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OPINION Tom Danehy 4 Renée Downing 6 Your chance to sing along with musical genius/creepy dude, R. Kelly!
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SPORTS Pedersen on Sports 13
CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel and Bethany Barnes
Targeting Protection 9 By Tim Vanderpool
Tucson’s International Wildlife Museum fronts an influential hunting organization Media Watch 10 By John Schuster
Minty Fresh 11 By Mari Herreras and Inés Taracena
After a rocky start, the owners of The Mint say they are winning over friends
Teddy Riley at the Rialto, May 5? Concert of the year!
Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by David Mendez
Police Dispatch 12 By Anna Mirocha
CHOW Tucson’s 100 Essential Dishes 14 The Tucson Weekly staff tries to determine what menu items are essential to our culinary culture
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Get Ready to Get Mad So, if you’re reading this, you probably saw that our cover story this week is a list we put together of what we think are Tucson’s 100 essential dishes. The idea was to create a guide to dishes worth trying, the sort of information you generally need to get by talking to someone in the know. This is sort of an extention of what we do with the annual Best of Tucson® issue, gathering data that hopefully opens your eyes to something you’ve been missing, whether you’ve lived here for six months or 60 years. I mention this in the feature’s intro, but I fully expect that people will be upset by some item’s inclusion, while equally livid over a different dish’s exclusion. That sort of reaction is natural with any sort of list or guide, so I’m more or less prepared for the blowback, but I’d like to ask you to keep one thing in mind while you’re composing your angry email: This is supposed to be fun. Yes, I realize we’re making a definitive statement by saying these are “Tucson’s 100 Essential Dishes,” but in the end, we’re not pretending to be omniscient. The staff of the Tucson Weekly has eaten a lot of food in this town and we tried to get as much information together to make the list in the first place, but if we missed something (and I honestly lost sleep over that very idea), it wasn’t intentional. We’ll probably re-do this list next year and it’ll probably look somewhat different. Just try to be kind, OK? In other news, join us on Wednesday, April 3 from 6 to 8 in the evening at Borderlands Brewing Company on Toole for an event we’re hosting with UApresents celebrating the music of Fela Kuti. A musical about his life is being staged at Centennial Hall April 12 and 13, so we’re using that opportunity to play some of the legendary Nigerian funk musician/political revolutionary’s music (I’ll be DJing that night, or more appropriately, pushing buttons on my laptop), give away prizes and such, drink some delicious local beer and generally have a great time. I campaigned on The Range for this show to come to Tucson, so I feel a little responsible for whether people buy tickets, so please come and give Fela a shot. At very least, grab a taco from MaFooCo, a cold beer and say hello. Thanks for reading. DAN GIBSON, Editor dgibson@tucsonweekly.com
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t first glance, one might think that Clint Bolick is on a roll. He’s a big shot at the Goldwater Institute, a usually conservative think tank, the main task of which is apparently to lead the Republican-dominated Arizona Legislature around by its collective nose. He’s a big-time attorney and lobbyist and he recently co-authored a book with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But then you take a second glance … Bolick first limped onto the scene with a book called Voucher Wars, in which he gushed over a program in Wisconsin that was designed to help rich people get out of paying to send their kids to private schools. The clever plan used poor people to crack the door open, after which the rich would pour through. It’s socialism for the well-to-do, who, not surprisingly, really don’t need it. After fighting to use public money to send kids to religious schools, Bolick raved about the Milwaukee voucher plan. But then the results came in. More than a decade of siphoning money from the public schools to start crappy charter schools and to fund vouchers to send kids to private schools has produced exactly two inarguable results. The city’s schools became more racially and ethnically segregated, and the public schools outperformed the vouchers schools on the state tests. And what was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s reaction to that news? He wants to expand the voucher program at further cost to public-school funding and do away with the state test, thereby destroying the evidence of the program’s folly. Bolick really hitched his wagon to a star on that one. Now comes the book with Jeb Bush, a cringe-inducing take on immigration policy that, based on the results of last year’s election and the sudden realization that minorities don’t like Republicans (and mostly vice versa), seems out of touch and out of time. After that ass whuppin’ that the Republicans took in November, the GOP has raced past Bush’s written position toward the center. The book seems almost stunningly dated. Bush and Bolick call for immigration reform, but don’t want the 11 million or so people currently in this country illegally to ever have a chance at attaining U.S. citizenship. Even the Republican Party’s Hispanic of the Month, Marco Rubio, is in favor of a path to citizenship. One has to wonder whether Bush and Bolick, when writing the book, must have figured that Mitt Romney would gather up enough pissed-off-white-people votes to beat President Obama, and then Bush could swoop in and flank the Tea Party madness and the GOP platform, positioning himself as the voice of reason for the Republican Party.
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Not surprisingly, the Bush-Bolick book has landed with a thud. Bolick’s biggest problem, however, is that he represents the Goldwater Institute. Barry Goldwater was known for his strong views on just about every topic. He was many things to many people, but one thing he wasn’t was a hypocrite. He wasn’t going to veer off course to make an exception, even if doing so would benefit him personally. This example is apparently lost on Mr. Bolick, who has made quite a name for himself by crusading for transparency and accountability in the spending of public money. That crusade took a sharp right turn recently when his public pronouncements ran headlong into the secret mission of one of his pet projects. As mentioned in this column a few months back, an unforgivable loophole in state law allows charter schools— which operate strictly on public taxpayer money—to keep all of their spending on salaries and supplies secret. Now, if this were a police department or the Arizona Department of Transportation, Bolick’s blood pressure would be approaching quadruple digits. However, since it’s one of his pet projects (with a kicker!), he finds it necessary, in this case only, to deviate from the philosophy he claims to live by. When reports came out that 90 percent of Arizona’s charter schools take advantage of the loophole that grants exemptions from state purchasing laws, we also learned that several charter school companies have sweetheart, no-bid deals with suppliers that are owned by members of the charter schools’ boards. That’s at least a conflict of interest and, more likely, criminal. But Bolick says it’s OK. This one time it’s all right with him if public money is spent in secret as long as those who are doing so cross their hearts and hope to spit that they’re doing so in the best interests of all involved. State Sen. Linda Lopez introduced a bill this session that would have required charter schools to share salary information and abide by state purchasing laws. It didn’t have a chance, mostly because charter schools—the majority of which are awful— still serve as the right wing’s enduring screw-you to public school teachers. Bolick’s twisted defense of charter school nontransparency reads like bad fiction on the level of “It was a dark and stormy night …” And I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Bolick is on the board of BASIS, Arizona’s most famous (and perhaps most overrated) charter school. Hypocrite, the name is Clint.
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The season of happiness, or, spring goes rushing past HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER
DHS: BULLISH ON BULLETS
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise. —Wallace Stevens
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Many people buy in bulk. Why purchase toihy is spring always a surprise? Perhaps just because it’s so lovely that we can never quite let paper a four-pack at a time, goes their remember how beautiful it is, how wonderful it feels to be alive in spring. During the endless thinking, when I can make one trip and heat of summer and the darkness and cold of winter—yes, even here, where the sun mostly pick up a year’s supply? This stock-up mentality can make sense shines—we forget the pleasures of spring because they are incomparable. up to a point. A year’s supply of toilet They are pleasures that range deep and wide, from the cosmic level of the rebirth of nature paper? Check. But a hundred year’s worth? occurring once again—for in the desert, too, winter is the season of stasis and death—all the What, are you nuts? way to the simple, animal comforts of the floor being warm in the morning and getting to Which brings us to the Department of leave the windows and doors open. (My dogs particularly like the front door being open. Homeland Security. This conglomeration of airport screeners, border patrol agents, and Dog TV is much better with smell-o-vision.) other armed federal forces is a major purSpring arrived here with more than its usual glorious abruptness this year, dawning as it did so soon chaser of guns — and guns need bullets. after our February snowstorm, which was more of a blizzard for a while out in Oro Valley, where I work. So it’s no surprise that DHS would make a (Between my own incompetence at driving in snow and what I suspected about my fellow commuters’ bulk bullet buy. But it is somewhere way north of surprising that it purchased 1.6 skills, stretches of the drive home were actually scary.) billion bullets! A couple of days later, it was as if we’d all dreamed the snow. And 10 days after, on March 2, it hit 92. You might wonder: Is that a lot? Well, at That was a Saturday, the first really warm weekend day this year, and, though the wildflowers hadn’t had the police agency’s present use of 15 miltime to start popping out, other sorts of pretty things were showing off everywhere you looked. I haplion rounds a year fired at its training centers and in the course of official duty, 1.6 pened to be out driving around town doing errands mid-day, and there were girls in bikini tops and shorts billion is more than a 100-year supply of and flip-flops all over town: four near-naked girls riding in a convertible waving their arms in the air here, ammo. Or think of it this way: At the peak two girls walking along the sidewalk there, the tops of their winter-pale shoulders already turning pink, of the Iraq War, our army was shooting 6 ignoring the stares they were getting, trying to be offhand but visibly giddy with their own youth and million rounds a month, so DHS is stockpiling enough for a 20-year hot war. beauty and the way it chimed with the first flush of spring. Now, let’s wonder about this: Why? (I came home and told my husband about it and he said Now that spring has seriously settled in, there’s a carpet Homeland Security, as its name states, is a that he was very sorry he hadn’t come with me to Whole of lupine along Tangerine Road, the globemallow’s getting domestic force, so what war is it anticipatFoods and Walgreens.) going and my nice new neighbors’ front-yard weeds are ing? Also, these 1.6 billion bulrevealed as penstemon and African daisies. Most of the lets are just not little poppers — bushes that looked dead after the big January freeze are coming back from the bottom and the cactus seem to be Forbes magazine notes that they THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow fine. This is a relief. Wild weather is the planet’s immediate include hollow-point rounds that future so it’s good to know that our favorite tropicals and are even outlawed for use in war, the native plants hold up better to cold than you might as well as “a frightening amount think. And some of the transplants positively relish it—the [of bullets] specialized for snipcarpet of violets that’s spread itself in the shade of my front ers.” Again: why? porch went limp in the frost, but immediately after pushed DHS says blandly that it’s just up a zillion buds. a matter of getting a better price Its waft of deliciously cool fragrance is starting to fade by making a big buy. Another now, just as the honeylike sweet acacia is tuning up. I don’t theory is they’re doing it because know which I enjoy more. they can — Congress will OK any And then there are the birds, driven to insane volubility. purchase wrapped with a homeAround my neighborhood, you can barely hear yourself land security ribbon. Then there’s think outdoors for the mockingbirds and thrashers. And there’s a remarkable house finch out where I work who’s the conspiracy theorists who say been sitting on the same bare branch of the same mesquite that We The People are the target for weeks now, singing his scribbly song. He’s a common of the buildup. bird, a dime-a-dozen bird, but he’s throwing himself into it. I don’t buy that, but the quesYou have to admire that. tion remains: Why? Shouldn’t Of course it will be over in no time. In a few weeks the someone in Congress be inquiring?
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Mark Kelly buys an AR-15, so what? BY JONATHAN HOFFMAN, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com
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uch has been made recently over Mark Kelly’s now-cancelled purchase of an AR-15 rifle at Diamondback Police Supply here in Tucson. I don’t get it. According to reports, he walked into the store to buy a pistol, and ended up buying a 1911 style semi-automatic. As he was leaving, he spotted an AR 15 rifle in the rack and bought that too, so what’s the point? Both Mr. Kelly, and his wife Gabrielle Giffords, describe themselves as good old gun owning Westerners, so it is no wonder that when he saw the now extremely rare AR-15 rifle in the rack he jumped at the chance to buy it. You see, when the president and congressional Democrats started making noise about a new “assault weapons ban,” rifles based on the AR-15 platform disappeared from the gun stores almost overnight (these are the rifles the president meant, not assault rifles). The shelves remain empty, except for the occasional used gun brought in to sell or put on consignment by people who want to cash in on the high demand. This was the case with Mr. Kelly’s new rifle. Some people claim that it is hypocritical for the cofounder of Americans for Responsible Solutions, a national level anti-liberty group specializing in firearms, to go out and buy an “assault rifle”. I don’t know. It seems to me that if you are looking for irony (hypocrisy is a stretch), you could have stopped at the pistol purchase. The 1911 style semi-automatic pistol, normally chambered in .45 Auto, is a far more powerful semi-automatic pistol than the one used by the lunatic to brutally attack his wife. I think the purchase is better described as having “bad optics.” What I saw as truly disappointing was his lame attempt to concoct a cover story. In his CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer, Kelly said that he needed “first-hand experience” as part of his research into how easy it is to buy rifles. This is like the politician who is caught by reporters with cameras coming out of a brothel saying, “Well, you all know that I’m against this sort of thing, but I felt that, for the purposes of my research, that I really needed some first-hand experience. This is just the continuation of a plan that I’ve had for some time now.” Does anybody really believe that he had to actually buy a rifle to find out how easy, or hard it is; or that he probably spent over $1,000 to give it away? I suppose there are some people in the “gun control” business who, for whatever reason, really believe it, though I suspect most do not. The focus now is on rifles, specifically the AR-15 platform, but anyone who is interested can look at the FBI crime statistics and see that rifles are
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not the problem — it takes about five minutes. According to those statistics, for example, there were 339 murders in Arizona in 2011, only 14 of which involved rifles of any kind — not just AR-15’s. Some people suggested that Mr. Kelly is setting the stage for a political run, maybe senator from Arizona, or some such race. I don’t think so. I think he’s found himself in a more beneficial business model. Consider his position. He has had successful careers as both a Navy officer and an astronaut. Does he really want to take on yet a third very demanding job that starts at a mere $174,000 a year? I suspect not. On the other hand, according to a 2008 tax filing, Sarah Brady earned $141,000 for performing an estimated 10 hours of work a week as director of the Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence. It seems to me to be a better gig for someone in Mr. Kelly’s position. Both Mr. Kelly and Ms. Giffords are pretty astute business people. Giffords waited until she was vested in her Congressional retirement before she resigned, and the release of their book was well timed. We can assume that the two are financially secure, and this new business is something that they can do together part time. I don’t think that Mr. Kelly is a hypocrite. I think he is a businessman who is well positioned to provide a service for which, I’m sad to say, there appears to be a significant market. I also believe, based on his actions, that Mr. Kelly is a Western gun guy. That is something he and I have in common.
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Targeting Protection n most days, the International Wildlife Museum sees a steady stream of visitors, drawn by coy marketing or morbid curiosity to this peculiar citadel in the Tucson Mountains west of town. That was even more the case one crisp Saturday in mid-February, as the museum auspiciously celebrated its 25th anniversary with jaunty food trucks and a big birthday cake. It was a notable achievement for a once-controversial institution, born amid protests over its inventory of dead animals and homage to the hunters who killed them. But time waits for no crusade. Passions fade, as does memory. Yet the museum remains, stalwart in its hillside lair. Today, there seems nothing fragile about this edifice, constructed to resemble a French Foreign Legion post in Africa. You could even consider the design itself an architectural conceit, exalting those globetrotting, well-heeled, big-game hunters of Safari Club International. After all, it was the high-caliber gentlemen of the Safari Club who founded this museum and stocked its halls with their trophies. And it is their political pull that still marches forth, from the club’s headquarters right next door. From here, the organization directs its campaigns to weaken the federal Endangered Species Act, to maximize hunting and motorized access across public lands, and to eliminate restrictions on the importation of trophies shot in foreign countries. Most recently, club officials showed up in court to urge the removal of polar bears from the federal list of threatened species. In another case, the club challenged a federal court mandate that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally decide about extending protection to more than 750 dwindling species. Many of those creatures have lingered in limbo for years; some have since gone extinct. In opposing the ruling, the Safari Club had hoped to retain hunting rights for at least three species, including the increasingly rare New England cottontail rabbit. But you won’t learn much about this agenda from a tour of the International Wildlife Museum. Nor is such information shared on the museum’s website, which instead explains that its approximately 400 stuffed critters were donated by “various government agencies, wildlife rehabilitation centers, captive breeding programs, zoos and individuals.” In truth, the lion’s share arrived via a clean shot, many of them delivered from the business end of SCI founder C.J. McElroy’s top-notch rifle. “Originally, most of them were legally hunted by hunters, primarily McElroy,” says museum
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director Richard White. “These days we get them from fish and game agencies; we get them from hunters, or zoos where they have an animal that dies.” It also appears that the Safari Club and its museum get a lot more than road kill from state agencies such as the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Their ties seem to run deep on everything from endangered species policy to the sponsorship of youth hunting programs. The evening after the Game and Fish Commission’s March meeting in Sahuarita, for instance, the Safari Club hosted a commission junket to a youth hunting camp west of town. Participation in the camp was limited to kids registered through the club. Pushing its agenda through ties with state officials is a time-honored Safari Club strategy, says Patrick Parenteau, an expert on wildlife protection policy at the Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vt. “They have connections to the state departments of wildlife, because those departments have a vested interest in recreational hunting. They exert lot of influence behind the scenes.” That sway is largely targeted at constraining the Endangered Species Act, Parenteau says. “They’re a user group and their concern is that the act restricts their ability to hunt and kill species, particularly charismatic mega-fauna.” Meaning big, fascinating animals such as wolves and polar bears. “Their mission is to maintain hunt-able populations of every species on Earth,” Parenteau says, “and to challenge anyone who suggests that they shouldn’t be hunted.” Neither Safari Club executive director Phil DeLone nor deputy director Nelson Freeman returned phone calls seeking comment. But museum director White argues that the Safari Club is really all about protecting animals. “We are conservationists as much as anybody else,” he says. “You can’t have sustainable use of animals if they’re all killed off. That is why we do so much in the conservation arena.” The term “conservation” does see plenty of action in Safari Club promotional materials. On the website, for example, you’ll find a tab saying “Click here to help save lions.” Make that click, and you’re taken to this lessthan-tender plea: “What do deer and lions have in common? The antis want to stop the hunting of them and everything else. “This year the antis are out to stop hunting of African lions,” it continues. “Is the whitetail deer next? Your donation to the African Lion Defense Fund helps SCI take the fight against the global assault on hunting to Africa and stop it there before it spreads worldwide.” Conservation at its finest? Samantha Hagio
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Tucson’s International Wildlife Museum. thinks not. She’s wildlife protection policy manager for the Humane Society of the United States in Washington, D.C. “Rather than direct their conservation efforts to truly conserve the species, (the Safari Club) fought the listing of the polar bear on the endangered species list and would prefer to hunt them instead,” she writes in an email to the Weekly. “They have also been large proponents of hunting three endangered antelope species—the dama gazelle, scimitar-horned oryx, and the addax—on captive hunting ranches, fenced enclosures where animals are stocked and shot for guaranteed trophies. These … antelope are considered critically endangered in their native habitat, and the scimitar-horned oryx is actually considered extinct in the wild.” The Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity recently had its own court dust-up with the Safari Club, after club lawyers appealed that decision forcing the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide the fate of 700-plus species. The ruling had resulted from lawsuits by the center and WildEarth Guardians. The Safari Club opposed that ruling “because they want to hunt some of those species,” says center executive director Kieran Suckling. As stated in court, the club’s desired prey included the greater sage grouse, the lesser prairie chicken and the New England cottontail rabbit. To Suckling, even mentioning the cottontail reveals just how much ideology trumps common sense in the Safari Club’s alternate universe. “There are rabbits all over the country and they want to hunt the one species that’s down to 300 animals,” he says. “No one has hunted this rabbit in decades; no one has even seen this rabbit, it’s so rare. “This isn’t really a hunting issue at all,” Suckling says. “To the extent that they can use hunting interests as an excuse to scuttle endangered species protection, that’s what is going on.”
Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik drew a big crowd to his reelection kickoff party at Borderlands Brewing last week. Kozachik had planned to have a one-of-a-kind appearance from all the city’s mayors dating back to 1987, but unfortunately, both George Miller and Bob Walkup weren’t able to make it to the party. Campaign co-chair Carol West, a former councilwoman who left office as an independent, read a statement from former mayor George Miller, while Bob Walkup’s wife, Beth Walkup, read a statement from her husband. But it was current Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild who may have had the quote of the night as he discussed Kozachik’s switch from a Republican to a Democrat earlier this year. “I do want to address this little D and R thing,” Rothschild said. “I know this from my own experience, and I don’t want anyone to take this JONATHAN the wrong way … but I think we all know, when someone comes out in your family, the family already knows. And in this case, we knew.” When Kozachik addressed the crowd, he promised a fierce campaign against any challengers as he talked about the various endorsements he’s picked up so far. “My purpose in coming out really hard and really aggressively is to say: Bring it on if you want to,” Kozachik said. “It’s going to be a waste of your time and a waste of your money. We’ve got some good things going and we’re not going to let up.” Kozachik, who is seeking a second term in midtown Ward 6, continued rolling out the endorsements earlier this week, announcing the support of Congressman Ron Barber. “Steve works tirelessly to ensure a strong future for Tucson by investing in infrastructure and economic development,” Barber said in a prepared statement. “He does his homework and digs into issues facing the City Council to come up with common-sense solutions.” While Barber’s endorsement might not have been a big surprise, Kozachik picked up a big supporter in Republican Jim Kolbe, who represented Southern Arizona for 11 terms before retiring in 2006. “Steve Kozachik has demonstrated an ability as a Tucson City Councilman to build bridges across party and ideology gaps to find practical solutions for our community,” Kolbe said in a statement. “He studies the issues, asks tough questions, and listens to all sides before making a decision that is in the best interest of the entire community. For too long, Tucson has been divided along meaningless partisan lines. The kind of leadership Steve Kozachik is providing on the Council is what is needed if Tucson is to move forward, to provide jobs for the next generation of Tucsonans, and maintain the quality of life that makes our city unique.” Kozachik said he was pleased to have the endorsement of both men.
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JEFFRIES GIVES UA FANS HALL-OF-FAME CALIBER PLAY-BY-PLAY For Tucsonans, this is a familiar time of year. It’s the point in the college basketball season where fans come out in droves and get behind their Wildcats, who are making yet another appearance in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet Sixteen. Wildcat fans are also familiar with the voice who calls the action: Brian Jeffries has been behind the radio mic for every high and low moment of UA hoops for almost three decades. It’s a far cry from the nearconstant turnover in the job before the powers that be at the university finally came to their senses. “The UA had gone through four play-byplay announcers in a span of six or seven years. Naturally, every time it opened up I applied for the job. And in a very nice way they said thanks but no thanks,” Jeffries said. When legendary broadcaster Ray Scott, who was Jeffries’ mentor, returned to the position for a second run in the mid-’80s, it seemed that Jeffries’ chances of expanding his play-by-play skills beyond UA baseball and high school football were shrinking. He seriously contemplated pursuing his dreams in another market. However, when Scott stepped aside a second time after just two years, Jeffries’ patience paid off. “I think there was some frustration,” said Jeffries, who recalled the UA’s response in his
subsequent interview for Scott’s job. It went something like this: “We’re tired of you coming in and applying for this job every time it comes up. Just go ahead and take it. It’s yours.” “It was something to that effect,” Jeffries said. “I’m not kidding. That was the way it felt. ‘This guy keeps hanging around, he keeps bugging us, and we can’t find anyone else to stick with it.’ So they probably figured I’d be here a couple years, or a year, and they’d find someone better. Who knows what the thought process was. I remember heading home that day thinking I just got my dream job. But it didn’t feel like it at that point. There was no celebration other than I
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had a grape juice or something.” Fortunately for Jeffries—and for a generation of Wildcat fans who probably can’t imagine UA games broadcast by anyone else—he’s been the conduit for every memorable moment in UA athletics’ modern era. Or what you could also call “the Jeffries era.” “It’s easy to point out the big games,” Jeffries said. Among the most notable are “when Arizona beat Oklahoma in football 6-3. That’s one of my all-time favorite games because every single play mattered; the game at the Kingdome in basketball where Arizona went to its first Final Four. I still get chills thinking about it.” His career highlights also include “any time you go to the Final Four, the College World Series. Any bowl game is special. Beating Miami in the Fiesta Bowl. It’s nice there’s not just one game you look back on.” And the special moments just keep coming. Jeffries was behind the mic when UA football capped the end of Rich Rodriguez’s first season in the desert by rallying for 14 points in 43 seconds to shock Nevada in the New Mexico Bowl. Just last spring, he called every play of the postseason for UA baseball as it stormed through the competition en route to a College World Series title. “It was pretty amazing,” Jeffries said of the baseball team’s undefeated playoff run. “After that first game against Florida State, I’m still thinking there are some really good teams here, but that was the only game they were challenged. They played with such confidence. You knew they were going to play their best. I could tell by their body language they were going to put in their ultimate effort.” Jeffries’ years of hard work recently earned
him a spot in the Arizona Broadcasters Hall of Fame. “It was totally unexpected,” Jeffries said. “I knew about the Hall of Fame, but had never given it a second thought. I never in my wildest dreams thought it would happen or contemplated it. Al McCoy got inducted for the Suns a couple years ago, and I thought that was neat that a radio play-by-play broadcaster got inducted.” When Jeffries learned he would be joining McCoy, “I was speechless.” Fortunately for fans of UA athletics, Jeffries plans to continue calling games for quite some time. “Ray (Scott) was in his 70s. I’m not saying I’ll work into my 70s, but I see guys like Bob Robertson at Washington State, who is 84 years old,” Jeffries said. “I told my wife, when it starts going south you have to tell me. It happens in broadcasting, where you can overstay your welcome. You can be somewhere so long where people will overlook your faults, and I just don’t want to be in that situation. When someone tells me I’m not doing it as well, then I’ll go.” But “the neat thing is, it’s not an 8 to 5 job. There’s nothing routine about it. You go into every game and have no idea what’s going to happen. You want to keep doing it and want to be there and watch it unfold. It continues to be fun. I want the people that employ me to keep liking what I’m doing because I’d like to keep doing it for a little longer. “I wish Ray Scott was still alive so I could thank him,” Jeffries added. “The two years with him, I’ll tell you, he was a mentor and did more for me than anyone else. He was one of the greatest ever. I wouldn’t be here if not for that experience.”
