtwo-steps-back sort, where the bad luck inevitably outweighs the good. It’s a record that speaks honestly to real experiences and in that way, Counts says, it lives up to its title of Pima County Soul.

“I play this music because it’s soul music.

I love soul music because it can be many different things. It doesn’t have to be Marvin Gaye or Barry White,” he says. “It really depends on what you’re putting behind what you’re singing. If it’s really coming from the heart, the singer has gone through that experience. You can tell if someone’s faking what they’re singing about or if they’re have actually been there.”

Pima County Soul and the Pima County Jail EP released last year mark a return to music for Counts, who played in rock and funk bands from high school through most of his 20s, before heading to college to earn a degree in journalism. Now owner of the 4th Avenue Delicatessen, Counts (full disclosure: Counts is a former Tucson Weekly intern) picked up the guitar again a couple years ago, turning his attention to country and blues, the traditional music he grew up with, and began writing his own songs. The first gig offer was a trial by fire, covering for Tucson blues great Tom Walbank one night, with about a week to prepare.

So Pima County Soul and the Pima County Jail are a bit of a reintroduction to music for Counts, who says he’s happy being a musical work in progress.

“I’m nowhere near where I want to be or where I want my music to be, but it’s definitely coming along,” Counts says. “I don’t know many musicians who are feel they are where they want to be musically. They want

to continue practicing and playing and push the boundaries of their music, to see if they can take it further than what they’ve been doing. Nobody wants to get stale and I’m in the same school of thought.”

Some songs on the new record come from the same sessions that produced the EP, while some represent some moves Counts is making in different directions, expanding on the hybrid sound he’s developing. The opening tune, “Burnin’ Hot In Tucson,” pushes in an electrified, full-band Chicago blues style, while the closer, “Wherever You Go,” settles into a more traditional country vibe.

“I’m working on different sounds and different styles, trying to progress my knowledge of down-home country music while I continue on playing blues,” he says.

The album came out of several different sessions, recording with Walbank, Jimmy Carr, Dimitri Manos and Lana Rebel, and overlaps a bit with the Pima County Jail EP, most notably in the true-to-live title song.

“I didn’t want it to be too different form what we did with the EP. A lot of the tracks on the album are from the sessions for that EP,” he says. “It still all had to have that same feeling to it. But a lot of the newer stuff is a bit different, a bit more soul.”

Work on the album came amidst a steady stream of gigs as well as the launch of Counts’ record label, Lonesome Desert, dedicated to raw, stripped-down acoustic music. Lonesome Desert focuses on the nofrills style inspired by the field recordings of legendary folk musicologist Alan Lomax or the early rock ‘n’ roll of Sun Records, setting up a microphone and hitting record, with the central goal of capturing the performance as close to raw as possible.

“It’s a lot more honest and it’s a lot more about a person playing their instrument and trying to write good songs that people can connect with and having that human element,” Counts says. “I like how un-corporate that sort of soul music is, blues, country, bluegrass, gospel. You don’t really hear many things being sold off that unless

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Pima County Soul is Lonesome Desert’s seventh release in seven months, following Counts’ EP, a compilation, and discs from Walbank, Chris Hall, Hank Topless and Mark Matos. Having made a strong, sustained push to get the label going, Lonesome Desert activity will slow down a bit, Counts says, but future projects include a potential fall release from Al Perry.

“It’s been a pretty crazy busy year tying to get Lonesome Desert off the ground as well as trying to get my original music going. But we’re getting a great response,” he says. “It all started out getting a couple guys into Midtown Island [Studio] and recording a couple songs and trying to something out of it. Everybody who came to play really had great material and was able to put their heart and soul into these recordings.”

Audiences can always recognize when a performer is singing from true-live experiences, Counts says, so writing songs that way keeps both the gigs and the records honest.

“You can tell a song that’s coming from someone’s heart when they go out and sing it,” he says. “It should come from a person’s experience, or pretty damn close. They should have a foot in the water of what they’re singing about. It’s easier to be able to put myself into songs I write and sing.

Pima County Jail draws from my experience and everything on the album draws from some experience in my life. Every bit of what’s being sung are situations I’ve had to go through.”

Performing can be bittersweet, especially nights of putting those raw nerves down for an uninterested audience, he says.

“For guys like me, who play locally and play out two to three times a week, there aren’t going to be a ton of people at the shows,” he says. “It’s great when people are out there to hear you but sometimes you’re playing to the walls. It can be discouraging but you can also use that to your advantage. When you have a crowd you can tell isn’t really into your music or you’re not connecting to them, there’s an opportunity right there to work on how to connect and take that to future crowds and future shows.

It’s about going out and trying to progress and get better. It’s about being in the moment and playing.” ■

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SINCE FORMING IN DETROIT AS The Wildbunch back in ’96, the Electric 6 has been one of the more consistent bands from that city’s actually-eclectic ’90s garage scene. Not all of their dozen albums have scored like 2003’s Fire, with the “Danger! High Voltage” and “Gay Bar” singles, but they haven’t put out many bad full-lengthers. Hell, last year’s Fresh Blood for Tired Vampyres is, song for song, among their best. The band plays The Flycatcher on Monday, and the show is preceded by an acoustic set by singer Dick Valentine (real name: Tyler Spencer) at the Brew of A bar. We spoke to Spencer about the five albums that changed his life …

Monday, Feb. 27 at 9 p.m., The Flycatcher, 340 E. 6th St., $12-$15. 21+. Before that, Spencer plays at 7 p.m., Brew of A Sports Grill, 1118 E. 6th St. 1. Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band—Trout Mask Replica: It showed me a different approach, not only to singing, but that you can make music, you could write songs, and have them add up to something outside of the boxes that you normally think of. And I love the boxes—I love verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, verse, chorus. Poppy songs and all that. But when you listen to Trout Mask … if you’re open-minded enough, you start to see that there are actual melodies and music going on. Once you accept that, then you’re capable of doing anything.

