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Tucson musicians continue to create songs during the pandemic DANEHY: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measurements
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In a “last-ditch effort,” the University of Arizona is trying to reel in students to stop the spread of COVID-19
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Local music releases from soul to rock to reggae, and which venues are open once more
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THIS YEAR HAS BEEN HELL FOR MANY people. Musicians, along with the venues that host them, have been battered in 2020. But many are using their down time to record new music or wrap up projects they were working on before the pandemic hit. This week, we take a look at the fortunes of a few of them: soul singer Connie Brannock of Little House of Funk has a more introspective EP; Bradford Trojan, alongside Scott McMicken of Dr. Dog, has a carefree pop/rock album; French chanteuse Marianne Dissard is sharing cover songs through the pandemic; longtime standup comedian and musician Fish Karma holds a distorted mirror up to modern times; and DJ Jahmar Anthony has found a new audience after scoring a gig with international reggae group Inner Circle. We’ll be featuring more local music in the months to come, so if you’ve got something new you’d like to share with us, drop us a line. Meanwhile, staff reporter Kathleen B. Kunz has been busy on the education beat. Kunz brings us the latest on how local school districts are working toward bring-
ing back in-person classroom instruction; she also takes a look at how University of Arizona officials are warning they may have to shut down in-person instruction if the damn kids don’t stop partying and spreading the virus around town. Elsewhere in the book: Longtime columnist Tom Danehy takes the measure of our times and Cannabis 520 columnist David Abbott looks at how Democrats are pushing to decriminalize marijuana on a federal level. Plus, we have Dan Savage’s sex column, Rob Brezsny’s magical horoscope and all the usual comics and crossword. Keep on rocking, Tucson. We’ll get through this damn pandemic together.
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TUSD On Sept. 9, the board of Tucson’s largest public school district voted to move forward with a hybrid learning model on Monday, Oct. 19 if the county’s downward trajectory of COVID-19 continues. According to Pima County’s COVID-19 Progress Report, five of the nine health Cleared for ‘hybrid learning,’ school districts criteria are making “progress” or have been officially “met.” The progress report tracks consider how to return to the classroom local disease data, healthcare capacity and public health capacity. By Kathleen B. Kunz Because of this, TUSD Superintendent Kathleen@tucsonlocalmedia.com Gabriel Trujillo recommended to the board members during their Sept. 9 meeting that ON SEPT. 3, THE ARIZONA the district embrace the public health data Department of Health Services announced indicating it is safe for a hybrid model of six counties have reached the public health education. This would comprise “some kind benchmarks to start hybrid in-person and of a combination of return to traditional online K-12 school instruction. in-person learning, standing alongside the The department identified in August online learning model that parents will still three data areas to determine when it is be able to opt-in to,” Trujillo said. safe for schools to begin transitioning back While some district staff and families to in-person learning. Most K-12 schools have expressed concern over reopening across the state have performed instrucschools during a global pandemic, Trujillo tion remotely since the beginning of the said the entire plan is contingent on the COVID-19 outbreak in March. Pima County Health Department’s recomThe benchmarks mandate that a region mendation that it is safe to move to a hybrid must see a sustained decrease in new coromodel during the week of Oct. 19. If Coronanavirus cases and related hospitalizations virus cases begin to rise again, the plan may as well as a testing positivity rate that is be put on hold. below 10 percent. In Pima County, the local The board also agreed to begin a phased health department has created their own set reopening of district administration departof benchmarks, consisting of nine public ments on Monday, Sept. 21. At the board’s health criteria. next meeting on Sept. 22, Trujillo will bring Now that Pima County is trending in the forward his initial proposal with more detail right direction, local school districts have on what hybrid learning will look like in been discussing plans for what hybrid learnTUSD. ing could entail.
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SUNNYSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Sunnyside Superintendent Steve Holmes told board members last Tuesday, Sept. 8, that hybrid learning could also be established in their district, the second largest in Pima County, as long as COVID-19 trends continue to improve. The Pima County Health Department believes their nine public health benchmarks will all be in the yellow sometime during September. For SUSD, families could have two options for their children beginning Oct. 19: hybrid learning with staggered schedules, or remain with fully online
instruction. The district released a survey to all families on Sept. 9 to find out which option they will choose once hybrid learning becomes available. In a previous survey, Holmes said between 25 to 40 percent of parents in the Sunnyside district wanted to keep their children at home and learning online. With the responses from this new survey, Holmes said the district can begin planning the logistics of a staggered schedule.
should wait until they’re all green.” MUSD Board President Dan Post expressed concern for parents with young children who are struggling to supervise their children’s schoolwork and perform their own jobs. He said the board is “committed” to a reopening on Oct. 19 and they will “do the best we can” to make sure it is as safe as possible.
AMPHI SCHOOL DISTRICT The Amphitheater School District board was scheduled to review a reopening MARANA UNIFIED proposal during their meeting Sept. 15. The SCHOOL DISTRICT During their board discussions, Marana proposal includes reopening school sites on Oct. 12 for a new hybrid in-person and onSuperintendent Dan Streeter said hybrid learning could consist of alternate days on line learning model for their K-12 students. “The hybrid model consists of students campus or some students learning in-person while others stick with online learning. being divided into cohorts with only It all depends on how many families opt-in certain cohorts attending school on certain days, with the other cohorts still receiving to a hybrid learning model and how that will affect schools’ ability to maintain social instructional services remotely at that same time, and then the cohorts reversing those distancing and other health practices. modalities on alternating days,” the proposal “Hybrid is referencing how do you handle physical distancing, cohorting and states. Amphi leaders had previously hoped some of those communal spaces,” Streeter told the board members on Sept. 3. “So you that COVID-19 data trends would look good enough by this point to allow for a have to look at community spread levels full reopening of campuses in October. But but we also have to get a good grasp of what our student numbers on campus will the Pima County Health Department has strongly advised against any school returnlook like, as we start to define what that ing to fully traditional in-person classroom specific educational model looks like.” MUSD board member Tom Carlson said learning during the month of October. In an email, the district stated that general statements from district staff and parents declaring it’s unsafe for schools to families and staff are concerned about the need for social distancing relative to class open are “not helpful.” He wants constitsizes. The administration believes their new uents to tell the board what conditions hybrid approach will allow them to reduce would be appropriate for reopening. in-person class sizes and safely offer an “Given that the disease metrics now are in-person learning option to families who all green for Pima County—and those are want it. the metrics that are produced by health “We recognize the need for a balance professionals that everybody has been advocating that we rely upon—it would be between getting students back in school and doing so safely,” the email states. “We very helpful to be specific about why you think that it’s not safe, given that the medi- believe our proposal does both.” The hybrid learning model is required to cal people think that it is,” Carlson said. follow the district’s mitigation plan, which Sandy Faulk, president of the Marana lays out logistics of public health practices Education Association, said that a district (such as handwashing and social distancemail sent out to all staff on Sept. 2 indicating that MUSD will be “accelerating the ing) that are intended to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in school settings. process to return to sites” left staff angry, afraid and confused. She told board members there is a lot of work left to do in order CATALINA FOOTHILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT for schools to comply with the district’s mitigation plan and be safe enough to The Catalina Foothills School District prevent COVID-19 transmission. sent out a letter to district families on Sept. “We want students and staff to return 3 saying that they will continue with an when it’s safe,” Faulk said. “Just because all-online learning model for now. They citwe have met the metrics of yellow, does ed the county health department’s concern not necessarily mean that it is safe. Some over COVID-19 spread within the University teachers say that we could return with of Arizona community as a factor of their some of them in red, and some say we decision. ■
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UA President Dr. Robert Robbins is recommending a two-week quarantine for students living on and off campus within a specific boundary.
