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OPINION Hey, Republicans: Sarah Gonzales deserves your vote next Tuesday.

Tom Danehy 4 Ryn Gargulinski 6 Jim Hightower 6

Guest Commentary 8 Mailbag 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

The Fighter Pilot 9 By Jim Nintzel

A chat with Martha McSally, GOP candidate in CD 8 Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

No Disclosure 11 By Mari Herreras

A group opposed to private prisons issues a scathing report Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by Dan Gibson

Police Dispatch 12 By Anna Mirocha

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Watching in horror at the massive Santorum surge.

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We endorse Republican Sarah Gonzales and Green Richard Grayson Dollars Delivered 14 By Brian J. Pedersen

Pima County is set to approve funding for two long-awaited neighborhood projects

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When Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said during his press conference on Saturday, Feb. 18, that a lot of politicians and members of the media had already known that he was gay, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s correct: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had several discussions in recent months with politically in-the-know people who mentioned Babeuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexuality. So, yeah, it was out there. The aspect of his outing that I find most stunning (aside from the accusations that led to his outing, which are in a whole other realm of â&#x20AC;&#x153;stunningâ&#x20AC;?) is that Babeu apparently thought he would be able to skate through his congressional campaign without this coming out (literally) at some point. There was no way. Before the bombshell that led to Babeuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming-out, we had discussions here at the Tucson Weekly about covering Babeuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexuality. Ultimately, we decided against it, for all sorts of reasons, but the primary reason was this: Every gay, lesbian or bisexual individual should be able to decide for themselves when to make the intensely personal decision to come out. There are exceptions to this rule, in my bookâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hypocrisy, for example (I would not hesitate to out a gay, lesbian or bisexual individual if they were going around promoting anti-LGBT legislation)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but Babeu never did anything that we knew about to trigger any of those exceptions. Now that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out, I hope Babeu does the right thing and stands up for his LGBT brothers and sisters when his fellow so-called conservatives say hateful things and push bigoted legislation. Of course, he should have been standing up for his LGBT brothers and sisters all alongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but when it comes to doing the right thing, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better late than never.

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BY TOM DANEHY, tdanehy@tucsonweekly.com

few things I need to get off my chest before the red-hot Arizona Republican presidential primary grabs our full attention: • Is it just me, or did the long-awaited Arizona Centennial have all the emotional payoff of Halley’s Comet circa 1986? I know budgets were tight and all, but gee whiz. It was a centennial. • One of the things I really liked was the Arizona Daily Star’s series of reprinted articles from the 1911-12 papers. The writing was flowery, and the topics were rather quaint, but it was almost always enjoyable. The other day, however, there was this troubling article about how the Legislature had been considering firing teachers who said anything that could be considered “partisan” in the classroom.

I know that the airplane had been around for eight years by then, and autos were all over the country, but Arizona was still rather backward if they were allowing something that stupid to be brought up in the Legislature. Actually, and quite embarrassingly, that ridiculous bill is being pushed right now … in the 21st century … in the United States. State Sen. Lori Klein, a Republican from Anthem who is wrong more often than Nicki Minaj’s fashion designer, introduced the bill, claiming that she has received complaints about “political indoctrination in the classroom.” She didn’t go into detail as to where these “complaints” originated, or what form the indoctrination took. The next thing you know, some teacher will be saying something nice about the Civil Rights Act (yet another subversive plot by the Democrats). Making the case before the Legislature was educational and political-indoctrination expert Gabriela Saucedo Mercer. Just kidding; she’s not really an expert on that stuff. What she is, is somebody the Republican Party found to run against Congressman Raúl Grijalva in the fall. In the eyes of the GOP, she’s central-casting perfect. She’s betterlooking than Grijalva. Even though she’s married to a gabacho, she’s careful to keep the Saucedo in her name. And she’s got a thicker accent than Grijalva has ever had, which, in the eyes of Republicans, means than she’s even more Hispanic than Grijalva. Anyway, there she was, before the Legislature, saying that she knows firsthand that students are receiving indoctrination rather than instruction. She didn’t say how she knows, but when dealing with a proposal this insane, it doesn’t really matter who’s making the case or how. The funniest thing of all is that Republican Sen. Frank Antenori of Tucson got some of the kookier parts of the

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bill removed. When Frank Antenori emerges as the relative voice of reason, you know stupidity is running wild. • Just to show you nobody can be wrong all of the time, the aforementioned Klein wants to clean up foul language in Arizona’s classrooms. Shockingly, I have to agree. I think that parents have the right to expect their kids will get an education without being subjected to foul language. However, Klein wants to use the sledgehammer approach of having teachers comply with Federal Communications Commission standards that are set for broadcast radio and television. That’s funny for two reasons: First, I’m sure that Klein is one of those “conservatives” who hate everything about the federal government, especially regulatory agencies. Second, on TV these days, the standards for language decency are definitely on a slippery slope. I have to admit that I’ve been bummed out since male teachers stopped wearing ties to work. I’m not sure when that started, but it was definitely a step in the wrong direction. If you want to be treated as a professional, you should dress and act like a professional. (And it’s not just guys, either. I had to meet with a school administrator once. I walked into her office, and she was wearing a too-short skirt with a slit up the side—and was very-obviously braless. I thought to myself, “You gotta’ be freakin’ kidding me!” Since I was in a school setting, I used FCC standards on myself.) • I want to thank emailer Luke Knipe for pointing out that I shouldn’t be upset with Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Jeff Rogers because the party endorsed Regina Romero in the Democratic primary last fall. Apparently, the decision was made by a committee, which means I should be mad at them and Mr. Rogers. Knipe says local Republicans, who weren’t savvy enough to run somebody against Romero in the general election, tried to sneak somebody into the primary against Romero. Knipe almost had me going along with him, but then he finished with: “In fact, this week, the California Democratic Party announced their primary endorsements for their State Assembly, State Senate and U.S. congressional races.” Dude, trying to make your point by citing what’s going on in California is never, ever, ever a good idea.

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urgery involves getting cut open; having something taken out, put in or tinkered with; and then being sewn back up. That happened to be the full extent of the details provided for a recent surgery at a Tucson hospital. “What are they doing?” “Fixing his neck.” We were not exactly sure how this neck fix was supposed to happen to my beau, but we did know why—major pain and reduced mobility. We also learned there are plenty of sneaky little secrets no one mentions prior to major surgery. Like how to get out of bed. Never believe the cranky orderly’s instructions. Although she may have meant well, the procedure she outlined for getting out of bed after major cervical surgery could have made even a healthy neck snap like a twig.

In these times of cold health-care austerity, it reaffirms one’s faith in humanity to learn that many hospitals are now going the extra mile to provide top-quality care. For all super-rich people, that is—so rich that they can buy their way into “amenities units” that have quietly been built into secluded sections of many hospitals. It’s not medical care that they’re peddling to an elite clientele, but the personal pampering that the super-rich expect in all aspects of their lives. “I was supposed to be in Buenos Two days later, the physical-therapy lady finally came Aires last week taking tango lessons,” a around with an illustrated handout outlining the proper Wall Street executive explained matter-ofmoves for sitting and standing. The orderly’s instructions factly to a New York Times reporter, “but were on the “don’t” list. We’re still wondering why my beau’s unfortunately, I hurt my back, so I’m here vertebrae did not pop out of the back of his neck. with my concierge.” Carefully guarding your possessions is another postA hospital with a concierge? Yes. This surgery rule. We know this applies to your watch, wallet and one’s called Eleven West, an exclusive wing 7-inch nose ring, which you are supposed to leave at home of New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center. in the first place. However, you also need to keep other stuff “We pride ourselves on getting anything the you accumulate close at hand. patient wants,” beamed Eleven West’s This includes the Tupperware container of cookies your director of hospitality. “If they have a cravgirlfriend so lovingly brought you so you would not have to ing for lobster tails, and we don’t have subsist on yellow Jell-O. Don’t put it over on the shelving them on the menu, we’ll go out and get unit. Once something is across the room, it might as well be them.” in Siberia. From New York to Los Angeles, hospitals If merely getting out of bed is a major chore, actually that draw huge subsidies from taxpayers shuffling across the floor is akin to running a marathon. The (and often are so overcrowded that regular patients are lucky to get a gurney in the hallway) have THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow set aside entire floors for $2,400-a-day deluxe suites. They come with butlers, five-star meals, marble baths, imported bed sheets, special kitchens and other amenities for swells who have both insurance and cash to burn. Not only is it repugnant for the plutocratic elite to pervert health care into a luxury commodity, but their very effort to do so splits asunder America’s essential, uniting principle of the common good. To push for a national policy that treats health care as a fundamental human need—for all—contact Physicians for a National Health Program at www. pnhp.org.

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cookies remained untouched and somehow ended up sprouting spider mites. Keeping the little push-button thing that supplies pain medication is even more important than keeping the cookies. Thinking he’d quickly be placed on the regimen of pain medication outlined in one of the hospital’s pre-surgery brochures, my beau opted to have the staff take away the little push-button thing about 24 hours after his procedure. The next day was pure hell. That was because we weren’t in on yet another postsurgery secret: When the head nurse is away, the underlings will play. In our case, their playing involved sitting around and eating potato chips. For some reason, this activity consumed the entire floor, complete with crunching sounds echoing down the corridor. The staff feigned enough helpfulness to nod at our request for pain medication, but nothing came through. The evening following the procedure, my beau was pampered and fawned over as if he were King Tut. But the next morning, he became the forgotten patient. Even getting a bed urinal took nearly an hour. Don’t give up your bed urinal. Although the contraptions are gross and make you feel like you’re, well, in a hospital, they can also be a lifesaver. Even though getting out of bed to use the bathroom was one of the post-surgery activities my guy was supposed to pursue, the slate of medications he finally received made him need to pee every 10 minutes. Couple that with the incorrect and harmful method of getting out of bed, and you might as well schedule a second surgery to fix all the new damage being done. Not only did the medications make him pee, but they also didn’t work as well as rumor has it. Valium. Percocet. Vicodin. Despite their exotic reputations for being powerful enough to leave you flying high in la-la land, all they did to my beau was make him drowsy and nauseated. The nausea was compounded by one more little hospital secret: Clean sheets are not necessarily a given. Although my guy was told to bring his pajamas, and even though he spent the whole time in a hospital gown, no one mentioned bringing your own sheets. This would have been a refreshing switch from the crusty cocoon of sodden cloth that encased him for days. He did ask one noncranky orderly to provide clean sheets on about day three. She did so, but it made her become cranky. We then discovered perhaps the most important hospital secret of all: Just being there makes you cranky.

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An open letter to new TUSD school board member Alexandre Borges Sugiyama

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The word to use is “cannabis.” Your column will be a lot more helpful once you read The Pot Book (“J.M. on J.M.,” Medical MJ, Feb. 2). You have yet to mention that just like endorphins, the brain has its own endogenous cannabinoid receptors. This was discovered by researchers in the ’90s. Also, you have failed to have a decent article on sativa versus indica, or on CBD, by far the most medically promising compound found in marijuana. Please reduce your swearing, too. My grandmother once said swearing just means you have a poor vocabulary. You can usually find a better word. Also worth reading is the section on pot in Integrative Oncology, edited by Andrew Weil. Marijuana may protect the brain following head trauma or the neurotoxic effects of alcohol. It also may actually cause regeneration of brain cells. Also, long-term heavy pot-smokers actually had lower rates of lung cancer than nonsmokers in one study. So there may be a protective effect going on. Please make your column stronger. If not, I will gladly write it for you.

have been involved in Tucson Unified School District issues for about 30 years. I am a former TUSD teacher, parent and citizens’ desegregation oversight committee member. I had hoped that my first communication with you would be to congratulate you on your appointment to the board, but the circumstances make that impossible. I could not, for the life of me, figure out what your TUSD involvement had been prior to your appointment. I wondered, “Where in the world did this person come from?” Typically, those seeking to serve the district as board members have acquired some depth of understanding about the district through their visible and active involvement as parents or community members. This was not the case with you.

TUSD-involved individuals had never heard of you or seen you. But I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt, thinking that perhaps someone with minimal history with the district could bring a new outlook. Well, I was apparently wrong. I recently noticed that governing-board meetings have started later than had been the practice. This means that the meetings end later at night. This is not considerate of parents and students who have early work and school schedules. It also puts a strain on TUSD staff members, since their work days have become very long. I inquired about what caused this disruption to the traditional meeting times, and I have come to learn that it is based on your work schedule. Didn’t you consider this when you applied for the appointment? Perhaps you were unaware of the hours since you had seldom, if ever, attended board meetings. As I was inquiring about the board-meeting scheduling changes, many individuals shared their concerns with me about your employment status in relation to Mark Stegeman at the University of Arizona. I was shocked to learn that Stegeman, as a faculty member at the University of Arizona Eller College of Management’s Economics Department, is in a superior position to yours as a lecturer. As someone told me, “The faculty member has all of the power, and the lecturer must do what is asked of him in order to advance.” Faculty members often have a significant impact on the career paths of those who are subordinate within the same department. So, the pressing questions are: How has Dr. Stegeman’s superior position over you influenced you to apply for the governing-board position, and to vote in lockstep with his positions? Your overnight passion for TUSD governance has struck me and others as less than genuine, and as your rela-

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Thanks for Danehy’s Work of Staggering Genius Tom Danehy’s “letter” by a grandson to his grandfather is brilliant, a stroke of genius (Feb. 9). If there was ever a more-scathing—but accurate—indictment of the sorry state of Arizona’s educational system, I haven’t seen it. Some wag wrote a letter to the Arizona Daily Star saying that Arizona’s state motto should be “100—and going backward.” Unfortunately, that seems all too true. Who’s to blame for this debacle? Not the kids; they learn only from their environment. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “Give us the (right) tools—and we will finish the job.” Unfortunately, again, no one seems to know what those right tools are. I personally know two young men who graduated from the same Tucson high school, and neither one of them can read. What does that say? Keep up the good work; you’re a real asset to our community.

tionship with and ties to Dr. Stegeman continue to be revealed, speculation swells about your true interests in seeking the governing-board appointment. If you are not aware, I was one of the candidates who was considered for the governing-board appointment. When I examined the list of candidates, I was surprised to see 54 names. It was promising! The list included so many people who had in-depth knowledge about TUSD, and I felt that no matter what, we would wind up with someone who had genuine interest, commitment and expertise on the board. Five people were appointed to serve on the selection committee after a great deal of dissention on the board. To simplify, Mark Stegeman essentially appointed two individuals; Michael Hicks; Adelita Grijalva and Miguel Cuevas each appointed one. Although I am not a math whiz, it is very clear that with 60 percent influence over what type of candidate Stegeman and Hicks were seeking, the process tilted in their direction. It is no wonder that the results were as they are. Would you have been appointed by the Pima County school superintendent had she known about your employment and academic status in relation to that of Stegeman in the Economics Department? Did you do full-disclosure with her office? Was she aware of the composition of the selection committee in having two board members essentially appoint 60 percent of the committee? There seems to be a lot more to Stegeman’s argument not to disclose his email communications having to do with what resulted in your appointment. But here is the real deal: I am watching you, and so is the community. Perhaps an official investigation into these matters should be launched.

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The Fighter Pilot BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com

When you hear Rick Santorum say the Pentagon is moving in the wrong direction regarding women in combat, you must disagree with him. I look forward to talking to him about that when he’s here next week. He’s out of touch with reality. We’re at a time when we need to make sure we have the best and most-capable all-volunteer fighting force for our nation. In order to do that, you have to be recruiting from the widest pool of people in our society. … So if you meet the standards, you should recruit people as individuals, and whatever that individual brings to the combat capability, they should be able to bring. Restricting them just because they are women is like fighting with one hand behind our back. What did you think of the decision to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? This is a hot-button issue. On similar lines of civil military relations, of looking at people as individuals, and as long as they are not degrading combat capability and are bringing skills to the table, that was studied by military leaders, and it appears that this generation doesn’t—it does not matter to them as much as it did to the generation before. The issue is good order and

discipline and cohesion, and it always has been. So if the military has taken a hard study, and said, “We think military cohesion and military capability are not impacted because people are bringing certain skills,” then we’ll see how that decision actually executes and if that was actually a good assessment. What do you think of the Obama administration’s handling of Iran? These are not simple situations. A nuclear Iran is not something that is in anyone’s best interest— not the U.S., our European partners or anyone in the region. So, the complexities of what you do in order to stop that: It’s a combination of looking at all of the options that are available economically, diplomatically and militarily, and making those tough choices. Finally, at least our European allies have gotten some sort of unity on the sanctions, but the jury is still out about how effective that’s going to be. It’s not simple. (To say,) “Rah-rah, it’s not working; let’s go do something militarily oriented”—well, that’s complex as well. We need to make sure that we are engaged. We need to be working with our partners in the area. The Paul Ryan budget: What are your thoughts? Paul Ryan budget? Who’s Paul Ryan? Sorry, I’ve been overseas for a while. He’s the congressman who has proposed the House alternative budget to what the Obama administration has proposed. Many Republicans have gotten behind it. I’m not familiar. I apologize. I just arrived here 2 1/2 weeks ago after quitting my job, and I’m looking for a place to live and running for Congress. There’s a proposal from Republicans that we should move to a voucher system for Medicare rather than continuing under its current system; people would buy private insurance. Any thoughts on that? As I’m getting my campaign off the ground, there’s a myriad of issues that we need to look at, and I’d like to hear from all sides on many of these issues to try to come up with a thoughtful, analytical approach that looks at the math of what we’re facing right now with our national debt, and figuring out how we can get our national debt under control. So as I hear from different experts on their proposals in order to deal with a variety of these different issues, including Medicare, I’d be happy to listen to them and make an assessment.

JIM NINTZEL

artha McSally, the first female American Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, and the first female to command an Air Force fighter squadron (here at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base), is one of the Republicans seeking the Congressional District 8 seat that opened up with the resignation of Gabrielle Giffords. McSally also plans to run for the new Congressional District 2 seat later this year. McSally attracted national attention after suing the Pentagon over regulations that required her to wear Muslim garb while off-base in Saudi Arabia. The lawsuit resulted in a change to Pentagon policy. Since leaving the Air Force in 2010, she has been teaching at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, in Germany. Last week, McSally grabbed national headlines after telling Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy that she’d like to kick GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum “in the jimmy” over comments the GOP presidential contender made regarding women in combat. McSally sat with down last week with the Tucson Weekly for an interview. Here are some excerpts; a longer Q&A, including her thoughts on Iraq, Afghanistan and U.S. border security, can be found at www.tucsonweekly.com.

But that’s policy you haven’t delved into yet? Exactly. Social Security? Again, we need to take a look at our national debt. … We need to take a hard look at what we should be spending money on, and what the federal government should be doing, what should be left to the private sector, to be left to the state and the local government, and figure out how we can rein it in so we’re not borrowing 40 cents on every dollar we’re spending. The Rosemont Mine. Have you had a chance to study that? No. I’m going to go down there and take a tour, and then get a briefing from the Save the Scenic Santa Ritas (group). … I’m not helping you on all the controversial issues. … I’m a public servant, not a politician. I think I can make reasonable assessments on things when I hear different sides of a problem, and we can look at it unemotionally and figure out what’s best for our community and what’s best for our country. Let me ask you about abortion issues. Under what circumstances do you believe abortion should be legal? I believe in the sanctity of all human life. In cases of rape or incest? I believe in the sanctity of all human life. So even under those circumstances, you would say abortion should be illegal? No, that’s not what I said. OK. So what … That is my personal belief. But in terms of legislating that: In cases of rape or incest, should women have a right to an abortion? The legislators are not really involved in this issue right now. We have a Supreme Court decision, and so I’ll be focusing on things that the House of Representatives needs to be doing.

Republican Jesse Kelly, the Tea Party darling who narrowly lost to Democrat Gabrielle Giffords in the race for Congressional District 8 in 2010, appears to be favorite in the GOP primary for the special election to finish out Giffords’ term following her resignation last month. Citizens United, a national conservative organization that has endorsed Kelly, released the results of a poll of Congressional District 8 Republicans showing that Kelly had the support of 43 percent of GOP voters. State Sen. Frank Antenori was in second place, with the support of 18 percent of the 700 Republicans surveyed on Feb. 15 and 16. Sports broadcaster and businessman Dave Sitton came in at 10 percent, while political newcomer and former Air Force fighter pilot Martha McSally had 8 percent in the survey, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.68 percentage points. Granted, Citizens United has endorsed Kelly, so you should take the results with a grain of salt. But given that Kelly was the GOP nomiMARTHA nee less than two years ago, it’s not surprising to The Skinny that he would be out in front of the pack at this point. The other candidates have one big problem: There’s not that much time to change those poll numbers. With the compressed season for the special election, Republican voters will decide the primary on April 17, which means that early voting starts on March 22, or about a month from now. In an effort to swing some voters in his direction, Antenori unveiled a list of endorsements last week that included several of his GOP colleagues in the Arizona Senate, including Al Melvin, Gail Griffin, Steve Smith and Don Shooter, along with House members Peggy Judd, Terri Proud, David Stevens and Ted Vogt. Antenori tells The Skinny that he’ll be rolling out more endorsements in the upcoming days. Meanwhile, Sitton picked up a big endorsement earlier this week: He nabbed the support of Trent Humphries, a founder of the Tucson Tea Party who recently stepped aside from his leadership role with the organization. Humphries’ wife, Jennifer Humphries, is the campaign spokesperson for the Sitton campaign. Humphries, a onetime candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives, is a savvy political organizer who was never that close to Kelly in 2010. The Kelly campaign worked to create different local Tea Party organizations when they realized they wouldn’t get support from the Tucson Tea Party. The winner of the GOP primary is set to face Democrat Ron Barber in the June 12 special election to complete Giffords’ RON term. Barber, who was Giffords’ longtime district director, has Giffords’ endorsement in the special election.

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MISSED OPPORTUNITY: COULD KVOA HAVE APPROACHED VAZQUEZ SITUATION DIFFERENTLY? Former KVOA Channel 4 anchor Martha Vazquez was slated to face a court hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 22, on a misdemeanor charge for allegedly shoplifting at the Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Tucson Mall on Saturday, Feb. 11. News of Vazquezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abrupt resignation from KVOA was reported by various news outlets, including the Arizona Daily Star, but it was the Tucson Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website that first mentioned the shoplifting connection, even though other news outlets were aware of the incident; they initially chose not to report on it. (More on that later.) KVOA says it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discuss personnel matters, and Vazquez did not return calls seeking comment, but connecting her resignation to the shoplifting charge is not a big stretch. If the shoplifting charge is true, what she did was obviously stupid and wrong. But the price Vazquez is paying seems rather high, given her 26 years in the industry, and twoplus decades at the local NBC affiliate. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been in a management situation where hiring and firing were involved, so perhaps Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really naĂŻve here, but it seems to me that KVOA might have missed a chance to connect with its viewers through Vazquezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alleged misdeed. Only Vazquez and upper management know what happened in the meeting or meetings that led to her resignation. Perhaps she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to deal with what she perceived as the possibility of continuing humiliation and decided to step away. Or perhaps KVOA management forced her to resign and, in the process, gave the station a golden opportunity to separate itself from another hefty salary. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m inclined to believe I would have approached this differently. If she indeed has a shoplifting problem, Vazquez could have used her unique forum to explain the situation, why she did it, and what sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to do about it, if indeed did it: Does it strike anyone as odd that a person on apparently strong financial footing would attempt to pilfer items from a store? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the likelihood it was the first time? And if it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the real problem here? Vazquez, or anyone else for that matter, probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be thrilled about airing dirty laundry on TV. But by resigning suddenly and refusing to comment on the matter, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become the butt of jokes, as has the KVOA staff. Instead, there might have been a chance to use her situation as a forum for addiction-related topics. What some donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to comprehend is thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;despite all the easy jokesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there are many people willing to forgive. For whatever reason, the community feels invested in celebrity, even at the most local level. Coming clean on TV and using a personal issue as the bridge to increasing awareness could have benefitted a number of parties, and may have even led to something severely lacking in local media venues: compelling television.

Under that hypothetical scenario, the process eventually runs its course, and KVOA looks good for showing support for one of its ownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as opposed to looking like the TV ogre that took advantage of the chance to replace her with someone younger and cheaper. Meanwhile, the public would have appreciated the fact that Vazquez displayed an upfront attitude and overcame her circumstances.

TELEVISION OUTLETS IN MORAL QUANDARY OVER VAZQUEZ STORY KVOA did not report the Vazquez shoplifting angle, nor did KGUN Channel 9 or KOLD Channel 13, even though it was clearly a newsworthy story involving a well-known public figure. Forrest Carr, the news director at KGUN, explained his reasoning in a Facebook post to a viewer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reporting on alleged misdeeds by a direct competitor presents an ethical challenge. It gives the impression that the report might be motivated, in whole or in part, by a desire to make a competitor look bad. Ethical news reporting does not allow hidden agendas, real or perceived. So, misdeeds by a direct competitor must rise to a pretty high level in order to overcome that perception. Had it been our own anchor, we would have felt compelled to report it, but in this case, not otherwise. Newspaper reporters donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t face this problem, given that they compete only indirectly with TV, which leaves them free to pursue the story.â&#x20AC;?

RAGUSE, GUGGENMOS, NALLAN LEAVING THE MARKET Former KMSB Channel 11 news anchor Lou Raguse has landed a job with WIVB television in Buffalo, N.Y. Raguse was an on-air casualty in KMSBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shared-services agreement that transferred the stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s news operations to KOLD. His wife, Emily Guggenmos, will join Raguse at WIVB. She is a reporter/weekend news anchor for KVOA. Guggenmosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; last day is slated to be March 6. Meteorologist Chris Nallan is leaving KVOA as well. Jeff Beamish has replaced Nallan on KVOAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s morning news broadcasts.

ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA ADDS TWO Arizona Public Media, which operates the UAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affiliations with PBS and NPR, has made a pair of hires. Fernanda Echavarri joins AZPM after reporting stints with the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star. Echavarri will cover current events and education as she makes her transition to broadcast journalism. AZPM has named Marti Jager as an underwriting consultant. She makes the move to Tucson from Bend, Ore., and will maintain sales accounts. She also had a brief stint at Territorial Newspapers, which includes the Tucson Weekly.

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No Disclosure BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com f Arizona’s prison population is on the decline, why does the state continue to waste money on private prisons? That’s one question the American Friends Service Committee is asking in a report it issued last week that examines Arizona’s relationship with the private-prison industry. The report also documents the industry’s abuses, safety issues, costs and severe lack of transparency when compared with public facilities. The AFSC is a Quaker group that works on criminal-justice reform, and the Tucson office is focusing on the private-prison industry in Arizona. Caroline Isaacs, director of the Tucson office and author of the report, said it is a comprehensive document that includes 2010 security-inspection data left out of an Arizona Department of Corrections report issued in December. In the AFSC report, released at a Feb. 15 news conference, Isaacs accuses the state of “deliberately” obscuring information that “cast private prisons in a negative light.” The ADOC report, according to Isaacs, was issued only after the AFSC sued the state to force compliance with a two-decade-old law that requires the ADOC to review private prisons. Although the lawsuit was dismissed, the ADOC completed the report and noted the decline in the prison population. The agency then cancelled a request for proposals for 5,000 private-prison beds. However, a new RFP for 2,000 private-prison beds was issued in February. ADOC spokesperson Bill Lamoreaux did not respond to requests for comment. Isaacs claimed the current incarceration numbers don’t support the need for additional private-prison beds. Arizona has experienced its “lowest (prison-population) growth rates on record,” Isaacs said, citing the ADOC’s own projections that the state will have zero growth in 2012 and 2013. Isaacs noted that 13 percent of the state prison population is housed in private facilities, which is the 11th-highest percentage in the country. “Arizona is wasting money on prison privatization,” she added. “In many cases, it costs more than the public equivalent.” Highlighting the Feb. 15 press conference was a giant check made out to the private-prison industry for $10 million, the amount that prison-reform advocates say Arizona has overpaid for private prisons from 2008 to 2010, when compared to public facilities run by the ADOC. Isaacs said that if the 2,000 private mediumsecurity beds are constructed as requested by ADOC in the February RFP, Arizona taxpayers

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AFSC’s Caroline Isaacs not only presented a big check to Arizona’s private prison industry; she released a report that questions the state’s love for private incarceration. parency, Isaacs said, the AFSC had to get some will pay an estimated $38 million a year for those beds, which is $6 million a year more than of the information in its report from other public resources, including California’s Office of the would be spent on publicly owned facilities. Inspector General, since California has prisonHowever, the private-prison industry isn’t ers in these facilities. “content with a giant check,” Isaacs said: The There are 5,680 private-prison beds contractindustry is “looking for a blank check.” ed with the state in Arizona; more than 39,000 At the press conference, Democratic state inmates are housed in state public facilities. Rep. Chad Campbell provided information on However, the number of prisoners housed in six bills he’s introduced as part of an effort to Arizona in facilities without contracts with the force private prisons to be as transparent as state is unavailable. Isaacs said CCA will not public prisons regarding public records, and to release that information. force adherence to the same safety standards The report notes that there have been 157 used in public prisons. Campbell said he also security failures in last year in the five private wants to create a legislative study committee to prisons with state contracts. Security failures examine private prisons in Arizona. also include six escapes within the past 10 years. “Getting information is very hard,” Campbell One of those—a 2010 escape of three inmates said, referring to a recent House Appropriations from a Kingman medium-security facility Committee meeting at which he asked ADOC owned by Management and Training Corp.— director Charles Ryan about cost and safety later resulted in two civilian deaths. issues involving private prisons. According to the report, security violations in “He could not answer any of those questions,” the first three months of 2011 included malCampbell said, adding that he doubts his bills functioning cameras, doors and alarms, as well will even get a hearing in this year’s Legislature. as holes in fences. Three CCA prisons had inciIsaacs’ report included an examination of six dents involving alarms with no audible signals, private prisons in Pinal County that are run by and two nonfunctioning security cameras. the Corrections Corporation of America. The CCA spokesman Steve Owen didn’t respond facilities house prisoners from California, to requests for comment. Hawaii and other states, as well as federal immiFormer private prison inmate Dante Gordon gration detainees, but they were not subject to spoke at the press conference about his experithe ADOC audit, because the prisons do not ence in the Kingman facility. Gordon said he have contracts with the state. was hit in the head during a racially motivated A proposed 5,000-bed CCA prison developriot, when a group of about 80 white-supremament in Tucson, which would be located south cist prisoners attacked a group of 25 Africanof the state prison facility off Wilmot Road, American prisoners in May 2010. would probably not have a contract with the During the riot, Gordon said, guards were state, either. The project, which is part of a larger dressed in riot gear but never intervened. When residential and commercial development, was African-American inmates asked why, the approved by the Pima County Board of guards explained they were “told to stand down.” Supervisors on a 4-1 vote during a 2010 zoning Gordon said he was given synthetic morphine modification. Supervisor Richard Elías voted for his injuries, but claims he was not taken to a against it, citing private-prison issues, specificalhospital. He said that when his mother sent a letly questions about what types of prisoners ter to prison officials asking about his well-being, would be housed at the facility. (See “Prison she was told that he wasn’t a victim of a racial Problems,” Sept. 16, 2010.) attack and that he received 17 follow-up medical Isaacs’ report notes that the six CCA prisons visits, which included brain scans. in Pinal County are not required by state law to Gordon said none of that was true. Instead, it contact authorities regarding a death in custody, took 48 days for him to see a physician. an escape or a riot. Because of the lack of trans-

PAULA

While that election is playing out, all of the GOP candidates say they’ll also be running in the new Congressional District 2 later this year. The new district, created through the state’s redistricting process, covers much of the current Congressional District 8, although it does not include conservative-leaning areas in Marana, Oro Valley and SaddleBrooke. So if the Republicans lose this round, they have a chance at a do-over in fall—if they can persuade their supporters to keep funding them. Barber has not said whether he’ll be running in the new CD 2, although most Democrats don’t expect him to get into the race. Two Democrats have already announced plans to run in CD 2: state Rep. Matt Heinz, and state Sen. Paula Aboud. Other potential Democratic candidates include Nan Stockholm Walden and state Rep. Steve Farley.

