Tucson Weekly 06-07-2012 by Tucson Weekly

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JUNE 7-13, 2012 VOL. 29, NO. 16

OPINION Under the direction of Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender and company have revived the Alien universe.

Tom Danehy 4 Randy Serraglio 6 Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

Broken Records 9 By Mari Herreras

A whistle-blower complaint leads to a public-information lawsuit against the Pima County Attorney Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Broadway Performance 11 By Jim Nintzel

The city re-examines the future of a central corridor Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by Dan Gibson

Police Dispatch 12 By Anna Mirocha

Pawn Job 13

Hoping TREO will take us to San Diego this summer.

By Tim Vanderpool

A Tucson man knows where to find his stolen computer— so why can’t he get it back? Friend to the End 14 By Brian J. Pedersen

Cold case: Two years after the death of Vanessa Romero, police are looking for leads

Rio Nuevo Has Hope As those of us at Weekly World Central were zooming toward our Tuesday press deadline, we received word that state Senate President Steve Pierce had removed two appointees—Rick Grinnell and chairwoman Jodi Bain— from the Rio Nuevo Multipurpose Facilities District. Pierce deserves a hearty round of applause for this move. Under Bain’s “leadership”—she’s been the chairperson since 2010, when the Arizona Legislature took control of the board—Rio Nuevo has been a catastrophe. Instead of working to spend city tax dollars on things that would improve downtown Tucson (like, say, improvements to the Tucson Convention Center), the board has dedicated itself to squabbling with the Tucson City Council. As a result, nothing has gotten done. Witness the news release sent out last month by the board, headlined “Attacks on the District Misdirected!” Much of the release is a whine, with Bain and company complaining that Ward 6 City Councilman Steve Kozachik said mean things about them. Waah. While this release also makes the point that the city has not been squeaky-clean in its dealings with the new Rio Nuevo board—a point which is undeniably true—it’s also undeniably true that the new Rio Nuevo board has been a complete failure in terms of getting things done. In fact, it’s been worse than that, seeing as the board has been dumb enough to attack institutions, like the Rialto Theatre, that are actually bringing money and people downtown. Perhaps Pierce’s sacking of Bain and Grinnell is the first step toward getting things done. Maybe the two new appointees will spend more time working, and less time whining. We can only hope. Thanks to Sen. Pierce for giving downtown’s redevelopment district a shred of hope.

Election 2012 16 By Jim Nintzel and Hank Stephenson

Your guide to the upcoming campaign season

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JIMMY BOEGLE, Editor jboegle@tucsonweekly.com COVER DESIGN BY HECTOR ACUÑA

CULTURE

CHOW

City Week 22 Our picks for the week

Food, Beer and a Race 41

TQ&A 24 Christopher Kroh, Tucson Hacks Association

PERFORMING ARTS Cabaret Nights 30 By Sherilyn Forrester

Invisible Theatre returns to the Arizona Inn for more Sizzling Summer Sounds The More Things Change 33

By Jacqueline Kuder

Ignore the nearby chain, and enjoy the great eats and comfy atmosphere at Jalopy’s Noshing Around 41 By Adam Borowitz

MUSIC Celtic Crooners 47 By Gene Armstrong

Claire Mann and Aaron Jones play an intimate show at the Temple of Music and Art’s Cabaret Theater

By Laura C.J. Owen

Johnson exits Etcetera; Rogue goes ensemble; daVinci shuts down

VISUAL ARTS City Week listings 34

BOOKS With the Flow 36 By Tim Hull

This reissue of Clyde Eddy’s adventure diary depicts the Colorado River before it was tamed

Soundbites 47 By Stephen Seigel

Club Listings 49 Nine Questions 52 Live 53 Rhythm & Views 54

MEDICAL MJ Helpful Herb 55 By J.M. Smith

CINEMA

The state should let people use MMJ to treat depression

Chest-Bursting Fun 37

CLASSIFIEDS

By Bob Grimm

Ridley Scott returns to the Alien universe with a masterpiece Film Times 38 Animal Magnetism 39 By Colin Boyd

Madagascar 3 is excellent, thanks to a big injection of weirdness Now Showing at Home 40

Comix 56-57 Free Will Astrology 56 ¡Ask a Mexican! 57 Savage Love 58 Personals 60 Employment 61 News of the Weird 62 Real Estate 62 Rentals 62 Mind, Body and Spirit 63 Crossword 63 *Adult Content 58-60

JUNE 7 – 13, 2012

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DANEHY OPINION

The results are in: The Arizona Interscholastic Association’s ‘reorganization’ is viewed as a disaster

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or those of you who think that I unfairly pick on the Arizona Interscholastic Association for what I consider to be a disastrous “reorganization” plan, you’ll love this. The AIA took a reasonable concern—that of rising transportation costs—and used it to gut a system that had worked splendidly for several decades, creating in its place a monstrosity that has proved devastating to small, midsize and rural schools across the state. The leaders of the AIA then adopted a bunker mentality, claiming that any criticism of them and their ridiculous reorganization was isolated, unfounded and/or fueled by a sensationalistic media.

Well, maybe not. The Arizona Republic, which, in my opinion, has been waaaaay too nice to the AIA over the years, commissioned a survey of coaches and athletic directors around the state. The results have got to be stunning to the members of the AIA. The AIA’s leaders, in their decidedly finite collective wisdom, first did away with season-ending conference tournaments, and then combined multiple conferences into ridiculously large mega-sections. They put 20 or more teams in each section and limited the number of games each team could play to 18, making it impossible to play every other team in the section. After drastically slashing the number of teams or individuals that could go to state in each sport, they then instituted a mathematically flawed “power point” system to determine state eligibility, effectively rendering the sections moot. (I’ve never been to the AIA headquarters in Phoenix, but if they don’t have a big-ass portrait of Rube Goldberg in their lobby, they’re missing out on a great opportunity.) The girls’ basketball team that I coach went 18-0 in the regular season this year. I thought that would earn the kids a nice banner to hang in the gym. But, it was argued, because there are no longer any conferences, we didn’t win the conference title. And because there were 21 teams in our section, and we were limited by the AIA to 18 games, we didn’t win the section championship, because we didn’t play everybody in our section. All I know is that we played every team they told us to play and beat every one of them. That should count for something, but apparently, it doesn’t. Finally, in a coup de grace (if coup de grace means pouring gasoline on the fire), the AIA had a computer schedule every game in every sport for every school in every section in the state. The results, not surprisingly, were horrifying. Gigantic schools were playing tiny schools. Cholla and Amphi were scheduled to play each other twice last season

RANDOM SHOTS By Rand Carlson

in basketball—and did so on back-to-back nights. Some schools were scheduled to play four or even five basketball games in one week (when two is the norm). I would make a joke about the AIA’s computer being a Commodore 64, but it was probably more like an Altair. Anyway, when The Republic asked whether the AIA’s computer scheduling was effective, 21 percent said yes, while nearly 70 percent said no. Those who responded positively are almost certainly from large-size schools that got to feast on weaker competition. About one-fourth (25.7 percent) of the respondents approved of the AIA’s draconian slashing of state championships from seven classes to four for basketball, baseball and softball. (I’m stunned and disappointed that the number is that high. I can’t imagine why anybody would be in favor of severely limiting kids’ opportunities to experience success.) Sixty-four percent disapproved of the across-theboard reduction. It actually gets worse for the AIA. Only 13.6 percent of the respondents approved of the dumbass move of replacing small conferences (with decades-old geographic and historic rivalries) with large sections. A whopping 77.9 percent disapproved. And here’s the killer: A pathetic 22.9 percent believe that the AIA has the best interests of student-athletes in mind when it makes its decisions, while nearly two-thirds (64.8 percent) of coaches and athletic directors either disagree or strongly disagree with that statement. I don’t think that the people at the top of the AIA are evil. I think they’ve got a couple of deeply ingrained errors in their thinking. They incorrectly believe that they know what’s best for everybody, and somewhere along the line, they forgot that they work for the schools (and the coaches and the athletes), and not the other way around. That “best interest of the student-athlete” thing should be paramount. There is a slight glimmer of hope. A committee has proposed dumping the computer scheduling and going back to conferences instead of mega-sections. Even if these changes are adopted, the AIA’s current nightmare scenario will drag on for another year before any changes are made. AIA head Harold Slemmer told The Republic, “It’s like putting an innovative car together. After the first model, there are changes to make the second model better.” Actually, the AIA had a Honda Accord that maybe needed an oil change. It scrapped that and replaced it with a Yugo that costs more, breaks down all the time and seats about half as many passengers. That’s not innovation; that’s the interscholastic athletic version of New Coke.

JUNE 7 – 13, 2012

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SERRAGLIO OPINION

Controversy reigns in the downtown/UA area HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER

BIG-SHOT BANKER PROVES SOME FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ARE TOO BIG

BY RANDY SERRAGLIO, rserraglio@tucsonweekly.com

he dust usually settles around Tucson this time of year. Wild spring winds diminish; snowbirds retreat to temperate regions; summer vacationers flee; university students join the exodus (or sink into a state of summer torpor); and our beloved burg settles in for a long, sleepy bake. Not this year. Amid fallout from the grinding gears of construction and related political dustups, it seems there’s more dust than ever. Let’s start with the streetcar. Excuse me—the modern streetcar, not to be confused with streetcars that were built a century ago under the same guiding principle of efficiently moving people around urban areas, but with far less cost and caterwauling. Back then, people appreciated public works, because public wisdom was not yet compromised by the hubris of a century of imperial wealth and gadgetry.

In April, Jamie Dimon, the swaggering chief of JPMorgan Chase, scoffed at critics who warned that his bank’s high-flying investment division was dangerously overextended and risking collapse: “A complete tempest in a teapot,” scoffed Dimon. A month later, however, Jamie’s teapot exploded, blowing a $3 billion hole in the nation’s largest bank … and in Dimon’s Under the guise of progress, those streetcars were systemreputation. Poor Jamie—why didn’t someatically purchased and destroyed by automakers who underone tell him? stood that their stinky, slow, expensive, inefficient and unreThey tried. As early as 2009, JPMorgan’s liable gadgets could not compete with clean, cheap and effiown internal risk managers raised concerns cient mass transit. Historical public memory being what it that this out-of-control division was pouring is—virtually obliterated by the frenetic demands and distracbillions of dollars into speculative trades tions of the present—few remember these basic streetcar that were too large and too complex to truths and comprehend the need for a “modern” one. even understand, much less manage. But But the streetcar squabble is nothing compared to the their caution was dismissed, and Dimon dustups that pit neighborhoods against the city and carpethimself pushed for more of these wondrous bagging developers. Tucson Weekly readers are no doubt schemes. aware of the pitched battle over the Main Gate Urban OK, but where were the federal regulators Overlay District, a nifty little arrangement that allows who are supposed to dog banker excess? 14-story student-fornication pens to replace historic homes Shoved aside by Dimon. While more than and small businesses at the edge of the UA campus zone. 100 government inspectors were imbedded in JPMorgan, none were in the reckless It’s the latest in a long tradition of destroying Tucson’s heriinvestment division. The bank’s big-shot tage in the name of progress and profit. boss, who is tightly wired to the top leadOh, I know, it’s not so clear-cut as all that. I’ve heard ers of both political parties, had aggressively pushed against having regulators hovering around THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow his hot investment profit center, assuring the overseers that nothing was happening in there worth watching. Dimon had extra clout, for not only is he a Wall Street star, but—get this—he also has a seat on the board of the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, which has regulatory authority over Wall Street. Indeed, the New York fed will now conduct the inquiry into JPMorgan’s disastrous risk-taking. Yes, Jamie, the fed official, will investigate Jamie, the banker. This is proof again that these banks are simply too big—too big for managers, regulators and the public interest. We don’t need yet another regulatory bandage; we need Teddy Roosevelt to bust ’em up.

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arguments on both sides, ad nauseam. My downtown development friends say that density is the key, and you can’t bitch about the streetcar or anything else that makes it work—even the ridiculously overblown wet dreams of wheeler-dealers from Chicago or California or wherever else they manufacture fake money for a living. My neighborhood activist friends—who’ve been fucked by the powers-that-be so many times that they’ve taken to carrying condoms to City Council meetings—say that there is a fundamental matter of scale here, one that ensures profit for some, and misery for others. I sympathize, considering the history of such matters, including, most recently, a dastardly bait-and-switch by the city clerk, who handed the activists flawed petitions and then disqualified the same when they were returned filled with the signatures of thousands of citizens intent on shining the bright light of democracy on the matter. All I know for sure is that my bicycle commute has turned into an obstacle course of chain link, heavy equipment and valley-fever vectors. I try hard to believe some good will come of it, but the underlying dynamics are dubious. Overheard in a Congress Street coffee shop: Downtown pooh-bah presents bicycle advocate with a scheme to market downtown as a destination for bicyclists during the construction, in anticipation of a reduction in car traffic. Never mind that precious little has ever been done to make the downtown death trap safe for bicycles, or that the scheme ends when the construction ends—now’s the moment of redemption! Bicycle advocate looks out the window and patiently notes that construction fences have rendered many bike racks legally out of bounds for bicyclists to use. Such is the tragicomically limited perspective of those who live in a world defined by the auto industry, developers and the exigencies of “progress.” Allow me to redefine: Real progress would involve processes that prioritize people rather than money, and start with listening to people’s concerns, rather than the pipe dreams of the profiting class. Next door to my office is the Blue Moon Garden. Under the revolutionary guidance of Community Gardens of Tucson—an all-volunteer, nonprofit entity committed to people, and their need and desire to grow healthy, tasty food—a dusty, unused parking lot was transformed into a riot of squash, corn and tomatoes. There’s also a beautiful ramada and native landscaping. To be fair, I’ll note that the city also supported this small miracle. And I’ll say that the streetcar is even more necessary now than a century ago, and some amount of density is necessary to make it work. Nevertheless, massive concrete erections won’t save us. But a civic ethic that honors the wellbeing of the people who live here just might.

GUEST COMMENTARY OPINION

Keith Rosenblum

‘Pay up,’ says Arizona Child Support Enforcement—while revoking the method to do it BY KEITH ROSENBLUM

y track record doesn’t suggest a deadbeat. I have paid $100,000 in child support, and owe another $17,000, on which I pay statemandated 10 percent annual interest. Nor does it suggest fleeing responsibility. I have lived in Tucson since getting my first job in 1978. I have no history of evading authorities, debts or obligations. I do not stuff dollars under mattresses or possess foreign bank accounts. There are liens on my home and car.

Much of my federal tax refund is “intercepted” to pay back child support. Yet the federal government, acting under statute, has revoked my passport. And Arizona, which has the power to restore it, won’t. The reasoning behind that refusal is none of my business. I am told repeatedly to pay up. That is the only solution. The “stakeholders” in my passport? My ex-wife, who recognizes that I need one to provide child support; and my current wife and my kids, who need me to earn to the best of my ability. None of this, however, concerns a fervent core of civil servants in Tucson and Phoenix. Just whom they represent is unclear, but we should trust their sagacity. There must be some logic to immobilizing the citizen one is paid to protect. Who’s to question the wisdom of the Arizona Division of Child Support Enforcement? I am a journalist whose work involves Mexico. I worked at one time for the Arizona Daily Star and The Arizona Republic and generally have earned about $40,000 a year. My freelance work today is virtually all in Mexico. My child-support payments started in 1997. I have always paid more for my sons than ordered. That monthly payment has ranged from as high as $810 to as little as $450. When I have had drops in income, I have acted slowly, if at all. I have “given away” several thousand dollars by not filing for decreases. My passport? I think of it as I do my laptop: It’s a tool I carry to do a job. I have had four in my life. I received the most recent in 2007, and it would have expired in 2017. On a trip to Mexico City in February 2011, the passport was stolen. When I went to request a replacement from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, the answer was “no.” Why? I owed more than $5,000 in child support. The rejection letter explained that my passport would not be replaced as a result of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and Federal Regulation 22CFR51.60(a) (1). I had been placed in what is called the “passport withdrawal” program.

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But there was an “out,” I was told. And that was my state government: Arizona authorities, with a phone call, have the power to restore a passport. That sounded promising. I gathered tax returns, a list of job assignments and references, and headed to Child Support’s location at Kolb Road and Speedway Boulevard in Tucson. I would make my case four times. The first three visits were wastes of time. The message: “Pay up. Borrow, if necessary. We are a debt-collection agency. We are not here to listen to your needs.” On each of the three visits, I explained that I do not have the ability (or collateral) to borrow, as much as I would like, but still need a passport to work. Each case-worker’s response: To get the passport back, I would have to pay in full. Case-workers handle visits at DCSE firstcome, first-serve, so no one worker is assigned to a case. What I thought was an odd policy actually provided a break on the fourth visit. In early May 2011, I found myself with Sheri Kirkpatrick, who, by chance, had worked in Nogales. Noncustodial parents who owed more than $5,000 have been reissued passports and allowed to work in Mexico for brokerage firms, assembly plants and trucking firms, she said. Kirkpatrick told me to write a letter to J. Bryce at Child Support’s Phoenix office.

exico itself does not require foreigners to carry passports to visit border cities, but does require one for travel beyond its 21-kilometer “freezone” that buffers the United States. Few have cause to enter Mexico illegally from the north, so no one pays much attention to those like me. I slip through. (Mexican immigration service does routinely check vehicles at its southern borders.) As a consequence, I am, like it or not, an “undocumented” worker in Mexico, and I face fines and jail time if caught. I assume the risk. The challenging part is returning home.

Crossing back into Arizona can be an uneventful 20-second encounter, or it can require a prolonged course in civics. I am asked by Customs and Border Protection officers at the port of entry if I know that I must have a passport in order to travel to Mexico. Yes, I acknowledge, I know they think it is “must.” But as much as I wish I had one, I still don’t, and here I am, and what are we going to do now? I want to go home.

faxed a 15-page letter with all of my financial information to a J. Bryce. He or she, like others at DCSE, keeps a deliberately low profile and is inaccessible to the public. When I received no rejection or acceptance, I called time and again. Those calls are in vain, however, as one enters a DCSE phone system that makes it virtually impossible to reach anyone. I returned to the DCSE offices and requested they access my account. “It’s rejected,” was the response. On what basis? Is there documentation that’s lacking? Why? There is no need for a response, I was told. Just trust DCSE that your petition has been considered. I repeated the process twice and realized I’d arrived at an impasse. It was time to make a ruckus. I emailed Steve Meissner, the agency’s public-information officer, and said I would be reporting about my passport problems. I visited with the staff of U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva. On July 18, 2011, the phone rang. Patricia Sutton identified herself as working with the “executive correspondence unit” at DCSE, and explained that she worked on high-profile cases. Whether it was from fear of negative press or the inquiry by Grijalva’s office was unclear, but I was receiving an accountability no Arizonan would otherwise receive. Suddenly, DCSE had a voice at its heretofore nonresponsive offices in Phoenix. The conversation with Sutton lasted 45 minutes, and she was adamant: I will pay the entire

amount before I will get my passport back. Why? There is no explanation. Sutton is empowered to make that decision, and that is the way it will be. Prior to the call from Sutton, I came across language online that—in a logical world— might have helped. “The non-custodial parent may provide documentation to DCSE in cases where there may be extenuating circumstances, unusual hardship, medical emergency or mistaken identity,” it reads. What did “extenuating circumstances” mean? Might it be applicable to someone whose income is derived from Mexico? I asked. “I am the person designated to decide that,” Sutton said. The answer was “no.” I sought further clarification from DCSE and received a letter from DCSE assistant director Veronica Hart Ragland. It was essentially a legal copout. “Examples of hardship or extenuating circumstances,” she wrote, “include, but are not limited to: medical emergency or life threatening situation of the noncustodial parent or immediate family member; immediate family member funeral, military deployment, and employment emergency.” Now I knew more about what extenuating circumstances were not. What all of this means is that trials, or hearings of sorts, take place at DCSE, but they are conducted without representation of the party affected. DCSE as prosecutor, judge and jury makes the decision. Is there any appeal? Anyone has a right to a judicial appeal, DCSE says, and that sounds fair. Yet, herein lies perhaps the most egregiously cynical treatment government can mete out to a citizen: Yes, a citizen does have recourse. He or she may go to Superior Court and pursue his case. It is that simple. All one needs is a lawyer, which will cost anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000. Then, all one needs is filing fees, another $225. Then, all one needs is time. Is it lost on anyone that, if these dollars existed, they would have gone—a long time ago—to the care of two kids? Keith Rosenblum may be reached at keithroseblum@hotmail.com.

CURRENTS

THE SKINNY

A whistle-blower complaint leads ds to a publicinformation lawsuit against the Pima County Attorney

DAY OF DECISION

Broken Records BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com com ee Walter has had an unblemished record over almost 30 years with the Pima County Attorney’s Office, so when she received a disciplinary letter in December 2011, she concluded that it came in retaliation for whistle-blowing. Walter, who works as the civil division operations manager and supervises all non-legal staff in the county attorney’s civil division, filed a claim of whistle-blower retaliation on Dec. 15, 2011, with the Arizona State Personnel Board, claiming that retaliation took place after Walter reported misconduct and unethical behavior by two attorneys during an attorney-hiring process in November 2011. Walter’s first hearing before the board was on May 14; the second hearing is slated to take place on Thursday, June 7. To prepare her case for the state board, Walter needed records to prove that retaliation took place. Her request included records on the hiring process, and interoffice communications between her supervisor and others. To get those records, Walter filed public-records requests on Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 of last year. What was a personnel issue quickly turned into a public-records dispute as well. In April, Walter filed a complaint in Pima County Superior Court against her boss and attorneys in her office for withholding public records that she claims support her whistle-blower complaint. It’s unclear in the Pima County Superior Court documents—filed by a private attorney representing the Pima County Attorney’s Office, and filed by Walter, who is representing herself— exactly what kind of unethical behavior allegedly took place during the hiring process. The Tucson Weekly asked Walter for comment, but she said she didn’t feel comfortable talking about her case because of the upcoming hearing. We called County Attorney Barbara LaWall’s office for comment, but had not received a response by press time. We also called the private law firm the county hired, Gabroy Rollman and Bossé, and left a message for Richard Rollman, the attorney of record for both the case before the personnel board and the public-records lawsuit. The Weekly did not hear back as of press time. Besides the Pima County Attorney’s Office, Walter also filed her public records complaint against LaWall, Chief Deputy County Attorney Amelia Crammer, Chief Civil Deputy County Attorney Chris Straub, Deputy County Attorney Regina Nassen and Deputy County Attorney Stacey Roseberry. According to court documents the Weekly obtained through the Pima County Superior Court, Walter’s issues began in November when

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A long-time employee put Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall’s office through a public-records lawsuit and whistle-blower complaint. The county’s attorney also contends that she participated in an attorney-hiring process. the disciplinary letter concerns matters that In an April 30 memorandum to Judge occurred before the November hiring process. Ted Borek, Walter claims she received the According to a memorandum filed by the disciplinary letter as retaliation after she county’s private attorney, in September 2011, reported the misconduct and unethical Straub asked Walter to provide him notice of behavior. Walter then requested her personnel upcoming staff meetings and agendas. When files, any documentation involving the attorneyit was determined that Walter didn’t follow interview process, information about the that request, Straub met with other attorneys investigation that was supposed to have taken in the office to decide what to do next. Straub place after she reported the misconduct, and was then told by LaWall to draft a disciplinary communications between attorneys regarding letter to Walter on Nov. 14. It wasn’t until Nov. her discipline. 15 that Walter met with Crammer regarding Walter said she did receive some records, her complaints on attorney-hiring violations, but in the court documents, she said one disk so therefore, from the county’s perspective, with more than 500 pages included very little retaliation couldn’t have occurred. The requested information. However, Walter also memorandum notes that Walter received the said she received documents involving an disciplinary letter in early December 2011. attorney who was interviewed that included As part of Walter’s public-records request, she bank, payroll and insurance information. That asks for a log and explanation of why the records kind of information, Walter said, she’d consider she wants will not be released, and why portions confidential. were redacted. The county’s response is that it is In the response filed by the county’s attorney not legally obligated to provide that log. It also on April 27, the county admitted that Walter has contends that her request is too broad, and that never received any counseling or discipline during a good deal of the information she requested is her 30 years with the department. The document confidential in nature. also stated that an investigation of Walter’s claims There was a proposal to allow Walter to view was completed, and it was concluded that there the information she requested in the County were no hiring-policy violations. Attorney’s office, but she needed to sign a According to a memorandum to the court confidentiality agreement. Walter put off that filed by the county’s attorney, the disciplinary offer until Wednesday, May 9, when Judge Borek action Walter received in December was one of ruled in Walter’s favor, which also led to her the “least-serious forms of discipline available; signing the confidentiality agreement to view it is ‘informal’ discipline. As long as the conduct the records Borek thought were confidential. for which the employee was counseled is not What information Walter chooses to use repeated within the following 12 months, a letter for her case won’t be known until the second of counseling is expunged from the employee’s hearing on Thursday, June 7. personnel file one year after it was given.”

On Tuesday, June 12, voters will finally have their say in the special election to complete Gabrielle Giffords’ congressional term: Will they send Democrat Ron Barber, the former aide to Giffords, to Washington, D.C.? Or will they send Republican Jesse Kelly, who was Giffords’ political nemesis over the last two years? We’ve made our pick clear: We think that Barber will do a much better job of representing Southern Arizona. He knows the district well; he has the support of moderate Republicans who have seen the kind of work he did at Gabby’s side; he understands the facts underlying real-world policy; and he’s a fundamentally decent and sincere guy. Kelly, as we’ve reported over the last few years, is skilled at delivering conservative talking points, but he’s failed to demonstrate any ability to grapple with the issues facing both the nation and Southern Arizona. He has avoided in-depth interviews with the Tucson Weekly and the Arizona Daily Star, and he’s made up a lot of nonsense on the campaign trail. He’s willing to say anything if he thinks it will help him win next week. Spending on both sides has topped $3 million; Barber managed to raise nearly $1.2 million as of May 23, which was almost twice Kelly’s $666,000. But Kelly’s message was boosted by an aggressive, paint-by-numbers campaign by the National Republican Congressional Committee, Citizens United and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, which combined to spend more than a million dollars on TV ads and mailers painting Barber as a big supporter of Obamacare, and as a puppet of the White House and Nancy Pelosi. Much of that has been focused on the GOP’s favorite big lie: the assertion that the Affordable Care Act—and by extension, Barber—will cut $500 billion from Medicare. Barber had his own backers out of Washington: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Majority PAC (a Dem superPAC) both dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into TV ads reinforcing the message that Jesse Kelly has a lot of crazy ideas, like privatizing Social Security, expecting elderly Americans to pick up the tab for their own health insurance in the future, and eliminating the minimum wage and corporate income taxes. As this week began, House Majority PAC unleashed a new ad recapping some of Kelly’s more-radical positions, and reminding viewers of Kelly’s harsh assessment of Gabby during the 2010 election, when Kelly came within 4,200 votes of beating Giffords. They picked a 2010 quote that’s sure to resonate in Southern Arizona: “And now she stands there with that smile and pretends to be some kind of hometown hero. She’s a hero of nothing.”

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SEAN MOONEY RETURNS TO TUCSON FOR KVOA ANCHOR ROLE Sean Mooney has worked in major markets and for significant national organizations in a broadcast career that has spanned the better part of three decades. He’s also worked for ad agencies with clients in places like Las Vegas and Los Angeles. But none of it was the same as being in Tucson. “It’s a city I’ve cursed; it’s a city I’ve loved. But it’s home and always has been,” Mooney said. “Even in all my travels, there’s something about Tucson.” So when Brandon Gunnoe left for Boston, and a weekend anchor/reporter position opened at KVOA Channel 4, Mooney pushed hard, turning down gigs in places as diverse as Salt Lake City and Jacksonville, Fla. He learned KVOA said yes during an ad-rep meeting in Las Vegas. “I was outside this office, ready to go into this meeting, when (KVOA news director Cathie Batbie-Loucks) called me, and I was trying to be cool, calm and collected,” Mooney said. “So after holding it in for this whole meeting, where I can’t say anything to anybody, I get in the elevator and—yes! I drop to my knees, and the door opens, and three people are waiting outside. ‘There’s no one else in the elevator. Who’s this guy talking to?’” Mooney grew up in Tucson and went to the UA, majoring in radio and television, “which they actually gave you a degree in at the time.” He once had an internship at Channel 4. “Talk about full circle—leaving the UA, going back to working in New York City and back East for 18 years with Major League Baseball Productions and the World Wrestling Federation, and then news in Boston, and now I’m back at KVOA,” he said. “I know this city, and the city knows me. I’m really excited about it.” Mooney is an excellent hire for KVOA. The station landed a talent with experience in front of and behind the camera who has deep connections to the community and doesn’t flinch when asked to shoot his own footage. Mooney has been in Tucson on and off for a number of years, most recently thanks to Fox Sports Arizona and UA sports broadcasts. But when Fox Sports lost its contract with the Pac-10 (now the Pac-12), it severely damaged Mooney’s ability to function in a profitable way locally. He didn’t want to move, but he didn’t really have a choice. So Mooney commuted and cobbled together a number of freelance gigs in a variety of locations. But returning to Tucson was always a priority, because in addition to his love for the community, he has family here. “I’m a divorced father, so it’s been really tough not being around my kids and not being in the city as much. I’m used to being very much a part of their lives,” Mooney said. “When it came down to it, I just could not see leaving Tucson.”

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Broadway Performance BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com ark Homan, vice president of the Rincon Heights Neighborhood Association, dreads the idea of widening Broadway Boulevard to eight lanes between downtown and County Club Road. He fears the loss of businesses along the corridor. He worries about pedestrians crossing such a wide stretch of roadway. He doesn’t want to see historic buildings bulldozed. “Whatever we do there should make things better,” Homan says. “We shouldn’t have a project that just tries to minimize damage. That’s a poor standard for shaping the future of our community.” Homan isn’t alone in his concerns. He’s been joined by Broadway merchants and property owners, neighborhood residents, mass-transit enthusiasts and others who want to see the city and the Regional Transportation Authority change the current plans for Broadway. The critics of the Broadway-widening plans have a champion in Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik, who has spearheaded an effort on the Tucson City Council to reconsider the $71.3 million widening, which is part of a $2 billion, 20-year transportation plan approved by voters in 2006. The current proposal, which is in a design phase that’s expected to take two years, calls for six travel lanes, two dedicated bus lanes, bike lanes on both sides of the road, and a raised median. To get that wider street, the city began planning in 1987 to demolish properties along the north side of Broadway. Since that plan was created 25 years ago, the city has been purchasing properties along Broadway with an eye toward the eventual widening. But Kozachik questions the traffic projections that predicted an eight-lane Broadway would be necessary. “It makes no sense to widen this thing beyond traffic-capacity needs,” Kozachik says. A similar Grant Road-widening effort will consider the importance of businesses along the way, and the road will snake back and forth from the north to the south. Kozachik wants to see the same consideration along Broadway. “There’s no reason we can’t do creative design like that,” Kozachik says. Kozachik is pushing for a change in plans that would allow the road to remain within its current footprint. He says the street can still be widened to three lanes in each direction by reducing the width of each lane, scrapping the bus lanes, and taking the bike path off the street. He says the sooner a decision is made about

the future of the corridor, the sooner property owners along the street can make decisions about the future. “It will bring certainty to businesses in the corridor,” Kozachik says. “That’s why it’s important for us to make a public pronouncement about it.” Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, who took office six months ago, agrees that Broadway widening deserves a closer look. Rothschild adds the city can’t use a “cookiecutter” approach to road projects through the city’s core. “I want to get to the right result,” Rothschild says. “And I’m not sure what that is at this point.” As the city of Tucson’s representative on the RTA’s governing board, Rothschild has requested that the RTA staff look into the parameters for reducing the scope of a voter-approved project. (He also asked staff for a report on the possibility of getting some street-maintenance dollars from the RTA’s pot of money.) The RTA board is expected to get those reports at a meeting on Thursday, June 14. The city of Tucson is also creating a citizens’ committee to examine the project and recommend how to move forward with it.

Pima County is supposed to provide $25 million to help cover the project’s costs under a bond package approved by voters. Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry says the county has some problems with the bond package, because state lawmakers have been reducing the amount of gas taxes and other funds that are used to pay back the bonds, but the county is “probably good for it, but we’re good for it in the longer term, not the shorter term.” Huckelberry, who is generally cautious about changing projects within the RTA plan, says he believes that reducing the Broadway project from eight to six lanes makes sense to him, because planners probably overestimated the traffic projections for the corridor. He says reducing the scope of the project could save a significant amount of money, because purchasing the necessary real estate for the eight-lane widening made up a big chunk of the cost of the project. But Huckelberry is skeptical that a six-lane road, along with a median and bike paths, could be done within Broadway’s existing footprint. “I don’t know if you could or not, but that’s what you do all these studies for,” Huckelberry says.

While Gabby encouraged Barber to seek the seat, we’ve seen relatively little of her during the campaign. She and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly (who, needless to say, is no relation to Jesse Kelly), have helped Barber raise funds, and Mark Kelly recorded a robo-call on Barber’s behalf. Gabby’s image finally appeared on an Arizona Democratic Party mailer last week, and she’s coming to town this weekend for her first GABBY local public appearance since she stepped down in January. She’ll be at a get-out-the-vote concert at downtown’s Rialto Theatre on Saturday, June 9, that’s going to put a spotlight on the Barber campaign in the final weekend. The concert, a free show from 5 to 8 p.m., will feature a lot of Gabby’s favorite musicians in this town: Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta, Joey Burns and Jacob Valenzuela of Calexico, Salvador Duran and Kevin Pakulis. By the time the show rolls around, a lot of people will have already cast their ballots. When we last checked the early ballots on Monday, June 4, about 50,000 Republicans had already voted, compared to roughly 45,000 Democrats, and 28,000 voters who belong to neither party. The race is a dead heat, so you can expect both campaigns to keep pushing right up until the polls close on Tuesday. The battle over the Congressional District 8 seat has been expensive and intense, but once the votes are counted, it’s not really going to be over. Both candidates say they’re going to be right back in the fight for the new Congressional District 2. The new district loses the GOP precincts of SaddleBrooke, Oro Valley and Marana, and will be more or less evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. (For more on those dynamics, see this JESSE week’s cover story on Page 16.) If Kelly wins by a narrow margin, it will be easy for Barber to make the argument that the new district makes it possible for him to win in November, although he’ll still have to get past state Rep. Matt Heinz in the Democratic primary. But if Kelly loses, he’s gonna have a hard time convincing people that he should get a third chance in a district that’s less-favorable to him. Regardless, Kelly hasn’t shown himself to be someone with a tight grasp on reality.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN SAN DIEGO City Councilman Paul Cunningham is in a political jam after getting plastered on a recent Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities junket—er,

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JACKED UP SOUTH KHE SANH LANE MAY 19, 10:01 P.M.