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“These people understand that this isn’t about partisanship, it’s about governance,” Kozachik told The Skinny. “Those kind of people wouldn’t be supporting me if they didn’t feel that I was willing to make decisions based on facts and data and not on some rigid ideology.” Kozachik has yet to draw an opponent in the race.
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tion or becoming part of the neighborhood. Kotwicka points to the Loft Cinema as a good example for the Mint to follow. The Loft provides the association with a table at its new farmers market. “They are always helpful when we do one of our fundraisers.” But what about the Koz? Where does he stand now on the Mint? “I think they’ve been working hard to mend fences and certainly got off to a rocky start,” he
told the Tucson Weekly. The awards for teachers and athletes at Catalina are a help, he said. “I applaud them for doing it.” But there’s a still a problem from Kozachik’s perspective, and that’s a gender imbalance when it comes to city code on what defines stripping, all because of a g-string. “The board of adjustments absolutely screwed up. Women can, guys can’t?”
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n Fridays, a go-go dancer stands outside the Mint Cocktails, a neighborhood bar on Grant Road near Richey Boulevard, to welcome working guys in for an after-work respite. It’s part of a business model—including burlesque shows and soon Wild Boys male revue shows—to help Ricardo “Skyy” Garcia and his business partner, Chris Smith, make the Mint successful. Just last week, Garcia and Smith celebrated their one-year anniversary of owning the bar. But it took eight months to get their liquor license squared away after a lengthy and contentious fight with neighbors as well as Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik. Back in April 2012, as the bar was changing hands and Garcia’s plans for the establishment were being revealed, members of the Palo Verde Neighborhood Association tried to fight back with Kozachik at their side. T-town has its share of strip clubs, but there’s a difference separating the ladies from the guys. City code dictates that if a male stripper is wearing a g-string, it isn’t considered stripping. The other shows Garcia produces don’t show genitalia, and there aren’t any lap dances, so the new Mint isn’t a strip club. Still, neighbors weren’t impressed. Garcia says the initial battle was difficult: “In the beginning we met with Steve’s office and the neighborhood association to be transparent, but they had already made a decision to basically shut us down.” To show that even male revues can bring some good, Garcia says they figured out a way to give back to the neighborhood by honoring teachers and students at Catalina Magnet High School. “We started that three months ago,” he says. “We’re going to give one (award) every year to a teacher, and then an athlete of the year for girl and boy. Steve (Kozachik) and his office have said they want to be involved as well.” Garcia describes the Mint’s shows as “tastefully and professionally done. Men and women of all shapes and sizes.” But despite Garcia’s positive outlook, the president of the Palo Verde Neighborhood Association says there’s have been issues and she is still waiting for them to become good neighbors. Ronni Kotwicka says the concerns revolve around parking and signage issues rather than any perceived bad elements that could be attracted by the entertainment, but she does feel that the Mint’s new owners haven’t been good at getting involved with the neighborhood associa-
Mint Cocktails has been in town for decades. But this past year, The Mint got a makeover. New owners Ricardo “Skyy” Garcia and Chris Smith got rid of the shitty mint green paint, dimmed the lights, built in a small stage, and added some sexy, fun entertainment. It’s a Saturday night at The Mint. Garcia stands on his DJ booth, arousing everyone with his old-school tunes. “We Are Family” infiltrates the room like a fume that turns people into singing, dancing zombies. Even the bikers in the audience are throwing their hands up in the air, getting up from their chairs, and busting moves. Don’t Blink Burlesque is about to get onstage. I think to myself: “Why this 1970s, 80s playlist on a burlesque night?” Then I do a 360 around the place, and realize the crowd it attracts is as whimsical as the music and the shows it presents. And, even if you don’t get the dive bar’s new vibe, Garcia shoves it down your throat, in a good way. His enthusiasm is contagious. Now I’m ready to be seduced by the Don’t Blink dancers. “Don’t blink,” says Garcia. “You won’t want to miss anything.” Miss Ida Tapper was the first to catch my attention. She gets onstage wearing a nerdy-nurse-looking outfit. At first I thought she wasn’t going to show off her glittery pasties and beautiful physique. Then, Huey Lewis
and the News’ “The Power of Love” begins to play, and she slowly starts to undress, then shakes her natural boobies. Tapper ended her performance bending over with her ass toward the audience. It was a nice view for those sitting in front of the stage. When Matt Finish, the only male in the group, came out in what appeared to be a dog costume, I didn’t know what to expect. Isn’t burlesque supposed to make me want to have sex? Dogs don’t make me want to have sex. But a few seconds into his Wizard of Oz-inspired skit, I’m into it (in a non-sexual way). By the time he reveals the bow covering his penis, he had enchanted everyone, even the bikers. Then there’s Crystal Kiss. She’s the biggest out of all of the dancers, but her confidence is as big as her curves. She reaffirms that, in burlesque, is not about what size you are, is about how you present yourself. Miss Kiss got the loudest applause. Don’t Blink gives burlesque a twist. The performances were a balanced mix between sexy and comical. And, it’s this fusion that makes Don’t Blink differ from other local burlesque groups. You may not leave with a big boner, but you’ll definitely leave entertained and invited to come back another Saturday. The Mint is the perfect home for this burlesque troupe. They’re equally as outrageous and energetic.
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The Arizona Legislature reached new heights in lunacy last week with the introduction of what Phoenix TV reporter Brahm Resnik dubbed the “Show Me Your Papers Before You Pee Act.” Rep. John Kavanagh offered a strike-all amendment to SB 1432, changing a bill about the massage therapy board into legislation that would have made it a misdemeanor offense to use the ladies’ room if you were born a man or to use the men’s room if you were born a woman. Kavanagh was inspired by a non-discrimination ordinance passed by the city of Phoenix that would have protected the rights of transsexuals to use the bathroom. Cathy Herrod of the Christian-conservative Center for Arizona Policy opposed the Phoenix ordinance and, when she didn’t win, promptly went to state lawmakers to undo what the Phoenix City Council had done. Kavanagh, who does as he’s told by Herrod, introduced his striker, but after realizing he was once again luring the Daily Show to Arizona, backed off the proposal. Instead, he’s told the press he will change the legislation to provide business owners with legal protections against being sued if they decide to prevent a transsexual from using the wrong bathroom. While the bathroom bill got a lot of attention last week, Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid bill got its first hearing in Kavanagh’s House Appropriations Committee. The informational hearing— there’s no actual bill yet to consider regarding Brewer’s plan to expand Medicaid to allow anyone up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level to get care under the state’s AHCCCS program—last several hours. But the biggest headline coming out of the meeting was an overstep by Maricopa County Republican Party Chairman A.J. LaFaro, who is among the GOP activists who oppose the expansion. “Jesus had Judas and Republicans have Gov. Brewer,” said LaFaro, who was swiftly condemned by Republican lawmakers and members of the business community. House Speaker Andy Tobin tweeted that the comment was inappropriate and called for LaFaro’s resignation. Rep. Rick Gray tweeted that LaFaro doesn’t speak for him. Glen Hamer, president and CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and
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A bored middle-school student tried to bring some excitement to her day by cutting off a chunk of another girl’s hair, according to a Pima County Sheriffs’ Department report. Deputies responding to a call from Hohokam Middle School, 7400 S. Settler Ave., interviewed a student who said she had been sitting in the library, facing away from other students, when she heard someone shriek, “Oh, they cut your hair!” The girl then discovered that someone had cut off a 4-inch chunk of her extremely long hair without her knowledge. The girl told deputies that she had not been otherwise physically harmed during the incident but her irate mother wanted to press charges, saying her daughter was a strict Catholic and shouldn’t have her hair cut until her 18th birthday. The deputy told the mother he couldn’t charge the hair-cutter with assault because cutting the girl’s hair was more of a “property theft” issue. A student who had been in the library admitted that she’d been the barber in the incident, and blamed her actions on boredom. She was cited for disorderly conduct, and the deputy advised her that, “It would be wise not to touch other ‘people’ in the future.”
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A suspected drunken driver told police there was no need for him to take a field sobriety test because he had just polished off a 12-pack of beer and was most definitely impaired, a University of Arizona Police Department report stated. A UA officer pulled over a speeding, swerving Jeep on North Campbell Avenue after the vehicle almost hit the median. The driver said he was unlicensed, and after much fumbling provided proof of registration for the vehicle (which belonged to his dad). When the driver asked why he should take a sobriety test when he admitted he was drunk, the officer responded that, “Everyone deserves to be able to go through the tests and see how they did.” The driver agreed to a series of tests that included standing on one leg and other coordination exercises, and failed miserably. During the incident, the subject repeatedly told the officer that “all he wanted to do was go home,” the report said. Instead, the Jeep was impounded and the subject was jailed on several charges, including driving on a suspended license. A breath test showed he had a blood-alcohol content of .232 percent, nearly three times the legal limit.
Internet Impersonation t appears that H.B. 2004, proposed by Dist. 23 State Rep. Michelle Ugenti, which would have made it a felony for people to impersonate people using social media accounts – though the language of the bill was noticeably unclear regarding parody accounts, despite claims from Ugenti that parody accounts were not her chief concern – has died. This is a good thing, if only because it means that ridiculous parody accounts (@rubbingugently, @fakeazdailystar, @fakeseanmiller, etc.) can still exist without fear of reprisal—though in @fakeazdailystar’s case, they might want to continue watching their back for fear of Lee Enterprises not appreciating the joke. Still, as much as I love good parody accounts, novelty social media accounts and Tumblr pages focused on absurd things (such as my recent Tumblog idea, “Reviews of Inanimate Objects on My Desk”), some of these things are getting…weird. I kinda hate to keep picking on it, but the Twitter account @thehistorybook (and its parodic brother, @yaboybillnye) is among the worst goddamn things I’ve ever seen that didn’t involve graphic depictions of violence. It features stupid, crass, racist tweets from historically important human beings – because what’s funnier than Martin Luther King Jr. ripping off Lil Wayne lyrics? And things are only getting more concerning, with the advent of lemmetweetthatforyou.com, which creates a near-facsimile of what an embedded tweet looks like, using the name and profile information (picture included) of real Twitter accounts, making it appear that someone has published something that they didn’t actually publish – and in a media world in which people tend to post first and ask questions later, that’s a hell of a way to not only assassinate character, but a way to generate hoaxes like California wildfires. That said, I don’t believe that H.B. 2004 should still be kicking around the chambers of the state legislature – but the fact that these things do tend to roll around makes me so damn sad. Parody is great when it’s smart, funny and calls attention to an actual issue – take The Onion, for example – but so much of what is considered parody and satire these days is nothing more than ham-fisted vulgarity draped in a veil of humor. That’s not parody. That’s trolling. And like Abraham Lincoln once said, trolls fucking suck.
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(Disclaimer: I consider gambling a sportslike activity. It’s a combination of entertainment, skill, luck and excitement that for many of us scribes—remember the adage that those who can’t play, write about it—is as close as we’re going to get to the sporting life.) or a metro area that can’t seem to get a Dave & Buster’s to open here and has just one legitimate miniature golf operation, we should consider ourselves lucky that we somehow have four casinos. To have more than one of the same type of business is great for a community because the competition usually means customers benefit from the battle for your almighty dollar. The idea is to see what your competitor is doing, and either match it or up the ante with your own draw-them-to-us tactics. This should result in a win-win for us, the lemmings and sheep who flock to casinos to gamble, drink, dine and cut loose. But, sadly, only one of our local casinos puts in a full effort. The Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O’odham nations each operate two casinos in the Tucson metro area. The Yaquis’ Casino of the Sun almost doesn’t count because it’s pretty much just a slot parlor and pales in comparison to the tribe’s more grandiose (albeit poorly named; let’s just call it the same as the other one, but this time in Spanish!) Casino Del Sol. The Tohono casino names aren’t much better. Each is known simply as Desert Diamond. Er, rather, Desert Diamond Nogales Highway and Desert Diamond Interstate 19. Catchy and memorable, huh. But this isn’t about casino names. It’s about everything within the casinos, the stuff that’s meant to draw you in and—most important—keep you coming back. And that’s where there is a massive difference in quality, with Casino Del Sol towering far above both Desert Diamonds. This weekend is probably the only time all year the Diamonds have the upper hand on del Sol, and that’s only because Del Sol closes for four days to allow its tribal members to celebrate Easter. After roughly 19 years of visiting local casinos—which either qualifies me as an expert, a degenerate or (my opinion) a healthy balance of both—this is my best assessment of the discrepancy: Desert Diamond is run by tribal officials who may or may not have gaming, hospitality and entertainment expertise. Casino Del Sol is run by gaming, hospitality and entertainment experts who may or may not be tribal. How else can you explain how one establishment (Del Sol) seems to make decisions
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based on keeping its customers happy, while the others make decisions that are approved by their gaming office? Or how both Del Sol and Desert Diamond have loyalty programs, complete with fancy player’s club cards, but while Del Sol’s program actually provides you with benefits — comps based on your play in all forms of gambling, not just the slots—you can spend 12 hours playing poker at Desert Diamond and when you check your card’s comp balance the next day, it hasn’t changed? All the casinos try to tempt you with billboards, emails and direct mail solicitations, but only Del Sol’s make you want to actually take advantage of what’s being offered. That is, unless you’re part of that target audience of 13 people in this metropolis of 1 million that’s really excited Desert Diamond is the first casino in Arizona to have the Cheers slot machine. I’ve been a member of both rewards programs since 2005, yet I can’t remember the last time I was excited about something the Diamond card would give me. I got a brief thrill when Diamond started the “Cats Win You Win” promotion with the University of Arizona, but it quickly faded when I learned you got free play only if you had a ticket to the last basketball or football game … and waited until the next day to hit the casino. Desert Diamond announced earlier this year it was overhauling its rewards program to make it better for players. So far, that has resulted in … changing the color of the card from dark pink to blue. Nothing else. As of last weekend, no date has been set for when any other improvements would go into effect. More goes into the wide gap in performance between Del Sol and Desert Diamond than just gaming. I know many people who only go to the casinos for the entertainment
or to have a staycation. And nearly every one of them chooses Del Sol. The entertainment preference doesn’t surprise me, since Del Sol manages to get real, still-relevant acts (Phoenix, Rodriguez, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Bennett and LL Cool J are all on the schedule in the next few months), while the last shows Desert Diamond managed to book were Kix Brooks and … The Dazz Band? It probably doesn’t help that the Diamond concert hall isn’t located at the same place as its hotel. But when your hotel doesn’t have room service, has a pool the size of a Motel 6’s (Del Sol’s is so large it’s becomes a Sunday party destination in the summer) and somehow doesn’t offer a shuttle to the airport despite being adjacent to and in the flight path of the airport, getting top-line entertainment probably isn’t conceivable. It’s really quite sad that Desert Diamond is performing as poorly as it is, since it used to be so much better. But a series of poor decisions (building a second casino too far south of the city; then all but forgetting that one to redo the one on the edge of town; then trying to bill an airport hotel as a resort when it’s clearly an airport hotel) have run it into the ground. The only thing keeping Desert Diamond relevant is its proximity to the city. Since the main knock against Del Sol is that it’s considered “far away” despite being only five miles from I-19, Diamond is still able to cling to its one remaining advantage. That is, until the Pascua Yaqui Nation finds a way to designate as reservation land the former Century movie theater complex at Grant and I-10 that it bought in 2011, then turn the complex into a casino. When that happens, it’ll be so long, Desert Diamond.
Industry, blogged that LaFaro “needs to be consigned to the kiddie table.” LaFaro offered a half-hearted apology, but the incident shows just how divided the GOP now is over Brewer’s proposed expansion. We’re hearing that lawmakers are settling in for a long session—perhaps running into July—as Brewer prepares to start vetoing bills until she gets her expansion in an effort to wear down lawmakers who oppose her Medicaid proposal. Meanwhile, a number of the other bills we’ve been following this session are on the move: • SB 1493, which would allow Arizonans to mint their own coins from silver and gold to be used as legal tender from any shopkeeper who will accept them, passed the Senate Rules Committee on Monday, March 25, and will now go to a vote of the full Senate. • SB 1403, which would forbid the state from engaging in conservation and sustainability programs because of fears that such programs are part of a plot by UN globalists to take away private-property rights and degrade our precious bodily fluids, passed the Senate on a 16-13 vote on Thursday, March 21. • HB 2147, which would make it easier for the state to block out-of-work Arizonans from receiving unemployment benefits, passed the Senate on Thursday, March 21, but it was amended from the House version of the bill, so the differences will have to be worked out in a conference committee between the chambers before it can be sent to the governor for a signature. • HB 2455, which would ban gun buybacks by cities and towns, passed the Senate Rules Committee on Monday, March 25, and is now ready for a vote of the full Senate. The bill has already passed the House. • SCR 1006, which throws up various roadblocks for organizers of initiative and referendum drives, passed the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, March 21. The resolution has already passed the Senate, so if it passes the full house, it will be on the 2014 ballot for voters to decide. • HRC 2026, which would effectively end publicly funded campaigns in Arizona by transferring all the money raised for the state’s Clean Elections program to the schools, passed the Senate Elections Committee on Tuesday, March 19. If it passes the full Senate, it will also be on the 2014 ballot for voters to decide. We’ve got more updates on bills on The Range, the Weekly’s daily dispatch at daily.tucsonweekly.com. By Jim Nintzel and Bethany Barnes Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch at daily.tucsonweekly.com Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel
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First, let’s get something out of the way: We’re sorry. We’re sorry we missed your favorite dish in town. The place you recommend to everyone you know? We should have included it. If this is some consolation, we’ll take the best of the likely-angry emails and comments we get from this feature and we’ll publish them somewhere in the near future. We want you to have you say. But, we did try. We asked our staff, talked to restaurant owners, chefs and smart people who love food. We put the question out on Facebook and our blog. This is what we came up with. The 100 dishes (and we use that term somewhat loosely) that are most important to what we call food culture here in Tucson. The items you just have to try, the ones we’ll miss if we ever move away (although we probably never will). It’s a list, created by people with limited memories, so it’s inherently flawed, but we think it came out well, from breakfast joint biscuits and gravy to Janos Wilder’s favorite fine dining menu item. Have fun reading it, enjoy trying some new food referenced here and we’ll try harder next year. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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BOONDOCKS | FISH FRY
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How can you not love these?! They’re served quick and at only $1.50 each! Not to mention the salsa bar is always filled with other great items that can fill you up on a cheap budget.
All of the pizzas at Vero Amore are amazing—the crust is thin, bubbly and that perfect balance between crunchy and chewy—but the lussuria is my favorite with Genoa salami, red sauce, just the perfect amount of garlic, and that amazing house-made fresh mozzarella. — JK
BREADED CHICKEN BREAST Vivace 4310 N. Campbell Ave.; 795-7221 The black pepper sauce on top of this chicken and the perfect and delicate way in which they fry the chicken works so wonderfully with the flavorful mashed potatoes. Perfect for any business lunch or just add a bottle of wine for a romantic night out. CHOPPED BEEF BRISKET SANDWICH Mr. K’s Barbecue 4911 N. Stone Ave.; 408-7427
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The Original Mr. K’s BBQ 6302 S. Park Ave.; 792-9484
If you want a full meal in the palm of your hands, there is no better place to go. The brisket is always cooked perfectly and the selection of barbecue sauces is amazing. I personally add their chopped onions and spicy pickles that come complimentary at their condiment bar. Happiness in a bun!
Mr. K’s is the best BBQ in Tucson, and the hot links are my go-to item (though the sliced beef is a close second). The combination of the spicy sausages with their snappy casings, and the slightlysweet sauce that has a nice kick to it is unbeatable. — JK
BEEF SATAY SKEWERS Sullivan’s Steakhouse 1785 E. River Road; 299-4275 Not just for happy hour anymore! These are one of the great small plates menu items in Tucson. The soy flavored sauce that these are cooked in could easily be a shot! Love it! And you know at Sullivan’s, they will always cook the meat perfectly. Plus, the happy hour deals make it impossible to miss. Add a Knockout Martini and just wait for your socks to be knocked off!
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Pat’s Drive-in 1202 W. Niagara St.; 624-0891 There’s a reason this place has been around for as long as it has, and it’s not because of the hamburgers. In fact, I’m not even sure what all is on the menu besides chili dogs. You have to get the chili dogs with onions and mustard though—or it’s just not a proper chili dog. Delicious. — JK KOBE CHEESEBURGER
Jax Kitchen 7286 N. Oracle Road; 219-1235 Buttery bun. Bacon. Gruyere (often overused but oh-so-tasty). LTO. Get it medium rare. Anything else is unacceptable. — JK ANY BEER
1702 1702 E. Speedway Blvd.; 325-1702 OK, OK, it’s not a meal. But it could be (just be responsible and have a friend drive). But seriously, they have, handsdown the best beer selection on tap in town. You could make a meal out of some of the stouts and p porters alone. The pizza is pretty delicious, too. — JK
HONEY-HOT WINGS
Wings Over Broadway 5004 E. Broadway Blvd.; 323-8805 WOB, as it is affectionately known, is a serious wing contender in Tucson. Their wings are consistently amazing, super crunchy on the outside while still being juicy, tender and meaty on the inside. They hit all the right notes with the honey hot flavor—it’s sweet but definitely has a nice spice to it, too. — JK POUTINE
Maynards’ Market & Kitchen 400 N. Toole Ave.; 545-0577 Chef Addam Buzzalini takes the national dish of Canada into the stratosphere with hot crispy pomme frites topped with duck confit, duck gravy, duck cracklins, foie gras and local cheese curds. It’s the kind of dish that I wake up dreaming about. — RC PHILLY CHEESESTEAK
Frankie’s South Philly Cheesesteaks 2574 N. Campbell Ave.; 795-2665 This is the very definition of the Philly Cheesesteak. Philly natives have been known to travel all the way across town
to have the iconic ’wich from their hometown. Have it with the ‘Wiz to make it authentic. Once you have a cheesesteak at Frankie’s, you’ll never go back to the imitators. — RC ARMITAGE EGGS BENEDICT
Armitage Wine Lounge & Café 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168; 682-9740 There is a decidedly modern spin to this classic dish at Armitage. Prosciutto instead of Canadian bacon, Asiago toast instead of English muffins, havarti cheese, thin asparagus spears and a Hollandaise sauce with a pink hue all add up to a great weekend brunch (and sadly, this in only available on weekends). Yes, this is a wine bar but the Armitage’s Bloody Mary is the way to go. — RC STEAMERS
Kingfisher Bar & Grill 2564 E. Grant Road.; 323-7739 From the presentation to the last glorious slurp, the steamers that Tucson’s best seafood restaurant serves are in a word wonderful. They’re tiny—as all good steamers should be—but their natural juices and the white wine come together in a most heavenly broth that
CALDO DE QUESO SOUP Mi Nidito 1813 S Fourth Ave.; 622-5081 Does it get any better?! I’ve had Caldo de Queso all over town and nothing, I repeat, nothing compares to that of Mi Nidito. Besides the fact that they should give you a trophy if you can finish a bowl, the flavor and perfect combination of all the ingredients is just amazing! The potatoes are always cooked perfectly and they aren’t scared to throw in the cheese! Love, love, love it! And while you’re there be sure and have a michelada. One of the absolute best in town!
enhances the clams rather than competes with them. They can be a standalone meal or a great beginning. — RC TAGLIATELLE AL RAGU BOLOGNESE
Caffe Milano 46 W. Congress St.; 628-1601 Granted, this sauce is also available on Milano’s lasagna at dinner time, but it’s with the egg noodles at lunch that you really get to appreciate the meaty goodness of the sauce; a hint of tomato, a splash of garlic, lots and lots of ground meat ... Ahh, belissimo. The portion is huge for lunch but somehow I always manage to finish every last bite. — RC CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
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Boondocks Lounge 3306 N. First Ave.; 690-0991 I grew up in the land of Friday fish fries—every little bar with a kitchen held one. Finding a fish fry that compares with these was tough until I found the fish fry here. Hot and sizzling from the fryer the coating crackles on the first bite. The white fish inside is sweet and juicy. The fries are almost unnecessary but, hey, you have to eat them. Like most classic fish fries, this is a dish that is only available on Fridays. — RC PRETZELS
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CARNE ASADA BREAKFAST Crossroads Restaurant 2602 S. Fourth Ave.; 624-0395 As a South Tucson staple, Crossroads gives you an authentic and hearty carne asada plate at an economically pleasing rate. Perfect combo for the starving artist. Enjoy your food over the sounds of a half blind, one-man-band jamming to the freshest cumbias, boleros, and Mexican love ballads. REUBEN SUB Roma Imports 627 S. Vine Ave.; 792-3173 I go to this place WAY too often. The cashiers know me by name. The Reuben is another filling, delicious, yet economic option, amongst many. TAMALES Cup CafĂŠ 311 E. Congress St.; 798-1618
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pub are a great start to a meal. You get two thick pretzels hot out of the oven. They come with two sauces—a grainy mustard and a smooth, creamy cheese. Both are great; together they rock it big time. — RC LAOTIAN CHICKEN & POUNDED GREEN PAPAYA SALAD
Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails 135 S. Sixth Ave.; 623-7700 I’ve only recently fallen in love with this wonderful salad. There is balance in every bite. Tropical fruits (mango, lime) add tang. Basil, mint and cilantro bring a certain brightness to the dish. Beans, carrots and peanuts add crunch. There’s tomatoes and chicken. There are serrano chiles for heat and nam pla for a hint of savory. Plus, the presentation is gorgeous. — RC GAL BI
Kimchi Time 2900 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 186; 305-4900 There’s a lot to like at Kimchi Time, but when you have the opportunity to get marinated short ribs on a sizzling plate, accompanied by the delicious side dishes the Korean restaurant offers, you take it. Sort of messy to eat and when your order hits the table, you’ll have to dodge hot splattering for a moment, but the tender, fat-enhanced meat is worth the minor bit of trouble. PHO
Pho 88
2744 N. Campbell Ave.; 881-8883 There are quite a few pho-centric joints here in Tucson (something for which we should be collectively thankful), so when we make a stand for one place’s broth-driven goodness over another, there will inevitably be some drama. We like Pho 88. You can prefer somewhere else. Let’s discuss it over pho later, OK? TRADITIONAL PIZZA
Dry River Company 800 N. Kolb Road; 298-5555 No, you won’t find all that many eastside options on this list (although there certainly are a few), but when Dry River took over a space that had seemingly been haunted by the ghost of past coffee house tenants, at least there’s a place to get a solid pizza. The nal isn Traditional isn’tt complicated (sausage, ni, banana peppers), but it’s pepperoni, deliciouss and flavorful.