PAUL BABEU: OUT AND ABOUT Pinal County’s best-kept secret is out. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu gained national attention for being a tough-on-immigration leader (some called him a new, shiny-headed version of Sheriff Joe Arpaio), but the attention he got from the Phoenix New Times in a story published last week is the kind of spotlight he’s been trying to avoid for most of his life. Following that report—which focused on Babeu’s sexual relationship with an immigrant to whom he sent seminude photos, a man who threatened to out the sheriff after their relationship soured—Babeu told a crowd of reporters gathered outside his office last Saturday, Feb. 18, that he was gay. The report says Babeu, who is running for Congress in the new Congressional District 4, and his lawyer threatened the man, who is only identified as Jose, with deportation if he did not stop posting anonymous comments online about the sheriff’s sexuality. “All these allegations that were in one of these newspapers are absolutely, completely false,” Babeu said today. “Except for the issues that refer to me being gay, because that’s the truth: I am gay.” Babeu was flanked by supporters, including former and current Republican officeholders and a slew of law-enforcement officials, as he made the statement. He admitted having a relationship with Jose, who worked as a volunteer for his campaign and ran his socialmedia accounts, but said that allegations of him harassing or threatening the man with deportation are completely false. “At no time did I, or anyone who represents me, ever threaten deportation,” he said. “This issue is the vehicle in which (my sexuality) could

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MAMA’S MAN SOUTH CARDINAL AVENUE JAN. 25, 11:47 A.M.

An alleged panhandler went to jail after demanding money to call his mother from a pay phone, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies responding to a call about a fight brewing between two men at a southside AM/PM located both subjects. The alleged panhandler admitted that he had been at the AM/PM and asked a customer for some change, at which point, he said, the man “went off on him.” The panhandling subject told deputies that he, in turn, “went off” on the customer. When deputies interviewed the customer, he said that when he pulled up to the convenience store in his car, the other man approached him and was “very aggressive” in asking for 50 cents so he could call his mom. The customer said he told the man to “go away and leave me alone.” The customer said the panhandling subject then waited at the convenience-store door, and screamed and swore at him as he exited. At that point, the customer called law enforcement. The alleged panhandler was taken to jail. It wasn’t known whether he used his free phone call to contact his mother.

INSIDE-OUT AND OUT OF IT UA AREA JAN. 27, 1:14 A.M.

A University of Arizona student passed out with her pants on inside-out after a bout of drinking, a UA Police Department report said. An officer was dispatched to the Posada San Pedro dormitory, 601 N. Highland Ave., in response to a call by the dorm’s resident assistant, who said a resident had collapsed in her bed—apparently in her own vomit. After the 18-year-old girl was awakened, she said that she’d drank about five shots of vodka in a different part of the UA campus. The police report said she smelled strongly of alcohol, and that her eyes were bloodshot, and her speech was slurred. When the reporting officer noticed that she was wearing her jeans inside-out, the girl told the officer that they were on “right-side-out” when she’d left her room earlier that evening. She said she didn’t know how they came to be reversed. The report said the girl showed no distress regarding the state of her pants, and the report gave no indication that a sex crime may have occurred. The girl was arrested on suspicion of underage drinking and released at the scene (apparently her dorm room). Records showed she had been arrested six weeks earlier on the same charge.

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Please Try Highlight assume most people who have iPhones are at least somewhat like me: I generally download apps on a whim, try them out for a bit, and then forget why I thought I’d want that particular collection of kilobytes in the first place. I have a stack of apps collected in a folder called “Productivity,” which is more of an unintended joke than anything, since my phone is more of a time suck, robbing me of actual productivity. (Thanks, Tiny Tower!) However, I sometimes feel some attachment to an app for some reason—and right now, it’s Highlight. Since Highlight is based on social connectivity, and it seems like only one other person in Tucson is using it, I’d like to encourage others to try it. If I spent much time thinking about it, I’d probably dislike the privacy-robbing features of Highlight, considering it tracks where you take your phone, and “introduces” you to people who also have Highlight if you have something in common on Facebook. The point is to create a semi-frictionless way to meet new people. If you’re at a party, and Highlight pops up, you at least can have a cue to remember the name of someone to whom you spoke—but that would require someone else using it. Let me meet you somewhere! Nothing personal, Meghean (the only person I’ve been “nearby” so far), but I’d like to see someone else on Highlight.

—Dan Gibson, Web Producer dgibson@tucsonweekly.com

THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We followed the aftermath of the Phoenix New Times’ coverage of Paul Babeu and his troubles; tried to clean up after Santorum’s visit to town; covered the Project White House debates; watched the polls in the Congressional District 8 special election as more candidates joined the race; tried to watch our language around the Arizona Legislature; puzzled over one man’s suggestion of what to do with Bayer aspirin; did a double-take as Republican candidate Martha McSally willingly chose to hang out with liberals; and watched Democratic strategist Rodd McLeod and Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries discuss the week’s political events on Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable, with your host, Jim Nintzel. We told you how you can be led on a walk through Tucson restaurants; mentioned new locations for Paradise Bakery and Oregano’s; raised a pint glass in honor of Arizona Beer Week; went gluten-free at a new bakery on Oracle Road; watched Pinkberry hand out free samples at the UA; and made our own conversation hearts for Valentine’s Day. We politely sat in the parlor and discussed Downton Abbey in an utterly civil manner; let one high school reader of The Range have a moment in the blog sun; let Joad Cressbeckler offer his theories about illegal immigration; shared photos of the Glen Campbell show at the Fox; gave local artists an opportunity to decorate our distribution boxes; invited you to help fund a documentary about African cats; gave you a chance to meet Foreigner; encouraged you to donate comics to the kids at Diamond Children’s Medical Center; watched a Laura Marling video; suggested you mark your calendar for a forthcoming Lambchop show at Club Congress; and tried to keep up with the latest news in the Martha Vazquez drama.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK “Let’s see … understaffed, overworked, underpaid … it’s hard enough finding good teachers to fill positions, now this? … AUGHHHH!!!!” —TucsonWeekly.com commenter Pamela Lynne Culhane-Turner seems to believe Arizona teachers should be allowed to utter a few profanities (“WTF: Lawmakers Advance Bills to Prevent Naughty Language and Partisan Politics in Classroom,” The Range, Feb. 17).

BEST OF WWW The Arizona presidential preference primary is just a few days away, and while the traditional media will likely obsess over the debate held last night that featured Gingrich, Paul, Romney and Santorum, we want to give Republican and Green Party voters opportunities to get to know the wide variety of dark-horse candidates with equal standing on the ballot. Before you take your black pen and fill in a tiny box on a very large piece of paper, watch the official Project White House debates—shown on Access Tucson—on The Range. A vote for one of these upstart candidates might even be good for your soul.

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Severely Awesome BY THE TUCSON WEEKLY EDITORIAL BOARD, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com e’ve had many people ask us over the last few months whether Project White House 2012 is serious, or just a big

joke. We find ourselves asking: Is Newt Gingrich’s moon base a big joke? Is Ron Paul serious when he says that medical care for seniors was better before Medicare? Is Rick Santorum serious when he says that abortion doctors belong behind bars? Is Mitt Romney serious when he says his sons are serving the country by helping him get elected rather than enlisting in the military? In light of all that, we believe the Project White House candidates are just as serious about running the country as the Republican Party’s frontrunners. In case you have not been following Project White House: We invited all of the candidates on the Feb. 28 Arizona presidential-primary ballot to participate in a Reality Journalism competition in order to win the Tucson Weekly’s presidential endorsement. More than half of the Republicans on the ballot—12 out of 23—signed up, as did half of the Green Party candidates. Over the last several weeks, we have presented them with a variety of challenges, from making Facebook pages for their campaigns to developing hit ads against their high-profile opponents. The competition culminated last weekend with a pair of presidential debates televised by our friends at Access Tucson. (If you missed ’em, they’ve been posted on The Range at daily.tucsonweekly.com so you can size up the candidates yourselves.) Now, with the Feb. 28 presidential primary just days away, the time has come for us to make our endorsements. We must say: We’re impressed with this year’s crop of dark-horse Republican candidates. We think that Charles Skelley is right when he says that too many manufacturing jobs have left the United States. Al “Dick” Perry is right when he says that corporations have too much power and demonstrate too little civic responsibility. Peter “Simon” Bollander is right when he says we have too many lawyers in politics. Jim Terr is right when he says a cascade of money has corrupted our election process. Donald Benjamin is right when he says grocery stores are too confusing. And Kip Dean is right when he says the front-runners in the GOP primary are just plain unlikable. That brings us to a fundamental problem with the GOP: It’s in desperate need of a makeover. These old white dudes running for president—Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul—just don’t seem to be in touch with the modern world or remotely prepared to deal with its

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The Tucson Weekly endorses Green presidential candidate Richard Grayson.

The Tucson Weekly endorses GOP presidential candidate Sarah Gonzales. increasingly complex challenges. And that’s why we’re endorsing Sarah Gonzales, the only Latina on the GOP primary ballot in Arizona. In the Project White House televised debates, Gonzales described herself as “severely awesome”—and we’re inclined to agree. We don’t know that we agree with her stances on everything, but much of what she calls for sounds good to us. We should spend less on overseas wars. We should pay teachers more. We should have more arts classes and physical education in our schools. We should crack down on white-collar crime. We should reconsider how many people we lock away, and stop the growth of a privateprison industry that turns a profit on putting people behind bars. We should invest more in solar energy. We should have more poetry in our lives. And we agree with what Gonzales says about her platform: It makes a lot more sense than

9-9-9. The Tucson Weekly endorses Sarah Gonzales in the 2012 Arizona Republican primary.

The Greens Three of the six Green Party candidates on the Arizona ballot are participating in Project White House: Richard Grayson, Gary Swing and Michael Oatman. All of the Greens have done a lot to express their plans through Project White House, but we have been most impressed with Richard Grayson, including his plan to deport Republicans back to the 18th century, where they could be more comfortable with their tricorner hats and other Tea Party garb, and his demand that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu be nicer to his ex-boyfriends. Few of the Project White House candidates have done a better job of responding to the issues of the day. The Tucson Weekly endorses Richard Grayson in the 2012 Arizona Green Party primary.

be brought out publicly.” Babeu also said he had no reason to believe Jose was in the country illegally. As for the Congressman Anthony Weiner-style photos of Babeu, the sheriff said they were sent to Jose, and not meant to be splashed all over the internet. He admitted posting his own seminude photos on a gay-male-meet-up website, which he defended by saying he did it in his private life—not as the Pinal County sheriff. Besides, he said, “I haven’t done that for some extreme time.” “I’m not married; I’m a single guy; I don’t have a fake girlfriend,” he said. “These are things I choose to do. And this is where this should have no business coming out as a front-page story.” Babeu said he supports the right of gays to enter the military and thinks gay marriage should be a state-by-state decision. Babeu also said the text messages between him and Jose that were printed in the New Times story did not come from a county phone. One of those text messages revealed that Babeu had dinner and drinks with openly gay Democratic state Rep. Matt Heinz, of Tucson, and Heinz’s boyfriend. Heinz recently announced his own congressional run, for Congressional District 2, in November. The New Times also cited Heinz as one of only two Democrats to MATT vote on the House floor to give the Pinal County Sheriff’s Department $5 million to fight border violence and drug-smuggling last year. The effort had bipartisan support in committees, but Democratic leadership grandstanded against the measure on the floor, saying the money should be given to border counties, or would be better spent elsewhere. Heinz said he had no comment on the New Times report. Although Babeu stepped down as the Arizona co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, he said he would not suspend his congressional campaign or step down as sheriff, and called his coming out and admission of mistakes in his personal life a “moment of truth” which shows how he handles problems—head on. “It’s very difficult and liberating at the same time,” he said. “I’m not going to live in fear. I’m not going to live with the threats. … I’m going to stand and fight. That’s who I am.” By Jim Nintzel and Hank Stephenson Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. tucsonweekly.com. Jim Nintzel hosts the Political Roundtable every Friday on Arizona Illustrated, airing at 6:30 p.m. on KUAT Channel 6. The program repeats on 12:30 a.m., Saturday. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel. FEBRUARY 23 - 29, 2012 TuCsON WEEKLY 13

CURRENTS Pima County is set to approve funding for two long-awaited neighborhood projects

Dollars Delivered BY BRIAN J. PEDERSEN, bpedersen@tucsonweekly.com o say the residents of Five Points have waited a while to get this wish granted would be an understatement. “A lot of people who started this process were in their 60s, and some of them have (since) died,” said John Burr, president of the Armory Park Neighborhood Association. “I’ve been working on this since 2003, but Armory Park has been working on this since the mid-’70s.” Burr is referring to sidewalk and lighting improvements long wanted and needed for the neighborhoods around Five Points, the area just south of downtown Tucson where 18th Street intersects Stone and Sixth avenues. The final piece of funding, just under $497,000, was slated to be authorized on Tuesday, Feb. 21, by the Pima County Board of Supervisors. Also expected to be approved on Feb. 21 was $500,000 for a lighted walking path around Freedom Park, per the request of the 29th Street Weed and Seed Coalition. Both projects are being funded by the final chunks of a $20 million allocation in the county’s 2004 bond election for its Neighborhood Reinvestment Program. These small capitalimprovement projects, capped at a half-million dollars each, are meant to fill in the gaps in areas that larger city and county projects didn’t reach, NRP program coordinator Tony Reis said. “These are grassroots projects,” said Reis, who since 2007 has been working with members of the Five Points Neighborhood Coalition—made up business owners and representatives from the Armory Park, Barrio Santa Rita, Barrio Santa Rosa and Barrio Viejo neighborhoods. “The neighborhoods select the projects. We don’t go in there. We let them tell us what they want.” Among the projects approved with 2004 bond funding and already completed: skate parks in Ajo and Picture Rocks; a steel-covered basketball court cover at the Oury Recreation Center near Interstate 10 and St. Mary’s Road; and a pediatric health clinic in the Continental area, near Green Valley. For Five Points, the decision was made long ago that what each of the neighborhoods needed was proper lighting and completed sidewalks. “We thought that if we put in lighting, and made sure all of the sidewalks actually functioned … that people could access that as a gateway into downtown,” Burr said. “These are all public rights of way, and the funds have been promised for years, but the funding hasn’t always been there.” The bond money will go toward the installation of 53 lights within Five Points, with each fix-

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ture meant to add a source of sidewalk lighting that the area’s current road-centric street lights don’t provide. The bond is one of four funding sources, totaling more than $1.8 million, that the community has secured to help with lighting, sidewalks, pedestrian-activated stoplights at crosswalks, and artistic improvements. Such improvements will help reduce neighborhood blight, which is in line with a longterm goal of the reinvestment program, County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry said. “If we get them back (in shape), that increases their value and improves the tax base,” he said. The project at Freedom Park is expected to help get area residents back in shape, said Vickie Mesimer, a member and past president of the 29th Street Weed and Seed Coalition, which has representatives from the Alvernon Heights, Julia Keen, Myers, Naylor and Roberts neighborhoods. The 3,600-foot-long asphalt walking path lining Freedom Park (on 29th Street just east of Swan Road) will give seniors and children a place to walk, run and do other forms of exercise, Mesimer said. Such an opportunity doesn’t currently exist at the well-used park. “A walking path was a natural step,” said Mesimer, adding that step-outs along the path will have educational elements, such as information about the history of the Myers neighborhood. A hummingbird garden is also planned, as are markers that identify native plants along the path. “There’s an idea going around to connect the city with walking parks, and this could connect to Swan Park and to the (EckstromColumbus) library. It just flows naturally.” Tuesday’s expected vote would only authorize the funding for the Five Points and Freedom Park projects; when the city will put the projects out to bid is uncertain. The county’s plan for neighborhood reinvestment has the projects slated to be finished by September and December 2012, respectively, but those dates may be overly ambitious. What is more certain: Whenever Pima County holds its next bond election—Huckelberry said last week it wouldn’t be until 2013 or 2014—it will probably include another neighborhood-reinvestment program. Said program coordinator Reis: “We do a survey with the neighborhoods after (a project is complete), and they’ve all been thrilled with everything that’s aspired from our program.”

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MINE continued from Page 15 “Yes to Jobs!!!” the placards declared. Heading the long list of speakers hoping to comment on that draft report was Ron Barber, an aide to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Like Giffords, Barber was shot during the Jan. 8, 2011, rampage. Due to her injuries, Giffords would resign her post a few days later; Barber, who has since announced he is running to replace her, slowly took a spot on the podium. “First of all, I commend everyone who has come out for the hearings,” he said. Giffords “has always believed an engaged citizenry is the best part of a democracy, and makes a democracy work.” That sentiment had its limits, however. Giffords opposes the mine, a stance that apparently didn’t sit well with numerous folks in nearby seats. Nor did Barber’s spiel on her behalf. He was just finishing when the moderator motioned. Barber stopped. “I’m sorry, my time’s up?” he asked. “I’ll conclude by saying …” “Time’s up,” someone in the crowd behind him hollered. “Sit down!” yelled another. The minutes ticked by as the hecklers continued, waving their little green fists, some attached to sticks. Barber stood there, stoic, until the moderator eventually leaned into his microphone. “I’d appreciate it if you all could show a little respect here,” he said to the crowd. “Can I conclude with one sentence?” Barber said. “No!” someone behind him screamed. He finished anyway, soon to be followed by a parade of others who either demonized the proposed mine or professed their undying adoration. Each was met with the requisite cheering or catcalls. Meanwhile, out in the parking lot, a small crew of mine supporters hovered around a black Ford SUV. More specifically, they gathered at a white folding table near the SUV’s rear hatch, which was filled with small bags of Doritos, gleaming coffee canisters and more of the little green fists. The dapper young fellow tending this cornucopia wore a blue sport shirt with the logo “Rosemont Copper” emblazoned on the front. He explained that the ubiquitous fists were compliments of Rosemont. “They purchased the paper,” he said as he straightened water bottles, also sporting Rosemont Copper labels. Just then, Rick Grinnell strode to the table and reached for one of the water bottles. Grinnell recently made headlines by losing as a GOP candidate for Tucson mayor. He’s also a member of the obstreperous Rio Nuevo Board, and makes his living, at least in part, as a consultant for Augusta Resource Corp., the Canadian investment outfit hoping to dig the mine in the Rosemont Valley, and the parent company of Rosemont Copper. Grinnell’s role within the Augusta schmooze machine is to get Tucson’s business community on board. As such, he regularly mingles with the big boys—the Clicks and the Diamonds—and is no stranger to a blazer and crisp tie. But that day, it could hardly be coincidental that he was dressed in good-ol’-boy denim, a green fist tacked to his chest. After all, you’ll never see a Click or a Diamond at these proletarian parleys. 16 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

Rosemont Copper Mine opponents Greg Shinsky, left, and Mark Williams.

Supporters of Rosemont Copper display “Yes to Jobs!!” thumbs-up signs.

Phil Stough, Sarah Freeman and Dorothy Stough are against the proposed mine.

Instead, Grinnell was massaging the working man, those blue-collar citizens that Augusta routinely lures en masse to such meetings with abundant free chow—that afternoon’s lunch was at Sahuarita’s Rancho Resort Clubhouse—and the promise of plentiful jobs. I asked him about their loutish behavior during Ron Barber’s talk. “Here’s what I told Ron,” Grinnell told me. “People are tired of being worried about where their paychecks are coming from. They’re tired of hearing that there are no jobs coming. They’re tired of hearing, ‘No, no, no.’ It’s too bad, but unfortunately, he was sort of the …,” he said, trailing off. “When is government going to stop saying no to opportunity?” Later, I call David Steele, who offered a different take. He’s a founding partner of Tucsonbased Strategic Issues Management Group, a PR firm in the employ of Dick and Nan Walden. The Waldens own 6,000 acres of pecan groves in Sahuarita, operated as the Farmers Investment Co., or FICO. They vigorously oppose the proposed mine for, among other reasons, its predicted heavy use of water. Steele blamed Augusta for stoking the crowd that heckled Barber. He took particular aim at the Arizona Business Coalition, a group created specifically to support the proposed mine, and which laid out cash for the Rancho Resort soirée. He also took Grinnell to task for emailing invites to all attendees at that meal, which doubled as a session to write tightly scripted comments to Coronado Forest officials. Grinnell’s emails were signed by Rosemont CEO Rod Pace. “They were holding the pre-event lunches and busing folks in,” said Steele, “and making all kind of promises about the glory land that this project is going to bring. Rosemont got these folks all ginned up, and they were just completely disrespectful to Ron. It was shocking.”

From Arizona State Route 83, the Rosemont Valley spreads west like a rumpled carpet toward the Santa Ritas. Dappled with juniper and stitched together by small washes, it is a picturesque backcountry where only plane flights break the hush. But for all its perceived tranquility, Rosemont has long been bitterly contested. Modern clashes date back to mid-1995, when mining giant Asarco Inc. announced plans to dig a copper pit there. Although the proposal faced fierce opposition, it was crashing copper prices that ultimately drove Asarco to abandon the project. Nearly a decade later, Augusta bought the 3,000-acre property, and announced its own plans to establish a copper mine on the site. Surrounding public lands are slated to be used to stash tailings piles. The battle over the Rosemont Valley has raged unabated ever since, both here at home, and in the big leagues. It has rumbled through the halls of Congress, and just last week, the federal Environmental Protection Agency tossed a huge roadblock in Augusta’s path when it cited several factors that might lead to a rejection of Augusta’s permit application, required under the Clean Water Act. Several key details make the Rosemont Valley perennially contentious. “You’ve got the obvious competition between resource use, proximity to a major city, and copper,” says Roger Featherstone,

director of the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, which opposes Augusta’s project. But Featherstone also says that interest in the Rosemont Valley’s copper deposit—which he calls mediocre and tough to access—only grows intense when high mineral prices justify the bother. “It’s a difficult ore body. Even though there’s a deposit down there, that’s the reason it hasn’t gotten that much intense pressure.” Until now. “You’ve got copper sitting at $3 or whatever it is a pound,” he says. “When you’ve got copper getting that pricey, people do things that ordinarily, they’d be a little more prudent about. They get that fever going on.” Indeed, that fever is an old acquaintance in these parts, and boasts a history of raucous political theater. It was February 1997 when Tucson’s City Council voted to oppose Asarco’s planned mine in the Rosemont Valley. By that spring, the Pima County Board of Supervisors was puffing up to do the same. But on the day of the board’s planned vote, Asarco packed the meeting with 200 noisy mine sympathizers, and the decision was postponed. “If I would have known that this was the type of turnout we would have gotten on the issue, I would have done it completely differently,” thenPima County Supervisor Raúl Grijalva told the Arizona Daily Star at the time. “I didn’t understand the panic of the Asarco people.” Two weeks later, the board appointed Ray Carroll to fill a seat left vacant by the recent cancer death of Supervisor John Even. Within minutes of his appointment, Carroll voted for a resolution opposing Asarco’s plan. But by February 1998, Asarco had abandoned its fight in light of those dropping copper prices. In June 2004, the land was purchased for $4.8 million by hometown speculator Yoram Levy and his partners at Triangle Ventures. A few months later, Levy offered to sell Rosemont to Pima County as open space for $11.5 million. But the county was strapped for cash, and by June 2005, Augusta had snatched up Levy’s 2,760-acre property for $20.8 million. Experts have estimated that Rosemont could produce some $13 billion worth of copper, along with extra revenue from molybdenum and other minerals. Operation of the 800-acre open-pit mine would require adjacent federal real estate for tailings piles and other waste. But the land was hardly just a pending industrial site. Wildlife surveys had found at least 10 threatened plants, a crucial wildlife corridor and the key to countless vital watersheds. And in a report on the mine’s potential impacts, Kerry Baldwin, of the Pima County Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation Department, called it “a massive project that will permanently alter the character of the land on well over five square miles of currently native habitat. “The basic character of the land will be changed forever,” Baldwin wrote. “A significant amount of a nonrenewable resource will be extracted from the site permanently and no longer available to future generations; a huge pit and impact footprint will remain after the closure of the mine.” But in terms of PR spending, Augusta had already left Asarco in the dust. Not only was the company touting a “21st century mine,” but it also fueled a cutting-edge spin campaign, with at least two local public-relations firms on its

payroll at any given time. It regularly bought sponsorships on the local public-broadcasting station, and inundated Tucson’s business community with the message that this mine would prove a perfect antidote to hard times. Augusta went so far as to fashion a surreal logo with a pigtailed little girl gazing toward the sky, a bit of agitprop eerily reminiscent of Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 “Daisy Girl” campaign ad that concluded with a mushroom cloud— and obliterated Barry Goldwater’s presidential bid. But there were public stumbles as well. Copying Asarco, Augusta packed county Board of Supervisors meetings with fellows demanding gainful employment. But the company suffered embarrassment upon revelations that those would-be miners were just poor schmucks who’d been offered a free meal and a sweatshirt reading “I Want One of the 350 Jobs at the Mine.” The board nonetheless voted to oppose the project. (The delayed vote came shortly after the Tucson Weekly ran a front-page editorial encouraging readers to voice their own opposition to the project.) Then there’s the card Augusta honchos handed out at public events, touting the potential pit and asking recipients to state their own feelings about it. “Tell Us What You Think,” read the card. Then folks were offered two choices. Choice 1. “I support your plan to bring new jobs and an economic engine to Arizona.” Choice 2. “I have comments or questions about your plan.” Curiously, these cards offered no third option, such as, “I think your plan sucks.” Later, the company began targeting areas of town with letters seemingly signed by neighbors who supported the mine. The effort suffered a setback, though, when it turned out that the letters had actually been written by Augusta’s inhouse PR crew. At the same time, Coronado officials were dishing up a few blunders of their own. For instance, rather than hosting hearings where the public could speak about the project, they initially opted for much-tamer “open houses,” which provided no opportunity for public giveand-take. Frustration with that approach exploded at a gathering in Patagonia on March 20, 2008, when the Forest Service called in Santa Cruz County sheriff ’s deputies and the U.S. Border Patrol after a local senior citizen got out of hand.

