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The Tucson music community mourns the death of Jonathan Holden.

OPINION Tom Danehy 4 Ryn Gargulinski 6 Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8 Mailbag 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

Bitter Development 9 By Tim Vanderpool

Embattled neighborhoods face newly empowered builders Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Let Hemsky Run 11 By Brian J. Pedersen

The UA and the TCC mysteriously crack down on a fan’s famous intermission routine Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by Dan Gibson

Police Dispatch 12

Still unwilling to release our tax records.

By Anna Mirocha

Music Is Medicine 13 By Stephen Seigel

Rhythm and Roots’ Jonathan Holden: 1951-2012 Goodbye for Now 15 By Jim Nintzel

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords steps down to focus on her recovery. Plus: What’s next? Congressional District 8 voters now must choose a new representative in a special election

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Cause for Celebration I, like many Southern Arizonans, was left heartbroken after watching Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ resignation video on Sunday, Jan. 22. Many of us have been holding out hope that sooner rather than later, Gabby would return to work. She’d be back in Washington, D.C., doing what she’s always done—reaching across the aisle to get things accomplished. She’d be back on the campaign trail, showing up at public events and … well, being our congresswoman. That video dashed all of those hopes. For now, at least. All of us, I think, got a bit too caught up in the neverending parade of happiness and hope that’s been released regarding Gabrielle Giffords’ recovery. From the moment when President Barack Obama informed the world that Gabby had opened her eyes for the first time since she was shot, through her surprise appearance on the House floor to vote for the debt-ceiling increase last summer, to her enthusiastic Pledge of Allegiance on the one-year anniversary of the shootings, all of the news coming out about Giffords has been good. She’s recovering. She’s getting better. The Sunday announcement of her resignation was really the first “setback,” of sorts, that those of us rooting her on have witnessed. We were forced to deal with the fact that although Gabrielle Giffords is recovering and is much, much better, she’s not well enough to be our congresswoman. At least not yet—and that was a heartbreaking realization. But we need to take a step back, and put things into perspective. Imagine this: If somehow, one year ago, we could have seen this same YouTube video, showing Gabrielle Giffords talking, smiling and looking like … well, Gabby, how would we have felt? We would have been beyond elated. We’d have been ecstatic. JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR

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Spy Silliness 28

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The magic of ATC’s The 39 Steps is delighting audiences

Stories Coming Out 45

Down Memory Lane 30

Betsy Scarinzi and Silverbell mark the release of Whitewashed Heart

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Wonderettes is studded with fun hits from the ’50s and ’60s Steamy Steps 31 By Margaret Regan

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Club Listings 47 Nine Questions 49

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City Week listings 32

Rhythm & Views 52

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CINEMA Scary Wolves 35 By Bob Grimm

Liam Neeson’s The Grey is the first great film of 2012 Film Times 36 Love and War 37 By Colin Boyd

A weak script, sturdy direction and a powerful subject result in a decent film Now Showing at Home 38

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Is it possible that Brewer and Horne are actually acting wisely regarding MMJ?

CLASSIFIEDS Comix 55-56 Free Will Astrology 55 ¡Ask a Mexican! 56 Savage Love 57 Personals 60 Employment 61 News of the Weird 62 Real Estate 62 Rentals 62 Mind, Body and Spirit 63 Crossword 63 *Adult Content 57-60

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ven at my advanced age (and weight), there are still several things I would like to try for the first time in my life. Despite an industrial-strength case of acrophobia and its trusty sidekick, vertigo, I would still like to try skydiving, although the physics involved in finding a parachute for me would be daunting. As a young kid, I always thought skiing looked fun, but you might be surprised to learn that, growing up where I did in Los Angeles, there weren’t any youth ski clubs in the projects. I was a lifeguard for many years, but never got around to trying scuba-diving. Heck, I’d even be willing to attend a Republican convention, knowing full well that I would risk being severely pummeled about the head and neck by people’s butlers and personal valets. One thing I do not ever want to do is ride a bicycle on the streets of Tucson. I still have a lot of living to do. I’m crazy, but I’m not that crazy! Harking back to the projects reference, I have never owned a bicycle. For a struggling family that often went long stretches without a car, a bike would have been a luxury item. I didn’t learn how to ride a bike until late in my teens, and then only as a dare. I wouldn’t mind riding a bike if there were someplace safe to do it. I can just imagine, however, that a long-range front view of me on a bike would look like a potato balancing on a toothpick. I’d probably end up as the poster child for some fringe protest group calling for an end to metal and/or composite abuse. All joking aside, I don’t know how or why anybody rides a bike on the streets of Tucson. It’s insane. The simple, ugly truth is that you could get dead in the blink of an eye, and it almost certainly wouldn’t be your fault. That would suck for all eternity. My son, who is young and athletic, loves to ride, but my wife and I insist that he only ride on the Rillito, and even then, we sweat his crossing River Road to get to the bike path. The reason is simple: Tucson has an unusually high concentration of jackass drivers—not just bad drivers, and not “distracted” drivers (a term I hate, because it appears to give the jackass driver an excuse for not giving one’s full attention and effort to the deadly serious task which he/she is undertaking). We’ve all heard the jackass driver recount some inane anecdote about the time he saw some cyclist run through a stop sign, which, apparently, in the jackass mind, means that none of the other cyclists deserve our respect or consideration. Having said all that, I must acknowledge that there are a whole lot of people out there who do ride bikes on the

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streets and trails in and around Tucson, taking advantage of the year-round great weather to keep themselves fit, cutting down the number of automobiles on Tucson’s streets, and giving the jackasses something to complain about (and occasionally aim at). Many of Tucson’s hard-core cycling enthusiasts—let’s call them psycho-ists—are now featured in a new book called Tucson Spokes: A Photo Collection of the Tucson Cycling Community. A labor of love created by Tucson graphic-designer Stefan Walz and professional-photographer Chris Mooney, the book has some great shots of cyclists in various desert settings, along with profiles of cyclists who recount their favorite rides. Included in that bunch is Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry, who likes the Rillito and Santa Cruz loops, but also likes riding through the university and downtown. Be warned: The shot of Huckleberry in compression shorts and a bike helmet is not for the squeamish. (On the other hand, car-dealer and former marathoner Jim Click looks quite spiffy in his regalia.) Also included are shots of Peter Wilke in front of bike-friendly Time Market, and the legendary Brian Keener Smith, who creates one-of-a-kind Keener Cycles, including his elevated fourseater shade bike, often seen at the Burning Man festival, and his 30-foot-long lounge bike. There are also some grim shots of ghost bikes, the heartbreaking works of art left alongside Tucson’s roads to mark the spots where cyclists and jackasses came together to end a life. Walz says that he came up with the idea to help put names and faces to those who make up the vibrant and diverse Tucson cycling community. The book is available for purchase at www.tucsonspokes.com. There’s one thing I have to mention: In the book, there’s a picture of a man named Leslie Prentiss, who’s riding his bike along the McCain Loop (which is west of the Tucson Mountains, off Kinney Road). Everybody tells me that he’s the nicest guy—Vietnam vet, works for Desert Survivors. Anyway, you know how when you play pickup basketball, teams will go shirts and skins? There’s always this one guy who wants to go skins, and everybody else says, “Naw, dude, that’s OK. You’re a shirt.” You’ve got to see this picture of Prentiss. He looks like he co-starred alongside John Lithgow in Harry and the Hendersons. It’s worth the price of the book alone.

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major perk of my pal’s new job is the location; she’s thrilled she can bike or even walk the three miles to work. She says the jaunt has done wonders for her mood—not to mention her thighs— and she’s ecstatic to leave her car back home. Too bad more Tucsonans don’t share her glee. A goodly number of folks seem tied to their vehicles so tightly that you know they won’t dare leave home without them. Their ties bind strong, perhaps even leading into the realm of an obsession or, worse yet, a veritable addiction. This addiction runs so deep in their octane veins that some get downright cranky when the mere thought of not being able to drive arises. This was firmly evidenced by several reactions to the idea of making Congress Street through downtown a pedestrian-only zone.

Why do congressional Republicans hate unborn babies? Yeah, I know they profess to love the unborn, even considering them “persons” from the very moment of conception. Yet whose interest do you think these same politicos have chosen to protect when it comes to regulating an especially nasty industrial toxin that wreaks holy hell on unborn babies? That nasty is mercury, a neurotoxin that spews into our air from old Some would simply not have it, tossing reasons about like coal-burning electric utilities. This toxic confetti. But there may be deeper, underlying issues at work mercury falls into water, where it’s turned as to why some would feel naked without their cars. into methylmercury, which builds up in fish. The most obvious may be that people are generally Many pregnant women unwittingly eat these getting lazier. Obesity rates back that one up, with at least 35 contaminated fish, and the methylmercury percent of the nation weighing in as obese in 2010. messes terribly with the emerging nervous Getting anywhere without a car means people will have systems of their fetuses, producing babies to actually do that strange thing called walking. Refer to the with impaired IQs—babies unable to think strange activity as “exercise,” and we may get a full-fledged and learn as they should. riot on our hands (provided, of course, that people could Now, though, after 20 years of delay riot from a sitting position in their vehicles). forced by electric-company lobbyists, the Another reason is the sense of security a vehicle brings. Environmental Protection Agency finally Walking makes people exposed and vulnerable. Driving came out in December with regulations to encases them in at least 3,000 pounds of armor, even if the control the mercury emissions from power armor these days is largely polyurethane plastic. plants. Hallelujah! Save the babies! But Rather than being on display, motorists can hide inside wait—the lovers of the unborn are not celtheir vehicles and be rude, obnoxious and dangerous with ebrating this move to stop industry from less of a fear of repercussions. doing gratuitous damage to children’s IQs! Far from it. Congressional THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow Republicans are now howling to overturn the EPA’s regulation of mercury, and a bunch of them say they want to kill the EPA itself to stop such “governmental interference” in the corporate pursuit of profits. Unborn babies make great politics, but they don’t make big campaign donations. The GOP goes with whom it really loves. How ironic that the defenders of mercury pollution are mad as a hatter about the EPA’s protection of children. Maybe they don’t know that the phrase comes from 19th-century hat-makers who used mercury compounds in their work, often causing mental damage that literally drove them mad.

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The shield of polyurethane lets them take on numerous roles in which they may otherwise feel foolish. The Lane Hog. The Road Rager. The Willy-Nilly Merger. The Sudden, Unexplained Stopper. If people tried out those roles without vehicular protection, they might find themselves punched in the head. More security comes from the vehicle’s glove-box compartment and trunk, where folks can store other items they cannot leave home without. The backup shoes. The wrench. The expansive collection of non-working pens. The fresh pair of socks. The Altoids. The sense of security can easily morph into an irrational attachment, the way Linus van Pelt is attached to his blanket. Without his little blue blanket, Linus is lost, confused and paranoid. But then again, he’s kind of like that even with the blanket. The blanket is warm and cozy; a vehicle can provide a large amount of comfort, too. Driving around with air conditioning is exceedingly more comfortable than trudging on foot in 112-degree heat. In fact, the mostblazing summer days often seem to have the most cars on the road, leading me to believe people are driving around in cooled-off cars because their home air-conditioning unit has gone kablooey. Status and symbolism may be another reason behind an extreme attachment to vehicles. Cars, trucks and monster SUVs are rolling billboards that showcase your wealth, style or midlife crises. They also illustrate your eco-friendliness if you’re driving a hybrid, your machismo in a Hummer, and your cool disdain of everyone around you with bumper stickers that read things like: “Horn broken, watch for finger.” Big cars can display a big ego while those dinky, rollerskate-looking things show a free spirit, or at least someone who has neither kids nor dogs. Cars stream about Tucson consistently, making us wonder where all these people are going. Last month’s national unemployment rate was at less than 9 percent, but it’s tough to imagine all those drivers having such widely staggered work hours. There’s no arguing that autos can provide, in theory, a faster way to get from point A to point B. But that theory doesn’t work when a 10-mile ride can take more than an hour. For those who are so auto-bound they must drive around Tucson for pleasure, we’d hate to see what they do for torture. But we can bet that whatever it is, they do it in their cars.

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After Acting Boorish, EthnicStudies Students, Teachers Suffered the Consequences I neither support nor oppose the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American studies program (“Final Judgment,” Currents, Jan. 12). My request for a classroom visit was denied due to “ongoing litigation”; thus, I was unable to form an objective opinion. Nevertheless, some valuable lessons can be learned from the program’s downfall. Lesson No. 1: Actions have consequences. Incendiary rhetoric and rude, boorish behavior can come back to haunt you. Seeds of the program’s demise were sown when Dolores Huerta told a student assembly that “Republicans hate Latinos,” and those seeds were watered when students responded to a representative of the state school superintendent with turned backs and raised fists. Lesson No. 2: In a democracy, good citizenship requires all of us to listen respectfully to diverse points of view, even when we disagree—especially when we disagree. Evidently, this lesson wasn’t included in the ethnic-studies curriculum. What wasn’t learned in the classroom was taught by the Legislature and school superintendent in a manner not likely to be forgotten. Lesson No. 3: Those who hold the purse strings make the rules. Did the Legislature and superintendent overreach into local affairs? Perhaps, but if you don’t like the rule-makers, vote them out. William C. Thornton

Meth Isn’t the Only Drug That Needs to Remain Illegal I am writing concerning the Guest Commentary on legalizing all drugs except for methamphetamine (Jan. 12). I never thought that I would be saying this, but I disagree. Meth is not the only drug that needs to be illegal. Crack cocaine is just as bad as meth, and should not be legal. Having done both, and after being clean for at least 12 years, I know both are bad. I don’t even think heroin and morphine should be legal. I’ve seen a few too many people hurt because of those drugs. I don’t see anything wrong with legalizing marijuana and other herbal drugs. John Key

Remembering the late Dai Shihan Joseph Holck, longtime Tucson martial-arts teacher BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com

everal years ago, when I was interviewing local blues guitarist Mike “Johnny Guitar” Blommer for an article, he reminded me that we had Dai Shihan Joseph Holck a connection that extended back, many years earlier. Blommer said something like, “Remember when you used to teach me jujitsu?” He and I both owe much to the late Joseph Holck, who introduced Tucson children and adults to the essence of martial arts over almost 50 years. Known to his students as Shihan (loosely translated as “professor”), Holck died on Nov. 6, a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 84.

In later years, Holck was called Dai Shihan, a more deeply polite honorific conferred on the highest black belts. He not only imparted the ancient ways of self-defense, physical fitness, self-esteem and confidence to his students; he and his family created connections within the Tucson community that have lasted for decades. Holck’s wife, Amy, and his four sons and daughter all attained advanced ranks in various martial-arts styles, and some of them still teach. Today, son Vinson Holck leads the organization founded by his father, the Kodenkan Yudanshakai. “We are now teaching the grandchildren of some of my father’s students,” he says. “I am sure the total numbers in the thousands of students.” I was one of those students, and as a teenager and young adult, I served as Joseph Holck’s teaching assistant at the eastside Ott YMCA, which was for many years the home base of the Kodenkan Yudanshakai. It was there that I first met Blommer, teaching him to roll and fall, and to execute basic hand techniques and throws. Joseph Holck was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His family’s surname was Matsuno, but it was changed during World War II for obvious reasons. He served in the U.S. Army in France and Germany during WWII, and continued in the Army Reserve afterward. His military career lasted 26 years. As a teenager, he studied boxing and was entranced by the martial arts, but most martial-arts schools at the time would only teach Japanese and Chinese students, and Holck was of mixed race—half-Japanese and half-Hawaiian. Finally, professor Henry Seishiro Okazaki accepted young Holck into his dojo, teaching the young man Danzan-ryu jujitsu. “Professor Okazaki was one of the first martial-arts teachers anywhere to accept mixed-race or white students,” Vinson Holck says. “It was a mission of his; he thought martial arts would catch on worldwide. But he kept it a

secret at first and was not well thought-of in the Japanese community at the time.” Holck moved with his young family to Tucson in 1964 to take over the school started by his brother, Roy Holck, also a military officer being deployed to Vietnam. By 1967, he had founded the Kodenkan Yudanshakai, which now oversees dojos in Tucson, Sierra Vista, Phoenix and California, offering classes in various martial arts, as well as Kajukenbo and Matsuno-ryu jujitsu, both hybrid self-defense systems that he co-founded. Three memorial events will be held this Sunday, Jan. 29, to honor the memory of Dai Shihan Joseph Holck. The public is welcome to attend them all, Vinson Holck says. At 9 a.m., there will be a black-belt promotion ceremony at the Kodenkan of Tucson, 250 N. Pantano Road. “Dai Shihan’s remains will be present, and it will be the last black-belt ceremony that he will oversee,” says Vinson Holck. At 11:30 a.m., a memorial at Bring’s Broadway Chapel, 6910 E. Broadway Blvd., will recognize Holck’s military service; black belts are asked to attend in formal martial-arts garb. At 2 p.m. is a reception at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 549, 8424 E. Old Spanish Trail. Many people will be sharing their memories of Dai Shihan this weekend. I remember him drinking beer with ice, and his love of macadamia nuts. I also remember his studious pause, saying, “Wait a while,” while he considered my execution of a technique. I will always remember the discipline he helped me discover in myself at a critical phase of my personal development, the patience with which he helped me learn to teach children, and the joy he exhibited on the mat. He showed me examples of the esoteric principles he learned from Professor Okazaki: the way of gentleness; the perfection of form; honor for parents; respect for tradition; and gratitude for the abundance and blessings of this life.

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NOT-SO-ROSEY ROSEMENT It looks as if Augusta Resource Corporation—the Canadian company behind Rosemont Copper—has run into another snag in its plan to build a massive copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains. The Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter earlier this month to the Army Corps of Engineers, letting the federal agency know about concerns that Rosemont Copper’s mining plans could disturb the watershed connected to Davidson Canyon and Cienega Creek— which have been identified as “aquatic resources of national importance.” “EPA is concerned that substantial loss and/or degradation of water quality and other aquatic ecosystem functions is likely if this 4,200-acre mine is constructed and operated as proposed,” wrote Alexis Strauss, director of the EPA’s Region IX Water Division. “Davidson Canyon Wash is a rare, spring-fed, low elevation level desert stream supporting a wide variety of rare flora and fauna. Seven federally listed endangered or threatened species occur within or adjacent to the project area to which adverse impacts are reasonably foreseeable.” Endangered species? Well, that’s not good news for any plans to build a 4,200-acre mine. The EPA’s interest means that Rosemont Copper might have trouble getting a 404 permit, which is vital to the operation of the mine. So even as the U.S. Forest Service wraps up its public-comment period and possibly moves to issue a permit that would allow Rosemont Copper to dump tailings on public lands, more trouble is brewing for the project.

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ot so long ago, the West University Neighborhood Association fought plans for a private high-rise dorm in

its midst. The brawl was nasty and prolonged. And when the project finally collapsed, residents in West University sighed in weary relief, amid the swell of newfound neighborhood muscle. Some 20 years later, that strength is being tested, as the recession adds heft to builders’ demands for streamlined permit and rezoning processes, and the City Council—eager to plump downtown development along the pending modern-streetcar route—seems happy to go along. This shift is abundantly evident with The District, a massive student-housing project now rising on West University’s western flanks; according to dismayed residents, the 756-bedroom development completely ignores both the scale of surrounding single-family homes, and the aesthetics of a historic neighborhood. Two old homes were razed to clear the way. The revived building juggernaut is expected to impact several neighborhoods in the downtown area. Prodding it along is a special, citycreated infill-incentive district, which entices construction with sweeteners such as reduced or waived fees, and scrapped restrictions on height and density. In terms of stripping red tape, it would seem to be the salad days for business. Yet resentment lingers among builders over the enduring ability of neighborhood groups to throw hurdles in their path. This became obvious recently, when the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona announced it was axing the popular PRO Neighborhoods program. (See “Pro or Con?” Currents, Jan. 19.) Over nearly two decades, the program—founded as a partnership between the United Way, Pima County, the city of Tucson and the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona—offered grants and workshops aimed at building neighborhood cohesiveness. Although the partners insist that red ink is solely to blame for PRO’s pending demise, others see business venting its frustration with neighborhoods—and PRO Neighborhoods by extension. “I have heard that,” says Robert Medler, vice president of government affairs for the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. While maintaining that the chamber has no overt beef with PRO, he has noted aggravation among the membership over neighborhood meddling, particularly when it comes to rezonings and signcode-waiver requests. “Anything coming through that, some people

call a giveaway to business,” says Medler. “Nine times out of 10, the people saying that introduce themselves with, ‘And I live in this neighborhood,’ or, ‘I’m a neighborhood activist.” This ongoing tension is not lost on council members themselves. At a well-attended Jan. 9 meeting of the group Sustainable Tucson, Ward 3 Councilwoman Karin Uhlich spoke of “a false assumption out there, but a strong one, that may create divisions in the community that don’t serve us well. And that is that being pro-neighborhood is being anti-business.” In a subsequent phone interview, Uhlich describes how the business community’s own narrow attitudes seep into council debates. “When local elected officials are responsive to neighborhood concerns, we’re openly criticized for it,” she says. “Which seems odd to me, because neighborhoods are the residents. Those are precisely the people we are elected to represent, and a lot of people who own businesses live in those neighborhoods.” If neighborhood associations weren’t “fighting tooth and nail to sustain the quality of life in their areas,” Uhlich says, “the city would have entirely frayed at the seams long ago.” Still, nearly all power held by Tucson’s neighborhood associations resides solely in their ability to influence the City Council and rezoning boards—tactics now being short-circuited by infill incentives. This is more than a bit ironic, given that the only ace in the hole for neighborhoods is the formal notification they receive about rezoning requests within their boundaries. In theory, that offers them time to fashion a response. “Other than that, they basically have to go through the process as any citizen would do,” says Anna Sanchez, principal planner in the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development. While it’s hard to stop a project that’s following the rules, “sometimes, when neighborhoods get involved, they start a dialogue with the developer,” she says. If that results in an agreement, “it may make the developer’s project move more smoothly.” Of course, some builders might find it smoother to just avoid the whole conversation. “Developers would like the neighborhoods to go away entirely,” says longtime Tucson urbanplanner Corky Poster. “But the results are always better when those developers engage with the neighborhoods in a productive way, and come to a solution that largely meets their goals, but also respects the issues that the neighborhoods are raising.” To builders, however, the process can sometimes involve neighborhoods that seem selfish—

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Chris Gans: “We’re pro-neighborhoodappropriate development.” or downright unrealistic—in their opposition. “I do think there’s been some frustration on the part of the business community, when they look at some project that should have succeeded, but it didn’t, for one reason or another,” says Bill Viner, of Pepper-Viner Homes. “Sometimes it might have been that the project wasn’t right for the neighborhood. I don’t think it’s always the neighborhood to blame. It just takes a little more work to make sure everybody has a clear understanding that what we’re trying to accomplish is best for the community.” While Pepper-Viner made its name with suburban developments, the company is now proposing to build a 14-story student-housing complex near the UA—one of several recent proposals drawing opposition from the West University Neighborhood Association over height issues, and the potential demolition of historic homes. Although Viner calls it “incumbent” upon developers to work with surrounding neighborhoods, he also argues that residents should appreciate projects such as his, which would concentrate students now dispersed through the university area, and increase downtown density. Try telling that to Chris Gans. As president of the West University Neighborhood Association, he was recently faced with his own agonizing choice: Sell out to developers, or dwell in the shadows of the massive District complex. After 20 years of living on a formerly tranquil street, Gans and his wife took the developer’s offer. But the bitterness remains, and it’s directed as much toward the city’s infill policy as toward The District’s builders. “West University has a planning committee, and we meet regularly with a variety of different developers,” he says. “We aren’t anti-development. We’re actually pro-neighborhood-appropriate development.” But neighborhoods such as his can also suffer devastating losses from the wrong projects. “If you look at the impact of The District in our neighborhood,” Gans says, “it is really an inappropriate development for an historic residential neighborhood.” Tim Vanderpool is a board member of the Armory Park Neighborhood Association.

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State lawmaker Vic Williams made it official last week: He filed for a run for the Pima County Board of Supervisors. Williams hopes to replace retiring Supervisor Ann Day in District 1, which includes the Catalina Foothills, Oro Valley and Marana. Williams says he wants to bring more transparency to Pima County government and “instill some of the values we have in northwest Pima County” across the rest of the region. He also wants to get a tighter leash on Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry—“the county administrator is setting policy because the county supervisors are not being out in front on issues,” he says—and plans to fight to get the controversial Rosemont Mine open in the Santa Rita Mountains. Williams, who has been in the Arizona House of Representatives since 2008, is walking into a crowded August primary. The race already includes former GOP national committeeman and state party chairman Mike Hellon, Tea Party activist Ally Miller and Stuart McDaniel, another conservative Republican who picked up the

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Local screen-print and graphics businessowner Todd Clodfelter cranked out about 20,000 copies of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to distribute throughout town. The plan was initially tied to a political campaign, but when that unraveled, he tracked down sponsors so he could hand out copies in school settings and at community events. When that project concluded, it left a bit of a void—until further prompting led to the birth of The Arizonan, which hit the streets for the first time in January. “People asked what we were going to do next,” said Clodfelter, who acts as publisher. “This fell into place—let’s pick up the ball and put some news stories out that are pertinent specifically to Arizona. … We want to give an opportunity for people who may not be heard to be heard.” It’s hard not to note the publication’s conservative leanings. Indeed, Clodfelter and other The Arizonan contributors have participated in conservative movements, but he’s hoping not to be pigeonholed. “We’d like to be considered fair and honest journalists, but people have already outlined us in that regard,” Clodfelter said. “We’d like to be up the middle and fair to both sides. We will point out that people behind the newspaper have a bit more of a conservative bent in our philosophy … but we don’t want to be represented as an attachment to the GOP or an extension of the Tea Party, or anything like that. We’re local people.” The first issue, which hit newsstands earlier this month, has 12 pages. Story topics range from redistricting, to an analysis of Dr. Richard Carmona’s Senate run, to a pro-andcon piece on the proposed Rosemont Copper project. Clodfelter says the February issue, which he hopes to expand to 16 or 24 pages, will incorporate a number of historical features related to the state’s centennial. Clodfelter hopes potential advertisers will see value in his product. “There are a lot of advertisers looking for an avenue that maybe is not the (Arizona) Daily Star and is a little more up the middle,” said Clodfelter. “A lot of the materials in the Tucson Weekly, a lot of families don’t want sitting on the dining-room table, especially … the stuff on the back pages. So it’s an opportunity for alternative advertising in the area. We’re trying to keep our prices reasonable, and we have a website (thearizonan.com) to accommodate the newspaper. Even though it’s a monthly magazine, there will be some daily posts from some of the writers.”

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The usual names—KIIM FM 99.5, KMXZ FM 94.9, aka MIXfm, and KRQQ FM 93.7— took the top three spots in the fall 2011 Arbitron ratings, but fourth was occupied by an unfamiliar participant: Cumulus-owned KHYT 107.5 FM delivered a 4.5 share among listeners 12 and older. KHYT’s classic-hits format has trended well for much of the past year. It topped out

at 4.9 in the spring, and the fall number showed a rebound from a 3.8 rating in the summer book. But the overall fourth-place finish may have much to do with meandering numbers from other stations in the market. For instance, classic rocker KLPX FM 96.1—which appeared to have recovered from an abysmal ratings slide a couple of years ago that led to consideration of abandoning the format—is enduring tough sledding again. The Lotus-owned station has charted at 3.7, 4.2 and 3.7 in its last three books. The fall numbers put it eighth in the market, not exactly where management wants 100,000-watt signals to be. It was also a tough book for Lotus’ top ratings-getter, Spanish-music format KCMT FM 102.1. It finished fifth with a 4.4 share, just behind KHYT, but still tops among Spanishlanguage formats in the market. Meanwhile, Clear Channel-owned rhythmic KOHT FM 98.3 slotted sixth with a 4.2 share. Lotus’ alternative format, KFMA FM 92.1/101.3, placed seventh with a 3.9 share. KNST AM 790, as usual, was the market’s top-rated AM signal. The news/talker checked in with a 3.6 share, good for ninth. Also good for KNST, its syndicated partner at 97.1 on the FM dial churned out a 3.2 share, finishing just outside the top 10 and a tenth of a point behind Journal-owned KTGV FM 106.3. The Groove does seem to be generating slightly better numbers since its minor format transition from Mega a few months ago. But Journal can’t be terribly pleased about the success of KNST’s move to the FM band, and the solid numbers it still generated on AM. Meanwhile, news/talk rival KQTH FM 104.1, aka The Truth, managed just a 2.8 share. Among stations with recent format changes, KMIY FM 92.9 delivered a 3.1 number, not dissimilar to the ratings of its predecessor, The Mountain. Clear Channel’s signal at 1450 AM, which briefly dabbled with comedy but is now Spanish-language music, registered a zero share.

LEE RELEASES FIRSTQUARTER EARNINGS Lee Enterprises, the parent company of the Arizona Daily Star, reported further losses in print and advertising revenue for its first quarter, which wrapped in December. Lee took in $142.5 million in print and digital advertising, down 6.1 percent from the same period a year ago. The biggest declines occurred in real estate ads, down 17.9 percent, and other classified ads, which slipped 15.2 percent. However, digital advertising improved by 10.4 percent, to $16.2 million. Nearly 22 million unique visitors accessed the company’s websites, mobile and tablet outlets. Lee’s operating expenses decreased by 5 percent, with compensation down 5.7 percent. The average number of full-time-equivalent employees decreased by 7.2 percent. Lee stock topped the dollar threshold for the first time in months on Monday. Jan. 23. Lee has been in danger of New York Stock Exchange delisting due to its inability to stay higher than $1 per share.

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Let Hemsky Run BY BRIAN J. PEDERSEN, bpedersen@tucsonweekly.com side from his marriage and the news of the impending birth of his first child, most of James “Hemsky” Reese’s greatest thrills have involved high-fiving fellow University of Arizona ice-hockey fans while running up and down the stands at the Tucson Convention Center Arena. “It’s been a big chunk of my life,” Reese, 28, said of the “Rocky Run,” so dubbed because it occurs while “Eye of the Tiger,” the theme song from Rocky III, blares over the public-address system. Known to most fans as Hemsky—for the blueand-orange Ales Hemsky hockey jersey of the Edmonton Oilers that he wears to every game— Reese had made his way up, down and around the arena for more than eight seasons’ worth of contests without any known complaints. But the Rocky Run came to an end several weeks ago when TCC officials told Reese that it was an insurance liability and violated the TCC’s long-in-place-but-never-publicized Guest Code of Conduct. The 11 rules, which started appearing on display easels in and around the arena in early January, include one that states that fans can be removed from the premises if they are “a disruption to the event presentation, performance or game.” Reese said he was told, following the completion of his run on Jan. 6, that he’d violated the rule and was being banned from the TCC. “I’ve never hurt anybody; I’ve never run over anybody,” said Reese, who by day is a mild-mannered furniture deliveryman who happens to be obsessed with hockey, no matter the skill level. “I’m cognizant of my surroundings. … I’m just trying to bring some enjoyment to the game.” For the record, the Rocky Run occurs during the second intermission, a 20-minute break between the second and third periods of a hockey game, when the only thing that could be considered a presentation or performance is the Zamboni driver cleaning the playing surface. “The disruption is that he’s not doing it,” said Kevin Fisher, a longtime local hockey fan and the owner of one of the orange “Let Hemsky Run” shirts that were made after news spread of Reese’s ban. Added fan Pappy Fielding, who has attended games for 28 years: “It’s during intermission. It’s not dangerous. All these kids are running up and down all the time.” After meeting with TCC deputy director Tommy Obermaier a week later, Reese said, his outright ban from the TCC was lifted, and he was told that he could attend games—but he could not do his run. However, Reese said he will never attend another event at the TCC.