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Trident Grill 2033 E. Speedway Blvd.; 795-5755 We’re not just saying this in fear of what Trident’s owner, Nelson Miller, former Navy SEAL, might do if we skip over the University-adjacent bar on this list, but his establishment’s clam chowder is delicious, especially during our brief winter-like season. PANANG NEAU
Char’s Thai 5039 E. Fifth St.; 795-1715 Your impulse might be to just go with the pad thai (which is tasty, for sure), but step out of the cliché for a minute and order something else from Char’s extensive menu. Here’s the description of the Panang Neau: “Sauteed beef with red chili, fresh basil, peanut sauce, coconut milk, bell pepper, and hot spicy gravy sauce.” Doesn’t that sound delicious? It is. HOT POT
Impress Hot Pot 2610 N. First Ave.; 882-3059
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KING LOUIE SALAD Acacia 3001 E. Skyline Drive; 232-0101 An amazing and refreshing salad with fresh Dungeness crab and a wonderful dressing. All of the ingredients are paired so well. THE CHEESE PLATTER Pastiche Modern Eatery 3025 N. Campbell Ave.; 325-3333 The cheese offering changes, so each time we order the platter it may have a different taste, while still served with olives and fruit. Love the Parmesan bird’s nest the olives are served in … so tasty! OYSTERS Kingfisher Bar and Grill 2564 E. Grant Road; 323-7739 The oysters are amazing; what else can be said? THE JERSEY DEVIL East Coast Super Subs 187 N. Park Ave.; 882-4005 We always order it with Provolone cheese, grilled onions and all the peppers...this sandwich is wonderful. CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS Bistro 44 6761 E. Tanque Verde Road; 298-2233 I love these, just like Mom made!
Here’s what’s great about the hot pot experience, other than the process just being a lot of fun: you can be as adventurous with the meal as you want. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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HUB 266 E. Congress St.; 207-8201 Why did it take this long for someone to serve high-quality ice cream downtown? Our petty first-world-problem complaint? There might actually be too many flavors to choose from, but if the bourbon almond brittle is available, the decision process is a bit easier. BAKED EGGS
Cup CafÊ 311 E. Congress St.; 798-1618 We’re of the opinion that anything with leeks in the product description is likely to be delicious, so it’s no surprise we have these cast-iron-cooked baked eggs, enhanced by Gruyere and cream, on our list. When people rave about staying at Congress, it’s partially due to their next-morning breakfast. GARLIC KNOTS
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GUACAMOLE QUESADILLA Pico de Gallo 2618 S. Sixth Ave.; 623-8775 The tortillas are always perfectly griddled and crunchy, the guacamole generous and the cheese melting and runny. I love it with their limonada. A majority faction in my family prefers the horchata, both of which are the best in Tucson. OSSO BUCCO Vivace 4310 N. Campbell Ave.; 795-7221 Nobody does this dish anymore and it’s the priciest item on their menu, but they tell me they lose on it anyway. It’s succulent, tender, the braising liquid full of tomatoes and vegetables, the mashed potatoes seem to have as much cream and butter as potatoes. How can you go wrong with that? SONORAN HOT DOG El Guero Canelo 5201 S. 12th Ave.; 295-9005 I only go to the original on South 12th. Guero and I have competed against each other, his Sonoran hot dog against my J Dawg and he always kicks my ass (but I still like mine better). FILLETE VERACRUZANO, CALLO DE HACHE (WHEN THEY HAVE IT) AND MICHELADA Mariscos Chihuahua 1009 N. Grande Ave.; 623-3563 Really, I like everything they do here but these are my favorites. There are several Mariscos Chihuahua in town but I keep on coming back here. RED CHILI AND BEAN BURRO AND ANY AND ALL THE FLOUR TORTILLAS Anita Street Market 849 N. Anita Ave.; 882-5280 They do it right, no raw flavor in the red chili sauce, the meat is tender and beans put out the heat- just the way it should. About those tortillasin the 30 years I’ve been eating them not once has a package made it home unopened; that’s all you need to know.
Brooklyn Pizza 534 N. Fourth Ave.; 622-6868 Brooklyn’s actual pizza shows up elsewhere on this list, but their knots put the breadsticks seemingly offered by every other pizza place in town to shame. Get a dozen and garlic lovers might follow you down the street. MADUROS
Kadooks! Costa Rican Fusion Food Truck https://www.facebook.com/ kadooksfoodtruck Food trucks have hit a bit of a plateau in town, but the Costa Rican-inspired menu that Kadooks! offers is a nice addition to our city’s mobile food scene. You can feel comfortable picking anything they offer, but save room for dessert: fried plantains with homemade whipped cream and cinnamon sugar. THE RUFUS
Sausage Shop Meat Market & Deli 1015 W. Prince Road, Suite 141; 888-1701 There aren’t many seats, the occasional lunch rush line and the location isn’t exactly the part of town we find ourselves in often, but give us an absurdly cheap sandwich with pulled pork, a sausage hot link and cole slaw and we’ll endure some minor inconveniences. FRENCH FRIES
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is easily the best and the fries are a revelation. It probably makes sense to get a Chicago dog or an Italian beef as well, but the fries are really the main event. Let’s not fool ourselves. NASI LEMAK
Neo of Melaka 6133 E. Broadway Blvd.; 747-7811 Say this for Tucson: How many cities our size have a restaurant serving Malaysian cuisine anyhow? There are still more mainstream Asian dishes on the Neo menu, but if you go with friends and they order sesame chicken or something instead of something incredibly delicious, like the coconut milk and turmeric laden nasi lemak, it might be time to get new friends. LATE NIGHT SLICES
Empire Pizza and Pub Brooklyn Pizza Downtown Tucson Sometimes, timing is much a part of what makes food great as extensive craftsmanship. In the case of Empire on Congress and Brooklyn on Fourth Avenue, sometimes you just need a slice of pizza so big it hangs off the paper plate.
MACARONI AND CHEESE
HUB 266 E. Congress St.; 207-8201 The dining world’s obsession with macaroni and cheese is a little out of control (after all, there’s a restaurant in town dedicated to the dish), but HUB does a great job with the creamy pasta dish. Plus, if you’re ever trying to entertain kids at mealtime downtown, a bowl plus the promise of ice cream (mentioned elsewhere) is generally enough to soothe the fussiest young one. PHYLLO WRAPPED CHICKEN
47 Scott 47 N. Scott Ave.; 624-4747 You’d be forgiven for momentarily overlooking how good the food is at 47 Scott while looking over the cocktail menu, but the downtown eatery’s elegant take on comfort food really shines with the spinach and goat cheese stuffed chicken breast enveloped in the lightest of crusts. PORK BELLY
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The Dish Bistro & Wine Bar 3131 E. First St.; 326-1714 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays, you can’t get a better culinary deal in this town than a bowl of mussels and a glass of wine (or a beer, but we try to keep it classy) at the Dish. FIG CREPE
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Lucky Wishbone Multiple locations This may not be one of Tucson’s best dishes, but the soaked-in-somethingbutter-we-hope decadence of this Lucky Wishbone side is essential to the Tucson experience in some ways, isn’t it? DEEP DISH APPLE PIE
Obviously, there are more places to get a burger in this town all the time, but Lindy’s was serving an intimidating selection of artery-blocking options ahead of most of the upstarts. You might hate yourself the next day, but every meat-eating Tucsonan should probably take on the AZ Hooligan (five patties, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion) or its more fatty cousin, the Triple Lindy (adding bacon, an onion ring, and a fried egg), at some point in their lives. Just resist the temptation to step up to the Man v. Food featured OMFG. That won’t likely end well.
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take on English miner cuisine isn’t all that handheld, but it’s a delicious start.
You could pick your favorite greasyspoon breakfast joint by the sassy staff or their readiness with a coffee refill, but we make our selection based on the quality of the potato-centric sides, and Frank’s home fries are this town’s best. CORNISH LAMB PASTIES Noble Hops 1335 W. Lambert Lane, Oro Valley; 797-4677 Seriously, why aren’t there more pasties on Tucson menus? We just want food we can hold in one hand while gripping a pint glass in another. This shouldn’t be all that complicated. Noble Hops’
Omar’s Hi-Way Chef 5451 E. Benson Hwy.; 574-0961 If you’ve had it, you already know. If not, you might want to re-evaluate how you’re choosing to live your life. BISCUITS AND GRAVY
Pappy’s Diner 1300 W. Prince Road; 408-5262 We don’t know if we’re comfortable saying that Pappy’s definitively has
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BITTER MELON BEEF Dragon’s View 400 Bonita Ave.; 623-9855 It’s not your standard Chinese menu fare and you’ll only find it on the special Asian Menu, but it’s authentic and a wonderful combination of salty and bitter with an unusual texture and a smoky finish. SHRIMP STUFFED YELLOW JALAPENOS WRAPPED IN BACON El Mezon del Cobre 2960 N. First Ave.; 791-0977 The most wonderful and satisfying combination of soft briny shrimp, spicy jalapeno and salty, crunchy bacon without being greasy or heavy. TABLESIDE GUACAMOLE Flying V 7000 N. Resort Drive; 299-2020 Because you can get it your way, with all sorts of cool mix-ins from garlic to mango, and watching it get made is fun -- you know it’s fresh, and they always have the best, perfectly ripe, avocados. GREEN CORN TAMALES Lerua’s 2005 E. Broadway Blvd., 624-0322 These have the taste of real corn. The texture of the soft masa is addicting, combined with a bit of heat from green chiles and creamy cheddar all wrapped inside fresh green corn husks. BROWN TEPARY BEAN QUESADILLAS Desert Rain Café Tohono Plaza, Main Street, Sells; 383-4918 A crispy handmade wheat tortilla sandwich is a wonderful melt of three cheeses and meaty brown tepary beans with just the right hit of heat from Serrano peppers.
the best biscuits and gravy in this town. That would be a bold proclamation and we are, by nature, cautious people. However, Pappy’s is currently on the top of our list. We’ll keep up our research and update you on the results. CINNAMON ROLLS
Robert’s Restaurant 3301 E. Grant Road; 795-1436 There’s a bit of self-loathing that goes into eating a giant cinnamon roll for us…after all, it’s bread, sugar and fat, but if we’re going down that road, Robert’s is the place to indulge. However, make sure they’re not on their extended yearly summer vacation. THE OMAR
Sausage Deli 2334 N. First Ave.; 623-8182 If you’re expect actual sausage, you’ll be disappointed, but if you’re looking for a giant, over-stuffed sandwich, the newly-relocated Sausage Deli has a number of delicious choices, of which our favorite is the Omar, with a bunch of meat, cheese, peppers and mustard. Sure, people rave about the Susie Sorority, but sprouts? Really?
FRIED CHICKEN
The Abbey 6960 E. Sunrise Drive; 299-3132 Tucson has a bit of a fried chicken shortfall, unfortunately, but every Wednesday, the northeast-side hip dining spot offers a great plate of crispy, juicy goodness. It would be nice to have the option any given day, but we’ll take what we can get. FRIED SQUASH BLOSSOMS
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink 101 E. Pennington St.; 882-5550 The pizza’s good at Reilly and it’s a really charming place to eat in general, but the appetizers are amazing, in particular, the herbed ricotta-filled fried squash blossoms. Now, if we’ll be able to get those out in Reilly’s forthcoming beer garden, life will be just a bit more enjoyable. SOMETHING FROM THE FREEZER
Roma Imports 627 S. Vine Ave.; 792-3173 The fresh-out-of-the-kitchen and deli counter options are great at this somewhat difficult to find Italian food para-
dise, but if you grab one of their frozen pasta options to take home, you’re one step away from fooling your friends and family into thinking you became a vaguely proficient chef overnight. THE DIGBY
Cartel Coffee Lab 2516 N. Campbell Ave.; 225-0437
without tofu, even if that’s not normally your thing. GRILLED CHEESE
Feast 3719 E. Speedway Blvd.; 3269363
We’re fans of breakfast sandwiches and there aren’t a lot of great ones in Tucson. Thankfully, Tempe’s Cartel (I know, I know) has a great one: Ciabatta, bacon, sunny-side up eggs, tomato, spinach, and a pesto aioli. Simple and delicious.
The peril of a list like this is that you overlook restaurants that change their menu up frequently, like Doug Levy’s Feast. Whatever he decides to make each month is worth trying, but in particular, he’s turned out to be quite a wizard with grilled cheese sandwiches, which are generally a staple of each monthly offering.
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THE BOB BURGER
La Cocina 201 N. Court Ave.; 365-3053
Bob Dobb’s 2501 E. Sixth St.; 325-3767
Someone was bound to figure out how to make an appealing dish out of the South American superfood, quinoa—a dish you’d actually enjoy rather than just feeling good about the idea of it. Gluten-free and filled with lot of the generally healthy things that some of us might usually grimace over, this is a bowl of vegan paradise—with or
The Bob burger has to be considered a Tucson classic. Two patties, soaked in Worcestershire and Soy sauce, with cheddar cheese, in a bar that seems to only change when a new coat of paint is applied to the infamous walls. We’re still not happy that they put up an exterior sign, but I guess nothing lasts forever.
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So you’re vegan and you’re in Tucson. Some people might tell you tough luck, you’re in a state full of cowboys who love meat. Those people may or may not be right, but there are plenty of us cowboys and girls who are into Boca burgers and cruelty-free BLTs. Tucson is more vegan-friendly than one might initially think. Here’s a list of just a few of the best vegan dishes around town to sink your teeth into. You can get a start here, and we’ll leave you to discover the rest of the underground vegan food scene on your own. — AG DONUTS
Le Cave’s Bakery 1219 S. Sixth Ave.; 624-2561 Portland may be home to the famous Voodoo Doughnut, but vegans may be shocked, stunned and super stoked to find out that Tucson also has a vegan doughnut joint–or rather, a “Vegetable Do-nut Shop,” as their sign reads. Nearly all the doughnuts at Le Cave’s Bakery are totally, 100 percent vegan, excluding the cream filled ones. Where Voodoo is hip, trendy and occasionally offensive when naming their doughnuts,
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Le Cave’s keeps it nice and simple with glazed, chocolate, raspberry bismarcks and maple long johns. They don’t need an excess of flair, because they’ve been in Tucson since 1935, and they know what the people want, vegans included. GENERAL TSO’S VEGGIE CHICKEN
Guilin Chinese Restaurant 3250 E. Speedway Blvd.; 320-7768 Guilin Healthy Chinese has a lot of veggie meat options that are delicious, but there’s something about the General that keeps you coming back. Always steaming hot and framed with bright green broccoli florets, General Tso’s comes smothered in spicy sweet red sauce. It’s one of those dishes at a restaurant that kind of ruins the rest of the menu for you; once you’ve had it, you’ll perpetually be torn between ordering something that you haven’t tried before, or getting General Tso’s. And if you do switch it up, someone else might get it, and they probably won’t share with you.
TOFU SCRAMBLE
Cup Café 311 E. Congress St.; 798-1618 Almost every vegan has probably eaten tofu scramble at one time or another. In terms of veggie breakfasts, it’s pretty much a staple. At The Cup Cafe, they get it right. Not overloaded with salt and not attempting to be something it’s not, their scramble also comes with house fried potatoes, two vegan sausage patties, your choice of toast or English muffin, and a cup of fresh fruit. Overall, it’s a breakfast that doesn’t weigh you down or make you feel like you just ate enough soy product to last you a year. The tofu scramble at The Cup Cafe is one of the best vegan breakfasts available in Tucson, for sure. VEGETABLE SAMPLER
Zemam’s Ethiopian Cuisine 2731 E. Broadway Blvd.; 323-9928 One of the many great things about Ethiopian food is that it’s perfect for those times of indecision; when you can’t make up your mind about which item you want to order. Zemam’s
Ethiopian Cuisine has a long list of vegan choices, so going with their vegetable sampler and picking three different dishes is a win-win. The bread that comes with the food, called injera, is vegan, and as long as you avoid the obvious meat and dairy dishes mentioned on the menu, you can mix and match to your heart’s delight. DEEP DISH VEGGIE PIZZA
Rocco’s Little Chicago 2707 E. Broadway Blvd.; 321-1860 Vegan pizzas can be really hit or miss, more often than not on the miss side. Vegan pizza has to be more than a few veggies and some boring marinara sauce. This is something that Rocco’s Little Chicago knows. Their Veggie Pizza, which has spinach, grilled onions, peppers, portabella mushrooms, artichoke hearts, and garlic, is not messing around. It is the veggie pizza to end all veggie pizzas. And if you’re gonna get it, you have to get it deep dish. You could try it on thin crust, but why would you do that? Deep dish it and experience Rocco’s Veggie Pizza in all its herbivorous glory. MARCH 28–APRIL 3, 2013
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Essential Dishes
SONORAN HOT DOG W/ EVERYTHING
TORTILLA SOUP
Taqueria Pico de Gallo 2618 S. Sixth Ave.; 623-8775
El Guero Canelo Three locations
Amelia Grey’s CafÊ 3073 N. Campbell Ave.; 326-0063
The cabeza (yes, that’s head meat, and it’s de-freaking-licious) practically melts in your mouth, and whatever they season it with is perfection. The corn tortillas are made fresh there every day. You’ve got to order a horchata with it too—it’s the best in town. — JK
There are probably about 1,000 places you can get Sonoran hot dogs now, but this remains my favorite. Salty bacon, pungent onions, spicy jalapeno sauce (I like to rip up my grilled pepper and throw it in there, too), but that soft, fresh bun is what makes it spectacular. — JK
That a non-Mexican can crank out such a perfect tortilla soup is amazing. Slightly creamy, chickeny rich and with more than a hint of heat, this soup is a most satisfying meal. Topped with crispy, colorful tortilla chips, this soup will cure anything that ails you even if you are feeling fine. — RC
SHRIMP COCKTAIL/SHRIMP TACOS
PICO DE GALLO
CABEZA TACOS ON CORN TORTILLAS
SPICY LAMB TONGUE TACO
Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails 135 S. Sixth Ave.; 623-7700 I’m biased on this one, because I was a chef at Janos when he first introduced his Lamb Four Ways from the Heart of Mexico dish (the lamb tongue taco was a part of it). The lamb with the radishes and slaw is a wonderfully balanced dish with complex flavors, and I don’t think there’s ever enough lamb on menus. Or tongue, for that matter. — JK
Sinaloa Restaurante 5601 E. 22nd St.; 790-2888 Yes, there are two dishes here but his tiny mid-town Mexican joint has a way with shrimp. The medium shrimp cocktail must have a couple dozen shrimp and the “juice� is such a perfect balance of tomatoes, scallions, cukes and lime that you want to drink it. The tacos—fried are the best—are perfection. — RC
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PUTTING RED CHILE PORK ON THINGS
Poco and Mom’s 1060 S. Kolb Road; 325-7044 We are generally opposed to the endorsement of anything from New Mexico, but the red chile pork at blinkand-you’ll-miss-it Eastside stop makes us re-evaluate that irrational position. This place is packed nearly all the time with a deeply loyal crowd coming back again and again, for dishes like the Silver City Breakfast, which is, of course, a dish that can be improved with some red chile pork on top.
The South Tucson’s restaurant’s namesake can be a little confusing to some, because most of the time when we talk about Pico de Gallo, we’re referring to the salsa fresca with chunks of tomato, onion and jalapeno. However, in this case, this is more of a post-taco coda, with various tropical fruit cut into wedges, jammed into a red Solo cup, with lime juice and chili powder. Spicy, tangy, sweet and delicious.
BOCA BALLS
CARNE SECA IN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING
Just let Suzana Davila pick what you eat. You can’t go wrong. This goes for her sisters at the breakfast-and-lunchonly Little Poca Cosa as well.
El Charro Multiple locations Before the Sonoran hot dog, this was the dish that made Tucson famous-ish. One week recently, El Charro’s website announced that weather had disturbed their let’s-dry-meat-on-the-roof process. There was only a brief interruption in availability, but it was too long.
Boca 828 E. Speedway Blvd.; 777-8134 Breaded fried chipotle mashed-potato balls. That’s all you really need to know, right? PLATO POCA COSA
CafĂŠ Poca Cosa 110 E. Pennington St.; 622-6400
RASPADOS
Sonoran Delights 921 W. Congress St.; 623-3020 We’re not sure we’ve had a bad raspado, but Sonoran Delights seem to do
a little extra with shaved ice, fruit and sweetened condensed milk.
Thursday. Half-price tortas. And they’re delicious.
arguably as good as the famous Guero), but the caramelo (essentially a cheese and meat tortilla sandwich) might be the best thing on the menu. Maybe the pastor, maybe the asada, but have them throw some chorizo in as well. Everything is better with chorizo anyhow (if you disagree, we have our vegan choices in a sidebar).
MENUDO
SONORAN HOT DOG
Teresa’s Mosaic CafÊ 2455 N. Silverbell Road; 624-4512
Aqui Con El Nene Generally at the corner of Wetmore and Flowing Wells
Teresa’s has some degree of fame from a Food Network stunt with their huevos rancheros, but c’mon, when a place has great menudo, that should really be what you’re ordering. In red and white versions, it’s not just for hangover relief, but don’t overlook that.
It might be better than either BK’s or El Guero Canelo. It feels wrong to even type that, but you’ll have to try one in the interest of research.
YOUR CHOICE OF TAMALES
Move away from Tucson for a while and you might find yourself missing the blissful accessibility of a solid, delicious and (perhaps overly) filling breakfast burrito. They’re underappreciated masterpieces, only a few minutes away at any given moment.
HALF-PRICE TORTAS
Molcas 110 E. Grant Road
Tucson Tamale Company 2545 E. Broadway Blvd.; 3054760 Yes, it feels a little strange to say the most notable place to get a tamale in a town full of delicious ones is an establishment offering those of a “gourmet� variety, throwing tradition out the window. Still, everything on the wide-ranging menu is as delicious as they look on the page. Affordable and delicious. KILLER MAILMAN BURRITO
Tooley’s CafÊ 299 S. Park Ave. Good luck trying to figure out when this Lost Barrio breakfast and lunch spot is open, but if you happen to be lucky enough to catch them during operating hours, grab a Killer Mailman, a red chili and sour cream soaked tribute to roasted, shredded turkey. SOMETHING IN A CARAMELO
BK’s Two locations
BREAKFAST BURRITO
Pretty much any corner in town
SHRIMP CULICHI (IN GREEN CHILE SAUCE)
Mariscos Chihuahua Multiple locations A creamy green chili sauce over tender, delicious shrimp. We all know the person who won’t eat seafood in Tucson, this is the dish that will change their mind. GREEN CHILE CHICHARRON TACOS
La Botana 3200 N. First Ave.; 777-8801 The fried pork skin with bits of meat is deliciously crunchy and salty and spicy, wrapped apped in a soft tortilla. It’s complete umami, ami, especially with a nice cold er. — JK beer.