2. REM—Document: That was the one that turned me onto REM when I was in high school. I spent a significant amount of

time listening to them and going to their shows when I was in high school and going into college. As a frontman, I aped Michael Stipe early on and copied a lot of his moves. I don’t really have the same opinion of them now that I used to, but I think that if you’re looking at the trajectory of my life, I could not not include them.

3. Bob Dylan— Desire: Beautiful lyrics. The production, Emmylou Harris, the fiddle.

The final song on the album, “Sarah,” you can’t not listen to those lyrics. It’s amazing stuff. He showed me how you can write beautiful lyrics, you can go beyond “I love you as much as the ocean, the mountain is high,” and that kind of shit. You can throw your weight behind it.

4. Camper Van Beethoven—Key Lime Pie: Really, really cynical lyrics, amazing lyric writing, and then the music that’s going on is so dark and gloomy. Amazing to listen to.

5. Devo—Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo: That was a huge influence on me as well. That album is untouchable. When you hear “Mongoloid,” the first thing you hear is the music and how catchy it is and poppy, and then you sit down and think, “Wait, what’s he saying?”

You realize it’s the most bizarre thing within a really catchy song. I always like that, when you catch onto the music first, and the poppiness, and then you realize that the lyrics are anything but. ■

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her eyes that drew me in. Then, in the same wisp with which she appeared, she vanished with the last note of her set.

By the time she had the crowd singing, “I can love you better than she” to her own brand of scat, I was mesmerized.

When she combined her lyrical command with an almost-too-sweet demeanor between songs, I became skeptical that she wasn’t a subversive government agent sent to brainwash the masses. Either way, it worked. Yeah, so maybe I was the other one tearing up.

Banks at Bar 96, March 15.

10 FOR 10 AT SXSW

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The Annual South by Southwest, from light-swinging frontmen to human-saving flash drives

By Danyelle Khmara and Nick Meyers tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com

FOR 30 YEARS SOUTH BY Southwest has been bringing a smorgasbord of film, music and innovative lectures and showcases from around the world to Austin, Texas. Each of the festival’s 10 days in March holds a surprise and a double take in every café, bar or dark alley. Here’s what a couple of savvy Tucson Weekly scriveners dug the most.

Numero Uno! Banks Danyelle: If you haven’t heard her, go listen! If you haven’t seen her live, go watch! This 28-year-old powerhouse puts on a performance to match any I’ve ever seen. She’s a hit of Ecstasy, a cliff-dive, love at first sight.

“This music is truly from my heart,” she tells a hundred people at a tiny bar in downtown Austin. Her speaking voice is soft and sweet as her singing powerful.

Two dancers behind her, their long

blond hair and silver skin sparkling under black nylon. Banks’ hair is dark down her back. Long strings hang from her black top and sway with the music as the women dance in sync, like a machine.

Banks’ lyrics are deeply human, but her voice is something more.

“Everyone put away your phones,” she tells us. “And we’ll experience something really special.”

She begins to do something akin to scatting, but unique. It’s all her own. Her lyrics are about overcoming heartbreak, being resilient, accepting your mistakes and imperfections. And I’m not the only one in the audience with tears in my eyes.

I’m not the only one who knows I will leave the show changed.

Nick: I didn’t know what to expect walking into Banks, but from the moment she appeared on the stage, like a ghost out of thin air, I couldn’t look away. There was something in the chilling cadence of her voice and the intimidation behind

events of the past carries every punch of the original.

No. 3: Future Islands Danyelle: The lead singer of Future Islands reveals his soul while he performs.

That persona most of us wear when in public, guarding our inner selves—frontman Samuel T. Herring motions pulling off his mask while on stage at one of SXSW’s most popular venues.

Under his mask, he’s crying unabashedly in front of hundreds. He pounds his chest.

He growls into the microphone. He dances all over the stage. He stretches out a hand No. 2: Trainspotting 2 Danyelle: Anticipation. Waiting in line as if to say, “Be real. Be strong.” Sweat pours for a “secret screening.” Unsure if we’d get down his face. He reaches to the sky. It’s in. Then we made it inside the doors. The a difficult time in our country, he tells the audience, and he’s so excited to be here. smell of popcorn filled our noses. And Ewan McGregor and Danny Boyle were No. 4: New Politics taking the stage of the intimate, dine-in Nick: While most begin crowding the theater and introducing the prescreening front of the stage for Weezer’s appearance of T2. (Yes T2, not copyrighted by the Terminator conglomerate, but Trainspot- two hours later, the audience finds an energetic surprise in New Politics. The band ting’s director!) has been recording an album for more than The movie, now in theaters nationa year and you can tell they’re psyched to wide, is not a reboot or a cliché take on be back under stage lights. middle age trying to relive youth. No, T2 The Danish punk band stands at the is an exhilarating yet relatable tale about front of a new wave of pent-up generational the cost of living for the moment. The angst, carrying the torch passed on by The unforgettable Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud come back 20 years later to pay Beastie Boys and Green Day. Front man David Boyd’s cheerful between-song detheir debts and find new reasons to live. meanor elevates light-hearted spins about But some things haven’t changed, like smashing Lexus windows and slippin’ the McGregor’s famous smile that screams, “Fuck you! I’m alive!”