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No more Rocky Run for UA ice-hockey fans. Reese said he isn’t advocating for others to boycott the games, because it would be unfair to the team—“The (players) have nothing to do with this,” he said—but he is hoping those who do go will show will their disdain by avoiding the concession stands. “When you hit them in the pocketbook, that’s what affects them,” Reese said. Why enforcement of the code of conduct suddenly started earlier this month remains a mystery. Obermaier did not return repeated calls for comment, nor did Mary O’Mahoney, an assistant director with the UA’s Department of Campus Recreation, which has overseen the icehockey program since officially recognizing the sport last year. Reese and other fans speculate the Rocky Run ban is part of an effort to distance the hockey program from the 30-plus years it was operated as an unaffiliated-to-the-school team by polarizing founder and coach Leo Golembiewski. Golembiewski was ousted after a player uprising last spring, and since then, the team has been renamed the Wildcats after previously being called the Icecats. The UA’s block “A” logo now adorns the team’s jerseys, and “Bear Down, Arizona!” is played over the loudspeaker during the same intermission when Reese did his Rocky thing. “I just think they want to rid themselves of any traditions from when Leo was coaching,” Reese said. “I really believe this (ban) has something to do with the UA taking over.” Brian Slugocki, a junior forward and the club hockey team’s president, wrote in an email that no one associated with the team had anything to do with ending the Rocky Run. “We always appreciate all the fan support we receive from the Tucson community and as players hope that our fans continue to support the team now and in the future,” Slugocki wrote. During a meeting with Obermaier and O’Mahoney on Jan. 13, Reese said Obermaier

admitted the TCC’s Guest Code of Conduct had been around through much of the Golembiewski era, and that officials had previously chosen not to enforce the rule Reese was accused of violating. Obermaier wouldn’t explain why things changed, Reese said. “He said, ‘I’m not going to debate why we didn’t enforce these rules before, and why we didn’t put them up in the arena before,’” Reese said. As for the liability concerns, Reese said he offered to sign a waiver absolving the TCC and the UA of any responsibility if he were to injure a fan, but that the offer was turned down. “I think there are far more dangerous things than the run,” Reese said. Mind you, this is a sport that requires the public-address announcer to repeatedly remind fans that frozen rubber discs could launch off the ice and into the stands at any moment. It’s one reason each ticket says, “Holder assumes all risks,” right on the front. It’s also an event where, since the introduction a few weeks ago of a T-shirt gun that launches shirts into the crowd during the first intermission, fans dive across rows of seats to get free stuff. “A person was standing on one of the folding chairs trying to catch a shirt and fell on his butt,” fan Jill Filar said during a break in the game on Saturday, Jan. 21, a 2-1 overtime loss to Davenport University, the defending American Collegiate Hockey Association Division 1 champion. In addition to the “Let Hemsky Run” shirts, other fan efforts to lift the ban on Reese’s performance have included Filar and Fisher handing out fliers prior to games and participating in a walk along the route of the Rocky Run during the time when it used to occur. Despite those efforts, Fisher and Filar think trying to get the decision-makers to reverse course is a lost cause. “It’s just a shame that, one of their greatest fans, they’re getting rid of,” Filar said.

An addendum to our story last week previewing the upcoming legislative races (“In the Works,” Jan. 19): Democrats are planning on fielding a full slate of candidates in the new Legislative District 14, which covers the southeast corner of the state, including all of Cochise and Greenlee counties, most of Graham County, and a sliver of the east side of Pima County, including Vail, Summerhaven and the eastern edge of Tucson’s city limits. Democrat Pat Fleming, who has previously represented much of the area in the Arizona House of Representatives, is now running for the Senate. Two other political newcomers, Robert Leach and Mark Stonebraker, are planning runs for the House of Representatives. Republicans hold a 10-percentagepoint advantage in voter registration in the district, where Sen. Gail Griffin and Reps. David Stevens and David Gowan are expected to seek re-election.

PROJECT WHITE HOUSE: THE BEER SUMMIT We had originally planned to bring you profiles of all the presidential candidates who are participating in the Tucson Weekly’s Project White House 2012 reality-journalism competition in this issue, but we’re delaying that feature by a week. However, if you’re dying to learn about the many candidates who are competing to win the Weekly’s endorsement in the Feb. 28 presidential primary, you can stop by ProjectWhiteHouse2012.com to learn more about their plans for fixing America. Here’s an interesting proposal, for example, from Green Party presidential candidate Richard Grayson: He wants to deport Republicans from today’s United States. Grayson says he doesn’t want to completely deport them from America; instead, he wants to do “a crash program, a kind of Manhattan Project, to get our most brilliant scientists to create a viable way to send people back into the past. Time travel will allow me to deport the Republicans to what is, indeed, American soil—but they’d be deported back to the 18th century!” Grayson is convinced that offered the opportunity, the Republicans would “self-deport” to the 1700s.

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Childish graffiti did no lasting damage to a Tucson man’s property, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies were dispatched to a northwest-side home, whose owner had reported malicious graffiti spray-painted on his garage door. By the time deputies reached the incident location, however, the resident had discovered that the medium used for the graffiti wasn’t spray paint at all, or even house paint—and that he had been able to remove it easily with Formula 409 cleaner. The report said the graffiti actually appeared to have been done with some sort of colorful window paint. Deputies watched as the man wiped it clean off the door with some paper towels. He didn’t clean it so fast, though, that deputies weren’t able to see what it depicted: In blue paint was apparently written, “Fuck you,” as well as some indecipherably scribbled phrases; in red paint, the word “POOP” took a place near what appeared to be a penis drawing. Deputies scoured the area, finding no perpetrator, and photographed the vandalism for law-enforcement records. The man said he had no idea who would have done it, but all parties seemed to agree it was likely neighborhood kids.

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An older brother acted much younger in a fight with his sibling after getting drunk, a PCSD report stated. An anonymous caller reported that there was a male yelling and throwing things in someone’s driveway, and “it had been going on for awhile.” Deputies found a man in a dirty T-shirt in a house’s driveway, along with a lot of things strewn about him. The subject had apparently suddenly become calm, however, and spoke with a deputy. Another man on the property told his version of the situation: He lived with his brother (the one in the driveway), who was currently allowing two people to stay on their property—a female sleeping by the fireplace, and a male sleeping in a truck in the driveway. The man told a deputy he’d been sleeping in his room when his brother, apparently drunk, entered and started fighting him, commanding him to kick the guy sleeping in the truck off the property. When the non-driveway individual allegedly refused, saying, “It’s your job; you’re the older brother,” his brother went out into the driveway and started throwing things, apparently to express anger. The older brother’s story appeared to corroborate the younger’s; he said it was his own stuff he’d thrown outside. He was booked on several charges. 12 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

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Interactivity Issues n general, I support government organizations in their efforts to get online and provide information to the people they serve, but it would seem that some organizations probably get a little too excited about the possibilities of social media. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department announced last week that they would turn to the ever-popular Facebook to conduct Q&A sessions with the public on various subjects, including mental health, self-defense for women and careers in law enforcement. This is an excellent idea in theory, and in general, the Sheriff’s Department has been good to me when I’ve needed information—but will one hour a month of such social-network interaction really be that helpful? This effort seems to fall into the generally well-meaning idea of interactivity, and letting the audience help drive the information available—but many of the people who are likely to have time to spend online between 9 and 10 a.m. on a Tuesday aren’t exactly the sort of folks with a lot to add to the conversation. Don’t believe me? Just drop in on one of the Arizona Daily Star’s online chats. While the online discussions focused on Wildcats sports are predictably wellpopulated, any chat focused on straight-ahead news ends up being a chaotic mess of conspiracy theories and nonsensical remarks—and that’s what the moderator lets through. Maybe the PCSD Facebook experiment will be the exception, but sometimes it’s better to go ahead and offer the answers without asking for questions.

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THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We shared the announcement that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords would step down, collecting remarks from political insiders, her fellow congresspersons, and President Obama; looked at the race for her seat and tried to make sense of the two elections that will be held in less than a year; criticized one legislator’s attempt to make vaccinations optional for college students; wondered if Frank Antenori was inspired by the Blue Collar Comedy Tour when he spoke on the floor of the Legislature; wondered if Rand Paul was exaggerating a bit about his experience with the Transportation Security Administration; noted that Nancy Young Wright is officially running for the District 1 seat on the Pima County Board of Supervisors; clarified the news about the alleged Tucson Unified School District book bans; covered the latest news from Project White House 2012 and introduced you to the candidates; and talked about the presidential race on Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable, with your host, Jim Nintzel. We let you know you could eat Thai food at a Buddhist temple; drank coffee at Liv Café and Bistro; cursed the retail gods for taking away Bohemia; tried to keep up with all the new Asian restaurants opening in town; and prepared you for the Pinkberry invasion. We encouraged you to see Jeff Smith’s photographs at the Temple Gallery; offered an instructional course on making hashish; suggested you listen to tracks by Electric Guest and MNDR; mentioned that Sublime (or a version of that band, at least) is coming to the Rialto; theorized that help desks aren’t really all that helpful; offered our Wikipedia-replacement services; tried to save the Arizona economy by inviting the porn industry to make our state home; mourned the loss of Jonathan Holden; introduced you to a rapper who really believes he’s the best; talked comics; and informed the completely talentless that even they can do anything.

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Music Is Medicine BY STEPHEN SEIGEL, musiced@tucsonweekly.com om I am a rich man with little money. This is not the same as a poor man with abundant wealth. I can share riches better than gold, more sparkling than silver, and beyond property. We know that hearts on fire create a ring of love that brightens the world like the sun above. —Recently found written in Jonathan Holden’s day planner. alk to anyone in the music industry, and they’ll tell you that some of the more unscrupulous characters in the business are concert promoters. Too many of them are in it for the money, not the music. Jonathan Holden represented not just an exception to that mindset; he was its antithesis. Holden died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at age 60. He was admitted to the hospital on Friday, Jan. 13, with a lung infection. After a procedure to drain fluid from his lungs, he suffered a pulmonary embolism that took his life. He is survived by his wife, Susan, and two sons, Devon and Gabe. Since the mid-’90s, Holden was the force behind Tucson’s Rhythm and Roots concert series (motto: “Music Is Medicine”), which features national, international and local acts performing at a number of venues around town. Most recently, Rhythm and Roots acts have performed at two venues at Plaza Palomino, at Swan and Fort Lowell roads: in the outdoor courtyard, and at a relatively new listening room called Suite 147. Holden was born in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1951, and grew up in Sacramento. He moved to Tucson in 1970 and worked on his uncle’s ranch in Sasabe, attended classes at the University of Arizona, and worked on the air at KWFM. He briefly returned to California and graduated from San Francisco State University; he also worked in television production in Pacifica. In 1975, he returned to Tucson, where he worked in media production for a number of clients, including the Window Rock School District, Carondelet Hospitals, the University of Arizona and KUAT. He also helped found community radio station KXCI FM 91.3, and sat on the original board of directors. According to friends and associates, Holden was happiest when he was promoting concerts. “When he was onstage announcing, introducing the artists, you could just tell,” says Michael Hyatt, a former underwriting director at KXCI. “That was his little throne, his little kind of heaven, and he just radiated pleasure from the stage when he was up there introducing artists. He was the kind of guy who walked through the crowd; he shook hands; he knew everybody

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Terri Hendrix, Jonathan Holden and Lloyd Maines. there, and if he didn’t, he wanted to meet people. they did.” Texas-based singer-songwriter Terri Hendrix, It wasn’t just a means of selling tickets. He wantfor whom Holden had promoted concerts, ed to share the pleasure of good music with writes that “Jonathan was a friend. We kept in people.” touch, and he’s going to be missed on many levIt was his love of music that propelled him to els. I’ll always think of him as a modern day keep Rhythm and Roots in operation through ‘Patron Saint of the Arts,’ for producing shows difficult times. Carol Anderson, host of KXCI’s Ruby’s Roadhouse, recalls Holden telling her, “I’m and music he believed in, even if it didn’t always equal out to a great payday for himself at the not getting rich off of this business. I just love end of the day. He was a light. He’s still a light.” these artists so much, and I want to hear the Holden had booked a full slate of shows for music, and I want to bring it to town. the spring season, and Susan Holden, along with “It didn’t matter if they were a big name or a the Rhythm and Roots team, are making sure small name, famous or not famous—and he knew he wasn’t going to make a lot of money on those shows go on. The next one is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 4, at Suite 147 in Plaza these shows—but he still did it,” Anderson says. “And that says a lot to me. … It was a large labor Palomino, with the Fred Eaglesmith Band and The Fabulous Ginn Sisters. of love on his part.” According to Susan, his love of music and Jim Lipson (a Tucson Weekly contributor), concerts never ended. “Here’s a typical Jonathan says that Holden was a pleasure to work with. story,” she says. “The day he died, Tuesday, I took “Concert promotion is a high-pressure, highhis cell phone away from him for two hours, stress business, and I never saw him lose his and I went and ran an errand. He used a landtemper,” Lipson says. “I’d see him right after line and placed (underwriting) ads with KXCI. shows where he lost a lot of money, and all he There just wasn’t any holding the man down. He would do was say, ‘Well, it was an artistic sucwas passionate about it.” cess.’ Even though he didn’t like to lose money, A memorial service was held on Friday, Jan. he never let that get in the way of booking a 20, and details are being worked out for a musishow he wanted to book, with a performer that cal tribute to Holden that will take place on the he thought was really deserving.” afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 19, in the courtyard at Cavern Recording Studios owner Bill Plaza Palomino, weather permitting. Further Cashman agrees: “It was all very casual and not details will appear in the Soundbites column of about money. He just operated on a spiritual our Feb. 16 issue, and at www.rhythmandroots. plane—not to be dramatic about it, but I always org. felt that way about him.” Memorial donations may be made to the Says Lipson, “He was a business guy, but he Jonathan Holden Memorial Fund at any Bank of was really driven by the music. In his own way, America branch nationwide. In lieu of that, he was a musicologist for roots music, there’s another way to show support, says Susan. Americana and roots. And I don’t think he ever “A lot of people have said, ‘What can I do?’ got credit for that. I think he got credit for Well, you can buy a ticket, that’s what you can bringing people to town and promoting music, do. Don’t send me flowers. Buy a ticket to a but I don’t think he ever got acknowledged for show.” how much he loved these musicians and what

“After all, the fashion-challenged angry old white people of the Tea Party already love to gallivant around in colonial garb,” he says. “They’d have a place where they could strut in their three-cornered hats and white leggings and not look ridiculously out of place.” Grayson sees an obvious upside for today’s GOP: “In the 18th century, Republicans could live in an America where minorities did not have equal rights (African Americans were slaves; Native Americans were massacred); where abortion and homosexuality were, if they ever occurred, punishable by death; where there was no ACLU, no Planned Parenthood, no labor unions, no minimum wage, no ‘entitlements,’ no food stamps, no ‘safety net,’ no ethnic studies, no Lady Gaga, no hip-hop, and few if any vegans, hippies, hipsters, atheists, environmentalists, Darwinists or alternative weeklies. “Everyone would be better off,” Grayson concludes. “The Republicans would be much happier living in the past. In the 1700s, they’d be up-to-date rather than throwbacks to a previous era, constantly trying to undo the New Deal and the science of the past two centuries. Instead of longing for a bygone America, they’d be living in a place they’d rather be: a bygone America.” But fellow Green Party candidate Michael Oatman warns that dire consequences could result from toying with the time-space continuum. “Please be sure to deport them to a parallel universe, since, if left in our universe, they undoubtedly would, with their knowledge of the future, attempt to win the Civil War for the South, prevent Andrew Jackson from ridding us of all international banking, stop Teddy Roosevelt from monopoly-busting, prevent the New Deal, tell Nixon to wear a darker color in the 1960 televised presidential debate, and (do) many other things which could negatively affect the outcome of this universe,” Oatman writes in response to Grayson’s proposal. You can see that we’re having some pretty fiery exchanges about the issues that matter most to Americans—just like the real Republican debates these days. A chance to meet some of these candidates is coming up. We’re excited to announce that we are having the first Project White House Beer Summit from 4 to 6 p.m., next Wednesday, Feb. 1, at downtown’s newest brewery, Borderlands Brewing Company, 119 E. Toole Ave. Stop by to meet the candidates, and try some cold, freshly brewed craft beer! We hope to bring you some big news soon about televised Project White House 2012 debates! By Jim Nintzel Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. tucsonweekly.com. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel.

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Goodbye for Now

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords steps down to focus on her recovery

BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com

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oud cheers greeted a smiling Gabrielle Giffords as she arrived at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona on Monday, Jan. 23, to make her final public appearance as a representative of her Congressional District 8.

With aides Ron Barber and Pia Carusone by her side, Giffords slowly walked across the warehouse floor and hugged Food Bank CEO Bill Carnegie. Her face lit up in delight as Carnegie showed her the new Gabrielle Giffords Family Assistance Center, a one-stop shop where people who are down on their luck can discover what help is out there for them. The new office, built with roughly $160,000 of the

$325,000 donated to the Food Bank in Giffords’ name following the shootings on Jan. 8, 2011, is a fitting tribute. “She has a long history of helping us, even before she became a member of Congress,” says Carnegie. “After she became a member of Congress, she was continued on next page

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always interested in what was going on with the people here in Southern Arizona, and how we could make things better for them.” It’s that spirit that many people in Congressional District 8 are going to miss after Giffords steps down this week. “I was dismayed by the news that she had decided to resign from Congress, but I understand that her focus needs to be on her therapy and getting better,” Carnegie says. “But I don’t believe we’ve seen the last of Gabrielle Giffords in our political arena in Southern Arizona.”

iffords, 41, delivered the hard news that she was resigning from Congress just before noon on Sunday, Jan. 22, via a YouTube video. “I don’t remember much from that horrible day, but I will never forget the trust you placed in me to be your voice,” she said, speaking slowly but clearly. “Thank you for your prayers and for giving me time to recover. I have more work to do on my recovery, so to do what is best for Arizona, I will step down this week.” The resignation marks the end of a chapter in a remarkable political life. By now, the story has been told many times: A third-generation Arizona girl who loves motorcycles and horses and rock ’n’ roll. A University High graduate who became a Fulbright scholar. A brief career in New York City before taking over the family tire business back here in Tucson. The top vote-getter in a tough race for the Arizona House of Representatives in 2000. Elected to the state Senate when she was just 32 years old. Capturing an open congressional seat in 2006 against a hard-right conservative, Randy Graf. Her marriage to astronaut Mark Kelly in 2007. Another big congressional win in 2008 against a more-moderate Republican, former state Senate President Tim Bee. A narrow win against another hard-right conservative, Jesse Kelly, in 2010, the year of the Tea Party. And then, just days into her third term, the gunfire at a Congress on Your Corner event at a Safeway supermarket that would leave six dead and 13 wounded. Giffords miraculously survived being shot through the left side of her head. She’s spent the last year recovering as her brain knit itself back together. She still attends therapy nearly every day at a Houston hospital, fighting to relearn how to speak in sentences. It’s that dedication to rehabilitation that led to the resignation, according to Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, a close friend of Giffords. Wasserman Schultz told CNN that during Giffords’ recent trip to Tucson to commemorate the first anniversary of the shootings, Giffords realized “how challenging it would be” to continue serving in Congress while keeping up with her daily regimen. Giffords leaves behind a legacy of being a fierce advocate for the people of Southern Arizona and the causes she believed in. She worked to help the solar-energy industry. She pushed for funding for the UA, particularly in the sciences. She fought for veterans. She joined the Blue Dog Democrats and argued for reducing the federal deficit. She voted in favor of the Democrats’ sweeping health-care reform

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in 2010. She tried to find help for ranchers and others on the border bearing the brunt of troubles associated with illegal immigration. She also built an office in Tucson that delivered top-notch constituent service, headed up by District Director Ron Barber. Barber, who was shot twice on Jan. 8, says that he remembers talking to Giffords on a long drive about why they were put on the planet. “She sort of summed it up by saying, ‘I think we’re here to care for each other,’” says Barber, who will remain on the job with the rest of the staff, under the command of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, until a new member of Congress is elected sometime in June.

ima County Democratic Party chairman Jeff Rogers calls Giffords’ decision to resign “an extraordinary loss for Southern Arizona.” Giffords was on a trajectory toward much bigger things, according to Rogers. “Before the shooting, my only question was: Is she running for Senate, or is she running for governor?” Rogers says. “She really was one of those unique congresspersons who had a lot of crossover appeal and could work across the aisle with a lot of different Republicans, and there really aren’t that many in Congress like that.” One of Giffords’ secret weapons was her ability to charm many of her political opponents. While she didn’t win over all of them, she did her best to try. U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake—whom she might have faced in a run for the U.S. Senate this year— became a friend and was one of the first elected officials at University Medical Center on Jan. 8. “When I heard, I had to come,” Flake said that afternoon as he waited to hear if Giffords would survive. “She’s a good friend and a great person.” Some of her supporters were heartbroken by the news of her resignation. Roger Salzgeber, a 62-year-old campaign volunteer who helped take down the shooter on Jan. 8, says that part of him knew that Giffords would probably have to step down at some point, but he’s still dismayed that she will no longer be a voice for Southern Arizona. Salzgeber was out of town over the weekend and missed his chance to meet with Giffords when she got together on Monday, Jan. 23, with people who had been at her Congress on Your Corner event. He wonders if he would have been able to make it through the meeting without breaking down into tears. “There’s nothing I would like more than to just give her a huge hug and tell her that I care about her and thank her for the fact that I’m on (Pima County Board of Supervisors candidate) Nancy Young Wright’s steering committee; I’m working to help (state Rep.) Steve Farley become my next state senator; and I’m more involved in politics than I ever was,” Salzgeber says. Like the bumper sticker says: Gabrielle Giffords continues to inspire. While her halting speech in her resignation video shows that she still has a long way to go to fully recover her voice, Giffords delivered a message of hope to her supporters in her video on Sunday. “I’m getting better,” Giffords said. “Every day, my spirit is high. I will return, and we will work together for Arizona and this great country. Thank you very much.”

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Congressional District 8 voters now must choose a new representative in a special election BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com

fter Gabrielle Giffords’ formal resignation, Gov. Jan Brewer will have three days to set the dates for special election in Congressional District 8. A partisan primary must be held within 80 to 90 days; a general election follows 50 to 60 days after that. That means CD 8 voters are looking at a primary election sometime in April, with the winners of that contest advancing to a general election in June. Potential candidates will need to make quick decisions about whether to get into the race. They’ll have just 30 days from when Brewer sets the election to deliver the roughly 800 signatures necessary to land a spot on the ballot. While candidates are campaigning for the old CD 8 seat, they’ll probably also be gathering signatures and raising funds to run for the new Congressional District 2 seat, which covers much of the same territory, although it does not include areas of Marana, Oro Valley and SaddleBrooke. The primary for that race will be held in August, with the winners advancing to the November general election. The dual elections create some unique political scenarios. For example, candidates who decide to run in both races could lose the first primary in April, but still have a shot at winning the primary for the new congressional district in August. Also, a state lawmaker who loses in the special primary election would still have time to run for a legislative seat. Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Jeff Rogers anticipates that there will be “a good half-dozen people who will probably consider” a run on the Democratic side in the upcoming special election. The names of a variety of state lawmakers have been tossed around in recent days. State Rep. Matt Heinz and state Sen. Paula Aboud were already quietly building support for a congressional run in case Giffords decided against running. Other names in the rumor mill include state lawmakers Steve Farley, Daniel Patterson and Bruce Wheeler, and unsuccessful congressional candidates Jeff Latas and Tim Sultan. Another potential candidate, Nan Stockholm Walden, is expected to make a decision this week. Walden, who earned a law degree at Stanford, served as chief of staff for former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley and worked on urban and environmental policies in Washington in the 1990s. She and her husband, Dick Walden, own Farmers Investment Co., which has a massive pecan farm near Sahuarita. David Steele, a Democratic strategist and spokesman for Walden, said she would soon decide whether to join the race.

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“She’s not prepared to make a statement one way or another on her plans,” Steele said on Monday, Jan. 23. “It will be a fairly quick decision.” The Tucson Weekly is hearing increased chatter that Giffords and her inner circle plan to endorse a successor, which would likely make that candidate an immediate front-runner in any Democratic contest. On the Republican side of the aisle, state Sen. Frank Antenori, who had been weighing a run in the new CD 2 later this year, was meeting with supporters to determine whether he should run in the special election. “I’m looking at it,” said Antenori, who added that he did not anticipate making any announcement for at least a few days, until Giffords has finished her final days in office. “She took a bullet for her country, just like many other people that I know, and she’s to be commended for that,” said Antenori, who served in the Army Special Forces. “Whether it’s a veteran or a congresswoman, they’re to be respected for that degree of sacrifice. We may disagree on politics, but the respect for being wounded is exclusive of political affiliation.” Antenori said he was surprised by the announcement that Giffords would resign later this week. “I was taken off balance by her stepping down,” he said. John Ellinwood, who was the campaign spokesman for Jesse Kelly, the Republican candidate who

came within a few thousand votes of unseating Giffords in 2010, said that Kelly was “seriously considering” running in the special election. Kelly has relocated his family to Texas and has been working on a project there for his father’s construction company, Don Kelly Construction, but he still owns a home in Arizona. Sports broadcaster Dave Sitton, who has established an exploratory committee for Congressional District 2, is meeting with advisers and expects to make a decision regarding a run in the Congressional District 8 special election “very soon,” according to campaign spokeswoman Linda Fahey. Two other names are surfacing as potential Republican candidates: David Lane, who made a fortune selling off his family’s independent bottling operation to Pepsi in 2008, and Benny White, a longtime GOP activist. more on next page

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President Barack Obama

Gabby Giffords embodies the very best of what public service should be. She’s universally admired for qualities that transcend party or ideology—a dedication to fairness, a willingness to listen to different ideas, and a tireless commitment to the work of perfecting our union. That’s why the people of Arizona chose Gabby—to speak and fight and stand up for them. That’s what brought her to a supermarket in Tucson last year—so she could carry their hopes and concerns to Washington. And we know it is with the best interests of her constituents in mind that Gabby has made the tough decision to step down from Congress. Over the last year, Gabby and her husband, Mark, have taught us the true meaning of hope in the face of despair, determination in the face of incredible odds, and now—even after she’s come so far—Gabby shows us what it means to be selfless as well. Gabby’s cheerful presence will be missed in Washington. But she will remain an inspiration to all whose lives she touched—myself included.

And I’m confident that we haven’t seen the last of this extraordinary American.

Gov. Jan Brewer Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been a noble public servant to the state of Arizona, and a model of what can be accomplished with persistence and determination. Her remarkable recovery over the last year is an inspiration to us all.

U.S. Sen. John McCain Cindy and I join our fellow Arizonans in thanking Gabby Giffords for her service in the U.S. Congress and to her constituents in Southern Arizona. Gabby’s courage in the face of tragedy inspired our nation and made all Arizonans proud. We wish Gabby and her family all the best in the future.

Richard Carmona, former U.S. surgeon general and current Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Gabby’s courage is inspirational, and her enthusiasm for public service is infectious. I’ve never

I salute Congresswoman Giffords for her service, and for the courage and perseverance she has shown in the face of tragedy. She will be missed.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

seen a public official work harder to serve their constituents than Gabby. She and I participated in a number of health-care town halls together, and her strength has always been palpable. In addition to being a great and caring friend to all who know her, she is the model for the kind of leadership that we need in this country. I know in the months and years to come, she will continue to fight hard to help others and for the values she believes in.

Congressman Jeff Flake, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Gabby is a class act whose accomplishments and dedication to bettering our state and nation will continue in the years to come. She has been and will continue to be an effective advocate for the issues and causes that she cares deeply about. I want to be sure to pass along thanks to Gabby’s amazing staff. They have done a remarkable job in continuing to faithfully and respectfully serve the people of Arizona’s 8th District over the last year.

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Speaker of the House John Boehner

Opening Celebration

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been a true bright star—a dynamic and creative public servant. Gabby’s message of bipartisanship and civility is one that all in Washington and the nation should honor and emulate. Since the tragic events one year ago, Gabby has been an inspiring symbol of determination and courage to millions of Americans.

Congressman Raúl Grijalva Her legacy is probably more personal than it is political because of what she has gone through and what she has done. Her recovery has been miraculous. She even got people talking about civility and toning down some of the rhetoric, although it didn’t happen as much as it should have. And her legacy is also with her signature issue—solar energy—and the rest of us are going to have to pick up on that. But her personal courage and her endurance is a big part of her legacy. I call it a pause. Part of the issue is her recovery, and for her future and her family, that’s the most important thing. Once she’s done with this pause and reaches a point where she can step back into either electoral politics or public life, there’s no question that she could do that.

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JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 1, 2012 OUR TOP PICKS OF WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO DO IT BY MICHELLE A. WEISS, RYAN KELLY AND A ALEXANDRA K. NEWMAN

On Tumamoc Hill

“If you pay attention and keep looking Last weekend, activities for Celebrate at the hill, you sometimes are rewarded,” Tumamoc, a free event in honor of Spark said. In the six years Spark has Arizona’s centennial, included a hike. The been involved with Tumamoc Hill, he festivities continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., has seen javelinas, herds of deer, foxes Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28 and 29, and and bobcats. Last Sunday, Kristin Albert, will offer an enriching learning experia wildlife biologist with the UA, held a ence about UA’s Desert Laboratory and its common kingsnake in her hands as she ecological work and conservation efforts, talked about different species present on Rosenzweig said. Activities include a scethe hill. Albert said Tumamoc is tracking nic walk, tours of historic buildings, live seven different kinds of snakes. music and opportunities to view artists at “People still don’t know that there’s work and ask scientists questions. so much work being done up here,” she Of course, the hill is also popular with said. hikers. Dr. Ron Spark, the coordinator for Though Tumamoc is without doubt a the Tumamoc Walkers group, said he has beautiful slice of desert, there was a time seen people with health-related problems when horses, cattle and goats “chomped who still continue to walk the hill. These the place to hell,” Rosenzweig said. include people who have had missing Tumamoc’s pristine desert appearance limbs, had cancer or have been on oxywas achieved after 30 years of restoration gen, “and yet they still come, and they through conservation and ecological find something of great value,” he said. work, he said. This weekend’s activities are “an oppor“This whole landscape is a creation tunity to get acquainted with people that of the scientific institution itself. That is use the hill, love the hill and really treaThe vista seen while walking up Tumamoc Hill. something almost nobody remembers,” sure it,” Spark said. he said. “This is an international treasure which (many Tucsonans) The open-house-style event will be a well-rounded cultural expedon’t know anything about.” rience, Rosenzweig said—and even people who think they know the Because of UA’s conservation work, communities around the hill will be surprised by some of what they see. world can see what needs to be done in order to preserve species The boathouse—a spot where boats were once made, which and environments, Rosenzweig said. “We’re tackling a couple of jobs has been closed since the early 1980s—is now being opened to the in one … saving biodiversity on the planet and also increasing biodipublic. Previously, it was used as a base for scientific field operaversity all over the city.” tions, and equipment was stored there to keep it out of the elements, As for the hill’s long-time occupation by humans, Rosenzweig Rosenzweig said. said, “We’re not Babylon or Athens, but we have a legacy of archaeoIn another building, local artist Paul Mirocha has a studio where logical ruins that goes back something like 2,300 years … and it’s he runs a sketching club. Members will have works on display and extremely important for understanding the Native American culwill be available to discuss them. Mirocha plans to talk about “drawtures that existed then and in the intervening centuries.” ing as seeing,” and how people don’t need to be accomplished artists The Celebrate Tumamoc open-house centennial event will be in order to gain insight from drawing, Rosenzweig said. held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28 and 29. From noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, musicians will play The address is 1675 W. Anklam Road, and the event is free. For in a variety of styles, including African and Brazilian music, and more information, call 629-9455, or visit www.tumamoc.org. classical guitar. Michelle A. Weiss In addition to the centennial festivities, there’s also the likelihood mailbag@tucsonweekly.com of spotting wild animals.