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Everyone’s a Performer
“The idea is to not just a magic blur the lines screen behind the between spectator mirrors—it’s peoand participant,” ple; we’re your Palma said. neighbors.” “You’re an active Although participant in MoctoberFest is your community, largely a venue for and by doing that, performers, the you’re engaging participation each other. And aspect, Palma so we try to seek added, creates a out ways to invite more easygoing the community atmosphere, allowand invite onlooking performers to ers to join us.” hone their craft in The event is front of an audialso a fundraiser, ence with less preswith all proceeds sure than perforYoung festival-goers and performers at the 2012 MoctoberFest event. going to Many mances elsewhere. Mouths One Stomach. According to the organization’s website, it The 400 people who attended last year’s festival kicked in about aims to foster a “modern festival culture,” which it defines as “the $2,000 in donations, Palma said. He’s hoping for a turnout of more expression and fulfillment of core human needs through public celethan 1,000 people this year. bration, ceremony and ritual.” For the past 23 years, Many Mouths If this year’s event is anything like the last one, families will arrive One Stomach has hosted Tucson’s annual All Souls Procession, a celwhen the doors open and spend much of the day there, with young ebration inspired by Mexican culture that honors those who have adults stopping by during the later hours, Palma said. died. Palma stressed that audience participation and showcasing the arts Palma said MoctoberFest is an extension of the organization’s miscommunity in Tucson is at the heart of MoctoberFest. sion statement, and was created as a way to bring a festival much like “That’s a lot of the reason why we do what we do in performance,” fall’s Oktoberfest to the spring seasons. he said. “It’s a forum for people to create and build their own show “We wanted to make something for spring that was kind of on the and interpretation of life, and display it.” opposite side of the calendar, more or less six months away,” he said. This year’s MoctoberFest will be held from 2 p.m., Saturday, “We wanted to have something that was fun but we wanted to March 30, to 2 a.m., Sunday, March 31, at Mercado San Agustín, include the same community.” 100 S. Avenida del Convento. An all-day pass is $5, and re-entry is The workshops give onlookers a chance to try something that they permitted throughout the event. Children 10 and younger are may have never thought they could do, he said. admitted free. “Instead of being constantly an onlooker and constantly a conKyle Mittan sumer, it gives you the opportunity to see that other side,” he said. “It’s mailbag@tucsonweekly.com
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A 12-hour-long arts festival this weekend aims to be both entertaining and educational, with live music and dancing as well as a number of workshops to encourage audience participation. Many Mouths One Stomach, a local arts-based collective, will host its second annual MoctoberFest to promote Tucson’s arts community. It includes a variety of performers plus hands-on activities geared toward people of all ages and interests. When the sun goes down, the festival will shift to a more adult-themed atmosphere, with beer offered from Tucson’s own Nimbus Brewing Co. and other local home brewers. Food truck vendors will be on hand throughout the day. Some artists will host workshops on their craft to encourage as much participation as possible. Among them are Mamaxe, a dance troupe inspired by West African rhythms, and Saguaro Stompers, a group of American clog dancers. The event also includes acrobatic acts from Flight School Acrobatics and performances by Flam Chen, which mixes fire with acrobatics. According to MoctoberFest co-creator Ruben Palma, audience participation is the key to a successful event.
MUSEUMS Closing the Book on Stereotypes Librarian Wardrobe 5 p.m., Thursday, March 28 Museum of Contemporary Art 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019; moca-tucson.org; librarianwardrobe.com
If “sexy” is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of librarians, then Nicole Pagowsky, the creator of the blog Librarian Wardrobe, has some choice words for you. Pagowsky, an instructional services librarian at the University of Arizona, started Librarian Wardrobe in 2010 as a “catalog” of how librarians across the nation choose to dress for work, based on their own submissions. Three years later, the blog serves as a resource for librarians looking for style inspiration. But it has a primary objective of counteracting gender discrimination and stereotypes as old as the Dewey Decimal System. “Some people think it’s silly to worry about (the stereotypes), that if we just do our jobs well, they will eventually go away,” Pagowsky said. “But because it is a female-dominated profession, we have a lot more to contend with.” Extending Librarian Wardrobe’s viewership to the general public has a relatively simple goal: to push its visitors to view librarians as real people dedicated to helping the patrons who come through their doors. Pagowsky’s research of these perceptions has been a major focus of her graduate career, and she was able to transition Librarian Wardrobe into interactive lectures. The MOCA event will combine a “scholarly look” at the librarian image with a visual presentation incorporating popular media portrayals. “The important thing is just understanding a little more about what we do,” Pagowsky said. “Everybody uses libraries, so I think it’s helpful for people to understand, because their perceptions ... make an impact on how people feel and think about libraries.” Admission is free for MOCA members and $5 for non-members. — K.N.
Left: Leashed, well-mannered dogs are served complimentary cocktails at a fundraising event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Handi-Dogs, an organization that works with people to train their dogs to help compensate for the owner’s disabilities; free admission. The event runs from 5 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, at La Cocina Restaurant, 201 N. Court Ave. Visit handi-dogs.org for more information.
SPIRITUALITY
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FILM/MUSIC
Walk of Faith
Planning Downtown’s Future
Trapped in the Loft
Los Dorados Orphan League’s 44th annual Good Friday Cross Procession
Community Vision for the Ronstadt Transit Center
The ‘Trapped in the Closet’ Sing-along
3 p.m., Friday, March 29
5:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 2
Sentinel Peak (“A” Mountain) 1501 W. Sentinel Peak Road
Rialto Theatre 318 E. Congress St.
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In 1969, David Herrera gave a group of orphans in Tucson a sense of belonging by having them build a cross and carry it through the surrounding neighborhood and up Sentinel Peak on Good Friday. The group, Los Dorados Orphan League, has continued the tradition for 44 years, with community members working together to carry the 16-foottall cross up the peak. “The kids, when they would go to church, they felt more like spectators,” said Antonio Pinarosantibanez, 23, currently the youngest member of the league. “They didn’t feel like they were participating in anything. They wanted to feel more like they were doing something.” Now in their 50s and 60s, some of the original league members still attend the cross procession and the sunrise Mass at the top of the peak on Easter. The procession starts at the parking lot at the bottom of Sentinel Peak, where people gather at 3 p.m. Rather than having one group of people carry the cross the entire way, stations are set up where the cross is handed off to other groups as it makes its way to the top of the peak. Pinarosantibanez said he keeps a vigil at the cross from Good Friday until Easter morning. Jesus carried his cross “for all walks, all faiths, all religions, all creeds,” Pinarosantibanez said. “So that that’s the reason why we invite anybody and everybody to be involved.” —S.C.
With Tucson’s downtown in the process of revitalization, an investment group has begun to discuss development possibilities for the Ronstadt Transit Center. City representatives are inviting community members, especially those who use Sun Tran, to join the conversation in a laid-back meeting where people can share their vision for the transit center. It’s part of a series of meetings to gather opinions about possible developments that combine the transit center with retail and housing to further improve downtown. “Good urban planning has to take into consideration the variety of stakeholders involved,” said City Councilman Steve Kozachik. “It’s going to be key to making sure that whatever is designed there takes into consideration a real diverse set of interests and nobody’s left out of the conversation. That’s not to say that everyone’s going to get everything they want, but it is to say that everyone deserves a seat at the table while the discussion is going on.” Kozachik said the Ronstadt Transit Center is an asset because of its location and the services it provides. It’s near the train station, near where the modern streetcar will run and close to many bike paths. “Transit is not going to be excluded from a part of the conversation,” Kozachik said. “At the same time, it is key to the success of the streetcar to get private sector development along that corridor.” Attendees can enjoy free chile con carne, rice and beans at the meeting. — S.C.
9 p.m., Friday, March 29 The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0844; loftcinema.com
America’s most famous “hip-hopera,” R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet, has reclaimed relevance with a vengeance, and a sing-along version hosted by the Loft is returning for an encore screening. The sing-along is hardly for the faint of heart: featuring all 33 chapters of the Trapped in the Closet series, it clocks in at about two hours of nonstop singing, dancing and debauchery as the outrageous drama unfolds on screen. “I assumed it would be exhausting and impossible for anyone to do it,” Loft program director Jeff Yanc said of the original event in November 2012. “But lo and behold, people did it and they loved it.” More than 100 people were turned away from the first event, when the enthusiasm for Trapped in the Closet overpowered the available seats. This time, the updated sing-along will be held in the Loft’s biggest theater, which holds 500. The show kicks off with a series of R. Kelly music videos to warm up the crowd before the Trapped in the Closet saga begins. Trapped in the Closet also has Rocky Horror Picture Show-potential as a continuing event. One of the Loft’s missions is to make “watching movies an interactive, fun experience” for the Tucson community, according to Yanc, and the no-rules, campy atmosphere of the sing-along seems built to last for even the most casual of R. Kelly fans. The sing-along is $6 for Loft members and $8 for nonmembers, and the Loft will be handing out official Trapped in the Closet condoms imprinted with a line from the show. At last year’s showing, “I wasn’t sure what people would do with them, but everyone ended up blowing them up and batting them around the theater,” Yanc said. “It was a really fun, festive vibe.” — K.N.
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Ben Johnson Ben Johnson has been the curator of exhibits at Tohono Chul Park since May 2010. Lately, he’s been putting together Artworks in Glass, which opens Friday, March 29. The exhibit features works from 12 local artists that showcase the many forms glass art can take. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the cost is included in admission to the park, which ranges from $2 to $8. For more information, visit tohonochulpark.org.
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What’s your favorite part about working at Tohono Chul Park? Just being here is an incredible experience day to day. But I’ll say my favorite part of the job is interacting and networking with our local artists. We have so many talented artists right here in the Tucson area and I feel so privileged to be able to work with them as regularly as I do and to show the incredible work that they create. Can you tell me about the upcoming exhibit? I’m really excited about it, in that glass is such a versatile artistic medium. I feel like so many of us have a certain idea of what glass work is. It seems like glass artists are always pushing the envelope of what glass can do … and really exploring new zones within the realm of working with glass. It’s been wonderful to collaborate with the
Sonoran Glass School on this exhibit. They are really highlighting what a hotbed Tucson is for glass artists. The work is so varied … and there’s an inherent magic in glass that’s just undeniable. The transparency, the color, the sheer luminosity—it’s just a beautiful medium. How did you come up with the idea for the exhibit? We currently have in our main gallery the exhibit Paper: From All Sides, an exhibit focusing on a single medium. It’s exciting to see all the ways in which a medium can be used, so that was my first inspiration. And talking with the folks at the Sonoran Glass School expanded my notion of the directions that glass can and does go in. How did you find the local artists for the exhibits? We do issue calls for entries for most of our exhibits.
Those calls are sent out through an artist mailing list that we keep here at the park. I want our exhibitions to reflect the soul of our artist community here in Tucson. I love to see the artists basically showing us what the particular theme means to them. That’s always quite magical to me. I want our exhibitions to serve our artists, to serve our visitors, to serve our entire community as a place where the creative conversation that is naturally happening can be condensed around a particular theme. What do you hope people take away from viewing the exhibit? I’d love for every visitor who walks into our galleries to leave thinking, “I didn’t know glass could do that” and “I had no idea that we had artists who can make glass do that right here in our midst.”
HEAP COLLECTIVE: BAD INFINITY An all-ages pop-up alternative diversion features four live bands; three DJs; vintage vendors; a Desert Vintage clothing installation; a video game release; a zine exposition; live screen printing; exhibits of photography, printmaking video, sculpture and more; food and a latenight “psychedelic cumbia dance party” with Chicha Dust, starts at 6 p.m., Saturday, March 30, at 210 E. Broadway. INNOVATION DAY AT THE UA UA Student Union Memorial Center. 1303 E. University Blvd. 621-7755. An expo, awards luncheon and presentations about the UA’s technological innovations take place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 28; $40, $20 UA faculty, staff or student. Visit innovation. arizona.edu to register and for more information. MOCTOBERFEST Mercado San Agustín. 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 461-1110, ext. 8. Flam Chen, Chicha Dust, Vox Urbana, Flight School, Tucson Circus Arts, Air Loom aerial acts, West African Dance, Planet Djembe, Circus Electric Tesla Coil stunts, DJ Carl Hanni, Burlesque Cabaret including Skirts on Fire, magicians Kenny Stewart and Nate Anderson, Richard Noel of Sticks n Fingers, a dunking booth, a giant swing, Tygel Pint flute beatbox, Saguaro Stompers, DJ Joshua Pocolips, Orbital Evolution, Flight School, a huge inflatable slide and an open fire circle are among entertainments still being assembled for a block party from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., Saturday, March 30; $5 for an all-day pass with re-entry permitted. Many of the entertainment groups offer workshops in the afternoon. The event helps fund the annual All Souls Procession. Visit moctoberfest.com or for more information. PROCESIÓN DE VIERNES SANTO AND MISA AMANECER Sentinel Peak (“A” Mountain). Sentinel Peak Road. The 44th annual Holy Friday procession and Easter sunrise Mass organized by Barrio Anita’s Los Dorados Orphan League take place at 3 p.m., Friday, March 29; and 6 a.m., Sunday, March 31; freewill donation. Participants meet in the Sentinel Peak parking lot at 3 p.m., Friday, to begin the procession, which concludes with a 5 p.m. service. A 24-hour vigil is held with the procession’s cross until the Easter morning service at 6 a.m. Services are in Spanish and English.
UPCOMING CYCLOVIA TUCSON Walk, skate, run, bicycle and socialize over a five-mile route through some of Tucson’s oldest and most interesting neighborhoods, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, April 7 and 28. The route is blocked to car traffic in an area bounded by 13th and 34th Street, and Fourth and Eighth avenues. Activities throughout the area include bike rental, capoiera, a jumping castle, a puppet show, an obstacle course, arts and crafts, street dancing, a gardening demonstrations, a pop-up skate park, live music, dancing and more. Visit cycloviatucson.org for details. GALA BENEFIT CONCERT: AARON COPLAND’S AMERICA St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. A gala reception and silent auction of six original paintings at 6:15 p.m. precede a 7:30 p.m. concert, “Letter From Home: Aaron Copland’s America,” on Thursday, April 4; $50, $25 concert only. The concert features compositions for organ and excerpts sung from film scores Copland composed from 1939 through 1954. Visit williamcartercutlip.myevent. com for more information, reservations and bidding on the paintings.
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TASTE OF SPRING Five Palms Steak and Seafood Restaurant. 3500 E. Sunrise Drive. 615-5555. The Arizona Chapter of the American Parkinson’s Disease Association benefits from a wine-tasting event with eight local food sponsors, music, varietal wines, a raffle, door prizes and a silent auction featuring more than 100 items, from 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday, April 7; $60, $50 advance. Call 3265400 for reservations and more information. TUCSON PRIDE A Fundraiser is held Tuesday, April 9 at IBT’s, 616 N. Fourth Ave. Fundraising events are held throughout the year to support Pride Week from Friday, June 14, through Sunday, June 23, and Tucson Pride in the Desert in October. Events include a Pride Scavenger Hunt and a community forum, among other activities. Tucson Pride meets at 6 p.m., the first Thursday of every month at Wingspan, 430 E. Seventh St. Visit tucsonpride.org, or follow tucson.pride on Facebook for the most current information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR EARTH DAY FESTIVAL SPONSORS, EXHIBITORS, ARTISTS AND PARADE ENTRANTS Reid Park. Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way. Registration closes Friday, March 29, for exhibitors and parade entrants in this year’s combined Earth Day Festival and Water Festival. The joint event, with the theme Green Planet, Green Future, takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, April 21. Competitions for the best model solar race car and solar house are open to middle school students. Kits are available at swetucson. org/solar. Visit tucsonearthday.org or waterfestivaltucson. org for more information. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: THE WATER FESTIVAL DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. Exhibitors, theater and dance performances, workshops, music, a 3-mile Walk for Water, live art “happenings,” a mermaid and children’s activities are featured at the The Water Festival from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, April 21, in conjunction with the Earth Day Festival; free. Call 623-2119, or visit waterfestivaltucson.org to register as a volunteer, artist, performer, speaker, workshop leader or exhibitor, and for more information.
BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK BRIGHTEN YOUR LIFE: DRAWING IN COLOR Martha Cooper Branch Library. 1377 N. Catalina Ave. 594-5315. Participants learn the basics of color mixing, how colors work together to create color harmonies, and how to use color for self expression, in a class that meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m., every Thursday, through April 25; free. Call to register. COMMUNITY VISION FOR THE RONSTADT CENTER Rialto Theatre. 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. Bus riders and other concerned Tucsonans share their thoughts about the future of the Downtown Ronstadt Transit Center with Tucson City Council member Regina Romero, Pima County Supervisor Richard Elias and other community officials at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 2; free, including chile con carne, rice and beans. At issue is whether private investors can profit from use of public space. DINE WITH YOUR DOG La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar. 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. Leashed, well-mannered dogs are served complimentary cocktails at a fundraising event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Handi-Dogs, an organization that works with people to train their dogs to help compensate for the owner’s disabilities; free admission. The event runs from 5 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, and La Cocina donates a percentage of sales on food and beverages. Visit handi-dogs.org for more information. FOOTHILLS DEMOCRATIC FORUM Skyline Country Club. 5200 E. St. Andrews Drive. 299-0464. An interactive exercise allows attendees to experience how difficult it is to balance the federal budget, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 28; $15 includes heavy hors d’oeuvres. Call 477-1093 for more information. HABITAT FOR HUMANITY DEDICATION CELEBRATION Pima County Supervisor Ramón O. Valadez delivers a keynote address about the impact of homeownership at a dedication ceremony for six newly completed homes at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 28, at 7079 Camino de Albergue; free.
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ORIGAMI WORKSHOPS Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson. 2130 N. Alvernon Way 445-2957. Kids and adults learn origami in two workshops hosted by volunteers from the Tucson Origami Club; $10 plus admission to the park. A workshop for kids and families takes place from 9 to 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 30. A class for adults only is held from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Sunday, March 31. Admission is $9, $7 for seniors, $6 for students or military, $4 for ages 3 through 15. Call 331-0606 to enroll in the workshops; visit Tucsonjapanesegardens.org for more information about the month-long origami sculpture exhibit. POETRY MESSAGE POT PROJECT Tucson Clay Co-op. 3326 N. Dodge Blvd. 792-6263. Participants inscribe a favorite poem on greenware bowls made by local potters every Tuesday and Thursday through Thursday, April 11, and by appointment. Poems are read from the finished glazed bowls at an exhibition and potluck party, at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 20; freewill donation. Call or visit tucsonclayco-op.com for more information. TRANSPARTNERZ Wingspan. 430 E. Seventh St. 624-1779. Anyone who is a partner of a trans-identified or gender-variant person is invited to meet at 7 p.m., the fourth Thursday of every month. Cisgender partners are encouraged to attend no matter where their partner is in transition or how they define their gender variance. Trans and gendervariant partners of trans folk are welcome as well. Email rstrozzo@wingspan.org for more information. WOMEN IMPACTING TUCSON Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. Lisa Hopper, founder and CEO of World Care, discusses how her Tucson-based organization is able to make a difference nationally and internationally through recycling, at a luncheon from 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, April 1; $30, $25 with an RSVP by Thursday, March 28. Call 323-3100 to RSVP.
OUT OF TOWN 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 effectively, at 6:16 p.m., the first and third Monday of every month; free. Call 314-8008. WRITERS’ 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 participants’ 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.
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Sunday 4/21 Kumbia King Allstarz
Sunday 4/21 MC Magic
Wednesday 4/24 Tesla
Thursday 4/25 TYGA
MENTAL HEALTH AWARD GOES TO RON BARBER Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. 770-3762. The Schoor Family Award for Distinguished Contribution in Furthering Public Understanding of Mental Health is presented to Congressman Ron Barber at a reception from 3 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 4; free. Presentations about recent developments in mental heath issues follow, with a Q&A. Reservations are requested. Call 626-1392, or visit schorrfamilyaward. eventbrite.com for reservations and more information. NETWORKING FOR NONPROFITS Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Bring business cards, brochures and promotional material to share with other professionals from nonprofit organizations, from 9:30 to 10 a.m., Saturday, April 6; free, but registration is required. Call 791-4010 to register and for more information.
Friday 4/26 Hollywood Undead
Saturday 4/27 Easton Corbin
Sunday 4/28 Larry Hernandez
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SALSA, SANGRIA AND SUNSET Congregation Anshei Israel. 5550 E. Fifth St. 7455550. All are invited to sample salsas and drink Sangria at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 6; $18. TELLING TALES MEMOIR WRITING Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center. 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road. 887-9786. Guided practice is available to anyone interested in writing a memoir to share with family and friends, from 1 to 3 p.m., Friday, April 5 and 12; free. Call to register. TUCSON NEDA WALK Reid Park. Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way. A walk to support the National Eating Disorder Association takes place from 8:30 to 11 a.m., Sunday, April 7; $25. Email mandyshoe@gmail.com, or visit nedawalks.org/ tucson2013 to register and for more information.
FARMERS’ MARKETS MONDAY Farmers’ Markets at La Posada Green Valley: 665 S. Park Centre Ave., Green Valley, is 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday (603-8116). TUESDAY Community Food Bank: 3003 S. Country Club Road, 8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday (622-0525). Marana Farmers’ Market: 13395 N. Marana Main Street, Marana, 3 to 6 p.m., Tuesday (882-3313). WEDNESDAY Alan Ward Downtown Mercado: south lawn of the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, October through May; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, June through September (339-4008). Green Valley Village Farmers’ Market: 101 S. La CaĂąada Drive, Green Valley, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday (4903315). THURSDAY Farmers’ Market at Voyager RV Resort: 8701 S. Kolb Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday (603-8116). Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market: Mercado San AgustĂn, 100 S. Avenida del Convento, 3 to 6 p.m., Thursday, in winter; 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, in spring (622-0525). San Manuel Farmers’ Market: 801 McNab Parkway, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-212-2337). Sierra Vista Farmers’ Market: corner of Carmichael Avenue and Willcox Drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday (520-678-2638). FRIDAY Corona de Tucson Farmers’ Market: 15921 S. Houghton Road, Vail, 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (870-1106). El Presidio Plaza Park Mercado: 115 N. Church Ave., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday (339-4008). Friday Farmers’ Market at Broadway Village: 2926 E. Broadway Blvd., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday (603-8116). Heirloom Farmers’ Market at Jesse Owens Park: Jesse Owens Park, 400 S. Sarnoff Drive, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Friday (918-9811). SATURDAY Arivaca Farmers’ Market: 16800 Arivaca Road, Arivaca, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday. Bear Canyon Open Air Market: northwest corner of Tanque Verde Road and the Catalina Highway, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (982-2645). Bisbee Farmers’ Market: Vista Park in the Warren section, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-227-5060). Downtown Mercado at Maynard’s: 400 E. Toole Ave., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (339-4008). El Pueblo Farmers’ Market: El Pueblo Neighborhood Center parking lot, SW corner of Irvington Road and Sixth Avenue, 8 to 11 a.m., Saturday (882-3304). Heirloom Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (882-2157). Loft Cinema Farmers’ Market: 3233 E. Speedway Blvd., 8 to 11 a.m., every Saturday (322-5638). Metal Arts Village Saturday Morning Market: 3230 N. Dodge Blvd., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (326-5657). Oracle Farmers’ Market: 2805 N. Triangle L Ranch Road, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday (896-2123). Oro Valley Farmers’ Market: Town Hall at the corner of La CaĂąada Drive and Naranja Road, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (882-2157). Plaza Palomino: 2970 N. Swan Road, winter: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (plazapalomino.com). Rincon Valley Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market: 12500 E. Old Spanish Trail, winter: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; summer: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (591-2276). St. David Farmers’ Market: St. David High School, 70 E. Patton St., St. David, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May through October (520-221-1074). St. Philip’s Plaza Saturday Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (603-8116). San Manuel Farmers’ Market: 801 McNab Parkway, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-212-2337). Sierra Vista Farmers’ Market: corner of Charleston Road and Highway 90 bypass, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday (520-678-2638). Sunsites Farmers’ Market: Shadow Mountain Golf Course, 1105 Irene St., Sunsites, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday (520-8261250). Tucson’s Green Art and Farmers’ Market: 8995 E. Tanque Verde Road, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday (9822645). SUNDAY Douglas Farmers’ Market: Raul Castro Park, between D and E avenues, downtown Douglas, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday (520-805-5938 or 520-805-0086). Elgin Farmers’ Market: Kief-Joshua Vineyards, 370 Elgin Road, Elgin, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May through October (520-455-5582). Heirloom Farmers’ Market: St. Philip’s Plaza, southeast corner of River Road and Campbell Avenue, winter: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; summer: 8 a.m. to noon, Sunday (882-2157).
BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK FEDERAL IMMIGRATION FORUM Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. Senator Jeff Flake hosts a discussion and open forum on Federal Immigration Reform at a luncheon
from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday, April 1; $60, $45 for members. The event is hosted by the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. 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, Thursday, March 28; free. No appointment is needed; sessions are limited to 30 minutes. Call 791-4010 for more information.
OUT OF TOWN EFFECTIVE ONLINE JOB SEARCH Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 594-5580. A computer instructor is available to answer questions about job-search topics in reserved, half-hour sessions, from 9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, March 28; free. Call for an appointment.
ANNOUNCEMENTS TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM YWCA Frances McClelland Leadership Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave. 884-7810. Get free tax preparation help, free electronic filing and asset development assistance from IRS-certified tax preparers from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., on Tuesday and Thursday, through Thursday, April 11. Bring driver’s license or picture ID, social security card or tax ID for each family member, income information (W-2s, Social Security statements, unemployment info, etc.), deductible expenses, other tax info, prior year tax return if possible, account and routing numbers for direct deposit. Call 884-7810, ext. 113 for more information.
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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 30; free. Email volunteers@filmfestivalarizona. com, or visit filmfestivalarizona.com for an application and more info. FILM SERIES: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY Integrated Learning Center, Room 120. 1500 E. University Blvd. 621-7788. A Serious Man is screened from 3:30 to 6 p.m., Thursday, March 28; free. The film illustrates the linguistic, psychological and social aspects of meaning. Visit web.sbs.arizona.edu. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Jeff Bridges stars in Crazy Heart, the story of a country singer on the skids, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 28; and The Big Lebowski, featuring John Goodman, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 30; $5 to $7. Visit foxtheatre.org for more information. LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Play Again, a documentary about six teenage gamers, screens at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 28; free. Refreshments, a Q&A with producer Meg Merrill and a discussion about how to “unplug� Tucson kids follow until 8 p.m.. A performance of Great Expectations filmed live at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End, screens in HD at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 28; $15, $10 for members. Raymond Depardon’s self-portrait Journal de France is screened at noon, Saturday, March 30; $8, $6 Loft member. Visit loftcinema.com for tickets and a complete list of other films and showtimes. THE ‘TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET’ SING-ALONG Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. R. Kelly’s “hip-hopera,� Trapped in the Closet, a series of video shorts with all dialog sung, is screened at 9 p.m., Friday, March 29; $8, $6 for Loft Members. Visit loftcinema.com for reservations and more information.