Then there is the matter of water. Red flags went up in the summer of 2007, when the Community Water Co. of Green Valley announced a deal with Augusta that would have the mining company build a $15 million, 9-mile-long Central Arizona Project pipeline almost to Green Valley, from the current terminus at Pima Mine Road. According to Augusta officials, this generous arrangement was aimed at easing Green Valley’s future water concerns and fostering good will toward the mine. Others smelled a rat. Among them was Carroll, the county supervisor, who questioned Augusta’s promise to fund that pipeline continued on next page

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MINE continued from Page 17 regardless of whether the mine was ever begun—despite repeated assurances by Community Water president Arturo Gabaldón. “Saying something 1,000 times doesn’t make it true,” Carroll told the Arizona Daily Star. “It’s certainly tied hand-and-glove to the mine.” Only later was it learned that Augusta’s altruism included a valve on the Green Valley line to divert CAP water to the Rosemont mine. Still, through it all, Augusta officials certainly seem to have had the ear of Coronado officials. In fact, mine opponents accused forest officials of hosting closed-door confabs with company representatives—a pattern that eventually sparked a lawsuit by those very critics, who argued that they were being locked out of the process. (The lawsuit was dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge in February.) Tension only increased when the Forest Service repeatedly pushed back its timeline on issuing a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed mine, as required under the National Environmental Policy Act. During the down time, federal officials routinely offered contradictory statements about whether the analysis would include a preferred alternative that outright rejected the mine. Outright federal rejection of the mine is considered a near-impossibility under the archaic Mining Act of 1872, initially passed to encourage frontier mining. Today, the law makes stopping even a nightmarish project nearly impossible. There were also plenty of questions about exactly why Coronado officials uncharacteristi-

Rick Grinnell, a defeated Tucson mayoral candidate and consultant for Augusta Resource Corp., supports the Rosemont copper mine. cally dragged out releasing their draft impact statement. It was certainly a cold dash of reality for Augusta, which had confidently hustled out a press release after the forest circulated a preliminary version in June 2011. The press release crowed that a “Record of Decision” to green-

light the mine was nigh at hand. “The Record of Decision (‘ROD’) for the Rosemont Copper project appears on track for January 2012,” it read, “and in-line with previous USFS guidance allowing for a 90-day public comment period after the publication of the draft EIS in August 2011.” “Sidetrack” might have been the more operative term: Last October, Coronado officials finally released their long-awaited DEIS. Ultimately, the analysis was a sobering dose of bipolar bureaucracy. While acknowledging the potential violation of air- and water-quality standards—and the destruction of a popular public resource—it finally argued for the mine’s approval. The 1872 Mining Law perpetually lurked in the shadows. Among key findings of the DEIS: • Groundwater available for area residents could be greatly reduced as the mine pumps what it needs to process ore. • It is expected to potentially violate Arizona aquifer water quality standards. • It will likely have heavy impacts on surrounding riparian areas along Cienega Creek. • Heightened risks will exist along area roadways—including scenic Arizona State Route 83—such as potential spills of hazardous chemicals. • Damage to historic and cultural and archaeological sites is a given. True, the alternative preferred by the Forest Service would shift the mine tailings up into Upper Barrel Canyon and lower Wasp Canyon. That would push them farther away from sensitive habitant in McCleary Canyon. But perhaps the most-immediate impact of

the DEIS was disdain for the quality of the analysis itself, compiled by the Forest Service after three long years of supposedly arduous study. “The document is fundamentally flawed,” says Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry, a longtime opponent of the project. “It’s incomplete, and in fact, in certain locations states that it doesn’t have information or is waiting for information. I don’t know how you make judgments based on a lack of facts.” Huckelberry has his own theories about why the DEIS was such a disappointment. “One, it’s a complicated process,” he says. “And two, the Forest Service, by the nature of the process, has relied exclusively on the proponent (Augusta) to prepare the technical documents. So those documents are going to be biased to begin with. … I think that’s why you see so much contradictory information.” And that, he says, “certainly makes litigation a very real possibility over any decision that is made by the Forest Service.” Soon after the DEIS release, Huckelberry dispatched a snarky letter to Coronado officials asking that they issue a supplemental environmental impact statement to fill in the gaps. “In short,” Huckelberry wrote, “the DEIS is so deficient, it has short-circuited the public-comment process.” He says forest officials ignored repeated requests for additional studies regarding everything from fugitive dust and geochemistry to the socioeconomic impacts. Ultimately, Huckelberry blames “the artificial pressure-cooker that (Augusta) is largely responsible for. They’ve run a very effective public-relations campaign: ‘Let’s forget the facts

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and repeat the mantra.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Repeat it long enough, and it becomes the truth.â&#x20AC;? But Coronado Supervisor Jim Upchurch defends the DEIS as a work in progress. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Essentially, what we have is a draft,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You put that out for review, and we expect people to come up with errors, omissions, things that need to be improved, things that need be fixed. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why you do a draft. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have 19,000 comments, and so there are lots of things to wade through to determine what needs to be changed, amended, improved.â&#x20AC;? Upchurch also dismisses concerns that all the meetings and all those comments are just an exercise in futility, considering that Coronado officials plan to approve the mine regardless. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy that argument,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do is come up with the best possible plan or project that we can. If people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t willing to participate in how that can happen, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that helps the process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just whether you have a mine or not. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have a mine, how can you design the best possible mine that there is?â&#x20AC;? As to charges that the Forest Service is starting from the presumption that the mine is a done deal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not my position,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the law that if a mining proponent has a valid claim on a national forest, then they can mine.â&#x20AC;? While the Forest Service may be unwilling to throw a wrench in the works, Pima County is not. In September, the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Environmental Quality denied the necessary air-quality permit for Augusta. According to director Ursula Kramer, Augusta didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer a compelling argument that federal air-quality standards could be met by its plan. Augusta responded by threatening a lawsuit against Pima County, and floating plans to ask that oversight of the permit be handed to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. That seems a long shot: ADEQ spokesman Mark Shaffer stresses that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;is no certaintyâ&#x20AC;? his department would accept oversight.

The crowd at the U.S. Forest Service draftanalysis meeting was starting to thin. Among a smattering of folks leaving the Sahuarita auditorium were Green Valley retirees Philip Stough and his wife, Dorothy, as well as their pal Sarah Freeman. Philip Stough didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care a bit for the heckling of Ron Barber. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was very rude,â&#x20AC;? he said. That only added to his already fixed feelings.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first impression is that the mine is here with money, and they hand out all these tags,â&#x20AC;? he said, referring to the green fists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re opposed to it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a political decision, anyway, and Forest Service has probably already made up their mind.â&#x20AC;? Dorothy Stough agreed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m most concerned about is water,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care how much treatment they (promise). I truly believe that water is our most-precious resource. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called life. And I would hate to see the water be ruined.â&#x20AC;? Sarah Freeman shaded her eyes with a raised hand. Aesthetics are her thing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been here 30 years, and I hike regularly,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to affect the view for all these people who moved in for that view.â&#x20AC;? Over at a truck adorned with anti-mine posters, Mark Williams and Greg Shinsky were chatting with passers-by. Williams couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hide his sarcasm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rosemont did a great job of getting folks together, and their PR machine was really awesome,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so proud of them in there during Ron Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech.â&#x20AC;? He pauses. Then his voice drops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was shameful,â&#x20AC;? he said. But Shinsky, who lives within earshot of Arizona State Highway 83, was upbeat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m much more optimistic as time goes on,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we maybe had a 10 percent chance of doing anything on this in 2006, and now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very optimistic. Everything that Rosemont has been putting out is good news, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing about the extended destruction or pollution or upsetting the flora or fauna. All the information weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to get from them is either misleading or out-and-out lies.â&#x20AC;? But over at the Augusta hospitality wagon, perspectives were a bit different. Garry Smith was standing off to the side. He said he does a fair amount of prospecting in the desert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the symptom of a much bigger deal,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole thing was the government: They make rules, but they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go by them. That gets me very, very upset.â&#x20AC;? So it went, on that afternoon of uproar and cloudy skies. To wrap things up, I looked for Rosemont CEO Rod Pace, hoping to ask a few questions. Yet he was nowhere to be seen. A few days after the meeting, I phoned his office. A few days after that, I phoned again. Much later, I finally received a call backâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from yet another Rosemont PR hack. But at that point, it seemed, all my questions had been answered.

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Loud and Silent

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For Penn and Teller, the combination of comedy, mind-boggling magic tricks, and the debunking of political, religious and scientific “facts” has led to a partnership that’s lasted more than 35 years. The 6-foot-7 Penn Jillette is known as the talker, while the 5-foot-10 Teller is known as the silent partner. Together, the pair has received 13 Emmy nominations for their long-running Showtime series Penn and Teller: Bullshit! and have appeared on TV shows ranging from Chelsea Lately to the Late Show With David Letterman. Jillette said he wasn’t always interested in becoming a magician, unlike Teller, who started practicing magic when he was 5. “I really thought that art should be about the truth, and not about lies,” Jillette said. But later on, he said, illusionist James Randi taught him that “magic wasn’t a lie,” because when people come to see it in a theater, they are aware of the deception. “There’s some kind of a deeper truth to that,” said Jillette, who will perform with Teller at the UA’s Centennial Hall on Friday. Jillette declares that the two “have the best working partnership in the history of show business.” Although the relationship has always had a strong business focus, “Over the years, Teller has certainly become my best friend,” Jillette said, adding that their relationship “did not start with affection. It started with respect.” who claimed that Teller is Jillette and Teller, who “constantly” talking, while goes by his last name only, Jillette is “sitting in the go out together socially corner reading.” two to three times a year, Jillette described the but they work with each Showtime series Penn and other about 60 hours a Teller: Bullshit! as pro-sciweek, Jillette said with a ence and pro-rational. laugh. Though debunking reliJillette said they try to gious beliefs was a popuput on a magic show that lar topic on the series, isn’t insulting or dumbedJillette said the two have a down. Their aim is a “huge” Christian fan base. respectful performance Jillette responded to the with intellectual content, oft-said statement, “Just he said. because there’s no proof, “We really do all of our that doesn’t mean it didn’t interaction with the audihappen,” by saying, “I ence,” Jillette said. “It’s kind think that is just crazy of a one-man show run by talk.” two people.” He offered an example: Jillette once seemingly Imagine that someone has used a nail gun onstage to Penn Jillette said that when Teller is not performing, he’s “constantly” talking. told you there is an eleshoot nails through his phant in your kitchen. If you didn’t believe there was an elephant in hand, and has employed knives and guns in the act. your kitchen, it would be up to the other person to prove it to you— “We have to make sure, morally, that nothing we do really is danand if the other person was basing the statement on pure belief, gerous,” he said. “I don’t think there should be a celebration of danger Jillette said, the list of things in the kitchen could be infinite. and death. It should be a celebration of life.” “You can tell me Tom Waits is in my kitchen,” Jillette said. “If you’re Teller rarely makes a sound onstage, instead preferring to use allowed to do that with no proof, there’s no knowledge whatsoever.” mime to entertain audiences. Penn and Teller will perform at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24, at UA’s “When I first saw Teller, when I was still in high school, he was Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. Tickets are $44 to $84 already working silently,” Jillette said. “Teller got fascinated by the for adults; $15 to $70 for students, UA staffers and children; and idea of being able to lie without speaking, to allow people to lie to $36 to $74 for seniors and members of the military. For tickets or themselves.” more information, call 621-3341, or visit www.uapresents.org. He said Teller also quickly learned that “if he just shut up, people Michelle A. Weiss grew tired of heckling.” mailbag@tucsonweekly.com Offstage, the verbal dynamic is completely different, said Jillette,

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OUTDOORS Ride, Relay and Relax New Belgium Urban Assault Ride 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 26 Starts at Reid Park 22nd Street and Country Club Road urbanassaultride.com

The New Belgium Urban Assault Ride coasts into town this weekend to prove that a bicycle race can be about more than hustle. “Think of it as an obstacle race on bicycles,” said Dan Coppola, the event manager. Riders begin and end the funky race at Reid Park. Along the way, they stop at seven checkpoints throughout the city. At each one is a surprise challenge—such as three-legged race, with a teammate riding a child’s bike around a small course. Riders, who register in teams of two, can opt for male, female, co-ed and family categories. The ride caters to bicyclists of all skill levels. The ride—now in its 10th year, and its fourth in Tucson—began in Austin as a way for people to enjoy a day on their bikes. Now, it’s evolved into a way to promote sustainability. Bikers are told five of the seven checkpoint locations ahead of time— two are a mystery until race day—and must map out their own route. Coppola says the idea is to help participants realize that they can use their bikes to travel from place to place more often. “We encourage people to show up for the ride on their bicycles if they have the ability to ride to the event,” Coppola said. “Most people use a bike as a recreational tool, not a transport tool, and we strive to tie those two aspects together.” Participants don’t need to finish first to be eligible to win prizes. Coppola said participants can cover as much ground as they want and participate in as many checkpoint activities as they feel comfortable with. After the race, a party with prizes and beer awaits. Registration is $30 to $60 per person. —A.N.

Far left: Barbea Williams performs with Bailé Brazil/Cuba Aché at a previous show in Yuma. Left: Stephanie Sigman in Miss Bala.

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30th Annual Tucson Peace Fair and Music Festival

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Barbea Williams has been preparing for this show all her life. Her childhood dance lessons, her travel and her research all play a part in Dancin’—The Black Atlantic, Part 1, which showcases African identity through dance. Williams, the artistic director of the Barbea Williams Performing Company, employs the Dunham technique, created by dance pioneer Katherine Dunham, who heavily used research in developing choreography. Williams hopes to portray, through dance, the influence of African culture in the Caribbean, South America and Mesoamerica. “It’s a story of migration, even though I feel like people of African descent … they weren’t immigrants; they were people who came here as explorers initially,” Williams said. More than 30 performers from the University of Arizona School of Dance’s Afrikana Dance Ensemble and Williams’ troupe, among others, will perform dances in three acts as part of a celebration of Black History Month. Members of the performance group Flight School Acrobatics will play out different scenes of Afro-Brazilian life using capoeira, a Brazilian martial art; acro-yoga; samba; and maculelê, an Afro-Brazilian dance. Williams said the performance will mimic the natural ocean currents that circulate from Africa to the Caribbean, and to South America. “What our responsibility is in terms of our research and the authenticity … is to bring to our audience here in Tucson a glimpse of something that they might never see, places that they might never visit,” Williams said. Prior to the show, everyone is invited to participate in a comparsa dance class for all levels of dancers. Tickets are $12 in advance, and $15 at the door. —A.N.

Mexican culture has long had a huge impact in Tucson, of course, and to take a look at current life in Mexico—as seen through the eyes of that nation’s filmmakers—the UA’s Hanson Film Institute is hosting a free, five-day film festival. Tucson Cine Mexico will feature contemporary Mexican films, said festival director Vicky Westover. In addition to the films, the festival will include Mexican directors, producers and actors who will talk about their work at screenings. “It’s a really rare opportunity to see stellar work coming from our neighbor,” Westover said. The annual festival, which began in 2009, is as diverse as Tucson’s community, she said. Filmgoers include members of Tucson’s immigrant community, but also non-immigrants of all walks of life, she said. The movie that Westover is most looking forward to is Miss Bala, which will be screened at 7 p.m., Friday, March 2, at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. Miss Bala was Mexico’s Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film, and was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. The movie is about a Mexican woman who wants to become a beauty queen, but instead gets sucked into the drug war that has claimed thousands of lives. The thriller’s lead actress, Stephanie Sigman, will be a special guest at the festival. The festival also will address changes in the Mexican film industry. One special event will feature female Mexican film directors, who will talk about the rise of women directors in Mexico. Tickets are free. For a complete schedule, a list of venues and ticket information, visit tucsoncinemexico.org. —R.K.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25 enter DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center b Road Near 22nd Street and Country Club 319-0352; peacecalendar.org

Enjoy a peaceful day in the park k while enjoying some great tunes with your 0th family and friends at Tucson’s 30th estival. Annual Peace Fair and Music Festival. thering The fair is Tucson’s largest gathering of local peace and social-justice groups. d enterThe event will include music and tainment for young and old, and nonhs, profits will host information booths, amp. said event chairwoman Mary DeCamp. Plenty of arts and crafts will bee for ñata sale, and there even may be a piñata for children, she said. p for About 60 groups have signed up ed booths so far, but DeCamp expected that number to grow. “There is so much negativity in the ate of world, so much dismay over the state potaffairs. This is an opportunity to spotgs light the positives, and all the things that are right in Tucson,” DeCamp said. Attendees also can enter a raffle,, which features prizes worth up to $500 and beyond. The grand prizes rangee from a dinner-and-movie package too a cy trip for two to Las Vegas, said Nancy e. Cohen, who is in charge of the raffle. The money raised will be used to issue a calendar with listings of all peace-oriented events around Tucson, Cohen said. The Peace Fair and Music Festival should be an entertaining and uplifting airday at the park, said Chet Gardiner, chairman of the entertainment committee. Musicians will include local singer-songwriters and groups such as One d. Heartbeat, a drumming band, he said. Other scheduled performers include d the Raging Grannies, Los Foileros and u Planet Jam. Whatever your tastes, you will find music to enjoy while sharing it with people who share a desire for peace, Gardiner said. “You’re not alone,” he said. “There are people working for great causes.” Admission is free. —R.K.

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Below: Numb, a play about “a needy bride who … finds her peace in feeling her feelings,” is one play in the Tucson Fringe Festival, taking place Friday through Sunday, Feb. 24-26. For a complete schedule, a venue list and ticket information, formation, visit tucsonfringe.org.

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Tony Diaz A three-bus caravan will leave Houston on Monday, March 12, and head to Tucson, carrying a group of Latino writers and hundreds of copies of the books removed from the Tucson Unified School District’s former Mexican-American studies classrooms. Houston novelist Tony Diaz came up with the idea for the project, Librotraficante, along with other writers and artists. The caravan is scheduled to arrive in Tucson on Friday, March 16, and on Saturday, they’ll celebrate the El Battalion Santo Patricio. They could use an escort at the New Mexico border (oh, and a taco truck). For more information, call (713) 867-8943; email aztecmuse@aol.com; or go to www.nuestrapalabra.org.

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How did this idea start? This is the result of 13 years of work with our organization Nuestra Palabra. We’ve been promoting Latino literature and culture for 13 years in Houston. It’s also become a graduate school for activist writers. A lot of the writers have been involved for more than 10 years, and a lot of them now have 10th-degree black belts in activism and promoting literature. What kind of projects does Nuestra Palabra do? We’ve worked to counter ideas that Latinos don’t read, or Latinos don’t write. We started the largest book event in the fourth-largest city in America. Our first Latino book festival brought together 15,000 people. A lot of people went, “Wow, when Latinos get together, amazing things happen all around literature, education and cultural values.” These are things others take for granted, but (Latinos) really appreciate them, so for us, this is an amazing issue. Do you think this issue will better organize the Latino community? I think it has been eye-opening for many of us across the country. With Nuestra Palabra … we’ve learned that the work of the Civil Rights Movement never rests. But what really opened our eyes was when we heard that administrators walked into a high school classroom and 22 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

boxed up the books of our beloved authors in front of students. That was a deep cultural offense. What writers are involved? First, I heard from Dagoberto Gilb (Woodcuts of Women and The Magic of Blood), who started helping us. He was saying, “This is going down. You’re in, or you’re out.” Another is Manuel Muñoz. … He lives right across from Tucson High (Magnet) School, where his book (Zigzagger) is now banned. Other writers we’ve reached out to (Sandra Cisneros, Helena Maria Viramontes, Stephanie Griest Elizondo, Sergio Troncoso, Richard Delgado, Luis Urrea, Carmen Tafolla, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, Denise Chavez and Rudolfo Anaya) will either be hosting us along our way or be there in Tucson for a huge event. When do you leave? On March 12, we will leave from Houston, and reporters from the show Flashpoints on Pacifica will ride along the way … (as well as) someone from the Texas Observer, the Texas Monthly, and we even got a call from French media. … People from outside the U.S. are telling us, “We can’t believe that people are trying to keep the books out of students’ hands.” From here, we will go to San Antonio, where Sandra Cisneros is

hosting us. … And we are also starting underground libraries. … We want to leave sets of the banned books at community centers everywhere we go. Who will be in Tucson? We know Stella Pope Duarte will be there, and Luis Alberto Urrea and many others. The list is growing. (Urrea) was one of the first writers who jumped on this by Twitter. He said, “I want a taco truck full of free books in the barrio.” We’re not sure where the hell we’ll get a taco truck, but we are working on it. Why is this important? We need to organize. I think for too long, we’ve taken for granted that we are organized here in Houston, but we don’t do much across cities and states. … (Latinos) are not the sleeping giant. We’re the working giant, and we’re reporting for work. … But now what’s different is that this is bringing people together, and not just Latinos, and not just writers. We also need to teach each other. There’s a lot to learn from your students (UNIDOS) and how they are organized. They are doing great work out there. … Maybe the young are supposed to teach us. But this is what I’m also hoping—that people will see this. And if this happens in Alabama, I want them to know we will come there next.

LA FIESTA DE LOS VAQUEROS RODEO Pima County Rodeo Grounds. 4823 N. Sixth Ave. Professional and junior performances take place from 12:30 to 5 p.m., Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 23 to 25; $18 to $24. Finals in professional and junior categories are held from 12:30 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; $20 to $26. There’s a dance every performance day from 4 to 8 p.m.; $5, free rodeo contestant. Food and beverages are available at all events. Visit tucsonrodeo.com for complete information. OSCAR NIGHT AMERICA 2012 Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Tucson’s only Oscar event officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences features glamorous “red carpet” arrivals, a silent auction, a celebrity fashion show and a “Pick the Winner” contest beginning at 5 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; $25 to $125, $250 loge seat for two. VIP tickets, $125 and $250, include catering. Proceeds benefit the Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org. PEACE FAIR AND MUSIC FESTIVAL DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. Advocacy groups for peace, social justice and the environment gather to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this event, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Activities include information tables, live music, children’s activities, food for sale and a raffle. Volunteers are needed as early as 9 a.m.; email stelnik@ webtv.net if you can help. Email mdecamp@q.com if your organization would like to have a display or table at the event. Visit tucsonpeacecalendar.org for more info. RAW: TUCSON PRESENTS ACTIVATE Plush. 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. Tucson talent in visual arts, music and fashion are featured from 7 to 11 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; $15, $10 advance. Visit rawartists.org for tickets, artists information and other details. TUCSON RODEO PARADE Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum. 4823 S. Sixth Ave. 294-3636. The longest nonmotorized parade in the nation, now in its 87th year, gets under way with marching bands, dancing horses, decorated floats, antique wagons and colorful costumes at 9 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; free. Grandstand tickets are $7, $5 child younger than 12. Visit tucsonrodeoparade.org for tickets, route information and more details.

OUT OF TOWN FLORA, FAUNA AND FOODS OF THE SOUTHWEST Singing Wind Bookshop. 700 W. Singing Wind Road. Benson. (520) 586-2425. Carolyn Neithammer demonstrates ways to cook native foods, and Southern Arizona authors discuss and sign their books, from 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; free. Participating authors are Lorna Kraemer, Javelina on Her Doorstep; Harley Shaw and Mara Weisenberger, Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro; Janet Taylor, The Green Southwest Cookbook; and Fred Rose, Mountain Wildflowers of Southern Arizona.

UPCOMING THE PHANTOM OF SHUSHAN Congregation Anshei Israel. 5550 E. Fifth St. 7455550. A Purim celebration includes music; hors d’oeuvres; desserts; and live and silent auctions for a Canyon Ranch Spa vacation, tickets to a live taping of NBC’s Today show in New York and other prizes; at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 3; $50. Party-goers are encouraged to wear masks and costumes. Proceeds benefit the congregation’s youth-education program. Reservations are requested. Visit caiaz.org for reservations and info.

THE SIP FOR ST. GREGORY Skyline Country Club. 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive. 2990464. Wine-tasting, live and silent auctions, hors d’oeuvres, fine dining, live music and dancing are featured at the Sip for St. Gregory fundraiser at 6 p.m., Saturday, March 3; $125, $60 alumni. Reservations are requested by Tuesday, Feb. 28; Call 327-6395 for reservations or more information.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY EXHIBIT Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit by the Arizona Geological Survey is displayed in the wooden towers in the lobby, closing Wednesday, Feb. 29; free. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. Call 791-4010. 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., Tuesday, Feb. 28: Ireland, England, France, Holland and Germany by bicycle. 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, spear points and other flaked-stone artifacts from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Feb. 25; $35, $28 Old Pueblo Archaeology and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary member, includes all materials and equipment. Reservations are required. Call or email info@oldpueblo.org for reservations. CONSCIOUS LOCAL LIVING Swade Barber Shop. 2005 W. Ruthrauff Road, No. 161. 690-5474. Green Living magazine, the Fusion Foundation, and Swade Barber Shop host speakers and vendors, and provide food and music, from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29; free. Search for Conscious Local Living on Facebook for more information. COSMETIC ACUPUNCTURE Jade Star Acupuncture. 4500 E. Speedway Blvd., No. 80. 881-0827. A seminar about the use of acupuncture to improve skin condition takes place at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. Eleven local food trucks are at Bookmans from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24; free admission. MASTER RECYCLER TRAINING Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Participants learn about local recycling, reuse and waste-reduction options for homes and businesses from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29; free. The programs is sponsored by Tucson Clean and Beautiful and City of Tucson Environmental Services. SOUTHERN ARIZONA AGAINST SLAVERY MONTHLY MEETING Northminster Presbyterian Church. 2450 E. Fort Lowell Road. 327-7121. An organization dedicated to combatting all forms of human trafficking meets at 6 p.m., the fourth Monday of every month. Email southernazagainstslavery@gmail.com, or visit saastucson.com for more information. ST. PHILIP’S PHIXERS HOMEMAINTENANCE WORKSHOP SERIES St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. St. Philip’s fourth-Sunday home-maintenance presentations take place at 12:30 p.m., the fourth Sunday of every month; free. Participants should dress comfortably. Feb. 26: glues, adhesives, tapes and bailing wire. Email greg.foraker@ stphilipstucson.org, or call 299-6421, ext. 44, for info. TUSD 2013 BUDGET: PUBLIC PRESENTATION Rincon/University High School Auditorium. 421 N. Arcadia Drive. 440-5661. The public is invited to a presentation about TUSD’s projected 2013 budget, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27; free. TUSD’s chief financial officer Yousef Awwad shows how the district’s 95 schools are supported through formula-based funding. A Q&A follows. Visit tusd1.org for more information. WOMEN’S SELF-DEFENSE CLASS Wildcat CrossFit. 300 S. Park Ave. 309-5293. An introductory self-defense class for women takes place at 4:15 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; free. Call 396-4864 for more information.

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Don’t miss it! February 26th! WHAT’S BEING AUCTIONED OFF: Over $100,000 in merchandise already consigned from many individuals including a large inventory of custom made tack and saddles from H bar Saddlery. Just imagine, everything you would find in a tack shop, If its used on or around a horse it will be there. Over 60 Western Saddles (Roping, Ranch, Barrel, Silver Show, Pleasure Youth, Pony), Over 100 Bridles Headstalls & Halters, etc., Plus Lots of Custom Tack and One Of Kind Items. To be sold to the highest bidder, piece by piece! Terms of Sale: Cash, all major Credit Cards, ATM & debit. Sorry NO Checks! CONSIGNMENTS BEING ACCEPTED AND ADDED DAILY We are accepting new and used equipment for consignment. If you have stuff that you haven’t used in years, this will be an opportunity to turn it into cash. If you bring it, we can sell it.

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WRITING RAINBOW Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. A writing workshop meets to write letters to incarcerated GLBTQ people at 5 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; free.

OUT OF TOWN 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.

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PHYSICAL INDEPENDENCE SEMINAR Pima County Tucson Women’s Commission. 240 N. Court Ave. 624-8318. Participants learn six exercises that test whether a woman risks losing her physical independence, from 6 to 7 p.m., Thursday, March 1; free. Reservations are requested by Monday, Feb. 27. Email drcampo@g.com, or call 762-1957 for a reservation or more information.

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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. 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.

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK

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Acacia Bentley’s House of Coffee & Tea Bluefin Seafood Bistro BUSHI Sushi Café 54 Café a la C’Art Dakota Café & Catering Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails Eclectic Café El Charro Café Frankie’s Cheesesteaks & Hoagies Ghinis French Caffé Janos J Bar

Park, 400 S. Sarnoff Drive, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (918-9811). Tucson Farmers’ Market at Maynards: Maynards Market and Kitchen, 400 N. Toole Ave., winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (545-0577). Tucson’s Green Art and Farmers’ Market: 8995 E. Tanque Verde Road, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (982-2645). Ventana Plaza’s Farmers’ Market: 5455 N. Kolb Road, 3 to 7 p.m., Tuesday (603-8116).

FARMERS’ MARKETS Alan Ward Downtown Mercado: south lawn of the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, October through May; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, June through September (339-4008). Arivaca Farmers’ Market: 16800 Arivaca Road, Arivaca, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday. Bisbee Farmers’ Market: Vista Park in the Warren section, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-227-5060). Community Food Bank: 3003 S. Country Club Road, 8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday (6220525). Corona de Tucson Farmers’ Market: 15921 S. Houghton Road, Vail, 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (8701106). Douglas Farmers’ Market: Raul Castro Park, between D and E avenues, downtown Douglas, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday (520-805-5938 or 520-805-0086). El Presidio Plaza Park Mercado: 115 N. Church Ave., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday (339-4008). El Pueblo Farmers’ Market: El Pueblo Neighborhood Center parking lot, SW corner of Irvington Road and Sixth Avenue, 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday (882-3304). Elgin Farmers’ Market: Kief-Joshua Vineyards, 370 Elgin Road, Elgin, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May through October (520-455-5582). Farmers’ Markets at La Posada Green Valley: 665 S. Park Centre Ave., Green Valley, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday (6038116). Farmers’ Market at Voyager RV Resort: 8701 S. Kolb Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday (603-8116). Friday Farmers’ Market at Broadway Village: 2926 E. Broadway Blvd., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday (603-8116). Green Valley Village Farmers’ Market: 101 S. La Cañada Drive, Green Valley, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday (490-3315). Marana Farmers’ Market: 13395 N. Marana Main Street, Marana, 3 to 6 p.m., Tuesday (882-3313). Metal Arts Village Saturday Morning Market: 3230 N. Dodge Blvd., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (795-1770). Oracle Farmers’ Market: 2805 N. Triangle L Ranch Road, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday (896-2123). Oro Valley Farmers’ Market: Town Hall at the corner of La Cañada Drive and Naranja Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (882-2157). Plaza Palomino: 2970 N. Swan Road, winter: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (plazapalomino.com). Rincon Valley Farmers’ Market: 12500 E. Old Spanish Trail, winter: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (591-2276). St. David Farmers’ Market: St. David High School, 70 E. Patton St., St. David, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May through October (520-2211074). St. Philip’s Plaza Saturday Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (6038116). Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market: Mercado San Agustín, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday (622-0525). San Manuel Farmers’ Market: 801 McNab Parkway, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-2122337). Sierra Vista Farmers’ Market: corner of Carmichael Avenue and Willcox Drive, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday (520-378-2973). Sunsites Farmers’ Market: Shadow Mountain Golf Course, 1105 Irene St., Sunsites, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-826-1250). Tucson Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Sunday (882-2157). Tucson Farmers’ Market at Jesse Owens Park: Jesse Owens

DOWNTOWN FAÇADE-IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Applications are due by 1 p.m., Monday, March 5, for funding to restore and improve the façades of downtown buildings. Four finalists are announced Monday, March 12, and architects work with winners to present finalized designs, from which one will be chosen. Visit downtowntucson.org/facade for an application; call 8376504 for more information. FREE TAX HELP Seniors, disabled people, folks with English as a second language and any individual who earns less than $50,000 annually may get free tax help at several times and locations throughout Southern Arizona. For the nearest location and hours of operation, call (800) 9069887; seniors call (888) 227-7669. Visit irs.gov for more information. INFORMATION POWER FOR SMALL BUSINESS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Learn how to do market research and analysis, develop market strategies, track industry trends, locate suppliers and identify customers by using library resources, from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Call 791-4010 for more information. YWCA: VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE SITE YWCA Frances McClelland Leadership Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave. 884-7810. IRS-certified volunteer tax-preparers provide free tax-preparation and electronic filing from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, through Thursday, April 19. Call 884-7810, ext. 113, or email lrabago@ywcatucson.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS INTEGRATIVE WELLNESS COALITION MIXER Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation. 3182 N. Swan Road. 299-4545. Holistic health and wellness practitioners meet the fourth Tuesday of every month to socialize and share business information; $25, $20 member, $5 less via pre-registration. Call 261-1470 to pre-register or for more information. 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. TPAC SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR ‘LUMIES’ The Tucson Pima Arts Council welcomes nominations for its 2012 awards to arts groups and business organizations that support and promote the arts in Tucson. Nominations are due by midnight, Thursday, April 12. Visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for nomination guidelines and more information.

FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK FILM FORWARD 2012 FESTIVAL: FREE SCREENINGS Film Forward 2012: Advancing Cultural Dialogue, a cultural exchange initiative of the Sundance Institute and

FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. The Godfather: Part II is screened at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25; $7, $5 student. Visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets or more information. THE LAST TRAIN HOME Eckstrom-Columbus Branch, Pima County Public Library. 4350 E. 22nd St. 594-5285. This documentary illustrates the family-level impact of China’s economic development, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. LESBIAN LOOKS UA Gallagher Theater. 1303 E. University Blvd. 6260370. I Am documents the story of a lesbian filmmaker returning to her family’s home in Delhi and confronting the fact that she never came out to her deceased mother, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; free.

for those with the disease meet from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second and fourth Tuesday every month, at TMC’s El Dorado Campus, 1400 N. Wilmot Road, 3241960. A second Alzheimer’s caregiver group meets there from 10:30 to noon, the first and third Thursday.

HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK BETTER THAN EVER KICKOFF EVENT Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. 3482 E. River Road. 877-6154. A fitness training program sponsored by the Arizona Cancer Center holds a kickoff ceremony and informational event at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Call 626-7177, or visit arizonabte.org for more information. TMC SENIOR SERVICES CLASSES AND EVENTS TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. 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, Feb. 23, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.: A free monthly clinic helps people learn to self-monitor blood pressure; and from 5 to 6 p.m.: People recently diagnosed with diabetes and their friends and family learn more about the disease.

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LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. Friday, Feb. 24, at 9 p.m.: Everything Is Terrible presents a collection of dog-related found footage, Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez!; $8, $7 member. Thursday, March 1, at 7 p.m.: Hollywood Hellraisers series presents M*A*S*H; $5 to $9. Saturday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m.: Crazy Wisdom, with director Johanna Demetrakas in person; $5 to $9.

COMMUNICATION TOOLS FOR HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS Villa Hermosa. 6300 E. Speedway Blvd. 298-6400. Representatives of Oasis teach “Communication Tools for Healthy Relationships” from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Thursday, March 1; $9. Call 322-5607 to register or for more information.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. A performance of Traveling Light by the National Theatre is shown in HDTV at noon, Sunday, Feb. 26; $15, $10 member. Visit loftcinema.com for tickets or more info.

ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUPS All meetings are free; call for reservations. Family members and others caring for people with dementia gather for discussion, education and support from 1:30 to 3 p.m., the first and third Tuesday of every month, at the Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive, 229-5300. An Alzheimer’s Association Support Group meets at 4:30 p.m., the second Monday of every month, at Santa Catalina Villas retirement community, 7500 N. Calle Sin Envidia, 730-3132. An Alzheimer’s caregiver support group and concurrent activity group

OUT IN THE DESERT FILM FESTIVAL Out in the Desert: Tucson’s International LGBT Film Festival takes place Friday through Sunday, Feb. 24 through 26; $8 to $10 per film, $60 to $100 for passes. Screenings take place at the Screening Room, 127 E. Congress St.; Fluxx Studio and Gallery, 414 E. Ninth St.; and Grand Cinemas Crossroads, 4811 E. Grant Road. A closing-night party takes place at the Riverpark Inn, 350 S. Freeway Road. Friday, Feb. 24, features allArizona films and filmmakers, and an after-party at the Riverpark Inn. The festival’s family film, The Muppets (1979), screens at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 25. Visit outinthedesertff.org for details.

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SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA Dry River Collective. 740 N, Main Ave. 882-2170. A four-part PBS documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman concludes at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; $3 donation includes tea and popcorn. Email info@dryriver.org for more information. TUCSON CINE MEXICO 2012 A screening of Miss Bala, with special guest Stephanie Sigman, highlights a film festival featuring narrative short and feature-length films and feature-length documentaries by Mexican directors, through Sunday, March 4; all screenings are free. Venues include the Fox Tucson Theatre, the Tucson Museum of Art and Harkins Theatres Tucson Spectrum 18. Visit tucsoncinemexico. org for a complete schedule of screenings and related events in both Spanish and English.

GARDENING 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. GARDENING CLASSES AT THE LIBRARY Master Gardeners from the Pima County Cooperative Extension Service conduct free classes the first Saturday of every month, at 10:30 a.m., Mission Branch, 3770 S. Mission Road; every Friday through April 27, at 1 p.m., Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive; and every Wednesday at 1 p.m., at the Murphy-Wilmot Branch, 530 N. Wilmot Road. Visit ag.arizona.edu for more information.

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HIV TESTING 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, 375 S. Euclid Ave., are from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Monday and Wednesday; and 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Walk-in testing is also available at COPE, 101 S. Stone Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. All testing is confidential; results are available in about 15 minutes; and counseling is available. Call for an appointment and more info. PCAP: AFFORDABLE MEDICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PIMA COUNTY RESIDENTS A representative from the Pima Community Access Program, a service that links uninsured Pima County residents with an affordable and comprehensive network of health-care providers, is available by appointment to enroll members of the community and give a free assessment. Call 309-2931, or email susa@mypcap.org for information or an appointment.

KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK 9 QUEENS AND KINGS RODEO DAZE CHESS TOURNAMENT Valencia Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library. 202 W. Valencia Road. 594-5390. A chess tournament for all ages and abilities takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24; free. Lunch is provided. Visit 9queens. org for more information. ALL TOGETHER THEATRE Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Original adaptations of popular children’s stories are presented at 1 p.m., Sunday; $5 to $8. Goldilocks and the Three Bears continues through April 1. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more information.

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“A Taste of Things to Come...” till February 29. Mattias Düwel, Citizen Zane, Emily Stern Düwel and Micheline Johnoff.

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FLOCK PARTY Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Wild bird species visit the gardens, and their handlers from Wildlife Rehabilitation in Northwest Tucson discuss their lives and answer questions, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; $8, $4 child 4 to 12, free younger child, includes admission to the park from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Kids also enjoy bird-related craft projects, and can make their own bird-feeders. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. KIDS SAFETY CLASS Wildcat CrossFit. 300 S. Park Ave. 309-5293. A class for ages 5 to 8 features defense techniques to use against bullies and predators, at 3:15 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25 and March 3. Call or visit tucsonradkids. blogspot.com for more information. OUTDOOR FAMILY DAY Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. 3482 E. River Road. 877-6154. Families with children ages 5 through 12 learn how to use a compass and map to find their way through an orienteering course from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Reservations are required; call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information. RED BARN THEATRE Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. A new version of Hansel and Gretel is performed by children ages 5 though 15 at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $5. More musical performances follow the play. RIDE â&#x20AC;&#x2122;EM RODEO CARNIVAL La Paloma Academy. 2050 N. Wilmot Road. A carnival to benefit the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s science programs includes rides, games, prizes and food from 5 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; noon to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25; and noon to 9 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; $15 armbands, available only in advance at the school, are good for unlimited rides for a day. Visit lpatucson.org for more information. ROCKET LAUNCH Tucson International Modelplex Association Complex. 3250 N. Reservation Road. Spectators watch and learn about model rocketry from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $5 launch, free spectator. Rental rockets with

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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 LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOP Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. Crime prevention is the topic of a seminar hosted by the Youth Empowerment Services Network, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28; $25. Visit yes-network.org, or call 297-0702 to register or for more information.

OUT OF TOWN MY HEART CHANGES: YOUTH ART EXHIBIT The Amerind Foundation. 2100 N. Amerind Road, Exit 318 off Interstate 10. Dragoon. (520) 586-3666. An exhibit of art created by students from rural schools in Cochise and Graham counties continues through Thursday, March 1. The works include animal masks, drawings, nature photographs and portraits of Apache community members and elders. 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.

UPCOMING ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL ART INVITATIONAL Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of works juried by art and photography teachers in Pima County opens Thursday, March 1, and continues through Friday, March 30; free. An artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception takes place from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 24. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. Call 791-4010 for more information.

OUTDOORS HISTORICAL TOUR OF AGUA CALIENTE PARK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. All ages enjoy a guided tour of the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic structures, and learn about its farming and ranching history, from 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25 and 26; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information.

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A NIGHT WITH THE STARS Tucson Mountain Park Ironwood Picnic Area. 1548 S. Kinney Road. Volunteers from the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association provide an introduction to stars, planets and other features of the night sky from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24; free. Telescopes are available for viewing. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for 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 WALKING DOCENT TRAINING Tumamoc: People and Habitats. 1675 W. Anklam Road. 621-6797. Volunteers are sought to be docents for walkers on Tumamoc Hill, providing information about the archaeology and anthropology of human habitation, and the changing nature of plant and animal life. Training takes place from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Feb. 25; and from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29. Registration is required. Email pamela@email.arizona. edu, or visit tumamoc.wordpress.com for more info.

URBAN ASSAULT RIDE Reid Park. Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way. The New Belgium Urban Assault Ride starts at 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 26, and covers about 25 miles. Riders choose their own routes for a scavenger hunt through required checkpoints, each featuring an off-beat obstacle course; $30 to $60 includes a T-shirt, swag and an after-party. Visit urbanassaultride.com to register or for more information.

OUT OF TOWN HONEY BEE CANYON PARK BIRDING WALK Honey Bee Canyon Park. 13880 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd. Oro Valley. 877-6000. Birding expert Mary Ellen Flynn guides walkers ages 12 and older to spot Gambel’s quail, verdins, gnatcatchers and other Southwest desert birds from 8 to 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Reservations are required; call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or 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.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BOYCE THOMPSON ARBORETUM MAIN TRAIL TOURS Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Highway 60. Superior. (520) 689-2811. Guided tours of the main trail take place at 11 a.m., daily, through Monday, April 30; free with admission. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $9, $4.50 ages 5 through 12, free younger child. Visit azstateparks.com for a video tour and more information. SABINO CANYON WALKS Sabino Canyon Visitors’ Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. Volunteer Naturalists lead walks in Lower Sabino Canyon every Monday through Thursday, through Thursday, April 26; free. Parking is $5 per day or $20 per year. Children younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Monday, 2 to 4 p.m.: Secrets of Sabino Revealed. Tuesday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.: plant and bird walk with photography tips. Wednesday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.: nature walk with photography tips for insects and rock formations. Thursday, 8:30 to 11 a.m.: Gneiss Walk, a 2.5 hour walk looking at geology. Call or visit scvntucson.org for more information.

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3: at 6 p.m., MLS third place vs MLS fourth place; and at 8 p.m., MLS first place vs. MLS second place. PUEBLO’S RODEO RUN Peter Piper Pizza. 5385 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 4348000. A 4-mile, competitive fun run/walk along the Santa Cruz River Pathway celebrates Rodeo Days in the Old Pueblo at 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 26: $25, $15 age 17 and younger. Proceeds benefit Pueblo High School’s track-and-field and cross-country programs. Visit taggrun.com to register and for more information. SPRING GRAND AMERICAN TRAP SHOOT Tucson Trap and Skeet Club. 7800 W. Old Ajo Highway. 908-3425. Two $10,000 purses lure competitors from throughout Arizona to shoot clay targets with shotguns daily, through Sunday, Feb. 26; free spectator. Visit shootata.com for a complete schedule and more info. TUCSON ULTIMATE Himmel Park. 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. 791-3276. Regular league play takes place from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, year-round at Ochoa Park, 3450 N. Fairview Ave.; free spectator. Visit tucsonultimate.com for more information and a schedule. 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, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m.: USC. Saturday, Feb. 25, at noon: UCLA. UA WILDCAT HOCKEY Tucson Convention Center. 260 S. Church Ave. 7914101. The last home games of the season are against Arizona State, at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25; $5 to $15. Visit arizonawildcathockey.org for tickets or 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, through Sunday, March 11; free spectator. Winners of Sunday events compete for a slot 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 TIBETAN BUDDHIST PRACTICE HOUR Little Chapel of All Nations. 1052 N. Highland Ave. 623-1692. Meditation instruction and practice, chanting and a short dharma talk by Khenpo Drimed Dawa (Dean Pielstick) take place from 11 a.m. to noon, every Sunday. Free. Call 622-8460, or visit dharmakirti.org. 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. Call 395-2365, or email ties@spiritual-explorations.com for more information.

SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK AZ BLISTER KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. League play continues at 7 p.m., every Thursday, through April 19. Individuals may register and be assigned to a team until Thursday, Feb. 23. Visit kickball.com to register and for more information. MLS SOCCER IN TUCSON Kino Veterans Memorial Sports Complex. 2500 E. Ajo Way. Desert Diamond Cup Soccer continues on Saturday and Wednesday, through Saturday, March 3; $20 to $75. Visit fctucson.com, or call 334-1115 for tickets or more information. Saturday, Feb. 25: at 6 p.m., LA Galaxy vs. Real Salt Lake; and at 8 p.m., NY Red Bulls vs. New England Revolution. Wednesday, Feb. 29: at 6 p.m., Real Salt Lake vs. New England Revolution; and at 8 p.m., LA Galaxy vs. NY Red Bulls. Saturday, March

UPCOMING BE TUCSON WOMEN’S 5K RUN/WALK La Encantada. 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 299-3566. A women-only 5k run/walk for all ages and abilities and a men’s mile celebrate women’s health and fitness at 7:45 a.m., Sunday, March 4; $30, $25 before March 1. Visit azroadrunners.org to register or for more info. FC TUCSON’S DESERT CUP CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC Westin La Paloma. 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. A scramble golf tournament to benefit Imago Dei Middle School begins with a shotgun start at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 1; $1,000. Each player is paired with two Major League Soccer players, coaches, owners or staff. Additional donations to a blind auction allow winners to pick their MLS partners. Drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a performance by Los Changuitos Feos de Tucson follow. Call 882-4008, or visit imagodeischool.org for reservations or more information.

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Hibernian Happenings BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com he musicians in the traditional Irish band Goitse are young—so young that they had to miss their college graduation last summer to go on their first American tour. “It was great fun anyway,” accordion player Tadhg Ó Meachair said by phone from Maine last week. In Peoria, Ill., on their graduation day, “We rang our friends back home, and they gave us a massive cheer.” For their second American tour, which brings them to Tucson’s Berger Performing Arts Center this Saturday, Feb. 25, the 20-something musicians had to leave behind their youngest member. Banjo player James Harvey is still enrolled at the band’s alma mater, the University of Limerick, and “he has his thesis due next week,” Ó Meachair said sympathetically. No matter. The other musicians of Goitse (Irish for “come here”) have enlisted fellow Limerick grad Dave Curley, a singer who plays banjo and mandolin, to fill in for Harvey. Joining Curley on vocals will be Áine McGeeney, who also plays fiddle. Colm Phelan plays bodhrán, the Celtic drum, and Conal O’Kane handles guitar. At Berger, Tucson’s Tir Conaill dancers will join the band onstage to do a little step-dancing and soft shoe. O’Kane is a Philadelphia native, the lone American in the Irish Goitse bunch. “His dad was from Donegal,” Ó Meachair said, and O’Kane spent childhood summers in his father’s hometown, learning fiddle and banjo. In his late teens, he returned to Ireland to perfect his music. Like his future band mates, he enrolled in the University of Limerick’s well-regarded Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Goitse debuted as a student pickup band for a charity event. “We had a bit of a spark,” Ó Meachair said, speaking in a heavy Irish brogue. “We decided to form a band. Now we’re nearly four years at it.” They released their debut CD Goitse in 2010, and have been in demand ever since at Ireland’s traditional festivals. The old music is “as strong as it’s ever been in Ireland,” Ó Meachair said. But like many younger bands, Goitse creates music that is “traditional with a twist. We all have our own influences. We listen to a wide range of music.” They play older tunes as well as their own compositions, and the new work, he said, “has a contemporary feel without losing sight of its roots.”

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n the weeks leading up to St. Patrick’s Day, there’ll be Irish music galore in Tucson. See below for a sampling; check the music listings for club gigs, and visit www.tucsonirishcommunity.com for other events. The Rogue Theatre, though, takes a different tack, celebrating the Irish gift for language. Friday night, Rogue opens The New Electric Ballroom. Written in 2005 by Irishman Enda Walsh, a prolific playwright whose musical stage version of Once opens on Broadway this spring, The New Electric Ballroom is a tragicomedy set in a remote Irish fishing village. Two sisters in their 60s spend each day regretting and re-living their failed shots at romance when they were young. Reviewing a Brooklyn production in 2009, The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood called it a “mordantly funny, weirdly transfixing play,” with characters who “spout language as if it were blood pouring from an arterial wound.” Walsh has said that he’s conscious of the brilliant Irish playwrights who preceded him. “I always feel when I’m writing as if I have all those great Irish writers around me, and echoes of Irish plays,” he told a reporter for the Irish Voice in 2009, “but my own work comes out the way they come out. There’s a great big sort of blender that goes on, and something new is formed.” Directed by Bryan Rafael Falcón, the Rogue production stars Cynthia Meier, Cynthia Jeffery, Laura Lippman and Joseph McGrath. The play previews at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, and opens at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24. Performances continue at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights; and at 2 p.m., Sunday afternoons, through March 11, at the Rogue Theatre at the Historic YMCA, 300 E. University Blvd. Regular tickets are $30; preview tickets are $23; half-price nights are Thursday, March 1 and 8; student rush tickets are $15, pending availability, 15 minutes before curtain. A musical preshow by 12 Measures of Interest takes place 15 minutes before curtain; www.theroguetheatre.org; 551-2053. If you want to practice your Irish dancing before the St. Patrick’s rush, try Chris McGrory’s adult ceili class. McGrory is associated with the prize-winning Tir Conaill dancers, but he gently leads inexperienced adults through Irish social dances on the last Monday of every month. Check it out from 7:30 to 9 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27; 4580 E. Broadway Blvd.; $5; 991-3605. Neophyte dancers will be glad for the lessons if they go to the Emerald Ball, a charity

gala put on the Emerald Isle Society. The busy young dancers of Tir Conaill will give a performance, and so will their teacher, Michael Patrick Gallagher, formerly of Riverdance, but galagoers will get up and dance themselves when the Mulligans band plays Irish music. The event benefits Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern Arizona, and the Pima Council on Aging. A $125 ticket covers dinner, dancing and performances, at 6 p.m., Saturday, March 3, at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa, 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd.; www.emeraldislesociety.org; 360-0729. You may get a glimpse of new Mayor Jonathan O’Rothschild at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Mayor’s Luncheon, hosted by Tucson-Roscommon Sister Cities. The cornedbeef-and-cabbage fest is on the day before St. Paddy’s, at 11:30 a.m., Friday, March 16, at the Manning House, 450 W. Paseo Redondo; $25; reservations at 770-0714. Irishman John Doyle charmed Tucsonans a half-dozen years ago with his stories and guitar-playing, and he returns on St. Patrick’s Eve, this time with former bandmates in the acclaimed Solas: Karan Casey on vocals and John Williams on accordion, concertina, tin whistle and bodhrán. The reunion show is at 8 p.m., Friday, March 16, at Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. Advance tickets are $25 regular admission, and $23 for seniors and members of Tucson Friends of Traditional Music; online for a fee at www. inconcerttucson.com; and at (800) 595-4849. It’s $3 more for tickets at the door. St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, conveniently falls on a Saturday this year. The 25th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade takes a new route this year, beginning at 11 a.m. at the shamrock painted on the street at the corner of Pennington Street and Stone Avenue, before ending at El Presidio Park. Mike Haggerty, a founder of the parade and a former Tucson City Council member, is the marshal. To honor the millions who perished in the Irish famine of the late 1840s, festival and paradegoers are asked to donate nonperishable food to the Community

Goitse with Tir Conaill Irish Dancers 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25 Berger Performing Arts Center 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. $22; $20 seniors, students and members of Tucson Friends of Traditional Music; $3 more at the door (800) 595-4849; www.inconcerttucson.com

Food Bank at stations set up along the route. The companion St. Patrick’s Day Festival likewise is in a new location downtown, at El Presidio Park, 160 W. Alameda St. The party offers live music and dance, children’s activities, food and merchandise. A few attractions open at 10 a.m., then take a break for the parade at 11 a.m. Tim Prendiville kicks off the live performances with a prayer at 12:15 p.m., and the show goes on until 5. Dancers include the ubiquitous Tir Conaill, accompanied by Chris McGrory, as well as the Maguire Academy and Kelly Dancers. Scatter the Dust, Neal Flint, Out of Kilters, Púca, Aris and the Dusty Buskers provide the music; tucsonstpatricksday.com. The day after St. Patrick’s Day, AwenRising extends the holiday with a concert, A Celtic Celebration of Song and Sound, at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 18, at Christ Presbyterian Church, 6565 E. Broadway Blvd. Tickets are $12 and $15 at the door. The acoustic chamber ensemble blends voices and instruments; the vocalists will sing works in Irish and English, including “The Rune of St. Patrick,” a new composition by Robert Hanshaw, a young Tucson composer. Finally, almost a week after St. Patrick’s, the band Púca—consisting of Dave Firestine (mandolin) and Claire Jamieson Zucker (vocals and bodhran), formerly of Round the House—reprise their festival gig with Irish and American music from 7 to 10 p.m., Friday, March 23, at Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub, 6958 E. Tanque Verde Road; www. canyonscrown.com; 885-8277.

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LOVE IS IN THE AIR Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Soprano Amber Lee Harrington and tenor Chris Brewer sing classic love songs and duets at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24; $10, $8 senior, student or military with valid ID. Call 301-4001 for reservations or more information.

ASTRO DANCE PROJECT Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium. 1601 E. University Blvd. 621-7827. UA dancers, musicians and multimedia artists collaborate to overlay performance over astronomical imagery at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25; $10. Call (800) 838-3006, or visit brownpapertickets.com for tickets and more info. DANCIN’: THE BLACK ATLANTIC, PART 1 Dunbar Cultural Center. 325 W. Second St. 791-7795. Under the direction of Barbea Williams, music and dance from Africa, Argentina, Brazil, the Caribbean, Cuba and Mesoamerica celebrate Black History Month, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24; and at 3 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $15, $12 advance. Search Facebook for Dancin’—The Black Atlantic—Part 1, or email barbeabwpc@gmail.com for more information.

UPCOMING UA DANCE UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. 1713 E. University Blvd. 621-4698. Still Here: Student Spotlight presents choreography by graduate and undergraduate students at 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 1 and 2; and 1:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4; $12 to $25. Visit arizona.tix.com for tickets or more info.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK BLUEGRASS SONGWRITING AND VOCAL CLINIC 17th Street Music. 810 E. 17th St. 624-8821, ext. 7147. Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin lead a twohour clinic focused on bluegrass songwriting and duet harmonies from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Call 624-8821, ext. 7173, or visit seventeenthstreetmarket.com for more information. CHAMPIONSHIP OF COLLEGIATE A CAPPELLA UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. The UA’s a cappella groups, CatCall A Cappella and Noteriety, host six other Arizona and California groups at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $20, $25 student. Call 621-3341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets. COMBO WESTSIDE CONCERT 17th Street Market. 840 E. 17th St. 792-2588. Combo Westside melds international sounds with those of Southern Arizona and the border from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. DOVE OF PEACE CONCERTS Dove of Peace Lutheran Church. 665 W. Roller Coaster Road. 887-5127. Concerts are at 2 p.m., Sunday; freewill donation. Feb. 26: Beethoven Piano Sonatas. March 18: Bach Birthday Celebration, featuring principal TSO flutist Alexander Lipay. Call or visit doveofpeacetucson.org for more information. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m.: Los Lonely Boys; $28 to $70. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for tickets. GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERTS The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Concerts are at 7 p.m., Monday; $12 to $22. Feb. 27: Dream Lover: A Salute to the Music of Bobby Darin, starring Robert Shaw. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for tickets and more information. GOITSE IN CONCERT Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3762. Goitse, pronounced gwit-sha, a new band from Dublin, Ireland, performs their own interpretation of Irish traditional music at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $20 to $22. The Tir Conaill Irish Dancers also perform. Visit inconcerttucson.com for tickets or more information. Tickets are available with no service fee at the Folk Shop, 2525 N. Campbell Ave. LAVA MUSIC Abounding Grace Church. 2450 S. Kolb Road. 7473745. Doors are at 6:30 p.m.; shows are 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday; $20, $15 advance unless otherwise noted. Feb. 25: Alaska String Band. Email bonnie@lavamusic. org, or visit lavamusic.org for tickets or more info. LENTEN RECITAL SERIES St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Concerts are from 12:15 to

MUSIC AT THE UA UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. Friday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m.: UA Philharmonic Orchestra with a pre-concert lecture by doctoral candidate Philip Moody, Crowder Hall; $5. Saturday, Feb. 25, at 2:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 26 at 2:30 p.m.: Grammy Award-winning guitarist David Russell, Holsclaw Hall; $20 to $30. Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m.: UA Clarinet Quartet and Kansai Clarinet Quartet, Holsclaw Hall; free. Call 621-1162, or visit arizona.tix. com for tickets or more information. RHYTHM AND ROOTS CONCERTS Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino. 2970 N. Swan Road, No. 147. 440-4455. Friday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m.: Western Swing Dance with Nashville’s Carolyn Martin and Way Out West; $18, $15 advance, $10 student. Saturday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m.: Incendio: Flamenco and Rumba Fusion; $18, $15 advance, $10 student. Call (800) 594-8499, or visit rhythmandroots.org for tickets. Call 319-9966 for more information. TUCSON ARIZONA MASS CHOIR St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. Under the direction of Dorothy Reid, A Celebration of Gospel Music commemorates Black History Month at 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; freewill donation. TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Saturday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 26, at 2 p.m.: Back in the Saddle Again! features the Bill Ganz Western Band; $25 to $78. Call 882-8585, or visit tucsonsymphony.org for tickets or more information. UA SYMPHONIC CHOIR Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. 327-6857. The choir performs One World, Many Voices, with guest artists the Saguaro High School choir, at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; free. UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. The Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra performs at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; $36 to $69. 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; $15, $6 younger than 17. Feb. 25 and 26: Carolyn Martin. Visit arizonafolklore.com for reservations and information about the folklore preserve and a schedule. DESERT VIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Desert View Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m.: Motown With Joe Bourne; $23. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets or info. SHOPPES AT LA POSADA Shoppes at La Posada. 665 S. Park Centre Ave. Green Valley. 648-7870. Concerts take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., every Saturday, through March 17; freewill donation. Proceeds benefit Valley Assistance Services. Feb. 25: Melody Louise Duo, jazz standards.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby opens Saturday, Feb. 25, and continues through Saturday, March 17. Showtimes vary; $31 to $56 plus fees, $10 student with ID. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org for tickets or 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, Feb. 25; and at 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3;

$39 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 and more information. ETCETERA Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Margaret Edson’s Wit opens with a preview on Thursday, Feb. 23, and continues through Saturday, March 10. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday preview; and 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $10. Visit etceteralatenight.com for more information. THE GLAMOUR OF BEING REAL Pima County Tucson Women’s Commission. 240 N. Court Ave. 624-8318. Joanna Frueh presents a performance of music, spontaneous lyrics and movement based on her book, The Glamour of Being Real, comprising 209 aphorisms about everyday life, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $5 suggested donation. Visit antigonebooks.com for more information. ILLEGITIMATE THEATRE ENSEMBLE On Feb. 25, 1545, a troupe of comic actors in Padua, Italy, signed legal documents to become the first incorporated theater company. The date is commemorated as Commedia dell’Arte Day. To celebrate, UA faculty and students, and professional actors and musicians don masks and perform music at noon, Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Alumni Plaza on the UA Mall, and at 2 p.m. at the Rogue Theatre, 300 E. University Blvd.; $5 suggested. THE PROSECUTION OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. A play by James Allison, emeritus professor at Indiana University, explains the origin of the concept that corporations have constitutional rights, at 12:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; free. A Q&A with the author follows. Call 305-4761 for more information. THE ROGUE THEATRE The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 551-2053. The New Electric Ballroom opens Thursday, Feb. 23, and continues through Sunday, March 11. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $30, $23 preview opening Thursday, $15 any other Thursday. Visit theroguetheatre.org for tickets and more information. TUCSON FRINGE THEATER FESTIVAL Five original productions written and performed by Tucson artists are presented from Friday, Feb. 24, through Sunday, Feb. 26. Venues are Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave; and Solar Culture Gallery, 31 E. Toole Ave. Showtimes are 7, 8:30 and 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 1:30, 3 and 4:30 p.m., Sunday; $10, $7 student each show. Tickets are available at Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave., or visit tucsonfringe.org for tickets, schedules and more info.

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UA THEATRE UA Marroney Theatre. 1025 N. Olive Road. 621-1162. Julius Caesar opens Sunday, Feb. 26, and runs through Sunday, March 25, in the Marroney Theatre. Dates and showtimes vary; $17 to $28. This Is Our Youth opens Thursday, March 1, and runs through Sunday, March 4, in the Directing Studio, Room 116, behind Marroney Theatre. Showtimes are 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $7. Visit arizona.tix.com for tickets; see cfa.arizona.edu for more information about the plays. UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. 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.

CONTINUING 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. 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, 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 information. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Shirley Valentine continues through Sunday, March 18. 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.

