Tucson Weekly 03/14/2013 by Tucson Weekly

MARCH 14–20, 2013 VOL. 30, NO. 3

OPINION Tom Danehy 4 Randy Serraglio 6 Jim Hightower 6 Pedersen on Sports 14

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

Separation Stress 9 By Mari Herreras

What do you call a male ballerina?

Immigrant rights activists return to TPD this weekend Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Borderland Blowout 11 By Tim Vanderpool

Groups allege the Border Patrol is trashing our public lands Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by David Mendez

Police Dispatch 12 By Anna Mirocha

Out of the House 13 By Bethany Barnes

Things really went downhill after they renamed the “Thirstbuster.”

Legislation to gut Clean Elections, block gun buybacks and aid the mentally ill The Tucson Weekly Celebrity Showdown 15 Illustrations by Hannah Nance Partlow

Finally, your opportunity to arbitrarily assign value to famous people who have some connection to Tucson

Circle K, You Are Dead to Me So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who pick up a copy of the Weekly at Circle K each week, next week you’ll have to go elsewhere. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear to me or anyone else around here, the convenience store chain has kicked us out of their stores, seemingly to replace us with AZ Weekly, a Phoenix publication expanding its reach into Southern Arizona. We have a few things in common with AZ Weekly. We are both printed on paper, have information about events, and... well, that might be it. First of all, it’s a Phoenix publication, so there’s that, but even ignoring the fact that an advertiser can buy editoral content, it’s a pretty lousy paper. Their media kit brags that the publication is “Non-political, noncynical, non polarizing. Non-offensive,” which is mostly a code word for dull, dull and dull. Best of luck to them. I hear people down here are really looking for more information about what there is to do in Phoenix. Still, my main issue is with Circle K, who apparently think that they’re not getting anything out of having the Weekly in their locations and that Tucsonans are fine with whatever crap you put in front of them. For obvious reasons, I have a different opinion, but if you’d like to share with their management that you’ll miss having their locations available as an easy place to grab our paper, feel free to let them know. The customer service number for Circle K’s Southwest Region is (602) 728-8000. In the meantime, we’re still all over town with convenient racks all over the Tucson area. On our website, we have a somewhat interactive map that you can search to see where the Weekly can be found near you. If there’s a business you think should have the Weekly, let the manager know they can get a rack free of charge. All they have to do is call us at 295-4220. If you don’t feel like going anywhere to get an issue each week, we’re looking into providing home delivery (seriously, no kidding) for a small fee. If that’s something you’d be interested in, send me an email and I’ll let you know when that’s available. The most important thing to know is that while we won’t be available a few places we used to be, we’re still in nearly 700 locations around Tucson with more to come. Thanks for reading us. And no thanks to you, Circle K. DAN GIBSON, Editor dgibson@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY ANDREW ARTHUR; ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANNAH NANCE PARTLOW

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CULTURE

CHOW

City Week 22

Odd Location, French Flavors 45

TQ&A 24 David Hallberg

By Jacqueline Kuder

ARTS

Our reviewer checks out a place many Tucsonans intend to try

Couples Therapy 30

Noshing Around 45

By Sherilyn Forrester

By Jerry Morgan

The Sunshine Boys is a charming look at a bygone era

MUSIC

Women on a Sex Strike 31 By Laura C.J. Owen

Beowulf turns ancient Greeks’ Lysistrata into delicious – and relevant – satire Border Art and Song 33

Unpredictable and Energetic 52 By Eric Swedlund

Audacity hit Tucson before they start recording a new album

By Margaret Regan

Soundbites 52

A visual artist and a singer explore the tragedies that spur migrants to come to the U.S.

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Nine Questions 55

BOOKS

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Disturbing the Dead 36

Rhythm & Views 60

By Christine Wald-Hopkins

Brent Hendricks went on a daytrip to reflect on what happened to his father

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Oz the Great and Powerful is another big-budget film you probably don’t need to see

TV/DVD Killer Season 42 By Bill Frost

Tales of Tinctures 63 By J.M. Smith

CLASSIFIEDS Comix 63-65 Free Will Astrology 64 ¡Ask a Mexican! 65 Savage Love 66 Personals 68 Employment 69 News of the Weird 70 Real Estate/Rentals 70 Mind, Body and Spirit 71 Crosswords 65, 70 *Adult Content 66-68

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Tom is planning on living for a while, unless he’s swallowed by a molasses spill

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BY TOM DANEHY, tdanehy@tucsonweekly.com

n Jan. 15, 1919, an unseasonable warm-up caused carbon dioxide to accumulate inside a giant storage tank full of molasses in Boston’s North End neighborhood. The tank exploded, sending a 15-foot-high wall of molasses roaring down the street at more than 35 miles per hour, which is, ironically, much faster than molasses in January. Twenty-one people died and more than 150 were injured by the blast and the subsequent flood, which is referred to as the Boston Molasses Disaster, the Great Molasses Flood, or the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy. Take your pick, but whichever you choose, you have to agree that it’s a dumbass way to die. Molasses was the No. 1 sweetener in America in those days and was also used in the manufacture of rum and ethyl alcohol, a main ingredient in many types of alcoholic beverages. What many don’t know is that it was also an ingredient in a highly explosive form of munitions involving a mixture of ammonium nitrate, molasses and water. There had been a huge demand for molasses during World War I and the storage tank had been hurriedly and badly constructed. The builder, a man named Arthur Jell, had been in such a hurry, he hadn’t even taken the time to fill the tank with water to see if there were any leaks. As it turned out, it leaked so badly that people in the neighborhood would come by and scoop molasses off the outer wall for their own use. Instead of fixing the leaks, Jell had the tank painted brown so that the leaks wouldn’t be so obvious to passers-by. A rumor that persists today is that the tank was filled past capacity because of the impending Prohibition. However, the company that owned the tank, Purity Distilling Co., did not make rum or other spirits, but rather industrial alcohol, which was exempt from the Volstead Act. (Some theorize that company officials were concerned that the act would be expanded to include a ban on industrial alcohol as well.) Whatever the case, the tank was straining under the load. The temperature in Boston had gone from two degrees Fahrenheit to more than 40 degrees in just a few days, causing carbon dioxide to build up inside the structure. Witnesses recall hearing a low rumbling and then several popping sounds (probably rivets being blown outward). More than two million gallons of molasses rushed out, knocking a train off its tracks, toppling several buildings and killing the 21 people and several horses. (I’m sorry, but I can’t help but think of the slow-motion chase scene in Austin Powers.) It took quite a while to clean it up and Boston Harbor

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was brown with molasses through the following summer. According to local legend, some people claim that on hot summer days they can still smell molasses in that area. My mother told me that story when I was a kid because one of the people killed was a 10-year-old boy named Pasquale Iantosca, whose family was possibly distantly related to my mother’s. I remember thinking at the time that, while memorable, I didn’t want to die like that. I thought of that the other day when a friend pointed out that I’m probably past the midway point of my life and she was wondering how I would not want to die. Actually, being stuck in molasses like a bug on flypaper might not even be in my top (or bottom) 10. Considering my girth, most people probably assume that I will eventually die of a heart attack. Indeed, most would have assumed that I would have met that fate several years back, but I’m in pretty good shape for a fat guy. Plus, there’s no heart disease in my family. A long, long time ago, I was a lifeguard on the beach near L.A. (I know, I know—what happened?) I was always a pretty good (but not great) swimmer. I could tread water for a long time and, through sheer determination, could get from point A to point B, albeit not in any sort of record time. Still, while I’m never afraid in water, I think that drowning would be a horrible way to go. Same with fire. I hear that being stabbed hurts a lot and getting shot is no fun, either. I was watching Midnight In Paris the other night and was constantly laughing at how the Ernest Hemingway character kept using “brave” and “courage” in every sentence. Then, when Ernest Hemingway got old in real life, he killed himself. I know one thing: I’m not going out like a chump. Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once said, “I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I intend to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.” (He made it to 84 and died of heart failure.) I don’t want to waste a lot of time worrying about this, so I’ve made a decision. I want to die on my 100th birthday while performing a heroic act in which I save the life of a young Zefram Cochrane, who will go on to invent warp drive in 2063. OK, now that I’ve got that out of the way, I can go back to living the final four or five decades of my life.

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Randy takes a trip to the Arizona Legislature to try to reach some understanding HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER

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pring is here. Last week, for the first time in months, I saw lizards in the yard. Voracious bigheaded ants emerged from their bunker under the shed and began denuding nearby vegetation. And Jim Nintzel has written his annual legislative roundup, a forensic examination of the train wreck of democracy, Arizona style. I know a lot of ink has been spilled on this (electrons, too—check out Blogislature, in The Range on the Weekly Wide Web). But, hey, it’s important. At least, it seems to be, considering how much people complain about what politicians do, or fail to do. Problem is, rarely does that attitude translate to action. Democracy is what you make of it, folks. Put up or shut up.

When it comes to pursuing their prey, sharks are master maneuverers. Loan sharks, that is. These days, this usurious species goes by the less threatening name of “payday lenders.” But they are no less voracious, targeting folks in rough financial straits and luring them with easy-money come-ons. With I’m guilty, too, when it comes to the Arizona Legislature, lethal interest rates of more than 700 perwhich I wrote off long ago as a hopeless majority of yahoos cent, automatic renewal clauses, and other who run roughshod over a caring, sensible minority while razor-sharp gotchas, a $500 payday loan shoveling our money to business cronies and playing out can sink a hapless borrower thousands of paranoid fantasies with misguided, disastrous legislation. dollars into debt. That’s why states have been restricting the sharks’ interest-rate But I also think that doing nothing about it encourages gouging and entrapment techniques. such mischief. But, with a flip of their tails, many paySo, last month I attended Environmental Lobby Day at the day lenders are simply swimming around Capitol, organized by the Sierra Club, the Arizona League of state laws by operating online and offshore Conservation Voters and the Coalition for Sonoran Desert from such regulatory safe-harbors as the Protection, among others. One way or another, I’ve worked Bahamas, the Isle of Man, and Malta. From for each of these groups at some point in the past 20 years, there, sharks can make loans, then begin but on Lobby Day, I chose to be an average Joe, with no affilidevouring their borrowers’ bank accounts, ation or agenda other than protecting the health of my comeven in states that ban such loans. munity and what’s left of the natural world. How can shady operators pull-off billions It was a surreal day, beginning at the butt-crack of dawn of dollars worth of these devious – and with a bus ride to Phoenix through dense fog and fields thick maybe illegal – transactions each year? with frost. As I chatted with old friends and new acquainWith inside help from such pillars of the tances on the dim, half-empty bus, I wondered why it’s so financial establishment as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo. Of course, these THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow upstanding corporate citizens don’t dirty their hands (or reputations) by making these predatory loans, but they willingly allow offshore sharks to tap directly into the borrowers’ checking accounts and withdraw unconscionable interest payments electronically… and mercilessly. There’s a four-letter F-word for what the banks are doing to their own depositors: Fees. Automatic withdrawals by the sharks can cause a tsunami of overdrafts in a borrowers’ bank account – and banks happily collect fat fees for every overdraft. To help stop this multibilliondollar feeding frenzy on hard-up people go to www.responsiblelending.org.

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damn difficult to get anybody to do anything about this stuff. Is everyone cynical like me, or do people just take the whole “environment” thing for granted? Like, no matter how much we shit where we eat (and breathe, and drink), it somehow won’t hurt us? No matter how many species wink out in the cascading extinction crisis that is a primary symptom of our planet’s ecological collapse, ours will somehow persist? I don’t trust our luck that much. We arrived to a briefing from Tucson Sen. Steve Farley, who was excited by the prospect of Democrats crafting slim majorities on some issues with a small handful of Republican moderates to at least block the worst crackpot bills. Then it was on to the Senate minority caucus, where bills that are actually moving toward a vote are discussed. Democratic senators parsed dozens of “terrible bills” before landing on one sponsored by one of their own, which literally generated a round of applause. Yeah, things are still pretty bad for the D-team. After a quick lunch in the cafeteria dungeon, my group met with my senator, Olivia Cajero-Bedford. In the morning caucus we had watched her pull a resolution attacking the Endangered Species Act from the consent calendar, thereby ensuring it would receive more scrutiny. It was a toothless memo to the federal government to the effect that we don’t like that law in these parts, but it was full of lies and distortions regarding the “ineffectiveness” of the act, which is actually one of the most successful environmental laws in history. As Olivia worked her way down the line, it became abundantly clear that she was genuinely heartened by our presence. When she shook my hand, I thanked her for what she’d done in the caucus and asked why. She seemed a bit surprised by my question, but explained it this way: She’d never considered herself much of an environmentalist until she moved out to the Tucson Mountains and began seeing deer, javelina and bobcats strolling through her yard. Then she really began to appreciate how beautiful and miraculous the wild world is and decided to do more to protect it. Wow. If it were that easy with everybody, we might actually get somewhere. But then, Olivia is probably one of the nicest people ever elected, so it’s not surprising that her compassion for critters would come naturally. Even if encouraging Olivia was the only thing I accomplished that day, it was time well spent. It’s fun to see how the process works and make politicians pay attention to the people they represent. And it felt really good to let Olivia know that her hard work is greatly appreciated on this end. You should try it. Go to the Weekly’s Blogislature coverage, pick a bill that’s important to you, and make a call. I promise it won’t hurt, and you might even enjoy it.

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THE SKINNY

Immigrant rights activists return to TPD this weekend to demand change in Border Patrol reporting

THE BACKGROUND PUSH

Separation Stress BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com hen the Tucson Weekly broke the story on U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s arrest of immigrant rights activist Raul Alcaráz Ochoa on Sunday, Feb. 17, it took just hours for the story to go national, putting Tucson once again at the epicenter of the immigration debate. The detaining and deporting of undocumented immigrants has often focused on the separation of families, where those who are legally in the country—especially children—are suddenly separated from a parent or other loved ones. Which is what Alcaráz Ochoa was thinking about that Sunday afternoon when he came across a car stopped by Tucson Police Department and saw Rene Meza Huerta about to be handed over to the Border Patrol as his five children and his girlfriend watched. Alcaráz Ochoa crawled beneath a Border Patrol vehicle in an effort to keep it from driving off. He was arrested and detained overnight. The Weekly recently sat down with Alcaráz Ochoa to talk about what took place that day. Although it’s been almost a month since his arrest, the coordinator of Southside Presbyterian Church’s Southside Worker Center is eager to keep the story alive because a march from the church to Tucson Police Department headquarters is scheduled for Sunday, March 17. The goal of the march, he said, is to continue to call attention to immigration issues, especially in a self-proclaimed “immigrant friendly” city like Tucson. “What happens when TPD calls Border Patrol is family separation, and it is a level of violence and brutality that is ripping our community apart,” Alcaráz Ochoa said. “We need to continue to expose that local police and the (Pima County) Sheriff ’s Department are calling Border Patrol even though they’ve said they are not in agreement with it.” On. Feb. 17, Meza Huerta was driving with his pregnant girlfriend and his kids. Police said someone called to accuse him of child endangerment because the caller said a child was placed in the trunk of the family’s silver Mercury Cougar. Alcaráz Ochoa recalls that the car was a hatchback, but it was reported that the young children in the car were not in legally required safety seats. Family members said they had just purchased the car and didn’t have the seats with them. Alcaráz Ochoa is active with a local immigrant rights organization called Corazón de Tucson. Friends began putting out word of his 2:30 p.m. arrest, asking people to call the Border Patrol to find out where he was and when he would be released. No one could con-

firm where he was being held. The Weekly called the Border Patrol for comment and was told that only family could get confirmation of anyone taken into custody. Alcaráz Ochoa said his decision to lie under the Border Patrol car wasn’t easy because it could mean felony charges for obstructing a federal agent. But he hasn’t gone before a magistrate in federal court yet because his case is still being reviewed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “I think that the only thing that could potentially declare Arizona in a state of emergency or state of crisis, since it hasn’t declared that officially, is probably people doing this on a widespread level all the time,” Alcaráz Ochoa said. “It would be a very big disruption.” Prior to Alcaráz Ochoa’s decision, many immigrant rights activists had been going to scenes when TPD stops someone and the Border Patrol is called, sometimes filming the arrest and getting information from the people being detained so their families can be notified. Alcaráz Ochoa said his work at the Southside Worker Center puts him in contact with laborers and others who are worried about being detained. Defying the Border Patrol, he said, was a chance to do something rather than feel powerless. But is he worried that the feds will press charges and try to deport him? It depends on “what kind of example” they will try to make of him, said Alcaraz Ochoa, who was born in Mexico and is now a legal permanent resident of the United States. His attorney, Victoria Trull, told him that it could be considered a deportable offense, but that deportation was unlikely. “I think they let me go because of all the calls and the political pressure,” he said. While being detained, he said, he gave officials the name of his lawyer, but wasn’t allowed to talk to her. He learned when he got out that his father in California called to get more information on where he was being held and was told to call the Mexican Consulate. Looking back, Alcaráz Ochoa said he thinks it could have been worse. “They couldn’t get me unless they crawled in and physically removed me,” he said. Border Patrol agents tried to talk him out, explaining the charges he could face, as well the possibility of being pepper-sprayed or Tasered. Alcaráz Ochoa said he responded each time by asking if they were going to let Meza Huerta go. When they said no, he stayed put. Seven more Border Patrol agents arrived and he could hear them discuss the pros and cons of being Tasered or pepper-sprayed. “Finally someone said ‘You can’t Tase him

because his body might go up and down, and it might damage the vehicle,’” Alcaráz Ochoa recalled. “That’s when they approached me with the pepper spray.” As they sprayed underneath both sides of the car, Alcaráz Ochoa covered his face and closed his eyes, and two agents crawled under the car and dragged him out. “If there weren’t cameras and people standing around, I think they would have beat my ass. They were containing themselves. It was aggressive, but not to the level I know it could have gotten,” he said. Alcaráz Ochoa was released from custody the next day and went to TPD headquarters, where a rally had been organized by local activists. The same day, the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector released this statement: “On Feb. 17, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents responded to a request for assistance by the Tucson Police Department. At the scene, a Mexican male, who is a Lawfully Admitted Permanent Resident, impeded law enforcement by lying beneath a Border Patrol vehicle after agents took several subjects into custody for being illegally present in the United States. The man was subsequently arrested by Border Patrol agents after failing to respond to repeated warnings and refusing to move from beneath the vehicle. He has been released from Border Patrol custody.” On Tuesday, Meza Huerta, who had a Mexican voter registration card but no valid U.S. driver’s license, went before a federal magistrate and was deported. TPD had said that it was the fact that Meza Huerta had previously been deported that prompted the call to the Border Patrol. In response to the criticism facing TPD over the department’s policy on calling the Border Patrol, Police Chief Roberto Villaseñor issued a memo to City Manager Richard Miranda explaining the incident. Villaseñor wrote that “our actions concerning Mr. Huerta Meza were completely in line with the provisions in effect since the Supreme Court decision regarding SB 1070. It is exactly situations like this which we predicted would occur once this law was allowed to stand. Even though our officers conducted themselves appropriately, they are being falsely accused of misconduct by immigrant activists … I have been very adamant that we will enforce the law, but we will do so with integrity and professionalism, which is exactly how my officers conducted themselves during this event.” Sunday’s protest march begins at noon at Southside Presbyterian Church, 317 W. 23rd St., and ends at Tucson police headquarters, 270 S. Stone Ave.

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Gabby Giffords returned last week to the Safeway parking lot where a gunman shot her through the head two years ago to urge the U.S. Senate to take action on legislation requiring background checks for all gun sales. Flanked by her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords delivered a brief message to Congress: “Be bold. Be courageous. Support background checks.” Giffords and several of the other survivors of the Jan. 8, 2011, massacre gathered on Wednesday, March 6, to encourage Arizonans to ask Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake to support expanding background checks. As Giffords and Kelly arrived at the Safeway, they laid a bouquet of flowers at the memorial for the six who were killed during the rampage: 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green; federal Judge John M. Roll; Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman; and retirees Dorothy Morris, Phyllis Schneck and Dorwan Stoddard. Kelly then called on the public to contact McCain and Flake to let them know they should support new laws that would expand background checks to gun sales by unlicensed dealers and make it easier to block sales to mentally ill people who pose a danger to themselves or others. Kelly pointed out that the Tucson shooter had a history of run-ins with authorities as a result of his deteriorating mental state. “It was clear that the shooter had a history of mental illness, but he had easy access to a gun,” Kelly said. “He purchased his gun with a background check. But if things were different, he would have failed that background check. Not only did he have a history of mental illness, but he had a history of drug use that the U.S. government knew about.” But even if the shooter had been blocked by a background check, Kelly said, “he could have easily gone down the street to a gun show or on the Internet to gain access to a firearm without being subject to a background check.” Emily Nottingham, the mother of slain Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, said it was difficult to be at the Safeway. “It’s hard to be here today, here where my son was gunned down, here where his body lay on that sidewalk for hours,” Nottingham said. “I’m here because I think that right now, we have an opportunity. … For a very long time, our society has agreed that felons and people who have certain severe mental illnesses should not own guns. … But that system is riddled with holes—bullet holes—and it needs to be fixed.” Pam Simon, a former aide to Giffords who was among the 13 people wounded in the Tucson rampage, said that in the wake of the shooting, “Everybody said that something has to

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KVOA FACES DECISION IN ALEXANDER INCIDENT Although no charges have been filed, KVOA Channel 4 may soon be facing a judgment call over a touchy situation involving noon and 4 p.m. news anchor Allison Alexander. On the afternoon of Feb. 14, Tucson police responded to a call reporting “a prostitute and her john having sex” in a car parked near 14th Avenue and Lester Street in an area known for prostitution. (A copy of the 10-page police report is available at tucsonweekly. com.) It was there, a few minutes’ drive from the KVOA studios, that police encountered Alexander and Capt. Barrett Baker, public information officer for the Tucson Fire Department, together in a vehicle. No citations were issued and names were redacted from the police report, but numerous sources have confirmed it was Alexander and Baker who were questioned. In fact, when the Tucson Weekly requested the police report, it did so using their names. The result was the report of the Feb. 14 incident. Both Alexander and Baker denied to police they had engaged in sexual activity, and neither has responded to the Weekly’s requests for comment. KVOA has dealt with disciplinary issues in different ways. The local NBC affiliate forced 26-year station veteran Martha Vazquez to resign following a misdemeanor shoplifting

incident in mid-February 2012. However, former reporter Brandon Gunnoe was allowed to stay with the station following a DUI conviction shortly after he was hired. Alexander’s situation is a bit different because no charges have been filed or citations issued. However, she could conceivably be in violation of KVOA’s loosely interpreted morality clause. “You, whether on or off the job, shall conduct yourself with sobriety and decency, with due regard for social conventions and public morals so as to not cause injury or damage to KVOA or any of its sponsors, which may shock, insult or offend the community or reflect unfavorably upon you, KVOA or its sponsors,” the contract language states. “In event of the breach of the standard of conduct prescribed by this provision, whether or not information in regard to such activity becomes public, KVOA may terminate this contract upon 24 hours notice to you.” Either the company believes Alexander’s claims that she did nothing wrong or is hoping the incident will go way. Alexander, who took a two-week vacation beginning March 4, anchored the noon newscast on Feb. 14, but Tom McNamara stepped in to handle duties at 4 p.m., an especially unusual occurrence during sweeps period, when it’s critical that anchors and reporters be in their 10 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

assigned slots. Alexander and Baker could conceivably argue they were sharing story information, but that seems curious at best, given the location and the amount of time spent in the car prior to the 4 p.m. newscast. The neighborhood resident who called Tucson police to report the incident said the same car had been seen in that location “every day for the past week.” Even if you take Alexander and Baker at their word—that they were two friends who did nothing more than hug and chat in an alley—it seems like spectacularly poor judgment by the two, who are both married to other people. What could they possibly be discussing that wouldn’t be better talked out over coffee in a public place? Other than the Weekly, traditional media have so far left this story alone despite the fact that every media outlet in town seems to have the police report in hand. The media has already set a precedent in covering the sexual improprieties of public officials. Earlier this year, every significant traditional media outlet in town reported the demotion of Lt. Diana Lopez of the Tucson Police Department after she sent sexually suggestive videos and photos of herself to a colleague. While we could take the high road here and suggest that TPD’s decision to announce the results of its investigation was the impetus for running that story, we’d be kidding ourselves if we denied that the hook was sexually suggestive photos. In fact, most news outlets went into detail about what the photos and videos showed. But stories involving TV personalities create a quandary for TV news outlets, and this is where a judgment call that might reflect badly on KVOA comes into question. Local stations, unlike their print counterparts, did not run any stories related to the Vazquez situation and usually tend to shy away from stories involving employees of competitors. “Reporting on alleged misdeeds by a direct competitor presents an ethical challenge,” said KGUN Channel 9 news director Forrest Carr in a Facebook post about the station’s decision not to cover the Vazquez story. “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 don’t face this problem, given that they compete only indirectly with TV, which leaves them free to pursue the story.” However, this situation involves a Tucson Fire Department captain who was questioned about an alleged activity that occurred on company time and while he was in uniform, and who drove to his meeting with Alexander in a TFD vehicle. If he should be reprimanded, TV news outlets would have to weigh their eagerness to cover the Lopez incident against their unwillingness to report on the behavior of a competitor.

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Borderland Blowout BY TIM VANDERPOOL, tvanderpool@tucsonweekly.com he video is damning: Vast stretches of Southern Arizona’s public lands are shown ravaged by miles of renegade roads. According to the Sierra Club and the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, the culprits include hundreds of Border Patrol agents working the Arizona-Mexico line. To conservationists, the story behind Too Many Tracks is one of needless destruction. (See it at www.vimeo.com/60022283.) Nor is this damage limited to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument or the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, the two preserves highlighted in the film. “It’s really going on borderwide,” says Dan Millis of the Sierra Club, which produced Too Many Tracks. “The Border Patrol is being deployed in huge numbers with minimal respect for the environment, or training on how to step lightly on the environment. And it’s really hard for these land managers to get the information out there, especially when their superiors feel hogtied by Homeland Security.” He’s referring to the federal Department of Homeland Security, parent agency of Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol. Indeed, that department does seem impregnable; for more than a week, I tried to obtain comment from the Border Patrol for this story. But a response never came. Perhaps this silence can be traced to a Feb. 1 policy directive from William Brooks, CBP branch chief for the Southwest Border Media Division. “We will no longer provide interviews, ride-alongs, visits etc. about the border, the state of the border and what have you,” Brooks wrote in the memo to his underlings. “Should you get a request, inform the reporter that you will see what you can do and get back to them. Then send it to me. “On Monday or Tuesday or someday,” Brooks continued, “we will have a statement that we will provide in lieu of these other activities.” The memo certainly leads one to wonder whether similar arrogance prevails in CBP’s relations with land managers. Apparently so, says Cyndi Tuell, a Southwest conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. She points to a “training guide” provided for agents being deployed to sensitive wildlands. The guide is chockablock with vapid homilies such as this: “CPB is committed to conducting our activities” in a “culturally responsible manner. You must focus on your mission, but you also need (to safeguard) public lands and the laws that protect them. Public lands contain precious natural and cultural resources. There can be consequences if you

aren’t a good steward.” That last point—and its apparent impotence—sticks in Tuell’s craw. She argues that the concerns of land agencies such as the National Park Service, which administers Organ Pipe, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees Cabeza Prieta, are routinely ignored by gung-ho Border Patrol officials. This persists, claims Tuell, despite a 2006 agreement between those agencies and the Department of Homeland Security that details terms of cooperation. “It doesn’t appear that Fish and Wildlife is able to get the Border Patrol to work within the agreement they have,” she says. “Especially on the Cabeza Prieta, off-road driving by Border Patrol vehicles is uncontrolled. We’re seeing doughnuts (on the desert floor) that appear to be from recreational riding. No one appears able to rein in the Border Patrol on this issue.” Federal law restricts vehicle traffic on the 860,000-acre preserve southwest of Tucson to a handful of existing roadways, including the ancient El Camino del Diablo. However, Tuell says Fish and Wildlife’s own analysis, conducted in 2011, reveals that the Cabeza Prieta—which ranks as the third-largest refuge in the continental United States— contains no fewer than 8,000 miles of illegal roads. Conservationists contend that this traffic puts particular stress on a small, highly endangered population of Sonoran pronghorn. She also says that a recently created map now used by Border Patrol agents lists a road in the refuge that was never properly authorized as required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The Weekly was unable to obtain the map to verify Tuell’s claim. However, Cabeza Prieta manager Sid Slone argues that the road in question—called Los Vidrios—was carved out by Mexican smugglers more than a decade ago and is now routinely driven by Border Patrol agents. “The road is there,” he says. “It’s not creating a new road. They were using that road in operations before I got here and I was not going to tell them not to use that road.” Another contentious point involves Border Patrol agents pursuing smugglers and illegal immigrants deep into wilderness areas on both preserves. According to the 2006 agreement, “as soon as practicable after each such motorized off-road pursuit, CBP-BP will provide the local Federal land manager with a brief report.” But many times, it’s apparently never “practicable’ for the Border Patrol to document its activities in these wilderness areas, which comprise 94 percent of Organ Pipe, and 93 percent of the Cabeza Prieta. “We’re not seeing the

Environmentalists charge Border Patrol vehicles are ruining the desert. incursion reports turned in on the same scale that we’re seeing the incursions occurring,” says Millis of the Sierra Club. “Challenging” is how Organ Pipe superintendent Lee Baiza describes the task of getting those incursion reports in a regular and timely fashion. However, “we continuously work with the Border Patrol to ensure that it’s a step that takes place,” he says. “They are cooperating at this point in time.” Over at the Cabeza Prieta, manager Slone says the Border Patrol has become more diligent about submitting reports to him. “I think they’re doing a better job of complying than they used to. I really can’t compel them to, except to identify any issues that come up that I’m aware of.” In the meantime, both managers say the Border Patrol has spent more than $1 million to mitigate impacts from security accouterments, such as surveillance towers on Organ Pipe, or mishaps that include a diesel spill on the Cabeza Prieta. Still, conservationists worry that the very remoteness of these preserves, coupled with the overwhelming power of Homeland Security, mean these public lands will continue to be sacrificed in the name of border protection. To Tuell, daunting barriers built along the southern flanks of Organ Pipe and Cabeza Prieta are paradoxical reminders of what’s at stake. “Those walls were installed to stop vehicle traffic from Mexico,” she says. “Ironically, we’re now having Border Patrol destroy that very land with their own vehicles. There are too many of them, they don’t have enough to do, and there’s no training to help them understand the impacts they’re having.”

change. But they said it after Aurora. They said it after Wisconsin. They said it after the Sikh temple. And finally we had the unbelievable carnage of 20 little children in Newtown. … And so I join with my friends Gabby and Mark in calling on senators to vote yes, to get this first step in this commonsense legislation through our Congress.” Susie Hileman, the neighbor who brought Christina-Taylor Green to the event, said she remembers imagining “the sparks that were going to fly” when Christina-Taylor—an aspiring politician at Mesa Verde Elementary School—shook hands with Giffords. “A civics lesson was turned into a nightmare,” Hileman said. “I lost a playmate. Her parents lost a daughter. We miss her every day.” Hileman expressed frustration with the political excuses for not moving forward with restrictions on guns. “I have heard it all, and I am tired of it,” Hileman said. “If we could save one life, if we could keep one family from feeling the awful, empty ache, if we could do something, and that that something is a common-sense something, and that something is a responsible step … I think it behooves us all to act. Not just to go home and nod your head and say, ‘Wasn’t that touching?’ But to actually do something.” Ken Dorushka, who was shot while shielding his wife during the Tucson rampage, said the Second Amendment, like the other amendments to the U.S. Constitution, has limits. “When you talk about rights, I always want to go back and say the right of Christina-Taylor Green to see her 10th birthday supersedes the right of anybody else to have an AK-47.” The press conference, which drew national attention, was another step toward ratcheting up public pressure for new gun laws. Giffords and Kelly have formed Americans for Responsible Solution, a political-action committee that also began running TV ads in key states, including Arizona. Kelly promised that the public would see more of Gabby Giffords in the future. “In the last two months, Gabby is back,” Kelly said, setting off cheers and applause among those who had gathered to watch the press conference. “Gabby is back and she is committed to doing whatever it takes to make sure that this Congress and this president pass and sign meaningful gun-violence legislation and, specifically, right now, make sure that we get a universal background check bill that, I remind you again, 92 percent of all Americans support.”