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EVENTS THIS WEEK CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Screening Room. 127 E. Congress St. 882-0204. Volunteers are needed for event-planning, ticket-taking,
NOW SHOWING AT YOUR LIBRARY: THE ISLAND PRESIDENT Himmel Park Branch Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 5945305. The Island President, a PBS Independent Lens
Documentary about President Mohamed Nasheed’s fight to keep the Maldives above water, screens from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, April 8; free.
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GARDENING EVENTS THIS WEEK 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. 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. GROWDOWN! GARDEN DESIGN COMPETITION Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Competition gardens remain on display through Thursday, May 30. START-YOUR-GARDEN MONTH Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market. 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 882-3304. March 28: A representative of Arbico Organics releases lady bugs and demonstrates beneficial insects. The Santa Cruz River Farmers’ 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. 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
TUCSON AQUAPONICS PROJECT UA Controlled Environment Agriculture Center. 1951 E. Roger Road. 621-3246. An introduction to aquaponics takes place from 6:30 to 7 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month; free. Networking follows until 7:30 p.m.; and a program and meeting follow until 9 p.m.
HEALTH EVENTS THIS WEEK EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CANCER PATIENTS Arizona Cancer Center. 1515 N. Campbell Ave. 6262667. Cancer patients, families and staff meet at noon the first Wednesday of every month in room 2920. A light lunch is provided. On April 3, Staci Leipsic discusses advance care planning. RSVP is requested by Saturday, March 30; call 694-4786.
UPCOMING ST. MARK’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HEALTH FAIR E.C. Nash Elementary. 515 W. Kelso St. 696-6440. 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 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 6; free. Email kurita@pharmacy.arizona. edu for more information.
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month; free. Participants may attend as often or as seldom as they like. Call 790-0504 or 891-3299 for more information. FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS Radiant Research. 7840 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 140. 885-6793. Free screenings for cholesterol, blood sugar, gout and BMI are offered from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m., every Wednesday. Call to schedule a screening. GAY/LESBIAN AA MEETINGS Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151. Groups for both men and women are Pink Triangle, which meets at noon, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday; and Odds and Ends Group, which meets at 7 p.m., Tuesday, and 8 p.m., Thursday. A lesbian-only Pink Triangle group meets at 7 p.m., every Friday. Visit aatucson.org for more information. GROCERY TOUR AND HEALTHY-RECIPE SWAP Quality Strength Fitness Studio. 3870 W. River Road, No. 108. 891-9488. Fitness professionals provide recipes and shopping tips, then guide a tour through a nearby supermarket to illustrate ways to eat well on a budget, at 11 a.m., every Wednesday. HIV TESTING The Centers for Disease Control recommend HIV testing for all people ages 13 through 64. Visit napwa.org for more information on AIDS testing and its benefits. Testing hours at SAAF, 375 S. Euclid Ave., are from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Monday and Wednesday; and 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Walk-in testing is also available at COPE, 101 S. Stone Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. All testing is confidential; results are available in about 15 minutes; and counseling is available. Call for an appointment and more information. LAUGHTER YOGHA CLUB Men, women and children laugh for well-being from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., every Sunday, at Ancient Ways, 3340 N. Country Club Road; freewill donation. Call Gita at 777-7544, or visit laughteryogawithgita.com for more information. PCAP: AFFORDABLE MEDICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PIMA COUNTY RESIDENTS A representative from the Pima Community Access Program, a service that links uninsured Pima County residents with an affordable and comprehensive network of health-care providers, is available by appointment to enroll members of the community and give a free assessment. Call 309-2923, or email cynthia@mypcap. org for information or an appointment.
KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK ALL TOGETHER THEATRE Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. A musical adaptation of The Brave Little Tailor continues at 1 p.m., every Sunday through May 12; $7 to $10, discounts for cash. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more info. ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL ART INVITATIONAL Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of student work selected by art and photography teachers from Pima County High Schools continues through Saturday, March 30. 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. CHARTER AND PRIVATE SCHOOL FAIR Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Representatives of charter and private schools from throughout Tucson answer questions about curricula and areas of excellence, from noon to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 30; free. EASTER AT CHILDREN’S MUSEUM TUCSON Children’s Museum Tucson. 200 S. Sixth Ave. 7929985. Kids make crowns, jelly-bean bead bracelets, wreaths and clothes-pin bunnies from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, March 30; $8, $6 for children 8 to 18. Call for more information. EGGSTRAVAGANZA International Wildlife Museum. 4800 W. Gates Pass Road. 629-0100. An Easter egg hunt, crafts and games are featured from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 30; $8, $6 senior or military, $3 child 4 through 12, free younger child, includes admission to the museum. Visit thewildlifemuseum.org for more information.
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MOCA NEXT/PLAYTIME MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Families explore ways to make art inspired by Peter Young’s paintings, and adults learn about art and art history, in Adventures in Abstraction, at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 30; $8, free for members and youth younger than 17. ORIGAMI FESTIVAL Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson. 2130 N. Alvernon Way 445-2957. Over-size and larger cranes, koi, roses, butterflies and other paper sculpture are found throughout the gardens from Saturday, March 30 through Sunday, April 14. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Daily; $9, $7 senior, $6 student or military, $5 ages 3 through 15. Visit tucsonjapanesegardens.org for more info. 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. SPRING-A-MAJIG Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Families enjoy crafts, stories, egg hunting and a special appearance by “Esther Bunny” from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 30; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 students, seniors or military, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.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 EASTER EGG HUNT Avalon Organic Gardens. 2074 Pendleton Drive. Tumacácori-Carmen. 603-9932. Easter egg hunts, refreshments, hayrides, music and dance are featured at 11 a.m., Sunday, March 31; $7, $5 teen, $3 child 11 or younger. Visit avalongardens.org/events for more information. ‘MAKE’ YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL Central School Project. 43 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 255-3008. Youth ages 3 to 18 roam art stations, art installations and hands-on creative activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 30; free. Local artists and organizations help make mailable art postcards, clay finger-puppets, collage-and-paint paper birds, silkscreened T-shirts, T-shirt tote bags and jewelry, among other things. Stories That Soar performs plays based on stories by Bisbee Children. Email melissa@ centralschoolproject.org for more information.
UPCOMING FAMILY CAMP OUT PROGRAM FOR BEGINNERS Karchner Caverns. Cochise Cochise. (520) 586-2283. Families that have little or no experience with camping learn basics of desert survival, mountain biking, hiking, fishing, astronomy, bats, archery and more on Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7, and 27 and 28; $65 for a family of four, $5 each additional family member. Pets and children age 5 and younger cannot attend this program. Families should bring bedding and personal items, but tents, sleeping mats, camp chairs, lanterns, flashlights, GPS units, water bottles, all equipment for activities, first aid kits, water, lemonade, coffee and food including two lunches, one dinner, one breakfast, daily snacks and campfire treats are included. Visit azstateparks.com/family to register and for more info. MARCH FOR CHILDREN UA Medical Center South Campus. 2800 E. Ajo Way. 874-2000. Information booths, refreshments speakers and awards are featured at the end of a march to increase awareness of child-abuse and neglect, and Pima County’s role in prevention, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Friday, April 5; free. Participants march from the medical center to Pima County Juvenile Court at 2225 E. Ajo Way. Call 740-4530, or visit marchforchildren. webs.com for more information.
ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS High school students who live in the Second Congressional District are invited to submit art for Congressional Art Competition: Artistic Discovery 2013.
A work can be no larger than 28 by 28 by 4 inches including the frame. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m., Friday, April 12. Visit barber.house.gov/servingyou/art-competition for details. GET OUTSIDE CLUB Staff and volunteers from Ironwood Tree Experience lead an urban nature walk along the Rillito River, from 4 to 5 p.m. every Thursday; free. Collecting-jars, binoculars, lizard-catching rods, plant presses, field guides and other equipment are available to participants throughout the walk. Call 319-9868, ext. 7, for more information, including the meeting place. Visit ironwoodtreeexperience.org for more information about the sponsoring organization. PFLAG TUCSON Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays meets from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month. The group provides support, education and advocacy on behalf of the LGBT community. Anyone needing help should call the hotline at 360-3795, or email pflagtuc@pflagtucson.org. Visit pflagtucson.org for resources on coping and helping. RAILROAD DAYS Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. 414 N. Toole Ave. 623-2223. Docents guide visitors through the history and mechanics of the refurbished steam locomotive No. 1673, featured in the movie Oklahoma, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., every Saturday; free. A Gadsden scale railroad is featured inside the museum. Visit tucsonhistoricdepot.org for more information. RAPTOR FREE FLIGHT Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hawks, great horned owls, ferruginous hawks, gray hawks, prairie falcons, redtailed hawks, Chihuahuan ravens and peregrine falcons fly completely untethered, often close to visitors, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., daily, through Sunday, April 14; $14.50, $5 ages 4 through 12, free younger child; includes admission. Visit desertmuseum.org for more information. READ TO A DOG Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. Kids ages 2 to 12 improve their reading skills by reading to a therapy dog from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free.
STORIES IN THE GARDEN Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Kids and their parents listen to traditional and original stories about the desert and its creatures in the Garden for Children at 10 a.m., every Tuesday; $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.
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UPCOMING TOUR 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 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., and 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 6; and Tuesday, April 9; free. Reservations are required. Call 877-6004, or email canoaranch@pima.gov for reservations and more info. TUCSON MOUNTAIN PARK BIRDING WALK Tucson Mountain Park Ironwood Picnic Area. 1548 S. Kinney Road. Join birding expert John Higgins for a guided bird walk for ages 12 and older, from 8 to 10 a.m., Saturday, April 6; free. Meet at the picnic area. Call 615-7855 for more info.
ANNOUNCEMENTS ART IN THE PARK Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. A guided tour of the 1937 adobe home on the grounds examines the changing art and cultural exhibits that feature work by local and Southwest artists. The tour takes place at 11 a.m., every Tuesday and Thursday; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 age 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. BEGINNER BIRD WALK Mason Audubon Center. 8751 N. Thornydale Road. 744-0004. The Tucson Audubon Society hosts an introduction to birdwatching for all ages with a casual, guided stroll through the saguaro-ironwood desert at 8 a.m., every Saturday; free. Call 629-0510, ext. 7011, for more information. BIRD WALKS Catalina State Park. Oracle Road, 5 miles north of Ina Road. 628-5798. A 2.5-hour guided walk along mostly flat terrain begins at the picnic-area parking-lot ramada at 8:30 a.m., every Friday and Sunday, weather permitting; $7 park entrance fee. Birders of any age or skill level are welcome. Dogs are not allowed. MASON CENTER MORNING BIRD WALKS Tucson Audubon Society Mason Center. 8751 N. Thornydale Road. 572-9881. Learn the basics of birdwatching and how to identify the backyard birds commonly seen in the Tucson area, at 8 a.m., every Saturday, through May 25. A brief presentation is followed by an easy walk on a half-mile trail. Advance registration is required; email volunteer@tucsonaudubon. org for reservations. MOUNT LEMMON SKYCENTER SKYNIGHTS PROGRAM Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. 9800 Ski Run Road. 6268122. A peek through the largest public viewing telescope in the Southwest is just part of a five-hour tour of the universe, from 5 to 10 p.m., nightly; $48 Monday through Thursday, $60 Friday through Sunday, $30 student. Reservations are required. Visit skycenter.arizona. edu for reservations. Search Facebook for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mt. Lemmon
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SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK HAMMER AND NAILS: THE GOOD FRIDAY PROJECT GracePointe Church. 5455 S. Westover Ave. 883-3281. Hammer and Nails: The Good Friday Project, a staged account of the crucifixion of Christ, is presented at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30; free. Call 294-4999 for reservations. Visit gracepointetucson.org for more information.
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PATRISSA GONZALES: RED MEDICINE UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Patrisia Gonzales, author of Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing, discusses indigenous ways of knowing and healing, at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, in the Dorothy Rubel room; free. The talk is hosted by the UA College of Humanities and the Institute for the Study of Religion and Culture.
UPCOMING NEW WARRIOR TRAINING ADVENTURE Mount Lemmon. Catalina Highway. An experiential weekend during which participants look at aspects of what is working in their lives and what is not, is open primarily to gay, bi and trans men, from 5:30 p.m., Friday, April 5, through 3 p.m., Sunday, April 7. Call 591-2828, or email tsbtucson@hotmail.com for reservations; visit mankindpride.com for more information. This organization is not affiliated with any religion.
TUCSON ROLLER DERBY TRD Wreckhouse. 1145 E. Valencia Road. 390-1454. The Copper Queens skate against the Whiskey Row-llers of Northern Arizona Roller Derby at 6 p.m., Saturday, March 30; $15, $10 advance, kids younger than 10 are admitted free with a paid adult. A post-conference game features the Tucson Derby Brats teams Aristobrats and Savage Patch Kids. Visit tucsonrollerderby.com and tucsonderbybrats.com for more information. WAKA KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. The Arizona Blister kickball season continues every Thursday through May 2; $72. A tournament and end-of-season party take place Saturday, May 11. Visit kickball.com/season/azblisterspring2013 for more information.
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SPORTS BOXER DASH 5K AND 1-MILE RUN/WALK Vail Academy and High School. 7762 E. Science Park Drive. 879-1111. A benefit run for the Vail Academy and High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boxer Run Club takes place at 8 a.m., Saturday, March 30; $25, $15 age 17 and younger. The course is suitable for runners and walkers of all skill levels. Visit taggrun.com to register or for more information.
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PERFORMING ARTS The Broadway Oz backstory favorite returns to Tucson
‘Wicked’ This Way Comes (Again) BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com ermit thought he had it bad? Poor Elphaba, born as green as a parrot to the governor of Munchkinland and his unfaithful wife, was scorned and hated, an alien being who could not help but become a grumpy outcast. But she had a big heart and a good mind and a way of interpreting the Grimmerie that made her powerful, and thus potentially useful to those like the Wizard of Oz and his press secretary Madame Morrible, who are attempting to impose immoral control—including making sure animals can’t talk—over a complacent but fearful citizenry. No, this isn’t the subject of some weird dream I need to take to my shrink, or a codeine-cough-syrup-induced hallucination. It’s part of the plot of one of the most unusual phenomenons of recent American Broadway musical theater history, the overwrought and overstuffed, wildly but wonderfully imagined Wicked. And it’s bursting the seams of the TCC Music Hall for a couple of weeks courtesy of Broadway in Tucson. The musical is based, very loosely, on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. It’s an imaginative—and hugely elaborate—backstory of what most of us know only through L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum’s story of Dorothy and Toto as they try to negotiate what amounts to a dream resulting from a knock on the noggin became MGM’s The Wizard of Oz, which in the 1960s entered our national collective consciousness as an annual television event urging us to locate and embrace our hearts, brains, and courage, and introduced us to the existence of good witches and bad witches. Maguire decided to explore what exactly made the Wicked Witch of the West wicked and created a complex geopolitical-sociological fantasy world in which Dorothy and friends were barely players. Universal’s Marc Platt thought it would make a great movie, and got Maguire to sell him the rights. But musical theater composer Stephen Schwartz—who is responsible for Godspell and Pippin, among others—thought it would work best onstage, and persuaded Maguire to transfer the rights to him. Winnie Holtzman, who helped fashion the critically acclaimed TV series My So-Called Life, starring a very young Claire Danes, was wowed by Maguire’s story and identified what would constitute the heart of a theatrical production that would of necessity be a strippeddown version of Maguire’s tale. So she and Schwartz and director Joe Mantello shaped the main storyline to be about
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Madame Morrible. the love and friendship between two young women who seem to be so wildly different that such an alliance would be highly unlikely, if not impossible. Elphaba (Dee Roscioli)—sturdy, socially awkward, and strong enough to ride out what the cyclonic force field of fate pulls her into—finds in schoolmate Galinda (Jenn Gambatese), who becomes Glinda, the Good Witch, a shallow, sparkly, bubbly, very blond and pink opposite, one who is “tragically beautiful” to Elphaba’s “beautifully tragic.” It’s this contrast that justifies the noise and spectacle of Mantello’s production and makes it all pretty appealing. And spectacle there is. From the dragon flying, in a stationary sort of way, right at the heads of the audience to the gigantic grinding gears of a clock that anchors the story visually to the dozens of seamlessly shifting settings, Eugene Lee’s set design is a marvel, as is Kenneth Posner’s lighting. Then there are Tom Watson’s wigs and hair and Susan Hilferty’s costumes (more than 200 of them) so fanciful, so odd, so clever, so downright delightful. The road show doesn’t slight the fullness of the visual and auditory experience of the Broadway original. And one really can’t help but be impressed, not only by the invention of the design elements, but also by the skill and effort it takes to bring them to us smoothly and
safely show after show. The cast here is also first-rate, including the hard-working troupe of supporting singer/ dancers. Kim Zimmer as Madame Morrible is a treat. And quite fine is Timothy Britten Parker as Professor Dillamond, a respected teacher who also happens to be a goat, threatened by the ever more fascistic bent of the political landscape. Tom McGowan, a familiar face from TV and film, gives the Wizard a satisfactory spin, and Justin Brill as Boq, the Munchkin hopelessly in love with Glinda, makes us care about how folks take advantage of him (and gives us a glimpse of how the Tin Man came to be). Curt Hansen is Fiyero, the love interest of both witches. Although physically striking, has a hard time finding both the surface and depth of this rather tricky character. But the critical characters are Glinda and Elphaba, and if they don’t click, there’s nothing much left but a stage full of stuff. However, Roscioli and Gambatese do, and there is a touching sweetness that grows both in spite of and because of their differences. Like the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion of Dorothy’s dream, they find themselves in the right place to discover and embrace their unique selves, and perhaps most important, the courage to act. The most familiar songs, like Defying
Wicked Presented by Broadway in Tucson 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 28; 8 p.m., Friday, March 29; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, March 30; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 31; 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 2, 3 and 4; 8 p.m., Friday, April 5; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, April 6; 1 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, April 7 Tucson Convention Center Music Hall 210 S. Church Ave. $53.85-$176.30 Runs two hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission 800-745-3000; www.broadwayintucson.com
Gravity, Popular and For Good worked well, but Elphaba’s No Good Deed in Act 2 was overpowered by the orchestra. And that’s too bad, because the song is such a critical turning point for Elphaba and thus the story. Wicked’s story is really more complicated than it needs to be, and has more undeveloped thematic threads than the tax code has indecipherable rules. Still, those girls have their winning ways, and if you keep your focus on them as they tumble through the outrageous, kaleidoscopic sensory overload in which they exist, I’m pretty sure you can enjoy some thoroughly wicked entertainment.
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Ave. 884-4875. Bruja, a contemporary re-imagining of Euripidesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Medea by MacArthur Foundation Fellow Luis Alfaro, opens Thursday, March 28, and continues through Sunday, April 14. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, and 2 p.m., Sunday; $10 to $24. Call 882-7406, or visit borderlandstheater.org for tickets and more information.
ARTIFACT DANCE PROJECT UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. 1737 E. University Blvd. 621-4698. I Wonder if My Name Is Alice, a collaborative production featuring dance, live music, film and live performance art, is staged at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30; and at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 31; $25, $18 student. Call 344-8984, or visit alice.brownpapertickets.com for tickets and more info.
LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. The Cemetery Club, a comedy about three widows who meet once a month, opens with a preview on Thursday, March 28, and continues through Saturday, April 27. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday preview, Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; ticket prices TBA. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets.
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RED BARN THEATRE Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Improv jams and student showcases take place at 4 p.m., every Saturday through April 27; cash only, $5, $2, student with ID.
OPENING THIS WEEK BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE COMPANY Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 8820555. Almost Maine, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;midwinter nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream,â&#x20AC;? opens Friday, March 29, and continues through Sunday, April 14. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2:30 p.m., Sunday. Visit beowulfalley.org for tickets. BORDERLANDS THEATER Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott
SUE ELLEN LISS: FINDING THE LOST SPARK Solar Culture. 31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874. Expressive arts therapist Sue Ellen Liss presents her one-woman show, Finding the Lost Spark at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 31; $5. TUCSON IMPROV MOVEMENT Red Barn Theatre. 948 N. Main Ave. 622-6973. Scenes are created on the spot from audience suggestions at 4 p.m., every Saturday through April 27; $5. Visit redbarn-theater.angelfire.com for more information.
CONTINUING BROADWAY IN TUCSON Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Wicked continues through Sunday, April 7; $49 to $106. Showtimes vary. Visit broadwayintucson.com. COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. Henry Becqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s domestic comedy Woman of Paris continues through Sunday, April 28. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 seniors and students.
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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 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.
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VISUAL ARTS Muralist Joe Pagac paints Alice’s Wonderland in living color in ADP dance concert
Fresh Paint oe Pagac will use a paint and brush to usher Alice into Wonderland in this weekend’s multimedia dance concert I Wonder If My Name Is Alice. The concert “starts out with a black-andwhite set,” explains Pagac, well known around town for his outdoor murals on the Rialto Theatre and at Bookmans. “Then as Alice goes into Wonderland I start painting in colors.” Appearing live onstage at UA’s Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, Pagac will first paint a rabbit hole that a grown-up Alice—danced by Claire Hancock—will use to escape her dreary life. Once in Wonderland, after Pagac has painted the Mad Hatter or Tweedledum or Tweedledee on a piece of scenery, the real-life dancers of Artifact Dance Project will emerge in living color. “They come to life,” Pagac says. The artist has done plenty of live painting before for an audience—including at the John Hodgman comedy show at the Rialto a year ago—and “when I do murals on the street, people watch.” But this is the first time he’s wielded his brush in a ballet. “I’ve never looked at ballet at all or watched it,” he confesses. “But what the dancers are doing is tremendously impressive.” After being in rehearsal with the troupe over the last weeks, he’s in awe not only of the dancers’ leaps and turns, but also of their endurance. In a concert lasting two hours, Hancock dances nearly nonstop. “She’s onstage the whole time,” he notes. “This is going to be a really great show.” Hancock’s Alice is an unhappy young woman who works as a waitress in a dreary black-and-white diner. Among the diner denizens she has to contend with are her boss, the maître d’ and a pair of annoying customers—a couple who later metamorphose into Tweedledee and Tweedledum. “There’s a sadness to it,” says Hancock, coartistic director and co-founder of Artifact Dance Project. “She’s daydreaming. She wants to escape”—back to the magical Wonderland she remembers from her favorite childhood book. Pagac plays a painter who uses his own magic to get her there. “He’s a mystery character,” Hancock explains. As a kind of stand-in for Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “Joe’s character is godlike; he freezes time. He’s onstage throughout Act 2, moving things around. He’s a power and a force.” Like all of the projects undertaken by Artifact Dance Project, I Wonder If My Name
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Is Alice is a cornucopia of artistic collaborations. Wet paint is a brand-new medium for the troupe, but Alice has the company’s usual mix of dance, film and live music. Ashley Bowman, Hancock’s fellow co-artistic director and co-founder of ADP, conceived the work and choreographed all the dances. (“This is her baby,” Hancock says, “her brainchild.”) She doesn’t dance in the show, leaving that task to Hancock and the eight other dancers. “It’s a full-length ballet,” Hancock says, and despite the Act 1 switch to modern-day reality, “it reads like a fairy-tale ballet. But the movement is contemporary ballet. There’s no pointe work.” The troupe is committed to performing a literary work each year. Past projects resuscitated tales by Edgar Allan Poe and the Brothers Grimm. Last summer, on ADP’s second whirlwind tour of China, the two artistic directors started considering a subject for this season’s literary concert. “We were in China on a train talking,” Hancock says. The women discovered that they both remembered Alice fondly not only from the 1865 novel, but from the various movie and TV adaptations. “Ashley and I both grew up with the story, and we almost immediately decided on Alice for the show.” ADP has live music at every concert, no exceptions, and Benjamin Nisbet, a Tucson Symphony Orchestra violinist and Bowman’s husband, serves as company musical director. For Alice, Nisbet leads his Kingfisher String Quartet and guest pianist Alexander Tentser through a program of Ravel, Prokofiev, Mozart, Liszt, Debussy and Bach. The five musicians will also play “The Gate,” a brand-new piece by composer Robert McClure that balances strings and electronics. The brilliantly colored costumes—matching the ratcheted-up tones in Pagac’s paintings — were designed and crafted by Bowman and her mother, Charlene Hock. The dancers turn from restaurant workers and patrons in Act 1 to the half-mad Wonderland characters of Act 2, dressing in fantastical costumes to conjure the White Rabbit (Nolan Kubota), the Cheshire Cat (Shelly Steirgarwald), the Caterpillar (Angie LinHannum), the Mad Hatter (Cory Gram) and the Queen of Hearts (Jeff Bacigulapo). Only Alice stays staid, wearing the familiar blue dress and white pinafore. Sara Blanchard, a young student of Bowman’s at Tucson Dance Academy, briefly portrays Alice as a young girl. As the principal Alice, Hancock gets “to do a lot of acting and dancing. It’s fulfilling for me as a performer,” she says. Painter Pagac wears, not surprisingly, a stan-
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Claire Hancock and Sara Blanchard. dard commercial painter’s white jumpsuit. He says he’s never before played a character while slinging his paints onstage. “I did some theater in high school,” he says with a smile, “but I’m comfortable onstage if I’m prepared. Pagac has been painting for pay since he graduated from the UA in 2004. “To make it as an artist, I did anything I could as long as I was painting for a living.” After spending five years doing murals in private homes, he branched out into his personal paintings and public murals and arts performances, the work, he says, that’s “in my heart.” In rehearsals for Alice, he learned that he has to paint faster than he ever has before, in synchrony with the dances and music. He’ll start to paint “at 2 1/2 minutes into a dance, and have it done by the end, maybe 4 1/2 minutes.” He uses acrylic house paints, which wash easily and dry readily. But after each rehearsal—and after every show—he has to cover up the painted images with white paint, transforming the set back to a blank canvas ready for the next performance. The paint, of course,
I Wonder If My Name Is Alice Dance concert by Artifact Dance Project; live painting by Joe Pagac; live music by the Kingfisher String Quartet and pianist Alexander Tenster) 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30; 2 p.m., Sunday, March 31 Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, on the UA campus $25 general; $18 students Tickets at alice.brownpapertickets.com. For discount code, email Ashley@ artifactdanceproject.com
has to dry before the dancers return to the stage, and he’s found that the local climate is on his side in this effort. “The good thing is, Tucson is extremely dry,” he says. Pagac made some of the set himself, trying “to build it in such a way that the paint is tucked in” – and not liable to spill onto Stevie Eller’s floor or stain any costumes or dancers. “My goal,” he says deadpan, “is not to get any paint on anyone.”