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PCC THEATRE ARTS PCC Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 2066986. The musical murder-mystery Curtains continues through Sunday, March 4, in the Proscenium Theatre. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $18. Patrons are encouraged to dress up as their favorite detective or suspect from a popular mystery story for the Thursday, Feb. 23, performance. Prizes are awarded at a reception with the cast. On Friday, Feb. 24, discounts are awarded to publicsafety officers and first responders. Call 206-6986, or visit pima.edu/cfa 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

LAST CHANCE BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! closes Sunday, Feb. 26. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $21. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets and more information. BORDERLANDS THEATER COMPANY ZUZI’s Theater. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 629-0237. Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Tale closes Sunday, Feb. 26. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $19.95, $17.75 senior, $10.75 student. Panel discussions take place at the 2 p.m., Sunday, matinee. Feb. 26: performers and director Barclay Goldsmith. Call 882-7406, or visit borderlandstheater.org for tickets or more information. FESTIVAL REPERTORY THEATRE Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Neil Simon’s Prisoner of Second Avenue closes Sunday, Feb. 26. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $15, senior, student and military. The musical-theater performance Love Is in the Air is staged at 10 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $10 or $20 including Prisoner of Second Avenue. Call 529-3829, or visit festivalrepertorytheatre.com for reservations or info. INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. The world premiere of Look Ma We’re Dancing closes Sunday, Feb. 26. Performances are at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $25. Call or visit invisibletheatre.com for more information. UA THEATRE UA Marroney Theatre. 1025 N. Olive Road. 621-1162. Necessary Targets, based on interviews with Bosnian women in the Yugoslavian Civil War, closes Sunday, Feb. 26, in the Tornabene Theatre at the Marroney Theatre. The play includes adult themes and violence. 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 more information about the plays. WAYPOINT THEATRE COMPANY Atria Bell Court Garden. 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. 8863600. Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie closes Sunday, Feb. 26. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday; and 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $12 to $20. Visit brownpapertickets.com for tickets or info.

UPCOMING ODYSSEY STORYTELLING UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. Six storytellers share tales from their lives on the theme (Neither) Here Nor There: Stories from Life in the Borderlands, at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 1; free. Call 730-4112, or visit storyartsgroup.org to sign up or get more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ACTORS Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Auditions are held at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27, for a production of Belles Dames Sans Merci that will be staged Friday and Saturday, April 13 through 21. Resume and headshots are preferred. Call or email theatre@beowulfalley.org for more information.

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PERFORMING ARTS Carlisle Ellis triumphs again in LTW’s quietly revolutionary ‘Shirley Valentine’

Bored Housewife No More BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com ive Theatre Workshop produced Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine in the summer of 2009. It was so popular that the company has revived the one-woman show for a full run, bringing back Carlisle Ellis in the title role. At first blush, Shirley Valentine might seem like more of a hard sell than a crowd-pleaser. Russell’s play (written and first produced in the 1980s) features a bored, middle-age British woman, Shirley, talking to her closest confidante, the wall (in other words, the audience) about her life. Puttering about her kitchen, Shirley debates the one big conflict that seems to have arisen in her life: whether to go on a trip to Greece. Shirley’s speech is marked by lower-middleclass British expressions (she makes “chips and egg” for her husband’s “tea”), and her life has been, by her own estimation, disappointing. (“Marriage is like the Middle East, isn’t it?” Shirley posits. “There’s no solution.”) If you’re unfamiliar with the play, you might wonder how the ramblings of a Manchester housewife are going to keep a contemporary American audience’s attention for an entire evening. Yet from the beginning, Russell’s onewoman play has been a hit. The play ran on the West End in London and then won a 1989 Tony after moving to Broadway. Also in 1989, it was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film. And, as the success of LTW’s productions attest, the play continues to be beloved. Clearly, much depends on who is chosen as the play’s sole actor. Ellis earned raves for her previous turn in the role, and she doesn’t disappoint the second time around. Under director Sabian Trout’s sharp eye, Ellis creates not only the character of Shirley, but also the people in her life. When Shirley speaks about her husband, or her daughter, or her nosy neighbor, Ellis adopts a whole new voice and persona, physically moving back and forth to enact the conversation. As a result, the play feels peopled with a variety of characters; it’s easy to forget that you never actually meet Shirley’s husband, Joe, or her best friend, Jane, in the flesh. Though Ellis’ accent wobbles occasionally, she convincingly catches the rhythms of British speech. She also manages to find the universality in Shirley’s salty observations and laments. Despite the thick layer of British-isms and British pop-cultural references in the script (Shirley talks about making a Horlicks drink for her daughter, and about watching a commercial for Milk Tray chocolates), the humor and warmth of the character come

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Carlisle Ellis as the title character in Shirley Valentine. across unimpeded. LTW’s resident designers, Richard and Amanda Gremel, have once again created a set so pretty that you will wish you could move in permanently. In Act 1, Shirley cooks in a tealand-white kitchen, opening and closing beautiful, realistic-looking cupboards and kitchen appliances. In fact, a prominent theme of the play is how stifled Shirley feels in her life; perhaps the kitchen should have been made less-appealing. I kept getting distracted from sympathy for Shirley’s plight by full-bore envy of her kitchen counter space. In Act 2, Shirley’s transplantation to Greece is achieved by simply covering the set discreetly in white sheets. (I would feel bad about spoiling this plot point about the Greek trip— if it weren’t spoiled in the program.) Costume- and props-designer Linda Trout does a similarly subtle and effective job of transforming Shirley in Act 2 by loosening Ellis’ hair, and dressing her in sunglasses and tighter-fitting, brighter-colored clothing. The Shirley of Act 2 has literally and metaphorically “let her hair down” in Greece. However, this total life transformation is hard to buy. The sunny European vacation as a means of sexual and spiritual awakening is a well-worn cliché, and the fact that Russell has Shirley reflect on what a cliché it is doesn’t let the play entirely off the hook. Although I didn’t totally swallow the play’s

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feel-good ending, I didn’t worry about it too much, either. The second act is much shorter than the first, and feels more like a coda to the longer and more-complex first act, in which Shirley frets about whether to take the vacation at all. In a sense, it doesn’t really matter what happens to Shirley in Greece. What matters is that she makes a decision to do something for herself—to grab a piece of life while she can. “Because we don’t do what we want to do, do we?” Shirley says. “We do what we have to do, and pretend that it’s what we want to do.” Shirley Valentine shows us a woman finally deciding to do something she wants to do, and one can’t help but be cheered by this quietly revolutionary act. Add Ellis’ charismatic performance and Trout’s efficient direction, and an evening of listening to a bored British housewife speeds delightfully by.

VISUAL ARTS A timely installation at MOCA examines the weapons of the drug trade

Glorious Guns BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com arlier this month, Mexican President Felipe Calderón made a showy stop in Ciudad Juárez, the violent city just south of the Texas border. Calderón stood next to the international line and made a plea in English to his neighbors al norte, begging them to stop the flow of American guns south into Mexico. “Dear friends in the United States,” he said, according to The Associated Press, “Mexico needs your help to stop this terrible violence we are suffering.” Law-enforcement officials believe that a majority of the guns that fall into the hands of the narcotraficantes come from Texas and Arizona, where the laws are lax, and weapons are easily had. These American weapons have played a part in the slaughter of some 50,000 people in the Mexican drug wars over the last five years. There’s nothing romantic about this deadly trade, but in Plata o Plomo (Silver or Lead), a timely art installation at MOCA Tucson, Texas artist Camp Bosworth examines the narcos’ romance with the gun. Lovingly carved golden guns the size of men preside in the museum gallery, alongside giant rifles, machine guns and bullets that are gorgeously tricked out. A huge gold-chain necklace, wads of carved hundred-dollar bills and bottles of tequila catalog the rewards of the narco trade. A painting of a lonely country graveyard illustrates its tragedies. The guns may come from the U.S., but they do their bloody work in Mexico, and Bosworth crafts his art weapons using Mexico folkloric techniques. Many of the motifs— death heads, snakes, jaguars and eagles—come straight out of Aztec art. Artisans along the border and points south are renowned for fine metalworking and carving, and Bosworth’s big guns are similarly beautifully made. “Plata o Plomo,” 2011, the exhibition’s title piece, may be the biggest gun of all, at about 9 feet long and 4 feet high. There’s not a trace of metal anywhere on it; it’s crafted entirely by Bosworth’s own hand out of wood, paint, gold leaf and mirror. The entire gun is carved in intricate bas-relief, with plant patterns interspersed with grinning skulls. A skeletal head sits atop the gun; an eagle head is at its rear, and a snake sinews its way all along the barrel. The whole thing glows gold and silver. A briefcase stashed with cash and bullets is equally beautiful and equally well-made. “Somethin’s Goin’ Down,” 2011, is enormous; the case is about 6 feet long and 4 feet wide, and the propped-up lid stands up another 4

“Mi Vida Loca,” 2009, carved and painted wood, gold leaf and mirror, by Camp Bosworth. feet. The briefcase has a lovely silver shine on The two paintings are the most explicit of the outside, gold on the inside. Carved wads of the 10 pieces in the installation. These cleverly $100 bills (painted with little portraits of a made works—thin slabs of layered and painted pink-faced Benjamin Franklin) are stacked wood—show us the beginning and the end of inside, underneath still another gun and a the business. “Cash Crop—Maiz de Especial” half-dozen gold and silver bullets. The inside depicts a marijuana field in the picturesque of the lid is elaborately carved in still another Mexican countryside. A blue sky, fluffy clouds bas-relief of decorative swirls; a Day of the and distant mountains on the horizon are the Dead skull is at the center. backdrop to a lush, green field luxuriant with “Mi Vida Loca,” 2009, is also finely crafted. the pointed-leaf plants. A couple of men are One side is a carved golden gun; the far side harvesting the crop. It all seems innocent, a opens up to reveal a mirrored glass bar, filled picture of blameless rural labor. with golden cocktail glasses and tequila bottles. The companion piece, “Cementerio Pelon,” What’s the point of all the beauty and precishows the graveyard, planted in a stark desert. sion in these representations of deadly weapStrewn over a hillside are graves: Here lie the ons? Exhibition notes describe the installation dead of the drug wars. as a visual corrido, a paint-and-wood version A second, more-disjointed show displays of the borderlands ballads that lionize the the work of Tucson native Armando Miguélez. heroics of the narcotraficantes. And like those While Bosworth’s installation occupies the songs, these artworks can be bouncy and fun, large and handsome Great Hall, Miguélez’s as odd as that sounds. They’ve got cleverness Legislate Crazy is dispersed into a warren of to spare, from the ingenious combination lock small back galleries. This arrangement makes carved onto the briefcase, to the huge golden a certain kind of sense. The artist has lived all necklace that dangles from the ceiling. The around the world, and his work conjures up charm attached to this “Narco Bling (Ballad of his “scattered … personal geography.” Graphic Chalino Sanchez)” is a golden dollar sign. prints of skyscrapers and airport layouts (the But unlike the corridos, Bosworth’s work kind you find in airline magazines) evoke his demystifies the deviltry of the drug dealers, or restless voyages through distant airports and so he hopes. “I don’t think I’m romanticizing cities around the globe. narco culture or power,” he says in a written But the show also looks at our heavily fortistatement. “I am working through it.” fied local border, the polar opposite of that That message is not as clear as he would free-flowing international travel. Not only like, but it’s true that by magnifying these does the manmade barrier interrupt physical objects of the drug trade, Bosworth subjects crossings; it clamps down on identity and them to our scrutiny. The bullets and skulls invades privacy. writ large are vivid reminders of the harvest of One room is filled with what look like floatdeath, caused in large part by our nation’s ing elephants in pink plaster—but they’re not appetite for drugs, not to mention those guns that benign. These pieces, “Alcancias,” reprethat Calderón complained about. sent Tethered Aerostat Radar Systems, or

Camp Bosworth: Plata o Plomo Armando Miguélez: Legislate Crazy Open noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday, through Friday, March 30 MOCA 265 S. Church Ave. $8; free to members, youth younger than 17, veterans, military and public-safety officers; free to all on the first Sunday of each month 624-5019; www.moca-tucson.org Also: From 3 to 5 p.m., Fridays, museum-goers can get their picture taken with a Miguélez sign; the photos will become part of the exhibition

TARS, security devices that cast Big Brother’s eye on la frontera. Elsewhere, placards fill a hallway with vaguely political slogans: “No Nos Entenderán Si Hablemos Español (They Won’t Understand Us If We Speak Spanish),” and, “No One Is From Tucson.” Taken together, these disparate works don’t add up to more than a sketchy meditation on the border. Still, even that has some value— and Miguélez has one work that’s both visually satisfying and metaphorically meaningful. “Golden Line” is a big swath of dark-green cloth with a hand-embroidered water tower at its center. The name of the border town Calexico is stitched across the tank. That name—half California, half Mexico—has always evoked for me all that the border is and could be: a passageway instead of a barrier, a portal instead of a barricade, and a conduit between two cross-fertilizing cultures that happily collide and combine. FEBRUARY 23 - 29, 2012

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ART OPENING THIS WEEK RODEO DAYS SOUTHWEST ARTISTS SHOW Bates Mansion. 283 N. Stone Ave. 907-7325. Works by 32 artists, including paintings, jewelry, photography, furniture, glass art, sculpture, garden art and more, are featured from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25, at an event that includes live music, food trucks and wine for sale; free admission. THE STUDENT ADDY EXHIBITION Art Institute of Tucson. 5099 E. Grant Road. 318-2700. An exhibition of work that students submitted to the Tucson Advertising Federation’s Annual Addy Awards competition opens with a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, and continues through Saturday, March 24. Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; free.

CONTINUING 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 continues through Friday, March 30. 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. BENTLEY’S HOUSE OF COFFEE AND TEA Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea. 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. An exhibit of new work by painter and printmaker Wil Taylor continues through Thursday, March 15. Hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit wiltaylor.com for more information. 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, 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.

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., continues through Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit thedrawingstudio.com for more information.

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD GALLERY Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery. 5605 E. River Road, Suite 131. Experimental and Innovative Works in Water Media continues through Sunday, March 4. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free.

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, 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 information.

TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Exhibit Hall. Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Arizona Centennial Exhibit 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 valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5. Visit tohonochulpark.org.

FLORENCE QUATER GALLERY Southwest University of Visual Arts’ Florence Quater Gallery. 2538 N. Country Club Road. 325-0123. Transmission, an exhibit of diverse approaches to the video medium, continues through Thursday, March 22. An artists’ reception takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. FLUXX STUDIO AND GALLERY Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. An exhibit of paintings by Michelle Stuttgen closes Saturday, March 3. An artist’s reception takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24; free. Viewing is by appointment. Visit fluxxproductionsstudioandgallery. tumblr.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. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. Visit georgestrasburger.com for more information. INDUSTRIA STUDIOS Industria Studios. 1441 E. 17th St. 235-0797. The Artists of Industria, featuring paintings and sculpture by Marc David Leviton and fusion modeling by Brian Carlton, continues through Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Hours are by appointment.

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.

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, continues through Friday, March 9. 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. Visit pima.edu/cfa for more information.

CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195. 622-8997. A reception takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, March 3, for The Seventh Annual Encaustic Invitational, which continues through Saturday, March 31. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free. Visit conradwildegallery.com.

MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Diana Madaras’ “Flowers for Susan” and other floral paintings are featured 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.

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 End of Time, abstract sculpture by Barbara Jo McLaughlin, continue 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.

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, continues through Saturday, April 28. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more info.

DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 2999191. 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.

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, continues through Thursday, May 31. 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, free younger child, $12.75 senior, military, Pima County resident and AAA member. Visit pimaair.org.

DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Painted Spring, an exhibit of pieces in a range of media by a variety of local artists and artisans, continues through Sunday, June 3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Visit desertartisansgallery.com. DETAILS ART AND DESIGN GALLERY Details Art and Design. 3001 E. Skyline Drive, No. 139. 577-1995. The Purse Museum, an exhibit of antique to contemporary purses and handbags that represent unique styles and designs, continues through Friday, April 20; free. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday. Visit thepursemuseum.com for more information.

THE PROCESS MUSEUM The Process Museum. 8000 S. Kolb Road. (646) 7139793. David A. Clark: The Point, featuring the artist’s newest series of monoprint encaustic paintings, continues through Wednesday, April 18. Hours are from 10 a.m. to noon, every Tuesday and Thursday. Visit processmuseum.org 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.

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. Journey West: Elliptical Stories, Tom Kiefer’s exhibit of black-and-white photographs of Arizona road scapes, continues through Saturday, March 31, in the Main Gallery between the Southwest and Delta Airlines ticket counters. TIA galleries are open 24 hours, daily; free. Visit flytucsonairport.com for info. 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. 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. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. An exhibit of collages, watercolors and oils by local artists Marie Miller and Doreen Graver continues through Sunday, March 4; free. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, and Tuesday through Friday. ZOË BOUTIQUE Zoë Boutique. 735 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1201. Peep Show, an exhibit of paintings and drawings by local artists employing diverse media and techniques, continues through Monday, April 30; free.

LAST CHANCE AGUA CALIENTE RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Our Arizona, an exhibit of 15 art quilts celebrating Arizona’s centennial, closes 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.

and portraits both humorous and serious, closes Tuesday, Feb. 28. Hours are by appointment; free. Visit frontroom105.wordpress.com for more information. JANE HAMILTON FINE ART Jane Hamilton Fine Art. 2890 E. Skyline Drive, No. 180. 529-4886. Along the High Road, an exhibit of whimsical new plein-air work by Leigh Gusterson, closes Tuesday, Feb. 28. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit janehamiltonfineart.com. JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. In celebration of Arizona’s centennial, Etherton Gallery displays Wish You Were Here, an exhibit of vintage Tucson postcards, through Wednesday, Feb. 29; free. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. Call 791-4010 for more information. 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, closes Friday, Feb. 24. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. PORTER HALL GALLERY Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Tracy Ledbetter: Bugs and Blooms closes 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, closes 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. Visit thequantumartgallery.com for more information. 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, closes 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 info. 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, closes Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment. TUCSON CONTEMPORARY ARTS Tucson Contemporary Arts. 439 N. Sixth Ave, No. 171. 622-8997. David A. Clark: Inside Out, an exhibit of encaustic monoprint T-shirts, closes Saturday, Feb. 25; free. Visit tucsoncontemporaryarts.org for more info.

ART GALLERY Art Gallery. 1122 N. Stone Ave. 624-7099, 405-5800. The Valentine Show, representing artists’ interpretations of love in jewelry and art, closes Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and by appointment; free.

UA MEDICAL CENTER SOUTH CAMPUS UA Medical Center South Campus. 2800 E. Ajo Way. 874-2000. Healing in Tucson: The Healing Response to the Violence of January 8, 2011 closes 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.

ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. An exhibit of works on paper closes Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; free.

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CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. A fatherand-son exhibit, Art in Clouds by Frank Rose and Art in Construction by Owen Rose, closes Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit contrerashousefineart.com for more info. 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, closes Saturday, Feb. 25. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. ESPRESSO ART CAFÉ Espresso Art Café. 942 E. University Blvd. 404-6515. Capturing Syncretism: An Artist’s Dialogue With Nature, featuring photographs of the Appalachian Trail by Rachel Julia Chapman, closes Tuesday, Feb. 28; free. Hours are 7 a.m. to midnight, daily. THE FRONT ROOM GALLERY The Front Room Gallery. 105 W. Fifth St. (406) 6249792. Paula Wittner: 9 Paintings, an exhibit of vignettes

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. Except when meetings are in progress, hours are 8 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 5 p.m., daily; free. 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 PORTER HALL GALLERY Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Barbara Smith: Landforms and

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Lepidoptera, an exhibition of colorful paintings, opens Thursday, March 1, and continues through Sunday, April 8. Gallery admission is free with paid admission to the gardens. Regular hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., every day; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

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 continues 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 info. CENTENNIAL QUILT EXHIBITION Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. 100 Years: 100 Quilts continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. Quilts created for the centennial depict Arizona landscapes, cultures, historical places and unique events. The official Arizona Centennial Commemorative Quilt is featured through Saturday, March 3, after which it will tour the state. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, $4 senior or ages 12 through 18, free younger child. 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, 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 Friday, March 30. As part of the exhibit, museum visitors of all ages are invited to interact and have their photo taken with a sign from Legislate Crazy. The photos will be installed as part of the exhibit. Camp Bosworth’s Plata o Plomo, which interprets the Marfa artist’s perceptions of gangster culture in the Americas, also runs through Friday, March 30. 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. RAPTOR FREE-FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Free-flight demonstrations showcase the natural behavior of native birds of prey at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., daily, through Sunday, April 15, weather permitting; $13, $4.25 ages 6 to 12, free child younger than 6, includes admission to the museum. Visit desertmuseum.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; Frida’s Style: Traditional Women’s Costume From Mexico; and Tesoros del Pueblo: Latin American Folk Art, featuring many items from the museum’s permanent collection, continue through Sunday, June 3. (con)text, an exhibit of works from the permanent collection that examine the impact of text in contemporary art, continues through Saturday, June 30. 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.

WORKS IN PROGRESS: JOAN JULIET BUCK MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Writer and social critic Joan Juliet Buck shares a series of performative monologues from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, March 8 and April 12; $10, $5 member. Visit moca-tucson.org for more information.

OUT OF TOWN TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Unless otherwise noted, events are free with admission to the park; $4, $2 youth age 7 to 13, free child. Friday, Feb. 24, at 10:30 p.m.: a walking tour of Old Town Tubac. Encounters: A Native American Ethnic Costume Exhibit, a glimpse into the lives of the Yaqui, Seri, Tohono O’odham and Yuma people via costumes from the Castañeda Museum of Ethnic Costume of Tucson, closes Sunday, Feb. 26. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily. Visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more info.

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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 discussions 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. 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.

100 YEARS, 100 POETS, 100 POEMS Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. To commemorate Arizona’s centennial, Stuart Watkins and Hawkeye Watkins assembled a collection of poems by living Arizona poets, some of whom will join them in reading their work from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free.

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PAMELA HALE: FLYING LESSONS Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Pamela Hale discusses her book Flying Lessons: How to Be the Pilot of Your Own Life, in which she draws life lessons from her experience as a pilot, at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24; free. Refreshments and a Q&A follow. UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Presentations are at 7 p.m.; free. Friday, Feb. 24: Daniyal Mueenuddin reads from his book of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Call or visit poetry.arizona.edu for more information. VOICES FROM ARIZONA’S PAST UA 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, continues through Saturday, March 31. 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 info about UA tributes to Arizona’s centennial.

UPCOMING GUY MCPHERSON: WALKING AWAY FROM EMPIRE Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Guy McPherson discusses his book Walking Away From Empire: A Personal Journey, about how he transformed his life and became a social critic, at 7 p.m., Friday, March 2; free. Refreshments and a Q&A follow. MOCA BOOK CLUB MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. The intersection between art and politics is the topic of four books the club covers in 2012. Meetings are from 5:30 to 6:30

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p.m., selected Thursdays; $10, $5 member, includes wine. March 1: The Selling of the President, Joe McGinniss. NATIONAL POETRY-OUT-LOUD SOUTHERN ARIZONA REGIONAL FINALS UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. High school students give dramatic readings of poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 1; free. Political cartoonist David Fitzsimmons hosts, and winners proceed to the state finals competitions. Visit poetry.arizona.edu.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 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 selection for Feb. 23 is Bill Bryson’s Heart and Soul. SCIENCE-FICTION BOOK CLUB Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. A science-fiction book club meets from 7 to 8 p.m., the fourth Tuesday of every month. Visit www.orovalleylib.com for a schedule of titles.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ARTHRITIS CONVERSATIONS LUNCHEON Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. Gout specialist Dr. Peter Simkin presents “Synovial Joints: The Best of All Bearings” at a luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; $45, $35 member of the Arizona Arthritis Center Friends. The lecture is in honor of the late Eva Holtby, who established the Friends. CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CULTURE SINCE 1980 MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Paul Ivey hosts a series of lectures in a salon-like setting with wine and snacks at 6:30 p.m. on selected Wednesdays; $15, $10 member. Feb. 29: “Act Up: Art and Activism.” DESERT WILDFLOWERS Valencia Branch, Tucson-Pima Public Library. 202 W. Valencia Road. 594-5390. Environmental educator Meg Quinn discusses the wildflowers that can be expected following Tucson’s winter rainfall, from 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; free. GERMAN JESUIT MISSIONARIES AS FOUNDERS OF SONORA/ARIZONA Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Albrecht Classen discusses the relatively greater influence the Jesuit order had in the Arizona/Sonora region compared to that of Spanish colonizers, from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27; free. GRIZZLIES IN THE RINCONS Saguaro National Park East. 3693 S. Old Spanish Trail. 733-5153. Park Ranger Christopher Morris talks about historical and biological evidence that grizzly bears lived in the Rincon Mountains as recently as the 1920s, at 3 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27; $10 park admission fee. HUMAN TRAFFICKING Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. 1200 N. Campbell Ave. 327-6521. City Councilmember Steve Kozachik joins the Rev. Mary Jacobs, president of the Christian Women’s Fellowship, to discuss human trafficking, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; free. JUAN COLE: ARAB SPRING ONE YEAR LATER Marriott University Park. 880 E. Second St. 792-4100. A regular guest on the PBS NewsHour and many other well-known national news programs, Juan Cole reviews the political and social changes in the Arab World and considers what they mean to workers, women, intellectuals and businesses in the region, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; free. Call 626-3846 for more information. The lecture is presented by the UA School of Anthropology and sponsored by Adib and Vivi Sabbagh. 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. PAUL OWENS: THE ORIGINAL DOG WHISPERER Tucson Medical Center Marshall Auditorium. 5301 E. Grant Road. Paul Owens, author of The Dog Whisperer: A Compassionate Nonviolent Approach to Dog Training,

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BOOKS ‘Unspeakable Violence’ examines border horrors— and the forgetfulness that accompanies such violence

Tough Truths t’s been 100 years since Arizona joined the union, a fact celebrated with all the memorials, speeches and birthday parties that one would expect from the proud population that hacked this grand civilization out of an arid wilderness formerly inhabited by nothing but wolves and brown people. Well done! The far right in Phoenix is doing its best to create a haven here for rich folks to play out their Ayn Rand fantasies while holding on tight to the core Christian values of capital and power. Just in time to mark this historic anniversary, an informative installation about famous Arizona crimes and punishments appeared recently on the first floor of the Superior Court building downtown. Visitors standing around waiting for their orders of protection to go through can read all about the many colorful rapscallions who have made this land so storied and interesting over the years, including the largely nameless coalition of men who perpetrated the Camp Grant Indian massacre of 1871. It just so happened that I saw this installation while deep into UA professor Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández’s Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries, a dense study of borderland violence—and the convenient historical forgetting that often attends it. This shameful episode in Arizona history, in which a gang of Anglo, Mexican and Tohono O’odham men killed, raped and mutilated more than 100 Aravaipa and Pinal Apaches—nearly all of them unarmed women and children—reveals much about how Mexicans and Tohono O’odham actors saw themselves within the Anglo-controlled capitalist system, according to Guidotti-Hernández. The massacre, mostly planned by Anglo community leaders, was largely carried out by non-Anglos. The main murderers were Mexicans and O’odham, although the episode today is often depicted as a battle between Apaches and Anglos. As Guidotti-Hernández points out, the mass murder was nothing less than an act of community-building. “Spilling the blood of Aravaipa and Pinal Apache women and children aligned Anglos, Mexicanos and Tohono O’odham … with the territorial government of Arizona in an act of ritualized, state-sanctioned violence,” she writes. Over the years, the massacre has taken on different meanings to the various cultures that joined in its violence. In most retellings, the

TOP TEN Antigone Books’ best-sellers for the week ending Feb. 17, 2012 1. Arizona: A History (Revised Edition)

BY TIM HULL, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

Thomas E. Sheridan, University of Arizona ($26.95)

Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries By Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández

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

Duke University

Tom Zoellner, Viking ($26.95)

400 pages, $94.95 (cloth), $25.95 (paperback)

teller generally chooses whether to call the event a “massacre” or a “raid” depending on his or her worldview, according to GuidottiHernández. The panel at the courthouse calls it a massacre. It mentions that some of the Apache children not beaten to death were sold into slavery. It admits that three cultures, not just the popularly evil Anglos, were responsible for the outrage. It would seem, then, that we have come a long way toward acknowledging the horror and complexity of the massacre. But, of course, it is not true that we have come a long way, and our continued, willful forgetfulness is revealed in the fact that most of the space allotted for the massacre on the courthouse panel is taken up with justifications for the violence, including the “lack of law and order” in the territory at the time, and the anemic response to Apache predations by the federal government. I suspect that this book will make waves in the world of Chicano/a studies, as it takes that field—largely illegal now in Arizona—to task for its insular post-colonialism and its obsession with “nationalism’s seductive remedies.” Guidotti-Hernández finds that Chicano/a scholars have sometimes inadvertently repeated the forgetfulness of the dominant culture in their rage for resistance through “nationalist agendas centered around political familialism, morality and heteronormativity.” Her larger theme traces “the failure to archive a subaltern version of history” through five long, exceedingly well-researched chapters, marred only by her commitment to turgid academic prose. She shows how different writers and historians, including Chicano/a scholars, have treated and used the story of the public lynching of an anonymous Mexican woman in California during the gold rush, and discovers the motives—capitalist and otherwise—behind the attempted extermination of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora by the Mexican state. It is impossible, of course, to wrangle such a wide-ranging and intelligent study into a few easy quips, and to attempt to do so would go against the notion that Guidotti-Hernández’s examples of borderland violence reveal a complexity in Arizona’s and Mexico’s culture and history for which many historians, let alone politicians, don’t always like to account.

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7. Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, University of Arizona ($24.95)

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SARA MILES WEEKEND AT ST. PHILIP’S St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak, leads a workshop titled “Bread of Heaven and Daily Bread” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $20 includes materials and lunch. Scholarships and child care are available. Miles also leads a discussion at 10:15 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 26, in the Murphey Gallery; free. Call 299-6421, ext. 44. SPECIALTY BIRDS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. 3482 E. River Road. 877-6154. Rick Taylor, founder of Borderland Tours and author of the new Birds of Southeastern Arizona Photo Field Guide, discusses the birds that attract birders to our region, from 9 to 10 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29; free. Reservations are required; call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more info.