BACKGROUND BILL PASSES JUDICIARY COMMITTEE While 92 percent of Americans may support universal background checks,

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MARY HAD A LITTLE WINE UA AREA FEB. 25, 12:15 A.M.

A drunken college student foiled a Breathalyzer test by singing a children’s song, according to a University of Arizona Police Department report. A UA officer pulled over a car at Fourth Avenue and Drachman Street for an improper turn. The young female driver, who showed signs of intoxication and smelled like liquor, admitted that she had two glasses of wine at a friend’s barbecue and claimed she had recently lost weight and wasn’t sure how the alcohol would affect her. After a backup officer arrived, the woman failed two field sobriety tests. When asked if her footwear was making it hard to walk straight, she announced that her shoes were from Japan, but that she wasn’t. She then agreed to a breath test, but started singing loudly during the test, which, according to the report, interfered with the accuracy of the device. The woman told officers she was a writer of children’s songs and that they had just been treated to one of her compositions. The woman was taken to the police station so officers could take blood samples to test for alcohol and was eventually jailed.

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A UA sorority sister had trouble remembering her birthday after drinking multiple shots of vodka at a fraternity house, a UAPD report said. A UA officer spotted a young female in a black dress crouched in an alley behind Second Street. When the officer requested the subject’s birth date, she said it was “7-27-49,” which would have made her 63 year old. Asked again, the woman said only “July 2.” Asked once more for her birth date, she added “’93.” When asked how much alcohol she had consumed, she said, simply, “25.” When the officer asked if that was the number of shots she had imbibed, she said “it was not 25” but was unable to pinpoint the amount. Finally, she said she had more than five shots of vodka but fewer than 10. The woman told the officer she couldn’t remember how she got a fat lip. The officer surmised from her “very wobbly” stance that it might have been from falling. The girl was transported to her sorority house and reluctantly signed a citation for underage drinking.

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Riding in Cars With Boys e’ve got plenty of opinions coming to us from readers and commenters on TucsonWeekly.com and the Tucson Weekly Facebook page regarding the story of KVOA anchor Allison Alexander and Tucson Fire Department Public Information Officer Barrett Baker (“What Was the Fire Department PIO Doing in a Car With a KVOA Anchor?”, The Range, March 7) and the fact that the two were detained for a few hours by police on a side street north of downtown on Valentine’s Day. Some were supportive, many were negative, and we got a number of tonguelashings from media professionals who were a bit perturbed about the way we ran the story. I don’t claim to speak for the entirety of the newsroom, as we tend to have a number of conflicting opinions, even for a collective of dyed-red-in-the-wool, tree-hugging, commie socialists. But honestly, this is the kind of story that needs to be told by this publication. As noted by Weekly editor Dan Gibson in the original post, “newspapers and other non-TV news outlets have stayed away from the Alexander/Baker situation, despite the fact that seemingly every media outlet in town has the police report in hand.” Call this gossip, a non-story, whatever. In my opinion, Tucson Weekly, as the scrappy kid brother of this city’s feuding media family, has an obligation to hold people in this town accountable—to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, as former editor Jimmy Boegle loved to say. That can be a messy business, and sometimes it causes collateral damage, as with the families of Baker and Alexander. That’s not fair to them. But it wasn’t fair to TPD officer Diana Lopez to get raked over the coals for what her former romantic partners distributed. It wasn’t fair for Martha Vazquez to get forced out for shoplifting while Brandon Gunnoe’s DUI was seemingly a non-issue to KVOA. This story is just as much a look into the unspoken agreements made by media outlets around town (television, radio, print and web-only alike) as it is into whether or not Baker and Alexander were breaking any laws or wasting public resources with whatever they were doing in that car. We aren’t perfect, but we’re willing to be held accountable. Baker, Alexander and this town’s media should too.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK “’Whether you agree with that idea is something else entirely, but still it’s just a ceremonial measure.’ HAHA. Ceremonial, like a funeral? Sorry. I think Tucson has just been chosen for a Pentagon closed circuit reality show. But don’t worry. Everything will be okay if you’re (sic) papers are in order. Good luck.” TucsonWeekly.com commenter “Chris Hardaker,” who might still be taking this “martial law” thing too seriously (“If You’re Freaking Out About Martial Law, Calm Down,” The Range, March 6).

BEST OF WWW As of this writing, we’ve now vaulted over the 9,000 like mark on Facebook, and are (slowly but surely) climbing northward with our Twitter followers. Unfortunately, our interns are currently away on spring break, so any celebration videos we may use them as props for will have to wait. But, as of the moment you read this, we’ll take your suggestions for (legal) ways to celebrate this momentous (read: mildly interesting) achievement. Thanks, friends and followers!

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Out of the House BY BETHANY BARNES, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com bill that would put a stop to city-run gun buybacks passed through the House on a 36-23 vote on Thursday, March 7, but not without attempts to exclude Pima County from the ban and accusations of gun fetishes. HB 2455, sponsored by Rep. Brenda Barton, R-Payson, prohibits the government from destroying a firearm unless it can’t be lawfully sold. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Phoenix, introduced two floor amendments that failed. His first amendment excluded Pima County from the bill. The other amendment allowed for buybacks as long as the city wasn’t funding them. “What the amendment is really attempting to do is allow governments to get in the business of destroying guns as long as they partner up with a private company,” said Rep. Justin Pierce, R-Mesa. Gallego argued that having police involved in buyback programs is helpful since they can then check serial numbers to see if a gun was involved in a crime. Rep. Ethan Orr, R-Tucson, questioned this argument, asking if a private company funding a buyback program could hire a police officer to check serial numbers. Gallego said the way he read the bill, it would prevent hiring a police officer for a buyback. Orr then asked if Legislative Council had determined that. Gallego said it hadn’t. Gallego compared turning in guns to being able to turn in other harmful items such as old batteries. Rep. Bob Thorpe, R-Flagstaff, took offense to this comparison, arguing that someone might turn in a civil war gun, which has a lot of history and shouldn’t be compared to a battery. Rep. Chad Campbell, D-Phoenix, said he didn’t care if it was the first gun ever, if someone wants to destroy their property they should be able to do so. “I think it is ridiculous that we are blocking [this amendment],” Gallego said. “And the only reason we are blocking this is because we have some weird gun fetishization where we deem that guns have some kind of intrinsic right.”

bill that would ask voters if they want to defund Clean Elections in favor of education barely passed out of the House Thursday, March 7, on a 31-27 vote. Republicans and Democrats argue that HCR 2026 is designed to deceive voters. “Clean Elections was not voted at a time where it was tied to education funding,” said Rep. Doris Goodale, R-Kingman. “I believe that’s kind of a playbook out of the dirty playbook of sleazy political tricks.”

The bill’s sponsor, Paul Boyer, R-Phoenix, said that for him, tying the two together made logical sense because he is passionate about education funding and doesn’t think public money should go to politicians. Goodale, who chairs the House Education committee, also took issue with throwing money into the “black hole of education.” She said she would rather see the money targeted at something specific. When the bill went through the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert, the committee’s chair, said he didn’t understand what was wrong with asking voters if they want to redirect money during tough economic times. “When we take it to voters and it’s in a vacuum we have the other side of the problem, which is we have limited resources and now we are saying, ‘Do you want Clean Elections?’ and we’re not going to consider what the rest of the budget is,” Farnsworth said. Those on both sides of the bill argued that the issue is about trusting voters. Rep. Bob Thorpe, R-Flagstaff, said he voted for the bill even though he has depended on Clean Elections and hopes to do so again. Thorpe said he isn’t afraid of what voters want. Rep. Martin Quezada, R-Phoenix, asked if lawmakers are afraid of simply asking voters if they still want Clean Elections. He questioned why education should go on the ballot. While Goodale argued that liking Clean Elections is irrelevant, for several members, personal feelings about the program seemed to be a determining factor (with Rep. Phil Lovas, R-Peoria, joking that he’s the only Republican to ever quote from the Phoenix New Times on the House floor as he read from an article about abuse of the program). Rep. Carl Seel, R-Phoenix, who has always run using Clean Elections voted for the bill, noting that during his campaign he said he would work to get rid of the program. Rep. Jonathan Larkin, D-Glendale, said he voted against the bill because as a blue-collar worker (Larkin is an assistant produce manager at Fry’s Food Stores) campaigning traditionally was extremely difficult. “I found out very quickly how much of an impact it can have on your finances and personally I don’t know how I did it financially,” Larkin said. wo Tucson lawmakers are hoping their bipartisan bill will help Arizonans be more attune to the mental health needs of their community.

Our Legislature takes on guns and more. HB 2570 passed out of the House of Representatives on a 54-04 vote on Wednesday March 6. It would take $250,000 from the general fund to expand the Arizona Department of Health Services’ Mental Health First Aid program. The program runs 12-hour training sessions to help the public to understand and assist people with mental illness. The training is often free and is similar to taking a CPR class, according to the Department of Health Services’ website. The Tucson Police Department came out in support of the bill. TPD Sgt. Jim Kirk compared the program to neighborhood watch efforts, which he said were a great help when he was a burglary sergeant. The bill came out of conversations the bill’s sponsors’ Rep. Ethan Orr, R-Tucson, and Rep. Victoria Steele, D-Tucson, had when running against one another. Orr and Steele both live less than a mile from the Safeway where former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot. The two started talking and realized what they had in common, Orr said. HB 2555 would require health care providers and teachers to report patients or students that are a danger to themselves or others while HB 2618 would require officers be trained on how to recognize and respond to someone who is seriously mentally ill. Steele said she is hopeful that the bipartisan support will continue. “We know that prevention and treatment work. We know we can prevent further deaths,” Steele said, adding that just about a year ago her friend shot herself in the head. UA School of Journalism student Bethany Barnes is the Don Bolles Fellow for the Arizona-Sonora News Service.

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the percentage is considerably lower in Congress—and may indeed fall beneath the key number of 50 percent. But the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill on a 10-8 vote on Tuesday, March 12. The legislation, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, would require background checks on virtually all gun sales, with some exceptions made for passing along guns to family members or temporarily lending them for hunting or sport purposes. No Republican on the committee supported the bill. The question of how background checks can be extended to sales by people who don’t have federal firearms licenses is admittedly a somewhat tricky one, given that only federally licensed dealers have access to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NCIS. (See “Background Noise,” Jan. 31). Reasonable minds can disagree over whether a father should have to run a background check on his kid before passing along a gun that’s been in the family for years. Both of Arizona’s senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, have said in recent weeks that they supported some form of legislation that would expand the use of background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. Flake voted against the background check bill that passed the Judiciary Committee this week, but he has said he supports finding ways to include more mental-health records in the national background-check database. “I applaud Gabby and Mark for their efforts to strengthen background checks for gun purchases, particularly as it relates to including mental health records in the NICS,” Flake said after last week’s press conference with Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly and other survivors of the Tucson shooting rampage. “Along with three of my colleagues, I introduced legislation to improve mental health background reporting. We can make a difference here, in large part due to what Gabby and Mark are doing.” In other background check news, the right-wing blogosphere lit up over the weekend after news reports that Kelly had purchased an AR-15 rifle at a Tucson gun store. Kelly said on his Facebook page that he bought the used AR-15 after noticing it on display at the store and noted: “Even to buy an assault weapon, the background check only takes a matter of minutes. … Scary to think of people buying guns like these without a background check at a gun show or the Internet. We really need to close the gun show and private seller loop hole.” Kelly said he planned to turn the rifle over to the Tucson Police Department. By Jim Nintzel MARCH 14–20, 2013

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s I was growing up in the nurturing (sarcasm intended) bosom of New Jersey in the late 1980s and early 1990s, my family was one of the fortunate few to have a home computer. Thus, we were also among the first to be exposed to the wonders of what then was still a fledgling and mysterious Internet. Though we were lucky to have a local newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Newark Star-Ledgerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that was just as good at keeping us abreast of nonlocal news as it was keeping us up with what was going on in the tri-state area, I still found myself soaring through the World Wide Web on the back of our blazing 14.4 kbps modem in search of sports scores and information that I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get in the paper. I used to ask my parents how they managed to survive before AOL. Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m starting to wonder how I got by before developing my Twitter feed. For me, much of my feed is related to sports. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also got the requisite number of comedians, celebrities, hard news outlets andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gasp!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;people I actually know on there. But sports seems to be what keeps drawing me back over and over, all day long, in search of the latest information from the world of athletic endeavors. With local newspapers and television stations simply unable (or unwilling?) to provide comprehensive sports coverage beyond our immediate area, Twitter is where I go to get my fix. And hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a list of the pushers that feed my habit, broken down into some handy, dandy categories:

The national perspective Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy just to flip on ESPN and watch a couple of minutes of that channel to get score updates via the ticker running on the bottom of the screen. And SportsCenter can (at times) be a good info collective, at least when the anchors and analysts arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overblowing the results of one particular team or player.

Through Twitter, you get individual insight from the reporters actually chasing down the stories, rather than from the talking heads with pancake makeup. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I turn to writers like pro football guru John Clayton (@ClaytonESPN), pro baseball experts Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) and Peter Gammons (@pgammo), and college sports grunt Pat Forde (@YahooForde) to get a better perspective. Of that group, Forde is my favorite. Like many Twitter-using reporters, Forde often retweets comments sent to him by regular Joesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re often not as ridiculously critical of him as most of Olneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s followers seem to beâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;either to answer their queries or refute their statements. He also has blessed me with the term HLA, which stands for Horrible Loss Alert, in reference to a top-rated college football or hoops team in danger of pooping the bed. Beyond those guys are some more esoteric and eclectic national voices, such as self-professed college hoops â&#x20AC;&#x153;bracketologistâ&#x20AC;? Joe Lunardi (@ESPNLunardi); self-appointed hater-of-all-things-NCAA front office Jay Bilas (@JayBilas); and a guy that keeps me plugged into world of poker, Andrew Feldman (@AFeldmanESPN). The Phoenix sports scene Two of the people I am most jealous of in this world also happen to be among my most closely read tweeters: Arizona Republic Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Backs beat writer Nick Piecoro (@nickpiecoro) and Republic Suns scribe Paul Coro (@paulcoro). Both do an excellent job of providing not just live in-game tweets of their respective teams, but also perspective on how those clubs are looking beyond just the box scores. They also both happen to be former high school sports reporters who, unlike me, managed to keep their journalism careers on a continuous upward path. Others to follow from the Valley include

Kevin Zimmerman (@offensivelyfoul), a blogger from sports website SB Nation who provides his fanlike take on not only Phoenix sports but also the University of Arizona football and basketball teams; new Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Backs TV play-by-play man Steve Berthiaume (@ BertDbacks), who even before getting the job was a great source of MLB news, notes and observations; and Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Backs pitcher Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32), who earned permanent Twitter feed status after turning a harrowing incidentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he was struck in the head by a line drive in Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;into Twitter gold by posting this nugget the day after he was released from the hospital following skull (!) surgery: â&#x20AC;&#x153;WELL IF BEING DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL ISNT THE BEST TIME TO ASK ABOUT A THREESOME THEN IM FRESH OUT OF IDEAS.â&#x20AC;? My hope for this season is that he livetweets from the mound without getting called for a balk. Local sports coverage Most Twitter users are probably satisfied with the status quo in terms of local coverage of the UA; i.e., the posts from the morning dailyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beat writers or from the pretty faces who â&#x20AC;&#x153;coverâ&#x20AC;? sports for the TV networks. Me, I prefer the insight of two people who have what can safely be described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;intimate knowledgeâ&#x20AC;? of the Wildcat basketball and football teams: radio play-by-play voice Brian Jeffries (@catspbp) and recently retired UA sports information director Tom Duddleston (TomDudd). Both of these guys get to witness what no one not wearing a jersey or coach clothes gets to see or hear. Lastly, drive-time radio talk show host Jody Oehler (@jodyoehler) is as fair and balanced as they come when talking about the Wildcats. Considering heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paid by the school to be the public address announcer at Arizona Stadium, his take on â&#x20AC;&#x153;ourâ&#x20AC;? teams via

Twitter is equal parts critical and laudatory. One of his best of late: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kaleb Tarczewskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer job this year should be traveling around Tucson opening jars for people.â&#x20AC;? Best of the rest This last category of favored sports tweeters runs the gambit, from the farcical world of the Onion Sports Network (@OnionSports), which recently noted that the value of the U.S. dollar plummeted after the Baltimore Ravens signed quarterback Joe Flacco to a $120.6 million contract, to the self-deprecating nature of sports writer/poker junkie Norman Chad (@ NormanChad), whose Couch Slouch column for The Washington Post is essential reading. And two of my more recent discoveries both cater to some of my strange obsessions: sports gear and the declining quality of sports broadcasting. Uni Swag (@uniformswag) is the go-to account for those who want to know anything and everything about the latest clothing, equipment and logo design updates by professional, college, even high school teams. Warning: The feed is strangely heavy on college lacrosse info, so if you can handle that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get a lot of great pics of the sporting worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never-ending upgrading of its wardrobe. And Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing), which I was sad to learn has been doing this since 2006 and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just now finding out about it, regularly skewers the worst of the worst among TV and radio personalities. No, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about Bill Walton. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about all of the bad apples, especially those who routinely make us wonder how they keep their jobs. This accountâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blow-by-blow recap of ESPNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pointless debate last week on the topic of â&#x20AC;&#x153;who would beat who, the (basketball) Heat or the (hockey) Blackhawksâ&#x20AC;? kept me riveted and wanting more.

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BACK IN THE DAY, Tucson was home to plenty of celebrities. When Hollywood was still making movies out at Old Tucson, you could the likes of John Wayne in the local watering holes. Farrah Fawcett used to own a house in the Foothills. Mobster Joe Bonanno found sleepy Tucson an excellent place to escape the heat. But as time has marched on, our celebrity quotient has been in serious decline. Sir Paul McCartney hasn’t been seen in these parts since Linda passed away. Hollywood star Lee Marvin passed away back in ’87. Diana Ross has made herself scarce ever since that unpleasant business with the police. Neko Case left for New England a few years back with a blaze of anti-Tucson sentiment in the New York Times. CONTINUED ON PAGE 19

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In short: We’re suffering something of a celebrity deficit—a point that was driven home a few months back, when we noted that La Salsa has turned to auto dealer Jim Click to endorse its salsa. We know that Click is a household name, but he’s not exactly the guy we’d turn to when seeking advice about Mexican food, y’know? It got us thinking: Who are Tucson’s biggest celebrities these days? The kind of people you’d get all excited about and start whispering to your girlfriend if they walked into the bar? Thus was born the Tucson Weekly Celebrity Showdown, sponsored by our friends at Stateside Presents (check out their upcoming lineup of amazing shows at statesidepresents.com— Festival en el Barrio, Jeff Mangum from Neutral Milk Hotel, Blackalicious, Local Natives, Band of Horses—there are some great bands coming to town, seriously). We’ve put together a NCAA-style bracket of 32 well-known Tucsonans to try to get an answer to the question. Here’s where you come in. For the next few weeks, you readers will be deciding which of our celebrities move on to the next round by voting at tucsonweekly.com. Voting will be open from Wednesday night at 5 p.m. to Sunday night at 5 p.m. You can only vote once, so don’t try to stuff the ballot box, no matter how much you might be obsessed with one of our local celebs. Chuck George will have to stand on his own merits, without the assistance of your strangely obsessive clicking. You readers will decide who reaches the final four. Then the TW staff will take over and pick the winner. After all, democracy has its limits, right?

The match-ups When she moved back to Tucson last year, Gabby Giffords could have retreated into seclusion, a la Princess Grace. Instead, she’s embraced a new public role in campaigning against gun violence. Gabby’s fight back against long odds puts her in international spotlight, but her love for Tucson shines brightly from her heart. In round one, she faces longtime local TV reporter Bud Foster, who has forgotten more about Pima County’s institutions than most of the younger folks he’s working with will ever learn. Plus, his head was once the subject of a morning radio show’s novelty song, which has to count for something. Howe Gelb has been tearing rock ’n’ roll apart and rebuilding it in his own inimitable way for decades with an ever-growing collection of collaborators and co-conspirators for decades. Sure, he’s bigger in Europe than or own fair city at times, but he still creates his music surrounded by the adobe walls of his downtown home. He’s facing famed restaurateur Mr. An, who will surely win the votes of his many No. 1 sons. Sure, Howe has an incredible discography, but how are his sushi rolls? Back in the good times when this town was fueled by stucco-dollars, nobody knew how to move dirt like legendary land speculator Don Diamond. Whether he was working the local pols for a rezoning or putting in the fix with the feds for a land swap, Diamond knew how to make a deal. But let’s give credit where credit’s

due: He’s often put that wealth to good use helping, including UMC’s Diamond Children’s Hospital. But can his diamond touch outdo Lute Olson, who was the undeniable king of UA coaches for two decades? Olson receives a technical foul in the competition for that less-thangraceful exit a few years back. Local author Chuck Bowden’s noir-ish chronicles of border violence, white-collar fraudulence and crimes against nature make him one of the few local authors who might be known outside the Antigone Books reading club. He’s up against Arte Moreno, who was born in Tucson, went to the UA, made a ton of money in the billboard industry and now owns whatever we’re calling the Angels these days. If you’re voting based on wealth, Moreno has this one in the bag. KOLD weatherman Chuck George is surely our most beloved forecaster since Jimmy Stewart left the biz. We love watching Chuck whether he’s warning us about a triple-digit day or suffering a weird breakdown on the air. He’s up against the godfather of Sonoran desert locavoracity, Janos Wilder. Who knew that javelina fois gras with an ocotillo roux could be so delish? He might be down to one restaurant at the moment and even though it’s a great one, we wouldn’t be surprised if something’s in the works. We love all our former Wildcat superstars, but Jenny Finch has a special spot in our hearts for bringing home the Olympic gold for our country. But how will her astonishing fastball match up against our own Cal Worthington, local auto dealer Jim Click? Not only has he been selling cars on our TV screens since forever ago; he’s also a GOP fundraising heavyweight and, evidently, quite the expert in judging salsa. Richard Carmona is a Green Beret Vietnam veteran, SWAT team member, former surgeon general and all-around bad-ass. His might not have gotten over the top in that Senate run, but he’s the closest thing to Chuck Norris that we have in this town. He’s facing Native American author and poet Leslie Marmon Silko, who has actually been certified as a genius by the MacArthur Foundation, which is impressive to people like us, who were lucky to get through high school. Joey Burns of Calexico is our local rock ’n’ star and our worldwide ambassador, spreading the sound of Tucson across the globe and doing charity benefits when the band plays a hometown show. (We’d include Calexico drummer John Convertino in the competition alongside Joey because it’s such a collaborative act, but John moved off to Ohio last year.) Joey faces Lisa Frank, who built a sticker-book empire in Tucson by realizing how much little girls love unicorns and rainbows. Even though she left behind a giant mostly empty dolphin-covered building by the airport and a number of dissatisfied former employees, there’s no denying her place in pop culture history. Congressman Raul Grijalva has risen to the top of the progressive caucus in Washington, but he lost points with us when he switched up his bushy signature mustache to the more welltrimmed version he seems to be sporting these days. Grijalva wins whenever his name is on the ballot, but he’s never faced the likes of Andrew Weil, the holistic doc and author who can more than match Grijalva when it comes to facial hair. CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

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Appliance owner Chris Edwards. We love how this Regular Joe is happy to dress up like the Incredible Hulk, Bill Murray or whatever goofy gimmick he has up his sleeves. Edwards reminds us of a bygone era of kitschy TV ads which might help him sell his way into the next round. Today star Savannah Guthrie has hit the big time, but she still gets back to the 520 for the occasional holiday celebration or commencement speech. As long as we still run into her at Epic CafĂŠ, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surely a Tucsonan. But can she stand up against Kaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;deem Carey, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading rusher and a 2013 Heisman candidate? One thing is for sure: She has better manners when she attends UA basketball games. UA Football Coach Rich Rod has turned around the program. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the unofficial mayor of Tucson if he keeps up winning ways and continues to fill those seats at Arizona stadium. But can he bring down best-selling mystery writer J.A. Jance, whose legions of fans flock to her appearances at the Festival of Books each year? Mark Kelly is both a retired astronaut and an Iraq combat vet, but his new claim to fame is being a leader in the fight against gun violence alongside his wife, Gabby Giffords. Little known fact: Kelly commanded the space shuttle mission that fixed the toilet at the space station. But is he too new to Tucson to defeat the Ooh-Ahh Man? UA booster Joe Cavaleri enlivened basketball games for decades before retiring this year. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the type of stripper we usually look for, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a sucker for striped socks. Will the wave of goodwill that accompanied his fade from the spotlight power him to an upset?