OPENING THIS WEEK
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.
AGUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Cacti and Critters, paintings by Pam Davidson, and Desert Wonders, paintings by Kay Mitman, open Thursday, March 28, and continue through Thursday, April 25. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Call 615-7855.
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.
JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Exhibits of paintings by Maria Thomas, works made with paper by Sonoran collective PaperWorks, fiber works by the Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild, and The Other White Cube Project, featuring refrigerators as curated space, open Monday, April 1, and continue through Tuesday, April 30. Library 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 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov.
PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Windows, an exhibit of photography of the natural world by Vicky Stromee, continues through Friday, April 26. An artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 for more information.
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LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. The Annual Student Juried Exhibition opens Monday, April 1, and runs through Friday, May 3. A reception from noon to 3 p.m., Wednesday, April 17, includes a visual-arts awards ceremony at 1 p.m., the same day. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday; and prior to most evening performances in the Center for the Arts; free. Visit pima.edu/cfa for more information. TOHONO CHUL EXHIBIT HALL Tohono Chul Exhibit Hall. Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Artworks in Glass opens Friday, March 29, and continues through Sunday, June 23. 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. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art in the Park,â&#x20AC;? an in-depth and behindthe-scenes look at the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changing art and cultural exhibits, takes place at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, through Thursday, May 23. 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 info.
CONTINUING BROOKLYN PIZZA COMPANY Brooklyn Pizza Company. 534 N. Fourth Ave. 6226868. A display of 15 Jim Hlavac maze art paintings in the manner of pop-art continues through Friday, April 5. Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., daily. DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN LITTLE GALLERY DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Little Gallery. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. An exhibit of Joanna Pregonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fine art prints, sketches and oil paintings on canvas, continues through Friday, April 5. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. DESERT ARTISANSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; GALLERY Desert Artisansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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. 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. 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., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information. 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.
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 CĂŠsar E. ChĂĄvez, continues through Wednesday, April 10. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, and by appointment.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Doors open at 6:45pm - Seating is limited $8 Suggested donation ZUZI! Theater at The Historic Y 738 N. Fifth Avenue, Tucson Parking and directions: www.thehistoricy.com/images/parking-map.pdf
SCULPTORSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MONTHLY MONDAY MEETUP Metal Arts Village. 3230 N. Dodge Blvd. 326-5657. Sculptors meet to welcome new colleagues, share ideas and discuss new techniques, at 10 a.m., the first Monday of every month. Call 795-9792 for information.
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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.
Prescott College Faculty & Arizona Wilderness Coalition Board Member Doug Hulmes engages mind, body, & spirit in this theatrical performance as he presents an environmental perspective of the West through the eyes and words of John Muir.
TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT GALLERIES Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. Exhibits of abstract paintings by local artists are featured throughout the airport galleries 24 hours daily; free. Lower gallery: Longhorns and Landscapes by JoAnne Hungate, through Tuesday, April 30. Center Gallery: Rhapsody in Hue, by Eileen Dudley and Kathryn Gastelum, through Friday, May 31. Upper Link Gallery: The Essence of Field by Dlyn Fairfax Parra, through Sunday, June 30. TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303. 624-0595. Featured 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, continue 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 info. 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., 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.
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CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. 3-Sum in 2-Son, an exhibit of paintings by E.M. and Neda Contreras and Gary Aagaard, closes Saturday, March 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. The Journey Continues, an exhibit of three artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work representing how art is made, closes Friday, March 29. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. THE IMAGE COLLECTOR GALLERY The Image Collector Gallery. 417 N. Fourth Ave. 9770267. Photos of bicycles from around the world are featured for sale along with Steven Derksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bicycle sculptures and works by BICAS artists through Sunday, March 31. Hours are 7 to 10 p.m., daily; free admission. JANE HAMILTON FINE ART Jane Hamilton Fine Art. 2890 E. Skyline Drive, No. 180. 529-4886. Simply Southwest, an exhibit featuring new works by Santos Barbosa, Joby Lamplot, Tom Murray and Francisco Rodriquez, closes Monday, April 1. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday; free. 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, closes 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, closes 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. SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD GALLERY Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery. 5605 E. River Road, Suite 131. March ART Madness, closes
TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Creatures of Light and Darkness, an exhibit of Kate Breakeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photographs, closes 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. WOMANKRAFT WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Scenes From the Trails We Travel closes Saturday, March 30. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free.
OUT OF TOWN TOSCANA STUDIO AND GALLERY Toscana Studio and Gallery. 9040 N. Oracle Road. Oro Valley. 575-1445. Romancing Art and Figurative Show, an exhibit of paintings by Grace Calterone, closes Saturday, March 30. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. 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. The exhibit Art of the West, works in pastels and colored pencils by Virginia Carroll and Becky Neideffer, opens Tuesday, April 2, and runs through Tuesday, April 30. 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.
ANNOUNCEMENTS 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.
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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 may indicate the existence of a first-century Roman settlement in Tucson, continues through the summer. 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 museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection of Southwest American Indian basketry, which is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 for info. 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, closes 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. 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. 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 Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work from the 1960s to the present closes Sunday, March 31. An artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 public-safety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more info.
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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 for more information.
LITERATURE EVENTS THIS WEEK ALL-NIGHT READING OF DANTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;INFERNOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Parishioners, poets, translators, scholars and guests participate in a reading of selected cantos from Danteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inferno, beginning at 9 p.m., Thursday, March 28, and continuing in 30-minute segments until 10 a.m., Friday, March 29. Call 2996421, or e-mail greg.foraker@stphilipstucson.org. BOOK SIGNING WITH R. L. CLAYTON Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. R.L. Clayton signs copies of his book Sea Species from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Saturday, March 30; free. GABRIELLE SYKES-CASAVANT: EARLY BOOKS LECTURE SERIES University of Arizona Main Library. 1510 E. University Blvd. 621-6441. Gabrielle Sykes-Casavant presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden Boughs: Deluxe Early Virgil Manuscripts,â&#x20AC;? from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, at Special Collections; free. JOHANNA SKIBSRUD AND JAMIE QUATRO Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Johanna Skibsrud reads from her short story collection, This Will Be Difficult to Explain, and Jamie Quatro reads from her short story collection, I Want to Show You More, at 7 p.m., Friday, March 29; free. NATHANIEL MACKEY UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Nathaniel Mackey and Marilyn Crispell present poetry with improvised music, at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 28, at the PCC Center for the Arts, 2202 W. Anklam Road; $15, $8 for students. Visit poetry.arizona.edu, and humanities.arizona.edu for more information. STJUKSHON: AN INDIGENOUS READING SERIES Casa Libre en la Solana. 228 N. Fourth Ave. 325-9145. Simon J. Ortiz, Bojan Louis and Tygel Pinto read from their work at 7 p.m., Friday, March 29; $5 suggested donation. Visit casalibre.org for more information. 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, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Emma Lazarus and Sholom Asch, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., every Tuesday through April 16; 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.
ANNOUNCEMENTS ABBETT MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. Discover and talk about new authors in a friendly atmosphere at 2 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month; free. I LOVE BOOKS GROUP TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Books with aging as a central theme are discussed from 2 to 4 p.m., the fourth Thursday of every month; free. March 28: The Devil in the White City: The Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson. NONFICTION BOOK CLUB: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. A book club focusing on nonfiction meets at 1:30 p.m., the first Monday of every month; free.
LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE TUCSON PRESIDIO Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. J. Homer Thiel, project director with Desert Archaeology, Inc., discusses the archaeology of the Tucson presidio, from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, March 28; free, including parking for the first hour. Call 8824405, or email info@santacruzheritage.org.
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BOOKS The disruption and destruction created by the border wall is shown in photos and words
Tear Down This Wall BY JON M. SHUMAKER, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com here’s an old reporter’s rule that says “Follow the money.” While photographer and writer Krista Schlyer may have avoided that particular aspect of homeland security and who benefits from the billions spent on the militarization of the Southwest border, the rest of her powerful new book is right on the money. Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall is a strange and wondrous book. It relates, in colorful photos and breathless prose, the story of the U. S.-Mexico border in the dawn of the new American Century of Fear. In many ways an ugly story about what we’ve become, it’s also a love story about one of the world’s loveliest places. It is about our home. It is ironic that one of the countries that clamored loudest for the removal of the Berlin Wall has now embarked on a massive wallbuilding project of its own. We have stabbed a massive steel structure “through the heart of one of the continent’s richest and rarest ecological and cultural regions.” We have created a police state in the region along our southern border. We have become the bad guys, bypassing our own laws, seizing private property, decimating our natural and human environment, flagrantly violating human rights, creating policies that have directly led to the horrific deaths of thousands of poor people (and untold numbers of our precious animals and plants), and turning a blind eye to the creation of violent criminal organizations. Schlyer shows that the wall is ultimately a failure—it doesn’t do what it was designed for, yet the disruptions to land, culture and ecosystems are monstrous. At our peril, we thumb our noses at history and its lessons and proudly wear our ignorance on our sleeves. The border wall is an embarrassment, an abomination, an insult to all true Americans. The wall is a catastrophe—if we fail to acknowledge this, we are lying to ourselves. This book clearly explains why. But Schlyer’s argument is carefully entwined within the complex natural and human history of this region, where two vastly different nations slam up against each other in what formerly was an invisible line on a map or, at most, a few rusty strands of barbed wire. Nature, as is always the case in classical economics, is completely ignored and bears the brunt of our latest folly.
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The book’s gorgeous photos range from wildlife to human portraits and from art shots to landscape photos. There is a single illustration of the somewhat bizarre, even grotesque, 1872 painting by John Gast called “American Progress.” It features a blond goddess floating magically through the air at the forefront of Manifest Destiny, her diaphanous white gown held up on her left side by a single protruding nipple (we may slaughter Injuns, Meskins, and buff ’lo, but by Gawd we’re modest!). If there’s any weakness in the book, it’s a failure to clearly offer and discuss specific solutions. However, that should not detract from its value as an overview of why this whole border thing is a big deal and important for all of us. If I wanted my dear old mother in Indiana to understand what’s going on along the border, I’d send her this book. Continental Divide should make you angry. Furious even. It is about tyranny. The U. S. government has lost control, not of its border, but of itself. The environmental and social destruction being done in the name of homeland security is appalling and ignores real solutions. It shows America at her worst and most jingoistic. The emperor state has seldom been more naked than it is here, portrayed in this cleareyed, honest book. In many places I was deeply struck by the simple beauty and grace of Schlyer’s prose. She ends with a thoughtful reframing of “the border question”: The question is not: How do we keep people out of the United States who are poor and desperately need work? But rather: How do we best share a border with a country whose economic realities are different from our own, and how do we protect the natural world that connects us and is precious to both nations? Krista Schlyer has thrown down a challenge to all of us—surely we can do better as Americans than to hide behind a giant steel wall like frightened children.
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CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. Lola Álvarez Bravo: Rethinking the Archive opens with a curators’ talk at 5:30 p.m., Friday, March 29, and continues through Sunday, June 23. Visit centerforcreativephotography.org for more information.
TOP TEN Mostly Books’ best-sellers for the week ending March 22, 2013 1. The Cats of Tanglewood Forest Charles deLint ($17.99) 2. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss ($8.99)
DESERT GRASSLANDS Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Talks are presented in conjunction with the TMA’s exhibition Desert Grasslands, which continues through Sunday, July 7. 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 information. DISTINGUISHED INDIGENOUS SCHOLAR SERIES Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. Scholars present lectures and readings reflecting aspects of indiginous culture on selected Thursdays. March 28: Suzan Harjo, poet, writer, policy advocate and activist. Lectures are free; donations are welcome. Visit ais.arizona.edu for details. FENTON JOHNSON: MARRIAGE: A GRAND ILLUSION? McClelland Park Building. 650 N. Park Ave. 621-4979. Associate professor Fenton Johnson, author of a controversial 1996 Harper’s Magazine cover story on the future of same-gender marriage, from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, March 28; free.
3. Outlander: A Novel Diana Gabaldon ($35) 4. The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater ($18.99)
HOHOKAM CONNECTIONS PROJECT Udall Park. 7200 E. Tanque Verde Road. A panel discussion by professional archaeologists about Hohokam ruins, including those thin Udall Park, is followed by a Q&A session from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 30; free.
5. Just One Day Gayle Forman ($17.99)
JERRY GILL: KNOWING IS AS KNOWING DOES Pima Community College District Office. 4905 E. Broadway Blvd. 206-4500. Humanities faculty member Jerry Gill presents “Knowing Is as Knowing Does,” focusing on the insights of Hungarian philosopher Michael Polany, from 6 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 2; free. Visit library.pima.edu for more information.
6. The Unwanteds Lisa McMann ($6.99) 7. Deadly Stakes: A Novel J.A. Jance ($25.99) 8. Beautiful Darkness Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl ($9.99) 9. City of Bones Cassandra Clare ($10.99) 10. Tucson Hiking Guide Betty Leavengood ($16.99) Lisa McMann
LIBRARIAN WARDROBE MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Nicole Pacowsky, creator of the blog Librarian Wardrobe, discusses internal and external perceptions of librarians, implications for the profession and society, and the evolution of “librarian style” in the information age, at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 28; $5, free for members. MOCA LOCAL GENIUS TALK MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Evolutionary biologist Anna Dornhaus discusses her groundbreaking research in animal social behavior, labor division, communication and resource allocation, at 5 p.m., Saturday, March 30; $5, free for members. A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SANTA CATALINAS Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. UA Assistant professor of entomology Wendy Moore and invertebrate zoologist Richard Brusca give an illustrated talk about the history of geology and biotic life of the Santa Catalina Mountain range, and suggest stops for a self-guided tour, at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 30; $8, free for members, includes admission to the park. ROBERT A. BURNS LECTURE: EXTRATERRESTRIALS: THREAT OR MYSTERY FOR CHRISTIAN FAITH? UA Student Union. 1303 E. University Blvd. 6217755. Father Thomas F. O’Meara, a Dominican priest and Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame, discusses the question, “Should intelligent life someday be discovered somewhere in space, how will the news be interpreted by modern theologians?,” at 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 3, in the Kiva Room; free. UA PRIDE ALLIANCE DISCUSSION SERIES UA Student Union. 1303 E. University Blvd. 6217755. 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. April 3: “Bisexuality and Pansexuality.”
OUT OF TOWN SUNI AND SHI’I CONFLICT IN THE MUSLIM WORLD Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 594-5580. Scott Lucas, director and associate professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the UA, discusses the religious conflict in the region, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Thursday, March 28; free.
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TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending March 24, 2013
BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com tip of the hat to the animators and digital artists who make The Croods more than just a family-friendly cartoon. New animated flicks often tack on 3-D because it guarantees a comfortable profit, but The Croods actually benefits from the 3-D. Even Pixar hasn’t completely cracked how to make its films more engaging in 3-D than without the 30 percent markup for tickets, but Dreamworks pulls it off here with a romp through the Stone Age. Of course, the film needs some kind of hook, because there’s this thing called The Flintstones, which has more or less cornered the market on prehistoric cartoons for a while. The Croods are the last of their kind; all the other caveman families have been eaten or have run out of things to eat. But this family sticks together through cowardice. Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage) won’t let his family out after dark, won’t let them explore new places and won’t let them go anywhere alone. Hey, it’s gotten them this far … and this far is isolated in their cave, where Grug tells nightly stories about stupid bears and stupid lions who wander off never to be heard from again. Eep (Emma Stone) is sick of all the rules. She wants to see what’s beyond her very tiny world, and one night while the family sleeps (in a precisely named “sleep pile”), she ventures out on her own. Before long, Eep stumbles onto a more modern-looking boy than she’s used to. His name is Guy (Ryan Reynolds), and he can make fire and do other impressive things. Guy tells her that the world as she knows it is about to end, so she should come with him to whatever it is the future holds. Many animated films have followed a similar path to give their characters a largerthan-life journey. Finding Nemo was almost literally a fish-out-of-water story, Wall-E took the robot out of his comfort zone, and all the Toy Story and Ice Age and Madagascar movies do the same thing. So when the Croods have to leave their cave behind, it’s not a major surprise. But that doesn’t mean everyone’s happy about the trip. Grug hates every step along the way. He’s scared of everything, he’s losing his daughter to this heroic kid with all the big ideas and he’s stuck with his motherin-law (Cloris Leachman). Speaking of the mother-in-law, there’s a funny, recurring joke in The Croods in which Grug does a head count after every misadventure and is always depressed when his wife’s mother hasn’t been killed off.
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Emma Stone voices Eep in The Croods. Leachman is always good for some acidic one-liners, but she’s kind of underused here. The same goes for Catherine Keener, playing Eep’s mother. The real conflict of the film is between Grug, Eep and Guy, so most of the other characters don’t mean much. But if that’s the case, why spin the wheels of Leachman and Keener, who can deliver so much more? Perhaps the characters played a larger role earlier, before Cage swooped in and stole the movie. He’s capable of this, you know. Cage seems pretty comfortable dazzling in roles like this one or in Kick-Ass and then dipping his cup into mediocrity or worse (Ghost Riders aplenty, Drive Angry, and on and on). But when he hits, he’s like a streak shooter in basketball. There has always been some quicksilver energy to Cage, the kind that makes him find something totally unique even when he completely misses the mark. And in a sense that’s what makes him good at voice acting. He can find notes other actors can’t because he’s free in his own mind to try anything. He’s great throughout The Croods, making the film worth watching even if it didn’t have that great 3-D. The animation is not perfect, mind you. The character design is dated and it isn’t as crisp as it should be. But the backgrounds, the move-
The Croods Rated PG Voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds Directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders Dreamworks, 98 minutes Now playing at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500).
ment of the characters and the way they all come together is terrific. An unusual bit of backstory to close this out: The Croods began life 180 degrees away from rich, wondrous 3-D. Dreamworks originally envisioned it as stop-motion animation and had a deal in place with Aardman (the Wallace & Gromit gang) to make something called Crood Awakening about a decade ago. John Cleese even wrote a script for it. Cleese retains a story credit here, the only fossil evidence from the prehistoric version of this funny, eye-catching family film.
N O W P L AY I N G Film titles reflect the most current listings available as of Tuesday evening, with screenings beginning on Friday for most opening titles. As schedules at individual theaters frequently change post-press, we recommend calling ahead to avoid any inconvenience.
AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Films are Thu-Wed unless otherwise noted 21 and Over (R) ends Thu Admission (PG-13) The Call (R) The Croods (PG) The Croods 3D (PG) Escape From Planet Earth (PG) Thu-Mon G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13) G.I. Joe: Retaliation -- An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D (PG-13) The Host (PG-13) Identity Thief (R) ends Thu The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) ends Thu Olympus Has Fallen (R) Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and
Powerful 3D (PG) Safe Haven (PG-13) Silver Linings Playbook (R) ends Thu Snitch (PG-13) ends Thu Spring Breakers (R) Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (PG-13)
Powerful 3D (PG) Fri-Wed Silver Linings Playbook (R) Fri-Wed Spring Breakers (R) Fri-Wed Stoker (R) Fri-Wed Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (PG-13) Fri-Wed
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Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Admission (PG-13) Fri-Wed The Call (R) Fri-Wed Casablanca (PG) Wed The Croods (PG) Thu-Wed The Croods 3D (PG) Fri-Wed A Deeper Shade of Blue (Not Rated) Thu Escape From Planet Earth (PG) Fri-Wed G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG13) Fri-Wed G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D (PG-13) Fri-Wed The Host (PG-13) Thu-Wed Identity Thief (R) Fri-Wed The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Fri-Wed Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Fri-Wed The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini Encore (Not Rated) Wed Olympus Has Fallen (R) Thu-Wed Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Fri-Wed Oz the Great and
770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Thu titles: Django Unchained (R) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (R) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D (R) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (PG-13) Jack Reacher (PG-13) Lincoln (PG-13) Parental Guidance (PG) Rise of the Guardians (PG) Side Effects (R) Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Zero Dark Thirty (R)
Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Listening devices and closed captioning are available.Thu titles unless otherwise noted Admission (PG-13) The Call (R) Casablanca (PG) Wed
The Croods (PG) The Croods 3D (PG) Dark Skies (PG-13) A Deeper Shade of Blue (Not Rated) Escape From Planet Earth (PG) G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13) G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D (PG-13) A Good Day to Die Hard (R) The Host (PG-13) Identity Thief (R) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer (PG-13) Jack the Giant Slayer 3D (PG-13) The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini Encore (Not Rated) Wed Olympus Has Fallen (R) Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) Snitch (PG-13) Spring Breakers (R) Warm Bodies (PG-13)
Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Listening devices and closed captioning are available. Admission (PG-13) ThuWed The Call (R) Thu-Wed
Casablanca (PG) Wed The Croods (PG) Thu-Wed The Croods 3D (PG) Thu-Wed A Deeper Shade of Blue (Not Rated) Thu Emperor (PG-13) Thu G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG13) Thu-Wed G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D (PG-13) Thu-Wed The Host (PG-13) ThuWed The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) Thu-Wed The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini Encore (Not Rated) Wed Olympus Has Fallen (R) Thu-Wed Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) Thu-Wed Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (PG) ThuWed Quartet (PG-13) Thu-Wed
Side Effects (R) Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Zero Dark Thirty (R)
Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. The Big Lebowski (R) Sat Crazy Heart (R) Thu
Gallagher Theater UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG13) Thu, Sun
Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275.
Crossroads 6 Loft Grand Cinemas The Cinema 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Thu titles: Django Unchained (R) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (R) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) The Impossible (PG-13) Jack Reacher (PG-13) Lincoln (PG-13) Les Misérables (PG-13) Parental Guidance (PG) Searching for Sugar Man (PG-13)
3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Back to the Future (PG) Thu Badlands (PG) Wed Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) Thu The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (Not Rated) Mon Caesar Must Die (Not Rated) Thu The Gatekeepers (PG-13) Fri-Wed
Great Expectations Live From London’s West End (Not Rated) Sat, Wed Greedy Lying Bastards (PG-13) Fri-Wed Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Not Rated) Thu-Wed The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (Not Rated) Thu, Sat-Wed John Dies at the End (R) Thu Journal de France (Not Rated) Sat On the Road (R) Fri-Wed Play Again (Not Rated) Thu Quartet (PG-13) Fri, Fri-Wed The Sheik and I (Not Rated) Thu Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams (Not Rated) Tue They Live (R) Fri-Wed Trapped in the Closet: The R. Kelly Sing-A-Long (Not Rated) Fri Two Americans (Not Rated) Thu War Witch (Not Rated) Thu
Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. Beautiful Creatures (PG13) Thu-Wed
Django Unchained (R) Fri-Wed The Guilt Trip (PG-13) ends Thu Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (R) Fri-Wed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG13) Thu-Wed Jack Reacher (PG-13) Thu-Wed Les Misérables (PG-13) Thu-Wed Parental Guidance (PG) Thu-Wed Parker (R) Thu-Wed Rise of the Guardians (PG) Thu-Wed Skyfall (PG-13) ends Thu Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Thu-Wed Zero Dark Thirty (R) Fri-Wed
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FILM CLIPS Reviews by Colin Boyd, Casey Dewey and Bob Grimm.