OUT OF TOWN ALLEN DART: ANCIENT INDIAN ARTS Quail Creek Country Club. 2055 E. Quail Crossing Blvd. Green Valley. 393-5834. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center director Allen Dart presents “A Leap Year Look at Southern Arizona’s Ancient Indian Arts” from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29; $3. Call 529-3442, or email hglusk@msn.com for information. ARIZONA: A HISTORY Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Thomas Sheridan, author of Arizona: A History, Revised Edition gives an illustrated presentation at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25; $5. He signs his book in the visitors’ center at 2 p.m.; free. Visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information. ODD COUPLE: PADRE FONT AND CAPTAIN ANZA Joyner-Green Valley Branch, Pima County Public Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Docents from Tumacácori wear period costumes and discuss the fiery relationship Capt. Juan Bautista de Anza shared with Chaplain Pedro Font in 1775 when the pair led several hundred settlers to colonize San Francisco, from 2 to 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23; free. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION BOOKSTORE Western National Parks Association Bookstore. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Aaron Plump discusses the Buffalo Soldiers, from their beginnings in Kansas, to their role in shaping Southwest history, at noon and 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25. Lori Hines shares her experiences as an investigator in archaeology and the paranormal, and signs her book The Ancient Ones, at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29. Lectures are free, but reservations are required; call between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for directions or more information. WOODY TASCH: INVESTING AS IF FOOD, FARMS AND FERTILITY MATTERED Elgin Community Club. Elgin Road and Elgin Canelo Road. Elgin. Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money, leads a workshop titled “Investing as If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered” from 1 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28; $30. Gary Paul Nabhan of the UA’s Southwest Center for Food and Water Security moderates a panel of Santa Cruz County food and wine producers. Visit investlocallyaz.eventbrite.com for tickets or more info.

UPCOMING DENI SEYMOUR: GERONIMO’S WIKIUP Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Archaeologist Deni Seymour presents “Geronimo’s Wikiup: Archaeological Perspectives on the Cañon de los Embudos Surrender Site” from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 1; free. MARY VIRGINIA SWANSON: ANSEL ADAMS Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. Mary Virginia Swanson, who worked closely with Ansel Adams, presents “Ansel Adams: Advocate for American Photography” in the auditorium at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 1; free. Visit centerforcreativephotography.org for more information. WOMEN IMPACTING TUCSON Manning House. 450 W. Paseo Redondo. 770-0714. Dr. Imam Hakim, dean of the UA’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, speaks at a luncheon from 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, March 5; $25, $20 with a reservation by Thursday, March 1. Call the Manning House for reservations and more info.

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CINEMA Nicolas Cage goes bonkers—not in a good way—in this terrible ‘Ghost Rider’ sequel

Devilishly Lame BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com ive years ago, when the original Ghost Rider came out, I gave the milquetoast film a somewhat fair review, asking Marvel to “get sicker with the sequel.” Now we have the sequel—and, not surprisingly, the folks at Marvel didn’t follow my “get sicker” suggestion. If the original was milquetoast, this one is more like Melba toast soaked in sour milk, tossed to the floor and mushed by an angry little girl wearing Minnie Mouse shoes. In other words: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is one wimpy, cheap-looking movie. Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze, a cartoon character who is having a very hard time translating to the big screen. The first film was an origin story, establishing the fact that Blaze sold his soul to the devil. This one picks up a few years down the road with Blaze not adjusting well to the life of a guy whose head occasionally explodes into flames. He’s hiding out in Eastern Europe, has let his hair grow out and—because he is being played by Nicolas Cage—suffers from crazy mood swings. Because this movie involves Satan, it has to feature some kid who is going to be sacrificed, right? That kid is Danny, played by Natalie Portman lookalike Fergus Riordan. He and his mom, Nadya (Violante Placido), are running away from the devil, played by Ciarán Hinds (who replaces the original film’s Peter Fonda). He wants to use Danny as a human vessel, because the Ciarán Hinds vessel presumably has disturbingly high cholesterol numbers and a bit of the gout. There’s some dude named Moreau (Idris Elba) who looks to protect Danny, and eventually calls upon Johnny Blaze for a little help. For some reason or another, Moreau seems to have the power to restore Blaze’s soul, so he makes a deal to return the soul if Blaze assists. The deal is made, and Cage goes into shrieking-weirdo overdrive. This story calls for a straight-up, hardcore R rating, but Marvel seems too afraid to take the Ghost Rider into the dark territory the character deserves. Instead, we’re getting weak, PG-13 installments, with a confusedlooking Cage delivering some of his worst work. The first Ghost Rider had some nice production values behind it. While it looked good, it surrounded Cage with subpar actors (Eva Mendes, Fonda, freaking Wes Bentley) and covered his head with a lousy hairpiece. At the very least, it had something resembling

Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

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TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Feb. 19, 2012 1. Drive Sony

2. The Rum Diary FilmDistrict

3. In Time 20th Century Fox

4. 50/50 Summit

5. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 Summit

6. Take Shelter Sony 7. Anonymous Sony

8. The Thing Universal

9. A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas Warner Bros.

10. Dream House a coherent story, and Cage had a reasonable level of control over his performance. This time out, it’s as if directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor realized they had a dud on their hands and told Cage to go into psycho/Bad Lieutenant mode to attract his diehard fans. This results in random scenes of Cage doing his patented cuckoo act, something that can be amusing, but is odd and out of place when poorly directed. Here, it’s definitely odd and out of place. An offshoot of Marvel called Marvel Knights, a company focusing on “darker” Marvel stories, produced the film. Vengeance was put together for far less money than the original, and it shows. The lousy Punisher: War Zone, and now this, give Marvel Knights a pretty lousy record. So far, it seems that Marvel Knights is an excuse to do lousy films with lower budgets—movies that would go direct to video if they didn’t have Marvel characters at their centers. The lower budget is evident in the art direction. There is one slight improvement over the prior film: The flaming skull now has a charred, smoky appearance rather than the oddly clean, white skull from the first film. It’s a little creepier. Blink, and you will miss Christopher Lambert (Highlander’s Connor MacLeod!) as a priest dude with writing all over his face. Pretty-boy Johnny Whitworth plays ruthless nasty-guy Ray,

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Universal

Rated PG-13 Starring Nicolas Cage, Ciarán Hinds and Idris Elba Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor Columbia, 95 minutes Now playing at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-326-3264, 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).

hired by the devil to find the kid; he’s eventually transformed into one of the dumbest-looking movie monsters ever. It’s a little surprising to see Ghost Rider get such a shoddy sequel. While the original was not a critical favorite, it had a worldwide gross of more than $225 million on a $110 million budget. The sequel’s budget was a little more than half of the original—five years later. It’s like they set this thing up to fail—and it certainly has, at least on a filmmaking level. It looks awful and plays out horribly, like many recent Cage vehicles. You have the option of seeing the film in 3-D, but I would suggest the option of not seeing Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance at all.

Justin Timberlake in In Time.

FILM TIMES Film times reflect the most current listings available as of Tuesday evening, with screenings beginning on Friday for most opening titles. As schedules at individual theaters frequently change post-press, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.

AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. 2012 Best Picture Showcase (Not Rated) Sat 11 Act of Valor (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sun 10:30, 11:30, 1:10, 2:15, 3:45, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:10; Mon-Wed 11:30, 1:10, 2:15, 3:45, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:10 Big Miracle (PG) ends Thu 11, 4:15, 9:35 Chronicle (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:25, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:15; Fri-Wed 3, 5:10, 7:40, 10 The Descendants (R) ends Thu 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 3:30, 8:30; Fri 2:10, 7:10; Sat 1, 5:50, 10:45; Sun-Wed 2:10, 7:10 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) Thu 10, 12:25, 1:10, 2:45, 5:15, 6, 7:45, 10:15; Fri 10:35, 11:45, 1, 3:25, 4:35, 5:50, 8:15, 9:35, 10:45; Sat 10:05, 3:25, 4:05, 8:15, 10:05; Sun 10:35, 11:45, 1, 3:25, 4:35, 5:50, 8:15, 9:35, 10:45; Mon-Wed 11:45, 1, 3:25, 4:35, 5:50, 8:15, 9:35, 10:45 Gone (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri 10:25, 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:25; Sat-Sun 10:25, 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:30; Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:30 The Grey (R) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10; Fri-Wed 10:20 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 10:15, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40; Fri-Sun 10, 12:30; Mon-Wed 12:30 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island—An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:25, 2, 4:25, 7, 9:30 One for the Money (PG13) ends Thu 1:30, 7:20 Red Tails (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:55, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:50, 4:45, 7:35 Safe House (R) Thu-Wed 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Thu 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:35, 5, 7:20, 9:45 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 10:05, 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05; Sat 1:05, 7:05; Sun 10:05, 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05; Mon-Wed 1:05,

4:05, 7:05, 10:05 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:20, 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 The Vow (PG-13) Thu-Sun 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:35; Mon-Wed 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:35 Wanderlust (R) 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 The Woman in Black (PG-13) ends Thu 10:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55

Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Call for Fri-Wed film times Academy Award Nominated Animated Short Films (Not Rated) opens Fri Academy Award Nominated Live-Action Short Films (Not Rated) opens Fri Act of Valor (R) Fri 12:01 a.m., 12:05 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies (Not Rated) Tue 7:30 The Artist (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Best Picture and Best Director Festival 2012 (Not Rated) Sat 12:15 Best Shorts Festival 2012 (Not Rated) Fri 12:30, 4:15, 8 Chronicle (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 1:30, 3:45, 6, 8:10, 10:35 The Descendants (R) Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 12:30, 1:15, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8, 8:45, 9:45, 10:30 Gone (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m. The Grey (R) ends Thu 2:35, 8:30 Hugo (PG) ends Thu 11:40 The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 1, 3:25 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 5:50, 7:05, 8:15, 9:35 The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani—Live (Not Rated) Sat 10:55 Pina 3D (PG) Thu 11:35, 5:50 Safe House (R) Thu 11:30, 12:45, 2:10, 3:30, 5, 6:15, 7:45, 9, 10:30 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Thu 12, 2:25, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (PG) Thu 11:20, 5:20 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Thu 1, 2:40, 4:10, 7:20, 9:10, 10:25 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 12:45, 2,

3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m. Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) ends Thu 10:40 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 12:40, 2, 3:20, 4:30, 5:55, 7:10, 8:30, 9:50 Wanderlust (R) Fri 12:01 a.m. The Woman in Black (PG13) ends Thu 3, 5:30, 7:55, 10:40

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Adventures of Tintin (PG) Thu 2:30, 7:30 The Adventures of Tintin 3D (PG) Thu 12, 5 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 Arthur Christmas (PG) ends Thu 2:20, 7:10 Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) ends Thu 11:55, 4:40 Contraband (R) opens Fri Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) opens Fri Haywire (R) Thu 12:45, 3:05, 5:20, 7:45 Immortals (R) ends Thu 7:50 Jack and Jill (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:05, 7:35 Joyful Noise (PG-13) opens Fri The Muppets (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 7:20 Puss in Boots (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:25, 4:50 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 12:25, 3:55, 7 The Sitter (R) ends Thu 12:40, 3, 5:10, 7:40 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 6:55 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (PG-13) ends Thu 12:30, 3:40, 7:25 War Horse (PG-13) opens Fri We Bought a Zoo (PG) Thu 12:50, 4, 7:05

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Call for Fri-Wed film times Act of Valor (R) Fri 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies (Not Rated) Tue 7:30 Big Miracle (PG) ends Thu 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Chronicle (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 12:20, 2:45, 4:05, 5:15, 7:40, 9:05, 10:10 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) Thu 11, 11:50, 12:40, 1:30, 2:20, 3:10, 4, 4:50, 5:40, 6:30, 7:20, 8:10, 9, 9:50, 10:35 Gone (PG-13) opens Fri The Grey (R) ends Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:15 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3, 5:35, 6:50, 8:05, 9:25 The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani—Live (Not Rated)

Sat 10:55 One for the Money (PG13) ends Thu 11:25 Safe House (R) Thu 11:20, 12:45, 2:10, 3:35, 5, 6:25, 7:50, 9:15, 10:35 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Thu 11:35, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (PG) Thu 12:35 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Thu 11:05, 2:15, 3:50, 5:30, 7, 8:40, 10:15 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 12:25, 1:40, 2:55, 4:10, 5:25, 6:40, 8, 9:10, 10:30 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) opens Fri Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) ends Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11, 12:15, 1:35, 2:50, 4:05, 5:20, 6:45, 7:55, 9:20, 10:25 Wanderlust (R) opens Fri The Woman in Black (PG13) Thu 11:30, 1:15, 2, 4:30, 6:20, 7:05, 9:35, 10:30

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Call for Fri-Wed film times Act of Valor (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Albert Nobbs (R) ends Thu 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies (Not Rated) Tue 7:30 The Artist (PG-13) Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Big Miracle (PG) ends Thu 10:40, 1:25, 4:10, 6:50 Chronicle (PG-13) ends Thu 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:20, 7:30, 10 The Descendants (R) Thu 10:45, 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) Thu 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Gone (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m. The Grey (R) ends Thu 9:30 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 11:35 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 2, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani—Live (Not Rated) Sat 10:55 Safe House (R) Thu 11:05, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) ends Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m. The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Wanderlust (R) opens Fri The Woman in Black (PG-13) ends Thu 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Call for Fri-Wed film times *Reel Arts 6 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Thu 12, 5, 7:10 *The Dynamiter (Not Rated) Fri 10:45, 12:25, 2:10; Sat-Wed 10:45, 12:25, 2:10, 6, 7:45 *Hello Lonesome (Not Rated) Thu 12:20, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35; Fri-Wed 3:55 *Machine Gun Preacher (R) Thu 2:30; Sat-Wed 9:30 Moneyball (PG-13) Thu 2:10 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 1:20, 4, 6:55, 9:40 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) Thu 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 The Way (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 We Bought a Zoo (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 The Women on the 6th Floor (Not Rated) Thu 11 Young Adult (R) Thu 9:20

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. The Godfather, Part II (R) Fri-Sat 7:30 Oscar Night America 2012 (Not Rated) Sun 5

Gallagher Theater UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. Jack and Jill (PG) Thu 10; Fri-Sat 7, 10

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. Act of Valor (R) Fri-Sun 10:40, 11:40, 1:20, 2:20, 4, 5, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20; Mon-Wed 11:40, 1:20, 2:20, 4, 5, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20 Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) ends Thu 12:20, 3:10 Big Miracle (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:45; FriSun 10:15, 12:45, 3:15; Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:15 Chronicle (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10; Fri-Sat 9:50, 12:40, 3:50, 6:30, 8:40, 10:50; Sun 9:50, 12:40,

3:50, 6:30, 8:40, 10:35; Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:30, 8:40, 10:35 Contraband (R) ends Thu 12:30, 6:10, 9:05 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG-13) Thu 12, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:30; Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (PG-13) Thu 11:15, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40; Fri-Sat 9:45, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Sun 9:45, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Mon-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Gone (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10 The Grey (R) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:25; Fri-Wed 6:05, 9:05 The Iron Lady (PG-13) ends Thu 3:20, 9:30 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10; Fri-Wed 12:30, 5:30 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10; Fri-Sat 10, 3, 8, 10:40; Sun 10, 3, 8, 10:15; Mon-Wed 3, 8, 10:15 One for the Money (PG13) ends Thu 11:05, 1:20, 3:45, 6:40 Red Tails (PG-13) ends Thu 6:05, 9:45 Safe House (R) Thu 12:15, 1:15, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:05; Fri-Sun 10:50, 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30; Mon-Wed 11:05, 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Thu 11:10, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20; call for Fri-Wed times Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:20; Fri-Sun 10:25, 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25; Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9, 9:50; Fri-Sun 10:10, 11:10, 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50; Mon-Wed 11:10, 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50 Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:40 Underworld: Awakening (R) ends Thu 9:25 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:40,

10:15; Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; Sun-Wed 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Wanderlust (R) Fri-Sun 10:20, 1, 3:40, 6:20, 9; Mon-Wed 1, 3:40, 6:20, 9 The Woman in Black (PG13) Thu 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30; FriWed 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45

The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Beginners (R) Wed 7 Bullhead (R) Fri 5; SatSun 5, 10; Mon 10; TueWed 1:45, 10 Chico and Rita (Not Rated) Fri 12:30, 2:45, 7:45; Sat 10:30, 12:30, 2:45, 7:45; Sun 2:30, 7:45; Mon 12:30, 2:45; Tue-Wed 11:30, 4:30 Everything is Terrible Doggiewoggiez (Not Rated) Fri 9 The Evil Dead (NC-17) Thu 10 Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (Not Rated) Mon 5 The Green Wave (Not Rated) Mon 7 The Innkeepers (R) Thu 9:30; Sun-Wed 10 Jurassic Park (PG-13) Fri-Sat 10 On the Ice (R) Mon-Tue 7 People vs. the State of Illusion (Not Rated) Thu 2:45, 7 A Separation (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:45, 7:30; Fri 12:30, 3:15, 6; Sat-Wed 11, 1:45, 4:15, 7:15 Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (Not Rated) Thu 12:30, 4:45 Somewhere Between (Not Rated) Wed 7 Traveling Light (Not Rated) Sun 12 Unfinished Spaces (Not Rated) Tue 7

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Call for Fri-Wed film times The Darkest Hour (PG13) Thu 3:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10 Happy Feet Two (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:30 Immortals (R) Thu 9:35 Jack and Jill (PG) Thu 11:15, 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:50 The Muppets (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10

New Year’s Eve (PG-13) Thu 9:55 Puss in Boots (PG) Thu 11, 1, 3, 5:10 The Sitter (R) Thu 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 7:20 We Bought a Zoo (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:40

The Screening Room 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Out in the Desert: An LGBT Film Festival (Not Rated) Various times and locations Fri-Sun; complete schedule at www. outinthedesertff.org

Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Call for Fri-Wed film times Act of Valor (R) Fri 12:01 a.m. Big Miracle (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:50, 4:25 Chronicle (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 1:25, 3:25, 5:20, 7:25, 9:25 The Descendants (R) Thu 10:55, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9:05 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15 Gone (PG-13) Fri 12:01 a.m. The Grey (R) Thu 2, 4:35, 7:05, 9:45 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 11:45, 3:10, 9:55 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Thu 10:40, 12:55, 5:25, 7:40 One for the Money (PG13) Thu 6:50, 9 Safe House (R) Thu 11:50, 2:25, 5, 7:30, 10:05 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Thu 10:35, 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Thu 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 This Means War (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10 The Vow (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Wanderlust (R) Fri 12:01 a.m. The Woman in Black (PG13) Thu 10:50, 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:10

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NEWLY REVIEWED: BULLHEAD

Bullhead stars Matthias Schoenaerts as Jacky, a 30-something cattle farmer in Belgium. After an incident when Jacky was young, he became emotionally unstable. He drinks, relies on steroids to get by, and makes shady deals with gangsters for growth hormones in order to keep his cattle business afloat. When an old friend, Diederik (Jeroen Perceval), suddenly comes back into his life, Jacky’s existence is cast asunder—and he becomes a suspect in the murder of a police officer. The movie is visually stunning, and the acting is stellar, but it’s hard to feel sorry for someone as ugly and messed up as Jacky. He’s a bully, and his “relationship” with a girl from his past (Jeanne Dandoy) is the most horrifying aspect of his personality. He stalks her and is completely oblivious as to why she rejects him. The film is an emotionally riveting, if ultimately unsatisfying, work of art. Allen THE DYNAMITER

If only this film were … uh, dynamiter. Instead, it’s a slow-burner about a Mississippi kid who may one day erupt like a powder keg. Robbie Hendrick (William Ruffin) is the man of the house at 14, taking care of his younger brother while going to school and trying to sort out life. He gets caught stealing at school, and as punishment, he must write a reflective essay over the summer—and that’s where The Dynamiter is a little more languid than it should be. Or could be, anyway. Director Matthew Gordon and writer Brad Ingelsby have effective eyes and ears for the region, and The Dynamiter is warmly photographed, which helped make it an Independent Spirit nominee. But it never crosses the threshold and becomes truly substantial. Boyd A SEPARATION

There’s not much of a case that can be made for keeping A Separation out of the Best Picture race when so many inferior but more heavily-marketed movies made the cut. It’s distasteful, actually. This

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film did wind up on the Foreign Language list (coming from Iran, that alone is quite an achievement), and the screenplay was rightly nominated … but are there nine movies better than this from last year? No. Ostensibly a domestic drama about the difficulties of a couple on the outs, A Separation details in a beautiful way the cultural challenges of an Iran crawling inch by inch out of its pit of fundamentalism. The film’s complexity extends to society, religious mores, gender roles and, as it happens, filmmaking. A quiet masterpiece, and a film that deserves more attention. Boyd THIS MEANS WAR

Likable performers can’t save this silly film from running out of steam. Reese Witherspoon plays Lauren, a woman with a job I can’t really explain—she’s some sort of product-quality tester—who winds up dating not one, but two CIA operatives (Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) who happen to be best friends. The two men find themselves in a competition for Lauren’s hand, and they do all sorts of unethical things to win it. All three are funny, but director McG can’t sustain the premise for the entire running time, and the film runs out of energy. McG, who made the weak Terminator Salvation, is quite a messy director. Full blame goes to him for this one’s failures— because the actors almost pull it off. Grimm

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It is hard to discuss The Artist without acknowledging how special it is, and it will likely ride a wave of that kind of affection straight to the podium to accept the Best Picture Oscar. A black-and-white silent movie from out of nowhere, this is not the sort of film Hollywood bets on—which is why Hollywood loses so much money on remakes of Conan the Barbarian. A very simple story set at the pivot point when silent movies gave way to talkies, The Artist shows two careers at the crossroads. As George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) fades away, Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) becomes America’s first sweetheart of the sound era. This is a beautiful film start to finish, one of the very few movies from 2011 you’ll remember just as fondly in, say, 2013. Boyd THE GREY

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Dangerous Love BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com here would be no crime in Rango winning Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards. It has a cool, distinctive visual style, weird characters and a subversive nature. A Rango win would actually do animation in general a spot of good, because it would advance the notion that Hollywood doesn’t need to tailor every cartoon to 6-year-olds. Looking at the competition, you might say it’s a runaway; there’s nothing original or particularly noteworthy about Puss in Boots or the disappointing Kung Fu Panda 2 (although it did have nice alternate animation sequences), and the other two finalists—Chico and Rita and A Cat in Paris—are foreign films. But Chico and Rita has qualities similar to Rango: Its visual style is decidedly its own, and it is subversive enough to have—gasp!— more than one scene of nudity. Will Oscar voters deem that inappropriate for “animated” films, which typically has meant “family-oriented”? One thing Chico and Rita has over all its fellow nominees is that this same film could exist and be very, very good without animation. This is a live-action story … which just happens to be hand-drawn. Chico (the voice of Eman Xor Oña) is an aging shoeshine man now, but 60 years ago, he was a dashing piano-player riding the rising tide of Cuban jazz in Havana. Talent is a magnet for talent, so he crosses paths with an aspiring young singer named Rita (Limara Meneses). Beautiful as she is, Chico is only interested in her voice—at first. Together, Chico and Rita have remarkable chemistry. When he plays, and she sings, it’s magic. Soon, they fall in love, but it’s an appropriately dangerous love for a pair of hot-tempered musicians. They break up, make up and still manage to perform together at the top of their games. But Rita’s compass is pointed toward stardom, and when she sets her sights on Broadway, Chico makes his way to New York with less professional success—and their give and take begins all over again. The plot is not really a page-turner; it’s a good chance to set star-crossed lovers in preCastro Cuba (we do get a hint of the revolution as the story moves forward), and some of the dialogue is memorable, but as a story, it is admittedly lightweight. But there is a tremendous soul in the colors and the animation style in general; in some scenes, it evokes the emotions for the audience when the screenplay falls short. Cuban jazz is alive and well in Chico and Rita, perhaps even more than you might

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Chico and Rita Not Rated Featuring the voices of Eman Xor Oña, Limara Meneses and Mario Guerra Directed by Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba Luma/Gkids, 94 minutes Opens Friday, Feb. 24, at the Loft Cinema (795-7777).

expect. As much as this is a love story, its focal point is a love affair with a musical culture and artists like Chano Pozo, a percussionist for Dizzy Gillespie whose untimely death makes for a pivotal scene in the film. One of the many disappointing aspects of the rise of Castro is the stranglehold it placed on exporting and fostering Cuban art. There are several stories of musicians who all but vanished after 1960, because they could not leave Cuba, and the communist regime closed the night clubs and essentially made all musicians state employees, forcing them to play what Castro wanted—and that wasn’t jazz. The stance softened after about 30 years, but think—for example—of how much relevance the musicians in the Buena Vista Social Club could have attained in a free society. One such musician is Bebo Valdés, whose journey served as the inspiration for Chico. The pianist is considered one of the giants of AfroCuba jazz, but lost an outlet in 1960s Cuba and didn’t record a note again until 1994 … in Sweden. He is relevant here for another reason: Valdés, now 93, composed the score and performed the soundtrack for Chico and Rita, which—coupled with the imaginative animation—makes this film truly distinct. So … if you had an Oscar ballot, and it was between another Johnny Depp success story and Bebo Valdés, what would get your vote?

N O W S H O W I N G AT H O M E Woody Allen: A Documentary DOCURAMA MOVIE ASPECIAL FEATURES C DVD GEEK FACTOR 7.75 (OUT OF 10)

Love him or hate him, Woody Allen has had a long and interesting career—and clocking in at 192 minutes, this is a documentary to be seen by anyone who values even just a few films in his canon. Spanning from his childhood right through Midnight in Paris, this film, by director Robert Weide, utilizes Allen film clips and celebrity interviews (including archival and recent interviews with Allen) to take an all-encompassing peek at this creative and somewhat strange man. Weide gets a surprising amount of access to Allen’s life. In addition to intimate interviews, he gets behindthe-scenes footage on Allen film sets and scenes of Allen playing his clarinet. I’ve known for many years that Allen performs at a weekly jazz night in a Manhattan club, but I’ve never seen him playing. He’s actually pretty good! From Allen’s pre-movie days, there’s great footage of him performing in a tux and top hat—and even a few minutes of him boxing a kangaroo. Ample time is spent on his standup career and early films. In retrospect, the change in his filmmaking style, from Love and Death in ’75 to Annie Hall two years later, was substantial. He became a different director once he and Diane Keaton tangled with those lobsters. The film reminded me about older Allen films that I love and haven’t seen in a long time, like Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Sleeper and Take the Money and Run; all of these films get decent time dedicated to them. It’s crazy that the same guy who made Bananas and Sleeper made Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point.

The film doesn’t avoid the controversy surrounding Allen’s relationship with Soon-Yi Previn. Actually, given Allen’s participation in the film, I’m surprised they approached the subject at all. Refreshingly, the film makes no effort to sugarcoat what Allen did. When the film is over, you are left in awe of what Allen has accomplished over the years, good and bad. He has a film coming out this year, Nero Fiddled, in which he appears as an actor for the first time since Scoop. This will continue his incredible 30-year streak of one film or more per year. SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted scenes and a Weide interview.

Beavis and Butt-head: Volume 4 (Blu-ray) PARAMOUNT/MTV SHOW A SPECIAL FEATURES C+ BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 8 (OUT OF 10)

Oh, what a magnificent thing it is to once again see the screen go black and hear that distinctive Butthead laugh, followed by that theme song. It had been 14 years since the duo’s last TV episode when creator Mike Judge brought them back to MTV last year. The boys haven’t lost a step; they are funnier than ever. In addition to making fun of videos, they now do commentary on mixed-martial-arts fights and reality TV such as Jersey Shore. The new episodes include the return of Cornholio, Beavis and Butt-head becoming bounty hunters and, most hilariously, the boys adopting a rat and taking him to work at Burger World. I was quite fond of an episode in which, in order to get girls, the boys set out to get bit by a werewolf so they could be like Taylor Lautner in Twilight. They wind up getting bitten by a homeless man with many strains of hepatitis and become something akin to zombies. The show feels like it never

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went off the air. That sensation is perhaps aided by the fact that some of the animation (when the boys sit on their couch and comment on videos) is the same animation from the previous show. It clashes a bit with the new stuff, but that’s OK. I hadn’t caught any of the shows on MTV, so I didn’t see any of the new stuff until it arrived on Blu-ray. How good is it? I started watching it on a Sunday morning—and didn’t stop until I had seen all of the new episodes, nearly 4 1/2 hours later. Mike Judge is a brilliant man. SPECIAL FEATURES: Footage from a Comic-Con, featuring Johnny Knoxville emceeing a question-and-answer session with Judge. There are also some Beavis and Butt-head “Interruptions” where they call in and interrupt Jersey Shore footage. I would’ve liked a little more on the supplemental side.

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The best male performance of 2011 belongs to Michael Shannon in this stunner from writerdirector Jeff Nichols. Shannon is staggeringly good as Curtis, a husband and father who sees visions of a coming apocalyptic storm and questions his sanity. Jessica Chastain is heartbreaking as Samantha, his confused wife. Both are amazing. Of course, both of these performances were ignored by the Academy. Way to go, Oscar! SPECIAL FEATURES: Nichols and Shannon deliver a full film commentary that is worth watching. You also get some deleted scenes and a short making-of featurette.