BIG VIRUS ON CAMPUS In “Last-Ditch Effort,” UA and Pima County Health Department recommend two-week quarantine for students in high-transmissibility area By Kathleen Kunz kathleen@tucsonlocalmedia.com UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESIDENT Dr. Robert Robbins and Pima County Public Health Director Dr. Theresa Cullen announced on Sept. 14 they are recommending a 14-day quarantine for students living on and off campus within a geographical boundary they have identified as showing high transmission of the novel coronavirus. Robbins said this is a “last ditch” effort to get students to follow public health directives before they have to take more drastic measures. Robbins gave off a frustrated tone at the press conference, saying the university is dealing with a “blatant disregard for public health measures.” “I’m short of saying I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore,” Robbins said. “This is part of being a good member of society, to take into account the health of others, not just your individual health and your individual desire to go out and party.” High-density apartments near campus are also included in the recommendation. Robbins said there is COVID-19 transmission happening around campus because of the “selfish behavior of a few individuals.” Cullen said they aren’t seeing transmission as a result of classes, labs or on-campus activity, but more so off-campus social activities and parties. The quarantine allows exceptions for students enrolled in essential in-person classes such as science labs and performance and fine arts classes. Students in the
quarantine boundary are also allowed to go on essential shopping trips, appointments and work if necessary. “There are a clear subset of individuals, primarily students, who are not following the rules,” Robbins said during a press conference. “Today, we’re going to ratchet up the warnings, the encouragement to please follow the rules.” Cullen said that by establishing a recommended two-week quarantine, they will have the potential to ensure that the increased virus transmission will go back down. Robbins said enforcement of the recommended quarantine will be difficult, but the university has established a support system to assist students during this time and he hopes they will follow this recommendation before the condition of COVID-19 spread at UA worsens. He said the university administration anticipated this problem once students came to campus at the beginning of the semester. He hoped the university wouldn’t have to institute “more draconian measures, but we’re to that point.” Robbins said the university will have to move toward an all-digital learning model if they cannot get the situation under control. “This is it, this is your last chance,” he said. Cullen said the county is actively looking at other potential options besides an optional quarantine that they could legally pursue if the spread of COVID-19 around the university continues. ■
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THE PANDEMIC INSPIRED TOM TO INVENT SOME NEW MEASUREMENTS By Tom Danehy, tucsonweekly@tucsonlocalmedia.com A FEW WEEKS BACK, THE New York Times ran an article about how the long simmering (and often rancorous) feud between surveyors and normal people over the length of a foot. (The Daily Star, picking up on a local angle, ran a similar article a couple Sundays ago.) I know, a foot’s a foot, right? Except it isn’t. The International Foot is defined as 0.3048 meters. That’s what we all learned in school, unless, of course, you went to an Arizona charter school back in the 1990s, in which case you were probably taught that “foot” is the past tense of “food.” Meanwhile, the U.S. Survey Foot is defined as 0.3048006096 meters. The difference between those two comes to 2 parts per million. In a measurement of one million feet, the difference is two feet. So you can see why them’s fightin’ words! It brings to mind the story of the college student sitting in a 100 level Astronomy class. The T.A. says, “So, in a billion years or so, our Sun will burn out and all of the planets in the solar system will be swallowed up in the collapse.” Suddenly, from the back of the room, the student screams, “What?!” After the T.A. repeats what she had just
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said, the student says, “Whew! I thought you said a million years.” Getting back to the battle over the Foot, I guess if I squint hard enough, I can see what all the hubbub is about. After all, one million feet is actually less than 190 miles. That’s about the distance from Phoenix to Yuma, which is a horrible example, because those are two places that nobody wants to go to EVER, so having the road be off by two feet really wouldn’t matter a whole lot. Still, measurements are a part of the real world and it’s important that they be accurate and standardized. (Did you know that later in his life, Sir Isaac Newton saved the British economy by waging a ruthless battle against counterfeiters, one of whom he had hanged for treason? You should look it up.) Anyway, while most measurements are standardized these days, some aren’t. For example, we have: • The Force of a Moving Electron: The electron rest mass (which is kinda silly because, according to quantum mechanics, electrons cannot be stationary) is said to be 9.109 time 10 to the negative 31 power kilograms. That’s really small; so small, in
fact, that Jared Kushner could probably lift one…once. Now, Newton’s Second Law (him again!) states that Force = Mass times Acceleration, so an electron would have to be going mighty fast to generate any real force. • Doug Ducey’s Force: Imagine an electron going two meters per decade. That might actually be too much. For some reason, Doug Ducey sees himself as a player on the national stage, when, in fact, he’s actually just a scrub here in Arizona. Oh, he can fly to Washington whenever he’s summoned by the Turd In Chief and he can sit there, basking in Trump’s toxic runoff, but he’s really a non-entity. The problem is that he’s not a leader. He doesn’t lead, he just reacts. Sometimes his reactions are okay, but they mostly just serve to mitigate the damage done by his not having acted earlier. • Liquid Ounce: An amount of fluid equal to 1/128th of a gallon • Martha McSally Ounce: About all she’s got left after pissing away what was once a promising political career. A decorated combat fighter pilot, she started off as a moderate Republican and had enough political juice to fill a swimming pool. But then she vies for a vacant Senate seat against strange bird Kyrsten Sinema and chooses as her winning strategy tying herself to Donald Trump. So she loses to Sinema and then gets the break of a lifetime when she is named to fill the seat of John McCain, who passed away. And what is her strategy for holding onto
the seat? She doubles down on Donald Trump!! Come January, she’s going to be sifting through the ashes, contemplating whether to run again in 2022. It’s doubtful that the Republicans would nominate a two-time loser, but if they do, McSally already has a strategy in place—four-ple down! • Pint: 16 ounces of liquid • Raul Grijalva’s Pint: Two pints • Decibel: Among other things, a unit for measuring the relative loudness of sounds • Kerry Walsh Jennings’ Decibel: A deafening roar announcing her tone-deaf dumbness on mask-wearing during a pandemic. Walsh Jennings is one of the stud Olympic athletes of all time. She and her partner, Misty May-Treanor, won gold medals in beach volleyball in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympics. (Jennings, with a different partner, won Bronze in 2016.) But last week, Jennings posted on her Instagram that she conducted “a little exercise in being brave” when she “went shopping without a mask on.” She used as her motivation for having done so an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the true meaning of which had obviously escaped her. When the backlash came, hard and fast, she fell back on the non-apology apology (“Oh, I’m sorry that you didn’t understand me…”). Dude, we get it. Masks suck. We all hate wearing them. But you’re an athlete. Show a little discipline and teamwork and maybe we can soon make the masks go away. ■