NEWLY REVIEWED: ADMISSION My thoughts often take me to strange places. I’ll be thinking about what Forrest Gump would have been like with Liam Neeson in the title role one minute and making a Dan Aykroyd robot named Dan Android the next. One time I thought about Tina Fey helping a cow give birth. Imagine my surprise while watching Admission and that actually unfolds! Sadly, that’s the most exciting this meandering movie gets. Fey plays Portia Nathan, an admissions counselor at Princeton. Perennial man-child Paul Rudd runs an obnoxious alternate high school who’s pushing for a child prodigy, who may be Fey’s biological son, into Princeton’s good graces. The movie never figures out what it wants to be; it tries to settle into several genres without getting comfortable in any. Still, Fey is hard not to like, and anything with Lily Tomlin as a hardcore feminist sporting a Bella Abzug tattoo is worth something. Dewey THE GATEKEEPERS
We often hear tales about the Mossad, Israel’s version of the CIA (and the subject of Steven Spielberg’s Munich). Serving alongside the Mossad is the lowerprofile Shin Bet, which deals primarily with internal security and anti-terrorism in Israel. That story is told through gripping reminisces in The Gatekeepers, a Best Documentary nominee at the Academy Awards that begins its chronological tour with 1967’s SixDay War. What we see is not just window dressing; director Dror Moreh constantly jabs his subjects—six former heads of Shin Bet—on the agency’s critical missteps, some of them quite shameful and harmful to the cause. But what emerges when all the pieces are laid on the table is just how complex and thankless all of this work is, and the lingering question of how worse off the country and the Middle East might be without it. Boyd OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN
Gerard Butler stars in one of the more ridiculous action films you will see this year. He’s a Secret Service agent on duty the night something very bad happens to the president (Aaron Eckhart), and he
winds up with a desk job. When some nasty North Koreans hilariously infiltrate the White House and hold the president and his cabinet hostage in the bunker, it’s time for Gerard to dispense with the paper clips and pick up an automatic weapon! Yes, it’s Die Hard in the White House, or at least it wants to be. There’s some fun to be had here, but the movie has some tragic flaws, including terrible CGI and mawkish patriotic crap that distracts instead of making the heart swell (Melissa Leo screaming the Pledge of Allegiance as she is dragged to certain death comes to mind). You aren’t going to catch me calling this a good movie, but I won’t fault you for enjoying it to some degree if you choose to see it. It’s one of those “so bad it’s almost good” movies. Grimm ON THE ROAD
A cavalcade of stars shows up for this pretty, if meandering, adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s semiautobiographical novel. Sam Riley (so damn good in Control) provides a decent center as Sal (essentially Kerouac), who finds himself on a long road trip that involves hand jobs from Kristen Stewart and watching sex acts performed on Steve Buscemi (Yikes!). In short, this movie is a bit crazy, and its unpredictability keeps it interesting. Garrett Hedlund is solid as a character loosely based on Neal Cassady, and Stewart sheds her Bella image for a good, carefree performance. Others in the cast include Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst. The movie is OK, but I was looking for a little more meat on the bone considering the subject matter. Grimm
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With apologies to Barack Obama and George W. Bush, there might not be a more divisive political figure in the country than Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. There is just no middle ground where Arpaio is concerned, and the debates over his leadership and law enforcement have only intensified since the push for Senate Bill 1070 began in 2010. Arpaio had already been conducting sweeps for illegal immigrants around Phoenix before SB 1070 became law, and one family—the Figueroas—is featured in Two Americans, with their arrest and looming day in court balancing a look inside the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The star here, if that’s applicable, is 9-yearold Katherine Figueroa, who stands to lose her parents through what is ultimately a legal interpretation of state law. Her resolve is something to see. Boyd
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CINEMA Even for a movie with cocaine snorted off collegeage breasts, ‘Spring Breakers’ isn’t much fun
Disappointing Debauchery BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com f you are longing to see Vanessa Hudgens naked in a pool with James Franco doing his best impersonation of Gary Oldman in True Romance, then Spring Breakers just might be for you. If you prefer a movie with a script, a sense of direction and sans James Franco doing his best Gary Oldman-in-True Romance impersonation, stay far, far away. Personally, I hated this piece of junk with enough vitriol to fill the ocean surrounding that panhandle state where many East Coast college students go to party their faces off. It’s vapid, repetitious, unfunny and downright annoying to watch. Considering the cast assembled, and the notion of four college girls going on a crime spree so they can afford a spring break trip, I thought I was in for some fun. The film plays out as if Sofia Coppola decided to make a Girls Gone Wild video. Director Harmony Korine (who wrote the extremely hard-to-watch Kids back in the day) is shooting for some sort of dreamscape feel, replete with trance music, people talking slow, and slow, slow visuals. Given what the characters are actually doing and saying, he achieves something closer to a bad-mushroom-induced nightmare than dreamscape. Candy (Hudgens), Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are bored at college, and they’ll do anything for a break. They knock over a chicken restaurant, get some money and head to Florida, where they will wear nothing but bikinis for the remainder of the film. After a night of snorting cocaine off boobies, they are arrested and then eventually bailed out by Alien (Franco), an underground rapper with a big grill, lots of guns, and a bed covered with money. I thought that Franco’s appearance would take the movie in a fun, gangster direction. Such is not the case, because Korine’s screenplay is virtually nonexistent and his editing style requires footage and dialogue to repeat again and again. So you essentially feel stuck in place watching much of this movie. Gomez’s Faith does say she wishes one could just press a freeze button and make spring break last forever, so perhaps that’s why Korine went for his repetitive, loopy vibe. I think it’s because he didn’t have enough real material for a 90-minute movie. There are no moments in this film where it feels as if performers actually had to learn some lines. Take, for instance, a scene in which Franco is describing the contents of
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Spring Breakers Rated R Starring James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens Directed by Harmony Korine A24, 94 minutes Now playing at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-326-3264, ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500).
Alien’s room. It’s as if Korine just turns a camera on, tells Franco to ramble about the stuff in the room, and calls that a take. Yes, many films are full of improv moments, but Spring Breakers feels like one terribly long, extremely unsuccessful improv. There is one semi-inspired sequence in the film, with Alien showing off his sensitive side by singing the Britney Spears ballad “Everytime.” The moment is accompanied by footage of Alien and the girls robbing and beating spring breakers in slow motion. It’s almost funny. For every moment that is almost good, there are 10 that are not. Franco also throws together a song about one of the girls needing to return home after getting shot in the arm. You won’t be humming this one to yourself on the drive home. Korine has directed features before (Julien Donkey-Boy being one of them). He’s also directed a lot of music videos. This movie stands as his longest, most pointless music video. In the hands of a more playful director, there could’ve been a fun movie to be had with Spring Breakers. The basic plotline is ripe for some nasty, cynical satire. Too bad that idea isn’t accompanied by at least half of a decent script.
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Happy Endings Friday, March 29 (ABC) New Night: So, yeah … you should probably watch Happy Endings while you can—being banished to Fridays is rarely a sign of longevity, even if your show wasn’t replaced by Celebrity Longboarding or whatever ABC airs on Tuesdays now. You’d think the network would want to keep this cult comedy around, since they’ve launched zero new hits this season (unless you count Neighbors, which no one should) and the replacement bench ain’t deep. Upside: There will be only 50-something hilarious episodes for you to catch up on after it’s gone, at which point you’ll ask me, “Why didn’t you tell us about Happy Endings?!” Sigh.
Doctor Who Saturday, March 30 (BBC America) Spring Premiere: The Only TV Column That Matters™ doesn’t claim to know much definitively about the long-longlong-running Doctor Who, other than it’s not Dr. Who (because he was a few credits short of graduating?), he usually has a cute-but-doomed sidekick (recently Karen Gillan, but …) and Alex Kingston occasionally shows up looking absolutely mental (her best look, really). As Season 7 resumes, the Doctor (Matt Smith) picks up a new time-traveling companion (JennaLouise Coleman, adequately cute) in present-day London and plunges headlong into battle with … wi-fi monsters? I knew the cloud was evil!
Game of Thrones Sunday, March 31 (HBO) Season Premiere: Think you’re having a bad endless winter-spring? Wait till you see the opening scene of Game of Thrones’ Season 3 premiere, that’s all I’m sayin.’ George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy continues to pile on new characters without killing off old ones at a commensurate rate, but at least a massive army of Wildings are trudging south for the slaughter, and
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The Walking Dead Sunday, March 31 (AMC) Season Finale: Everybody’s gonna die! OK, just a couple of characters. And maybe a showrunner.
Mr. Selfridge Sunday, March 31 (PBS) Series Debut: After eight seasons as Ari Gold on Entourage and a handful of questionable recent film choices (including a Miley Cyrus action flick—yes, that happened), it’s easy to doubt that Jeremy Piven could pull off much else anymore. Which is why his damned-fantastic portrayal of early-1900s retail magnate Harry Selfridge is so satisfying: Ari’s killing it! On PBS! Suck it, Turtle and Drama! American Selfridge opened Selfridge’s department store in staid 1909 London, attracting women with the thenrevolutionary idea of shopping for fun rather than necessity, and by creating an “experience” (admit it: you go to Target to meditate—thank Harry). Mr. Selfridge is livelier and sexier than that other British period piece, and Piven— in every sense—sells the hell out of it. Don’t do the Entourage movie now, Jer, just don’t.
How to Live With Your Parents Wednesday, April 3 (ABC) Series Debut: The full title is How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), but by the time you finish saying it this’ll be cancelled. The setup: A single-mom divorcee (Sarah Chalke) falls on hard times and moves back in with her parents (Elizabeth Perkins and Brad Garrett). Funny cast; stale Old People and Young People Sure Are Different! execution; a waste of their and your time. I hear there’s a comedy on Friday nights you could replace this with in a second, ABC—tweet me.
When her crime-lord exhusband (Billy Bob Thornton) shoots her and takes her godson, Celeste (Eva Longoria) hires redneck goons to get the kid back. In response, Mr. Crime Lord hires stripper ninjas and other assorted assassins. Nice. (Phase 4)
The Bible The “docudrama” miniseries touted as a History Channel “original drama” that some Christians have labeled as “inaccurate” and “not danged factual.” To recap: A TV show about a fictional book featuring fabricated characters ain’t real ‘nuff. (Fox)
Hemingway & Gellhorn As for actual history: Writer Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and journalist Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) begin a torrid literary relationship spanning a decade. Sweet, but would you believe … Lars Ulrich as a communist filmmaker?! (HBO)
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Stitches A hired clown (Ross Noble) inadvertently murdered at a kids’ birthday party returns six years later, via black magic, to exact his revenge by slaughtering said kids in typically clown-like fashion. You know, if clowns killed. Which they totally do. (Dark Sky)
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BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com n his new album, singer-songwriter Stuart Oliver often is inspired by a sense of place, the natural environment and of traveling. On the country-rockin’ Sheddin’ Every Skin, he sings of locations such as South Texas, Alabama, Georgia and, of course, Southern Arizona. Sometimes he uses place as a comparative metaphor, such as on “Denver Is the Tropics,” and at other times he refers to a specific place, time and event, such as during the Revolutionary War-set “The Wagontrail Disaster.” His songs consider the acts of leaving and returning, standing on the border, living in a cage and facing “Seven Miles to Go.” “I love exploring different spots and soaking in the culture of them,” Oliver says during a recent interview. “America is probably the most fascinating country in the world, when you consider all the differences you encounter, regionally and culturally, here. I guess it’s just a folk tradition to sing about the places you are in or have been in.” Stuart Oliver and the Desert Angels – which includes most of the musicians and singers on the new album – will celebrate the release of Sheddin’ Every Skin with a gig Saturday night, March 30, at Café Passé on North Fourth Avenue. Oliver apparently has a habit for moving around. Born in Georgia, he moved with his family to England when he was a child, and then moved back to Georgia before striking out on his own. He lived in New Mexico and Hawaii before settling down in Tucson in 2005. Somewhere in there he lived for a while in Bisbee, and he still loves traveling back and forth between here and that eclectic arts enclave (a former mining town) near the Mexican border. Physical journeys obviously play a large role on Sheddin’ Every Skin, which is Oliver’s second album overall, and his first with the backing band the Desert Angels. But so do journeys of a spiritual nature. Listeners might guess – judging from the album’s title track or others such as “Jesus Has a Soft Spot (For Losers Like Me)” and “I Need to Love Myself (More Than I Hate You)” – that Oliver is intent on exploring a state of spiritual transformation and resolving emotional issues. In fact, Oliver is completing a bachelor’s degree in shamanic healing, with an emphasis on using music a vehicle for healing, at Prescott College. If it doesn’t sound like a typical higher-education experience, it’s not. The Northern Arizonabased liberal arts college allows students to cus-
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tomize degree programs to their individual interests, stressing experiential learning and self-direction within an interdisciplinary curriculum. Most of Oliver’s course work is accomplished online. “When you talk about shamanic healing, a lot of it involves using harmony and vibration as a part of the healing process,” Oliver says. “You can expand from that to meditation, and then you get to using the drum for a journey, and then we start looking at all the sides of music. It becomes a process of working within sacred ceremonies, and in my work I do a lot of research into that and into the act of being mindful of whatever form of creative expression you’re working in.” His minor also is also related to music, and pretty practical, too. It’s in expressive arts, focused on digital web design and graphic presentation. Such skills no doubt come in handy when running a record label. Oliver founded his Old Bisbee Records more than five years ago, releasing his recordings, as well as those of other artists. Oliver also has played in a variety of Tucson and Bisbee groups over the last several years. The most prominent of them include the acoustic-folk street band The Dusty Buskers, roots rockers Dylan Charles & the Border Crossers and the soul-funk-jazz combo Kate Becker & the Zodiacs, the latter led by Oliver’s partner, the singer-songwriter Becker. All of those artists have released CDs on Old Bisbee, as have Silver Tread Trio, The Awkward Moments and a number of others. He’s had to back away from performing with most of them to focus on his solo material with the Desert Angels, even as he maintains musical connections with Becker and Charles. “We all sit in with each other once in a while, but for now most of my impetus is behind this project.” However, The Dusty Buskers recently convened for a St. Patrick’s Day gig at Plush, and Oliver allows that they’ll play for special occasions. You actually don’t have to know anything of Oliver’s spiritual and educational pursuits to appreciate the lovely and meticulously arranged twangy folk-rock of Sheddin’ Every Skin. It’s a killer album nodding to 1970s-era influences such as The Eagles and Gram Parsons – born in urban honky-tonks and the haunts of space cowboys. It’s the kind of music the 34-year-old Oliver grew up hearing at home. “My mom would listen to Eagles records all the time, not necessarily the Joe Walsh stuff, but the earlier stuff,” he says. “And, growing up in England it’s easy to romanticize the States
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and the way certain musical artists capture that sense of Americana. Then came my interest in the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons, who really did the most to legitimize country within the rock world.” On Sheddin’ Every Skin, Oliver employs many talented musical friends from Bisbee, Tucson and beyond. His friendly, light-spirited tenor lead vocals often are accompanied by one of the following female voices: Becker; Oliver’s sister, Angela Taylor; Laura Kepner-Adney of Silver Thread Trio and The Cordials fame; and Danielle Panther of Bisbee’s Green Machine. The CD-release gig at Café Passé will feature guests such as Becker and Taylor, we well as Deanna Cross on viola, Mark Holdaway on kalimba, Louis Levinson on pedal steel guitar, and special guest Dan Davis, of the Determined Luddites, on mandolin. Oliver says his compositions come to him from unexplained places, but their creation almost always allow him to resolve an issue occurring in his life. “I’ve written probably the best songs of my life when I was half-asleep and couldn’t translate them. ‘Sheddin’ Every Skin,’ I believe, I wrote after waking up from an absolute nightmare. I woke up so scared and emotional I had to get it down. “Sometimes the only thing that works when facing a challenge is to write it down and make some music from it. Music is something that I feel we all need to heal ourselves.”
In the concert booking business, Tucson is what is known as a secondary market, meaning that big acts often skip us on the first leg of their tours, which is when they hit the bigger cities (aka primary markets) like Los Angeles or Phoenix. This also means that touring acts usually stop in bigger markets on prime dates (read: weekends) while Tucson and cities of its ilk generally get touring acts during the weekdays. But, for some reason, not this week. Friday, March 29, is the most jam-packed day for live shows in town this week, and that includes touring acts. Here’s a look at your Friday options. With his former band Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Mangum only released two full-length albums – On Avery Island in 1996, and 1998’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (both on Merge). The former is a great indie-folk-rock album, but the latter was considered a classic the day it was released. A fuzzy, buzzy song cycle that encompasses everything from body discovery and the fruits it bears to Anne Frank, the album was declared in 2003 by Pitchfork as the fourth best album released in the 1990s. Depending on your patience for whiny vocals and the lo-fi aesthetic, the album was either virtually unlistenable, or what the late Lester Bangs called Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks: not just an album, but a mystical document. Neutral Milk Hotel toured to support In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, making an in-store stop at the old Tempe location of Stinkweeds records its only Arizona date. And then, poof! Mangum fell out of sight for over a decade, leaving his cultish fans wondering if he’d ever come back to music. Little by little, he did, popping up unannounced at shows on an Elephant 6 (the musical collective of which NMH was a part) tour, an Occupy Wall Street Rally, etc., until he finally began booking the occasional official show of his own. He began touring regularly again last year, around the same time he issued a comprehensive NMH vinyl-only box set, and reports from the shows often included the word “transcendent.” This week, about 15 years since his last Arizona performance, Jeff Mangum performs at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., on Friday. The all-ages show begins at 8 p.m. with a set by Tall Firs. Advance tickets are $28 for general admission on the floor, or $33 for reserved seats in the balcony. They’ll each be $3 more on the day of show. For more info head to rialtotheatre.com or call 740-1000. Down the street, at the Fox Tucson Theatre, music royalty Booker T. Jones will be holding court on the same night. There is simply no overstating Jones’ influence on contemporary music: His signature Hammond B3 playing was a staple of the Stax Records sound – he was a member of the Stax house band – and he co-wrote tunes for
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the likes of Otis Redding and Albert King, not to mention songs like “Green Onions,” which he wrote for his own band, Booker T. and the M.G.s, while he was still in high school. And he hasn’t rested on his laurels. In recent years he has collaborated with the likes of The Roots and Drive By Truckers among many others. Booker T. Jones performs at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 29. Tickets for the all-ages show are $24 to $52. For further info check out foxtucsontheatre.org or call 547-3040. Although their name may not be as recognizable as some of their Los Angeles peers, which included X, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks, the Angry Samoans, who formed in late 1978, were one of the first punk bands to emerge from the West Coast. If they hadn’t written a song called “Off the Air,” which skewered L.A. DJ and tastemaker Rodney Bingenheimer and got them banned from playing several area clubs, perhaps they’d be better remembered today. Then again, their politically incorrect sense of humor and song titles like “They Saved Hitler’s Cock” probably didn’t help their cause. But for those who could look past such things, the Angry Samoans were just as great, and as influential, as their betterknown peers. As far as I can tell, the current incarnation of the band includes two original members -singer-guitarist “Metal” Mike Saunders and drummer Bill Vockeroth – and it appears that’s the version that will perform on Friday, March 29, at The District Tavern, 260 E. Congress St. The show starts at 9 p.m. and the openers are Shark Pants, Pop Gestapo, and Kid Puto. For the first time in, like, ever, there will be a cover charge at The District: $10 and an ID proving you’re 21 or over gets you in the door. For more info call 791-0082. Other cool stuff on Friday, March 29: Peelander-Z, Jonathan Best, and The Pork Torta at Plush; Chronicles 7-Year Anniversary featuring Badio, Shaun Harris, Cash Lansky and lots of other great local rappers at Club Congress; Otherly Love, Same Sex Mary, and Acorn Bcorn on the Hotel Congress patio; Al Foul and Tom Walbank and the Ambassadors at Café Passe.
DOWN AT THE BOONDOCKS If it seems as if that gigantic Chianti bottle that sits at 3306 N. First Ave. has been there longer than 17 years, you’re right; it has. These days the bottle marks the site of Boondocks Lounge, a happening tavern that regularly hosts blues, Americana, country and other acts and will celebrate its 17th anniversary with a triple bill this weekend. But the bottle itself has been there since 1974, when it was created as part of the design of an Italian restaurant that closed long ago. Cathy Warner and Bill Shew have been co-
owners of Boondocks since it opened in 1996, after teaming up to own a few other businesses around town, including a short stint in the ‘80s when they owned the Chicago Bar. But with its lively mix of patrons, a kitchen that turns out killer food, and regular live music, Boondocks Lounge – along with that giant bottle -- has endured. On Sunday, March 31, the bar will celebrate its 17 years with a show featuring live sets by Little House of Funk (formerly Shaky Bones), who start at 5:30 p.m., Black Skillet Review, who take the middle slot, and Black Cat Bones, who finish up the night. The show will end around 11 p.m. Cover is $5, and you must be 21 or over to attend. For more information head to boondockslounge.com or call 690-0991.
“AN ANNUAL CULTURE HOLIDAY” From Many Mouths One Stomach, the folks who bring you the All Souls Procession each year, comes what, in its second year, we can safely call the Second Annual Mocktoberfest – in their words, a “Springtime, Tucson & Arizona Beer, Arts, Music, Circus, and Community Carnival,” one of several events geared toward raising funds for the Dia de los Muertos extravaganza each fall. In fact, Mocktoberfest looks to be quite the extravaganza of its own. In addition to being a fundraiser for MMOS, the organization’s goal with the event, according to its website, is “to showcase local artisans in a street fair setting along with a number of local breweries to create a twisted replica of a traditional Oktoberfest, but with springttime themes, music, circus performance and workshops, vending of local art, goods, and food. … we are creating an annual culture holiday.” The festival will feature live music from Chicha Dust, Vox Urbana, Planet Djembe, The Missing Parts and more; DJ performances by Joshua Pocolipse and others; fire performances by Flam Chen; burlesque cabaret including Skirt on Fire: magicians Kenny Stewart and Nate Anderson as the Brothers Macabre!; aerial acts, circus arts, Tesla coil stunts, a dunking booth, giraffes on fire. OK, maybe not that last one, but just about everything else under the sun that makes Tucson the weird, arty place it is. In other words, I’m leaving out a bunch of stuff that you can read about for yourself at moctoberfest.com. (Also, there’s more info on our City Week pages.) The whole shebang runs from 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 30, until around 2 a.m at Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento. Admission is $5 and reentry is permitted. All ages are welcome and children 10 and under will be permitted for free with an adult. Use the same address as above if you’d like to get involved in any way. Check out our listings sections for a full rundown of this week’s other shows.
2. The Cave Singers Naomi 3. Eric Clapton Old Sock 4. Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse 5. The James Hunter Six Minute by Minute 6. Various Artists Love for Levon 7. Cordials Not Like Yesterday 8. Eels Wonderful, Glorious 9. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell Old Yellow Moon 10. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Ripley Pine Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
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THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996. THE BISBEE ROYALE 94 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-6750. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 6900991. THE BREEZE PATIO AND BAR Radisson Hotel. 520-721-7100. BRODIE’S TAVERN 2449 N. Stone Ave. 622-0447. CAFÉ DESTA 758 S. Stone Ave. 370-7000. CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. CHICAGO BAR 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-8169. CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. THE DISTRICT 260 E. Congress St. 792-0081. DRIFTWOOD RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE 2001 South Craycroft Road. 520-790-4317. DV8 5851 E. Speedway Blvd. 885-3030. ELLIOTT’S ON CONGRESS 135 E. Congress St. 622-5500. www.elliottsoncongress.com FAMOUS SAM’S SILVERBELL 2320 N. Silverbell Road. 884-7267. FINI’S LANDING 5689 N Swan Ed. 520-2991010. FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 6241515. GERONIMO PLAZA 820 E. University Blvd. HACIENDA DEL SOL 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. HARLOW GARDENS 5620 E. Pima St. 886-5475. HIDEOUT SALOON - EAST 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 520-751-2222. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. INNSUITES HOTEL 475 N. Granada Ave. 6232000. IRISH PUB 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 7492299. JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669. MAVERICK 6622 E. Tanque Verde Road. 2980430. MERCADO SAN AGUSTÍN 100 S. Avenida del Convento. 461-1110, ext. 8. MINT COCKTAILS 3540 E. Grant Road. 881-9169. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. www. montereycourtaz.com/ MUSIC BOX 6951 E. 22nd St. 747-1421. NEW MOON TUCSON 915 W. Prince Road. 2937339. NIMBUS BREWING COMPANY TAPROOM 3850 E. 44th St. 745-9175. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 3266000. THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Road. 797-1233. www.theparishtucson.com PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. R PLACE BAR AND GRILL 3412 N. Dodge Blvd. 881-9048. RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. www.rialtotheatre.com 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. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544. THE SKYBOX RESTAURANT AND SPORTS BAR 5605 E. River Road. 529-7180. SOLAR CULTURE 31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874. ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 19 Sowles Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-7006. ST. PHILIP’S IN THE HILLS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. www. stphilipstucson.org/ STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana. 877-8100. SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275. SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 8820009. TOBY KEITH’S I LOVE THIS BAR AND GRILL 4500 N. Oracle Road. 265-8629. TOPAZ 657 W. St. Mary’s Road, No. C1A. UA CROWDER HALL 1020 E. University Blvd. 621-1162. WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843.
THU MAR 28 LIVE MUSIC Augustin Brasserie Naim Amor w/Matt Mitchell 6p.m. The Bisbee Royale Singer Songwriter Showcase 7p.m., $3. Boondocks Lounge Ed Delucia 7p.m., Free. Café Passé Songwriter Thursday feat. Cyril Barret w/ Thoger T. Lund 7p.m. Chicago Bar Neon Prophet 8p.m. Club Congress Salvador Duran 7p.m., Free. La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George 6:30p.m. The Hut Lollapaloozers 9p.m., Free. Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar The Holmes Levinson Group 7p.m. Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Connor Button 7p.m. Plush Altered Thursday w/Kyle Bronsdon 9:30p.m., Free. Rialto Theatre Mix Madness DJ Battle 7p.m., Free. The Rock North American Detonation Tour 2013 feat. Master w/Sacrificial Slaughter, Fisthammer, Chaos Ascending & Jerri Punx 6p.m. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill Cooper Meza Band 9p.m.
COMEDY Laffs Comedy Caffé Open mic 8p.m.
DJ AND KARAOKE Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star Karaoke 9p.m. Music Box Karaoke 9p.m. River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke w/ KJ David 8:30p.m.