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absorbing and devastating survival pic. 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. Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney and Joe Anderson shine in supporting roles, but this is Neeson’s movie, containing some of his best work. This one was a lot deeper than I expected. Grimm JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

Josh Hutcherson returns as Sean for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, a sequel to 2008’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson takes over yet another franchise from Brendan

Fraser, this time playing Sean’s new stepfather, Hank. Sean and Hank figure out that three classic books—The Mysterious Island, Treasure Island and Gulliver’s Travels—are all about the same place, and that Sean’s grandfather (Michael Caine) has found it. They set off to locate the island, and in doing so team up with tourist pilot Gabato (Luis Guzmán) and his daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens). This is moderately entertaining kiddie fare, with some decent chuckles, mostly provided by Johnson and Guzmán. Why Michael Caine decided to give it a go is beyond me; I can only guess it was to get the cash to build an extension on the house he constructed with the money he got from Jaws: The Revenge. Either way, this film is decent throw-away material for a February matinee with the kids. Allen SAFE HOUSE

Ryan Reynolds plays Matt Weston, a CIA operative who has spent a year sitting in a safe house, bouncing a ball against a wall and listening to tunes. He longs for a big assignment in the field, but the organization seems content to keep him out of the way and performing menial tasks. Things change when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is brought to his

house for some questioning—and some good oldfashioned waterboarding. Frost is a former agent gone rogue who has been selling secrets to enemy countries. He’s also a dangerous, murderous son of a bitch. Throw into the mix that he’s also virtuous, and you have a typically complicated Washington character. Reynolds and Washington complement each other well in this action thriller. Grimm THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY

The animated films of Hayao Miyazaki have been successful in limited runs in the U.S. Even though the great director almost certainly doesn’t consider American audiences when he begins to work, Spirited Away won an Oscar, and he has devotees all over the map. The Secret World of Arrietty provides Miyazaki a broader reach, since the film is based on the popular children’s book The Borrowers. The legendary filmmaker is in the background this time around, though, passing the baton to his protégé, rookie director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. The story about little people who live in the walls of homes, borrowing from humans those things they need to survive, takes on a fairy-tale quality thanks to the dreamlike animation of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli.

There is a message underneath it all, but it’s not necessary to enjoy the simple story and the rich, detailed animation. Boyd STAR WARS: EPISODE I — THE PHANTOM MENACE

I gave this film a positive review when it first came out. I was young; I was prone to huffing paint; I didn’t have my priorities straight. That, or this just felt better going down in the late ’90s. Or maybe seeing it in crap 3-D brings out the worst in the film. It’s a little harder to accept Jar Jar Binks when he’s coming at you in three (or, really, 2 1/2) dimensions. The 3-D sort of punches one’s eyeballs around, especially during the pod races, which now look blurry due to the 3-D retrofitting. Liam Neeson’s wig doesn’t benefit from the 3-D, either; it is far too vivid and obviously fake. The Darth Maul battle is still cool, but that’s about the only true enjoyment in this visually abrasive version. I am not excited about Attack of the Clones in 3-D. Not excited at all. Grimm

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Food Truck Friday Bookmans Entertainment Exchange at 1930 E. Grant Road is getting in on the local foodtruck action with a festival from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24. Store officials tell us Animal Farm, MaFooCo, Street Delights, Pin Up Pastries, Seis Curbside Kitchen and many other food trucks will be there. The event will also feature a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, A Day’s Pleasure and Sunnyside. Those attending the movies are asked to bring their own chairs. Admission is free; www. bookmans.com.

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hen I read this description on the website of PY Steakhouse, the new upscale dining space at Casino del Sol, I was blown away. “A new era of dining”? The Tucson culinary scene starts here”? “Perfect dining experience”? Really? I have been fortunate enough to eat at amazing restaurants around the world, and I can probably count on one hand the number of dining experiences I’ve had that have approached “perfect.” Was our dinner at PY Steakhouse one of those meals? No, it wasn’t—and that overpromising prose almost made our nice, enjoyable meal at PY seem like a disappointment. Our evening started with cocktails in the lounge, located at the nexus of the casino, hotel lobby and convention era within the newly opened portion of the expanded Casino del Sol. Garrett ordered a nice Sazerac, while I had one of the best Manhattans I’ve ever enjoyed, made with Woodford Reserve Bourbon. It was happy hour, before 7 p.m., so these amazing drinks were only $6. The service was great, too; the evening was indeed off to a perfect start. We then moved to the smallish but lovely dining room. Whites and cream colors dominate, accented by browns and fresh yellow flowers at every table. The kitchen is open, so diners can watch the cooking action if they so desire. The menu features the appetizers, salads, steaks and seafood entrées one would expect at an upscale resort steakhouse, as well as some “local and sustainable, farm to table inspired” seasonal dishes. We decided to start with the smoked crispy pork belly ($8) and chile charred tuna sliders ($9), before moving on to soups: the roasted sweet onion soup ($7) for me, and the smoked corn and lobster chowder ($8) for Garrett. For main courses, Garrett went with the seared jumbo diver scallops ($25), while I went big—specifically, the 22-ounce T-bone “signature dry aged” steak ($44). We also got two sides (each $5): the green chile au gratin potatoes, and the gorgonzola mashed potatoes. (It’s important to note that since this particular resort is

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The 22-ounce T-bone steak at the PY Steakhouse at Casino Del Sol. tribe-owned, there’s no sales tax, which effectively makes everything 8 to 9 percent cheaper.) Throughout the night, the service was impeccable (except for a mysterious wait for our check, and a failure to offer us the soufflé for dessert—which takes 30 minutes to prepare—in advance). Our water glasses were never empty; cocktails were offered and swiftly delivered; the meal was appropriately paced. The complimentary chefs’ amuse, a warm purple potato salad, gave the meal a fine start. Unfortunately, the meal hit a figurative pothole with the appetizers. While the tuna sliders were fantastic—complemented nicely by a mango salsa—the pork belly was a total dud. If you can’t cut pork belly with a fork, there’s a problem, and we indeed had a problem. There were nice, smoky flavors in there, and I loved the accompanying guajillo-chile applesauce, but the pork itself was a stringy mess. Something went wrong here. As for the soups: The chowder was revelatory. The potato, bacon and leek were all appropriately proportioned, and the lobster was prepared perfectly. Garrett enjoyed tweaking the flavors with the three house sea salts offered by PY Steakhouse—with merlot, chipotle and truffle; the latter was amazing. Meanwhile, my onion soup was merely decent, although the PY servers earned style points by pouring the broth into the bowl at the table. Whereas the chowder was enhanced by the sea salts, the onion soup needed salt. I was also confused by the Manchego cheese crostini which came alongside, topped with two mounds of onions: The soup was already packed with onions, and I wanted to dip the bread into the broth … so what was I supposed to do with the onions on the crostini? Both main courses were good, if flawed. Garrett’s scallops were cooked to perfection, and I thought the English pea parmesan risotto with saffron sweet-corn cream was splendid, although Garrett wondered where the saffron

PY Steakhouse Inside the Casino del Sol 5655 W. Valencia Road (800) 344-9435; www.casinodelsol.com/tucson-dining/py-steakhouse Open Tuesday through Thursday, 4 to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 4 to 11 p.m. Pluses: Amazing cocktails; fine service; splendid corn and lobster chowder

New: Chocolate Fox The new chocolate business Chocolate Fox at 270 E. Congress St. is open, and there was even a basket of samples out on a recent evening. The shop, located behind Hub Restaurant and Creamery, deals only in the highest quality of chocolate, and donates all the money made to local charities. There is no retail space in the tiny 200-square-foot shop, but the artisan chocolates are currently available at Hub, and the plan is to make them available through the shop’s small back window during special events like 2nd Saturdays; www.chocolatefox.com.

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was; we couldn’t taste it at all. The biggest downside to the otherwise fine dish: some grains of sand in the scallops. My steak was prepared at medium-rare, as requested, and it looked delicious. All of the meats at PY come with a fine selection of sauces, including a corn saffron sauce, a tomato compote and a garlic sage sauce; they were fun, but unnecessary, because a good steak does not need enhancement. I was slightly disappointed, however, to find a vein of gristle running through one end of the steak. I grew up on a cattle ranch, so I know that gristle happens, but it was still a bit of a bummer to find in a $44 steak. The sides were hit-and-miss. The hit: the mashed potatoes, which were wonderful. The miss: the au gratin potatoes. Where was the green chili? For dessert, we decided to share the bread pudding ($9). The bread pudding itself was a pure delight, but the cinnamon gelato on top was a problem: It was so hard that it was nearly impossible to penetrate with a spoon. Seeing as the hard scoop was sitting on soft bread putting, it was a mess waiting to happen. So, does the Tucson culinary scene start at PY Steakhouse? No. (I am not even sure what that statement means.) Has a new era of dining come to Southern Arizona? Lord, no. But is PY Steakhouse a lovely place for a special occasion? Most definitely. I’ll be back.

Another Paradise Bakery and Café location is opening in what used to be Austin’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream at 6129 E. Broadway Blvd. The new location is being designed in the same manner as the store that opened on the corner of Oracle and Wetmore roads last year. There will be seating for 90 inside, and room for 40 more in the patio area. Expect the same extensive menu of baked goods alongside breakfast, lunch and dinner offerings galore. The new location is expected to open in late March.

Noshing Notes Expect to see some fresh herbs showing up at Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails at 135 S. Sixth Ave., thanks to a freshly planted garden near the parking lot. … Don Pedro’s Peruvian Bistro at 3386 S. Sixth Ave. has a new lunch menu. … 1702, the beer pub at 1702 E. Speedway Blvd., has started brewing its own beer; there was one house-made porter on the menu on a recent visit. … There’s a new juice bar at Sonora Sno-Cones at Mercado San Agustin at 100 S. Avenida del Convento. … A new Filipino restaurant called Adobo Island has opened at 2023 S. Craycroft Road. More next week.

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DRY RIVER COMPANY E 800 N. Kolb Road. 298-5555. Open MondayThursday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 7 a.m.-1 a.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This is a nifty little place that offers everything from light breakfasts to delicious pizzas to happy hour and beyond. Baked goods include scones, cupcakes, cookies, brownies cheesecake and more; enjoy these with one of the specialty coffees. Pizzas are baked in a wood-fired oven; toppings include all the old standbys as well as twists like potatoes. Sandwiches, salads and pastas round out the menu. (11-18-10) $-$$

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Thursday 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Friday 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. Eat-a-Burger, the food truck, is now Eat-a-Burger, the restaurant. Located in the Pioneer Building, it’s an easy stop-in for a quick, simple and tasty downtown lunch or breakfast. The menu is small but well-executed, and the service comes with a smile. Limited breakfast hours (8-10:30 a.m.) are difficult for the downtown crowd, but the breakfast sandwiches offer a definite bang for your buck (or two). (11-24-11) $ NW 2985 E. Skyline Drive. 577-0747. Open Sunday-

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Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. This Rocky Mountain-themed restaurant chain’s headquarters are in North Carolina—go figure—but regardless of their geographical confusion, the Firebirds folks know how to grill up a top-notch steak. The service is friendly and efficient, too. At the midprice level in Tucson, restaurants don’t get much better than this. (8-11-05) $$$-$$$$

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FRANK’S RESTAURANT a.m.-2 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.2 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V. There’s nothing fancy or extravagant in the way Frank’s does business, but if you like a hearty, homestyle meal served with lots of hot, strong coffee, real honest-to-goodness mashed potatoes and hash browns and eggs cooked the way you like them, you’ll love this place. Ample portions, brisk service and affordable prices ensure constant popularity. (1-6-00) $ THE GOOD EGG a.m.-2:30 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, MC, V. Also at 4775 E. Grant Road (795-7879), 5350 E. Broadway Blvd. (512-0280) and 5055 N. Oracle Road (2936139). The Good Egg works with several variations on a theme to provide an outstanding menu of breakfast and lunch fare. Even people on a restricted diet can find something to eat here, while those who envision a stack of pancakes will be astounded at the platter-sized monsters that come to their table begging for a maplesyrup bath. $ GUS BALON’S RESTAURANT

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HOT ROD CAFÉ C 2831 N. Stone Ave. 903-2233. Open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. Simple but tasty sandwiches, salads and breakfast items make the Hot Rod Café a worthwhile place to stop in and grab a quick bite to eat. There is a bright, racingthemed décor, lots of cool automotive memorabilia and service with a smile. The sandwiches are reminiscent of the food you might have found in your lunchbox once upon a time. Don’t pass up the opportunity to order a root-beer float or an old-fashioned milkshake. (1-27-11) $ THE HUNGRY FOX RESTAURANT AND COUNTRY STORE E 4637 E. Broadway Blvd. 326-2835. Open MondayFriday 6 a.m.-2 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Diner/No Alcohol. MC, V. Great breakfasts are served all day with double-yolk eggs, golden hash browns and fluffy bread made from scratch. The lunches are for those who miss Mom’s cooking, and the waitresses are all professional mama-surrogates. $ JAX KITCHEN NW 7286 N. Oracle Road. 219-1235. Open TuesdayFriday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Jax Kitchen’s menu offers a fine, playful balance of great stuff. Fresh, quality ingredients are present in such a way that you’ll remember each and every bite. The mussels and frites shine, and anything from the garden will please. Throw in pleasant service, moderate prices and a cool vibe, and you have a Tucson favorite. (12-4-08) $$-$$$ JERRY BOB’S E 5028 E. Broadway Blvd. 326-0301. Open daily

5:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Also at 7699 E. Speedway Blvd. (298-5030), 7885 E. Golf Links Road (721-8888), 2680 E. Valencia Road (807-5717), 8300 N. Thornydale Road (5797177), 7939 N. Oracle Road (878-9360), 3601 N. Campbell Ave. (319-5642), 7850 N. Silverbell Road (579-0937) and 7545 S. Houghton Road, No. 155 (574-9060). (Hours and methods of payment vary per location.) Like a blast from the past, Jerry Bob’s renews our acquaintance with the kind of breakfast your mother once said would “stick to your ribs”: lots of egg specialties, grits, biscuits and gravy, and chicken-fried steak. What more do you need to time travel to a kinder, gentler, less cholesterol-conscious era? $ JETHRO’S LITTLE CAFE E 8585 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-1091. Open daily 6

a.m.-2 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V. If you’re looking for good eats and lots of them, this may just be your ideal place. The food is made fresh from scratch, and the portions will blow you away. Breakfasts include everything from biscuits and gravy to Belgian waffles. At lunch, both salad-lovers and fried-food fanatics will be happy. Service is down-home, just as one would expect. (9-10-09) $ KON TIKI E 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-1 a.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.- 2 a.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-midnight. Food served Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. This tiki lounge has

been around since 1963, largely due to the famous cold, fruity and lethal drinks. Appetizers are a consistent hit, while lunch and dinner entrées are hit or miss. Don’t miss out on the happy-hour appetizer and drink specials. (7-2-09) $$-$$$ LINDY’S ON FOURTH C 431 N. Fourth Ave. 207-2384. Open Monday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday noon-5 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Jonesing for a burger? Want it hot and juicy—and maybe a little kinky? Then hop on down to Lindy’s, where you’ll find the most creative burger menu in the city. There are house-specialty burgers like the AZ Hooligan, with six half-pound patties topped with lots of cheese and Lindy’s sauce. Those with normal appetites can enjoy juicy burgers with toppings ranging from the traditional to the offbeat (peanut butter, anyone?). Vegetarians can choose from two veggie patties that can be topped in any way. (4-17-08) $-$$ LITTLE ANTHONY’S DINER E 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 296-0456. Open Monday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Good, clean fun for the kids, with classic burgers and fries along with golden oldie tunes from the ‘50s and ‘60s. $ THE LOOP TASTE OF CHICAGO NW 10180 N. Oracle Road. 878-0222. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight; Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Cover. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC and V. The Loop Taste of Chicago delivers a true taste of the Windy City. Delicious deepdish and thin-crust pizza is just the beginning. A large menu is sure to please even the pickiest eater … and don’t miss out on dessert. (11-26-09) $$

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7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Fresh, flavorful dishes in a kitsch-free train atmosphere make this a leading downtown dining destination. There’s also seating for deli food in the adjacent convenience market, but the main dining room and dignified bar are the real draws. (7-16-09) $$-$$$$ MAYS COUNTER CHICKEN AND WAFFLES C 2945 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2421. Open MondayFriday 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Mays Counter offers Southern-style eats in a spot that could be described as collegiate sports-bar chic. The fried chicken is juicy, fresh and about 1,000 times better than the stuff you’ll get at a chain joint. The service is friendly; the prices are reasonable; and the waffle skins starter is one of the tastiest appetizers around. (12-23-10) $-$$$

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Melting Pot, a national chain. An upscale atmosphere and an expansive wine list combine with the cheese fondues, salads and cook-it-yourself meats and seafoods for a delicious, if high-priced, dinner. Save room for the delightful chocolate fondue for dessert. (1-29-04) $$$-$$$$ MONKEY BURGER E 5350 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite 128. 514-9797. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 47 N. Sixth Ave. (624-4416). This joint nicely fills the burger niche between low (fast food) and high (ZinBurger), offering up delicious, cooked-to-order burgers with a variety of tasty toppings. The employees are friendly, and the whimsical mural is worth checking out at the Broadway Boulevard location. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss wafflecut sweet-potato fries, either. (3-11-10) $-$$ MOTHER HUBBARDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFE C 14 W. Grant Road. 623-7976. Open daily 6 a.m.-2

p.m. Summer hours: Open Monday and WednesdaySaturday 6 a.m.-1 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Diner/ No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This old-school Tucson greasy spoon is still serving inexpensive and tasty breakfasts and lunchesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now with a few new twists, including a series of dishes centered on chiles. The tasty corned beef on the reuben is brined in-house, and the corn bread waffle is a treat you should not miss. (6-30-11) $ MULLIGANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SPORTS GRILL E 9403 E. Golf Links Road. 733-5661. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-2 a.m. CafĂŠ/ Full Cover. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This eastside sports bar is doing some pretty good stuff in its kitchen. The steak sandwich is delicious, and the burgers feature big slabs oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Angus beef. The patio is lovely (if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind the view of Golf Links Road), and the Irish/golf-themed dĂŠcor is very, very green. (11-10-11) $$ NATIVE NEW YORKER NW 8225 N. Courtney Page Way, No. 115. 744-7200.

Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.midnight. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. With wings, pizza, hoagies, spaghetti, calzones, stromboli, hot dogs and burgers, Native New Yorker seemingly has it all. This chain sits right in the heart of all thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in Marana, yet it stands out from the other chain joints nearby. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great place to meet friends, watch a game or bring the family. The wings come in flavors from the traditional buffalo-style to strawberry to asiagoparmesan. (10-2-08) $-$$ OMARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HIGHWAY CHEF S Triple T Truck Stop, 5451 E. Benson Highway. 574-0961. Open 24 hours. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Local diners contemplating where to eat seldom consider a truck stop, but in the case of Omarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Highway Chef, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth making an exception. Clean and neat, this cafĂŠ specializes in typical blue-plate specials as well as a respectable array of Mexican dishes. All is made on the premises, with exceptional soups and pies. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served around the

THE ONYX ROOM C 106 W. Drachman St. 620-6699. Open WednesdaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-7 p.m. CafĂŠ/ Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Soul food has finally arrived in Tucson! Yes, we have our fair share of rib shacks, but this midtown eatery/nightclub has the whole hog (or at least some great chops). The fried chicken is killer. Once you try it, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll definitely want to return for more. The sides are as delectable as they are authentic. Be sure to try the collard greens and the green beans. Nightly specials and live entertainment are also a vital part of the scene. These guys really know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing. (7-28-11) $$ PASTICHE MODERN EATERY C 3025 N. Campbell Ave. 325-3333. Open TuesdayFriday 11:30 a.m.-midnight; Saturday and Sunday 4:30 p.m.-midnight. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. If you are looking for a lovely, spacious dining room, quirky art and an experimental and adventuresome menu, try Pastiche. (10-5-00) $-$$ PATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DRIVE-IN C 1202 W. Niagra St. 624-0891. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m. Drive-in/No Alcohol. Cash only. A Tucson tradition for more than 40 years, Patâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has won a devoted following with its tasty chili dogs (served in both mild and extra-spicy variations) and hand-diced, french-fried potatoes. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget the pink lemonade to wash it all down. $ RISKY BUSINESS NE 6866 E. Sunrise Drive. 577-0021. Open daily 11 a.m.-2 a.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 8848 E. Tanque Verde Road (749-8555) and 250 S. Craycroft Road (584-1610). (Hours vary per location.) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to devise a restaurant scheme that will keep everyone in the family happy, but somehow, Risky Business has managed to pull this feat off admirably. Lots of goodies for the kids are in this spacious, colorful spot, and parents will enjoy a menu that caters to their palates with food that has real taste and character. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt that numerous premium beers are on tap, either. $$-$$$ ROBERTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RESTAURANT C 3301 E. Grant Road. 795-1436. Open Monday-

Saturday 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Closed mid-July to mid-August. Diner/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V, checks. A friendly, neighborhood diner with outstanding homemade breads and pies. The staff is genuinely glad you came. The prices canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be beat, especially if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re watching the old budget. (6-24-04) $ SOUTHWEST DESERT DOGS E 5214 E. Pima St. 982-3504. Open Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This tiny place is one of Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better hot dog joints, offering wieners with fixings in the styles of Chicago, Coney Island, New York, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Texas BBQâ&#x20AC;? and, of course, Sonora. The bratwurst is delicious, and the odd charm of the placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with three indoor tables and a patio just off of busy Pima Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is undeniable. (5-19-11) $

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Will Reptar’s debut album and first headlining tour lead to a 2012 breakthrough?

By Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com

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Fresh and Compelling BY ERIC SWEDLUND, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com t first, it was just a summer thing for Reptar. A bunch of college students from different schools shared a house in Athens, Ga., through the hot and carefree months of 2009, playing music just for fun. Just two summers later, mere days after releasing an EP on Vagrant Records, the band performed at Lollapalooza. Though the band developed its own fresh and compelling blend of upbeat, world-musicinfluenced dance rock during that quick and unexpected ascension, the original, half-joking name stuck around. The band is named in tribute of a cat, which was in turn named after the cartoon godzilla in Rugrats, the animated Nickelodeon series. “If we thought this band was going to be a thing, and a lot of people were going to hear the music, we probably would’ve thought of a better name. But you can’t go back and change it now,” says guitarist Graham Ulicny. “For us, it has its own meanings, but there’s nothing to reach too far deep into it. It’s something we think is funny, even though it doesn’t make any sense in the context of the music.” The band’s music is an energetic, party-starting sort, with nods to classics (Talking Heads) and contemporaries (Vampire Weekend) in rock, as well as some synth- and electronicaladen indie-dance bands like MGMT and Animal Collective. Still, the band isn’t too concerned with following any single muse, as long as the music gets through to the crowd. “We all have different tastes in music, but they’re not mutually exclusive. We’re not too partial to any one type of music. I have a hard time listening to a song and not finding some redeeming qualities,” Ulicny says. “Whatever we play and whatever we sound like is a culmination of everything we’ve done as far as musicianship and what we’ve listened to.” Though Ulicny says he studied music in college “for a minute,” he learned bass and then guitar on his own, and like the other members of the band, he never had big dreams of making music for the world outside of their shared house. “We just started playing. I don’t think any of us thought it would be a thing, or something that would happen more than once in a while,” he says. “We were all pretty inexperienced. We’d all played in bands before, but just shit bands in high school.” But the music scene in Athens is fertile, and though band members scattered to Atlanta and Asheville, N.C., for the next school year, Reptar got together for a tour the next summer. With

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people digging the music, college was put on hold. Reptar recorded its debut 7-inch with producer Ben Allen, noted for his work on Gnarls Barkley’s St. Elsewhere and Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. That caught the attention of Vagrant Records (The Hold Steady, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros), which released the Oblangle Fizz Y’all EP last August. A slot at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and a nationwide fall tour with Foster the People and Cults followed. Since then, the band has been writing and recording its debut album, Body Faucet, to be released May 1 on Vagrant. Paralleling the band’s organic, collaborative formation, the songs typically come together in the same way. As vocalist, Ulicny will bring in something to start, with lyrics or not, and everybody will work their own ideas into the structure. “More often than not, we’ll figure it out as we play it in practice, and it’ll slowly become what it becomes,” he says. “Recording a fulllength record, I’ve started to notice us being much more comfortable in our environment. Before, we were much more all over the place and less sure about what the music was trying to convey and where we wanted to go with the energy.” Body Faucet is a more confident and expansive record than Oblangle Fizz Y’all, but no less catchy than the “Stuck in My Id” single, which led Spin magazine to name Reptar one of the “20 Must-Hear Artists at Lollapalooza 2011.” Songs like “Houseboat Babies” and “Sebastian” have a buoyancy and infectiousness ready-made for hit summer songs. In fact, Reptar could be one of 2012’s breakthrough bands. Whether it’s a festival stage or a small room like Solar Culture, the band is playing to the crowd—or, more accurately, playing to the feet and the hips. “I think we’ve always wanted to make people dance,” Ulicny says. “When you play live, you want to create some sort of collective group consciousness, and make people move and ebb and flow with the songs. To us, dance music is

Reptar With Quiet Hooves 9 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27 Solar Culture Gallery 31 E. Toole Ave. $8; all ages 884-0874; solarculture.org

anything with a rhythm you can move to, which is almost anything. The rhythmic aspects are fun to play with, and we’ve just scratched the surface of it.” Joining Ulicny are Andrew McFarland on drums, Ryan Engleberger on bass, William Kennedy on keyboards, and two additional touring members: Jace Bartet on guitar, and Reid Weigner on percussion. “One thing I like about playing in this band is every night, we put in 100 percent—our whole minds and bodies into the process. We operate under the idea that you get out of it what you put into it,” he says. “We love it. That’s why we play in the band.” Reptar’s current tour has the band heading from the Southeast to the West Coast, and then through the Midwest to the East Coast, a two-month stretch that’s the band’s first tour as headliners. “It’s cool to go and play a show to a bunch of people who’ve never seen your band before. They’re either going to walk away loving it or not liking it,” Ulicny says. “For us, it’s about involving people and making them a part of the process. If you can’t engage with the person who’s performing, to me, it’s just not worth it to spend the money to go out and see a band.” The tour will be wrapped up before the band’s proper debut album is released, and Ulicny says he prefers it that way. “This band in particular, apart from any of the groups I’ve played with, is such a thing when you see it play,” he says. “I’m really proud of the album we recorded, but I’d rather have people’s first experience of the band coming and seeing us play live.”

Every generation has a musical act or two that comes along and scares the hell out of its parents: Elvis Presley and his swiveling hips; the Beatles with their “long,” moppy haircuts; the Rolling Stones, who were coming for your daughters; the list goes on. In 1978, it was the Sex Pistols, who not only repelled my parents, but me, too. I was 8 years old and worshiped Kiss, Cheap Trick, Blue Oyster Cult—stuff that might have alarmed some parents, but not mine. My parents were encouraging of my love of whatever music I was into at the time. However, without ever really hearing a note of their music, we all hated the Sex Pistols. I blame the media more than the band. Sure, the band was created to shock—that was pretty much the modus operandi of Malcolm McLaren, the Svengali behind them. But the media saw a distasteful story and ran with it. When the Sex Pistols landed on U.S. shores for their first American tour in January 1978, reports about the band—how they vomited and pissed on their audiences, how bassist Sid Vicious would cut himself bloody during performances, how they had cursed repeatedly on live British TV, not to mention stock footage of leather-clad punks with safety pins through their faces—were inescapable and played up the band’s most-tawdry antics. Kiss may have scared some parents, but they were make-believe; these guys were real. Yet no one—in the mainstream media, anyway—really mentioned the music. A few years later, my friend Brian and I decided to find out what the fuss was all about. I had already heard the Ramones by that point, but I still hadn’t heard the Sex Pistols. Brian and I were at the mall, and I bought Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, the band’s only true album, on cassette. We took it back to his house and stuck it in his cassette deck; in an instant, our lives were changed. We’d never heard anything like it—raw, visceral, angry as hell—and I’ll never forget slowly turning to Brian to find his mouth literally wide open, just as mine was. It was like a scene out of a movie. And from that day on, we started buying every punk album we could get our hands on. Kiss seemed silly at that point. Kids’ stuff. As far as I remember, my cassette didn’t have writing credits, so we both assumed the Sex Pistols were singer Johnny Rotten, bassist Sid Vicious, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook. But a little bit later, when we saw who had written the songs, we wondered who “Matlock” was. (There was no Internet, kids.) Along with Rotten, Jones and Cook, he was credited with writing 10 of the album’s 12 songs, including “God Save the Queen,” “Anarchy in the U.K.,” “Pretty Vacant” and “Submission.” Even later than that, we found out that it was Matlock— former bassist Glen Matlock—who wrote most of the music and lyrics for the songs on which he was credited. Sid Vicious may have been the most infamous member of the band, but he was also its most useless: He may not have had

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any issues with bloodying himself to please fans, but he could barely play the bass. Glen Matlock was one of the most important Pistols, the guy who wrote the songs. Why Matlock left depends on whom you ask. McLaren and Jones both claimed he was sacked because he liked the Beatles. At the time, Matlock claimed that he left by mutual agreement, but he later changed his story to say that he and Rotten were butting heads due to Rottenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing ego. None of that really matters. What matters is that one of the most influential songwriters in punk history became relegated to a mere footnote. After the Pistols, Matlock drifted from band to band, the most notable being The Rich Kids, a power-pop band that featured future Ultravox singer Midge Ure (who also, incidentally, co-wrote and produced â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do They Know Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas?â&#x20AC;?). He rejoined the Sex Pistols on their subsequent reunion tours at the turn of the century. Right now, Matlock is touring as a co-headliner with Hugh Cornwell, the semi-legendary former singer of the Stranglers, another great early British punk band that was responsible for classics like â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Get a) Grip (on Yourself),â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peachesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden Brown.â&#x20AC;? As a solo artist, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s released a number of albums that were critically acclaimed, even if they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t set the charts on fire. Both singers are being backed by the same band, which includes the fantastic drummer of Blondie, Clem Burke. The tour kicks off at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., on Friday, Feb. 24. As added incentive, two fantastic local bands are also on the bill: Lenguas Largas and HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS. Things get rolling at 9 p.m. Advance tickets are $10; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be $12 on the day of the show. For more information, head to hotelcongress.com/club, or call 622-8848.