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MAINTAINING THE MELODY Connie Brannock releases new EP By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com WHETHER IT BE DUE TO THE summer heat or social distancing, the sidewalks of Tucson have been less busy in recent months. But locals can enjoy the promenades and sidestreets in auditory form thanks to Connie Brannock’s latest EP Last Call, which takes the groove and atmosphere of night walks around the Old Pueblo and fits them into soulful ballads. Brannock is perhaps best known around Tucson as the vocalist for Little House of Funk, a “Sonoran soul” group that has performed at functions from Silverbell to Houghton. And while nearly all the performers on Last Call have also served with Little House of Funk, it’s listed as a Brannock solo album due to the more introspective and hushed tunes throughout. Brannock describes herself as a “closet torch singer” and uses Last Call as a subtler outlet. “Most folks come out to our shows to dance and have a good time, and this is more of a reflective record,” Brannock said. “It’s definitely got groove, but it’s not all fast.” The atmosphere of Last Call is clear right from the cover art: a dark street stretching toward a neon saguaro. The songs reflect this style, with odes to nighttime romancing and familiar Tucson sights. And while the EP holds a healthy dose of sentiment, it’s not one-note. On other tracks, Brannock considers up and leaving this “desert town” for some unknown destination beneath the moon. The standout track is “Miracle Mile,” a love song to the areas of Oracle, Drachman and Miracle Mile, where Brannock used to perform monthly. It begins as a simple ballad with twinkling piano and walking bass, but gradually grows as Brannock expresses her observations of the street. Brass notes get things moving before the whole song expands with some of Brannock’s most soulful vocals on the album. “I just have a love affair with Tucson,” Brannock said. “I was playing this little piano riff, and the melody for ‘Miracle Mile’ just came to me. It’s kind of an amalgamation of those streets and the activities that go on there.”
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Bradford Trojan ambles through opposites on Meanwhile By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com ALTHOUGH TUCSON IS NOT AN OVERT character in Bradford Trojan’s new album Meanwhile, the project may never have Last Call features a wide array of come to fruition if not for the city. The performers, including Evan Arredondo on album was written and recorded over the upright bass, Lamont Arthur on the Hamcourse of three years, and marked a return mond organ, Rob Boone on trombone and to collaboration between college friends Christine Vivona on harp. The album was Trojan and Scott McMicken, founder of the produced and recorded by Mike Levy, who indie rock band Dr. Dog. also performs several instruments. “We’ve been through a lot over the “Little House of Funk really is a colleccourse of the years, but there was a big break tive; we have a variety of different lineups,” where I moved back to Tucson and Dr. Brannock said. “Everyone plays in other Dog took off, and so we didn’t have a lot of bands and has jobs and families, so that’s chances to meet up unless it was at shows,” how we have to do it. We have a jazz version, Trojan said. “So it’s been kind of spotty over a blues version, a groove version, and we the years, but then Scott ended up in Tucson have the full seven-piece for the big shows. and we got to reconnect in a lot of ways with At one point, we called them different our music… We weren’t even planning on names. But it got so confusing we ended up an album at first, we just wanted to meet up calling it all the Little House of Funk.” and play, then we realized it was turning into While Last Call is uplifting through a project.” most of its runtime, the EP came from a Meanwhile is a carefree album on its surplace of some difficulty. Brannock describes face, skirting the pop, rock and folk spheres. the release as “an accident, a project incomIt’s perhaps best described in Trojan’s own plete—a result of the surreal world we find words as “music that feels fun and easy.” ourselves in now.” She released a solo album However, the lyrics contain deeper themes in 2017 and began work on a follow-up. of polarity and opposites, something Trojan However, she had difficulty finishing the admits was a bit difficult to maintain over album, and decided to release what songs three years of recording. In fact, one year were already finished before the pandemic ago, the duo had what they thought was hit. With her EP, full of songs of love, travel the finished album, but three of the songs and new beginnings, Brannock hopes to didn’t quite fit with the original theme. This show that “compassion and kindness still resulted in the album being reworked, and stand tall.” ultimately releasing during the current “I decided to release the six songs that pandemic. the vocals are finished on, just so I could “Timing-wise, it just felt right to get it out have something to offer to folks who enjoy coming out to see us,” Brannock said. The EP is inspired not only from latenight strolls, but from a very literal realization for Brannock about having to hang up her microphone for the time being. As she sings on the title track: “Last call, I want to walk out on this feeling that something went wrong / Turn off the microphone and walk on out the door to the music of my solitude / My heart is crying, all I want to do is sing my song for you.” However, sunlight is on the horizon, as Brannock and company plan on releasing a companion EP “when winter enters stage left.” She says this follow-up will be a more “rootsy” and guitar-based companion, a “broad daylight” EP compared to the warm nocturnes of Last Call. ■ COURTESY PHOTO
there when we could,” Trojan said. “And if people can benefit from listening, then that’s even better.” Trojan had always planned for an album release show for Meanwhile, and still hopes to perform the mildly psychedelic tunes to a live audience at some indefinite point in the future—perhaps fitting for the mellow yet cryptic songs detailing dissolving worlds, modern life and “undying.” This blend is best exemplified on tracks like “Someone Unknown,” which features a simple acoustic melody becoming lost in hushed percussion and warbling reverb as Trojan sings “a million souls all alone, to be someone, to be unknown.” The track “Modern Man” begins reminiscent of the jangle pop that Tucson once housed, before incorporating slide guitar into a surreal folky celebration. The entire project manages to balance being soothing yet existential. Meanwhile was recorded at McMicken’s Press On Studio between February 2017 and April 2020, and released by Press On Records, which describes the project as “a kaleidoscope of styles and recordings that came together slowly over occasional hangouts between old friends… a lyrical cohesion began to develop that touches upon the paradoxical nature of truth and well-being. The negatives and positives are left to bask in equal measure in the enriching sunlight of eternal mystery!” While the album is a Trojan project in name, McMicken’s influence is clear from the free-and-easy choruses and rhythms. Meanwhile unfolds like a box of joyous, weathered photographs. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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For the first time ever, La Calavera Catrina will be on exhibit outside of Denver, Colorado and will grace Tucson, Arizona with their presence. Beginning September 17, guests of the Tucson Botanical Gardens will experience the rich history and iconography through colorful and joyful large-scale skeleton sculptures titled La Calavera Catrina. Partial funding for this exhibition is provided by Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historic Preservation.