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As the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music commemorate its 65th season, one of its flagship programs has also withstood the test of time by encouraging passion for the arts in a small corner of the Southwest. The 20th annual Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, which begins Sunday, March 17, has made full use of international talent to instill that passion in concertgoers. Showcasing prestigious musicians from communities far beyond Tucson was a goal early on for AFCM president Jean-Paul Bierny and world-renowned cellist Peter Rejto, who has served as the festival’s artistic director since its first year. Together, they envisioned the event as a unique take on the intimate genre of chamber music. By drawing inspiration from traditional works and also taking a chance on more contemporary music, Tucson’s chamber music festival could distinguish itself from other events of its kind. Two decades later, the legacy of that risk-taking has endured. The AFCM is known on the international circuit for actively acquiring new music, and this year will premiere two commissioned works—one from Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova, the other from Australian composer Carl Vine. “I think what gives (the festival) distinction is the quality of the musicians that we have coming to Tucson,” said AFCM board member Randy Spalding, who has attended the organization’s concerts since his college years at the UA. “We’re on the map, and we’re a place that they enjoy coming.” Warm temperatures during these lingering winter days are unheard of in many of the musicians’ home cities, increasShanghai String Quartet. ing the motivation to travel here from as far away as Australia and China (the world-renowned Shanghai String Quartet is this year’s headliner). The festival has grown to a weeklong event, allowing the musicians to settle into a more comfortable collaboration with their fellow performers as they rehearse the program. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s the kind of work that’s a lot of fun for us,” said violinist Ani Kavafian, who has returned to the festival multiple times after performing in its very first year. Two other veterans from the first annual festival, cellist Colin Carr and violist Cynthia Phelps, will reunite onstage with Kavafian at the Tucson Convention Center’s Leo Rich Theater. “It’ll be really fun this year to have (these musicians) back because they have such wonderful history with us,” Spalding said. A brief introductory commentary will precede each of the festival’s six concerts, including the free, reservations-only youth concert at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 21. By acting as more informal counterparts to the festival’s standard programming, the youth concert and open master classes on Saturday, March 23, are meant to capture the interest of students and young, aspiring musicians, hopefully prompt-

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ing them to attend future AFCM events. Kavafian, a professor in the practice of violin at the Yale University School of Music since 2006, is familiar with the delicate balance between instructing and practicing the art of chamber music. The opportunity to combine the two is rare, and rising to the occasion can leave an indelible impression on all parties involved, both on and off the stage. “It’s our duty to not just teach, but to exemplify our teaching by performing,” Kavafian said. “It’s always a revelation.” Kavafian is most excited to perform “Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4,” a “very romantic” string sextet piece based on a poem by Richard Dehmel. One of many works selected to reflect the intimacy and richness of chamber music, the Arnold Schoenberg arrangement is the last musical work scheduled for the festival. Playing favorites, however, hardly restrains Kavafian and the other performers from finding joy in every facet of the festival experience. “We get excited by it all,” Kavafian said. “We’re performing for the tried-and-true and the new audience.” The 20th annual Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival runs from March 17 to March 24 at the Tucson Convention Center’s Leo Rich Theater. Sunday concerts, on the first and last day of the festival, will begin at 3 p.m. Evening concerts start at 7:30 p.m. on March 19, 20 and 22. Dress rehearsals will precede the concerts from 9 a.m. to noon, and are free and open to the public. Individual tickets are $30, or $10 for students; admission to all concerts and festival events with the exception of the Gala Dinner can be purchased for $130. Tickets to the Gala Dinner Concert, on March 23 at the Arizona Inn, 2200 E. Elm St., are $160. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the AFCM website, arizonachambermusic.org, or call 577-3769. Kate Newton mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

The Junior Devil Southwest Region Junior Roller Derby Tournament 4 to 10 p.m., Saturday, March 16 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 17 Tucson Roller Derby Wreckhouse 1145 E. Valencia Road tucsonderbybrats.com

“It kind of takes you over after you start,” Tenacity Remington says of the lure of roller derby. Remington has been working with fellow skater and tournament co-coordinator Sydney Filler-Staton to put together the first annual Junior Devil—Southwest Region Junior Roller Tournament presented by the Tucson Derby Brats. The Tucson Derby Brats was the first junior league to be formed in the United States, in 2006. The skaters range in age from 8 to 17. To Remington, the Tucson Derby Brats is all about “empowering young girls and allowing them to have a supportive outlet for stuff because there really isn’t a sport that gives girls the supportive environment … looking to not only make them feel good about themselves, but also teach them a way to be healthy and active.” “It’s kind of like a party with exercise,” Filler-Staton about the Tucson Derby Brats. Both Remington and Filler-Staton agree that one of the best parts about being involved is getting to spend time with their teammates and giving girls a chance to be involved in the sport. “We’re just about teamwork,” FillerStaton said. “We love being around each other, we love hanging out, and the fact that we get to play a sport and do that makes it really fun.” Remington hopes that those who attend “will realize that its hugely positive and it has had such a great effect on so many girls in Tucson.” Single-day general admission tickets are $7, or $10 for both days. Tickets are available at the door or at juniordevil.brownpapertickets.com. —M.M.

Far left: The Bryan brothers Left: A scene from Silvestre Pantaleón

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Tennis for a Cause

A Showcase of Mexican Cinema

All Aboard!

Tucson Cine Mexico Film Festival

133rd Anniversary of the Railroad in Tucson 9 to 10:30 a.m., Sunday, March 17

The Lodge at Ventana Canyon 6200 N. Clubhouse Lane

Harkins Theatres Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz Thursday, March 14 - Sunday, March 24.

318-9445; stevenmgooterfoundation.org

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St.

Some of the world’s best tennis players will be in Tucson on Saturday and Sunday to play in a tournament with a cause. The eighth annual Gootter Grand Slam aims to raise awareness about sudden cardiac death as well as money for the Steven M. Gootter Foundation. The event and foundation were created in honor of Steven Gootter, a Tucsonan who died of sudden cardiac death in 2005. The idea of a tennis tournament is meant to reflect Gootter’s athleticism and love for the sport, said Claudine Messing, Gootter’s sister. “The tennis idea came about because of Steve’s … athletic ability, but from there we kind of have really been embraced by the support of the community,” Messing said. “That’s kind of been a key to the success.” The event begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon with a doubles round-robin tournament. At 6:30 p.m. the Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa will host the gala dinner, featuring live music and silent and live auctions. The next day, activities at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon will include demonstrations by various local tennis and athletic groups. The event has grown every year since its inception, Messing said, adding that this is the first year the tournament will feature current tennis pros, including the doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan as well as Murphy Jensen and Mikael Pernfors. While the event revolves around a tennis tournament featuring some of the sport’s best players, the overall goal is community awareness and education. “The foundation was created out of this tremendous tragedy and loss of my brother, and we wanted to make something positive out of it and ultimately save another family from what we’ve experienced,” Messing said. —K.M.

626-9825; tucsoncinemexico.org

Eighth Annual Gootter Grand Slam 9:30 a.m., Saturday, March 16; 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 17

For the past eight years, the Tucson Cine Mexico Film Festival has showcased the best cinematography to come out of Mexico the previous year. The program is a signature event of the UA’s Hanson Film Institute, said Vicky Westover, the institute’s director. It also was the first film festival held outside Mexico that focused on that country’s contemporary cinema. “We’ve really developed a reputation now for being a world-class event that’s done with very high standards, with topof-the-line programming,” she said. The festival will feature a dozen films and documentaries and will host a number of filmmakers whose works are being screened. One focus of this year’s festival is Mexico’s indigenous people, and a panel will discuss the representation of indigenous people in Mexican films. Westover noted there was a wide selection of films available for this year’s festival. “This year we had more films than ever before to pick from— there was a real outpouring of work coming from Mexico this past year.” Films are selected by a committee whose members are experts in Mexican cinema. Members include Carlos Gutierrez, the co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical, a New York City-based organization that presents Latin American cinema in the U.S. Other members are from the UA faculty. While the focus is on Mexican cinema, the event is by no means geared only toward Latin film fans, Westover said. The audience at last year’s festival was balanced, with about 60 percent Latin attendees. “We like knowing that we have such a diverse audience,” Westover said. “Our target audience really is everybody.” Visit the Festival website for a complete schedule. —K.M.

Silver Spike Railroad Festival

Historic Railroad Depot 414 N. Toole Ave. 623-2223; tucsonhistoricdepot.org

This Sunday marks the 133rd anniversary of the arrival of the first train in Tucson. To celebrate, the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum will host a re-enactment of the event under the direction of Sheldon Metz. Since the museum opened in 2005, it has held an event every year to honor this milestone in Tucson’s history, but this year’s event has a special twist. “We now, for the first time, will have two great-great-grandsons next to each other just like their great-great-grandfathers stood on that platform,” said Kenneth Karrels, chairman of the event. Esteban Ochoa was chosen by townspeople 133 years ago to present a silver spike in appreciation of the railroad being built. His great-great-grandson, Peter Ochoa, will be there to represent his ancestor at this year’s event. Pinckney Randolph Tully was another Tucsonan who was also present for the arrival of the first train. Dr. Phillip Tully, Pinckney’s great-great-grandson, will also be present this year. Three new Silver Spike awards will presented at the event to acknowledge the work of people connected with the railroad. The railroader of the year award will go to Tucson’s first female yardmaster, Robbie Carpenter. Bruce Beach, CEO of BeachFleischman, is benefactor of the year. Rail passenger advocate Anthony Haswell will be honored as volunteer of the year. Karrels said his favorite part of each year’s event has been “to see the joy, smile, and the pride in receiving the Silver Spike” and looks forward to more joy this year. Admission and parking are free. —M.M.

Submissions CityWeek includes events selected by Kate Newton, Kyle Mittan and Megan Merrimac, and is accurate as of press time. Tucson Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc. To have material considered, please send complete information by Monday at noon 11 days prior to publication. Send to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726, or fax information to 792-2096, or e-mail us at listings@tucsonweekly.com. MARCH 14–20, 2013

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EVENTS THIS WEEK COMMUNITY POTLUCK: ART AND AUTONOMIA Armory Park. 220 S. Sixth Ave. 791-4865. Hosted by Coalición de Derechos Humanos and Pan Left Productions, video producer Jason Aragón of Pan Left and muralist and printmaker Santiago “Mazatl” Armengod of Just Seeds share video and stories of Zapatista activity, art-making and community-building during their recent trip to Chiapas, Mexico, at 6:30 p.m., Friday, March 15; free. Bring food for a potluck.

For all its breathtaking beauty and historic influence, the Bolshoi Ballet has been in the news lately mostly for its internal politics. In a man-bites-dog drama, a principal dancer may have arranged to throw battery acid in the face of the company’s artistic director, Sergei Filin. The theater was to reopen in the fall of 2011 with a spectacular production of the ballet Sleeping Beauty. Filin recruited American superstar David Hallberg to be a principal dancer. Emerging Pictures’ Ballet in Cinema was on hand to document the event in HD. Hallberg, who received his early dance training in Phoenix, returns to Arizona for an HD broadcast of Act II of that historic performance, at 5 p.m., Saturday, March 16, at the Loft Cinema.

EMPTY BOWLS LUNCHEON Chinese Cultural Center. 1288 W. River Road. 2926900. A luncheon featuring bread, soups and desserts donated by local restaurants, including the Grill at Hacienda del Sol, Wildflower American Cuisine, Paradise Bakery and Harvest, benefits the Interfaith Community Services Food Bank, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $15 includes a handcrafted bowl to take home. Call 297-6049, or visit icstucson.org for tickets and more information. FRESH PAINT UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. A fundraiser showcases the work of both established and emerging artists who created new works to be auctioned for the benefit of UA Museum of Art programs, from 6 to 9:30 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $75.

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When you were studying dance in Phoenix as a child, what was it like for you in school? I was bullied for years until I got into a performing arts school (in Phoenix). When I was about 15 I finally realized I wanted to make a career out of ballet and I wanted to be a professional dancer. I found American Ballet Theatre and was truly inspired by the dancers with the company. It’s considered one of the best companies in the world. I attended one of their summer intensives and then went up through the ranks. I had my sights set on being a principal. I really was hungry for that. You had a remarkable career for more than a decade with American Ballet Theater (ABT). How did the move to the Bolshoi come about? Did you get culture shock? I joined the Bolshoi about a year and a half ago. Sergei Filin knew who I was, and when I was in Moscow with ABT, he wanted to have lunch with me. He made this offer to join the company. The company and the administration were very accommodating, very nice, but there was a lot of pressure to do the telecast and the opening of the theater, so I did feel a lot of pressure. 24 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

How are you coping with all the recent drama and publicity about internal strife in the company? I think it’s obviously a horrible incident that happened, but I only have positive things to say about the theater. I’ve only had really great experiences there. And my biggest supporter is Sergei Filin; he supports me as much as I support him. Describe what’s unique about the Bolshoi’s repertoire. The repertoire at the Bolshoi is more classical, I mean they’re steeped in such a huge history. They have these beautiful traditions that they uphold, which is very exciting for someone who’s an outsider like me. How do you see the audience for classical ballet evolving? It’s certainly evolving. That’s why I’m coming to Tucson! Audiences are able to see a performance that took place in Moscow in a live telecast and also pre-recorded, and see it in a movie theater – they’re given a certain access, with fabulous filming, that they would not have been given 10 years ago. There’s a huge evolution in that sense. YouTube definitely gets the word out, and you discover dancers

that you never would have been given a chance to see. There’s nothing like seeing a live performance, but also there’s something about reaching a mass audience like this. What should people particularly watch for in your interpretation of the prince in Sleeping Beauty? I think the sort of refinement of a prince who hasn’t in essence found his true love. If I could equate it to anything, it would be, sort of, my desire to dance, and how that was a driving force in my life but I didn’t really know how to explain it or know why I loved it or know where it was going to lead. The prince in Sleeping Beauty doesn’t really know where this sort of force is taking him, he just knows that he’s following it. Of course it leads to Aurora and true love. In a more (material) sense, the audience can see the grandeur that is not only Bolshoi but the beautiful production. The sets and the costumes are completely first rate, and it’s such a gorgeous production for what was the opening of the theater.

NOT SIMPLY RED CELEBRATION San Xavier Recreation Center. 8549 S. J. Mayor Drive. 807-1115. National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day begins with a fun run and walk at 6:30 a.m., and continues from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a free Healthy Native American lunch and other lunch fare, raffle prizes, free T-shirts, a health and wellness fair and activities, and entertainment by the hip hop group Sober Flow; free. Call 237-5940 for more information. RAW SHOWCASE: GENERATION Club Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. Tucson artists present a musical performance, a film screening, a fashion show, an art gallery, performance art and hair styling at 8 p.m., Friday, March 15; $15, $10 advance. Visit rawartists.org/tucson for tickets and more info. ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE AND FESTIVAL Armory Park. 220 S. Sixth Ave. 791-4865. The St. Patrick’s Day Festival opens at 10 a.m., and the parade begins at 11 a.m., Sunday, March 17. Live Irish music, dancers, entertainment, children’s games and food and merchandise vendors are featured. Irish organizations, ethnic and cultural tables distribute information about Tucson’s Irish community. Tucson Fire Chief Jim Critchley is grand marshall for the parade, which features marchers, floats, military units, local dignitaries, media and entertainment personalities and civic, cultural and social groups. Visit tucsonstpatricksday.com.

UPCOMING LAFF AND BOWL Golden Pin Lanes. 1010 W. Miracle Mile. 888-4272. Laffs Comedy Caffé presents Emmy-nominated comic Gary Hood headlining a comedy show that also features Walt Maxam and Amy Blackwell in the bowling alley’s showroom, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, March 21; $10 for the show, $15 includes the show and unlimited bowling afterward. Call for reservations. TUCSON URBAN LEAGUE GALA Westin La Paloma. 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. Musicians Zo! and Sy Smith are the featured entertainment at an evening including dinner and dancing at 6:30 p.m., Friday, March 22; $100, $175 for a couple. Call 791-9952, ext. 2237 for reservations.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK COMPUTER, SOFTWARE AND INTERNET CLASSES Oro Valley Library. 1305 West Naranja Drive. 229-5300. Help with digital downloads for eBooks, audiobooks and videos, takes place from 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays, through March 27; free. Bring your device and library card or PIN. Drop-in computer help is available from 10 a.m. to noon, Thursday, March 14; free. Software advice, instructions and tips are provided from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 23; free. Reservations requested. DONATE MEDICAL ADAPTIVE MOBILITY DEVICES Tucson Appliance Company. 4229 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-1207. New and used crutches, canes, arm braces,

walkers, wheelchairs, elevated toilet seats, shower benches and more are collected from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m., Saturday, March 16; free. The Tucson Sunset Rotary Club distributes them locally through One Stop Home Medical Equipment. GATHER: A VINTAGE MARKET Gather: A Vintage Market. 657 W. St. Mary’s Road. 7806565. Vintage and antique items are sold from Thursday through Sunday, March 14 through 17; free. Hours are noon to 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday. Call 310-7531 for more information. GATHERING OF THE NEXT 200 St. Francis in the Foothills Church. 4625 E. River Road. 299-9063. A gathering of A Parallel Democracy: A Place Beyond Politics takes place from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 16; free. The group is not affiliated with any party, organization or philosophy. Its purpose is to explore productive ways to handle opposing political views. Call 318-4841 for more information. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. “Quality of Life in Southern Arizona” is the topic from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 16; free. Presenters Corky Poster and Marilyn Robinson focus on community planning, affordable housing and a balanced transportation system. Parking is free in the underground garage. Call 622-0905 for more information. NO KILL PIMA COUNTY COMMUNITY MEETING Windmill Inn at St. Philip’s Plaza. 4250 N. Campbell Ave. 577-0007. No Kill Pima County, an organization working to save shelter animals, invites new members to a meeting from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 20. ORIENTATION FOR LIBRARY VOLUNTEERS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Learn about volunteer opportunities at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Saturday, March 16. RSVP to Karen at 791-4010, or email karen. greene@pima.gov. Complete the form at library.pima.gov. THE REUNION: 50 YEARS OF GUNFIGHTERS Old Tucson Studios. 201 S. Kinney Road. 883-0100. Alumni actors who portrayed desperados and lawmen from the 1960s to the present day are featured in performances on Saturday, March 16. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; $16.96, $10.95 for children ages 4 through 11, free for children age 3 and younger. Visit oldtucson. com for more information. SAFE FOR ADDICTS: INFORMATION ABOUT RESOURCES IN PIMA COUNTY Westside Police Service Center. 1310 W. Miracle Mile. 791-4467. The Counter Narcotics Alliance presents information on opiate addiction in Pima County, and representatives of community resources provide information and assistance to addicts and others, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, March 14; free. This event is safe for addicts. Call 219-7974 for more information. SAGUARO EASTSIDE DEMOCRATS New Spirit Lutheran Church. 8701 E. Old Spanish Trail. 296-2461. Saguaro Eastside Democrats meet at 6:30 p.m., the third Monday of every month; free. STAMP AND SCRAP FEST Tucson Expo Center. 3750 E. Irvington Road. 7508000. Rubber-stamp and scrapbook vendors from around the country teach classes, demonstrate products and techniques, and sell supplies for crafters at all levels, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 16; and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 17; $5 weekend pass. Visit stampandscrapfest.com for online ticketing and class information. THAI FOOD COMMUNITY BUFFET FUNDRAISER Wat Buddhametta: Tucson Buddhist Meditation Center. 1133 S. Swan Road. 745-4624. All-you-can-eat pad Thai, egg rolls, chicken curry, vegetarian curry, desserts and more are served from 5 to 7 p.m., the third Saturday of every month; $10, free child younger than 10. Proceeds help support free classes at the center.

OUT OF TOWN GUIDED TOUR OF THE BARRIO DE TUBAC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. A tour and discussion of the original adobe buildings and the history of Arizona’s first European settlement takes place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 14; $7.50, includes admission to tour the park. Reservations are suggested. ORO VALLEY TOASTMASTERS Golder Fire Station No. 377. 355 E. Linda Vista Blvd. Oro Valley. 825-9001. Toastmasters meetings help participants increase self-confidence and communicate more

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effectively, at 6:16 p.m., the first and third Monday of every month; free. Call 314-8008 for more information. SPRING ART WALK Exit 34 on Interstate 19 South. Tubac. Gallery tours and demonstrations by local and visiting artists working in a wide range of media are featured from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17; free. Call 398-2704, or visit tubacaz.com for more information. WRITERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; WORKSHOP Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 594-5580. Alexis Powers leads a workshop about creative-writing techniques, and discussion follows about participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; essays, short stories, novels, memoirs and stories for children, from 9 to 11 a.m., the first and third Wednesday of every month, through June 19; free. Visit orovalleylib.com for dates and more information.

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK GRANTS DATABASES OPEN LAB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Volunteers, staff and board members of nonprofit and community organizations research private grantmakers with the help of a librarian from 5 to 7 p.m., Monday, March 18; free. Seating is first-come, firstserved. Call 791-4010 for more information.

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INDIVIDUAL JOB COUNSELING Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A job counselor from Career Services Unlimited provides free, one-on-one counseling about choosing a career, resume-writing, interview skills, networking and job-search skills from 9 a.m. to noon p.m., Thursday, March 14 and 28, and from noon to 3 p.m., Monday, March 18, in the Santa Rita Room; free. No appointment is needed; sessions are limited to 30 minutes. Call 791-4010 for more information. NO PLACE LIKE HOME Keller Williams Realty. 1745 E. River Road. 615-8400. A home-ownership workshop takes place from 6 to 7 p.m., the second Thursday of every month; free. Call 909-9375 for more information.

UPCOMING WRITE A WILL SEMINAR Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Attorney Robby Adamson presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Guide to Planning Your Will and Trust,â&#x20AC;? from 10 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, March 26; free. Reservations are requested. Please RSVP to development@tucsonmuseumofart.org or call 624-2333, ext. 102.

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Sing along to your favorite musical, karaoke style, as it plays on the big screen, from 8 to 10 p.m., Friday, March 15; $5 benefits Arizona Bird Dog Rescue. A prize is given for the best performance. Doors open at 7 p.m. Choose from more than 20 films. Food and drinks are available. Visit fluxxproductions.com for more info. RENDEZVOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. As part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rendezvous with French Cinemaâ&#x20AC;? series, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, UniFrance Films and Emerging Pictures, French films are shown every Wednesday and Saturday in March; $8, $6 Loft member. Saturday, March 16, at noon: The Suicide Shop. Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m.: Augustine. Visit loftcinema.com. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. The Rocky Horror Picture Show screens at midnight on the third Saturday of every month with Heavy Petting as the shadow cast; $10, $8 member. The film deals with mature subject matter and is not recommended for the easily offended. No one under 17 is admitted; ID is required; no alcohol is served. ST. PATRICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAY SCREAMING Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leprechaun 4: In Space, A Special St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Screaming,â&#x20AC;? screens at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 17; $6, $5 Loft member. The event also features green beer and a Four Leaf Clover Treasure Hunt. WORLD PI DAY CELEBRATION Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Darren Aronofskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic sci-fi math thriller Pi screens at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 14; $9, $5 for Loft members. Following the film, UA Associate Professor of Mathematics Bruce J. Bayly leads a discussion about infinity and the significance of the concept of pi.

OUT OF TOWN NOW SHOWING AT YOUR LIBRARY: WONDER WOMEN Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 594-5580. Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines, a documentary about how powerful women have traditionally been represented in popular media, screens from 2 to 4 p.m., Friday, March 15; free.

UPCOMING TUCSON CINE MEXICO: A FESTIVAL OF MEXICAN FILM A festival of Mexican films with English subtitles features guest appearances and screenings of award-winning films Thursday through Sunday, March 21 through 24; free. Call 626-9825, or visit tucsoncinemexico. com for film schedules, locations and information about special guests.

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EVENTS THIS WEEK 3-D DOUBLE FEATURE Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Wim Wendersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pina, a dance documentary, screens at 7 p.m., and Werner Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a documentary about the Chauvet caves of France, screeens at 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 19; double feature $16, $12 for loft members. Both films are in 3-D. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Screening Room. 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Volunteers are needed for event-planning, ticket-taking, merchandise handling, office work, design, promotions and more for the Arizona International Film Festival from Friday, April 12, through Sunday, April 28. Attend a one-hour volunteer orientation at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 16, and 30; or 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 13; free. Email volunteers@filmfestivalarizona.com, or visit filmfestivalarizona.com for an application and more information. LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Director Phil Grabsky presents his documentaries Leonardo Live, about Leonardo DaVinci, at 3 p.m.; and In Search of Beethoven at 6 p.m., Sunday, March 17; double feature $18, $14 for Loft members. Post-film discussions are included. MOVIE-OKIE Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242.

BUTTERFLY MAGIC Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Walk through a greenhouse full of beautiful and rare butterflies from 11 countries, through Tuesday, April 30. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 students, seniors or military, includes admission to the gardens. DAILY WALKS AT TOHONO CHUL PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. A one-hour walking tour of the nature trails takes place at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark. org for more information. FREE GARDEN TOURS Pima County Cooperative Extension Center. 4210 N. Campbell Ave. 626-5161. The Pima County Master Gardeners offer free guided tours of the gardens at 9 a.m., Wednesday and Saturday, through Saturday, April 27. There are no tours Saturday, March 30 and April 6; or Wednesday, April 3. Groups of more than eight must register. Call for more info. THE GREAT XERISCAPE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. A presentation and tour exploring how to use native and arid-adapted plants in water-saving landscapes take place at 10 a.m., the third Saturday of every month; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID,

$2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. NATIVE SEEDS/SEARCH SALON Native Seeds/SEARCH Agricultural Conservation Center. 3584 E. River Road. 622-5561. A gathering of gardeners and cooks takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., the third Monday of every month; free, including recipes and samples. Visit nativeseeds.org for details. ORGANIC GARDENERS COMPOSTING EXHIBIT Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Tucson Organic Gardeners members answer questions in the composting-demonstration area from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the first and third Saturday of every month, through May 18; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, free for younger children, $12 students, seniors and military personnel. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. SEED LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 594-5500. Check seeds out from the library, and return seeds from your crop. 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; free. Call 7914010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov. SEED LIBRARY AT THE FARMERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MARKET Santa Cruz River Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market. 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 882-3304. The Pima County Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seed library is available at the Santa Cruz Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market from 4 to 6 p.m., the second Thursday of every month; free. Call 791-4010 for more information. SPRING PLANT SALE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Native, arid-adapted and cold-hardy plants are for sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 16; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 17; free admission to the sale does not include admission to the park. START-YOUR-GARDEN MONTH Santa Cruz River Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market. 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 882-3304. Inspiration to start a garden is the intention of special events hosted by the Santa Cruz River Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market on Thursdays in March. March 14, Chef Robert Oser demonstrates cooking healthy vegetarian recipes. March 21, Paula Maez of the Pima County Library reads an age-appropriate book about vegetables, farms and farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; markets. March 28: A representative of Arbico Organics releases lady bugs and demonstrates beneficial insects. The Santa Cruz River Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market is a program of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and accepts SNAP, WIC vouchers and Arizona Farmers Market Nutrition vouchers as well as cash and credit and debit cards. SUSTAINABLE AND ORGANIC LANDSCAPING Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A class focuses on alternative and organic practices for landscape maintenance, including pruning and disease and insect treatment, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, March 16; free. TUCSON AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY The East Side Night Meeting of the Tucson African Violet Society gathers from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades, 201 N. Jessica Ave. The East Side Day Meeting takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades. The Northwest Day Meeting takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, at The Inn at the Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road. TUCSON ORGANIC GARDENERS St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. Members and prospective members of Tucson Organic Gardeners meet for a program at 7 p.m., the third Tuesday of every month, through April 16, in the Geneva Room; free. Free literature, refreshments and a mini-market are available. Call 670-9158, or visit tucsonorganicgardeners.org for more information.

HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK FREE ACUPUNCTURE AND GRAND OPENING Tucson Community Acupuncture. 2900 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite 170. 881-1887. Acupuncture treatments are given from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 16; free. Cake is served. Visit tucsoncommunityacupuncture. org for more information. HEALTHY LIVING SEMINAR Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 2993000. Margaret Hoeft, a Tucson volunteer with the

National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer,â&#x20AC;? from 6 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 19; free. Call 299-3000, ext. 193, or email llambert@tucsonjcc.com for more information. RELENTLESS MOLECULAR PURSUIT: RARE CANCERS Kiewit Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Dr. Daniel D. Von Hoff presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Relentless Molecular Pursuit on Behalf of Patients with Refractory or Rare Cancer,â&#x20AC;? including research results about the impact of genomics on rare cancers, from noon to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 19. A meet and greet follows. ST. PHILIPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SENIOR AND CAREGIVER HEALTH FAIR St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Students from the UA College of Pharmacy offer free screenings for hypertension, diabetes, asthma and cholesterol, and provide information about maintaining good health and prescription safety, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sunday, March 17; free. Email kurita@pharmacy.arizona.edu for more information. TMC SENIOR SERVICES TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Classes and events are free, but advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Wednesday, March 20, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.: Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film: When the Mind Fails: A Guide to Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disease. VIEWING THE AGING BRAIN Tucson Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000, ext. 106. UA psychology professor Gene E. Alexander, and Evelyn F. McKnight of the UA Brain Institute present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Viewing the Aging Brain: New Findings From Neuroimaging Research,â&#x20AC;? from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Thursday, March 14; free.