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Nick: Trainspotting 2 feels like visiting an old friend, and true to the movie’s plot, one you wanted to hit over the head with a barstool as you return for the range of reactions to one of Scotland’s most defining pieces of cinema in the last 25 years.

The sequel takes the fast-paced energy of its predecessor and gives it a facelift.

The movie’s relation to the first film mirrors that of the characters’ relation to their younger selves. Older, though perhaps not much wiser, their search for meaningful lives while attempting to reconcile the

David Boyd of New Politics hangs from lights atop the roaring crowd at the Brazos Hall, March 17.

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No. 5: San Fermin Danyelle: The eight-piece Brooklyn band greets their audience with fierce abandon. In a black slip and red four-inch platform heals, Charlene Kaye wails into the mic, growling and scowling at all the right moments. Wild-haired Claire Wellin is brash on the violin. Open-mouthed smile, she looks into the eyes of band mate Allen Tate, who howls, “Run to the hills.

Run to the hills. Run!” John Brandon and Stephen Chen on trumpet and saxophone jump into the crowd and the audience surrounds them, dancing, laughing, ultimate-blissing. San Fermin’s indie-pop demands joy of each and every audience member—joy of being in love, joy of being heartbroken, joy of being wild.

San Fermin at Bar 96, March 15.

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No. 6: Lights on Ceres Nick: Hailing from the Mexico side of Nogales, Lights on Ceres is a three-piece band self-described as “space wave,” a nod to their electronics and effects.

Comprised of 28-year-old Alberto Espinosa on lead vocals and guitar; drummer Roberto Garcia, 32; and Jorge Pablo Zarate, 26, on keyboard and backup vocals, the combo goes all ethereal with a rich pop bent, a blend of ’80’s night-club with a 21st century urbane sheen. Throwback futurism that’s danceable and sexual.

No. 7: Secret Sisters Danyelle: The Secret Sisters are as joyful on stage as their songs are depressing. Laura and Lydia Rogers love the dark days.

On the second floor of one of Austin’s ubiquitous barbecue restaurants, the huge head of a longhorn bull looks down on the Alabama sisters as they harmonize with a rapturous twang. Between songs, Lydia tunes her guitar, and Laura chats with the audience, chewing gum, joking and telling stories.

The sisters love music from another time, and most of their favorite musicians are dead. It shows in their old-timey feel, with a sorrow older than they are.

“And now we’re going to segue into happier material by playing a murder ballad,” Laura says. It’s a sequel to their first murder ballad and will be on their next album, You Don’t Own Me Anymore, produced by Brandi Carlile and out this summer.

No. 8: CAPYAC Nick: Capyac weren’t on the list of things to see, but in a moment of circumstance they fill an unexpected void.

Offering up some updated funky turns and a casual coolness, this electronic trio set a mood for a night of indulgence.

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and English and even throws in a rap.

There’s a reason why Chavez has won eight Austin music awards. She’s unafraid to try something new knowing exactly what she’s doing.

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Flash Drives for Freedom at SXSW tradeshow.

DANYELLE KHMARA

The Nogales, Sonora trio Lights on Ceres on rooftop bar, March 15.

They effortlessly captivate with sights and sounds—images reminiscent of the oldschool iTunes visualizer on an acid trip dance across the walls.

No. 9: Gina Chavez Danyelle: Red dress and red lips, Gina Chavez rocks the mic, strings and percussion with a standup-for-your-rights Latin vibe.

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“This song goes out to our friend, Mitch McConnell,” Chavez says before launching into a politically charged song. A sign that reads “Yo no creo, fronteras” is projected behind her. Rocking a short do, she dances with her guitar, while her band—trumpet, trombone, bongos, bass, drumkit and guitar back her up.

Her vocals sometimes recall Mexican love-ballads. She flows between Spanish

No. 10: Sleigh Bells Nick: “It’s like being blinded by garage rock aliens,” says one fan prior to the show with the foresight to wear sunglasses at 1 a.m. Garage rock is many-headed beast, from soul and R&B to glam and punk, yet it’s all an apt descriptor of this band’s brutal sound.

Singer Alexis Krauss commands; she owns the stage, a full-on master of the live show, and her melodic, often pretty voice stands in contrast to the chest-caving rhythms. As Krauss jumped from stage supports to railings and surfed atop the crowd, the pit feeds off her energy like hyenas in the savannah devouring a lioness.

‘Cause it’s cool: The SXSW tradeshow, which ran for four days, was a global showcase of tech innovation. The inventions showcased may just save the world, or at least entertain us on our way out. Here are a few faves: Though the tradeshow had little to do with music beyond the cutting edge of recording and instrumental technology, it was too good to pass up during the festival. Exhibits displayed everything from the latest in self-driving cars, to the technology that would land humans on Mars, to the next generation of entertainment in virtual and augmented reality.