These Tucson venues are hosting musicians after months of silence Shows are socially distanced and “BYO chair.” 2900-2990 N. Swan Road. Whiskey Roads restaurant and club WHILE THE MAJOR CONCERT VENUES is inviting some local country and blues are still on pause, there are a few smaller musicians onto their stage to perform for stages throughout Tucson that are hosting the evening diners, social distancing rules musicians and bands, some for the first time enforced. 2265 W. Ina Road. in months. Some of these gigs allow for a Little Anthony’s Diner is hosting a socially distanced audience, and others faseries of free drive-in concerts every Friday cilitate virtual livestreams of local music. Ei- through October. Live music is performed ther way, they’re providing work and income by The Cadillacs and RAW Band, plus a few to Tucson musicians who’ve been quiet for special performances by “Elvis and Marifar too long – some of the livestreams even lyn.” Every Friday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free. 7010 come with virtual tip jars so you can help E. Broadway Blvd. support your local troubadour: St. Philip’s/Union Public House Monterey Court Studio Galleries and is opening up their plaza for a socially Cafe is inviting a variety of local bands to distanced night of food, drink and entertainperform most nights of the week, showcasment. Performances run from 7 to 10 p.m. ing blues, folk and rock music. Mask and so- and seating is first-come, first-serve. 4340 N. cial distancing policies are in place, and due Campbell Ave. to their limited capacity, online reservations La Cocina Restaurant & Cantina has are recommended. Cover charges apply for been experimenting with virtual perforsome shows. 505 W. Miracle Mile. mances by hosting musicians on their stage The Gaslight Theatre recently closed and livestreaming the show on Facebook. out their “Best of Gaslight Summer Nights” They also shared the musicians’ pay app drive-in concert series, and will debut their info so the audience could virtually can tip “Best of Gaslight Fall Revue” starting Sept. them, and are considering future perfor29. The shows feature musical numbers mances from their stage. 201 N. Court Ave. and wonderfully lame jokes, plus food and High 5 Grille is keeping busy by hosting drinks from Gaslight’s kitchen. 7010 E. live music, in addition to screening football Broadway Blvd. games. Performing bands cover a wide Plaza Palomino in central Tucson has variety of rock, country and R&B. Upcoming been hosting a monthly “Palomino Nights” bands include Split Decision, performing show of local bands both in-person and via Friday, Sept. 25 from 8 to 11:45 p.m. 3682 W. livestream. Previous performers included Orange Grove Road. ■ the Rillito River Band and Santa Pachita. By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com
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“I feel like Scott brought this sound on the album that is so fantastic,” Trojan said. “And the songs that I brought into the project were morphed. Normally I can hit this pretty straightforward pop style, but with his hand in it, you can hear the McMicken sound or the Dr. Dog sound… He’s an incredible musician and songwriter. He’s just a master of the craft.” Though not premeditated to be so, Meanwhile serves as an excellent companion album to Trojan’s 2018 release First Sunrise. This is most apparent from the tracks “Mrs. Moonlight” on First Sunrise and “The Return of Mrs. Moonlight” on Meanwhile. However, similar themes can be found on both albums, and their cover art even compliments each other,
one with sunbeams and the other with stars. From one desert to another, the album maintains the warmth and timbre found in many familiar local styles: alternative rock, dream pop, folk rock and more. “I always have to tip my hat toward Tucson in what I’m writing or creating in any form,” Trojan said. “With bands like Golden Boots, Calexico and Howe Gelb, there is a desert sound that comes through. I’m not sure if I can point to any one thing in my music, but the energy of Tucson certainly added to the vibe of this album. Tucson lends itself to creation being more expansive. I think it would have been a totally different album had we collaborated somewhere else.” ■
SWIMMING AGAINST THE CURRENT On The Moving Finger, Fish Karma once again has a lot to say about the state of the world By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com
THE DEVIL CAN’T STAND MOCKERY as the adage goes, but fans of Fish Karma know humor can be used to overcome all manner of hardship. This is truer than ever on the longtime Tucson musician/comedian’s latest album, The Moving Finger, which tackles modern woes both internal and external. The Moving Finger is a follow-up to Fish Karma’s 2018 album Time To Say Goodbye, and covers similar gripes across a more eclectic and colorful sound palette. Over its one-hour runtime, The Moving Finger discusses pollution, shareholders, the Second Amendment, social media and the
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Border Patrol’s detention facilities. While this is obvious from the cover art depicting a child behind bars and wreathed in barbed wire (created by former TW designer Kay Sather!), the contents of The Moving Finger are more multifaceted and upbeat than the image implies. “Being lectured to is always tedious, so I wanted to find other ways to express outrage, indignation or sadness,” said Karma (who goes by Terry Owen in what passes for real life these days). “Humor is always an aspect of the human condition, it just sort of happens. I don’t have to force it, this is the way it comes out… This is my natural response. It’s best to latch onto certain broad themes that will still be true a year from now, or 10 years ago.” According to Karma, this album marks the first time the music on a Fish Karma record was written before the lyrics. Dave Roads, who played with Al Perry and the Cattle, wrote much of the music for the album. The album is credited as a collaboration between “Fish Karma and/or The Derailleurs” (Roads on guitar and keyboards, Dante Perna on drums and Rev. Jim Hartley on bass). “Dave wrote almost every note of music for this. He’s just been madly inspired
lately, and his blossoming as a writer and guitar player has been quite fun to watch,” Karma said. “I don’t think he gets enough credit. He’s a mad musical genius.” The track “Apotheosis of the Shareholders” serves as a great summation of the album: jaunty melodies in a rock template with Karma’s lyrics balancing somewhere between satirical and apocalyptic, all with gorgeous production courtesy of Waterworks Recording. While the first half of the track features a more typical structure, the end progresses into a looser jam with soaring vocals by Lindsey McHugh and shifting synthesizers rising through the mix. The album was mastered by Jim Blackwood who, in the words of Karma, “knows exactly what he’s going for.” The Moving Finger is also spiced up with jazz and blues flairs from guest musicians Jim Nyby on saxophone and keyboards, and Christopher Munoz on harmonica. Karma gathered general observations when Time To Say Goodbye released to form the narrative for The Moving Finger. “I walk all the time and ride my bike, and once I saw somebody in a humvee looking happy as can be, like nothing was wrong in the world. I saw that image short-