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319-0400, or email info@arts-express.org for more information. Visit arts-express.org for an application. FAMILY DAYS UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. An open house for kids and families takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 16 and April 27; free. Poetry Joeys workshops for children ages 4 through 10 take place from 10 to 11 a.m., and the center’s poetry collection is open to youth for writing projects. Other activities include yoga, multilingual story time and Book Club 11+, which features a different title each Family Day. Special guests from community arts organizations lead unique creative activities. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for a schedule. JUNIOR DEVIL ROLLER DERBY TOURNAMENT TRD Wreckhouse. 1145 E. Valencia Road. 390-1454. Four teams of skaters ages 8 through 17, from Arizona, California and New Mexico, compete in the first Junior Devil, a flat-track roller derby tournament, from 4 to 10 p.m., Saturday, March 16; and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 17; $10 weekend pass, $7 single-day admission. Visit brownpapertickets.com for advance tickets. The event is hosted by the Tucson Derby Brats, which was the first junior derby league formed in the U.S. MOCA NEXT LOUNGE MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. High school students with valid ID can hang out, draw, watch art videos or get homework help from artists and mentors who have a wide range of expertise, from 2 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 20; free. NATURE STORIES Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. An art activity follows a story-reading from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, March 15; free. Call 6157855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more info. NONVIOLENCE LEGACY PROJECT Doolen Middle School. 2400 N. Country Club Road. 232-6900. A workshop about peace, nonviolence and leadership empowerment takes place Saturday, March 16. For more information, call 991-6781, or email youthandpeaceconference@gmail.com. Advance registration is available at youthandpeace.eventbrite.com. PFLAG TUCSON SCHOLARSHIPS Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. PFLAG Tucson, an organization of parents and families of LGBT youth, seeks applicants for several $1,000 scholarships in 2013 in memory of Gene Moore. Scholarships are open to graduating high school seniors, undergraduate students and graduate students. Visit pflagtucson.org for application materials and more information. The deadline is Friday, March 29. Scholarship awards are presented at a public reception from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, May 1; free. POSTER AND ART-MAKING WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Kids make posters and art focusing on the legacy of César Chávez, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, March 16; free. PUPPETS AMONGUS Puppets Amongus Playhouse. 657 W. St. Mary’s Road. 444-5538. Irish Rover, a seafaring adventure featuring leprechauns and mermaids, is performed at 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17. Irish traditional music is performed live for a sing-along following the show. Tickets are $8, $6 for children older than 2, and free for younger children. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Visit puppetsamongus.com for more information. ROSEMARY SNOW Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Pianist and vocalist Rosemary Snow performs classical and popular music, leads sing-alongs, tells jokes and plays requests, at 4 p.m., Saturday, March 16; freewill donation. Snacks are provided. SALPOINTE HIGH SCHOOL Salpointe High School. 1545 E. Copper St. 327-6581. Guys and Dolls opens Friday, March 15, and continues through Sunday, March 24. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $10. Call 327-6581 for more information. SATURDAY CRAFTERNOONS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Kids and families create a different project each month in recycled-art workshops, from noon to 3 p.m., the first and third Saturday of every month; fees vary with the project. Kids must be accompanied by an adult. Advance registration is recommended but drop-ins are welcome. Email art@ bicas.org for more information. SILVER SPIKE FESTIVAL Historic Train Depot. 400 N. Toole Ave. 623-2223. A celebration and reenactment of the arrival of the

Southern Pacific Railroad takes place in front of Locomotive No. 1673, at 9 a.m., Sunday, March 17; free, including parking. The event includes a display of the silver spike used in the 1880 dedication, a performance by the Fourth U.S. Cavalry Regiment Band, a proclamation by Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and a display of historic modes of transportation. SONORAN SCIENCE ACADEMY SPRING CHESS TOURNAMENT Sonoran Science Academy Elementary School. 2325 W. Sunset Road. 665-3430. Kids play a USCFrated, 4-round Swiss tournament by grade, at 9 a.m., Saturday, March 16; $18. A non-USCF-rated section is available for those without USCF membership. Visit events4chess.com for details. STORIES THAT SOAR Students’ original stories come to life in a theatrical production by the Stories That Soar ensemble, at 8:30 a.m., Thursday, March 14, at Shumaker Elementary School, 501 N. Maguire Ave.; free. Guests must sign in at the main office. SUMMER CAMP FESTIVAL Golf N’ Stuff. 6503 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-3569. Camps that meet a wide range of budgets and interests are represented at an expo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 16; free. Miniature golf is free for the first 50 kids.

discuss elements of the night sky starting at 6:30 p.m.; $7 per vehicle, camping is $15 to $25. Visitors should bring water, snacks, and a sweater or jacket. Bring a red light to either event to protect night vision. TEEN ADVISORY BOARD Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 594-5580. TAB, the teen advisory board, shares ideas and plans teen events for the library, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., the third Saturday of every month, except holidays; free.

WALKING TOURS OF OLD TOWN TUBAC Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Alice Keene leads a tour of the original adobe buildings and discusses the history of Arizona’s first European settlement, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, every Friday through March 29; $7.50 includes admission to the park. Call or visit TubacPresidioPark.com.

TEEN MUSIC Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 594-5580. Teens invite friends to hang out and listen to favorite CDs in surround sound from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the third Tuesday of every month; free.

SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK

UPCOMING FREE PROM DRESSES High school juniors and seniors can pick up barely used prom dresses from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 24; Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7; and Saturday, April 13. Advance registration is required at cinderellasclosettucson.com/dressform. Call 270-7833, or email melissa@melissatureaud.com for more info.

TUCSON HIGH LITTLE THEATER 400 N. Second Ave. A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room is staged at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 16, and 22 and 23; $8, $6 for students and seniors. Call 225-5326 for more information.

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TUCSON RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Valencia Branch Library. 202 W. Valencia Road. 5945390. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds continues through Sunday, March 17; free. 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. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

BIRDING AT SWEETWATER WETLANDS Sweetwater Wetlands. 2667 W. Sweetwater Drive. 7914331. Birding experts lead a walk for ages 12 and older to see a variety of wintering and migrating birds and raptors along easy trails, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 20; free. Reservations are required. Call 6157855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information.

TUCSON YOUTH POETRY SLAM Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea. 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. A spoken-word competition judged by the audience takes place the third Saturday of every month, beginning with a poetry slam workshop at 5 p.m., and continuing with the slam at 7 p.m.; freewill donation. First-timers are especially welcome. Only original work may be spoken, but it may be in any style or language. Each event also includes a reading by a nationally known poet. Visit tucsonyouthpoetryslam.org for more information. YOUTH ULTIMATE FRISBEE Mansfield Park. 2000 N. Fourth Ave. 791-4405. A Youth Ultimate Frisbee League plays from 6 to 7:30 p.m., every Wednesday, through April 24; $10 to join, free specator. Each league night begins with a 20-minute mini-clinic.

OUT OF TOWN CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT Picacho Peak State Park. Exit 219 off Interstate 10. Picacho. Historic reenactments of a Civil War skirmish, the Battle of Picacho Pass, and the New Mexico battles of Glorieta and Val Verde, take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17; $10 per vehicle up to four people, $3 each additional person. No admission after 3 p.m. Reenactors camp at the site and present a living history of camp life of the period, including family life, medical care, food and other provisions. Contemporary food and beverages are available for purchase. Visitors are asked to bring plenty of water, hats, chairs and sunscreen. Pets are not permitted. LIVING HISTORY OF THE SPANISH COLONIAL ERA Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Volunteers dressed in period clothing reenact the daily lives of Spanish Soldiers in the Spanish Colonial period with an emphasis on medicinal and edible plants, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday, March 22; $5, $2 youth ages 7 to 13, free for younger children. A display of native and imported foods from the era is also featured. STAR PARTIES AT KARTCHNER CAVERNS AND CATALINA STATE PARK A specially designed astronomy tent features “Afternoon Solar Viewing” and “Night Sky Network” from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at Kartchner Caverns State Park, Benson. Tim Hunter of Lunt Solar Systems speaks at 5:30 p.m., in the Discovery Center. Evening star viewing begins at 6:30 p.m.. A $6 entrance fee is waived with a reservation for either of two tours of the caverns for $22, $12.95 for ages 7 through 13 each tour. Visitors should bring a sweater or light jacket. At Catalina State Park, astronomers answer questions and

Saturday, March 16; and Tuesday, March 19; free. Reservations are required. Call 877-6004, or email canoaranch@pima.gov for reservations and more info.

EVENTS THIS WEEK

HISTORICAL TOUR OF AGUA CALIENTE PARK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. All ages enjoy a guided tour of the park’s historic structures, and learn about its farming and ranching history, from 11 a.m. to noon, Sunday, March 17; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information.

OUT OF TOWN BIRD WALK AT TUMACÁCORI Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. Guided bird walks take place from 9 to 11 a.m. or noon, every Saturday, through March 30; free. Groups travel on fairly level ground through many rare habitats in the park. EVENTS AT ORACLE STATE PARK Oracle State Park. 3820 Wildlife Drive. Oracle. 8962425. The Center for Environmental Education is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday, through Sunday, April 28; $7 per vehicle. Activities are free with park admission; unless otherwise noted, reservations are not required. Saturday, March 16 at 8:15 a.m., M.E. Flynn guides a bird walk starting at the Kannally Ranch House; and from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Kathie Schroeder answers questions about her companion, “Sueño” the Harris hawk. Sunday, March 17, at 11 a.m.: herpetologist Ed Moll presents local reptiles and discusses their history; call 895-2425 for a reservation. Tours of the historic Kannally Ranch House take place at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., every Saturday. FORT BOWIE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE Fort Bowie Visitors Center. 3327 Old Fort Bowie Road. Bowie. (520) 847-2500, ext. 1. Saturday van tours and Sunday ranger-guided walks are offered every weekend through Sunday, March 31. Participants meet at the Fort Bowie National Historic Site trailhead on Apache Pass Road at 10 a.m. for an introductory talk. Reservations are encouraged for the van tour; call 8472500, ext. 1, for a reservation. The van departs the fort at noon, or visitors may hike the 1.5 miles back to the trailhead. Visit nps.gov/fobo for directions. SANTA CRUZ RIVER WALKS Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. A guide leads half-mile walks along a level, unpaved trail through rare habitat for birds and wildlife, at 10:30 a.m., every Wednesday, through April 24; free. TOUR OF HACIENDA DE LA CANOA Historic Hacienda de la Canoa. 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Road Green Valley. 877-6004. A walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters provides insights into the lives of people who lived and worked on the ranch, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., and noon to 1 p.m.,

MYSTICS IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Brad Stroup leads discussions about male mystics in different religious traditions, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 20; and April 3. March 20: The vision of Ramana Marshi, Hindu tradition. April 3: Lao Tzu at the Gate. TUCSON IANDS EXPERIENCE SHARING (TIES) Unity of Tucson. 3617 N. Camino Blanco. 577-3300. Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander discusses a near-death experience he had while in a deep coma from meningitis, at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 14; $5. Call 3952365 for more information. URBAN RETREAT: MEDITATIONS FOR A CLEAR MIND Kadampa Meditation Center, Arizona. 1701 E. Miles St. 441-1617. A three-session retreat focuses on how to achieve mental clarity and inner peace through meditation, from 2 to 6 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $12, or $5 per session. Visit meditationintucson.org for information.

SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK GOOTTER GRAND SLAM A charity tennis event, with a doubles tournament featuring brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, takes place from 9:30 to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 16, and continues at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 17, at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon, 6200 N. Clubhouse Drive; $75 to play tennis Saturday, and attend the pro-celebrity match Sunday. A gala dinner featuring a cocktail hour, live and silent auctions and music by Over the Wall, takes place at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, March 16, at the Pavilion at Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive; $175. The event honors philanthropist Ginny Clements. Proceeds support research to end sudden cardiac death. Call 615-6430 for advance tickets; visit gootter.org. GREEN ISLE MILE AND RUNNING WITH THE IRISH 5K The Third Annual Green Isle Mile begins at 10:45 a.m. at the northwest corner of Pennington St. and Stone Ave.; the fastest mile wins and kicks of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The Running With the Irish 5k starts at 7:30 a.m. at the plaza at east Ninth St. and North Fourth Ave. and continues along Aviation Highway. Registration fees benefit the Kick Cancer for Stephen Foundation and the Community food Bank. All participants must bring non-perishable food items as part of their entry fees. Visit taggrun.com to register. MEMBERS SOUGHT FOR THE MONSOON WOMEN’S TACKLE FOOTBALL TEAM A member club of the Independent Women’s Football League, the Tucson Monsoon enters its ninth year of play with the coming season. Visit tucsonmonsoon.com for information about how to join. UA MEN’S GOLF Arizona National Golf Club. 9777 E. Sabino Greens Drive. 749-3636. UA hosts the Don Puckette National Invitational Tournament on Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17; free spectator, no carts. Visit arizonawildcats.com for more information. UA WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. The UA women meet Missouri at 7 p.m., Friday, March 15; $8, $5 youth or senior. Visit arizonawildcats.com. WAKA KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. The Arizona Blister kickball season continues every Thursday through May 2; $72. Individual registration closes Thursday, March 14. A tournament and end-of-season party take place Saturday, May 11. Visit kickball.com/season/azblisterspring2013 to register.

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PERFORMING ARTS ‘The Sunshine Boys’ is a charming look at a bygone era of entertainment

Couples Therapy BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com eil Simon is one of those rare playwrights whose comedic skills are almost impossible to kill, no matter into whose hands his scripts fall. His plays have been produced by high-schoolers, community theater amateurs and even some misguided hotshot Hollywood types, with wildly varying degrees of skill and sensibility. But no matter who undertakes the best of Simon’s work, the strength of the plays’ structure, their wonderfully imagined characters and the humor that is part of the scripts’ DNA still manages to work its way through whatever obstacles are thrown in the way. The man knew how to write a script. So imagine what Simon’s work in the hands of professionals can deliver. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. You can march down to the Temple of Music and Art, where the Arizona Theatre Company is staging Simon’s The Sunshine Boys and enjoy the smart, snappy and sometimes sweet story of two aging ex-vaudevillians, on the outs for 12 years, who are attempting to put together an old routine for a television special on the history of comedy in America. It’s a delight. ATC’s artistic director David Ira Goldstein has chosen a fine example of Simon’s humorwith-heart, and lets a fine cast revel in some deceptively simple storytelling. Al Lewis (David Green) and Willie Clark (Peter Van Norden) were partners in goofy entertainment for 43 years. One day, without any kind of prelude to his intentions, Lewis announced he was leaving. He was tired and wanted to do something else. This bewildered, baffled and bothered to the extreme partner Clark, who has since avoided all contact with Lewis. When you’re a performer, you just don’t stop being a performer. It’s a way of life. It’s in

the blood. And it’s what you’ve done for decades in partnership with another. So Clark has tried to go it alone in a world where entertainment has evolved and he has aged. Now, in 1972, he’s fumbling around in a dreary apartment in his pajamas, waiting for Ben Silverman, (Bob Sorenson), his nephew and agent, to make his weekly visit bearing cans of soup and the new issue of Variety. Willie blames his nephew for not getting him any work, but he can’t even remember how to unlock the door to let his nephew in, no less remember lines. But CBS is doing a special and Ben orchestrates an opportunity for his uncle to tread the boards again—but only if he will reunite with Lewis. Clark launches into a tirade in which he first declares he will absolutely not do it, then segues into “I’m against it,” then to “I’ll do it, but I’m against it.” So begins the process of reuniting the two, attempting to re-create the sketch, and then taking it to the CBS studio. It’s a process that yields an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor. The laughs are built into the script, but in the hands of Van Norden and Green, they come alive and leap into our laps. And the laughs seem effortlessly produced, a result of these two having a loving understanding of their characters and respect for Simon’s work. One of the hallmarks of Simon’s skills is creating characters from whom humor develops organically. Lesser actors may deliver funny lines and get laughs, but skilled actors don’t just deliver lines. They embody a character, and it is the character that makes us laugh, not merely a humorous situation or a calculated joke— although Simon certainly contributes admirably in that dimension as well.

Van Norden and Green are an odd couple, for sure. Van Norden’s Clark is full of piss and vinegar; Green’s Lewis is tailored, reserved and willing to give a little—just a little. How they lasted for 43 years is miraculous. It’s this difference in their essential natures, of course, that makes their interactions ripe for comedy. In addition, these guys are considerably advanced in their years, making any change in behavior highly improbable. Goldstein, Van Norden and Green discover some great bits—appropriate because Lewis and Clark were vaudevillians, after all—such as the hysterical choreography of the two trying to set up some rehearsal props. It’s reminiscent of Abbot and Costello’s “Who’s on First” routine, but with a table, two chairs and a floor lamp. This is Clark’s story, primarily, and one of the great triumphs of Van Norden’s Willie is that he manages to find a fresh take on what some might characterize as a curmudgeon. He’s been unafraid of discovering and embracing Clark’s vulnerability, and he blends it with his cantankerous ways throughout, so that we get a multidimensional character instead of a stock one. We get a very credible Lewis from Green as well, and although he seems the much more reasonable one, we can see that even with his mild manner he is not without qualities that would irritate and provoke. Jon Lutyens, Caitlin Stegemoller and Lillie Richardson have small supporting roles that they execute well enough, and Sorenson, a familiar face on ATC’s stage, is an appropriately understated catalyst for the story (although his wig should be caged, taken to the desert and released back into the wild.) Yoon Bae’s set gives us a dingy apartment with walls covered in framed head shots, and a peek at a kitchen that hasn’t been cleaned in years. And Kish

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Finnegan’s costumes serve as an appropriate window into the far-out fashions of the ’70s without distracting from the story. Like an old married couple who make each other crazy but are nonetheless bound forever, the team of Lewis and Clark reminds us that no matter our differences, our grudges and our desires for revenge, we all end up in the same place. So, Simon says between the lines, we probably should learn to play well with others.

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Beowulf turns ancient Greeks’ ‘Lysistrata’ into delicious – and relevant – satire

Women on a Sex Strike BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsosnweekly.com ’d describe Aristophanes’ Lysistrata as a crowd pleaser—not a term one would usually use for ancient Greek theater. When we think of Greek drama, we first think of tragedies like Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex or Euripides’ Medea. These plays are chockablock with misunderstandings, revenge, mutilations and death. Hardly the stuff of easy laughs. Perhaps we so indelibly associate the Greeks with tragedy because the plays of three tragedians—Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus— have survived, while the work of only one of their comic playwrights, Aristophanes, has come down to us. And we should be grateful that Lysistrata has survived the journey from the Greece of the fifth century B.C. It’s a charming, accessible show that’s still surprisingly relevant. Its central comic premise has a group of women banding together to withhold sex from their men. This sex strike has staggeringly farreaching effects, changing the course of war and politics. A theater company just needs to commit wholeheartedly to this bawdy show, and the audience is in for a delightful evening. The folks at Beowulf do not disappoint: Their production, ably directed by Nicole Scott, is a riot. It’s astonishing, actually, how funny Lysistrata still is. Comedy notoriously dates quickly, and this play is thousands of years old. Lysistrata holds up because it taps into something universally relatable: sex, and the absurd lengths we’ll go to for it. This subject is guaranteed to elicit at least a few giggles from any audience. Tweak Lysistrata just a little and it could be the basis of the latest R-rated comedy blockbuster. In Beowulf ’s production, Lucille Petty takes the title role. Lysistrata is an Athenian woman who comes up with an idea to end the interminable war between Athens and Sparta by convincing the women of Greece to withhold sex until the men reach a peace. Played by Petty, Lysistrata is a sensible, sexy leader; she’s an intimidating presence even when she’s vamping it up in a saucy black corset. In fact, costume designers David Swisher and Amber Roberts outfit all the women in truly sexy lingerie at various points in the evening. The costuming is all in good taste, but it’s definitely racy (not that I’m complaining). The women seize control, literally and metaphorically. They hole up in the Acropolis, which houses Athens’ treasury. Thus, until a peace is brokered, the men will have access neither to their monetary treasure nor the women’s erotic “treasures.”

TCHAIKOVSKY’S ‘SLEEPING BEAUTY’ WITH DAVID HALLBERG Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. David Hallberg, a premier dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, attends the screening of his debut performance with the Bolshoi, Act II of Sleeping Beauty, at 5 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $25, $20 Loft member. ZUZI DANCE COMPANY ZUZI! Theater. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 629-0237. Students and faculty of ZUZI! Dance Company present “Family and Friends Informance” at 2:30 and 4:30 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $5 each performance or $7 for both. The 2:30 performance features youth, and the 4:30 performance features adults. Email zuzisphere@gmail.com. Visit zuzimoveit.org for info.

UPCOMING UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Sunday, March 24, at 7 p.m.: Limón Dance Company; $15 to $50.

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ZUZI! DANCE COMPANY ZUZI! Theater. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 629-0237. The Homegrown ZUZI! Youth Choreographers’ Showcase takes place at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 22; $15, $13 for students and seniors. On the Spot Dance and Music Improv Night takes place at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 23; $15, $13 for students and seniors. Call 629-0237, or visit zuzimoveit.org for more information.

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Meagan Jones, Robin Carson, Lucille Petty, Bree Boyd-Martin, Andrew Baughman in Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Lysistrata. Lysistrata is assisted in her organizational Lysistrata efforts by several other women. There’s Presented by Beowulf Alley Theatre Kalonike, played delightfully by Bree Boyd7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, March 24 Martin as an effervescent lush. There’s the warrior leader of the Spartan women, 11 S. Sixth Ave. Lampito, embodied by the statuesque Meagan $20 general; $18 seniors, Jones. The women of Thebes are represented teachers and military; $8 students by Ismenia, played with pixie-like charm by Runs one hour and 25 Robin Carson. minutes, with one intermission What’s lovely about the script is that the 882-0555; women suffer from the sex drought just as www.beowulfalley.org much as the men do. Lysistrata has her work cut out for her convincing her female comrades to The war that fictional Lysistrata hopes to stick to their resolution. It’s nice to see female end was a real problem. The lengthy conflict desire represented as frankly as the male variety. between Athens and Sparta, known the Director Scott also makes some clever castPeloponnesian War, was a destructive and ing decisions that tweak the play’s gender bloody affair that lasted from 431 to 404 B.C. norms. The role of one of the women, Myrrine, Lysistrata was probably first performed in is played by a man in drag, actor Andrew 411 B.C., before the war had ended. So the Baughman. Myrrine’s husband, Kinesias, is in fantasy of the stubborn men of Athens and turn played by a female, Lily Delamere. Sparta being forced to come to peace had a This gender-bending not only provides political resonance that went beyond the comic variety, it also adds a queer element to saucy comedy. the show. After all, not all sex is male-female, In fact, women standing up, demanding and the casting decision nods to that fact in a respect and brokering peace plays pretty well subtle way. in today’s political climate. As the production And while sexual politics were different itself wryly points out at the end, thousands of back in ancient Greece, plenty of queer stuff years later, war is still very much with us. The happened then, too. Aristophanes’ script even Beowulf show might be set in a vaguely makes jokes about the isle of Lesbos (the oriGrecian-esque land—when the characters are gin of the word “lesbian”), and refers in passnot in lingerie, they wear draped robes, and ing to a male prostitute whose business booms the minimalist set evokes ancient Greek archiwhen the women go on strike. tecture—but the spirit and humor of the show Beowulf artistic director Michael Fenlason is distinctly contemporary. has adapted the script to incorporate contemAnd that works, because despite its age, porary references and local Tucson jokes. This Lysistrata’s humor is still relevant and appealworks well; after all, the original audience for ing. Let’s be thankful for the quirks of fate the play would likewise have experienced it as that kept this light little gem from being lost being full of topical political humor. to history.

ARGENTINE TANGO CLASS Café Desta. 758 S. Stone Ave. 370-7000. All levels of Argentine tango are welcome for a fun and informal class from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., the first and third Sunday of every month; freewill donation. Live tango music and dancing follows. Wear shoes that slide easily. CONTRA DANCING First United Methodist Church. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. Live music, callers and an alcohol- and smokefree environment are provided for contra dancing at 7 p.m., the first, third and fourth Saturday each month; $8, $7 member of Tucson Friends of Traditional Music, $6 student. An introductory lesson takes place at 6:30 p.m.; dancing begins at 7 p.m. Call 325-1902. ECSTATIC DANCE TUCSON Rhythm Industry Performance Factory. 1013 S. Tyndall Ave. 481-8003. Participants express themselves with dance, and have fun in an alcohol-, drug- and judgmentfree environment, at 7:30 p.m., the third Saturday of every month; $7 suggested donation, free child. FREE TANGO LESSONS AND DANCE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. A free class for beginners (no partner necessary) takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., each Wednesday; and tango dancing continues from 8 to 10 p.m.; free. Call 245-6158 for information. FREE ZUMBA CLASS Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Instructor Leslie Lundquist leads a workout for all skill levels, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., every Thursday; free. SCOTTISH COUNTRY-DANCE LESSONS Vineyard Church Hall. 625 N. Second Ave. 791-9971. Reels, jigs and strathspeys are taught in a fun and social dance class from 7 to 9 p.m., every Thursday; $5 class, $15 per month. Beginners are welcome. Call 319-8468 or 203-7987 for more information. SOCIAL MODERN SQUARE DANCING Old Pueblo Square Dance Center. 613 E. Delano St. 620-1566. All genres of music and steps ranging beyond traditional square-dance form are incorporated into social dance at 7:30 p.m., every Friday and Saturday; and 6 p.m., every Sunday; $5. No partner or dance experience are required. Call 429-0409.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK BROADWAY IN TUCSON Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Wicked opens Wednesday, March 20, and continues through Sunday, April 7; $49 to $106. Showtimes vary. Visit broadwayintucson.com for tickets. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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RED BARN THEATRE Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. The musical comedy How to Talk to a Minnesotan returns Friday, March 15, and continues through Sunday, April 7. Show times are at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 5 p.m., Sunday; $16, $10 Friday, $13 senior, student or military. Call or visit theredbarntheater.com for more information. SPEAK THE SPEECH WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer-prize-winning Love Letters is staged at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16; and at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 17; $15. Call 904-7675 for more information.

CONTINUING ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE UA Tornabene Theatre. 1303 E. University Blvd. 6211162. Cymbeline continues through Sunday, March 24. Dates vary; showtimes are 7:30 p.m., weeknights and Saturday; and 1:30 p.m., Sunday; $17 to $28. Call or visit tftv.arizona.edu/season for tickets. ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. The Sunshine Boys, the tale of a comedy duo that can’t stand each other, continues through Saturday, March 23. Showtimes vary. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org for tickets or more information. BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Lysistrata continues with showtimes at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m., Sunday; $8 to $20. Call or visit beowulfalley.org for tickets. THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. The Lone Stranger, or “Hilarity Rides Again” continues through Sunday, March 31. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; 3 and 7 p.m., Wednesday; 6 and 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 and 6 p.m., Sunday; $17.95, $7.95 child age 12 and younger, $15.95 student, military and senior. Dates and times vary; additional matinees are available. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for showtimes and reservations. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Regrets Only, a comedy of Manhattan manners, continues through Sunday, March 24. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 senior, military or student. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more info.

LAST CHANCE COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. The Mystery Genius of Sherlock Holmes II, a new selection of of four Holmes stories, closes Saturday, March 16. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m. Sunday; $12, $10 seniors and students. Visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for reservations and more information. THE ROGUE THEATRE The Rogue Theatre. 300 E. University Blvd. 551-2053. Night of Kafka, including performances of Kafka’s Monkey and Metamorphosis, closes Sunday, March 17. A pre-show including music begins 15 minutes before the curtain. Visit theroguetheatre.org for tickets and more information.

UPCOMING COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. Henry Gecque’s Woman of Paris opens Friday, March 22, and continues through Sunday, April 28. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 seniors and students.

ANNOUNCEMENTS NOT BURNT OUT JUST UNSCREWED A comedy troupe performs family-friendly improv for freewill donations at 7:30 p.m., the first Friday of every month, at Revolutionary Grounds Coffee House, 616 N. Fourth Ave.; and the third Friday of every month, at Rock N Java, 7555 W. Twin Peaks Road, Marana. Call 861-2986, or visit unscrewedcomedy.com for info.

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ART OPENING THIS WEEK FRESH PAINT UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. The Gabriel Ayala Trio performs for an event featuring a silent and live auction of new works works donated by established and emerging artists, from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $75. Call 621-5676 for tickets. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Watercolors, Miniatures and a Few Big Ones, opens with an artist’s reception from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 17, and continues through Monday, April 15. An RSVP is required for the free reception. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit madaras.com for more information. SPRING ARTISANS MARKET Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. More than 140 Southwest artisans display unique pieces of jewelry, artwork, fashions and more, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday, March 15 through 17; free admission to both the fair and the museum. On Saturday and Sunday the event also features a beer garden with selections from local microbreweries. TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303. 624-0595. ‘New Works’ Artist Showcase takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, March 19; free. The event showcases innovative arts projects being created under TPAC’s New Works Grant Initiative. Featured works include readings by Kimi Eisele, T.C. Tolbert and Shloka Mangharam; photos by Kathleen Velo and Noa Saterstrom; and a video by Leslie Epperson. Inner Chambers, an exhibition of works by Lisa Agababian, Jonathan Bell, Elizabeth von Isser and Kyle Johnston, continues through Wednesday, April 17, in the lobby and No. 109. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for more information.

CONTINUING ADVANCED ART WORKSHOPS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Ongoing bicyclethemed workshops, featuring a different, advanced-level project each session, take place from noon to 3 p.m. on the third Saturday each month. Check bicas.org for class fee. ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. Albert Chamillard: Recent Work continues through Saturday, March 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and by appointment Monday and Tuesday; free. Visit atlasfineartservices.com for more information. DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759. An exhibit of magic-realist paintings by Susan Conaway and abstract sculpture by John Davis continues through Saturday, March 23. 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. DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Desert Dreams, an exhibit of work by several local artists, continues through Sunday, May 12. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday; free.

Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information. THE IMAGE COLLECTOR GALLERY The Image Collector Gallery. 417 N. Fourth Ave. 9770267. Photos of bicycles from around the world and bicycle sculptures by Steven Derks and BICAS artists are on display and for sale through Sunday, March 31, to benefit BICAS. Hours are 7 to 10 p.m., daily; free admission. JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108. 626-4215. Language of the Land: Popular Culture Within Indigenous Nations and the New Wave of Artistic Perspectives, featuring the work of Chris Pappan and Ryan Singer, continues through Friday, March 29. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit cfa.arizona.edu/galleries for more information. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. March Madness, an exhibit of paintings by Mary Hansen, continues through Sunday, March 31. Hours are 10 a.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. MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery. 6872 E. Sunrise Drive. 722-7798. An exhibit of new works by Merrill Mahaffey continues through Thursday, April 4. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit medicinemangallery.com for more information. MESCH, CLARK AND ROTHSCHILD Mesch, Clark and Rothschild. 259 N. Meyer Ave. 6248886. The Artistry of Assemblage, a juried show of 30 pieces by 20 artists, continues through Friday, May 10; free. Hours are by appointment, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call or email ccanton@ mcrazlaw.com for more information. PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Cast and Cut, featuring the work of Mark Abildgaard and Michael Joplin, continues through Saturday, April 13. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more information. RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. Endurance/Resistencia, an exhibit dedicated to the work of César E. Chávez, continues through Wednesday, April 10. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, and by appointment. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. Fall/Winter Fine Art Exhibit, featuring works by members of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild, continues through Sunday, April 7. The exhibit is open 24 hours, daily, on the first and second floors; free.