A young man who told neighbors that the car jack he was carrying around was “the hammer of Thor” had been sleeping with a shotgun and a rifle in a boat on his mother’s property, according to a Pima County Sheriff’s Department report. Deputies spoke to the subject’s mother and sister, who said he’d moved in with them about three weeks ago, and had been acting strangely ever since. The mother said she was concerned for her own safety as well as her son’s, and suspected that he had been smoking either salvia or Spice, an herbal and chemical mix known as synthetic marijuana. The mother told deputies she had found a loaded shotgun and an AR-15 assault rifle where he had been sleeping. The sister said her brother often “went off” on tangents, saying strange things, such as that he was an angel, and his mother was the devil. One of the subject’s friends told deputies that the subject had a habit of hiding out in the desert. The subject had apparently been going to neighbors’ houses, armed with a car jack and rambling that the car jack was “the hammer of Thor,” and repeating that he was an angel. Deputies later located the subject among some bushes with a car jack, some sort of green tube and a large wrench. He was cooperative, saying he’d simply gone for a walk and then decided to do some exercises in the desert using the car jack. He insisted that his statements to his neighbors were nothing more than a joke. He said he had called his mother the devil because she had temper problems. Deputies found a small amount of Spice that belonged to the subject. He was voluntarily admitted to a crisis center.

A SMASHING TIME SOUTH MARE DRIVE MAY 18, 3:58 P.M.

A woman who was denied the use of her father’s car reacted by smashing the vehicle’s windshield with a brick, a PCSD report stated. A caller—a friend of the subject’s daughter—told deputies that the woman had wanted to use the car to drive to the store, but was refused permission because she had been drinking all night. “Fine—if I cannot use the car, no one can!” she reportedly shouted before chucking a brick at the car. The caller said the woman was last seen walking down the road. Deputies couldn’t locate the subject and told the caller to contact law enforcement again if the woman returned.

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Thank You, YouTube his might be surprising to those who follow my pop-culture-obsessed posts on The Range, but the Gibson family recently made the decision to get rid of cable. While this has made it slightly more difficult to watch some of the television shows we enjoy, it hasn’t been the awful morass of boredom that I had anticipated, partially because we found other things to do (strange, I know)—but also because of the wealth of TV entertainment available on the Internet. Not that anyone will likely care but me, but there’s a wealth of British-gameshow episodes uploaded to YouTube, and it’s like I have my own trivia-nerd cable channel to enjoy. Plus, since we have an Xbox 360, we (actually, it’s just me and whatever family member I can rope into watching The Chase) can watch these fine shows streaming on our TV. The larger point, other than I probably need to get a life, is that cable and satellite companies should learn that consumers no longer really need their product. This week, Microsoft announced more content providers, including the NBA, are coming to their console, so I might not ever go back to TV. Who would have thought that bundling a lot of crap together that people don’t want and charging more and more would backfire?

—Dan Gibson, Web Producer dgibson@tucsonweekly.com

THE WEEK ON THE RANGE We looked forward to Gabrielle Giffords’ appearance at a concert this weekend benefiting Ron Barber’s campaign; tried to understand what happened in San Diego that required City Councilman Paul Cunningham to divulge that he has “some personal issues”; shared the tweet of one (former?) politician who knows something about personal issues; noted that you might want to make sure your security system is tuned up; and discussed the highlights of the week’s political events with Jeff Rogers and Sam Stone on Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable, with your host, Jim Nintzel. (You might consider supporting during KUAT Channel 6’s membership drive this week, too.) We looked at a new cookbook which features recipes from local food trucks; made plans to try a new restaurant near Weekly World Central; noted a few new chain-restaurant locations coming to town; let you know you can get some food from The B-Line via bicycle now; wistfully remembered the Easy-Bake Oven; and (not so) eagerly awaited our opportunity to purchase a Mtn Dew A.M. (their spelling, not ours) at Taco Bell. One of our summer interns traveled into the world of local antique stores; we scratched our head at the genetic aberration known as the Ducken; scrubbed our skin until it hurt after reading about how disgusting public pools can be; watched a beautiful time-lapse film; skipped lunch after reading a series of news items about cannibalism; thought a bit about Mad Men, birth control and the recent “war on women”; delved into the world of sports conspiracy theories; tried to understand why Rebecca Black has an interest in the Mexican presidential election; watched animated ponies act out the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald; enjoyed outtakes from the recent Muppet movie; announced a job opening to coach hockey at the UA; and listened to the new Edward Sharpe album.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK “His name is Dakin Matthews. He played a judge on General Hospital (which I don’t watch), and he was on Gilmore Girls (which I watched religiously). … Now I can sleep at night.” —Tom Danehy follows up on which character actor Ron Barber reminds him of, and reveals his love of charming mother-daughter stories that once aired on The WB (Danehy, May 31).

BEST OF WWW With the whole early-voting-by-mail thing, some elections have become strangely anti-climatic— but this Tuesday, June 12, we’ll be all over the results of the special election to fill Gabrielle Giffords’ vacated seat in the House of Representatives. Yes, we’ll have the results as soon as they’re available, but we’ll also be at the candidate events happening that night, with Jim Nintzel at the Ron Barber event, and Mari Herreras with Jesse Kelly and company. We’ll be there with the perspective, background and possibly even humor that you expect from the Tucson Weekly.

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Pawn Job BY TIM VANDERPOOL, tvanderpool@tucsonweekly.com

Those convictions do not typically come easily. “Often times, officers bring cases in, and we decline them, because we don’t have the evidence that the person (who sold the merchandise) knew that the items were stolen,” says Malena Acosta, supervisor of the Pima County Attorney Office’s property-crimes unit. “Or (the suspects) have a story that a jury perhaps would believe. … It just depends on the evidence we have.” As for pawn shops, “they really are protected,” Acosta says. “They have a property interest in the stolen item, believe it or not. That means they can get restitution from the criminal.” And if there is no criminal conviction, the case might go to civil court. “That’s done through law enforcement,” Acosta says. “Someone files it; you have to go to court; and the judge basically tells the victim that they can have their property back.” How often that happens remains unclear. But Tucson does suffer roughly 5,000 burglaries per year, and all of those stolen goods certainly don’t end up at the nearest yard sale or swap meet. In turn, riding herd on the city’s proliferating pawn shops is a time-consuming, costly endeavor. The shops are required to collect fingerprints and identification from the sellers and forward that information to the Tucson Police Department. At any given time, TPD devotes some four officers, a detective, a sergeant and office staff to scan those transactions for stolen goods. The tab for that oversight runs approximately $700,000 a year. In 2010, the city further stiffened electronicreporting requirements for pawn shops, and added a $1 fee to all transactions. The fees cover roughly half of the annual monitoring costs. In addition, a $1,000 licensing tax is levied against the busier shops. Despite all that, Darius Gemmel’s computer still sits at EZ Money Pawn. He says there was a civil court hearing scheduled for May 9, when he hoped a judge would order his laptop returned. But then that date was mysteriously pulled. He admits becoming a bit cranky with the police, after getting what he describes as a big runaround. But according to Sgt. Maria Hawke, a TPD spokeswoman, the department has taken every possible measure to close Gemmel’s case. On May 25, she says, an officer presented it to the Pima County Attorney’s Office for review. “That implies that he’s moving forward with the case. If the county attorney thinks the case is strong enough, they’ll issue it to the grand jury. But that’s a big if. “Yes, it means that an arrest hasn’t been made

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o unearth the roots of his anger, Darius Gemmel doesn’t need the help of a shrink. He just needs to look a few feet away, where his laptop computer gathers dust. It was on April 29, 2011, that Gemmel’s midtown home was ransacked; among the things stolen was his MacBook Pro. As it happens, Gemmel is what you might call a detail-oriented fellow, the kind who actually logs serial numbers from his more prized possessions—you know, the way the police are always telling us to do. Which brings us to EZ Money Pawn on East 22nd Street, where Gemmel’s computer has sat for months. He knows it’s his, because, well, he has the serial number. So you might anticipate one of those rare happy endings, where the guy retrieves his personal property in a deeply righteous reunion. But that’s not quite how this story goes. Instead, even though Gemmel knows where his computer is—with a bit of fibbing, he was even allowed to examine it—he can’t seem to get his MacBook back. And get this: Even though police have identified the woman who sold Gemmel’s hot computer to EZ Money Pawn, she has yet to be charged. Police say that Gemmel has been rude in his calls to them, employing colorful language. Meanwhile, out at EZ Money Pawn, standing amid an inventory that ranges from leaf-blowers to wedding rings, manager Tony Hernandez blames Gemmel for the dilemma. “If he was not the kind of person that he is, it might be resolved at this point,” Hernandez says. “But he’s really being difficult with the police officers and with us.” In other words, if Darius Gemmel didn’t have such a bad attitude about getting ripped off and then finding his stolen property, only to be told that he can’t have it back—if only he’d addressed the situation with light-hearted banter instead of deepening frustration—things would be OK. Gemmel calls the situation Kafkaesque. “The police are stonewalling me because I raised such a stink about how they handled my case,” he says. “They have done absolutely nothing to take any action against anyone.” To be fair, the cops are up against a tapestry of laws that often seem designed to protect the pawn industry. Then there’s the fact that people often try to scam pawnshops by selling their merchandise to another person or to the shop itself, and then later claiming it was stolen. As a result, burglary victims such as Gemmel must often wait for a conviction to retrieve their property.

Darius Gemmel: “The police are stonewalling me because I raised such a stink about how they handled my case.” yet,” Hawke says. “But it doesn’t mean it’s not being followed up on. It means they’re making sure they have the best possible case so that they don’t prematurely arrest—only to have it dismissed at the County Attorney’s Office later on, because they don’t feel like it’s a strong-enough case.” Either way, Hawke says that keeping Gemmel from retrieving his MacBook a year after the burglary is not unusual. “If you think about it, until (police) have definitive proof that it’s the right computer, and they have a suspect in custody and can basically close out the case, it’s an item of evidence. “So that pawnshops don’t become unwitting victims in these crimes, they’re able to hold on to the property until the case is closed. And unfortunately, that can take a very long time.” A long time indeed. For Darius Gemmel, it amounts to 13 months and counting.

fact-finding mission—to San Diego and making some remarks about the relative sexual attractiveness of a highranking city staffer, among other boorish comments. Cunningham, a Democrat who represents eastside Ward 2, says he can’t remember what he said, but he’s been on an apology tour. He has acknowledged that he has a drinking problem and, on Friday, June 1, sent out a brief statement explaining that he “had too much to drink and said some things that might be considered inappropriate.” “I apologize for my behavior,” Cunningham continued. “I have some personal issues that I’m dealing with. I will make amends to anyone I offended and to my constituents as best I can.” Beyond his brief statement and an interview with TucsonSentinel.com, Cunningham says he’s not going to talk about the mess until an investigation by the city’s Office of Equal Opportunity Programs is complete. Cunningham is coming under fire from some of his fellow Democrats on the Tucson City Council. Ward 3 Councilwoman Karin Uhlich, who has been Cunningham’s mostvocal critic, tells The Skinny that Cunningham is going to have to decide if he’s still capable of representing his constituents. The City Council was also set to discuss this week whether they should put in place some kind of ordinance or policy that holds them to the standards that normal city employees have to live by. As it now stands, Cunningham’s fellow council members have no mechanism by which to sanction him for his misconduct, beyond a $50 fine. The escapade is also shining a light on TREO and its highly paid president and chief executive officer, Joe Snell, who has been avoiding reporters since the story broke. While TREO’s support from the public sector has shrunk in recent years as the city and county have struggled with shrinking budgets, we’re hearing from critics across the political spectrum who are questioning whether the organization is living up to expectations. By Jim Nintzel Find early and late-breaking Skinny at The Range, our daily dispatch, at daily. tucsonweekly.com. Jim Nintzel hosts the Political Roundtable every Friday on Arizona Illustrated, airing at 6:30 p.m. on KUAT Channel 6. The program repeats on 12:30 a.m., Saturday. Nintzel also talks politics with radio talk-show host John C. Scott on Thursday afternoons. Scott’s show airs from 4 to 5 p.m., weekdays, on KVOI AM 1030. Follow the Skinny scribe on Twitter: @nintzel.

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CURRENTS Cold case: Two years after the death of Vanessa Romero, police are looking for leads

Friend to the End BY BRIAN J. PEDERSEN, bpedersen@tucsonweekly.com anessa Romero had plansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;plans for herself, and plans for those she cared about. The 18-year-old single mother was going to finish school, join the Army, raise her child and help give her ailing mother the gift of life. But all of that went away on a June night in 2010, when Romero left her southside home to meet a friend. Romero was found dead early the following morning across town, floating in the water at Lakeside Park on the eastside. A jogger discovered the body, but saw nothing else to help Tucson police. Two years later, there are no strong leads as to who might have killed Romero. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just talked to the detective the other day, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing. Nothing,â&#x20AC;? said her mother, Yolanda Romero. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t found anything about anybody.â&#x20AC;? Police have never released a cause of death for Vanessa, and her mother declined to reveal that information at the request of detectives. The death of her only daughter ripped a hole in Yolanda, who had spent much of Vanessaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last day with her daughter and her year-old granddaughter, Nevaeh. Yolanda believes the stress of Vanessaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death and the surrounding circumstances had a direct effect on her going blind last July. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to bed July 3, and I was able to see; I got up in the morning, and I thought all the lights were off, and it was super-early,â&#x20AC;? Yolanda Romero recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But my son was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, Mom, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to see since.â&#x20AC;? Yolanda Romero described her daughter as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very caring personâ&#x20AC;? who was always looking to make nice with others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If she was your friend, she was your friend to the end,â&#x20AC;? Yolanda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afraid of

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Vanessa Romeroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Yolanda, with Vanessaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aunt, Dolores LaRoque. anything.â&#x20AC;? Such a lack of fear could have contributed to what happened on the night of her death, her mother speculates. She said Vanessa had gotten a phone call about 7 p.m. that evening, and she argued with the person on the other end of the line. Yolanda Romero believes it was the man Vanessa had been dating, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not certain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She said she was going to get some ice cream at Dairy Queen and go to the park,â&#x20AC;? Yolanda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was going to take Nevaeh with her, but it was getting late. She left at 8:30.â&#x20AC;? Yolanda said she figured Vanessa would go to Rodeo Park, at Irvington Road and Sixth Avenue, near the Romero homeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not Lakeside Park,

some 10 miles to the east and nowhere near any of Vanessaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never knew that park existed,â&#x20AC;? Yolanda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lakeside Park was way (away from) my house. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why she would go there.â&#x20AC;? Police interviewed the man Vanessa was datingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Tucson Weekly is not identifying him, because he is not considered a suspectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but nothing resulted from that. The case has gone cold, which leaves the Romero family struggling to move on while at the same time wondering what Vanessa would be doing if she were still alive. Vanessa had dropped out of high school to have her baby, but she was attending a teenage

parenting program and was three months from completing it, her mother said. Once that was done, there was the Army to look forward to. Vanessa also planned to donate a kidney to Yolanda, who has been in need of a transplant for several years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She insisted on giving me a kidney; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the kind of person she was,â&#x20AC;? Yolanda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was preparing herself and her daughter for a great life. I think (by now), sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d already be in the Army.â&#x20AC;? Anyone with information connected to Vanessa Romeroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death is encouraged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.

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PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Democrats have spent the last few months selling the idea that Arizona might be in play in the presidential race. They point to a handful of polls showing a competitive race and hope that the recent actions of Gov. Jan Brewer and a conservative Arizona Legislature will trigger backlash among independent and Latino voters. A series of polls early this year showed voters divided between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Two April surveys showed them knotted at about 40 percent each, and a February survey by Public Policy Polling showed them at 47 percent each. But a more recent PPP poll, taken May 17-20, showed Romney with a 7 percentage-point lead, capturing 50 percent to Obama’s 43 percent. The hurdles in front of the president are high: The same survey showed that only 41 percent of Arizona voters approved of Obama’s job performance, and 46 percent had a favorable view of Mitt Romney, making Arizona one of the few states that PPP has polled where Romney’s favorables exceed his unfavorables. U.S. SENATE Congressman Jeff Flake, who has represented District 6 in Maricopa and Pinal counties since 2003, is hoping to land the seat held by retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl. For most of his congressional career, Flake has been a small-government, free-market, Libertarian-oriented Republican. While he has voted along party lines for the most part, he’s pushed for opening trade with Cuba, eschewed earmarks and supported the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Until he decided to seek the Jeff Flake Senate seat, Flake was one of the few congressional Republicans who supported comprehensive immigration reform that would allow illegal immigrants now in the United States to receive legal status as long as they paid a fine and passed a background check. Since announcing his campaign, Flake has publicly backed away from that position, saying the United States must do more to secure the border before any other steps are taken. Flake finds himself facing a primary challenge from Wil Cardon, who is pouring millions of his own dollars into a campaign to portray himself as a successful businessman and Washington, D.C., outsider. Cardon is seeing some return on that investment, although he has a long way to go. A Public Policy Polling survey conducted May 17-20 showed that Cardon had the support of 20 percent of Republicans, while Flake had the support of 42 percent. Still, that was a big step up for Cardon, given that he had the support of only 7 percent of the voters in a February PPP poll, and trailed Flake by 49 percentage points. Two other little-known Republicans, Bryan Hackbarth and Clair Van Steenwyk, also registered to run in the primary. The winner of the GOP primary will face a tough fight from Democrat Richard Carmona, who faces token opposition from Tucson physician David A. Ruben, a political newcomer who filed nominating petitions last week.

Carmona has an impressive résumé: His parents hailed from Puerto Rico, and he grew up in a Richard Carmona poor neighborhood in the Bronx. After high school, he earned two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, where he served as a combat medic. After leaving the service, he became a trauma surgeon, joined the Pima County SWAT team, and served as one of President George W. Bush’s surgeon generals, sometimes butting heads with administration officials when politics took precedence over science in health matters. Libertarian Sheila Bilyeu has also filed to run. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 1 Oro Valley and Marana are now part of Arizona’s largest congressional district, which stretches from the north side of Pima County, around the eastern half of the state and then north to Flagstaff and the Navajo reservation. It’s a sprawling district with wildly different interest groups—SaddleBrooke’s GOP retirees, Mormon cowboys, the Hopis and the Navajos, and Flagstaff ’s granola Democrats. The voterregistration numbers give Democrats a 9-point edge in CD 1, but many of those Democrats are conservative, rural voters, so it’s a competitive district. The Democratic primary is shaping up to be ugly. Ann Kirkpatrick, who served a large part of the new district for one term in Congress from 2009 to 2011 before losing to Tea Party GOP challenger Paul Gosar, is looking to make a comeback, but she’s facing a fierce challenge from political newcomer Wenona Benally Baldenegro. A Harvard-educated attorney who would be the first Native American woman elected to Congress, Baldenegro is already complaining that she’s being treated unfairly by the Arizona Democratic Party and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. On the Republican side, former state lawmaker Jonathan Paton is also looking to make a political comeback. Paton, who represented the east side of Tucson, Green Valley and Sierra Vista in the Arizona Legislature, lost a bid for Congress in 2010 to Jesse Kelly, who knocked him out in the GOP primary in CD 8. Paton faces three GOP newcomers in the CD 1 race: Gaither Martin, who recently returned to Arizona after spending several years running a consulting business that helps investors and businesses set up shop in Iraq; Doug Wade, a contractor in Sedona; and Patrick Gatti, a small-government enthusiast from Show Low. Libertarian Anthony Prowell has also filed to run in the district. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 2 The fate of Congressional District 2 won’t be fully clear until next week, when voters decide the June 12 special election between Democrat Ron Barber and Republican Jesse Kelly to complete Gabrielle Giffords’ term. The new CD 2 covers much of the same ground as the current Congressional District 8, but there have been some changes. Most continued on next page JUNE 7 – 13, 2012

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CANDIDATES continued from Page 17 dramatically, the new Ron Barber CD 2 will not include the GOP enclaves of Oro Valley, Marana and SaddleBrooke, which have shifted to Congressional District 1. That means that the district will become more competitive. In CD 8, Republicans hold a 6-point voter-registration edge; in the new district, 34.7 percent of the voters are Republican, while 34.1 percent are Democrats, and 31.1 percent fall into the category of “other.” Both Kelly and Barber have said they intend to run in the new CD 2. On the GOP side, Martha McSally, a former Air Force fighter pilot who came in second in the April primary in the CD 8 special election, has filed to run in CD 2, but has said she’ll drop Martha McSally out of the race if Kelly wins next week. Republican newcomer Mark Koskiniemi has also filed to run. On the Democratic side, Barber will face Democrat Matt Heinz in the primary. Heinz, who is wrapping up his second term in the Arizona House of Representatives, said he’ll stay in the race whether Barber wins or loses the CD 8 race next week. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 3 Critics of Congressman Raúl Grijalva—and he’s had his share over a long career that has included stints on the Pima County Board of Supervisors and the Tucson Unified School District governing board—have promised in each election cycle that voters would tire of the progressive Democrat. Raúl Grijalva Grijalva has consistently proved them wrong, climbing all the way to the U.S. House of Representatives a decade ago. But last year, Grijalva faced one of his toughest races yet, against political neophyte Ruth McClung, who nearly knocked him out after he called for businesses to boycott Arizona in the wake of the passage of SB 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law. This year, Grijalva is running in a district that remains a Democratic stronghold—43 percent of the voters are registered Democrats, and just 22 percent are Republicans. He’s facing two challengers in the Democratic primary: former state lawmaker Amanda Aguirre, who represented Yuma for eight years at the state Capitol; and Manny Arreguin, a Tucson physician who is making his first foray into politics. Both Aguirre and Arreguin have complained that the Democratic Party is out to protect Grijalva by refusing to give them access to voter lists in the new district. 18 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

In the GOP primary, Republican activist Gabriela Saucedo Mercer is set to face Jaime Vasquez, a general contractor and owner of a steel-fabrication company. Libertarian Blanca Guerra is also in the race. PIMA COUNTY All of this year’s races for the Pima County Board of Supervisors—which oversees a $1.3 billion budget and services throughout Pima County ranging from health care to transportation—will be contested. • In District 1, Supervisor Ann Day is stepping down after three terms, leading to a rumble among Republicans who represent the Catalina foothills, Oro Valley Vic Williams and parts of Marana. Four Republican candidates are in the primary: Vic Williams, who is giving up a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives to run for the county board; Ally Miller, a Tea Party organizer; Mike Hellon, a former Arizona Republican Party chairman and GOP national committeeman; and Stuart McDaniel, a mortgage broker who last dabbled in politics as a deputy campaign manager for Jesse Kelly’s 2010 congressional effort. The winner of the GOP primary will face Democrat Nancy Young Wright, a former state lawmaker and Amphitheater school-board member. • In District 2, Supervisor Ramón Valadez, a Democrat who has been on the board since 2002, will face a challenge from Republican James Kelley, a party activist and occasional blogger. Sharon • In District 3, Bronson Supervisor Sharon Bronson, a Democrat who has represented the westside since 1996, will face Republican newcomer Tanner Bell, a former UA football player who works for the UA Athletics Department as an academic adviser. • In District 4, Supervisor Ray Carroll, who has served on the board since 1997, is challenged by fellow Republican Sean Collins, who left a career in the Air Force to work in the defense industry. Ray Carroll • In District 5, Democratic Supervisor Richard Elías is set to face Republican Fernando Gonzales, a businessman and political newcomer. In other Pima County races: • Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat whose remarks about coarse political discourse set off a national firestorm in the wake of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others on Jan. 8, 2011, is seeking a ninth term. Dupnik has drawn five Republican challengers: Terry Frederick, a former county deputy who has worked as a private investigator; Vinson Holck, a retired Tucson police officer; Mark Napier, a former Tucson police

captain; Walt Setzer, who has worked for the U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service; and Chester Manning, a former police officer who appears to be partially funding his campaign through a variety of gun raffles and opportunities to fire automatic weapons. Green Party candidate Dave Croteau, who has previously run for Tucson mayor, is making a second run for sheriff. • County Attorney Barbara LaWall, a Democrat, has dodged a Republican challenger in her run for a fifth term as the county’s top prosecutor, but has drawn opposition from Green Party leader Claudia Ellquist. • County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez, a Democrat who has been in office since 1992, is facing a challenge from Republican Bill Beard. • County Treasurer Beth Ford, a Republican who is seeking a fourth term, will face Democrat Elaine Richardson, a former state lawmaker who headed up the Arizona Department of Real Estate in the Napolitano administration. • County Superintendent of Public Instruction Linda Arzoumanian faces a challenge in the GOP primary from political newcomer Mace Bravin. THE ARIZONA LEGISLATURE: LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 2 State Sen. Linda Lopez, who has represented Tucson’s south and southeast side for the last 11 years, in both the House and Senate, is running unopposed for the Senate in the new LD 2. The northern end of the district includes parts of Tucson and all of South Tucson, and then snakes south along the San Pedro River to swallow up Sahuarita, Green Valley, Arivaca and all of Santa Cruz County, including the border city of Nogales. More than 50 percent of the voters are Hispanic, and Democrats outnumber Republicans, 42 percent to 24 percent. Independent voters make up the remaining third of the electorate. Two Democrats are running for House seats: Andrea Dalessandro lost House races in 2008 and 2010, but now that redistricting has drawn her into a heavily Democratic district, she’s hoping the third time is the charm. A retired certified public accountant, Dalessandro said her skill with numbers will help her balance the budget. “I was a teacher, so that prepared me to understand the challenges education is facing in the state,” she said. “And because I was a CPA, I understand the budget and taxes, and because I was a small-business owner with my CPA practice, I know what we need for small business.” Rosanna Gabaldón has served on the Sahuarita Town Council since 2009 and said she is ready to take her leadership skills from a small community to the state Capitol. “I can bring some common sense to the floor of the House,” she said. “My time on the Sahuarita Town Council was short, but it did bring me experience with the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, and I was able to learn what was happening on the state level.” The two Democrats will face Republican John Ackerley, a physics teacher at Amphi High School who said he wants to articulate a coherent education policy.

LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 3 Looks like Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford will have to roll out the purple campaign pickup truck again for her sixth campaign for the state Legislature. She has served in both chambers since first winning office in 2002. She faces a primary challenge from Maria de la Luz Garcia, the widow of former Senate Minority Leader Jorge Luis Garcia. De la Luz Garcia, who was appointed to fill her husband’s seat after his death at the end of 2010, said she hopes to carry on his tradition of working for constituents in this westside Tucson district. Representatives Sally Ann Gonzales and Macario Saldate are running unopposed for the two House seats in LD 3, which is bordered by Campbell Avenue on the east and stretches west from the University of Arizona to the Drexel Heights neighborhood and Ryan Airfield. It’s more than 50 percent Hispanic, and Democrats have an almost a 3-to-1 advantage over Republicans, with independents making up nearly a third of the voters. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 4 LD 4 takes in a small portion of southern Tucson, but most of its population is in southwestern Arizona, including Yuma, Sells, Ajo, Why, the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui reservations, and Organ Pipe National Monument. Democratic Rep. Lynne Pancrazi is running unopposed in her bid to move up to the Senate in the heavily Democratic, heavily Hispanic district. Democrats make up 40 percent of the voters; 25 percent are Republicans; and 35 percent are independents. With no Republican opposition in sight, it’s smooth sailing through the general election for the two winners of the three-way Democratic primary in LD 4. Contenders include Juan Carlos Escamilla, a 33-year-old Democratic former mayor and council member of the border city of San Luis, who wants to bring his border perspective to the House and represent the small, rural communities that he said the Legislature has left behind. “I definitely want to focus on rural Arizona,” Escamilla said. “Being in the local government, I’ve seen these bills that have come down from the state Capitol, and this one-size-fits-all doesn’t work. It really hurts, and it puts a huge burden on smaller communities.” Charlene Fernandez has held a multitude of titles working for the Democratic Party over the past 30 years, and has served on the school board in Yuma for the past eight years. “I think the Legislature isn’t meeting the needs of people like me, an average person born and raised here in Arizona,” she said. “I sent my children to public schools, and they went on to graduate from the state universities, so I really value public education.” Lisa Otondo, a real-estate agent from Yuma who ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2002, said she wants to change the culture at the Legislature and fight for economic development and education. “I’m really discontented with the Arizona Legislature, and I think they need to refocus their priorities,” she said. “There is an undercurrent of discontent, and it’s not just from Democrats; it’s from independents and Republicans, too.”

LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 9 Democratic Rep. Steve Farley wants to replace termed-out Sen. Paula Aboud, but is facing a challenge from Republican Tyler Mott, the president of the Pima County Young Republicans. Mott said he got into his first race for public office because he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sit back and watch Farley run unopposed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main reason Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m running is that even if there is a slight Democratic advantage in the district, I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to give (Farley) a free shot,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about giving the voters options.â&#x20AC;? District 9 runs from Interstate 10 on the north side of town, east through the Catalina foothills and the Casas Adobes neighborhood, into midtown Tucson and to Sabino Canyon. It is considered one of the relatively few competitive districts in the state: Steve Farley Democrats hold about a 3.5 percentage-point lead in voter registration over Republicans, while independents make up almost 30 percent of the electorate. Three Democrats are vying for the two open seats created in the House when Farley moved up to the Senate, and Rep. Bruce Wheeler was cut into another district. Mohur Sidhwa, a longtime Democratic activist who lost a Democratic primary by less than 500 votes in her first run for the House in 2010, promised to bring a rational voice to combat the ideological babbling of Republicans in charge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sanity demands that I run for office,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, if people who are sane donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get into the Legislature, Arizona is in big trouble.â&#x20AC;? Dustin Cox, a former nonprofit head who now runs a consulting business, came in fifth in an eight-way primary in 2010 during his first run for the House. He said his experience turning a failing nonprofit into a success and creating jobs makes him an attractive option for Republicans as well as fellow Democrats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to get party extremists who are going to win in this district,â&#x20AC;? he said. Although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her first run for elected office, voters may remember Victoria Steele from her days as a news anchor in Tucson and Phoenix. She currently works as a counselor with her own practice and does student counseling at the University of Phoenix. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started seeing the effects of the decisions made at the state Legislature and how horribly it was affecting people,â&#x20AC;? Steele said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was getting angry at what was happening, so I decided I was going to take my empowering and advocacy to more of a communitywide level, and I decided to run for office.â&#x20AC;? The winners will face Republican Ethan Orr, who has worked as the director for economic and community development for the city of South Tucson and now works in the nonprofit world, developing job-training programs for the homeless and developmentally disabled. Orr is hoping to pick off enough Democratic votes to push him over the top in this competitive district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a lot in this community,â&#x20AC;? Orr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of traditionally Democratic people who are supporting me.â&#x20AC;?

LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 10 After giving up his hope of being elected to Congress this year, state Sen. Frank Antenori is trying to return to the Legislature. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll face a tough run against former state lawmaker David Bradley, who represented Tucson in the Legislature from 2003 until 2011. Democrats have a slight voter advantage in this eastside Tucson David Bradley district, which runs from Campbell Avenue between Speedway Boulevard and 22nd Street, and opens up to the east, capturing the Sabino Canyon and Tanque Verde areas. Antenori called it a race between â&#x20AC;&#x153;the great bankrupterâ&#x20AC;? (Bradley) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the great repairerâ&#x20AC;? (himself). â&#x20AC;&#x153;When he left office, we were 20-something billion dollars in deficit; we had 10.2 percent unemployment; the state had lost 330,000 jobs; and there was no plan except raising everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taxes,â&#x20AC;? Antenori said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then Antenori comes in, and what do we do? We control spending and control the size of state government. â&#x20AC;Ś We balance the budget and add over 70,000 jobs, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still growing.â&#x20AC;? Bradley said that Antenori has upset a lot of people during his time in the Legislature and will have a hard time gaining traction in the new, more-moderate district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see government as the enemy. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the answer to everything, but it has a role and an ability to do good things,â&#x20AC;? Bradley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just Antenori; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the whole attitude or approach that this Legislature has.â&#x20AC;? In the House primary, Democrats will pick two candidates from three running, including Rep. Bruce Wheeler, who was elected to the House in 2010. Wheeler is asking voters to return him to the Capitol so he can fight the bad laws and short-sighted budgets he said Republicans are pushing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Legislature is enacting really extremist, horrible legislation, and we need to put a stop to it,â&#x20AC;? he said. Democrat Brandon Patrick, a former Arabic translator for the Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan who has worked as an aide to Tucson City Councilman Paul Cunningham, called the last two legislative sessions two of the worst the state has ever seen, especially for Tucson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve messed with our elections; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve messed with our water policy; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve messed with our county; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve managed to screw up Rio Nuevo even worse than it was before, which I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in protecting Tucson from that kind of legislation.â&#x20AC;? Like Patrick, Stefanie Mach is a first-time candidate for elected office. She runs her own consulting business, which helps nonprofits run effectively, and said her main issue is funding the public K-12 system and keeping tuition for higher education down, which will in turn help businesses and the economy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While money doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t solve all problems, we do need that base level of funding to have a quality education system,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And, really, that leads into the quality jobs that everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued on next page

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CANDIDATES continued from Page 19 seeking. Biotech, green-tech, green-energy and renewable-energy businesses are asking for a higher quality of education.â&#x20AC;? The winners of the Democratic primary will face Republican state Rep. Ted Vogt, who was appointed, and then elected, to the Legislature in 2010. Vogt said that although the new district is much more Democratic than his current district, voters will respect his record of making hard decisions to balance the budget, and return him to the House. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel confident I can win in this district,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put my record up against anybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Look at what we did in the state of Arizona: We had a $3 billion deficit. And what do we have now? We have a balanced budget.â&#x20AC;? Joining Vogt on the GOP ticket is Todd Clodfelter, the GOP chairman of the current LD 30 who owns a graphics, consulting and printing business in Tucson. He said his experience negotiating in the worlds of business and politics will make him an attractive choice to conservatives in the district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can offer the people of Arizona a continued path of the conservative approachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;keeping the budget balanced and keeping spending down,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I think one thing I can offer that others canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t is the ability to communicate. I can disagree and keep a dialogue.â&#x20AC;?