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ly before I heard Dave’s music, and it just seemed like a natural association for that character to be expressing obliviousness about life,” Karma said. And while many of the rapid-fire criticisms can be understood on a national or even global level, Karma leaves plenty for the Tucson listeners: mattress stores, desert sights, Tombstone and cactus wrens. “The landscape almost always appears in one way or another. From the first cassettes I did with Al Perry back in the early ’80s, Tucson has been a character in these songs,” Karma said. Fish Karma and/or The Derailleurs recorded the bulk of the album in late 2019, meaning that for an album so bitingly contemporary, there aren’t any references to pandemic. But Karma says that just gives him plenty of content for the next project. “There’s definitely lots of material to work with. The trick is to make a song that addresses the issues but doesn’t pound people over the head with them. There’s plenty of horrifying things going on, but how do you filter that in a way that somebody might find entertaining?” Karma said. “Once we can convene again safely, we’ll definitely keep going.” ■
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A NEW MESSAGE
Marianne Dissard launches cover series By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com
FOR SINGER MARIANNE DISSARD, as with many musicians, 2020 is full of great change. But aside from global upheaval, the year is serving as an opportunity to reexamine what music is worth recording, and what it means to be a musician in the first place. French-turned-Tucsonan-turned-English Dissard is keeping busy by releasing a new cover song every month, all American songs from the 1960s and ’70s. The project is her first entirely in English. And while there is no thematic connection between the tracks, some have proved quite timely, such as a cover of Phil Ochs’ protest song “The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns.” What was originally an acoustic folk song was expanded into massive dirge at nearly twice the length of the original with distorted guitar, violin, flute and looping electronics. According to Dissard, the reworking and reimagining isn’t just for the songs, but for her career style as well. She says sheltering in place due to the pandemic has provided ample time for reflection, and in a certain way, is liberating. “I don’t have to kill myself touring, and I refuse to do streaming shows. I’m just going to do what makes me happy as a musician. I’m totally happy being a recluse,” Dissard said. “I miss being on stage, of course. But all these things that were supposed to be the way to do music, I’m all too ready to question it… Everything is up for grabs now.” As she keeps up-to-date with the global news, Dissard says she is filtering the current events through the mediums of music and writing. “If anything, the last six months have really asked us as musicians to reconsider what it means to be putting out an album,” Dissard said. “So I’ve been doing what I feel like doing. If it feels vital and gets me up in the morning, that’s plenty.” Working in collaboration with English producer Raphael Mann, Dissard is pushing her passionate and theatrical pop sensibilities through the style of American ballads of
the ’60s and ’70s. “There was incredible music being made at that time that I really responded to in terms of songwriting and inspiration. It’s where a lot of my taste comes from, as well as my producer’s taste... It’s really our common ground. We’ve bonded over this kind of music,” Dissard said. “But it’s quite a challenge to sing in English. I just can’t do it the same way I sing in French. The stresses and words are so different that I get my tongue all wrapped up. It gives a different life to the singing by calling on different skills.” For a cover of Bobbie Gentry’s “Refractions,” Dissard maintains the baroque instrumentation, but increases the surreal atmosphere with hushed vocals and a more experimental sound palette. The original song is the story of a nightmare. According to Mann, the idea for the cover was to “get deeper inside the dream itself, climb inside the head of the dreamer.” This took both the singer and the producer out of their comfort zones, and the music reflects that uncertainty. COURTESY PHOTO “It’s not so much reworking any of the songs, but trying to find the core concept or message of a song and working from there,” Dissard said. “That’s the trick with covers: You have to find something that’s already there and take it to where you as the artist can bring something new and fresh.” Dissard also issued twin covers of Janis Ian’s introspective hit “At Seventeen,” one cover “His” (produced by Mann) and the other “Hers” (by Dissard). The folky bossa nova atmosphere of the original is maintained, but Dissard makes the delivery her own with a more romantic and spoken style, reminiscent of her chanson background. The coming months are planned to include covers of Carly Simon and Ritchie Valens songs. All these 2020 covers may be compiled into an album, which would be Dissard’s first in English, but the project is still in the works. “My thoughts on that subject change as the winds, a reflection probably of these uncertain times,” Dissard said. “I find it a small miracle that there is such a thing as ‘the next day,’ that we’ve made it all that far into 2020. I’m wildly optimistic as much as soberly pessimistic about what will happen next. So, an album? Like climbing a mountain: One step at a time.” ■
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IRIE VIBRATIONS, PANDEMIC STYLE After live-streaming sessions on Instagram, a local DJ is rapidly building a worldwide following and scoring big gigs By Austin Counts austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com
NOT EVEN A SHELTER-IN-PLACE order can slow down DJ Jahmar Antho-
ny’s hustle. The 32-year-old is known for being one of Southern Arizona’s hardest working DJs. By day, he works with the non-profit Dee-Jays Against Hunger. By night, he’s getting the party started. Recently, Anthony hooked up with international reggae group Inner Circle, best known for the song “Bad Boys”—bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?—after tagging the group in a recap of music played during one of his COVID-19 livestream shows on Instagram. Soon after, the members of Inner Circle tuned in to Anthony’s next livestream. Impressed by the DJ’s musical knowledge, the group asked Anthony to put together a birthday tribute mix of music from Inner Circle’s late lead singer, Jacob Miller, who tragically passed away in a car accident in 1980. “(Inner Circle) had me go live on their Instagram and the fans loved it. The following week, they brought me back to do a reggae party and the fans loved that too,” Anthony said. “So, we just kept it going and it just kept growing and growing.” So far, Anthony and the group have reached more than 500,000 people worldwide with their pandemic Instagram shows, with the number continuing to grow each month, the DJ said. “It’s like having my own radio station. People are watching. The artists in Jamaica are supporting it and everyone is happy,” Anthony said. “It’s crazy just to see the love people have for the Jamaican DJ culture all over the world.”