The coolest exhibits were hosted by Lockheed. Lockheed not only showed off a rudimentary exoskeleton for demanding, physical labor, but also its latest EEG, a slick headband that measures brainwaves for application from fighter pilots to third graders by measuring concentration and stress to maximize cognitive performance.

Local Roots is growing as much produce in a bus as traditionally takes acres.

They’re currently selling to large food distributors. But in five years, they plan to have affordable home kits, the size of a mini-fridge. People will just pour in some seeds, regulate the environment with an app and grow their own veggies. Find out more at www.localrootsfarms.com.

Flash Drives for Freedom collects donated flashdrives, fills them with information and delivers them to North Korea. With the help of North Korean defectors, the organization uses drones, balloons and other methods to deliver the information.

Their slogan: “Silence the regime with your flashdrive.” Find out more at flashdrivesforfreedom.org. ■ To read additional dispatches from this year’s SXSW go to The Range at tucsonweekly.com.

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THU MAR 23 LIVE MUSIC CAFÉ Á LA C’ART Swingset Acoustic jazz and soul featuring Connie Brannock, Sandy Carter, Matt Cuthbertson and Troy James Martin. 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.

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.

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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.

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COMEDY & STORYTELLERS TUCSON IMPROV MOVEMENT Tucson Improv presents: The Soap Box Featuring a Tucson celebrity and Tucson’s most aggressive cast of improvisers, The Soap Box is great time every Friday night! See our cast perform improv, based on our special guest story-tellers. Who will be the next to take the stage and tell their tales? Come find out!

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SAT MAR 25 LIVE MUSIC CAFÉ Á LA C’ART Connie Brannock and Mama Sings Jazz Smooth grooves featuring Carl Cherry and Tyrone Williams.

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CHICAGO BAR Neon Prophet & DJ Papa Ranger Tucson’s best Reggae Band performing live with DJ Papa Ranger on the breaks.

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GRAND LUXE HOTEL & RESORT Lukie D. Lukie D, reggae vocalist sensation, is well known for his interpretation of Ed Sheeran THINKING OUT LOUD. 9pm- 2am, $20 - $25.

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LOUDHOUSE ROCK AND ROLL BAR AND GRILL The Bastards UK with Bordertown Devils, Blue Collar Criminals, and Bleach Party The Bastards UK invade The Loudhouse in support of their new release of “Straight Outta Yorkshire”. Kicking the night off are Bordertown Devils, Blue Collar Criminals, and Bleach Party.

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THE EDGE B-Side B-Side is the premier cover band with rockin’ live performances! Playing a mix of 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and aughts.

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THE EDGE State Of Mind Local band playing classic rock 9pm- 1am.

COMEDY & STORYTELLERS THE SCREENING ROOM After Hours with Frank Powers A Late Night Comedy Talk Show for Tucson’s Artists, Makers, Movers and Shakers All hosted by the founder of Constant Con and 99.1FM Downtown Radio DJ, Frank!Powers “Toot Toot Tucson!”

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TUCSON IMPROV MOVEMENT COMEDY BATTLE: Improv Throwdown! Come see a fast-paced, gut-bursting, laugh-riot of a good time every Saturday at TIM Improv Throwdown! This show features our largest cast performing short form improv in a head-to-head battle for your laughs. Shows feature team games, audience participation, stand-up style jokes and even raps made up on the spot!

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UNSCREWED THEATER Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed Uncensored Improv Show Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed Improv Comedy Troupe short form improv based on audience suggestions in the style of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Every show is different because every audience is different.

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SUN MAR 26 LIVE MUSIC BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES Ivan Denis Live Ivan Denis is a local Singer/Songwriter that blends his lyrically infectious originals with some cool takes on some cover songs. He is Americana music at it’s best.

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Fighting Medical Marijuana Bans and More VETERANS IN ARIZONA ARE pushing back against the UA’s medical marijuana ban. As it stands now, the UA police department will arrest medical marijuana patients.

A petition has been started on Change. org to stop medical marijuana patient arrests, according to 12 News. Two years after medical marijuana was legalized in Arizona, the State Legislature banned its use on college campuses. Medical marijuana patients commit a felony by using their medicine on campus grounds.

Veteran Dan Schmink said, “People truly don’t understand us. They don’t understand why we don’t want pills. Why should

a university, which is supposed to be the progressive center of tomorrow, say ‘No’? It doesn’t make sense to me.”

Medical marijuana patients rely on their medication to help them get through their school classes on a daily basis. Universities are required to follow state law, so changes to the state law would have to be made before medical marijuana patients can legally have and use their medicine on campus.

Arizona State University also prohibits marijuana on campus. The ASU Police Department said, “Marijuana on campus is prohibited by state law and by federal laws. Students who commit violations of the Student Code of Conduct that involve

marijuana are guided to substance abuse resources. They may be subject to disciplinary actions, ranging from probation to expulsion.”

Dr. Sue Sisley visited South Carolina early this month to testify to state lawmakers about the benefits of medical marijuana. Sisley is a medical director for an Arizona medical marijuana dispensary and is currently overseeing a research study in Arizona and Maryland on the effects of marijuana as a treatment option for PTSD. Sisley and other medical experts attended the hearing which was designed to help South Carolina lawmakers determine whether legalizing medical marijuana is the right option, according to WACH 57 News. The hearing included five-hours of

testimony from medical experts. Doctors are increasingly showing support for medical marijuana as a real treatment option.