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MICHELLE A. WEISS

PICK OF THE WEEK

It’s 10 a.m. and sunny, with a touch of brisk morning air. After 30 minutes, I’ve hiked through a forest of saguaros, palo verde trees and shrubs, sharing it with Arizona wildlife. With the valley stretching around me, I have an exquisite view from Tumamoc Hill, aka “Tucson’s best-kept secret.” Tumamoc, which is home to UA ecological-research facilities, as well as the ruins of a 2,300-year-old village, is a National Historic Landmark and draws about 7,000 hikers every week, according to Michael Rosenzweig, director of UA facilities on the hill. “When I turn up the road to go into the hill, it’s like going into a time machine,” Rosenzweig said. “It’s magic. Just magic.”

SPECIAL EVENTS Retro Road Trip Mercury Portal 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to late, Saturday, Jan. 28; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29 Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café 505 W. Miracle Mile 582-0514; www.montereycourtaz.com

Monterey Court Studio Galleries is revving up for its first major event, a fusion of art and music called Mercury Portal. Monterey was once a motel with casitas and carports for travelers who took to the open road when the popularity of the automobile surged in the mid-20th century. “We just wanted to evoke the era of the motor court, which was from about the ’30s until the late-’60s, early-’70s, before the interstate really started to impose,” said Morrighan Clinco, the event director. “People used their cars as a mode of exploration, and traveling by car was as much a part of the adventure as the destination.” The two-day Mercury Portal, hosted by the Parasol Project, features everything from a piano bar with singer Jim Allen of New York City, who claims a repertoire of 20,000 songs from memory, to vaudeville-style variety shows and exhibits of Gila monsters and rattlesnakes. The court’s 11 art galleries and retail shops will be open, as will its café and bar, where the menu includes tacos and margaritas. Guests are invited to dress to impress, with the theme being Southwestern road trips from the 1930s to the 1960s. Think country kitsch meets autoadventurism for a “vintage vision of the future.” On Saturday night, a dance floor will open, and DJ Camilo Lara of the Mexican Institute of Sound will take the stage. “Sometimes, it’s way more fun (when you DJ) to have a smaller crowd and to play more crazy things and to get more wild with your selection,” Lara said, adding that he loves to play in Tucson, because it’s a magical place. Daytime tickets are $6; Evening tickets are $16 (age 21 and older). Tickets are available at Bookmans or at the door. —A.N.

Left: “The Warning Shot” (cropped) by Retna.

GARDENING/FILM

ART

ART/LITERATURE

Sprouting Soon!

Planes as Canvases

Poetry Off the Page

Seed Library Grand Opening

Round Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project

BeMine: Collaborations Between Writers and Artists

Opening party from 6 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28

On display Wednesday, Feb. 1, through Friday, March 30

On display 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, through Thursday, May 31

Exhibition reception: 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 13

Pima Air and Space Museum 6000 E. Valencia Road

University of Arizona Poetry Center 1508 E. Helen St.

574-0462; pimaair.org

626-3765; poetry.arizona.edu

Tucson is home to the largest U.S. collection of unused and obsolete military aircraft, which can be seen near DavisMonthan Air Force Base in the vast storage area often referred to as the “boneyard.” Newcomers look at these rows and rows of planes in awe, although most Tucsonans have become used to them. Yet others see the thousands of aircraft as art waiting to happen. Eric Firestone is the creator of Round Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project, with Carlo McCormick as curator. The project involved transforming rusting aircraft into works of art. More than 30 artists participated, using the war machines as canvases. The project includes five planes, about 35 nose cones and a couple of wings and tails, Firestone said. “Art on transportation has really been played out,” Firestone said, referring to painted subways, buses and railroad cars. “This has never been done before. It’s the largest scale of airplane art since World War II.” Because of the volume of aircraft here, and the many residents with military ties, “I couldn’t think of a much better place than Tucson for this,” Firestone said. The public can get its first peek at an opening party at the Pima Air and Space Museum from 6 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28. Admission to the opening-night party is $5. (For more information, see Soundbites.) Regular admission to the Pima Air and Space Museum is $15.50; $12.75 for seniors and Pima County residents; $9 for kids older than 6; and free for kids 6 and younger. —R.K.

Love comes in all forms, shapes and sizes—and so does poetry. Have doubts? Then check out the UA Poetry Center’s BeMine: Collaborations Between Writers and Artists, which paired writers with other artists to create unique views of love. While some of the artists paired up are strangers to each other, some are married; yet others are old friends, said exhibit curator Annie Guthrie. “I am really proud of how the community responded. A lot of the pairs were strangers and had to break through barriers and work in new ways that they haven’t thought about,” Guthrie said. “One of the pairs is a photographer paired with a poet. Together, they have come up with a conceptual stalker. As far as I understand, they are leaving objects that a stalker left, showing love at the extreme.” Some pairs tapped into intensely personal experiences for inspiration. Andy Rush, 80, a local printmaker, paired up with fiction writer Kristen Nelson. Rush said he is “working on a project involving my wife, who is dying of dementia. “Our (theme) is our lifelong love of each other” said Rush, who has been with his wife for 42 years. Projects like this one break new ground for writers and artists working together, Rush said. “I’m a little nervous, because it’s my private life and partner of all these years.” Admission to the exhibit, which opens Wednesday, Feb. 1, is free; a reception will be held on Monday, Feb. 13. Visit the website for Poetry Center hours and more information. —R.K.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 Joel D. Valdez Main Library 101 N. Stone Ave. 594-5500; www.library.pima.gov

Is your garden looking lame? Spruce it up before the harsh summer months by checking out seeds from the new seed library at Pima County’s public libraries. Seed libraries are sprouting up in many areas on the West Coast and have made their way to Tucson, with a grand opening at the downtown Joel D. Valdez Main Library on Saturday. Seeds for more than 100 different varieties of vegetables, flowers and other plants are available, all of which have been donated by seed companies and community members. The idea is that library patrons who check out seeds will return even more seeds after harvesting their plants. “We want to establish a community of gardeners and seed-savers,” said Justine Hernandez, a librarian who is coordinating the event. “We encourage people to share their stories about growing the seeds, and we want people to let us know how well they do.” After a few generations, the seeds will become “super seeds” that have acclimated to the Arizona climate. Each packet of seeds can be checked out like any of the library’s other materials. If you’re out of touch with your green thumb, you may want to check out the opening’s gardening presentations or seed-harvesting demonstrations. At 3 p.m., there will be a screening of the movie Forks Over Knives, which explores the benefits of a plant-based diet. Hernandez said this is one of the first seed libraries she knows of that is integrated into a public library. Others are headed by community groups. “We’re hoping that members of the community will … be active in the operations of it by helping do classes, mentoring people and just helping maintain the collection,” she said. —A.N.

“Discarded Tissue” (cropped) by Patricia Katchur and Drew Krewer.

Submissions CityWeek includes events selected by Michelle A. Weiss, Ryan Kelly and Alexandra K. Newman and is accurate as of press time. Tucson Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc. To have material considered, please send complete information by Monday at noon 11 days prior to publication. Send to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726, or fax information to 792-2096, or e-mail us at listings@tucsonweekly.com. JANUARY 26 - FEBRUARY 1, 2012

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SPECIAL EVENTS

TQ&A

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Logan Phillips

ARIZONA CENTENNIAL CONCERT San Xavier del Bac Mission. 1950 W. San Xavier Road. 294-2624. A centennial tribute hosted by the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences features the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus performing in the state’s oldest European structure, completed in 1797, at 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. Visit az100.arizona.edu for more information about UA tributes to Arizona’s centennial.

MARI HERRERAS

Poet Logan Phillips is one of five Arizona artists (three from Tucson) to receive a 2012 Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Phillips’ project is The Sonoran Strange, a multimedia theater work he will perform with his group Verbo•bala, which includes DJ Emmett White and video artists Moisés Regla and Adam Cooper-Terán. For more information, visit www.verbobala.com. Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com

What is your project about? It is hard to describe, but for the grant, we described it as a “surrealist trip across the Arizona Centennial.” But really, Verbo•bala as a group was founded on one of the ideas that borders are points of contact just as they are lines of division. So we explore borders not only as geopolitical borders, but also the borders that run through our own lives and also our own social circles. We’ve been doing that since 2007, and The Sonoran Strange is in some ways a manifesto to say, “This is where we’re from. It’s not Arizona. It’s not Mexico. It’s not the United States. It’s North America in the Sonoran Desert bioregion.” What’s called the Southwest in the United States is one of the most-interesting areas in the whole hemisphere. It’s kind of the end game in the whole manifest destiny. One of our richest state resources is irony, because we’re the fastest-growing state in the nation, and everyone knows the water is going to run out. How did you get that across in the grant? I wrote, “We take original imaginative leaps. … What if Mexico’s wailing boogey woman La Llorona one day was heard moaning on a canal in Scottsdale? What if the Catalina Mountains outside Tucson dreamed of one day jumping the border of the horizon to become thunderheads? What if the Apaches had won? What if we had sent the saguaros to boarding school to Pennsylvania? What if the snowbirds didn’t come home 22 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

to roost? What if the tumbleweeds settled down? What if sand shoots from the sprinklers? What if the water runs out? These are the questions that keep us up at night. We ask them to provoke dialogue about what it means to be an Arizonan in the state’s second 100 years.” How will we see that in a performance? What the grant technically is for, is to turn this full booklength work of poems I’ve been working on since 2007 that is The Sonoran Strange into a performance. The idea is to go into open spaces and other places, not traditional spaces? Right. The Greek proscenium theater that all of our theaters are based on has that fourth wall between the audience and the performers, and that relationship goes directly against what we’re trying to develop as a group. And so for years, Verbo•bala has been trying to get out of theaters, but it is really hard when you’re tied to video projection. So with Sonoran Strange, we’re going to build a structure that will receive the video, and now we finally have the resources to have our own video projectors (in) galleries, open spaces, clearings in the desert. What’s important is that when we perform in a round or an open space, we’re on the same level as the audience, and that’s what makes storytelling accessible. When will we see the first production? For the centennial on Feb. 14, we’ll be reading the work

here at Studio ONE (197 E. Toole Ave.) at 8 p.m. There’s a $5 suggested donation. That’s going to be the debut of a lot of the work. I believe that while the art of poetry is a very solitary art, it also creates community when it is shared. So we’ll show it as a work in progress, so that later as it gets developed, people can come back and see what it turns into. I imagine it will be different each time, because it will also be in a new space. Absolutely. And one of our goals is nonlinear storytelling—no beginning, middle and end. No clean narrative or nice narrative arc with a big moment of catharsis. We’re interested in developing to the spaces and the crowds where we are. So it will be different every time. And we approach it as a band would, and our set list changes, so it will never be the same twice. I love the title, because it goes to the heart of how a lot of us feel now. It’s this surrealism that is both heartbreaking and heart-expanding at the very same time. It drives you to tears. Look at the ethnicstudies debate. Migration. Look at any sunset on any day from downtown Tucson or any place else, and it is just so … so … It makes no sense. It makes no sense. There is no rational way of understanding it. So how do we deal with it?

CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Chinese calligraphy, face-painting, crafts, the UA Purple Bamboo Ensemble and light refreshments are featured from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. FOOD TRUCK ROUNDUP Jamie’s Bitchen Kitchen, Guero Loco’s Bubba-Que, Cyclopsicle, Robdogs, MaFooCo, Luncha Libre and Animal Farm are among food trucks expected to participate from 4 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29, at Sixth Street and Seventh Avenue; free admission. Music, film and other entertainment is included. Formerly at Dinnerware ArtSpace, the Roundup has moved down the street to the parking lot at Benjamin Plumbing Supply. Visit facebook.com/TucsonFoodTrucks for more information. MERCURY PORTAL Monterey Court Studio Galleries. 505 W. Miracle Mile. 582-0514. Installation and media artists, performers, troupes, bands, scientists, photographers, characters, designers, circus acts and the like fill the former motel’s entire outdoor space for a celebration of all things midcentury kitsch-Western and space-age atomic. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28 and 29; $6. A night program for age 21 and older features guest DJs Camilo Lara of the Mexican Institute of Sound and Jim Allen of New York City at 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $16. Call 582-0514, or email atomic10tucson@ yahoo.com for more information. TUCSON GEM, MINERAL AND FOSSIL SHOWCASE The 57th annual Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase, featuring 44 individual shows at 42 different venues, opens Saturday, Jan. 28, and continues through through Sunday, Feb. 12. Visit visittucson.org for a complete list of shows and locations. TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL Sculpture Resource Center. 640 N. Stone Ave. 4039131. A large variety of Southern Arizona sculpture opens with a free reception and performance from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 12. Opening-night entertainment includes Flight School Acrobatics, Parasol Project, a puppet show by Maki Maki, Anarchestra interactive sculpture band, and a parading tour of galleries led by the Fiestacles Marching Band. Food and beverages also are available. Gallery hours are noon to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free. VEGETARIAN SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER First Christian Church. 740 E. Speedway Blvd. 6248695. The Tucson Peace Center, which sponsors the annual Peace Fair, hosts a vegetarian spaghetti dinner and fundraiser at 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $7 requested donation. Call 319-0352, or visit peacecalendar.org for more information. VEGRANDIS GALA Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. A gala fundraiser with an Arizona centennial theme features cocktails and small dishes by Feast, and a preview of the museum’s new exhibit, Shaping Arizona History: The George Stuart Historical Figures of the Movement West, at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27; $100. Stuart presents a monologue at a pre-gala event at 5:30 p.m.; $150, or $50 with a gala ticket. Visit theminitimemachine.org for reservations or more information. YEAR OF THE DRAGON: FUNDRAISER JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa. 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd. 792-3500. A casino night, silent auction, dinner, dancing and a Chinese-fashion show highlight a fundraiser at 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $125, $70 is tax-deductable. Proceeds benefit the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. Pre-paid reservations are required; call 292-6900 for more information.

OUT OF TOWN ARIVACA HOME TOUR Old Arivaca Schoolhouse. 17180 W. Fourth St. Arivaca. 398-0339. Historical displays, presentations by special guests, and book-signings by Tom Sheridan and Annette Gray highlight a tour of Arivaca’s historic homes and

modern ranches from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $10. Proceeds benefit the Arivaca Family and Community Education Association. Breakfast, lunch and snacks are available for purchase. Call 398-3262 for more information. COWBOY AND COWGIRL ROUNDUP Singing Wind Bookshop. 700 W. Singing Wind Road. Benson. (520) 586-2425. Poetry readings, talks about Western history, Western music and rope-twirling demonstrations are featured from 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29. Snacks and valet parking are available. SOUTHERN ARIZONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA STARSTRUCK GALA Mountain View Country Club. 38759 S. Mountain View Blvd. SaddleBrooke. 818-1000. A reception and dinner, live and silent auctions, and entertainment by the Tucson Junior Strings Chamber Orchestra are featured at 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $90. Call 308-6226, or visit sasomusic.org for reservations or more information. SUPERIOR HOME AND BUILDING TOUR Superior Chamber of Commerce. 203 W. Main St. Superior. (520) 689-0200. A self-guided tour of restored and remodeled homes and buildings, an antique show with live music, Mata Ortiz pottery demonstrations, and lectures about the history of this old mining town take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; $10, $8 advance, includes a 2-for-1 pass to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Call 689-0200 for more info.

UPCOMING TASTE OF CHINA FESTIVAL Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. 1288 W. River Road. 292-6900. Chinese arts and crafts, performances and food are featured from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4; $2. Visit tucsonchinese.org for more info.

ANNOUNCEMENTS EARTH DAY: CALL FOR EXHIBITORS AND PARADE ENTRANTS Reid Park. Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way. Exhibits related to environment-friendly products, household waste management, water conservation, water quality, air quality, alternative fuels, solar energy, sustainability and other eco-friendly products and services are invited to register by Friday, March 30, for the Earth Day Festival and Parade at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 21. Call 206-8814, or visit tucsonearthday.org to register or for more information. THE WATER FESTIVAL Armory Park Center. 220 S. Fifth Ave. 791-4865. Exhibitors, theater and dance performances, panel discussions, speakers, workshops, films, music, children’s entertainers and water-centered spiritual practices are sought for The Water Festival: Synergy of Art, Science and Community, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 18; free. Call 791-9359, or visit waterfestivaltucson. org to register as a volunteer, artist, performer, speaker, workshop leader or exhibitor, and for more information.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK ARMCHAIR ADVENTURES Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. World travelers show and discuss slides, DVDs and videos of their travels at 2 p.m., every Tuesday through Feb. 28; free. Jan. 31: Bavaria, Germany. Feb. 7: the Amazon and Bolivia. Feb. 14: Grand Teton National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Feb. 21: The Pacific Rim. Feb. 28: Ireland, England, France, Holland and Germany by bicycle. BICAS BASIC MAINTENANCE WORKSHOPS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. A three-hour class teaches how your bicycle works and how you can prolong its life, from 4 to 7 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month; $20. Topics include fixing a flat, diagnosing problems and regular maintenance techniques. Visit bicas.org for more information. BOOKBIKE INTRODUCTION AND LIGHT-DUTY BICYCLE REPAIR Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. The library’s new Bookbike makes its debut, and BICAS is on hand to provide light-duty bicycle repairs and maintenance, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. Call 791-4010 for more information. DIVORCE RECOVERY GROUP LEADER TRAINING Volunteer Center of Tucson. 924 N. Alvernon Way. 881-3300. Training for prospective leaders of divorcerecovery groups takes place from 6:30 to 9 p.m.,

FOOTHILLS DEMOCRATIC FORUM Skyline Country Club. 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive. 2990464. “Getting Ahead? Or Losing Ground?: Are Your Children Downwardly Mobile?” is the topic from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26; $15. Speakers are Jane Prescott-Smith, managing director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse; and Ephraim Peak, senior consultant in global alliances for major software companies. An RSVP is requested. Call 477-1093 for reservations or more information. FREE BIKE-SAFETY CLASSES Bicyclists ages 16 and older earn a free helmet, a light set, a high-quality bicycle U-lock, safety reflective tape and tire levers by attending a free, two-part bike safety course. Classes are from 6:30 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26; and 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, at Perimeter Bicycling, 2609 E. Broadway Blvd. Call 2432453 to register or for more information. FREE WINE-TASTINGS Wine Depot. 3844 E. Grant Road. 327-3794. Tastings of five organic, natural and traditionally made wines take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, and Feb. 4 and 11; free. GATHERING OF ELDERS Junior League of Tucson. 2099 E. River Road. 2995753. Laughter yoga; a panel discussion about life after loss, community service and legacy contributions; and guided conversation around the breakfast table take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Monday, Jan. 30; $5. Call 298-6542, or email deljonesaz@cox.net for more information. This event is co-sponsored by Oasis and the Junior League of Tucson. NEW SOCKS FOR THE NEW YEAR New socks and shoes, and gently used pants and jackets, are collected for the TUSD Clothing Bank from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, at Myers/ Ganoung Elementary School, 5000 E. Andrew St.; and the Robert D. Morrow Education Center, 1010 E. 10th St. The drive continues through Tuesday, Jan. 31. Call 584-6752, or visit tusd1.org/clothingbank. PUZZLE DAY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Jigsaws, kakuro, sudoku, crosswords and more are available for participants to puzzle out themselves or with others from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. Snacks are served. SAVE MONEY IN THE KITCHEN AND AT HOME Mercado San Agustín. 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 461-1110, ext. 8. Joyce Speirs of Dragnass Soaps leads a workshop on how to make laundry soap from 3 to 4 p.m., and integrative nutritionist Tiffany Rose Wood demonstrates how to preserve seasonal foods and plan meals around them to reduce food costs, from 3 to 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26; free. The workshops are hosted by Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market. Call 882-3304. SHERLOCK HOLMES SCION SOCIETY The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub. 6958 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-8277. Desert Prospectors of Arizona, a Sherlock Holmes Scion Society, meets to report on the annual Baker Street Irregulars meeting, discuss A Game of Shadows and take a quiz on “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton” from 1 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. Lunch is available from the menu. Email stekster@gmail.com, or call 4950877 for more information. TIHAN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. An orientation about HIV/AIDS and current volunteer opportunities with the Tucson Interfaith HIV/ AIDS Network takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $17. Reservations are requested. Call 299-6647, or visit tihan.org for more information or to download a volunteer application packet. WHOLE BEAD SHOW Windmill Inn at St. Philip’s Plaza. 4250 N. Campbell Ave. 577-0007. An international cash-and-carry show for vintage through contemporary beads, findings, buttons, charms and beaded jewelry opens Wednesday, Feb. 1, and continues through Monday, Feb. 6. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday; free. Wholesale buyers must bring a copy of their resale license. Visit wholebead.com, or call (800) 292-2577 for more info.

18TH ANNUAL SANTA CRUZ VALLEY CAR NUTS COLLECTOR CAR SHOW Tubac Golf Resort and Spa. 1 Otero Road. Tubac. 3982211. More than 400 vintage and collector cars are expected at this event, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28. Call 885-6630 or 4905104, or visit carnuts.org for registration. DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF THE SANTA RITA AREA Green Valley Democratic Headquarters. 260 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 838-0590. Current events are discussed from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free. Email acalkins10@aol.com, or visit gvdemocrats.org for more information. FIBER ART FRIDAY Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Members of the Southwest Fiber Arts Resource Group host an opportunity for knitters, crocheters, spinners and quilters to work on their projects in community from 10 a.m to 12:30 p.m., the last Friday of the month, through March 30; $4 includes admission to the park.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BEAGLE RESCUE Several beagle-adoption events and play dates are scheduled throughout the month. Visit soazbeaglerescue.com for the schedule and to learn more about Southern Arizona Beagle Rescue. BRIDGE CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Adults play bridge from 1 to 4 p.m., every Wednesday. Call for more information. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: TUCSON CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL Community groups, businesses, religious groups, neighborhood associations and ad hoc groups of five or more volunteers are needed to adopt parks, streets, washes and other public areas on an ongoing basis. Call 7913109, or visit tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org. CHESS CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. All serious chess players are invited from 1 to 5 p.m., every Friday. Call for more information.

GREAT DECISIONS Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. This foreign-policy discussion group encourages thoughtful consideration of global challenges from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Monday, through March 19; free. Briefing books are $15, but a reference copy is available at the library. Registration is required; call the library to register. ITALIAN CONVERSATION Beyond Bread. 3026 N. Campbell Ave. 322-9965. All skill levels practice from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Tuesday; free. Call 624-9145 for more information. LET’S SPEAK SPANISH Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. A language and logistics professor leads practice from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., every Wednesday except holidays; free.

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PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE Free, one-on-one confidential information and referral sessions are offered at many locations throughout the city. For a complete list, visit pcoa.org. From 10 a.m. to noon, the second Tuesday of every month: Sahuarita Branch Library, 725 W. Via Rancho, Sahuarita. From 10 a.m. to noon, the second and fourth Wednesday of every month: Ellie Towne/Flowing Wells Community Center, 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road. From 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the second and last Wednesday of every month: Quincie Douglas Senior Center, 1575 E. 36th St. From 10 a.m. to noon, the third and fourth Wednesday of every month: Freedom Park Recreation Center, 5000 E. 29th St. From 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., the third and fourth Thursday of every month: Clements Center, 8155 E. Poinciana Drive. PUERTAS ABIERTAS Wingspan’s Latin social group, Puertas Abiertas, holds monthly events and special events throughout the year. A Café Chat at Revolutionary Grounds, 606 N. Fourth Ave., offers safe and friendly conversation at 7 p.m., the third Friday of every month. The group goes bowling at Santa Cruz Lanes, 3665 S. 16th Ave., at 8 p.m., the last Thursday of every month. Email ojimenez@ wingspan.org, or call 624-1779, ext. 124, for more information.

COATS FOR CUBS Donations of real fur apparel, in any condition, can provide bedding and comfort to orphaned and injured wildlife. Buffalo Exchange has donated 6,331 used furs since 2006, and will take donations through Earth Day, Sunday, April 22. Visit buffaloexchange.com for a complete list of U.S. locations.

RAINBOW PEER SUPPORT GROUP Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Leynda J.P. Erwin leads a group that provides safe, confidential, peer-to-peer support for life problems regardless of identity, orientation or ethnicity, from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday; free. Call 822-7638 for more info.

THE COFFEE PARTY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Friendly discussions of current events take place from 1 to 3 p.m., every Tuesday. Call 878-0256.

SCRABBLE CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Play Scrabble from 1 to 5 p.m., each Monday. Call for more information.

COMMUNITY DRUM CIRCLE Himmel Park. 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. 791-3276. A community drum circle takes place from 3:30 to 6 p.m., every Sunday. Free. Call 743-4901, or email cactuscarrie10@gmail.com for more information.

SINGLES 50+ LUNCH GROUP Thunder Canyon Brewery. 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 7972652. A group meets for conversation and no-host lunch at noon, Sunday. Call 797-9873 for more information.

DESERT CRONES Fellowship Square Villa III. 210 N. Maguire Ave. 8865537. Women older than 50 meet from 1 to 3 p.m., every Thursday except holidays, to enjoy companionship and creativity. Programs include guest speakers, writing workshops and drumming circles. Call 409-3357, or email hobbitmagick@hotmail.com for more information. DESERT SINGLES AND NETWORK SINGLES Desert Singles and Network Singles meet from 5 to 7 p.m., every Friday, at a different location. Free. Call 219-9985, or visit tucsondesertsingles.org for locations and more information. FOUNTAIN FLYERS TOASTMASTERS Coco’s Bakery Restaurant. 7250 N. Oracle Road. 7422840. Participants learn and enhance speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment, from 6:30 to 7:45 a.m., Tuesday; free. Call 861-1160. GAM-ANON MEETING University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. A 12-step support group for families and friends of compulsive gamblers meets in dining room No. 2500D at 7 p.m., every Monday; free. Call 570-7879 for more information. GLBT MEET AND GREET CataVinos. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. This networking and wine-tasting event takes place from 4 to 8 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month. $10 for six wines.

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TAX VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Pio Decimo Center and the IRS seek volunteers to provide four to five hours a week of free tax preparation services to low-to-moderate-income residents of Green Valley and the Tucson metropolitan area. Volunteers don’t need prior experience. Spanish-speaking volunteers are also needed as interpreters. Call 622-2801, ext. 127, or email rcamacho@piodecimocenter.org for more information. TUCSON SINGLETARIANS A social club for singles age 50 and older meets from 5 to 7 p.m., each Wednesday on the westside, and Thursday on the eastside, at locations that change each month. Free; no-host food and beverages. Call 3269174, or visit tucsonsingletarians.tripod.com for more information about the club’s many other activities. URBAN YARNS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Knitters and crocheters gather informally from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., each Friday, to work on their own projects, review the library’s fiber-themed books and find inspiration for new projects; free. No instruction is provided. Call 791-4010 for more information. YARNIVORES: A CROCHET AND KNITTING MEET-UP GROUP Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. A brown-bag dinner and socializing devoted to the yarn arts take place from 6 to 7 p.m., every Thursday; free. Bring dinner and a project.

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BUSINESS & FINANCE ANNOUNCEMENTS DROP-IN JOB HELP Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A computer instructor provides one-on-one job help, including resume-writing; choosing a career; and updating interviewing, networking and job-search skills, from noon to 3 p.m., each Monday; and from 9 a.m. to noon, each Thursday, in the second-floor Catalina Room; free. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov to register. JOB-SEEKERS’ GATHERING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Former executive recruiter Beth Cole facilitates a gathering for adult job-seekers from 3 to 4 p.m., every Friday; free. SCORE BUSINESS COUNSELING Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Experienced executives give individualized advice about starting or building a business, from 3 to 5 p.m., every Tuesday; and from 9 a.m. to noon, every Saturday; free. Call for an appointment. TUCSON BUSINESS CONNECTION Lindy’s at Redline Sports Grill. 445 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8084. A free networking mixer takes place from 5 to 7:30 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month. Visit tbcnetworking.com for more information.

FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK FOX THEATRE FILMS Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Tickets are $7, $5 student, senior or active-duty military. Friday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Jan. 29, at 2 p.m.: The Searchers. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets or more information.

LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for tickets and a complete list of all shows and special events. Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m.: Goats; sold out. Sunday, Jan. 29, at 11 a.m.; and Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.: Citizen Kane; $5 suggested donation. Monday, Jan. 30, at 5:30 p.m.: Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s Project; free. Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m.: Pelada, featuring specialguest players from MLS teams, presented by FC Tucson, the FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup and the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; $10. THE SCREENING ROOM The Screening Room. 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Films start at 8 p.m.; $6. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27 and 28: Blank City, a documentary about New York City’s independent film movement with Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Deborah Harry, Thurston Moore and others. TREASURING CHILDHOOD FILM AND LECTURE SERIES Tucson Waldorf School River Bend Campus. 3605 E. River Road. 529-1032. Race to Nowhere screens at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1; free. The documentary contrasts our current education system with what’s needed to best prepare youth to become contributing and leading citizens.

GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK GARDENING CLASSES AT THE LIBRARY Master Gardeners from the Pima County Cooperative Extension Service conduct free classes at the libraries: the first Saturday of every month, at 10:30 a.m., Mission Branch, 3770 S. Mission Road; and every Friday through April 27, at 1 p.m., Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Visit ag.arizona.edu. SCOTT CALHOUN: THE GARDENER’S GUIDE TO CACTUS Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Scott Calhoun discusses his new book, The Gardener’s Guide to Cactus: The 100 Best Paddles, Barrels, Columns and Globes, at 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27; free. Refreshments and a Q&A follow. Visit antigonebooks.com.