WEE GALLERY Wee Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., No. 171. 360-6024. Armed and Dangerous, an exhibit of painted tin collages by Rand Carlson, continues through Thursday, April 4. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; free.

LAST CHANCE AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Southwestern Impressions, featuring mixed media works by members of the Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona, closes Sunday, March 17. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. BENTLEY’S HOUSE OF COFFEE AND TEA Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea. 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. An exhibit of paintings by Wayne D. Crandell closes Friday, March 15. Hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 8 a.m. through 6 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit waynecrandell.com for info. DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Desert Dreams, an exhibit of work by several local artists, closes Sunday, May 12. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday; free. Dikki Van Helsland demonstrates her batik art from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily, through Saturday, March 16; free. FORM, CONTENT AND COMPUTATION: THE SECOND ANNUAL SISTA EXHIBITION UA Student Union Gallery. 1303 E. University Drive, CSIL Room No. 404. 621-6142. The School of Information: Science, Technology and Arts (SISTA) presents an exhibition of multi-media computational art created by UA students and faculty through Friday, March 15. Exhibits include a multi-touch table, new media, digital art and inter-active, software-based works. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. PITA JUNGLE Pita Jungle. 5340 E. Broadway Blvd. 207-6873. The Wild West Goes Uptown, an exhibit of abstract paintings featuring the works of Francheskaa and Deanna Thibault, closes Sunday, March 17. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., daily; free. PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. An exhibit of work by Quetzally Hernandez Coronado closes Wednesday, March 20. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $13, $7:50 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel, includes admission to the park. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information.

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD GALLERY Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery. 5605 E. River Road, Suite 131. March ART Madness, continues through Sunday, March 31. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free. An artists’ reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14. Visit southernazwatercolorguild.com for more info.

SCULPTURE RESOURCE CENTER Sculpture Resource Center. 640 N. Stone Ave. 4039131. Erotika V, an erotic art show featuring sensual art, sculpture and performance by more than 50 local artists, closes Friday, March 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, and by appointment; free. Admission is for ages 18 and older.

TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Creatures of Light and Darkness, an exhibit of Kate Breakey’s photographs, continues through Tuesday, April 2. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Call 622-2823, or e-mail info@ethertongallery.com for more information.

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ENCAUSTIC INVITATIONAL Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195. 622-8997. An exhibit of encaustic work by 18 artists from throughout the U.S. continues through Saturday, April 27. A reception is held from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, April 6. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free.

TOHONO CHUL EXHIBIT HALL Tohono Chul Exhibit Hall. Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. The Art of the Cosmos, an exhibit of astrophotography and other artworks inspired by the stars, continues through Sunday, March 24. Tom Bergin: Featured Artists, featuring Southwestern landscapes, runs through Sunday, April 21. Paper: From All Sides, an exhibit of the many characteristics of paper as interpreted by Tucson artists, runs through Sunday, April 21. An exhibit of student artwork from the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind runs through Saturday, July 20. Gallery hours are 9 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, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information.

ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Surface Tensions, an exhibit of works by Joel-Peter Witkin, Alice Leora Briggs and Holly Roberts, continues through Saturday, April 6. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. From What I Gather: Works by Karen McAlister Shimoda, continues through Wednesday, May 15. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. The Journey Continues, an exhibit of three artists’ work representing how art is made, continues through Friday, March 29. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

Tuesday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit poetrycenter.arizona.edu for more information.

BIOSPHERE 2 CENTER Biosphere 2 Center. 32540 S. Biosphere 2 Road. Oracle. 838-6200. CHON (carbon-hydrogen-oxygen and nitrogen): Selections from a ‘Nearly Fatal Illusion’, an exhibit of new photographic works by Deborah Springstead Ford, continues through Sunday, July 7. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; $10 to $20 includes admission to tour the facility. BORDER CELEBRATIONS Tubac Center of the Arts. 9 Plaza Road. Tubac. 3982371. A nationally juried exhibit of works expressing the nature and culture of borders opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 15, and continues through Sunday, April 28. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 4:30 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit tubacarts.org for more information. OPEN STUDIO TOUR Tubac. Exit 34 on Interstate 19 South. Tubac. An artists’ reception and preview exhibit for Tubac’s annual Open Studio Tour takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 15; free. The self-guided tour of 37 Santa Cruz Valley artists’ studios takes place Friday through Sunday, March 22 through 24; free. The catalog map is available at the center and sponsor locations. Visit tubacarts.org for more information.

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VISUAL ARTS A visual artist and a singer explore the tragedies that spur migrants to come to the U.S.

Border Art and Song BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com esar Lorenti Castillo has more works than any of the other 14 artists in the Endurance/Resistencia art show at the Raices Taller gallery. He’s showing eight watercolors and drawings, so many they take up a whole wall in the gallery. And he made them all in Tucson in just the last month. Before that, until Feb. 1, he was being held in the ICE federal immigration detention center in Florence. “I’m very happy to be here in the United States,” Lorenti said in Spanish during an interview two weeks ago at a border conference at the UA. “But I feel sad for the people who have been deported, who are being left in the desert without their life. I also feel sorry for the people in detention.” Lorenti, a 61-year-old Guatemalan, was released after 4 1/2 months in Florence; the judge let him go on the strength of his claim for asylum. A one-time journalist and teacher as well as an artist, he can’t work in the U.S. for now, and he still has hearings ahead of him. But he has legal permission to be here. The personal history that persuaded the judge might have derailed a person less resilient than Lorenti. Four of his family members were murdered in the wake of Guatemala’s bloody civil war, and he has the official autopsy reports to prove it. The first to die was his 19-year-old- son, Gerber, shot in the chest and abdomen in 1997. Brother Mario, 32, followed in 2000; nephew Julio, 21, in 2007; and greatnephew Angel, 17, in 2011. Lorenti believes his family was targeted because of his work as a journalist and teacher. “I wrote about kidnappings, extortions and murders,” he said. “People in the government were involved.” And he had his students interview the guerrillas who had fought against the regime. “The government wanted to make me flee. So they began murdering my family.” Lorenti had tried to get into the United States before, but was deported repeatedly, he said. His last deportation was in 2009. The U.S. flew him back to Guatemala and, in fear for his life, he fled for Mexico the next day. He bounced around Mexico for a couple of years, working various jobs, including at a migrant shelter in the southern state of Oaxaca. There he saw hundreds of Central American migrants riding atop la bestia metal—the metal beast, or train—and being horribly treated by criminal gangs. Avoiding the trains himself, Lorenti eventually made his way to Nogales last September. He presented himself to border officials at the port of entry and asked for asylum. After his odyssey through Border Patrol custody and

ICE detention, he rode a Greyhound bus to Tucson. Although Lorenti is forbidden to work, he’s been feverishly creating art. (Because he’s not allowed to work, he can’t sell his art but it’s available by donation.) The gentle landscapes, he said, “are to escape reality. They’re about peace and tranquility.” The watercolors, though, conjure a world of terror. “Figures are intertwined. People are fearful and they’re clinging to each other,” he said. “The colors are aggressive and the lines are grotesque. “I am representing my people of maïz y frijoles (rice and beans) but there are problems in all parts of the world. I want to represent universal suffering, the suffering of all human beings.” luesman Scott Ainslie is an artist with a conscience, a musician who tries “to use my time on the stage to make the world a little better.” He’s long explored the music of Robert Johnson, the legendary guitarist of the Mississippi Delta. But he considers himself a historian as well as a musician. While performing Johnson’s blues songs, Ainslie tells his audiences a little about the horrors of sharecropping in the old South. “I’m bringing history to the table,” he said by phone last week from his home in Vermont. Yet Ainslie, who will perform at an acoustic solo show Friday, March 15, in Sahuarita, knew nothing about the tragedies of the Southwest border until one Sunday morning in 2007. That day, he heard a radio report from Tucson on a national NPR feed about the presumed death of a pregnant migrant who was lost on the Tohono O’odham reservation. The story, by reporter Claudine LoMonaco, recounted the futile search for the woman’s body. “I carried the story in my head for a couple of months,” Ainslie said. “I couldn’t let the injustice of it go. We build a wall to keep people out when we’ve taken away their ability to make a living.” Eventually he wrote a song about the woman, imagining her story from her husband’s point of view. In the tune, “The Land That I Love,” the man explains how NAFTA took away his livelihood and drove him and his wife from their home. Their own little farm couldn’t compete with the subsidized corn flooding into Mexico from the United States. “I go to the market/ In the town I was born/ It’s full of cheap clothes from China/ And American corn. …Why would I leave the land

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that I love? … If it wasn’t for the wages I’d be living there still.” Ainslie recorded “The Land” for Border Songs, the compendium CD put together by NAU professor Robert Neustadt. The album is a fundraising vehicle for No More Deaths, the activist group whose members leave food and water for migrants on Arizona’s dangerous desert trails. Pete Seeger, Sweet Honey in the Rock and Tucson’s own Calexico all contributed songs to the 2012 disc, which has so far raised some $20,000. (Full disclosure: My son Will Gosner’s song “Sunset Limited,” played by his band Lakesigns, also appears on the CD.) Since he wrote the song, Ainslie has twice come to Arizona to learn firsthand about the plight of migrants crossing the desert and of deportees stranded in Nogales, Sonora. He’s hiked the desert with Shura Wallin and Rev. Randy Mayer of the Green Valley Samaritans, and visited the comedor (eatery) for migrants run by the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales. Ainslie sings his border song regularly in his concerts. “I work mostly in the East,” he said. “People there have no idea what’s going on” in the Arizona borderlands, where more than 2,500 migrants have died in the last dozen years. At his solo concert Friday, Ainslie will sing “The Land That I Love,” along with blues numbers by Johnson, at least one piece by Sam Cooke and a new composition of his own. He wrote the new song “Where Is He Now?” to alert Americans to the raft of suicides committed by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “They give themselves death sentences for what they have to do in our name,” he said. Ainslie’s songs may be serious, but they’re

Endurance/Resistencia 1 to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, through April 6 Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335; raicestaller222.webs.com EXTRA: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, March 16: poster and art workshop for kids and adults focusing on the legacy of César E. Chávez 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, March 23: César E. Chávez community celebration, including guest speakers and performances of youth slam poetry, music and spoken word.

Scott Ainslie, singer/songwriter and blues guitarist 7 p.m., Friday, March 15 Javarita Coffeehouse, The Good Shepherd United Church of Christ, 17750 S. La Cañada Drive, Sahuarita $10; benefits Sahuarita Community Food Bank 625-1375; http://cattailmusic.com/theborder http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bordersongs

lyrical rather than strident. “Songs pounding somebody over the head fail,” Ainslie said. “They’re only useful in a rally. I try to find the story. Show the facts. Then drive the point home emotionally with a song.” Tucson Weekly arts editor Margaret Regan reports on the arts twice monthly on The Buckmaster Show, which airs from noon to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday on KVOI 1030 AM. Her next radio report will be broadcast live on Tuesday, March 19. MARCH 14–20, 2013

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TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Southwestern Vistas, an exhibit of landscape paintings by Tubac artist Walter Blakelock Wilson, continues through Tuesday, April 30. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $5, $2 ages 7 through 13, free younger child. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION KIVA GALLERY Western National Parks Association Kiva Gallery. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. The exhibit West and Wistful: Graphite and Watercolor Botanical Illustrations by Sorcha, continues through Sunday, March 31. An artist’s reception takes place from 3:30 to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 16. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except when lectures are taking place, generally at noon and 2 p.m., Wednesdays and Saturdays; free.

UPCOMING PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Windows, an exhibit of work by Vicky Stromee, opens Saturday, March 23, and continues through Friday, April 26. An artist’s reception takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 29; Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $13, $7:50 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel, includes admission to the park. Visit tucsonbotanical.org.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BICAS COMMUNITY ART STUDIO BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Community members are invited to use the work space, donated art supplies, tools, sewing machines and recycled bike parts for personal projects, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free. CALL FOR ARTISTS WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Submissions are sought for several upcoming exhibits. Deadlines are Saturday, March 23, for Drawing Down

the Muse, works by women, Saturday, April 6, through Saturday, May 25; and Saturday, June 22, for It’s All About the Buildings, Saturday, July 6, through Saturday, Aug. 24. Call for more information. CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Submissions are sought for the Arizona Biennial 2013. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for the prospectus; $30 for three works. Entry forms, fees, CDs and videos are due by 4 p.m., Friday, March 22. Guest curator Rene Paul Barilleaux will jury submissions. The exhibit opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, July 19, and continues through Friday, Sept. 27. Call 624-2333, ext. 125, or email jsasse@tucsonmuseumofart.org for info. CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Submissions are sought for Flights of Fancy, an outdoor exhibit of bird houses created as real or imagined homes, to be displayed from Wednesday, May 1, through Sunday, June 30. Call 326-9686, ext. 35, or email communications@tucsonbotanical.org with Flights of Fancy in the subject line for submission requirements and more information. CALL FOR ARTISTS AND ARTISANS Jefferson Park Historic District seeks artists and artisans to show and sell their work at an arts and crafts fair, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, April 14. The cost for space is $10; the deadline for applications is Monday, April 1. Call 360-4531, or email casabcreations@gmail. com for an application and more information. CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS ArtsEye Gallery. 3550 E. Grant Road. 325-0260. Submissions are sought for the fourth-annual Curious Camera Pinhole and Plastic Camera Competition. Categories include plastic, pinhole, vintage, instant and cellphone. Submissions must be received by Sunday, April 7; $10 per entry. Call or visit curiouscamera.com for more information. SOUTHWESTERN LEAGUE OF FINE ARTISTS Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. Speakers, demonstrations and conversations among artists are featured at meetings from 1 to 3 p.m., the third Monday of every month. Members’ works are exhibited at the Old Pueblo Grille and at other sites throughout the year. Any artist is welcome to join. UNDERGROUND ART GALLERY AND ART ANNEX BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. A nonprofit gallery showcases hand-crafted art, jewelry and functional objects that reference bicycles or cycling culture or are created from re-purposed bicycle parts, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday in the Underground Art Gallery, and from noon to 5 p.m. in the Art Annex in Unit 1 D; free. Visit bicas.org for more information.

MUSEUMS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 6285774. Romans in Tucson? The Mystery of the Silverbell Artifacts, an exhibit of archaeological finds that some say may indicate the existence of a first-century Roman settlement in Tucson, continues through the summer. Several of the artifacts were featured in an episode of the H2 Channel’s America Unearthed. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, $4 seniors and youth ages 12 through 18, free for members and younger children.

ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. A World Separated by Borders, featuring the photography of Alejandra Platt-Torres, curated by Tucson Weekly arts editor Margaret Regan, continues through Saturday, Oct. 19. Basketry Treasured, an exhibit of 500 pieces from the museum’s collection of Southwest American Indian basketry, which is the world’s largest, continues through Saturday, June 1. 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.

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DEADLY MEDICINE Arizona Health Sciences Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 626-7301. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, an exhibit featuring high-quality scans of artifacts and documents assembled by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, continues through Sunday, March 31, in the library. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday.

HARVEY BURGESS: TUCSON TALES Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. Tucson author Harvey Burgess signs copies of his book Tucson Tales: Bohemians, Bolsheviks and Border Rats, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, March 16; free.

DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 2999191. The Way of the Cross continues through Monday, April 15. DeGrazia Watercolors runs through Wednesday, July 31. 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. MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Small Scale Skirmishes: Battles from Imagination and Reality continues through Sunday, April 7. The art of modern wargaming is demonstrated at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 23. Presentations are free with admission. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. $9 general; $8 seniors and military; $6 for ages 4 to 17; free for ages 3 and younger. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more information. MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. An exhibit representing Peter Young’s work from the 1960s to the present continues through Sunday, March 31. An artist’s reception takes place from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, March 29; free, cash bar. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free members, children younger than 17, veterans, active military and publicsafety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more info. TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Elements in Western Art: Water, Fire, Air and Earth continues through Friday, June 14. Desert Grasslands, works by 18 artists exhibited as part of the Desert Initiative Project: Desert 1, continues through Sunday, July 7. Art + the Machine continues through Sunday, July 14. Femina: Images of the Feminine From Latin America continues through Saturday, Sept. 14. The traditional holiday exhibit, El Nacimiento, runs through Saturday, June 1. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday; $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members; free the first Sunday of every month. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more info. UA LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UA Library Special Collections. 1510 E. University Blvd. 621-6423. 50 Years: Civil Rights in Arizona from 1963 to Today, an exhibit of documents, photographs and papers from the Civil Rights era in Tucson, continues through Friday, Aug. 30. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit speccoll.library.arizona.edu.

EVENTS THIS WEEK CLUES UNLIMITED BOOK CLUB Clues Unlimited. 3146 E. Fort Lowell Road. 326-8533. The club discusses Michael Gruber’s Tropic of Night, the first in a trilogy featuring Miami detective Jimmy Paz, at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 17; free.

LINDA KOHANOV: THE POWER OF THE HERD Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Linda Kohanov discusses her new book, The Power of the Herd: A Nonpredatory Approach to Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Innovation, at 7 p.m., Friday, March 15; free. Refreshments and a Q&A follow. MOCA LIT MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. MOCA Lit presents Art Reading/Reading Art: An Unbook Club in partnership with Hol Art Books, Thursday, March 14; $5, free member. POG READING The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. Tohono O’odham poet, professor and linguist Ofelia Zepeda, and writers from the Tumamoc Hill Writing Project, read from their works at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $5, $3 students. TREASURES OF JEWISH LITERATURE Tucson Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000, ext. 106. Ruth Zerman leads discussions of the stories, folklore, poetry, plays and humor of such Jewish writers as Sholem Aleichem, Emma Lazarus and Sholom Asch, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., every Tuesday through April 16, except March 26; free. UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Maps, an exhibit about how poets use the concept of maps to explore space, place and the passage of time, continues through Wednesday, April 17. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit poetrycenter.arizona.edu for more information.

UPCOMING PROSE AND POETRY READING SERIES UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Eloise Klein Healy and Peggy Shumaker read from their poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 21; free. Visit poetry.arizona.edu for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ABBETT BOOK CHOICES Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. Members meet to discuss popular titles recommended by other group members, at 2 p.m., the third Wednesday of every month; free. OMNIVOROUS READERS Sahuarita Branch Library. 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 594-5490. Author Maurynne Maxwell leads a discussion on a mix of contemporary fiction and nonfiction at 10 a.m., on the third Saturday of every month; free. RIVER READERS BOOK CLUB Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. Adults read and discuss popular fiction titles recommended by group members at 6:30 p.m., on the third Tuesday of every month; free. THIRD WEDNESDAY FICTION GROUP Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. A group meets to discuss a work of fiction at 7 p.m., the third Wednesday of every month; free. March 20: Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ART NOW! CONTEMPORARY ART SINCE 1980 MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Paul Ivey discusses art since the 1980s, and invites the audience to

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share thoughts on the disparate practices and objects known as “the art of our time,” at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 20; $10, $5 member, includes wine and snacks. CHASING THE MONARCH MIGRATION THROUGH ARIZONA Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Gail Morris, coordinator of the Southwest Monarch Study, discusses Arizona’s monarch population, and the importance of native milkweed species, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 14; $12, $7 for members. DISCOVER ART Woods Memorial Branch Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 594-5445. UA Museum of Art docent Kate Phillips presents “Japanese Woodcuts: Images of the Floating World,” from 2 to 3 p.m., Friday, March 15; free. GEORGIANA KENNEDY SIMPSON: NAVAJO BASKETS Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. Georgiana Kennedy Simpson of Twin Rocks Trading Post in Bluff, Utah, presents “Navajo Baskets: Evolution and Revolution” at 6:30 p.m., Friday, March 15; free. Visit statemuseum.arizona.edu for more info. MEDIATING INDIGENOUS IDENTITY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. A panel examines how indigenous people in Mexico have been represented in Mexican film by considering stereotypical representations, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 20; free. ROZENN BAILLEUL-LESUER: BIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT Westin La Paloma. 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, guest curator of the exhibit Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, gives an illustrated presentation about the birds of ancient Egyptians, at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 16; free. Call Tucson Audubon, 209-1811, or visit tucsonaudubon.org. UA PRIDE ALLIANCE DISCUSSION SERIES UA Student Union. 1303 E. University Blvd. 621-7755. Student-led discussions cover a range of topics affecting the LGBTQA community, from 5 to 7 p.m., selected Wednesdays, in the Agave Room; free. March 20: “Bullying and Suicide.” WAYNE RANNEY: ANCIENT LANDSCAPES Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Geologist Wayne Ranny discusses the geologic and natural history of some of the Southwest’s most spectacular landscapes, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 20; free.

OUT OF TOWN ART TALKS Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Docents from the Tucson Museum of Art give talks at 2 p.m., every Wednesday, through March 27; free. March 20: “Mary Cassatt: A Woman Ahead of Her Time,” Nadine Korth. March 27: “The Art of the Crystal Bridges,” Penny David. JACK LASSETER: WOMEN ON THE ARIZONA FRONTIER Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Jack Lasseter presents stories about the lives, accomplishments and hardships of women who helped settle the Arizona frontier, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, March 16; $15. Reservations are requested. NOREEN GEYER-KORDOSKY: HUMMINGBIRD REHABILITATION Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Licensed wildlife rehabilitator Noreen Geyer-Kordosky talks about the challenges of rescuing and rehabilitating hummingbirds, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 14; free.

UPCOMING DESERT GRASSLANDS Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 6242333. Talks are presented in conjunction with the TMA’s exhibition Desert Grasslands, which continues through Sunday, July 7. A panel of ranch managers from The Nature Conservancy presents “Lessons in Restoring Grassland Health,” from 6 to 7 p.m., Thursday, March 21; free with admission. Lindy A. Brigham, executive director of the Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center, presents “Trouble With Buffelgrass,” from 6 to 7 p.m., Thursday, March 28; free with admission. Admission is $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more information.

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BOOKS Brent Hendricks went on a daytrip to reflect on the horror of what happened to his father, post-mortem

Disturbing the Dead BY CHRISTINE WALD-HOPKINS, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com o what can you get if you confront a Harvard Law graduate-turned poet with the real-life desecration of his father’s dead body? Material, lord knows. Boatloads of material for writing. In the case of this memoir, you get an unflinchingly interrogated, mythic, epic, biblical and fantastic boatload of material. In 2002, the family of Brent Hendricks was one of 339 to learn that the bodies of family members sent to a crematorium in Noble, Ga., had in fact not been cremated, but left scattered around its grounds. Over a period of five years, bodies had been put to stew in vaults, pitched into pits, chucked one over another (until they decomposed into a single mass) on the floors of buildings, left with trash to be scavenged by animals and lapped by lake waters where the crematorium owner celebrated his wedding. Unspeakable. The three members of Hendricks’ family reacted differently to the news of his father’s treatment. His sister took a dark-comedic approach: Dead is dead and she, herself, wouldn’t mind decomposing in the woods somewhere. His mother was mortified: She was phobic about worms and burial and had actually exhumed her husband’s body for cremation to avoid them. And Hendricks, who’d had a rocky relationship with his father … well, chose to try to experience his father’s death with him. And then there’s this book. Brent Hendricks, a University of Arizona graduate who now lives in Tucson, frames this expansive, speculative memoir by describing a single day’s drive through rural Alabama and Georgia to the by-then-razed grounds of the Tri-State Crematory. Out of that day trip explode riffs and musings on themes as varied as disturbed-area flowers, the South, Spanish exploration, the effects of materialism and consumerism, seismic movement, racism, end times, beer label symbolism, land and species destruction, the nature of Shit Fairy luck, and the apocalypse. There’s a lot of apocalypse. Promoted as “a story of desecration and revelation in the Deep South,” A Long Day at the End of the World chronicles Hendricks’s search for understanding—of the crematory event itself; of what it says about American culture; about what it could reveal about himself and his relationship with his father. With that in mind, Hendricks sees significance throughout. His father, born into poverty during the Depression, lived on a farm that the Army Corps of Engineers would eventually

A Long Day at the End of the World By Brent Hendricks Farrar, Straus and Giroux $14; 280 pages

flood to build a dam. As a child, that “flood” had already assumed biblical proportions to Hendricks; it’s a natural step to incorporate it into his father’s narrative. He was hired by prestigious IMB and attained monetary success. He then challenged his ambitions through his smart, athletic son, who unfortunately came to resent the efforts. But Ronald Hendricks died prematurely. He was buried but exhumed; brought back a bit like Lazarus. But unlike Lazarus, or Polynices, or Hector, he ends up in some unconsecrated space, face to the sky, with no Jesus, Antigone or Achilles to show mercy and release his soul. As he drives, Hendricks thinks about the Old South and his adolescence in the Atlanta suburbs, the evolving South; he takes shots at vestiges of the area unreformed—the stranglehold of fundamentalist Protestantism, particularly Southern Baptist, created to secure slavery; the continuing celebration of the Confederacy, in which he suspects that the white guys he passes cavorting in trailers surrounded by Confederate flags would not welcome the questions of a Saab-driving Yankee with his father’s memorial American flag buckled into the passenger seat. Most of all, with increasing speed and intensity as he approaches the crematorium, Hendricks evokes the apocalypse. To some degree he enters his apocalypse. Through the prism of a secularist’s imaginative thinking, he focuses on devastation wrought by humans— Hernando de Soto’s 16th-century pillaging of the region in search of gold; Americans’ genocide of native peoples; the institution of slavery; the destruction of species; consumerism and materialism; the franchise-ation of America; and the fundamentally unnatural desecration of human bodies at the Tri-State Crematory—as manifestations of a kind of “tribulation” in an apocalyptic scenario. Fear not. You won’t find Brent Hendricks actually attempting to persuade you that these are the “end times” (unless you’re in a bar with him) or trying to rope you into a Rapture wait. What he gives us is a window into his unique vision of human responsibility; a spiritual journey; and an attempt to render into manageable, relatable, metaphoric terms personal experience that does, in the end, grant grace.

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CINEMA ‘Emperor’ takes an interesting aspect of history and buries the story under an unnecessary romance

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BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com arlier this month, John Wilpers died at the age of 93. Wilpers was not hounded by TMZ on a daily basis and he probably wasn’t the center of attention in his hometown for the past 65 years, but he played a key role in American history. At the end of World War II, Wilpers stopped former Japanese Prime Minster Hideki Tojo from committing suicide. Although Tojo shot himself in the chest when U.S. forces arrived to arrest him, Wilpers persuaded a medic—by way of his own gun—to keep Tojo alive until an American doctor could arrive to treat the prisoner. Tojo eventually was convicted of war crimes and hanged in 1948, and Wilpers’ story faded into the footnotes. Tojo’s suicide attempt is re-created toward the beginning of Emperor, a historical drama that loses its footing early and often by leaning toward the drama instead of the history. It’s staggering to think that, in a story featuring the larger-than-life Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones), a historic meeting between MacArthur and the reclusive Emperor Hirohito, and some really gorgeous cinematography, the filmmakers were compelled to spend so much time on an Army officer’s lost love. Romances, even tragic ones, are not anything new. But you don’t often get a platform to reveal a chapter of history as underreported as America’s commitment to rebuilding Japan after destroying three of its major cities, decimating its resources and killing hundreds of thousands of its citizens. So who in their right mind thought the troubles of two people, to paraphrase Casablanca, amounted to a hill of beans in this movie? Emperor begins where it should: Hiroshima. After the U.S. flexes its nuclear muscle and Japan surrenders, American troops are on the ground in Tokyo to begin putting the pieces back together. MacArthur commissions Gen. Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) to lead an investigation into the emperor’s role in war crimes. Just how much did Hirohito know, and did he ever try to stop Pearl Harbor or anything thereafter? Fellers has history in the land of the rising sun; he had studied here and even carried a torch for his Japanese-born college love, Aya (Eriko Hatsune) more than a decade later. While he builds his case on the emperor, Fellers also explores whatever happened to Aya, punctuated by flashbacks. It’s understandable that director Peter Webber (The Girl with the Pearl Earring) wants to keep some of the romance in this

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Tommy Lee Jones in Emperor. story. It makes Fellers a much more sympathetic character and also gives him some real internal conflict. But at least a third of the film is Fellers searching for Aya, and in a movie called Emperor and featuring one of the great supporting actors of his generation portraying such an iconic egotist as Douglas MacArthur, that’s just way too much. And for what we get out of it, two scenes would have opened and closed that book pretty effectively. There is simply more to tell that the film could easily give us, because when it focuses on the investigation or Japanese culture, it’s dead on. It does not need to go as deep as getting into John Wilpers’ life story, but 1945 was a pretty significant year in Japan, and the characters in play are impressive and interesting enough on their own. If the U.S. charges Hirohito, which would ultimately lead to a conviction and execution, a war-battered country that takes any kind of shame pretty seriously could erupt in a revolution. It’s a delicate position for everyone. MacArthur is guarding against that and needs Fellers’ investigation to back him up. Nobody needs this guy’s endless fascination with an old girlfriend. Tommy Lee Jones as Douglas MacArthur? Man, that’s good casting. Jones is not exactly tied to a chair here, but given how much room there is to move within this character and story, he’s

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Emperor Rated PG-13 Starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones Directed by Peter Webber Roadside Attractions, 106 minutes Now playing at Century El Con 20 (800-3263264, ext. 902) and Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899).

nearly an afterthought before the film ends. Who reads this script, realizes they’ve got Tommy Lee Jones as the most vainglorious general of the 20th century, and says, “Yeah, but let’s focus on an inferior actor and an inferior subject instead”? It’s just so damned frustrating. Jones livens things up whenever he’s on screen, but this is not even close to what it should be. Webber is also fully committed to making Japan look equally beautiful and desolate, depending on the specific setting. The cinematography is terrific without being ostentatious, which is the way a lot of period pieces tend to play it. Average movies come around every week. Average movies with real stories to tell are less frequent. But movies that tell their real stories this well and then camouflage them behind some rattle-brained love quest subplot are practically unique. And not in a good way.