Sisley said, “I’m not pro-cannabis—I’m just pro-science. I’ve started to examine the scientific literature, and I realized that there is a sufficient amount of scientific data to support the idea of cannabis as a medicine.”

She concluded her comments by saying, “I don’t want the legislators here to think they can wait until the FDA approves cannabis as a medicine, because that could be a decade away, and in the meantime, we’ve got sick patients right here in this state who desperately need legal access to quality medicine.”

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CITY WEEK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 WINGS OF DESIRE Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777.

Angels perched atop the buildings of Berlin listen in on the innermost thoughts of mere mortals in Wim Wenders’s lovely, lyrical Wings of Desire. Thu., March 23, 7:30 p.m., Regular admission. 322-5638. https:// loftcinema.org/film/wings-of-desire/ info@loftcinema.org

FAMILY FUN EVENTS THIS WEEK BOHO CHIC BAGS - BASIC SEWING Upcycle Tucson. 924 W. Grant Rd. 445-7694. In class, you learn the basics of sewing by making a pocketed boho chic bag (see image) using designer fabric swatches. Machines provided. Min age 12. Sat., March 25, 1-3:30 p.m., $25. http://www.upcycletucson.com/store/ c3/Classes.html Info@UpcycleTucson.com BOOKS IN THE BARN TCYF. 1893 W. Lucero Rd. 5209772343. Kids 2-5 visit the TCYF to feed animals, complete projects and have story time on the farm. Classes are Mondays and Fridays 10-11:30. Text, call or email at least 24 hours ahead to confirm your child’s attendance. Visit our Facebook page! Tucson Christian Youth Farm! Mondays, Fridays, 10-11:30 a.m., $7 per class. 977-2343. tcyfarm@ yahoo.com BUTTERFLY MAGIC Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Butterfly Magic is a fully immersive experience that surrounds you with rare butterflies, tropical plants and orchids in bloom. Included with Garden admission. $13 Adults, $7.50 Children Oct. 1-May 31, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., $13. 326-9686, ex. 10. https://www. tucsonbotanical.org/event/butterfly-magic-tropical-wonderland-tucson/ info@tucsonbotanical.org CRAFT-A-PALOOZA! Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Join us for a fun kids craft every week! From puppet making to drink coasters out of recycled CD’s, we have plenty of ways to keep your hands dirty! Saturdays, 1-2 p.m., Free!. http:// bookmans.com/events/craftapalooza-2015-01-03/ emmem@hotmail.com HAPPY HOUR REPLAY STUDIO SESSION Epoch Harvest Crafting Studio. 9095 E Tanque Verde Rd 5202474454. Replay Craft Studio Session every Wednesday, Friday & Saturday Night from 5:30-8:30.

You choose the craft from current schedule lineup.

Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., $20.

333-5797. https://epochharvestmarket.com/pages/crafting-studio-calendar sales@epochharvestmarket.com JUNIOR BARN BUDDIES TCYF. 1893 W. Lucero Rd. 5209772343. Kids K-3rd grade learn to care for animals, create projects and garden on the farm! Enroll one class or full session. Text, call, email at least 24 hrs in advance to enroll your child. Great fun on the farm! Visit us on Facebook.

Tucson Christian Youth Farm. Fridays, 3:15-4:15 p.m., $7 per class. 977-2343. tcyfarm@yahoo.com PIN-WORTHY CRAFTING STUDIO SESSION Epoch Harvest Crafting Studio. 9095 E Tanque Verde Rd 5202474454. Epoch Harvest crafting Studio offers DiY or do-it-yourself crafting classes for the fastest trending projects seen online. We provide all materials, tools and instruction to create a beautiful piece.

Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., $10. 247-4454. http://www.epochharvestmarket.com studio@epochharvestmarket.com SCARLET AND THE WOLF Valley of the Moon. 2544 E. Allen Road. 323-1331. A walking theatrical adventure through Valley of the Moon for all ages. Will the hunters and werewolves ever learn that kindness trumps hate? A wonderful family experience. Fri., March 10, 6-8:30 p.m., Sat., March 11, 6-8:30 p.m., Sun., March 12, 6-8:30 p.m., Fri., March 17, 6-8:30 p.m., Sat., March 18, 6-8:30 p.m., Sun., March 19, 6-8:30 p.m., Fri., March 24, 6-8:30 p.m., Sat., March 25, 6-8:30 p.m. and Sun., March 26, 6-8:30 p.m., Adults $10, Students $5, Kids 7 and Under FREE.. http://www.tucsonvalleyofthemoon.com/ scarlet.html wizard@tucsonvalleyofthemoon.com

SPRING BREAK FAMILY FUNDAY AT THE FARMERS MARKET! Trail Dust Town. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 2964551. HeirloomFM and Trail Dust Town presents Family Fun Day at the Farmers Market during spring break|Live Music|$6 wristbands for unlimited carnival ride access|20+ food vendors! Fri., March 24, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 0. 882-2157.

STORIES IN THE GARDEN Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455.

Enjoy traditional and original stories about the desert and its creatures under the Children’s Ramada Tue., Jan. 10, 10-11 a.m. and Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m.