SEED LIBRARY GRAND OPENING Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A seed library that enables gardeners to “check out” seeds and return replacements from the resulting crops opens from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. Benefits of home-grown versus processed foods are explored in the documentary Forks Over Knives, which is screened from 3 to 5 p.m.; free. TUCSON AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY The East Side Night Meeting of the Tucson African Violet Society gathers from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades, 201 N. Jessica Ave. The East Side Day Meeting takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades. The Northwest Day Meeting takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, at The Inn at the Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BUTTERFLY MAGIC Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Butterflies from farms in tropical regions make their homes in Tucson through Monday, April 30. They may be viewed from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily, except holidays; $13, $7.50 age 13 or younger, free infant, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. CLASSES AT TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. The gardens frequently offer classes on a wide range of gardening and related topics, including photography, painting and fauna that frequent Tucson gardens; $10 to $35, or free with admission. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. GUIDED TOURS OF TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Plant trivia, history of the gardens and introductions to native flora are featured on a guided tour at 10 a.m., every Friday, through May 25; $8, $4 age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical. org for more information. ORGANIC GARDENERS COMPOSTING EXHIBIT Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Tucson Organic Gardeners members answer questions in the composting-demonstration area from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Saturday, through May 26; $8, $4 age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK FREE CLINIC Islamic Center of Tucson. 901 E. First St. 624-3233. No insurance is needed for this free clinic provided by licensed physicians on a walk-in basis from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the last Saturday of every month. Clinic services

include physical exams; chronic disease management; screening for hypertension, diabetes and obesity; patient health education; urine analysis; pregnancy testing; pediatric services; and referrals to specialty clinics, labs, mammograms and radiology. No narcotic pain medications are prescribed. Call 329-1428 for information. OASIS STANDALONE CLASSES Each class is $9; call 322-5607 to register or for more information. Thursday, Jan. 26, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.: Dreams: Hidden Language for Healthy Living, Villa Hermosa, 6330 E. Speedway Blvd. TMC SENIOR CENTER TALKS TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 324-1960. Unless otherwise indicated, all classes are free and take place at the TMC Senior Resource Center. Advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Thursday, Jan. 26, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: “Alzheimer’s Disease: New to Memory Loss?”; and from 1:30 to 3 p.m.: a heart health and blood pressure clinic. Tuesday, Jan. 31, from 10 to 11 a.m.: “The Eyes Have It!,” an introduction to medical conditions of the eye.

UPCOMING REDUCING STRESS THROUGH MEDITATION Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Retired Army Col. William Smith discusses how meditation can reduce stress-related responses and improve concentration, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 2; free. A brief meditation follows.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CURVES LAUGHTER YOG-HA CLUB Curves. 2816 N. Campbell Ave. 326-1251. Men, women and children laugh for well-being from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Sunday; freewill donation. Call Judy at 822-8278, or visit laughteryogawithgita.com for more information. FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Any family caregiver who needs a safe place to share highs and lows, learn about resources, ask questions and develop coping skills is invited to drop into this facilitated group from 10 to 11:30 a.m., the first and third Wednesday of every month; free. Participants may attend as often or as seldom as they like. Call 790-0504 or 891-3299 for more information. HIV TESTING SAAF. 375 S. Euclid Ave. 628-7223. The Centers for Disease Control recommend HIV testing for all people ages 13 through 64. Visit napwa.org for more information on AIDS testing and its benefits. Testing hours at SAAF are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Monday and Wednesday; and 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. All testing is confidential; results are available in about 15 minutes; and counseling is available. Call for an appointment and more information.

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KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK ALL TOGETHER THEATRE Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Original adaptations of popular childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories are presented at 1 p.m., Sunday; $5 to $8. A musical adaptation of The Tortoise and the Hare closes Jan. 29. Bringing Literature to Life! is staged one day only, Feb. 5. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more information. BENEFIT: SONGS AND STORIES Tucson Community School. 2109 E. Hendrick Drive. 326-9212. A childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play, interactive reading, a professional storyteller, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs and a performance by Tucson singer and songwriter Tracy Shedd begin at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $5, $15 family, $12 family advance. Proceeds benefit the 60-year-old parent-owned school. Call for reservations or more information. CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FESTIVAL AND IMAGO THEATRE: ZOOZOO UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Acrobatics, mime and fanciful costumes portray whimsical stories in a revue of illusion and dance for all ages at 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; $13 to $24. The performance follows a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival featuring arts, science and crafts from 1 to 3:30 p.m., on the Centennial Hall patio; free. Call or visit uapresents.org for tickets or more information. GRIFFIN GALLOP Green Fields Country Day School. 6000 N. Camino de la Tierra. 297-2288. A 5k and 1-mile run, a pancake breakfast and live music get under way at 9 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; $30 to $35. Proceeds benefit athletics at Green Fields Country Day School. Call or visit www.greenfields.org for more information. PARENTING GIFTED CHILDREN CONFERENCE Rincon/University High School Auditorium. 421 N. Arcadia Drive. 440-5661. Three authors of A Parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to Gifted Children discuss the challenges that raising bright kids creates for the whole family, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. Email tiffany. oneill@asu.edu, or visit greatpotentialpress.com to register or for more information.

PFLAG Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meets from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month. The group provides support, education and advocacy on behalf of the LGBT community. Anyone needing help should call the hotline at 360-3795, or email pflagtuc@pflagtucson.org. Visit pflagtucson.org for resources on coping and helping. STORIES THAT SOAR SEEKS STORIES Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories about their reflections or their experiences related to the Jan. 8, 2011, shootings are sought for a production by Stories That Soar. Submit stories by Wednesday, Feb. 8, to sharon@storiesthatsoar.org, or deposit them at one of the locations listed at literacyconnects.org, where you can also find more information. TANQUE VERDE FOUNDATION TECH TREK Agua Caliente Elementary School. 11420 E. Limberlost Road. 749-2235. A certified 10k race, a 2-mile fun run and a 4-mile bike race get under way at 9 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $30 individual, $45 to $75 family. The fee includes breakfast, and the first 500 registrants receive a T-shirt. Proceeds benefit enrichment programs in the Tanque Verde Unified School District. Visit tvseef. org to register or for more information. TUCSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND TRAVELING EXHIBIT Valencia Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library. 202 W. Valencia Road. 594-5390. This exhibit of art and writing expressing local childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understanding of watersheds and the natural world continues through Sunday, March 18. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. YOUTH CONCERTO COMPETITION Student musicians have until Friday, Jan. 27, to apply for the Youth Concerto Competition co-sponsored by the Symphony Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association and the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Students compete for prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250; one will perform a solo with the orchestra in a future program. For an application and mailing instructions, e-mail info@sasomusic. org, or call 882-6653.

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MY HEART CHANGES: YOUTH ART EXHIBIT The Amerind Foundation. 2100 N. Amerind Road, Exit 318 off Interstate 10. Dragoon. (520) 586-3666. An art exhibit featuring animal masks, drawings, nature photographs and portraits of Apache community members and elders created by students from rural schools in Cochise and Graham counties opens at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4, and continues through Thursday, March 1. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; $8, $7 senior, $5 age 12 to 18 and college student, free younger child includes admission to all Amerind exhibits. Visit amerind.org for more information.

BEAT BACK BUFFELGRASS DAY Volunteers pull invasive and fire-prone buffelgrass from roadways, washes and parks at different sites around Tucson from 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 28. Visit buffelgrass.org to register or for more information.

UPCOMING NATURE STORIES AT AGUA CALIENTE PARK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Pima County Natural Resources and Tucson Audubon Society co-sponsor a story-reading and craft activity about the natural world from 10 to 11 a.m., Friday, Feb. 3; free. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

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HISTORICAL TOUR OF AGUA CALIENTE PARK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. All ages enjoy a guided tour of the park’s historic structures, and learn about its farming and ranching history, from 11 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Jan. 29; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information. SONORAN ARTHROPOD STUDIES INSTITUTE Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute. 7700 W. Gates Pass Road. 883-3945. Programs include nature walks, workshops, speakers and an exhibit of live and pinned specimens from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the fourth Saturday of every month; free. Visit sasionline.org for more info TUMAMOC HILL OPEN HOUSE Tumamoc: People and Habitats. 1675 W. Anklam Road. 621-6797. Spanning more than 860 acres, Tumamoc: People and Habitats, a 100-year-old desert laboratory, opens to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday

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and Sunday, Jan. 28 and 29. Featured are relics of 2,300 years of history at the site, and information about current programs to prevent mass extinction of species. Visit az100.arizona.edu for more information.

OUT OF TOWN BARRIO DE TUBAC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. A guided tour of the site of the original Spanish-colonial community from which Tubac grew takes place at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $5 includes admission to the presidio grounds and exhibits. Visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information. TOURS OF MISSIONS AROUND TUMACÁCORI Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. Guided tours to the fragile ruins of the historic mission sites of Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi and San Cayetano de Calabazas take place at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, through March 27; $20 includes transportation and admission to the Tumacácori mission and national park. Visit nps.gov/tuma, or call (520) 398-2341, ext. 0, for reservations or more info.

UPCOMING TUCSON MOUNTAIN BIRDING WALK Tucson Mountain Park Ironwood Picnic Area. 1548 S. Kinney Road. Canyon towhees, rufous-winged sparrows, Gila woodpeckers and other birds of the desert

Southwest may be found on this guided walk for ages 12 and older from 8 to 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 4; free. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK PSYCHIC FAIR Church of Mankind. 1231 S. Van Buren Ave. 7907374. A variety of readings, including spiritual one-onone, crystal ball, abstract art, psychometry, sea shells and Tarot cards, are offered from 2 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $20 per 15-minute reading. Proceeds benefit the church. Call 461-2910 or 790-7374. SPIRITUAL HEALING WITH THE TEACHINGS OF BRUNO GROENING University of Arizona Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. The Bruno Groening Circle of Friends Community gathers in Room E of the cafeteria at 3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, free. Email weissmae@email.arizona.edu, or visit bruno-groening.org/english for more information. TIES SPEAKER SERIES Unity of Tucson. 3617 N. Camino Blanco. 577-3300. Speakers discuss their near-death experiences at 6:30 p.m., the second and fourth Thursday every month; $5 suggested donation. Jan. 26: Roberta Grimes. Call 3952365, or email ties@spiritual-explorations.com.

OUT OF TOWN SARA NOVENSON: GREAT WOMEN OF THE BIBLE Church of the Apostles. 12111 N. La Cholla Blvd. Oro Valley. 544-9660. Artist and author Sara Novenson presents an illustrated talk about great female archetypes of the Bible from 4 to 6 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; freewill donation. Refreshments are served. Email ovapostles@aol.com, or visit apostleschurch.net.

UPCOMING CRYSTAL BOWLS AND HARMONIC VOICES San Pedro Chapel. 5230 E. Fort Lowell Road. 3180219. Tryshe Dhevney presents a concert of crystal singing bowls from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4; $15. Seating is festival-style; refreshments are available. Visit soundshifting.com for more information.

SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK AZ BLISTER KICKBALL: TEAMREGISTRATION DEADLINE Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. The deadline for team registration is Friday, Jan. 27. Each team must have 18 players; $70 per player. Individuals may sign up and be assigned to a team. Pickup games and a rules clinic take place at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 2 and 9. Visit kickball.com to register and for more information. IMPORT FACE-OFF Southwestern International Raceway. 11300 S. Houghton Road. 762-9700. A car, truck and bike show; low-riders; drag-racing; a stereo crank-it-up contest; raffles and giveaways; and a burnout competition take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; $17, $15 with flier, free age 10 and younger. Visit sirace.com to download the flyer and for more information. MLS PLAYERS ATTEND ‘PELADA’ SHOWING Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Players from the Major League Soccer teams Sporting Kansas City and the San Jose Earthquakes are present for a screening of Pelada at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1; $10. The event is presented by FC Tucson, the FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup and the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. SOUTHWESTERN INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY Vehicles that require IHRA Chassis Certifications can get them at Test N Tune at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $25. For more information or to make a private appointment, email office@sirace.com. SUNRISE AT OLD TUCSON CROSS-COUNTRY TRAIL RUN Old Tucson Studios. 201 S. Kinney Road. 883-0100. A benefit running event takes place at 8:15 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; $35 4-mile, $15 1-mile walk/run; free fun run for child 10 or younger. Entry fee includes breakfast, a T-shirt, and a free pass to Old Tucson Studios good

for one year. Additional breakfasts are $6.50. Proceeds benefit the John Wayne Cancer Foundation. Call 9910733, or visit azroadrunners.org for more information. TUCSON ULTIMATE Ochoa Park. 3450 N. Fairview Ave. 791-4873. League play takes place from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday; free spectator. Visit tucsonultimate.com for more information and a schedule for 2012. UA MEN’S BASKETBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. Tickets are $19 to $120; visit arizonawildcats.com for tickets or more information. Thursday, Jan. 26, at 8:30 p.m.: Washington State. Saturday, Jan. 28, at 5 p.m.: Washington. Thursday, Feb. 9, time TBA: Colorado. Saturday, Feb. 11, at noon: Utah. UA MEN’S GOLF Arizona National Golf Club. 9777 E. Sabino Greens Drive. 749-3636. UA hosts the Arizona Intercollegiate Tournament all day Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 30 and 31; free spectator, no carts. Visit arizonawildcats.com. UA MEN’S TENNIS LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. 900 N. Martin Ave. 6219902. Matches are free to spectators. Friday, Jan. 27, at noon: Sacramento State. Sunday, Jan. 29, at noon: San Francisco. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 1 p.m.: Cal Poly. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information.

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UA SWIMMING AND DIVING UA Hillenbrand Aquatic Center. 1827 E. Enke Drive. 621-0614. The UA men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams meet Texas at 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; free. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information. UA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. Tickets are $5 to $10. Thursday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m.: California. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 2 p.m.: Stanford. Visit arizonawildcats.com for tickets and more information.

UPCOMING UA WOMEN’S GOLF Golf Club at Vistoso. 955 W. Vistoso Highlands Drive. The UA hosts the Arizona Wildcat Invitational from Sunday, Feb. 5, through Tuesday, Feb. 7; free spectator. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information. UA WOMEN’S TENNIS LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. 900 N. Martin Ave. 621-9902. Matches are free to spectators. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m.: San Diego. Saturday, Feb. 11, at 10 a.m.: San Diego State. Friday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m.: North Texas. Saturday, Feb. 18, at noon: Cal Poly. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information. WINTER CIRCUIT HUNTER/JUMPER HORSE SHOWS Pima County Fairgrounds. 11500 S. Houghton Road. 762-3247. Hunting, jumping and equitation events take place in five show rings and several schooling rings from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday, Feb. 8 through March 11; free spectator. Winners of Sunday events compete to participate in a $1 million Grand Prix in New York in September. Visit www.hitsshows.com for more information.

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EVENTS THIS WEEK CONTRA DANCING First United Methodist Church. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. Live music, callers and an alcohol- and smokefree environment are provided for contra dancing at 7 p.m., the first, third and fourth Saturday each month; $8. An introductory lesson takes place at 6:30 p.m.; dancing begins at 7 p.m. Call 325-1902, or visit tftm. org for more information. TUCSON LINDY HOP Armory Park Center. 220 S. Fifth Ave. 791-4865. Lindy-hop lessons take place at 7 p.m., the fourth Saturday of every month. Dancing to a live band begins at 8 p.m., the same evening. $10 to $15. No partner required. Call 990-0834, or visit tucsonlindyhop.org for information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FREE TANGO LESSONS AND DANCE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. A free class for beginners (no partner necessary) takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., each Wednesday; and tango-dancing continues from 8 to 10 p.m.; free. Call 245-6158 for information. T-SQUARES DANCE CLUB Cornerstone Fellowship Social Hall. 2909 N. Geronimo Ave. 622-4626. A modern square-dance club for lesbians, gays and allies meets from 6 to 8:30 p.m., every Tuesday; free. All dancers are welcome. Call 886-0716, or visit azgaydance.org for more information.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK 17TH STREET GUITAR AND WORLD MUSIC STORE 17th Street Guitar and World Music Store. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 147. Free concerts take place from noon to 2 p.m., Jan. 28: Jamie O’Brien. Call 624-8821, ext. 7147, for more information. AMELIA RIEMAN OPERA COMPETITION UA Crowder Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-1162. Two groups, ages 18 to 23, and ages 24 to 33, compete for scholarship awards totalling $6,500 at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; free. LAVA MUSIC Abounding Grace Church. 2450 S. Kolb Road. 7473745. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; shows are 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday; $20, $15 advance unless otherwise noted. Jan. 28: Nathan and Jonathan McEuen. Feb. 4: BiG WiDE GRiN. Email bonnie@lavamusic.org, or visit lavamusic.org for tickets or more information. MUSIC AT THE UA UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. Sunday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m.: Renee Anne Louprette, Roy A. Johnson Memorial Organ Series, Holsclaw Hall; $5 to $9. Monday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m.: Brinton Smith, cello, and Evelyn Chen, piano, present Songs Without Words, Crowder Hall; $5 to $11. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m.: The President’s Concert, featuring the Arizona Symphony, with concerto-competition winners as soloists, Crowder Hall; $5 to $9. TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Guest vocalists Alli Mauzey and Julia Murney are featured in Wicked Divas at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29. Tickets range from $25 to $78. Call 882-8585, or visit tucsonsymphony.org.

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The energy and magic of ATC’s ‘The 39 Steps’ is delighting audiences

Spy Silliness BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com hese guys don’t miss a trick. Arizona Theatre Company has launched a wild and crazy—and undeniably hilarious—production of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, an adaptation by Patrick Barlow of Hitchcock’s 1935 film, which was based on John Buchan’s spy novel. Part parody, part farce, part circus and part puppet show, the production delivers nonstop, irresistible goofiness in a thoroughly polished way. It’s both intelligent and silly, and for all its extremes is reasonably restrained. Only a few times—lasting mere seconds—does the shtick cross the border into OK-Enough-Already Land. But you hardly have time to consider these tiny missteps before you are strapped back into this rowdy amusement-park ride of a play. Originating in England in 2005, the play was first produced in the United States in Boston in 2007. In the next year, it moved to Broadway, where it bounced around to several venues before it moved off-Broadway in 2010. It closed last month. This particular production was mounted at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis a year ago. It is re-created here with the same director and actors. How much has changed since the Guthrie production isn’t evident, but it appears the show has kept the same sensibility: The show wowed Twin Cities audiences, and it’s hard to imagine it won’t tickle the Old Pueblo’s fancy as well. Although it’s in many ways a parody of the spy movies of the 1930s, it’s also a celebration of the style and humor of intriguing and talented artists like Hitchcock, as well as spy novelists like Buchan. It takes those qualities and amps them up in ways that, although extreme, are respectful. The plot is complex in its details, but is actually pretty simple. It’s 1935, and bored Londoner Richard Hannay (Robert O. Berdahl) goes to the theater to find excitement—and ends up finding more than he bargained for. He meets a woman (Sarah Agnew) who entices him to take her home, confessing that she is a spy who has sensitive information that has made her the target of dangerous agents. “They will schtoop at nothing,” she warns him. When the new day dawns, he wakes to find the mysterious woman lying rigidly across his lap, a knife in her back. Now a murder suspect, he resolves to prove himself innocent by tracking down the deadly spy organization—the 39 Steps—of which the woman has spoken. His journey leaves us breathless, not only because of its danger and excitement, but also because of the brilliantly inventive comedic

Sarah Agnew and Luverne Seifert in Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. ways in which the story is told. The press materials claim that there are more than 150 characters, which sounds about right—I stopped counting about 30 minutes in. There are four actors. You do the math. The foundation of the troupe is Berdahl as Hannay. It’s a brilliant tour de force for an actor who’s equally competent in creating a likable character, enduring a physically frenetic marathon of antics, and executing whatever theater skills are demanded by the director’s vision. Agnew is called on to portray several characters, including lovely Pamela, who is handcuffed to Hannay for much of the chase, and ultimately becomes his ball-and-chain in their happily-ever-after. But the bulk of the characters who tell the story is handled by two actors (Jim Lichtscheidl and Luverne Seifert), who in the program are simply identified as Clowns. The energy and skill with which these two talented players approach the dizzying array of travelers, policemen, step-dancers, innkeepers, stage performers and politicians—all within split seconds of each other—is impressive. More important, it serves the spirit of the storytelling in a most-engaging way. They will amaze you. Yes, there is an airplane chase, a scary flock of attack birds and a shadowy appearance by Hitchcock himself—all in the funniest shadow-puppet show you’re ever likely to witness. There is a chase scene atop a speeding train; wooden frames are windows through which a character attempts to escape—while holding the frame himself. There’s even a herd of sheep—yes, a herd of sheep—milling about

Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps Presented by Arizona Theatre Company 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, and Friday, Jan. 27; 4 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1, and Thursday, Feb. 2; 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 3; 4 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4 Temple of Music and Art 330 S. Scott Ave. $35 to $56 Runs two hours and 10 minutes, with one intermission 622-2823; www.arizonatheatre.org

in the cutest way and blocking traffic in the Scottish countryside. Much of the charm of this piece is the parade of blatantly opaque tricks of the theater trade—tricks that make theater a magical medium. In this show, all of the elements not only work well together, but do so quite obviously. Set, sound and costumes, as well as an outstandingly poised ensemble, are stitched together by director Joel Sass to showcase the collaborative skills that create good theater. It’s refreshing to rediscover the simple, low-tech delights of theater magic done well. Movie chase scenes, explosions and a whole new dimension to the art of animation certainly have their appeal and wow factor, but theater was the original 3-D storytelling medium, and this 39 Steps reignites our appreciation of this millennia-old art form. If you can think of a trick these guys missed, please let me know.

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UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Europa Galante with Biondi and Genaux are featured at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $27 to $59. Call or visit uapresents.org for tickets or more information.

OUT OF TOWN ARIZONA FOLKLORE PRESERVE Arizona Folklore Preserve. 44 Ramsey Canyon Road. Hereford. 378-6165. Performers of traditional music are featured at 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, unless otherwise noted; $15, $6 younger than 17. Jan. 28 and 29: Dolan Ellis. Friday, Feb. 3, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Dennis Gaines, Chuck Pyle, Hank Kramer and Trails and Rails. Feb. 4 and 5: closed. Visit arizonafolklore.com for information about the folklore preserve and a schedule of upcoming performances. DESERT VIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Desert View Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Saturday, Jan. 28, at 7:30 p.m.: Old but Goodies Revue; $22, $20 advance. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets or more information. FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC Bisbee Women’s Club. 7 Ledge Ave. Bisbee. (520) 4323204. Linda Chatterton, flute, and Rex Woods, piano, perform at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; and 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29; $10. Call (520) 432-7217, or visit artentree.net/fortheloveofmusic for reservations. ROCK FOR REHAB Copper Queen Convention Center. 3 Copper Queen Plaza. Bisbee. (520) 432-3554. Sugar Thieves, The Tryst, Dan Simonis and the WTM, Dry River Yacht Club, Fatigo, Dylan Charles and the Border Crossers, Terry Wolf, Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl, Rockus and Isaac Jones perform from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; $10. Proceeds benefit Verhelst Recovery House. Visit rockforrehab.com for more information.

UPCOMING ARIZONA EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Cançonièr presents The Black Dragon: Music From the Time of Vlad Dracula (ca. 1451-76) at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 4; $25, $22 senior, $5 student. A talk precedes the concert at 2:30 p.m. Call 690-1361, visit azearlymusic.org for tickets. DESERT VOICES Tucson Scottish Rite Cathedral. 160 S. Scott Ave. 6228364. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 5, at 3 p.m., the chorus presents Love Is ... ; $20, $18 advance and $15 student. New singers are welcome at 7 p.m., every Monday, at Water of Life MCC Church, 3269 N. Mountain Ave. Call 791-9662, or visit desertvoices.org for more information. EL CON CLUB: BIG BAND MUSIC Randolph Golf Course Clubhouse. 600 S. Alvernon Way. 791-4161. A dinner-dance and show featuring the Tucson jazz big-band Tucson Swings takes place in the new El Con Club and Grill at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4; $15, $25 includes preferred seating and a buffet dinner. Call 624-8821, ext. 7147, or visit elconclub. com for reservations or more information. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m., Starting Over: The John Lennon Experience; $15 to $30. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets or more information. GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Concerts are at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22. Feb. 6: Blues and Soul Explosion: A Salute to the Blues Brothers. Feb. 13: Strait Country Tribute to George Strait. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com. PIANO AND FRIENDS CONCERT Leo Rich Theater. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Michael Brown perform at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5; $25, $10 student. A reception follows in the lobby. Call 577-3769, or visit arizonachambermusic.org for tickets or more info. RHYTHM AND ROOTS CONCERTS Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m.: Fred Eaglesmith Band with the Fabulous Ginn Sisters, Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino, 2970 N. Swan Road; $25, $22 advance. Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m.: Sons of the Pioneers, Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd.; $35, $32 advance. Call (800) 594-8499, or visit rhythmandroots.org for tickets. Call 319-9966 for more information.

TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT CATALINA FOOTHILLS HIGH SCHOOL Catalina Foothills High School Auditorium. 4300 E. Sunrise Drive. 577-5090. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 5, at 2 p.m.: American Portraits, featuring Stephen Seifert, mountain dulcimer. Tickets are $33 to $78. Call 882-8585, or visit tucsonsymphony. org for tickets or more information.

THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Two Amigos, the comic adventures of circus performers Reynaldo and Paco, continues through Sunday, March 25. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 6 and 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 and 7 p.m., Sunday; $17.95, $7.95 child age 12 and younger, $15.95 student, military and senior. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for reservations or more info.

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OPENING THIS WEEK BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 882-0555. We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! opens with a preview at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 26. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $21, $15 preview. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets and more information. CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION Doubletree Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200. Award-winning illusionists Roland Sarlot and Susan Eyed present Carnival of Illusion: An Evening of Intimate Magical Wonders at 6 and 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28; 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17; 3:30 and 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 18; and 6 and 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $29 adult, $24 senior and ages 8 to 16. Tickets include a 2-for-1 dinner special. Audience limited to 35. Call 615-5299, or visit carnivalofillusion.com for tickets. GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERT The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Magician and comedian Chris Blackmore performs at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 30; $17, $11 child. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for more information. UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m.: Garrison Keillor; $27 to $69. Friday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m.: Penn and Teller with Carnival of Illusion’s Roland Sarlot and Susan Eyed; $36 to $74. Call or visit uapresents.org for tickets or more information.

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COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. The Mystery Genius of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown, which launches a new series of plays adapted from the work of mystery writers, closes Saturday, Jan. 28. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $12, $10 senior and student unless otherwise noted. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets.

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UPCOMING ARIZONA OPERA Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 4 and 5: Madama Butterfly, $30 to $118. Operas are sung in Italian with English surtitles. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday. Visit azopera.com for tickets. THE COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. “A Pair of Plays by J.M. Barrie,” The Old Lady Shows Her Medals and A Well-Remembered Voice, open Friday, Feb. 3, and continue through Sunday, March 4. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 senior or student. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more info. UA THEATRE UA Marroney Theater. 1025 N. Olive Road. 6211162. Necessary Targets, based on interviews with Bosnian women in the Yugoslavian Civil War, opens Sunday, Feb. 5, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 26, in the Tornabene Theatre at the Marroney Theatre. Performance dates vary; showtime is 7:30 p.m., except Sunday, when showtime is 1:30 p.m.; $17 to $28. Visit arizona.tix.com for tickets; see cfa.arizona.edu for info.

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ARIZONA ONSTAGE PRODUCTIONS Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. The Marvelous Wonderettes, a familyfriendly story of a 1958 senior prom, continues through Sunday, Feb. 5. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $25 to $32.50. Call 882-6574, or visit brownpapertickets.com for tickets or more information. ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, a comedy thriller in which four cast members play more than 150 characters, continues through Saturday, Feb. 4. Showtimes vary; $31 to $56 plus fees, $10 student with ID. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org for tickets or more information. BEOWULF ALLEY’S OLD TIME RADIO THEATRE Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. A reading of radio scripts from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s takes place at 7 p.m., the first and third Tuesday of every month; $10, $5 ages 4 through 12. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for more information. ESCAPE REALITY PRODUCTIONS AND TUCSON MUSIC THEATRE The Hungry Fox Restaurant and Country Store. 4637 E. Broadway Blvd. 326-2835. Hats: The Musical, a 90-minute show based on the stories, experiences and mission of the Red Hat Society, is staged at 3 p.m., Friday and Saturday, through Saturday, Feb. 5, with additional performances at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, and Friday, Feb. 4; $25 includes tea, coffee, dessert and a $5 donation to Tucson Music Theatre. Call 9094913, or email escaperealityproductions@aol.com. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Arthur Miller’s All My Sons continues through Sunday, Feb. 12. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 student, senior or military. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more information. RED BARN THEATER 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. The musical comedy How to Talk to a Minnesotan is staged Friday through Sunday, Jan. 27 through 29; and Feb. 10 through 12. Show times are at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12; $16, $10 Friday, $13 senior, student or military. Call or visit theredbarntheater.com for more information.

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PERFORMING ARTS From top to bottom: Jacinda Rose Swinehart, Shanna Brock, Elizabeth Cracchiolo and Janet Roby in The Marvelous Wonderettes.

Arizona Onstage’s shallow ‘Wonderettes’ is studded with fun hits from the ’50s and ’60s

Down Memory Lane BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com hen Kevin Johnson, artistic director of Arizona Onstage Productions, introduced The Marvelous Wonderettes on opening night, he noted that the musical is being performed by theater troupes all over the country, after a long run off-Broadway. He said The Marvelous Wonderettes has clearly “struck a chord” with audiences, who sometimes just want to hear the music of their youth. A cry of “Yes!” was heard from the members of the packed crowd (many from the 60-plus demographic). I have never before seen so many people crammed into the small space of the Cabaret Theater at the Temple of Music and Art. Johnson is correct in his assessment of what a certain kind of theatergoing audience wants in a musical. Actually, The Marvelous Wonderettes is more revue than musical. It’s described as “created by” Roger Bean, rather than “written by.” There are no original songs; instead, the show consists of famous pop tunes from the ’50s and ’60s strung together by a tenuous plot. The title refers to an all-girl group of singers. In the first act, they are performing at their 1958 senior prom. In the second act, they sing at their 10-year high school reunion. There’s Missy (Jacinda Rose Swinehart), who wears cat-eye glasses and heads the prom-decoration committee. There’s Cindy Lou (Shanna Brock), whose heart is set on becoming prom queen; Cindy Lou is competitive with her nominal best friend, Betty Jean (Elizabeth Cracchiolo). Finally, there’s sweet but dim Suzy (Janet Roby). Swinehart wowed me with her acting earlier this year in Studio Connections’ Fat Pig, and she wowed me again here with her voice, which is powerful and charming. Her Missy

has a crush on her teacher. His name is Mr. Bill Lee, giving Missy an excuse to sing “Mr. Lee” and “Wedding Bell Blues” (“Till you marry me, Bill …”), along with “Teacher’s Pet” and “Secret Love.” Similarly, lovelorn Betty Jean has a troubled relationship with a boy named Johnny. That’s so she can sing “It’s My Party” (“Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone …”), “That’s When the Tears Start,” “I Only Want to Be With You” and “Lipstick on Your Collar.” That’s the basic idea: In each act, the girls sing songs that are part performance and part reflection of what they’re feeling. Their characters have been built around the songs, rather than the other way around; Missy, Betty Jean, Cindy Lou and Suzy are basically just an excuse for catchy pop numbers and period costumes. Still, the performers do their best to add individual touches to their characters. Roby as kind, ditsy Suzy deserves a special nod. In the first act, Roby manages to convey Suzy’s sweetness of spirit through her enthusiastic waves to her offstage boyfriend. In the second, Roby gets to make full use of her voice in her bid for respect from the same boy (now her husband) when she sings “Maybe I Know,” “Rescue Me” and “Respect.” Brock, as queen-bee Cindy Lou, is suitably gorgeous, and she’s a charismatic performer. Her sweet, reedy voice works well on slow numbers like “Maybe,” but it’s just not up to bigger, bluesier songs like “Son of a Preacher Man” or even “Leader of the Pack.” In the program, director Samantha Cormier notes that she wanted to capture a “nostalgic charm” that would make you leave “with a smile on your face and a song in your heart.” This show is not trying to plumb the depths of

the human condition: It lives or dies on razzledazzle. For the most part, Cormier and Arizona Onstage do an excellent job of presenting a cheerful, candy-colored package for their audience. Cormier and Mike Boyd designed and constructed the set, a simple backdrop evoking a high school gym. The sound design (recorded rather than live) works well, with only a tiny bit of feedback at one point in the show. The lighting, however, is a bit odd; it’s dim throughout. At a few points, a character who should be the focus is plunged into darkness. In his bio, artistic director Johnson says that his “Mammie B” was a costume designer for the Ice Capades, and one can’t help but feel that she would be proud of his costume design here. In the first act, the girls wear delicious, puffy crinoline-and-lace confections; in the second, they’re in shiny, knee-length, modinfluenced dresses with capes. The shift in costumes effectively signals the shift from the ’50s to the ’60s. The costumes, in fact, are what stuck with me most vividly after the show, which is perhaps appropriate. The show is all on the surface: What you see is what you get.