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AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Films are Thu-Wed unless otherwise noted 21 and Over (R) Argo (R) ends Thu The Call (R) Dark Skies (PG-13) ends Thu Dead Man Down (R) Escape From Planet Earth (PG) The Girl (PG-13) Fri-Wed Identity Thief (R) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) The Last Exorcism Part II (PG-13) ends Thu Lincoln (PG-13) ends Thu Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Safe Haven (PG-13) Silver Linings Playbook (R) Snitch (PG-13) Warm Bodies (PG-13)

Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Thursday titles unless otherwise noted. 21 and Over (R) Argo (R)

The Call (R) Dark Skies (PG-13) Dead Man Down (R) Emperor (PG-13) Escape From Planet Earth (PG) Escape From Planet Earth 3D (PG) A Good Day to Die Hard (R) Identity Thief (R) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) The Last Exorcism Part II (PG-13) Lawrence of Arabia (PG) Wed Life of Pi (PG) Life of Pi 3D (PG) The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini Live (Not Rated) The Metropolitan Opera: Parsifal Encore (Not Rated) Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) Quartet (PG-13) Side Effects (R) Silver Linings Playbook (R) Snitch (PG-13) Warm Bodies (PG-13)

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Beautiful Creatures (PG13) Fri-Wed Bullet to the Head (R) ends Thu Django Unchained (R) Fri-Wed Gangster Squad (R) ends Thu The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG13) Thu-Wed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) Thu-Wed The Impossible (PG-13) Thu-Wed Jack Reacher (PG-13)

Thu-Wed The Last Stand (R) ends Thu Lincoln (PG-13) Fri-Wed Mama (PG-13) Fri-Wed Les Misérables (PG-13) Thu-Wed Monsters, Inc. 3D (G) Thu-Wed Parental Guidance (PG) Thu-Wed Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu-Wed Skyfall (PG-13) ends Thu Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu-Wed Wreck-It Ralph 3D (PG) ends Thu

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Films are Thu-Wed unless otherwise noted 21 and Over (R) Beautiful Creatures (PG13) ends Thu The Call (R) Dark Skies (PG-13) Dead Man Down (R) Escape From Planet Earth (PG) Escape From Planet Earth 3D (PG) ends Thu A Good Day to Die Hard (R) Identity Thief (R) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) The Last Exorcism Part II (PG-13) Lawrence of Arabia (PG) Wed The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini Live (Not Rated) Sat The Metropolitan Opera: Parsifal Encore (Not Rated) Wed Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) Safe Haven (PG-13) Silver Linings Playbook (R)

Snitch (PG-13) Warm Bodies (PG-13) Zero Dark Thirty (R)

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Films are Thu-Wed unless otherwise noted 21 and Over (R) ends Thu The Call (R) Dead Man Down (R) Emperor (PG-13) Escape From Planet Earth (PG) ends Thu Escape From Planet Earth 3D (PG) Thu 6:55 Identity Thief (R) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) The Last Exorcism Part II (PG-13) ends Thu Lawrence of Arabia (PG) Wed The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini Live (Not Rated) Sat The Metropolitan Opera: Parsifal Encore (Not Rated) Wed Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) Quartet (PG-13) Safe Haven (PG-13) Fri-Tue Silver Linings Playbook (R) Snitch (PG-13) West of Memphis (R) Fri-Wed

Thursday titles below. Anna Karenina (R) Gangster Squad (R) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13)

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Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. No films this week

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

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. Thursday titles below. 21 and Over (R) Bless Me, Ultima (PG-13) The Call (R) Dead Man Down (R) A Good Day to Die Hard (R) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (R) Identity Thief (R) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) The Last Exorcism Part II (PG-13) Mama (PG-13) Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) Safe Haven (PG-13) Silver Linings Playbook (R) Snitch (PG-13) Warm Bodies (PG-13)

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas The Loft 4811 E. Grant Road. Cinema 327-7067.

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The Impossible (PG-13) Jack Reacher (PG-13) The Master (R) Les Misérables (PG-13) Parental Guidance (PG) Searching for Sugar Man (PG-13) Skyfall (PG-13) Wreck-It Ralph (PG)

STARTS FRIDAY MARCH 15 AMC LOEWS FOOTHILLS 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd, Tucson (888) AMC-4FUN CHECK THEATRE DIRECTORIES OR CALL FOR SHOWTIMES

3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility The ABCs of Death (Not Rated) Thu-Wed

Amour (PG-13) Thu-Wed Augustine (Not Rated) Wed Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Thu-Wed Caesar Must Die (Not Rated) Fri-Wed Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D (G) Tue Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Not Rated) Thu-Wed In Search of Beethoven (Not Rated) Sun John Dies at the End (R) Thu-Wed Koch (Not Rated) Fri-Wed Leonardo Live (Not Rated) Sun Leprechaun 4 in Space (R) Sun Let My People Go! (Not Rated) Fri-Wed The Monk (R) Thu Pi (R) Thu Pina 3D (PG) Tue A Place at the Table (PG) Thu Redemption (PG) Fri-Wed The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Not Rated) Sat Sleeping Beauty - Bolshoi Ballet (Not Rated) Sat Slot (Not Rated) Sat The Suicide Shop (Not Rated) Sat Taxi Driver (R) Thu Welcome to Spring Break (R) Mon West of Memphis (R) Thu

Tower Theatres at Arizona Pavilions 8031 N. Business Park Drive. 579-0500. Films are Thu-Wed unless otherwise noted. 21 and Over (R) The Call (R) Dead Man Down (R) Escape From Planet Earth (PG) Fri-Wed A Good Day to Die Hard (R) Identity Thief (R)

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) ends Thu The Last Exorcism Part II (PG-13) ends Thu Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) Safe Haven (PG-13) Silver Linings Playbook (R) Snitch (PG-13)

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Thursday titles below Gangster Squad (R) The Guilt Trip (PG-13) The Master (R) Parental Guidance (PG) Rise of the Guardians (PG) Skyfall (PG-13) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG-13) Wreck-It Ralph (PG)

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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ is another big-budget film you probably don’t need to see

Franco, the Miscast BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com like James Franco more often than not. Loved him as a stoner … loved him as a hiker with an unfortunately small knife getting his arm stuck behind a boulder … even liked him opposite a motioncapture chimp. As much as I often like him, he is all wrong for the central character of Oz the Great and Powerful. The role of Oz calls for somebody with swagger and snarky factor. Franco is just too laid back, too normal for a role that requires old school charm. Yes, he’s charming in a modern sort of way (Hey, he was a slayer on General Hospital). In director Sam Raimi’s take on the wonderful wizard, you just get the sense that Franco is really straining. When he smiles in this movie, it almost looks as if he is going to tear his face because he’s putting so much into it. His line deliveries are all forced and wigged out. Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. were offered the role leading up to production. Either would have been a more sensible choice. The movie acts as a sort of prequel to the 1939 The Wizard of Oz. We see Oz’s origins as a desperate carnival magician in Kansas. His eventual trip to Oz via twister is much like the one Dorothy took on her voyage, and the movie plays out in black and white before arrival in Oz, just as it did in ’39. The movie offers up the three witches from the original film as well (one of them, of course, being the one that got squished by Dorothy’s house). There’s Theodora, played by Mila Kunis as a sort of nice witch with a bad temper that is going to cause a major change in her complexion at some point during the movie. We also get Michelle Williams as bubble-riding good witch Glinda in what is probably the most obvious casting of the year. Finally, there’s Rachel Weisz as Evanora, who may or may not be bad. Of the three, my vote goes to Weisz for best portrayal of an Oz witch. There’s a nice mystery to her, and she looks fabulous in her getup. Williams is fine, if not all that adventurous, as Glinda. Williams has far less warble in her voice as young Glinda. That Glinda in The Wizard of Oz always freaked me out when she spoke. Sounded like somebody was standing next to her and rubbing their finger on her throat really quick while she talked. The worst of the three is easily Kunis, who just blows it as the character once played by Margaret Hamilton. Raimi’s film gives her a reason for becoming wicked, and that reason (jilted love) is STUPID. When Kunis, obvious-

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There are a couple of ways to stage Shakespeare: You can keep it true to the setting and dialogue of the original text or you can take the story (and maybe the script as-is) and give it new meaning simply by changing the time and place. Caesar Must Die goes the second route, clipping bits and pieces of Julius Caesar into the story of a production of that play by inmates at an Italian prison. Rehearsals, such as they are, generally involve the actors quietly learning lines in their cells or, when they’re allowed, during group activities. It’s a terrifically inventive update, one that really only lacks production values. Shot in (or transferred to) black and white, the look of Caesar Must Die isn’t as dramatic as a grayscale prison might seem. But that’s a minor hiccup for Shakespeare fans, who will surely enjoy the clever adaptation. Boyd DEAD MAN DOWN

Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis in Oz the Great and Powerful

Oz the Great and Powerful Rated PG Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz Directed by Sam Raimi

Director Niels Arden Opley, maker of the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, makes his English language feature debut with a familiar face heading up the cast: Noomi Rapace, the original Lisbeth Salander. She plays a woman badly scarred in a car accident, who witnesses a murder and decides to blackmail the murderer (Colin Farrell) into killing the drunken driver who scarred her face. The Farrell character is working a complicated agenda of his own in the service of Alphonse (Terrence Howard) a Manhattan crime lord. The performances are very good here, and the movie looks absolutely great. The problem is Opley’s decision to stuff his movie with so many plotlines twists and turns that you just get exhausted by the halfway point. I think Opley has some good movies in him, and this one isn’t all bad. It’s just something you don’t really need to see. Grimm KOCH

I grew up a half hour from New York City on Long Island, where we very much paid attention to who was running things in Manhattan. Mayor Ed Koch was as polarizing a figure as I’ve ever seen in government.

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But there is no denying that he got the ball rolling on the resurrection of the city, including major housing improvements and the rebuilding of Times Square. This engaging documentary, using fairly recent interviews with the recently deceased Koch and archival footage, shows many of his triumphs and his controversies. He was a guy who said what was on his mind, and didn’t give a shit if it was popular or not. He made mistakes, but he also helped the city to become a place you would want to visit or even live in again. It was a shocker in my household when Koch got booted after his third term. We thought he would be mayor forever. Grimm LET MY PEOPLE GO!

Let my people go ... straight to this movie! While delivering mail in the idyllic countryside of Finland, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) is given a package stuffed with Euros by a panicky old man. His partner Teemu (Jarkko Niemi) doesn’t believe his story and promptly throws him out of his house. This sends Ruben on a plane back to France to visit his Orthodox family, just in time for Passover. From here on out, everything becomes topsy-turvy. His father is having an affair, his brother is a temperamental hot-head, his sister is married to a gentile that nobody likes, his mother is convinced he’ll cease being gay if he finds the right woman, and the older, hot-to-trot family lawyer is in love with him. Maury is perfect as the faith-questioning and constantly misunderstood Ruben, and the movie dazzles as it sways back and forth between tenderness and hilarity. Dewey

CONTINUING: THE ABCS OF DEATH

Twenty-six directors each get a word corresponding to a letter in the alphabet, and they go to town in often disgusting fashion. Some of the shorts are truly classic, others are bizarre beyond comprehension, and others are just bad. Standouts include “D” for “Dogfight” in which some dog fighting gamblers get their comeuppance. Many of the segments go way, way overboard with the violence and will surely turn off non-horror fans and horror fans alike. You are forewarned that the movie goes beyond the R rating (it is actually unrated) when it comes to the yucky stuff, and you will see a knife shooting out of a large penis. Some of the directors include Ti West (The Innkeepers) and Angela Bettis (star of the very creepy May). You will laugh, but you will near barf as well, so don’t eat too much before taking it in. Grimm

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ly a sweet woman, is asked to scream and cackle it’s unintentionally funny. She sounds like her voice has never gone to such places before, and it just screams “Bad casting!” She comes off like somebody playing the role in a high school production, and if that production were a graded element of some class, she would get an F and be asked to think of another trade in life. She does have much better boobs in her outfit than Hamilton had, though. Much, much better. You have the option of seeing Oz in 3-D, and you are probably OK to skip that option. The effects are nothing to get excited about. I wasn’t impressed with the looks of the Emerald City. Raimi is obviously going for the fairy-tale-look charm of the original Oz, but he should’ve shot for more detail and less gloss. You get no real sense of these characters inhabiting another world. They just look as if they are part of a screensaver. So even if the movie had some better casting, the special effects would still pull the whole thing down. Big special effects movies are rather crappy lately, with The Hobbit, Jack the Giant Slayer and this one all looking odd. I’m sorry, but I just look at Franco sometimes and expect him to take a hit off a hash pipe or something while the scene is playing out. As for Oz, he’s just too aloof for this sort of thing.

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Bates Motel Monday, March 18 (A&E) Series Debut: A modern-day “prequel” to the 1960 classic Psycho? A&E has entertained worse ideas for series, including sequel reality shows following the further adventures of Gene Simmons’ and Criss Angel’s respective hairpieces. Bates Motel tells the story of how a teenage Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) eventually grows up to become a serial killer, with help from devoted single mom Norma Louise (Vera Farmiga). Farmiga’s commanding presence alone makes Bates Motel a must-see pilot; if the series can sustain this strange, engaging mother/son relationship over 10 episodes, A&E may finally have a drama to brag about besides Longmire (sorry, The Glades).

Splash Tuesday, March 19 (ABC) Series Debut: Networks are apparently afraid of obvious titles anymore—this should be called Celebrity Diving, or Diving With the Stars, or Tinseltown Water Sports, anything. Splash follows 10 celebs (including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kendra Wilkinson, Chuy from Chelsea Lately and my first predicted fatality, Louie Anderson) as they train with Olympic divers and compete over several weeks (yes, this is going to drag into May) in hopes of ultimately winning … a spot on Celebrity Death Race?

Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher and Rebel Wilson star in the hilariously twisted and wrong Bridesmaids/ Hangover mashup seen by record-breaking numbers on iTunes … and about a dozen or so in actual theaters. (The Weinstein Co.)

Cyberstalker Thirteen years after an online stalker broke into her home, killed her parents and escaped without a trace, will he return for the object of his cyber” obsession (Mischa Barton)? The second she reactivates her AOL account, look out! (Lionsgate)

Price Check A listless, broke supermarket employee’s (Eric Mabius) unhinged new boss (Parker Posey) puts him on the fast track to big executive bucks—but he’ll have to put out in order to keep it. A must for fans of Posey and low, low prices. (IFC Films)

Straight A’s When the family black sheep (Ryan Phillippe) returns home from rehab, sparks fly with his high-school sweetheart (Anna Paquin), who’s now married to his brother (Luke Wilson). Sure, they’re totally all the same age. Right? (Millennium)

Zero Dark Thirty Mama (Jessica Chastain), Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights (Kyle Chandler) and Andy from Parks & Recreation (Chris Pratt) lead the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. As it did in real life, said mission only takes three hours. (Sony)

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AMERICANA JETHROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LITTLE CAFE E 8585 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-1091. Open MondaySaturday 6 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-2 p.m. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. MC, V. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 MondayThursday 11 a.m.-1 a.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.- 2 a.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-1 a.m. 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 entrĂŠes are hit or miss. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out on the happy-hour appetizer and drink specials. (7-2-09) $$-$$$ LINDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON FOURTH C 431 N. Fourth Ave. 207-2384. Open Monday 10 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 juicyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and maybe a little kinky? Then hop on down to Lindyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Lindyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 ANTHONYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;50s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s. $ MAYNARDS MARKET AND KITCHEN C 400 N. Toole Ave. 545-0577. Open Monday-Thursday

11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 9 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. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also seating for deli food in the adjacent convenience market, but the main dining room and dignified bar are the real draws. (7-1609) $$-$$$$ MAYS COUNTER CHICKEN AND WAFFLES C 2945 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2421. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-10 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 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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) $-$$$ THE MELTING POT NW 7395 N. La Cholla Blvd., No. 109 (Foothills Mall).

575-6358. Open Sunday-Thursday 4:30-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 4:30-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Fondue is in style again at The 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.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 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 waffle-cut 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-Saturday 6 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Diner/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This old-school Tucson joint 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 daily 11

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. Also at 3100 E. Speedway Blvd. (325-3489). With wings, pizza, hoagies, spaghetti, calzones, stromboli, hot dogs and burgers, Native New Yorker seemingly has it all. This chain sits right in the heart of all 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 asiago-parmesan. (10-2-08) $-$$

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CHOW Our reviewer checks out Le Rendez-Vous, a place many Tucsonans intend to try

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McMahon’s New Happy Hour McMahon’s Steakhouse, 2959 N. Swan Road, has enhanced its happy hour offerings. From 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, “Prime Time” menu items are $5, including “The Burger.” Check out mcmahonsprimesteakhouse.com for the complete menu.

BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com ’ve driven by Le Rendez-Vous on Fort Lowell Road hundreds of times. I’ve mentioned to Ted that we should try it at least a dozen times. And yet, until I was assigned this review, I had never actually managed to do so. That sentiment seems to be a trend with this restaurant— friends and family have said, “I meant to try it out …” but it never seems to happen. Perhaps it has something to do with the somewhat awkward location of the restaurant, or maybe it’s because, until that special occasion presents the opportunity, most of us don’t wake up in the morning thinking, “Gee, I could really go for some escargot followed by a nice coq au vin and a soufflé.” Le Rendez-Vous didn’t always have an odd location, squished between an apartment complex and a Circle K. It was opened in 1980, back when the intersection of Fort Lowell Road and Alvernon Way was on the outskirts of town. Not much changed at the restaurant for 30 years, but now the former owner’s son, Gordon Berger, has taken over and tried his hand at making it a little more approachable and affordable. The interior of the restaurant is surprisingly spacious, and is divided into distinct halves—a formal, upscale side that remains true to the restaurant’s roots and a more modern, casual bistro. The two sides share a menu (despite what the server told us on our first visit), but there are also small plates and $5 wine specials available in the bistro half. The menu is, to put it bluntly, very French. If you want French food prepared in classic French style, this is the place. Escargots ($8), duck pate ($9), sweetbreads ($13), frog legs ($12) and baked brie ($9) round out the hors d’oeuvres. The entrees include crevettes ($27), chateaubriand béarnaise ($65, serves two), filet au poivre vert ($31), coq au vin ($21), duck Montmorency ($28) and beef Wellington ($31). All entrees are served with a vegetable (green beans both times we dined) and potatoes Anna. Detail in preparation is where the chefs at Le Rendez-Vous shine. The escargots were hot, buttery and tender, without being chewy. Frog legs (we opted for the $5.50 bistro small plate) were thoroughly cooked and very moist. The trio de champignons ($11)—wild mushrooms and brie baked in puff pastry with a red wine and butter sauce—was gooey, melty, cheesy goodness. The only appetizer we ordered that faltered a bit was the duck pate. The texture was a bit on the grainy side. Entrées were, for the most part, executed

So Long, Voodoo Jack’s; Hello, Vudu Lounge The sign for Voodoo Jack’s, a jazz/blues nightclub coming to downtown, had been up for months in the space next to the now-closed Grill restaurant on East Congress Street. But plans have apparently changed. There’s a name change—to Vudu Lounge—on Facebook and the updated logo has more of the feel of L.A. than New Orleans. “New design team, new logo, and a new focus,” according to Facebook.

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Frog legs from Le Rendez-Vous. with impeccable precision and excellent flavor. The duck Montmorency ($28), roasted duck with cherries, was a touch dry and the filet au poivre vert was just a hair past medium-rare, if you want to get really picky about it. Both dishes could have used a little more sauce. The beef Wellington was absolute melt-in-your-mouth perfection, and on our second visit, Ted chose the evening’s special, a lamb porterhouse ($28), which was nicely seasoned and perfectly medium-rare. Dessert also shines at Le Rendez-Vous. On the first visit, we shared a charlotte verrine ($7), a lovely, creamy mousse-like dish with ladyfingers and fruit, which ended the meal with a nice light note. It was the total opposite of the Grand Marnier soufflé ($10, and you need to order while you’re still enjoying your meal, as it takes more time to bake), which was incredibly rich, but delicious. All of the food at Le Rendez-Vous was wonderful. The problems are with the service, and the clientele. On both of our visits, Ted and I were easily the youngest people in the restaurant by at least 20 years, and when we sat on the more upscale side, our server was quite inattentive to us compared to the service that she was providing some of the other tables. They seemed to be understaffed that night, but on the

Le Rendez-Vous 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road 323-7373; rendezvoustucson.com Open Tuesday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Tuesday through Sunday, 5 to 10 p.m. Pluses: Excellent food; great wine list Minuses: Pricey; service on the restaurant’s fancier side was dismissive

subsequent visit, when we enjoyed dinner on the bistro side, the restaurant was practically swarming with staff. They were gathering at the service station near the bar, chatting and laughing, and we must have had five different people (servers, bussers, etc.) at our table at one point or another throughout the evening. At least they were friendly and attentive. Now, I know you can’t judge a restaurant by its clientele, because it doesn’t have any control over who dines there, but I think it’s worth mentioning that on both visits several of the tables near us were exceedingly rude to their servers. And, in the category of something that the restaurant can control, if I am paying for a $31 steak, or a $65 chateaubriand, my steak knife had better not be made by Ronco.

Unable to meet corporate expectations, Brio Tuscan Grille at the Tucson Mall is closing. The chain restaurant opened in June 2011 across the parking lot from The Cheesecake Factory and California Pizza Kitchen. Sunday, March 17, is Brio’s last day. After many trials and tribulations, Penca has opened at 50 E. Broadway. Patricia Schwabe’s restaurant is beautiful. I stopped in for a quick bite and found that, as advertised, this isn’t your usual Mexican fare. As the saying goes, good things come to those who wait.

Easter Egg Hunt at Agua Linda Farm Agua Linda Farm, 30 minutes south of Tucson, is hosting an all-day spring extravaganza on March 30, the day before Easter. The festivities include four separate Easter egg hunts for kids 12 and younger, scavenger hunts for older kids, ponies to ride, baby animals to pet, hayrides, face painting, lawn games and a picnic lunch that incorporates fresh food from the farm. Advance tickets are $23.50 for adults and children 13 and older, and $16 for children 12 and younger. Sameday tickets are $25 and $18. For more details or to purchase tickets, go to www.agualindafarm.net.

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NOBLE HOPS GASTROPUB NW 1335 W. Lambert Lane. 797-4677. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Noble Hops Gastropub is bringing beer to Oro Valley with class. A plethora of gourmet entrĂŠes, presented without pretention, will entice your palate, and the selection of more than 100 beers will keep you coming back to try something new. The view from the patio is spectacular, and the chic, modern dĂŠcor makes Noble Hops a perfect place for a cozy romantic evening, or a fun spot to meet up with friends. (9-1-11) $$-$$$ 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 clock, and the portions are generous. Omarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breaks the typical truck-stop mold. $-$$ PASTICHE MODERN EATERY C 3025 N. Campbell Ave. 325-3333. Open Tuesday-

Friday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 4:30 p.m.-10 p.m. 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 Sunday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Drive-in/No Alcohol. Cash and debit 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-

SAWMILL RUN NE 12976 N. Sabino Canyon Parkway. 576-9147. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. MC, V. Sawmill Run is a welcome addition to Summerhavenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s limited culinary scene. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wide array of smoked and barbecued meats. The food is tasty, and the service is friendly. Oh, and the pie? Divine. (7-19-12) $$-$$$ SOUTHWEST DESERT DOGS E 5214 E. Pima St. . 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) $ THE STATION PUB AND GRILL 8235 N. Silverbell Road, No. 105. 789-7040. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The Station Pub and Grill is a friendly neighborhood restaurant with inexpensive pints, large portions, good food and quick service. With almost a dozen TVs scattered throughout the restaurant, there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a bad seat in the house for taking in the game. The inviting ambiance makes you feel comfortable whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re grabbing a brew with friends or dinner with the kids. A great addition to the northwest side. (10-11-12) $$ T.G.I. FRIDAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S E 4901 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-3743. Open SundayThursday 10 a.m.-midnight; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Some chains do it right. An appealing menu and buoyant, speedy service make TGIFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good choice when a quick family lunch or dinnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the plan. $-$$ TANQUE VERDE RANCH E 14301 E. Speedway Blvd. 296-6275. Open daily 7:30 a.m.-9 a.m., noon-1:30 p.m. and 6:30-8 p.m. CafĂŠ/Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Breakfast and lunch are a combination of a full buffet and table service for the main course. The dinner menu changes throughout the week and features four rotating entrĂŠes. The signature prime rib is available every evening. $$-$$$ TUCSON MCGRAWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ORIGINAL CANTINA E 4110 S. Houghton Road. 885-3088. Open TuesdaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday and Monday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fancy or the least bit nouvelle, but if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a hankering for red meat and ice-cold beer, you could do worse than this nifty cantina set on a hill overlooking the Santa Rita Mountains. The Tuesday-night steak special (a 10-ounce sirloin, ranch beans, white roll and salad) could brighten up your weekday outlook considerably. (6-8-00) $$

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) $

UNION PUBLIC HOUSE C 4340 N. Campbell Ave., No. 103. 329-8575. Open daily 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Union Public House offers a fun, hip atmosphere, with lots of TVs turned to sports and patio views of lovely St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plaza. Some of the food is brilliant, particularly

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BRUSHFIRE BBQ CO. C 2745 N. Campbell Ave. 624-3223. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 7080 E. 22nd St. (867-6050). Walking into this little midtown joint, the smoky, sweet smell of barbecued meat will hit you, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll think: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way BrushFireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meats can taste as good as they smell. Well, they can, and do. The brisket is a revelation, and the rib meat is literally falling off of the bones. Finish off the meal with the baked beans and some corn on the cob, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fat and happy. (11-29-07) $-$$ CATALINA BARBEQUE CO. AND SPORTS BAR W 3645 W. Starr Pass Blvd. 670-0444. Open daily 10 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. This is dressed-up, competition-style barbecue, with plenty of tender pork, ribs and beef, prepared in a number of ways. The pulled-pork sandwich is fabulous, and the brisket burnt ends will please. The Catalina wings are smoked before being fried, and the sides are terrific. This restaurant isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t located in the main JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the clubhouse at the Starr Pass Golf Club. (4-15-10) $$$ FAMOUS DAVEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LEGENDARY PIT BAR-B-QUE

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BREW PUBS BARRIO BREWING COMPANY C 800 E. 16th St. 791-2739. Open Sunday-Tuesday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Wednesday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; ThursdaySaturday 11 a.m.-midnight. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This brewery, operated by the same folks who own Gentle Benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, is a down-home kind of joint. There are usually about 10 beers on tap, all of which are brewed right in the building. The food is pub fare done well, often using one of the house-made ales in the preparation. While burgers are the highlights, the other sandwiches are tasty and complement the beers. The service is friendly, as to be expected. (3-6-08) $-$$ FROG AND FIRKIN Thursday 11 a.m.- 1 a.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.2 a.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. A Britishstyle pub with the heart of an outrĂŠ bohemian, Frog and Firkin is not only a great place to grab a tasty brew, but a fine place to sate your appetite as well. $$-$$$ GENTLE BENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BREWING COMPANY C 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/ Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Better-than-decent food and a heavenly selection of 10 brews just ripe for the sampling make Gentle Benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a welcome respite from your wearying day. $$

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10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Through a move and the departure of some family members to start a competing restaurant, the Original Mr. Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has kept on serving some of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best barbecue. The sweet, peppery sauce is the key, as it elevates the tender meats on which it is slathered. The sides and desserts are made with care here, and it shows. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the collard/turnip greens and the peach cobbler. (10-18-12) $-$$

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V.