Continues through June 1, Free with admission. http:// tohonochulpark.org/sales-and-special-events/ mArmstrong@tohonochul.org STORY TIME Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. Kids can enjoy snacks, crafts, and story-telling fun. Meet in the community room, located in the Kids Corner. Thursdays, 10-11 a.m., Free. http://bookmans.com/events/story-time-2014-06-06/ grantevents@bookmans.com TUCSON GIRLS CHORUS ANNOUNCES NEW TUTTI CHOIR! Tucson Girls Chorus Music Center. 4020 E. River Road.

577-6064. New choir and music experience for boys and girls, grades 2-8 with special needs. Scholarships available Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Continues through April 19, $10. http://www.tucsongirlschorus.org info@tucsongirlschorus.org WORLDS OF WORDS BOOK FIESTA: STORY JOURNEY TO RUSSIA Worlds of Words. 1430 E. Second Street (520)6219340. Adventure into a story journey to Russia through this Worlds of Words Book Fiesta program for children and families. Sat., March 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Free.

GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK

DESERT SHADE - TUCSON’S 20 BEST TREES Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455.

Greg Corman, horticulturist, landscape designer and owner of Gardening Insights discusses the top 20 trees for Tucson and demonstrates the proper techniques for planting and care of trees. Sat., March 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., $6 members / $10 general public. MArmstrong@ tohonochul.org FALL REOPENING AND JAPANESE HANGING SCROLL EXHIBIT Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson. 2130 N. Alvernon Way. 332-2928. Gardens reopen Oct. 1 for Fall/Winter season with continuing exhibit of Japanese hanging scrolls. Exhibit free with Gardens admission. MondaysSundays, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $9, 7, 6, 5. 272-3200. http://yumegardens.org yume.gardens@gmail.com

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EVENTS THIS WEEK ADVANCED PILATES WUNDA CHAIR CLASSES Body Fundamentals Pilates & Movement Studio. 4265 N. Camino Gacela 299-6541. Join Pilates instructors & advanced students for a challenging workout on the Wunda Chair. 4-person class size weekly at our Tucson studio. Pre-registration required to save your space!

Saturdays, 1-2 p.m., $42 or $380 per 10. http://www. bodyfundamentals.com/tucson_pilates_classes.php change@bodyfundamentals.com BURLESQUE FITNESS Floor Polish. 215 N Hoff Ave, Suite 107 333-5905.

Inspired by the art of burlesque. No dancing or stripping, just strength and flexibility exercises to help you feel great in your body. Always sexy fun playlists.

Instructor Lola Torch. Mondays, Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., $6.

GUIDED TEA TASTING Seven Cups. 2516 E. Sixth St. 881-4072. An educational lecture on Chinese tea enhanced with a focused tasting of two teas. Selections are different each week and are oriented to the fresh teas of the current season.

Fridays, 3-3:30 p.m., Free.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY HOROSCOPE 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 $1.99 per minute. 18 and over. Touchtone phone required.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Of course you want to get the best of everything. But that doesn’t mean you should disdain cheap thrills that are more interesting and gratifying than the expensive kind.

And of course you enjoy taking risks. But there’s a big difference between gambling that’s spurred by superstitious hunches and gambling rooted in smart research. And of course you’re galvanized by competition. But why fritter away your competitive fire on efforts to impress people? A better use of that fire is to use it to hone your talents and integrity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I were to provide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG AND OFTEN! I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are on the verge of

achieving a sly victory over the part of you that is unduly meek and passive. I believe that in the coming weeks you will rise up like a resourceful hero and at least half-conquer a chronic fear. A rumbling streak of warrior luck will flow through you, enabling you to kill off any temptation you might have to take the easy way out. Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian! I have rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph over our unconscious attraction to the victim role.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo journal entry, Thursday: Am too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if I slept a little longer and arrived late? Who cares if the dishes are piling up in the sink? I hereby refuse law and order. Saturday: I’m fantasizing about doing dirty deeds. I’m thinking about breaking the taboos. Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to. Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly. Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): William Boyd writes novels, which require him to do copious research about the real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters to inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity of his book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it was like to live in Vienna in 1913.

He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety percent of the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourishing. I suspect you’ll thrive on a similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo.

Be patient as you search for what’s useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s a new word for you: enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something

SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage, mail@savagelove.net

I recently spoke at Curious Minds Weekend in Toronto at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Audience members submitted questions on cards before the show—anonymously—but the moderator, Lisan Jutras of the Globe and Mail, and I were having so much fun talking with each other that we didn’t get to many cards. So I’m going to quickly answer as many of the questions from the audience at Curious Minds as I can this week.

My husband and I have been seeking a third for a threesome. After a very palpable night of flirtation, I asked a mutual friend (as we shared a cab) if he would be down for a threesome. He said yes, but I was not about to spring him on my husband that night. So I texted him later about it, and he has ignored me. What should I take from this?

The hint.

A friend’s BF won’t go down on her no matter how much she asks. She still won’t break up with him, even though she told me that oral is the only way she has ever had an orgasm. How do I get her to realize her sexual pleasure is a priority?

If your friend’s BF doesn’t know oral is the only way she can orgasm, she should tell him. If she told him and he doesn’t care, she should dump him. If she told him and he doesn’t care and she won’t dump him, you’re not obligated to listen to her complain about the orgasms she’s not having.