The Marvelous Wonderettes Presented by Arizona Onstage Productions 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, Feb. 5 Cabaret Theater Temple of Music and Art 330 S. Scott Ave. $32.50 regular; $27.50 seniors and military; $25 students and teachers Runs two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission 882-6574 (info); (800) 838-3006 (tickets) www.arizonaonstage.org

There’s nothing deep or complex about The Marvelous Wonderettes, but then again, there isn’t really supposed to be. Still, if you’re a grouch like me, you long for more depth and complexity, anyway. But I’m clearly not the target audience. As I said, the theater was packed on opening night, and the audience members gave the show a standing ovation. I stood up, too. Never let it be said that I condemn someone else’s wholesome good fun.

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PERFORMING ARTS A popular ‘Dancing With the Stars’ performer joins ‘Forever Tango’

Steamy Steps BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com y.com he Russian dancer Anna Trebunskaya is best known for her turns on TV’s Dancing With the Stars, during which she tutored the likes of ex-boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and retired football player Kurt Warner in the art of popular dancing. Now she’s the latest dancer to tango to haunting Argentine rhythms in Forever Tango. Replacing an injured dancer in the longtouring tango extravaganza, Trebunskaya performs with the troupe in this Friday night’s performance at Centennial Hall. “I’d seen her in the program Dancing With the Stars,” said Luis Bravo, Forever Tango’s creator and choreographer, by phone last week from his home in Lexington, Ky. Trebunskaya had seen the long-running show and told Bravo she wanted to join. “I sent her to Argentina to train with my dancers,” Bravo said. As of last week, she was rehearsing intensively in Los Angeles while the rest of the company was practicing their moves elsewhere. “We’ll all get together in Phoenix,” Bravo said. Trebunskaya was to make her debut with the company Wednesday night, Jan. 25, at the Mesa Arts Center. The popular TV star will join 11 Argentine dancers, partnering with Ezequiel Lopez Hudyma. “I go back to Argentina every two or three years to take auditions,” said Bravo, a native of Argentina who lived there until coming to the U.S. at age 24. “I get the best dancers you can ever find.” Like most of the dancers, the singer, Martín de León, who sings traditional and newly composed Spanish tango songs, is from Argentina. The musicians in the eight-piece orchestra are also from the nation where tango was born in the bars and brothels of Buenos Aires late in the 19th century. One exception: the first violinist, Rodion Boshoer, is a compatriot of Trebunskaya. “He is from Russia,” Bravo said. “We met him in Toronto 16 years ago. He’s a master musician, irreplaceable.” Bravo, trained as a musician from childhood, plays the cello in the onstage orchestra. Other instruments include the double bass (“essential to tango”), a piano and three bandoneóns. “There is no tango music without the bandoneón,” Bravo declared. “It has a melancholic, mournful sound that’s also aggressive.” Like a concertina, but with a different sound, he said, the bandoneón comes from Germany, where it was played in marching bands. If it seems odd to have a German instrument playing a principal role in über-Argen-

Ballet Folklórico de Antioquía

COLOMBIAN MOVES The country’s national dance company is set to perform at UA Centennial Hall

David Leguizamon and Vanesa Villalba in Forever Tango. tine music—or to have a Russian dancing a principal part in the über-Argentine dance—it shouldn’t. Cultural mixing was always part of tango. Immigrants from Europe flocked to Argentina in the 19th century, bringing their own music and instruments with them. In the hardscrabble back alleys of Buenos Aires, these displaced workers began spicing up their music with African rhythms played by the descendants of slaves. Once a little Cuban music and Argentine country sounds were added, the new music began wailing in rough parts of town. Men strutted across dance floors, competing in the new dance form. “It was an anonymous popular creation,” Bravo said. “There are elements of gypsy, German and Caribbean music. Musicologists could talk for hours about it.” The clergy and the upper classes were scandalized by the erotic partnering in this new working-class amusement. Tango only turned legit when it took Europe by storm in the early decades of the 20th century. Back home in Argentina, it was finally embraced and eventually became a quasi-official national dance. Today, tourists from all over the world go to Buenos Aires to see tango in its birthplace— and they want to dance it as well. “Foreign people are coming to learn it,” Bravo said. “More than ever, young people are claiming it.” Above all, tango is “about the relationship between men and women. It’s a social dance” structured around the couple. Each of the dancers in the 12-member troupe is always paired with the same partner. Some of the dances in Forever Tango—such as “Romance del Bandoneón y la Noche”

Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27 UA Centennial Hall 1020 E. University Blvd. $25 to $55, with discounts 621-3341; www.uapresents.org

(Romance of the Bandoneón and the Night), performed by Victoria Galoto and Juan Paulo Horvath—feature just two dancers battling it out in a single duet. In others, a number of couples dance in succession; the grand finale has all six couples performing. Bravo choreographs the pieces in collaboration with the dancers. “First comes the story, then the music comes—and the humanity of the dancer. They’re highly trained. Every choreography is well studied and practiced.” Most of the show’s dancers came up through the tango houses in Buenos Aires, but some have had a somewhat different trajectory. Horvath danced with Ballet Folklórico Nacional de Argentina. Galoto paired her tango-training with modern dance, studying with a trio of leading American modern-dance companies: Trisha Brown and Alvin Ailey (both troupes will perform at Centennial Hall this spring), and Merce Cunningham. Forever Tango debuted in 1997 on Broadway, and has returned twice. Tours have brought tango around the world, and Bravo said more than 6 million people have seen the show. Reviewers have called it steamy, sizzling, smart and funny. “Today, tango is one of the most-popular dance forms,” Bravo declared, “and the hardest.”

Along the humid Caribbean coast of Colombia in South America, the story goes, a fish taught the people to dance. When fishermen caught the mapalé long ago, the fish wriggled so vigorously that its movements became the mapalé, a frenetic Colombian national dance. That dance gives its name to a concert at UA Centennial Hall next Saturday, Feb. 4. In Mapalé, the Ballet Folklórico de Antioquía, the national dance company of Colombia, performs a program of 16 works. Danced by a troupe of 20 dancers in wildly colored skirts and pantaloons, the pieces reflect the mixed heritage of the nation at the northern end of South America. Indigenous, African and Spanish influences can be heard in the titles of the dances— “Cumbia,” “Tambora,” “San Agustín”—and in the music. Vocalist Cristina Escamilla sings to the live music of seven musicians. Some of the instruments are familiar—guitar, bass, piano, percussion, clarinet, sax—and some, like the bombardino horn, are exotic to American listeners. One critic called Mapalé a “spectacular show of lights, music and dance.” Ballet Folklórico de Antioquía, the national dance company of Colombia, performs at 8 p.m., next Saturday, Feb. 4, at UA Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. Tickets are $18 to $38 for regular admission, with discounts. For tickets or more information, call 621-3341, or visit www. uapresents.org. —M.R.

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ART OPENING THIS WEEK BEMINE: WRITERS AND ARTISTS COLLABORATE UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Curated pairs of Tucson writers, visual artists and musicians collaborate to re-invent the valentine in BeMine, an exhibit that opens Wednesday, Feb. 1, and continues through Friday, March 30. A reception is held from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 13. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for more information. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. BLUE RAVEN GALLERY AND GIFTS Blue Raven Gallery and Gifts. 3054 N. First Ave., No. 4. 623-1003. Crazy for Color, an exhibit of works in a range of media by local artists, opens with a reception from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, and continues through Saturday, March 10. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Friday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; or by appointment; free. Visit blueravengalleryandgifts.com for more information. ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Don’t Look Now: Craig Cully, Chris Rush and James Reed, an exhibit of painting and mixed media highlighting the way the ordinary is made exotic, opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, and continues through Tuesday, March 27. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more info. JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108. 626-4215. The Current Past, an invitational exhibition for past tenured UA teaching art faculty, opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27, and continues through Friday, Feb. 24. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. East/Pacific/West: Confluence, featuring works by Claire Campbell Park, Nancy Tokar Miller and Mary Babcock, opens Monday, Jan. 30, and continues through Friday, March 9. A gallery talk from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9, is followed by a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., and a lecture at 7 p.m.; all free. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday; and before most evening performances in the Center for the Arts. Call 206-6942, or visit pima.edu/cfa for more information. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Diana Madaras’ “Flowers for Susan” and other floral paintings are featured from Wednesday, Feb. 1, through Thursday, March 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday. Visit madaras.com for more information. PIMA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Pima Air and Space Museum. 6000 E. Valencia Road. 574-0462. Round Trip: Art From the Boneyard, an exhibit of military airplanes and parts recycled into art works, opens Saturday, Jan. 28, and continues through Thursday, May 31. Organized by Eric Firestone, the exhibit is the second in a series; for the first, artists worked with nose cones. Round Trip features works by more than 30 artists from around the world, including popular graffiti and street artists, and Tucsonan Daniel Martin Diaz. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admittance, 4 p.m.), daily; $15.50, $9 ages 7 to 12, $12.75 senior, military, Pima County resident and AAA member, free child younger than 7. Visit pimaair.org for more information. TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Exhibit Hall. Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Arizona Centennial Exhibit opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, and continues through Sunday, April 22. The exhibit features works highlighting the landscapes, historic locations, culture and wildlife of our region. The exhibit Art of the Guitar runs through Sunday, March 4. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with ID, $2 child age 5 to 12, free member and child younger than 5. Visit tohonochulpark. org for info.

CONTINUING CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER ART GALLERY Campus Christian Center Art Gallery. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. A Shared Passion for Color, an exhibit of mixed-media works by Santy Brittain and Carol Chambers, continues through Friday, March 9; free.

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DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. Portraits of DeGrazia, an exhibit of photographs and paintings of Ted DeGrazia, including works by Louise Serpa and Thomas Hart Benton, continues through Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Ted DeGrazia Depicts the Life of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino: 20 Oil Paintings is on permanent display. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. Call or visit degrazia.org for more information. DIOVANTI DESIGNS GALLERY Diovanti Designs Gallery. 174 E. Toole Ave. 305-7957. Raíces Profundas/The Depth of Our Roots, a collection of work by Yovannah Diovanti, is displayed for sale through Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. THE FRONT ROOM GALLERY The Front Room Gallery. 105 W. Fifth St. (406) 624-9792. Paula Wittner: 9 Paintings, an exhibit of vignettes and portraits both humorous and serious, continues through Tuesday, Feb. 28. Hours are by appointment; free. Visit frontroom105.wordpress.com for more information. GEORGE STRASBURGER ART GALLERY George Strasburger Art Gallery. 172 N. Toole Ave. 8822160. People and Places, an exhibit of paintings by George Strasburger and photographs by Alfonso Elia, continues through Saturday, March 31. All ages are welcome, but registration by phone is required. Visit georgestrasburger.com for more information. HEALING IN TUCSON UA Medical Center South Campus. 2800 E. Ajo Way. 874-2000. Healing in Tucson: The Healing Response to the Violence of January 8, 2011 continues through Sunday, Feb. 26, in the Behavioral Health Pavilion Gallery. Hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1:30 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery. 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-7798. An exhibit of paintings by Dean Mitchell continues through Wednesday, Feb. 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit medicinemangallery.com for more information. PORTER HALL GALLERY Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Tracy Ledbetter: Bugs and Blooms continues through Tuesday, Feb. 28. Gallery admission is free with paid admission to the gardens. Regular hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. QUANTUM ART GALLERY Quantum Art Gallery. 505 W. Miracle Mile, No. 2. 9077644. A Taste of Things to Come, an exhibit of work by Matthias and Emily Stern Düwel, Micheline Johnoff and Citizen Zane, continues through Wednesday, Feb. 29. Hours are 2:30 to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday; free. RAICES TALLER 222 GALLERY Raices Taller 222 Gallery. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Vicios y Virtudes (Vices and Virtues), an exhibit of paintings, sculpture and multimedia work interpreting artists’ personal values, continues through Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, or by appointment; free. Call or visit raicestaller222.webs.com for more information. SOUTHERN ARIZONA ARTS GUILD Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. An art show juried by SAAG members continues through Monday, April 30. The exhibit is always open; free. Visit southernazartsguild.org for more information. TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Jeff Smith: Drivescapes, a travelogue of work by the Tucson photographer, continues through Tuesday, Feb. 21. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and before Arizona Theatre Company performances on Saturday and Sunday; free. Call 6222823, or e-mail info@ethertongallery.com for more information. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport Gallery. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. Spirit of the Rodeo Shared in Images, an exhibit of photographs by Louise Serpa and her daughter Mia Larocque, continues through Saturday, March 3, in the Lower Link Gallery. Tom Kiefer’s Journey West, an exhibit of black-and-white photographs taken between Phoenix and Ajo, continues through Saturday, March 31, in the TIA Center Gallery between the Southwest and Delta Air Lines ticket counters. TIA galleries are open 24 hours, daily; free. Visit flytucsonairport.com for more information.

TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Tucson Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000, ext. 106. Synagogues of Mexico: Photographs by Moy Volkovich continues through Thursday, Feb. 2. Except for Jewish holidays, gallery hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday; 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday; and 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit tucsonjcc.org for a schedule of holidays.

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TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303. 624-0595. An exhibition of mixed-media paintings by Barbara Brandel and Lorrie Parsell continues through Wednesday, March 28, in the lobby. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free.

GREEN VALLEY VILLAGE Green Valley Village. 101 S. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 625-6551. An exhibit of paintings by members of Tucson Plein Air Painters continues through Friday, March 2, in meeting room No. 13; free. Hours are 8 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 5 p.m., daily, except when meetings are in progress.

TUCSON TAMALE COMPANY Tucson Tamale Company. 2545 E. Broadway Blvd. 3054760. Guideposts and Anchors, an exhibit of mixedmedia works with Asian and Middle Eastern influences, continues through Saturday, March 3. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday; free. UA STUDENT UNION KACHINA LOUNGE AND GALLERY Kachina Lounge and Gallery. UA Student Union Memorial Center, Third Floor. 621-6142. Soul Art: Mishcka O’Connor continues through Friday, Feb. 17. Hours are noon to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday; free. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. A Wave of Dreams, an exhibit of watercolors by Bernardita Reitz, continues through Sunday, Feb. 5. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 1 p.m., Sunday; free.

LAST CHANCE AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Cool Water, an exhibit of watercolors by Kathy Robbins and Mary Schantz, closes Wednesday, Feb. 1. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 171. 622-8997. High Contrast, a multimedia exhibition in black and white, closes Saturday, Jan. 28. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit conradwildegallery.com for more information. CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. Indigenous Intentions, an exhibit of David Moreno’s acrylic paintings with contemporary abstract and traditional Yaqui themes, closes Saturday, Jan. 28. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759. An exhibit of abstract paintings by Joanne Kerrihard, narrative paintings by Jean Stern and abstract sculpture by David Mazza closes Saturday, Jan. 28. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit davisdominguez.com for more information. KIRK-BEAR CANYON LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Birds With Attitude, a solo exhibit of acrylic and watercolor paintings by Ruth Canada, closes Tuesday, Jan. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Diana Madaras’ favorite paintings from the past 15 years of calendars are displayed for sale, and a raffle offers a complete set of her 15 years of calendars, closing Tuesday, Jan. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday. Visit madaras.com for more information. PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Studio Hotshots closes Saturday, Jan. 28. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. UA POETRY CENTER ART EXHIBIT UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Portraits of Poets, a limited-edition series of Gwyneth Scally’s hand-pulled linoleum prints of famous poets’ portraits, closes Saturday, Jan. 28. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free.

BISBEE CENTRAL SCHOOL PROJECT Bisbee Central School Project. 43 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-5347. Forward Ever, Backward Never, an exhibit of James H. Barker’s photos of the 1965 Selma march for civil rights, closes Sunday, Jan. 29. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Visit centralschoolproject.org for more information.

MATA ORTIZ POTTERY SHOW Western National Parks Association Bookstore. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Pottery demonstrations and kiln firings take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27 and 28; free. Mata Ortiz pottery and Zapotec rugs are displayed for sale. Visit wnpa.org for directions or more info. UA BIOSPHERE 2 GALLERY Biosphere 2 Center. 32540 S. Biosphere 2 Road. Oracle. 838-6200. Earth and Mars: Stephen Strom, a collection of diptychs that juxtapose abstract desert landscape images with photos of Mars from the NASA archives, continues through Friday, March 30; free with admission. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; $10 to $20. Visit b2science.org for more information.

UPCOMING AGUA CALIENTE RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Our Arizona, an exhibit of 15 small quilts celebrating Arizona’s centennial, opens Friday, Feb. 3, and continues through Wednesday, Feb. 29. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@ pima.gov for more information. ART GALLERY Art Gallery. 1122 N. Stone Ave. 624-7099, 405-5800. The Valentine Show, representing artists’ interpretations of love in jewelry and art, opens Thursday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment; free. ART SAFARI: FIRST SATURDAY ART WALKS Member galleries of the Central Tucson Gallery Association and related venues are open from 6 to 9 p.m., the first Saturday of every month; free. Visit ctgatucson.org for a map of participating galleries and more information. CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 171. 622-8997. The Seventh Annual Encaustic Invitational opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4, and continues through Saturday, March 31. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit conradwildegallery.com for more information. DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759. Into a Large Place: Paintings of the National Parks, an exhibit of plein-air paintings by Duncan Martin; and The Beauty of Imperfection, abstract sculpture by Barbara Jo McLaughlin, opens Thursday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, March 17. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit davisdominguez.com for more information. THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. Bridges II: An Artist Exchange Exhibition, featuring works by 16 artists from the U.K. and the U.S., opens Saturday, Jan. 28, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 25. An artists’ reception takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit thedrawingstudio. com for more information. PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Glass: “30-40-50,” an exhibit celebrating the 30th anniversary of Philabaum Glass Gallery, the 40 years the gallery’s exhibiting artists have worked in glass, and the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement, opens with a reception and demonstration from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4, and continues through Saturday, April 28. During the reception, several artists collaborate in creating a hand-blown vintage ’60s camper. Related lectures take place at the Tucson Museum of Art Education Center Auditorium; free. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 1 p.m., Fritz Driesbach presents “Where Were You in ’62?” Saturday, March 3, at 1 p.m.,

Henry Halem presents “From the Ground Up.” Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more information. STONE DRAGON STUDIO Stone Dragon Studio. 1122 N. Stone Ave. 405-5800. Avian Personae: Part 2, an exhibit of oil paintings on board by Moira Geoffrion, opens Thursday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ARTISTS: INDIAN BORN, AMERICAN MADE Raices Taller 222 Gallery. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Submissions of traditional and contemporary paintings, sculpture, photography, mixed media and non-traditional media are sought for an exhibit of works by Native American artists. Email images to raicestaller222@aol. com by Saturday, Feb. 18; or deliver pieces for review from 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 18. Call for submission guidelines. CALL FOR ARTISTS: PLEIN-AIR PAINT-OUT Green Fields Country Day School. 6000 N. Camino de la Tierra. 297-2288. Monday, Jan. 30, is the deadline for applications for the Plein-Air Paint-Out, in which artists paint outdoors anywhere on the campus from 7:30 a.m. to noon, Tuesday through Friday, Feb. 7 through 10; and from 7:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Feb. 11. Prizes are awarded to three artists, and an exhibition and sale of their work takes place at a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday. To enter, send three digital images, 300 dpi or higher, to placitadelaluna@live.com; and send a completed application with a $25 entry fee to the school. Visit arizonapleinairpainters.com for an application. CALL TO ARTISTS: RED Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Arizona artists older than 18 may submit work in any two-dimensional media for consideration in Red: A Juried Invitational, to be exhibited from Saturday, April 7, through Friday, June 1, 2012. The exhibit accompanies the Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Red, a 2010 Tony Award-winning play about Mark Rothko. Submission deadline is Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Visit ethertongallery.com for submission guidelines.

MUSEUMS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. An exhibit of 20 Hopi quilts continues through Monday, Aug. 20. Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera is exhibited through Friday, Nov. 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, free youth younger than 18, active-duty military and their families, people with business in the building and everyone for public events. Visit statemuseum.arizona.edu for more information. CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. Ansel Adams: The View From Here, featuring 40 photographs of the Yosemite wilderness taken in the 1910s and ’20s, continues through Sunday, Feb. 5. Regular hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. Visit creativephotography.org for more information MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Shaping Arizona Statehood: The George Stuart Historical Figures of the Movement West, an exhibit celebrating the state’s centennial, opens Tuesday, Jan. 31, and continues through Saturday, April 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; $7, $6 senior or military, $5 age 4 to 17, free younger child. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more information. MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Legislate Crazy, an exhibit of work by MOCA artist-in-residence Armando Miguelez, continues through Sunday, March 25. Camp Bosworth’s Plata o Plomo, which interprets the Marfa artist’s perceptions of gangster culture in the Americas, also runs through Sunday, March 25. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free member, child younger than 17, veteran, active military and public-safety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more information. RODEO PARADE MUSEUM Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum. 4823 S. Sixth Ave. 294-3636. A large collection of coaches, carriages,

wagons and other vehicles, as well artifacts from Tucson’s aviation history, are exhibited from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, through Saturday, April 7; $10, $8 senior, $2 child, 50 percent off for military personnel and their family with military ID. Call or visit tucsonrodeoparade.org for more info. TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray, photographs by Kahlo’s longtime lover and friend; and Tesoros del Pueblo: Latin American Folk Art, featuring many items from the museum’s permanent collection, open Saturday, Jan. 28, and continue through Sunday, June 3. Also on display are textiles and garments similar to those Kahlo frequently wore, on loan from the Castañeda Museum of Ethnic Costume. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; $8, $6 senior and veteran, $3 student with ID, free younger than 13, free the first Sunday every month. UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. The Border Project: Soundscapes, Landscapes and Lifescapes continues through Sunday, March 11. This exhibit is the centerpiece of many events, symposia and related exhibits. The closing event features tours, contests and discussion at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 8; free. Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu for details of related activities. Paseo de Humanidad, a 13-piece installation of life-size migrant figures and Mayan and Aztec codices, is displayed through Sunday, March 11, as a backdrop for The Border Project and related events and symposia. The Samuel H. Kress Collection and the altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo are on display until further notice. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $5, free member, student, child, faculty and staff with ID. Call or visit artmuseum.arizona.edu for more information. UA SCIENCE: FLANDRAU UA Science: Flandrau. 1601 E. University Blvd. 6217827. Biters, Hiders, Stinkers and Stingers, an exhibit about poisonous animals and the good they do, continues through Thursday, May 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday; 6 to 9 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday; $7.50, $5 age 4 to 15, free younger child, $2 Arizona college student with ID, $2 discount to CatCard holders. Visit flandrau.org for more information.

LITERATURE City Week Guidelines. Send information for City Week to Listings Editor, Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726, e-mail our account at listings@tucsonweekly.com or submit a listing online at tucsonweekly.com. The deadline is Monday at noon, 11 days before the Thursday publication date. Please include a short description of your event; the date, time and address where it is taking place; information about fees; and a phone number where we can reach you for more information. Because of space limitations, we can’t use all items. Event information is accurate as of press time. The Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc.

in advance. Call 730-4112, or visit storyartsgroup.org to sign up or get more information. YOLANDA BROYLES-GONZALEZ: EARTH WISDOM Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez discusses the book she co-authored with Chums elder and activist Pilulaw Khus, Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman, at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 3. A Q&A and refreshments follow.

ANNOUNCEMENTS DONATE COPIES OF ‘THE GREAT GATSBY’ Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Donated hardcover and paperback copies of The Great Gatsby are collected for The Big Read Literacy Initiative from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, and immediately before performances, through Friday, March 16. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

I LOVE BOOKS GROUP TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Books with aging as a central theme are discussed from 2 to 4 p.m., the fourth Thursday of every month; free. The Jan. 26 selection is Garrison Keillor’s Wobegon Boy.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ARROWHEAD-MAKING AND FLINTKNAPPING WORKSHOP Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. 2201 W. 44th St. 7981201. Flintknapper Allen Denoyer teaches a hands-on workshop about making arrowheads and spear points from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Jan. 28; $35, $28 Old Pueblo Archaeology and Pueblo Grande Museum

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EVENTS THIS WEEK JIM TURNER: ARIZONA: A CELEBRATION OF THE GRAND CANYON STATE Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Jim Turner signs his book of anecdotes and historic images from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan 28; free. VOICES FROM ARIZONA’S PAST Arizona Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. In tribute to Arizona’s centennial, Voices From Arizona’s Past: Sharlot Hall and Hattie Lockett, an exhibit of manuscripts and materials from the lives of pioneer poets, opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, and continues through Saturday, March 31. Several members of the Lockett family are present for the reception. Exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit az100.arizona.edu for more information about UA tributes to Arizona’s Centennial.

UPCOMING ODYSSEY STORYTELLING Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Six storytellers share tales from their lives based on the theme Pets: See Spot Run at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 2; $7. Anyone can ask to tell their story; the six are chosen

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Auxiliary member, includes all materials and equipment. Reservations are required. Call or e-mail info@ oldpueblo.org for reservations or more information. ART LECTURES AT ORO VALLEY LIBRARY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Docents from the UA Museum of Art discuss art topics from 2 to 3 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month; free. LIVING BEYOND 100 UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. UA Science presents a lecture series on the effects of long life, addressing the opportunities and costs of the new longevity, the biology of aging, the effects of aging on the brain, regenerative medicine, and the impact on global populations, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, through Feb. 28; free. Call 838-6136, or visit cos.arizona.edu/beyond for more information. NINE BILLION PEOPLE + ONE PLANET = ? Integrated Learning Center, Room 120. 1500 E University Blvd. 621-7788. Former New York Times environmental-science reporter Andrew Revkin discusses efforts to balance human activities with the planet’s finite resources, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26; free. Call 626-4345, or visit portal.environment. arizona.edu for more information. OLD FORT LOWELL LECTURE SERIES San Pedro Chapel. 5230 E. Fort Lowell Road. 3180219. Lectures are at 3 p.m., Sunday; free. Jan. 29: Jim Turner, “Old Fort Lowell From Camp Street to the River,” including anecdotes. Feb. 5: Ken Scoville, “Fort Lowell: The History of Arizona,” about how the Fort Lowell area is a microcosm of the state. Visit oldfortlowellneighborhood.org for more information. PRESENT AS FUTURE Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. As part of the lecture series “Present as Future: Science, Technology and the Visual Arts,” Josiah McElheny discusses the role of contemporary art in representing the critical issues of the present day, at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 30; free. Visit cfa.arizona.edu for more information. UA HUMANITIES SEMINARS UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Classes are held in the Dorothy Rubel Room; $195 each course unless otherwise noted. Monday, Jan. 30 through Feb. 20, 1 to 3 p.m.: Franz Liszt, $85. Tuesday, Jan. 24 through April 3, 9 a.m. to noon, or 1 to 4 p.m.: Dancin’ Fools: The Art of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Wednesday, Jan. 25 through April 4, 1 to 4 p.m.: James Joyce’s Ulysses. Thursday, Jan. 26 through April 5, 9 to 11 a.m.: Tolstoy’s Russia; $150. Call 626-7845, or visit hsp.arizona.edu to register or for more information.

OUT OF TOWN HOLLYWOOD AND THE SANTA CRUZ RIVER VALLEY Tubac Golf Resort and Spa. 1 Otero Road. Tubac. 3982211. Robert Shelton, founder of Old Tucson Studios, and Don Collier, Western-movie and television actor, share personal anecdotes and film clips at the Tubac Historical Society’s annual luncheon at noon, Thursday, Jan. 26; $30. Reservations are required. Call (520) 308-2020, or email info@ths-tubac.org for reservations or more information.

UPCOMING DOES ARIZONA HISTORY MATTER? Hotel Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. A panel discussion featuring Tom Sheridan, Border Citizens author Eric Meeks, A Safeway in Arizona author Tom Zoellner, and the founder of the Center for the Future of Arizona, Lattie Coor, focuses on the topic of Sheridan’s new book, Arizona: A History, Revised Edition, at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 7. Visit zocalopublicsquare.org for more information. JONATHAN OVERPECK: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ARIZONA Pima County Parks and Recreation Natural Resources. 3500 W. River Road. 877-6000. Climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck, coordinating lead author of a Nobel Prize-winning 2007 climate-change assessment, presents the latest scientific assessment from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 3; free. Reservations are required by Tuesday, Jan. 31. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@ pima.gov for reservations or more information.