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MR. Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BARBEQUE C 4911 N. Stone Ave. 408-7427. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The man behind this longtime southside institution has moved to bigger digsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the food hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed. The heavenly aroma hits you as soon as you walk through the door. Grab a tray and utensils, and get in line. Order your meat and two sides. Hankering for some brisket? You have a choice of chopped or sliced. Are ribs more to your liking? Mr. Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will satisfy and then some. The fried okra has a nice little kick to it, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;county fairâ&#x20AC;? corn on the cob is both smoky and sweet. (12-8-11) $$

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Better than most chain restaurants, Famous Daveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s years of research really have paid off. A family-friendly place offering authentic barbecue, no matter how you like it. The St. Louis-style ribs mean more meat and bigger bones. The Wilbur beans are good enough to write home about. And the desserts could make Mom jealous. (4-01-04) $$-$$$

THE ORIGINAL MR. Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BBQ ZINBURGER NW 1865 E. River Road. 299-7799. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 6390 E. Grant Road (298-2020). Is Tucson ready for an upscale burger joint? The existence of Zinburger provides the answer to that question: a resounding yes! The burgers are perfectly prepared, and the sides are satisfying, provided you like stuff thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been fried. After you enjoy the Kobe burger, the truffle fries and the dateand-honey shake, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to look at burgers, fries and shakes in the same way ever again. (5-15-08) $$-$$$

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WILDFLOWER NW 7037 N. Oracle Road. 219-4230. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Inventive and bright contemporary cuisine served in an elegant and stylish setting. Wildflower showcases excellent service, state-of-the-art martinis and outrageous desserts. An extremely popular dining spot that deserves its reputation. (7-27-00) $$-$$$

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WILBURâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL E 4855 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-6500 ext. 5043. Open daily 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Some of the best restaurants are located in hotelsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and ignored by locals. Wilburâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fits this description perfectly, and locals are missing out. Fantastic service, great happy-hour deals and delicious food make this a great place to grab a beer after work and watch whatever game happens to be on. (10-2-03) $$-$$$

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IRISH PUB NE 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-2299. Open daily 11 a.m.-midnight. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This friendly, neighborhood pub is just what the doctor ordered for a bit o’ fun and food. Daily specials range from an all-you-can-eat Friday-night fish fry to steak dinners on Saturday night. Burgers come with all the usual sides, but you can also find interesting toppings—olive mayo, anyone? Dining on the patio is a pure pleasure. You may even make a new friend or two. (7-10-08) $-$$ NIMBUS BISTRO AND BREWERY E 6464 E. Tanque Verde Road. 733-1111. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.midnight Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. With a large selection of bottled and draught beers, Nimbus Bistro and Brewery is a great addition to the original. An upscale bar-food menu offers lots of delicious options, and don’t miss out on their signature dish, the “world famous” fried bologna sandwich. (1-7-10) $-$$

Mouthwatering Roast Beef, Melted Cheese & Savory Au jus

NIMBUS BREWING COMPANY TAPROOM S 3850 E. 44th St. 745-9175. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The microbrewed beer is tasty, cheap and plentiful; the food is quite satisfactory and likewise inexpensive; and the close-up look at a microbrew operation is as entertaining as the live music that can frequently be heard there. What’s not to like? (2-17-00) $ THUNDER CANYON BREWERY NW 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 797-2652. Open SundayThursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Spacious, gracious and blessed with a seemingly endless supply of bona fide brew wonders, Thunder Canyon is the perfect antidote to a trip to the mall. The food can’t quite match the excellence of the beer, but the fish and chips make a valiant attempt at equity. $$

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CAFES AND BISTROS 47 SCOTT C 47 N. Scott Ave. 624-4747. Monday-Friday 4-10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full

Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Offering a variety of comfort food with a bistro twist—think macaroni and cheese, grilled-cheese sandwiches, burgers and more—and an affordable, diverse wine list, 47 Scott is a great place for a casual dinner before a show. The ingredients are fresh, and the food is expertly prepared. However, if you’re going for lunch, be sure you have a little extra time. (10-14-10) $-$$ AMELIA GREY’S CAFE AND CATERING C 3073 N. Campbell Ave. 326-2663. Open TuesdaySaturday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/ No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This charming little café offers homemade soups with deep flavors, hefty sandwiches and rich made-in-house desserts. Salads are piled high with fresh ingredients like artichoke, roasted pecans, bleu cheese, fresh fruit, bacon and turkey. Specialty tea selections are a big part of the restaurant’s offerings; high tea requires a 24-hour heads up. Quaintly chic and utterly charming, dining at Amelia Grey’s is like dining at your favorite aunt’s house. (1227-12) $-$$ $-$$ THE B LINE C 621 N. Fourth Ave. 882-7575. Open Monday-

Saturday 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Diner/Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. A retro approach to urban food. The menu focuses on breakfast and lunch burritos, salads, pastas, soups, baked desserts and breakfast pastries. The affordable fare includes good salads, vegetarian soups, fresh burritos and pies like old family favorites. (12-19-02) $ CAFÉ À LA C’ART C 150 N. Main Ave. 628-8533. Open Monday-Wed 7

a.m.-2 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This lunch venue located in the historic Stevens House adjacent to the Tucson Museum of Art is a small culinary masterpiece. With a limited menu, the focus is on quality and taste, both of which are outstanding. Ordering from the counter gives patrons ample time to ogle the mouthwatering desserts, which are best selected with the rest of your lunch; with patrons lining up outside, the case might be empty by the time you make it through the line a second time. The patio and French garden chic add extra appeal. (4-20-00) $ CAFÉ MARCEL C 344 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3700. Open daily 8 a.m.-5

p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The crepes

at Café Marcel are simply amazing. With both sweet and savory crepes on the menu, as well as croissants, it’s worth trying as many as possible. The savory crepes, served with an herb cream sauce, are definitely not to be missed. Prices are reasonable, and the service is friendly. Café Marcel also offers a variety of organic coffees and specialty teas. (8-2-12) $ CAFÉ PASSÉ C 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. Open Sunday-Tuesday 8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Café Passe is a quirky coffee house, sandwich shop and neighborhood hangout in the heart of Tucson’s quirkiest area. Offering sandwiches, panini, salads, baked goods, coffees, teas, smoothies and other refreshments in a relaxed atmosphere, this is a go-to place for a break while shopping on Fourth Avenue. (10-1-09) $-$$ LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR C 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. Open Monday 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. With creative fare that’s actually good for you, a little history and some unique, nifty shopping, La Cocina offers a most wonderful experience. Vegans, vegetarians and those with gluten issues have a full array of goodies. The world is the inspiration here: Corn cakes with maple syrup, sweet potato and corn enchiladas, edamame hummus and pad Thai are just a few of the choices. The courtyard is lovely; the cantina is funky and fun. And there’s brunch on weekends. (2-10-11) $-$$ CRYING ONION CAFÉ NW 3684 W. Orange Grove Road, Suite 156. 5311330. Open Saturday-Thursday 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; Friday 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V, Cash and checks. Big breakfast portions and friendly service are two reasons why this northwest-side eatery draws such big crowds. The baked goods from scratch are another reason. Try a scrambler or the cinnamon roll French toast for a real treat. You won’t walk away hungry, and your wallet won’t be depleted. (128-05) $ THE CUP CAFÉ C 311 E. Congress St. 798-1618. Open SundayThursday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.midnight. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Variety offered in an energetic environment. The Cup makes for one of the best reasons to eat downtown. (1-23-03) $-$$ DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. E 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7188. Open Monday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, MC, V. Fresh salads, hot grills and taste-pleasing combinations make this casual setting a continuing favorite. $$-$$$ DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING C 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. Open Sunday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. The bohemian atmosphere of Fourth Avenue is enhanced by the lasting presence of one of the most consistently delicious eateries in town. Delectables specializes in simple dishes elegantly prepared and is perfect for either fine dining or after-game snacks. Desserts are extraordinary, and the people-watching along the avenue can’t be beat. (1-20-00) $$ THE ECLECTIC CAFÉ E 7053 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-2842. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. A longstanding local café, the Eclectic excels at serving legendary breakfasts that feature fresh ingredients in robust portions. While service can be harried during peak hours, breakfast is worth the wait. Lunch and dinner are available, and while the menu dedicates itself to fresh ingredients, some of the other offerings aren’t as consistently solid as breakfast. Don’t miss the habit-forming chilaquiles, worth getting up and waiting in line for. (8-30-01) $ EPIC CAFÉ C 745 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6844. Open daily 6 a.m.midnight. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, MC, V. This is as close as you can get to Berkeley without leaving Tucson. The inexpensive, healthy food with fresh vegetables. The diverse crowd. The casual, occasionally cranky counter service. The art on the walls. The straws in the Viagralabeled container. It’s all there. (5-15-03) $ FEAST C 3719 E. Speedway Blvd. 326-9363. Open TuesdaySunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Chef Doug Levy takes usual ingredients and creates unusual, innovative and delectable fare. He changes the menu every month, which means two

things: The menu is seasonally driven, and you can’t get too attached to any one item—but whatever the month may be, everyone will find something to enjoy. Many of the items can be prepared gluten-free. The wine book is one of the best in town, and service seldom falters. (2-24-11) $$-$$$ FROGS ORGANIC BAKERY NW 7109 N. Oracle Road. 229-2124. Open Wednesday-Saturday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Owned by French bakers, Frogs prepares food with no chemicals, preservatives, artificial colors or trans fats. Ingredients are fresh, organic and from area farms. Menu offerings include moderately priced soup, sandwiches, salads, quiche and breakfast items. But you must visit to sample the terrific pastries. Choose from delectable fruit tarts, macarons, sticky buns, muffins and more. Don’t miss the almond croissants and the dessert of the day. (1-5-12) $-$$ GOURMET GIRLS GLUTEN-FREE BAKERY/BISTRO NW 5845 N. Oracle Road. 408-9000. Open TuesdaySunday 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This tiny bakery and bistro is a godsend for folks with gluten issues. In the bakery, you’ll find muffins, cupcakes, breads, pizza shells, bread crumbs, crostini, cakes, pies—you name it. The bistro menu includes fresh salads, homemade soups, sandwiches and breakfast items. Breakfast and lunch are served all day. (5-10-12) $$ JOEL’S BISTRO C 806 E. University Blvd. 529-7277. Open daily 8 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tuesday-Saturday 5-8 p.m. Summer hours: open daily 8 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday 5-8 p.m. Bistro/BYO. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Quiches, hot sandwiches, salads and a handful of regular entrées are all worth eating at Joel’s Bistro, but the star of the show is the crepes. It’s a beautiful thing to dine on sweet, succulent fruit crepes on a gorgeous day in the university area. (3-31-05) $-$$ MONTEREY COURT CAFÉ C 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. Open Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Monterey Court Café is one big step in the right direction toward reclaiming the glitz and glamour of the 1930s and ’40s in the Miracle Mile neighborhood. Built as a motel in 1938, Monterey Court is now a collection of galleries and artisan shops. The café is a wonderful addition, serving fresh, delicious food and local brews at affordable prices. Service is warm and friendly. Definitely try the guacamole. (9-20-12) $-$$ THE SCENTED LEAF TEA HOUSE AND LOUNGE C 943 E. University Blvd., No. 165 624-2930. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tiny and chic, this university-area spot defies the notion that tearooms need to be stuffy and boring. Considering the long list of varieties, tea-lovers will certainly find something to their liking. Teas are available freshly brewed, both hot and iced. There’s a daily, house-made soup as well as a nice assortment of desserts (mostly pies and cheesecakes). (11-22-12) $ SEVEN CUPS C 2516 E. Sixth St. 881-4072. Open Monday-Saturday 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Café/ No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tucson is lucky to have Seven Cups, a traditional Chinese teahouse that serves a variety of some of the best teas you’ll find anywhere. Order a pot of tea and a Japanese pastry, take in the calm elegance and forget that the outside world exists for an hour or two. (9-2-04) $-$$ SOMETHING SWEET DESSERT LOUNGE E 5319 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-7735. Open Monday and Tuesday 5 p.m.-midnight; Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday 11 a.m.-midnight; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Featuring dozens of desserts, late-night hours for the allages crowd, free wireless Internet and a book-exchange program, Something Sweet is carving out a new niche in Tucson. The colossal carrot cake is a wonder to behold. (1-22-04) $

pensive food can be found in abundance at Sunny Daze—but what really sets this southside café apart is its clean, tropical-themed décor. The small, square room is decorated to the hilt, and definitely worth checking out. (11-6-08) $-$$ TOOLEY’S COFFEE SHOP C 299 S. Park Ave. No Phone. Open daily 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. Cash only. Simple, honest food makes this café worthy of repeat visits. Breakfast is big, but the lunches are also quite satisfying. Coffee and teas are plentiful, and the vibe is kicked-back and cool. The décor is especially charming, with a patio that is ideal for alfresco dining. Be warned: Hours seem to change on a whim. It’s that laid-back. (3-26-09) $ WILKO C 943 E. University Blvd. 792-6684. Open MondaySaturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro/ Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. This gastropub is a wonderful addition to the university area; in fact, it’s a plus for the entire city. Artisan cheeses and meats are a big part of the menu. The Sonoran hot dog becomes the Sonoran bratwurst, locally made and topped with guindilla relish. Other entrées include delicious pasta and a wonderful tilapia. Desserts are top-notch, which is no surprise, since they’re made by the folks at The B Line. (8-1111) $$

CAJUN DON’S BAYOU CAJUN COOKIN’ NE 8991 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-4410. Open Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Counter/BYO. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Craving some crawdads? Just gotta have a piece of pecan pie? We recommend heading over to Don’s. This teeny joint offers some of the Old Pueblo’s best Cajun cooking. This is truly down-home food, served simply, but with a lot of heart. (6-10-10) $$ THE PARISH NW 6453 N. Oracle Road. 797-1233. Open daily 11

a.m.-midnight. Bistro/Full Bar. MC, V. The Parish is a fine drinking establishment. Oh, and they serve food, too—really good food. The Southern-fusion gastropub features dishes with a Cajun/Creole twist, and the bold flavors are served with a smile. Consider yourself warned: When something is described as spicy, they mean it. (3-8-12) $$

CHINESE BA-DAR CHINESE RESTAURANT E 7321 E. Broadway Blvd. 296-8888. Open TuesdayThursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The range of flavors is not especially broad or intense, but with that caveat, the mix of Mandarin, Szechuan and Cantonese cuisine can be quite satisfying, with a particular variety of fish and seafood dishes. (10-30-08) $-$$ C. I. CHU’S MONGOLIAN BARBECUE E 4540 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-4798. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Diner. Beer, Wine and Sake. MC, V. Also at 7039 E. Tanque Verde Road (886-8619). C.I. Chu’s does Mongolian barbecue right. While the do-it-(mostly)yourself experience can be a bit confusing for first-time diners, this is a place to go for a relatively fast, affordable, uncomplicated and tasty bit of Asian food. (8-1204) $-$$ CHINA PASTA HOUSE C 430 N. Park Ave. 623-3334. Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. MC, V. This small UA-area restaurant features the delicious cuisine of Dandong, China. Gruel, dumplings, buns and noodle dishes fill out the menu. The pasta quality may vary—sometimes, it’s mushy; sometimes, it’s not—but the food is always tasty. The spicy, peppery “hot and sour noodles with three shredded stuff” is highly recommended. (5-3-12) $

SON’S BAKERY CAFÉ E 5683 E. Speedway Blvd. 885-0806. Open Monday and Tuesday 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. Son’s is an absolute gem, featuring amazing sandwiches and salads, and wonderful homemade desserts and pastries. Son, the proprietor, makes all the breads and baked goods himself, and he is a master. With the prices low and the service so welcoming and enthusiastic, Son’s is a delight in almost every way. (4-8-04) $

CHINA PHOENIX NW 7090 N. Oracle Road, Suite 172. 531-0658. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. If you have a taste for dim sum on the weekend, you’re in for a cultural treat. The procuring of dumplings from pushcarts is a noisy business, but if you are hard up for dim sum, it will get you by. Dim sum is served on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (10-17-02) $-$$

SUNNY DAZE CAFÉ S 4980 S. Campbell Ave. 295-0300. Open SundayTuesday 6 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wednesday-Saturday 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tasty, inex-

DRAGON VIEW W 400 N. Bonita Ave. 623-9855. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 4-8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon-3 p.m. and 4-9:30 p.m.; Sunday noon-

3 p.m. and 4-8:30 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Since original owner Harry Gee regained control of this secluded westside restaurant (it’s on a street that winds along the west side of the Santa Cruz between St. Mary’s Road and Congress Street), the fare is once again some of the best Chinese food in town. The duck, for one thing, is excellent, and the greens are also terrific if you let the staff guide your choice. (4-2-09) $-$$ DRAGON VILLAGE RESTAURANT NW 12152 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., No. 180. 2290388. Open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. While not matching the level of Bay Area Chinese restaurants, the crowded Dragon Village is perfectly fine by Tucson standards, with remarkable walnut shrimp and a good way with broccoli. (4-10-08) $ GOLDEN PHOENIX C 2854 E. 22nd St. 327-8008. Open daily 11 a.m.-

9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. MC, V. The food here is consistently as good as what you’d find in San Francisco or Hong Kong. Austere atmosphere, but when the kitchen is on, this place is it. $-$$ GREAT WALL CHINA S 2445 S. Craycroft Road. 514-8888. Open daily 11

a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The service is quick and friendly; the décor is clean and welcoming. And the food? It’s consistently tasty, although the vegetarian offerings could use a boost. The pan-fried noodles are worth checking out, as is the not-too-sweet sesame chicken. Great Wall deserves to be part of the conversation when discussing Tucson’s top Chinese restaurants. (1-31-08) $$-$$$$ GUILIN CHINESE RESTAURANT C 3250 E. Speedway Blvd. 320-7768. Open Sunday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Hold on to your hats! With this venue, Tucson can boast it’s home to honest-to-goodness Chinese food, full of the bright tastes and textures for which the cuisine is renowned everywhere but here in the Old Pueblo. Tons of vegetarian options and daily lunch specials make Guilin a must-stop. $-$$ HARVEST MOON NW 12125 N. Oracle Road, Suite D5. 825-5351.

Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. Folks in Oro Valley can rejoice in the fact that they’ve got one of the best Chinese restaurants in the area right in their backyard. Wonderful starters include the crab puffs, foil-wrapped chicken and pot stickers. Can’t-miss entrées include the crispy duck and the scrumptious crispy shrimp with spicy salt. Soups are yummy, too! (12-31-09) $$ IMPRESS HOT POT C 2610 N. First Ave. 882-3059. Open Monday-

Saturday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Sunday 1:30-10 p.m. Bistro/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Impress Hot Pot is Tucson’s first Chinese hot-pot restaurant, and this do-it-yourself place is definitely worth a stop. Authentic Chinese flavors abound; try one of the many unique dishes like jellyfish, chicken feet or preserved eggs. Customize your own tasty hot pot with a plethora of ingredients and sauce options—and be sure to bring friends to share. (11-3-11) $$ P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO NW 1805 E. River Road. 615-8788. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. It may be more L.A. than Tucson, but there’s no denying that this hip chain is one of Tucson’s most popular places to be seen and dine. Diners are rewarded with commendable fare and a chic, eclectic ambience. Servers are intimately familiar with the menu, so by all means, take their advice. You won’t be sorry. (8-3-00) $$ PANDA HOUSE STIR-FRY NW 3725 W. Ina Road. 744-6200. Open Monday-

Saturday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Counter/ Diner/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Featuring buildyour-own stir fry and all-you-can-eat lunch Monday through Friday for less than $8. $-$$ PANDA VILLAGE E 6546 E. Tanque Verde Road. 296-6159. Open

Monday-Thursday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-9 p.m. Diner/ Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. We’ve had some extraordinary dinners at this Chinese venue. The kuo tieh, flavorful pork-filled dumplings lightly seared, are served with sauce of perfect fragrance and bite. $$ PEKING PALACE E 6970 E. 22nd St. 750-9614. Open daily 11 a.m.-9

p.m. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Bright, fresh renditions of Chinese classics. The hot and sour

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COFFEE HOUSES BENTLEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HOUSE OF COFFEE AND TEA C 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. Open MondaySaturday 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Summer hours: Monday-Saturday 7 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. CafĂŠ/Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Delightful desserts, coffee you can get your hands around, and lip-smacking fresh salads and sandwiches make this standard a good choice. (4-19-01) $ IKEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE AND TEA C 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-7205. Open daily 6 a.m.-midnight. CafĂŠ/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 100 N. Stone Ave. (792-1800). Ikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s does it right, with fresh ingredients in their salads and sandwiches, good coffee and a modern but mellow atmosphere. Try dessert, too; you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be disappointed. (7-10-03) $ LE BUZZ CAFFE AND NEWS E 9121 E. Tanque Verde Road, Suite 125. 749-3903. Open daily 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V, Checks. A pretty, warm, friendly neighborhood hangout with full espresso-bar offerings and a good bakery. Excellent service and a great locationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the northeast corner of Tanque Verde Road and Catalina Highwayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;make Le Buzz a local favorite. (9-12-02) $

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SPARKROOT C 245 E. Congress St. 272-8949. Open Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Sparkroot is the only coffeehouse in the state that serves marvelous Blue Bottle Coffee. The granola is a great way to start your day, and the dark-chocolate plate is a great way to finish it. In between, there are pressed-cheese sandwiches, salads and other bites that satisfy. All of this is offered in a space with a chic, big-city feel. (12-29-11) $

DELI BISON WITCHES BAR AND DELI C 326 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1541. Open daily 11 a.m.midnight (bar open until 2 a.m.). CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This college hangout earns its popularity with fresh sandwiches, tasty bread-bowl soups and enormous trays of nachos. A nice selection of beers and other alcohol add to the placeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appeal. (3-10-05) $ FIFTH STREET DELI AND MARKET E 5071 E. Fifth St. 325-3354. Open Monday-Thursday

8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday and Sunday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. DIS, MC, V. This is exactly what a neighborhood market/deli should be: small, cozy and nothing fancy, with friendly service. The food is pretty good, too; the noodle kugel is a real winner, and the brisket is better than homemade. Corned beef comes in extra-lean and regular varieties, and the soups are popular. Whether you stop to get a meal to-go or dine in, this deli should be on your list of regular dining spots. (12-25-08) $-$$ SHLOMO AND VITOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEW YORK DELICATESSEN NW 2870 E. Skyline Drive. 529-3354. Open Sunday-

Thursday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Where do you go in the Sonoran Desert for smoked whitefish or matzo brei? Head on over to Shlomo and Vitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, which is more of a restaurant than a true deli; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a full dinner menu in addition to an assortment of deli offerings. Desserts are made in-house. The portions are huge, and the patio offers views you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get in the Big Apple. There are Italian faves as well, but stick to the Jewish side of the menu. (6-19-08) $-$$ TONYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN DELI E 6219 E. 22nd St. 747-0070. Open Monday-Saturday

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Audacity are hitting Tucson before they start recording a new album

By Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com

Unpredictable and Energetic

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BY ERIC SWEDLUND, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com he melodies that color Audacity’s brashly energetic garage punk are like bright patches stitched onto a worn denim jacket. The band’s music is defiantly homemade and unique, cobbled together from bits of coolness that stretch back across decades. The balance of both youthful exuberance and veteran experience comes across in the excitement and unpredictability of 2012’s breakthrough Mellow Cruisers album. From Fullerton, Calif., Audacity (or the Audacity, the band itself isn’t entirely sure) has its roots in the sixth-grade band of guitarists Kyle Gibson and Matt Schmalfeld. First as Nontoxic and later as the Plaid and the Attachment, they’d play school shows and birthday parties. Drummer Thomas Alvarez and bassist Cameron Crowe joined in high school and the group gelled. The band was touring regularly and recording before the members were out of their teens, releasing the wild and raw Power Drowning on Burger Records in 2009. The debut was punk rock sprayed from a fire hose, a quick and chaotic blast in the face. On the comparatively refined Mellow Cruisers, the band slings hooks galore alongside the churning chords and bashed drums. “We’ve been playing together for so long, the sound keeps progressing,” says Alvarez, now 23. “It’s a natural growth. The longer you play together the more you progress. “Being young and playing music has its perks. We’ve never really thought about it, going on tour at 18. But the older we get, the more serious we take it. When we were younger we were still really serious about it, but we were messing around.” Part of the band’s growth came during the period Audacity backed up King Tuff’s Kyle Thomas when he moved from Vermont to California. They learned the songs and practiced via Skype at first, then toured with a three-guitar lineup. Thomas put together his own band for the 2012 King Tuff self-titled album on Sub Pop, but Alvarez and Schmalfeld continued for a couple of more tours. After King Tuff came Mellow Cruisers, a lengthier project, with Audacity fine-tuning the songs at the same time they worked out a creative process that stacks more musical ideas onto the band’s earlier thrash-it-out style. “When we were writing Mellow Cruisers it seemed like things were taking longer to come through,” Alvarez says. “It took a little while to get all the songs together. I remember scrambling the week before we went into the studio.

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But the longer we played, things just changed.” The album opens with “Indian Chief,” a transition song for the band that came years before the rest of Mellow Cruisers. “Ears and Eyes,” another transition song for the band, delivers more of a psychedelic vibe than the band has had in the past. “That song took months and months to finish because it was so different. It has a different vibe than any other song we’ve played,” Alvarez says. “After we wrote that, Matt and Kyle would show up with so many ideas at practice.” “Punk Confusion Formula” and “Fun Spot” combine classic punk with irresistibly catchy melodies, a sort of thrill-seeking swagger that’s come to define the band’s sound. “After that writing experience and recording the record, and we’ve been practicing a lot more too, things are just flowing,” Alvarez says. “Now when we come together things just mesh. Things are coming way easier when we’re writing. It’s pretty nuts. Everyone flows together and it just keeps getting better and better.” Audacity is already on the way to a bigger 2013. The band signed to Suicide Squeeze Records and recorded two songs (“Finders Keepers” and “Onomatopoeia”) for a 7-inch releasing on April 2. Spin magazine premiered the A-side online, calling the single “noisy and celebratory” and a “mix of Buzzcocks blitz and Sonic Youth note-warping.” “We’ve never had something like that post our music before. It’s done well for our band,” Alvarez says. “Finders Keepers” will be on the band’s upcoming record. The band has no title yet for the project, but is targeting a September or October release. Audacity will begin recording in the next couple of months, after the current tour of California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas ends. “We’re really stoked on the new record. Things have been going awesome lately on the creative side of the band. Now we’ve been writ-

Audacity with Nü Sensae, Lenguas Largas and Boo Boo Kiss 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 20 Topaz Tundra 657 W. St. Mary’s Road, Unit C1A $5; all ages topaz-tundra.com

ing enough songs and we have all the resources we need to keep touring and do what we want to do,” Alvarez says. “We’ve toured quite a bit these last couple years and our plan is to record another record and tour on it like crazy.” The current tour brings Audacity to Tucson for the band’s first all-ages show here, with Nü Sensae and locals Lenguas Largas (“one of our favorite bands,” Alvarez says), Womb Tomb and Boo Boo Kiss. It’s part of what Topaz Tundra calls its “Two Lane Blacktop Fest,” taking advantage of bands traveling through for SXSW in Austin, Texas. The tour will road-test some new songs, but Audacity doesn’t want to get too far ahead of themselves, with Mellow Cruisers barely eight months old. “We’ll play a couple new songs here and there, but we’re mostly playing those jams from the record that just came out,” Alvarez says. But don’t count on much down time for Audacity, even while working on its next record. The road beckons, just like it did for them a decade ago as teenage dreamers. “It’s cool being able to travel and be on stage. We love playing music and we’ve all been wanting to do that since we were probably in junior high. We like doing anything, whether it’s a legit venue or an awesome house party,” Alvarez says. “We’re basically down to play whatever the best spot possible is. If we’re playing to a basement of 20 stoked kids, that’s awesome.”

By the time you read this I’ll be in Austin, waisthigh in the three Bs of South by Southwest: bands, beer, and BBQ. If memory serves me correctly (and it very well might not), this will be my 15th SXSW, but this year is notable for one big reason: Never have so many Tucson acts been selected to perform at official SXSW showcases. This is largely due to the efforts of the soon-to-depart-Tucson Marianne Dissard, who organized a Tucson music showcase at the fest via her new Tucson Music Factory label, which is sponsoring the event along with KXCI 91.3 FM and the Tucson Weekly. So, on behalf of Tucson, thanks, Marianne. Thanks, too, to Gene Armstrong, who will be filling in for me at the Soundbites desk next week. For those of you who can’t make it to Austin, stay tuned to our We Got Cactus music blog, where we’ll do our best to convey the sights, sounds, and utter madness of SXSW. As for live music happening around Tucson this week, well, we’re sort of in the eye of the SXSW hurricane. If last week was an onslaught of acts passing through town on their way to Austin, and next week is largely the same, this week there’s a an influx of SXSW-destined acts because, well, they’re all in Austin. Still, there’s plenty to keep a music lover satisfied.

LET’S ALL PRETEND WE’RE IRISH As we all know, there’s a large Irish contingent in Tucson, but on St. Patrick’s Day, we’re all Irish for a day, right? This year St. Pat’s falls on Sunday, March 17, which may not be all that conducive to sucking down copious amounts of green beer, depending on whether or not you need to work or go to school on Monday. So, yes, there are several Irish-themed events taking place on Sunday, but there’s also a good number taking place on Saturday, March 16, in order to give you time to recover before the new week begins. Here are some worthwhile options for both days. Since no holiday can pass us by without a dose of good old American commercialism, Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St. will once again host the Great Guinness Toast, a worldwide event that, according to Guinness, actually took place on Feb. 15. Whoops! Better late than never, I suppose, and if you’re going to cheat, the night before St. Patrick’s Day seems like a logical alternative. Supplying the soundtrack for your Guinness swilling will be the ragtag, eight-piece ensemble Jimmy Carr and the McAwkward Moments, who normally perform rambunctious takes on Appalachian music without the “Mc” attached to their name. The Solid Gold DJs round out the entertainment at this 9 p.m. show on Saturday, March 16. The show is 21-and-over and admission is free. Questions? Head to hotelcongress.com/club or ring ‘em up at 622-8848.