Inner Circle marketing director Abebe Lewis said he was impressed by Anthony’s drive and persistence after their collaboration on the Jacob Miller tribute livestream. The marketing director is the son of Ian Lewis, who founded the group with brother, Roger, back in the late 1960s. “You got to have drive during this COVID thing. It defines people right now,” Lewis said. “His drive is amazing, so I was like, ‘Hey, let’s vibe and do something.’” Anthony’s musical versatility and understanding of his audience has made him an “asset to the group,” said Lewis. “When we do virtual stuff, sometimes we’re targeting an older community and sometimes we’re targeting a younger community. (Anthony) knows what to play and when to play it,” Lewis said. “Jahmar works close in hand with Roger and Ian Lewis. He’s often on the phone with them about sound and talking about how the Instagram shows went.” DJing is in Anthony’s blood. His father, Papa Ranger—longtime KXCI reggae DJ and owner of the now-shuttered Twelve Tribes Reggae Shop—started back in the early 1970s in Jamaica. After moving to the states in 1980, Ranger sought out the hot spots for reggae music and built a name for himself as an authentic, top-ranking, Jamaican DJ in the Old Pueblo. When Ranger was diagnosed with cancer years later, Anthony began covering DJ gigs for his father at 16 years old to keep the bills paid. “I would go DJ my dad’s gigs at Chicago Bar because I had a fake I.D. at the time. I would be filling in and people were like, ‘Jahmar knows music,’” Anthony said. “It went from doing my dad’s gigs to people booking me. I just stuck with it.” ■
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menu. But our new location is larger.” The owner said the pandemic has not seriously affected business since starting last March. They’ve been able to retain customers at their original restaurant while building a new base up north. She does say their new location offers dine-in seating Two new Sonoran-style restaurants opening during the pandemic, while the original does not. in Marana “We have been very blessed and lucky during this time,” Aldecoa-Durazo said. By Austin Counts “Everything has been perfect so far.” austin@tucsonlocalmedia.com Local food truck Blacktop Grill is planning on opening a brick and mortar location TACOS AND QUESADILLAS AND hot dogs, oh my! Two tried and true Sonoran at 8300 N. Thornydale Road, suite 120, by style restaurants are opening their doors on October. Owner Gabe Ceniceros, who started the original food truck back in 2014, said Tucson’s northwest side. he is excited to make a home for the eatery Tacos Apson opened their highly on Tucson’s northwest side in the former anticipated second location at 641 N. location of Mama’s Hawaiian BBQ. Thornydale Road last month. Yazmin Blacktop Grill is known for their SoAldecoa-Durazo, who started the taqueria 19 years ago on South 12th Avenue with her noran-style grilled quesadillas and unconventional quarter-pound hot dogs, like the husband, Francisco, said they have been Elotero Dog —an elote-inspired wiener planning a northwest location for a while and the right opportunity opened up during topped with fire-roasted corn, chipotle lime sauce, queso cotija and garlic sriracha. the pandemic. Ceniceros said in a city known for Sonoran “We’ve been wanting to open up a new cuisine, he knew he had to get creative with location and then talking to many of our clients, we noticed many of them were from his menu to set himself apart from the rest. “There’s a lot of Sonoran restaurants the northwest side,” Aldecoa-Durazo said. “So far, it’s been going very well. We’ve been around here that have set the bar really getting a lot of support from new customers high. We wanted to differentiate ourselves with our hot dogs,” Ceniceros said. “That’s and returning customers that have been to what we became known for. Just changing our other location.” it up a little and making a fresh, exciting While Tacos Apson is known for their experience.” mesquite grilled ribs and carne asada Now that he has a little more space tacos at their South 12th Avenue taqueria, Aldecoa-Durazo said they’ve added chicken to work with, Ceniceros said he plans on tacos at the Thornydale restaurant. The new expanding his menu. However, the owner menu item is a hit with her new customers, is tight-lipped on what mouth-watering creations he plans on adding, but did say she said. customers will be seeing a lot of the season“Asada and Coca-Cola in the bottle are the most popular at our southside location, al creations they’ve served throughout the past six years. but over here (on the northwest side) it’s “We’re originally a food truck and built chicken and horchata,” Aldecoa-Durazo our reputation on a small menu, but now it’s said. “We don’t serve chicken on the south time to expand,” Ceniceros said. ■ side because there wasn’t room on the
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Medical Marijuana
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to legalize weed, but the Senate will probably stub out the bill By David Abbott david@tucsonlocalmedia.com AS ARIZONA POT ADVOCATES await the results of November’s vote on Proposition 207 (AKA Smart and Safe Arizona) that would allow adults to consume cannabis without a hassle, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is poised to vote next week on legislation that would go a long way toward normalizing the plant in the eyes of the law. House Resolution 3884, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, is a federal attempt at legaliza-
tion, following the lead of a majority of states that have already decriminalized pot in some form. The MORE Act, introduced in September 2019 by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), would “decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on Drugs [and] provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses,” paving the way to address problems caused by conflicting federal and state laws. The bill recently passed out of the House Judiciary Committee and is awaiting floor vote expected the week of Sept. 21. As of deadline, 99 members of Congress have signed on—98 Democrats and one Republican, Matt Gaetz (R-FL)—and it should pass the House, although the Republican-controlled Senate will likely be a barrier to creating sensible pot legislation. “Me and my democratic colleagues in the House have passed a lot of incredible legislation this Congress,” Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick wrote in a recent email. “However, Leader McConnell has failed to bring a lot of our bills to the Senate floor because he knows that they would pass with public pressure. The MORE Act is just one example of meaningful, common sense legislation that we can get done and
make law with a new President and Senate majority. The public wants the MORE Act, it just makes sense.” Kirkpatrick signed on last month, joining fellow Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Ruben Gallego, who supported the bill from its inception. The MORE Act removes cannabis and its derivatives from Schedule I classification, which includes “substances, or chemicals ... defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Other drugs on that list include heroin, LSD, ecstasy, methaqualone and peyote. “Descheduling” is just the first step. The Act would require federal courts to purge convictions for cannabis-related offenses and allow re-sentencing for individuals with federal convictions. The lion’s share of the act, though, is devoted to describing social equity programs funded via a 5 percent tax to be reinvested into communities that have been hurt most by weed’s mixed legal status. It also seeks to right some of the wrongs inflicted on American citizens by the decades-long War on Drugs. The act would create a Cannabis Justice Office to disperse an “opportunity trust fund,” providing grants and resources for
programs from expungement to community investment to drug treatment. Individuals with cannabis-related convictions would be eligible to hold dispensary licenses as part of an equitable licensing grant program that reaches economically underserved communities “to minimize barriers to cannabis licensing and employment for individuals most adversely impacted by the War on Drugs.” Additionally, MORE would serve to destigmatize cannabis-related businesses, allowing access to Small Business Administration grants and programs, such as the mentoring program SCORE, a veteran’s outreach program and microloans and disaster relief grants for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. It would also allow individuals with expunged cannabis-related convictions access to security clearances; job training; reentry services; legal aid for civil and criminal cases, including expungement; literacy programs; youth recreation or mentoring programs; health education programs and substance use treatment services to further expand career opportunities. MORE would also be a boon to veterans, particularly those facing addiction and CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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mental health issues. A common thread throughout the text of the bill, and a major subtext, is making reparations for the damage done by the decades-long War on Drugs. “Draconian laws criminalizing cannabis usage have spawned an incarceration crisis, created broken families, and have severely limited research and usage of cannabis for medicinal purposes,” said Congressman Grijalva in a recent email. “It’s time to right the wrongs of mass criminalization from the past and change the way we treat cannabis usage by providing relief to people most adversely impacted by the war on drugs. The MORE Act is a positive step toward a more just approach to cannabis regulation that puts science-based evidence first over exaggerated fears about its dangers.” The War on Drugs has always been with us in some form, but for the past 50 years—particularly in the wake of the Reagan administration—cannabis hysteria has been stoked, with drug laws often used to marginalize targeted communities for political purposes. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to ending the War on Drugs, the U.S. spends more than $47 billion annually on drug enforcement. In 2018, there were 663,367 cannabis-related arrests, with 608,775 of those for possession only. The arrests hammer communities of color, as 27 percent of drug law violation arrests were members of Black communities, despite African-Americans making up 13.4 percent of the population. There are more than 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S., the highest incarceration rate in the world Should we legalize all drugs, the DPA estimates annual budgetary gains in state,