I’m a bisexual 42-year-old female with an extremely high sex drive who squirts with every orgasm. How do I deal with friends—even people at a sex club—who think you’re a freak because “women aren’t supposed to be horny all the time.”

turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance.

Too much NO becomes YES, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if we resist them, but interesting if we cooperate. I figure that’s your choice right now. Which will it be? The latter, I hope. P.S.: The reversals that you consciously co-create may not be perfect. But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When I was 24, I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pick-up trucks roamed freely.

Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection.

At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys, and unconscious agendas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m not suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest. You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months.

And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The empty space at the end of this sentence has intentionally been left blank.

If your friends—presumably people you aren’t fucking—complain that you’re horny all the time, maybe it’s because you don’t talk about anything other than the sex you just had or the sex you hope to have soon. If people at sex clubs (!) are complaining about how horny you are … either you’ve accidentally wandered into a yacht club or even people at a sex club wanna talk about something other than sex every once in a while.

My very Christian friend is about to get married. Though she is socially very liberal, she is pretty sexually repressed.

I want to do something to encourage her to explore her sexuality a bit before she takes a try at partnered sex. How weird would it be to buy her a vibrator as a shower present?

Don’t give your friend a vibrator at her shower—gifts are opened in front of guests at showers—but go ahead and send her one. Tell her it’s a pre-bachelorette-party gift.

The serene hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of do-it-yourself therapy. Healing Silence is based on the underappreciated truth that now and then it’s restorative to just SHUT UP and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think -- or even feel.)

With Healing Silence, you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as long as you need to.

Please try it sometime soon. Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you won’t feel the need to say any of these things: 1. “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” 2. “Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” 3. “I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: 1. “I thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” (This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua Graham.) 2. “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) 3.

“I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you fantasizing more about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you do have and can do? If so, please raise the “do have” and “can do” up to at least 51 percent.

(Eighty percent would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been gently taking care of yourself? If so, get your self-care level up to at least 51 percent. (Eight-five percent is better.) Are you flirting with a backward type of courage that makes you nervous about what everyone thinks of you and expects from you? If so, I invite you to cultivate a different kind of courage at least 51 percent of the time: courage to do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks or expects. (Ninety percent is better.) ■

Two guys divorced in order to bring a third man into their relationship on equal terms, and they now plan to start a family with their sisters acting as surrogates. Thoughts?

Mazel tov?

I am 31. My husband (newly married) is 46, almost 47. He takes FOREVER to come, no matter what I do. How do we speed up this process? My jaw, fingers, etc., are all very sore.

Your husband speeds up the process by incorporating self-stimulation breaks into the blowjobs, handjobs, etcetera-jobs you’re giving him. He strokes himself while you take a quick breather and/or an Advil, he gets himself closer, you get back to work.

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DANCE

EVENTS THIS WEEK AFRICA NIGHT DANCE FUSION Grand Luxe Hotel & Resort. 1365 W. Grant Rd. 6227791. Featuring Live Music and Dance Performances.

Bring your dancing shoes and rock to an eclectic mix of African sound, salsa and reggae. Sat., March 25, 8 p.m.2 a.m., $20 to $25. 777-3455. http://www.diasporashowcase.com diasporashowcase@juno.com 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 ARTIFACT DANCE PROJECT: SURROUNDING DILLINGER UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. 1737 E. University Blvd.

621-4698. Hardened by a decade-long prison sentence for a minor offense, a newly-released John Dillinger assembles a likable but deadly gang of criminals to help him steal back the life he lost in a dazzling series of depression-era bank robberies. But with the newly-formed FBI hot on his trail and the shadows of his past closing in around him, Dillinger must make the ultimate getaway or lose everything — and everyone — he has come to love the most. In collaboration with musical folk-duo Ryanhood, Artifact Dance Project brings the story of Tucson’s favorite gangster into stunning and creative focus live on stage with Surrounding Dillinger, playing March 23 through March 26 at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Thu., March 23, 7:30-10 p.m., Fri., March 24, 7:30-10 p.m., Sat., March 25, 7:30-10 p.m. and Sun., March 26, 2-4:30 p.m., $29 reserved seating. 2357638. http://www.artifactdanceproject.org info@artifactdanceproject.com 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.

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OPENING THIS WEEK 2017 HIGH SCHOOL ART INVITATIONAL ARTISTS’ RECEPTION Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Reception and Awards Ceremony for students from local high schools who are having their artwork displayed at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library throughout March. Sat., March 25, 2-3 p.m., $0. 791-4010. https://www.library.pima.gov/ askalibrarian@pima.gov ALL ARTIST SHOW Madaras Gallery. 3035 N Swan Rd 5206153001.

Madaras Gallery on Swan presents the annual All Artist Show - Miniatures and Small Paintings by Madaras Gallery’s finest artists. Fri., March 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Free. 615-3001. http://madaras.com ops@madaras.com CALL TO ARTISTS: DRAWING DOWN THE MUSE @ WOMANKRAFT ART CENTER WomanKraft Art Center. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976.

WomanKraft 388 S. Stone Ave. CALL TO ARTISTS: ‘Drawing Down the Muse’25th annual women’s only exhibit. All mediums and subject matter accepted.

Deadline: March 25th. 629-9976X3 for appointments.

Sat., March 25, 1-5 p.m., Free.

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it’s normal for a man my age to “slow down” and it’s not her?