O HENRY Another punk legend, albeit one from a generation later, will be on a Tucson stage this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be playing music. Henry Rollinsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the last frontman for the American hardcore pioneers Black Flag, leader of the Rollins Band, author, actor, radio and TV host, raconteur and Renaissance manâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will be at the Rialto Theatre as part of his current spoken-word tour, dubbed The Long March Tour. What will he be discussing? Who the hell knows? But anyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever seen one of these tours before knows heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be funny, angry, provocative andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;above allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pretty damn entertaining. The opening date of the three-month Long March Tour goes down at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., next Thursday, March 1. Tickets for the all-ages, reserved seated show are $25 and $30. For more information, head to rialtotheatre.com, or call 740-1000.

R.I.P. We were saddened to hear that Mike Davis passed away on Feb. 17 due to liver failure. Davis was the bassist for legendary Detroit proto-punks the MC5, but he had close ties to Tucson, as he and his wife, Angela, spent a good deal of time on a ranch just outside of town. He played in Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios for a spell, and just about anyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent a good deal of time in the local music scene has stories to tellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mostly about

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ON THE BANDWAGON Los Lonely Boys (acoustic) and The Dunwells at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 29; Fringe Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Barely Free Baja Spectacular featuring tons of local musicians including members of The Tryst and Sweet Ghosts, Leila Lopez and Brian Green, Collin Shook, Brian Lopez, Jimmy Carr and organizer Bryan Sanders at Solar Culture Gallery on the nights of Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25, and the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 26; the annual Blues Sunday service with Lisa Otey, Diane Van Deurzen and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hurricaneâ&#x20AC;? Carla Brownlee at St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church on Sunday, Feb. 26; the Guitar Masters Tour with Andy McKee, Stephen Bennett and Antoine Dufour at the Rialto Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 26; Foreigner at the Diamond Center at Desert Diamond Casino on Saturday, Feb. 25; Authority Zero, Allura, The Endless Pursuit and others at The Rock next Thursday, March 1; Western swing dance with Carolyn Martin and Way Out West at Suite 147 in Plaza Palomino on Friday, Feb. 24; Clay Walker at the Diamond Center at the Desert Diamond Casino on Saturday, Feb. 25; Ballyhoo! at The Hut on Tuesday, Feb. 28; Pure Noise Records Tour with The Story So Far, The American Scene and others at Skrappyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Tuesday, Feb. 28; Three Bad Jacks, Sugar Stains, The El Camino Royales and The Outlaw Rebels at Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Sunday, Feb. 26; The Saint James Society, Doctor Dinosaur and Research at Plush on Friday, Feb. 24; Alaska String Band at Abounding Grace Sanctuary on Saturday, Feb. 25; WaWaWaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-year anniversary featuring Crizzly at Club Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28.

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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. 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. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. 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. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. DRIFTWOOD RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317. 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.

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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. FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. 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. HERITAGE HIGHLANDS CLUBHOUSE 4949 W. Heritage Club Blvd. Marana. 579-9574. 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 HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR AND GRILL 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4302. HOTEL CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. 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. 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. 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. NEW MOON TUCSON 915 W. Prince Road. 293-7339. 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. RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 615-3970. RAGING SAGE COFFEE ROASTERS 2458 N. Campbell Ave. 320-5203. RED GARTER SALOON 3143 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-9736. LE RENDEZ-VOUS 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road. 323-7373. RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000.

RIC’S CAFE/RESTAURANT 5605 E. River Road. 577-7272. RIVER’S EDGE LOUNGE 4635 N. Flowing Wells Road. 887-9027. RIVERPARK INN 350 S. Freeway Blvd. 239-2300. RJ’S REPLAYS SPORTS PUB AND GRUB 5769 E. Speedway Blvd. 495-5136. THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. 629-9211. ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. RUNWAY BAR AND GRILL 2101 S. Alvernon Way. 7 90-6788. RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road. 623-3363. SALTY DAWG II 6121 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 106. 790-3294. SAM HUGHES PLACE CHAMPIONSHIP DINING 446 N. Campbell Ave. 747-5223. SAPPHIRE LOUNGE 61 E. Congress St. 624-9100. SHARKS 256 E. Congress St. 791-9869. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. SHOOTERS STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 3115 E. Prince Road. 322-0779. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544. SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. SKY BAR 536 N. Fourth Ave. 622-4300. THE SKYBOX RESTAURANT AND SPORTS BAR 5605 E. River Road. 529-7180. SOLAR CULTURE 31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874. STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana. 877-8100. STOCKMEN’S LOUNGE 1368 W. Roger Road. 887-2529. SUITE 147 AT PLAZA PALOMINO 2970 N. Swan Road, No. 147. 440-4455. SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275. SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 882-0009. TANQUE VERDE RANCH 14301 E. Speedway Blvd. 296-6275. TERRY AND ZEKE’S 4603 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-3555. THIRSTY’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL 2422 N. Pantano Road. 885-6585. UNICORN SPORTS LOUNGE 8060 E. 22nd St., No. 118. 722-6900. V FINE THAI 9 E. Congress St. 882-8143. VAUDEVILLE 110 E. Congress St. 622-3535. VERONA ITALIAN RESTAURANT 120 S. Houghton Road. 722-2722. VOYAGER RV RESORT 8701 S. Kolb Road. 574-5000. WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843. WILD BILL’S STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 5910 N. Oracle Road. 887-6161. WILDCAT HOUSE 1801 N. Stone Ave. 622-1302. WINGS-PIZZA-N-THINGS 8838 E. Broadway Blvd. 722-9663. WISDOM’S CAFÉ 1931 E. Frontage Road. Tumacacori. 398-2397. WOODEN NICKEL 1908 S. Country Club Road. 323-8830. WOODY’S 3710 N. Oracle Road. 292-6702. ZEN ROCK 121 E. Congress St. 624-9100.

THU FEB 23 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch The Auld Dubliner Live local music Beer Belly’s Pub Open jam Boondocks Lounge Ed DeLucia Band Cactus Moon Jack Bishop Café Passé Jeff Grubic and Naim Amor Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar Neon Prophet La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Tony Redhouse CD-release, Gabriel Ayala Eddies Cocktails Cass Preston and His Band La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live mariachi music Las Cazuelitas Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Susan Artemis O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music The Onyx Room Larry Loud and George Howard O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Brooks and Dunn tribute RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Red Garter Saloon Shurman, Andy Hersey Rialto Theatre Gomez, Hey Rosetta! Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sky Bar Man Jr., Glass Affection Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Wild Oats

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bamboo Club Karaoke with DJ Tony G Bedroxx Karaoke with DJ Chubbz Bojangles Saloon Buffalo Wild Wings Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon El Charro Café Sahuarita Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s Valencia Gilligan’s Pub Glass Onion Cafe Open mic Golden Pin Lanes Karaoke and music videos with DJ Adonis Hilda’s Sports Bar The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar and Grill Steve Morningwood acoustic open-mic night M&L Airport Inn Bar and Grill Margarita Bay Mooney’s Pub Open mic Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Cutthroat Karaoke Music Box Karaoke with AJ River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stadium Grill Karaoke, dance music and music videos with DJ Tigger Voyager RV Resort Karaoke with the Tucson Twosome

DANCE/DJ Azul Restaurant Lounge DJ spins music Diablos Sports Bar and Grill XLevel DJs Eclipse at College Place DJ spins music Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music The Hideout Fiesta DJs IBT’s DJ spins music Javelina Cantina DJ M. Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Salsa night Sharks DJ Aspen Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

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FRI FEB 24 LIVE MUSIC Amado Territory Steakhouse Becky Reyes featuring Scott Muhleman Arizona Inn Dennis Reed

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NINE QUESTIONS Sara Habib A Tucson native, Sara Habib is one of the two co-founders (with Yassi Jahanmir) of the Tucson Fringe Theater Festival. Back for its second year, Fringe runs Thursday, Feb. 23, through Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Beowulf Alley Theatre and Solar Culture Gallery. Check out tucsonfringe.org for the details. Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com

What was the first concert you ever saw? Boyz II Men at the Tucson Convention Center. Those guys were really amazing vocalists. What are you listening to these days? Tracks from performers in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fringe. Fish Karmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a show in the festival thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty rock-tastic, and members of 8 Minutes to Burn and Sweet Ghosts are combining talents for a vaudeville-esque revue. What was the first album you owned? Paula Abdul. I played that tape until the ribbon broke. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get? Well, I enjoy a lot of different music. There are elements of say, Amon Tobin, or BjĂśrk, or Grinderman that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem accessible, but if you hear it in the right moment, it totally clicks.

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The Bamboo Club Live music The Bashful Bandit Live music Bluefin Seafood Bistro George Howard Duo Bojangles Saloon Live music Boondocks Lounge Neon Prophet Cactus Moon Zona Road Cafe Tremolo William Tell and Patrick Caulley The Canyonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crown Restaurant and Pub Live music Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar The AmoSphere Club Congress Sex Pistols vs. Stranglers La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Greg Morton Delectables Restaurant and Catering Scott Ramsey Eclipse at College Place Live music Eddies Cocktails Dust Devils El MezĂłn del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s E. Golf Links Live music La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Glass Onion Cafe The Cardells The Grill at Quail Creek Paul McGuffin Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music The Hideout Martin Baca and Solitario Norte Hotel Congress Hugh Corness vs. Glen Matlock The Hut Amarels, Hopheads, Whiskey Knuckles, Gaza Strip Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Holmes-Levinson Trio Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Liâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Abnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lindyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at Redline Sports Grill Heart Beat Band Maverick Flipside McMahonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prime Steakhouse Daniel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Slyâ&#x20AC;? Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Live music Mr. Anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Teppan Steak and Sushi Los Cubanos Mr. Headâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Gallery and Bar Collin Shook Trio Old Father Inn Live music Oracle Inn Chuck Wagon and the Same Old Band Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shaughnessyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Relente La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Saint James Society, Doctor Dinosaur, Research. Lounge: El Camino Royales Ricâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe/Restaurant Live music Riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge Lounge Wild Ride RiverPark Inn Amber Norgaard, Out in the Desert Film Festival Party The Rock Battle of the Bands: Sumner, Silence Is Golden, The Endless Obsession, Lethal Dosage Shot in the Dark CafĂŠ Mark Bockel The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Gentlemen Stadium Grill Live music Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino Western Swing Dance party: Carolyn Martin, Way Out West Sullivanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steak House Live music V Fine Thai Phony Bennett Whiskey Tango Vintage Sugar Wild Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steakhouse and Saloon Beau Renfro and Clear Country Wisdomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ Live music Woodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Susan Artemis

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What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash and Tupac. Also, there are artists Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted to see who would be truly amazing now that they have this fantastic catalog of work, like Garth Brooks, Celine Dion and Springsteen. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? I love Top 40, like Katy Perry. â&#x20AC;Ś Sometimes you just want something silly! What song would you like to have played at your funeral? Cat Powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Greatest.â&#x20AC;? What band or artist changed your life, and how? For me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been more about what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been listening to when my life changed. You connect to different music in different ways as you grow. I love strong female vocalists, and smart songwriters. In that context, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say the Dixie Chicks. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? Right now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Nationalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High Violet again. But ask me next week, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give you a different answer.

Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Karaoke with DJ Richard Brats Brodieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern Cow Palace Karaoke with DJ Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s W. Ruthrauff Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oracle Chubb Rock with Ray Brennan Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pima Iguana Cafe Jeffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub Kustom Karaoke Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Putneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Karaoke with DJ Soup Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Salty Dawg II Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Stockmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge Terry and Zekeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wings-Pizza-N-Things YNot Entertainment

DANCE/DJ The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Azul Restaurant Lounge Ladies and Lyrics Night: DJ spins music Bedroxx DJ spins music Casa Vicente Restaurante EspaĂąol Flamenco guitar and dance show La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Coming Out! A Queer Dance party The Depot Sports Bar DJ and music videos Diablos Sports Bar and Grill XLevel DJs DV8 Planet Q Live with Chris P. and JoJo El Charro CafĂŠ Sahuarita DJ spins music El Charro CafĂŠ on Broadway DJ spins R&B El Parador Salsa dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Valencia DJ spins music Fuku Sushi DJ spins music Hangoverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar and Grill DJ spins music IBTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CelloFame Javelina Cantina DJ M. Level Bar Lounge DJ Rivera M&L Airport Inn Bar and Grill Caliente DJ

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Maynards Market and Kitchen DJ spins music Music Box ’80s and more NoRTH DJ spins music O’Malley’s DJ Dibs The Onyx Room DJ Mista T Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Flashback Fridays with DJ Sid the Kid Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine DJ spins music Sky Bar Hot Era party Surly Wench Pub Underworld Revel Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment Vaudeville Grapla, Lee Hybrid Wildcat House Top 40 dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

COMEDY Laffs Comedy Caffé Cowboy Bill Martin

SAT FEB 25 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Live music Bluefin Seafood Bistro Nick Stanley Bojangles Saloon Live music Boondocks Lounge Last Call Girls, Cochise County All-Stars Café Passé Elephant Head Trio Cafe Tremolo John Bujak Cascade Lounge George Howard Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Brad Brooks, Gila Bend La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Decades Jazz Band Copper Queen Hotel Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl Cow Pony Bar and Grill DJ spins music Cushing Street Restaurant and Bar Live jazz Delectables Restaurant and Catering Stefan George Driftwood Restaurant and Lounge Live music Eclipse at College Place Live music Eddies Cocktails Classic rock ’n’ roll El Charro Café Sahuarita Live salsa band El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music Fire + Spice Amber Norgaard Band Flying V Bar and Grill Domingo DeGrazia La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Gold Live music Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music The Hideout Los Bandidos Hotel Congress Wayward Saints with Gila Bend The Hut Jon Wayne and the Pain Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Rockers Uptown Kingfisher Bar and Grill Larry Redhouse Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Live acoustic McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Dave Owens Band Mooney’s Pub Live music Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi The Bishop/Nelly Duo

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Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Collin Shook Trio O’Malley’s Live music Old Pueblo Grille Live music Old Tubac Inn Restaurant and Saloon Grams and Krieger O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Angel Norteno La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush The Holy Rolling Empire, Mergence, Electric Blankets Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music River’s Edge Lounge Armed at Night The Rock Battle of the Bands: Rusty Green, Hotchiks, On Shoulders of Giants, Message to the Masses, Deceptively Innocent, Valence, DJ Murk, DJ Sadistik Sheraton Hotel and Suites Tucson Jazz Institute Sky Bar Young Hunter, Cadillac Steakhouse Stadium Grill Live music Suite 147 at Plaza Palomino Incendio Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Tanque Verde Ranch Live music Vaudeville Random Whiskey Tango Live music

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Karaoke with DJ Richard Brats The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon Elbow Room Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Oracle Chubb Rock with Ray Brennan Famous Sam’s Pima The Grill at Quail Creek Hangover’s Bar and Grill IBT’s Amazing Star Entertainment Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke The Loop Taste of Chicago Karaoke, dance music and videos with DJ Juliana Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Nevada Smith’s Old Father Inn Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stockmen’s Lounge Terry and Zeke’s

DANCE/DJ The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Bedroxx DJ spins music Brodie’s Tavern Latino Night Cactus Moon Line-dance lesson Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Flamenco guitar and dance show Club Congress Bang! Bang! dance party La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar DJ Herm Diablos Sports Bar and Grill XLevel DJs El Charro Café on Broadway DJ Soo Latin mix El Parador Salsa dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Sam’s Valencia DJ spins music Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music IBT’s DJ spins music Music Box ’80s and more On a Roll DJ Aspen Rusty’s Family Restaurant and Sports Grille DJ Obi Wan Kenobi Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge DJ 64, DJ Phil Sharks DJ Chucky Chingon Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine Belly dancing with Emma Jeffries and friends Sky Bar Hot Era party Surly Wench Pub Fineline Revisited

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The gatefold by horror painter and illustrator Dusty Peterson (whose gorgeously deranged artworks have dripped viscera from the album covers of grindcore bands like Cattle Decapitation) tells you everything you need to know about Los Angeles sludge-masters Behold! The Monolith’s new self-released full-length. The image that defines Defender, Redeemist is at once futuristic (sci-fi warrior) and Paleolithic (flying dinosaur/dragon), which is the best way to describe the sonic attack of the Monolith, a three-piece that manages to sound—like so many great doom bands (e.g., High on Fire)—like an army of bloodthirsty orcs rampaging across a corpse-strewn battlefield. You can hear the pierced and hacked bodies collapsing into the dust in the thrashy “Desolizator,” chock-full of lurching time signatures and odd breakdowns. The Motörhead-long “We Are the Worm” takes Lemmy’s whiskey-fueled narratives of road-beaten rock life into post-apocalyptic terrain: “We’ve taken this husk in chemical fire / We burrow through your mind,” guitarist Matt Price screams before triggering an eerie, darkly atmospheric synth blast. (Price also plays keyboards live.) But it’s the sudden spasm of prog-metal chops that launches “Witch Hunt Supreme,” which eventually settles down into dronedoom mode, that’ll leave you gasping in awe, like those spooked astronauts in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Legendary doom-metal producer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Sleep) helps make the Monolith bigger, more cosmic and mysterious than it’s ever been. Great alt-metal. Jarret Keene

Attack on Memory is exciting for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it’s the sound of a band finding its ambition. The group’s last album was a solid, if unremarkable, affair—brief, propulsive garage rock with a bedroompop sensibility. Its guitars were clouds of bees swarming, not out of anger, but to churn out honey. Suddenly, here’s Attack on Memory, and it’s like head Nothing Dylan Baldi spent the last year listening to nothing but Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu and Unwound. What’s even more of a compliment is that this new album isn’t the sound of a band trying to ape a new set of influences. The harder, darker sound comes off organically, and the band still retains its essential DNA; songs like “Fall In” or “Stay Useless” wouldn’t sound so out of place on 2011’s Cloud Nothings, after all. But there’s this new cinematic spaciousness immediately apparent on album opener “No Future/No Past,” in that it clocks in at almost five minutes; nothing on Cloud Nothings lasted much more than three. Now the band is writing songs that slowly crank up in intensity and volume after slinking along, or, as with “Our Plans,” songs that orchestrate dramatic shifts in tempo, where the drumming helps to build drama and mood. Everything is sharper and more deliberate here; could be Steve Albini’s work as engineer. Those bees have become hornets. Sean Bottai Cloud Nothings perform an 18-and-older show at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., at 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27, with Classic Education. $10; 622-8848; hotelcongress.com.

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embark on your journey to the far side of reality, Cancerian, it might be tempting for you to try to match that level of comfort. But what’s more important than material luxury will be psychological and spiritual aids that help keep you attuned to your deepest understandings about life. Be sure you’re well-stocked with influences that keep your imagination vital and upbeat. Favorite symbols? Uplifting books? Photos of mentors? Magic objects? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Veterans of war who’ve been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later, some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins. The same is true about your psyche. It might not be able to easily and quickly get rid of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way. Judging by the astrological omens, I think you are very close to such a climactic cleansing and catharsis, Leo. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Distilled water is a poor conductor of electricity. For H2O to have electroconductivity, it must contain impurities in the form of dissolved salts. I see a timely lesson in this for you, Virgo. If you focus too hard on being utterly clean and clear, some of life’s rather chaotic but fertile and invigorating energy may not be able to flow through you. That’s why I suggest you experiment with being at least a little impure and imperfect. Don’t just tolerate the messiness. Learn from it; thrive on it; even exult in it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Dear Rob: For months, I’ve had a recurring dream in which I own a pet snake. Here’s the problem: The only cage I have to keep the snake in is sadly inadequate. It has widely spaced bars that the snake just slips right through. In the dream, I am constantly struggling to keep the snake in its cage, which is exhausting, since it’s impossible. Just this morning, after having the dream for the billionth time, I FINALLY asked myself: What’s so terrible about letting the snake out of its cage? So I gratefully wrote myself this permission note: “It is hereby allowed and perfectly acceptable to let my dreamsnake out of its cage to wander freely.” —Scorpio Devotee. Dear Devotee: You have provided all your fellow Scorpios with an excellent teaching story for the upcoming weeks. Thank you! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For million of years, black-kite raptors made their nests with leaves, twigs, grass, mud, fur and feathers. In recent centuries, they have also borrowed materials from humans, like cloth, string and paper. And in the last few decades, a new element has become quite popular: Eighty-two

percent of all black-kite nest-builders now use white plastic as decoration. I suggest you take inspiration from these adaptable creatures, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time for you to add some wrinkles to the way you shape your home base. Departing from tradition could add significantly to your levels of domestic bliss. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are many examples of highly accomplished people whose early education was problematical. Thomas Edison’s first teacher called him “addled,” and thereafter, he was home-schooled by his mother. Winston Churchill did so poorly in school that he was punished. Benjamin Franklin had just two years of formal education. As for Einstein, he told his biographer, “My parents were worried because I started to talk comparatively late, and they consulted a doctor because of it.” What all these people had in common, however, is that they became brilliant at educating themselves according to their own specific needs and timetable. Speaking of which: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you Capricorns to plot and design the contours of your future learning.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Nigeria has abundant deposits of petroleum. Since 1974, oil companies have paid the country billions of dollars for the privilege of extracting its treasure. And yet the majority of Nigerians, more than 70 percent, live on less than a dollar a day. Where does the money go? That’s a long story, with the word “corruption” at its heart. Now let me ask you, Aquarius: Is there a gap between the valuable things you have to offer and the rewards you receive for them? Are you being properly compensated for your natural riches? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to address this issue. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gawker. com notes that Arizona Sen. John McCain tends to repeat himself—a lot. Researchers discovered that he has told the same joke at least 27 times in five years. (And it’s such a feeble joke, it’s not worth re-telling.) In the coming week, Pisces, please please please avoid any behavior that resembles this repetitive, habit-bound laziness. You simply cannot afford to be imitating who you used to be and what you used to do. As much as possible, reinvent yourself from scratch—and have maximum fun doing it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are neither in a red-alert situation, nor are you headed for one. A pink alert may be in effect, however. Thankfully, there’s no danger or emergency in the works. Shouting and bolting and leaping won’t be necessary. Rather, you may simply be called upon to come up with unexpected responses to unpredicted circumstances. Unscripted plot twists could prompt you to take actions you haven’t rehearsed. It actually might be kind of fun as long as you play with the perspective Shakespeare articulated in As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

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¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net mexican.net Dear Mexican: I’ve tried and failed to learn the Spanish language for the last two years. During high school and college, I took both Spanish I and Spanish II, but nothing really stuck with me. Last year, I visited a Spanish-speaking church to help immerse myself in the language, but only understood about 10 percent of the message. I tried to watch the available Spanish channels at home, but 90 percent of the programs don’t appeal to me (although I do enjoy the luchadores). Also, I’m terribly introverted and don’t have any bilingual friends. It’s unfathomable to me to approach someone and say, “I’m looking to learn the language. Can you help me out?” I live and work in an environment where the need to speak Spanish is nearly nonexistent. I’m thinking about signing up for another collegelevel course, but without finding an anchor to the culture, I’m afraid of failure again. To help, I enjoy comic books, crime fiction/movies, sci-fi and literary short stories. Please help me cross over the language wall and into the freedom of being bilingual. Altruistic Alabaman

tacos, and it gets stuck between my teeth insofar as it starts out awesome and ends up annoying. Nom Nom Nom de Plume Dear Gabacha: “Taco” is Taco’s first name: Taco Ockerse, the 1980s one-hit wonder who went by Taco as his stage name. Not being fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, I can’t tell you what that taco means, but the taco you taco taco taco taco. Taco? Taco! ¡A LA CHINGADA CON ARPAYASO!

Dear Gabacho: Primeramente, good for you for not being afraid of Spanish like your gabacho neighbors—you’re like the último of the Mohicans with your raza over there in Alabama! Acquiring a new language is never easy, especially when you’re an adult, so the Mexican’s suggestion is to not give up on your path. Continue to immerse yourself—television (I know Univisión is really just a looping minstrel show, but their news operation is topnotch), church, books and the like. Better yet, why don’t you connect with one of the many immigrant-rights groups in the Cotton State fighting the good fight against the state’s reprehensible anti-Mexican laws? Not only will they be more than happy to teach you español, but you’ll be doing the Lord’s work and most likely end up with a cute Chicana activist who’ll take your bilingualism to a whole other level. Enjoy!

PREORDER TACO USA! Gentle cabrones: My much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America will finally hit bookstores April 10, but that doesn’t mean you can’t already order it. (Yes, grammar snobs: I just used a double-negative, but Mexican Spanish loves double-negatives the way we do cute second cousins.) Place your order with your favorite local bookstore, your finer online retailers or your craftier piratas, but place it: My libro editor has already promised to deport me from the publishing industry if we don’t sell enough copies! And stay tuned for book-signing info! I’ll be in Tucson in April!

How is the singer Taco like a taco? If Taco were a taco, what kind of taco would Taco be? When I listen to Taco’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” and it gets stuck in my head, it’s like when I eat carne asada

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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I am a straight 24-year-old female who has known my fiancé since my freshman year of college. He has a fetish where he likes to watch women use the bathroom. I knew this, having seen some of his porn early on, and I accepted it. We all have kinks. However, while peeing in front of someone isn’t that big of a deal, shitting in front of someone is hard. So we had a lovely night going, when I had to poop. We went into the bathroom together. He got very horny, but I couldn’t go. I said I was sorry; “Maybe I’ll be more relaxed later,” and he goes, “Well, let’s fuck in here in case you have to go.” He wanted to do it sitting on the toilet with me on top. No go. Too hard, so we went in my room and had amazing sex and smoked a joint. I wanted to have sex again, but he wanted to wait to see if I could go. He said, “Drink some coffee! Smoke a cigarette!” I love him and want to be GGG, but the pressure turned me off. (1) Is this my fault for bringing it up? (2) Was his pressuring me wrong? (3) How should I approach this situation without sounding like a bitch? Pressured Over Observable Performance 1. You didn’t do anything wrong when you brought it up, POOP, and he didn’t do anything wrong when he got excited about the possibility of having his fantasy realized. 2. Yes. However excited your fiancé was about finally realizing his watch-my-girl-take-a-shit fantasy, he shouldn’t have pressured you to perform once it became clear that it wasn’t gonna happen. (And he shouldn’t encourage you to smoke cigarettes; those things will kill you.) Shitting in front of someone—and here’s hoping that’s as far as his interest in poop goes—isn’t easy, POOP, and badgering you won’t help. Your fiancé, if he knows what’s good for him, will hang back, let you set the pace, and thank his lucky fucking stars that he found someone who is willing to even try, and will get there eventually. 3. “I know you’re excited, honey, and it excites me to see you so excited. But dial it back a bit, OK? Next time I feel like I can give it a try, I will definitely let you know. But all of this pressure is making me feel constipated. And you don’t want that, right?” I’m an 18-year-old male. After three years of silence, my ex-girlfriend texted me out of the blue. She was my first love, and part of my heart still aches for her. I feel like the smart thing to do is to stop talking to her right now, but my heart says if I keep at it, I might be able to win her back. Most of her messages sound flirtatious, but it could just be me being optimistic. She even said, “I don’t think of you as more than a friend. But I would be open to a relationship if I started having feelings for you again.” Is this a lost cause? Or do I need to give it more time and see how it develops? Love And Memories Enflamed Forgive me, LAME, for what I’m about to type. You’re being used. Your ex-girlfriend sent that out-of-the-blue text because she wanted to feel wanted. Maybe she got dumped recently, or maybe she’s in the midst of a dry spell, or maybe she’s just selfish and cruel. But all she’s after here—most likely—are the ego boosts your texts provide. And to keep those boosts coming, LAME, she’s dangling a little false hope in front of you: She told you the truth so she wouldn’t have to admit to herself that she’s a manipulative liar (she only thinks of you as a friend) and then tacked on some meaningless, impossible-todisprove crap (a relationship might be possible if

she starts to have feelings for you again) to keep you textin’. You dated her three years ago … when you were 15. You’re not in love with her, LAME; you’re in love with the way she made you feel. There are other girls out there who can make you feel that way. Go find one. I’m a 35-year-old GGG married male with a 33-year-old not-so-GGG wife. We’ve been together 17 years and married four months. She was a virgin when we met, and she’s never been too sexual of a person. I am a very sexual person, but she kept me satisfied with oral, dress-up, sex in different places—things like that. Things really started to fall off sexually around our 10th year together. When I mentioned it, she said that she felt I was never going to marry her, so why should she give me 100 percent? I enjoy oral and watching women masturbate, and she wouldn’t do either, and blamed it on the marriage thing. Five years later, I gave her the big wedding she wanted. I actually enjoy being married. Now, here’s my dilemma: She won’t do anything besides traditional sex—and only when she’s awake enough to actually have sex, and I always have to initiate. When I mention things like oral or toys or masturbation, she says she feels uncomfortable doing things like that. If she would have told me this before, my decision to get married might have been different. I don’t want her to do anything that makes her feel uncomfortable or degraded. But in my opinion, what I’m asking for is not “kinky,” certainly when compared to some of the things I could be into. We’ve had this discussion consistently throughout our short marriage, with no sign of her even trying. Am I doomed to a bad marriage, or is there something I can do? Because talking isn’t working. I feel she lied to me to get me to marry her, and now I don’t know what to do. Any advice is appreciated. Lots Of Sexual Tension All your options are bad, LOST. Stay married; stay faithful; stew in your own frustration and resentment until you die. Stay married; cheat with cause; hope you don’t get caught. Inform your spouse that you’re not going to ask her to do things she’s not comfortable with, but you’re also not going to ask for her permission to do those things with other women, and be cast as the villain when she files for divorce. Initiate the divorce yourself; find a new partner; make sure your new partner both enjoys sex and enjoys the kinds of sex you do before you marry her. (Hint: If she likes sex, and likes the stuff you like, she’ll want to do that stuff whether you’re married to her or not.) Sorry, LOST, but that’s all I got. HEY, EVERYBODY You know how Mormons “baptize” dead people who weren’t Mormons—including Holocaust victims—because Mormons believe they have a right to choose Mormonism for the deceased? And you know how the Mormon Church says that being gay is a choice? The same church that doesn’t think you should have a choice about being posthumously baptized? Well, now you can choose homosexuality for dead Mormons! Just go to www.AllDeadMormonsAreNowGay.com; enter the name of a deceased Mormon or ask the site to find a dead Mormon for you; and— presto!—that dead Mormon gets to have a gay afterlife! Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage, or follow me @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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