local and federal taxes, plus saving $47 billion a year in ineffective enforcement expenditures, would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $106.7 billion. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most drug laws were enacted to target specific minority groups. In the 1870s, anti-opium laws directed at Chinese immigrants went into effect, while in the early part of the 20th century, anti-cocaine laws targeted Black men in the south and early marijuana laws were intended for Mexican migrant workers and Mexican Americans. The term “marijuana” made its way into the American lexicon as a way of making it scarier to white folks. President Richard M. Nixon began the current—and likely most destructive— War on Drugs in 1971 in response to the anti-war movement of the late ’60s, when pot became synonymous with youthful rebellion and political dissent. In 1973, Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Agency, but he ran into problems leading a society that was ready to decriminalize weed, with 11 states taking matters into their own hands from 1973-’77. The Senate Judiciary Committee in fact voted to decriminalize up to an ounce, and Jimmy Carter ran with decriminalization in his presidential platform, but then the Reagan years stoked fears and Just Say No took the place of spending on social and mental health programs. In October 1986, Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, appropriating $1.7 billion to fight the War on Drugs and creating mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses, which increased racial disparities in the prison population. The number of people who went to jail for nonviolent drug law offenses increased from 50,000 in 1980 to more than 400,000 by 1997. Through 40-plus years of federal CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one of your past lives, maybe you were a Neanderthal midwife in what’s now southern France. In another incarnation, you may have been a 17th-century Guarani shaman who shared your knowledge about local plants with an Italian Jesuit missionary in what’s now Uruguay. All the powers and aptitudes you perfected in those and other previous ages could prove helpful as you cultivate your genius in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDING! Cancel my previous speculations,. For you Aries folks, past achievements are often of secondary importance as you create your future. In fact, your mandate is usually to transcend the old days and old ways. It may be better not to imitate or rely on old stories, no matter how dazzling. This will be especially true in the coming weeks. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “There are no ordinary feelings,” says poet Dean Young. “Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.” That’s always true, but it will be especially true for you in the coming weeks. I suspect you will be host to a wealth of interesting, unique, and profound feelings. They might be a bit overwhelming at times, but I think they will mostly provide rich opportunities for your soul to grow deeper and stronger and more resilient. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “There should be a science of discontent,” said novelist Frank Herbert. “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” I partially agree with that observation, but I also think it’s a gratuitous cliché that’s not at all absolute. In fact, our culture is under the spell of a mass delusion that tempts us to believe “no pain, no gain” is the supreme learning principle. I’d like to see the development of a robust science of contentment: how fascination and freedom and generosity can build psychic muscles. You’ll be a good candidate to study that subject in the coming weeks.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian songwriter Mathangi Arulpragasam is better known by her stage name M.I.A. She has accomplished a lot in her 45 years on the planet, having been nominated for three Grammy Awards and an Academy Award. Esquire magazine named her the 75th most influential person of the 21st century. One key to her success is the fact that she formulated a clear master plan many years ago, and has used it to guide her decisions. In her song “Matangi,” she refers to it: “If you’re gonna be me, you need a manifesto / If you ain’t got one, you better get one presto.” I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to formulate (or re-formulate) your life manifesto and master plan. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you’re not invited to the party, throw your own,” declares singer and actress Diahann Carroll. In the coming weeks, I urge you Leos to use that advice as a metaphor in every way you can imagine. For example, if you’re not getting the love you want from a certain someone, give it to yourself. If no one hands you the opportunity you need, hand it to yourself. If you wish people would tell you what you want to hear, but they’re not saying it, tell yourself what you want to hear. It’s a time when you need to go beyond mere self-sufficiency. Be self-gratifying, self-rewarding, self-acknowledging. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “At the necessary moment, going naked will be your most convincing disguise,” writes poet Dobby Gibson. As I apply his witty statement to your life, I’ll interpret it metaphorically. My sense is that you could really use the kind of “disguise” he’s talking about. What I mean is that you would benefit by appearing to be different from what people expect of you. You can gain key advantages by shifting the image you present to the world—by expressing a part of your identity that is not usually obvious. And I think the best way to do that is to “go naked”—i.e. be candid
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I’m a straight man who’s been dating a woman for not quite four months. In the beginning things were light. But things started to get heavy quickly. Two weeks in she revealed her very serious abandonment issues and then began asking me whether I really loved her and demanding reassurance that I wasn’t going anywhere and she wouldn’t be “just a single chapter” in my life. After a month, I met her sevenyear-old son, her parents and her ex. Then we had a pregnancy scare. She told me that if she was pregnant she would keep it because then I would have to stay. That alarmed me. I voiced that we’d been dating for very a short time and this wasn’t a good time for either of us to have a child. She
wasn’t pregnant, luckily. Even before this incident, my body had started to manifest signs of anxiety—upset stomach, sleepless nights, loss of appetite, etc. So, I summoned up all of my courage (conversations like this are extremely difficult for me) and told her that I couldn’t do this anymore. She started to cry and begged me to give her a second chance. I wound up spending the rest of the weekend at her place and agreed to stay in the relationship. But I didn’t feel good about it. When I finally got back to my place, I felt anxious, confused, hollow, and hopeless. I tried to end things again after speaking to my therapist but she won’t take no for an answer and constantly brings up the promises I made her
and transparent and vulnerable about your core truths. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran playwright Wendy Wasserstein wrote, “Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.” I recommend Wasserstein’s practice to you, dear Libra. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to launch this ritual as an annual tradition. For best results, write it out as a vow. I mean take a pen and paper and compose a solemn pledge, then sign it on the bottom to seal your determination. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I may not lead the most dramatic life,” confesses singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, “but in my brain it’s War and Peace every day.” He was referencing Leo Tolstoy’s sprawling, exuberant 1,200-page novel War and Peace, which features stories about five families who lived through Napoléon’s invasion of Russia in the 19th century. I’m guessing that these days your fantasy life may also be filled with epic fairy tales and heroic sagas and tear-jerking myths. Is there a problem with that? Not necessarily. It could be quite entertaining and educational. I do recommend that you keep your actual life a little calmer and saner, however. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!” said author Helen Keller (1880–1968). She was a smart activist who worked hard in behalf of women’s equality, labor rights, antimilitarism, and socialism. Was she being sarcastic in saying she loved being alive during a time of upheaval? Not at all. She derived excitement and vigor from critiquing injustice. Her lust for life soared as she lent her considerable energy to making life on earth more enjoyable for more people. I invite you to consider adopting her attitude in the coming weeks. It’s a good time to experiment with generating the personal power that becomes available by taking practical action in behalf of your high ideals.