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BOOKS Jane Eppinga adds to the legend of Doña Maria in her thrilling ‘La Malinche’

TOP TEN

The First New American

Antigone Books’ best-sellers for the week ending Jan. 20, 2012

BY TIM HULL, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

1. A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giﬀords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America

he had many names: La Malinche, Malintzin, Malinalli and, in the end, Doña Marina. Some call her a whore and a traitor; others call her a proto-feminist and the mother of all Mexicans. Her history is complex, her legend more so. She remains one of the most fascinating and mysterious figures from the conquest of Mexico: the native interpreter who loved Cortés the killer, the mother of Don Martin Cortes, the so-called first mestizo, the first New American. According to the great Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the Aztec empire would not have fallen to that undermanned band of Spanish adventurers without her help. Diaz was there in Tenochtitlan when it all went down, and as an old man, he recorded what he had seen in his The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. “Without the help of Doña Marina, we could not have understood the language of New Spain and Mexico,” Diaz wrote, adding that “Doña Marina was a person of greatest importance and was obeyed without question by the Indians throughout New Spain.” Diaz tells us that Marina was a chieftain’s daughter from Veracruz who had been sold into slavery to make way for a beloved half-brother. She spoke Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, as her primary tongue, but also learned to speak Chontal Maya. She was part of a group of women given to Cortés after the battle of Cintla in the Gulf Coast region, after which she was often seen at the captain’s side and in his tent. Aztec depictions of the conquest show her ever at his ear. Diaz writes that Marina would translate Nahuatl into Chontal Maya for Gerónimo de Aguilar, a Spaniard who had gone native after being shipwrecked in 1511, who would then translate Chontal Maya into Spanish for Cortés. Later, it seems that Marina picked up Spanish as well, thus eliminating the need for a system that likely caused a few misunderstandings. Cortés himself was less than effusive about Marina, and he later gave her to conquistador Juan Jaramillo. In his second letter to King Charles V from the New World, Cortés mentions her only as “my interpreter, who is an Indian woman from Putunchan.” But his actions

La Malinche By Jane Eppinga

Tom Zoellner, Viking ($26.95)

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2. The Hunger Games

262 pages, $24.95

Suzanne Collins, Scholastic (8.99)

3. Swamplandia! reveal, or at least suggest, that his feelings for Marina ran deep. In his will, he gave their son Martin 1,000 gold ducats a year for life. Such suggestions, combined with the relative paucity of hard facts about her life, have inspired countless writers and artists to use and abuse Marina, variously celebrating her power and independence, and condemning her apparent complicity in the destruction of an indigenous empire. The Marina depicted in local author Jane Eppinga’s unabashedly romantic novel, La Malinche, is a commoner brought to the palace of the Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl as a secret replacement for the stillborn child of the emperor’s favorite wife. Taunted with evil omens from the start, the girl is tossed into the middle of a war between gods. The pale-faced god Quetzalcoatl haunts her dreams, and she sees in these dreams her destiny. She is beautiful, confident, intelligent and lusty, and is a favorite of Ahuitzotl. She is meant to marry the up-and-comer Moctezuma, who will soon replace her father as emperor, only to lose his empire to strange men from across the sea, realizing too late that they are not the returning gods he took them for. Eppinga is at her best when she is describing daily life in Tenochtitlan, the gleaming Aztec capital. She is not afraid to let her imagination color and play around with her obviously deep knowledge of life in the Valley of Mexico in the early 1500s. She takes the reader inside the Aztec world and also inside the Aztec mind. In this passage, she describes the preamble to Marina’s marriage to Moctezuma: Moctezuma arrived in a bright red and green canoe from across Lake Texcoco. Six gorgeously attired servants transferred him to a solid gold litter with an eagle and a serpent carved into each corner post. Heavy drapes covered with feathers of the blue cotinga, the roseate spoonbill and the green quetzal, shielded his eyes from having to gaze upon the poor. The relatively short novel is full of this kind of detail, along with a fair amount of blood, sex, adventure and cannibalism. Eppinga has given us a thrilling read with La Malinche. It is a visionary, fantastical tale, strange and violent, and a worthy addition to the ever-growing legend of Doña Marina.

Karen Russell, Vintage ($14.95)

4. The Fault in Our Stars John Green, Dutton ($17.99)

5. Queen of America: A Novel Luis Alberto Urrea, Little, Brown ($25.99)

6. Death of a Red Heroine Qiu Xiaolong, Soho Crime ($14.95)

7. The Cat’s Table Michael Ondaatje, Knopf ($26)

8. Bossypants Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur ($15.99)

9. The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel Tea Obreht, Random House ($15)

10. The Glamour of Being Real Joanna Frueh, ErneRené ($10)

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CINEMA Liam Neeson’s ‘The Grey’ is the first great film of 2012

Scary Wolves

TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Jan. 22, 2012

BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com iam Neeson battles nature and puts up a damn good fight in director Joe Carnahan’s absorbing and devastating survival pic, The Grey. The film tells the scary and surprisingly emotional tale of Alaskan oil drillers who find themselves stranded in the middle of frozen tundra after their plane crashes. There’s scant chance of survival due to a lack of food, shelter and time before people freeze to death. There’s also the little matter of nasty, evil wolves trying to dismember them. The animals in The Grey have very little in common with White Fang. Actually, they make the werewolf from An American Werewolf in London look like an elderly pug. Neeson, in a performance that regains him a lot of respect after trash like Taken and Unknown, plays Ottway, a depressed sharpshooter working as a wolf exterminator for an oil-drilling company. If a wolf is preparing to pounce on one of his co-workers, it’s his job to pick it off with a rifle before teeth go into leg. Ottway has seen better days, and is dealing with depression brought on by an undisclosed event involving his wife. He isn’t in the best shape when he boards a plane with his coworkers, and his mood doesn’t brighten when the plane goes down in a truly harrowing sequence. And so starts a survival ordeal that makes Lord of the Flies look like summer camp. To prevent anarchy, Ottway becomes the de facto leader, or alpha, of the group, trying to share his knowledge of the animals with his fellow strugglers. They take his survival coaching with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Chief among his detractors is Diaz (played superbly by Frank Grillo), an ill-tempered excon who is chastised early on by Ottway for trying to steal stuff off of dead bodies from the crash. This gets their relationship off to a bad start, and the Diaz-Ottway showdown becomes one of the film’s more-compelling human interactions. Grillo takes a role that starts out looking like your typical movie baddie, and winds up doing so very much more with it. He’s going to get noticed for this turn. Also in the group are Joe Anderson (Across the Universe) as the young guy who talks too much, and Dermot Mulroney (who keeps getting better with age) as the older, regular Joe of the group. As with Grillo, each actor takes his part and turns it into something memorable and moving. They make you care a lot for these guys, and when characters start dying off, it hits hard.

1. Moneyball Sony

2. The Ides of March Sony

3. Contagion Warner Bros.

4. Killer Elite Universal

5. Abduction Lionsgate

6. What’s Your Number? 20th Century Fox

7. Apollo 18 Weinstein

8. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Sony

9. I Am Gaiam Liam Neeson in The Grey. Carnahan, who worked with Neeson on the underwhelming The A-Team, finally delivers on the promise showed by 2002’s Narc. The Grey is a lot deeper than I expected a wilderness-survival movie to be. There’s a scene in the film in which Ottway talks a man through death, and this scene will stand as one of the more emotionally true and moving scenes of the year. Yes, I know it is only January. Would timber wolves really track and systematically pick off a group of men as they do in this film? I don’t know. I do know that the way Carnahan presents the whole ordeal is as much horror movie as it is survival yarn, and the film made me jump on more than one occasion. He does such a great job with the presentation that I really don’t care how much of it was authentic and true-to-life. The film comes off as some sort of man-vs.nature nightmare that a dude might have after, say, encountering a timber wolf on a snowshoeing expedition, and then taking acid before going to sleep. It’s a stellar, crazy, scary trip. The wolves themselves are a mixture of practical and computer effects. Not every shot works, and a few have that “fake” look. The shots that do work are solid, and good enough to forgive those few moments when it’s obvious you aren’t looking at a real wolf. As for the actual mauling scenes, I haven’t been this distraught watching movie animals

10. The Guard Sony

The Grey Rated R Starring Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney and Frank Grillo

Anna Faris in What’s Your Number?

Directed by Joe Carnahan Open Road, 117 minutes Opens Friday, Jan. 27, at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888-262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-3263264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800326-3264, ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500).

attack humans since Harold Perrineau was torn apart by a grizzly bear in The Edge. Remember that? That scene, with Perrineau screaming for mercy, actually made me cry like a baby. I cried in the theater, and I developed a general aversion to bears … especially big, mean bears. I still like baby polar bears, though. They are mighty cute before they start trying to eat your face off. With The Grey, we are looking at 2012’s first great movie, and one that might’ve garnered Neeson and Grillo some 2011 Oscar consideration had it been delivered last month. I’m curious to see if their names come up 11 months from now. See the movie—and stay through the credits. JANUARY 26 - FEBRUARY 1, 2012

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AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) ends Thu 11:45, 9:50 Beauty and the Beast (G) ends Thu 3 Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 5:15, 7:20, 9:30; Fri-Sun 10, 12:45, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35; Mon-Wed 12:45, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35 Contraband (R) Thu 11:35, 2:10, 5, 7:40, 10:20; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 The Descendants (R) FriWed 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:45 The Devil Inside (R) ends Thu 7:30, 9:45 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10; Fri-Sun 10:15, 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10; Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu 12:15, 3:35; Fri-Sat 12:45; SunWed 12:45, 7 The Grey (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Haywire (R) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:30, 5, 7:25, 9:50 Hugo (PG) Thu 11:15, 2, 4:45; Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:15 The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20; Fri-Wed 5, 7:40, 10:25 Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10, 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Thu 1, 4, 7, 10; Fri-Wed 5:10, 8:05, 11 One for the Money (PG13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:25 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 2:15, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45; Fri-Wed 11:20, 2:10, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) ends Thu 11:15, 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Underworld: Awakening —An IMAX 3D Experience (R) Thu 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15; Fri-Wed 11:05, 36 WWW. WEEKLY.COM

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1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu 7, 9:15; Fri 10:30, 4:15, 11; Sat 4:15, 11; Sun 10:30, 4:15, 11; Mon-Wed 4:15, 11 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:25; Fri-Wed 11, 2:05 We Bought a Zoo (PG) ends Thu 2:05

Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Adventures of Tintin 3D (PG) Thu 11:25, 2, 4:35, 7:15 The Artist (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Beauty and the Beast (G) Thu 11:45 Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 2:10, 3:15, 4:35, 5:40, 7, 8, 9:25, 10:20 Carnage (R) Thu 9:50 Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think (Not Rated) Wed 7:30 Contraband (R) Thu 11:45, 1, 2:25, 3:45, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15, 10:40 The Descendants (R) Thu 11:20, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 The Devil Inside (R) Thu 11:30, 1:45, 4, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu 12, 3:30, 7:05, 10:30 The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan (Not Rated) Tue 8 Haywire (R) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30 Hugo (PG) Thu 1:05 The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2:10, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Thu 4:15, 7:40, 10:45 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:40 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) Thu 1, 4, 7, 10 Underworld: Awakening (R) Thu 1:15, 3:35 Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 5:55, 7:25, 8:15, 9:45, 10:35 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 12:50, 7:20, 10:35 We Bought a Zoo (PG) Thu 4:15

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Call for Fri-Wed film times Contagion (PG-13) Thu 3:50 Footloose (PG-13) Thu 2:55, 7:35 Happy Feet Two (PG) Thu 11:55, 2:25, 7:15

Happy Feet Two 3D (PG) Thu 4:45 The Help (PG-13) Thu 12:30, 6:55 The Ides of March (R) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 Immortals (R) Thu 12, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40 J. Edgar (R) Thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:40 Jack and Jill (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:05, 7:30 Martha Marcy May Marlene (R) Thu 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20 Moneyball (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3:45, 6:50 Paranormal Activity 3 (R) Thu 12:50, 5:30 Puss in Boots (PG) Thu 2:40, 7:10 Puss in Boots 3D (PG) Thu 12:25, 4:50 Real Steel (PG-13) Thu 12:45, 4, 7 Tower Heist (PG-13) Thu 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Adventures of Tintin 3D (PG) Thu 11:15, 10:25 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Thu 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 The Artist (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Beauty and the Beast (G) Thu 11 Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu 12:10, 1:20, 2:30, 3:40, 4:55, 6:15, 7:15, 8:35 Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think (Not Rated) Wed 7:30 Contraband (R) Thu 11:45, 1:05, 2:20, 3:45, 5:05, 6:25, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 The Devil Inside (R) Thu 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 12:40, 2:15, 3:50, 5:25, 7, 8:30, 10:05 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu 2:50, 6:30, 9:55 The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan (Not Rated) Tue 8 Haywire (R) Thu 12, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:35 Hugo (PG) Thu 11:25 The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:25, 10 Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Thu 1, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 New Year’s Eve (PG-13) Thu 9:40 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) Thu 11:30 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (PG-13) Thu 10:25 Underworld: Awakening (R) Thu 11:40 Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu 12:50, 2, 3:10, 4:20, 5:30, 6:40,

7:50, 9, 10:10 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 12:05, 3:35, 7:05 We Bought a Zoo (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:05, 7:20

Puss in Boots (PG) Thu 10:55, 3:10, 5:20 Tower Heist (PG-13) Thu 10:50

Fox Tucson Century Theatre Theatres at the 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Oro Valley Finding Kind (Not Rated) Marketplace Sat 5:30 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Artist (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Beauty and the Beast (G) Thu 11:25 Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think (Not Rated) Wed 7:30 Contraband (R) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu 11:45, 3:20, 6:50 The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live Featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan (Not Rated) Tue 8 Haywire (R) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu 10:50, 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu 10:35, 1:20, 4:05, 7, 9:50 Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Thu 10:15 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 10:25, 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Underworld: Awakening (R) Thu 12:25 Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 12:20, 3:45, 7:05, 10:25

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Fri-Wed film times *Reel Arts 6 film *Blackthorn (R) Thu 1:20, 5:25; Fri-Wed 11 Happy Feet Two (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:40 The Help (PG-13) Thu 4 The Ides of March (R) Thu 2:10, 4:25 Immortals (R) Thu 9:55 J. Edgar (R) Thu 12, 3, 6, 9 Jack and Jill (PG) Thu 1, 7:30, 9:40 *Machine Gun Preacher (R) Fri-Wed 1:10, 6:40, 9:20 Margin Call (R) Thu 11, 9:30 Martha Marcy May Marlene (R) Thu 11:45, 6:45, 9:10 Melancholia (R) Thu 1:10, 7 Moneyball (PG-13) Thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 My Afternoons with Margueritte (Not Rated) Thu 3:30, 7:35

The Searchers (Not Rated) Fri 7:30; Sun 2

Gallagher Theater UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. Call for films and times

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. The Adventures of Tintin (PG) ends Thu 12:45, 3:25 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 9; Fri-Sun 11, 1:45, 4:25, 6:45; Mon-Wed 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 6:45 Beauty and the Beast (G) Thu 2:20, 3:50; Fri-Wed 3:45 Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu 11, 11:50, 1:20, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 8:50, 9:40; Fri-Sat 10:50, 1:20, 6:20, 9:15; Sun 10:50, 1:20, 6:20, 8:50; Mon-Wed 11, 1:20, 6:20, 8:50 Contraband (R) Thu 12:10, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:10, 9:10, 10:10; FriSat 11:15, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 10:50; Sun-Wed 11:15, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 10:40 The Descendants (R) FriSat 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Sun 10:15, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10; Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10 The Devil Inside (R) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25; Fri-Sat 8:15, 10:35; SunWed 8:15, 10:25 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 1, 4, 7, 10; Fri-Sat 9:55, 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; Sun 9:55, 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15; MonWed 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) ends Thu 6:15, 9:45 The Grey (R) Fri-Sat 10, 12, 1, 3, 4, 6:05, 7, 9, 10; Sun 10, 12, 1, 3, 4, 6:05, 7, 9, 9:50; MonWed 12, 1, 3, 4, 6:05, 7, 9, 9:50 Haywire (R) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Fri-Sat 10:05, 12:30, 3:10, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45; Sun 10:05, 12:30, 3:10, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30; MonWed 12:30, 3:10, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30 Hugo (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10 Hugo 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 3:20 The Iron Lady (PG-13) Fri-Sat 11:40, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30; Sun-Wed 11:40, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:20 Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Fri-Sat 9:45, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Sun

9:45, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15; Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15 Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Thu 12, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50; Fri-Wed 6:30, 9:45 New Year’s Eve (PG-13) ends Thu 11:15 One for the Money (PG13) Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; SunWed 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; Fri-Sat 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; Sun 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35; Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:45, 6:10, 9:10 The Sitter (R) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 9:55; Fri-Sat 9:30; Sun-Wed 9:05 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (PG-13) ends Thu 6:05, 9:15 Underworld: Awakening (R) Thu 12:20, 5:20, 10:20; Fri-Wed 12:20, 5:20 Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu 11:20, 1:50, 2:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20; Fri-Sat 9:50, 11:20, 2, 2:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:20; Sun 9:50, 11:20, 2, 2:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:05; Mon-Wed 11:20, 2, 2:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:05 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:05; Fri-Sun 9:45, 1:10, 4:45; Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:45 We Bought a Zoo (PG) ends Thu 11:30, 2:40

The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Citizen Kane (PG) Sun 11; Tue 7 Death Promise (R) Mon 8 Goats (Not Rated) Thu 7 In the Land of Blood and Honey (R) Fri-Sat 4:15; Sun 4:15, 9:30; Mon 9:30; Tue-Wed 4:15, 9:30 Pelada (Not Rated) Wed 7 Shame (NC-17) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:15, 7:30; Fri-Sun 12:30, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 10; Mon 12:30, 3, 7:30, 10; Tue-Wed 12:30, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 10 The Skin I Live In (R) Thu 10 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (PG) Fri-Sat 10 Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s Project (Not Rated) Mon 5:30 The Way (PG-13) Thu 11:15; Fri-Sat 11:30, 7; Sun 7; Mon 11:30, 5:15; Tue-Wed 11:30 The Women on the 6th Floor (Not Rated) Thu 1:45; Fri-Wed 2

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Call for Fri-Wed film times Courageous (PG-13) Thu 1:50 Dolphin Tale (PG) Thu 12 Drive (R) Thu 9 Happy Feet Two (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 6:45 The Ides of March (R) Thu 11:40 Immortals (R) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 In Time (PG-13) Thu 6:50 Moneyball (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Puss in Boots (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:10, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:35 Real Steel (PG-13) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10 Tower Heist (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:20, 9:15

The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Blank City (Not Rated) Fri-Sat 8

Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) ends Thu 10:30, 12:35, 2:50, 5, 7:20 Beauty and the Beast (G) ends Thu 12:50 Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu 10:40, 3, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40; Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:10; Mon-Wed 12, 2:10, 4:20, 6:35 Contraband (R) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; Mon-Wed 11:35, 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 The Darkest Hour (PG13) ends Thu 10:15 The Descendants (R) Fri-Sun 11:30, 2, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; Mon-Wed 11, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45; Fri-Sun 10:35, 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35; Mon-Wed 12, 2:45, 5:35, 8:25 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu 2:45, 6, 9:15; Fri-Sun 9:20; MonWed 8:45 The Grey (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05; Mon-Wed 11:25, 1:55, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Haywire (R) Thu 11:10, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10; Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:15; Mon-Wed 11:10, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50 Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20; Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:30; Mon-Wed 11:15, 1:50 Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40; Mon-Wed 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; Fri-Sun 6:40, 9:30; Mon-Wed 5:55, 8:50 One for the Money (PG13) Fri-Sun 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 10; Mon-Wed 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55; Fri-Sun 10:55, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:45; Mon-Wed 11, 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 10:50, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50; Fri-Sun 4:10, 7:05, 9:50; Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25 Underworld: Awakening (R) Thu 11:40, 1:45; FriSun 11:35, 1:45; MonWed 11:30, 1:30 Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu-Sun 3:50, 5:55, 8, 10:10; Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 War Horse (PG-13) Thu 10:35, 1:40, 7:15; FriSun 12:30, 3:40; MonWed 11:50, 2:50 We Bought a Zoo (PG) ends Thu 12, 4:40, 9:25

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CINEMA A weak script, sturdy direction, fine acting and a powerful subject result in a decent film

NEWLY REVIEWED: ALBERT NOBBS

Glenn Close gives it her all as the title character, a woman dressed as a man in 19th-century Ireland, working as a waiter and saving money to buy a tobacco shop. Having spent so much time as a man, Albert sees trying to take a wife as the next logical step, and tries courting a fellow hotel employee played by Mia Wasikowska. Little does Albert know that the prospective wife is a user, simply trying to score bounty for her and her boyfriend (Aaron Johnson). Janet McTeer plays another woman masquerading as a man in order to get work. The whole scenario seems unlikely—both Close and McTeer are rather unconvincing as men—and the story fails to be compelling. Still, Close provides some genuinely moving moments, even if she does look like an odd combination of Conan O’Brien and Gabriel Byrne. Grimm

Love and War BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com t has been 20 years since the former Yugoslavia exploded into civil war, and it remains news even today: Serb military leader Ratko Mladic was finally arrested last summer—he’d been a fugitive for 15 years—and faces trial at The Hague this year for countless alleged war crimes. Civil wars are always tragic, and this one took the lives of about 250,000 people over a three-year period, a great many of them noncombatants. Many others were displaced, and conservative estimates list the number of rape victims at 20,000 or more. In the Land of Blood and Honey is appropriately grim for a movie that loosely depicts the genocide that grew out of the Bosnian war. Thankfully, it is not scene after scene of carnage, although the specter of death is never more than a few minutes away. Such is the reality of civil war playing out in large cities. Ratko Mladic is approximated here by Gen. Nebojša Vukojević (Rade Šerbedžija), a brutal commander who runs overcrowded camps, slaughters Bosnian Muslims (known as Bosniaks) and allows his troops to have their way with the Muslim women they capture. It was later designated as an instrument of war by the International Criminal Tribunal, so it can’t be treated as merely background here; it’s simply how women were treated. The general’s son is not cut from the same cloth. Danijel (Goran Kostić) draws down his weapon when a clear shot on a Muslim is available; he blocks potential rapes; and while he is certainly loyal to the Serbian cause, he does not necessarily believe the war excuses the methods. Danijel runs one of the Serbian camps and realizes that he had a brief relationship with a Bosniak prisoner prior to the war. He does everything he can to make Ajla (Zana Marjanović) more comfortable, and before long, officer and prisoner find themselves in a secret and growing relationship while the war rips their shared homeland apart. Kostić and Marjanović certainly capture the peculiarity of their situation. The love scenes aren’t titillating, and neither Danijel nor Ajla seems able to find the right context for their deepening feelings. How can she fall in love with a captor who won’t set her free? How can he fight the war against the Muslims while keeping one as a sort of concubine? How can either pursue a relationship knowing what the most likely outcome is? For that matter, how could they not, if only to feel something human amid all the inhumanity? Although the film is written and directed

Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.

A DANGEROUS METHOD

Keira Knightley is brilliant as a temporarily insane woman who has an affair with her psychiatrist—and that psychiatrist just happens to be Carl Jung (masterfully played by Michael Fassbender). Viggo Mortensen does an impressive turn as Sigmund Freud in this spellbinder from director David Cronenberg. Knightley delivers one of those highwire performances that go right to the edge of physical and emotional cohesion. When her character is “ill” in the film’s early stages, her tics and fits are so real that I was actually concerned for her. Watching Fassbender’s Jung and Mortensen’s Freud having intellectual battles over sex and the psyche is a great acting feat. This is the best thing Knightley has ever done. Grimm HAYWIRE

Zana Marjanovic` in In the Land of Blood and Honey.

In the Land of Blood and Honey

While Gina Carano might not be the best with line deliveries, she kicks some major ass as Mallory, a gun-for-hire who finds herself getting double-crossed by the boss (Ewan McGregor). When Carano is handling a dramatic scene, the film falls flat, but she and director Steven Soderbergh do some pretty amazing stuff when Mallory flies into physical action—she’s a sleek badass. Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas and a healthy-looking Michael Douglas show up in supporting roles, with each of them doing a great job. The plot itself offers enough twists and turns to keep you involved. And, yes, this is the umpteenth movie in a year to co-star Michael Fassbender. Does that man ever rest? Grimm MAN ON A LEDGE

Rated R

Starring Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic and Rade Šerbedžija Directed by Angelina Jolie FilmDistrict, 127 minutes Opens Friday, Jan. 27, at the Loft Cinema (795-7777).

by Angelina Jolie, that never really factors in. To her credit, one of the most-famous faces in the world has chosen something serious to showcase, and she has done so without needing to be onscreen to make her point. Her direction is sturdy, and is particularly good in the few battle sequences and the one-on-one encounters between Danijel and Ajla. Jolie’s script, however, is on the shallow side. It relies more on the characterizations and instincts of its actors to make key points than the words on the page. There’s a lot more to explore, even within these isolated circumstances of the larger war, than what she presents. Still, Jolie elicits some remarkable work from Marjanović and Šerbedžija, and her second trip behind the camera (there was some documentary about five years ago) doesn’t come across as overly showy. But it isn’t particularly distinguished, either.

It’s that old Catch-22: How do you get people to see your film without a splashy movie trailer that gives away so much that the film itself becomes anti-climactic? That’s what plagues Man on a Ledge, which has a fair twist built around that overt title, and then goes about re-creating its buzz-killing two-minute trailer over two hours. When the real thrust is revealed, there’s no surprise and no suspense, and it becomes very plain. On the plus side, Sam Worthington is pretty good as the guy 40 stories up, and director Asger Leth makes a smooth transition from the world of documentaries. But the film is too long, given that the story is a giant red herring, and Elizabeth Banks, usually so reliable, is off her game as the cop trying to talk Worthington back in through the window. Boyd RED TAILS

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen is a proud one in our nation’s history, and it’s certainly a turning point for African Americans. But by and large, Red Tails misses why it’s important. When the experiment at Tuskegee was launched, it was just that: an experiment to see if black pilots could be as skilled as whites. However, the brave young men trained there became pivotal contributors to the fight in World War II, and that’s what takes center stage here more than the racial or societal circumstances. Perhaps executive producer George Lucas isn’t interested in exploring tension within his own country during WWII, but that really is the clarion call to make this film in the first place; we’ve certainly seen enough war movies that are interchangeable. There are some great dogfights, as you’d expect from Lucas, but historically and emotionally, Red Tails is pretty empty. Boyd UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING

Was there really a need for another Underworld sequel? Underworld: Awakening is stupid, boring and completely ridiculous. After the human race finds out about the existence of both vampires and lycans, they go about cleansing the world of the two species, led by Dr. Jacob Lane (Stephen Rea).

Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and Michael (Scott Speedman, via archive footage and a really bad double) are both captured and put into cryogenic suspension. When Selene awakens, she finds 12 years have passed, and that she has given birth to a hybrid child, whom she must now protect. What follows is a lot of dull action and a bunch of vampires making proclamations; the script is rather uninteresting and tedious. In short, when Speedman—a dude who spent several years on the show Felicity— won’t return for your movie, you know you’re kind of screwed. Allen

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Four frequently great performers are put in a room together, and not surprisingly, the results are worth watching in the latest from director Roman Polanski. Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz all deliver good work in this somewhat predictable but ultimately enjoyable adaptation of the Yasmina Reza play, God of Carnage. Foster and Reilly play Penelope and Michael Longstreet, parents of a young boy who takes a stick to the face in a scuffle with a classmate. Winslet and Waltz play Nancy and Alan Cowan, the parents of the kid who did the swinging. The four parents come together to have a discussion—and the talk unravels in a maelstrom of cell-phone interruptions, hamster-abandonment stories, alcohol consumption and generally childish human dysfunction. Grimm EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

It may say Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock on the movie poster, but they’re just window dressing in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The star of our show is Thomas Horn, a child actor making his debut in auspicious fashion. Impressive? Well, his performance is wordy, and at times, it’s … extremely loud and incredibly close. He plays a gifted child who tries to gain closure on a sudden, tragic loss by beginning a great adventure that connects him with hundreds of New Yorkers. He’s searching for the missing lock to a key he believes has specific significance to him—although the boy doesn’t know what that is. Max von Sydow steals the show by playing a silent traveling companion, but overall, Extremely Loud comes off as extremely forced. Boyd

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The Thing (Blu-ray) UNIVERSAL MOVIE C+ SPECIAL FEATURES B BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 5 (OUT OF 10)

With lowered expectations, I took this one in again on home video. I didn’t like watching it in theaters, but I didn’t tax my brain to remember exactly why. Now I think this is actually a decent attempt to capture the vibe of John Carpenter’s classic 1982 remake of The Thing From Another World. It gets a little too carried away in the end, but it was a good try. I love the idea of showing us what happened right before that dog showed up in Carpenter’s film. It takes a lot of guts to go back into that universe and try to make a morphing-alien movie that measures up. As atmospherics go, this one is spot-on: It feels and looks much like Carpenter’s film. Fans of the original will have fun spotting all sorts of film “connectors,” like the suicide victim and that ax in the wall. Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. obviously noticed the amazing practical effects in Carpenter’s film. It looks like Heijningen went with something in the neighborhood of half-practical, half-computer for the effects here, and the results aren’t always up to snuff. The final monster is so lame that it almost undoes all that was moderately good in the movie before it. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is OK as the scientist who must pick up a flamethrower, and Joel Edgerton does well with what is essentially the Kurt Russell role. I wish the filmmakers had calmed down a bit, because they were on their way to a decent prequel with this effort. SPECIAL FEATURES: There are some extended and deleted scenes, some of which are pretty significant in the scheme of things. There are a couple of making-of featurettes that show how the effects were done, and there’s

a decent director’s commentary. To top it off, you get a picture-in-picture trivia feature.

Godzilla (Blu-ray) CRITERION MOVIE B SPECIAL FEATURES B+ BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7.25 (OUT OF 10)

I hadn’t watched the original Godzilla in a long time— and the last time I saw it, I watched the revamped American version, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, with that terrible inserted footage starring Raymond Burr. (Burr would show up in a similar way 30 years later for Godzilla 1985: The Legend Is Reborn.) The original black-andwhite film, made less than a decade after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is a shockingly dark nuclear-war allegory that is much deeper than your average man-in-a-suit monster movie. Director Ishirô Honda was obviously making bold statements here, what with Godzilla’s very existence brought about by nuclear testing. Is it an amazing specialeffects spectacle? Not really. But the monster is startlingly nasty in this incarnation, before he started dancing and goofing around in the color Godzilla flicks that would come in later years. This time out, he’s a mixture of man-ina-suit effects and animatronics, with the man-in-a-suit footage far more effective. The destruction of Tokyo is an effectively scary sequence, complete with large crowds of people dying in Godzilla’s nuclear breath. Honda showed some major balls with this movie, and it’s one of the more interesting anti-nuclear-war films ever made. I didn’t hate the 1998 American remake starring Matthew Broderick as much as many people did. (I thought it was goofy fun.) Hollywood is currently toying with the idea of another go at BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com

the Big Green One, but plans have not been solidified. SPECIAL FEATURES: You get the Japanese and Americanized versions of the film, with both containing commentaries by film historian David Kalat. Recent interviews with members of the cast and crew are fun to watch, and there’s a short about a boating tragedy that inspired the movie. You also get a booklet containing essays on the movie. Criterion rules!

The Ides of March (Blu-ray) SONY MOVIE B SPECIAL FEATURES B BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 6 (OUT OF 10)

This George Clooneydirected political thriller starring Ryan Gosling feels routine at times, but it’s a winner overall, thanks to the work of Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Clooney himself as a maverick presidential candidate. Gosling plays a campaign worker who thinks his candidate is undoubtedly the one to beat, and that candidate certainly looks unstoppable. Of course, things happen that throw all seemingly sure things into doubt, and Gosling’s character has to do a lot of soul-searching. While watching this again, I felt like I had seen it a few times before. Thanks to Clooney’s sharp direction, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He keeps things moving along smoothly, albeit predictably. I especially liked Hoffman as a seasoned campaign worker who has difficulty with disloyal people. This film is not a mindbender by any means, but it has some captivating performances. Clooney is a good director, and he made a good movie. Perhaps he’ll make a great one next time. SPECIAL FEATURES: Clooney delivers a very enjoyable commentary, and you get featurettes on the cast, and a making-of documentary.