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LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 11 Sen. Al Melvin is running for re-election, although he refused to talk about it with the Weekly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In all good conscience, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a part of the Tucson Weekly. I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t,â&#x20AC;? said Melvin, who once stormed out of an Oro Valley diner when he discovered the Weekly was available to customers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your paper, the (Arizona Daily) Star and (The Arizona) Republic are in the tank for the left; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re propaganda outlets for the Democratic Party.â&#x20AC;? His Democratic opponent, Jo Holt, a retired research biochemist who worked at the University of Arizona, said thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the reason she has been urged to run for office: Melvin blows off anyone with whom he disagrees.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;My way of thinking about talking to the press and talking to constituents is 180 degrees different,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m senator, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll represent everyone. Even people who disagree with me, I will listen to them. Sen. Melvin does the opposite.â&#x20AC;? Holt, who is running her first campaign for public office, will face an uphill battle in this heavily Republican district that runs from Marana and Oro Valley up to Casa Grande and the city of Maricopa, roughly following Interstate 10. Libertarian Kim Allen is also in the race. In order to avoid a primary battle with Melvin, Sen. Steve Smith, a border hawk from Maricopa who has garnered national attention for his bills to require hospitals and schools to track and report illegal immigrants, and to drug-test the unemployed, is stepping down from the Senate and running for the House of Representatives. Completing the Republican ticket is first-time candidate Adam Kwasman, who managed Jesse Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failed 2010 congressional campaign and has already picked up endorsements from the likes of House Speaker Andy Tobin, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and U.S. Rep. Trent Franks. Kwasman described himself as a Tea Party champion who decided to run for office because of his passion for limited government. The two will face Democrat David Joseph, a media entrepreneur and owner of several TV stations, who said Melvin and Smith are slaves to their ideology, and are taking the state in the wrong direction. Joseph acknowledged his voter-registration disadvantage, but said he hoped that the farright group of Republicans would turn off enough moderate voters to put him over the top. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of frustration, a lot of people who are disenfranchised, who feel like the (lawmakers) who are up there said they were about creating jobs, and then did all this other stuff that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t create jobs,â&#x20AC;? Joseph said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing has more to do with ideology than with real fiscal responsibility.â&#x20AC;?

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LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 14 Republican Sen. Gail Griffin, a real-estate broker from Hereford who was elected to the Senate in 2010 after having served in the House from 1997 to 2001, will square off against former Democratic Rep. Pat Fleming, who was elected to the House in 2008, but lost her seat in the Republican wave of 2010. Pat Fleming Despite the fact that Griffin is the de facto incumbent in a very conservative district, Fleming points out that when the two went head to head in 2006, voters preferred her, though neither won in that round. She also boasts that she had her signatures to run for the office ready in February, and has already qualified for Clean Elections funding. “The people who I talk to, the ones who are really paying attention, are very disappointed in the Legislature,” she said. “People are not happy about giving big corporations tax breaks and making middle-class families pay for it.” LD 14 covers the southeast corner of the state, including a section of the Arizona-Mexico border and the towns of Sierra Vista, Vail, Willcox and Safford. Republicans have a 10-point lead over Democrats in voter registration. Incumbent Reps. David Stevens and David Gowan from Sierra Vista are fighting off attacks from two Democratic precinct committeemen who are making their first runs for office: Robert Leach, who retired from the military and works at Fort Huachuca as an intelligence

contractor, and Mark Holub Stonebraker, a computer scientist who used to develop software at Fort Huachuca. Stonebraker said he decided to challenge the representatives because he dislikes the economic and social policies the incumbents are pushing. “You can look at their voting record and legislation they’ve introduced, and very little of it has to do with improving the economic situation in our state,” Stonebraker said. Gowan and Stevens were both elected in 2008 and are trying to hold their seats by defending their record of balancing the state budget in tough times and fighting illegal immigration. Even with the numbers heavily in their favor, Stevens said the two are campaigning hard. “You either run scared or run unopposed; I mean, anything could happen,” Stevens said. “But I’m feeling better than I did two years ago. We’re going to maintain.” ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION The last of the Democrats holding statewide office serve on the Arizona Corporation Commission, a five-member body that has the job of regulating Arizona businesses and utilities, including deciding on rate hikes. Commissioners Paul Newman and Sandra Kennedy are both are up for re-election this year. Democrat Marcia Busching, a political newcomer, is the third Democrat in the race for three seats. On the GOP side, incumbent Republican Bob Stump is joined by Bob Burns, a former Arizona Senate president, and lobbyist and former congressional candidate Susan Bitter Smith.

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JUNE 7-13, 2012 OUR TOP PICKS OF WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO DO IT BY HOPE MILLER, RACHEL CABAKOFF AND SERENA VALDEZ

Diverse Night of Dance

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With reality dance shows like Dance Moms gaining in popularity, it seems like the American public has never been more fascinated by the world of dance. While these TV shows are undeniably entertaining, it’s often because of the catty drama and squabbles among dancers (or their mothers)—not the actual dancing. So if you like dance sans drama, or if you just like to see flourishing young talent, there’s a show in store for you. Creative Dance Arts and Arizona Dance Theatre will present the 23rd Annual Summer Dance Concert on June 9 and 10. The show will feature more than 300 dancers, ranging from 3-years-old to adults. Lauren Baquet, assistant director of Creative Dance Arts and Arizona Dance Theatre since 2005, said that she’s enthused about the concert. “We have a great ballet program, but also fun, intense jazz and hip hop,” Baquet said. “We do The Nutcracker; we do parts from classical ballets … but I’m excited for people to see how strong our program is, and just how diverse we are.” Dance styles that will be featured in the show include ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip hop and flamenco. and creative choreography. Creative Dance Arts, which has been in Tucson since 1989, is home Members of the Tucson Elite Dance Company will also make a to Arizona Dance Theatre, a semiprofessional, nonprofit student comspecial appearance. Founded in pany that was established in 2002. 2010 by Baquet, Meinel and Directed by Kandis Meinel, Arizona Creative Dance Arts instructor Dance Theatre is designed for young Melanie Hufford, the company people who are serious about excelconsists of college-age dancers and ling in dance. Dancers must audition dance teachers in Tucson. Baquet for a spot in the company, and those described the dancers in the comselected have the opportunity to perpany as “an elite group above the form alongside seasoned guest artists age of 18,” and said that they do at performances in Tucson and the local concerts and benefit shows. Phoenix area. One of the benefits was held in Baquet said the dancers of March in honor of Rebecca Katz, a Creative Dance Arts and Arizona young Tucson woman who died Dance Theatre have been working two years ago, Baquet said. hard all year to prepare for this perAccording to her obituary, Katz formance. They focused on techloved literature. Proceeds from the nique and endurance for the first benefit went to the Rebecca Katz half of the year, and went to work on Youth Library at Temple Emanu-El, choreography when classes resumed on Country Club Road. in January, Baquet said. “The dancers are from different “They’ve put a lot of time and studios all over town,” Baquet said effort in,” Baquet said. of Tucson Elite Dance Company. “It Dances that Baquet said she’s brings the whole community eager to see are pieces set to “Spring” together.” from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Creative Dance Arts and Seasons, and a variation from Act 1, Arizona Dance Theatre’s 23rd Scene 3 of the ballet Raymonda. Annual Summer Dance Concert Raymonda, which was originally will be held at noon and 4 p.m., choreographed by Marius Petipa and Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and first performed in 1898, has a slightly confusing story line. However, dance Gabrielle Malkin performs at the 2011 Creative Dance Arts 10, at the Pima Community and Arizona Dance Theatre Annual Summer Dance Concert. College West Proscenium Theatre, schools often perform variations 2202 W. Anklam Road. Admission is $12. Tickets are available from it, because it provides soloists with an opportunity to show off a at the Creative Dance Arts studio, 5741 N. Oracle Road, or the wide variety of styles. PCC box office. For more information, call 887-5658; email Vivaldi’s “Spring” will sound familiar to many people, even if the lisoffice@creativedancearts.com; or go to creativedancearts.com. teners have never heard of the Italian composer. Bright and bubbly, Hope Miller then somber and sweet, then bold and beautiful, and ending on an mailbag@tucsonweekly.com excitedly happy note, the music creates many opportunities for colorful

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ART Painting for a Purpose Never Again 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to noon, Sunday, through Sunday, Aug. 26 Quantum Art Gallery 505 W. Miracle Mile, No. 2 207-0102; thequantumartgallery.com

Quantum Art Gallery’s summer exhibition, Never Again, features two artists, Micheline Johnoff and Mychal Trujillo, whose oils focus on hyper-realism and hyper-surrealism. Hyper-realism is a style of painting in which works resemble photographs, whereas hyper-surrealism resembles surrealism, the artistic movement established in the 1920s that experimented with a new mode of expression, incorporating imaginative and abstract images. Trujillo has been painting for 15 years, and she has experimented with several different mediums. In this exhibit, the theme of Trujillo’s oil paintings is abuse. “In general, a lot of my artwork is taken from my own personal experiences. I like to speak to what I have felt emotionally. I don’t necessarily like to paint about things outside of myself,” Trujillo said. Trujillo hopes her paintings will shed light on the issue of abuse. “I design my work so that it can be acceptable and accessible to people who have not ever gone through something like that, but they can relate as well and bring awareness,” Trujillo said. “I really felt that I needed to speak up about it, because it is something that not a lot of people talk about.” In Trujillo’s “Marionette,” a woman dressed in a 1950s-style apron has marionette strings attached to her hand and wrist, symbolizing the efforts of abusers to control their victims. “The expectation of being this perfect person for somebody else kind of adds to the loss of self-identity,” Trujillo said. “I don’t include the face, because adding a face would draw too much attention and distract from the actual message of the painting.” Trujillo said Johnoff’s pieces bring a different feel to the exhibit. “Her pieces have a darker appeal; she has an excellent rhythm to her work,” Trujillo said. —R.C.

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Far Left: Julianna Ranheim dressed as a harem girl. John Shryock

KIDS & FAMILIES

MUSEUMS

THEATER

A Whole New World

The Desert, After Hours

Evening of Illusions

Disney’s Aladdin Jr.

Summer Saturday Evenings

It’s Magic

7:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday, through Saturday, June 16

4 to 9 p.m., Saturdays, through Aug. 25

7 p.m., Monday, June 11

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 2021 N. Kinney Road

Gaslight Theatre 7010 E. Broadway Blvd.

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Kick off your summer by gaining new perspectives on the desert we call home during the Summer Saturday Evenings series at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The 10-year-old program includes themed activities and programs that give visitors a chance to learn about desert flora and fauna, and how to cope with the desert’s heat—without having to be outside during the worst of it. For example, the first Summer Saturday Evening, held this past Saturday, June 2, featured dermatologists from the University of Arizona Skin Cancer Institute educating people about protecting one’s skin. “We realized nighttime visits in the desert are unique. Coming at night is a different experience,” said Rosemary Prawdzik, director of marketing at the museum. “The beavers are more active; the mountain lions are more active. … You have an opportunity to see the animals moving around.” Each week features a different theme, and visitors are encouraged to come more than once. This Saturday, June 9, the program will include Native American flute-players, as well as a presentation of live animals that will include information about the history of the museum. Other Summer Saturday Evening topics range from insects to astronomy to bats to camping in the desert. Brenda King, the museum’s educational specialist, said nighttime events at the museum hold a special attraction for children. “They love being out at night,” she said. “A lot of them will bring their own personal black-light flashlights and go looking for scorpions. I think kids just like being out past bedtime and in the dark.” Special discounted tickets after 4 p.m. on Saturdays are $7 for adults, and $3 for children ages 6 to 12. —S.V.

Up for a magical evening? You can experience Las Vegas-worthy magic tricks by John Shryock and Mari Lynn in one of the longest-running magic shows in the area. It’s Magic has been held at the Gaslight Theatre for roughly 15 years. It takes place six times a year and features different magicians at each show. Magic fans of all ages are welcome to lose themselves in the world of illusion for an evening. Shryock is a Tucson native who turned his passion for magic from a hobby into a career. He and Mari Lynn, who is also his wife, have performed around the world—in Las Vegas at Caesars Magical Empire, in Hollywood, and on cruise ships. They were also featured on the TV show Masters of Illusion. The two sometimes include their children in the act. Norm Marini, a magician and coordinator of It’s Magic, will be performing alongside Shryock during the first part of the show. He said he will also participate in some of Shryock’s illusions. “This show is probably going to be a sold-out show, because (Shryock) is a local hero,” Marini said. “There have probably been only a few years that he hasn’t been able to do it because of other commitments. He’s been at the Gaslight for the majority of the time over the last 12 years.” Tickets are $17 for adults, and $12 for children. Doors open at 6 p.m., and patrons should arrive early to ensure their seats. —S.V.

Flowing Wells High School Auditorium 3725 N. Flowing Wells Road www.ypadrama.com

After a year of rehearsing and preparing, Youth@Performing Arts is ready for its quadruple production of Disney’s Aladdin Jr. What is a quadruple production? The answer: Cast members get to exercise their acting abilities by being a different character in each show. Tom Moser, the director of the show, has been with YPA since 2006 and wanted to bring something different to this year’s production. With this show, Moser intends to give everyone a chance to be in the spotlight. “We have four Jasmines, and they sit together, help each other out and cheer for each other,” Moser said. “It’s wonderful to see the cooperation and chemistry coming from a multiple cast. I have so many talented people this year.” The 50 cast members range from 5 to 15 years old. “The older kids look out for the young ones—it becomes like a family, and I love that multi-age span,” Moser said. The community has reached out to help these aspiring actors. The Resurrection Lutheran Church has donated space for rehearsals, and Flowing Wells High School is opening its auditorium for the production. Community members who have pitched in include makeup artists, costume designers and a local sculptor who has crafted props for the production. “The community has wrapped around us,” Moser said. “We have a group of about 35 community volunteers who don’t say, ‘This can’t be done.’ They say, ‘It’s a matter of how it can be done.’ I would love to see the community come out and support the arts and the young people; it is a pretty incredible experience.” General-admission tickets are $10 for adults, and $7 for children ages 3 to 17. Reserved seats are $12 to $15. —R.C.

Below: A garlic and onion festival takes place from 4 to 9 p.m., Friday through Sunday, June 8 through 10, at Agua Linda Farm in Amado. Enjoy hay rides, a petting zoo, live music and food. Take Interstate 19 to Agua Linda Farm, Exit 42. $5 per car. Call 398-3218, or visit agualindafarm.net.

Submissions CityWeek includes events selected by Hope Miller, Rachel Cabakoff and Serena Valdez and is accurate as of press time. Tucson Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc. To have material considered, please send complete information by Monday at noon 11 days prior to publication. Send to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 27087, Tucson, AZ 85726, or fax information to 792-2096, or e-mail us at listings@tucsonweekly.com. JUNE 7 – 13, 2012

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TQ&A Christopher Kroh Christopher Kroh has been a Tucson taxi driver since 1996. He said he’s seen the business change from a decent way of making a living to a nickeland-dime job that is in need of change. Kroh has started the Tucson Hacks Association, “hack” being a term for a cab driver. The association started meeting last month, with drivers from four local companies represented. Kroh hopes it’s a ﬁrst step toward creating better treatment for drivers. For more on the eﬀort, go to tucsonhacks.blogspot.com, or email tucsonhacksassociation@yahoo.com. Mari Herreras, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com

When did you become a hack? I have been driving a taxi since 1996, so I’ve seen a little bit of everything. … This industry used to be one where you could make a reasonable living … but we’re independent contractors, and that’s a challenge. Sometimes, they just keep stepping on our rights. So in Tucson, most of the drivers are independent contractors? Yes, and by law, most taxi companies across America operate the same way. With independent contractors, the companies don’t have to pay FICA or insurance, yet we’re not given the ability to completely operate as independent contractors. What’s the goal of the association? We want to represent everyone in Tucson from all the companies. At the last meeting, we had drivers from (the big companies in Tucson)—we’re talking about everybody. We’re not allowed to have a union, but this is a start to working together, to work with both sides—drivers and owners. What do you see as one problem right now? Some companies, their bread and butter is indigent health transportation. … The companies get these contracts through the state, and drivers are reimbursed per voucher, but it doesn’t come close to what they should be making per run. … You see so many of what 24 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

we call the scab cabs, especially around the university. Compared to us, they charge outrageous rates, and there are safety issues, especially late at night. They don’t do background checks on drivers like we do.

a) minimum. Now, some companies have an airport special rate, which is a 30 percent reduction of what we were always getting before— not good to do when gas costs alone have gone up 24 percent since December.

Are you worried about possible retaliation from the companies you drive for? We’re very worried about it, to tell you the truth. We have a board of directors, and (board members) are also a little bit concerned. What we want to do is become an association that represents all the cab companies. We started a blog, and we’re hoping to get all the drivers involved. (Cab companies) have created such an atmosphere of fear. Some drivers have to work 80 hours a week or more. … Most cab drivers are a week away from being homeless, and most have no life at all, because they are always working. We’re just trying to get together and come up with a way to make things better for the drivers.

Some cities have cab registries and requirements, so that everyone has the same experience. Here, we don’t have that. In Arizona, all you have to do to drive a cab is put up some signage. The only regulation is that you have a meter that is accurate (and rates) posted on the door. … I can tell you I’ve picked up people to retrieve their cars and have heard them tell me how they had to pay twice as much to get home the night before. We also hear about cabs that don’t have meters.

How difficult is it to make a living nowadays? The companies make so much money oﬀ of us and through what I think are illegal contracts. With credit cards we get that must be processed through them, some companies are charging us a 10 percent fee. I do it on my cell phone for 3 percent. … It is crazy all the way around. Right now, a lot of drivers won’t do voucher calls, because they pay (such

If your company can retaliate, why organize? If they were to claim they were terminating my contract, and they never did before in 16 years, that would be interesting. But, look, all of us are struggling right now. I wouldn’t want to test them, but we are all at the point where we have to ﬁght back. … So, we’re starting an association and hoping at the same time to build a relationship with the companies. They want to monopolize medical-care runs, but they don’t pay drivers properly. We’re at a disadvantage, and at the same time, there are lots of us who really do like doing this type of work.

SPECIAL EVENTS

BULLETIN BOARD

EVENTS THIS WEEK

2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN Free events take place throughout downtown from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., the second Saturday of every month. The Southwest Soul Circuit features jazz fusion, African, hiphop and soul music. FC Tucson Soccer hosts a soccer showdown in the parking lot of the MLK Apartments at Toole and Fifth avenues. The main stage on Scott Street just south of Congress Street features music and performance in a range of genres. A free concert takes place at the Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., and a kids’ area in the south parking lot of the Chase Bank building at 2 E. Congress St. features a jumping castle and a screening of a family-favorite movie. Street activities include mimes, buskers, stilt-walkers, living statues, car clubs, food trucks and vendors. Visit 2ndsaturdays.com for more information including a site map.

BINGO Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151. Join in a game of bingo at 6:30 p.m., every Friday; free. Call 207-9354 for more information.

FUN FOR FELINES FUNDRAISER Tucson Racquet and Fitness Club. 4001 N. Country Club Road. 795-6960. Games, comedy, desserts, raffle prizes and a silent auction are featured from 6 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, June 13; $10 adult, $5 child. Food, cocktails and other beverages are available for purchase. Donations of canned cat food and cat litter are welcome. Call 870-1904, or email sjmillerAZ@gmail.com for more information.

OUT OF TOWN SALUTE TO THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS Tombstone Visitor and Information Center. 395 E. Allen St. Tombstone. (888) 457-3929. Street entertainment, a car show and other events celebrate the influence of the Buffalo Soldiers in the history of the Southwest, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10; free. A parade takes place at 11 a.m., Saturday. Visit tombstonechamber.com for more information.

UPCOMING APACHE INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION A rodeo; a fry-bread contest; Apache card games; singing, dancing, talent and modeling competitions; a 5k run; entertainment; a car show; bouncy castles; horseshoe games; volleyball and softball tournaments; and fireworks take place in San Carlos from noon to 10 p.m., Monday, June 18. Call (928) 475-2361 for more information. ARTIST SOAP BOX DERBY Colorful handmade art-cars race down Brewery Avenue at 3 p.m., Saturday, June 16, as part of the Annual Bisbee Pride weekend; free. The art-cars are on display starting at 11 a.m. A preview party and fundraiser take place at 6 p.m., Friday, June 15, at the Jonquil Motel, 317 Tombstone Canyon; free. Brats and beer are for sale to benefit the Community Montessori School of Bisbee. Call (520) 432-4866, or email melissa@ centralschoolproject.org for more information. BISBEE PRIDE WEEKEND A lingerie pub crawl, a miners and madames street dance, a ghost tour, live music, a pool party, a burlesque show, a fantasy party, a psychic fair, a street fair, a beer garden, a film festival, drag-queen bingo, a tea dance and more take place at multiple venues from Friday through Sunday, June 15 through 17. Most events are free. Visit bisbeepride.com for more information. BLOOMSDAY CELEBRATION Manning House. 450 W. Paseo Redondo. 770-0714. In honor of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, Bloomsday, a national holiday in Ireland, is celebrated locally with music, dancing and readings from Joyce’s Ulysses from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, June 16; $5 adult, free child. Refreshments are for sale. Call 747-0059. JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION Northwest Neighborhood Center. 2160 N. Sixth Ave. 791-3247. A puppet petting zoo, a musical puppet play about Juneteenth, books with a heritage focus, brain puzzles, and arts and crafts are featured from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, June 16; free. Exhibits highlight aspects of a healthy lifestyle for the family. Free hot dogs are offered from noon to 1 p.m., and healthy snacks are free throughout the day. Email esharifaith@ gmail.com, or call 390-0155 for more information. LUMIES ARTS AND BUSINESS AWARDS El Casino Ballroom. 437 E. 26th St. 623-1865. A reception begins at 6 p.m.; awards are presented at 7:30 p.m.; and Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta play music for dancing at 8:30 p.m., Friday, June 15; $35. The event honors businesses, organizations and individuals for outstanding contributions to arts and culture in Tucson and Pima County. Visit lumies2012.eventbrite. com for tickets and more information.

CAFÉ INQUIRY DuVal Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. A group discusses the intersection of religion and culture from 8 to 9:15 a.m., the second Sunday of every month; free. Call 297-9919 for more information. DIVORCE RECOVERY 1 Trained volunteers lead a nonsectarian support group from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday or Thursday; $60 requested donation, but no one is turned away. Each course is eight weeks and closes after the second week. Tuesday, through Aug. 7, at Northminster Presbyterian Church, 2450 N. Fort Lowell Road. Tuesday, July 3 through Sept. 4, St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Thursday, Aug. 2 through Oct. 4, St Mark’s United Methodist Church, 1431 W. Magee Road. Call 495-0704, or visit divorcerecovery.net for more information. EXTREME COUPONING SAAF. 375 S. Euclid Ave. 628-7223. Cents-off coupons are collected from the Sunday newspaper and Tuesday home mailings to help support the food programs of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation. Coupons need not be cut out. They may be delivered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. FOOD TRUCK POD Civano Nursery. 5301 S. Houghton Road. 546-9200 ext. 9. Food trucks serving a variety of foods and beverages gather from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday, through Friday, Aug. 31; free admission. Call 248-9218 for more information. FREE BOOKS AND STUDENT CELEBRATION John Valenzuela Youth Center. 1550 S. Sixth Ave. 7929251. Several community organizations offer a free meal, speakers, music, spoken-word performance and hundreds of free books in English and Spanish, from 2 to 5 p.m., Saturday, June 9; free. Call 696-9273, or email blazemason@hotmail.com for more information. OPEN HOUSE AT GADSDEN-PACIFIC DIVISION TOY TRAIN OPERATING MUSEUM Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum. 3975 N. Miller Ave. 888-2222. Visitors are invited to the museum from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, June 10 and 24. Visit gpdtoytrainmuseum.com for more information and pictures of the museum. PCOA AMBASSADOR PROGRAM Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 229-5300. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, a volunteer for the Pima Council on Aging provides information and answers questions about support available to seniors for caregiving, meals, housing, legal services and transportation; free. PHILOSOPHY GROUP DISCUSSION Old Pueblo Grille. 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. A group meets for an open discussion of philosophical issues on the second Monday of every month; free. SOCKS FOR SOLDIERS Donations of black crew socks may be dropped off at all Tucson-area Brake Masters and Miller’s Surplus stores through Wednesday, July 4. The collection supports an ongoing drive by Tucson Area Marine Moms Visit tucsonareamarinemoms.com for more information.

OUT OF TOWN DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF THE SANTA RITA AREA Green Valley Democratic Headquarters. 260 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 838-0590. Current events are discussed from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., every Wednesday; free. Email acalkins10@aol.com, or visit gvdemocrats.org for more information.

UPCOMING DEBTORS ANONYMOUS St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. An informal introduction to a 12-step program for recovery from compulsive spending and debt takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., Monday, June 18, in the La Parroquia Building; free. Call 850-5980 for more information.

‘GUITAR HERO’ TOURNAMENTS Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Guitar Hero tournaments offer $50 to a winner age 13 or younger, and $100 to the best player age 14 through adult; free. The younger group competes at 3 p.m., Saturday, June 16. Teens and adults compete at 3 p.m., Saturday, June 23. Registration starts at 2 p.m. for both contests; contestants must be pre-registered. REMEMBERING THE HOME FRONT: A BI-FOLKAL PRESENTATION Joyner-Green Valley Branch, Pima County Public Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Helen Fish encourages participants to remember the World War II-era with music, videos, photos and stories at 10 a.m., Monday, June 18 and 25; free. SUPPORT GROUP: CHILDREN OF DIVORCE AND CHANGING FAMILIES St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Two concurrent eight-week support groups meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every Thursday, from June 14 through July 19; freewill donation. The groups close June 21. Age-appropriate activities are provided in a group for children ages 3 to 18. Family members, including never-married parents, get support for forming a step-family in the concurrent adult group. Call 495-0704, or visit divorcerecovery.net for reservations and more information. TIHAN OPEN HOUSE TIHAN. 2660 N. First Ave. 299-6647. Visitors are welcome to visit TIHAN’s new office, meet the staff and board, and enjoy refreshments from 4 to 6 p.m., Friday, June 15; free. The new space is accessible via bus route 6. RSVP to scott@tihan.org.

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA NETWORK OF REAL ESTATE INVESTORS-AZNORI Fidelity National Title Agency, Inc. 6760 N. Oracle Road, No. 100. 529-9022. Terry Sprouse, author of Fix ’Em Up; Rent ’Em Out and Carve Out Your Niche, is the guest speaker at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, June 7; free. RSVP is requested. Call 789-4568 for more info. GRANTS DATABASES OPEN LAB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Volunteers, staff and board members of nonprofit and community organizations research private grantmakers with the help of a librarian from 2 to 4 p.m., the second Friday of every month; free. Seating is firstcome, first-serve. Call 791-4010 for more information. INDIVIDUAL JOB COUNSELING AND COMPUTER HELP Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A job counselor from Career Services Unlimited provides free, one-on-one career counseling about resume-writing, choosing a career, updating interviewing skills, networking and job-search skills from noon to 3 p.m., Monday, June 18; free. A computer instructor is available to answer questions and offer help with resume-writing, online job-searching, email accounts, internet searching and more from noon to 3 p.m., every Monday; and from 9 a.m. to noon, every Thursday, in the second-floor Catalina Room; free. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov to register or for more information. MARKETING AND MICROFINANCING ONLINE Community Resource Campus. Sentinel Building, 320 N. Commerce Park Loop. Best practices for online marketing, social media and microfinancing are discussed from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 12; free. Reservations are required. Visit yelptucson.eventbrite. com for reservations and more information. YWORKS EMPLOYMENT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR WOMEN YWCA Frances McClelland Leadership Center. 525 N. Bonita Ave. 884-7810. Employment-training and development workshops for women who are unemployed, underemployed or transitioning in the workforce take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the second and third Tuesday of each month. Computer-skills help is available from noon to 5 p.m., the second and third Wednesday of each month. Each workshop is $25; scholarships and internships are available. Call 884-7810, ext. 107, or visit ywcatucson.org to register and for more info.

UPCOMING AMERICAN ADVERTISING FEDERATION BIG C MEMBERSHIP MIXER Lodge on the Desert. 306 N. Alvernon Way. 320-2000. Members of advertising, marketing, public-relations, communication, photography, graphic-design and digitalarts organizations meet in the Palm Room for an annual networking event from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 19; $30 to $45 includes the first beverage. Reservations are requested by 5 p.m., Wednesday, June 13. Call 3261060 or visit aaftucson.org for reservations and more information. FEATSAZ: TAKING IT HIGHER 2012 CONFERENCE Hotel Tucson City Center. 475 N. Granada Ave. 6232000. The Festival and Event Association of Tucson and Southern Arizona hosts its first conference for event planners, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, June 16; $75, $50 member. A pool party featuring Caribbean music by Richard Noel welcomes attendees at 7 p.m., Friday, June 15. Reservations are requested by Wednesday, June 13. Call 370-0588 for reservations and more information. GRANTS.GOV ORIENTATION Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Find out how to obtain federal grants for a nonprofit organization, from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m., Friday, June 15. A staff member of grants.gov gives a tour of the site and shows how to locate opportunities and apply for funding. Registration is required. Call 7914010 to register for more information. HEAD OVER HEELS SOUTHERN ARIZONA WOMEN’S BUSINESS CONFERENCE El Conquistador Resort. 10000 N. Oracle Road. 5441800. Workshops, a luncheon program, a business expo, and a fashion show with wine and appetizers take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday, June 15; $129, $99 member of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Call 620-0005, or visit tucsonhispanicchamber.org for more information. MAXIMIZE SOCIAL SECURITY INCOME Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Pima County Public Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. A workshop teaches how married couples ages 60 through 66 can plan to maximize their Social Security income for themselves and their survivors, at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 19; or 10:30 a.m., Saturday, June 23; free. Preregistration is required; call (800) 955-0307 to register and for more information.

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FRIENDS OF THE UA LIBRARIES SUMMER BOOK SALE University Libraries Book House. 301 N. Cherry Ave. 621-3485. A wide assortment of used books in all categories are priced mostly at $1 or $2 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, June 16; free parking and admission. Call 609-6471 for more information.

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FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK BETTER THIS WORLD Himmel Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Films are shown from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday; free. June 11: Better This World surveys the war on terrorism and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent. CINE PLAZA Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Escuela de Vagabundos (1955) starring Pedro Infante, and a preview of the 65th anniversary documentary about the El Casino Ballroom, screen at 2 p.m., Sunday, June 10; $3 suggested donation. Call 544-9543, or visit “Chispa Foundation” on Facebook for more info. CINEMA LA PLACITA Cinema La Placita. La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue. 326-5282. Classic movies are shown outdoors at 7:30 p.m., every Thursday, through Oct. 25; $3 includes popcorn. June 7: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989; PG). June 14: To Be or Not to Be (1942). June 21: Swiss Family Robinson (1960). June 28: Goldfinger (1962). Visit cinemalaplacita.com for a schedule and parking information. LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. Sunday, June 10, at 11 a.m.; and Tuesday, June 12, at 7 p.m.: Last Year at Marienbad, Essential Cinema series; $5 suggested donation. Wednesday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m.: Chely Wright: Wish Me Away, a documentary about the first country music hit-maker to come out as gay; $5 to $9. Visit loftcinema.com for tickets and more information. STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Star Trek: The Motion Picture screens Friday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, June 10, at 2 p.m.; $5 to $7. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information.

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SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES St. Francis in the Foothills Church. 4625 E. River Road. 299-9063. Call Me Malcolm, a documentary exploring issues related to being transgendered, is screened following a 5:30 p.m. potluck supper on Sunday, June 10.

UPCOMING BIKE-IN MOVIE NIGHT La Placita Garage. 211 S. Church Ave. 882-4353. Bill Cunningham: New York, a documentary about the iconic bicycle-riding, New York Times street-fashion photographer, is screened from 7:30 to 10 p.m., Saturday, June 16; freewill donation. Use the Jackson Street entrance on the north side of the garage. Call 891-9094 for more information. FILMMAKERS OF TOMORROW Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas. 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. Graduating seniors of the Art Institute of Tucson present their films at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 14; $8, $20 VIP. VIP tickets are available only in advance. They include a 5:30 p.m. reception and filmmakers’ meet-and-greet at the Ai Bistro at the Art Institute of Tucson, 5099 E. Grant Road. Proceeds benefit a scholarship fund. Call 318-2700 for reservations and more information. LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Visit loftcinema.com for a complete list of forthcoming films and to reserve tickets. Sunday, June 17, at noon: a special Father’s Day screening of Dr. No, with a pre-show James Bond Theme Song Sing-Along; $8, $6 member. Tuesday, June 19, at 7 p.m.: pre-show music by soundtrack-artist Dominique Fraissard followed by the cycling documentary Reveal the Path and a post-film Q&A with producer and director Mike Dion; $10, $9 member.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ACTORS Unpaid actors are sought for a short, low-budget Western film to be shot in Tucson in late October. Video submissions are accepted through Wednesday, June 20. Call-backs are held in Tucson on Sunday, June 24. Casting-call details and instructions are at brenrockprouductions.com. Email questions to privatesigning@ aol.com.