about really loving her. I hate this and I feel terrible for her son. Any thoughts on how to dismantle this thing? Or do I just need to run? —Passionate Reassurances Extracted So Soon Undoes Relationship Exit
As I explained to a reader in a similar situation… “We need someone’s consent before we kiss them, suck them, fuck them, spank them, spoon them, marry them, collar them, etc. But we do not need someone’s consent to leave them. Breakups are the only aspect of our romantic lives where the other person’s consent is irrelevant. The other person’s pain is relevant, of course, and we should be as compassionate and considerate as possible when ending a relationship. (Unless
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know what perfectionists are: people who obsessively strive to finesse every last detail, polishing and honing so compulsively that they risk sucking all the soul out of the finished product. In contrast to them, I propose that we identify a different class of humans known as imperfectionists. They understand that a ferocious drive for utter purity can make things sterile and ugly. They resolve to cultivate excellence while at the same time they understand that irregularities and eccentricities may infuse their work with beauty. I hope you’ll act like an imperfectionist in the coming weeks, Capricorn. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Everything good I’ve ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up,” writes author Elizabeth Gilbert. To that melodramatic declaration, I say, “Really? Everything? I don’t believe you.” And yet I do think she has a point. On some occasions, the most effective strategy for bringing good new influences into our lives is to sacrifice an influence or habit or pattern we’re attached to. And often the thing that needs to be sacrificed is comfortable or consoling or mildly pleasurable. I suspect that the coming weeks will offer you one of these opportunities, Aquarius. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I and me are always too deeply in conversation,” confessed philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I wonder why he said “too deeply” and not just “deeply.” Did he mean his dialogs with himself distracted him from important matters in the world outside of his imagination? Was he implying that he got so consumed while conducting his self-interviews that he lost his bearings and forgot what his goals were? With these cautions in mind, Pisces, I invite you to dive into an intense but spacious communion with yourself. Make this a delightful and illuminating conference, not a raging debate or a debilitating argument. ■ Homework: What’s your favorite rule to break? FreeWillAstrology.com.
we’re talking about dumping an abuser, in which case safety and self-care are all that matters.) But we don’t need someone’s consent to dump them.” Voice that it’s over, PRESSURE, and then refuse to get drawn into negotiations about whether it’s over. It’s over. If she needs to cry on someone’s shoulder, she’ll have to call a friend. And if she brings up the promises you made after she “revealed” her abandonment issues weeks into this relationship, apologize for not being strong enough to resist her obvious—if possibly subconscious—efforts to manipulate you. She shouldn’t have asked you to swear your undying love after you’d known each other for such a short time and you shouldn’t have made the promises you did. You failed her and yourself by not telling her it was
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too soon for that shit—too soon to say “I love you,” too soon to know whether she would be a chapter in your life, too soon to meet her son (!), her parents (!!), and her ex (!!!). Demands for premature reassurances of everlasting love, like all demands for premature commitments, are intended to make exiting the relationship more difficult. Not for the person making the demands, of course; they’re always free to go. They make it more difficult for the person those demands are being made of to go. And while I’m not calling your girlfriend an abuser, demands for premature commitments are often red flags for abuse; being asked to make a premature commitment after a few weeks or months—by moving in together or adopting a dog or (God forbid) getting married—makes it infinitely harder for a person to leave once the mask slips and they see the abuser lurking behind it. Again, I don’t think your girlfriend is an abuser, but she weaponized her insecurities (“It’s nice to meet you, now let me tell you about my abandonment issues!”) to extract what amounts to premature commitment from you. And she involved her son in that effort, which is really unconscionable. And while that’s on her, PRESSURE, not you, you should’ve refused to meet her son so quickly and seen her desire to introduce you to him as a red flag. Learn the lessons, PRESSURE: When someone you’ve only recently started
dating says, “Will you love me forever?,” the correct answer is never, “Of course I will!” The correct answer is always, “I think you’re a wonderful person and I want to keep seeing you but we can’t know—at this stage—what the future will bring.” If they respond by saying, “You know what? You’re right,” keep seeing them. If they respond by melting down and bringing up their abandonment issues, well, they’ve just demonstrated that they aren’t someone you would want a future with. And finally, I’m #TeamAmanza on the issue of meeting a new partner’s children from a previous relationship. You should be seeing someone for at least six months to a year—you should be well out of the honeymoon phase if not quite into the fartingin-front-of-each-other phase—before being introduced to your new partner’s kid(s).
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The Southern Arizona chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is fully in support of MORE as it follows the political process that can be frustrating no matter which party is in power or who is president. Southern Arizona NORML director Mike Robinette believes descheduling is the only way to go in order to end pot prohibition. “Biden wants to reschedule, but NORML has been strong about descheduling and this bill will get that done,” he said. “Marijuana laws have helped marginalize communities of color and descheduling opens up opportunities in every state and makes grants and funding available for reinvestment in those communities.” He added that it fits in with NORML’s mission, but is just one more step in the process. “Do we just legalize it and then go away?” Robinette posits. “No. We’re playing a long game and are already focused on a post-legalization world.” ■
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fear-mongering and spending, the War on Drugs has become capitalized and enforcement punitive for even the smallest offense. But since 1995, when California first legalized medicinal cannabis, the tide has turned, and now the American public seems ready for real drug policy reform. The question is whether national Republicans have the political will to follow the will of the people. Even if MORE passes, there is still a lot of work to do. While MORE seeks to start the process of changing the direction of U.S. drug policy, it does not address some core issues in banking and tax laws that inhibit growth in the cannabis industry. The Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act, which would allow cannabis-related businesses access to banking services and investment opportunities, has been attached to the Heroes Act, the COVID stimulus bill that stalled in the Senate due to Republican obstinacy.
I’m a 32-year-old straight man dating a 31-year-old straight woman. We’ve been seeing each other for eight months and became “Facebook official” (if that’s still a thing) in June. We are both in our first serious relationship after being divorced from relatively long marriages. (Me: eight years, two kids. Her: ten years, no kids.) My question is when does suspicion—suspicion of cheating—become something you should bring up? I tend to spill everything that’s going on in my life, which she says she appreciates but isn’t used to doing. She’s a very independent person, which I’ve never experienced before. It’s refreshing to know that my partner has her own friends but
there are moments when I get stonewalled. Sometimes I get vague answers or no answers about where she is or who she’s with. She often tells me she “accidentally” turned off her notifications. Sometimes she will say she’s staying in and then I later find out that she went out. Maybe I’m taking things way too seriously considering the amount of time we’ve been together but I feel I have to take things seriously since kids are involved. —The Absent Girlfriend
The uncharitable read: Your hunch is correct and your new girlfriend is being cagey about where she’s going and who she’s with because she’s cheating on you. The charitable read: Your new girlfriend is 31 years old, she was married for 10 years, and you’ve been dating for eight months. Math has never been my strong suit but assuming her marriage didn’t end five minutes before you met, TAG, your girlfriend married very young. Which means she spent her entire adult life—most or all of her 20s and possibly a chunk of her teens—having to answer to a spouse. She only recently begun to experience the kind of autonomy most of us get to enjoy before we marry and settle down (if we marry and settle down),
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TAG, and she may be reluctant to surrender that autonomy so shortly after achieving it. She may also have different ideas about what being Facebook official means. Does that mean you’re monogamous? If it does, does she define monogamy the same way you do? Some other questions: Was going Facebook official your idea or her idea? Did you ask for a premature commitment? You’re only eight months in—is it possible you involved your kids too soon? You obviously need to have a conversation with your girlfriend—if you can get her on the phone—about your expectations and definitions. If you expect her to let you know where she is at all times and who’s she’s with, TAG, make that clear. But if that is what you expect, well, here’s hoping she dumps you. Because even if you lived together, even if you were married, even if she wanted to spend the rest of her life with you, your girlfriend would still entitled to a little privacy and her autonomy. ■ mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage This week on the Lovecast, America’s favorite mortician- Caitlin Doughty! savagelovecast. com
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