CHOW These two southside fast-food joints—one new, one a veritable institution—left our reviewer less than satisfied

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BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com he southside Tucson quick-food restaurant scene seemingly falls into two distinct categories: everchanging quick-eat joints that pop up and then are gone as fast as they appeared, and long-standing joints that have occupied the same corner for a half-century or so. Ted and I got to try a little from each of those two categories on our visits to Check It Out Hamburgers and Sue’s Fish and Chips. We first made an evening visit to Check It Out Hamburgers, on Valencia Road near South Sixth Avenue. Check It Out looks suspiciously like a well-known national burger chain with a similar name, logo and menu— In-N-Out, anyone? I happen to think that In-N-Out has one of the tastier chain burgers, so I was interested in seeing how the imitation version fared. We had planned to eat at the restaurant, but the four tiny tables, the dismal lighting and the scowling cashier convinced us we’d have a more-pleasant dining experience at home. The menu is fairly straightforward: burger, cheeseburger or double cheeseburger, and fries; vanilla, strawberry or chocolate milkshakes. You can add avocado or bacon to your burger for 50 cents each. I opted for a double-cheeseburger combo ($5.75 on the menu, but $5.95 on my receipt) with mushrooms and grilled jalapeños, and a vanilla shake ($1.95 by itself, or an extra 45 cents to sub it for a fountain drink in a combo). Ted went for the double-cheeseburger combo with avocado and bacon, and a strawberry shake. The food was ready quickly and smelled quite tasty—but disappointment set in upon digging into the fries and shakes on the way home. The shakes were thin and had way too much ice, although they were made with actual milk, which was nice. The strawberry shake had a light-pink hue, but the flavor was nearly indistinguishable from the vanilla shake. Meanwhile, the fries were a soggy, underseasoned mess. They hadn’t been fried at a hot enough temperature to cook all the way through. The burgers were a bit more appealing, but not quite up to par. The lettuce was beyond limp—so wet and soggy that we ended up peeling it off—and the American cheese wasn’t melted. I received grilled onions instead of mushrooms, even though I specified no onions (fresh or otherwise) on either burger, and the correct order was written on the receipt and the to-go box. There was so little grilled jalapeño that it was pretty much

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The double-cheeseburger combo and vanilla shake at Check It Out Hamburgers. undetectable. However, the meat was juicy, although lacking in any substantial flavor, and the buns were soft and fresh. Ted’s burger was better, although there was hardly any bacon. So much for the extra 50 cents. All in all, it was a lackluster dining experience, and the discrepancy between the menu price and the receipt was just strange. few days later, we ventured back to the southside for a quick lunch at Sue’s Fish and Chips. Sue’s has been at the corner of Fourth Avenue and 35th Street since 1952, which qualifies it as a Tucson institution. It doesn’t seem to have changed much over the decades. Nearly everything on the menu is fried, and the place has a heavy, greasy-air feel to it. The six or seven tables are tiny, and most of the customers while we were there opted for takeout. Dining options are limited. If you want fried seafood, you order either a combo meal (all $8.75) or a dinner, both of which come with fries. There aren’t any à la carte options. We decided to get two combo meals and share—I went for the fish, shrimp and crabcake basket (two of each item), while Ted opted for the fish, shrimp and scallops basket (also two of each). We decided to share coleslaw ($1.45 for 4 ounces, or $2.55 for 8 ounces). All of the combos include fish and shrimp, as well as “Sue’s Sauce.” The combo meal doesn’t include a drink, so we ordered two fountain drinks ($1.85 for 16 ounces, $2.25 for 32 ounces and $2.75 for 44 ounces). The mountain of deep-fried food came out quickly—and it was piping-hot. The fries were the only thing cool enough to eat for a good five minutes or so. The standard-issue crinklecuts were under-seasoned and, frankly, pretty boring. The fish, once it was cool enough to eat, was flaky and fresh, but didn’t have much flavor. The shrimp tasted fresh, but also was without much flavor. Sue’s Sauce was basically slightly spiced-up

Sue’s Fish and Chips 2500 S. Fourth Ave. 622-5711 Open: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 pm. Pluses: Quick service; cheap, deep-fried food Minuses: Bland breading on fried items, boring fries

A new food truck called Animal Farm has hit the streets, bringing big burgers, porkbelly banh mi sandwiches and other good things to the Tucson food-truck scene. The truck—which specializes in locally sourced ingredients—is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., weekdays, in the parking lot of FairWheel Bikes, 1110 E. Sixth St. The owners’ culinary experience ranges from gelato shops to catering huge events, and the food they serve is affordable and utterly delicious. The deep-fried cheese curds, made from Arizona Cheese Co. goods, are especially decadent; www.animalfarmtruck.com.

Fresh: Coffee and Smoothies If you’re into organic and health-conscious fare, the new restaurant and coffee shop Fresh, at 2404 E. River Road, should be right up your alley. You will find breakfast offerings like yogurt parfaits and English-muffin sandwiches alongside a variety of healthful lunch items such as chicken-avocado wraps and panini. The coffee selection covers all the bases, and even branches into new territory with drinks like tres-leche lattes. Fresh also strives to be environmentally friendly by using biodegradable containers and recycled goods; 505-4470.

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Check It Out Hamburgers 45 W. Valencia Road 741-1313 Open: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pluses: Cheap burgers made quickly Minuses: Soggy fries and lettuce

cocktail sauce. If you’re a fan of cocktail sauce, you might want to order extra, because the containers (80 cents each) are pretty small. Tartar sauce is also available, but there was no malt vinegar to be found. Breading is a key ingredient at any fish-andchips place, and I found Sue’s to be nothing more than a bland cornmeal dredge. The scallops and crabcakes were the only items that managed to retain any flavor. The scallops were actually quite good, probably because they were too slippery to retain the full amount of breading. The crabcakes were OK, but the meat was mixed with too many fillers to have any real crab flavor—and they’re not in what most people would consider cake form. They’re more like small fried crab balls. The coleslaw was refreshing and quite flavorful, though the size of the portion paled in comparison to the portions of the fried items. Given that Sue’s has been open for 60 years, perhaps its deep-fried flavors are an acquired taste. I’m not sure it’s one I care to acquire.

La Taverna, the eatery inside the Italian grocery-store Roma Imports (627 S. Vine Ave.), is holding buffet-style feasts on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27 and 28. The menu is lengthy, with antipasti galore, rolled roast pork, gnocchi, lamb with garlic and anchovies, and much more. If you’ve got room after that, there will be fried apple rings, ricotta cream and chocolate mascarpone rolls for dessert. The feasts are $40 per person. Call 792-3173, or visit romaimports.com.

Hangover Sunday V Fine Thai Dining (9 E. Congress St.) has a new special on Sundays for those who may have indulged a bit too much the night before. Hangover Sundays feature $5 cocktails and appetizers, and doors open at noon. The restaurant has also rolled out a faster, moreaffordable lunch service that focuses on pho. Call 882-8143, or visit www.tucsonthai.com.

Food Truck Roundup The next Food Truck Roundup is at 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 29, in the parking lot of Benjamin Plumbing Supply, 440 N. Seventh Ave. The event includes at least 18 different food trucks and a movie projected on the side of a warehouse. Good times.

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Monday-Saturday 7 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Good Mexican food has come to Rita Ranch! El Coronado serves up tasty stuffed quesadillas, and the chorizo and egg plate is a revelation. The menu includes both Mexican classics like menudo and gringo classics like chicken fried steak. In other words (clichĂŠ alert): Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for everyone! (4-8-10) $-$$ EL MEZĂ&#x201C;N DEL COBRE C 2960 N. First Ave. 791-0977. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. If you think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried them all, check out El MezĂłn del Cobreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special brand of Mexican food. The hot-and-spicy huichol shrimp will ignite the taste buds of hot fanatics, and the layered enchiladas bring new meaning and taste to the genre of south-of-the-border cuisine. Delightful cantina atmosphere. $$-$$$ EL MINUTO CAFĂ&#x2030; C 354 S. Main Ave. 882-4145. Open Sunday-Thursday

11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. El Minuto CafĂŠ has been serving Tucson some of the best Mexican food around for more than 60 years. The chiles rellenos simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be beat. $-$$ EL PARADOR C 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-2744. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 1:30-9 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This longtime Tucson favorite continues to please with one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most unique dining areasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the main room is an old courtyard thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now indoors, even though real trees and plants remain. The foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth noting, tooâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some dishes are hit-and-miss, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always win with the fantastic tableside guacamole. (1-1-04) $$-$$$ EL RIO BAKERY W 901 N. Grande Ave. 624-4996. Open Monday-

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Saturday 6 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/ No Alcohol. MC, V. El Rio Bakeryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been around for decades, and when you sample their delicious pastries (we particularly like the empanadas), youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know why. However, El Rio also offers up other tasty Mexican fare; the soups are especially good. We recommend a steaming-hot bowl of albondigas (meatball) soup. (2-18-10) $

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noon. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Crossroads has been around for decades, and when you taste the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know why. Traditional Mexican fare and seafood dishes primarily featuring shrimp and filet of sole highlight the menu. The service is friendly, and if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a hurry, you can get anything on the menu to go; you can even get a six-pack to take home. (7-24-03) $-$$

CLUB 21 C 2920 N. Oracle Road. 622-3092. Open Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. MC, V. Offering good Mexican food for more than 50 years, this neighborhood favorite should be considered when looking for a cool place to enjoy a margarita or a cold beer. Moderately priced meals make it a nice place for families, too. (4-22-04) $-$$

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Thursday 7:15 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday-Sunday 7:15 a.m.9:30 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. MC, V. For a light and flavorful meal, El Sabroso is worth ferreting out. Its use of oak wood to grill meats and vegetables, fruits and fresh seafood puts an interesting twist on what it coins â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mexican Caribbean.â&#x20AC;? (7-26-01) $-$$ EL SUR

LA COCINA DE GABBY C 4825 N. First Ave. 888-2490. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. The food of Mexico City is the highlight at this little mom-and-pop joint; Gabby and Francisco Martinez are the mom and pop. The Mexican food here is a little different than the Sonoran food weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re used to. For example, the chile relleno plate has one stuffed with cheese, and another stuffed with ground beef. The street food of Mexico is represented by the bistec Milanese, which is tenderized, breaded beef. The house salsa stands out due to the hefty flavor of roasted chiles. There is a drive-thru menu, too, offering many of the expected Mexican-food items. (3-24-11) $-$$ CROSSROADS RESTAURANT DRIVE IN S 2602 S. Fourth Ave. 624-0395. Open SundayThursday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.-

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9 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer and Specialty Drinks. MC, V. This is one of those secret little places that you might not want to share with everybody. Old-fashioned, damn good Mexican fare is served up with a smile. The tortillas are made specially for El Sur and definitely add an extra touch. The dĂŠcor is funky and down-home, and the servers treat you like family. With prices and flavors that remind of a simpler time, the place attracts a crowd. Try the flan if you have any room for dessert! (12-29-05) $ LA FRESITA W 1450 W. St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Road. 622-4005. Open daily

6 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DC, DIS, MC, V. More than just a friendly neighborhood taqueria, La Fresita offers full plates of goodies such as steak ranchero, chiles, tacos, burros, quesadillas and more. The corn tortillas are homemade and served up fresh and hot

every day. The fruit shakes are sweet and delicious. With breakfast, lunch and dinner on the menu, La Fresita has literally something for everybody, even gringos! Hamburgers are on the menu. (10-6-05) $ LA FUENTE C 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. Open SundayFriday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Take a fresh look at this Tucson classic. With tasty Mexican-food classics like chiles rellenos and unexpected surprises like fried red snapper, La Fuente is definitely worth a visit if you haven’t been in a while. A nice tequila and margarita selection is also offered. (5-27-10) $$-$$$ GUADALAJARA GRILL C 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. Open daily 10

a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 750 N. Kolb Road (296-1122). Salsa is made tableside, and the customer is in charge of what goes into it. The chips are fresh, hot and endless, but leave room for what comes next. Every dish is redolent with distinct and finely tuned flavors. (10-21-04) $$-$$$ LA INDITA C 622 N. Fourth Ave. 792-0523. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. La Indita’s menu shows its Michoacan Tarascan Indian heritage. Menu items like the Tarascan tacos and Indian fry bread make La Indita a continued favorite. $ LEO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT E 5114 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-9180. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Leo’s may be one of the city’s best-kept secrets. You’ll find such delicious standards as cheese enchiladas, flautas and burros, along with treats like mole and fish tacos. There are vegetarian specialties and a kids’ menu as well. The house margarita also is a winner. Finish off your meal with those airy puffs of fried dough: sopapillas. (11-22-07) $-$$ LUPITA’S CAFE NW 7077 N. Thornydale Road. 744-7505. Open

Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Café. Beer, Wine and Margaritas. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Lupita’s Cafe brings a little southside flavor to the northwest with authentic, affordable Mexican fare. Friendly service and a bright, colorful atmosphere make this cozy café a great dining experience, and the Sonoran hot dogs are among the best in town. Breakfast is served all day, and don’t miss out on the expertly cooked menudo on Saturdays and Sundays. (6-17-10) $-$$ MAICO C 835 E. 22nd St. 294-2836. Open Monday-Saturday 6 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. One could easily miss Maico, situated

along busy 22nd Street. We’re glad we didn’t. Tiny as it may be, Maico serves some excellent Mexican chow for diners to enjoy in its outside dining area. Maico has a way with beef, chicken, pork and fish. You’ll find all the usual taqueria items and friendly service. (11-13-08) $ MARIA’S CAFÉ S 3530 S. Sixth Ave. 620-1465. Open TuesdaySaturday 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/ Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, MC, V. Quality Mexican food and tableside pay television sets—what more is there to say? In operation for a quarter of a century, Maria’s satisfies on a variety of levels. $-$$ MARISCOS CHIHUAHUA S 3901 S. Sixth Ave. 741-0361. Open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Cash and checks. Also at 1009 N. Grande Ave. (623-3563), 2902 E. 22nd St. (326-1529), 999 N. Swan Road (881-2372), 356 E. Grant Road (884-3457), 435 W. Irvington Road (294-3194) and 4185 W. Ina Road (572-2523). Alcohol served varies per location. A bit of the Mexican seaside has found its way north. At Mariscos Chihuahua, shellfish reigns supreme with fresh Guaymas shrimp being the specialty of the house. Don’t miss the shrimp ceviche, a Mariscos favorite that has regulars coming back for more. $-$$ MARTIN’S COMIDA CHINGONA C 555 N. Fourth Ave. 884-7909. Open MondaySaturday 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5:30-10:30 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/BYO. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V and checks. Martin’s fits the Fourth Avenue vibe perfectly: It’s fun; it’s casual; it’s independent; and the food’s pretty darned good. The huevos rancheros—with a surprising number of delicious vegetables—is excellent, and the carne asada has a rich, smoky flavor. Just don’t ask for guacamole or sour cream. (9-23-10) $-$$ MARY’S LUCKY DOLLAR MARKET S 1555 S. 10th Ave. 884-8720. Open Monday-Friday 6 a.m.-1 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. Cash. Mary’s is one of Tucson’s least-refined restaurants, but the insanely cheap, flavorful food keeps locals a-comin’. The chorizo is the house specialty; alongside some eggs, potatoes and refried beans, it’s pure deliciousness. (2-18-10) $ MI NIDITO S 1813 S. Fourth Ave. 622-5081. Open Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Diner. Beer, Wine and Margaritas. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Another of the perennial Tucson favorites, with consistently good food and service generally worth the wait—particularly if you’re looking for a great chile relleño. $ MICHA’S S 2908 S. Fourth Ave. 623-5307. Open Sunday 7 a.m.8 p.m.; Monday 6:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 6:30 a.m.-9

p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. One of the perennial favorites among local Mexican food aficionados. The chorizos are made on site, and the chimis are crisp and full. $-$$ LA OLLA NW 8553 N. Silverbell Road, No. 102. 579-0950. Open Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Café. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, MC, V. While chains dominate in Marana, La Olla is a wonderful mom-and-pop place with a Mexican bent. You’ll find all the traditional stuff— enchiladas, tacos, chimis—along with some surprisingly creative items, from appetizers to desserts. For starters, try the empanadas: tiny pies filled with cilantro pesto, shrimp chile and manchego cheese. Entreés include a breaded pork tenderloin topped with garlic shrimp and chipotle crema. (5-28-09) $$ LA PARRILLA SUIZA C 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. Open Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 5602 E. Speedway Blvd. (747-4838) and 4250 W. Ina Road (572-7200). Friendly service, delicious food and a large menu. What more could one ask for? Try the chimichanga; you will not regret it. (2-20-03) $$-$$$ PERFECTO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT S 5404 S. 12th Ave. 889-5651. Open MondayWednesday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This homey little spot attracts a crowd. Perfecto’s serves all the usual stuff, and there is truly something for everybody. Kids will enjoy a burro and french fries; grown-ups will enjoy luscious soups, fresh seafood and homemade desserts. A Sunday buffet attracts a huge crowd, and the house-made choco flan is unique and tasty. (12-10-09) $-$$ LA PLACITA CAFÉ E 2950 N. Swan Road, No. 131. 881-1150. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Full Cover. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The official Mexican restaurant of the Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood, La Placita Café, tucked away in Plaza Palomino, serves up consistently good, lard-free Sonoran and Oaxacan food in near-secret. Divine chile rellenos, sopa de mariscos and delicious mole are among the standouts on the large menu. Nice folks, too. (4-26-07) $$-$$$ QUESADILLA’S GRILL C 110 S. Church Ave., Suite 7136. 798-3697. Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DC, DIS, MC, V. The menu features standard tacos, enchiladas and tostadas. The breakfast burritos are especially worth checking out, featuring an “assemble-your-own” list of ingredients that makes breakfast worth getting up for. (3-1-01) $

SAN CARLOS MEXICAN GRILL W 1370 N. Silverbell Road, No. 180. 792-2075. Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. Ample, reliable servings of shrimp and fish dishes inspired by Sea of Cortez cuisine, plus the usual Sonoran favorites, are as unpretentious but appealing as the restaurant’s nicely done storefront space. (11-15-07) $-$$ SIR VEZA’S TACO GARAGE E 4699 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-8226. Open Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. (bar open until midnight); Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight (bar open until 2 a.m.). Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Sir Veza’s is a cool concept, mixing cars (including occasional hotrod-themed events), booze, sports, music and youthful energy. The food is cheap and largely tasty, with numerous taco offerings, salads, burgers and even “chicken and churros.” The patio is wonderful (even if the view is not), and there are numerous tequila choices. This is a great place to get just a little bit rowdy with friends. (6-3-10). $-$$ TACO GIRO MEXICAN GRILL E 5754 E. 22nd St. 514-2199. Open daily 8 a.m.-10

p.m. Café. Beer and Margaritas. AMEX, MC and V. It’s an undeniable formula for success: great food at seriously low prices. The salsa bar’s cool, and the service is quick and friendly. There’s no decor to speak of, however: This is a place to go when you’re craving good Mexican food, and you don’t want to bust your budget. (2-21-08) $ TAQUERIA PICO DE GALLO S 2618 S. Sixth Ave. 623-8775. Open daily 9 a.m.-10

p.m. Counter/Diner/No Alcohol. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Although not as flashy as some of its competitors on the Tucson Mexican food scene, Pico de Gallo has nevertheless been serving up outstanding fare for years. Ceviche, birria, fresh fruit cocktail and a carne asada to die for are just a few of the treats to savor when visiting this gem of a restaurant. $ TEQUILA FACTORY S 5655 W. Valencia Road, inside Casino del Sol. (800) 344-9435. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.2 p.m. and 4-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. An emphasis on presentation highlights the colorfully decorated Tequila Factory; each dish looks like a work of art. The food, featuring typical Mexican fare, usually tastes pretty good—but it always looks amazing. An all-youcan-eat brunch is offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday. (11-20-03) $$-$$$ TERESA’S MOSAIC CAFÉ W 2456 N. Silverbell Road. 624-4512. Open MondaySaturday 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.9 p.m. Café/Counter. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While the look and layout of Zivaz feels familiar, the restaurant’s melding of tasty, nuanced Mexican food with a fast-casual format is quite unique. Most of the dishes—from standards like tacos, sopa de tortilla and enchiladas to somewhat unusual fast-casual fare like the pescado ajillo (a garlic/mushroom mahimahi)—are sure to please. (4-6-06) $-$$

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ALIBABA PERSIAN AND MEDITERRANEAN RESTAURANT C 2545 E. Speedway Blvd., No. 125. 319-2559. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This humble strip-mall restaurant serves a variety of delicious kabobs, pita sandwiches, lamb shank, gyro and more. Vegetarians have plenty of options. Catering services are available. $

LUXOR CAFĂ&#x2030; C 3699 N. Campbell Ave. 325-3771. Open SundayWednesday 5 p.m.-1 a.m.; Thursday 5 p.m.-2 a.m.; Friday and Saturday 5 p.m.-4 a.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. A large and fascinating menu combined with excellent cooking makes this comfortably exotic, hospitable Middle Eastern joint a standout; fair prices make it a great value. The owner and chef are both from Egypt, which is reflected in the presence of homestyle vegetarian specialties like falafel, fool (spiced, mashed fava beans) and koshari (a homey mixture of rice, beans and pasta), plus a wide selection of chicken, beef, lamb and fish dishes. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the superb baklava. (5-17-07) $-$$ NUR MARKET AND RESTAURANT C 3565 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-6333. Open daily 10

a.m.-6 p.m.; closed Friday from noon-1 p.m. Counter/ No Alcohol. MC, V. The space may be small, but the flavors coming out of this tiny market kitchen are huge. All of those wonderful spices that once caused European explorers to travel to the Eastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cinnamon, cardamom, turmeric, pepper, saffron, cumin, cloves, etc.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;are used in the most heavenly ways. The beef shish kabob is tender and full of deep flavors. The goat curry is a delight. The rice pilaf (bariis) is aromatic and bright with color. And the sambusas, Somali versions of samosas, put their Indian cousins to shame. (4-14-11) $ SHISH KEBAB HOUSE OF TUCSON E 5855 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 118. 745-5308.

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a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. CafĂŠ/Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Try the motabal, a sinuous purĂŠe of eggplant grilled over an open flame, completely unlike any baba ganoush weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had. Together with a deftly light and lemony version of hummos and the cracked-wheat dish tabouli, it makes a refreshing meal. The kafta is ground beef with a hint of ginger. Meals at Shish Kebab House are all available to goâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and with seating for no more than 60, that seems like a good plan. $-$$ SINBADâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE C 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday 4-8 p.m. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. The atmosphere at this university-area restaurant is delightfully beautiful, and the foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even better. Fresh, flavorful and often healthyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many selections are vegetarianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no wonder Sinbadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a Tucson favorite. (5-8-03) $-$$ SULTAN PALACE C 943 E. University Blvd., No. 115. 622-2892. Open daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The dĂŠcor may be kind of blah (although the low-level tables surrounded by curtains are nice, if your knees can handle them), and the service is a mixed bag, but the food at this Main Gate Square Afghani restaurant can rival any in town. Check out the myriad, nuanced flavors that all come together in the shish and the sambossas. For a special treat, try the mantu, a spiced meat ravioli/dumpling sort of thing. Yum. (7-308) $$-$$$ ZAYNA MEDITERRANEAN CAFE E 9105 E. Tanque Verde Road, No. 103. 749-4465. Open daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Counter/BYO. MC, V. Also at 4122 E. Speedway Blvd. (881-4348). Zaynaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serves up some of the best beef gyro youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find anywhere. The meats served here are all moist and perfectly cooked, and the vegetarian offerings are delightful and flavorful. Consider a piece of baklava for dessert. (11-12-09) $-$$

PAN-ASIAN ASIAN BISTRO C 3122 N. Campbell Ave., No. 100. 881-7800. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Yes, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find plenty of traditional Asian plates here, but this midtown â&#x20AC;&#x153;bistroâ&#x20AC;? also offers an assortment of dishes from all over China, Thailand and other countries. While dining at the restaurant is a pleasant experience, Asian Bistro also delivers to a wide area of midtown. Beverages include fruity slushes, bubble teas and blended coffees. (5-29-08) $-$$ THE BAMBOO CLUB E 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524. 514-9665. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. An upscale Pacific Rim palace of a place where generous portions of familiar food with exotic twists are grilled, woked, sizzled, steamed and noodled. (12-12-02) $$-$$$ BUSHI E 4689 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-6552. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-10 p.m.; Saturday noon2:30 p.m. and 4:30-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. At Bushi, not only is the sushi fresh and mouthwatering; all of the other dishes, from soup to dessert, are quite good. Starters are impressive; try the gyoza and the octopus salad. The entrĂŠes are well-prepared, especially the spicy shrimp, with its buttery, garlicky breadcrumb topping, and the spicy Korean-style pork. (9-29-11) $-$$$ CHOPSTIX ASIAN DINER S 3820 S. Palo Verde Road, Suite 101. 889-7849. Open Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 10

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MUSIC Betsy Scarinzi and Silverbell mark the release of ‘Whitewashed Heart’

By Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com

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Stories Coming Out BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com eekly.com Silverbell inger-songwriter Betsy Scarinzi has the rare and preternatural ability to use melody to wring poetry from common language and weighty emotions. This is well displayed in her Americana-tinged rockband Silverbell, which have just released their debut album. Scarinzi says she does not have a secret formula for making up songs. “There’s no thought process or breaking it down like that. If I have something on my mind, I guess I start singing about it.” She and Silverbell will celebrate the release of Whitewashed Heart with a CD-release party this Friday, Jan. 27, at Club Congress. Scarinzi, who was raised in the Phoenix area, grew up under the influence of musical theater and show tunes shared with her by her mother. She lived for much of the 1990s in Tempe, and became enamored of the indie-rock scene surrounding a legendary music club there. “I stumbled into Long Wong’s on Mill Avenue, and I didn’t know anybody. But I found a great scene, with live music and some of the best bands I have been exposed to—Satellite, The Refreshments, Dead Hot Workshop, The Pistoleros and The Dialectrics. It was very inspirational. I would just watch and think, ‘I really want to do that.’” She began writing and singing after receiving a guitar as birthday gift in 1999. “When I first got the guitar, stories started coming out,” she says, nonchalantly. A registered nurse for most of her adult life, Scarinzi moved in 2000 to take a job in New Jersey, where she regularly played as a solo act. She moved to Tucson about five years ago and set her guitar down for a while, but eventually returned to writing and playing. Armed with several finished songs, Scarinzi began playing a couple of years ago with Gene Ruley, a highly respected guitarist and veteran of Tucson bands such as River Roses, The Drakes and the Zsa Zsas. Ruley was immediately impressed. “She’s a really fast, natural songwriter; it all kind of comes out fully formed,” Ruley says of Scarinzi. “I think she’s a really good singer, too, and she brings lots of energy and emotion to it once she has written a song. But as a songwriter, she’s really unique—she just comes up with stuff that comes straight from her heart and out of her mouth. It’s like automatic writing for her.” Scarinzi and Ruley played a few times as a duo, but it soon became apparent they needed to expand the project and become a full band. Silverbell’s first bassist was Jason Steed, and Alan Anderson played drums. Steed and Anderson played on Whitewashed Heart. Steed

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ART AND AIRPLANES also sings backup vocals on many tracks and does a duet with Scarinzi on “The Station.” Personnel have changed during the last year, and Silverbell has a new rhythm section. Jim Cox plays bass, bringing to the band experience with local acts such as Creosote, 35 Summers and the Deadbolts, as well as the project he leads, the 12-year-old Fourkiller Flats. On drums is Spyder Rhodes, who has played with The Host and the Zsa Zsas, and over the years has established himself as a popular club DJ. “It’s really awesome to be in this band,” Cox says, “because I have known Gene and Spyder for so long, and it’s so surprising I have never played in a band with either one.” Cox says he’s enjoying playing bass for the first time in years and singing harmonies with Scarinzi. “She has such a fresh perspective on songwriting and being in a band; she’s perhaps not as jaded as some of us might be.” Rhodes admits he was a fan of Silverbell, particularly Scarinzi’s songs, well before he joined. “Her songs come from a place where she has had so much life experience. I honestly believe she is an old soul, perhaps even channeling someone else from the past,” Rhodes says. “Betsy has this emotional wisdom, and her experience comes out in painful ways in her songs, but also the sense that she is overcoming (the pain). Her songs are haunting and stick with you. And what a voice! She has some pipes, for sure, and an amazing stage presence.” The diminutive Scarinzi has a full, powerful voice. She attributes this to listening to Broadway shows in her childhood—her mother played her recordings of such shows as The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. “It started even before high school, and then I ended up going to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City for a year. That was strictly theater,

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though, no music.” Scarinzi says she has always been shy, but had a desire to perform anyway. She says music has afforded her the opportunity to come out of her shell. “It still took time, though. I think there was a time at Long Wong’s (when) I got so nervous and scared and ended up walking off stage in the middle of a song.” Now, she doesn’t feel shy onstage anymore, and, in fact, feels she can emote fully. “It’s this place where I just kind of get lost, and I think it’s just a process of getting out a lot of things that I have been holding in for a long time, and feeling comfortable enough to finally be heard.” Many of the songs on Whitewashed Heart are emotionally wrenching, because they describe personal events and changes in Scarinzi’s life. After it was completed, she noticed that the album works as a song cycle tracing the ebb and flow of a romantic relationship, even though it was written over several years and involves different periods of her life. She acknowledges that performing her music is cathartic, even though some of her songs are fictional narratives. “Absolutely, it feels so good. And, personally, I like to listen to music that has some emotional impact,” she says. “At the same time, if I am singing about that sort of stuff, I sing it with a smile on my face, because I don’t want it to be too heavy.”

If you’ve already gone back and read City Week as I instructed you to do (and you did, right?), then you already know the gist of Return Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project, an exhibit opening this weekend at the Pima Air and Space Museum for which dozens of artists, including Shepard Fairey, Mark Kostabi and our own Daniel Martin Diaz, painted and repurposed old military artifacts (airplanes, airplane cones, cluster bombs) into art objects. Eric Firestone is the man behind the show (along with Carlo McCormick and Viejas del Mercado), which is a pretty big deal in the art world—Juxtapoz magazine recently ran a photo gallery of the show on its website—and it’s certainly worth checking out on its own merits. The show will remain on display through Thursday, May 31. I would, however, recommend getting out there for the show’s opening. Sure, it’s going to be crowded, and you could always wait to go when it will be less so, but Firestone knows how to throw one hell of an opening party, and you’d be missing out on a killer lineup of performing local acts. Outside of the main hangar, where the planes will be on display, the aural entertainment will be provided by Saint Maybe (6:45 p.m.), Cadillac Steakhouse (7:45 p.m.), Acorn Bcorn (8:45 p.m.) and Holy Rolling Empire (9:45 p.m.). There will be a bonfire outside, too. Meanwhile, inside the hangar, where the other pieces in the show will be displayed, DJ Likedaang (best DJ name ever?) and O/W/L/S will be spinning tunes. Food and beverages will be served all night long. The opening for Return Trip: Art From the Boneyard Project runs from 6 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Pima Air and Space Museum, 6000 E. Valencia Road. Admission is $5. You can learn more at pimaair.org or by calling 574-0462.