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CONTAINER GARDENING CLASS Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center. 1660 W. Ruthrauff Road. 887-9786. Learn to grow vegetables in containers from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, June 16; free. Materials are free to the first 12 to register. Call 594-5225 to register. WATERSMART LANDSCAPES FOR HOMEOWNERS Pima County Cooperative Extension. 4210 N. Campbell Ave. 626-5161. Classes are free; call to register. Saturday, June 16, from 9 to 10:30 a.m., â&#x20AC;&#x153;Desert Rain Gardensâ&#x20AC;?; and from 10 a.m. to noon, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greywater Rebate Seminar.â&#x20AC;? Saturday, June 23, from 9 to 11 a.m., â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rainwater Harvestingâ&#x20AC;?; and from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., â&#x20AC;&#x153;Residential Drip Irrigation.â&#x20AC;? Visit ag.arizona.edu/ pima/smartscape for more information about all classes in the series.

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KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK ALL TOGETHER THEATRE Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. An original adaptation of Thumbelina closes Sunday, June 10. Showtime is 1 p.m., every Sunday; $5 to $8. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for reservations and more information. CRAFTY READERS Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Children ages 6 to 8 listen to and discuss a picture book and then create a related craft from 4 to 5 p.m., the first Thursday of every month; free. GASLIGHT THEATRE FAMILY CONCERT The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. John Shryock and Mari Lynn perform high-energy magic and illusion at 7 p.m., Monday, June 11; $17, $12 child.

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IRONWOOD RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER THEATER PROGRAM Ironwood Ridge High School. 2475 W. Naranja Drive. 696-3900. Actors and technicians ages 11 through 18 produce Tolkienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Hobbit in a program that runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., every Monday through Thursday, from Monday, June 11, through Thursday, June 28; $255. Call 888-2727, ext. 107, or email jdikman@ amphi.com to register and for more information. MATH MUNCHERS CLUB Quincie Douglas Branch, Pima Public Library. 1585 E. 36th St. 594-5335. Students in grades 4, 5 and 6 boost math skills with help from teachers and tutors, from 3 to 5 p.m., every Monday and Wednesday, except Wednesday, July 4, from Monday, June 11, through Wednesday, July 11; free. Registration is required; call or visit the library to register.

REPTILE RAMBLE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Docents present characteristics of snakes and lizards, the differences between species, and the roles each serves in the Sonoran Desert, during an interactive presentation and walk at 10 a.m., every Friday, through July 27; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with ID, $2 child age 5 to 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Call or visit tohonochulpark.org for information. RITA THE BIRD DOG Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Learn about Ritaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travels to the Sonoran Desert through rhymes, songs and color photography, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 12; free, but tickets are required. Tickets are distributed at 6 p.m. SABINO CANYON STORYTIME Sabino Canyon Visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. Ages 3 through 7 enjoy stories about a different desert theme each week, then play a game or make a craft from 9 to 10:30 a.m., every Wednesday except July 4, through July 25; free program, $5 daily parking or $20 annual parking pass. SONORAN DESERT KIDS CLUB: FIELD TRIP TO REID PARK ZOO Reid Park Zoo. 1030 S. Randolph Way. 881-4753. Zoo education staff tell children ages 8 through 12 how African animals survive, as part of a zoo tour from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, June 9; free. Reservations are required. Email eeducation@pima.gov, or call 615-7855 for reservations and more information. SONORAN SUPERMARKET Food, medicine, tools and fibers that native people of the Sonoran Desert traditionally made from local resources are displayed by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum at 2 p.m., Friday, June 8, at Valencia Branch Library, 202 W. Valencia Road; at 2 p.m., Friday, June 22, at Woods Memorial Branch Library, 3455 N. First Ave.; and at noon, Tuesday, June 26, at Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave.; free. Visitors experiment with using native plant materials to make cordage. SUMMER DAY CAMP: AQUATIC ADVENTURES Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. Children ages 8 through 12 explore a desert oasis, from the source of the water to its properties, its quality and the plants and animals that depend on it, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, June 12 through 15; $60. A field trip to Mount Lemmon is included; the group will study life in a mountain stream. Registration is required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov to register or for more info. SUMMER SAFARI NIGHTS Reid Park Zoo. 1030 S. Randolph Way. 881-4753. View favorite animals in the cool of the evening, and enjoy games, crafts and face-painting from 5 to 8 p.m., every Friday, through July 6; $7.50, $5 child age 2 to 12, free child younger than 2. Call or visit tucsonzoo.org for more information. TUCSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Martha Cooper Branch, Pima County Public Library. 1377 N. Catalina Ave. 594-5315. An exhibit of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds continues through Tuesday, June 19, at the Martha Cooper Branch Library, 1377 N. Catalina Ave.; free. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information. WRITE TO READ Woods Memorial Branch, Pima County Public Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 594-5445. Youth ages 14 through 21 learn to improve writing skills, from 4 to 6 p.m., every Thursday, through July 26; free. Participants also learn illustration and publish their writing in the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magazine. Call 750-9667, ext 231 for more info. YOUTH JOB-DEVELOPMENT AND READINESS WORKSHOP Woods Memorial Branch, Pima County Public Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 594-5445. Activities for learning job skills, and presentations about a wide range of career options, are offered for youth ages 10 through 13 in a series of workshops from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, through July 28; free. Call 750-9667, ext. 231, for more information. YOUTH@PERFORMING ARTS Flowing Wells High School. 3725 N. Flowing Wells Road. 696-8000. Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aladdin Jr. opens Friday, June 8, and continues on Friday and Saturday, through Saturday, June 16; $10, $7 ages 3 through 17, $12 to $15 limited reserved seating. Showtime is 6:30 p.m. Visit ypdrama.com for reservations and more info.

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THREE WISHES PUPPET SHOW Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Ralph and Rudy decide how to spend a wish in this puppet show with an environmental twist from 3 to 4 p.m., Thursday, June 14; free, but a ticket is required. Tickets are distributed at 2:30 p.m.

GABA BICYCLE DAY RIDE: SADDLEBROOKE Windmill Suites. 4250 N. Campbell Ave. 577-0007. Susan Reed leads a ride from Campbell Avenue and River Road to SaddleBrooke and back at 6:30 a.m., Friday, June 8; free. Call 561-0204 for reservations and more information.

OUTDOORS EVENTS THIS WEEK FEE-FREE DAYS AT SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK EAST AND WEST Admission to all national parks is free Saturday, June 9; Saturday, Sept. 29; and Saturday through Monday, Nov. 10 through 12. Included are Saguaro National Park East, 3693 S. Old Spanish Trail; and Saguaro National Park West, 2700 N. Kinney Road. Call 733-5153, or visit nps.gov for more information. SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS Tucson Mountain Park. 2020 N. Kinney Road. 8776000. Volunteers age 12 and older help remove buffelgrass and fountain grass from 6 to 9 a.m., every second and fourth Wednesday; and every third Saturday; free. Work may require hiking and working on steep slopes. Meeting locations are in Tucson Mountain Park. Details are given with RSVP, which is required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov to RSVP or for more information.

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SPIRITUALITY EVENTS THIS WEEK INTRODUCTION TO GNOSIS Library in Ada Pierce McCormick Building. 1401 E. First St. An introduction to a meditative practice based on relaxation of the body, emotions and mind takes place from 7:30 to 9 p.m., Monday, June 11; free. Call 437-2779 for more information.

TUCSON PADRES Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. 2500 E. Ajo Way. 434-1021. Thursday through Sunday, June 7 through 10: Reno. Tuesday through Friday, June 19 through 22: Las Vegas. Games start at 7:05 p.m., except Sunday at 2:05 p.m.; $7, $10 box seats, $15 premiere seats. Call 434-1367, or visit tucsonpadres.com for tickets or more info. TUCSON ULTIMATE Golf Links Sports Complex. 2400 S. Craycroft Road. The goal is to have fun, and experience is never required. Each team has a good mix of beginner, intermediate and advanced players of both genders; $25 league membership, free spectator. Play is from 7 to 10 p.m., Wednesday. On June 27, the league moves to Lincoln Park, 4325 S. Pantano Road. Visit tucsonultimate.com/ league for more information.

UPCOMING COLOSSAL CAVE 5K ROAD RACE La Posta Quemada Ranch. Colossal Cave Mountain Park. A race to benefit Shyann Kindness Project and the CCC Museum at Colossal Cave Mountain Park gets under way at 6:30 a.m., Saturday, June 16; $35, $30 advance. On-site registration and bib-number pickup are from 5:30 to 6:15 a.m. Registration includes free admission to the park and a tour of Colossal Cave. Visit taggrun. com to register or for more information. FATHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAY BENEFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum Tucson benefits from a golf tournament that begins with a shotgun start and step-aside scramble at 7:30 a.m., Saturday, June 16; $175, $700 foursome. Registration starts at 6:30 a.m.; an awards luncheon and raffle follow the tournament. Call 792-9985, or visit childrensmuseumtucson.org for more information. GABA BICYCLE DAY RIDE: EASTSIDE Udall Park. 7200 E. Tanque Verde Road. Wayne Cullop leads a four-loop ride to 49ers Country Club and Reddington Pass at 6 a.m., Saturday, June 16; free. A C- ride at a conversational pace, the ride regroups as needed to keep everyone together. Visit bikegaba.org for more information. SATURDAY MOUNTAIN-BIKE RIDES A mountain-bike ride for women takes place the third Saturday of every month. Visit sdmb.org for location, level of difficulty and times of rides.

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Cabaret Nights BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com hanks to the Invisible Theatre, it won’t just be rib eyes on the grill that are sizzling this summer. For four weeks, beginning June 13, the group’s Sizzling Summer Sounds series will present eight different shows featuring musical entertainment in a classy cabaret setting at the Arizona Inn. IT developed the series years ago, but took a break for a few summers. Last year, it brought the series back with great success, so this year, it has rounded up another group of accomplished performers, including some highly regarded talent from around the country. According to Susan Claassen, who produces the series, almost 2,000 folks enjoyed the shows last year, and more than half of the audience sprang for a preshow dinner as well. Patrick Cray, general manager of the Arizona Inn, says the experience was “just terrific. It’s a unique pairing of tremendous entertainment and a world-class destination. There was such a huge vibe when the shows would let out—a really nice energy.” Sharon McNight is making her way to Tucson for the first time, for shows on June 29 and 30. “I was in Phoenix once, and it was 110,” she says. “Say, wasn’t it in The Seven Year Itch that Marilyn Monroe kept her underwear in the refrigerator? Hmmm.” McNight approaches her work with a light touch, while taking care to deliver a great show. Her work spans standards, blues, Broadway (where she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1989) and even country. “I learned to yodel by watching Roy Rogers on The Tonight Show. I thought, ‘I can do that.’” She launches into an impressive demonstration. Yes, she can.

As an only child, she was given all kinds of lessons, including dance, and she played the flute throughout her school days. But she didn’t realize she could really sing until she auditioned for a musical in junior college. “I opened my mouth, and this big sound came out. I remember their faces. Nobody knew I could sing—I didn’t either, really.” Playing the flute had taught her the breath control she needed to sing. She earned a master’s degree in directing at San Francisco State University and did her thesis on experimental children’s theater, reimagining The Wizard of Oz. “Years later, I was standing in a nightclub in San Francisco in the Castro District, and somebody said something, and I did an impression of Billie Burke (who played Glinda, the good witch, in Oz). The piano player overheard and started playing, and I did all the voices.” That inspired her subsequently to edit that 17-minute “landing scene” into a sevenminute medley, and “I’ve been doing it ever since—even in Carnegie Hall. I do a lot of different kinds of things—it’s really old-style entertainment. I’m not afraid to try anything.” Consider one of her shows, Songs to Offend Almost Everyone. “Actually there’s a great tradition of offensive songs.” One of her favorites is by Margaret Archer and Chet Atkins: “Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?” “It was only on the radio for three days before it was pulled, but I remembered it, and 20 years later, I found it!” McNight is funny, yes, but she performs with vulnerability as well. “There’s this song— ‘The Kid Inside’ by Craig Carnelia—that took me six years to learn. Every time I would start to sing it, I’d cry. But I said to myself, ‘You have a choice here: Either you learn the song, or you go to therapy, and therapy is very expensive, so you’d better learn the song.’ So I learned the song, and you know what? Now

Sharon McNight everybody else cries.” Richard Glazier takes another road to a great evening’s entertainment. He is a classically trained pianist and has won numerous international competitions. But when he was 12, something happened that changed his life. “I was lucky,” he remembers. “The course of my life was defined when I met Ira Gershwin on April 2, 1975. That meeting was a revelation to me and remains to this day one of the highlights of my life, a very personal experience which gets more intense as I get older.” From that defining moment grew Glazier’s passion for the composers, performers, musicals and films of early-20th-century America. “Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers—they heard the voices of the melting pot of America and synthesized them into their own unique styles of American popular song. The songs are a deep part of our culture. The lyrics are clever, and the music is beautiful, but the songs go so much deeper.” Glazier, performing on June 15 and 16, says people make connections when they hear these songs, and they share stories on his website about how they have been changed by hearing him perform. “This is the reward,” he says. “This is why I devote myself to this genre. I’m a classically trained pianist, but I interpret this music with the same respect and discipline I would a Chopin nocturne. I study

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these great singers, their nuances, and I try to sing the lines with my fingers.” Glazier’s shows weave together music, history and anecdotes with “a desire to make my audiences fall in love with this music.” He is widely known for his PBS specials From Gershwin to Garland—A Musical Journey With Richard Glazier and From Ragtime to Reel Time—Richard Glazier in Concert. “As a performer, when people come to listen to you, it’s a tremendous compliment and a huge responsibility. Really, this arts business is about love; it’s about giving. You love what you do with all your heart. You can’t live without it. And you have to share that. When I take my audiences to 1021 N. Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills to my life-defining moment, they’re right there with me. We laugh; we cry; we learn. It’s what makes me want to keep growing—believing that this makes a difference in the world.”

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SIZZLING SUMMER SOUNDS Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. Showtime is 8 p.m.; $35 benefits Invisible Theatre. Call 882-9721, or visit invisibletheatre.com for tickets and more information. Wednesday and Thursday, June 13 and 14: Crazy About Patsy Cline with Liz McMahon, Khris Dodge and Heather Hardy.

BREAKOUT STUDIOS BreakOut Studios. 522 N. Fourth Ave. 670-1301. Poetry readings, musical performances, dance showcases and an art installation are featured in the collaboration “4th Ave. Exposed” at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 9; $5. Participating groups include musical quartet The Missing Parts and dance group The Boogie Pimps. CAPOEIRA MANDINGA TUCSON Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. An Afro-Brazilian martial art that incorporates elements of dance, song and percussion is performed from 3 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, June 9; free, but tickets are required. Tickets are distributed at 2:30 p.m.

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CREATIVE DANCE ARTS AND ARIZONA DANCE THEATRE PCC Proscenium Theatre. Pima Community College West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6986. Contemporary, jazz, tap, hip hop, flamenco, ballet and other styles of dance are performed at noon and 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10; $12. Tucson Elite Dance Company also performs. Call 887-5658 for more information. FREE ZUMBA CLASS Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Instructor Leslie Lundquist leads a workout for all skill levels, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., every Thursday; free. FULL RADIUS DANCE Full Radius Dance performs at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 9, at Rincon High School, 422 N. Arcadia Ave.; $15 adult, $10 student or senior. Visit fullradiusdance.org for more information.

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CLAUDIA MUSIKUL ZUZI’s Theater. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 629-0237. Claudia Musikul directs “Starry Night: An Evening for the Senses,” a showcase featuring dancers of all ages and skill levels, performing in a range of styles, at 6 p.m., Sunday, June 17; $10. Call 406-2197 for more info.

FREE TANGO LESSONS AND DANCE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. A free class for beginners (no partner necessary) takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., each Wednesday; and tango-dancing continues from 8 to 10 p.m.; free. Call 245-6158 for information. LET’S DANCE CLUB Tucson Women’s Club. 6245 E. Bellevue Road. 2963142. A group meets for ballroom dancing at 7 p.m., every Wednesday; $10, $8 members. No partner necessary. Call 623-2384 for more information. T-SQUARES DANCE CLUB Cornerstone Fellowship Social Hall. 2909 N. Geronimo Ave. 622-4626. A modern square-dance club for lesbians, gays and allies meets from 6 to 8:30 p.m., every Tuesday; free. All dancers are welcome. Call 886-0716, or visit azgaydance.org for more information.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK A CAPPELLA BARBERSHOP HARMONY DEMONSTRATION Murphy-Wilmot Branch, Pima County Public Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. A quartet demonstrates and performs the barbershop style of harmony, at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 9; free. CLAIRE MANN AND AARON JONES Aaron Jones sings lead and plays cittern/bouzouki; and Claire Mann sings harmony and plays Irish flute, fiddle and tin whistle, for a concert of traditional Scottish music at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, June 7, at the Tubac Plaza Main Stage, Tubac; $15 to $20. The concert is repeated at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 8, at the Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater, 330 S. Scott Ave., Tucson; $20, $17 advance, $15 senior advance. Visit inconcerttucson.com for tickets and more information. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Saturday, June 9, at 7 p.m.: Pink Floyd tribute band Adam Heart Mother, Second Saturdays concert; free. Friday, June 15, at 8 p.m.: Riders in the Sky; $23 to

TUCSON POPS DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. 1100 S. Randolph Way. Tucson Pops concerts take place at 7 p.m., every Sunday, through June 17; free. June 10: Stars of the Pops. June 17: cellist Clark Evans. Visit tucsonpops.org for more information.

OUT OF TOWN ARIZONA FOLKLORE PRESERVE Arizona Folklore Preserve. 44 Ramsey Canyon Road. Hereford. 378-6165. Performers of traditional music are featured at 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, unless otherwise indicated; $15, $6 younger than 17. June 9 and 10: Ted Ramirez. June 16 and 17: Hans Olson. June 23 and 24: Tony Norris. June 30 and July 1: Dolan Ellis. DESERT VIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Desert View Performing Arts Center. 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. SaddleBrooke. 825-5318. Visit tickets.saddlebrooketwo.com for tickets and more information. Monday, June 11, at 7:30 p.m.: Classic Country Jukebox with Robert Shaw and Kaci Bays; $30, $25 advance. MARANA BLUEGRASS CONCERT SERIES Crossroads at Silverbell Park. 7548 N. Silverbell Road. Marana. 382-1999. Live bluegrass music is presented at the park at 7 p.m., the second Saturday of every month, through September; free. June 9: Greg Morton Band. July 14: The Sonoran Dogs. Aug. 11: Providence. Sept. 8: Superstition Ridge. Visit saaca.org.

UPCOMING JAZZ UNDER THE STARS Dove of Peace Lutheran Church. 665 W. Roller Coaster Road. 887-5127. American Idol finalist Crystal Stark performs with other local jazz musicians, and refreshments are served, including cheese, wine and baked goods, from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday, June 16; free. If it rains, the concert will be in the church. NATIONAL KARAOKE SINGING AND PERFORMANCE CONTEST F.O.E. Eagles No. 180 Lounge. 1530 N. Stone Ave. 624-2461. A karaoke singing and performance elimination competition takes place at 5 p.m., every Sunday, from June 17 through July 29; $7. One male and one female is chosen each week to compete in a finale round 6 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 5. Winners advance to the Talent Quest 2012 National Finals in September in Laughlin, Nev., with all expenses paid. Participants must be at least age 21 by Sunday, Sept. 16, and not signed to any professional contract. No burned discs, downloaded CDs or original songs are permitted. Call 301-7709 for more info. NOSSA BOSSA NOVA Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. Live music is featured from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Sunday, June 17; free. ROYAL NORDIC OPERA SINGERS St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church. 3809 E. Third St. 3251001. Professional opera singers perform traditional Nordic songs, familiar arias and songs from Broadway shows at 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 19; $18, free child younger than 10. A reception and meet-and-greet follows. Call 318-0746 for reservations. SIZZLING SUMMER SOUNDS Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. Showtime is 8 p.m.; $35 benefits Invisible Theatre. Call 882-9721, or visit invisibletheatre.com for tickets and more information. Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16: From Ragtime to Romance with Richard Glazier. Wednesday, June 20: My Romance with Rob Boone, Christine Vivona and Betsy Kruse Craig. ST. PHILIP’S IN THE HILLS FRIENDS OF MUSIC St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Concerts take place at 2 p.m., Sunday; freewill donation. June 17: Chamber Music Mirage. Call or visit stphilipstucson.org for more information.

Recreation Center, 7200 E. Tanque Verde Road, 2961231. The first Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.: Rincon Market, 2315 E. Sixth St., 296-1231. The third Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Music and Arts Center, 8320 N. Thornydale Road, No. 150-170, 579-2299. The third Thursday, 6 to 8 p.m.: Pinnacle Peak Restaurant, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road, 296-0911. The fourth Sunday, 4 to 6 p.m.: Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill, 2422 N. Pantano Road, 885-6585. Call the phone number provided for each venue for more information.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK COMEDY PLAYHOUSE Comedy Playhouse. 3620 N. First Ave. 260-6442. Herbert Swears’ Her Husband’s Wife opens Friday, June 8, and continues through Sunday, July 15. There are no performances Friday, June 29, through Sunday, July 1. $18. The Fireside Chats With F.D.R. is staged Friday through Sunday, June 29 through July 1, and Wednesday, July 4. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $12, $10 senior and student, unless otherwise noted. Call or visit thecomedyplayhouse.com for tickets or more info. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. The classic comedy Harvey opens with a preview on Thursday, June 7, and continues through Saturday, July 14. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Thursday preview, Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 student, senior or military, $12 preview. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets and more info. THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. Back to the Past, a time-traveling musicalcomedy, previews Thursday, June 7, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 26. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 6 and 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 and 7 p.m., Sunday; $17.95, $7.95 child age 12 and younger, $15.95 student, military and senior. Visit thegaslighttheatre.com for reservations or more information.

CONTINUING LAFFS COMEDY SURVIVOR Laffs Comedy Caffé. 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 3238669. Tucson comedians compete to avoid elimination another week at 8 p.m., every Thursday, through June 21. Finals are held Saturday, June 23, and the winner receives $500 and three professional bookings at Laffs. All rounds are televised on T-Town TV. Email garyhoodcomedy@hotmail.com to participate.

UPCOMING ETCETERA Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. Charles Busch’s Psycho Beach Party opens with a preview Thursday, June 14, and continues through Saturday, June 23. A performance also takes place at 8 p.m., Sunday, June 24. Showtimes are 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 7:30 p.m., Thursday preview; $10. Call 327-4242, or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for more information. LAUGHING LIBERALLY The Auld Dubliner. 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323. A showcase of political comedy featuring Phil Gordon and a changing cast of other Tucson comedians takes place at 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 19. Visit livingliberally. com, or email petgordon@comcast.net for more information and to sign up to perform.

ANNOUNCEMENTS MAGICAL MYSTERY DINNER THEATER Magical Mystery Dinner Theater. 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 624-0172. Murder at the Vampire’s Wedding, a 2 1/2-hour, interactive comedy whodunit that includes a three-course dinner, takes place most Fridays and Saturdays; $29 to $42, includes dinner. Doors open at 7 p.m. Call for reservations or more information.

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PERFORMING ARTS Theater news: Johnson says goodbye to Etcetera; Rogue goes ensemble; daVinci shuts down

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will open in late September. While the company now has a different vision, its eclectic embrace of the new remains the same. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Etcetera really supports new art,â&#x20AC;? Martinez says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always done that, and it will continue to do that.â&#x20AC;? Walley, Horchem and Johnson have something else in common besides Etcetera: All three are also members of the Rogue Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new ensemble company. The Rogue, in a move unusual for Tucson, will be contracting its actors for an entire season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of the 11 company members are in at least two plays in the season; some are in all five,â&#x20AC;? says Rogue artistic director Cynthia Meier. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a dream of Meierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s since founding the Rogue seven seasons ago â&#x20AC;&#x153;to have a company of actors who would work together and train together throughout the season and create a true sense of ensemble.â&#x20AC;? In turn, the company members appreciate the regular work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tucson has been kind of a transitory place for actors,â&#x20AC;? Horchem says. She hopes the new structure can help â&#x20AC;&#x153;develop whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already here, and eventually keep some of that talent here.â&#x20AC;? Johnson agrees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more excited about it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea is to be training the ensemble together, to create an ensemble that could do really any show. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing to work with a bunch of talented people, but to work with a bunch of talented people who can work together harmoniously? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s danger sauce.â&#x20AC;? Johnson wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave directing behind. Early in the fall, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s directing Stephen Karamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech and Debate, the season opener for Winding Road Theater Ensemble, where he is now co-artistic director with Glen Coffman. In another big change, Winding Road has found a home at the Beowulf Alley Theatre for its entire season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went out and got them,â&#x20AC;? says Beowulf Alley Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new artistic director, Michael Fenlason. Knowing that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for companies to find a place both to rehearse and perform, Fenlason offered the troupe space at its downtown theater. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to be a space like that for theater companies.â&#x20AC;? Fenlason, at Beowulf for four months, plans some changes to Beowulf, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do a little normal, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get a little weird,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do more multimedia, multiplatform shows.â&#x20AC;? Later this month, a Beowulf subproject

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BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com tcetera, the late-night branch of Live Theatre Workshop, has had several incarnations. As Michael Martinez, LTWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new executive director, says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of lived up to its name.â&#x20AC;? Throughout the permutations, the eclectic late-night company has been a home for art that does not quite fit in elsewhere. Etcetera â&#x20AC;&#x153;supports new art and brings something that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really being offered other places in Tucson,â&#x20AC;? says Martinez, who recently took the top job at LTW after many years with the company. So when Christopher Johnson, Etceteraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly regarded artistic director, announced in February that he was stepping down, fans of the quirky company were bereft. Johnson had taken Etcetera in exciting new directions, moving away from sketch-comedy fare to become bolder, edgier. Recently, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gotten even more ambitious, staging productions such as Margaret Edsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pulitzer Prizewinning Wit. But he felt the need for a change. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been at LTW off and on for about 10 years,â&#x20AC;? Johnson says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been who I am for a really long time; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made me who I am. A lot of why I left Etcetera was that I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t my target audience anymore.â&#x20AC;? Instead, Johnson wanted to do serious drama. So heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s joined two serious-minded companies: He signed on as an actor in Rogue Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new ensemble, and as co-artistic director at Winding Road Theater Ensemble. Before departing, Johnson will take his Etcetera bow in the summer production of Psycho Beach Party, a darkly humorous piece by Charles Busch, opening next week. To replace Johnson, Martinez tapped one of the original Etcetera founders, Matt Walley, and his partner, Angela Horchem. After helping to get the late-night troupe off the ground, Walley left Tucson to earn a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at Dellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California. There, he met Horchem. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that the new co-artistic directors will be picking up exactly where Johnson left off. Walley and Horchem are â&#x20AC;&#x153;really into physical theater, ensemble-devised work,â&#x20AC;? full of commedia dellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;arte masks and movement, Horchem says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Devisedâ&#x20AC;? theater, instead of starting from a polished script, develops a show through artists working together. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes, we start from a story; sometimes, we start from a character. Sometimes, we start from just the people in the room.â&#x20AC;? The first play under Etceteraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new banner

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called The Next Theatre will debut Joan Is Burning, a piece that is partly filmed, partly performed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can theater really ignore technology?â&#x20AC;? Fenlason asks. In Joan Is Burning, â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the characters is literally her phone. â&#x20AC;Ś She talks so much to that, relates so much to that, that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost another person.â&#x20AC;? At Studio Connections, Robert Encila has called a temporary halt to the daVinci Players, a community theater group that evolved out of his classes for teenagers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;DaVinci Players went on to really consume my energy,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I went away from my original mission, which was working with kids and teens.â&#x20AC;? The troupe will operate on a smaller scale for benefit performances, but Encila will concentrate on the theater classes. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;really aiming to grow the current programs.â&#x20AC;? Encila looks back fondly on past daVinci productions like the critically acclaimed Man of La Mancha. â&#x20AC;&#x153;DaVinci Players sort of was an unexpected, wonderful thing,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was fun while it lasted.â&#x20AC;? And the change has its advantages. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With my suddenly free evenings, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking for opportunities to perform,â&#x20AC;? he says. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already lined up a role in Borderlandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bruja, a new play by Luis Alfaro opening next March. Balancing the loss of daVinci, Sheldon Metz and John Vornholt have founded a brand-new company, the Tucson Alliance of Dramatic Artists, or TADA. Metz, though himself a set designer, intends to focus on minimalist readings of original works. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A set, good or bad, can sometimes distract,â&#x20AC;? he says. He envisions â&#x20AC;&#x153;a simple format that can be utilized anywhereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a furniture store, music store, library, museum, anything.â&#x20AC;? TADAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first production, two nights of original play readings in May, was held at Art Gallery/Stone Dragon Studio. With hopes of presenting a new play in September, the TADA directors are now looking for original scripts. (To submit a script for TADA, visit www.thedrektor.com.) A second Metz-Vornholt project, Murder Mayhem, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;180 degrees from TADA.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a murderous dinner-theater show at the Hotel Congress, in which guests must vote on who did the bloody deed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is pure fun,â&#x20AC;? Metz says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The discipline you need in presenting a play and the discipline for this is similar, but here, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re free to explore and experiment.â&#x20AC;?

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OPENING THIS WEEK THE COLLECTIVE ONE19. 119 E. Toole Ave. 481-1818. An art party features local artists, jewelers, musicians and beer-tastings from Borderlands Brewery, from 2 to 11 p.m., Saturday, June 9; free admission. Featured artists include Wil Taylor, Chrissy Goral, Carolyn King and Chris Wilson. Email spaceone19@gmail.com for more information. LONG GALLERY, ACADEMY VILLAGE Academy Village. 13701 E. Langtry Lane. 647-7777. Sparking the Imagination: Abstract Impressions by Marti White opens with a reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Friday, June 8, and continues through Friday, Aug. 24, in the Long Gallery in the community center. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. ÂĄChubasco!, an exhibit of works featuring monsoon and water themes, opens Saturday, June 9, and continues through Saturday, July 21. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, and by appointment; free. Call or visit raicestaller222.webs.com. TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Zoom In! A Photographic Exploration of Pollinators opens Monday, June 11, and continues through Saturday, Sept. 1. Mesquite, an exhibit of photography and art representing mesquite trees in a range of media, runs through Sunday, July 22. Pollinators: The Art of Interdependence, an exhibit focusing on bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other actors in spreading pollen, runs through Sunday, Aug. 12. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, through Saturday, June 30; and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily, from Sunday, July 1, through Friday, Aug. 31; $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. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. Flight, Sight and Watermelons, an exhibit

of watercolor paintings on paper by Kim Woodin, opens Friday, June 8, and continues through Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Main Gallery. TIA galleries are open 24 hours, daily; free. Visit flytucsonairport.com for more info. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. The Members and Friends Photography Show opens Sunday, June 10, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 2. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and Sunday.

CONTINUING AGUA CALIENTE RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. Color Power, an exhibit of Southwest landscapes and courtyard paintings by Carol Lucas, continues through Wednesday, June 20. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information. ARIZONA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER Arizona Health Sciences Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 626-7301. Early Hospitals in Arizona With Diploma Schools of Nursing, an exhibit of photographs and artifacts, is on display in the Java City coffee-bar area through Saturday, June 30. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Sunday through Thursday; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; free. Call 626-2933, or email hannah@ahsl.arizona.edu for more information. ARTSEYE GALLERY ArtsEye Gallery. 3550 E. Grant Road. 325-0260. The fourth annual Curious Camera Event, featuring images from around the world made with pinhole, plastic, vintage, instant and cell-phone cameras, continues through Tuesday, July 31. The exhibit also features pinhole images made with the Giant Holga by Swiss photographer Francois Robert. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Call 327-7291, or visit artseye.com for info. BRIDGE GALLERY Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. Southwest contemporary art is featured. Summer hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 5 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and by appointment; free. Visit bridgegallery.net for more information. CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195. 622-8997. Addition/Subtraction, an exhibition of eight artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work in multimedia painting and sculpture on the theme of positive versus negative space, continues through Saturday, July 28. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free. Visit conradwildegallery.com for more information. CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. Radiance, an exhibit of Carmen R. Sonnesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mixed-media paintings including a series depicting the suffering of undocumented families, continues through Saturday, June 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Visit contrerashousefineart.com for more information.

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DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY Davis Dominguez Gallery. 154 E. Sixth St. 629-9759. Small Things Considered: 20th Small Works Invitational, featuring work by more than 80 artists, continues through Saturday, June 30. Summer hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit davisdominguez.com for more info.

TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303. 624-0595. An exhibit of paintings, mixed media and photography by K. Loren Dawn and Gary Mackender continues through Wednesday, June 27. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for more information.

JCC FINE ART GALLERY Jewish Community Center. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Abstract Architectural and Geometric Explorations, an exhibit of paintings by Judith A. Kramer, continues through Wednesday, June 27. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday and Friday.

UA MEDICAL CENTER SOUTH CAMPUS UA Medical Center South Campus. 2800 E. Ajo Way. 874-2000. An exhibit featuring photography by faculty members of Pima Community College continues through Tuesday, Aug. 28, in the Behavioral Health Pavilion Gallery. An artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, June 7. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1:30 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free.

JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. Artwork of Pete Arriola, an exhibit of painting and digital art; Artwork of George Penaloza, an exhibit of sculpture; and an exhibit of photography from the Tucson Community Food Bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Youth Farm Project continue through Saturday, June 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 for more information. JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108. 626-4215. Above and Below, an exhibition of work by Josh Keyes, continues through Thursday, Aug. 30. A closing reception takes place from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 30. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; $5. Visit cfa.arizona.edu/galleries. KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH, PIMA COUNTY LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch, Pima County Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Kaleidoscope of Art, showcasing the work of M. Diane Bonaparte, Sharlene Bennett, Sharon Hass and Jennifer Hillman, continues through Saturday, June 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. MADARAS GALLERY Madaras Gallery. 3001 E. Skyline Road, Suite 101. 615-3001. Margarita Sunsets, a collection of Diana Madarasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work inspired by summer, continues through Saturday, June 30. A reception with margaritas takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, June 21; free. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, and Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Visit madaras.com. PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Philabaum and Phriends, an exhibit of glass art by Tom Philabaum and his colleagues, continues through Saturday, Sept. 1. Summer hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and Monday by appointment; free. PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Susanna Castroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Desert Visions, a collection of desert impressions in photography, continues through Thursday, June 28. An artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recepton takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, June 21, as part of the gardensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Twilight Third Thursday event. Regular hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information QUANTUM ART GALLERY Quantum Art Gallery. 505 W. Miracle Mile, No. 2. 907-7644. Never Again, featuring the contemporary art of Mychal Trujillo and Micheline Johnoff, continues through Monday, Aug. 27. Hours are by appointment.

WORKER TRANSIT AUTHORITY EXHIBIT Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. An innovative public-transportation-planning project incorporating, art, humor, parody, graphics, data, interactive maps, sculpture, videos and text is on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, through Friday, June 29; free. The project is intended to reinvent the public-hearing process and to facilitate discussion about the issues of land use, infrastructure, transportation and the environment. The project is funded through the Tucson Pima Arts Council/Kresge Arts in Tucson II: P.L.A.C.E. Initiative Grants. Visit workerincorporated.com for more information.

LAST CHANCE ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. This Land, This Sea: Joe Forkan, Nancy Tokar Miller, Lisa M. Robinson closes Saturday, June 9. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFĂ&#x2030; Shot in the Dark CafĂŠ. 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 8825544. An exhibit of mixed-media work on car hoods, trunks and fenders, all products of a collaboration between P.J. McArdle and To-Ree-Nee Wolf, continues 24 hours each day through Saturday, June 9; free.

OUT OF TOWN SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-9143. Journeys 2012, an exhibit of recent watercolor paintings by Peggy Scanlon and photography by Richard Robinson, opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, June 9, and continues through Sunday, July 8. Hours are 2 to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more information. TRIANGLE L RANCH Triangle L Ranch. 2805 Triangle L Ranch Road. Oracle. 623-6732. Big Desert Sculpture Show continues through mid-August. The exhibit includes metal, glass and ceramic works for sale, and site-specific installations. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., every Saturday; and by appointment; free. VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS GALLERY Ventana Medical Systems Gallery. 1910 E. Innovation Park Drive, Building No. 2. Oro Valley. 887-2155. Journeys, an exhibit of oils and acrylics by Judith Mariner, and collages by Barbara Brandel, continues through Saturday, June 30. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the first and third Saturday every month; free. Reservations are required 48 hours in advance; call 797-3959 for reservations or more information.

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RON ZACK, PLC Ron Zack, PLC. 177 N. Church Ave., No. 1015. 6643420. Artistic Reflections: Truth and Beauty in Creation, an exhibit of oil paintings and graphite drawings by TurningBear Mason, continues through Friday, Aug. 3. An artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reception takes place Friday, June 22, from 3 to 7 p.m.; free. Hours are by appointment.

ART AWAKENINGS-OLD BISBEE GALLERY Art Awakenings-Old Bisbee Gallery. 50 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-3765. Ted Breault: Male Nudes opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, June 15, as part of Bisbee Pride weekend, and continues through Saturday, June 30. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday; free. Visit artawakenings.org/bisbee-gallery for more information.

TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Flights of Fancy, a garden-wide display of decorated bird houses of all shapes and sizes, continues through Sunday, Sept. 30. Many of the bird houses are for sale and may be picked up at the end of the exhibit. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $8, $4 child age 4 to 12, free younger child or member, includes admission to the gardens. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information about the exhibit and the many bird-related classes and activity taking place.

BLUE RAVEN GALLERY AND GIFTS Many Hands Courtyard. 3054 N. First Ave. 419-7191. Express Yourself ... Anything Goes!, an exhibit of paintings, photographs, ceramics, gourds, mixed-media works and more by local artists, opens with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Saturday, June 16, and continues through Saturday, Aug. 18. Hours are noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Friday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; or by appointment. Visit blueravengalleryandgifts.com for more information.

ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. A Classic Collection: Photographs From the Estate of Julian T. Baker Jr. (1939-2011), a selection of works by 20th-century masters, opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, June 16, and continues through Friday, Aug. 31. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information. JANE HAMILTON FINE ART Jane Hamilton Fine Art. 2890 E. Skyline Drive, No. 180. 529-4886. A reception featuring wine by Tavolino takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday, June 18, in conjunction with an exhibit of work by Fred Wackerle; free.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BICAS UNDERGROUND ART WORKSHOPS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. BICAS offers workshops to create useful objects and art projects from recycled materials from 5 to 8 p.m., every Tuesday; freewill donation. Materials are provided, or you may bring your own. Call 201-5011, or search for “Bicas Underground Art” on Facebook for information about each week’s project. CALL FOR ARTISTS Natural Way Wellness Spa. 329 E. Seventh St. 8828828. A new spa seeks art on consignment. Themes are mind, body and spirit. Call for more information. CALL FOR ARTISTS Industria Studios. 1441 E. 17th St. 235-0797. Submissions are sought for Miscommunication and the Human Condition, a juried exhibition taking place from Saturday, July 14, through Saturday, Aug. 4. Artists submit up to three pieces for a $25 application fee. Visit industriastudios.org, or email industriastudios@gmail. com for a submission form and more information. GALLERY ROW ARTWALK Fine art, live music and wine-tastings take place at several art galleries at the corner of Skyline Drive and Campbell Avenue, from 5 to 7 p.m., every Thursday. Call 615-3001, or visit tucsongalleryrow.com. GEORGE STRASBURGER GALLERY AND STUDIO George Strasburger Gallery and Studio. 172 E. Toole St. 882-2160. An exhibit of new paintings by George Strasburger and photographs by Alfonso Elia is featured from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. Visit georgestrasburger.com and alfonsoelia.com. OPEN STUDIO ART CLASSES WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Anyone can make crafts for free from 1 to 4 p.m., every second Friday and Saturday. VICTOR STEVENS STUDIO AND GALLERY IN THE DESERT Victor Stevens Studio and Gallery in the Desert. 14015 S. Avenida Haley. Sahuarita. 399-1009. Original work and giclee prints are shown from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., every Saturday; and by appointment. Visit victorstevensart.com for more information.

MUSEUMS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA HISTORY MUSEUM Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. 100 Years: 100 Quilts continues through Saturday, Dec. 29. The quilts, created for the state’s centennial, depict Arizona landscapes, cultures, historical places and unique events. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, $4 senior or ages 12 through 18, free younger child. ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. An exhibit of 20 Hopi quilts continues through Monday, Aug. 20. Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera continues through Friday, Nov. 30. Basketry Treasured, an exhibit of 500 pieces from the museum’s collection of Southwest American Indian basketry, which is the world’s largest, continues through Saturday, June 1, 2013. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, free youth younger than 18, active-duty military and their families, people with business in the building and everyone for public events. Visit statemuseum.arizona.edu for more information. CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976, an exhibit examining how two Los Angeles artists used photography to bridge modernist and emerging post-modernist trends; and a group of works from the permanent collection that illus-

trate Los Angeles photography from the 1890s through the 1990s, continue through Sunday, June 17. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. Visit centerforcreativephotography.org for more information. DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. Portraits of DeGrazia, an exhibit of photographs and paintings of Ted DeGrazia, including works by Louise Serpa and Thomas Hart Benton, continues through Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Ted DeGrazia Depicts the Life of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino: 20 Oil Paintings is on permanent display. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. Call or visit degrazia.org. FORT LOWELL MUSEUM Fort Lowell Museum. 2900 N. Craycroft Road. 8853832. An exhibit of artifacts from the centennial celebration at Bunker Hill Monument continues through Friday, Aug. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; $3, $2 senior or student, free member, child younger than 12 or military family with ID. Bette Bunker Richards, historian of the Bunker Family Association, is curator of the Fort Lowell Museum. Call 885-3832 for more information. MINI-TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Brass Tracks and Smoke Stacks: G-Scale Model Railroading, an exhibit of model trains built from scratch and from kits, continues through Sunday, June 17. Book readings take place at 2 p.m., the first Sunday of every month from June through August; free with admission. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday; $9, $8 senior or military, $6 age 4 to 17, $6 adults on Thursday through Dec. 27, free younger child. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more information. MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. Artists-inresidence Hunter Jonakin and Jordan Vinyard set up their collaborative art studio and workshop in MOCA’s Great Hall from noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday, from Saturday, June 9, through Sunday, June 24. Visitors are invited to participate in the creative practice. The artists discuss their residency work at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 20; $5, free member. Art Now! offers wine, snacks, socializing and discussion on the topic of “A Century of Performance Art” from 6 to 7 p.m., Saturday, June 16; $15, $10 member. Works by previous participants in the MOCA artist-residency program are featured in Air Show, which continues through Sunday, June 24. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free member, child younger than 17, veteran, active military and public-safety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more information. TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Arizona Doodle 4 Google, an exhibit of Arizona students’ entries in a Google doodle competition, continues through Friday, Aug. 31. Tucson Collects: Spirit of the West, an exhibit of Western art from private collections, and 100 Years: 100 Ranchers, a collection of photographs by Scott T. Baxter for the Arizona centennial, open Saturday, June 16, and run through Sunday, Sept. 23. Baxter presents an artist talk at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 16; free with admission. (con)text, an exhibit of works from the permanent collection that examine the impact of text in contemporary art, runs through Saturday, June 30. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday; and noon to 6 p.m., Sunday; $8, $6 senior and veteran, $3 student with ID, free younger than 13, free the first Sunday every month. Beginning Sunday, July 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; and closed Monday and Tuesday. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org. UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. Exhibitions featuring Sol LeWitt, who is among the founders of both Minimal and Conceptual art, and David Headly, who specializes in large-scale triptychs, continue through Sunday, Oct. 21. As part of the exhibition, six teams construct works according to LeWitt’s specifications; call 621-7567 for a work schedule. Joshua Olivera’s Palimpsest: An Image of What Once Was continues through Sunday, Sept. 2. Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu for details of related activities. The Samuel H. Kress Collection and the altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo are on display until further notice. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $5, free member, student, child, faculty and staff with ID. Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu.

OUT OF TOWN AMERIND MUSEUM Amerind Museum. 2100 N. Amerind Road, Exit 318 off Interstate 10. Dragoon. (520) 586-3666. A Journey:

The Art of Glory Tacheenie-Campoy, an exhibit of paintings, sculpture, mixed-media works and prints, continues through Wednesday, Oct. 31. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; $8, $7 senior, $5 ages 12 through 18, free younger child. Visit amerind. org for more information. TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Exhibits including a press and printed matter from the mid-20th-century Tubac business Gunpowder Press, and a collection of vintage photographs depicting Nogales on both sides of the border, continue through Saturday, June 30. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, except Christmas; $4, $2 youth ages 7 through 13, free younger child.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ACADIA RANCH MUSEUM AND ORACLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Oracle Historical Society and Acadia Ranch Museum. 825 Mount Lemmon Road. Oracle. 896-9609. The Oracle Historical Society preserves artifacts and properties to educate and to encourage appreciation of the unique cultural-historical heritage of the community of Oracle and surrounding areas. Collections include the Huggett Family collection of ranching artifacts, a documents archive and many books on local history. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., each Saturday, with extended hours for special exhibits; free, donations welcome. ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DOWNTOWN MUSEUM Arizona Historical Society Downtown Museum. 140 N. Stone Ave. 770-1473. Exhibits depict early Tucson businesses and homes. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; $3, $2 senior or age 12 to 18; free younger child, 2-for-1 admission the first Tuesday of every month. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety.org for more information. ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. A world-renowned botanical garden, zoo and natural-history museum that features a vast collection of native plants and wildlife. Walk into the lush hummingbird and mixed-species aviaries, or learn about the statuesque saguaro and other desert denizens via daily tours and bird walks. Activities for kids include a simulated fossil dig. Open every day, but hours vary by month; free child younger than 6; $13, $4.25 ages 6 to 12 from September to May; $9.50, $2.25 age 6 to 12 from June to August. Visit desertmuseum.org for more information. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM TUCSON Children’s Museum Tucson. 200 S. Sixth Ave. 7929985. Ongoing exhibits include Bodyology, a healthand-wellness exhibit, and Investigation Station, a playful, participatory exhibit about science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Unique events for kids take place monthly, and daily programs enrich early-childhood education. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $8, $6 ages 2 through 18, free younger child, $2 the second Saturday of every month. Closed Easter, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Visit childrensmuseumtucson.org for more information. GADSDEN-PACIFIC DIVISION TOY TRAIN OPERATING MUSEUM Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum. 3975 N. Miller Ave. 888-2222. This family-oriented museum features toy trains of all sizes and shapes running on 16 different tracks, with whistles blowing, bells ringing, steam engines smoking and more. Hours are 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second and fourth Sunday of the month; free. Closed in July and August. Open the first three Saturdays in December. Visit gpdtoytrainmuseum.com for more information. INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE MUSEUM International Wildlife Museum. 4800 W. Gates Pass Road. 629-0100. The museum highlights more than 400 species of insects, mammals and birds from around the globe. Dioramas depict wild animals in their natural settings. Videos, interactive computers and hands-on exhibits promote wildlife appreciation and conservation. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $8, $3 ages 4 to 12, free younger child or member, $6 senior, student or military. Visit thewildlifemuseum.org for more information. THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM The Jewish History Museum. 564 S. Stone Ave. 6709073. The museum is housed in the oldest Jewish house of worship in Arizona and features the history of Jewish pioneers in exhibits, artifacts, research, genealogy and story-telling. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; and noon to 3 p.m., Friday; $5, free age 17 and younger. Visit jewishhistorymuseum.org for more information.

KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY Located atop the 6,875-foot summit of Kitt Peak, the observatory offers nightly viewing and an advanced overnight program that lets visitors stay on site, use advanced equipment and “explore some of North America’s most spectacular night skies.” (Stargazing by reservation only.) Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily. Guided tours are at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; a single tour is $5.75, $3 age 7 to 12, free younger child, June through October; $7.75, $4 age 7 to 12, free younger child, November through May. Special rates for three tours are available. Night tours feature four hours of guided observing time and a box dinner; $48, $44 student, military or senior. Call 3188726, or visit noao.edu/kpno for more information. LA PILITA MUSEUM La Pilita Museum. 420 S. Main Ave. 882-7454. The museum exhibits the written and photographed history of Barrio Viejo and El Hoyo. The permanent exhibit is Who Walked Here Before You, a collection of photos of Carrillo Gardens and Elysian Grove of the 1890s to 1920s. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free, $2 requested donation. Call or visit lapilita.com for more information. MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC San Xavier del Bac Mission. 1950 W. San Xavier Road. 294-2624. Founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino, the “White Dove of the Desert” continues to serve the religious life of the surrounding Tohono O’odham community. It is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; free. Free tours are on the half-hour from 9:30 a.m., through 12:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except during special religious observances. Traditional O’odham food and crafts are available year-round. Call or visit sanxaviermission.org for more information. PIMA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Pima Air and Space Museum. 6000 E. Valencia Road. 574-0462. The museum is one of the largest aviation museums in the world and is the largest non-government funded aviation museum in the United States. The museum maintains a collection of more than 300 aircraft and spacecraft from around the globe and more than 125,000 artifacts. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admittance, 4 p.m.), daily; free child younger than 7; $15.50, $9 ages 7 to 12, $12.75 senior, military, Pima County resident and AAA from November through May; $13.75, $8 ages 7 to 12, $11.50 Pima County resident, $11.75 senior, military and AAA from June through October. Visit pimaair.org for more information. PRESIDIO SAN AGUSTÍN DEL TUCSON Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón. 133 W. Washington St. 837-8119. Take a trip into Tucson’s past with living history demonstrations, re-enactments and special events. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; free. Visit tucsonpresidiotrust.org for more information. SOUTHERN ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. 414 N. Toole Ave. 623-2223. The museum features audio and visual interactive elements for youth and adults alike, a diorama with trains and a 1907 depot, a state-of-the-art media wall, knowledgeable docents and a locomotive. Locomotive Saturdays are held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and offer an up-close-and-personal look at a real locomotive. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday; $6, free during Locomotive Saturdays hours. Visit tucsonhistoricdepot.org for more information.

LITERATURE EVENTS THIS WEEK BOOK-RELEASE PARTY Clues Unlimited. 3146 E. Fort Lowell Road. 326-8533. The release of Jan Holmes Frost’s new thriller, Without Sanctions, is celebrated with food and beverages from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 7; free. BOOKWORMS Bookmans. 1930 E. Grant Road. 325-5767. This book club meets from 7 to 8 p.m., on the second Wednesday of every month; free. The selection for June 13 is Bo Caldwell’s The Distant Land of My Father. BRIDGE GALLERY BOOK-SIGNING EVENT Bridge Gallery. 5425 N. Kolb Road, No. 113. 5774537. Three local authors sign their work from 5 to 9 p.m., Thursday, June 7; free. Jane McCutchen signs Drifting in Beauty: A Collection of Poems and Photographs, co-authored by poet Dwight Cosper; William Ascarza signs Zenith on the Horizon, about the Tucson Mountains; and Alexis Powers signs her memoir Don’t Die Before Paris. Visit bridgegallery.net for info.

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MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES BOOK-DISCUSSION CLUB Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. A book club discusses books used in the recently terminated TUSD Mexican-American studies program, and explores their value to youth, from 6 to 8 p.m., on selected Wednesdays; free. June 13: Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. June 27: Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. READINGS AND OPEN READINGS AT ANTIGONE BOOKS Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Readings are at 7 p.m., Friday; free. A Q&A follows, and refreshments are served. Writers are encouraged to sign up for an open reading of their work after the main reader. June 8: Jill Williams reads from her six published poetry collections. June 15: Greg Starr discusses his Agaves: Living Sculptures for Landscapes and Containers. ROMANCE BOOK GROUP Mostly Books. 6208 E. Speedway Blvd. 571-0110. A paranormal romance, Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris, is the topic at 7 p.m., Wednesday, June 13; free.

UPCOMING CLUES UNLIMITED Clues Unlimited. 3146 E. Fort Lowell Road. 326-8533. Carol Costa and Mary Ann Hutchison of Gecko Gals sign their most-recent books from 2:30 to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 16; free. A free gift is given with the purchase of any of their books.

ANNOUNCEMENTS OMNIVOROUS READERS Sahuarita Branch, Pima County Public Library. 725 W. Via Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 594-5490. Maurynne Maxwell leads discussions of a mix of contemporary fiction and nonfiction from 10 a.m. to noon, the second Saturday of every month; free.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ART LECTURES AT DUSENBERRY LIBRARY Dusenberry River Branch, Pima County Public Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. Docents from the UA Museum of Art and the Tucson Museum of Art give talks from 2 to 3 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, year-round; free. DEMOCRATS OF ORO VALLEY Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. 2295300. Russell Lowes, research director at safeenergyanalyst.org, presents “What Is Wrong With Atomic A1: Reflections on the Fukushima Disaster” at 7 p.m., Monday, June 11; free. Call 742-3774, or visit demsov.org for more information. QUILTING SERIES Arizona History Museum. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Quilt-makers who contributed to the centennial exhibit 100 Years, 100 Quilts give informal talks at 11 a.m., the second Saturday of every month, through Nov. 10; $5, $4 senior or ages 12 through 18, free younger child, includes admission. June 9: Judy Gilmartin. July 14: Karen Fisher. Aug. 11: Sue Franklin. Sept. 8: Joyce Harrison and Diane Osborne. Oct. 13: Nancy Arseneault. Nov. 10: Karen Fisher. Visit arizonahistoricalsociety.org for more information.

UPCOMING JOHN ABRAHAM: WHAT NOBODY EVER TOLD YOU ABOUT ADVANCE DIRECTIVES DuVal Auditorium, UA Medical Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 694-0111. A lecture about whether your wishes will be honored in your end-of-life care takes place from 10 a.m. to noon, Sunday, June 17; free. Call 297-9919 for more information. UPDATE ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE SEIU Meeting Room. 1600 N. Tucson Blvd., No. 100. 884-8100. Elna Otter of the Sierra Club presents the most current information about the status of resistance to climate change, and the potential impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 14; free. Call 623-0269 for more information.

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BOOKS This reissue of Clyde Eddy’s adventure diary depicts the Colorado River before it was tamed

TOP TEN

With the Flow

Mostly Books’ top sales for the week ending June 1, 2012

BY TIM HULL, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

1. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy E.L. James, Vintage ($15.95)

lyde Eddy must have been missing the war. He seems to have been one of those lost, dissatisfied former soldiers that Hemingway wrote about: a man who couldn’t adjust to the everyday after spending his youth flying over France, photographing the enemy in his trenches, and listening to the bombs. It’s really the only way to explain the 38-yearold’s decision, in 1927, to run the Colorado River from Green River, Utah, to Needles, Calif., at flood stage, in the torrid heat of the summer, with a crew composed mostly of Ivy League college boys. The improbable expedition succeeded where others had failed, and two years later, Eddy published Down the World’s Most Dangerous River, a fascinating record of the journey and a unique portrait of one of North America’s great rivers before it was tamed by the forces of reclamation. Very few of the crew members, including Eddy himself, had any kind of river-running experience. As a guide, he hired Parley Galloway, son of Nathan Galloway, a Utah trapper and prospector, and a pioneer of Colorado River-running. Parley had spent considerable time on the river in Utah, but had never been through the Grand Canyon. The natives of Green River, from which the party pushed off on June 27, 1927, figured them for dead men, and were not shy with their warnings. Forty-two days later, they went ashore at Needles, alive to a man, 800 river miles and hundreds of deadly rapids behind them. During the high-water season, snowmelt and rainstorms upriver swelled and angered the muddy flow, making every move on the river potentially deadly. It was a different river then, before the Glen Canyon Dam destroyed the stretch through the Grand Canyon. Eddy’s river was warm and roiling, red with the untold tons of dirt and rocks—the same kind of dirt and rocks used to carve the Grand Canyon. These days, the river is cold and

A Mad, Crazy River: Running the Grand Canyon in 1927

2. Catching Fire

By Clyde L. Eddy

Suzanne Collins, Scholastic ($17.99)

University of New Mexico/Avanyu

3. Explosive Eighteen

232 pages, $19.95

Janet Evanovich, Bantam ($8.99)

greenish, with its once-teeming, verdant banks scoured, its natural power trapped behind the dam and held in Lake Powell, a playground for water-skiers and houseboaters. The University of New Mexico Press and Avanyu Publishing have recently reissued Eddy’s book under the new title A Mad, Crazy River. It is much more than an artifact of a lost time and a lost river, though it is most definitely that. Anyone curious about the Colorado as it once was will get much from Eddy’s ruminations and wilderness portraits. But within this adventure tale, there is also the story of a man fighting another ancient battle: a drag-out fistfight with the expectations of his family, his contemporaries and his class. On the 24th day of the journey, the party arrived at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek, near Phantom Ranch, and Eddy and several others made the trudge to the South Rim, expecting a load of supplies to be waiting there. Eddy picked up the supplies, and with them, he got a letter in which his father asked him if he would “ever grow up.” At camp that night, Eddy pondered his future, seemingly much affected by his father’s disapproval. It resulted in one of the saddest portions of the book: “Well, maybe not, but I believe now that I shall, even to the extent of fixing on a new dream, a dream in which money and comforts figure largely,” he wrote. “That seems to constitute growing up, the crowding out of romance and settling down to work and golf. But it will suit me to do that, at least it seems to me now that it will. I must realize that this is my big adventure and that now I must be content to work, and earn and save. It still is too soon to define the new dream, but it probably will take the form of comforts at home, security, automobiles, money, a trip to Europe sometime, or even a journey around the world when I am old.” Within months of finishing what he thought would be his final adventure, however, Eddy had already failed at “settling down to work and golf.” He just didn’t have it in him. Instead, he was back on the river helping rescue a lost film crew. Whether it was the bug of war, the lure of the river and the wilderness, or some deep flaw in his middle-class character, Eddy, unlike the river that he rode to glory, could not be tamed.

4. Mockingjay Suzanne Collins, Scholastic ($17.99)

5. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Paciﬁc Coast Trail Cheryl Strayed, Knopf ($25.95)

6. In One Person: A Novel John Irving, Simon and Schuster ($28)

7. Lullaby Robert B. Parker, Putnam ($26.95)

8. Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy E.L. James, Vintage ($15.95)

9. City of Lost Souls Cassandra Clare, Margaret K. McElderry ($19.99)

10. Cronkite Douglas Brinkley, Harper ($34.99)

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CINEMA Ridley Scott returns to the ‘Alien’ universe with a masterpiece

Chest-Bursting Fun

TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending June 3, 2012

BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com K, fellow geeks, you can exhale: Prometheus is a very good movie. For years, director Ridley Scott has been teasing fans about returning to the land of the xenomorph and the fierce franchise he started in 1979 with his masterpiece Alien. There was talk about a sequel with Sigourney Weaver in which earthlings would go to the place where the acid-for-blood bastards originated, and other plot ideas were bandied about. Despite the teasing, Scott worked on other projects and generally avoided his wheelhouse—science fiction. (His 1982 sci-fi mind-blower, Blade Runner, ranks as his second-best film after Alien, in my book.) Finally, a few years ago, it was announced that Scott would be working on two Alien films, to be shot in 3-D. Then the news came that he would only be doing one for the time being— and it might not really be an Alien film after all. So, for the last year or so, fanboys and fangirls alike have been dying to know: Is Prometheus an Alien film, and is it a prequel to the original Alien? Well, Prometheus has landed, and it couldn’t be more of a prequel to Alien. I actually see it as a prequel to a prequel. Scott has taken a new, more-cerebral approach to the universe he helped create, and has thrown in a heaping tablespoon of speculative theology. His Prometheus dares to ask big questions of the Alien movie universe, bigger questions than, “What will the xenomorph kill next, and will it be a man in suit or CGI?” The film opens with what appears to be a “dawn of man” sequence. While Scott has claimed in recent interviews that Prometheus shares DNA with Alien, it also shares some with Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, in that it asks big, broad questions about human beings and their place in the universe. (I just alienated the people who hated The Tree of Life. Don’t worry; there’s a lot more dialogue in this movie.) From man’s beginning, we jump to the future, where scientist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) has discovered a cave drawing that appears to be an invite from the “engineers of the universe,” calling us to come visit them. We then jump ahead again to see Shaw in cryo-sleep on the ship Prometheus, on her way to a distant planet for a possible rendezvous with the gods, courtesy of WeylandYutani Corp. (the same corporation that built the Nostromo, Ripley’s ship in Alien). Other characters aboard include Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), Shaw’s cocky fellow scientist and lover; Vickers (Charlize Theron), commander of the Prometheus; and, most notably, David (Michael Fassbender), a spooky

1. The Grey Universal

2. This Means War 20th Century Fox

3. Man on a Ledge Summit

4. Chronicle 20th Century Fox

5. We Need to Talk About Kevin Oscilloscope

6. The Woman in Black Sony

7. The Secret World of Arrietty Buena Vista

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus. android who occupies himself with basketball and Lawrence of Arabia while the crew members sleep. When everybody wakes up, they land near something that looks like a manmade temple, and things start happening. Some of these things involve the body-horror violence that we have come to expect from the Alien series. I can report that the film, on top of being visually stunning and intellectually challenging, has its share of squirm-inducing, stomach-churning moments. So, what can I let you know about Prometheus that ties it to Scott’s original Alien, without spoiling the film? Well, it has a horseshoe-shaped ship, not unlike the one from Alien. It has creatures that might be related to the “space jockey,” the apparently fossilized pilot of the derelict ship that Ripley discovered in Alien. It also has a lot of slime and dark, scaly corridors. Most important, it’s got the guy who directed the original film pulling the strings. In short, this is definitely an Alien movie. In essence, this film is the grandfather of the first four Alien films. (Screw that Alien vs. Predator garbage.) There will be a faction of people who are disappointed with this film, because it isn’t straightup horror, with the familiar double-jawed aliens wreaking the lion’s share of havoc. Some people will want to see the same ol’, same ol’. Scott is shooting for something new and wonderful, and he succeeds … for the most part. The film is saddled with a few uninteresting supporting characters that do nothing to enhance the movie and are simply cannon fodder. And the movie features its share of possible logistical goofs that fanboys will gnaw at like morsels of meat left on the communal bone. However, that’s nitpicking. Prometheus isn’t perfect, but it is easily the most ambitious and visually stunning film in the Alien franchise. I

Prometheus

8. Red Tails

Rated R

20th Century Fox

Starring Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron

9. Coriolanus

Directed by Ridley Scott

Anchor Bay

20th Century Fox, 124 minutes

10. Gone

Opens Friday, June 8, at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888-262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-3263264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800326-3264, ext. 903), Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace (800-326-3264, ext. 899), Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 (806-4275) and Tower Theaters at Arizona Pavilions (579-0500).