Happy birthday. And, yes, it’s normal for a man to slow down as he ages—it’s not her—and there are younger men who take a long time to come. But such men need to take their partners’ physical limitations into consideration. To avoid wearing out their partners’ jaws, fingers, etc., they need to take matters into their own hands. They should enjoy that blowjob, handjob, twatjob, or assjob, take breaks to stroke their own dicks, eventually bring themselves to the point of orgasmic inevitability, and end by plunging back into that mouth, fist, twat, or ass to blow their load.

I have been reading your column since the early 1990s. Since that time, what has struck you in the kind of problems people write you about?

People don’t ask me about butt plugs anymore. I used to get a letter once or twice a week from someone who

needed to have butt plugs explained to them. But butt plugs have their own Wiki page now, so no one needs me to explain them anymore. But for old times’ sake: They look like lava lamps, they go in your butt, they feel awesome, and they typically don’t induce gay panic in butt-play-curious straight boys.

Would you share your thoughts on our prime minister, Justin Trudeau?

I think Justin needs to stop fucking around and legalize weed already, like he promised.

When are you going to move to Canada already?

See above.

Polyamory after marriage—is it okay?

For some.

I’m a submissive gay boy. I saw you walk into the theater tonight wearing combat boots. Is there any way I could lick your boots clean after the show?

Sadly, I didn’t see your question until after I got back to my hotel.

Straight male here. My best male friend of 20 years transitioned to female. I’ve been super supportive since day one, but her transitioning is all she ever talks about, and it’s getting tiresome. I miss our discussions of bicycle repair and Swedish pop music. How can I tell her to give it a rest while remaining supportive?

If she began transitioning last week, then of course it’s all she can talk about.

If she transitioned five years ago and it’s still all she ever talks about, then you’ll need to (gently) be the change you want to see in the conversation.

Listen supportively when she discusses trans issues and seize opportunities (when they arise) to change the subject (“So how do you think Sweden will do in Eurovision this year?”).

Why are so many lesbians into astrology?

All the lesbians I know are strict empiricists. So the more pertinent question would be this: Whose sample is skewed—mine or yours?

My male partner never masturbates and we have sex only once a week. We’ve been together four years. I’m a woman. I would like to have sex just a little more, but he isn’t into it. Is there something weird about me masturbating a bunch during the week and just having weekend sex?

Nope.

Dude? Trump? WTF? ITMFA (ITMFA.org).

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Brian Whitney, coauthor of a book about the “Cannibal Cop”: savagelovecast. com. ■ mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

CITY WEEK LITERATURE EVENTS THIS WEEK

BRIAN JABAS SMITH DEBUTS SPENT SAINTS Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Tucson Weekly writer reads from Spent Saints & screens 12 episode web series, Q & A Sunday, March 26th at 2pm at Bookmans East, 6230 E. Speedway. Sun., March 26, 2-4 p.m., Free. http://bookmans.com bookmans.com

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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.

MYSTERY BOOK GROUP: THE KILL ARTIST Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Join us to discuss The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva. The book is 10% off at Antigone Books the month prior to the discussion. Sun., March 26, 12:30-2 p.m., Free. http:// www.antigonebooks.com/mystery-bookgroup info@antigonebooks.com POETRY CIRCLE: EMILY DICKINSON, IS MY VERSE ALIVE Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Join University of Arizona Poetry Center docents for a discussion about Emily Dickinson and her poetry.Explore the historical and cultural milieu as well as her early influences Mon., March 27, 1-2 p.m., $0. https://www.library.pima.gov/locations/BCN/ THE TELLING ITSELF: ILLNESS NARRATIVES AS HEALING AND CRAFT Southern Arizona Work Space. 403 N 6th Ave 7774709. In this six-week class, writers will work with local author Katherine E. Standefer to craft personal nonfiction narratives that explore the experience of illness or injury. Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. Continues through April 26, $240. http://www.katherinestandefer.com/calendar/2017/3/22/the-telling-itself-illness-narratives-spring-

2017-writing-class WORDS ON THE AVENUE Café Passé. 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. Teré FowlerChapman hosts an open mic for all writers to share short stories, fiction, poetry, prose, thoughts, diary entries and more at 7 p.m., the last Sunday of every month; $5 suggested donation. Sign-up is at 6:30 p.m. Last Sunday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

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EVENTS THIS WEEK “WHAT ARE WE PRAYING FOR WHEN WE PRAY FOR HEALING” UA Hillel. 1245 E. Second St. In this talk, I ask instead: What is the meaning of prayer, when it is often unrelated to belief in God? What is healing, when physical cure is not expected? Mon., March 27, 4-5:30 p.m., Free.

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2017 TOWN AND GOWN LECTURE - ‘TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION’ UA Music Building. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655.

This lecture is part of a series, presented by the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Wed., March 29, 7-10 p.m., $0. 6265448. http://reformation.arizona.edu bettertm@email.arizona.edu CINDY WOOL MEMORIAL SEMINAR ON HUMANISM IN HEALTHCARE Marriott University Park. 880 E. Second St. 792-4100.

Dr. Victoria Sweet, Professor, University of California, SF, will be the keynote speaker: “God’s Hotel - A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.”

Wed., March 29, 7-9 p.m., $18, includes dessert. 5779393. https://jfsa.org/jewish-federation-of-southern-arizona-calendar/cindy-wool kgraham@jfsa.org

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