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each day on their answering machine), their foray into smart children’s music at a time when the kiddies still thought Raffi was the hippest dude around, or playing early shows as a duo with a boom box fleshing out the sound, They Might Be Giants have always taken risks. Aside from the fact that I think they’re brilliant and absolutely love them (how could you not?), I hold a special place in my heart for TMBG. In either my freshman or sophomore year at the UA, armed with a fake ID and cab fare (one of the last old-school Checker cabs came to pick me up, and I had never felt cooler), I made my first trip to Club Congress to see them play, by myself, because no one I knew at the time had heard of them. It was still just the two Johns and the boom box in those days (they’ve been playing with a full band for years now), and there were maybe 50 people there to see them put on a terrific show. The Johns seemed pleased as punch to be selling and signing merch from the stage, which is pretty unimaginable these days. But back to that word: quirky. It describes not just their M.O., but also their music, which is like a world tour of styles and genres with songs that range from annoyingly catchy to just plain odd. This is a band, after all, that regularly uses an accordion and writes songs about touching puppet heads, being kissed by Jesus, and a battle between Particle Man and Triangle Man. (If you have to ask …) They Might Be Giants return to the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., on Monday, Jan. 30. Jonathan Coulton opens at 8 p.m. Reserved floor seats run $25 to $31, and you should get them quickly, as the show will likely sell out. No one under 14 will be admitted, even if accompanied by parent or guardian. For more info, head to rialtotheatre.com, or call 740-1000.

PUNK PICK Fans of punk rock are no doubt jazzed about this week’s Social Distortion show at the Rialto Theatre (see the Rhythm & Views review of Frank Turner for more info), but there’s another interesting punk-ish show flying a little further under the radar that should be pretty great, especially for those who are also partial to metal and boogie-rock. Dallas Taylor was the singer for Christian metalcore band Underoath from 1997 to 2003, when he was given the boot. By the following year, Taylor had founded a new band, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, which built on Underoath’s metal roots but added a Southernrock element. Imagine if 38 Special had grown up listening to Earth Crisis, and you’re somewhere in the vicinity of what Maylene sounds like. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster perform an all-ages show at Skrappy’s, 191 E. Toole Ave., on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Lionize, Lariats and Georgianna Hawkins are also on the bill, which starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12. For more info, call 358-4287.

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It’s not hard to imagine Chicago’s A Lull becoming a Next Big Thing. Fans of Sigur Rós will dig the etherealness found in their expansive soundscapes; Animal Collective nerds will enjoy the upfront percussion; and the vocal tics of singer Nigel Evan Dennis will keep all listeners interested and on their toes. A Lull performs at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., on Saturday, Jan. 28. Deleted Scenes and Dream Sick open the all-ages show

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5. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (DVD) 20th Century Fox at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance, or $10 on the day of the show. For more information, head to hotelcongress.com/club, or call 622-8848. Clarence Greenwood got his start in the music biz by performing on a pair of albums by Baltimore hip-hopper Basehead in the mid-’90s. Since then, under the name Citizen Cope, he’s been signed to no fewer than three major labels and, according to him, been mishandled by all of them. Last year, he took his patented sound—a blend of mellow pop imbued with shades of jazz, hip-hop, reggae and the blues—the independent route, releasing his fourth album, The Rainwater LP, on his own Rainwater Recordings imprint. Citizen Cope performs a solo acoustic show at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Reserved seats for the allages show are $21 and $26. For more info, head to rialtotheatre.com, or call 740-1000.

6. LMFAO Sorry for Party Rocking (Interscope)

7. Mastodon The Hunter (Reprise)

8. The Black Keys El Camino (Nonesuch)

9. Young Jeezy TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition (CTE/Def Jam)

10. Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Big Beat/Atlantic)

ON THE BANDWAGON Todd Snider and Sara Petite at Club Congress on Wednesday, Feb. 1; Gridlokt reunion and CD-release show with Godhunter, We Killed the Union and others at The Rock on Friday, Jan. 27; He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, Adam Faucett and Dry River Yacht Club at Plush next Thursday, Feb. 2; August Burns Red, Silverstein, Texas in July and I the Breather at the Rialto Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 31; Nathan and Jonathan McEuen at Abounding Grace Sanctuary on Saturday, Jan. 28; Allstar Weekend, Hollywood Ending, The After Party and others at The Rock on Tuesday, Jan. 31; 2 Chainz and Travis Porter at the Rialto Theatre next Thursday, Feb. 2; Opti Club featuring Fabian at Club Congress next Thursday, Feb. 2; “Every Fifth Sunday” singer-songwriter circle with host Mark Insley and special guests Duncan Stitt, Susan Wenger and Randy McReynolds at Boondocks Lounge on Sunday, Jan. 29; Tesoro and Ghazaal Beledi World Music and Dance with Va Va Voom Burlesque at Plush on Friday, Jan. 27; Jamie O’Brien at La Cocina on Saturday, Jan. 28; Rita Rudner at the Diamond Center in Desert Diamond Casino on Sunday, Jan. 29; The Jons at Che’s Lounge on Saturday, Jan. 28; The Early Black and Havarti Orchestra at Surly Wench Pub on Friday, Jan. 27; Dave Manning at the original Nimbus Brewing Company tonight, Thursday, Jan. 26.

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CLUB LIST Here is a list of venues that offer live music, dancing, DJ music, karaoke or comedy in the Tucson area. We recommend that you call and confirm all events. AMADO TERRITORY STEAKHOUSE 3001 E. Frontage Road. Amado. 398-2651. ARIZONA INN 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. ARMITAGE WINE LOUNGE AND CAFÉ 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168. 682-9740. THE AULD DUBLINER 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323. AZUL RESTAURANT LOUNGE Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. THE BAMBOO CLUB 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524. 514-9665. THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996. BEAU BRUMMEL CLUB 1148 N. Main Ave. 622-9673. BEDROXX 4385 W. Ina Road. 744-7655. BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. BOJANGLES SALOON 5244 S. Nogales Highway. 889-6161. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991. BORDERLANDS BREWING COMPANY 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773. THE BRANDING IRON RUTHRAUFF 2660 W. Ruthrauff Road. 888-9452. BRATS 5975 W. Western Way Circle. 578-0341. BRODIE’S TAVERN 2449 N. Stone Ave. 622-0447. BUFFALO WILD WINGS 68 N. Harrison Road. 296-8409. CACTUS MOON 5470 E. Broadway Blvd. 748-0049. CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. CAFE TREMOLO 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd., No. 152. 742-2999. THE CANYON’S CROWN RESTAURANT AND PUB 6958 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-8277. CASA VICENTE RESTAURANTE ESPAÑOL 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. CASCADE LOUNGE Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 615-5495. CHICAGO BAR 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-8169. CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-1999. COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road. 721-2781. CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984. DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. THE DEPOT SPORTS BAR 3501 E. Fort Lowell Road. 795-8110. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO MONSOON NIGHTCLUB 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 294-7777. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 393-2700. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202.

DRIFTWOOD RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317. DRY RIVER COMPANY 800 N. Kolb Road. 298-5555. DV8 5851 E. Speedway Blvd. 885-3030. ECLIPSE AT COLLEGE PLACE 1601 N. Oracle Road. 209-2121. EDDIES COCKTAILS 8510 E. Broadway Blvd. 290-8750. EL CHARRO CAFÉ SAHUARITA 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 325-1922. EL CHARRO CAFÉ ON BROADWAY 6310 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-1922. EL MEZÓN DEL COBRE 2960 N. First Ave. 791-0977. EL PARADOR 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-2744. ELBOW ROOM 1145 W. Prince Road. 690-1011. FAMOUS SAM’S BROADWAY 1830 E. Broadway Blvd. 884-0119. FAMOUS SAM’S E. GOLF LINKS 7129 E. Golf Links Road. 296-1245. FAMOUS SAM’S SILVERBELL 2320 N. Silverbell Road. 884-7267. FAMOUS SAM’S VALENCIA 3010 W. Valencia Road. 883-8888. FAMOUS SAM’S W. RUTHRAUFF 2480 W. Ruthrauff Road. 292-0492. FAMOUS SAM’S IRVINGTON 2048 E. Irvington Road. 889-6007. FAMOUS SAM’S ORACLE 8058 N. Oracle Road. 531-9464. FAMOUS SAM’S PIMA 3933 E. Pima St. 323-1880. FIRE + SPICE Sheraton Hotel and Suites, 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. FLYING V BAR AND GRILL Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. FOX AND HOUND SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Foothills Mall, 7625 N. La Cholla Blvd. 575-1980. FROG AND FIRKIN 874 E. University Blvd. 623-7507. LA FUENTE 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. FUKU SUSHI 940 E. University Blvd. 798-3858. GENTLE BEN’S BREWING COMPANY 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. GILLIGAN’S PUB 1308 W. Glenn St. 623-3999. GLASS ONION CAFE 1990 W. River Road, Suite 100. 293-6050. GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474. GOLDEN PIN LANES 1010 W. Miracle Mile. 888-4272. THE GRILL AT QUAIL CREEK 1490 Quail Range Loop. Green Valley. 393-5806. GUADALAJARA GRILL EAST 750 N. Kolb Road. 296-1122. GUADALAJARA GRILL WEST 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. HANGOVER’S BAR AND GRILL 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 326-2310. HIDEOUT BAR AND GRILL 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 751-2222. THE HIDEOUT 3000 S. Mission Road. 791-0515. HILDA’S SPORTS BAR 1120 Circulo Mercado. Rio Rico. (520) 281-9440. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. INN SUITES HOTEL TUCSON CITY CENTER 475 N. Granada Ave. 623-2000. IRISH PUB 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-2299.

JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. JAVELINA CANTINA 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200, ext. 5373. JEFF’S PUB 112 S. Camino Seco Road. 886-1001. KINGFISHER BAR AND GRILL 2564 E. Grant Road. 323-7739. KON TIKI 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193. LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669. LAS CAZUELITAS 1365 W. Grant Road. 206-0405. LEVEL BAR LOUNGE 4280 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 37. 615-3835. LI’L ABNER’S STEAKHOUSE 8500 N. Silverbell Road. 744-2800. LINDY’S AT REDLINE SPORTS GRILL 445 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8084. LOOKOUT BAR AND GRILLE AT WESTWARD LOOK RESORT 245 E. Ina Road. 297-1151. THE LOOP TASTE OF CHICAGO 10180 N. Oracle Road. 878-0222. LUNA BELLA ITALIAN CUISINE AND CATERING 2990 N. Swan Road, No. 145. 325-3895. M&L AIRPORT INN BAR AND GRILL 2303 E. Valencia Road. 294-1612. MALIBU YOGURT AND ICE CREAM 825 E. University Blvd. 903-2340. MARGARITA BAY 7415 E. 22nd St. 290-8977. MAVERICK 6622 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-0430. MAYNARDS MARKET AND KITCHEN 400 N. Toole Ave. 545-0577. MCMAHON’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE 2959 N. Swan Road. 327-7463. MIDTOWN BAR AND GRILL 4915 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2011. MINT COCKTAILS 3540 E. Grant Road. 881-9169. MOONEY’S PUB 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 885-6443. MR. AN’S TEPPAN STEAK AND SUSHI 6091 N. Oracle Road. 797-0888. MR. HEAD’S ART GALLERY AND BAR 513 N. Fourth Ave. 792-2710. MUSIC BOX 6951 E. 22nd St. 747-1421. NEVADA SMITH’S 1175 W. Miracle Mile. 622-9064. NIMBUS BREWING COMPANY TAPROOM 3850 E. 44th St. 745-9175. NORTH 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. O’MALLEY’S 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600. OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. OLD TUBAC INN RESTAURANT AND SALOON 7 Plaza Road. Tubac. (520) 398-3161. ON A ROLL 63 E. Congress St. 622-7655. THE ONYX ROOM 106 W. Drachman St. 620-6699. ORACLE INN 305 E. American Ave. Oracle. 896-3333. O’SHAUGHNESSY’S 2200 N. Camino Principal. 296-7464. PARADISO BAR AND LOUNGE Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767. RPM NIGHTCLUB 445 W. Wetmore Road. 869-6098.

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NINE QUESTIONS Ashley Thomas Born and raised in Las Vegas, Ashley Thomas moved to Tucson four years ago. She was a baker at Grill until it closed, and now works for American Airlines, â&#x20AC;&#x153;gettinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; people in the sky like magic.â&#x20AC;? Thomas grew up playing the piano and singing in choirs until she was in her late teens, and was the first student at her high school to be accepted into a Nevada all-state ensemble all four years. She has surrounded herself with boys in bands ever since. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend,â&#x20AC;? she says. Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com

What was the first concert you ever saw? Spice Girls when I was 12. Thanks, Mom! What are you listening to these days? Devo, Tweak Bird, Polysics, Queen, Washed Out, M83, Dead Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bones, The Capricorns. What was the first album you owned? Ace of Base, The Sign. I used to choreograph dances to that album. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get? Dubstep. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like Megatron getting it on with a dinosaur and then having a hybrid baby named Skrillex. It hurts my brain. What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? Gorillaz. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bad Touchâ&#x20AC;? by the Bloodhound Gang, and pretty much everything else on the album Hooray for Boobies. What song would you like to have played at your funeral? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bad Romanceâ&#x20AC;? by Lady Gaga, so I can rise out of my casket and do the zombie/Thriller dance that she does in her video. Hopefully, BeyoncĂŠ will be there. What band or artist changed your life, and how? Devo. Freedom of Choice was my first cassette tape handed down to me by my dad, and they have just always stuck with me to this day. Oh, and I like to wear flowerpots on my head. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? Chumbawamba, Tubthumper.

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As a band clearly in love with music decades older than themselves, the Silver Thread Trio comfortably borrows and blends styles and themes that have forever driven the American folk-music tradition. Yet it’s the trio’s own songwriting and arrangements that are displayed on Trigger and Scythe. The album features 12 originals and just two traditional folk tunes, a balance that proves the band’s talents run much deeper than their trademark three-part harmonies. The songs cover lost loves, busted hopes, vivid dreams, sin, salvation and the everpresent specter of death—stories all spun with a deft eye for details, and narration that knows when to take a heartbreaking turn. Caroline Isaacs, Laura Kepner-Adney and Gabrielle Pietrangelo each contribute at least two songs. The music—traditional, old-timey Americana, combining elements of folk, blues and country—was recorded with Jim Waters and a host of guest musicians (including Calexico’s Joey Burns, John Convertino and Paul Niehaus, and the El Camino Royales) to create full and rich arrangements while still focusing on the trio’s vocals. “Days of Night,” “Mockingbird” and “River’s Run Dry” are songs of such faithfulness to the folk tradition, it’s a surprise they weren’t written in some other century. After making their mark locally, perhaps more so as backup vocalists and collaborators, Silver Thread Trio shines by showing how their fresh songwriting connects so deeply with the past. Eric Swedlund

Longtime Tucson music fans may remember Savage for her funky-rock party band during the 1990s. But this new nine-song album shows off her country-pop songwriting chops. Produced by Savage, it was recorded in Nashville with a core band of veterans. Several tracks here sound as if they are primed to be snapped up by some of today’s top talent, such as the sassy, upbeat leadoff track “I Like to Play With Boys,” in which riffing guitars trade leads with stinging pedal steel; and the heartlandbased country-rock of “Say I Do,” which sounds readymade for, say, Carrie Underwood. With its expansive scope of family memories and Americana rock, “I’m Always With You” is a charming love letter from a young woman to her father—and the organ and banks of guitars work together to build emotional impact. The ballad “The Way You Got to Me” is a lush exploration of heady romance, while “Obsession” is a driving rave-up with subtle pop hooks. “Midwest Small Town” is another cut with the potential to become a crossover hit, in large part because of the catchy Mellencamp-style melody, an irresistible chorus and lyrics that mention Main Street, a Chevelle, cornfields, NASCAR, cow-tipping and rhubarb pie. She gets to show off her voice, occasionally indulging in a soulful wail. Savage isn’t afraid to refer to herself, or to other characters, as girls, in a genial, down-home way. On “Good All American Girl,” she turns the title cliché on its head, alluding to a little troublemaking, too. Gene Armstrong

British folk-punk singer Frank Turner is gunning for the mantle occupied by the late, revered Joe Strummer, and the restless elder statesman Billy Bragg. While his first four albums show a rapid ascendancy that suggests he could definitely get there, Turner’s prolific recording hits a number of other areas. With homage to Bob Dylan in song and Black Flag in album art and concept, The Second Three Years collects B-sides, compilation tracks, live recordings and previously unreleased songs, including a dozen covers. Coming on the heels of last year’s excellent England Keep My Bones, the album is a compendium of folk, punk and pub-rock, though a bit scattered at 22 songs and more than a bit long at 77 minutes. His best covers are “Song to Bob” (a take on Bob Dylan’s “Song to Woody”), “Thunder Road” and a live, a cappella rendition of the 17th-century English ballad “Barbara Allen.” But the nonfolk covers are spotty. Turner performs with sincerity and reverence, but the results can sound a bit indulgent. “Build Me Up Buttercup” loses the exuberance of the Foundations’ original. The acoustic Nirvana, NOFX and Bad Religion are fun reinventions, if a bit slight. Yet when Turner’s strengths are on full display (“To Absent Friends,” “Balthazar, Impresario” and “Wanderlust”), he’s one of his country’s most-invigorating songwriters and performers. Eric Swedlund

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In Colorado, where there are roughly 5 million people, there were more than 700 dispensaries last fall, according to a count by The Denver Post. Denver is a circus of MMJ sale and distribution. So is Los Angeles, with about 10 million people and more than 500 dispensaries, despite a supposed crackdown by the city, which hopes to limit the number to fewer than 100. In Arizona, where we have about 6.5 million people, the law will allow just 125 dispensaries. That limit will surely help us avoid raids. But how many dispensaries would the feds raid if we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any? Zero. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that Gov. Jan was on to something, even if she stumbled onto it in the dark on her way to slam shut the MMJ barn door. Maybe she was protecting the MMJ community of the great state of Arizona, whether she originally iintended to or not. Federal raids n hurt people, and I h cchoose to believe JJan Brewer and Tom Horne are actual H human beings, h possibly even smart p ones, and that they on do care whether people get arrested. pe So maybe they were doing the right we thing, even if their thi original intent was ori to gget all up in my shit and start hacking sh and slashing away at an agreementsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;written agre agreementsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;between agre my government and me. In the end, I remain skeptical of the overall value of MMJ dispensaries and urge extreme caution. Get out your maps, dispensaryplanners, and make sure you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t selling and/or distributing or causing to be sold or distributed any marijuana or marijuanainfused substances in a way that will piss oďŹ&#x20AC; the U.S. Department of Justiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or Gov. Jan, for that matter. Be intimately familiar with the law. Look it up. Read it carefully. Follow it to the letter, where possible. Call people like Thomas Dean, Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experienced marijuana attorney (his words). He has represented and advised many of the people at the forefront of Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MMJ ďŹ ght. And for Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell MMJ near any schools.

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): The coming week is likely to be abnormally free of worries and frustrations. I’m afraid that means you’re not going to have as much right to complain as you usually do. Can you handle that? Or will you feel bereft when faced with the prospect of having so little to grumble about? Just in case, I’ve compiled a list of fake annoyances for you to draw on. 1. “My iPhone won’t light my cigarette.” 2. “The next tissue in my tissue box doesn’t magically poke out when I take one.” 3. “I want some ice cream, but I overstuffed myself at dinner.” 4. “I ran out of bottled water and now I have to drink from the tap.” 5. “My cat’s Facebook profile gets more friend requests than me.” 6. “When people tell me I should feel grateful for all I have instead of complaining all the time, I feel guilty.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The state of California was named after a storybook land described in a 16th-century Spanish novel. The mythical paradise was ruled by Queen Calafia. Gold was so plentiful that the people who lived there made weapons out of it and even adorned their animals with it. Did the real California turn out to be anything like that fictional realm? Well, 300 years after it got its name, the California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 visitors who mined a fortune in the precious metal. Your assignment, Taurus: Think of the myths you believed in when you were young, and the fantasies that have played at the edges of your imagination for years. Have any of them come true, even a little? I suspect that one may do just that in the coming weeks and months. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Bill Moyers’ DVD The Language of Life, poet Naomi Shihab Nye is shown giving advice to aspiring young poets. She urges them to keep an open mind about where their creative urges might take them. Sometimes, when you start a poem, she says, you think you want to go to church, but where you end up is at the dog races. I’ll make that same point to you, Gemini. As you tune in to the looming call to adventure, don’t be too sure you know what destination it has in mind for you. You might be inclined to assume it’ll lead you toward a local bar for drinks when, in fact, it’s nudging you in the direction of a wild frontier for a divine brouhaha.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Renowned comic-book writer Grant Morrison claims he performed a magic ritual in which he conjured the spirit of John Lennon, who appeared and bestowed on him the gift of a new song. I’ve heard Morrison sing the tune, and it does sound rather Lennonesque. The coming week would be a good time for you to go in quest of a comparable boon, Cancerian: a useful and beautiful blessing bequeathed to you by the departed spirit of someone you love or admire. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time,” said Oscar Wilde. “The reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised, for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.” I predict that sometime soon, Leo, you will prove that wisdom true. You will finally learn the brilliant question whose crucial answer you got years ago. When it arrives, you will comprehend a mystery that has been churning in the semi-darkness all this time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shedding is healthy—not just for cats and dogs and other animals, but also for us humans. Did you know that you shed thousands of particles of dead skin every hour? And just as our bodies need to shed, so do our psyches. I bring this up, Virgo, because you are in an unusually favorable phase to do a whole lot of psychic shedding. What should you shed, exactly? How about some of these: old ideas that don’t serve you any more, habits that undermine your ability to pursue your dreams, compulsions that are at odds with your noble intentions, resentment against people who did you wrong a long, long time ago, and anything else you carry with you that keeps you from being fully alive and radiant. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the price of freedom and aliveness is eternal shedding.

your ability to come up with innovations. So it won’t be enough for you to offer your brilliant notions and original departures from the way things have always been done; you will also have to be persuasive and diplomatic. Think you can handle that dual assignment? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away shadows,” said St. Francis of Assisi. I’m afraid that’s an overly optimistic assessment. In many circumstances, just one ray of light may not be sufficient to dispel encroaching haze and murk. Luckily for you, though, there will be quite an assortment of sunbeams appearing in your sphere during the coming weeks. Here’s the complication: They won’t all be showing up at once, and they’ll be arriving in disparate locations. So your task will be to gather them all up and unite them so they can add to each other’s strength. If you do that successfully, you’ll have more than enough illumination to chase away any darkness that might be creeping around. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Elizabeth Alexander says that in order to create a novel, a writer needs a lot of

uninterrupted time alone. Poems, on the other hand, can be snared in the midst of the jumbled rhythms of everyday chaos— between hurried appointments or while riding the subway or at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew. Alexander says that inspiration can sprout like grass poking up out of the sidewalk cracks. Whether or not you’re a writer, Sagittarius, I see your coming weeks as being more akin to snagging poems than cooking up a novel. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “A true poet does not bother to be poetical,” said the poet Jean Cocteau. “Nor does a nursery gardener perfume his roses.” I think that’s wise counsel for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’s important that you do what you do best without any embellishment, pretentiousness or self-consciousness. Don’t you dare try too hard or think too much or twist yourself like a contortionist to meet impossible-to-satisfy expectations. Trust the thrust of your simple urges. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Collectors prefer wild orchids, says William Langley, writing in the United Kingdom’s Telegraph. Orchids grown in nurseries, which comprise

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vation. But I bathe him once a year, brush him daily—más o menos—and he doesn’t even have piojos. Me, either. I guess my question is: How can the gentry know that he’s Spanish—surnamed, bilingual and mestizo, since they’ve even never talked to us? And is there anything I can do so Manchas doesn’t grow up with a pocho complex and think he’s inferior to a gringo’s dog? Yankee Hipsters Go Home! Dear Wab: Gotta pay our respect to our veteranos—they can ramble as awesomely as any gabacho at a retirement home! I think what you’re complaining about is the gentrification of historically Mexican neighborhoods by hipsters, a phenomenon happening everywhere from Denver to Los Angeles, SanTana to Chicago, and beyond. It’s important to fight the encroachment of pendejos with no ties to the area who start demanding changes— get rid of quinceañera shops, of crowing roosters, of cars parked on lawns, of corn grown in the backyard and nopales in the front. At the mismo time, though, raza really angry with gentrification should practice gente-fication—the process of young locals getting over their pocho complex by opening their own businesses to pump enough money back into the area so that city bureaucrats don’t have any excuse to use the ruse of redevelopment on raza. Think of that strategy as our economic Mexican-American War—and if there are hipsters who are respectful of the old guard, like the San Patricios who joined our side against the invading Yankees so long ago, then I say embrace their ranks; pound a PBR with them; and teach them the secrets of scaring insufferable hipsters away from the barrio by blasting Banda El Recodo at all hours of the noche. Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican. net; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at youtube.com/askamexicano!

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Have boyfriend. Several months. Love sex. First time we sixty-nine, I notice he has a little turtlehead sticking out. You get me? Second time, he has bits of toilet paper stuck in that area. CAN I ADDRESS THIS? And how do I do it without giving him a permanently flaccid penis? I love this man to pieces and know this is a humiliating topic. Please help! Mired In The Mud Got you. Wish didn’t. But did. If you don’t have the nerve to speak up when someone is grinding shitbuds and dingleberries in the vicinity of your nostrils, MITM, I’m not sure there’s anything I can say that’s gonna help. But for what it’s worth … YES, YOU ADDRESS IT! IMMEDIATELY! When someone pushes your face into a dirty asscrack—or allows you to place your face in the general vicinity of a dirty asscrack—you say something along the lines of, “What the fuck, dude; go take a dump, and jump in the shower! Christ!” His ego, to say nothing of his future erections, should be your last concern at a moment like that. So you say it without hesitation, without concern for his feelings—and you say it as you leap out of bed and reach for your shirt, pants, car keys and phone. You don’t just lie there pretending that his buttrasta isn’t dangling over your nose. Even if he’s never able to get another erection with you, MITM, he’ll know to spot-check for cleanliness—are there no washcloths in Gilead?—before he crawls on top of anyone else. I’m a 23-year-old gay guy. I’ve been talking to a nice guy who will possibly become my first boyfriend. The little quibble I’m having is … I’m a virgin. It’s not that big of a deal to me—it just hasn’t happened yet—but I was wondering if I should mention it to this guy. He made an aside about virginity (unprompted by me) during one of our chats: “No, I’m not a virgin; that’s nothing that you should worry about with me.” That was probably my opportunity to tell him, but I didn’t. Should I have told him? What if I tell him during sex? Could that make it hot? Thank you for what you do. I found the courage to come out because of you.

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If you found the courage to come out to family and friends about being gay—which you found inside yourself, RAW, but thanks for the nice compliment—you can come out to this boy about being a virgin. Don’t tell him during sex, RAW, and don’t tell him in a way that makes this relevant information about your sexual history—you don’t have one— seem like a character flaw, a cancer diagnosis or a request for an open marriage six years after you began an adulterous affair with a congressional staffer. You’re just a 23-year-old virgin, RAW, and there’s nothing wrong with you; it’s not like you’re one of Elizabeth Santorum’s idiotic gay friends or a cast member of The A-List: Dallas. The next time you see this boy, initiate a casual, low-stakes, getting-to-know-you make-out session at a time when you can’t transition to full-on, no-holesbarred gay sex. Relax; kiss the boy; be chill. Then pause and inform him that you’re not very sexually experienced—in fact, you’ve never been with anyone. Reassure him that you’re not a duckling— you’re not going to imprint on the first dick you see—but that you wanted him to know. How are you supposed to react to the discovery— entirely accidental—that your youngest brother has a “femdom” relationship with his wife? I stumbled over my brother’s “anonymous” sex blog. It goes into detail about the “domestic discipline” she subjects him to: humiliation, spanking, “ruined orgasms” (whatever that is!), cuckolding. There are no names, but there are pictures. Their faces are blurred out, but I recognize their living room, their bedroom, the necklace my sister-in-law wears, and my brother’s chin and hair. If

I recognized them, other family members might. What do I say? Biggest Big Bro Besides, “Hey, bro, I’m kinky, too!”? (You “stumbled over” your brother’s kinky sex blog? How’d that happen? Did he leave it sitting in your driveway?) If you can’t bring yourself to say that, BBB, you say nothing, and trust that more-distant, less-kinky family members are unlikely to “stumble over” your brother’s anonymous femdom blog anytime soon. And even if they do, they’re probably not familiar enough with your brother and sister-inlaw’s home, jewelry, chins, etc., to recognize him. Congrats, Dan. It looks like you’ve got your first high-profile “monogamish” public figure: Newt Gingrich. You must be so proud. Savage Can’t Understand Monogamy For anyone who spent last week under a rock: Newt Gingrich, brave defender of traditional marriage, was still married to his second wife—and still fucking the consecrated host out of his “devout Catholic” mistress—when he asked his second wife to agree to an open marriage. Newt had been fucking Callista, his devoutly Catholic mistress, for six years when he made the big ask. Newt’s second wife wouldn’t agree to an open marriage, according to Newt’s second wife, which is how she became Newt’s second ex-wife, and how Newt’s mistress—the devoutly Catholic Callista—became Newt’s third wife. That’s not monogamish, SCUM. That’s CPOSish. And lumping honest nonmonogamists— people who don’t lie or cheat—in with the likes of the Gingriches and Schwarzeneggers of the world, which whiny and insecure monogamists (who are not to be confused with reasonable and secure monogamists) are always doing, is simply unfair. Newt, like Arnold before him, didn’t succeed at nonmonogamy; he failed at monogamy. Zooming out for a moment: The Gingrich campaign has presented the story of Newt and Callista’s courtship as a redemption narrative: Newt is a better man today thanks to Callista; he’s better-suited to be president thanks to Callista; and he’s better prepared to defend traditional marriage thanks to Callista. She’s been described as a “devout Catholic” in every profile written about her—so devout that her love brought Newt to the one, holy, Catholic, apostolic and ever-more-rabidly anti-gay church. So it seems to me that it’s fair to ask if Callista knew in advance that Newt was proposing an open marriage to his then-wife, and if she approved of the arrangement. (It might be more accurate to say that Newt informed his second wife that she was already in an open marriage, and asked if she wanted to remain in it.) Did Callista know about Newt’s open-marriage proposal? Did Newt bounce the idea off his devoutly Catholic mistress first? Maybe right after he finished bouncing himself off his devoutly Catholic mistress? Would the devout Catholic still be Newt’s mistress today if the second Mrs. Gingrich had agreed to remain in the marriage that Newt had already opened? This news alters the redemption narrative that the Gingrich camp set before the voters. So questioning Callista about the open-marriage proposal—what did the mistress know, and when did she know it?—seems like an entirely legit line of inquiry to me. Callista Gingrich, like her vile husband, doesn’t believe that gays and lesbians should be equal under the law because, as a good Catholic, she believes that homosexuality is a sin, and that homosexuals should remain celibate. Well, the Catholic Church considers adultery, divorce and birth control sinful, too. Someone in the liberal media really ought to ask Callista to explain why her faith should place limits on my sexual expression, but not her own. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage, and follow me @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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