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Sam Worthington in Man on a Ledge.

won’t say it is the best film in the franchise, but it stands proudly with Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens. Scott’s use of 3-D is epic, as much of a visual success as Cameron’s Avatar. Fassbender’s performance resonates the most. The Alien franchise has featured both good and bad androids, and David is a crazy, creepy mix of both. He’s a lot of fun to watch … and a little bit scary. Rapace brings a sweet power to the role of Shaw, successfully delivering work that requires a lot of emotional and physical torment. She would fare well in a cage match with Ripley. I’ve already seen a lot of critics bitching that Prometheus asks a lot of questions, but doesn’t give the answers. I think it gives plenty of answers, and there’s room for another movie that could provide more. I have my own theory as to how the end of this movie could get us closer to explaining the events that take place in Alien. I could be totally wrong, but the whole thing is playing out a certain way in my head … and I love it. Whether or not you consider this an Alien prequel, Scott has made a tantalizing, engaging movie. It’s a fine return to sci-fi for one of the masters. JUNE 7 – 13, 2012

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AMC Loews Foothills 15 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. 888-262-4386. Battleship (PG-13) Thu 10:55, 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55; Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:40, 4:45, 7:55 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 10, 1, 4, 7, 10; Fri-Wed 10, 1, 4:05, 7, 10 Chernobyl Diaries (R) ends Thu 11, 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu 11:40, 2:20, 5, 7:45, 10:25; Fri-Wed 11:30, 5:05, 10:40 The Dictator (R) Thu 10:40, 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45; Fri-Wed 10:50 For Greater Glory (R) Thu 11:55, 3:30, 6:45, 9:55; Fri-Wed 11:55, 3:30, 6:55, 10:05 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 10:05, 1:10, 4:15, 7:25; Fri-Wed 10:05, 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10, 11, 11:45, 12:30, 2:50, 4, 5:10, 7:35, 9, 9:55 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Sat 1:35, 6:30, 11:30; Sun-Wed 1:35, 6:30 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 10:10, 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40; FriWed 10:10, 1:20, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 2:10, 5:20, 8:30; Fri-Sat 2:05, 5:20, 8:30, 11:35; SunWed 2:05, 5:20, 8:30 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 11:30, 2, 3:35, 4:30, 7:05, 8:45, 9:35; Fri-Wed 10:05, 11:10, 12:35, 3:05, 4:15, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Men in Black 3 3D (PG13) Thu 1:05, 6:05; FriWed 1:45, 9:45 Men in Black 3: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) ends Thu 10, 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05 Prometheus (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 2:15, 6:45, 8:15 Prometheus 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:15, 5:15, 11:15 Prometheus: An IMAX 3D Experience (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:15, 11:15, 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15; Fri-Wed 10:15, 11:50, 1:15, 3, 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:15

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:45, 4:45, 7:20; Fri-Wed 2:30, 7:50

Century El Con 20 3601 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 902. Anna Bolena Met Summer Encore (Not Rated) Wed 1, 6:30 Battleship (PG-13) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45; Fri-Wed 1:40, 7:40 Bernie (PG-13) Thu 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 10:05; Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 2, 3:45, 4:55, 6:50, 7:50; Fri-Wed 11:10, 2, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Chernobyl Diaries (R) ends Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Citizen Kane (PG) Wed 2, 7 Crooked Arrows (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40; Fri-Wed 11:35, 5, 10:25 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu 11:20, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30; Fri-Wed 2:15, 7:35 Darling Companion (PG13) Thu 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10; Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:20, 4:50 The Dictator (R) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55; Fri-Wed 11:20, 5:25, 10:45 For Greater Glory (R) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15; Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 The Hunger Games (PG13) ends Thu 12:20 The Intouchables (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:15, 2:50, 3:45, 6:15, 7:55, 8:45 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11:30, 12:25, 2, 4:30, 5:20, 7, 9:30, 10:20 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 10:55, 12:30, 3:45, 5:25, 7, 10:15; Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:35, 6:50, 10:15 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG-13) Thu 2:10, 8:40; Fri-Tue 10:50, 2:05, 5:25, 8:40; Wed 10:50, 2:05 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 11, 12:10, 1:40, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:05, 8:10, 9:45, 10:45; FriWed 10:55, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 8:10, 9:45, 10:45 Men in Black 3 3D (PG13) Thu 11:30, 12:45, 2:10, 3:35, 4:50, 6:15, 7:30, 9, 10:10; Fri-Tue 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; Wed 11:30, 10:10 Prometheus (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 11, 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:45 Prometheus 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 12, 1:10, 3, 4:05, 6, 7, 9, 10 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30; Fri-Tue 11:25,

12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30; Wed 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) ends Thu 11:25, 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25

Century Gateway 12 770 N. Kolb Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 962. 21 Jump Street (R) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 The Cabin in the Woods (R) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40; Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (PG) Thu 1, 3:10, 5:30; Fri-Wed 1, 3:15 The Five-Year Engagement (R) ends Thu 12:50, 4, 7:05, 10 Girl in Progress (PG-13) Fri-Wed 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 John Carter (PG-13) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7, 9:55; FriWed 12:45, 3:40, 7, 9:55 John Carter 3D (PG-13) Thu 12, 5:35; Fri-Wed 9 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50; Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 The Lucky One (PG-13) Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10:05; Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 10 The Raven (R) Fri-Wed 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 Safe (R) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15; Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5 Safe House (R) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 7:15, 9:50; Fri-Wed 7:15, 10 The Three Stooges (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45; Fri-Wed 9:40 Titanic 3D (PG-13) Thu 7:40; Fri-Wed 12:35, 4:40 Wrath of the Titans (PG13) Thu 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 10:10; FriWed 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 Wrath of the Titans 3D (PG-13) ends Thu 3:15, 8:50

Century Park Place 20 5870 E. Broadway Blvd. 800-326-3264, ext. 903. Anna Bolena Met Summer Encore (Not Rated) Wed 6:30 Battlefield America (PG13) ends Thu 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Battleship (PG-13) Thu 11:05, 12:40, 2:20, 3:55, 5:35, 7:05, 8:50, 10:10; Fri-Wed 10:15, 1:30, 4:40, 7:50 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 10:15, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25; Fri-Tue 10:10, 1:20, 4:25, 7:25; Wed 10:10 Chernobyl Diaries (R) Thu 10:05, 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05; Fri-

Wed 1:25, 7 Citizen Kane (PG) Wed 2, 7 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu 10:25, 1:10, 4:05, 7, 10; Fri-Wed 10:30, 4:45 The Dictator (R) Thu 10, 12:25, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50; Fri-Wed 10:20 The Hunger Games (PG13) Thu 12:05, 3:35, 6:50, 10:20; Fri-Wed 10, 1:20, 3:50, 7:40, 9:35 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) FriWed 10:35, 12:20, 1:05, 3:30, 5:10, 5:55, 8:20, 10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) FriWed 11:30, 1:55, 2:45, 4:20, 6:45, 7:35, 9:10 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 10:20, 12:30, 1:40, 3:50, 5, 7:10, 8:20, 10:25; FriWed 10:55, 12:35, 2:15, 5:30, 7:10, 8:50 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG-13) Thu 11:25, 2:45, 5:55, 9:15; Fri-Wed 3:55, 10:30 Men in Black 3 (PG13) Thu 10:10, 11:30, 12:50, 2:50, 3:30, 4:50, 6:15, 8:10, 8:55, 10:15; Fri-Wed 10:20, 12:10, 1:15, 3, 4, 5:50, 6:50, 8:35, 9:40 Men in Black 3 3D (PG13) Thu 10:50, 12:10, 1:35, 2:10, 4:15, 5:30, 7, 7:35; Fri-Wed 11:15, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Prometheus (R) Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:40, 5:35, 8:30 Prometheus 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:45, 12:45, 1:40, 3:40, 4:35, 6:35, 7:30, 9:30, 10:25 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 11:15, 12, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9, 9:45, 10:30; Fri-Wed 10:05, 10:50, 11:35, 12:15, 1:10, 1:50, 2:35, 3:20, 4:10, 4:50, 5:40, 6:20, 7:15, 7:55, 8:40, 9:25, 10:15 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) Thu 10:45, 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40; Fri-Tue 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; Wed 11, 1:45

Century Theatres at the Oro Valley Marketplace 12155 N. Oracle Road. 800-326-3264, ext. 899. Call for Fri-Wed film times Anna Bolena Met Summer Encore (Not Rated) Wed 6:30 Battleship (PG-13) ends Thu 1, 4, 7, 10 Bernie (PG-13) Thu 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Chernobyl Diaries (R) ends Thu 12:35, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45, 12:01 Citizen Kane (PG) Wed 2, 7 Dark Shadows (PG-13) ends Thu 10:45, 1:35, 4:15, 7:05

Darling Companion (PG13) opens Fri The Dictator (R) ends Thu 9:50 For Greater Glory (R) Thu 12:35, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Happy Feet Two (PG) Wed 10 a.m. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 12:40, 3:55, 7:10 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG-13) Thu 10:25 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 12:50, 6:05 Men in Black 3 3D (PG13) Thu 11:15, 1:55, 3:30, 4:35, 7:15, 8:50, 9:55 Prometheus 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:35, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 12:10, 1:40, 3:10, 4:40, 6:10, 7:40, 9:10, 10:35, 12:01 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) ends Thu 11, 1:45, 4:25, 7:20

Cinema La Placita La Placita Village, Broadway Boulevard and Church Avenue. 326-5282. Crimes and Misdemeanors (PG-13) Thu 7:30

Crossroads 6 Grand Cinemas 4811 E. Grant Road. 327-7067. 21 Jump Street (R) Thu 7:20, 9:45; Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:45 The Artist (PG-13) ends Thu 12:15, 4:45 Despicable Me (PG) ThuFri 10 a.m. Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 10:50, 12:55, 3:05, 5:10; Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:15, 3:20, 5:25 The Five-Year Engagement (R) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Fri-Wed 2:30, 9:30 Girl in Progress (PG-13) Fri-Wed 11, 5:15, 7:25, 9:40 John Carter (PG-13) ends Thu 1:55, 9:25 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) ends Thu 11:10 The Kid With a Bike (PG13) Thu 10:45, 12:45, 2:45, 7:05; Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:05, 7:30 Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG) Mon-Wed 10 a.m. The Lucky One (PG-13) Fri-Wed 10:45, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15; FriWed 12, 2:25, 4:50 Monsieur Lazhar (PG-13) Fri-Wed 12:15, 5:10, 7:20 The Raven (R) Thu 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:55; Fri-Wed 2, 9:15 Safe (R) ends Thu 7:35, 10 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 7; Fri-Wed 11:35, 6:50

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (PG) Mon-Wed 10 a.m. We Have a Pope (Not Rated) Thu 4:40; Fri-Wed 4:30 Wrath of the Titans (PG13) Thu 9:10; Fri-Wed 9:35 Zookeeper (PG) Thu-Fri 10 a.m.

Fox Tucson Theatre 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Escuelade Vagabundos (Not Rated) Sun 2

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

Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 5455 S. Calle Santa Cruz. 806-4275. Battleship (PG-13) Thu 11:30, 2:50, 6:30, 9:50; Fri-Wed 10:05, 1:20, 4:30, 7:50, 10:45 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) Thu 9:50, 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45; Fri-Wed 10:30, 1:30, 4:50 Chernobyl Diaries (R) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:30, 8, 10:05; Fri-Wed 10:55 Crooked Arrows (PG-13) ends Thu 11:50, 2:30, 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 Dark Shadows (PG-13) Thu 6:45, 9:30; Fri-Wed 3:45, 10:40 The Dictator (R) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:25; Fri-Wed 7:45, 10:30 For Greater Glory (R) Thu 9:30, 12:40, 3:50, 7:20, 10:30; Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:40, 6:20, 9:40 Horton Hears a Who! (G) Thu-Fri 9:45 a.m. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) Fri-Thu 9:30, 10:20, 12, 12:50, 2:30, 3:20, 5, 7:30, 10 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3D (PG) FriThu 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 5:50, 6:50, 8:20, 9:20, 10:50 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG-13) Thu 12, 12:50, 3:20, 4, 6:40, 7:30, 10; Fri-Mon 9:25, 11:45, 12:45, 3:15, 4:15, 6:40, 7:40, 9:50; Tue 9:25, 11:45, 12:45, 3:15, 4:15, 7:40, 10:35; Wed 9:25, 11:45, 12:45, 3:15, 4:15, 6:40, 7:40, 9:50 Marvel’s the Avengers 3D (PG-13) ends Thu 10:30, 1:50, 5:15, 8:30 Men in Black 3 (PG-13) Thu 9:40, 11, 12:20, 1:40, 3, 4:20, 5:40, 7, 8:20, 9:40; Fri 9:40, 12:15, 1:40, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:20, 8:30, 10:15, 11:05; Sat-Sun 9:40, 10:50, 12:15, 1:40, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:20, 8:30, 10:15, 11:05; MonWed 9:40, 12:15, 1:40, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:20, 8:30, 10:15, 11:05 Men in Black 3 3D (PG13) Thu 10:20, 11:40, 1, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 6:20,

7:40, 9, 10:20; Fri-Wed 10:15, 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 More Than Frybread (PG) ends Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:15 Prometheus (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10, 10:10 Prometheus 3D (R) Fri 12:01 a.m.; Fri-Wed 9:20, 11:10, 12:10, 2:10, 3:10, 5:10, 8:10, 11:10 Screening 2012 (Not Rated) Tue 7:30 Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) Thu 10:10, 11:10, 12:10, 1:10, 2:10, 3:10, 4:10, 5:10, 6:10, 7:10, 8:10, 9:10, 10:10; Fri-Wed 10, 11, 11:50, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5:05, 6:05, 7, 8, 9, 10:20, 11 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG-13) Thu 10:40, 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; Fri-Wed 12:30, 7:15

The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Call 795-0844 to check handicap accessibility Chely Wright: Wish Me Away (Not Rated) Wed 7:30 The Color Wheel (Not Rated) Thu 9 Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope (PG-13) FriWed 9:30 Fight Club (R) Fri-Sat 10 First Position (Not Rated) Fri-Tue 12, 2:15, 7:30; Wed 12, 2:15 Headhunters (R) Thu 11:30, 2, 7:30, 10; FriSun 2:45, 7:15; Mon-Tue 2:45; Wed 2:45, 7:15 Keyhole (R) Sun-Wed 10 Last Year at Marienbad (Not Rated) Sun 11; Tue 7 Marley (PG-13) Thu-Wed 4:20 Mutant Hunt (Not Rated) Mon 8 Sound of My Voice (R) Thu 11, 3, 7 Surviving Progress (Not Rated) Thu 1, 5; Fri-Sat 12:30, 5; Sun 5; MonWed 12:30, 5

Oracle View 4690 N. Oracle Road. 292-2430. American Reunion (R) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; Fri-Wed 9:40 The Artist (PG-13) FriWed 11:05, 1:20, 5:40, 7:50 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (PG) Thu 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:10; FriWed 11, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:10 John Carter (PG-13) Thu 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10; Fri-Wed 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Thu 11:10, 3:10, 5:20; Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:15 Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu-Fri 11 a.m. Mirror Mirror (PG) ThuWed 11:40, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Rio (G) Mon-Wed 11 a.m. Safe (R) Fri-Wed 3:25, 5:35, 7:40, 9:50

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Reviews by Jacquie Allen, Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.

‘Madagascar 3’ is excellent, thanks to a big injection of weirdness by co-writer Noah Baumbach

Animal Magnetism BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com hese massive animated movies kind of run together after a while. They generally include inanimate objects or animals in unfamiliar places (Finding Nemo quite literally used the fish-out-of-water scenario); they’re all in 3-D now; and they usually have familiar names in the voice cast. So unless the film is something incredibly daring like Up or Wall-E, the big summer cartoons don’t offer a great deal of variation. Perhaps that fact is what makes Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted so … weird. The nuts and bolts of the series are familiar—animals escape from the zoo, begetting hijinks—but what really happened in that second movie? It’s hard to remember, though it probably ended with some dancing over the closing credits. This installment, on the other hand, will be memorable, if only because most mainstream animated flicks don’t ignore the children in the audience this much—for the sake of some pretty bizarre humor. The Central Park Zoo animals—Alex the lion (the voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer)—are stuck in Africa, dying to return to their adopted home of New York. The shrewd penguins and their monkey henchmen have somehow rebuilt a plane, which now rests in Monte Carlo while the penguins mastermind ways to rip off the casinos. Alex and the others arrive to persuade the penguins to fly them back to America, triggering the radar of animal-control officer Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand, playing Madeline Kahn playing Marlene Dietrich). When the plane peters out, their only chance of escape and survival is joining a run-down traveling circus, although DuBois is never far off their scent. That all seems perfunctory; it’s what you’d expect out of a three-quel—tossing in some new locations and new characters, but not reinventing the wheel. However, Madagascar 3 is so loaded with oddities that it makes the ride more than worthwhile. Consider DuBois’ cabaret torch-song performance—in French, with no subtitles—and the go-for-broke romantic pairing of King Julien the lemur (Sacha Baron Cohen) and what appears to be a lobotomized, tricycle-riding bear in a tutu. Are the filmmakers just bored with the scenery they have created? Are they giving parents a reward for making it through two previous movies that are so similar to everything else in the genre? Perhaps. They did, after all, hire

NEWLY REVIEWED: COMIC-CON: EPISODE IV—A FAN’S HOPE

This is a warm, funny look at comic and movie geekdom, using the annual San Diego Comic-Con convention as its centerpiece. Morgan Spurlock directs (but does not appear) in this look at the convention that has grown into a yearly, sold-out extravaganza of happy nerds. Spurlock focuses on a few people and their journeys through the convention, including a couple of comic-book artists, a costume designer and a comic-book salesman. It’s a lot of fun seeing how things work out for each of the subjects, and there’s a cute wedding proposal featuring Kevin Smith to boot. The film features a host of great interviews, including Smith, Eli Roth and Joss Whedon. After watching this, I’m a little sad that I’ve never attended the damn thing. It looks like a lot of fun. Grimm CROOKED ARROWS

Crooked Arrows stars Brandon Routh in the story of a group of Native American teens trying to get their lacrosse team into the playoffs, and it’s just another humdrum sports movie with a cliché-riddled plot. When these clichés are done correctly, they can become decent films—but due to poor acting and message-shoved-in-your-face dialogue, this film drags heavier than a dead body. While I like Routh, his post-Superman Returns work has been lacking, and he could really use a good script. It’s pretty sad seeing him in stuff like this; he is actually a competent and handsome-enough actor. Allen FIRST POSITION

Ben Stiller voices the lion in Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted Rated PG Featuring the voices of Ben Stiller, Jada Pickett Smith and Chris Rock Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon Paramount/DreamWorks, 85 minutes Opens Friday, June 8, at AMC Loews Foothills 15 (888-262-4386), Century El Con 20 (800-3263264, ext. 902), Century Park Place 20 (800-3263264, 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).

esteemed indie auteur Noah Baumbach, from The Squid and the Whale and Greenberg, to help craft the script. This has a lot more in common with his co-written screenplay for Fantastic Mr. Fox than it does with, say, Ice Age. The strange sense of humor is catapulted to great heights through sumptuous, flawless animation. No, the DreamWorks movies aren’t as driven by photorealistic perfection as Pixar films, but there’s never a dull pixel onscreen here, and the imagination in the screenplay has unlocked a dazzling amount of color and action. And Madagascar 3 gets even stronger through casting: McDormand is fantastic, as are circus performers voiced by Martin Short, Bryan Cranston and Jessica Chastain. Unless you have that Pixar brand name, animation is supposed to be the safe haven for movie studios while they play roulette in other genres. Cartoons are only supposed to make kids laugh and sell merchandise. And with an established pattern in place for this franchise, why take on all the trouble of going off the beaten path like this? Whatever the reasons, the gamble really paid off: Madagascar 3 is quite easily the best film in the series.

It’s not exactly a revelation, but the documentary First Position lets us in on such hush-hush information as, “Ballet takes a lot of work,” and, “Ballet is hard on your body.” Oh, and, “Not everyone makes it in ballet.” First Position is no more accomplished than a 60 Minutes piece on aspiring dancers might be; rudimentary is the name of the game. There are interviews, and a couple of the ballerinas have incredible stories to tell, but that’s not an achievement the movie can really claim. The dancing is seen as almost secondary to the competition, and so the beauty of the art form is often difficult to find. Boyd FOR GREATER GLORY

For Greater Glory is a docudrama on the Cristeros War that took place in Mexico from 1926 to 1929. It features some recognizable stars, such as Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria and Nestor Carbonell, as different people affected by the war. At times, the film is quite thought-provoking; however, it is too long and drawn out, with a befuddling ending. In fact, the movie just sort of stops. Also, the dialogue leaves something to be desired, in part due to Garcia’s James Cameron-style hero speeches that are spliced into the film at random intervals. On the bright side, the film looks spectacular, with amazing settings and outfits. They’re so good, in fact, that this movie should get nominations for costuming and set design at the Oscars. Allen KEYHOLE

The most unoriginal thing I could say about Guy Maddin’s experimental film noir is that it’s weird, but … this thing is weird. Jason Patric plays some sort of mob boss trapped inside his own house with his gang and some girls. He talks to his wife (Isabella Rossellini) as she is locked in her room, and there’s an old dude walking around with his shriveled-up cock hanging out. I think the cock dude is a ghost. Actually, I think there are a bunch of ghosts in this movie … but I am not really sure. Like I said … THIS THING IS WEIRD. I’m thinking it’s a contender to be David Lynch’s favorite film ever. Oh, yeah, Kevin McDonald of Kids in the Hall appears in a small role, WHICH MAKES THIS MOVIE EVEN WEIRDER. Grimm SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

The 347th Snow White movie this year is fairly decent, with Kristen Stewart doing a fine job as the title character, and Chris Hemsworth contributing nicely as the axe-wielding Hunstman. Best of all is Charlize Theron as Ravenna, a loony queen hell-bent on staying young and eating Snow White’s heart. Director Rupert Sanders puts together swell visuals, especially in the way he creates dwarves out of actors like Nick Frost, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins and Toby Jones. The movie is quite good when it features Snow White running around in various enchanted forests—but it’s not all that good in the final act, when it becomes a weird Joan of Arc movie. Still, Stewart is great here, and Theron is a bona fide scene-stealer. Grimm

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When I heard they were making a movie based on the Battleship board game, two fat guys drinking milkshakes and crying, “You sunk my battleship!” was all I figured they might come up with; it’s not a board game that screams “narrative.” Instead, Peter Berg directs the likes of Taylor Kitsch (in his second domestic dud following John Carter), Liam Neeson and Alexander Skarsgård in this Transformers wannabe that doesn’t go anywhere. Subpar special effects and stupid-looking humanoid aliens don’t help matters. Grimm BERNIE

Jack Black reteamed with his School of Rock director Richard Linklater—and Linklater’s casting of Black was a masterstroke. As Bernie Tiede, the real convicted killer of Marjorie Nugent in the Texas town of Carthage, Black delivers a performance to be remembered. He’s an actor who has a tendency to overdo it sometimes, and it’s good to see him rein it in and do something with depth and nuance. Linklater comes at the story from a risky angle. It’s no secret that much of the town loved Bernie Tiede, and some people believed that he didn’t commit the murder, even though he confessed. The movie almost comes off as an argument that he wasn’t such a bad guy after all, even if he did shoot an old woman (played awesomely by Shirley MacLaine) in the back four times and then stuff her in a garage freezer. This is a triumph for Black and Linklater, proof that these guys should keep making movies together. Bernie also stars Matthew McConaughey as Danny Buck, the district attorney who would put Tiede behind bars. Grimm THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

It would be difficult for a movie with the cast of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to suck, and while it’s a good film, director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) doesn’t lead his renowned ensemble to the heights they’re capable of reaching. Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy are the principal players, a group of disparate retirees recharging their lives at the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which is run by Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel. (He has, um, oversold the charm of his hotel.) It’s a dramedy that never really goes anywhere unexpected. That isn’t to say there aren’t some nice things about it; obviously, you’re going to get good performances, but it’s one of those Brit slice-of-lifers they should have hired Richard Curtis (Love, Actually; Four Weddings and a Funeral) to write. This is a movie about finding life that could use a little more life itself. Boyd CHERNOBYL DIARIES

The best thing I can say about this shoddy horror film is that it isn’t a found-footage movie. I’m sure the temptation to make it a found-footage film was there, considering the plot—American tourists dare to tread in the land of Chernobyl (with cameras aplenty)—and considering the fact that this movie was co-written by Oren Peli, the director of the first Paranormal Activity. What you basically get here is a found-footage film without the found-footage part, meaning the movie is cheap-looking, gimmicky and utterly lacking in originality. A bunch of young adults pay some Russian guy to take them to an abandoned city next to Chernobyl, where they get frightened by monster fish, bears, crazy dogs and some sort of radioactive mutant humans, although we never really get to see those. A bunch of stupid characters act dumber than spit and get killed one by one in an extremely boring fashion. Grimm DARK SHADOWS

After the boring tragedy that was Alice in Wonderland, the normally reliable Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up once again to induce nap time with this plodding adaptation of the cult-fave vampire soap opera. Depp plays Barnabas Collins, who was cursed by an evil witch (Eva Green) two centuries ago and buried. Somebody digs up his coffin to make way for a McDonald’s, and boom, Barnabas is strutting around in the ’70s. Or at least he should be. Instead, he spends most of his time moping around his mansion while droning his lines. This could have been something funny and weird, but Burton actually goes for a soap-opera feel, and it does not work. I would like to see Depp do a real drama or a smart comedy without burying himself under makeup and wigs. Having seen what he looks like in The Lone Ranger, I know I won’t be getting my wish anytime soon. Grimm DARLING COMPANION

Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan and a stellar cast including Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Richard Jenkins and Sam Shepard get together for a film that starts off cute and then dies on the vine. Keaton plays Beth, who finds a stray dog on the side

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of the road and adopts it, much to the chagrin of her husband, Joseph (Kline). Joseph eventually comes to like the dog, but loses him while on vacation, turning the movie into a bizarre search-and-rescue film. Yes, this movie is largely about a bunch of people walking around with flashlights and looking for a lost dog. Ayelet Zurer plays a gypsy who shares her premonitions and visions of where the dog might be, and things get dumber from there. A terrible waste of time for a lot of talented people. Grimm HEADHUNTERS

Headhunters is a near-perfect heist movie. Of course, the premise has never diverged too wildly from the pattern established in The Great Train Robbery, but it’s still tough to make a heist film this entertaining. Roger (Aksel Hennie) is a Norwegian corporate headhunter who supplements his income by lifting precious artwork from the homes of his clients, and he believes he has found the perfect score. His wife runs an art gallery, and she has learned that wealthy CEO Clas Greve (Nikolaj CosterWaldau) wants an appraisal on a masterpiece long believed to have been destroyed by the Nazis. But Roger has underestimated his victim, who doesn’t take kindly to the sleight of hand. There are surprises along the way and plenty of double-crosses, but you wouldn’t expect anything less from a slick, nononsense heist caper. Boyd THE HUNGER GAMES

For a blockbuster based on a popular novel, director Gary Ross’ film looks mighty cheap. Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, a girl forced to represent her district in a televised contest in which young people battle to the death. While Lawrence is a great actress, she doesn’t look like a starving teen. Josh Hutcherson plays her fellow district rep, Peeta, and he fits the role just fine. I couldn’t get past the drab look of the movie, and the horrible shaky cam that manages to destroy the action visuals. Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson are all saddled with silly getups for their roles. The movie is a strange clash of tones, never has a consistent feel, and is surprisingly boring, considering the subject matter. Grimm

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This documentary from director Kevin Macdonald does an excellent job of chronicling the life of Bob Marley, from his young-boy days through his untimely death from cancer at the age of 36. The nearly 2 1/2-hour documentary is a must-see for lovers of the man. If you dig films about musical history, but aren’t necessarily a Marley fan, it’s still a good watch. Macdonald gets some great interviews, including Jimmy Cliff; Marley children Ziggy and Cedella; Marley’s wife, Rita; and his mom, Cedella Marley-Booker. It’s surprising to hear Ziggy speak of his dad as a rough, uncompromising guy who wouldn’t give in just a little during foot races on the beach; I pictured Marley as an absolute sweetheart. I went into this film knowing plenty about Marley’s music. After seeing Macdonald’s heartfelt effort, I know a lot more about Bob Marley, the man, and I’m grateful for that. Grimm MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS

Everything good about the last bunch of Marvel superhero movies comes together for one massive, excessively entertaining party. Director Joss Whedon hits all of the right notes as Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Hulk (newbie Mark Ruffalo) get equal time in this well-balanced, funny and completely satisfying cinematic experience. I wasn’t sure if they would pull this off, but they did, with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) bringing the fun as the villain. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) contribute mightily to the process, as does Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Good luck to the rest of the summer movies in trying to top this one’s fun factor. Grimm MEN IN BLACK 3

It’s been nearly a decade since the last chapter in the Men in Black series, something I find a little shocking. Men in Black III is a return to form in some ways; for example, the effects are much better. Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K, mentally checked out of this series after the first film, and he has a reduced role in this chapter. Most of the heavy lifting in this installment is handled by that capable, talented egomaniac, Will Smith. His Agent J is still wisecracking with the best of them, and must travel back in time to stop a hideous alien monster (Jemaine Clement) from killing K and erasing him from history. The younger K is played hilariously by a deadpan Josh Brolin, who totally captures the essence of Tommy Lee Jones. Things go a little crazy toward the end, but the film is an overall good time. Grimm SOUND OF MY VOICE

Brit Marling has carved a little niche for herself, cowriting scripts that she can star in. She has chosen a cousin of science fiction for her first two films, 2011’s Another Earth (about Earth’s encounter with a twin planet) and Sound of My Voice. Neither has a lot of visual effects or anything physical that would identify it as sci-fi; the genre is constructed purely through the narrative. In Sound of My Voice, she plays Maggie, a cult leader whose followers believe she has traveled back in time from 2054. She sounds a grave warning for our collective future, but Peter (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend, Lorna (Nicole Vicius), don’t buy any of it and set out to expose Maggie as a fraud through a documentary they’re filming. It’s a great idea, but the film lacks a lot of definition of some pretty integral points. Boyd SURVIVING PROGRESS

While it has an intriguing premise, Surviving Progress—a documentary about humanity’s ascent and descent due to technology and other advances— is not as interesting as it could be. Most interviewees come off as long-winded and pretentious, and anything they may have to say gets lost as a result. On a technical level, this documentary is stunning; everything looks sharp and crisp. An elegant style cannot save a documentary, though, and this is yet another example of an interesting premise getting squandered. This is quite a shame, as this topic should be exceedingly thought-provoking. Allen WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING

What to Expect When You’re Expecting is probably the first interconnected romcom in the vein of Love Actually to actually get it somewhat right since the previously mentioned title did almost 10 years ago. That might be because there are actually some respectable actors here. The only real issue with the film is that the plot features all of these women, who all somehow know each other, who all got pregnant and/or started adopting at the same time. Maybe the apocalypse really is coming, and these children were all brought into Atlanta, in order to facilitate it? I’m probably reading too much into things, but whatever. Anyway, aside from this seemingly menacing little fact, the film is decent. It has fine performances, a few good jokes and enough “Aww!” moments to make it decent matinee fodder. Allen

N O W S H O W I N G AT H O M E The Gold Rush (Blu-ray) CRITERION MOVIE A SPECIAL FEATURES ABLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 9.25 (OUT OF 10)

Criterion continues to shine with its reissues of the works of Charles Chaplin, and this one is a definite highlight. Featuring both the restored 1925 version of the film, and the 1942 re-release with a new score and narration by Chaplin himself, this is movie heaven. The ’42 version of the Little Tramp in his gold-prospecting days, as he shacks up with Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain), is a slightly different experience. In a way, Chaplin was one of the first to offer a “special edition” of his film. Spielberg and Lucas can blame Chaplin when critics bust them for tinkering with their own movies. The special effects in this movie still stand up. Most notable are Chaplin’s use of a live bear; a moment when his cabin almost falls off a cliff; and his Tramp shuffle along an icy, windy mountain road. All of this was done in-camera, including his transformation into a chicken when his house partner has a hungry hallucination. It’s impressive. Some of Chaplin’s morememorable bits are in here, including the infamous roll dance, and the wonderful moment when the Tramp accidentally cinches up his pants with a dog’s leash during a dance. (The dog winds up dragging him all over the floor when a cat shows up.) You also get some of his greatest physical work, including his running against a windstorm and playing frozen. When he fakes frozen, and somebody picks him up off the ground, I could swear it was a dummy. Nope, it was Chaplin. I hope Criterion keeps rolling with the Chaplin library. There is nothing currently making me happier in the home-entertainment world then getting these

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transfers for both of the films (especially the 1942 version) are stunning. The 1925 version is a little choppy in places, but it’s forgivable. There’s an excellent commentary from historian Jeffrey Vance that goes into great detail about seemingly every sequence in the film. Documentaries include a segment focusing on Chaplin’s breakthrough usage of special effects, a feature about the film’s music, and another feature dealing with the restoration of the movie.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Blu-ray) WARNER MOVIE ASPECIAL FEATURES B BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7.5 (OUT OF 10)

One of the greatest Westerns ever made came from director Clint Eastwood, who got a great performance out of himself as Josey, a farmer who loses his family and goes on a revenge spree. While Eastwood went on to make Unforgiven, this one seems to be about forgiving. Josey starts out looking for blood after his wife and boy (played by Eastwood’s actual son) are burned alive by Civil War rebels. As the film progresses, Josey takes on a new family of friends (including one played by the great Chief Dan George) and softens a bit. Sure, he’ll still shoot you for looking at him the wrong way—but it would have to be a really dirty look. Eastwood took over directing chores after filming had started, and that was a good development. It was the most-assured directing effort of his early years, and still stands as one of his best. SPECIAL FEATURES: Last year, Warner Bros. released a “book” version of this, with a hardcover case and essays on the film. This is essentially the same disc without the book, and it costs as little as $10.99 in some places. You

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get some decent docs on Eastwood and his Westerns, with participation from Eastwood. Critic and Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel provides a commentary.

Goon (Blu-ray) MAGNET MOVIE B+ SPECIAL FEATURES B+ BLU-RAY GEEK FACTOR 7.75 (OUT OF 10)

This one just completed a short, limited theatrical run, although it did have a stint at the Loft. It deserved a bigger release across the country, because it is funnier than most big-studio comedies. Seann William Scott is terrific as Doug Glatt, a quiet, shy type with no true career goals until somebody notices his ability to kick ass. He puts on some skates and becomes the enforcer on a semi-pro hockey team. It all leads up to Doug’s showdown with Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber), another enforcer who is hanging up his skates, but not before he tries to beat the piss out of the up-and-coming badass. The movie is funny (written by Jay Baruchel—who costars—and Evan Goldberg), and is based on the real-life exploits of hockey-player Doug Smith. You can see actual footage of Smith in action during the credits. Knowing about hockey is not a requisite for liking this film, although if you have a problem with intense hockey fights, you might want to stay away. There are lots of broken teeth. SPECIAL FEATURES: You get a lot of stuff on this disc. You can watch it in “Power Play” mode for a “behind-thescenes” interactive experience. There are deleted scenes, bloopers, outtakes, interviews with the stars, Goon hockey cards and a commentary with Baruchel and director Michael Dowse.

CHOW Ignore the nearby chain, and enjoy the great eats and comfy atmosphere at Jalopy’s

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BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com izza and burgers go hand in hand with a nice cold beer—and when the food is good; the service is friendly; and there are plenty of TVs for watching sporting events, it’s a winning combination. Yes, Jalopy’s Grillville, at Oracle Road and Limberlost Drive, has all of the necessary components. But restaurants are often about location, location, location. In the same plaza as Jalopy’s is BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse—also serving up burgers, pizza and microbrews. The décor at Jalopy’s is racing-themed, as you might imagine from the name, but without being too kitschy. There is plenty of racing memorabilia from the first half of the 20th century—both for display and purchase—and 10 or so TVs, most of which were tuned to NASCAR-style racing on our visits. The food at Jalopy’s was great. There is a large selection of burgers; sandwiches, both hot and cold; pizzas; and a few dinner entrées after 4 p.m. The Southwest beef-brisket hoagie ($9.29) with sweet-potato fries was a tasty combination of tender brisket, bacon, green chiles, guacamole, lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese and a slightly spicy barbecue sauce. The Santa Fe patty melt ($8.49) was also tasty—a half-pound patty served on sourdough bread and topped with a generous amount of sliced jalapeños, guacamole, chipotle sauce and pepper jack cheese. Though it had good flavors, it wasn’t very spicy, and could have used a bit more heat. The sandwiches are large and messy, but overall had great flavor combinations and were served nice and hot. The sweet-potato fries were amazing. Usually, sweet-potato fries are either undercooked—leaving the potato sort of weirdly crunchy—or overcooked, leaving a greasy, soggy mess. These were soft on the inside and crispy on the outside, and perfectly seasoned. Delicious. The pizzas at Jalopy’s are the other major attraction—and they are also tasty. Available in 12-inch or 16-inch sizes, and with thin or hand-tossed crust, they come in about a dozen combinations. You can also build your own. We opted for the “Hot Set-up,” veggie style, which is basically a thin-crust, veggie supreme pizza ($11 for the 12-inch, $18 for the 16-inch), with mushrooms, black olives, onions, green peppers, spinach, roasted red peppers, diced tomatoes, mozzarella and feta cheese. (You can also add jalapeños at no

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The Continental Ranch area has a new restaurant and pub called the Station Pub and Grill, at 8235 N. Silverbell Road, where the shortlived Jackson’s Grille and Gastropub used to be. Clint Bolin, who owns the place with Amy Pappas, says it’s a restaurant by day, and an entertainment venue with a full menu by night. It’s also outfitted with 10 big screens that provide all of the televised sports action one could want. Expect steaks, salmon, sandwiches, generous portions of deep-fried appetizers and other American fare. There are burger specials on Monday; 35 cent wing specials on Wednesday; and happy hours and reverse happy hours throughout the week; 789-7040.