FRI MAR 29 LIVE MUSIC The Bashful Bandit Rowdy Johnson Band 9p.m. Boondocks Lounge Anna Warr And Giant Blue 8:30p.m., $5. Boondocks Lounge Neon Prophet 9:30p.m., $5. Café Passé Al Foul w/Tom Walbank & The Ambassadors 9p.m. Café Passé Roman Barten Sherman w/Tom Walbank 6p.m., Free. Club Congress Otherly Love w/Same Sex Mary & Acorn Bcorn 9p.m., Free. Club Congress Chronicles-7 Year Anniversary 8p.m., $5. La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Coming Out: A Queer Dance Party 10p.m. La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar The Greg Morton Band 6:30p.m. The District Angry Samoans w/Shark Pants, Kid Puto & Pop Gestapo 9p.m. DV8 Angry Samoans w/Three White Lies & The Denied 8p.m. Fox Tucson Theatre Booker T. Jones 6:30p.m. Geronimo Plaza saaca Spring Concert Series feat. Amber Norgaard 7p.m., Free. The Hut Minute of Angle 9p.m.
InnSuites Hotel The Makers Brothers Band 7p.m., $5.00. Irish Pub One Night Keg Stand 7p.m. Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar NoethenButJazz 7p.m. Maverick Flipside 8p.m., $5. Mint Cocktails Michael P. and His Band 8p.m. Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café LeeAnne Savage & Friends 7p.m., $5. Nimbus Brewing Company Taproom The Guilty Bystanders 7p.m., $5. The Parish Dash Pocket 9p.m. Plush Peelander-Z w/Jonathan Best & Pork Torta 9p.m., Presale ($6) & Day of show ($8). Plush Camp Courageous w/Manifold & Scratching the Surface 12p.m., $3.00. Rialto Theatre Jeff Mangum w/Tall Firs 7p.m., $31 - $33. River’s Edge Lounge Shovelhead Road 9p.m. RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub Vices And Virtues 9p.m. The Rock Exhumed w/Genocaust, Evasion, Angelic to Ashes & Skull Pin 6p.m., $20. Shot in the Dark Café Mark Bockel 5p.m. The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar 80’s and Gentlemen 9:30p.m. St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church Special Music for Good Friday 5:45p.m., Free. Surly Wench Pub Amigo the Devil 10p.m. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill Jack Bishop Band 9:30p.m. Whiskey Tango The AmoSphere 9:30p.m.
DJ AND KARAOKE Music Box DJ AJ 9p.m. R Place Bar and Grill Karaoke 9p.m.
SAT MAR 30 LIVE MUSIC Boondocks Lounge The AmoSphere 8:30p.m., $5. Café Passé Country Saturday feat. Matthew Cordes w/ Hans Hutchison, Hank Topless, Catfish and Weezie & Andy Hersey 7p.m., Free. Chicago Bar Neon Prophet 9p.m. Club Congress Caveman w/Pure Bathing Culture 7p.m., Presale ($10) & Day of show ($12). La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George CD Release 6:30p.m. La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Miss Lana Rebel w/Kevin Michael Mayfield 12p.m. Delectables Restaurant and Catering Nowhere Man And A Whiskey Girl 7p.m. Fini’s Landing The Ronstadt Generations 8p.m. Hacienda del Sol Integrative Touch for Kids Benefit Concert 7p.m., $100. Harlow Gardens Lisa Otey w/Diane Van Deurzen 7p.m., $15. Hideout Saloon - East The Main Street Band 9p.m.
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The Hut Mike & Randy’s 420 Show 4p.m. Irish Pub Jeff Carlson Band 7p.m. Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Birks Works 7p.m. Maverick Flipside 8p.m., $5. Mercado San Agustín Arizona’s MoCtober Fest Spring Carnival Fundraiser For The All Soul’s Procession 2p.m. Mint Cocktails Don’t Blink Burlesque 8p.m. Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café The Wayback Machine 7p.m. Nimbus Brewing Company Taproom The Bluerays w/ Warpstar 7p.m., $5. Plush Funky Bonz w/Cosmic Slop & Fatal Funnel 9p.m., $5. Rialto Theatre Blackalicious w/Big Meridox & The Honor Roll 7p.m., Presale ($16) & Day of show ($19). River’s Edge Lounge Grind 9p.m. The Rock BK Benefit feat. Angelic to Ashes w/We Killed the Union & Stands With Fists 6p.m. The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar The Railbirdz 9:30p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church Andy T-Nick Nixon Blues Band 7p.m., $10.00. Sullivan’s Steak House The Bishop/Nelly Duo 7p.m., Free. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill Greg Spivey Band 9:30p.m. UA Crowder Hall Jeff Lewis Quartet 7p.m.
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SUN MAR 31 LIVE MUSIC Boondocks Lounge Boondocks Lounge 17 Year Anniversary Party 5p.m., $5. Café Desta Guerilla Tangueros 6:30p.m. Chicago Bar Reggae Sundays feat. Papa Ranger 7p.m. Club Congress The Hot Club of Tucson 10:30am. La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Catfish and Weezie 12p.m. The District Benny the Jet Rodriguez w/Chariots Of Failure 9p.m. Driftwood Restaurant and Lounge Ashbury 5p.m. Hideout Saloon - East Bob Kay, the Singing/Drumming DJ, plays oldies but goodies 5p.m. Hideout Saloon - East The Singing/Drumming DJ Bob Kay Spins Oldies But Goodies 5p.m. Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Chillie Willie Groove 5p.m. Old Pueblo Grille Pete Swan Jazz 7p.m. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill Cover Your Trax 8:30p.m.
DJ AND KARAOKE DJ AND KARAOKE La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar DJ Herm 10p.m., $3. Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star Karaoke 9p.m. Music Box DJ Lluvia
Brodie’s Tavern Amazing Star Karaoke 4p.m. New Moon Tucson Amazing Star Karaoke 8:30p.m.
River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke w/ KJ David 8:30p.m. Stadium Grill Kids Karaoke 12p.m.
MON APR 1 LIVE MUSIC Boondocks Lounge The Bryan Dean Trio 6p.m., Free. Chicago Bar The Ronstadt Generations 7p.m. Elliott’s on Congress Jazz Guild Jam with Tony Frank 8p.m. Fini’s Landing Tony Frank Trio 7p.m., Free. Rialto Theatre Soul Asylum 7p.m., Presale ($22) & Day of show ($24).
DJ AND KARAOKE Music Box Karaoke 9p.m. River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke w/ KJ David 8:30p.m.
TUE APR 2 LIVE MUSIC The Breeze Patio and Bar Arizona Roadrunners Band 6:30p.m. Chicago Bar The Jive Bombers 7p.m. Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Steve Reynolds 6:30p.m. Plush The Tontons 8:30p.m., $5. The Rock Aaron’s Party 2013 feat. Aaron Carter w/ Something Like Seduction, Bangarang and CatCall Acappella 12p.m., $15 - $50. Topaz Milk Music, Womb Tomb, Gun Outfit, Man Bites Dog 8p.m., $5.
DJ AND KARAOKE Music Box Karaoke 9p.m. River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke w/ KJ David 8:30p.m.
WED APR 3 LIVE MUSIC The Bisbee Royale Amy Ross 7p.m., Free. Chicago Bar Bad News Blues Band 7p.m., $3. Club Congress Black Lion w/The Aces & D-Toi 9p.m. La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Collin Shook Trio 6:30p.m. Irish Pub The All Bill Band with Mindy 7p.m. Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Kathy Thomas and the Groove Tones 6:30p.m. Plush Soul Track Mind 9p.m., $5. The Rock Tour Odyssey with The Dirty Heads and Shiny Toy Guns 7p.m., $25. Solar Culture Ariana Saraha 8p.m., $10. Whiskey Tango Acoustic Jam and Songwriters Showcase 8p.m.
DJ AND KARAOKE Music Box Karaoke 9p.m. River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke w/ KJ David 8:30p.m. Stadium Grill Karaoke w/ DJ Saul 9p.m.
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NINE QUESTIONS Julia Pernet Julia Pernet is chairwoman of the Tucson Guitar Society. On Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7, the society’s last concerts of the season will feature Grammy-award-winning guitarist David Russell performing at the UA’s Holsclaw Hall. Tickets are $30 for nonmembers, $25 for society members and $20 for students. For more information, visit tucsonguitarsociety.org. Megan Merrimac, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com
What was the first concert you attended? The first one I went to on my own was probably either Jimi Hendrix or Otis Redding. What are you listening to these days? I am listening to a whole lot of guitar, as you can imagine. But I am also on the board of the new Tucson Desert Song Festival. So, I am currently listening to a lot of vocalists trying to find somebody that I could bring in to sing love songs with a guitarist. What was the first album you owned? Beatles. It probably would have been something like A Hard Day’s Night or Help!. What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love that you just don’t get? Anything loud. I have good hearing for a person of my age and I like to keep it that way. I mean, I go to loud concerts, I’ll go see Dick Dale, but I bring earplugs. Which musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? If I could see her in her prime, I would love to see Maria Callas. I mean, that would have been so fantastic. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? I guess I’m a sucker for the old crooners. What song would you like to have played at your funeral? Edith Piaf singing “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” came to my mind. But funeral music isn’t for the person that’s dead; it’s for the people who are there. What band or artist changed your life and how? I would say listening to my mother’s LP of Carmen with Victoria de los Angeles singing it is when I really fell in love with classically trained voice. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? That’s really impossible. When I really need to calm down, I will pick up something like Bach’s cello suites or Chopin’s nocturnes.
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Dream Sick are as much garage rock or shoegaze as the Replacements were punk. In other words, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a songwriterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll band with superficial trappings of current styles. This is hardly detrimental to their new album, Morkkis. At its core, Morkkis fuses passionate performances and light experimentation with strong, anthemic songs that groups like the Replacements did. This record is full of tales of frustration, omnidirectional anger and introspection that are the stock in trade of young 20-something bands, and Dream Sickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mastery of the form makes these familiar themes just as vital as those of any of their predecessors. Lead singer Jess Matsen hollers all over the place, hoping heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a fool, breaking windows so his girlfriend might understand him, while the rest of the boys pound along in post-adolescent fury. Tracks like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photoframeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unwindâ&#x20AC;? are particular standouts on a record that really has no weak spots. The two-guitar, bass and drums format always works well for these types of story songs. But after a few listens, the psychedelic window dressing becomes integral to the music, leaving the guitar feedback to scream the postgrad blues when Matsen stops for the moment. While Morkkis isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the first document of the boys-to-men phase, Dream Sickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Instagram of it is compelling enough to live through it with them. Joshua Levine
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Dream Sick celebrate the release of Morkkis at Heap Collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bad Infinity, at 6 p.m., Saturday, March 30, at 210 E. Broadway Blvd. Free; all ages.
From the opening seconds of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nice Scissors, Chief,â&#x20AC;? Sleep Like Trees establish the sound of their debut album, Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Alright: early Modest Mouse, but without the vocals, bass guitar, keyboards or anything else. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less than half the story; the sound has little to do with the style. Guitarist Ben Kohlhepp and drummer Michael Fay invert the typical instrumental rock band format by anchoring their songs in simple, repetitive melodies, leaving the percussion to splatter paint across Sleep Like Treesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; panoramic universe. Forget about the stoned-tothe-bone song titlesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fear it!! Fear the Smiling Bananaâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m All About Shotgunning Weed Through a Mailslotâ&#x20AC;? offer no indication of the waves of bliss that populate the record. In fact, Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Alright plays as one long piece of shifting dynamics and cascading textures with very little change in mood throughout. Sleep Like Trees combine the tranquil passages of lateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s Sonic Youth, latter-day experimental borderline rock groups like Radiohead and Sigur Ros, and the ideology of free-jazz pioneers Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane: most definitely arty, but not self-conscious or pretentious. The albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centerpiece, the nearly nine-minute â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow, I Totally Went All RPG for a Second There,â&#x20AC;? reaches a stunning plateau after six minutes of naked guitar ambience. The final track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cats on Cars (Cats in Trees),â&#x20AC;? is another highlight of the gorgeous lullaby music that defines the record from beginning to end.
A bona fide local-music treasure, George is a blues-folk singer, songwriter and guitarist who has recorded and played in Tucson for more than 30 years. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performed as a solo artist, with groups too many to list here and as half of an inspired duo with Tom Walbank. His latest project is a roughhewn honky-tonk band that features stellar collaborators. Pedal steel player Neil Harry and accordionist Gary Mackender provide much mood and color to songs such as the gorgeous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Second Hand Boots.â&#x20AC;? Mackender also plays drums, manning the rhythm section through upbeat numbers and ballads with bassist Jay Trapp. Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime partner, Lavinia White, supplies depth via lovely vocal harmoniesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been singing together so long, it sounds effortless and natural. In his earthy growl, George often sings in the first person, but his characters seem to come from all walks of life, such as the impoverished narrator on the dust bowlstyle country â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where Did the Holidays Goâ&#x20AC;? and the rambler fond of drink and women in the Tom Waits-style chantey â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Sins Forgiven.â&#x20AC;? Among these 12 tracks is some of Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best material. In the blues tradition, he often sings of challenges, obstacles and hard timesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s How It Goes,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hard Bitten Worldâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Choose Loveâ&#x20AC;? is a great three-song cycle late in the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but he also embraces the redemption of spirituality and love.
Joshua Levine Gene Armstrong Sleep Like Trees celebrate the release of Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Alright at Heap Collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bad Infinity, at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at 210 E. Broadway Blvd. Free; all ages.
Stefan George & the Ditchriders celebrate their new CD with a gig at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at La Cocina, 201 S. Court Ave. Free; 622-0351.
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MEDICAL MJ Mr. Smith becomes the Martha Stewart of cannabinoid cooking
Like Butter BY J.M. SMITH, jsmith@tucsonweekly.com made butter once – just plain, old regular butter. It’s actually really easy. All you have to do is put some heavy cream in a jar and shake it for a while. You can do it much quicker by beating the cream with a hand or bowl mixer until it forms stiff peaks, then beating it some more. Eventually (after about 10 minutes) the cream breaks down, separating into fat solids (butter) and buttermilk. Drain off the buttermilk, and you have butter. Try it at home – it’s surprisingly simple and fun and kids love it. Plus, you then get to eat fresh butter. Six cups of cream makes about a pound of butter. After you make a pound of butter, you’re ready for the real fun - making yourself some cannabis butter. This part is also surprisingly easy and fun, and you don’t have to share it with the kids. Hehe. Making cannabis butter is a bit of a moonshine operation that involves a little more than making the butter itself, but it’s also very easy. The basic premise for any recipe is the same – leach the cannabinoids (which bind to fat) out of the plants and into the oil. You can use any kind of oil, but butter is the most common. You can then use the butter in virtually anything – spread it on toast, slip it between your pancakes, mix it in some brownies. Never heat cannabis butter past 350 degrees, when you’re making it or when you’re cooking with it. The THC breaks down at high temperatures, and your butter becomes plain old $300 per pound butter. Ouch. An ounce of cheap schwag or trim is about the least you will want in a pound of butter. I suggest using quality buds in the same ratio, which will yield a correspondingly stronger product. Low-quality cannabis is about 4 to 5 percent THC, whereas medical quality stuff is more like 15 to 20 percent. Do the math. ;) Start by grinding your buds or shake or
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trim into a fine powder in a food processor or a coffee grinder. The fine powder allows more surface area to contact the oil, which lets more cannabinoids bind to the butter. After this step, there are a million variations. The most common method is to melt the butter in water, then simmer it (do NOT boil) for at least three and up to 24 hours. The theory is that the longer you simmer the mixture, the more cannabinoids you leach out. After you simmer the cannabis stew for a few hours, strain it through some cheesecloth, and squeeze out the liquid from the cheesecloth. Put your bowl of watery oily goodness in the fridge overnight, and when you wake up you’ll have a solid disc of green butter on top of a bunch of disgusting water. Lift off the butter, toss the water, and start baking. As a reformed vegan who now eats meat and eggs and cheese at will, I have experience with cooking sans animal products. Making vegan cannabis oil is just as easy as making the barbaric kind from animal excretions. Mix an ounce of finely ground buds with two cups of coconut oil, then heat it in a slow cooker. I like the slow cooker, because the constant temperature means I don’t have to watch it. Put about 2 inches of water in the slow cooker, then set a container of oil in the water. Put the lid on, then let it cook for 12 hours or so (watch that the water doesn’t dry up). You can also use olive oil, which gives you something to drizzle on a salad or soak up with some yummy whole grain bread made from non-GMO wheat. ;) However you make them, cannabis oil and butter are healthier alternatives to smoking. They give you hundreds and hundreds of ways to get your meds in your head without inhaling clouds of carcinogens and smut and disgusting tar and … well, you get the picture. Bon appétit.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY HOROSCOPE 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 $1.99 per minute. 18 and over. Touchtone phone required. ARIES (March 21-April 19): I was too lazy to write your horoscope this week, so I went to a website that hawks bumper stickers and copied a few of their slogans to use as your “advice.” Here you go. 1. Never follow a rule off a cliff. 2. Have the courage to honor your peculiarities. 3. It’s never too late to have a rebellious adolescence. 4. Criticize by creating. 5. Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be elaborate and wonderful. 6. Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand, morally clear, wrong answers. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I wasn’t lazy at all. I worked hard to ensure that all the suggestions I just provided are in strict accordance with the astrological gestalt. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a perfect time to watch the cult classic film Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead. It will provide you with just the right inspiration as you deal with your own problems. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Don’t you dare watch any horror movies. You’re in a phase when you can make dramatic progress in transforming long-standing dilemmas—but only if you surround yourself with positive, uplifting influences. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming week will be an excellent time to wash dishes, clean bathrooms, scrub floors, vacuum carpets, wash windows, do laundry, and clean the refrigerator. The more drudge work you do, the better you’ll feel. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, you now have astrological license to minimize your participation in boring tasks like the ones I named. It’s high time for you to seek out the most interesting work and play possible. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You know what would be a really cool prank to pull off this April Fool’s Day? Arrange to have rubber tires airlifted into a dormant volcano, then set them on fire. Smoke will pour out the top. Everyone who lives nearby will think the volcano is getting ready to explode. Don’t forget to videotape the event for YouTube. Later, when you reveal the hoax, your video will go viral and you’ll become a celebrity. APRIL FOOL! I don’t really think you should try this prank. It’s old hat. Back in 1974, a guy named Porky Bickar did it
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to Alaska’s Mt. Edgecumbe. Here’s my real oracle for you: It is a good time to boost your visibility by doing something funny. Or to build your brand by being mischievous. Or to demonstrate your power by showing off your sense of humor. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the animated TV show The Simpsons, 10-year-old Bart is constantly getting into trouble because of the monkey business he loves to perpetrate. His teachers punish him by compelling him to write corrective declarations on the classroom blackboard. It so happens that some of those apologetic statements should be coming out of your mouth in the coming week, Leo. They include the following: “I will not strut around like I own the place. I will not claim that I am deliciously saucy. I will not instigate revolution. I will not trade pants with others. I will not carve gods. I will not Xerox my butt. I will not scream for ice cream.” APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, you SHOULD consider doing things like that. And don’t apologize! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The sport of ferret legging is an endurance contest. Participants vie to determine who can last longest as a live ferret runs loose inside their pants. The current record is five hours and 26 minutes, held by a retired British miner. But I predict that a Virgo will soon break that mark. Could it be you? APRIL FOOL! I misled you. I don’t really think you should put a ferret in your pants, not even to win a contest. It is possible, however, that there will soon be a pleasurable commotion happening in the area below your waist. And I suspect that you will handle it pretty well. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Risk being a crazed fool for love, Libra. Get as wild and extreme as you’ve ever been if it helps you rustle up the closeness you’re hungry for. Get down on your knees and beg, or climb a tree with a megaphone and profess your passion. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating a little. It’s true that now is an excellent time to be aggressive about going after the intimate connection you want. But I suggest you accomplish that by being ingenious and imaginative rather than crazy and extreme. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): British comedy team Monty Python did a sketch in
which a policeman apprehends a criminal. The bad guy says, “Yes, I did it, but society is to blame.” And the cop says, “Right! We’ll arrest them instead.” You should adopt this attitude, Scorpio. Blame everyone else but yourself for your problems and flaws. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, the truth is the opposite of what I said. It’s time to take more responsibility for your actions. Bravely accept the consequences of what you’ve done—with your sense of humor fully engaged and a lot of compassion for yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Banzai skydiving is a step beyond ordinary skydiving. To do it, you hurl your folded-up parachute out of the airplane, wait a while, and then leap into mid-air yourself. If all goes well, you free-fall in the direction of your parachute and catch up to it. Once you grab it, you strap it on and open the chute, ideally before you hit the earth. This is the kind of beyond-ballsy activity that would be perfect for you right now. APRIL FOOL! In truth, I don’t recommend banzai skydiving now or ever. Plain old skydiving is fine, though. The same princi-
ple applies in relation to any adventurousness you’re considering: Push yourself, yes, but not to an absurd degree. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Should you relocate to Kazakhstan and grow sunflowers? Is it time to think about getting a job in Uruguay and living there for the next 10 years? Can you see yourself building your dream home in Morocco on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean? I suggest you spend some quality time thinking way, way outside the box about where you belong on this earth. APRIL FOOL! I went a bit overboard in my recommendations. It is true that you should brainstorm about the kind of home you want to create and enjoy in the future. But that probably means revising and refining your current situation rather than leaving it all behind and starting over. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your brain has a bigger capacity than you realize. According to professor of psychology Paul Reber, it can hold the equivalent of three million hours’ worth of television shows. As I’m sure you know, your brain is not even
close to being full of that much data. And in accordance with the current astrological omens, I suggest you cram in as much new material as possible. APRIL FOOL! I told you a half-truth. While it’s correct that now is an excellent time to pour more stuff into your brain, you should be highly discerning about what you allow in there. Seek out the richest ideas, the most stimulating information, the best stories. Avoid trivial crap. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): July 2012 was a sad time in the history of mythic creatures. The National Ocean Service, a U.S. government agency, made a formal proclamation that there are no such things as mermaids. But I predict those stuffy know-it-alls will soon get a big shock, when a Piscean scientist presents evidence that mermaids are indeed real. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. I don’t really foresee the discovery of a flesh-and-blood mermaid— by a Pisces or anyone else. I do, however, suspect that your tribe is now highly adept at extracting useful revelations and inspirations from dreams, visions, and fantasies— including at least one that involves a coven of Buddhist Ninja clown mermaids.
¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net et Dear Mexican: About six years ago, my wife and I adopted a little baby boy. He is “pure” mestizo and we are complete wabs. I’m a little dark because of my mixed Arab heritage, but my wife is a major league blanca. He is a sweet little gabacho growing up in wab world. I don’t mind getting the looks when we go to the taqueria in the barrio or even major league stares when we take him on our trips to Mexico. And I can handle the questions from dumbass wabsters. But I worry about the little guy growing up confused, angry and lost because he is the odd boy out. I tell him that the blood of the Aztec warriors and the conquistadors runs through his veins and, of course, he kicks whitey’s ass on the soccer field. But all that seems rather inadequate. How can I help him keep in touch with his gabacho roots while living the relatively privileged wab life? Help me Mexican: this little guy is the light of my life and I want to do right by him.
the U.S.A. not recognize foreign driver’s licenses? If they do, isn’t it simply an insurance issue, and, if so, couldn’t this whole silly problem be fixed by having car insurance companies offer cross border policies? I know that the idea of getting into an accident with an uninsured driver is frightening, but couldn’t this be fixed if Geico (or whomever) sold norteamericano policies? Is there a law preventing this that I’m unaware of? Confuzzled Judeo en San Francisco
Wabdaddy in Texas Dear Wabpapi: You sound like a wonderful man, but tienes your ethnic terms wrong. A wab is a nickname Mexican-Americans in Orange County use to deride unassimilated Mexicans— think “hillbilly” in the gabacho context. A gabacho is a gabacho—in other words, someone of the gabacho race, the race that wants to deport wabs, not love them. I use wab and gabacho in my column for satirical purposes, and to teach gabachos new words, so you must’ve misread their meaning. You want to teach your niño to keep in touch with his wab roots, and live the privileged gabacho life (at least the nice parts, not all the nasty racist crap). Etymological concerns aside, I’m sure there are a lot of Tejanos who are more than happy to direct you to art, music, books (buy libros from Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, porfas), and cultural programs that’ll teach your son about his proud heritage. Just don’t get them talking about the Alamo, and all will be fine! I’m a judeo (notice I don’t call myself a gabacho) en Norte California, and after driving 1,800 miles to visit mi padre en Texas, I was surprised at the outrage over Mexican drivers in los estados unidos who don’t have a Texas (or wherever else north of the border) driver’s license. Does
Dear Judeo: That’s a novel concept—distinguish yourself from gabachos because your tribe definitely ain’t them! Even more novel is your idea of having American authorities recognize foreign driver’s licenses in lieu of American ones. While wonderful and commonsense, the only problem is a matter of bureaucracy and jurisdiction. The United States doesn’t recognize foreign driver’s licenses per se but rather something called an International Driving Permit, which must be acquired in a person’s home country before coming to the United States. Since figuring out how to drive legally is usually the last thing on an illegal immigrant’s mind, most Mexicans are caca out of luck on that one. Furthermore, you have to apply for a driver’s license in American states once you establish residency there even if you were previously registered someone else, whether in el Norte or abroad. In the case of Mexicans, their Mexican driver’s license would only work for so long— and even if they’re here illegally, la licencia de manejar from Mexico won’t stop la migra from deporting your ass. Best bet? The burro. 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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