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Your other Irish-centric option for Saturday night is a St. Paddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Dance Party at Boondocks Lounge, 3306 N. First Ave., featuring live music all night long courtesy of Nancy McCallion and Her Wee Band. McCallion was, of course, singer-songwriter for the internationally acclaimed Irish/Mexican roots band The Mollys, and with this relatively recently formed band, McCallion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with a little help from her friends Gary Mackender (drums and accordion), Danny Krieger (guitar), Tom Rhodes (fiddle and mandolin), and Steve Grams (bass) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; gets back to her Irish roots. If the music and beer donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite get you to your Irish happy-place, Boondocks will be offering plates of corned beef and cabbage for purchase. The St. Paddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Dance Party at Boondocks Lounge runs from 8 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, March 16. Cover charge is $10. For more info check out boondocksloundge.com or call 690-0991. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it to see Nancy McCallion and Her Wee Band at Boondocks on Saturday (or if you imbibed a wee bit too much on Saturday night and are in need of a little hair oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the dog), the group will also be performing a St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Acoustic Show from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, at La Cocina, 201 N. Court Ave. Admission is a suggested donation of $10. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more information at lacocinatucson.com or by calling 365-3053. Similarly, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to spend St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day proper at Boondocks Lounge, the Lisa McCallion-fronted Last Call Girls will toss some Irish flair into their normally country-oriented set from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the venue for a St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Dance Party on Sunday, March 17. Cover charge is $5, and corned beef and cabbage will once again be on the menu. Use the same contact info as above for more details. Meanwhile, over at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., local trio The Dusty Buskers will headline a bill with their rambunctious concoction of traditional Celtic, bluegrass, and Appalachian folk music. The Sunday, March 17 show kicks off at 9:30 p.m. with the lauded, lefty-leaning punk-grass combo the Haymarket Squares from Phoenix. The performances will be abetted by live Irish dancers. Cover is a fiver. For more info go look at plushtucson.com or call 7981298 with questions. In keeping with the traditional old-timey acoustic-music theme, the Get Right Rounders, a local guitar/banjo/fiddle trio, will tear up the stage at Surly Wench Pub, 424 N. Fourth Ave., at around 10 p.m. on Sunday, March 17. Cover is $5 and if you need more info, check out surlywenchpub.com or call the friendly folks there at 882-0009. Apparently The Hut, 305 N. Fourth Ave., is having a St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day event of some sort on Saturday, March 16, but we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t track down any information about it. The venue is, however, celebrating the holiday again on Sunday, March 17, with â&#x20AC;Ś a reggae party. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of a daylong celebration being billed as The Hut/Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Fourth: 20th Anniversary St. Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Block Party. Performers include reggae-rockers SKITN, Tucson reggae royalty Neon Prophet, and ska band 2Tone Lizard Kings. Unfortunately, details about times and cover charge couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be had at press time (hey, The Hut, clean out your damn voice mailbox, willya?!), so youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on your own there. The Hutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not-very-helpful website is huttucson. com, and if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to try your luck, its number is 623-3200.

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THE MORE YOU DRINK, THE BETTER WE SOUND Similar to whateverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going down at The Hut and Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the show at Cheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, 350 N. Fourth Ave., on Saturday, March 16, has nothing to do with Irish music â&#x20AC;&#x201C; unless of course The Hillwilliams (still one of the funniest band names ever) feel the urge to work up a couple last-minute Irish-themed ditties (which they probably will). Ever since guitarist-singer Scott Lema -one-third of the band along with bassist-singer Jim Cox and drummer-singer Matt Shannon -moved from Tucson to Wisconsin several years ago, Hillwilliams gigs have become so rare â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the last one was 2 Â˝ years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that each one is billed as a reunion show. The band is goofy, funny, and above all entertaining. Part of the fun is trying to figure out whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drunker, the audience or the band. Come to think of it, The Hillwilliams do have something in common with St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both all about drunken depravity, and who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like that? The Hillwilliams begin at 10 p.m. on Saturday, March 16, at Cheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. As always, there is no cover. Call 623-2088 for more info.

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LIVE MUSIC & MORE 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. ABOUNDING GRACE CHURCH 2450 S. Kolb Road. 747-3745. THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 7958996. THE BISBEE ROYALE 94 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 4326750. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991. BORDERLANDS BREWING COMPANY 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773. BREWD: A COFFEE LOUNGE 39 N. Sixth Ave. 6232336. BRODIE’S TAVERN 2449 N. Stone Ave. 622-0447. CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. CAFÉ ROKA 35 Main St. Bisbee (520) 432-5153. CASINO DEL SOL 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 3449435. CATALINA FOOTHILLS HIGH SCHOOL 4300 E. Sunrise Drive. 209-8300. CHICAGO BAR 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-8169. CHICAGO STORE 130 E. Congress St. 622-3341. CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. DESERTVIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. THE DISTRICT 260 E. Congress St. 792-0081. ELLIOTT’S ON CONGRESS 135 E. Congress St. 6225500. FAMOUS SAM’S E. GOLF LINKS 7129 E. Golf Links Road. 296-1245. FAMOUS SAM’S SILVERBELL 2320 N. Silverbell Road. 884-7267. FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. GJ’S COFFEEHOUSE 5950 N. La Canada Drive. HIDEOUT SALOON - EAST 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 520-751-2222. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. THE JUNXION BAR 63 E Congress, No. 109. 358-3761. LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 3238669. MAVERICK 6622 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-0430. MINT COCKTAILS 3540 E. Grant Road. 881-9169. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. NIMBUS BREWING COMPANY TAPROOM 3850 E. 44th St. 745-9175. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. OLD TOWN ARTISANS 201 N. Court Ave. 623-6024. ORO VALLEY LIBRARY 1305 West Naranja Driv. 520229-5300. PENNINGTON STREET GARAGE ROOF 110 E. Pennington St. PIAZZA GAVI 5415 N. Kolb Road. 577-1099. PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE WEST CAMPUS 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6600. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. R PLACE BAR AND GRILL 3412 N. Dodge Blvd. 8819048. REBELARTE COLLECTIVE (SKRAPPY’S) 191 E. Toole Ave. 358-4287. RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. RIVER’S EDGE LOUNGE 4635 N. Flowing Wells Road. 887-9027. RJ’S REPLAYS SPORTS PUB AND GRUB 5769 E. Speedway Blvd. 495-5136. THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. 629-9211. RUNWAY BAR AND GRILL 2101 S. Alvernon Way. 790-6788. SHOOTERS STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 3115 E. Prince Road. 322-0779. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544. 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. ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 7650 N. Paseo del Norte. 297-7201. ST. PHILIP’S IN THE HILLS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana 877-8100. SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275. SUN SPROUT CLOTH DIAPER SERVICE 3841 N. Oracle Rd. SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 882-0009. TOBY KEITH’S I LOVE THIS BAR AND GRILL 4500 N. Oracle Road. 265-8629. TOPAZ 657 W. St. Mary’s Road, No. C1A. TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS 9 Plaza Road. Tubac. 398-2371. TUCSON CONVENTION CENTER 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. TUCSON LIVE MUSIC SPACE 125 W. Ventura St. UA CENTENNIAL HALL 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. UA CROWDER HALL 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-1162. UA SCHOOL OF MUSIC 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843. WHISTLE STOP DEPOT 127 W. Fifth St. 271-7605. YUME JAPANESE GARDENS OF TUCSON 2130 N. Alvernon Way. 445-2957.

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GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH, THE PORK TORTA, WOODEN INDIAN BURIAL GROUND, SHIT TON THE DISTRICT TAVERN Monday, March 12 The District Tavern hosts some of the most interesting shows for local and touring bands these days. At worst polarizing, and revelatory nearly every time, I always leave feeling really angry, and that makes me extremely satisfied. Shit Ton is an exceptionally accomplished local instrumental trio. I will now check my musical preferences at the Tavern’s entrance, and offer this disclaimer: I can’t think of a subgenre of rock music I find more abhorrent than instrumental progressive rock. So, for fans of Yes and Rush who don’t like singing, you have a new favorite band. Each member of Shit Ton is a dazzling virtuoso at their respective instrument, and the ensemble playing was just as impressive, with time-signature changes, modal shifts, and other things I don’t want to know about highlighting the performance. The climax of the night came early, with Portland’s Wooden Indian Burial Ground rewriting the history of rock and roll in their own image. They didn’t try, and they didn’t have to. They weren’t filled with angst, just raw power minus the death trip. The closest reference point was James Brown circa Live at the Apollo played in a suicide vest, all rhythmic peaks and valleys, violence and, yes, absolute transcendence. The Pork Torta effortlessly delivered the rockinfluenced experimental music that has made them semi-legendary. All lockstep rhythms, the first song pulsed like NEU!, the second tumbled like Can, the third was Captain Beefheart cubism, and things just got better from there. The Pork Torta are arty, but not elitist, so their music is accessible to any listener — a superficial dance soundtrack, and the highest of art. Also from Portland, Guantanamo Baywatch stood in stark, bold relief to Wooden Indian Burial Ground, who on the surface appear to sound the same. The bashed out drumbeats and echoed, screeching guitar parts are really the only similarities. Guantanamo Baywatch are simply innocuous entertainment. They came across as careerists; odd, considering there is a very limited market for what they do. Nevertheless, they started grinning non-stop when the amplifiers came on, threw out some “Hello, Tucson!” stage banter, and played prefabricated scuzz-riffs until last call meant it was time to punch out. In a time and place where an artist can do anything they please, it’s very sad to see useless audience pandering. So, I left The District, both angry at Guantanamo Baywatch’s betrayal, and satisfied with the alternative. Joshua Levine

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Rescheduled from 2/22 to 3/17 Hideout Saloon - East Bob Kay, the Singing/Drumming DJ, plays oldies but goodies The Hut SKITN St. Patrick’s Day Bash!! The JunXion Bar Saint Patrick’s Day Downtown Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café St. Patty’s Day Celebration- Out of Kilters Old Pueblo Grille Pete Swan Jazz w/Mike Kuhn and Mike Fageros La Cocina Texas Trash and the Trainwrecks La Cocina Catfish and Weezie La Cocina Nancy McCallion And Her New Wee Band La Cocina Boogaloo BBQ w DJ Herm and friends The Parish St. Patirick’s Celebration All Weekend Playground Bar and Lounge St. Patrick’s Day Downtown Plush The Dusty Buskers w/The Haymarket Squares Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon The Titan Valley Warheads Surly Wench Pub St. Patrick’s Day w/The Get Right Rounders Tucson Convention Center Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Tucson Winter Music Festival Tucson Convention Center Beethoven’s “Pastorale” Tucson High Magnet School Multi-Cultural Community Music Festival

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The music of Wavves has been defined by a certain anarchic force over their short career. Afraid of Heights, their fourth, has that same demonic energy but channeled in a much more controlled and crisp manner. Take lead single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sail to the Sun,â&#x20AC;? which has the band sounding more like fellow beach-poppers the Drums than anything theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve released yet, from the tinkly ambient opening to the cleanly produced groove they lay down once the drums and bass kick in. Even singer Nathan Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bratty squawk sounds toned down, like heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truly aiming for melody. Overall, Afraid of Heights is the slickest weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard Wavves sound, outside of their strange guest spot on the most recent Big Boi record (mostly a failed experiment). It also feels stylistically different, more like a â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s grunge-pop record, especially on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Demon to Lean On,â&#x20AC;? a straight up post-Nevermind buzz bin track if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever heard one. The â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s revival continues for most of the record, especially on the title track, which goes full Weezer with catchy hooks, falsetto woo-wooing and walls of guitar crashing down for every chorus in which Williams repeats, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always be on my own/ Fucked and alone.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Rivers Cuomo-y sentiment from a guy whose been spinning this new record as a product of â&#x20AC;&#x153;soul searchingâ&#x20AC;? and finding himself. The snotty extrovert has become the sincere introvert. Afraid of Heights is so sugary itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure to rot your teeth, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be enjoying yourself too much to notice.

It opens with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cheap Beerâ&#x20AC;? and closes with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cocaine,â&#x20AC;? so you get it, right? Both serviceable, the former thrashes about in unadulterated, snotty glee with a big, brazenly dumb chorus (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I drink/ Cheap beer/ So what?/ Fuck youâ&#x20AC;?). The latter also prides itself on youthful provocations (cocaine for breakfast!), but is ably matched by an appropriately manic throttle. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to dismiss FIDLAR. The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all-embracing immaturityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the rallying cry of the Millennials isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t novel, nor is its outlet in unhinged punk. Nevertheless, FIDLAR belong to a lineage that includes the Dictators and the Ramones as much as Jay Reatard and Wavves, the convergence of giddy irreverence with buzzing melody. But then, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is an acronym for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fuck It Dog, Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Risk.â&#x20AC;? When it works, however, it is strong stuff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Wavesâ&#x20AC;? is joyful, bouncy, and irascible; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Max Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Surfâ&#x20AC;? boogies through its broken blues riff; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wake Bake Skateâ&#x20AC;? sounds, in the best way, like an electrified whirling dervish; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;5 to 9â&#x20AC;? blurs with great energy. Knowing its limits and keeping all songs under four minutes (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cocaineâ&#x20AC;? contains a bonus track that technically stretches it past seven) FIDLARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music never overstays its welcome. The failures are not abject, but merely ill-fitting. The arena trawl and neo-psychedelic turns of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paycheckâ&#x20AC;? are awkwardly married; ditto the grunge-country of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blackout Stout.â&#x20AC;? Meanwhile, the lazy shuffle of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gimmie Somethingâ&#x20AC;? sounds like the Rolling Stones falling asleep in the Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tour bus, the pleasure of which depends on your perspective. A promising debut, perhaps the biggest issue with FIDLAR is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not risky enough.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been an exciting year already for this young, bluegrass-oriented quintet, whose members are split between the Phoenix and Tucson areas. The group has appeared on the popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion twice and counts its host, Garrison Keillor, among its fans. Now comes the release of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refreshing and satisfying new album. Run Boy Run clearly is a top-notch string band, having honed its collective chops in musical families and during years of playing the bluegrass and acoustic-music festival circuit. And all five members contribute original songs on the new album. But the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music also shows off the lovely voices of its three female singers, including amazing three-part harmonies. Especially good showcases for their entwining vocals are the title track, the rousing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roving Daveyâ&#x20AC;? and the intricate melodies of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hoot Owl.â&#x20AC;? Perhaps the best cut is the most ambitious. Bekah Sandovalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Girlâ&#x20AC;? verges on the wondrous, beginning with the three ladies singing a cappella. Then the instruments come in, dark and mournful, almost-avantgarde, led by Grace Rollandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cello. This evolves into a lush, Celtic-Appalachian breakdown. In just 4 1/2 minutes, it encapsulates a full emotional journey.

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MEDICAL MJ If you’re avoiding smoke, making your cannabinoids soluble could be the solution

Tales of Tinctures BY J.M. SMITH, jsmith@tucsonweekly.com work out a lot. I’m a bit of a fitness buff who took a year off recently to study exercise science in college—real college, not a set of personal-training books I ordered on the Internet. So I’m a fitness buff and a bona fide, qualified fitness expert … but I smoke. It’s not cigarettes, it’s cannabis, so I only smoke eight or 10 hits per day, but I undeniably breathe in a lot of cancer-causing agents and tar and ash and other bullshit I’d rather not breathe. It’s annoying and filthy, and I know it’s doing absolutely nothing to better my life in any way. I stress a little over smoking, but it’s arguably the fastest, most convenient way to get cannabis into the nerve center. Tinctures might be my salvation. A lot of people know cannabinoids, including THC and CBD, are fat soluble. That’s why you can cook cannabis down in butter and use it to A DIVISION BOX INDUSTRIES make brownies or chocolates or other goodies. But cannabinoids are also alcohol soluble, which is how you make tinctures, which are basically cannabinoids in alcohol solution. There are numerous ways to make tinctures, but all involve getting cannabis into a solvent, then letting the solvent leach the active ingredients out of the plant matter. You can use glycerin or alcohol. Glycerin is good if you don’t want to take in even tiny amounts of alcohol, but it takes twice as long to dissolve the cannabinoids. Alcohol is more convenient and a more common method—one you can do at home. Virtually any alcohol will do, but the higher the alcohol content, the better it works. Everclear at 190 proof is a common choice, but you can also use Smirnoff’s Vanilla vodka

or anything else. When you’re done, you wind up with a liquid that contains very concentrated amounts of cannabinoids. A friend of mine recently had a lab test the wax he uses to make tinctures—it worked out to 41 mg THC per dose. His patients swear by it. “Most of my patients are over 60 years old, and a couple of them are over 80. These people don’t want to smoke cannabis,” he said. Simple tinctures are pretty easy to make. The easiest method is to mix three parts of finely ground cannabis with one part alcohol in a sealed container, then wait two weeks, shaking the jar a couple of times per day. You can make more effective tinctures by heating the cannabis first, which converts the cannabinoids to more readily absorbed forms, or by using hash oil or wax instead of buds or trim. There are dozens of subtly different methods all over the Internet. Some folks (like my caregiver friend) don’t like to reveal their exact recipes. If you’ve ever eaten a cannabis cookie or brownie, you know basically how tinctures work. It’s pretty much the same as any edible, though there are differences. When you eat cannabis, your body absorbs it less directly than when you smoke it, because the lungs send the cannabinoids directly to the bloodstream. If you let a tincture rest under your tongue, it works faster because it gets directly into your blood and thus more directly into your skull. My caregiver friend offers his to patients at $100 per ounce, which works out to maybe a two-week supply if you use it strictly medicinally. That’s not much more than smoking. Um, and it’s not smoking. ;)

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achieve a more modest but quite happy accident sometime soon, Libra. It may depend on you allowing things to be more untidy than usual, though. Are you game? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I am iron resisting the most enormous Magnet there is,” wrote the Sufi mystic poet Rumi. He was wistfully bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a more intimate companionship with the Blessed Source of all life. I think there’s something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. We feel the tremendous pull of our destiny—the glorious, daunting destination that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings— and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it. What’s your current relationship to your Magnet, Scorpio? I say it’s time you allowed it to pull you closer. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): NASA used whale oil to lubricate the Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager spacecrafts. There was a good reason: Whale oil doesn’t freeze at the low temperatures found in outer space. While I certainly don’t approve of killing whales to obtain their oil, I want

to use this story to make a point. It’s an excellent time for you, too, to use oldschool approaches for solving ultra-newschool problems. Sometimes a tried-andtrue method works better, or is cheaper, simpler, or more aesthetically pleasing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The theory of the “butterfly effect” proposes that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may ultimately impact the weather in New York. Here’s how the writer Richard Bernstein explains it: “Very slight, nearly infinitesimal variations and the enormous multiplicity of interacting variables produce big differences in the end.” That’s why, he says, “the world is just too complicated to be predictable.” I find this a tremendously liberating idea. It suggests that every little thing you do sends out ripples of influence that help shape the kind of world you live in. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with how this works in your daily life. Put loving care and intelligent attention into every little thing. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Former football quarterback Joe Ayoob holds the

world’s record for throwing a paper airplane the longest distance. After it left his hand, the delicate craft traveled over 226 feet. I propose we make Ayoob your patron saint and role model for the coming week. From what I can tell, you will have a similar challenge, at least metaphorically: blending power and strength with precision and finesse and control. It’s time to move a fragile thing or process as far as possible. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A source of fulfillment you will enjoy in the future may seem almost painful when it initially announces its presence. In other words, your next mission may first appear to you as a problem. Your situation has a certain resemblance to that of prolific Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who produced a wide variety of enduring works, including symphonies, ballets, operas, and concertos. When he was a precocious child, he was assailed by the melodies and rhythms that frequently surged through his mind. “This music! This music!” he complained to his mother. “Take it away! It’s here in my head and won’t let me sleep!”

¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net can.net Dear Mexican: I would be most interested in hearing your point of view regarding our raza always voting for someone with a Latino last name, without even considering if the vato/vata is qualified for a particular office. Often I hear comments like, “If he is Latino it makes up for all the years of injustice.” But don’t you think that our Mexican forefathers and recent immigrant friends left our native countries because Latino politicians have been unable to govern without corruption? Lately, we have seen what happens when we vote for Latinos without engaging in the issues or their backgrounds—just look at the California cities of Bell, Cudahy and Pico Rivera, where I live. There was recently a race for one of the most important positions that will actually affect L.A. Latino students: a L.A. Community College District trustee position. In District 6, we have an incumbent güera that everyone agrees has to go. Then we have a Latino vato politician who is looking for his next big political gig. The Los Angeles Times endorsed an old white guy, but he is a firme vato who has 30 years in the community college system, from profe to presidente. Unfortunately, the old vato lost, and the güera and vendido moved on to a runoff. I’m afraid that our raza voted for the Latino dude without realizing that he will not know how to fix the problems at L.A.C.C.D., and our students will get the short end of the stick—just like the residents in Bell, Cudahy and Pico Rivera. What can we do to help our people do the right thing? Tony Villar Is a Vendido Dear Wab: Mira, Latinos are not somehow more predisposed to corruption in politics— look at most of Europe, or any big city in the United States—so your theory that Latinos immigrated to the United States for its less-corrupt politics is like saying Mexicans like pinto beans because they produce fabulous pedos. That said, I do join you in railing against Mexis voting for the Mexi on the ballot just because they’re Mexi—but again, idiocy in the American electorate is nothing new. How else do you explain two terms of Dubya? The only way around this is education, education, educacíon—but we live in the United States, where questions like the following are far more pressing to our raza…

My camaradas and I always discuss famous celebrity women and how we would like to court them and make sweet love to them! It turns out we wind up always talking about Raquel Welch, Monica Belluci, Paquita la del Barrio, and Lindsay Lohan (Lindsay is la reyna of them all). And we ask ourselves why is it that she is our hot topic of conversation every time we talk about women and sex? Do you think she might possibly be Mexican? She is always going to court because of legal and financial problems. Is it that somehow deep down inside, we want to be her father figure like that one puto sings about? Es porque esta tiernita, fresquesita, chiquitita, y güerita that we find ourselves lusting for this nice piece of chamorro! Can you please help us out why we lust for Lindsay? And before you ask: If you are wondering why the French name, I’m sick and tired of gabachos and wabs always claiming 1/16 something else, so I claim 1/16 French nobleman with a chingonazo of chile colorado! Le Chorizo del Douleur Dear Frenchy: Mexicans like Lindsay Lohan? Sure, she appeared naked in Machete, but I would peg Kate Upton before LiLo as the current gabacha Mexican man crush. Then again, they both are an hombre’s ultimate combo plate of desire: gabachas, young, and chichonas. 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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“Yes, I am a foot fetishist,” said Anthony Fusco, the writer and director of Sniff and the person for whom you auditioned. “I’m also a theater person.” I reached Fusco the same way you did: through the contact info in the audition notice in Playbill. It turns out that Sniff is one scene in Big Naked Feet, a five-scene, one-act comedy that Fusco wrote, directed, and produced at a small venue in New York in 2008. “We got a good response,” Fusco told me. “We had full houses; people walked away smiling.” Big Naked Feet isn’t Fusco’s only play. Another of his plays—Crossing Verrazano—was produced as part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival in 2011. I told Fusco that his six-page script for Sniff read like fetish porn (“Good dog, Paul, now take a step back and just stare at the beauty of my manly feet!”) and that his audition notice had my bullshit detectors going off. It would be a lot cheaper for a foot fetishist to pay two actors to bring his fantasies to life than, say, two male escorts. You can find good-looking actors who’ll work for $100 a day. A goodlooking male escort, on the other hand, will run you a $1,000 or more a day. But Fusco insisted the video is intended as promo material for a planned remount of Big Naked Feet, not foot-fetish fap material. But, come on, one hot guy going to town on another hot guy’s feet? Wouldn’t Fusco beat off to that? Wouldn’t any foot fetishist? “I’m so used to this stuff,” he said, “it’s nothing new to me. I’m not going to say it can’t be exciting or a turn-on. So it depends on how the final product turns out, I guess, and how it looks.” And… scene. P.S. Coincidentally, FOOT, after our interview, Fusco requested a picture of my feet via e-mail. And I sent him one—because, hey, why not? My boyfriend is HIV-positive and I am not. We haven’t been intimate yet because he’s not ready. He blames his HIV for everything. I know HIV is very serious, but I have some questions. I can’t ask anyone I know without spilling his secret. If he misses taking his meds by 10 minutes, will it seriously affect his health? He has forced me to leave movies early, refused to go to work functions with me, and even missed my birthday because we would miss his 10 p.m. med schedule. Anything that goes bad in our relationship, he

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit • One of Britain’s most famous “madams” announced in January that she was coming out of retirement to set up a brothel exclusively catering to disabled people and the terminally ill. An ordinary brothel would be illegal in the town of Milton Keynes (45 miles from London), but Becky Adams insists that the government could not shut hers down without illegally discriminating against the disabled. • Advances in the Service Sector: (1) In January, the Japanese marketing firm Wit Inc. began hiring “popular” young women (judged by the extent of their “social network” contacts), at the equivalent of $121 a day, to walk around with advertising stickers on their thighs. (The stickers would be placed on the erotic “zettai ryouiki”—the Japanese mystical area between the hem of a short skirt and the top of long socks.) The women must be prepared to endure men hovering closely to read the ads. (2) According to news reports in November, New York City physician Jack Berdy was doing a brisk business administering Botox injections (at up to $800) to poker players who were hoping to prevent facial expressions that might tip their hands. • Ingenious: (1) London’s The Independent reported in January that Dean Kamen (who famously invented the Segway, a standing, battery-powered scooter) had developed, along with a Pennsylvania medical team, what appears to work as a “reverse feeding tube” that will vacuum out up to 30 percent of any food in the stomach before it is digested and converted into calories. After installation of the stomach “port,” the diner could operate the device without daily medical help. (2) The Polish cosmetics company Inglot announced in January a nail polish ideal for Muslim women, in that it can withstand the five-times-daily hand-washing required for prayers. (Normally, devout women wear nail polish only during their menstrual periods, when the hand-washing is not required, but polish thus signals menstruation and therefore embarrasses modest women.) Advances in Animal Research • Scientists from Sweden’s Lund University, reporting in a recent issue of Current Biology, explored the burning question of why dung beetles appear to be “dancing” on the tops of the dung balls they roll away. The answer is that the beetles need to roll their treasures away from the heap as quickly as possible and that they can best maintain a straight line away by celestial navigation. To test the hypothesis, researchers actually outfitted some beetles with tiny visors to block their view of the sky, and those beetles mostly rolled their balls in irregular routes, whereas the sky-searching beetles moved in straight lines. • Intelligent Design: Japanese researchers learned recently that a species of sea slug may lose its penis after copulating, but then grow another one and use it the next time the occasion arises. Writing in the British journal Biology Letters, the scientists also found that 70 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

the slugs have both male and female organs and in effect copulate with each other through a simultaneous hook-up. A final breathtaking finding of the team was that the sea slugs’ penis has the ability to remove competitors’ sperm from the female openings of its mate. Leading Economic Indicators • In January, the National Hockey League labor dispute ended and players returned to work, but as usual, some owners resumed claiming that players’ high salaries were killing them financially. The Phoenix Business Journal reported in December that the Phoenix Coyotes, for example, stood to turn a profit for the 2012-2013 season only if the lockout had continued and wiped out all the games—indicating that, based on the team’s projections, the only way for it to make money was to never play. • In the Czech Republic, per-capita beer consumption is twice that in the United States, and competition is such that some beers are priced lower than any other beverage, including water. (The brewery Pizensky Prazdroj delivers beer in tanker trucks that in the U.S. might deliver gasoline, and delivers it to pubs’ storage tanks just as U.S. gas station have storage tanks.) Recently, concerned about overconsumption, the country’s health minister proposed to prohibit restaurants and bars from offering a beer as the lowest-priced drink, per ounce. • In January about 1,000 workers at Shanghai’s Shinmei Electric Co. held 18 managers captive at the plant from Friday morning until nearly midnight on Saturday in protest of recent employee rules. The workers dispersed when parent company officials promised to reconsider the policies, which included a fine of the equivalent of about $8 for being late and a limit of two minutes per toilet break. Job Prospects Dim Willie Merriweather, 53, was detained in February by police in Aiken, S.C., after an employment agency reported that, when he was sitting for an interview, he exposed himself (allegedly telling the interviewer that “it fell out,” that he “must have forgotten” to zip his pants). Police said Merriweather had been accused of a similar incident at a different employment agency a few days earlier. Religious Symbolism (1) On Jan. 27, Pope Benedict XVI released two doves in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican’s endof-prayers ceremony, but almost immediately, a gull flew over and attacked one. (The faithful were rewarded, though, as the dove, though wounded, managed to elude the irreligious predator.) (2) On Feb. 11, only hours after Pope Benedict had announced his imminent retirement, a rare winter thunderstorm hit Vatican City, and an Agence France-Presse photographer snapped a photo of one powerful lightning bolt from the heavens appearing to strike St. Peter’s Basilica (as if offering a dissenting opinion to the pope’s decision).

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