The pit fight pizza; the Jalopy burger with sweet-potato fries; and the chocolate layer cake at Jalopy’s Grillville. charge.) Even with so many different veggies, the pizza was well-balanced, and the toppings were nice and fresh, with the exception of the mushrooms, which seemed to have been canned. Fresh ones would have been a nice touch. We also sampled the other end of the meatveggie spectrum and ordered the hand-tossed “Pit Fight” pizza ($11 for the 12-inch, $18 for the 16-inch), which features pepperoni, sausage, ham, bacon, brisket, jalapeños and roasted red peppers. The brisket was a nice addition, lending a little smokiness, and the sliced jalapeños provided the perfect amount of heat. Both the thin crust (not super-crispy thin, like at some places, but a half-inch or so of soft dough) and the hand-tossed crust were buttery and soft, though the hand-tossed seemed to have some additional, tasty seasoning. The service at Jalopy’s was extremely friendly and fast, although I can’t say what it’s like on a busy night, because the restaurant was mostly empty on both visits. The beer selection features lots of choices from Durango, Colo.’s Ska Brewing Co., and Jalopy’s is working on brew-

Jalopy’s Grillville 4230 N. Oracle Road, No. 100 888-0111; www.jalopysgrill.com Open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pluses: Tasty pizzas and burgers; great service; good beer selection Minuses: Few vegetarian options; location not ideal

ing its own beers. There’s currently only one house beer, a pilsner, on draft ($4.50 a pint). But the owner, Hal Burns, is a home-brewing enthusiast and hopes to add more soon. The pilsner was well-balanced, mild but with a rich flavor. Jalopy’s has just started a brunch from 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. It includes a buffet for $6.99 as well as some additional breakfast items. Lunch starts at 11 a.m., and a few dinner items, such as chicken-fried steak ($9.99) and broiled mahi mahi ($11.99), are available starting at 4 p.m.

Pedal-Powered Eats The shortest distance between downtown diners and the fine bistro fare of The B Line at 621 N. Fourth Ave. might be the new bikepowered delivery service the restaurant now offers. The service is available from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, in an area bordered by Elm Street, Broadway Boulevard, Granada Avenue and Campbell Avenue—and it’s free. If you’re one of the people who still believe the streetcar construction is a deterrent to heading downtown, this is a good way to support the restaurant from the comfort of your home; 882-7575; blinerestaurant.com.

European-Style When summer comes, and the pace of life slows, I like to drive around and stop at places I don’t typically visit. I spent a recent morning poking around the European Market and Deli at 4500 E. Speedway Blvd., checking out the fine assortment of meats, pickled fish, liquor, gingerbread cookies and other interesting things the little place sells. There’s also a charming seating area in back with kitschy posters, and a small bar stocked with spirits I’ve never seen before. We hear the gyros are incredible, too; 512-0206.

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KEY PRICE RANGES $ $8 or less $ $ $8-$15 $ $ $ $15-$25 $ $ $ $ $25 and up. Prices are based on menu entrée selections, and exclude alcoholic beverages. FORMS OF PAYMENT V Visa MC Mastercard AMEX American Express DIS Discover DC Diner’s Club checks local checks with guarantee card and ID only debit debit cards CatCard University of Arizona CatCard. TYPE OF SERVICE Counter Quick or fast-food service, usually includes take-out. Diner Minimal table service. Café Your server is most likely working solo. Bistro Professional servers, with assistants bussing tables. Full Cover Multiple servers, with the table likely well set. Full Bar Separate bar space for drinks before and after dinner. RESTAURANT LOCATION C Central North to River Road, east to Alvernon Way, west to

Granada Avenue downtown, and south to 22nd Street. NW Northwest North of River Road, west of Campbell

Avenue. NE Northeast North of River Road, east of Campbell

Avenue. E East East of Alvernon Way, south of River Road. S South South of 22nd Street. W West West of Granada Avenue, south of River Road.

ITALIAN MAMA LOUISA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT S 2041 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4702. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-8 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. It’s hard to find anything wrong with Mama Louisa’s, a Tucson treasure since 1956. The food’s amazing; the service is superb; the prices are reasonable. There’s a large menu for both lunch and dinner, with plenty of vegetarian options. Try Joe’s Special; it’s the signature dish for a reason. (3-20-03) $-$$ MICHELANGELO RISTORANTE ITALIANO NW 420 W. Magee Road. 297-5775. Open MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. A popular northwest side venue, Michelangelo’s is sure to please if you temper your expectations with a note of realism--that note being this is Tucson, and good, authentic Italian fare is very hard to find. (5-2-02) $-$$ NORTH NW 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. La Encantada has itself a gem in NoRTH, brought to you to the folks behind Wildflower and Zinburger. The pastas, fish and pizzas

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are all tasty, if a bit pricey, but the view pushes NoRTH over the top. (2-26-04) $$$-$$$$ ROMA IMPORTS C 627 S. Vine Ave. 792-3173. Open Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/ No Alcohol. MC, V. Despite its odd location, Roma Imports manages to draw a crowd. Why? Its food rocks. The sandwiches and pasta specials are almost perfect for a causal meal to eat at La Taverna, Romaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in-house dining area. If you want some prepared goodies to take home, or are looking for the perfect ingredients to make your own Italian meal, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fail. And the desserts are amazing, too. (3-8-07) $

menu, along with salads, appetizers and desserts to die for. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bustling bistro that deserves its ongoing popularity. (4-26-01) $$-$$$ ZONA 78 NW 78 W. River Road. 888-7878. Open daily 11 a.m.10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 7301 E. Tanque Verde Road (296-7878). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casual; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool; and the food makes the most of many fine Italian items (goodies from Willcox and Australia are also a big part of the scene). The bar is a great place to hang out while you enjoy one of the many wines or house specialty drinks. The pizzas are stone-fired with great combos, or you can build your own. This is definitely a place to be a regular. (7-6-06) $$

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Thursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tavolino is now a shiny, chic kind of placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a beat in the move. The appetizers are fresh and fabulous. The pastas will delight. (Try the tagliatelle alla Bolognese; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killer.) Other entrĂŠes, especially those coming off the grill, are great examples of how Italian food is supposed to be. Service is most professional. (8-12-10) $$-$$$ TRATTORIA PINA NE 5541 N. Swan Road. 577-6992. Open Monday-

Friday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Saturday 4:30-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. Some individual dishes shine, but others would do well to be avoided. If you order carefully and bring the right company, the spectacular mountain views can seduce you into a moment of sheer well-being. (11-30-00) $-$$ VERONA ITALIAN RESTAURANT E 120 S. Houghton Road. 722-2722. Open TuesdaySaturday 4-9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. With more than four dozen entrĂŠes to choose from, there are options aplenty at Verona. The portion sizes are huge, too. And the taste? Our veal Florentine and chicken picatta were divine, as were the desserts. The far eastside has itself a winner. (11-6-03) $$-$$$ VIROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN BAKERY AND CAFE E 8301 E. 22nd St. 885-4045. Open Tuesday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. This charming little Italian joint serves up meaty sandwiches, fresh breads and pastries, pizzas and a handful of pasta dishes, along with impressive daily specialsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;-including a Sunday breakfast buffet that may be one of the best brunch deals in town. (10-25-07) $-$$ VITELLOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RISTORANTE ITALIANO NW 15930 N. Oracle Road, No. 178. 825-0140. Open

Monday 4-8 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/ Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. What a pleasant surprise Vitelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cozy; the staff is friendly; and the menu has just about everything Italian you might crave. The sauces range from a house marinara to a creamy vodka to a rich gorgonzola to a briny white clam. The pizzas are also quite good; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re simple and rustic. Panini, salads, veal, chicken, seafood and dishes are also available. The cannoli is like Nana used to make. (1-13-11) $-$$$

JAMAICAN CEEDEE JAMAICAN KITCHEN E 1070 N. Swan Road. 795-3400. Open TuesdaySunday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Counter/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. Yes, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find jerk chicken here (and oh, what heavenly jerk it is), but there are plenty of other island specialties to choose from as well: curry chicken, oxtails, plantains and more. The side called festival is like a hush puppy, only bigger and better. Desserts are unusual but tasty; the cold drinks refresh. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bob Marley music, and the staff is friendly. The only thing missing here is the beach. (10-21-10) $-$$

Thursday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Vivace doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been able to discover what it is. Lots of innovative pasta dishes, grilled meats and fresh seafood distinguish the

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KOREAN KOREA HOUSE E 4030 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-4377. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9:30 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Bulgoki of fire and flavor, and mouth-watering grilled beef ribs, Korean-style. Good noodle soups, also. $-$$ SEOUL KITCHEN E 4951 E. Grant Road. 881-7777. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. Seoul Kitchen dishes up quick, affordable and authentic Korean food with a smile. The crab puffs are a canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-miss item, and be prepared to be overwhelmed with tasty side dishes and banchan plates. Portions are generous, and the food is delicious; you definitely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave hungry. (2-11-10) $-$$

LATIN AMERICAN CONTIGO COCINA LATINA NW 1745 E. River Road. 299-1730. Open MondaySaturday 5-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Contigo adds a touch of class and chic to Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant scene with delicious Spanish, South and Central American-inspired dishes and inventive cocktails. Serving up twists on classics from these regions, Contigo puts a focus on sustainably sourced ingredients. With lots of seafood and vegetarian options, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for every palate. (8-19-10) $$$

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DOS LOCOS NW Hilton El Conquistador, 10000 N. Oracle Road. 544-5000. Open daily 5-11 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, MC, V. Dos Locos easily holds its own in the limited local nuevo Latino market. If its dishes lack the unusual imagination of those at, say, Café Poca Cosa, it’s a restaurant that lets you feel a little daring, without really straying too far afield. (12-6-07) $$-$$$ INCA’S PERUVIAN CUISINE NE 6878 E. Sunrise Drive. 299-1405. Open daily 11

a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. DIS, MC, V and checks. Inca’s is the place to go for a twist on the usual meat and potatoes. Warmly decorated with friendly service and delicately spiced food, Inca’s offers dishes that are truly unique. The pollo entero (whole roasted chicken), the ceviche mixto and the pisco sour are can’t-miss hits. Make sure you make a reservation. (4-1-10) $-$$ MAYA QUETZAL C 429 N. Fourth Ave. 622-8207. Open Monday-

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Thursday 11:30 a.m.-8:45 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon-8:45 p.m. Summer hours: Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon8:45 p.m. Café. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. MC, V. Nearly magical yet simple taste combinations from the Yucatan and Central America are featured. You can almost taste the green of the tropics in Maya Quetzal’s vegetable and nut-meat combinations. $

Intuit executive decides to follow a dream by starting a tamale business in the middle of a heinous economy. The Tucson Tamale Company also offers some delicious food: Try the Santa Fe tamale, with pork loin, green chiles, cheddar, tomatoes and garlic. Vegans and those with gluten allergies have plenty to eat here, as the masa is gluten-free. Get a dozen tamales to go; they reheat easily and quickly in the microwave. (3-12-09) $

MARKET EUROPEAN MARKET AND DELI E 4500 E. Speedway Blvd., No. 36. 512-0206. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. A smattering of EasternEuropean beers, wines, sweets, liquors and other groceries makes this market/deli unique. Fast, friendly service and tasty classics round out the menu along with a wide selection of deli meats and cheeses. (1-29-09) $ LEE LEE ORIENTAL SUPERMARKET NW 1990 W. Orange Grove Road. 638-8328. Open

daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Lee Lee Oriental Supermarket is far more than an average grocery store. With thousands of products that span the globe, along with fresh produce, meats and seafood, you’re sure to discover some new favorites. Thuan Kieu Vietnamese restaurant (open daily, 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., café) has an extensive selection with really fresh, tasty ingredients, and Nan Tian BBQ (open Wednesday through Monday, 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., counter) serves up all kinds of barbecued delicacies, from chicken and duck feet to whole roasted suckling pigs. (5-6-10) RINCON MARKET C 2513 E. Sixth St. 327-6653. Open Monday-Friday 7

MIGUEL’S NW 5900 N. Oracle Road. 887-3777. Open daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Summer hours: Monday-Thursday 3-10 p.m.; Friday-Sunday noon-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Enjoy regional Mexican dishes in a lovely setting. Plenty of seafood and other entrées are served up in unique and tasty sauces. A tequila lover’s heaven with choices aplenty. (10-7-04) $$-$$$

a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Open as a neighborhood market since 1926, Rincon Market today is known for its wide variety of fresh, inexpensive foods. In the dining area, there are options aplenty: deli sandwiches, a large salad bar, a grill, baked goods, coffees, rotisserie chicken and more. It’s an iconic Tucson place to grab a quick, simple, delicious meal. (7-14-05) $

TUCSON TAMALE COMPANY C 2545 E. Broadway Blvd. 305-4760. Open Monday 10

a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The Tucson Tamale Company offers a great origin story:

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BOCA C 828 E. Speedway Blvd. 777-8134. Open Monday-

Wednesday 10:30 a.m.-midnight; Thursday-Saturday 10:30 a.m.-3 a.m.; Sunday noon-midnight. Counter/ Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Boca offers upscale indoor versions of Tucson’s street food, and is doing tacos the right way, with lots of flavor and high-quality ingredients. Generous portions and playfully presented food are just the beginning. With a few dozen tequilas at the bar and reasonable prices, Boca is the perfect addition to the university-area restaurant scene. (10-7-10) $-$$ LA BOTANA TACO GRILL AND CANTINA C 3200 N. First Ave. 777-8801. Open Monday-Saturday

11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday noon-9 p.m. Café. Beer and Margaritas. MC, V. This little “cantina” offers big flavors and lots of fun. Build your own burrito or quesadilla by mixing and matching grilled meats, seafood and an assortment of other goodies. Seafood dishes are done well here, and dining on the patio is reminiscent of Mexican beachside spots. On weekends, margaritas are 2-for-1 all day long. They’re the perfect counter to the heat and smoke from many dishes. (1-21-10) $ LAS BRASAS TAQUERÍA C 2928 E. 22nd St. 881-6077. Open Monday-Thursday

10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Counter/Beer Only. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Watch your own steak, chicken or tripas de leche sputter on the brazier grill and be deftly placed in a tortilla, taco or torta roll. The sides are fresh and zippy, and the meal’s a deal! $

CROSSROADS RESTAURANT DRIVE IN S 2602 S. Fourth Ave. 624-0395. Open SundayThursday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.noon. Café/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Crossroads has been around for decades, and when you taste the restaurant’s food, you’ll know why. Traditional Mexican fare and seafood dishes primarily featuring shrimp and filet of sole highlight the menu. The service is friendly, and if you’re in a hurry, you can get anything on the menu to go; you can even get a six-pack to take home. (7-24-03) $-$$

EL CORONADO FAMILY RESTAURANT S 9040 E. Valencia Road, No. 100. 574-7776. Open Monday-Saturday 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Good Mexican food has come to Rita Ranch! El Coronado serves up tasty stuffed quesadillas, and the chorizo and egg plate is a revelation. The menu includes both Mexican classics like menudo and gringo classics like chicken fried steak. In other words (cliché alert): There’s something for everyone! (4-8-10) $-$$

CHACO’S CAFE S 2027 S. Craycroft Road. 790-1828. Open Monday-

Saturday 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Café/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Chaco’s Café feels like a small-town Arizona

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CASA MOLINA E 6225 E. Speedway Blvd. 886-5468. Open daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 3001 N. Campbell Ave. (795-7593) and 4240 E. Grant Road (326-6663). A family operation with roots tracing back over the last five decades, Casa Molina is one of the most consistent places in town to sample true Mexican food. With an extensive menu that includes tacos, tostadas, enchiladas and chimichangas—as well as fried shrimp and hamburgers for more timid palates—Casa Molina boasts something for every taste. Children are always welcome, and the margaritas are top-flight. (8-12-99) $-$$

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EL CHARRO CAFÉ E 6310 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-1922. Open SaturdayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Summer hours: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.9 p.m. Café/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Also at 311 N. Court Ave. (622-1922), 7725 N. Oracle Road, Suite 101 (229-1922), 6910 E. Sunrise Road (5141922) and 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita (325-1922). A Tucson tradition since 1922, El Charro has taken its delectable show on the road with several satellite locations. The food is as fabulous as ever, no matter which establishment you happen to stumble into, especially the unparalleled carne seca and any of the giant chimichangas. $$-$$$

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Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. For years, owner Suzana Davila has delighted residents and visitors alike with her Like Water for Chocolate style of Mexican food. The sauces at Café Poca Cosa are extraordinary, reflecting an intricate blend of chiles and spicing as unusual as they are delicious. Pile on the incredible puréed salsa, and try not to miss the mole and pipian. (4-1300) $$-$$$

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BLANCO TACOS AND TEQUILA NW 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 246. 232-1007. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Another addition to the Fox restaurant empire—and the second Fox restaurant at La Encantada—is yet another winner. Excellent updated Sonoran food, crackling service, a spectacular view and a hip, young vibe make Blanco worth the foothills prices. (8-30-07) $$$-$$$$

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

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BK’S S 5118 S. 12th Ave. 295-0105. Open Sunday-Thursday 9 a.m.-midnight; Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.-2 a.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 2680 N. First Ave. (207-2245). Nothing fancy, nothing grand, just a boatload of some of the best carne asada you’re ever likely to sample. A scrumptious salsa bar with lots of goodies to complement your tacos, quesadillas or caramelos (quesadillas with carne asada) is a delightful bonus, and the Sonoran hot dogs put the usual ballpark fare to shame. $

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

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BIRRÍA GUADALAJARA C 304 E. 22nd St. 624-8020. Open daily 7 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Counter/Diner/No Alcohol. Cash only. One of the best quick-stop Mexican food venues in town. The carne asada and birría burros are standouts. $

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joint, with casual service, red checkered vinyl tablecloths and inexpensive, tasty eats. All of the Mexican standards you’d expect are offered, from green-corn tamales to shrimp fajitas. The salsa bar is a nice touch, and you can entertain yourself by reading all of the wise sayings handwritten on the walls. (7-15-10) $-$$

p.m.; pizza daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Time Market is four things in one. It’s a top-notch deli; it’s a popular woodfire pizza joint; it’s a coffee bar; it’s a quirky market full of hard-to-find foods. With a friendly staff and reasonable prices, Time Market is a longtime Tucson favorite. We recommend the green gringo sandwich, mixing a green corn tamale with shredded chicken, cheddar, salsa and green olives on sourdough. Yum! (7-14-05) $-$$

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SOUNDBITES

Claire Mann and Aaron Jones play an intimate show at the Temple of Music and Art’s Cabaret Theater

By Stephen Seigel, musiced@tucsonweekly.com

Celtic Crooners

Indigo Girls

BY GENE ARMSTRONG, garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com laire Mann and Aaron Jones may be just a duo, but the much-lauded Celtic musicians can fill a stage with sound. Both sing, and both are serious multiinstrumentalists. Mann plays fiddle, flute and tin whistle, while Jones performs on guitar, bass, cittern and bouzouki. “The thing with any duo is there’s a synergy to it,” Jones said during a recent phone interview from his hotel in Boston. “Once you get into bigger lineups, you have some arrangements and kind of all stick to them.” With so many people playing at once, you don’t have as much freedom as do two players, he said. “With us, Claire’s playing a melody, and if she feels like changing it slightly, she knows I will be there with the chords to keep it grounded, and if I feel like throwing in a twist with a crazy chord, she maintains the melody,” Jones said. “Being in a duo allows us to explore the tunes and play with a freedom you don’t get in a multi-person band. As long as the melody is clear, and the chord progressions stable, you have a lot of freedom to interpret a tune in new ways.” Mann and Jones will explore some tunes this Friday night, June 8, in the upstairs Cabaret Theater at the Temple of Music and Art. Only 100 tickets will be available for this intimate show by two masters of contemporary Celtic music. Based in Scotland, Jones and Mann started playing together about 15 years ago. Jones was living in Edinburgh, a busy college town with a vibrant music and arts community, and Mann moved there from northern England. They started dating around the same time, and still cohabitate in a house in the Borders region of Scotland. (Jones also told me that the Armstrong clan comes from the Scottish Borders, and that my ancestors were likely rustlers, stealing cattle from farms in the north of England. “In Scotland, it was a very honorable thing to steal from the English,” he said.) Over the years, Mann and Jones have played together and apart in different ensembles. Perhaps Jones’ most-well-known project is the Scottish band Old Blind Dogs, which has played in Tucson often over the years. They were voted Folk Band of the Year in 2004 and 2007 at the Scots Trad Music Awards. The two are members of the group Litha, a Celtic quartet that also features the German folk musicians Gudrun Walther and Jürgen Treyz, and played in the Old Pueblo in 2009. That group has just released a new album, Jones said. “Litha” is a Gaelic word that refers to midsummer, or the summer solstice. Mann and Jones played with Walther and Treyz for several

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years under the appellation 2Duos. “We decided that for it to be a proper band, we had to give it a proper name, and when we all met, it was midsummer, so that was the ideal choice.” The German-Scottish connection illustrates the manner in which Celtic music has moved from country to country. You can hear its influences in the music of France and Spain, not to mention American country and bluegrass. “A lot of the traditional music that came over to America and Canada was brought by Scottish and Irish people looking for a better life and freedom from the British. That’s where the hillbilly sound in Appalachia comes from, in part—the ‘Hillwilliams,’ the Protestants from Ireland,” Jones said. “Of course, I’m not saying all American folk came from Scots or Irish origins, but many traditional forms of music use the same scales, so it’s not a huge leap from Celtic music to bluegrass.” After Jones played on Mann’s 2001 debut solo album, Claire Mann, they decided they needed to release an album under both of their names. The result was the excellent duo album Secret Orders, released in 2005. Jones also does regular session work as an electric bassist. When not playing music, he helps others navigate the practical aspects of working as a musician. By day, he works for the Folk, Roots and Traditional Music Section of the U.K. Musicians Union, specializing in tax and immigration issues. It’s important to help musicians get their legal ducks in a row and be taken seriously as business people, he said. “They may be great players with lots of experience, but for a lot of musicians, the business aspect was never something they were taught, or had a chance to learn.” Mann and Jones also play often at home

Claire Mann and Aaron Jones 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 8 Cabaret Theater Temple of Music and Art 330 S. Scott Ave. $17 general; $15 seniors and members of the Tucson Friends of Traditional Music; $20 door; all ages 981-1475; inconcerttucson.com

with friends and family. As is the case with many Celtic musicians, music is as vital played in a kitchen or in front of a hearth as it is on a concert stage. “I think in both the Irish and Scots traditions, this happens,” he said. “Whenever we get together with family, it’s not the CD player, nor TV. It’s more like, ‘What new tunes have you heard?’ or, ‘Do you have any new songs to share?’ It’s very much a participation sport; it’s not about sitting around. It’s about community.” Jones said this is probably a result of the way musicians in certain cultures bond. “It’s an instant way of belonging. If you wanted to prove your legitimate Scots heritage, even if you were from Ireland or England, if you could play the right songs, you were in. It’s this common language, music.” Despite all the musical activity surrounding Mann and Jones, theirs is not a life of constant red carpets, videos and stardom, he said. “For us, it’s not a rock ’n’ roll lifestyle as much as a regular, day-to-day labor of love. It’s a Chevy Impala from Dollar rental instead of a limousine and first class. “But I get to take my guitar to work. I’ll enjoy it as long as I can, until I have to get a proper job, and I have to dig a hole for a living.”

Just has Calexico has done in the past, local acts are teaming up this week for an awareness-building concert to support a Democratic candidate for Congress. But things are a little different this time around. Calexico performed at a benefit rally at the Rialto Theatre for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Sept. 20, 2008, where Giffords herself introduced the band. We all know what’s happened since then. Now we’re in the midst of a special election between Giffords’ former aide, Ron Barber, and right-wing nutball Jesse Kelly, both vying to replace Giffords—and there’s an awful lot at stake. To increase awareness for the election, which takes place on Tuesday, June 12, and to hopefully boost Barber’s numbers, the Rialto will once again throw a concert aimed at those who haven’t already voted by mail (and ballots are currently flooding in). Performers at the Get Out the Vote Concert and Rally for Ron Barber include Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, Joey Burns and Jacob Valenzuela of Calexico, Salvador Duran and the Kevin Pakulis Band featuring Amy Langley. In addition to Barber, who will address the audience, Giffords herself will be on hand. The Get Out the Vote Concert and Rally for Ron Barber takes place at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., on Saturday, June 9. Please note it’s an early event: Doors open at 5 p.m., and it should be over by about 8 p.m. All ages are welcome, and admission is free. Need more info? Head to rialtotheatre.com, or call 740-1000.

LOS LOBOS RETURNS Tucson favorite Los Lobos—once a participant in the Sound Strike, an organization of musicians who boycotted our state following the passage of SB 1070—return to town this week. For its part, Sound Strike has recently revamped its message. Although it’s still quixotically taking responsibility for the growing backlash against the terrible bill, it has become less strident in its recommendations regarding how to fight it. While Sound Strike once forbade any musicians from performing in Arizona, for any reason, it is now recommending that artists perform benefit shows “to connect with local groups such as Derechos Humanos, Tonatierra, PUENTE, The Florence Project, NDLON, Save Ethnic Studies and other groups in Arizona,” according to its website. There’s been no mention of whether Los Lobos will be doing anything of the sort, but it’s always great to see a band jump off the misguided Sound Strike train. Currently in its fourth decade of mixing musical styles such as rock, folk, Tex-Mex, country, blues and traditional Latin music, the group’s

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most-recent album was 2010’s Tin Can Trust (Shout! Factory), their first collection of new material in four years, unless you count the children’s album Los Lobos Goes Disney (Disney), which came out in 2009. (Prior to that, the group collaborated on a children’s album with Lalo Guerrero.) In August, the group will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album most widely considered its masterpiece, Kiko (1992, Slash/ Warner Bros.), with a deluxe reissue of the album, Kiko 20th Anniversary Edition, and Kiko Live on CD, DVD and Blu-Ray (all on Shout! Factory). Los Lobos performs at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., next Thursday, June 14. Local supergroup Saint Maybe opens the allages show at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are $26 to $41. Call 740-1000, or head to rialtotheatre.com for more info.

TOP TEN The 17th Street Guitar and World Music Store’s top sales for the week ending June 1, 2012 1. Summerdog 1978-1982 (self-released)

2. Bryan Dean Trio Sobriety Checkpoint (self-released)

3. Pablo Peregrina

RIVER CITY VERSATILITY GIRL POWER For last 25 years or so, the Indigo Girls have managed to keep a sizable fan-base enthralled with their particular brand of folk-rock. Chalk it up largely to well-written songs, sure, but also to the tension that lies in its two distinctive songwriters. Emily Saliers tends toward more traditionally folky songs, while Amy Ray’s tunes boast a bit more of an edge. For further proof, check out any of the handful of Ray’s largely up-tempo solo albums, the latest of which, Lung of Love (Daemon), was released earlier this year. And you can bet that with the political spotlight currently focused on issues of gay and women’s reproductive rights, the outspoken duo will have plenty to say this time around. The Indigo Girls perform at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., on Tuesday, June 12. The Shadowboxers open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $26 for general-admission floor in advance, or $36 for reserved balcony seats in advance; both will be $2 more on the day of show. For further details, head to rialtotheatre.com, or call 740-1000.

DAVID LIEBE HART, GREAT JOB! David Liebe Hart owes an awful lot to Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Without them, he would likely still be performing on street corners, and his biggest claim to fame would be as the puppeteer on the Los Angeles-area public access show The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program. Heidecker and Wareheim have something of an eye for oddball talents, and when they started featuring Hart on their Adult Swim cult hit Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, they basically handed him a ticket to a career as an outsider artist. Singing songs about the benefits of staying off drugs, alien abductions and his desire for a girlfriend, often with a puppet on his knee, Hart has become one of the show’s most beloved “characters,” even though he’s basically just playing himself. If you’re a fan of other outsider performers, such as the late Wesley Willis, chances are you’ll find much to love about David Liebe Hart. The David Liebe Hart Band performs on Friday, June 8, at Surly Wench Pub, 424 N. Fourth Ave. Cadillac Steakhouse and Psygoat open the show around 10 p.m. Cover charge information was unavailable as we went to press, but you can try calling 882-0009 to find out. 48 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

River City Extension, an eight-piece ensemble from New Jersey, is a bit tough to pin down. How many other bands can you think of that have played at the Newport Folk Festival and at Bonnaroo—and as part of the Vans Warped Tour? Those eight members give the band a lot of flexibility. On their second album, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger, released earlier this week on XOXO Records, the band veers from gorgeous folk to punk-lite to weepy country and back again, with the impassioned voice of Joe Michelini at the helm throughout. And in an age of single-song downloads, Don’t Let the Sun should be listened to as an album, start to finish—the songs mostly flow seamlessly into each other, and since multiple genres are often represented within a single song, it becomes necessary to check which track is playing at any given time. As interesting as the album is, I’d wager that the live show is truly where it’s at for these guys and gals. And if the live show is as good as I expect it to be, chances are pretty good that River City Extension will graduate to larger venues very soon. River City Extension performs at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., on Tuesday, June 12. Doors open at 7 p.m., and The Drowning Men and Dry River Yacht Club open the show. Advance tickets are $8; they’ll be $10 on the day of the show. For more info, check out hotelcongress.com/club, or call 622-8848.

ON THE BANDWAGON Opti-Club Presents SMMR/PRTY with Aeroplane and Devin at Club Congress next Thursday, June 14; Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd tribute band) at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Saturday, June 9 (in conjunction with Second Saturdays Downtown); Roger Clyne’s Circus Mexicus in Rocky Point, Mexico, from Friday, June 8, to Sunday, June 10; Koffin Kats at Surly Wench Pub on Tuesday, June 12; GLDNGHST, PC Party, Big Meridox, Bob Gnarly, Ripdee and Cash Lansky at Club Congress on Saturday, June 9; Dance the Night Away featuring Blow Up the Sky and many others at The Rock on Friday, June 8; Naim Amor at Plush on Wednesday, June 13; Hank Topless at Café Passe on Saturday, June 9; Lunar Light Collectors and Logan Greene Electric at RR Nites at La Cocina, tonight, Thursday, June 7; The Yawpers at Sky Bar on Saturday, June 9; Clan McCallion at La Cocina on Saturday, June 9; Jazz Telephone at Sky Bar on Tuesday, June 12.

Traveling Shoes (self-released)

THURSDAY JUNE 7 - SECRET HIGHWAY SECRETS, DREAM SICK SATURDAY JUNE 9 - THE YAWPERS TUESDAY JUNE 12 - LIVE JAZZ WITH JAZZ TELEPHONE THURSDAY JUNE 14 - LUNAR LIGHTS COLLECTION, THE BURNING HOTELS SATURDAY JUNE 16 - SUGAR STAINS

4. The Mollys Live at El Casino Ballroom (self-released)

5. Mitzi Cowell 33 (self-released)

6. The Missing Parts Sueños (self-released)

7. Marvin Todacheenie Southwestern Dreams Live (self-released)

8. Eric Mellen Band Arizona Twang (self-released)

9. Ron Pandy Truth and Other Lies (self-released)

10. Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin Canyoneers (Copper Creek)

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CLUB LIST Here is a list of venues that offer live music, dancing, DJ music, karaoke or comedy in the Tucson area. We recommend that you call and confirm all events. AMADO TERRITORY STEAKHOUSE 3001 E. Frontage Road. Amado. 398-2651. ARIZONA INN 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. ARMITAGE WINE LOUNGE AND CAFÉ 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168. 682-9740. THE AULD DUBLINER 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323. AZUL RESTAURANT LOUNGE Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. THE BAMBOO CLUB 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524. 514-9665. THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996. BEAU BRUMMEL CLUB 1148 N. Main Ave. 622-9673. BEDROXX 4385 W. Ina Road. 744-7655. BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. BLUEFIN SEAFOOD BISTRO 7053 N. Oracle Road. 531-8500. BOJANGLES SALOON 5244 S. Nogales Highway. 889-6161. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991. BORDERLANDS BREWING COMPANY 119 E. Toole Ave. 261-8773. THE BRANDING IRON RUTHRAUFF 2660 W. Ruthrauff Road. 888-9452. BRATS 5975 W. Western Way Circle. 578-0341. BRODIE’S TAVERN 2449 N. Stone Ave. 622-0447. BUFFALO WILD WINGS 68 N. Harrison Road. 296-8409. BUMSTED’S 500 N. Fourth Ave. 622-1413. CACTUS MOON 5470 E. Broadway Blvd. 748-0049. CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. THE CANYON’S CROWN RESTAURANT AND PUB 6958 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-8277. CASA VICENTE RESTAURANTE ESPAÑOL 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. CASCADE LOUNGE Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 615-5495. CHICAGO BAR 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-8169. CIRCLE S SALOON 16001 W. El Tiro Road. Marana. 682-5377. CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. COLORS FOOD AND SPIRITS 5305 E. Speedway Blvd. 323-1840. COLT’S TASTE OF TEXAS STEAKHOUSE 8310 N. Thornydale Road. 572-5968. COMFORT SUITES 7007 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-2300. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-1999. COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road. 721-2781. CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984. DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289.

THE DEPOT SPORTS BAR 3501 E. Fort Lowell Road. 795-8110. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO MONSOON NIGHTCLUB 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 294-7777. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. DON’S BAYOU CAJUN COOKIN’ 8991 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-4410. DRIFTWOOD RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317. DV8 5851 E. Speedway Blvd. 885-3030. ECLIPSE AT COLLEGE PLACE 1601 N. Oracle Road. 209-2121. EDDIES COCKTAILS 8510 E. Broadway Blvd. 290-8750. EL CHARRO CAFÉ SAHUARITA 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 325-1922. EL CHARRO CAFÉ ON BROADWAY 6310 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-1922. EL MEZÓN DEL COBRE 2960 N. First Ave. 791-0977. EL PARADOR 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-2744. ELBOW ROOM 1145 W. Prince Road. 690-1011. FAMOUS SAM’S BROADWAY 1830 E. Broadway Blvd. 884-0119. FAMOUS SAM’S E. GOLF LINKS 7129 E. Golf Links Road. 296-1245. FAMOUS SAM’S SILVERBELL 2320 N. Silverbell Road. 884-7267. FAMOUS SAM’S VALENCIA 3010 W. Valencia Road. 883-8888. FAMOUS SAM’S W. RUTHRAUFF 2480 W. Ruthrauff Road. 292-0492. FAMOUS SAM’S IRVINGTON 2048 E. Irvington Road. 889-6007. FAMOUS SAM’S ORACLE 8058 N. Oracle Road. 531-9464. FAMOUS SAM’S PIMA 3933 E. Pima St. 323-1880. FLYING V BAR AND GRILL Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive. 299-2020. FOX AND HOUND SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Foothills Mall, 7625 N. La Cholla Blvd. 575-1980. FROG AND FIRKIN 874 E. University Blvd. 623-7507. LA FUENTE 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. FUKU SUSHI 940 E. University Blvd. 798-3858. GENTLE BEN’S BREWING COMPANY 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. GLASS ONION CAFE 1990 W. River Road, Suite 100. 293-6050. GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474. GOLDEN PIN LANES 1010 W. Miracle Mile. 888-4272. THE GRILL AT QUAIL CREEK 1490 Quail Range Loop. Green Valley. 393-5806. GUADALAJARA GRILL EAST 750 N. Kolb Road. 296-1122. GUADALAJARA GRILL WEST 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. HACIENDA DEL SOL 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. HIDEOUT BAR AND GRILL 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 751-2222. THE HIDEOUT 3000 S. Mission Road. 791-0515. HILDA’S SPORTS BAR 1120 Circulo Mercado. Rio Rico. (520) 281-9440. THE HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR AND GRILL 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4302. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IBT’S 616 N. Fourth Ave. 882-3053.

IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. JAVELINA CANTINA 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200, ext. 5373. JEFF’S PUB 112 S. Camino Seco Road. 886-1001. KINGFISHER BAR AND GRILL 2564 E. Grant Road. 323-7739. KNOW WHERE 2 1308 W. Glenn St. 623-3999. KON TIKI 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193. LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669. LAS CAZUELITAS 1365 W. Grant Road. 206-0405. LEVEL BAR LOUNGE 4280 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 37. 615-3835. LI’L ABNER’S STEAKHOUSE 8500 N. Silverbell Road. 744-2800. LB SALOON 6925 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-8118. LOOKOUT BAR AND GRILLE AT WESTWARD LOOK RESORT 245 E. Ina Road. 297-1151. THE LOOP TASTE OF CHICAGO 10180 N. Oracle Road. 878-0222. LOTUS GARDEN RESTAURANT 5975 E. Speedway Blvd. 298-3351. MALIBU YOGURT AND ICE CREAM 825 E. University Blvd. 903-2340. MARGARITA BAY 7415 E. 22nd St. 290-8977. MAVERICK 6622 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-0430. MAYNARDS MARKET AND KITCHEN 400 N. Toole Ave. 545-0577. MCMAHON’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE 2959 N. Swan Road. 327-7463. MIDTOWN BAR AND GRILL 4915 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2011. MINT COCKTAILS 3540 E. Grant Road. 881-9169. MR. AN’S TEPPAN STEAK AND SUSHI 6091 N. Oracle Road. 797-0888. MR. HEAD’S ART GALLERY AND BAR 513 N. Fourth Ave. 792-2710. MUSIC BOX 6951 E. 22nd St. 747-1421. NEVADA SMITH’S 1175 W. Miracle Mile. 622-9064. NEW MOON TUCSON 915 W. Prince Road. 293-7339. NORTH 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. O’MALLEY’S 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600. OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. ON A ROLL 63 E. Congress St. 622-7655. O’SHAUGHNESSY’S 2200 N. Camino Principal. 296-7464. OUTLAW SALOON 1302 W. Roger Road. 888-3910. PAPPY’S DINER 1300 W. Prince Road. 408-5262. PARADISO BAR AND LOUNGE Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Road. 797-1233. LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181. PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767. RPM NIGHTCLUB 445 W. Wetmore Road. 869-6098. R PLACE BAR AND GRILL 3412 N. Dodge Blvd. 881-9048.

RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 615-3970. RAGING SAGE COFFEE ROASTERS 2458 N. Campbell Ave. 320-5203. REDLINE SPORTS GRILL 445 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8084. LE RENDEZ-VOUS 3844 E. Fort Lowell Road. 323-7373. RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress St. 740-1000. RIC’S CAFE/RESTAURANT 5605 E. River Road. 577-7272. RILEY’S IRISH TAVERN 5140 N. La Cholla Blvd. 408-0507. 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. ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road. 623-3363. SAKURA 6534 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7777. SALTY DAWG II 6121 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 106. 790-3294. SAM HUGHES PLACE CHAMPIONSHIP DINING 446 N. Campbell Ave. 747-5223. SAPPHIRE LOUNGE 61 E. Congress St. 624-9100. SHARKS 256 E. Congress St. 791-9869. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. SHOOTERS STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 3115 E. Prince Road. 322-0779. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544. SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. SKY BAR 536 N. Fourth Ave. 622-4300. THE SKYBOX RESTAURANT AND SPORTS BAR 5605 E. River Road. 529-7180. STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana.. 877-8100. STOCKMEN’S LOUNGE 1368 W. Roger Road. 887-2529. SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275. SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 882-0009. TANQUE VERDE RANCH 14301 E. Speedway Blvd. 296-6275. TANQUE VERDE SWAP MEET 4100 S. Palo Verde Road. 294-4252. TERRY AND ZEKE’S 4603 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-3555. UNICORN SPORTS LOUNGE 8060 E. 22nd St., No. 118. 722-6900. UNION PUBLIC HOUSE 4340 N. Campbell Ave., No. 103. 329-8575. V FINE THAI 9 E. Congress St. 882-8143. VAUDEVILLE 110 E. Congress St. 622-3535. WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843. WILD BILL’S STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 5910 N. Oracle Road. 887-6161. WILDCAT HOUSE 1801 N. Stone Ave. 622-1302. WINGS-PIZZA-N-THINGS 8838 E. Broadway Blvd. 722-9663. WOODEN NICKEL 1908 S. Country Club Road. 323-8830. WOODY’S 3710 N. Oracle Road. 292-6702. WORLD FAMOUS GOLDEN NUGGET 2617 N. First Ave. 622-9202. ZEN ROCK 121 E. Congress St. 624-9100.

THU JUN 7 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Bob Linesch The Auld Dubliner Live local music Boondocks Lounge Jim Jams, Widow’s Hill Café Passé Jeff Grubic and Naim Amor Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Live classical guitar Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar Neon Prophet La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Stefan George Colors Food and Spirits Melody Louise Eddies Cocktails Cass Preston and His Band La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live mariachi music Hacienda del Sol Heart and Soul, Aaron Gilmartin Las Cazuelitas Live music McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Susan Artemis Mint Cocktails Jam with Deacon O’Malley’s Live music On a Roll Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge House of Floyd (Pink Floyd tribute) Plush The Dusty Buskers RPM Nightclub 80’s and Gentlemen Sheraton Hotel and Suites Prime Example Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Union Public House George Howard and Larry Loud Vaudeville D2D Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Wild Oats

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bamboo Club Karaoke with DJ Tony G Bedroxx Karaoke with DJ Chubbz Bojangles Saloon The Branding Iron Ruthrauff Chubbrock Entertainment Buffalo Wild Wings Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon El Charro Café Sahuarita Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s Valencia Gilligan’s Pub Glass Onion Cafe Open mic Golden Pin Lanes Karaoke and music videos with DJ Adonis Hilda’s Sports Bar The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar and Grill Steve Morningwood acoustic open-mic night Know Where 2 New Star Karaoke Margarita Bay Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Cutthroat Karaoke Music Box Karaoke with AJ Outlaw Saloon Chubbrock Entertainment River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stadium Grill Chubbrock Entertainment Whiskey Tango

DANCE/DJ Azul Restaurant Lounge DJ spins music Diablos Sports Bar and Grill Bikini bash with DJ Han Solo Eclipse at College Place DJ spins music Gentle Ben’s Brewing Company DJ spins music The Hideout Fiesta DJs IBT’s DJ spins music Javelina Cantina DJ M. Level Bar Lounge DJ Apprentice Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Salsa night Sharks Retromix with DJ Sean T Surly Wench Pub Jump Jive Thursday with DJ Ribz Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment V Fine Thai Foundation Thursdays: DJs spin music, art show, wine tasting Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

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FRI JUN 8 LIVE MUSIC Amado Territory Steakhouse Becky Reyes featuring Scott Muhleman Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bamboo Club Live music The Bashful Bandit Live music Bluefin Seafood Bistro George Howard Duo Bojangles Saloon Live music Boondocks Lounge Neon Prophet

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Borderlands Brewing Company Stefan George Cactus Moon James Parks The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub Live music Cascade Lounge Doug Martin Chicago Bar The AmoSphere Club Congress Benefit for Ernesto Gardner: Doc Hudson, Garboski, Secret Meetings, La Cerca, ... music video?, HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Greg Morton Colors Food and Spirits Melody Louise Delectables Restaurant and Catering Duo Vibrato Eclipse at College Place Live music Eddies Cocktails Dust Devils El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Shell Shock La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Glass Onion Cafe Live music The Grill at Quail Creek Paul McGuffin Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Freddy Vesely The Hideout Sol Down The Hut The Tryst, Greyhound Soul Laffs Comedy Caffé Vanessa Hollingshead Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Level Bar Lounge Tesoro, DJ Riviera Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Bishop/Nelly Duo Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky, Patio: Day Job Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi Los Cubanos Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Collin Shook Trio Old Father Inn Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge The Garcia Brothers The Parish Live music La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Stareater, Godhunter, North Redline Sports Grill Giant Blue Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music River’s Edge Lounge House of Stone RJ’s Replays Sports Pub and Grub Covert Ops The Rock Blow Up the Sky, Armastus, Sinphonics, The Getaway Mile, Desert Fish, Flenderson, Setback Shot in the Dark Café Mark Bockel The Skybox Restaurant and Sports Bar 80’s and Gentlemen Stadium Grill Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Surly Wench Pub David Liebe Hart Band, Cadillac Steakhouse, Psygoat Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music Whiskey Tango Live music Wild Bill’s Steakhouse and Saloon Beau Renfro and Clear Country Woody’s Susan Artemis

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Bedroxx Open mic Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Karaoke with DJ Richard The Branding Iron Ruthrauff Chubbrock Entertainment Brats Brodie’s Tavern Cow Palace Karaoke with DJ Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Pima Iguana Cafe Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Know Where 2 New Star Karaoke LB Saloon Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Putney’s Karaoke with DJ Soup R Place Bar and Grill Karaoke with RichieRich Riley’s Irish Tavern Chubbrock Entertainment Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Salty Dawg II Tucson’s Most Wanted Entertainment with KJ Sean Shooters Steakhouse and Saloon Stockmen’s Lounge Terry and Zeke’s Wings-Pizza-N-Things YNot Entertainment

DANCE/DJ The Auld Dubliner DJ spins music Azul Restaurant Lounge Ladies and Lyrics Night: DJ spins music Bedroxx DJ spins music Casa Vicente Restaurante Español Flamenco guitar and dance show Circle S Saloon DJ BarryB The Depot Sports Bar DJ and music videos Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Friday Night Groove DV8 Planet Q Live with Chris P. and JoJo El Charro Café Sahuarita DJ spins music El Charro Café on Broadway DJ spins R&B El Parador Salsa dance lessons with Jeannie Tucker Famous Sam’s Valencia DJ spins music Fuku Sushi DJ spins music IBT’s CelloFame Javelina Cantina DJ M. Level Bar Lounge DJ Jason E. Maynards Market and Kitchen DJ spins music Music Box ’80s and more New Moon Tucson Loveglamor.com fundraiser to prevent bullying NoRTH DJ Phatal O’Malley’s DJ Dibs Sam Hughes Place Championship Dining DJ spins music Sapphire Lounge Flashback Fridays with DJ Sid the Kid Sinbad’s Fine Mediterranean Cuisine DJ spins music Sky Bar Elemental Artistry Fire-Dancing, Hot Era party Unicorn Sports Lounge Y Not Entertainment Vaudeville Grapla, Lee Hybrid Wildcat House Top 40 dance mix Wooden Nickel DJ spins music Zen Rock DJ Kidd Kutz

SAT JUN 9 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Live music Bojangles Saloon Live music Café Passé Elephant Head Trio Cascade Lounge George Howard Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Gldnghst, PC Party, Big Meridox, Bob Gnarly, Ripdee, Big Ox, Cash Lansky La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Clan McCallion Colt’s Taste of Texas Steakhouse Live music Cow Pony Bar and Grill DJ spins music Cushing Street Restaurant and Bar Live jazz Delectables Restaurant and Catering Bryan Dean and Koko, Rockers Uptown Desert Diamond Casino Monsoon Nightclub Noches Caliente Don’s Bayou Cajun Cookin’ Melody Louise Driftwood Restaurant and Lounge Live music Eclipse at College Place Live music Eddies Cocktails Classic rock ’n’ roll El Charro Café Sahuarita Live salsa band El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca El Parador Descarga, Salsarengue, Tito y Su Nuevo Son Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music Flying V Bar and Grill Domingo DeGrazia La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Gold Live music Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music Hacienda del Sol Freddy Vesely, Joseph Locascio The Hideout Los Bandidos The Hut Cosmic Slop and guests Iguana Cafe The Benjamins Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Birks Works Kingfisher Bar and Grill Kevin Pakulis and Amy Langley Laffs Comedy Caffé Vanessa Hollingshead Las Cazuelitas Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Live acoustic Maverick The Jack Bishop Band McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Mint Cocktails Live music Mr. An’s Teppan Steak and Sushi The Bishop/Nelly Duo Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Collin Shook Trio O’Malley’s Live music Old Pueblo Grille Live music O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer Paradiso Bar and Lounge Sol Down La Parrilla Suiza Mariachi music Plush Cadillac Mountain, This GOP, Roll Acosta Rialto Theatre Rally for Ron Barber: Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta, Joey Burns and Jacob Valenzuela of Calexico, Salvador Duran Ric’s Cafe/Restaurant Live music River’s Edge Lounge Live Wire Sakura The Equinox Band Sheraton Hotel and Suites Tucson Jazz Institute Sky Bar The Yawpers Stadium Grill Live music Sullivan’s Steak House Live music Tanque Verde Ranch Live music Tanque Verde Swap Meet Live music Whiskey Tango Grind

KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Karaoke with DJ Richard The Branding Iron Ruthrauff Chubbrock Entertainment Brats Circle S Saloon Karaoke with DJ BarryB The Depot Sports Bar Karaoke with DJ Brandon Elbow Room Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star karaoke Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Pima The Grill at Quail Creek IBT’s Amazing Star Entertainment Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke The Loop Taste of Chicago Karaoke, dance music and videos with DJ Juliana Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Nevada Smith’s Old Father Inn Chubbrock Entertainment Pappy’s Diner Open mic Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stockmen’s Lounge Terry and Zeke’s

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What was the first concert you ever saw? Iron Maiden on the tour (after Powerslave was released), in 1985. What are you listening to these days? AC/DC, KISS, Thin Lizzy, and Jawbox.

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Ernesto Gardner, who passed away on May 5, was a first-rate comedian and a dedicated, loyal friend. He was also one of Tucson’s finest drummers. Self-taught from the age of 11, Ernie showed astonishing talent, which made him sought after by countless local bands. On recordings by Mala Vita, La Cerca, the Red Switch and HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS (I was in the latter two bands), his unparalleled drumming was fully evident. At 9 p.m., Friday, June 8, at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., Doc Hudson, Garboski, Secret Meetings, La Cerca, … music video? and HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS will pay tribute to Ernie’s legacy, and raise funds for his funeral costs. Admission is a suggested donation of $5. Here are his answers to Nine Questions, as told to his brother Charlie and his sister Maria before he passed away.

What was the first album you owned? Iron Maiden’s Piece of Mind (on cassette). I was so intrigued by the image of the band at the large table with a brain served on a platter in the foreground. What artist, genre, or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get? Anything your niece or gay uncle is listening to. What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? Elvis in ’71.

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Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? Anything your niece or gay uncle is listening to: George Michael, Shania Twain, Empire of the Sun.

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What song would you like to have played at your funeral? AC/DC’s “Ride On.”

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What band or artist changed your life, and how? AC/DC and Morrissey. I learned more from Phil Rudd than any other drummer, especially not to constantly crash the cymbals. I first saw Morrissey in 1991. He was hours late to perform at Compton Terrace, only to play about an hourlong set.

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JANEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ADDICTION, THE DUKE SPIRIT TUCSON CONVENTION CENTER MUSIC HALL Thursday, May 31 One of the few still-relevant groups from the alternative-rock renaissance of the 1990s, Janeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Addiction, roared into town last week and crammed an arena-size show into this genteel theater. The band, which began in the 1980s, arrived to the strains of Pink Floydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome to the Machine,â&#x20AC;? and they immediately walloped the audience with the power of a super-charged earthmover. During the 80-minute set, Janeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played songs from each of their studio albums (including a couple from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Great Escape Artist), although the concert was topheavy with numbers at least 20 years oldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ocean Size,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mountain Song,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jane Saysâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Been Caught Stealingâ&#x20AC;? among them. In attendance were three of the original members, looking younger than they have a right to, as well as bassist Chris Chaney, who has played on and off with the band for a decade. Singer Perry Farrell was a genial host, dancing in his familiar arrhythmic, psychomarionette fashion and cranking his inimitable whine up to air-raid-siren volumes. Guitarist Dave Navarroâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;despite his well-publicized forays into reality TV and porn-directingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;proved why he should be considered a quasi-pioneer for melding metal, alt-rock and psychedelic styles. Drummer Stephen Perkins remains the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret weapon, thanks to his ferocious tribal drumming and steel-drum-playing. Janeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Addiction treated its fans to a visual assault as well, with multiple, large video monitors blasting old movies, propaganda and vintage stag films. They opened the show with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Underground,â&#x20AC;? with two sexy female backup singers perched high above the band on trapezes, wearing long white skirts that almost reached the stage. The pair returned for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ted, Just Admit It,â&#x20AC;? from the album Nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shocking, and performed a choreographed S&M couch dance that seemed like a PG-13 reinterpretation of that albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s controversial cover. The London band the Duke Spirit was a pleasant surprise in the opening slot. Fronted by authoritative lead singer Liela Mossâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;long legs, blond mane, gregarious charmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the band played about 30 minutes of punchy psychedelic-blues. Their set wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve appealed to fans of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and The Cult. Gene Armstrong garmstrong@tucsonweekly.com

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Tucson hard-rock band Sinphonics has been kicking around town since 2005, winning a few battles of the bands along the way and releasing a debut disc in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;07. The group had another album ready to go in 2010, but according to a press release, it was shelved due to a protracted struggle to find a permanent drummer. Ultimately, the second studio effort was completely rerecorded with skinsman Jonathan Rodriguez, and the result is Ghost Note Anthems, a charging, Palm Desertinspired slab of heavy, melodic, jazz-inflected songwriting that fans of the Deftones, Queens of the Stone Age and, heck, even Pat Metheny will eat up. Guitarist/singer Andrew Rivasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voice walks an interesting line between commercial metalcore and gruff stonerrock, and he unleashes equally powerful and compelling riffs. The radio-friendly song I find myself spinning over and over again is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bad Juju,â&#x20AC;? fueled by a highway-blasting momentum and thrash-flirting double-kick drum blasts. Another high point is poporiented, lyrically nonsensical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ditta Lotta,â&#x20AC;? with its swinging rhythm and killer vocal hook, proving you can be loud and still linger in the listenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head. In contrast, the dizzying â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vertigoâ&#x20AC;? is a prog-grunge epic and the perfect track to blast while driving desert roads at night. Lineup fluctuations continue to pester Sinphonics (they just recruited sixstringer Andy Coronado), but, given the musicality displayed, the band is likely a tight live act. Jarret Keene

Fixers are an Oxford-based quintet making what could easily be identified as dream pop or shoegaze. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the jaunty end of that spectrum. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing dark or moody about their debut, Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Be the Moon, which can be, oddly enough, a bit of a drag. One shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t knock a band for being in a good mood, especially when that band sounds as polished and orchestral as Fixers does here. But something about the inspirational register of these songs can be a problem. Perhaps itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the zeitgeistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fault that tracks like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Majesties Ranchâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pink Lightâ&#x20AC;? feel like anthems in search of a car commercial. Though, honestly, Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Be the Moon has plenty of charm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;World of Beautyâ&#x20AC;? is a lovely slice of psychedelia, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as close as they come to melancholyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which, in the hands of Fixers, comes off as a languid, astral aimlessness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Floating Upâ&#x20AC;? also is tinged with a bit more dynamism. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a highly pitched quality to all of the songs that can feel cheerfully strident. Songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crystalsâ&#x20AC;? strive to do a lot. There are many tempo changes, from lackadaisical to caffeine-rush hyperbole, and lots of spacey squelching and Beach Boysesque harmonizing. Fixers have committed to their â&#x20AC;&#x153;more is moreâ&#x20AC;? approach to a degree that deserves some respect, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less certain that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a band capable of having you love them. It would be like hanging with a tribe of erstwhile bon vivants who double as motivational speakers. Sean Bottai

Having honed the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acoustic pop sound on two EPs, Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roll Acosta delivers a well-executed debut record, with 10 catchy, sweeping songs built from moments of rising and falling drama. Singer/guitarist Jacob Acosta, violinist/mandolinist Kevin Frederick and drummer AndrĂŠ Gressieux turned to indie-pop wizard John Vanderslice for recording and production. The songs on This Dreamt Existence are bright and dynamic, with memorable hooks built into shifts in instrumentation and tone. Vandersliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production puts focus on the songcraft and arrangements, setting each tune up like a story, with moments of quiet and moments of action. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actions Speak Louder,â&#x20AC;? a six-minute tale of love in action, builds and builds, piling first mandolin and then bass onto a brightly strummed acoustic guitar riff. Acostaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocals are the draw for the first verse, bittersweet and vulnerable. Then the drums lift the song to a higher level, which Acosta matches with a soaring melody: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Believe in me / Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll show you what I mean.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Deepâ&#x20AC;? begins with an insistent drumbeat and a burst of mandolin, and then Acostaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocals kick in, full of an excited yearning that grips the listener tightly as he rushes along with the chorus of, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take me into the deep, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cast away these broken dreams.â&#x20AC;? This Dreamt Existence is an impressive example of a band reaching big and succeeding. Eric Swedlund

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little bit. Depression really, really sucks a lot in ways that make people lose their jobs and wish they were dead. It seeps out from the hearts and souls of suďŹ&#x20AC;erers to aďŹ&#x20AC;ect everyone around them, putting cracks in otherwise sound relationships. At times, being depressed is like being at the bottom of the pool, sucked down against the drain on your back, watching the world go by up there in the air. But down at the bottom of the pool, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t breathe. You want to swim up to the surface, to gulp in huge gasps of atmosphere, and feel alive and vibrant. But you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;Ś without medication. On May 25, the state took comments at a Phoenix hearing on the addition of marijuana as a medication option for depressed Arizonans. Several state residents were at the hearing to oďŹ&#x20AC;er testimonials to the Department of Health Services, which will decide in the coming weeks whether MMJ makes the cut. Michael Flint told DHS representatives to add it to the list. Flint was ďŹ rst diagnosed with depression in 1996 and has been on antidepressants since. He takes a chemical brew of two antidepressants and sleeping pills, which he needs because the antidepressants keep him up at night. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Catch-22: If he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take the sleeping pills, he is more depressed from a lack of sleep. If he takes them, he feels run down the next day from the drugs. The side eďŹ&#x20AC;ects suck, and the meds arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eďŹ&#x20AC;ective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The available options donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work, and marijuana does work. It works immediately. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nontoxic. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overdose on it,â&#x20AC;? Flint told

DHS representatives at the hearing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is what I need to do for my own health, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d appreciate your consideration of that. Thank you.â&#x20AC;? Another woman at the hearing, who gave her name only as Tammy, tried numerous antidepressants during her 23 years in the Air Force, including many frequent fruitless attempts at self-medication with alcohol. She stayed depressed. Two years ago, she retired. Then, last year, she got an MMJ card for other issues. Guess what? She isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t depressed when she smokes. She works out. She meditates. She rides her bike 100-ish miles a week. She rides horses. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s active.

compassionate thing to do. But depression is a diďŹ&#x20AC;erent story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not at all for marijuana for the treatment of depression,â&#x20AC;? he said. Eller doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deny that MMJ eliminates symptoms, but says depression is a deeper issue that requires more-sophisticated treatment. He fears patients would drop oďŹ&#x20AC; the medical radar if they get into the MMJ system, where patients self-medicate, often with no doctor supervision. That lack of medical involvement could let illnesses that look like depression go undiagnosed and untreated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I would suggest that we not add marijuana for the treatment of depression,â&#x20AC;? he said. Hmmmm. If people have illnesses other than depression, they will go to doctors, because the MMJ wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help. If marijuana does help depression, who needs doctors? And the DHS isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t making any decisions about how people treat depression. Adding depression to the list would only make it an available option. The decision, as with all treatment decisions, should be made between doctors and patients, not wholesale by banning an apparently eďŹ&#x20AC;ective â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proof that cannabis works,â&#x20AC;? she said. treatment. Kent Eller, the chief medical oďŹ&#x192;cer for Add depression, says Mr. Smith. As Dr. Eller Phoenixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southwest Network, also spoke. said about allowing cancer and HIV patients to Southwest is a provider network that cares for 7,000 mentally ill patients. Ellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exposure to the use medical marijuana, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the compassionate thing to do. eďŹ&#x20AC;ectiveness of MMJ came in the 1990s, when he worked at cancer- and HIV-care centers that allowed patients to smoke, because it was the

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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): If your destiny has gotten tweaked by bias or injustice, it’s a good time to rebel. If you are being manipulated by people who care for you— even even if it’s allegedly for your own good—you now have the insight and power necessary to wriggle free of the bind. If you have been confused by the mixed messages you’re getting from your own unconscious mind, you should get to the bottom of the inner contradiction. And if you have been wavering in your commitment to your oaths, you’d better be intensely honest with yourself about why that’s happening. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Diamonds are symbols of elegant beauty, which is why they’re often used in jewelry. But 80 percent of the world’s diamonds have a moreutilitarian function. Because they’re so hard and have such high thermal conductivity, they are used extensively as cutting, grinding and polishing tools, and have several other industrial applications. Now let’s apply this 20/80 proportion to you, Taurus. Of your talents and abilities, no more than 20 percent need be on display. The rest is consumed in the diligent detail work that goes on in the background—the cutting, grinding and polishing you do to make yourself as valuable as a diamond. In the coming week, this will be a good meditation for you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The pain you will feel in the coming week will be in direct proportion to the love you suppress and withhold. So if you let your love flow as freely as a mountain spring in a rainstorm, you may not have to deal with any pain at all. What’s that, you say? You claim that being strategic about how you express your affection gives you strength and protection? Maybe that’s true on other occasions, but it’s not applicable now. “Unconditional” and “uninhibited” are your words of power. CANCER (June 21-July 22): What actions best embody the virtue of courage? Fighting on the battlefield as a soldier? Speaking out against corruption and injustice? Climbing a treacherous peak or riding a raft through rough river water? Certainly all of those qualify. But French architect Fernand Pouillon had another perspective. He said, “Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in dis-

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covering the deep roots of one’s feelings.” That’s exactly the nature of the bravery you are best able to draw on right now, Cancerian. So please do draw on it in abundance. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book The Four Insights, author Alberto Villoldo tells the following story: “A traveler comes across two stonecutters. He asks the first, ‘What are you doing?’ and receives the reply, ‘Squaring the stone.’ He then walks over to the second stonecutter and asks, ‘What are you doing?’ and receives the reply, ‘I am building a cathedral.’ In other words, both men are performing the same task, but one of them is aware that he has the choice to be part of a greater dream.” By my astrological reckoning, Leo, it’s quite important for you to be like that second stonecutter in the months ahead. I suggest you start now to ensure that outcome. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Harpo Marx was part of the famous Marx Brothers comedy team that made 13 movies. He was known as the silent one. While in his character’s persona, he never spoke, but only communicated through pantomime and by whistling, blowing a horn or playing the harp. In real life, he could talk just fine. He traced the origin of his shtick to an early theatrical performance he had done. A review of the show said that he “performed beautiful pantomime which was ruined whenever he spoke.” So in other words, Harpo’s successful career was shaped in part by the inspiration he drew from a critic. I invite you to make a similar move, Virgo: Capitalize on some negative feedback or odd mirroring you’ve received. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What is your relationship with cosmic jokes, Libra? Do you feel offended by the secrets they spill, the ignorance they expose and the slightly embarrassing truths they compel you to acknowledge? Or are you a vivacious lover of life who welcomes the way cosmic jokes expand your mind, help you lose your excessive self-importance and show you possible solutions you haven’t previously imagined? I hope you’re in the latter category, because sometime in the near future, fate has arranged for you to be in the vicinity of a divine comedy routine. I’m not kidding when I tell you that the harder and more frequently you laugh, the more you’ll learn.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In addition to being an accomplished astrophysicist and philosopher, Arthur Eddington (18821944) possessed mad math skills. Legend has it that he was one of only three people on the planet who actually comprehended Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. That’s a small level of appreciation for such an important set of ideas, isn’t it? On the other hand, most people I know would be happy if there were as many as three humans in the world who truly understood them. In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest you make that one of your projects in the next 12 months: Do whatever you can to ensure there are at least three people who have a detailed comprehension of and appreciation for who you really are. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Yesterday, the sun was shining at the same time it was raining, and my mind turned to you. Today, I felt a surge of tenderness for a friend who has been making me angry, and again, I thought of you. Tomorrow, maybe I will sing sad songs when I’m cheerful, and go for a long walk when I’m feeling profoundly lazy. Those events, too, would

remind me of you. Why? Because you’ve been experimenting with the magic of contradictions lately. You’ve been mixing and matching with abandon, going up and down at the same time, and exploring the pleasures of changing your mind. I’m even tempted to speculate that you’ve been increasing your ability to abide with paradox. Keep up the good work. I’m sure it’s a bit weird at times, but it’ll ultimately make you even smarter than you already are. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be on the alert for valuable mistakes on which you could capitalize. Keep scanning the peripheries for evidence that seems out of place; it might be useful. Do you see what I’m driving at, Capricorn? Accidental revelations could spark good ideas. Garbled communication might show you the way to desirable detours. Chance meetings might initiate conversations that will last a long time. Are you catching my drift? Follow any lead that seems witchy or itchy. Be ready to muscle your way in through doors that are suddenly open just a crack. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An article in the Weekly World News reported on

tourists who toast marshmallows while sitting on the rims of active volcanoes. As fun as this practice might be, it can expose those who do it to molten lava, suffocating ash and showers of burning rocks. So I wouldn’t recommend it to you, Aquarius. But I do encourage you to try some equally boisterous but less-hazardous adventures. The coming months will be prime time for you to get highly imaginative in your approach to exploration, amusement and pushing beyond your previous limits. Why not get started now? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to my reading of the astrological omens, you would be smart to get yourself a new fertility symbol. Not because I think you should encourage or seek out a literal pregnancy. Rather, I’d like to see you cultivate a moreaggressively playful relationship with your creativity—energize it on deep unconscious levels so it will spill out into your daily routine and tincture everything you do. If you suspect my proposal has some merit, be on the lookout for a talisman, totem or toy that fecundates your imagination.

¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net ican.net Dear Mexican: I work construction here in Texas. The mojados at work call me “Chicano” (which really angers me) to make fun of me, and I reply to them by saying, “¡México, bien por su gente!” This usually leads to debates over the Hispanic population becoming the majority in this beautiful country (U.S.) of ours. However, I usually anger and annoy them by letting them know that either their grandkids or great-grandkids will not speak Spanish. My dad and his side of the family came from Colima, but now I can see that my nieces and nephews speak just English. This does not bother me, but I let the guys at work know that we will be the new white race in America. What do you think? Dear Gabacho: As your ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist, I couldn’t agree more, and I will pass along Tu Primo Capitalista your note to the “Dear Mexican” columnist … you mean Richard Rodriguez, right? Dear Capitalist Cousin: Oye, güey: Get a better insult to get back at those dumb wabs than tell- What’s the deal with Ojo de Vidrio? Is he some sort ing them that Mexico should do right by its of Robin Hood type with no depth perception? people. Ever heard of the power of a wellplaced “Chinga tu pinche madre?” Enquiring Mentes Want to Know The rest of your insights are spot-on: The children of those wabs will become pochos; the Dear Gabacho: You’re referring to the legendary children of said pochos will become Americans; corrido (“The Glass Eye,” for those of you who and the children of those Americans will be don’t habla) best performed by the conjunto named Ashley and Jarrod, but assume an Aztec norteño group Los Alegres de Terán, performed name in college in an effort to reconnect with HILARIOUSLY by El Piporro (the Mexican their Mexican roots, just like gabachas get a Weird Al Yankovic), adapted into a great movie shamrock as a tramp stamp to honor mick starring Antonio Aguilar, but originally recorded ancestors. It’s all a process of assimilation (or as a radio drama in the late 1950s and early “acculturation,” for the people who think the 1960s. Unlike most corridos, “El Ojo de Vidrio” melting-pot theory is as insidious as Marco isn’t based on an actual historical figure, but that Rubio), and your wab workers can’t do anything didn’t stop the Mexican nation from rooting for to stop it, as much as Univisión might try. the anti-hero Porfirio Cadena, who, as the song As for the white part? That’s so 1950s … this goes, “lo tuerco no le importaba / pues no fallaba brave new America is José Vasconcelos’ muchen el tiro” (“That he was one-eyed didn’t matter mythologized raza cósmica come to life, a new, to him / Well, he never failed in shooting his superior race combined from all the razas of the gun”) as he terrorized the rich and the governworld—and ain’t it a trip that its truest manifes- ment during the Mexican Revolution. tation is happening in los Estados Unidos, and The song is emblematic of Mexico’s love for not Mexico? Like Mexican food, those pinche Robin Hood-type characters who battled the Yankees beat us at our own game again. powers-that-be to help the poor, but unfortunately, that love is now mostly an artifact; nowPlease note that the “Dear Mexican” columnist adays, most of the corridos written celebrate has long since descended into journalistic ennui narco-lords who (censored lest your humble … and even if he needs to vent personal political Mexican wake up with no head). insecurities, his take on the richness of cultural differences has metamorphosed into a dank, Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican. morbid bin of rotting vegetables. net; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at Kindly Find His Replacement youtube.com/askamexicano!

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